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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Funny you don't look Jewish: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, joins a long list of figures in history whose possible Jewish ancestry has caused shock and surprise.
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| Last Edited | kal Oct 04, 2009 02:39pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Sunday, October 4, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
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The myth of British-Israelism believes the British royal family is decended from Jewish kings Photo: OLI SCARFF
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz Photo: REUTERS
Iran' president is not the only notable figure in history with Jewish roots. Others include:
ELVIS PRESLEY
In 1998, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "All Shook Up in the Holy Land" exposing Elvis Presley's unlikely Jewish lineage.
Apparently, Elvis' maternal great-great grandmother, Nancy Burdine, was a Jew. Her daughter gave birth to Doll Mansell who gave birth to Gladys Smith who gave birth to Elvis. Although it sounds improbable, according to Jewish law, which confers Jewish lineage by way of the mother, that makes Elvis Presley Jewish.
Furthermore, this fact was something that Elvis was apparently aware of and even sensitive to. For example, there is a famous picture of Elvis performing in Salt Lake City in 1972 wearing a Jewish "chai" symbol, and when Elvis' mother Gladys died in 1959 he made sure to put a Jewish Star of David on her headstone.
KIRK DOUGLAS
Chisel-chinned matinee idol was born Issur Danielovitch in New York to illiterate Russian Jewish parents.
Like most actors in Hollywood he felt obliged to conceal his Jewishness by changing his name to an all-American monkier. For example at drama school he was a classmate included Jewish girl Betty Joan Perske (soon to be better known as blonde beauty Lauren Bacall).
Other notables include Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) and Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg).
Meanwhile, Godfather star James Caan never changed his name or denied his Jewish background but was still voted "Italian of the Year" in New York twice!
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British Israelism is the belief that people of Western European descent are also the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and it is often accompanied by the belief that the British Royal Family is directly descended from the li |
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