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On 25 January 1569, at El Pardo, Philip II issued the royal cédula authorizing Holy Office tribunals in the Indies. Spain still used the Julian calendar. The Lima tribunal was received in 1570.
On this day, May 11, 1960, Israeli agents captured Adolf Eichmann near Buenos Aires. He was tried in Jerusalem in 1961 and hanged in 1962.
On this day, March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced on CBS radio that a killed-virus polio vaccine had shown promising early results, not yet ready for general use.
After November 1938, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria began reaching Shanghai in large numbers. The movement followed Kristallnacht and is not dated as a single landing day.
Henryk Ross, later an official photographer in the Łódź ghetto who also made a secret record of ghetto life, was born in Warsaw in 1910. The exact day is not confirmed.
The First Zionist Congress opened in Basel on August 29, 1897, and sat through August 31. Delegates adopted the Basel Program.
On this day, November 28, 1919, Faye Schulman was born in Lenin. She later photographed Jewish partisan life in Eastern Europe.
On this day, July 2, 2016, Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died in New York at 87.
Jewish Original Media started as a response: to loss, to longing, to the silence we felt in the spaces we loved.
We’re two friends who couldn’t stay quiet. What began as conversations on Jewish meaning became a home for the Jewish story in real time.
On this day, July 31, 1492, the Alhambra Decree’s deadline arrived. Jews in Spain had to leave or convert, or face death.
On this day, July 27, 1655, Jews in New Amsterdam asked for a burial ground. The colonial council refused, saying there was no need yet.
