Just how Jewish are Latinos?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 เม.ย. 2019
- Just how much Jewish ancestry do Latinos really have? In recent times, more and more Latinos are rediscovering their Jewish heritage, and it would seem that by all professional estimates, the number of those of partial Jewish descent in Latin America is far higher than previously thought.
Most people would never have anticipated just why or how so many millions of Latinos are partially ethnically Jewish, and in today's video we'll be discussing the history behind this interesting quirk of history as well as some of the other Spanish minority groups that have impacted Latin America. Thanks for watching!
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I really like your videos focusing on Latin America and its inhabitants. It really made me think about my mixed background as a Colombian.
I know my Brazilian cousins are half-Jewish, but that's only because we're related through the (Ashkenazi) Jewish-American side of the family. I once attended a lecture about the Jews of colonial Brazil though. Interestingly, when the Dutch conquered northeast Brazil during part of the 17th Century, some "conversos" reverted to Judaism and supported the Dutch, but many others remained Catholic and supported Portugal. My Brazilian aunt has never claimed Jewish descent, but she can boast Portuguese, African and Dutch. (Apparently even in defeat, some Dutch couldn't bear to leave!)
@@seandegidon4672 I'm Fortaleza in North Cost of Brazil
Fortaleza means Fortress in portuguese
Fort Schoonenborch funded by Nassau in 1649
My surname is actually from a ancient Italin family from Florence
There are Cavalcanti's in Inferno's Dante
@@leonardocavalcante1653 "DeCavalcante" is the name of the Mafia Family in New Jersey, who the Sopranos were somewhat based on.
I'm from Northern Mexico and i find this very interesting.
I got Jewish ancestry by my mother's side, apparently a lot of Jews fled to the Northern Deserts to flee the Spanish Inquisition in New Spain, since the North has always had a low population density.
I got Jewish, Spanish, Amerindian and Italian blood by my mother's side and African, Amerindian and Spanish blood by my father's.
We're so lucky to live in a highly diverse continent like the Americas.
Greetings from Monterrey.
There high population of basque people from Sinaloa that I’m from
@@BigDaddy-il6fn There's also a large proportion of Basque descendants, mixed and unmixed, in the Sierra Madre states (Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas and the Comarca Lagunera).
Where are you from? I’m from SLP and I have Jewish and Middle Eastern ancestry (took a DNA test)
Castizo + zambo. I Wonder what caste you would enter in in colonial period
@@jorgefalcon224 probably Chino.
He's got amerindian and Spanish on both sides.
Uploads video telling Latinos they're actually Jewish on Good Friday.
*ABSOLUTE MAD LAD*
Oy vey
When you get exposed for being a Cristiano Nuevo
Michael Q Pew, 😂
The Old Testament is just the foreshadowing (or prefigurement) of the coming of Christ. Christ is the fulfillment. To ask how Jewish are Latinos is like asking, "How foreshadowing is Christianity? The question does not make sense.
leapdrive, so is asking a Jew how Jewish he is also pointless because any Jew is practically a Christian anyway?
Your logic only makes sense if you presuppose and accept ad priori the proposition that Christianity is true and correct and Judaism and Jews exist only through the conceptualization of Christianity.
But for a person who doesn’t subscribe to Christianity, to ask the question how Jewish is any specific Latino, makes perfect sense because Jewish genetic legacy is not incumbent on Christianity. It might surprise you, but Judaism and Jews existed before Christianity, and Judaism and Jews do exist outside of the conceptualizations of Christianity.
This is one of the oddest notifications I've gotten at 10pm
Yeah same
Same time zone! UTC+8
Anyone here in Western Australia?
@Edgy Keed relax
@@perthdude21 In Hong Kong
I got an ad for learning Hebrew Haha
You too?
Surprised I didn't.
@Imperial Thought
I'm an Israeli Jew..
I still get a ton of those. Therefore I'm still surprised to haven't got it.
Do forget donate your shekels to Israel
Sameee
My friend did a DNA test thinking she was 100% Latina/Hispanic. She got 40% Sephardic Jewish. Her family hasn’t practiced Judaism since the Inquisition. So I helped inform her on Judaism since I am Ashkenazi.
So she should get Israeli citizenship.
@@fintonmainz7845Imagine how crazy it would be if 100 million Brazillians move to Israel.😂
How did she find out she’s 40% Sephardic??? 23&me and ancestry only test Ashkenazi….
I am a Jewish Jatt from Punjab, India. 17% Ashkenazi Ancestry, 75% South Asian, minor West Asian and Central Asian ancestry.
How did that happen?
@@erickturck4229 Maybe because of Afghan ancestry. We originally hail from areas bordering the Afghan frontier, now in the Pakistani Punjab.
KJ CJ wow that’s pretty interesting
Quite interesting. Did you identify as Jewish before taking an ancestry test?
Do you have any relation to Cochin Jews from Kerala?
The first Synagogue of the Americas is in Brazil and it's still active today.
@First Last I think it is in Brazil. Anyway, I know that after a Brazilian synagogue that was opened in Sao Paolo by dutch Jewish merchants, the second oldest would be in a small city in Venezuela called Coro, that is among the continent's oldest cities, so it kinda makes sense
It's in Recife Antigo, on the Rua de Bom Jesus
I heard that the oldest active Synagogue in America is Curacao and is still working, it is the Mike Israel Emanuel since 1732
rjsalas260159 the synagogue in Recife Antigo in northern Brasil was built around the year 1500
It is in Recife, Brasil!
I am Tejano; when I did a DNA Ancestry test it came back that I am 9-10% Sephardic Jewish.
¡Judio!
Michael Vargas lo siento
What is Tejano? And wth you are a Jewish-Filipino??!!
I'm Puerto Rican and my DNA results, while not quite as high as yours, also shows non-negligible Jewish ancestry.
I'm also a Texan. I'm 8% Jewish.
You forgot to mention the Phoenicians and Carthaginians which would add to Iberia's Middle Eastern and North African gene pool. Love your videos!
What's the difference between Phoenicians and Carthagineans?
@alan st: you’ve rather garbled the geography. Carthage was a Phoenician colony. A coastal maritime trading city. There were other people’s living around it pre-dating and contemporary without much conflict as the Carthegenians/Phoenicians were ocean oriented and likely bought from the interior.
So it’s similar to the Greek colonies in Sicily. Greek, but evolving their own style.
@@ahmedst205 Um, NO. Phoenicians aka Canaanites were from LEVANT. Look up where Canaan and Phoenicia on the map! They COLONIZED North Africa doesnt make them North African Berbers. Greeks and Romans also conquered and colonized North Africa, does that make them Berbers too?
@@ahmedst205 And no, people of coastal Levant are the descendants of Canananites. North Africans are Berbers.
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I’m glad to see more people paying attention to this subject. This is something my family has known for generations. I’m from Monterrey in northern Mexico with family and ancestors in Tamaulipas and Texas. Even our language has traces of Ladino, and is very similar to some Andalusian dialects. Finally this year the local university in South Texas was awarded a grant to study the language of South Texas.
The Sephardic people built an entirely new culture here to pass as Criollos and survive, with many generations forgetting their Jewish roots. Most people who embrace their ancestry convert to Messianic Judaism, Jews who believe in Jesus, basically. Others convert to Judaism and others don’t alter their faith but embrace their past and ancestry. Yet, the vast majority totally ignores their ancestry.
My aunt who is mexican became a Messiac Jew.
7:05 I believe it. I’m of German Ashkenazi descent. I grew up in a midwestern town of mostly German immigrants and Latinos. My family had considerable animosity toward the Germans, and identified almost exclusively with the Latinos. In fact one of my best friends is half Mexican and half Israeli.
Not the “my best friend is ___” 😂
@@Tony-T. why not? It’s a perfect time for anecdotes.
funny how your family hates Germans when they themselves are around 60% German lol.
@@justanotherguyful Not.
I'm Latino and my DNA test results included Ashkenazi and Sephardi.
Latino means your ancestors were conquered by Spain.
What percentages?
What DNA test did you do? I would like to do it too.
@M. J. Lee But Spain is also Latino, so it means your ancestors were the conquerors. But if you’re mestizo it means your ancestors were both the conquerors and the conquered.
Like me, whose own ancestry is mostly white with a high admixture of Native American blood, you are a child of both the conquerors and the conquered.
Thank you for this video! My father (who was born in Mexico) had a dna test done and we found out he has Jewish ancestry through his father. This video taught me alot and now im able to share this knowledge with my dad. 😊
Brenda Lopez where are you from ?
Which DNA test did you do? Most tests can’t see Jewish DNA aside from Ashkenazi.
Brazilian jew here! I actually have the records saying that some of my ancestors were murmured during the inquisition. Any way, great video!
Your surname seems to indicate that your ancestors are from Germany, is that the case?
Ian Miles my paternal grandfather is ashkenazi, that is true, and my mother is sefardi, “de Carvalho”, and, for Jews, that’s what really matter, they came to Brazil in the 1700s because of the inquisition and some of them were murdered
@Ryan Shannon umm, she was never blaming anyone
@@mikespearwood3914 see above
@New England Supper star do you have brain damage?
Colombian Jew here ❤️🇮🇱🇨🇴🇺🇸 love this vid!
Colombian Maronite here! ☺️ ❤️🇨🇴🇱🇧
fuck israel
Elohim is plural! Polytheism
@@randomcomment232 fck islam
CRISTIAN CAMILO REYES SANTOS LOVES AZADEH DEKHORDI
AZADEH DEKHORDI LOVES CRISTIAN CAMILO REYES SANTOS
Greetings from Mexico City. FTDNA autosomal test says I’m 6% Jewish. As a genealogist I’ve only found one line in my family tree that descends from a Converso family with a woman who was tried by the inquisition before 1500
@@toarrestsomeoneistoviolate2643
Yes, " *Judaism* " is a religion.
But most *Jews* (whether or not they believe in or practice Judaism) or non-Jewish individuals who trace descent from the major ethnic divisions of the Jewish Diaspora (i.e., Ashkenazim, Sefaradim, Mizrahim, Romaniote Jews form Greece, and Italki Jews from Rome) share common ancestral, cultural and kinship ties, like most ethnic and national groups. That doesn't make Jews a distinct "race" unto themselves, but neither are Armenians, Japanese, Albanians, Koreans or Greeks distinct races, but individuals who trace descent from these groups have common ancestral, cultural and kinship ties with other people from the same background.
@@toarrestsomeoneistoviolate2643 It's called endogamy...look it up....Jews today aren't like Jews centuries ago...Jews today are "emancipated" in society and have only recently started to frequently marry non-Jews.
Hola! En donde obtuviste ese dato ?
De su culo
Wow your so on point! But I'm Ashkenazi Jewish. My mother is mestizo and Jewish and my father is creole. And I'm from Texas! I did a DNA and it said I'm 15% Ashkenazi Jewish.
An Ashkenazi married in.
Not surprising.
Just like Ocasio-Cortez.
@@zabooza74
If so.. I hope it's not on her direct maternal side..
We already have to Acknowledge that Marx was a Jew by Technicality.
Nobody in their right mind wants that Jumped-Up Bartender Discount Barbie in their group
@@zabooza74 I understood that AOC was claiming to be of Sephardi (probably converso) descent. There are many Ashkenazi Jews in Latin America, but they came much more recently historically.
What dna test did you use?
I'm sephardi and balkan, when I travel abroad and operate in more diverse circles (being a musician as well), most people assume I'm either Columbian or Spanish but also Jewish or European descent too. Fascinating video, I enjoy these.
Thanks for putting all of this together, I'm sure it was a lot of work, much appreciated!
Latino the most mixed people out here 💪🏽
Yeah, you can find countries like Uruguay and Argentina that are almost like any other European country,African decents like Panama and the Dominican Republic, or a mix of everything the ones that still have more native America ancestry like Guatemala and Bolivia.
I dont think so look up history you will find out all unpure nationality
@@manuelcalderon2748 Quizas Uruguay no lo se, pero yo trabajé 6 meses en Buenos Aires y si bien hay muchos blancos no llegan a ser la mayoría, uno se siente como en cualquier otra ciudad latinoamericana, no precisamente en Suecia o Dinamarca, y el norte de Argentina son poblaciones 100% indígenas
@@manuelcalderon2748 I am from Panama in Panama, blacks are descendants of Afro-Caribbean Caribbean people due to the construction of the Panama Canal, before the population was mestizo or Creole
@@manuelcalderon2748 Guatemala has 26% European and 45% is Mestizo Native American are around 30% people. Basically, are very diversified county.
Recently found out my family is descended from conversos from Lisbon that moved to Mexico. Awesome video!
If you're ever interested in returning to the faith, feel free.
We published the genetic study of Sephardic ancestry in Latin America that you mention in the video. Thanks for the coverage!
Hey, love what you do here! Im obsessed with all the nuances of populations, genetics and cultures, and you give voice to that
There are so many Jews around the world but because they are scattered they almost never form a majority anywhere
@negro bsr yeah but that was intentionally created as a Jewish country
@@Demographiaanthropology how about Israel before it was conquered and the Jews exiled 🤦♂️
@@DeusHex yeah that was 2 millennia ago
@@Demographiaanthropology and?
@@DeusHex so that isn't relevant anymore
Excelent video as always! Greetings from Argentina
I found out that both of my maternal grandparents have jewish ancestry.
Mazel!
4:00 when you're Jewish and you reach level 56. They've evolved.
dios mio..
Well now isn't that something?! This channel never ceases to baffle me. I knew that some Latin Americans had some converso DNA, but to this extent is unimaginable. Keep up the great uploads!
Estanislao Augusto ll ☺
thank you! been doing my family tree and this has helped give a little more info on why i am part jewish! . i just “reached” spain 🇪🇸 (found the spanish ancestors ) not too long ago lol . it’s been a trip . 🙀
I love this channel. Thank you for the information. ♥️👸🏾
Excellent video as always. I'm proud of my Peruvian heritage, having a vast diverse ancestry. Hope one day you do a video about Peruvians.
As an Andean Colombian I agree with this. I’m surprised you didn’t talk about noche de las velitas.
The charts at 10:25 were really interesting. It would be awesome to see a full contrast and comparison of Latin American countries average genetic make up in a single video.
Great as always, easily one of my favourite channels!
Would like to add that the language spoke by the Sephardic Jews is "Ladino" (sounds like "Latino" doesn't it?) and it is deeply embedded into the modern Spanish (Castillian) language. This in itself is a major contribution.
interesting, but I don't think there is a connection. It's rather Latino (the language), converted into Ladino, the Sefaradi Jews' slang
it is important to note that the term "Ladino" to describe the language of the Sephardic Jews is quite new and is a technical term. The Sephardim who still speak the language refer to the language as "Djudyo", "Espanyol", "Espanyol Muestro", or "Djudyo Espanyol" rather than "Ladino" (which means "Latin" in the Sephardic language, possibly reflecting the split of the population from Iberia before people started identifying their language as "Spanish" instead of the continuation of Vulgar Latin)
I’d be interested in seeing you break down the demographic of Mexico- specifically including the Jewish distribution that is often overlooked. In Los Altos de Jalisco (Aguascalientes And Zacatecas) we often detail our appearance as being influenced by the French invasion, but we don’t look French. Northern Mexico has a mixture of Spaniard, Irish and Aglo influences more I’d say, they consider themselves whiter than the rest of the countyand reference to us in Guadalajara- Los Altos-Bajio-Mexico City as just Meztisos while the south is regarded and indigenous. Once in Zacatecas at a gas station Gypsy (Húngaras) approached us to do a reading, and got me thinking about Roma influence as well as Sefardic influence in my genealogical part of the word. Any thoughts? @masaman
Northern Mexico has also German Italian Polish Russian Ukrainian Greek Czech French Bulgarian Norwegian Swedish Danish influence also Northern Mexico has alot of Arab influence mainly Lebanese Palestinian Syrian Turkish
@@Tejano12398northeast mexico ( tamualipas , nuevo leon , coahuila ) have more jewish / spaniard ancestry with lesser Native American influences. Northwest mexico ( chihuahua, sonora , sinaloa , durango ) however had alot more basque , castilian influence and some Jews , gitanos ( distant south asian admixture found in a fair amount of chihuahuan and sonoran people today ) as well as many central mexican indigenous people ( tlaxcaltecs ,purepechas, aztecs ) migrated in mass numbers to all the northern states from sonora and tamaulipas to texas and new mexico .
This was interesting. Thanks!
The comments section is very interesting thanks for the video mason
100% worth it
@@Masaman XD
Damn y’all chill. Why is distrust/ hate of jewry so global. Everyone needs a scapegoat I guess 🤦🏽♀️
Leave the Jews alone , man.
But also screw Aliyah. Zionism is evil.
🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
@@maxirede7790 I'm fairly certain it's mostly jokes
Hope Springseternal
Dude I’m Native American. White people nearly wiped us off the face of the planet. But even then I don’t hate them. I can actually list personal atrocities in my family at the hands of Europeans.
What have Jews personally done to you?
Also calling someone a noob is so 2009, my guy. I’m a little embarrassed for you. Let’s just pretend that didn’t happen and you said something witty and hurtful instead.
Honestly I just replied for shits and giggles but I’m not really invested nor interested in this convo.
But feel free to continue ranting and popping off, sis. I mean whatever tickles your pickle dude I’m not getting in the way of your twisted happiness.
Cheers mate.
Your research is wonderfully enlightening, thank you.
They are called Latin American countries , not Latino countries. The name America was first used to describe the coasts of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Later, it spread north.
Thanks for sharing that information. It seems like history is really being told by Latin influence. But something is still not right. I suspect that Jewish people are always behind the scenes.
@@charleyjr.iriarte7428 latino countries are : all latin america + europeans who have a language coming from latin ( portuguese , moldavians, french, italians , romanians..)
@@ashenone3050 U forgot Spanish.. which I dont know how u can forget that
@@RoyalViking465 cz im spaniard, indeed some people on philipines and guinea ecuatorial on africa still speak spanish as well , but in mainland spain we have 4 official languages, castillian(knowns as spanish) catalonian , euskera and galego
@@ashenone3050 Yes, I agree with you. Ashen! Have you read the book of Jubilees?
My Spanish teacher was 11% Jewish and 10% Italian with around 3% Finno Uralic and the rest was of Native American and Iberian/North African stock.
Was he practicing?
Nelson H He’s a Hindu obviously
@@MrChannel19 She was an atheist, but liked to celebrate any holiday that students would want.
You remember your teacher's exact DNA test results? Did you have an affair?
@@TheJenniferKK Loos lips sink ships.
My Jewish father was very dark and was often confused for Mexican living in California, and even in Mexico.
100% bang on as my DNA test support your findings
Fascinating. The Sephardim, although overall a smaller group today, have left a bigger genetic marker of themselves than the Ashkenazim.
EDIT
Thanks Mason, great work as always.
It's a lie
Can't say that for sure, but there were more Jews in South Carolina than any other state (including New York) at the time of secession. Most were Sephardim, with the drop off in population being related to intermarriage, deaths from the Civil War (Jews fought on both sides) and other factors. Jews have been in the US since colonial times, dating back to >360 years ago, with earlier being more Sephardim, and post-Civil War predominantly Ashkenazim.
reel deal there’s a book called “The History of Jews in America” that covers this topic.
@Garland Sephardic Jews, not Ashkenazi, are the majority population in Israel.
@@mattportnoyTLV Wikipedia says otherwise. "50% are Ashkenazim and the rest are mostly Mizhrahim and Sephardim" I know Wikipedia isn't the word of god or anything, but I find it pretty hard to believe that the Ashkenazim wouldn't be a majority. After all, they are the most represented and successful group in Israel.
@@mattportnoyTLV Thx!
Happy passover/easter from Israel!!
Dated a jewish girl in Buenos Aires for 3 months, can confirm that yes there's jewish people, we sadly had a pogrom back in the early 1900.
Yes, but she was an actual Jew, likely Ashkenazi. Masaman is talking about tiny bits of Jewish ancestry from 500 years ago in some modern Latinos.
@@sim3onbk2 her skin was dark olive and dark hair, if you saw her at first glance you woulnd't belive her.
@@elroma7712 A lot of Ashkenazi Jews look like this. Most Argentinian Jews are Ashkenazi, though it's possible she was Sephardi. I guess her last name would reveal her background.
Most Argentine Jews came from Germany afaik
If her family escaped programs. They were from the Russian Empire. Likely from modern day, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, or Belarus. Over 1.7 million Russian Jews migrated to the U.S and 100,000 migrated to South America, mainly Argentina.
Love your videos! I also love the point you made that the Inquisitions's attempts to snuff out their adversaries only made a bigger place for them to grow!
Awesome video man.
This is an absurd clickbait thumbnail. 150 million Latin Americans having ANY amount of Jewish ancestry is not the same thing as saying there are 150 million Jews in Latin America. One might as well say there are billions of Neanderthals living in Eurasia today.
Actually having even 1% does make you Jewish.
@@davidsaenz752 Well that depends on how you define Jewish according to Rabbinical law if your mother is ethnically Jewish, so are you. Otherwise, no, unless you convert, you are not Jewish. It would be very unlikely that a percent would be 1 percent Jewish entirely by the maternal line, and impossible to prove it, but if you could, and there was, that person would be Jewish.
@@davidsaenz752 : Nonsense - you're applying 19th century British & Anglo-USAmerican pseudo-science. Therefore: Tiger Woods is Asian
Barack Obama is Irish; Trevor Noah is Swiss
@@davidsaenz752 No unless you've done giyur or have a jewish mother you won't be recognized as a jew by the state of israel
@@user-ei4ce8np9s that's the state. How about God?
My family is sephardic. They came to Northern Brazil in the XIX century from Morocco and Algeria. They speak a dialect called Hakitia, which is a mix of Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic. I find fascinating how much moving was involved in our history. From ancient Israel to Iberian peninsula to North Africa to North Brazil. We are very resilient people, always looking for better life conditions even if we have to leave behind our home.
You look algerian
Moroccan Jews are Mizrahi not Sephardic
@@Xlebaking not all of them. There was already a Jewish community in Morocco by the time the Spanish Jews went there after the Alhambra decree. Those Jews identify more with Mizrahi culture, whereas the ones from the Iberian peninsula view themselves as sephardic. The Sephardi settled mostly in the north of the country and kept Spanish customs and language. The original Moroccan Jewish community was more present in the country and south. Even when they migrated to other places they kept this separation. Each group had their own synagogue where I was born, for example. However, as the community was very small, intermixing was bound to happen and this separation is practically nonexistent nowadays. Both cultures combined, so we have couscous with fijuellas, Spanish words with Arabic pronunciation etc.
Thank you for sharing!!! know thy self!!!
Very interesting. Thankyou!
This was so interesting I'm Mexican American I found out my grandfather comes from converos his family used to light a candle Friday nights and all these customs didn't know we're Jewish glad to learn Latin Jewish history ❤️🇲🇽 another fact Mexico is 14 in world Jewish population people don't know cuz 75% live within Mexico City but I been to the synagogue in Guadalajara Mexico 💚
Awesome video; love the summary of all articles and studies. Dominican here and so far all my family members: grandma, parents, siblings and cousins have come out with Jewish ancestry on our dna tests. I’m still a Christian but I know feel a stronger connection with Jesus and Jewish people. Happy Passover and Resurrection Day!
Thank you for your honesty and bravery
Awesome video!
Go Jews! I'm Ashkenazi myself, but I have friends who are Sephardim who were forced out by the Inquisition, they have papers to prove it.
Funny enough. I'm from Argentina , and I'm actually half sephardic. But not through conversos or crypto Jews , my family immigrated from the ottoman empire.
@Faysal the Arabist Smyrna (izmir). They spoke ladino
very interesting video. your channel teaches always new things. south america is very interesting place!
Great work as always!!
Great video! I’m from El Salvador, and from Sephardic ancestry. My grandmother retain a bit Ladino(judeo-Spanish).
I'm sure she did, so did mine. Salvadoreños son cumbiancheros
a very very interesting video Mason, thank you
Masonman*
A very boring propaganda video. Full of lies.
Thank you so much for the awesome videos brother. I have been watching your channel for a long time but im always partial to the videos about jewish people. But truly i love all humanity and our amazingly interesting stories different peoples get to tell. Thank you Masaman for keeping it real with the anthropology shit
Fabulous thanks♥️
I watch you all the time. Finally you hit close to home! All my family are Hispanic settlers from the southwest of the United States . We settled here over 400 years. Ago. . Our culture , dna etc. is unique and our mestizo heritage is not Mayan or Aztec, instead mixed with Apache, hopi etc. I’m part California Cahuilla. Native American. And yes I have Jewish roots most latins do in the south west. Thank you for educating people about this.
TohonoO’odham, it’s not unique for you, as a Southwest US American Hispanic, to have Apache and Hopi as the Native American DNA in your mestizaje compared to the Mayan and Aztec as the Native American DNA of a Mexican mestizo. It’s simply distinct.
Chileans aren’t unique for their Native American being Mapuche rather than Maya and Aztec, it’s just distinct. Besides some in Argentina also have their Native American mixture from Mapuches. Those in the north of Argentina have it from Quechuas. In Corrientes the Argentinians have the mixture from Tupi-Guaraníes.
You’re still mixed as are other Latinos, but each group has distinct mixtures.
I meant the food and culture is unique or distinct as you will say. But your right the native dna will different according to geography.
Paul Tello average for the south west Hispanics original from this area then yea. Most in Los Angeles are 1st 2 nd generation now and are from Central American and that native dna is a lot higher.
There are also many in Mexico which I didn’t see on the map! Some of them are recent, but most arrived very many years ago.
Fascinating !!
Thank you ❤✍🏾
Bagel Tacos
At least its Kosher!
Sounds delicious
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THIS IS WHAT *THE WORLD* NEEDS
Not all Hispanics eat tacos, that’s just Mexico
@@thekingofmoney2000 Not so. In Guatemala, at least, they eat them a lot.
Rambam Maimonides the most respected rabbi since Moses was Spain Latino. We know this in synagogue his books are used every day. Shalom
Shabbat Shalom! Hag Sameach! Lead on!
Greats. I like the jews.
Hector Vasquez Your ancestral heritage may indeed have Jewish (a religion) descendants from Spain. The Spanish Government has a program to compensate Spainish Jews whose ancestors were expelled. Check it out.
@@MitzvosGolem1 Why do jews demand and get compensation?! What about everyone else whose ancestors have been persecuted in the past?!
Mike Spearwood Oh yeah we demand compensation for Afrikan Americans Naitive Americans etc..
In fact we marched and were killed in civil rights movement at Selma.
So social justice is for all peoples not just us...
Israel rescued 50,000 Sudanese Christians and Syrians, Ethiopians from recent genocides...
How many did your religion save?
Thanks for the video, from a Mexican-American prepearing for conversion!
This is probably the best day to upload this video. ^^
Just an FYI to a few commentators who have posted a few comments mentioning that such and such surname is Jewish, including one who said Oliveira and another who said Martínez, and so on. These are NOT Jewish last names. These are Old Christian last names (Oliveira is Portuguese and Galician, while Martínez is Castilian) which can ALSO be carried by descendants of New Christians. That fact, that these Old Christian last names, and all others like them, can (and most often are) carried by Sephardic Jews (as well as by Sephardic converts to Christianity and their descendants) does NOT make these last names New Christian last names, and it especially doesn’t make them Jewish last name. They are Old Christian last names in origin.
There is a common misconception (by people searching for Jewish ancestors in their genealogy) that certain last names are Jewish. Let’s be clear, very few (an insignificantly tiny amount to be realistic about it) last names are specifically Jewish, mostly last names like Cohen and the like which are Hebrew in origin depicting a status in the Jewish religion. The majority of Jew do not, and did not carry specifically Jewish last names. So it’s futile to look only at last names to prove Jewish ancestry. A last name, at most, can only give you some hints as to whether your family was more likely than not to have been Jewish. But it cannot confirm it. With that, you then go and do further research.
The vast majority of Sephardic Jews, as well as all Sephardic Jewish converts to Christianity (and their descendants), do NOT carry Jewish last names. They carry Old Christian last names in their majority. Thus, carrying a last name that a known Sephardic Jew or a known converso carried means nothing, because that last name was itself overwhelmingly more than likely to have been an Old Christian last name in any event, and thus it cannot by itself indicate Jewishness, not even for the known Jew or known converso who is carrying it, much less for those who are trying to figure out if their ancestors were Jews or conversos.
Sephardic Jews and conversos deliberately adopted Old Christian last names, such as Oliveira and Martínez, precisely because of the fact that these last names were Old Christian last name and as such they would afford the new bearers (whether Jewish or conversos) anonymity to blur their family histories and pedigrees (as opposed to carrying a last name like Cohen, which definitely would be a sure indicator to an anti-Semitic neighbors or an inquisitor that this or that person or family is of Jewish origin).
Almost all so-called Sephardic last names are NOT Jewish at all. Almost all of them are simply Old Christian last names which were adopted in the way described above, to the point that they became overwhelmingly carried by Sephardic Jews and conversos, hence some specific Old Christian last names started to be associated with New Christians.
This phenomenon is not new. The same happed to Ashkenazi Jews.
When Ashkenazim adopted last names (more recently than Sephardim did), many were already pre-existing surnames originating with Christian Germans. Last names such as Goldberg and Mueller are NOT Jewish. Yes, they are carried by Ashkenazi Jews, sometimes overwhelmingly so, but this is because the Ashkenazi bearers of these last names adopted them on purpose specifically to blur their Jewish origin. People in Germany know these surnames are simply German names also now carried by Jews. But in America, the assumption is, as with so many German last names, that more often than not (especially in the northeast in NY and NJ, and people in the entertainment industry), these German surnames are often carried overwhelmingly by Ashkenazi Jews, to the point where when a gentile German of Christian origin with the same name is encountered, an American wrongly assumes the German must be Jewish because he has a German or German sounding last name.
This happens because in a country with a prominent Ashkenazi population can lead people to automatically and mistakenly assume that someone with a German surname like Goldberg must be Jewish, forgetting that the last name is itself gentile German in origin.
The same is true of Spanish and Portuguese last names. It is Sephardic Jews and converso descendants who carry adopted Old Christian last names, not the other way around.
Jews traditionally used a naming system...you were known as "So-and-so the son of So-and-so".
I heard that in Hungary at some point the Jews were amassed and divided into 4 groups to be given last names:
Klein =small
Gross =large
Schwartz =black
Weiss =white
The only Jewish last names really used before then usually actually designated something religiously...either that they were the descendant of a very famous prominent historical Rabbi, that they were a Kohen (priest), Levite (Temple attendant), convert or a bastard born of an affair.
Goldberg is as Jewish as it gets. That's definitely not a name that could be used to blend in into Germany or even hide your Jewish identity. Simply because it's a rare occupation (gold trade) to begin with and also a very Jewish one. Goldmann and Goldschmidt on the other hand are common German names that are also carried by Jews.
Interesting are also names like Nußbaum and Birnbaum, which aren't native to Germany and are literal translations of Spanish/Portuguese "Jewish" names. Those names likely came from Jews fleeing the Inquisition via the Netherlands.
Tropical Canard, I’ve met non-Jewish Goldbergs. No, not people that have left Judaism, actual German stock Germans.
That's fascinating, thanks for putting all that info!
@@tropicalcanard8276 Traditionally Jews did not have last names, they called themselves "so and so son of so and so." Somewhere along the line, many of them were forced to get the last name. The wealthy ones cold get nice names that meant things like gold stone, gold mountain, silver stone, silver stone, rose water, etc. The ones with less money got names that meant "Black", "stone, "big," "little" and so forth. So if you know what the words mean, you can know what the income level of their ancestors was when this decree we3nt down. However, some (the very religious) did not have last names until they came to the USA. Or wherever it had become mandatory.
According to my 23andMe ancestry results, I have no Jewish ancestry but I do have North African/Arabian ancestry so I guess that’s close enough. Even though it’s not Jewish
Arabs are cousins of the Jewish people through Ishmael. ;)
@@intcomaz no the real jews are black
If you think about it most reggaetton singers look arabs. Tanned, barbones.
Don't forget Jews and Arabs are related via Abram!
@@sheltonenglish2932 , Jews went all over the world. This means Jews can be White, Black or Brown
I fricking love your videos
Kool vid Masaman, yeah my Dad and his Family are of Sephardi descent and one half has practiced it for a while. My Dad is a practicing one. He did his Ancestry DNA test, basically he is 50% Native Mexican-American Indian and about 45% European the majority being Spanish-Portuguese descent with some Basque, Italian, Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Russian and Sardinian. The last 5% being Semitic Middle Eastern. So my Dad was more shocked about the Mexican-American Indian Ancestry. Because he asked some of his relatives if they had mixed with the Indigenous tribes of Mexico? The majority denied it, only one Great Uncle and my Grandfather admitted to it. When he showed the results they were all shocked! Lol! I was happy! My Mom is of Native Mexican-American Indian descent too! To be specific it is the Tarahumara Indian Tribe of Chihuahua Mexico and Possibly some Apache, Comanche and Kiowa descent too! She also has Spanish European ancestry but l don't know exactly percentage?
It amazes me that you didn't mention Argentina in particular, considering it has by far the largest Jewish community in Latin America, and one of the biggest globally (especially Ashkehnazi, and not Sephardi Jews).
the Jews of Argentina are mostly much later immigrants
@@TheJenniferKK that is true...Recife in colonial times used to have many Sefardi families....I read that many of the Brazilian Jews made their way to the Dutch possessions in the Caribbean and even New Amsterdam, eventually settling mostly in the US Carolinas instead after the Inquisition came
The Jews in Argentina are EUROPEAN CONVERTS. Sephardics have HEBREW blood and fled to Spain before Israel even existed. That is the difference . I can prove you that Sephatdics have the HEBREW heritage. JEW is not equal to HEBREW
@@TheJenniferKK Cristobal Colon landed in Central America and Caribbean. That is where the HEBREWS landed
@@TheJenniferKK The SEPHARDIC Jews have links to the Middle East. Ashkenazis are converts without ancestry in the land. Rabbi Shelomo
Pereira, Laranjeira, Pera and Coelho, which are very common surnames in brazil, are just a few examples of names adopted by jewish families during their forced conversion.
Of course, not. The name Oliveira is in my family, we are descendant of germans
@9pm Till1Come
Probably Laranjeira isn''t common, I'll give you that.
@9pm Till1Come
I forgot to mention Marília Pêra.
Abreu,thats my second name
Para Leigos Show I noticed many immigrants in the 1800-1900s adopted the most common surnames to Brazilianize their roots. Happened with my family but I ended up with a brazilianized version of the original ones
Thank you🙂
Great vid bro keep it up nz rep
This explains the song I’m singing in my choir, which is a Sephardic folk song that sounds like a mix of Spanish and Hebrew
That's ladino.
It is readily known that when Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain pushed out the muslims, they also exported the jewish people - unless they converted to catholicism. It was those portions of Spanish America, and the Philippines that the jewry were shipped. This is easily said by many Filipinos/Filipinas of my acquaintance that they know that their ancestry was jewry, and in the Philippines that they eventually acculturated into the catholic faith. So with Spain and Portugal exporting their high numbers of jewry, all such Central and South American nations have their portions of jewry from Mexico down to Chile of the west coat nations, ... and Mexico to Brazil to Argentina east coast nations.
I'm about to believe you until I realised that the Chinese owns every business here in the Philippines. No Jewry here
@@duck1ente Chinese are smart throughout the world were there prior to most. Newest finding on oldest fossils: bioone.org/journals/Human-Biology/volume-85/issue-1_2f_3/027.085.0303/Small-Size-in-the-Philippine-Human-Fossil-Record--Is/10.3378/027.085.0303.short
OR
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/homo-luzonensis-philippines-evolution.html
Is that why Filipinos are the most philo-semitic Catholics in the world....really, nearly every Islamic and Catholic country has very poor opinions of Jews except Philippines
This is all new info to me. I’m a Mexican American from Southern California; my DNA tests from two different companies resulted in, among other results, 0% “European Jew” or any type of Jewish. Yet when I have viewed videos of other Hispanics who took DNA test(s), many said their results were between about 1%-10% Jewish and even more! I was surprised, but then it makes sense that centuries ago, many Sephardic Jews were pressured to become Catholic during the Spanish Inquisition.
Within Mexico, the most common places to find Jewish DNA in Catholics are the states of Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Jalisco. There's also some in Chihuahua, Sonora, and Mexico City. But none or hardly any in some other states like Oaxaca or Guerrero.
Are there anymore citations to this video other than the four listed in the description (I don't believe "Breaking News Israel" is a legitimate new outlet, lol)? Otherwise, great video and videos in general. I was hoping you'd make one concerning the Conversos and Moriscos as a modern -day ethnic phenomena, considering it's somewhat relevant to me (and I would assume all Hispanics in general, to various degrees). However, one critique: I had heard it said that the reason many Hispanics have Levant and N. African decent is not just due to Sephardi and Arab influences, but to Phoenician settles from the Levant and the Carthaginian Empire, who had been in Iberia long before Arabs and Jews (as far as archaeology's proven). This however is not an attempt to discredit Sephardi Jewish and Arab/Berber descent among modern day Hispanic, my grandmother has Converso descent (which seems to be common among older Criollo families via oral telling," which you mentioned ) , and there are isolated cases of entire communities such as the Xuetas from the Majorca or the small town of Belmonte in Portugal, who have been recognized by the Israeli Rabbinate as Halachicly Jewish without need of formal Orthodox conversions. And surely every Hispanic person today can claim some degree of descent from either a Jewish or Arab person (or both) from 500 years ago.
Thank you!
I love learning more about my own history. While I'm also half Ashkenazi, my Sephardic ancestory is a curious part of my DNA especially considering that, although my father's half of the family eventually converted in the 1800's to Catholicism, they did evade the inquisition for a good 300 years by joining the british on their way to central america. Despite all that, apparently one of my ancestors decided to swap to for marriage so, in a way, I'm the first since that ancestor to be born Jewish. Although, my dad did kina beat me cause he converted before I was born
*_THEY HAVE MEN NAMED JESUS AND THEIR WOMEN ARE VERY SASSY._*
*_I'D SAY LATINOS ARE VERY JEWISH._*
The Jews hate Jesus, what are you talking about?
Mick Keker Jesus was a jew. I guess all those gun violence victims in Chicago aren't black by your logic
Several Latinos named Israel too.
Rocean funkhouser he wasn’t recognized by the Rabbi in the temple he was also crucified by Jews. Pontius Pilate himself said he didn’t find Jesus guilty of any crimes but the Jews kept pushing for execution.
@@mickkeker1990 Jesus was a Jew. Descended from King David. Get over it.
Wait a minute so you're saying that the Saxe Gotha as well as the Hohenzollerns and Romanovs are all Sayyids?
yep.
Great video, but please get a new mic
150 mil? Last I checked we were at only 6 gorzillion.
You guys are pathetic
@Thanks Hi - I know right, it’s clearly 600000000000000000000000000 gorzilion
@@thankshi2815 t. Schlomo
Don't you have some decrepit witch at home to kvetch to?
@@thankshi2815 you people are disgusting, how dare you not fight and die for multiculturalism.... And Israel, don't you understand that it is our strength. Shalom haters.
I'll never forget what the Mossad did on 9/11.
I'm from ecuador and doing a DNA some Jewish genes came up. Blew my mind.
Read the history the Catholic church denied you. Any one who defied them were burnt on the pyre!
Welcome to the tribe
25% of Latin Americans are 12% Jewish
Welcome to the tribe
@Paul Tello 1 drop rule
@Paul Tello olo
I love your channel, do you have any videos on Sicilians?
You are great! Thank you for doing this video! I am from portuguese origin, and can track back my 6th genaration that came from Portugal fleeing the Miguelite war, because they were liberals in 1833. After watching some videos about marranos, sefardis or new christians, I realized that many of owr habits were jewish! Like when some relative dies they were dressed up with special clothes called mortalhas! That my grandmother, even being catholic, as us, use to have many jewish symbols among her saints! And many more! Even Spain and Portugal implemented laws allowing sefardis to be citizens as a compensation for beeing persicuted!
I am from Mexico. Through a genetics study I recently found out that I am 15% Jewish and 10% Arab. I don't know where those Levantine gens come from. The most ancient mikve (purification pool) was found in Mexico some years ago in a small mountain village in Western Mexico. It was built around 1570. The first book ever published in the America's by a Jewish author was published in Mexico, around the same time (16th century).
Which Book is that?
The way you describe things it’s even hard to find those informations in university books
Thank you so much my friend 🤗
mongol 🇽🇰🇦🇱💪🏻 🇲🇳
Many things were hidden purposely. Read from world know libraries!
Interesting video, Do you have a video on Asian Latinos ?
I love your videos!!
I consider this video your Passover gift to your Jewish subscribers:-)!!
Keep it up!
Don't forget the city of GRANADA in NICARAGUA founded by Sephardic Jews in 1524. 75% of the population in this city have Jewish heritage. This city is the OLDEST one in the AMERICAN CONTINENT. Rabbi Shelomo.
In this age of advanced D N A testing , people must be very careful in posting anti semitic or anti jewish posts , of they may get a surprise if they decide to take a D N A test .
It seems that this video speaks about everything except Argentina, Argentina is the country withe largest amount of jews in Latin America. Over 75% of them are of ashkenazi origin (German, Polish, Russian origin) not sephardi. Sephardis in Argentina are also recent immigrants of Spain, Portugal, Siria and Turkey not old spanish colonial people of Colombia or some of those countries. So I don't understand the focus in some dilluted jewish ancetry in places as Mexico when we could focus speak about the colonies of recen jew and jewish neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, southern Brazil or Uruguay. Actually as mentiones, in Argentina "el ruso" (the Russian) is a common nickname for jews among group of friends, because most jews come from Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century
As someone who is 100% Ashkenazi Jewish, I always find your Judaic videos to be particularly intriguing. That being said, one video you might want to do is answer the question: is Yiddish an ethnicity, or just an adjective? In addition to Birobijan and the Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria, there have been a few other Jewish civilizations in history beyond Israel/Judah (ancient) and the State of Israel (modern). The Kingdom of Semien in Ethiopia. I'd recommend doing research into these in general.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_a_Jewish_state
Another question that has popped into my mind recently and is something I haven't found much is: Are there any Indigenous Australian COMMUNITIES in the USA or Canada?
I also recommend researching the populations of Svaldbard, Jan Mayen, and the northern Russian islands in the Arctic Sea + the nearby related lands (such as the Yamal Peninsula). I think you still have a lot of material to cover from scratch if you look at some more obscure topics in the nooks and crannies of the world.
@free citizen01 I know the Khazar Theory is bogus! My comment is referring to the civilization itself that once existed, not the theories of genetics and the population. So more "did you know there was a Jewish civilization in the Middle Ages" than "are the Khazar's the ancestors of the Ashkenazim?"