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Pirate House
note that Lafitte's first wife, and the mother of his children, was Christina Lavine, from a Danish-Jewish family.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop [in New Orleans] was a great place to hunt up Jean's ghost. There was a coal fire in the grate, and, staring into it, I could see slaves hammering iron grillw\ork on a forge. The Sephardic pirate lies on his hammock, conferring in Ladino with his older brothers, Dominique You and Pierre, the three sharing a family secret that bound them tightly for life. Unknown to the rest of New Orleans, they were Jews.
(From "A Buccaneer's Secret," By Rodger Komenetz, Forward, June 28, 1993.)
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