Oded Fehr
Fehr in 2012, photo by PrPhotos.com
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Israel
Date of Birth: November 23, 1970
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish, as well as Sephardi Jewish
Oded Fehr is an Israeli actor. He has starred in The Mummy and Resident Evil films, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and the series Sleeper Cell, among many other projects. In these roles and others, he has played, Arab, Hispanic, French, and Israeli characters.
He is the son of Gila (Lachmann/Lachman), who was born in Kiryat Chaim, Haifa, and Uri/Ury Ernst Fehr, who was born in Jerusalem. His father is of Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish descent, and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. His father’s family was from Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Bosnia, and his maternal grandparents’ families were from Germany and the Netherlands, respectively.
Oded is married to American, Rhonda Tollefson, with whom he has three children.
Among Oded’s paternal ancestors are Yitzhak Haim Farhi, who was born, c. 1782, in Safed, Tzfat, North District, Israel, and Rabbi Eliezer Papo, Pele Yoetz, who was born, c. 1786, in Sarajevo, Federacija Bosna i Hercegovina.
Oded’s paternal grandfather was named Joachim/Hans Fehr/Peher. Hans was evidently born in Germany.
Oded’s paternal grandmother was Miriam Bolisa Shaltiel (the daughter of Meshulam Bochor/Behor Menashe Shaltiel/Saltiel and Sarah Ashkenazi). Miriam was born in Jerusalem, to a Sephardi family. Meshulam was born in Pirot, Serbia, Yugoslavia, the son of Abraham/Avraham Saltiel/Shaltiel and Tamara, who were born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Sarah was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of Isaak/Yitzhak Ashkenazi, who had roots in Larissa, Greece, and Istanbul, Turkey; and of Rivka/Rivkah Efraim.
Oded’s maternal grandfather was Heinz Chanoch Lachmann (the son of Georg Lachmann and Paula Dörnberg/Doernberg). Heinz was born in Eschwege, Germany. Georg was from Lissa (now Leszno), Posen. Paula was born in Eschwege, the daughter of Albert Dörnberg/Doernberg, from Plaue, Thüringen, and of Cilly Dinkelspühler, from Fürth.
Oded’s maternal grandmother was Claire Ullmann (the daughter of David Ullmann and Alice Steinberg). Claire was born in The Hague, Netherlands. David was born in Rödingen, Titz, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, the son of Philipp Jacob Ullmann and Helene Ehrlich. Oded’s great-grandmother Alice was born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, and died in the Holocaust in 1944, in Auschwitz.
Sources: Genealogy of Oded’s paternal grandmother, Miriam Shaltiel (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Oded’s maternal great-grandmother, Paula Dörnberg/Doernberg – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Oded’s mother (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Luciano Lebelson Szafir uhmmm…does not sound Sephardi (whose origins are actually in Spain).
Tbf neither Fehr or Szafir look really Middle Eastern to me, unlike banker Ben Bernanke, Bob Benmosche (with the beard) or Rabbi Warren Goldstein (credit to user “Ziza” for the last two).
@jonasbettencourt
Andrew can say or think whatever he wants, stop ranting.
U is asking your —. u antisemitic dickhead
I’m half Jewish. I hope all your posts get deleted.
If u are also Jewish than I am sorry I thought that u were like Andrew an antisemite who attacks Ashkenazim and spreads misinformation
Mark Levin and Meir Kahane could also pass
Oh, so it turns out he is also Sephardi Jewish, really not that surprising, he remaids me of brazillian actor Luciano Szafir, who is sephardi. Jews are a fascinating people, their origins are no doubt in the middle east, but over the centuries they have largely became a legit european ethnicity.
Actually, it was literally the law in the Russian Empire that when a person of the Russian Orthodox faith married someone of another religion, their child had to be raised Russian Orthodox, and presumably be absorbed into the Russian Orthodox population, etc.
A sort of one-drop-rule in reverse.
I think Oded Fehr could have been just Ashkenazi. But, as it turns out, he’s Sephardi, too. I should have known because of the name Shaltiel.
Thank you, follers.
Genetically, Ashkenazi Jews European component is actually Italian/Roman, not Northwest European unless they have a parent who is. Ashkenazi Jews have a variety of looks.
People from all over the Levant can definitly be light skinned without having European admixture, i’ve seen “full” Lebanese people who are pasty white for instance
Yep, i said it western euro too, last time i checked Italy was in Western Europe. And since Ashkenazi Jews are obviusly native to Israel, on the deep Middle East, it’s nothing more than predictable that a whole chunk of them will look…well, MIDDLE EASTERN, of course the native peoples of the Levant can often look a bit like southern, even northwestern Europeans. Ashkenazis are often considered the ”Germanic Jews”, especially here in the Americas, since the majority of the Jews here came from western/northwestern euro countries.
Honestly, why is this still being discussed when it has been proven via DNA and genetic studies? Whether they look like Zac Posen or Nina Totenberg, they are 100% Ashkenazi.
@ashash
Do you really believe to such nonsense?
@andrew
There have been countless genetic studies. What exactly is nonsense about what I said?
The “Roman” part. It does not make much sense.
Peer-reviewed genetic studies all say the same thing: Ashkenazim are a Levantine people who acquired a Central Italian/Greek component on the maternal line in the Hellenistic period. Jews who lived in other parts of Europe were confined to ghettos, cut off from the native populations, until the 19th century Emancipation. Ergo, it’s a given that Ashkenazim won’t have much NW European input.
“Central Italy” (?) and Greece are not even bordering lands.
23andMe put Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry under European category. Guess why.
andrew,
“While most people with Ashkenazi ancestry trace their DNA to Eastern and Central Europe, they are often more genetically like other Jewish populations — such as Sephardic Jews or Jewish groups with roots in Iran, Iraq, or Syria — than other Europeans.”
https://blog.23andme.com/articles/ashkenazi-ancestry-and-health
@jonasbettencourt
Anyhow Ashkenazi Jews have historically lived mostly in Central and Eastern Europe rather than in NW.
andrew, despite anti-Semitism, Jews have lived many centuries in western Euro countries such as Germany, Holland, and The U.K, and they blended fairly easily among the locals over time, especially in England, even in Germany. But most Jews who came to Europe really stayed in eastern countries, all im saying is that there have always been sizeble numbers in western/nhw countries too.
And yet another false claim you’ve made
Oh there you are again pizza guy, thanks for being such a loyal member of my fan club on this site lol
don’t flatter yourself new worlder, I just like to call bs on your stupid claims
damn, no wonder why you dont even have a real name and picture, in order to be such a salty troll like that you need to have some leval of covering…
“no wonder why you don’t have a real name and picture”
You realise that you are virtually THE ONLY user in the history of this website stupid enough to use his real picture + real name, right?
Why the —- would anyone ever use their real name and picture in this page lmao, you’ve got to have problems no offense
Nobody is your fan or is obssesed with yoiu as you’ve claimed several times, you’re just stupid, that’s all, you claim all kinds of outlandish things about ethnicity which are simply ludicrous and people call you out for it, easy.
Let that sink
Hahhaahh oh man the only thing that is ”sinking” lower and lower is your morals, assuming you are an actual person, i really do feel sorry for you. What kind of bitter, salty, sad person would spent literally hours of their lifes insulting someone else online because they dont agree about a mild thing like this. I never claimed to be some sort of expert in this subject, we are all just giving our personal takes about some famous people, there is really no need to take anything here so seriusly. And i get it that its ”a thing” on this site to not have your real name and picture, for most people, its ”part of the fun” and gives them a sensation of freedom as well, so i dont really have any problem with the non-identification itself, but what can come with it. It can give toxic, atention seeking, and predatory people like you the chance to trolling as hard as possible and influence others to do the same. Why cant you just make your own comments on the subject if you dont agree with someone? Or why cant you just reply others in a respectful manner, without jumping to straight up bitter, toxic insults? This goes to show that you really must have some serius emotional control problems, if you dont think i really have a point in anything i say, why do you even bother replying? Choose your battles wisely my friend, otherwise you can look really stupid, i really hope you can gow some emotional inteligence in the future so you dont have to play this sad role any longer. This is the last time i will ever adress you on this site, i will never even click on your comments in the ”RACE RELATED DISCUSSION” seccion, you wont have the satisfaction of my time anymore. Be happy and take care.
literally not reading any of that lmao, cope harder
Ok. You have claimed now to be only 1/4 Jewish? You are just one of those weirdos who infest all Internet forums with this sick obsession with pseudo-genetics and mafia movies characters, it’s all a déjà vu.
Who are you trying to fool??
Who cares if Fehr played the “Arab looking guy”… David Suchet played Poirot who is Belgian…so what?
Here is a Jew with a Mediterranean: https://www.eurosport.it/tennis/us-open/2019/us-open-la-beffa-di-schwartzman-vince-rafa-la-semifinale-sara-nadal-berrettini_sto7443961/story.shtml
Lol
His claim isn’t false. Most Ashkenazim have a West Asian look. Because that’s what they are: West Asians.
Why dont you make a gallery of Jews who look like Germans and other Central or Eastern Europeans too, that’s pretty easy.
Unlike u I am a quarter Jew and the links are not pseudo. All studies from Cavalli Sforza to Antonio Torroni from the university of Padua as well as Doron Behar , karl Skorecki, harry ostrer , Richards and hammers show that Ashkenazim cluster between the Mediterranean and middle east. My paternal haplogroup is J1a which is common among Gulf Arabs. Who the hell are u to decide who is a Jew and not. I can refer myself as a Jew. Many Jews are part Jewish you antisemitic hump
Fellas, calm down. Who really cares.
@Vik27 is right Ashkenazi Jews are West Asian. And regardless Zionism is good!