Yes, Zhang Yimou is my favorite Chinese director. We previously did an episode about To Live! https://anchor.fm/gladiofreeeurope/episodes/E10-To-Live-ft--Cnut-e14pcr8

I think that it’s certainly possible, especially given that slaves were one of the main exports of the Rus’. But to me it seems that they largely assimilated into their Slavic surroundings within a few generations. For instance, Igor who ruled until 945 was also recorded under the Scandinavian name Ingvar in other sources, but his son Svyatoslav has an extremely Slavic name and as far as I know there is no attestation of an alternative Norse name. But again it’s very hard to tell what was actually going on at this time because evidence is scant and many of the theories that we do have are based on philological analysis.

And we love her for it!

Sorry to disappoint you :sad-boi:

Rothschild initially saw what he was doing as a humanitarian venture to give Eastern European Jewry a place to go in the aftermath of the pogroms of 1881. With time he came to a more Zionist position, i.e. the creation of a Jewish state for the Jews in Palestine. If I recall correctly, in the beginning like Herzl he wasn’t necessarily committed to Palestine as the site of colonization.

Baron Edmund de Rothschild was a major benefactor of the Zionist movement for a while. This was at the point when they were trying to finance the Zionist movement by establishing wineries. This failed to keep them self-sufficient and so they had to depend on Rothschild’s subsidies. Check out Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine if you’d like to learn more about this

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