@@SamAronow yeah the original Tory name comes from the Gaelic for outlaw but took on a very different meaning after Benjamin Disraeli befriended Queen Victoria. (However it is still a dirty word in mainstream British political discourse today)
to be even more nitpicky- it can be said that the Tories underwent a transformation during Robert Peel's time as leader. in 1835 Peel issued the Tamworth manifesto devoting the Tories to moderate reform, and in 1846 Peel's government passed the Corn Laws, breaking up the Tories into two: the Peelites (who'll later team up with the Whigs to become the Liberals,) and the faction under Disraeli and Lord Stanley (later Earl of Derby,) the Conservatives. that transformation wasn't just in terms of policy too: while the Tories seemed like a club for only the landed and wealthy, the Conservatives involved support from every level of society-a mass movement, if you will.
I was very surprised when I discovered that in Hebrew school in the USA we learn the Sephardic pronunciation, despite the country being overwhelmingly (>90%) Ashkenazi. My parents and I even pronounce the prayers differently (which has led to a ton of confusion).
Another fun fact: Thiers was president of France much later, during the Paris Commune. He besieged the city to crush the revolution - which was defended by the walls built in his name
My parents and grandparents were secular Mapainiks, so the first time I ever heard Ashkenazi Hebrew "in the wild" was in 7th grade, when a classmate who went to a different synagogue asked if I'd gotten my "tallis" yet. I was in my fourth year of learning Hebrew and genuinely didn't understand what she was saying.
Everyone keeps calling the Israeli Hebrew accent Sephardic. It has a larger sound inventory than the Ashkenazi one. There is no Heth, Teth, Qoph, or 'Ayin is israeli Hebrew. The Resh today sounds like a Gimmal Rephuya... And the beghedh kepheth is another story... Same with the niqqudh - Talleth vs. Tallis as you noted. Or even meaning of words like Shibboleth Shuʿal. Or even pronouncing the Shewa Na' Shelomo vs. Shlomo. There is more to say on this but I'm not going to on one foot in the comments.
@@SamAronow not all Iraqis either. But yea that doesn't address the other issues 😂 Israeli Hebrew was never in parallel with any dialect with Sepharadi Hebrew. It is it's own beast.
I just finished watching every single video in row! Even though I watched some of them separately whenever I had some specific question, this series was absolutely insane. Everything ties in so well to the rest of history, and it's honestly a little shameful I know so little about Jewish history as an Israeli, even (or maybe especially) modern Judaism and the way it works. You do such a good job contextualizing Jewish history and specifically talking about the things that were most politically important (especially to non-Jews whenever they were ones who held the majority of political power), rather than what was most important to the Jewish community specifically, which is less relevant to the rest of the world, and that focus helps tie this story in to the rest of history (though I'm afraid that might mean people who have less knowledge of all this background history will enjoy this series less, since a large part of why I personally liked it so much is how it tied in to all my previous historical knowledge, especially with those extremely wonderful maps). I think one of the things that shocked me the most was the actual relevance of Jews to the rest of history, and since they rarely appeared when I was learning about other countries' history I assumed they were relatively politically irrelevant, and seeing how major political problems both affected the Jewish community and were affected by them was super cool. I am really looking forward to see you talk about the end of the 19th and especially the 20th century, and I really hoped that by the time I finished watching all these videos a new one would be released (it took me around 2 weeks to watch all the videos). I might look in to become your patron in the future, and I recommended you to a bunch of my friends.
15:55 you said my name but you wrote someone else's lol Also thanks for answering the question it was very interesting I never learned of 19th century British politics
That's more of an America-specific thing, feeding into the hierarchy of "who arrived first" with the Western Sephardim at the top and the FSUs at the bottom.
I'm surprised you didn't mention George Eliot's book Daniel Deronda. Gwendolen Harleth was very much in the stereotype of the la belle juive. Though the author was highly sympathetic to Jewish issues.
I still don't get the Damascus affair episode at all. You hint that the affair was a conspiracy by the Egyptian and French governments, but to what end? Was it to distract the local Syrian Arabs from their grudge against their new Egyptian rulers?
It was a conspiracy by Ratti-Menton specifically to increase French influence in Egypt, using its recently self-appointed status as the military/diplomatic protector of the Catholic Church, in the expectation that Egypt would indeed overthrow the Ottoman Empire and become the new Middle Eastern power.
*the yeshivish askhenazi accent. The general one not as inspired by Yiddish isn't that ridiculous and just sounds like Yemenite vowels with fewer consonants
