See y’all at Gallipoli. *CORRECTIONS/NOTES* 1. I don’t intend to make videos this long basically ever. I have nine videos planned for WWI and they will mostly be smaller, more intimate/focused stories (with the exception of _that one big one)._ 2. Apologies to those hoping I would mention Emma Goldman, Joseph Pulitzer, or Jim Novy. Novy was in the script but had to be cut. It was information overload, which is why most things get cut. 3. FDR was _Assistant_ Secretary of the Navy. 4. The Palestine, MI that was a Jewish agricultural colony was in Northern Michigan, not the place of the same name in the Upper Peninsula. 5. Newly-minted citizens would receive a Certificate of Naturalization, not a Certificate of Citizenship.

@patria3023

11 ай бұрын

Ahh well. We got Clara Leimlicht, so good enough! And I’m excited for World War One!

@tamarleahh.2150

11 ай бұрын

Maybe in the future you can do a video on them

@DiamondKingStudios

11 ай бұрын

FDR as assistant secretary of the Navy? Just like Theodore (fifth cousin and wife’s uncle), from 1897-1898 (he quit to help out in Cuba)

@michaelstein2317

11 ай бұрын

@SamAronow. You're confused. I never mentioned anything about black hundreds. My mother talked about the black Russians, who were Cossacks. Please do not disrespect The sacred memory of my sainted mother. She was the daughter granddaughter and great-granddaughter of many chazans. She and My Father operated a grocery store. She gave away food to everyone and taught me charity and chesed. She spoke eight languages fluently coming here at the age of six from the Ukraine. I accept your apology ahead of time

@jasonwelle

11 ай бұрын

I love the long form videos

Finally, a Sam Aranow episode exploring the origins of Sam Aranow

@barakdan1858

11 ай бұрын

😂

@penelopegreene

11 ай бұрын

He mentioned his family a bit in another video, didn't he?

@jonathanbowers8964

11 ай бұрын

​@@penelopegreenein quite a few other videos (really starting in the 1880s to 1890s I think). This is the culmination of all of those videos.

@penelopegreene

11 ай бұрын

@@jonathanbowers8964 kk. TY

Mostly here to see Jarrett Ross drawn in Sam Aronow style.

@davedark27

10 ай бұрын

Was your family tree of Judaism taken down?😢

Oh boy! 50 minutes of Sam Aronow to start the day!

@kinok5927

11 ай бұрын

Legends recognise legends

@andreaslaroi8956

6 ай бұрын

There's even two of them (50:19)

"Even small cities enjoyed access to frequent intercity rail services, interurban commuter trains, and extensive networks of streetcars" Godd*mn it

@stephenfisher3721

11 ай бұрын

Joplin Missouri, where I live, suspended its Sunshine Trolley (our name for public transportation bus) because they can't get enough drivers. If you live here, you really need a car

@DiamondKingStudios

11 ай бұрын

That would be something I’d like to see again. Something to consider is that this big rail network connected a nation with a population over three times smaller than it is today. Even with usage of automobiles and coach buses, there’s probably enough demand to restore all former intercity rail/streetcar/interurban lines. The interurbans might even help to alleviate suburban sprawl, as the former ROW of many of these lines is now suburbs.

@penandsword4386

11 ай бұрын

😆

@J-Bahn

Ай бұрын

@@DiamondKingStudiosabsolutely! hence the reason for my KZread channel existing. Revive public transportation as well as the described practice of land use being based around it.

Thank you for including me in this amazing video!

This episode means a lot to me. My family arrived in the States in 1896 and 1904.

@bobby6427

4 ай бұрын

Same

Finally, some Jewish Texan history. I've waited years for this days Thank you, Sam

The Summoning Salt needle drop has me rolling

@joshhakey7705

11 ай бұрын

Same. Can't believe there's also a new SS to watch after this so I can hear it again lol

@Mr_Pilat

11 ай бұрын

I was just thinking about that 😂

My grandmother grew up in one of the agrarian communities in New Jersey, in the 1920s and 1930s. Her parents, who had come from middle class and wealthy backgrounds, respectively, back in Poland and Russia found themselves flat broke with no access to money because they'd come as refugees and had to leave it all behind (so I'm told, anyway). They lived and worked on a chicken farm in one of these agrarian complexes for several years.

@DogDogGodFog

7 ай бұрын

Lol, that's just dissapointing

"Muckracking photojournalist Jacob Riis" Oh hey, I know that guy from the park named after him!

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

Now you know how my Israeli viewers feel all the time!

Love the Jon Bois editing style and music choice in the prologue, cant wait to see the rest of the video!

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

_"The Age of Aronow | Dorktown"_

@izzyf3129

11 ай бұрын

I was searching for this comment

That is, BY FAR, the longest video.

For anyone wondering, the song at 1:48 is “We’re Finally Landing” by HOME.

"Too many parties and offices to name. Just know he was from Minnesota." I see things haven't changed too much.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

They’ve got nothing on Wisconsin in that regard. You’ll see when we get to the 20s.

When I was in school they taught us about Woodrow Wilson and the 14 points and the League of Nations. He was made out to be a hero. They said nothing about his racial policy.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

Which state? I grew up in California, where we do learn this. Though in spite of that Wilson is probably more revered here than anywhere else in the US. There are murals of him standing in front of a map of Greater Armenia.

@stephenfisher3721

11 ай бұрын

​​​​@@SamAronowI had American history in high school in 1972 in Iowa.

@lardgedarkrooster6371

11 ай бұрын

That's exactly how I was taught about him in 2019. I learned about his other policies by myself later on, much like I always do. They really like to sugarcoat history in history class

@jake_mu7550

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm in Oklahoma and I've even argued with teachers about the founders having slaves... Education really ignores the bad side of our history and makes people mad when you bring it up because of it. I've learned most of what I know from personal research. Wilson was a good president from what class taught me even though I personally think he could of been better but hey I'm looking from a modern look and we still struggle with a lot of the same issues so what do I know.

@Qba86

11 ай бұрын

In Poland, Wilson comes up in classroom history almost exclusively in the context of his 14 points. On the one hand, it's understandable, as it was crucial for Poland's independence after the Great War. On the other hand, well, let's just say I was more than a little bit miffed with my school curriculum when I learned about the darker side of his presidency later in life.

I can't believe you didn't mention the most famous member of the Jewish Territorial Organization (or the "Territorialists"), Albert Einstein! Although later, he moved to support Labour Zionism.

One of your greatest videos. Possibly one of the best videos on American history, Period

Nice perspective in explaining how the parties swapped agendas. I don't believe I ever heard it put that way. Or at least that clearly. Definitely, something I will keep in mind. There are always these little nuggets of gold, for even people who aren't all that into Judaism to keep watching your stuff lol.

The fact that you haven't passed 1 million subs yet is such a shame

9:05 Ironically, it happened quite a lot to Jewish immigrants to Israel. Those whose names weren't Hebrew enough were Hebraized. Usually, with the approval of the immigrant, but not always.

I love this series. In 1911 Maier Suchowljansky fled the Russian Empire to join his father, who was already living in the Lower East Side in NYC. There he would meet Salvatore Lucania, who emigrated from Italy five years earlier. A long lasting friendship and collaboration would develop between the two. Yes, this is the most sanitized way to tell this story.

@denizalgazi

11 ай бұрын

How Meyer met Lucky…

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

Spoilers for the next US video.

A silly correction but while streetcars are called streetcars in most of the US, everyone I know living around San Francisco (where they are still common) calls them trolleys.

Re: Jacob Schiff: The first floor of Barnard Hall in NYC is popularly known as "Jake." It was Jacob Schiff who had given the money to create Barnard College, but Columbia could not be seen to have a building named after a Jew. The students worked it out.

I always wondered why my great-great grandfather, born in Romania, studied agricultural in Palestine, and ended up living in Minnesota, came to the US via Galveston. Been really enjoying your videos. Really puts into context the stories I've heard about my family.

I must admit that until watching your video, I had this image of Donnely as a relatively harmless "Prince of Cranks". Boy, was I wrong...

A thick, juicy slice of history, served up piping hot, by Chefs Aranow and Ross.

@mammuchan8923

11 ай бұрын

You have put it exactly as I wanted to but couldn’t find the words 😎

It's always great to see a new video of yours!

Fantastic video, amazing job as usual. One small thing: at 16:21 you show Palestine, Mi as being in the upper peninsula. While there is a place in Michigan called Palestine there, that was not the Am Olam settlement. The Am Olam settlement was in the Bay city (ish) area closer to the thumb in the Lower peninsula. Only noticed it myself when I was trying to figure out if there really were Jewish agriculturalists in the UP. Sadly, just Bay city 😖

My family's last name changed from Guernig to Garnick when they came to America, but not by Ellis Island. They did it themselves. Idk why, but it was a common thing. My other side of the family changed their names from Tobin to Tubin.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

I knew this originally from _Dave at Night_ based on Gail Carson Levine's father's childhood at the YMHA. He changed his name from Carasso to Carson.

@KosherCookery

10 ай бұрын

My family came to the US around 1910, but the name didn't change from Hanau to Hanna until around 1940, coincidentally around the time my great-grandfather was applying to medical school at UCLA.

My mom's side of the family landed in the east coast (Baltimore IIRC), then ended up in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA.

@ClassyCourtesan

Ай бұрын

Mine ended up in Squirrel Hill too.

These videos get more detailed and interesting everytime. Keep up the amazing work!

Great video

A truly amazing video! Thank you!

A masterpiece of History telling. Thank you Sam, it’s a pleasure to watch your videos and learn from you.

Jarett Ross makes a great cartoon character

great video!

Awesome job

So Excited!! Clicked Immediately!

@marksimons8861

11 ай бұрын

Me too.

You mean to tell me we had an extensive public transportation network. *Screaming: FUUUUUUTURE

One of my favorite things about Sam is that he doesn't hold back on things that he KNOWS are verifiable history. He doesn't seem to mind if something is Popularly Misunderstood if he can present what is actually True. I appreciate how well researched all of this always is - Including the diligent corrections in the comments. Great video as always!

Having thought about this for exactly one second- math homework can wait, 50 minutes of Sam Aronow calls forth!

I love your videos. Thank you.

You always have the best music choices in your videos

This time episode is definitely an Extraordinary one 👌👍 Happy national day to you and the other Tzidikim 🎉❤

Awesome video.

Another great video as always At least I assume so, I haven't had the time to watch this yet since I discovered your channel just a couple of weeks ago and have realized that nearly all your videos make references to something else in the Sam Aronow cinematic universe so I need to watch literally everything else on your channel to be able to fully appreciate this, I'm more than half way through but when I do get to this I'm sure I'll enjoy it

Thank you.

One of my great grandmothers came to visit her brother in New York, but only for a summer. It was 1914.

@stephenfisher3721

11 ай бұрын

What is your point? Where did she come from? Did she go back? If Jewish, did she go back to Europe and get killed by the Nazis or their helpers some years later?

Thank you so much for this channel, and particularly for this video. It was deeply moving to see reflections of my own history here; and to appreciate it as part of the greater history of our people. My great grandpa left Vilnius via Antwerp in 1905, and my grandfather was born in Brooklyn in 1918; they ran a deli together until my grandfather left for the army air corps/WWII.

My father's whole family came from Eastern Europe and settled either in NYC or Kansas

You are so good it's scary

Fascinating!

I wish Sam's earliest videos about the First Temple, interdynastic, and Hasmonean eras were this long and detailed

@Duiker36

11 ай бұрын

I hope he goes back and redoes those videos someday. It's hard for me to tell people to start from the beginning when those videos are such a massive step down from his latest work.

Thanks.

Just looking at Mexico throughout the video and it’s different in every year

@patrickrowan6001

29 күн бұрын

¡ Viva Madero !

That was beautiful.

U da man Sam much luv 🎉🎉❤❤

This was a fascinating documentary, well made and well researched, I'm shocked at the low view count, and thank the algorithm gods it landed in my feed!

"This is Y." Don't do that, man, people may be drinking at the time.

I rarely, if not ever had the patience to watch an hour-long KZread Video. Except for this one. I didn’t even realize as time went by.

Omg an hour long video? I wonder how long the last episode in this series will be

I think I had mentioned previously that my father during the depression, was a tobacco runner, working for the Hirsch family to avoid tobacco tax. To comment on this wonderful KZread series. In the discussion about unions, my uncle Willie Greenberg was the secretary treasurer of the international teamsters Union third and line to his buddy Hoffa. My uncle actually was required to testify in front of Congress along with other Teamster officials. However, thank Gd, my uncle is not buried with Hoffa and lived a long life afterwards. His four brothers were involved with food fair and pennfruit, their cousin was also involved with food fair. I am modern Chabad Orthodox, However my father's family were reformed at best.

My 3x Great Uncle brought my 2x Grandfather from Russia to the US in 1905, when he was 2 years old. They were the only survivors of the family who were killed in riots related to kichinev. The town we came from actually lost its entire Jewish population 36 years later thanks to the Nazis.

20:42 I think that in the post-Emancipation era, the words "Jew" and "Jewess" were being used as slurs in European languages so frequently that other euphemisms were preferred for organizations and periodicals. So for instance in Scandinavia, Jewish congregations tended to refer to themselves as "Mosaic" (in reference to Moses). The idea was to avoid unwanted attention by sticking out like a sore thumb. In my country, Denmark, the Jewish experience was generally unproblematic following Emancipation in 1849, but nonetheless, there was always a sense of trepidation that things could change for the worse overnight.

Thank you Sam for making videos about American Judaism, with this one being the best one of this sort. A you probably know, most Israeli Jews are barely familiar with American Jewish history, such as I was, and these videos are very informative. Your channel is fantastic, ad this video might've been your best one yet.

Not so much a video more a feature. Slightly surprised you didn't break it into several shorter videos. However I'm not criticising it's content. As a British non new I'm finding your series fascinating. I look forward to your next video.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

Know that a lot of the history and migration patterns I've spoken about in the three US videos also apply to the UK. They even arrived in both places in the same year; 1654, and both from the Netherlands. Then there was a big wave from Germany and Italy in the late 18th century, and from Eastern Europe in the late 19th. Everything I said about the Lower East Side can also apply to Whitechapel, and the streetcar suburbs to the Northern Line.

Finally I get an explanation to what the kosher meat boycott was!

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

1895 was the first. There was a second in 1902.

Man i love your videos Please make them shorter than this🙏

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

Don’t worry. I still regard 30:00 as my default limit. WWI will be mostly shorter stories (with the exception of *that one big one)*

@patria3023

11 ай бұрын

@@SamAronowthat one big one. How ominous!

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

@@patria3023 Maybe two big ones, come to think about it. Both of them taking place at the same time, towards the end of the war but not quite _at_ the end.

Only 51 minutes? Why so short? (Thanks for uploading!)

wake up babe new sam aronow vid just dropped

Was that a Jon Bois reference at the beginning? I enjoyed it

happy to help about baltimore!

Ravel! I'm picking up on your musical choices 😎

The music for this video is insane

Thank you for calling out self righteous Canadians. I love em but sometimes the historic gymnastics they go through to make themselves look great is insane

Your political take is appreciated. Many times people forget history isn't made in a vacuum. There are as many opiniones on events as there are people opineing in this world. Many of the evils of the 20th century, from censorship to omnipotent government have a thread back to woodrow wilson.

@jonathanbowers8964

11 ай бұрын

​@@xunqianbaidu6917it is important to know how systems of oppression were created and sustained if we are to ever make reforms for a better future. The mythologizing of historic figures (especially the Founding Fathers) does us no good and simply entrenches their horrendous policies and beliefs for future generations. Granted we should also acknowledge how leaders of the past did help create social progress (e.g. Lincoln's war against slavery, John Adam's early support for abolitionism) and recognize that people like Washington and Jefferson were morally complex figures (black and white morality is not something I would ever advocate for). TL;DR We shouldn't paint past leaders as saints, but as the complex and flawed human beings they were so that we can learn from the past and build a brighter future.

@tomallen8459

11 ай бұрын

@@xunqianbaidu6917 no, no a great many of the Elite decision-makers were trained at Princeton directly under Woodrow Wilson

@Sam Aronow Thank you for making this video about this chapter of Jewish-American history. Keep up the good work. ~Mackyle Wotring

Finally a Sam Aranow video with a comment section!

13:14 As an urban planning and transit advocate, I'm thrilled you brought up this topic! Also thank you for elaborating on the American political system.

14:28 My family started in Squirrel Hill, then moved to Boyle Heights, and finally, the Fairfax district.

My fam lived in Atlanta during that time, they had to leave to Chattanooga for a while out of fear of the kkk

That summoning salt music though

I am here for Sam taking shots at the Canadians.

35:16 I love his play so so much!!! I want to play Dovid so badly. I cried the first time I read through it.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

My Bubby had a copy of it in her house that I always noticed but never looked into. It might have been a first-edition script. I believe it was sold with the other old books when she passed.

I lived near Wrigley Field for a year. Growing up in a trailer in Texas, I think most of these areas you mentioned in this video would have given me more economic opportunities. But I would not be me. Good video.

As a comic book superhero fan I would like to offer a hearty thank you to Jewish Americans for inventing this entire genre and giving us all its greatest archetypal pillars. DC and Marvel were both built by jews (Mostly the same jews! Say thank you to Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for 40% of this entire effing genre!) That's how my American life was improved by Jewish Americans, and I'm sure each of you has plenty of them too. (That, and my convert brother who I love very much

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

And then in 1975 Kibbutznik Chris Claremont turned _X-Men_ into an allegory for Ben Gurion vs. Begin. AKA the version we know today and assume the comic always was.

@samwill7259

11 ай бұрын

@@SamAronow I...did not know that. And I know for a fact that most people assume it's an MLK/Malcom X metaphor.

@josephlehman1242

11 ай бұрын

I heard that Magneto is based on Meir Kahane.

Ross mentions that immigrants who become naturalized US citizens receive a certificate of *citizenship*. That is incorrect. Certificates of citizenship are issued to individuals who acquire US citizenship at birth, usually abroad. Individuals who become naturalized US citizens receive a certificate of *naturalization*.

@GeneaVlogger

11 ай бұрын

You're correct, I should have said certificate of naturalization.

Wow, that was really good. BTW I suppose technically the first Jewish Cabinet member was Judah P Benjamin who was Attorney General, Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America, if that counts.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

*United States* Cabinet

@patria3023

11 ай бұрын

American cabinet, not those traitors.

I've worked with HIAS! Really an outstanding group, truly a credit to its founding mission.

I look away for one minute and I think a Summoning Salt video has started

The fact that Jewish factory owners didn’t support the downtrodden Jewish workers in their factories, highlights the problem with identity politics. Employers, regardless of their identity, or ethnicity, will always advance their own class interests. It’s the same in the LGBTQI+ scene where the Queer employers will under pay queer workers. They will fly the rainbow flag on the one hand, while exploiting the queer working class on the other.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

It can be two things. The parallel rise of class and national consciousness has been a running theme through my entire coverage of the Long 19th Century.

@Seahorse20

11 ай бұрын

@@SamAronowIt’s very interesting. I only found out about 6 years ago that a great uncle of mine was an ally of Theodore Herzl. His name was Max Nordau. He had been written out of our family because of political differences, and because he was ashamed of his background. He wasn’t a self hating Jew, but he was ashamed of his Sephardic roots. He was born in Budapest, and his real name was Simcha Miksa Südfeld/ Suedfeld . The Suedfeld family roots go back to Spain, and to Greece post expulsion. In short Nordau was of Eastern Sephardic origin. For reasons unknown to me, he idealized Northern Europe, hence he changed his name to Nordau (a reference to the north as opposed to Suedfeld which means Southern field (a reference to Spain). Nordau moved to Paris and married a Danish Protestant. He became estranged my family. I first heard that I was related to him when one of my cousins compiled the family tree.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

@@Seahorse20 Yes, I've mentioned him in a couple videos! The short-lived baseball team Tel Aviv Lightning were nicknamed the Nordau Street Gang.

Thought this was a speed run for a second

*Before watching* its been a month sam let’s see if this was worth the wait.

@GeneaVlogger I grew up in Sicily Island, LA. Though my ancestors came after the failure of the colony, it is cool to learn this history. I always wondered where the agricultural colonists had gone after the flood.

Wait until someone tells Ignatius Donnelly’s ghost that both my grandmothers were the daughters of Jewish fathers (both WWII veterans, met one of them when he was in his 90s) and Christian mothers. I’d say I turned out fine. That and my Italian great-great-grandparents on my father’s side. So glad these ideas didn’t grow in popularity to most Americans, else I might not even exist.

@SamAronow

11 ай бұрын

Oh, it lingers. _Caesar's Column_ is arguably the ur-text of the Great Replacement Theory.

Hey I recognize that blue line!

Some epic moustaches in this vid, Sam 😃

It should be noted: The Democratic Party had a strong relationship with immigrants since it’s founding. Their first opposition, the Whig Party, was incredibly anti-immigrant, and the Democratic Party from 1828 had a massive base with Irish immigrants, both Catholic and Protestant.

Another amazing video. And there probably was a point i would have been mad about the great switch, but honestly the view was just wrong, though i do wish it was explained better and in a more nuanced way.