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David Solomon 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.

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