![]() ![]() ![]() Her late husband, Jay Monahan, was also an aficionado of the Confederacy and was proud of Couric’s Confederate roots. The family lived in the South, and Couric’s father, who was descended from Confederate soldiers, was obsessed with the Confederacy. Her mother winces when Couric, as a TV personality, adopts the word “Oy.”Ĭouric theorizes in her interview with Traister that her mother was seeking to avoid the antisemitism she must have encountered growing up, and also to protect the reputation of her father, a newsman and publicist. Her mother and her grandparents seemed ambivalent about being Jewish she discovers a letter from her mother’s father to his daughter urging her to mix with non-Jews. ![]() The first thing that ran through her head was the song by the Jewish satirist Tom Lehrer: “Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Catholics hate the Protestants… and everybody hates the Jews.” Katie Couric’s first realization that she came from a Jewish background was when she was 10 years old and spotted a menorah in her mother’s brother’s house. Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories She recalls, as an adult, discovering her late mother, Elinor, weeping after some friends made antisemitic remarks, but not explaining that she was wounded because she was Jewish. ![]()
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