7. From the French Revolution to the Jewish Enlightenment The story of the Jews is woven through the tapestry of world cultures, as we trace their legacy across the 18th and 19th centuries. The bleak spiritual landscape of the 1700s gave rise to a new currents within Judaism – from ultra-orthodox Hasidism to the Jewish "Enlightenment." Moving on to the 1800s, we meet Napoleon and Czar Alexander I. All made an impact, for better or worse, on the Jews of Europe…Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/