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Jewish History Timeline by KE 5th

gradeEXODUS

1300 BCE

Israel - Kingdom of David and

Solomon

1000 - 928 BCE

Temple destroyed

70 CE

Talmudic period

3 - 6 centuries

Crusaders vs. Muslims wars

End of 11th -12th

centuries

Expulsion from Spain

1492

State of Israel

1948 CE

Chasidism

End of the 17th century

EmancipationHaskallah

End of 18th

–19th century

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Kol Emeth2012 - 2013

What is in a name?

• Hebrew means “From across”- name given to Abraham and his followers

• Israelites: Abraham’s grandson Jacob renamed Israel which means “he who has wrestled with God”. His descendants were called “Israelites”

• Jews: named after Jacob’s son Judah, ancient father of tribe of King David’s dynasty

Ancient IsraelBiblical Times

Exodus and Conquering Canaan

Jewish Monarchy

Fall of Northern Kingdom

Destruction of Jerusalem and 1st Temple

Babylonian Exile

Return to Zion

Ancient History

Important People• Abraham (1800 B.C.E.) Father of Israel (first Jew).

Judaism would not exist without Abraham.• Joseph (1675 B.C.E.) Became important in Egypt (2nd to

Pharoah) and was therefore able to save his/Jacob’s family from starvation.

• Moses (1440 B.C.E.) Freed the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt and brought them to the Land of Canaan.

• King David (1000 B.C.E.) United the tribes of Israel and Judaea.

• King Solomon (970 B.C.E.) Built the First Temple.

Ancient Israel

Hellenistic Period

Judea under the Persians,Greeks and RomansAlexander the Great Hasmponeans

Roman conquest

Destruction – 2nd TempleBar Kocba Revolt

The Greek Empire

Alexander the Great

Invades Judea in 332 BCE: Meets Shimon Hatzadik

- Founded the city of Alexandria – capital of Egypt

- Dies suddenly in 323 BCE at age 33

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Hillel the Elder became one of the most important rabbis of that period. Many of his famous teachings are still taught today,

“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

Destruction of the Second Temple

• When: 70 CE-

• Who: The Romans

• The only piece is part of the

outer courtyard which now the

Western Wall.

• The first and second temple

were both destroyed on the

Ninth of Av.

Ancient Israel

Rise of Christianity

Beginning of Diaspora (life in exile) The Oral Law: Mishna &

Talmud

Roman Byzantine Period

EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Earliest converts were Jews who did not think they were breaking away from Hebrew Law

Theodosius became emperor in 379 AD and proclaimed Christianity to be the official religion of the state

The Middle Ages

Rise of Islam

The Geonim of Babylonia

Early Islamic Period

Until the first crusade, about 90% of the world’s Jews lived under Islam

The Middle AgesJews in Christian Europe

Church DoctrineBlood LibelsDisputationsExpulsions

The Crusades

Culture of Ashkenaz

The Crusades

The Middle AgesGolden Age of Spain

The Golden Age of SpainPhilosophy, Poetry, Medicine,Astronomy, Architecture

Discrimination under Islam: Jews as Dhimmis

• Rambam- Maimonides

• Rabbi, Halachist, Physician,Philosopher, Communal Leader

• A Philosopher who connected the works of Aristotle to Judaism.

• Mishne Torah, Moreh Nebuchim (Guide for the Perplexed)

The Middle AgesJews in Christian Spain

Marranos

The Spanish Inquisition

Expulsion - 1492

Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain expelled all of the Jews in1492 (the same year Columbus discovered America)

• The descendants of Jews who left Spain or Portugal after the 1492 expulsion are referred to as Sephardim.

• The word “Sephardim” comes from the Hebrew word for Spain, Sepharad, that is stated in the Bible.

• Sephardic Jews are often subdivided into Sephardim, from Spain and Portugal, and Mizrachim, from the Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Modern Ages

Jews in Early America

The First Jewish Settlement in America

• 1654 - 23 Jews fleeing Dutch Brazil come to New Amsterdam

Early Jewish Settlements During Colonial Times

The Constitution of 1776 granted religious freedom to all, including Jews.

Jews in Eastern Europe

Modern Ages

Jewish Poland – mid. 17th Century

• Between 1500-1648

Jewish population soars from 30,000 –500,000

• Becomes the largest Jewish community in the world

Results of Partition of Poland: Russia

• Russian empire tooklargest portion of Poland

• By 1795 hundreds of thousands of Jews lived under Russia

Pale of SettlementThe Pale was a place Jews from the Russian Empire had to live

Jewish EmancipationHaskalah

• Jewish Enlightenment - Haskalah

• Moses Mendelssohn• Emancipation (Jews

obtained citizens’ rights)

• Reform Judaism

Modern Ages

September 28 1791 France was the first country to emancipate Jews (Jews became citizens with rights)

Birth of Zionism

Zion – historic and biblical Hebrew reference to the Holy City of Jerusalem

Zionism – Jewish movement sought to re-establish a Jewish homeland

Theodor Herzl became the leader of Zionist movement in late 19th century, influenced by the Dreyfus Affair in France Herzl’s solution for escaping anti-

Semitism was founding of Jewish State In 1895, Herzl wrote a book “Der

Judenstaat” (“The Jewish State”)

Beginning of Zionism

The End

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