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Ghetto, formerly a street, or quarter, of a city set apart as a legally enforced residence area for Jews. One of the earliest forced segregations of Jews was in Muslim Morocco when, in 1280, they were transferred to segregated quarters called millahs..... Encyclopedia Britannica
What a wonderful lecture! Thank you for putting it on RU-vid. I was very happy to hear Dr. Seroussi mention the importance of the Gloria Levi record of 1958, which I have owned since 1968. Gloria is also an award-winning author, and I am so proud to be her friend.
An old anti-semitic ditty goes: "How odd of God to choose the Jews." The witty response is: "Not odd, not news. The Jews chose God." Professor Rosenthal's point is that Spinoza was the first to formulate this response.
So what? Traditionals are not the only culprits in this. I have heard recently a young priest say at Mass that Christ had not come for the Jews whereas hundreds and thousands followed Christ in his time and that the furst disciples were ALL JEWS. The Chirch has created a si.ful confusion and nurished hate amongst peoples. Speaking about is good and necessary. However your présentation is unclear about présent day church. Difficult to save the Church whose fou.dations were distortion from the onset. The early fathers also accusé Jews of crucifying Jesus. What about the thousands in fear for their own lives? What about ROMANS who deed the dirty work of some politics of the day? Nicodemus and Joseph of Aimathea believed in JESHUHA and yet were part of the Sanhédrin but not political. Yes the Councils were all called by Emperors and politicised, distorted and emputated the Truth .
This is idiotic. He claims his father told him a bunch of specific dates and activities of the Germans in WW2 to define a jewish person. Wouldn't that upset most 8yr olds? Why not tell him about the old testament in the Bible since they were Christian. He could have told him to read Revelations 3:9.
one thing missing from this talk is the change in dynamics during Vichy France; Jews were no longer full citizens but rather subject to the same laws as in Germany, that of resident aliens with limited rights. that would have ( I think) put them on more-or-less equal footing with the Muslims. but I'd like to know.
15:33 This has almost been erased from History . The Vichy Republic under Philip Petain , Darlan and Pierre Laval were collaborating with the Nazi's . They rounded up and exported Jewish People who were then murdered . . So Philip Petain was the National Hero after the Battle Verdun in WW I , but then was a war criminal who collaborated with the Nazi's during WW II . After the war , he was brought to trial and convicted , but his death sentence was reduced because of his age . .
10:48 Daniel - suggest studying the Enlightenment a bit more. The Enlightenment began in the late 17th Century in England and Scotland . Numerous philosophies began to be ACCEPTED during the Enlightenment , and 2 of them were 1 ) Issac Newton presented his methodology as a set of four rules for scientific reasoning . Science began to be ACCEPTED over Religion . 2 ) Classical Liberalism - the promotion of equal rights of all citizens . John's Locke's ideas of religious toleration and separation of Church and State . Individuals took Darwin's Scientific Theory of Evolution and used it to come up with a quack theory called Social Darwinism . Social Darwinism allowed various groups to claim racial superiority . Social Darwin is not based on science , is NOT part of the Enlightenment and this quackery came to an end after WW II . The Enlightenment should be viewed as its theories spread throughout the West over a 300 year period . Various groups led revolutions and protests to obtain the same rights as the King . For example , during the Glorious Revolution , the Monarchy agreed to recognize the Sovereignty of ELECTED Parliamentarians and Parliament . During the 19th Century , as a result of the Chartest Movement , and 3 Parliamentary Reform Acts , the Labour class obtained voted Rights and Democratic ideals were improved . As a result of the Suffragette Movement and WW I , women obtained voting rights . The use of Child Labour and Slavery in the West was phased out because of the gradual ACCEPTANCE of Enlightenment philosophies. .
Great lecture and insights. Thanks. I’d say Islam did expand by the sword for the first couple centuries, as was commanded in Surah 9:29. The prior Caliph in Baghdad tried to kick out non-Muslims and got overthrown. Abbasid then learned from their mistake and now did allow non-Muslims. I‘ve heard so often over the years that in 700-900 CE Baghdad was the golden era of Islamic enlightenment with algebra, astronomy, medicine, etc. As you say “they ingratiated themselves” into Judaism. They certainly did, hence trying to make themselves an Abrahamic religion in medieval times 😂 Muslims claim to be connected to Abraham by Ishmael, yet the truth comes through Isaac and Jacob, which Muslims are commanded to believe but don’t. Surah 2:136 “We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the descendants (of Jacob) and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and in what the other Prophets received from their Lord.” So their whole attempt to borrow from Jewish patriarchs and make them their own, yet also be a “final revelation” of them, is contradictory and confusing because the truth came through Isaac and Jacob, not Ishmael. Nevertheless, what is called the Islamic Golden age, I call “the time Muslims caught up because they were in a location which enabled them to”. 1. that area was predominantly Christian, along with many Jews living there. It wasn't a full on Muslim country yet. 2. It was the biggest trade hub connecting 3 continents. They had access to everything. 3. They didn't invent algebra, but improved it. And it was improved upon later even more by Europeans and others. 4. They allowed all the Ancient Greek philosophy and other writings to be translated into Arabic so they could all finally catch up with what others had taught before. It's like North Korea moving to a place of trade and allowing themselves to finally gleam from others. Or it's like how Dubai is so successful today because of how un-Islamic it is and puts a huge limit on Sharia law and brings in Europeans, Australians, and others to design and build their infrastructure and buildings.
My grandma talked to me and my mom in Yiddish but no one else did. I never spoke it but could understand until forgot. After 60 years I'm trying to learn it again using Duolingo(what a terrible dialect is there). Are there any volunteers here to talk to me in Yiddish? A dank.
I do not value recognizing easter, xmas and sunday church. Pope Gregory helped Emperor Constantine to change the Biblical calendar to present day Gregorian Calendar.
If I may say that I grew up Christian and Pentecostal in faith. After learning what Emporer Constantine of Rome did concerning infusing paganism with the faithful in 325 ad at Council of Nicea to create xmas and easter and sunday church with the help of pope Gregory of Rome
I am from Izmir, Turkey which still has a sephardic community. My great grandfather was born in Salonica as part of its muslim population and immigrated to Turkey in 1917 after the great fire of Salonica. I did not know there was still a big sephardic population in salonica that were perished during the holocaust. I even might have ancestors from the muslim converto population of Salonica.Truly sad story.
Please, I recommend everyone to start making your genealogy. I always know we were jews but nothing special about except love God and pray for gerusalem. I did the dna test and am working in my genealogical tree, and I am fascinated by everyone I have discovered so far.
My ancestry test indicated I have Jewish traces in my 🧬 I'm and I also have southern European Spanish and native indigenous. I'm proud of trace of Jewishness. Baruch hashem shalom.......yerushalaim for ever
Clearly needs an update on data. Most Israeli Jews are of full Sefardi/Mizrahi or mixed Sefardi/Mizrahi AND Ashkenazi descent. So, it is unclear why the speaker asserts they are less than half of the population.
Does anybody know about the Berbers of Morocco? Where do they fit in history. I know that they were fighters in the Umayyad Caliphate that conquered the Iberian Peninsula in the year 711 AD. This particular peoples are very light skin and some have blue eyes. I know that in the Diaspora Jews were scattered to the four winds. And some scholars believe that some Jews were scattered before the Diaspora. Is it possible that the Berbers were Jewish, and became Moslems in order to survive? I know that they were ferocious warriors, until some were stopped by Charles Martell in the battle of Tours in October 10, 732 AD. Maybe somebody knows more about this people? Any thing is possible. There’s so much, that history has hidden from us, or things that the victors have hidden from us.
Παρ' ότι στη Θεσσαλονίκη όπου έχω ζήσει μιλούσαν παλιά την εβραιο-ισπανική γλώσσα, εγώ δεν την καταλαβαίνω. Την γραφή αυτή όμως, την "Σολιτρέο" που είναι τόσο ωραία και οριεντάλ, από περιέργεια την έμαθα.
I don't know if this post will get seen by anyone who might know, as it has been several years since this lecture was posted, but is the NEXT lecture of Prof. Israel available anywhere? He mentions it several times, and I would love to see it.
@@StroumJewishStudies Thank you so much! I haven't checked out what it is that you do at Stroum Jewish Studies, but thank for making these available, and I will look into other things as well! I hit subscribe and Like! I grew up with racism against so many people and peoples, including Jewish people, and I will fight it anywhere and everywhere!
I read a lot of philosophy when I was young. Spinoza was my favorite and had a positive affect on my life. I think Spinoza 's book Ethics is a masterpiece of world literature. Lucky for me my local library has a copy. Last time I checked it out I was the only person to check it out for 10 years.
Spinoza is still confused about a lot of things and he is still afraid. He may be worth reading for a historical perspective, but certainly not as a primary source of modern humanism.
