Antisemitism in Ashkenazic Lands (The Ashkenazium Lectures part IV)

[@jonnieinbangkok]

A very balanced presentation of a dark and difficult subject matter and I thank you for it. It is through education like this that we learn this history so as to prevent its reoccurance.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@jennaolbermann7663]

I have never understood why people get so worked up about differences in religion or race. So much sorrow and pain for what?

[@summerofplums]

I think it's partly because people did not have a scientific understanding of the world, or psychology.

[@lmwald]

The arch of Titus built in 81AD has 2 inner relief sculpture panels Both illustrate scenes from the triumphal procession held in Rome in 71AD to commemorate the defeat of the Judean rebellion and the destruction of the Hebrew Temple in Jerusalem in 70AD. The north panel shows Titus riding a chariot and being crowned with a laurel leaf. The South panel shows Roman soldiers carrying the spoils from the Hebrew temple including the golden candelabra, trumpets and shewbread table.

[@karnebo]

Dear Prof . Abramson, Thank you for your illuminating lectures. If I'm not mistaken, the controversy as to the spelling of antisemitism (with a hyphen and capital S or without) has only been an issue in English speaking countries, with increased pressure coming from scholars, Jewish groups, etc in the past couple of decades to adopt the unhyphenated spelling, for the reasons you describe. In other European languages, including German in which the term was originally coined ("antisemitismus"), it was never hyphenated.

[@maxsmart99]

It’s wonderful hearing you read the French

[@halevimoontribe]

Well done

[@jaimendaniel5578]

A good story, but the analysis of the material objective, economic, and political causes of conflict is absent. It's just naïve to say that hate comes out of nowhere, of a cultural whim, or some animadversion that's just for psychology.

[@jaimendaniel5578]

¿What about antigentilism or goyimophobia? That's worth making a video too; ideally, as a debate between whichever intellectual heavy weights that can be reached for the occasion.

[@NuNugirl]

Make the video yourself. Interview individuals who have encountered the discrimination you are pointing out. I would be interested in seeing it. When I was a young teen, I asked my Parents about what discrimination they encountered. They were barred from restaurants, hotels, county clubs, employment and colleges because they were JEWISH! But in 1940, the New York National Guard had no problem taking my Dad at 18. Soon after he and ALL his cousins fought for their County in the Pacific and Europe.

[@jaimendaniel5578]

@@NuNugirl I don't know where that may have happened. The lack of context is suspicious. Anyway, you are admitting that Jews can't make an equanimous and balanced report on Jewish relations with non-Jews. It's always a rap on how bad others were to you, without any complex and multilateral analysis. Once here in Madrid, in an international symposium on anti-Judaism, I was accused of being "racist" because the speaker felt powerless to respond to my question on whether minorities can be at odds with majorities in any given society as a result of material conflicts, conflict of values, or other causes that wouldn't imply the automatic blaming of some oppression on the part of the majority. That the pathetic level of Jewish retorting we get way too often.

[@moshemankoff7488]

Thanks!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

This was a tough lecture--I'm glad you appreciated it, Mr. Mankoff!

[@zafirjoe18]

In the selicha from R ‘ AVIGDOR Kara את כל התלאה commemorating the massacre of the Jews of Prague in 1389 , it occurred on [not so] Good Friday Achron shel Pessach.A result of a desecration of the unholy host libel. It’s recited to this day in Prague on Yom Kippur. And following the request of maharal also on Yom Kippur katan. In it it defines a communal suicide and the desecration of the Jewish cemetery. His is the oldest standing matzeiva in the old cemetery.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Fascinating

[@jaimendaniel5578]

Motives for the so-called "antisemitism" (a misnomer, anyway) need to be explored. However, motives explain behavior, but never do they refute claims.

[@jaimendaniel5578]

Exoteric Christianity is a Jewish sect. Esoteric Christianity is a Greek mystery religion of death and resurrection plus some other forms of syncretism.

[@paweltrawicki2200]

Walentyn Potocki is there anything to this story?

[@claforestrie]

Can judaïsm be associated to a tribal non universal religion?

[@zafirjoe18]

The descendants and talmidim of the Rosh killed them selves in the pogroms of 1391 . According to the Ashkenazi custom in Toledo.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Very sad history.

[@zafirjoe18]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD there is a Sefer that records the script of the the tombstones of the holy tzaddikim in Toledo. Before they destroyed them preemptively,in order that their holy bones shouldn’t be desecrated. אבני זכרון , אלמנצי

[@rentsuki7113]

In genesis 10 the Semites are listed

[@paweltrawicki2200]

Check out Vincente Ferrer.

[@DoubleAAmazin]

Yea, anti-Semite is an ambiguous word. Always wondered why they just don't say anti-Jewish.

[@yosefgreen3130]

There’s something called Google you should check it out

[@rentsuki7113]

Also in Genesis chapter 10 it describes the Japhethites, The Hamites and Semites. The Ashkenaz are listed under The Japhethites not the Semites. So it really is nonsensical to say someone is anti-Semitic when referring to the Ashkenazi Jews, more accurate term would be anti-Japhthite

[@DoubleAAmazin]

@@rentsuki7113 Ashkenazi just means they lived in the land of Japheth.

[@paweltrawicki2200]

A zissen Pesach. And many more!!!!!

[@conantheseptuagenarian3824]

the issue with your explanation of antisemitism following on the heels sartre is that antisemitism is not somehow isolated to the disenfranchised. the european aristocracy and intellectuals were often hostile in their attitudes toward jews. was maria theresa of austria in need of an explanation for her personal hardship such that she just had to scapegoat jews in order to cope psychologically? what about ivan the terrible, or any succession of Russian czars? immanuel kant? balzac? martin luther? was richard nixon disenfranchisd? billy graham? yours is a nonsensical explanation. some of the most ardent philosemites, like christian zionists, come from some the poorest areas of the united states. if jews have such hardships in gentiles lands, why not leave? nothing necessitates the existence of a diaspora. israel is a sovereign state for ethnic jews. i would not support a mass relocation of europeans to israel. why do jews need to live in gentile lands if gentiles are so harsh? perhaps each ethnic group should remain in its own land so that it might choose its own form of life. i can't tell if explanations like yours are made in good faith or if you're being dishonest. perhaps jews and gentiles see the world so differently that they literally perceive different realities, or if someone is just being blatantly dishonest. we need to have honest conversations about this topic. but, if both parties are unwilling to tell the truth then both are only contributing to future hostility.

[@jamesr8584]

You seem to be under the misconception that most people share your beliefs. Look at at the Pew Research Feelings towards religious groups poll.

[@HessianHunter]

What are you even responding to? The bit about how Catholic peasants believed in blood libel even at times when the Pope and cardinals didn't? Dr. Abramson is clearly not arguing that antisemitism was completely absent among educated people in positions of power throughout history.

[@HessianHunter]

Honestly though why am I even responding to someone so irrational that they blame their misunderstanding of a well-spoken and objective scholar on his Jewishness. Truly if Jews did not exist, antisemites would create them just to have an eternal scapegoat.

[@conantheseptuagenarian3824]

@@HessianHunter tell yourself whatever you need to.

[@theresawubker5433]

Thank God Easter is a New Beginning; the present is a new beginning. We can all learn from past mistakes. I know several Jewish Catholics have been affected personally. The Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Sacrament of Holy Communion are separate. Reconciliation needs to be done first before Communion should be received. One has to be in a state of grace or a state of friendship with God before Communion, otherwise it is spiritually detrimental instead of fruitful for the soul and spirit, and therefore the body.

[@DoubleAAmazin]

Easter is the name of a goddess tho