User:Teblick/Lily Isaacs

Lily Isaacs is an American Christian musician and matriarch of The Isaacs, a bluegrass Southern gospel group.

Early years
Both of Isaacs's parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, her father at Buchenwald and her mother at Bergen-Belsen. The impact of that experience on her was such that she said, "I was more tied to Judaism through the Holocaust than I was the actual religion itself." She explained that her family was not Orthodox Jewish (or very religious in any way), but the fact that members of her family suffered and died during the war formed a strong bond with the Jewish cause. When she was a teenager, she was essentially an agnostic, unsure of what to believe.

Isaacs became an American citizen when she was 9 years old, making her a dual citizen of the United States and Israel.