Tag: ephemerides
December 11, 1942: Slave laborers revolt
On this date in 1942, some 500 Jewish slave laborers in a concentration camp in Lutsk, Ukraine, planned a revolt against Nazi troops who were coming the next day to liquidate the camp. Having...
December 8, 1978: Golda Meir, Labor Zionist leader, diplomat and fourth Prime Minister of...
In October 1973, the State of Israel was caught off-guard by a ruthless surprise assault on two fronts by the Egyptian and Syrian armies, supported by half-a-dozen additional Arab countries. The first lines of...
December 7, 1831: Judah Leib Gordon, the native of Vilnius also known as Leon...
(1831–1892), the most important Hebrew poet of the nineteenth century; leading figure of the Russian Haskalah movement. Yehudah Leib Gordon was born in Vilna in 1831 and started writing Hebrew poetry at a young age. He soon became close...
December 5, 219 or 220: Rabbi Judah the Prince died
According to some sources, this date is traditionally assigned for the death of Judah HaNasi (Judah the Prince) in 219 or 220. Judah, known simply as Rabbi, supervised the redaction of the Mishnah, the compilation...
December 3, 1857: Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine...
Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic, was born in Bohemia on this date in 1857. A medical colleague of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Koller recognized...
November 30: Israel commemorates the expulsion of the Jews from Arab lands
On June 23, 2014 the Knesset adopted a law which designates November 30th as an annual, national day of commemoration for the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were displaced from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th...
November 29: The Jewish Thanksgiving Day
For several years now, I have been campaigning to declare November 29 the Jewish Thanksgiving Day; a day where we give thanks to Lady History and to the many heroic players who stood behind...
November 26, 1862: Rediscovering the silk trail
British archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein, who made four major expeditions to Central Asia between 1900 and 1930 and recovered artifacts from several lost cultures along the historical Silk Trail, was born in Budapest on...
November 24, 1632: Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of...
Benedict de Spinoza, Hebrew forename Baruch, Latin forename Benedictus, Portuguese Bento de Espinosa, (born November 24, 1632, Amsterdam—died February 21, 1677, The Hague), Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism...
November 20, 1945: Nuremberg Trials Begin
On this day in 1945, 24 high-ranking Nazis go on trial before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II.The Nuremberg Trials...