"Exploring Will Durant's Study of Jewish History: 1300-1564"

Embark on a captivating journey through history with the distinguished historian, Will Durant, as he explores the intricate and transformative period of Jewish history spanning from 1300 to 1564. In this illuminating video, Durant provides a comprehensive narrative that unravels the challenges, triumphs, and contributions of the Jewish community during this pivotal era.

[@bradleyparker4035]

Between you and Mark Felton and Ryan Reeves, i fall asleep very well every night sir. Thank you

[@leahcimolrac1477]

Ryan Reeves is great. I’ll have to look up Mark Felton.

[@mydogbullwinkle]

I've often watched Ryan Reeves to help me fall asleep, too. I wonder what happened to him, as he hasn't uploaded a video in over two years. I hope he's ok.

[@radzewicz]

I have to agree, I learn a little and still fall asleep easily.. I wouldnt be able to do that if the videos werent reasonably factual.

[@michellemaclaren9098]

Same here.

[@jokers7890]

Try Mark Mintz narrator of the deadliest roads series produced by tony comiti. They are the best to sleep to.

[@stevenguevara2184]

Rocky may not have the biggest channel but it might make the biggest impact on those fortunate enough to find it

[@davyroger3773]

Yeah finding this playlist was an amazing gift. From Ceasar to Spinoza, I haven't been able to get enough lol

[@jonwilliams2401]

Q sşaa

[@kaliforniacated]

Agreed!

[@sebastiaan805]

hear hear

[@BlackestSheepBobBarker]

If he had a larger channel, vids like this one wouldn't be up anymore unfortunately. This is a fantastic channel.

[@michaelhaag3367]

Thank you so much Rocky, very much appreciated!

[@xxcoopcoopxx]

The Story of Civilzation: Book VI - The Reformation. The Strangers In The Gate - The Jews pg.720-747 (For those whom like to read along.)

[@levinb1]

Travis Cooper Thank you! Reference is always appreciated.

[@flayteatorrante7588]

That was what I was looking for. Thanks!

[@farishwaywithwords]

Thank you!

[@BlackestSheepBobBarker]

Ooh, I'll make a note. Thank you

[@user-kv1lp8ih8g]

I just googled this guy Will Durant.. he and his wife wrote and 11 volume chapter on world history... the started in 1935 and finished it in 1975.. FORTY years later!! Jeezus, that is commitment!!

[@johnhansen4794]

Disregarding the hurgle-burgle in other comments, I wanted to thank you for posting this.

[@Glashome]

This is the best channel on youtube atm (at least in English)

[@drazzle6267]

Ive found the perfect nightly companion!👍

[@vinnyvdalidemonet8527]

How could a person continue to believe in something that fails to deliver?

[@Tom-rg2ex]

You could ask that of any religion in the world.

[@vinnyvdalidemonet8527]

@@Tom-rg2exAgreed. That's exactly my point. Thanks for your reply.

[@Johnconno]

Any chance of Riders, by Jilly Cooper..? 👌

[@TarnTarn-zv6cp]

Lol no. Factual only please. Plenty of other channels do fiction reads my good man.

[@hasananyabwile3538]

That picture, who drew it?

[@filbertthedilbert1]

I heard this guy reading a Jack Kerouac book the other day.

[@filbertthedilbert1]

He’s reading the Dharma Bums. It’s on KZbin

[@filbertthedilbert1]

Uploaded by butlincat 2. Unmistakable if you listen to these Will Durant videos regularly 👍

[@automatan]

No mention of Sabbatai Zevi nor Jacob Franks.

[@user-gk8vb6dl9l]

Because he came in 1666.

[@automatan]

@@user-gk8vb6dl9l Thanks for pointing that out. But I ask, because I tend to be suspicious, why did he stop a 1564?

[@automatan]

@@user-gk8vb6dl9l It's refreshing to hear a such an answer! Shalom brother.

[@user-gk8vb6dl9l]

My comments keep getting deleted.

[@automatan]

@@user-gk8vb6dl9l Yes, I know. I only knew that you had sent a response because I received it on my email. I guess one needs to step lightly when referring to " those who shall not be mentioned."

[@edgardoibarra5955]

Hey Rocky, I’d love to hear Durant’s chapter on Dante

[@goognamgoognw6637]

he would probably say dante's hell is for non jews only.

[@pjefferson6778]

Would love to see more pics

[@Bobbleheads56]

What evidence is there that simon of trent wasnt murdered??? Everyone at the time agreed so who are people 600-700 years later to say they were wrong?

[@colinmagnier1232]

Sure everyone knows that

[@StopFear]

Maybe because first there has to be evidence about him having been murdered as opposed to evidence of the innocence of the accused. What sort of world do you live in? If someone for whatever reason accuses you of being a pedophile without evidence I am sure you’ll be the first to say you didn’t do anything and ask what evidence your accusers had.

[@Bobbleheads56]

@@StopFear yea except this is not a court of law, its a historical event that happened in medieval times. I can think of another event involving jews where the only evidence is alleged eyewitness accounts …

[@colinmagnier1232]

@@StopFear wow

[@gavinlepoer9424]

Who cares?

[@Randall2023]

Dauphin River First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

[@aliveli-hq6zk]

which book is this from?

[@aliveli-hq6zk]

@@DurantandFriends Thanks

[@user-kd4to8bv9l]

Excellent text. Can you identify the illustration. Who is the woman in red.

[@SharpUchi]

Shalom

[@edwardliversidge3911]

The Jews absolutely copped it aye

[@onefeather2]

NEED visuals..☺️💕

[@NimNim2024]

The problems

[@rickmartyn9170]

What a sad history .

[@Yahweh312]

Revelation 2:9 King James Version 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. ='covid19' tic toc

[@MrAwrsomeness]

I get his wife was Jewish but he really has a fascination bordering upon bias.

[@Chumbywumby]

Eww anti-semites

[@MrAwrsomeness]

@@Chumbywumby excuse me?

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Having listened to several other Durant audio books before this one, his Zionism bias is evident but here it reaches fabulation levels. He should have met with Solzhenitsyn to learn impartiality and history.

[@benkei7530]

No he doesn’t. What facts are inconvenient to you sweetie

[@benkei7530]

goognam goognws solzhenitsyn wasn’t exactly biased either

[@phill8005]

The people who live everywhere in the world except the place they insist is their home. The people who will change their name in a heartbeat but never truly assimilate.

[@jasonrose6288]

Why does any of that bother you, though - assuming it's even true?

[@phill8005]

@@jasonrose6288 Because the creation of Israel has caused a lot of problems for Middle East especially the Palestinians. America spends a lot of money protecting Israel and Jews hardly live there, but insist it must exist for them not to live there. Isnt that kind of strange?

[@jasonrose6288]

@@phill8005 Factually, half the world's Jews live there. That's a fair few. For many Jews in the diaspora, it also serves as a potential future refuge. Indeed, growing antisemitism in France in recent years has driven significant numbers of French Jews to Israel. Furthermore, six million Jews wouldn't have been exterminated had they had their own homeland to live in or flee to. The Middle East has far bigger problems than the Palestinians. Lebanon is a failed state. Syria is in civil war. Iran is experiencing daily unrest. Pretending it's all Israel's fault is delusional or simply blame shifting. Hopefully, a peace deal can be reached with the Palestinians. Israel has certainly tried. In the meantime, don't forget neighboring Jordan is something like 70% Palestinian - in a land mass about four times bigger than Israel.

[@phill8005]

@@jasonrose6288 LOL. They claim it is their home and don't live there. They could easily move there and they aren't dispersed. They chose to live elsewhere...why? It is Israel that is the failed state...you are projecting.

[@phill8005]

@@jasonrose6288 Europeans Christians were massacred in the 21st century like non other...look into it. But their lives dont count as much. Just go live in your home please... and we will protect it...but you wont. Why?

[@jimranallo686]

Very informative...the checkered history of the jews goes back forever...a question often asked is if the ancient Israelites in their early years had not abandoned their monotheist God and switched often to the worship of Moloch Bal.....if this never ending controversy is the result of such dishonesty...a bit of denial may add to this unnatural history we see...as in their denial and murder of Jesus Christ

[@KeyserSoze1972]

They are forever rebellious

[@dbarshop]

Checkered history? Murder of Jesus? You are wrapped up in superstition as well as an antisemite

[@baliksupper6043]

I love 🧚‍♀️ Tales

[@Julian-Neptune]

intellectually insecurity breeds fear. Fear breeds hate. Hate breeds genocide

[@DurantandFriends]

I would say that it is intellectual insecurity but also the security of the intellect, fear runs deep in the hearts of all humans.

[@rhysnichols8608]

Even Napoleon passed laws against them and didn’t let them anywhere near Frances economy 😂

[@StopFear]

Well, look how it turned out for France under Napoleon. Total ruin.

[@HailSchmitler-wz1wk]

@stopfear? How about we stop low iq comments

[@ConfusedCasualShoes-rx4wu]

Yeah because of his enemies

[@thomasdonovan3580]

The Jews are the most remarkable people in the known history of humanity and more sinned against than sinning.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

the money creation at interest that Robb's everyone of everything is totally Innocent over one hundred and five countries ruined so far and counting. the USA is next.

[@leejamestheliar2085]

When was the letter J added to the English/Germanic alphabet? Anti semitic, around 1955 or shortly after. Hard to take this very seriously. Semitic being a group of languages in the Arab countries.

[@benkei7530]

You not very bright are you

[@marsxSIN]

@@benkei7530 Go back to watching animu

[@davidschalit907]

Hebrew is pretty much the same as Phoenician. Guess where both Phoenicians and Jews come from? No, you're not very bright.

[@levinb1]

How many cases of Blood Libel were exampled here by Durant? It’s like every other line of the first thirty minutes of this discussion are Blood Libel accusations.

[@ahappyimago]

B. Levin that’s a big part of Jewish history unfortunately.

[@sheikowi]

@@ahappyimago I guess his Mama never told him. The hatemongers have never ceased to use this libel. Who are the real bloody bastards?

[@zyeklonbey3545]

Maybe they should stop taking the blood of Christian children then

[@davidschalit907]

@@zyeklonbey3545 Never happened.

[@davidschalit907]

B. Levin He doesn't even come close to mentioning all of them.

[@shergy1000]

Starts in 1300, so no mention of the Edicts of Expulsion from England in 1290? Hmm pity. Give this one a miss.

[@siddharthamishra1999]

Durant covers the history of Jews from the christening of Constantine to the 1300s in a previous volume, "The Age of Faith". This volume was about the Reformation, so that time period covered reflects that

[@archaedemos]

A heap of stupefying absurdities.

[@rhysnichols8608]

This was written in the 70s, that generations religion was practically based on a certain narrative of ww2. Glad to see people are releasing how bias this shite is now. Poor performance from Durant here

[@artofthepossible7329]

The book was published in 1957 (the only one published in the 70s was The Age of Napoleon, which begins with the authors saying that the only reason the book was written was because the reaper had not yet claimed its prey). And Will Durant had the same kind of narrative when he wrote about the context of Spinoza in The Story of Philosophy, which was published in 1926.

[@timothyriehm5967]

This may have been some of the funniest shit I've ever heard. "Eucerest became a travesty for the jews. A wafer dipped in blood hidden in a church, then blamed 3 jews for stabbing it." Imagine getting blamed and sentences to death for something, so Ludacris.

[@StopFear]

Not sure what Ludacris has to do with it, but yes, it is ludicrous. There is a reason why these various pogroms and persecutions against the Jews as well as against other groups the mobs didn’t like are viewed with such shame.

[@nikolaidante3571]

This is an immensely philosemitic version of history. Looks like dursnt knew who was boss even back in the 70s

[@sheikowi]

Cheap hit. No one is more objective and unbiased.

[@nikolaidante3571]

@@sheikowi not on this issue.

[@sheikowi]

@Big Brother Was she your bubbeh, mamzer?

[@joshuahalpern4426]

You can stick to the antisemitic version of history. Joshua (Jesus) the apostles and the initial followers for the first 200 years AD were all Jews. They could not be antisemitic like you...

[@nikolaidante3571]

@@joshuahalpern4426 Jesus was a Galilean. And the ultimate "anti semite" if you read the bible. I follow him.

[@alexanderelkorek]

Who is Yahweh? I know. Who is Yeshua? I know who that is as well. How about you?

[@thecrone8578]

Totally amazing that there is any left never mind them getting back to Israel and being top of anything worth being top of. Anywhere in the world

[@bell1095]

Becaues they possesed the noncorrupted hebrew and talmudic sources.

[@davidschalit907]

Because...G-D

[@bell1095]

@@davidschalit907 if they do not believe, one has to refer for evidence & proove to the scriptures.

[@Bobbleheads56]

They killed jesus and thus are doomed to remain on the earth until he returns and they repent

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

@@Bobbleheads56 I thought they were the 144,000 that are going to heaven first?

[@radzewicz]

While I dont cast doubt that much of this video is actually true, it is all one-sided and 100% sympathetic to the protagonists, which makes it propaganda. I think I can conclude that Rocky or Durant is Jewish. I find that many of Rocky's (Durant's) videos are "lop sided" and generally partial to the subject. OK there is nothing wrong with presenting "your side" of a story but I would rather see a balanced presentation. Still, it is a comprehensive and learned presentation even if it is largely one-sided.

[@artofthepossible7329]

Only his wife. The man himself was from French-Canadian parents. Also, see Canterbury Tales and The Merchant of Venice (which broadly covers the two ends of the time), the latter was _pro-Jewish_ for the time. I would like to know how exactly you can not feel sympathy for the Jews in this period, especially if one is also meant to feel sympathy for, say, the slaves of the Atlantic Triangular Trade. Unless you happen to have no such emotional capacity, in which case fair enough.

[@lydiamalone1859]

Check out Paul Johnson’s History of the Jews. Johnson is Catholic and talks about that in the introduction.

[@Bobbleheads56]

@@artofthepossible7329 because many times they were persecuted for financial scheming or straight up killing children alla simon of trent. Hard to play the victim

[@artofthepossible7329]

@@Bobbleheads56 Ahh yes, killing childen for rituals in a religion that explicity forbid the use of human blood for rituals. No contradiction here apparently, though it's not like nearly every Middle Age standard law practise would be thrown out of a modern court in those same areas. If I'm not mistaken, didn't the restrictions of the Jews also included their professions and that they were allowed to lend money to Christians? Because at this rate I'm probably going to be asking for evidence that they were dissuaded from doing "financial shenanigans" as you put it.

[@Bobbleheads56]

@@vicm5272 cry more moishe

[@Hn-zu1qu]

1st Thessalonians 2:14-15

[@johnnyhaigs243]

Antisemitic!!

[@jimmyneutron1776]

Hell yeah brother

[@zionistkid]

first!!

[@slappy8941]

Nobody cares, dumbass.

[@user-kd4to8bv9l]

I would add a little more literature and poetry. Elias Levita wrote the “Bove Buch״ in Yiddish, Yehuda Halevi highly styllized Hebrew poetry as well the “Kuzary”. In Spain there was aGolden era of Hebrew poetry as well as religious poets who wrote Piutim.

[@NothingHumanisAlientoMe]

Wandering lads with the magic star To bring forth the meaning of life afar Searching and seeking to unearth meaning From their tired tethers of tradition Heathens in their barbarism barked As dogs Without a leesh So as shadows Tred blood on the tracks Survived and alive, the thread that is never dead lingers about the barbarians neck.

[@jackylynn]

*SHEKELBERG* 🔫

[@NothingHumanisAlientoMe]

@@jackylynn I didn't say that. Go jerk off Adolf on your own time man.

[@rogerauger7766]

Didn't some German chap have a solutuon for this a few years ago? Just curious.

[@BlackestSheepBobBarker]

Lol, it was some kind of solution, can't quite recall the name. What I do recall, is that it was key to establishing the occupation of Palestine.

[@someoneelse293]

I'm pretty sure that the land we now call Israel was called Israel before it was called Palestine..... I'm atheist , but I'd rather have Jews than Muslims...

[@treborortiz3524]

@marqavious fontavious the unorthodox ones?

[@davidschalit907]

@@BlackestSheepBobBarker So, the dead Jew your parents and family have been praying to for centuries was actually a Philistine?

[@gumvro9985]

@@someoneelse293 that’s like saying you would rather have asians than black people so you sound like a real shit head with ugly beliefs about Muslims

[@mrman3176]

However you feel about the jews this statement holds true: you dont get repeatedly kicked out of countries for doing nothing wrong LOL. Like it or not, there were reasons that this doc just glosses over.

[@scottanno8861]

He was married to a jew look it up

[@mrman3176]

@@scottanno8861 i dont doubt it at all lol

[@Kurtlane]

Yes you can get kicked out for doing nothing wrong. And worse. You can get crucified for doing nothing wrong. And then, after the crucifixion, be deified and have millions of other innocents tortured and killed in your name. You want to see whose fault it is? Look in the mirror.

[@matthewsiahaan1312]

@@Kurtlane ok Rabbi

[@jasonrose6288]

Equally, maybe the human animal is simply programed to reject difference.

[@lordemed1]

Christianity proves people will believe anything.

[@zyeklonbey3545]

And Judaism proves that the devil rules in this world

[@lordemed1]

@@zyeklonbey3545 Zye Klonbey- thank you for proving my point...i couldn't have said it any better.

[@Terrier957]

Why the hate for Christianity?

[@Terrier957]

@@artofthepossible7329 lol I was asking OP - he has a problem with Christianity, not religion in general

[@davyroger3773]

@@Terrier957 has to be cultural proximity. For example I can make more arguments as to why at least fundamentalist christianity is incoherent than I could for Islam simply because I dont have nearly as much exposure to muslims and their beliefs

[@alecmisra4964]

Oh come oh come Emmanuel and free thy captive Israel.

[@perezgerardo6624]

the blessing was given to the gentiles since the jews rejected and crucified their own messiah therefore stand condemned to the day.

[@erwingunther2569]

You are a freaking idiot. Nearly all Roman’s partook.

[@dbarshop]

You’re a fucking whacko

[@exmodule6323]

Very biased

[@unc1589]

According to the Bible the Jews are still the covenant people of God. Even though they suffered. The business of God and the Jew is nary a gentiles business. There is no biblical instruction that says a Christian is allowed to hurt or harm a Jew for any reason. Christ says “No man take my life! But I lay it down….” So there’s that. His death gave the gentiles access to the father. That’s biblical Christianity. Question, did a true Christian ever persecute a Jew or was it a group that called themselves Christian? BTW if there is ever a group that knows better than to sacrifice babies it is the Torah taught Jews. Somebody in history is bearing false witness. False witness has destroyed many lives.

[@Hyrogliifyx]

The jew...not the Jewish. The Jew in the Bible is the Hebrew. The Jew you speak of is the Ashkenazi.

[@jdbjdbjdbjdb]

It's easy to be the chosen ones when you write your own book.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

"predatory government of France" ?? give me a break, Durant. Who has its clutch tight on France today if not its predators and vassals, anybody's guess.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

​@Big Brother it's encouraging to see more and more intelligent people coming to realize this lethargic state of enslavement our western societies have been put under by a common foe that set its aim for total oppression over 1 century ago when private bankSters under one dominating specific private interest group became the treasury of governments. Usury I was stunned by your second paragraph "when things go south just pit all the other groups against each other through media outlets), takes away their cohesive national identity (no identity is the mark of slavery while central banking usury causes runaway inflation and enslavement". I could have wrote that, but not as eloquently, in fact i had to check i wasn't reading an old comment i made. For people who really realize what is going on, it can be very depressing to see how deeply we have become herded, lied, oppressed and exploited and how it is being done. How false the mainstream narrative is and how the majority of people are living in a lie fabricated by their oppressors. The uphill battle is almost impossible. Philosemitic people are a huge hurdle. There are many levels of locks and protection set by those on top. And when things crumble down they will do all they can to antagonize the whole of society against each other or start a war all for the same reason to keep themselves the masters of this enslavement.

[@davidschalit907]

Clutch tight on France today? Islam. Ask the French military. They keep writing Macron about it.

[@Bobbleheads56]

@@davidschalit907 lol begone hebrew we dont buy it. Islam wouldnt even be in the west if not for your tribe

[@eljerc5894]

Hilarious watch Durant Jump through hoops to make the jews seem like perpetual victims . . Wrong place at the wrong time?? Everytime? They never did anything wrong but the whole world hated them for NO reason ... hahahaha

[@jasonrose6288]

Maybe bigotry and intolerance is baked into humans' DNA, which makes being different high risk. You see it in children's playgrounds. Why not assume it's a universal truth? Perhaps it even offers some evolutionary benefit around group homogeneity. Hence, the Jews who were different and rejected certain religious fashions were historically persecuted for it. Indeed, you seem to be proving the theory yourself.

[@turkrane12]

The second coming of Christ is within

[@ccbrass6798]

Study the *Olivet Discourse* with prayer and discrenment towards ALL of "Revelation" being a very detailed version of the Olivet Discourse! The utter destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD was rhe fulfilment of all prophesy and Jesus claiming the Church, Covenant Bride - here on Earth! Give your Eschatology a new study with fresh eyes! I was a lifelong Agnostic...

[@MarkEvanWhite]

15 minutes of how completely innocent they are of all belligerent accusations is all I can stand. BS

[@Gorboduc]

My host bled last week; I believe Barbra Streisand is somehow responsible.

[@Gorboduc]

@The Dude Indeed. All cults are the same whether they worship Jesus, Putin, or Che Guevara. It gets rather fatiguing.

[@Gorboduc]

@The Dude The good fortune of managing to avoid the censors lol.

[@jasonrose6288]

What do you base your antipathy on?

[@adrianaslund8605]

They are not completely innocent. But it can all be explained with cultural context. Which is what is given in here. Basically antisemitism and christian taboos of working with money made the jews find a lucrative niche. Also because they were often excluded from other occupations. Because the antisemitism they experienced they isolated themselves and became distrustful of outsiders. Who you know... Accused them of eating babies! They also developed internal organisations and safety nets outside of society. Which is a smart thing to do if you as a group is excluded from society. With the rise of capitalism. The institutional knowledge that they had acquired and their occupations as money lenders gave them an edge in the new capitalistic economy which is all about speculation and investment. That and distrust for outsiders. Made them an exclusive and disproportionally rich minority. The Romani(Gypsies) has a similar backstory of having to contend with a hostile environment that wouldnt even let them have water from wells and Romanians who downright enslaved and terrorized them so they started using underhanded tactics to survive and harbored understandable resentment for their host societies. Because they probably came from a group of Indian soldiers(confirmed by genetic analysis) who according to one story was sent to perform music for the Shah of Iran wherafter he praised them and suggested that they should take that show on the road. They have a tradition of performance and music. And their people are basically touring musicians who sort of got sidetracked over 800 years now.

[@mr_cure]

This video is straight propaganda

[@tomosbon7347]

Just can't handle the truth-huh 😮😅😅

[@Randall2023]

Dauphin River First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦