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His mother, Betty (née Hosni; 1917–2014), and her parents, Selim and Salha Hosni, were sephardic Jews who immigrated from Aleppo, Syria. His second cousin is musician and actor Evan Seinfeld. Seinfeld grew up in Massapequa, New York, and attended Massapequa High School on Long Island.
Jerome “Jerry” Seinfeld was born on April 29, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Kalman Seinfeld, was of Austrian Jewish background and was a sign maker; his mother, Betty, is of Sephardi Mizrahi Syrian Jewish descent. Her family was registered as Turkish.
Apr 29, 2013 · Seinfeld recently told a New York Times interviewer that his family was “pretty Jewish” – “Went to temple, kept kosher, two sets of dishes.” Before he attended college, in 1971, Jerry spent a summer in Israel, spending most of the time volunteering at Kibbutz Sa’ar, in the north near Nahariya.
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May 1, 2024 · Jerry Seinfeld may not have any children on-screen in the semi-fictional sitcom Seinfeld, but in real life, he's a proud husband to Jessica Seinfeld and father of three accomplished children:...
Jan 4, 2008 · Jerry’s maternal grandfather was Selim Hosni/Husney (the son of Ezra Husney and Esther Sardell). Selim was an emigrant from Aleppo, Syria. Ezra was the son of Eliyahu Husney.
Spanish Jews, who had lived on the Iberian Peninsula since 6 B.C.E, began to call themselves Sephardim during the early Middle Ages. After the expulsions from Spain (1492) and Portugal (1497), Jews fled to numerous places within Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and the New World.
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Seinfeld was born on April 29, 1954, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. His father, Kálmán Seinfeld, a sign painter, was from Hungary and collected jokes that he heard while serving in World War II. His mother, Betty (née Hosni) and her parents, Selim and Salha Hosni, were Mizrahi Jews from Aleppo, Syria.
