As someone from Algeria, surrounded by anti semitic messaging all around me, on the radio, on the television or even my own friends talking about how jews want to punish our nation for expelling them by "supporting kabyle nationalists", this channel has made me appreciate jewish history much more. I must thank you for bringing to the internet a way for people to understand jews as a people in a deeper way than the usual israel-palestine idiocy.
It always baffles me that someone can say that jews are pushing the agenda of civil rights and have it come across as negative yet we see it everywhere. I wish you a safe life
as an israeli, i can tell you for a fact that we dont want to punish your nation for expelling us, as if we were to punish each nation that expelled us we would be punishing hundreds of millions of people. Algeria isnt on israels sights and im sure much like with arab states Israel would like nothing but peace.
As a Maghrebi Jew, I really appreciate you for saying this. Even in darkness, there is light. If there were more people like you, the world would be a better place.
@@SamAronow Yes, it was a very interesting video. Our jewish community used to be one of the biggest and most vibrant in the world before the Revolution, hell, our first minister of finance was a Greek Jew; Comrade Pablo, so it's not surprising jews from Europe fell in love with it.
The idea that the concept of the kibbutz would have had part of its origin in the POW camps of the Russo-Japanese War is something that would never have occurred to me. I always learn incredible new things on this channel.
It didn't. The idea of the Kibbutz started before the war. Even all the way back to the 1880s. There were several existing Kvutzot (meaning groups, Kvutza in singular). But they simply weren't successful and eventually fell apart rather quickly. The difference between a Kvutza and a Kibbutz is just the size. The first Kibbutz started as a Kvutza in 1909. The difference was that this time, it was successful. Trumpeldor joined it (Dgania) only after it was well established. However, ironically, there are Kibbutzim in Japan today (kinda). There are small communes across Japan (about 40) that were developed from various reasons (like religious or ethical reasons) they were developed during the 20th century. Many of them sent students to study, learn and volunteer in Kibbutzim in Israel, which influenced their ideas and structures.
@@מ.מ-ה9ד I'm going to look deeper into this ASAP. The birth of the kibbutz will feature shortly, though I will note that the attribution of the kibbutz as a product of the Captive Sons of Zion was not my own conclusion, and that all my research thus far on the Second Aliyah has drawn a hard line between the _kvutza_ and the efforts of Bilu in the First Aliyah.
It would be interesting to see if there was an influence on kibbutz (or moshav) from the Russian institution of the obshchina /mir. Those were villages that existed throughout the Russian Empire where the peasants owned all the land communally.
*NOTES* 1. Sorry for the audio quality on Ryan's segment. I'm not an audio specialist, so don't judge me too badly, but all I did to it was increase the bass levels to match the rest of the video. It was _not_ blown out or hard-right until I uploaded it to RU-vid. 2. Weird coincidence: I've been working on this video since 24 February 2022 (and yes, elements of these videos are often planned that far in advance). I was just starting to design the thumbnail when the news broke of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 3. This video was already uploaded and scheduled when news broke that Russia was introducing an "email draft" which would re-classify absentee citizens as draft dodgers and deprive them of numerous financial and administrative rights. So the spirit of Vannovsky lives on.
hopefully, the current Russia analysis holds up the test of time, but the recent intelligence leak seems to have doused some cold water on a lot of the reports we have been getting over the last year. Either way not that big a deal.
Russia having the tactical advantage but blowing it on the training and tactics? "I could never imagine what that would be like." Sometimes, Stars align. History Repeats. And sometimes, awesome collabs are done.
@@GermanConquistador08”tactical advantage” “Blowing it on tactics” Those two sound contradictory reading the comment back. I didn’t want to troll you or anything, but I couldn’t wrap my head around it, so sorry.
@@DiamondKingStudios - Tactical Advantage: The greater ability to execute more precise, advanced or quicker moves against your opponent. Tactics: The actual choices made on the battlefield to achieve what your tactical advantage is meant to give you - additional tools available to achieve your objective.
"A year and a half earlier, emperor Nikolai had anticipated that the war would be an unchallenging, one-sided victory against an unprepared and incompetent enemy. Was he wrong?" I physically fell off of my chair out of laughter when I heard this, and this made my day.
i wouldn't say the war is unchallenging to the Japanese, they still suffer massive casualties, and the war took a very heavy toll on the imperial treasury, it is still a great victory for them of course.
Drachinifel has a two part series (plus a short video on Kamchatcha) on the 2nd Pacific Fleet and her journey. The dry British humor is NOT TO BE MISSED!
@@mitchyoung93 A few villages with far fewer inhabitants, then they lost soldiers to take them over. Not to mention losing more tanks, IFVs, artillery, drones, and aircraft in this one war than the USA in all its wars combined since World War II. Not to mention that the Russians lost more soldiers in this one war than the USA lost on all fronts of World War II. And counting.
Random trivia - when Emperor Nikolai as a young man visited Japan, he got a tattoo of an Asian dragon on his forearm, there's extant photos of him where it's visible.
For as much as I despise Japanese imperialism, I can't help but smile at the humiliation of the tsarist regime and the blow it meant for the old notions of racial supremacy.
Keep it up friend.I am muslim from Pakistan 🇵🇰 i am interesting in history of jews yes i can't deny that there are anti jewish people in Pakistan like anyother country firstly i was also one of them but after reading Jewish history i am no more anti Jewish i have sympathy for Jews they literally suffer in ancient times and i am interested in jewish history i hope you make more videos about ancient jewish history. We muslims love Jewish history peace for jews from Pakistan 🇵🇰🤝 to all Jewish people.Jews are ancient people.Hope for peace between Israeli jews and Palestinians .Both people want to live peacefully peace will win 🙏 again respect for jews
It’s little known yet fascinating stories like that of Yosif Trumpeldor and the Russo-Japanese War that make this one of the best history channels on RU-vid.
אחד מהסרטון המרתקים ביותר שיצא לי לראות! עבודה נהדרת ותודה רבה סם! one of the most fascinating video i have ever seen! A job well done and thank you sam!
incredible video I liked the collab despite the Audio quality btw will you do a video of Jewish food on Yom HaAtzmaut? I feel like it's a good showcase of Israels cultural diversity
A friend of mine's grandmother grew up in the Jewish community in Harbin, though it was after the Russian Revolution. Very interesting lady, always loved hearing her recollections.
Absolutely fascinating story Sam. Your videos are really engrossing and the level of detail is admirable. I am a South African but have been drawn to Jewish history for as long as I can remember. I found a fantastic book on the history of the Jews that I have since mislaid (it was a very long book with super small print and my eyes couldn’t manage anymore). Keep up the good work
Two points missed: The Japanese first sunk two Russian vessels, and then declared war. Japanese code of honor. Second: the Trans-Siberian Railroad had not yet been completed, when the Japanese attacked. Logistics.
Keep up the good work... 👍🏼... It wasn't so long ago when I used to be one of first hundred viewers of your latest upload....Now within a couple of hours there's over 1k views... 🎉🎉... Can't wait to see you do 100k 👍🏼
Thank you so much for this collaboration. It really is probably going to be fantastically surprising to many - I hope it brings a lot of new viewers to your amazing channel. Ryan's approval is really a high mark of honor, especially for military matters - which I want to say, you're very good at explaining. As usual, looking forward to your next videos. Shalom.
This video is great. It hits two branches of my family. My paternal great great grandfather was from Turku, Finland, which was a retirement settlement for retired Cantonists. The Jewish population there was comprised of Cantonists and their families. My maternal great grandfather was the youngest of seven children sent to the US to avoid the draft for the Russo Japanese war in 1905.
I remember Maus exploring that aspect that the Vladek’s father having to mutilate himself (pulling out his teeth) to avoid service in Siberia (back when Poland was part of Russian Empire), which also influenced his decision to have their sons to weaken themselves to avoid being conscripted to Polish Army until the Vladek begged him father to let him join the army due to inability to bear the weakening process.
Sam great video on great man.I wanted to add two thing,first there is folk tale connected to Trumperldor captivity where the Japanese captors wanted to arrange "deal" with him on the world "dominance" of Jews.Also Trumperldor standing as military and his place of birth got him many many close connections with Mountain Jews(Juhuri) in Pitigorsk and around the Caucasus(who until them were always kind of seperate from Jews in Russia)and because of him many went to be Zionists and help to defend Jewish villages in armed groups against Bedouins.
New video let’s goooo!! (Also just found out my grandma’s grandpa was a cantonist, a medic, and drafted very young. So that’s- interesting.) Anyway, as always, the tzar and all his pogromchik friends can go die painfuly, and keep up the amazing videos! (I hope to se Shwarzbard in one, I’m writing a musical about him)
The fact that Japan saw the Jews as "Asians" reminds me of how they viewed blacks as basically kin, which helped them to spread Japanese influence among Black Americans before WW2.
On my channel (SKP: History) Ive created a 5 part "History of Israel" series, and myself and Sam have spoken about it in the past. Stay tuned for his one, but if you cant wait, check that one out @TheLordsofGaming
10:36 I was confused why Japan was able to enter Korea just like that, but apparently they signed a treaty AFTER this invasion saying "Eyo we're allowed to help protect your sovereignity dw homie"
Big note: Russia's expansion into California was more trading than real powerful colonies. And in terms of similarity, I was thinking more Six-Day War than Russo-Ukrainian war, but I get what you mean.
I love the video! A true story: my father in law's family were one of the first settlers who established Rosh Pina. His great grandfather used to fix waggons all over the upper Galilee. One day, Yosef Trumpeldor came to him from Tel Hai and was in a rush to fix his waggon. My father in law's great grandfather told him to seat and wait for his turn, but Trumpeldor got angry and started cursing him in Russian, and saying "How dare you?! Do you know who i am?!" . The great grandfather turned around and smacked Trumpeldor in the face, knocking him down to the ground, and said to him: " one day, you will get what you deserve!". Trumpeldor got killed a few months later. The waggon was never fixed.
Speaking of Tolstoy, when war broke out in 1914, Thomas Mann mused that the war would never have happened had the great author still been alive. "...he wouldn't need to do anything, just be there at Yasnaya Polyana -- this would not be happening; it wouldn't dare to be happening."
12:00 I'd like to make a note that the Mosin-Nagant was not a great rifle, in fact its usually regarded as the worst rifle of the era. I think the specific information is more poignant about the extent of the Russian ethos and it's relevance even today. Both Russia and Japan conducted studies about the shortcomings of their own rifles in comparison to the opposing rifle. Japan came to the conclusion that the Type 30 was superior in every way to Mosin-Nagant, but still decided to create a program to update and improve the Type 30 after the war. Russia came to the conclusion that the Type 30 was superior in nearly every way to the Mosin-Nagant, and yet they decided not to update or replace the Mosin-Nagant in any meaningful way.
The Czar's unpopularity in Britain due largely to the treatment of Jews, would help sign both his and his family's death warrants when their cousin Edward was forced to deny their asylum in Britain during the Russian revolution.
Yep, Britain ended its love affairs with absolute monarchy for a moment at that time. Socialists will basically be up in protests if they give asylum to the Romanovs, along with the muckraking British press. Both underestimated by the Romanovs gauging the British response as far back as the Crimean war
This is just heartbreaking. Trumpeldor went above and beyond to prove he was a loyal and valiant Russian citizen and solder, but Russia still spat in his face.
Not unlike the experience of African-Americans who served in a segregated army at this time. Especially after WW1, during the "Red Summer" of 1919, when America experienced its' own wave of pogroms against Blacks.
Based on their earlier attitude it makes sense that the Japanese prevented Germans in WWII against taking action against the Jews in Singapore, since the leader of the Jews claimed that the Germans were against them since they were Asians, like the Japanese.
Hey Sam, I was wondering if you'd ever try to sell more merchandise related to your Jewish history series? I'm mainly asking because I'd love to support the channel more through that.
Now that we're getting more into Russia, could this be a good opportunity for you to cover Georgia at some point? I would love to see a video on that, my partner and I are big fans of the channel. She is a Georgian Jew, and her family has a long history there. They only left in the 1990s due to the widespread pogroms and antisemitism after the collapse of the Soviet Union @Sam
Yes! They've actually shown up once before. I plan to refer back to them when it's relevant as examples of how ordinary people actually experienced these events.
Minor correction: Pavel Krushevan was probably not an author of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He was the publisher, but it doesn't make him the author. The author is still unknown. It could've been Piotr Rachkovsky, or someone else.
That’s not so unusual in countries that are losing wars. Italian POWs in America and Australia often just stayed after the war rather than go back to Italy. You also see a similar situation in Ukraine.
Aronow's channel is about Jewish History which encompasses the history of Judaism as a religion/system of belief but is not depended solely on it. So if you want a "similar" channel, you mean about Indian History (which encompasses but is not at all equivalent to Hinduism or Buddhism or Islam, heck even Judaism as Sam's own videos on the Bene Israel show): 1) ODD COMPASS: www.youtube.com/@OddCompass 2) INDIA INK: www.youtube.com/@IndiaInkHistory 3) AL MUQADIMMAH: www.youtube.com/@AlMuqaddimahYT
No not really. For Buddhism around the periphery of China. Which I guess covers both major versions. You could try the TeaCup Media channel. Then look for historical subjects he talks about outside of China. But then this would mostly be Chinese immigrants or invaders dealing with Buddhists. But he goes in depth. Other than that, exposure to Buddhism besides South Vietnamese descendants who live in my area, is Kings and Generals stuff.
@@MarkVrem Odd Compass did an episode about an Indian Buddhist Monk's mission in proselytizing in Japan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IY600RGqSQ4.html&pp=ygUUT2RkIENvbXBhc3MgYnVkZGhpc3Q%3D
There's an hilarious video about the journey of an Imperial Russian fleet from the Baltic (or was it the Black Sea?) to the Far East to fight the Japanese.
Mr. Aronow, 1. In an ideal world, RU-vid would be a competent company and There would be no massive fluctuations in volume for one segment to the next or between a video and advertisement. RU-vid isn't a functional company and doesn't care about its creators or users. That puts the onus on you to do things like editing and making sure that your volume and the volume of a guest segment are similar. 2. The Russell Japanese war did not begin on land, but rather with the Japanese Navy attacking the Russian Navy in Port Arthur.
Hmmmmmm I wonder if these Japanese lads will get into that baseball. Good to know they'd never beat America in an international competition for the sport.........
They got _really_ close right after this. They really did. There was even enough political support in 1906 to abolish the monarchy. But they didn't quite get it together, so even as the empire became more and more unpopular over the next decade, there wasn't any coherent structure to replace it. You'll see next time.
@@SamAronow I suppose it's just...disappointingly salient that you've reached a point in history where you get to spend a lot of time talking about Russia's authoritarian abuse of its minority populations.
@@SamAronow I'd be disappointed if you don't at least touch on Russia's failed joke of an attempt at a "second Jewish homeland" though there might not be much to tell
