Scarlett Johansson's spiritual roots: Jewish and Christian
Her mother is originally from an Ashkenazi family in the Bronx and her father is from Denmark
Two years ago, the actress discovered that Hebrew relatives of hers died in the Warsaw ghetto
As one of the great stars of the cinema that she is hers, Scarlett Johansson knows practically everything ... Although there are aspects of her life less known about her. One of them, the most spiritual aspect of it. Thus, we are dealing with a person who has two very deep roots: one Jewish and the other Christian.
Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in New York. Her mother, producer Melanie Sloan, is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, bringing her family for several generations in the New York borough of the Bronx. Meanwhile, her father is the Danish architect Karsten Johansson.
Different destinations
About the Jewish side of her, we got to know something more in 2017, when she attended the program ‘Finding your roots’ (‘Finding your roots’). It was in this popular space of American television that the actress discovered that a brother of her great-grandfather, in the middle of World War II, died with her family in the Warsaw ghetto victim of the Nazis.
The protagonist of ‘Lost in Translation’ came to tears when comparing the tragic fate of her descendant with that of her brother, her great-grandfather, who had a quiet life in charge of a small store in New York.
Connected with her family
“I promised myself,” she said in the middle of the program, “that she wouldn't cry, but it's hard not to… We can't even imagine that horror. It's crazy to think that Saul would be on the other side of the ocean selling bananas on Ludlow Street. It is impressive to think of the fate of one brother in front of the other ”. In the end, she admitted that knowing that family history "makes me feel more deeply connected to that side of myself, to that side of my family."
Yet Scarlett Johansson never speaks out on her religious beliefs (whether she has them or not). In clear contrast, by the way, with her tireless political activity, standing out in recent years for her support for feminism and many of the postulates of the Democratic Party, being, at the same time, one of the biggest detractors of Donal J. Trump.
