Steve Schwartz responds to Laurence Sherwood:

>>Does anyone know if Alma was Jewish? If so, was she observant?
>
>I believe she was born Catholic.  I have no idea whether she gave
>it up.  I doubt she was all that observant.

The fact that Mahler became Catholic might complicate this, but in Alma
Mahler's Gustav Mahler:  Memories and Letters, she reports getting married
in church--the Karlskirche--and, more significantly, says that Christmas
had been "sacred to me from my childhood."

Jim Tobin