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Spanning over four thousand years of continuous civilizational development, from ancient Israelite origins to the contemporary global diaspora and the State of Israel.
From the Patriarchs through Exodus, the Judges, United Monarchy, First Temple, and Babylonian exile.
Return to Zion under Cyrus, Hellenistic rule, Hasmonean revolt, Roman province, and Temple destruction in 70 CE.
The Yavneh renaissance, redaction of the Mishnah, and compilation of the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds.
The hegemony of Sura and Pumbedita in Abbasid Babylonia, standardizing halakhic responsa and liturgy.
The Golden Age of Sepharad, Rashi and Tosafot in Ashkenaz, philosophical flowering, through the 1492 Spanish Expulsion.
Safed Kabbalah, codification of the Shulchan Arukh, Marrano migrations, Spinoza, and the dawn of Hasidism.
Entry into European civil society, civic emancipation, the Haskalah, religious reform, and early modern philosophy.
Mass migrations to America, birth of political Zionism, explosion of science and culture, and the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Independence of Israel, Cold War diplomacy, American Jewish golden age, Soviet Jewry movement, and scientific revolution.
The digital information age, globalization, high-tech innovation, startup nation, and contemporary Jewish life.