Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw: what Wikipedia removed
Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw was a 13th-century Roman Jewish liturgical poet and Talmudist. Through 2015 the opening reported that Nicholas Donin’s agitation filled the Roman Jews with terror, prompting them to appoint a day of fasting and prayer. Today the opening makes no mention of Donin or the fear his campaign caused, though terror survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that a documented antisemitic campaign against the community instilled fear serious enough to prompt a day of fasting and prayer.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The opening sentence identifying Anaw’s roles was reworded without a substantive content change.
- The sentence describing Donin’s agitation filling the Roman Jews with terror, prompting a day of fasting and prayer, is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 334493925):
Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw was a liturgical poet, Talmudist and commentator of the thirteenth century, and older brother of Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw . Perhaps the most gifted and learned of his Roman contemporaries (although chiefly a poet), Anaw possessed a thorough mastery of halakhic literature and diligently studied philology, mathematics, and astronomy, and wielded a keen, satirical pen. His poetical activity began in 1239 , when the apostate Nicholas Donin assailed the Talmud and appealed to Pope Gregory IX to order its destruction and the persecution of its students. Donin’s agitation filled the Roman Jews with terror, and they seem to have appointed a day for fasting and prayer. At t…
2025 (revision 1229137525):
Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw (also known as Benjamin ben Abraham Anav ) was a Roman Jewish liturgical poet, Talmudist , and commentator of the thirteenth century, and older brother of Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw . Perhaps the most gifted and learned of his Roman contemporaries (although chiefly a poet), Anaw possessed a thorough mastery of halakhic literature, diligently studied philology, mathematics, and astronomy, and wielded a keen, satirical pen. ^ Sarton, George (1962). Introduction to the History of Science … Carnegie Institution of Washington. p. 1118.
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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