In this video I said I'm planning do do some other things. Well, one of them will be a collaboration with fellow UA-camr SeekersOfUnity on my other channel, Israil! ua-cam.com/channels/duRtLDZdWalOh795ag2cFQ.html
Greetings. Have watched your vids for a while now, but finally realized I hadn't subscribed before. You do good work. And...you are wise to take a break and change the pace a bit sometimes. May you enjoy the change and come back to this work at the right time refreshed. Shalom.
When it comes to breaks, everyone needs a sabbatical. This series has been supremely fascinating to watch, and I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that if there's an apparent dearth in content, then it's simply time for a rewatch marathon.
Sam, the Conversos were forbidden to settle in Spanish America; but they were actually encorouged to come to Portuguese Brazil. A significant percentage of early Portuguese settlers to Brazil were New Christians (cristãos-novos), and in Spanish America "portuguese" became a synonym with Jews. From the 16th to mid 18th century, the Portuguese Inquisition repeatedly visited and Brazil, and in every visit took people back to Lisbon and convicted them of Judaism. Two examples: António José da Silva and Branca Dias. Some villages in the hinterlands of Northeastern Brazil have actually preserved some Jewish practices.
It's nice to talk about the remnants of Jews in the New World. The Inquisition was controlled by the Spanish Monarchs in cooperation from the Vatican and released by 500 plus years of obfuscation from the supporters of the Catholic sources. The last Auto-de-Fe was last given for Crypto-Jews in Mexico in 1843(?) but was still in affect. The Narrative, should be, never ending since the fear continued, and ruled Spanish Jewry with or without credentials. Especially when the Church led by the Vatican pursued people into the South East Asian countries, calling out Jews and sending them to the New Spain(Mexico) to be vetted. Always under the threat of being discovered. There were many accounts sourced in the various learning institutions around the world, recorded, of occasions of those perpetrator's effort to follow the victims long after the last Auto-de-Fe and stopped in 1992, after apologies that came from the Spanish Government. Trust by the people long abandoned by the European religious entities and supporters is LONG GONE. You called it a "trendy" it's only to minimize the subject as many people would rather forget, as many Neo Nazis would love to minimize and forget the WWII efforts. Fortunately, many families have a distinct bad taste for this subject due to people whom by no fault of their own were more focused on survival, rather than on the bravado of European accounts from, as you say, thirds wave narratives. (Many waves started before and after the edict to expel). Whether the European's perspective are accepted is up to historians. The perspective of those histories are many and too vast to quickly dismiss or mythologize. (Like the Black legend of Spain was fresh in the mind of the descendants of the Inquisition's harassments. You may need to cover as a relevant issue is to see where the DNA evidence in the Old World or New World manifested into countries of the New World and Globally. History written by the some of perspectives of those families of recovered Jewry in the New World may impact the overall conversation. Whether the fear of death, or fear of loss is perpetually in our minds may be something the Rabbinate may have to really take a back seat and listen to the accounts of one religion or another. Out of the 250,000(approx.) supposed Jewry of Europe in 1493 were push out of the European, by the narrative, you may have to estimate a good portion of Jews, Arabs, new Christians that amassed a population, perhaps in the millions of religious adherents practicing or not, to be understood as forever searching for their home. Thank you for you efforts. Get some rest!
Glad to see your channel blowing up, to a point that is self sufficient. As much as I want to say take care of your mental health, I know I am probably preaching to the choir, but make sure you keep track on your analytics so you can figure the best way to take health breaks without hurting your growth (especially if you are planning on taking multiple this year) bc I know that is something a lot of young creators I know struggle with once their upload schedule gets regimented and then they get intense FOMO
Most sources I've seen suggest that Curacao is not considered to be part of North America, but rather separate or even part of South America. It's on the South American Continental shelf, and the only people I've seen who claim it as North American are people who put all islands in the Caribbean and sometimes even beyond as part of North America because of a political definition. I don't think that makes sense either considering it is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Netherlands, a European political group.
You may want to make another correction: the oldest synagogue in the Americas is Kahal Zur Israel in Recife, Brazil (1636). It was founded during the brief period of Dutch rule and abandoned after the Portuguese recaptured the region.
your content, and others like it, is what has kept us sane these last two years. needless to say, you have more than made yourself deserving of a break!
I would love that! And maybe how people always moving around affected it. Some of the surnames in my family don't make much sense, the language doesn't match the geography. That would be really interesting.
Regarding crypto-Jews, I fully agree when it comes to Spanish America. But I'd beg to differ when it comes to Brazil. We have many people in the Northeast who preserve some form of folk Jewish tradition, and some are looking to return to Judaism. Of course they are not halachically Jewish (likely more resembling of the Belmonte Jews in Portugal), but they certainly number more than a handful
I have a Hispanic friend from New Mexico whose family has been there so long they no longer speak Spanish, but light Sabbath candles on Saturday night and all the males are circumcized. She was told by her Grandma that their ancestors who settled there were Jewish. They could have began as Crypto-Jews and became "people of Jewish descent".
Thank you so much for all the effort and work you've put into your videos! I've learned so much, gained new perspectives and was overall VERY entertained. I can't thank you enough. Get all the rest you need! Shabat shalom
I also recommend the 2019 Portuguese film "Seferad" which is based on a true story of a Portuguese synagogue. Build it and they will come! In the Caribbean, Jamaica also has a fascinating history, and also the ABC islands. I fear most the extreme fundamentalists anywhere and the damage they cause to free societies.
To the question about emancipation in Israel. I'm an Israeli as well and religious. Plenty of us oppose the millet system as well. For one, we support religious freedom because we don't want other we might disagree with telling us how they think we should be doing Torah etc.
I do think it’s a shame that more American Jews don’t know about their own history. The vast majority of what you covered, I did learn some in school and some on my own and some in college.
Thanks for clearing up my Jewish ancestry, I thought they were poor conversos forced to convert, but i guess they were just regular, abused Jews! Are you also a patron of Cival War Week by Week? get some good rest. I also subscribe to Seekers of Unity and now your other channel.
Hey Sam, I’d have a general question to the history. Jews in diaspora and as well as in Eretz were persecuted throughout the history, subjects to pogroms, plagues and the Shoah. Especially later with the emancipation, many would assimilate into the majority. How is it then possible that there are so many Jews nowadays coming from a relatively small geographical area? Was the conversion to Judaism more usual in some periods and nations? Did European Jews historically have higher birth rate (or number of children surviving to adulthood) than Christians?
tl;dr I talk a lot more about demographics in my videos on Benjamin of Tudela, the Safed Circle, and Shabtai Zvi, as well as my recap of the Silk Road Trilogy. If this is something that interests you, I strongly recommend that you check them out. The short version is thus: the Jewish population as a percentage of overall population was actually quite a bit larger in antiquity than it is today- maybe 1% of the global population in the year 100! So it was a good starting point. By 1000, it had dwindled down to around 1 million, which for the time was still pretty good. However, there was was a _much_ lower infant/child mortality rate among Jews specifically in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the Black Death and the Industrial Revolution that accounts for Ashkenazim being about half of Jews today; conversion was almost unheard of as medieval Christian and Islamic societies generally enforced the death sentence for apostasy.
@@SamAronow thank you so much for your answer Sam. If I am not mistaken, by year 100 most of Jews already lived in diaspora, places like Alexandria or Babylon. Could there possibly be some kind of assimilating process in times before? When did the population boom happen that transformed a small tribal society of Judea to the unique civilisation of the 1st and 2nd century Jews? Other nations in the region like Greeks, Persians, Assyrians, Phoenicians,. etc. either had empires where they ruled over others or an organised colonisation effort, but the Jewish history is rather about living under or uprisings against such. My guess is that the lower mortality rate could have been caused by better hygiene (influence of education and religion) and more solidarity in the hard times of wars and famines compared to the majority population. Were there any other reasons?
That was by no means consistent across 1500 years of Jewish history in Europe. Jews made up a huge segment of early converts to Christianity, and there were a _lot_ of mixed children born out of wedlock in the Middle Ages. Remember Alfonso Enriquez? Plus, it didn't take that many; remember Charlemagne was only one guy.
@@SamAronow חחח זהו, שאני מעדיף גרסה שמי שלא מכיר את הסמל המקורי לא יחשוב שקיעקעתי את השנקל. אגב, לא יודע איך להביע במילים את כמה שאני אוהב את התוכן שלך, תודה רבה!!!
Yes. Israel didn't even hold the #2 spot until the early 1970s, surpassing the Soviet Union. At the time of independence, American Jews outnumbered Israeli Jews 5-1.
20:00 lol the day the yenne "medineh" ym"sh legalises gay marriage will be the day every chareidishe yid becomes a netirei karteh yid. Lmao just ridiculous
In this video I said I'm planning do do some other things. Well, one of them will be a collaboration with fellow UA-camr SeekersOfUnity on my other channel, Israil! ua-cam.com/channels/duRtLDZdWalOh795ag2cFQ.html
Sam, please alert us in a community post whenever you do a collaboration so we can watch that too! Enjoy your break!
Greetings. Have watched your vids for a while now, but finally realized I hadn't subscribed before. You do good work. And...you are wise to take a break and change the pace a bit sometimes. May you enjoy the change and come back to this work at the right time refreshed. Shalom.
When it comes to breaks, everyone needs a sabbatical. This series has been supremely fascinating to watch, and I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that if there's an apparent dearth in content, then it's simply time for a rewatch marathon.
Don't you mean a shabbatical 😌
@@leontrotsky8505 Where do you think the word “sabbatical” comes from in the first place? The year of rest mentioned in Leviticus (shmita).
@@peterdagata1610 I was just making a joke lol, but that is really cool // informative
Sam, the Conversos were forbidden to settle in Spanish America; but they were actually encorouged to come to Portuguese Brazil. A significant percentage of early Portuguese settlers to Brazil were New Christians (cristãos-novos), and in Spanish America "portuguese" became a synonym with Jews. From the 16th to mid 18th century, the Portuguese Inquisition repeatedly visited and Brazil, and in every visit took people back to Lisbon and convicted them of Judaism. Two examples: António José da Silva and Branca Dias. Some villages in the hinterlands of Northeastern Brazil have actually preserved some Jewish practices.
It's nice to talk about the remnants of Jews in the New World. The Inquisition was controlled by the Spanish Monarchs in cooperation from the Vatican and released by 500 plus years of obfuscation from the supporters of the Catholic sources.
The last Auto-de-Fe was last given for Crypto-Jews in Mexico in 1843(?) but was still in affect. The Narrative, should be, never ending since the fear continued, and ruled Spanish Jewry with or without credentials. Especially when the Church led by the Vatican pursued people into the South East Asian countries, calling out Jews and sending them to the New Spain(Mexico) to be vetted. Always under the threat of being discovered.
There were many accounts sourced in the various learning institutions around the world, recorded, of occasions of those perpetrator's effort to follow the victims long after the last Auto-de-Fe and stopped in 1992, after apologies that came from the Spanish Government.
Trust by the people long abandoned by the European religious entities and supporters is LONG GONE.
You called it a "trendy" it's only to minimize the subject as many people would rather forget, as many Neo Nazis would love to minimize and forget the WWII efforts.
Fortunately, many families have a distinct bad taste for this subject due to people whom by no fault of their own were more focused on survival, rather than on the bravado of European accounts from, as you say, thirds wave narratives. (Many waves started before and after the edict to expel).
Whether the European's perspective are accepted is up to historians. The perspective of those histories are many and too vast to quickly dismiss or mythologize. (Like the Black legend of Spain was fresh in the mind of the descendants of the Inquisition's harassments.
You may need to cover as a relevant issue is to see where the DNA evidence in the Old World or New World manifested into countries of the New World and Globally.
History written by the some of perspectives of those families of recovered Jewry in the New World may impact the overall conversation.
Whether the fear of death, or fear of loss is perpetually in our minds may be something the Rabbinate may have to really take a back seat and listen to the accounts of one religion or another.
Out of the 250,000(approx.) supposed Jewry of Europe in 1493 were push out of the European, by the narrative, you may have to estimate a good portion of Jews, Arabs, new Christians that amassed a population, perhaps in the millions of religious adherents practicing or not, to be understood as forever searching for their home.
Thank you for you efforts. Get some rest!
Glad to see your channel blowing up, to a point that is self sufficient. As much as I want to say take care of your mental health, I know I am probably preaching to the choir, but make sure you keep track on your analytics so you can figure the best way to take health breaks without hurting your growth (especially if you are planning on taking multiple this year) bc I know that is something a lot of young creators I know struggle with once their upload schedule gets regimented and then they get intense FOMO
There will be a major on-location video released in March.
@@SamAronow Ooooh... Jewish history on the road is coming back? Can't wait to see where it'll be this time.
Most sources I've seen suggest that Curacao is not considered to be part of North America, but rather separate or even part of South America. It's on the South American Continental shelf, and the only people I've seen who claim it as North American are people who put all islands in the Caribbean and sometimes even beyond as part of North America because of a political definition. I don't think that makes sense either considering it is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Netherlands, a European political group.
You may want to make another correction: the oldest synagogue in the Americas is Kahal Zur Israel in Recife, Brazil (1636). It was founded during the brief period of Dutch rule and abandoned after the Portuguese recaptured the region.
your content, and others like it, is what has kept us sane these last two years. needless to say, you have more than made yourself deserving of a break!
I've literally read Inquisition records of people tried for judaísmo. It is far more than what can be counted on *one hand*.
You do fantastic work and your fans aren't going anywhere. Can't wait to see what is coming next at the right time!
Glad to hear you are taking breaks!
Glad you are taking a break, but will miss the videos in the meantime. Hope what is to come is just as good. Thanks for all the great content.
Have a good break! Thanks for a great (and much needed) UA-cam series!
Enjoy your break, man. You’ve earned it.
Sam, thank you for your hard work. Can you discuss when European countries required Jews to have surnames? I’ve always been fascinated by that topic.
I would love that! And maybe how people always moving around affected it. Some of the surnames in my family don't make much sense, the language doesn't match the geography. That would be really interesting.
As I much as I love your content, I know you need breaks. Have a great one!
so cool, i love your voice and the jazz and how it's just straight facts. I can listen to these all day long
Have a good break!
Regarding crypto-Jews, I fully agree when it comes to Spanish America. But I'd beg to differ when it comes to Brazil. We have many people in the Northeast who preserve some form of folk Jewish tradition, and some are looking to return to Judaism. Of course they are not halachically Jewish (likely more resembling of the Belmonte Jews in Portugal), but they certainly number more than a handful
I have a Hispanic friend from New Mexico whose family has been there so long they no longer speak Spanish, but light Sabbath candles on Saturday night and all the males are circumcized. She was told by her Grandma that their ancestors who settled there were Jewish. They could have began as Crypto-Jews and became "people of Jewish descent".
Exactly; and most don't even know they have Jewish origin; they practice some Jewish traditions but still are devoutly Catholic.
Thank you so much for all the effort and work you've put into your videos! I've learned so much, gained new perspectives and was overall VERY entertained. I can't thank you enough.
Get all the rest you need! Shabat shalom
Sam starting off strong with the DoI joke
Take it easy, thanks for what you do.
Even G-d took time off. Hope you get the space and rest and energy you need.
I also recommend the 2019 Portuguese film "Seferad" which is based on a true story of a Portuguese synagogue. Build it and they will come! In the Caribbean, Jamaica also has a fascinating history, and also the ABC islands. I fear most the extreme fundamentalists anywhere and the damage they cause to free societies.
To the question about emancipation in Israel. I'm an Israeli as well and religious. Plenty of us oppose the millet system as well. For one, we support religious freedom because we don't want other we might disagree with telling us how they think we should be doing Torah etc.
Well done!
I do think it’s a shame that more American Jews don’t know about their own history. The vast majority of what you covered, I did learn some in school and some on my own and some in college.
love your videos sam !!!
Yay! New video finally!
I mean, there’s a percentage of Americans who don’t want black history taught and they’re a much bigger people group, so yeah.
Why does it say trilogy while there are only 2 episodes in the playlist? Is one of the episodes delisted?
Can you give examples of stories in Spanish culture influenced and created by Judaism?
Thanks for clearing up my Jewish ancestry, I thought they were poor conversos forced to convert, but i guess they were just regular, abused Jews! Are you also a patron of Cival War Week by Week? get some good rest. I also subscribe to Seekers of Unity and now your other channel.
The teaser for the CW, nice...
Hey Sam, I’d have a general question to the history. Jews in diaspora and as well as in Eretz were persecuted throughout the history, subjects to pogroms, plagues and the Shoah. Especially later with the emancipation, many would assimilate into the majority. How is it then possible that there are so many Jews nowadays coming from a relatively small geographical area? Was the conversion to Judaism more usual in some periods and nations? Did European Jews historically have higher birth rate (or number of children surviving to adulthood) than Christians?
tl;dr I talk a lot more about demographics in my videos on Benjamin of Tudela, the Safed Circle, and Shabtai Zvi, as well as my recap of the Silk Road Trilogy. If this is something that interests you, I strongly recommend that you check them out.
The short version is thus: the Jewish population as a percentage of overall population was actually quite a bit larger in antiquity than it is today- maybe 1% of the global population in the year 100! So it was a good starting point. By 1000, it had dwindled down to around 1 million, which for the time was still pretty good. However, there was was a _much_ lower infant/child mortality rate among Jews specifically in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the Black Death and the Industrial Revolution that accounts for Ashkenazim being about half of Jews today; conversion was almost unheard of as medieval Christian and Islamic societies generally enforced the death sentence for apostasy.
@@SamAronow thank you so much for your answer Sam. If I am not mistaken, by year 100 most of Jews already lived in diaspora, places like Alexandria or Babylon. Could there possibly be some kind of assimilating process in times before? When did the population boom happen that transformed a small tribal society of Judea to the unique civilisation of the 1st and 2nd century Jews? Other nations in the region like Greeks, Persians, Assyrians, Phoenicians,. etc. either had empires where they ruled over others or an organised colonisation effort, but the Jewish history is rather about living under or uprisings against such.
My guess is that the lower mortality rate could have been caused by better hygiene (influence of education and religion) and more solidarity in the hard times of wars and famines compared to the majority population. Were there any other reasons?
Hi Sam
Would you please make a video about Moses and possible relation ship with Akhenaton.
How could most people in Europe have some Jewish ancestry of for the most part Jews were kept separate and not allowed to intermarry?
That was by no means consistent across 1500 years of Jewish history in Europe. Jews made up a huge segment of early converts to Christianity, and there were a _lot_ of mixed children born out of wedlock in the Middle Ages. Remember Alfonso Enriquez?
Plus, it didn't take that many; remember Charlemagne was only one guy.
Why didn't you talk in any video about jewish piracy?
Woo time off!
שאלה לא קשורה אבל מאוד חשובה לי, הסמל שהוטבע על המטבע של הורקנוס באמת היה נחשב גם לסמלה של השושלת החשמונאית בכלל? אני שוקל לקעקע וריאציה שלו
כן, ואם אתה רוצה גרסה טובה יותר אתה צריך להסתכל על המטבע של ₪2.
@@SamAronow חחח זהו, שאני מעדיף גרסה שמי שלא מכיר את הסמל המקורי לא יחשוב שקיעקעתי את השנקל. אגב, לא יודע איך להביע במילים את כמה שאני אוהב את התוכן שלך, תודה רבה!!!
You'd think that being a majority Jewish state: Israel wouldn't have any Crypto Jews.
But I'm sure at least some of them mine Bitcoin.
Happy Purim
"From the 1920s to the 2010s America had the largest Jewish population of any country" even more than Israel?
Yes. Israel didn't even hold the #2 spot until the early 1970s, surpassing the Soviet Union. At the time of independence, American Jews outnumbered Israeli Jews 5-1.
@@SamAronow thanks for answering! I also tweeted at you to recommend the book by Sarna Lincoln and the Jews for the Civil War period.
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Smh this guy isn't willing to spend every waking hour of every day working on this one video series
20:00 lol the day the yenne "medineh" ym"sh legalises gay marriage will be the day every chareidishe yid becomes a netirei karteh yid. Lmao just ridiculous