Today in Jewish History
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 616
0539-10-17 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
0065-06-08 - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
0070-08-10 - "2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
0073-04-16 - Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
0335-10-21 - Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews
0418-03-10 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
0694-11-09 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery
1096-05-18 - Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
1096-06-25 - 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1099-07-16 - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1130-02-14 - Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1147-03-26 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1189-09-03 - 30 Jews are massacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation
1190-03-16 - York Progrom: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or commit sucide rather than submit to baptism
1190-03-17 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1190-03-18 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
1205-07-15 - Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitudea and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
1210-11-01 - King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1235-01-02 - Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1241-05-25 - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1250-04-15 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1253-07-23 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1264-08-05 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
1264-09-08 - The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1267-02-09 - Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1267-05-10 - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1267-09-01 - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1269-06-19 - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1275-05-23 - King Edward I of Engld orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1278-05-10 - Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
1278-11-17 - 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1285-10-12 - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
1288-04-24 - Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1290-07-12 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1290-07-18 - King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews
1290-10-09 - Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1294-06-30 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1298-06-24 - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
1298-06-25 - Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany
1298-07-23 - Rindfleish Persecutions - Jewish community in Wurzburg Germany massacred
1298-10-19 - Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
1306-07-22 - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
1321-08-21 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
1322-06-24 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1348-07-06 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
1348-09-21 - Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
1348-11-15 - Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1349-01-09 - 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1349-01-30 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1349-02-13 - Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
1349-02-22 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1349-03-21 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1349-03-22 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1349-04-30 - Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1349-05-28 - 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia
1349-08-24 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1349-08-24 - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1349-09-10 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1349-09-29 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1349-11-01 - Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
1349-11-29 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1349-12-05 - 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots
1350-03-12 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1355-05-07 - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1357-11-25 - Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1360-07-25 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1370-05-22 - Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium
1391-03-15 - Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1391-06-04 - Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds & sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery
1391-06-06 - Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1391-08-05 - Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
1391-08-24 - Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1394-09-17 - Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI
1394-11-03 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1407-10-26 - Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow
1415-10-17 - Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
1420-05-23 - Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
1421-05-11 - Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
1421-05-23 - Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1424-12-06 - Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1427-05-10 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1428-02-05 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
1430-01-01 - Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services
1430-05-05 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
1430-10-03 - Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1450-10-05 - Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1451-09-21 - Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge
1453-07-04 - 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1454-08-22 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1455-05-03 - Jews flee Spain
1479-12-12 - Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
1491-11-16 - An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1492-01-23 - "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1492-03-30 - King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1492-03-31 - Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
1492-04-30 - Spain announces it will expels all Jews
1492-08-02 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1492-08-03 - All Jews are expelled from Spain
1492-10-24 - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany
1492-11-15 - In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 67 of 67
1239-06-17 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) subdued Wales, expelled Jews from England
1452-03-10 - Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)
1626-08-01 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (d. 1676)
1800-08-22 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1810-05-24 - Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
1812-06-21 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
1823-06-26 - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer
1836-01-02 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1847-12-07 - Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1849-07-22 - Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet ("New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty)
1849-09-03 - Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1852-08-08 - Barend Barendse, actor/director (Wandering Jew)
1859-10-09 - Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1864-02-14 - Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
1864-04-21 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
1873-03-10 - Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
1873-05-23 - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
1881-12-31 - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song)
1882-12-31 - David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman (Jewish Council)
1885-03-22 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1886-01-26 - Joannes A Veraart, Dutch economist/MP (Jews of the Netherlands)
1890-03-16 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
1892-09-24 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Wandering Jew)
1893-09-17 - Abel J Herzberg, Russ/Dutch writer (Persecution of Jews)
1895-08-19 - Andrzejewski, writer
1897-02-06 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1899-01-22 - Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
1900-05-05 - Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924)
1901-12-01 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
1902-04-14 - Menachem A Schneerson, rebee (head of Lubavitcher Jews)
1903-03-25 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
1903-12-13 - Jewgeni Petrow, writer
1905-12-24 - Anna "Ans" van Dike ("the Young"), Jewish nazi collaborator
1906-03-20 - Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
1908-06-12 - Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist
1909-02-14 - A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
1909-08-19 - Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds)
1910-02-28 - Roman Maciejewski, composer
1910-03-27 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912-08-04 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews)
1912-11-28 - Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany)
1917-05-01 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1920-03-05 - José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
1921-06-09 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922-02-01 - Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
1924-07-16 - Bess Myerson, Bronx NY, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945)
1924-09-11 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
1926-07-21 - Norman Jewison, director (Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All)
1932-08-01 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1933-05-24 - Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1933-09-28 - Madeleine M Kunin, Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1934-08-16 - Ed van Thijn, (Jewish) Dutch foreign min/mayor (Amsterdam, 1983-94)
1940-09-28 - George Greenstein, author (Secret of a Jewish Baker)
1940-11-06 - Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
1944-10-31 - Kinky Friedman, Palestine Tx, country rocker (Ride 'em Jewboy)
1945-06-21 - Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet
1946-07-27 - Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1948-11-10 - Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao)
1951-04-16 - Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer
1953-01-10 - Pat Benatar, [Andrezejewski], Bkln NY, singer (Hell Is for Children)
1953-04-03 - Craig Taubman, Jewish singer
1959-03-22 - Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1967-08-27 - Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
1970-08-28 - Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1976-06-07 - Necro, Jewish American rapper
1979-06-30 - Matisyahu, Hasidic Jewish Reggae singer
1980-02-26 - Gary Majewski, Major League Baseball player
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 6 of 6
1860-11-11 - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
1977-12-21 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet marries 1st wife actress Lindsay Crouse
1991-09-22 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter David Mamet marries 2nd wife, English actress Rebecca Pidgeon
2000-06-28 - Business magnate Ron Perelman (69) weds actress Ellen Barkin (46) in a traditional Jewish ceremony at an upper East Side synagogue
2003-06-28 - Colombian American actor John Leguizamo (42) weds estate planner Justine Maurer (35) on a Catholic-Jewish ceremony in New York
2012-04-08 - American actress and television host Ricki Lake (42) weds jewerly designer Christian Evans in a secret ceremony at Southern California
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 66 of 66
1105-07-13 - Rashi, [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki], Jewish intellectual, dies
1138-01-25 - Anacletus II, [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies
1189-09-03 - Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England
1204-12-13 - Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69
1291-03-05 - Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1553-09-04 - Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake
1583-02-09 - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1596-12-08 - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
1609-08-22 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1619-08-15 - Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
1632-12-20 - Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed
1675-08-16 - Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
1676-09-17 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
1738-07-15 - Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
1738-07-15 - Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed
1776-07-01 - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War
1786-01-04 - Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56
1865-09-30 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1883-09-03 - Iwan Turgenjew, writer, dies at 64
1886-10-10 - David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies
1891-05-26 - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67
1909-04-09 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1909-06-24 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1912-11-28 - Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies
1915-08-15 - Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
1937-03-06 - Frank Vosper, actor/writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37
1940-12-05 - Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)
1941-08-31 - Marian Zwetajewa, writer, dies
1941-10-05 - Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84
1943-06-01 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1943-08-01 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
1944-11-06 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1945-05-05 - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
1947-02-05 - Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
1947-07-17 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34
1948-01-14 - Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
1950-01-08 - Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies
1952-08-21 - Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies
1955-01-17 - Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
1956-11-02 - Leo Baeck, Pres of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83
1967-09-03 - David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84
1968-12-01 - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
1969-03-28 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1971-06-30 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1972-01-07 - John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies
1981-01-01 - Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
1983-04-19 - Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73
1983-04-20 - Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies
1983-11-08 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1984-07-17 - J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1989-10-03 - Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered
1990-02-27 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
1990-10-05 - Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
1990-10-12 - Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies
1992-06-30 - Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1992-07-03 - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
1992-07-19 - Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992-08-15 - Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
1993-06-08 - René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84
1995-03-08 - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1996-04-01 - Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47
2001-10-04 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
2006-04-19 - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007-04-16 - Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b. 1930)
2008-10-07 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2010-01-05 - Murray Saltzman, Reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader (b. 1929)
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