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Founder of Dallas’ City Ballet reveals Jewish identity

December 23, 2009

According to the Dallas Morning News:

Two years ago, Denise Brown faced a defining moment. It required giving up a lifetime of fear, of relinquishing forever her deepest secret and proclaiming to the world her true self.

The 84-year-old woman, who 60 years ago founded the renowned City Ballet, teaching generations of Dallas children how to dance, would announce to the world what she had hidden all those years from her dancers and their families – that she is Jewish.

Read the rest of this fascinating story of this survivor of WWII who had to hide her Jewish identity in order to  come to America here.

2 Comments leave one →
  1. Richard T permalink
    January 3, 2010 3:25 pm

    Did Denise also deny that Jesus was a Jew?? Shame on her!!

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