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  1. A classic. 2 jews, 3 videos
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  2. I'm an Israeli Jew, and I'm half Indian, my grand parents came from a Jewish neighborhood in Cochi and unlike most of Jews that came to Israel from the diaspora they had great thing to tell about indian people, two years ago I visited Cochi and I even fasted on Yom Kippur in a synagogue where my grand parents did so when they were young. thanks India for being such a great people to my nation and to me when I traveled IL❤IN
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  3. You forgot to mention Lt General JFR Jacob. The war hero of Indo-Pakistan war 1971.
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  4. This is fascinating, I had no idea that India played such an important role in Jewish history! Great video!! :)
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  5. Judaism in India? Would've never imagined there was such deep history there! Great video, dude!
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  6. I knew that there were Jews in Ethiopia but to see this level of detail and explanation of the entire situation from the past and present is pretty amazing. It's interesting to see how they were able to retain their Jewish identity after being illiterate for so long as well. Thank you for being a part of this collaboration!
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  7. It was a pleasure to work with you on this Sam, languages being my passion and being Jewish a huge part of my identity, I am honored to have helped with this video. Great video on your part!
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  8. There’s nothing like knowing one of the greatest works in Jewish history would probably have gotten an F for not including citations
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  9. As someone from Algeria, surrounded by anti semitic messaging all around me, on the radio, on the television or even my own friends talking about how jews want to punish our nation for expelling them by "supporting kabyle nationalists", this channel has made me appreciate jewish history much more. I must thank you for bringing to the internet a way for people to understand jews as a people in a deeper way than the usual israel-palestine idiocy.
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  10. Nobody expects the Spanish Emancipation
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  11. Many thanks for inviting me to be a part of this :)
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  12. Are you a king who need highly educated financiers, introducing import-a-Jew
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  13. I'm not Jewish and this is one of the most interesting and amazing historical series on anything I've seen a YouTuber create. I'm always on the edge of my seat. I appreciate the humanity you paint in these people's stories.
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  14. Beta Israel is one of the greatest stories of our people I'm so glad you covered them
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  15. Great video! I'm always blown away by how prolific and productive people like Rambam were. I mean, did the poor guy ever sleep?
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  16. Interesting fact, the Tour de France was partially created due to the Dreyfus affair. One of the larger newspapers at the time was "Le Velo" which mixed their main sports coverage with politics. The editor believed that Dreyfus was innocent, frustrated with this a new sports paper was founded "Le Auto-Velo", and to promote the paper, they began the Tour de France. Le Auto-Velo is now L'Équipe and is still in publication today.
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  17. To any non Hebrew speakers that read this what is written on his cloth on his tomb is “ממשה עד משה לא היה כמשה” meaning “from Moses to Moses their wasn’t anyone like Moses “ basically meaning that he is according to a lot of Jews one of the must important figures in Judaism and the best rabbi to ever lived
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  18. My great grandmother hid a jewish doctor during the Holocaust in Thessaloniki.She used to tell me that she felt sorry for him because she knew her pain. She was pontic greek who was forced to leave her homeland during ww1
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  19. Another achievement of the Dutch Sephardim: the introduction of Judaism to the New World. The oldest synagogue in the Americas is on Curaçao in the Caribbean, which is still part of the Netherlands today. The first congregation in what is now the US was founded in New Amsterdam.
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  20. I'm over 40. I'd tell you the secrets of Kabbalah but I'm not allowed. 😎
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  21. I’m still trying to figure out why you want to join a unit with a casualty rate of 97%
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  22. I just found this channel after the recommendation by J.J Mcullough, and I do not regret it. Jewish history is something I haven’t ever really thought about, but now am very interested in thanks to these videos. I say this without exaggeration- you deserve, at least, 100 times your current subscribers.
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  23. Learning magic at age forty sounds like a nice midlife crisis.
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  24. Sam: "...the new Prussian king Wilhelm I, proclaimed an amnesty for all political prisoners and exiles." Me: "Wait, then why did Karl Marx stay in London?" Sam: "Except for Karl Marx." Me: "Thanks!"
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  25. At 14:13, the Chinese name of Jakob Rosenfeld should be 羅生特/羅森菲爾德 but not 何鳳山. 何鳳山 was the Chinese Consul who saved the Jews in Europe (13:11). Nevertheless it is another excellent video on Jewish history, thanks so much Sam!
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  26. Sam Aronow, you might be interested to hear that my school (Mount Scopus Memorial College, the largest Jewish School in the country of Australia) uses your last video when teaching about Spinoza in their 'Religion and Society' class. ... By my recommendation haha. Anything to give your incredible channel the respect and love it deserves.
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  27. It's crazy to think that the community that lasted for a better part of a millennium, and just got a new reassurance of relatively secure and seemingly bright future, could be gone in a matter of days. The triumphant Ottoman music at the end was a nice touch.
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  28. Many years I was walking in New York's Chinatown and passed by a very tiny Cemetery tucked away in the backyard of an apartment building. The cemetery was barely visible from the street and could only be seen if like me you are very tall. There was a plaque that said this was the first Jewish cemetery in North America. The names were Sephardic sounding Spanish or Portuguese but often with a Jewish first name. The plaque said that the cemetery was on "the outdkirts" of New Amsterdam.
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  29. I recently discovered this channel, and it has really shined a light on a huge gap in my knowledge on actual jewish history. It seems like most of history's stories about jews stop at "lots of people in europe didn't like them." Still a lot to learn.
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  30. Great episode! Kudos to using the correct Confederate flag and extra kudos for the Checkmate Lincolnites reference.
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  31. Great episode. The Uganda Scheme is one of those plans that initially sounds so bizarre it's hard to believe it was real. And good lord, the origins of the Protocols is even more unhinged than I thought.
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  32. I can´t believe that my community finally gets covered!
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  33. It's not a video about Austria-Hungary in World War I if Conrad von Hötzendorf doesn't get mentioned at least once.
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  34. Love this video! I remember the first time that I learned about the history of American Jews. I had always been interested in history since I was a young child, but my public textbooks emphasized a narrow conception of what made up the American experience. I stumbled upon Jonathan Sarna's works, and for the first time I saw myself as an integral part of American history rather than being a later addition in the 19th century wave of immigration. After reading Sarna, I decided that I would study Jewish history in college and contribute to the scholarship of American Jewish life to spread the knowledge of our experiences in this country. A sheynem dank Sam for bringing the history of American Jews to light for a larger audience to see! It warms my heart to know that it might inspire those who are searching for themselves as part of the American story.
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  35. 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.
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  36. Love when African history gets this much detail and deep discussion. Definitely something we don't see enough of, especially in more public facing media. Good vid.
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  37. Nothing makes me smile on a Friday morning like seeing a Sam Aronow video in my feed.
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  38. Sam, I hope the small community in Pasadena will soon rebuilt itself! Also generally I hope for you and LA a quick recovery!
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  39. I'm a black American and I've always felt a connection of our people experienced similar atrocities and the spirit of survival is strong in both. That being said, I'm a student at heart and love learning to learn. Hell, Between you and Matt (useful charts) as well as a few other political streams I've been able to identify historical patterns modern parallelisms that only became clear when historical context was added. You all have inspired me to start writing on what I'm learning. So thank you all.
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  40. The way this lines up with Historia Civilis' recent uploads in chef's kiss
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  41. As a child, I could rarely make it to my synagogue and had to essentially skip Sunday school for various factors, as my mom was a working single mother who rarely had the time to take me halfway across town to there, my crippling social anxiety, and other reasons I won't ramble on. These last few years I've tried to get more in touch with our people's history and culture that I felt deprived of. Your videos have been a great help as both a wealth of knowledge, but also motivation to not feel too overwhelmed, to keep going. And has contributed to me being, well, proud of who I am, not awkward about it. So thank you very much, truely.
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  42. When my Jewish dad was visiting Spain in the 1960s as a kid with his parents, they were received by friends there. Those friends went to church and were seemingly as Christian as anyone else, except that they had a tradition passed down through the generations for which they didn't know the reason, but they did it anyway: they'd go down into the cellar every Friday night and light a candle.
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  43. The orientialism and "bigotry of low expectations" masquerading as cultural openness, social progressivism and anti colonialism from the west. Is very much a problem to this day in western discourse on the middle east Not to mention local politicians claiming social reforms are not only against tradition like in the west, but are also an extention of neo colonialism, even when for example, orthodox judaism was historically very vauge on abortions and the anti abortion movement in israel can very easily trace its roots to jewish american conservatives who alligned with evangelicals , even then to those politicians the anti abortion stance is the anti colonial one
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  44. Oh boy! 50 minutes of Sam Aronow to start the day!
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  45. Really enjoyed this! It's awesome to see the history you've covered (and will cover) presented in such a simple and visual way.
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  46. I knew it was coming because of the time period but the "We need to acknowledge that Persia no longer exists" absolutely gutted me.
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  47. Great video as always! As a Pole myself, I've been taught in school that the plague missed most of central Poland for the sparsity of bigger cities and measures taken by our king to reduce the plague's impact. I also have heard, albeit not in school, that this might have been one of the deciding factors which made Poland a relatively friendly place to live for the Jews, as the antisemitism in the rest of Europe caused by the plague was growing rampant. From what I've read in the article you linked, this theory might still hold some water, as it seems Poland was not hit by the plague as bad as the rest of Europe, although I wouldn't know. I'm excited for future videos about the history of Jews in Poland, I've always been interested in the topic! It is really sad to see how our country devolved from multi-cultural, progressive, semi-tolerant state of the XVIII century to a homogenous one, still healing from the scars of communism. Only a few years ago have I begun hearing people talking not in Polish on the street, as a result of the Ukrainian situation, which came as quite a shock to a person who lived their whole life in a small town, even though I consider myself tolerant. I think I've went off-track enough already, so thank you again for making those great videos and looking forward to the next one!
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  48. Fun fact: the Ottomans ruled Jerusalem for exactly 400 years, 1517 to 1917.
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  49. 6:10 Südfeld ("south field") -> Nordau ("north meadow" as folk etymology). That is a radical break.
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  50. Excellent work Sam. A delightful marriage of historical scholarship with good humor. It’s a pleasure to be creating content with and alongside you.
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  51. Screw Netflix, this series is where its at!
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  52. Sam, I don't know if you hear this very often enough, so I'll say it here. You have become a truly amazing storyteller. 8 haven't been watching your channel from the beginning, the first video I watched is one you've since taken down, the one on Hebrew linguistics (I think the relationship between it and the other Semitic languages, but I can't recall exactly), which, despite your misgivings 8 enjoyed greatly. After that, I proceeded to watch your entire backlog up to that point, and have watched every new video nearly as soon as it comes out. It didn't take you long to hit your stride, but you've never stopped improving. Keep up the good work. Now, I'm going to rewatch this video, because you've reached the point where it's both very enjoyable to do so, and practically necessary to actually absorb everything.
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  53. Fun fact: Former PM Ehud Olmert’s (Kadima, 2006-2009) grandfather was from Harbin and spoke his last words in Chinese!
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  54. The Tel Aviv frame in 16:45 made me laugh really hard. I love how your videos not only teach me so much (even as an Israeli Jew, let alone one who learned about this topic in middle school) but also integrate subtle jokes into them. Take a bow
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  55. Mexican Jewish history is just one of many lost aspects of this country's evolution. Not lost in the sense of being fully forgotten, but in the sense of being often overlooked, at home and abroad. Hopefully this will give us here on Youtube the chance to eventually explore those other aspects. Greetings from Mexico!
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  56. Maybe the real messiah was the friends we made along the way...
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  57. אני לא מבין למה לא אנחנו לא לומדים את זה בבת ספר, זה ממש מדהים כמה אנחנו לא מודעים להיסטוריה של עצמנו, גם העובדה שהערוץ הזה לא יותר מצליח די מפליאה אותי.
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  58. I am an orthodox yeshiva Jew and I must say i thoroughly enjoy your history. Even if at times I learned something a bit different I am so glad to hear it coming from different point of views. I wish you only further success and to go from strength to strength. God bless.
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  59. Hey Sam, as an Israeli Arab I noticed that amba has been very widely adopted among us to the point you will always find it served at Arab Israeli restaurants in diaspora and the way I grew up it was mandatory to have it on shawarma.
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  60. Incredible work Sam. We're so lucky to have quality content like this. What a gift to public scholarship. Thank you.
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  61. This was certainly one of the most fascinating episodes. The story of Shabtai Zvi gets crazier the more I learn about it. To be perfectly honest I kinda hoped we will hear more on this channel about the Jewish life in Poland-Lithuania before everything went downhill in 1648, for example about the forms of Jewish self-government: the kahals and the Council of Four Lands (and the separate Council of Lithuania since 1623), but maybe there will be an opportunity to mention this institutions latter, before or as they will be dissolved? Or maybe a mention of the Karaim (Karaites) community. BTW did you count the Karaites among the Jewish population of the Commonwealth? I was really surprised by that part about inbreeding (and the soundtrack was a very funny touch). Describing the Cossacks, specifically the Zaporozhian ones, as "Russian-speaking" at 4:27 might be very problematic to some, I think that Ruthenian or East Slavic would be safer terms (Ukrainian might be a bit anachronistic). Interestingly, I remember reading in Timothy Snyder's The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 that during the Pereyaslav Council of 1654 Khmelnytsky's Cossacks and the representatives of the Russian Tsar discovered they need translators, despite both calling their language "Ruski/Rusky", because the forms that became modern Ukrainian and Russian were already becoming significantly different. I assume that the ending was a foreshadowing of Hasidism, but was the foreboding "for the most part" at 27:22 a foreshadowing of Frankism?
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  62. Felt like it was a good time to revisit this video... happy Chanukah to those who will be celebrating!
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  63. Mostly here to see Jarrett Ross drawn in Sam Aronow style.
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  64. Sam, the work you’re doing providing not only top tier educational content but also making it entertaining and a pleasure to watch while learning is a gift to all of us. Thank you for all your immensely hard work, your integrity and your quality scholarship. It’s a pleasure to work with and along side you. With Love, Zevi
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  65. Well lads, don't come onto that Torah scroll... She's spoken for 😂
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  66. Linguistic stuff is absolutely as interesting as battles (even if I understand like half of it).
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  67. As always, such a high quality video. It's amazing that this stuff is free to watch. Much respect :)
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  68. Since comments are turned off for your latest video, "The Damascus Affair: 1840," I decided I'd stop by here to tell you how much I enjoyed it. Yet more history I never knew about. Thanks for all your efforts.
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  69. This was when my father’s family left the Russian Empire for East London. And then a large part of the extended family moved from there to this new town everyone was talking about; Hollywood.
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  70. these are amazing videos, please Keep up the great work! watching you from Egypt
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  71. “Jake Aronow died from complications of Tuberculosis” it’s always tuberculosis!
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  72. Sam, I am a casual student of history, and I'm becoming a student of our shared history - something I was a bit too shy to learn. Your videos are a joy because they are thoughtful and easy to understand. Keep up the good work. Shabbat Shalom.
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  73. Thank you Sam for covering this sad and difficult history. The quality of your content is astounding. It’s an honor to work alongside you.
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  74. 11:37 Looking at the maps of France, northern Italy, and Germany is painful. Attention to detail 10/10
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  75. One of Casimir's laws was against the desecration of Jewish cemeteries (including capital punishment if I recall correctly) which I assume means that this ugly behavior was a problem in the middle ages too. Such desecration happens just about every single year across the world to this very day.
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  76. I thought that maybe I will give some additional context for the "Orthodox" part in the official name of Berek's unit you can see at 16:44. In original Polish, it's Starozakonny - a traditional Polish synonym for "Jewish" (particularly in the religious sense), which can be literary translated as "of the old order/law", referencing the Christian concept of the "Old Covenant". I think that in time it perhaps become especially associated with Orthodox Judaism but simply "Jewish Lighthorse Regiment" might be a better translation. Maybe one could experiment with some neologisms to create a perfect translation? I'd say that something like "Oldcovenanter Lighthorse Regiment" would sound really badass.
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  77. "Rashi script" isn't actually Rashi's personal handwriting. The script was commonly used by the Jews of southern Europe during the early renaissance. Since it was such a common script, it was set to type in one of the earliest Hebrew printed book, Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, and it continues to be used in hebrew printing up to the present day.
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  78. Always look forward to the next video! Awesome content, from a Muslim fan ❤️
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  79. I finally decided to check out your work and I have to say that it's pretty great! Honestly, I'm starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by the number of interesting channels about history but I guess that is a good kind of a problem to have. I assume that you are planning to present Jewish history throughout the ages. I would love to see you cover one day such things as the Statute of Kalisz, the Council of Four Lands or Berek Joselewicz.
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  80. Hi Sam, coming from Kashmiri and Kurdish family. I can say amba is still quite commonly found in northern region of the Indian subcontinent and Iraq. It's even common enough for me to pick up at my local supermarket Waitrose in UK. Keep up the interest and informative videos.
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  81. Blue, from Overly Sarcastic Productions, titled his History Summarized video on the history of Judaism the "Persistence of Judaism". With each new video you make the more I realize the deep meaning of that title.
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  82. Your content is incredible, It's inexplicable you have only 100 subs.
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  83. Such a fascinating period, you did a great job recounting it!
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  84. The face I made when you revealed Green's Hebrew name lmao, must've been how some of your commenters felt when you revealed Ulyanov as Lenin
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  85. Getting Jack Rackam to reprise his Talleyrand? Nice lol! Love hearing you feature other Youtubers for the various voiceovers.
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  86. Correcting your correction with a minor correction: Russia didn’t become a republic in March 1917. The haphazard provisional agreement following the February Revolution was that a new constituent assembly would eventually write a constitution for the Empire under which the tsar’s younger brother may or may not be invited to take the throne as figurehead monarch. Russia wasn’t declared a republic until several weeks before the October Revolution.
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  87. One important correction: Not all new recruits are sworn in at Masada. I know, because I served in the IDF and know many people who did and I attended a few swearing in ceremonies. Some recruits are, and I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out which ones. But it seems to be that it is only used once in a while for some units. Units that I have found being sworn in there are caracal, nahal and possibly tanks, but only rarely, or perhaps even not at all anymore (well, none lately because of covid-19, but even before that). While researching this, I did find something interesting. A MK in the knesset was on record in a knesset meeting asking that the minister of defense ensure that despite the erosion of the myth of Masada's popularity that he ensures that military ceremonies will still happen there.
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  88. Ladino is fascinating, I made a video on it.. And it is rare that a language is able to keep itself in such an urban environment without a rural hinterland to draw from. A shame the Jewish Ladino speakers of Salonika suffered so badly later, gutting the core of the language and its demographic base.
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  89. "Every Friday night in the synagogue, the rabbi would recite a prayer for the emperor." The standard practice is to say this prayer during the morning service. Thank you for the great video!
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  90. 30:17 I did not come into this expecting a steamed hams reference but I am so glad to have received it
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  91. Your content is Legendary with a capital L. Keep ‘em coming. Educational content at its finest. A pleasure to be creating alongside you 😘
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  92. Truly amazing video! The 'Polish aspect' of it was presented very well. I'm glad you mentioned the service of Berek in the Polish Legions (BTW it's fortunate that he wasn't among the majority that got shipped off to Saint Domingue/Haiti in 1802). You even pronounced Kock right! And on the map you marked such details like the area around Krakow, where Prince Józef Poniatowski was haistaly rebuilding what was left from the army of the Duchy of Warsaw after the Russian campaign of 1812. A couple of (hopefully fun) additional facts: - Berek's son, Józef Berkowicz (aka Joseph Berkovitz or Berkowitz) fought under his command at Kock and survived. We potentially could hear about him in a future video. - Polish national epic, Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz takes part in author's home parts - the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, modern Belarus in the years 1811-1812. It presents Napoleon's invasion of the Russian Empire as a war of liberation (admittedly heavily romanticising it) and features an important and clearly positive Jewish character named Jankiel.
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  93. This guy would have so many frequent flyer miles today
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  94. I just did a short paper on Karaite Judaism and I almost lost it when Anan ben David was brought in
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  95. My great-grandfather, Victor Perez from Thessaloniki, served (and got injured) in the Zion Mule Corps. Interesting video!
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  96. Sam Aronow is a certified amba-compliant YouTuber.
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  97. last time I was this early, I was still studying in the Hebrew University, and that's because I finally got my letter of finishing studying for my degree in the Email yesterday. And throughout my studies all this years I would be watching your videos. how times fly.
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  98. I love how you changed the Gaon's hair color throughout the video as the years progressed. At one point when you mention "The American system" I was, like, oh right! This is after 1776! There's a US now! When are we going to cross the Atlantic and look and Jewish history in the Americas?
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  99. Last year was my first attempt at making latkes. I grated way too many potatoes and didn't cook them right away and therefore they went bluish brown. They looked awful but tasted great. Hope to do a better job this year!
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  100. As someone more familiar with Bundism and its path, I am very excited to see how things on this parallel stage of Jewish politics developed. I had family who fled in 1905 from Russia who were Bundists. While most of the family papers are with my aunt, a few are with me, framed on my bookshelf. Its not a part of family history most of us know about so I gave my self the task since ~2021 to look into what my great great grandfather was working towards. Love your videos and keep it up!
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  101. hmmm. Sejanus looks a bit like Patrick Stewart. I Claudius fan?
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  102. When I´m in Israel again, I hope to meet my favourite shop owner on Dizengoff street again. He is a former officer of the iranian army who fled shortly after the revolution. I hope he is okay, after all this time.
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  103. It is interesting to see how religions were practiced in different countries!
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  104. For anyone interested on the Bauer and Marx response to the former, David Leopold's book on the young Marx has a chapter dedicated to it. Also, as a brief aside, the interpretation of Marx as an economic determinism (in the sense defined in the video) is generally criticized by most academic historical and philosophical interpreters. On the Young Hegelians as a whole, there are quite a few books available, so for everyone interested in Hess I definitely recommend then as to have a fuller picture of the common influences that shaped the various figures. (One I've read recently and can recommend is Warren Breckman's, though its focus is definitely on building up to his discussion of Marx, so keep it in mind if you get it). Anyway, looking forward to the next video.
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  105. The bucket reference made me smile and the ending made me excited. 😀
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  106. Another wonderful vid, Sam! BTW, Izmir, Turkey is present day Smyrna. My Sefardi ancestors arrived there from Spain following The Expulsion of 1492. I'm assuming they'd have heard of Zvi LOL!
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  107. Thank you for including me in this amazing video!
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  108. This was so good Sam! When Matt said you were going to do a response I got super excited. And you made posters together?!?!?!?! Going to need to grab them for my classroom when I start teaching Hebrew school again. Love that tidbit about Conservative Jews being your largest subscriber base among Jews. Glad to help be part of that statistic! Keep up the amazing work. It’s very much appreciated
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  109. 13:22 אפילו בעיראק לפני 100 שנה ישיבות קיבלו תקציב לפי כמות לימודי הליבה שהם לומדים! למה היום הם מקבלים תקציבים מעבר?!
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  110. My Grandfather whom was Sicilian-Italian saw some of the "Not quite White" stuff, and due to CCC service in the South saw Jim Crow, which he disapproved of. His best friend in the Army was a Jewish guy, whom he stayed in contact with after he left the East & moved to California.
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  111. Those grand synagogues are absolutely beautiful!
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  112. Man I love your content, great sense of drama and pacing, and awesome illustrations!
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  113. I just found your channel and have been binging it like crazy. I'm not Jewish and don't know much about Jewish history outside of how it relates to larger topics (Roman Empire, European history, WW2, etc). So for someone with a weak grasp of Jewish history, as I imagine most of us average viewers are, your work is both awesome and enlightening. You deserve a much bigger audience. I love the aesthetics of the channel and its presentation. You've got another subscriber. Keep up the amazing work and don't stop!
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  114. Although I've been studying Africa for more than a decade, I still have a lot to learn. Thanks for teaching us about the Jewish people in Ethiopia. P.S. I thought I was going to make the longest video in the collab but you win this round my friend 😉
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  115. As a person raised in a Muslim family from Kerala, it was fascinating to find out that there were jews here living up until 60 years ago, the politics between the natives and the Sephardic, or the so called 'Black and white' jews and their aliyah to Israel. It was really cool to hear them speak in Malayalam as well! I would assume quite a few of them forgot, but I could be wrong on that. Thanks for this video.
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  116. my great granduncle was a Jewish painter from Ukraine, somewhere before 1909. when he was either a kid or a teen he was arrested with his father and other people from his community by the police for a small Zionist meeting and was sent to a Tsarist Gulag. from there he was released and he escaped for Austria and them later to America.
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  117. This show is exceptionally well produced! I greatly enjoy learning world history trough specific perspectives or threads like this that weave trough the same eras with their own histories, sometimes paralleling each other. A small local parallel is that the small Jewish community in Helsinki is also descended from forced conscripts of the Russian empire who were garrisoned here trough the russification campaigns, in a distant corner of the empire far away from their homes. They stayed when the Russian empire itself ceased to exist.
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  118. My Grandmother was a Rhodian jew who spoke Ladino. She died last year but its always interesting to see greek jewish culture talked about
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  119. This is the first main series video you’ve posted since I’ve started college, and without these videos I doubt I would be where I am. I’m now studying Jewish studies and it’s entirely thanks to the fascination you and these videos have instilled in me for the subject. I’ve never been happier than I am now and I want to truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. You changed my life and I’m sure you changed many others. If you ever find yourself in Boston, just know you have great friends at Brandeis.
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  120. 7:43 Wow, I never knew that any country with those exact problems could even survive!
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  121. Just a few days I was riding my bike in tel aviv when I came across a street named "the fighters of Gallipoli". Given that it was right near Winston Churchill street that I just passed I assumed it was referring to the ANZAC troops, I honestly had no idea that were there any Jewish soldiers at Gallipoli.
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  122. God damn it Spain I thought we had something
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  123. Wait a minute, UsefulCharts is now a pateron? That's, as a certain polish jew once put it, Nea-to!
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  124. "50% loan words from English and 50% curse words" Ah, sounds like how I learned Irish lol
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  125. Best Jewish history chanel. I watched the 40 videos on your Jewish history Playlist in a day, but forgot to thank you. As a native born jew, Israeli and a big history buff, I have still managed to learn a lot of new things. I have nothing but kind words for you. לא אגיד שאתה עושה מצווה, אבל אתה מדהים. אם תרצה עזרה בערבית או בעברית, רק תגיד. ד"ש ליפו!
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  126. finally, a piece of my family history! to my knowledge, my great-great-great grandfather fought in the romanian war of independence (1877-78), and is buried in a military grave in the jewish cemetery in bucharest if he did indeed gain citizenship that way, that might explain how my family stayed in bucharest until my grandfathers time very interesting stuff about the theater! i only ever knew about jewish involvement in showbiz in the us
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  127. because of your channel i started learning hebrew i've really learnt alot about jewish culture from you
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  128. sniff sniff What is that smell coming form behind the corner? Such a familiar scent, I haven't smelled for centuries... Is that... Is that a the scent of a Messianic Claimant?
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  129. While the growth of the Western European Rishonim is often attributed to Rashi, the roots of that growth - Rashi's teachers, and their teachers - cannot be omitted. Specifically, Rabbeinu Gershom Me'or Hagolah, (died c. 1040) as the spiritual and academic grandfather of Ashkenazi Jewry, and the founder of the Rhineland yeshivos that were not under the authority of the Geonim in Baghdad.
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  130. Im happy and suprised to see you have included, my ancestor Henri Nathansen. He was my great grandfathers cousin and a wonderful artist. Upon his tragic suicide in 1944, where he jumped from The 5th floor of his hotel, my great grandfathers sister-in law joked: “not all of us are fortunate (or rich) enough to be able to jump out from the 5th floor of a luxurious hotel.” Which might be a bit dark, but still funny considering she at the time lived in a basement with 5 children.
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  131. I absolutely love your videos. It is fascinating to experience history through great Jewish people and see their influence over the world. I feel like it paints a picture of the Medieval world in such a concrete way. Keep up the good work👍
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  132. Great video. Completely off-topic, but last week Brazil's most famous Jew, Silvio Santos (born Senor Abravanel, changed his name later in life), died. A man who revolutionized Brazilian television and a direct descendent of Isaac Abrabanel from your expulsion of the Spanish Jews video. If you ever do a "Jews in Brazil" or "Jews in South America" video, he is 100% of the guys you need to at least mention.
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  133. This is all so cool! I actually wrote my bachelor's thesis on the 1905 Revolution, the Kishinev Pogrom, and the resulting reactions from Zionist Jews, Anti-Zionist Jews, and the antisemitic Black Hundreds. This is so cool to see stuff that I researched and worked many hours on being taught to a wider audience. Thank you so much for this!
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  134. Another wonderful presentation, Sam! We'll work on proper French pronunciations later.
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  135. Funnily enough I have been reading Joyce's Ulysses recently where much of the book makes many implicit comparisons of the Irish and Jewish circumstances. And having watched this it makes me realise that Leopold Bloom's sympathies for Arthur Griffith's pre-1916 Sinn Fein that explicitly proposed Irish Home Rule in the context of a Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, but for Britain, suggests to me that Bloom himself was probably more on the Bundist side of things. Because as you point out here the Bundists were quite explicitly anti-nationalist and anti-national state in a monolithic sense. Which in itself adds an interesting flavour to his skepticism about the adverts for Zionist colonies (the Agendath Netaim, explicitly connected to Moses Montefiore) as well, suggesting on both the Irish question and the Jewish question the character is seeking a post-nationalist solution, associating the more radical demands of both the Fenians and Zionists for separate nation states as forms of the same violent machismo that parallels what Joyce saw as the subjugating empires of the time such as Britain or Russia. It makes sense also that these ideas would have been rattling in Joyce's head given the time he had spent before WW2 in Trieste.
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  136. Great video as always! Glad to see Bulgaria mentioned in a possitive light, especially with admitting things like the WMORO and Dimitar Wlahow being Bulgarian (which weirdly very rare). Not many Bulgarians know about Beneroja but he is very influential to us aswell, since he was one of the founding members of the BRSDP which would later go on to play a major role in our history trough splitting and forming the BKP out of said split, but it itself largely copied Beneroja's work in Thessaloniki. (It's also refreshing to see it shown albeit not mentioned that Greek authorities deported the Bulgarian population from Thessaloniki since that's very often denied) Sad to know that next time Bulgaria is mentioned (if it even is) it will be trough the willingness of the government to sacrifice the Jews from Macedonia and Thrace (with the collaboration of the locals, in contrast with the Old Bulgaria citizens, who demanded the end of all deportations and protested them actively, meanwhile Macedonians hapilly took the left over property of their former Jewish neighbours) in order to save the Jews in the core territory, although I am still proud to say that the Bulgarian Exarchate (which back then wasn't corrupted by Communist intervention in church affairs yet) helped defend the rights of the Jews, and although it's highly debatable, I like to believe that, for whatever reason, be it his Jewish friends or his religiosity or love of the people, Boris III helped too. Keep up the good work and even though I already commented it on your other posts I hope and pray that you, your family and your friends are safe wherever they are and that NYC is hospitable to your arrival!
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  137. My great grandfather was in also from the Pale of Settlement on the coast on the Black sea, and from what I could gather from family stories his family made the move to the US (roughly around 1905) to both avoid pogroms and avoid the possibility of conscription as a child. His family landed in New York and then bounced around the north east for a bit between New Jersey and Boston before he spotted an ad as a young adult for tract of land for homesteading in what is now Alberta, Canada as a part of the Dominion Lands act, inadvertently escaping victimization from one empire into participating in the theft of indigenous land on behalf of another empire.
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  138. What a nice birthday surprise
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  139. I just went back and rewatched some of your first few videos from this series. I certainly enjoyed those, but these newer videos are just soooo good. Keep up the great work.
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  140. Something tells me, we are going to the Netherlands in the next episode.
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  141. @21:08 It wasn't that they thought Germany might win that the negotiations were broken off, but rather that France (and Austria's foreign minister, Count Czernin) exposed the secret negotiations that were taking place in a massive public scandal, which resulted in Karl having to break them off because Germany was threatening to invade them over it. Karl never believed that Germany would/could win the war, which is why he pursued the secret negotiations (he also had a number of moral objections to the war itself, and Germany's aims as he was more sympathetic to France). The whole scandal was known as the Sixtus Affair (after Karl's brother-in-law, Prince Sixtus Bourbon, who he was communicating with in the Belgian army).
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  142. Hey, Sam! Just wanted to mention that, if you post the thumbnail as a twitter image post and still link the video within the same post, we all get to admire your beautiful thumbnails on twitter as well! My apologies for the unsolicited input!
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  143. Great series and video! Pedantic correction: At 10:50 you said "the War never came" to Italy. This isn't true. Beginning with the First Genoese-Savoyard War in 1625, fighting in the Thirty Years' War would continually spill over into the Italian theatre. Whilst the Italian theatre never reached the scale of the German theatre, and, for similar reasons outlined in the video, the War had little impact on the Jewish community, it nevertheless is wrong to dismiss this fascinating theatre of the Thirty Years' War. If you're interested, I'd recommend Gregory Hanlon's 'The Hero of Italy' and 'Italy 1636' for more on this subject. Sorry for the annoying comment and keep up the great work!
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  144. The characterization of Lenin and Martov's positions is a bit off, they weren't really accelerationists or opposed to improving conditions for workers so much as opposed to what they saw as half measures - it wasn't "oh let's not do anything because that will delay revolution," it was more like "oh the people proposing these reforms aren't going far enough, we need to remain focused on the goal." Lenin also didn't think Russia could "establish Communism at any time," the divide between he and Martov was over who the primary allies of the Social Democrats would be in a "bourgeois-democratic revolution" against the monarchy, which both saw as a necessary precursor to the establishment of Socialism; Martov thought that the Bourgeoisie needed to be a central force in this Revolution, based on the precedence of the French Revolution, while Lenin thought that Russia lacked a Revolutionary Bourgeoisie due to the specifics of their economy, and that the workers and peasants (led by the Socialists) would thus need to overthrow the Tsar themselves. Lenin did not (at least at this stage) believe that Russia could transition to Communism by itself; as an orthodox Marxist, he held to the belief that the material conditions of Capitalism had to precede Communism. Instead, he believed that a "bourgeois-democratic" Revolution by the workers and peasants in Russia would provide motivation and support for Socialist revolutions in developed Capitalist countries like Germany and France.
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  145. Great video! Just a smal correction, I believe that Norway brought back the death penalty just after the invasion in wwii, and not the end of it. The government was just so confident that it would win, so they reimposed it so the crimes of quisling would fall under the new scope.
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  146. Great video as always. The portion on Alexander II's latter reign really puts paid to the odd myth that he was some kind of western liberal, that would have completely transformed Russia had he survived. Although I see Alexander III as an effective Tsar in terms of high politics , this video really helps to elucidate the human cost of his reign, and the impact of Russification. The point on how foreign competitors could have exploited the treatment of Jews is particularly interesting. In Britain St Petersburg's treatment of its minorities was a major part of the Russophobia that occurred before 1907. Yet once Britain was at war with Germany in 1914, it was somewhat comically described as a war for civilisation and the rights of oppressed peoples, despite Britain now being allied with the Russians.
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  147. Since this is the last WWI video and as such an end of a chapter on your channel I wanted to say that this chapter was brilliant and what an incredible way to end it. By this time most of my great grandparents were young teens living in Warsaw, Eastern Galicia, Vienna, Morocco and Tunisia I know some of their parents were recruited especially my Moroccan and Tunisian ancestors
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  148. Well timed since Tisha B’Av is upon us.
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  149. This channel is going to get big now, with all these collaborations! ;D Seriously, it deserves to. Speaking about the names of countries at 2:40, I've heard that Polin has a double meaning in Hebrew (when broken into two words), that allegedly was considered a good omen. But let's not get ahead of ourself, I suspect that we might get to that story in due time.
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  150. Also, that ending there...I wonder if there will be a video on Jewish people in the Mongol Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate.
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  151. About the list of official and unofficial languages of the PLC at 1:46, the date (1700) is important because until 1697 a form of Ruthenian retained an official status in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Also, I assume that Arabic is on the list of unofficial languages because it was the liturgic language for the Muslim Lipka Tatar community. An interesting fact is that this community also developed a new form of Arabic script to write in the Ruthenian (Old Belarusian) language, and also in Polish. BTW I was not expecting to see a cameo of Karolina Żebrowska, known to some as 'Meme Mom'. :)
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  152. 1. love the mustach of the new painting. 2. in the comments of the special I did write a source detailing Jewish history in Greenland 3. Also there are news on Paul Cohen, apperantly the only Jew in Greenland, but ig he was more of a tourist there
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  153. Very cool to see Martin Buber mentioned. I happen to have a signed letter he once wrote to my Grandmother!!
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  154. The adoption of the printing press by Jews at the time helped their ideas be spared much more easily. Consequently it also made watching your videos even more enjoyable and rewarding because of how everything seems to be so much more connected. Story lines are crossed with each other and affect one another in a way I have never seen. Really enjoyed the last few videos, your work is excellent!
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  155. Broke: Bending the teachings of Judaism to advance modern/medieval Christianity. Woke: Bending the teachings of Judaism to advance Neo-Platonism/Western Hermeticism.
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  156. Excelent video as always mate!
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  157. Yet another great video! The details of the Cantonist system were horrific but not at all surprising, very on-brand for the Russian Empie. Fun fact: among the Jewish soldiers fighting in the Polish November Uprising was Major Józef Berkowicz aka Joseph Berkovitz or Berkowitz, the son of Berek Joselewicz, mentioned twice previously in this series. Finding himself among the numerous Polish emigres after the fall of the uprising, he eventually settled in the UK. He interestingly published a novel: "Stanislaus or the Polish Lancer in the Suite of Napoleon, from the Island of Elbe". PS. What is the city flashing for a split second at 16:45, when you talked about Odessa's bad reputation?
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  158. it was an amazing experience to be working with you on this video, really love how the video came out!!! shana tova!!
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  159. I watched the UsefulCharts video and now am watching this one. I was already subscribed to both channels, but I like watching these ones that seem to relate to each other. Good luck with the new apartment! 😃
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  160. 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.
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  161. Long time first time. Love this channel. I grew up Chabad Orthodox, and I was definitely taught to believe in a heaven/hell version of the afterlife (although really ethereal and more than two outcomes). I think jewish thought about the afterlife is extremely complex, diverse, and has probably changed a lot - even within the last century. But ya, Hillel and Shamai probably could have cared less about the soul after death.
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  162. 2:53 Haha! The bucket war! https://youtu.be/Q0dJNY32e2g I couldn't believe you are able to draw this atrocious map...
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  163. As the grandson of Samuel Schwarz, I would like to congratulate you for your story. Many thanks Joao
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  164. My grandmother grew up in one of the agrarian communities in New Jersey, in the 1920s and 1930s. Her parents, who had come from middle class and wealthy backgrounds, respectively, back in Poland and Russia found themselves flat broke with no access to money because they'd come as refugees and had to leave it all behind (so I'm told, anyway). They lived and worked on a chicken farm in one of these agrarian complexes for several years.
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  165. I hope you don't leave off this period here... Herod Agrippa was quite an interesting Judean noble / "king" that had some influence in Rome...there are a lot of Jewish and Roman sources about him...
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  166. Fun (?) fact that this video reminded me of: a number of Australian Aboriginals fought for the Australian Imperial Force during WWI despite enlistment being barred for those "not substancially of European origin or descent" at the start of the war (in 1917 it was amended to accept "half-castes" due to troop shortages), either by passing as white or through the cooperation of the medical officers who were supposed to enforce the rule. Many fought in Palestine.
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  167. Your episodes never cease to enlighten me. Well done!
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  168. Hollow Knight and the Russo-Japanese War are two things I never thought would be associated with each other but here we are listening to the prelude of the war with Lace playing in the background in a video about Jewish history
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  169. Wait a second, us isrealis only make 10%. How? Also im part of the recent 2000 subs that you got and i got your video as a very obscure suggestion and clicked on it. I was delightfully suprised to hear an objective historical representation of events which is hard to find regarding these events due to political reasons. I love your videos and would love to see a video about the currrent place judaism has in isreal society abd the conflict that rise between the secular and the haredim. If i had money i would support you but ubfortonatly im a soilder (also a good subject because in the army all groups intermingle and they place judaism has become painfully clear in positive and negetive ways)
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  170. Great story told with your classic narration
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  171. מקווה שזה בסדר לכתוב בעברית, יש לנו היסטוריה לא מוערכת אנשים לא מבינים שיש יותר היסטוריה מהורדוס רשע חשמונאים זה רע ולא יודעים את הרצף של התקופה תודה על סרטונים נפלאים על תקופה לא מוכרת בציבור
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  172. Yo, thanks for bringing up my silly comment!
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  173. I've watched every one of your history videos, and appreciate all the work you've put into them.
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  174. Hate to be "that guy" but Kitchener's ship struck a mine (a submarine laid mine, yes), not a torpedo (mines were no longer "torpedoes" this far along). I hadn't realized just how sensitive the British Army was to "foreign" volunteers early in the war (especially given how much they leaned on the dominions). Though I knew one of the "Lafayette" Pilots had been kicked out of the British Army before going pilot. By spring 1916, the Royal Flying Corps was offering Lieutenant's commissions after 30 days "trial" to volunteers for "aerial observer" (gunner in two-seater). And didn't notice when one of their "Canadian" truck drivers was a genuine American Bronco-Buster. Another "temporary gentleman" of note Claude Raines "I am shocked, SHOCKED!"
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  175. In graduate school, I took a course on Jews in the Mediterranean, which covered this topic, so as that was over a decade ago now, it was nice to have a refresher this morning!
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  176. It's great to have you back again!
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  177. This is genuinely one of the best channels on YouTube, and undoubtedly one of if not THE best history channel. The details and nuances and differences of perspective and overall specificity of the narrative of the history presented here is really fascinating. Weaving the story of the Jews into the stories of the world they lived in and were integral to is so much more interesting than the way non-Jewish historians have attempted to draw out some of this material and much of this story is largely ignored by much mainstream Euro-American history writing. I’m reminded what it was like when I first began to encounter Chinese history in China written from a Chinese perspective. Thank you for producing such high quality content and for taking the time to even correct your videos when necessary. That’s a commitment to rigour that is sorely missing among even the most respected academics.
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  178. Since you're obviously going for an Israelite/Judean take on Historia Civilis, what name do you think be fitting for the series? Toldot Hatarbut Ha'ivrit? Toldot Tarbut Ha'ivrim?
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  179. Thanks for the mention Sam, hopefully it won't be long until the first episode of Jewish Languages airs on my channel.
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  180. Another great video on the playlist! Here's hoping it helps push you beyond 3,000 subs!
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  181. I never thought when I first started your videos it would get to the point that they start to make me cry a little... This journey with you through history is a little bit special bro. Thanks
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  182. About the new format: I really liked the more personal aspect, but a challenge with these types of videos is always the quality of audio, which, if you like me have YouTube on in the background while you sow (or do other stuff), makes it a bit more difficult to keep up. I love the mix of cooking and history though, and the general vibe just felt really nice! :-)
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  183. 30 minutes The videos just keep getting better in quality, keep it up man!
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  184. I was wondering how in depth you were going. Glad to know the answer is very in depth.
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  185. This is really helpful explanation of a very complex period! Well done.
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  186. King Louis IX was canonized, and is the “Saint Louis” for whom the large American city is named. Barcelona has a “Calle Diputacio” commemorating the event.
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  187. Fascinating, geographically, do you know the demographic breakdown of Jews? Where were most Jews living before/after the crusades? Spain?
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  188. Super interesting video! Never really thought to look into this subject before
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  189. Nice video, I'm a huge fan of your work here from northern Brazil (Amazon rainforest), most of the jewish comunity here where I live are sephardic from Maroccan descent, I can't wait for the video about chassidut to come up, their sages and works were brilliant as well!
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  190. Nice job telling my grandfathers story. The story needs to be better known and you did a fine job telling it . Jay Beilis
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  191. Even before the January Uprising of 1863-1864 (the one very briefly mentioned at 3:40), there was a wave of protests and general unrest in Poland in 1861, in which Polish Jews took part and were among the victims - most famously among them was the young Jewish student Michał Landy, killed during a demonstration in Warsaw on April 8, 1861. Warsaw's rabbis Dow Ber Meisels and Izaak Kramsztyk took part in the joint funerals of the victims alongside the Catholic and Protestant clergy. You can see them depicted in the painting Funeral of the Five Fallen by Aleksander Lesser. These events were also the inspiration for the great Polish poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821-1883) to write a very philosemitic poem entitled simply "Polish Jews (1861)". Edit: It bares some similarities to the speech of Cardinal Manning, quoted in the video. The death of Michał Landy was also later depicted by the Polish-Jewish artist Arthur (Artur) Szyk.
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  192. OH NO !! Last part ( for now)..... One of the greatest series on YT.
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  193. Another fascinating episode and I loved that you added the photo of your Aronow family at the end!
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  194. best mukbang I have seen
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  195. I only just discovered my mother's side are Polish Jews last week, who went in hiding in Canada for the reasons that one did, so I've been watching your videos back to back over the past few days, it is funny that I caught up just as this video came out! These videos have made the decision to connect with this heritage much easier, and I appreciate your work immensely.
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  196. cool weapons and a free horse
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  197. Criminally underrated <3
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  198. UsefulCharts sent me! Keep up the amazing work! I've been on the hunt for exactly this sort of content.
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  199. Aronow, you're such a breath of fresh air! No filtering of information, just the right, precise amount of facts and storytelling - you evoke such genuine honesty and curiousity! Also your production quality is always impeccable. Shana Tova! You don't understand how much clarity and understanding you have provided for me - previously unable to understand which account and interpretation of history to believe in an overcrowded and often alterior motive-driven field. Thank you so much once again! Don't stop!
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  200. Where did you find the statement by Hallel about the "whole teaching of the law being, that which you hate do not do to your neighbor...?" Great videos by the way. I've recently taken interest in the history of Israel during the "silent years" and 1st century A.D. Your history lessons are great and have both satisfied my curiosity and stirred it.
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  201. Yay! Moses Mendelssohn coming up. I am looking forward to this. The Napoleonic era will be probably interesting too as it implemented emancipation in many places (a little at least). An ancestor of mine, Joseph Naumann (Cohn), apparently became an officer in the Prussian army during the German Wars of Liberation of 1813. He had to drop "Cohn" as a last name in exchange for promotion to lieutenant; at least if I believe what his greatgrandson wrote down in 1919. Anyway, I am intrigued that the Polish Army had Jewish officers 20 years earlier (even so in a very different way and of course the world of 1793 was very different from the world of 1813).
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  202. In 1916 My grandparents came from a shtetl in the Polish/Russian border region. They knew each other from home, came separately and married in Chicago. My grandmother was the most beautiful girl in the shtetl and my grandfather loved her from afar, but won her heart in the new country and gave her a good life. My grandfather had 12 brothers, he and five of them escaped to the States, Palestine and Argentina. So I and my many cousins are here today and in Israel. But 7 of the brothers did not leave, and their wives and children, 40 people in all died at Auschwitz. Thank you for your sharing your research, the story of your family and this part of Jewish history.
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  203. Great video! For such an influential group it's odd they don't get as much attention as other parts of history. I look forward to seeing what you'll show us next
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  204. Thank you. Thank you, especially, for going places I can’t (wheelchair and claustrophobia from a hyperbaric chamber). I love all your videos and really appreciate your covering Jewish history. As we pull ourselves out of Covid, I hope you get a chance to do more traveling around Israel.
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  205. I just finished binge watching your entire channel. Keep up the great work!
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  206. You just made it on my "once in a long time treat" list. There's you and Historia Civilis now. Thank you ❤️
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  207. Nobody: ... Sicily: DEEP FRIED STUFF!!!!! Happy Hanukkah!
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  208. last time I was this early konstantiniyye was still constantinople
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  209. Happy 10 years anniversary dude!
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  210. It took me two days to notice this: the background of the thumbnail is the “Jewish tartan”, which a rabbi created and registered with Scotland’s central authority for such things. (There is also a “Muslim tartan”, which is green.)
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  211. 4:31 I am not sure if it's right because of Henri Rottembourg, who apparently became General of Brigade in 1811 and General of Division in 1813. He served from the first coalition war right until the hundred days war.
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  212. Never saw a number put in how many conversos there were. Now I get why there are so many Latinx who still have some seemingly random family tradition to light candles in the closet Friday night. 100,000 begets a lot of descendants.
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  213. Alright! I've been waiting for this episode! Also, really looking forward to the episode on the Nazi hunting assassin uncle someday.
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  214. Well done! Although the general thinking was that Giacomo Segre (my great-grandfather, actually) was not selected to open the breech at Porta Pia because of his religion, but simply because he was a fine artillery officer, who also happened to be Jewish.
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  215. 15:51 My great-aunt's husband, who studied to become a rabbi, was in the Polish cavalry at the start of WWII.
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  216. Do a video on the history of Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizarahi Jewry. Could you also do an analysis on the Torah, and how it became what it is now. Of course tradition says Moses wrote it, but secular sources say it was compiled way later. Maybe also do something on the evolution of modern Hebrew , and how it compares to Biblical Hebrew.
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  217. Correction to the corrections video: you have my name on Mr. Gordon’s question. 😆
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  218. Thankyou, showing anyone who wants to learn how to do that means a whole lot more than you might think. And oh yeah that animated rendition of yourself that you often put in you're videos is very impressive and really cool !🔯🕎
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  219. Once again you are only going up in quality. Honestly Fridays have become the days when sam is hitting us with a new video.
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  220. Welcome back Sam ♥ Hope you're doing well
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  221. Always enjoy your stuff! Love what you said about untranslated sources. The challenge is real.
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  222. Representing Humbodlt Park! That is so cool that your family and mine grew up in the same neighborhood. Also, strong Dylan Cease vibes going on.
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  223. 2:40 Don’t forget, Emperor Norton helped protect San Francisco's Chinese population/Chinatown!
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  224. Maybe the invention of press touched Judaism also. Pres + Luria made Kaballah very widespread, Natan of Gaza and Shabatai Tzvi abused of it. Maybe it is the reason wich made Kaballah so closed.
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  225. Great video as always. I'm guessing that in one of the next proper videos (not a recap) Sultan Suleyman will conquer Palestine and the golden age of Safed, Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Ariza''l will begin.
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  226. The longest video yet! I've been expecting for that one!
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  227. The last line sounds about right. Historians who subtract what Jews call "the Hardrianic persecution" from the equation consider him to be a superb emperor. It irks me that any historian does that, and I end up concluding that those who do are at least a bit anti-Semitic. But I am sure there is more to the story and cannot wait to here it. And yes, I never heard of the Kitos War. (FYI, it's SDelMonte here. My Google accounts are under my real name.)
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  228. Russet potatoes are only grown in Israel by McDonald's for their fries
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  229. fascinating stuff, and a super well made video as well. Looks like I've got a whole lot of videos to check out in your backlog!
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  230. Thanks for including my quote Sam! Also if anyone would want to read about the Leo Frank story in relation to Watson and Smith check out the book The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs by UC Santa Barbara History Prof. Albert S. Lindemann 20:52 Also to add on some more interesting details about Jon Ossoff he is also one of the few Australian-Americans to be elected to office, with him having Australian citizenship for a time through his Australian immigrant mother
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  231. Im half Cochin and I love seeing our group represented. Thank you!
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  232. As an Aussie, great to finally see Monash, and almost in time for ANZAC Day too. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
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  233. If and when you will be talking about crusades in the holyland, you should visit hirbat manot and talk about the suger industry
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  234. Fantastic video, amazing job as usual. One small thing: at 16:21 you show Palestine, Mi as being in the upper peninsula. While there is a place in Michigan called Palestine there, that was not the Am Olam settlement. The Am Olam settlement was in the Bay city (ish) area closer to the thumb in the Lower peninsula. Only noticed it myself when I was trying to figure out if there really were Jewish agriculturalists in the UP. Sadly, just Bay city 😖
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  235. WHAT HAPPENED IN EASTERN EUROPE YOU CAN'T END IT LIKE THIS
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  236. Next episode being “In the Jewish diaspora” gives me hope that we’ll talk about the people who we now know as Mizrahim. I hope the Jews of MENA are given their own prominence, beyond their existence in the context of the State of Israel, as is so often the case.
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  237. 1:25 That flag representing Pennsylvania is not the flag of Pennsylvania, it's the flag of Philadelphia.
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  238. I've found out about you from the Köppen map you made for KhAnubis' Project Regenesis and decided to check your content and it's so good! How do you not have a lot of subs?!
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  239. There of course remains a big split about the concept of a messiah within Orthodox Judaism. We all believe he will come as per Maimonides, but is he a mystic figure a la Shabtei Tzvi? Or a political figure? You could argue that Bibi had a better claim on the title than the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but even people who call him King Bibi aren’t saying that while thousands of Hasidim still think a man dead twenty years is messiah.
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  240. One more thing came to my mind as I was rewatching the video, regarding both the minorities of the PLC serving in the cavalry and the tragic battle of Praga. Alongside the Beardlings, among the defenders of Praga, were the remnants of all six of the Lithuanian Vanguard Regiments (Pułki Straży Przedniej Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego). The majority of their soldiers were the Lipka Tatars. In some sadly poetic way I find it fitting for the last stand of the old Commonwealth. Also, a bit of context for the fact that Polish-Lithuanian officers (in cavalry especially) were almost exclusively nobles is that the nobility of the PLC was significantly more numerous than in other European countries.
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  241. Ah, Julian is coming in the next video. One of the most interesting Roman Emperors.
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  242. The bit about "Even Gvirol" made me lol XD
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  243. Small correction at 15:59 - Kattowitz was in Silesia, in the German Empire, not in Austria.
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  244. Hey thats me! I had a great time meeting and filming with Sam!
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  245. 2:13 I loved the addition of smog to the London map, 10/10 historical accuracy!
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  246. @20:51, your comments on the Jewish experiences of WWII reminded me of my Greek grandmother's two Jewish friends from before the war. One was in the Greek army when the Italians invaded and fought them until the Germans hit a weak point in the line and encircled the army. He then fought in the Greek resistance and after the war went on to fight in the Israeli war for independence. That was the last my grandmother heard of him. The other friend was was taken by the Germans. My grandmother never knew what happened to her, but feared the worst.
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  247. This is for the man, for the women I could understand little more than roughly what I said in the previous comment. My transcriptions aren't accurate, and I don't know enough Malayalam script to do much more than reading, so take the transcriptions with a grain of salt. "Hello. ... |namaskaram| "Without knowing/just like that" |ayirathi layerthi| "fifty three years ago (or "in '53)," |ampathi munu| "we came to Israel. " |Yisraele vannu| [unintelligible, depends on what "Kuffara" means, though he mentions preparing for the move.] "Another way by dream [we came for a dream]."|Vere... uhh, evride vareyete sohunum vareyte.| "Once we learned of it,"|pariksya vanna,| "we came to the church/synagogue."|saveye poi| "From the synagogue we came here."|Saveye-enum ivrede vannu.| "Fifty-five of us came."| Ivrede vannapa ampathi-anja vannu.| "After those guys came, from then on I was retired." (either that or he means he retired just recently).|Ampathi vanna, annoora ivede njan vrithune. [Pashaka venti- I assume this is Hebrew since it sounds like your friend in the background said it, but if it's Malayalam, it either means "But congratulations" or "like a bird". Both sound pretty similar He then repeats this to himself.] Overall this is vaguely what he said: "Hello... Just like that, fifty three years ago/in '53, we came to Israel. [unintelligible] We came just for a dream. Once we learned of it [probably the foundation of Israel], we went to the temple, and from thence we came here. Fifty-five of us came, and after those guys came, I retired." "Congratulations." "Congratulations." Sorry if this translation is not naturalistic, I haven't spoken Malayalam since I was a child, and so I'm a little rusty. Writing this up took a little longer than I thought because of the piece-by-piece translation, but I wanted to do it since that would give a more accurate idea of what he said, and to make it easier to put in subtitles later on. Now, what is this about an upcoming video? Are you thinking of making a follow-up?
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  248. This is gonna be good.
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  249. Found you after your collaboration with Useful Charts! I have just binged all of the Jewish History videos and I'm so excited to see your other content! You're doing such a great job with this and I've learned so much!!
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  250. Sounds like an amazing arms race of information, best arms race ever
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  251. ואבוא היום אל העין means in context, "I came to the spring today."
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  252. What happened to the Menorah after the war? Was it still in Jerusalem? Also, how did you/omniatlas know the exact borders of territories held by the Jews under Khosrow II, as shown at 11:32? Did you base it on previous Jewish held land?
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  253. Great episode! I loved learning about people I knew little or nothing about (the Vilna Gaon, Daher Omar) but above all, I'm a huge unabashed fanboy of Tadeusz Kościuszko and I always have waited to hear about Berek Joselewicz on this channel. We actually might hear about him again (I hope). I don't want to spoil anything, but I'm pretty sure that the uniform Berek was depicted wearing in this video is a uniform of the Army of a certain Duchy that was created in 1807. BTW For anyone interested in getting a deeper understanding of the peculiar Polish-Lithuanian political system and how it became so dysfunctional, while also demonstrating an ability to reform itself (although too late), I recommend a lecture by Prof. Robert Frost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwEttjNNxDE
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  254. At 6:20 I literary exclaimed "Septuaginta!" Finally, there was something in this video that I knew about, aside from the basic framework of Califate's history. Seriously though, learning about the Exilarchy, origins of Karaites, ben Meir and Masoretic Text itself was absolutely fascinating. BTW, when I googled "Exilarchy" the first result was some Warhammer 40k stuff. I don't know should I find it hilarious but I kinda did.
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  255. Congrats on 1k
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  256. 1905 is when my great grandfather emigrated from Budapest to Jerusalem as a child with some of his family. (His sister who remained behind was murdered in 1944.)
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  257. I've been subbed to your channel for about 4-5 months now and I'm so impressed the quality and consistency of your episodes. Thanks for putting in all the work you do. I'm glad to see your views and subs growing.
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  258. does this video get a major boost in views this time of the year?
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  259. “American Jewish Committee vs American Jewish Congress” Meanwhile here in GA whenever “AJC” is mentioned it’s for an Atlanta-area newspaper
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  260. The hypothesis that Jesus was a pharisee actually goes all the way back to the 19th century religious scholar Abraham Geiger. Also, it's highly doubtful that Jesus was fluent in Greek. As for the idea that Jesus entertained the ideology of the zealots, there is about as much evidence against that as for it; and any evidence for it is better explained by Jesus being an apocalyptic prophet , after the fashion of Honi the Circle drawer or Hanina ben Dosa, rather than a zealot.
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  261. Another great video! The discussion on the Austromarxists' relationship with Jews reminds me of their relationship with Slavic 'Völkerabfälle', a topic that I wrote my Bachelor thesis on, and one that touches on that discussion on the idea of dividing Europe between East and West. Beyond the educational aspect, all this affirms in my eyes, just as it had for Bauer, my attitude towards the Austromarxists. For anyone reading that's interested in seeing arguments which argue against such a divide being a relic of the Cold War, and in fact predating it significantly, I highly recommend checking out Larry Wolff's Inventing Eastern Europe and Maria Todorova's Imagining the Balkans
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  262. What a great episode. I’d just like to shout out a few other popular figures who had impacts on both Risorgimento and Jewish emancipation, such as Carlo Cattaneo, one of the leaders of the “five days of Milan” of 1848, who had made his university thesis on how restrictions on Jews were responsible for most of the prejudices aimed at them and their lack of integration, and Elia Benamozegh, Chief Rabbi of Livorno, Kabbalist, who corresponded with Mazzini. And peripheral to this, in Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco which as an allegory for Italy’s resurgence used Jewish exile in Babylon and Va Pensiero has been strongly considered as a national anthem.
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  263. Incredible! 2:28, my grandfather told me they used to put those big wool blankets directly on the plants and sleep on them. Are there any special Corona restrictions? Thank you so much for all of your amazing videos! You taught me a lot.
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  264. I was very pleased Méliès got a nod. He is forgotten by many. Oh no you got COVID? Are you ok?
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  265. I knew Don Isaac was wealthy and powerful. I knew he was my ancestor. I did not know he was also a mensch. Thank you Sam!
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  266. Thank you Sam for an another amazing video. פשוט תענוג לשבת כל שישי בצהריים ולצפות בסרטונים שלך!
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  267. Thanks for this great video!
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  268. From a long-time Norwegian subscriber: Excellent video, and Skål, sam. A few notes however. I wish you would have touched a little bit more on the history of the jew clause in the Norwegian constitution, and the debate following it - culminating in the passage of the dissent er-act which officially legalised non Lutheran worship in the mid 19th century. One of the biggest proponents of the clause was Bishop Nicolai Wergeland, show later came to be one of it's biggest opponents, along with his son, Nicolai (who is considered Norways national poet). Secondly, though I absolutely understand why you may have to cut it out for brevity, and it may have been in a previous draft of the script - Quisling did not serve as minister of defense for the NS. He was a member of the farmers party at the time, and was forced to resign after he ordered the military to open fire on striking workers at a match factory. He only subsequently founded the party.
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  269. Germany Germania Ashkenaz Deutchland Doitsu Allemagne Niemcy And probably fifty others I missed.
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  270. Perhaps Krushevan is an example of why gays should relax, marry and live happy lives instead of holding it in and going insane.
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  271. As always, magnificent Job Sam. An off topic comment, I'll try my best because I'm not a physicist: Einstein wasn't against the quantum physics principles, only against a particular kind of interpretation of it. Even more, his Nobel prize was awarded not because of his theory of Relativity, but because he proved true the quantum nature of the photoelectric effect.
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  272. 1:30 אני אגיד לך. אבל אני יכולה להראות לך סרט, סרטון -- באנגלית... roasted
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  273. Atheists were not emancipated until 1888. This was the doing of Charles Bradlaugh, an atheist who was repeatedly elected to parliament, rejected, fined and even locked up under Big Ben for speaking and voting there until he was allowed to "affirm" rather than take a religious oath. After that, Hindu, Parsi and Muslim MP were able to take their seats without obstruction. By the way, the requirement for university students to assent to the tenets of the Church of England applied to Oxford and Cambridge, not the University of London or of course the Scottish Universities, which many boys from England attended.
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  274. "Muckracking photojournalist Jacob Riis" Oh hey, I know that guy from the park named after him!
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  275. 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.
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  276. Forgive my ignorance and I apologize if this question sounds stupid but why was it that more than a third of Jews stuck around Europe when they could have migrated to other areas outside of Christian control where they would have been much more tolerated? Was there something about Europe (besides being home) that justified the risk of living in such a hostile and volatile environment? Was migration difficult back then? Fantastic episode btw!
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  277. Just looking at Mexico throughout the video and it’s different in every year
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  278. I have been learning so much from you channel. Especially the 19th - 20th century. I grew up in Israel, was educated there in the 70s', and most of this episode is completely new to me. I guess Israeli education - when it comes to modern Israeli history was just never that good. Although small world story- my high school, The religious girls school - Evelina De Rothschild in Jerusalem was a polling station, I'm not sure why it wasn't a national holiday, but Golda Meir came and voted, and said hello to us. She was very small and unimpressive looking. This was after the Yom Kippur war - so I'm sure the weight of the world really had its affect on her.
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  279. Re: Jacob Schiff: The first floor of Barnard Hall in NYC is popularly known as "Jake." It was Jacob Schiff who had given the money to create Barnard College, but Columbia could not be seen to have a building named after a Jew. The students worked it out.
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  280. Hey Sam! the part when you explain that the 5 mentions of Jesus isn't actually him solved a debate in my yeshiva I didn't understand how Jesus can be the student Joshua be parchia if there is 100 years between them (also you wrote Judah be parchia and not Joshua)
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  281. Modern Hebrew has three striking parallels to Arabic dialects - use of a present participle for present tense instead of the imperfect, analytic genitive instead of a construct phrase, and SVO word order. By contrast, Biblical Hebrew and Classical Arabic use the imperfect for the present tense, the construct phrase for possession, and a VSO word order. My belief is that both Modern Hebrew and the Arabic dialects were influenced by Aramaic. In the case of Modern Hebrew, the Aramaic influence probably came through Rabbinic Hebrew, which served as an unconscious grammatical model for the new language, given that a traditional Jewish education required literacy in Rabbinic Hebrew through the Gemorah. In the case of Arabic, my feeling is that Arabic dialects probably evolved from former Aramaic-speaking people adapting to the new language.
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  282. Hah, I'm glad to see that one of the few pre-war relatives I know of (Tzvi Askhenazi) got into these videos. As we get closer to the present, there are more and more sources, so it's much easier to notice the contradictions and peculiarities of these people, but I imagine these were ever-present
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  283. Honestly, from your description of radical reform, it kind of sounds like the Hindu Brahmo Samaj in India. And ironically, the Brahmos have met the same fate as radical reform, practically dead except for some tiny pockets (except this time in Bengal and not the US). I wonder if that says something about this particular mode of doing religion.
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  284. your content is fantastic! as an Odessa born, now Tel Avivian i really appreciate the nod to the historic link between two cities
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  285. I know you are a Zionist (or at least I'm assuming because of the very slight biases) but thank you for being objective and telling things are they are, from a "Palestinian Arab" (I hate that name, in truth we are both Palestinians :D)
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  286. Just a minor correction, at 24:55 you say British refugees, I think you meant Jewish ones
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  287. 1:25 I live next to bet shearim! It has an awesome necropolis where Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi is buried
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  288. 20:42 I think that in the post-Emancipation era, the words "Jew" and "Jewess" were being used as slurs in European languages so frequently that other euphemisms were preferred for organizations and periodicals. So for instance in Scandinavia, Jewish congregations tended to refer to themselves as "Mosaic" (in reference to Moses). The idea was to avoid unwanted attention by sticking out like a sore thumb. In my country, Denmark, the Jewish experience was generally unproblematic following Emancipation in 1849, but nonetheless, there was always a sense of trepidation that things could change for the worse overnight.
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  289. Barros Basto is a truly fascinating figure. He was always a somewhat eccentric man, including (IIRC) founding his own occult religion (a sort of weird Spiritist/Thelema hybrid) before arriving at a new identity as a Jew. His search for roots even led him to reconstruct an etymology for his surname, 'Barros', out of 'Bar-Rosh'. Despite not being recognised as Jewish by several members of the community in Portugal even after his conversion, he threw himself into the project of bringing these cryptojewish communities back to Judaism. He was definitely what we would recognise today as a "seeker", constructing his identity as he went through life. Given his lifelong search for meaning (again, spanning various religions and practices) and his tireless canvassing for funds to visit these communities, an essay in the 'History of Religion in Portugal' (alas, only available in Portuguese) describes him as a "unique example of a religious entrepreneur in the Portuguese context". As a final aside, Salazar's official role in government was as Chief Minister / Prime Minister (Presidente do Conselho de Ministros), the head of the executive; the President of Portugal (then as now) has a largely ceremonial role.
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  290. "They decided not to have summer here this year." - Hometown vibes be like: I'm amazed that your family were Horsemen too - My Family raced at Arlington (RIP) and Hawthorne Park, coming from Mexico and Poland. My grandfather was also a milkman in the city. No matter what it's been through, no matter what it's people have been through, Chicago remains an amazing city.
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  291. This collaboration took place during my birthday. Thanks you for the amazing present.
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  292. This channel has taken over my mind and life over the past 7-10 days. I've been binging everything. It's helped me reconnect with my roots after a decade out of temple services. Now I have finished the 87-video playlist. You've grown a lot as a creator. I look forward to your future work!
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  293. Not even Jewish but I cheered when Bar Giora showed up
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  294. why the dates are different on his tomb? (you wrote he lived 66 years but on his tomb it says 70)
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  295. Well, even though I'm Israeli and I subscribed to your channel in Israel, I now live in Japan so I guess the analytics will update my data accordingly. So, hello from one of your (probably rare) viewers in Japan and thank you for your great content!
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  296. Keep up the good work... 👍🏼... It wasn't so long ago when I used to be one of first hundred viewers of your latest upload....Now within a couple of hours there's over 1k views... 🎉🎉... Can't wait to see you do 100k 👍🏼
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  297. They should make an avengers with different kinds of Jews
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  298. Thanks for having me on 😊 Can't wait for the next one
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  299. Irishman here: Michael Davitt’s snide, condescending victim blaming has made me white with rage
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  300. I just want to say how happy I am that your channel is finally catching on! I have been here since you were below 1k subs and I am so happy that you are now above 30k subs. Only a matter of time now until you reach 100k and then 1 million. You deserve it for all the hard work and research you do!
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  301. I very much enjoyed being Yehuda haNasi. Worth adding that the decision to codify the oral law was controversial, since it had been passed down from generation to generation without being written and some felt that should always be the case. But it was clear that the debates of the previous centuries were making it impossible to go forward without putting it on parchment. Ironically, the codification of the oral law led to what many consider the petrification of the law as well. I have heard it said by many, including other Orthodox Jews, that the law is supposed to shift with the situation and the times far more than the rabbis are telling us now. But we are where we are, and it's not likely to change.
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  302. My few interesting things I found last year (and did last night as well) was instead of draining off all the liquid like you did, I actually put them in cheese cloth and squees out as much liquid in to a bowl and then let the liquid sit for 5-10min the starch from the potatoes will settle out and you can then drain the liquid off the top and use the starch in addition to egg as a binder. I also only use about a quarter inch of oil.
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  303. You mentioned that the Europe-based Jews didn't move to Jerusalem after the Crusaders were defeated. What was the "immigration policy" of the ruling Mamelukes and latter Ottomans? Could Jews have moved without limit to the Land during the 13th -19th centuries without getting turned away by the ruling empire? (From what I read about the 1492 Spanish expulsion, Jews were welcomed into some parts of the Ottoman Empire but not to Eretz Yisrael.)
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  304. Sam, I greatly admire your work, it’s infused with humor, humanity, and righteousness. Much love from a fellow history and map lover in L.A. who is “not too Jewish“ as I once flubbed out when substitute teaching at a local Jewish school.
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  305. Very interesting video. Bit tangential, but the discussion of Yiddish Theatre reminds me of a play I watched for my History on Stage class, "Indecent," based on the story of a Yiddish playwright who got into legal trouble with US censors over one of his plays, "God of Vengeance." It's a good play, would recommend.
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  306. 23:54 Wait, there was no feature length movie at all before that horribly racist one. That 11 part film series consisted of one minute shorts, it didn't come close to 3 and a half hours. "The Dreyfus Affair (French: L'affaire Dreyfus), also known as Dreyfus Court-Martial,[3] is an 1899 series of eleven short silent films by Georges Méliès. Each of the eleven one-minute installments..." "Running time 240 meters/780 feet total[1] Approx. 13 minutes total[2]"
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  307. Great video, it's cool to see how Hebrew was revived as a medium of scholarly literature even before its reivval as a spoken language 1000 years later.
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  308. Being familiar with the Carassos of Salonika through Danone yogurt, I had absolutely no idea Isaac’s uncle had proposed Jewish autonomy in Salonika, and now I’ll spend a considerable part of next week contemplating that alternate history
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  309. As others already stated, the Pale was established by the Russian Empire after it conquered the lands where a lot of Jewish people lived from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita). It was explained in one of Sam's earlier videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyIJJzr3T0E
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  310. Some years ago, I went to Eilat and then rode a few coaches to Cairo and also saw the pyramids. That was an adventure LOL! Tel Aviv had wonderful clubs and nightlife! Congratulations upon your ten year YT anniversary!
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  311. That is awesome. I sent your history playlist to my mother in law who's a history teacher, and I hope she watched.
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  312. Your comment about the varieties of Spanish is quite intriguing to me because it reminds me of the situatuon of Afrikaans in South Africa, which likewise consists of numerous varieties distinguished by geography and ethnicity. For example, even though I grew up Cape Town in the 2000s, I've heard people say that I speak Afrikaans with a Dutch or German accent despite English being my first language. Then again, my grandmother's mother and grandmother spoke to each other in Standard Dutch.
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  313. Central Asia? I can't wait! I must share a story about my family's life in Uzbekistan for you, Sam. My grandmother's family, as part of the Soviet evacuation of the eastern front during ww2, migrated from Leningrad to Tashkent. My great-grandfather Mikhail Spivak (My namesake) worked at a plant that produced aeroplane parts for the Red army, initially in Leningrad, then Tashkent (where my great-aunt was raised) and then closer to the end of the war they would continue eastward to Tomsk (where my grandmother was born), and at the end of the war to Moscow (where my mother was born and raised), where they and stayed before immigrating to Haifa in 91-92. :) Besides my family, who continued moving eastward according to the needs of the state, those Jews who evacuated from the eastern front and stayed after ww2 formed the Ashkenasi community in Tashkent, that came to live alongside Bukharim Jews in the city.
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  314. Sounds like it’s time to grow some russets
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  315. hey this is a bit weird but Hungary seems to be missing from the country of residence list in the viewer survey, i answered Romania instead, that being the closest neighboring country but i would've answered Hungary :)
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  316. Wow! Really good episode, among a series of really good episodes!
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  317. <raises hand for a family with an English stopover> My Great-Great- Grandparents got on a boat from the Russian Empire (now Lithuania) c. 1880 and landed in Northern England; family legend has it that they fully intended to immediately take passage on the next ship to New York, but were swindled out of their money and had to settle in Leeds for want of the price of tickets. My Great-Grandfather (who as the eldest son had been born in Lithuania, unlike his successively younger siblings) eventually emigrated to the US with his family (including my English-born Grandmother) in 1910 or so. With respect to names, my Grandfather (b. 1902) was originally called Yankel, but went by James, until as a young teenager his sister started calling him "Chester", reportedly because it was fashionable (his siblings wound up as Janet, Mabel, Hazel and Theodore; their first language was Yiddish and no, those weren't their original given names, either). Chester appears on his 1918 draft card, in his handwriting, and as far as I can tell was his legal name from then on - it's what's on his military service record starting in 1920, and as far as I can tell he never used either Yankel or James since then.
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  318. ס' בקלפי! 22:10
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  319. In the video named "The Third Aliyah" would be interesting to hear more about the aliyah itself, how many people actually came (and what was the quotas after 1921), where from and where they primarily settled.
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  320. EVEN GVIROL
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  321. Those two questions are biased but yes
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  322. 1:32 Cat.
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  323. Wow, thanks for the shout out. I wasn’t expecting that 🙈
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  324. 37:36 Obviously "Luxemburgo".
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  325. Great video!! I hope you also make a video on the inquisition and forced conversion of Jews in Portugal. And also on their arrival to the Americas the Anusim.
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  326. That was a great video Sam! Masterfully put together
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  327. this whole video reminds me that my dad always says about old stuff in yiddish "fun Poniatowski zeiten", which he used to hear his dad saying that. I also find Joselewicz very interesting considering that in Israel he's not celebrated in any shape or form, like he doesn't fit the mold of the "weak galut" we've been led to believe. in Poland there are streets named after him but nothing of that in Israel.
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  328. I really like the way you ended the video, there was something very satisfying about the cut from the standard video format to peaceful modern footage with ambient noise that I can't quite explain.
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  329. 23:58 and like many other itialian prime ministers they were gone after a year
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  330. Hey we moved to Israel at the same time! Chag Semach
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  331. Great episode!
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  332. I love how much depth these videos add to events like the Great Eastern Crisis. Great job as usual.
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  333. Your upload timing is absolutely perfect. The same weekend as Shavuot but also here in the UK it’s the queen’s platinum jubilee. This was a fantastic upload regardless of date uploaded
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  334. ​ @SamAronow  The title of this piece is "מעמדו של תרגום אונקלוס בתודעתו הפרשנית של רש"י" Nowhere do the authors suggest that Rashi's commentary is "on" Targum Onkelos ie that the Targum is the primary work that he is glossing, rather the authors are investigating Rashi's use of Onkelos as a source in his commentary on the Pentateuch. From the abstract: "The author compares the place of Targum Onkelos in Rashi's exegesis with that of other sources he used, and examines specific items from his commentary to the Bible and the Talmud." Cheers!
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  335. props on you for upping the citation quality, it doesnt go unnoticed
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  336. I was born and raised in Humboldt park on division and Spaulding the church we went to use to be this beautiful old Jewish synagogue 'Ateres Zion' which started my devotion interest and love towards halacha. Ever since I've been going to an orthodox synagogue on Devon ave. Where they've tought me about the noachim
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  337. 13:02 My great grandma on my Bubbe’s side was a sugihara survivor. I aught to make a video about her. Thank you for the mention.
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  338. I'm astonished and soo ecstatic that somebody does really cover this topic! I'm a German historian, who has written his BA thesis on Cuzas politics concerning the Romanian jews. Although I would add some points here and there (e.g. pronunciation of the names) your summary of this - highly crucial time - is unmatched so far. Thanks man, really. You gained yourself a new follower.
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  339. This was a great video. It's crazy how much history can happen in just a couple of decades. My great-great-grandfather's youngest brother immigrated from the Pale to NYC in 1904, becoming the first in their family to leave. The eldest of my great-granduncles followed a few years later, one of whom just a few years after arriving in the U.S. was drafted to serve in WWI where he suffered a non-life threatening injury during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Then in Nov 1923 my great-great grandfather brought his wife and the rest of his children, including my great-grandfather, to New York, listing as their last place of residence a town in the Russian interior that only a few years prior they would have been forbidden by law to inhabit. My great-great-grandfather saw his WWI veteran son get married that December and was dead from lung cancer by March. I've always imagined the force of his desire to get his family to safety was the only thing keeping him going. Hearing about this period in history always gives me such an appreciation for just how much my family endured in a rapidly changing world and for how much they thrived despite all of that hardship.
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  340. I was pondering the reference at the end for good two minutes, before it clicked and I remembered "An American Tail". BTW, I've googled it and only now I discovered that the title is a pun. I thought it was "An American Tale", because that's how it was literally translated into Polish (puns are obviously very hard, if not impossible, to translate by their very nature). So yeah, that's my main takeaway from this video. 😉
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  341. היי סאם, אני מנסה ליצור איתך קשר אני רוצה לקשר אותך לבית יד לבנים בחולון או הרשת בכללי שתבוא לעשות סדרת הרצאות בנושא יהדות בסיסית ויהדות בתפוצה .. אין לי תפקיד פשוט ממש אהבתי את הערוץ שלך ואני חושב שיש לך קול מלומד חשוב שיש לשמוע אותו בקהלים צעירים...
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  342. My fam lived in Atlanta during that time, they had to leave to Chattanooga for a while out of fear of the kkk
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  343. 15:28 One very minor point…in the lower middle of the map, Waterloo in the late 1800’s was still connected to the Charing Cross lines, and was not even the permanent terminus it is now.
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  344.  @SamAronow  Turns out we're both wrong, but I'm slightly less wrong. It has nothing to do with "The Pale of Settlement" or "The Pale of Dublin" (which is what I'd heard), but it is an English invention The phrase itself originated later than that. The first printed reference comes from 1657 in John Harington's lyric poem The History of Polindor and Flostella. In that work, the character Ortheris withdraws with his beloved to a country lodge for 'quiet, calm and ease', but they later venture further: "Both Dove-like roved forth beyond the pale to planted Myrtle-walk". Such recklessness rarely meets with a good end in 17th century verse and before long the lovers are attacked by armed men with 'many a dire killing thrust'. The message is clear - 'if there is a pale, decent people stay inside it', which conveys exactly the figurative meaning of the phrase as it is used today. As a correspondent has helpfully pointed out, although Harington's poem was published in 1657, he died in 1612. That date, and most probably some years earlier, has to be the 'not later than' date for the origin of 'beyond the pale'. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html
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  345. wanted to write this in the Nili episode but I saw you locked the comments so ill say it here: 1.are you going to mention the Weitzmann-Faisal agreement in future episodes? 2.seeing how you adressed the Armenian genocide, a heavy subject, and seeing that we are already covering the 20th century, I was wondering how you are going to cover such a heavier and more related subject as the holocaust.
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  346. Thanks!
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  347. David Salomons does not give a f**k! Also, I don't know why but I have a feeling we are going to Italy next time.
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  348. סרטון מעולה כרגיל. אך יש לי קצת בעיה עם הסוף. אתה מציג את הרמב״ם במישהו שלא עודד עלייה לארץ ישראל כאשר למעשה הוא אמר בכמה מקומות שזאת מצווה גדולה ליהודי לגור אפילו העיר נוכרית בארץ מאשר בעיר יהודית בגולה. או שאתה טוען שלא היה ניסיון לעלייה המונית, כאשר למעשה כן היה ניסיון כזה על ידי המהר"ם מרוטנבורג שסוכל על ידי קיסר האימפריה הרומית הקדושה
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  349.  @benjaminromm8184  I'm pretty sure Sam has it wrong. But then he knows about Rashi from history books and papers rather than from studying it from the age of 7.
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  350. As both an Esperantist and a history buff, yes, Zamenhof's Judaism was pretty influential to both Esperanto and the wider movement around it. Granted, I completely understand why you didn't mentiom him in your main videos. As much as some language geeks such as myself would like it, it probably wouldn't fit in too well. That being said, thank you for acknowledging Zamenhof and Esperanto in this video.
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  351. Where do you get your facts at 1:13. In my own readings of Jewish History, I have generally seen Hebrew being carried on as a spoken language in the Jewish heartland until at least around 200CE. It was in common parlance among Judeans based around Jerusalem and likely remained a first language of some into the 4th century.
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  352. Hey, Sam. Thank you for this video - such a treasure, hope everyone had known family history as well as you do. And pretty awesome to see Ukrainian flag at the building @ 8:05 )
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  353. It's good to see The Liberator himself in a video. His push for Catholic emancipation really did capture the spirit of equality in Ireland, hence why Jews were being supported imo. I would say though, most Irish people did support some form of republicanism or at the bare minimum home rule, it just happened to be that until the abolition of the Statues of Kilkenny that they couldn't voice such an opinion by the ballot box
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  354. Thanks!
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  355. Another incredible and so interesting video! 1:59 Doesn't גאונים (Geonim) means Geniuses?
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  356. My great grandfather served in the "Lost Battalion". He was in Company H of the 308th Infantry. However, he was wounded in action about a month before the 77th division launched their attack into the Argonne. We have his two journals from the war, along with a series of letters and photos from his service and the purple heart he later received.
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  357. Yet another great video Sam. Well told and very informative as usual
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  358. It's very good the error of Lenin and Martov's 'accelerationism' is corrected here. As to what is said about how their opposition to economism seems like it wasn't actually accurate, in so far as the people they targeted (like the Bund) did not hold to the views they criticize, that is indeed a fair point. Some scholars like John L. Keep have argued that the position Lenin was rhetorically arguing against was actually different from the one actually held by the people he was directing his polemics at, such as Martynov with WITBD?. Whether that means it was a strawman, or a misreading, or simply directing his criticism of economism at the wrong people, this is a separate matter from what Lenin's views and position were. As Lars T. Lih writes "For understanding Lenin's outlook, however, the accuracy of Lenin' s critique is not central". It's similar to how Rosa Luxemburg's 1904 article about "Leninism" and the book 'One Step Forward, Two Steps Back' give deep insight into her own views, even as the specific arguments she makes about Lenin's book are completely unfounded, and give the strong impression she hadn't even read it.
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  359. Happy Chanukah, Sam!
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  360. The Bait al-Hikma was quite an astonishing place, it sounds like herem is akin to a fatwa, which is simply a judgement by an Islamic scholar with just as much disagreement about who should be acknowledged or ignored.
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  361. Impressed you know about Maltese 😍🇲🇹
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  362. I study jewish history at university and I really would love to talk to you about the journey that let you to making these videos. They are so interesting while also being in line with what may become a serious thesis, let me know if you have any contact info
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  363. 10:26 it's yehoshua Ben perachiya not yehudah
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  364. Another great video!! Looking forward to the next one!
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  365. Fantastic video. Looking for context about what’s going on right now, and I knew I should turn to your videos to help.
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  366. I have my grandmother's siddur with her name and "Alexandria 1914" pencilled in the front. She and her family were refugeed from Rehovot to Alexandria at the outbreak of WWI as they were (Australian) British Citizens. She wrote about her experiences that year in a piece called "How I Spent My Fourteenth Year" which has been published in the Australian Jewish Historical Journal (I transcribed and footnoted it and have a pdf of it if anyone is interested).
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  367. I'm a long time fan. Thanks for doing all of this amazing research and teaching.
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  368. The lack of separation of church and state in Massachusetts (official religion: Congregationalism, aka Puritanism) was a major inadvertent factor in the development and widespread acceptance of Unitarianism (part of Unitarian Universalism). It seems that all of the Congregational churches were considered public, and thus the stakeholders included not only the (generally more conservative and puritanical) full church members, but also the (more liberal) general population, which preferred liberal, Unitarian interpretations of religion. After some litigation, courts ruled that the churches had to listen to the population in general, and so numerous Congregational churches became Unitarian churches overnight. The conservatives got fed up with this and voted to separate church from state in Massachusetts.
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  369. Yooo no way!!! I was in Alanna Cooper's class!!! (From the sources)
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  370. Hi Sam, Israeli here, never heared anyone cite america as a "paragon of public transport", please elaborate
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  371. Your videos and explanations are just pure sugar. Love your work.
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  372. That's some Aussie humour right there hehehe, 1 Aussie and he's the commander.
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  373. I hope you vote in the Primaries today, Sam!
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  374. Lots of well-preseved castles in the Gallee were either repaired or outright built by Daher El-Omar. ShefarAm being the best preserved one. Acre was altered by his replacement. Also, he moved and "re-started" Haifa, which is usually considered to be the start of my city's modern history.
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  375. Thank you for your work. I have studied greco-roman history and the main focus have been from a christian point of view. I have learned more from you. We have focused too much on the fertile crest etc. I have binge watched your episodes and will yet again re-read my books and compare with your sources. I have covid right now and that means I have all the time to enjoy your channel. I will as well share your chanel to fellow former and current students. This makes me want to visit Israel and visit museums and places. Thank you!
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  376. Thanks a lot for this thoroughly researched timeline, Sam! :eyes-pink-heart-shape: I even learned a few new fun facts from this, such as the existence of an Icelandic saga devoted to describing the concept of Jews and their shenanigans from a subpolar perspective.
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  377. Great upload! Thanks for the cool vids. Completely unrelated question but what is your favorite baseball team?
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  378. I'm guessing the next video will have to do with the formation of the Kahal Kadosh de Talmud Torah. Always interestings going through the Escamot books, which date back to 1638 - https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/scans/334/5.1.1.1.1/start/0/limit/10/highlight/1
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  379.  @SamAronow  PS: So upset with myself that I forgot to add in my first comment: I am SO happy I found your channel! Continue the great work!
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  380.  @CeoLogJM  Dutch Sephardim in general, I would think
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  381. I would point out that the word Nationalists meant something different at the time in Australia, as can be seen by PM Billy Hughes being a Nationalist... after being the Labour leader.... and becoming the Labour leader again later We still have a major party called the Nationals
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  382. 11:08 Why is he first year 355 days long while every other non-leap year has 384? Also, I remember growing up learning that there are 355 days in a hebrew years, and that's why the hebrew word for a year is שנה (Shanah), since in Gematria Shin = 300, Nun = 50, and Heh = 5, but it seems (according to you) that the common year has 354 days. Is this just a coincidence, then?
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  383. Hey Sam! I have a question not directly related to the history you have been teaching but more the maps you have created (e.g., of Jerusalem, Algiers, Paris, etc.). These would appear to be vectorized maps with building footprints or roads/block from that era. Do you base it off of older maps? How do you vectorize these maps without the tedium of hand-tracing? It would appear to be a minor question but the consistency of these maps across all of the videos have made me curious. Thank you!
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  384. Awesome video as always. What is your source for the execution of Rashbi by the Romans? I had heard persecution but not execution. Shabbat shalom.
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  385. I love the video! A true story: my father in law's family were one of the first settlers who established Rosh Pina. His great grandfather used to fix waggons all over the upper Galilee. One day, Yosef Trumpeldor came to him from Tel Hai and was in a rush to fix his waggon. My father in law's great grandfather told him to seat and wait for his turn, but Trumpeldor got angry and started cursing him in Russian, and saying "How dare you?! Do you know who i am?!" . The great grandfather turned around and smacked Trumpeldor in the face, knocking him down to the ground, and said to him: " one day, you will get what you deserve!". Trumpeldor got killed a few months later. The waggon was never fixed.
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  386. love the broccoli reference !
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  387. ​ @almogz9486  okay thankyou. that means i truly am insane. its just that he mentioned the name alongside yitzhak navon, who WAS a former prime minister, and this is a bizarre false memory ive had for YEARS. (the gal gadot i remember was DEFINITELY male btw. like a 50 year old man. not a woman.)
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  388. I did that thing where you hit the share button and copied the link to the video to boost its exposure. Any other viewers can do the same thing to help the video gain traction in the youtube algorithm.
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  389. 👋👋👋 Chanukah Sameach!
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  390. Stay safe Sam..
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  391. The thing I will always tell when Einstein's accomplishments are mentioned. He did all his greatest work while working with his first wife and mathematician Mileva Maric. Maric in fact did all the hard math. She deserves the recognition and should be mentioned together with Einstein. Her career and life went to shit after Einstein deserted her and their two sons. But thank you for this very informative video! Never seen this history been discussed anywhere before!
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  392. Very swag
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  393. Sam, while many Jewish foods possess their origin in a host culture, such as amba (excluding liturgical fare of course), in all my travels I've only found one "secular" dish I think is uniquely Jewish. My mother's mother introduced me to a treat called "Nuant", which sounds like Yiddish, but I think is derived from the biblical Hebrew "Nopheth", or flowing honey. It is simply fried walnuts and honey formed into clusters. It is clearly a cousin of baklava (sans the filo), as well as Arabic sesame candies (which contain egg white). It's very easy to make and all about the consistence. Spices can be added - such as small amounts of ginger or cardamon. I've had a hard time researching its earliest mention, but it appears to have been known among rural Hungarian Jews prior to the 20th century, and I've never found a non-Jewish version of it. Anyway, love your channel, keep up the great work. Oh, and as far as Matzah Ball soup goes, I was always instructed to add seltzer to the mix, refrigerate it overnight, and to cook the balls in the soup rather than in boiling water. That way they actually take on the flavor of the chicken broth, parsnips, dill, etc.
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  394. 7:17 Soghomon Tehlirian, Stepan Dzaghigian, Artashes Gevorgyan, and Petros Ter Poghosyan go brrrrr :D
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  395. Great video, Sam. Keep up the great work, it's much appreciated!
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  396. Thanks for noting Uncle Eduard 😊 Despite having family from many of the places you mentioned and who lived through much of this history, all I heard from them as a child were confused stories from limited perspectives. You’ve put a lot of it into context and suddenly the stories make more sense…!
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  397. Also David Salomon's clearly needed glasses because that man couldn't see a single fuck to give
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  398. 0:42 Nice use of "Obession" by Alexander Lasarenko!
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  399. Around 11:45 you talk about the west-east divide among European Jews and coin the term Mendelssohn Line. My very cursory knowledge about the Haskalah gave me the impression that it was a phenomenon in Eastern Europe, but you suggest that this line indicates where the Jewish Enlightenment spread beyond small intellectual circles into the broader culture and I got the impression that you meant that it was a Western thing. Do you have any more info about this? Not meant as a critique, I love your videos and am just curious to learn more!
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  400. Credited in a Sam Aronow video - dream come true 😎
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  401. 23:18 "He didn't come back for you." Brutal reference! How many people got it? You'd have to be Canadian, remember the 2011 federal election, and know that Michael Ignatieff is the descendant Nikolay Ignatyev (and have some idea of who Ignatyev was). These vids have layers!
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  402. Oh, finally some explanation for that tiny semi independent Galilee that we've been seeing in previous episodes.
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  403. Thank you for answering my question! I thought that the crypto jews perhaps changed certain key rituals to make them more secretive and came to think the new practices are a part of the religion. But if i understand your answer correctly they didnt misremember or change the ritual. Instead they simply thought of the secrecy itself as a part of the ritual and nothing more.(Besides the changes to prayers and removal of hebrew as you mentioned)
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  404. So I assume the Yankees reputation's among American sports fans is like that of Maccabi Tel Aviv among israelis. Although I guess worse because I don't see Americans rooting for a team that's not theirs in an international championship just because its from their country, while when macabbi went to the basketball Euroleague finals, except for Hapoel Jerusalem or Tel Aviv fans, I think many non-macabbi fans were at least mildly invested
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  405. ~24:08 Right around the same time my own (non-Jewish) ancestors moved to Chicago from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, I wonder if they ever bumped into each other.
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  406. Have a good rosh Hashanah and yom Kippur
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  407. My great grandfather was a Puerto Rican immigrant and he ran a record shop around there! Great video
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  408. The interesting thing about Jewish studies: gaining an understanding of my people's history, culture, and other measurements from a secular frame of view brought me to respect and want to learn to more about the Torah.
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  409. The proper term is "uncrewed" or "unstaffed" NASA missions, not "unmanned".
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  410. Thanks!
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  411. Maybe the next episode will be followed by a live tour at Machada?
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  412. I speak papiamento❤
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  413. Neat animations!
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  414. Fellow Pasadena jew checking in. Your video on bukharian jews popped up in my feed while researching a trip to central Asia, and then found this one after seeing so much devastation in Pasadena and PJTC. These are terrific videos and I look forward to watching many more. I hope you are safe. I don't live in California anymore but I still consider Pasadena my hometown.
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  415. Hi Sam. Good biography. I even learned new things I was not aware regarding Maimonides' life. A couple pointers: the Resh is not pronounced Ghresh in either Classic, Sephardic or Must'arabi pronunciations of Hebrew. It more closely resembles the way Spanish people do it, but you may stick to the Anglo American way. I recommend getting hands on anything written by Hakhám José Faur if you want to learn how we Sephardim read Maimónides traditionally. I see you like to bring little known subjects regarding Jewish history. Anyway, may you have a Sabá dulce y mejorado (sweet and rewarding Shabbat).
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  416. IT WAS THE RAMCHAL
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  417. To the question about emancipation in Israel. I'm an Israeli as well and religious. Plenty of us oppose the millet system as well. For one, we support religious freedom because we don't want other we might disagree with telling us how they think we should be doing Torah etc.
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  418. In reality, this SuperThanks is for your video today on Jews Under Lenin, and I had to come find a video where comments weren't locked down (so sorry that you ever need to do that). But though I picked this almost at random, I nonetheless watched it from beginning to end, and enjoyed it greatly (maybe because I grew up outside of Chicago and the neighborhoods felt like home).
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  419. One tiny correction: At about 13:37 into the video, it is stated that all people in India, both in British India and in the princely states, were British subjects. I believe that it is incorrect. All of them would have been eligible for a British Indian passport, which was not the same as a British passport. But even within that category, there were differences. People from the princely states had the status of British Protected People, not British subjects. Mohandas Karamchand (later Mahatma) Gandhi traveled to London on a BPP passport, because he was born in a princely state.g I believe (not sure) that people from British India were citizens of the Indian Empire and not full British subjects either. Note that none of this detracts from Sam Aronow's points on how the unique Indian structure may have inspired parts of the inter-war Palestinian constitution. I'm just being pedantic about a detail. Note that one detail of the inter-war Palestinian nationality was that, while the mandate was governed by the British, it was not legally a part of the British Empire and so, its people had British passports, but were not British subjects, similar to the status of subjects of Indian princely states.
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  420. Hi, ive just watched the majority of your videos. I had a couple lecutures at uni that touched the topic of jewish history and i talked to my proffesor about it, so ive had a passing interest and thwts why ive went looking, but i never thought i would spend so much time listening to content about it. I watch a lot of history yt channels(i enjoyed the collabirations) but among them i find your channel particularely impressive. Again i wasnt really that into jewish history and what made me stay is the extraodinary quality of your videos. Great stuff!
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  421. Happy to find this podcast ! I do know some people who moved to Mexico , one of them is my daughter . Greetings from Montreal 💌
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  422. Fun fact: nobody knows how the Rambam looked like. The popular image of the Rambam doesn't have any Jewish traits, and actually is believed to be a Muslim scholar, which was confused for the Rambam at some point. (according to the Israeli National Channel 'Khan' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA8wtzsljYE)
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  423. Valeu! Todá ! Thansk !
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  424. I didn't expect to hear Jabar from @FromNothing on here, but that made me happier than it should have.
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  425.  @SamAronow  well couldn't we really say it started with the appreciation of Siegel and Shuster's Superman? I think that this would make a great video, something I've read about . Perhaps you might want to look at how GIs coming home from the European theater were impacted by their experiences, Studs Terkel's The Good War might give you an idea of how working alongside Jewish GIs and the horrors of the camps taught some GIs respect for Jewish culture. On a goofier note, don't forget the impact of 2 Live Jews. Everyone needs a laugh. 😄
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  426. You put Beirut well INSIDE Palestine and portrayed Palestine as an arid abandoned land. My Palestinian grandfather and his brothers and sisters owned citrus farmland in Yaffa which they inherited from their parents. They sold oranges and lemons to Egypt and Syria. Many families farmed for Olives and different fruits and vegetables. Palestinian were also skilled merchants and fishermen. We had established cities and villages. We have our own local dialects, food, traditional cloths and music. My Muslim Palestinian dad used to play in the neighbourhood with the children of his Jewish and Christian neighbour. THEY ALL SPOKE ARABIC…
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  427. So close to the correct civil war better luck next time
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  428. Shana tova and keep safe
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  429. While living in Pasadena in the early 2000s we had several contractors come look at the house to bid on some work. Two of them were Israeli, both living in the San Fernando Valley, and both expressed great surprise at seeing a mezuzah on the door…they had never heard of Jews living in Pasadena
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  430. ⁠ @SamAronow Thanks…not sure how to private message. I have no social media accounts…Eduard Ritter von Schweitzer was my great grandfather’s uncle. There’s a fair bit about him available on line, all relating to Franz Josef’s promoting him in spite of his refusal to convert and continued pride in being conspicuously observant. He was born 1844, d 1920 but he was involved in Turkish and Balkan wars, not the Great War. Retired 1912. The only additional information I have through the family is the story of how, following his promotion to Field Marshal, he came to Kol Nidre in his full dress uniform…. 4:20
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  431.  @Vampirecronicler  I suppose it's gonna be the last episode of the diaspora in the 1920s, and probably like an hour long! Considering how much there is to cover, I assume it will be the last of the 1920s in the diaspora *part two*, just like how there was a WW1 part one and a WW1 part 2.
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  432. 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.
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  433. Cool jersey btw
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  434. 28:16 Sam, you should make a field trip to try to reconnect and understand current thoughtways amongst these Midwestern Radical Reformists!
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  435. Do you have a source for the population figures at 2:13? Growing from 350 to 50K in just 150 years would mean an annual growth rate of ~3.4%, which is astoundingly high for medieval times. By comparison, the growth rate in places like India and China when they were having their population booms in parts of the 20th century was perhaps 2.3-2.5% at the absolute highest. The only thing that comes close is the 13 American colonies (1625-1775)—where there was lots of land to expand into, generally much cleaner living conditions than in medieval Europe, and a small but steady inflow of immigrants—where the growth rate perhaps reached a hair more than 3%.
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  436. Reb sadiya is one of my most respected and favorite Jewish figures in history.
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  437. I just did a rewatch of the Jewish History playlist (okay, SOME of it, but I went straight through on the last 20 or so videos), and this video wasn't on the playlist. Was that intentional?
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  438. Dang ! I came here for Al Bundy's wisdom !
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  439. great video as always! keep up the great work!
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  440. I'm not sure if you'll be checking a comment on a 2 year old video, but with theosophical Kabbalah, is that right? I thought theosophy as a term was coined by Helena Blavatsky for her Theosophical Society which was apart of that process of appropriation of Kabbalah along with Aleister Crowley
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  441. ~9:21 Just the other day I saw a video posted by an official Twitter account of Israel - Israel, the country you'd expect to be the most aware of the existence of non-New Yorker Jews - where 1st century Aramaic-speaking Levantine Jew Jesus of Nazareth was depicted with a New York accent.
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  442. I believe I've spotted a small oversight: at 8:20 you used Nahalal as an example for a Moshav, but Nahalal was founded in 1921 during the Third Aliya, not the Fourth Aliya. This also goes against the framing of the movement as a 4th-Aliya innovation. Did you mean to say that the movement got a lot more support during the 4th, or is it just something that you missed in the 3rd Aliya's video and correct now?
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  443. I am greatly amused by this video. Are you still in the states?
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  444. Good episode my cousin in San Francisco is having her Bat Mitzvah this December
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  445. 7:06 Quentin = Hamishi 😂
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  446. Hi Sam Aronow. What do Jews believe about Jesus as human person? As Jewish People are descended through male-based family tree, is Jesus Christ considered as ethnic Jew?
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  447. Gold 🥇
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  448. A few years ago, the skeletal remains of a number of Jews of all ages were discovered and recovered from a well in East Anglia, the south-east part of England where Jews had small, urban communities until their ouster in 1290. There are contemporary accounts extant of blood libels and the murder of local Jewish communities. Carbon dating, DNA testing and forensic analysis pointed towards these people as Jews who did not die of natural causes. The mortal remains were buried in Jewish cemeteries under the auspices of Chief Rabbi Mirvis and/or Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of Blessed Memory.
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  449. Is 7:06 a Pulp Fiction joke orrrr??
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  450. 5:46 Hasdai ibn shapirut --- Ha, paintbrush aids
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  451. One of your best, if not the best video of yours so far! Holy fuck it’s so good!
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  452. Hello Mr. Aronow! Not sure if you take questions from youtube comments but: You mentioned in the Third Aliyah video that the Sykes-Picot agreement was abandoned almost immediately after it was proposed. What’s your source on that? The whole intro to that video piqued my curiosity about alternate ways the Middle East could have been split up, so I was looking for more info, but I didn’t see a citation for that part of the video. Thanks!
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  453. Winston Churchill was a Liberal minister (and MP) during the First World War, he would defect to the conservatives in 1922.
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  454. 5:14 law was considered an inherently shady business even then. Is this why I couldn't find a job right out of law school? /JK
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  455. Nice bumping into you Sam! Subscribed to your channel and look forward to checking it out.
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  456. Hey, this is another case of expulsion in the Americas. I am not sure if there’s information in English. It happened in 1856. https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsi%C3%B3n_de_los_jud%C3%ADos_de_Coro
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  457. Phonologist with a focus on Semitic languages here, I want to nitpick your pronunciation section a bit, the source I'm using for Tiberian Hebrew is "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew" by Geoffrey Khan (2020): @13:45 you say that Modern Israeli Hebrew has 6 vowel sounds but really it only has 5, Modern Hebrew shva (ə) is also never distinguished from segol and tsere (e), the only difference is that shva can be dropped while segol and tsere are usually not dropped. so it's technically not a separate sound. you also show in the chart that Hebrew /a/ is a merger of patah (a) and qamats (ɔ) but qamats (ɔ) sometimes merges with holam (o) the former (the one that becomes /a/) is called qamats gadol while the latter (the one that becomes /o/) is called qamats qatan. That happened because Modern Hebrew vowels are based the Sephardic tradition which is descendant from the Palestinian tradition of Hebrew not Tiberian Hebrew. Similarly Tiberian doesn't have 8 vowels, it has 12 vowel signs (patah, segol, tsere, hiriq, qamats, holam, qubuts, shuruq, shva, hataf patah, hataf segol, hataf qamats) and 7 vowel sounds [a ɛ e i ɔ o u], shva and the hataf signs were distinguished by length from the other vowels not pronunciation, and qubuts and shuruq both stood for the same sound. @13:50 you say that Modern Israeli Hebrew has 19 basic consonants, yet you list 21 on your screen (/b v g d h w z x t j k l m n ŋ s p f ts ʀ ʃ/) more confusingly you have /w/ and /ŋ/ listed as "basic sounds" when they aren't, /w/ is only found in loan words and sure [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ before /k g/ but that sort of allophony wouldn't usually be counted, the actual phonemic inventory of Hebrew is: /m n p t k ʔ b d g ts f v s z ʃ χ ʁ̞ h l j/ which is 20 consonants, my guess you didn't count /ʔ/ the glottal stop, but while it is usually dropped it should still be counted as it is still pronounced in careful speech, rural speech, and sometimes preserved in stressed syllables, it's not just a silent vowel carrier as you claim they are. Also /θ/ and /ð/ appear in transliterations not loanwords, only people highly educated in English or Standard Arabic would pronounce those sounds. As for Tiberian Hebrew, well /d͡ʒ/ has never a pronuncation of gimel in Tiberian Hebrew, gimel was pronounced hard as /g/ and soft as /ʁ/, mirroring /k/ and /χ/ for hard and soft kaph respectively. As for Vav there is disagreement, it was mostly pronounced [v] tho it does appear to have been pronounced [w] by some people or at least in certain words, for example <וּ־> a special form of "and" before was pronounced [wu-]. Shema Yisrael would be pronounced like this: Modern: [ʃeˈma jis.ʁ̞aˈʔel ʔa.doˈnaj ʔe.loˈ(h)e(j).nu ʔa.doˈnai ʔeˈχad] Tiberian: [ʃaˈmaː.aʕ jis.rˤɔːˈʔeː.el ʔa.ðoːˈnɔː.ɔj ʔɛ.loːˈheː.nuː ʔa.ðoːˈnɔː.ɔj ʔɛːˈħɔː.ɔð] The 5 vowel system of Modern Israeli Hebrew is in fact pretty fine, it is a direct and faithful descendent of Sephardic vowels, but what is very innovative of Modern Israeli Hebrew phonology is the consonants, those consonant mergers are things that were initially proscribed by language authorities, but as the population of Israel shifted from majority ethnic Mizrahi and Sephardi (who mostly spoke Arabic natively) to majority ethnic Ashkenazi (who mostly spoke Yiddish or Polish natively) the jews of European descent had trouble distinguishing many of the sounds and so merged them and where just accepted over time by the language authorities, making the new norm.
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  458. Is it me or the end of the history of mankind is ending in fully automated luxury gay space communism?
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  459. Hello Sam! I absolutely love your videos! There’s an interesting question I have and would love to know more about, maybe see a video about this subject. In a lot of places in Europe throughout history Jews were allowed only to work with the locals as money loaners, right? I would love to know more on how did it exactly work. For example, if someone had to pay the Jews back their debt but didn’t, did the Jews were able to do something about it? Were there Jewish debt collectors?
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  460. The guy pictured in the video still, the "Baal Shem Tov" looks like the actor, Martin Balsam. Maybe, that's where his surname is derived.
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  461. 21:28 did she ever mentioned the highest ranking jew of the war?
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  462. Hi Sam, I want to sincerely apologize for how my comment on Patreon came across. I see now that it sounded like I was blaming the assimilated Jews, and that was absolutely not my intention. I don’t blame the Jewish people for anything—I fully support assimilation and believe in its importance, I’m a “modernized” secular jews myself. My concern were more about how non-Jews perceive assimilated Jews and the hostility or prejudice that can still persist. I realize now how my words were hurtful and came off differently than I intended. Your perspective about diaspora Jews, patriotism, and the challenges we face really made me reflect. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and I hope you can accept my apology.
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  463. 2:48 MENDOZAAAAA
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  464. Amazing video as always!!!
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  465. Just to be clear in 1847 Sweden still had the estat riksdag system, but unlike on the continent we had 4 estets, Prest, Nobel, Farmer, bourgeoisie. (On the contitnent Famer and bourgeoisie was just the "third estate"). So for any major change any estate could veto it, thats why they needed the suport of the farmers estat. The estat riksdag was abolished in 1866 and replaced with a two chamber system. And the two chamber was replaced in 1971 with just a one chamber riksdag.
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  466. 3:15 in Chinese, different bean curd styles are named after different meats that they are substitutes for. Chicken substitute or 素鸡，literally translates to “vegetable/vegetarian chicken”
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  467. hello non Jewish Dane here wanted to learn a bit more on Jewish history in the Nordic countries, just wanted to give you a couple of examples on how Danish Jews have shined, the world famous Danish Jewish designer and Architect Arne Jacobsen (design is almost a religion in Denmark Arne is the no 1 God in that area) Arne have build many important building s in and outside Denmark public and private among them the National bank of Denmark, , City hall Århus Denmark, a beach area north of Copenhagen called Bellevue, the Danish Ambassy in London, Radisson blu hotel Copenhagen plus private housing, ST Cathrine's college Oxford, he is even more famous for his furniture like the Egg and Swan Chair and many more he ended up designing everything in Radisson Blu Hotel down to the cutlery , another famous Danis Jewish designer was his close friend Poul Henningsen famous for his many lamps like PH5, the "artichoke" lamp and many more, a few years ago it was estimated that about 50% of Danish households has 1 or more of Pouls lamps! , many homes also have Arne Jacobsen chairs especially model 3107 is very common in the average Danish home, Arne and Poul escaped to Sweden during WW2 and returned to Denmark after to continue their work their designs are exported all over the world. There may be other of the very famous Danish designers and architects who were Jews but I only know that Arne and Poul was, we don't talk much about religion in general in Denmark unless there is a reason, I only know that Arne and Poul was Jewish because Arne was once asked about escaping to Sweden with Poul and their wife's
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  468. I think my grandparents lived in the same part of Humboldt park. Their house was almost identical to your ancestors house. It felt like home when I saw the Puerto Rican flag, lol. Small world!
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  469. I hope you're wary of the White Supremacists and right wingers harassing you online. Antisemites are always on the prowl.
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