Genealogy / I Gotta Ask: Who Else Is a Jewish-Polish Person With an Interesting Testimony? [48]

BrutalButcher

What does Fail mean. First of all you have it backwards. You are not born a Jew. You may practice the Jewish faith but the nationality was in ancient times Hebrews and more modernly Israelis. Although I will give you this there is what I lovingly call the "Mutt clause" that according to Jewish law a person isn't Jewish unless the mother is.

The term Jew is derogatory although unfortunately common place nowadays. and although the term semetic does include several people generally around the Middle east it generally in modern times refers primary to those of the Jewish faith.

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yehudi
It is not even close. unless you are talking about the term Polack.

He's a Polish-American, these guys seem to have a serious problem with everything Jewish. I think it's because there are more Jews than Poles in America and they're more respected that Polish-Americans are, so they feel outnumbered and underappreciated or something.

not sure if this coment was directed at myself. I am a bit sensitive to the term Jew as my wife practices the Jewish faith. She is Russian. I practice Roman Catholicism. I am half Polish and half Irish. I have no problem with my wife being Jewish.

How is the Term "jew" derogatory?

As an American and being married to one, I am probably more sesitive to the word Jew than most.

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Seanus
I would love to see Seanus walk into NYC around 125th street and scream I have come to talk to a nig*er . As they beat him to a pulp, you could reply I have heard American rap and thought it was ok to use that word.

Jew is only derogatory if thrown that way.

But I do agree with you the word has become so commomplace it is how one "throws it". Maybe its just me. I grew up around Polish jokes my entire life they never seemed to bother me but the word polack still does.

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Seanus

I understand ...my point is ...some words have an undeniable conotation even when said in jest or ignorance. If the Germans were more fortunate in WWII . THe word Jew would probably mean something entirely different today.

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I said "Fail" because he said Ashkenazi is a nationality...
Yes ,you are born Jewish if your mom, father or grandparents are/Were Jewish.

I did say I assumed Ashkenazi was the nationality. Being Catholic I wasn't sure...have heard the term just never bothered to look it up. I just got the breakdown from my wife on the diferences.

It is incorrect however to state if the grandparents and father were jewish than you were born Jewish. Unless you of course are speaking about the maternal grandmother. The father has nothing to do with it.

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BrutalButcher
Yes but we are not talking about being an Israely citizen>we are talking about being Jewish.