The Top 10 Worst Years for the Jewish People

1. 1939-1944 CE: Six million Jews are killed in the Holocaust, about 80% of European Jewry. 
2. 422 BCE (Traditional Jewish Date)/586 BCE (Modern Scholarship Date): Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. First Temple destroyed. 
3. 70 CE: Romans destroy the Second Temple and about two million Jews are killed. 
4. 1429 BCE: The Hebrews are enslaved in Egypt. 
5. 555 BCE (Traditional Jewish Date)/722 BCE (Modern Scholarship Date): Northern Kingdom of Israel is conquered by the Assyrians. The “Ten Tribes” are exiled and lost. 
6. 1480-1492 CE: Spanish Inquisition begins in 1480, leading to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. 
7. 1348 CE: The Black Death begins in Europe and leads Europeans to massacre Jews due to their belief that the cause of the Black Death is the Jews. 
8. 796 BCE (Traditional Jewish Date)/930 BCE (Modern Scholarship Date): The United Kingdom of Israel splits into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judea 
9. 1144 CE: Jews are first accused of using blood from Christian babies for use in Jewish rituals (blood libel). Leads to widespread massacres. 
10. 1648-1667 CE: The Chmielnicki Massacre and its aftermath killed about 100,000 Polish and Ukrainian Jews.

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