- September 3, 1939
Upon the declaration of war by the U.K., Jewish Agency head David Ben Gurion pledges full support for Britain, despite the British government “White Paper” which had just announced strict anti-Jewish measures in Palestine, including a prohibition on...
- September 2, 1796
Dutch Jews are emancipated when the National Convention decrees that: "No Jew shall be excluded from rights or advantages which are associated with citizenship in the Batavian Republic, and which he may desire to enjoy." In the following years successive...
- September 1, 1939
Germany invades Poland, starting World War II. By its end in 1945, the war will claim the lives of 60 million soldiers and civilians. Among these are six million Jews deliberately mass-murdered by the Germans and their allies, a slaughter that is as...
- August 31, 2001
Protestors at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa turn the conference into an anti-Semitic event. In a prevalent theme, they equated their views on Israel with the general Jewish Diaspora and disrupted a panel on anti-Semitism.
- August 30, 2009
In an orchestrated attack, vandals in cities across the Ukraine painted swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases on Jewish community buildings, including at the Chesed Velvele Jewish charity in Melitopol.
- August 29, 1255
Geoffrey Chaucer found inspiration for “The Prioress’ Tale” when he heard that Jews had allegedly captured Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, England in hopes of making him a sacrifice in their ritual murder. The boy had disappeared a month earlier and his...