Jewish History

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Today in Jewish History​

• Moses Transcribes (first part of) Torah (1313 BCE)
On Sivan 4 of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE)--two days before the revelation at Mount Sinai--Moses wrote down the first 68 chapters of the Torah, from Genesis 1:1 ("In the Beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth") to the Giving of the Torah in Exodus 19 (Exodus 24:4; Rashi ibid.).

Link: How and When was the Torah Written?

• Forced Conversion in Clermont (576)
A mob, accompanied by the bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, France, razed the local synagogue to the ground. The bishop then informed the Jews that he, as bishop, could have but one flock, and unless they were willing to embrace Christianity, they must leave the city. Five hundred Jews were forced to be baptized and the remainder fled to Marseilles.

• Jews Returned to Spain (1481)
Pope Sixtus IV instructed his local bishops that all Jews who had fled the Spanish Inquisition (see "Today in Jewish History" for Adar 7) should be sent back to Spain.

• Chmielnitzki Massacres (1648)
The Cossack rebellion against Polish rule in Ukraine, under the leadership of Bogdan Chmielnitzki (may his name be blotted out) began on the 4th of Sivan of the year 5408 from creation (1648 CE). In their bloody march through the Ukraine, Volhynia, Podolia, Poland proper and Lithuania, Chmielnitzki's peasant army massacred between 100,000 and 300,000 Jews. Three hundred Jewish communities were destroyed.

 

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• Wolf Wissotzky (1904)
Klonimus Wolf Wissotzky, the son of poor parents, established The Wissotzky Tea company in 1849 and became known as the "King of Russian Tea." He was a great Jewish philanthropist and called for the settlement of Jews in Israel, which initiated the move of Jews to Lod, Nablus and Gaza. In his will he left over a million rubles to charity.

In 1936, Wissotzky Tea became the very first tea company in Palestine and has since been the leading tea company in Israel.

 

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Do you remember the Sabra and Shatila massacre by Israeli fascists friends? or the siege of West Beirut that lasted for months of Israeli shelling from land sea and air with thousands of civilians killed, remember that?

 

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Today in Jewish History​

• Spanish Expulsion Decree Rescinded (1967)
The Spanish cabinet approved a bill which granted religious freedom to Spain's Jews as well as other religious minorities. Since 1492 it had been officially forbidden to practice Judaism in Spain -- though this law had not been enforced for many years before its official abolishment.

 

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Today in Jewish History​

• Martyrs of Blois (1171)
The 20th of Sivan is the anniversary of the first blood libel in France. On this date in 1171, tens of Jewish men and women were burned alive in the French town of Blois on the infamous accusation that Jews used to the blood of Christian children in the preparation of matzot for Passover. For a detailed account see link below.

Links:
The Martyrs of Blois
Blood Libel

 

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Hundreds of silver items that were recently discovered during a building renovation, were wrapped in newspapers and kept for over 80 years.
The Jews of the Lodz ghetto hid them 1.5 meters underground at the beginning of World War II.

From Ancient Road.