Actually, Kerry's paternal grandfather is Jewish. His original family name is "Kohn" not "Kerry"
I've heard that, but I didn't know if it was true--like so many things Kerry said.
Is he the one who killed himself? I know Kerry actually celebrated something across the street where an ancestor of his committed suicide.
" Actually, Kerry's paternal grandfather is Jewish. His original family name is "Kohn" not "Kerry"
That's what always drove me crazy about Kerry, well, actually one of many things.
Kerry knew his mother's side was English and yet, Kerry claimed that it was not until the Boston Globe did a genealogical search in 2003
that he discovered he was, in fact , the grandson of Austrian immigrants and not Irish immigrants.
His grandparents Fritz and Ida Kohn emigrated to the US, when they were in their early 30s , late 20s respectively.
While the grandfather killed himself before Kerry was born, his grandmother Ida lived until he was 17.
Grandma Ida must have spoken with an accent and it was not an Irish brogue.
I also find it hard to believe that Bubbe Ida , even though a convert to Catholicism, would have abandoned all of her Yiddish idioms ,especially the terms of endearment.
And the media played along with Kerry's charade.
Not one of them dared ask Kerry-
" Senator, when your Grandmother spoke and her accent was similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Wolfgang Puck-
could that have been a hint that you weren't Irish ? "