* casually drops a fact about LAPD nearly killing his family, refuses to elaborate * Love your stuff about Jewish history, but family history like this makes it more relatable. Looking forward to future episodes.

“Jake Aronow died from complications of Tuberculosis” it’s always tuberculosis!

@fnansjy456

10 ай бұрын

John Green want to know your location

@leszekwolkowski9856

10 ай бұрын

though better than dysentery, meaning, the shits.... a most undignified way to go.

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@fnansjy456He already knows. We met on this trip.

@GermanConquistador08

10 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow - Epic Crossover!

@gyllenspetzfamily7993

10 ай бұрын

​@@SamAronowyou are adorable! Remind me of my little cousins! I just want to bake you something! After giving you a sweater...ahem😏...🤗😇

"...LAPD tried to kill them all" You sure know how to drop a cliffhanger. DAMN!

"But it is actually like 13 degrees" ~Sam Aronow, an American who used Celsius. Now I have seen it all!

@DiamondKingStudios

10 ай бұрын

Probably more common in the military from what I’ve heard. We’ve learned since that Mars river fiasco that it’s pretty good for working with other countries, except aircraft altitude for some reason, doubt they’ll ever metricate that

@jacobschwartz6579

10 ай бұрын

He’s an Israeli now.

@aaronsirkman8375

10 ай бұрын

@@jacobschwartz6579 I'm pretty sure he has dual citizenship, but he does live there as far as I know.

@mcfarofinha134

9 ай бұрын

@@DiamondKingStudios the international standard for most naval and sky related shit is imperial still. I think it's partially tradition, and partially because some things are just better non-metric

@DiamondKingStudios

9 ай бұрын

@@mcfarofinha134 or maybe because we Americans, having the largest naval fleets and being the inventors and primary pioneers of aviation, have just been able to arbitrarily maintain our own measurements as paramount. So I guess everyone else on the sea and in the air just has to suffer from the lack of metric lol

It's always interesting to see people talking about their ancestors. As a Brazilian, many people in my country, including myself, know nothing or very little about their ancestry, which it's kind of sad.

Theodore Herzl was a law student. The continental European lawyers were awarded Juris Doctorates and generally considered it fine for lawyers to call themselves doctors while English speakers did not.

There were some great casual teases of gnarly family stories at 8:16 and 9:01. And the part about problems with the accuracy of shooting historical movies/series in even seemingly well-preserved neighborhoods triggers one of my obsessions - why isn't animation commonly used for serious, realistic historical stories?!

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

Because the success of the first few animated feature films in the US set a precedent that animation was a medium for children. Walt Disney basically took a backseat from filmmaking after becoming disillusioned with the failure of _Fantasia_ for exactly this reason. And nowadays traditional animation is strictly seen as anti-populist foreign/arthouse cinema. Video games, on the other hand...

@leszekwolkowski9856

10 ай бұрын

Sir, you're either time warping as you are very prodigious, albo te same zainteresowania mamy, stary. So in the spirit of this channel, lechitraot.

@Artur_M.

10 ай бұрын

@@leszekwolkowski9856 Yeah, I'm starting to think I have a bit of a problem with youtube addiction. Podobne zainteresowania pewnie też mają na to wpływ. 😉 BTW thanks to your comment I just learned a new Hebrew word. Lehitraot!

@peterdagata1610

7 ай бұрын

Have you ever watched “Waltz with Bashir?” It is a beautifully animated Israeli film about the experiences of IDF soldiers recollecting their time in the Lebanon war and possible involvement in the Sabra Shetila massacre. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.

Alright! I've been waiting for this episode! Also, really looking forward to the episode on the Nazi hunting assassin uncle someday.

"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.

Wearing a sox hat in a cubs neighbourhood was a bold choice, Sam.

Nice video Sam! Whats the lore behind the green and black jersey?

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.

My great grandfather was a Puerto Rican immigrant and he ran a record shop around there! Great video

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

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.

Grew up in Roger's Park/Evanston area, near Skokie. Loved growing up in the Jewish community there. I now live in Los Angeles.

Cool, thanks for sharing your family history with us.

So cool to see your family history in Chicago. I love hearing my parents' stories about family roots in Chicago. Well outside the borders of Chicagoland, so many people have family histories tracing back to the city.

Theodore Herzl was a Doctor in Law ! It was as a title, not a physician... 7:38

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but lawyers in English are referred to as "Esquire," not "Doctor."

@amsellem

10 ай бұрын

@SamAronow Doctor in Law is not lawyer Doctor is a Title when you make a Thesis...

@couplingrhino

10 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow Germans will meticulously call everyone with a doctorate Herr/Frau Doktor, so that probably got translated as such a bunch of times.

This channel gets better and better .

Oh wow!!! another thing we both have in common besides our wit and good looks!! I always knew I had an affinity for your style of presentation, it's so clear to me now that you're a Chicagoan!

Loved the episode, and I have a question. I suppose that your family being Ashkenazi Jews from modern-day Ukraine spoke either Yiddish or a Slavic language as their first language before moving to America. Given this, for how long did it survive into your family? Cheers from Portugal!

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

My grandparents spoke Yiddish and English. Their parents were bi- or tri- lingual in Yiddish, Russian, and English. My parents speak only English. By their time Yiddish had largely become the language of Hasidim and remnant Bundists. My grandparents considered it a dead language and saw no point in passing it on, though my mom did learn a little from her Bundist preschool.

@Tony-zh1kz

10 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow Thanks for the answer. I hope to see more about Yiddish in a future video, it is a language that personally I as an European feel is a part of our cultural and historical matrix, even after WW2. Edit: By the time I replied I saw your edit. I knew about Yiddish becoming the language of the Hasidic Jews, but not of the Bundists. And I guess it really depends on many factors whether or not an immigrant community chooses to keep their ancestral language (Either as a spoken or cultural-heritage language). Still, thanks for the info.

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

Yes, nowadays in the US speaking only English is either a sign of bad parenting (by bilingual people) or a pathetic attempt to pass as a real American (by white nationalists).

@tamarleahh.2150

10 ай бұрын

​@@SamAronowin a video on pesach you mentioned a Persian minhag. Are you also Persian?

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

@@tamarleahh.2150 No, that's purely the result of being from Southern California.

Thanks!

Watching from Logan Square. Such a gift!

My Grandparents owned a jewish bakery in Skokie. My Great Grandparents ran a tailor shop and clothing company, not sure where that was though.

Awesome video! My great grandparents were jews from romania/hungary who came to america in the early 1900s and they settled in the north lawndale neighborhood in chicago.

I did enjoy it!! Thank you!

Be sure to visit the old Jewish section of the Oak Woods Cemetery, on the side adjacent to 71st St. It's sadly fallen into disrepair, but there's a ton of interesting history there.

I wish it could be that cold in Texas right now, it has been 105 to 115 (40.5C to 46.2C) this entire month with no wind an 50 to 80% humidity.

Very much looking forward to seeing more on the road. Your videos give so much good context that it makes it easy to pick a thing and learn more about it. I appreciate that.

Love the hat. keep up the good work.

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 )

@SamAronow

9 ай бұрын

Hey, I haven't heard from you in a while? Are you doing alright up there?

@serhiiherasymov4809

9 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow I’m fine, thanks. Still hoping to grab a beer in Israel after the war )

Thanks for taking time out of your very important baseball game to make this excellent video, Sam 😃

Is your video on jewish denomination comming along, is it nearly done? Can't wait to see it. Love your videos. Id like to see a another Jewish history on the plate .Great video .

Great video as always. Sick jersey though.

Sam, when you said, "the horse thing goes way back, 4:13" was that a reference to parashim, a hereditary calvary status that you mentioned in earlier videos?

Nice shirt!

Great video, nice Sox hat!

4:13 “The horse thing goes way back.” I actually have a question about this! Way back in earlier episodes you mentioned that the Aronows are descendants of the Pareshim. How do you actually know that? Like how can you trace your heritage back that far? Is it like linguistic stuff with your name? Is it something else?

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

Oh, that was just a joke for History House Productions. But for my family the horse thing _does_ go back at least to the 1790s.

@jacobschwartz6579

10 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow Oh I see! To be honest, that makes far more sense, haha! Tracing your family history as far back as the 1790s is awesome! Love your work! Can’t wait for your First World War videos!

I remember the ads for that movie!

Awesome family history, I appreciate it, I learned in yeshiva in Chicago (foster & drake) for ten years, I am big Chicago Bears fans just unfortunately there offensive woes will continue , I will be following you 🏈

mr aronow i had listen you work and i do think its brilliant thanks you. (however consider perhaps a style image consultant when appering on screen)

5:22 Sorry to be 'that guy,' but Puerto Ricans aren't immigrants; they're US citizens. Puerto Rico is a US Commonwealth that has been teetering on becoming a state for quite some time now. Also I happen to be half Puerto Rican with family on the island and in Humboldt Park 😎

Are the Aranows buried in Chicago?

My brother out here lookin like Bill the Butcher

I noticed that you pronounce your name Aronow more like Arono, without the "v" sound at the end. Do you have a family story about that? Am I right that originally it was pronounced more like Aronov?

Sam, I know you have long past this period in your series, and I know the Holocaust and the foundation of the state of Israel are fast approaching, and surely time consuming topics. Still, I would love for you to make a video on Moses. His historiocity is much-debated, and while his depiction in Exodus is certainly legendary, it would be interesting to see your take on it. Josephus preserves for us some Ptolemaic accounts of Moses, as the figure Osarseph, later expanded on in “Joseph and his brothers” by Thomas Mann (admittedly, a work of fiction). Freud suggested that Moses was Akhenaten. Many scholars place his life around the same time as Akhenaten, a few generations before or after, depending. Could he have been a priest of Akhenaten that fled to Egypt? And this was later combined with the historical memory of the Hyksos? I don’t know. You’re so much more well-versed in this stuff, and there is a dearth of information on this topic that is accessible to the general public that is not somehow religiously motivated. Please consider, and I wish you the best.

Cool jersey btw

Do you have any relation to the dude in Aronow v. United States?

6:40 I imagine there would have been less cars and more horse poop in the streets. Probably more people walking as well.

Those were really big houses. Were they single family homes or divided up into flats/apartments?

@SamAronow

9 ай бұрын

Most of them were apartments. The smaller ones were single-family homes, but keep in mind we're talking about extended immigrant families.

Your great Uncle was Nazi hunting assassin? I wanna know that story.

It's beautiful neighborhood. American cities would be so much better if they had more of these instead of suburbs.

You're pulling of that look brother! I barely recognized you.

I thought your family was from Cleveland.

The White Sox hat and mustache is giving Dylan Cease vibes (Jewish pitcher on the White Sox)

@john2432

10 ай бұрын

Cease is Jewish?

Killer ‘stashe dude

Sam, please create a video about the jews in the kingdom of Navarre, the basque region, and if or how they were influencial in st. James pilgrimage, and if crypto Jews were the "first christians" or the early christian before roman Catholicism.

❤

Hi Sam, did you live in Chicago or were you already born in LA?

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

Neither.

@boisesoccer

10 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow Where were born and lived in the United States?

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

Pasadena

@boisesoccer

10 ай бұрын

@@SamAronowIt's very interesting to learn how different immigrant communities and their descendants established their home in the new country - USA. Thanks for sharing your family history!

@brianalice

10 ай бұрын

Pasadena is close enough to LA for most people. I live in Orange County, but to anyone outside California, “basically LA”.

Umm. Can we talk about the stache? 🔥 🔥

טוב מאוד סאם

Theodor Herzl, the jewish Dr. J

“North street” 😬 hits the ear like nails on a chalkboard. It’s North Avenue, bro.

Now go to Shaker Heights so no one thinks you are descended from Shakers and i can relive my childhood. 😊

Are you hinting at mob connections here? The relationship to horses goes way back (gambling?), the family was hurt when Prohibition ended, then went to LA and had trouble with the cops there. I know that the Chicago mob, while mainly Italian, had Jewish members too, and was expanding into Hollywood at this time.

@SamAronow

10 ай бұрын

The Schenker/Chernick/Wasserman side in Cleveland were the ones with the mafia connections, not the Aronows. The horse thing has nothing to do with racing. And the LAPD was planning to wipe out _all_ of Los Angeles' Jews, not my family specifically.

@tobybartels8426

10 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow : I noticed that it was the Schenkers that were hurt by the end of Prohibition, which put me on the alert for other signs. I've never heard of this plan by the LAPD, so I look forward to learning about it from you.

9:01 What!?

Somebody was a bootlegger 😂

Dude we look a like

Israil videos when? :P

Sam, I promise you this is a compliment, but if I didn’t know better I’d assume you were like 20. You’ve aged like water.

ah i see you dont live in chicago anymore

F yeah White Sox!

Forget Elvis... Freddie Mercury came back! (Sorry... But that mustache really makes you look like Freddie Mercury...)

They were right, you are the Israeli equivalent of JJ McCullough.

I know this is besides the main point of the video, but public transportation wasn't failing because big car companies bought them out and thats why we its doomed to either be socialised or die. Not only private metros and trains exist, they are extremely profitable. Private mass transit got killed of due to the US constant intervention from the Federan and state governments, calling every big transit company under the sun anti-trust, building the interstate highway, and then slowly prioritizing cars everywhere over dense walkable mixed used neighborhoods. Chedder did a piece on the LA red and yellow line dismissing exactly this myth. "Why LA Destroyed Its World-Class Transit System - Cheddar Explains" if anyone is interested.

Can I take you on a date when you come back to Israel? If you are gay of course 😊