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Holbrooke's father, who died of colon cancer when Richard was 15 years old, [8] was born of Polish Jewish parents in Warsaw and took the name Holbrooke after migrating to the United States in 1939. The original family name was Goldbrajch. [11]
Dec 15, 2010 · Perhaps this was because Holbrooke had not been raised Jewish. His mother, I learned later, had gravitated for a time to Quakerism. And Holbrooke himself was raised thoroughly secular.
Dec 14, 2010 · Richard Holbrooke, the legendary U.S. diplomat who brokered a Balkan peace and who enjoyed talking about his Jewish roots, has died.
Dec 14, 2010 · WASHINGTON (JTA) — Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. diplomat who brokered a Balkan peace and who enjoyed talking about his Jewish roots, has died.
May 9, 2019 · Informed by complete access to Holbrooke’s intimate diaries and letters, along with almost 250 interviews, the book overflows with the trait that was Holbrooke’s saving grace: an...
Dec 13, 2016 · On December 13, 2010, Richard Holbrooke, one of America’s most accomplished yet most undiplomatic of diplomats, died. His death was caused by a tear in his aorta, a cardiac event that occurred during a December 10 meeting with his boss, Hillary Clinton, at the State Department.
His father was born in Warsaw to a Russian Jewish family, while his mother, who was also Jewish, originally came from Hamburg, and escaped Germany for Argentina in 1933 as the Nazis were...
