The Soviet Experience (The Ashkenazium Lecture pt. X)

[@emmcee662]

Thank you Dr Abramson for this in-depth and fascinating lecture. I enjoyed your (very apt!) digression into describing a typewriter; however my heart freezes over when I see maps showing names such as Riga and Minsk, knowing the fate awaiting the poor innocent inhabitants of the “blood lands”. PS as an Australian myself, did I notice a slight slip of the tongue in the early minutes (3:45) when you referred to Germans, Poles, “Australians” and not Austrians? Best wishes

[@barackobama5304]

Yes, it was wondrous when he started explaining a typewriter but then I realized they were phased out 35 years ago. Unbelievable!

[@Sadieazuki]

Thank you for posting these videos. I have watched probably a hundred of them and learned greatly from them.

[@aaronfrank9649]

Thank you sir. I have always wondered about this topic, and you did a wonderful job teaching us.

[@garybergeron1234]

Thank you for my continuing education in your area of expertise!!👍Enjoyed this lecture.

[@celiputnam7308]

Yair university New Testament

[@nochnesara3738]

I want to recommend the Authors; Joseph Roth who describes the live of the jewish community in this area and tranformatory times (in the most beautiful/tragic - possible way), and Isaak E. Babel, who was sowjet. embedded Jurnalist while this time and area ("Red Cavalry"). Also interesting is Machnos defense/ description of his fight against antisemitic Progrome, written in exile Paris.

[@ordsmedensmening9702]

Thank you for yet another insightful lecture. I have been intrigued by Jewish identity and culture since childhood. I find it amazing that “a people” can live for many generations next to people without ever fundamentally considering to belong to the same group. Jews immigrate to an area, bringing skills in commerce and linguistics- “the others” have skills in working the land. Then “the Jews” find a minority within the native population, I guess with the right mind set, whom they assist in establishing a state and in becoming functional managers of that bureaucracy. It’s pretty amazing and must be really hard work just pulling strings so that the land workers with their native culture can become functioning contributors to the commercial tradesmen.

[@Qraze69]

Wow, once again such depth. Kudos.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

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[@pebear]

My Great Grandfather came from Bessarabia (Though he called it Russia) and the love of his life (My Great Grandmother) came from Romania. He came to the US in the late 1890's and she followed in 1902, just in time to miss all the fun in Europe during WWI and beyond. We have no exact location because he spelled the town he came from as Viets and we have no idea where that is but we know he probably came from Bessarabia because of it's proximity to Romania that allowed him to court the young Lena Cohen

[@brian_sacks]

This is a wonderful series of lectures. Professor Abramson is a concise and brilliant speaker. I just wondered: I did not hear any mention of the Kishinev pogrom, which made such a huge impact around the world, inspiring Israel Zangwill's play "The Melting Pot", which itself inspired President Roosevelt. Any reason why the pogrom was not covered in these lectures? Thanks

[@karlschreiber9286]

My mom died former night born in the post WWI ( decline of Austria Hungaria.) This short period was of her reports very unstable and very dangerous für jews and german peasants. The same as now but different if course. Greetings from the rhineland where jews settled in the former roaman cities ko to Cologne! I'm traveling to the very east of Germany. I believe the now Germany is in danger and remember that most askenas jews are living in Berlin (beside Frankfurt). The now situation at the western border of russia is more than dangerous. Thanks again Professor and good fortune to You and your Family.

[@karlschreiber9286]

On the other hand on the university nations russian, poloish, ukrainian whiterussian jewish or not mostly are working together without any harms aganist eachother.

[@richardhelfman903]

The picture of Lenin standing up with autumn leaves on the ground "c.1925" should be called "Lenin's Ghost" since he passed away in January of 1924. He's been lying in a supine position for almost 98 years in a mausoleum constructed for him, though he didn't approve of the idea, since August 1924.

[@toddhisattva]

Your description of a typewriter has me laughing so hard I got tears in my eyes!

[@mhm92267]

Dr. Abramson mentions the Pogroms of 1881, 1903, and 1904. I believe the last one mentioned was in 1905, not 1904.

[@maxsonthonax1020]

Worth considering: It's a shame these lectures don't have subtitles. I would like to share them with non-English speakers (so they could use the Auto-translate function on You-Tube closed captions).

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thank you, yes, the subtitles are in the works, there are many many videos to click "turn subtitles on" in the settings. It's coming.

[@maxsonthonax1020]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD Excellent.

[@maxsonthonax1020]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD You do by now have many, many videos.

[@karlschreiber9286]

Good theory! In my life a met a lot of non jewish polish and ukrainians from the Labor class who are very antisemitic

[@andreisolomon2813]

The Lenin gang is listed as follows: Uritki, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Lunacearski, Trotki, Kamenev and Radek, down there is Rakovski

[@IlmarKiisk]

Couple of corrections/additions: 1) About Trotski. He was not a successful military leader by any means. Red army was successful in Russia (and from Baltics initially in Latvia) thanks to propaganda. And whites didn't make any promises apart from fighting for faith and against chaos. Neither did they give out any rewards to the soldiers, as they saw it as inappropriate. Complete opposite from the reds. 2) Interesting that you didn't talk about the first idea of building a Jewish homeland in Crimea. And that it was greatly funded by American Jewish capitalists indeed. So not exactly as anti-Jewish propagandists say, but neither fully a lie. HOWEVER, that was greatly rejected by the Jews from lower ranks of life, to whom that plan was meant. Rejected because they didn't trust that plan. It seemed on one hand to be to good to be true and that there would be negative sides to it, too. And it was not without reasons, as later, under Stalin, it turned out. 3) Anti-Semitism under Stalin. One great starting part of it was due to Trotski and his closest supporters. But he had some loyalists in his faction as well, most famously perhaps Genrikh Yagoda, who was in several ways similar to Robespierre, as one who had greatly begun the Stalin's purges, at least the severity of it, and ending up executed himself, too, within those purges.

[@kengreskamp]

Are Ashkenazi jews actual Hebrew DNA since if Ashkenaz was a dependent of Japeth? Were WWII Ashkenazi Jews decendents of Shem?

[@kengreskamp]

Please answer this riddle to me?

[@denizalgazi]

Ashkenazi refers primarily to their geographic location in Europe, not their biblical descent in the same way that Sefardi means they're from Spain (Iberian Peninsula).

[@kengreskamp]

@@denizalgazi thank you for clarifying.

[@kengreskamp]

@@denizalgazi so just to double clarify, the Ashkenazi Jews were decendents of Shem from this area in Europe.

[@denizalgazi]

@@kengreskamp No, they are Jews from the Ashkenaz region in western Germany on the Rhineland and their descendants. They are not descendants of Ashkenaz, who was the great grandson of Noah in the Torah.

[@digital_prisoner-hd4zo5qi5c]

the life of Ashkenazium was always terrible in Russia

[@gfriedman99]

Yes. Just think that conscription was for life in czarist Russia

[@digital_prisoner-hd4zo5qi5c]

@@gfriedman99 But when Stalin came to power the life for them became more terrible and unbearable.

[@barackobama5304]

@@digital_prisoner-hd4zo5qi5c Yes but as bad as it was, Stalin by consequence, saved many from the Nazi holocaust.

[@digital_prisoner-hd4zo5qi5c]

@@barackobama5304 The problem is that Stalin saved all people who were in the Nazi camps regardless of nationality. But the state policy during the Stalin era was far more antisemitic than in the czarist Russia. Have you ever heard about "racial cleansing"?

[@haraldthorson9153]

@@digital_prisoner-hd4zo5qi5c Stalin's right hand man was Lazar Kaganovich, a Jew.