- July 24, 1862
Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States passed away. He was the first President to order an American consul to intervene on behalf of Jews abroad. In 1840 he instructed the U.S. consul in Alexandria, Egypt to protect the Jews of Damascus who...
- July 23, 1298
The Jews of Wurzburg, Germany were massacred.
- July 23, 1847
Prussian Jews were granted equality.
- July 23, 1942
The Nazis opened the Treblinka Extermination Camp.
- July 22, 1320
King James II of France – in reaction to the excesses in southern France, proscribed support for the Jewish survivors, including an exemption on taxes. At the same time he refused to allow forcibly baptized children to be returned to their parents
- July 22, 1598
The Merchant of Venice is licensed for printing. However, it would be two years before the play featuring Shylock would be printed for the first time.
- July 22, 1833
The House of Commons passed a bill for the emancipation of the Jews of England. The House of Lords would reject the bill until 1845
- July 22, 1943
Because the U.S. State Department continues to delay any action on the Riegner Plan to save 70,000 Jews, American Rabbi Stephen Wise pleads with President Franklin Roosevelt to support the plan. Roosevelt allows the plan to be killed because of "strenuous...
- July 21, 1911
Mendel Beilis, a Russian-Jewish ex-soldier, is arrested and charged with the murder of a 13-year old Christian boy. During the two years he awaits trial, Russia is awash with anti-Semitic blood libel propaganda and violence. Police investigator Nikolay...
- July 21, 1942
The Jews of Nieswiez organized a resistance movement and a planned an escape using kerosene and old guns as their weapons. A desperate battle ensued. Jews set fire to their own homes as a diversionary tactic. Some of those who made it to the woods found...
- July 20, 1933
In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism, following the outbreak of anti-Jewish violence that accompanied the Nazi party's election victory in Germany
- July 19, 1510
In Brandenburg, Prussia, Joachim the Elector burned 38 Jews at the stake on a charge of desecrating the host. Another two accepted Christianity and were mercifully beheaded.
- July 19, 1944
Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, appeals to Admiral Miklós Horthy on behalf of 5000 Hungarian Jews with Palestinian visas. Roncalli provides baptismal certificates for Jews in hiding
- July 18, 1290
Edward I (England), pressured by his barons, the Church and possibly by his mother, announced the expulsion of all the Jews. The expulsion came on Tisha B’Av, adding to that days list of Jewish sorrows. By November approximately 4000 had fled. The Jews...
- July 18, 1716
Jews of Brussels were ordered expelled.
- July 18, 1994
In Buenos Aires a car bomb exploded outside the building housing the AMIA, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA) building killing 85 people and wounding more than 200 others in what remains the most...