This Day, June 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 111509: Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon. Before marrying Henry, the Spanish made him promise that he would never permit Jews to live in his Kingdom. Henry agreed...
View ArticleThis Day, June 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 12816: Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.1240: Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 13823: Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon. In doing so, Charles was following in the footsteps of...
View ArticleThis Day, June 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 141287: Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria. It is quite possible that there were Jewish soldiers serving under the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 151215: King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta. The Great Charter which is supposed to be one of the cornerstones of English and American rights contains the following reference...
View ArticleThis Day, June 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 161221: Massacre of the Jews of Erfurt, Germany which at one time was commemorated as a Fast Day on the 25th of Sivan.1295: Mahmud Ghazan the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate...
View ArticleThis Day, June 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 17 397: Roman Emperors Arcadius and Honorius issue the following order "The governors must be informed that, upon receipt of this notice, all insults attacking the Jews shall be averted...
View ArticleThis Day, June 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 181155: In Rome, the coronation of Frederick Barbarossa makes him the Holy Roman Emperor. Compared to other medieval monarchs, Frederick’s treatment of his Jewish subjects was comparatively...
View ArticleThis Day, June 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 19325: Promulgation of the Nicene Creed. The creed dealt with various splits among the various Christian groups and only dealt in a tangential manner with matters pertaining to Jews. The creed...
View ArticleThis Day, June 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 20840: Louis the Pious, King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor by virtue of being the son of Charlemagne. When it came to dealing with his Jewish subjects, Louis followed in the footsteps...
View ArticleThis Day, June 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A an Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 21356 B.C.E.: Birthdate of Alexander the Great. Alexander traveled back forth across Judea; first when he went down to conquer Egypt and then when he came back from his Egyptian conquest and moved...
View ArticleThis Day, June 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 22217 BCE: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia. The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was part of the ongoing power struggle between the Seleucids...
View ArticleThis Day, June 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 2379: Vespasian, the Roman general who was in the process of conquering Judea when he became Emperor, died.79: Titus, the Roman general whom the Jews will always remember for the destruction of...
View ArticleThis Day, June 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 24586 BCE (9th of Tammuz, 3174): King Nebuchadnezzar’s army broke through the walls of Jerusalem and entered the City of David. 1182: Phillip II, the seventeen year old French monarch “decreed the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 25615: On three dates that the revolt began in Jerusalem again Khosrau II, the Persian Shah who was “was the last great king of the Sasanian Empire.”750: Today Abdullah ibn Ali marched to...
View ArticleThis Day, June 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 26363: Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. According to various sources, Julian was a...
View ArticleThis Day, June 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 271096: Massacres of the Jews took place in Xanten and Eller (Germany). This was the second massacre at Xanten in a month. Fifty Jews died. At Eller, five Jewish community leaders were assigned...
View ArticleThis Day, June 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 281320: “Pope John XXII issues Bullarium Romanum, ordering that Jews who convert to Christianity must be allowed to keep their property. The implication is that Jews who don't convert won't...
View ArticleThis Day, June 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 291096: Crusaders massacred the Jews of Mehr.1106: Moses Sephardi was baptized at Huseca, Spain and took the name of Petrus Alphonsi, the noted “physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist.”...
View ArticleThis Day, June 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 30713 CE: In Spain, Visigoth nobility which had held out against the invading Moslem forces, throughout the winter of 712 finally surrendered to the Arabs. A majority of the remaining Goths and...
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