Sol was jewish, but not his wife and I think the salinger family was like many NY Jews at the time, asimilating and that is probably why mr. salinger's "jewishness" is pretty limited to a reference in "Down at the Dinghy" unless someone else (sonny, matt?) wants to wake upmy sleepy memory...will On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Camille Scaysbrook wrote: > > > Wasn't Papa something very big in cheese ? > > I actually heard he was an importer of hams - which means JD and his family > can't have been very committed Jews (: > > Camille > verona_beach@geocities.com > @ THE ARTS HOLE > www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 > THE INVERTED FOREST > www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest > > > >