@@SeverusAlexanderAugustus it may be obvious for you and me but people think that if they have 10% jewish that means that they are 10% culturaly jewish lol
I recently realized I am a Sephardic Jew. I thought I was just Puerto Rican. Turns out my ancestors were Jews who fled Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. Crazy. Jews were also pirates in the Caribbean raiding Spanish ships. History is wild
If you go to South Florida, you will meet many people with a similar story to yours. Many of them who lost their Jewish identity converted or are in the process of doing so.
I'm a Jew from Panama, I've met a lot of people with similar stories. Jews were on the first ship from Europe to the Americas. It gives a different meaning to their words: "paremos aquí, en nombre de D"s"
@@mbassan I'm also a Panamanian Jew. well, my grandma is fully Jewish, my mom is half and I'm a quarter, but I went to Yeshiva and Everything. Am Yisrael Hai
My daughter got a DNA present for her birthday & it turns out she's 100% Ashkenazi Jew. I was shocked by the 100% meaning my wife's family & mine have always been Jewish for generations.
This is because the test compares your DNA with the DNA results of other people which data they have already collected and they give the answer where are you from according to the DNA of the people in different regions today .It does not take into account that people in the past moved, migrated, marry other people, etc. You can see other videos about these tests, they are not so accurate. But if you feel happy about it juste believe the test. :)
@aneliyageorgieva5352 That's fair. Thanks for letting me know. I just thought it was cool because i didn't see anyone else with 100%, but I'm sure it's not 100% accurate.
Percentages have changed quite a bit over several years after I did an Ancestry test. Quite drastic too. With every update I get to be a new ethnicity!
@@jaredgmetz I don’t think it’s a matter of one being more reliable than another. I think they just don’t have quite the data set to be super accurate. It gets pretty close which is amazing in and of itself but I would take it all with a grain of salt.
I tested w/23andme some years ago. AWESOME!! I'm 100% Ashkenazi Jewish and my DNA comes from...guess where? That's right: THE MIDDLE EAST!!! Go figure!!
Isreal, if you are Jewish then you come from the soil of Israel the only difference between an ashkenazi and a mizrahchi is the traveling not the starting point
I took a DNA test and turned out I'm Ashkenazi. Asked my parents about it and my father told always knew he is jewish but her mother told him to never speak about it. After that I started researching my family's history, turned out both of my grandmothers are Ashkenazi but on my mothers side she never knew that because her family changed their name and converted to christianity after they returned to Hungary from Austria. I want to know more about judaism but it's hard to figure out where to look for help.
There used to be (in the 1990s) a really lively, vibrant community with schools and educational opportunities in Budapest. My husband is Hungarian, in Australia where a lot came after the war, and many Hungarian families from here sent their unmarried kids back to Budapest in the 90s-2000, and they married local Hungarian Jews (then came back here!)
Peruvian of Sephardi ancestry here. Even before finding out about my ancestry. Every Jewish person I'd ever met felt like family, we think alike, we know each other, we protect each other.
That might be because every single Peruvian Jew is related to each other. It's funny but true. I lived in Lima and everyone was related to everyone else somehow - either through blood or marriage.
Ashkenazi and Sephardic are ethnic subgroups within the Jewish population. Black is a general term that does not refer to an ethnicity. Could be possible however if the mizrahi (yemenite) side has high arab admixture (who themselves have high somali admixture due to propinquity of populations and genetic drift)@@tagbarzeev8283 or if the person is an ethiopian, ashkenazi, and sephardic Jew (I have never seen all 3 together but will def happen in the future after many generations of the population living together as a single people.
I am not a Jew (at least, I don't think I am), but I am so FASCINATED by Hebrew or Jewish history. I get really excited when I find new historical/archaeological documentaries about Israel. I would like to take one of those DNA tests - I would just die of Happiness if I found out that I have Jewish ancestry.
When you learn the wisdom of Judaism you became so proud of it you want to become one of the keepers of that treasure for you and generations to come, If you are not born into it you can join
@@stmark4181You assume converts aren't real Jews. The Tanakh and Talmud very clearly say converts are real Jews and in some cases, are more honourable than born Jews because they chose such a rigorous path, as said by Talmud. Also, look at Ruth.
@@haleysalz1770 Also, you would not believe how many people I see walking around in other countries with American logo shirts, pants, backpacks, hats, etc. If someone was into American culture, they could also have it as a profile picture.
@@Lvsl_iftdv yeah, non-muslim Middle Easterners for the most part love the USA ans Israel. Assyrians, Chaldeans & Syriacs, Copts, Jews, and most of the Iranian population.
@@eden55272 that muslim antisemitic narrative is a blatant lie. Jewish people isolated themselves due to religion and customs so marriages with locals were forbidden and went against both communities. There was Jewish persecution in all of Europe so historically up to the 1920s and even then, marriages of Germans and Jewish Germans or Hungarians with Jewish Hungarians were frowned upon by both communities. All the Jews from Europe and Russia were direct descendants of original Jerusalem Jewish Tribes. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish people migrated to (then called) Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s then after the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and escaping in the 1940s. Historically, in preWW2 Europe it was often DANGEROUS to openly claim either Jewish ancestry or following Judaism. Pre WW2 in Europe since the Middle Ages Jewish people were most often restricted to special areas in a city. They had less rights. So no reason why any non-Jewish Europeans would risk their safety or status to 'convert to Judaism" as you claim. Even between WW1 and WW2 Jewish and non-Jewish marriages rarely happened in Europe. Additionally, your intellectually dishonest muslim myth ignores how many Ashenazi and Sephardic Jews created and moved to Israel before the say, 1980s when indeed converting to Judaism became more accepted socially worldwide. Also, your comment ignores that moving to Israel is impossible unless you have JEWISH ANCESTRY on the mother's side, which is different from converting to Judaism which does not give anyone "the Right of Return". Your comment disrespects millions of Sephardic Jews and Midrachi Middle Eastern Jews who were banished from the Middle East. Shame on you with such propaganda .
@@eden55272they are saying that the descendants of the original jews mixed with europeans and created the differences but the y chromosomes being the same shows that the blood originated in the middle east
@@eden55272 you say that because you cannot argue that Jews are not from the middle east - so you are forced to argue that we are not the original Jews. Now you need to explain why anyone would convert to such an unpopular group, or why everyone except those who actually practice Judaism are "the real Jews". So who are the real ones? Rasta? Palestinians? Pashtun?
these are misconceptions that stem from people who don't really understand Jewish Identity trying to define what it means to be a Jew. If you converted, welcome to the tribe. But, please don't perpetuate myths about Judaism being passed down like genetic material.
@@pyrogeeknews I disagree. Jews comprise a gene pool. Ever heard of collective memory or the collective unconscious? It is widely believed that trauma is passed through genetic material.
The Lemba people have nothing to do with Jews or Israel. The Lemba have No High Priests DNA, that is incorrect! They have been shown to have Arab Muslim DNA from Arab traders. They have no Jewish or Israelite DNA. The Lemba have no Cohen genetics. There were 5 studies done on Cohen genetics. The original CMH (Cohen Modal Haplotype) was tested in 1996, and 2000 when DNA testing was in its infancy. Dr.Karl Skorecki tested Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews that self-identified as Cohanim. From these "White" Jews, they came up with 6 gene sequences that most had, they labeled this as the CMH. The problem was that the control group which was mostly Arabs that had no known tie to Jews, let alone the High Priests over 30% of these people also showed positive for these gene sequences. In later testing they tightened the parameters of the DNA testing and used more gene sequences to create the *_Extended CMH,_* when the Arabs and the Lemba were tested against the Extended CMH, neither group had these genes, while 95% of the Cohen Jews showed positive. The Lemba was tested again in 2013, by the South African Medical Journal, the study called, *_"Lemba origins revisited: tracing the ancestry of Y chromosomes in South African and Zimbabwean Lemba"_* the study concluded; *_"While it was not possible to trace unequivocally the origins of the non-African Y chromosomes in the Lemba and Remba, this study does not support the earlier claims of their Jewish genetic heritage"_* Any questions? I work with DNA and have read all the studies the Lemba were tested in. They have no Israelite DNA, they have no High Priests DNA.
@Stephenos-p2s yes, they are and do your research ...Jewish scholars have...its historically documented..Whats wrong? They are African presenting and its a turn off for you? Let me know.
Turns out i have Jewish roots, my grandmother on my mothers side was Jewish. After the war my mother grew up as a "normal dutch" girl and nothing jewish was left in our life. Except some rumours about us being jewish. My sister went to a Rabbi and the synagoge to kinda get a connection with her roots or something. I went to as she asked because she was afraid that she wasn't jewish and that would make it awkward. Went to chanouka a couple of times. It was really nice. But since i am not really a religious person and was a combat vet of my country and now doing stuff in politics i kinda kept considering myself "not jewish". Later we found the family documents and some of my family went to a "birthright Israel" trip and i still was like: oh nice, now my family can explore their roots, but not for me. Then 7/10 happend and start hearing stuff, out on the street and even in politics. Then they discover some photo's of me and my sis celebrating chanouka, and then all of a sudden i am in this weird dynamic where i have to defend myself (never set foot in Israel, not considering myself a jew) against vile hatefull lies and slander and anti semtism. And it just gets worse and worse each day. The thing is though (perhaps a mental disorder on my side) the more they push and pull the more i find myself saying i am indeed a jew. Kind of weird as i am better off saying "hey i am not, i never felt like one" but i just can't do that. Like some childish way of "no, because now you want to force me to not be one i am not gonna, because it is my heritage" So here i am, at night with my son and wife asleep trying to learn what a jew even is. Or what to make of all this. I don't know why i am ranting under a youtube video but yeah, guess there is no where else to go with this and it kind of clears my mind i guess.. Anyway if there are more people like me and you are reading this nonsense rant. Stay ok out there, and even if it is childish no one has the right to choose for you what you do with your heritage.. Stay strong, stay safe and best of luck
@stephenchappell7512 Yes, jewish by law. But it still sounds quite weird to call myself jewish as I don't know anything about jewish things. Like 3 words of Yiddish, and that's it
@stephenchappell7512 it's not a feeling thing. It's an "I do not know what even is jewish" thing. It is hard to know what you are when you do not know what it is. That for one is one of the terrible things anti Semitic actions have done.
@stephenchappell7512 I don't know what a DNA test has to do with knowledge about jewish culture. Or what you mean by that. Because it is kinda a weird thing to say
It's nice that you're trying to learn more about your roots :) Feel free to ask me questions, but here are some things I'd check out if you want to learn more: 1. Chabad (both in-person & website) They are very accepting to non-religious Jews & religious Jews alike, and would be more than willing to answer any questions you may have. Their website gives tons of info on Jewish beliefs and practices, too.. It's definitely a great start to finding out more! 2. Living L'chaim - Simply because it's a Jewish podcast and it can help you connect with Jewish people more by listening to their stories (it's predominantly religious Jews that are interviewed, though) 3. Shloime Zionce - Someone to relate to (though, again, religious) 4. Jewish Songs (you can check my playlist if you want a start lol) From those four, you can connect to your heritage, but if you want to understand the religion a bit more I'd recommend: Rabbi's like Y.Y. Jacobson (very popular from non-Jews all the way to hasidic Jews) R' Lawrence Kelemen also gives great speeches and another popular one is rabbi lord jonathan sacks who passed away, but has a lot of great stuff to check out. Hope this helps 🤗
@kiavra1789 thank you so much ! I am sure that it will help me to reconnect. Will check out the websites. My plan of attack was to first get to know more about the culture and then move on to religion. As in my country and region, there are almost no jews left after ww2. (I looked into the register, and there were 10 in my city, 5 of them 1 family that came here because of the university.. so, not really a group I can walk into to learn, so it really helps to have another place to connect.) Stumbled my way to this channel, and that was cool too. I do have a question already, though. I bought a keppah, but is that like something I am allowed to put on already, or is that a thing where you first need to go to a rabbi. (I already know one from my sister's attempt to reconnect, and he invited me, but that is still quite scary somehow)
I’m so glad y’all put this out there today! Recently I mentioned something similar about the greater Jewish family to a good non-Jewish friend. May our history and legacy inspire the world toward a greater good!
@@Emanon...You mean like the way the Jewish Bible became the foundation of Western civilization and literature while also being more sloppily *appropriated* into the Quran and other Islamic attempts to form a global civilization/empire?
@@Emanon... There has always been specific Jewish foods or Jewish variations in Sephardic and Mizrahi populations. Kind of like the way Arabs nicked, stole and appropriated the term "Palestinian". Palestinian always meant Jews until the 1960s.
“Forced contraception of J’3ωί5h Ethopian women is tip of global iceberg” …The GυαrdιαΝ. “ iςrαεl gave birth control to Ethiopian J’3ω5 without their consent” …The independent. Why is iςrαεl barring Ethiopian J’3ω5 from immigrating? | DW News
Having done the 23 and me thing, the notable thing I found (I was adopted, and my mother was jewish) was that on the mom's side, the DNA reads Ashkenazi Jew 99%. On dad's side, a mix Eruopean bag of mostly French. But my mom's tree didn't light up and point to every random jew. The dad side on the other hand was massive. The purity of the Jewish DNA was surprising given the long diaspora.
It's really not surprising, as in christian and muslim countries, it was illegal to convert to Judaism. So, to marry an outsider, you had to lower yourself to breaking the covenant.
You're the majority percentage of what your dad is. If it's french, then you're french. Ethnicity (for both Jews and non-Jews) in the Bible is traced by God through fathers, not mothers. The fact that your dad's side has a lot of information may make it easier for you to locate where you came from in France for example.
@@gracechadi No on basically everything you've stated. I've been Bar Mitzvahed because I'm Jewish by my mother. The real curiosity to me is that this side of the DNA was a monolith of one ethnicity. Dad's a typical Quebecois judging from the DNA. In Quebec a Catholic is a Catholic, and in my case at least, marriage isn't even an issue. From what a cousin told me who was also investigating his DNA, the family bred like rabbits and often married cousins.
@@michaelmenkes7233 The Jewish nation starts and ends with God - not rabbis or anyone else. In the Bible, God traces lineage strictly through fathers, not mothers. A great example (of many examples) is the decendancy of King David himself in Ruth 4:18-22. Nowhere, does God say a child is Jewish because of the mother. The belief by some that the mother is responsible for the 'Jewish blood' is false because scientifically the child's blood neither comes from the father nor mother. In addition, their blood doesn't mix throughout pregnancy. And nowhere does God say someone can be Jewish through conversion (another lie believed by some). Ruth was still referred to as Moabite, Joseph's wife was still referred to as Egyptian, the list goes on of foreigners who put their faith in God. God still referred to them by their ethnic backgrounds. We're all traced (Jew or not) through our fathers, back to Adam, and from Adam back to God. God doesn't trace humanity (Jewish or not) through women - read the genealogies in the book of Genesis and Noah. Even Eve herself came from Adam.
Just got my DNA test done and it came out 99.3% Jewish with origin from Meadle East and my family are Jews from Ukraine from both sides, now I have a scientific proof of that. Love my people - Am Israel Chay!
Whoa, how much endogamy did they do, like the resistance to mix with non-Jews had to be tough, with risk of diseases too (isn't there one high risk for Ashkenazis?). It's like how Roma people in Europe don't mix much hence barely have Germanic or Latin DNA I think.
@@zjzr08 The Jewish category in AncestryDNA and 23andMe incorporates ALL ancestral elements found in modern Jews. Iskandar613's 99.3% Jewish estimate doesn't equal 99.3% Middle Eastern but more like 50% Middle Eastern. Zjzr08 was wondering about Roma people in Europe, well, they are similar to Jews in that they did in fact intermarry with some European peoples over the centuries and that's why Roma people have some European genetic lineages in addition to South Asian and Middle Eastern.
I’m Dominican and my family’s religious beliefs are still in line with Judaism 1:1 even though we “Catholics” lol took 23andMe and bam distant Jewish ancestry on my mother and her parents results lol now we know why this sacred Jewish customs are passed down. Proud of my Sephardic ancestors.
Maybe check out Hebrew Catholics and there's apparently a TH-camr who is Jewish but went from being Orthodox Judaism I think to Roman Catholicism. P.S. I will say though I want you to check out Messianic Jews, which are more of a Protestant/non-denominational link too but you do you hehe.
Genetic studies have also shown that Palestinians and Jews are very closely related. In fact, many Palestinians might be descended from Jews who converted to Islam during the Arab Empire so that they could assimilate and have lower taxes. Back then, Islam and Judaism were very compatible religions - both being monotheistic. If this is true, then we must find a way to live with our distant cousins, rather than trying to expel or exterminate each other.
Yes and I know Jews in modern time who has to pretend Islamic culture to avoid expelling, using Arabic names…and keep practicing Judaism. All the religions came from Mesopotamia. Arab and Hebrew came from old Semitic language. Allah = Elohim and Eloim from gods of Mesopotamia. One commun origin of people would like to read. Arabs also should welcome Jews and treat them as a part of them and leave this mentality of Muslims are better and have more priority for the paradise. Fortunately, there are many who are very peaceful like peaceful Jews. Humans are humans before carting identities and beliefs
SOME Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Jews, Some are Muslim refugees invited into the land by the Ottomans, Others are the Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land as support personnel for the British.
@@MiguelDLewis Seventy percent of Ashkenazi Jews and 82% of Palestinians (those living in the land for generations, not the Muslim refugees and Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land in the 1900s) share the same Y-chromosomes.
@@shafsteryellow Because then he'd have to admit that it's a Haplogroup shared by Arabs and Europeans as well. Haplogroup K (mtDNA) is the major Haplogroup of Ashkenazi Jews. But it's also found in Arabs, Russian Muslims, and African mummies.
I am half sfaradi and half ashkenazi :) Both sides of my family were procecuted due to their jewish identity. Thats why protecting our ancestral homeland is so important! עם ישראל חי
“Forced contraception of J’3ωί5h Ethopian women is tip of global iceberg” …The GυαrdιαΝ. “ iςrαεl gave birth control to Ethiopian J’3ω5 without their consent” …The independent. Why is iςrαεl barring Ethiopian J’3ω5 from immigrating? | DW News
So you think its the jews fault that they were kicked out. That is the same as saying that is women were mistreated for a huge part of history is because something must be wrong with women.
Great video. One thing you didn't mention is the open secret that many Palestinians share very similar DNA to Mizrachi Jews - because many of them were Jewish up until the Ottoman Empire, when they converted to Islam. Not acknowledging that is a political, not a scientific, issue.
Thanks Elisa for calling this out The persecution of Palestinian Jews, Messianic Jews and Samaritans began earlier during the reign of the mad Fatimid ruler al-Hakim who btw also triggered the Crusade's due to his treatment of Holy land pilgrims
That is false, the Palestinians are most closely related to Ashkenazi Jews, not Mizrahi Jews. And the Palestinians are not an ethnicity, nor a nationality. The Palestinians that were chosen for those studies are those known to come from families that lived in the land for generations, not the Bosniaks, Egyptians, Chechins, Iraqis, Turkemans, and others that came into the land in the 1900s.
Not that it will change the minds of any hater 😅 We’ll just have to continue to do us. Today the Jewish people are stronger 💪 than ever! Nothing will destroy our nation again! We are here to stay 🇮🇱❤
It’s science not politics because Palestinians also claim their DNA from the land or Arabs. The both came from same ancestors but religiously some converted from Judaism to Islam or Christianity or the opposite. The nation is multicultural with one root.
@@WhiteLotusFlower1From what I know there are known Arabized Jewish groups in the current Palestinian territories but there's not that much...although they main issue is really the Palestinians wanting to get all of Mandatory Palestine on their own rather than sharing it with the Jews (and maybe even perceived Arab "traitors"); they may be cousins but they mostly aren't friendly to Jews sadly.
6:27 Chapman? Like many English surnames (Tailor, Baker, Smith, Wright), chapman was a profession -- a merchant or trader (often itinerant). Was this trade also connected to Jewish ancestry?
well of course! since Jews weren't allowed in one way or another to stay in one place for long they were always moving from place to place. The Jews tried to make that situation to their advantage, as much as they could... They traded their belongings for money (for survival) - with the rest they bought the most valuable thing they could and moved to other places, where they traded that thing for money. when Jews moved away from a country they became Money changers since they traded money from one country for the other's.
I don't know any Jewish Chapmans and am not aware that the name among Jews is associated with the priesthood (as are various other names, such as Cohen and Katz). But keep in mind, Jews sometimes Anglicized their names based on sound alone. It's possible that a number of Jews chose the name "Chapman" not because they were merchants but because "Chapman" vaguely sounded like an English version of a name they previously carried (for example, Kaplan, which is indeed associated with the priesthood).
Chapmen were mostly itinerant merchants -- have packhorse, will trade. Etymologically, I think the name derived from "cheap", which, back in medieval England, meant "market". The London district named Cheapside probably earned its name from trade. You're undoubtedly correct about the phenomenon of anglicization, though Kaplan probably became English variants of Caplan, via Old French and "the medieval English word "chapelain", meaning "charity priest"". The video's researchers might have muddled Caplan with Chapman. I thought any association with Chapman might have stemmed from the restriction of Jews to some professions -- merchants and usurers. However, after Edward I's disgusting thievery via the Edict of Expulsion (1290), only conversion would have permitted those with Jewish DNA to remain in England. @@sganot
@@sganot My mother's maiden name is Moss which is an English surname common in the north although as her father was Jewish I suspect it was originally Moses or Moshe
@@stephenchappell7512 yes, wiki says Moss is is a surname related either to the Old English mos - a peat-bog, to the Irish "Maolmona", an ancient Gaelic devotee, or to the Hebrew "Moses" (מֹשֶׁה) and can be of either Jewish, Irish or English language origin.
Great show make more regarding other communities of jews kavkazy bucharian iranian afgany kurdistany serian lebanony iraqy turkey bolgarian ugoslavian albanian greekitalian non ashkenazy its will be very interesting thank you
There is new study that examined jews from several origins where both parents are of the same origin. the study examined Ashkenazi jews and jews from marocco and jews from iran and irak and jews from yemen and Italy. It was found that they are all third cousins on the father's side. for comparison that means a genetic match of 2% which is a lot. for comparison two strangers have a genetic match of 0.2%.two brothers for example have a genetic match of 50%. it is proves that the jews have a common father that came from the middle East.
What a great video, I always felt that we Jews are part of the same family and now it has also been confirmed genetically that we are connected as a people. We all come from different countries but part of the same nation eretz Israel. Am Yisrael Chai 💙🤍💙🫶🏻🇮🇱
*In a nutshell, yes some followers of Judaism ✡️ are certainly genetically related, but not all and not always. Just like Christianity ✝️, Islam ☪️, or other global faiths, the followers come from all different countries, racial backgrounds, ethnicities, etc. 🥸*
Palestinians, Jordan, Syria and the rest of that neighborhood have the same DNA as yours except that they converted to Christianity and Islam. So should they call themselves Jews a with different religion like maybe call themselves Christian jew or Muslim Jew?
The ethnic words Judean or Israelite can be applied to the ancestry of certain members of the Palestinian Arab population who descend from Jewish converts to Islam. It would help if Palestinians started to feel brotherhood with Jews on the basis of that common heritage, rather than what most of them do now which is trying to fight Jews' right to live in Israel.
The "Jews" in Africa, and China have very little "Jewish" or Levantine DNA. There are 4 different groups of Jews from India. And 3 out of the 4 have Jewish DNA.
I'm of mixed ancestry: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi. But on My Ashkenazi side, we can actually trace our family all the way back to King David! :D
Regarding the jews from India in study of the israelites from India, it was found that jews from Greece and jews from yemen came to India and married indian women. genetic they in the middle, the same influence by the jews and the indian. jews from kutzin also have many genes of jewish origin. Regarding the Ethiopian jews, jews from yemen married to Ethiopian women. The only jewish community that dont mixed with non-jews are the jews from yemen who are the most closest to the jewish from before 2000 years ago.
I read an estimate that if not for the exiles, expulsions, massacres, inquisitions, forced conversions, pogroms and Holocaust... there would be about 300 million Jews today.😮 Many millions of Iberian, Latin, and Hispanic people come have Jewish ancestry.
There must be thousands of people whose grandmothers 'on their mother's side' are Jewish. Whether it's known as a fact, or just a family rumor, or totally unknown, these people are 100% Jewish, (according to Jewish tradition/law). I always assume a non Jew may still be a Jew. It's been a rough thousand years for Jews....
4:10 This was a study from the University of Huddersfield (“A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages” prof. Martin B. Richards et al. 2013) which analysed the mtDNA of modern Ashkenazi populations and found that 40% of this mtDNA originated from just 4 European women who converted to Judaism, while over 80% of the Ashkenazi maternal lineages could be traced to prehistoric Europe Keep in mind as jewish lineage is matrilineal, over 80% of the Ashkenazi population’s mtDNA being European automatically disqualifies them from claiming to be from the Middle East. Thanks for proving Ashkenazis are NOT from the Middle East👍
Israelites who are children of Jacob whose name was changed to Israel are a blood family. Every writer was an Israelite. Every king, every prophet. It’s always been a family. A Jew today is someone who is either a follower of the religion known as Judaism or the descendants of someone who was once a follower of the religion. This is not difficult at all! You are either with the truth or against it. There is no other position to take.
What people call Jewish DNA is in reality Canaanite DNA this being the common ancestry of both Jews and Palestinians although by no means all of either
The original Jews looked Mediterranean, and just like all Mediterraneans all over South Europe, the Levant, and North Africa, they came in a wide range of colors from pale-skinned, blue-eyed, blond or red hair, to black-haired, brown-eyed, and brown skin.
@ChoompaLoompa1985-wp2zr Interestingly some Ashkenazi Jews look almost Indian in appearance like Svetlana Shusterman, Jeremy Stoppelman, Amir Arison, and Aaron Swartz.
Hello Cousins, I am an Assyrian of Alqosh, Nineveh, Assyria (Modern day Northern “Iraq” est. 1932). We used to have many Jews, in my village. My people lived with Jews for 2600 years in our village. The Prophet Nahum is buried there and it is our honor and duty as Christians to keep his tomb maintained. ܫܠܡܐ ܘܚܘܒܐ
I hope they can somehow visit Iraq especially a lot of Jewish history came there too - apparently it's dangerous to talk about positively of Israel in Iraq and from what I know it's currently influenced by Iranian politics.
@@zjzr08 oh yeah, but in the North you should be okay. It is sad, but you should hide your jewishness. We have to hide our Christianness for the most part as well. In Alqosh, Assyrian will greet the Jew with open arms. We are one blood, the Assyrians have mixed with the “Lost Ten Tribes” for over 2500 years. We all spoke Aramaic together in Mesopotamia. We still speak Aramaic, Shlaaama Emokhun ܫܠܡܐ ܥܡܘܟܘܢ שלמא עמוכון.
I met a guy whose last name was Cohen; after he behaved in a way that wasn’t Jewish, I began researching his background. I found his grandparents were Muslim Arabs who changed their Arab name from Abulafia to Cohen when they relocated to the USA a hundred years ago. The story does get a bit more interesting but that’s the skinny. The bottom line is the apples don’t fall far from the tree.
Why do you guys love to play victim so much you guys want everyone to feel bad for how poorly y'all were treated but never mention the reason that those countries were forced to take harsh actions honestly you guys rule the world now but money is the root of all evil and you guys are so so evil i think y'all are the devil's chosen ones actually
@@KennyPurpleRain There was no such thing as an Israelite by the time of the Roman's Btw there was no recorded Roman Jewish expulsion but rather the Romans did their usual triumph thing by parading prisoner's prior to them being sold off or enslaved
Years ago, I spent some time with Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye. He asked me where I thought the Hawaiian surfer phrase "the Big Kahuna" came from. I shrugged my shoulders, and he said, "cohen." The priest or spiritual leader. And he then rattled off a number of Hawaiian words and customs that were similar to ancient Hebrew words or Jewish customs.
I recall author James Michenar (?) wrote in his huge book 'Hawaii' many things along these lines, claiming early Missionaries studying the lanquage in order to translate a Hawaiin lanquage Bible, claimed that lanauage of the upper class appeared Semetic in origin. But I don't know what modern scholars say about this.
Sorry, but this video is completely useless as long as there is not reference and/or source. Just story telling. I don't mean that what is told is false, just that it has absolutely no value without serious sources. I could do the same video telling that the lemba a re of Japanese ascent. Without sources, it would have the same value: zero.
@Exhypo These are all lies, and science proves it. DNA literally shows that all Jews came from the same place, the Levant. By the way, by Jews, the meaning is not all of Jacob children, but only some (Mostly Judah, some Levi, Shimon and Benjamin). And converts are really not that many and science shows that only 1% of Jews have no Levant DNA components. Your only point that had something to it, the language is also wrong. Hebrew was not invented, it was revived. They took the old Hebrew words from the Bible and the Mishnah, and added new words that didn't exist before for new stuff that didn't exist before. Ashkenazis are Jews through and through.
yeah im not sure if i am following this argument. JEws are an ethnoreligious group. not just a religion. an ethnic group. this means jews must be related to each other. if not then some arent jews. you say well you can convert. those are a small minority of jews. jews have historically not proselytised. so if my family tells a story that we are jews, and we are not, and that gets passed down for 1000 years it does not become true. thats relativistic thinking. either im related to Jacob ben Isaac. or im not. im either jewish or not. I might be mixed race jewish - germanic/slavic and ashkenazi for example. but I still have to have some sort of genetic connexion to that group of people. The jewish convert exception is just that an exception to the genetic rule, it does not negate the genetic rule.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp no because it is scientifically an ethnoreligious group. this is not up for debate. its not just a religion. its own history tells us that it is an ethnoreligious group. jews are related to each other. because jews are descendants of jacob son of isaac son of abraham. this again is not up for debate. it is a fact. a minority of jews are converts who guess what marry other ethnic jews and thus become intermingled with the existing ethnoreligious group. it is for this reason that a jew can be secular. but you cant have a secular christian or a secular Buddhist.
I knew before I did my DNA test that I come from Jewish ancestry and after DNA testing it turned out that I have more Jewish DNA than every single Israeli I met. I was born in Syria and I am happily Muslim and proud or my ancestry
Can you reference a study showing this? Because I'm not aware that there is any evidence of this. At most, a few studies have concluded that some admixture with Khazar and Slavic populations was not excluded. That's a rather weak claim.
There is one study, that is very bias, if you read the study almost every gene they did not know the origin they put as "probrably european" the study itself cites "the khazar theory" something that there is no historical evidence and should not be on a genetic study article, since is a matter of history and not genetics, and contradicts every other genetic study done on ashkenazi jews, and that is acknowledge even by the authors in the introduction. Is not easy to trace the genetics from a population to other 2k years ago and there is a lot of gene pools to pick and choose, but the majority does indicated a partial middle eastern origin to ashkenazi jews, there is no proof of khazar DNA in Jews, that study said most jewish genes that we study in this article are "probrably european" and said its "probrably khazar" but no direct link. its important to understand that genetics does not define culture, genetic tests are just for fun and historical purpose, means nothing in terms of your ethnicity
@@canalphi2673 The only study that tried to prove Khazar ancestry for Ashkenazi Jews, used NO Jews and NO Khazars, it was by Eran Elhaik. He used proxy populations of Palestinians and Bedouins for ancient Jews, and Armenians and Georgians as a proxy populations for the Khazars. Neither population can be used as proxy populations as they are wrong.
What sources for Ashkenazi Jews are you looking for? Here is information, *Ashkenazi Jews?* Jews which spent the Diaspora in Europe are the descendants of the ancient Jews brought into Europe by the Romans, mixed with the Babylonian Jews invited into France by Charlemagne and his son from the 800s to 1000s. It was illegal to convert to become a Jew for most of the 2000 years the Jews were in Europe and the 1400+ years in the Arab Muslim world. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews still show 50% of ancient Canaanite DNA even after 2500+ years of diaspora. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews are the Closest genetic match to the Palestinians out of All the diaspora Jewish communities. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews match the Other Diaspora Jewish communities (Sephardi, Italkim, Mizrahi, Romaniote and others), then match non-Jewish Levantines, the Druze, Lebanese and Palestinians. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews at 70%, and Palestinians (those living in the land for generations, not the Muslim refugees and Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land in the 1900s) at 82% share the same Y-chromosomes. meaning they came from the same ancient Levantine population. ▪︎ *Ashkenazi Jews Can be Identified at 100% Accuracy (from Europeans) by DNA Tests* if you search this with the _National Vanguard,_ you will find the article about the genetic study, *_"A genome-wide genetic signature of Jewish ancestry perfectly separates individuals with and without full Jewish ancestry in a large random sample of European Americans"_* which shows that Ashkenazi Jews Can ve Told From Europeans at 100% Accuracy by DNA Tests, even those with just one Jewish parent or grandparent.
I always knew this was true. I have Ashkenazi “ Cohen” friends and grew up with Syrian Jews who had last name “Cohen” I always thought we all were related. MY DNA showed 96 per cent Ashkenazi Jewish. Bothers me what other 4 per cent is. Maybe test myself again.
My parents were Sicilian and German and French. My two times grandmother on my mother’s side of the family. So when I had a DNA test came in I was surprised to find out I was Ashkenazi Jewish 24%! I decided to have the DNA test after my mother died of Ovarian cancer. I was tested and thank God, I don’t carry the Braci 1 Or 2 myself!
@@MaxStArlyn The Khazar Hypothesis has been debunked by history, archeology, linguistics and science (DNA). Jews have NO Khazar DNA, no Turkic or Turkish DNA.
For 2000 years they didn't mingle with those in Levant so naturally there's gonna be a lot of mixing for their survival - the most fascinating being the Kaifeng Jews who were in China (thought to have come from Persian Jews) who kept Jewish belief but looks mostly Han Chinese.
Im am a Jew and related to many famous people, Henry Kissinger, Julius 'J' Robert Oppenheimer via my Oppenheimer/ Stern/ Prag/ Julich link , Henry Kissinger Kissinger/Stern link) Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch ( founder of Contemporary Judaism), Jacques Rene Levy ( French Jewish Chemist) who gave up his seat on the Titanic. Now I will find my connection to Albert Einstein. My family is from Strasbourg and many parts of Germany..
The Palestinians are the closest to the real Judeans who did not flee their homeland. They also have the strongest Jewish DNA even though they've converted to Christianity and Islamic religions.
What I think is particularly sad, is that many Palestinian Arabs also have similar DNA markers - the Levantine Arabs who fight against Jews are starting wars against their own distant cousins.
I agree it very stupid all the hate that the Palestinian teach they children against the jews when they actually have a lot of jewish blood. All the hate is only because the religion specifically the Islam religion that spared hate.
Being very obsessed over DNA genealogy, I simply adore this video. Kol HaKavod! BTW...did you ever get tested?? I did 23andme and indeed, I descend directly from one of the four founding mothers of Ashkenazi Jewry (N1b2) and my paternal is J2 - yup..middle east in origin and I'm so Ashkenazi that Louis Farrakhan hates me most.
There were more than only "four founding mothers of Ashkenazi Jewry". The other ones just happen to have smaller frequencies in the Ashkenazi population today. Early Jews from Rhineland Germany also had haplogroups called H3p1, H6a1a1a1, and L2a1l2a as we know from the 2022 study "Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century".
I was a bit surprised to find out that genomicists seem to think that the Beta Israel do not have genetic traces to the ancient Levant. I thought this was only true of the Karaites. If a genomicist reads this and wants to update us on where the research stands on the Karaites, Beta Israel and the Kaifeng, it would be very interesting to know. I understand there's no disputes remaining about the ancient levantine origins of all other Jewish population Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim, Bukhara, Beni Israel all have ancient levantine genes.
Bata israel have little dna from the Levant, less then other jews, but they have. the dna from the Levant in the Bata israel come from jews from Yemen how arrive to Ethiopia and Mary with Ethiopian women
Im so glad you brought up the 40 % of all Ashkenazi Jews come from 4 women and as well as 80% come from 7 males when i said this on one of your videos i had jewish ppl saying i was lying and being anti Semitic saying they are from Europe but missed the part where i said some of the 11 came from the middle east i love the video of history you guys do i know sometimes i disagree with political videos you have done which is ok we can disagree sometimes as long as there is no hate or malice but i always give you guys your flowers for videos like this great work guys
they even said it in the video it happened in Europe thousand years ago but some of them came from the middle east go to Einstein college of science look for your self are they lying too is unpacked lying for saying it
On average, Palestinians are estimated to have a higher percentage of ancient Judean DNA compared to Ashkenazi Jews, given their continuous presence in the region for thousands of years.
Do you have any study proving that or you just making that assumption? Because you're forgetting about the Roman colonists occupying Israel as well as the Arabs and other colonists who came under the Islamic control
Please provide the peer-reviewed genetic study that says that Bosniaks, Circassians, Chechins, Turkemans and Sudanese are closer to ancient Israelites.
@@NettiYahoo One of the main genetic markers associated with ancient Judean DNA is the Y-chromosome haplogroup J1. This haplogroup is commonly found in populations of the Middle East, including modern-day Palestinians, and has been identified in ancient Judean remains as well. Additionally, mitochondrial DNA haplogroups such as K and H have been observed in ancient Judean samples, reflecting maternal genetic lineages in the region. These genetic markers provide insights into the ancestry and population history of ancient Judeans. Ancient Judean Y chromosomes J1 Mitochondrial DNA K and H
@@everythingandmore5537 I didn't mention Ancient Judean DNA. You claimed that "Palestinians have a higher percentage of Judean DNA compared to Ashkenazi Jews" Please provide a peer-reviewed genetic study that shows this.
all ethnic Jews are literally family-especially Ashkenazim, who are 80% of Jews. any two Ashkenazi Jews share as much DNA as fourth cousins. if you’re Ashkenazi and meet another Ashkenazi, you are family. as an Ashkenazi Jew, i am genetically closer to an Iraqi Jew or Indian Jew than i am to any non-Jewish European.
I'm half Iraqi and half Ashkenazi. Did the DNA test and it just say I'm 32% from Levant area, 18% from Turkey and 50% Ashkenazi Jew from eastern Europe. I really thought it would show something related to Iraq but It's just the Middle East.
If you put your raw DNA data in a site like IllustrativeDNA it will break down your Ashkeanzi DNA into its ancient components, if the average Ashkenazi is 40-50% Levantine that would put you at roughly 52-57% Levantine 18% Turkey and the remaining 25-30% a mix of South Euro, Germanic and Slavic
Judaism is a religion. Religions are concepts. You cannot pass concepts through genes. You however can teach a concept. Programs are done by humans and because of this, they cannot escape biases of the person who programmed it.
@@Crysalis-bd9so Tribe definition is very verge and members of a tribe doesn't necessarily have to be blood related. Just because a man written book claims something doesn't mean it's true or reality. Example, the book says the sun was made on the fourth day of creation and we know that's nonsense. The book also implies that the earth is young and the evidence tells us that is nonsense. In Judaism anyone can convert to the tribe but concepts cannot be passed through genes. Concepts are taught.
@@bettyk8105 Ju da ism is a religion. Just because you keep repeating it, doesn't mean it true. Just because a man written book says something doesn't make it true. Judaism is a religion. A cultural community and the religion much like all other ideologies (systems of beliefs) is taught. Having middle eastern semitism genes is one thing but if you have to understand a system of beliefs and practices that that cannot be past through genes. Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro of New York said, "I have nothing to do with the state of Israel"
@@aaronmonroe7932 keep repeating things you don't fully understand. It won't make you right. There's such a thing as an ethno-religion. Samaritans are a good example.
It’s so annoying when people say “blacks are the real Jews” ..they act like the Jewish people didn’t get scattered from their land after the resurrection of Christ… they act like the Jewish people didn’t travel all around the world and start reproducing and intermingling with the natives from those lands 😂🤦🏽♂️
when i think of indigenouity i see it in a cultural way more so than genetical. it is incredibly difficult to prove that everyone from a group has similar DNA
some groups are actually pretty easy, others not so much. In the case of the jews it wasn't very hard cause due to religious/ persecution reasons they married each other enogh so that it kept a lot of the common dna. It is nowadays frown uppon but 1st cousins married each other a lot not so long ago.
The term Jewish doesn’t necessarily mean just being biologically Jewish but it also applies to being culturally Jewish despite having a different look from a nationality and ethnicall perspective
I don't identify as Jewish, but I have known Jewish matrilineal ancestry. In my DNA - there's not a trace because I didn't happen to inherit those particular genes. A people is far more than genetics, it is shared history, shared culture and shared family.
IDK, but I noticed you didn't provide any Face Matching Examples. I can do it easily, but I noticed you didn't provide any real Evidence. Are people more related than others, sure, but some seem to have more Wealth on their end more than others. IDK.
ironically the Palestinians may not have a jewish culture but are the genetically most jewish of all. As Palestinian dna anchors itself to the distance of genetic offshoots of all others, The greatest attestation of a jewish genomic and related origins to being indigenous to Canaan, is their identical dna to palestinians. Many genetic studies on the subject including some g25 gene charts I have,
There is NOT on peer-reviewed genetic study that shows that Palestinians are _"genetically most jewish of all."_ Palestinians are Not an ethnicity, nor a nationality. They are a political identity created by the KGB and PLO in 1964 to destroy the success of the Jewish State. Palestinians are not one people, they are mostly Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land as support personnel for the British, and Muslim refugees invited into the land by the Ottomans. Bosniaks, Circassians, Chechins, Turkemans, and Sudanese are not Palestinians! Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis, Jordanians and Lebanese are not Palestinians!! Christian Palestinians have different DNA than the Muslim Palestinians. West Bank Palestinians have different DNA than the Gaza Palestinians.
@@shainazion4073 actually a peer reviewed genetic study is coming out in a few months. I had early access. You'll have full access, Why deny what a future study will published? It will be released. They are mix of course but we all are. I myself in community on my youtube channel published a few of these genetic charts. It's actually great. Also research Tsvi Misinai Tsvi Misinai Tsvi Jekhoran Misinai.
@@shainazion4073*After Herodutus, the term 'Palestine' came to be used for the entire region which was formerly known as Canaan.* The region is part of the so called fertile crescent and human habitation there can be traced back to before 10, 000 BCE. According to Genesis 10: 1-20 *"The Arabs,* Hamites, *Canaanites* and Jebusites were the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine, including the area of Jerusalem." *Canaanites and Jebusites were there long before (at least 2,000 years before) the Jews, and even long before Judaism was revealed!* *So where did the Palestinians get their DNA from?* *One study done by Nebel found substantial genetic overlap between Israeli/Palestinian Arabs and Jews. Nebel proposed that "part or perhaps the majority of Muslim Palestinians descend from "local inhabitants, mainly Christian and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD."* *And according to scientific research archaeological and genetic data support that both Jews and Palestinians came from the ancient Canaanites, who extensively mixed with Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Anatolian people in ancient times.* Thus, Palestinian -Jewish rivalry is based in cultural and religious, not in genetic differences. *Researchers also determined that the Canaanites* - who frequently appear in ancient sources, including the Bible - *descended from a mixture of an early Levantine population and migrants coming from the Caucasus region of modern-day Iran.* *And in recent years genetic studies have demonstrated that, at least paternally, Jewish ethnic divisions and the Palestinians are related to eachother. Genetic studies on Jews and Palestinians are closer to each other than the Jews are to their host countries. At the haplogroup level, defined by the binary polymorphisms only, the Y chromosome distribution in Arabs and Jews were similar but not identical.* *A 2020 study on remains from Canaanite (Bronze Age southern Levantine) populations suggests a significant degree of genetic continuity in Arabic-speaking Levantine populations (such as Palestinians, Druze, Lebanese, Jordanians, Bedouins and Syrians), as well as in several Jewish groups (such as Ashkenazi, Iranian, and Moroccan Jews), suggesting that the aforementioned groups derive over half of their entire atDNA ancestry from Canaanite/Bronze Age Levantine populations, albeit with varying sources and degrees of admixture from differing host or invading populations depending on each group.* According to a study published in June 2017 in Frontiers in Genetics, *the ancient Levantines (from the Natufian and Neolithic period) clustered predominantly with modern-day Palestinians and Bedouins.* And according to a study published in August 2016 by Marc Haber, he concluded that *"The overlap between the Bronze Age and present-day Levantines suggest a degree of genetic continuity in the region!*
@@stephenchappell7512 there's actually a issue with that. In a few months a genetic study will release show casing that Judahites are more natufian Neolithic and Canaanites are more Anatolian Neolithic. Sure mix together both are Levant Neolithic. But genetic raw profiles on ancient Canaanites skeletons look like Syrian Hittite mix. And raw original iron age judean dna looks Arabic.
Prior to 1948, I would agree with you. But it was really exists. To be an anti-Zionist is called for the destruction of Israel and the mass murder and dislocation of Jews. That's genocidal antisemitism
While technically true, it is very ironic they don't want what the majority of their fellow Jewish people want though, which is to settle in their homeland.
Stupid, it shows that all Ashkenazis came from a few people in Germany, and that those people mostly came from the Levant, meaning that Ashkenazis originated from the Levant. As you said, DNA doesn't lie.
Ashkenazi jews have a strong Southern Italian component when Jewish men took Italian women who converted to Judaism. During the Roman- Jewish Wars the 2nd temple was destroyed and many Jews men were taken to various parts of the Roman empire.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp No. Some ancestors of Ashkenazim had lived in other lands including France, Spain, Czechia, and Greece. For those who don't know, these Jews were called the Tzarfati Jews, Sephardic Jews, West Knaanic Jews, and Romaniote Jews respectively. The early Jewish settlements of the Rhineland were never the only source for Ashkenazi Jews. A good reference for the West Knaanic Jewish population element is the November 2022 study "Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century" which calls it "Erfurt-EU". The Jews who lived in medieval Norwich (mentioned in this video) were Tzarfati Jews. Also, recent surveys of Ashkenazi autosomal DNA came up with an estimate of only around 1/3rd total from the Levant region of the Middle East specifically. Other Ashkenazi DNA originated in Iraq, Anatolia, Persia.
This video is manipulative. Related to Levant doesn't mean purely related. There is academic consensus among geneticists Jews are of mixed heritage. That includes the Levant but there is no reason to embellish. No one is racially pure. This is true of Palestinains as well. There are multiple studies they are of mixed heritage including some from Levant.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp So why leave that out in the video and focus exclusively on the portion of DNA of just levant heritage? And why leave out DNA evidence suggests Palestinians are also of partial Levant heritage too?
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp I pointed out above there is no such thing as pure blood for anyone but this video tried to imply for Jews that by "forgetting" to mention that parts of Jewish DNA that aren't of Levant heritage. Perhaps that was not the internet but coupled with all the other half truths this channel peddles it comes across as extreme nationalism posing as objectivity.
@@mydogsbutler Because the other parts are not shared between all Jews... of course Jews are not only Levant and have other DNA components from other places. That's what living 2000 years in a diaspora does to you. The Levant DNA is the only DNA that is shared between ALL Jews around the globe (well, 99%). That shows that all Jews originated from the Levant.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp This channle makes no mention of the extreme right elements in Netanyahu government (see Ben Gvir and terrorist settlers and Kahanists including one that murderd Rabin) . Or violating international law by continued settlements. And of course accusation of Aparteid by human rights groups. I'm no fan of Hamas (extremists) but frankly there appear to be some extreme elements on the Jewish side of the current conflict too. It's not all roses. And a truthful telling of Israel's history, rather than national propaganda version, should include that.
Really interesting. Very reasuring too. I did the Ancestry dna test, knowing my family background. But it was good to confirm. Ashkan group, all over eastern and Western Europe and finally UK. ✡️
@stephenchappell7512 ...possibly. The Sephard community signs are everywhere. But I wasnt engaged in that conversation with my folks. I'm 3rd Gen UK born so my great grandparents came from the areas I described. Ancestors stem back to Caucuses, southern european arena and vague mid-eastern areas. The dna tests get murky after the thousand year mark. So, I am seeking more definative lab systems for better testing and results. Regards.
@@freyatilly My maternal grandfather was Jewish however as he was born in 1890 and died in 1966 he's far removed from this time but I'm guessing his family didn't originate from the Tsarist realms and that maybe he was third generation Which test kit is most highly recommended?
I'm Lebanese (Maronite) and have recently took a DNA test - turned out I'm 27% Mizrahi and 11% Ashkenazi!
Mazel Tov
Genetics does not define culture, genetic tests are just for fun and historical purpose
@@canalphi2673 thanks Sherlock.
mazal tov!
@@SeverusAlexanderAugustus it may be obvious for you and me but people think that if they have 10% jewish that means that they are 10% culturaly jewish lol
I recently realized I am a Sephardic Jew. I thought I was just Puerto Rican. Turns out my ancestors were Jews who fled Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. Crazy. Jews were also pirates in the Caribbean raiding Spanish ships. History is wild
Welcome to the tribe fam ✡️❤️
If you go to South Florida, you will meet many people with a similar story to yours. Many of them who lost their Jewish identity converted or are in the process of doing so.
Welcome to the club ❤
I'm a Jew from Panama, I've met a lot of people with similar stories. Jews were on the first ship from Europe to the Americas. It gives a different meaning to their words: "paremos aquí, en nombre de D"s"
@@mbassan I'm also a Panamanian Jew. well, my grandma is fully Jewish, my mom is half and I'm a quarter, but I went to Yeshiva and Everything. Am Yisrael Hai
My daughter got a DNA present for her birthday & it turns out she's 100% Ashkenazi Jew. I was shocked by the 100% meaning my wife's family & mine have always been Jewish for generations.
This is because the test compares your DNA with the DNA results of other people which data they have already collected and they give the answer where are you from according to the DNA of the people in different regions today .It does not take into account that people in the past moved, migrated, marry other people, etc. You can see other videos about these tests, they are not so accurate. But if you feel happy about it juste believe the test. :)
@aneliyageorgieva5352 That's fair. Thanks for letting me know. I just thought it was cool because i didn't see anyone else with 100%, but I'm sure it's not 100% accurate.
Percentages have changed quite a bit over several years after I did an Ancestry test. Quite drastic too. With every update I get to be a new ethnicity!
@@planettelex-g9j oh wow. That's crazy. Are there any reliable ones?
@@jaredgmetz I don’t think it’s a matter of one being more reliable than another. I think they just don’t have quite the data set to be super accurate. It gets pretty close which is amazing in and of itself but I would take it all with a grain of salt.
I'm a Mizrahi Jew. I really want to do one of those DNA tests to learn more about where my ancestors came from.
I tested w/23andme some years ago. AWESOME!! I'm 100% Ashkenazi Jewish and my DNA comes from...guess where? That's right: THE MIDDLE EAST!!! Go figure!!
Isreal, if you are Jewish then you come from the soil of Israel the only difference between an ashkenazi and a mizrahchi is the traveling not the starting point
@@cohenlabe1 Which part of the soil of Israel? Ancient Israel spanned from the Nile River of Egypt to the Euphrates River of Assyria.
@@MiguelDLewis from the Nile you how did you come up with that
@@cohenlabe1 Bereshit 15:18
I took a DNA test and turned out I'm Ashkenazi. Asked my parents about it and my father told always knew he is jewish but her mother told him to never speak about it. After that I started researching my family's history, turned out both of my grandmothers are Ashkenazi but on my mothers side she never knew that because her family changed their name and converted to christianity after they returned to Hungary from Austria. I want to know more about judaism but it's hard to figure out where to look for help.
If you want the history, Henry Abramson is a good place to start.
If there’s a synagogue or jewish community organization near you, you could probably take some classes or go to some of their events
There used to be (in the 1990s) a really lively, vibrant community with schools and educational opportunities in Budapest.
My husband is Hungarian, in Australia where a lot came after the war, and many Hungarian families from here sent their unmarried kids back to Budapest in the 90s-2000, and they married local Hungarian Jews (then came back here!)
Try Ethiopia. Largest Semitic Jewish population on earth.
Peruvian of Sephardi ancestry here. Even before finding out about my ancestry. Every Jewish person I'd ever met felt like family, we think alike, we know each other, we protect each other.
God bless! Christian here.
You even got a Jewish name ❤
I'm also from Latin America descend from Sephardi as well 🇸🇻♥️🇵🇪🔯
That might be because every single Peruvian Jew is related to each other. It's funny but true. I lived in Lima and everyone was related to everyone else somehow - either through blood or marriage.
This is so true about the Lima community 😆. I meant the Israeli Jews I met from working in cyber security. @@ElisaAvigayil
I'm black Ashkenazi and mizrahi jewish
Were you adopted or converted by Ashkenazim? "Black Ashkenazi" seems like an oxymoron...🤔
@@MiguelDLewisprob black and Ashknazi and mizrazi
@MiguelDLewis How about Drake the singer
Ashkenazi and Sephardic are ethnic subgroups within the Jewish population. Black is a general term that does not refer to an ethnicity. Could be possible however if the mizrahi (yemenite) side has high arab admixture (who themselves have high somali admixture due to propinquity of populations and genetic drift)@@tagbarzeev8283 or if the person is an ethiopian, ashkenazi, and sephardic Jew (I have never seen all 3 together but will def happen in the future after many generations of the population living together as a single people.
@@tagbarzeev8283 Drake is mulatto, no? His mom is white I heard.
I am not a Jew (at least, I don't think I am), but I am so FASCINATED by Hebrew or Jewish history.
I get really excited when I find new historical/archaeological documentaries about Israel.
I would like to take one of those DNA tests - I would just die of Happiness if I found out that I have Jewish ancestry.
Me Too. I love that history.
When you learn the wisdom of Judaism you became so proud of it you want to become one of the keepers of that treasure for you and generations to come, If you are not born into it you can join
Yeah, me too. God bless the Jews.
@@morhanny Where do I go to join?
But I want to be a real Jew, not a convert.
@@stmark4181You assume converts aren't real Jews. The Tanakh and Talmud very clearly say converts are real Jews and in some cases, are more honourable than born Jews because they chose such a rigorous path, as said by Talmud. Also, look at Ruth.
I love my Jewish brothers and sisters, Am Yisrael Chai from a middle-eastern protestant!
A Middle-Eastern protestant with a US flag as their profile picture?
@@Lvsl_iftdvit’s almost like immigration isn’t a thing 🙄
@@haleysalz1770 Also, you would not believe how many people I see walking around in other countries with American logo shirts, pants, backpacks, hats, etc. If someone was into American culture, they could also have it as a profile picture.
Thank you!
@@Lvsl_iftdv yeah, non-muslim Middle Easterners for the most part love the USA ans Israel. Assyrians, Chaldeans & Syriacs, Copts, Jews, and most of the Iranian population.
Love and respect to jews from İstanbul/Türkiye👋
Love and respect to Turks ❤
Modern jews are converted pagan white European not middle easterner 😅
@@eden55272 that muslim antisemitic narrative is a blatant lie. Jewish people isolated themselves due to religion and customs so marriages with locals were forbidden and went against both communities. There was Jewish persecution in all of Europe so historically up to the 1920s and even then, marriages of Germans and Jewish Germans or Hungarians with Jewish Hungarians were frowned upon by both communities. All the Jews from Europe and Russia were direct descendants of original Jerusalem Jewish Tribes. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish people migrated to (then called) Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s then after the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and escaping in the 1940s. Historically, in preWW2 Europe it was often DANGEROUS to openly claim either Jewish ancestry or following Judaism. Pre WW2 in Europe since the Middle Ages Jewish people were most often restricted to special areas in a city. They had less rights. So no reason why any non-Jewish Europeans would risk their safety or status to 'convert to Judaism" as you claim. Even between WW1 and WW2 Jewish and non-Jewish marriages rarely happened in Europe.
Additionally, your intellectually dishonest muslim myth ignores how many Ashenazi and Sephardic Jews created and moved to Israel before the say, 1980s when indeed converting to Judaism became more accepted socially worldwide. Also, your comment ignores that moving to Israel is impossible unless you have JEWISH ANCESTRY on the mother's side, which is different from converting to Judaism which does not give anyone "the Right of Return". Your comment disrespects millions of Sephardic Jews and Midrachi Middle Eastern Jews who were banished from the Middle East.
Shame on you with such propaganda
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@@eden55272they are saying that the descendants of the original jews mixed with europeans and created the differences but the y chromosomes being the same shows that the blood originated in the middle east
@@eden55272 you say that because you cannot argue that Jews are not from the middle east - so you are forced to argue that we are not the original Jews. Now you need to explain why anyone would convert to such an unpopular group, or why everyone except those who actually practice Judaism are "the real Jews". So who are the real ones? Rasta? Palestinians? Pashtun?
I converted and then found some Jewish ancestry. I guess my neshama knew where it belonged.
The Jewish 'neshama' always knows.
these are misconceptions that stem from people who don't really understand Jewish Identity trying to define what it means to be a Jew. If you converted, welcome to the tribe. But, please don't perpetuate myths about Judaism being passed down like genetic material.
Wow 🤩, very cool. ❤
@@kamrantabib9019right
@@pyrogeeknews I disagree. Jews comprise a gene pool. Ever heard of collective memory or the collective unconscious? It is widely believed that trauma is passed through genetic material.
I'm glad you didn't forget the Lemba people.
The Lemba people have nothing to do with Jews or Israel. The Lemba have No High Priests DNA, that is incorrect! They have been shown to have Arab Muslim DNA from Arab traders. They have no Jewish or Israelite DNA.
The Lemba have no Cohen genetics. There were 5 studies done on Cohen genetics.
The original CMH (Cohen Modal Haplotype) was tested in 1996, and 2000 when DNA testing was in its infancy. Dr.Karl Skorecki tested Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews that self-identified as Cohanim. From these "White" Jews, they came up with 6 gene sequences that most had, they labeled this as the CMH.
The problem was that the control group which was mostly Arabs that had no known tie to Jews, let alone the High Priests over 30% of these people also showed positive for these gene sequences.
In later testing they tightened the parameters of the DNA testing and used more gene sequences to create the *_Extended CMH,_* when the Arabs and the Lemba were tested against the Extended CMH, neither group had these genes, while 95% of the Cohen Jews showed positive.
The Lemba was tested again in 2013, by the South African Medical Journal, the study called, *_"Lemba origins revisited: tracing the ancestry of Y chromosomes in South African and Zimbabwean Lemba"_*
the study concluded;
*_"While it was not possible to trace unequivocally the origins of the non-African Y chromosomes in the Lemba and Remba, this study does not support the earlier claims of their Jewish genetic heritage"_*
Any questions? I work with DNA and have read all the studies the Lemba were tested in. They have no Israelite DNA, they have no High Priests DNA.
From the ancient tribe of Levi
@Stephenos-p2s yes, they are and do your research ...Jewish scholars have...its historically documented..Whats wrong? They are African presenting and its a turn off for you? Let me know.
Turns out i have Jewish roots, my grandmother on my mothers side was Jewish.
After the war my mother grew up as a "normal dutch" girl and nothing jewish was left in our life. Except some rumours about us being jewish. My sister went to a Rabbi and the synagoge to kinda get a connection with her roots or something. I went to as she asked because she was afraid that she wasn't jewish and that would make it awkward. Went to chanouka a couple of times. It was really nice. But since i am not really a religious person and was a combat vet of my country and now doing stuff in politics i kinda kept considering myself "not jewish". Later we found the family documents and some of my family went to a "birthright Israel" trip and i still was like: oh nice, now my family can explore their roots, but not for me.
Then 7/10 happend and start hearing stuff, out on the street and even in politics. Then they discover some photo's of me and my sis celebrating chanouka, and then all of a sudden i am in this weird dynamic where i have to defend myself (never set foot in Israel, not considering myself a jew) against vile hatefull lies and slander and anti semtism. And it just gets worse and worse each day. The thing is though (perhaps a mental disorder on my side) the more they push and pull the more i find myself saying i am indeed a jew. Kind of weird as i am better off saying "hey i am not, i never felt like one" but i just can't do that. Like some childish way of "no, because now you want to force me to not be one i am not gonna, because it is my heritage"
So here i am, at night with my son and wife asleep trying to learn what a jew even is. Or what to make of all this.
I don't know why i am ranting under a youtube video but yeah, guess there is no where else to go with this and it kind of clears my mind i guess.. Anyway if there are more people like me and you are reading this nonsense rant. Stay ok out there, and even if it is childish no one has the right to choose for you what you do with your heritage.. Stay strong, stay safe and best of luck
@stephenchappell7512 Yes, jewish by law.
But it still sounds quite weird to call myself jewish as I don't know anything about jewish things.
Like 3 words of Yiddish, and that's it
@stephenchappell7512 it's not a feeling thing. It's an "I do not know what even is jewish" thing.
It is hard to know what you are when you do not know what it is.
That for one is one of the terrible things anti Semitic actions have done.
@stephenchappell7512
I don't know what a DNA test has to do with knowledge about jewish culture. Or what you mean by that.
Because it is kinda a weird thing to say
It's nice that you're trying to learn more about your roots :)
Feel free to ask me questions, but here are some things I'd check out if you want to learn more:
1. Chabad (both in-person & website) They are very accepting to non-religious Jews & religious Jews alike, and would be more than willing to answer any questions you may have. Their website gives tons of info on Jewish beliefs and practices, too.. It's definitely a great start to finding out more!
2. Living L'chaim - Simply because it's a Jewish podcast and it can help you connect with Jewish people more by listening to their stories (it's predominantly religious Jews that are interviewed, though)
3. Shloime Zionce - Someone to relate to (though, again, religious)
4. Jewish Songs (you can check my playlist if you want a start lol)
From those four, you can connect to your heritage, but if you want to understand the religion a bit more I'd recommend:
Rabbi's like Y.Y. Jacobson (very popular from non-Jews all the way to hasidic Jews) R' Lawrence Kelemen also gives great speeches and another popular one is rabbi lord jonathan sacks who passed away, but has a lot of great stuff to check out.
Hope this helps 🤗
@kiavra1789 thank you so much ! I am sure that it will help me to reconnect.
Will check out the websites.
My plan of attack was to first get to know more about the culture and then move on to religion. As in my country and region, there are almost no jews left after ww2.
(I looked into the register, and there were 10 in my city, 5 of them 1 family that came here because of the university.. so, not really a group I can walk into to learn, so it really helps to have another place to connect.)
Stumbled my way to this channel, and that was cool too.
I do have a question already, though. I bought a keppah, but is that like something I am allowed to put on already, or is that a thing where you first need to go to a rabbi. (I already know one from my sister's attempt to reconnect, and he invited me, but that is still quite scary somehow)
Half Puerto Rican/ half ashkenazi Jew 🙋🏻♂️ The Tanakh is more than just fairy tales or bedtime stories!!
We have this link in Costa Rica as well
If your father is Jewish, then you're Jewish. That's God's standard in the Bible. Read Ruth 4:18-22 .
Great combo! I'm half Ashkenazi half Italian
This is why I love Jewish people. They're defiant and know exactly who and where they came from.
You can tell a story but do people care or even believe it.
@@democratsrepublicansbothan7973 don't you have cocaine to slang?
Yea Europe
@@chacesimpson2856clearly, no.
@@chacesimpson2856 you didnt watch the video , did you? Or are you just stupid?
I’m so glad y’all put this out there today! Recently I mentioned something similar about the greater Jewish family to a good non-Jewish friend. May our history and legacy inspire the world toward a greater good!
Sephardic Jew here 💖💝💖💝 And, yes our food is AMAZING!!! 💝💖💝💖
Iberian? Berber?
What food is that? And what part of it was just nicked from the local population... Much like other things are stolen or appropriated...
@@Emanon...You mean like the way the Jewish Bible became the foundation of Western civilization and literature while also being more sloppily *appropriated* into the Quran and other Islamic attempts to form a global civilization/empire?
Ashkenazi food is very comforting. It’s for colder weather.
@@Emanon... There has always been specific Jewish foods or Jewish variations in Sephardic and Mizrahi populations. Kind of like the way Arabs nicked, stole and appropriated the term "Palestinian". Palestinian always meant Jews until the 1960s.
Am Yisrael Chai!
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“ iςrαεl gave birth control to Ethiopian J’3ω5 without their consent” …The independent.
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Having done the 23 and me thing, the notable thing I found (I was adopted, and my mother was jewish) was that on the mom's side, the DNA reads Ashkenazi Jew 99%. On dad's side, a mix Eruopean bag of mostly French. But my mom's tree didn't light up and point to every random jew. The dad side on the other hand was massive.
The purity of the Jewish DNA was surprising given the long diaspora.
Cousin marriage, people used to do that a lot.
It's really not surprising, as in christian and muslim countries, it was illegal to convert to Judaism. So, to marry an outsider, you had to lower yourself to breaking the covenant.
You're the majority percentage of what your dad is. If it's french, then you're french. Ethnicity (for both Jews and non-Jews) in the Bible is traced by God through fathers, not mothers. The fact that your dad's side has a lot of information may make it easier for you to locate where you came from in France for example.
@@gracechadi No on basically everything you've stated. I've been Bar Mitzvahed because I'm Jewish by my mother. The real curiosity to me is that this side of the DNA was a monolith of one ethnicity. Dad's a typical Quebecois judging from the DNA. In Quebec a Catholic is a Catholic, and in my case at least, marriage isn't even an issue. From what a cousin told me who was also investigating his DNA, the family bred like rabbits and often married cousins.
@@michaelmenkes7233 The Jewish nation starts and ends with God - not rabbis or anyone else.
In the Bible, God traces lineage strictly through fathers, not mothers. A great example (of many examples) is the decendancy of King David himself in Ruth 4:18-22.
Nowhere, does God say a child is Jewish because of the mother. The belief by some that the mother is responsible for the 'Jewish blood' is false because scientifically the child's blood neither comes from the father nor mother. In addition, their blood doesn't mix throughout pregnancy.
And nowhere does God say someone can be Jewish through conversion (another lie believed by some). Ruth was still referred to as Moabite, Joseph's wife was still referred to as Egyptian, the list goes on of foreigners who put their faith in God. God still referred to them by their ethnic backgrounds.
We're all traced (Jew or not) through our fathers, back to Adam, and from Adam back to God.
God doesn't trace humanity (Jewish or not) through women - read the genealogies in the book of Genesis and Noah.
Even Eve herself came from Adam.
Just got my DNA test done and it came out 99.3% Jewish with origin from Meadle East and my family are Jews from Ukraine from both sides, now I have a scientific proof of that. Love my people - Am Israel Chay!
My too..I am askenaz and persian too..
They lied
Bullshit
Whoa, how much endogamy did they do, like the resistance to mix with non-Jews had to be tough, with risk of diseases too (isn't there one high risk for Ashkenazis?).
It's like how Roma people in Europe don't mix much hence barely have Germanic or Latin DNA I think.
@@zjzr08 The Jewish category in AncestryDNA and 23andMe incorporates ALL ancestral elements found in modern Jews. Iskandar613's 99.3% Jewish estimate doesn't equal 99.3% Middle Eastern but more like 50% Middle Eastern. Zjzr08 was wondering about Roma people in Europe, well, they are similar to Jews in that they did in fact intermarry with some European peoples over the centuries and that's why Roma people have some European genetic lineages in addition to South Asian and Middle Eastern.
Fascinating. I enjoyed every second of it ❤ Toda!
I’m Dominican and my family’s religious beliefs are still in line with Judaism 1:1 even though we “Catholics” lol took 23andMe and bam distant Jewish ancestry on my mother and her parents results lol now we know why this sacred Jewish customs are passed down. Proud of my Sephardic ancestors.
Maybe check out Hebrew Catholics and there's apparently a TH-camr who is Jewish but went from being Orthodox Judaism I think to Roman Catholicism.
P.S. I will say though I want you to check out Messianic Jews, which are more of a Protestant/non-denominational link too but you do you hehe.
Genetic studies have also shown that Palestinians and Jews are very closely related. In fact, many Palestinians might be descended from Jews who converted to Islam during the Arab Empire so that they could assimilate and have lower taxes. Back then, Islam and Judaism were very compatible religions - both being monotheistic. If this is true, then we must find a way to live with our distant cousins, rather than trying to expel or exterminate each other.
Yes and I know Jews in modern time who has to pretend Islamic culture to avoid expelling, using Arabic names…and keep practicing Judaism. All the religions came from Mesopotamia. Arab and Hebrew came from old Semitic language. Allah = Elohim and Eloim from gods of Mesopotamia. One commun origin of people would like to read. Arabs also should welcome Jews and treat them as a part of them and leave this mentality of Muslims are better and have more priority for the paradise. Fortunately, there are many who are very peaceful like peaceful Jews. Humans are humans before carting identities and beliefs
SOME Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Jews, Some are Muslim refugees invited into the land by the Ottomans, Others are the Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land as support personnel for the British.
Once you are tought into Islam....very difficult you can process other reality...Sorry, but Islam is not The "peace religion " they say it is
What specific gene or haplogroup proves that Ashkenazi Jews and Palestinian Arabs are related?
@@MiguelDLewis Seventy percent of Ashkenazi Jews and 82% of Palestinians (those living in the land for generations, not the Muslim refugees and Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land in the 1900s) share the same Y-chromosomes.
The science is so important. As Turi King once said “DNA doesn’t lie, people do.”
Lol so why won't he state the Ydna haplogroup then
@@shafsteryellow Because then he'd have to admit that it's a Haplogroup shared by Arabs and Europeans as well. Haplogroup K (mtDNA) is the major Haplogroup of Ashkenazi Jews. But it's also found in Arabs, Russian Muslims, and African mummies.
**jeews do
I am half sfaradi and half ashkenazi :)
Both sides of my family were procecuted due to their jewish identity.
Thats why protecting our ancestral homeland is so important!
עם ישראל חי
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@2:40 flimsy lol. If a kid said he was kicked out of 100 different schools just because everyone hated him, wouldn’t you find that hard to believe?
Don’t say that! it’s forbidden 🚫 by the 👃 overlords
And your point is?
@@Promqueen23 you wouldn’t even believe me if i told you
@@MissErikaHeart try me
So you think its the jews fault that they were kicked out. That is the same as saying that is women were mistreated for a huge part of history is because something must be wrong with women.
Great video. One thing you didn't mention is the open secret that many Palestinians share very similar DNA to Mizrachi Jews - because many of them were Jewish up until the Ottoman Empire, when they converted to Islam. Not acknowledging that is a political, not a scientific, issue.
Thanks Elisa for calling this out
The persecution of Palestinian Jews, Messianic Jews and Samaritans began earlier during the reign of the mad Fatimid ruler al-Hakim who btw also triggered the Crusade's due to his treatment of Holy land pilgrims
That is false, the Palestinians are most closely related to Ashkenazi Jews, not Mizrahi Jews. And the Palestinians are not an ethnicity, nor a nationality. The Palestinians that were chosen for those studies are those known to come from families that lived in the land for generations, not the Bosniaks, Egyptians, Chechins, Iraqis, Turkemans, and others that came into the land in the 1900s.
Not that it will change the minds of any hater 😅
We’ll just have to continue to do us.
Today the Jewish people are stronger 💪 than ever!
Nothing will destroy our nation again! We are here to stay 🇮🇱❤
It’s science not politics because Palestinians also claim their DNA from the land or Arabs. The both came from same ancestors but religiously some converted from Judaism to Islam or Christianity or the opposite. The nation is multicultural with one root.
@@WhiteLotusFlower1 I have no problem with them being here, I just don’t like jihadis
Jews are cursed with that 80 year curse
Because it doesn’t bring them money.
@@WhiteLotusFlower1From what I know there are known Arabized Jewish groups in the current Palestinian territories but there's not that much...although they main issue is really the Palestinians wanting to get all of Mandatory Palestine on their own rather than sharing it with the Jews (and maybe even perceived Arab "traitors"); they may be cousins but they mostly aren't friendly to Jews sadly.
6:27 Chapman? Like many English surnames (Tailor, Baker, Smith, Wright), chapman was a profession -- a merchant or trader (often itinerant). Was this trade also connected to Jewish ancestry?
well of course! since Jews weren't allowed in one way or another to stay in one place for long they were always moving from place to place. The Jews tried to make that situation to their advantage, as much as they could...
They traded their belongings for money (for survival) - with the rest they bought the most valuable thing they could and moved to other places, where they traded that thing for money.
when Jews moved away from a country they became Money changers since they traded money from one country for the other's.
I don't know any Jewish Chapmans and am not aware that the name among Jews is associated with the priesthood (as are various other names, such as Cohen and Katz). But keep in mind, Jews sometimes Anglicized their names based on sound alone. It's possible that a number of Jews chose the name "Chapman" not because they were merchants but because "Chapman" vaguely sounded like an English version of a name they previously carried (for example, Kaplan, which is indeed associated with the priesthood).
Chapmen were mostly itinerant merchants -- have packhorse, will trade. Etymologically, I think the name derived from "cheap", which, back in medieval England, meant "market". The London district named Cheapside probably earned its name from trade. You're undoubtedly correct about the phenomenon of anglicization, though Kaplan probably became English variants of Caplan, via Old French and "the medieval English word "chapelain", meaning "charity priest"". The video's researchers might have muddled Caplan with Chapman. I thought any association with Chapman might have stemmed from the restriction of Jews to some professions -- merchants and usurers. However, after Edward I's disgusting thievery via the Edict of Expulsion (1290), only conversion would have permitted those with Jewish DNA to remain in England. @@sganot
@@sganot
My mother's maiden name is Moss which is an English surname common in the north although as her father was Jewish I suspect it was originally Moses or Moshe
@@stephenchappell7512 yes, wiki says Moss is is a surname related either to the Old English mos - a peat-bog, to the Irish "Maolmona", an ancient Gaelic devotee, or to the Hebrew "Moses" (מֹשֶׁה) and can be of either Jewish, Irish or English language origin.
Great show make more regarding other communities of jews kavkazy bucharian iranian afgany kurdistany serian lebanony iraqy turkey bolgarian ugoslavian albanian greekitalian non ashkenazy its will be very interesting thank you
Egyptian too!
There is new study that examined jews from several origins where both parents are of the same origin. the study examined Ashkenazi jews and jews from marocco and jews from iran and irak and jews from yemen and Italy. It was found that they are all third cousins on the father's side. for comparison that means a genetic match of 2% which is a lot. for comparison two strangers have a genetic match of 0.2%.two brothers for example have a genetic match of 50%. it is proves that the jews have a common father that came from the middle East.
@@yoavpeled-h2cand what about Cochin Jews? Or Falasha Jews? Are they somehow related to other ones?
Please don't use the term "falasha." It's a racial epithet in Amharic.
What a great video, I always felt that we Jews are part of the same family and now it has also been confirmed genetically that we are connected as a people. We all come from different countries but part of the same nation eretz Israel. Am Yisrael Chai 💙🤍💙🫶🏻🇮🇱
All goblins are related
*In a nutshell, yes some followers of Judaism ✡️ are certainly genetically related, but not all and not always. Just like Christianity ✝️, Islam ☪️, or other global faiths, the followers come from all different countries, racial backgrounds, ethnicities, etc. 🥸*
Palestinians, Jordan, Syria and the rest of that neighborhood have the same DNA as yours except that they converted to Christianity and Islam. So should they call themselves Jews a with different religion like maybe call themselves Christian jew or Muslim Jew?
They may have Jewish DNA but Judisam is a religion not a race so no.
The ethnic words Judean or Israelite can be applied to the ancestry of certain members of the Palestinian Arab population who descend from Jewish converts to Islam. It would help if Palestinians started to feel brotherhood with Jews on the basis of that common heritage, rather than what most of them do now which is trying to fight Jews' right to live in Israel.
They are genetic Jews in china,India and Africa something that isn’t covered enough
The "Jews" in Africa, and China have very little "Jewish" or Levantine DNA. There are 4 different groups of Jews from India. And 3 out of the 4 have Jewish DNA.
@shainazion4073 I’m curious to know about about the 4 groups of Jews from India & the 3 groups who have Jewish DNA
@@shainazion4073 The "Jews" from Europe have very little "Jewish" or Levantine DNA. Which gene/haplogroup of "Levantine DNA" are you talking about?
@@serachhkp This person doesn't know what they're talking about. They say "Jewish DNA" but don't specify the exact gene, haplotype, or haplogroup.
@@shainazion4073 am curious which Jewish group has sufficient Jewish DNA? And what’s the threshold for you to be considered jewish
I'm of mixed ancestry: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi. But on My Ashkenazi side, we can actually trace our family all the way back to King David! :D
Interesting, how did you find out that your family is traced all the way back to King David? Did you take a DNA test?
Whoa, how, can you actually trace to the Davidic line, like that's surreal.
Regarding the jews from India in study of the israelites from India, it was found that jews from Greece and jews from yemen came to India and married indian women. genetic they in the middle, the same influence by the jews and the indian. jews from kutzin also have many genes of jewish origin. Regarding the Ethiopian jews, jews from yemen married to Ethiopian women. The only jewish community that dont mixed with non-jews are the jews from yemen who are the most closest to the jewish from before 2000 years ago.
No, Yemenite Jews have mixed with Arabs and Sub-Saharan Africans. Genetically the purest Jews are the Samaritans and Iraqi Jews.
This has slightly “genetic supremacy” vibes
Is there anyway to find out how many people have unknown Jewish ancestry?
It would require testing every single person
2000 years - that's a lot of events to cover...
No, the Torah says that Abraham's seed will number more than the stars. It's impossible to know how many.
I read an estimate that if not for the exiles, expulsions, massacres, inquisitions, forced conversions, pogroms and Holocaust... there would be about 300 million Jews today.😮
Many millions of Iberian, Latin, and Hispanic people come have Jewish ancestry.
There must be thousands of people whose grandmothers 'on their mother's side' are Jewish. Whether it's known as a fact, or just a family rumor, or totally unknown, these people are 100% Jewish, (according to Jewish tradition/law). I always assume a non Jew may still be a Jew. It's been a rough thousand years for Jews....
I love your videos and resonate with the values you share. Being Jewish is so much more than science and genetics: it's in our soul.
😂 convenient
4:10 This was a study from the University of Huddersfield (“A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages” prof. Martin B. Richards et al. 2013) which analysed the mtDNA of modern Ashkenazi populations and found that 40% of this mtDNA originated from just 4 European women who converted to Judaism, while over 80% of the Ashkenazi maternal lineages could be traced to prehistoric Europe
Keep in mind as jewish lineage is matrilineal, over 80% of the Ashkenazi population’s mtDNA being European automatically disqualifies them from claiming to be from the Middle East.
Thanks for proving Ashkenazis are NOT from the Middle East👍
Israelites who are children of Jacob whose name was changed to Israel are a blood family. Every writer was an Israelite. Every king, every prophet. It’s always been a family. A Jew today is someone who is either a follower of the religion known as Judaism or the descendants of someone who was once a follower of the religion. This is not difficult at all! You are either with the truth or against it. There is no other position to take.
What people call Jewish DNA is in reality Canaanite DNA this being the common ancestry of both Jews and Palestinians although by no means all of either
False, Jews have their own patterns of DNA.
Since when the Turk mixed with the Slavs became from the Middle East
I'm Ashkenazi. Interesting to note that the Norwich skeletons indicate that they had red hair and blue eyes JUST LIKE ME :)
The original Jews looked Mediterranean, and just like all Mediterraneans all over South Europe, the Levant, and North Africa, they came in a wide range of colors from pale-skinned, blue-eyed, blond or red hair, to black-haired, brown-eyed, and brown skin.
Corinthians that lived in Anatolia shown in the New Testament apparently has them as red haired too.
Whoever thinks Israeli jews are all white obviously hasn't visited Israel. Ashkenazi jews are not the majority.
Also, many Israeli Ashkenazis have mixed with Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.
They have a olive complexion
@ChoompaLoompa1985-wp2zr exactly! All jews are middle eastern anyways.
@ChoompaLoompa1985-wp2zr Interestingly some Ashkenazi Jews look almost Indian in appearance like Svetlana Shusterman, Jeremy Stoppelman, Amir Arison, and Aaron Swartz.
Hello Cousins, I am an Assyrian of Alqosh, Nineveh, Assyria (Modern day Northern “Iraq” est. 1932). We used to have many Jews, in my village. My people lived with Jews for 2600 years in our village. The Prophet Nahum is buried there and it is our honor and duty as Christians to keep his tomb maintained. ܫܠܡܐ ܘܚܘܒܐ
I hope they can somehow visit Iraq especially a lot of Jewish history came there too - apparently it's dangerous to talk about positively of Israel in Iraq and from what I know it's currently influenced by Iranian politics.
@@zjzr08 oh yeah, but in the North you should be okay. It is sad, but you should hide your jewishness. We have to hide our Christianness for the most part as well. In Alqosh, Assyrian will greet the Jew with open arms. We are one blood, the Assyrians have mixed with the “Lost Ten Tribes” for over 2500 years. We all spoke Aramaic together in Mesopotamia. We still speak Aramaic, Shlaaama Emokhun ܫܠܡܐ ܥܡܘܟܘܢ שלמא עמוכון.
Thanks!
Thank you for the support!
I met a guy whose last name was Cohen; after he behaved in a way that wasn’t Jewish, I began researching his background. I found his grandparents were Muslim Arabs who changed their Arab name from Abulafia to Cohen when they relocated to the USA a hundred years ago. The story does get a bit more interesting but that’s the skinny. The bottom line is the apples don’t fall far from the tree.
Abulafia. I think it's a Sephardic Jewish surname (Spanish origin)
Why do you guys love to play victim so much you guys want everyone to feel bad for how poorly y'all were treated but never mention the reason that those countries were forced to take harsh actions honestly you guys rule the world now but money is the root of all evil and you guys are so so evil i think y'all are the devil's chosen ones actually
I'm Lebanese/Syrian Jewish my ancestry was 88% Levant, 10% Greek and 2% Ashkenazi. Where did that 12% of Greek and vuzvuz come from lmaoooo
I am also Lebanese/ Syrian Jew and have Cypriot and some Italian blood. The Romans took 5k Israelite Jewish slaves
Ashkenazi Jews often have Greek in the mix. Did you forget about Alexander the Great and Israel?
Well, the Greeks have conquered the Levant.
@@KennyPurpleRain
There was no such thing as an Israelite by the time of the Roman's
Btw there was no recorded Roman Jewish expulsion but rather the Romans did their usual triumph thing by parading prisoner's prior to them being sold off or enslaved
@@KennyPurpleRainHow much so called J’3ω5h DNA do you need to have to be considered a J’3ω?
Years ago, I spent some time with Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye. He asked me where I thought the Hawaiian surfer phrase "the Big Kahuna" came from. I shrugged my shoulders, and he said, "cohen." The priest or spiritual leader. And he then rattled off a number of Hawaiian words and customs that were similar to ancient Hebrew words or Jewish customs.
I recall author James Michenar (?) wrote in his huge book 'Hawaii' many things along these lines, claiming early Missionaries studying the lanquage in order to translate a Hawaiin lanquage Bible, claimed that lanauage of the upper class appeared Semetic in origin. But I don't know what modern scholars say about this.
Why do I see so many Jewish ads?
Zionists are trying to build their brand back up after ongoing ethnic cleansing.
@@chadterpstraNonexistent
In Jamaica 🇯🇲 two famous Reggae singers have Jewish fathers. Bob Marley( Mizrahi Syrian) And Sean Paul ( Sephardic Portuguese).
Sorry, but this video is completely useless as long as there is not reference and/or source. Just story telling. I don't mean that what is told is false, just that it has absolutely no value without serious sources.
I could do the same video telling that the lemba a re of Japanese ascent. Without sources, it would have the same value: zero.
You can go ahead and research everything he said.
@Exhypo That's a lie. The Jewish culture existed for more than 2000 years. And as science proves, so does the ethnicity.
@Exhypo
These are all lies, and science proves it. DNA literally shows that all Jews came from the same place, the Levant. By the way, by Jews, the meaning is not all of Jacob children, but only some (Mostly Judah, some Levi, Shimon and Benjamin). And converts are really not that many and science shows that only 1% of Jews have no Levant DNA components.
Your only point that had something to it, the language is also wrong. Hebrew was not invented, it was revived. They took the old Hebrew words from the Bible and the Mishnah, and added new words that didn't exist before for new stuff that didn't exist before.
Ashkenazis are Jews through and through.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp You use the fallacy of reversal of proof
@Exhypo You know nothing. You even do not make the difference between ashkenazim, sefardim, mizrahim etc. B*S
You guys are so brilliant and informative. Love that you're there.
yeah im not sure if i am following this argument. JEws are an ethnoreligious group. not just a religion. an ethnic group. this means jews must be related to each other. if not then some arent jews. you say well you can convert. those are a small minority of jews. jews have historically not proselytised. so if my family tells a story that we are jews, and we are not, and that gets passed down for 1000 years it does not become true. thats relativistic thinking. either im related to Jacob ben Isaac. or im not. im either jewish or not. I might be mixed race jewish - germanic/slavic and ashkenazi for example. but I still have to have some sort of genetic connexion to that group of people. The jewish convert exception is just that an exception to the genetic rule, it does not negate the genetic rule.
That's because you already view Judaism as an ethno religion, but most people think it's just a religion. That argument is for them.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp no because it is scientifically an ethnoreligious group. this is not up for debate. its not just a religion. its own history tells us that it is an ethnoreligious group. jews are related to each other. because jews are descendants of jacob son of isaac son of abraham. this again is not up for debate. it is a fact. a minority of jews are converts who guess what marry other ethnic jews and thus become intermingled with the existing ethnoreligious group.
it is for this reason that a jew can be secular. but you cant have a secular christian or a secular Buddhist.
why did you pay to advertise this?
they're paying to promote an agenda
How would you track a genetic line specifically yo Aaron? Or was it just an example?
I knew before I did my DNA test that I come from Jewish ancestry and after DNA testing it turned out that I have more Jewish DNA than every single Israeli I met. I was born in Syria and I am happily Muslim and proud or my ancestry
I'm happy to be part of Jewish ancestory and history!
Dna testing also validated the thesis that at least some of the eastern european jews ascended from the kazars who converted to judaism
FALSE! There os not one study that shows Any Jews descend from Turkic people.
Can you reference a study showing this? Because I'm not aware that there is any evidence of this. At most, a few studies have concluded that some admixture with Khazar and Slavic populations was not excluded. That's a rather weak claim.
There is one study, that is very bias, if you read the study almost every gene they did not know the origin they put as "probrably european" the study itself cites "the khazar theory" something that there is no historical evidence and should not be on a genetic study article, since is a matter of history and not genetics, and contradicts every other genetic study done on ashkenazi jews, and that is acknowledge even by the authors in the introduction. Is not easy to trace the genetics from a population to other 2k years ago and there is a lot of gene pools to pick and choose, but the majority does indicated a partial middle eastern origin to ashkenazi jews, there is no proof of khazar DNA in Jews, that study said most jewish genes that we study in this article are "probrably european" and said its "probrably khazar" but no direct link. its important to understand that genetics does not define culture, genetic tests are just for fun and historical purpose, means nothing in terms of your ethnicity
@@canalphi2673 The only study that tried to prove Khazar ancestry for Ashkenazi Jews, used NO Jews and NO Khazars, it was by Eran Elhaik. He used proxy populations of Palestinians and Bedouins for ancient Jews, and Armenians and Georgians as a proxy populations for the Khazars. Neither population can be used as proxy populations as they are wrong.
@@shainazion4073 i was reading a study from 2013 of mDNA analysis
JESUS CHRIST IS KING
Never
@@ליאורסבהט-ג4פ I'll pray for your salvation regardless
Is it possible to get the source for the Ashkenazi Jews data you mentioned? I would love to dig deeper.
What sources for Ashkenazi Jews are you looking for?
Here is information, *Ashkenazi Jews?* Jews which spent the Diaspora in Europe are the descendants of the ancient Jews brought into Europe by the Romans, mixed with the Babylonian Jews invited into France by Charlemagne and his son from the 800s to 1000s.
It was illegal to convert to become a Jew for most of the 2000 years the Jews were in Europe and the 1400+ years in the Arab Muslim world.
▪︎Ashkenazi Jews still show 50% of ancient Canaanite DNA even after 2500+ years of diaspora.
▪︎Ashkenazi Jews are the Closest genetic match to the Palestinians out of All the diaspora Jewish communities.
▪︎Ashkenazi Jews match the Other Diaspora Jewish communities (Sephardi, Italkim, Mizrahi, Romaniote and others), then match non-Jewish Levantines, the Druze, Lebanese and Palestinians.
▪︎Ashkenazi Jews at 70%, and Palestinians (those living in the land for generations, not the Muslim refugees and Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land in the 1900s) at 82% share the same Y-chromosomes. meaning they came from the same ancient Levantine population.
▪︎ *Ashkenazi Jews Can be Identified at 100% Accuracy (from Europeans) by DNA Tests* if you search this with the _National Vanguard,_ you will find the article about the genetic study, *_"A genome-wide genetic signature of Jewish ancestry perfectly separates individuals with and without full Jewish ancestry in a large random sample of European Americans"_* which shows that Ashkenazi Jews Can ve Told From Europeans at 100% Accuracy by DNA Tests, even those with just one Jewish parent or grandparent.
I always knew this was true. I have Ashkenazi “ Cohen” friends and grew up with Syrian Jews who had last name “Cohen” I always thought we all were related. MY DNA showed 96 per cent Ashkenazi Jewish. Bothers me what other 4 per cent is. Maybe test myself again.
There is a little Jew in everyone.They just haven't discovered it. Yet.
Fr? I'm curious.
No kidding. I’m a black American woman. Discovered recently I’ve got 0.1% Ashkenazi blood …not much but still surprising.
Well Christians descended from one of the 3 Jewish fathers.
Your going to believe colonizer who lie about history. The black person predates all these people
@@bronwynecgThat percentage is called "noise" and does not mean you have Jewish DNA.
This was awesome !!! Thank you !!!!
Yeah, cause they are all German, polish, and Russian.
My parents were Sicilian and German and French. My two times grandmother on my mother’s side of the family. So when I had a DNA test came in I was surprised to find out I was Ashkenazi Jewish 24%! I decided to have the DNA test after my mother died of Ovarian cancer. I was tested and thank God, I don’t carry the Braci 1 Or 2 myself!
My Aryan blood curdles at the thought of this
How do you explain the racial diversity of modern Jews?
Intermarriage and conversion
Khazarians
@@MaxStArlyn The Khazar Hypothesis has been debunked by history, archeology, linguistics and science (DNA). Jews have NO Khazar DNA, no Turkic or Turkish DNA.
@@MaxStArlyn Jews have NO Khazar DNA, no Turkic or Turkish DNA.
For 2000 years they didn't mingle with those in Levant so naturally there's gonna be a lot of mixing for their survival - the most fascinating being the Kaifeng Jews who were in China (thought to have come from Persian Jews) who kept Jewish belief but looks mostly Han Chinese.
Thanks for the history update, blessings.
All this Jewish business always seems to be a victim role. From my point of observation it always seems to be a rule for thee not for me type role
And yet they’re successful
Im am a Jew and related to many famous people, Henry Kissinger, Julius 'J' Robert Oppenheimer via my Oppenheimer/ Stern/ Prag/ Julich link , Henry Kissinger Kissinger/Stern link) Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch ( founder of Contemporary Judaism), Jacques Rene Levy ( French Jewish Chemist) who gave up his seat on the Titanic. Now I will find my connection to Albert Einstein. My family is from Strasbourg and many parts of Germany..
My family is related to a crazy Rabbi from Kotz. The Kotkeve Rebbe.
@@NettiYahoo I am also related to the famous Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, founder of contemporary Judaism along with many other German rabbis.
The Palestinians are the closest to the real Judeans who did not flee their homeland. They also have the strongest Jewish DNA even though they've converted to Christianity and Islamic religions.
So Palestinian doesn’t mean anything
@@Ash_Queen16 There is only Palestine, no Israel.
@@juandelrio3206 Delulu
What I think is particularly sad, is that many Palestinian Arabs also have similar DNA markers - the Levantine Arabs who fight against Jews are starting wars against their own distant cousins.
I agree it very stupid all the hate that the Palestinian teach they children against the jews when they actually have a lot of jewish blood. All the hate is only because the religion specifically the Islam religion that spared hate.
The Jews that came there literally displaced 75k Palestinians in 1948. The Jews from Europe brought there by the British
Blessed I’m
Not Jewish 🙏
🫡 the few, the proud, the Goyim 🫡👋😎
No, converts
You didn't do the real research to tell a complete story. You only told what was convenient.
Being very obsessed over DNA genealogy, I simply adore this video. Kol HaKavod! BTW...did you ever get tested?? I did 23andme and indeed, I descend directly from one of the four founding mothers of Ashkenazi Jewry (N1b2) and my paternal is J2 - yup..middle east in origin and I'm so Ashkenazi that Louis Farrakhan hates me most.
There were more than only "four founding mothers of Ashkenazi Jewry". The other ones just happen to have smaller frequencies in the Ashkenazi population today. Early Jews from Rhineland Germany also had haplogroups called H3p1, H6a1a1a1, and L2a1l2a as we know from the 2022 study "Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century".
Amazing! I am 97% Ashkenazi, the rest is mostly Middle Eastern!
I was a bit surprised to find out that genomicists seem to think that the Beta Israel do not have genetic traces to the ancient Levant. I thought this was only true of the Karaites.
If a genomicist reads this and wants to update us on where the research stands on the Karaites, Beta Israel and the Kaifeng, it would be very interesting to know.
I understand there's no disputes remaining about the ancient levantine origins of all other Jewish population Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim, Bukhara, Beni Israel all have ancient levantine genes.
Doesn't matter. All Jews are Jews and should be welcomed.
Bata israel have little dna from the Levant, less then other jews, but they have. the dna from the Levant in the Bata israel come from jews from Yemen how arrive to Ethiopia and Mary with Ethiopian women
Im so glad you brought up the 40 % of all Ashkenazi Jews come from 4 women and as well as 80% come from 7 males when i said this on one of your videos i had jewish ppl saying i was lying and being anti Semitic saying they are from Europe but missed the part where i said some of the 11 came from the middle east i love the video of history you guys do i know sometimes i disagree with political videos you have done which is ok we can disagree sometimes as long as there is no hate or malice but i always give you guys your flowers for videos like this great work guys
The 4 women were Jewish women, their mitochondrial DNA Is Only found in Jewish women, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, not Europeans.
You were lying, when you said we originated in Europe, when we originated in Israel. That is why people were justifiably angry at your lie.
@@deborahfreedman333 Which gene or haplogroup proves Ashkenazim descend from Israel?
they even said it in the video it happened in Europe thousand years ago but some of them came from the middle east go to Einstein college of science look for your self are they lying too is unpacked lying for saying it
Lol they literally say it in this video i don't see you calling them liars
On average, Palestinians are estimated to have a higher percentage of ancient Judean DNA compared to Ashkenazi Jews, given their continuous presence in the region for thousands of years.
Do you have any study proving that or you just making that assumption? Because you're forgetting about the Roman colonists occupying Israel as well as the Arabs and other colonists who came under the Islamic control
Please provide the peer-reviewed genetic study that says that Bosniaks, Circassians, Chechins, Turkemans and Sudanese are closer to ancient Israelites.
@@NettiYahoo I asked ChatGPT
@@NettiYahoo
One of the main genetic markers associated with ancient Judean DNA is the Y-chromosome haplogroup J1. This haplogroup is commonly found in populations of the Middle East, including modern-day Palestinians, and has been identified in ancient Judean remains as well. Additionally, mitochondrial DNA haplogroups such as K and H have been observed in ancient Judean samples, reflecting maternal genetic lineages in the region. These genetic markers provide insights into the ancestry and population history of ancient Judeans.
Ancient Judean
Y chromosomes J1
Mitochondrial DNA K and H
@@everythingandmore5537 I didn't mention Ancient Judean DNA. You claimed that "Palestinians have a higher percentage of Judean DNA compared to Ashkenazi Jews" Please provide a peer-reviewed genetic study that shows this.
this is pro jew propaganda lmao, 0 facts actually provided. just rambling about manipulative buzzwords.
No you don't realize we're all related and that makes us special😂
Some jealousy
all ethnic Jews are literally family-especially Ashkenazim, who are 80% of Jews. any two Ashkenazi Jews share as much DNA as fourth cousins. if you’re Ashkenazi and meet another Ashkenazi, you are family. as an Ashkenazi Jew, i am genetically closer to an Iraqi Jew or Indian Jew than i am to any non-Jewish European.
Iranian Jews: Do you have eyes that look like Chinese people?
0% Jew but 100% thankful for them faithfully preserving the scriptures and traditions that point to the saviour of the world, Yeshua.
I'm half Iraqi and half Ashkenazi. Did the DNA test and it just say I'm 32% from Levant area, 18% from Turkey and 50% Ashkenazi Jew from eastern Europe. I really thought it would show something related to Iraq but It's just the Middle East.
Some people include Iraq in the Levant, you have to see whats their definition on Levant
Turkeys North Eastern region is where Ashkenazi jews came from
If you put your raw DNA data in a site like IllustrativeDNA it will break down your Ashkeanzi DNA into its ancient components, if the average Ashkenazi is 40-50% Levantine that would put you at roughly 52-57% Levantine 18% Turkey and the remaining 25-30% a mix of South Euro, Germanic and Slavic
Judaism is a religion. Religions are concepts. You cannot pass concepts through genes. You however can teach a concept. Programs are done by humans and because of this, they cannot escape biases of the person who programmed it.
The Jewish people are a tribe, descended from one family, Abraham Isaac and Jacob
@@Crysalis-bd9so Tribe definition is very verge and members of a tribe doesn't necessarily have to be blood related. Just because a man written book claims something doesn't mean it's true or reality. Example, the book says the sun was made on the fourth day of creation and we know that's nonsense. The book also implies that the earth is young and the evidence tells us that is nonsense. In Judaism anyone can convert to the tribe but concepts cannot be passed through genes. Concepts are taught.
Well said
@@bettyk8105 Ju da ism is a religion. Just because you keep repeating it, doesn't mean it true. Just because a man written book says something doesn't make it true.
Judaism is a religion. A cultural community and the religion much like all other ideologies (systems of beliefs) is taught. Having middle eastern semitism genes is one thing but if you have to understand a system of beliefs and practices that that cannot be past through genes.
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro of New York said, "I have nothing to do with the state of Israel"
@@aaronmonroe7932 keep repeating things you don't fully understand. It won't make you right.
There's such a thing as an ethno-religion. Samaritans are a good example.
0:40 To use Paul was SO DAMN GOOD (especially with the context)
It’s so annoying when people say “blacks are the real Jews” ..they act like the Jewish people didn’t get scattered from their land after the resurrection of Christ… they act like the Jewish people didn’t travel all around the world and start reproducing and intermingling with the natives from those lands 😂🤦🏽♂️
Black jews exist but they arent the "real jews"
@@hikatalina Wrong. Some most certainly are.
The same movement was brought up on them by little hats rewriting history
And little hats expanding trade routes is hardly being scattered
@@fbomb2353 hey fbomb, how about your little brain?
when i think of indigenouity i see it in a cultural way more so than genetical. it is incredibly difficult to prove that everyone from a group has similar DNA
some groups are actually pretty easy, others not so much. In the case of the jews it wasn't very hard cause due to religious/ persecution reasons they married each other enogh so that it kept a lot of the common dna.
It is nowadays frown uppon but 1st cousins married each other a lot not so long ago.
The term Jewish doesn’t necessarily mean just being biologically Jewish but it also applies to being culturally Jewish despite having a different look from a nationality and ethnicall perspective
I don't identify as Jewish, but I have known Jewish matrilineal ancestry. In my DNA - there's not a trace because I didn't happen to inherit those particular genes.
A people is far more than genetics, it is shared history, shared culture and shared family.
IDK, but I noticed you didn't provide any Face Matching Examples. I can do it easily, but I noticed you didn't provide any real Evidence. Are people more related than others, sure, but some seem to have more Wealth on their end more than others. IDK.
Israeli Chief Rabbinate does not use DNA tests to determine whether someone is Jewish.
Actually they do in cases they cannot get any other information, like with Russian Jews and adoptees who claim to be Jews.
ironically the Palestinians may not have a jewish culture but are the genetically most jewish of all. As Palestinian dna anchors itself to the distance of genetic offshoots of all others, The greatest attestation of a jewish genomic and related origins to being indigenous to Canaan, is their identical dna to palestinians.
Many genetic studies on the subject including some g25 gene charts I have,
There is NOT on peer-reviewed genetic study that shows that Palestinians are _"genetically most jewish of all."_ Palestinians are Not an ethnicity, nor a nationality. They are a political identity created by the KGB and PLO in 1964 to destroy the success of the Jewish State.
Palestinians are not one people, they are mostly Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land as support personnel for the British, and Muslim refugees invited into the land by the Ottomans. Bosniaks, Circassians, Chechins, Turkemans, and Sudanese are not Palestinians! Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis, Jordanians and Lebanese are not Palestinians!!
Christian Palestinians have different DNA than the Muslim Palestinians. West Bank Palestinians have different DNA than the Gaza Palestinians.
@@shainazion4073 actually a peer reviewed genetic study is coming out in a few months. I had early access. You'll have full access, Why deny what a future study will published? It will be released.
They are mix of course but we all are.
I myself in community on my youtube channel published a few of these genetic charts. It's actually great.
Also research Tsvi Misinai
Tsvi Misinai
Tsvi Jekhoran Misinai.
@@shainazion4073*After Herodutus, the term 'Palestine' came to be used for the entire region which was formerly known as Canaan.* The region is part of the so called fertile crescent and human habitation there can be traced back to before 10, 000 BCE.
According to Genesis 10: 1-20
*"The Arabs,* Hamites, *Canaanites* and Jebusites were the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine, including the area of Jerusalem." *Canaanites and Jebusites were there long before (at least 2,000 years before) the Jews, and even long before Judaism was revealed!*
*So where did the Palestinians get their DNA from?*
*One study done by Nebel found substantial genetic overlap between Israeli/Palestinian Arabs and Jews. Nebel proposed that "part or perhaps the majority of Muslim Palestinians descend from "local inhabitants, mainly Christian and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD."*
*And according to scientific research archaeological and genetic data support that both Jews and Palestinians came from the ancient Canaanites, who extensively mixed with Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Anatolian people in ancient times.* Thus, Palestinian -Jewish rivalry is based in cultural and religious, not in genetic differences.
*Researchers also determined that the Canaanites* - who frequently appear in ancient sources, including the Bible - *descended from a mixture of an early Levantine population and migrants coming from the Caucasus region of modern-day Iran.*
*And in recent years genetic studies have demonstrated that, at least paternally, Jewish ethnic divisions and the Palestinians are related to eachother. Genetic studies on Jews and Palestinians are closer to each other than the Jews are to their host countries. At the haplogroup level, defined by the binary polymorphisms only, the Y chromosome distribution in Arabs and Jews were similar but not identical.*
*A 2020 study on remains from Canaanite (Bronze Age southern Levantine) populations suggests a significant degree of genetic continuity in Arabic-speaking Levantine populations (such as Palestinians, Druze, Lebanese, Jordanians, Bedouins and Syrians), as well as in several Jewish groups (such as Ashkenazi, Iranian, and Moroccan Jews), suggesting that the aforementioned groups derive over half of their entire atDNA ancestry from Canaanite/Bronze Age Levantine populations, albeit with varying sources and degrees of admixture from differing host or invading populations depending on each group.*
According to a study published in June 2017 in Frontiers in Genetics, *the ancient Levantines (from the Natufian and Neolithic period) clustered predominantly with modern-day Palestinians and Bedouins.*
And according to a study published in August 2016 by Marc Haber, he concluded that *"The overlap between the Bronze Age and present-day Levantines suggest a degree of genetic continuity in the region!*
Perhaps we shouldn't be talking 'Palestinian DNA' or 'Jewish DNA' but rather Canaanite DNA
@@stephenchappell7512 there's actually a issue with that. In a few months a genetic study will release show casing that Judahites are more natufian Neolithic and Canaanites are more Anatolian Neolithic. Sure mix together both are Levant Neolithic. But genetic raw profiles on ancient Canaanites skeletons look like Syrian Hittite mix. And raw original iron age judean dna looks Arabic.
Anti Zionists doesnt mean youre anti Jewish ,lets not do that
lmfao
In theory, communism works too
Prior to 1948, I would agree with you. But it was really exists. To be an anti-Zionist is called for the destruction of Israel and the mass murder and dislocation of Jews. That's genocidal antisemitism
While technically true, it is very ironic they don't want what the majority of their fellow Jewish people want though, which is to settle in their homeland.
Actually it basically does
Ashkenaz is a region in Germany…. Ashkenazi dna shows their origin to be in Poland not the levant… DNA doesn’t lie👀🤔
Stupid, it shows that all Ashkenazis came from a few people in Germany, and that those people mostly came from the Levant, meaning that Ashkenazis originated from the Levant. As you said, DNA doesn't lie.
There was Ashkenazi villages in Turkey too. They changed it's name
Not true. Ashkenazi Jews migrated to Poland between the 1100's and 1300's due to increased Antisemitism in western Europe.
Ashkenazi jews have a strong Southern Italian component when Jewish men took Italian women who converted to Judaism. During the Roman- Jewish Wars the 2nd temple was destroyed and many Jews men were taken to various parts of the Roman empire.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp No. Some ancestors of Ashkenazim had lived in other lands including France, Spain, Czechia, and Greece. For those who don't know, these Jews were called the Tzarfati Jews, Sephardic Jews, West Knaanic Jews, and Romaniote Jews respectively. The early Jewish settlements of the Rhineland were never the only source for Ashkenazi Jews. A good reference for the West Knaanic Jewish population element is the November 2022 study "Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century" which calls it "Erfurt-EU". The Jews who lived in medieval Norwich (mentioned in this video) were Tzarfati Jews. Also, recent surveys of Ashkenazi autosomal DNA came up with an estimate of only around 1/3rd total from the Levant region of the Middle East specifically. Other Ashkenazi DNA originated in Iraq, Anatolia, Persia.
Its a religious cult not a race.
Nope
@RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK yep
@@glennknauer2696Braindead
This video is manipulative. Related to Levant doesn't mean purely related. There is academic consensus among geneticists Jews are of mixed heritage. That includes the Levant but there is no reason to embellish. No one is racially pure. This is true of Palestinains as well. There are multiple studies they are of mixed heritage including some from Levant.
Who said purely related? It said related. What, now you need to have "pure blood" in order to associate with ethnicities and cultures?
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp So why leave that out in the video and focus exclusively on the portion of DNA of just levant heritage? And why leave out DNA evidence suggests Palestinians are also of partial Levant heritage too?
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp I pointed out above there is no such thing as pure blood for anyone but this video tried to imply for Jews that by "forgetting" to mention that parts of Jewish DNA that aren't of Levant heritage. Perhaps that was not the internet but coupled with all the other half truths this channel peddles it comes across as extreme nationalism posing as objectivity.
@@mydogsbutler Because the other parts are not shared between all Jews... of course Jews are not only Levant and have other DNA components from other places. That's what living 2000 years in a diaspora does to you. The Levant DNA is the only DNA that is shared between ALL Jews around the globe (well, 99%). That shows that all Jews originated from the Levant.
@@itaiharshoshanim-ib6kp
This channle makes no mention of the extreme right elements in Netanyahu government (see Ben Gvir and terrorist settlers and Kahanists including one that murderd Rabin) . Or violating international law by continued settlements. And of course accusation of Aparteid by human rights groups.
I'm no fan of Hamas (extremists) but frankly there appear to be some extreme elements on the Jewish side of the current conflict too. It's not all roses. And a truthful telling of Israel's history, rather than national propaganda version, should include that.
Really interesting. Very reasuring too. I did the Ancestry dna test, knowing my family background. But it was good to confirm. Ashkan group, all over eastern and Western Europe and finally UK. ✡️
Weren't UK Jews originally mostly Sephardic only becoming majority Ashkenazi following the 19th century pogroms?
@stephenchappell7512 ...possibly. The Sephard community signs are everywhere. But I wasnt engaged in that conversation with my folks. I'm 3rd Gen UK born so my great grandparents came from the areas I described. Ancestors stem back to Caucuses, southern european arena and vague mid-eastern areas. The dna tests get murky after the thousand year mark. So, I am seeking more definative lab systems for better testing and results.
Regards.
@@freyatilly
My maternal grandfather was Jewish however as he was born in 1890 and died in 1966 he's far removed from this time but I'm guessing his family didn't originate from the Tsarist realms and that maybe he was third generation
Which test kit is most highly recommended?