Was Amelia Earhart Jewish

Answer 1

According to one biographer, yes, (Briand- daughter of the stars) The name is of course Germanic. It is closer to Honest Buck than a winged circulatory organ as Ehre is honor and hart is a male deer! Other writers have suggested she may have practiced the Episcopal religion her sister, who died fairly recently, was an Episcopalian. an interesting question. My Dad was something of an Earhart fan having met her once (in 36) at a book-signing fete. He told me- when I was a young man I had the hots on her, like you do with Gina Lollobrigida- but, I actually got to meet her. As her husband was a publisher, book promos could easily be arranged, this being one way John Q Public can have close encounters with celebrities. Dad, Of course, was of the Lutheran faith, He assumed Amelia was.

Answer 2

Emphatically Not, She was Lutheran or maybe leaning between Lutheran and Episcopal, her sister, Muriel who died in the past ten years, was Episcopal, of the Anglican communion, like Elizabeth II. The author Briand discusses Earhart"s religious background, few other biographers get into this somewhat hazy atmosphere.