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NOTES

1. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
2. See obituary in the Jewish Chronicle  (London), 27 August 1976, p. 19; also American Jewish Year Book, 1979, edited by Morris Fine and Milton Himmelfarb (American Jewish Committee, New York and Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1978, p. 227).
3.
See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_b.htm.
4. See Jewish Budapest by Kinga Frojimovics et al. (Central European University Press, Budapest and New York, 1999, p. 366).
5. See "Pick of the Week" column 
in the Jewish Chronicle  (London), 9 May 1997, p. 42.
6. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
7. See ninth paragraph of 29 May 1994  New York Times story.
8.
Tim Page's 10 October 2003  obituary article in the Washington Post stated that Istomin's parents were "of Russian-Jewish ancestry."  Based on name  analysis alone, Istomin's mother (née Asya Chavin) was almost certainly Jewish.  This, however, is less likely to have been the case for his father, George Istomin.
9. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_k.htm.

10. See Lili Kraus: Hungarian Pianist, Texas Teacher, and Personality Extraordinaire, by Steven Henry Roberson (Texas A&M, 2000, p. 1).
11.
See article by Arthur Jacobs in the Jewish Chronicle  (London), 4 May 1973, p. 30.  Information further confirmed by sources in the Romanian émigré community in Israel.
12. See the 12 March 2000 New York Times article "EUROPE 2000: FESTIVALS -- MUSIC; In Austria Politics Waves the Baton," by James Oestreich; also http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_02-06/021-2schiff.html.
13. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
14. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_v.htm.
15. Brother of Ludwig Wittgenstein; Jewish father, half-Jewish mother; see, e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, by Ray Monk (Penguin, New York and London, 1990, pp. 4-7).
16. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_y.htm.



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