Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2016 May 12

= May 12 =

Question about Marlee Matlin
Through which family members if she of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent? Parents? Grandparents? Great grandparents? 50.68.120.49 (talk) 04:51, 12 May 2016 (UTC)


 * This article contains excerpts from her memoir I'll Scream Later. She says her paternal grandfather, Edward Matlin, was a Russian from "Gomel... in what is now Belarus"; and her maternal grandmother, Rose Hammer, was from Bledow (apparently either this one or this one), Poland. Both families were Jewish.  As I read the article, her other grandparents were already living in the US when those two moved there. --69.159.61.172 (talk) 07:25, 12 May 2016 (UTC)