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This story of mine doesn’t belong to the religious Jewish stories at all. When I got married, I told my husband that I wouldn’t [quit] my religion. Even if I wasn’t observing it, but I wouldn’t quit it. I don’t believe in that one more, so why should I? At the age of sixteen I was reading Hegel already.
I was already searching for why. So why should I change religion, if I’m doubtful. But however, I wanted to stick [to my religion], I was born in it, my grandmother lived in this, I didn’t want to offend her with things like that. I told my husband: ‘I won’t convert to your religion, but if we will have children, they will be reformed.’ I observed my religion in the sense that for example I observed autumn festivals and Christmas [Chanukkah].
I was already searching for why. So why should I change religion, if I’m doubtful. But however, I wanted to stick [to my religion], I was born in it, my grandmother lived in this, I didn’t want to offend her with things like that. I told my husband: ‘I won’t convert to your religion, but if we will have children, they will be reformed.’ I observed my religion in the sense that for example I observed autumn festivals and Christmas [Chanukkah].
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Romania
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Alice Kosa