Originally Posted by
cashs_mom
So, since he's "genetically Jewish", you don't consider him German? I'm very confused.
. Many of us Jewish folk consider ourselves part of an ethnic group which shows up in DNA such as native Americans, asians, etc. There were and are German Jewish people but as you know, to be Jewish in Germany in the way back years wasn't a good thing. His father is 90. He was born at a time to German Jewish people who escaped to the US. The way we understand it is that his father's nationality was German but his ethnicity is Jewish. Maybe an expert will chime in. Anyway we all found it interesting including his father and siblings.