Reformation and Post-Reformation Christian Period (1517-1569)

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.