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Even more interesting is that the article claims this person managed to trace back her maternal lineage for 22 generations (!), and found out that it was an unb
by Udik 7y ago
Even more interesting is that the article claims this person managed to trace back her maternal lineage for 22 generations (!), and found out that it was an unbroken Jewish maternal lineage. What a curious combination for someone who previously "felt drawn to Judaism and converted to Modern Orthodox Judaism".
Of course, 22 generations means thousands of ancestors, who moreover, according to the article, have been living as Catholics for more than three hundred years. It's dumbfounding what kind of ethno-sectarian reasoning must be behind the claim that she's Crypto-Jewish.
- toasterlovin 7y ago> and found out that it was an unbroken Jewish maternal lineage. But I think any female who has a female ancestor who is Jewish would also have an “unbroken Jewish maternal lineage”, right? Or am I misunderstanding that?
- Udik 7y agoNo, if the female ancestor is, for example, your grandmother on your father's side, the maternal lineage is broken. Basically Jewishness is in the mitochondrial DNA.
- toasterlovin 7y agoSorry, I was unclear. What I meant is: if a female has a Jewish female ancestor as part of the female only lineage from which they get their mitochondria, then they definitionally have an “unbroken Jewish maternal lineage”, because it could be no other way. But it’s not really an interesting observation, since it’s true of most Jewish women that this line reaches extremely far back in time (since Jews generally don’t seek converts and, so, being Jewish is mostly a genetic matter, in practice).