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1818: Birth of Karl Marx

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1818: Birth of Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born on this day in the German town of Trier. His father and mother were Ashkenazi Jews, wi ...

Karl Marx was born on this day in the German town of Trier. His father and mother were Ashkenazi Jews, with the father’s family produced many of the rabbis in Trier. Marx’s grandfather and uncle were ...

May 05, 2016
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1994: Baruch Goldstein Committs Massacre in Mosque

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1994: Baruch Goldstein Committs Massacre in Mosque

On this day the right-wing Israeli Jew Baruch Goldstein killed 29 and wounded 125 Muslims in a mosque in ...

On this day the right-wing Israeli Jew Baruch Goldstein killed 29 and wounded 125 Muslims in a mosque in Jerusalem. Born in New York, Goldstein moved to Israel at the age 26. He became a supporter of ...

February 25, 2016
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1349 – Burning of the Jews in Switzerland

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|Date: January 09, 2016
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1349 – Burning of the Jews in Switzerland

The Jews were burned, and the surviving orphans were forcibly converted to Christianity. In a time when ...

The Jews were burned, and the surviving orphans were forcibly converted to Christianity. In a time when the Great Plague (“Black Death”) killed 30-60% of the population in Europe, superstitious citiz ...

January 09, 2016
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1907: The Jew who Wanted an Alliance with the Nazis and Fascists

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1907: The Jew who Wanted an Alliance with the Nazis and Fascists

This day marked the birth of Avraham Stern, the founder of the militant Jewish Zionist group “Lehi”, whic ...

This day marked the birth of Avraham Stern, the founder of the militant Jewish Zionist group “Lehi”, which fought against the British. “Lehi” was short for “Lohamei Herut Israel”, which roughly means ...

December 23, 2015
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1934: Who was the First Jew in Space?

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1934: Who was the First Jew in Space?

This day marked the birth of the first astronaut of Jewish descent who was launched into space. His name ...

This day marked the birth of the first astronaut of Jewish descent who was launched into space. His name was Boris Volynov and was a Soviet astronaut – more precisely cosmonaut (as the Soviets called ...

December 18, 2015
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1941: Nazis Murder 9,000 Jews in One Day

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1941: Nazis Murder 9,000 Jews in One Day

On this day in 1941 the German army was advancing through the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. O ...

On this day in 1941 the German army was advancing through the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. On their way they came upon the city Slonim in present-day Belarus, which had a considerable num ...

November 14, 2015
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1516: Jews Assigned to the Ghetto in Venice

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1516: Jews Assigned to the Ghetto in Venice

On this day the Venetian Republic gave the Jews in Venice an area of the city, where they were required t ...

On this day the Venetian Republic gave the Jews in Venice an area of the city, where they were required to live. That city area was called “ghetto” (Italian: “ghetto”, in the Venetian language: “ghèto ...

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