Thanks. It's kind of weird looking back on it knowing that my blood connection to the Jewish people is actually pretty thin, but that because of the fact that for a series of reasons, the non-Jewish parent in each generation didn't have much to do with the cultural shaping of their kids (died too young like my great great grandmother, grew up in a Jewish neighborhood, and was in many ways very culturally Jewish herself, like my great grandmother, uninvolved like my grandfather, thoroughly disconnected from his own cultural roots and very quiet like my father) we ended up very very culturally Ashkenazi Jewish anyway.
My blood connection is probably stronger than that, but not by much. I have inherited some very interesting typically Ashkenazi genetic diseases that aren't found on my mother's side, probably through my father's mother, whose own mother was blue eyed, and had a blue eyed husband, yet somehow kept having brown eyed children.
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Date: 2014-06-10 03:07 pm (UTC)My blood connection is probably stronger than that, but not by much. I have inherited some very interesting typically Ashkenazi genetic diseases that aren't found on my mother's side, probably through my father's mother, whose own mother was blue eyed, and had a blue eyed husband, yet somehow kept having brown eyed children.