This Week in Jewish History (6/22-6/28)

June 22: 1559 - Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned and looted 1941 - Germany invaded Lithuania and Latvia in it first attacks against Russia 1942 - The Jewish Brigade was formed June 23: 1171 - Martyrs of Blois (first blood libel in France) 1295 - The Pope entered Rome and spurned the Torah scrolls offered to him by the Jewish community 1298 - Massacre of the Jews of Wiener-Neustadt 1696 - Jews of Posen, Poland were saved from a mob set to avenge the murder of a soldier 1794 - Jews were given permission to settle in Kiev 1941 - The Slobodka and Telz yeshivot closed after Germany invaded Lithuania June 24: 1298 - Massacre of the Jews of Ifhauben, Austria 1322 - Second and Third expulsions of the Jews from France 1648 - 1000 Jews of Tulchin, Poland were tortured and murdered by Cossacks 1843 - The Inquisitor of Ancona, Italy decreed that Jews may not live in any municipality where there was no ghetto 1873 - First public warning of rising anti-Semitism in America was given in a sermon by Reverend Henry Ward 1903 - Russia prohibited Zionist meetings 1941 - Germany occupied Kovno and Vilna (both in Lithuania) and killed the Jews of Gorzhdy, Lithuania June 25: 1312 bce - Miriam is quarantined 1656 - Rabbi Menashe ben Yisrael applied for and was granted permission to practice Judaism in England 1941 - Pogrom in Jassy, Romania June 26: 357 bce - Haman's decree was counteracted 797 bce - Jeroboam barricades Jerusalem 1523 - First printed edition of the Sefer Hachinuch 1629 - Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was imprisoned 1941 - 2300 Jews were murdered in Kovno, Lithuania 1967 - Jews and Protestand were granted the right of public worship for the first time since Ferdinand and Isabella proclaimed Catholocism as Spain's only religion June 27: 1918 - The volunteers of the Jewish Battalion in WWI were sent to the front 1941 - Bialystok, Poland fell to Germany June 28: 313 bce - Jews debate before Alexander 2nd Century - Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel, Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, and Rabbi Chanina S'gan Hakohanim were martyred 1941 - 1500 Jews were killed in Kovno, Lithuania 1942 - 40,000 Jews were trapped after Germany captured Minsk, Russia