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Does "Radev" sound like a Jewish last name?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Names do not always define a person's nationality, race or ethnic origin.

Also, Orthodox and Conservatives Jews define a "Jew" by their mother not their father. A person to them is a Jew if they have a Jewish mother, not necessarily a Jewish father. They state you get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father. If a person doesn't have a Jewish father they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family.

So a Jewish female can marry a non Jew by the name of Smith and the children will be considered Jewish.