Stephen S. Wise's lies on his passport applications

Stephen S. Wise, passport application (June 1922) photo

American Zionist leader Stephen S. Wise lied repeatedly on his United States passport applications forms for decades. Following is the proof.

A four-month-old Stephen S. Wise, then called Stephan Weiss, arrived in New York on August 11, 1875 aboard the S.S. Gellert from Hamburg, Germany. Accompanied by his mother Sabina Weiss, two sisters Ida and Ilma, his brother Otto, a woman named Helena Billitz, and an 8-month-old girl named Adele Billitz, who was, almost certainly, the "adopted child" named Adele Billitz of Sabina and Aaron Weiss, listed on this 1880 Federal Census.

Wise was evidently born in 1875, but it is claimed he was born on March 17, 1874. He often claimed he was born March 17, 1872, although he also claimed he was born March 17, 1874 as well.

1. On a passport application completed 29.05.1893, Wise claimed he was born on 17.03.1872 in Vienna, Austria

2. On a passport application completed 18.07.1898, Wise claimed he was born on 17.03.1872 in Vienna, Austria
3. On a passport application completed 03.03.1904, Wise claimed he was born on 17.03.1872 in Budapest, Hungary
4. On a passport application completed 21.03.1913, Wise claimed he was born on 17.03.1872 in Budapest, Hungary
5. On a passport application completed 05.06.1922, Wise claimed he was born on 17.03.1874 in Budapest*

Other details such as when he or his father arrived in the United States also vary on the above forms, although such details could be forgiven as mere errors, but a man who had both an MA and PhD, can't be so easily excused for the getting his own place and year of birth wrong so many times.

In the Federal Census from June 2, 1900, Stephen S. Wise's year of birth is declared as 1872, and place of birth declared to be Austria.

Henry, a regular and valued commenter on this blog, has pointed out here some of the inconsistencies and interesting facts about the Wise (nee Weiss) family history.

* This application is a five pages long in total, they can be viewed on the links below:

1. http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/410631f956effd3e8ba618f5452bf889.jpg
2. http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/3d1b372b9c67a93aa36b1083896df4df.jpg
3. http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/fdec918232aa73ee24864b34303382b5.jpg
4. http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/698f287f4d79f40cfc1cef4f8d8c09d8.jpg
5. http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/993ad5b866ced304e9518966d74065c4.jpg

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise's corrupt family

Amusing story of how the father (also a rabbi) and older brother (Otto Irving, a lawyer) of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (née Weissfeld), unduly influenced a wealthy 80 year old woman, to amend her will, leaving her money to the Wise family! This, perhaps, indicates where Stephen Wise's honesty came from. Full article on the NYT link.

Incidentally, in 1940, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise had a German maid named Elise Fritz living in his Manhattan home.

The New York Times, October 10, 1895

Partial Stephen S. Wise family tree I've put together, but far from complete—this is a difficult one. His mother was previously married, and to another "Fischer" at that. She had two children with her first husband, and once widowed, she married Aaron Wise (Weiss), apparently in 1870. The photos (except the one of Otto found in a Californian newspaper), are from ancestry.com, a useful, but expensive website.

Virtually all of the sources I've checked are highly contradictory about the their family's details, but it seems as though Stephen Wise's mother had six of her own children, and adopted at least one other child. An 1880 Federal Census lists the Wise family, and those living in their home at 710 Fifth Street, NYC as:

In 1880, the initial of Stephen Wise's middle name was "I", so perhaps it is really "Irving" like his elder brother, and not "Samuel".

12,000,000+ Jews killed by the Nazis

Counsellors; Professor Rick Houser of Alabama University and Doctor MaryAnna 

Domokos-Cheng Ham of the Massachusetts Association for Mariage and Family Therapy

Claimed in their 2004—supposedly academic—book, that over 12,000,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis. It's clear from the context of the passage (it's about "violence and coercion based upon religious affiliation") that they didn't mean "over 12,000,000 people", they really meant "Jews". I've checked their cited source, it doesn't claim over 12,000,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

Houser, Rick. Houser, Domokos-Cheng Ham,  MaryAnna. Gaining Power and Control Through Diversity and Group Affiliation. Westport (CT), Greenwood Publishing Group. 2004. p.60.

Protocols of the AIDs-infested gays of London

"If homosexuals want to drown in their own poison, that is their right, but let them do so behind closed doors in their own AIDS-infested communities. And if Zionists and "anti-fascists" want to aid and abet them, let them do so, but not in Stamford Hill. Or anywhere else where Jews live under 613 Biblical commandments." 

"Although Jewish historians and commentators often exaggerate the full extent of persecution and suffering endured by the Jewish people throughout the ages, there can be no doubt that this suffering for them - as for many other peoples - was real."

This paper was published in London during 1994, pdf copy below:

http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/homo-plot.pdf

It is a Jewish war, the Nazis are right

Jewish supremacist Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880—1940), founder of fascist sympathising Revisionist Zionism movement, wrote in his 1942, posthumously published book The War and the Jew:

"When the Nazis across the frontiers, or their hirelings in Britain and France, yell or whisper that this is a "Jewish War," they are perfectly right: the microbe of war would have died had it not been allowed to batten on the Jewish tragedy."

Jabotinsky, Vladimir. The War and the Jew. New York: The Dial Press. 1942. p.52.

What a smashing looking gas chamber

Yad Vashem

"During the whole period of its existence, no gas chamber was built in Flossenbürg."

Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust (2005) p.131.

"There were no gas chambers at this camp (Flossenbürg),"

Backing Hitler : Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany: (2002)

"Holocaust Insurance Denial"

I'm ashamed to admitted, I wasn't previously aware of there even existing such an insidious evil as "Ho£ocaust in$urance d€nial." And then I felt even further ashamed after thinking it must be connected to the aged old tradition of "Jewish lightning"

The full Microsoft Word document can be found through here

The host speaker at the 8th National Jewish Law Students Association Conference mentions "Holocaust insurance denial" around the 3:30 mark, then states one of the speakers (Lisa Stern, pictured above) is the "child and grandchild of a Holocaust victim" (!?).

Her "Uncle Bert" (died 1996) was a "Holocaust insurance denial" victim. Her "uncle Adolf" survived Auschwitz. Her "Aunty Edith", and obviously her father also survived the Holocaust. Four Jewish-Italian siblings, all survived the Holocaust.

The first speaker Professor Michael Blazyer, is an expert on milking cash from the Holocaust and has written widely on such scams.

Anti-fascist Jews in post-war London

"An anti-fascist street meeting in London after the war. Many Jewish ex-servicemen joined the 43 Group’s campaign against fascism."

photo source

Short Memory:

"In 1938, at the beginning of the racial laws, more than 10,000 (Italian) Jews - about

one out of every three Jewish adults - were members of the (Italian) fascist party."

details

Mock up of the flag of Group 43

Religious Jews wouldn't be able to abide this flag, as it features a cross, which

 they despise so much, they can't even use the international plus symbol ( + ).

Supposedly Holocausted Jews, off to Palestine

Sir Peter Drummond MacDonald (1895 — 1961) on the left, arriving at the Houses of Parliament

in October 1946. Video still taken from here. And an article in the New York Times, June 24, 1946

I've previously posted here about British Lieutenant-General Morgan, who in 1946 made public the fact that huge numbers of Jews were arriving in Occupied Germany from Russia, and that he knew elements within the American and Soviet governments were working with Zionists in a planned Jewish exodus of Europe. Morgan was thrown-out of the British army for speaking the truth—being "palpably anti-Semitic," as Chaim Weizmann stated—but on January 31, 1947, Morgan was defended in Parliament by Sir Peter MacDonald:

An hon. Member has made the suggestion that more Jews should be admitted to Palestine to restore order in that country. I want to bring to the notice of the Government the type of emigrant who is now going there. What did we find when we were making our investigation? We heard that in the British zone in Austria there were U.N.R.R.A. camps occupied by Jews— some of the displaced persons in connection with whom we were making our investigation—and we thought that we would like to visit them. We obtained permission from the general commanding, and we visited one camp. What did we find? We found that this camp was run under the auspices of U.N.R.R.A. A lady commandant—a very efficient lady, who had been a Labour candidate at the last Election—was in charge of this camp, and a very able commandant she made. She was as bewildered as we were, as to why she had been put in charge of this camp, because we found 5,000 or 6,000 Jews, who were there because the general commanding the American zone had asked our Commander-in-Chief if he would take these people off his hands temporarily, because his own zone was overcrowded with the same type of displaced person.

The report will tell you that these people were young, fit men, and young women, many of them pregnant, who had their origin in Eastern Poland. When Russia occupied Eastern Poland some of them were sent to Russia to work, and they worked there during the war. They were young and fit, and looked well-fed and well-clothed, and I was told by people in charge of the camp that many of them had large sums of money. They had papers—or, at any rate, the displaced person's passport—and they were thoroughly well organised. When one asked them where they were going, they all said that they were on their way to Palestine. We had to state in our report that we could not trace the origin of this organisation, but the organisation is there, and there is no doubt whatever that the Russian Government are conniving at it. These people were brought down from Poland into Czechoslovakia, where they were fitted out with passports, clothes and money, and transported into the American zones in Germany and Austria. From there, they hoped to find their way to Palestine.

This type of emigration to Palestine is not, I hope, one which the Government are being asked to encourage, because these are recruits for the Jewish Army, and that is why they are on their way to Palestine, with the connivance of the American and Russian Governments. They can have only one purpose and that is to embarrass the British Government. General Morgan reported these things before we saw them. He has now been brought home from Germany and given a bowler hat. Anyone who knows General Morgan knows full well that he is one of the most brilliant soldiers turned up by the war. He was in charge of all the detailed planning organisation for the invasion of Europe and there can be no question about the efficiency of that organisation. I saw it being assembled around my constituency for weeks, and it was the greatest piece of organisation that I had ever seen, and I have had many years service. It was a most successful piece of planning and General Morgan is the man to whom the credit for it was given by the Minister of Defence, who ought to know. Because of General Morgan's great skill as an organiser, he was selected for this job of British representative on U.N.R.R.A. He was deputy to the heads of U.N.R.R.A—first Mr. Lehman and later ex-Mayor La Guardia —and because he told the truth in regard to the exodus of Jews, through Europe, to Palestine, he was suspended. Later he was reinstated for a time and then he was dismissed from his post by ex-Mayor La Guardia, and a Mr. Cohen was appointed in his place. Now we are told that he has been dismissed from the Army and given a bowler hat—not at his own request—at the age of 53. I think that is, a scandal. We can ill afford to lose the services of men like General Morgan when the Army is being reorganised as it is today. I consider that that soldier has had a very raw deal, just because, on this occasion, he exposed this exodus of Jews through Europe. He could do nothing else, in justice to his own friends in the Forces when he saw that sort of thing going on.

I am convinced that these people who are making their way to Palestine are creating most of the trouble there. No one has control over them; they owe no allegiance to anyone. They are prepared to undertake any kind of atrocity so long as they are provided with the weapons to carry out such atrocities. I hope that when the Secretary of State for the Colonies replies he will give an answer to some of the questions put to him by my right hon. Friend the Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley). Members of the House on all sides are getting heart-rending letters from Palestine. The situation that exists there today cannot continue. We cannot expect a large Army—which is getting larger every day, I believe—to put up much longer with present conditions unless they are given some support and encouragement from the home Government and this House. Few have been the words of encouragement for them, said in the House up to now. We have an opportunity today to tell our people in Palestine, including the soldiers, the Civil Service and the police forces, that the Government and this House of Commons are going to support them in the future. Such encouragement will enable them to carry on one of the most arduous, thankless tasks that any troops have ever been asked to discharge in the whole history of the Empire.

1944: Some early "soft-core denial"

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Walter Dorling Smiles (1883–1953) M.P. for Blackburn, said in the House of Commons, March 1, 1944, after having to endure yet more "wailing" from Jewish M.P.s Daniel Lipson and Sam "six million" Silverman, who in March 1943 claimed "Some six million lives remained in imminent peril," and in November 1952 stated: "Auschwitz, where six million people were murdered":

"One would imagine that the only refugees in the world at present were Jews. Great publicity is given to every atrocity against the Jews, and it is the feeling of many people in this country that 10 times the publicity is given to the Jews in this matter as to members of other races who are maltreated or murdered. That feeling is springing up, and it would be just as well for my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Lipson) and my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Silverman) not to forget that."

Molotov's cocktail of lies

"You have now joined the Hitlerites. You have believed these slanders which have been promulgated against the Russians. We therefore break off all diplomatic relations."

— Molotov, in a letter to the Polish Ambassador in Moscow, April 1943 1

Molotov was referring to the Polish ambassador's demand from the Soviet leadership (supposedly Poland's ally), for an investigation by the International Polish Red Cross, following the highly publicised German exhumation of the mass grave of 4,000 Polish army and police officers in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk, who had been executed by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.

Molotov even signed the March 5, 1940 order that these officers were to be executed, but here he was, three years later, claiming it just Hitlerite slander against Russians. Molotov is a proven liar.

Above is from the cover of a 20 page booklet (pdf version) supposedly authored by Molotov in November 1941, and January 1942, and issued by the Soviet embassy in London sometime in early 1942. The Soviet ambassador in London at the time was Ivan Maisky (Jewish). 

The booklet accuses the Germans of some bizarre atrocities; stealing children's toys, (p.4) harnessing Ukranian actors to carts—using them as horses, (p.8) and desecrating the grave of Russian literary great; Leo Tolstoy. (p.9) But the most repeated atrocity that Molotov claimed the Germans had committed; was raping women and girls. And not just raping them, but mutilating them, cutting off breasts, drilling into breasts and the like. It's highly reminiscent of the real atrocities inflicted on the women of Europe by the Red Army as detailed in Thomas Goodrich's 2010 book Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944–1947. And extract of which can be read here. But I warn anyone unfamiliar with the book, it's truly nauseating.

I've posted this in an attempt emphasise the point, that a Soviet leader who co-authorised acts of genocide, then lied about them, and later even attempted to pin the massacre on the Germans, was simultaneously in the business of spreading wild claims about the Germans. Claims which are not only held as sacrosanct today, but which also inspired Red Army soldiers to commit millions of acts of savage brutality upon Germany's women and girls. 

1. As quoted by Professor Douglas Savory, Minister of Parliament for South Antrim, House of Commons, November 6, 1952

Six or seven million killed at Auschwitz

British politician Francis Bowles (1902 – 1970), stated in the House of Commons, February 12, 1951:

I went to Poland in 1947 and visited, among other places, Auschwitz Camp. There I was told that some 6 million or more Jews and Poles and others had been put to death. I see that a Polish woman who was in the camp is writing a book in which she puts the figure as high as 7 million. I know there is a big difference between 6 million and 7 million, but let us assume it is 6 million. 

British Jewish politician Samuel Silverman (1895 - 1968), stated in the House of Commons, November 6, 1952:

Were these the same distinguished gentlemen (referring to the Red Cross) who at a later date inspected the camp at Auschwitz, where six million people were murdered, and were unable to find anything wrong? 

The Rothschilds financed Stalin

"I'm working for the Rothschilds!" - Josif Jughashvili (Stalin), 1901

British-Jewish historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore and his 2008 book Young Stalin

Sebag-Monterfiore's second biography on Stalin is four years old now, but I've only just brought it, and like the previous book it contains information other court historians wouldn't dare print. In his first first Stalin biography, Sebag-Montefiore admits the phantom Rosa Kaganovich did exist, even though his gentile but clearly more kosher contemporary insists the Nazis just made her up. He also reveals that Stalin, the supposed "Jew hater", was surrounded by Jewish beauties during his regime's most murderous periods.

In his book Young Stalin, Sebag-Monterfiore gives numerous details of how in 1901 the Rothschilds employed Stalin in their oil refinery in Batumi, how there is evidence he "was henceforth in secret contact with the Rothschilds mangagement - the start of his murky but lucrative relationship with the oil barons", and how the Rothschilds financed the Bolsheviks. Which is all pretty remarkable! 

Simon Sebag-Monterfiore is himself related, although fairly distantly, to the Rothschild family. He and Nathaniel Philip Rothschild are both great-great-great-great-great-grandsons of Levi Barent-Cohen, the great-great uncle of Karl Marx. Below is a family tree for the Sebag-Montefiores I've knocked-up, showing their connections to the Barent-Cohen and Rothschild families. A more complete, but far older family tree of the Cohen and Montefiore "pedigree" can be viewed in this 1919 book penned by one of the clan.

Below I've reproduce pages from the ebook version of Young Stalin (that's why the page numbering look strange) which mention the Rothschilds dealings with Stalin and the Bolsheviks. Sebag-Montefiore writes:

"It remains astonishing how the Rothschilds and other oil barons, among the richest tycoons in Europe, funded the Bolsheviks, who would ultimately destroy their interests." (p.159)

But later admits in a footnote (sometimes referred to as "hiding"):

"In 1912, Eduard de Rothschild, Alphonse’s son, sold most of the Rothschild interests in Baku to Royal Dutch Shell, then headed by Henri Deterding. The Rothschilds took most of their payment in Royal Dutch Shell shares. This proved a classically brilliant Rothschild deal. The Rothschilds eschewed oil investments in Russia for almost a century- making another fortune in the Russian oil boom of the twenty-first century." (p.344)

So the Rothschilds sold their interests in Russia five years before the Bolsheviks (who they funded) seized power.

1000 Soviet tanks with Jewish names

Life magazine style "artist's impression" of a Soviet Bar Kochbah Jewish tank

Albert Einstein's friend Solomon Mikhoels of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, who liked to show New York's Jews bars of soap and claim the were made from their brethren in war-torn Europe, announced in June 1942, that Jews would buy Stalin 1,000 tanks and 500 planes, and give them names of Jewish heroes.

http://archive.jta.org/article/1942/06/02/2857845/soviet-tanks-and-bombers-will-be-named-after-bar-kochba-spinoza-heine

And also:

http://archive.jta.org/article/1943/01/18/2859677/kuibyshev-jewish-community-sends-10000-rubles-to-stalin-for-bar-kochba-tank

ADL Hitler poster

"When certain people speak, we stand to
attention and we listen. Unfortunately 

certain people have nothing good to say.

Join us in the fight to stop 

defamation today.  Don't stand for 

hatred, stand for something better."

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE

(Thanks to Henry for deciphering the barely legible text)

Here's the link to it. It's found on this website. You might have to click on "next image" until it comes up.

I don't believe the ADL ever used it. They didn't use the one I did for them either:

Lloyd-George defends Hitler once more

Britain's Prime Minister during most of World War One, David Lloyd-George

Lloyd-George was once an unabashed Hitler admirer, describing him in 1936 as "the George Washington of Germany", and as "one of the greatest of the many great men I have met." On July 27, 1936, he defended the actions of Hitler in the House of Commons, in the wake of the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance, when on March 7, 1936, Hitler ordered German troops to reoccupy the Rhineland

"The moment the Russo-French Pact was signed, no one responsible for the security of Germany could leave its most important industrial province without defence of any sort or kind when—and here is a thing which is never dwelt upon—France had built the most gigantic fortifications ever seen in any land, where, almost 100 feet underground, you could keep an army of over 100,000 and where you have guns that can fire straight into Germany. Yet the Germans are supposed to remain without even a garrison, without a trench. I am going to say here that if Herr Hitler had not taken some action with regard to that—whether it is a wise action or not I am not going to argue and whether he could have set it right by negotiation or not I do not know, but I am a little doubtful having regard to the past—but if Herr Hitler had allowed that to go without protecting his country he would have been a traitor to the Fatherland."

source

The Jewish claim of Stalin's Jewish ancestry

Josif Jughashvili "( joo-ga-SHVEE-lee )"
source

In 1961, and again in 1962, two Jews, one an ex-Czech communist government official, the other a former editor of two of Britain's best-selling newspapers, collaborated to claim—very plausibly—that Joseph Stalin was of Jewish descent. In the article which follows, I will present their claim for the very first time on the internet, explain why it's plausible, who were the men who made it, and why it's unlikely to be true.

Columbia University's professor of History, Jerry Z. Muller, wrote in his 2010 book Capitalism and the Jews:

"Joseph Stalin, whose real surname of Dzhugashvili, according to an expatriate Ukrainian anti-Semite, is Georgian for “son of a Jew.” "

Muller does not provide a source, nor does he give the name of the "expatriate Ukrainian anti-Semitie", but the claim that Stalin's family name; Jughashvili/Dzhugashvili/Djughashvili/ means "son of a Jew" is a fairly common.

Incidentally, the spelling varies because Stalin's family name; ჯუღაშვილი in Georgian, transliterates to Jughashvili in English. But ჯუღაშვილი transliterates to Джугашвили in Russian, and Джугашвили transliterates to Dzhugashvili and Djughashvili in English. To quote a man fluent in Georgian:

"Dj" and "Dzh" are both fairly ridiculous transcriptions, widely hated among English-speakers in Georgia, because the Georgian ჯ (as in ჯუღაშვილი, Stalin's surname) is pronounced exactly like the J in English words like judge, jury, jam, etc.  They exist because Russian doesn't have the English J / Georgian ჯ sound so Russians use two letters, D (Д) and zh (ж). 

I've tried to keep my spelling of the name consistent in this article, but the majority of the sources I quote or cite, differ in their spelling of the name. 

'Son of a Jugha'
(Jugha = Jews from Diu, an Indian island)

Maurice Pinay (a pseudonym of a anonymous Italian Catholic clergyman) wrote in his 1962 book Complotto contro la Chiesa (The Plot Against the Church):

"... Stalin himself, who for a long time was regarded as a Georgian of pure descent. But it has been revealed that he belongs to the Jewish race; for Djougachvili, which is his surname, means “Son of Djou”, and Djou is a small island in Persia, whither many banished Portuguese “Gypsies” migrated, who later settled in Georgia.

Today it is almost completely proved that Stalin had Jewish blood, although he neither confirmed nor denied the rumours, about which mutterings began in this direction."

Pinay's cited source for this claim was:

"Bernard Hutton: French magazine “Constéllation” No. 167 of March 1962, p. 202."

I've not been able to track down that magazine, but I have found other writing's by Bernard Hutton, also known as Joseph Bernard Hutton, and J. Bernard Hutton, pseudonyms of Czech Jew and former communist official Josef Heisler (who will be detailed later in this article), in which he claimed Stalin's family name suggests he was of Jewish descent. Here's what he wrote:

Extract from: Stalin: The Miraculous Georgian (1961):

"The penetration of the Ossetes was followed by another ethnical event—a group of immigrants (to Georgia) who came from Iran. They did not come in great numbers but they were active individuals such as soldiers, artisans and traders. These immigrants came from the island of 'Dzhu' in the Gulf of Cambay and included a number of Marranos, Portuguese Jews, who practised their religion in secret. In the dialect of the population of this region, the word 'Dzhuga' means 'Natives of the Island of Dzhu' and was the actual description given to Israelites. When, some centuries later, proper names were given to the people of Georgia—with the exception of the noblemen—the descendants of these immigrants from the island Dzhu became Dzhugashvili, which translated means: 'The Sons of Dzhu'.

The name Dzhugashvili discloses that Stalin had Jewish blood in his veins. He neither confirmed nor denied this. How many generations ago the Dzhugashvili-Stalin family practised the Jewish faith is difficult to say. Some historians maintain that his grand-father was Jewish, other deny it."

Extract from: The Private Life of Josif Stalin (1962):

"In later years, immigrants (to Georgia) came from Iran. They came from the island of 'Dzhu' and included a number of Marranos, Portugese Jews, who practised their religion in secret. In the dialect of the population of this region, the word 'Dzhuga' means 'Natives of the Island Dzhu' and was the actual description given to Israelites. When, some centuries later, proper names were given to the people of Georgia—with the exception of the noblemen—the descendants of these immigrants from the island Dzhu became Dzhugashvili, which translated means: 'The Sons of Dzhu'.

The name Dzhugashvili discloses that Stalin had Jewish blood in his veins. He neither confirmed nor denied this. How many generations ago the Dzhugashvili-Stalin family practised the Jewish faith is difficult to say. Some historians maintain that his grand-father was Jewish, other deny it."

Both these quoted extracts from Hutton/Heisler's books (the second he only co-authored) are almost verbatim, except that the first gives the location of the island of Dzhu; "in the Gulf of Cambay". Also worth noting, is that Hutton/Heisler's "Dzhu" appears as if it is transliterated from Russian (i.e. the "Dzh"), if it had been transliterated from Georgian to English is would likely be "the island of Ju" and "the Sons of Ju". 

Georgia outlined in yellow, and the Gulf of Khambhat (formerly the Gulf of Cambay), India, marked by the red arrow.

In the Gulf of Khambhat, is the Island of Diu, and it was a Portuguese colony for over
400 years. wikipedia The name Diu derives from the Sanskrit word dvipa meaning "island"

"Diu is a remarkable city in this kingdom, situated in a small island, which is separated from the main land, by a very narrow channel: the convenience of its haven drew many merchants thither; so that it was then a celebrated mart, famous for its trade and riches." 

— The History of the Portuguese, published 1752

The Portuguese fort which still stands on the island of Diu is now almost 400 years old and is one of India's popular tourist attractions. Diu had been a vital port city where all ships entering and leaving the Gulf of Khambhat—a very important commercial and pilgrim route between India and the Middle East—were required to call at, and pay the Portuguese rulers a duty, perhaps what the structure built out at sea was for. 

Jewish sources confirm that Marranos (crypto-Jews) were on the island of Diu, and that Marranos existed in vast numbers, and dominated trade in Portuguese India.

Banner of the Goan Inquisition source

The Goan Inquisition (1560—1812), was the Indian branch of Portuguese Inquisition, formed to stamp out heresy in Portuguese India. Of the single book of records that remain for Goan Inquisition, it's clear that one of their earliest targets were Marranos (crypto-Jews), Jews, or the the descendants of Jews, forced to convert to Catholicism, but were practising the customs of Judaism in secret. As Jewish sources confirm, due to the power achieved by their wealth in Portuguese India, prior to the arrival of the Inquisition in 1561, some Marranos openly practised Judaism there. 

This 1836 encyclopedia states that all records were burnt when the Goan Inquisition was abolished by King John VI in June 1812 as part of an Anglo-Portuguese treaty. Although an inventory (photo of its cover) written c.1625 by an Goan Inquisitor named Joáo Delgado Figueria and dispatched back to Lisbon, details the 3,800 trials the Goan Inquisition conducted in India between 1561 and 1623. During the Inquisition's first 30 years in India, 321 people were tried for crypto-Judaism. Many more Marranos were surely imprisoned and tortured without them ever facing trial, and even more must have fled from Portuguese territory to escape the Inquisition.

This 1832 British publication states a Dominican friar named Manuel da Costa was the Goan Inquisition's representative, and absolute authority, on the island of Diu c.1760. This 1834 publication by the British East India Company confirms the same.

Son of scum

photo source

Jughashvili means "son of jugha" in Georgian, and despite claims, more claims, further claims, and persistent claims to the contrary, ჯუღა ('jugha', or via Russian to English: 'djuga' or 'dzhuga', pronounced joo-gush), is not at all related to the Georgian words for 'iron' = რკინა ("rkina" pronounced ruh-KEEN-uh, with a really short "ruh") or 'steel'= ფოლადი ("poladi" pronounced PO-lah-dee). 'Jugha' doesn't mean anything in modern Georgian. The suffix 'shvili' means 'child' or 'son' in Georgian, and is common in Georgian surnames/family names.

Some researchers have claimed 'dzuha' is derived from the Ossetic word for 'dross', the waste skimmed from molten metal during the smelting process. Therefore "son of scum" would be a more precise translation of the Stalin family name.

Stalin's mother Ketevan 'Keke' Jughashvili (née Geladze) wrote memoirs which weren't discovered until 2005 in the archive of the Georgian Communist Party. She claimed that her husband (Stalin's father) Vissarion Jughashvili, had told her that his name originated from the Georgian word 'djogi' which means 'herd', as his family had been herdsmen, driven out of the town of Geri by marauding Ossetians.

I contacted an American teacher who lives and works in Georgia, married a Georgian lady, and speaks the language fluently. I asked his opinion on whether Jughashvili could really be a corruption of the Georgian word 'djogi', he wrote:

"... the "g" in Jughashvili and the "g" in jogi are different.  Stalin's "g" is ღ, which is a fricative sound (the airstream doesn't stop when you say it — see or see). The "g" in herd is გ, which is a normal English g like in "great" or "go."

The reason this is important is that in Georgian the "g" in "jogi" is very distinct from the "g" in "jugha." Non-Georgians may have trouble hearing the difference, but Georgians generally do not. "Jugha" and "jogis" (jogis = of the herd) wouldn't sound alike and Jughashvili and Jogisshvili wouldn't sound alike - at least, not enough alike for the name to change from a well-known word to a meaningless word within a generation or two."

The origin of Jughashvili being the Georgian word 'djogi' (herd) is corroborated by an article discovered in the Georgian Branch of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Tbilisi, it's entitled Childhood and School Years: Iosif Vissarionovich Jughashvili (Stalin), and was written during his life time by an unknown author. It reads: 

"According to the story of Olga Kasradze (who knew Jughashvili) and peasants from the village of (Didi-)Lilo—we read here—the name "Jughashvili," as they have heard from the Vissarion [Stalin's father] occurred in the following way: Their great-grandfather lived in the Mtiuleti mountains and served as a shepherd. He was very fond of animals, and jealously guarded the flock from all troubles and sorrows, and so he was given the nickname "Jogisshvili" (which means "son of the herd"). "This nickname was later transformed into the name "Jughashvili."   

The Mtiuleti mountains are less than 100 miles from the small village which shares Stalin's family name:

Jughaani stands between three seasonal meltwater rivers at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains (view on map). This village is 35 miles from Didi-lilo, the town where Stalin's great-grandfather, Zaza Jughashvili (an Ossetian), supposedly first settled in Georgia c.1804 (full details below). 

Georgian historian Ivane Javakhishvili, in his 1939 unpublished paper What is the Origin of the Surname of the Great Leader?, speculated that Stalin's ancestors had settled in Jughaani, and one of them had later taken its name as his own.

I asked the American teacher in Georgia (mentioned above) of this town named Jughanni, and whether its name had any meaning. He replied:

"I can't find anything on the meaning of the name Jughaani, although it's theorized that Stalin's real surname (Jughashvili) is derived from that village.  I asked my wife and she had never heard of the village and the word has no current meaning in modern Georgian."

Diu = Dzhu / Djou / Jou ?

As previously mention, the name Diu derives from the Sanskrit word 'dvipa', which means 'island'. The Georgian word for 'island' is კუნძული, or "kundzuli", the Persian is جزیره, or  'jazireye', the (modern) Hebrew is אי, or 'eek'. But what language(s) Persian Jews who emigrated first to Diu (which had it's very own language) and then later to Georgia, may have spoken, and whether "Jugha" could be a Georgianised version of Diu, via Persian, or another language, is well beyond my ability to even guess at.

The Jews who claimed Stalin had Jewish Blood

British Jew, Jack Fishman (1920 - 1997) photo source

Jack Fishman is buried in Golders Green Jewish Cemetery in London, he claimed Adolf Hitler ruffled his blond hair on a trip to Berlin when he was ten years old, blaming the incident for his early hair-loss. An extraordinary successful journalist, newspaper editor, author, spy-catcher, pop song lyrics-writer, and movie soundtrack overseer. Between 1969—1971 over 10,000,000 copies of his songs were sold, although his song-lyrics were mostly written under pseudonyms, as he didn't wish his song-writing (which had started as a hobby) to discredit his reputation as a serious journalist. 

Fishman was the main author of The Private Life of Josif Stalin (1962), quoted from above. But as I've shown, the extract about Stalin being of Jewish descent, if almost verbatim with the extract from Stalin: The Miraculous Georgian (1961), written solely by Fishman's co-author of The Private Life of Josif Stalin; Josef Heisler (see below). Obituaries for Fishman from two of Britain's leading newspapers, can be read here and here. 

Czech Jew: Josef Heisler (1911 - unknown)

Josef Heisler was a Czech journalist, an author, a graduate of Berlin University, a communist, a defectee, a C.I.A. suspected Soviet agent, and a self-proclaimed spirit guide with time-travelling abilities! He was also the first person (that I can find) to claim the Stalin's family name proves he was of Jewish descent.

To avoid making this too long, I'll just briefly summarize what I have and haven't learnt about Heisler, and link to where more can be read on each topic:

Based on this genealogy site, Heisler was Jewish. The man listed as the brother is almost certainly the Czech Jew and surrealist artist Jindrich Heisler. The two Czech Heislers bare a remarkable similarity. If this is correct, Josef Heisler was the son of a wealthy Czechoslovakian Jewish industrialist.

In 1932 Heisler, who later went by the name Joseph Bernard Hutton, was in Hamburg, where he travelled 11 years into the future and witnessed the devastating British bombing of the city. In 1939 he fled to Britain and became the press attaché of the exiled Czech government. What exactly he did after the war, I don't know, some sources state he was a "high-ranking Czecho-Slovakian diplomat, who was a member of the Central Committee of the Czech Communist Party." But when exactly he defected is unclear, but obviously before he wrote his two biographies of Stalin (published in 1961 and 1962).

Heisler/Hutton would go on to write a vast number of books, particularly about the Soviet spy network operating in the West. A early 1960s C.I.A. document declassified in 1993, shows that American Intelligence was of the opinion that Heisler/Hutton may still be an active Soviet agent—a "cold warrior"—spreading propaganda about the seemingly invincible power of the Soviet espionage. A book published in 2009, states in no uncertain terms, that Heisler/Hutton simply invented many of his claims about Soviet spies, particularly female ones.

Heisler/Hutton was clearly a very talented author, even if he did write a lot of nonsense; dreamt up female spies, Nazi occultism, the paranormal, and physic healing, but does this mean his claim about Stalin's family name was also his own creation? After his supposed, but C.I.A. doubted, defection from communism to Britain, he was purportedly just an author (a prolific one), and like most authors, he wanted to sell as many books as he could, so it's easy to understand why he invented so many sensational claims.

Sources do state he was involved in the communist government of post-WWII Czechoslovakia, if this was true he would have been in a position to hear many rumours of the new overlord of Eastern Europe; Stalin. And on face-value, Heisler/Hutton's claim that Jughashvili means 'The Sons of Dzhu', who were descendants of Jews from then Portuguese colony of Diu, is plausible. Although Heisler/Hutton claimed in both books that: "Some historians maintain that his (Stalin's) grand-father was Jewish, other deny it." He neglected to mention just who these historians are. 

The Jughashvili's Orthodox Christianity

Stalin's father, Vissarion 'Beso' Jughashvili was a baptised and practising Christian. Stalin's mother Ketevan Geladze was a baptised and devout Christian. Stalin's parents married in the Uspensky church (Cathedral of the Assumption) in Gori (map / photo), on May 17, 1872. Rumours that Jughashvili was not Stalin's father, were abound in Gori (Stalin's home town) even when he was a child (but that's not the focus of this article).

According to British-Jewish Stalin biographer Simon Seabag-Monteifiore, Stalin's paternal great-grandfather Zaza Jughashvili was an Ossetian, "semi-pagan mountain people", from the village of Geri (nothing seems to remain of it. map). He and other "baptised Ossetians" settled in Didi-Lilo c.1804. Didi-Lilo is 35 miles from the small village of Jughaani mentioned above.

Zaza's son (Stalin's paternal grandfather); Vano Jughashvili, was a serf, and tended the vines of the Prince Badur Machabeli. Nothing is known of Stalin's paternal grandmother or great-grandmother, nor is the maiden name of his maternal grand-mother, nor anything about his maternal great-grandparents, aside from the fact, that all Stalin's grandparents had been serfs of local princes until serfdom was abolished in 1860.

Stalin was a baptised Christian, a choirboy, and Seminary student. His communist regime killed Christians in their tens of millions. According to "Revelations from the Russian Archives", available from the Library of Congress, by 1939, 99% of Orthodox churches in the Soviet Union had been shut down.

Closing Statements:

There's clearly no consensus of opinion about the real origin of the name Jughashvili. A brief summary of the claims of what Jugha means:

1. In "(old) Georgian" it means 'iron' or 'steel'

2. It's related to the Ossetian word for a foundry waste product

3. It's the root of the Georgian word for 'herd' 
4. It sounds as if it has an Ossetian root

1. Is just a lie
2. Is ridiculous
3. Is plausible (just not to fluent speakers of Georgian)

4. Is speculation. 134 years after Stalin was born, if it meant something in Ossetian, it should be known by now

There's no point re-hashing here what I've written above about No.3, but in final summary: It's notable that both sources which claimed No.3 (Stalin's mother and Olga Kasradze), both heard it from Stalin's father, and in both versions Stalin's sheep-herding great-grandfather is portrayed as Georgian menaced by Ossetians sheep rustlers, when in actual fact he was Ossetian. Shorty before his death in 1909, Stalin's father's ethnicity was noted as Ossetian on hospital records.

Jew

If Stalin had been cognisant that he had Jewish blood, it would not be unreasonable to expect that some rumour of it would have made it into print, somewhere. But it hasn't.

This claim from the Heisler and Fishman is reminiscent of another claim by a very influential Jew. A claim—like this one—that's perplexing as to why an influential Jew should make it. That was the 1941 assertion by Emery Rosenbaum, Winston Churchill's media advisor, that Adolf Hitler was sired by one of the Rothschild banking dynasty!

I don't believe for an instant that Stalin had a "pathological hatred of Jews and Judaism", as one prominent Holocaust survivor claims. His son and daughter married Jews, some of his closest confidants up-until his final days were Jews or gentiles with Jewish wives. He may have had a few Jews tried and executed, suspected allies of Trotsky, and those he thought were out to poison him, but he killed millions upon millions of Christians, and no court historian would ever claim he had a "pathological hatred of Christians and Christianity."

Heisler and Fishman were undoubtedly talented, well-educated, highly successful, and very well connected in many different and influential fields. The claim of the Jews from the island of Dzhu was Heisler's originally, although Fishman must have been convinced by it to have included it in his book. Heisler's claim is intriguing, and might explain why so much nonsense is still claimed about the origin of the name Jughashvili, but it is merely conjecture, and likely to stay so.