Medieval History
Middle Ages to the Modern Era
History/ Part 2 1100 CE - 1800 CE
30 Lectures
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- Ashkenazic Jewry in France View
- The House of RashiView
- The First CrusadeView
- The Age of Rabbeinu Tam View
- Expulsions & Burnings: the 13th Century View
- The Ashkenazim Come to Spain View
- The Black DeathView
- The End of Spanish JewryView
- The Jews and the Renaissance View
- The Marranos View
- The Jews Come to Poland View
- Rabbi Yosef CaroView
- The Reformation View
- KabbalahView
- The Dawn of the 17th Century View
- Tach V'Tat 1648-1649 View
- Shabsai Tzvi View
- Regrets and Recrimination View
- The Coming of Reform View
- Reform and the Enlightenment View
- Chassidus 1View
- Chassidus 2 View
- The Gaon of VilnaView
- Napoleon View
- Jewish Russia 1800-1850 View
- The 1850'sView
- HaskalahView
- The Yeshivos 1View
- The Yeshivos 2 View
- The Mussar Movement View
Preview:
Noted Jewish historian Rabbi Berel Wein continues his series on Jewish history in an in-depth, engaging account of European life. Seven hundred years of European Jewry saw towering intellectual achievements, spiritual devastations, and physical disasters.
The rise of Ashkenazic Jewry in Germany and France and the fall of Sephardic Jewry in Spain marked cultural uypheavals that split the Jewish world. In the 17th century, just as the Jews became religiously unified through the Code of Jewish Law, they were being crushed by pogroms. The Northern European exile, once a great hope for a wounded Jewish community, was becoming unbearable. To make matters worse, the false messianism of Shabsai Tzvi spiritually devastated the Jewish comminity, leaving them vulnerable to secularism and new religious movements: Reform Judaism, Chassidus, and the Yeshiva movement. Rabbi Wein takes you through the spiritual highs and lows of European Jewry before the modern era in 30 spellbinding lectures.
