Origins of Ashkenazi Jews (Ashkenazium Lectures Part 1)

Origins of the medieval Jewish community of Ashkenaz. First of twelve lectures for The Ashkenazium (www.ashkenazium.eu). Lecture is also available in the course: A Thousand Years of Ashkenaz!
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[@BDAILEY702]

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!

[@djmateo7134]

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.

[@sab5686]

eastern europe isn’t ashkenazi jewish

[@aboolaylaa1984]

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

[@Bdjsis]

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[@BigdaveIDF1]

@@aboolaylaa1984 why you looking for love in a chat room.

[@luciabri8767]

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.

[@cauwenberghsroeland8607]

Be happy your grand-dad isn't the Irish sailor that is the real father of the baker...

[@jessssss6781]

look up the term crypto jews ❤

[@annafrankmusicofficial]

Henry is one of my mentors. Peace and protection upon him and his family. Amen

[@Praxis71]

I’m non-Jewish and found this very informative. Thank you!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@buddyacesmxbc1055]

I'm interested but worried I maybe influenced away from my suffering it hurts so good .

[@belovedfilms9366]

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.

[@ShowemRight]

@@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.

[@alexisgilbert9378]

@@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.

[@yehuditcollins6783]

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.

[@durianeves3976]

Jews. R. Known. By. Genealogy? Or. DNA. Or. By. A. Name. Melatiah. And. Barzillai. !

[@durianeves3976]

R. All. The. Gad. Tribe. Gone?

[@swannoir7949]

The Moors were expelled from Spain. The Moors are Black. You “Jews” usurped another people identity. You all are NOT the biblical Israelites!

[@Jon2.2.0]

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. 🙂

[@swannoir7949]

@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.

[@elliotthearst9240]

Great talk. Looking forward to the next part.

[@thecrimsondragon9744]

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 KZbin. Videos like this should be getting the highest views.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I appreciate your kind feedback! I'm glad you are enjoying the lectures!

[@jeffmax2941]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD so they not middle eastern

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

@@jeffmax2941 Most of the Jews in Mexico City are from Syria.

[@itsytyt5192]

hg

[@krisjustin3884]

Yes, this gets the cerebral neurons moving more than usual. Excellent talk!

[@ivapreckova7562]

thank you, Professor, I very agree it fills a lot of gaps when the conventional education. Your performance is always great from all aspects.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thank you for the very kind words! Glad you found it useful.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

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[@NotOscarFlores]

Awesome, i enjoy this kind of videos so much. Thank you

[@kitchencounterculture8466]

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.

[@georgepaul5843]

Professor, wonderful historical explanation of Ashkenazi, by name and who these people, remaining faithful to Judaism are in the world today.

[@lesterflatt-uc1pn]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CotopaxiAH1968]

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]

Thank you so much! I'm glad that you enjoyed the lecture.

[@La_La_Land_]

@@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?

[@robertleffel3156]

@@La_La_Land_ Tats a.k.a. mountain Jews are of Persian origin.

[@beng2729]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD Dr. Abramson there is a missionary critiquing one of your lectures . kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWGWiaqIgKeHbbs

[@liviagreck1894]

Ashkenazi from Hungary here ❤

[@lesterflatt-uc1pn]

YOUR STATING POINT???????????---------------IF U LISTENED--------------GERMANY!!!!!!! JUS LIKE THESE FOLK......LEFT england, CAME HERE----U LEFT POLAND, U POLISH, LEFT AFRICA? -----U DON'T '''''''''''''''''''''BECOME AMERICAN!!!!''''''''''''''' THE PPL LIVING HERE NORTH AMERICAN,SOUTH, CENTRAL--------U HUNGARIAN BY WAY OF JAPHETH [LEAVING GERMANY]--------- IF MY CAT GIVE BIRTH N ABNDONED FRIGE---------ARE THEY COOKIES? BISCUITS?

[@Dr_Armstrong]

This is great history, with a great, clear presentation. Thank you both for sharing this with the general public.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

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[@lesterflatt-uc1pn]

WAS TOTALLY CLEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND UUUUUU STILL MISSED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@efstratiosfilis2290]

Thank you Dr. Abramson for expanding my knowledge tremendously!

[@sandranatali1260]

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.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you found it useful!

[@glennleslie6127]

Thank you for this wonderful lecture.

[@user-rr8dm9zl4u]

Another fantastic learning experience that helps me understand my ancestral history more and more.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

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[@user-rr8dm9zl4u]

@@omarlittle-hales8237 go seek mental help

[@samiaahmad6160]

So informative Professor! I learned a lot from this lecture, may Lord bestow more peace blessings and guidance upon you

[@nusbacher]

Setting aside the great content, thanks for the moment of remembering Sidney Smith Hall and Robarts Library!

[@rabbigoldstein9840]

Dr. Abramson, what a fantastic lecture!

[@jeffmax2941]

I guess we're really not Jewish from the middle east

[@jiashan1909]

I really deeply enjoy listening to your lectures... I like the content, which is quite new to me, and also your kind of humour. 👍

[@Jerrypie77]

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.

[@DougWinfield]

@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.

[@ayanbeig4969]

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]

Can you prove they are Jewish. When did they convert? They are modern Jews

[@ayanbeig4969]

@@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

[@ayanbeig4969]

Some people think I'm Spanish and Italian or Greek that comes through Rome, South and Western Europe

[@ayanbeig4969]

@@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

[@eustatiusandulescu1125]

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. 🤗🇷🇴

[@wendystocklin9995]

Watching from Washington State, USA. Excited to follow along on this as much as possible.

[@lyndasalgodo3812]

Me too. My great grandparents were German and Jewish. Came in the late 1800's.

[@lyndasalgodo3812]

Me too...in Washington State.

[@lottat6003]

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.

[@kesscarlton8759]

Because askenazi Jews are white Europeans.

[@koopon3900]

Wow! Best of luck on your journey of discovering your Jewish ancestry!

[@spiritinthesky572]

How on earth can a DNA test test for Askenazi genes? That's absolutely ridiculous.

[@Geizer52]

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.

[@jessssss6781]

one of your parents is 100% jewish and the other has some jewish dna

[@karlvonboldt]

Always a pleasure watching your vids, Rabbi👍🏻

[@OnlyEmet]

He's not a Rabbi

[@dalelerette206]

It was interesting when Mom had her genealogy completed by 23 & Me. I expected to be mostly European. And I wasn’t surprised by that. But it also turned out that on her side there was a smattering of distant Native American and Hebrew lineage too, like < 0.1 Ashkenazi. And I found it all very fascinating. Mom was so very interesting because she raised us on ghost stories since we were little. She filled our mind with a sense of wonder about the Almighty, but also the macabre. She always encouraged us to read as much as we could. And I often did. I remember my excitement when mom had purchased an entire World Book Encyclopedia set. When I wondered about things I would read the Encyclopedia. When I wanted to escape I would read comics. When I felt lost I would illustrate. I think it was the drawing that connected both hemispheres of the brain for me. My brain could see what my heart wanted to feel.❤

[@davidnachman6398]

I wrote articles specifically on these topics and your research verifies my research as well.

[@davidnachman6398]

Btw Eran Elhaik and Behar’s research are polar opposites. Elhaik’s claims get crushed by Behar and his colleagues findings.

[@lukehall8151]

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?

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Yup

[@lukehall8151]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD You'll have to FORGIVE me for asking on this totally unrelated video! Great book, love the practical, contemporary examples!

[@davidt3698]

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

[@OnlyEmet]

@@davidt3698 he's not a Rabbi All tribal ancestry will be revealed during the time of Mashiach's arrival

[@michaelciccone2194]

This is phenomenal! I love Bible history and genealogy.

[@soulstades9575]

Do you ??

[@dalelerette206]

Same here. Learning is so essential it seems to me that all homes should have a 'small library' to keep scholarly information together in one place.

[@user-bj9or7ke3u]

Great episode.

[@groeisterk]

Great presentation thx!!

[@TheRanaro]

Excellent

[@darrenglick100]

I feel like Prof Abramson is my continued education Dean

[@proudmoroccan8164]

Thank you for sharing. It was very interesting.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DavidRivera-qg7ly]

Another outstanding lecture. Very informative. Thanks

[@RBDawg]

I am agnostic raised in a Protestant tradition, but I really enjoy your teachings.

[@gringo3002]

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.

[@moraemepasikhani9153]

Thank you for the lecture. I look forward to Part 2.

[@senscommun1792]

Fascinating. Thank you

[@photina78]

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!

[@krisjustin3884]

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.

[@photina78]

@@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.

[@krisjustin3884]

@@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.

[@tuhuster]

Thank you professor great lecture as usual. Baruch HaShem

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

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[@lucyluxlife]

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.

[@berniej7168]

Excellent!

[@ShowemRight]

Shalom brother Abramson, when was this lecture part 1 uploaded, I see no date given, though I see dates on the comments below, should I suspect sometime this year 2022?

[@aahavoc]

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?

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

The Khazarian topic attracts far too many distracting, foolish questions. Koestler's work is not worth considering as a serious source.

[@mr.renaissancemts4083]

Good question

[@Balagoola]

​@HenryAbramsonPhD good thinking. Opening those videos up for comments would be an invitation to one big chazzerai.

[@edwardlawrenceleahy3512]

I thank you for this educational series. My mother's family is German Jew. I have always been interested in my heritage.

[@michaelciccone2194]

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.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I'm glad that you are enjoying the lectures! Thank you for being a public subscriber!

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

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[@johnlansing2902]

Thank you for a great view of history . Now my head hurts .

[@Earthstein]

Thank you. I learned a lot.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad to hear it!

[@mmccbb7mcb278]

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.

[@intelin123]

Now you know you are not a descendant of jacob because jacob was a black man.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You are very welcome! I'm glad that you are finding the series meaningful.

[@jacobfeller2967]

@@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.

[@alexisgilbert9378]

@@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.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

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 ✡

[@kairuannewambui8456]

@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.

[@NeanderthalDogma]

@Coke: Jiles- Zachary Shamon Mac Leod they arent europeans lol

[@s.g.6957]

Thank you, From San Diego, Ca

[@renelink1402]

Is this leading up to the Sanhedrin council in the UN or will be in the UN?

[@jimenabronfman6522]

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.

[@BigdaveIDF1]

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.

[@EzraBenKhazar]

This genetic study will explain your african admixture www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080861/

[@pastorsiegfriedohene-sidza6894]

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.

[@lightspeed2034]

He didn't say Jews are Africans, as if they is anything wrong with having African dna

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

Salam, Shlama, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. Mossad Behind 9/11 Mossad Behind The Creation Of Hamas Mossad Behind The 7th Oct Attack Mossad Behind The Afghanistan War Mossad Behind The Iraq War Mossad Behind The Libyan War Mossad Behind The Syrian War Mossad Behind The Sudan War

[@yosseleable]

Fantastic lecture as always thank you

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it Thank you for being a Public Subscriber!

[@ginettemelody1035]

Excellent lecture thank you. Please, which DNA company should I contact to trace my origins.? Thank you. Love and blessings, Shalom.

[@janicehussock7735]

Fascinating.

[@--Skip--]

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.

[@johnyohalem6507]

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.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

Salam, Shlama, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. Mossad Behind 9/11 Mossad Behind The Creation Of Hamas Mossad Behind The 7th Oct Attack Mossad Behind The Afghanistan War Mossad Behind The Iraq War Mossad Behind The Libyan War Mossad Behind The Syrian War Mossad Behind The Sudan War

[@thecheeseburgler591]

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]

Robert Eran Elhaik used Armenian and Georgian Dna as a substitute for Turkic dna and was severely chastised by the scientific community.

[@thecheeseburgler591]

@@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.

[@chaimberger5392]

Wow!! Thanks so much! 🌟

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You are so welcome!

[@freyatilly]

Thank you. Very intetesting.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you liked it

[@nusbacher]

‘King Bulan converted to Christianity’ might not have been the phrase you were looking for.

[@Dream90010]

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.

[@jktz122]

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)

[@johnyohalem6507]

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!

[@iprogramplus]

hi professor; will you be going to Ashkenazium for a live lecture?

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

We decided to hold these classes online this time.

[@Sayz813]

Very informative.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fatherrichardhalvorson8949]

Why the questionable - if your father was Jewish, but not your mother, then you're not Jewish. Doesn't the TORAH give by male descendants.

[@meghancass3187]

The funniest part of this equation is the fact that absolutely most Ashkenazis trace their genetics back to a very few European mothers who converted to Judaism. So by their own logic they simply aren't even Jewish.

[@mrswartsoff3116]

No...

[@arcar66]

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.

[@viktoryosiel]

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.

[@yusufaslan9562]

Bulan Kagan'in torunusun. Hazar Türküsün.

[@proudpharisee5303]

That's absolutely no evidence for anything khazar.

[@tagbarzeev8283]

Arlene Doron Behar has proven the Khazar theory to be false.

[@koopon3900]

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.

[@louisaccardi2268]

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.

[@susansierra6652]

THANK YOU MR ABRAMSON. LOVE THE LECTURE THANK YOU

[@marquisartistic1]

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]

Can you tell me more about this connection?

[@marquisartistic1]

@@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]

@@yusufaslan9562 Unfortunately, I can't read this. Is there a way to translate it?

[@yusufaslan9562]

@@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!

[@yusufaslan9562]

@@marquisartistic1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWTNl5uff9x8bc0

[@devarianharvey5389]

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.

[@koopon3900]

I admire your desire for truth.

[@shanesmith481]

Not true......telling the truth

[@ohmzen]

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.

[@jessssss6781]

and they don’t teach jewish history. your learning is rare and commendable ❤

[@cristinadelima4533]

Wow I just understood my dna test results especialy with that map explination at the end Thank you!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You're so welcome!

[@DSRWFeb]

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

[@georgyzhukov6409]

Haters will always be anti semetic in different ways

[@user-vt4rh9kf8d]

“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.

[@intelin123]

The real jews are black. The bible says the hebrews were sold to the enemy.these impostor asskenasi have never been sold .

[@intelin123]

@@davidbenyahuda5190 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

[@DSRWFeb]

@@davidbenyahuda5190 yea I am not aware of that indeed. Seems unlikely considering that people in the Middle East are not black…

[@matthewsainsbury2367]

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

[@artytomparis]

Very interesting,

[@MTD156]

Can you say something more about Esse-Ashken, Shekel from the proto Bulgarians. Proto-Bulgarians are three main groups with three main language groups and separate buried types. First group Bolgar - White Bulgarians inner circle - largest group. Second Group Bersil (related to the Hungarians) - White Bulgarians outer circle - third largest group. Third group Essegel (Esse) - Black Bulgarians - second largest group. Inside Essegel the largest constituent groups are Ashken and Shekel (among the Hungarians Sekkeli) Other Bulgarian groups lyke Tetyuz(Tats) are Iranian as origin.

[@haraldthorson9153]

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.

[@michaelciccone2194]

Amazing comment.! According to my Ancestry DNA results, I have Eastern European Jewish background. My father's ancestors came from Central Italy...Abrussese region

[@oneviwatara9384]

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).

[@johnyohalem6507]

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.

[@Asf-bj4rw]

@@johnyohalem6507 that’s the maternal origin yes, paternal was from the levant

[@maurycastellanos1761]

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,

[@karlschreiber9286]

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.

[@patriciachadwick5658]

My grandmother's name was Pettenger (Pottenger, a maker of soup.)

[@mileswindgate]

Shalom, shalom Rabbi, I enjoyed your lectures and I intend to finish watching them all, giving me the feeling of attending a course. How I wish this really was an actual face-time course in a university. 2 things that caught my attention here: 1. the so-called "myth" of Khazaria (from conventional history), which for the longest time I've come to accept as a verifiable fact that the kingdom existed and the trilateral debate was historical. 2. the anti-semitic controversy of Ashkenazi Jews, if they were really from Khazaria, then the probability of them not having enough stake in the land of Israel was a big deal...with such discussions stretching all the way back to the Zionist Congress and Herzl, possibly. Speaking of the Zionist aspirations for coming back to the Jewish homeland, I have never heard you discuss about, what I think, to be the very first account of a move by a Khazar Jew to allocate support among Jews in Khazaria, to retake Israel and have the Jews come home (c. 1121). I checked the internet and found this story of Ben Duji and his son Menachem, who successfully raised an army to retake Palestine. Ben Duji was assassinated, possibly by Rabbinic authorities who didn't want him to cause problems. Also, Menachem using the Star of David for the first time in Jewish history in the exploit. Hopefully you can discuss this in the course / video as I find this significant, being in the same subject as Khazaria. Thank you. :-)

[@jsw7814]

Are you referring to David Alroi?

[@esthervelazquez6251]

Hi, @Prof Abramson!😊 Can you add subtitles and captions to the video!?, please. thanks!

[@MTD156]

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.

[@YadinZedek777]

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.

[@OnlyEmet]

Unless your mother was Jewish it doesn't matter, you do not determine if your Jewish based off DNA

[@YadinZedek777]

@@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

[@sinatra222]

Yael is a woman's name.

[@YadinZedek777]

@@shainazion4073 says Babylon.

[@YadinZedek777]

@@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.

[@Suryanarayana-mx8mh]

The contribution of the Jews to human knowledge is invaluable.

[@codyalexander3290]

These are not Gods people. This is Babylon that will soon be destroyed

[@kellyziklo6878]

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.

[@intelin123]

Did you alread that the real jews are black and moses was also a black man

[@annemurphy9339]

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]

@@intelin123 You are Bantus, not Hebrews.

[@intelin123]

@@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

[@annemurphy9339]

@@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.

[@user-tp3vp1to1d]

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?

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

No, I didn't say that. Others have.

[@bethcares17anonymous38]

Grateful to you for sharing public lectures!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You're very welcome! Thank you for being a Public Subscriber!

[@iliv2bhap]

minute 26 converted to Judaism.. fix

[@IronJazz99]

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!

[@footballfan5462]

The women converted

[@cuidatrava1]

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.

[@davidbenyahuda5190]

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?

[@davidbenyahuda5190]

@@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 KZbin and Black Sambo documentary on KZbin.

[@davidbenyahuda5190]

@@cuidatrava1 Shalom, please do as instructed if I am in fantasy land then you can embarrass me in the comments.

[@ezequiasjunior2936]

Ashkenazi from Brazil, here!

[@luiscajigas5567]

I have a general question, If the expected Messiah were to come and He taught that the Law was permissible but not required, would you accept him as the messiah? please also explain your opinion?

[@alexandrafaissolpinto7071]

We know where they come from. They are not real jews they were nomad turks.

[@newbornphoenix3077]

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.

[@yusufaslan9562]

@@shainazion4073 History is a field of knowledge, not belief

[@molivson]

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.

[@alpsaljuq4488]

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.

[@WOL4lyfte64]

Excellent points.......Funny, no reply just "crickets"

[@matthewgabbard6415]

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

[@janebarlow5549]

Really enjoyed the first lecture. Thank you and greetings from NZ.

[@jennaolbermann7663]

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.

[@nathang6933]

Askenazi dna = Turkic Dna 🧬

[@DecolonizedMindz]

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?

[@davidbenyahuda5190]

Shalom, they are not us. Shemites are socalled black people, the ones the whole world imitates.

[@johnyohalem6507]

As he explains, they were a myth invented when the genealogies of Genesis were concocted.

[@DecolonizedMindz]

@@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.

[@kesscarlton8759]

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.

[@ShowemRight]

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.

[@haydenbsiegel]

Good video but I am going to have to debunk the DNA section of the video. None of those studies have verified research and are dependent on self reported data. Furthermore we haven't done a census and are forbidden from doing one until the Moshiac so there is no way we can say 40% or whatever is whatever because we don't even know what the 100% is. So, we can say that 40% of the 100% of those who volunteered that they were Jews with zero verification are such and such. However there are even more issues with even that as the Jewish Federation of North America did try to conduct a census in 5759/1999 and again in 5770/2010 but both censuses were rejected due to a swath of reasons but primarily due to them being extremely inaccurate. Additionally the Jewish Federation of San Francisco has done a census of the entire Greater San Francisco Area by mailing everyone and not just members on Yom Kippur every year since 5778/2018 and from their results under 20% of those who volunteered that they are Jewish actually are. Meaning of the statistics you quote are only roughly 20% accurate. As for the Israeli side they have continually rejected all DNA studies into Jewish Genetics as being accurate. The most recent case involving this was handled by Chief Rabbi David Lau who concluded DNA was not sufficient evidence of someone's Jewish identity or connection to Jewish ancestry due to the inaccuracies in the field. When I worked at ThermoFischer and Illumina, the two companies that produce all the DNA equipment used for such studies, we legit used to make jokes about those who ascribed to this field and according to the Potsdam Conference ie the Allies and Survivors of the Shoah those who ascribe to these concepts, ie that Judaism is somehow genetic, are neo-nazi as that is how the Nazis defined Jews under the Nuremberg Laws whereas the Torah would define Judaism as not a genetic. Hence why Esua wasn't Jewish, why so many Apostates were killed by G-D in the desert, and why Jason was considered Jewish even though Tzipporah was an Arab. Well Midanite, but same difference. Anyway the history side of this video is amazing but the biology or genetic side is complete pseudo-science. Like I get why you want to bring it into the video to help distance us from the Khazarian conspiracy theory or whatever but it isn't accurate or true so it just looks like lying to fight another lie and as a Rabbi once told me, "An eye for an eye makes the world blind.", ie don't fight how your enemies fight. Sorry, if I got a bit into it here but legit I have PTSD due to this ideology of Jewish DNA being used exactly how the Nazis used it. I didn't much like being called a "blood disease" and being told there was nothing I could do when it happened due to someone's unverified study which is based on assumptions rather than facts. Nor did I much care for seeing my friends gunned down inside a Synagogue because some crazy neo-nazi also latched on to this "science". As far as Israel and the connection there. It is a nation. People who migrate to nations can do so due to a shared social identity and not always a shared genetic identity. This is why the Supreme Court in Israel has more than once completely rejected DNA evidence as proof of someone's Jewishness.

[@viktoryosiel]

I think you are right, being Jewish isn't related to DNA, too much mixing in the past two thousand years. To me Jewish are those who practice their religion regardless of their DNA. I did a DNA test with ancestry and they found Ashkenazi ancestry, but also 16 other regions. I'm not 100% of any of these places, but I was born in El Salvador, therefore I'm salvadorian since is my culture.

[@haydenbsiegel]

@@viktoryosiel We talked about it at Kiddush today even. Outside the issues with how statistics are collected there are other issues. Like let's say the DNA test are 100% accurate. Well such a thing relies on endogamy (incest) being present in the community which is completely forbidden in Judaism. In fact the prohibition is covered by my Bar Mitzvah Parsha Achrei Mot/Kedoshim! Directly all incestuous relationships including those with cousins is forbidden under Lev. 18:6. Some may argue that the general prohibition is merely prefacing a list of what is considered incest however all other lists in the Torah such as who the sons of so and so are or what is kosher fish are included in the same verse that cites them. Whereas the general prohibition is separate from the more specific prohibitions against incest. Furthermore in the same parsha it literally says, "Follow all of these laws.", see Lev.19:37 meaning don't omit any portion of them. This is backed up by the Talmud which states that even relationships with cousins are considered incest. See Yoma 69b, Yoma 1:1:20, Kiddushin 10b:2, Sanhedrin 69b:3 And actually in Ketubot 5:7:5 HaRav Aaron Ben Yosef Sargado HaKohen explains that the word for flesh used refers to the flesh of food meaning that the prohibition isn't just against those who we are genetically related to but anyone who we might regularly share food with. Hence why matchmakers historically would find matches from other communities. So really all these DNA test would be able to prove is that someone had pagan ancestry who practiced incest resulting in endogamy and that ancestry was converted to Judaism ending their pagan practices of inbreeding to adopt a Jewish lifestyle. It doesn't mean these people are less Jewish than you or I who don't have presence of endogamy in or genetics, but it does mean they came from converted families. Besides all this genetic stuff is really quite old and none of this is new. We Jews have been fighting these stereotypes from thousands of year. The Catholics used it during the Inquisition under the Limpieza de Sangre doctrine and then later the Nazis under the Nuremberg Laws. Our Torah, specifically my Parsha, and the Sages who compiled the Talmud provided us with ample ammunition to debunk all this deranged genetic research which seeks to stereotype and dehumanize us by ignoring the soul. Edit: I nearly forgot Rashi, the Rambam, Ibn Ezra, and Sforno all stated the general prohibition against incest was compound. So someone who slept with their sister would be guilty of two accounts of incest. Although Sforno did say it would be allowed but only if G-D or the Moshiac said that so and so should marry their cousin and as you well know we haven't had a Moshiac so those relationships are clearly not kosher.

[@johnyohalem6507]

@@haydenbsiegel I enjoyed your wonderfully detailed commentaries. My mother used to say, "You're a Jew if Hitler would have considered you a Jew," (which was certainly true of us!), but I have always been reluctant, just as you state, to give the Nazis power over us in any way. Now the trouble (but there isn't any trouble really) comes in because while every traceable ancestor of mine is Jewish (and they all fade out around 1700, but there's no reason to doubt THEIR parents were Ashkenazim) is that very few of them in America still practice any religion at all (my cousins on both sides who came here from the Soviet Union in the 1980s are, paradoxically, the only Orthodox cousins I have), and those that do, including three or four rabbis, are pretty much Reform. I mean, one of the rabbis is a woman, and another is a gay man married to another gay man. But also, we have intermarried with a dozen other religions (and a nephew of mine converted to Islam), but we do not recognize that any of this interferes with Family: we accept all of them as mizpochah. But would we be accepted under the Law of Return? Well, none of us particularly wants to live in Israel, so it doesn't matter. Then there's the enormous branch of the family (It's eighteen people now) descended from the one and only marriage of first cousins in the family, a marriage that took place in 1900 in New York. None of them care if they are regarded as descendants of incest, and none of them are especially interested in becoming religiously Jewish or any other faith. But I'm curious as to how they would be regarded if they did go to Israel and wished to marry Israeli citizens. All hypothetical. We are all aware of (and proud of) the Jewish connection, if very few of us are interested in keeping it up. We think of ourselves as Jews -- or at any rate, I do. We're very proud of our Hebrew surname, which comes from the Torah. But I was never bar mitzvah.

[@haydenbsiegel]

@@johnyohalem6507 I felt like I can give a better answer so I am re-replying. Blood or DNA has never been used to determine who was Jewish by Jews. As you pointed out the only people to have done this were antisemites like the Nazis or the Inquisitionist prior to them. Within the community a census is conducted on Yom Kippur, hence why ticketes to the High Holidays are important, but even then when we do them our counts are not exact and tossed out for being inaccurate due to extra people showing or people not showing at all etc. In the US the question of Jewishness is determined by the Jewish Federations of North America (formerly the United Jewish Appeal) which was enacted to determine the Jewishness of refugees fleeing Europe during the Holocaust. Prior to this the government of New York did try to conduct a census in NYC back in 5669 (1919ce) by counting children who were absent from public schools on Yom Kippur. This census resulted in a riot with a portion of the census office here in NYC being burnt down. On the outside of the building is a plaque commemorating the fire but it mentions nothing of the Jewish riots. This is how seriously we Jews take being counted. It is a very serious prohibition as it never ends well when we do get counted. Anyway due to those riots Congress decided who is Jewish should be determined by Jews and not the government or non-Jews. The Jewish Federations of North America love me and I got counted three times in the last census which was tossed out for being inaccurate due to issues like for instance three different Jewish Federations in three different States still keeping you on file as part of their Federation even though you moved. Now outside the USA in Europe we have Chief Rabbis and Jewish Federations which act the same way and for the State of Israel there is the Jewish Agency which is the same. All of these places require proof of membership to the Jewish community through what is called a Proof of Judaism Letter which you can obtain by being a member of a Jewish community. If your mother is Jewish but you have converted then a Rabbi will not issue you a letter as you personally would be an Apostate. If your mother was not Jewish but you have converted to Judaism then a Rabbi will issue a letter as you are Jewish. Heritage has nothing to do with the legality of this and this is according to the Law of Return and the definition of a Jew within the Torah and Talmud. DNA and Blood are not acceptable due to the fact that someone could convert into or out of Judaism and incest on any level including first cousins is paganism. It sounds like you weren't raised Jewish but it doesn't mean you cannot convert. If it is something you feel drawn to then do it. But for the love of G-D don't do it just to move to the State of Israel. That place is an embarrassment to the Jewish people and is so corrupt that even Jews hate the place. That is all I will say on Israel. I have a deep bias against the country due to being a Jew.

[@360will7]

Good stuff Henry Abramson. The professor provided a sound explanation for Ashkenazi and Kazarian. Are the Ashkenazi Jews converts or genetic biblical Jews? R1a origin is Europe and South Russia, they didn't begin in the Levant. They have migration patterns to the Levant (later on in history) but is there any evidence that they evolved out of the land of Canaan or Egypt?

[@vicioustwist]

I am convinced that Eran Elhaik has the better argument as to the origins of the Ashkenazi.

[@rachelsamuel3328]

*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.

[@clint8302]

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 🤨🧐

[@ES-se2ck]

You clearly didn’t watch

[@rachelsamuel3328]

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.

[@clint8302]

@@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