I'm 5% Ashkenazi Jewish. Do you consider me an Ashkenazi Jew?

**cherryredlips** · 10-05-2019, 05:57 PM

Isn't 5% ancestry like 4 generations back? Someone probably in the late 1800s or early 1900s?

**PaleoEuropean** · 10-05-2019, 06:00 PM

Only if it's via your direct maternal line

**WeirdLookingFellow** · 10-05-2019, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by cherryredlips

Isn't 5% ancestry like 4 generations back? Someone probably in the late 1800s or early 1900s?

No person is 100% Ashkenazi. If you're 5% you could have something like a grandma with 20% which is near the average for Ashkenazim. As Paleo said, if it's via maternal line, then as per Jewish law you are Jewish.

**Pine** · 10-06-2019, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by WeirdLookingFellow

No person is 100% Ashkenazi. If you're 5% you could have something like a grandma with 20% which is near the average for Ashkenazim. As Paleo said, if it's via maternal line, then as per Jewish law you are Jewish.

All Ashkenazim are 100% Ashkenazi, unless you're going back to the Ashkenazi ethnogenesis, in which case some pure Ashkenazim still exist.

**WeirdLookingFellow** · 10-07-2019, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Pine

All Ashkenazim are 100% Ashkenazi, unless you're going back to the Ashkenazi ethnogenesis, in which case some pure Ashkenazim still exist.

I was referring to ancestry results.

**Pine** · 10-07-2019, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by WeirdLookingFellow

I was referring to ancestry results.

Where Ashkenazim often score 100% Ashkenazi?

**kattleen** · 10-07-2019, 05:21 AM

Do you have a hooknose?

**Mortimer** · 10-07-2019, 05:40 AM

For me there is no thumb rule. If you feel like a jew and identify as such I can rather identify as such too if you identify yourself as such. Also jewish law and what other jews says is important too. There is no thumb rule. I dont know about your specific case.