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  1. hmmm. Sejanus looks a bit like Patrick Stewart. I Claudius fan?
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  2. When Iยดm 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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  3. It is interesting to see how religions were practiced in different countries!
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  4. 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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  5. The bucket reference made me smile and the ending made me excited. ๐Ÿ˜€
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  6. 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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  7. Thank you for including me in this amazing video!
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  8. 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. Itโ€™s very much appreciated
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  9. 13:22 ืืคื™ืœื• ื‘ืขื™ืจืืง ืœืคื ื™ 100 ืฉื ื” ื™ืฉื™ื‘ื•ืช ืงื™ื‘ืœื• ืชืงืฆื™ื‘ ืœืคื™ ื›ืžื•ืช ืœื™ืžื•ื“ื™ ื”ืœื™ื‘ื” ืฉื”ื ืœื•ืžื“ื™ื! ืœืžื” ื”ื™ื•ื ื”ื ืžืงื‘ืœื™ื ืชืงืฆื™ื‘ื™ื ืžืขื‘ืจ?!
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  10. 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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  11. Those grand synagogues are absolutely beautiful!
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  12. Man I love your content, great sense of drama and pacing, and awesome illustrations!
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  13. 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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  14. 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 ๐Ÿ˜‰
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. This is the first main series video youโ€™ve posted since Iโ€™ve started college, and without these videos I doubt I would be where I am. Iโ€™m now studying Jewish studies and itโ€™s entirely thanks to the fascination you and these videos have instilled in me for the subject. Iโ€™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 Iโ€™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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  20. 7:43 Wow, I never knew that any country with those exact problems could even survive!
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  21. 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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  22. God damn it Spain I thought we had something
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  23. Wait a minute, UsefulCharts is now a pateron? That's, as a certain polish jew once put it, Nea-to!
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  24. "50% loan words from English and 50% curse words" Ah, sounds like how I learned Irish lol
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  25. 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. ืœื ืื’ื™ื“ ืฉืืชื” ืขื•ืฉื” ืžืฆื•ื•ื”, ืื‘ืœ ืืชื” ืžื“ื”ื™ื. ืื ืชืจืฆื” ืขื–ืจื” ื‘ืขืจื‘ื™ืช ืื• ื‘ืขื‘ืจื™ืช, ืจืง ืชื’ื™ื“. ื“"ืฉ ืœื™ืคื•!
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  26. 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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  27. because of your channel i started learning hebrew i've really learnt alot about jewish culture from you
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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: โ€œnot all of us are fortunate (or rich) enough to be able to jump out from the 5th floor of a luxurious hotel.โ€ 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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  31. 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 work๐Ÿ‘
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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. Another wonderful presentation, Sam! We'll work on proper French pronunciations later.
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. What a nice birthday surprise
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  39. 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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  40. Something tells me, we are going to the Netherlands in the next episode.
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  41. @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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. Well timed since Tisha Bโ€™Av is upon us.
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  49. 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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  50. 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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