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Most Ashkenazi Jews are related. Celebrate our shared heritage and the notable cousins in Our Jewish Family who have helped shape our world!

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Gretta Kline
(b. Mar 21, 1994)

American singer-songwriter, formerly performing as Frankie Cosmos

Common Ancestor:
Eliezer GUGENHEIM (1440-1490)

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Max E. Youngstein
(b. Mar 21, 1913)

American film producer

Common Ancestors:
Rivka KATZ (1555-1637)
+ Mordechai SHRENTZEL (1555-1613)

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Anouk Grinberg
(b. Mar 20, 1963)

French actress

Common Ancestors:
Yehoshua FRAENKEL-TEOMIM (1654-1733)
+ Pearl KLOISNER (1666-1722)

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Arthur Schneier
(b. Mar 20, 1930)

Austrian-American rabbi and human rights activist

Common Ancestors:
Shabsai KATZ (1621-1663)
+ Yente Leah TAUBER (1625-1705)

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Madeleine Bunting
(b. Mar 19, 1964)

English writer

Common Ancestors:
Abraham JAFFE (1573-1649)
+ Zlata KAGAN (1571-1652)

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Robert Schenkkan
(b. Mar 19, 1953)

Pulitizer Prize and Tony Award-winning American playwright, screenwriter and actor

Common Ancestor:
Chaim KATZ (1500-1563)

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Julius Anton Glaser
(b. Mar 19, 1831)

Austrian jurist and liberal politician

Common Ancestors:
Shmuel Bezalel LOEW (1576-1655)
+ Rosa KATZ (1580-1752)

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Eric Woolfson
(b. Mar 18, 1945)

Scottish co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project

Common Ancestors:
Eliezer KUKLA (1698-1780)
+ Golda GORDIN (1702-1782)

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Deborah Lipstadt
(b. Mar 18, 1947)

US Special Envoy for Monitoring & Combating Antisemitism

Common Ancestors:
Meir WAHL KATZENELLENBOGEN (1565-1630)
+ Hinda HOROWITZ (1565-1654)

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Daniel Itzig
(b. Mar 18, 1723)

German Banker and mintmaster

Common Ancestors:
Abraham JAFFE (1573-1649)
+ Zlata KAGAN (1571-1652)

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Michel Goudchaux
(b. Mar 18, 1797)

French banker and politician

Common Ancestors:
Moses KATZ (1530-1594)
+ Golda BINGEN (1530-1585)

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Katie Ledecky
(b. Mar 17, 1997)

American 7-time Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer

Common Ancestors:
Schaul BINGEN (1485-1538)
+ Tserlin HEILBRUNN (1487-1533)

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Nahum Nir
(b. Mar 17, 1884)

Signer of the Israeli declaration of independence

Common Ancestors:
Meir WAHL KATZENELLENBOGEN (1565-1630)
+ Hinda HOROWITZ (1565-1654)

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Isabelle Huppert
(b. Mar 16, 1953)

Oscar Nominated & Golden Globe-winning French actress

Common Ancestors:
Schaul BINGEN (1485-1538)
+ Tserlin HEILBRUNN (1487-1533)

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Amos Tversky
(b. Mar 16, 1937)

Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist

Common Ancestors:
Meir HALPERIN (1558-1616)
+ Esther SPIRA (1565-1603)

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Danny Lyon
(b. Mar 16, 1942)

American photographer and filmmaker

Common Ancestors:
Jonah WEIL (1485-1530)
+ Judele FEIBUSCH (1485-)

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Joseph Ritter von Wertheimer
(b. Mar 15, 1800)

Austrian pedagogue, philanthropist, and merchant.

Common Ancestors:
Schaul BINGEN (1485-1538)
+ Tserlin HEILBRUNN (1487-1533)

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Joseph Meir Weiss
(b. Mar 15, 1838)

Hungarian rabbi and founder of the Spinka Hasidic dynasty

Common Ancestors:
Jacob HELLER (1575-1612
+ Miriam TEOMIM (1575-1639)

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Martin Karplus
(b. Mar 15, 1930)

Austrian-American Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner

Common Ancestors:
Jacob HELLER (1575-1612
+ Miriam TEOMIM (1575-1639)

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Paul Heyse
(b. Mar 15, 1830)

German Nobel Prize in Literature winner

Common Ancestors:
Jacob David Neumark Mirels-Fraenkel (1590-1657)
+ Rachel HELLER (1594-1664)

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