Who Are The Jamaican Jews? with Tyler Samuels
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- The movie, One Love, the Bob Marley biopic, just came out which has people looking closer at the Rastafari culture. Putting the culture into the spotlight, many have noticed the undeniable ties between their religion and Jewish themes. Jewish organizations have jumped onto the trend of asking, and even claiming, that Bob Marley was Jewish. Whether or not this is true is trivial. What's more valuable is the discovery of Jewish and Jamaican ties and how oppression brought them together.
As a full-time Jewish advocate, Tyler Samuels sheds light on the little-known history of Jamaican Jews and the isolating experience of being a black Jew. From the secret crypto Jews of the Spanish Inquisition to the influences on Rastafari culture and the intriguing story of a Jewish pirate, Samuels offers an exciting exploration of Jamaican Jewish history. Don't miss out on this eye-opening episode that will challenge preconceptions and celebrate the diversity within Jewish culture.
Timeline:
00:00 Introduction to Tyler Samuels
03:45 The Spanish Inquisition
07:07 Colonies and the spread of oppression
09:25 Pirates
15:23 Jewish persecution in Iberia and colonies.
16:18 Defining Genocide
21:21 Rastafarian culture is influenced by Jewish symbols.
24:35 Personal experiences
26:39 Conclusion
About Tyler Samuels:
Tyler Samuels is the creator of the social media account BluntBlackJew. He was the Campus Development Lead at Hillel BC Society. Tyler was also a fellow for the Union of Reform Judaism’s Jews of Color Leadership Fellowship and a Jewish Federation of North America Changemakers Fellow for Aspiring Leaders. Through Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, Tyler teaches Jews and non-Jews Caribbean Jewish & general Jewish history and life as a Black Jew.
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The growing of dreadlocks has its roots in Torah and the Nazerite vow
Teach!
Refreshing interview, so much more needed to be said esp of migration of the Jewish faith in absence cultured expectations; ie, what it means to be in fact be of the Jewish faith.
Thanks for airing. Shalom
Great interview. I did want to add as someone who is part Ethiopian Jew, that the symbols seen in Ethiopia are there mainly because there has been a Jewish established presence there for over 2500 years. They are still there now waiting to make Aliyah. This interview was great!!!
Fascinating! I can imagine there's a ton of crossover. Thank you for sharing.
Most Ethiopian Jews moved to Israel between 1984 and 1991.
There are a few left in Ethiopia today.
Love this interview wow amazing I can so relate
All Jamaicans that have ancestors who were part of the slave trade, as indicated in the bible, are Jews. As a 75 year old Jamaican, I saw my parents and grand parents practicing: the men wore beards, they were circumcised 8 days after birth, they covered their heads at all times (look at the old pictures of the slaves in Jamaica), the women were not allowed to cook for men if they were mensturating. They also had a certain diet. For example, they ate only Sea food with Scales, only meat that have Hoof and were not allowed to eat Pork. Because of slavery, we were prohibited from practicing our Culture...However, some continued to wear Dreadlocks as depicted on the walls in Egypt. We are Jamaican Jews.
Yeah jamaicans are the isrealites,not africans,big difference
You explained this really well thank you.
Love this interview. Heard that the Andrade family which is my surname was part of the Portuguese Jews. Learning a lot
The history books we used in Jamaican schools gave no mention of the Jews assisting the British on the Penn and Venables mission that took Jamaica away from Spanish rule. The puzzle is fitting together nicely though. Thanks for the information.
Just to add that the Rastas that does meet for worship on Saturday in Papine Kingston Jamaica. While they celebrate Silasi they don’t worship like some Rastas. And they have stated that their beliefs is based in the Old Testament Scripture.
it is about time we the sephardi were there in jamaica for along time i am sephardi from kingston so many of us still live there , most of us did not mixed with the other people but some did . francis henriques aka sean paul my mother side is a henriques sephardi there are africa jamaica who converted and mixed jamaican who are jews
wow thanks for sharing. incredible story!
Don’t forget Sean Paul also has a Chinese heritage/mixture in him as well. His mother’s side…
Conversos were Jews who practiced their religion in the synagogues but once out in the open they were Christians. It was a survival mechanism.
"Saturday soup" is a Jewish tradition that became popular in Jamaica. Columbus's son, Diego, married an Henriques. Most of the descendants of the original Jews from Iberia converted to Christianity, many of whom were devout Roman Catholics and Anglicans.
Blessings ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I did my DNA I am IGBO and have LEMBA and Ethiopian Jew DNA. Both my parents and grand parents are black Jamaicans my DNA is found in Spain and Portugal in West and East Africa, Egypt, and Yemen in the levant. There is a difference between the bloodline linage descendants of Jacob the Israelites, and those who became Jews thru religious belief which is Judaism.
So I am, well said.
We are Israelites from the 12 tribes.
Yeah which country are you from?
I am an Ijaw Man, meaning the Ijaw tribe in Nigeria Africa. My tribe can be pronounced Ijaw or Izon, in the holy Bible book of chronicles we are spell ijo or ijon the great fighters. We are One of the lost tribes of Israel. We are black Jews
Jamaica has the largest Jewish cemeteries in the Caribbean.
Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica, very revealing. I have known our Jamaican Jews had some involvement in guiding the British here but had not idea they were behind it and it makes sense. Their is a lot of Jewish influences in Jamaican culture and their are still Jews on the island who can trace back their ancestry to the inquisition. Believe it or not Haile Selassi, I heard from another CZcams video, was himself a Jew from the line of David thou King Solomon's relation with the Queen of Sheba and is said he is the last of the house of David to sit on a throne and Henry Kissinger was aware of this. I too understand the Bob Marley as Jewish roots, I learned this from a Jewish online magazine call Tablet Magazine some years ago. It published an article about a set of Jews who was trying to claim Bob Marley as their own as his father was a Syrian Jew plus the man how helped him come to prominence Criss Blackwell, his mother was a Spanish Jew. I have seen online wear Jews refer to Jamaica 🇯🇲 as 'Jew Maker' as it was Cristifer Columbus' intention to make it a Jewish island as he too had Jewish heritage. Amazing.
Haley Selassie was not a Jew,he said he was not a Jew ,don't talk no sense
There is no special people
@@CarolineDunn-ql4wc well the bible said special people exist
Escovitch fish is from the Jewish culture but Jamaicans make it to suit their palate.
The Jews are well documented in Trinidad & Tobago and also some of the other islands.
Where can I find such information on Trinidad
@@HasanAnyabwileall nonsense, about trinidad,fake
@ann the video is about jamaica, nobody wants to hear about your Riverton dump ,no name nation
@@RichardWillis-fn4hg What do you know, there are some Ashkenazi Jews, the Stechers and other families, go to Mucurapo Cemetery, on the northern side, there are many Jewish graves and a few tombs, there is evidence also of when they came and why, which was during the 2nd WW. Also, some Portuguese Jews/Sherphadic Jews, came also, who began to set up shops and got into goods etc.
I wanted to see what other information there was that they had, so do you have information to negate that, or to consider Jewish presence as fake,this has nothing to do with my views regarding the Ashkenazi or Sherphadic Jews and their legitimacy, history is history, bad, good or indifferent.
I hope this helps the black Jews in Israel get better treatment from the people and government of Israel.
What the difference between being Jewish and Hebrew Israelites?
Jamaicans are the original Hebrew Israelites. Rastafarianism is the embodiment of that
there is saturday soup
Black Americans are from the tribe of Judah.
Bob Marley grand mother is Jew . By is father side.from syria.
Same culture just has Jews even the dietary law
We are not sycological we are biblical we are not happer we nu falla backa
This guy is a Jamaican of African descent with some Jewish heritage or ancestry. He is not pure blooded Jew, and even the blind can see that. People need to face the reality about themselves, and stop claiming to be what they are not.
Hortenz Clark how about those jamaican name Blissette that look lke an directley from middle east lke issa. N zHanna N abube
@@aundreamellado6112Jews and Jewish is not the same
Hortense which country are you from?
Hortenseclzrk what poreblood jew look like
@@aundreamellado6112 black and brown,but Jewish are not jews
There's no "j" in the Hebrew language.
Who is this good friend of Bob marley is thiz jew
Bob Marley Father was a Jew.
Share more of this as proof! Thanks
No way, he was a White man, European. The children of Judah were and still are all black.
@@tonysmith131you have real Jews and fake Jews
Most of the Jews around the world are people of colour but they have no wealth. Forgive me for my nativity but since a large percentage of Jews are in Africa which happens to be the richest continent in the world I just find it strange they they have no wealth and something sounds fishy to me.
YOUR JEWISH ?