This Day, September 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell Levin
September 161380: King Charles V of France died. Charles ruled during a very difficult time in French history – the 14thcentury – that included the One Hundred Years War and the Black Death. For...
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September 171183: As Christians and Muslims jockey for control of what is really the homeland of the Jews, Saladin left Damascus with a large army today with the intention of driving the Crusaders out...
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September 18 825 BCE: The Jewish people began a 14-day celebration to dedicate the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple project was initiated by King David, and built by his son, King Solomon....
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September 19335: Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his Uncle Constantine I who had turned the Roman Empire into a Christian entity. Following the death of Constantine, his successor...
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September 20 357 B.C.E.: Birthdate of Alexander the Great. Alexander's eastern conquests would bring the Jews in contact with Greek Culture. The conflict between Greek and Jewish values would become...
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September 21 19 BCE: Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-called Messianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s Eclogues or “Selected Poems also known as Bucolics or...
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This Day, September 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
September 22 384: Roman Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I forbid Jews from buying or owning Christian slaves. If any such slaves are found with Jews, they must be removed and sold to...
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September 23 484 BCE: Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create drama in the manner of Euripides. During the time of...
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September 24 416: “Roman emperors Honorius and Theodosius II order that any Jews who have joined the Christian church to avoid punishments for crimes must be allowed to return to Judaism because, in...
View ArticleThis Day, September 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
September 25275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the pleasure of the Army. In the case of Tacitus, that...
View ArticleThis Day, September 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
September 26 1187: Saladin launches his attack on Jerusalem1280: “Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, a kabbalist and mystic who proclaimed himself Messiah in 1284 was released from imprisonment in Rome where...
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September 270070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by the Roman army1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son Casimir defeated the Germanic Knights at the Battle of...
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September 2848 B.C.E.: Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. While many Roman leaders get low marks in terms of Jewish History, Pompey rates at a...
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September 29522 BCE: Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. The success of Darius was good thing for the Jewish people. From the Book of...
View ArticleThis Day, September 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
September 30 132 C.E. (10 Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Akivah ben Joseph known as Rabbi Akiva passed away. He was born in 50 C.E., twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple....
View ArticleThis Day, October 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
OCTOBER 12016 B.C.E.: According to some the anniversary of the Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date is easily open to debate. There is a general agreement...
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October 2825 BCE (22nd of Tishrei, 2936): According to tradition King Solomon bid farewell to the Jewish people who had come to Jerusalem for a 14-day ceremony dedicating the Holy Temple (1-Kings...
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OCTOBER 31189: Coronation of Richard the Lionheart (King Richard I) of England. “All Jews and women are barred from the coronation ceremony, but Jewish representatives are sent anyway with gifts in an...
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OCTOBER 4610: Heraclius attacks Constantinople, overthrows the Byzantine Emperor Phocas Augustus and proclaims himself Emperor. The Christian Emperor attacked his Persian neighbors to the east with...
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OCTOBER 5610: Phocas, the Byzantine Emperor during whose reign the Jews of Antioch revolted was murdered by his successor Heraclitus.871: A scribe stopped writing a ketubah that he had dated the...
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