November 8

30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius
Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews
was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his
Flavian predecessors.

641: “Jews were permitted to…

November 7

305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who
had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt.  Alexander’s empire broke into three parts
after his death.  Jerusalem and Judea
came under the sway of the Ptolemy…

November
6355: Roman Emperor Constantius II
promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the
government of the Prefecture of Gaul. Constantius II followed the pro-Christian
and anti-Jewish policies of his father, Constantine Th…

November
5

1271: Birthdate of Mahmud Ghazan, the Mongol ruler whose
conversion to Islam in 1295 led to the “Persian Jews in Tabriz” being relegated
“once again to the status of dhimmis” which was followed by his successor’s
destruction of several syna…

November 4

1053: Today, “according
to a document preserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Leon, the Infanta
D. Fronilda, daughter of D. Pelayo, who restored Christian supremacy after the
invasion of the Saracens, purchased, from the Jew Joseph b….