Editing Logan Lerman (section)

==Early life and background==
Lerman was born in [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]], California.<ref name="cwd1">{{cite news |title=Rising Actors Under 25: Logan Lerman |publisher=CW Detroit |date=July 24, 2012 |url=http://cwdetroit.cbslocal.com/2012/07/24/rising-actors-under-25-logan-lerman/ |access-date=December 11, 2012}}</ref> His mother, Lisa (née Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is a businessman and [[orthotist]].<ref name="peoplemagazine">{{cite news |title=Jack & Bobby's Matt Long & Logan Lerman |work=People |date=October 25, 2004 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20145828,00.html |access-date=March 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206033549/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20145828,00.html |archive-date=February 6, 2009}}</ref><ref name="bravomagazine">{{cite magazine |title=Logan Lerman interview: Ich Bin Schwarz Schaf der Familie (I am the Black Sheep of the Family) |magazine=[[Bravo (magazine)|Bravo magazine]] |pages=24–25 |year=2010}}</ref> He has an older sister and an older brother.<ref name="officialsite">{{cite web |title=Logan facts |publisher=LoganLerman.com |year=2004 |url=http://www.loganlerman.com/loganbio.htm |access-date=March 1, 2010}}</ref><ref name="daman1">{{cite web |last1=Singer |first1=Oliver |first2=M. |last2=Berlian |title=Logan Lerman DA MAN Exclusive Fashion Spread |publisher=DA MAN Magazine |date=October 4, 2011 |url=http://daman.co.id/logan-lerman-da-man-exclusive-fashion-spread/ |access-date=October 5, 2011}}</ref><ref name="glamour2">{{cite web |title=Logan Lerman |work=Glamour |year=2011 |url=http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/biographies/logan-lerman |access-date=October 5, 2011 |quote=Logan Wade Lerman is a California-born actor and teen heart-throb. Raised in a large Jewish family in Beverly Hills ... |archive-date=June 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619133547/http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/biographies/logan-lerman |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Lerman is [[Jews|Jewish]],<ref name="vart1"/><ref>{{cite web |first=Sergio |last=Carmona |url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jjdc-film-0803-20160729-story.html |title=Thought-provoking film opening in local theaters |work=[[Sun-Sentinel]] |date=August 1, 2016 |access-date=April 26, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=James |last=Mottram |url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/film/logan-lerman-interview-people-don-t-like-to-see-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again-1.54593 |title=Logan Lerman interview: "People don't like to see the same thing over and over again." |work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |date=November 3, 2016 |access-date=April 26, 2018}}</ref> and had a [[Bar and Bat Mitzvah|Bar Mitzvah]] ceremony.<ref>{{cite web |first=Naomi |last=Pfefferman |url=http://jewishjournal.com/current_edition/187762/ |title=Actor researches 1950s America for Roth character |work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]] |date=July 27, 2016 |access-date=April 26, 2018}}</ref><ref name="rantm">{{cite news |last=Ran |first=Tomer |title=We met with the cast of 'Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief' in London and we have one clear conclusion. Logan Lerman IN, OUT Daniel Radcliffe |publisher=[[Maariv]] News for Youth |date=February 18, 2010 |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/24/ART2/062/345.html |access-date=April 16, 2010 |quote={{script|Hebr|לרמן בא מבית יהודי טוב. הוריו עוסקים בתחום הרפואה}} ("Lerman comes from a good Jewish family. His parents are in medicine...") |language=he}} partially translated into English at {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110620060532/http://logan-lerman.com/2010/05/logan-lerman-maariv-youth-preview-scan-interview.html this link]}}</ref><ref name="newz2">{{cite web |first=Nate |last=Bloom |author-link=Nate Bloom |title=At the Movies: Opening Friday October 17 |work=The American Israelite |date=October 14, 2014 |url=http://americanisraelite.com/archives/34821 |access-date=October 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141015162149/http://americanisraelite.com/archives/34821 |archive-date=October 15, 2014}}</ref> His grandparents were born in four different countries. His paternal grandfather, Max Lerman, was born in [[Berlin]], in 1927, to a Polish Jewish family; they left Germany in the 1930s because of the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]], and lived in [[Shanghai]] until the end of World War II.<ref name="newz1">{{cite news |first=Nate |last=Bloom |author-link=Nate Bloom |title=Jews in the Newz: Lerman Stars |publisher=The American Israelite |date=October 18, 2011 |url=http://americanisraelite.com/archives/13624 |access-date=October 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130117015014/http://americanisraelite.com/archives/13624 |archive-date=January 17, 2013}}</ref><ref name="npfefferman2016">{{cite news |last=Pfefferman |first=Naomi |title=Actor researches 1950s America for Roth character |newspaper=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]] |date=July 27, 2016 |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/actor_researches_1950s_america_for_roth_character |access-date=July 27, 2016}}</ref> His paternal grandmother, Mina (née Schwartz), was born in [[Mexico City]], to Russian Jewish parents.<ref name="npfefferman2016"/><ref name="mexref1">{{cite news |last=Solórzano |first=Enrique |title=Alistan la nueva aventura de Percy Jackson |publisher=Diario de México |date=August 10, 2013 |url=http://www.diariodemexico.com.mx/alistan-la-nueva-aventura-de-percy-jackson/ |access-date=September 24, 2013 |archive-date=December 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226105359/http://www.diariodemexico.com.mx/alistan-la-nueva-aventura-de-percy-jackson/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="mexref2">{{cite news |title=Logan Lerman, espera tercera parte de 'Percy Jackson' |publisher=Esmas |date=August 8, 2013 |url=http://www2.esmas.com/entretenimiento/cine/630341/entrevista-junket-percy-jackson-longan-lerman-entrevista-mexico-espera-tercera-parte-saga-rick-riordan/ |access-date=September 24, 2013 |archive-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508040948/http://www2.esmas.com/entretenimiento/cine/630341/entrevista-junket-percy-jackson-longan-lerman-entrevista-mexico-espera-tercera-parte-saga-rick-riordan |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.filmink.com.au/logan-lerman-takes-on-philip-roth-in-indignation/ |title=Logan Lerman: Takes On Philip Roth In Indignation |access-date=July 6, 2018 |date=August 15, 2016 |last=Mottram |first=James |work=[[Filmink]]}}</ref> His maternal grandfather was a [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish Jewish]] immigrant, and his maternal grandmother was born in Los Angeles, also to a Jewish immigrant family.<ref name="newz1"/> On his mother's side he is a relative, by marriage, of twin singers [[Evan and Jaron|Evan and Jaron Lowenstein]].<ref name="imdbref1">{{cite web |title=Biography for Logan Lerman |work=D Biography |year=2013 |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503567/bio |access-date=August 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>His maternal grandmother's father was president of the [[B'nai B'rith]] lodge in [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz]], California; {{cite news |title=Obituaries |pages=A12 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 10, 1960 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/489750192.html?dids=489750192:489750192&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+10%2C+1960&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Obituary+7+--+No+Title&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129231552/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/489750192.html?dids=489750192:489750192&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+10%2C+1960&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Obituary+7+--+No+Title&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 29, 2012 |access-date=December 31, 2010}}</ref>

Lerman has stated that he is a "[[black sheep]]" in his household because he is an actor, while most of his relatives work in the medical profession.<ref name="teenvogue">{{cite journal |last=Chen |first=Eva |title=Hero worship |journal=[[Teen Vogue]] |page=88 |date=January 4, 2010 |url=http://www.teenvogue.com/blog/teen-vogue-daily/2010/01/logan-lerman-percy-jackson.html |access-date=March 1, 2010}}</ref> His family owns and operates an orthotics and [[prosthesis|prosthetics]] company which was founded by his great-grandfather in 1915.<ref name="bravomagazine"/><ref name="lerman&son">{{cite web |title=Lerman & Son: About |publisher=Lerman & Son Orthotics & Prosthetics |year=2009 |url=http://lermanandson.com/about.html |access-date=March 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208201624/http://lermanandson.com/about.html |archive-date=December 8, 2012}}</ref> He attended [[Beverly Hills High School]].<ref name="yte">{{cite news |last=Abrams |first=Rachel |title=Logan Lerman: Newest Musketeer learns along way |work=Variety |date=October 15, 2010 |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/news/logan-lerman-newest-musketeer-learns-along-way-1118025362/ |access-date=December 31, 2010}}</ref><ref name="sbernhard">Stated on ''Logan Lerman | Indignation'', radio program ''Sandyland'', with [[Sandra Bernhard]], on ''Radio Andy'', Ch. 102, [[Sirius XM Holdings]], July 27, 2016</ref> In 2010, he applied to study [[creative writing]] at [[New York University]], but postponed his attendance.<ref name="blackbookmagazine"/>