After doing ancestry testing, I found out I am 12% Eastern European (Ashkenazi Jew). I am looking deeper into this culture as I am interested to know where all my ancestors come from being a black man. But to all who reads this, I would like to say Shalom 🙏🏽 peace to all of you. In these hard times I would like to say I love everyone, and we should all learn how to love one another. That is the only truth we all should be seeking for!
Thank you for the kind words. I came to the comments looking for answers because my ancestry shows 4% Sub-Saharan African. This is puzzling to me, and unfortunately, I haven't found many other Jews who share my curiosity about the history of our people. I've only recently learned about Jews in East Africa, so this is only my theory. There's a place there called Eritrea, the people are known as Eritreans. Haile Selassie was an Eritreans. I despise the term "real Jew", as its used against me for my views on Israel's treatment of the Palestinians(with whom we are *genetically* linked to). So I'll say "the original twelve tribes." I suspect the Eritreans are at the very least, 1 of the original 12, or possibly a mesh of all 12. The reason why Ashkenazi are lighter skinned is because we sought refuge in a European kingdom of converts known as Khazaria and assimilated. I assumed that I was darker skinned because of Ghengis Kahn and the Mongolians that destroyed the kingdom. Apparently not, nor was there any Hispanic, Italian or Indigenous dna. So it can only be the Sub-Saharan African dna because everything else was Ashkenazi or Anglo-Saxon (post-viking British). I'd love to hear what you find, assuming you have surviving family members who can shed some light on it.
Your sentiment seems appealing, but Allaah Himself loves and hates. Therefore I can only love you if you are an Orthodox Muslim… I respect your rights though… I advise you to read the Muhsin-Khan translation of the Quran. فالسلام على من اتبع الهدى
I am Mexican and did the DNA ancestry surprising it revealed that my great grandparents are Ashkenazi Jewish from the region of Poland and Ukraine. My love and respect to the Jewish community 💙 I am interested to learn more about your culture.
We people are so lucky to have access to high level learning for free on the internet. Thank you so much. Going to enjoy edifying myself listening to these lecture.
Anyone can be a Jew, it’s a religion however True Blood covenant biblical Hebrews are the black peoples of west Africa particularly pre-trans Atlantic slave trade of 1619.
@@belovedfilms9366 Jew is short for Judah or Yudah, son of Yacob (Jacob) aka Israel. That being said, we are a Nation of People you can read about in Torah or The 1611 KJV Bible.
@@belovedfilms9366 Jew/Jewish is an ethnoreligion so you’re already wrong. And do not bring your black washing of Hebrews to this chat, it’s ridiculous. Leave the Jews alone. They’re from Europe, part of Asia, and Northern Africa. Let them have their moment.
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. I'm still amazed at how one can have access to quality content for a range of subjects for free on UA-cam. Videos like this should be getting the highest views.
This has got to be the strangest and funniest comment in a while. :D But let me just remind everyone that you don't have to be an anti-semite to love Mr. Abramson's videos.
My grandparents on both sides came from Russian Poland in the 1880s. But family tradition on both sides said we were originally from Spain and left with the expulsion. How we fetched up in Poland, no one has ever been able to explain. Our family tradition though are a mix of Ashkenazi and Sephardi. For the past 43 years I'm proud to be an Israeli. My personal hope is that in Israel there will be no Ashkenazi, Sephardi or Ethiopian. It's already happening as I know many mixed families. It won't finish in my lifetime, I'm 85, but eventually here we'll all be Israeli Jews.
My family was from Germany and Poland but when my mother got cancer it turned out this cancer came from on family in Portugal and at some point left for Germany and Brazil. Families true history is probably to crazy to imagine and probably too painful too. But it’s a better today than yesterday and may Tomorrow be better than what we had. 🙂
@Coke: Jiles- Zachary Shamon Mac Leod There is a difference between Israelites, and “Jews”. These AshkaNAZI are from the line of Gomer, who came from Japheth - not Shem. Another “strong delusion” brought on as a direct result of The Balfour Declaration.
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@Henry Abramson some are of the opinion that if Jews mixed w/ other peoples (European, African, Meso-America or Asian), they are not 'truly' Jewish, forgetting early Jews were of mixed Levantine origin. What connects moden Jews is their commitment to remaining part of a continuous cultural and ethnic lineage going back to those early origins. Ashkenazic people, other than purely Subbotnik groups, are part of that continuous lineage. If an ethno-religious group is able to hang onto their beliefs and culture over thousands of years of diaspora and persecution, I'm not sure anyone has the right to question their Jewishness.
I do believe that Askenazi Jews stem from the 2 Temple destruction when Romans conquered Jerusalem, 7M Jews around that dispersed into Southwestern and Eastern Europe, other countries as well
@@cyrilsneer5957 Most of Jews from Askenazi and North African and Sephardic have similar dna, when Rome attack the 2nd Temple most of Jews that are Ashkenazi were slaves and rest went into Europe
@@cyrilsneer5957 When the First Temple destruw Happened Northern tribe, the 10 Scattered and Rest stayed in South of Jeruso, there were still enough Jews till 2nd Temple Destruction
Thank you to open my eyes 💝 concerning the Ashkenazi Bible study and khazarian converting to the Judaism ideologic teaching. May God bless you Professor Henry Abramson. From a Tiras (Thracian) descent, in HaMashiah love to you. 🤗🇷🇴
I am 6% basque and 2% European Jewish, the history of it all is very interesting. I'm enjoying getting to know why I consider myself a very religious person.
Both of my maternal grandparents were Ashkenazi survivors of the holocaust. All of this history fascinates me. Wish i would have valued this more when they were alive.
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A very interesting and well presented talk on this part of Jewish history. As a non Jew, I enjoy learning more about their history, culture, and religious beliefs ✡
@Coke: Jiles- Zachary Shamon Mac Leod Bro,what a friend we have in Jesus. Pls follow Jesus. Gd is deaf and blind to non Jews. You can only have salvation through Jesus. Period don't waste your precious time worship lost cause but worship Gd through Jesus, he is our only saviour for eternity life.
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Shalom! I was born in Santiago, Chile, but my four grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews from Russia (Kishinev - now Chisinau-, Odessa, Lithuania and some other place I don't remember). I'm a first and second generation born in Chile. My father was first generation in Chile and my mother was born in Brooklyn and emigrated to Argentina (where she met my Chilean father). Our family history is incredible. We are the Bronfman's of Chile (take a look at "The Great Encyclopedia of Bessarabian Jews" by Denis Rosca). I took a DNA test and was not surprised to find I'm 99,9% Jewish Ashkenazi. The remainder, as all people living in this planet, is African.
Most of my family came from the same places. But why do say Africa israel is in the Levant corridor not Africa. Jewish people are not Africans we’re Semitics.
Ashkenazi was a son of Japheth and how does Ashkenazi Jews become The bloodline of Shem a brother of Japheth. Ashkenazi Jews are simply converts to Judaism and not related to Biblical Israelites by blood.
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My family on both my mother's and father's sides immigrated from the Volga region to Russia. Several years before my father passed, he told me that his family was Jewish, entered the USA as Christian. So your lectures have been very informative and very interesting. I understand when my grandparents decided to leave Russia (1926) that being Jewish made it difficult to immigrate. God Bless them.
This video is amazing. My Ancestry DNA results has indications of East European Jewish background. It is derived from my mother's side..Northern German background.
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I'd like to thank you as well for this lecture. I find it fascinating even though I do not share the Jewish belief and I look at the matter strictly from a historical view. The video is very educational. It fills a lot of gaps left by the conventional education system in today's Germany and predecessor states (I was raised in the G.D.R.). Keep it up, it is really appreciated!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD hi, I'm not Jewish and came across your lecture by accident but you got me hooked ;) Just thought to add my 10 cents regarding the word 'genize' (the safekeeping place). It might come from the same ancient root as the word Genje which is used by the Persians and Azeri Turks today and means 'a treasure chest'. Btw, there's a city in Azerbaijan named Ganja, and from what I know a lot of Jews have always lived in and around that city. There has always been a big Ashkenazi (European) Jewish community in Azerbaijan but besides that, there are local, non-Ashkenazi ones that lived there from back God knows when. They are called Tats ("a" as in the word 'car'). Wonder where they came from?
I was born on the wrong side of the sheets when it comes to my Jewish heritage. I see myself Jewish even though not considered a Jew. I so appreciate these lectures. My family immigrated from Munich, Germany in the 1840's to the NYC & greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area. I would love to know why so many Jews left Germany in the 1840's for North Americans.
A vast number of Germans left Germany for North America during the 1840s because of the availability of farmland and freedom from feudal laws. There were very few Jews in North America before this point, but those who were in Germany were in schism -- the birth of Reform Judaism after the end of the ghettos. America was always the place people could remake themselves. But also, the increase in Jewish population in Russia and Poland and the reluctance of the Tsars to liberalize laws drove a huge number of Jews westward to more liberal Germany and Austria-Hungary. But many did not stop there. Especially after 1881 (the assassination of Tsar Alexander II), there were many impositions on the shtetls and the beginnings of pogroms, especially in Ukraine. Jews began to head for America and Canada. This is when American Jewry grew by leaps and bounds.
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Interesting. I'm Swedish and adopted and have no contact with Jewish culture at all, but to my huge surprise my DNA test shows that I'm 62,1% Ashkenaz! And only 18% Scandinavian. How did that happen? 😁 So I'm curious to find out more about this unexpected ethnicity and more specifically the ancient origin of the Ashkenaz. 😅 Kiev also had a long relationship with Sweden and Jaroslav I had a Swedish wife, Ingegerd Olofsdotter (1000-1050), the daughter of the famous king Olof Skötkonung, who called herself Irina in Kiev, and later became saint Anna of Novgorod.
I think I can give you a very probable explanation, going back just a few generations. Sweden was one of the first countries to receive Jewish children smuggled out of Europe by the French resistance early on after Nazis came to power. These children were not "orphans". Not in the least. They just had Jewish parents who knew they were going to be shipped off to ghettos or camps, and made the very difficult decision to provide for their children, so they could stay safely in Sweden. It was all done in secret. And hoped that they could live through the war to reunite later with their children. And children waited for years to be reunited with their parents after the war. There are many stories about what Sweden and the Red Cross did for years for these kids. The Swedes gathered lists of people that had died in the camps, or people who may have died of disease before their family ever got to the camp. So for each child they could confirm whether there was still a living parent, and a close living relative. Took care of these children for many many years. Very impressive. If both parents were confirmed deceased, and no living relative could be found, these kids were hopefully found forever families. Some children found out that one parent died in the camps but nothing was known about the other. A lot of children were eventually adopted by not only Swedes but also English or American, etc. These kids were saved the horrors of seeing their parents dragged off by the Nazis, Or going to the camps themselves......but still had many problems, waiting for parents for years. I remember the story of one woman who stayed there until she was 18, helping with teaching the younger kids in the school they had set up. While also attending classes. Brilliant student; eventually became a nurse. I remember the story of one man, adopted by an American family, whose father died in the camps, but he never gave up hope in his biological mother eventually turning up. He was adpopted eventually. To Wisconsin or Minnesota, I think. And sure enough, through the most incredulous twisty story, somehow a friend read the name of his mother 1000 miles away living in Chicago. Could this possibly be a woman in her late sixties who had lived in the place where her friend had been born fifty years before? The friend contacted her somehow to see if it could be a woman of the same vintage and ethnic origins....................and confirmed that it was. But there could have been many women with that name from that same town/city. But she passed the info onto her friend. He was overwhelmed, needless to say. But I think it took him over a year to try and make contact with the woman in Chicago. But the same friend told him if he waited any longer, he might not have the chance to meet this woman. Only a photograph left behind. So he took the bull by the horns, called her, and made his way to Chicago. I seem to remember that her name appeared in a wedding announcement in the Chicago news paper. And even though the last time they had seen each other was when he was four years old, both he and his mother knew immediately upon seeing each that this long long separation had finally come full circle. I'm not sure if his adoptive parents were still alive. But he and his mother kept in touch and developed a very incredible relationship. And he found out that he had some half-siblings as well. So no matter what age you are, you might find that one of your birth parents had been lucky enough to have been saved by a historic, incredible midnight trip, across the Baltic, in a boat, in the black of night, with the help of Sweden. It was an incredibly courageous program for the Swedes and dangerous for all the resistance fighters in Europe..............and I believe that both Sweden and Finland at that time were still under the Nazi rule, as were the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia across the Baltic to the East. I never had my DNA tested, but I know that all my relatives going back to 1800 were all Ashkenazi Jews, and when you go back that many generations that pretty much covers enough for me. I was lucky in that my relatives basically sent over the patriarch and eldest son basically in most of the families, while matriarch and all the rest of the kids stayed in Europe. And eventually, were able to send enough money home for the rest of their families to come to join them here in America. It took years for this to happen. But everyone got out by 1900.
Behar understates European ancestry in Ashkenazim according to other legitimate geneticists, which some claim up to 90% maternal lineage. Abramson should use a variety of sources if he’s to be taken seriously.
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I'm confused about how the word "agnostic" is pronounced. I see dictionaries showing it as being pronounced like it's spelled. If I understand correctly here, the prefix "a" is basically translated as no, not, or non. For example, you take the word "theistic" and add the prefix "a" and get "atheistic". In the word "gnostic", the g is silent. It seems logical to me that in the word "agnostic", the g would be silent as well.
King Bulan, decided converting to islam, because it was easy. but islams rejected celebrating with vodka. Than he converted to judaism. Bulan never considered converting to trinity.
*I think You should read the 13th Tribe,* the author, Arthur Koestler in his 1976 book stated that *IF they could find the Jews were really Khazars, than it would end antisemetism* and genetic testing has proven that the Khazars had no influence on the Jews. They have no Turkic or Turkish DNA, Koestler felt that antisemetism came from the fact that the Church said the Jews killed their God Jesus, if Jews were not Semites then there would be no antisemitism, He really didn't think that through. And Koestler would commit suicide Again, if he realized that people like you used his book to create more anti-Jewish hate.
Thank you for these interesting lectures! I found out via Ancestry DNA that I have a little Ashkenazi DNA from my Polish grandpa. So far my research shows that Ashkenazi Jews have an average of approximately 50% Levantine Jewish DNA, plus aprox 45% Italian DNA, which includes a little Greek DNA due to Greek migration to Italy around 800 BC (? If I remember the date correctly), plus a little Eastern European DNA. I'm looking forward to learning a lot more from your lecture series!
Makes sense given the location and mixing with local populations which even the most religious of communities did! Mine came from East Prussia, yet we didn’t have a trace of Ashkenazi DNA, so maybe the eastern and southern areas of Poland had most of the Jewish populations, but I know there was a Jewish synagogue in Labiau (west of Konigsberg) where my folks were from.
@@krisjustin3884 My Polish ancestors sometimes listed Prussia on their place of birth and sometimes Poland, depending on which regime was in power. They were from Poznan.
@@photina78 They certainly overlapped. I believe Prussia was fairly easy going on Evangelicals, Catholics and Jews compared with other states at that time. My folks were mostly Germanic with a significant slice of Polish or East European. I think most Germans today would be similar with traces of Ashkenazic DNA as well.
I have relatives by marriage who are Jewish and I’ve always been interested in it but recently discovered that we have Ashkenazi DNA. Our father’s grandparents came from Poland and Ukraine and I believe they were Jewish. Are there any good resources for researching family in the Eastern European area, specifically Jewish resources because I’m eager to learn more.
Great lecture. But did I misunderstand you or you actually say Eran Elhaik proved the "Khazarian hypothesis" wrong? Elhaik actually concludes that "Our findings support the Khazarian hypothesis" in one of his studies (Elhaik, 2012, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution). Can you kindly explain?
@@molivson They became a rabbi simply because their father was a rabbi. No struggle whatsoever. Everything handed to them. Only the Levites were worthy to be priests.
Excellent. Thank you for your presentation. Looking forward to this series very much so. As a Jew of Ashkenazi heritage this gives me a clearer understanding of my European background. And in an easy to follow manner. Much appreciated, thank you.
@@intelin123and ,No, but you are definitely a black man, because only black men draw that conclusion, certainly not all black men, because you guys have a chip on your shoulder and an inferiority complex.
@@intelin123 we all came from Africa. There is less than 0.1% difference between your DNA and mine. Everyone who has taken a basic biology class knows this. Stop blackwashing everything troll.
It will be interesting to invite a physical anthropologist and DNA specialist with experience in Jews to give a fuller picture of what they are at the moment.
It’s interesting how the territory attributed to biblical Ashkenaz overlaps well with the time and place of the Yamnaya culture, pregenitors of germanics. Maybe just a coincidence but it’s worth a look into
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS INFORMATION, BECAUSE IT'S CRUCIAL FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS; I'M AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN WHO LOVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND I WAS SEEKING SUCH INFORMATION IN DEFENSE OF GROWING ANTI- WHITE JEWISH ANTI- SEMITISM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
Dr., been following your work for awhile: Are you the author of *The Kabbalah of Forgiveness The Thirteen Levels of Mercy In Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Date Palm of Devorah*? Was looking for something on the topic and found this book, was pleased to see the name Henry Abramson as the author: Same guy?
Dear Rabbi, Would any of these people be the descendants of the tribes of Israel that were forcibly settled in the area north of Assyria, as detailed in 2 Kings 18:11. Could they be the descendants of the people refered to by Amos 7:16, 9:8, 14 and Hosea 1:10. My concern here is that as the Assyrians did not have the letter I in their alphabet, when they referred to the Saca Sythians a probability is they were referring to the sons of Isaac. The region is correct, the lively hood is correct (sheep herders), and, as I believe, the prophets are correct. Also, the time is correct. I look forward to understanding more about my roots, if you can help. Thakyou
Both my brother and I are blood related, and we wanted to know where our heritage went and who we were as individuals and what was our culture,and what Heritage did we have. Through the grace of God I was able to manage to locate a few brothers and sisters, now I just to get closure from our experiences and why we were adopted. But also to get some sense of where our genealogy was and comparing our genealogy tree branches and 23andMe and the other three branches and we found out our fourth and fifth great-grandparents families where ashkenazi Jewish is from our Eastern European witches there is German and Siberian. So for a higher percent of in terms of our genealogy it is a small percent but it is there and it's on my father's side of the family and we have the other Sephardim Jewish Heritage was traced back to our ancestry way back in the Iberian Peninsula, Hungarian, Portuguese and Turkish Heritage that we have. We are eager to learn about our Jewish Heritage because we were told for many years that we were Christian and that we were this and that and other DNA that we had like our Native American heritage we didn't even no we had just like our Jewish Heritage was kept from us. What we have found out is a lot of our family that cat away from the family situations that were going on with my brother and I and our other sisters and brothers and houses and brothers were being taken away and put in foster care they were very well aware about some of our heritage and our ancestry but kept quiet about it and just let some of the relatives who did Molino anyting just claimed we were this and that get to know our culture and our heritage. Our Jewish Heritage came before some of our ancestry on my dad side came over from WWII. So need you to answer comes right before WWII and goes a bit further back on that and then further further further back we have some other Jewish Heritage so it was pretty interesting and I am hopeful but worried how we would be perceived if we wanted to get to know our heritage and our Jewish roots and to be trying to learn things to the Jewish Community to get some closure after what we've been through and we were adopted as children I was 6 and my brother was 7 so I just don't want us to be seen as you know trying to weave our way into a community that just might not be very opening or accepting of us because we didn't know who we were you know till yesterday and so I mean we had some knowledge of some stuff and some of our DNA things that we did a few years ago gave us some history something's including some Jewish route but so I just don't want us to be seen as you know trying to weave our way into a community that just might not be very opening or accepting of us because we didn't know who we were you know till yesterday and so I mean we had some knowledge of some stuff and some of our DNA things that we did a few years ago gave us some history something's including some Jewish identity in percent then it was like okay so where is this coming from and we saw it on the map but then we got to talk to her half-sisters and half-brothers and our brothers and sisters and really get to piece that together we ran around the time frames of where that ancestry was from. I am hopeful I live in Michigan that I can get to know more of my Jewish side of my history and be proud of it I want to be proud of who I am identity that was cut from me and my brother until now and I want to immerse myself and get to know it better to make up for what we never got as children and experiencing our own culture our own identity. I just hope the Jewish community in Michigan would understand what we've been through it it was very traumatic my brother and I and all my sisters and brother suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from our childhood trauma and is so it wasn't a very easy life but we survived and I think we can say we are survivors and if you look back at our ancestry they were survivors and you know we haven't give up on who we are and finding out in immersing ourselves in our culture and identity now that we know and I'm just kind of I guess hopeful that we can learn more and that somebody can open to us in the Jewish communities so we can get a little feel for no fool we were who our ancestors were and appreciate them thanks to them we are here on this Earth and we forever grateful. Yesterday God brought my half-sister and my half brother and my sister and my brother and myself together to solve the missing pieces of puzzle in terms of our culture and our heritage he made that possible for us and we are forever blessed and it was just amazing yesterday God brought my half-sister and my half-brother and my sister and my brother and myself together to solve the missing pieces of puzzle in terms of our lineage or culture identity and our heritage, God made that possible for us and we are forever blessed and it was just amazing. We have gotten some closure because of that and now we're pursuing more about our culture or history and identity of the past. This would never have been possible had we not found each other we also got our blood tested to make sure that we were all blood related and what we were and we went from there. We have a new chapter in our lives that were ready to explore and we're eager to do so and we get to finally close some chapters in our past and understand more about ourselves with genealogy and dna.
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As Confucius said, He who knows history only through books and texts will not understand until they understand symbols and signs. Not in quotes as it is paraphrased but I stand by it!
I never thought having such a good professor. Better than in real university. 😶 History of Europe is Jewish History. Without (Jewish) soup nobody has to eat a good soup. More good lessons! Thank You.
I'm just now finding out about my Ashkenazi heritage through my DNA results. I had absolutely no clue, I was born in America. My great grandmother came from Portugal and based on the migration routes and DNA results, I firmly believe we were Ashkenazi Jews. I confirmed this because one of my male cousins on my moms side has trace amounts of DNA for this group of people. It all lines up and I want to learn more about who I am. Thank you for this video.
@@BishopEddie5443 There are no Ethiopian Jews mentioned in the bible. Ethiopians are spoken about. But Are NOT the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There is not one place that Ethiopians are said to be Hebrews or Israelites. The Ethiopian Jews of Today. Although accepted into Israel, have no Tie to Israel by genetics. the Ethiopian Jews have the Same genetics as the Ethiopian non-Jews.
I have been raised Lutheran and am 60 years young. When I was 55 I took ancestry testing and found I was 24% Ashkenazi Jewish. My ancestors came from what was East of Poland, and South of now Russia.
The more I hear about the Khazari Jews, the more convinced that my grand parents were of those origins...There's no one else I can talk to about my childhood memories, the entire original family has passed). I really want to know more and share what little I recall about my father's family. For so many years, the family always said that our grandparents were from Russia...but 140 years ago, everywhere in that area was Russia. But I recall my grandparents talking about Odessa. Now with the war raging, I'm wanting to learn more about my roots. For what it's worth, I'm originally from the US but for the past 30 years, I have been living in western Turkey, south of Troy.
Do a DNA test with ancestry, is more accurate than any other company. I discovered I had Ashkenazi DNA but I suspected my grandfather on my mother's side had Jewish inheritance.
Agree, take a DNA test so you can put this Khazari myth to bed. By and large, Ashkenazi Jews are a fairly equal mix of Levantine and Southern European DNA.
doesnt josephus discuss whatever happened to the named people born from noach and what nations became from them .. thats what i thought i read in josephus (josephus is not an easy read)
Josephus left two works -- one, usually called The Jewish Wars, is easy to find in translation and describes the history of the Holy Land for the hundred years culminating in the destruction of the Herodian Temple in 70a.d. It is almost the only work on the history of this period that we possess! The other, usually called "The Antiquities of the Jews," is his attempt to explain the Jews to his new masters and friends, the Romans (who found Jewish history fascinating if incomprehensible). Most of it is a paraphrase of the narrative in the Bible, but it leaves many things out and puts many things in. What Josephus' sources were, how much he actually knew, what he was inventing or guessing (and as with all sources that old, none of his population figures are at all reliable) is a matter of intense debate!
Am starting to study more as I just received my results, 26% Ashkenazi. I never knew my roots from my paternal side but always suspected some Jewish heritage.
Prof. Henry, couple of questions why are comments section switched off on your Khazar Jewish history videos? And "The Thirteenth Tribe" book by Arthur Koestler is academically detailed, opposing your views and ideas on Jewish origins in Khazaria and the local community converting to Judaismin that region. The evidence is overwhelming compared to what you have provided in your videos. Your thoughts on the Arthur Koestler book and his research specifically to this topic?
I never understood the Khazar argument when phenotypically, genetically and linguistically it does not matchj up with Ashkenazi people. Infact Ashkenazi are closest to Syrian Jews and Sephardim, after that they are strongly related to central Italians, especially Tuscans.
Amazing comment.! According to my Ancestry DNA results, I have Eastern European Jewish background. My father's ancestors came from Central Italy...Abrussese region
Contemporary Eastern European Jews comprise the largest ethno-religious aggregate of modern Jewish communities, accounting for approximately 90% of over 13 million Jews worldwide (Ostrer 2001).
As he states clearly, the overwhelming majority of the Ashkenazim of eastern Europe (Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine -- and the USA) can be traced to the lineages of four women who lived in northern Italy in pre-medieval times.
Typical Ashkenazi phenotype has heavy Asian influence including short stature, high cheekbones and epicanthic fold in the eyes Sarah Silverman did a whole episode about this in her show. If you look at so many Ashkenazi celebrities they have a vaguely Asian look. These celebrities include Leonard Nimoy, Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks, Buddy Hackett, Ed Asner, Rosanne Barr, Diane Wiest, Joan Rivers, Jerry Stiller, Jason Alexander and Mayim Bialik,
It would have been interesting to cover the ethnic dimension as well (ie Ashkenazi Jews being half Middle Eastern/ half European (the European half most likely being Italian). It would also help to make people realise that even Ashkenazi Jews have a Middle Eastern origin and are not “white coloniser” as the woke left is trying to suggest
“Europe” and “Middle East” are not races; they are geographic regions, the populations in them closely related. AJ are not “half Middle Eastern half European” nor are their genetics more interesting than the genetics of other Jewish communities, let alone other Jewish communities that formed in Europe. That “white coloniser” routine isn’t common outside of American left who themselves are the laughingstock of the world. It can be disproved in many ways and genetics aren’t one.
Only one important detail is missing about Vladimir of Kievan Rus, that his grandmother Olga went to Constantinople and get baptized, she influenced his decision a lot
My father Hebrew name was Yoel and he had 16% Ashkenazi Judean DNA but was southern Italian and has 70% Southern Italian DNA, 4% Bedouin, 2% North African Imazighen, 8% Arab.
@@sinatra222 The name Yael is a boy or girls name of Hebrew origin meaning "to ascend". A common unisex name in Israel, , more properly written as Ya'el.
Thanks so much for this very interesting listen. It's so hard to self criticise what modern Western society forces students to read and call facts. but more and more is coming to light with science and minimum taking a few new looks at what was thought to be true. I appreciate your video alot.
Khazarian Hypothesis is very real and credible. Eran Elhaik did a great job of linking Ashkenazi Jews to villages in the caucuses called “Ishkuza” and “Ashkenaz”
@@tagbarzeev8283 And the other researchers used principal component analysis, a flawed methodology for genetic group analysis. They also seemed to not comment on findings that refuted their conclusions.
Thanks henry im glad you touch on the khazrian kingdom theory,i notice some people get offended when mentioning them,im glad you mentioned in one of youre statements,that there persons who like to use the ashkenazi and khazrian claim that they potray that they dont belong to israel ,but alot of people must realized that the destruction of the temple and the city of jerusalem was a world changing event for the yehudim
Thank you for sharing this - it is fascinating. I would like to share something: I'm no scholar, but I happen to have discovered some history of Khazaria long before it started appearing on social media. I was trying to trace the roots of klezmer. Of course, as improvised music, it was always evolving. But the older, more traditional melodies seem to have roots in Turkish modes. So I searched for the Turkish connection to the Ashkenazi Jews who played klezmer, and that led me to Khazaria. This is not an established fact accepted by musicologists, but it satisfied my curiosity, so I'd like to suggest it as a remnant trace of Khazaria in Ashkenazi culture.
@@jsw7814 Klezmer is folk music of the Ashkenazi Jews of eastern and central Europe, and the traditional sound seems to have some Turkish influence. I looked for the Turkish connection to that area - mainly southwestern Russia - and learned that that area had originally been Turkic, before the Slavs took over. Exploring that history further, I discovered Khazaria. Discussions of Khazaria that I've seen in recent years have been irrational, because everyone is trying to skew it to suit current social/political aims. Khazaria hasn't existed for over a millennium, and has no effect on the current scene. It is insane for non-Jews to assert their opinions of who "real" and "fake" Jews are, and for others to take those opinions seriously. I think that is just the latest gimmick coming from neo-Nazis.
@@marquisartistic1 Şalom. I am a Khazar Turk living in Turkey. My ancestor is Bulan Kagan. After the collapse of Hazar, we became a state again under the leadership of Dukak's son Selçuk Kaganin. Some migrated to Eastern Europe with the Jewish religion. Remember this. 'History is a field of knowledge, not a field of belief!
The Ashkenazi jews are from the line of Shem, but just claim the name of the Gentile Ashkenazi from the line of Japheth, then what happened to the original people of Askinazi?
@@johnyohalem6507 ok, so the line of Shem is the only Real linage and Shem chose to abandon their linage name in order to called themselves by a fictional gentile lineage of people? ok.
If you look at the ways the Hebrews described themselves in the bible, you can see that the askenazi Jews are just European converts. As a matter of fact everyone talks abourpf Jews, but Judaism is just a religion. The real ethnic people are Hebrews. And they have nothing to do with askenazi Jews.
The people of Ashkenazi are those that enslaved our people, and are now giving real SHEMITES in Palestine a God damn nightmare with the worlds largest open air prison, I mean Palestinians can't even leave their land without permission from Ashkenaz. so why do they treat others the same way they said hitlers germany treated them in 1939.
off course, but you will never hear them talking the truth.They could choose to become christians,muslims or jaws and they so they became so called jaws. Actually,they do not have anything commen with the real jaws.
I highly recommend you keep your eye out for a new documentary it's called "Valley of Hamon Gog: The Final Battle." It's in preproduction right now with an open casting call.
Dr. Abramson, I fond this lecture extremely interesting, many thanks. My wife always thought that she was a German Jew by ancestry. Her father claimed to be a German Jew although he never practiced it. She did a genetic test that revealed that she had no German genes, but rather Eastern European genes. Now I understand why thanks again. My grandparents came from Italy. My mother said that her mother from Italy said that we had Jewish linage in our background. Grandmother was a Catholic but always would not use her stove to cook on Sunday (The wrong day for, Sabbath). She had all of her food ready made on Saturday so she would not cook on Sunday. Now, where did she get this idea to not make anything to eat all day on Sunday, from? I think it was a memory passed down but forgotten what day to do it on, and what it meant. I want to learn about my Jewish background that was lost.
I just read a book that had a chapter that discussed this khaszar Jewish conversion called Abraham's Children Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entina, 2007.
Elhaik had to recant his allegation that the Ashkenazi were converted Khazars after being outed by the very researchers who supplied his genome study with the genome datasets for tweaking the data to force his predetermined outcome. This is called fraud, not science. The Ashkenazi Jews have since been repeatedly confirmed to carry the authentic Semitic/Levant genome. It is now also known that over 40% of the Ashkenazi are descended from only four Hebrew females who migrated to Europe over 1,000 years ago.
@@annemurphy9339 the white man that calls himself a jew has never been a slave. Moses jacob abraham were all black men.black people living in the usa are the hebrew slaves the bible speaks about. I am not black.i read the bible and i know the truth. I am mexican
@@intelin123 All of the ancient people groups indigenous to the Fertile Crescent/Levant of the Near & Middle East were, and still are, Levantine caucasoids who share a genetic kinship - Hebrews, Assyrians, Lebanese, etc. This is proven by all ancient forensics, the Bible, all ancient secular recorded history, and by literally thousands of years of geographical area artworks ranging glyphs to murals, mosaics, portraits, and statuary. Blacks are indigenous to the sub-Saharan of West Africa, much, much further south and on an entirely different continent. This is why all ancient Hebraic synagogue artworks - made by the hands of the ancient Hebrews themselves, and unearthed from excavation sites all across the landscape of ancient Israel/Judaea - reveal an exclusively caucasoid Hebrew population, and without exception. This is consistent whether you peruse the very ancient mosaics from Dura Europos, Tzippori, the Galilean or Judean Desert sites, Beit Alpha, Huqoq, Hamat Tiberius, or any others. You have a better chance of being a French fry than a Hebrew.
I read that by 1000AD there was only around 400 families of what would become Ashkenazi Jews left and they were in northern Italy. A reduction from several million at the time of the diaspora.
Dear Rabbi Henry Abramson, I have watched your youtube clips a lot, but in this lecture you had few mistakes which I would like to point out: 1- in 26 minutes of your lecture you said King Bulan converted to Christianity. you meant he converted to Judaism. 2- in 29 minutes of your lecture you call Khazaria part of central Asia. This is not true, the region is called North Caucasus and it is part of Europe. 3- The main reason King Bulan converted to Judaism was war with Arab Moslems. After nearly 100 years of fighting with Arabs he was tired and did not want to accept Islam by force and become subject of Arab Caliph. He realized by converting to either Christianity or Judaism (People of the Book) he could end the war with the Arabs and live in peace with Arabs. He chose Judaism because he could keep his independence and not to answer to anybody as there was no Jewish Country with Jewish King- Best of the both worlds option. 4- The 10th-century Muslim geographer al-Iṣṭakhrī described the White Khazars as strikingly handsome with reddish hair, white skin, and blue eyes. This description of Khazars are also confirmed by early Arab sources. In fact Prof Stampfer fits the description. So DNA analysis is wrong because it assumes Turks are oriental looking people with silty eyes. 5- Racially Hungarian or Magyar (Turkic) are closest to Khazar Turks. Hungarian means 10 arrows in Turkish. Hungarian migrated to Today's Hungary at the end of 9th century from region to the west of Khazaria. Khazars migrated 100 years later after destruction of their empire by Kievan Rus. Hungarian DNA profile is very similar to Ashkenazi Jew with exception of Q-haplogroup which is an East Asian Turkic Genes. This Turkish genes is presented in Ashkenazi Jewish DNA. It seems Hungarian have lost this gene by mixing with Slavic and Germanic people. 6-The Khazar "Moses coin" found in the Spillings Hoard ( Sweden) and dated c. 800, confirms that there was a Jewish Kingdom in North Caucasus. It is inscribed with "Moses is the messenger of God" instead of the usual Muslim text "Muhammad is the messenger of God". 7- Six pointed star (Star of David) in fact is a Turkic star which was used in shamanistic sun discs. Blue is a Turkic colour because Sky was the only Turkic God in pagan time. You cannot find any reference to Star of David or blue colour in any old Jewish text. 8-The main reason Viking Rus King Vladimir the great disqualified both Islam and Judaism was the issue of circumcision. First he rejected Islam based on circumcision without alcohol, then he looked at Judaism seriously but issue of circumcision came up again (circumcision with alcohol), he said he preferred painless conversion. He Chose Christianity because Christianity offered alcohol without circumcision.
So supposedly DNA evidence is wrong because you say so? Sir you seem to be a bit obsessed with this. It’s a myth with a purpose. That being to try and discredit somehow the ancient history of the Jewish people and the very real diaspora. We know where Ashkenazi Jews came from and like the professor here says there are ample proofs in written history, linguistic history, and DNA. You need to let this go
Correct me if I am wrong! My understanding is that to be a Jew,your mother must be Jewish. You are saying Ashkenazi are descended from four,non Jewish women. This appears a contridiction. I am descended from Turkish Sephardum. My family is Jamaican. I enjoy your lectures. Love my cousins!
Modern rabbinical Judaism is matrilineal, yes. But at many points in pre-modern Jewish history it was not uncommon for Jewish men to marry non-Jewish women, as long the latter converted to Judaism. A woman who converts to Judaism has the same status as a woman who is born Jewish, and the descendants of such a woman will be considered Jewish. This practice was probably more common in the first millennium C.E. and afterwards discouraged for a number of reasons both internal and external to Jewish communities, but it is a factor nonetheless.
Shalom,stop. White people and their cousins have nothing to do with us. We are Shemites. Socalled Negros. We are not a religious sect, we are the religion. Our records tell us that we are not to trace our ancestry from our mother. This is why we are called Israelites. This is so sick. If white people are Israelites, then why don't they have a love for truth and justice?
@@cuidatrava1 Shalom, perhaps you are unaware that Black people are the only human beings on the planet. For white people or anyone else to be an Israelite, they would have to be human. And according to western science, white people and their cousins are not. Please Google Black European royalty and study Jacobite rebellion and Spanish inquisition and see Anacalypsis by G Higgins and check Kurimeo Ahau on UA-cam and Black Sambo documentary on UA-cam.
awesome my 8x great grandparents are Ashkenazi Ellia & Mirial Flattman( Silberman) lived in Suffolk,England she was born in Russia but I have not been successful finding info.
Ya’ll have to explain to me how an Ashkenaz can be a Jew. When Ashkenaz was a son of Japheth. Jew comes from Judah or Israelite which was Jacob & who came from Shem or as they say today Sem hence Semite. Japheth & Shem were brothers so an Ashkenaz would be an uncle or cousin of an Israelite if we are just going by the Bible Genesis chapter 10 verse 3-22 goes over the genealogy 🤨🧐
Ashkenaz of the Bible is not the progenitor of the Ashkenazi Jews. They were never Ashkenazites or Ashkenazians, they were not tribes ever descending from the man Ashkenaz, They were first called as Ashkenazi Jews in the 1100s, when the Jewish sage Rashi called different areas of Europe as '"Ashkenaz" and "Sepharad" in the 1100s. These were Jews in this part of Europe before the first century. The *Mizrahi Jews* are not the descendants of Ham's son, Mitzraim, but Jews that lived near Mitzraim (Egypt) The *Sephardi Jews* are not the descendants of a man named Sepharad, but Jews living in the land named as Sepharad (Spain) by Rashi in the 1100s.. The *Romanoite Jews* are not the descendants of a man named Roman, but Jews from Rome that moved to areas in Greece or Turkey. And, *Ashkenazi Jews are not the descendants of the man Ashkenaz, but Jews from Germany and France that was named as Ashkenaz in the 1100s by the Jewish sage Rashi.* Just as the people who live in Colombus. Ohio are not the descendants of the explorer Colombus. And, the people of Cesarea, Israel are not the descendants of Julius Ceasar.
After doing ancestry testing, I found out I am 12% Eastern European (Ashkenazi Jew). I am looking deeper into this culture as I am interested to know where all my ancestors come from being a black man. But to all who reads this, I would like to say Shalom 🙏🏽 peace to all of you. In these hard times I would like to say I love everyone, and we should all learn how to love one another. That is the only truth we all should be seeking for!
Thank you for the kind words. I came to the comments looking for answers because my ancestry shows 4% Sub-Saharan African. This is puzzling to me, and unfortunately, I haven't found many other Jews who share my curiosity about the history of our people.
I've only recently learned about Jews in East Africa, so this is only my theory. There's a place there called Eritrea, the people are known as Eritreans. Haile Selassie was an Eritreans. I despise the term "real Jew", as its used against me for my views on Israel's treatment of the Palestinians(with whom we are *genetically* linked to). So I'll say "the original twelve tribes." I suspect the Eritreans are at the very least, 1 of the original 12, or possibly a mesh of all 12. The reason why Ashkenazi are lighter skinned is because we sought refuge in a European kingdom of converts known as Khazaria and assimilated. I assumed that I was darker skinned because of Ghengis Kahn and the Mongolians that destroyed the kingdom. Apparently not, nor was there any Hispanic, Italian or Indigenous dna. So it can only be the Sub-Saharan African dna because everything else was Ashkenazi or Anglo-Saxon (post-viking British).
I'd love to hear what you find, assuming you have surviving family members who can shed some light on it.
eastern europe isn’t ashkenazi jewish
Your sentiment seems appealing, but Allaah Himself loves and hates. Therefore I can only love you if you are an Orthodox Muslim… I respect your rights though… I advise you to read the Muhsin-Khan translation of the Quran.
فالسلام على من اتبع الهدى
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@@aboolaylaa1984 why you looking for love in a chat room.
Henry is one of my mentors. Peace and protection upon him and his family. Amen
I am Mexican and did the DNA ancestry surprising it revealed that my great grandparents are Ashkenazi Jewish from the region of Poland and Ukraine. My love and respect to the Jewish community 💙 I am interested to learn more about your culture.
Be happy your grand-dad isn't the Irish sailor that is the real father of the baker...
look up the term crypto jews ❤
You can read the book "Jews God and History" by Max Dimont.
Doing the exact same thing.
We people are so lucky to have access to high level learning for free on the internet. Thank you so much. Going to enjoy edifying myself listening to these lecture.
The contribution of the Jews to human knowledge is invaluable.
I’m non-Jewish and found this very informative. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm interested but worried I maybe influenced away from my suffering it hurts so good .
Anyone can be a Jew, it’s a religion however True Blood covenant biblical Hebrews are the black peoples of west Africa particularly pre-trans Atlantic slave trade of 1619.
@@belovedfilms9366 Jew is short for Judah or Yudah, son of Yacob (Jacob) aka Israel. That being said, we are a Nation of People you can read about in Torah or The 1611 KJV Bible.
@@belovedfilms9366 Jew/Jewish is an ethnoreligion so you’re already wrong. And do not bring your black washing of Hebrews to this chat, it’s ridiculous. Leave the Jews alone. They’re from Europe, part of Asia, and Northern Africa. Let them have their moment.
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. I'm still amazed at how one can have access to quality content for a range of subjects for free on UA-cam. Videos like this should be getting the highest views.
I appreciate your kind feedback! I'm glad you are enjoying the lectures!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD so they not middle eastern
@@jeffmax2941 Most of the Jews in Mexico City are from Syria.
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Yes, this gets the cerebral neurons moving more than usual. Excellent talk!
Dear Professor Abramson, as an ardent and flaming anti-semite, I love each one of your lectures and your amazing youtube series.
This has got to be the strangest and funniest comment in a while. :D
But let me just remind everyone that you don't have to be an anti-semite to love Mr. Abramson's videos.
What's wrong with you?
My grandparents on both sides came from Russian Poland in the 1880s. But family tradition on both sides said we were originally from Spain and left with the expulsion. How we fetched up in Poland, no one has ever been able to explain. Our family tradition though are a mix of Ashkenazi and Sephardi. For the past 43 years I'm proud to be an Israeli. My personal hope is that in Israel there will be no Ashkenazi, Sephardi or Ethiopian. It's already happening as I know many mixed families. It won't finish in my lifetime, I'm 85, but eventually here we'll all be Israeli Jews.
Jews. R. Known. By. Genealogy? Or. DNA. Or. By. A. Name. Melatiah. And. Barzillai. !
R. All. The. Gad. Tribe. Gone?
The Moors were expelled from Spain. The Moors are Black. You “Jews” usurped another people identity. You all are NOT the biblical Israelites!
My family was from Germany and Poland but when my mother got cancer it turned out this cancer came from on family in Portugal and at some point left for Germany and Brazil. Families true history is probably to crazy to imagine and probably too painful too. But it’s a better today than yesterday and may Tomorrow be better than what we had. 🙂
@Coke: Jiles- Zachary Shamon Mac Leod There is a difference between Israelites, and “Jews”. These AshkaNAZI are from the line of Gomer, who came from Japheth - not Shem. Another “strong delusion” brought on as a direct result of The Balfour Declaration.
Another fantastic learning experience that helps me understand my ancestral history more and more.
Salam, Shlama, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace.
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@@omarlittle-hales8237 go seek mental help
@Henry Abramson some are of the opinion that if Jews mixed w/ other peoples (European, African, Meso-America or Asian), they are not 'truly' Jewish, forgetting early Jews were of mixed Levantine origin.
What connects moden Jews is their commitment to remaining part of a continuous cultural and ethnic lineage going back to those early origins. Ashkenazic people, other than purely Subbotnik groups, are part of that continuous lineage. If an ethno-religious group is able to hang onto their beliefs and culture over thousands of years of diaspora and persecution, I'm not sure anyone has the right to question their Jewishness.
I do believe that Askenazi Jews stem from the 2 Temple destruction when Romans conquered Jerusalem, 7M Jews around that dispersed into Southwestern and Eastern Europe, other countries as well
Can you prove they are Jewish. When did they convert? They are modern Jews
@@cyrilsneer5957 Most of Jews from Askenazi and North African and Sephardic have similar dna, when Rome attack the 2nd Temple most of Jews that are Ashkenazi were slaves and rest went into Europe
Some people think I'm Spanish and Italian or Greek that comes through Rome, South and Western Europe
@@cyrilsneer5957 When the First Temple destruw Happened Northern tribe, the 10 Scattered and Rest stayed in South of Jeruso, there were still enough Jews till 2nd Temple Destruction
Thank you to open my eyes 💝 concerning the Ashkenazi Bible study and khazarian converting to the Judaism ideologic teaching.
May God bless you Professor Henry Abramson.
From a Tiras (Thracian) descent, in HaMashiah love to you. 🤗🇷🇴
I am 6% basque and 2% European Jewish, the history of it all is very interesting. I'm enjoying getting to know why I consider myself a very religious person.
Both of my maternal grandparents were Ashkenazi survivors of the holocaust. All of this history fascinates me. Wish i would have valued this more when they were alive.
Wow. What great strength lies in your genetics. You must be so proud.
Professor, wonderful historical explanation of Ashkenazi, by name and who these people, remaining faithful to Judaism are in the world today.
IT WAS DAT..........FUNNT HE GAVE HISTORY, DAT DISCUSSED NOAHS 3 SONS------HAM, JAPHETH, SHEM-----TOLD U GOMER [FATHER OF ASHKENAZI--------------ARE GERMANS----REGULAR WHITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHEM, DAT SON IS WHERE SEMITES COME FROM!!!!!!!!!!!!.........HELLO!!!!!!!!!! NOT ORIGINAL HEBREWS------------CONVERTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. It's an ethnic group. That ethnic group can't be reduced to a mere religion, even if it has strict parameters.
A very interesting and well presented talk on this part of Jewish history. As a non Jew, I enjoy learning more about their history, culture, and religious beliefs ✡
@Coke: Jiles- Zachary Shamon Mac Leod Bro,what a friend we have in Jesus. Pls follow Jesus. Gd is deaf and blind to non Jews. You can only have salvation through Jesus. Period don't waste your precious time worship lost cause but worship Gd through Jesus, he is our only saviour for eternity life.
@Coke: Jiles- Zachary Shamon Mac Leod they arent europeans lol
This is great history, with a great, clear presentation. Thank you both for sharing this with the general public.
Salam, Shlama, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace.
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WAS TOTALLY CLEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND UUUUUU STILL MISSED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shalom! I was born in Santiago, Chile, but my four grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews from Russia (Kishinev - now Chisinau-, Odessa, Lithuania and some other place I don't remember). I'm a first and second generation born in Chile. My father was first generation in Chile and my mother was born in Brooklyn and emigrated to Argentina (where she met my Chilean father). Our family history is incredible. We are the Bronfman's of Chile (take a look at "The Great Encyclopedia of Bessarabian Jews" by Denis Rosca). I took a DNA test and was not surprised to find I'm 99,9% Jewish Ashkenazi. The remainder, as all people living in this planet, is African.
Most of my family came from the same places. But why do say Africa israel is in the Levant corridor not Africa. Jewish people are not Africans we’re Semitics.
This genetic study will explain your african admixture www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080861/
Ashkenazi was a son of Japheth and how does Ashkenazi Jews become The bloodline of Shem a brother of Japheth. Ashkenazi Jews are simply converts to Judaism and not related to Biblical Israelites by blood.
He didn't say Jews are Africans, as if they is anything wrong with having African dna
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This is phenomenal! I love Bible history and genealogy.
Do you ??
thank you, Professor, I very agree it fills a lot of gaps when the conventional education. Your performance is always great from all aspects.
Thank you for the very kind words! Glad you found it useful.
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Thank you Dr. Abramson for expanding my knowledge tremendously!
My family on both my mother's and father's sides immigrated from the Volga region to Russia. Several years before my father passed, he told me that his family was Jewish, entered the USA as Christian. So your lectures have been very informative and very interesting. I understand when my grandparents decided to leave Russia (1926) that being Jewish made it difficult to immigrate. God Bless them.
Glad you found it useful!
Great talk. Looking forward to the next part.
I thank you for this educational series. My mother's family is German Jew. I have always been interested in my heritage.
This video is amazing. My Ancestry DNA results has indications of East European Jewish background. It is derived from my mother's side..Northern German background.
I'm glad that you are enjoying the lectures!
Thank you for being a public subscriber!
Salam, Shlama, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace.
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I'd like to thank you as well for this lecture. I find it fascinating even though I do not share the Jewish belief and I look at the matter strictly from a historical view. The video is very educational. It fills a lot of gaps left by the conventional education system in today's Germany and predecessor states (I was raised in the G.D.R.). Keep it up, it is really appreciated!
Thank you so much! I'm glad that you enjoyed the lecture.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD hi, I'm not Jewish and came across your lecture by accident but you got me hooked ;) Just thought to add my 10 cents regarding the word 'genize' (the safekeeping place). It might come from the same ancient root as the word Genje which is used by the Persians and Azeri Turks today and means 'a treasure chest'. Btw, there's a city in Azerbaijan named Ganja, and from what I know a lot of Jews have always lived in and around that city. There has always been a big Ashkenazi (European) Jewish community in Azerbaijan but besides that, there are local, non-Ashkenazi ones that lived there from back God knows when. They are called Tats ("a" as in the word 'car'). Wonder where they came from?
@@Rose_333_Buds Tats a.k.a. mountain Jews are of Persian origin.
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Dr. Abramson there is a missionary critiquing one of your lectures .
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I was born on the wrong side of the sheets when it comes to my Jewish heritage. I see myself Jewish even though not considered a Jew. I so appreciate these lectures. My family immigrated from Munich, Germany in the 1840's to the NYC & greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area.
I would love to know why so many Jews left Germany in the 1840's for North Americans.
A vast number of Germans left Germany for North America during the 1840s because of the availability of farmland and freedom from feudal laws. There were very few Jews in North America before this point, but those who were in Germany were in schism -- the birth of Reform Judaism after the end of the ghettos. America was always the place people could remake themselves.
But also, the increase in Jewish population in Russia and Poland and the reluctance of the Tsars to liberalize laws drove a huge number of Jews westward to more liberal Germany and Austria-Hungary. But many did not stop there. Especially after 1881 (the assassination of Tsar Alexander II), there were many impositions on the shtetls and the beginnings of pogroms, especially in Ukraine. Jews began to head for America and Canada. This is when American Jewry grew by leaps and bounds.
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Dr. Abramson, what a fantastic lecture!
I guess we're really not Jewish from the middle east
So informative Professor! I learned a lot from this lecture, may Lord bestow more peace blessings and guidance upon you
Watching from Washington State, USA. Excited to follow along on this as much as possible.
Me too. My great grandparents were German and Jewish. Came in the late 1800's.
Me too...in Washington State.
Awesome, i enjoy this kind of videos so much. Thank you
Interesting. I'm Swedish and adopted and have no contact with Jewish culture at all, but to my huge surprise my DNA test shows that I'm 62,1% Ashkenaz! And only 18% Scandinavian. How did that happen? 😁 So I'm curious to find out more about this unexpected ethnicity and more specifically the ancient origin of the Ashkenaz. 😅
Kiev also had a long relationship with Sweden and Jaroslav I had a Swedish wife, Ingegerd Olofsdotter (1000-1050), the daughter of the famous king Olof Skötkonung, who called herself Irina in Kiev, and later became saint Anna of Novgorod.
Because askenazi Jews are white Europeans.
Wow! Best of luck on your journey of discovering your Jewish ancestry!
How on earth can a DNA test test for Askenazi genes? That's absolutely ridiculous.
I think I can give you a very probable explanation, going back just a few generations.
Sweden was one of the first countries to receive Jewish children smuggled out of Europe by the French resistance early on after Nazis came to power. These children were not "orphans". Not in the least. They just had Jewish parents who knew they were going to be shipped off to ghettos or camps, and made the very difficult decision to provide for their children, so they could stay safely in Sweden. It was all done in secret. And hoped that they could live through the war to reunite later with their children.
And children waited for years to be reunited with their parents after the war. There are many stories about what Sweden and the Red Cross did for years for these kids. The Swedes gathered lists of people that had died in the camps, or people who may have died of disease before their family ever got to the camp. So for each child they could confirm whether there was still a living parent, and a close living relative. Took care of these children for many many years. Very impressive. If both parents were confirmed deceased, and no living relative could be found, these kids were hopefully found forever families. Some children found out that one parent died in the camps but nothing was known about the other. A lot of children were eventually adopted by not only Swedes but also English or American, etc. These kids were saved the horrors of seeing their parents dragged off by the Nazis, Or going to the camps themselves......but still had many problems, waiting for parents for years. I remember the story of one woman who stayed there until she was 18, helping with teaching the younger kids in the school they had set up. While also attending classes. Brilliant student; eventually became a nurse.
I remember the story of one man, adopted by an American family, whose father died in the camps, but he never gave up hope in his biological mother eventually turning up. He was adpopted eventually. To Wisconsin or Minnesota, I think. And sure enough, through the most incredulous twisty story, somehow a friend read the name of his mother 1000 miles away living in Chicago. Could this possibly be a woman in her late sixties who had lived in the place where her friend had been born fifty years before? The friend contacted her somehow to see if it could be a woman of the same vintage and ethnic origins....................and confirmed that it was. But there could have been many women with that name from that same town/city. But she passed the info onto her friend. He was overwhelmed, needless to say. But I think it took him over a year to try and make contact with the woman in Chicago. But the same friend told him if he waited any longer, he might not have the chance to meet this woman. Only a photograph left behind. So he took the bull by the horns, called her, and made his way to Chicago. I seem to remember that her name appeared in a wedding announcement in the Chicago news paper. And even though the last time they had seen each other was when he was four years old, both he and his mother knew immediately upon seeing each that this long long separation had finally come full circle. I'm not sure if his adoptive parents were still alive. But he and his mother kept in touch and developed a very incredible relationship. And he found out that he had some half-siblings as well.
So no matter what age you are, you might find that one of your birth parents had been lucky enough to have been saved by a historic, incredible midnight trip, across the Baltic, in a boat, in the black of night, with the help of Sweden. It was an incredibly courageous program for the Swedes and dangerous for all the resistance fighters in Europe..............and I believe that
both Sweden and Finland at that time were still under the Nazi rule, as were the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia across the Baltic to the East.
I never had my DNA tested, but I know that all my relatives going back to 1800 were all Ashkenazi Jews, and when you go back that many generations that pretty much covers enough for me. I was lucky in that my relatives basically sent over the patriarch and eldest son basically in most of the families, while matriarch and all the rest of the kids stayed in Europe. And eventually, were able to send enough money home for the rest of their families to come to join them here in America. It took years for this to happen. But everyone got out by 1900.
one of your parents is 100% jewish and the other has some jewish dna
I really deeply enjoy listening to your lectures... I like the content, which is quite new to me, and also your kind of humour. 👍
Behar understates European ancestry in Ashkenazim according to other legitimate geneticists, which some claim up to 90% maternal lineage. Abramson should use a variety of sources if he’s to be taken seriously.
Ashkenazi from Hungary here ❤
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I feel like Prof Abramson is my continued education Dean
Setting aside the great content, thanks for the moment of remembering Sidney Smith Hall and Robarts Library!
I am agnostic raised in a Protestant tradition, but I really enjoy your teachings.
I'm confused about how the word "agnostic" is pronounced.
I see dictionaries showing it as being pronounced like it's spelled.
If I understand correctly here, the prefix "a" is basically translated as no, not, or non. For example, you take the word "theistic" and add the prefix "a" and get "atheistic".
In the word "gnostic", the g is silent. It seems logical to me that in the word "agnostic", the g would be silent as well.
I wrote articles specifically on these topics and your research verifies my research as well.
Btw Eran Elhaik and Behar’s research are polar opposites. Elhaik’s claims get crushed by Behar and his colleagues findings.
Always a pleasure watching your vids, Rabbi👍🏻
He's not a Rabbi
Another outstanding lecture. Very informative. Thanks
‘King Bulan converted to Christianity’ might not have been the phrase you were looking for.
King Bulan, decided converting to islam, because it was easy. but islams rejected celebrating with vodka. Than he converted to judaism. Bulan never considered converting to trinity.
Ashkenazi from Brazil, here!
Thank you for the lecture. I look forward to Part 2.
I am convinced that Eran Elhaik has the better argument as to the origins of the Ashkenazi.
*I think You should read the 13th Tribe,* the author, Arthur Koestler in his 1976 book stated that *IF they could find the Jews were really Khazars, than it would end antisemetism* and genetic testing has proven that the Khazars had no influence on the Jews. They have no Turkic or Turkish DNA,
Koestler felt that antisemetism came from the fact that the Church said the Jews killed their God Jesus, if Jews were not Semites then there would be no antisemitism, He really didn't think that through.
And Koestler would commit suicide Again, if he realized that people like you used his book to create more anti-Jewish hate.
What’s your relation with the children of Israel? With the 12 tribes?
Nothing since the 12 tribes were black.
Thank you for these interesting lectures! I found out via Ancestry DNA that I have a little Ashkenazi DNA from my Polish grandpa.
So far my research shows that Ashkenazi Jews have an average of approximately 50% Levantine Jewish DNA, plus aprox 45% Italian DNA, which includes a little Greek DNA due to Greek migration to Italy around 800 BC (? If I remember the date correctly), plus a little Eastern European DNA.
I'm looking forward to learning a lot more from your lecture series!
Makes sense given the location and mixing with local populations which even the most religious of communities did! Mine came from East Prussia, yet we didn’t have a trace of Ashkenazi DNA, so maybe the eastern and southern areas of Poland had most of the Jewish populations, but I know there was a Jewish synagogue in Labiau (west of Konigsberg) where my folks were from.
@@krisjustin3884 My Polish ancestors sometimes listed Prussia on their place of birth and sometimes Poland, depending on which regime was in power. They were from Poznan.
@@photina78 They certainly overlapped. I believe Prussia was fairly easy going on Evangelicals, Catholics and Jews compared with other states at that time. My folks were mostly Germanic with a significant slice of Polish or East European. I think most Germans today would be similar with traces of Ashkenazic DNA as well.
I have relatives by marriage who are Jewish and I’ve always been interested in it but recently discovered that we have Ashkenazi DNA. Our father’s grandparents came from Poland and Ukraine and I believe they were Jewish. Are there any good resources for researching family in the Eastern European area, specifically Jewish resources because I’m eager to learn more.
Thank you for a great view of history . Now my head hurts .
From the foolish comments?
Great lecture. But did I misunderstand you or you actually say Eran Elhaik proved the "Khazarian hypothesis" wrong? Elhaik actually concludes that "Our findings support the Khazarian hypothesis" in one of his studies (Elhaik, 2012, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution). Can you kindly explain?
No, I didn't say that. Others have.
Everyone's nature is basically the same. People act according to whatever role they play. Being a rabbi is great profession.
It's not a profession, it's a calling.
@@molivson They became a rabbi simply because their father was a rabbi. No struggle whatsoever. Everything handed to them. Only the Levites were worthy to be priests.
Excellent.
Thank you for your presentation. Looking forward to this series very much so.
As a Jew of Ashkenazi heritage this gives me a clearer understanding of my European background. And in an easy to follow manner. Much appreciated, thank you.
Now you know you are not a descendant of jacob because jacob was a black man.
You are very welcome! I'm glad that you are finding the series meaningful.
@@intelin123and ,No, but you are definitely a black man, because only black men draw that conclusion, certainly not all black men, because you guys have a chip on your shoulder and an inferiority complex.
@@intelin123 we all came from Africa. There is less than 0.1% difference between your DNA and mine. Everyone who has taken a basic biology class knows this. Stop blackwashing everything troll.
Fascinating. Thank you
Thank you for this wonderful lecture.
My great grandparents were Jewish from Germany and came to the US about 1880. Settled in Chicago.
It will be interesting to invite a physical anthropologist and DNA specialist with experience in Jews to give a fuller picture of what they are at the moment.
It’s interesting how the territory attributed to biblical Ashkenaz overlaps well with the time and place of the Yamnaya culture, pregenitors of germanics. Maybe just a coincidence but it’s worth a look into
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS INFORMATION, BECAUSE IT'S CRUCIAL FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS; I'M AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN WHO LOVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND I WAS SEEKING SUCH INFORMATION IN DEFENSE OF GROWING ANTI- WHITE JEWISH ANTI- SEMITISM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
I admire your desire for truth.
Not true......telling the truth
Thank you, From San Diego, Ca
Dr., been following your work for awhile: Are you the author of *The Kabbalah of Forgiveness
The Thirteen Levels of Mercy
In Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Date Palm of Devorah*? Was looking for something on the topic and found this book, was pleased to see the name Henry Abramson as the author: Same guy?
Yup
@@HenryAbramsonPhD You'll have to FORGIVE me for asking on this totally unrelated video! Great book, love the practical, contemporary examples!
Dear Rabbi,
Would any of these people be the descendants of the tribes of Israel that were forcibly settled in the area north of Assyria, as detailed in 2 Kings 18:11. Could they be the descendants of the people refered to by Amos 7:16, 9:8, 14 and Hosea 1:10. My concern here is that as the Assyrians did not have the letter I in their alphabet, when they referred to the Saca Sythians a probability is they were referring to the sons of Isaac. The region is correct, the lively hood is correct (sheep herders), and, as I believe, the prophets are correct. Also, the time is correct. I look forward to understanding more about my roots, if you can help. Thakyou
@@davidt3698 he's not a Rabbi
All tribal ancestry will be revealed during the time of Mashiach's arrival
Both my brother and I are blood related, and we wanted to know where our heritage went and who we were as individuals and what was our culture,and what Heritage did we have. Through the grace of God I was able to manage to locate a few brothers and sisters, now I just to get closure from our experiences and why we were adopted. But also to get some sense of where our genealogy was and comparing our genealogy tree branches and 23andMe and the other three branches and we found out our fourth and fifth great-grandparents families where ashkenazi Jewish is from our Eastern European witches there is German and Siberian. So for a higher percent of in terms of our genealogy it is a small percent but it is there and it's on my father's side of the family and we have the other Sephardim Jewish Heritage was traced back to our ancestry way back in the Iberian Peninsula, Hungarian, Portuguese and Turkish Heritage that we have. We are eager to learn about our Jewish Heritage because we were told for many years that we were Christian and that we were this and that and other DNA that we had like our Native American heritage we didn't even no we had just like our Jewish Heritage was kept from us. What we have found out is a lot of our family that cat away from the family situations that were going on with my brother and I and our other sisters and brothers and houses and brothers were being taken away and put in foster care they were very well aware about some of our heritage and our ancestry but kept quiet about it and just let some of the relatives who did Molino anyting just claimed we were this and that get to know our culture and our heritage. Our Jewish Heritage came before some of our ancestry on my dad side came over from WWII. So need you to answer comes right before WWII and goes a bit further back on that and then further further further back we have some other Jewish Heritage so it was pretty interesting and I am hopeful but worried how we would be perceived if we wanted to get to know our heritage and our Jewish roots and to be trying to learn things to the Jewish Community to get some closure after what we've been through and we were adopted as children I was 6 and my brother was 7 so I just don't want us to be seen as you know trying to weave our way into a community that just might not be very opening or accepting of us because we didn't know who we were you know till yesterday and so I mean we had some knowledge of some stuff and some of our DNA things that we did a few years ago gave us some history something's including some Jewish route but so I just don't want us to be seen as you know trying to weave our way into a community that just might not be very opening or accepting of us because we didn't know who we were you know till yesterday and so I mean we had some knowledge of some stuff and some of our DNA things that we did a few years ago gave us some history something's including some Jewish identity in percent then it was like okay so where is this coming from and we saw it on the map but then we got to talk to her half-sisters and half-brothers and our brothers and sisters and really get to piece that together we ran around the time frames of where that ancestry was from. I am hopeful I live in Michigan that I can get to know more of my Jewish side of my history and be proud of it I want to be proud of who I am identity that was cut from me and my brother until now and I want to immerse myself and get to know it better to make up for what we never got as children and experiencing our own culture our own identity. I just hope the Jewish community in Michigan would understand what we've been through it it was very traumatic my brother and I and all my sisters and brother suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from our childhood trauma and is so it wasn't a very easy life but we survived and I think we can say we are survivors and if you look back at our ancestry they were survivors and you know we haven't give up on who we are and finding out in immersing ourselves in our culture and identity now that we know and I'm just kind of I guess hopeful that we can learn more and that somebody can open to us in the Jewish communities so we can get a little feel for no fool we were who our ancestors were and appreciate them thanks to them we are here on this Earth and we forever grateful.
Yesterday God brought my half-sister and my half brother and my sister and my brother and myself together to solve the missing pieces of puzzle in terms of our culture and our heritage he made that possible for us and we are forever blessed and it was just amazing yesterday God brought my half-sister and my half-brother and my sister and my brother and myself together to solve the missing pieces of puzzle in terms of our lineage or culture identity and our heritage, God made that possible for us and we are forever blessed and it was just amazing. We have gotten some closure because of that and now we're pursuing more about our culture or history and identity of the past. This would never have been possible had we not found each other we also got our blood tested to make sure that we were all blood related and what we were and we went from there. We have a new chapter in our lives that were ready to explore and we're eager to do so and we get to finally close some chapters in our past and understand more about ourselves with genealogy and dna.
Excellent
Thank you for sharing. It was very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you professor great lecture as usual.
Baruch HaShem
Salam, Shlama, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace.
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As Confucius said, He who knows history only through books and texts will not understand until they understand symbols and signs. Not in quotes as it is paraphrased but I stand by it!
I never thought having such a good professor. Better than in real university. 😶 History of Europe is Jewish History. Without (Jewish) soup nobody has to eat a good soup. More good lessons! Thank You.
My grandmother's name was Pettenger (Pottenger, a maker of soup.)
I'm just now finding out about my Ashkenazi heritage through my DNA results. I had absolutely no clue, I was born in America. My great grandmother came from Portugal and based on the migration routes and DNA results, I firmly believe we were Ashkenazi Jews. I confirmed this because one of my male cousins on my moms side has trace amounts of DNA for this group of people. It all lines up and I want to learn more about who I am. Thank you for this video.
@@BishopEddie5443 Please get the mental help that you need. Thanks!!
@@BishopEddie5443 A cousin having "trace amounts" of Ashkenazi DNA does not mean your branch of the family came from Ashkenazi Jews.
@@BishopEddie5443 Most Jews from Portugal were Sephardi Jews, not Ashkenazi Jews, and you didn't say that you showed any Ashkenazi pattern DNA.
@@BishopEddie5443 Excuse me? Ashkenazi Jews converted where, and from what?.
@@BishopEddie5443 There are no Ethiopian Jews mentioned in the bible. Ethiopians are spoken about. But Are NOT the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There is not one place that Ethiopians are said to be Hebrews or Israelites. The Ethiopian Jews of Today. Although accepted into Israel, have no Tie to Israel by genetics. the Ethiopian Jews have the Same genetics as the Ethiopian non-Jews.
all claim to be human beings, right? Don't look for differences, live in peace
I have been raised Lutheran and am 60 years young. When I was 55 I took ancestry testing and found I was 24% Ashkenazi Jewish. My ancestors came from what was East of Poland, and South of now Russia.
Sounds like one of your grandparents is 100%
Fantastic lecture as always thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
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Toda guys! Now i have a reason to visit Budapest!
It's a beautiful town.
The more I hear about the Khazari Jews, the more convinced that my grand parents were of those origins...There's no one else I can talk to about my childhood memories, the entire original family has passed). I really want to know more and share what little I recall about my father's family. For so many years, the family always said that our grandparents were from Russia...but 140 years ago, everywhere in that area was Russia. But I recall my grandparents talking about Odessa. Now with the war raging, I'm wanting to learn more about my roots. For what it's worth, I'm originally from the US but for the past 30 years, I have been living in western Turkey, south of Troy.
Do a DNA test with ancestry, is more accurate than any other company. I discovered I had Ashkenazi DNA but I suspected my grandfather on my mother's side had Jewish inheritance.
Bulan Kagan'in torunusun. Hazar Türküsün.
That's absolutely no evidence for anything khazar.
Arlene Doron Behar has proven the Khazar theory to be false.
Agree, take a DNA test so you can put this Khazari myth to bed. By and large, Ashkenazi Jews are a fairly equal mix of Levantine and Southern European DNA.
Wow I just understood my dna test results especialy with that map explination at the end Thank you!
You're so welcome!
doesnt josephus discuss whatever happened to the named people born from noach and what nations became from them .. thats what i thought i read in josephus (josephus is not an easy read)
Josephus left two works -- one, usually called The Jewish Wars, is easy to find in translation and describes the history of the Holy Land for the hundred years culminating in the destruction of the Herodian Temple in 70a.d. It is almost the only work on the history of this period that we possess!
The other, usually called "The Antiquities of the Jews," is his attempt to explain the Jews to his new masters and friends, the Romans (who found Jewish history fascinating if incomprehensible). Most of it is a paraphrase of the narrative in the Bible, but it leaves many things out and puts many things in.
What Josephus' sources were, how much he actually knew, what he was inventing or guessing (and as with all sources that old, none of his population figures are at all reliable) is a matter of intense debate!
Am starting to study more as I just received my results, 26% Ashkenazi. I never knew my roots from my paternal side but always suspected some Jewish heritage.
Prof. Henry, couple of questions why are comments section switched off on your Khazar Jewish history videos? And "The Thirteenth Tribe" book by Arthur Koestler is academically detailed, opposing your views and ideas on Jewish origins in Khazaria and the local community converting to Judaismin that region. The evidence is overwhelming compared to what you have provided in your videos. Your thoughts on the Arthur Koestler book and his research specifically to this topic?
The Khazarian topic attracts far too many distracting, foolish questions. Koestler's work is not worth considering as a serious source.
Good question
@HenryAbramsonPhD good thinking. Opening those videos up for comments would be an invitation to one big chazzerai.
No the Khazar Theory has been comprehensively debunked. Huge amount of DNA evidence to that effect.
Thank you. I have an ancestor with the surname Behrens which is North German and Ashenazik Jewish.
I never understood the Khazar argument when phenotypically, genetically and linguistically it does not matchj up with Ashkenazi people.
Infact Ashkenazi are closest to Syrian Jews and Sephardim, after that they are strongly related to central Italians, especially Tuscans.
Amazing comment.! According to my Ancestry DNA results, I have Eastern European Jewish background. My father's ancestors came from Central Italy...Abrussese region
Contemporary Eastern European Jews comprise the largest ethno-religious aggregate of modern Jewish communities, accounting for approximately 90% of over 13 million Jews worldwide (Ostrer 2001).
As he states clearly, the overwhelming majority of the Ashkenazim of eastern Europe (Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine -- and the USA) can be traced to the lineages of four women who lived in northern Italy in pre-medieval times.
@@johnyohalem6507 that’s the maternal origin yes, paternal was from the levant
Typical Ashkenazi phenotype has heavy Asian influence including short stature, high cheekbones and epicanthic fold in the eyes Sarah Silverman did a whole episode about this in her show. If you look at so many Ashkenazi celebrities they have a vaguely Asian look. These celebrities include Leonard Nimoy, Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks, Buddy Hackett, Ed Asner, Rosanne Barr, Diane Wiest, Joan Rivers, Jerry Stiller, Jason Alexander and Mayim Bialik,
King Bulan from Khazaria has Three Choices of the Religions being Muslim, Christian, and JudaÏsm. And they choose Judaïsm
This is the only truth.
It would have been interesting to cover the ethnic dimension as well (ie Ashkenazi Jews being half Middle Eastern/ half European (the European half most likely being Italian). It would also help to make people realise that even Ashkenazi Jews have a Middle Eastern origin and are not “white coloniser” as the woke left is trying to suggest
Haters will always be anti semetic in different ways
“Europe” and “Middle East” are not races; they are geographic regions, the populations in them closely related. AJ are not “half Middle Eastern half European” nor are their genetics more interesting than the genetics of other Jewish communities, let alone other Jewish communities that formed in Europe.
That “white coloniser” routine isn’t common outside of American left who themselves are the laughingstock of the world. It can be disproved in many ways and genetics aren’t one.
The real jews are black. The bible says the hebrews were sold to the enemy.these impostor asskenasi have never been sold .
@@benyahudadavidl i already know blacks are the hebrew israelites.its in the bible.the white man that calls himself a jew has never been a slave
@@benyahudadavidl yea I am not aware of that indeed. Seems unlikely considering that people in the Middle East are not black…
Only one important detail is missing about Vladimir of Kievan Rus, that his grandmother Olga went to Constantinople and get baptized, she influenced his decision a lot
My father Hebrew name was Yoel and he had 16% Ashkenazi Judean DNA but was southern Italian and has 70% Southern Italian DNA, 4% Bedouin, 2% North African Imazighen, 8% Arab.
Unless your mother was Jewish it doesn't matter, you do not determine if your Jewish based off DNA
@@OnlyEmet my mother was Judean and yes we determine who is part of the tribe versus who is a convert who wouldn't be genetically related to the tribe
Yael is a woman's name.
@@shainazion4073 says Babylon.
@@sinatra222 The name Yael is a boy or girls name of Hebrew origin meaning "to ascend". A common unisex name in Israel, , more properly written as Ya'el.
Thanks so much for this very interesting listen. It's so hard to self criticise what modern Western society forces students to read and call facts. but more and more is coming to light with science and minimum taking a few new looks at what was thought to be true. I appreciate your video alot.
and they don’t teach jewish history. your learning is rare and commendable ❤
Khazarian Hypothesis is very real and credible. Eran Elhaik did a great job of linking Ashkenazi Jews to villages in the caucuses called “Ishkuza” and “Ashkenaz”
Robert Eran Elhaik used Armenian and Georgian Dna as a substitute for Turkic dna and was severely chastised by the scientific community.
@@tagbarzeev8283 And the other researchers used principal component analysis, a flawed methodology for genetic group analysis. They also seemed to not comment on findings that refuted their conclusions.
Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad."
Yes!!
Thanks henry im glad you touch on the khazrian kingdom theory,i notice some people get offended when mentioning them,im glad you mentioned in one of youre statements,that there persons who like to use the ashkenazi and khazrian claim that they potray that they dont belong to israel ,but alot of people must realized that the destruction of the temple and the city of jerusalem was a world changing event for the yehudim
Always wanted to know more about Ashkenazi history.
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Thank you for sharing this - it is fascinating. I would like to share something: I'm no scholar, but I happen to have discovered some history of Khazaria long before it started appearing on social media. I was trying to trace the roots of klezmer. Of course, as improvised music, it was always evolving. But the older, more traditional melodies seem to have roots in Turkish modes. So I searched for the Turkish connection to the Ashkenazi Jews who played klezmer, and that led me to Khazaria. This is not an established fact accepted by musicologists, but it satisfied my curiosity, so I'd like to suggest it as a remnant trace of Khazaria in Ashkenazi culture.
Can you tell me more about this connection?
@@jsw7814 Klezmer is folk music of the Ashkenazi Jews of eastern and central Europe, and the traditional sound seems to have some Turkish influence. I looked for the Turkish connection to that area - mainly southwestern Russia - and learned that that area had originally been Turkic, before the Slavs took over. Exploring that history further, I discovered Khazaria. Discussions of Khazaria that I've seen in recent years have been irrational, because everyone is trying to skew it to suit current social/political aims. Khazaria hasn't existed for over a millennium, and has no effect on the current scene. It is insane for non-Jews to assert their opinions of who "real" and "fake" Jews are, and for others to take those opinions seriously. I think that is just the latest gimmick coming from neo-Nazis.
@@yusufaslan9562 Unfortunately, I can't read this. Is there a way to translate it?
@@marquisartistic1 Şalom. I am a Khazar Turk living in Turkey. My ancestor is Bulan Kagan. After the collapse of Hazar, we became a state again under the leadership of Dukak's son Selçuk Kaganin. Some migrated to Eastern Europe with the Jewish religion. Remember this. 'History is a field of knowledge, not a field of belief!
@@marquisartistic1 ua-cam.com/video/S3jfhiJwI7k/v-deo.html
thank you so much for this video!!!!
The Ashkenazi jews are from the line of Shem, but just claim the name of the Gentile Ashkenazi from the line of Japheth, then what happened to the original people of Askinazi?
Shalom, they are not us. Shemites are socalled black people, the ones the whole world imitates.
As he explains, they were a myth invented when the genealogies of Genesis were concocted.
@@johnyohalem6507 ok, so the line of Shem is the only Real linage and Shem chose to abandon their linage name in order to called themselves by a fictional gentile lineage of people? ok.
If you look at the ways the Hebrews described themselves in the bible, you can see that the askenazi Jews are just European converts.
As a matter of fact everyone talks abourpf Jews, but Judaism is just a religion. The real ethnic people are Hebrews. And they have nothing to do with askenazi Jews.
The people of Ashkenazi are those that enslaved our people, and are now giving real SHEMITES in Palestine a God damn nightmare with the worlds largest open air prison, I mean Palestinians can't even leave their land without permission from Ashkenaz. so why do they treat others the same way they said hitlers germany treated them in 1939.
Very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
We know where they come from. They are not real jews they were nomad turks.
off course, but you will never hear them talking the truth.They could choose to become christians,muslims or jaws and they so they became so called jaws. Actually,they do not have anything commen with the real jaws.
@@shainazion4073 History is a field of knowledge, not belief
I highly recommend you keep your eye out for a new documentary it's called "Valley of Hamon Gog: The Final Battle." It's in preproduction right now with an open casting call.
Dr. Abramson, I fond this lecture extremely interesting, many thanks. My wife always thought that she was a German Jew by ancestry. Her father claimed to be a German Jew although he never practiced it. She did a genetic test that revealed that she had no German genes, but rather Eastern European genes. Now I understand why thanks again. My grandparents came from Italy. My mother said that her mother from Italy said that we had Jewish linage in our background. Grandmother was a Catholic but always would not use her stove to cook on Sunday (The wrong day for, Sabbath). She had all of her food ready made on Saturday so she would not cook on Sunday. Now, where did she get this idea to not make anything to eat all day on Sunday, from? I think it was a memory passed down but forgotten what day to do it on, and what it meant. I want to learn about my Jewish background that was lost.
minute 26 converted to Judaism.. fix
How does Abraham fit into this history? What about Abrarham's decendents? Where did they go or where are rhey now?
Exactly n if this is the case. Can they still claim Jerusalem?
I just read a book that had a chapter that discussed this khaszar Jewish conversion called Abraham's Children Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entina, 2007.
Did you alread that the real jews are black and moses was also a black man
Elhaik had to recant his allegation that the Ashkenazi were converted Khazars after being outed by the very researchers who supplied his genome study with the genome datasets for tweaking the data to force his predetermined outcome. This is called fraud, not science. The Ashkenazi Jews have since been repeatedly confirmed to carry the authentic Semitic/Levant genome. It is now also known that over 40% of the Ashkenazi are descended from only four Hebrew females who migrated to Europe over 1,000 years ago.
@@intelin123 You are Bantus, not Hebrews.
@@annemurphy9339 the white man that calls himself a jew has never been a slave. Moses jacob abraham were all black men.black people living in the usa are the hebrew slaves the bible speaks about. I am not black.i read the bible and i know the truth. I am mexican
@@intelin123 All of the ancient people groups indigenous to the Fertile Crescent/Levant of the Near & Middle East were, and still are, Levantine caucasoids who share a genetic kinship - Hebrews, Assyrians, Lebanese, etc. This is proven by all ancient forensics, the Bible, all ancient secular recorded history, and by literally thousands of years of geographical area artworks ranging glyphs to murals, mosaics, portraits, and statuary. Blacks are indigenous to the sub-Saharan of West Africa, much, much further south and on an entirely different continent. This is why all ancient Hebraic synagogue artworks - made by the hands of the ancient Hebrews themselves, and unearthed from excavation sites all across the landscape of ancient Israel/Judaea - reveal an exclusively caucasoid Hebrew population, and without exception. This is consistent whether you peruse the very ancient mosaics from Dura Europos, Tzippori, the Galilean or Judean Desert sites, Beit Alpha, Huqoq, Hamat Tiberius, or any others. You have a better chance of being a French fry than a Hebrew.
I read that by 1000AD there was only around 400 families of what would become Ashkenazi Jews left and they were in northern Italy. A reduction from several million at the time of the diaspora.
The several million figure is an exaggeration.
Dear Rabbi Henry Abramson,
I have watched your youtube clips a lot, but in this lecture you had few mistakes which I would like to point out:
1- in 26 minutes of your lecture you said King Bulan converted to Christianity. you meant he converted to Judaism.
2- in 29 minutes of your lecture you call Khazaria part of central Asia. This is not true, the region is called North Caucasus and it is part of Europe.
3- The main reason King Bulan converted to Judaism was war with Arab Moslems. After nearly 100 years of fighting with Arabs he was tired and did not want to accept Islam by force and become subject of Arab Caliph. He realized by converting to either Christianity or Judaism (People of the Book) he could end the war with the Arabs and live in peace with Arabs.
He chose Judaism because he could keep his independence and not to answer to anybody as there was no Jewish Country with Jewish King- Best of the both worlds option.
4- The 10th-century Muslim geographer al-Iṣṭakhrī described the White Khazars as strikingly handsome with reddish hair, white skin, and blue eyes. This description of Khazars are also confirmed by early Arab sources. In fact Prof Stampfer fits the description. So DNA analysis is wrong because it assumes Turks are oriental looking people with silty eyes.
5- Racially Hungarian or Magyar (Turkic) are closest to Khazar Turks. Hungarian means 10 arrows in Turkish. Hungarian migrated to Today's Hungary at the end of 9th century from region to the west of Khazaria. Khazars migrated 100 years later after destruction of their empire by Kievan Rus. Hungarian DNA profile is very similar to Ashkenazi Jew with exception of Q-haplogroup which is an East Asian Turkic Genes. This Turkish genes is presented in Ashkenazi Jewish DNA. It seems Hungarian have lost this gene by mixing with Slavic and Germanic people.
6-The Khazar "Moses coin" found in the Spillings Hoard ( Sweden) and dated c. 800, confirms that there was a Jewish Kingdom in North Caucasus. It is inscribed with "Moses is the messenger of God" instead of the usual Muslim text "Muhammad is the messenger of God".
7- Six pointed star (Star of David) in fact is a Turkic star which was used in shamanistic sun discs. Blue is a Turkic colour because Sky was the only Turkic God in pagan time. You cannot find any reference to Star of David or blue colour in any old Jewish text.
8-The main reason Viking Rus King Vladimir the great disqualified both Islam and Judaism was the issue of circumcision. First he rejected Islam based on circumcision without alcohol, then he looked at Judaism seriously but issue of circumcision came up again (circumcision with alcohol), he said he preferred painless conversion. He Chose Christianity because Christianity offered alcohol without circumcision.
Excellent points.......Funny, no reply just "crickets"
So supposedly DNA evidence is wrong because you say so? Sir you seem to be a bit obsessed with this. It’s a myth with a purpose. That being to try and discredit somehow the ancient history of the Jewish people and the very real diaspora. We know where Ashkenazi Jews came from and like the professor here says there are ample proofs in written history, linguistic history, and DNA. You need to let this go
Thank you. I learned a lot.
Glad to hear it!
Correct me if I am wrong! My understanding is that to be a Jew,your mother must be Jewish. You are saying Ashkenazi are descended from four,non Jewish women. This appears a contridiction. I am descended from Turkish Sephardum. My family is Jamaican. I enjoy your lectures. Love my cousins!
The women converted
Modern rabbinical Judaism is matrilineal, yes. But at many points in pre-modern Jewish history it was not uncommon for Jewish men to marry non-Jewish women, as long the latter converted to Judaism. A woman who converts to Judaism has the same status as a woman who is born Jewish, and the descendants of such a woman will be considered Jewish. This practice was probably more common in the first millennium C.E. and afterwards discouraged for a number of reasons both internal and external to Jewish communities, but it is a factor nonetheless.
Shalom,stop. White people and their cousins have nothing to do with us. We are Shemites. Socalled Negros. We are not a religious sect, we are the religion. Our records tell us that we are not to trace our ancestry from our mother. This is why we are called Israelites. This is so sick. If white people are Israelites, then why don't they have a love for truth and justice?
@@cuidatrava1 Shalom, perhaps you are unaware that Black people are the only human beings on the planet. For white people or anyone else to be an Israelite, they would have to be human. And according to western science, white people and their cousins are not. Please Google Black European royalty and study Jacobite rebellion and Spanish inquisition and see Anacalypsis by G Higgins and check Kurimeo Ahau on UA-cam and Black Sambo documentary on UA-cam.
@@cuidatrava1 Shalom, please do as instructed if I am in fantasy land then you can embarrass me in the comments.
awesome my 8x great grandparents are Ashkenazi Ellia & Mirial Flattman( Silberman) lived in Suffolk,England she was born in Russia but I have not been successful finding info.
Ya’ll have to explain to me how an Ashkenaz can be a Jew. When Ashkenaz was a son of Japheth. Jew comes from Judah or Israelite which was Jacob & who came from Shem or as they say today Sem hence Semite. Japheth & Shem were brothers so an Ashkenaz would be an uncle or cousin of an Israelite if we are just going by the Bible Genesis chapter 10 verse 3-22 goes over the genealogy 🤨🧐
You clearly didn’t watch
Ashkenaz of the Bible is not the progenitor of the Ashkenazi Jews. They were never Ashkenazites or Ashkenazians, they were not tribes ever descending from the man Ashkenaz,
They were first called as Ashkenazi Jews in the 1100s, when the Jewish sage Rashi called different areas of Europe as '"Ashkenaz" and "Sepharad" in the 1100s. These were Jews in this part of Europe before the first century.
The *Mizrahi Jews* are not the descendants of Ham's son, Mitzraim, but Jews that lived near Mitzraim (Egypt)
The *Sephardi Jews* are not the descendants of a man named Sepharad, but Jews living in the land named as Sepharad (Spain) by Rashi in the 1100s..
The *Romanoite Jews* are not the descendants of a man named Roman, but Jews from Rome that moved to areas in Greece or Turkey.
And, *Ashkenazi Jews are not the descendants of the man Ashkenaz, but Jews from Germany and France that was named as Ashkenaz in the 1100s by the Jewish sage Rashi.*
Just as the people who live in Colombus. Ohio are not the descendants of the explorer Colombus. And, the people of Cesarea, Israel are not the descendants of Julius Ceasar.
@@ES-se2ck yea I didn’t watch because how they come from Africa & end up white? 🧐🤔 has to be more melanated Jews than just the ones in Ethiopia
Maybe grow a brain.
Thank you.
Very intetesting.
Glad you liked it