Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By simmons on June 7, 2018

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Date of Birth: May 28, 1999

Ethnicity:*Afro-Caribbean, African-American (father)*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)

Cameron Boyce is an American actor and dancer. His father is black, of Afro-Caribbean and African-American descent. His mother, who is white, is Ashkenazi Jewish (of Hungarian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, and German Jewish descent).

A picture of Camerons parents can be seen here. A picture of Camerons paternal grandparents can be seen here.

Cameron has said, I like to say that Im bl-ewish, Im black and Im Jewish. So you know, me and Drake, we got that in common.

Camerons paternal grandfather is Victor Elliott Boyce. Victor was from the Caribbean.

Camerons paternal grandmother is Jo Ann Crozier Allen (the daughter of Herbert Allen and Alice Josephine Hopper). Jo Ann was born in Clinton, Tennessee. In 1956, Jo Ann was one of the Clinton Twelve, one of twelve students who were the first group of African-American students to attend a desegregated high school in the Southern U.S. (Clinton High School).

Camerons maternal grandfather was Roger Small (the son of Marvin Small, born Marvin Stanley Smallheiser, and of Blanche D. Abrams). Roger Small was one of the early founding members of Temple Emanuel in Greater New Haven, Connecticut. Marvin was born in New York, to Hungarian Jewish parents, Maximillian Smallheiser and Lottie Schoenberger. Blanche was born in New York, the daughter of Louis Abrams and Marion Mazer, who were of Russian Jewish descent.

Camerons maternal grandmother is Joan Berland (the daughter of Irving Louis Berland and Beryl Wormser). Irving was a Jewish immigrant from Vilna, Lithuania, and the son of Samuel Berland and Hannah Horowitz. Beryl was born in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Morris Wormser, who was born in New York, to German Jewish parents, and of Sadie Goltman, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, also to German Jewish parents.

Sources: Genealogy of Cameron Boyce https://www.geni.com

Camerons maternal grandfather, Roger Small, on the 1930 U.S. Census https://familysearch.org

Obituary of Camerons maternal grandfather, Roger Small http://www.legacy.com

Marriage record of Camerons maternal great-great-grandparents, Maximillian Smallheiser and Lottie Schoenberger https://familysearch.org

Camerons maternal great-grandmother, Blanche D. Abrams, on the 1910 U.S. Census https://familysearch.org

Camerons maternal grandmother, Joan Berland, on the 1930 U.S. Census https://familysearch.org

Camerons maternal great-grandmother, Beryl Wormser, on the 1900 U.S. Census https://familysearch.orgBeryl Wormser on the 1910 U.S. Census https://familysearch.org

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