B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[19 Sivan] The first Jewish hospital in America - Jews' Hospital of New York - admitted its first patient, 1855. (The Jews of Berlin had a small hospital in the 16th century. Jews of Rome had their own hospital in the 17th century. Russian Jews had 112 hospitals prior to World War I. On the other hand, when the Jews of Bucharest petitioned the government for permission to build a hospital - this, following the death of a Jew who was denied admission into the city hospital - the petition was denied.)
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, 1898. One of the founders and leaders of Religious Zionism in Russia, and the Mizrachi movement, he was also instrumental in the establishment of Ekron and Rehovot..
[June 22]
Germany invaded Lithuania and Latvia in its first attacks against Russia, 1941.
The Jewish Brigade was formed, 1942.
Jewish quarter of Prague was burned and looted, 1559.
[20 Sivan]
34 Jewish men and 17 Jewish women were burned at the stake in Blois France, 1171, as a result of the first ritual-murder trial in Europe. Rabbeinu Tam declared a fast day to mark the event. The day was confirmed as a fast day centuries later, in Poland, following the murder of 6000 Jews of Niemirov during the Chmielnicki massacres, 1648. Many Siddurim have Slichot for Kaf Sivan.
Although Yom Yerushalayim is 28 Iyar, 20 Sivan marks the day that Israel annexed the Old City and officially untied all of Jerusalem, 1967.
[June 23]
Jews of Posen, Poland were saved from a mob set to avenge the murder of a soldier, 1696. A peasant woman seized carrying the victim's clothing, confessed to her son's murder.
Jews were granted permission by Empress Catherine II to settle in Kiev, 1794. The great yeshivot of Slobodka and Telz closed their doors the day after Germany invaded Lithuania, 1941.
The pope entered Rome and spurned the Torah scrolls offered to him by the Jewish community, 1295.
Massacre of the Jews of Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, 1298.
[21 Sivan]
Mentioned by some sources as the day Miriam was afflicted with Tzoraat (others say the 22nd or the 23rd), as we read about in this week's sedra. (It is noteworthy when an event mentioned in the Torah is read approx. at the same time that it occurred.)
Muslim conquerer of Constantinople granted equal rights to Jews and other non-Muslims, 1453. This provided a haven for many Jews who fled Spain 39 years later.
Harvard created a professorship of Hebrew and Oriental languages, 1765.
[June 24]
The Inquisitor of Ancona, Italy decreed that Jews may not live in any municipality where there was no ghetto, 1843. (Would have thought it was way earlier in history. Amazing how long some people stayed in the dark ages.)
Second expulsion of Jews from France, 1322.
First public warning of rising anti-Semitism in the U.S. was given in a sermon by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 1873.
Russia prohibited Zionist meetings, 1903.
Germany occupied Kovno and Vilna, 1941, and killed the Jews of Gorzhdy (all in Lithuania).
1000 Jews of Tulchin, Poland were tortured and massacred by Cossacks, 1648.
Massacre of the Jews of Ifhauben, Austria, 1298
3rd expulsion of the Jews from France, 1322.
[22 Sivan]
The Pope ordered the Jews of Carpentras, France to wear distinctive yellow hats, 1525.
[June 25]
Many Jews were killed in a pogrom at Jassy, Romania, 1941.
Rabbi Menashe b. Yisrael applied for official permission to practice Judaism in England, 1656. Permission was granted (surprise?) bu the Council of State.
[23 Sivan]
King Yerovam stopped the Jews of the northern kingdom from bringing Bikurim to Yerushalayim.
Mordechai issued a royal decree calling upon the Jews of the kingdom to defend themselves against attack. (This is the oldest record of an organized Jewish self-defense in the Diaspora.)
Fast day of the Jewish community of Pesaro, Italy, to mark the murder of Jews following retreat of Napoleon's army, 1798.
[June 26]
Spain granted Jews and Protestants the right of public worship for the first time since Ferdinand and Isabella proclaimed catholicizsm as Spain's only religion, 1967.
Lithuanian facists massacred 2300 Jews in Kovno, 1941.
Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was imprisoned, 1629.
First printed edition of the Sefer Hachinuch, 1523.
[24 Sivan]
Yahrzeit of R. Moshe b. Shlomo HaKohen, a German Tosefist, 1198.
[June 27]
Bialystok, Poland fell to the German, 1941.
The volunteers of the Jewish Battalion in World War I were sent to the front, 1918
[25 Sivan]
Geviha b. Pesisa, Jewish delegate, won the debate against the Samaritans in the presence of Alexander the Great.
Rabban Shimon b. Gamliel, Rabbi Yishma'el b. Elisha, Rabbi Chanina Segan HaKohanim were martyred by the Romans (they were among the Asara Harugei Malchut).
Massacre of the Jews of Erfurt, Germany, 1221.
[June 28]
1500 Jews were killed in Kovno, 1941.
Minsk, Russia was captured by the Germans, 1942, trapping approx. 40,000 Jews.
[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.
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