This Day, July 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 21
285:
Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. This was part of an attempt
to shore up the imperial authority. In
another such step, Diocletian “ordered all the people …to accept his divinity
and offer sacrifices to him. Fortunately
for the Jewish people, they were excluded from this decree…” According to at least one source,
“Diocletian’s regime was comparatively favorable to the Jewish people” which
may not be saying all that much when you consider the behavior of most Roman
rulers.
1263: The
“Barcelona Disputation” – a debate between Pablo Christiani, “a converted Jew”
and Moses ben Nachman ordered by King James of Aragon continued for a second
day.
1391: In
Burgos, Spain, Rabbi Solomon ha-Levi, the Talmudic scholar who was the son of
Rabbi Isaac ha-Levin took the name of Paul of Burgos when he converted to
Catholicism today which took place following “the great massacres of Jews which
had begun in June.”
1414: In Celle
Ligure, Italy, Leonardo della Rovere and Luchina Monleoni gave birth to
Francesco della Rovere, the future Pope Sixtus IV who reluctantly authorized
the Spanish Inquisition and allowed Jews and Marranos to settle in the Papal
Domain in what some as an act of penance caving into Ferdinand and
Isabella. He rejected the notion of
“blood libels” and withstood the pressure to canonize Simon of Trent.
1439 (9th of
Av): Rabbi Johanan ben Mattathias Treves, Chief Rabbi of France passed away ten
years after the death of his brother Joseph
1535: The
Spaniards sacked Tunis and destroyed the Jewish community in the process.
1588: The
English “fleet engaged he Spanish Armada off Plymouth near the Eddystone Rocks”
in the first day of combat on which would hang the outcome of the Inquisition
coming to the Netherlands and the British Isles.
1718(27th
of Tammuz, 5473): Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass who was born at Kalisz 1641 and
who was the father of Jewish bibliography, and author of the Sifsei Chachamim
supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch passed away.
1733: A “group
of 42 Jews who had sailed from London aboard the William and Sarah” arrived in
Savannah today, “months after the colony's founding by James Oglethorpe.” “Most of them were Spanish and Portuguese
Jews, who had fled to England a decade earlier to escape the Spanish
Inquisition. Many of them had been members
of the Bevis Marks Synagogue and would be founders of Mickva Israel, Georgia’s
oldest Jewish congregation.
1738(15th
of Av, 5498): Five year old Aaron Franks, the New York born son of Jacob Franks
passed away today.
1773: Raphael
Hayyim Isaac Carregal, a native of Hebron sailed to Suriname today from the
British colonies in North America where his visit had made him the first rabbi
to spend time in what is now the United States.
1774: The
Russo-Turkish War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Küçük
Kaynarca marking the defeat of the Ottomans. The end of hostilities provided
Sultan Abdul Hamid I with the opportunity to reassert his authority over parts
of empire that were slipping away. He
attacked Dhaher al-Omar who had taken control of an area that coincided with
modern day northern Israel and had invited Jewish merchants to pursue their
commercial ventures under his protection. He also besieged the port of
Acre.
1779(9th
of Av, 5539): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day, that, during the
Revolutionary War, General George Washington wrote to John Jay describing the
circumstances around the American victory at Stoney Point, NY which was a rare
moment of triumph the colonists .
1794:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Jonah Barnett, the son of Nathan Barnett.
1796: Nathan
Lazarus married Elizabeth “Betsy” Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1798: During
his ill-fated campaign in the eastern Mediterranean, including Palestine,
Napoleon scored a major victory in “The Battle of the Pyramids” which
effectively put an end to the Mamluk control of Egypt which had lasted for
almost seven hundred years.
1799(18th
of Tammuz, 5559): Tzom Tammuz observed for the last time in the 18th
century.
1812:
Birthdate of future Newburgh, NY resident Henry M. Hirschberg, the husband of
Frances Franks Hirschberg and the father of Georgina, Michael and Isabella
Hirschberg.
1816:
Birthdate of Israel Beer Josaphat who converted in 1844 and changed his name to
Paul Julius Retuer, the name under which he founded what would become Reuter’s
news agency in 1849. He used carrier pigeons to carry financial news to those
parts of Germany, France and Belgium not yet served by telegraph. He opened his
own telegraph service in England where he lived the rest of his life and died
in 1899. He converted for the same reason so many other German and Austrian Jews
did – it was the only way to advance in the worlds of commerce and art.
1817(8th
of Av, 5577) Erev Tish’a B’Av observed
for the last time before the start of the Seminole Indian Wars.
1820: .A small
wooden building which had been erected at the northeast corner of Liberty and
Whitaker streets Savannah was consecrated by members of Mikveh Israel. This was
the first Jewish house of worship to be built in the State of Georgia. Jacob De
La Motta delivered the consecration address.
A native of Savannah he graduated from the U of Pennsylvania Medical
School and served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. He
practiced in New York City for a while but returned to the city of his birth
where he became a leader in the medical and Jewish communities.
1821: In
Plymouth, England Samuel and Elizabeth “Betsey” Hyman gave birth to Lewis Hyman
1825:
Birthdate of Matthew Práxedes Sagasta the Spanish political who served as
President of the Council of Ministers and who asserted the fact that “article 1
of the Constitution of Spain is the most decisive revocation of the edict of
banishment against the Jews in the year 1492.”
1830: In
Rotterdam Salomon Isaac Brilgave and Mietje Maria Benedictus birth to Isaac Bril.
1831: As
Belgium gains its independence from the Netherlands of Leopold I of Belgium is
inaugurated first king of the Belgians. Upon gaining its independence in 1831,
the newly established Belgium parliamentary regime lost little time in
recognizing Judaism as an official religious denomination (together with Catholicism,
Protestantism, later Greek and Russian Orthodox Christianity and Islam).
1833:
Birthdate of August, (Anshel) Bondi. “The Austrian native was the son of Jews
who wanted him to have both a religious and a secular education. Caught up as a
participant in the failed liberal revolution of 1848, the Bondi family fled to
New Orleans and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Young Bondi encountered, first
hand, the horrors of slavery and was deeply disgusted. In 1855 a New York
Tribune editorial urged freedom- loving Americans to "hurry out to Kansas
to help save the state from the curse of slavery." Bondi responded
immediately. He moved to Kansas and along with two other Jews, Theodore Weiner
from Poland and Jacob Benjamin from Bohemia established a trading post in
Ossa-watomie. Their abolitionist sentiments very soon brought pro-slavery
terrorists upon them. Their cabin was burned, their livestock stolen. Their
trading post was destroyed in the presence of Federal troops who did nothing.
The three courageous Jews joined a rabid local abolitionist, to defend their
rights as citizens and to help rid the horror of slavery from Kansas. The Jews
joined the Kansas Regulars under the leadership of John Brown. In a famous
battle between the Regulars and the pro-slavery forces at Black Jack Creek,
with the bullets whistling viciously above their heads, 23 year old Bondi
turned to his 57 year old friend Weiner and asked in Yiddish – "Nu, was
meinen Sie jetzt?" (Well, what do you think of this now?) He answered, 'Was
soll ich meinen? Sof odem moves' (What should I think? Man's life ends in
death). Kansas joined the union as a Free State. Bondi married Henrietta
Einstein of Louisville, Kentucky in 1860. Their home became a way station for
the Underground Railroad smuggling slaves to the North and freedom. The Civil
War began in 1861, Bondi enlisted in the Union army encouraged by the words of
his mother. He later wrote in his autobiography "as a Jew I am obliged to
protect institutions that guarantee freedom for all faiths." August Bondi
died in 1907, a respected judge and member of his Kansas community.”
1837:
Following a grant by the Imperial Majesty, the Magistrate of Pilsen announced
that the ban on Jews buying a house “or
a piece of land in the city or the suburbs” had been rescinded in the case of
David Leopold Levit which allowed him to “buy and own houses No. 23 in the city
and No. 15 in the suburb of Pilsen for the production of leather for which he
has a nationwide license” “on the
condition that, should this production be stopped or reduced, he is obliged to
bring one or both houses back into the ownership of suitable persons.(i.e.
Christians)
1838: Rabbi
Geiger was invited to preach at Breslau today – an invitation which Rabbi
Solomon Tiktin was so opposed to that he went to the local police in an attempt
to prevent Geiger from speaking.
1839(10th
of Av, 5559): Tish’a B’Av observed on the birthdate of Cleveland native Oliver
Hazard the millionaire whose fortune came from Standard Oil Company and the
American Tobacco Company whose many bequests included on the Jewish Orphan
Asylum.
1841: In
Holstein, German, Dr. Marcus Cohen and his wife gave birth to Minna Cohen who
gained fame at the poetess Minna Cohen Kleeberg whose work included ‘Ein Lied
vom Salz” (A lyric about salt), a plea for the removal of the tax on salt in
Prussia.’
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9370-kleeberg-minna-cohen
1842:
Birthdate of James Evan Creamer, the husband of Sarah Florence Sheftall Creamer,
the daughter of Emanuel and Jane L. Theiss Sheftall.
1842: Edward
Salamon and Henrietta Levien gave birth to Harriett Ann, the eldest of their
seven children.
1846(27th
of Tammuz, 5606): Eighty-three year old Benedict (Baruch) Schott who served as
tutor in the home of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer before pursuing a career at the
long-serving director of the Jacobsonschule in Seesen passed away today.
1846: In
Battenfeld, Germany, Samuel and Johanna Langsdorf gave birth to Sigmund
Langsdorf, the “founder and owner of S. Langsdorft & Co, manufacturers of
ivory goods and novelties and husband of the former Fannie Lederer whose motto
for success was “If a man wants a business to take care of him, he must take care
of his business.”
1847(8th
of Av, 5607): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1847: In
Hamburg, jurist Isaac Wolffson and his wife gave birth to Albert Wolffson who
followed in his father’s footsteps while also developing a career in politics.
1848:
Birthdate of French historian Gustave Bloch, the father of historian Marc Bloch
the co-founder of École des Annales who was murdered by the Gestapo.
1851: David
Salomons who had been elected to Parliament on June 28 and who had been denied
the right to take his seat because, as Jew, he could not take the oath of
office, returned to the House of Commons to take part in the debate on the
matter. In the debate that followed, Salomons defended his presence on grounds
of having been elected by a large majority, but was eventually removed by the
Sergeant-at-Arms, and fined £500 for having voted illegally in three divisions
of the House.
1853(15th
of Tammuz, 5613): Less than three months before her 70th birthday,
Rinah Cohen the daughter of Moses Cohen and Judith De Lyon passed away today in
her hometown of Charleston, SC.
1853:
Sixty-eight-year-old Reinah Abrahams the
Mordecai, the daughter of Judith Abrahams, the wife of David Cohen Mordecai and
mother of Moses, Isaac, Zipporah and Reinah Cordelia Mordecai passed away today
after which she was buried inn the Coming Street Cemetery.
1853:
Birthdate of Hungarian native and University of Budapest educated journalist
and editor Hugo Klein who moved to Vienna in 1883 where he became editor of the
"Schöne Blaue Donau."
1854: In
London, Marian and Adam Spielman gave birth to Sir Isidore Spielman, a Warden
of the New West End Synagogue, founder and Secretary of the Anglo-Jewish
Historical Exhibition and President of the Jewish Historical Society of England
who also served Secretary and Director of Fine Art Committees including those
for the Paris exhibition in Paris and the Exhibition of Early Flemish Art in
Bruges and was the husband of Emily Sebag-Montefiore.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0449010X.1955.10706417?journalCode=rjeq20
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F64175
1856: In
Copenhagen, Charles Kann and Amalia gave birth to Ellen Kann
1857: In
Bielev Zerkov, Russia. Samuel Rosenberg gave birth to Samuel Rosenberg who
served congregations in Marshal, Tyler and Gainesville, TX and Jacksonville and
Pensacola, FL before becoming the rabbi and canto for Temple Beth-El in Jersey,
City NJ.
1857: During a
debate tonight in the House of Lords on the question of "Jewish disabilities,”
Lord Campbell said that a revolution would take place if the Commons acted
independently of the Lords in the matter by omitting from their oath the
objectionable sentence
1857: This
evening, Lord John Russell renewed his motion to bring in a bill for the
admission of Jews into Parliament. Following an animated debated the motion
carried by a vote of 246 to 154.
1860: Abraham
Lincoln responded to a letter from Abraham Jonas today denying that he had ever attended any meetings at the Known-Nothing lodges in Quincey Illinois.
1861: During
the Civil War, the Confederates defeated the Union at the first Battle of Bull
Run in the first major combat for the Cameron Dragoons, a regiment from
Pennsylvania led by Colonel Max Friedman which contained a large number of Jews
from Philadelphia. In response to an
inquiry written 30 years after the battle Oliver O. Howard, a Major General in
the United States Army reported that a Jewish Aid-de Camp who served with him
during the battle was “one of the bravest and the best; he is now a
distinguished officer of the army, a man of the highest scientific attainment.”
He also wrote that he could not release the man’s name without his permission.
1861: Tonight
following the Battle of Bull Run, Colonel Max Einstein, commander of the 27th
Pennsylvania Regiment, “returned to the field of battle and brought off six
pieces of artillery” while his regiment “captured a rebel battery and eighteen
horses.”
1862: During
the Civil War, in Iowa, Jacob Kline enlisted in Company D of the 25th
Infantry.
1864(17th
of Tammuz, 5624): Tzom Tammuz observed as General John Bell Hood, in command of
the Confederate forces gave orders for a flank attack that he mistakenly
believed would defeat Sherman’s Union Army, which contained several Jewish
soldiers, during the climactic battle for Atlanta, GA.
1866: In
Cincinnati, OH, Emily May and Benjamin Wise gave birth University of Cincinnati
and Harvard graduate Max B. May, a “member of the Board of Governors of the
Hebrew Union College” and the co-author of Fifty Years’ History of the Plum
Street Temple.
1867(18th
of Tammuz, 5627): Tzom Tammuz observed as the crisis over the nature of
re-construction which pitted President Andrew Johnson against his fellow
Republicans in Congress was about to come to a head.
1869: Albert
Martin Wolffson was admitted to the bar in Hamburg today.
1871: Helen
Levy and George Faudel-Phillips gave birth to Benjamin Samuel Faudel-Phillips.
1874: Today’s
“Foreign Notes” column reported that “Sir Moses Montefiore” who will celebrate
his 90th birthday this October 24, “has been presented with the
freedom of the Fishmongers’ Company in recognition of his philanthropic efforts
on behalf of the oppressed Jewish in various parts of the world. [Editor’s note
– The Fishmongers’ Company dates back to the 12th century and was
guild for those who sold fish in London.
By the 19th century the company administered a various
“charities and trusts” for the underprivileged classes of the UK. This would account for their bestowing an
honor on Sir Moses.]
1873(23rd of
Tammuz, 5633): Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet, a leading figure in the 19th
century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom passed away. .
He was the first Jewish Sheriff of the City of London and Lord Mayor of London,
and one of the first two Jewish people to serve in the British House of
Commons.
1876(29th
of Tammuz, 5636): Sixty-seven-year-old Levy I. Moses, Columbia, SC born son of
Rebecca Phillips and Isaiah Moses, the husband of Adeline Moses whom he married
at Charleston in 1832 with whom he had ten children.
1876(29th
of Tammuz, 5636): Samuel B.H. Judah, the New York born son of Benjamin S. Judah
an attorney and author whose works included the plays “The Mountain of Torrent
“ and “A Tale of Lexington” and a novel, The Buccaneers, a Romance of Our
Own County, passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-samuel-benjamin-helbert
https://www.amazon.com/mountain-torrent-melo-drama-interspersed-choruses/dp/B00088F49Q
1877: In a
letter to the New York Times, Edgar M. Johnson a prominent lawyer from
Cincinnati took issue with claims that he had concealed the fact the fact that
he was Jewish when he was offered accommodations at the Grand Union Hotel in
Saratoga Springs. He reiterated the fact that Mr. Wilkinson, who was employed
by Judge Hilton was well aware of the fact as is everybody else. Whether he is what Hilton calls “a Seligman
Jew” is of little consequence since Johnson has no desire to stay at place
where Hilton is “the tavern keeper.” Johnson closed by saying that he and his
family had enjoyed previous trips to Saratoga Springs where nobody was will “to
reject Jew money” but that these would be his last words on any subject related
to Hilton.
1877: In
Vienna, 22 year old Ida (Kuhn) Cohen and Eduard Cohen gave birth to Emilie
(Mimi) Borchardt
1878: It was
reported today that there has been a serious outbreak of violence between the
Jews and Roman Catholics living in Kalisch, a major city in Poland (which was
part of the Russian Empire). The origins of the violence can be found in the
government’s ban on the Jewish practice of enclosing their houses “with a wire
fence to indicate that no one might pass out or in” during the Sabbath. The
Jews blamed the Roman Catholics for the government’s decision. When the Roman Catholics blocked every street
corner with altars during their procession on Corpus Christi Day, the Jews
reportedly attacked one of the altars which was the excuse of a Catholic attack
that destroyed the synagogue and forced the Jews to seek refuge in their own
homes. So far twelve people were reported to have been killed during the
violence. [Jews had been living in Kalisz (the Polish spelling) since the 12th
century. The synagogue that was
destroyed dated back to the 14th century. Jews played an active role in the economy of
the community and by the start of WW II they accounted for about 30% of the
population. Most the 20,000 Jews did not
survive the war and the town, like so much of Poland, has memories of Jews but
no Jewish people.)
1878: A.
Benisch, ended his editorship of the Jewish Chronicle which “he bequeathed to
the Anglo-Jewish Association which then sold the proprietary rights to Sydney
M. Samuel, Israel Davis and Asher I. Myers” who “was the managing editor till
his death in 1902.”
1879(1st of
Av, 5639): Rosh Chodesh Av
1879: In
Cincinnati Lewis Braham and Hellen Phillips gave birth to Sadie Braham, the
wife of David Lefkowitz the Dallas rabbi who bravely stood up to the Ku Klux
Klan and with whom she four children – Lewis, Harry, Helen and David, Jr. who
followed his father into the rabbinate
1880:
Birthdate of Raphael Abramovitch, the Menshevik leader who was forced to flee
Russia because of Stalin and forced to flee to the United States in 1940 because
of the rise of Hitler.
1880: Birthdate of
the Latvian native Raphael
R. Abramovtich, the leader of the Mensheviks and life-long opponent of Stalin,
a co-founder of the Union for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, “the
editor of the Yiddish encyclopedia Jewish People, Past and Present” and a
feature writer for The Jewish Daily
Forward who was the husband of “the former Rosa Segal” and the father of
Dr. Lia Andler and Mark Abramovich, “an electrical engineer” who “disappeared
without a trace” while fighting with the International Brigade against Franco
after he had reportedly been kidnapped by Bolshevists who were the political
enemies of his father.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Abramovich_Rafail
1880: The
second free excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will set
sail on the East River this morning. If
the society can find more funds, these trips will continue on a weekly basis
for the rest of the summer.
1880: It was
reported today that two Postmasters named Barr and Johnson and their Jewish
accomplice named Pearlstine are being held by federal authorities in South
Carolina on charges of improper use of stamps and making false returns of
canceled stamps to increase their pay. [Why Pearlstein was identified as Jew
and the religion of the others was not mentioned is a mystery.]
1881: It was
reported today that King Alfonso has invited Russian Jews to settle in Spain, a
move that would improve conditions “by bringing a money making class into a
country in dire need of it”
1882: During
the Freight Handler’s Strike, Italian and Russian Jewish immigrants returned to
the docks looking for work after the strikers stopped providing them with food
and expense money as they had promised earlier.
To complicate matters, the ranks of the strikers also included Russian
and Polish Jews who had come to the country earlier in the decade.
1882: In
Prague, Marcus and Emile Friend gave birth to
Hugo Morris Friend, the University of Chicago winner of the Big Ten Long
Jump Championship and Illinois jurist who presided over the case surrounding
the Black Sox Scandal and obscenity case surrounding the showing the film “The
Miracle” and who was the husband of Sadie Cohen, the father of Marian Friend
and the father-in-law of Jay Pritzker.
1883:
Birthdate of New York native and Columbia trained attorney Harry Charles Adams,
the husband of Cora Adams and father of Sylvia and Robert S. Adams who was a
member of “Temple Emanu-El of Yonkers.”
1884: A review
of T.K. Cheyne’s The Book of Psalms described the authors attempt to
present this section of the Bible as literature as well as “holy writ.” For him, the Psalms should be viewed as
literature that has survived “under a Jewish phase.”
1885(9th
of Av, 5645): Tish’a B’Av
1885:
Birthdate of New York native and Columbia trained pathologist Dr. Max Lederer,
the “director of laboratories at Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn from 1918 until
1943 and the discoverer of “a blood disease known as Lederer’s Anemia” who was
the husband of Martha Luntz Lederer with whom he had two children -- Theodore
and Leona.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/09/14/93384396.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1885: In
Charlottesville, VA, Louise Fuller Johnson and John Henry Wheeler gave birth to
Francis Parkinson Wheeler, later known as Frances Parkinson Keyes, the novelist
whose works included “occasional patches of the pre-World War II fashionable
anti-Semitism in her Jewish characters.”
1886: The
first free excursion of the ear for poor Jewish moths and their children
sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will set sail this morning.
1886: The SS State of Georgia arrived at
Castle Garden from Glasgow, Scotland, carrying 40 Russian Jewish refugees.
1886: “A week
of General Kissing” published today described the Russian custom of kissing
people as a greeting during Easter week. Last year when the Czar came out of
his room the first person whom he saw was the guard at his door who remained
silent when the Russian ruler greeted him “Christ is risen.” The Czar found out that the guard was Jewish
which accounted for his lack of response.
While the Czar respected his honesty, Jews no longer serve as guards at
his palace.
1887: Louis
Keptlovwitch, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, was scheduled to face the Grand
Jury on charges of bigamy. [This is a
real life example of letters that would appear in the Forwards about men who
“forgot” about the family’s they left behind when they arrived in the New
World.]
1887: “Appeals
for Suffering Hebrews” published today described the effects of the
catastrophic effects of the fire that swept through “the little Jewish town of
Botuschania, Romania.” A committee of
prominent American Jews led by Benjamin Peixotto, has been formed to collect
funds to relieve the suffering.
Contributions will forward to Romania by Jesse Seligman who has agreed
to serve as the Treasurer of the Relief Fund.
1887: “Two
Ladies At Odds” published today described a conflict between Mrs. Henrietta
Loeser, President of the Henrietta Verein, a Jewish charitable organization,
and Mrs. Betty Michaelis, the society’s Secretary. A shouting match devolved into a physical
confrontation when the secretary threw the society’s seal and record books at
the president. Loeser than tried to have
Micahelis removed from the organization.
Mrs. Micahelis has sought a writ of mandamus so that she can gain
readmission to the society.
1888: Police
had to be called out to quell a riot in Drohobycz today when petroleum miners
attacked the town’s Jews and trashed the local synagogue.
1888: A
company of 13 police officers was hard pressed to deal with the huge throng
that gathered this afternoon at the Norfolk Street Synagogue to hear the
inaugural sermon of Rabbi Jacob Joseph. The sanctuary, which was built to hold
1,000, was filled with more than 1,500 people. The rabbi spoke for an hour
concluding with a prayer that the Lord would guide and help the Jews in
America to spread his light and cause
Israel to become a blessing to this great land of freedom and among the people
of the United States.
1889: “Hebrews
Not Wanted,” published today described the decision of “Messrs. Cable and Breen
, the lessees of the Brighton Beach at Coney Island” to follow the practice
adopted by Judge Hilton at his Saratoga Hotel and ban all members of the
“Hebrew Race” as guests. Hebrews had
been coming to the hotel in ever increasing numbers. While they freely spent their money, there
were not enough rooms available for Gentile guests. Mr. Breen told the Times “that the public
sentiment might be against such measures, but it was not so among Gentile
patrons.” The hotel was taking on the
appearance of a “Jewish settlement” despite the best efforts of management to
make Gentiles feel welcome. Breen described
it as a business decision. “It was self-preservation and the interests of our
large number of other guests that caused us to take this step.”
1890: “Jews in
Russia” published today, relied on information that first appeared in the
London Daily News described the new regulations that are being applied to Jews
living under the Czar. These include a requirement that when Jewish students
complete their university studies, they must return “to their native
towns.” The parents of students who fail
to do so and evade the authorities will be punished in their place.
1890(4th
of Av, 5650): Seventy-four year old Moritz Duschak, the native of Moravia who
served as a rabbi Cracow passed away today in Vienna having “spent his last
days in neglect and disappointment.”
1891: The
cloakmakers, most of whom were Polish and Russian Jews, were joined by the
cutters and pressers in their strike again Oppenheim & Collins.
1891 A tribute
written today in honor of Nathan Marcus and Hermann Adler said that they “gave
their name”, “to a regime, to an era… The system of Rabbinate which had long
come to be known as ‘Adlerism’, the keynote of which was the close
consolidation of religious government and the concentration of ecclesiastical
control… If, therefore, ‘Adlerism’ had its faults and its drawbacks… it has
formed a basis on which can now be safely laid a system more fitted to
Anglo-Jewry as it is” (As reported by Rabbi Raymond Apple, senior rabbi of the
Great Synagogue, Sydney)
1891: In
Cincinnati, Ohio, Solon and Elizabeth Johnson Rosentiel gave birth to Lewis
Solon Rosentiel the founder of Schenley Industries, the New York based liquor
company
1891: The
weekly excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is scheduled
to take place today.
1891:
Birthdate of Lasar Segall, the son of Vilnius Torah scribe who settled in
Brazil in the 1920’s where he gained fame as a “painter, engraver and
sculptor.”
http://artuk.org/discover/artists/segall-lasar-18911957
https://moma.org/collection_ge/artist.php?artist_id=5317
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lasar_Segall
1891: General
James R. O’Beirne, who was “in charge of the immigrants at Ellis Island” wrote
to the Secretary of the Treasury recommending that the Jewish immigrants being
held at the Barge Office be allowed to land’ since “they are desirable
immigrants” who have skills “and are willing to work if they get a chance.”
1892: During
the Homestead Steel Strike anarchist Alexander Berkman went to the office of
Henry Clay Frick the chairman of Carnegie Steel Company with the intention of
assassinating him; a an attempt that was thwarted because the secretary said
Frick was too busy to see him.
1892: Abraham
Oswald Swift the son of Harris and Sarah Swift, born Abraham Asher ben Joshua
in Russia in 1869, was buried today at the Deane Road Cemetery in London
1893: The
Marshall and three men working with him returned to the apartment of Sarah
Goldstein, a widow living at 181 Orchard Street and executed the order of the
court by putting the widow, her six sick children and her furniture on the
sidewalk. Neighbors were afraid to help
because the children were sick with measles.
1893:
Birthdate of Breslau native Eugen Schüfftan the Academy Award winning
cinematographer who invented “the Schüfftan process, a special effects
technique that employed mirrors to insert actors into miniature sets.”
1893:
Policemen are looking for other victims of gang of Russian Jewish thieves who
lure other Russian Jews to their room at 81 Chrystie Street where they torture
and rob the unsuspecting immigrants.
1894: “Old
Boston Booksellers” published today described the Boston antiquarian book trade
of the 1850’s which was dominated by two firms one of which was Burnham
Brothers, a firm owned by Theodore, Frederick and Lafayette Burnham, who were
either Jewish or “of Jewish origins.”
1895: The
Rhine Gazette announced that the electors of Minden are preparing to hold a
meeting demanding the resignation of the Baron von Hammerstein, the disgraced
former editor of the Kreuz Zeitung.
Ironically, the Baron who “was a strong anti-Semite and leader of the
Jew baiters” was brought to financial ruin by “his enormous expenditures” with
which he lavished his Jewish mistress with “every luxury that wealth could
purchase.”
1895:
Birthdate of Henry Lynn, Russian born American “film director, screenwriter and
producer.”
1896: Three
days after his abortive meeting with Rothschild, Herzl made the decision to
organize a Zionist Congress.
1898: Bishop
John H. Vincent, the founder of the Chautauqua movement is scheduled to deliver
a lecture entitled The Chautauqua Idea at today’s session of the Summer
Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society being held at Atlantic City, NJ.
1898(2nd of
Av, 5658): Seventy year old Benjamin Marks “a wealthy retired merchant” passed
away today at the Long Beach Hotel where he was spending the summer. A native
of Berlin, he came to the United States at the age of 20 where he went to work
for Brooks Brothers. Several years later
he began opening a string of retail stores specializing in woolen goods. By the time he retired in 1871, he “was one
of the largest, if the largest retail woolen merchants in America.”
1899: In
“Jasi, Romania,” Wolf and Rosa (Kahan) Margulies” gave birth Nathan Ross
Margold, the husband of Getrude Wiener who in 1901 came to the United States
where he graduated CCNY and Harvard Law School, held a variety of governmental
legal positions and who, as a protégé of Felix Frankfurter “wrote a 218-page
report outlining a legal strategy for desegregating public schools in the
South” which provided the road map for what became Brown v the Board of
Education.
https://legallegacy.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/july-21-1899-birthdate-of-nathan-ross-margold/
1899:
Sixty-five year old Robert Ingersoll who earned nickname “The Great Agnostic”
for his views on religion passed away. While some Jewish leaders, such as Rabbi
Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El gave him credit for showing “to the world
of the Church” they challenged his views on Judaism especially about Moses. But
as Rabbi Silverman pointed out, Ingersoll “is not responsible for his mistakes…because
he cannot read the Bible in its original language.”
1900: The
uprising in Beijing known as The Boxer Rebellion began today. Among the Marines who saw action during the
month long conflict was William Zion, a Jewish private from Indiana who won the
Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor.
1900:
Birthdate of Washington native and advertising executive Norman Coleman Kal.
1901: In
Galena, KS, Louis Denebiem who would become a successful merchant in Kansas
City and his wife Jennie Denbiem gave birth to Nathanial Denebeim.
1901(5th
of Av, 5661): Seventy-seven year old Bohemian textile manufacturer Isaac
Mautner who had married Julia Rosenfeld in 1849 passed away today.
http://rabbimeirbaalhaneis.com/Rabbi%20Yaakov%20Shaul%20Eliashar.asp
1902:
Birthdate of Norwich, CT, native David Cramer, the NYU undergraduate and Yale Law
School graduate who serviced as a “city attorney and deputy municipal judge.
1902: In New
York, Henry and Frances Kesslering gave birth to playwright Joseph Kesselring
whose best known work, “Arsenic and Old Lace” a Hebrew version of which opened
at the Habima Theatre on October 29, 2012.
1902(16th
of Tammuz, 5662): Adolph Landau passed away today
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Landau_Adolph
1903: Birthdate of Roy Rothschild Neuberger the
co-founder of the investment firm Neuberger Berman and recipient of the
National Medal of Arts. He “was an American financier who contributed money to
raise public awareness of modern art through his acquisition of pieces he
deemed worthy.”
1904(9th of
Av, 5664):Tish'a B'Av
1904: In
Ostrovetz, Poland, a Jewish boy allegedly “threw a stone at a Polish beggar
striking him on head” after which “the beggar’s brother, a factory hand fell
upon a few Jews in order to avenge his brother’s injury” in what would be the
first of two days communal rioting
1904: Special
memorial prayers were offered up for the third time this week to mark the
passing of Theodore Herzl.
1905: In
Kutne, Poland, “The Kutne Rebbe” and his wife gave birth to Isaiah Trunk the
award winning author and “chief archivist of YIVO” who raised his son Gabriel
with his wife Celia.
1905: In New
York, Joseph Rubin, a manufacturer of straw braid and Helene Forbet Rubin, both
of whom were “immigrant Polish Jews gave birth to Diana Rubin the wife of
Lionel Trilling who gained fame as critic and author Diana Trilling. (As
reported by Michael Norman)
1905: Eighteen
year old “Razel Pechodburski, a Jewish orphan girl from Lodz” married 22 year
old Lodz native Harry Miller, “a silk weaver from New York” “two hours after
she was released from Ellis Island.”
1906(28th of
Tammuz, 5666): Ninety-two year old Saul Jacob El-Yashar, Hahambashi of
Jerusalem (Sephardi Chief Rabbi) passed away
1906: Moses
Gaster, the Chief Rabbi of the English Sephardic Community and his mother gave
birth to Theodor Herzl Gaster, the British born American biblical scholar who
published the first English translation of the Dead Sea scrolls. His father
named him after his recently deceased friend, Theodor Herzl. (As reported by
Andy Wallace)
1907(10th
of Av, 5667): Fast observed since the 9th of Av fell on Shabbat
1907: “Jews
Barred From Juries” published reported that “a rabid outburst of anti-Semitism
has just occurred in the Kingdom of Saxony, where certain district courts have
excluded Jews from the juries and from the highly honorable positions of
by-sitters, or Assistant Judges, who are chosen periodically from among the
electorate.”
1908:
Birthdate of Ft. Worth, TX native Phillip Jacob Handler who earned “the
nickname ‘Motsy’” while playing guard at TCU after which he went on to play for
six seasons with the NFL Chicago Cardinals.
https://www.profootballarchives.com/coach/hand00800coach.html
1909: “The New
Dispersion of Jews” published today expressed approval of a speech by Jacob H.
Schiff at a meeting of the Jewish Chautauqua Society in Buffalo where he
expressed the hope that the Jews fleeing Russia and Rumania would not
congregate in the congested cities of the east but seek to build their new
lives “in the great tracts of land in the West and Southwest of the United
States.”
1910:
Birthdate of Himan “Hi” Brown the son of a tailor from Odessa who was a major
producer during the Golden Age of Radio including “Bulldog Drummond,” “Inner
Sanctum” and “Radio Mystery Theatre.”
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=himan-brown&pid=143346493
1911: Birthdate
of Felicia Haberfeld, a native of Poland who eventually settled in Los Angles
where she worked as a city librarian and, with her husband, founded the 1939
Club, named for the year Germany invaded Poland. She was also instrumental in
establishing an endowed chair in Holocaust studies at UCLA.
1911(25th of Tammuz, 5671): Rabbi Yehouda Jarmon of Tunis, a friend of Semah
ben Natan Halevi, passed away at the age of 104.
1911: “Julius
Berend Cohen, a Professor of Organic Chemstiry at the University of Leeds was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society” in London today.
1911(25th
of Tammuz, 5671): Simon Gruenwald passed away in Grosswardein, Hungary.
1911: During
the Mendel Beilis Affair, a small expeditionary force of gendarmes forced its
way into the home of Mendel Beilis and arrested him.
1912: Jennie
and Moses Montefiore Kursheedt gave birth to Abigail Hoffman (Kursheedt)
1913: It was
reported today that Rose Jacobs is engaged to Louis Weiss.
1913: Two days
after she had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held for Sophia
Frankenthaler.
1914: In
Neu-Isenburg, a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Zysia Pressman and his
wife Hinda Leah gave birth to Hermann Pressman, the author of the Pressman
Diaries.
1914: David
Lloyd George, who as Prime Minister supported the Balfour Declaration, was
among the British leaders who attended the first day of the Buckingham Palace
Conference which was King George’s attempt to deal with the “Irish Question.”
1915: In
Milledgeville, GA, “Leo M. Frank’s physicians expressed the opinion that his
recovery” from the wounds he suffered when prisoner J.W. Creen tried to kill
him “was practically certain unless there should be some unexpected
development.
1915: J.W.
Creen told reporters today that “he was justified in attacking Leo Frank” and
that he was not crazy as a newspaper story said he was.
1915: “As a
result of the attack on Leo Frank” it was reported today that “seventy
prisoners at the State Prison Farm are likely to be transferred to chain gangs
throughout the state.”
1915: While it
was reported today that “extra precautions have been taken to safeguard Leo
Frank in the future, Trustees have informed the prison officials that there is
a strong feeling against Frank among the prisoners.”
1915: It was
reported today that Georgia Governor Harris wants “a complete investigation of
affairs at the prisoner farm” and wants “to know how one prisoner was able to
make an attack upon another.”
1916(20th
of Tammuz, 5676): Harry Lewinstein who had been a Corporal in the Coldstream
Guard serving in France in 1914 and was subsequently commissioned as a second
lieutenant was killed today.
1916: It was
reported today that the members of the Joint Distribution Committee of Jewish
Relief Fund in America “is made up of representatives of the American Jewish
Relief Committee (Justice Brandeis, E. W. Lewin-Epstein, Leon Sanders, Louis
Marshall, and Cyrus L. Sulzberger), the Central Relief Committee and the
People’s Relief Committee.”
1917(2nd
of Av, 5677): Parashat Matot-Masei
1917(2nd
of Av, 5677): Sixty-three year old Cleveland newspaper editor Maurice
Weidenthal, the son of Emanuel Weidenthal and Julia (Julie) Weidenthal and the
husband of Lida Weidenthal passed away today.
1917: In
commenting on a speech by the German Imperial Chancellor Michaelis, in London,
the Evening Standard proves the
universality of Jewish Bible tales when it says that the Chancellor sometimes
uses “the voice of the sly politic Jacob, but the hand is the rough paw of the
Prussian Esau.”
1917: “In a
statement appearing in the issue of the Bulletin of the Joint Distribution
Committee issued” today, “the $10,000,000 Jewish War Relief Fund” was “compared
to the Liberty Loan” and was called the “Life Bond of Jewry.”
1918: In
Russia, the revolutionary government that had overthrown the Czar removed the
ban on Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals.
1918(12th
of Av, 5678): Henry Roth “one of the most influential Jews in Brooklyn” who had
served as President of the Henry Roth Building Company for the past 25 years”
and was President of Congregation Beth Elhoim passed away suddenly at his
summer home on Long Island.
1918: “At
promptly 3 o’clock this afternoon a procession led by the Depot Brigade
followed by Major General Franklin Bell left he headquarter of the Jewish
Welfare Board” and marched through the streets of Camp Upton to the new
interdenominational chapel where ceremonies led by Rabbi Nathan Blechman were
held to mark “the dedication of the Ark presented by State Supreme Court Justice
Irving Lehman” which will house the Torah scroll donated by Samuel Gorrschall
1919: It was
reported today “Morris D. Waldman has returned to his former post as executive
director of the United Hebrew Charities” in New York City.
1919: Chief
Rabbi J. H. wrote to Dr. Salis Daiches, the Rabbi who was a leader of the
Scottish Jewish community.
1919: It was
reported today that Rabbi Bernard Cantor has rejoined the Free Synagogue after
serving a congregation in Akron, OH, and is serving “its newest branch in
Flushing, Long Island.
1919:
Birthdate of Seymour Pine, “the deputy police inspector who led the raid on the
Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, on a hot summer night in 1969 —
a moment that helped start the gay liberation movement A graduate of Brooklyn College and a veteran
of WW II who served in North Africa and Europe, Pine later apologized the raid
and his role in it. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1920: Sir
Herbert Samuel, the British High Commissioner met with newsmen today and announced
that he was abolishing the censorship which had been in effect since the
Jerusalem riots that began in April.
1920:
Birthdate of Isaac Stern. Born in Russia, the famous violinist came to America
at the age of ten months. His family settled in San Francisco, and he debuted
with the San Francisco Symphony. His career is too rich for this brief entry.
Suffice it to say he is one of a long line of Jewish violinists and he has been
a supporter of musical endeavors in Israel.
1921:
Birthdate of Arthur Marx, who wrote screenplays for film and television and a
best-selling book about his father, “Life With Groucho.”
1921:
Birthdate of Stanley Tretick, the photojournalist whose career spanned an era
from Truman through Bush I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tretick#/media/File:Stanley_Tretick_photographing_JFK_1962.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tretick#/media/File:Tretick_JFK_Jr_in_desk.jpg
1921(15th of
Tammuz, 5681): Benjamin Raphael Haim
Moshe, Chief Rabbi of Spain passed away at the age of 74 years
1922:
Birthdate of Bernard Gilbert Hoberman, the native of Chisholm, MN, who helped
to save AM by creating All-Talk Radio.
1923(8th
of Av, 5683): Parashat Devarim; Tish’a B’Av
1923: “The
general economic depression in 1922 did not adversely affect Palestinian trade
to an appreciable extent, according to the report of the Palestine
Administration.”
1924: “On the
opening day of court” Clarence Darrow had the opportunity “to ask the Judge to
appoint a special commission to determine if his “two Jewish clients, Leopold
and Loeb” were insane.
1925:
Conductor and composer Boris Morris who “declined an offer to become a director
of the Hebrew Opera in Palestine” was elected as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Association for the Erection of a Conservatory of Music as a
memorial to the Jewish soldiers killed in the World War…”
1926: Birthdate of director Norman Jewison. Despite his name and the fact that he
directed the film version of “Fiddler on the Roof,” Jewison is not Jewish.
1926: Birthdate of Karel Reisz a “Czech-born
British filmmaker who was active in post–war Britain, and one of the pioneers
of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema. “Reisz was a
Jewish refugee, one of the 669 rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/nov/28/guardianobituaries.filmnews
1927: “Packed in 1,500 cases and weighing
seventy-five tons, 430,000 Palestinian pounds worth of coin in silver, nickel
and bronze” arrived in Jerusalem “under strong military escort.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/07/22/98856270.html?pageNumber=4
1928(4th of Av, 5688): Parashat
Devarim
1928: “The proposals of American and German
non-Zionists for formulating a constructive program of Palestine upbuilding
work on the basis of sound business principles, as embodied in the
recommendations of the Commissioners of the Join Palestine Survey were the
cause of a heated debate today among the members of the General Council of the
Zionist World Organization” meeting in Berlin.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/07/22/94152753.html?pageNumber=44
1929: Fifty-four year old Indiana born author
Leroy Scott, the husband of Vilna native “Miriam Finn Scott, a child
diagnostician and specialist in parent education” drowned today leaving to
raise their three children while pursuing her career.
1929: Italian born Jewish conductor Giorgio
Polacco married Edith Mason a year before he retired as conductor of the
Chicago Civic Opera.
1930: “The Community Reform Temple of Brooklyn
has accepted the offer of the Kings Highway Congregation Church” which owes
Rabbi Samuel Peiper a debt of gratitude for his cooperation “that made the”
congregation’s church building a reality to hold its Rosh Hashonah and Yom
Kippur services in the church building.” (As reported by JTA)
1931: Maxim Litvinov began serving as the
People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.
1931: Dr. Louis I. Newman will officiate at the
funeral service for former state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Newburger who
passed away at the age of 78. Following burial in Union Field Cemetery Cantor
Nathan Meltzof is scheduled to conduct a memorial service at the home of the
deceased The honorary pallbearers include Court of Appeals Justices Benjamin N.
Cardozo and Irving Lehman.
1931: CBS’s
New York City stations began broadcasting the first regular seven days a week
television schedule in the United States. George Gershwin was one of three
people to appear on the first broadcast. That’s right – one third of the
"cast" of this landmark television show was Jewish. Of course, CBS
was owned by Bill Paley adding to the Jewish twist.
1932(17th
of Tammuz, 5692): Tzom Tammuz
1932: On his
18th birthday Hermann Pressman’s mother gave him thirty marks which
he used to buy a photo album and a diary which he would use to record his
experiences during the Nazi rise to power.
1932(17th
of Tammuz, 5692): Seventy-seven year old retired Justice of the New York
Supreme Court Marx “Max” Platzek, a graduate of NYU law school, President of
the YMHA and a benefactor of the American Jewish Historical Society passed away
today.
1933: The port
at Haifa was opened to traffic.
1933: It was
learned that “Richard M. Lederer,
president of the Standard National Corporation, building construction and
mortgage bankers, has purchased a large estate in Westchester County.”
1933: Billy
Cotton and his Bank recorded “Avalon” the 1920 Al Jolson hit.
1933: “The
Sandwich Girl,” a comedy with a script co-authored by Walter Wassermann was
released today in Germany.
1934(9th
of Av, 5694): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1934: Vladimir
Jabotinsky, president of the World Union of the Zionist Revisionists, today
issued a statement hailing the acquittal of Abraham Stavsky
1934: In
London, Lithuanian Jewish refugees Emanuel Miller, a psychiatrist and “Betty
Miller (née Spiro) was a novelist and biographer” gave birth to Sir Jonathan
Wolfe Miller, a “theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter,
humorist, and medical doctor.”
1935:
"The purpose of this new Nazi campaign of vituperation and calumny against
Jews is clearly discernible -- all is not going well with the Nazi program for
the revival of internal prosperity," asserts the joint foreign committee
of the Jewish Board of Deputies in a report read to the meeting of the
"Jewish Parliament" in London today.”
1935: Today
Felix M. Warburg announced, “the formation of a Refugee Economic Corporation
with a capital of $10,000,000 to help refugees from German and other countries
to settle in various parts of the world on an economically self-supporting
basis.”
1935: It was
reported today The North China Daily News” has published an article entitled “A
Fantastic Slander” said that the following a request by the Jewish Communal
Association the Municipal Council in Shanghai has conducted an investigation of
claims of ritual murders being conducted at the Jewish cemetery and founded
them to be false.
1936: Birthdate
of Philadelphia native Rabbi Sidney Brichto, who moved to Great Britain in 1961
where he “became Associate Minister of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St.
John’s Wood” and became the first
“Executive Director of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues.
http://www.brichto.com/peoplesbible/bibleindex.htm
1936: James A.
Farley, Democratic National Chairman was reported today to have said that there
was not a word of truth in claims that Governor Alf Landon, the Republican
nominee for President was an anti-Semite but he also said that claims Democrats
were behind a “whispering campaign” promoting this were also false.
1937: In
London, at today’s meeting of the World Conference on Church, Community and
State, “Professor Walter H. Morton of Oberlin College” a liberal school in
Ohio, “said that unless the Christian church showed opposition to
anti-Semitism, not only word but in deed, by being more than lukewarm in the
relief of Jewish and Hebrew-Christian suffers, it would not escape great
reproach from Jews” whom he said “were give more than lukewarm support not only
to their own sufferers but to Hebrew-Christian sufferers as well.”
1937: Birthdate
of Chava Turniansky, the Mexican born Yiddish historian and winner of the
Israel Prize in 2013.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/21/1937/birth-of-yiddish-historian-chava-turniansky
1938)22nd
of Tammuz, 5698): Before dawn “a band of Arabs estimated to number 100”
attacked “an isolated settlement in the north, Kiriat Hahroesh, where stabbed to death a man, his wife and
their 2 year old baby” all living in one hut “before entering another hut where
they killed a settler and his 11 year old son.
1938)22nd
of Tammuz, 5698): In the second attack of the day three Jewish workers were
killed and several more seriously wounded when an “Arab gang” attacked their
camp near the Dead Sea which they looted before leaving.
1938: While
the rest of the world was embracing the Nazis or turning a blind eye to their
depredations, “Pope Pius XI delivers an address to ecclesiastical assistants of
Catholic Action in which he argues that Catholicism is opposed to racism,
nationalism, and similarly exclusivist ideologies.” (The differences between Pius XI and his
successor Pius XII were far greater than a single Roman numeral.)
1938(22nd
of Tammuz, 5698): Morris Mitchtom, the Jewish immigrant, who along with his
wife “invented the Teddy Bear”, passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Michtoms.html
1939: The
Jewish Agency for Palestine issued today a statement rejecting Colonial
Secretary Malcolm MacDonald's appeal for cooperation with the British
Government's new policy for Palestine. The Jewish leadership rejected the White
Paper with its limits on immigration and land ownership as being “devoid of
moral and legal basis and…calculated to destroy the las and holiest possession
of the Jewish people – the national home.
1940: Hans and Margret Rey
left Lisbon aboard the Angola which was headed for Rio.
1941: In
Minsk, 45 Jew were ordered to dig a pit. They were then thrown in and Russian
prisoners were ordered to bury them alive. The Russians refused. The Germans
then shot the Russians and the Jews in the pit.
1941: Jews of
Upina, Lithuania, were killed by the Nazis.
1941: A concentration
camp opens at Majdanek, Poland.
1941: “The Riga occupation command decided to
concentrate the Jewish workers in a ghetto after which all Jews were registered
and a Jewish Council (Judenrat) was set up.
1942: The S.S. Nyassa, a Portuguese liner
carrying “Five hundred and fifty-seven refugees from Nazism who had been
stranded in Portugal and unoccupied France” which had left Portugal on July 10
bound for Baltimore stopped in Bermuda today. (JTA)
1942: Today, “on the day before the eve of
Tisha B’Av” “a mass rally was held in Madison Square Garden during which “the
atrocities” against the Jews in places from the Warsaw Ghetto to Paris “were
denounced” and a support for an Allied Victory was called for since that was
the only realistic hope.
1942: While speaking
tonight at a rally in Madison Square Garden, Rabbi Wise said, “There have been
a thousand and more Lidices in the life of the Jews of Central and Eastern
Europe in the last year.
1942: One thousand Jews deported from Paris,
reached Auschwitz. Many of them were Polish Jews living in France. Six hundred
and twenty-five were gassed while 375 selected for labor battalions. Only
seventeen would survive the war.
1942: The
Jews of Nieswiez organized a resistance movement and a planned an escape using
kerosene and old guns as their weapons. A desperate battle ensued. Jews set
fire to their own homes as a diversionary tactic. Some of those who made it to
the woods found other Jews from Kleck and Niewswiez. They set up an underground
unit.
1943:
Birthdate of Sir Robert Andrews, the UK”s Ambassador to “Israel between 1992
and 1995” and “in June, 2010 was appointed the UK’s first Envoy for
post-Holocaust issues.”
1943: Lydia
Litvyak, the flight commander of the 3rd Aviation Squadron in the
Soviet air force shot down two more Nazi aircraft today.
1943:
Tonight’s performance of “We Will Never Die” at the Hollywood Bowl was
broadcast to a nationwide audience thanks to NBC. “We Will Never Die was a
dramatic pageant…staged to raise public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of
Europe's Jews. It was organized and written by screenwriter and author Ben
Hecht and produced by Billy Rose and Ernst Lubitsch.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Will_Never_Die
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/pageant.html
1944: Jerzy
Bielecki led Cyla Cybulska out of her barrack at Auschwitz and passed a sleepy
guard to the woods and freedom. He was a
Roman Catholic who had been imprisoned in 1940 as a member of the Polish
Resistance. She was a young Jewess, who
thanks to his courage was the only member of her family to survive the
Holocaust. He was recognized by Yad
Vasham as one of the Righteous Gentiles in 1985. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1944: On the
day after the attempt to assassinate Hitler failed, Henning von Tresckow, one
of the chief conspirators, staged a partisan attack
on his headquarters near Bialystok in Poland, and blew himself up with a
grenade. He was buried with military honors, but a month later, when the
Gestapo discovered his involvement in the plot against Hitler, his body was
exhumed and burned in a crematorium of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
1944:
Birthdate of Paul Wellstone, United States from Minnesota who died in a plane
crash in 2002.
1944: After
almost six weeks, British forces finally captured Caen which meant the Allies
could finally prepare for the big breakout, head east and defeat the Nazis.
1945(11th
of Av, 5705): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1945: Today,
the United States government “told Japan to surrender unconditionally of face
‘virtual destruction’” – a veiled reference to the Atomic Bomb which had been
developed under Oppenheimer but never dropped in combat.
1946: Janet
Fox, a niece of Edna Ferber and publisher Henry Goldsmith gave birth to
Pulitzer Prize nominated author Julie Gilbert who wrote about her famous relative in Ferber:
The Biography of Edna Ferber.
1946: As a
measure of the dire financial straits facing the English, who were spread thin
holding on the rebelling territories including Palestine and India, the House
of Commons, for the first time in the history of U.K. approved the peacetime
rationing of bread.
1947: After
over 500 performances at the National Theatre, “Call Me Mister,” a revue with
words and music by Harold Rome and a cast that included Jules Munshin but which
would continue its Broadway run at the Majestic Theatre.
1947: Today
“the Freeland League was officially notified by Dr. J.C.Brons, Governor of
Surinam that the Staten and Netherlands Government agreed to the immigration of
30,000” homeless European Jews who would settle in the Dutch colony.
1947: The Exodus, a refugee ship with 4,500
refugees on board, was turned back by the British and returned to Germany. The
ship had tried to run the British blockade unsuccessfully: The British
forcefully boarded the ship killing 3 Jews and wounding over 100. The pictures
of the refugees being forcibly unloaded in Germany was a critical blow to world
public opinion and helped force the British out of Eretz Israel.
1948: Today’s
“Mount Scopus Demilitarization Agreement” was “initialed by Franklyn M. Begley”
of the UN “and the local Jordanian commander but not by the Israeli commander.”
1948: David
Shaltiel, the district commander of the Haganah in Jerusalem held the last in a
series of meetings mediated by the UN with Abdullah el Tell, “the commander of
the Arab Legion in the city” where “they signed a formal cease-fire based on
the existing positions of their forces.”
1949: After a
brief visit to his home in Israel, Eliahu Elath, the Israeli Ambassador to the
United States and his wife arrived at the airport in New York where he said “we
are grateful for the assistance of the United States in seeking a (peace)
settlement”
1949:
“Communist Arabs by the Egyptian Army said today that three Israeli Army
offices secretly were directing a campaign to spread communism among the Arab
refugees” in Gaza which led to “a spokesman for the Israeli delegation to the
United Nations to label the report as ‘nonsense’” saying it wa as credible as
the communiques from Cairo 14 months ago that “boasted of grandiose but
non-existence victories over Israel.”
1950: “Broken
Arrow,” a Western that was one of the first to offer a sympathetic view of
Indians with an Oscar nominated script for which Michael Seymour Blankfort
“served a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz” and co-starring Jeff Chandler
(Ira Grossel) as “Cochise” was released in the United States today.
1950: MP Ian
Mikardo asked in Parliament that the British Government's policy on providing
arms to Egypt be revised” point out that arms shipments to Egypt were premised
on their use in collective defense and that Egypt had made it very clear that
it would not join the collective effort on Korea. (Editor’s note – In other
words, the Egyptians were getting arms from the British which they would not
use against the Koreans but which they could and did use against Israel.)
1950: It was
reported today that “Colonel Alfred G. Katzin of South Africa” was serving as
the “personal representative of the UN Secretary General.
1951: In its
story on the assassination of Jordan’s King Abdullah that occurred on July 21 The
Jerusalem Post reported that King Abdullah was known for his efforts to
reach an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. In his memoirs he wrote: "I have
been astonished at what I saw of the Jewish settlements: They have colonized
sand dunes, drawn water from them, and transformed them into paradise."
1952: The
Democratic National Convention, which Herman Benjamin Baruch, the brother of
Bernard Baruch, the doctor turned diplomat attended as delegate opened today in
Chicago.
1953(9th
of Av, 5713): Tish’a B’Av
1953: Birthdate
of award winning economist and hedge fund manager Sanford “Sandy” Jay Grossman.
1955:
Architect Denise Lakofski, the daughter of Simon and Phyllis (Hepker) Lakofski
became Denise Scott Brown today when she married Robert Scott Brown.
1955: Martin
and Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave birth to Jane C. Ginsburg “the Morton L. Janklow
Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at the Columbia Law School.”
This could be a case of the fulfillment of genetic predisposition since her
mother is a Supreme Court Justice and her father, of blessed memory, was a law
professor and internationally renowned expert on tax law.
1955: “I Am a
Camera” a comedy co-starring Shelly Winters (Shirley Schrift) and Laurence
Harvey (Laruschka Mischa Skikne) was released today in the United Kingdom and
Los Angeles.
1957:
Birthdate of comedic actor Jon Lovitz whose big break came in 1982 when he
joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live.”
1959(15th
of Tammuz, 5719): Fifty-six year old New York born Teviah Sachs, “the president
and treasurer of Pearls by Deltah, Inc. of Pawtuckett and the former president
of Gruen Washing company of Canada and the Waltham Watch Company who was “a
director of Brandeis University and the husband of Leah Sachs with whom he had
one child, Colman, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/22/89226540.pdf?pdf_redirect=true
1960(26th
Tammuz, 5720): Sixty-four year old Norman Salit, the former President of the
Synagogue Council of America who graduated from JTS and NYU Law School in 1920
and who was married to Ruth Salit with whom he had one daughter – Mrs. Naomi
Birnbach – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/07/22/99760949.pdf
1962(19th
of Tammuz, 5722): Parashat Tammuz
1962: It was
reported today that the “unveiling of a monument in memory of Irving Maisel” of
blessed memory is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning at the Ararat
Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY.
1963(29th
of Tammuz, 5723): Seventy-three year old Erfut, Germany native David Baumgardt
the author and philosopher who in 1939 found refuge in the United States where
he worked for Archibald MacLeish, the Librarian of Congress, wrote such books
as Maimonides in 1955 and Great Western Mystics: Their Lasting
Significance in 1961 passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/07/22/89946139.pdf
https://archive.org/details/davidbaumgardt
1965: Today,
fifty-three-year-old Aryeh Louis Pincus, a South African-born member of the
Jewish Agency Executive was appointed acting chairman of the organization
following the death of Moshe Sharett on July 7/
1967: Three
days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held at
Temple Emanu-El’s Beth-El Chapel for seventy-seven year old former New York
Times staffer Harold Lebair, the “treasurer of the United States Lawn Tennis
Association who raised three daughters with his wife “the former Lucile
Mordecai.
1969: On the
second day of Operation Boxer, “four 109 Squadron Skyhawks attack an Egyptian
anti-aircraft battery near Qantarah.”
1970(17th of
Tammuz, 5730): Tzom Tammuz
1970: Libya's
Col. Qaddafi nationalizes all Jewish property
1970: After 11
years of construction, the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River in Egypt is
completed. In 1954, President Nasser sought aid from the U.S. government to
build the Aswan Dam. He saw the building
of the dam as being a vital to Egypt’s modernization program. For a variety of ideological and economic
reasons, the Eisenhower Administration eventually rejected the request for
aid. Nasser turned the Soviets who were
only too glad to supply economic aid and masses of modern arms to Egypt. Bolstered by his new Soviet sponsors and
angry at Eisenhower and Dulles for what he considered their betrayal of his
dreams. Nasser began to promote an agenda of pro-Soviet Pan-Arabism with the
destruction of Israel as its emotional focal point. Nasser also nationalized the Suez Canal because
he needed the canal revenue to re-pay the Soviets. All of this led to the Suez Crisis of 1956
which resulted in a lightening military victory. Nasser’s vision may have died, but the dam
was built. Such is the law of unintended
consequences on This Day in Jewish History.
1971: In “Max
Cohen: Boxer Bridges Suez Gulf” published today Al Harvin provided an update on
the career of Nessim “Max” Cohen the 29 year old Jewish boxer born in Morocco
who moved to Israel in 1962 and “was adopted by the Arabs after he won the
welterweight title in the 1963 Pan-Arab Games at Casablanca.”
1973(21st
of Tammuz, 5733): Parashat Pinchas
1973: In the
Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they
mistakenly thought was involved in 1972’s Munich Olympics Massacre.
1974: “The White
Dawn,” an adaption of the novel by the same name, directed by Philip Kaufman
was released in New York City today by Paramount Pictures.
1976: “An
all-black cast staged the first Broadway review” of “Guys and Dolls a musical
with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows”
which officially opened today at the Broadway Theatre.
1977(6th
of Av, 5737): Eighty-four year old Kiev native Dr. Abraham J. Feldman, a
leading Reform Rabbi, past president of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis and civil rights leader who was married “to the former Helen Bloch with
whom he had three children – Daniel, Joan and Ella – passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0038/ms0038.html
1977: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for eighty-three-year old Nassau, NY
native and Rensselaer Polytechnic trained engineer Charles H. Blitman the
building developer responsible for such edifices as the Custom House at the
World Trade Center and vice president of the Maimonides Hospital Center who had
two children – Howard and Doris – with his wife Bernice.
1977: The
Tenth Maccabiah comes to an end.
1977:
Seventy-year old Lee Miller, one of the few female combat photographers in WW
II, who teamed with David E. Scherman to provide the public with a graphic
portrait of the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau, passed away today.
1979(26th of
Tammuz, 5739): Parashat Matot-Masei
1979(26th
of Tammuz, 5739: Eighty-year old Oxford Ph.D Eugène Vinaver, the son of Maxim
Vinaver, and “Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of
Manchester” and the foremost authority on Sir Thomas Malory passed away today.
http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/yee-eugene-vinavers-magnificent-malory-exhibit-guide
https://academic.oup.com/fs/article-abstract/XXXIII/4/501/633870?redirectedFrom=fulltext
1980(8th
of Av, 5740): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Jimmy Carter.
1981(19th
Tammuz, 5741): Ninety-five year old Berthold Herbert Bendheim, the husband of
the late Edith Kahn Bendheim passed away today after which he was interred with
her at the Forest Lawn in Glendale.
1982(1st of
Av, 5742): Rosh Chodesh Av
1982: The
first Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies which was
attended by 100 people and where Dr. Geza Vermes was elected president came to
an end today.
1985:
Outfielder Mark Gilbert made his major league debut with the Chicago White Sox.
1985(3rd
of Av, 5745): Eight-five year old art dealer Victor J. Hammer, the brother of
Dr. Armand Hammer and the son of “Jewish immigrants Julius and Rose (Lipshitz)
Hammer” passed away today in Florida.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-07-24/local/me-4808_1_armand-hammer
1985(3rd
of Av, 5745) Eight –three year old art professor and Monuments Man Charles
Louis Kuhn passed away today.
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/kuhn-lt.-cdr.-charles-l.
1985: In “The
Biographers As Detective: What Walter Lippman Preferred to Forget,” Ronald
Steele author of what some consider to be the definitive biography on Lippman
provides insight and background of a Jewish intellectual and author who was
witness to and participant in many of the major events of the 20th
century.
1988: Pitcher
Roger Samuels made his major league debut with the San Francisco Giants.
1990(28th
of Tammuz, 5750): Sixty-five year old Oscar nominated screenwriter and producer
Stanley Shapiro passed away.
1991(10th
of Av, 5751): Tish’a B’Av observed since the 9th of Av fell on
Shabbat
1991(10th
of Av, 5751): Eighty-seven year old Joseph Dorfman who “received the
Veblen-Commons Award in 1974 from the Association for Evolutionary Economics”
passed away today. (As reported by Glenn Fowler)
1996(5th
of Av, 5756): Seventy-one year old British actor Wolfe Morris the grandson of
Jews who escaped the Kiev Pogroms and brother fellow thespians Aubrey and Shona
Morris passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-wolfe-morris-1362661.html
1996:
Sixty-two year old Emmy nominated television actor Herbert “Herb” Edelman who
was the poker playing police officer in “The Odd Couple” passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/27/nyregion/herb-edelman-62-a-character-actor.html
1997(16th
of Tammuz, 5757): Two years before his wife Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo
passed away, Turkish born Sephardic pianist Victoria Kamhi de Rodrigo, Marquise
of the Jardines de Aranjuez passed away today and was subsequently buried in
Spain.
2000(18th
of Tammuz, 5760): Yosef Qafiḥ or Rabbi Kapach, a leader of the Yemenite Jewish
in Yemen and then In Israel passed away today. He was the grandson of Yiḥyah
Qafiḥ who had been born in 1853 and served as Chief Rabbi of Sana'a, Yemen
until his death in 1932. There is no way that this simple blog can do justice
to either of these leaders.
2001: Adam
MacRae Gimbel, “a grandson of Louis Stanley Gimbel, who was a managing partner
in Saks Fifth Avenue and a great-great-grandson of Adam Gimbel, who in 1842
founded the business that became Gimbel Brothers department stores” married
Alexandra Sarah Wald today.
2002: The
seventh Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies opened today in
Amsterdam under the presidency of Professor Albert van der Heide.
2002: NEEMO 3
whose NASA Aquanaut Crew included Gregory Chamitoff came to an end today.
2002: The Sunday New York Times features a
review of The Ascent of Eli Israel:
Waiting for the Messiah a
collection of short stories by Joe Papernick, a 31-year-old Canadian who moved
to Brooklyn, after having spent several months in Israel following Yitzhak
Rabin's assassination in November 1995, A Place to Live And Other Selected
Essays by Italian Jewish author Natalia Ginzburg and Reflections and
Shadows by Saul Steinberg with Aldo Buzzi.
2002:
The 88th annual national
convention of Hadassah opens at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena
Vista, Florida.
2003: A handful of the nearly one thousand Jewish refugees who were
interred at the Army camp at Oswego met “today at the home of Judy Goldsmith,
the daughter of a deceased camp survivor to reconnect and reminisce.” (As
reported by Claudia Rowe)
2003(21st of Tammuz, 5763): Fifty-five-year old Kings College
graduate and Rebbetzin at North West Surrey Synagouge, Linda Bayrield the wife
of Rabbi Tony Bayfield and the mother of 3 children: Lucy, formerly a teacher
at Clore Shalom School (one of the other two Progressive Jewish primary
schools) and a Governor of Akiva School from 2006; Daniel, a former pupil at
Akiva and a trustee of the Reform Foundation, and Rabbi Miriam Bayfield, also a
former pupil at Akiva School “ passed away today.
2003: The Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers emerged from a tense
two-hour meeting here today at loggerheads” with Prime Minister Sharon
“rebuffing demands for immediate troop withdrawals and the release of
prisoners” while Mahmoud Abbas, his Palestinian counterpart did not expressing
a willing to first dismantle what some
call “militant groups” which others describe as terrorists.
2004(3rd of Av, 5764): Composer Jerry Goldsmith
passed away. Born in Pasadena,
California, in 1929, Goldsmith was one of the most prolific composers of
television and move themes in the 20th century. If you watched such television hits as Have
Gun Will Travel, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason or The Waltons, you heard
Goldsmith. If you watched such films as
Patton, Planet of the Apes or The Omen, you heard Goldsmith. And this only scratches the surface.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/jul/24/guardianobituaries1
2004(3rd of Av, 5764): Richard Adolf Bloch
passed away at the age of 78. Born in 1926, he was an American entrepreneur,
and philanthropist best known for starting the H&R Block tax preparation
and personal finance company with his older brother Henry in 1955. His personal
battle with cancer led him to invest in helping others fight and overcome the
disease.
http://newsroom.hrblock.com/richard-bloch/
2004(3rd of Av, 5764): On the day before his 22nd
birthday, Lance Corporal Mark E. Engel
(USMC) died in a Texas hospital from wounds he suffered while fighting
in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.(As reported by Maia Efrem)
2005: 17th Macaabiah comes to a
close.
2005: “Forbes.com readers and editors rank
Meyer Amschel Rothschild as the seventh most influential businessman of all
time.”
http://www.forbes.com/2005/07/21/rothschild-banking-international-cx_0721bizmanrothschild.html
2005: Violinist Anton Polezhayev filed a
lawsuit in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan charging the New York
Philharmonic with sex discrimination in denying him a job and following a
pattern of promoting only female violinists.
2006: The Jewish
Week publishes a review of Auschwitz Report entitled “Portrait of an Emerging Author” by Liel
Lebovitz. Lebiovitz writes that “Auschwitz Report is a previously
unpublished manuscript by Primo Levi and Leonardo De Benedetti, a physician who
was Levi’s close friend when the two were prisoners at the camp. Scheduled for
publication next month, this slim manuscript, less than 100 pages long, came to
be when the Soviet Red Army, having liberated Auschwitz, asked De Benedetti and
Levi to compile a report about the conditions in the Nazi death camp….Also
included here are two short essays by Levi, both of which are eulogies of De
Benedetti. Through Levi’s loving eyes, we learn about the life of the doctor
who had so inspired his younger, infinitely more famous colleague. This, too,
is a nice addition to the biographical body of work concerning Levi. As
Holocaust memoirs move further away from the source, written now through the
mists of time and memory, a book as raw and unremitting as this one is potent
enough to inspire a fresh look at a much-discussed topic. It is with good
reason that Gordon chooses to end his introduction by quoting Elias Canetti; “If
there were any point in wondering what form of literature is essential to a
thinking, seeing human being today,” he wrote, “then it is this.’”
2006: In its fight to
remove threat of Hezbollah, IDF troops
uncovered several anti-tank missiles and several surface-to-surface missiles
during an operation in the village of Marwaheen. They also found a machine gun,
a Kalashnikov assault rifle, and ammunition.
2006(25th
of Tammuz, 5766): Seventy-eight year old Moses “Moe” Laufer a pioneer of
adolescent psychoanalysis passed away today. (As reported by Maxim de Sauma)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/nov/15/obituaries.guardianobituaries
2006: Haaretz
reported on the opening of the first U.S. branch Aroma, the Israeli
equivalent of Starbuck.
2007: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival presents a screening of “His People,”
a film about two sons of Jewish pushcart peddlers living on the Lower East
Side.
2007: In Jerusalem at
the Sisters of Zion convent, a classical music concert entitled "Music
in All the Shades" presents "Popular Melodies in Russian Choral
Music," featuring "Musica Eterna" under the direction of Elia
Plotkin.
2007(6th
of Av, 5767):
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder the
Birmingham Temple in suburban Detroit in 1963 who also was the driving force
behind the creation of the Society for Humanistic Judaism in 1969 died
today in an auto accident at the age of 79
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25wine1.html?_r=0
http://www.shj.org/Wine%20Words.htm
2007: (6 Av, 5767)
Shabbat Chazon; start of the reading of Devarim or Deuteronomy.
2008: Gordon Brown is
scheduled to address the Knesset making him the first British Prime Minister to
speak to the Israeli parliament.
2008: A jury in San
Francisco convicted Eric Hunt of false imprisonment with a hate crime
allegation, batter and elder abuse for his February 1. 2007 attack on 79 year
old Holocuast survivor and Nobel Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel.
2009: A disciplinary
hearing was held today following yesterdays brawl involving coaches and players
that followed “Russia's 2-1 defeat of Argentina in the under-18 semifinals at
the Maccabiah Games.
2009: The Pet Shop Boys play a one-off performance
in Tel Aviv becoming the latest British mega band to perform on Israeli soil
after a Depeche Mode concert in May. The duo - Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe play
at the Israel Trade Fairs and Convention Center
2009: At the 18th
Maccabiah, Australia plays Israel in Women’s Netball
2009: Israel led the way in the men's half marathon
today, taking the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in Netanya
2009: The US baseball team capped off its
undefeated season today with a 12-6 gold medal-clinching victory against Canada
at Sportek in Tel Aviv.
2009: As the controversy continued to grow because
of the planned showing of “Rachel” “a
sympathetic portrait of the American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed in
2003 in Gaza while protesting a home demolition, San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival Executive Director Peter Stein apologized “for not fully considering
how upsetting this program might be,” though he added that the festival stands
by its decision to screen the film.
2010: Stephen Rubin,
one of Britain’s richest businessman, chairman of the Pentland Group and leader
of the Jewish community who was “appointed OBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours
List” today “was awarded an honory Doctorate of Art by Nottingham Trent
University.
2010: An 8-week session program entitled Hebrew
Language and Conversation is scheduled to begin at the Historic Sixth & I
Synagogue.
2010: Debra Rubin, Editor of the Washington Jewish Week is scheduled to
serve as a moderator of a discussion addressing issues concerning Jewish
residents of Montgomery County at the Jewish Community Center of Greater
Washington in, Rockville, MD
2010: An Israeli oil prospecting and production
firm announced it has struck a commercial amount of the black substance in
central Israel, Army Radio reported today
2010: The Ritz Carlton hotel chain announced today
that it will build its first kosher hotel in Herzliya. The $160 million
project, which will include a hotel and six floors of luxury condominiums, will
be outfitted with Shabbat elevators and an upscale kosher restaurant. The hotel
will be located on the coastline overlooking the Herzliya Marina.
2011: The "Angel of Death" Josef Rudolf
Mengele's writings are scheduled to be auctioned off by Alexander Historic
Auctions of Stamford Connecticut today. The entire collection of documents,
which includes Mengele's autobiography, philosophical, eugenical, and political
works, poems, stories, illustrations and diaries is over 3,300 pages long.
2011: Shalom,”
American Jewish music legend Paul Simon told reporters in Tel Aviv on yesterday
afternoon, on the eve of his first performance in Israel for almost three
decades. Simon is set to perform at the Ramat Gan Stadium this evening, in his
third show in Israel to date.
2011: A
golden bell ornament that archaeologists believed belonged to a priest or
important leader from the Second Temple Period was found in an ancient drainage
channel in ruins next to the Western Wall today, the Israel Antiquities
Authority announced.
2011: As
part of the ongoing doctors' work dispute, medical residents at Meir Hospital
in Kfar Saba opened up in a hunger strike today
2011: Libya has become a new source of smuggled weaponry
for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon said
today. "Weapons are available in Libya as a result of the unstable
situation there, and Hamas has exploited it to buy weapons from Libyan
smugglers," the former IDF chief of staff told foreign journalists in a
briefing, without elaborating on the kind of munitions involved.
2011: The production of the Cirque du Soleil Show Iris
for which Danny Elfman composed the music began today.
2011:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a
luncheon honoring the Collections Committee and Chair Janice Goldblum following
the launch of its new on-line catalogue presented by Wendy Turman, JHSGW
Archivist. http://www.jhsgw.org/collections/catalog.php
2011(19th of Tammuz, 5771): Ninety-one year old Bruce Sundlun,
the second Jewish governor of Rhode Island passed away today. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/us/23sundlun.html?_r=0
2011(19th of Tammuz, 5771): Ninety five year old Hyman “Bookie”
Bookbinder a Washington lobbyist known by his trademark bowtie whose friends
were a cross section of Washington, DC including Democrat Hubert Humphrey and
Republican Betty Ford, passed away today (As reported by T. Rees Shapiro)
2011(19th of Tammuz, 5771): Ninety-five year old Elliot Handler
began Mattel Toy Company with his wife Ruth and helped to make Barbie, Chatty
Cathy and Hot Wheels house-hold names passed away today. (As reported by
Charles Duhigg)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/business/elliot-handler-co-founder-of-mattel-toys-dies-at-95.html
2012: Agudas
Achim is scheduled to hold its last Shabbat morning service in downtown Iowa
City.
2012: Papercut
artist David Fisher is scheduled to speak in Hebrew on "The Lost
Synagogues", synagogues destroyed in the Holocaust at Kehillat Yedidya in
Jerusalem. For more on Jerusalem events see www.janglo.net
2012: “Naomi,”
a “tight edgy Israeli film noir” is scheduled to be shown at The San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival
2012: “Lee
Zurik, WVUE Fox 8 investigative reporter, picked up three first place awards
tonight at the 54th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards sponsored by the
Press Club of New Orleans” (As reported
by CCJN)
2012:
Singer-songwriter, composer, sound designer and producer Keren Ann Zeidel
became a new mom today with the birth of Nico.
2012: The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs dismissed a claim by Qaedat al-Jihad that it was responsible for the
terrorist attack in Burgas.Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Vesela Cherneva
dismissed the previously unknown Islamist group’s assertion of responsibility
for the attack in an email sent today to Elnashra, a Lebanese newspaper. (As
reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2012: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conveyed his condolences to the American people via
a letter to US President Barack Obama late tonight, a day after a gunman
stormed a movie theater in Colorado, killing 12.(As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2013: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Worldly Philosopher: The
Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman
2013: “Chagall between War and Peace” an
exhibition at Paris’ Musee de Luxembourg is scheduled to come to an end.
http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr/en/expositions/p_exposition-18/
2013: The High
Court of Justice essentially recommended to the IDF to completely cease using
white phosphorus to create smoke screens during military operations as opposed
to eliminating its use in urban warfare and reducing its general use. The
recommendation was nonbinding. (As reported by Yonah Jeremy Bob))
2013:”The
cabinet approved a four percent budget reduction for government ministries and
passed a planning and building reform plan that would ease bureaucracy on home
improvements.” (As reported by Nev Elis)
2014: The 97th
annual convention of Hadassah is scheduled to open at Las Vegas, Nevada.
2014: Willa
Schneberg is scheduled to read from Rending the Garment “a series of link poems
exploring the life and times of one Jewish family at the Oregon Jewish Museum
and Center for Holocaust Education.
2014: “The
Real Inglorious Bastards” and “The Return of the Violin” are scheduled to be
shown at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The
funerals of 32 year old Captain Tzafir Bar-Or, 28 year old Major Zvi Kaplan, 21
year old Sergeant Oz Mendelovich and 21 year old Gilad Yaakobi, all of whom
were killed yesterday are scheduled to take place today.
2015:
Clarinetist Anat Cohen is scheduled to be one of guest performers at the Jazz
concert hosted by the 92nd Y.
2015(5th
of Av, 5775): Eighty-four year old Edgar Lawrence “E.L.” Doctorow the award
winning novelist who was also extremely commercially successful passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html
http://www.kenyon.edu/middle-path/story/literary-giant/
2015(5th
of Av, 5775): Eighty-eight year old Vera Stern the former wife of violinist
Isaac Stern passed away today.
2015(5th
of Av, 5775): Ninety-one year old Jewish cultural and entertainment giant
Theodore Bikel passed away today.
2015: In
Philadelphia, the National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to
host tour of “Richard Avedon: Family Affairs” led by Josh Perelman, the Chief
Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections.
2015: The OU
Israel Center is scheduled to host Dr. Charles Selengut’s lecture on “The World
of Islam and the Root Challenge that We Face Today.”
2016: The
Republican Convention, which has adopted a platform with strong pro-Israel
planks, is scheduled to come to an end in Cleveland.
2016: In the
wake of last year’s murder of a sixteen year old girl and the wounding of seven
others by Yishai Schlissel, police have stepped up security measures for the
Gay Pride Parade scheduled to be held today in Jerusalem.
2016: The 29th
Karmiel Dance Festiva under the guidance of artistic director Shlomo Maman,al
is scheduled to come to a close this evening.
http://www.karmielfestival.co.il/en/
2016: Jenny
Tonge “a House of Lords member of the Liberal Democratic” who in the past has
“said Israel would eventually disappear” said today that “the treatment of the
Palestinians by Israel is a major cause of the rise of extreme Islamism and
Daesh.”
2016: The
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host an event
opening “How it is, but how it should be: An Imagined Life Outside of Gurs”
that will examine the unique creation of artist Trudl Besag.
2017: Or Olam – The
East Fifty-Fifth Street Synagogue is scheduled to host its last Musical Shabbat
of the season which will be “an upbeat salute to summer, featuring guest
musicians Zvi Klein on piano, Zisl Slepovitch on clarinet and Ben Antelis on
percussion.”
2017: “A kosher food
stand” is scheduled “to open up at Wrigley Field today featuring Romanian hot
dogs, Romanian Polish sausages, pretzels and drinks” making the 103 year old
ball field the 13th major league stadium to go Kosher.
2017(21st
of Tammuz, 5778): Three Israelis were killed and another was seriously wounded
in a stabbing attack tonight when a terrorist broke into their home and began
stabbing the family as they ate their Shabbat dinner.” (As reported by Jacob
Maggid)
2017: In a letter
written today “seven Orthodox leaders “harangued the Jewish Cultural Center” in
London which had “held events celebrating LGBT Jews” “for not being religious
enough, saying it ‘has never promoted the upkeep of Halacha, the observance of
Mitzvot and religious commitment…” (As reported by Jewish News)
2017: “I Am Not a
Witch” is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018: Following its world premiere last night,
final performance of “Footprints” which includes a presentation of work by
“Dafi Altabeb, the recipient of the 2012, 2013, and 2016 Excellence Award for
young choreographers from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and the 2014
Rozenblum Award for Excellence from the Municipality of Tel-Aviv…” is scheduled
to take place this evening at the Reynolds Industries Theatre in Durham, NC.
2018: Following
yesterday’s murder of an Israeli soldier on the border with Gaza and the firing
of three more rockets by terrorists, Israelis begin Shabbat wondering if Hamas
will heed the UN call for a cessation to violence.
2018(9th
of Av, 5778): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; The fast of Tish’a B’Av is not
observed because it is Shabbat
2018(9th
of Av, 5778): Fifty-seven year old Jonathan Gold, the Los Angeles born son of
“Judith Gold a school librarian” and “Irwin Gold, a probation officer, who went
on to become one of the leading food critics in Los Angeles passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/obituaries/jonathan-gold-dead-los-angeles-food-critic.html
2018(9th
of Av, 5778): Eighty-nine year old Philip Rosen, the Philadelphia born son
Robert and Helen Rosen and husband of Lillian Schachter Rosen who was “curator
and educational director of what is now the Esther Raab Holocaust Museum and
Goodwin Education Center in Cherry Hill passed away today.
2019(18th
of Tammuz, 5779): Fast of 17th of Tammuz observed
2019: Eighty-seven
year old Paul Krassner, the Brooklyn born son of Ida Krassner, a legal
secretary and Michael Krassner, “a printing compositor,” who began writing for Mad magazine before founding, “an
underground humor magazine” passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
2019: The American
Sephardi is scheduled to host the final performance of “The Marriage of
Figaro,” David Serero’s adaptation of Mozart’s opera with Serero playing the
title of Figaro.
2019: The San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Before You
Know It” and “How About Adolf?”
2019: “Avodah’s
Jewels for Justice” is scheduled begin at noon today in Shaker Heights, OH.
2019: Today The
Grant Monument Association is scheduled to commemorate the 134th
anniversary of the death of President Grant” who actually died on July 23 with
ceremonies that will begin with a wreath laying ceremony. For more see When General Grant Expelled the
Jews by Jacob D. Sarna and https://www.stljewishlight.com/features/arts_culture/scholar-sarna-says-grant-redeemed-himself-after-anti-jewish-edict/article_2dffc164-b573-11e1-bfb3-0019bb2963f4.html
2020: In Des Moines,
IA Tifereth
Israel is schooled to host “Rabbi Barton for a Special Disusion on the film ‘13th’
and an interview with Oprah Winfrey and filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
2020: The
Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to host Session II of a
seminar on cybersecurity.
2020: The United Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to
host the second and final day of “2020
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators” which is a
“virtual event.”
2020: B’nai
Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to host a triple header of virtual events
running the gambit of the Jewish experience – Torah Study (Devarim) in the
morning with Susan Wyner, Talmud study with Rabbi Josh Foster in the later
after and “The How and Why of Jewish Ritual with Cantor Aaron Shifman in the
evening.
2020: The
JCCSF Evening Book Group is scheduled to host a virtual discussion of Nathan
Englander’s 2019 book Kaddish.com, about the secular son of an Orthodox
family who hires a stranger online to say Kaddish for his father.
2020: Israelis
will begin dealing with the reality that Hospitals and health clinics
nationwide to offer reduced services, with exceptions in urgent cases and
responses to coronavirus following the start of nationwide strike by nurses who
say that “staff shortages…have made it impossible to continue their work.”
(TOI)
2021: East Bay
Jewish film fest, Israeli consulate and A Wider Bridge are scheduled to present
Elad Cohen, director and subject of the 2017 Israeli documentary “The Sign for
Love,” about a deaf gay man raising a baby with his deaf friend.
2021: Robert
Trestan, the ADL New England regional director is scheduled to moderate an
online discussion “Understanding the Rise of Global Antisemitism and
Extremism.”
2021: The
National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to present “Songs of
Our People, Songs of Our Neighbors” with Susan Gaeta.
https://www.nmajh.org/events/songs-of-our-people-songs-of-our-neighbors-susan-gaeta/
2021:
Following yesterday’s rocket attacks from southern Lebanon, Israelis wait to
see if this is a prelude to a more prolonger attack on its northern border.
2021: “Israeli
scientists say they have identified three existing drugs that have good
prospects as COVID-19 treatments, reporting that they illustrated high ability
to fight the virus in lab tests.”
2021: “Jews
for Entrepreneurship Startup and Tech Mixer,” an “in-person even for tech,
startup and other business professionals t mingle and network” is scheduled to
take place this evening in San Francisco.
2021: the
Corte Madera Library is scheduled to present “Story of the Czech Torah Scrolls”
during which Loise Roman of the Memorial Scrolls traces, virtually, heir
history, from vibrant Jewish communities before WWII to their current day
restoration/distribution to Jewish global communities.
2022: Opening night of the San Francisco Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to include “a part at the Randall Museum.
2022: As part of the Yiddish Civilization
Lecture Series, YIVI is scheduled to a lecture in English by Professor Justin
Cammy on “Sutzkever’s Environmental Poetics.”
2022: Special Projects Director and writer Lisa
Kenner Grissom is scheduled to speak with Tony-nominated director, acclaimed
Broadway actor, accomplished singer and Yiddishist, Eleanor Reissa about her
latest work The Letters Project - A Daughter's Journey.
2022: JWA is scheduled to host a book talk by
Rachel Barenbaum, author of Atomic Anna, “an epic adventure as three
generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the
Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past.”
2022: In San Francisco, Books Inc is scheduled
to host A book-signing event featuring S.W. Leicher, whose new novel., Acts
of Atonement “is the second in a series featuring the Serach Gottesman, the
headstrong daughter of an ultra-Orthodox family, and her Latina lesbian lover
in Brooklyn.”
2023: Protestors “hope to reach Jerusalem, some
65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tel Aviv, by this afternoon, to be there for a
possible July 23 vote in the Knesset on the so-called “reasonableness” bill.
2023: “Oppenheimer,” a biographic film about J.
Robert Oppenheimer based on the biography American Prometheus is scheduled to
be released today.
https://www.oppenheimermovie.com/
2023: The Summer
Institute “Teaching the Holocaust” sponsored by the Iowa Jewish Historical
Society is scheduled to come to an end today.
