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...
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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...
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Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi is Born, 1510
On This Day in Jewish History: June 20, 1510 On this day in Jewish history, 20 June 1510, converso Jewish legend and philanthropist Doña...
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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...
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....
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...
"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...
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...
Leo Pinsker, Pioneering Zionist Writer, is Born, 1821
On This Day in Jewish History: December 13th, 1821 https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcHC1Jtxyq/ Many of you have heard of Theodore Herzl, the...
Ze’ev Jabotinsky is Born, 1880
On This Day in Jewish History: October 18, 1880 On this day, 1880, Ze’ev Jabotinsky was born. Jabotinsky is most famously known as the...
Mania Shochat, Political Activist, is born, 1880
On This Day in Jewish History: October 11, 1880 Born on October 11, 1880 in Western Russia (modern day Belarus), Mania Wilbushewitch...
Philanthropist, Nazi Hunter and Holocaust Survivor, Simon Wiesenthal, Passes Away, 2005
On This Day in Jewish History: September 20th, 2005 Born December 31, 1908 in Buczacz, Balicia, Austria-Hungary (today Buchach, Ukraine),...
Trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis Begins, 1913
On This Day in Jewish History: September 25, 1913. On this day in 1913, the trial of Mendel Beilis began in Kiev in the Russian Empire....
Viktor Frankl Passes Away, 1997
On This Day in Jewish History: September 2, 1997 Born March 26, 1905 in Vienna, Austria, Viktor Frankl quickly became a prominent figure...
Renowned Jewish Violinist, Itzhak Perlman, is born, 1945.
On This Day in Jewish History: August 31, 1945. Itzhak Perlman, perhaps the greatest living classical violinist, was born on this day in...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin, is born, 1913
On This Day in Jewish History: August 16, 1913 Warrior, that is the word we can use to describe one of Israel’s most legendary leaders,...
One of Israel’s national poets, literary legends and political voices, Natan Alterman, is born, 1929
In his lifetime, Natan Alterman would go on to become one of Israel’s national poets, as a literary legend and a political voice. Born in...
Eleazar Lipa Sukenik, Pioneer of Jewish Archeology, is Born, 1889
On This Day in Jewish History: August 12, 1889 Eleazar Lipa Sukenik was a pioneer of Jewish archaeology in the Land of Israel. He was a...
German Jewish Photographer Gerda Taro, Documented Spanish Civil War, is Killed in Battle, 1937
On This Day in Jewish History: July 26, 1937 On This Day, German Jewish Photographer, Gerda Taro, Dies at 26. Born Gerta Pahorylle on...