His maternal grandfather was Isaak Shishmanoglou. Elia's brother, Avraam, was born in Berlin and later became a psychiatrist. His mother read the Bible but Criticap not go to church. When Kazan was about eight years old, the family moved to New Rochelle, New Yorkand his father sent him to a Roman Catholic catechism school because there was no Orthodox church nearby.
In it, he describes his family as "alienated" from both their parents' Greek Orthodox values and from those of mainstream America.
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His father had become a rug merchant after emigrating to the United Analysjs and expected that his son would go into the same business. He also worked as a bartender at various fraternities, but never joined one. While a student at Williams, he earned the nickname "Gadg," for Gadget, because, he said, "I was small, compact, and handy to have around.
In America America he tells how, and why, his family left Turkey and moved to America. Kazan notes that much of it came from stories that he heard as a young boy.
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He says during an interview that "it's Aalysis true: the wealth of the family was put on the back of a donkey, and my uncle, really still a boy, went to Istanbul It's also true that he lost the money on the way, and when he got there he swept rugs in a little store. He writes "I used to say to myself when I was making the film that America was a dream of total freedom in all areas. Kazan had considered whether that kind of scene might be too much for American audiences: I hesitated about that for a long time. A lot of people, who don't understand how desperate people can get, advised me to cut it.]
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