December 10 925: Sancho I to whom the Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III sent his Jewish physician Hasdai ibn Shaprut so he could “cure” his wife passed away today. 1475: Seventy-eight-year-old Italian artist Paolo Uccello passed away. Like many artists of his... »
December 9 1212: In Mainz, coronation of Frederick II as King of Germany during whose reign the Jewish “community of Austria began to flourish” due to his “recognition that the Jews were a separate ethnic and religious group and were not bound to the ... »
December 8 65 BCE: Birthday of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the Roman poet known as Horace who created “credat Juadaeus Appella” which gave rise to the character of “Jew Appela.” https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1629-apella 1292: John Peckha... »
December 5 63 BCE: Cicero read the last of his Catiline Orations which exposed Cataline’s conspiracy to overthrow the government of Rome. There is no record of how Cataline felt about Jews, but Cicero said that Judaism was a barbarous superstition who... »