This Day, December 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 101475: Seventy eight year old Italian artist Paolo Uccello passed away. Like many artists of his time, Uccello produced what today would be called anti-Semitic art. Among his works was...
View ArticleThis Day, December 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 11 321: A letter from Emperor Constantine the Great regarding special taxes of this date provides the first evidence of Jews along the Rhine. 361: Emperor Julian, referred to as Julian the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 12456 BCE (1st of Tevet, 3305): Ezra opened convocation on the problem of intermarriage.627: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by...
View ArticleThis Day, December 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 13522 BCE: Darius I, the Persian monarch who allowed the Jewish people to re-build the Temple at Jerusalem strengthened his hold on his kingdom when he defeated Nebuchadnezzar III in a battle...
View ArticleThis Day, December 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 14164 BCE (3597): On the secular calendar date on which Judah Maccabee restored the service in the Temple in Jerusalem.1243: “King Henry III turned a confiscated synagogue into the chapel of...
View ArticleThis Day, December 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 1537: Birthdate of Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus 5th emperor of Rome. While legend remembers him as the emperor who fiddled while Rome burned, Jews will remember him as the ruler who was...
View ArticleThis Day, December 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 161316: Öljaitü, the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler in Tabriz, Iran, whom the former vizer Rashid-al-Din Hamadani the Jewish convert to Islam was found of guilty of trying to poison, passed...
View ArticleThis Day, December 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 17520 BCE (24th of Kislev): “The foundation-stone of the Temple was laid” (As reported by Jewish Encyclopedia)http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4902-darius-i630: Modestus of Jerusalem...
View ArticleThis Day, December 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 181118: Alfonso the Battler conquered Zaragoza.1271: Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China. Reportedly, Marco Polo found...
View ArticleThis Day December 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 19324: Licinius abdicates his position as Emperor leaving Constatine I, “the first Christian Emperor” in control of the Roman Empire much to the detriment of the Jewish people.1154: Coronation...
View ArticleThis Day, December 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 20 69: General Vespasianus occupied Rome on the same day that the Emperor Vitellius was murdered. Vespasianus is better known as Vespasian, the Roman general who was in charge of putting down...
View ArticleThis Day, December 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2169: The Senate acknowledged Vespasian as emperor. This marked the end of the so-called The Year of the Four Emperors during which four individuals - Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian –...
View ArticleThis Day, December 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2269: Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome. Vitellius was the third of The Four Emperors. He would be succeeded by Vespasian, the man who put down the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 23962: Byzantine troops led by Nicephorus Phocas defeated Moslem forces and seized Aleppo. This temporary turn of events could not have been good for the Jews who had been living there since...
View ArticleThis Day, December 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 241166: King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine gave birth King John of England, the brother of Richard the Lionheart whom he followed to the throne in 1199 and who was such...
View ArticleThis Day, December 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 250337(14th of Tevet, 4098): Earliest possible date on which Christmas was reported to have been celebrated on December 25th. 496: Baptism of Clovis I, the Frankish ruler who united all the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 261135: Coronation of Stephen I, king of England, who in 1141 burned down the house of Aaron f. Isaac in Oxford as a way to “induce” the Jews to providing him with funds to continue his war...
View ArticleThis Day, December 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 27175 BCE (Tevet 3585): This day marked the completion of the Septuaginttranslation of the Bible into the Greek language. According to a letter from Aristeas to Philocrates, 72 sages, (six...
View ArticleThis Day, December 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 281235: A ritual murder massacre at Fulda resulted in the death of 32 Jews. The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire established an investigation at Hagenau (located in modern Alsac) to confirm or...
View ArticleThis Day, December 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 29584 BCE(10 Tevet 3175):The Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, began his siege of Jerusalem leading to the destruction of the first Temple. This day is commemorated as one of the "minor" fasts,...
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