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by Magnus Bennett
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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PRAGUE -- When you run for U.S. president, you have to be prepared for opponents finding skeletons in your closet. But in the case of John Kerry, the senator's past may reveal not so much a skeleton but a Golem, the legendary Jewish man of clay.
A Czech historian says the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee may be a descendant of the great Rabbi Judah Loew (1520-1609), a famous Kabbalist, philosopher and talmudist known as the Maharal of Prague.
Loew, who is buried in Prague's old Jewish cemetery, is said to have created the Golem to protect Prague's Jewish community from outside threats. The Golem, as legend has it, was a faithful servant until Loew was forced to drain the creature of its life force after it developed an ego and disobeyed its creator.
Kerry already is aware of his Jewish roots, having learned recently that his paternal grandfather was a German Jew born in 1873 in the north Moravian town of Horni Benesov who later immigrated to the United States. Further research established that the senator's oldest known Czech Jewish ancestor is Bernhard Loew, born in 1771 in the south Moravian town of Boskovice.
But local historian Jaroslav Bransky has dug deeper into Bernhard Loew's past -- and says there is strong evidence to indicate that Kerry is related to Judah Loew's brother, Sinai.
"Everything is showing that Kerry's family is descended from Sinai," said Bransky, who has written several books on the once thriving Jewish community in Boskovice.
Bransky believes that the family tree leads from Sinai, one of Loew's three older brothers, to Josefina Loew, one of Kerry's great-grandmothers.
Little is known about Sinai. History books have focused on his more famous brother who, even centuries after his death, draws large crowds to Prague's Jewish Quarter.
Bransky reached his conclusion by using local archival material and epitaphs from gravestones at Boskovice's Jewish cemetery, one of the largest in the country. But he says his search was hampered by the destruction of town records in an early-19th-century fire.
Tomas Kraus, executive director of the Czech Federation of Jewish Communities, welcomed Bransky's research but said previous experience had shown that caution is required. "Loew's family history is very complicated and at the moment we don't have much more than speculation," Kraus said.
Bransky says he is more interested in the Loew family than the Kerry connection. "I don't have any Jewish roots myself, but I have been interested in the topic of Jews in Boskovice since the 1960s because my father and I were both born in the Jewish quarter of the town and I spent my childhood surrounded by Jewish friends."
Town records show that Jews lived in Boskovice as early as the mid-15th century. The town's Jewish cemetery officially dates back to the 17th century.
According to the Bohemia-Moravia Special Interest Group, which conducts research into Jewish history, more than 1,800 Jews lived in the town around 1850. However, the community was later torn apart by the Holocaust. Only 14 of 458 Boskovice Jews deported to concentration camps survived the war.
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