B"H Yom Yom from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l [30 Av] Moshe Rabeinu ascended Har Sinai to receive the second set of Luchot and G-d's forgiveness for Bnei Yisrael. The 6th World Zionist Congress met in Basil and approved a proposal for the Jewish colonization of part of Uganda, 1903. This split the Zionist movement. [August 12] First diplomatic envoy from U.S. to Israel arrives, 1948. Systematic Nazi extermination of Jews of Dvinsk began, 1941. 24 Yiddishists executed in Russia, thus liquidating Yiddish culture in Russia, 1952. [1 Elul] Beginning of the Third Plague in Egypt. G-d tells Zerubavel (via Chaggai) to rebuild the Beit haMikdash. Beginning of the year for purpose of animal-tithes. according to the Tana Kama in Rosh HaShana 1:1. Persian Jews made annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Serach b. Asher. Jews of Palma massacred, 1391. Anti-Jewish riots claim 77 lives in Prague, 1400. [August 13] British Mandatory government orders all illegal Jewish immigrants to be sent to Cyprus, 1946. Jews of Great Poland granted limited self-rule, 1551. [2 Elul] 160 Jews in France burned to death on charges of well-poisoning, 1321. Jews of Poland and Lithuania granted a Charter of Rights, 1447. Pope orders the confiscation and burning of all copies of the Talmud, 1553. First printing of the Shulchan Aruch, near Tzfat, 1555. Jews of Balogna, Italy granted equal rights,1796. [August 14] Birth of the modern Argentinian Jewish community, 1889. Today, it is the 8th largest Jewish community in the world. Jewish Agency for Palestine founded, 1929. Archbishop of Lemberg, Poland provided hiding places for Jewish children and Sifrei Torah, 1942. [3 Elul] Birthdate of the Meiri, 1240. Jews of Budapest were granted permission to conduct religious services in private homes, provided no rabbi was present, 1787 (amazing!). Yahrzeit of Rav Kook zt"l, 1935. He died 16 years to the day of his arrival in Jerusalem. [August 15] A Jew was lynched by the KKK in Tennessee, 1868. Another Jew was lynched in Georgia, 1915. [4 Elul] Jews of Barcelona massacred, 1391. Yahrzeit of R. Meir Simcha HaKohen, the Ohr Same'ach, 1926. [August 16] First news of Nazi mass killing of Jews reached the outside world, 1942 (think about this one). Chmielnicki, murderer of 300,000 Jews, died, 1675. [5 Elul] Yahrzeit of Miriam Bella, sister of the Rama and wife of the head of Cracow Jewry, 1619. She was famed for her piety & scholarship. Ukrainian army massacred Jews of Kiev, 1919. Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews, 1938. [August 17] First Jew to recieve English denizenship in England, 1655. (that's like citizenship, but less.) Pope forbids Jews to allow Christians to enter a shul, 1592 (okay by me). [6 Elul] Yahrzeit of the Tos'fot Yom Tov, 1654. Italian planes bomb Tel Aviv, 1940, killing 117. [August 18] 500 Jews of Kovno removed for Nazi execution, 1941. [7 Elul] Amram remarried Yocheved. Aggripa I dedicated new gate of the Jerusalem Wall, 42 c.e. Day was a holiday. Jews of Hanover granted equality. [August 19] One of the earliest Church censorship of Hebrew writings, 1263. In some form or another, in some country or another, this kind of censorship continued for more than 650 years. Liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto began, 1943. [The Sho'f'tim Homepage]
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