i'm a sephardic jew. what does that mean?
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- what do you know about iberian/north african jews? did you know that there were multiple kinds of jews? jewishness isn't a one-dimensional thing! i've had a fun time connecting with the diaspora and continuing to explore my history and potential connection to Judaism itself. the linguistic implications too... hmm... 2021? maybe a little Ladino on the side? we'll see. thanks for watching!
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Hellooo! My name is Elysse, I’m from the USA and I study digital media production. I have an undying passion for language learning and all the beautiful experiences it has brought into my life ♥️ I hope you enjoy my videos about my journey in language learning, as well as diaries about my travels and life as a curious tree-climber.
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English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, American Sign Language, and now Mandarin Chinese (all at varying levels!)
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I appreciate what you presented!!! I’m a Sephardic Jew like you and my family survived as crypto Jews in Latin America. I speak Ladino 🥰
Good luck in your journey! Here in Puerto Rico we are connected to the conversos sefardi culture. Sefardi influence it is evident in our food, our music and our beliefs. Shalom!
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@@cruces414 I was there in April explaining this to many people there, many people still have not been awakened as to their hidden heritage. My wife found out 11 years ago about her sephardic roots that YHWH gave her through a dream, and confirmed by a subsequent DNA test.
I'm a Sephardic Jew too. Sedillo is a Sephardic Jewish surname. Our ancestors are Spanish Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism. I was raised Catholic.
Protestants aren't Christians.
You should definitely learn Ladino (if you want). A mini-series on your cultural/linguistic journey of ladino learning would be really interesting!
i agree! i already understand so much of it, we’ll see what happens :P
@@elyssespeaks Gibralterian Jews and ceuti Jews (my people, ceuta is below a tiny teeny point below straight of gibralter in North africa, geographically in Morocco but has been part of Spain since they expelled the moors more or less) as well as Spanish-Moroccan Jews (parts of north morocco that belonged to Spain instead of France) Spoke Haketiya and modern Spanish, as well as sometimes Judeo-moroccan Arabic. Ladino is more from Middle east and Balkans.
@@elyssespeaks it simply means beautiful :-)
@@aharonfernandez6359 Funny you mention that about Ladino. Syrian Jews (My identity is associated with Jews of Syria but are familiar with Ladino culture).
@@yechezkelmendoza5698 Ladino was spoken in Haleb by many until 1800s along with Arabic and a little longer in Shams. The Najjara brothers wrote some notes to each other containing ladino. I remember this from a lecture about the Music of Syrian Jews at the Museum for Jewish Heritage.
i just teared up a bit when you started singing, so beautiful!! grateful to get to know you a little bit more! I wish you and your loved ones a happy new year, hopefully 2021 will be a better one for all of us!
aw omfg 🥺 i’ll be posting some ladino songs on twitter, you can always hear the emotion in it. happy holidays & happy new year Iris!!
Man! You rocked that! I don't know ladino, my familia is from Portugal! Whoop! Whoop! Summerville on the Plantation-side here!
Los Judios sefardíes No salieron del norte de Sefarad. 🙄
Salieron del Sur de Sefarad.
@@moisessotomusic2285no salieron, fueron cruelmente expulsados de su tierra después de vivir en ella, como españoles , más de 1000 años. Gran error de la reina católica, que dejó ir de ese modo gran parte de la riqueza del país, y no hablo de riqueza material, sino humana.
Hi.Im from Croatia and I recently found out my grandfather (mothers's side) was Jewish.He was a half Sephardi and half Ashkenazi Jew from the Balkans where both tribes lived together for few hunderd years.
I find it so fascinating to find a part of my herritage i knew nothing about.I even did a ethnic DNA test and it shows... 1/4 of my DNA is Jewish
Oh my god, just heard that singing and literally transported me somewhere I cannot explain. Thank you for sharing this. I grew up as a Pentecostal (in Seville, Spain) - although I would not identify as such anymore - but my grandma had a jewish maiden name. I walked around the jewish quarter in city center of Seville and tried to imagine how would have been 500 years ago. I think ladino is awesome and sounds even more awesome.
Jewishness is through the mother's line. Maybe you are Jewish from birth?
I’m Puerto Rican. My moms side is Sephardic. Our ancestry comes from Sevilla and the Canary Islands. She was raised Pentecostal as well. You’re probably Sephardic too 💕
BINDICHO NVESTRO D-S,BINDICHONVSTRO SEÑOR...
BINDICHO NVESTRO SALVADOR...!!!
Thank you for sharing this part of your identity. While watching this video, I was waiting for you to mention the Ladino and not only did you mention it, you sang one of my favorite Sephardic songs. So beautiful.
Thank you for caring! and yes, it’s so beautiful i wouldn’t dare leave it out!
Ladino sounds so beautiful
It's almost like Spanish. I ve never learnt ladino, Im from Mexico, and reading ladino I am able to understand 100%. Amazing right? 🙃🙂🤙
@@abgaval9520 because it is Spanish. it's Jewish Spanish. Its like the difference between Spain and LA Spanish.
Agreed but I believe she made it sound that beautiful haha
Spanish with a slight twist but still very Spanish
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Actually ladino is a mixture of old Romance languages including old Argonese old Catalan old Galician/Portuguese etc it's not necessarily only one
My ancestors came here to Ireland from Spain..on fathers side. My mothers came to Scotland. We were able to trace both sides right back. It has been a wonderful journey 😊.. I visited Israel 3 years ago. It was so helpful for my journey.
Interesting reveal. Here in Brazil, a significant part of the population (especially in the Northeast) have Sephardic roots. At least according to professor Anita Novinsky, a quarter of settlers in colonial Brazil were Sephardic Jews. There is even a movement of bnei anussim coming back to their ancestral ways.
this one i know about! i was talking to a Sephardic Brazilian friend about it, she lives around Recife. so interesting!
@@elyssespeaks yeah, the first synagogue in the Americas is right there, if I'm not mistaken
@@gabriellawrence6598 yes, you're right! it's called "Sinagoga Kahal Zur Israel". I have been there last year (it's huuge! if anyone plans to go there as well, save a little time because you'll need it haha). (btw not bragging but it's located close to the third most beautiful street in the world - rua do bom jesus - according to the new york times :p)
@@Reeypol We are not obligated to do anything like that in America 🇺🇸 No one should be obligated to do anything they don’t want to that’s called Fasisum or tollitarin don’t know if I spelled it right. But you get where I’m coming from
The first synagogue in the Americas was actually founded in Recife by Sephardic Jews from the Netherlands hundreds of years ago when it was still a Dutch colony. When the Portuguese reclaimed northeastern Brazil from the Dutch, many of the Jews apparantly migrated to North American Dutch colony of new Amsterdam which is now New York city.
Growing up Catholic, my grandmother was singing Ocho Kandelikas during the month of December. I was about 9 or 10 years old.
There’s something really powerful about practicing a religion that your ancestors practiced thousands of years before you. I’m Catholic and my ancestors have been so for at least a thousand years and so my faith and my heritage are super intertwined and a part of my identity. Best of luck on your journey with religion and heritage :)
that’s so true!! it was something they transitioned away from because of outside pressure, so reclaiming it makes it that much more powerful. that’s really awesome about your ancestors!
@@elyssespeaks thanks!
But your ancestors were pagans for hundreds of thousands of years
Thousand years aren't much, especially compared to the time our ancestors were pagans which includes most humans, just different regional religions. This line is much more powerful and ancient.
@@Volzotran okay well I guess it also helps that I believe in my religion, not in the pagan practices of the distant past. I didn’t determine my faith fully based on my ancestors, they just add a little more to the traditions
this is so interesting elysse! wishing you the best of luck on your personal journey to get back in touch with a different part of your identity! also that ladino singing was GORGEOUS.
As a person with sfarad descent myself, this video was really educational to me!! The amount of knowledge you’ve shared has inspired me to learn more about the sefardi side of my family.
Great to hear!
Could you do a video where you sing songs in different languages? You have such a beautiful voice! And Ladino is so beautiful too, never heard of it and am reading about it now, so thank you 🙏🏼
I’ve been looking up old records on my family tree and found a lot of records stating from both of parents sides stating they had grandparents who were Sephardic Jews. so I decided to come educate myself on them. My jaw DROPPEDDDDD when you sung!!!! Omgggg you are AMAZING!
Thanks for this video! You reminded me a class I took a couple of years ago, Spanish Renaissance and Neoclassical Literature, in which the professor explained all this to us. He was really into it, very interested. My classmates used to tell jokes about it, because he spent a few classes just on that topic. Anyway, now I'm proud of knowing that and I'm starting my research right now. Felices fiestas ✨
aww that’s so cute 😭 there’s nothing better than a professor that really prides themselves in their work!! glad you enjoyed the vid ~
Você cantando foi tão bonito 🥺
There is a Tom Hanks movie from 1986 that is partially in Ladino and deals with Sephardic Jews in Jerusalem during WW2. It's called "Everytime We Say Goodbye"
awesome i’ll look it up!
Yes, it's a pretty good movie.
Wow, you sing really well! And your pronunciation of those verses is great!
Hi! I'm from Spain and I'm really interested in Sephardic history, as I believe most of spaniards have some Jewish ancestors. I loved your personal story and I was amazed by the fact that I can understand almost 100% of Ladino! Thanks for sharing your story ❤️
Hi! My ancestors were Sephardic jews and my grandpa was one too! But little ol me didn’t know anything about my crypto Jewishness Untill well now! It makes me laugh how most Latinos (I’m latina but come from Jewish roots) think that they’re “descendant from aztecs” because clearly they don’t realize that they’re ancestors are 80% likely to be Sephardic jews. You can easily spot them out with the last names or even the ethnic features. Like a husky, it’s wolfness will always stand out and never change because they’re descended from the wolves. Just like that is how I think of most Latinos, still have their Jewishness and don’t even know it!
I hope to visit spain in the future, because of the rich history there.
@@anniescorfano I wonder, what are your thoughts about Judaism before and after, and do you do anything related to Judaism today?
@@Greezy2000 if I said my response to this comment rn it would be taken down🙂🙂
@@anniescorfano You can try
I’m a Christian born and raised but cried when she sung . Beautiful 😍
UGH I’m so glad I found your channel, you’re so cool 😩 my background is american but I used to live in Germany and speak German. I’ve been slowly learning Spanish these past few years (but as of recently with the quarantine I studied intensively for a few months) which is how I found your channel this year. As of today, after reading the title of this video, my jaw dropped because I’ve been interested in Judaism for years and have been going to a reform synagogue for some time 😂😂 It’s cool to find someone out there who I can relate to so much/ who talks about and knows the things I’m so passionate about/interested in😂
I’m glad i could be relevant/helpful in multiple ways!! that’s awesome, i hope to start going to synagogue too soon.
My mother's part of the family ancestry comes from Spain. My mom has Sephardic in her as well as native Indian & German. My Father is a full blooded mexican. I am very proud of my spanish blood 🇪🇸 and I am very proud a who I am.
My mom was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a Sephardic Jew and she speaks Ladino. My father is a Persian Jew and was born in Tehran.
There was a huge "safarad yahudi" population...
I am so glad you did this video, thank you for your openness, sharing your story of discovery of your heritage, political views. For someone so young, I am encouraged by your corage to stand by your convictions.
I appreciate this so much!!!
Ty for singing in Ladino it was easy to follow 🙏🏾 I got so excited. Mi primera idioma mi gente , bienvenidos ✊🏾Sephardic ❤️ 🧬 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
If you want to learn more about the Sefardic Jews look up Rabino E Vinas.
Elysse:
I've been reading the comments: so many of them rave about your voice!(rightly so).....you should consider making a video of sefardí songs.
It would be marvelous 🙂!
All the best......and you have another fan.
Yay thanks for sharing info about us Sephardim! I’m learning and connecting with this lost part of my heritage, too. Through genealogy records and DNA tests I’ve found some cool information about my ancestors. PS your voice is lovely!
What an awesome video! Thank you for using your platform to educate us about this! (Also, not the point, but your voice is so beautiful oh my, more music please)
yesss i was happy to because of the mentioned lack of content on it :0 and hmmm we’ll see about the singing thing jskdkfm hehe
For various reasons I'm unable to relate to heritage and history and family and religion the way you do but I'm here for it. The singing was absolutely beautiful. This video also made me laugh a few times.
If you ever upload a short singing video that's definitely gonna be on repeat.
whatever you get out of my videos, i’m glad you’re here :p
What a great video thank you. I was looking at some medieval songs and came across "El rey que tanto madruga" and I've been researching it since last night, and was reminded how little I know about Jewish culture. So i stumbled across your video on my research! Thank you for the background!!!!
u never told us YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL VOICE!! this video was super interesting and informative, thanks so much for the new knowledge and i’m excited to look more into it!
i dont ever wanna brag on myself but i guess i don’t sound half bad 🥺 thank you mamas!! i’m glad you could learn something too ~ 💜
you should find some Brazilian content about Sephardim, there’s a lot in Recife!!
@@elyssespeaks i fell in LOVE with recife when i visited and learning more and more about the people from there makes it 100x better
I'm in the same kind of situation of being a non practicing jewish family whos learning much more right now, its very comforting to know someone else is in a similar place! I just celebrated hanukkah :D (I'm Ashkenazi though) anyway, thank you so much for the video!
awesome! may you enjoy and celebrate in whatever way you feel comfortable.
You're a lovely, well-spoken young lady. May many ברכה come to you!
What a beautiful singing voice! I loved that little snippet of Ladino song!
That was AWESOME! Thank you so much for your honesty and enthusiasm in the video! Much Navajo love from Arizona.
Ty for this video. Both of my great grandmother's on my mother's side of the family were of Jewish heritage, my grandfather's mother was Ashkenazi from Bavaria, & my grandmother's mother was Sephardic Jewish from Mexico City via her father who came from Northeastern Spain.
Thank you for this video. I recently discovered that my father's family comes from Sephardic Jew roots from Portugal (maybe Spain). Unfortunately, a little after my dad shared his history with my mum and me, he passed away. So I am slowly starting to find more about it. Cheers!
This was so interesting omg, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us❤️
thanks for letting me share!
What a gorgeous voice...Ladino music makes my soul feel so nostalgic. And such an informative video. Anyone with Sephardic heritage has a hard time finding resources on YT.
About 30 years ago I went to a Synagogue and the service was in Ladino and Hebrew I will never forget it.
Wow. That's so interesting and funny at the same time! My story is basically the same as yours, I'm from Recife (city in Brazil), and a descendant of sephardic Jews (eventhough my family, just like yours, practices christianity). Last year I stayed a month in Israel for a science summer camp, doing research and travelling around the country, and I felt I could reconnect with the culture of my ancestors. I am moving to Israel next year to study engineering in Haifa. Good luck with your journey!!! Você é foda. #BneiAnussim
Awww this makes my heart warm 🥺 it’s not our fault we lost it along the way, it’s our right to reconnect with it to whatever extent is comfortable. Thank you for your comment!
I assume you didn't feel connected the second time as well (if you already came) because this isn't your culture. Having a trace of Jewish ancestry doesn't mean you'd feel connected to Jewish culture.
How does it work? Your ancestors were Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism and only married other ethnic Jews who converted to Catholicism continuously for hundreds of years and you have records to prove it, and your family continuously practiced Judaism in secret?
Love this video SO much!! Absolutely do more videos like this 😍 Sefardi Jewish girl here also:)
Prayers and blessings for your journey. I can relate to some of it.
Thank you for sharing. Recently learned about my Sephardic Jewish ancestry via Portugal. Still learning more of course. At least I don't feel so alone there's more of us apparently.
Please consider making full versions of traditional Sephardi songs, you absolutely blew me away with your singing!
Hahaha good idea!
8:17 omfg i was so taken aback, the language + her voice is just a stunning duo i could listen to this all day
omg thank you!! hehehe i had to take a couple cracks at it.
thank you so much for sharing! 💕 i probably would have never known about any of this had i not watched this video 😭
i’m glad you can keep discovering !!
I am a Mizrahi Jew. there are many languages to Mizrahi Jews and mine is Juhuri (for we are called Juhuro - the mountain Jews) and many of our Rabbis prayed in Aramaic and Hebrew, because we lived in the middle east close to the holly land all those years (so I speak all of those 3 languages).
This is so beautiful, and so well explained!! My mom's family is Sefaradi from my Grandmother is half Turkish and Half Moroccan. I speak Ladino, Hebrew, portuguese, Castellano, and english =} if you have a link to any groups for Sefaradim, please feel free to Pm them to me lol I'm sorrounded by Ashkenazim majority of the time, kind of want to connect with other Sefaradim =}
Brazil was colonized by Sephardim (forced) to an estimated 40/60 million descendants.
@@Solek95 the majority of Sephardim alive today are not the descendants of the colonizers
I know what you mean. I virtually attend an Ashkenazi synagogue, because there are no synagogues in my city, and I couldn't find a good Sephardic synagogue online. Sometimes I feel like I really NEED to listen to some Ladino music and reconnect. There's so much Yiddish culture around, which is fine, but we all need some Sephardic too.
Wow ur singing voice was amazing!
I have so much respect for the amount of work you've done to research your Jewish ancestry. I'm pretty much ashkenazi (I've got ancestry from Russia, Poland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania) but potentially with some sephardic ancestry as well, my family isn't sure. It's interesting though since in hebrew school we never discuss ethnicity as much as denominations. I'm reform so conservative and orthodox and Hassidic jews talk shit about us, meanwhile, we talk shit about the reconstructionists lol (not really though haha, we're respectful to each other). I'm really impressed at how thorough you were in explaining everything and I was thrilled to see you discuss Ladino since I think it's such an interesting language. and btw your singing was absolutely beautiful. Amazing vid as always!
thank you! and yeah, i feel like there’s a lot of constant debate in the Jewish community and it can be so tiring. everyone should practice & live how they want to.
That was cool and informative...You informed folks on here a lot thank you. I learned a lot.
If you are looking for language exchange with a hebrew speaker I'm here(: you look like a super cool person (: saludos de Israel 😁
Much more than i expected. i loved the video!
‘much more’ in a good way i hope 🤣 thank you for watching it!!
I love your videos!great content and it help me understand
vou escrever em português porque sei que você entende e fala (muito bem, pelo que vi)... adorei seu video, me ensinou muito, mesmo em tão pouco tempo... adorei várias posições que você tomou ao longo do vídeo, o que fez aumentar ainda mais a simpatia que já tive por você desde o primeiro vídeo que vi... e fiquei impressionado de saber que Vega e suas variantes são um sobrenome judeu! Tinha um amigo boliviano chamado Vega, que acho que nunca soube que provavelmente tem origem judaica... e ainda de quebra acabamos descobrindo que o Zorro era judeu já que seu nome era Diego de la Vega! Incrível!!
parabéns pelos videos, pelas posições na vida, pela cultura e por gostar de música brasileira, inclusive algumas que eu mesmo só conhecia de nome, como Ave Sangria, que jamais tinha ouvido antes do seu video!! boa sorte em tudo!! tô inscrito!
Wow what an interesting video! I was so enlightened when you mentioned something about Judaism being easier to identify with because of its practices. I guess I've been taking that aspect of my religion for granted.
yes! the practices are such an accessible way to connect, even if you’ve never had an intense spiritual connection with your religion 🤔 glad i got you thinking
These videos are cool! Definitely don’t be bashful about posting them! I love cultural videos
🤩 thank you Melissa! i’m glad you enjoyed it
i'm obsessed with your singing!
This is so awesome I connect with your video so so so much. I feel so disconnected from my Jewish identity and feel a calling to reconnect and explore. I am ashkenazi and my ancestors came to NY in the 1900s. but I also have some ancestry from Portugal. I speak Spanish and I have a book on Ladino, even though I am not Sephardic I want to learn Ladino because of the mix of Hebrew and Spanish is so beautiful.
Elysse, your singing voice is absolutely beautiful.
Hi Elysse, I'm a Sephardi Jew as well. My Safta and father and all his brothers speak Ladino, I wish I did!!
Thank you so much for sharing! My family also has Sephardic roots. Could you, please, share also your experience in how your synagogue is dealing with the Bnei Anussim return? Teshuvah, guiur and stuff like that.
Watched so many videos about this subject but yours was the best one , thank you dear
Glad it was helpful!
Damn, I didn't expect to learn so much by clicking on this video! I had no idea about the different Jewish peoples (Yeah, I'm kind of embarrassed about that now) and had to google some things while watching. Thanks for sharing all of this! It was extremely informative!
don’t feel embarrassed! there’s kind of an Ashkenormativity so to speak, so we really only learn about their kind. thank you for watching!
She looks very fair to be Safardic to me
@@debrafirestone861 my sephardi jewish grandfather had blond hair and he grew up in syria :). my grandmother on the othr hand is super dark. It depends on where you come from, also not all middle eastern people are dark.
@@debrafirestone861 My wife is sephardic and she has a olive skin complection and long wavy hair.Her Grandparents and aunts and uncles came from Kastoria, Greece.Olive skin complection is very common in people from the Levant and Mediterranean Sea areas.
@@debrafirestone861 My wife is 100% Sephardic, and she looks Ashkenazi, me on the other hand when I was younger, I look middle eastern, Arabs though I was Arab
I just found out in my DNA that I am a Sephardic Jew!! thank you for this video and for sharing the information!! ❤
Thats awesome! What DNA service did you use? I also want to take a DNA test to see if I am also Saphardic.
I’m so glad I found this video to learn a simple context to my ancestry. So long story short, I’ve been told by my mom who was also told by my grandpa’s brother (grand uncle of you will), that there’s a Sephardic Jewish line in my grandpa’s side. He was known to be a jokester so my mom had no idea if he was telling the truth or not when he had claimed he wasn’t lying or joking at all. WEEEELLLLLL..... just a week or so ago, I got into my family search tree, I only went as far back as just my great grandpa on my grandpa’s & Dad’s side when I was doing it on my own. Not that much back but that was like years and years ago. Every now and then I get email notifications that a family name got added into my family search tree line, and I didn’t pay much attention to it. But lo and behold a week or so ago, I found out that either somebody’s been adding names onto my family tree line or it got automatically added or linked there (idk how that worked but something did happen). And I found out that the said grand uncle wasn’t joking at all, I saw that there’s some ancestors in Spain (specifically I saw Seville) who were in fact Sephardic Jewish, but have converted to Christianity or Catholicism. I wasn’t exactly sure why that is as I was way too overwhelmed & shocked with enlightenment of learning that & other new information that I absolutely had no idea about at all that very same night, but I may have to double check again to see if their conversion was done by will or by force of a threat, I’m sadly assuming the latter. I may come back again some other time to edit this for any updates I wanna share that I come to learn with that. Elysse, thank you so much for this video!☺️ This does help me with a simple historical context to my Sephardic Jewish ancestry that I’m trying to learn, understand, and embrace!💕 I’m a Jesus follower, crystal gem user, astrology believing gal who happens to go to an LDS church. Thank you so so so much!!!
Ladino is interesting in and of itself but then I got to see your Portuguese, Spanish and German videos and it was a no brainer "hit subscribe" for me. Precisely the same three languages I've been wrestling with myself off and on for a fair while now. Voce fala muito bem portugues, aliás.
Very interesting!!! Thank you for the information, your voice and ladino singing is amazingly beatiful !!! Sing more You got a fan here. 👏👏👏🙏
Thank you so much!!
This was an interesting video. I'd already known and really liked the song (Avram Avinu) you sang.
thank you!!
What is the meaning of the work Avram Avinu?x
My family are Sephardi Jews, here in the UK. They arrived through Hull, in 1798. And spoke Ladino, but it was a mixture of Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic.
Loved hearing you sing!
I really loved your video! It's so true that people don't know enough about Jewish history and the varying communities within the diaspora. I think it's amazing how you are diving in and on a rediscovery journey. I recently took the 23andme ancestry test because I know basically nothing about my family. I am biracial black/white and most of my family were adopted (and at the time there wasn't a formal adoption so there is no way to know who biological relatives were). I know that those tests can only give me so much information and it is general information, but even having some idea of my ancestry/the journey to present day is really important for me. lol I say all that to say I think its beautiful that you are learning more about your family and yourself. Thank you for sharing and helping to educate me, and also inspire me to learn more as well. xoKira
What a lovely comment!! I’m glad you could reconnect and i could be a part of it 🥺 especially with the US Black population, so many people were just ripped from their histories & now don’t know about it :/ it’s a shame. anyways, thank you for watching!!
finally another sephardic jew 😩 i’m deeply interested in my history but he most i know is that the ancestors on my moms side immigrated here from spain and greece, and then my grandfather married my grandma (who was christian but she actually converted) and then my mom married my dad (who’s a very not religious catholic but he’s also like 80% irish LOL) so by me and my sister the culture part was very detached. i try to enrich myself in the culture by looking into ladino and cultural dishes. i even found my great grandmother’s cookbook and there were still bits of spinach leaves on the inside for spanakopitas 😭 we still do basic practices like passover and hanukkah but i would love to dive further down that rabbit role. my grandfather’s first language was actually spanish and he grew up in spanish harlem but he joined the military in the 60s and just slowly forgot most of it, so i took it upon myself to learn it again. very nice video :)
Oh wow!! What a nice story, especially about the spanakopita leaves
My family lineage is from granada Spain 🇪🇸 my great great grandfather spoke Ladino. Somehow we winded up in Puerto Rico during the Spanish inquisition. Thank You for explaining what many people do not no
On minute 17 or 18 when you start singing, waooow you have such a beautiful sweet voice, that was awesome, wanted to hear you singing more, Blessings Elysse, 🤍💙❤️🙏
So weird… I thought I was the only person who grew up like this. I am from American southwest and my great grandparents always told us that we were Sephardic Jews that came from Spain to settle here, but everyone was very much a practicing Catholic growing up. I feel so bad because I don’t know more about what it means to be Sephardic Jew. I usually just identify as Hispanic? I wish I knew more people like me who have reconnected …I wouldn’t even know where to start
That's so interesting and cool! I am a Christian and I've recently been interested in learning Biblical Hebrew to be able to read the Torah. I also thought that Ladino was beautiful and it never even occured to me that a Judeo-Spanish language exists, so cool! So thank you for shining a light on this honestly confusing topic (maybe it's just my non-jewish self) 😁
Shalom! I to have been called to all things Messianic. Any special things that's helped you?
Biblical Hebrew is extinct. You're learning a dialect.
You have an amazingly beautiful voice! I was just passing through, but I think I will stay, I'd like to learn more! TYFS! 😊🧡😊 Will you be singing again?
We have loads of sephardic jews in the UK. Fun fact! fish and chips originated from sephardic jews who fled Portugal and introduced it to the locals which became a staple food in England.
The musician Annwn does Sephardic folk music. I practice my vocals to it
Your singing is Gorgeous and i just found out im Spanish and Sephardic and would love to learn ladino suena mucho como el espanol antiguo de espana y somos de mexico pero originalmente de la playa vizcaya y dicen que tambien tenian judeos
I heard many others singing the song and you sound the most beautiful!😊
This song that you were singing....magnificent
That's really cool I just found out that my family came here from huelva Spain in the 1700s to settle in Santa Fe New Mexico it's a really rich history I wish I had been raised in knowing more this year we celebrated Hanukkah for the first time as a family and it was one of the most spiritual experiences in my life so grateful for Science and DNA and computers that can track all this stuff down cuz I've always known it in my heart something you know my grandmother and my grandfather's always prayed weird not like other Catholics
there is a space in the radio in Spain dedicated to sephardic and Ladino language and it´s fully spoken in ladino if I´m not mistaken. Maybe you will find it interesting. If I find a podcast I´ll edit the comment and add a link.
So awesome, really?? i had no idea. if you find it send it to elyssespeaks@gmail.com!
Please link it . I would love to listen to it and practice my Ladino.
Really enjoyed this video, especially the Ladino singing. Also as an Ashkenazi teen in the US (and still today 15 years later), I felt disconnected from many aspects of Ashkenazi culture because it feels a bit frozen in time and romanticized (plus all the propaganda we were taught by older Jews who still believe it). So sometimes the grass can be a bit greener on the other side.
wow such an interesting video! subscribed! btw youre voice is amazing!!
A lot of Jews came to Morocco after the fall of Granada 1492
Vou gravar essa parte sua cantando pra ouvir sempre antes de dormir ☺️
Kkkkk não é necessario, tem gravações no youtube
Elysse, Thank you for sharing. Loved your song, in the old language.
Loved your quick and insightful talk, then you sang in a language you did not grow up with! Very inspiring!!
I love so much to read about Sephardic Jews, that group of Jews lived in my country (Serbia, south Europe). And i adoooreee Ladino 🥰
Shalom Alechem!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It just may be that you have begun a journey deeper and broader than you can imagine, Welcome home, we missed you.
So sweet, i appreciate this so much.
Thank you! This was so interesting! You are so advanced for your age! 🙏🏽💕
Thank you so much!
Elysee Davega you teach so much.
hey it's amazing that you know where your ancestors came from :3 I've always fantasized about where mines did but I don't know anything more than they all were from south Italy
Well, if your ancestors emigrated a really long time ago, they might have been from il Regno delle due Sicilie...remember that Italy wasn´t a country in most of the colonial era.
That´s basically the same thing, but if that helps somehow...
Where did you learn that song, its beautiful. I recently found out that I'm a decent of sephardic Jews. My family left Portugal and moved to the Netherlands then settled in london which is where I live now. It's so interesting! My surname is Rogers my great grandfather changed it from Rodrigues, I might change my surname back to Rodrigues at some point. Thanks for your video!!!
Awesome vlg ❤