B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[7 Elul]
Amram remarried Yocheved.
Agrippa I dedicated the new gate of the Jerusalem wall, 42ce. Date observed as a holiday in olden times.
[September 7]
Russian government decreed the draft of Jewish boys at 12 years old, 1827.
Pogrom in Shedlitz, Russia, 1906.
A group of 23 Jews from Recife, Brazil arrived in New Amsterdam, 1654. They became the pioneers of New York's Jewish community.
Alexander Susskind, who gave his whole fortune as ransom for the body of Rabbi Meir of Rottenberg, died, 1307.
[8 Elul]
The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by the Romans and all resistance ended, 70ce, completing the conquest of Judea and Jerusalem.
17 Jews were burned at the stake in Schweidwitz, Silesia (now part Poland, part Czech Republic), 1453.
[September 8]
Cong. Shearith Israel of New York laid the foundation stone for the first shul structure in North America - NYC, 1729.
Knesset passed Israel's draft law, 1949, requiring every Jewish youth in Israel to serve in the army.
General J. Stroop, commander of the Nazi forces which had razed the Warsaw ghetto, was executed, 1951.
The study of Hebrew as a modern language was introduced for the first time into New York public schools, 1930. (Hebrew had been taught at Harvard since the school's inception in 1636.)
The entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania was massacred by the Nazis, 1941.
Israel agreed to accept reparations from West Germany, 1952
Torquemada, chief of the Spanish Inquisition and main instigator of the expulsion of Jews from Spain, died, 1498.
Aaron Hart, first known Jew to settle in Canada, did so in 1760.
[9 Elul]
Birth of Dan b. Yaakov (born of Bilha for Rachel).
Ramban arrived in Yerushalayim, 1267, and soon thereafter reestablished the Jewish community here.
Massacre of the Jews of Gerona, Spain, 1391.
The pope prohibited Jews from allowing Christians into shuls, 1592. (It seems that the Church was afraid that Christians who were exposed to Judaism might become interested in converting.)
[September 9]
Copies of the Talmud were confiscated and burned in Crete and Rome by the Inquisition, 1553.
The first shul in Basle, Switzerland in modern times was dedicated, 1867.
Italian planes bombed Tel Aviv, killing 117 people, 1940.
Jews of Kislovodsk, Russia were massacred, 1942.
[10 Elul]
No'ach opened the window in the ark and sent out the raven.
Buda Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of the ghetto from serious injury during attack by riotous mobs, 1684. (Buda is half of Budapest, the city on the right bank of the Danube which joined with Pest from the left bank in 1873.)
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines, one of the founders of Mizrachi, 1915.
[September 10]
The Jewish community of Berlin was organized, 1671.
The Congress for the Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests, which opened in Dresden, Germany, 1882, was the first international assembly to promote anti-Semitism.
[11 Elul]
Rabbi Yosef Karo completed his commentary on the Tur Shulchan Aruch, 1542.
Operation Magic Carpet, which brought 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel, was officially concluded, 1950.
[September 11]
Daf Yomi was initiated by Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin, 1923.
The liquidation of the Minsk and Lida ghettos began, 1943.
Charles Lindbergh made an anti-Semitic speech on radio, 1941.
The ghetto in Stolin, Poland, was wiped out with the mass murders of 11,000 Jews, 1942.
90,000 Jews were sent to their deaths from the Warsaw ghetto, 1942. A total of 300,000 Jews were sent to Nazi killing camps during a 53 day period from Erev Tish'a b'Av until Erev Rosh HaShana that year.
[12 Elul]
King James I of Aragon was responsible for one of the first cases of Church censorship of Hebrew writings, 1263.
Restrictive anti-Jewish laws for the Roman Jewish community were renewed by the pope, 1732.
[September 12]
The governor of New York was petitioned to allow the Jews to exercise their religion in public, 1695. It seems that the Charter of Liberties granted by James I of England in 1683, applied only to Christians. So much for liberty for all. Therefore, the governor declined the petition.
Gedera was attacked by Arabs, 1901.
First organized attack by azi storm troopers against Jews took place in Berlin, 1931.
Compulsory education law passed in Israel, 1949.
[13 Elul]
Nazis closed all shuls and schools in the Kovno ghetto, 1942.
7000 stateless Jews were rounded up in the Vichy Free Zone of France, 1942.
[September 13]
Jews of Klausenburg, Hungary, were massacred, 1600.
40 rabbis of the ghetto of Lodz were killed by the Nazis, 1942.
Germany occupied Miclec, Poland, 1939, and murdered its entire Jewish population.
[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.
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