[September 1]
- World War II broke out, 1939.
- Mussolini canceled civil rights of Italian Jews and expelled all foreign-born Jews, 1938.
- Wearing the yellow star became obligatory for all Jews in the Reich, 1941.
- Jews of Frankfort on the Main were expelled, 1614.
[September 2]
- Jews of Holland were emancipated, 1796.
- The Mir ghetto was liquidated, 1942.
[September 3]
- Anti-Jewish riots in Stockholm, Sweden, 1852.
- England and France declare war on Germany, 1939.
- Many Jews of London were killed in riots during the coronation of Richard I, 1189.
[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.