SEDER OLAM - Revisited

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GENERATION 43
Mysticism
Hebrew years 5040-5160 - From 1280 CE
Contents:
The 100th Jubilee, The diffusion of theZohar, Shlomo ben Aderet, The Maharam of Rothenburg, The Expulsion from England, Jerusalem under the Sultanate of Egypt, The Expulsion from France, The curse of the Templars, The Shepherds' Crusade, Jewish asylum in Lithuania, Casimir III and the Jews of Poland, The Hundred Years' War, The Black Plague, The Jews of Toledo, The Disputation of Pamplona, The Even Bohan, Pablo de Santa Maria, Hasdai Crescas and the Jews of Barcelona


GENERATION 44
New World
Hebrew years 5160-5280 - From 1400 CE  
Contents:
The Disputation of Tortosa, Solomon Ilami and Iggeret Musar, French Jews in Hungary, The fall of Constantinople, The Catholic Monarchs (Isabella and Ferdinand), Census of the Jews of Castille, The Spanish Inquisition, Abraham Zacuto, Obadiah ben Abraham, The fall of Granada, The expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Christopher Columbus discovers America, Was Columbus Jewish?, The expulsion of the Jews from Portugal, The fate of the European monarchies, Expulsion of the Jews from Provence, The massacre of Lisbon, The Ottomans conquer Jerusalem, Martin Luther exposes his theory


GENERATION 45
Renaissance
Hebrew years 5280-5400 - From 1520 CE 
Contents:
The first edition of the Talmud, The Lutheran Church, Eliyahu Capsali, The Jews of Venice, Solomon Molcho and David Reubeni, The Bible in German, The English Reformation, The scholars of Safed, Luther turns against the Jews, Joseph Ha-Cohen and the Vale of the Tears, Nostradamus, The voyage of Pierre Belon, The Jews of India, The Kabbalah of Isaac Luria, The Jews of Poland and Ukraine, The Jews of Lithuania, Azariah dei Rossi and the Me'or Enayim, The Maharal of Prague, The Gregorian Calendar, The Jews of Argentina, The King James Bible, The Pilgrims of the Mayflower, The Jews of Lutzk, The Jews of Zabludow


GENERATION 46
Old Regime
Hebrew years 5400-5520 - From 1640 CE  
Contents:
The Ussher chronology, Sabbatai Zevi, The Cossacks of Khmelnytsky, The return of the Jews to England, Menasseh ben Israel, The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, The conversion of Balthasar Orobio, Sabbatai Zevi converts to Islam, The execution of Raphael Levy, The Jews of Amsterdam, The Jews of London, Isaac Newton, Aaron Hart Chief Rabbi of England, Haim ibn Attar, the Ohr ha-Haim, The 110 Jubilees, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Baal Shem Tov, The Vilna Gaon, Haim Azoulai the Hida, The Marquis of Pombal, Hart Lyon Chief Rabbi of England, The baptism of Jacob Frank


GENERATION 47
Emancipation
Hebrew years 5520-5640 - From 1760 CE
Contents:
The legacy of the Baal Shem Tov, Tevele Schiff Chief Rabbi, Edict of Tolerance in Austria, Moses Mendelssohn and the Haskalah, Cerf Beer, Edict of Tolerance in France, Civil rights for the Jews of France, The Pale of Settlement, The crossroad of Judaism, The legacy of Vilna Gaon, Chaim of Volozhin, Solomon Hirschell, Chief Rabbi, Nachman of Breslov, Napoleon establishes the Great Sanhedrin, Schneur Zalman of Liadi and Napoleon, Emancipation of the Jews in Prussia, The Hep-Hep riots and pogroms, Wellington and the Jews, Reform Judaism of England, The Industrial Age, The Damascus Affair, A People without a Land, Nathan Adler, Chief Rabbi, Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto, Emancipation of the Jews in Portugal, Emancipation of the Jews in England, The case of Edgardo Mortara, Moses Hess, the "proto-Zionist", 
Mark Twain visits the Holy Land, Emancipation of the Jews in Spain, The Malbim, The Cremieux Decree, The Mikveh Israel school, The Chafetz Chayim


GENERATION 48
Sion, Israel
Hebrew years 5640-5760 - From 1880 CE  
Contents:
The assassination of Csar Alexander II, The first Aliyah, Hermann Adler Chief Rabbi of Britain, The degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Theodor Herzl and Der Judenstaat, The first Zionist Congress, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Kishinev pogrom, Rav Kook first Chief Rabbi of Mandate Israel, The pogroms in Russia, Rabbi Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz, Joseph Hertz war-time Chief Rabbi of Britain, The Jews during the First World War, The Russian Revolution, The Balfour Declaration, The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, The Palestine Arab Congress, The Third Aliyah, The prophecy of the Holocaust ?, The San Remo Conference of 1920, The creation of Transjordan, Meir Shapira and the Daf Yomi, The riots of 1929 in Palestine, The White Paper (1930), The Chazon Ish, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Kristallnacht (1938), The doomed journey of the St. Louis

The Wannsee Conference, The Grand Mufti and the Final Solution, The Blood for trucks initiative, The assassination of Lord Moyne by the Lehi, The Holocaust, The Nuremberg Trial and PurimFest 1946, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Maronites of Lebanon, The U.N. vote of November 1947, The State of Israel, The 70 Jubilees, Israel Brodie Chief Rabbi of Britain, Israel's first Sabbatical year, Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Britain, The Six-Day War, The Yom Kippur War, The South Lebanon War, The Lebanon War, The Intifada, The Oslo Accords, Diplomatic relations between Rome and Jerusalem, Jihad against America


GENERATION 49
Pre-Messianic
Hebrew years 5760-5880 - From 2000 CE 
Contents:
The 49th Generation, The pre-Messianic signs, The land of milk and honey, The Jews in the world, The ingathering of the Jewish People, Islam and Israel, The Exile of Ishmael, The Jubilee 5762, The birth of the Messiah?, The era of Obama, Russia takes over Crimea, Attack on Israel, The turning point of 5775, Nuclear era, Russia in the Levant, The UN vote against Israel, USA recognizes Jerusalem as capital of Israel
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