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MaryMagdaline

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2. Same with my MIL. She always told her children she was Russian

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Original post)

Sun Feb 27, 2022, 08:09 PM

Feb 2022

but she came from Odessa. She was Russian-speaking. We didn’t figure out that she was Ukrainian until after she died. She was a baby when she had to leave. Her father was killed in a pogrom.

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I always thought I was a Russian Jew. [View all] Grumpy Old Guy Feb 2022 OP

Journalist (and old time DUer) Larisa Alexandrova is from Odessa. blm Feb 2022 #1

Same with my MIL. She always told her children she was Russian MaryMagdaline Feb 2022 #2

I don't recall specific geography being discussed; elleng Feb 2022 #3

That clip says it all, doesn't it? Grumpy Old Guy Feb 2022 #10

Oh my GOODNESS, how lucky, you knew your great grandmother! elleng Feb 2022 #13

I was very fortunate. Grumpy Old Guy Feb 2022 #14

What a beautiful story. JudyM Mar 2022 #16

That is also a beautiful story. Grumpy Old Guy Mar 2022 #19

I'm sure it has affected you, my dear Grumpy Old Guy... CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2022 #4

My great grandfather RockCreek Feb 2022 #5

I'm half Ukrainian but never felt any connection unblock Feb 2022 #6

The pogroms didn't help build any connection, for sure. JudyM Mar 2022 #17

Thanks! unblock Mar 2022 #18

I think of myself as Ashkenazi because when my grandparents left Europe around WWI they were mucifer Feb 2022 #7

That's true. Grumpy Old Guy Feb 2022 #11

Russia had an area called the Pale of Settlement where modern Ukraine exists. Lots of Jews Karadeniz Feb 2022 #8

I, too, learned yesterday from my older sister that cilla4progress Feb 2022 #9

It's strange that several of us had similar experiences. Grumpy Old Guy Feb 2022 #12

Well, so much so in my family, cilla4progress Feb 2022 #15

Many Jews were brought up thinking this because they were. Behind the Aegis Mar 2022 #20