Did You Identify as Jewish or Did You Stay Away From It?

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We spoke russian, and my grandparents, who lived with us, spoke yiddish to a habit an crypto channel from the from the young ones. Was your family at all religious? And did you have any jewish identity, or did they stay away from it? Because i wasyououod be persecuted in the soviet union if you practised religion. I definitely identified as jewish, but had zero understanding of the ligious identity, or really the historic idents.

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