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,...
View ArticleThis Day, August 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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 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 Tiburtina339: The...
View ArticleThis Day, August 14, In Jewish History 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 Riga three 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, January 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 23393: Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor. “Under the rule of Theodosius and his sons… the Christian church consolidated its position as the sole...
View ArticleThis Day, January 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 24 41: Roman Emperor Caligula is murdered by the Praetorian Guard. Caligula’s treatment of the Jews does not qualify him as an anti-Semite since he was “a certifiable nut case” who murdered...
View ArticleThis Day, January 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 2541: Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. “Claudius rescinded Caligula’s provocative decrees affecting Judean and reaffirmed Jewish rights throughout the rest of the Roman...
View ArticleThis Day, January 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 261531: Three tremors shake Portugal and numerous houses are destroyed in Lisbon by an earthquake which the Pope and others believe confirm the prediction of suffering made by Solomon Molcho...
View ArticleThis Day, January 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 27 98: Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. The second of the three Jewish revolts against Roman authority took place at the end of Trajan’s reign. This second revolt took...
View ArticleThis Day, January 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 28 814: Charlemagne passed away. The grandson of Charles Martel was one of the greatest European rulers during the Dark Ages. There was nothing Dark about his treatment of the Jews. For the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 29904: Sergius III began his papacy during which Jews first began settling at Mayence, Germany in 906.1258: “The Mongols under Chinese general Guo Kan laid siege to” Baghdad today as part of a...
View ArticleThis Day, January 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 301349: The Jews of Freilsburg Germany were massacred.1592: Clement VIII began his papacy during which he enacted numerous anti-Jews moving including the issuance of Cum Saepe Accidere, a papal...
View Article