His father, Kálmán Seinfeld (1918--1985), was a sign maker of Austrian and Hungarian Jewish descent; his mother, Betty (née Hesney; born 1915), is of Syrian Jewish descent; her family lived in Aleppo.
His father was a sign maker of Austrian. His father was a sign maker of Hungarian Jewish descent. Kálmán Seinfeld (1918--1985) was his father. His mother is of Syrian Jewish descent. Betty (née Hesney; born 1915) is his mother. Her family lived in Aleppo.