Who Was Samuel Usque? The Sephardic Diaspora, Pt. 2 Dr. Henry Abramson

[@guytemam1151]

It's a very good thing that Dr Henry Abramson belongs to the jewish People !!! What scholarship !!! Always a pleasure ...

[@naomikoopmans]

Another enlightening lecture on Jewish history by Dr. Henry Abramson, thank you very much!

[@thetransplanter3337]

Thank you Dr. Abramson!

[@claudiareginateixeira1825]

B'H! Thank you dear Professor Henry Abramson for such an important lectures for us. thank you for each sponsorship person.

[@morrisday333]

Good to have new lectures to listen to! WELCOME BACK DR. A!

[@georgerodriguez4207]

Awesome history. Professor

[@woowwow7839]

Dear professor Abramson, The way you prounonce it is the correct one 😊✌🏻 The Portuguese "u" is the same as the English "u" !

[@cuidatrava1]

Not really. The English letter "u" represents different sounds, the most common of which is the one heard in the word "umbrella", whereas in Portuguese it almost always represents the sound "oo" as in the English word "room", except that after "q" it is not pronounced, or very slightly pronounced, so Usque sounds like "Oosk" or "Ooskuh".

[@zrunne]

Dr Abramson, I love your lectures, specially the ones about sephardim. My family is of sephardic origin and it's interesting to learn about how sephardim lived and how they eventually went to lots of different countries and the customs they had. I often compare the info to the knowledge I have of my family origins,(Diaz, Loria, Del castillo, Marin, Alcocer, and Cetina) and how they got to Mexico, and kept many of the customs of their ancestors, specially the one about only marrying close relatives or "familias buenas" good families, and shunning the few who married outside of the family circle. I underwent conversion many years ago, and feel at home at Shul, and in my community.

[@chooselife903]

Would you be able to include the Sicilian Jews who were under Spanish rule for centuries. I have done quite a lot of genealogical work on my family and found that over 50 individuals in both sides of my family were burned at the stake in Palermo in the 1530-1550s. I have the lists of the church's inquisition lists in Palermo as to their names and demise. However there is a break in my female linage in the 1680s.....as I am trying to find the original Jewish woman on my mothers side to make a conversion from doubt. My grandmother always said they came from Spain then went to Russia and eventually to Sicily. However her town of Santa Margarita became a town in the 1600s under Spanish rule, and my grandmother Russo"s family seems to have no record of baptism or marriage in neighboring town during their movement from somewhere to eventually Santa Margarita. My Jewish genealogist Mr. Braverman who lives in Florence and is accepted by the Beit Din in Israel as a legitimate resource for genealogy, is deliberating whether to stop here or not. Its so sad. Your work is outstanding. Your amount of knowledge that comes so easily to you as you explain all these events with ease and sometimes good jokes. I have been bingeing on your lectures. Bravo to you. Many thanks and blessings to you and your family.

[@motorhead6763]

Catherine C just convert....no problem.

[@motorhead6763]

Catherine C Good I support Chabad and Litvak Young Israel. I just finished a halakic mikvah here in NYC. Just keep studying you will be ok. Ps Abarbanel and Soncinos were Italian famous Jews. My rabbietzim is from Italy also. Shalom

[@davidvenegasramirez6001]

I love hearing of Sephardic history, wish I knew more about mine. Beyond the database that I found our surnames in, I know only that my family owned a lot of land in Mexico generations ago.

[@zafirjoe18]

Thanks for this beautiful lecture , the story of R’ Avraham Saba the בעל צרור המור should be studied simultaneously.

[@VeraDonna]

It's "Ooshk" :) Thank you for posting these lectures.

[@cmarq817]

As asked... in Portuguese in USQUE you don’t read the U after Q. You probably should read it as Usk

[@GazilionPT]

I would say "Ooshk" ("U" is problematic in English).

[@davidvenegasramirez6001]

And regarding your final question, as to why we do not have a consolation of our generation. You recognize this truth, and you were also given this platform by Hashem, and in the words of Hillel, if not you who? And if not now, when? I would read this book if you wrote it, I trust your integrity and commitment to tell history as it is.

[@janepiepes2243]

Dear Dr Abramson, After watching this video, I found your article on the "illegals" in the Forward. I am repeating my thought that I wrote to you - in the paper. Thank you for drawing the analogy regarding our children being torn from their parents in today's America. While I read your article to my husband, I was choked with tears. Sometimes, we all have to be political. Sincerely, ~Janey

[@yeshuamysaviour3156]

Jane Piepes are you Jewish? this topic is so hard for me since I also have Sephardic Jewish ancestry and The Lord let me to find my roots by dreams and KZbin videos. only three years ago and immediately after my discovery, the persecution of Hispanics starts. to me it's like God wanted me to find out before the end times...

[@wesleyclayswank6732]

Thank you, this has been particularly meaningful to me. I did see another lecture by a Canadian professor that made the assertion that the exile was inevitable and that God calls us sometimes to go into exile of our own free will, often to better results than when we are forced to it by our enemies. I know that the Aish Kodesh was one of the men who stayed behind to suffer from his fellow Jews. I just wondered if in all your research do you have any insights into how to make this choice? Is self-preservation ever a Kiddush Hashem, or only self-sacrifice?

[@wesleyclayswank6732]

I'll ask my Rabbi.

[@iosifavergun5192]

like very much

[@georgerodriguez4207]

Horific history

[@MosheShperling]

Thank you very much for this shiur. Very rich and touching. Especially enjoyed the part that you are quoting the original book, please do it more often. It gives much closer connection with the book and the author. Regarding the question you have asked at the end, I would suggest a story told about Lubawitcher Rebbe, that once some organization offered him to support their initiative to add an empty chair to the seder table as a memory of Holocaust. He replied that he agrees but with one remark: that chair should not be empty. Rather there should be sitting a Jew that would not be in a seder otherwise. There are more details but the time is short. But this is the way we should be relating to it!

[@GazilionPT]

The name Usque is not a common name, in fact, I don't think that name still exists in Portugal... But reading it according to European Portuguese rules, an acceptable approximation would be to read it like "OOSHK". The word is considered to have 2 syllables, with stress on the first ("Us"), but the second syllable is so brief that it sounds a but like a monosyllable. The "s" at the end of syllables is pronounced as "sh", so "Ooshk". One note to Dr. Abramson: pronouncing the "J" in "João" the way he does it (and apparently likes to do it), which is the *Spanish* pronunciation, is one of the most irritating things one can do to a Portuguese word... Other than that, great lecture.

[@graca4984]

Now you spell it better although I understand that jUAU thing of yours. We still here my friends, we never stopped being...

[@motorhead6763]

I am going to be ill...after hearing what they did to children....evil evil horror. An early Shoah.

[@antoniobettencourt6287]

The right pronouciation is usk (u read like oo, s read like sh): I'm portuguese.