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The Talmudic Era: The Gemara. The Rabbanan. The Geonim. The Early Rishonim: The Crusade Massacres. Later Rishonim: Persecutions and Expulsions. The Great Scholars of the Shulchan Aruch and Torah Consolidation. Early Acharonim and East European Massacres. Acharonim and Early Chassidim.
Ancient Jewish History: The Birth and Evolution of Judaism. The Hebrew religion gave us monotheism; it gave us the concept of rule by law; it gave us the concept that the divine works its purpose on human history through human events; it gave us the concept of the covenant, that the one god has a special relationship to a community of humans ...
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.
Ancient Israelite Religion(2000-587 BCE) Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
v. t. e. The origins of Judaism lie in Bronze Age polytheistic Canaanite religion. Judaism also syncretized elements of other Semitic religions such as Babylonian religion, which is reflected in the early prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible. [6] [failed verification] During the Iron Age I period (12th to 11th centuries BCE [7] ), the religion ...
Jewish Date: Jewish Events: World Events: Common Dates: 2000: Beginning of the 2000 years of Torah : 1760: 2000 Abraham and Sarah start teaching Torah. Beginnings of monotheism as a way of life Code of Hammurabi 1760 2035 2048 Birth of Ishmael - son of Abraham and Hagar Birth of Isaac. Circumcision of Abraham and his family 1712 2085 Akeidat ...
Chronology - Jewish History, Time Periods, Dates: The era at present in vogue among the Jews, counted from the creation of the world (anno mundi; abbreviated to am), came into popular use about the 9th century ad. Traceable in dates recorded much earlier, this era has five styles conventionally indicated by Hebrew letters used as numerals and combined into mnemonics, which state the times of ...
