Is it possible that my grandfather was Jewish if...

**~~LorD NooB~~** · 01-08-2021, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Roy

I did not know Bandera was a Jew ...

Now you know. Bandera also is a Jewish surname.

**Creoda** · 01-08-2021, 11:32 AM

Judging by your politics there's a good chance.

**Pine** · 01-08-2021, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by LorD NooB

If he was born in Verbovets village, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Western Ukraine) in 1948. As you know, historically, a lot of Jews lived in those places. What is the probability that my grandfather was from a Jewish family? Or by that time, after the German occupation, all the Jews in those parts were exterminated? Well, if all the same not a Jew, then who, Rusyn, Pole, Romanian? The surname, if anything, is Ukrainian, ending in "uk". The birth certificate states that his father and mother were Ukrainians, but I think this is not an absolute guarantee, because Bandera was also allegedly Ukrainian, but in fact he was a Catholic Jew.

Reading the last line, I can assure you - he wasn't Jewish.

**Pine** · 01-08-2021, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Pleksi

If he was born in village then the chances are small, most of Jews lived in the cities, but to be sure DNA test is the best option to find out since it can be hard to check archives I guess

Plenty of villages were majority or sometimes fully Jewish. One of my great grandparents was born in a village (shtetl) of 200-500 people - most of them Jews.

**~~LorD NooB~~** · 01-08-2021, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by Pine

Reading the last line, I can assure you - he wasn't Jewish.

Yes, he was, it's proven. Even his surname is of Jewish origin.

**Pulsa Di Noura** · 01-08-2021, 05:34 PM

@OP, might be possible. -Uk ending surnames have some of that background ancestry, in some of the cases.

Originally Posted by Creoda

Judging by your politics there's a good chance.

Not really. Not all half jews/part jews are leftists.

**~~Art23~~** · 01-09-2021, 01:06 PM

Do you wish to be Jewish in order not to be Ukrainian? Living in Russia, you are probably under a very strong pressure to give up Ukrainian identity. Everything Ukrainian is mocked in Russia nowadays.

**~~LorD NooB~~** · 01-09-2021, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by Art23

Do you wish to be Jewish in order not to be Ukrainian? Living in Russia, you are probably under a very strong pressure to give up Ukrainian identity. Everything Ukrainian is mocked in Russia nowadays.

No, vice versa I would be upset if I found out he was a Jew