History, Jewish History with Sam Aronow

Early Acharonim: Corrections, Questions, and Omissions

August 26, 2021
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0:00 Intro
0:36 I do not have beef with John Green
1:57 Ashkenazim in the Ottoman Empire
4:18 Kabbalah today
5:26 Tattoos and cemeteries
7:09 Correction: more than one synagogue in Amsterdam
7:35 Correction: Jews in France before 1648
8:21 Jews and the Thirty Years’ War
12:28 Was Spinoza really the first secular Jew?
14:22 Correction: confusing Hillels
14:55 The perils of using untranslated sources
16:39 Modern Hebrew intelligibility
21:08 Conclusion