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Jennings in 2018, photo by kathclick /Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 6, 2000
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Jazz Jennings is an American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist. Jazz is a transgender woman.
Her parents, Greg and Jeanette, are of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Jennings is a pseudonym.
Jazz’s paternal grandfather was Marvin Bruce Bloshinksy (the son of Abraham Bloshinsky and Ray Weiss). Marvin was born in Brooklyn, New York. Abraham was born in Brooklyn, to Russian Jewish parents, Avigdor Bloshinsky and Sarah Weissman. Ray was born in New York, to a Romanian Jewish father, Isidore Weiss; and a Ukrainian Jewish mother, Gertrude Basofsky.
Jazz’s paternal grandmother was Phyllis Toby Greenman (the daughter of Lowey Greenman and Selma Kaminsky) . Phyllis was born in Brooklyn, New York. Lowey was born in Brooklyn, to Ukrainian Jewish parents, Morris Greenman and Fannie Tabachnick. Selma was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, the daughter of Max Kaminsky and Ida Vigdorovitch.
Jazz’s maternal grandfather was Jacob “Jack” Babyatsky/Barie (the son of Samuel Babyatsky and Jeanette Langer). Jack was born in New York, to Polish Jewish parents.
Jazz’s maternal grandmother was Jacqueline “Jacky” Bialkin (the daughter of Dr. George Bialkin and Esther Selman). Jacky was born in Nyack, New York. George was born in New York, to Eastern European Jewish parents, Edward Bialkin and Annie Levy. Esther was the daughter of a Lithuanian Jewish father, Juliuis Selman; and a Latvian Jewish mother, Rose Bader.
Source: Genealogy of Jazz Jennings – https://www.wikitree.com