His family is buried in Highgate's Jewish cemetery. Does Radcliffe feel Jewish? 'Oh yes, absolutely. My dad's a Northern Irish Protestant, my mother's a Essex-Russign-South African Jew. I'm very proud to be Irish and Jewish - you're not going to find two harder working groups of people.'
But he's an atheist? 'Judaism isn't about God. Some of the best Jews have been atheists. Karl Marx was. Some things make me incredibly proud of being Jewish: vilified wherever they have been, they are a surviving people.'
He laughs when asked if he was brought up in the Jewish faith. 'No, we were Christmas tree Jews.' Was Radcliffe circumcised? Yes, as a baby, and it ended there - they said, "He's not going to be any more Jewish than that." I'm giving away too much, but my dad is also circumcised, and even if my kids aren't Jewish I think it's important to look the same, father to son. I don't know why I think that - maybe I'm wrong.'
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