Chapter 1 Abraham to David: 1726
958 B.C.E. Chapter 2 Solomon to the Destruction of the First Temple: Circa 990
586 B.C.E. Chapter 3 The Babylonian Exile to the Return to Zion: 586
333 B.C.E. Chapter 4 Alexander the Great to the Syrian Rule: 333
165 B.C.E. Chapter 5 The Maccabean Revolt and the Hasmonean Period: 165
37 B.C.E. Chapter 6 Herod to the Destruction of the Second Temple: 37 B.C.E.
70 C. E. Chapter 7 Postdestruction Period to the Compilation of the Mishnah: 70
217 Chapter 8 Talmudic Period to the Rise of Islam: 225
622 Chapter 9 The Geonim and the Saadiah Gaon: 700
1040 Chapter 10 The Golden Age in Spain to Maimonidean Controversy: 1200
1400 Chapter 11 The Spanish Inquisition to the Kabbalists of Safed: 1480
1600 Chapter 12 Germany and Holland: 1250
1772 Chapter 13 False Messiahs to Hasidism: 1650
1800 Chapter 14 Enlightenment and Emancipation: 1750
1900 Chapter 15 France and Religious Toleration: 1785
1906 Chapter 16 England and the United States: 1700
1914 Chapter 17 Russia and Jewish Nationalism: 1800
1914 Chapter 18 World War I to the Holocaust: 1914
1945 Chapter 19 The American Jewish Community: 1945
2000 Chapter 20 The State of Israel
The First Fifty Years: 1948
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