As half Afghani/half Persian Jew who's wife is half bucharian, thank you so much for these last 2 episodes. Thoroughly fascinating. We were always taught that Afghani Jews were from the first exile and never returned to Judea for the second temple.

@trzy7265

2 жыл бұрын

what a name😂😂

@BUKKAKEMASTR

2 жыл бұрын

@@trzy7265 my main account is all cocomelon and Peppa pig now. Oh how times changed

@Joe-pb3bm

2 жыл бұрын

Probably true for some of the migration, but, over time, not exclusively. India has 3 population groups of established *"native Jews." 1 of the 3 is called *"Bagdadi," they migrated to India several hundred yrs ago from Iraq

@farhan.naushad

2 жыл бұрын

I’m in the same boat. Having heard the stories of our Jewish ancestors from my grandfather, this topic has always intrigued me, but unfortunately there isn’t a lot of recorded material or documentation available.

@thefisherking78

2 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-pb3bm whoa

A little side note: The Bucharan kippa is unique in its style and form. It's more ornamental and arguably looks more like a short fez than any traditional "flat" kippa found in Israel or North America.

@Bombergangkidscrub

2 жыл бұрын

Do you happen to know why it gained popularity or at least association with Sephardim? My own family has them, Including myself and I vastly prefer them personally. However for some reason it seems like it became heavily associated with Sephardim for a while and I have no idea why. I've tried looking into it and had very little luck. But any time you look up "Sephardic Kippah" or even those words too close together you get ads for various Bucharan Kippot. The best lead I have is the way Sephardim are counted and Bucharan are seemingly not in Israel and the general lack of presence of both groups in general consciousness today (particularly in the US but I'm not sure how far this extends. I know Sephardim also live in France and the UK still ) and the fact that some Sephardim chose to wear them a bunch during the last 100 years or so has kind of gotten the 2 lumped together or at least associated to some degree. But I have no idea how accurate that is and this has actually been bothering me for a while now.

@xberman

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bombergangkidscrub It's also the hipster kippah of choice, specially among reform Jews

@formulaone07

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bombergangkidscrub Sorry, I have no idea.

@dannyfarkas9127

2 жыл бұрын

@@xberman Lol, so true.

@rezajafari6395

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty similar to the types of cap worn by non-Jewish Central Asians

I'm from Uzbekistan, I'm among many that have a positive view on Jewish community in our and in the World. Jewish people had been forward thinking throughout the world

As central Asian Kazakh, I've heard a lot about Bukharan Jews. I'm proud that we didn't have any history of antisemitism.

@OliveOilFan

Жыл бұрын

Yeah same! A lot of them helped out the Kazakhs when they fled and we have good respect for them

@yellowsugar5096

8 ай бұрын

You shouldn’t or can’t since you guys are not semites . You are Central Asians converts to Judaism during the silk trade .Not hebrews , so not semites . You get it ?

@ZloB1N

8 ай бұрын

@@yellowsugar5096 who..?

@yellowsugar5096

8 ай бұрын

@@ZloB1N the Bukhara Jewish . You can’t have a history of antisemitism since they are not Semites , but converts .

@ZloB1N

8 ай бұрын

@@yellowsugar5096 I meant who asked you?

I am a Russian Jew born in Uzbekistan I have all my life been interested in our history. Living in the states for so long with so little of my own culture I Only cook Uzbekistan food or Israeli food. Don’t want my kids to forget the taste of there home We LOVE your content. Awsome thank you

@Nupagade246

Жыл бұрын

@@plo8920 not converted shmuck BOTH MY PARENTS

Jews may not be in Central Asia, but Judaism has been marked by its time in Diaspora, and Jews continue to thrive and survive across the globe.

@siratshi455

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately

Shabbat shalom Habibi. Another great episode

@cocomonglover

2 жыл бұрын

Ha 🐝🐝

@mikeoxsmal8022

2 жыл бұрын

What is a habibi

@osterreicher123

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeoxsmal8022 Arabic word for my love

@mikeoxsmal8022

2 жыл бұрын

@@osterreicher123 thank you

@arolemaprarath3248

2 жыл бұрын

Shalom habibi, Elohim bless you and the Philippines.

I don't know why but the idea of the only two remaining Jews in all of Afghanistan fighting over who's getting the sinanogogue makes me laugh so much

As a non-Jew (Roman Catholic), this video was an excellent mix of both education and entertainment. Thank you.

Hey Sam, thank you for covering the history of this important but not well-known Jewish community. We have Jews as well but they're mostly Russian-speaking, Ashkenazi Jews who mostly arrived here when they evacuated from western parts of the USSR during Operation Barbarossa. We don't have that deep history of Jews living here, like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan but ironically we have the biggest number of Jews living in Kazakhstan.

@Passque666

3 ай бұрын

Jews living in Russia are Ashkenazi who were settled in Europe long ago & only fled to USSR b’coz of holocaust while Jews of Central Asia are/were just Persian Jews Who came from Middle East i.e Persia. Both of them have different history & culture.

Your episodes never cease to enlighten me. Well done!

I'm so excited for next episode, I always was interested in the history of Jewish people in Asian countries. Mainly because the cultures are so distinct and I was interested in knowing how the Jewish community became distinct in its own way. But I was always bad at research and could never wrap a whole story of how Jews even reached east asia. Cant wait for next episode man, keep up the good work!

@hassimgaus3120

2 жыл бұрын

God of our Prophet Abraham bless you.

@hassimgaus3120

2 жыл бұрын

@@azmolhossain9244 Bani Israel community was more safe in muslim lands.

I’m Palestinian and grew up in Jordan, there is a small Bukharian Muslim community in Jordan , they are very hospitable and nice people and the rice they cook is fire .

@cookiemasta1658

2 жыл бұрын

The rice meal is called osh/polov. Its uzbek meal. It was invented by uzbeks, but persians and especially tajiks love to say its persian or tajik invention, but its not! Its uzbek invention! You can visit Uzbekistan and Osh city(in Kyrgyzstan but Osh was and is uzbek's land. Lots of uzbeks in Osh city) and try the rice meal there and then just for comparison visit Tajikistan and uzbek cities Buhoro and Samarkand, there are lots of persians and tajiks and there is a their own style-cooked osh/palov(the rice meal) so try for comparison that Buhoro Samarkand style polov and try Tajikistan made polov and you will umderstand that uzbek style osh/polov is the best. And it will become obvious to you who invented the meal.

@matthewsteele99

2 жыл бұрын

@@cookiemasta1658 Osh is Kyrgyz, cope and seethe Uzbek! ;)

@Passque666

3 ай бұрын

@@cookiemasta1658​​⁠Lmao. Polov & Ash (noodles) are both Persian words. You can’t claim to be the first one to cook meat & rice together. Persian have much older history and older enough when you were still living in Mongolia. Ash, Palav, shorba, yakhni, naan, kala pacha, ishkamba etc are all Persian staples. Persian foods were introduced in India with Naan, Biryani, Samosa etc being originally Persian. Persians and Indians only got Gorma (stew) & meat dumplings (Mantu) from Turkic tribes but that foods as well ain’t Turkic but Mongolic in origin. Now Pilav were introduced to Spain via Abbasid caliphate and became famous in Europe but the word itself has origin as far back to Tamil people in Southern India. Many nations cook their own varieties of Pilav but of course the uzbek version of pilav and naan is among the most delicious out there. In Afghanistan, we normally say Qabuli pulav but sometime just as Qabuli and Qabuli-e Uzbaki is among the most eaten varieties of pilav there.

@cookiemasta1658

3 ай бұрын

@@Passque666 it's osh! not ash! ash is leftover after fire😂 we Turks uzbeks always were conquering you Persians and we brought you all these food! best osh(what you call palov🤮) is Uzbek osh! no Indian no Persian can cook more tasty than Uzbek! seethe and cry but the fact is best osh is Uzbek one! best somsa is uzbek one! best shorva is Uzbek one!

@cookiemasta1658

3 ай бұрын

@@Passque666 and we aren't from Mongolia we are autochthonous of central Asia!

Amazing video! I am not Jewish (Catholic I am) but I love history, especially that about the middle east and Jews. They deserve mad respect!

I visited the remaining synagogues in Bukhara a few years ago. The community is shrinking further and further and soon will not be able to support itself. I was also told that only 2 families were left in Samarkand. In one or two generations everyone will most probably have relocated, which is crazy when you think that the population can be estimated as 10000+ Jewish residents in Bukhara in the 19th century.

@Rifat.Rafael.Birmizrahi

2 жыл бұрын

Similar stories are happening everywhere which is not a rich country. Jews in general tend to leave for western countries an Israel for mostly economic reasons. As example Turkish Jewish community was estimated to be around 15k while I was growing up but these days people say it's closer to 10k. Low birth rates, families moving to Israel for economic reasons and students moving to study abroad are the reasons for population drop.

@takix2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-qw1mn3zp8f also, technically, emigration during the soviet era was not as straightforward as it is today...

I feel like you should have mentioned the Bukharian community in Tajikistan, specifically Dushanbe. While most maintained connections to Samarkand (such as being buried there), they numbered about 11,000 as late as 1989. Also, the dialect of Farsi closest to Bukharian language is Tajik, as you mention.

I haven't even finished the video yet, but I simply can't wait and have to say that it is absolutely fascinating! Also, I'm so thankful you are not pronouncing 'kh' as k. Who even came up with this digraph anyway and thought that it is a good idea to spell like that a sound that is almost the same as the regular English 'h' and nothing like 'k'? Maybe that's just me. :) Edit: After finishing the video, I want to add that it was the first time I've heard about Simintov.

@varana

2 жыл бұрын

The sound represented by KH isn't that close to English H, though. In hindsight, it might've been better to just leave it as H, but the idea behind KH was to write a sound that doesn't exist in standard English at all, and is a fricative halfway between H (at the glottis) and K (velar).

@milobem4458

2 жыл бұрын

@@varana All "h" sounds sound similar to many Europeans, including Poles and Anglos, and even to some Ashkenazi Jews, even though they may be two or even three distinct sounds in other Jewish dialects (hei, chet, khaf). Even if we can hear the difference many people have difficulty pronouncing it differently. Ironically we used to have two different sounds in Polish (probably similar to Sephardic soft khaf and soft ghimel), still reflected in historical spelling, but no one pronounces the difference anymore.

I'm an Ashkenazi living in Queens who has a hobby of language learning. I am currently learning 24 languages, and I made a point to have Bukharian one of them.

Wow, I'm just blown away. Not even sure how I stumbled upon this video. I very much enjoy jewish history. I really appreciated this video, from beginning to end. Your style is refreshing, brilliant and 1 of a kind. Most definitely subscribing!

Amazing video. Impressed by the speed you're pumping these out now.

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. These specials in particular take as long to make as they take to come out, even working on them full-time, which is why I'll be glad to finish for a good long while after China.

Are we going to finally talk about Borat

@denizalgazi

2 жыл бұрын

Borat is kohanim?

@Artur_M.

2 жыл бұрын

He is hella sus though, claims to be from Kazakhstan, says random Polish words, and filmed his alleged home village in Romania. I'm suspecting he might not be actually from Central Asia at all!

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

Most of what he speaks in his movies is Hebrew.

@jhombyrkotaksorgankazakh

2 жыл бұрын

Central Asia is not Borat country. only kazakhstan🙄 they are Mongol Tungus migrants

Another excellent video as always! Somewhat unrelated to the video, but I have always loved your use of Zelda music (and that one track from Assassin's Creed II).

Excellent video, VERY WELL DONE! I am Bukharian and I can confidently say that this is perhaps the single handedly most resourceful video on the history of bukharians, and pretty well done considering it was only 15 min!

you should make a video on mountain jews of caucasus

wow i like your content, especially the maps!

Are the Buhkarim's customs now in line with Sephardic traditions or are they still their own thing?

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

Bukharan religious law is in line with the Sephardic jurisprudence but the minhag remains distinct.

@arturhalilov4519

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdoptedCats יהודי בוכרה אינם אשכנזים, הם בעיקר צאצאים של יהודי פרס ועיראק.

As a bucharian my self I have to say Beautifully done man. Thank you.

Great video 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼...Can't wait to watch the next one.

Absolutely fascinating content keep it up

I'm loving this. Thank you Sam.

Any particular reason you use the music from the Legend of Zelda games for the background music?

Sam, please keep doing this.

Have you heard of בתי סיידוף? I thoroughly enjoyed the video, thank you.

So basically the Turkic and Persian and Arab Muslims were way more merciful with Jews than Christian Europeans .

@yakov95000

2 жыл бұрын

This is undoubtedly true,still Jews were also oppressed second class in both.

@wa7sh2anawa7sh9

2 жыл бұрын

@@yakov95000 Yes of course.

@dogbert52

2 жыл бұрын

"Slavery is more mercifull then genocide"

@wa7sh2anawa7sh9

2 жыл бұрын

@@dogbert52 Jews were not in slaved Under Muslim Caliphates , but of course treated as second class citizens. Unfortunately the people who didn’t historically genocide Jews and didn’t historically in slave anyone , are paying the price of all the discrimination that Jews went threw .

@cookiemasta1658

2 жыл бұрын

and how did that folk payback for kindness in palestine eh?😏

I love your videos - please keep it up !! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Another wonderful vid! Thank you! Shabbat Shalom!

Background music... from Zelda Ocarina of Time... Goron city... 🤣

The food is excellent, you definitely need to visit forest hills/Rego park!!! Great video, just subscribed!

Hello Sam! Great video! I also can't stop noticing that you're using the long s (ſ) in several of your video thumbnails. Is this just a stylistic choice or do you actually use this letter in your day-to-day endeavors as well? Hope to hear from you :)

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

It’s for the time period, like how the font changes over time.

Great video! I totally enjoy it. The only thing I don't understand is who is the guy in the green shirt?

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this!

I just found your channel and these knowledgeable videos on Judaism are great. Thank you for making them.

Was that background music from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time!?

Thanks for making that video! Appreciate it a lot! Would it be of interest for you to make one about the Jewish Bukhrian Merchants that became so economically successful in the 2nd part of the 19th century? Sources are scarce and probably mostly in Russian and Hebrew, both which I am not capable to read.

When you end this series i hope you could connect all of it into some giant movie

Great video as always sam, I can't wait for China, i know alot about both Bukharian and Persian Jews but i don't know anything about chineese jews, like at all, so it's gonna be interesting

@thedemongodvlogs7671

2 жыл бұрын

I'm of the understanding that most of them are sadly either crypto due to the Chinese Governments not so friendly treatment of them or now living in America/Israel. It think that it will probably (at least up in till he does his beta Israel video) be his most important video because i would say most of us know of the Keifengim but not many of us know about the keifengim.

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, very few Kaifengim live outside Kaifeng, even now. Also: Kaifeng Jews are only one part of the landscape of Chinese Jews!

@thedemongodvlogs7671

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow oh really, That's quite interesting will you be covering that in your next video or is it just going to focus on the Keifengim?

@lrt_unimog8316

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow The other part, I assume, would be the Victorian tycoons-the Sassoons and the Kadoories? (The Kadoories are well-established in HK; they provide most of our electricity, for one!) Also, Milton Friedman gave us a very good name…..but I suppose that is orthogonal to the point?

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

As it happens, I will not be covering the Sassoons and Kadoories because Hong Kong as far as I'm concerned is its own thing, and Hong Kong's Jewish community was actually quite small until the 1970s. I'm talking about the much larger communities of Harbin and Shanghai.

Lol I like how you have Goron music from legend of Zelda

Yes! I totally called it would be China Im so excited, keep up the great work Sam!

I never heard of the "rediscovery" myth and now I need to carefully ask my brother-in-law about it

I can confirm food in Forest Hills is amazing. 100 out of 10 I do recommend.

Good video, can you create a video about Mountain Jews from the Caucasus ? Aka Juhuro, Kavkazi Jews. Would be a great contribution. I can get you in touch with local Scholars and Rabbis on the matter. Toda

I’m so glad you talked about the Bukharan Jews, I live by a lot of them so it’s good they are talked about. Also one small note, the Seljuk flag is the double headed eagle not the black flag

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

The double-headed eagle was the flag of Rûm, not the Seljuk Empire proper.

@OliveOilFan

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow they also adopted the double headed eagle, with a blue background

Will the last episode be an epic showdown of how all the different jewish communities merged and fused into modern israeli society?

In an earlier video you posited that Jesus may have been apart of the Sanhedrin. Was that just a personal hypothesis or did you have a source for that? Thx.

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

It's unlikely that he would have been a member of *the* Great Sanhedrin, as it would appear that it had no representatives from the Galilee. He may have been a member of a municipal Sanhedrin.

Don't forget Asian Georgia ;)

Yooo no way!!! I was in Alanna Cooper's class!!! (From the sources)

This is my family history. Thanks for this informative video

Like the Bukharian Jews we in India have Bene Israel which is a group of Marathi speaking Jews , along with that we had the Bagdadi Jewish community in India who had fled to India from Bagdad.

Thanks for this great and very informative especially for me video with a many different relevant information about buharian jewish people.

Awesome video.

Love my bucharian friends and their food. Been to so many of their homes for Shabbat and heard about their lives in Buchara, Tashkent, and Samarkand. Thanks for giving me just a little more background about their history. PS: Kew Garden Hills also has lots of Bucharians including my favorite Bucharian synagogues!

Thank you for the knowledge KING

I love the goron city theme from Ocarina of Time!

How long does each video take to make? From gathering the info to recording and editing it?

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

About a month, working full-time. I’ll be working on one video while researching for the next one. These specials take a bit longer though, which is why I don’t do them very often.

This video is very exciting and interesting !!! Thank you for the information im bukharian jew my famliy from Samarkand

I am part Bukharian from Kyrgyzstan (and half litvak from pale of settlement), good to see a video on us

Very accurate and detailed video. I am Bukharian Jew from Midwestern US

I think you should have done a diffrent video about afgan jews,if anything then just to be able to title the video 500-2021 instead of 500- present

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

I thought about putting the end date as 2021, but I couldn't have made a separate video. The China video *had to* come out on 22 October. You'll find out why.

Very interesting take. The culture is very rich I live on Main Street!

YES! BUKHARAN JEWS!

@user-ln9yo9sh5d

2 жыл бұрын

how you wrote it 2 days ago?

@thedemongodvlogs7671

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ln9yo9sh5d ohhh i think he's a patron or its just a yt bug

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedemongodvlogs7671 They’re an old friend who is a great lover of Central Asia and whom I thus let watch early.

We still have some Bukharian Jews in Tashkent ! Actually I have two Bukharin Jews friends.

The music in the background makes me think this video is titled Judaism in Death Mountain lmao

I grew up with Bukharians, and have always wanted to know more. And I've been repeating that story about Yosef Maimoon bringing sefardic customs to Bukharians like it was true, for a long time. Thank you.

What's that song called ? The song at the end of this video

Did the last Jew in Afghanistan remember to turn off the ner tamid?

what is that song in the end?

I've always called this topic: Diaspora Studies. The stories of distant, lesser known Jewish populations. This needs to be taught in at least a college, Hebrew School, & Jewish studies departments. 🎯

Great job, this is an excellent account of Central Asian Jewry!

Thanks for such an amazing video on the often unheard Jewish diaspora of Central Asia. P.S. - At 3:42, the image of Shaybani Khan is actually directly taken from a recent Indian Web Series - The Empire, where Shaybani Khan is played by the Indian actor Dino Morea( and the looks of the character somehow inspired from Khal Drogo of GoT, in case anyone noticed it. )

You gotta love these stories...even when there are only two jews left in the country,they disagree on something...Luckily,the last jew is now in the US...Wish him health...

@cookiemasta1658

2 жыл бұрын

jewsih nature ey😏

Not only is Central Asia and the people underrated but Jewish people in CA are unheard of to most people and it’s good that people are starting to acknowledge and learn about them more.

What’s the song at the end?

I am a muslim but i respect Jewish people and their culture they are ancient people respect for jews from Pakistan 🇵🇰🤝 to jews Peace to all humans

what's the song in the end?

G-ds to honest truth Sam, I really am curious about that time of 500 to 700 CE simply because a.) The rabbi of my congregation as well as everyone else I know that's Jewish religiously OR a historian like yourself as well as Henry Abramson says not much is known about what went on in Jewish history at that time, and b.) As crazy as this may sound I've come up with an trademark secret industrial process for use in the solid waste hauling industry that doesn't even really have a name as of yet ?) that uses some of the things in THAT area at THAT time !!! It is currently being called Shofar/Kallinikos/Bernouli/Zoetrope ...

What was so forward thinking about the Bukharim

Is simintov related to the Iranian rug merchant simintob in the California?

@yakov95000

2 жыл бұрын

Siman Tov comes from Hebrew.

@Passque666

3 ай бұрын

@@yakov95000he is not talking about the world but the Person.

isnt that music from a videogame lol?

Wait so if this is true then why do bucharians mostly follow seprardi traditions?(minhagim)

Man….where did you managed to find Ahmad Zahir out of all singers? 😂 nevertheless, your taste in music is fantastic😊

Ocarina of time again 😀 great videos and soundtracks

How did "Tamerlane" end up as a corruption of the English word for "lame" instead of a central Asian word for "lame"?

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't from English, it was from the Persian "Temur-lang." Though they are related.

It's Bu'kharim, not Bukha'rim. An emphasis on A, not on I.

my dad. very interesting video

I love the donkey kong background music

The Oral Torah was known by those Jews from central Asia?

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

Sure! Hell, man, Kaifengim were Maimonideans.

@pedroledoux9779

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow The Ethiopian Jews does not know oral Torah, are there more dispersed Jews communities who does not know it?

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

The Beta Israel actually _did_ become totally isolated in a way that the Bukharim never did, and did so before Jews were living in Central Asia at all. I need to do more research on why and how.

@pedroledoux9779

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow You does a very nice work with this cannel.

@yellowsugar5096

8 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow what about the conversation of Central Asians to Judaism during the silk trade ? There were never a diaspora . The original Hebrew people are where their ancestors were .

I like this episode but want to disagree in some points: Contrary to many other countries, Afghanistan did not lose its Jewish population because of anti-Semitism. In fact, the country’s ruling class, mainly consisting of the Pashtun ethnic group showed a lot of sympathy toward the Jewish minority. For example, Mohammed Zahir Shah-the last Afghan king, who reigned until 1973-once claimed to be a descendant of the Israelite figure Benjamin and said that Afghan Jews were considered as an important pillar of Afghanistan’s society.

@VladVlad-ul1io

2 жыл бұрын

Hello. Are you from Afghanistan? How is it over there right now?

@Zetoreh

Жыл бұрын

My mother was born in 1959 and raised up in Mazar-e-Sharif in this time she never heard and saw about anti semitism and there was a jewish Community living next top her. But my stepfather wo was born in 1937 told me as a child that in kabul through germans bad influence that afghan we're believing in this typical German Nazis Story that jewish people are murdering childs and the afghans believe it. And the only thing what I remender was that they were stupidly trying to get them out. But I think more that the jewish Community want to Aliyah . Sad that the jewish History becomes to an end. There ist also the Story of Tovah an afghan jewish Woman who married an Muslim but never converted.

That Goron city mix tho

7th Sept 2021. The Last Afghani Jew moved to The US.

@denizbeytekin9853

2 жыл бұрын

ow did he move really?

2:16 You were saving the Jew-cy stuff