A playlist from The Jewish Story
From Safed to Shabbetai Tzvi
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The New Homeland
August 24, 2018 · 41 min · Episode page →
As the Jews of Ashkenaz moved eastward, they brought their customs and language with them. What they found waiting in Poland was a refuge that would allow them...
About this playlist
The early modern Jewish world after the expulsion: the printing press, Dona Gracia, the mystics of Safed and the Shulchan Aruch, and the messianic storm of Shabbetai Tzvi.
Where this sits in the story
1492–1676 · 1 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
More in 2,500 years, in order
SeriesThe Second Temple Era
Where the Jewish Story begins: the return from Babylon, the Men of the Great Assembly, the Greek encounter, the…10 episodes →
SeriesAfter the Destruction: Rome, Babylon and the Geonim
How a people without a land stayed a people: the refusal to be absorbed by Rome, the portable homeland of Torah, the…7 episodes →
SeriesGolden Age to Expulsion: The Jews of Spain
The full arc of Sefarad: its legendary origins, Yehuda HaLevi and the Rambam, the Zohar, the riots of 1391, the…10 episodes →Series