Sentence examples for of Jewish parentage from inspiring English sources

Of Jewish parentage, he became a Christian in 1844 and adopted the name of Reuter.

Of Jewish parentage, Rojas received a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Salamanca about 1490.

Of Jewish parentage, Schüler settled in Berlin after her marriage to the physician Berthold Lasker in 1894 (divorced 1903).

Of Jewish parentage, Kraus attended the University of Vienna but abandoned his studies to earn his living as a writer.

THE final jury was, then, made up of three blacks and nine whites, including a Jewish man and a woman of Jewish parentage.

If it's humanity you want, however, you need to go to the two painters of European Jewish parentage, Auerbach and Kossoff.

Herrmann was a bearish New Yorker of Russian Jewish parentage with a reputation for incendiary rages and less-than-tactful put-downs.

Thousands of people of Jewish origin emigrated.

I don't belong to a country club, although my parents did in their last years (they weren't allowed to join for decades--even though they lived across the street--because of my father's Jewish parentage).

Maria and Khalil Mirsky — the latter's name a droll amalgamation of his black and white Jewish parentage — are the "same shade of beige".

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, who has Jewish parentage, electrified Labour's conference, accusing the Conservatives of being led in Europe by someone criticised by a leading rabbi for having "an antisemitic, neo-Nazi past".