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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.
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.
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 ...
Jews are deported to Babylonia . 587 BCE - 539 BCE. Jewish exile in Babylonia . 586 BCE. Destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and exile of upper class Judeans. 539 BCE - c. 330 BCE. Tentative date of the redactional (=editorial) activity of the Torah 's P source. 539 BCE.
The Jewish Nation Began With a Single Couple. Judaism originates nearly 4,000 years ago in the Middle East with a couple named Abraham and Sarah, whom G‑d selected to start a new people, the chosen nation. G‑d commanded them to relocate to a new land (which would eventually become the Land of Israel) that He would show them.
Hasmonean dynasty. Sanhedrin. Schisms ( Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes) Second Temple Judaism ( Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman wars ( Great Revolt, Diaspora, Bar Kokhba) Late Antiquity and Middle Ages. Rabbinic Judaism. History of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire. Christianity and Judaism ( Jews and Christmas)
