End of the 19th Century: Corrections, Questions, and Omissions

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    0:00 Intro
    1:05 Correction: Kattowitz
    1:17 Correction: Zichron Yaakov
    2:14 Subbotniks
    4:17 Non-Jewish immigration to Palestine
    5:36 Correction: Jules Gèsde
    6:00 Correction: Georges Meliès’ L’Affaire Dreyfus
    6:37 More notable Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards
    7:49 Correction: Vienna
    8:03 Lost in Translation: “The State of Jews” vs. “The Jewish State.”
    8:57 Ahad HaAm vs. Herzl today
    10:06 Herzl and the Hamidian Massacres
    12:06 Bundists today?
    13:51 Correction: Accelerationism
    14:57 Lenin’s views toward Jews
    16:40 The Alliance Israélite Universelle
    18:25 Esparanto
    19:26 Jewish extremism in the 1880s and today

КОМЕНТАРІ • 68

  • @SamAronow
    @SamAronow  Рік тому +47

    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
      @thecoloroctet1365 Рік тому +3

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

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow  Рік тому +6

      @@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
      @gyllenspetzfamily7993 Рік тому +2

      ​@@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
      @mammuchan8923 Рік тому

      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
      @KhassiaK Рік тому +2

      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!

  • @pescavelho6151
    @pescavelho6151 Рік тому +29

    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
      @orenrobinson Рік тому +6

      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!

  • @yrobtsvt
    @yrobtsvt Рік тому +32

    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.

  • @williamlawrence433
    @williamlawrence433 Рік тому +17

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

  • @Nathan-ks3gv
    @Nathan-ks3gv Рік тому +17

    The dedication to correcting your own errors 👌

  • @xenotiic8356
    @xenotiic8356 Рік тому +6

    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!

  • @lealbuniak7028
    @lealbuniak7028 56 хвилин тому

    Sam you’re the most interesting the creator and you helped me to connect with my Jewish history thank you so much 😊

  • @matthewbrotman2907
    @matthewbrotman2907 Рік тому +17

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

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow  Рік тому +8

      Yikes! I'm sorry.

    • @themacandcheeseorca1128
      @themacandcheeseorca1128 Рік тому +2

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

    • @oshergordon6406
      @oshergordon6406 Рік тому +4

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

  • @davedark27
    @davedark27 Рік тому +15

    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 😅

  • @israelilocal
    @israelilocal Рік тому +4

    finally really needed this video

  • @ThatOneCatto
    @ThatOneCatto Рік тому +1

    Can't wait for what's next!

  • @AlyAyeee
    @AlyAyeee 8 місяців тому

    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 :)

  • @user-gr9fq9gt9w
    @user-gr9fq9gt9w Рік тому +3

    Yay! I helped with a correction!

  • @koalasandwich567
    @koalasandwich567 Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @faerieprincess1232
    @faerieprincess1232 Рік тому +6

    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 UA-cam comments, but that text has what I believe you’re looking for. n.b. it was written before the party split

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow  Рік тому +3

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

    • @faerieprincess1232
      @faerieprincess1232 Рік тому +4

      @@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.

  • @user-gr9fq9gt9w
    @user-gr9fq9gt9w Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @senttiee
    @senttiee Рік тому

    This is my first recap video since catching up :D

  • @vallraffs
    @vallraffs Рік тому +4

    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.

  • @KoBo33451
    @KoBo33451 Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @Tony-zh1kz
    @Tony-zh1kz Рік тому +5

    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
      @torceridaho 8 місяців тому

      I have visited Kfar Kama. Just amazing

  • @jevgenijdan7328
    @jevgenijdan7328 Рік тому +1

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

  • @mukathompson7490
    @mukathompson7490 Рік тому +2

    Sam Aronow confirmed NFKRZ enjoyer

  • @emilsazanda
    @emilsazanda Рік тому

    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 :)

  • @roniberahaquartet477
    @roniberahaquartet477 Рік тому

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

  • @narthiirian
    @narthiirian 11 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @yoavsnake
    @yoavsnake Рік тому +1

    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)

  • @franciscovelasco5422
    @franciscovelasco5422 Рік тому +5

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

    • @shacharh5470
      @shacharh5470 Рік тому +5

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

    • @franciscovelasco5422
      @franciscovelasco5422 Рік тому +1

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

    • @shacharh5470
      @shacharh5470 Рік тому

      @@franciscovelasco5422 how did you miss it? 😲

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow  Рік тому +7

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

    • @franciscovelasco5422
      @franciscovelasco5422 Рік тому +2

      @@SamAronow thanks!

  • @ianyork2655
    @ianyork2655 Рік тому

    What do you think of the Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum

  • @Mark761966
    @Mark761966 Рік тому

    Was the movie producer Milton Subotnik a Subotnik?

  • @kapifromnevada4697
    @kapifromnevada4697 Рік тому +1

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

  • @vajomo
    @vajomo Рік тому

    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
      @vajomo Рік тому

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

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow  Рік тому +7

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

  • @brucerisen9825
    @brucerisen9825 Рік тому +2

    We need more jewish ned flanders NOW!

  • @unkownhistory7660
    @unkownhistory7660 Рік тому

    old believers and spiritual Christians also to included

  • @Ccroes
    @Ccroes Рік тому +3

    I speak papiamento❤

    • @joaoribeiro5938
      @joaoribeiro5938 Рік тому

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

  • @zacharytrosch3406
    @zacharytrosch3406 Рік тому +4

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

  • @mlovecraftr
    @mlovecraftr Рік тому +1

    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
      @SamAronow  Рік тому +3

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

    • @mlovecraftr
      @mlovecraftr Рік тому

      @@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?

  • @lolailo2199
    @lolailo2199 Рік тому +1

    Yoooo jewish lore update

  • @user-gr9fq9gt9w
    @user-gr9fq9gt9w Рік тому +1

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

  • @kassidymiller3223
    @kassidymiller3223 Рік тому

    You've lost me, Sam 😔

  • @oriole4008
    @oriole4008 Рік тому

    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.

  • @mono4946
    @mono4946 Рік тому +1

    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