The Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment movement swept through Eastern European Jewry in the mid-1800s, but misjudged the racial anti-Semitism of ...

Rabbi Moses Sofer started the first yeshiva in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It differed from yeshivas in Poland, but turned back ...

The Yeshiva movement 200 years ago was revolutionary in its time, and the main defense against Haskalah, guaranteeing the furtherance ...

By the mid-1800s, the Reform Movement had in essence taken over Jewish life in Germany. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch restored ...

In the 19th century in Russia there occurred a drastic change in Jewish life whose ripple effects are still felt ...

In the 1800s, the Czar of Russia dealt with his “Jewish problem” in three ways: conversion, emigration and destruction. Through ...

Jews in Russia in the 1800s faced a series of anti-Semitic decrees by the Czars that sought to destroy them. ...

Napoleon profoundly influenced not only the world generally, but the Jewish world as well, even attempting to revive the Great ...

The Vilna Gaon was a once-in-a-thousand years genius who spent his days in secluded study, yet had the most profound ...

Chassidus spread through Eastern Europe but only through a surprising counter revolution within the movement that eventually made it the ...