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From: Jerry Frank <>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [POLAND] Greek-Catholic and Orthodox Church
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 17:54:33 -0600
In-Reply-To: <f9.16e0d5e.26b8afdf@aol.com>

At 06:57 PM 01-08-00 -0400, wrote:

>The census says they were Russian Yiddish. Family said they were Polish Jews.
>A new cousin I found on line who's mother grew up with them said they were
>Orthodox.
>I am positive they were Jewish but I don't know anything abt the differances.

All essentially the same thing. Russian vs. Polish depends on whether they
are referring to ethnicity or what border they lived behind. Orthodox can
of course refer to Jews or Christians but obviously with different belief
connotations. There are Orthodox Jews and Reformed Jews just as there are
Orthodox Christians, Catholic Christians, etc.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, AB

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