Was Nikola Tesla Jewish?

On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. read more

Tesla’s father, grandfather, and brother-in-law all were priests in the christian Serbian Orthodox Church, and young Tesla was expected to enter the priesthood. As Tesla tells in his autobiography, it took his approaching death from cholera to break his father’s hold. read more

Nikola Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the village Smiljan, Lika county, in the Austrian Empire (present day Croatia), on 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856. His father, Milutin Tesla (1819–1879), was an Eastern Orthodox priest. read more

Tesla was Serbian ethnically and descended from Christian Orthodox priests. He was not Jewish. read more