Ethnicities of Israel: Bulgaria

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[@אסי-צ2צ]

Bulgaria has always been a friend of Israel. With respect to the Bulgarians

[@overthebar]

Burn

[@s.b.7598]

true #longliveIsrael

[@MrSTEFFKE]

And Serbia... The only two countries in Europe who didn't persecute jews

[@БориславКуманов]

🇧🇬🇮🇱🙏💪

[@senioritaalfaro]

@@MrSTEFFKE Pues están siendo súper agradecidos como podéis ver

[@anoitedfighter]

OK, I am a Bulgarian and Christian. I have close friends who are bulgarian jews and my landlords are bulgarian jews and I currently live in the jewish part of sofia. Bulgarian jews are cool people they are very bulgarian and our communities mingle a lot, eventhough there was always pressure between us, it never escalated the way it did in western europe or russia. By the way the guy at 2.25 has the most bulgarian sense of humor.

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

One thing I do notice about Bulgarian-Israelis, is that they are one of the most secular Jewish groups in Israel. They are mostly of Sephardic heritage, but usually Sefaradim in Israel people tend to be traditional, even those who are not overtly religious. To make generalizations, Ashkenazim tend to be either/or, either they are Orthodox and very observant, or completely secular. But every Bulgarian Israeli I'm personally acquainted with is very secular. I realize this is a subjective impression and I am not trying to say anything positive or negative about the community. Does anyone know a Bulgarian Jew in Israel who is Shabbat observant and eats only kosher food? Just wondering...

[@georgimihov2690]

Yes, Jews in Bulgaria were mostly culturally Jewish and non-observant. I believe at the beginning of the 20th century many of them had socialist political views which led to their lack of religiousness. And the Bulgarian nation as a whole was never overtly religious so that may have had an effect on its Jewish members. The Bulgarian Jews were very integrated with the ethnic Bulgarians - for example in Bulgaria there were never designated Jewish neighborhoods, schools or businesses. Which is why in World War II most Bulgarians protested against the deportation of Jews and organized by the Church and the political opposition they managed to prevent deportations - because it was too personal, many people had a friend, a neighbor, a coworker or a teacher who was Jewish. Which is a good example how in a multicultural society self-integration is just as important as being granted acceptance; it's two sides of the same coin.

[@antisozialistischeaktion9015]

Im Ethnic Bulgarian... but Israeli-Bulgarians are my Brothers and Sisters. Am Israel Chai ♡

[@ivangeorgiev763]

I am a Bulgarian Orthodox Christian and I love Israel and its people. God bless you brothers. You are in my prayers

[@overthebar]

Burn

[@emilpashov1993]

Ами палестинците? За тях никой не се сеща.

[@bou5525]

A za Palestina molish li se be glupak?

[@Vince_ExE]

@@emilpashov1993 and ? Is not there homeland

[@emilpashov1993]

@@Vince_ExE Oh, it sure is!

[@alphaburgozone2881]

If you dont know, learn BULGARIAN CUISINE ; 1) Rodop Kyufte (Meatball of Rhodope Region) 2) Filibe (Plodiv) Kyufte 3) Kebabche (Grill of Kardzhali Provience) 4) Karnache (Grill of Kardzhali Provience) 5) Nadenitsa (Sausage of Rhodope Region) 6) Banitsa (Pastry of Rhodope, Pirin Macedonia, Trakiya Regions) 7) Ponicka (Pastry of Rhodope, Pirin Macedonia, Trakiya Regions) 8) Dızmana (Pastry of Rhodope, Pirin Macedonia, Trakiya Regions) 9) Sarma (Bulgarian Main Dish) - (Rhodope, Pirin Macedonia, Trakiya Regions) 10) Gyuvech (Bulgarian Main Dish) - (Rhodope, Pirin Macedonia, Trakiya Regions) 11) Yahniya (Bulgarian Main Dish) - (Strandzha & Trakiya Regions) 12) Elenski But (Bulgarian Cold Cuts) - (Strandzha & Dobrogea Regions) 13) Lukanka (Sausage of Central Balkan Region) 14) Sirene (Bulgarian White Cheese) 15) Shopska Salad (Filibe-Plovdiv) 16) Chushkopek (Bulgarian Electrical Appliance to roast Pepper, Eggplant and Tomato) 17) Shkembe Chorba (Bulgarian Soup) 18) Supa Topcheta (Bulgarian Kyufte Soup) 19) Bob Chorba (Bulgarian Bean Shop) 20) Tarator (Bulgarian Cold Soup) 21) Lyutenitza (Bulgarian Tomato Sauce) 22) Boza (Bulgarian Drinking) 23) Kozunak (Bulgarian Dessert) 24) Bulgarian Blacksea Sea Products : - European Seabass, European Spratt, Blue Mussel, Blue Fish, Veined Rapa Whelk, - Gobies, Horse Mackerel, Atlantic Mackerel, Atlantic Bonito - Black Sea Shad, Black Sea Brill, White Sand Mussels, Spiny Dogfish 25) Bulgarian Beer Products : - Kamenitza (Filibe -Plovdiv) - Zagorka (Stara Zagora) - Ariana (Sofia) - Shumensko (Shumen) - Burgasko (Burgas) - Astika (Haskovo) - Pirinsko (Blagoevgrad) 26) Bulgarian Wine Products : - Telish Castra Rubra Butterly's Rock - (Cabernet, Merlot) / 91/100 - Telish Castra Rubra - (Bordeaux, Blend Red) / 90/100 - Telish Castra Rubra - Dominant - (Thracian Valley) - (Cabernet) / 90/100 - Telish Castra Rubra - Via Diagonalis Red - (Rare Red Blend) / 89/100 - Telish Castra Rubra - Pendar - (Rare Red Blend) / 88/100 - Chateau Burgozone - Chardonnay (Danube Plain) - (Chardonnay) / 90/100 - Chateau Burgozone - Viognier (Danube Plain) - (Viognier) / 89/100 - Edoardo Miroglio - Elenovo Mavrud (Nova Zagora) - (Mavrud) / 90/100 - Edoardo Miroglio - Pinot Nero Reserve (Nova Zagora) - (Pinot Noir) / 89/100

[@hughhughes4488]

I'm a jew, and I kind of want to visit Bulgaria. Americans talk about alot of European countries, but for some reason Bulgaria is never one of them. What mysteries do you hold, Bulgaria.

[@Ghooster1914]

So much that you can't discover all :)

[@tazzz1783]

@@Ghooster1914 literally what i was thinking :)

[@Ghooster1914]

@@tazzz1783 :)

[@georgimihov2690]

@Corey Gil-Shuster : to your question at 1:14, the vast majority of Bulgarian Jews in the 20th century were Sephardic - descendants of Spanish Jews who re-settled directly to the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. There were few Ashkenazi surnames present in Bulgaria (mostly recent immigrants from Europe after Bulgaria's liberation in 1878), and even those Jews were integrated into the Sephardic community. For example the Yiddish language and Hasidism never existed among the Bulgarian Jewry. Before the 16th century in Medieval Bulgaria there were older Jewish communities consisting of Romaniote Jews who spoke Greek. The Romaniote Jews were highly integrated into the social life of the Second Bulgarian Empire (anti-Semitism was never a thing in Bulgaria and on the Balkans in general), with some Bulgarian kings having married noble-women of Jewish descent. Because of that high level of integration most Romaniote Jews were assimilated into the Bulgarian nation and what remained was absorbed by the incoming Spanish Jews in the 16th century.

[@sladetuner8661]

over 75,000 Israelis Jews are of Bulgarian background by the way

[@thesecunts9896]

7:10 this dude looks Bulgarian tho

[@0xe849]

I was going to say the same :D

[@Draz92]

Ask Argentinian Israelis.

[@hiimetai7547]

they are quite rare, good luck with that.

[@hiimetai7547]

Well I personally know only one Argentinian, and I have not encountered a lot of people who are "Latin Israelis", I suppose there aren't much in Haifa or I just didn't meet them

[@bgcvetan]

@@hiimetai7547 Viva La Libertad Carajo? Is that him?

[@lillykrina]

Brilliant project!!! Thank you! Will be good to see another one under this title: "Ethnicities of Israel: Armenians" ;)

[@katharinahuth4242]

British Jews from the Great Kingdom from England , Wales , Ireland ve Scotia are also very intresting people.

[@marksimons8861]

According to some commentators on this channel, most of the Jews from the UK don't actually come from here ......... what with them having immigrated from other places in the last 150 years. To the best of my recollection Corey hasn't done Australia, NZ, US, Canada or South Africa either. It's possibly because the anglophone world tends not to see ourselves as having an ethnicity what with most of us coming from somewhere else.

[@amangederlia2142]

Bulgaria was always a multicultural Country. Sephardim, Ashkenazim, Muslims, Armenians and so on.

[@yinondukhan1679]

Corey, learn the difference between nationality and ethnicity.

[@chugalongway01]

Corey is correct. Their nationality is "Israeli" and their ethnicity is "Bulgarian".

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

_Corey is correct. Their nationality is "Israeli" and their ethnicity is "Bulgarian"_ dur duh is incorrect. Their *nationality* is *Jewish* and their *citizenship* is *Israeli*. The *ethnicity* of Israeli Jews whose ancestors lived in Bulgaria is certainly not Bulgarian, as very few Jews in Bulgaria even spoke Bulgarian as a primary language or mother tongue until very recent times. One might as well argue that the Turkish-Muslim minority in Bulgaria is ethnically Bulgarian just because they lived in Bulgaria. *Culturally*, the Jews in Bulgaria were of primarily Sefaradi-Jewish heritage and culture (descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492) who migrated to the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire although they were preceded in the territory now known as Bulgaria by Romaniote (Greek-speaking) Jews who had been there since the Byzantine times. The Ladino/Djudezmo-speaking Jews (those who spoke the Judeo-Castilian Spanish dialect) arrived in present-day Bulgaria en masse (as well as Greece, parts of the former Yugoslavia and parts of Romania, as well as Anatolian Turkey) in the 15th and 16th centuries. Sicne there were so many of them they mostly absorbed the smaller Romaniote/Yevanic (Judeo-Greek-speaking) Jews. Additionally, Ashkenazi Jews also first started to migrate to Bulgaria in the Middle Ages, but their descendants were absorbed into the Romaniote and later Sefaradi communities and lost a distinct Ashkenazi cultural identity. But in more recent times, more Ashkenazi Jews from the Russian Empire and Poland migrated into Bulgaria in the 1800s and early 20th century, as Corey asked a few people, "Are you Ashkenazi Bulgarian or Sefaradi Bulgarian?"

[@ronebdc1678]

gur ruh Well, Corey used the word "Eda עדה" which means "Community" or "Nation" but in the English translation he wrote "ethnicity". The correct word for ethnicity in Hebrew is "Motza מוצא". He says words in Hebrew but translates them differently into English most of the time, since he's not a native speaker. I'm pretty sure he's guessing that the viewers will understand the meaning of the words either way

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

I'd translate "motza" as "background" though -- but you could say "motsa etni" -- "ethnic background"

[@marksimons8861]

I thought citizenship was Israeli, nationality is Jewish, not quite so sure about the ethnicity what with Israelis being so jumbled up these days.

[@fredperry9235]

They're not really ethnic Bulgarians though

[@mideastruth]

Fred Perry They're hebrews

[@lamichael8659]

no, you are right, kind of .I mean depends on your definition

[@bgleon4155]

In Bulgaria we consider Jews to be Bulgarians if they live here and speak Bulgarian and are invested in the culture. But the people in this video are Israeli not Bulgarian.

[@vengerer]

And who gave you permission to talk about all Bulgarians?

[@bgleon4155]

а бе човек аз съм българин

[@katharinahuth4242]

French Jews and Malta Jews are also very interesting .

[@VALDIGNE]

not enough Malteses in Israel.

[@idontspeakminecraft1475]

We have a lot France

[@legolasflamier1542]

First woman looks like George Soros.

[@nikgeo8690]

All the ancestors of the people in these videos prefered to stick to their language and religion instead of getting forcibly assimilated in the countries they used to live in...props to them...many jews were assimilated and were forced to embrace the religion and language of the country the lived just to avoid persecution and being exiled

[@katharinahuth4242]

Jews from Denmark , Norway , Finnland who are living in Israel and from France.

[@chayabat-tzvi1215]

I was about to post this. Scandinavian Jews should be next.

[@katharinahuth4242]

Ani Yehudot shmi Rinah , sheli Iwith loh tov , sheli mishpacha Yehudot Ashkenazim Germania ve Polonia ve Kresy . I am not living in the Middle East.

[@katharinahuth4242]

I have the feeling le´ts hang out that You are not a Jew from Israel or from the diaspora , my feeling says to me that You are a person from Middle East or an Palestinian Arab .

[@Yuval012]

there aren't many tho... in General there were never many jews in Scandinavia.

[@davidbyrne1019]

What about Argentina there is a lot of people from there

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Every Israeli eats bourekas though... (and the Turks, Albanians, etc..also have the same kind of thing, biuriks, they call it).

[@МихаелаМитова-з8с]

it's not a bulgarian dish anyway, i dont know why they're saying it... it's a turkish dish, actually, most of the "bulgarian foods" are actually turkish, we have very few things that are considered bulgarian and nobody else makes them

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Михаела Митова Well, Bulgarian Jews popularized and spread bourekas in Israel, so it's associated with them by most Israelis. At this point, it's just considered an Israeli staple comfort food; *who doesn't like* bourekas?! (My doctor tells me to lay off them, that's who!)

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

P.S. I live in New York City right now and in the area where I live there are many Albanian-Americans-- they eat "burek" --it's bourekas!

[@МихаелаМитова-з8с]

this is the first time i hear someone calls it like this. it's börek and it's turkish.

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Okay, but in Israel it's called "bourekas". The Bulgarian Jews who brought them to Israel were of originally Sephardic (Spanish-Jewish) heritage, and spoke a Spanish-Jewish language called Ladino or Djudezmo, esentially Spanish mixed with Hebrew and with Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian or Turkish (and some French and Portuguese) mixed in too, depending on which country they settled in. So "bourekas" is just the Ladino way of saying "börek", you know they add an "ah" at the end to make it more Spanishy-sounding.

[@DenisPeppermint]

You should do one on Israeli-Yugoslavs. Would love to see that.

[@reksmeiarkadiusz-davidavic1164]

I'll volunteer to be in the video myself! I'm Serbian-born jewish with Ashkenazi roots

[@bgcvetan]

This was underwhelming, but at least they are honest.

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Mira Awad is actually a real Bulgarian-Israeli en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Awad

[@trem876]

Do one for India

[@Muonium1]

Why do you "need not ask why he wants to move to Thailand"? ladyboy fetish?

[@humansdosuck]

LOL i did not get that one either

[@hiimetai7547]

if you have the ability to work through the web, you can live in Thailand like a king, and its quite foreign friendly.

[@Yuval012]

i think mostly because Israelies see Thailand as quite peaceful country with conunt trees and amazing beaches.

[@VALDIGNE]

not necessarily, they can move there just because life is cheap. I personally would never move to Thailland because of the humidity and dirtiness.

[@thomasucc]

Hey where are the Irish

[@s.b.7598]

They are always welcome :) ❤

[@katharinahuth4242]

Please make a film about Ethniciities of Israel : Germany , Poland ( but new Polish Israeli ) , Austrian , Swedish and Swiss and Afghanistan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and South African and Hungarian and Italian and Brazilian and Portugese and Spanish people of Israel . And Jews from India and Pakistan and China and Japan who are living in Israel.

[@reksmeiarkadiusz-davidavic1164]

I'll represent Germany, Poland and Serbia (I am jewish but with roots from these countries)

[@p4mt]

Why don't you ask if they can understand/speak the language ?

[@hiimetai7547]

its very rarely the case

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Which language, Ladino? (I.e., Judeo-Spanish.) Bulgarian was not the primary and native language of most of the "Bulgarian" Jews who moved to Israel -- Until the 20th century most Bulgarian Jews only spoke in Bulgarian when they spoke to Bulgarian non-Jews. However, most members of the very small Jewish community that remains in Bulgaria today in the present day speak Bulgarian as their native tongue, they have become very assimilated (and often intermarried with Bulgarian non-Jews) and usually only the old people (who are dying) know Ladino. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3147023

[@VALDIGNE]

they can't, only their grandparents preserve the memory and once they die everything will be cancelled.

[@SuperGamingCraftSGC]

​@VALDIGNE I mean, I'm a bulgarian jew (born in israel, but parents and grandparents were born in bulgaria) and actually the first language my parents taught me was bulgarian! It's the same for all of my cousins and our bulgarian Jewish (israeli) friends.

[@bulgariangamerbozhy1637]

This is sad bulgarians will dissapear.... Anyone doesn't want to go back to Bulgaria... Every year 60k of bulgarians live thei country... Bulgarians will dissapear this is sad people are not anymore bulgarian :( they think that they are from Israel :( but they are not!! Remember people it doesn't matter if you live in other country you will sill be from Bulgaria!! Come on people come back to Bulgaria we will do the live more good if we support and help us come back to BULGARIA!!

[@veselinnikolov3521]

It shouldn't bother you too much because they are not ethnically Bulgarian

[@cvetageorgieva4312]

Don't worry. We, Bulgarians - just like Jewish people - have seen worse. It hadn't broken us. We gave survived it and we will survive whatever comes. We will not disappear.

[@DonDiego724]

The only common thing between those people is that no one wants to come back in Bulgaria. Well, that's sad.

[@Србомбоница86]

I never met Bulgarian Jew wow ,great 👍

[@avryeu]

His family are from Hebron that is Israel, there is no Palestine.

[@lionelnathanderothschild3985]

There is no serious evidence that proves Khazars ever converted to Judaism: muse.jhu.edu/article/547127 *"The view that some or all of the Khazars, a central Asian people, converted to Judaism at some point during the ninth or tenth century is widely accepted. A careful examination of the sources, however, shows that some of them are pseudepigraphic, and the rest are of questionable reliability. Many of the most reliable contemporary texts that mention Khazars say nothing about their conversion, nor is there any archaeological evidence for it. This leads to the conclusion that such a conversion never took place."* Khazar theory debunked again.

[@garsm2290]

Hebron is an occupied Palestinian city in the West Bank.

[@garsm2290]

Only for fundamentalists do towns have a religion!

[@mideastruth]

Gar Sm only ignorat people dont know that jevvs are an ETHNO-religous group. but i would say that a 'hebrew town' is a better more accurate term.

[@chugalongway01]

Avraham Yeuda Hebron is in Palestine which is recognized by the entire world. yeh yeh, we know how you will never recognize Palestine and the Palestinian people because it makes you the immigrant, or more precisely foreigners.

[@sladetuner8661]

Do one for Other South Slav Jews (Croats, Bosians, Serbs etc)

[@Србомбоница86]

There is Serbian Jews???never met one wow

[@sladetuner8661]

You did , Israel's last prime minister Yair Lapid is of poo paternal Serbian by it an Yugoslavian background by the way

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

make banica babche :)

[@vidong1704]

These are not official ethnicities. If they are Jews, these are called countries of exile( Galut). The official ethnicities of Israel are Jews, Arabs, Armenians, Druzes, and some more.

[@BBWahoo]

Obviously

[@Dinosaur315]

Doesnt matter, Israel's very multicultural that it even has ethnicities that arent official or major.

[@vidong1704]

@@Dinosaur315 Non-official is what a person can call himself/herself. But calling Jews kicked out of Germany " Germans" after 6 million killed, and calling them " Lybians" is dead wrong. They were kicked out of Germany for not being Germans. And " Lybian" is not an ethnicity. People there are Arabs. And obviously Jews are not Arabs. So, the gentleman does not understand that. A big gap in Jewish education.

[@Dinosaur315]

@@vidong1704 Ok in that case that's totally understandable, but I think they meant to include all kinds of people, like jews from X country and and non-jews. This video just happened to have more jews from bulgaria than bulgarians.

[@vidong1704]

@@Dinosaur315 I think it is way more prosaic than that. The author is from Canada and in the mind of a Canadian -born person, anyone who is from Canada by birth is Canadian. Including a Jew. So, he assumes that Germany is the same way and Russia is the same way and a Jew from Germany must be a German and a Jew from Bulgaria is of Bulgarian ethnicity. This is dead wrong because those countries go by bloodline not birthplace and Jews were never seen as Germans or Bulgarians in Germany or Bulgaria or as Russians in Russia. Jews are of Hebrew/Judean ethnicity and this is how they are registered in Israel and in all those countries. But coming from Canada, he seems to have no idea about how things are in those countries and the whole idea of Zionism was to get those Jews out of those countries and back home where they would be living among own ethnicity. This is why Zionism did not start in Canada but in those Old World countries. Jews being kicked out of there for not being Germans or Russians or Bulgarians. But he has no clue apparently. And he plays into the hands of the Arabs. What are those Germans doing in Israel then? Should they not be living in Germany? This is not responsible journalism and influencing public opinion in that Jews are in fact not Middle Easterners but Europeans.

[@elektrotehnik94]

5/10

[@elektrotehnik94]

Please focus on the conflict more. This is kind of interesting, but not important to this channel

[@marksimons8861]

I disagree. The purpose of the channel is to demonstrate the complexity of the situation.

[@eliassaca7310]

I feel that life in Bulgaria sucks that no one even thinks to go there.

[@MrKuriIIko]

If your country was in Warsaw Pact it is shitty compared to Western Europe now, and post-USSR contries, except Baltic States, are legit 3rd world (I live in Russia)

[@Lrapsody27]

Elias Saca beautiful weather, scenery and some traditional culture- and no post-modern ultra liberalism which is destroying western europe.

[@aqmazm6255]

you didn't have your own identity?

[@Hristodimitrov02]

From Bulgaria 🇧🇬🤝🇵🇸 ❌🇮🇱

[@chugalongway01]

Corey should name his "Ethnicities" series of videos - "Foreigners Of Palestine."

[@Yuval012]

but he didn't do that with Palestinians even though most of them are foreingers as well

[@zain__mafia4530]

free palatine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸