Gabrielle Giffords on her Jewish roots

Martin Peretz publishes Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) description of her Jewish roots. My grandfather, Akiba Hornstein, was the son of a Lithuanian rabbi. My grandfather changed his name to Giff Giffords for reasons of anti-Semitism and moved to Southern Arizona from New York more than a half century ago. In the 1940s, he founded my family’s tire and automotive business, El Campo