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B"H Yom Yom

B"H Yom Yom from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed a decree expelling the Jews of Spain, 1492.
Torathon 5760.

Jews of Wurtzburg were massacred by the Crusaders, 1147.
The Pope issued a bull banning all social intercourse between Christians and Jews. 1451.
Jews of Lithuania were granted permission to return to the country after a brief exile of 8 years, 1503.
First organized Arab assault on a Jewish settlement (Petach Tikva), 1886.
Jews of Gluchor were massacred by Ukrainian mobs and Red guerilla forces.

Lorenzo Bertran subjected to an auto-da-fe in Seville, 1799. (Last person to be punished for Judaizing in Spain.)
Jews of White Russia were forbidden to wear distinctive clothes which would set them apart from the rest of the population, 1856.
Emperor Joseph II granted Jews right of residence in Pest, Hungary, 1783.
Jews of Prague exiled, 1745.
The Portuguese Inquisition was abolished, 1821. (Having been established in 1531, it was in existence 290 years.)
Jews of Mayence, Germany, were massacred, 1283.
Jews expelled from Spain and Sicily, 1492.
Afula was founded, 1925.
Hungary issued a decree ordering all Jews to wear a yellow star, 1944.
Mother Maria of Paris, a Russian nun who had saved many French Jews by hiding them, was killed by the Nazis, 1945.
Rumania barred Jews from professional and agricultural schools, 1899.

Jews of Strasbourg were burned at the Jewish cemetery, 1349.
Jews of Carinthia, Austria, were expelled, 1496 (and not readmitted until 1848).
U.S. President Harrison was petitioned in 1891 to aid in the reestablishment of Palestine as a sovereign Jewish state, 1891. The petition was signed, by Cyrus McCormick, J. P. Morgan, William McKinley, John D. Rockefeller, Russel Sage, and Cardinal Gibbons, among others. It was a spontaneous expression of American sympathy for Zionism, totally independent of Jewish Zionist activities. The petition was motivated by Biblical influences and by intense indignation aroused by Russian pograms.
World Mizrachi was founded in Vilna, Russia, 1902.

Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Jerusalem, 1881.
The official Nazi boycott of German Jewish merchants started, 1933.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem was opened by Lord Balfour, 1925.
The emergence of the Nazi Party, 1920. (This happened on the anniversary of the day that Haman published his decree of extermination of the Jews.)

The Pope issued a bull ordering the burning of the Talmud, 1244.
The Jewish community of Newport, R.I. purchased a plot of land for a burial ground, 1677.
Operation Nahshon, Haganah's first large-scale offensive began, 1948.

Menahem Begin visited Cairo, Egypt, 1979. (First visit by an Israeli Prime Minister to Egypt.)
Jews of Genoa, Italy, were expelled, 1550.
A number of London Jews were martyred following ritual charges, 1279.

King Zedekiah, the last king of Judea, died in captivity in Babylonia, 561 B.C.E.
Jews were massacred by rioters in Stamford-fair, England, 1190.

Antiochus V granted freedom of religion and political autonomy to the Jews of Eretz Yisrael, 163 B.C.E. (The date was designated a holiday.)
Purim of Cairo was observed annually in commemoration of an escape from massacre, 1524.

26 Jews were wounded in Salzburg, Austria, in the first serious outbreak of postwar anti-Semitism, 1951.
The Russian revolutionary government granted equality to all Russian Jews for the first time in Russian history, 1917. (In the first decade of the 20th century Russia had, under its effective control and domination, about 50 percent of the total world Jewish population. The grant of equality by the Russian revolutionary government affected, therefore, a major part of world Jewry. By the end of the second decade Russia had under its jurisdiction only about 18 percent of the total Jewish population.)
Arabs killed and wounded many Jews in Jerusalem, 1920.

Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Dabrowa, Poland, 1938.
The Polish army executed 35 young Jews who had helped in the distribution of packages sent by the Joint to the Jewish community of Pinsk, 1919. (The relief activities of the Joint Distribution Committee were used by Russians, in the declining years of Stalin, as a pretext for their anti-Semitic charges of disloyalty against Soviet Jews.) Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Seville, Spain, 1464.

The erection of the Misfhkan was completed.
Moshe completed the consecration rites of Aaron and his sons. Aaron performed the first sacrificial rites.
Death of Nadav and Avihu, sons of Aaron.
King Hezekiah commenced the reconsecraton of the Temple.
Cyrus was crowned "King of Babylonia and King of all lands, "538 B.C.E. The crowning of King Cyrus made possible the restoration of an autonomous Jewish community in Eretz Yisrael and the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash. Ezra, who was to restore the primacy of religion in the life of the Jewish community, left Babylonia on the anniversary of Cryus' coronation.
The plot of Bigtan and Teresh to assassinate Achashveirosh was discovered by Mordecai.
Ezra and his followers left Bavel for Jerusalem, 457 B.C.E.

Jews of Prussia were granted equality, 1848.
The body of Baron Edmond de Rothschild was reinterred at Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel, the wine-producing village which had been established with his financial aid, 1954.
First oil tanker to the port of Eilat arrived and delivered Persian Gulf oil, 1957.
Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece, 1941.
The Nazis established two ghettos in Radom, Poland, 1941.

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