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On 6 June 1391, a mob attacked Seville’s Jewish quarter after years of preaching by Ferrand Martínez. Later chroniclers give about 4,000 killed; modern historians treat that figure as inflated. Castile still used the Julian calendar.
On this day, March 5, 1947, the United States opened the Justice Case in Nuremberg against German judges and prosecutors.
In July 1940, Max Bodenheimer died in Jerusalem. He had accompanied Theodor Herzl to Constantinople and Palestine in 1898.
On this day, August 8, 1938, the SS transferred the first prisoners from Dachau to Mauthausen and forced them to build the camp.
On March 12, 1915, Jewish refugees in Alexandria signed a resolution to form a Jewish legion and offer it to Britain.
On this day, March 26, 1979, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin signed the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, witnessed by Jimmy Carter.
On June 22, 1948, IDF guns set the Altalena on fire off Tel Aviv. Sixteen Irgun fighters and three soldiers were killed in the confrontation.
On this day, August 3, 1902, Regina Jonas was born in Berlin. In 1935 she became the first woman known to have been ordained as a rabbi.
On this day, February 14, 1896, Theodor Herzl’s pamphlet Der Judenstaat was published. It argued for a sovereign Jewish state as a political answer to modern antisemitism.
On this day, August 7, 1955, Bar-Ilan University opened in Ramat Gan. The plan had been formed by American Mizrachi leaders around 1950.
On this day, December 10, 1934, Heinrich Himmler established the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps under Theodor Eicke.
On this day, May 10, 1933, pro-Nazi university students burned books they called “un-German,” including works by Jewish, pacifist, and leftist authors.
