Me llamo Benito Forteza soy de Palma de Mallorca e indudablemente soy xueta, descendiente de judíos. Hemos vivido en mi familia esa discriminación hasta hace bien poco (principios y mediados S.XX), a mi padre, a mis tíos, en el colegio les insultaban, mi abuela sufrió el enfado de sus padres por casarse con un xueta, mi tío Jose María Forteza renegó de Mallorca y se fué porque no podía soportar mas el acoso de esa parte de la sociedad mallorquina completamente radical, somos descendientes de judíos y nadie , nadie podrá deshacer esa realidad. Muy orgulloso de mis antepasado porque lo pasaron realmente mal, muy mal. Los xuetas debemos despojarnos de cualquier complejo.Los que quedamos, hemos de sentirnos orgullosos al 100% . No soy ni cristiano practicante, ni judío practicante , pero me interesa saber de donde vengo, y en mi caso es tarea fácil, me gusta la historia en general. Me fascina. Solo hace 330 años de la último auto de fé a manos de la Inquisición contra nuestros antepasados. Demasiado reciente. Mi mas sincero agradecimiento a todas las entidades y organizaciones que se preocupan por divulgar esta historia. Ahora , Mallorca es cosmopolita, abierta al mundo, y las nuevas generaciones ya ni sabrán de que les hablan. Pero estoy seguro que gracias a la memória de estas personas el legado continuará.
Great Documentary!!! My grandfather was spanish from Galícia, from a small town called Ribadavia, and when my cousin went there in 2015, we've found out that we descent from Jewish conversos. In fact, my grandfather was born in the Jewish quarter of that Town in the called "Barrio Xudeo". The town is medieval, and so its jewish quarter. We were never told about the origins of our family as we are raised catholics, including with some priests in the family and somo relatives that didn't like jews. Well, by seing this wonderful documentary, I began to realize the reasons for my ancestors acting this way. How many more descendent of Jews are there throughout Spain? Portugal? Latin America? USA? Middle East? Northen Europe? How many people still ignore their origins?
Arghhhhh, i've done one of the longest comments of my life explaining the origin of some of those surnames and that i think i have mixed jewish and celtic heritage and i've pressed two keys of my keyboard that isn't F5 or ctrl+left_arrow and this thing sent me to the first page of youtube... I will write it again, maybe tomorrow, (but oooooh, i've lost like an hour writing that and now it's all gone)...
Just a little comment regarding the language used on the video. Tradition and history are quite fundamental for the video and the perspective in the same, so since, most likely, the jews in Mallorca all spoke Mallorqui... why Mallorqui is always taken so lightly not just in the video, but also for any newcomers like the rabbi's family? Would not make more sense to try to adapt to the culture instead of embracing a foren Spanish culture that is not natural to the situation in the video and neither to the native of the island? How about if I moved to Israel and did not have any interest in learning Hebrew, but just spoke English? Would that be natural? By the way, very interesting documentary.
A Chilean rabbi was sent in 2010 to the Beni Anussim community in Belmonte, Portugal, a rabbi who is unable or unwilling to speak Portuguese. Surely there must be rabbis in Brazil or rabbis who made the effort to learn Portuguese who would be in a better position to take his place. It shows an absolute lack of cultural awareness.
These family names are very common among many different ethnic groups in Spain and Latin America with no connection to Mallorca at all. Even some with connection to Mallorca without any of these names have shown to be Catalonian mallorquin jews. For example the Bennassar family. Of course, many of the families with these names are descendant of the conversos of Mallorca. The rabbi should learn to speak Català mallorquin .
I remember another genealogical group that found Jewish roots in certain South American families. The people were able to confirm their Jewish history but asked that the group not publicize their identities.
Rabbi Freborg seems to have awakened one morning and decided to convert to Judaism. That's okay, if this video is about Mallorca, and not about him. However, if that is the case, why keep alluding to his understanding of persons who change religions? Sweden banned Jews until 1870. Norway, too. Denmark is the only Scandinavian country without a modern history of state-sponsored anti-Semitism. And that's really the point. When state power and religion are intertwined, religion sanctioned hatred turns to slander, exclusion, and elimination of doubters, questioners, religious nonconformists. It is important that everyone understand that leaving the state religion = ostracized, and/or a gruesome death.
They had no occasion in 600 years to re-convert to judaism , which is better than lies? I don't understand them, I ld rather die than falsely convert to another faith.
Me llamo Benito Forteza soy de Palma de Mallorca e indudablemente soy xueta, descendiente de judíos. Hemos vivido en mi familia esa discriminación hasta hace bien poco (principios y mediados S.XX), a mi padre, a mis tíos, en el colegio les insultaban, mi abuela sufrió el enfado de sus padres por casarse con un xueta, mi tío Jose María Forteza renegó de Mallorca y se fué porque no podía soportar mas el acoso de esa parte de la sociedad mallorquina completamente radical, somos descendientes de judíos y nadie , nadie podrá deshacer esa realidad. Muy orgulloso de mis antepasado porque lo pasaron realmente mal, muy mal. Los xuetas debemos despojarnos de cualquier complejo.Los que quedamos, hemos de sentirnos orgullosos al 100% . No soy ni cristiano practicante, ni judío practicante , pero me interesa saber de donde vengo, y en mi caso es tarea fácil, me gusta la historia en general. Me fascina. Solo hace 330 años de la último auto de fé a manos de la Inquisición contra nuestros antepasados. Demasiado reciente. Mi mas sincero agradecimiento a todas las entidades y organizaciones que se preocupan por divulgar esta historia. Ahora , Mallorca es cosmopolita, abierta al mundo, y las nuevas generaciones ya ni sabrán de que les hablan. Pero estoy seguro que gracias a la memória de estas personas el legado continuará.
Great Documentary!!! My grandfather was spanish from Galícia, from a small town called Ribadavia, and when my cousin went there in 2015, we've found out that we descent from Jewish conversos. In fact, my grandfather was born in the Jewish quarter of that Town in the called "Barrio Xudeo". The town is medieval, and so its jewish quarter. We were never told about the origins of our family as we are raised catholics, including with some priests in the family and somo relatives that didn't like jews. Well, by seing this wonderful documentary, I began to realize the reasons for my ancestors acting this way. How many more descendent of Jews are there throughout Spain? Portugal? Latin America? USA? Middle East? Northen Europe? How many people still ignore their origins?
Great documentary, thank you Rabbi Friberg for what you are doing for the Chueta and Anusim community.
My last name is Aguiló. We have roots in Palma de Mallorca. My grandfather lived in Puerto Rico.
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Que pena, vivo en Mallorca y me está fascinando está historia tan triste pero al mismo tiempo interesante.
Aguillo, Bonin, Cortes, Fuster, Forteza /Fortesa , Miro, Marti, Pinya, Pomar Segura Valls, Valledolides.
Arghhhhh, i've done one of the longest comments of my life explaining the origin of some of those surnames and that i think i have mixed jewish and celtic heritage and i've pressed two keys of my keyboard that isn't F5 or ctrl+left_arrow and this thing sent me to the first page of youtube... I will write it again, maybe tomorrow, (but oooooh, i've lost like an hour writing that and now it's all gone)...
Bonnin
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Just a little comment regarding the language used on the video. Tradition and history are quite fundamental for the video and the perspective in the same, so since, most likely, the jews in Mallorca all spoke Mallorqui... why Mallorqui is always taken so lightly not just in the video, but also for any newcomers like the rabbi's family? Would not make more sense to try to adapt to the culture instead of embracing a foren Spanish culture that is not natural to the situation in the video and neither to the native of the island? How about if I moved to Israel and did not have any interest in learning Hebrew, but just spoke English? Would that be natural? By the way, very interesting documentary.
A Chilean rabbi was sent in 2010 to the Beni Anussim community in Belmonte, Portugal, a rabbi who is unable or unwilling to speak Portuguese. Surely there must be rabbis in Brazil or rabbis who made the effort to learn Portuguese who would be in a better position to take his place. It shows an absolute lack of cultural awareness.
Bonnin, Forteza, aguilo and piña was here.
Bello documental
These family names are very common among many different ethnic groups in Spain and Latin America with no connection to Mallorca at all. Even some with connection to Mallorca without any of these names have shown to be Catalonian mallorquin jews. For example the Bennassar family. Of course, many of the families with these names are descendant of the conversos of Mallorca.
The rabbi should learn to speak Català mallorquin .
💔💔
I remember another genealogical group that found Jewish roots in certain South American families. The people were able to confirm their Jewish history but asked that the group not publicize their identities.
Rabbi Freborg seems to have awakened one morning and decided to convert to Judaism. That's okay, if this video is about Mallorca, and not about him. However, if that is the case, why keep alluding to his understanding of persons who change religions?
Sweden banned Jews until 1870. Norway, too. Denmark is the only Scandinavian country without a modern history of state-sponsored anti-Semitism.
And that's really the point. When state power and religion are intertwined, religion sanctioned hatred turns to slander, exclusion, and elimination of doubters, questioners, religious nonconformists. It is important that everyone understand that leaving the state religion = ostracized, and/or a gruesome death.
They had no occasion in 600 years to re-convert to judaism , which is better than lies? I don't understand them, I ld rather die than falsely convert to another faith.
I wish you never to have the chance to live up to your words.
Beautiful and moving documentary.
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