The Russo-Japanese War: A Jewish Perspective (1904-1905)
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Featuring Ryan McBeth
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Old Britannia as Trumpeldor
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Sources:
Raphael Bouchnik-Chen
"The Kishinev Pogrom as a Catalyst to the Russo-Japanese War"
Begin-Sadat Institute
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Shimon Dubnov
The History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume III
www.gutenberg.org/files/47212...
Jonathan Goldstein
"Uphill Political Struggle: Joseph Trumpeldor in Japan and Manchuria, 1904-1906"
Israel Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 1
omnilogos.com/uphill-politica...
Oren Kessler
"The Long Shadow of Joseph Trumpeldor"
Mosaic, 2 March 2020
mosaicmagazine.com/observatio...
Isaac Don Levine
Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar
www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/willnick...
Yulia Mikhailova
"Japan's Place in Russian and Soviet National Identity: From Port Arthur to Khalkin-Gol"
Japan and Russia: Three Centuries of Mutual Images
books.google.co.uk/books?id=e...
Jordan M. Peters
The Tsar and the Tsunami: The Obscure and Tragic History of the Russo-Japanese War
amzn.to/3UiDof0
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
"Military Service in Russia"
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
yivoencyclopedia.org/article....
Olga Solovieva
"'Not Just for Their Own Use...:' Solidarity in Times of Discord"
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Vol. 9, No. 1
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Yakov Zinberg
"Jews and Japanese, Non-White Partners"
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0:00 Sponsored by Omniatlas
0:59 The Life of Osia
5:49 “Yellow Peril”
10:25 The War in Brief
11:27 Weapons, Training, and Tactics (with Ryan McBeth)
17:13 The Captive Sons of Zion in Japan
21:45 War’s End
24:22 The Russian Revolution of 1905
26:18 The Black Hundreds
29:03 Trumpeldor’s Decision
As someone from Algeria, surrounded by anti semitic messaging all around me, on the radio, on the television or even my own friends talking about how jews want to punish our nation for expelling them by "supporting kabyle nationalists", this channel has made me appreciate jewish history much more.
I must thank you for bringing to the internet a way for people to understand jews as a people in a deeper way than the usual israel-palestine idiocy.
It always baffles me that someone can say that jews are pushing the agenda of civil rights and have it come across as negative yet we see it everywhere. I wish you a safe life
as an israeli, i can tell you for a fact that we dont want to punish your nation for expelling us, as if we were to punish each nation that expelled us we would be punishing hundreds of millions of people. Algeria isnt on israels sights and im sure much like with arab states Israel would like nothing but peace.
As a Maghrebi Jew, I really appreciate you for saying this.
Even in darkness, there is light. If there were more people like you, the world would be a better place.
Thank you so much. Did you see my recent video on Ben-Yehuda? Algeria played a major role in the standardization of Hebrew.
@@SamAronow Yes, it was a very interesting video.
Our jewish community used to be one of the biggest and most vibrant in the world before the Revolution, hell, our first minister of finance was a Greek Jew; Comrade Pablo, so it's not surprising jews from Europe fell in love with it.
The idea that the concept of the kibbutz would have had part of its origin in the POW camps of the Russo-Japanese War is something that would never have occurred to me. I always learn incredible new things on this channel.
It didn't. The idea of the Kibbutz started before the war. Even all the way back to the 1880s.
There were several existing Kvutzot (meaning groups, Kvutza in singular). But they simply weren't successful and eventually fell apart rather quickly.
The difference between a Kvutza and a Kibbutz is just the size.
The first Kibbutz started as a Kvutza in 1909. The difference was that this time, it was successful.
Trumpeldor joined it (Dgania) only after it was well established.
However, ironically, there are Kibbutzim in Japan today (kinda). There are small communes across Japan (about 40) that were developed from various reasons (like religious or ethical reasons) they were developed during the 20th century. Many of them sent students to study, learn and volunteer in Kibbutzim in Israel, which influenced their ideas and structures.
@@user-gr9fq9gt9w I'm going to look deeper into this ASAP. The birth of the kibbutz will feature shortly, though I will note that the attribution of the kibbutz as a product of the Captive Sons of Zion was not my own conclusion, and that all my research thus far on the Second Aliyah has drawn a hard line between the _kvutza_ and the efforts of Bilu in the First Aliyah.
It would be interesting to see if there was an influence on kibbutz (or moshav) from the Russian institution of the obshchina /mir. Those were villages that existed throughout the Russian Empire where the peasants owned all the land communally.
Despite working 12 years in Japan, this was very informative and insightful.
*NOTES*
1. Sorry for the audio quality on Ryan's segment. I'm not an audio specialist, so don't judge me too badly, but all I did to it was increase the bass levels to match the rest of the video. It was _not_ blown out or hard-right until I uploaded it to UA-cam.
2. Weird coincidence: I've been working on this video since 24 February 2022 (and yes, elements of these videos are often planned that far in advance). I was just starting to design the thumbnail when the news broke of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
3. This video was already uploaded and scheduled when news broke that Russia was introducing an "email draft" which would re-classify absentee citizens as draft dodgers and deprive them of numerous financial and administrative rights. So the spirit of Vannovsky lives on.
hopefully, the current Russia analysis holds up the test of time, but the recent intelligence leak seems to have doused some cold water on a lot of the reports we have been getting over the last year. Either way not that big a deal.
I can almost hear Trumpeldor saying to the tsar. "F-
Russia having the tactical advantage but blowing it on the training and tactics?
"I could never imagine what that would be like."
Sometimes, Stars align. History Repeats. And sometimes, awesome collabs are done.
@@GermanConquistador08”tactical advantage”
“Blowing it on tactics”
Those two sound contradictory reading the comment back. I didn’t want to troll you or anything, but I couldn’t wrap my head around it, so sorry.
@@DiamondKingStudios - Tactical Advantage: The greater ability to execute more precise, advanced or quicker moves against your opponent.
Tactics: The actual choices made on the battlefield to achieve what your tactical advantage is meant to give you - additional tools available to achieve your objective.
Probably the most unbelievable thing of this entire story is Japan treating POW's with dignity. How things changed in 40 years!
propaganda
"A year and a half earlier, emperor Nikolai had anticipated that the war would be an unchallenging, one-sided victory against an unprepared and incompetent enemy. Was he wrong?"
I physically fell off of my chair out of laughter when I heard this, and this made my day.
Nikolai was so dumb even his mom considered overthrowing him in a coup.
i wouldn't say the war is unchallenging to the Japanese, they still suffer massive casualties, and the war took a very heavy toll on the imperial treasury, it is still a great victory for them of course.
The story of the Russian Baltic fleet's bumbling journey halfway around the world is truly comedy gold, very much worth checking out for some laughs.
Literally a slapstick show.
Drachinifel has a two part series (plus a short video on Kamchatcha) on the 2nd Pacific Fleet and her journey. The dry British humor is NOT TO BE MISSED!
@@ag7898 Yep, I've seen them, and they're great!
@@ag7898 Link?
Did you expect anything else from Russia? Look how they are fighting in Ukraine.
Random trivia - when Emperor Nikolai as a young man visited Japan, he got a tattoo of an Asian dragon on his forearm, there's extant photos of him where it's visible.
The collaboration is unexpected, but a welcomed one.
For as much as I despise Japanese imperialism, I can't help but smile at the humiliation of the tsarist regime and the blow it meant for the old notions of racial supremacy.
You just made it on my "once in a long time treat" list. There's you and Historia Civilis now. Thank you ❤️
19:13 this is insane considering how awful they became in WW2 in Imperial Japan
אחד מהסרטון המרתקים ביותר שיצא לי לראות! עבודה נהדרת ותודה רבה סם!
one of the most fascinating video i have ever seen! A job well done and thank you sam!
A friend of mine's grandmother grew up in the Jewish community in Harbin, though it was after the Russian Revolution. Very interesting lady, always loved hearing her recollections.
incredible video I liked the collab despite the Audio quality
btw will you do a video of Jewish food on Yom HaAtzmaut? I feel like it's a good showcase of Israels cultural diversity
I have slightly different plans for Independence Day. Perhaps on a different channel...
@@SamAronow oh! Good idea, I think folks would love to watch you eat yummy Israeli food. 😊
It’s little known yet fascinating stories like that of Yosif Trumpeldor and the Russo-Japanese War that make this one of the best history channels on UA-cam.
Trumpeldor will be back
Keep it up friend.I am muslim from Pakistan 🇵🇰 i am interesting in history of jews yes i can't deny that there are anti jewish people in Pakistan like anyother country firstly i was also one of them but after reading Jewish history i am no more anti Jewish i have sympathy for Jews they literally suffer in ancient times and i am interested in jewish history i hope you make more videos about ancient jewish history. We muslims love Jewish history peace for jews from Pakistan 🇵🇰🤝 to all Jewish people.Jews are ancient people.Hope for peace between Israeli jews and Palestinians .Both people want to live peacefully peace will win 🙏 again respect for jews
Your humility and kindness is unrivaled. Thank you for your compassion ♥️
2 of my favorite UA-camrs. Excellent work as always, sir. Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating story Sam. Your videos are really engrossing and the level of detail is admirable. I am a South African but have been drawn to Jewish history for as long as I can remember. I found a fantastic book on the history of the Jews that I have since mislaid (it was a very long book with super small print and my eyes couldn’t manage anymore). Keep up the good work
Keep up the good work... 👍🏼... It wasn't so long ago when I used to be one of first hundred viewers of your latest upload....Now within a couple of hours there's over 1k views... 🎉🎉... Can't wait to see you do 100k 👍🏼
ah Sam bless you sir, so excited for this video :)
Yet another great video Sam. Well told and very informative as usual
Always love it when new vids come!!
Thank you so very much for all of your research and wonderful information!
Great video! Informative and entertaining! I am looking forward to Trumpeldor's future appearances.
This series is incredible, I hadn't heard of nearly any of these events in serious detail before your videos.
Amazing video!
Thank you so much for consistently great videos.
These are ridiculous high quality videos man
I feel so privileged to have found this channel
Ahhh, I finally got my desired mention of the Kibbutz! Informative video as usual; thanks Sam!
Your videos are jam packed with details, I learn so much about things I never knew about!
Great video
This video is great. It hits two branches of my family. My paternal great great grandfather was from Turku, Finland, which was a retirement settlement for retired Cantonists. The Jewish population there was comprised of Cantonists and their families.
My maternal great grandfather was the youngest of seven children sent to the US to avoid the draft for the Russo Japanese war in 1905.
Two points missed: The Japanese first sunk two Russian vessels, and then declared war. Japanese code of honor. Second: the Trans-Siberian Railroad had not yet been completed, when the Japanese attacked. Logistics.
New video let’s goooo!! (Also just found out my grandma’s grandpa was a cantonist, a medic, and drafted very young. So that’s- interesting.) Anyway, as always, the tzar and all his pogromchik friends can go die painfuly, and keep up the amazing videos! (I hope to se Shwarzbard in one, I’m writing a musical about him)
What a tragic story, and its added a depth to a war I thought I already knew pretty well. Thanks for another great video!
At the begining of the video i thought "I hope there won't be another pogrom cause of loss in the war" , and there they were. We do suck, aren't we?
A fantastic video series on the journey of the Russian 2nd Pacific Fleet by Drachinafel is some of the best content on the entire platform
Nicky and Willy : the Dynamic Duo of Despotism.
Thank you so much for this collaboration. It really is probably going to be fantastically surprising to many - I hope it brings a lot of new viewers to your amazing channel. Ryan's approval is really a high mark of honor, especially for military matters - which I want to say, you're very good at explaining.
As usual, looking forward to your next videos.
Shalom.
Sam great video on great man.I wanted to add two thing,first there is folk tale connected to Trumperldor captivity where the Japanese captors wanted to arrange "deal" with him on the world "dominance" of Jews.Also Trumperldor standing as military and his place of birth got him many many close connections with Mountain Jews(Juhuri) in Pitigorsk and around the Caucasus(who until them were always kind of seperate from Jews in Russia)and because of him many went to be Zionists and help to defend Jewish villages in armed groups against Bedouins.
The folk tale is relevant to World War II, not the Russo-Japanese War.
9:34 This makes me think of Imperial Japanese philosemitism and the belief the monarchy of Japan was Jewish
That or just Sam Aronow fans
A surprise Sam Aronow + Ryan McBeth collab was such a welcome treat this morning
Again, outstanding.
I was wrong in the previous video. Watching *THIS* video as an Israeli living in Japan hits different
I remember Maus exploring that aspect that the Vladek’s father having to mutilate himself (pulling out his teeth) to avoid service in Siberia (back when Poland was part of Russian Empire), which also influenced his decision to have their sons to weaken themselves to avoid being conscripted to Polish Army until the Vladek begged him father to let him join the army due to inability to bear the weakening process.
Hey Sam, I was wondering if you'd ever try to sell more merchandise related to your Jewish history series? I'm mainly asking because I'd love to support the channel more through that.
You really need to make a playlist for all the music you use in these videos
One of the songs was from Majora's Mask :D
@@alexleviyev which one
Will you be doing an overview (when you get to that point) of Israeli history as a part of Jewish one?
I’m sure it’ll be one 45 minute video for every year of Israeli history after 1949 at this rate
If the Jewish Roman war can be a 3 part trilogy I’m sure the Israeli war of independence will be
Oh boy, those videos will be messy.
That for me is the dumbest question in my internet life, and I be a goy.
On my channel (SKP: History) Ive created a 5 part "History of Israel" series, and myself and Sam have spoken about it in the past. Stay tuned for his one, but if you cant wait, check that one out @TheLordsofGaming
Very moving episode 😢...
This adds some good context to the Hayehudim Baim sketch about Trumpeldor.
They really should do one of his attempt to start a militant anarchist kibbutz/sex cult in 1913. That's in my video "The Second Aliyah (1905-1915)."
Bjorn Bjornson speaking about the 'Russian bear'. Now thats irony. His name literally means 'bear, son of a bear".
Wow I am about to listen to the episode of the Revolutions podcast about this war! What a coincidence
Watching this series makes me appreciate jewish history a lot more
The fact that Japan saw the Jews as "Asians" reminds me of how they viewed blacks as basically kin, which helped them to spread Japanese influence among Black Americans before WW2.
Big note: Russia's expansion into California was more trading than real powerful colonies.
And in terms of similarity, I was thinking more Six-Day War than Russo-Ukrainian war, but I get what you mean.
Just starting, but I really hope you included in ale gasn / Daloy Polizei
12:00 I'd like to make a note that the Mosin-Nagant was not a great rifle, in fact its usually regarded as the worst rifle of the era.
I think the specific information is more poignant about the extent of the Russian ethos and it's relevance even today.
Both Russia and Japan conducted studies about the shortcomings of their own rifles in comparison to the opposing rifle.
Japan came to the conclusion that the Type 30 was superior in every way to Mosin-Nagant, but still decided to create a program to update and improve the Type 30 after the war.
Russia came to the conclusion that the Type 30 was superior in nearly every way to the Mosin-Nagant, and yet they decided not to update or replace the Mosin-Nagant in any meaningful way.
Damn what happened to Ryan’s audio quality?
I see we're coming up on 1913. Are you going to cover the Beilis trial, or is it not important enough to be worth the detour?
10:28 Hollow Knight music? You're real for that Sam.
I love the video! A true story: my father in law's family were one of the first settlers who established Rosh Pina. His great grandfather used to fix waggons all over the upper Galilee. One day, Yosef Trumpeldor came to him from Tel Hai and was in a rush to fix his waggon. My father in law's great grandfather told him to seat and wait for his turn, but Trumpeldor got angry and started cursing him in Russian, and saying "How dare you?! Do you know who i am?!"
. The great grandfather turned around and smacked Trumpeldor in the face, knocking him down to the ground, and said to him: " one day, you will get what you deserve!". Trumpeldor got killed a few months later. The waggon was never fixed.
My grandma's grandfather fought in this war! He and my grandma's grandma left in 1906.
Speaking of Tolstoy, when war broke out in 1914, Thomas Mann mused that the war would never have happened had the great author still been alive. "...he wouldn't need to do anything, just be there at Yasnaya Polyana -- this would not be happening; it wouldn't dare to be happening."
I don't know if the title in Hebrew is an automatic translation or if you wrote it
But there is a typo there
8:45
He also got there his Dragon tattoo
Minor correction: Pavel Krushevan was probably not an author of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He was the publisher, but it doesn't make him the author. The author is still unknown. It could've been Piotr Rachkovsky, or someone else.
This is just heartbreaking. Trumpeldor went above and beyond to prove he was a loyal and valiant Russian citizen and solder, but Russia still spat in his face.
Not unlike the experience of African-Americans who served in a segregated army at this time. Especially after WW1, during the "Red Summer" of 1919, when America experienced its' own wave of pogroms against Blacks.
10:28 not the hornet fight theme
10:36 I was confused why Japan was able to enter Korea just like that, but apparently they signed a treaty AFTER this invasion saying "Eyo we're allowed to help protect your sovereignity dw homie"
That and there were Russian ships stationed there.
The story of the 2nd Pacific Squadron is fricking hilarious!
A future episode mentioning the Fugu Plan would be fun, as it's such a bizarre footnote in the history of Jews in Asia.
The audio with Ryan Mcbeth is muted for me on multiple devices.
26:25 I dont remember the Black Hundreds being considered national syndicalist
Was that old Britannia reading those quotes?
Finally.
The Czar's unpopularity in Britain due largely to the treatment of Jews, would help sign both his and his family's death warrants when their cousin Edward was forced to deny their asylum in Britain during the Russian revolution.
Yep, Britain ended its love affairs with absolute monarchy for a moment at that time. Socialists will basically be up in protests if they give asylum to the Romanovs, along with the muckraking British press. Both underestimated by the Romanovs gauging the British response as far back as the Crimean war
I find your videos very interesting. I am not jewish but I admire the resolve of your people. I wish my people were as commited as yours.
Now that we're getting more into Russia, could this be a good opportunity for you to cover Georgia at some point? I would love to see a video on that, my partner and I are big fans of the channel. She is a Georgian Jew, and her family has a long history there. They only left in the 1990s due to the widespread pogroms and antisemitism after the collapse of the Soviet Union @Sam
15:34
That is happening in Russia to this day.
Aronov? Are those your ancestors?
Yes! They've actually shown up once before. I plan to refer back to them when it's relevant as examples of how ordinary people actually experienced these events.
Can you do the video about Lodz's Jewish community? One of the bigest Jewish comunity in the world with sad end .
I had to rewatch the war part because i was jiving to the Hollow Knight boss music
There's an hilarious video about the journey of an Imperial Russian fleet from the Baltic (or was it the Black Sea?) to the Far East to fight the Japanese.
👍🏼
SOme of this music made me think it was juorney to the microcosmos
Mr. Aronow,
1. In an ideal world, UA-cam would be a competent company and There would be no massive fluctuations in volume for one segment to the next or between a video and advertisement. UA-cam isn't a functional company and doesn't care about its creators or users. That puts the onus on you to do things like editing and making sure that your volume and the volume of a guest segment are similar.
2. The Russell Japanese war did not begin on land, but rather with the Japanese Navy attacking the Russian Navy in Port Arthur.
My father's family (both sides) fled from what is now Ukraine (then the Russian Empire) after the 1906 pogroms. That's why we are in the USA now.
Shame, Wilhelm had told Nicholas “Make war against Japan and you will destroy a great empire” so idk what went wrong
Does anyone know if there is a similar channel to this one:
1 for Buddhism?
2 for Hinduism?
Aronow's channel is about Jewish History which encompasses the history of Judaism as a religion/system of belief but is not depended solely on it. So if you want a "similar" channel, you mean about Indian History (which encompasses but is not at all equivalent to Hinduism or Buddhism or Islam, heck even Judaism as Sam's own videos on the Bene Israel show):
1) ODD COMPASS: www.youtube.com/@OddCompass
2) INDIA INK: www.youtube.com/@IndiaInkHistory
3) AL MUQADIMMAH: www.youtube.com/@AlMuqaddimahYT
No not really. For Buddhism around the periphery of China. Which I guess covers both major versions. You could try the TeaCup Media channel. Then look for historical subjects he talks about outside of China. But then this would mostly be Chinese immigrants or invaders dealing with Buddhists. But he goes in depth. Other than that, exposure to Buddhism besides South Vietnamese descendants who live in my area, is Kings and Generals stuff.
@@MarkVrem Odd Compass did an episode about an Indian Buddhist Monk's mission in proselytizing in Japan:
ua-cam.com/video/IY600RGqSQ4/v-deo.html&pp=ygUUT2RkIENvbXBhc3MgYnVkZGhpc3Q%3D
@@MarkVrem @arthur4350 thanks for the answers
Japanese Hanukah when?
Does anyone else feel the rock in their stomach when they realize that Russia has basically not changed at all?
They got _really_ close right after this. They really did. There was even enough political support in 1906 to abolish the monarchy. But they didn't quite get it together, so even as the empire became more and more unpopular over the next decade, there wasn't any coherent structure to replace it. You'll see next time.
@@SamAronow I suppose it's just...disappointingly salient that you've reached a point in history where you get to spend a lot of time talking about Russia's authoritarian abuse of its minority populations.
@@samwill7259 Yes, but next time will also be the last Russia-centric video for a very long time.
@@SamAronow I'd be disappointed if you don't at least touch on Russia's failed joke of an attempt at a "second Jewish homeland" though there might not be much to tell
@@SamAronow Luckily, they abolished the monarchy eventually some time afterwards, and everything went great after that, right?
OMG What happened next????
The next three episodes will each be a direct continuation of this one.
Yoooo my man played Hollow Knight, still waiting on Silksong though
12:10 damn fix the audio
Based on their earlier attitude it makes sense that the Japanese prevented Germans in WWII against taking action against the Jews in Singapore, since the leader of the Jews claimed that the Germans were against them since they were Asians, like the Japanese.
Kishiniev and Korok forest have the same gematria, true story.
Wow! I never knew that there were Russian settlements in California.
One of , if not the oldest continuest culture on our planet being persecuted to this day is somehow not surprising, sad but not surprising. We are all Spartacus?✌️🙏✌️
I do wonder how many of these POW jews decided to stay in Japan rather than return to Russia
I didn’t come across any examples of this in my research.
@@SamAronow Japan probably wouldn't accept them anyway
So how did Trumpledor's tale end??
There’s more Trumpeldor in the video on the Second Aaliyah, and it looks like he’ll be back gain one more time after that.
His descendant became the President of the United States of America from 2017 until 2020.