| 1510 |
38 Jews were burned at the stake in Berlin. |
| 1516 |
Jews in Venice are relegated
to a ghetto, the most extreme segregation to which Jews had been
submitted. Over time, Jews in many lands are similarly segregated. |
| 1483-1546 |
Martin Luther. |
| 1517 |
Luther posts "95 theses" in Wittenburg, Germany |
| 1520-1579 |
Cracow Rosh Yeshiva whose
major work was an adaptation of Caro's
Shulchan Aruch
to Europoean Jewry, Moses
Isserles. |
| 1525-1609 |
Brilliant Talmudist,
mathematician and astronomer, popular with Emperor Randolh II. Judah
Loew Ben Bezalel, the Maharal of Prague
also created the Golem,
a man from clay who protected the Jewish community. |
| 1534 |
First Yiddish book
published in Cracow, Poland. |
| 1534-1572 |
Talmud and
Kabbalah scholar, Isaac
Ben Solomon Luria, given the name "The Ari" (The Lion). |
| 1543 |
Luther writes "About
the Jews and Their Lies," considered the first modern anti-Semitic
tract. |
| ca. 1500-1650 |
Protestant Christian Reformation. |
| 1509-1564 |
John Calvin. |
| 1516 |
Jewish ghetto instituted in Venice. |
| 1526 |
The Prague Haggadah,
which contains the oldest known printed Yiddush
poem, is published. |
| 1547 |
Ivan the Terrible becomes ruler of Russia
and refuses to allow Jews to live in his kingdon. |
| 1555 |
Jewish ghetto instituted in Rome. |
| 1559 |
Pope Paul IV allows the first printing of the Zohar, a
Jewish mystical text. |
| 1567/1571 |
Shulhan Arukh
(code of Jewish law by Joseph
Caro).published. |
| 1569 |
Isaac Luria writes
the Kabbalist
in Safed. Luria's ideas give
rise to a new form of Jewish mysticism. |
