See y’all at Gallipoli. *CORRECTIONS/NOTES* 1. I don’t intend to make videos this long basically ever. I have nine videos planned for WWI and they will mostly be smaller, more intimate/focused stories (with the exception of _that one big one)._ 2. Apologies to those hoping I would mention Emma Goldman, Joseph Pulitzer, or Jim Novy. Novy was in the script but had to be cut. It was information overload, which is why most things get cut. 3. FDR was _Assistant_ Secretary of the Navy. 4. The Palestine, MI that was a Jewish agricultural colony was in Northern Michigan, not the place of the same name in the Upper Peninsula. 5. Newly-minted citizens would receive a Certificate of Naturalization, not a Certificate of Citizenship.
@SamAronow. You're confused. I never mentioned anything about black hundreds. My mother talked about the black Russians, who were Cossacks. Please do not disrespect The sacred memory of my sainted mother. She was the daughter granddaughter and great-granddaughter of many chazans. She and My Father operated a grocery store. She gave away food to everyone and taught me charity and chesed. She spoke eight languages fluently coming here at the age of six from the Ukraine. I accept your apology ahead of time
Joplin Missouri, where I live, suspended its Sunshine Trolley (our name for public transportation bus) because they can't get enough drivers. If you live here, you really need a car
That would be something I’d like to see again. Something to consider is that this big rail network connected a nation with a population over three times smaller than it is today. Even with usage of automobiles and coach buses, there’s probably enough demand to restore all former intercity rail/streetcar/interurban lines. The interurbans might even help to alleviate suburban sprawl, as the former ROW of many of these lines is now suburbs.
@@DiamondKingStudiosabsolutely! hence the reason for my UA-cam channel existing. Revive public transportation as well as the described practice of land use being based around it.
My grandmother grew up in one of the agrarian communities in New Jersey, in the 1920s and 1930s. Her parents, who had come from middle class and wealthy backgrounds, respectively, back in Poland and Russia found themselves flat broke with no access to money because they'd come as refugees and had to leave it all behind (so I'm told, anyway). They lived and worked on a chicken farm in one of these agrarian complexes for several years.
I always wondered why my great-great grandfather, born in Romania, studied agricultural in Palestine, and ended up living in Minnesota, came to the US via Galveston. Been really enjoying your videos. Really puts into context the stories I've heard about my family.
Wow, if you’re intentionless to get me to be broken down in tears by the end of this, you succeeded. This was so phenomenally done. I love every episode that you do and all of the pockets of the world that you explore, but it was so nice for the first time year, the story of my family, the story of your family, our whole story here in this country and how it began. This was so phenomenally done and I just needed to make sure I took the time to express that. I am wiping tears away from my face.
Nice perspective in explaining how the parties swapped agendas. I don't believe I ever heard it put that way. Or at least that clearly. Definitely, something I will keep in mind. There are always these little nuggets of gold, for even people who aren't all that into Judaism to keep watching your stuff lol.
Fantastic video, amazing job as usual. One small thing: at 16:21 you show Palestine, Mi as being in the upper peninsula. While there is a place in Michigan called Palestine there, that was not the Am Olam settlement. The Am Olam settlement was in the Bay city (ish) area closer to the thumb in the Lower peninsula. Only noticed it myself when I was trying to figure out if there really were Jewish agriculturalists in the UP. Sadly, just Bay city 😖
One of my favorite things about Sam is that he doesn't hold back on things that he KNOWS are verifiable history. He doesn't seem to mind if something is Popularly Misunderstood if he can present what is actually True. I appreciate how well researched all of this always is - Including the diligent corrections in the comments. Great video as always!
9:05 Ironically, it happened quite a lot to Jewish immigrants to Israel. Those whose names weren't Hebrew enough were Hebraized. Usually, with the approval of the immigrant, but not always.
I heard that when Ephraim Kishon first came to Israel, he stated his Hungarian name "Ferenc" to the immigrations officer who replied "that's not a name" and wrote "Ephraim" instead.
@@FHT1883 Yep. That's how it went many times. You could've change it back of course, but if you wanted to be a parliament member, or high-ranking officer, it was customary for Jews to have a Hebrew name. Ben Gurion was a Socialist nation-builder, he wasn't very much libertarian with those things at the time.
When I was in school they taught us about Woodrow Wilson and the 14 points and the League of Nations. He was made out to be a hero. They said nothing about his racial policy.
Which state? I grew up in California, where we do learn this. Though in spite of that Wilson is probably more revered here than anywhere else in the US. There are murals of him standing in front of a map of Greater Armenia.
That's exactly how I was taught about him in 2019. I learned about his other policies by myself later on, much like I always do. They really like to sugarcoat history in history class
Yeah I'm in Oklahoma and I've even argued with teachers about the founders having slaves... Education really ignores the bad side of our history and makes people mad when you bring it up because of it. I've learned most of what I know from personal research. Wilson was a good president from what class taught me even though I personally think he could of been better but hey I'm looking from a modern look and we still struggle with a lot of the same issues so what do I know.
In Poland, Wilson comes up in classroom history almost exclusively in the context of his 14 points. On the one hand, it's understandable, as it was crucial for Poland's independence after the Great War. On the other hand, well, let's just say I was more than a little bit miffed with my school curriculum when I learned about the darker side of his presidency later in life.
Re: Jacob Schiff: The first floor of Barnard Hall in NYC is popularly known as "Jake." It was Jacob Schiff who had given the money to create Barnard College, but Columbia could not be seen to have a building named after a Jew. The students worked it out.
A silly correction but while streetcars are called streetcars in most of the US, everyone I know living around San Francisco (where they are still common) calls them trolleys.
I can't believe you didn't mention the most famous member of the Jewish Territorial Organization (or the "Territorialists"), Albert Einstein! Although later, he moved to support Labour Zionism.
13:14 As an urban planning and transit advocate, I'm thrilled you brought up this topic! Also thank you for elaborating on the American political system.
I hope he goes back and redoes those videos someday. It's hard for me to tell people to start from the beginning when those videos are such a massive step down from his latest work.
Thank you so much for this channel, and particularly for this video. It was deeply moving to see reflections of my own history here; and to appreciate it as part of the greater history of our people. My great grandpa left Vilnius via Antwerp in 1905, and my grandfather was born in Brooklyn in 1918; they ran a deli together until my grandfather left for the army air corps/WWII.
20:42 I think that in the post-Emancipation era, the words "Jew" and "Jewess" were being used as slurs in European languages so frequently that other euphemisms were preferred for organizations and periodicals. So for instance in Scandinavia, Jewish congregations tended to refer to themselves as "Mosaic" (in reference to Moses). The idea was to avoid unwanted attention by sticking out like a sore thumb. In my country, Denmark, the Jewish experience was generally unproblematic following Emancipation in 1849, but nonetheless, there was always a sense of trepidation that things could change for the worse overnight.
Thank you Sam for making videos about American Judaism, with this one being the best one of this sort. A you probably know, most Israeli Jews are barely familiar with American Jewish history, such as I was, and these videos are very informative. Your channel is fantastic, ad this video might've been your best one yet.
Not so much a video more a feature. Slightly surprised you didn't break it into several shorter videos. However I'm not criticising it's content. As a British non new I'm finding your series fascinating. I look forward to your next video.
Know that a lot of the history and migration patterns I've spoken about in the three US videos also apply to the UK. They even arrived in both places in the same year; 1654, and both from the Netherlands. Then there was a big wave from Germany and Italy in the late 18th century, and from Eastern Europe in the late 19th. Everything I said about the Lower East Side can also apply to Whitechapel, and the streetcar suburbs to the Northern Line.
My family's last name changed from Guernig to Garnick when they came to America, but not by Ellis Island. They did it themselves. Idk why, but it was a common thing. My other side of the family changed their names from Tobin to Tubin.
My family came to the US around 1910, but the name didn't change from Hanau to Hanna until around 1940, coincidentally around the time my great-grandfather was applying to medical school at UCLA.
Another great video as always At least I assume so, I haven't had the time to watch this yet since I discovered your channel just a couple of weeks ago and have realized that nearly all your videos make references to something else in the Sam Aronow cinematic universe so I need to watch literally everything else on your channel to be able to fully appreciate this, I'm more than half way through but when I do get to this I'm sure I'll enjoy it
What is your point? Where did she come from? Did she go back? If Jewish, did she go back to Europe and get killed by the Nazis or their helpers some years later?
I think I had mentioned previously that my father during the depression, was a tobacco runner, working for the Hirsch family to avoid tobacco tax. To comment on this wonderful UA-cam series. In the discussion about unions, my uncle Willie Greenberg was the secretary treasurer of the international teamsters Union third and line to his buddy Hoffa. My uncle actually was required to testify in front of Congress along with other Teamster officials. However, thank Gd, my uncle is not buried with Hoffa and lived a long life afterwards. His four brothers were involved with food fair and pennfruit, their cousin was also involved with food fair. I am modern Chabad Orthodox, However my father's family were reformed at best.
Thank you for calling out self righteous Canadians. I love em but sometimes the historic gymnastics they go through to make themselves look great is insane
My Bubby had a copy of it in her house that I always noticed but never looked into. It might have been a first-edition script. I believe it was sold with the other old books when she passed.
This was a fascinating documentary, well made and well researched, I'm shocked at the low view count, and thank the algorithm gods it landed in my feed!
13:18 i mean in israel only the 2nd and 3th biggest metropolitan areas have lightrail/subway system, and both only have one line. Maybe when the tel aviv light rail will open we will have some perspective but we really don't know when it will ever open, if at all, even though its right there. Also, we like other countries public transport because its open 7 days a week
yet Israelis percivie the USA public transportation as good? probably becuase our politicans think adding new traffic lanes is the way to solve public transport issues....
@@OshayrDeZwirek That's what they do in Austin. The people of Austin hate it and want to make their city more walkable, but the state government, which is based there, is actively fighting to make it a worse place to live because Texas is a mostly-Republican state and Austin is mostly-Democratic.
@@OshayrDeZwirek When foreigners talk about USA they usually think New York City. It also has huge Jewish American population, so naturally Israelis are more familiar with NYC than with Podunk, Montana. New York has somewhat functional public transport.
Wait until someone tells Ignatius Donnelly’s ghost that both my grandmothers were the daughters of Jewish fathers (both WWII veterans, met one of them when he was in his 90s) and Christian mothers. I’d say I turned out fine. That and my Italian great-great-grandparents on my father’s side. So glad these ideas didn’t grow in popularity to most Americans, else I might not even exist.
It's the Yaqui homeland, an indigenous people who fought off Spanish colonialists and kept a degree of autonomy from the early Mexican regimes during most of the XIX century, until the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz
@GeneaVlogger I grew up in Sicily Island, LA. Though my ancestors came after the failure of the colony, it is cool to learn this history. I always wondered where the agricultural colonists had gone after the flood.
My 3x Great Uncle brought my 2x Grandfather from Russia to the US in 1905, when he was 2 years old. They were the only survivors of the family who were killed in riots related to kichinev. The town we came from actually lost its entire Jewish population 36 years later thanks to the Nazis.
I lived near Wrigley Field for a year. Growing up in a trailer in Texas, I think most of these areas you mentioned in this video would have given me more economic opportunities. But I would not be me. Good video.
I watched a program which stated that automobile manufacturers and the petroleum industry joined together to dismantle public transportation and encourage each family to buy a vehicle.
18:32 Henry Cohen is such an interesting guy. For anyone interested, look up his chapter in Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work, by Hollace Ava Weiner
Ross mentions that immigrants who become naturalized US citizens receive a certificate of *citizenship*. That is incorrect. Certificates of citizenship are issued to individuals who acquire US citizenship at birth, usually abroad. Individuals who become naturalized US citizens receive a certificate of *naturalization*.
Re 38:25- I’m from Nebraska and it’s wild that a lot of the former Jewish neighborhoods here as still neighborhoods where immigrants are kinda stuck for generations before a new wave comes in and the old wave has enough upward mobility to move to the “nicer” parts of town
Wow, that was really good. BTW I suppose technically the first Jewish Cabinet member was Judah P Benjamin who was Attorney General, Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America, if that counts.
Had to watch this episode a couple of times cause there's so much excellent history! While most of my family came from Galicia, Bukovina, and Greece, the story of Lower East Side tenements rings true to my family as well, though they affiliated with different landsmenschaften than the Russian Jews. The second generation were able to eventually move to Brooklyn as they gained in wealth and education. Fun fact, one of the 1st proposed Jewish utopian experiments in America came long before Am Olam and was proposed by Mordecai Manuel Noah (a friend to Andrew Jackson and unfortunately a promoter of minstrel shows) in Niagara Falls to be called Ararat. It never got past a few families and a cornerstone layed down but Israel Zangwill later referenced it in his play Noah's Ark.
We actually had a part that briefly mentioned Ararat, as well as the Sholem Colony in the Catskills, but ultimately cut it to be more succinct. Quite a fascinating history and the cornerstone is now in a museum in Buffalo.
See y’all at Gallipoli.
*CORRECTIONS/NOTES*
1. I don’t intend to make videos this long basically ever. I have nine videos planned for WWI and they will mostly be smaller, more intimate/focused stories (with the exception of _that one big one)._
2. Apologies to those hoping I would mention Emma Goldman, Joseph Pulitzer, or Jim Novy. Novy was in the script but had to be cut. It was information overload, which is why most things get cut.
3. FDR was _Assistant_ Secretary of the Navy.
4. The Palestine, MI that was a Jewish agricultural colony was in Northern Michigan, not the place of the same name in the Upper Peninsula.
5. Newly-minted citizens would receive a Certificate of Naturalization, not a Certificate of Citizenship.
Ahh well. We got Clara Leimlicht, so good enough! And I’m excited for World War One!
Maybe in the future you can do a video on them
9 videos??? Damn
FDR as assistant secretary of the Navy?
Just like Theodore (fifth cousin and wife’s uncle), from 1897-1898 (he quit to help out in Cuba)
@SamAronow. You're confused. I never mentioned anything about black hundreds. My mother talked about the black Russians, who were Cossacks. Please do not disrespect The sacred memory of my sainted mother. She was the daughter granddaughter and great-granddaughter of many chazans. She and My Father operated a grocery store. She gave away food to everyone and taught me charity and chesed. She spoke eight languages fluently coming here at the age of six from the Ukraine.
I accept your apology ahead of time
Finally, a Sam Aranow episode exploring the origins of Sam Aranow
😂
He mentioned his family a bit in another video, didn't he?
@@penelopegreenein quite a few other videos (really starting in the 1880s to 1890s I think). This is the culmination of all of those videos.
@@jonathanbowers8964 kk. TY
Mostly here to see Jarrett Ross drawn in Sam Aronow style.
Was your family tree of Judaism taken down?😢
The art and the maps in these are fantastic.
Oh boy! 50 minutes of Sam Aronow to start the day!
Legends recognise legends
There's even two of them (50:19)
Thank you for including me in this amazing video!
This episode means a lot to me. My family arrived in the States in 1896 and 1904.
Same
"Even small cities enjoyed access to frequent intercity rail services, interurban commuter trains, and extensive networks of streetcars"
Godd*mn it
Joplin Missouri, where I live, suspended its Sunshine Trolley (our name for public transportation bus) because they can't get enough drivers. If you live here, you really need a car
That would be something I’d like to see again.
Something to consider is that this big rail network connected a nation with a population over three times smaller than it is today. Even with usage of automobiles and coach buses, there’s probably enough demand to restore all former intercity rail/streetcar/interurban lines. The interurbans might even help to alleviate suburban sprawl, as the former ROW of many of these lines is now suburbs.
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@@DiamondKingStudiosabsolutely! hence the reason for my UA-cam channel existing. Revive public transportation as well as the described practice of land use being based around it.
Finally, some Jewish Texan history.
I've waited years for this days
Thank you, Sam
Love the Jon Bois editing style and music choice in the prologue, cant wait to see the rest of the video!
_"The Age of Aronow | Dorktown"_
I was searching for this comment
My grandmother grew up in one of the agrarian communities in New Jersey, in the 1920s and 1930s. Her parents, who had come from middle class and wealthy backgrounds, respectively, back in Poland and Russia found themselves flat broke with no access to money because they'd come as refugees and had to leave it all behind (so I'm told, anyway). They lived and worked on a chicken farm in one of these agrarian complexes for several years.
Lol, that's just dissapointing
The Summoning Salt needle drop has me rolling
Same. Can't believe there's also a new SS to watch after this so I can hear it again lol
I was just thinking about that 😂
I always wondered why my great-great grandfather, born in Romania, studied agricultural in Palestine, and ended up living in Minnesota, came to the US via Galveston. Been really enjoying your videos. Really puts into context the stories I've heard about my family.
One of your greatest videos. Possibly one of the best videos on American history, Period
Wow, if you’re intentionless to get me to be broken down in tears by the end of this, you succeeded. This was so phenomenally done. I love every episode that you do and all of the pockets of the world that you explore, but it was so nice for the first time year, the story of my family, the story of your family, our whole story here in this country and how it began. This was so phenomenally done and I just needed to make sure I took the time to express that. I am wiping tears away from my face.
For anyone wondering, the song at 1:48 is “We’re Finally Landing” by HOME.
Nice perspective in explaining how the parties swapped agendas. I don't believe I ever heard it put that way. Or at least that clearly. Definitely, something I will keep in mind. There are always these little nuggets of gold, for even people who aren't all that into Judaism to keep watching your stuff lol.
Fantastic video, amazing job as usual. One small thing: at 16:21 you show Palestine, Mi as being in the upper peninsula. While there is a place in Michigan called Palestine there, that was not the Am Olam settlement. The Am Olam settlement was in the Bay city (ish) area closer to the thumb in the Lower peninsula. Only noticed it myself when I was trying to figure out if there really were Jewish agriculturalists in the UP. Sadly, just Bay city 😖
One of my favorite things about Sam is that he doesn't hold back on things that he KNOWS are verifiable history. He doesn't seem to mind if something is Popularly Misunderstood if he can present what is actually True.
I appreciate how well researched all of this always is - Including the diligent corrections in the comments.
Great video as always!
9:05
Ironically, it happened quite a lot to Jewish immigrants to Israel. Those whose names weren't Hebrew enough were Hebraized.
Usually, with the approval of the immigrant, but not always.
I heard that when Ephraim Kishon first came to Israel, he stated his Hungarian name "Ferenc" to the immigrations officer who replied "that's not a name" and wrote "Ephraim" instead.
@@FHT1883
Yep. That's how it went many times. You could've change it back of course, but if you wanted to be a parliament member, or high-ranking officer, it was customary for Jews to have a Hebrew name. Ben Gurion was a Socialist nation-builder, he wasn't very much libertarian with those things at the time.
"Muckracking photojournalist Jacob Riis" Oh hey, I know that guy from the park named after him!
Now you know how my Israeli viewers feel all the time!
The fact that you haven't passed 1 million subs yet is such a shame
When I was in school they taught us about Woodrow Wilson and the 14 points and the League of Nations. He was made out to be a hero. They said nothing about his racial policy.
Which state? I grew up in California, where we do learn this. Though in spite of that Wilson is probably more revered here than anywhere else in the US. There are murals of him standing in front of a map of Greater Armenia.
@@SamAronowI had American history in high school in 1972 in Iowa.
That's exactly how I was taught about him in 2019. I learned about his other policies by myself later on, much like I always do. They really like to sugarcoat history in history class
Yeah I'm in Oklahoma and I've even argued with teachers about the founders having slaves... Education really ignores the bad side of our history and makes people mad when you bring it up because of it. I've learned most of what I know from personal research. Wilson was a good president from what class taught me even though I personally think he could of been better but hey I'm looking from a modern look and we still struggle with a lot of the same issues so what do I know.
In Poland, Wilson comes up in classroom history almost exclusively in the context of his 14 points. On the one hand, it's understandable, as it was crucial for Poland's independence after the Great War. On the other hand, well, let's just say I was more than a little bit miffed with my school curriculum when I learned about the darker side of his presidency later in life.
"Too many parties and offices to name. Just know he was from Minnesota."
I see things haven't changed too much.
They’ve got nothing on Wisconsin in that regard. You’ll see when we get to the 20s.
That is, BY FAR, the longest video.
Re: Jacob Schiff: The first floor of Barnard Hall in NYC is popularly known as "Jake." It was Jacob Schiff who had given the money to create Barnard College, but Columbia could not be seen to have a building named after a Jew. The students worked it out.
A silly correction but while streetcars are called streetcars in most of the US, everyone I know living around San Francisco (where they are still common) calls them trolleys.
A masterpiece of History telling. Thank you Sam, it’s a pleasure to watch your videos and learn from you.
Having thought about this for exactly one second- math homework can wait, 50 minutes of Sam Aronow calls forth!
I can't believe you didn't mention the most famous member of the Jewish Territorial Organization (or the "Territorialists"), Albert Einstein!
Although later, he moved to support Labour Zionism.
Great video
13:14 As an urban planning and transit advocate, I'm thrilled you brought up this topic!
Also thank you for elaborating on the American political system.
I wish Sam's earliest videos about the First Temple, interdynastic, and Hasmonean eras were this long and detailed
I hope he goes back and redoes those videos someday. It's hard for me to tell people to start from the beginning when those videos are such a massive step down from his latest work.
I must admit that until watching your video, I had this image of Donnely as a relatively harmless "Prince of Cranks". Boy, was I wrong...
My mom's side of the family landed in the east coast (Baltimore IIRC), then ended up in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA.
Mine ended up in Squirrel Hill too.
Thank you so much for this channel, and particularly for this video.
It was deeply moving to see reflections of my own history here; and to appreciate it as part of the greater history of our people.
My great grandpa left Vilnius via Antwerp in 1905, and my grandfather was born in Brooklyn in 1918; they ran a deli together until my grandfather left for the army air corps/WWII.
20:42 I think that in the post-Emancipation era, the words "Jew" and "Jewess" were being used as slurs in European languages so frequently that other euphemisms were preferred for organizations and periodicals. So for instance in Scandinavia, Jewish congregations tended to refer to themselves as "Mosaic" (in reference to Moses). The idea was to avoid unwanted attention by sticking out like a sore thumb. In my country, Denmark, the Jewish experience was generally unproblematic following Emancipation in 1849, but nonetheless, there was always a sense of trepidation that things could change for the worse overnight.
These videos get more detailed and interesting everytime. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you Sam for making videos about American Judaism, with this one being the best one of this sort. A you probably know, most Israeli Jews are barely familiar with American Jewish history, such as I was, and these videos are very informative. Your channel is fantastic, ad this video might've been your best one yet.
Not so much a video more a feature. Slightly surprised you didn't break it into several shorter videos. However I'm not criticising it's content. As a British non new I'm finding your series fascinating. I look forward to your next video.
Know that a lot of the history and migration patterns I've spoken about in the three US videos also apply to the UK. They even arrived in both places in the same year; 1654, and both from the Netherlands. Then there was a big wave from Germany and Italy in the late 18th century, and from Eastern Europe in the late 19th. Everything I said about the Lower East Side can also apply to Whitechapel, and the streetcar suburbs to the Northern Line.
My family's last name changed from Guernig to Garnick when they came to America, but not by Ellis Island. They did it themselves. Idk why, but it was a common thing. My other side of the family changed their names from Tobin to Tubin.
I knew this originally from _Dave at Night_ based on Gail Carson Levine's father's childhood at the YMHA. He changed his name from Carasso to Carson.
My family came to the US around 1910, but the name didn't change from Hanau to Hanna until around 1940, coincidentally around the time my great-grandfather was applying to medical school at UCLA.
So Excited!! Clicked Immediately!
Me too.
Another great video as always
At least I assume so, I haven't had the time to watch this yet since I discovered your channel just a couple of weeks ago and have realized that nearly all your videos make references to something else in the Sam Aronow cinematic universe so I need to watch literally everything else on your channel to be able to fully appreciate this,
I'm more than half way through but when I do get to this I'm sure I'll enjoy it
Great work, enjoyed the personal perspective
14:28 My family started in Squirrel Hill, then moved to Boyle Heights, and finally, the Fairfax district.
My father's whole family came from Eastern Europe and settled either in NYC or Kansas
It's always great to see a new video of yours!
One of my great grandmothers came to visit her brother in New York, but only for a summer. It was 1914.
What is your point? Where did she come from? Did she go back? If Jewish, did she go back to Europe and get killed by the Nazis or their helpers some years later?
wake up babe new sam aronow vid just dropped
This time episode is definitely an Extraordinary one 👌👍
Happy national day to you and the other Tzidikim 🎉❤
A thick, juicy slice of history, served up piping hot, by Chefs Aranow and Ross.
You have put it exactly as I wanted to but couldn’t find the words 😎
I think I had mentioned previously that my father during the depression, was a tobacco runner, working for the Hirsch family to avoid tobacco tax.
To comment on this wonderful UA-cam series. In the discussion about unions, my uncle Willie Greenberg was the secretary treasurer of the international teamsters Union third and line to his buddy Hoffa. My uncle actually was required to testify in front of Congress along with other Teamster officials. However, thank Gd, my uncle is not buried with Hoffa and lived a long life afterwards. His four brothers were involved with food fair and pennfruit, their cousin was also involved with food fair. I am modern Chabad Orthodox, However my father's family were reformed at best.
Thank you for calling out self righteous Canadians. I love em but sometimes the historic gymnastics they go through to make themselves look great is insane
You are so good it's scary
Jarett Ross makes a great cartoon character
I rarely, if not ever had the patience to watch an hour-long UA-cam Video. Except for this one. I didn’t even realize as time went by.
Just looking at Mexico throughout the video and it’s different in every year
¡ Viva Madero !
35:16 I love his play so so much!!! I want to play Dovid so badly. I cried the first time I read through it.
My Bubby had a copy of it in her house that I always noticed but never looked into. It might have been a first-edition script. I believe it was sold with the other old books when she passed.
You mean to tell me we had an extensive public transportation network. *Screaming: FUUUUUUTURE
This was a fascinating documentary, well made and well researched, I'm shocked at the low view count, and thank the algorithm gods it landed in my feed!
Awesome job
You always have the best music choices in your videos
Only 51 minutes? Why so short?
(Thanks for uploading!)
My fam lived in Atlanta during that time, they had to leave to Chattanooga for a while out of fear of the kkk
13:18 i mean in israel only the 2nd and 3th biggest metropolitan areas have lightrail/subway system, and both only have one line. Maybe when the tel aviv light rail will open we will have some perspective but we really don't know when it will ever open, if at all, even though its right there.
Also, we like other countries public transport because its open 7 days a week
yet Israelis percivie the USA public transportation as good? probably becuase our politicans think adding new traffic lanes is the way to solve public transport issues....
@@OshayrDeZwirek That's what they do in Austin. The people of Austin hate it and want to make their city more walkable, but the state government, which is based there, is actively fighting to make it a worse place to live because Texas is a mostly-Republican state and Austin is mostly-Democratic.
@@OshayrDeZwirek When foreigners talk about USA they usually think New York City. It also has huge Jewish American population, so naturally Israelis are more familiar with NYC than with Podunk, Montana. New York has somewhat functional public transport.
@@milobem4458 When I think about the USA I usually think of everywhere except NYC. And for NYC I usually think of Manhattan. 😃
@@milobem4458 that may explain it, somwhat functinal is better the Israel....worse then practicly any other modern country.
"This is Y."
Don't do that, man, people may be drinking at the time.
Finally I get an explanation to what the kosher meat boycott was!
1895 was the first. There was a second in 1902.
Wait until someone tells Ignatius Donnelly’s ghost that both my grandmothers were the daughters of Jewish fathers (both WWII veterans, met one of them when he was in his 90s) and Christian mothers.
I’d say I turned out fine. That and my Italian great-great-grandparents on my father’s side.
So glad these ideas didn’t grow in popularity to most Americans, else I might not even exist.
Oh, it lingers. _Caesar's Column_ is arguably the ur-text of the Great Replacement Theory.
Omg an hour long video? I wonder how long the last episode in this series will be
Those maps of Mexico... 😮
What's that white spot in 5:10 ?
It's the Yaqui homeland, an indigenous people who fought off Spanish colonialists and kept a degree of autonomy from the early Mexican regimes during most of the XIX century, until the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz
@@davedark27 Thanks!
That was beautiful.
@GeneaVlogger I grew up in Sicily Island, LA. Though my ancestors came after the failure of the colony, it is cool to learn this history. I always wondered where the agricultural colonists had gone after the flood.
Finally a Sam Aranow video with a comment section!
A truly amazing video! Thank you!
I love your videos. Thank you.
My 3x Great Uncle brought my 2x Grandfather from Russia to the US in 1905, when he was 2 years old. They were the only survivors of the family who were killed in riots related to kichinev. The town we came from actually lost its entire Jewish population 36 years later thanks to the Nazis.
I lived near Wrigley Field for a year. Growing up in a trailer in Texas, I think most of these areas you mentioned in this video would have given me more economic opportunities. But I would not be me. Good video.
Thank you.
Public transit was taken from us and we were never asked
I watched a program which stated that automobile manufacturers and the petroleum industry joined together to dismantle public transportation and encourage each family to buy a vehicle.
This will probably come back if I ever do "Robert Moses vs. Victor Gruen."
@@SamAronow YAAAAAYYY!!!
@@dmman33 “Milton Friedman vs. Peter Drucker” is also a possibility for the same time period. In both cases the wrong guy won.
@Sam Aronow
Thank you for making this video about this chapter of Jewish-American history. Keep up the good work.
~Mackyle Wotring
great video!
I've worked with HIAS! Really an outstanding group, truly a credit to its founding mission.
Awesome video.
happy to help about baltimore!
18:32
Henry Cohen is such an interesting guy. For anyone interested, look up his chapter in Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work, by Hollace Ava Weiner
I am here for Sam taking shots at the Canadians.
Thanks.
The music for this video is insane
U da man Sam much luv 🎉🎉❤❤
Was that a jan Misali reference??
The details in da Mexico map 🚬😮💨
Real historiography
I know right? This guy’s maps are always amazing.
Was that a Jon Bois reference at the beginning? I enjoyed it
My family immigrated from the Pale of Settlement in the 1880s. Hearing all of this history helps me understand how they felt and what was going on.
Ross mentions that immigrants who become naturalized US citizens receive a certificate of *citizenship*. That is incorrect. Certificates of citizenship are issued to individuals who acquire US citizenship at birth, usually abroad. Individuals who become naturalized US citizens receive a certificate of *naturalization*.
You're correct, I should have said certificate of naturalization.
Fascinating!
So glad Armstrong made it back into the video.
Re 38:25- I’m from Nebraska and it’s wild that a lot of the former Jewish neighborhoods here as still neighborhoods where immigrants are kinda stuck for generations before a new wave comes in and the old wave has enough upward mobility to move to the “nicer” parts of town
Wow, that was really good.
BTW I suppose technically the first Jewish Cabinet member was Judah P Benjamin who was Attorney General, Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America, if that counts.
*United States* Cabinet
American cabinet, not those traitors.
Ravel! I'm picking up on your musical choices 😎
Had to watch this episode a couple of times cause there's so much excellent history! While most of my family came from Galicia, Bukovina, and Greece, the story of Lower East Side tenements rings true to my family as well, though they affiliated with different landsmenschaften than the Russian Jews. The second generation were able to eventually move to Brooklyn as they gained in wealth and education.
Fun fact, one of the 1st proposed Jewish utopian experiments in America came long before Am Olam and was proposed by Mordecai Manuel Noah (a friend to Andrew Jackson and unfortunately a promoter of minstrel shows) in Niagara Falls to be called Ararat. It never got past a few families and a cornerstone layed down but Israel Zangwill later referenced it in his play Noah's Ark.
We actually had a part that briefly mentioned Ararat, as well as the Sholem Colony in the Catskills, but ultimately cut it to be more succinct. Quite a fascinating history and the cornerstone is now in a museum in Buffalo.
Thought this was a speed run for a second