WWI Part II: Corrections, Questions, and Omissions

[Music] before going forward today I just want to remind anyone who doesn't know yet or hasn't participated that my 2024 viewer survey is open for all of May it really does help me make creative and business decisions regarding this Channel with that out of the way I'm Sam Aro and this is the recap video for the second half

of the first world war in which I talk about things I left out of the videos correct mistakes I made in the videos and answer questions from gaon and Navi level patrons on patreon for first up two minor Corrections it's the skelt river not the Shelt and Antonio Olivera de Salazar was prime minister of Portugal not president

which I'm very surprised I didn't catch before the video came out G level Patron almog writes in your farad reborn video you mentioned some crypto Jews kept practices originally meant to keep their Judaism hidden thinking they were an authentic part of the religion could you give examples for such practices and their Origins so I think you've

conflated and it has been a long time since this video came out so it's understandable two different points that I made about schwarz's research the first is that the crypto Jews of Belmont had a tradition around avoiding any public display or acknowledgement of their Judaism and after so many generations simply came to assume that

that was just an integral part of the religion which is pretty self-explanatory there isn't much more to it than that the second point is that the pressures of maintaining the religion in secret resulted in changes to its practice and this mostly according to Schwartz's own research which I linked to a j store article in