Was Franklin D. Roosevelt of Jewish origin?
Replying to Christopher Jones, Hank Greely writes: “Hank Levin beat me to the (proverbial only) punch. Christopher Jones has outdone himself in this post, reflecting an anti-semitism through a message that would have done Father Coughlin proud in the 1930s. Note first that no one has yet come up with any evidence to contradict my post concerning Paul Bremer’s non-Jewishness. German Jews, like non-Jewish Germans, sometimes had location based names (as did the English, who probably produced the “Hill Town” descriptor that probably underlies Ronald’s last name). Note how Jones then tries to deflect the discussion to an apparent claim that Franklin Roosevelt, (and presumably Theodore, his cousin), was Jewish. How many scores of thousands of anti-semites, FDR haters, and full-fledged Nazis (including Hitler) would have loved to show that? And how many genealogists love to research the family histories of presidents? Yet we find, in several easily reached genealogies on the web, the Roosevel
