In the age of print it is hard to conceptualize the impact of book burning, but 12,000 copies of the Talmud... damn. By the way, we still mourn this destruction of the Talmud with laments on the 9th of Av
The 9th of av commemorates the destruction of the Temple and the end of Jewish Religious autonomy.. and the Spanish expulsion and other travesties against the Jews. I didn't know the Talmud was one of the travesites because the Talmud still exists as does the Responsa.
I just found this channel and I am so happy! I have wanted to learn the history of the Jewish people for so long, but since they didn’t teach it in school it was hard to find a good source. Thanks for this channel! It means so much to learn the history of my ancestors
Hey, Sam! Just wanted to mention that, if you post the thumbnail as a twitter image post and still link the video within the same post, we all get to admire your beautiful thumbnails on twitter as well! My apologies for the unsolicited input!
I absolutely love your videos. It is fascinating to experience history through great Jewish people and see their influence over the world. I feel like it paints a picture of the Medieval world in such a concrete way. Keep up the good work👍
Thanks. I've always felt there's a disconnect in the way Jewish history is told. When it's taught to gentiles, it's usually talking about something else and then mentioning "hey, Jews were also there." When taught within the Jewish community, it's very limited to subjects that are already popular knowledge while neglecting a lot of fascinating stories. My hope is that, by putting Jewish history back into the context of world history, I can make it a more rewarding subject that will draw more people in.
@@SamAronow Very well put. Using the Jewish perspective to paint a larger picture of that era as a whole is a very creative and inspiring way to teach both the history of the community and the world as a whole. I think this approach should be used more, not just for the Jewish community but every other community too.
Great video, but surprised you glossed over the massacre of the 150 Jews of York in 1190. The pogrom was started due to a noble owing money to Aaron of Lincoln. The Jews fled to the castle (Clifford's Tower) and like Masada chose to take their own lives instead of being killed by the mob. Seems like a defining event of medieval english jewry.
I’m a Jewish Anglican and one of my dad’s paternal Jewish ancestors had been the first Jewish family to settle in Ulster in the 1600’s where he owned a clothing and tailoring business as part of that initial English emigration that set the foundation for the Northern Ireland we have today, even though neither of my parents are Irish, their families have lived in Ulster for centuries.
So interesting! My family is Jewish and from Mashhad, Iran, and we have been told that Jews were also 'imported' there to manage a treasury. Random thing to have in common though...
Brilliant! My son (a keen history student) and I were discussing Jewish persecution in the car today and then I find this. I've shared this with him as it explains perfectly what we were talking about. Thank you.
The Normans are not the only ones to import jews. In the 1700s the king of Denmark also imported Sephardic Jewish merchant families to help bail out his failing economy.
As I understand it the services of Jews as bankers was used in the early Middle Ages because of a Christian ban on usury. Christians could not defile themselves with money so it was handy if non-believers (who were going to hell anyway) could do it for them. But if Medicine was the only other profession Jews could practise in England back then, was that because there were similar factors involved. Like say church prohibitions around touching or cutting into the body? Or something else?
It’s to do with interest. It’s odd to think that Islam is the only Abrahamic faith that bans it still. I love not that far from York, where there is only a very small progressive community. It feels very odd to me even now, and if my daughter didn’t live there I’m not sure I’d ever go there. Lincoln has the same feel about it 😢
0:57 *Didn't the king of Poland encouraged Jews, and particularly Jews that fled because of the Spanish expulsion, to settle in Poland for the exact same reason at one point?*
The Statute of Kalisz, a charter which was issued by Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland, in 1264, gave Jews permission to settle, follow their religion, be protected from harm, engage in various occupations, and even play a role in the minting of coins. The coins had Hebrew letters, which were minted in Poland during the early 1200s.
I really like your channel the topics itself is very fascinating i will be really happy if someone could make a history cinematic series on the Jews in the different empires very interesting channel!
I’m 75% Jewish 25% English sad Jews were expelled by a king im related to on my English side:( Long shanks is 23 great grandfather according to my tree.
I despise that king for it. Jews regardless of the individuals religion of choice (so referring to ethnicity) have always been good for cultural flowing. Art, poetry science, literature, culture, economics etc. Of any country experience a great flowering wherever the sons of Issac the Hebrew children of Israel of Abraham. Jewish culture enriches any culture else. How can Christians worship Jesus many of whom the first Jews were Christian yet hate all Jews collectively without a sense of the individual? I myself have a Jewish ancestor from 400 years ago and honestly I'm glad.
I hope you one day will cover the jews in Scandinavia - especially considering how little antisemitism there was, with at least one pogrom "Jødefejden" in Denmark in 1819.
@@LordJagd The migration started very, very late. First was the migration of german and sefardi jews into Denmark starting in the 1600s, in the 1700s jews were allowed to settle in Sweden, and in Norway only from the late 1800s. All 3 countries were then destinations of russian jews fleeing the pogroms 1880-1920s.
Poland imported Jews to make their country function. Then spent hundreds of years resenting us for it. It’s happened a few times in history. Other than that cracking video
[Chuckling]. America didn't import any Jews, but they didn't turn them away either. "Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." After that, and curiously after the Czar got heavy handed, their numbers exploded. And yay, ever since, they have made Uncle Sam laugh until he wets himself. All three Marx Brothers. Andy Kaufman. Larry David. Rodney Dangerfield. Gilda Radner. Adam Sandler (c'mon, he fought Bob Barker and chased an imaginary penguin. He deserves credit.) Mel Brooks. Sarah Silverman. The entire cast of Seinfeld. A part of me wonders if we should thank giant chunks of Eastern Europe for their Anti-Semitism. Their loss, our gain.
Absolutely fascinating and horrifying at the same time to see what the Jewish people have faced throughout their storied history. I can't imagine what it would be like to try to build a life for your family somewhere and to know it could come crashing down at any second unto death for no other reason than because of how you worship God...the same God as your neighbors, no less. Your videos are a great historical tool that are truly desperately needed. However, they are also a testimony to the strength and the faith of the Jewish people throughout the generations that allowed them to survive and to somehow thrive under such terribly difficult circumstances. Please keep your outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend. From all the way over here in the great Lone Star State of Texas, a stalwart Christian friend and admirer of the Jewish people and the great State of Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"for no other reason than because of how you worship God" Oh, don't worry, they learned to hate Jewish converts to Christianity as well, as well as Jews for entirely racialized reasons. Most Jews aren't religious today and that doesn't stop them from being hated by any means.
@@SamAronow Yes, one thinks of Edith Stein, a convert to Roman Catholicism and a nun. She perished at Auschwitz. On the reverse side of the coin, we also have Lutheran converts to Judaism the most memorable of which are from post-war Germany. In both cases, one or both parents of the converts remained wedded to Nazi ideology. One of the two converts is an Orthodox Rabbi in Israel, the other a medical doctor who served with distinction in the IDF. Both married orthodox Jewish ladies in Israel.
Hey Sam! the part when you explain that the 5 mentions of Jesus isn't actually him solved a debate in my yeshiva I didn't understand how Jesus can be the student Joshua be parchia if there is 100 years between them (also you wrote Judah be parchia and not Joshua)
Fascinating video as always. I know you have a policy about giving names in their original language, but I wonder if you would consider mentioning their "Jewish" acronym names as well so that they are recognizable to those who study in yeshiva.
Hey, FYI, the hebrew title of the video is spelled really weird ("The jews the Englad from the middle ages"). It'd be more accurate to say "יהודי אנגליה" or "היהודים באנגליה" (right now "היהודים האנגליה" is just grammatically wrong, youtube is literally giving me those zig-zag red lines when I type it), and either "בימי הביניים" or "של ימי הביניים" (instead of "מימי הביניים").
Thanks, it's fixed. I thought the latter looked wrong, but Hebrew is not my first language so the prepositions can be funny sometimes. Also the former was a typo on my part.
I learned alot from this! (I'm a moderately-but-increasingly-read member of the Tribe.) But I don't understand the point of the guy in the visual, who's mostly static and straight-faced.
I've heard about the Disputation of Paris before but this video made it much clearer. Imagine the confused clerics going "What do you mean there were multiple Jesuses?". Also, since you referenced Jack Rackam, I suddenly want the see his take on that prick Longshanks.
I’m a history teacher in England and I’ve made a number of lessons on England’s Jewish population. I’ve just finished the lesson on Oliver Cromwell reigniting them back into the country against most peoples wishes. Wondering how you done a video on the event or covered it previously?
you may find it interesting to know that Cromwell didn't actually readmit the Jews, he simply discussed whether or not he should acknowledge the presence of Jews in the country. They were already present, there was already at least one synagogue in London. But due to the law, they came covertly, and the authorities looked the other way, pretending they were just Christian merchants. There is a really good in-depth analysis by Barbara Coulton available online from the Oliver Cromwell Association, under the heading "Cromwell and the 'readmission' of the Jews to England, 1656" if you put that into a search engine, you'll find it. :) I really enjoyed the read, and it shouldn't take you more than half an hour. It may give you some interesting nuggets to tell your class next year.
Wait so if Jewish testimony represented 12 gentiles, did that effectively give a jew the power to decide if someone was guilty of a crime? They would need more than 12 people to contradict his claim I imagine.
Bro how do you use all these bomb ass Zelda songs without getting hit with copyright strikes? I swear I’ve heard at least two or three ocarina of time songs in your videos. Love those songs.
Can just all agree that yeah the hats were a symbol of oppression but, i mean caaaaammmmmoooon who doesn't want an oppression hat. The drip is straight 🔥🔥
I'm from the UK and this certainly isn't a commonly known subject here. For most English people I would say, what they have learned about Jews in mediaeval Europe has been mostly focused on Germany, unless you're from one of the cities mentioned such as York, Norwich or Lincoln which saw large pogroms, and are interested in local history.
Wonderful stuff as usual. I really do love and appreciate this channel and everything you do to make it, Sam. I suppose during the Norman period it might have been Jews and the King who were fluent French speakers with little or no Middle English. But I think that would also have applied to many of the higher nobles and churchmen too. Also a significant number of Flemings came over with the Normans and were involved in the conquest of England and latterly of Wales and Ireland. My understanding is that most of these Flemish speakers were usually also fluent in French since they came often from bilingual regions but also because they were often in military service to French speaking kings and nobility. I think the polite term for their role might be soldiers of fortune.
In the long run true, but Jews sat outside the feudal system and were deemed to be the 'personal property' of the king. The Anglo-Saxon peasants also suffered very greatly under the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties. They had no one in power to defend them once the English nobility and clergy had been destroyed.
I mean, I get it, because of the issues going on at the time, but I feel like Guide For The Perplexed was a step backwards, and snuffing out the mystical elements of Judaism wasn't a great thing. But it's not really my place, it's not my culture, my tradition, I just feel like it has been a general trend in abrahamic faiths to strip out the mysteries of God and I dunno it feels like a mistake. I know this video isn't about Maimonodes but he came up and I had to run my mouth ofc
I think there was Jews in Roman Britain too. As for Anglo-Saxon England who knows. The Anglo-Saxons would of killed and assimilated and deported any Jew from Roman Britain like they did to Celtic people. However what interests me is the lack of Jewish presence in Wales before the Norman conquest. Maybe a few minor individuals historians ignored and didn't document do to their irrelevancy but still.
Might I ask what you source is for there being 16,000 Jews at the date of the expulsion? I've always had the impression that by that point at least there was only 2-3,000 Jews in England. Thanks.
My grandfather was a Jewish atheist whose family had been living in Lancashire and Cheshire for centuries. I'd assumed they'd always been there but now I know different. Thanks.
This video says that Pope Innocent III feared that Christian women were at risk of being seduced by Jewish men. Hence the order that Jewish men had to wear a yellow star on their robes. Apparently, Innocent was oblivious to the fact that Jewish men were marked as Jews for life by brit milah. Hence Jewish men carefully avoided intimacy with Christian women. In my view, this is the real but unspoken reason for bris. It also made it very awkward for a young Jewish male to turn his back on his Jewishness, blend into the Christian majority, and propose marriage to a Christian woman.
If Jews thought as early as the beginning of the 14th century that Palestine was the answer, what stopped them from going there? I'm sure plenty of things. After all, the Jews had no army to fight the Saracens. I'd just like to hear more about it.
Sam, in one if the videos you mentioned the "Radhanim" and apart from what is written in Wikipedia there is very little mention in other sources. Do you speak in depth in a video clip that I may have missed? They sound to be very interesting and was the Rambam's brother one and he traded internationally? Thanks
There must have been some inter marriage bettween jews and christians in the period between 1070 and 1290 . Also , proobaly more convversions to chrstianity. Why was the oath of one jew equal to that of 6 christians in a medieval court of law ?
Not exactly. Innocent III literally believed that Jews would transmit Judaism through physical contact, as if it was an infectious disease. Honestly, as someone raised in the US, it was eerily reminiscent of the racist paranoia about interracial marriage.
@@SamAronow The US is actually quite chill about that; whereas Israel seems to have major issues with mixed marriages. There is definitely a racial element to it too
@@ryanbowler6212 More religious than racial. Marriage in Israel is in the hands of religious authorities, who usually don't recognize interfaith marriages.
9:22 - Technically, Cathars were accused of being gnostics by the Pope and the Catholic Clergy; however prominent scholars (René Nelli, Jean Duvernoy, Michel Roquebert among others) on the question argue that they were likely were not gnostics and that this was only a strategy by the Clergy in order to defame the Cathars and worsen their public image (and the English wikipedia page on Cathars is likely wrong on the question; although the French page seems not to make this mistake).
Makes sense, I mean the whole term/category of gnosticism was originally used by Christians writings polemics against other forms of Christianity. So the Cathars and Manichaeans are both gnostic religions but the commonalities seem to stop there or they're largely coincidental (or perhaps due to them being based on the same central savior figure)
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In the age of print it is hard to conceptualize the impact of book burning, but 12,000 copies of the Talmud... damn. By the way, we still mourn this destruction of the Talmud with laments on the 9th of Av
The 9th of av commemorates the destruction of the Temple and the end of Jewish Religious autonomy.. and the Spanish expulsion and other travesties against the Jews. I didn't know the Talmud was one of the travesites because the Talmud still exists as does the Responsa.
Are you a king who need highly educated financiers, introducing import-a-Jew
Imperial Japan considered this idea, but we're not there yet.
@@MitzvosGolem1 Its referencing the video
@@SamAronow my cousins were Sugihara Jews and went to Vancouver
@@SamAronow Did China or any other Asian countries also consider it, or even go forward with it?
so true
Describing the different between Anglo-Saxon and Norman Administration along with the import of a Jewish population simply blew my mind.
I just found this channel and I am so happy! I have wanted to learn the history of the Jewish people for so long, but since they didn’t teach it in school it was hard to find a good source. Thanks for this channel! It means so much to learn the history of my ancestors
What a way to welcome in Shabbat later in the day!
11:37 Looking at the maps of France, northern Italy, and Germany is painful. Attention to detail 10/10
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@@SamAronow props to Richard Andree in that case
The maps are great.
For those of us who not even amateur historians, but who are fascinated by great stories from history, I thank you!
Also, that ending there...I wonder if there will be a video on Jewish people in the Mongol Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate.
Hey, Sam!
Just wanted to mention that, if you post the thumbnail as a twitter image post and still link the video within the same post, we all get to admire your beautiful thumbnails on twitter as well!
My apologies for the unsolicited input!
Fixed!
@@SamAronow in my story richard was already married with a british noble lady who wanted to become a knight but she died from the cold weather.
Wait, this channel has a twitter account? I've never seen any linked anywhere...
I absolutely love your videos. It is fascinating to experience history through great Jewish people and see their influence over the world. I feel like it paints a picture of the Medieval world in such a concrete way. Keep up the good work👍
Thanks. I've always felt there's a disconnect in the way Jewish history is told. When it's taught to gentiles, it's usually talking about something else and then mentioning "hey, Jews were also there." When taught within the Jewish community, it's very limited to subjects that are already popular knowledge while neglecting a lot of fascinating stories. My hope is that, by putting Jewish history back into the context of world history, I can make it a more rewarding subject that will draw more people in.
@@SamAronow Very well put. Using the Jewish perspective to paint a larger picture of that era as a whole is a very creative and inspiring way to teach both the history of the community and the world as a whole. I think this approach should be used more, not just for the Jewish community but every other community too.
Great video, but surprised you glossed over the massacre of the 150 Jews of York in 1190. The pogrom was started due to a noble owing money to Aaron of Lincoln. The Jews fled to the castle (Clifford's Tower) and like Masada chose to take their own lives instead of being killed by the mob. Seems like a defining event of medieval english jewry.
I’m a Jewish Anglican and one of my dad’s paternal Jewish ancestors had been the first Jewish family to settle in Ulster in the 1600’s where he owned a clothing and tailoring business as part of that initial English emigration that set the foundation for the Northern Ireland we have today, even though neither of my parents are Irish, their families have lived in Ulster for centuries.
@Athelrick Mixed marriages.
So interesting! My family is Jewish and from Mashhad, Iran, and we have been told that Jews were also 'imported' there to manage a treasury. Random thing to have in common though...
are you from great neck or beverly hills?
Brilliant! My son (a keen history student) and I were discussing Jewish persecution in the car today and then I find this. I've shared this with him as it explains perfectly what we were talking about. Thank you.
I'm not even Jewish, but this content is great!
Agreed
im jewish and i agree
Depends on what your family name is?
This was really short and yet very informative.
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
The Normans are not the only ones to import jews. In the 1700s the king of Denmark also imported Sephardic Jewish merchant families to help bail out his failing economy.
Which one ?
As I understand it the services of Jews as bankers was used in the early Middle Ages because of a Christian ban on usury. Christians could not defile themselves with money so it was handy if non-believers (who were going to hell anyway) could do it for them.
But if Medicine was the only other profession Jews could practise in England back then, was that because there were similar factors involved. Like say church prohibitions around touching or cutting into the body? Or something else?
It’s to do with interest. It’s odd to think that Islam is the only Abrahamic faith that bans it still. I love not that far from York, where there is only a very small progressive community. It feels very odd to me even now, and if my daughter didn’t live there I’m not sure I’d ever go there. Lincoln has the same feel about it 😢
0:57
*Didn't the king of Poland encouraged Jews, and particularly Jews that fled because of the Spanish expulsion, to settle in Poland for the exact same reason at one point?*
The short answer is no, and that will be explored in much greater detail soon.
The Statute of Kalisz, a charter which was issued by Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland, in 1264, gave Jews permission to settle, follow their religion, be protected from harm, engage in various occupations, and even play a role in the minting of coins. The coins had Hebrew letters, which were minted in Poland during the early 1200s.
Go to the Polish Museum of Jewry in Warsaw. It covers 1000 years on many levels-not just an overview. I think it's the best museum in europe!
Sam, thanks for the amazing body of work that you made. Kudos
Pope Innocent III, the most ironic of names....
Can you make a video about the Jewish life in persia until 1979?
Still.. Jews there but its called Iran
Thanks! Great information for a subject that has been pretty vague and mysterious. Well done!
This filled a lacuna I never knew I had. Thank you.
I really like your channel the topics itself is very fascinating i will be really happy if someone could make a history cinematic series on the Jews in the different empires very interesting channel!
I’m 75% Jewish 25% English sad Jews were expelled by a king im related to on my English side:( Long shanks is 23 great grandfather according to my tree.
I despise that king for it. Jews regardless of the individuals religion of choice (so referring to ethnicity) have always been good for cultural flowing. Art, poetry science, literature, culture, economics etc. Of any country experience a great flowering wherever the sons of Issac the Hebrew children of Israel of Abraham. Jewish culture enriches any culture else. How can Christians worship Jesus many of whom the first Jews were Christian yet hate all Jews collectively without a sense of the individual?
I myself have a Jewish ancestor from 400 years ago and honestly I'm glad.
How much death 💀 and destruction has been done in the name of a Jesus…. Shame on those who even think there was even one reason.
I hope you one day will cover the jews in Scandinavia - especially considering how little antisemitism there was, with at least one pogrom "Jødefejden" in Denmark in 1819.
That's really late, too. Is there any reason why there weren't many tensions?
@@LordJagd Denmark was more tolerant than the rest of Europe, though they only allowed to settle in the 1600s.
@@patrickkelmer6290 Hmm, doesn't seem like there was much of a Jewish migration into Scandinavia. Any reason for that?
@@LordJagd The migration started very, very late. First was the migration of german and sefardi jews into Denmark starting in the 1600s, in the 1700s jews were allowed to settle in Sweden, and in Norway only from the late 1800s.
All 3 countries were then destinations of russian jews fleeing the pogroms 1880-1920s.
@@chimera9818 I know. Yet it has to be mentioned that many had to pay heavy prices to the fishermen who sailed them to safety in Sweden.
The Torah is a term used to describe the first 5 books of the Holy Bible.
Not exactly. The Holy Bible is a term to describe the Torah plus some other shit.
I love your videos, but please have text up a bit longer so we dont have to pause.
i learnt more about normans from u than those british "animated history of UK" shorts.
Siibhne?
@@blugaledoh2669 nope, i was referring to BBC produced animated history of UK
@@vinfacts11 no wonder ,they can't even give us our ethnicity nevermind anything else.English were not British its that simple.
Poland imported Jews to make their country function. Then spent hundreds of years resenting us for it. It’s happened a few times in history.
Other than that cracking video
[Chuckling]. America didn't import any Jews, but they didn't turn them away either. "Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." After that, and curiously after the Czar got heavy handed, their numbers exploded.
And yay, ever since, they have made Uncle Sam laugh until he wets himself. All three Marx Brothers. Andy Kaufman. Larry David. Rodney Dangerfield. Gilda Radner. Adam Sandler (c'mon, he fought Bob Barker and chased an imaginary penguin. He deserves credit.) Mel Brooks. Sarah Silverman. The entire cast of Seinfeld.
A part of me wonders if we should thank giant chunks of Eastern Europe for their Anti-Semitism. Their loss, our gain.
the City of London avoiding tax? I am shook
Absolutely fascinating and horrifying at the same time to see what the Jewish people have faced throughout their storied history. I can't imagine what it would be like to try to build a life for your family somewhere and to know it could come crashing down at any second unto death for no other reason than because of how you worship God...the same God as your neighbors, no less. Your videos are a great historical tool that are truly desperately needed. However, they are also a testimony to the strength and the faith of the Jewish people throughout the generations that allowed them to survive and to somehow thrive under such terribly difficult circumstances. Please keep your outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend. From all the way over here in the great Lone Star State of Texas, a stalwart Christian friend and admirer of the Jewish people and the great State of Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"for no other reason than because of how you worship God"
Oh, don't worry, they learned to hate Jewish converts to Christianity as well, as well as Jews for entirely racialized reasons. Most Jews aren't religious today and that doesn't stop them from being hated by any means.
@@SamAronow Hate for hate's sake. Hate is evil. The success of Israel is living proof that there is triumph over hate.
@@shanemize3775 Indeed! Permit me to transpose the word 'miracle' for 'success' as in "The miracle of Israel..."
@@SamAronow Yes, one thinks of Edith Stein, a convert to Roman Catholicism and a nun. She perished at Auschwitz. On the reverse side of the coin, we also have Lutheran converts to Judaism the most memorable of which are from post-war Germany. In both cases, one or both parents of the converts remained wedded to Nazi ideology. One of the two converts is an Orthodox Rabbi in Israel, the other a medical doctor who served with distinction in the IDF. Both married orthodox Jewish ladies in Israel.
@@rogerlephoque3704 Amen!
Hey Sam! the part when you explain that the 5 mentions of Jesus isn't actually him solved a debate in my yeshiva
I didn't understand how Jesus can be the student Joshua be parchia if there is 100 years between them
(also you wrote Judah be parchia and not Joshua)
Actually, Jews were imported into Poland 1,000 years ago. They were invited in by the Polish king, I heard, to help the local economy.
As a Jewish student of history all of the restrictions and prejudice makes me so sad!
they're always the scapegoat :( wish them even more success after watching this. people can be so evil its always shocking.
Fascinating video as always. I know you have a policy about giving names in their original language, but I wonder if you would consider mentioning their "Jewish" acronym names as well so that they are recognizable to those who study in yeshiva.
This. When he mentioned the opponents of the Rambam who weaponised the persecutions I was like "oh no who dunnit 🙈"
You got some great videos bro
Hey, FYI, the hebrew title of the video is spelled really weird ("The jews the Englad from the middle ages"). It'd be more accurate to say "יהודי אנגליה" or "היהודים באנגליה" (right now "היהודים האנגליה" is just grammatically wrong, youtube is literally giving me those zig-zag red lines when I type it), and either "בימי הביניים" or "של ימי הביניים" (instead of "מימי הביניים").
Thanks, it's fixed. I thought the latter looked wrong, but Hebrew is not my first language so the prepositions can be funny sometimes. Also the former was a typo on my part.
I learned alot from this! (I'm a moderately-but-increasingly-read member of the Tribe.) But I don't understand the point of the guy in the visual, who's mostly static and straight-faced.
I've heard about the Disputation of Paris before but this video made it much clearer. Imagine the confused clerics going "What do you mean there were multiple Jesuses?".
Also, since you referenced Jack Rackam, I suddenly want the see his take on that prick Longshanks.
Happened upon this video today. Your channel is criminally underrated!
Black sheep Jew here who knows nearly nothing about my ancestry culture I thank you for this …
I’m a history teacher in England and I’ve made a number of lessons on England’s Jewish population. I’ve just finished the lesson on Oliver Cromwell reigniting them back into the country against most peoples wishes. Wondering how you done a video on the event or covered it previously?
you may find it interesting to know that Cromwell didn't actually readmit the Jews, he simply discussed whether or not he should acknowledge the presence of Jews in the country. They were already present, there was already at least one synagogue in London. But due to the law, they came covertly, and the authorities looked the other way, pretending they were just Christian merchants. There is a really good in-depth analysis by Barbara Coulton available online from the Oliver Cromwell Association, under the heading "Cromwell and the 'readmission' of the Jews to England, 1656" if you put that into a search engine, you'll find it. :) I really enjoyed the read, and it shouldn't take you more than half an hour. It may give you some interesting nuggets to tell your class next year.
Wait so if Jewish testimony represented 12 gentiles, did that effectively give a jew the power to decide if someone was guilty of a crime? They would need more than 12 people to contradict his claim I imagine.
Yes.
Bro how do you use all these bomb ass Zelda songs without getting hit with copyright strikes? I swear I’ve heard at least two or three ocarina of time songs in your videos. Love those songs.
Can just all agree that yeah the hats were a symbol of oppression but, i mean caaaaammmmmoooon who doesn't want an oppression hat. The drip is straight 🔥🔥
Well done 👏
Well done, sir!
(so I am a quick reader,
but the titlecards do not stay up long enough !
Had to scroll back or screenshot to read... .)
Props for pronouncing the place names correctly
"merchant guilds, which were much more like cartels than modern labor unions"
you must be new in Israel :)
Why are the photos or backdrop, an inside of a mosque? The arches with the red stripes on the arches. Looks nice. Completely makes no sense?
I'm from the UK and this certainly isn't a commonly known subject here. For most English people I would say, what they have learned about Jews in mediaeval Europe has been mostly focused on Germany, unless you're from one of the cities mentioned such as York, Norwich or Lincoln which saw large pogroms, and are interested in local history.
Usury banned ?
Wonderful stuff as usual. I really do love and appreciate this channel and everything you do to make it, Sam. I suppose during the Norman period it might have been Jews and the King who were fluent French speakers with little or no Middle English. But I think that would also have applied to many of the higher nobles and churchmen too. Also a significant number of Flemings came over with the Normans and were involved in the conquest of England and latterly of Wales and Ireland. My understanding is that most of these Flemish speakers were usually also fluent in French since they came often from bilingual regions but also because they were often in military service to French speaking kings and nobility. I think the polite term for their role might be soldiers of fortune.
"...and King John was quick to drag his feet...." - "Hurry up and slow down, man!"
Wasn't Louis the 9th , the same French King Louis who had the Templars executed, banished, and their property seized for the Crown?
What a sad story of persecution!! :(
In the long run true, but Jews sat outside the feudal system and were deemed to be the 'personal property' of the king.
The Anglo-Saxon peasants also suffered very greatly under the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties. They had no one in power to defend them once the English nobility and clergy had been destroyed.
Are you using LoZ songs? Sounds like the forest temple or something like that
תעשה סרטון על האם דרך המשי הייתה גם ברומא
Sounds like Jews back then really could have used distributed ledgers.
I mean, I get it, because of the issues going on at the time, but I feel like Guide For The Perplexed was a step backwards, and snuffing out the mystical elements of Judaism wasn't a great thing. But it's not really my place, it's not my culture, my tradition, I just feel like it has been a general trend in abrahamic faiths to strip out the mysteries of God and I dunno it feels like a mistake.
I know this video isn't about Maimonodes but he came up and I had to run my mouth ofc
I think there was Jews in Roman Britain too.
As for Anglo-Saxon England who knows. The Anglo-Saxons would of killed and assimilated and deported any Jew from Roman Britain like they did to Celtic people.
However what interests me is the lack of Jewish presence in Wales before the Norman conquest. Maybe a few minor individuals historians ignored and didn't document do to their irrelevancy but still.
Might I ask what you source is for there being 16,000 Jews at the date of the expulsion? I've always had the impression that by that point at least there was only 2-3,000 Jews in England. Thanks.
My grandfather was a Jewish atheist whose family had been living in Lancashire and Cheshire for centuries. I'd assumed they'd always been there but now I know different. Thanks.
I hope next will be "Jews in Medieval Poland"
I think that might be the video after the next, with a lot of that tying into the black death. I think the next will cover the Mongols and Mamluks.
This video says that Pope Innocent III feared that Christian women were at risk of being seduced by Jewish men. Hence the order that Jewish men had to wear a yellow star on their robes. Apparently, Innocent was oblivious to the fact that Jewish men were marked as Jews for life by brit milah. Hence Jewish men carefully avoided intimacy with Christian women. In my view, this is the real but unspoken reason for bris. It also made it very awkward for a young Jewish male to turn his back on his Jewishness, blend into the Christian majority, and propose marriage to a Christian woman.
I think you accidently dropped the HRE and broke it
I live in England London and it's amazing 😊😊😊😊.
10:26 it's yehoshua Ben perachiya not yehudah
Damn.
@@SamAronow also in my opinion Donin didnt quote the ghost of jesus because he didnt die.
acc. to Christianity
If Jews thought as early as the beginning of the 14th century that Palestine was the answer, what stopped them from going there? I'm sure plenty of things. After all, the Jews had no army to fight the Saracens. I'd just like to hear more about it.
A reason.
Sam, in one if the videos you mentioned the "Radhanim" and apart from what is written in Wikipedia there is very little mention in other sources. Do you speak in depth in a video clip that I may have missed? They sound to be very interesting and was the Rambam's brother one and he traded internationally? Thanks
(IMHO) The Normans were very quick learners, and very savvy about making treaties and laws 1:00
Where did you get those maps? Looks like they were drawn from memory by a 10y.old.
7:32 - who's up for a treasure hunt?
Already
YES WOO
i mean
Merchant of Venezia
Same sad old tune in medieval era
Muchas gracias Hermano !
Is that Zelda: ocarina of time I hear in the soundtrack? 😅
10:24 you spelled “independent” wrong :)
poor Jews they were maltreated but they were salt of foundation modem Europe .
There absolutely were Jews in Roman Britain.
0:54 normans conquered england, not reverse
I got stuck on the "Forest Temple" theme from Ocarina of Time, during "The First Jews in England"
Brilliant
There must have been some inter marriage bettween jews and christians in the period between 1070 and 1290 . Also , proobaly more convversions to chrstianity. Why was the oath of one jew equal to that of 6 christians in a medieval court of law ?
8:16 You literally just described the first half of 'Life Is Beautiful', one of the greatest films ever made.
Not exactly. Innocent III literally believed that Jews would transmit Judaism through physical contact, as if it was an infectious disease. Honestly, as someone raised in the US, it was eerily reminiscent of the racist paranoia about interracial marriage.
@@SamAronow The US is actually quite chill about that; whereas Israel seems to have major issues with mixed marriages. There is definitely a racial element to it too
@@ryanbowler6212 More religious than racial. Marriage in Israel is in the hands of religious authorities, who usually don't recognize interfaith marriages.
great!
1144 or 1244?
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I would greatly appreciate a transcript of this video.
9:22 - Technically, Cathars were accused of being gnostics by the Pope and the Catholic Clergy; however prominent scholars (René Nelli, Jean Duvernoy, Michel Roquebert among others) on the question argue that they were likely were not gnostics and that this was only a strategy by the Clergy in order to defame the Cathars and worsen their public image (and the English wikipedia page on Cathars is likely wrong on the question; although the French page seems not to make this mistake).
Makes sense, I mean the whole term/category of gnosticism was originally used by Christians writings polemics against other forms of Christianity. So the Cathars and Manichaeans are both gnostic religions but the commonalities seem to stop there or they're largely coincidental (or perhaps due to them being based on the same central savior figure)
If the title is Jews in Medieval England... why so much about the Jews in France?...
Sometimes the Anglo-Normans kings would hold a varying amount of land in northern and western France
The first j arrived with the French conquest of England.
0:51 why is dublin in the south?
Would yoy talk in the corrections & facts about the new scripts founded in israel.
0:58 didn't you say the ottomans imported Jews?
"Saracens" as well? The crusaders did also murder Christians in the Middle East as well.