The Nuremberg laws identified a Jew as someone who what?

The Nuremberg Laws, enacted in 1935 in Nazi Germany, defined a Jew as anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents, regardless of their individual religious beliefs or self-identification. These laws aimed to institutionalize racial discrimination and exclude Jews from German society, stripping them of citizenship and civil rights. The classification was based on ancestry rather than religious practice, fundamentally altering the social and legal status of Jews in Germany.