[September 2] 

• Jews of Holland were emancipated, 1796.

• The Mir ghetto was liquidated, 1942.

[September 4] 

• Germany occupied Kalisz, Poland - Jewish pop. 30,000 - 1939.

[September 5] 

• Jews of Hanover granted equality, 1848.

• Many leading Jews of Posen, Poland were imprisoned and tortured following blood libel, 1736.

[September 6] 

• Germany occupied Cracow, 1939.

• Nazis ordered the liquidation of Bialystok ghetto, 1942.

[September 7]

• Russian government decreed the draft of Jewish boys at 12 years old, 1827.
• Pogrom in Shedlitz, Russia, 1906.
• A group of 23 Jews from Recife, Brazil arrived in New Amsterdam, 1654. They became the pioneers of New York's Jewish community.
• Alexander Susskind, who gave his whole fortune as ransom for the body of Rabbi Meir of Rottenberg, died, 1307.

[September 8] 

• Israel agreed to accept reparation money from West Germany, 1952.

• Torquemada died, 1498.

• First Jew known to have settled in Canada, 1760.

[September 9] 

• Italian planes bomb Tel Aviv; 117 are killed, 1940.

• Copies of the Gemara were burned by the Inquisition, 1553. Italian planes bomb Tel Aviv; 117 are killed, 1940.

[September 10]

• The Jewish community of Berlin was organized, 1671.
• The Congress for the Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests, which opened in Dresden, Germany, 1882, was the first international assembly to promote anti-Semitism.

[September 11]

• Daf Yomi was initiated by Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin, 1923.
• The liquidation of the Minsk and Lida ghettos began, 1943.
• Charles Lindbergh made an anti-Semitic speech on radio, 1941.
• The ghetto in Stolin, Poland, was wiped out with the mass murders of 11,000 Jews, 1942.
• 90,000 Jews were sent to their deaths from the Warsaw ghetto, 1942. A total of 300,000 Jews were sent to Nazi killing camps during a 53 day period from Erev Tish'a b'Av until Erev Rosh HaShana that year.
• First organized attack by Nazi stormtroopers, Berlin, 1931.
• Ghetto of Uman was liquidated by the Nazis, 1941.

[September 12]

• The governor of New York was petitioned to allow the Jews to exercise their religion in public, 1695. It seems that the Charter of Liberties granted by James I of England in 1683, applied only to Christians. So much for liberty for all. Therefore, the governor declined the petition.
• Gedera was attacked by Arabs, 1901.
• First organized attack by Nazi storm troopers against Jews took place in Berlin, 1931.
• Compulsory education law passed in Israel, 1949.
• First shul services in Manhattan, 1654. First for St. Louis, 1836.

[September 13]

• Jews of Klausenburg, Hungary, were massacred, 1600.
• 40 rabbis of the ghetto of Lodz were killed by the Nazis, 1942.
• Germany occupied Miclec, Poland, 1939, and murdered its entire Jewish population.

[September 14]

• Jews of Homel, Russia, were massacred, 1903.
• The first Jewish self-defense organization in Eretz Yisrael was founded, 1908.
• 9000 Jews of Slonim, Russia, were killed by the Nazis, 1941.
• The Supreme Court of Israel was inaugurated, 1948.

[September 15]

• British troops occupied New York City, 1776, disrupting Jewish life.
• The foundation stone for Ararat was laid in Buffalo, New York, 1825. Ararat was to be a city of refuge for displaced Jews. It was to be on Grand Island in the Niagra River.
• The anti-Semitic Nuremberg racial laws were passed by the Nazis, 1935.
• 800 Jewish women of Shkudvil, Lithuania, were executed by the Nazis, 1941.
• The first synagogue in South Africa, Tikvat Yisrael, was dedicated in Capetown, 1849.

[September 16]

• Here's a nasty one... Pope Benedict XIV prohibited Jewish converts to Christianity from giving their wives gittin (religious divorce), 1747.
• The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston, 1630.
• Sam Rayburn was elected Speaker of the House, 1940. He held that position for 17 of the following 21 years, serving longer than anyone else in that post.

[September 17]

• The Jewish Quarter of Paris was plundered, 1394 (it was a Yom Kipur).
• The Camp David summit talks (the first ones) ended, in 1978.

[September 18]

• Religious freedom was granted to the Jews of Morocco, 1880.
• The Jewish community of Shirvint, Lithuania, was massacred by the Nazis, 1941.

[September 19]

• German forces occupied the Polish city of Lukow, killing many Jews, 1939.
• Nazi decree forbidding non-Jews to work for Jews in their homes or businesses, 1940.
• Germany captured Kiev, 1941.

[September 20]

• Magellan set sail, 1519, in search of a "western passage". One of his ships eventually completed a full circle of the world. (Magellan was killed en route).
• Dreyfus was released from prison on Devil's Island, 1899.
• Happy 83rd birthday, basketball Hall of Fame coach of the Boston Celtics, Red Auerbach.

[September 21]

• Jews of Zurich, Switzerland were charged with perpetuation of the Black Death epidemic. Some were burned to death; the rest were expelled, 1348.
• Jews of Mogilev, Russia were atacked during Tashlich, 1645.
• Privileges granted the Jews of Sweden were revoked by the Swedish government, 1838.
• Jews of Arnhem (Holland) were ordered to wear the Jew-badge by the city's cardinal, 1451.
• Hodel, daughter of Moshe Kikinish of Lemberg, was martyred, 1710, after falsely confessing to blood-ritual charges in order to save the lives of other Jews.
• Anti-Jewish riots in two Swiss cities, 1802.
• U.S. President Harding signed a joint resolution of congress expressing approval of the establishment of a national home for the Jewish People in Eretz Yisrael, 1922.