Project Homecoming 2: kzread.info/head/PLjnwpaclU4wV5RHTFL8xWYALVIf2hFoUu *NOTES/CORRECTIONS:* 1. Helen Rosenbaum wasn't Jewish; Moritz Rosenbaum's _second_ wife Minna was, though they weren't yet married at this time.

It wasn't because children weren't allowed to celebrate Halloween. That would have been silly of me. It was because she said "We don't celebrate Halloween here, Jews were hanged from lampposts on Halloween" and though it may be true, as the mother of a five year old, I was concerned about her strident attitude around children. After all, I was trying to do things differently than my mother and I didn't want you frightened at such a young age.

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the correction, though Halloween was never a rationale to persecute Jews; it's just that the Black Hundreds massacres of 1905 happened to overlap with 31 October in the Gregorian calendar.

@FrazzP

7 ай бұрын

​@@SamAronowI take it this is your relative?

@denisearonow4921

7 ай бұрын

@@FrazzP I'm his proud mama

@FrazzP

7 ай бұрын

@@denisearonow4921 Very cool, no doubt you're proud. He has shown me a wealth of new information (in a great format) i didn't know since the number of Jews in my country is very small.

@DiamondKingStudios

7 ай бұрын

I like this comment section… …so far. This is nice.

Hi Sam, I'm curious if you'll ever do a "Judaism in Yemen" video, I'm curious about the Yemenite Jews and often feel they are almost never mentioned on the channel. I'm Yemeni and very curious about their traditions, struggles and what they perhaps contributed to the rest of the Jewish world.

@iddomargalit-friedman3897

7 ай бұрын

Yes! I'm part yemenite jew, and they are often ignored despite being one of the several unique traditions of judaism. There is so much history. My teachers (in Israel) never even knew about the muza genocide (75% of jews in yemem killed). Nor about the divisions within the community. Between these, it's history, their deep connection to hebrew and jewish education, and so on, this is a fascinating community.

@2bit8bytes

7 ай бұрын

@@iddomargalit-friedman3897 Muza genocide? Only found two things similar: Musa Dagh, regarding a pocket of resistance during the Armenian genocide, and Mawza Exile, 1600s banishment of Yemenite Jews to Mawza (basically trail of tears for Yemenite Jews). Doesn't mention death toll specifically, though, and no 75% number. Do you have better online sources?

@DanielLLevy

5 күн бұрын

Oh yes please! There's too little knowledge of these communities, and written accounts of how they came to be seem to be scarce if they exist at all. Oral memories of Jewish life in Yemen swirl around my extended family, including Dear Nephew Orel Tsabari's youtube channel. These also emphasize the complexity and the cultural diversity of the Yemeni Jewry, telling about how these various communities first came together, awkwardly and confrontationally, in the early years of Israel's statehood. Also, it'd be useful to answer the question of the historicity of the Qur'anic stories about the Jewish tribes of Arabia ca. the Seventh Century, such as the conquest of Khaybar and so on. I never got any answer from my history-minded rabbinical friends, who seem to dismiss this as unimportant. Altogether a challenging task, but I'm confident Sam can pull it off!

"this train station... is still a train station!" that bit was hilarious

Also at 12:00 Pasadena City Hall was used as the outside filming location for the Town Hall for Pawnee in Parks and Recreation so I think that adds to the typical American city vibe may come. Also Pawnee is in Indiana so it feels cyclical

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

Most of the real-life locations in Pawnee were shot in Pasadena.

So what I’m getting from this is the Zoro stories are in the Talmud

@brianalice

7 ай бұрын

Yes. The current day Zorowitzes take great pride in their heritage.

As a valley Jew, I appreciate hearing about Jewish life on the other side of the mountains. My dad always says that Pasadena historically was a very goyish area (and South Pasadena even more so), but clearly there are little nuggets of a community there. Keep up the great videos!

I had no idea about most of this information, and I was born and raised in Pasadena. My mother's (read: Jewish) side comes from Sacremento but I'm the fifth generation in Pasadena on my father's side. We had an apothecary in Old Town way back when most people came by horse. It's not often to see so much about Pasadena, thanks for this.

Finally got some time to watch this in its entirety. Thank you very much for your history of Pasadena. Yes, for my wife and I, this section of Pasadena was indeed economical as we were students. We lived on West Mountain near North Lake. Your comment about David Lee Roth reminded me of spending an afternoon at the Van Halen house near Orange Grove. A friend was house-sitting for the residence and we spent the afternoon in the basement where I was told a wild party had occurred over the weekend

US post office: Indiana Colony, California - FAKE NAME Funk, Nebraska - Perfectly acceptable move along

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

The USPS of the 19th century had seemingly no problem whatsoever with sexually explicit placenames, which Funk would have been at the time.

Great video, not many creators can keep the video entertaining and interesting for almost 30 minutes, but you do so seemingly effortlessly

Nice telling of History!

Wow! Checking the 'old neighborhood' on google maps, I realized that I used to walk over to the Roma Italian deli that you feature, at Mountain and Lake Avenues

@guildbrother

4 ай бұрын

Just for fun, based on the street you lived on, this was our neighborhood. I remember taking walks up North Hudson, and Belvedere, and farther north

@guildbrother

4 ай бұрын

Can't overlook hiking up at the Cobb estate, once owned by the Marx Brothers maps.app.goo.gl/nrfBE1AsmtjxYWCt8

This is very cool as i grew up in Pasadena

I always enjoy your historical videos, and this one is better since a detailed Californian history is rarely discussed.

Hey there, Sam! I love your videos! I really learnt a lot from each one that I watched. Dash Ham Me-israel :-) P.S. Do you speak/understand Hebrew?

Toda raba! I really enjoyed this, especially as a member of PJTC!

So cool to see this lived there for a bit and this history makes sense having been there

Great history of your home town and possibly my favorite city in all of the Los Angeles metro area, Sam!

You know it's funny I didn't know that Washington square was a Jewish neighborhood until about a week ago when I was passing through on my way to a showing of Hair performed by a local troop Farnsworth amphitheater. As I was passing through I noticed many people walking and then we passed a temple and I realized it was Saturday night and therefore the Sabbath. I'm a secular Jew myself and I haven't been to a temple in many years, but it was so funny to me having just discovered that community that you were discussing so recent to the release of this video

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

Eh? Washington Square isn't a Jewish neighborhood and there is no synagogue there.

@tavenstrickert9658

7 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow you know what you are right I stand corrected, I was a few major city blocks East over on Washington and North altadena that's where a temple and Jewish community center is. It looked so close on the map so I had inferred a closeness in vicinity that wasn't as accurate.

Sam - please stay safe if you are in Israel. I will pray for your safety

Sam, Thank you for this channel and this video. As a native from the 'dena, Pasadena always felt like a desert compared to Valley Village and the likes. thanks for sharing this with us.

I'm surprised to hear that you're from California because I hear so much New York in your accent (notably in "caused" and "Chicago"). But honestly I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the Southern California accent is similar to the Northeast.

You have nice, clear audio when narrating!

2:04 I have my doubts about the Franciscanos even controlling that zone since in 1767 king Charles III of Spain enacted the pragmatic sanction, wich ended in the jesuits expelled from the spanish colonies and the rest of the missionaries not much later.

Thank you for showing Lake Tulare on the maps

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

The once and future!

Pasadena looks massive how does it compare with any Israeli city? it is so sprawled out if I live in one end how am I supposed to reach the center in reasonable time, as someone who lives in the a rural Karmel Mountain village this seems unimaginable I really liked the video great job Sam, I imagine that the collab was delayed because if not than the Zion Mule corps was very weirdly scheduled since people have asked similar questions, which European Jewish neighborhood/Ghetto was the most important? I am sure there are many great contenders but i'd suggest warsaw due to it's importance in the developments of Jewish politics in Poland and being the home of Many Hassidic Rebbes but I am 1000% biased

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

Pasadena has almost exactly the same land area as Tel Aviv with about 1/3 the population. You have a train and lots of very straight streets.

Vroman's bookstore shoutout!!! Great video and I would love one on the history of the Jewish communities of the West Valley, where I grew up.

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

Voted the worst independent bookstore in America due to systemic wage theft!

@RowanJacobs

7 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow oh booooo I had no idea! Awful!!

Hey Sam this comment is not related to the video, but I just wanted to check in. Are you safe ? Is your family safe ?

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

6 ай бұрын

He is in America 😂😂😂😂

Based on that Jewish population chart, looks like Philly, Chicago, and Boston would be ripe for exploration in future videos. I'm a bit biased, but I'd love to see Detroit's Jewish history, especially its intersection with Motown Records.

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

Boston, Detroit, and Cleveland will get some attention soon.

We are three Jewish women living in Altadena and still looking for a good place to get a good bagel.

Sam, I don’t at all mean to cause you any self-consciousness, but if you’re born-and-raised in Pasadena, your American accent has an unexpected feature to it. You use what’s (in phonetic/linguistic terms) called an “open-mid back rounded vowel” (symbolized in IPA as ⟨ɔ⟩ ) for words like “Chicago”, “brought” “thought” and “because” (you say ChicAWgo, or becAW) but NOT for most of your other words which are caught-cot merged like most Americans. My grandparents were working-class Ashkenazi Jews raised in Boston who used a mixture of that same feature and the classic non-rhotic R you hear in Boston and New England. Often times Mainers and Canadians use ⟨ɔ⟩ as well. I’m just curious, where do you think that comes from? Do either of your parents sound like you?

@SamAronow

6 ай бұрын

No they do not, nor do I speak the way I did growing up in Pasadena. This is the accent of someone who grew up in Pasadena, overcorrected and ended up sounding posh, and then spent six years in a non-English-speaking country.

@bazbuco

6 ай бұрын

That’s so interesting! Well anyway, I really appreciate your videos, so thank you, and thanks for indulging my curiosity too! 🙏🏻

Does it happen to you people ask you your family name and when you answer they think you said: « I don’t know »?

Very much appreciate the "all together pretty shitty human being" for Feyman. Often people put him on a pedestal for his science communication and say nothing else.

@jonathanbowers8964

7 ай бұрын

Yeah. He deserved to go to jail for being a SA predator. There is a reason that Physics is still very much a boys club (while Biology and Chemistry have far higher rates of women in positions of authority even though all of academia still suffers from the "post doc glass ceiling").

Notes: Tongva is not historical? Why is it used now? I heard it in the Netflix show "City of Ghosts" (really great animated show about the history of some neighbourhoods of Los Angeles) John Green has made all of us see the impact of tuberculosis. It's incredible that I had heard about The Rose Bowl through American TV shows. I wonder what Sam thinks about The Big Bang Theory and the depiction of Howard Wolowitz. That's where I learned about Caltech. I mostly learned about Richard Feynman by reading XKCD, so I had never heard about the darker side of his life.

@SamAronow

6 ай бұрын

"Tongva" was only coined by linguist C. Hart Merriam in 1905 after misunderstanding one of his subjects

@mlovecraftr

6 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow Thanks! I'll look into it.

Just when I thought that the section on Mission Hill in the San Francisco video uncovered the truth behind Sam's accent, this video throws it into question again..

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

I don't speak with my native accent.

Wow， I was an active member of PJTC for 10 years, and never heard most of this…and my kids went to school there up until middle school, and did not hear it either

I always wondered where you got your accent from (nobody says ‘fast’ quite like you do), but now I find that it's from Pasadena!? I lived in Pasadena in the 1990s, and while I was mostly on campus I did get out and see the town sometimes, but I didn't notice anything unusual about the people's accents.

Finding out that my home state has a connection to Pasadena was a very pleasant surprise.

@Hbomb117

7 ай бұрын

Love your vids!

@forgetful9845

4 ай бұрын

Ancient Americas! Love your videos

The first rose bowl game was between the best team of the east, Michigan (who played in the "Western Conference", now Big 10), and the "champion" of the west 3-2-2 Stanford. Michigan won 49-0. Go Blue

Thanks! I grew up in La Canada, next door and I suspect it has an even more obscure Jewish history.

Indeed a remarkable topic 👍

Thank you.

"Places of education, elementary, of Aranow's." I love how you worded this.

very well-made video - is there any truth to the rumor that at one point Jews were not allowed to live in Pasadena and that's why they established Beverly Hills?

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

I don't know _where_ you got that idea. Jews were never banned from Pasadena. I'm pretty sure the entire video disproves that. They _were_ banned from Beverly Hills, which was absolutely not a Jewish-established town. They were also banned from San Marino, as were all nonwhites and non-Protestants. Of course the Supreme Court ruled such ordinances unconstitutional in 1948, and the 1968 Civil Rights Act made it enforcible.

@denisearonow4921

7 ай бұрын

San Marino

~8:07 Oh hey, my town has one of the non-original Busch Gardens, neat

Imagine if David Lee Roth made a career change to being a Cantor. Everyone would come back to shul.

So strange how we can live in a community for decades and have no clue about its history. It's just part of being a child, I guess. I had a similar experience when I looked into the history of my own childhood Jewish community, which is even smaller than Pasadena's. I recognized lots of names and faces, but only as an adult could I really place them in the broader context of the community's story.

Is that Elliott Smith in the thumbnail?

So Sam+Pasadena=Freddie Mercury? Wonder what effect would Miami have 🤔

I think this is a complete continuation of your socio-cultural historical contextual framing of Jewish experience. You could not describe the post world war 2 Jewish-American consciousness except in terms of assimilation and intermingling with the diverse and accepting localities sought out. Those aware of Jackie Robinson’s innate sense of self-worth would connect it with a city culture fostering his and his Olympic -meddle-winning brother’s identity as anything -is-possible-in-America ,we’re-all-in-this-together people

,,,,, and all this time, I thought you were a real cartoon-person. ,,,,, you've shattered all my dreams 😞

Coming from a family of late 20th century latin american immigrants, I knew hardly anything about the history of Pasadena until meeting you and watching this video so I'd like to thank you for enlightening me on the history of this beautiful city I've lived my whole life. I would definitely consider Pasadena, at least as I know it, an Armenian city, but I didn't know they had been here for so long. I knew they were "Western" Armenian because of some comments a few Armenian friends of mine made about eastern accents but I had no idea they immigrated here from Palestine!

8:45 omg the Pasadena Cheesecake Factory

The proper term is "uncrewed" or "unstaffed" NASA missions, not "unmanned".

What’s the most important Jewish neighborhood in American history? Wouldn’t it be somewhere like The Lower East Side?

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

I don't think "most important neighborhood in American history" is a meaningful statement in any way.

@OliveOilFan

7 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow it’s for lack of better words but the point it still a valid one. Usually ethnic people had 1 or 2 enclave that was important to their history within America

@sphengosine

7 ай бұрын

ikh bin a china boytshik fun slobodka un ikh bet dir hak mir nit a tshaynik

@tavenstrickert9658

7 ай бұрын

​@@SamAronowI agree because it places a value judgment on the individual communities. Prolific could be a better word in which case something like the lower East side could definitely qualify. I grew up in California so when I think of the most prolific Jewish community I think of the area over on Fairfax. I grew up in Corona and we do have a couple but we were very small Jewish community however even we produced a couple of Jewish man's and quite a few prominent business owners and community members, although I would find at the Jewish identity be expressed in public was a little muted in comparison to other communities and that could be due to assimilation with the local community.

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

@@tavenstrickert9658 Oh then it's gotta be Boyle Heights. But it's going to be a long time before we talk about that, or Southern California, again.

Sweet, a Long Beach mention.

Oh... not the Texas Pasadena I know like the back of my hand. Well, it is still nice to see some real world footage. Not a complaint about your maps.

Yes, good, but what about the little old lady who's the terror of Colorado Boulevard?

Who else said "tuberculosis" out loud at 4:52?

Wouldn't a float made entirely of roses be structurally suspect?

I grow up in Glendale...but I dreamed of living in Pasadena.

@IAmGlutton4Life

7 ай бұрын

Is there really a lot of Armenians in Glendale

You may find it interesting my wife and I and others in our apartment complex were keeping Shabbat and kosher and the high Holy Days about a block away from your families. One of our Jewish professors at Ambassador college, Mark Kaplan, grew up in Brooklyn an Hasidic Jew. His family had the Sukkot on the fire escape during the Festival. When he joined the worldwide Church of God they had a public funeral for him as he was, so to say, dead to the faith. In the late 1980s he had a son and his parents came out to visit him in Pasadena and stay with the family. It was explained to me that when one has a son there is hope once again for the family line. He, as well as we in the organization, understood why this had to be and we all consider the Jewish people as God's chosen people

Is sam born in 2005

What is the most important Jewish neighborhood in Ohio?

@OliveOilFan

7 ай бұрын

Probably Cincinnati

@HistoryandHeadlines

7 ай бұрын

@@OliveOilFan I have been on car rides through that city a few times.

@pdholland

7 ай бұрын

I've assumed it was beachwood and other eastern suburbs of cleveland

@kenshin891

7 ай бұрын

​@@pdhollandoriginally it was around the university circle area and then around cleveland heights, then beachwood

@SamAronow

7 ай бұрын

I can't be impartial in this question; I have to rep for Glenville.

Your thesis is that Pasadena is a Midwestern Jewish community in the West

I was disappointed to learn that the little old lady from Pasadena was not Jewish.

"Enslaved the locals."" That is false.

@aaronsirkman8375

7 ай бұрын

What is asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. Many have seen and read the evidence of native populations mistreatment under the Spanish in America. Where's your evidence that Sam was wrong?

@napoleonbuonaparte8975

7 ай бұрын

​@@aaronsirkman8375At least in the rest of their colonies the mistreatment was usually caused by the Criollos who were the owners of the plantations of products like tobacco, the Jesuits were in conflict with those groups due to them having the monopoly over the education of the indigenous people.

@nicholasshaler7442

7 ай бұрын

@@aaronsirkman8375 There have been many books written defending Junipero Serra from these wild charges of enslaving locals. The natives loved him, and he demanded leniency towards them from the Spanish Imperial forces.

@nicholasshaler7442

7 ай бұрын

@@napoleonbuonaparte8975 The California missions were and are Franciscan, not Jesuit, and had a different system by which they were run.

@napoleonbuonaparte8975

7 ай бұрын

@@nicholasshaler7442 Yeah but most missionaries were nice with the indigenous people and actually thought them how to read and thinks like that, not only the Jesuits.

I was born in Pasadena, and raised in Santa Barbara. Now I’m a history major at UC Davis. It’s so cool to learn about the history of Pasadena, and what a history it is. Thank you for the wonderful video Sam!