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The Rabbi Chasam Sofer was born in a German city and was a genius. He built a yeshivah in Pressburg and became the main bastion of orthodoxy in central Europe for the next 100 years. his philosophy was "anything new is forbidden"
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The Chassam Sofer writes his first sefer at only seven years old.
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A lot of the laws on jews were abolished and they could live like everyone else
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Mendelsohn tried to advance Judaism by translating the Chumash from Yiddish to German and publishing it.
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The common people overthrow the French monarchy
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Jews banded together and broke down the walls of the Jewish ghetto in Bonn, Germany
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The Volozhin Yeshiva is founded in Russia.
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Napoleon emancipated the Jews and tore down the walls of the ghettos.
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He began a movement called the Torah im derech eretz "torah combined with the ways of the world" (Eastern Europe)
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Rabbi Meir Leibush, the Malbim, was the chief Rabbi of Bucharest and a conservative who opposed changes to Jewish ritual.
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Rabbi Abraham Geiger was the founder of Reform Judaism.
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Eduard Gans founds the Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews which is all about making Judaism more reform and modern.
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Reform Temples attempted to make Judaism more secular, and some even changed the Sabbath to Sunday.
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Rabbi Eiger from Hungary was an important defender of Orthodoxy
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Nineteen Letters on Judaism is a new presentation of Orthodoxy.
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the Haskalah movement comes to Eastern Europe
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The Choral Temple is founded in Bucharest, and the Malbim disapproves.
