Editing Beate Sirota Gordon (section)

==Early life and education==
Born in [[Vienna]] on October 25, 1923 and educated in [[Tokyo]], Beate Sirota was the only child of pianist [[Leo Sirota|Leo]] and Augustine Sirota (''née'' Horenstein), Russians of Jewish descent.{{sfn|Gordon|1997|pp=14, 16}} Leo had emigrated from Russia because of [[Pogroms in the Russian Empire#1903–1906|anti-Semitic violence]] and settled in Austria-Hungary. Her maternal uncle was conductor [[Jascha Horenstein]].<ref>[http://www.naxos.com/person/Leo_Sirota/43944.htm "Leo Sirota"] on the [[Naxos Records]] website</ref> Sirota's family emigrated to Japan in 1929, when Leo Sirota accepted an invitation to become a professor at the Imperial Academy of Music&nbsp;– now [[Tokyo University of the Arts]]&nbsp;– in Tokyo.<ref name="one">Dower, pp. 365-367</ref> She attended the German School in Tokyo for six years, until the age of twelve, when she transferred to [[American School in Japan]] (also in Tokyo) as a result of her parents deeming the German School "too Nazi".<ref name="Forward">{{cite web|last=Mostel|first=Raphael|title=Beate Sirota Gordon Dies at 89|url=http://forward.com/articles/168592/beate-sirota-gordon-dies-at-/|publisher=[[The Forward]]|accessdate=2013-01-01|date=January 1, 2013}}</ref><ref name="one"/> Beate Sirota lived in Tokyo a total of ten years before she moved to [[Oakland, California]], in 1939 to attend [[Mills College]], where she was inducted into [[Phi Beta Kappa]] society, and graduated in 1943 with a [[bachelor's degree]] in modern languages. She became a [[Citizenship in the United States#Naturalized citizenship|naturalized U.S. citizen]] in January 1945.<ref name="NYT 20130101" />