Modern Jewish History

Court Jews were purveyors who provided food, fodder, and munitions to the European courts in return for special privileges.

Traditionalists as well as modernists opposed Hasidism on social, theological and cultural grounds.

What prompted Jewish messianic zeal in the 16th and 17th centuries?

When did the modern era begin for Jews?

Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor

Primary historical text: Russia, 1881

The secret magazine of the boys of Terezin.

The Jewish experience between 1914 and 1948 begins and ends with war. In 1914, WWI began, a watershed in both European and Jewish history, as it marked the end of four great empires: the Tsarist, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and German Reich.

European influence in the Middle East.

Soviet Jewry Between Wars. World War I and the Jews. Jewish History from 1914 - 1948. Modern Jewish History. Jewish History and Community.

The creation of an infrastructure for the state of Israel.

Nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.