This 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...
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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 2270: According to Josephus, Titus began the battering operations against the wall of the Temple Court 6:4)634: Abu Bakr, the father-in-law of Mohammed and first Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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, July 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
August 38 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. Levin
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 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
August 24 410: 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....
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...
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