For the record, I’m a full-blooded Ashkenazi Jew. >>>>>>>>
Bull!
>> For the record, I’m a full-blooded Ashkenazi Jew. >>>>>>>>
>> Bull!
You may believe whatever you want. My family goes way back to the shtetls Narovlya, Belarus and just outside of Kiev, Ukraine.
No intermarriages with the local Slavs as far as my great-grandparents, and I’m pretty sure its even less likely before that. As those communities were pretty insular and kept to their own ways.
I have a Germanic-sounding last name, like many Eastern-European Jews. Which probably means we originally came from Germany to what was probably at that time the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.