B"H
Yom Yom
B"H Yom Yom from
Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[13 Iyar]
The Church in Vienna ordered distinctive garb for Jews, 1267.
Jews were expelled from Berne, 1427. Expulsions of Jews continued throughout the 15th century.
The U.N. Security Council ordered a cease-fire in the Israeli-Arab war, 1948.
Nasser repudiated the cease-fire between Egypt and Israel, 1969.
[May 18]
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Uruguay, and Nicaragua recognized Israel, 1948.
The Arab Legion captured the police fort on Mt. Scopus, 1948, and Saudi Arabia joined the other Arab armies in their invasion of Israel, 1948.
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Algeria, 1897.
Jew of Worms were massacred by Crusaders, 1096.
Over 500 Jews were forcibly baptized in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 576.
Acco was captured by Muslims bringing to an end the Christian Kingdom of Eretz Yisrael. The persecution of medieval Jewry in England dates from the 12th century, with the launching of the Crusades. The persecutions led to the expulsion of the Jewish community in 1290. The vestiges of the Crusaders' Kingdom in Eretz Yisrael came to an end in 1291.
[14 Iyar]
Pesach Sheni (a.k.a. Pesach Katan).
The Jewish community of Bisenz, Austria, was massacred, 1605.
Thousands of books written by Jewish and liberal non-Jewish authors were publicly burned by the Nazis, 1933.
Ramat Rachel was repossessed by Israel, 1948. The battle for Jewish control of the Jordan Valley was successfully concluded on the same day.
Yad Mordecai was captured by the Arabs, 1948.
Adolf Eichmann, key to the implementation of the "final solution", was captured in Buenos Aires, 1960. He was in charge of the of all Jews to the extermination camps. The height of his career was reached in Hungary, '44, when he transported 400,000 Jews to the gas chambers in less than five weeks.
[May 19]
The provisional government council of Israel proclaimed a state of emergency, 1948.
Berlin was declared "Judenrein", 1943.
The aliyah of Iraqi Jews began, 1950. The first deportation of Eretz Yisrael Jews to Babylonia took place in 597 B.C.E. The bulk of Eretz Yisrael Jewry followed them to Babylonia 11 years later, in 568 B.C.E. The first return of some Babylonian Jews to Eretz Yisrael took place in 539 B.C.E. The majority, however, remained in Babylonia, where they were destined eventually to make a major contribution to Judaism through the creation of the Babylonian Talmud and the Geonic responsa. It was not until 1951, 2,548 years after the arrival of the first Jewish deportees in Babylonia, that this ancient Jewish community began its own liquidation through an aliya to Israel.
Metula founded, 1896.
[15 Iyar]
Israelites reached the desert of Tzin and ran out of the matza they had taken along with them.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes is annually observed by Jews of Tiberias.
Empress Catherine I of Russia expelled all Jews from the Ukraine, 1727.
Anti-Jewish riots in Rostov on the Don, Russia, 1883.
Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans, 1945.
[May 20]
The Israeli air force went in to action for the first time in the War of Independence, 1948.
The Syrian army, which had advanced to Deganya, was halted and repulsed, 1948. This was Israel's first significant victory. It came on the anniversary of the end of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Frederick William of Prussia permitted 50 Jewish families who had been expelled from Vienna to settle in his dominion, 1671.
[16 Iyar]
The Roman legion under Florus plundered Jerusalem and killed 3600 Jews, 66 C.E.
Titus recaptured the middle wall of Jerusalem and razed it, 70 C.E.
Anti-Jewish riots in Algeria, 1897.
Construction began on the first 100 houses to be built in Ahuzat Bayit (to be know later as Tel Aviv), 1909.
The Nuremburg anti-Jewish laws went into effect in Hungary, 1939.
The U.S. 7th Army liberated the Dachau concentration camp, 1945.
[May 21]
Portuguese Marranos were granted permission to settle in Brazil, 1577.
An edict admitting Jews into Berlin, 1671.
[17 Iyar]
Beginning of the biblical flood according to Rabbi Yehoshua, whose opinion is that "the second month" always refers to Iyar. Rabbi Eliezer says that pre-Nationhood references to the second month are Cheshvan.
The Roman garrison, on its way to seize the Temple, was attacked by Jewish defense forces and compelled to retreat, 66 C.E.
Jews of England were thrown into prison on charges of coining, 1278.
The Nazis interned 3600 Jews of Russian origin, 1941.
[May 22]
Egypt blocked the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, 1967.
Karl Frank, nazi protector of Bohemia-Moravia, was executed in Prague, 1946.
Rumanian government granted citizenship to all native-born Jews, 1919.
Hundreds of Jew were burned alive in Brussels, the remainder were banished from the country, 1370.
[18 Iyar]
Lag ba'Omer.
Traditional Yahrzeit of Rabbi Simon b. Yohai.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rama), 1572.
The Jewish community of Ettingen, Germany, set this day aside as a day of thanksgiving for their escape from blood-ritual charges, 1690.
TZAHA"L (IDF) was established, 1948.
The Arabs blew up the Hurva shul, 1948.
The first degrees of Doctor of Medicine were awarded to 62 graduates of the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, 1952.
[May 23]
The only advance of the Arab Legion beyond the Old City walls into "Jewish Jerusalem" was halted in front of Notre Dame, 1948. The commander of the Arab Legion, Sir John Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha), considered that battle to be the worst defeat suffered by the legion throughout the war.
King Edward I of England ordered the cessation of persecution of Jews of Bordeaux, France.
Jews of Austria were imprisoned and expelled from the country, 1420.
Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler committed suicide, 1945.
Emperor Maximilian of Germany rescinded a previously issued order to burn all Hebrew books, 1510.
[19 Iyar]
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg (Maharam), 1293.
Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, committed suicide, 1945.
[May 24]
South Africa recognized Israel, 1948.
The Egyptian army captured Yad Mordecai, 1945.
[20 Iyar]
Jews left the vicinity of Mt. Sinai in the second year of the exodus, after almost a year there.
Jews of Troyes, France, were condemned to the stake by the Inquisition on charges of ritual murder, 1288.
Jews of Venice were denied the right to practice law, 1637.
A community of Jewish slaves, captured over a period of two centuries and held for ransom by the Knights of St. John on the island of Malta, was officially dissolved, 1800
The Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital and Medical Center was opened on Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 1939.
The Nazis decreed the execution of all pregnant Jewish women in the ghetto of Kovno, 1942.
Sedeh Boker was founded on an ancient Nabatean site never before inhabited by Jews.
[May 25]
Simhah b. Ha-Kohen of Worms was killed by Crusaders in a church for stabbing the bishop's nephew while pretending to submit to compulsory baptism, 1096.
Massacre of the Jews of Worms who took refuge in the castle during the First Crusade, 1096.
Chmielnicki's pogroms, which resulted in the massacre of more than 300,000 Jews, broke out, 1648
Minsk, Russia, recognized Yiddish as a second official language, 1917.
Jews of Warsaw and environs, expelled, 1784.
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