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Boas' wife was Jewish... here is an article that mentions her father was a prominent surgeon and mentions he is a jew

https://www.google.com/amp/s/forward.com/news/7339/doctors-fill-the-house-at-lenox-hill-s-fantas/%3famp=1

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The article doesn't say Ernst was Jewish; it mentions how he was apparently listed in an edition of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, but that doesn't mean he's Jewish since the encyclopedia includes plenty of non-Jews. Additionally, there's at least one reference to him having been a Catholic: In Defense of Anthropology by Herbert Lewis (2014), p. 175. (Link too long to be included, here, but it's in my previous article on Boas where Marie is discussed.)

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