As an Afghan Muslim, I really really enjoyed this video. These are my people! My mum always told me about the Afghan Jews, her neighbours and childhood friends. She only ever spoke of them with love and respect, from what I gathered there was no difference between the Jews and Afghans. make a part 2!!!
I am an Afghan from Herat. We had plenty of Jew friends, neighbors and so on. My grand-fathers business partners were Jews. There was absolutely no religious hatred. Actually its pretty well known that many Jews from Uzbekistan/Tajikistan and Iran moved into Afg because of Communist and Shia persecution. Afg used to be a quite a safe place before the war.
I remember about 40 years ago, I was on a trip in a village in Jalalabad (about 150 km from Kabul). My dad waved to a family having a picnic in a mountainous area. We stopped our car and my father and my older brother got out of our 1964 Chevetolet Impala (model of the year) and hugged two men and said hello to the ladies, all in Afghan language. The family was listening to famous Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir. I asked my dad and my brother as to who these people were. My dad told me that they were his business associates and very nice people. I asked why their names were different? My dad said because they are of Jewish faith. This was my first time to see Jews. They were very nice and completely at home in Afghanistan. Nice memory! Salis Omar, Afghanistan
As an Afghan Jew it seems that we have two significant groups of Afghan Jews in Israel: the community of Jerusalem which has origins from Kabul and the community of south of Tel-Aviv/Holon (where I born) which has origins from Herat. We are somewhat influenced by the Persians but generally we’re definitely distinct from them. Greetings to all the people of Afghanistan, and I hope you finally get through all your problems in your country!
@@arrahimi9774 afghans are brother of islam not of israel, afghans have jewish afghan brothers but israels flag doenst have to do anything with afghan jews
@@afgakhialjazeera3144 How do you know that? Have u been there? I have and I must say that we are neutral and I as an afghan nothing to do with the politic. Plz stop bringing Islam in everything humanity always comes first and stop talking about all afghans. You don’t represent us all so plz mind ur own business that’s only ur opinion. In the comment section you will see more afghans with the same ideology as mine so plz stop including us with ur mindset. That’s ur fundamentalist think not mine or any other afghans.
I’m a Muslim Afghan, to me he is still my country man. I don’t care what religion or faith, he follows. Judgement Day we all will be judged based on our good and bad deeds.
Ford AFG jewish is not just a religion you have to be jewish by blood too it s ethnico religious, it s genetically prouve, and it s visible that they share same origin. They are not afghani dont look like afghani.
I live in New York and I'm also a Jew with heavy Afghan roots, I would've gone into way more detail than almost everyone in the video I'm very involved with Afghan tradition, I enjoyed the video👍🏻
I'm Afghan and Muslim I was born in 80s when 50% of Afghans were already runaway from Afghanistan due to West vs Russia cold war. This video is amazing it shows my people from far far away I don't care if they are jew Hindu Christian they my people ❤️
The second boy has the eyes, and innocent looking face that afghans naturally posses. looking at him made me upset for Afghanistan & the Afghan diaspora
@@Hehe-tg3xk Afghanistan is very diverse. There are Iranic groups and even Persians there but not every Afghan is from an Iranic group. Their are Mongol (if its an offensive term i apologise i heard it been used) groups there too. So lots of different looks
As an Uzbek Afghani, I'm so so so so sad to watch them outside of Afghanistan, they have special place to our heart, why our belief should separate us ? I wish, I could meet with a Jewish Afghani someday
@@afgakhialjazeera3144 also ich hab gar kein problem mit den Jüdischen Brüder, ist zu respektieren wie alle anderen, und wenn sie noch ehemalige Afghanen sind umso mehr, vor Gott sind wir alle gleich. Ob man ein guter moslem oder guter jude ist, Gott entscheidet alleine über alles!
I’m not Jews but I send you guys a lot of love specially for my afghan Jews, and I hope one the all people around the world could visit their countrys, mostly don’t forget your culture!
the lost part of my history, new generation is working hard to make it better, I feel empty I feel sad when I see what those inhuman, barbaric terrorists did to my country. I was born in 2000 and I'm living in one of the darkest chapters of history of Afghanistan, I hope we the new generation change everything for good .
As Muslim and Afghan I loved this Video and I loved to see my Afghan brothers r and sisters I hope one day you guys coming back to visit your beautiful home country Afghanistan.
@@Samir-px9or but you aren't afghan. if you have lived abroad all of your life. Afghanistan has had many jews in the past with Pashtuns ethnically being yisraeli tribe and ethnic jews so yeah that's bad news for you
My dad used to tell me about our Jewish community in Afghanistan. He told me that they were very prosperous community. The currency exchange market of Kabul, Sarai Shahzada, was originally owned by an Afghan Jew. I wish my country had been secure and away from all this terror. It would have been so beautiful with that diverse communities. And I know that song. I have heard it too. 😂 Btw, I love Palaw too.
@@rostamamirzadehkhorasani9454 I'm Tajik from Afghanistan we love the Jewish but the Pashtons hate Jewish and we have not any problems with Jewish they can come live in Afghanistan like we live here 💕💝💐💖😘❤️🙏✊🏻✊🏼✊🏻✊🏼
I wish I could find out exactly which cities they were from in Afghanistan, because Afghanistan is ethnically diverse, ie. Herat has more Jewish heritage than Kabul, etc.
Anita K. I agree and hate it when they keep claiming it. Nothing is proven and there is no way it can be traced by DNA. People need to embrace who they are .
there families were likely living in cities such as herat, kabul northern areas. If you read history they arrived to central asia through the silk road after the exile I believe they lived there for a long time adopted the culture before returning to Israel/palestine. There also classified as Mizrahi jews. There was also a larger communities in bukhara and samarkand where they developed there own language called bukhori which is a mixture of hebrew and farsi
I am lucky to come across this video and would love to visit Israel and see my Afghan Jews. I love you all. I hope there will be time we get reunited. Love you all. Indeed there was a time where humanity came first but unfortunately our Afghan Jews as well as Jews around the world went through so much pain.
The other thing is that Persia was a huge empire, not just a small country. It included Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kurdistan, and Iran, and much more. It’s like calling one Latino. He/she could be from any Latino also know as South American country, not just Mexico. Loll The the Iranians always hide behind Persian thing. Where afghans we know who we are but don’t brag about it. At the end God (Allah) will judge us by our hearts not nationality, skin color, wealth, or power. May Allah be with all of you guys.
mma, that is what you have been indoctrinated by that government to show their superiority. Perhaps Iran if I am not mistaken. Looking back at the history and you will learn that the Persian empire that you are talking about existed long before Arabs invasion of areas that includes current. Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kurdistan. They were not even countries back then. Yes during the Great Darius and Sirius there was a big Persian empire but did not last long. When Alexander conquered and defeated Persian empire, they invaded and ruled where your ancestors lived. So should Greeks claim that current Iran belongs or belonged to Greece? Also when Hotakis concurred most of current Iran back in 18th. century, should Afghans claim that Iran included in Afghanistan and ? So many dynasties came and gone but what is important now is that cultures and languages still remained and those of us sharing those languages and cultures should enjoy and cherish our commonalities, not our differences or Nationalities or who is tougher and who has a bigger dick or what not....you know what I mean jelly bean?
Persian and Khorasan were two different empires don’t confuse them. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and a small eastern part of Iran were called Khorasan. Don’t call it “ Persian empire”.
@Anita K. not really nepal was previously not populated until after an earthquake the tibeto chinese were the first to populate the country then later the north india people came
I remember when my mom used to say she had 2 good Jewish friends in Kabul Afghanistan. That was possibly in mid 40’s early 50’s but we all had to leave in 1980 due Russian invasion and now I hear not a lot of Jewish lives in Afghanistan. This made me sad but thanks for this video, it was interesting and the song is gule sangam by Afghan legend Ahmad Zaher.
@@zalaegerszeg9527 it was actually two but Zabulon tries to hide the fact that her cousin was also living in afghanistan married to an afghan muslim. Tovah is her name and she was trying to have contact with her family in israel and gives zabulon a letter to send it to israel for her relatives but he didn`t give it to her family just because he wants to be the one and only jew in afghanistan to earn furthermore money. He was a bad guy
@Corey - Amazing video and thank you for sharing it! I am desperately in search of my old school friend from Afghanistan who is an Afghan Jew but our ways separated when both our families left Kabul in the late 80s. His name was Hertzel but don't remember his family name. They lived behind the Ministry of Interior, opposite Malalai French school and we both went to Isteqlal School, also a French-run school. He is around my age, 41. If you could please share this within any community you have access to. THANK YOU!
I spent the first 4 years of my school time with a great friend and classmate called Hertzel and I never learned nor anyone cared that he was of Jewish believe etc. back then he was just another afghan kid as I was. I only knew about him being Jewish as he was allowed to go home during Islam classes which made me jealous:) I wish him and his family true peace and prosperity wherever they are and hopefully I will meet him at some point again! 🤞
Afghan Jews/ Afghan Sikhs/ Afghan Hindus/ are all our blood. We Afghans never fought against each other religion or caste or language in the history of Afghanistan. We Afghans respect each other. ❤❤❤
At 4:42 Please tell that nice girl that we are not Arabs -.-* . There are many ethnicities in Afg. (Persians (Tajiks), Pashtuns, Hazaras, Uzbeks etc.) but none of them are Arabs !!!!
there are many afghans of arab ancestry its mentioned in history books, arabs came to afghanistan in three seprate waves through out history, even the national anthem of afghanistan mentions there being arabs in afghanistan if you want proof let me know
Amazing video , Love all thoess boys and girls who didn't forget their past , and where they originated. I Hope one day all Afghans will live in peace side by side of each other. Love and peace to my all Afghan Jews xx
I’m Afghan 🇦🇫 the war seperate everyone & never people had religious problems live side by side under one rule & law that’s why till now they’re graves & place of worship is in Herat province & Kabul so awesome To hear Bc Afghans 🇦🇫 are known for their hospitality & delicious food Qabeli palo,chalo ,manto, Hashak the song she sing (Gul sangam Gul sangam )so cool was from Ahmad zaher famous Afghan singer ect....
+Lucky if we want to be realistic, afghanistan used to have religious groups problems, sorry to say but its from the muslim majority there. Unfortunately, political islam is a thing and it allows other religions mostly only the ones of the book and even this means they're lower than islam and restricted To say people in afghanistan never had religious problems is one big dellusion. Good if you actually think so, but back then and until today, thats not the case
They are afghan israel i mean in nature and from roots they are jews just now they left afghanistan coz of security problames but the in actual there wasnt any problame of security for any jews
I love all my Jewish Afghans. They are always our brothers and sisters and we always love them. Afghans are brave and honest and straightforward people it doesn’t matter what religion they are. Even Afghan Hindus and Sikh are the best of best.
Israel looks so mixed. It is sad that they could not live in peace as citizens of Afghanistan in there country. bigotry and prejudice destroyed Afghanistan.
Here is the song the lady at 7:20 is speaking about, Its most famous interpretations is from iranian musicians. nevertheless, it was quit popular in Afghanistan. In Herat there is still a place called "Muhaleh Mussahia" ( a lot of jews had businesses in that street), Jews where called "Mussahi" which translates to "the kinship of Moses". Out of respect, no one called them jews as far as I know, in Herat at least. ua-cam.com/video/enLSAiycqDU/v-deo.html
@efopo, I hope not. The afghan jews must understand that not all afghans are anti-semitic. Furthermore, jews are an ethnicity of Afghanistan just like all the other ethnicities we've got. Therefore they are a part the lands history and heritage just like the rest of us. Nobody has the right to keep them away.. People must also understand that afghans never throw jews out of the country. They left by free will. For me all people from afghan background are always welcome back to their country no matter religion or ethnicity. Peace
Thanks for the UA-cam algorithm to bring up this video! I'm a Hazara (Christian) from Afghanistan, best greetings to my Jewish brothers and sisters ❤️ I support Israel against Islamic terrorists! Long live Israel 🇮🇱💞
it makes me so sad to see many afghans left their homeland and went to different countries because of the war, I live in Canada and my parents are both Muslim. the country is still in the war. I am spiritual.
These are not official ethnicities. If they are Jews, these are called countries of exile( Galut). The official ethnicities of Israel are Jews, Arabs, Armenians, Druzes, and some more.
My mom's best friend was Jewish when she lived in Afghanistan. The friend and her family migrated to Israel just as many other Jewish families did after the Russian invasion. Many also went to the US, specifically to NY, after the Russian invasion. My mother lost contact with her best friend but she never forgot about her. Jews were treated just like any other Afghans in Afghanistan and no one bothered them about religion, even the Taliban.
9:07 correct translation: what he said is jews who got *there*, not "from" there. he meant jews who settled in these areas of iran and afghanistan after being expelled from the old Israel and sent to diaspora.
Exactly you should come back coz that’s not your land! The land you live belongs to the Palestinians not afghan Jews!!! As an afghan I am ashamed to know so many afghans live there and they call it israshit 😡😡😡 you are occupying Palestine
@@cepeidioten from my Afghan partner and his family and also from Afghan books and Afghan TV on UA-cam. Man Yahudi az Europa hastom , marde am Afghan hast.
Katharina Huth omg im Afghan and i also dated a Jewish girl for more than 3 years she was the love of my life, but her parents don’t allow us to marry..
Afghani is the currency Afghanistan. Afghanistani is a nationality, which is made of different ethnicities. The word Afghan refers to Pashtun people. The food from Afghanistan is mostly from its northern regions, which is made up of Persian speaking people of central Asia and Aryan or Tajik decent. The nation of Afghanistan remained neutral during WW2. And the Jewish people in Afghanistan lived in peace. It is sad that these Half Afghanistani Jews do not relate to their rich Afghanistani backgrounds.
I've seen a documentary on Afghanistan and they showed old buildings that use to be synagoges and many other Jewish buildings with the star of David. I suppose old religions like Judaism, Buddhism Zoroastrian died out with the spread of Islam.
Salaam to my Jewish brothers. It's very interesting that our cultures are very similar. Like our food are more similar to Kosher than halal, and our pakhtunwala rules are like Jewish laws. 😂👍❤️
@@fabiofranciolly5106 The pathans/pashtuns residing in Afghanistan and Pakistan have a jew connection they are known to be the lost tribes of Israel but they have accepted Islam now.
Palestinians though, are the actual Israelites. While the majority of the Palestinians are Muslims today, many are still Christian, and a few of the Palestinians are still Jewish. Pashtuns consider the Palestinians to be their brethren.
Very strange logic. Why can Syrian Jews call themselves Syrian? Why South African Jews can call themselves South Africans when their ancestors are mostly from Lithuania? If someone is born in Afghanistan they are Afghan and their children are allowed to call themselves Afghan as that’s the most immediate culture in their home.
@@dcentral There are two ways of claiming heritage, either through ethnicity or citizenship. There are people born in Sweden from parents of foreign ethnicities, but they can only call themselves Swedish if their parents have a citizenship. A Somalian born in Sweden is just Somali unless they apply for a citizenship. The majority of Iranian/Persian Jews did not have an Afghan citizenship. So they can't call themselves Afghan.
@@helmandblue8720 Concept of citizenship is a modern invention of the Western world. Just before WWI many countries did not have birth certificates, death certificates or passports. Many Afghans don’t even have birth certificates still let alone passports. Older people there don’t know their true birthdays sometime because they never had birth certificates.
@@dcentral the lack of or the presence of a birth certificate does not entitle nor exclude a person from a citizenship. There are people in Europe as well as a majority in America who don't have passports but are citizens of those areas. I know ethnic Swedish people who until their late 40's did not have travel documents. Did not make them less Swedish. Let me give you an example from my own life. As a medical student I took some time out to work in a refugee camp. There was an Iranian doctor there working with us. He was born in Canada to two Iranian parents whom moved to Canada to seek political asylum just before the regime change due to his father's involvement in politics. They're were given temporary stay but not citizenship. He went to school, medical school and dated a few Canadian women until he finally settled with an Iranian woman who was also there seeking asylum. At the age of 35 he and his parents were given a final no on their attempt to becoming naturalised citizens, and were deported along with his wife and three children. Despite having stayed in Canada for a few generations they were not automatically Canadians even if that was the last culture they grew up in. Although citizenship may be a new thing in Europe in terms of documents that is not how citizenship and affiliation works in other parts of the world. In Afghanistan both historically and now there are two ways of being an Afghan. You are either born to Afghan parents or you are granted an Afghan citizenship. Which the majority of these Iranian/Tajik Jews were not granted. Just like asylum seekers live illegally in Europe and North America these guys families did that in Afghanistan. Until the creation of the state of Israel, when almost all but a handful left Afghanistan to seek Israeli citizenship.
@@dcentral oh and one more thing. There were birth certificates before WW1, and in the times before everyone had a paper copy of their birth certificate (mostly due to financial reasons) people relied on church books for determining 'belonging to a community/nationality'. Genealogy is a huge and very interesting field.
The real afghans are not Muslim. Arabs attacked us and we lost the war against them. They changed our religion, alphabet and culture. It’s sad but true . Long live Afghan Jews. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhist, Christians and non Islam believers! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You talk about the dishes each culture makes but I’d really like to see them and have you describe the taste. Can you manage to get yourself invited to dinner?
Hopefully no one gets offended for me saying this, but I know two families from Afghanistan who I thought had a Jewish resemblance, and so when I asked them if they were from Herat, they confirmed it to be true. I felt really happy to find out that they know each other as well (that way they can preserve their family's heritage as being Bnei Israel). When I looked up the history of Afghan Jews, it turns out that a lot of Mashhadi/Bnei Anusim Jews fled to Herat in Afghanistan (where there are Sunni Muslims) to escape the persecution of the Shias in Iran. The majority of those Jews then migrated to Israel while those of them who embraced Islam remained in Afghanistan. The funny part is one of those friends of mine always gets greeted in Hebrew when he uses the MTA because a lot of the Jewish rabbis can recognize his heritage based on how he looks (even his Kufiyah he wears looks similar to a white Yamaka (even though it's supposed to emulate the Kufiyah of Hz. Shah Abrarul Haqq Pulpoori from India)). It's really nice to meet people with such amazing culture and heritage.
🇦🇫Being an Afghan, I truly love my all afghan brothers and sister in the State of Israel. I wish one day you could be able to visit Afghanistan. Special Thanks for the State of Israel 🇮🇱who are giving them security and home.
So you’re Thanking Israel the terrorist illegal state for killing the indigenous Palestinians and inviting other thugs from other countries to join this illegal state? Why don’t you take those thugs back to their land Afghanistan.
@@Rsr40 Bro, Jews belongs to Jerusalem as much as an arab muslim does. I support two state solution. Remember, No one can deny the existence of the State of Israel. I wish Peace for both Palestinian and Israelis.
Please help: I was living until the age of 12 in Afghanistan/Kabul and yeah, I am an Afghan. I had an Afghan friend and classmate up until the end of 4 grade but he and his family left Afghanistan. An Afghan Jewish family and here some details: First name: Hertzel/Hertzel Age now: between 45-47 School in Kabul: French school called “Estiqlal” Home: behind ministry of interior Hope to find my lost friend as we have lots to tell each other 🤞
i CATCH you saying lie here. Afghanistan has different ethnicities. 70% of Afghanistan are non Pashtun people. you cant hide it. Iam an ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan and if you come to North and say that I will show you where is your country. maybe time to send you back to where you belong. @@babacent
Thank you soooooo much. As an afghan I am really glad to hear About our jewish Afghan. And they still have Some afghani culture. And they have good memories from there
Joules Irvine - jews are not Pashtuns. Lol Jews are part of Afghanistan just like other ethnicities but sadly many of them left the country due to wars. Get ur facts right bro. We all love Afghanistan it’s the most valuable connection between us all afghans.
There were Jewish afghans in Kabul before civil war broke out. They were hard working kind people and me growing up there saw nothing different about them. You should know the silk road went through Afghanistan, as a result different people traveled through Afghanistan for thousands of years, some married and stayed there making Afghanistan a multiracial and multicultural country. You see some Afghans dark like people of Africa and some whiter than Russians. We all got along just fine before the war broke out and the war started by two super powers.
We are Afghan pashtuns , yes we accept that we are the lost tribe of Israel but I love my country Afghanistan!!!! We all pashtuns reverted to Islam at once time ! Proud to be a Muslim 😍
Not all pashtuns. Only the Afridi and Yusuf Zai tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan are of Jewish origin. Many of them keep a record of their family trees with them all the way up to prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) peace be upon him.
+going2sleep - what you wrote is true - but as far as Afghan Jewish are concerned , most (not all ) are former Persian Jews that preserved Jewish Persian culture. BTW their food is to my opinion one of the best from Jewish communities.
@@thesilentway1086 the silent way your statement is not all correct. Most of Afghan Jews I grew up with back in Kabul, immigrated from Palestine and some were Sephardic Jews that immigrated from former Soviet Union as well as some Ashkenazi Jews that fled Germany Nazis. They were 1st, second and even third generation. Perhaps the Afg. Jewish that you are talking about were those that settled in Heart that borders with eastern Iran. But I know for the fact that not most but few are former Iranians Jews.
@@zabizeyaee8002 not really. There is an ancient community of Persian Jews from greater Khorassan (Central Asia) that have also been in Afghanistan. Look up the Bukharan Jewish community
No religious minorities except a select few remain in Afghanistan now. The Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists all fled or were forcefully converted eventually. The Taliban celebrated this accomplishments by demolishing the Bamiyan Buddhist statues. Only the Shia Hazaras exist today who continue to experience genocide at the hands of the Afghan fanatics.
Quit running your mouth. There were never any Christians in Afghanistan. Nor was there Buddhists for many centuries. Taliban did not persecute non-Muslim minorities. Quit lying. You can't find a single attack by Afghan Taliban on non-Muslim Afghans. Hazaras are considered foreigners by all Afghans. Only foreigners consider them to be Afghan. It will be a question which must be debated in Afghanistan, the future of the Hazaras and central Asian people now that the Soviet Union is gone and their homelands are free.
AugustanFinn the Taliban blew up the buddhas because the UN wanted to spend money fixing them up yet the entire country was suffering from famine and sanctions
4:52 That's CRAZY how these people you randomly stopped on the street just happen to be related to the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan. His story is so famous. What a small world !
Given the community of Jews there was very tiny, it is very likely that once Corey encounters someone that has that community background then they would be related. These videos are an assembly of interviews that were taken over a long period of time, he did not go on a certain day searching for Jews that have some ancestors who used to live in Afghanistan.
across the board in these videos, food is the most regularly mentioned thing....makes sense since my American parents ate the foods associated with Jews of Russia and Poland and I still do along with the foods of these origins as well. and I think that is what makes the Jews cool, you can adopt from all the diaspora. And the MUSIC.
As afghan Muslim I love my Jew Afghans we don’t have any problems with them we accept them before and then too always welcome back to Afghanistan. Afghanistan 🇦🇫is your place always be yours. I watched this video I really enjoy it thanks to connect us with our Afghan’s JEW
omg much love to our jewish afghans!! The islamisation of Afghanistan has destroyed our beautiful country, culture and history. I hope our compatriots are all thriving and enjoying life wherever they are. Those of us who havent been brainwashed by islam are standing in full support with Israel, we are united in our fight against terrorism and obscurantism💙🤍
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As an Afghan Muslim, I really really enjoyed this video. These are my people! My mum always told me about the Afghan Jews, her neighbours and childhood friends. She only ever spoke of them with love and respect, from what I gathered there was no difference between the Jews and Afghans. make a part 2!!!
Thank you for saying this and I totally agree with you. It's really a pleasure to read your kind words!
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@@benyaminnaseri6162 nice
It was nice to read these words ...actually ethnicity should be more than religion.
There are no Afghan jews, only people that assume they are.
The first respond is right, there was never a persecution of Jews in Afghanistan.
Even there were no any persecution of any Jew when Umer Bin Khattab and then later on Sultan Muhammad Ayobi conquered the Jerusalem.
I am an Afghan from Herat. We had plenty of Jew friends, neighbors and so on. My grand-fathers business partners were Jews. There was absolutely no religious hatred. Actually its pretty well known that many Jews from Uzbekistan/Tajikistan and Iran moved into Afg because of Communist and Shia persecution. Afg used to be a quite a safe place before the war.
@Erin Mo Shut up, Hazara.
@@rostamamirzadehkhorasani9454 🥒👌
Yup
I remember about 40 years ago, I was on a trip in a village in Jalalabad (about 150 km from Kabul). My dad waved to a family having a picnic in a mountainous area. We stopped our car and my father and my older brother got out of our 1964 Chevetolet Impala (model of the year) and hugged two men and said hello to the ladies, all in Afghan language. The family was listening to famous Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir. I asked my dad and my brother as to who these people were. My dad told me that they were his business associates and very nice people. I asked why their names were different? My dad said because they are of Jewish faith. This was my first time to see Jews. They were very nice and completely at home in Afghanistan. Nice memory!
Salis Omar, Afghanistan
Salisomer now where tou r living?
Afghanis are beautiful people! I would love to be friends with someone from Afghanistan 🇦🇫!
Bad for you because they are not afghans
Omertje why are they not Afghans when they identified as so?
Where you from btw?
Assadullah Zazai born in Sinai of Yemeni heritage.
Pashtoon Afghans are the tribe of isreal.Check the DNA it well match
As an Afghan Jew it seems that we have two significant groups of Afghan Jews in Israel: the community of Jerusalem which has origins from Kabul and the community of south of Tel-Aviv/Holon (where I born) which has origins from Herat. We are somewhat influenced by the Persians but generally we’re definitely distinct from them.
Greetings to all the people of Afghanistan, and I hope you finally get through all your problems in your country!
Love and peace brother I’m also from Kabul ❤️ 🇮🇱🇦🇫
Wish you all the best bro
From Herat, Afghanistan
Normally I would say our country if you refer as yourself as an Afghan Jew ? Anyway lots of love 💕
@@arrahimi9774 afghans are brother of islam not of israel, afghans have jewish afghan brothers but israels flag doenst have to do anything with afghan jews
@@afgakhialjazeera3144 How do you know that? Have u been there? I have and I must say that we are neutral and I as an afghan nothing to do with the politic. Plz stop bringing Islam in everything humanity always comes first and stop talking about all afghans. You don’t represent us all so plz mind ur own business that’s only ur opinion. In the comment section you will see more afghans with the same ideology as mine so plz stop including us with ur mindset. That’s ur fundamentalist think not mine or any other afghans.
Reading all the nice comments from Afghan Muslims makes my heart happy. Love and peace to all the people of Afghanistan.
Toda raba, Jews are always welcome in our country! As visitors, as immigrants, anyway you like!
I’m a Muslim Afghan, to me he is still my country man. I don’t care what religion or faith, he follows. Judgement Day we all will be judged based on our good and bad deeds.
Ford AFG jewish is not just a religion you have to be jewish by blood too it s ethnico religious, it s genetically prouve, and it s visible that they share same origin. They are not afghani dont look like afghani.
@@ahmadfarid9698 Nonsense. They do not hate anyone. They want to live in peace just like rest of us.
@@adamrhaman5833 If they live without any war then why not let make agree for two state solution there will be peace for jews and Muslims.
@@innocentkhattak3375 Due to zionists and islamists
Ahmad Farid Most Jews don’t care.
I watched this with my Afghan husband. Sad that peace also stays away from Afghanistan
Race traitor
@@kevinzack537 What do you mean?
are you from Israel ? would you want to be my new friend?
@رضا هروی She's married, lol
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I live in New York and I'm also a Jew with heavy Afghan roots, I would've gone into way more detail than almost everyone in the video I'm very involved with Afghan tradition, I enjoyed the video👍🏻
Pashtun or Persian with Afghan roots?
@@hadicric4624 Perisan with Afghan roots
@@leeorsellouk1326 nice. Coz in Afghanistan we have many languages
@@leeorsellouk1326 we have many languages in Afghanistan.
Salaam brother! 😂👍🇦🇫
I'm Afghan and Muslim I was born in 80s when 50% of Afghans were already runaway from Afghanistan due to West vs Russia cold war. This video is amazing it shows my people from far far away I don't care if they are jew Hindu Christian they my people ❤️
Are you from Queens, Virginia or freemont?
wow I am an afghan and I am so emotional to see this
The second boy has the eyes, and innocent looking face that afghans naturally posses. looking at him made me upset for Afghanistan & the Afghan diaspora
I though he had the typical Iranian features. Many Iranians in Israel share similar traits...the eyes, the eyebrows, the nose..
my dear afghans are iranic people so they look the same really.
@@Hehe-tg3xk Afghanistan is very diverse. There are Iranic groups and even Persians there but not every Afghan is from an Iranic group. Their are Mongol (if its an offensive term i apologise i heard it been used) groups there too. So lots of different looks
He looks like Aamir Khan
As an Uzbek Afghani, I'm so so so so sad to watch them outside of Afghanistan, they have special place to our heart, why our belief should separate us ?
I wish, I could meet with a Jewish Afghani someday
Afghan. Not Afghani.
One Day that my jewish brother can come to Afghanistan and see the beautyful Afghanistan where they from, so sad..
Big Love from Afghanistan ♥️🇮🇱🇦🇫🇦🇫
Afghanen lieben ihre jüdischen brüder aber nicht die israelische flagge
@@afgakhialjazeera3144 also ich hab gar kein problem mit den Jüdischen Brüder, ist zu respektieren wie alle anderen, und wenn sie noch ehemalige Afghanen sind umso mehr, vor Gott sind wir alle gleich. Ob man ein guter moslem oder guter jude ist, Gott entscheidet alleine über alles!
@@afgakhialjazeera3144Afghan jews that live in israel are proud zionist jews, so the joke is on you
No to Zionism! Yes to Judaism
I’m not Jews but I send you guys a lot of love specially for my afghan Jews, and I hope one the all people around the world could visit their countrys, mostly don’t forget your culture!
iam from Afghanistan shinwari tribe my father had jem stones and gold business with jews back in 60s 70s its was great days
the lost part of my history, new generation is working hard to make it better, I feel empty I feel sad when I see what those inhuman, barbaric terrorists did to my country.
I was born in 2000 and I'm living in one of the darkest chapters of history of Afghanistan, I hope we the new generation change everything for good .
i believe your generation will make Afghanistan a peaceful place to live again
the new generation is as fucked as much as the old ones
Best of luck my friend I believe that the country will soon resurrect
As Muslim and Afghan I loved this Video and I loved to see my Afghan brothers r and sisters I hope one day you guys coming back to visit your beautiful home country Afghanistan.
I am a Muslim from Afghanistan. I said it loudly that I love all the Jews, especially the afghan ones. We connect. Loll
@@ahmadfarid9698 , that is how Osama Bin Laden messed up your country, saying paranoid lies
I am from Afghanistan 🇦🇫
And 🇮🇱🖕🏼🐕
@@nostrandholdings2324we never kill kids
@@Samir-px9or but you aren't afghan. if you have lived abroad all of your life. Afghanistan has had many jews in the past with Pashtuns ethnically being yisraeli tribe and ethnic jews so yeah that's bad news for you
Well if you are Muslim you shouldn’t love them just like your prophet
My dad used to tell me about our Jewish community in Afghanistan. He told me that they were very prosperous community. The currency exchange market of Kabul, Sarai Shahzada, was originally owned by an Afghan Jew. I wish my country had been secure and away from all this terror. It would have been so beautiful with that diverse communities.
And I know that song. I have heard it too. 😂
Btw, I love Palaw too.
I'm Afghan I didn't know there are alot of Afghani people in Isreal my mind is blown away.
Afghani food is really delicious! Love from Palestine
Thanks bro what a nice thing to say.
عراسي
Afghans is one off the 10 Trib which lose.
Love to u not to jews. cheep
I am.afghan but i dont like jews
The best Central Asian music comes from Afghanistan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan .
Really comment.
Pashtun is afghan
@@nigerianprince9023 Most of Afghans are not Pashtuns and most of Jews lived in Tajik majority towns such as Kabul, Balkh and Herat.
@@rostamamirzadehkhorasani9454 you're right
I'm agree with you
@@rostamamirzadehkhorasani9454 I'm Tajik from Afghanistan we love the Jewish but the Pashtons hate Jewish and we have not any problems with Jewish they can come live in Afghanistan like we live here 💕💝💐💖😘❤️🙏✊🏻✊🏼✊🏻✊🏼
I wish I could find out exactly which cities they were from in Afghanistan, because Afghanistan is ethnically diverse, ie. Herat has more Jewish heritage than Kabul, etc.
Anita K. I agree and hate it when they keep claiming it. Nothing is proven and there is no way it can be traced by DNA. People need to embrace who they are .
there families were likely living in cities such as herat, kabul northern areas. If you read history they arrived to central asia through the silk road after the exile I believe they lived there for a long time adopted the culture before returning to Israel/palestine. There also classified as Mizrahi jews. There was also a larger communities in bukhara and samarkand where they developed there own language called bukhori which is a mixture of hebrew and farsi
Because herat historically was city of Persians not Afghans (pashtuns)
@@fariborza.e.7755heratis are still afghan at the end of the day and has been a part of afghanistan since it’s been formed
4:37 drew bisnky a travel guy made a video about theyr uncle
First thing that came to my mind, too. This has to be upvoted.
yhhhh
I am lucky to come across this video and would love to visit Israel and see my Afghan Jews. I love you all. I hope there will be time we get reunited. Love you all. Indeed there was a time where humanity came first but unfortunately our Afghan Jews as well as Jews around the world went through so much pain.
It’s not isreahell! It’s called Palestine!!!!!!!
The other thing is that Persia was a huge empire, not just a small country. It included Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kurdistan, and Iran, and much more. It’s like calling one Latino. He/she could be from any Latino also know as South American country, not just Mexico. Loll
The the Iranians always hide behind Persian thing. Where afghans we know who we are but don’t brag about it. At the end God (Allah) will judge us by our hearts not nationality, skin color, wealth, or power. May Allah be with all of you guys.
mma, that is what you have been indoctrinated by that government to show their superiority. Perhaps Iran if I am not mistaken. Looking back at the history and you will learn that the Persian empire that you are talking about existed long before Arabs invasion of areas that includes current. Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kurdistan. They were not even countries back then. Yes during the Great Darius and Sirius there was a big Persian empire but did not last long. When Alexander conquered and defeated Persian empire, they invaded and ruled where your ancestors lived. So should Greeks claim that current Iran belongs or belonged to Greece? Also when Hotakis concurred most of current Iran back in 18th. century, should Afghans claim that Iran included in Afghanistan and ? So many dynasties came and gone but what is important now is that cultures and languages still remained and those of us sharing those languages and cultures should enjoy and cherish our commonalities, not our differences or Nationalities or who is tougher and who has a bigger dick or what not....you know what I mean jelly bean?
Persian and Khorasan were two different empires don’t confuse them. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and a small eastern part of Iran were called Khorasan. Don’t call it “ Persian empire”.
@ Father Enes
Are you Iranian???
@Anita K. budha came from nepal not indian
@Anita K. not really nepal was previously not populated until after an earthquake the tibeto chinese were the first to populate the country then later the north india people came
I remember when my mom used to say she had 2 good Jewish friends in Kabul Afghanistan. That was possibly in mid 40’s early 50’s but we all had to leave in 1980 due Russian invasion and now I hear not a lot of Jewish lives in Afghanistan. This made me sad but thanks for this video, it was interesting and the song is gule sangam by Afghan legend Ahmad Zaher.
Only one Jew lives in Afganistán.
@@zalaegerszeg9527 it was actually two but Zabulon tries to hide the fact that her cousin was also living in afghanistan married to an afghan muslim. Tovah is her name and she was trying to have contact with her family in israel and gives zabulon a letter to send it to israel for her relatives but he didn`t give it to her family just because he wants to be the one and only jew in afghanistan to earn furthermore money. He was a bad guy
@Corey - Amazing video and thank you for sharing it! I am desperately in search of my old school friend from Afghanistan who is an Afghan Jew but our ways separated when both our families left Kabul in the late 80s. His name was Hertzel but don't remember his family name. They lived behind the Ministry of Interior, opposite Malalai French school and we both went to Isteqlal School, also a French-run school. He is around my age, 41. If you could please share this within any community you have access to. THANK YOU!
You could contact one of the organizations of Afgani Jews to contact him.
I spent the first 4 years of my school time with a great friend and classmate called Hertzel and I never learned nor anyone cared that he was of Jewish believe etc. back then he was just another afghan kid as I was. I only knew about him being Jewish as he was allowed to go home during Islam classes which made me jealous:)
I wish him and his family true peace and prosperity wherever they are and hopefully I will meet him at some point again! 🤞
Afghan Jews/ Afghan Sikhs/ Afghan Hindus/ are all our blood.
We Afghans never fought against each other religion or caste or language in the history of Afghanistan. We Afghans respect each other. ❤❤❤
At 4:42 Please tell that nice girl that we are not Arabs -.-* . There are many ethnicities in Afg. (Persians (Tajiks), Pashtuns, Hazaras, Uzbeks etc.) but none of them are Arabs !!!!
Tajiks are not Persians...try to understand this
javad alizade Yes they are
I totally agree man. We Afghani are not Arab. Please stop calling us Arab.
Tajiks are not persians. They are tajikistani immigrants, hazaras came by force and are mongols. Ozbeks immigrants aswell.
there are many afghans of arab ancestry its mentioned in history books, arabs came to afghanistan in three seprate waves through out history, even the national anthem of afghanistan mentions there being arabs in afghanistan if you want proof let me know
Amazing video , Love all thoess boys and girls who didn't forget their past , and where they originated.
I Hope one day all Afghans will live in peace side by side of each other. Love and peace to my all Afghan Jews xx
Bro, they are originally from Judea... Jews got kicked from their homes throughout history...
From an Afghan guy to my Afghan Jewish brothers and sisters I wish we could visit each other one day!
Afghans never dislike Jewish people. God bless!
At 4:40 the half Afghan Jew says the local Arabs celebrate with her great uncle. Except that Afghanistan isn't an Arab country FYI :/
Many times Israelis refer to Muslims as Arabs
As an Afghan, I loved this 🇦🇫🇮🇱🇵🇸
TheUltimateConspiracyTheorist staa morr oghem koni
Come on guys.. Afghan and Iranian is not the same.
Too bad most of them feel really disconnected.
They are not, but the Hebrews who lived in the diaspora communities there are.
Yama it’s the same u idiot
Sam language Sam culture and same religion
Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-ana
no we are not all the same. pashtun and tajik are completely different ethnicity.
Yama because they are nor afghani nor parsian by blood. It was just a diaspora land they belong to levant.
Depends on the afghans. Persian speaking Afghans are the same as Iranians.
What an amazing video thank you❤️
7:19 when that cute girl starts singing Afghani song 😁😁😂
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I’m Afghan 🇦🇫 the war seperate everyone & never people had religious problems live side by side under one rule & law that’s why till now they’re graves & place of worship is in Herat province & Kabul so awesome To hear Bc Afghans 🇦🇫 are known for their hospitality & delicious food Qabeli palo,chalo ,manto, Hashak the song she sing (Gul sangam Gul sangam )so cool was from Ahmad zaher famous Afghan singer ect....
My cousin visited Afghanistan in 1970s' and loved it. I regret I did not go. I could have.
+Lucky
if we want to be realistic, afghanistan used to have religious groups problems, sorry to say but its from the muslim majority there. Unfortunately, political islam is a thing and it allows other religions mostly only the ones of the book and even this means they're lower than islam and restricted
To say people in afghanistan never had religious problems is one big dellusion. Good if you actually think so, but back then and until today, thats not the case
Wow who knew that there were this many Afghans in Israel
They are afghan israel i mean in nature and from roots they are jews just now they left afghanistan coz of security problames but the in actual there wasnt any problame of security for any jews
@Four Eight actually they are Afghans they left Afghanistan in 1979 when Soviets invaded Afghanistan they left for Israel they are Afghans jews
@Four Eight Read my comment again
@Four Eight chub bosh lauda
@Four Eight 😂 khar
I love all my Jewish Afghans. They are always our brothers and sisters and we always love them. Afghans are brave and honest and straightforward people it doesn’t matter what religion they are.
Even Afghan Hindus and Sikh are the best of best.
Israel looks so mixed. It is sad that they could not live in peace as citizens of Afghanistan in there country. bigotry and prejudice destroyed Afghanistan.
4:40 She doesn't even know that Afghans are not Arabs. Lol.
sad lol
I realy enjoyed watching this video thanks for sharing this kind of videos.
Regards from an afghan live in Sweden
Here is the song the lady at 7:20 is speaking about, Its most famous interpretations is from iranian musicians. nevertheless, it was quit popular in Afghanistan. In Herat there is still a place called "Muhaleh Mussahia" ( a lot of jews had businesses in that street), Jews where called "Mussahi" which translates to "the kinship of Moses". Out of respect, no one called them jews as far as I know, in Herat at least.
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Long live my afghan jews
Mr Zeee 🖕🏼you said that to the hazarah you pukhtun bastards
The Hazara tribe are not in exile and nobody forces then out of the country. what do you mean by your comment, Monica? btw. I'm not a pasthun.
@efopo, I hope not. The afghan jews must understand that not all afghans are anti-semitic. Furthermore, jews are an ethnicity of Afghanistan just like all the other ethnicities we've got. Therefore they are a part the lands history and heritage just like the rest of us. Nobody has the right to keep them away.. People must also understand that afghans never throw jews out of the country. They left by free will. For me all people from afghan background are always welcome back to their country no matter religion or ethnicity. Peace
efopo LOL TF 😂
Monica Shanchez pakhtun ares the real tribes of Isreal idiot
Thanks for the UA-cam algorithm to bring up this video! I'm a Hazara (Christian) from Afghanistan, best greetings to my Jewish brothers and sisters ❤️
I support Israel against Islamic terrorists! Long live Israel 🇮🇱💞
As a Christian, how do you feel about Israelis spitting on nuns on the streets?
Do you still support them now?
@@NYCDurrani I support Israel! Against the bloody cult islam!
May Allah guide you, my lil bro, to the straight path and the truth.
it makes me so sad to see many afghans left their homeland and went to different countries because of the war, I live in Canada and my parents are both Muslim. the country is still in the war. I am spiritual.
Afghans everywhere.. beautiful people!
In case people were confused about what Palau and Chelow are, they're Afghani rice pilafs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuli_palaw
These are not official ethnicities. If they are Jews, these are called countries of exile( Galut). The official ethnicities of Israel are Jews, Arabs, Armenians, Druzes, and some more.
Thank you so my for very nice video I love it
I’m Afghan American
My mom's best friend was Jewish when she lived in Afghanistan. The friend and her family migrated to Israel just as many other Jewish families did after the Russian invasion. Many also went to the US, specifically to NY, after the Russian invasion. My mother lost contact with her best friend but she never forgot about her.
Jews were treated just like any other Afghans in Afghanistan and no one bothered them about religion, even the Taliban.
This is bullsh*t.
it's really interesting that Jew and Afghan both call thier father ABBA
To Catch A Copycat
no it's no an arabic word
Arabic and Hebrew are related when you go back far enough they both evolved from Aramaic I believe so.
We say baba not abba
@@ahmadshahab566 are u Indian ??
@@aniksinha6409 no
As long you are an Afghan you are our Brother doesn't matter what religion ....
I really enjoyed the video 👍
we proud all of afghani every where the world..
We the Afghans have respect for all. Good know.
That last jew in Afghanistan left after taliban takeover.in previous rule he was tortured by taliban and forced to convert but he survived all
beautiful video, thank you so much
Miss my Afghanis around the world 🖤❤️💚no matter jew muslim or etc...
No matter what religion you follow, you still my Afghan. ✊✊💪💪
9:07 correct translation: what he said is jews who got *there*, not "from" there. he meant jews who settled in these areas of iran and afghanistan after being expelled from the old Israel and sent to diaspora.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this
Exactly you should come back coz that’s not your land! The land you live belongs to the Palestinians not afghan Jews!!! As an afghan I am ashamed to know so many afghans live there and they call it israshit 😡😡😡 you are occupying Palestine
Afghanistan besyaar zeba hast .
It is!! Where did you learn that?
Harf haitan zebast!
@@raheelbelal5848 Tashakhor mard e am Afghan hast.
@@cepeidioten from my Afghan partner and his family and also from Afghan books and Afghan TV on UA-cam. Man Yahudi az Europa hastom , marde am Afghan hast.
Katharina Huth omg im Afghan and i also dated a Jewish girl for more than 3 years she was the love of my life, but her parents don’t allow us to marry..
The old man said that Afghanistan was good to the Jews. That's because the largest ethnic group of that country - the Pashtuns, are ethnically Jewish!
Afghani is the currency Afghanistan. Afghanistani is a nationality, which is made of different ethnicities. The word Afghan refers to Pashtun people. The food from Afghanistan is mostly from its northern regions, which is made up of Persian speaking people of central Asia and Aryan or Tajik decent. The nation of Afghanistan remained neutral during WW2. And the Jewish people in Afghanistan lived in peace. It is sad that these Half Afghanistani Jews do not relate to their rich Afghanistani backgrounds.
Afghanistani is not the nationality. AFGHAN is the nationality.
Respect to Afghan Jews from Afghanistan 🇦🇫✡
Hope for a peaceful Afghanistan
I've seen a documentary on Afghanistan and they showed old buildings that use to be synagoges and many other Jewish buildings with the star of David. I suppose old religions like Judaism, Buddhism Zoroastrian died out with the spread of Islam.
Salaam to my Jewish brothers. It's very interesting that our cultures are very similar. Like our food are more similar to Kosher than halal, and our pakhtunwala rules are like Jewish laws. 😂👍❤️
Once I read that the afeghan people was one of the jewish Lost tribes.
@@fabiofranciolly5106 The pathans/pashtuns residing in Afghanistan and Pakistan have a jew connection they are known to be the lost tribes of Israel but they have accepted Islam now.
Tahr33m khan and now they hate Israel with out knowing that they belonged to it....
Palestinians though, are the actual Israelites. While the majority of the Palestinians are Muslims today, many are still Christian, and a few of the Palestinians are still Jewish. Pashtuns consider the Palestinians to be their brethren.
Exactly.
Several Afghani tribes are Jews who were forced to convert to Islam but really kept their Judaism pakhtunwala
They are Persian/Iranian Jews that lived in Afghanistan. They are not Afghan.
Very strange logic. Why can Syrian Jews call themselves Syrian? Why South African Jews can call themselves South Africans when their ancestors are mostly from Lithuania? If someone is born in Afghanistan they are Afghan and their children are allowed to call themselves Afghan as that’s the most immediate culture in their home.
@@dcentral There are two ways of claiming heritage, either through ethnicity or citizenship. There are people born in Sweden from parents of foreign ethnicities, but they can only call themselves Swedish if their parents have a citizenship. A Somalian born in Sweden is just Somali unless they apply for a citizenship. The majority of Iranian/Persian Jews did not have an Afghan citizenship. So they can't call themselves Afghan.
@@helmandblue8720 Concept of citizenship is a modern invention of the Western world. Just before WWI many countries did not have birth certificates, death certificates or passports. Many Afghans don’t even have birth certificates still let alone passports. Older people there don’t know their true birthdays sometime because they never had birth certificates.
@@dcentral the lack of or the presence of a birth certificate does not entitle nor exclude a person from a citizenship. There are people in Europe as well as a majority in America who don't have passports but are citizens of those areas. I know ethnic Swedish people who until their late 40's did not have travel documents. Did not make them less Swedish.
Let me give you an example from my own life. As a medical student I took some time out to work in a refugee camp. There was an Iranian doctor there working with us. He was born in Canada to two Iranian parents whom moved to Canada to seek political asylum just before the regime change due to his father's involvement in politics. They're were given temporary stay but not citizenship. He went to school, medical school and dated a few Canadian women until he finally settled with an Iranian woman who was also there seeking asylum. At the age of 35 he and his parents were given a final no on their attempt to becoming naturalised citizens, and were deported along with his wife and three children. Despite having stayed in Canada for a few generations they were not automatically Canadians even if that was the last culture they grew up in. Although citizenship may be a new thing in Europe in terms of documents that is not how citizenship and affiliation works in other parts of the world. In Afghanistan both historically and now there are two ways of being an Afghan. You are either born to Afghan parents or you are granted an Afghan citizenship. Which the majority of these Iranian/Tajik Jews were not granted. Just like asylum seekers live illegally in Europe and North America these guys families did that in Afghanistan. Until the creation of the state of Israel, when almost all but a handful left Afghanistan to seek Israeli citizenship.
@@dcentral oh and one more thing. There were birth certificates before WW1, and in the times before everyone had a paper copy of their birth certificate (mostly due to financial reasons) people relied on church books for determining 'belonging to a community/nationality'. Genealogy is a huge and very interesting field.
Proud of you ❤❤❤
the girl in that brother sister duo is a babe
The real afghans are not Muslim. Arabs attacked us and we lost the war against them. They changed our religion, alphabet and culture. It’s sad but true . Long live Afghan Jews. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhist, Christians and non Islam believers! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You dont know shit about real afghans, afghans are proud to be muslim, alhamduillah we became muslim alhamduillah khoda shokr
@@afgakhialjazeera3144 💋🍌
a lot of the jews that were living in the Khorasan were in Herat, Bukhara, and Samarkand
As IDF server I love Afghan people I believe my grandpa was originally from Kabul Afghanistan
idk how much afghans live in israel?
Are one of the good soldiers or the ones who kílll Innocents?
@@newgengaming799 only God knows the good or bad soldiers.
@@newgengaming799 this in Afghani if he is then he would be Muslim submit their well to well of creators not to murderer ....
tnx for your kind words am pashtun from afghanistan
Nice to know that the power of rice pilau will never die out
It is sad that there is only 1 jew left in afghanistan today.
I love watching these videos. I know a few Hebrew words now.
Which are?.
Lama, kolo, nakno, gern, madina, etc
Thank you very much for this Video. I was searching all over the internet for some narrative of afghani-jews.
You talk about the dishes each culture makes but I’d really like to see them and have you describe the taste. Can you manage to get yourself invited to dinner?
You can search youtube and get recipes!
Hopefully no one gets offended for me saying this, but I know two families from Afghanistan who I thought had a Jewish resemblance, and so when I asked them if they were from Herat, they confirmed it to be true. I felt really happy to find out that they know each other as well (that way they can preserve their family's heritage as being Bnei Israel).
When I looked up the history of Afghan Jews, it turns out that a lot of Mashhadi/Bnei Anusim Jews fled to Herat in Afghanistan (where there are Sunni Muslims) to escape the persecution of the Shias in Iran. The majority of those Jews then migrated to Israel while those of them who embraced Islam remained in Afghanistan. The funny part is one of those friends of mine always gets greeted in Hebrew when he uses the MTA because a lot of the Jewish rabbis can recognize his heritage based on how he looks (even his Kufiyah he wears looks similar to a white Yamaka (even though it's supposed to emulate the Kufiyah of Hz. Shah Abrarul Haqq Pulpoori from India)). It's really nice to meet people with such amazing culture and heritage.
Yusha Umeri But their are/where also Bukharan Jews in Afghanistan, not only those who fled from Mashhad and eastern Iran
🇦🇫Being an Afghan, I truly love my all afghan brothers and sister in the State of Israel. I wish one day you could be able to visit Afghanistan. Special Thanks for the State of Israel 🇮🇱who are giving them security and home.
So you’re Thanking Israel the terrorist illegal state for killing the indigenous Palestinians and inviting other thugs from other countries to join this illegal state? Why don’t you take those thugs back to their land Afghanistan.
@@Rsr40 Bro, Jews belongs to Jerusalem as much as an arab muslim does. I support two state solution. Remember, No one can deny the existence of the State of Israel. I wish Peace for both Palestinian and Israelis.
Please help: I was living until the age of 12 in Afghanistan/Kabul and yeah, I am an Afghan. I had an Afghan friend and classmate up until the end of 4 grade but he and his family left Afghanistan. An Afghan Jewish family and here some details:
First name: Hertzel/Hertzel
Age now: between 45-47
School in Kabul: French school called “Estiqlal”
Home: behind ministry of interior
Hope to find my lost friend as we have lots to tell each other 🤞
Corey do u know that in Afghanistan we also have Persians
Not all Iranians are Persians and not all Persians are iranian
Afghanistan has many ethnic groups including but not limited to those from persian/iranian descent.
King Jeffrey ur an idiot and this is not my real name
Just check the name of your tadjik brothers in tadjikistan.
King Jeffrey padar nalad mordagow karem da madar tu kuss madar
i CATCH you saying lie here. Afghanistan has different ethnicities. 70% of Afghanistan are non Pashtun people. you cant hide it. Iam an ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan and if you come to North and say that I will show you where is your country. maybe time to send you back to where you belong. @@babacent
Thank you soooooo much. As an afghan I am really glad to hear About our jewish Afghan. And they still have Some afghani culture. And they have good memories from there
so emotional, i love my people
We are Pashtuns and we love you all
Joules Irvine - jews are not Pashtuns. Lol
Jews are part of Afghanistan just like other ethnicities but sadly many of them left the country due to wars. Get ur facts right bro.
We all love Afghanistan it’s the most valuable connection between us all afghans.
Saky Zan pe ghy
We all love Afghanistan we need to go build this country once forever.
Jews love peshtus
There were Jewish afghans in Kabul before civil war broke out. They were hard working kind people and me growing up there saw nothing different about them. You should know the silk road went through Afghanistan, as a result different people traveled through Afghanistan for thousands of years, some married and stayed there making Afghanistan a multiracial and multicultural country. You see some Afghans dark like people of Africa and some whiter than Russians. We all got along just fine before the war broke out and the war started by two super powers.
Seven Stacks Nah, Africans weren’t connected to the silk road and Uzbekistan was really the heart of the ancient route.
@@arghunqon3774uzbakistan did not exist those times and uzbaks were in mongolia
Pashtuns are ancient jews that have lost their identity. Alot of scholars agree that they might be one of the Lost tribes of Israel
Im just pashtun and im muslim.. not more bro
Not true at all
We are Afghan pashtuns , yes we accept that we are the lost tribe of Israel but I love my country Afghanistan!!!! We all pashtuns reverted to Islam at once time ! Proud to be a Muslim 😍
king of the World Speak for yourself, DNA denies any connection and no afghans don’t believe we are the lost tribes of israel...
Not all pashtuns. Only the Afridi and Yusuf Zai tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan are of Jewish origin. Many of them keep a record of their family trees with them all the way up to prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) peace be upon him.
Afghanistan has many different ethnicities. No, Persian food is not the same as Afghan food. “Gole sangam Gole sangam chibe gam az dele tangam.”
+going2sleep - what you wrote is true - but as far as Afghan Jewish are concerned , most (not all ) are former Persian Jews that preserved Jewish Persian culture. BTW their food is to my opinion one of the best from Jewish communities.
Gul sanga is name of an afghan singar not name of song
Sabawoon Gole sangam is a poem from mawlana rumi, and I know who you are talking about here but thats not who yhe reference was for.
@@thesilentway1086 the silent way your statement is not all correct. Most of Afghan Jews I grew up with back in Kabul, immigrated from Palestine and some were Sephardic Jews that immigrated from former Soviet Union as well as some Ashkenazi Jews that fled Germany Nazis. They were 1st, second and even third generation. Perhaps the Afg. Jewish that you are talking about were those that settled in Heart that borders with eastern Iran. But I know for the fact that not most but few are former Iranians Jews.
@@zabizeyaee8002 not really. There is an ancient community of Persian Jews from greater Khorassan (Central Asia) that have also been in Afghanistan. Look up the Bukharan Jewish community
Amazing video :D I love Afghan culture and am an Ashkenazi Jew!
Are you in israel?
@@Randomfunny_47 no im not
No religious minorities except a select few remain in Afghanistan now.
The Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists all fled or were forcefully converted eventually.
The Taliban celebrated this accomplishments by demolishing the Bamiyan Buddhist statues.
Only the Shia Hazaras exist today who continue to experience genocide at the hands of the Afghan fanatics.
Quit running your mouth. There were never any Christians in Afghanistan. Nor was there Buddhists for many centuries. Taliban did not persecute non-Muslim minorities. Quit lying. You can't find a single attack by Afghan Taliban on non-Muslim Afghans. Hazaras are considered foreigners by all Afghans. Only foreigners consider them to be Afghan. It will be a question which must be debated in Afghanistan, the future of the Hazaras and central Asian people now that the Soviet Union is gone and their homelands are free.
AugustanFinn the Taliban blew up the buddhas because the UN wanted to spend money fixing them up yet the entire country was suffering from famine and sanctions
The hazaras were targeted because they were considered a fifth column working for Iran
4:52 That's CRAZY how these people you randomly stopped on the street just happen to be related to the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan. His story is so famous. What a small world !
Given the community of Jews there was very tiny, it is very likely that once Corey encounters someone that has that community background then they would be related.
These videos are an assembly of interviews that were taken over a long period of time, he did not go on a certain day searching for Jews that have some ancestors who used to live in Afghanistan.
@@ef2718 no shit moment
Afghanistan loves our Jewish brothers and sisters but we don’t even recognize Israel as a legit state, we stand with our Palestinians.
Here as Afghan, can tell you that historically there's no such thing as Palestine. There was only one Masjid and Muslims overtook Jewish lands,
There is one jew in afghanistan but afghanis really love and respect them.
across the board in these videos, food is the most regularly mentioned thing....makes sense since my American parents ate the foods associated with Jews of Russia and Poland and I still do along with the foods of these origins as well. and I think that is what makes the Jews cool, you can adopt from all the diaspora. And the MUSIC.
As afghan Muslim I love my Jew Afghans we don’t have any problems with them we accept them before and then too always welcome back to Afghanistan. Afghanistan 🇦🇫is your place always be yours.
I watched this video I really enjoy it
thanks to connect us with our Afghan’s JEW
They are not afghans we dont claim them
They are Afghans. I claim those who still feel connected to Afghanistan. If war ends, It would be great if they could visit Afghanistan
omg much love to our jewish afghans!! The islamisation of Afghanistan has destroyed our beautiful country, culture and history. I hope our compatriots are all thriving and enjoying life wherever they are. Those of us who havent been brainwashed by islam are standing in full support with Israel, we are united in our fight against terrorism and obscurantism💙🤍
I'm from Afghanistan & fuck I*rael