#Her mom even kept her gentile nom de guerre - something I wrote about assimilated Polish Jews doing

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OK @amarocit I did, unfortunately, read the article, and the answer is she does not think we breed humans like cats per se but she does

Learn her mother was a Holocaust survivor at age 34 when her parents divorce

Have an identity crisis because "Jewishness is inherited matrilineally," and her parents had "baptized a Jewish baby," despite her mother's conversion, implying like. An ontological quantum of Jewishness stored in maternal RNA or something

Have another identity crisis when her mother takes ethnicity and religion separately and says at most she is half-Jewish (ethnically) and it doesn't count (halakhically, religiously) because she was raised Catholic, baptized, and her mom converted

Her cats offer consolation in this trying time

She describes her Jewish heritage as a "motley pedigree" and compares it to her cats, who are half-Burmese and half-mutt

She begins genealogy research. One cat dies. For some reason she feels compelled to get a "real, honest-to-goodness Burmese cat," adds some Orientalist flourish about Myanmar, describes the cat as "imperious"

Veering uncomfortably close to race science & fin-de-siecle anthropology language about closed Jewish communities/lack of intermarriage here, Krysia

She needs to prove her Jewishness to herself by way of Ancestry dot com

This is the most Polish article on the planet

Whatever the fuck this is:

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