B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[14 Elul]
The oldest existing Ketuba written in the Western Hemisphere (in Surinam) is dated 14 Elul 5403. That's 1643.
The Nazis decreed that Jews may no longer own moveable or immovable property, 1940.
Jews of Vilna were forced into the ghetto, 1941.
1668 Jews of Radomysl, Poland, were killed by the Nazis, 1941.
[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.
[15 Elul]
The Jewish community of Treves, Prussia (now Trier, Germany) observed a fast day to mark a period of persecution which began on this date in 1675.
The Jews of New York were denied permission to pray in public, 1685.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Akiva Eiger (of Pressburg), 1758.
[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.
[16 Elul]
The entire Jewish community Meretsch, Lithuania was massacred, 1941.
"Illegal" Jewish immigrants who had been exiled by the British to the Island of Mauritius were admitted into Eretz Yisrael, 1945.
[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.
[17 Elul]
No'ach released the dove.
2000 Jews of Caesaria were massacred, 66ce.
Pogroms in Shedlitz, Russia, 1906.
This is the Jewish calendar date for the beginning of Word War II, 1939.
[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.
[18 Elul]
Amalek defeated the Jews who had stormed their mountain stronghold in defiance of Moshe's order.
Shimon the Chashmona'i was elected Kohen Gadol and governor of the Jews, marking the new independence of the Jewish nation, 141bce.
Yahrzeit of the Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehuda Leib b. Bezalel), 1609.
[September 18]
Religious freedom was granted to the Jews of Morocco, 1880.
The Jewish community of Shirvint, Lithuania, was massacred by the Nazis, 1941.
[19 Elul]
Ashkenazim of Jerusalem began the reconstruction of the ruined shul of Rabbi Yehuda HaChasid, 1836. It was again destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948. It is known as the Churva.
Anti-Jewish riots in Stockholm, Sweden, 1852.
Massacre of the Jews of Czestochowa, Poland, 1939.
[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.
[20 Elul]
Charles VI ordered the expulsion of Jews of France, 1394.
Ghetto in Mir was destroyed, 1942.
Yahrzeit of the Ponevezher Rav (Rabbi Yosef Kahanaman), 1969.
[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.
[21 Elul]
Many Jews of London were killed during the coronation of Richard I, 1189. One of the victims was the Tosefist, Rabbi Yaakov of Orleans.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yehonasan Eybeschuetz, 1764.
The firast ghetto in Poland was established in Piotrkow, 1939. Jewish population of the city was 17,000.
[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.
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