Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch, printed at Venice with Moses Isserles's Ashkenazic glosses, becomes the standard code of Jewish law; its authority structures Orthodox practice to the present day.
Tagged: Conservative Judaism Jewish Orthodox Judaism Reconstructionist Judaism Reform Judaism Secular Judaism
The Event
- Date
- 1563 (exact)
- Era
- Early Modern; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- Venice; today Venice, Italy
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, Secular Judaism
- Key figures
- Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles
- Key texts
- Shulchan Aruch
Primary Sources
- Shulchan Aruch
Secondary Sources
- Goodman, A History of Judaism (Princeton, 2018)
- Johnson, A History of the Jews (Harper, 1987)
Provenance: HIST-0120; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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