Now, Americas' oldest Muslim families are holding on to optimism: “This too shall pass,” said Marion Sedorowitz, Haughwout's aunt, who also sits on the board of the mosque, which is a spiritual home to Brooklyn's 110-year-old Lipka Tatar community.
Lipka Tatars are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group with roots in what are now the lands split between Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus. Hundreds immigrated to the US at the turn of the last century – around the same time that Donald Trump's paternal grandfather left Germany for the US in 1885.
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