Timelines - FAQ

 

1. A good page to start from, at the Dinur Center, all the categories in one glance!
   http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/
   Select Communities, Timelines, or Basic Reading, online resources, bibliographies.
2. Jewish America's Chart/Timeline - load directly or go to the homepage, select Tour, then Contents, then the view as Timeline
   http://www.jewishamerica.com/ja/timeline/timpersp.cfm
3. Fordham Hall lists the online resources along the timeline. This is a great listing - names, maps, dates and other links from the entire Internet:
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
4. Jewishgates - a succinct division of events by time, with lots of textual and other references written around them.
   http://www.jewishgates.org/history/index.stm
5. The History channel
   http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/jerusalem/
6. Time-Line for the History of Judaism
   http://philo.ucdavis.edu/~bruce/RST23/chart.html
7. Here are some Sephardi history links, not really timelines...
   http://www.bsz.org/lsephardichistory.htm
8. Index of various timelines (including ours)
   http://judaism.about.com/religion/judaism/cs/history/index.htm
9. This historical/cultural outline has linked files behind it
   http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/timeline.html

Reading and references:

Martin Gilbert, Atlas of Jewish History (Historical Atlas series) - for an overall picture. He is an eminent historian and has a way of putting it together that remains with the reader.

There are other major publications in this area, Bar Navi is one of them.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0688122647/webgalA/107-5647021-1141358

If you look at this web page you will also see a couple of top choices for reference or reading.

Isodore Epstein, Judaism (Pelican) - for a good chronological introduction to the spiritual development of Judaism beyond a timeline.

Another reading list would be at
http://shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/rl/gen-history.html