The Jewish Risorgimento (1815-1870) 

An assortment of family connections in this video: - Samuel David Luzzatto was the great-great-nephew of Mosé Luzzatto, the Ramhal, and the great-grandfather of New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Prime Minister Luigi Luzzatti is from a different branch of the same family. - Giacomo Segre was the great-grandson of Rabbi Salvatore Segre, the deputy leader of Napoleon's Sanhedrin, and the father of World War I general Roberto Salvatore Segre. Italian Senator Liliana Segre is from a different branch of the same family. - Sarina Levi Nathan returned to Italy after the Capture of Rome and was very active in assisting women and the poor. Her son Ernesto Nathan was mayor of Rome from 1907 to 1913.

I cannot overstate how good this channel is. I’m not Jewish but have learned SO much throughout the series. You deserve a million subs!

I had no idea jews were so influential in the risorgimento, so much so that the entire expedition of the thousand was funded by a Jewish woman! This channel is absolutely amazing, and I really want to thank you for making this series because most other channels would have given up a millennium ago. By the way, my grandmother is originally from Tunisia, and I remember from her that in the Tunisian Jewish quarter there was a whole section for the jews from Livorno, and it's really cool that now I understand how and why they settled there.

“and that’s how in 13 years we went from the pope capturing a Jew to a Jew capturing the pope” 🔥🔥🔥

Seriously how do you not have more subs? This channel is a flippin gold mine

I'm a faithful catholic, and I'm truly glad the Vatican is limited to mostly spiritual affairs and a small slice of land now they've never been good with secular rule. You do good work Sam Aronow!

An interesting postscript is that in the nationalist Italian army that conquered Rome, was Edgardo Montaro's brother who went into the Vatican, rifle in hand, hoping to liberate his brother. Unfortunately, when he found his brother, Edgardo was unwilling to leave the Vatican or his adopted religion.

This is really helpful explanation of a very complex period! Well done.

I just want to say I love your videos. I'm Jewish, but I never understood my relationship to that history very well. The farthest I can directly trace my ancestors is Russia, how did they get there from the Levant? Family history is fuzzy about whether they fell in with the Reform, Orthodox, or Hasidic movements, and I really didn't even know much of the difference between the latter two. I've been binging your videos, and while there's obviously still some gaps - there's still 152 years of history left, and even once we get there, it's about Jews as a whole, not my specific family - I can't tell you how much greater a connection I feel to my family's history and to the legacy and experiences of my ancestors from watching and learning from your videos. !תודה חבר

Who could have guessed that stealing someone's child wouldn't have flown that far? it's almost like people have this thing about their kids.

I’m a student of Irish history but you should do a video on the Sinn Fein Rabbi and father to a future Israeli president Chaim Herzog. Herzog’s father was given an IRA funeral.

Asking a British newspaper their opinion on pope is like asking the KKK about MLK. Catholic emancipation was only recently passed in the UK after centuries of persecutions. It was Pius IX who officially re-established Catholic church in England, and a lot of Anglicans were still mad about it, whether left or right.

The kidnap of Edgardo Mortara is one of the events which shocked me the most..worse thing is how the church still didn't apologize. Had to living the same situasion was kinda though since my great grandma converted to catholicism after ww2.

This may be my favorite video of yours yet! I was literally on the edge of my seat. I’ve studied the Risorgimento a bit in school but somehow never heard of Edgardo Mortara.

Ah yes, the Mortara Affair. I knew this is what you were alluding to in that tweet a few months back. EDIT: Pope Pius Rackham IX is my new favourite interpretation of the role.

Excellent video as always. Although raised as a Catholic and being an atheist I am fascinated by the Jewish history you bring to life on this channel

That was a great video Sam! Masterfully put together

welcome back Sam. I like the new image of you. Great episode. I look forward to seeing others in the era of history.

Great video, looking forward to the next one!

This episode was so good, I think it's one of my favorites!

Another outstanding video. Always great content. Never disappoints.

I gotta say Jack really knocked it out of the park for his lines glad to see two great RU-vidrs working together

This is one of your best, Sam. Todá rabá!

This is a new masterpiece Sam! You know how to make history exciting, a skill too few possess.

Been with Sam since 1200 subs. Glad to see how exponentially you have grown.

I'm so happy that you are back 😊

23:58 and like many other itialian prime ministers they were gone after a year

What a great episode. I’d just like to shout out a few other popular figures who had impacts on both Risorgimento and Jewish emancipation, such as Carlo Cattaneo, one of the leaders of the “five days of Milan” of 1848, who had made his university thesis on how restrictions on Jews were responsible for most of the prejudices aimed at them and their lack of integration, and Elia Benamozegh, Chief Rabbi of Livorno, Kabbalist, who corresponded with Mazzini. And peripheral to this, in Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco which as an allegory for Italy’s resurgence used Jewish exile in Babylon and Va Pensiero has been strongly considered as a national anthem.

I have been following you since the beginning. Your work is absolutely phenomenal, I'd especially like to laud your editing skills and sense of timing. The transition at 10:00 to the 1848 revolutions was flawless, the music crescendo and rhetoric gave me goosebumps. Thank you!

I just want to say thank you. I have learned so much from your videos!

This was great! Thank you!

Amazing vid. I loved the storytelling. So skilled.

1800 years later, and a jewish captain orders a jewish army to march on Rome Zealots, consider yourselves avenged.

Thank you for the video, It was very informative!

What a great video! I am Italian and a history fan and I think that you made an excellent job, not only in explaining a pretty complex period of Italian history, but also in highlighting the importance of the Jewish community and the general sense of solidarity among which permeated (most of) the Risorgimento. Grazie!

Wonderful video: perfectly accurate (as far as I now), nicely drawn and effectively told.

I can't wait for you to cover the 1848 revolutions in Germany! many of my ancestors fought in the baden and rhineland revolts.

Amazing work as always!

Great episode as always love it keep doing the good work 👌🤌👍

It's always amazing to watch your videos

Once again, Sam, you show us how to tell a story! Well done. Come back soon.

Loved this.

Brilliant work! Thank you Sir!

Love these man, thanks

Welcome back!!!!!!!

Each and every episode, we get centimetres closer to the eventual video on Theodor Herzl... And I can't wait for that day.

Amazing to see more high quality content, I loved everything about it. The music use is phenomenal I've tried scouring for it but couldn't find it though. Especially the track used for the revolutions of 1848

Sam...klasse. Excellent. Prima. Areas of history I never paid attention to. As you tell them, they are fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

I love this channel so much.

Thank you so much, Sam, for this! I am a giyur of Italian ancestry and although I know more about Italki practices that almost any other English speakers, I knew little to nothing of the role that Italian Jews played in the liberation and unification of our country. I wished you had gone just a little into distinctive Italki Nusach, but this was just brilliant, especially about Segre! As a trained historian, I hold an MA in History and work as a Social Studies teacher, I have learned so much about my adopted family from you Mr. Aronow! Please keep up the series, and I look forward to your next video!

That Papal Infallability is something that justifies all that the Pope does is just wrong. Papal Infallanility has only been proclaimed a very few times, and none of them have ever had to do with politics. It is only used in very specific and dogmatic questions regarding faith, such as the Perpetual Virginity of the Virgin Mary. Pius IX never made any proclamations ex cathedra against the Italian state.

He has returned!!! Can't wait to watch the video

Man, London was always having some revolutionary exile hold up there for a spell.

This video made me appreciate more an important part of the history of my country. Thanks a lot!

This was truly exceptional.

goosebumps at the last line man

That ending gives a new meaning to "diversity is our strength"!

Interesting, very interesting. Yet, as a Risorgimento buff, I have to add some points: - Piedmont-Sardinia held the county of Nice as well, in some maps it doesn't appear - The II Indipendence War CB was not the abdication of tuscan Grand duke (which happened one year later) but a series of border military excercises AH considered a provocation and intimated an halt. - A remind that King Vittorio Emanuele II was the only monarch to not withdraw his 1848 statute while pressured - The money flew from many sources, including Liverpool workers who self-taxated to contribute - The 1000 expedition aim was Tuscany then Rome, but went south once knew Sicily rebelled (again) - Missed to mention the conditions of the Jewish community in Southern Italy and how even more viciously and loudly antisemitic was the bourbon dinasty - The Pope also armed and supported the exiled king of Naples in his attempt to hire mercenaries and local criminal bands to try to get back the throne. Also, the exiled neapolitan court is responsible of still living antisemitic conspiracy theories on his fall and defeat; these spread right by the Civiltà Cattolica newspaper - Italy didn't achieved unity until WW1. Garibaldi himself on his death bed lamented he couldn't free Trento and Trieste

As an American of Italian background I found this video fascinating. Thanks for the history lesson.

What about telling the story of the stolen boy. I find it heartbreaking that he never realised the murder of his identity by his kidnappers

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Awesome.

Fantastic storytelling, Sam! I even enjoyed watching your OmniAtlas advert LOL! Here are some Italian pronunciation tips so you sound like a pro: A is always pronounced like AH as in father. Never like A as in cat. E is always pronounced like AY, as in day I is always pronounced like EE as in See like in Gucci, Pucci, Fiorucci O is always pronounced like the O in Oh, no! U is always pronounced like the long U in tune. GN is a NY sound (similar to the Spanish ñ) so Gnocchi (gno-cchi) is pronounced nyoh-kee. GH is pronounced as a hard G so funghi (fun-ghi) is pronounced foon-gee, and also the hard G in spaghetti (spa-ghe-tti) = spah-gay-tee C/CC before E or I has a CH sound as in ciao or Gucci! (AO is a OW sound as in cow) otherwise it's a K sound as in Rocco CH/CCH before I or E is a K sound so CHE is pronounced Kay or gnocchi= nyoh-kee Z/ZZ is a TZ sound as in pizza, or with an AH in the middle and it's piazza (pee-ah-tzah) Syllables in Italian words generally follow a consonant-vowel consonant-vowel format. So Civita is Ci-vi-ta = chee-vee-tah and Sardinia (Sar-di-ni-a) is Sar-dee-nee-ah. Veneto (Ve-ne-to) is Vay-nay-toh. Mazzotti (Ma-zzo-tti) = Mah-tzoh-tee. And Rome's port, Civitavecchia (Ci-vi-ta-ve-cchi-a) is pronounced Chee-vee-tah-vay-kee-ah.

Awesome!❤

Thanks for the videos! Saw you in a city near Tel Aviv two weeks ago! I didn't follow you!! Although I'm really disappointed I didn't say anything 😥

You are really good

your my favorite channel on RU-vid. from the Quality of animation to the history. Hopefully you can get 1 million subs you truly deserve it Idea for an episode History of Judaism in Latin America or how some of history's greatest Pirates in the Caribbean were of Converso decent

It is a very good video. Just two basic mistakes, you forget Jewish communities in the north of the Papal States. Bologna, Ferrara, Lugo, and Ancona had less restrictions than the Roman Jews. That aside, it is a great summary of the Jewish contribution to the unification of Italy.

Cardona's move to leave the honor of ordering the first strike to a Jewish officer is recognized among Italians as 'furbizia' . It means something like cunning, craftiness, or foxiness.

This is better than the Star Wars epic!

He came back with a classic

I’m a converted Jew from Poland, my mother is an Italian Catholic goy. I’m glad to know my Ashkenazi heritage comes from Italy and that I can still relate to my Judaism through my Italian heritage still

Wow what an amazing story of the separation of church and state!The need for this fundamental political system!

Pope Pius was a real drama queen, wasn’t he

I got chills when, "1848" appeared to the Anvil Chorus

Your videos are magnificent. I must say I lost much interest in Jewish history after the great uprising of 66. I never truly appreciated how influential they were in the last 2000 years.

A sponsor? Is this the first? In any case, mazel tov!

A side effect of the expulsions from Naples and Sicily is when that region had a mass emigration centuries later, none of those emigrants were Jewish. The number of Italian Jews in America is miniscule, and most any Jewish-Italian-Americans you meet today are the result of later intermarriage.

"And that's how in 13 years, we went from the Pope capturing a Jew, to a Jew capturing the Pope." Now that's a closing line if I've ever seen one!

הערוץ הכי מעניין ביוטיוב ! תודה שמוליק

This was just outstanding, truly. All your videos have been fantastic, and I am so glad I stumbled across your channel. Please keep doing what you’re doing, and thank you for the outstanding content.

Great video as ususal. Makes me look forward for a future video about Jewish support and opposition to Italian Fascism

I’m a history teacher and I’ve been using these videos to improve my lessons!

I’m Italian and this episode was sooo good!!! Great work!!! You summed up the history of Italian unification and the Church kidnapping affaire very well, and i didn’t know all the Jewish details around the story! Thank you for this beautiful docu!

Got Goosebumps at 10:12

I'm an Italian-American Jew-by-choice who has long been fascinated and interested in Giuseppe Mazzini and the Risorgimento. Yesterday, while I was googling Jews' roles in the Risorgimento, and I accidentally came across your video. I decided to watch it today, and I'm incredibly impressed by the quality of this video! The history of the Risorgimento goes underappreciated. It's amazing how much history you put into just 30 minutes! I also loved the beautiful graphics :) I was shocked to see you don't have more views and subscribers! My one criticism was that some of the pronunciation of the names and Italian words was off, but I won't be too harsh because this video was truly superb. I've marked it as one of my favourites, and I look forward to watching your future videos! Thank you so much for making this!

"Man, that Garibaldi guy really takes the biscuit" Pope Pius IX

Youre forgetting that they left the vatican area under the popes rule and under partial seige until the 1930s when mussollini signed an agreement with the pope

27:07 just made my day!!

Is that Jack Rackam?

What is that song from the 1848 revolutions called? it sounds awesome

It's so sad to see so many politically conservative Jews when evidently only left leaning political parties sought Jewish equality.

Cadorna probably laugh when hearing that the pope will excomm anyone who ordered the barrage. He was probably like "Lol, ok then, Ill order a jew to order a barrage"

I truly enjoyed this, the amount of work you put into it and overall, other than some minor details, the accuracy of your research. However on a personal "and admittedly pedantic" point, calling the House of Savoy realm the Kingdom of Sardinia was slightly irritating. PLEASE NOTE that this is more of an FYI for yourself and other viewers than a criticism. I don't actually blame you because thats the official name especially in English, but as an Italian speaker its kind of funny. In Italian, they are always called "Piemontesi" or Piedmontese. Largely due to the fact that Turin was the capital and everything of consequence was conducted in the mainland area's of the Kingdom, which at this point also included Liguria, therefore also Genoa. The island of Sardegna was, and still is to a great extent, mainly agricultural and isolated and was never a center of either political or popular power. Once again, thank you for this great video and the work that went into and especially the information and education that you are spreading to all.

Sam, thank you for your presentation of the facts, I feel you have presented this information with the least amount of bias against the Catholic Church, which arguably would be understandable given Rome's tenured and well-known relationship with the Jewish Faith. I personally have gained so much from this channel and it is a huge blessing to have a deeper appreciation for a people who have been earnestly good to me and have taught me the finer points of Jewish Hospitality. Let's clarify this so that everyone is perfectly clear, Papal Infallibility only relates to dogmas internally held by the Church. The Pope has always held this position historically as long as he has been backed by an ecumenical council. We see clearly infallibility enacted in the creation of the "New Mass of the Reformation of the Catholic Church" in the 1500's during the Counter-reformation as a result of the council of Trent (Though modern priests fail to acknowledge it). In otherwords, Papal infallibility SHOULD and normally does work similarly to how the High Priest would speak on behalf of a vote by the elders of the Sanhedrin. At least that's what was taught to me by one of my old managers who was an Orthodox Jew (The Jewish part obviously not the Catholic part). As far as I am to understand it's all functionally similar. Even Paul/Saul wrote in Christian Scripture reaffirming Jewish Tradition by stating that not even angels dare to overturn the decision held by a council. Obviously the motivations for formalizing this long held belief were only enacted when the belief itself was challenged; this has been par for the course for two millenia. I am not saying that the motivations for the Church codifying Papal infallibility were correct but generally things don't get written down until there is such a deterioration that there a necessity to do so in order that no one forgets, much like how the Oral Law according was transcribed after the fall of the Second Temple.

This is a wonderful exposition of nineteenth century Italian Jewish history, but what I do not understand is why Pope Pious IX is voiced by the same person who does the voice for Principal Skinner?

What’s the song when describing 1848?

One thing I would be super interested to see you cover would be more during the Thirty Years' War. I've read most of the 1632: Ring of Fire series, and it has both minor and absolutely major arcs of Jewish history. It's alternate history done to an absolutely amazing degree. A Sephardic Jewish noblewoman marries a time-displaced American and becomes a Senator in a Swedish-led confederation. A Jewish jeweler forms a semi-independent army under the auspices of the Bohemian crown, taken by Wallenstein after events begin to heavily diverge from the actual course of history. He uses this army to try to preempt the Khmielnitsky (sp?) Pogrom by eradicating significant anti-Semitic forces from Eastern Europe. Anyone who is interested in Jewish and early modern history in general will get lost in these books, which can probably inspire an interest in that period in others as well.

I laugh the entire last part because I knew exactly what's gonna happen.

Honestly looking forward to the "future video", my ancestors fled Germany for the US during the 1840s. Also, that last line is 🔥.

Hello Sam, I would like to know more about jews in Northern Spain and the basque country. The Jewish involvement in the road to st. James, and Navarre Spain.