This Day, August 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 20 430: The Vandals, a Germanic tribe, established a kingdom in North Africa. The Jews lived there peacefully and...
August 20 430: The Vandals, a Germanic tribe, established a kingdom in North Africa. The Jews lived there peacefully and...
August 19 43 BCE: Octavian. later known as Augustus compels the senate to elect him Consul. As the first Emperor...
August 18 1201: Founding of Riga, capital of modern day Latvia. The first Jews appeared in Riga three centuries later...
August 17 986: During the days of the First Bulgarian Empire, the army of Emperor Samuil of Bulgaria and his...
August 16 1027: The King of Georgia, Giorgi I, passed away. Jews were among the subjects of this monarch who...
August 15 423: Honorious Flavius, the Western Roman Emperor who confiscated gold and silver which had been collected by the...
August 14 508: Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperor who in 592 would punish “the entire Jewish community of...
August 13 236: The body of Hippolytus, the author of Contra Judaeous, which blamed the harsh conditions of the Jews...
August 12 30 BCE: Cleopatra committed suicide. According to Josephus, the Egyptian tried to convince her lover and co-ruler, Marc...