Where did your ancestors pass through? Exiles, dispersions, returns — the great trajectories of the Jewish people, traced on the map.
Jewish history is structured by flows: deportations, exiles, exoduses, dispersions, returns. This section animates these movements on the map — flow maps with animated arcs, thickness proportional to estimated flows, multi-period overlays.
From Egypt to Canaan. The founding narrative of the Jewish people, chronologically situated in the second millennium before the common era.
Deportation from Judea to Babylonia in 586 BCE — the matrix of diasporic Judaism and the cradle of the Babylonian Talmud.
Edict of Cyrus (538 BCE); reconstruction of the Temple. Only a portion of the exiles return — the rest remain, forming the enduring diaspora.
After the edicts of expulsion from Spain (1492) and Portugal (1497), tens of thousands of Jews settled in the Maghreb, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, the Netherlands, and then the Americas.
Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the printing houses of Livorno supplied the Maghreb with halakha, liturgy, piyyutim. A massive heritage flow financed by the Sephardic patron families.
First aliyah (1882), BILU, Third aliyah, the rescue of the Jews of Yemen (Magic Carpet), of the Ethiopians (Operations Moses and Solomon), of those from the former USSR, and then from the Arab countries.
Animated arcs on the map (D3-geo or Mapbox), thickness proportional to the flow, chromatic palette by type of movement (forced / voluntary / commercial). Planned for Phase 3 of the roadmap.
