Last updated: September 16, 2026
About
Jewish history told by what survives.
I built this to tell Jewish history by what survives, and to judge every claim by the evidence behind it. Four tools sit here: the Object Record Timeline, Israel and Gaza in Focus, The Reprisal Line, and The Charge Line. All four run on the same rule. A real object or a dated document counts. Hearsay does not, and scripture read as history does not.
Every entry is a thing you could stand in front of: a stele, a coin, a letter, a census return, a photograph. Each carries a grade and names its source. The record opens around 1208 BCE, the first time the name Israel appears on a datable object, and runs to 2026.
Why I built it. I wanted the whole run in order on a single page, so you can see three thousand years at once instead of one fact at a time.
What it does. It puts all 207 objects on a time spine, grouped into eight eras. Open any entry and it shows what the object is, what happened, who acted, and what it changed, with its grade and source. It remembers what you have read, so you can work through it over weeks.
Why I built it. The full timeline runs three thousand years. Most of what people argue about now is the last two hundred and fifty. This is that stretch on its own.
What it does. The same evidence standard, narrowed to the events from the 1780s to the war in Gaza today: emancipation and nationalism, the Mandate and the Holocaust, 1948 and the Nakba, the wars, and the record cited on both sides. The objects appear as cards you flip, with a short quiz to check what held.
Why I built it. The back-and-forth itself, from the 1947 partition vote to today, kept getting lost inside longer lists of events. This isolates the action-and-reprisal chain on its own.
What it does. Fifty-eight sourced events on two lanes, Palestinian and Arab-side actions on one, Israeli-side actions on the other, joint and international events spanning both. Curved lines connect an action to the response it is sourced as having triggered. Separate threads mark the West Bank barrier, the 2006 election that brought Hamas to power, and the funding behind both sides.
Why I built it. One hostility in this record outlasts every other: not a single event but eighteen centuries of a single charge, written, then enforced, then finally withdrawn. It deserved its own line, the same way the modern reprisals got one.
What it does. Two lanes, texts that asserted the Christ-killer charge on one side and the rulers, councils, and statutes that enforced it on the other, from a 3rd-century-BCE Egyptian slander to the Nuremberg Laws. Curved lines connect a text to the enforcement it is sourced as having shaped, and a closing thread marks its formal withdrawal by the Catholic Church in 1965 and the Lutherans in 1994.
The goal is to eliminate ignorance, my own first, by putting the evidence where you can see it and grade it yourself. No favorites. No unsourced numbers. Where specialists contest an object, it says so, and you decide.