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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is Born, 1954
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was born on this day in Brooklyn in 1954. The child of Hungarian-Jewish and Syrian-Jewish parents, the latter of...
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Himmler Orders Construction of Auschwitz, 1940
On This Day in Jewish History: April 27th, 1940 On April 27th, 1940, Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany,...
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Death Marches from Dachau Begin, 1945
On This Day in Jewish History: April 26, 1945 On this day, April 26, 1945, death marches from Dachau began.. The march from Dachau...
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The Arab Strike that led to Arab Revolt, Begins, 1936
On This Day in Jewish History: April 19, 1936 On April 19, 1936, Arab workers launched a strike in response to growing Jewish immigration...
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Salamo Arouch Passes Away, 2009
On This Day in Jewish History: April 26, 2009 Salamo Arouch (born Salamon) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1923. Arouch grew up in a...
Israeli Singer, Ofra Haza, Passes Away, 2000
OTDJH: February 23, 2000 https://www.instagram.com/p/CaUwYv2tepR/ On this day, 2000, Israeli-Yemenite Jewish icon, Ofra Haza, passed away....
Ruth Dayan, Israeli Fashion Designer & Activist, Passes Away, 2021
On This Day in Jewish History: February 5th, 2021 Born in Haifa on March 6, 1917, to Russian parents, Ruth spent much of her childhood in...
Composer Jonathan Larson, is Born, 1960
On This Day in Jewish History: February 4, 1960 Jonathan Larson was born on February 4, 1960, in White Plains, New York. Growing up in a...
On This Week in Jewish History (January 23-29)
In collaboration with @jewishperspective on Instagram, we have begun to accumulate events in Jewish history week by week. One can find...
Dovid Katz, Trailblazing Yiddish Linguist and Combatant of “Double Genocide” Theory, is Born, 1956
On This Day in Jewish History: May 9, 1956 https://www.instagram.com/p/COrVp7WNCLE/ Katz was born and raised in New York City into a...
Francisco Maldonado da Silva, Jewish Physician, Executed, 1639
On This Day in Jewish History, January 23, 1639 On this day, 1639, Jewish physician Francisco Maldonado da Silva was burned on a stake at...
Victor Young" "Perez", Tunisian-Jewish Boxing Champion, is Killed, 1945
On This Day in Jewish History: January 21, 1945 https://www.instagram.com/p/CY_RQ30N9ap/ Tunisian-Jewish boxing champion Victor “Young”...
Death Marches from Auschwitz Begin, 1945
#OTDJH: January 18th, https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4db4fNq4f/ The death marches from the Auschwitz concentration camp system begin. The...
"Yud Shvat" Passing of Frierdiker Rebbe and Coronation of Rabbi Schneerson, 1950/1951.
On This Day in Jewish History: January, 1950/1951 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYoPO8INaBc/ On this day, "Yud Shevat", (the 10th of...
The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto Revolt, 1943
On This Day in Jewish History: January 10th, 1943 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkNnV4txGM/ The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto was located in the...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,Jewish Lexicographer, is Born, 1858
#OTDJH: January 7, 1858 https://www.instagram.com/onthisdayinjewishistory/ Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman) was born in...
Sholem Abramovitsh, Founder of Modern Hebrew & Yiddish is Born, 1835.
On This Day in Jewish History: January 2, 1835 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPhKgLNIC1/ On this day in 1835, Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh...
Eta Wrobel, Jewish Partisan Fighter, is Born, 1918
On This Day in Jewish History: December 28, 1918 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYCz9Vbtq8p/ On this day in 1918, Jewish partisan fighter...
Judy Feld Carr, Human Rights Activist, is Born, 1938
https://www.instagram.com/p/CX9aA63N_nG/ December 26, 1938 Born on December 26, 1938, in Montreal, Quebec, Judy Feld Carr is a Canadian...
Yitzhak Zuckerman, Jewish Rebel, is Born, 1915
On This Day in Jewish History: December 13, 1915 https://www.instagram.com/p/CXb62ORNXil/ On December 13, 1915, Yitzhak Zuckerman – who...