Am I Jewish? I recently found out that my mother's father comes from Accadian Jews expelled from Nova Scotia

Answer 1

no, you are 25% hebrew though, jewish is a religion, hebrew is an ethnicity. Acadian jews are tied to Sephardic Jews (jews who left the holy land to spain)

Answer 2

Orthodox and Conservative Judaism defines a Jew by the mother. They state you must have a Jewish mother not a Jewish father in order to be a Jew. They state they get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father and if they don't have a Jewish father, they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on their mother's side of the family. So your mother's mother would have had to be Jewish in order for them to consider her Jewish and therefore for you to be Jewish.

Reform Jews state you must be of the Jewish faith. The fact that you do not have a Jewish mother does not matter much to them.

So if your religion is not Jewish and your mother's maternal line was not Jewish, you would not be considered Jewish by any of the three branches of Judaism

Answer 3

If your mother was jewish you are jewish or at least would be accepted as a jew by other jews. It is a religion though, so if you are not practicing I'm not sure.

Answer 4

Acadian Jews? I've researched Acadians for over 25 years and never found one who was anything other than Roman Catholic. Just to be sure, though, I checked with the University of Moncton Centre for Acadian Studies. They list over 13,000 Acadian-French residents of the peninsula and reaffirm that all were Catholic. In order to emigrate from France to Noveau France/Acadia, a person had to be a Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church. Even those who were life-long Calvinists converted to Catholicism in order to move to Acadia and Quebec.

If someone has decided there were Jews in Acadia, I'd start by getting good information about these people and researching them carefully with Moncton and the other primary sites of Acadian research.

After the French Acadians were expelled, the area was renamed "Nova Scotia". From the time of the Grand d'Arrangement onward, no one was ever again referred to as "Acadian".

Answer 5

ok am i the only one on this planet that doesn't think you can be like 1/4 jewish or whatever? judaism is a religion, its not like an ethnicity or anything it is just a belief system. true your ancestors may have been jewish but that doesn't make you jewish.

Answer 6

guese what











you are a Jew