Natalie Jane

Birth Name: Natalie Janowski

Place of Birth: Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, U.S.

Date of Birth: April 25, 2004

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Natalie Jane is an American singer and songwriter. She made it to the top 40 of the eighteenth season of American Idol.

Her parents are both Jewish.

Natalie’s paternal grandfather was named Alexander Janowski/Yanovsky (the son of Maximilian Janowski/Yanovsky and Betiya/Batya). Alexander was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Maximilian was born in Poland.

Natalie’s paternal grandmother was Avigail/Abigail Rivlin (the daughter of Yosef Yitschak Rivlin and Leah Cohen). Avigail was born in Tel Aviv. Yosef was born in Jerusalem, to an Orthodox Jewish family, with his grandfather having been scholar Yosef Rivlin. His family was from Poland, Belarus, and Israel. Natalie’s great-grandmother Leah was born in Israel, with her maternal grandfather being from Bratislava, Slovakia, and having ancestry from Budapest; and her maternal grandmother’s family having been from Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine.

Natalie’s maternal grandfather was Richard William Selmonsky (the son of Joseph “Joe” Selmonsky and Miriam Seff). Richard was born in New York. Joseph was born in England, to a Polish Jewish family, the son of Philip/Eliezer Selmonsky and Pauline/Poli/Pese/Pessa Leya Knyper, who were from Warsaw. Natalie’s great-grandmother Miriam was born in New York, the daughter of Marx/Mordechai Seff, a Russian Jewish immigrant; and of Pauline/Paulina Wiplich, who was an Austrian Jew.

Natalie’s maternal grandmother was Joyce S. Mann (the daughter of Carol Julius Silverman/Mann and Flora Bluma Lifschitz). Joyce was born in New York. Carol was a Romanian Jewish immigrant. Natalie’s great-grandmother Flora was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Samuel Lifschitz, a Russian Jewish immigrant; and of Mary Kaplan, who was born in San Francisco, California, to Lithuanian Jewish/Polish Jewish parents.