Laurence Sherwood asked:

>Does anyone know if Alma was Jewish? If so, was she observant? She married
>two prominent Jewish men, Mahler and Franz Werfel, but her maiden name,
>Schindler, suggests to me she was not.

I don't know how you would get it from her name, but as a matter of my bad
memory, I believe she was born Catholic.  I have no idea whether she gave
it up.  I doubt she was all that observant.

Steve Schwartz