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How common was Polish-Jewish intermarriage?


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 Sep 14, 11, 22:43    #1
I was curious to know how common Polish - Jewish intermariage was in pre 1939 Poland.

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 Sep 14, 11, 22:47    #2
Not too common, but also not too rare, judging from pre-war Polish literature.
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 Sep 14, 11, 22:55    #3
That's a misleading question. One can be both Jewish and Polish.
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 Sep 14, 11, 23:12    #4
I think my grandmothers uncle in Pinsk was married to a Catholic Polish women. He was a middle class doctor, it was frowned upon by the family, but in my grandfathers poor religios family in Biyalstok it was completely unheard of to not marry a Jew. I wonder how common it was in other parts of Poland? I know it was quite common in Pre 1933 Germany.
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 Sep 14, 11, 23:18    #5
It happened. Not that often, but it did.
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 Sep 14, 11, 23:35    #6
Czesław Milosz's uncle Oscar Miłosz, a renown French Catholic poet, had a Jewish mother owing to his father having seen a pretty girl in a shop window's clothing advertisement and deciding on the spot to marry her. He went into the shop and demanded know who the model was and undeterred by her religion he followed through with his plan.
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 Sep 14, 11, 23:44    #7
It makes sense that it happened rarely. Thats why the Jewish population is what only ~15 million (im assuming both religious and race)
Today though the mixing is happening more often.

I heard that 50 percent of Jews today marry with non-Jews.
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 Sep 14, 11, 23:49    #8
Most Polish origin (and other Ashkenazi) Jews do not look Middle Eastern, many of them look medditeranean, but not middle eastern, I'm sure somwhere along the line there was some European admixture.
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 Sep 14, 11, 23:57    #9
The reason the Jews dont look like middle easterner is because they arent.
They are Khazars a Turkic people.
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 Sep 15, 11, 00:46    #10
They are Khazars a Turkic people.


niether do they look Turkic, that is a theory that hs been disproven. yes a small percenetage of Khazar DNA would have gone into the Jews of small parts of Russia sotherun Russia just North of the caucuses and south of the black sea, but thats a long way from Poland
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 Sep 15, 11, 01:49    #11
niether do they look Turkic, that is a theory that hs been disproven.


Actually, even among intellectuals (including Jews) to this day there is still debate about it.
I have heard many Jews even claiming it makes sense and that they are descendants of Khazaria.

In fact other groups were heading west at that same time period. This includes Magyars and smaller tribes.
When the Khazar 'empire' disappeared a large movement off its citizens travelled west to other Eastern European Countries including Poland, Ukraine, Baltic States.

The possibility certainly exists and it wasnt just a small percentage.
To deny that possibility is narrow minded.

The main reason Jews deny that is because they have this thing stuck in their heads that they are ALL descendants of semites and are Chosen Ones. This is simply not true. Many adopted the religion during that time period.

This is used by zionists to further their goals to this day. Thats why hardly anyway mentions it.
The zionists have went to so far that today they have a label for just about everything and everyone: anti-semite, holocaust denier, nazi, supremacist, etc, etc, etc.
ADL and such garbage organizations have done things such as:
Anyone who thinks Israel was involved in 9/11 is an anti-semite.
Anyone who thinks they descended from khazars is an anti-semite.
Anyone who thinks Israel kills people in Palestine is an anti-semite.
And on and on it goes. The list is endless.

In the mean time its okay for people in America to say 9/11 was done by Muslim(s), or it was done by the American government, or
it was done by insert_group_here.
Its a joke. Americans can criticize themselves and other peoples but not the Jews?

Now go ahead and call me an anti-semite, naziwhokills6millionjews :)
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Edited by: Somerset  Sep 15, 11, 02:42    #12
You seriosly believe jews did 9/11? lol you must have some screws loose?
Again if you can't contribute other than ridiclous Jewish consipracy bollocks then be gone, this is about Jewish intermarriage in pre war Poland.
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 Sep 15, 11, 03:20    #13
ou seriosly believe jews did 9/11? lol you must have some screws loose?
Again if you can't contribute other than ridiclous Jewish consipracy bollocks then be gone, this is about Jewish intermarriage in pre war Poland.


Hey idiot. Where did I say I believe Jews did 9/11?

There was a poll done
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:911worldopinionpoll_Sep2008_pie.png
I am speaking of these people.

In prozionist countries if you say that as AN OPINION you are label anti-semite.

Some of you morons are just too sensitive and whine all day long.
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 Sep 15, 11, 07:46    #14
That's a misleading question. One can be both Jewish and Polish.


Yes but. Judaism is an ethnicity and a religion- Polish is a nationality- slavic is the ethnicity, Catholicism is the majority religion. So one can be a Polish Jew- but typically Jewish is used to describe the religion.

Jews and Poles were defined based on their religion pre war- many jews assimilated but most didn't.

Jewish intermarriage was more common between Poles and truly assimilated jews- Poles didn't typically convert to the hasidic lifestyle



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