Periods & Significant Events in Jewish History

(these are links to a great site by Rabbi David E Lipman)

• Conquest and Settlement

  The United Monarchy

• Saul, First King of Israel

• King David

• King Solomon

  The Divided Kingdoms

• The Divided Kingdom

• The Samaritans

  Babylonian,Persian, and Greek Rule

• The Babylonian Exile

• The Return to Judah

• Alexander the Great

• The Hasmonean Revolt

• The Hasmonean Period

• The Nabateans

  Roman Rule

• Rome Takes Over

• Saducees, Pharisees, and Essenes

• QUMRAN and the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Turmoil in Judea Leading to Revolt

• Jesus

• TheGreat Revolt

• The Fall of Masada

• The Bar Kochba Revolt

• From Bar Kochba to Constantine

  Byzantine Rule

• The Early Church

• Constantine and Helena

• Judea Under Byzantine Rule

• The Babylonian Jewish Community

• Weights, Measures, and Coins

• Heraclius

  Muslim Rule and Christian Europe 632 CE-960 CE

• The Khazars Converted to Judaism

• The Muslim Conquest

• The Redaction of the Talmud

• The Masorah and the Masoretes

• Jews in Christian Europe and International Trade

• Jews in Spain, 755CE-960's CE

• The Legend of the Pirated Four Rabbis

• The Great Hebrew Verb Root Controversy

• The Karaites

• The Gaonic Period

• The Cairo Geniza

  The Golden Ages of Spain

• Fatimids and Seljuks: 909 CE-1100's CE

• Golden Age of Spain Part I: The Eleventh Century Under Muslim Rule

• The Almohads Disrupt the Golden Age of Muslim Spain

• Golden Age of Spain, Part II: The Beginnings of Christian Reconquest

• The Golden Age of Spain Tarnishes

  The Crusades

• The Crusaders Slaughter Jews in the Rhineland

• The First Crusade Conquers the Holy Land

• The Second Crusade

• The Third Crusade

  Medieval Christian Europe

• Blood Accusations

• The Fourth Lateran Council

• Jews Are Expelled From England

• The Jews Are Expelled From France

• Medieval Germany

• The Chassidei Ashkenaz Movement

• Italy: From 70-1300 CE

• The Maimonidean Controversies

• The Mamluks Control Egypt and Palestine

• High Culture in Italy

• The Riots of 1391 and Their Aftermath

• The Disputation of Tortosa

• The Spanish Inquisition

• The "Holy Child of La Guardia" Trial

• 1492: Jews are Expelled From Spain

• Expulsion From Portugal

• Brazil, Conversos, and the Slave Trade

  The Pre-Enlightenment Jewish World

• Italy in the 16th Century: The Ghetto

• Conversion Sermons and Carnival Foot Races

• The Miracle of the Printing Press

• The Creation of Rashi Script

• The First Printed Hebrew Bible

• The Netherlands: 1100-1654

• The Rise of the Ottoman Turks and the Ordination Controversy

• The Influence of Coffee on Kabbalistic All-Night and Midnight Vigils

• Hungary

• Germany in the 16th Century

• The Court Jews

• The Rise of Polish-Lithuanian Jewry

• The Council of the Four Lands

• The Chmielnicki Massacres of 1648-49

• Shabbetai Tzvi

• Pilpul and Baalei Shem

• England Permitted Jews Return

• Cochin Jews Receive Shipment of Books, August 9, 1686
  

  Jews in the Modern World

• The Creation of the Pale of Settlement

• The Beginnings of Chassidism

• The Vilna Gaon Excommunicated the Chassidim

• The Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment Movement

• The Convening of the French Sanhedrin

• The Hep! Hep! Riots

• The Beginnings of Reform Judaism in Europe

• Suffering Under Nicholas I

• German Jewry: 1840-1914

• Russia Under Czar Alexander II

• The Infamous Damascus Affair

• The Outrageous Mortara Case

• The May Laws, 1882
  

  Jews in America

• Sephardic Jews First Come to America

• American Jewry: 1776-1820

• The Rise of German Jewry in America

• American Jewry:From the Civil War to 1880

• B'nai Brith

• The Mass Migration from Eastern Europe

• The Rise of Labor Unions

Overview of the History of the Modern State of Israel

• Palestine Under the Ottoman Turks Until 1882

• The BILU and the First Aliyah, 1882-1904

• Eliezer Ben Yehudah, the Creator of Modern Hebrew

• The Dreyfus Case, Theodor Herzl, and the First World Zionist Congress

• The Jewish National Fund is Created

• The Second Aliyah: 1904-1914

• World War I and the Founding of the British Mandate

• The Balfour Declaration Was Delivered

• British Perfidy: 1929-1945

• Britain Loses Control: 1942-1947

• Israel Becomes a State

• The Knesset, Israel's Parliament Was Founded

• Israel Adopts the Law of Return

• Operation Magic Carpet

• El-Al, Israel's Airline

• Immigration and Integration

• The Lavon Affair

• The Sinai Campaign of 1956

• The PLO

• The Six-Day War

• The Yom Kippur War

• The Entebbe Raid

• The Good Fence

• The Camp David Accord

• The Horror of Lebanon

• Kach and Gush Emunim

• Beta Esrael: Ethiopian Jewry

• The Intifada

• Operation Exodus

• The Gulf War 1991

• The Oslo Accord

Some Holocaust Materials

• The Holocaust

• A Quasi-Official Catholic View About Pope Pius XII During the Holocaust

• A Lesson to be Learned From the Holocaust

• The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Eye Witnesses to History

• Nehemiah on: Ezra Reading the Torah

• Josephus on the Conquests of Alexander the Great

• Josephus on the Chanukah Story

• The Book of Maccabees

• Josephus on Essenes, Pharisees, and Saducees

• Josephus on the Conflict Between John Hyrcanus and the Pharisees

• Josephus on: How the Great War Began

• Josephus Description of: Rome's War Against the Jews in 66 CE

• Josephus on: The Destruction of the Second Temple

• Medieval References to the Khazars

• Ibn Khurdadhbah on The Routes of the Radanites

• Rabbi Nathan HaBavli's Description of the Kallot

• Ibn Daud's Description of the Pirated Rabbis

• Menachem ben Jacob ibn Saruk's Poem to Hisdai ibn Shaprut

• The Kuzari's References to the Khazar Conversion to Judaism

• Land Grant to Jews by the Bishop of Speyer

• Slaughter of Some Rhineland Jews

• The Taking of Jerusalem, July 1099

• Jews Are Expelled From France in 1182

• Battle of Hattin, 1187

• Richard The Lion-Hearted Makes a Truce With Saladin

• The Edict of the Expulsion From Spain

• Description of the Expulsion From Spain

• The Chmielnicki Atrocities

• Saadia Gaon and RaMBaM on Repentance

• Two Readings from the Shoah

Rabbinic Perspectives on Historical Events

• Lamentations Raba

• Talmud on Origins of Destruction of Temple, Part I