[TN4Liberty]

Why would a Jew -- or anyone else, for that matter -- in Bohemia or Moravia in the 1870's change his name to Kerry?

Perhaps he was afraid that he would be discriminated against in the US as a Jew, so he adopted a name from the much beloved Irish of that era.

[Bonaparte]

"Perhaps he was afraid that he would be discriminated against in the US as a Jew, so he adopted a name from the much beloved Irish of that era."

Remember that Kerry's grandfather settled in Boston. John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald was its Irish mayor from 1906-7 and 1910-13.