
Alfred Dreyfus Passes Away, 1935
On This Day in Jewish History: July 12, 1935 On this day in Jewish History, Alfred Dreyfus passed away “It was the best of times; it was...
Re-imagining Jewish Education
On This Day in Jewish History: July 12, 1935 On this day in Jewish History, Alfred Dreyfus passed away “It was the best of times; it was...
OTDJH: June 22, 1941 https://www.instagram.com/p/CfIAT5qri-Z/ Operation Barbarossa began and with it, the Holocaust by bullets. Despite...
On This Day in Jewish History: June 20, 1510 On this day in Jewish history, 20 June 1510, converso Jewish legend and philanthropist Doña...
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was born on this day in Brooklyn in 1954. The child of Hungarian-Jewish and Syrian-Jewish parents, the latter of...
On This Day in Jewish History: April 27th, 1940 On April 27th, 1940, Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany,...
On This Day in Jewish History: April 26, 1945 On this day, April 26, 1945, death marches from Dachau began.. The march from Dachau...
On This Day in Jewish History: April 19, 1936 On April 19, 1936, Arab workers launched a strike in response to growing Jewish immigration...
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...
OTDJH: February 23, 2000 https://www.instagram.com/p/CaUwYv2tepR/ On this day, 2000, Israeli-Yemenite Jewish icon, Ofra Haza, passed away....
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...
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...
In collaboration with @jewishperspective on Instagram, we have begun to accumulate events in Jewish history week by week. One can find...
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...
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...
On This Day in Jewish History: January 21, 1945 https://www.instagram.com/p/CY_RQ30N9ap/ Tunisian-Jewish boxing champion Victor “Young”...
#OTDJH: January 18th, https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4db4fNq4f/ The death marches from the Auschwitz concentration camp system begin. The...
On This Day in Jewish History: January, 1950/1951 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYoPO8INaBc/ On this day, "Yud Shevat", (the 10th of...
On This Day in Jewish History: January 10th, 1943 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkNnV4txGM/ The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto was located in the...
#OTDJH: January 7, 1858 https://www.instagram.com/onthisdayinjewishistory/ Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman) was born in...
On This Day in Jewish History: January 2, 1835 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPhKgLNIC1/ On this day in 1835, Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh...