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# Our People Our Traditions
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/episode/finding-your-roots-our-people-our-traditions/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:11:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-16T20:30:15.000Z
- Description: Examine the Jewish heritage of Alan Dershowitz, Carole King and Tony Kushner.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Finding Your Roots, Season 2, Episode 7, #ZZZ_Episode_bef2530a-e563-4efe-a464-6c98c402ac24, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_855aaf88-37bb-4949-872a-c4646a613145, #v1.16

Learn about the ancestors of three celebrated Americans who not only share a Jewish heritage but also history of perseverance. Tony Kushner delves into the history of the Holocaust to discover his ancestors’ fate; Carole King confronts the discrimination her ancestors faced in America; and Alan Dershowitz finds out that the first Hassidic synagogue in Brooklyn played a secret role in WWII.