Who Was Sir Moses Montefiore? The Sephardi Diaspora Dr. Henry Abramson

Brief overview of the life and work of Sir Moses Montefiore, important 19th century Jewish philanthropist. Part of the Sephardic Diaspora series, more at www.jewishhistorylectures.org.

[@iossef_m]

Dear Mr.Abramson, thank you for your lectures, thanks to them I really obtained more in-depth knowledge concerning our Jewish history, especially of Sepharad Jewry, that interests me a lot. My name is Iosif Mamistvalov, I am a Georgian Jewish, I was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, but live in Moscow, and I am actually very interested in the history of Georgian Jewish community, its roots and historical background. If I am not mistaken, you mentioned in one of your lectures that you are going to hold a separate lecture or a part dedicated to the Georgian Jewish community. I will be very glad to be able to help you with any information you will need in order to collect and prepare the corresponding materials. I am really gratified to you for your great educational work and lectures you kindly provide on your KZbin channel, it is very interesting and useful for our Jewish people to get to know their roots more closely. I am always willing and open to conversation and potential cooperation with you. Shabbat Shalom! Sincerely yours, Iosif Mamistvalov

[@Aquarelarte]

Very good. Thank you for your work, you are a great teacher

[@naomikoopmans]

Yemin Moshe was the first neighborhood outisde the Jerusalem wall. Great lecture Dr. Henry Abramson, thank you once again!

[@yigitisk9248]

Despite of being Muslim, I do like the lectures which you prepare elaborately and when I complete the whole video I become happy. I had seen the Moses's name few times in history books and his long live as a figures and I thought that who is this stupendous man and what did he do to get this value from eyes of historians. I couldnt find decent info in Turkish which is my native language but appearently It seems sorted out on its own by browsing in the KZbin. I am glad to see this video also I will keep watching other videos as much as I can. Thank you sir.

[@woowwow7839]

Thank you so much for theses videos about Sephardic Jews. We don't talk enough about them. Hashem bless you and all your family.

[@n.d8001]

Thank you fir sharing your knowledge

[@busterbiloxi3833]

I'm a Ukrainian Nationalist and I love this guy. He tells it like it is and works hard for reconciliation and progress. Ukraine needs people like this!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks, but why are you mentioning this comment here?

[@busterbiloxi3833]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD I apologize. Wrong place. I was referring to some of your other videos. Please keep up the good work. By the way, are you a Montrealer, or a (Gasp!) Torontonian? Keep up the good work. Glory to Ukraine in Hebrew!

[@chrissaunders697]

Mosses to me was like the a Sephardi version of the Lubvicher Rebb so Important to history and i loved his genorisity and his traditional values .

[@chrissaunders697]

Mosses Monterfiore is a Hero of Mine most of his family and Desidents are a clever family as well .

[@briankelly5828]

As always, a very interesting and informative lecture, thank you. Hugh Montefiore was a prominent Anglican bishop and scholar in the latter part of the 20th century. IIRC, he converted as a teenager after having a vision of Christ. There was also considerable interest in the welfare of Jews in the Ottoman Empire among Scottish Presbyterians, many of whose best scholars knew Hebrew (a reflection of their Reformed heritage - Scottish theologians have always valued knowledge of Hebrew) and some were sent to investigate the state of Jews in the Middle East. This led to the opening of a Church of Scotland centre in Tiberias which still exists today. The distinguished OT professor and Semiticist James Barr was the warden of this centre around 1950.

[@ranasido9983]

הנרי חזק ואמץ ממש אוהב את חוש ההומור שלך וכמובן את ההרצאות המרתקות באמת בן אברהם

[@murrayaronson3753]

Hector Cremieux was also Jewish, from a Provencal family. He was ;later involved in the Mortara Affair and was a founder of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. The Pale was an area in Ireland, the region around Dublin.

[@shmulik345]

תודה רבה. הרצאה מרתקת על יהודי יקר, השר מונטפיורי, שהיה תמיד נכון לסייע ליהודים ולעמוד לצד הקהילות היהודיות בגולה. ליבו הטוב והרגש היהודי שבו יעוררו השראה עד קץ הדורות.

[@larisakosta7987]

Dear dr. Abramson thinks much and thanks much shana tova umetuka for great America again and for the Uk and for you yours sincerely belkosta that is as usual an excellent lesson shiur of great avoda and real ibside thuva of Moses Montefiore thank you and blessings of lord one our god

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You are very welcome

[@docastrov9013]

"The Pale" was a a wooden stockade around Dublin, Ireland to seoerste the English inside The Pale from the Irish beyond The Pale.

[@ayidala7]

FYI ,The Rabbi Itcha Meir was one of the Gerrer Rebbes. This exchange is widely known among Gerrer Chasiddem

[@markjacobi3537]

Again good work, Yasher Koach I am listening to this from Melbourne Australia(Down Under!) This may be 'hair splitting' but Dr Abigail Green, the biographer of Sir Moses a direct descendant. Unfortunately "The Great Shadtlan" and his worthy wife weren't bless with children, is this correct? Dr Green is a great niece of SIr Moses?

[@davidsavage6324]

The Temple was originally in the City of David. What we call the Temple Mount came to be called as such in Byzantine times.

[@user-jf9ym1oz3f]

Can you please inform the source of this information???

[@davidsavage6324]

+חיים צבי מנור I first learned about this from brilliant revisionary historian Ralph Ellis. I looked into it more and found that Nachmanides even went to Jerusalem and wrote that the Temple was still in complete ruins in the City of David. And Jesus (not that I consider him to be THE Messiah, although he brought more people to Torah than anyone else in history) said not a single stone will be left standing. Don't get me wrong, I think the outdoor synagogue at Kotel is beautiful, and we should cherish the tradition but we have so much to be in our tradition to be in awe of that we can look at things objectively and change of beliefs if we seem to be in error. Consider this an intro to the argument. You tube search REAL Temple Mount and you will find a wealth of information. Oh and Tanakh says the Temple was very close to the to the Spring, I'm blanking on the name at the moment.

[@user-jf9ym1oz3f]

thank you 'but you are wrong Shabat Shalom

[@woowwow7839]

David Savage : omg you re Christian?! Why do you talk about Jesus on a Jewish topic 😞😞😞

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Nice lecture! I'm just a little bit disappointed you didn't introduce the audience the great song by Yehoram Gaon - "Minister Moshe Montefiore" as an extra

[@user-qr3kx8mo8d]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD That's a good idea, I also thought of it after I posted the comment but then I figured people could simply copy paste the song from my comment. Unfortunately I cannot post the link directly, KZbin prevents my account from posting links (even to other youtube content) they simply shadow-ban my comment, so I'll just write the name in Hebrew so that none-Hebrew readers could simply copy paste it to youtube's search filed, then find and listen to it: יהורם גאון - השר משה מונטיפיורי

[@murrayaronson3753]

I believe Moses Montefiore wasn't Sefardi, but of Italki background. Moses Montefiore was knighted by Queen Victoria, hence the appellation Sir. But Sir Moses Montefiore was never ennobled, he was never created a baron.

[@nathelondon3719]

They always traveled with a shochet and his secretary and translator Dr Louis Loewe. Queen Victoria gave him a deer from Richmond Park so he was the only Hew to eat kosher Venison!

[@davyschmidt8114]

The Itshe Meir mentioned in Warsaw.in 1848. Later known the first Gerre Rebbe that changed his name Rottenberg to Alter.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks for the observation!

[@ibatan2981]

I am sure that in 1840, Damascus was still under the Ottoman Empire and not under the French ruling. After WWI, France took over Syria and Lebanon from the Turks.

[@mariagaribopeyro6612]

Nicolás Viana Carrión. Época para hacer turismo? Los libros de Babilonia, Mesopotamia

[@mmassehs3251]

I He funded economic projects in Jewish people and Jerusalem and Syria and Iraq and Egypt but he avoided giving money to people who are trying to create a jeweler state at the time they believe that forcing the state was a very zealous act

[@yoyoyoyoyoyoy9]

Thanks a lot of the lecture. What happen to his children and his wealth?

[@londonkicker]

I don't think he had children

[@busterbiloxi3833]

@@londonkicker The Montefiore are a billionaire banking family. Many descendants.

[@davidsavage6324]

on avodah/service, I read in my Chok L'Yisrael that kohen/כהן means "serves" literally or "(one who) serves".

[@woowwow7839]

David Savage : convert to Judaism! Talk to a rabbi! Judaism is the real religion! Jesus is nobody for Judaism.

[@markjacobi3537]

sorry DR Abramson typo

[@davidsavage6324]

I recently discovered that Sephardic Bnei Anusim descendant of converts constitute over 67 million!!! it hard to believe but apparently its true. is there enough info on them to do a lecture on any crypto Judaism that they might still practice? I've read a lot of them embrace Messianic Christianity as a stepping stone to reclaiming their Israelite heritage. Next step, embracing Unitarianism, hopefully; from there, converting to Rabbinicism wouldn't be much of a leap.

[@jaycastillo6752]

David Savage unfortunately they have already met resistance from Rabbis, particularly Ashkenazi and Sephardic** Rabbi's, probably for racial reasons and also not wanting a lot of what they would consider converts with small amounts of Jewish ancestry to Israel, at least this is what I've heard. I have some Sephardic ancestry and Turkish Jewish ancestry and I've studied the Bnei Anusim in my spare time

[@woowwow7839]

Jay Castillo : Bnei Anussim need Sephardic rabbis to help them!

[@woowwow7839]

David Savage : you are right! FYI : 70% of Portuguese population is descendant of Sephardic Jews.

[@londoncalling20111]

People in the Roman Empire 20 percent were Jewish so ,mathematicly there must be miliions and millions of people with Jewish Ancestry, that does not make them Jewish, remember in Israel, first they were Caananite, then Jewish then Christian themn Moslem

[@busterbiloxi3833]

The Canary Islands have thousands of Conversos who are rediscovering their Jewish heritage in a positive way.

[@chrissaunders697]

My Hebrew name is Yakob De Meza .

[@woowwow7839]

Very interesting as usual!✌🏻 I love your lecterers.😊😊 1- I was surprised when you actually mentionned Moses Haïm MONTEFIORE as a Italian Jew! Of course he was an Italian-born then English citizen. But he wasn't of Italian Jewish background! He was of PORTUGUESE Jewish baclground ! There s no Italian Jews (but Romaniote Jews^^) Livorno Community was composed of Portuguese Jews and Spanish Jews who fled from Iberian Peninsula (during Inquisition time) to Livorno, Italy and Montefiore was one of them! A Portuguese Jewish family from Viseu, Portugal and Guarda, Portugal! The original family was ''ALMEIDA" when arrived in Livorno the family changed it to "MONTEFIORE" Why do you think Moses wanted a Portuguese service in London? And why do you think there s an old theater in London called the " Almeida Theater" ? Cause Portuguese was the traditional family language in addition to Hebrew. 2- you said Goldsmid is an Ashkenazic Jewish family! Actually no, this family is Sephardic Jewish! They were established in Amsterdam, The Netherlands since Renaissance (they fled Inquisition from Spain&Portugal) then... as Dutch citizens they moved to London, England. Kate MIDDLETON's mom is one of them : Carole GOLDSMITH (the family was called Goldsmid in Amsterdam and when they settled in London they changed it into Goldsmith) (⚠️ donot confuse Goldsmid (now Goldsmith) and Goldsmidt ! Goldsmidt is an Ashkenazic Jewish family! And Goldsmid/Goldsmith is a Sephardic Jewish family!)

[@woowwow7839]

Henry Abramson : thank you 😊✌🏻 ! I learn a lot in your videos ! You know so many details ! I love it 😊✌🏻

[@notesonpretty9213]

WOOW WOW hi! You know a lot about this family! Are you related? I have being doing research on this branch of my family and it is quite fascinating.

[@1BestCookie]

You know a great deal of this family history

[@londoncalling20111]

you are wrong, Montefiore was not Sephardi, his family were Italian Jews and yes there was an Italian Jewish community from Roman times. Romaniote Jews are jews who lived in the Eastern Roman Empire

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@@londoncalling20111 Buy vb

[@woowwow7839]

To proove what i say about Goldsmid family: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocatta

[@76olimpo]

I'd love to be like him! 🇮🇱

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

TY

[@nathelondon3719]

In the words of the late Chief Rabbi, Lord Jakobovits o.b.m Hugh Montifiore abandoned his people at the hour of their greatest need. May he rot in hell!