This Day, December 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 250337(14th of Tevet, 4098): Earliest possible date on which Christmas was reported to have been celebrated on December 25th. 496: Baptism of Clovis I, the Frankish ruler who united all the...
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December 261135: Coronation of Stephen I, king of England, who in 1141 burned down the house of Aaron f. Isaac in Oxford as a way to “induce” the Jews to providing him with funds to continue his war...
View ArticleThis Day, December 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 27175 BCE (Tevet 3585): This day marked the completion of the Septuaginttranslation of the Bible into the Greek language. According to a letter from Aristeas to Philocrates, 72 sages, (six...
View ArticleThis Day, December 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 281235: A ritual murder massacre at Fulda resulted in the death of 32 Jews. The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire established an investigation at Hagenau (located in modern Alsac) to confirm or...
View ArticleThis Day, December 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 29584 BCE (10 Tevet 3175):The Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, began his siege of Jerusalem leading to the destruction of the first Temple. This day is commemorated as one of the "minor"...
View ArticleThis Day, December 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 3039: A black day on the Jewish calendar; birthdate of Roman Emperor Titus the man who destroyed the Second Temple. The Arch of Titus commemorates the exile of the Israelites.987: Coronation...
View ArticleThis Day, December 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 31335: End of the Papacy of Sylvester I “who convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem.”535: Byzantine General Belisarius took the city of Syracuse which marks the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 1 630: Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly. At first Mohammed “had hoped to find is main supporters among the Jewish tribes” of Arabia. This...
View ArticleThis Day, January 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 2438: Empress Eudocia, the wife of Byzantine Emperor Theodius II, who spent the last years of her life in the Holy Land allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and pray at the site of the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 3106 BCE: Birthdate of Marcus Tullius, the Roman statesman and orator. From the Jewish point of view he was just one more anti-Semitic intellectual. “He denounced Judaism as a ‘barbarous...
View ArticleThis Day, January 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 441: The Praetorian Guard killed the Roman Emperor Caligula. Caligula is one of those vile figures whose behavior is dismissed as the acts of crazy person. As far as the Jews are concerned,...
View ArticleThis Day, January 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 5 1355: Charles I of Bohemia was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan. Charles I morphed into Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor who at the beginning of his reign made an...
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This Day, January 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 6548: This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas on December 25th began in the late 300s in the WesternChurch.)1300:...
View ArticleThis Day, January 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 7 1256:Berechiah De Nicole, the Chief Rabbi of Lincoln was released after having been imprisoned in London on charges related to the death of “Little Hugh of Lincoln.” The son of Rabbi Moses...
View ArticleThis Day, January 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 8 1169: A year after Maimonides who was living in Egypt completed competed “The Book of the Lamp” or “Sefer Ha-Ma'or" his Commentary to the Mishnah, General Shirkuh entered Cairo with orders...
View ArticleThis Day, January 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 9638: As a result of the Sixth Council of Toledo that began today “King Chintilla decreed that only Catholics were permitted to live in Visigothic Spain.”681: Erwig, the Visigoth King of what...
View ArticleThis Day, January 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 10 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Caesar’s opposition was led by Pompey, the Roman who defiled the Holy of Holies, mocked the Jewish religion and...
View ArticleThis Day, January 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 11 66(28th of Tevet, 3826): The Sanhedrin elected Joseph ben Gorion and the High Priest Anan as the administrative heads of the government of Judea replacing King Agrippa314: Militades, who was...
View ArticleThis Day, January 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 121349: A letter sent today “from the city of council of Cologne…to the leaders of Strasbroug” warned that pogroms (attacks on the Jews) had turned into general riots “by the common people” and...
View ArticleThis Day, January 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 13 519 BCE: Darius had “a crown made for Zerubbabel out of gold sent by Jews in Babylon.”915: Birthdate of Al-Hakam II, the second Caliph of Cordoba from 961 to 976 whose subjects included...
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