| Father | Mother | Spouse | Children | Sources | File Dates |
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| Ralph de Sola | no information | Martin Chervin | Charles P. Chervin |
Wikipedia On-line article accessed April 2019 Sola, De at encylopedia.com |
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Biographical Data:
Born ca. 1937. Both Ronda and her husband were Jewish atheists. She converted to Catholicism at age 21; he converted at age 68.
Her son, parents, and husband all died in the space of a few years, triggering a spritual crisis which is the subject of some of her work. She was also heavily influenced by Frank Rich.
In particular, her book Becoming a handmaiden of the Lord: From the Journals of Ronda de Sola Chervin 1977-1996 recounts her personal history leading to her conversion to Catholicism.
See also rondachervin.com.
She writes
We were the children, born in 1937, of unmarried parents who met in the Communist party, but had left it shortly before our birth to become informers for the FBI. Apparently enraged communists threatened to bomb our cradle.
My grandfather on my father's side was of Sephardic Jew ancestry – born in Curacao, South America – a descendant of a Spanish family, De Sola, half of which became Catholic during the Inquisition. He was from the Jewish half, and had migrated to the United States under a program initiated, I believe, by secret Jewish Masons, to bring young men to North America.Needless to say, none of this need be taken as authoritative but reflects her own understanding.
A more substantial account is found at encyclopedia.com and begins as follows.
De Sola: Sephardi family in Holland, Britain, and North and South America. After 1492 the family dispersed from Spain to Portugal (where some survived as Marranos, were martyred under the Inquisition, or fled overseas), and Holland. From aaron de sola (18th century), who fled to London and settled in Amsterdam, the various branches in England, Canada, the West Indies, and Holland are directly descended.