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Birth Name:
Steve John Carell
Birth Place:
Acton, Massachusetts, USA
Ethnicity:
Italian, German and Polish
The American Actor appeared in movies such as The 40 Year Old Virgin, and the television series, The Office.
Carell’s father has Italian and German ancestry. The family’s original name was Caroselli but it was shortened to Carell.Carrell’s mother Harriett Koch was born to Polish parents.
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Being Jewish IS a religion but it’s also a race of people basically. You can’t tell if someone is Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, ect, by looking at them but you can usually tell if someone is Jewish or has a Jewish backround. Steve is definitly NOT JEWISH. He sort of looks like my dad who is exactly half Polish, half German.
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And what about the first christians and Jesus himself? They were born jews and became christians.
By the way in Israel there is also christians and about 20% muslims living there who are israelis
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why do jew want everyone to be jewish
arrgggg it the same thing with black people
accept that he is polish (not jewish)
stupid jews go back to israel
you ruined everything
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JEALOUS! By your name, I can only quess that you are Arab? Well, if you knew your history, you would know that the Jews and Arabs are cousins, through Abraham! So, it might be time to stop hating your own relatives and know that the Jews are the ‘apple of God’s eye’ and will always be blessed. If you were to take a DNA test, the Jews and all Arabs would share common protein markers. Oh, but you are too jealous and blinded to be interested in the truth.
ps…..I share both blood lines, by the way.
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Abraham was a pretty distant ancestor. And I don’t want Steve Carell to be Jewish.
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sorry man, but he’s not a jew
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people! why he must be jewish?
koch is just polish surname, yes there were many Jews, now there are few but there are still, ofcourse he can be Jewish but i don’t think so he is. For me he is just partly Polish.
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Thanks Dave.
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BTW, if you look at the family tree link, you’ll see that Steve Carell is only 1/4 Italian. His paternal grandmother was born in the US to a German-born father and an US mother.
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Notice his mother’s father was named Stanley Koch, as was his mother’s brother.
First, there’s an Ashkenazi Jewish custom not to name your children after yourself, so that’s strike one.
But, most importantly, “Stanley” used to be an incredibly common Polish Catholic-American name. I would guess maybe as many as 1 in 5 Polish Americans had that first names back in that era.
It wasn’t a very common Jewish name, on the other hand. So I would guess his mother is just of Polish Catholic background.
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