Did Napoleon Bonaparte Invent Judaism? | Unpacked
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- French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte played a pivotal role in the emancipation of Europe’s Jews. He also set the stage for how Jews understand their own identity today by convening the Grand Sanhedrin and directing it to divide Jewish identity into two components - the religious and the national - and to discard the national in favor of loyalty to the French nation.
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00:00 Intro
00:31 The French Revolution
01:13 Jewish emancipation
01:52 Christian antisemitism
02:51 Napoleon Bonaparte and plan for Jewish assimilation
03:58 The Assembly of Jewish Notables
05:39 Do Jews see themselves as French?
06:25 Who's in charge of the Jews?
07:14 Are Jews going to destroy our economy?
08:05 The Grand Sanhedrin of Napoleon
10:03 Holding multiple identities
10:46 Defining our own identity
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Under Napoleon, French Jews had more freedom and rights, than other European Jews. Wherever Napoleon conquered, his armies brought Jewish emancipation with them, most notably in Germany. But, when the French forces were forced out, oppression returned, and Jews lost their rights to study and work, in any field, and were forced back into the ghettos.
They're not the jews they are the karzars From the mountain of Europe that's their home, they're not Jews. There are liars and fakes
Why do you people include this fake narrative of Jews? It was no such thing as that at that time they were Hebrews or Moors and he converted to Islam his contemporary, said he went native
@@FBAHistory And they were black people
What fake narrative? If you aren't aware of it, it's false?
My great great great grandfather came to America, was able to emigrate from Germany, only because the new Code Napoléon, gave Jews rights to move freely. To move freely from Germany meant the ability to move to America.
It was always an ethnoreligion, at least from the times of Ezra. It's a religion for the people living in Judah & Israel, that was "packed up" when Jews had to leave.
It might be hard to understand, but the national identity of Jews is older than any national identity in Europe, barring the Greeks, perhaps.
And what is that identity?
@@Youtuube304s Being Jewish. Connection to the land of Israel and its various customs, symbols, connection to the Hebrew language (most Jewish males knew some, it was the Jewish lingua Franca like Latin) and to the belief system of the people hailing from that land.
@@davidtrak2679Un juif peut parfaitement être citoyen du pays dans lequel il vit et auquel il appartient
This is a great dynamic of our Jewish history and cultural identity to highlight. In short this truly was the moment where we as Jews in a sense stopped looking at ourselves as a people and more as just another religion. It was the Jewish attempt to try to become equals in other countries. As history shows it did not work. We will always be Jews cause it is who we are. We are more than just another religion we are a people and as we show are stronger united. Thank you for this video. Well done.
You're a German bud
@@Snpiedogif he’s a Jew, probably not.
@wrongsnowboard4356 lol, they've lived in Germany for thousands of years bud. There's a reason why the Ashkenazi wanted Yiddish to be the language spoken in Israel lol, or does Jewish blood cancel out all other blood?
lol stop overestimating yourself - you’re just a bunch of people who got displaced by superior races all across the world for the past 2000 years, nothing more.
You’re not stronger United.
You only cause destruction when you’re United, deep down you know this
The joke, of sorts, is that laws binding until the end of the French Empire sounds like a big deal, but it was over by 1815.
Even though the French Empire continued up to the 1960a.
This entire video topic is one of the stranger ones.
The new laws binding from the Empire were codified into the Code Napoléon, parts of which are still in place today in France; the Code spread to every country of the Empire.
And loved that "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?" 😆💛
Great video!! I just made a 10 minute video giving a basic overview of Napoleon. I thought many people would enjoy it before they see the movie.
Judaism always seemed to be more of a national identity than a religion. It makes sense when you consider that religion and nationality were one and the same in the ancient world.
Similar situation with Muslims and Islam in western countries. In 2023.
The more I listen to you , the more I understand and learn. Your wisdom , edit and narration are beyond beyond. . You select topics that are individual and different in the best ways. I have read much on Bonaparte but never his agenda for French Jews. That was fresh, interesting and important to me. This helps me understand the French and Jewish dynamic. My beliefs started that there is a lot o of anti-semitism in France. In fact I believe France has the largest Jewish population in Western Europe at around 250,000.
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“And that’s when things got hairy” is crazy 😂
Great video!
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You fear what is unknown...
Knowledge is a way to better understanding between nations & people
Interesting video
Dude I can’t stop laughing at that intro 🍻
The ethnicity is Hebrew, the Religion is Judaism, the nationality is Israel. However there were always different tribes within Judaism, not limited to the 12 tribes. Moabites, Turkic Khazars, Samaritans, Ashkenazim, Sepharadim, Mizrahim, Falashim, etc. There are Hebrew Christians, Hebrew Muslims, even Hebrew Buddhists and Hindus(i.e. Krishna Das). Yadda yadda
Interesting history👏👏
Very informative video, thank you
Jobs that nobody wanted ,after my knowledge it wasnt true , it wasnt that simple!
There is nothing we can do😢
We can eat and sleep
And try to be Good People and be just in these turbulent times
It was the first time Jews questioned how to face modernity ....some rabbis held napolian should win as Jews will have more freedom....some rabbis wanted the other side to win to stay sheltered....n debate remains till today if to shelder or modernize...
Thanks for the video. Also looking forward to see videos about the Jewish-Christian relationship.
It's crazy how Ashkenazi Jews descend from four women in eastern Europe but they came from the middle East a thousand years ago
He also insisted Jews take last names.
One question for jews: If jewish law prevents them from taking any interest ,why did they take interest during that period through lending money?
Good question. Jewish law allows for it outside of the Jewish community
@@UNPACKED but I think you mentioned that this is not even allowed for non-jews
Christian’s and Jews had the same law to do with interest. Both were only allowed to charge interest on groups outside their faith. Since England was an overwhelmingly majority Christian country, Jews were able to fulfil that role.
@justcomments1239 this is extremely strange to me
If god doesn't allow something, it makes sense that it is not allowed on everyone
Interest is not allowed because it makes heavy duty on people so doing it to your group or outside groups won't make difference
In Islam for example interest is forbidden on muslims regardless the faith of the borrower
@@mahmoudelshayeb88 doesn’t make sense to me either. I’m Jewish but I prefer Islam’s attitude towards charging interest.
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We also have to give some credit to a guy who ruled shortly before Naplean did, Robesespiere. He gets, and no doubt deserves, a bad reputation. But he did good stuff, too. On the issue of the Jews, he said, "They should have no rights as a people, but all rights as individuals." In other words, they should have no special privileges, but should have the same rights as every other French citizen, neither more nor less. This led the way to the opening of the French ghettos and the naturalizing of French Jewish citizens. This equality under the law continued up to the present day, except for when France was ruled by Nazi collaborators.
Incidentally, the French revolutionary period was also when France legalized gas sex, which remained the law until the present day, with the exception, again, of the Nazi controlled Vichy government.
The French Revolution in general gets a bad reputation, and not without reason. And Napoleon, who waged wars of invasion all over Europe, North Africa, and Haiti, was not universally loved, either. But that just shows how complicated history can be.
And as another side note, in England, wealthy (and not like by many, but this time for no good reason) banker Jewish Jacob Rothschild lent a lot of money to the King of England, to help him fight Napoleon, and thus was able to convince the king to open the English ghettos, too. So, yay for the political chaos in 18th century France? History can be strange.
True followers of Jesus have never hated Jews. Just isn't possible.
And yet, they identify as such and have always been 🤷🏻♀️
@@blackeyedsusan727 Nope. That's a complete falsehood.
@@graceorchard Yup. The last 2000+ years of prosecution, pogroms, and genocide at the hands of the Christian world, it's membership and institutions never happened.
Also, have never existed:
The Crusades and wanton murder of Jews and Muslims living in their own lands at the hands of Christian invaders
The burning of Jews, Jewish books, and the mass destruction of Jews throughout the Middle Ages in all of what is now Europe and Russia - all Christian lands
The Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, which saw Jews murdered en masse, forcibly converted on pain of death, and otherwise forcibly removed from their ancestral lands throughout Europe and the Ottoman Empire, only to be chased less than a generation later out of the rest of Europe.
The spread of the Iberian Inquisitions to America, where some Jews and Coversos had sought some refuge.
The continued oppression, genocide, murder, and exploitation of Jews from then (the 17th c) to the present day.
Yup - none of that has ever happened!
We should be careful of not committing the no true scotsman fallacy. Would you take it as seriously if a Muslim said “any terrorist is no Muslim, and thus, I declare that there are no Muslim terrorists”.
@@graceorchard Acknowledging the mistakes of Christians is a better road to reconciliation than claiming all the bad Christians weren't "real" Christians.
Lets never forget that Napoleon grabbed the jabroni Pope and placed him in prison. Napoleon completed the Biblical prophecy of the temporary end of the cruel Papal rule. 🇮🇱
No concession to the Jews made by France?! How about equality under the law and citizenship ?
As they said at the time: "no right for Jews as a nation all the rights for Jews as individuals". Napoleon also said that he wanted too prevent the Jews being a "nation in the nation".
Remember these individual rights were not granted under the ancien regime. It was a system of estates, the body of the nation was very restricted to mostly nobility and clergy. If I am a noble man who has a lineage that gets back to the crusades, who received its ancestral land from Saint Louis himself, do you think I am eager to let everyone have the same saying in the matters of the realm than me?!
Besides, Jews were considered aliens living in a Christian state. Depending on the realm and period it was a more or less tolerated minority, that had restrictions but privileges as well (they were treated as a group). Not sure a peasant was necessarily better off.
Man a bit more of historical context would be great, especially as now a lot a French politicians are talking about this as a model to have with Muslims... You could have the same questions, about marriage, double allegiance, apostasy etc...
Your French accent is pretty good lol! Put a little more ch into the r though if tough know what I mean
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Napoleon had a Semitic Y chromosome Haplogroup
Have there ever been families Jewish who converted and have no DNA yet are integral part of Jewish history? I was wondering about my last name Tetzlav which stems from Poland. Yet I have no traces of Jewish DNA when I tested I had only Swedish and Russian and Norwegian and german. Thanks in advance!
Hello. To answer you, you could have Ashkenazi (Eastern European Jewish) dna even though you did a dna test since dna testing only traces a few generations back, As a AJ Jew, my dna tests show cousins of 5-8 generations back- with CM's (Centimorgans) of only 8 across 1 or 2 segments of dna. You still might be Jewish though but hundreds of years back
I don’t think Tetzlav is necessarily a Jewish last name. It’s a little tricky to categorise of course, but I haven’t heard of it in Jewish contexts before
Ashkenazi Jews are fake Jews. They don’t have Hebrew blood.
@@ruchi750 The surname Tetzlav can also be found in other languages such as German, Czech, Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish. In German, the surname is spelled Tetzlau, Tetzler, Tezler, Tezlar, and Teitleman.
@@deborahdills4670 for sure, but if one has only the last name to go by and no other evidence, then personally I wouldn’t see this as a reason to believe Jewish origins over any other ethnicity in those regions at the time. But maybe I’m ignorant 🤷🏻♀️
The first Sanhedrin in over a thousand years. Boney could factually say, "I did that."
I'm American and never heard Bonaparte mispronounced that way in my life.
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Excellent video.
Glad you liked it!
The final question presented in this video: "how do Jewish people figure out how to participate in this world?" The answer is Torah, already have the Torah, just do it. "We will do everything HaShem has said; we will obey."
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Nation is a synthetically invented term first used in the end of 19th century. France probably. The idea of a “nation state” came even later. However we are all judging modern history based on comparison with the old history when people haven’t heard of such thing as a nation or nationality.
It is a very funny idea that you’re supposed to have certain beliefs based on your territorial location.
Nonsense. People by nature are nationalistic. The Bible even says God divided the nations according to the number of the divine council. Which is either 70 or 72, depending on the translation. Nationalism is an old concept, and frankly a Jewish one.
Napoléon n’était pas antisémite, il n’aimait pas la religion, mais il n’aimait aucune religion. Mais il ne les détestait pas en tant que tels .
Great - no - fantastic video. I live in Israel and always learn from your videos.
Great to hear!
Thanks, learnt a good deal about the relationship between Napoleon and the Jewish community in France. Also learnt about how the French Revolution led to the development of the civic state.
It's a topic I've never heard about as a French in France from no-one. Quite interesting.
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Don't agree with a lot of your stances on Israel, but I really liked this video.
Huh?? So Jouquin Phoenix is anti-semitic? That doesnt make any sense. Plus, hes like.... Half jewish or a quarter jewish.
16s ago!?!?!? im early
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first- sorry couldn't resist
Better than being sloppy seconds
@@lazarchill8514 ye
Wow, thank you for this. 💙🇮🇱
This Zionist propaganda both tries to reaffirm Jews as white and “oppressed” at the same time as a chosen race. We real Jews are not fooled by this racialization of a faith by European elitist by white sacrificing to hide the plot to make Jews white to secretly promote white supremacy under the guise of creating a European Israel in the Middle East. Jews are not a race and isn’t based on flesh and blood. So, Napoleon, Hitler, and other Zionist are just promoting what they claim to be fighting: global white supremacy. Good propaganda though. Woodrow Wilson was a Zionist and the movie Birth of a Nation tells you what Israel is really all about. Keep faking prophecy.
Napoleon has to be the weirdest antisemite ever
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So that's why they created the French Revolution.
Is everything created by Jews to you?
Here comes another blame again kk
who knew?
It's best for French Jews should make aaliyah to Israel.
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if i remember correctly there are theory about jewish plot during French Revolution
Hense why many Jews returned to Israel the only country in the world where that is not in question.
Jews were persecuted for corruption. Y’all always leave that part out
Sure! victims are to blame! so smart@@LickyTee
Being Jewish isn’t about a nation or Religion (those are big parts) it’s about family and community.
Jews are a People. The People of GOD , The Chosen People. Judaism is a Religion. Hebrew is a Language ( alongside Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino). Israel is a Nation . The IDF, INP/ IBP, and Mossad Shin Bet, Agaf Modi'in, are the Armed Forces, Law Enforcement Intelligence and Security Agencies of The Jewish State. As an AMCIT ( American Citizen 🇺🇲 ) of Puerto Rican 🇵🇷, Spanish 🇪🇸, and French 🇫🇷 Descent, as well as a Latin ( Roman Rite) Catholic Christian, and, a Prior Service Marine and Soldier, I Myself, John Rodriguez, Stand with and Support Israel. AM YISRA'EL CHAI, ISRAEL IS REAL!!🇺🇲🇺🇲♥️❤️🇮🇱🇮🇱🙏🛐✡️🕎🕍✝️☦️⛪📖🕊️😇👼‼️
You sound like a smart guy. Its anti-judaism or anti-jewish not anti-semitism. There are 400 milion semitic speaking people including non semits like some kurds, berbers, nubians, copts, greeks, armenians, turkik people(turkomans, some alewites), iranic people from Oman...and jews, form a small minority of 20milion people(including those of non semitic origin). Then you have tygre plus tygrinia=55milion, south arabs, socotrans...=1.7milion, arameics, syriacs, chaldeens...=2 milion people, maltese 300000, arabs between 150 and 300 milion, plus druze, some alewites in Levant and Turkey... So do the math!
You sound like a fool for bringing up this inane, brainless talking point
Antisemite was a term coined by a German journalist in the 20th century and he meant it to exclusively mean someone who hates Jews. Yes there are other Semitic groups but the origins of this word were exclusively about jews
@@MajnuntheHippie9264 IT isnt normal that a single semitic minor ethnic group to confiscate a word with a larger definition. And its also kind of an arrogant act too.
@@dacicus090 You're not very bright and you are not fooling anyone.
@@dbarcd.5913 where is the fooling? Read what semitic means. Its simple.
He only emancipated you so he could conscript and tax you lol.
Ils ont été émancipés par la Révolution, Napoléon n'a continué dans cette voie que parce qu'ils avaient le droit et le devoir de faire partie de la nation comme tout le monde.
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That didn't make any sense. Says a lot.