This Day, July 28, 2022, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 28450: Theodosius II the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor from 408 to 450 passed away. His reign was not a good period for the Jews people. In 425 “on the death of the Jewish Patriarch Gamaliel...
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July 291099: Pope Urban II, the man behind the First Crusade, passed away. Considering the impact of the Crusades on the Jews of Europe, his impact on Jewish history is self-obvious.1108: Philip I,...
View ArticleThis Day, July 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 30 762: Caliph Al Mansur founded the city of Baghdad. By the start of the 10th century wealthy...
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July 31904: Thessaloniki, which is also known as Salonica, is sacked and looted by Saracens (an Arab group). The Jewish population of Thessaloniki dates back at least to the first century of the...
View ArticleThis Day, August 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 130 BCE: Mark Antony died. Following the victory of Octavian and Antony over those who had murdered Julius Caesar, Antony became ruler of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Antony did name...
View ArticleThis Day, August 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 2 338 BCE: A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. Phillip was...
View ArticleThis Day, August 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 3 8 C.E.: Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. As the stepson of Augustus, Tiberius would become Caesar four years after this victory. Tiberius did appoint...
View ArticleThis Day, August 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 470: According to some record, the date on the secular calendar when the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans.367: Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-August by his...
View ArticleThis Day, August 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 5135: Betar fell to the Romanshttp://www.jewishmag.com/135mag/beitar/beitar.htmhttp://archaeology.tau.ac.il/?page_id=2049939: Battle of Alhandic: Cordoban forces conquered the Leonese city of...
View ArticleThis Day, August 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 6412: Roman emperors Honorius and Theodosius II command that Jews should not be persecuted because of their religion or have their property confiscated without cause but Jews are warned not “to...
View ArticleThis Day, August 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 7117: The Roman Emperor Trajan passed away. Trajan came to think of himself as another Alexander the Great and moved east towards Babylonia with the intent of extending the boundaries of the...
View ArticleThis Day, August 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 8 117 C.E.: Hadrian named Emperor of the Roman Empire. He is remembered as the man who accepted the limits of the Roman empire, as can be seen by the construction of Hadrian’s Wall in what is...
View ArticleThis Day, August 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 948 B.C.E.: Julius Caesar defeated Pompey at the battle of Parsalus. This victory helped to cement Caesar’s position and put an end to Pompey. Considering Pompey’s behavior towards the Jews,...
View ArticleThis Day, August 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 10612 BCE: Sinsharishkun, King of the Assyrian Empire was killed and his capital city of Nineveh was destroyed. This is the same Assyria that destroyed the Northern Kingdom and laid siege to...
View ArticleThis Day, August 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 111492: Alexander VI is elected Pope. Alexander was one of the Borgia popes. He had reputation for “moral depravity” and was more politician than prelate. He defied Ferdinand and Isabella of...
View ArticleThis Day, August 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 1230 BCE: Cleopatra committed suicide. According to Josephus, the Egyptian tried to convince her lover and co-ruler, Marc Antony, to give her control over lands to the east including Syria and...
View ArticleThis Day, August 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 13236: The body of Hippolytus, the author of Contra Judaeous, which blamed the harsh conditions of the Jews on their rejection of Jesus was buried in a cemetery on the Via Tiburtina339: The...
View ArticleThis Day, August 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 14508: Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperor who in 592 would punish “the entire Jewish community of Antioch after a Jew violated one his laws” began his reign today.1084: Yusuf...
View ArticleThis Day, August 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 15423: Honorious Flavius, the Western Roman Emperor who confiscated gold and silver which had been collected by the synagogues to be sent to Jerusalem and “defined Judaism as an unworthy...
View ArticleThis Day, August 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 161027: The King of Georgia, Giorgi I, passed away. Jews were among the subjects of this monarch who ruled over a country situated in the Caucuses, on the eastern edge of the Black Sea. Leonti...
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