Turning points in Jewish history

List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction Additional Notes on Biblical Texts 1. Imagining the Beginning: The Call to Abraham, ~1500 BCE? 2. Liberation from Slavery: The Exodus from Egypt, ~1200 BCE? 3. The Covenant: Revelation at Sinai, ~1200 BCE? 4. Entering the Promised Land: Crossing the Jordan, ~1200 BCE? 5. Establishing a State: "Give Us a King!" ~1000 BCE 6. The Fall of Israel: Exile of the Ten Tribes, 722 BCE 7. The Babylonian Exile: The Destruction of the First Temple, 586 BCE 8. The Second Temple: Return to Zion, 538 BCE 9. Confronting the Challenge of Hellenism: The Hasmonean Revolt, 167 BCE 10. Roman Rule: The Great Revolt and Destruction of the Second Temple, 70 CE 11. Finding a Messianic Equilibrium: The Bar Kokhba Revolt, 132-135 CE 12. The Oral Law Becomes Literature: The Mishnah, ~200 CE 13. The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry: Maimonides, 700-1100 CE 14. The Rise of Eastern European Jewry: The Crusades, 1100-1300 CE 15. Kabbalah Enters the Mainstream: Nahmanides, ~1300 CE 16. The End of Iberian Jewry: Conversion, Expulsion, Diaspora, 1300-1600 CE 17. The Rise and Collapse of Polish Jewry: The Cossack Revolt, 1648 CE 18. The Rise of Hasidism: The Baal Shem Tov and His Disciples, ~1750 CE 19. The Challenge of Emancipation: The Napoleonic Sanhedrin, ~1780-1880 CE 20. Reform and Reaction: The Hamburg Temple, 1818 CE 21. The Rise of North American Jewry: The Great Migration, 1881-1924 CE 22. Jewish Nationalism: Theodor Herzl, 1896 CE 23. The Secular Zionist Revolution: Ahad Ha'am, ~1900 CE 24. Zionist Settlement of the Land of Israel: First and Second Aliyot, 1882-1914 CE 25. The Destruction of European Jewry: The Holocaust, 1933-45 CE 26. The Jewish State: Proclaiming and Defending Independence, 1948 CE 27. East Meets West: The Mass Aliyah from North Africa and the Mideast, 1949-64 CE 28. Benefits and Costs of Military Power: The Six-Day War, 1967 CE 29. The Feminist Revolution: The Ordination of Women, 1972 CE 30. The Fall of the Iron Curtain: The Liberation of Soviet Jewry, 1989 CE Afterword Bibliography Index