Sorry if I come off as a little surly on this one. At the time of recording it was the end of the day, I was losing my voice, and I'd just spent considerable time either at the doctor's office or marching in the streets. I also spent most of that afternoon doing some very grisly and demoralizing research for the next video (more grisly and demoralizing than the actual video will be, I promise), so I was just kind of out of it.

@thecoloroctet1365

Жыл бұрын

I never pictured research for the Uganda Scheme to be grisly and demoralizing, how so?

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

@@thecoloroctet1365 The Uganda Scheme was merely a response, one of many that will be detailed in the video. Also, it wasn't actually in Uganda. Herzl was just overeager and uninformed. Which is unusual for him, I know!

@gyllenspetzfamily7993

Жыл бұрын

​@@SamAronow please rest. Even if it is a staycation. I'm concerned for your health. Look to improve your immune system. I don't know why you are marching in the streets. 🤔😟 but please dress warmly and maybe watch some light hearted films or go out and enjoy some live jazz. History is a heavy weight, lighten your load with the good things in life. I'm asking sincerely. 🥺🤗 that's a hug and a concerned smile.

@mammuchan8923

Жыл бұрын

Hi Sam I feel so privileged to have found your channel. The history is fascinating and your delivery perfect. I feel like taking a day or so leave and just watch your channel. Take care I hope you feel better and thank you for this marvellous channel.

@KhassiaK

Жыл бұрын

My hubby is actually from Uganda, so anything relevant to it and Jewry would be of great interest to me. As for your health and being a part of the recent protests over the government's proposed changes, I can understand your passion; wanting to be a part of history and caring so much for your homeland, especially because of all you know given your profession. Most people who do what you do long term end up hiring others as research assistants, even if on an ad hoc basis. It's how they can maintain consistency, quality & sanity. The fact of your need to work on scalability is a testament to your success and all of the time and effort you have put in. Don't be afraid to invest in yourself, @Sam Aronow. Onward & upward, chaver!

To the extent that Zamenhof's background might've influenced his development of Esperanto, it was probably due to having lived in a relatively multi-ethnic city, where Polish, Russian, Yiddish, Belarusian and German were all spoken, and a belief that a common language could bridge these communities by ending misunderstandings that he saw as leading to friction between different ethnolinguistic communities.

@orenrobinson

Жыл бұрын

I was a big fan of Esperanto before I learned the Jewishness involved. Before Esperanto, Zamenhof (a native Yiddish speaker and early Hebrew learner) wrote the first grammar of Yiddish. He began promoting Esperanto in the wake of Russian pogroms as an alternative to Hibbat Zion's political strategy, alongside a moral philosophy called "Hilelismo", a secular philosophy inspired by Hillel the Elder. This was later renamed to Homaranismo (in part to communicate it's aspiration towards universal adoption). One of the founders of the Baha'i faith, Abdu'l Baha, cemented Esperanto as the faith's first prominent choice for a world language (a proposal the faith supports governments to adopt). Up until his death (months prior to the Balfour declaration), Zamenhof's writings and speeches in Esperanto gatherings frequently debated the concepts of early Zionism including homelands, citizenship, democracy and nationhood. After his death, Esperantists formed the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmondo (Global Society Without Nations), and Esperanto became a target of persecution by Nazis and later Stalin. Esperanto was a secret language used by captives in Nazi concentration camps. One of Zamenhof's children, Lidia, became a follower of the Baha'i faith. All three of Zamenhof's children promoted Esperanto until their capture and murder by Nazis. Thanks to @Sam for responding to my earlier request to mention Zamenhof, and thank you @Pescavalho for your comment! I love to geek out about this lesser-known history!

If you were writing the *script* of the Dreyfus video while sick with Covid, I'm surprised you made it as coherent as you did.

The dedication to correcting your own errors 👌

Correction to the corrections video: you have my name on Mr. Gordon’s question. 😆

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

Yikes! I'm sorry.

@themacandcheeseorca1128

Жыл бұрын

Correction to the correction to the corrections video: That was my comment 😂

@oshergordon6406

Жыл бұрын

Apparently I've been misspelling my name this whole time 😆 but I don't want to take credit for someone else's question.

Think this is the quickest I've ever got to a Sam Aranow video (25 seconds)

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!

Interesting you mention the Sabotniks, I went down a Wikipedia rabbithole and found out that they tried to make a settlement in my state when some came to America, but they abondoned it.

Despite of how amazing Omni atlas is, I think it'd be great to occasionally show an overlap with current borders, not only would it help modern audiences better visualize the locations of places which might even changed their names, but it'd also help you a bit with not misplacing cities or towns like it happened with Viena 😅

Can't wait for what's next!

finally really needed this video

Yay! I helped with a correction!

This is my first recap video since catching up :D

Your channel has helped me reconnect with a lot of history I really never got an understanding about while my Jewish grandparents are alive, I was too young to understand the history at the time but after their passing I’ve been able to find so much info on their entry into Chicago and Cleveland and your videos have helped me immensely in understanding how the heck they got over here, why their families really left the old country, and why my grandfather always used to tell me that we were “from Poland and Russia, because the border always changed”. You and I have similar backgrounds - thanks for sharing :)

Hi, just small correction Abraham Isaak Kook was from today Latvia. Here was born near Daugavpils/Dvinsk/Dünaburg.

Lenin’s “What is to be done?” will answer your questions about how the Bolsheviks would delineate the political struggle from the merely economic under the specific conditions of the Russian Empire (and how those conditions differ from other European states). Vanguardism as a program is a necessary consequence of these conditions (absolute monarchy, police repression) if a party is to affect political change, according to Lenin. I’m not sure how to directly answer your question, especially in the KZread comments, but that text has what I believe you’re looking for. n.b. it was written before the party split

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

That doesn't explain the division between the Bund and Martov though.

@faerieprincess1232

Жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow Oh, well just because Martov wasn’t a vanguardist doesn’t mean he wasn’t anti-economism. To my recollection I’m not sure he wrote anything against the Bund, but he was never himself a member (even post-split) so I’m not sure there is a “division” between Martov and the Bund so much as there was never “unity.” If your question is “what is the difference between the programs of the Mensheviks and the Bund” then it may be as simple as linguistics or differing takes on the national question. Martov was not a native Yiddish speaker, for instance.

2:11 I noted that correction in the previous video because I live close to there. There are places in Zichron Ya'akov; a small alley, a boutique hotel, a hill and a cultural center, all named after Zamarin. There is a plate that explains that those places are named after "the original name" of Zichron Ya'akov. It is also the story that many people, mainly the elderly know about. That is why I noted the correction, because the legacy is about the name of Zamarin, not Shomron.

4:35 There is a large diaspora of Circassians in the Middle East, specially Jordan and Syria. In regards to Israel, there are two Circassian villages, Rihaniya and Kfar Kama that speak their own dialect of Adyghe. Have you visited or do you plan sometime to visit these villages?

@torceridaho

6 ай бұрын

I have visited Kfar Kama. Just amazing

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.

Sam Aronow confirmed NFKRZ enjoyer

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.

Shlom shabbat!I'd like to point out an inaccuracy in your descriptionof Rav Cook. To my knowlege, Cook was born in Dvinsk (which is today today called Daugavpils, and located in my dear, chauvinistic homeland Latvia, not Lithuania).A minor re-correction :)

I'm new to the channel. Could someone explain the context behind the phrase: "we need to acknowledge the fact that Persia exists"?

@shacharh5470

Жыл бұрын

There's no simple way to summarize it. Watch his earlier videos (you can find a chronological playlist) and you'll get it.

@franciscovelasco5422

Жыл бұрын

@@shacharh5470 I watched them, but I would still like to know where it came from.

@shacharh5470

Жыл бұрын

@@franciscovelasco5422 how did you miss it? 😲

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

It originated as an homage to CGP Grey's video on the British monarchy.

@franciscovelasco5422

Жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow thanks!

I still wonder what’s the song playing in the background of every correction’s video

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

"Hard Boiled" by Kevin McLeod.

@kapifromnevada4697

Жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow the legend has spoken

In Balkans there were schools of Alliance universelles teaching french language.

Will there be more detail about the buying of land in palestine in future videos? (E.G. what happened to farmer tenants in the case of absentee landlords)

What do you think of the Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum

Was the movie producer Milton Subotnik a Subotnik?

There is not sufficient evidence to claim that Lenin's grandfather's Jewish. It's much more likely that out of the two Moses Blanks, the Russian non-Jew was Lenin's grandfather. The fact that it is Lenin's sister who jumped to this conclusion too soon is no evidence against this.

Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the most prominent currently elected Bundist. There are now, as there were 100 years ago, a bunch of Bundist organizations doing direct action: Worker's Circle (Yiddish classes), Amienu, JFREJ, etc.

@vajomo

Жыл бұрын

Sholom Aliechem Houses, Circle Care, a credit union...

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

Is Sanders a Bundist though? He isn't campaigning for Jewish autonomy; it's just not a relevant concern in the US.

old believers and spiritual Christians also to included

Jeez, how dare you take some time to take care of yourself and well-being! (Kidding, of course.)

We need more jewish ned flanders NOW!

I speak papiamento❤

@joaoribeiro5938

Жыл бұрын

Is papiamento related to the Sephardic community in Curacao? I know that is very similar to Portuguese.

This question might be a little late, but, what is happening with the Karaite Jews during all this time? I know they were present in Crimea. Did they simply experiment the exact same things as the rest of the Jews since we last saw them? Were they affected by Emancipation, Jewish Enlightenment, the oppressive policies of Russia? Maybe I should have asked this after the Empires trilogy.

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

More or less, though it's interesting to note that the Imperial Census of 1897 still counted them separately from other Jews.

@mlovecraftr

Жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow oh, fascinating! What was their relationship with the other local Jewish communities? Are there are any contemporary testimonies about how they saw each other?

Yoooo jewish lore update

How many Subbotniks came to Palestine? I couldn't find any sources...

You've lost me, Sam 😔

I don't think it's fair to say that early religious Zionism was closer to reform than "ultra-orthodoxy". Religious zionism has always viewed halakha as the first and foremost value. This is in direct contradiction with reform.

cant wait for when you talk about 21st century Israeli history and modern Israeli history from 2010 to now, hopefully Israeli democracy will survive until then but it might not, the violent fascist with in the new Israeli government, ben gvir and smotrich are making things in israel scary, and Netanyahu allows this to happen