Good question. “My ancestors, who came from a family of Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia (South Ukraine), bore the surname Nudelman, but my father changed it to Nuland,” - Victoria Nuland
Antony Blinken has roots in Ukraine. Blinken granddadfather, Meir Blinkin, was born in 1879 in Pereiaslav (now in Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire) to Yankel Blenchen (Blinkin) and Rys (Ruth) Kelman. There he studied at a religious Jewish primary school, followed by a business education in Kyiv. After starting a family, Blinken moved to the United States at age 25 in 1904.
Good question. “My ancestors, who came from a family of Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia (South Ukraine), bore the surname Nudelman, but my father changed it to Nuland,” - Victoria Nuland
Antony Blinken has roots in Ukraine. Blinken granddadfather, Meir Blinkin, was born in 1879 in Pereiaslav (now in Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire) to Yankel Blenchen (Blinkin) and Rys (Ruth) Kelman. There he studied at a religious Jewish primary school, followed by a business education in Kyiv. After starting a family, Blinken moved to the United States at age 25 in 1904.
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