Jews are not Hebrews - and the Irish are not Celts. Does that make them any less Irish? A rose by any other name etc. Not sure either that I get the point of how alleged Jewish anti-Polonism has any relevance to their Hebrew origins or lack of them.
Anyway what does your post have to do with the thread? The question posed is whether any Jews converted to Catholicism.
Christians and Jews share identical roots, though "separated at birth" so to speak:-)
We were taught that fact in our Catholic school in the UK
When I was about six I became aware of 'Jews' and asked my mother what they were. 'Oh they're another religion' she replied. 'How are they different from us?' I asked. 'Well they don't believe that Jesus was the Son of God so they're still waiting for the Messiah', she responded. And that was it. I remember thinking 'the poor things, they must be getting really fed up waiting, pity they didn't realise that Jesus was it'. She then went on to recount a tale of 'a lovely Jewish girl' she was at school with. There was a Jewish community in the town where my mother grew up and the Jewish children all attended the local schools which were of course Catholic. The Jews whom I knew when I lived in London pretty much without exception told me that in the absence of a Jewish school, they would prefer their children to attend a Catholic school than a non-denominational one. They seemed to identify with Catholics more closely than with Protestants. They were certainly very fond of Irish Catholics. I think it was the perception of shared suffering and persecution for religious beliefs. They didn't know that much Irish history but they had the basic idea that Irish Catholics had a bad time of it from the Brits.
By the time I was about nine I was interested in whether you could marry someone of a different religion so naturally I went to the fount of all wisdom once again, my dear mother. 'Can a Catholic marry a Jew?' 'Oh, yes they can but other Jews don't really like it. They get very upset'. She then went on to tell the tale of another 'lovely Jewish girl', I think she was an older sister of the one my mother was at school with, who married a Catholic and the parents held a funeral for her 'and they never spoke to her again, it was very sad' she concluded. But there was no condemnation on her part. She accepted that this was a part of their belief system, wasn't it an awful pity etc. but that was their religion. She also mentioned something about how you couldn't blame them because they'd lost so many of their people in the Holocaust and they didn't want to lose any more. Children of a Catholic/Jewish marriage would be raised as Catholics at that time.
