My grandmother really looks jewish but her last name does not sound jewish I hope someone can help me?

First off not all Jewish people look stereotypical. When I was younger I had blonde hair and I have blue eyes and I am Jewish.





As for the issue concerning your grandmother:





You should ask your grandmother what her maiden name is, to see if it sounds like a Jewish last name. And if it doesn't then ask if she is Jewish. But please ask her as gently as possible, because she may be sensitive to the subject. If she is Jewish, then she may have changed her name in order to avoid anti-Semitism. Or she might have married someone who wasn't Jewish.





My great-great grandmother who was Jewish and whose maiden name was Stein married a Scottish-Baptist and his surname was Walker. She was embarrassed of her Hungarian-Jewish parents who were from the old country. So she married him because she loved him and so she could assimilate and become as much American as possible.


But her daughter on the other hand, my great grandmother married a Green (who was Jewish).


It鈥檚 really funny, how one generation hides who they are while the next generation flaunts their heritage proudly.





Hope you are able to take pride in what ever ethnic group you belong to. Good luck on discovering your roots.

My grandmother really looks jewish but her last name does not sound jewish I hope someone can help me?
There are not all that many purely Jewish names. Cohen and Levy are a couple that are.


A lot of names in the U.S. are identified as Jewish as a large portion of immigrants to this country had certain names while back in their country of origin, the same name was used by Jews and non Jews. For instance, names ending in stein or berg are not necessarily Jewish. Jacobs just means son of Jacob. A lot of Christians gave their children Old Testament names so when surname were taken in the last millennium if a man's father's given name was Jacob, he might have become Jacobs.





Any name can actually be Jewish. Reform Jews define a Jew by the religion alone. Orthodox and Conservative Judaism define a Jew by the mother, alone, not the religion or the father.





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 the mother's side of the family. Whereas if they don't have a Jewish mother, even though they have a Jewish father, they aren't considered Jewish by Orthodox and Conservative Judaism.





So your grandmother's maiden name could have been O'Brien and she still could be Jewish.



Reply:Not everyone who looks Jewish is Jewish. People from different ethnic backgrounds sometimes have similar features. Every nationality is going to have people with large and small noses, and so on. Since your grandma is still alive you can ask her about her background. Who knows maybe she is Jewish, but how will you know without asking her?
Reply:You can't tell if someone is Jewish by their looks or their name. I am Italian and Catholic and my name is Jewy Sapperstein. See.
Reply:Help you what? Determine if she's Jewish?





Here's an idea: ask her. Or ask you mom or dad -- whoever's mom she is.





And why would it matter? And what does "looks Jewish" even mean?
Reply:help you how ? Some Jews look like the stereotype, most don't.


A name can be changed.





ask about your ancestry, it is a natural question









Reply:HELLO ,Why does it matter that ur grandmas name doesnt sound jewish.She is a beautiful person no matter what anyone thinks or says .The beauty comes from within.blessings to u n urs .
Reply:No one "looks" Jewish, and if her last name isn't Jewish then there's a very small chance that she actually is. You could just ask her though.
Reply:Just because you place a question mark at the end of your statement does not mean that you have asked a question. Thanks for trying.
Reply:Ask...her...? Maybe her husband was not jewish, that's why her last name does not sound jewish.
Reply:Ask your grandma (in a really accusatory voice) GRANDMA, ARE YOU A JEW????????????
Reply:There is no Jewish look.





All the best.
Reply: Well is she Jewish or not? this is the Question?
Reply:friendo...you are dumb