Jews in the Medieval Economy (Essential Lectures in Jewish History) by Dr. Henry Abramson
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- An introductory lecture on the role of Jews in the medieval European economy. Part of the Essential Lectures in Jewish History series. More available at www.henryabramson.com.
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I'm currently writing an essay on medieval Jewish history and this combined with your lecture on medieval antisemitism have been really useful sources so I just wanted to say thank you :)
Dr. Abramson,
I can't get to sleep as I am a recent viewer of you videos; they are so intriguing. I keep a pad of paper and pen and write things down that you say. I am learning so much.
Thanks so much!
May your lectures likewise be like those "books of records" which King Ahaseurus discovers where Mordecai saves the king from danger.
May favor be upon you, Dr. Abramson
Can’t stop listening to your lectures. You’re a great teacher.
Thanks so much!
Henry Abramson of course. I never realized how persecuted the Jewish faith was besides during world war 2. That lead me to do more research on the faith. It all was shocking to me with how mistreated the faith has been throughout humanity. I live in Florida so we have a very healthy Jewish community. Living here I have very close Jewish friends, and few old girlfriends. Thankfully from what they’ve told me they’ve been lucky enough to not feel in danger here. It’s really scary though seeing how many European Jewish folk are leaving in large numbers (especially France) It makes you realize how important having a home for the Jewish people is. I still have much to learn though. Hopefully more people continue to educate, and learn to understand the other.
Thank you for posting this. I'm a tourguide at the Living History department for the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Resources like this helped me put together a lecture on how Medieval/Renaissance Christendom viewed Jews, a topic that doesn't seem to get any mention otherwise at a festival focused on Sixteenth Century England.
Very educational video Mr Abramson. I'll be watching the rest of your videos with enthusiasm. Subscribed :)
The klezmer music is way too loud. Please Pleas Please re-upload this without the Klezmer. At least mute it a bit more. Otherwise great video!
These lectures are fascinating
Thanks!
I am currently in a course about the Holocaust and the first three weeks were dedicated to the history of antisemitism. I find your lectures very helpful supplemental material, and I am even starting to watch others in my free time. Thank you for uploading and making these videos!
Hey, thanks for making this video! I think it's really important to learn of how stereotypes begin and helping us all love each other a bit more.
Thanks very much. Your style of delivery is quite pleasant too.
Thanks!
excellent presentation. Thank you
Very recommendable! I was not aware of the special relationship between urban Jews and the king
Hey, taking a Jewish History course at UC santa cruz and found your video interesting. Were using 'The Jews: A History, 2nd Edition' for our reading.
I love your lectures but you really need to the quietdown the music or end it sooner; you become hard to hear at the end
Very interesting and informative. Thank you!
Great lecture. I love your common sense presentations and your sense of humor.
Henry, I am sure this lecture was very interesting to economists, artists, craftsmen, and intellectuals. The unfortunate expelling of the Jewish People by Rome, had a very positive effect on the advancement of European Civilization.
Thank you, Henry.
Deuteronomy 28:44
"He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail."
So, when in history was this EVER the case for Jews?
Cry more
Do you have a video on the Radhanites?
That avaricious image was already well developed in Shakespeare's time when Venice was also the cutting edge city of capitalism.
You are wonderful, Professor. I am a Brazilian non-Jew studying world history for purposes too hard to explain now (in short, it's because I love it), and you have truly enlightened me as I watched your lectures - this one in particular. I have to say that I am fervently pro-Palestine (one might say anti-Likud) and, whenever something bad happens in Palestine, I feel this shameful urge to antagonize everything Jewish which I feel it is my duty to suppress. If it weren't for my love of humanity and tolerance or for my admiration and respect for Jewish culture alone, simply because it leads to nothing. Whenever it comes back to me, I will watch your lectures, and think of all the wonderful Jewish friends I have been so fortunate to meet.
Excellent and informative video. I stumbled across the term "Hoffaktor" and unfortunately only came across limited and biased interpretations initially when branching out beyond Wikipedia (and before acquiring academic resources). I appreciate your delivery and abundance of knowledge conveyed.
I understand why people get caught up on usury, but it surely is more prevalent today, and practiced by all religions and ethnicities.
It's fascinating how well the Jewish people were able to adapt and thrive as perpetual outsiders, ultimately becoming essential for many kingdoms to function while also contributing much to humanity as a whole.
Thank you Mr Abramson,
Kol Tuv!
Dr. Abramson,
First and foremost, thank you. I have been watching and enjoying your lectures very much. I have a question: where did the Jews gain the initial capital to be involved in the Medieval economy in this way? I am reading the last section of Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment entitled "Elements of Antisemitism: The Limits of Enlightenment" and your lectures have been incredibly helpful in illuminating points that H&A move through very quickly; to quote, "From the time when, in their capacity as merchants, they helped spread the Roman civilization throughout Gentile Europe, they were the representatives...of municipal, bourgeois, and finally, industrial conditions." I am aware of the Jewish merchants of the latter half of the first millennium after the fall of Western Rome, moving between the Islamic Empire and Christendom, but I am lost as to how, particularly, the initial post-Agrarian assimilation into becoming merchants, money-lending, etc. took place.
***** Thank you very much for your reply, Dr. Abramson!
Wonderfull Lesson!
Very interesting and illuminating - thank you. The whole question of the meaning of usury is a key one in medieval and early modern history. And I enjoyed your video on the Baal Shem Tov - as a Christian I could find ready parallels with the Evangelical Revival of the 18th century in England, where the preaching of John Wesley and George Whitfield reached many working people who found little place but subjugation in the State Church of England but under the Methodists (who encouraged an emotionally expressive faith) they could organise themselves into alternative religious communities. Thanks for the wide range of topics you teach on - I'm an Old Testament specialist and very interested in the 'Wirkungsgeschichte' of the Hebrew Bible.
Thank you I learned a lot here from Uganda(Africa,East Africa) !!! Klezmer music is too loud
Very interesting Dr Abramson, thanks for sharing your lectures!
Great video!
“ Within a distance of a Chinese restaurant “ 🤣🤣🤣 Love your jokes Dr Abramson
TY
In what part of the world is this?
Europe.
which king are you referring to
Difficult for me to review the video to answer your question. Try google.
What I've gotten from studying my mother's culture and heritage is that Jews have always had a "particular set of skills" no pun intended that was useful to people in power. At times it saved us and at other times it was detrimental. And Dr.Abramson, I don't think the Jewish banker will give us a pass, maybe a Jewish mortgage banker LOL.
***** LOL. Loved your lecture, please keep them coming.
to what king are you referring to?
This was very informative, especially at the end.
I feel that with nano technology, quantum physics & computing, automation & robotics that we are on the verge of revolution that could lead to another renaissance.
I have to paraphrase Buckminister Fuller, but essential (and this was in the 70s) he said 1 in every 10,000 us is capable of designing a technology that supports the rest.
Unfortunately, we have greedy folk at the top that can't fathom this & continue to kee p us in a level of economic slavery.
Imaging though if throughout the world we reduced our toils to 24hr's week sharing roles that the above mentioned can't perform. This would allow for an explosion of free time & a level of creativity would mean a mass of culture persuits with extreme skill & ability worldwide.
Then all we need as a few human goals. Two to be exact.
1. Research & development of Biological Life Support measures to rid ourselves of illnesses & disabling injuries
2. And Space research, development, understanding & exploration.
# We need goals because we would descend into a level of mediocracy.
"explosion of free time" will create even more lazy,entitled society...you have zero knowledge of basic human nature
@@lszujo73 - What people do with their spare time is nobodies concern but theirs.
For my lack of basic knowledge of human behaviour, one behaviour that keeps appearing is clear.
People's insistence that they know how other people should live their lives.
That they seem to think using the force and threat of violence by government, so that people will do what they think they should do, is indeed a real problem.
So which is your favourite dictator?
@@JJSPARROW1978 let's talk in 20 years, when you get out of college and gain some life experience
@@lszujo73 - I made this comment 6 years ago, so even if I was in college, how long does your college go for?
I can dismiss anything else you say, since on two accounts you are wrong.
1. Claiming I have no idea of human behaviour. The fact I am one dismisses that.
2. That I am in college. In the country I live in, not a common education facility. So never went.
@@JJSPARROW1978 your biggest problem is you think you know....before you can receive true knowledge about life you must come to the realization you/we/ know nothing...you have not come to that point yet....you are argumentative therefore foolish,instead of trying to learn something you are ready to teach....understanding and wisdom is not intellectual rather a thing of the heart,in other words you can't get it in college/though education is important /....please don't respond just ponder on what I said...that's all
"This is highly antisemitic portrayal of Jews" Well, Shakespeare was not that bad ;) comparing with other artists.
Ever heard of paintings by Charles de Prevot, Professor?
Loved your presentation. The way present day Isreal behaves against another Human race puts them in my negative emotions list. Again i have to look at your presentation from a cautious lens because these days money does many many strange thing.
You come across as a simple honest man. and of late i have decided to look at 2 sides of any story. Although i have a lot of questions about the Holoucast and the facts surrounding it. I havent finished your video . but good job so far.
TYVM
Oy Vey "shut it down"
Because the Shylock character came out of no where and Shakespeare was not informed by the context of his time at all.
Sad but true.
That was funny because Jews have to be near Chinese restaurant for example is it lunch yet ha ha ha ha
Yeaaaaah......no
Palestine was around before jews got there, and why do you say Jewish homeland what proof is there?
Mick Beach Check history, Palestine was the name given by the Romans after the destruction of the Temple around 67 CE...After the conquest of the land between what’s now Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea by the Israelites, the land was called Canaan and it was made of small local rulers, no United Kingdoms. David was the first one to create a National Homeland as a Jewish Kingdom. So yes, we can call this land the homeland of the Jews, because this is the land where they became a nation...Can you name at least one Palestinian king ? Just one name ...is there a Palestinian dynasty ? A Palestinian Palace ? ...The National Palestinian movement was born as a response to the National Jewish movement, before that there was no national Palestinian feeling...most of the residents were coming from Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan and Egypt...
I guess it doesn't really matter to much cause ur not gonna change their mind. Would u change ur mind if u were Jewish. For example I'm a white American and so it wouldn't make sense for me to say this land doesn't belong to me just because my race. We came and conquered fair and square