Salha Husney

“Thank you for giving us the immigrant experience with uncomfortable benches.” His great-grandparents, Salim and Selha Husney, came to America from Syria in 1909. When Selha and her youngest baby died in the 1918 flu epidemic, the surviving four children were sent to the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum. One of these children, Jerry’s grandmother, Betty Husney Seinfeld (who married Kalman Seinfeld, the son of Austrian immigrants), was among the guests.

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The children were put up in an orphanage and foster care until they were 18.