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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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