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Carrie Soloway, inspiration for trailblazing trans Jewish protagonist of ‘Transparent,’ dies at 88

JL;DR SUMMARY Carrie Soloway, a Jewish psychiatrist whose journey as a transgender woman inspired the Amazon series "Transparent," has passed away at 88. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish RitualsJewish IdentityCultural RepresentationTransgenderLgbtqAmazon SeriesTransparentCarrie SolowayJoey SolowayMaura Pfefferman

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Chicago, Illinois, United States
"Carrie Soloway, a Jewish psychiatrist in Chicago whose late-in-life coming out as a transgender woman formed the basis for her childrens hit Amazon TV series Transparent, died Nov. 21 at the age of 88."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Transparent followed the lives of the Pfeffermans, a Jewish family in Los Angeles, whose world shifts when the parent theyve always known as Mort comes out as a transgender woman named Maura."
United States
"She visited the White House under then-President Barack Obama and became friends with trans elected officials, while Transparent blazed a path for modern LGBTQ Jews exploring their identity."
Massachusetts, United States
"In the 1950s the family settled in Chicago, where Carrie then living as Harry pursued a career in psychiatry, also serving for a time as an anesthesiologist at a U.S. Army base in Massachusetts."
London, England, United Kingdom
"Born in London in 1937, Carrie Soloway and her family survived Nazi bombing raids during World War II."
Germany
"The show traced the Pfefferman family roots back to Weimar-era Berlin and took them to Israel; a rabbi was a central character, and plotlines centered on Jewish rites of passage."
Israel
"The show traced the Pfefferman family roots back to Weimar-era Berlin and took them to Israel; a rabbi was a central character, and plotlines centered on Jewish rites of passage."

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