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This lecture explores the past 500 years of Jewish History, from approximately 1500 to today. In this talk, David examines each century in detail, looking at:
Sixteenth Century –
• Johannes Reuchlin
• The printing of the Talmud
• Shlomo Molcho and David HaReuveni
• Yosef Karo
• Moshe Isserles
• Azariah de Rossi
• Donna Gracia
• Suleiman the Magnificent and the land of Israel
• The persecution of Marranos
• The publication of the Zohar
• The Ari
• The Maharal of Prague.
Seventeenth Century -
• The Council of the Four Lands
• The publication of Emeq Hamelekh
• The Khmelnytsky massacre
• Jewish Amsterdam
• Jews under Protestantism
• Menasseh ben Israel
• Spinoza
• Shabtai Zvi and Nathan of Gaza
• The Enlightenment
• Newton
• Leibniz.
Eighteenth Century –
• The Shtetl, Berlin and Italy
• The Emden/Eubshytz controversy
• The Baal Shem Tov
• Jacob Frank
• The Vilna Gaon
• Moses Mendelssohn
• Solomon Maimon
• The Haskalah
• The Aliyot of 1740
• The Ramchal, the Or HaChayim, and the RaShaSh
• The American and French Revolutions.
The Nineteenth Century -
• Rothschild
• Napoleon
• Emancipation
• The rise of “Reform” versus “Orthodoxy”
• Chatam Sofer
• Samson Raphael Hirsch
• Abraham Geiger and Samuel Holdheim
• Wissenschaft des Judentums
• Montefiore
• Jewish America.
The Twentieth Century -
• Herzl to the Balfour Declaration
• The Aliyot
• Eliezer ben Yehudah and the revival of Hebrew
• Rav Kook
• The Shoah
• The establishment State of Israel
• Vatican 2
• Six-Day War in 1967
• The Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe
• Chabad
• The Golden Age of Jewish Publishing.
As always, David places Jewish History in the context of world history. He ends this lecture with a discussion on predictions for the future of the Jewish people and the world more broadly.
This is the sixth part of David’s six-part series, an edited version of a live talk given in 2020 for Chabad South Africa and Daminyan Shule in Melbourne. Find the original (unedited) live talk here [ Ссылка ]
Watch other videos from this series:
Part 1 - [ Ссылка ]
Part 2 - [ Ссылка ]
Part 3 - [ Ссылка ]
Part 4 - [ Ссылка ]
Part 6 - [ Ссылка ]
Explore more of David's Jewish History series here:
Women in Jewish History: [ Ссылка ]
The Talmudic Period: Chazal in the Age of Empires [ Ссылка ]
The Geonic Period: Jewish History of 6th -10th Centuries [ Ссылка ]
From the Rambam to the Zohar: Jewish History of 12th & 13th Centuries [ Ссылка ]
Hope in Darkness: Jewish History of 14th & 15th Centuries [ Ссылка ]
Worlds in Transition: Jewish History of 16th Century [ Ссылка ]
Communities in Search of Meaning: Jewish History of 17th Century [ Ссылка ]
Revelation & Revolution: Jewish History of the 18th Century [ Ссылка ]
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Images used in this video
Youtube cover – comprising images below and a picture of David by Stephan Rohl under CC licensing [ Ссылка ]
Image in cover art: An 1806 French print depicts Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews by Louis François Couché (1782-1849). Public domain.
