B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[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 discon tinued 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.
[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.
HBT.
[18 Tammuz]
Moshe Rabeinu destroyed the Golden Calf
Louis IX decreed that all Jews must wear the distinctive yellow badge, known as the badge of shame.
Massacre of the Jewish community of Morgentheim, Austria, 1298.
Purim of Candia (Crete), from 1583.
[July 21]
Libya ordered the confiscation of Jewish property, 1970.
Jews of Upina, Lithuania, were killed by the Nazis, 1941.
Haifa port was opened to traffic, 1933.
Russia removed the ban on Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals, 1918.
[19 Tammuz]
Moshe ascended Har Sinai a second time. (Rashi says that Elul 1 to Yom Kippur was the third time)
The first 14 members of BILU reached Yafo, 1882.
6000 Lithuanian Jews were killed in Viszalsyan camp - 1941.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog, first chief rabbi of the State of Israel, 1959.
[July 22]
10,000 Jews of Polannoe were killed in the Chmielnicki massacres, 1648.
A bill for the emancipation of the Jews of England was passed by the House of Commons, 1833; rejected by the House of Lords until 1845!
The mass transportation of Jews of the Warsaw ghetto was announced, 1942 Deportation began on Leil Tish'a b'Av and continued for 53 days, during which, 300,000 Jews were taken to the killing camps.
[20 Tammuz]
Jews of Telz, including the heads of the yeshiva, were killed by the Nazis, 1941.
Nazis destroyed the Kovno ghetto, 1944.
Knesset bill, 1950, granting every Jew the absolute right to settle in Israel.
[July 23]
Rehovot was attacked by Arabs in 1913.
Jews of Austria were required to take family names, 1787.
Prussian Jewry granted equality, 1847.
The Jews of Wurzburg massacred, 1298.
Arabs took control of most of Eretz Yisrael from the Byzantines, 636.
A violent earth quake hit Eretz Yisrael, 501. Acco was totally destroyed.
[21 Tammuz]
Jews were barred from settling in Brazil, 1567. (Somehow, barring Jews from settlement in Brazil does not seem as as heinous as a gov't of Israel talking about dismantling settlements or relinquishing sovereignty over them.)
Don Lope de Vera y Alarcon HY"D, Spanish nobleman, convert to Judaism, known as Judah the Believer, was killed by the Inquisition, 1644. The Inquisition "stayed in business" for 182 more years - to the day -executing its last victim in 1826.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Polyatchek, 1928.
Bendin (Poland) ghetto uprising, 1942.
[July 24]
League of Nations confirmed Britian's mandate, 1922.
The entire Jewish male population of Grodz, Lithuania was killed by the Nazis, 1941.
Russian army liberated Lublin concentration camp, 1944.
Anti-Jewish riots in Posin, 1716.
Jews of Frankfort killed in the Black Death massacres, 1349.
Cornerstone of Hebrew University was laid, 1918.
[22 Tammuz]
Marranos were permitted to leave Portugal, 1557.
Yahrzeit of the "Pardes Rimonim", 1570.
[July 25]
Mussolini was dismissed from office, 1943. His downfall eased the situation for Italy's Jews.
Jews of Hebron were attacked, 1835.
Jewish community of Vienna was expelled, 1670.
The Turkish government barred immigration of Russian and Romanian Jews, 1882 and forbade the sale of land in E. Yisrael to Jews.
Anti-Jewish riots in Breslau, 1360, resulted in many deaths and the expulsion of those that remained alive.
Sir Moses Montefiore died, 1885.
[23 Tammuz]
Crusaders captured Jerusalem, 1099.
Chmielnicki hordes attack Vilna, 1655, killing many Jews.
[July 26]
The Inquisition was established by Pope Clement IV, 1267. Last victim of the Inquisition was executed in Valencia, Spain, 1826 - 559 years later, to the day.
Last Jews left Vienna, following expulsion orders, 1670. It was a Tish'a b'Av.
Jews of Rome were forced into a ghetto by order of Pope Paul IV, 1555.
Baron Lionel de Rothschild became the first Jew to sit in the British parliament, 1858, after a new oath of office was agreed upon that did not refer to Christianity.
[24 Tammuz]
Crusaders gathered the Jews of Jerusalem into a shul and set it aflame, 1099. All perished in the fire. Jews were barred from the city for the following 88 years.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yaakov Joseph (RJJ), 1902.
[July 27]
Jews of New Amsterdam requested permission to open a cemetery in 1655. Permission was initially denied and was finally granted a year later.
A plane bound for Israel was shot down by Bulgaria, 1955. 58 people were killed.
New Zealand recognized Israel, 1950 (what took them so long?)
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