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Hans Jewish Andersen? No. Yeshiva Boy? Briefly

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From: Forward
Date: 20010608
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Forward
06-08-2001
Hans Jewish Andersen? No. Yeshiva Boy? Briefly

FORWARD STAFF

Jewish day school advocates may have found themselves a new poster child:
legendary fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen.

In 1811, when the Danish writer was about six years old, his Lutheran
mother enrolled him in one of the Jewish schools in Odense, Denmark,
according to a new biography of Anderson, the 19th-century author of such
classics as "The Little Mermaid," "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Ugly
Duckling."

A strong opponent of corporal punishment, his mother, a washerwoman, made
the switch after Hans ...

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