B"H Yom Yom

From Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l

Courtesy of Pomeranz Bookseller and Ktav Publ.

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[5] Jewish journalist and author lynched in Georgia, 1915. Jews of  Kiev massacred, 1919. Mussolini canceled the civil rights of Italian Jews, 1938.

[6] Yahrzeit of R. Yom Tov Lipmann Heller of Cracow, author of Tosefot Yom Tov on Mishna, 1654. Italian planes bomb Tel Aviv, 1940, killing 117.

[7] Amram remarries Yocheved. King Aggripa I dedicates new gate in Jerusalem wall. Observed as holiday in olden times.

[8] On this day in 70c.e. the Romans battered down the walls of the upper city of Jerusalem and all resistance came to an end. The conquest of Judea and Jerusalem was complete. 17 Jews were burned at the stake in Silesia in 1453. Sh'chita was banned in Switzerland in 1893 (the ban is still in effect).

[9] Birthday of Dan b. Yaakov. The Ramban arrived in Jerusalem, 1267. He renewed the Jewish community in Yerushalayim which enjoyed uninterrupted existence until 1948. 19 years later, it was reestablished - 700 years after the Ramban's arrival. Jews of Cologne set fire to their homes and perished in the flames, to avaoid forced baptism, 1349. Jacob Bar simon, the first known Jewish settler in North America, arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. Hungarian Jewish deportees massacred in Russia 1941. 7000 Jews massacred in Marijampole Lithuania, 1941. Wearing of the Yellow Star became obligatory for all Jews in the Reich, 1941.

[10] No'ach sent the raven out of the ark. Yahrzeit of Rabbi
Yitzchak Yaakov Reines, 1915. Supreme Court in Israel inaugurated 1948.

[11] Rabbi Yosef Caro completed his commentary on the Tur, 1542. Jews of Poland granted limited autonomy by Sigismund II. The liquidation of the ghettos in Minsk and Lida was begun, 1943. Operation Magic Carpet which brought 45,000 Yeminite Jews to Israel was concluded, 1950.

[12] One of the earliest recorded Church censorships of Hebrew writings was ordered by King James I of Aragon, 1263.

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