Israelis: Are you your ethnicity? 

In Syria, when you ask, "what is your ethnicity?" Answer, "I am Jewish". When you ask same question in Israel, "I am Syrian". We humans are amazing!

The "go back to Poland" folks need to watch this

I’m American, My mother is from Morocco, my father converted to Judaism, We have been to Israel, I do feel a connection with Israel, so does my whole family. I have a lot of family there. I feel as if I will return & retire there. But my mother does still miss Morocco, her town (Marrakech) and their life back there. Not all jews fled, not all Jews in Morocco were poor. I think that is a misnomer. Her family still speaks Moroccan Arabic & of course French. My mother is happy we settled in America because her siblings that moved from Morocco to Israel said they were treated very harshly by the Ashkenazi Israelis. I think this is true of a lot of the founders of Zionism in Israel, which is shameful but still a truth that needs to be shown & talked about. I do not know if it’s still like that now? I do notice it sometimes here in the States, I was told by an Ashkenazi Jewish woman that I didn’t look like an “ Arab jew” whatever that is ?! Anyways I am proud to be ALL these things, it’s part of life’s gifts.

I think this question was completely lost in translation. In English the question was relating to the ethnic background. The Hebrew question that the Israelis in the video received was what is your "Eda", which means Community. In Hebrew this term specifically relates to the 'diaspora community' where Jewish people lived before coming to Israel. If they were asked what their actual ethnicity was, I think they would have said Jewish, rather than "Ashkenazi", "Yemeni" or "Moroccan".

That was a very interesting one. A similar question could be asked of people in Australia and Canada etc of where their ancestors were from and whether they feel culturally British, or Irish. It would be so different - even though their grandparents and great grandparents were immigrants too.

Nice. Thanks for this clip.

Great job. Keep up the good work!

I am an Iraqi and I wish if my people were modernized and open minded to accept Israeli Jews from Iraqi descents

Thank you for your documentary videos. I adore documentaries since they offer unbiased information and views and allows the audience to make the judgement. Unfortunately and against my will, I lack the resources to make even ¢1 of contributions. My apologies and wishes of best of luck for you. God bless you!

I was born in Israel a couple years after my parents repatriated from Russia and curiously always felt more Russian than Israeli. We spoke Russian at home (and still do). I grew up watching Soviet-era cartoons that my parents brought with them on VHS tapes and eating Russian food (sans pork). The only Jewish things we ever did at home were lighting candles and eating donuts on Hannukah, and eating the apples with honey on the Hebrew new year day. We've always celebrated the Jewish holidays by simply having a family gathering with a Russian-style feast. Our most important holiday is New Year's Eve (Soviet Christmas). I barely knew how Kosher rules actually work until I got into the army and had to do kitchen duty there. I never liked identifying as a Jew or even as an Israeli. But then I visited Russia a few times and felt completely out of place, so I can't identify as Russian anymore, but I'm still a bit uncomfortable identifying as Jewish. I guess you could say I am without culture :P

Your videos are truly amazing

Asking people that were born and spent their whole lives in Israel if they would go back is kind of a dumb question. Should have asked them if they felt different than other ethnicities say.

I am a Brazilian descendant of Italians and Portuguese, but I do not feel like IT or PT, i am Brazilian, born and raised.

I was expecting some Ethiopian Jewish(Beta Israel) would be included here... I wanted to listen to how they feel. Especially the younger generation

Nice Interview 👍

Thank you for that video

7:12 Her family has lived in a whole different perspective in Morocco. I don't know if she is lying about it because she, her own, doesn't feel connected to Morocco. Morocco was and still is the only Islamic predominant country that is welcoming to Jews. Personally, my family lived their greatest times in Morocco. Of course, because of the economic crisis, many people were forced to leave the country for the seek for a better life. Nonetheless, many Jews would rather to live in Israel.

I am Brazilian and my country has many people from different places. Like Israel. :)

i think it would be interesting to do a part 2 for this video and try to include russians in it. as a russian myself i can tell you that russians/ex ussr immigrants have a slightly different experience comparing to other ethnicites in israel.

Love is better than hate. Happiness, love, peace and prosperity to all. There's a place to everyone to live. Live and let live. I hope some day peace and love will overcome ignorance and that all of us can enjoy life and the sunshine together...! Blessings to all!

what a great subject it was for question : i've always been surprised by how everybody in those videos always introduce themselves by their "background" and where they come from (before they even mention their name). I don't know if Corey makes this look common or if it is just normal to walk up to a person in Israel and ask where they come from or like Corey voices it "Hello..., So... what is your background?"

I don't understand how did jews became "European"? when they lived in Europe they were always looked upon as the non natives of Europe, who in most cases physically look very differently from the European Christians and are much darkers , and were told to go back to Palestine and it was clear to everyone that they are not native Europeans and belong in the middle east originally just like gypsy communities who live in Europe were always known to not be natives and belong in india. But then when they actually DID what people told them to do for centuries (go back to the middle east) and refounded their homeland people started calling them Europeans

@Aline R Thanks for your explaination. Yes, in Israel the word eda or ethniticy has a different connotation then when you ask an American or Australian whats your ethnicity? Since all Jews, what ever the colour or place of birth trace themselves back to Jacob and the 12 Tribes who lived in Canaan. Converts beeing a side issue. One can differentiate further using different Hebrew terms. Besides for Eda (ethnicity) there is Shevat (tribe), Kehillah (community), Nussah (style and tradition of prayer), Tarbut (culture), Daat (religion) and Beit Knesset (synagogue) and Ezrahut (Nationality). Take my family for example: My half-brother and I grew up in Germany. We share the same Jewish mother. He was born in America to a sfardi Levi. He is from the tribe of Levi, eda turkish, (great-grandfather was born in Turkey), therfore sfardi, and has German as his native language (mother always spoke German) and American citizenship. Whereas I am Ashkezani (born in BeNeLux, at the moment I live in Germany). When I made Aliyah years back, and you'd ask me this question I would say eda Ashkenazi, because my mother was born in Poland and I made Aliyah from Germany and German is my native language. My father is a non- Jew from France living in Spain, but I am not sfardi even though Sfard means Spain. Also I am not Levi, only my brother is a Levi. In America I was chassic and belonged to a chassidic community. In Germany now I am not chassidic, more secular, but I can go pray in the Nussach of the Chassidim. In Israel I changed my way of speech from chassidish ashkenazi to standard Israeli Hebrew. When I visitied my family in Spain I saw clearly that I am neither Belgian, French nor Spanish. When I move back to Israel from Germany, I will also say I am edat Ashkenazi Polani, but my passport could be German, my native tongue German and yes I have also German culture in me, after all my family has been living in Germany for 60 years. But with all my German papers, language is cetera , when I was living in Israel I always felt 100% Jewish and 100% Israeli. Now back in Germany, the longer I live in Germany, the less I feel German. Although I have all German passport, My German is accent-free, my friends are German and I did my professional training here. What is great about Israel is, my flatmate was edat Ethiopia, my other flatmate cooked Tripoli, 'my shidduch then took me to the synagogue of edat yemenite, but his parents were from Iraq too. So all this makes Israel special. I also loved the Israeli-Moroccan kitchen and enjoy the Mizrachi music, from Iran to Morocco. When my polnish ashkenazi mother married with a sfardi in the US they did a gene check, cuz you never know, who is related to whom. (the turkish side came from Spain via Italy and my white French family moved to Spain via Belguim). But they met in Germany. Don't worry if you are confused now. Most are.

I love this guy so much

I think this video is for external viewers and not for Israelis because if Israeli is from Morocco or from Yemen he or she from Jewish community that used to live in Morocco or in Yemen. So not actually Moroccan or Yemenii

It's normal that they don't feel "Morrocan" or "Yemenite" or "Iraqi" or whatever. They were born in Israel, some of them have been here for several generations, and also they're a melting pot. Most of them are not pure Polish or Turkish etc. They're mixed. It's exactly the same thing here in Canada, where people come from all over the world and after a generation or two, there is no connection anymore to the ancestors lands. They are all CANADIAN, right Corey? You should know. However, if they were older when they immigrated to Israel, well yeah...you can take let's say the Persian out of Iran, but you'll never get Iran out of him. He'll remain Iranian till death. I always think of you as Canadian, rather than Israeli, because that's just what you are. And you probably think of yourself as Canadian too, right?

I really really liked this video....De verdad de verdad.....Me encanto este video!! (Soy Espanol)

I love your videos! I wish you would also answer your own questions cause I am curious what your take on them.

i know that guy. 2:35. I met him when i visited my grand mothers cousins in israel in the 90s. he's grown. my grand mothers cousins still spoke kurdish

3:23 Bryan Adans- Heaven . Kudos to whoever puts the jam

Your videos are so important those days...

3:23 She did not say "they don't like Israel" Corey you don't know Hebrew

It's really a good video, but you shouldn't translate "Edah" into ethnicity or ethnic background, this is not what it means and it doesn't work in English like it does with Hebrew since It's a biblical Hebrew word that was intentionally brought to life for modern Hebrew. It used to describe the communal affiliation of each tribe of the twelve tribes and the division between them and now in modern Hebrew it simply means a community or communal heritage. Each Jewish diaspora created their own community in the city/country they were born in, this influenced their religion and created new traditions, nusach and specific customs within Judaism which are still preserved today (but aside from the religious, today's generation is not very aware of all those, they are aware more of the food & culture of their parents instead). The meaning of the word can vary depends on how you use it because according to the Jewish religion, the belongness to an Edah usually passes from the paternal side, that includes its surname, congregation, customs, language & pronunciation and for converts, they usually go by their near by community), however most people will go by the neutral definition that includes both sides. Anyways, now in daily usage in Hebrew it's just a word that describes a people in tribal sense that live in Israel - it could be applied for family origins such as edah marokait for moroccans and edah romanit for romaniams but also for religious groups with a communal background like edah haredit for ultra-orthodox and edah notzrit for the christian communities.

Wow, that one Yemeni woman in the middle looks just like my 3/4 ashkenazi, 1/4 sephardi aunt (but a little darker).

We are not Israeli, we are Judean. Always have been, and always will be.

The people that send in these questions have no idea of Jewish history, if they did they wouldn't send in such questions.

People really look like their etnicity

At 5:38, the woman says "ir va'em be'Yisrael" (a city and a mother in Israel, not "a city in the heart of Israel"). It is a traditional way to say that it was a great Jewish community, where Israel is a shorthand way of saying people of Israel, aka Jews. Just explaining for people who don't know.

I have an persian backround but i was borned i germany and i feel german and not really iranian. I think its a normal thing because they are more used to israeli culture than their other backrounds.

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Im American my Great grandparents are from modern Moldova but I have no connection to Moldova . Same situation with these guys

Most people don't know the *basic terminology* and this is why they can't answer correctly about their Ethnicity. Ethnicity *has* to do with genetics, but not exclusively. In the greek language, these terms are absolutely clear and i will try to clarify these terms in English: 1. *Indigenous(ship) or Native(ship)* means that a group of people are *directly related to their ancestors (genes).* They call themselves by a common name. For example "Greeks" (from Athens, from Sparta, from Macedonia etc). 2. *Citizen(ship):* A Native (natural) Chinese moves to USA and gets the US citizenship. This means he now has a *legal relationship with USA,* but he will remain "Chinese" in his "genes". Even after generations, his family will look "Chinese", if they will keep marrying with Chinese people. They will remain *Indingenous/Native Chinese.* 3. *Ethnicity:* All Indigenous/Native Chinese immigrants around the world, belong to the Chinese Ethnicity, i.e. they may have another citizenship, but their nature is "Chinese" if they also feel "Chinese". They just live abroad (out of China). 4. *Clarification: What is your Ethnicity?* Read the following examples: a) A Chinese, who lives in China, is Indigenous/Native and has the Chinese Citizenship. He also belongs to the Chinese Nation, i.e. his Ethnicity is "Chinese". b) Some Chinese immigrants live in USA for 2-3 generations. Some of them are mixed with Russians, with Germans etc. *In this case, since they have mixed genes, their Ethnicity depends on how they feel.* Some of them might still feel as Chinese, others as Germans and others as Russian. My Greek Ancestors, for example, Herodotus, *defined Ethnicity* as: "Same blood (common biological roots), same language, same religion, same tradition/behavior/habits". The more of these properties we have, the more we belong to a specific Ethnicity but common biological roots is the most important. "Same religion and same habits" is explaining to us why some *mixed* people will say (correctly): "I don't feel Iranian, i feel Israeli". *Last but not least,* these terms don't have the same meaning in all countries, *for.. unknown "reasons"...* For example, when we take a look at some official documents within EU, the term "Ethnicity" is translated as "Ethnicity" in many languages. *But* in some cases, for example in Greek Language, it's intentionally mistranslated as "Citizen-ship" or as "Native-ship" or "as indigenous-ship". That's pretty weird...

For me as an American Jew, I feel a stronger connection to both the US and to Israel. My family came from Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Soviet Georgia. If I were to go to any of those places, I know I would never be able to look at the locals and feel some kind of connection, because we are different. But in Israel, I feel a much stronger connection. I feel safer there compared to the US.

There was no hate for jews in morocco , during WW2 the king mohamed 5 gave a speech saying that jews of morocco are fully moroccan and will be protected just like muslim ones , my father used to tell me how good friend he was with his jewish neighbours , and how tight thr relationships were between both families

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Do not forget that the Moroccans received you twice in their country, that you had lived 2000 years in Morocco, and the moroccans said no to the Nazis when they wanted to take you away, and many Moroccans fought in the French army against the Nazis, instead of talking wrong in the videos of the Moroccans at least say thank you and if you are so good you have stayed in your country to help in their development, compare how they treated you the other countries. I have spent my whole life in Europe but I will not allow the Moroccans to be insulted in front of me, and I can tell you that I have defended even the Moroccan Jews. But you when israel was formed you have begun to insult us without stopping, if we are so bad because you have lived with us 2000 years, I find it shameful, thank goodness there are Jews who speak well of their country, and I remind you that a Moroccan is always Moroccan even if he live 1000 years in isarel. STOP INSULTING MOROCCO

Polish Libyan, the most crazy mixture ever.

I know a half Yemenite half Ashki guy, he's as light as the light-skinned lady who he was surprised to learn was half Yemenite. Genes do what they want.

The first two yemenite women were wearing western dress and I could just imagine what would happen to them if they were wearing those clothes in Yemen

Irrespective of where we settled, we were always ethnically Jews - and distinct from the local populations.

I love the way they candidly answer your questions about their provenance....was it in the US....most of them would answer they were native amerikans,,,,even ifthey were blonde and blue eyed....

3:01 WHOA.... ! * _ *

@Corey Gil-Shuster sorry, but I recognize that very often you are asking very similar questions. It is also very often about ethnicity (race), or about what palestinians think about jews... Could you maybe ask different questions... Of course some, that have to do with the conflict, but maybe less focused on racial background / palestinians stupid thinking about israel....?!

at 8:02, the lady doesn't know arabs are semite too. Taliking about Morocco suffering for jewish people is not right. It is the morroccans who took them when they suffered in europe. But what can you say when they didn't appreciate Moses taking the out of egypt.

In America, there are not "ethnic Americans", except maybe the Native Americans. So even though I am "American", my ethnicity is two different countries in Europe.

2:56 good music

It's kind of like in America when an American says "I'm Italian"... it doesn't mean that he is an Italian citizen or has any loyalty to Italy or speaks Italian or has any association with Italy. It is just that one of his long-ago ancestors is from Italy and he shares a few cultural aspects. But no one in America (including American Indians) tries to tell him to "Go back to Italy".

I know people's answers are making the point of all being culturally Israeli Jews, and hence their bond. but I'm gonna comment from the 'DNA perspective'. First Yemenite girl in red - brunette with dark curly hair, has virtually the same facial features/proportions as a former girlfriend of mine - who has straight blond hair, green eyes and is of Ashkenazi (Russian and Latvian) origin - thus an example that modern Jews are indeed of Middle Eastern origin - it's just that they absorbed/intermarried with, to various extents with gentile converts from their host populations - that's why as a whole Ashkenazim 'look' more European - their admixture elements are of South/Central and Eastern Euro blood...Sephardim have Iberian admixture, Mizrahim have admixture from other Middle Eastern/West Asian peoples, and so forth. Genetic studies have confirmed that over and over.

Now 58 grew up in Lebanon till the age of 18 in a mixed society some like Jewish Israelis Some like Palestinians, became an American and my best friends were both Jews and Palestinians, Have seen what war between religions caused in death and destruction and hope more and more people love one another,help one another no matter what religion and nationality they belong to so we can all be happy together

Well that one was a bit of waste of time. These people are Israelis and born in Israel why would they feel like another nationality?

My grandparents were born in other countries. I feel American. What does your race or skin color have anything to do with belonging to a people or nation? And most jewish diaspora groups can trace their ancestry to the levant.

Stop saying like the moroccan muslim .. in morocco we say the religion it's for god but the land it's for everybody ( all religions ) .. they are no difference between moroccan muslim, jews, christian or else we are the same ! WE ARE MOROCCAN 🇲🇦❤ 🇮🇱

Thanks for these videos. Hopefully there'll be peace one day between Muslims and Jews in the middle east.

the question is absurd TBH. Imagine asking an Irish American or a (Volga) German American if they feel Irish or German (or Russian?) more than they feel American, or if they'd be willing to relocate. Its just absurd at so many levels.

Some of them: I have nowhere to go back to, I was born here. Others: I don't care where I was born, my ancestors were from here.

You should have asked russian jews. As far as i know they preserve the russian language for generations. Though many soviet/post soviet immigrants do so, russian germans in germany, russian greeks in greece.

The man who said "go back, I have never been said it all" think about that. I have Arab blood but never lived in an Arab country so I am American and know nothing else. This is my culture and home.

There are no different 'ethnicities' of Jews (Jewish is an ethnicity/nation itself). There are just different *experiences of exile*. Anyone who says 'go back to Poland etc doesn't understand that those were our places of exile, where we were and were treated like outsiders, usually of second or third class.

My family(from both sides) came from Iraq in 1952, but I'm Israeli. I know nothing about the Iraqi culture, and I don't feel Iraqi at all. Of course, I can't go back to Iraq, and I really don't want to. This is my only land.

How could someone really consider themselves Polish/Iranian/Yemeni etc If they don’t speak the language or know the culture, literature, serve in those armies, know the history etc.....

last time I was asked for my ethnicity I typed in "Tabby-cat"

Imagine being able to have an ethnic identity that transgressed nation state that you could be proud of without being decried as racist and banned / de-platformed everywhere. :O Must feel amazing having an identity!

To all the Moroccans in the reactions that say "we treated the Jews well" as a Moroccan Jew I will explain how you are both right and wrong at the same time: Let's take my family as an example. My grandmother owns a large family tree in Morocco, so great that my great uncle (according to the grandmother) was the adviser to the king at some point. She still lovingly describes Morocco and says that the Jews were treated very well there and protected them. And here, you are right, the king, and the people in her city treated the Jews very well. But my grandfather did not live in my grandmother's town, he came from a small village (and a poor day) where the Jews were treated cruelly, I will demonstrate the relationship with a chilling story: One of the Jewish women in my extended family was very beautiful. One day a Moroccan Muslim came to her and asked her for marriage. She did not agree to marry him, because she wanted to marry a Jew who was a member of her community. The Moroccan threw acid on her face. She died a few days later. This was the life of the Jews in the villages. There was no enforcement of the king over the remote places, and "bakeries" and "hamulas" controlled large parts of Morocco. The people in the villages were Jews who emigrated to Morocco from Spain (because of the Inquisition) and perhaps because of this the Moroccans treated them as "foreigners" and abused them in the villages. In other words, you are right, as a country you were really nice to Jews, so nice that my grandmother visits Morocco almost every year because she loves her childhood, but your rule was weak, so the Jews were severely affected in villages far from the capital. So every Moroccan Jew you ask will give you a different version, as if the Moroccan Jews lived in the same country of Morocco - but in totally different states. By the way, the same is true of Poland. There are Polish Jews who still love Poland and say that it was conquered and the Poles loved them - and there are the Jews in the villages who simply suffered constantly. They came from Poland, one country - and two different states.

Nationality is how you grow up and where you feel you belong. It doesn't have anything to do with genetics. The sooner we realize this, the better. Then all people will be fully capable to understand what the nation-state is and treat it as the anachronistic institution it is.

I stumbled upon this channel and I always wanted to know: 1. During a normal conversation is it okay to ask where are you from? 2. And depending on where they are from, do they speak the language of “that” country.

The answer where are you from changes from generation to generation. If you're born anywhere in the Americas you will say that your family is from X countries in the World or Y Native tribes or Z from enslaved Africans. If you move from one American country to another American country you will say you come from Canada or the US, Venezuela or Mexico. I think this is something difficult to grasp for nationalists.

Please interview also Torah- educated Israelies ... all the videos deserve someone 'special'

Very interesting question, and very nice interviews! One thing, though, Corey: Poland in Hebrew is called "Polin", not "Polanya".

the woman was right, Mukachevo now has a strong Hungarian community, but not Jewish. Things looked absolutely different 70-80years ago

Beautiful people from Israel! Once they were kicked out from their land, now they are returning, of course mixed, but the jewish heritage and faith still alive!

All the while listening to Bryan Adams!

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Saw only the first three women, but I think most if not all will answer the same. The third generation (grandchildren), isn't really influenced by this. I am a quarter polish a quarter Iraqi and half Romanian, it says nothing about me.

The French called “pieds noirs” too they felt Français d’Algerie. They all were born in Algeria but in 1962 they had to leave Algeria. Their great grand parents came and colonized Algeria, like yours colonizing Palestine. After 132 years, on the fifth of July 1962 they all left in a hurry after a bloody war. Now they are scattered all over France. Algérie Française was an utopia for 132 years. Palestine and Western Sahara are the last countries to be decolonized. Hopefully it will not be as bloody as the war 1954-1962. Shalom.

No real surprises in what anybody said, but emotions you could read on their faces were interesting.

could you stop saying Polanya about the country that is called Polin please?

all this ethnic thing is the power of habits. everything you do and think are results of habits. me for example was born to parents from a muslim country, so the result is that I grew up more strict and critical towards some western behaviour, like drinking and smoking too much. muslim way of culture and mindset affected your growing up and the way you think. it is of course done for your own safety not standing out from the others, this is also a reason why you adapted this mindset.

i am wondering how Jews in the US or Canada are going to answer to the same question!!!

So we are all from different countries yet the Palestinians are the foreigners???

You should have posed this question to people who at least know the language, it would be more interesting and nuanced. As a Russian speaker I can tell you that when I travel to Russia I blend in pretty seamlessly, much more so than when traveling to English speaking countries.

Do they stll have the nationality of one these countries ?

How come no one who claimed Palestinian land is their land has no background from there? Weird.

Those videos are very informative, and I thank you for that. While I still think Jewish Culture is too overly-protective and too focused on it's own history, I can understand better that both sides have a right to live there. Though I could also see some cocoo crazy Israeli and how the Israeli government seems to like using underhanded tactics.

Everyone loves being Israeli because they can still be Democratic and live in the Middle East. They appreciate what Israel has brought to the world.

זה מעניין... אשמח לספר לך קצת איך זה אצלי ... אני מאומצת מחו"ל. תמיד ועד היום הרגשתי שאני לא קשורה לפה. שאפילו שגדלתי פה יש לי גם צד במנטליות שהוא ממש שונה מהמנטליות הישראלית. אין לי פה שורש וזה משו שתמיד הרגשתי בבירור. בגלל האימוץ.. שאת לא יודעת מי ההורים אין מי לשאול אז כל הזמן מנחשים תוהים שואלים אחרים או שהם בעצמם מנחשים. לא יודעת אם קורה לכל אחד, אבל מניחה שכן .. שרואים משו שומעים משו הכוונה למשו מאוד אתני ,שבטי תרבותי שורשי.. ופתאום מרגישים חיבור עמוק לאותה מוזיקה, פעולה , ריקוד , ניחוח , טעם , נוף.... וכו... אז אצלי היו הרבה תהיות לאיזה אעזור אני דומה מה יש בי בגנים ועשיתי בדיקה גנטית ומה שמדהים זה שדברים שממש הרגשתי זיקה חזקה אליהם בעצמות ברוח ... יצאו נכונים ותוצאות הגנים הם האישור לכך שלא סתם דמיינתי זה אשכרה נכון

In essence these people are Jews (Levantines), that is their people, ethnicity and race. That's the part that they adhere to and regardless of which land they are in being a jew is the only factor. The people in all of those nations don't see them as Poles, Danish, Algerian or Greek. They are Jews and just residing in those lands and are not of those people.

You keep confusing ethnicity with nationality or diasporic community. These are not ethnicities, these are DIASPORA communities of Hebrews that are originally from the land of Israel.

That so outsider's questions. We're all israelies, we're all been persecuted in those countries we definitely don't feel belong there and we never thought of ourselves that way.

Oh Mukachevo.... I was there recently

Find a cuban jew almost imposible since they built miami next to cuba , maybe some in netanya or the yatch club nearby