B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[10 Tammuz]
Tzidkiyahu HaMelech was captured by the Babylonians, 586bce.
12 Jews of Cologne were martyred, 1266.
Fire-fast observed by the Jewish community of Frankfort on the Maine to mark the escape of the Jewish quarter from a major fire, 1720.
[July 13]
Equal rights for Jews of Rumania, 1878.
Israeli law prohibiting the raising of pigs in Jewish settlements, 1963.
Anti-Jewish riots in Cordova, Spain, 1148.
5000 Jews of Rovno (Polish Ukraine) executed by the Nazis, 1942.
[11 Tammuz]
Purim of Tammuz for Jews of Algiers to mark their escape from attack by the Spanish army, 1774.
[July 14]
Israel bombed Cairo. 1948.
6000 Lithuanian Jews were killed, 1941.
Jews of Holstein, Germany were granted equality, 1863.
[12 Tammuz]
Massacre of the Jews of Weiner-Neustadt, Austria, 1298.
Jews denounced to the Inquisition received the right to face their accusers, 1298. This had not always been so. It is an issue in many episodes of Jewish and World history, ranging from the Roman Coliseum through European dictatorships to the McCarthy senate hearings.
Yahrzeit of the Baal HaTurim, 1340.
Nazis executed 5000 Jews in the fortress of Kovno, 1941.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, HY"D, 1941.
[July 15]
Berlin Jews attacked by Nazi gangs, 1935.
Spanish Inquisition was officially abolished, 1834.
Crusaders captured Jerusalem, 1099.
The pope promulgated a Church doctrine which held Jews doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation because they killed you know whom, 1205. This classic charge of deicide was officially removed in 1963.
A Russian Jew and the ger he had converted to Judaism were burned at the stake in St. Petersburg, 1738.
[13 Tammuz]
First printed edition of Sefer HaChinuch, 1523. It still makes the great Bar Mitzva gift 477 years later.
The Jew badge was decreed for all Jews in the Baltic States, 1941.
Minsk (Russia) was captured by the Germans, 1942 trapping about 40,000 Jews in the city.
YHS-T.
[July 16]
Crusaders herded the Jews of Jerusalem into a shul and set it aflame, all the Jews perished in the fire, 1099. For the 88 years of Crusader control of Jerusalem, Jews were barred from the city.
The first train with Jews from Holland left for a killing camp, 1942.
13,000 Jews of Paris were rounded up by the French police for deportation, 1942.
The execution of Czar Nicholas II, 1918 brought an end to a dynasty guilty of many crimes against Jews.
[14 Tammuz]
250 Jews were killed in Rothenburg, Germany, 1298.
30 Jews of Schaffhausen (Switzerland) were burned at the stake on ritual murder charges, 1401.
[July 17]
Legislation abolishing discrimination against the service of chaplains in the United States army became a law, 1862. (an entry of this type in BHYY is not meant to highlight this particular event, but rather to call to the reader's attention that such discrimination existed in the U.S. in the first place.)
The expulsion of all Marranos in Ghent, Belgium, 1549.
Raoul Wallenberg was reported by Russia to have died in prison, 1947. (between what 2 streets is the street is the street named in his memory?)
[15 Tammuz]
Chur, son of Miriam was killed attempting to dissuade the people from demanding the golden calf. As such he is the first Jew to die "Al Kiddush HaShem", in defense of his faith.
Druse Arabs attacked the Jews of Tzfat, 1838.
[July 18]
Jews of Brussels were ordered expelled, 1716.
The British seized the Exodus carrying 4000 "illegal" immigrants, 1947. Its defiance of the British navy and its ultimate return to Germany formed one of the most dramatic episodes in post-war Jewish history.
King Edward I ordered the expulsion of all Jews from England, 1290. (It was on Tish'a b'Av).
[16 Tammuz]
The golden calf emerged from the fire into which gold of Bnei Yisrael was thrown.
Pope confiscated all manuscripts of the Talmud, 1239.
[July 19]
The second truce in the war on Independence went into effect, 1948.
The Yarkon water project opened, 1955.
38 Jews were burned at the stake in Berlin, (Prussia), 1510.
[17 Tammuz]
Fast day and beginning of the Three Weeks.
The first Luchot were broken.
King Menashe placed an idol in the Beit HaMikdash.
The Korban Tamid was discontinued in the second Beit HaMikdash.
4000 Jews were killed in Toledo, Spain, 1391. The riots spread to many other Spanish Jewish communities bringing death and poverty in its wake. The destruction of Spanish Jewry began on the 17th of Tammuz and was completed (so to speak) 101 years later on Tish'a b'Av.
The American colonies declared their independence, 1776.
4000 Jews of the ghetto in Bialystok were shot, 1941.
Libya ordered the confiscation of Jewish property, 1970.
[July 20]
Napoleon decreed that all Jews of the French Empire must adopt family names, 1808.
The famous disputation between the Ramban and Pablo Christiani opened, 1263. (Join us on 17th Tammuz, Thursday, July 20th for a showing of The Disputation (video) on its 737th anniversary - see Back Page for details.)
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