Jewish History Highlights

Jewish history highlights

1. Destruction of first temple by Babylonians 586 BCE

2. Destruction of second temple by the Romans 70 AD.

3. Exile in Babylon the rabbis and the Talmud.  (The Talmudic Academies in Babylonia were  the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Jewish Law in Babylonia from roughly 589 CE to 1038 CE)

4. Rise of Christianity, Spanish inquisition (1478-1834)

5. 1492 Expulsion of Jews from Spain.  Jews migrate to north Africa.  Maimonides is a personal physician to the Egyptian king.

6.  Sephardim are the Jews from Spain.  Ashkenazim are the Jews in Russia and northern Europe.

7. Pogroms in Russia 1821-1922 .  Jewish villages are burned down.  Jews migrate to America and European capitals.  Early 1900's are the years of enlightenment.

8. WW2 1939 to 1945 murder of 6 million European Jews.

9. Creation of the state of Israel 1948.

10. Immigration of the Jews of Mashhad and Iran to Israel 1949-1956.