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Sep 15, 1400
Portugese hire jews to help navigate the world
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Sep 15, 1450
Invention of the Printing Pess
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Period: Sep 15, 1450 to
Early Modern Period
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Sep 15, 1492
Expulsion from Spain
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers America
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Enlightenment Begins
The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in the late 17th- and 18th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.[1] Its purpose was to reform society using reason, challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through the scientific method. It promoted scientific thought, skepticism, and intellectual interchange. -
Baruch Spinoza's Cherem
On 27 July 1656, the Talmud Torah congregation of Amsterdam issued a writ of cherem (Hebrew: חרם, a kind of ban, shunning, ostracism, expulsion, or excommunication) against the 23 year old Spinoza.[39] -
JUEDISCHE FREISCHULE
private school for poor children, founded in Berlin in 1778 by Isaac Daniel *Itzig and David *Friedlaender, who were influenced by Moses Mendelssohn's ideas on education. Adjoining the school was a printing shop whose returns were to contribute to the maintenance of the school. The subjects taught comprised writing, arithmetic, accountancy, drawing, reading in German and French, and geography. Biblical Hebrew was taught only to a very limited extent, the greatest amount of time being given to co -
Edict of Toleration
This text, which applied to Vienna and the surrounding province of Lower Austria, forbade the Jewish community in Vienna from maintaining a formal communal structure, including synagogues, in the Imperial city itself. Synagogues could only be built in Vienna’s then-unincorporated suburbs. The edict makes clear that Joseph’s “enlightened” regime pressured the Jews to abandon those practices and characteristics that set them apart from the German Christian population. -
Moses Mehndelshon writes,"The Right to be Different
Let no one in your states be a searcher of hearts and a judge of "let no one assume a right that the Omniscient has reserved to himself alone! If we render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, then do you yourselves render unto God what is God's. Love truth! Love peace!" -
American Revolution Ends
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; Its territorial provisions were "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries. -
Hamburg Temple
he New Israelite Temple Society (Neuer Israelitischer Tempelverein in Hamburg) was founded on 11 December 1817 and 65 heads of families joined the new congregation.[1] One of the pioneers of the Temple movement was Israel Jacobson (1768–1828). In 1810 he had founded his school synagogue in Seesen and Kassel. On 18 October 1818, the anniversary of the Battle of Nations near Leipzig, the members of the New Israelite Temple Society inaugurated their first synagogue in a rented building in the court -
Emancipation of Jews of France
ewish emancipation was the external and internal process in various nations of expanding the rights of Jewish people of Europe, including recognition of rights as equal citizens, and the formal granting of citizenship to individuals.[1] It included efforts within the community to integrate in their societies as citizens. It occurred gradually between the late 18th century and the early 20th century.
