What ethnicity and religion was Gypsy Rose Lee?!
Question: What ethnicity and religion was Gypsy Rose Lee!?
Answers:
Quotes that reveal her religious point of view:
Praying is like a rocking chair -- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere!.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee, as quoted by E Haldeman-Julius, quoted from James A Haught, ed, 2000 Years of Disbelief
God is love, but get it in writing!.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee, quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
http://www!.positiveatheism!.org/hist/quot!.!.!.
The most famous stripper of all time, Gypsy Rose Lee (real name: Rose Louise Hovick) was Jewish, as was her early forum -- Minsky's Theatre (of "The Night They Raided Minsky's" fame)!. The theatre founders were Abe and Billy Minsky, grandsons of the chief rabbi of the Russian city of Minsk!.
http://www!.jewishtribalreview!.org/24medi!.!.!.
Born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington, in 1911!.!.!.!.For her stage name she took Gypsy, a nickname she derived from her hobby of reading tea leaves, and combined it with her real first name, Rose, and Lee, which she added on a whim!.
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I could not find any website that gives her ethnic origins, but I found one that gives the background for her last name, Hovick!. It says that it is the Americanized spelling of Norwegian "Hovik"!. And if you do a search on the name "Hovik," you will see it is a common Norwegian name!.
http://www!.ancestry!.com/facts/hovick-fam!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Praying is like a rocking chair -- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere!.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee, as quoted by E Haldeman-Julius, quoted from James A Haught, ed, 2000 Years of Disbelief
God is love, but get it in writing!.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee, quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
http://www!.positiveatheism!.org/hist/quot!.!.!.
The most famous stripper of all time, Gypsy Rose Lee (real name: Rose Louise Hovick) was Jewish, as was her early forum -- Minsky's Theatre (of "The Night They Raided Minsky's" fame)!. The theatre founders were Abe and Billy Minsky, grandsons of the chief rabbi of the Russian city of Minsk!.
http://www!.jewishtribalreview!.org/24medi!.!.!.
Born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington, in 1911!.!.!.!.For her stage name she took Gypsy, a nickname she derived from her hobby of reading tea leaves, and combined it with her real first name, Rose, and Lee, which she added on a whim!.
http://www!.imdb!.com/name/nm0497346/bio
I could not find any website that gives her ethnic origins, but I found one that gives the background for her last name, Hovick!. It says that it is the Americanized spelling of Norwegian "Hovik"!. And if you do a search on the name "Hovik," you will see it is a common Norwegian name!.
http://www!.ancestry!.com/facts/hovick-fam!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
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