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Re: Oscar Hammerstein II

In a message dated 4/16/1 7:15:46 PM, wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com writes:

<< I was just at a music lecture after which two apparently well-educated

people asserted with confidence that Oscar Hammerstein II (of Kern and

Hammerstein and Rodgers and Hammerstein fame) was Jewish.


Is this a common conception?


If so, any theories as to why?

 >>

Because he was???  
Simon

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