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.
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
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.
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.
@@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).
@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
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.
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)
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
@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.
@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?
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..)
@@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
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. 😊
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.
@@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
@@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.
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.
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 . 🙀
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.
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.
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. 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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.
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!
I'm from Brasil and my father's DNA ancestral test appeared: sephardic jew. It was amazing because we are typical brazilian people fruit of : europeans, native american and africans.
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.
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.
@@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.
During a trip for college I was in Mexico City and our driver was a non Hispanic Jewish man. He said that he and his family had been in Mexico for as long as he knew.
He was fair skinned and actually has curly reddish dirty blonde hair, I only asked him about his ancestry because he had a gold Star of David necklace. I was surprised that he did not speak English as I (purely stereotyping I admit) though he was an expatriate of some sort. My teacher was able to translate for us and it was a very interesting conversation with a very nice guy. And He was a good driver which was appreciated in the city where the drivers are nuts!
@@zell9058 Cool. Thanks for explaining. Did he speak any other languages than spanish? Did he say where he lived? If everyone in his bloodline was truly Jewish, his family must have lived somewhere with other Jews. Was his theory that Jews originate in South America? Or how did he think his family ended up there?
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 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 💚
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
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.
@@SparkTraderDave 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.
@@SparkTraderDave : Nonsense - you're applying 19th century British & Anglo-USAmerican pseudo-science. Therefore: Tiger Woods is Asian Barack Obama is Irish; Trevor Noah is Swiss
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!
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.
@@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.
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).
@@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
Some Brazilian academics claim that in the first century of Portuguese colonization of Brazil, 1 in 4 settlers were Jews. Seems a bit inflated to me, but who knows.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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?
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!
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
Very informative video. Crypto-Jews was not the only term referring to people of Sephardic Jewish heritage in the New World who were openly Catholic, but secretly practiced Judaism. They were often referred to as "Maranos", which is a slang term for "pigs". The problem with commercial genetic testing is that the genetic markers that are typically considered "Jewish" are mainly found in Jews of Ashkenazi background. If a commercial genetic test says that someone is not "Jewish", what it really means is that the person does not have any Ashkenazi Jewish genetic markers. If you know of any genetic tests that have established Sephardic genetic markers, I would appreciate the info.
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.
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?"
Cossack Historian Jews had conspired with Muslims against Christians numerous times, especially during the Arab conquest of Iberia. Granted their alliance was likely situational
Historically Accurate That's garbage talk, the Moors succeeded in subjugating the majority of the Iberian Peninsula because one of the allies of Rudrik, the king of the Visigoths, fled the battle and the muslims overcame them, afterwards the entire peninsula was undefended, the conquest happened because the Visigoths were too divided between themselves, any role "jews" could have had would have been extremely minor and irelevant in the grand scheme of things at that time.
I can’t believe a persecuted population that wasn’t even second class citizens and were subjected to violence, threats of forced conversion, etc would be sympathetic to those who were less oppressive towards them
I’m Mexican and I’ve been told by one person that I look Jewish. Not only that, my mom has been told that she looks a Arab. Also, my mom’s family has European features like colored eyes and light skin and she doesn’t know who ancestors are. All she knows is her grandfather who had blue eyes.
Everyone with Jewish ancestry should get Israeli citizenship. That includes almost everyone with ancestors from the Mediterranean, The Arab peninsula and Persia.
as a descendant to a Jewish Turkish-Sephardic family I find that the Turkish and Greek Jews are those who kept the Sephardic culture and identity the most even after so many years.
Yes, 150 million Latinos have a small amount of Jewish ancestry from 500 years ago. That doesn't make them Jews. European Jews have similar amounts of North African ancestry from around 1000-2000 years ago. That doesn't make them North African. Also, your estimate of 10% as the average is insanely inflated. It's probably closer to 2%.
That small amount can be up to 25% in some individuals. Also, you know the language ladino is all over thee place as well. Any Latino from the Andes can understand 100% ladino and in fact uses lots of ladino words/slang in his vocab. Strong trace.
@@BOGOTAROCKSTAR That's extremely rare though. The vast majority have closer to 2%. And many Germans can understand Yiddish, yet Ashkenazi Jews and Germans share maybe 5% of their ancestry, if even. And despite high levels of conversion and intermarriage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the average modern German has little-to-no traceable Jewish ancestry. Pretty much wherever Jews lived, they never formed more than a few % of the overall population (even if some cities were 50% Jewish), so the likelihood that a massive population has substantial Jewish ancestry from converts (outside of some very specific regions of Israel/Palestine) is pretty much zero. Honestly, it's an interesting subject, but I'm sick of people finding out they're 1-5% [some ethnicity] and then claiming they are that ethnicity. I've heard some "progressive" Jews claim that they are "returning" many of these Latin Americans to Judaism. What they're actually doing is proselytizing to non-Jews who happen to have some distant Jewish ancestry.
@@c.c.c.7756 I meant 500 years after the expulsion from Spain, 2000 from Palestine/Israel. Even if people want to denied it deep in the Andes, you can't hide your lingo, your food, music. The Inquisition could never take the Jew out of a Jew. ;)
@@c.c.c.7756in the 1600's some went from Curacao to Venezuela, Colombia, but yes some went to New Amsterdam (New York), but not nearly as much as in South America. Think about almost 50 million people between Colombia and Venezuela with at least 5%, average 10%.0%
I'm a cashier at a store and one time some guy was in line wearing a star of David necklace and a yamaka said Happy Hanukkah to me whichI said back. As he left some old Mexican lady next in line gets outraged and asks how could he be Jewish if hes Mexican. I shrugged and said well I dont even believe in gods just to piss her off lmao
@Paul Tello Look at mexican soap operas, the actors don't really look Aztec and they certainly don't look like your average Mexican. All that because anything "indigenous" is still regarded as being backward and undesirable
Doc Dave There are many Mexican Jews, especially in Mexico City. All four of my grandparents were Jews from Central Europe who came to Mexico in the 1930s. Central Mexico is home to many Ashkenazi Jews. Mexico is a multicultural country, not everyone is mestizo or indigenous. It’s very ignorant of people from the USA to stereotype people, and it even sadder and pathetic that Mexican Americans have bought into this ignorance too. Go to Mexico, discover its beautiful diversity in both its people and culture. Mexico is not homogeneous.
Very interesting. I’m a descendant of Sephardim Jews who migrated to northeast mexico in the 16 and 17th centuries. Many cultural and social influences are prevalent in Nuevo León
The southern texas sephardics comme from Diego Diaz de Berlanga, Alberto del Canto and Carbajal y de la Cueva, all of them founded Monterrey with a group of sephardics.
Brazilians are not Latinos. And Jews of Brazil are Portuguese, Dutch, East-Europeans, North-Africans and so on. Brazil is located in Latin-America, but Brazilians are not Latinos, just like Finland is in North, but Finns aren’t Scandinavians.
There are rumors that the people who settled my hometown of Cotija Michoacán Mexico were crypto Jews. I’ve read the story many times in Jewish blogs/websites . Town was settled around 1575 by Spanish immigrants. Great videos !!! Love your channel.
@@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 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.
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.
This is NOT a mystery. I know of NO Latin American who doesn’t know this. Not only this, but I can name a list of last names that sound very common Latin American names and in fact are THE last names Jewish families choose to mask their Jewishness. The Europeans who arrived to Latin America started, as far as we know, with Columbus, and have not stopped since. This ALSO includes Ashkenazis. I repeat: Join the world for the first time Americans. This is WIDELY and very well known in Europe and in Latin America. In fact many heads of the Catholic Church in Latin America come from Jewish families, in fact even Rabbis. The first to arrive where in Santo Domingo ( La Hispaniola) in Dominican Republic with Columbus. The numbers are a lot more this video indicates.
no, i don’t know much about him but I don’t think he even was Sephardic to my knowledge. my mom told me he came from greece, so he probably was a Romaniote. he’s last name wouldn’t have been Gomez
Mexico is one of the rare cases in which more people in the Jewish community are Sephardic and Mizrahi rather than Ashkenazi, and that comes from great migrations from Spain and Arab countries that also gave Mexico its large Lebanese community that while mixing with Mexican culture created Mexico's most celebrated dish: Tacos al Pastor
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.
@@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
My mothers' family is of portuguese sephardic origin. I once researched my ancestors' history and found out some really nasty stuff about how they were persecuted, tortured and even murdered.
@Smirky Whitemale nobody except maybe dozens of nobel laureates, best-selling authors and award-winning directors and actors. Apart from them yes, maybe nobody wants to be of Portuguese sephardic ancestry.
Very interesting video. I do believe that the centuries of Al Andalusia Spain and Portugal DNA that got to Latin America is the most fascinating. Arabs or Berber/Arab, even remaining Phoenician North Africans definitely entered the gene pool. Probably even Persians, South Asians or black Africans that were in the Caliphates too. All those peoples moved to Al Andalus, mixed with converted locals or others, and this went on for several generations. I believe this has more of an impact on Iberian peoples around 1400-1600, even up to today, that is realized. It has to have. But especially true to the 1492-1700 era because that is when most moved to Latin America, no longer mixing with Spanish/Portuguese only. There is no way you had a far majority European Spanish/Portuguese stock right when the reconquesta ended and even a few centuries later. Although most denounced or denied any past like that and just called themselves Catholic whites for sure. Similar to Sicily, but that was much longer ago in 1100s and 1200s when Muslim Sicily ended, making the mixture less noticeable. Anyway for Latin Americans, I have had several instances when I met someone who was Arab like Saudi, Latin American like Mexican , North African like Moroccan, Caribbean like Dominican, and more from both regions that I could mistake being from each others regions. Maybe it is some of that is from the Levant more recent immigrants to Latin America, but I don't think so. I am good with faces. Especially interesting in places like California or New York where you have people from all those places. I swear someone I met would be Mexican but then they would start speaking Arabic and say they were Egyptian. Or vice versa, someone who I thought is Arab or lighter skin South Asian, would start speaking Spanish and say they are from Mexico. There is for sure a connection, maybe even deeper than the Jewish from this video.
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….
@@yvettep1093Maybe OP's friend, God rest her soul, used a different kit.
Ironic the fake Jew teaching the real Jew about Judaism lol
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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?
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
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
I found out that both of my maternal grandparents have jewish ancestry.
Mazel!
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)
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?
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.
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.
@@ahmedst205 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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?
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 ___” 😂
@@BigSpinnerdawg 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 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.
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.
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
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 Jewish father was very dark and was often confused for Mexican living in California, and even in Mexico.
4:00 when you're Jewish and you reach level 56. They've evolved.
dios mio..
Thanks for putting all of this together, I'm sure it was a lot of work, much appreciated!
Hey, love what you do here! Im obsessed with all the nuances of populations, genetics and cultures, and you give voice to that
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.
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.
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.
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
As an Andean Colombian I agree with this. I’m surprised you didn’t talk about noche de las velitas.
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.
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 . 🙀
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.
Fascinating. The Sephardim, although overall a smaller group today, have left a bigger genetic marker of themselves than the Ashkenazim.
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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!
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.
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 ☺
I'm from Brasil and my father's DNA ancestral test appeared: sephardic jew. It was amazing because we are typical brazilian people fruit of : europeans, native american and africans.
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.
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.
Excelent video as always! Greetings from Argentina
During a trip for college I was in Mexico City and our driver was a non Hispanic Jewish man. He said that he and his family had been in Mexico for as long as he knew.
Non hispanic? What do you mean? Purely mid eastern?
He was fair skinned and actually has curly reddish dirty blonde hair, I only asked him about his ancestry because he had a gold Star of David necklace. I was surprised that he did not speak English as I (purely stereotyping I admit) though he was an expatriate of some sort. My teacher was able to translate for us and it was a very interesting conversation with a very nice guy. And He was a good driver which was appreciated in the city where the drivers are nuts!
@@zell9058 Cool. Thanks for explaining. Did he speak any other languages than spanish? Did he say where he lived? If everyone in his bloodline was truly Jewish, his family must have lived somewhere with other Jews. Was his theory that Jews originate in South America? Or how did he think his family ended up there?
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 .
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.
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 💚
Happy passover/easter from Israel!!
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
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.
@@SparkTraderDave 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.
@@SparkTraderDave : Nonsense - you're applying 19th century British & Anglo-USAmerican pseudo-science. Therefore: Tiger Woods is Asian
Barack Obama is Irish; Trevor Noah is Swiss
@@SparkTraderDave No unless you've done giyur or have a jewish mother you won't be recognized as a jew by the state of israel
@@שלמה-נ1ח that's the state. How about God?
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!
We published the genetic study of Sephardic ancestry in Latin America that you mention in the video. Thanks for the coverage!
I'm from Brazil and my DNA has 18% jewish heritage.
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.
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
Some Brazilian academics claim that in the first century of Portuguese colonization of Brazil, 1 in 4 settlers were Jews. Seems a bit inflated to me, but who knows.
Actually the population of Portugal has almost 80% Jewish blood.
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.
I love this channel. Thank you for the information. ♥️👸🏾
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
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
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
@@Nudnik1 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?
a very very interesting video Mason, thank you
Masonman*
A very boring propaganda video. Full of lies.
Some say that more than half of Brazil population is Jewish decendent.
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!
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
Wait a minute so you're saying that the Saxe Gotha as well as the Hohenzollerns and Romanovs are all Sayyids?
yep.
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.
100% bang on as my DNA test support your findings
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
Very informative video. Crypto-Jews was not the only term referring to people of Sephardic Jewish heritage in the New World who were openly Catholic, but secretly practiced Judaism. They were often referred to as "Maranos", which is a slang term for "pigs". The problem with commercial genetic testing is that the genetic markers that are typically considered "Jewish" are mainly found in Jews of Ashkenazi background. If a commercial genetic test says that someone is not "Jewish", what it really means is that the person does not have any Ashkenazi Jewish genetic markers. If you know of any genetic tests that have established Sephardic genetic markers, I would appreciate the info.
*_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.
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?"
“They were accused of being Muslim sympathisers”
*The vast majority of them flee to the Ottoman Empire.
Hmmmmmmm
Cossack Historian Jews had conspired with Muslims against Christians numerous times, especially during the Arab conquest of Iberia. Granted their alliance was likely situational
Historically Accurate That's garbage talk, the Moors succeeded in subjugating the majority of the Iberian Peninsula because one of the allies of Rudrik, the king of the Visigoths, fled the battle and the muslims overcame them, afterwards the entire peninsula was undefended, the conquest happened because the Visigoths were too divided between themselves, any role "jews" could have had would have been extremely minor and irelevant in the grand scheme of things at that time.
@steven trollface the PLC had complete religious freedom. Jews in the Ottoman Empire had to pay extra tax (not as much as christians but still)
@@averdadeeumaso4003 The Jews are notorious for opening the gates of Chrisian cities to Muslims. It happened in Syria, Iberia, and many other places
I can’t believe a persecuted population that wasn’t even second class citizens and were subjected to violence, threats of forced conversion, etc would be sympathetic to those who were less oppressive towards them
I’m Mexican and I’ve been told by one person that I look Jewish. Not only that, my mom has been told that she looks a Arab. Also, my mom’s family has European features like colored eyes and light skin and she doesn’t know who ancestors are. All she knows is her grandfather who had blue eyes.
Everyone with Jewish ancestry should get Israeli citizenship.
That includes almost everyone with ancestors from the Mediterranean, The Arab peninsula and Persia.
I agree this would be at least 200 million + people
as a descendant to a Jewish Turkish-Sephardic family I find that the Turkish and Greek Jews are those who kept the Sephardic culture and identity the most even after so many years.
Yes, 150 million Latinos have a small amount of Jewish ancestry from 500 years ago. That doesn't make them Jews.
European Jews have similar amounts of North African ancestry from around 1000-2000 years ago. That doesn't make them North African.
Also, your estimate of 10% as the average is insanely inflated. It's probably closer to 2%.
That small amount can be up to 25% in some individuals. Also, you know the language ladino is all over thee place as well. Any Latino from the Andes can understand 100% ladino and in fact uses lots of ladino words/slang in his vocab. Strong trace.
Thank you!
@@BOGOTAROCKSTAR That's extremely rare though. The vast majority have closer to 2%.
And many Germans can understand Yiddish, yet Ashkenazi Jews and Germans share maybe 5% of their ancestry, if even. And despite high levels of conversion and intermarriage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the average modern German has little-to-no traceable Jewish ancestry. Pretty much wherever Jews lived, they never formed more than a few % of the overall population (even if some cities were 50% Jewish), so the likelihood that a massive population has substantial Jewish ancestry from converts (outside of some very specific regions of Israel/Palestine) is pretty much zero.
Honestly, it's an interesting subject, but I'm sick of people finding out they're 1-5% [some ethnicity] and then claiming they are that ethnicity. I've heard some "progressive" Jews claim that they are "returning" many of these Latin Americans to Judaism. What they're actually doing is proselytizing to non-Jews who happen to have some distant Jewish ancestry.
@@c.c.c.7756 I meant 500 years after the expulsion from Spain, 2000 from Palestine/Israel. Even if people want to denied it deep in the Andes, you can't hide your lingo, your food, music. The Inquisition could never take the Jew out of a Jew. ;)
@@c.c.c.7756in the 1600's some went from Curacao to Venezuela, Colombia, but yes some went to New Amsterdam (New York), but not nearly as much as in South America. Think about almost 50 million people between Colombia and Venezuela with at least 5%, average 10%.0%
There are also Caribbeans who have some Jewish heritage. My 5th great grandfather settled in Barbados after the Jews were expelled from Dutch Brazil.
This was interesting. Thanks!
I have Colombian heritage and recently discovered I also have sefardic dna ancestry! Facinating.
Welcome back
I'm a cashier at a store and one time some guy was in line wearing a star of David necklace and a yamaka said Happy Hanukkah to me whichI said back. As he left some old Mexican lady next in line gets outraged and asks how could he be Jewish if hes Mexican. I shrugged and said well I dont even believe in gods just to piss her off lmao
And then the shekels clapped
Some Mexicans really do have an identity crisis, they'll pretend they're anything to run away from their indigenous roots.
@Paul Tello Look at mexican soap operas, the actors don't really look Aztec and they certainly don't look like your average Mexican. All that because anything "indigenous" is still regarded as being backward and undesirable
Doc Dave There are many Mexican Jews, especially in Mexico City. All four of my grandparents were Jews from Central Europe who came to Mexico in the 1930s. Central Mexico is home to many Ashkenazi Jews. Mexico is a multicultural country, not everyone is mestizo or indigenous. It’s very ignorant of people from the USA to stereotype people, and it even sadder and pathetic that Mexican Americans have bought into this ignorance too. Go to Mexico, discover its beautiful diversity in both its people and culture. Mexico is not homogeneous.
idk why this study didn't mention Argentina, which has the largest Jewish population in Latin America.
Its more recent immigrtion and its very small in comparision to the potential number!
Very interesting. I’m a descendant of Sephardim Jews who migrated to northeast mexico in the 16 and 17th centuries. Many cultural and social influences are prevalent in Nuevo León
I'm Mexican northwestern , I was surprised when I received my DNA analysis and I was told I'm 11% Jew diaspora.
The southern texas sephardics comme from Diego Diaz de Berlanga, Alberto del Canto and Carbajal y de la Cueva, all of them founded Monterrey with a group of sephardics.
Brazilians are not Latinos. And Jews of Brazil are Portuguese, Dutch, East-Europeans, North-Africans and so on.
Brazil is located in Latin-America, but Brazilians are not Latinos, just like Finland is in North, but Finns aren’t Scandinavians.
There are rumors that the people who settled my hometown of Cotija Michoacán Mexico were crypto Jews. I’ve read the story many times in Jewish blogs/websites . Town was settled around 1575 by Spanish immigrants. Great videos !!! Love your channel.
FrugalDIY it's true .my great great grand father was from cotija. I just got my dna results and I'm 5 % sefardic .
Did they move to estado de México?
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 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.
This is NOT a mystery. I know of NO Latin American who doesn’t know this. Not only this, but I can name a list of last names that sound very common Latin American names and in fact are THE last names Jewish families choose to mask their Jewishness. The Europeans who arrived to Latin America started, as far as we know, with Columbus, and have not stopped since. This ALSO includes Ashkenazis.
I repeat: Join the world for the first time Americans. This is WIDELY and very well known in Europe and in Latin America. In fact many heads of the Catholic Church in Latin America come from Jewish families, in fact even Rabbis.
The first to arrive where in Santo Domingo ( La Hispaniola) in Dominican Republic with Columbus.
The numbers are a lot more this video indicates.
Please list the names that sound Latin American but were used by Jews to mask their Jewishness.
Same in turkey with islamic surnames...
@@ertanuca5463 Please elaborate.
they wanted you dead in spain but they let you go to america to take the richness? k
source or bullshit
I’m Latino from Mexico, according to my family they says my great grandfather was Jewish.
no, i don’t know much about him but I don’t think he even was Sephardic to my knowledge. my mom told me he came from greece, so he probably was a Romaniote. he’s last name wouldn’t have been Gomez
I took a dna test and I didn’t have greek, but I had some “west asian” dna which I think was from him
Mexico is one of the rare cases in which more people in the Jewish community are Sephardic and Mizrahi rather than Ashkenazi, and that comes from great migrations from Spain and Arab countries that also gave Mexico its large Lebanese community that while mixing with Mexican culture created Mexico's most celebrated dish: Tacos al Pastor
Flour tortillas are also Jewish..
Corn tortillas are indigenous, not flour tortillas
Nuevo Leon is a big Sephardic Jewish state.
That's why their favorite meat comes from goat..
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
Thank you for your honesty and bravery
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
My mothers' family is of portuguese sephardic origin. I once researched my ancestors' history and found out some really nasty stuff about how they were persecuted, tortured and even murdered.
Oy vey!
@@addis8228 that's Ashkenazi 😉
Keep on reading!
@Smirky Whitemale nobody except maybe dozens of nobel laureates, best-selling authors and award-winning directors and actors. Apart from them yes, maybe nobody wants to be of Portuguese sephardic ancestry.
Ewwww, portuguese sephardic make me want to throw up
Very interesting video. I do believe that the centuries of Al Andalusia Spain and Portugal DNA that got to Latin America is the most fascinating. Arabs or Berber/Arab, even remaining Phoenician North Africans definitely entered the gene pool. Probably even Persians, South Asians or black Africans that were in the Caliphates too. All those peoples moved to Al Andalus, mixed with converted locals or others, and this went on for several generations. I believe this has more of an impact on Iberian peoples around 1400-1600, even up to today, that is realized. It has to have. But especially true to the 1492-1700 era because that is when most moved to Latin America, no longer mixing with Spanish/Portuguese only. There is no way you had a far majority European Spanish/Portuguese stock right when the reconquesta ended and even a few centuries later. Although most denounced or denied any past like that and just called themselves Catholic whites for sure. Similar to Sicily, but that was much longer ago in 1100s and 1200s when Muslim Sicily ended, making the mixture less noticeable. Anyway for Latin Americans, I have had several instances when I met someone who was Arab like Saudi, Latin American like Mexican , North African like Moroccan, Caribbean like Dominican, and more from both regions that I could mistake being from each others regions. Maybe it is some of that is from the Levant more recent immigrants to Latin America, but I don't think so. I am good with faces. Especially interesting in places like California or New York where you have people from all those places. I swear someone I met would be Mexican but then they would start speaking Arabic and say they were Egyptian. Or vice versa, someone who I thought is Arab or lighter skin South Asian, would start speaking Spanish and say they are from Mexico. There is for sure a connection, maybe even deeper than the Jewish from this video.
Thanks for the video, from a Mexican-American prepearing for conversion!