This Day, August 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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,...
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August 10612 BCE: Sinsharishkun, King of the Assyrian Empire was killed and his capital city of Nineveh was destroyed. This is the same Assyriathat destroyed the Northern Kingdom and laid siege to...
View ArticleThis Day, August 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
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 Tiburtina 339: The...
View ArticleThis Day, August 14, In Jewish Histroy by Mitchell A. Levin
August 141385: In what might be called the “Battle of the Johns” The Portuguese forces commanded by King João I (King John I) defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I(King John I) at the Battle of...
View ArticleThis Day, August 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
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...
View ArticleThis Day, August 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 17986: During the days of the First Bulgarian Empire, the army of Emperor Samuil of Bulgaria and his brother defeat the Byzantines led by Basil II. The Bulgarian Empire had provided a haven for...
View ArticleThis Day, August 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 181201: Founding of Riga, capital of modern day Latvia. The first Jews appeared in Rigathree centuries later and despite Czars, Nazis and Commissars continue to live in the city to this...
View ArticleThis Day, August 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 1943 BCE: Octavian later known as Augustus compels the senate to elect him Consul. As the first Emperor of Rome (in fact, if not in name) Augustus would follow the policies of “moderation and...
View ArticleThis Day, August 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 20430: The Vandals, a Germanic tribe, established a kingdom in North Africa. The Jews lived there peacefully and flourished until the Almohad conquest in the 11th century.636: Arab forces...
View ArticleThis Day, August 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 211165: Birthdate of Philip II Augustus, the French king who first imprisoned his Jewish subjects; then extorted ransom from them before banning them from Paris and its environs.1321: Jews in...
View ArticleThis Day, August 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 22 70: According to Josephus, Titus began the battering operations against the wall of the Temple Court 6:4)1241: Pope Gregory IX passed away today. “Gregory IX was a prominent opponent of...
View ArticleThis Day, August 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 23634: Umar began his reign as the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. Umar overturned the ban on Jews worshipping in Jerusalem. Not only did he clean the Temple Mount of Filth, he...
View ArticleThis Day, August 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 24410: The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days. According to tradition, the treasures of the Temples taken by the Romans in 70 now fell into his hands. The Visigoths...
View ArticleThis Day, August 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 25 79: Pliny the Elder passed away.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15865.html1270: Louis IX passed away. To the Christian world he became known as St. Louis....
View ArticleThis Day, August 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 26 1071: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at the Battle of Manzikert. This battle took place during the successful conquest of Palestine, or as what the Christians called the Holy Land...
View ArticleThis Day, August 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 27410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. Some view the Visigoths as just one more group of barbarians that helped to bring an end to the Roman Empire. But that is only...
View ArticleThis Day, August 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 28 388: Magnus Maximus, an Hispanic usurper to the throne of the western Roman Empire passed away. During his disputed reign Maximus issued an edict of which censured Christians at Rome for...
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