On This Day in Jewish History

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Before the journalist was beheaded, his last words were, “My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish.”

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In 1892 the famed yeshiva closed it doors.

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Meet Don Samuel Pallache of Morocco.

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Needless to say, it did not end well for the Jews.

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He framed the goal of overcoming feelings of inferiority in terms of three life tasks: meaningful work, a love relationship and connection to community.

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Nazis shot her dead as she saved the lives of a group of partisan fighters.

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Depicted on the Arch of Titus as a symbol of the Jewish exile, the menorah now represents the nation's newfound sovereignty with hope for the future.

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The award-winning poet fought against Nazi censorship and the White Papers.

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The young Parisian Jew was brutally murdered because he was Jewish. Authorities initially refused to believe it was a hate crime.

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He immediately went to Israel where he was greeted by throngs of people at the Western Wall.

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That time 2000 Jews were burned to death for being Jewish.

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The Michtom Family made philanthropy a priority. Their original design of the bear was cherished by the Roosevelt family and is memorialized at the Smithsonian Institute.

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Bringing the horrors of the Holocaust to the next generation.

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Was he Ivan the Terrible, the notorious guard at Treblinka?

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When a non-Jewish boy went missing, a false libel was placed upon the Jews of Rhodes.

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The celebrated Israeli author received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.

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The famous Israeli artist took part in the revolt in Treblinka.

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Who was Rabbi Moshe Isserles?

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She was the only Israeli singer to make Rolling Stone’s list of the world’s 200 greatest all-time singers.

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He died when he was only 30 years old in a laboratory accident.

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This Jew became an icon for left and right-leaning Zionists.

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On March 3rd, 1971, Saadia Marciano founded the Israeli Black Panthers.

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On March 4, 2013, Denise Vernay-Jacob, French resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor, passed away at 88.

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Fighting Nazis in Algiers.

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The Chief Rabbi of Great Britain was one of the greatest figures of our generation.

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This maverick Torah scholar left behind a series of trailblazing works that are studied by Jews around the world to this very day.

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The Harvard grad was an expert in human rights and international law.

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By March 1941, 15,000 of the 70,000 Jewish residents remained in the city.