The Hidden History of Jewish Pirates, Part 2: Famous Privateers

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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During the age of European expansion, members of the Jewish diaspora traveled to Caribbean and the continents of North and South America, often escaping the intense persecution of the Inquisition. Some became merchants, others explorers -- and some became pirates. Join Ben and Noel as they explore the little-known stories of specific Jewish pirates and privateers that changed the course of history as we know it in the second part of this two-part series.

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0:00.0	Radiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio.
0:03.0	Music
0:27.0	Yo ho ho, Radiculous History. I'm sorry. I just had to get it out of my system.
0:32.0	All right. Well, I'm Ben. This is part two of our exploration of the little known story of Jamaica and Jewish pirates.
0:40.0	Hi. I'm no bent. Was that just a drawn out yo or was those meant to be ho ho ho is in between as a as a a piratey ref?
0:49.0	Yeah. Piratey ref. Did it sound like a yo or yo ho ho?
0:53.0	I was just making sure that we're on this zoom and then I was a little bit it dragged it out.
0:57.0	Did that thing where it digitally kind of stretched it. So on my end it is kind of like sound like you were saying yo.
1:03.0	Radiculous historians and welcome to the show. But no, I I kid.
1:09.0	But yeah, today, you know, we did we did we did this intentional two-parter.
1:14.0	And I know the first one seemed a little on the short side, but we felt like it was a good kind of primer to now get you into some like really cool dives into some of the most notable Jewish pirates.
1:26.0	And privateers from throughout history. So what do you say we we jump right in with sign in raise a K a the great Jew.
1:38.0	Yes, let's walk the plank of the podcast with the help of our super producer Casey Pagra.
1:45.0	No doubt brandishing a cemetery behind us forcing us along. You're right.
1:50.0	This guy was known as the great Jew also as we go through this episode.
1:57.0	Please, if you're playing along at home, let us know what your ideal pirate nickname would be.
2:02.0	I think that's the coolest thing if you're a pirate, you get a nickname, right?
2:05.0	We talked about cool professional nicknames in the past, but Ray has had the moniker the great Jew.
2:13.0	He and his family like so many of the people he mentioned in part one of the show.
2:17.0	They fled the Spanish in position in the early 1500s and first they went to Turkey.
2:23.0	And then it was in modern day is mere turkey where synon became the right hand man of a fellow named hey redden barbarossa.
2:32.0	One of the most famed pirates of all time. Barbarossa would eventually go on to become a Sultan and a commander in the Ottoman Navy.
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