Zedushka learned that his grandmother was Irish. She was an Irish anchor baby. What happened is that the family wanted to emigrate to America from Russia but couldn’t afford the steamship ticket to America. All they could afford was a ticket to Ireland so that’s where the family had to leave the ship.

His grandmother was born in Belfast and the family lived there until they scraped together enough money for a ticket to Palestine. Then she married Zedushka’s grandfather and they emigrated to America about 1913.