Are You Ashkenazi or Sepharadi?

I'm a mixture of both, Mothers' parents came from a little village in Russia, Fathers' parents came from Holland, but before that many years before, the family came from Portugal. Reply

Nailed it!! Reply

You totally got it right. Very nice Quiz. Actually most people I meet either assume I am Sephardic, / Turkish, Arab, Greek or Italian. However, I am actually as Ashkenazi as it can get, my Family is from Poland and Germany. Reply

I don't know. The thing is, I have a lot of Dutch ancestors. I have wanted to find out if I can trace them back to Spain Reply

I am Sephardic. Although still have some questions not sure, and last questions no choice so that just choose random one. Reply

The quiz got it right! Nearly everyone in my and my wife's families was named after someone who was still alive. I remember watching American TV as a child and hearing some character saying "Jews don't name their children after living people!!" And I thought to myself, "has this person ever actually met any Jews? That must be an American prohibition." I was an adult before I realized that a large percentage of the world's Jewry won't do that! Reply

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I'm unsure if your prediction is correct. My paternal grandparents were from Russia; the grandfather being from Kiev; the grandmother being from a village close to the Austrian border. They both came to America at the turn of the 20th century and met in Philadelphia. I have always been told they were Safardic Jews. I never asked my grandfather about this when he was living, so I'll never know for sure. He died when I was 16. I never knew my grandmother. My maternal grandparents were not Jewish. My mother converted to Judaism after marrying my father. I do understand this means I'm technically not Jewish, but I do identify as such. Thank you for the quiz. Reply

Grandma spoke German her favorite recipes were chicken soup w/ dumplings, fried chicken gizzards and meat filled cabbages she used numerous utensils while cooking Reply

Nope, we're American Italians...Sephardi...we don't substitute "s" for "t's" when reading Hebrew. Some of our traditions are Ashkenazi, but Sicily was where our ancestors were left to die as crimminals. Their crime was...being Jewish. Reply

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Yes! However, there are some ancestors on my mom's side w Sephardic roots. Reply

Not quite. Great grandparents spoke Portuguese. Reply

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On target Reply

My father's family came here speaking Portuguese or English over 300 years ago. Much of my mother's family were the descendants of the slave mistresses of Portuguese Jews. Reply

You correctly got it. Reply

Yes. You are correct. Although the more I study, the more Sephardic I gravitate towards. Reply

Absolutely. Reply

Correct Reply