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Jan 12, 2011

LOUGHNER'S MOTHER JEWISH? NOT SO MUCH, says Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraph Agency

 

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JUDAIC OR NOT JUDAIC?

 

A JARED LEE LOUGHNER GENEALOGY

 

by Michael Hoffman | January 12, 2011

 

This column is online with links, here:

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2011/01/judaic-or-not-judaic-jared-lee-loughner.html

 

 

Lois Totman was the mother of Jared Lee Loughner's mother, Amy Totman

(Loughner).

 

Lois Totman was the daughter of Anton and Jessie Bleifuss.

 

According to census records, Anton Bleifuss was born in Bremen, Germany.

Bleifuss may be a Judaic name. (The Left-wing journalist Joel Bleifuss

is Judaic.)

 

Therefore, Anton Bleifuss, Jared Lee Loughner's great-grandfather, may

have been Judaic.

 

(By the way, the German version of the video game 'Screamer' is called

'Bleifuss'

http://www.gametective.de/screenshots/details/4883.html)

 

The Zionists are desperate not to have Loughner labeled as being of

Judaic descent:

 

Reporter Ron Kampeas asked researcher Nate Bloom about this, in a column

for the Jewish Telegraph Agency (Jan. 12, 2011). Bloom states flat out:

"Loughner's family was in no way Jewish, nor was his mother..."

 

There you have it. The "expert" Nate Bloom has declared the belief we

must all accept — but...

 

A bit down in his paragraph, Bloom concedes that even though Loughner's

mother is "in no way Jewish," lo and behold, she is indeed, at least a

little (but not too much):

 

" — but she might have mentioned her Jewish grandfather, beloved enough

to live on in her brother's name, with pride or interest.

 

"Under those circumstances Loughner, who sought 'chaos' according to

Tierney, might have sought to provoke his mother and his uncle by

pretending to admire (or actually admiring) Adolph (sic) Hitler. He

might have told Tierney that his mother was Jewish as a shorthand, or

might have seen her as Jewish...Or he might have explained the lineage,

and Tierney might understandably have conflated it as 'mother Jewish."

(End quote; emphasis supplied).

 

LOUGHNER'S MOTHER JEWISH? NOT SO MUCH

By Ron Kampeas | Jewish Telegraph Agency | January 12, 2011

http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2011/01/12/2742519/loughners-jewish-mother-not-so-much

 

 

I noted the other day that an acquaintance of Jared Lee Loughner, the

accused gunman in Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Tucson, believed his

mother was Jewish.

 

Bryce Tierney told Mother Jones that Loughner listed Mein Kampf as a

favorite book in part to provoke his Jewish mother.

 

Nate Bloom, the noted Jewish roots columnist and researcher, has done

the legwork -- and pretty much buries this notion.

 

I'll hand it over to him:

 

It is appalling how one comment---a friend of Jared Loughner telling a

Mother Jones' reporter that Jared Loughner's mother is "Jewish"---goes

viral in an instant.  In hours, "this fact" was all over on anti-Semitic

sites.  And, of course, there are the "commentators" who love to 'blame

the victim' via some pop psychology theory that Jared acted out of

"Jewish self-hatred."

 

I figured that this was the moment to try and get "truth" dressed, and

into the public arena a lot faster than usual.  In other words, to use

the tools of the internet to determine the veracity of what this friend

told Mother Jones.

 

I cover Jews in popular culture for Jewish newspapers and I know how

often famous people are mis-identified as Jewish or mis-identified as

not Jewish. I also know that a lot of people are not outright lying

about claiming someone is Jewish---they just get it wrong.

 

So, with my friend Michael, we ran down everything we could from public

records on Jared Loughner's mother's family background.  It took a lot

of "search terms" and databases to find what we did.

 

Here's what we found:

 

Jared Lee Loughner's mother is Amy Totman Loughner;

 

Amy Loughner---Known Parentage from Public Records:

 

Her [Amy's] parents were Lois May Totman and Laurence Edward Totman.

----Lois M. Totman died in 1999 and Laurence E. Totman died in 2005.

Both were registered nurses. Laurence worked at a VA facility in Tucson.

We both found this info via google news archives, social security death

index.

 

From 1930 census records: Laurence E. Totman was born in Illinois in

1925. His (Laurence's) parents were Laurence A. Totman and his wife,

Mary. Laurence Totman pere (the elder) was born in Kansas to a

Pennsylvania father and an Illinois mother. Mary was from Illinois, as

were both of her parents. A sister-in-law named Myrtle M. Brennan is

listed as living with them also.

 

1920/1910 census records---Totman Family: In 1920, Lawrence Totman,

(Jared's) great-grandfather, is living with his aunt, Rosa Clarke, who

was born in illinois to two Irish-born parents. Rosa is his mother's

sister. On the 1910 census, his (Laurence, the elder) maternal

grandparents are listed as Irish-born. Father, Orvie Totman was born in

Ohio to Ohio-born parents.

 

Amy Loughner's Mother's Line:

 

See obit, below, from Arlington (Illinois) Daily Record, June 24,

1999---Obituary of Helen Medernach of Virgil, Illinois. Helen was the

sister of Lois M. Totman (the mother of Amy Totman Loughner). Helen was

the great aunt of Jared Loughner.

 

As you can see, Helen's funeral (mass) was held at a Catholic church.

Helen (and Lois) were the children of Anton Bleifuss and Jessie Bleifuss

(nee Anderson).  Lois M. Totman died just days after her sister, Helen.

 

According to the census records, Anton Bleifuss was born in Bremen,

Germany, to German parents. Jessie Anderson Bleifuss was born in

Illinois to a father born in Denmark and a mother born in Illinois.

Conclusion---It is exceedingly unlikely that Amy Loughner has any Jewish

ancestry. The only "line" not traced his Amy's father's mother's family.

The other three lines (Amy's father's father, Amy's mother's father, and

Amy's mother mother)---show, to all but the most obtuse, that these

were/are not Jewish families. Moreover, it is quite clear that Amy's

mother, Lois Bleifuss Trotman, came from a Catholic family.

 

At OpEd News, Rob Kall interviews Rabbi Stephanie Aaron of Giffords'

shul, Congregation Chaverim, she dispenses with any notion that the

Loughner's were in any way associated with the community:  "We had a

meeting of the Tucson Board of Rabbis. We all looked at our rosters from

many years back. No one has ever heard of the family -- him, his

parents, any of them. I can say with absolute certainty that we do not

know him in pretty much the entire affiliated community."

 

I would add this: Bleifuss may be a Jewish name. (The noted

investigative journalist, Joel Bleifuss, is Jewish.) Anton Bleifuss,

Jared Lee Loughner's great-grandfather, might then have been Jewish --

but not so committed that he didn't defer to his wife when it came to

raising the children as Roman Catholics. As I noted in my earlier

posting, Jared Loughner is not the most reliable of reporters, and

Tierney's recollection was added as an aside. Mix into this the fact

that Amy Loughner's brother is Anton Totman -- apparently named for his

mother's father.

 

Loughner's family was in no way Jewish, nor was his mother -- but she

might have mentioned her Jewish grandfather, beloved enough to live on

in her brother's name, with pride or interest. Under those circumstances

Loughner, who sought "chaos" according to Tierney, might have sought to

provoke his mother and his uncle by pretending to admire (or actually

admiring) Adolph Hitler. He might have told Tierney that his mother was

Jewish as a shorthand, or might have seen her as Jewish -- like I said,

not the most reliable reporter. Or he might have explained the lineage,

and Tierney might understandably have conflated it as "mother Jewish."

 

It sets up a fascinating contrast: Gabrielle Giffords, who plunges into

public service when she is 30, just the same age she delves into her

father's Judaism and chooses to embrace it; and Jared Loughner, who

learns of a distant Jewish connection deep in his family's past -- and

reviles it as he retreats into madness. An obituary for Loughman's great

aunt, Helen Medernach, is after the jump.

 

Date: June 24, 1999 Section: Business Edition: Cook Page: 10 Column:

Obituaries

 

Helen Medernach of Virgil

 

A funeral Mass for Helen Medernach, 77, will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Friday, at S.S. Peter & Paul Church. Fr. Aloysius Neumann will

officiate.

 

Born Sept. 21, 1921, in Sycamore, the daughter of Anton and Jessie (nee

Anderson) Bleifuss, she passed away peacefully Sunday, June 20, 1999, at

Bethany Care Center in Sycamore, where she had made her home since May.

Interment will be in S.S. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Virgil.

 

Helen grew up in Sycamore and graduated from Sycamore High School, class

of 1939. She went on to take business courses which shortly landed her a

job at Anaconda Wire Company in Sycamore. She went to California with

her sister, Lois, and was employed in a business office for a few years

before returning to work in Chicago. The last 20 years of her working

career were spent in the business office at the Duplex Company in

Sycamore.

 

She was united in marriage to William H. `Willie' Medernach on May 16,

1959. They made their home in Sycamore for a short time before moving to

Virgil where they lived across the street from the church for many

years.

 

Survivors include her sisters, Virginia Stran of DeKalb, Irene Luty of

Covina, Calif., Lois (Lawrence) Totman of Tucson, Ariz. and Dorothy

(`Trig') Troeger of Sycamore; several nieces and nephews; and a family

of dear friends. In addition, she leaves the quiet, simple legacy of one

who cared. Her many thoughtful words of thanks, encouragement and

friendship were patiently penned into countless cards that found their

way into the hearts of many friends and neighbors through the years. She

was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1997; and brothers,

Albert, Lyle, Leslie and Donald Bleifuss.

 

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