83. Migration Patterns in Jewish History (Jewish History Lab) 

This is a phenomenal series, sir. Much of the history is somewhat familiar to me from my studies, but in every video I find something new to grab onto, and each one contains a very solid overview of the facts. Very cool channel!

Thank you for this video series! I've been tracing my ancestry, and this video filled in so many blanks, answered so many questions!

Always enjoy your videos !

Did an acestry test and found out im surprisingly 1/4 jewish. Been binging the history in an effort to understand my heritage. My ancestors came in the 1800s to Pittsburgh!

The Medieval move toward the East from the Ashkenaz was in no little part due to Casimir III inviting them to live in Poland and enacting several protections for Jews in Poland such as making it illegal to force Baptistism of Jewish children. Great video! The Edict of Expulsion in England also took seven of us to Ireland where we were "promptly returned to our boat and sent back to England", we wouldn't be allowed to settle in Ireland until the late 5500s or early 1800s CE. I looked into the Jewish history of Ireland a few years back for someone.

Fantastic info. Measured presentation style, and filled with easily understood data. You, sir, are a myth-buster. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing! I remember reading that a lot of Jews liked to straddle the border between Spain and Portugal in case someone changed their mind, so they could just move to one side or the other. Plus the Bask were a very accepting place for refugees after the fall of Rome, since their first king was a refugee from the house of Alba in what is now Scotland and sometimes was mistakenly not well differentiated from the Irish and other groups in the area by certain historians.

Yes this is the info I was looking for which was basically how and when ashkenazi Jewry came to be . They came up from Italy etc and went north into France and Germany and specifically Rhineland areas . Of course I know this was a very condensed presentation . Thanks

History is a wide subject Thanks for narrowing it down.

I do enjoy your talks. Thank you.

Intressting! Can you make a video om the Jewish comunity in Greece in particular Tessaloniki

Wow that covered a lot of ground literally and figuratively! Thank you!

So interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you!

This was so helpful. Thank you!

Thank you, excellent.

Dr. Henry- fascinating! thx

When will you talk about Indian Jews or the Himyarite Kingdom in Yemen ?

Very good explanation

I don’t understand. If the basis for repatriation to Israel is genealogical proof that one is a descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, how do you say it’s irrelevant or anti-semitic to question the genealogy of Ashkenazi Jews?

Rockin those Ovadia Yosef shades.

Thanks for sharing.

I am so interested in this topic. I have to ask, have you written any books on this subject? Or can you cite your sources or recommend any books on this subject?

Thank you very much for your high quality content, Sir. In the aftermath of the sfarad expulsion: is there anything documented about a secondary migration wave from turkey towards the north all the way to ukraine? Thank you!

I don’t understand, why do the Jews migrate so much? And why do they refuse to open their borders for a more diverse population? Don’t they know how much strength and power comes from a diverse cultural, ethnic and religious society

Will you talk about the island of Djerba?

For the map shown at 10:17 , what's the number written on Australia? Or do you have a link to the map? Thank you for the series as well!

Apparently there were some migrations into Subsaharan Africa, around Ethiopia

What about the "Mizrachi" migration waves? You're not mentioning them.

That was fantastic! But what happened to the Jews of Babylon during the Middle Ages? Did any of them reach Ashkenaz?

Using BC and AD doesn't spontaneously make one a Christian just as me wearing a yarmulke when attending a Jewish funeral doesn't make me a Jew. BC/AD is simply Western Civilization.

for a small country …Uruguay as an amazing Jewish community… I’m sure you were aware of that

Shalom! I really enjoyed this video. I'm very interested in three things about Judaica: (1) Why does the lingua franca of the Jewish people once include a dialect of German, but not a dialect of a Slavic language? The lingua franca that I'm referring to is, of course, Yiddish. (2) Why were there two different Jewish groups, namely the Ashkenazi and the Sephardic? What is their border? (3) There's a lot of good data about the movement of the Jewish people since around 800 BC. There have been a lot of demographic changes and migrations to Eurasia since 800 BC. Do the Jewish people have their own historical accounts of these events, such as the Bubonic Plague, Plague of Justinian, or the advancement of the Slavic, Magyar, and Turkic peoples in 500 AD, 800 AD, and 1100 AD, respectively?

TY. I'd be curious if you've done a lecture on following migrations by foods they brought.. Hummus and Chopped eggplant for my Rumanian grandparents . . . ??? My Aunt says that's because we came through Spanish expulsion . . . SMH

Why did you not discuss the Jews of India and Ethiopia?

Is their any particular reason as to why Jews did not settle in large numbers within Central America and the Caribbean from the Pale of Settlement?

Did you already Upload @ lecture in the temple of elephantine @nd this Community?

Would be interested to learn more about the Jews of the island of Elephantine, or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia.

Are jews today still in one of the ten tribes?

...I think Austria Hungary had more Jews, then anywhere before WW1....That seemed to be the most diverse kingdom, as well...

Why didn't they stay put instead of scattering like gypsy

What is the date of immigration and reason to Arabia?

What about the Jews of Persia (once a huge community), Caucasus (Georgia, Dagestan/Azerbaijan), Bukhara? You're not mentioning them and their numbers at 9:28. Apart from the Jews of some other areas.

Can anyone show me if a black Jewish person and a white Jewish person, if they have the same DNA because the outside can change, but the inside will never change? On the inside, they would have the same dna.

Wait I'm confused. No disrespect but he said they started as a tribe with Abraham in modern day Iraq. But what defines Jews as Jews is obviously Judaism. But Judaism comes from an ancient Canaanite polytheistic religion which was practiced in the modern day Palestine/Labonon region. They split off from the polytheism and started what's now called Yahwism, which evolved into Judaism. So how could they have started all the way over in Iraq if the religion is traced back to the Canaanite region of modern day northern Gaza etc???

So jews migrated out of the bible

Wait...10:20 your claim is that they heard Canada had universal health care back then?

Great history facts about jewish migrations.

What about the mass movement of Jews in 70 AD fleeing south into Egypt and from there spreading all across Africa, as they escaped from the Roman army coming from the North? There’s so much evidence of Jewish practices in African culture, e.g. circumcision by Xhosa people and burial practices all over the continent. There’s been a lot of research going on in this regard, which may prove helpful to expand the picture presented in this video.

TY

What about the Jews that immigrated to New York did they invent pastrami sandwiches ?

Everybody that comes to the US has 10 kids

Dr. Abramson, in the figures for the total Jewish population of the 17th century, is the Ottoman empire figure meant to include Afghanistan, Persia, Pakistan, India, Bukhara, etc.? How do we have a proper census of Jews in Muslim-dominated regions at that time? To the best of my knowledge, Ottomans weren't great record-keepers even in the modern era...

Open borders for Israel

they migrated to Asian restaurant areas

What you don't say is as significant as what you say.You haven't touched the Ethiopian Jews for instance-not even with a long pole.Do you think the Ethiopian Jews are bona-fide Jews?Does Judaism have a racism problem?Probably yes.Could that then mean that the Jewish Messiah would be a black man,that most reviled of races?Isaiah 9 gives us an idea of where the broken booths of Jesse are to be found that is among the tribe of Naphtali that from the blessing of Moses are to be found in the South ie Africa.Meaning then that just like the seed of Levi,the seed of David-in a truest sense of a seed-is spread among all tribes of Israel