I think a lot of people seem to have forgotten that Iggy Pop (James OsterBERG) is jewish.  I am pretty sure that is just a rumor because of his name. Iggy Pop a Jew? Seriously now...he grew up in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, Michigan..... when is the last time you seen a Jew living in a SE Michigan trailer park? :rofl That'll be the day! :D    I have done some detective work... this is the only Jewish connection that Iggy Pop has.....      James Newell Osterberg Senior, the dominating influence in the life of the son who carried his name, was born on March 28, 1921;  he was of Irish and English descent ,  but spent his youth in a Michigan orphanage, lonely and unwanted until, when he was age fourteen, two spinster Jewish sisters named Esther and Ida Osterberg walked into the orphanage and decided that James was the child who most needed a home.  They nurtured and loved him, and paid for his education, before passing away in quick succession; one in mourning for their lovely house, bulldozed to make way for a highway, and the second for her adored sister.    So according to this his dad was adopted when he was 14 by two weird old Jewish ladies and then soon after they adopted him they both died :p On the wikipedia it says however that Iggy's father was adopted by Swedish-Americans so I don't know what is up.    Here is Iggy Pop's mother..      Louella Osterberg, nee Kristensen, was a cuddly woman of Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian blood  who doted on the two men in the house and became a well-loved figure around western Ypsilanti, despite working full–time in an office at Bendix, one of the main industrial employers in Ann Arbor. In later years she would preside over increasingly competitive arguments between father and son, but she remained remarkably unfazed. Somehow, for all the male aggression on display in the tiny trailer in later years, there seemed little doubt that this was a happy, loving, if unconventional family.   http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/...4&amp;view=excerpt