Jewish?
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cazzo9 — 18 years ago(August 11, 2007 04:23 PM)
If he is Jewish by Jewish law, it's strange that wikipedia and most other sites only credit him as Irish. If you are going to put it that way, he is neither Jewish nor Irish as much as he is "American", or, conversley, all of these.
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maneatingbear — 18 years ago(October 17, 2007 01:56 PM)
He's fully half-Jewish according to Wikipedia now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(actor) -
Erin_Brew — 11 years ago(September 05, 2014 08:59 AM)
It is a religion, not an ethnicity.
I consider myself as an Irish Catholic. I am an an American but my ancestors are from Ireland and I practice Catholocism. I still consider myself an Irish Catholic (only to discern myself from other European Catholics, like Italian or Polish).
Someone who is Jewish may be from Isreal, Germany, or the Bronx. It is not geographical.
There are people who live in Isreal that are not Jewish. There are people who live in Ireland may not catholic, there ae people who live in the US that are Muslim. Do not confuse religion with ethicicty or location. -
jefgg — 11 years ago(November 05, 2014 05:46 PM)
Kevin McCarthy was born in 1914 in Seattle, Washington, the son of Martha Therese (ne Preston) and Roy Winfield McCarthy. McCarthy's father was descended from a wealthy Irish American family based in Minnesota. His mother was born in Washington state to a Protestant father and a Jewish mother. He was the brother of author Mary McCarthy, and a distant cousin of former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota. His parents both died in the 1918 flu pandemic, and the four children went to live with relative2000s in Minneapolis. After five years of near-Dickensian mistreatment, described in Mary McCarthy's memoirs, the children were separated: Mary moved in with their maternal grandparents, and Kevin and his younger brothers were cared for by relatives in Minneapolis. McCarthy graduated in 1932 from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.