April 20
121: Birthdate of Marcus Aurelius 16th Roman emperor. The “Philosopher” Emperor reigned from
161-180 and he was a cut above those who came before and after him. But he had a low opinion of the Jews,
referring to them as “sti…
April 20
121: Birthdate of Marcus Aurelius 16th Roman emperor. The “Philosopher” Emperor reigned from
161-180 and he was a cut above those who came before and after him. But he had a low opinion of the Jews,
referring to them as “sti…
April
19
According to one
web-site, April 19th is one of the blackest days on the Jewish calendar. From
the 11th century (1014) through the 20th century (1943) this
date is remembered for the atrocities which took place. Below are a few: )
69…
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…
December 3
311: Sixty-sixty-year-old Emperor Diocletian passed away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05240.html
1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who would order the
expulsion of the Jews from his re…
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