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I grew up in a family who converted from Judaism after they migrated to Sweden. My mother started searching our roots and looking into our jewish identity and past. But they story in many ways is tragic.

biggest mistake of scandinavia............

Thanks for your video. I am from Denmark and I have never digged into the history of jews in Denmark in fear of us being historically bad to the jews. But it seems we have done rather well. In fact an unanimous parliament distances itself from voices questioning the State of Israel's right to exist. And they have hardend the laws on antisemitism

Swedish-American here. Great Video! My grandmothers family when she was a young girl had sheltered a Jewish girl and her younger brother during WWII whose parents were afraid of them being deported from Norway after the country fell to German occupation (and whose father was friends with my great grandfather). They remained good friends until she passed last year, and would write each other even after they moved to Israel.

Like the other of your videos I've watched this is interesting, and seems fair. Being Scandinavian I knew much of it, but obviously not all.

u mean arab explorer not spanish

Anders Chydenius was Swedish. Russia created Finland (country) after he was born. Before that Finland was a province, still is to this day with the same name within Finland. Anders was not born there nor was his family.

Lost Woods...?

cigarette burns...?

jewish jokes are funny

I wonder what would have happened if the Davidic line was restored instead of Zadokites assuming power

The thing I will always tell when Einstein's accomplishments are mentioned. He did all his greatest work while working with his first wife and mathematician Mileva Maric. Maric in fact did all the hard math. She deserves the recognition and should be mentioned together with Einstein. Her career and life went to shit after Einstein deserted her and their two sons. But thank you for this very informative video! Never seen this history been discussed anywhere before!

Did you dropped the F bomb?

India, Iran, etc were/are not sefardim: they are mizrachim, but you know that....

The other boiled in oil Jewish food ? Schnitzel. It's an Austro-Hungarian/ German fetish.

What is Mendelssohn line? I have never heard about it. Nothing on Google, ChatGPT did not know anything about a imaginary dividing line from a German composer.

It is so weird how jews were such a large group that never had their own country

Maimonides was the goat 🐐

As a Swede i had some Jewish classmates and and i think it is sad to hear that antisemitism even still exists. I dont hear any of it in my group of friends or in my profession and i think that most of it have been coming with migrant from the middle east, and i really hope that the gouvernment will make it clear that antisemitism is not accepted behavior in Sweden.

Danish and proud we dont have alot of jews here!

Great video. Love from Sweden and thanks for giving iur brothers a shoutout!

A very interesting video 👍

Being an American video, you may be excused from mentioning that Pershing didn't want any of his American troops participating in the battle of Le Hamel. 4,000 American troops were supposed to take part, but in the end, only 2,000 took part. General Pershing wanted to draw the war out until 1919 when he would have all of his troops available.

I disliked the video due to the intentional misuse of the term ‘Scandinavia’.

As a guy whose half Judo-Finnish and half Judo-Russian decendent, my granpas fought on both sides of the Russian-Finnish war during WW2. Also worth noticing is that there was a Jewish synagouge in the Pro-Nazi Finnish side. Crazy world.

Fun fact: zold started a zionist orginazation called Hadasa which opened schools and around dozen hospitals is Israel in which 2 remains to this day in jerusalem and a 3rd one in under construction in Beit Semesh

thank you for covering our beatiful "country where the snot freeze into stone on yur beard, as the ocean water freezas into stone, which sinks boats, and only G-d knows why people do live here" as Abraham ben Yakov z''l wrote

My Great grandmother was a Jew but the Christians got to her family. She came from Stavanger.

Awesome video as per. I’d argue that Israelite was on equal if not superior footing to Hebrew in Italian use post-Napoleon until the mid-20th century as well

2:11As a Dane, I consider it an honour when even speakers of Semitic languages find our language to be throaty ;) ps. note that this is a joke, and I know that the "Danish" of the 900's was very different to what it is today, and what I mean by "throaty" is just the amount of post-velar sounds.

To add to the Danish history: The Danish kings in the 1600s, Chr. IV, Frederik V, and Chr. V were mainly interested in the possibility of borrowing money. The Jewish merchants cleverly required access to Denmark, and better conditions for Jews in Denmark, in return for granting the loans. Oh, and it was specifically only Sephardic Jews who got the right to live in Denmark in the 1600s. Which means that the original Jewish community in Denmark, are not Ashkenazi like most other Northern European Jews. And since these Jews were granted access as the guests of the king, they were also under his protection. A rule that is still in effect, and which the modern Dansih monarchs take seriously.

This was very interesting. Thank you

I’m from Norway and I’ve only met one single Jew here. She was also kinda Muslim and wore a hijab. I’ve often wondered where she is now.

As an Israeli the word getto (גטו) automaticly send me to the Holocaust

Interesting hearing about the interwar and Second World War history on this channel. The different focus is part of the reason why I love it so much, but honestly, given the quality of your documentaries, I'm really looking forward to hearing about the Interwar.

One vote for Alex Fortis.

The "anti-Semitic" rating is bullshit. anti-Semitism is way worse in Sweden. No Jew in the Nordics would seriously think that Sweden is as this survey show "the least antisemitic" country in the world.

Note that at 13:00 when emancipation is denied by the peasentry its important to note that Sweden never had a fuedal society. "Peasentry" in Sweden were just farmers and by the 1700 hundreds reform act they owned the land they farmed. Essentially Swedens system was a precursor to a representative democracy. So why care? Well the blocking from the farmers is significant since it shows how widespread antisemitism was since the majority of the population (farmers) were blocking it in parliament. ( The Swedish parliment was divided between farmers, merchants and nobility)

I’m confused I thought Einstein was a Swiss/German Jew not a Scandinavian Jew?

And YAY Victor Borge!!!! I have plenty of insight on his style of humor which has been very influential on my own.

I can't believe you only have 62k subscribers!

what's the song from near the end?

Just to be clear in 1847 Sweden still had the estat riksdag system, but unlike on the continent we had 4 estets, Prest, Nobel, Farmer, bourgeoisie. (On the contitnent Famer and bourgeoisie was just the "third estate"). So for any major change any estate could veto it, thats why they needed the suport of the farmers estat. The estat riksdag was abolished in 1866 and replaced with a two chamber system. And the two chamber was replaced in 1971 with just a one chamber riksdag.

I'm a Malaysian who is following all sorts of History of " ", and you're the one and only go to for me on the 'history of jews'. I have no connection to Scandinavia, Europe, or Jewish heritage, but I love history and love your videos

Can you do Judaism in Latin America, in Argentina, in Brazil, in Mexico, etc?

every time you come in with that zelda music, it kills me

Great vid, my grandparents are not Ashkenazi (one is Israeli and one Kavkazi) but actually were born and grew up in Sweden and I lived there for a few years myself as well. These days it's about half Ashkenazi and half Israeli. The Jewish community is tiny and everyone knows each other. I used to go to Copenhagen for shabbat so know all the Danish Jews too haha. Additional fun fact, my grandpa's family were the only Jews in Greenland. Cool to see you make a vid about Scandinavia!

Another great video Sam! Thanks!