500 Years After the Spanish Inquisition, She is Reclaiming Her Family's Jewish Identity
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HOLY LAND UNCOVERED | Imagine growing up Catholic in Portugal, only to find out a secret that was concealed for 500 years. i24NEWS Emily Frances reports on a remarkable young woman who has become an advocate for descendants of Jews who were forces to convert during the inquisition.
i am mexican-american living in california; never have fit in with the majority of Mexicans. The few Mexican-Americans who accepted me looked like me (pale/'"white skin" , black/brown hair that was curly or wavy and sometimes glasses) and also nerds (like me). The other two friends I had in junior college were actually Jewish and often spoke with me about their beliefs...I don't know...somehow, someway, we always ended up talking about Torah or something about being culturally Jewish and I felt such a strong affinity and they were very dear friends as well.
My mom is from Zacatecas and always cooked "tortitas de papa", what I now know are latkes. When my grandpa passed away, we had many strange customs in the house in the days following his death, which now I know were Jewish mourning customs mixed with Cathlocism. My grandma on my mom's side always mentions how everyone on her family had "colored eyes" (green or blue) and blonde or auburn hair. On my dad's side, same thing. Everyone has "colored eyes" and slightly auburn/red hair or black hair that curls. I don't think any of my family members on both sides have that straight Indigenous hair I always wished I had and admired.
After doing extensive research on my family names (and even some Roma from Eastern Europe I met saying I had to be one of them and that one of the last names was a misspelling of a "gypsy" surname) and finally a DNA test, I confirmed that I am indeed Sephardic and Ashkenazim, specifically Spanish/Portuguese/Moroccan, Italian and Hungarian Jew, which all check out from what I've seen in my family. I read the Tanakh as much as I can, bless my food and naturally fasted on fasting holidays in the Jewish Calander without knowing they were high holidays. My mom worked in a Jewish bakery and would talk about how they were celebrating Rosh Hashanna , Yom Kippur, Channakuh and talk about the bread, like pumpernickel and challa. I always felt something in myself stir when hearing this and my curiosity peak...almost jealousy or envy that I was missing out on the actual holidays.
Long story short, being a crypto-Jew in Southern California among a population I technically belong to but have little in common nor accepted by with has been like "Matilda" my entire life. I really wish I grew up "Jewish" instead of Catholic, attended Schul instead of Cathechism and could read Hebrew in addition to Spanish and English. I really feel like a large part of my heritage and self was stolen when my family left Spain in 1770 and came to the New World as Catholics. It was for self preservation... but it never really goes away. And I'm glad.
Edit: i write such a long thing hoping it will help ANYONE who is going through smething similar.
I thought I was crazy, but it turns out it makes sense for my paisa family.
I really wish people stopped calling our lands the "new world" as we were already here and we cannot be "discovered"
Great to know the history of the Spanish colonization of the land of the Mexicas too.
It's interesting.
Personally, my Ashkenazi Jewish genes are something I can feel and can recognize in others without even exchanging words. When i took a DNA test last year it did specify 98% Ashkenazi and even narrowed down to the area I know my great grandfather was born in.
I’m from Puerto Rico and my family came from Spain and Canary Islands. My mother also taught me to kiss the bread before throwing it, but her mother use to said also after kissing the bread: Thanking G-d for the sustenance. My grandmother used to cover the mirrors when some family members passed away. My mother also use to tell use not to count the starts and if we do we could get warts. Now that I have been studying Judaism and I did convert, now it makes more sense that was some jewish traditions running around the family. We do have many more traditions specially in our food.
Wow that's beautiful. Welcome back to the family ❤️🔯🇮🇱
My (Italian) grandmother used to kiss the bread (and sometimes other food) if it had to be thrown away... But that's probably something caused by the starvation experienced in during ww2...
Hello, Je Val, how beautiful your story, your story is familiar to mine, my grandmother saw when I had a piece of bread that fell I went to throw it away she said no kiss it and raise it up to heaven giving it great respect and also said not to count the stars from heaven because of the warts she also covered the mirrors, my family is also from Spain and the Canary Islands, I would look at my grandfather and tell my dad he looks Jewish with his rectangular long facial features and white beard, I have not done my DNA but I have this bond with the Jewish culture, I am a devout Catholic and I am in love with my Catholic Faith, and if I ever decide to have my DNA done and come back with Jewish ancestry, I would never leave my faith, my GOD bless you always. 🌷
You also need to understand the indigenous Puerto Ricans were not white either..smh
@@moshenewsletter4620 Neither was the New World.
There are many in Latin America who wouldn’t even know if not for genetic testing...
And Americas.You two.
This is our story as sephardic
Yes brother 🙏 our sad history 😞
I felt this way when I was 19 and found I was a jew . Then I traveled to Spain this past summer and felt like I was coming home.
Jew. Not Israelite. 2 different thing's. Congratulations 👏
@@ody1284 let's be more respectful here next time .... " jews " came from Europe the term Jew " ish " is actually recent bean the children of Ashkenaz from the line of Yaphet. The Israelites or Hebrews came from The North Eastern Regions of the Afro-Asiantic Regions. Of Mesopotamia where the shemetic people is believed to have migrated too during the days of The post flood new world. Of course The Encient Inhabitants of theyse Regions wher of An Afro-Asiantic Aparence totally different from the current People who live there today.
@@zackariahjeanyudah7779 More Bullshit
I have a menorah in my parents home. My dad always kisses the bread if it falls on the floor. Not long ago I discovered we descended from Sephardic Jewish ❤ (I’m from Spain)
Most Hispanics in the New World that have Spanish ancestors from the time of the Spanish Empire have Jewish ancestors. But generally, it's not through the mother's mother's mother's line. That line, for most Hispanics is Native American. I have Sephardic Jewish ancestors on my mother's side, but not on my maternal line. I'd have to convert to Judaism if I wanted to be recognized as such. I'm looking into it.
The heritage through the mother is a FAKE. You don't get your faith through the Uterus and/or blood. Most Hispanics have HEBREW heritage. In fact, the real biblical people. Modern Jews are converted without any link to the holly land. Remember that the father gives the lineage in the bible. Hence, the name of the 12 tribes of Israel is MALES. In science, the spermatozoid gives sex to the fetus.
@Lena Samuel LOL. Judaism is a religion. Remember, religions are man-made. NO religion appears on the TORAH. You DON'T pass a faith through the blood or Uterus!!! I hope you understand that. In addition, Orthodox Judaism does not allow Rabbi women because they are considered "dirty" due to the menses. Is that the respect to Jewish mother? The law called "LAW OF THE WOMB" is being eliminated because some "jews" don't even practice Judaism. Lastly, JUDAISM did not exist in biblical times. The faith at that time was called "MOISAC LAW". Don't buy cheap propaganda.!!!
@@Jorge17275 church tribe of Judah
@@Jorge17275 I agree Deu 32:8 and Numbers 36 said the line go according to the Father
@@shawnstancil6980 Of course. The last name of the father goes before the mother's when people use both. It is common sense.
My father is from Puerto Rico. Through a DNA testing kit , I just found out that I have some Jewish in me . I was told all my life I was just Puerto Rican with (maybe?)a mix of tiano Indian and African. Never jewish was said. I WAS shocked 😲it was A complete surprise!!! To see portugal and spain then eroupean jewish ✡
She is not the only one my family has the same story to tell.There are many many families that have been displaced by the Spanish Inquisition. Still to this day we are hated by many and don’t believe our life story and say it isn’t true.
Wandering.....
Today we have the possibility of inflicting pain to those who hate us.
You know little about the Inquisition if you think there to blame.
i really sympathize with this. i never fit in anywhere where I try renting a room from and end up getting kicked out because they end up hating me for "being weird" . i get "flashbacks" and experience a deep trauma, which i can only now point as re-experiencing my ancestral memories of being kicked out from other countries in the exile...
Amazing! But the Israeli government should acknowledge them and help them all make Aliyah to their Homeland. ❤
My mother used to put frozen meat in water to thaw. I found it so odd, I asked her why she did that, and she said: "I don't know, my grandmother used to do it"! Later I found out in a PHD thesis that was published that this was the Jewish way of making the meat kosher. My father also had a 1st name which nobody here used, and it is only found in Israel. Amazing the Portuguese Jewish saga.
Are you from Brazil?
@@ahk9838 No I am Portuguese.
Everyone puts frozen meet into water to refreez it. Jeezs krajst. It saves the energy and time. Jews copied it from naturally smart Slovanic people.
@@vycuraci no they don't., and it is not to refreeze, it is to thaw out so the residual blood comes out.
@@Alfablue227 Also it must be saltwater (salt added) which precipitates the drawing out of blood from the meat.
After this learn Code Noir by the French, Document of Discovery, Black codes , Manifest destiny and lastly Jim Crow. The Spanish Inquisition was just the beginning. You want to end racism ? Learn who started and why?
Half of my family was also from Portugal and iberia Spain, in those days, exiled and kicked out to Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Massachusetts. We are the copper colored sefardim mixed with American indian.
What a great story. I hope the Jewish youth in America realises the tragedy that fell on their ancestors and the fortitude that Jewish people have shown over the centuries to survive and remain Jews despite unimaginable hardships.
Amen
Yes amen 🙏
i do my best. it is difficult living among catholics.
She does look quite jewish, she could be Sarah Silverman's sister. I'm happy that Hannah found a place where she feels at home and where she belongs
My family went from Andalusia to Sardinia to Salerno with the Italian Jewish surname Napoli.
My grandmother taught us to kiss the bread if throwing it out
Great story!!! Very interesting, greetings from Nicaragua.
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my grandma surname is perez and looks jewish people think im jewish but we are from Monterrey nuevo Leon i have a connection with jewish people i cant explain its like if im looking and talking to my family
look up the history of monterrey, all the spaniards who settled there were jews. which means you're of jewish descent
last names ending in "ez" mean "son of". Perez is also in the Bible, it's a name. The Jewish tradition is naming someone "son of". example: Dan-iel : son of Dan. Dominguez: Son of Domingo. You most likely are of Jewish descent.
What does a jew "look like"
Pérez is both a Jewish last name from the hispanization of Fares or Phares or a Spanish last name from Perez, son of Peter.
My Mother always told me not to point stars...
Moors of the Cordoba Caliphate that were enslaved and sent to the Americas were Hebrews that converted to Catholicism. Before landing in Virginia, NY, SC and New Orleans their descendants came from Cuba, Bahia, Mexico City, D.R, The Bahamas etc
Emily Frances, you are doing great work!!!!
The tribe of Judah is like a speckled bird dark and light in complexions. The seed goes according to the father. The original Yahudim (Jews) were a boxwood color meaning brown
Bullshit
@@palestinianterrorist4747 Bullshit back to you I did my research. Contrast to you you just go along with everything someone tell you. I searched day and night like a investigator. I take the good out the bad.
@@palestinianterrorist4747 The Talmud that were written in the 2nd Century written by Rabbis said this in their written about the Al Yahudim (the Jews) said they were a boxwood color. A boxwood is far of a resemblance of white. Tacitus a Roman scholar called the Jews Ethiopians and Egyptians because of the complexion. The Bible Scriptures said Joesph Paul and Moses could have passed for Egyptians in complexion. Today the Al Yahudim are like a speckled bird there were plenty of migrations and mixed marriages with other nations they lived around. Complexion have check some but the y dna of the father doesn't. Bible Torah Number 36:3-9 and Genesis 5 break down the seed goes according to your father not your mother. Al Yahudim come in one complexion but in all complexion today
@@palestinianterrorist4747 I don't read only from a Sephardic and Ashkenazi history. But other history of Jews migrating other places. Im dark skinned my roots go back too Sephardic Jews on my father side. you would think Im African because my skin complexion. I descendant of Jews who forebears who fled into Africa during the Portuguese Inquisition. You just a type of person that look at too much tv and do no serious research.
@@shawnstancil6980 No i've been search my Family history for over a decade Judah were Read heads some of us can trace our family back as far as human records go, if you research like you say have you read the Declaration of arbroath in that document it states very clearly who they are and where they come from King David was aredhead with blue eyes everyone know this, in which region do we find most redheads?
A most impressive person, a blessing to the Jewish people.
Impressive Queen Isabella the Catholic!
I am sure there are some Sephardic Moranos in the Philippines
we have sephardic lineage, but paternal. :)
The Hexagram is the most powerful symbol used in Egyptian witchcraft, it is the seal of Solomon, not the star of David.
The swastika is also a symbol of peace. You're an idiot to draw such a stupid association. The star of David (shied of David) has noting to do with egypt OR witchcraft.
Wrong it is called the star of remphan or the star of moloch and it was first used by rabbi Lööw who lived in 1500s Prag. He was a black magician and a personal friend of the prince of Prag too who also was very much intrested in black magick.
10s of millions of us!!!
Same as my ancester
Haaaa my mother and her mother did that
Deir 🙏
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I would marry her
She's already married. Her hair is covered
She sure is a pretty woman... and she knows it.
@@wolfthequarrelsome504 She is indeed very attractive, both physically and in all other respects. But she has humility and to say that "she knows" that she is pretty is an unfortunate mischaracterization on your part of this noble lady. I think you mistook her obvious intelligence, confident sense of identity and articulate speech (she's tri-lingual) for something else that isn't true.
Ijs we know now who we are✊🏿
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Why? What a stupid thing to say!
rev 3:9
“For he is not a Yehuḏi who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But a Yehuḏi is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in Spirit, not literally, whose praise is not from men but from Elohim.”
Romiyim (Romans) 2:28-29
“There is not Yehuḏi nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah יהושע. And if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs according to promise.”
Galatiyim (Galatians) 3:28-29
:'( *u 🙏
ridiculous , they all belong to soviet union .
Ah, would you like to borrow my copy of Maimonides' great work, 'The Guide for the Perplexed'?
What a stupid thing to say!
Deuteronomy 28:68 says the real jews would go into slavery on ships
@super Judah : They where called The Moorish Jews. 👍👍
@super Judah : That's right they Real Bloodline DNA 🧬 Descendants of The Ancient Children of Yisrael Abraham Issac and Jacob/Yisrael from The 🏠 House of JUDAH SCATTERED WORLDWIDE as Bondmen and Bondwomen SLAVES Deuteronomy 28:68 where ALL BLACK PEOPLE. Shabbat Shalom, Salaam my Hebrew Yisraelite Misphacha.
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@super Judah : It was the Real Bloodline DNA 🧬 Descendants.... The Moorish Jews that where Persecuted, Tortured and removed from Spain and Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition starting in 1492 and sent to the Americas as Bondmen and Bondwomen (SLAVES) Deuteronomy 28:68. The Truth is out now so tell the "LIES" to someone else. 😤😠😡
Hate to break it to you but the original Sephardic Jews were all black Negroes. whoever arrived in Spain and Portugal after the 1500s, their ancestors did not go through the Inquisition, they are not descended from the original Sephardic Jews unless they are Negroes.
Yahquin Sephardic Jews were were never black from The Iberian peninsula.Suggest that you look up Maimondes Judah P Benjamin,Hank Azaria, Neil Sedaka Hayam Solomon,Don Isaac abarbanel.Not black.
Jews were never negroes. LOL. The only black Jews are comnbverts to Judaism, but they are not ethnic Jews. Next you will tell us that all the original Swedes were negroes.
@@Lagolop I think it's best that you do more research maybe read older books written before the 1700s
@@trillone87 I think you should cease with your fantasy about negroe Jews :)
@@Lagolop why should I?
Funny story when reading about the Jews of the spainish Inquisition.
It describes the whole race as black and swarthy, funny that.
That's right they Real Bloodline DNA 🧬 Descendants of The Ancient Children of Yisrael Abraham Issac and Jacob/Yisrael from The 🏠 House of JUDAH SCATTERED WORLDWIDE as Bondmen and Bondwomen SLAVES Deuteronomy 28:68 where ALL BLACK PEOPLE. Shabbat Shalom, Salaam my Hebrew Yisraelite Misphacha.
💋💕💗🥰🕎😍💖💞👄
@forlatagate : They where called The Moorish Jews. 👍👍
That's not true. Stop your afrocentrist nonsense. Some Spanish Jews were described as being red haired.
You're an imbecile. Jews are not black and never were black. And that applies to the Sephardim as well.
No it doesn't.
Seraphardim were my ancesters! All the customs we had im still a catholic! Im a compleate jew
Why would you be catholic??? Are you crazy?! After what they did to your people?
So, what you are saying is that because you are a christian Jews are therefor incomplete. WTH does that even mean .... complete? I'm Jewish and well, just a tiny bit offended.
@@anthonydavid5121 it means that I no longer wait for Jesus return I live in the father and the son! I'm waiting for his coming so that God's children can be united, everyone that acknowledge Jesus as the savior who came to save us with his blood he came to save the sinners ! That was me! He said I came to save so that where I am you all to be with me! The Day the Jews say BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD HOSSANA IN THE HIGHEST WE WILL SEE OUR LORD JESUS ITS ALREADY STARTED MANY JEWS HAVE BECAME CHRISTIANS
@@anthonydavid5121 ps, I'm sorry if you're offended that was not my intention! As I love jews God choose Israel to walk amongst man,so how can I offend him! Love my ancestors they were persecuted as the church archive say!my best friend is a Russian Jew my doctor jews please was not to offend anyone! Truth sometimes hits raw spots I should know! I had many raw spots
@@maryglover7600 I am not depeply offended, just a little bit perplexed by your statement, but to say you have Jewish ancestry and then claim that you are "complete" becasue you are a Christian is a bit mind boggling. Jesus doesn't make a person complete if they camefrom Jewish people in the past. I am Jewish person, born in Europe after the shoah and also an Israeli. I don't need this Jesus to make me "complete" In fact, becasue I am Jewish and don't belevie in the devinity of Jesus, I am actually complete, and complete in the way G-d wants without these false G-ds, like Jesus, Muhammad, ect. I hope you can delve into your ancestroy more. If you truely have Jewish blood and DNA, then yoru sol will recoginze it andbring you back to haShem, who is God, in his one-ness. I wish you a great Jewish new year and may you be enscribed for another wonderful year of life (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, they both just past). A.
I Love Queen Isabella the Catholic!
Satan, is that you???
You love serial killers .
God is black,Jesus is black,Moses is black....I say Enough with this Bullshit !!
🤣🤣🤣 “we wuz jews n shiet mane” keep trying to claim our history LMAO
Semitic people are from West Asia 🌏. Fact
She absolutely is liar
Why?
Did you and your family use to be black and how did you and your family escape the Transatlantic Slave Trade??? All the historical documents and artwork depict Black Israelites.
@mrheisthelogos : Tell it my Hebrew Yisraelite Misphacha. Keep it 💯💕. No more "LIES"....!!!
Shabbat Shalom, Salaam my Hebrew Yisraelite Misphacha. 💋💕💗🥰🕎😍💖💞👄
The Samaritan Israelites have been in Israel for thousands of years and they have had their dna tested.The test show that the Samaritans have similar dna to Diaspora groups who live in Israel today.Shen et al reconstruction of the Matrlineges and Patralineges of Samaritan Israelites.
@@michaeljotoyajackson7294 wow, that wow be with a capital w WOW ! I HAVE NEVER SEEN YOUR COMMENT but have seen others in a response and negative and-receptive manner. That's okay, TMHY sees everything 💕 Peace and blessings unto you 👑🇲🇼💪🏾💯
Joke how Khazars (Turkiks from Volga river) falls to feel at home in the Original Land of Arabs. 😆 I am Slovanic and felt there like at home too..
DNA disproves the connection of Khazars with Jews.
You're also a total moron if you think that.
We descendants of the Sephardic Jews who converted to Christianity should be accepted as Catholics. We do not need to revert back to Judaism to feel proud of our ancestry. Many of our ancestors willingly converted. The question for me was about Jesus. He is the messiah and I will never deny him!
the inquisition was for jews who converted to chrisitanity but continued to practice judaism and undermined the catholic church and kingdom of spain.
@@samirrewari6104 correct. Many people have a distorted view of what the inquisition was.
@@samirrewari6104 more over the Jewish Followers of Yeshua had very good jobs, hatred and jealousy was also a part of this cruel wickedness. Continuing his interest in Medieval Spanish Jewry, Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain and Portugal, Benzion Netanyahu wrote a book about Isaac Abrabanel and essays on the Spanish Inquisition and the Marranos. He developed a theory according to which the Marranos converted to Christianity, not under compulsion, but out of a desire to integrate into Christian society. However, as New Christians they continued to be persecuted due to racism, and not purely for religious reasons, as was previously believed. He argued that what was new in the 15th century was the Spanish monarchy’s practice of defining Jews not religiously, but racially, by the principle of limpieza de sangre, purity of blood. Netanyahu rejected the idea that the Marranos lived double lives, claiming that this theory arose from Inquisition documents.
Hahha what a fool!!! You’re ok with what they did to your ppl?? Burning them at the stale
We are proud christians in Portugal. 99 % catholic population.
Viva Cristo Rey ✝️
Hmm 500 years is a long time to go back to old religion. I am an atheist Jew and one religion is same as next and all are fake anyway. But nice story.
The Spanish and portuguese jews were black! I don't have the stomach for this
Uh, no. Spanish and Portuguese Jews were indistinguishable from their Christian neighbors.
Malone the Sephardic Jews are geneticly similar to their brothers the Ashkenazi jews and were not black.
Would you like to borrow my glasses and a dose of Milk of Magnesia to settle your iffy tum-tum?
If the Sephardic Jews were black then name 12 famous black sephardic jews and their bio so they can be looked up.
@@tagbarzeev4850 According to Tacitus in his time he called the Jews (Al Yahudim) Ethiopians or the Hebrew language Kushiim mean burnt face or dark skin. Theey were scattered quite naturally the skin tone is gonna depending on where they went. Plus mixed marriages can do that as well with children being born