Either or neither. Classifying people by tying them to a particular place is not really meaningful. It is as artificial as classifying them by skin color or eye slant. Jews, like Gypsies, are a people that have existed fora very long time without being tied to a particular patch of dirt. Jewish tradition clearly ties Jews to a spot in the Middle East, but it's equally sensible for an Ashkenazic Jew to point to an ancestral village in Poland or Russia. The worst of it is that some of those villages have been in Poland, Russia, Romania and Hungary because the borders of those lands kept moving while the village stayed put. As a result, for many Jews, it is nonsense to speak of a particular nation-state from which their ancestors came. So, the right answer is probably "an Ashkenazic Jew" and