Are You Ashkenazi or Sepharadi? - Take our quiz and find out!

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Katherine Englebardt Schenectady December 1, 2022

Yes! For sure! Reply

Amelia France December 1, 2022

Did anyone get Sephardi? Reply

Chris Wangaratta November 25, 2022

Right! I'm as Ashkenazi as it gets :) Reply

Snir United States November 15, 2022

Trick Question, my mom's Ashkenazi and my dad's Mizrahi Reply

Hugo Germany May 20, 2022

You are right, I am Ashkenazi Reply

Jude May 19, 2022

Got it right! I'm Ashkenazi! Reply

Ricki Iannitti October 2, 2021

I went through this quiz in a tongue in cheek manner, considering I am an Italian-American convert. The quiz was still accurate in a way- my result was Ashkenazi, and most of the people at my synagogue are. Reply

Yona Weis Boston, MA July 19, 2021

No, I have mixed parents, Spain and Finland, but have no substantial costums like my friends who know their ancestors. I wish I knew more about who I am to teach my child who she is. Reply

martin North Carolina May 25, 2021

I am Ashkenazi Reply

Eric Steger Sunnyvale May 24, 2021

I love gefilte fish! That is, I love eating gefilte fish. Reply

Mona Englart December 16, 2021

in response to Eric Steger:

Me too. Especially with horseradish Reply

Armando Salazar Kalamazoo via chabadwestmichigan.com May 14, 2021

My family has Sephardic roots coming to Northern Mexico and founding Monterrey Mex, however only living in Narbonne/Spain/North Africa for a few hundred years before originally coming from Iraq, leaving between the 8th and 12th centuries. I may be a mix of both Sephardic and Mizrahi. Reply

Tzvi Fastag Brooklyn, New York May 25, 2021

in response to Armando Salazar :

The founding fathers of Monterrey Mexico where the Anusim that came together with The Carvajal family the governor of the new kingdom of nuevo Leon. They left Spain trying to avoid the inquisition that eventually came to Mexico and lasted for 300 years.We find that many of the descendents of these anusim do come back to their roots to reincorporate themselves into the mainstream jewish community. Reply

Armando Kalamazoo Mi via chabadwestmichigan.com November 25, 2022

in response to Tzvi Fastag:

Afternoon Tzvi, yes the Carvajal/ Rodriguez families is who we come from. Reply

Howard Ross Cote St. Luc May 13, 2021

My father came from Lithuwania my Mothers family came from Russia my father was quite knowledgeable in jewish teachings he was very well learned and was lucky to come to Canada before the second world war, he was orthodox and all of us had a good jewish back ground we all knew about chabad and we were ashkenazi . Reply

Mina Australia June 22, 2021

in response to Howard Ross:

My father came from Australia and my mother came from Brazil. So what am I??? Reply

Howard Ross Cote St. Luc December 22, 2021

in response to Mina:

Hi Mina, I am not a rabbi but if your mother came from Brazil I would imagine that she was Sephardic and I do not know where your fathers parents came from but I would imagine they came from Europe so he probably was Ashkenazi so Mina you probably are a member of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic so you are the best of two worlds but you can always ask a rabbi. he would have a better answer. Reply

Helena Hyamson Maroubra South May 8, 2021

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

Tzvi Fastag Brooklyn, NY May 8, 2021

in response to Helena Hyamson:

That is not so unusual my father born in Warsaw, Poland was from a chasidic background my mother from mexico city belonged to the Turkish synagogue. Reply

Rochel Nevada May 7, 2021

Nailed it!! Reply

Aryeh May 7, 2021

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

martin toronto May 7, 2021

in response to Aryeh :

me too I am a Kohen Reply

Rivka Rachum WEST ORANGE May 7, 2021

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

Lisa May 7, 2021

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

David May 6, 2021

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

Tzvi Fastag Brooklyn, NY May 7, 2021

in response to David:

My father's family were Modchetzer chasidim in warsaw poland yet my father pesach Eliyahu was named after his grandfather while his grandfather was still alive. My father had always believed that our original family was sefardic. New investigations have shown that some of the jews escaping the Spanish inquisition in 1492 did make it to Hamburg, Germany.
Conclusion: We are AM Echad!
We are one nation! Reply

Helena Hyamson Maroubra South November 17, 2022

in response to David:

The reason for not naming children after someone that is still alive ,is so that when the time comes, the angel of death does not chose the wrong one. Reply

David May 12, 2021

in response to Tzvi Fastag:

Your words are so true! Baemet am echad!!! Reply

Moshe USA May 6, 2021

Exactly Reply

Roseanne Cohen Pittsburgh, PA May 6, 2021

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

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