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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:00 pm
I kinda wish to rant a bit. Ever since I was a little kid, I have been incredibly drawn to Jewish culture.
Every time I ask my mother if I may ask my grandmother if she has any Jewish lineage, I get told to bugger off. I may as well ask my grandfather as well, considering I found out he was born in North Africa and no one will tell me why he immigrated to Italy at a young age during Mussolini's rule. Tunisian Jews were abundant before Mussolini and Hitler came along..
Gah!
I don't like secrets, especially one's that are incredibly important.
Maybe I'm making something out of nothing.
Have any of you had complete shockers?
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:46 am
I've been surprised before. Most of us know that there are Jews from Germany, Hungary, and Russia and the like (Ashkenazi Jews), and also Jews from Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Italy, and Greece (Sephardi Jews), and some even know there are Jews from Yemen (Teimani Jews) and from Ethiopia (Beta Yisrael), and of course we've all heard of the Jews of the Middle East, northeastern Africa, and Asia (Mizrachi Jews). I was surprised to find that I have ancestors from MOST of those areas; I'm only lacking South/Central America, Australia, and the Pacific Islands as homelands for any of my ancestors (that we know about).
All this, and I look like the popular misconception of Irish (red hair, freckles -- which is actually a Norwegian look, which I can claim, while full-Irish typically have dark hair). Which I'm not. xp
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:06 am
Divash I've been surprised before. Most of us know that there are Jews from Germany, Hungary, and Russia and the like (Ashkenazi Jews), and also Jews from Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Italy, and Greece (Sephardi Jews), and some even know there are Jews from Yemen (Teimani Jews) and from Ethiopia (Beta Yisrael), and of course we've all heard of the Jews of the Middle East, northeastern Africa, and Asia (Mizrachi Jews). I was surprised to find that I have ancestors from MOST of those areas; I'm only lacking South/Central America, Australia, and the Pacific Islands as homelands for any of my ancestors (that we know about). All this, and I look like the popular misconception of Irish (red hair, freckles -- which is actually a Norwegian look, which I can claim, while full-Irish typically have dark hair). Which I'm not. xp Red hair and freckles! That's cute! I could pass as a (dare I say it) "stereotypical Jew".It's probably due to the fact that I am Italian - supposedly. I sometimes wish I didn't have a head full of black curls though.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:13 pm
I look Jewish in the fact that I have dark hair and eyes, but few in my family have big noses.
I have 2 cousins with red hair. (Though nobody really knows where they get it from)
My great-grandfather's family all had blonde hair and blue eyes. (Russian)
I agree with Divash- you'd be surprised.
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:27 pm
darkphoenix1247 I look Jewish in the fact that I have dark hair and eyes, but few in my family have big noses. Big noses :] wink my friends constantly make fun of me for having that All of my family just comes from Russia and Poland although I found it interesting to learn of the reasons my maternal grandparents met around WWII. My grandfather lived in Russia and in order for him to be able to leave he had to marry someone from Poland. I don't really know to much about my family past my grandparents except for a few facts about my great-grandparens
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:49 pm
My father's parents were German, my mother's parents were Austrian and Czech. I look like John Belushi with glasses. 
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