This Day, July 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 12 1191: The armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King Richard ('The Lionhearted'), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre. The Third Crusade would end in failure for the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 13100 BCE: Birthdate of Julius Caesar. When Caesar and Pompey fought for control of the Empire, the Jews supported Caesar because of the evil Pompey had done to the Jewish people including...
View ArticleThis Day, July 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A.Levin
July 141086: Toirdelbach Ua Briain passed away. Born in 1009, he was the King of Munster and the High King of Ireland. During his reign, in 1079, Jews reportedly made their first appearance in the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 15763 BCE: Forty-one years before their conquest of Israel, the Assyrians observe and record a solar eclipse which is the basis for much of the dating of activities in the Fertile Crescent,...
View ArticleThis Day, July 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 16622: The Prophet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. The importance of this to Jewish history should require no explanation.1099:...
View ArticleThis Day, July 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 171203: The Knights of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople forcing the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus to flee from his capital into exile. Unlike other Crusades, the focus of the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 1864: During the reign of Emperor Nero, the Great Fire begins in Rome. After the fire, Nero avoided the initial inclination to blame the blaze on the Jews. Instead, he targeted the nascent...
View ArticleThis Day, July, 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 1964: During the reign of Nero, The Great Fire at Rome comes to end. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Jews had been living in Rome since the second century before the Common Era since “the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 20356 BCE: In Macedonia, King Philip II and Queen Olympia give birth to Alexander the Great. You can draw a straight line from Alexander’s Hellenization of Asia Minor to Chanukah to Tisha B’Av,...
View ArticleThis Day, July 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A.Levin
July 21285: Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. This was part of an attempt to shore up the imperial authority. In another such step, Diocletian “ordered all the people …to accept his...
View ArticleThis Day, July 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 221099: During the First Crusade, in what has to be one of the most ironic moment of the Middle Ages,Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the leaders who had extorted money from the Jews in Mainz and...
View ArticleThis Day, July 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 23501: A violent earth quake hit Eretz Yisrael. The town of Akko was totally destroyed. 636: Following the Battle of Yarmuk Arabs took control of most of Eretz Yisrael from the Byzantine Empire....
View ArticleThis Day, July 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 241148: Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. The Second Crusade gained nothing for the Christians. The failure of the crusade may help explain “the long period...
View ArticleThis Day, July 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 25306: Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. Under the rule of Constantine, Christianity would in effect become the official religion the Roman Empire. This was the beginning...
View ArticleThis Day, July 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 26412: “Emperors Theodosius II and Honorius ban compulsion of public service or court appearances for Jews on the Sabbath or any other Jewish holy day. Thus all legal issues involving Jews must be...
View ArticleThis Day, July 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 271192: As Richard the Lionheart and Saladin continued their conflict during the Third Crusade, Saladin laid siege to Jaffa.1214: French King Phillip II defeats the forces headed by Otto IV, the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 28450:Theodosius II the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor from 408 to 450 passed away. His reign was not a good period for the Jews people. In 425 “on the death of the Jewish Patriarch Gamaliel...
View ArticleThis Day, July 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 291099: Pope Urban II, the man behind the First Crusade, passed away. Considering the impact of the Crusades on the Jews of Europe, his impact on Jewish history is self-obvious.1108: Louis VI,...
View ArticleThis Day, July 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
July 30 762:Caliph Al Mansur founded the city of Baghdad. By the start of the 10th century wealthy...
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...
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