It turns out that Secretary of State John Kerrys name does indeed derive from Country Kerry in Ireland. OTOH, it seems everyone is really Jewish, but they just dont know it ... especially Secretaries of State. Following copied from Wikipedia: It was discovered in 2003 by Felix Gundacker, a genealogist[5] working with The Boston Globe, that Kerrys paternal grandparents, who had been born Jewish, as Fritz Kohn and Ida Löwe, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, changed their names to Frederick and Ida Kerry in 1900 and converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1901 or 1902. Fritz elder brother Otto had earlier, in 1887[7] or 1896, also embraced Catholicism. The Kerry name, widely misinterpreted as indicative of Irish heritage, was reputedly selected arbitrarily: According to family legend, Fritz and another family member opened an atlas at random and dropped a pencil on a map. It fell on County Kerry in Ireland, and thus a name was chosen. Leaving their hometown Mödling, a suburb of Vienna where they had lived since 1896, Fred and Ida, together with their son Eric, emigrated to the United States in 1905, living at first in Chicago and eventually moving to Brookline, Massachusetts, by 1915. The village where Fritz Kohn was born in 1873 was at that time known as Bennisch and was a part of Silesia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but is today known as Horní Benešov in the Czech Republic.[7] After learning of his ancestral connection with their village, the mayor and citizens sent congratulatory correspondence to John Kerry with regard to his political pursuits.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 01:47:43 +0000
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