Nadene Goldfoot
Judaean Desert
1391-1271 BCE from 70 sons, grandsons of Jacob to 611,30 Jews with Moses
1010 BCE-970 BCE King David of Israel , census of David: c 5,000,000 population
961 BCE to 920 BCE King Solomon 721 BCE: Assyrian attack on 10 northern Tribes of Israel, stolen away
597-586 BCE Babylonian Invasion
Babylonian exiles returning: 42,360
167 BCE Revolt of Maccabees against Antiochus the Greek
165 BCE Rededication of Temple by Judas Maccabee (Hanukkah)
From 163 B.C.E. there is evidence of Jews in Rome. They were probably slaves, Traders?
139 BCE Jewish community in Rome, expulsed. Jewish slaves later lived here.
73 BCE-4 BCE Herod I, the Great, king of Judea appointed by Rome. When he died, there were uprisings by the people so Roman General Publius Quinctilius Varus crucified 2,000 Jews to quell the uprisings.
69 BCE: Cleopatra:
Cleopatra was of Macedonian descent and not a native Egyptian. She was the second daughter of King Ptolemy XII and the last sovereign of her dynasty, which had been founded by Alexander’s general, Ptolemy, in 326 BC. She came to power in 51 BC, at the age of seventeen, and was married to her eldest brother, Ptolemy XIII.
30 BCE Herod the Great by Julius Caesar, crucifixions; 25,000 Jews till 70 CE.
5 BCE, in Bethlehem, Judea, Roman soldiers stationed in Jerusalem from Greece, Gaul and Syria were following Roman appointed King Herod's orders to kill all male children under age 2.
1 CE 1st century Abba Sikra zealot in Jerusalem during the revolt against the Romans, alias Ben Batiah. nephew of R Johanan ben Zakkai, helped to escape from Jerusalem.
In the year 6 CE. there were Jews at Vienne, France
and Gallia Celtica which would be today's " Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and the west bank of the Rhine in Germany.". "The first settlements of Jews in Europe are obscure; in the year 39 at Lugdunum (i.e. Lyon) which is Lyon, France started in the year 43.
19 CE Jews again expulsed from Rome.
29 CE Jesus was crucified during Pontius Pilate's rule; starting the narration of Christianity., About 25,000 Jews crucified by Herod till 70 CE.
49-50 CE Jews again expulsed from Rome.
60 CE-Nero ruling: 700,000 Jews in Judea, 1,500,000 Jews scattered in other places. , 4,200,00 Jews in the world, most likely less.
61-63 CE Jeshua Ben Damna, high priest, appointed by Herod Agrippa II, displaced by Gamla and ensued a struggle, toward end of the siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE fled to the Romans with other members of the priestly families.
c.65 CE In town of Pekiin, Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai and son Eleazar hid from Romans in a cave for 13 years.
70 CE Jerusalem burned down, Temple destroyed, Jews starved to death before, taken prisoners. 1st Academy (university to educate rabbis) founded set up by Johanan ben Zakkai at Jabneh in Judah, south of Jaffa, reestablished the Great Sanhedrin in Jabneh until 132 of Bar Kokhba's Revolt.
70 CE families of 24 Cohenim moved to outside of Jerusalem, each family to a different town,
where their descendants lived until 1948. One place was near Kiryat Ata, now Shfar Am, an Arab town. It has an ancient synagogue. Survivor interviewed by Sandi Zigelman.
Arch of General Titus, soon to become emperor, Menorah Relief; Romans taking away Menorah, other things from Jerusalem, taking 97,000 slaves from Judaea in 70 CE
66-73 CE Judaea which was a Roman Province had the first Jewish-Roman War. The Sadducees and Pharisees fought against the Roman Empire. The Jewish commanders and leaders were Ananus ben Ananus, Eliezar ben Hanania, Josef ben Matityahu, and Simon Bar Giora. In the early stage the Roman guard had 3,000 against 10,000 under Ananus and 15,000 under Bar Giora. The Romans Syrian Legion had 30,000 in Beth Horon while there were only 500 Adiabene warriors fighting for Judaea. Eleazar had 20,000 Idumeans fighting. 6,000 were under John and 2,400 were under Eleazar, who were the radical factions. Then the Romans brought out 5 Legions of 60,000 to 80,000 men at the Jerusalem siege. Judaea had about 200 Sicarii fighting. 20,000 Roman soldiers were killed while 25,000 to 30,000 Judean rebels were killed and 10,000 radical factions. In the end, 1.1 million Jewish militant and civilians were killed and 97,000 were enslaved and most likely taken to Rome.
72 CE 12,000 Jews taken as slaves from Judah to Rome to build the Colosseum under Vespasian.
Masada in 73 CE Herod's Palace, where 960 Jewish Sicarii (Jewish zealots armed with small daggers) had been living in refuge, committed suicide after 3 months of being sieged by Roman Legion led by Lucius Flavius Silva with 15,000 troops. 1 woman, 5 children escaped. Story told by Josephus.
From 37 to 100 CE, the land of Judah had been occupied by the Romans as told by Flavius Josephus, a Jewish Historian who was captured by the Romans. He was hired to write the history of their occupation in the Jewish land. Individual Jews lived in France before 70 CE. "The Romans destroyed the Jews' 2nd Temple in Jerusalem and took over the city in 70 CE. They burned Jerusalem down and took away Jews as slaves for Rome while many others fled. Many people of Judah had scattered to the 4 winds but a number were able to remain in Judah. Organized Jewish communities existed in France in the period of the Roman Empire. Their position deteriorated with the growth of Christianity and its powers.
"As the siege of the capital, Jerusalem, in the year 70 began on the day of the Passover sacrifice (V, 13, 7, VI, 9, 3), to which naturally many thousands of pilgrims had arrived from all parts of the country, the number of the besieged was very great. Among them were many from beyond the Euphrates and other foreign lands (Dio Cassius, 66. 4). 1,100,000 men perished during the siege, 97,000 were taken captive (VI, 9, 3); of these only 40,000 were preserved (8, 2), all citizens of Jerusalem (8, 2), the rest were sold for slaves, some sent into the mines in Egypt (9, 2), others distributed among the provinces for the circuses."and where did the 40,000 settle after having been allowed to go where they liked ?
Josephus mentions one of the four sons of the high priest Matthias , the high priests Joseph and Jesus, and three sons of the high priest Ishmael, four sons of a Matthias, and many other nobles who succeeded in escaping from the besieged capital to the Romans (VI, 2, 2).
Many of the eminent citizens ran away to Titus (V, 13, 7) and told him the number of the poor who had died. Titus allowed these to retire to Gofna; there, he said, they should stay till his hands would be free from the war, when he would restore to them their property. Among the numerous deserters was the priest Jesus, son of Thebuthi , who surrendered many costly vessels of the Temple, as well as the curtains and the robe of the high priest. The treasurer of the Temple also fell into the hands of the Romans and was exceptionally pardoned in exchange for valuable stuff, priestly garments, and costly spices.
Already, after Cestius's defeat in the year 66, many of the nobles had left Jerusalem as if it were a sinking ship; for instance, the two brothers Costobarus and Saul, along with Phillip, son of Jakimos, who had been a general of Agrippa's troops (II, 20, 1).
After the entry of the Romans into Jerusalem, Titus liberated all those Jews who had been thrown into prison by zealots (VI, 9.1); they also most probably belonged to the wealthy section of the population. It may be assumed as almost certain that the members of both groups, of the priestly and of the lay nobility of Jerusalem, at the conclusion of the war received their landed property, and assisted the poor country of Judaea in recovering from its terrible downfall.
Where they settled is nowhere indicated by Josephus; he lived in Rome and seemed to evince no interest in the state of his native country after the destruction. It is possible that, though owning land in Judaea, some of the nobles settled outside Judaea, as Josephus, who, in exchange for his fields near Jerusalem, received from Titus others in the plain, and was rewarded by Vespasian by additional property in Judaea
115 CE Jews were expulsed from Cyprus
132-135 CE Hadrianic War: Jewish General Bar Kochba's Revolt when Jerusalem was liberated for a time, Roman emperor Hadrian rebuilt Jerusalem as a Roman colony, Aelia Capitolina and forbid Jews to approach it under pain of death. Now Judah was renamed Palaestina by the Romans.There were about 200 towns and villages where Jews live in Beersheba-Arad Valley and 204 towns and villages in the Galilee. 580,000 Jews slain.
" From this time on, in spite of unimportant movements under Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, and Severus, the Jews, reduced in numbers, destitute, and crushed, lost their preponderance in their own homeland. Jerusalem had become, under the name "Ælia Capitolina", a Roman colony and entirely pagan city. Jews were forbidden entrance on pain of death, except for the day of Tisha B'Av, see also Anti-Judaism in the Roman Empire. Yet despite the decree, there has been an almost continual Jewish presence in Jerusalem for 3,300 years, and 43 Jewish communities in Israel remained in the 6th century: 12 on the coast, in the Negev desert, and east of the Jordan, and 31 villages in Galilee (in the northern Land of Israel) and in the Jordan Valley. Yavne on the coastal plain, associated with Yochanan ben Zakai, was an important center of Rabbinic Judaism" :"After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai moved the Sanhedrin to Yavne. It was 12.32 miles south of Jaffa. Some scholars believe the so-called Council of Yavne met there. The Sanhedrin left Yavne for Usha in 80 CE and returned in 116 CE.
2nd Century CE Seat of Sanhedrin under Rabbi Judah Ha-Nasi was Shepharam, in the Lower Galilee.
"After the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132-135 AD the Romans engaged in mass executions and enslavement, and destroyed large numbers of Judaean towns, forbidding Jews from settling in Jerusalem or its environs (Dio Cassius, Roman History 69.12-14); there was no further Jewish government or overarching legal system thereafter in Judaea; this effectively turned the expatriate Jews of the Diaspora into a permanently exiled people with no national homeland. Restrictions (taxation, discrimination, social exclusions) further alienated and marginalized remaining Jews in the Negev and Galilee and favored the settlement of culturally pagan Syro-Phoenicians and others.[citation needed] It was at this time that Judaea became normatively known as Syria Palestina. The name reflected both the large scale killing[citation needed] of Jews during the suppression of the 2nd Jewish revolt, and a Roman policy, first pagan, then Christian, to alienate Jews from the Land of Israel and Judaea, ensuring that no Jewish temple, Jerusalem or state ever rose again."
139 Jews expelled from Rome.
Jews were living in Germany from 100 to 1299 CE.
From 198 to 224 CE, the Parthian Empire collapsed which was largely populated by Israelites. The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han Empire of China, became a center of trade and commerce.
Central Asia 200-800 CE-Epicenter of Great Migration
From 200 to 800 CE was a great migration period with Central Asia as the epicenter where Jews were leaving and going into Europe. Jews were found settling in Germany in the early 5th century which would be as early as the 400s CE and continuing to arrive there through the 10th century of 900s. On 640, 721 and 873 Jews in the Byzantine Empire were forcibly converted to Christianity. This was the Greek speaking Roman Empire with headquarters in Constantinople alias Istanbul. It was later a part of the Ottoman Empire.
A decree of the emperors Theodosius II and Valentinian III, addressed to Amatius, prefect of Gaul (
Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France,Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, parts of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine)
(9 July 425), prohibited Jews and pagans from practicing law and from holding public offices ("militandi"), in order that Christians should not be in subjection to them, and thus be incited to change their faith. From the year 465 the Church took official cognizance of the Jews. Jews were found in Marseille in the sixth century
300 3 million Jews in world
335-427 Ashi, editor of the Babylonian Talmud, headed the academy of Sura which he re-established at Mata Mehasya. which is in "Sasanian Babylonia."
570-632 Mohammad, started Islam, Jewish tribes were living in Medina, Arabia, converted many Jews.
628 Jerusalem Byzantine ruled Jerusalem with emperor Heraclius.
630 -632 Byzantine emperor Heraclius decreed that all Jews in empire must convert to Christianity.
638 Jerusalem Caliph Omar set up in Temple esplanade place of Muslim prayer
From 652 to 1016 CE the kingdom of Khazaria in the Caucasus Mountains thrived with King Bulan converting himself and his family of about 2,000 to Judaism after listening to the speeches of a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim tell him about their belief. He chose the Jewish religion to replace his pagan one. Khazaria was a refuge for many Jews who left more oppressive lands towards Jews. So it was a mixture of religions sitting on the Silk Road and involved in much trading.
691 Dome of the Rock built by Muslim Umayyad caliph Abd-elMalik, now Jews allowed to return to Jerusalem.
700 Jews were living in Lithuania. "Lithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: (present-day Lithuania, Belarus,Ukraine, Latvia and the northeastern Suwałki region of Poland).
722-723 Escaped from Byzantine Empire from Emperor Leo III, who forced Jews to adopt Christianity
742 to 814 CE: Jews lived under Charlemagne who was crowned king of the Franks and of Italy in 768. The community prospered under Charlemagne.
Charlemagne united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire. His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of cultural and intellectual activity within the Catholic Church. Aaron (Abu Aharon) Ben Samuel, Mystic and wonder-worker, left Baghdad about 870 and wandered through Italy, teaching Kabbalistic lore. Pupil was Moses ben Kalonymos of Lucca, Italy who carried his teachings to Germany, regarded as father of Kabbalistic study in Europe.
800s Lyons, France, Jewish settlement to Roman times, Agobard and Amulo, bishops of Lyons claimed that the Jews were excessively privileged by the king and that the market-day had been changed from Saturday to suit their convenience.
Both the French and German monarchies considered their kingdoms to be descendants of Charlemagne's empire. From the 700s under the protection of Charlemagne and his house, Jewish merchants began to settle in France for purposes of trade, importing foreign luxuries and establishing new communities up the Rhone Valley and into Champagne. By the 9th century, southern France was the main center of the activity of the international traders, the Radanites.
860 Forced conversion of Byzantine Jews by Emperor Basil I -end of century Jews couldn't hold public office, intermarry with Christians or own Christian slaves, forced to read bible in Greek and not in Hebrew, not to convert Christians on pain of death and property would be taken, couldn't testify for Christians during legal proceedings or build new synagogues-forcing the inferior status of byzantine Jews in comparison to Orthodox Christians.
932 Byzantine emperor Romanus I Lecapenus persecuted Jews, tried to convert them to Christianity, so murdered hundreds of Jews and destroyed many synagogues. Jews migrated to Khazaria from Muslim and Byzantine lands, Joseph , king of Khazars welcomed them to settle in Khazaria.
1000s Jew Street in Aachen, Germany.
Fatimids of 11th century built a 2nd mosque, El-Aksa, on Temple site.
1034: First synagogue erected in Worms, Germany (oldest city in Germany) established by the Celts, "Worms also played prominently into the Protestant Reformation in the early sixteenth century, the site of Martin Luther's stand before the 1521 Diet of Worms, and also the birthplace of the first Bibles of the Reformation, German and English."
1040: Abiathar Ben Elijah Ha-Cohen, died in 1109, last Gaon in Eretz Yisrael. Exiled after violent quarrel with Egyptian exilarch David ben Daniel. work found in Cairo genizah, left at the time of the 1st Crusade, transferring the seat of the Gaonate to Syria.
This was the seat of Rashi (1040-1105) and the Tosaphists. Jews were being excluded from trade and handicrafts which drove them more and more into money-lending which in Northern France became their economic stand-by. Rashi studied in the Rhineland which was Germany. He died in Troyes, Champagne, France. He earned his livelihood with his vineyard. He was author of well known concise commentary on the bible. He had 3 daughters; Jochaved, Miriam, and Rachel.
1060 Itzhak Tzarfarti died in Worms, Germany
1096 to 1254 CE started the first of 7 Crusades. Jews suffered during the Crusades in Eretz Yisrael and in Europe as well. 800 Jews murdered by crusaders and local mob.
1099 Godfrey of Bouillon stormed Jerusalem as Crusader and it became the capital of the Latin Kingdom. Jewish community in Jerusalem massacred by the Crusaders. Jews and Muslims fought together against Crusaders.
1110-1165 Maimon Ben Joseph, scholar, father of Maimonides, of Cordova, Spain, author of an Arabic commentary on the Bible, left Spain in 1148 because of persecution, went to Fez, Egypt and wrote a book upholding the faith of those Jews who were forced to convert to Islam. Settled in Egypt.
1121: 300 Jews from France and England made aliyah to Palestine
1145: Abraham Ibn Ezra lived in Mantua, Italy, formerly capital of a duchy. May have only had a few families then.
1146- Jews of Spain forcibly converted to Christianity. Jews were massacred in European towns by marauding Crusaders. In this 11th-12th century era, the Jewish communities of Northern France were the most densely settled in Europe--if not in the world. The Talmud was the main branch of study.
1160 -1238 Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, (Eleazar Ben Judah Ben Kalonymos), alias Rabbi of Worms and Eleazar Rokea, born in Mainz, Franconia, Germany, died in Worms, Germany, Rabbi, mystic, Talmudist, codifier, wrote "book of the Pious", part of eminent Kalonymos family which gave medieval Germany many spiritual leaders and mystics, Kabbalist.
1161 Jews in Granada, Spain, narrative of being Jews from tribes of Judah and Benjamin in Judaea.
1170 Middle Ages: Benjamin of Tudelea said there were 1,049,565 Jews of which 100,000 lived in Persia and India, 100,000 in Arabia and 300,000 in the East he hadn't seen. (500,000 in visited countries)=total 740,000
1175 Rashi Synagogue in Worms, Germany built
1182 Jews expulsed from royal dominions of France.
1185 Aaron of Lincoln died, was an English financier, extended business to 25 English counties, many of nobility, property was confiscated by the Crown, took his money that was owed to him.
1187 Ayyubid sultan Saladin retook Jerusalem for Islam, remaining in Muslim hands except for a few years in 13th century.
1200 1 million Jews in world, had lost 2 million
1200-1300 Aaron Ben Jacob Ha-Cohen, French talmudist, expulsed from France in 1306 with other Jews, went to Majorca, finished Jewish laws list there.
Aaron Ben Joseph Ha-Levi, Spanish talmudic authority, studied under Nahmanides in Barcelona, Spain, famous teacher.
1214-1414 a DNA bottleneck shows that Ashkenazis all come from only 350 Jews during this period. Report earlier was that Jews came from only 4 women of different periods.
1240s Jews of Kiev, Ukraine disrupted by the Mongol invasion, many escaped to other regions, may have eventually returned
1267: Nahmanides made aliyah to Palestine
1283-April 19 during PassoverJews murdered in Mainz-ritual blood libel accusations
1285-Oct. 23, 68 Jews murdered and 180 burned in synagogue -blood libel
1283-1287 Anti-Jewish riots from the Rhine, Germany, Jewish families emigrated to Israel
1290: Expulsion of 16,000 Jews from England.
1306 Expulsion of the 100,000 Jews from France.
1300s to 1400s Mameluke Period, new building were erected, water supply improved.
1322 Another expulsion of Jews from France
1349-60 Jews expelled from Hungary
1346 to 1353 Jew were accused of well poisoning during the Black Death period which led to mass slaughter of German Jews and they fled in large numbers then to Poland.
1355: 12,000 Jews massacred by the mob in Toledo, Spain.
1391: Jews of Spain again forcibly converted to Christianity.
1394 Another expulsion of Jews from France
1420 Jewish community destroyed in Toulouse, France
1421: Jews expelled from Austria
1484 Professing Jews were excluded from Andalusia
1488: Obadiah of Bertinoro made aliyah to Palestine
1492: Spanish Inquisition: Expulsion of 180,000 -200,000 Jews from Spain, 50,000 converted to Christianity who remain in Spain. Pious immigrants from many lands returned to an almost extinct Jewish population in Judea. , numbers were artificially restricted by the government. Also expulsed from Sicily and Sardinia (Spanish possessions)
1495: Jews expelled from Lithuania
Jews expelled from Grodno, Belarus
1497: Jews expelled from Sicily and Sardinia and Portugal, forced conversion otherwise.
1498 Jews expulsed from Navarre
1502: All Jews of Rhodes forcibly converted, expelled or taken into slavery
1503 Jews from Grodno, Belarus returned, spared from the Khmelnytsky massacres in 1648.
1500's Four Jewish communities left: Frankfurt 2,000; Worms 1,400; Prague 10,000; Vienna 3,000.
1510 -1573 Solomon Ben Jehiel Luria, alias Maharshal, rabbi and codifier in Lithuania and Poland, finally in Lublin;
1512 or 1525-1609 Jews expulsed from Provence, Rabbi Jehuda Loew Ben Bezalel "Maharal of Prague, Czechoslovakia/ Worms, Germany; genealogies trace him to Rashi; created the Golem. Maharal was chief Rabbi of Prague (Moraynu HaReav Judah LOEW ben B'zalel.
1541 Jews expelled from kingdom of Naples.
1564: Joseph Nasi from Italy made aliyah with his group
1534-1572 Isaac Ben Solomon Luria, alias "Ashkenazi," Judean kabbalist, born in Jerusalem, educated in Egypt, lived in Safed from 1570 , lived ascetic life, saintly character, identified ancient graves in Galilee, teacher
1541: Jews expelled from the Kingdom of Naples.
1555 Aboab, family of Spanish origin, scholar and writer, born of Marrano parents, emigrated to Italy, reverted back to Judaism.
1569 Jews expelled from smaller centers of papal dominions in Italy and France.
1604-1657 Manasseh ben Israel, Dutch rabbi, born of Marrano parentage as Manoel Dias Soeiro, went to Amsterdam as child, was child prodigy, 18 years old became rabbi.
1625 Jewish population in Judea brutally despoiled by the local pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh.
1630 -1703 Samuel Oppenheimer/Oppenheim, philanthropist and Court Jew, the first to settle in Vienna, Austria after the 1670 expulsion, was King Leopold the First's agent and financier; helping to finance his wars with Turks and War of the Spanish succession; in 1697 was accused of conspiring to murder his rival and great friend, Samson Wertheimer and imprisoned until vindicated. Liberally supported poor, Jewish scholars, and Judah Hasid's movement to settle in Palestine. Jewish Ghetto in 1630.
1635-1683 Abraham Abele of Gombin, Polish talmudist and rabbi of Kalish.
1645 Rabbi David Ashkenazy died, who was the Rabbi in Lemberg, Poland. Ancestor of the Gaon of Vilna.
1648-56: 100,000 Jews murdered in the Chmielnicki massacres in Poland
Rabbi Samson Wertheimer of which my family shares a few genes, or his brother, Moses.
1700: 1 million Jews in world, hasn't changed since 1200.
1700 1,500 Jews from eastern Europe made aliyah to Palestine via Rabbi Judah Hasid's call.
1658- 1724 Rabbi Samson Wertheimer lived and died in Vienna, Austria, but was born in Worms, Germany, King Leopold 's finance-Minister, entrusted with the financial secrets of the country, supplied much of the war material for the army with Spain. Fought against those who told malicious lies about the Jewish people.
c1660-c1746 Rabbi Yehiel Heilprin in Minsk, Russia. Talmud scholar, Kabbalah, chief Rabbi of Minsk.
1664-1736 David Oppenheim/Oppenheimer, Rabbi and bibliophiole, nephew of Samuel Oppenheimer, born in Worms, Germany, Rabbi in Nikolsburg and from 1702 in Prague, had library of books, kept them in Hanover because of censorship in Prague.
1685: Hirsch Rothschild zur hinteren Pfanne died in Germany.
1698 Joseph Ben Issachar Susskind Oppenheimer; endeavored to consolidate the duchy's finances and free its ruler from dependence on grants from the estates which aroused much opposition and after the duke died in 1737, he was accused of embezzling state finances hanged in Stuttgart for having sexual relations with Christian women, refused baptism; in novel Jew Suss by Lion Feuchtwanger.
1700-1760 Baal Shem Tov, Israel Ben Eliezer, founder of Hasidism; European Jews numbered 1,360,000
1707 -1747, Italian Jewish Kabbalist and poet born and educated in Padua, Italy thought of himself as forerunner of Messiah, dabbled in the esoteric, mystical austerities.
Gaon of Vilna, Lithuania
1720 -1797 Rabbi Eliyahu ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
1727, 1739, 1742, 1747: Jews expelled from Little Russia,
1730 Iones "Jonah" Goldfus, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
1754-1800: Solomon Maimon, philosopher, son of Lithuanian village inn-keeper, child prodigy, married at 14, father at 15, taught himself German, age 25 left for Germany, became a
wandering begger. went to Berlin, wrote, philosopher
1758 Rabbi Shlomo-Zalman of Vilna died. His wife was Treina and they were the parents of the Gaon of Vilna, Lithuania.
1764 By 1764 there were about 750,000 Jews in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The worldwide Jewish population (comprising the Middle East and the rest of Europe) was estimated at 1.2 million.
1772 Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth Jews =308,500. World Jewish population=1,000,000.
1780: Jewish community organized in Manchester, England.
1786: Jewish Population: Prague=7,951;
1790's Hasidim and followers of Vilna Gaon made aliyah to Palestine
19th Century: 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year this century=222,000.
1800 2.5 million Jews in world
1800s Samauel David Luzzatto, Italian scholar, professor at Padua Rabbinical College, Hebrew literature scholar. Europeans returned brought about population revival going from
3,000 Jews in 1838 to 50,000 Jews in 1910. Abraham Ben Alexander Katz of Kalisk, died
1809:President Reuven Rivlin ancestor made aliyah to Jerusalem
1810, Hasidic rabbi, studied under Elijah of Vilna , later joined Hasidic movement.
1811: Jewish Population: Frankfurt=2,214
1825 3.25 million Jews in world
1838: Entire Jewish community in Meshed, Persia, forcibly converted to Islam
1840 4.5 million Jews in world
1840 Damascus, Syria Blood Libel of Jews ; Jews of southern Russia lived 13 to a house
1843 Jewish Population: Prague=5,646
1850: Madison, Wisconsin, USA had 17 Jewish families from Central europe living there. They founded Congregation Shaare Shomayim in 1959.
1850-1880: 20,000-30,000 Jews settled in Palestine
1855 New quarters built outside the Old City wall by Sir Moses Montefiore.
1856 Reform synagogue in Manchester, England built.
1880 7.7 million Jews in world
1881: End of 19th Century: World population of Jews=6,200,000 of which Sephardic only 314,000.
1882-1890: 750,000 Jews living in Russia forced to re-settle in the Pale of Settlement.
Jerusalem was connected with Jaffa by a railway line; Aaron Aaronson, Romanian taken to Palestine , founder of Zikhron Yaakov, studied agronomy in France, worked in Metullah , was leader, advisor to Turkish commander Jemal Pasha, oranized underground intelligence service NILI.
1890 Persecutions in Russia sent thousands of Russian Jews to Palestine.
1891: Jews expelled from Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia
1898 Herzl greeted German emperor William II who visited Jerusalem.
1900 10.7 million Jews in world
1904-1905: World Population of Jews=10,932,777.
1914-1917 World War I population fell to 50,000, occupied by General Allenby, head of British army, British rule under Mandate, period of rapid growth.
1914 August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, Hebrew calendar was 9th of Av, day of mourning for Jews as Temple was destroyed on this date, Jewish national day of mourning. Stanley Goldfoot born in South Africa, lived there till age 18. 90,000 Jews living in Palestine.
1917: 50,000 Jews living in Palestine
1923: Norman Mailer US novelist of WWII, The Naked and the Dead.
1925 14.9 million Jews in world
1931: 190,000 Jews living in Palestine
1933 Stanley Goldfoot immigrated from South Africa to Palestine
1936-1938: 53,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine
1938: Kristallnacht in Worms, Germany, Jewish quarter destroyed.
1939 16.7 million Jews in world
1939-1945: Holocaust; murder of 6 million Jews by Nazis and European collaborators
1941: Jewish community in Baghdad, Iraq attacked by mobs; 180 dead
1946 10.8 million Jews in world (6 million massacred in Holocaust)
1948 to today persecution of Jewish communities in Arab countries, mass expulsions
1948, May 14th Establishing State of Israel. 650,000 Jews.
1948-1967 Judea/Samaria ruled by Jordan who annexed it in 1950
1962 13.0 million Jews in world
1972 640,600 Muslim Arabs living in Judea/Samaria from British Mandate
1975 14.2 million Jews in world
1990: Madison, Wisconsin, USA had 4,500 Jews with 3 synagogues.
2012 Ariel, Judea/Samaria Jewish population 18,638
2013 Judea-Samaria Jewish population now 375,000
2014 Israel has 6 million Jews; 330,000 live in neighborhoods of Jerusalem; Judea/Samaria has blocks with 5 villages,towns in Northern Samaria=2,646; 11 vt.of Ariel-Elkana Block=52,000; 4 vt. of Magleh Adumem Block=46,458; 4 vt. of Eastern Etzion = 5,492; 17vt.of Samaria which Itamar is=31.212; 1city of Betar Illit=47,311; 3vt of Kiryat Sefer Block=65,004; 27vt of Jordan Valley=7,432; 9vt of Gush Etzion=22,479; 16vt of Hevron Hill=15,851; 26vt of Binyamin Region=76,794.
2023, October 7; Israel attacked by Hamas; 1,400 killed; 240 kidnapped, held as hostages; Israel declared war.
2023, November 29, 155 hostages still held by Hamas; 10 per day released since 11/26. day 54.
"In 2006, a study by Doron Behar and Karl Skorecki of the Technion and Ramban Medical Center in Haifa, Israel demonstrated that the vast majority of Ashkenazi Jews, both men and women, have Middle Eastern ancestry.According to Nicholas Wades' 2010 Autosomal study Ashkenazi Jews share a common ancestry with other Jewish groups and Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews have roughly 30% European ancestry with the rest being Middle Eastern.According to Hammer, the Ashkenazi population expanded through a series of bottlenecks—events that squeeze a population down to small numbers—perhaps as it migrated from the Middle East after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, to Italy, reaching the Rhine Valley in the 10th century."
"Another 2013 study, made by Doron M. Behar of the Rambam Health Care Campus in Israel and others, suggests that: "Cumulatively, our analyses point strongly to ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews primarily from European and Middle Eastern populations and not from populations in or near the Caucasus region. The combined set of approaches suggests that the observations of Ashkenazi proximity to European and Middle Eastern populations in population structure analyses reflect actual genetic proximity of Ashkenazi Jews to populations with predominantly European and Middle Eastern ancestry components, and lack of visible introgression from the region of the Khazar Khaganate—particularly among the northern Volga and North Caucasus populations—into the Ashkenazi community."
Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2014/08/jewish-history-in-eretz-yisrael.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
http://www.lordsandladies.org/crusades-timeline.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(AD_70)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms,_Germany
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/biblicalhistory/ss/ErasJewishHist_7.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=U7-QeffdZh4C&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Early+Judaean+towns&source=bl&ots=OOUDBIGTWx&sig=ax2Tj7CsG-IbKiJr9zQvr-MRSpA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LXn3U9LgI-qoigKHq4GQCg&ved=0CFcQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=Early%20Judaean%20towns&f=false
http://www.adath-shalom.ca/buchler.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora Excellent
http://israelempowered.nationbuilder.com/official_population_count_for_judea_and_samaria_dec_31_2013 Excellent!!!
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/the-jewish-demographic-bomb-judea-and-samaria-up-4-3-in-2013/2014/02/25/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/why-israel-must-never-cede-judea-samaria/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_(city)
After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai moved the Sanhedrin to Yavne. Some scholars believe the so-called Council of Yavne met there. The Sanhedrin left Yavne forUsha in 80 CE and returned in 116 CE.
The Source by James Mitchener
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
Facts About Israel, division of Information, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)
Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
The Settlers by Meyer Levin; simon and Schuster Publishers, 1972
The Jews of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook
Updated 11/3/14 Historical Jewish Population comparisons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jewish_population_comparisons
*****Excellent Video on youtube: The Mystery of the Jews https://www.youtube.com/embed/j6k1jHAYtbI#t=1226
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2015/04/jerusalem-in-judahs-judean-hills-of.html, tells about life after 70CE and the Academys that took over, Sanhedrin that was established, etc.
Finding Our Father, a guidebook to Jewish genealogy by Dan Rottenberg
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William Schabas, a Canadian-born professor of international law at Middlesex University in London feels that it would "inappropriate " to assert that Hamas is a terrorist organization. He's also very much against Netanyahu, even though his father is Jewish and he sits on the advisory board of the Israel Law Review. I personally find this opposition from young people striving to make a name for themselves so take opposing stands and then later on, as maturity and extensive reading and research sinks in, often change their views. This has happened with Israeli historian, Benny Morris. That Schabas is part of the board goes towards Israel's open-mindedness and democratic principles. William Schabas is a product of English thinking which has been against Jews for centuries and certainly was when they held the mandate in Palestine. .jpg)
Abbas, born March 26, 1935, is older than either Lieberman or Schabas, is threatening to sue Israel in the UN over crimes against humanity. He has lost popularity. They are no partner in peace for Israel with an attitude like this. They had united several times with Hamas and their charter which is the same as the Muslim Brotherhood in regards to Israel. Abbas is using his newly founded power in the UN now against Israel of an automatic majority. He is making a new play to reassert his role and cast himself as the leader of all Palestinians by taking his cause to the UN. 
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