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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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