by Wyatt Petersen, The Unz Review:
In her 1882 book A Sister’s Memoir, Asia Booth Clarke, sister to the assassin of America’s 16th president, wrote that her father Junius Booth attended synagogue and was considered Jewish:
“In the synagogue, he was known as a Jew, because he conversed with rabbis…and joined their worship in the Hebraic tongue. He read the Talmud, also, and strictly adhered to…its laws.”
Mrs. Clarke wasn’t the only member of the family to make this claim; her older brother Edwin Booth, also reportedly told Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise that their father was Jewish. (See: Forward, Apr. 3, 2015)
