This Week in Jewish History
This Week in Jewish History
"July 26, 1928 - Birthday of Stanley Kubrick, American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor of such classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Dr. Strangelove."
Highlights and Lowlights This Week in Jewish History
At the beginning of each week, JEWDICIOUS brings you a select set of consequential dates in Jewish history. This feature is a joint venture with our Substack partner, DUST AND STARS, where you can subscribe for access to all landmark dates!
🔯 Monday, July 22/Tammuz 16:
1942 - On Tisha B'Av, the Nazis ordered the deportation of all Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, ultimately resulting in a total of 300,000 Jews being murdered in extermination camps.
🔯 Tuesday, July 23/Tammuz 17:
3829 (69 C.E.) - The walls of the besieged city of Jerusalem were breached by the Romans prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
🔯 Wednesday, July 24/Tammuz 18:
2448 (1312 BCE) - Moshe burned the Golden Calf, crushed it into powder, mixed it with water, and had the Jewish people drink it. The next morning, those who had embraced the Calf were found dead, their bellies miraculously swollen from the water. (Exodus 32:20; Seder Olam 6; Rashi, Ta’anit 30b).
🔯 Thursday, July 25/Tammuz 19
1993 - After a number of IDF soldiers were killed by Hezbollah bombs, the week-long Operation Accountability was launched to prevent Hezbollah and other Lebanese terrorist organizations from using southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel.
🔯 Friday, July 26/Tammuz 20
1928 - Birthday of Stanley Kubrick, American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor of such classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove and Spartacus.
🔯 Saturday, July 27/ Tammuz 21
1920 - Birthday of Charles Ginsburg, the leader of the team working for Ampex that invented the first practical video-tape machine in the early 1950's, revolutionizing television broadcasting and eventually leading to the home video machine.
🔯 Sunday, July 28/Tammuz 22
5648 (1888) - Yahrzeit of the "Maid of Ludomir," who experienced a vision, and began to deliver erudite Torah discourses from her room to Chasidim sitting on the other side-- the only independent female Rebbe in the history of the Chasidic movement.
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