This Day, November 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 221307: Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. The Templars were a...
View ArticleThis Day, November 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 23912: Birthdate of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy nor Roman. During his reign Rabbis living in the Rhineland addressed questions to the Rabbis in...
View ArticleThis Day, November 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 24166 BCE: According to secular calculations this date marked “The Origin of Era of the Maccabees.”380: Theodosius I made his” adventus,” or formal entry, into Constantinople. Eight years...
View ArticleThis Day, November 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 252348 BCE: According to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge ("Noah's Flood") began on this date.407 BCE: Yedanaiah petitioned Bagohi, the governor of Yehud to...
View ArticleThis Day, November 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 2643 BCE: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. This power sharing...
View ArticleThis Day, November 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 27 176: Emperor Marcus Aurelius grant his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. To the world at large Marcus Aurelius was “the...
View ArticleThis Day, November 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 281095: On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appointed bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land. The call for...
View ArticleThis Day, November 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 29800: Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III. Leo and Charlemagne were allies. Charlemagne would exonerate Leo of the charges and Leo would crown...
View ArticleThis Day, November 30, In Jewish History by MItchel A. Levin
November 301215: The Fourth Lateran Council which had been led by Innocent III came a close. The Fourth Lateran Council made first official use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 1500: (Kislev 4428): This is the traditional date of the closing of the Talmudic era and the beginning of the Saboraic era. Saboraim is “the title applied to the principals and scholars of the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 2, In Jewish HIstory by Mitchell A. Levin
December 2 127 CE: In a document drawn up on this date at a government office in Rabbatg, east of the Dead Sea, four date groves in Maoza were registered by their owner as part of a provincial census...
View ArticleThis Day, Decenber 3, In Jewish History by MItchell A. Levin
December 3311: Sixty-sixty year old Emperor Diocletian passed away.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05240.html1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who...
View ArticleThis Day, December 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 4771: King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the entire Frankish Kingdom. Following the death of their father, King Pepin the Short, the two brothers had each ruled a...
View ArticleThis Day, December 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 563 BCE: Cicero read the last of his Catiline Orations which exposed Cataline’s conspiracy to overthrow the government of Rome. There is no record of how Cataline felt about Jews, but Cicero...
View ArticleThis Day, December 6, In Jewish History by MItchell A. Levin
DECEMBER 61060: Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary. In 1061 Bela changed the Market Day from the traditional Sunday to Saturday which may have been part of an attempt to remove the Jews from...
View ArticleThis Day, December 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
DECEMBER 743 BCE: The famous orator Marcus Tullius Cicero died. Cicero was a Patrician, member of the Senate and opponent of Julius Caesar. Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Anthony and Octavian...
View ArticleThis Day, December 8, In Jewish History by MItchell A. Levin
December 81522:David Reubeni left Khaibar today “and went to Nubia in northern Sudan, where he claimed to be a descendant of Muhammad. When he spoke to audiences of Jews, he told of large Jewish...
View ArticleThis Day, December 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 91565: Pope Pius IV passed away. Pius issued a bull that improved the conditions of the Jews. It allowed them to stop wearing their yellow cap, buy land up to the value of 1,500 ducats and to...
View ArticleThis Day, December 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
DECEMBER 11321: 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...
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