December 1
500: (Kislev 4428): This is
the traditional date of the closing of the Talmudic era and the beginning of the Saboraic era. Saboraim is
“the title applied to the principals and scholars of the Babylonian academies
in the period immediately f…
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December
28
1235: A ritual murder massacre at Fulda resulted in the death of 32 Jews.
The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire established an investigation at Hagenau
(located in modern Alsace) to confirm or disprove the charges. After hearing
various exp…
December 20
69: General Vespasianus occupied Rome on
the same day that the Emperor Vitellius was murdered. Vespasianus is better known as Vespasian, the
Roman general who was in charge of putting down the Great Revolt in Judea. He br…
December 16
1316:
Öljaitü, the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler in Tabriz, Iran, whom the former
vizer Rashid-al-Din Hamadani the Jewish convert to Islam was found of guilty of
trying to poison, passed away today.
1431:
King Henry VI of England named Ki…
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December 10
1475: Seventy-eight-year-old Italian artist Paolo Uccello
passed away. Like many artists of his time, Uccello produced what today would
be called anti-Semitic art. Among his
works was “Miracle of the Host”
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