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Is Pope Leo Jewish? Ask his distant cousins — like me

JL;DR SUMMARY Robin Washington uncovers surprising connections between himself and Pope Leo XIV, suggesting a distant family relation through Jewish and Creole lines. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryGenealogyBlack Jewish RelationsAncestryFamily ConnectionsRace And IdentityPope Leo XivCreole HeritageRobin Washington

Places mentioned

Chicago, Illinois, United States
"The pope and I were born a year apart in Chicago"
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
"Leo XIVs tree is rapidly becoming the most dissected in the world, especially after the revelation of his mothers Haitian ancestry and Creole roots in New Orleans."
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
"It came in March, exactly the day before I was to catch a flight to Memphis to attend a reception at the National Civil Rights Museum."
France
"a descendant marrying one of the progeny of Joseph Aristide Bacqui of France, Guadeloupe and New Orleans."
Guadeloupe
"a descendant marrying one of the progeny of Joseph Aristide Bacqui of France, Guadeloupe and New Orleans."

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