B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[26 Sivan]
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yitzchak b. Chaim, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, 1849.
[June 29]
British arrested 100 leaders of the Yishuv on the "Black Sabbath", 1946.
Nazis murdered the male Jews of Drobian, Lithuania, 1941.
Crusaders massacred the Jews of Mehr, 1096.
[27 Sivan]
End of Miriam's confinement in the Midbar.
The Romans stormed the Samaritan stronghold on Har Gerizim and killed 11,600 people, 67ce.
Rabbi Chanina b. T'radyon, one of Asara Harugei Malchut, was burned at the stake. Rabbi Akiva was imprisoned. 132ce.
Second expulsion of Jews from France, 1322.
Purim of Florence, celebrating escape from massacre, 1790.
Memorial day for Lithuanian Jewry.
[June 30]
In 1294, the Jewish community of Berne, Switzerland forfeited all financial claims against non-Jews, and then were expelled from the country.
The Jewish comminuty of Morgentheim, Austria was massacred, 1298.
Henry Ford retracted and apologized for the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 1927.
The last British armed forces left Israel, 1948.
[28 Sivan]
Bnei Yisra'el arrived in Midbar Paran.
Slobodka Yeshiva closed its doors, 1941.
[July 1]
Titus set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem, 70c.e.
Russian Jews granted permission to print Jewish books, 1862.
Pogrom in Jassy, the cradle of Rumanian anti-Semitism claimed 5000 Jewish lives, 1941.
First Jew to lose his life in the American Revolution, 1776.
Sir Herbert Samuel became first British High-Commissioner of Palestine, 1920. (The dedication of what street took place in his presence?)
Jews of Lithuania received a Charter of Privilege, 1388.
[29 Sivan]
Moshe sent the Meraglim to survey Eretz Yisrael. (Of which Jews in Chutz LaAretz read on the day before - this year).
Follow the contrast: Chovevei Tzion was founded in America, 1897. Six years later, same date, Russia banned all Zionist meetings, 1903.
Germany occupied Kovno and Vilna, 1941.
[July 2]
Nazi-instigated pogrom claimed many Jewish lives in Lvov, 1941.
Chumash with Ramban first published in 1490.
[30 Sivan]
Residence tax on Hungarian Jews was abolished, 1846.
Numerous Jews were killed in a pogrom at Jassy, Rumania, 1941.
[July 3]
Pogrom in Bialystock, 1903.
[1 Tammuz]
Yaakov and family went down to Mitzrayim (according to one source. This would be the establishment of the first voluntary Jewish settlement outside of Eretz Yisrael).
Many Jews were killed by a riotous mob in Seville, 1391. The riots spread throughout Spain.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Kluger, 1869.
Massacre of 2300 Lithuanian Jews by Lithuanians, 1941.
[July 4]
Pogrom in Kielce, Poland, first post Nazi massacre of the Jews, 1946.
Catherine II of Russia restricted the area where Jews were permitted to trade, 1794.
RAID AT ENTEBBE, 1976.
The non-Jewish owner of a building used as a shul was burned at the stake, 1632.
American Independence was declared on 17th of Tammuz, 1776.
41 Jews were burned at the stake in Brelau, 1453. The remainder of the Jewish population was expelled.
[2 Tammuz]
Rabbi Shmuel b. Yechiel of Cologne was killed by Crusaders, 1096. Earthquake hits Eretz yisrael, 1927.
[July 5]
The then 50-year old Jewish community of the Belgian Congo, consisting of 2500 Jews fled in the wake of riots which followed independence, 1960.
The Knesset passed a law granting every Jew the absolute right to settle in Israel, 1950.
The Pope decreed against blood-ritual charges, 1247. (It seems that the decree was ignored.)
Another pope banned forced baptisim of Jews, 1345. (This decree was overturned by subsequent pope's in 1597 and 1747 - and probably by others at other times as well.)
[3 Tammuz]
Yehoshua "commanded" the Sun and the Moon to stand still.
Here's a repeat from last week (its secular date - this is commonly done in this column, but mention is being made now to focus attention at what might strike you as absurd, and yet...): Rabbi Menashe b. Yisrael petitioned for permission to practice Judaism in England. Permission was granted by the Council of State, 1656.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Bernard Illowy, 1871. A staunch opponent of the Reform movement, he was the first Orthodox rabbi with a PhD from Europe to settle in the U.S.
1500 Jews of Kovno and 11,000 Jews in Kishinev were killed, 1941.
[July 6]
President Roosevelt called for an international conference to consider the "displaced persons" problem, 1938. The negligible results highlight the passive role the Western world in the face of the Nazis.
The first 14 members of BILU arrived at Yaffa port, 1882.
Bendin (Poland) ghetto uprising, 1942.
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