(Fischer himself was of Jewish background).
His father's family was of Jewish descent, and his mother's family were Scots Baptists.
Her new husband was John H. Paasche, who was of Jewish ancestry.
Wittgenstein's family had converted, but it was of Jewish origin, and it is possible that Hitler met and disliked Wittgenstein.
With the rise of the Nazi Party, Hevesy, who was of Jewish descent, left Germany for Copenhagen in 1934.
Only when Katalin — Szegedi's mother — was a teen-ager did her father reveal that she was "of Jewish origin".
His father, René Gutmann, an eminent physician, was of Jewish descent, and his mother, Germaine (nee Babilée), a nurse.
The Republican nominee for president in 1964, Barry Goldwater, was of Jewish descent but was a practicing Episcopalian.
Evidently the future dictator was unaware that Braunfels was of Jewish descent, the son of a jurist father who had converted to Lutheranism.
His family was of Jewish ancestry but had not been practicing Jews since at least the first half of the 19th century.
(Not until 1997, Dr. Albright writes, would she discover that she was of Jewish descent, and that three of her grandparents had perished in death camps).
