I was very surprised when I discovered that in Hebrew school in the USA we learn the Sephardic pronunciation, despite the country being overwhelmingly (>90%) Ashkenazi. My parents and I even pronounce the prayers differently (which has led to a ton of confusion).
@@SamAronow yeah the original Tory name comes from the Gaelic for outlaw but took on a very different meaning after Benjamin Disraeli befriended Queen Victoria. (However it is still a dirty word in mainstream British political discourse today)
to be even more nitpicky- it can be said that the Tories underwent a transformation during Robert Peel's time as leader. in 1835 Peel issued the Tamworth manifesto devoting the Tories to moderate reform, and in 1846 Peel's government passed the Corn Laws, breaking up the Tories into two: the Peelites (who'll later team up with the Whigs to become the Liberals,) and the faction under Disraeli and Lord Stanley (later Earl of Derby,) the Conservatives. that transformation wasn't just in terms of policy too: while the Tories seemed like a club for only the landed and wealthy, the Conservatives involved support from every level of society-a mass movement, if you will.
Another fun fact: Thiers was president of France much later, during the Paris Commune. He besieged the city to crush the revolution - which was defended by the walls built in his name
My parents and grandparents were secular Mapainiks, so the first time I ever heard Ashkenazi Hebrew "in the wild" was in 7th grade, when a classmate who went to a different synagogue asked if I'd gotten my "tallis" yet. I was in my fourth year of learning Hebrew and genuinely didn't understand what she was saying.
Everyone keeps calling the Israeli Hebrew accent Sephardic. It has a larger sound inventory than the Ashkenazi one. There is no Heth, Teth, Qoph, or 'Ayin is israeli Hebrew. The Resh today sounds like a Gimmal Rephuya... And the beghedh kepheth is another story... Same with the niqqudh - Talleth vs. Tallis as you noted. Or even meaning of words like Shibboleth Shuʿal. Or even pronouncing the Shewa Na' Shelomo vs. Shlomo. There is more to say on this but I'm not going to on one foot in the comments.
@@SamAronow not all Iraqis either. But yea that doesn't address the other issues 😂 Israeli Hebrew was never in parallel with any dialect with Sepharadi Hebrew. It is it's own beast.
I just finished watching every single video in row! Even though I watched some of them separately whenever I had some specific question, this series was absolutely insane. Everything ties in so well to the rest of history, and it's honestly a little shameful I know so little about Jewish history as an Israeli, even (or maybe especially) modern Judaism and the way it works. You do such a good job contextualizing Jewish history and specifically talking about the things that were most politically important (especially to non-Jews whenever they were ones who held the majority of political power), rather than what was most important to the Jewish community specifically, which is less relevant to the rest of the world, and that focus helps tie this story in to the rest of history (though I'm afraid that might mean people who have less knowledge of all this background history will enjoy this series less, since a large part of why I personally liked it so much is how it tied in to all my previous historical knowledge, especially with those extremely wonderful maps). I think one of the things that shocked me the most was the actual relevance of Jews to the rest of history, and since they rarely appeared when I was learning about other countries' history I assumed they were relatively politically irrelevant, and seeing how major political problems both affected the Jewish community and were affected by them was super cool. I am really looking forward to see you talk about the end of the 19th and especially the 20th century, and I really hoped that by the time I finished watching all these videos a new one would be released (it took me around 2 weeks to watch all the videos). I might look in to become your patron in the future, and I recommended you to a bunch of my friends.
That's more of an America-specific thing, feeding into the hierarchy of "who arrived first" with the Western Sephardim at the top and the FSUs at the bottom.
15:55 you said my name but you wrote someone else's lol Also thanks for answering the question it was very interesting I never learned of 19th century British politics
I'm surprised you didn't mention George Eliot's book Daniel Deronda. Gwendolen Harleth was very much in the stereotype of the la belle juive. Though the author was highly sympathetic to Jewish issues.
I still don't get the Damascus affair episode at all. You hint that the affair was a conspiracy by the Egyptian and French governments, but to what end? Was it to distract the local Syrian Arabs from their grudge against their new Egyptian rulers?
It was a conspiracy by Ratti-Menton specifically to increase French influence in Egypt, using its recently self-appointed status as the military/diplomatic protector of the Catholic Church, in the expectation that Egypt would indeed overthrow the Ottoman Empire and become the new Middle Eastern power.
*the yeshivish askhenazi accent. The general one not as inspired by Yiddish isn't that ridiculous and just sounds like Yemenite vowels with fewer consonants
I was very surprised when I discovered that in Hebrew school in the USA we learn the Sephardic pronunciation, despite the country being overwhelmingly (>90%) Ashkenazi. My parents and I even pronounce the prayers differently (which has led to a ton of confusion).
It is simply the standard, same as Spanish classes in Los Angeles don't teach the local dialect of Spanish (Caló).
One tiny nit pick. The conservatives never ceased to be Tories. To this day the British (and Canadian) conservative parties call themselves Tories
Only as a nickname though. The name was changed in the 1830s.
@@SamAronow was there even formal party names in the 1830s?
Brb gonna go spend an incorrect amount of time looking for 19th century ballots
@@SamAronow yeah the original Tory name comes from the Gaelic for outlaw but took on a very different meaning after Benjamin Disraeli befriended Queen Victoria. (However it is still a dirty word in mainstream British political discourse today)
@@tzvi7989 why
to be even more nitpicky-
it can be said that the Tories underwent a transformation during Robert Peel's time as leader.
in 1835 Peel issued the Tamworth manifesto devoting the Tories to moderate reform, and in 1846 Peel's government passed the Corn Laws, breaking up the Tories into two: the Peelites (who'll later team up with the Whigs to become the Liberals,) and the faction under Disraeli and Lord Stanley (later Earl of Derby,) the Conservatives. that transformation wasn't just in terms of policy too: while the Tories seemed like a club for only the landed and wealthy, the Conservatives involved support from every level of society-a mass movement, if you will.
Another fun fact: Thiers was president of France much later, during the Paris Commune.
He besieged the city to crush the revolution - which was defended by the walls built in his name
The workload and effort that goes into these videos is astounding. Criminally underrated.
8:06 Adolphe Cremieux also sounds a lot like Adolphe the Creamy in French.
Enjoy your travels. Will miss you!
In relation to surnames; Sephardic Jews had surnames since the Middle Ages. The Iberian Peninsula has one of the oldest surname traditions in Europe.
An enjoyable corrections vid LOL! Safe travels and Shabbat Shalom!
As a child in the ‘70s, I was taught Hebrew with the Sephardic phonology. But I heard a lot of Ashkenazic accents from older people.
My parents and grandparents were secular Mapainiks, so the first time I ever heard Ashkenazi Hebrew "in the wild" was in 7th grade, when a classmate who went to a different synagogue asked if I'd gotten my "tallis" yet. I was in my fourth year of learning Hebrew and genuinely didn't understand what she was saying.
Everyone keeps calling the Israeli Hebrew accent Sephardic. It has a larger sound inventory than the Ashkenazi one.
There is no Heth, Teth, Qoph, or 'Ayin is israeli Hebrew. The Resh today sounds like a Gimmal Rephuya...
And the beghedh kepheth is another story... Same with the niqqudh - Talleth vs. Tallis as you noted. Or even meaning of words like Shibboleth Shuʿal. Or even pronouncing the Shewa Na' Shelomo vs. Shlomo.
There is more to say on this but I'm not going to on one foot in the comments.
Resh as a uvular trill does originate in _a_ Sephardic dialect, but it's that of Iraq, and it only became standard in Hebrew in the mid-20th century.
@@SamAronow not all Iraqis either. But yea that doesn't address the other issues 😂
Israeli Hebrew was never in parallel with any dialect with Sepharadi Hebrew. It is it's own beast.
@@SamAronow I thought "tallis" was Yiddish.
History will always resist resist simplicity, especially SO MUCH history from all over.
"..join the Conservatives, in order to advance Liberal policies." What a lad...
Thank you!!
Lovely as always..enjoy your break.
HYPE! Also enjoy your travels friend
I love this damn channel so much!
I just finished watching every single video in row! Even though I watched some of them separately whenever I had some specific question, this series was absolutely insane. Everything ties in so well to the rest of history, and it's honestly a little shameful I know so little about Jewish history as an Israeli, even (or maybe especially) modern Judaism and the way it works. You do such a good job contextualizing Jewish history and specifically talking about the things that were most politically important (especially to non-Jews whenever they were ones who held the majority of political power), rather than what was most important to the Jewish community specifically, which is less relevant to the rest of the world, and that focus helps tie this story in to the rest of history (though I'm afraid that might mean people who have less knowledge of all this background history will enjoy this series less, since a large part of why I personally liked it so much is how it tied in to all my previous historical knowledge, especially with those extremely wonderful maps). I think one of the things that shocked me the most was the actual relevance of Jews to the rest of history, and since they rarely appeared when I was learning about other countries' history I assumed they were relatively politically irrelevant, and seeing how major political problems both affected the Jewish community and were affected by them was super cool. I am really looking forward to see you talk about the end of the 19th and especially the 20th century, and I really hoped that by the time I finished watching all these videos a new one would be released (it took me around 2 weeks to watch all the videos). I might look in to become your patron in the future, and I recommended you to a bunch of my friends.
Great video!!!
16:30
sounds like the basis of disdain between Galitzianers and Litvaks
That's more of an America-specific thing, feeding into the hierarchy of "who arrived first" with the Western Sephardim at the top and the FSUs at the bottom.
Safe travels!
wel dun video!
15:55 you said my name but you wrote someone else's lol
Also thanks for answering the question it was very interesting I never learned of 19th century British politics
Where can I learn more about the proposed Reform rabbinate in the US? I’ve never heard of that idea before and I went to school in Charleston, SC.
This very channel will get to it soon. But if you are impatient, check out _American Judaism_ by Jonathan Sarna.
Are you going to make a video about the results of your viewer poll?
Can you make more history of the jews in Romania ?
Hmm. Is the incident you mentioned at the end the moratara affair by any chance?
Ive known someone with the surname haddad
When is your video about late Tsarist Jewish life coming out? Interested in it as a descendant of two post Soviet Jews.
How come you didn’t mention anything about the Hungarian teilung in the haskula videos?
17:49 Hey, I'm not Almogz 9! (No offense to Almog, I'm sure they're a great person)
Ugh, I lapsed for that moment in the graphics. My bad.
It's he and yeah I spotted that error too lol no biggie at least he said my name out loud
I'm surprised you didn't mention George Eliot's book Daniel Deronda. Gwendolen Harleth was very much in the stereotype of the la belle juive. Though the author was highly sympathetic to Jewish issues.
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what will you do once you reach the modern day?
Wait Nintendo?
It's a reference to a video game that came out before you were born.
Nave Tal = Almog9
Yes. I am (not really though lol)
I still don't get the Damascus affair episode at all. You hint that the affair was a conspiracy by the Egyptian and French governments, but to what end?
Was it to distract the local Syrian Arabs from their grudge against their new Egyptian rulers?
It was a conspiracy by Ratti-Menton specifically to increase French influence in Egypt, using its recently self-appointed status as the military/diplomatic protector of the Catholic Church, in the expectation that Egypt would indeed overthrow the Ottoman Empire and become the new Middle Eastern power.
Top 10 Jews to exist?
1) Rosa Luxembourg
2) Ayn Rand
@@hfyaer
I literally wrote that because they have completely opposite ideologies, genius...
@@מ.מ-ה9ד3) karl marx
4) milton friedman
first.
The Ashkenazi accent sounded ridiculous to you because it IS ridiculous
*the yeshivish askhenazi accent. The general one not as inspired by Yiddish isn't that ridiculous and just sounds like Yemenite vowels with fewer consonants