I am a Moroccan who was always interested in the history of judaism but I became even more when I learned that my family were sephardic jews who converted to islam during some harsh and powerful dynesties like the Almohad. They were andalusian merchants who then migrated to the city of Fès. In order to assimilate and keep their economic power, they translated their family name "Berda" to Berrada. I made a genetic test and I have very similar result to Morccan jews
@raeli731 thanks hahaha 😂. Unfortunately I cant make my alya because genetic test can help if you have a family member already living there, but my best wishes are always there for this beautiful nation
Each year your first language flags become more and more deranged As a statistics nerd, I have been YEARNING for this video to come out ever since I took the survey
I love these surveys every year. You can see I'm only one out of the 7 viewers from Yorkshire, England. Sheffield to be exact, and I've promoted your channel to other Jews here but I can't say how many actually watch your videos.
Love your channel! As a Jew from Montreal, the majority (but of course not all) of us actually speak English as a first language and not French. Sadly, Montreal's Jewish population has been consistently decreasing over the past few decades because more and more of us have left for Ontario and other places.
I think it's a pretty solid testament to Sam's journalistic and academic integrity that his audience is so politically diverse. I think it's great that we all have something meaningful ro gain from this channel.
Since the largest share of your subscribers are from 2000 or 2002, most of them are graduating from 5 and 4 (respectively) year courses, so it's logical you're getting more graduates in your survey
Sam about the Baseball question, WE JUST MENTIONED NAMES OF TEAMS THAT WERE FAMILIAR TO US! Do you think anyone of us really knows something about baseball?! You wouldn't ask a Southern European about Canadian hokey teams... virtually all baseball fans in Israel are American Jews. NYY logo is just a common merchandise. Do you think every kid with Juventus logo on his backpack has any connections to the team? Foreigns has merchandise of Beitar all the time without knowing what it is.
It is interesting that you wrote the city as "Washington", because some of the zip codes included in Washington also fit into areas such as Chevy Chase, Fort McNair, and the Pentagon area. While Washington is the city name, it would probably be more accurate to classify it as D.C. if you are deriving from zip codes. Most people refer to it as DC anyways.
Jeez, I only found out about the channel in July, so I was late for the survey. Greetings from Peru, I am from a Christian family but of Sephardic Jewish origin.
Adamant Québécois non-jewish francophone fan! Not only have I watched every vid, I've probably gone through the whole Sam Aronow library + Elections Israel *quite a few times*. Proud to Patreon support when I'm able, and proud to rec your channel whenever I come across RUclips-pilled History nerds (more often than you'd expect, you just gotta get them going on Roman Empire stuff and they self-report). Cheers Sam, thanks for sharing the survey results with us every year, and keep up the good work.
Around 10 percent spoke Hebrew as a first language but more than 11 percent were from Israel, maybe because of Israeli Arabs? Always a lower Israeli percent than I'd expect and a way higher German one especially considering their aren't many Jews in Germany. Most people in Israel have pretty bad English IMO as a guy who lives here so maybe that's part of the reason too.
As someone whose family first came to emigrated to Chicago, and grew up in Humboldt Park, I could not agree more with your sentiments on Jerry Reinsdorf.
I dont remember the exact framing of the religion question, but i think some form of personal belief and religion they were raised in is a good idea. But religion can get so complicated so quickly that you might want to reach out to Religion for Breakfast about how to ask that sort of question in a survey. And there's the none religious but spiritual crowd.
Montreal is surprisingly french. i also thought like you, but, there are a lot of french only, or extremely limited english, type french speakers. i love you
Sam, you asked israelis to choose a group for a sport which the average israeli knows only one player from, and that player is bugs bunny. I implore you to ask about basketball next and see how much more diverse the answers will be, yet still with the east groups/ winners at the time favored .
What is the langues' flags? It pissed me off to see the British mandate flag next to Hebrew then I realized you you used old flags for all the languages. xD
I wish you asked for immigration status and country of birth. It would be interesting to have a plot of Jews doing aliyah, Israelis doing yeridah, and to see how otherwise your mostly Jewish viewership migrates from one country to another.
2:40 I've lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal and I will say that I think almost every jew I've known had either lived in Québec or had parents/grandparents from there and whenever they immigrated to Canada they immigrated to Québec first and then later moved elsewhere in the country.
American baseball fan here: Jerry Reinsdorf and John Fisher are two very wealthy billionaire owners of baseball teams who barely invest any money at all into their teams, resulting in these teams being very bad and their fans being very upset. More specifically, the White Sox just had arguably the worst baseball season of all time (they went 41-121, yes they lost 121 games) and John Fisher is trying to move the *Oakland* Athletics to Las Vegas (but for now they're playing in Sacramento) But I don't know what's going on with Lars Ulrich. I think he's the drummer for Metallica but I don't know what his connection is to the Astros
2:54 I disagree, most Jews in Montreal speak English as their first language (initially Ashkenazim learned English and Sephardim learned French, but both can speak English ) One of the reasons a lot of Jews left for Ontario is due to either the one of the two referendums or because of increasingly oppressive language laws limiting English.
I missed this year's survey, but can see how the religion question would be problematic for me. I identify as Jewish, but am also an atheist. For me, Judaism is my ethnicity and cultural heritage, but I have no religion.
Whilst people who live in Herts and Beds might technically live in the East of England there perception, because it's the hinterland of London, in that it's part of the South East. For example, people who live in Radlett, a village in Herts with a third Jewish population, probably commute to London for work and would be horrified if you suggested that they ventured to Ipswich 🤪
I need to listen to more of these. Unfortunately, my list of things to read/listen/watch is now longer than my projected life expectancy, and I am only 41. If I am to get to everything, I have a theory that I will have surpassed the antediluvian patriarchs by multiplicities of their generations.
5:50 It would probably get a lot more. Since in real election polls, not only Golan is very popular, but also Labour and Meretz gets more votes from their former sum.
if this survey came out just a few months later, I wouldve said Dodgers just because of Gawr Gura if it sounds like I have bad means of choosing teams to root for, its not my fault New Jerseyites always have to choose between New York and Pennsylvania teams.
Mm, I don't think it's true that most Jewish Quebeckers speak French as their first language. To my understanding the majority are bilingual but chiefly speak English at home. I'm Albertan so take that with a grain of salt.
The political results always surprise me. I've lived both in the south and Jerusalem, and my experience was of Avoda and meretz (both now forming the democrats) being very unpopular and the only person I know who ever votes for them is my sister. I'm not surprised you have a mostly left leaning audience, but I would have thought that National Unity and Yesh Atid would be far more popular. It's also interesting how the most far right party to sit in the keenest would be Likud I would assume Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionist would get at least a few sits even if only because of their notoriety. Lastly I do think the results might look different if you included Yemina as a stand in for a party led by Naftali Bennett, who is very likely to run in the next elections, since I think alot of people who became disillusioned with Likud and other right-wing parties after Oct 7th intend to vote for him. though I understand why you wouldn't add a party that doesn't currently exist to the survey
In the previous question, "Far Right" only has 3.5% of adherants, which would be those voting for Otzma and RZ. While this is enough to pass the bar if it were one party, splitting it between two would dilute them out... Also, Likud are conservative, not far right...
@@adrianblake8876 That's why I said "the most far right" as in the farthest right in this hypothetical keenest. I'm still surprised neither party was able to gain a seat. I would have assumed that between them, they'll have had at least 3-4 sits
Keep in mind that according to the survey, most Israeli viewers are from Center and Tel Aviv districts, which lean more towards left-center in politics.
re participation: I don't remember if I took part in the survey, but if not, then because I just missed it. Either a community post or (much better, because RUclips is bad at recommending posts) a short video to remind people might help - I'm really sorry, but I don't schedule RUclips channel surveys in my calender. ;D (I checked if you had posted something about the survey in May, and apparently not, or I didn't see it.) re baseball: My interest in learning about that part of American culture is ... rather minimal. :D Yankees stuff is either "generic American" merchandise or just random ornamental writing. I have a shirt that has something about some Rhode Island sailing club or whatever on it - I have no idea what it's about, if that thing even exists, or what. It's just ornamentation, the meaning doesn't matter, and there's a lot of clothing in non-English speaking countries like that. And so with the Yankees - it sounds very American, NYC is cool (and American), I have seen stuff that looks like their merch, so let's click it. ;D It's not too different with soccer - there are teams whose merchandise is so pervasive that wearing their shirt doesn't necessarily mean you're an actual fan.
I'm going to say that the Yankees are the default team of choice even for Americans that have no hometown team. They have then money therefore probably most number of minor league farms. And yeah, even outside the US, they're the most well-known MLB franchise. Of course, being from Philly personally, they're also the safest place to be when it comes to wearing my Phillies colors (i dare not wear that sort of thing in Queens). As for NHL hockey...well, that's a different story...
Re: baseball caps, I had to switch to wearing an alternate color of my team (Cardinals) because Red Hats mean something very particular in America these days and I don’t want people getting ideas
It's still insane that in all statistics that all who watch his videos are basically all biological males...there's some diversity with other statistics but are women somehow really turned off by RUclips hehe.
Every year, the flags used for "first language" really does feel like EU4-to-Vic2 conversion games
I am a Moroccan who was always interested in the history of judaism but I became even more when I learned that my family were sephardic jews who converted to islam during some harsh and powerful dynesties like the Almohad. They were andalusian merchants who then migrated to the city of Fès. In order to assimilate and keep their economic power, they translated their family name "Berda" to Berrada. I made a genetic test and I have very similar result to Morccan jews
@Mocassin-1454 welcome to the fam! 🤍💙
Will you consider to return to your Jewish roots?
@raeli731 thanks hahaha 😂. Unfortunately I cant make my alya because genetic test can help if you have a family member already living there, but my best wishes are always there for this beautiful nation
@@Mocassin-1454I am Sephardic but converted to Islam. Remain a Muslim. Don't get fooled by Satan.
Mind your own business. Go help a stranger, because you’re not doing that now.
I really love the flags you chose for "first language"
That’s such a tasteful trolling
Should’ve done Belgium for Dutch though😂
@@ThatOneCattowhat is happening with serbo Croatian?
The 1920s year of birth responses HAVE to be trolling.
Each year your first language flags become more and more deranged
As a statistics nerd, I have been YEARNING for this video to come out ever since I took the survey
I love these surveys every year. You can see I'm only one out of the 7 viewers from Yorkshire, England. Sheffield to be exact, and I've promoted your channel to other Jews here but I can't say how many actually watch your videos.
7:38 your rant about baseball was unexpected but hilarious
Love your channel! As a Jew from Montreal, the majority (but of course not all) of us actually speak English as a first language and not French. Sadly, Montreal's Jewish population has been consistently decreasing over the past few decades because more and more of us have left for Ontario and other places.
I think it's a pretty solid testament to Sam's journalistic and academic integrity that his audience is so politically diverse. I think it's great that we all have something meaningful ro gain from this channel.
Since the largest share of your subscribers are from 2000 or 2002, most of them are graduating from 5 and 4 (respectively) year courses, so it's logical you're getting more graduates in your survey
Sam about the Baseball question, WE JUST MENTIONED NAMES OF TEAMS THAT WERE FAMILIAR TO US! Do you think anyone of us really knows something about baseball?! You wouldn't ask a Southern European about Canadian hokey teams... virtually all baseball fans in Israel are American Jews. NYY logo is just a common merchandise. Do you think every kid with Juventus logo on his backpack has any connections to the team? Foreigns has merchandise of Beitar all the time without knowing what it is.
lmao was not expecting sam to post at frickin 2am central time
It is interesting that you wrote the city as "Washington", because some of the zip codes included in Washington also fit into areas such as Chevy Chase, Fort McNair, and the Pentagon area. While Washington is the city name, it would probably be more accurate to classify it as D.C. if you are deriving from zip codes. Most people refer to it as DC anyways.
Jeez, I only found out about the channel in July, so I was late for the survey. Greetings from Peru, I am from a Christian family but of Sephardic Jewish origin.
Adamant Québécois non-jewish francophone fan!
Not only have I watched every vid, I've probably gone through the whole Sam Aronow library + Elections Israel *quite a few times*.
Proud to Patreon support when I'm able, and proud to rec your channel whenever I come across RUclips-pilled History nerds (more often than you'd expect, you just gotta get them going on Roman Empire stuff and they self-report).
Cheers Sam, thanks for sharing the survey results with us every year, and keep up the good work.
What about Israil?
Ayyy there's six others from Yorkshire lets go
Three more to go!
Around 10 percent spoke Hebrew as a first language but more than 11 percent were from Israel, maybe because of Israeli Arabs?
Always a lower Israeli percent than I'd expect and a way higher German one especially considering their aren't many Jews in Germany.
Most people in Israel have pretty bad English IMO as a guy who lives here so maybe that's part of the reason too.
My guess is that quite a lot of Israeli-Americans(like Sam himself) watch his videos so despite living in Israel Hebrew isn’t their native language
Israel is still a country with a high number of immigrants, but the USSR is the most common country of origin, not the USA...
9 million Hebrew speakers, 5.5 million natives 3.3 million L2. mainly Arabs, former-USSR Jews and new Olim.
As someone whose family first came to emigrated to Chicago, and grew up in Humboldt Park, I could not agree more with your sentiments on Jerry Reinsdorf.
Why do you think that the religion question is completely broken?
He typed it weird
@limeboiler can you explain?
I dont remember the exact framing of the religion question, but i think some form of personal belief and religion they were raised in is a good idea. But religion can get so complicated so quickly that you might want to reach out to Religion for Breakfast about how to ask that sort of question in a survey. And there's the none religious but spiritual crowd.
Montreal is surprisingly french. i also thought like you, but, there are a lot of french only, or extremely limited english, type french speakers. i love you
You should make a question about ethnicity: Jewish, Arab, White European, Black, Native American, others.
Sam, you asked israelis to choose a group for a sport which the average israeli knows only one player from, and that player is bugs bunny. I implore you to ask about basketball next and see how much more diverse the answers will be, yet still with the east groups/ winners at the time favored .
What is the langues' flags?
It pissed me off to see the British mandate flag next to Hebrew then I realized you you used old flags for all the languages. xD
I wish you asked for immigration status and country of birth.
It would be interesting to have a plot of Jews doing aliyah, Israelis doing yeridah, and to see how otherwise your mostly Jewish viewership migrates from one country to another.
1:25 That flag representing Pennsylvania is not the flag of Pennsylvania, it's the flag of Philadelphia.
As a Yankees fan, your baseball rant cracked me up 😂
I'm happy to know there are others here who both enjoy your videos and share in my sorrow as a White Sox fan. Thank you for the message of support.
Los Angeles Angels…because Anaheim isn’t important enough. We’re just the home of Disneyland, after all. 😆
2:40 I've lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal and I will say that I think almost every jew I've known had either lived in Québec or had parents/grandparents from there and whenever they immigrated to Canada they immigrated to Québec first and then later moved elsewhere in the country.
Non-American here; what’s with Jerry Reinsdorf, Lars Ulrich, and John Fisher in the baseball section?
American baseball fan here: Jerry Reinsdorf and John Fisher are two very wealthy billionaire owners of baseball teams who barely invest any money at all into their teams, resulting in these teams being very bad and their fans being very upset. More specifically, the White Sox just had arguably the worst baseball season of all time (they went 41-121, yes they lost 121 games) and John Fisher is trying to move the *Oakland* Athletics to Las Vegas (but for now they're playing in Sacramento)
But I don't know what's going on with Lars Ulrich. I think he's the drummer for Metallica but I don't know what his connection is to the Astros
Shout out to the Jays at No. 5
Default Canadian team since Montreal lost the Expos in ‘04
I think BC might have high turnout due to language and a strong center-left NDP.
Not an American. It seems to me like picking an Anti Yankees team is way more cringy than picking the good team.
Red Sox are also historically good. Boston’s just not as big and is further away from the rest of the country so they’re not as annoying comparatively
Before 2004, that is not in fact , true. I love how Red Sox fans have become the kind of Yankees fans that they claim to hate.
Perfection.
Love the language flags so much lmao
2:54 I disagree, most Jews in Montreal speak English as their first language (initially Ashkenazim learned English and Sephardim learned French, but both can speak English ) One of the reasons a lot of Jews left for Ontario is due to either the one of the two referendums or because of increasingly oppressive language laws limiting English.
I missed this year's survey, but can see how the religion question would be problematic for me.
I identify as Jewish, but am also an atheist. For me, Judaism is my ethnicity and cultural heritage, but I have no religion.
Whilst people who live in Herts and Beds might technically live in the East of England there perception, because it's the hinterland of London, in that it's part of the South East. For example, people who live in Radlett, a village in Herts with a third Jewish population, probably commute to London for work and would be horrified if you suggested that they ventured to Ipswich 🤪
after this world series i wish i wasn’t born into the yankees fandom man…… 😭😭
good to wake up on a Friday on this
I need to listen to more of these. Unfortunately, my list of things to read/listen/watch is now longer than my projected life expectancy, and I am only 41. If I am to get to everything, I have a theory that I will have surpassed the antediluvian patriarchs by multiplicities of their generations.
5:50
It would probably get a lot more. Since in real election polls, not only Golan is very popular, but also Labour and Meretz gets more votes from their former sum.
if this survey came out just a few months later, I wouldve said Dodgers just because of Gawr Gura
if it sounds like I have bad means of choosing teams to root for, its not my fault New Jerseyites always have to choose between New York and Pennsylvania teams.
I didn't get the survey.
Congratulations to the cis women. Gotta be one of my favorite genders
I straight up can't remember if I participated in the survey or not.
No it's coming back to me, I'm pretty sure I did.
as someone from (near) chicago, i laughed my ass off at fuck jerry reinsdorf
Mm, I don't think it's true that most Jewish Quebeckers speak French as their first language. To my understanding the majority are bilingual but chiefly speak English at home. I'm Albertan so take that with a grain of salt.
Go pirates.
The political results always surprise me. I've lived both in the south and Jerusalem, and my experience was of Avoda and meretz (both now forming the democrats) being very unpopular and the only person I know who ever votes for them is my sister. I'm not surprised you have a mostly left leaning audience, but I would have thought that National Unity and Yesh Atid would be far more popular. It's also interesting how the most far right party to sit in the keenest would be Likud I would assume Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionist would get at least a few sits even if only because of their notoriety. Lastly I do think the results might look different if you included Yemina as a stand in for a party led by Naftali Bennett, who is very likely to run in the next elections, since I think alot of people who became disillusioned with Likud and other right-wing parties after Oct 7th intend to vote for him. though I understand why you wouldn't add a party that doesn't currently exist to the survey
In the previous question, "Far Right" only has 3.5% of adherants, which would be those voting for Otzma and RZ. While this is enough to pass the bar if it were one party, splitting it between two would dilute them out...
Also, Likud are conservative, not far right...
Likud would be the most Far-Right compared to the others.
@@adrianblake8876 That's why I said "the most far right" as in the farthest right in this hypothetical keenest.
I'm still surprised neither party was able to gain a seat. I would have assumed that between them, they'll have had at least 3-4 sits
@@whydoi4088 The *Knesset has a 3.25% threshold, which, just as I said, is about the same number both parties got COMBINED...
Keep in mind that according to the survey, most Israeli viewers are from Center and Tel Aviv districts, which lean more towards left-center in politics.
where could I have voted?
re participation: I don't remember if I took part in the survey, but if not, then because I just missed it. Either a community post or (much better, because RUclips is bad at recommending posts) a short video to remind people might help - I'm really sorry, but I don't schedule RUclips channel surveys in my calender. ;D (I checked if you had posted something about the survey in May, and apparently not, or I didn't see it.)
re baseball: My interest in learning about that part of American culture is ... rather minimal. :D Yankees stuff is either "generic American" merchandise or just random ornamental writing. I have a shirt that has something about some Rhode Island sailing club or whatever on it - I have no idea what it's about, if that thing even exists, or what. It's just ornamentation, the meaning doesn't matter, and there's a lot of clothing in non-English speaking countries like that.
And so with the Yankees - it sounds very American, NYC is cool (and American), I have seen stuff that looks like their merch, so let's click it. ;D It's not too different with soccer - there are teams whose merchandise is so pervasive that wearing their shirt doesn't necessarily mean you're an actual fan.
I think you should group all Orthodox Jews together
KC Royals!!!!
I'm going to say that the Yankees are the default team of choice even for Americans that have no hometown team. They have then money therefore probably most number of minor league farms. And yeah, even outside the US, they're the most well-known MLB franchise. Of course, being from Philly personally, they're also the safest place to be when it comes to wearing my Phillies colors (i dare not wear that sort of thing in Queens).
As for NHL hockey...well, that's a different story...
Re: baseball caps, I had to switch to wearing an alternate color of my team (Cardinals) because Red Hats mean something very particular in America these days and I don’t want people getting ideas
As a Philadelphian, I feel ya 😂
4:10 Translation into meaningful English:
~92.1% men
~7.9% women
It's still insane that in all statistics that all who watch his videos are basically all biological males...there's some diversity with other statistics but are women somehow really turned off by RUclips hehe.