I just always was told they were. My father told me that like John Kerry and others who where jewish, they went to catholic church or other religious organizations to protect themselves from being prosecuted.
I have been told for many years their name was Rosenfeld and they were in fear of prosecution so they changed their name.
Does't make and issue with me, they are successful and lead this country in a very important time in history. God bless them.
That's an anti-semitic rumor spread about FDR by Father Coughlin and others of his ilk back in the 1930's. It appears now mostly on anti-semitic websites like "Jew Watch". Roosevelt is a Dutch name going back hundreds of years.
And the word you want is "persecuted", not "prosecuted".
The specious libel, about FDR being a Jew and that his name was really Rosenfeld, or even Rosenberg or some such, was begun in the late 1930s, when he had Jews on his team and nominated others for high office and judgeships. It was also said about him by Isolationists, America Firsters, and those who belonged to the American Bund, when he wanted to help England, before we got into WW II.
Nobody, NOBODY in the public knew that John Kerry's paternal grandparents had been Jews, who had CONVERTED, NOT JUST ATTENDE#D CHURCH, until he ran for president.
I'm not trying to disparage or insult you and/or your father; however, to be blunt, your father is ill informed and has told you spurious filth. Does he also believe that THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION is a factual book?
The specious libel, about FDR being a Jew and that his name was really Rosenfeld, or even Rosenberg or some such, was begun in the late 1930s, when he had Jews on his team and nominated others for high office and judgeships. It was also said about him by Isolationists, America Firsters, and those who belonged to the American Bund, when he wanted to help England, before we got into WW II.
Nobody, NOBODY in the public knew that John Kerry's paternal grandparents had been Jews, who had CONVERTED, NOT JUST ATTENDED CHURCH, until he ran for president.
I'm not trying to disparage or insult you and/or your father; however, to be blunt, your father is ill informed and has told you spurious filth. Does he also believe that THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION is a factual book?