Pages

Showing posts with label Misc.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Misc.. Show all posts

Is Stan Lee Jewish?

Stan Lee is a Jew. The creator of many famous comic books and comic characters was born Stanley Martin Lieber on  December 28, 1922.

His parents were Romanian-born Jewish immigrants. His mother was Celia Solomon Lieber. His father was Jack Lieber, a dress cutter, who worked only sporadically after the Great Depression.


Stan Lee is the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. According to his Wikipedia entry, "in collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation."

Is Priscilla Chan Jewish?

Priscilla Chan is not Jewish. She is now married to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.

The couple dated for many years before marrying on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in a small ceremony in the backyard of Mark Zuckerberg's Palo Alto, California home. Zuckerberg and Chan met while students at Harvard University. 

Chan is a Chinese-American and the two began dating before Zuckerberg founded Facebook. 

While Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish, he has stated that he is now an atheist.

Is Robert Sherman Jewish?

Yes Robert Sherman is Jewish. Robert Sherman died on March 5, 2012 at 88. He died in London.


He was one half of a pair of songwriting brothers who wrote "Mary Poppins" and the Disney theme song, “It’s a Small World.” Robert Sherman and his brother Richard Sherman worked for Disney in the 1950s and 1960s. They wrote the theme song for Mary Poppins and also the famous “Supercalifragilisticexpialadocius” from the same movie.

Robert Shermans was born in New York. He was among the first US soldiers at the liberation of Dachau.