Thank you for this series. As a non-Jewish person from a country with a historically large Jewish population, I’ve been finding your videos incredibly illuminating. Jewish history often goes unmentioned in the bigger scheme of things, so what you’re doing is important, not just for Jews, but for all who wish to understand and learn from history.
I understand your excitement. But I don't envy Sam for reading the more and more sources we have. And as a German, I don't look forward to descriptions of Jewish history in the 20. century :-(
I really didn't know much about the status of Jews during the French Revolution before now, so I appreciated the opportunity to learn about the subject. Thanks for the informative video!
As a Russian Jew, I appreciate you making these videos on Jewish History so that I can learn more of my heritage. It seems like the history is lost from the history books. Even as I'm taking a college class on the Jewish Experience.
1648 France: I'll take Alsace. 1872 Germany: I'll take Alsace. 1918 France: I'll take Alsace. 1940 Germany: I'll take Alsace. 1945 France: I'll take Alsace. 2022 France: I still have Alsace.
2:05 Code Noir: In French "chasser les Juifs"" should not be translated as "to chase from our islands all the Jews". "Chasser" is either "to hunt" or "to drive out" (as hunting-dogs would do), so the latter sense "to drive out" is correct.
Thank you for this fascinating series! As an American Christian, my knowledge of Jewish history and cultural evolution has been limited to the Biblical narratives and accounts of the Holocaust. It has been immensely interesting to learn a much broader scope of history. Keep up the great work!
Same here. I’m a Catholic and before this channel I had no idea the depth of Jewish history and cultural roots. It also taught me a lot about the religion, and it’s super interesting :))
@@chimera9818 Hello! Are you Israeli? I'm an Aussie and honestly have never heard anything about jews in my daily life that wasn't related to WW2 or Israel and Palestine. I don't even know if there are any Jewish communities in Australia.
@@codysodyssey3818 The Jews in Australia tend to live in Cities, I believe that there are about 90,000 Jews in Australia, Melbourne and Sydney have the largest communities.
Very interesting video, as always. I wonder, who was the sneaky lady at 2:15? Also, at the end I felt like we were so close to the potential second cameo of our old acquaintance Berek Joselewicz. Maybe next time?
Have you read Caroline Weber's "Proust's Duchess?" In a part of it she discusses the tensions between the Gascogne/sephardi and Alsatian/Ashkenaz communities in France during the nineteenth century as a part of the biography of Genevieve Halevy Bizet Strauss. She was an heiress of the Gradis, very wealthy Bordeaux wine merchants. The Gradis were in competition with, and eclipsed by, the Rothschilds, with whom they initially did business, and, of course, on whom they looked down for being Rhineland upstarts.
Can you please the cite what source you used when saying Napoleon was referred to as Helek Tov? And what is the meaning of the name? (A good gentile?) thanks. And great video as always, can’t wait for what’s to come
It's the literal Italian-to-Hebrew translation of his name: Buona Parte. I believe I got that anecdote from Zosa Szajkowski, but there are plenty of articles about it in English and French. forward.com/culture/319002/the-secret-jewish-history-of-napoleon-bonaparte/
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. BTW, in going through my grandfather's documents & papers, I learned that I am decended from one of Napoleon's Marshals. Very unrexpected background for a Jew. Apparently, two of Napoleon's 19 Marshals concealed their Jewish heritage.
I just want to say how happy I am that your channel is finally catching on! I have been here since you were below 1k subs and I am so happy that you are now above 30k subs. Only a matter of time now until you reach 100k and then 1 million. You deserve it for all the hard work and research you do!
I love this series and channel. I think it should be required viewing for all, especially non-Jewish Europeans. It really illuminates how the foundations of the Holocaust were laid for centuries.
Thank you for the Beethoven score at the end of the video. Beethoven was an admirer of the French revolution and of the Helek Tov until he made himself to a monarch and Beethoven struck the dedication to him from Beethoven's works.
To be fair, Protestants were not allowed in New France either. Only Catholics. Under Henri IV, there was a colonization attempt in Ste. Croix Island that failed because the Catholics and the Protestants wouldn't stop bickering. So it was decided that only Catholics would be allowed in the colony. The King already had enough problems in France with the Fronds and Protestant great nobles, he didn't want to export them in his colonies. So there was no great nobility in Canada either.
@7:18 Shame you didn't mention Zalkind Hourwitz (1752-1812), a polish jew who won with abbe gregoire the prize for the memoire on how to regenerate the Jews... he was IMO a key figure like Cerf Beer...
This is such an awesome video that it gives me a uniquely cruel pleasure in pointing out that it makes a mistake in literally the very first word. The Estates-General/National Assembly/whatever only moved to Paris in October 1789. Prior to that, they were meeting in Versailles.
I have to say your content is amazing! Growing up as a Jew I always wanted a secular history of Judaism from start to finish and this series is certainly delivering! Keep up the good work and hope to see you at 100k in no time
Is 2:15 Esther Brandeau? It took some time but finding out all the weird ways our people have journeyed was wroth it.... I'd be glad if you made it easier the next time ;)
What in heavens name is up with the guy narrating the quote from Comte de Clermont-Tonnere? This is maybe the most confusing and distracting accent/mode of speech that could have possibly be used
Recommended this channel to my dad. I’m trying to get back in touch with my culture and these videos have been a really good resource for me. These videos remind me of Historia Civilis, in the best way possible.
As someone who loves maps to the point that I have published a maps book, I was just wondering what your mapping process is. I like all the detail in your political maps.
I use Adobe Illustrator for both the city and regional maps, with the regional maps based on templates provided by Omniatlas (another website definitely worth a look). What's the book?
@@SamAronow My book is North American Maps for Curious Minds. Thanks for the reply. (Sorry for the delayed reply on my end.) I'll have to look at Omniatlas.
19:45 I love this. I'd like to think that the guy was just covering his mouth because he knew Reubell was going to drag the debate on for even longer and he was just sick and tired of it.
Fwiw Robespierre was an opponent of the Cult of Reason and the desecration of religious builings (in fact the faction behind them were liquidated as a prelude to the Great Terror). His choice of national cult was the deistic Cult of Supreme Being.
After Roman Catholic emancipation in the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland in 1831 the Irish MP Daniel O'Connell on entering parliament immediately began agitating for emancipation for Presbyterians and Jews with success by the 1840:s🙋👪
Hi, I was wondering if you know about Jewish migration to Mexico during the Maximilian years. I'm American Hispanic from Texas, with kin folk in both Mexico and the South West of the United States. According to my mom's family we were Jewish and came to Mexico during the Maximilian years. Before my Jewish ancestors went to France, they lived in Northern Africa, but had to escape because of the Moors, they bypassed Spain, landed I'm France, lived in France, then Mexico during the Maximilian years. Later just assimilated into the Catholic population, but only married Catholics of Jewish ancestors. So.... do you happen to know about this? Cheers
Okay, what was that like, one frame over New France when you said not very long, at 2:15. I skipped back and paused and was disappointed to be right that I'd seen a person there, but there was no name or anything...
She's Esther Brandeau, a young Jewish woman who tried to settle in New France in 1738 by cross-dressing as a catholic boy named Jacques La Fargue. She got a job as a sailor and got to Québec City. She was soon discovered as a Jewish woman and since she had no wish to convert, she was deported back to France in 1739. She was the first and only Jew to set foot in Canada before the British conquest.
For further reading, Dr. Alyssa Sepinwall wrote an excellent book about the Abbe Gregoire and Jews in the French Revolution called The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism.
Thank you for providing good solid historical information about the Jewish family, when sadly it's lacking in most general histories about these critical times
Don't forget the great falafel rebellion 1766 where people shouted "we want more falafels, we want more falafels". This is actually what caused the French revolution but they never teach about except Jewish cooking school.
"Emancipation" is a general term for the abolishment of restrictions, and gaining equal rights. It comes from Roman times when "emancipation" was giving a slave their freedom, and has been used in similar meaning for many historical processes. Including gaining equal rights and civil liberties for Jews, or (in its most recent application) women.
Question is, how did it come about in the first place that they needed emancipation? What had occurred to place them in ' bondage' and exactly who specifically among the 'Jews' or Hebrews are we referring to?
