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As the grandson of Finnish Jews, I loved this so much! Will you be covering at some point the history/role of youth movements and organisations like Hechalutz? On a related note, regarding youth movements in Scandinavia, my grandparents at one point were involved in a youth association called the Scandinavian Jewish Youth Association (SJUF) which sought to create spaces for Nordic Jewish youth to meet (maybe it still exists?).

How do Jewish communities in Norway feel about the Norwegian government recently officially recognising Palestine as a state ?

Can you do the Jews of West Africa like the communities of Bilad el-Sudan and Cape Verde. They married into African royal or powerful families like the Fulani.

Very interesting video and for what it is worth I think you can attribute a significant portion of recent rise of anti-jewish propaganda to stem from Islamic refugees "immigrants".

Oh hey! That’s me!

Looking forward to the history of Judaism in the Caribbean.

I can assure you more than 39 Norwegian naz!$ were killed after ww2

I absolutely love the music you use in the end but can’t find it. Would you mind sharing its name?

Great video on a very interesting topic! Greetings from Norrköping, Sweden :D

Your work here is, as always, top tier.

Faroe Islander here: we actually have three Jewish families! The most prominent one is the Blak family, best known for its contribution to Faroese music: Kristian Blak, Danish-born musician and founder of the Faroes' first record label Tutl, is married to the American flutist Sharon Weiss, and their son Mikael Blak (drummer and co-founder of our first punk band 200, also known for frequently collaborating with Eivør) identified openly as Jewish in at least one interview that I remember. Alongside them are the Shemesh and Rouah families, both of whom are half-Israeli from what I can recall. I'm Facebook friends with a Shemesh and one of the Rouahs is a pretty talented photographer, but I unfortunately don't know anything about the rest of them. There are also a few people of Faroese origin living in Tel Aviv, but I am not sure how many of them identify as Jewish or are merely married/related to them.

Is this the first use of film with synced audio in the series?

Calling Hearst a Nazi sympathizer is very unfair. Unlike the New York Times Hearst's paper gave prominent front page coverage to the Holocaust.

Israel doesn't represent all jews. For the title of the video it's use in the thumbnail plays into that idea that they do

Wow - so much information in one video! Even as a Scandinavian with a keen interest in history, I would have had to spend a lot of time to dig up all this information (I knew about the major points, but few of the details and personalities). Amazing work! Still waiting for @HenryAbramsonPhD to cover this topic in his lecture series. :)

Yeah we love talking about history atleast here in Finland 😄

Skål!

what is Mendelssohn line?

Thank you very much for your fine work. We are from Jerusalem and have visited Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and we found them generally welcoming to Jews, though the radical Muslim presence in Sweden makes a mockery of that ADL statistic on anti-semitic attitudes. Official and diplomatic Scandinavia is often very hostile to Israel, particularly Norway and Iceland.

Please do a video about jews in romanian from 1886 to post ww2.

Danish/German Jew checking in.

Sweden alao took in Jews after the Second World War. Many of these were Holocaust survivors brought in thanks to the efforts of Count Folke Bernadotte. My maternal grandparents and uncle were among these Jews. In 1968 and 1969, they would help some of their cousins in Poland come to Sweden. In the Sweden seems much more hospitable, at least to an American Jew who came every year. We no longer had to smuggle kosher food into Sweden. Sadly, things would change in the early 2000s. And trust me, the percentage of people with anti-semitic beliefs are far higher than 4% in Malmo.

Why shouldn't Jews have to swear allegiance to the King like everyone else? Were they hoping to be exempt?

Yay! We are represented! Im a swedish Jew that made aliyah im so glad that we made it here ❤🎉

My grandmother (whom died before i was born) helped a jewish lady and her kids hide in Norway during the war. Apparently at some point she sat there with them and a pistol. She would later go on to have a large fosterfamily, including my father. This is what my father has told me. Though i never got to meet her, i take pride in knowing she was courageous, and a fucking badass.

A small correction, it was national bank director Marcus Rubin who oversaw the sale of the West Indian islands.

Thanks for this topic, probably most unknown part of jewish world.

I'm a physicist. Einstein was also one of the founders of quantum mechanics. His paper on light quantization really established quantization as not just a de facto empirical approximation. He just thought QM could not be a fundamental theory due to nonlocality.

Engraving seals is animal cruelty!

You passed up doing Judaism in Latin America for Judaism in Scandinavia?

31:50 I've seen it stated in several places that there was also a 4th Finnish Jew named Leo Jakobson who was also either awarded the Iron Cross or at least recommended to be awarded it.

Much love, and was greatly looking forward to this video! I had to wait until today to watch it, because I had to go straight to Shabbat after work, yesterday. Know that you have love and support from Temple Beth El, Flint, Michigan.

Scandinavian nationalism has a dark side, which right now is rearing its ugly head. I can't imagina how much worse things would be if Nazi Germany didn't invade during ww2.

Faroese jews must have a group chat

Great and very interesting video! Sort of surprised to not see any mentioning of Sweden's engagement during the WWII-period, especially with the diplomatic missions that saved thousands of Jews in Budapest led by Raoul Wallenberg.

Overall a great video, but Kopenhagen is the German word for our capital. We call it København.

36:17 Can you explain what you aim at when you say: ”often fueled by a certain type of immigrant from US”. I dont understand.

Im a norwegian with jewish ancestry:)

I've heard about the Jewish Finns offered the Iron Cross before. My understanding is the Germans were unaware they were Jewish, which perhaps makes that seem less strange.

Just simply brilliant.

Excellent work, Sam. Please make more of these long form videos!

30:10 and 35:06 I'm surprised how vastly stereotypes vary between Europe and America in Jews in sports. Ajax are the "Superjews", aforementioned Makkabi Helsinki and such. Whereas in the United States, a stereotype (often tongue-in-cheek) exists that jews can't play sports whatsoever, like how was portrayed in South Park. I am surprised you didn't bring up the Bonnier family, their progenitor was named Gerhard Bonnier (originally Gutkind Hirschel). Bonnier Publishing came about as the same time as the strong increase of literacy throughout not only Sweden but also the Nordics. Some time along the late 1800's to the early 1900's, the Bonniers increasingly converted to lutheranism. Åke Bonnier for example, is the current bishop of Skara archdiocese.

Much love to our Nordic brothers and sisters and thanks to you Sam. Can you please do an episode about South America's jews?

Curious Choice I wouldn't have thought of you covering this topic at all but it seemed to me that you have been collecting some notes on this do quite some time due to random mentions of Scandinavia in some of your videos this was really interesting especially with how Heterogenous the Nordic countries seem (of course there's the Sami and Germans/Baltic merchant spread about but that's not that much numerically speaking)

The number of Jewish military personnel in the Soviet Union is lower than expected because many Jews listed themselves as Russians for safety reasons.

8:55 Thank you for a correct pronounciation of Norrköping.

Great video! So interesting!❤

One of those turkish merchants that wanted their money back from Karl XII was killed in my hometown over a girl (iirc) and there is a special stone at the spot he died on our town square

Hey great video. I would have liked you to mention Kreisky. The jewish post war chanclor of Austria. He got asylum in Sweden during the war. He together with fellow exile willy Brand and olaf Plame shaped europe and its social deomcracy for many decelades as a resultly left wing but also strongly anti communist movement.

Thank you for the video! I have a few corrections: 24:40 and 26:30 It is true that anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent were registered. But, with some exceptions, only persons with at least three Jewish grandparents were deported from Norway and Denmark, unless they had a non-Jewish spouse. 28:30 The first Scandinavian Jews were Sephardi, but the majority of Scandinavian Jews are also of eastern European Ashkenazy descent.