The Iberian Diaspora, The Ukrainian Uprising, the False Messiah (I Survived Jewish History pt. VII)

Brief overview of Jewish history in the 1500s and 1600s, covering the impact of the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora, the evolving encounter with the scientific revolution, the Khmelnyts'kyi Uprising and the Shabbetai Tsvi debacle.
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[@yourthought2333]

Great poise and focus amid the technical distractions 😉

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks!

[@crossingcaretaker9749]

Dr Abramson thank you for your incredible lectures. Very informative and interesting. Is there somewhere online a bibliography of all the books you reference in your lectures? I believe in this lecture there were 5 different books you mentioned.

[@golkas9971]

Who's eating chips?? Hahaha. Mr. Abramson thank you for another great lecture.

[@katherinesmith235]

I greatly enjoyed this lecture! Thank you and good job dealing with that incredible crunching noise in the background.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks very much!

[@mazyar_]

Dear Dr. Abramson, Thank you for your wonderful lectures. Would you please consider doing a talk on Yonatan Ratosh and the Canaanite movement? In my humble opinion it's a fascinating and under studied part of Jewish history.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks for the kind words. My research agenda is kind of full right now, but perhaps in the future.

[@mariaasombrada3964]

Thank you very much for yet another informative lecture.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@hautedaug]

You survived this lesson ! You adapted !

[@mattnewhouse1781]

11 whole hours???!!!! :)) i just hate i have to wait so long....thank you for your work and dedication to increasing jewish peoples' knowledge of our heritage.

[@mc-lb9dk]

super interesting, thank you sir

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You're welcome! Thank you for being a public subscriber!

[@mc-lb9dk]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD If I may ask, I am Dutch living in the Caribbean, non-Jew. Writing a book, a biography, about a German woman who has been through a lot in WWII. In the book, I want to explain a bit about Judaism and anti-Semitism. I was lucky enough to pick up a lot from your lectures. Still, I have one prominent question. If the Ashkenazi Jews were no Zionists, waited for the Messiah to lead them to the Promised Land, why wasn't Herzl seen as such? What would have been criteria to recognize a (the) Messiah?

[@rbpompeu1]

The last minutes are precious! Exploring the potencialities available in each moment of the History! That's the key to survival! (besides God's Grace, of course)

[@shaynieb6344]

Thank you

[@stephr9859]

I suspect that I may have Hidden Jewish heritage through my Cuban ancestry via Canary Island Portuguese diaspora. I find these lectures so interesting. Thank you for helping open my eyes to this history.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Enjoy in good health!

[@damaxpowerway]

Dr. Abramson, when the Jews were managing lands and living in Ukraine and Poland and Lithuania did they practice the laws surrounding jubilee years (when farming the lands and possibly managing servants)?

[@damaxpowerway]

Prior to the Cossacks revolts?

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

No, those laws apply to the land of Israel alone. More complex than I can describe here, but the simple answer is no.

[@allyip5777]

Another wonderful lecture even when under distractive noises. Thank you sir!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@channahcastelobranco]

🌼🌼💐😎very interesting

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks!

[@SHAUL-YIRAH-MAAMIN.]

ל' חים. Muchas Gracias Another exciting and insightful lecture. 🕯

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ArnaGSmith]

That noise in thebackground was gtruly rude a d disturbing ...

[@dajjalkillah186]

17:02 Six pointed star= possible Pyramid in rotation A spinning object of three point 4 point for dimension 2 for movement (force)

[@cuidatrava1]

Really good work, as usual. I'm just not sure why you say that Consolação was the first major literary work in Portuguese and is studied in Portugal to this day. Did you mean in Jewish Studies circles? Among the general Portuguese population I can assure you that this work is relatively unknown and is not studied. There are many other 16th-century and even earlier Portuguese literary works that are much better known and more widely studied.

[@historicalminds6812]

Hopefully people will learn to mute their mics, or if possible the host can mute them. Incredibly disruptive to the lecture.

[@bennettbullock9690]

Something to think about ... I live in Brazil, and I have always wondered if there was a silent, crypto-Jewish/crypto-Arabic influence in the oldest layers of the culture. Brazil has a bit of every culture. So there's a somewhat sizeable Ashkenazi Jewish community in São Paulo (in the neighborhood of Higieniópolis, you often walk by these Orthodox dudes wearing these hats and big heavy black coats in the hot sun). And there's a sizeable Lebanese Maronite presence, to such a degree that there's a fast-food chain selling Arab stuff, called Habib's. That's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to the old, back-country Brazil of the Northeast - part Portuguese, part African, part Indigenous. You see certain things in the folk art - painted on trucks, right beside the word "Jesús" - like the Star of David or the five-pointed Berber star that you see on the Moroccan flag. It's estimated that your average Brazilian has about 5% North-African/Levantine DNA. The rumor hangs around that Brazilians with very simple Portuguese names like "Coelho" (rabbit) are New Christians. And it's vaguely understood that the oldest colonial families can often have some converso origin. When my friend went to Israel, she was shocked to see that her name was actually a name closely associated with conversos. Finally - and this could only happen in Brazil - the Christian Evangelicals decided to erect a near-exact replica of the Temple of Jerusalem in São Paulo, including the Ten Commandments in Hebrew. Yes, American Evangelical Christianity does tend to swing towards the Old Testament, but to the degree where you reconstruct the temple, cubit-by-cubit, and include Hebrew writing?

[@gcolwill]

Just a note that the background noise issue was probably less distracting to us Internet viewers than the speaker would have thought, and probably much more entertaining than annoying. :-)

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You're probably right.

[@QldTechie]

I agree with him about great disappointment with behaviour and attitudes of other Jews. I found it easy to excommunicate myself.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Hmm

[@aromero385]

I always wondered, why the spaniards christians didn't send massively Jews and Muslims to the new world?, allowing them religions freedom. Other history would be in the Americas.

[@joemacchiavelli2985]

It was probably too far and too expensive considering they had to move a few million people

[@BarbTodd]

Am I here?

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

You are now.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Is that a philosophical question?

[@channahcastelobranco]

😁🌼

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

TY

[@ulexite-tv]

Sadly i could not listen, what with all the chewing. Please learn the technology, folks. This is so awfiul.

[@menachemsalomon]

Wrong _Tzemach Dovid,_ by 3 1/2 centuries. ;-)

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Not sure why you would say that. Here's more information: www.5tjt.com/tzemach-david/.

[@menachemsalomon]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD The title page pictured clearly says _Tzemach Dovid_ from R' Duvid'l Dinover, son of the _B'nei Yisoschor._

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Ah. The picture.

[@CloveCoast]

lol I feel your frustration there 100%, gotta love the technologically-illiterate.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Sigh

[@channahcastelobranco]

😀

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

ty

[@yourthought2333]

😉

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@yourthought2333]

Loved it!

[@shmujew4791]

someones eating chinese food

[@busterbiloxi3833]

This guy is incredible. He's essentially giving a Ukrainian nationalist interpretation of the Khmelnetsky War of Liberation!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Well, actually, it's based on a 17th-century Jewish chronicler named Nathan of Hanover.

[@ConnieBessing]

Loved the video as always; but, I disliked the swine noices that came wth it...

[@mohammadadilkhan700]

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[@golkas9971]

If "allha" is great then keep it all for yourself. What's your problem dude?

[@mohammadadilkhan700]

@@golkas9971 .not problem boss

[@mohammadadilkhan700]

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[@johnbecay6887]

yes, and so is God and so is Yaweh.