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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 😖
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.
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.
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.
As a comic book superhero fan I would like to offer a hearty thank you to Jewish Americans for inventing this entire genre and giving us all its greatest archetypal pillars. DC and Marvel were both built by jews (Mostly the same jews! Say thank you to Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for 40% of this entire effing genre!) That's how my American life was improved by Jewish Americans, and I'm sure each of you has plenty of them too. (That, and my convert brother who I love very much
And then in 1975 Kibbutznik Chris Claremont turned _X-Men_ into an allegory for Ben Gurion vs. Begin. AKA the version we know today and assume the comic always was.
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.
I love this series. In 1911 Maier Suchowljansky fled the Russian Empire to join his father, who was already living in the Lower East Side in NYC. There he would meet Salvatore Lucania, who emigrated from Italy five years earlier. A long lasting friendship and collaboration would develop between the two. Yes, this is the most sanitized way to tell this story.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Your political take is appreciated. Many times people forget history isn't made in a vacuum. There are as many opiniones on events as there are people opineing in this world. Many of the evils of the 20th century, from censorship to omnipotent government have a thread back to woodrow wilson.
@@xunqianbaidu6917it is important to know how systems of oppression were created and sustained if we are to ever make reforms for a better future. The mythologizing of historic figures (especially the Founding Fathers) does us no good and simply entrenches their horrendous policies and beliefs for future generations. Granted we should also acknowledge how leaders of the past did help create social progress (e.g. Lincoln's war against slavery, John Adam's early support for abolitionism) and recognize that people like Washington and Jefferson were morally complex figures (black and white morality is not something I would ever advocate for). TL;DR We shouldn't paint past leaders as saints, but as the complex and flawed human beings they were so that we can learn from the past and build a brighter future.
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.
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.
Depends what you mean by "entire family." More distantly we had refuseniks. And this is only _one_ side of the family; my great-great-grandma on the other had to survive WWI and the Russian Civil War and then sneak into the US through Canada.
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.
isnt it just the most american thing the first reaction the older american jewish community in america had to there new east european more orthodox brethern is ''how will this effect freedom''
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
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?
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*.
What if I told you there was a time in America when “black” was offensive and “negro” was polite? It’s the same thing. The pejorative use of “Jew” had completely overtaken the descriptive use in a lot of European languages. Even now, “Hebrew” is still the preferred nomenclature in Russian and Italian while “Jew” is offensive. The one notable country where this never happened is the UK, where antisemitism wasn’t widespread enough to ruin the word.
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.
as a canadian who was indoctrinated as a teen to be proud of the "mosaic", the critique is spot on, and unfortunately most white canadians are quite wilfully ignorant and dismissive of our undeniable racist history (which of course does not cease to assert itself prominently in the present). as the child of a litvak father and ukrainian-irish (both) catholic mother, learning that the term melting pot actually comes from a play that hits painfully close to home (i literally was just talking about it earlier today!... in therapy. lol) kind of is blowing my mind. i can't believe how informative all of your videos are; i genuinely don't understand why you don't get like 10x the views you're getting. from toronto with love
A little more on Donnelly. His most famous work is likely Atlantis: An Antediluvian World which claims that Atlantis was an ancient globe expanding empire which taught all the people who learned to farm and build things how to do those things. It's the same basic ideas put forward by a modern pseudo-historian named Graham Hancock. Donnelly always gets called out by people who care about historical accuracy based on that book. They likely aren't aware of Ceaser's Colum which is why they don't bring that up. Thank you for pointing that out though. It's funny how often people who advocate for pseudo-history also turn out to be racists. Well, not funny, actually pretty scary seeing as pseudo-history is what gets put on TV.
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.
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
Clarification. Chicago as a city may be the most segregated but many metro areas are more segregated. Its.on the list because the white and black populations are so speerated. Yet they are still within the same municipality. In many urban areas the city segregation seems less because the white population has left for the suburbs. Take Detroit as an example. The city is 77% black and the 12% white population seems somewhat interspersed. But when you include the suburbs you see a stark divide
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.
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.
Hello! I very much appreciate your videos on Jewish history and find them very informative and interesting as a non-jew! I'd like to ask how were there significant Jewish populations outside of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire? In Latvia at the time to my knowledge, there was a significant and growing Jewish population while only a small part of Latvia was part of the Pale of Settlement. I heard Jews were exactly migrating to Latvia to escape the pogroms and discrimination in the Pale of Settlement. I read that Latvian-Jewish workers militias worked together to fight off the 1905 Riga pogrom so I'm guessing the attitudes of ethnic Latvians weren't that bad against the Jews at the time? I'd also like to ask how do you choose names for cities? For example, Kishinev is a little bit archaic name and it's now spelled Chișinău and Libau is the German name of Liepāja. Thank you for the videos!
1. There were modest Jewish communities in Latvia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and "Useful Jews" in Russia proper (mostly Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia). I don't know what the dynamic was in Latvia, but I know that Vatniks accuse it of being an Israeli puppet state because it has a Jewish president. 2. I try to go with whatever names were in official use at the time the events took place.
@11:25 How you described tenements and the calls the improve them reminds me of what is often said about living conditions of today's refugees in Europe and how spitefully some natives speak of them. 🤢
There are still many Reform Jews in small towns who yearn for or cling to the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885. Whippersnappers from Cincinnati didn't ask the opinion of the white haired old ladies and took away their Union Prayer books and beloved hymns. Goodbye, Lewandowski, hello Debbie Friedman. The old ladies don't want to light Sabbath candles or the Alenu. They want to kindle the Sabbath tapers and rise for the adoration. They don't want the young female rabbi strumming her guitar; they want the hired gentile soloist and the hired gentile organist. Social action might be acceptable but what is tikun olam?
Yeah, my grandfather was one of those who just *never* got over the Columbus Platform. He would rant about it bitterly to me when I was just a wee tot (and had no idea what he was talking about). And that was the 1970s. That's a long time to stay mad, but he sure did.
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.
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
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.
The fact that Jewish factory owners didn’t support the downtrodden Jewish workers in their factories, highlights the problem with identity politics. Employers, regardless of their identity, or ethnicity, will always advance their own class interests. It’s the same in the LGBTQI+ scene where the Queer employers will under pay queer workers. They will fly the rainbow flag on the one hand, while exploiting the queer working class on the other.
It can be two things. The parallel rise of class and national consciousness has been a running theme through my entire coverage of the Long 19th Century.
@@SamAronowIt’s very interesting. I only found out about 6 years ago that a great uncle of mine was an ally of Theodore Herzl. His name was Max Nordau. He had been written out of our family because of political differences, and because he was ashamed of his background. He wasn’t a self hating Jew, but he was ashamed of his Sephardic roots. He was born in Budapest, and his real name was Simcha Miksa Südfeld/ Suedfeld . The Suedfeld family roots go back to Spain, and to Greece post expulsion. In short Nordau was of Eastern Sephardic origin. For reasons unknown to me, he idealized Northern Europe, hence he changed his name to Nordau (a reference to the north as opposed to Suedfeld which means Southern field (a reference to Spain). Nordau moved to Paris and married a Danish Protestant. He became estranged my family. I first heard that I was related to him when one of my cousins compiled the family tree.
It used to come up on dates when I was still new to Israel and I’d bring up how much better public transit was here. They couldn’t believe it; partly out of New York bias, partly out of cultural memory from this exact period, partly out of the cynical conviction that Israel couldn’t possibly be better at something than the US other than healthcare or airport security. Weirdly the ongoing breakdown of Israeli civil society has broken a lot of that cynicism, at least in my experience.
@@SamAronow thanks for the reply ;) i think its indeed kind of an internalisation of thinking Israel is kind of a backwater. We also tend to never be fully satisfied with anything, thats how i feel at least, complaining is a national sport here
@@SamAronow excited for that as well! It's fascinating how even videos that at first doesn't seem quite interesting to me you somehow captivate me in them as well! שכוייח as we say in Hebrew.
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.
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
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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
Oh boy! 50 minutes of Sam Aronow to start the day!
Legends recognise legends
There's even two of them (50:19)
Mostly here to see Jarrett Ross drawn in Sam Aronow style.
Was your family tree of Judaism taken down?😢
Finally, some Jewish Texan history.
I've waited years for this days
Thank you, Sam
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.
Thank you for including me in this amazing video!
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.
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
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
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 😂
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
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.
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 😖
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.
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.
That is, BY FAR, the longest video.
"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.
One of your greatest videos. Possibly one of the best videos on American history, Period
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.
For anyone wondering, the song at 1:48 is “We’re Finally Landing” by HOME.
"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!
As a comic book superhero fan I would like to offer a hearty thank you to Jewish Americans for inventing this entire genre and giving us all its greatest archetypal pillars. DC and Marvel were both built by jews (Mostly the same jews! Say thank you to Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for 40% of this entire effing genre!) That's how my American life was improved by Jewish Americans, and I'm sure each of you has plenty of them too. (That, and my convert brother who I love very much
And then in 1975 Kibbutznik Chris Claremont turned _X-Men_ into an allegory for Ben Gurion vs. Begin. AKA the version we know today and assume the comic always was.
@@SamAronow I...did not know that. And I know for a fact that most people assume it's an MLK/Malcom X metaphor.
I heard that Magneto is based on Meir Kahane.
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.
Just looking at Mexico throughout the video and it’s different in every year
¡ Viva Madero !
I love this series.
In 1911 Maier Suchowljansky fled the Russian Empire to join his father, who was already living in the Lower East Side in NYC. There he would meet Salvatore Lucania, who emigrated from Italy five years earlier.
A long lasting friendship and collaboration would develop between the two.
Yes, this is the most sanitized way to tell this story.
How Meyer met Lucky…
Spoilers for the next US video.
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.
Next up: Jewish history of Runescape
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 😎
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.
My fam lived in Atlanta during that time, they had to leave to Chattanooga for a while out of fear of the kkk
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!
The fact that you haven't passed 1 million subs yet is such a shame
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Don't do that, man, people may be drinking at the time.
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.
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.
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.
Jarett Ross makes a great cartoon character
I am here for Sam taking shots at the Canadians.
Your political take is appreciated. Many times people forget history isn't made in a vacuum.
There are as many opiniones on events as there are people opineing in this world.
Many of the evils of the 20th century, from censorship to omnipotent government have a thread back to woodrow wilson.
@@xunqianbaidu6917it is important to know how systems of oppression were created and sustained if we are to ever make reforms for a better future. The mythologizing of historic figures (especially the Founding Fathers) does us no good and simply entrenches their horrendous policies and beliefs for future generations. Granted we should also acknowledge how leaders of the past did help create social progress (e.g. Lincoln's war against slavery, John Adam's early support for abolitionism) and recognize that people like Washington and Jefferson were morally complex figures (black and white morality is not something I would ever advocate for).
TL;DR We shouldn't paint past leaders as saints, but as the complex and flawed human beings they were so that we can learn from the past and build a brighter future.
@@xunqianbaidu6917 no, no a great many of the Elite decision-makers were trained at Princeton directly under Woodrow Wilson
The details in da Mexico map 🚬😮💨
Real historiography
I know right? This guy’s maps are always amazing.
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 father's whole family came from Eastern Europe and settled either in NYC or Kansas
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.
Finally I get an explanation to what the kosher meat boycott was!
1895 was the first. There was a second in 1902.
Having thought about this for exactly one second- math homework can wait, 50 minutes of Sam Aronow calls forth!
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.
Only 51 minutes? Why so short?
(Thanks for uploading!)
Wow, true fortune and foresight that your ENTIRE family made it out. Baruch hashem
Depends what you mean by "entire family." More distantly we had refuseniks. And this is only _one_ side of the family; my great-great-grandma on the other had to survive WWI and the Russian Civil War and then sneak into the US through Canada.
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.
Can you make a video about Iraqi Jews?
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.
isnt it just the most american thing the first reaction the older american jewish community in america had to there new east european more orthodox brethern is ''how will this effect freedom''
wake up babe new sam aronow vid just dropped
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!
You mean to tell me we had an extensive public transportation network. *Screaming: FUUUUUUTURE
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?
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.
US South really ruins everything huh
20:56 Question: Why did did the word ‘Jewish’ become unacceptable during napoleon’s time and why did it become acceptable again?
What if I told you there was a time in America when “black” was offensive and “negro” was polite? It’s the same thing. The pejorative use of “Jew” had completely overtaken the descriptive use in a lot of European languages. Even now, “Hebrew” is still the preferred nomenclature in Russian and Italian while “Jew” is offensive. The one notable country where this never happened is the UK, where antisemitism wasn’t widespread enough to ruin the word.
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.
as a canadian who was indoctrinated as a teen to be proud of the "mosaic", the critique is spot on, and unfortunately most white canadians are quite wilfully ignorant and dismissive of our undeniable racist history (which of course does not cease to assert itself prominently in the present). as the child of a litvak father and ukrainian-irish (both) catholic mother, learning that the term melting pot actually comes from a play that hits painfully close to home (i literally was just talking about it earlier today!... in therapy. lol) kind of is blowing my mind. i can't believe how informative all of your videos are; i genuinely don't understand why you don't get like 10x the views you're getting. from toronto with love
It's literally just that _Mr. Show_ sketch "Two Young People and their Companions."
A little more on Donnelly. His most famous work is likely Atlantis: An Antediluvian World which claims that Atlantis was an ancient globe expanding empire which taught all the people who learned to farm and build things how to do those things. It's the same basic ideas put forward by a modern pseudo-historian named Graham Hancock. Donnelly always gets called out by people who care about historical accuracy based on that book. They likely aren't aware of Ceaser's Colum which is why they don't bring that up. Thank you for pointing that out though. It's funny how often people who advocate for pseudo-history also turn out to be racists. Well, not funny, actually pretty scary seeing as pseudo-history is what gets put on TV.
1:47 I guess the US did speed run Jewish emancipation!
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.
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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
Clarification. Chicago as a city may be the most segregated but many metro areas are more segregated. Its.on the list because the white and black populations are so speerated. Yet they are still within the same municipality. In many urban areas the city segregation seems less because the white population has left for the suburbs.
Take Detroit as an example. The city is 77% black and the 12% white population seems somewhat interspersed. But when you include the suburbs you see a stark divide
Great Video! I hope one day you will mention the Jewish Associates of John Brown in Bleeding Kansas. #FreeState
My Jewish ancestors came to the Rappahanock, Virginia colony, in the 1640s!
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.
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.
Hello! I very much appreciate your videos on Jewish history and find them very informative and interesting as a non-jew!
I'd like to ask how were there significant Jewish populations outside of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire? In Latvia at the time to my knowledge, there was a significant and growing Jewish population while only a small part of Latvia was part of the Pale of Settlement. I heard Jews were exactly migrating to Latvia to escape the pogroms and discrimination in the Pale of Settlement. I read that Latvian-Jewish workers militias worked together to fight off the 1905 Riga pogrom so I'm guessing the attitudes of ethnic Latvians weren't that bad against the Jews at the time?
I'd also like to ask how do you choose names for cities? For example, Kishinev is a little bit archaic name and it's now spelled Chișinău and Libau is the German name of Liepāja.
Thank you for the videos!
1. There were modest Jewish communities in Latvia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and "Useful Jews" in Russia proper (mostly Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia). I don't know what the dynamic was in Latvia, but I know that Vatniks accuse it of being an Israeli puppet state because it has a Jewish president.
2. I try to go with whatever names were in official use at the time the events took place.
2:09 "this is the anti-semitism world record progression"
@11:25 How you described tenements and the calls the improve them reminds me of what is often said about living conditions of today's refugees in Europe and how spitefully some natives speak of them. 🤢
Was that a jan Misali reference??
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There are still many Reform Jews in small towns who yearn for or cling to the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885. Whippersnappers from Cincinnati didn't ask the opinion of the white haired old ladies and took away their Union Prayer books and beloved hymns. Goodbye, Lewandowski, hello Debbie Friedman. The old ladies don't want to light Sabbath candles or the Alenu. They want to kindle the Sabbath tapers and rise for the adoration. They don't want the young female rabbi strumming her guitar; they want the hired gentile soloist and the hired gentile organist. Social action might be acceptable but what is tikun olam?
I wonder if that’s the case at the LaSalle synagogue. We’re doing an On the Road video there.
Yeah, my grandfather was one of those who just *never* got over the Columbus Platform. He would rant about it bitterly to me when I was just a wee tot (and had no idea what he was talking about). And that was the 1970s. That's a long time to stay mad, but he sure did.
There are too many Jews of note during this period to name that he had to drop or save them for 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.
Great video
Chunky soup at bayonet point more like .
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
@Sam Aronow
Thank you for making this video about this chapter of Jewish-American history. Keep up the good work.
~Mackyle Wotring
A masterpiece of History telling. Thank you Sam, it’s a pleasure to watch your videos and learn from you.
So before fiat money and the FED, people were arguing that the gold standard was the conspiracy? Funny to know!
And yet I don’t think there’s a single Jewish figure in this video who wasn’t _opposed_ to the Gold Standard (except maybe Oscar Straus?).
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.
The fact that Jewish factory owners didn’t support the downtrodden Jewish workers in their factories, highlights the problem with identity politics. Employers, regardless of their identity, or ethnicity, will always advance their own class interests. It’s the same in the LGBTQI+ scene where the Queer employers will under pay queer workers. They will fly the rainbow flag on the one hand, while exploiting the queer working class on the other.
It can be two things. The parallel rise of class and national consciousness has been a running theme through my entire coverage of the Long 19th Century.
@@SamAronowIt’s very interesting.
I only found out about 6 years ago that a great uncle of mine was an ally of Theodore Herzl. His name was Max Nordau. He had been written out of our family because of political differences, and because he was ashamed of his background. He wasn’t a self hating Jew, but he was ashamed of his Sephardic roots. He was born in Budapest, and his real name was Simcha Miksa Südfeld/ Suedfeld . The Suedfeld family roots go back to Spain, and to Greece post expulsion. In short Nordau was of Eastern Sephardic origin. For reasons unknown to me, he idealized Northern Europe, hence he changed his name to Nordau (a reference to the north as opposed to Suedfeld which means Southern field (a reference to Spain). Nordau moved to Paris and married a Danish Protestant. He became estranged my family. I first heard that I was related to him when one of my cousins compiled the family tree.
@@Seahorse20 Yes, I've mentioned him in a couple videos! The short-lived baseball team Tel Aviv Lightning were nicknamed the Nordau Street Gang.
Hi Sam, Israeli here, never heared anyone cite america as a "paragon of public transport", please elaborate
It used to come up on dates when I was still new to Israel and I’d bring up how much better public transit was here. They couldn’t believe it; partly out of New York bias, partly out of cultural memory from this exact period, partly out of the cynical conviction that Israel couldn’t possibly be better at something than the US other than healthcare or airport security. Weirdly the ongoing breakdown of Israeli civil society has broken a lot of that cynicism, at least in my experience.
@@SamAronow thanks for the reply ;) i think its indeed kind of an internalisation of thinking Israel is kind of a backwater.
We also tend to never be fully satisfied with anything, thats how i feel at least, complaining is a national sport here
That’s everyone in every country.
I've worked with HIAS! Really an outstanding group, truly a credit to its founding mission.
These videos get more detailed and interesting everytime. Keep up the amazing work!
Omg an hour long video? I wonder how long the last episode in this series will be
Wow I never would’ve expected religious attendance to have been so low!
great video as usual, thanks sam! can't wait for you to get into ww1 and more zionism based videos!
Ironically, the first WWI video will be about Bundists in the Ottoman Empire.
@@SamAronow excited for that as well! It's fascinating how even videos that at first doesn't seem quite interesting to me you somehow captivate me in them as well! שכוייח as we say in Hebrew.
Hey I recognize that blue line!
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What?
>Heinlein style commitment to the bit
Wait I only know Starship Troopers, what bit is he talking about?
Thought this was a speed run for a second
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.
Fantastic video. It’s interesting to me because I feel like key events in American history and progressivism seemed washed of Jewish actors.