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October 9, 2024 11:55 am at 11:55 am #2323070
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@jdf007
you didn’t know anyone with intermarried parents until you reached college in another state………………………….

I have no idea how old you are. I might guess your home state is NY

I have an 81 year old sister in law whose Jewish mother married an Italian Catholic in NYC in 1932 with the agreement that the children would be raised as observant Jews and Kashrus and Shabbos observed in home.

I had a number of classmates in elementary school (1950s) with only one Jewish parent.

Not all of us came from families who were living in a Shtetl back in 1824, my maternal side was living in a city in Germany. My paternal side lived in a provincial capital in Congress Poland (formerly Lithuania) within the Russian Pale. The Town had 4000 inhabitants in the 1820s, half Jewish.