As a secular American Jew of Polish descent, I really appreciate the history lesson!

There is also a significant mixed Jewish population amongst several First Nations communities. Notably the Ojibway, Cree, Lakota and Mohawks, of which I know several personally

Shalom Dr. Henry Abramson, My name is Carlos Augusto Welte, I'm a Reformed Baptist Christian from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and have watched your videos from a time ago. I would like to congratulate you for your videos, expertise, didactics, and talent. I've been a great fan of your work, despite some disagreements regarding Jesus and Christianity in previous videos. However, the fact of disagreeing in some points are not problems at all, since all people are entitled to having their opinions (scholarly or not). So, I think your work is really a treasure to anyone interested in Jewish History. I loved this video not only because it quotes Jewish History in my country, but because, as always, very instructive. What you said in this video reinforces something I wrote in a comment to a video from another Jewish channel that "threw the baby with the water" when considering the implications of the Protestant Reformation to Jewish people. As I wrote there, despite the shameful statements from Martin Luther against the Jews (that have been repudiated by most Protestants, including in Lutheran circles), I think that, for the most part, the Protestant Reformation was good to Jewish people. As you well put, the Dutch Reformed were very favorable to Jews, and the Puritans by Oliver Cromwell also favored the return of Jewish people to British territory. I don't know if you will talk about this in a future video, but the Puritans were also pro-Jews in several aspects, and if we have today the Christian Zionist movement, that according to Israeli Historian Anita Shapira, have been perfroming an important part to the establishment and defense of the State of Israel, its seeds began with Puritan and Reformed Christians in Britain, and before, with the Calvinist Reformation. And today, despite the fact that Jews generally consider Christians as "Jew-haters" due to the awful and terrible persecution suffered by Jewish people in the hands of Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, as Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu puts it, Evangelical Christians are the best friends of the Jewish people outside of the Jewish people. And this to the point that Evangelical Christians sometimes give more support than some specific local Jewish communities. May G-d bless you enormously, your work and your family, Carlos Augusto Welte

The first tshuva written in the New world was by the Dayan R’ Yitchok Abuhav de Fonseca . Who came from Amsterdam to serve as community leader in Recife. The question was about reciting משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם in the Southern Hemisphere. The question was addressed to the תורת חיים of Saloniki R” Chaim Shabsai .

Your videos are great! Much love from Brazil!

I am a sephardic Jew so is my wife....The first member of my family arrived in Cuba in 1516 from Portugal and the first Jew to be executed by the inquisition in the new world took place near my home town We have the same last name but I am not sure if we were related.

Fantastic. I was traveling and missed the live stream. Can't wait for the next one.

Thank You Sir. I find this History fascinating. Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

Genius level talks. Very unique and helpful. Thank you very much!

Wow. I'm glad to see that Suriname is also mentioned in your video. I'm Surinamese. We have a small Jewish community in Suriname and we have one synagogue. I have recently come to learn that my great grandmother is from jewish descent. Shalom and blessings from Suriname, South America 🙏🏽🇸🇷

My family is Spanish Sephardic Jew Saénz . Saenz establishments in lakefront of Chicago and New Spain / Texas Los Saenz-Roma,Texas I’m still in Illinois and many family still in Los Saenz Texas and Mexico City capital. I’m mixed with Native American tribes

Take the day off, man. Happy Thanksgiving!

Professor Abramson, what do you make of the story of Jewish pirates of the Caribbean, who were supported by Oliver Cromwell? Is it a myth or does it have a basis in fact?

Thanks for the great lecture. I just learned another use for the kippa . Like it’s many uses It’s taking care of that annoying mosquito. Sometimes helps to open a beer bottle. And grab the hot chulent pot when that hot glove is not around.

You must do a lesson on Don Luis Carbajal whom founded Nuevo León in Mexico. He had Jewish roots and was killed by the inquisition in Mexico 😉

It bothers me that, while representations of Thomas Jefferson are being removed from New York buildings, the strident antisemite Stuyvesant is still being honored by this City which has one of its most prestigious high schools named after hime (as well as a residential section of that city.)

Columbus was looking for an Asian restaurant.

Fascinating! The man known as Christopher Columbus (Cristóvão Colón) was actually born Salvador Fernandes Zarco, in the village of Cuba, Kingdom of Portugal, the son of Dom Infante Fernando Duke of Beja and Isabel Gonçalves Zarco (unmarried birth). Zarco was supposedly Jewish. Her father, João Gonçalves Zarco, was one of three navigators to discover the island of Madeira. One of the other navigators, Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was the father of Filipa Moniz Perestrelo who eventually married Cristóvão Colón (Christopher Columbus, Salvador Fernandes Zarco). They lived on the island of Porto Santo (in the Madeiras). All of these navigators (including Salvador) were schooled in Sagres, and members of the Order Of Christ (as was the royal family of Portugal too). Do you happen to have any information on Moses Seixas and the origins of the Jewish community, Portuguese Jews and Touro Synagogue in the city of Newport, Rhode Island?

What about Diego de Montemayor?

Thanks henry for the lecture,i now barbados the isalnd where i live was a haven for jews during the 1600s we have one of the oldest synagogues in the western hemisphere its interesting you talked on coloumbus at times some people villianzed ,i heard though when he went on his secound voyage he saw 2 unexplained events a lunar eclpise in around sukkot in september 1493 also he saw a light that followed his ship and it floated froming a menorah like shape i heard when he returned to spain after that voyage the inqusition wanted to question him almost interigating him of the light he saw showing how antisemitic the catholic church was

You have had some interesting lectures about the German Jews. I would like more of this issue. It’s very important for us with an Ashkenazi background 😊

I learned that the first inquisition main base (church ) was established in Puerto Rico in the discovery of the western world. A lot of the words used in the island are actually ladino words and people claim its just words illiterate people came up with because of living in the mountains areas. It is said that they (the jews ) were the ones that pushed to create independent political parties in order to fight against the independence of the island against the spaniards .

From a previous lecture of yours you claimed that Apparently the grandson of Noah (Yucatán) made it to The America’s during the time of Solomon. The Yucatán got its name from him (and thus our Mayan Connection)

in what manor did the Iberian jews that made the voyage find their way onto the ships?

I live in the South of Brasil,theres a lot of stories over here about jewish "jewish imigration" of course the history books tell us nothing about them,in the past i did have crypto jews in my family.

Cristofo Colombo. I tend to believe there are enough hints to suggest he was of Jewish ancestry...

I think some of my Jewish ancestors came to S America and the Caribbean then went back and this explained a piece of the puzzle of my ancestry that shows Iberian DNA as well as Native American admixture. Columbus and his men were brutal in their search for gold and cut off the hands of the Taino who didn't meet their quotas for gold. The Natives faced almost complete devastation. I am both Jewish and Native American and sad for all my ancestors who suffered both in Kiev and in the Caribbean, Peru and Columbia from colonization. This is why I will no longer celebrate Columbus Day.

Another great video thank you. Columbus might have had a Jewish person in his roots who knows as you go far back you have many many ancestors.

That bald spot joke tho…

Rohde Island became a haven for Jews in New England too. (Along with Baptists and Quackers)

So Manhattan was supposed to be in Brazil....

I’m a 1/4 Polish-Jew & a 1/4 Ukrainian-Jew and my family moved to Central Canada. All of that is from my dad’s side. I never really realized this until 2004 when my parents met at lady in Tel Aviv. One major question I have is can I STILL be a Messianic Jewish here in Canada. And YES my wife is also Messianic Jewish lol. Both of us (my wife and I ) have the same questions.

I lived in Southern Colorado. It was found that a significant percentage of the population carried a Jewish gene that is only identified in the Jewish genome. Can you comment?

from NewMexico. my mom's maiden name Cuellar and verbal family history was...3 brothers were "wanted" in Spain, when they reached Mexico they were thrown into prison and tortured and escaped...one brother went deeper into Mexico, South America? and the other brother came to New Mexico to hide out. There has only been one person within each family generations in NM who kept the history we were Jewish. My mom's uncle dress in black and black hat, carried a Bible and spoke of "end times and prophets"...we went to Catholic school and church but never prayed the rosary or had pictures of saints, etc...my dad's grandmothers brought my dad in to pray and light candles with them... he too read only the Bible. Until the 1950's.....yes, 1950s... the Catholic Church in particular places in NM brought engaged "Hispanic" couples in with their parents and were questioned on their loyalty and faith in/to the Catholic church and had to sign documents promising the children would be raised Catholics.

I have Jewish linage in all 4 ancestorial lines. How did that happen? Parents hid all this. My parents are related 3 times over in our Mennonite community. 2 lines are from Switzerland and area. Jews hid or became Christian or Mennonite because of persecution and then the Mennonites persecution began and so of to America. 1 line fought as Jews in WW2 and came from Silselia and 1 line faced persecution in the 1800s in Frankfurt Germany and left the tribe. Some PA Dutch words spoken are actually yiddish in our community. I only found most of this out after a Ashkenazi Genetic disorder show its head. Sorry about my English we live in a Dutch area. Our Mennonite community mostly come from the Zimmerwald Bern Switzerland. Jews and Lichty Mennonites seem to have been related and married each other. I have relatives in Christian and Jewish graveyards.

Many think that the name Brazil is jewish, bcoz the brazilwood, may was named under a jewish sallor of wood, called Barzilai...

Cubans are called the Jews of the Caribbean. A Spaniard told me that most Jews settled in Havana as it was the Commerce hub of the Americas.

Amsterdam isn't a country, but a city in the Netherlands.

Columbus didn't find gold in Cuba, something more valuable; the habit of smoking tobacco. And cannibis?

Healthy yarmulke ha ha