Birth Name: Lewis Jacqueline Brownstein
Place of Birth: New York, USA
Date of Birth: October 1, 1938
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish (father), German (mother)
Family Background: Lew Brownstein is a famous historian and author with studies mainly on Middle East specifically on the Middle East region.
He is the son of Isidore Irving Brownstein and Frances Tischler.
Brownstein’s maternal grandparents were Joseph Tischler (the son of Michael Tischler Sr. and Regina Koller) and Gussie Hollander.
Source: ancestry.com records