[lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq

[Joel Schalit]

Ahh, thanks for the clarification. Aside from receiving a copy of  
Albright's new book for review (promptly put in the "to sell" pile) I  
haven't given her much thought in years.

On May 1, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:


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> On Mon, 1 May 2006, Joel Schalit wrote:
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>> Albright's an odd bird by background too - a Jew who converted to  
>> Catholicism etc.
>
> That's not quite right, I don't think.  As I heard it, she was  
> raised a Catholic and converted to Episcopalianism.  She still  
> maintains that she had no inkling of her Czech family's Jewish past  
> until a Washington Post story came out during her tenure as  
> Secretary of State and revealed that all of her grandparents were  
> Jewish and several had died in the camps.
>
> Michael
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