The only German tradition my family kept is the "Hoppe hoppe reiter" song

Europe in 1935: ''Leave Europe and go to Palestine''. Europe in 2017: ''Leave Palestine and come to Europe''

these people aren't Germans. They're Ashkenazi Jews whose grandparents happened to have lived in Germany. They aren't ethnically German and they don't look German. They're just Jews. They're more closely related to Mizrahim and Sephardim than they are to Germans. lol.

"Would you ever want to move back to Germany?" Nah, I think I'm good.

Corey, when you do ethnicities serias make more interview with old people who actually lived in these countries.

Why do all those Israel haters spend their time watching these videos and reading and writing comments??! You seem to have too much spare time. Go and work, for your countries and societies! Try to be constructive and successfull. Try not to play poor pittifull victims all the time. Your self esteem will rise, your hate agains Israel, jews, christians, women, the US, europe, atheists, gays, ........ will decrese.

I'm not Israeli, but I am a German Jew (ancestors from Altona and Frankfurt).

My great great father immigrated from Bavaria in 1845. The family of my father spoke Bairish dialect. It was almost Yiddish. My ancestors lived in Neiburg Under Kammel in 1250. It is Shwab, Ginzburg, Bavaria. I emigrated to Israel in 1971. My children and great children were born in Israel.

They are not ethnically German, jews were never European they moved here just now there are jus a few.

I visited Israel several times, I'm a non-Jewish German, and found nothing but kindness. Yes, some people, especially the elderly who were directly affected by WWII still had lingering resentment of being forced to lose their history but that's understandable. Were I an Israeli I wouldn't want to move to Germany . . . too cold. :-)

There is no such thing as "German Israelis." All my grandparents were from Poland. But I am a Jew. And no Jew with roots in Poland would ever consider that they have any "Polish" connection.

I read all the racist comments here, full of hatred and I just disgusted with humanity, I feel like throwing up. We just have to stop this hatred, it's easy to hide behind the keyboard and just spread hatred. We must stop this disgusting phenomenon of cyberbullying (racism, spreading hatred and pure evil).

That one lady defined German characteristics quite accurately. They are so meticulous, exact and have so much respect...great people.

Half of my ancestors were Jewish and I am an American who lives in Germany. I would like to live in Israel.

Corey, mate, when will you do a video about Azerbaijani Jews???

sad, I guess this project is for a intercultural and interreligious dialogue and if you read through the comments you only see racist, insulting and excluding comments from all sides. Hate against Israelis , hate against Muslims and hate against Germans. What the fuck, so senseless -.-

It's just were they lived but not what they are they are jewish

I am a German Jew any my Omi and Opa gave us german culture in shnitzel, steaks, fried potatos with vegetables and importance in education. My family hails from Hamburg and Bernkastel and my great grandfather, Wilhelm, fought in German Army at Verdun. My father still proud to be German Jew.

All the videos I've watched so far about ashkenazi ethnicities, people were totally ok answering the questions, while some middle eastern jews ( just a few people) felt really unconfortable, almost offended by Corey's questions.

7:54 im german and he says "Schlafstunde" (nap hour, afternoon nap) so cute haahaa

I wouldn‘t go to Berlin as Jew, there were problems with Arabs the last time, and also wouldn’t recommend to move to east Germany because there are some nazis. I haven’t heard about bigger problems in Cologne, Bonn, Hamburg... in the past 40 years

arabs to arabia!Copts are the true egyptians

Jews to JUDEA. (today Israel) Arabs to ARABIA. (today Saudi Arabia) End Arabs occupation of the of the land of Israel! 😊🔯🌈🌳 "If I forget you O Jerusalem I'll forget my right hand". (Psalms)

In my City, were i was born and stil live today, we have something that is called "Steine der Erinnerung" where we remember the Jewish People who got taken away from us where they live ... but today we still have a small Jewish Community where i live (2nd District of Vienna/Austria) and we are all very positive with each other and do not scatter hatred.

Albania loves Jews so much

Such an interesting video. My grandmother’s family came from Heilbronn Germany. For my entire life there has been a hostility toward Germany yet also an embrace of the cultural elements-the education, the philosophy-exactly what many in the video said. No strudel though.

One nation: Hevrew people ! Not “german jews”. Jews of germany. Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jews

They're ethnically Ashkenazi not ethnically German

Next time do italian jews pls

these people don't look german.

My Jewish family fled Germany to South Africa in the 1910s.

My Austrian mother always spoke Viennese German and made the best Wienerschnitzel and Palatschinken.

Hey man, just getting exposed to your content, will donate soon. Thanks for your RIDICULOUSLY important work.

It's true that outward appearances matter little. It's the inner light that connects. It's a value to love your brother no matter the background.i find many things that Jewish people identify with valuable. Humor is my favorite thing about Jewish people .

Thanks corey this is an amazing video it gave me much to understand more about are world and the things that are happening now today

How are they German Jews if they look 100% Semitic. ? they don't look remotley Nordic /Central European

Danke mein Freund...es ist sehr kompliziert das ganze zusammen zu fügen...aber eine tolle Reise in die Israelische Seele...Liebe Grüße aus Berlin...Matthias

What about Israelis with an Austrian background? My Viennese grandparents, father and uncle (both born in England) went to Israel in 1948 after living in England for 10 years.

Oké one question: the guy who wants a German passport. He does NOT speak German nor he wants to move there.... like WHY exactly does he want a German pasport?

You should do one about the military. General opinions regarding the military, how people think the military has shaped Israel's society and is at the very core of the country. Also in terms of the future, seeing how each year less and less people join the military and what that says about the current political situation in Israel :) would be interesting in my opinion.

People keep thinking Berlin is cool but the rest of the country is rubbish. Why is that? In reality, there's no difference! There are giant differences between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, kibbutzim or arab villages. These differences don't occur here! Except bavaria, their traditional dresses, music and accent are different. I didn't know Corey had german roots too! Have you been to Germany yourself?

Cory I really enjoy your videos!

Because of oils money popular people are supporting muslims pelistine. In the name of humanity. ( And fool trusting, believing, obeying, useless people words. ( Dont let people make u fool otherwise they will always fool u all your life.thats all for today.

Uri Anvery was born in Germany 🇩🇪 in the interwar period in 1923 and left at about 10 in 1933 to the British mandate of Palestine and year later founded gush shalom and became a activist

They don't like to live in Germany but they want to get the passport! :D

You can clearly see the refinement of some of these Jews that spent time in one of the world's great lands, Germany.

There is a difference between nationality and being ethnic Germans or Argentines for example. There is Germanic DNA as compared to Semitic DNA. Another example would be the Argentines are of Spanish and indigenous people. The second wave of immigrants were Italians. So, being from Argentina can be a nationality too and not necessarily ethnic Argentines.

i love israeli, they are smart people, love from indonesia!

Very cool video Corey!!!

Finally something about German Israelis ! Love iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit !!!!!!

I really like the half Iraqi jew guy, like allways the Iraqi blood is glowing, greatings from an Iraqi brother

it's not important what are our roots, what is important is what we do to be good ppl, and what we try to do so we don't harm other ppl,salam to all.

Greetz,Shalom,Friede and Peace from Germany to Israel.

Why not interview soldier's

What the f is "german israelis"? You mean "Jews".

I have a question for Israelis , I hear that secular Israelis are concerned about the growing numbers of Ultra Orthodox Jews or Haredis. Can you tell me why? I live in the West Bank but I don't differentiate between ultra orthdox Jews and other religious Jews ( Those who wear white clothes and kippas , and those who wear black clothes)

Very interesting!! Good job!!

The guys at 3:30 were so European looking and they wanted nothing to do with it, interesting

All of them er immigrated Europe and occupied Palestine 🇵🇸

There is no such thing as a German Israeli - you can be a German Jew, but you can never be an Israeli. And if you do consider yourself a Jew, you need to read Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 to see what TMH Yah thinks of you.

Polish , Germans , Eastern europeans.. are they middle easterns?

Why are so many of the people interviewed so defensive when they are asked questions??

Almost all of them seemed baffled and perhaps uneasy with the question "would you live in Germany?" I don't know if it was the Holocaust or some other sub-text I was missing...

Ancestry labeled me 38% european Jew. i was surprised to learn it's a race based on that analysis.

Jerry seinfeld looking great in the thumbnail 👍

8:30 so slavic look, the same old lady at 10:00 , look like polish granny

Just wanted to to let you guys know that I'm half german and half hungarian/czech . My father (german side) is agnostic, my step mother is a german that grew up in the DDR and converted to Islam due to her first husband (her second one was muslim as well). I have a half pakistani step brother, a half albanian step sister and a fully german half brother. We celebrated christmas yesterday, in a non religious manner. Just all of us sitting at the same table and enjoying each others company while dining on the most culturally varied food selection you can imagine :P We may have a bunch of backwards thinking idiots here, but the majority are normal people who don't give much thought to race/religion/whatever. On the topic of muslim refugees: I live near a semi-large city in the south of Germany that always had a large number of immigrants among the population. The refugee crisis caused no noticable difference in that. I have in fact only ever met one obvious refugee during a train ride. Either there aren't as much as some people make it out to be, or they just blend in with an already pretty multi-cultural society. Funny side note: Our biggest concentration of so called Neo-Nazis reside in east Germany (former DDR), areas that still have a terrible infrastructure (muh communism was just badly implemented!!!1) and therefor a massive problem with education. The funny part is though, those areas have a miniscule amount of citizens with foreign roots. Most are either "pure" german or with russian/eastern european heritage, though those are, for some unexplicable reason, standing side by side with those egg heads. They all shout "Muslims out!" though they probably haven't seen one their entire lifes. My personal experience with Islam is purely positive. Sure, there were some turkish or albanian kids during my time in school that were a bunch of pricks, but those were not religious. Every single encounter with a religious, non-convert muslim I had was positive. I had, for example, a turkish friend in school who would invite me over to dinner regularly. The only remotely negative experience was a few years ago. I met this turkish guy and we got along pretty well. Then I found out about his homophobia (grounded in his religious beliefs). I'm bisexual myself so it kind off struck a nerve. Me telling him that, made him uncomfortable at first, but the fact that he held me in high regards, opened him up to discussion I think. Turns out that he was nothing but badly informed. He was convinced that being gay was a choice and after sitting him down in front of a computer and showing him dozens and dozens of articles about gay's describing how they found out about their sexual preferences, he was convinced. Where before he said, he couldn't sit down at the same table with someone he knew was gay (that was the catalyst to me telling him that I, someone he has spent a lot of time with was in fact bisexual), he was know totally chill about it. Months later, when I had to go the hospital for a few months, he even offered me to give him a call whenever I would need anything from home. Jeez, this has gotten way longer than I planned. I guess what I am trying to say, and I am fully aware that a random comment under some youtube video probably won't change anyone's perception, is that Islam is no worse than any other religion with their prejudices and extremists. We may live in a time where a lot of terrorism is enacted by extremists of this particular religion, but that doesn't mean, that the whole concept is worthless or dangerous. Yea, the scriptures itself may be somewhat outdated, but just a few weeks ago I was handed a flyer by a turban wearing man on a train station, promoting a reformed Islam, putting emphasis on the respect for others and state laws above religious laws. It's not all bad.

The last two women have the attitude I expected. Were I in their shoes I wouldn't speak german, wouldn't serve strudel, wouldn't listen to Bach and Mozart, let alone Wagner.

Haha that Ashkenazi and son were hostile lol

Do you blame them for not going back to almania (Germany) I would not go

there was 5000 jews in India too but most of them went to Israel!but there are still three synagogues in a nearby city and quite a few in other states!only few jew families are still here in India!they are very good people!

Very interesting and revealing. I'm surprised many didn't try to deny their roots "because it's in the past and doesn't matter" like those 2 men in the blue did, love this video...

I love this video. Tremendous insight straight from Israel's. Thank you so very much.

israeel for ever

I noticed in Hebrew they take a while to respond. Verse English the reply is more fluid. Is this just a culture thing, and they are waiting to make sure the other person is done? Or are they thinking of proper words to use? I could be over thinking it.

4:18 you can tell this guy has been to Berghain and all sorts of night clubs lol

i love your videos i am from brazil i love israel i support you from here

Long live Israel

Can someone explain to me what the word "keelo" is. It is often used in these discussions.

I like highly intelligent peopel, no matter who they are. It makes me feel like I am at home, even if I may be stoopit.

Its kind of sad to see the people who lost their culture. Sure they had a very difficult past but its still part of their identity

Please do a video in Dimona

Goodproject to see the views of Palestinian and Jews...

this video legitmatlely made me cry as an atheithistic german, the concept of an entire country being meticulous meanwhile being self destructive is a sad state to be certain. it makes me much less hopeful for the future as we certainly dont have the means of production to have a sovereign state

I'm with them! Although I was bought up in the German culture, food, music, celebrations, I wouldn't ever want to live in Germany. The Germans are very difficult to understand, I don't even make jokes with my german side of the family cause they might not think it funny! I let them make the jokes. And we have been in South Africa for more than 300 years. Possibly Ashkenazi Jews from both my parents. I really love Jewish culture best! If I could, I would move to Israel. Germany might be beautiful with all the snow in the winter, but the people are a bit hard to understand and hard to get to know. Israel is like Heaven on earth!

2:18 Why the hell has she a german passport? Thats one of the Problems we have as germany that we dont define us as a group. So everybody can have that passport? Thats just crazy.

4:30 >this >german really made my neurons firing

Nice, but you are jiggling the camera a lot Thnx

Interesting, when asking Mizrahim what “Eda” (ethnicity) they answer specifically, the country of origin, Ashkenazis tend to say “Ashkenazi”!and usually get specific after been asked to,....some have said that “Ashkenazis see themselves as Israelis, and Mizrahi as Hyphenated Israeli

As u can see they are from other countries.. PALASTINE is original.

Most germans do not listen a lot to german music. Even (relatively) famous german musicians such as Milky Chance, Robin Schulz, Felix Jaehn make music in english.

Could you make one about the low-lands jews (the Netherlands,Belgium& Luxembourg) like the english chut jews from dutch/Amsterdam descent.

Love to Israel from Germany

Ken = yes, Lo = no, right?

wtf. why im arab from morroco and i can understand little of hebrew , so arabic and hebrew are connected , and arabs and jews have close ancestors??? so why do they fight , i mean they can live together and each one can have his own religion etc , plz make this comment in a video bro :), because media always want to devide us.

There is nothing like home.

Strudel and Schnitzel are Austrian ;)

"No, German roots don't impact me at all, but i just started an application to get my German passport".....WTF ??

Camera is too shaky.

Even Germans who presently live in Germany are not proud of Germany. Of course, are there real Germans? Starting from the 7th century Germany was populated with Slavic people. 70% of today's Germans are descendants from Eastern Europeans. Especially after the Second World War, immigration resulted in a large proportion of the population of Slavic origin, which today totals around 60 million "Germans" of East European background. Many Turkish people and people from all around the world live in Germany. Almost the same number of Jews live in Germany than in Russia. Even chancellor Angela Merkel (Polish family tree) admits, to find a real German in Germany is difficult. So when Israelis say, in Germany these are descendants of Hitler, this is unfair.