This Day, September 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 4
476:
The German general Odoacer defeated Orestes and deposed the child emperor
Romulus Augustus marking the “official end of the Roman Empire.” Actually, this was the end of the Empire in
the West. The Eastern Empire continued to rule. Although this is the official
date, the imperial system had already effectively ended in the West. The anarchy that immediately preceded and
followed the so-called “Fall of the Roman Empire” was not good for any segment
of the population. – Jew and gentile alike. But as is so often the case the
effects of anarchy and lawlessness fell heavier on the Jews than on their
neighbors. The last decades of the Roman
Empire were a period of unrest and uncertainty for the Jewish people living in
Palestine and Europe. The adoption of
Christianity as the religion of the empire led to a variety of discriminatory
practices aimed at the Jews. On the
other hand, the Jerusalem Talmud was completed in the first half of the fifth
century. The real of seat of learning
and Jewish culture had moved to Babylonia where scholars and sages would
continue to develop traditions and commentaries including the Babylonian
Talmud.
1037: During the Battle of Tamarón:
Bermudo III of León fell from his horse and was slain by forces loyal to
Ferdinand the Great who then became King of Leon where “many Jews owned real
estate, and engaged in agriculture and viticulture as well as in the
handicrafts” while living on relatively “friendly terms with the Catholic
population.”
1261:
Urban IV, who in 1262 would write “Bela, the Hungarian King using Jews as
agents “reproaching him for giving opportunities to Jews whom their own sin has
condemned to eternal servitude, to exercise official authority over Christians” was crowned Pope at Viterbo who in 1264 would
ask “the bishop of Burgos to resolve the impasse that the Bishop of Calahorra
had reached with the Jews and Muslims of his diocese over their non-payment of
tithes” and in that same year would request “the help of the prior and canon of
Troyes in collecting debts which the archbishop of Sens owed Jewish merchants
in that city”
1320:
Pope John XXII issues a bull against the Talmud. Calling it "the damned
initiatives of the perfidious Jews," he orders that "the plague and
deadly diseased weed [of Judaism] must be pulled out by its roots." (As
reported by Austin Cline)
1554(27th
of Elul, 5314): Cornelio da Montalcino - a Franciscan Friar who converted to
Judaism - was burned alive in Rome, Italy.
1578: Pope Gregroy XIII “ordered the Jews of Rome to
contribute 1,100 gold scudi (Approximately $12,600) toward the maintenance of
the Casa dei Catecumeni (Home for Converts to Christianity). One scudo was
roughly $125 in today’s terms. (The History of the Jewish People)
1609(5th
of Elul, 5369): Rabbi Judah Loew Ben
Bezalel, the Maharal of Prague, passed away.
Born in 1525, he spent most of his life in
1654:
“"23 souls, big as well as little," arrive in North America.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/04/1654/north-america-arrival
1691:
The Edinburgh Town Council granted permission to David Brown, “who was the
first openly practicing Jew to settle in Scotland” “to sides and trade in the
burgh.” (As reported by Sir Martin Gilbert)
1746(19th
of Elul, 5506): Grammarian Solomon be Judah Hanau whose pointed literary
criticism led moves Frankfort, to Hamburg to Amsterdam to Furth and finally to
Hanover where he passed away today.
1758(1st
of Elul, 5518): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1766(1st
of Tishrei, 5527): Rosh Hashanah
1770:
In Amsterdam, Abraham Emden and Martha Van Minden gave birth to Solomon Emden
who was circumcised as Pinchas Zelig ben Avrahom
1781:
Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de
los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of
the Little Portion) by 44 Spanish settlers.
Los Angeles would become part of Mexico and eventually part of the
United States following the Mexican-American War. Given the realities of Spanish life, any Jews
who might have settled in the city in its earliest days would have been
conversos, Marranos or some other variant of “secret Jew.” One of the first known Jews to have settled
in Los Angeles was a tailor named Jacob Frankfort who came to the city in 1841
after fleeing from New Mexico. While the records appear to be a little sketchy,
more Jews arrived in 1849 and the Sephardic Community traces its roots back to
the 1850’s. To put things in proper perspective the Jewish community was still
so small that when the
1785(29th
of Elul, 5545): Erev Rosh Hashana observed as American Ambassador to France
Thomas Jefferson wrote to Abigail Adams, the wife of his political opponent
John Adams about the fashion of the French court as dictated by the Queen
1789:
In Lancaster County, PA, Abraham and Elizabeth Garber gave birth to Moses
Garber, the husband of Susannah Steffy.
1792:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Benjamin Gratz, part of the famous Gratz
family, who ater serving in the Army during the War of 1812 moved to Kentucky where he practiced law and
served as trustee of Transylvania University.
1804
Birthdate of Rowland Cromeline, the son of Amsterdam native David Cromelien.
1816:
In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Bayonne, France native Jacob Baiz and his wife
Leah Oliveira Isdro gave birth to Abraham Baiz
1825:
Birthdate of Julius Gerson Brooks, the husband of Fanny Brooks and the father
of George, Eveline, Edgar and Milton Brooks.
1827(12th
of Elul, 5587): Rabbi Simcha Bunim Bonhart of Peshischa, a leader of the
Chasidic movement passed away today.
One
of the more famous oral teachings attributed to Rabbi Simcha Bunim of
Peschischa goes as follows:
Everyone must have two pockets, with a note in each pocket, so that
he or she can reach into the one or the other, depending on the need. When
feeling lowly and depressed, discouraged or disconsolate, one should reach into
the right pocket, and, there, find the words: "For my sake was the world
created."
But when feeling high and mighty one should reach into the left
pocket, and find the words: "I am but dust and ashes."[
1836:
One day after she had passed a way, Catherine Abrahams was buried in the Brady
Street Jewish Cemetery.
1838(14th
of Elul, 5598): Seventy-six year old Jacob Mordechai, the Philadelphia born son
of Moses Mordecai and the former Elizabeth Whitlock who was the clerk to the
Continental Army Quartermaster General, David Frankl and who was the founder of
Mordecai’s Female Academy where he taught with his first wife Judith and his
second wife Rebecca (Judith’s sister) while becoming a pillar of the Jewish
community in Richmond, VA where he served “as president of Congregation Kahal
Beth Shalome” passed away today in Richmond, VA after which he was buried in
the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond.
1839:
Joseph Jonas, the Exeter, UK, born son Annie and Benjamin Jonas and his wife
Martha Jonas gave birth to Annie Moses the wife of Abraham Moses
1842(29th
of Elul, 5603): Erev Rosh Hashana
1849(17th
of Elul, 5609): Thirty-two year old Isaac Abraham Levy, the London born son of
Sarah and Abraham Levy and the husband of Hannah Norris Levy passed away today
in Richmond, VA.
1851:
In New York, the first interment to place today at the Salem Fields Cemetery.
By September of 1877, over 7,000 burials had taken place at this Jewish burial
ground adjacent to Cypress Hills
1853(1st
of Elul, 5613): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1855:
Lazarus Powell, who would attempt to exploit the issuance of General Order
Number 11 for his own political ends during the Civil War, completed his term
as the 19th Governor of Kentucky.
1858:
In Laeken, Belgium, Jacques Errera and his wife gave birth to botanist Leo
Abram Errera.
1859:
In Brooklyn, Regina (Wehle) Goldmark and Joseph Goldmark, the “chemist and
inventor” who as a young man had fought in the unsuccessful revolution of 1848
in Vienna, gave birth to Helen Goldmark who gained fame as Helen Adler, the
wife of Felix Adler.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark
1860: In New York a Jewish man and women were locked
in a custody battle. Today an application
for the Custody of a Child was made before Justice Ingraham at the
Chambers
of the Supreme Court. “The application was made to obtain the custody of a
female child, five years of age, and claimed to be of illegitimate birth. The
complainant “claimed that the father of the child, Louis Ephraim, was an
improper person to have the care of it, and that he treated it in a cruel
manner. These charges were denied by Ephraim, who averred that the child was
born in wedlock. Both of the parties in the case ‘were married some years
since, being subsequently divorced, and each again marrying. The Compliant “now
claims that the first marriage was solemnized by a person not authorized to
perform the ceremony, and that, for that reason, it was void, and the child
illegitimate. On the other hand, it was claimed that the divorce was illegally
obtained, and that the marriage was lawful and binding.”
1860: “The
Political Horizon; Anti-Slavery Excitement in the South” published today
reported that in Montgomery County, Texas, two German Jew peddlers named
Friederman and Rotensburg have been
arrested and examined by the Rusk Vigilance Committee. Friederman was released
because there was not enough evidence to hold him. Based on evidence provided
by “several Negros” Rotenbeurg was accused of “inciting them to insurrection. His
case was finally submitted to a jury of fifty men, from various parts of the County,
and the accused was allowed counsel. After a patient examination of the
evidence, a vote was taken on the question of hanging him, and it stood
eighteen for and thirty-two against -- the latter believing him guilty of very
improper conduct towards the negroes, but that the evidence did not warrant a
death punishment. The jury was unanimous in ordering the accused to leave the
County within forty-eight hours and the State in four days. Rotenberg's family
resided in New-York.”
1860:
“Jobson Convicted of Libel” published today described the trial of David Wemyss
Jobson in Great Britain. Because of the nature of the case, several prominent
Englishmen were called as witnesses including Benjamin Disraeli. When sworn in
as a witness, Disraeli identified himself as a “member for Buckinghamshire.”
The first question asked by the Defense on cross-examination was “Are you a Jew
now or not?” to which Disraeli replied “I am what I always was -- a Christian.”
When the Defense tried to ask several other offensive and irrelevant questions
of Mr. Disraeli, the presiding official cut him off saying he “would not allow
a Court of Justice to be made the medium of insulting any one.” When Mr. Disraeli said that he had always
been a Christian, one must wonder if he had forgotten the fact that he was born
a Jew, something that was common knowledge at the time.
1861(29th
of Elul, 5621): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1861:
Near Melbourne, Australia Josephine Bensusan and “merchant” Sameul Davis gave
birth to “mining magnate and British art collector Sir Edmund Gabriel Davis, a
colleague of Cecil Rhodes and the husband of his cousin Mary Zillah Halford
Bensusan who “belonged to the New West End Synagogue but took no part in Jewish
communal affairs.”
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/davis-sir-edmund
1861:
Nineteen year old German born Philadelphian Joseph Kline who fought in the
Battles of Yorktown and Williamsburg and died at Fair Oaks during the Peninsula
Campaign, began serving in Company I of the 61st Regiment.
1862:
During the Civil War, August “Belmont wrote President Lincoln to share negative
correspondence from Europe and to urge the reinstatement of General George B.
McClellan as head of the army: "The people are ready to bring every
sacrifice for the restoration of the Union, but right or wrong they have lost
confidence in the head of the War department. They have seen the fearful
results of the intermeddling of civilians in military affairs & they want
to see an experienced soldier at the helm.” Belmont was Jewish; McClellan and
Lincoln were not.
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=70&subjectID=3
1862:
Jacob Cohen, a private serving with the 27th Ohio Infantry wrote
today the Jewish Messenger describing his units march from Camp Clear Creek to
Iuka, Mississippi.
1863:
During a riot of Confederate soldiers' wives in Mobile, Alabama, a Jewish
merchant struck one of the women as they were breaking into local stores. The policemen, who had ignored the rioters
who were carrying banners inscribed "Bread or Blood," "Bread or
Peace," and other similar inscriptions, arrested the Jew and beat him
severely.
1863:
Amalie Grinberg, the daughter of Henrietta and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and
her husband Moritz Grunberg gave birth to Stefanie Grunberg who became Stefanie
Mendelowitz when she married Adolph Mendlowicz.
1866:
In Cracow, Simon M. Winkler and the former Mathilde Greiwer gave birth to Max
Winkler the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard who became a Professor of German
Language and Literature at the University of Michigan where he had earned his
Ph.D. in 1892.
1869:
In Tucson, Arizona, William Zeckendorf, a prominent Jewish merchant, caught
burglars in his store and “firing his pistol put them in flight.”
1869:
After one month run at Niblo’s Garden, final performance of “Arraj-Na-Pogue,” a
three act paly starring Rose Eytinge.
1869:
Dr. Kaufmann Kohler who was the sixth person to serve as Rabbi of Beth El
Congregation in Detroit, Michigan, delivered his first sermon (in German) –
“The Qualities of a God-called Leader in Israel.” He would leave for Chicago’s
Temple Sinai two years later but his impact on the community could be seen by
the formation The Gentlemen’s Hebrew Relief Society.
1870:
Two months into the Franco-Prussian war, it was reported today that there are
over 30,000 Jews serving in the German armies.
1870:
The Third Republic was proclaimed in France. The
1870:
Adolphe Cremieux was chosen to serve as a member of the government of national
defense.
1870:
Leo Frankel, who had been arrested in Paris “for his political activity” was
liberated in the aftermath of today’s revolution.
1871:
Three days after she had passed away, 75 year old Sarah Simmons, the wife of
John Simmons was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road Jewish Cemetery)
1871: Décret Crémieux (named for Adolphe Cremieux)
conferred French citizenship on all Jews living in Algeria, which had been a
department of France. Arabs and Berbers were not made French citizens which
meant that there was a reversal in the centuries old relationship between
Moslems and Jews.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9902E1DF113EEE34BC4153DFBE66838A669FDE
1872(1st
of Elul, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1872:
At Castle Garden, the Commissioners of Emigration began an investigation of the
treatment of passengers aboard the SS Charles H. Marshall. Most of the 11 passengers called to testify
as to the crew’s mistreatment were Russian Jews immigrating to the United
States. After hearing evidence of
physical abuse and the lack of food, the commissioners decided to continue the
investigation tomorrow.
1877:
Birthdate of Heidelberg native Max Schloessinger, the philologist and
theologian who after being ordained as a rabbi came to the United States to
work on the editorial staff of the Jewish Encyclopedia after which he lived in
Palestine where he worked to establish the Hebrew University before returning
to New York where he died in 1944.
http://huji.academia.edu/TheMaxSchloessingerMemorialFoundation
1877:
It was reported today that a Jew from Eski-Saghra, Bulgaria, had his coat, in
which he had hidden his money, stolen by a Circassian in Adrianople.
1879:
In Detroit, founding of Congregation Beth Jacob.
1879:
In Cincinnati, OH, Samuel “Saul” Hirsch, the German born son of Leopold Hirsch
and Therese Tölzele Hirsch (Wormser) and his wife Serette Hirsch gave birth to
Leopold Hirsch.
1880:
“A Sad Affair” published today described the life and death of Charles Steckler
on the “oldest…most respected and prosperous merchants” in Amador, CA.
http://www.weeklypioneer.com/2010/08/charles-steckler.html
1880:
It was reported today that at the end of its last fiscal year (May 1,1880) the
United Hebrew Charities had collected $58,268. 21 and spent $46, 988.06 on
everything from almost 1,500 tons of coal to a variety of clothing items
including “70 cloaks.” All told, the charities had provided services to almost
28,000 people.
1881:
“End of the Stern Divorce Suit” published today described the Judge’s decision
to have Otto Stern pay his wife 6,000 francs immediately and 4,000 francs for
the next 18 months while his wife is getting a divorce in America. Stern was born Edward Moses Stern but changed
his name to Otto when he became a Lutheran.
1881:
It was reported today that the “Sultan favors the scheme” of a group of
“Germans and Englishman interested in the welfare of the Jews.” They are
working on a plan to “obtain a grant of land in Syria” from the Ottomans that
can be settled by Jews who are seeking to flee from countries “where they are
not subject to persecution.
1882:
It was reported today that there were 2,525 Jews enrolled in Sunday Schools in
New York and 493 Jews enrolled in Sunday Schools in Brooklyn.
1882:
Three days after he had passed ways, 73 year old Mathew Hyman, the father of
Albert and Lizzy Hyman, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery
1883:
In Winnsboro, LA, Aaron Landauer, the German born son of Sarah and Salomon Levi
Landauer and his wife Henriette gave birth to Leo Levy Landauer.
1883:
In New York City, Flora Misch and Barnett Bildersee gave birth to Hunter
College and Columbia University educated educator Adele Bildersee, who went
from teaching elementary school, to teaching at Hunter to servings the acting
Dean of Hunter while serving as the principal of the Religious School of Temple
Beth-El.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bildersee-adele
1884:
“The Commissioners of Emigration received a copy of a dispatch from J.H. Baily,
United States Consul at Hamburg” claiming that “28 paupers” who had been
returned to Germany on SS Westphalia were going to be sent back to the United
States “by a Hebrew benevolent society.”
1884:
“Love Letters in Court” published today described the divorce proceedings
between Carrie and Simon Uhlman which has been going on for the last eight
months.
1885(24th
of Elul, 5645): Joseph Sampson, a furrier who was the brother of Simeon Sampson
passed away today after which he was buried at the Brompton Jewish Cemetery.
1885(24th
of Elul, 5645): Fifty-four-year-old German native Eleazar W. Frank who married
Athalia Wolff Frank after the death of his first wife Johanna Wolff Frank and
who had three children – Benjamin, Matilda and Fannie – passed away today in
Boston after which he was buried at Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.
1887:
“The Euphrates Railway’ published today described the so-far unsuccessful
attempt to gain approval for the construction of railroad from Constantinople
to Baghdad including the role played by “Mr. James Alexander, a Caledonian
Hebrew” who represented the interested British businessman at the Ottoman
capital. (Caledonia is another name for Scotland)
1888:
“Anonymous Enemies” published today describes what Telemaqua T. Timaneynis
claims was the Jewish reaction to his two anti-Semitic books, The Original
M. Jacobs and The American Jew. (The story’s report of Jewish
boycotts and threats of violence have been published elsewhere without
mentioning the fact that they were Timaneynis’ unsubstantiated claims.)
1889:
The court of Common Pleas in New York was the site of dueling legal Jews when
the judge was asked to decide Alexander S. Rosenthal’s claim that when S.D.
Levy ate breakfast with him in the morning and then served him with papers in
the evening, he was guilty of a breach of ethics.
1889:
Birthdate of Russian native and author Dr. Ben M. Edidin, the holder of a
Doctor of Education degree from the University of Buffalo who “worked for the
Tel Aviv Board of Education from 1935 to 1937” and was the husband of “former
Dorothy Edelman with whom he had a daughter, Judith” and passed away while serving as the “assistant director of
the Jewish Education Committee of New York.
1890:
In New York City, Nettie Herskowitz and Isaiah Newman gave birth to Pratt
Institute and Adelphi College trained artist and World War I veteran Joseph
Newsman, the husband of Estelle Simons and the father of Sheya Gisella
https://www.jimsoflambertville.com/artist-biography.php?artistId=322619&artist=Joseph%20Newman
https://www.jimsoflambertville.com/artist-biography.php?artistId=322619&artist=Joseph%20Newman
1890:
In New York, “a local paper published a meagre account of” the allegations of
misconduct “toward several young girls” at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn
by Adolph Eisner the Superintendent who mysteriously disappeared last week.
1891(1st
of Elul, 5651): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1891:
In the Grand Duchy of Baden, “Emil Todt and his wife Elise née Unterecker” gave
birth to Fritz Todt the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition, whose
construction company “administered all constructions of concentration camps”
and who escaped being tried as a war criminal only because he died mysteriously
in 1942 plane crash.
1891:
A meeting was held tonight at Cooper Union where the speakers denounced the
Free Employment Bureau operated by the United Hebrew Charities under the
management of Arthur Reichen. They claim
that the Bureau has established a trade school where newly Russian Jewish
immigrants are trained in the clothing trade creating a glut of workers which
has depressed the wages from $18 a week to $10 a week.
1892:
In Aix-en-Provence, France, Gabriel Milhaud, an almond importer and Sophie
Allatini Milhaud gave birth to composer Darius Milhaud.
http://www.anb.org/articles/18/18-03766.html
1893:
The Jewish Women's Congress opened as part of the World Parliament of Religion
at the Chicago Columbian Exposition. Press accounts of the Congress reported
that "women elbowed, trod on each other’s toes, and did everything else
they could without violating the proprieties" to find a place in the
overcrowded hall. Over four days, they heard twenty-five women from all over
the United States, many of whom had never spoken publicly before, address
questions of Jewish women's roles in religion, history, and philanthropy.
1893:
When Jewish depositors threatened to break down the doors of the offices of
banker, broker and steamship agent Bernhard Weinberger after they found out
that they had been closed all day they were told that they were closed because
it was Labor Day, but in reality the offices had been closed by orders of the
manager Moses Hirschodorder.
1893(23rd
of Elul, 5653): Ninety-year old Joseph Barrow Montefiore the London born son of
Eliezer Montefiore who moved to Australia where he became a successful banker
and leader of the Jewish community. In
the latter role he purchased land for the first Jewish cemetery in 1832 and
organized a society that would eventually become the Sydney Hebrew
Congregation. After retiring, Barrow returned to the city of his birth. Some
sources show his death date as September 8)
1893:
“Charles Frohman’s comedians” are scheduled to open at the Garden Theatre in
New York.
1893:
“The Jew in Hard Times” published today provided a detailed review of a novel
by Edward King entitled Joseph Zalmonah
1893:
“A Jewish View of Christ’s Coming” published today provided a detailed review
of History of the Jews Volume II, From the Reign of Hyrcanus to the
Completion of the Babylonian Talmud by Heinrich Graetz.
1893:
“Earliest of American Jews” published today provided a detailed review of The
Settlement of the Jews in North America by Charles P. Daly.
1894:
Two days after he had passed away, 76 year old Joseph Abraham the London born
son of Victor Abraham and the former Rebecca Levy, was buried today at “The
Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.”
1894: Approximately 12,000 tailors in New York City
went on strike to protest the existence of sweatshops. The vast majority of workers in the
"needle trades" were Jewish immigrants. This would not be their last strike. Six
years later, these workers would launch two unions - The International Ladies
Garment Workers Union (women's apparel) and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America (men's apparel). These two
Jewish dominated unions would work to improve the working conditions first for
those in the garment industry and later for workers regardless of where they
toiled. Ironically, some of the owners
of the sweatshops were German Jews. Thus
the schism between German and eastern European Jews was based on economics as
well as religious conditions.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/04/1893/jewish-womens-congress
1894:
Birthdate of Sholom Secunda a Jewish composer, born in Ukraine and educated in
the United States. Along with Abraham Ellstein, Joseph Rumshinsky, and
Alexander Olshanetsky, he was one of the "big four" composers of his
era in New York City's Second Avenue Yiddish theatre scene. He wrote the melody
for the popular song "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" in 1932. Together with
Aaron Zeitlin he wrote the famous Yiddish song "Dos kelbl (The Calf)"
(also known as "Donna Donna") which was covered by many musicians, including
Donovan and Joan Baez. He passed away in 1974 at the age of 79.
1895:
John Reilly and Patrick Finn stole pears from Cohen Friedman, an “aged” Jewish
peddler and then attacked him when he asked to be paid for his fruit.
1895:
Birthdate of Hymen Alpern, the long-time New York City high school principle
and “author of books on Spanish literature” whose education included a BA from
CCNY, an MA from Columbia and PH.D from NYU and as the husband “of the former
Belle Kopperman” with whom he had three children – Stanley, Dorothy and
Rosylyn.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/785994?c=people
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/07/07/90367291.pdf
1895(15th
of Elul, 5655): “Businessman and antiquary” Edward Davis who “who delivered lectures
on Jewish history and Jewish coins” while living in Shrewsbury, England passed
away today.
1896:
In Hoboken, two policemen arrested Peter Brume after they learned he had
falsely promised to help 12 Jews from Poland get passage on ship returning to
Europe.
1897:
Clara Engles who met her future husband in Athens in 1895 and died in the
influenza epidemic in 1918 married Friedrich Münzer the German scholar who
would find out that he was “Jewish” when the Nazis came to power and died at
the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
1897:
After closing five free milk booths yesterday, the sixth and last booth located
at City Hall Park was closed today by Nathan Strauss after Board of Health
Inspectors charged one of his employees with selling “below the required
standards” – a charge which Straus vehemently denies in what he views as part
of conspiracy to return the milk business the hands “to the crooked men in the
milk business” who have lost money due to his efforts.
1898:
“New Synagogue Projected” published today described plans of wealthy Jews
living in and Hempstead, Long Island, to begin building a permanent place of
worship that will replace the temporary location in which they will hold high
holiday services this year.
1898:
The Comte de Bejon who has been an observer at the court martial of Captain
Dreyfus and wants to share his views with others on the subject registered at
the Brevoort House today.
1898:
In Budapest, Josephine Engel and Herman Klein gave birth to Cooper Union
Institute trained prize winning artist and illustrator Benjamin Klein.
1898:
It was reported today that the police have not found the 17 year old who beat sixty year old Louis Rosenbloom to
death even though they know that John Schlecta was the bully who murdered the
“venerable scholar”
1899(29th
of Elul, 5659): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1899:
“The fifth week of the second trial by court-martial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus
of the artillery charged with treason in communicating secret papers to a
foreign Government began today with largest attendance yet seen in the Lycee.”
1899:
This evening, at Temple Rodolph Sholom Rabbi Rudolph Grossman’s sermon will be
“Where Is the Lamb for the Offering.
1899:
This evening, at Temple Beth-El Rabbi Kauman Kohler will deliver a sermon
entitled “Life’s Ministry and Life’s Mastery.”
1899:
In Harlem, those attending services at Temple Israel will hear a sermon
entitled “A Greeting of Peace.”
1899:
This evening at B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi S.S. Wise will deliver a sermon entitled
“Behind and Before.”
1899:
Over two thousand Jews attended Rosh Hashanah services led by Cantor Weingart
at Tammany Hall which was “decorated with palms and evergreens” for this event
– the first of its kind in the history of the storied building.
1900:
Jacob J. Goldstein of New York and Henrietta Goodman of Charleston, SC were wed
today at the German Artillery Hall.
1900:
Twenty-seven year old Calhoun Straus, the Florence, SC born son of Alfred A.
Straus, a native of Germany and the former Amelia Weinberg, a native of South
Carolina who would become president of
the Palmetto Insurance Company, president of the Sumter Trust company and
president of Congregation Sinai in Sumter married “Hattie Ryttenberg of Sumter,
SC, the daughter of “Harry and Rose (Nussbaum) Ryttenberg” today
1901:
Leo Czolgosz bought a revolver today with which he planned to shoot President
William McKinley whom Jews had overwhelming supported in his 1897 victory over
William Jennings Bryan and whose Vice President was philo-Semite, Teddy
Roosevelt.
1902:
In Russia, Meyer and Elda Cutler gave birth to United States emigre Harry
Cutler, the husband of Rose Cutler
1902:
In Elberon, NJ, Sydney Cecil Born, the son of Simon and Cecilia Borg and his
wife Madeleine Borg gave birth to Dorothy Borg.
1902:
During a conference of Russian Zionists, Ahad Ha’Am stressed the links between
Zionism as a movement for national revival, and the cultural needs of the
Jewish people.
1903:
Max Epstein, the father of Hyman Epstein, “the young man who had escaped from
Ward’s Island on September3rd by jumped into the East River, called at the
Harlem court” this morning and asked to see his son” after which the two
enjoyed an affectionate reunion and the father said that he did not believe his
son had converted to Christianity of his own free will but out of belief that
Christians incarcerated at Auburn prison received better treatment than Jews.
1904:
In Berlin the Rykestrasse Synagogue was inaugurated with Handel's prelude in D
major and the Ma Tovu prayer led by cantor David Stabinski , Rabbi Josef Eschelbacher illuminating the ner tamid and Rabbi Adolf
Rosenzweig delivering the sermon.
1904:
It was reported today that “Dr. Henry Coffinberry Myers has made some
discoveries in the Berkely hills, in caves and outside of caves, within six
miles of the University of California which scientists of the college say span
a great gap in the history of this part of the world by supplying a chapter
fascinating and wonderful which upsets theories held for centuries” about “the
first party partly civilized people to invade America centuries before the
Chriistian era and many more centuries before Columbus.”
1904(24th
of Elul, 5664): Seventy-eight year old Dr. Hermann Barr who had served as
Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York for the past 23 years
passed away today. A native Stadthagen,
Germany he worked at the Jacobson Schule before moving to Liverpool where he
worked for a Jewish congregation for 10 years. He moved to the United States in
1867 where he lived in Washington and New Orleans before moving to New York,
where in addition to his other work he wrote for The American Hebrew and wrote a three volume Bible history for
children.
1905:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Simenhoff officiated at the wedding of May Lins and
Jake Sharnoff.
1906:
In “Oscar S. Straus’s View of the Jew in America” published today which based
on interview by James B. Morrow The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the former minister
to Turkey began by explaining the origins of his name which began with his
grandfather “Jacob, the son of Lazarus,” morphed into Jacob Lazare when Jews
forced to adopt surnames and finally was changed to Straus by the ambassador’s
father who “arbitrarily” chose a form of the German word for “a bunch of
flowers.”
1907:
In Trieste, Bianca Castelli, a member of a wealthy family of coffee importers
and Ernest Kraus gave birth to Leo Krauss who gained fame as New York art
dealer Leo Castelli. (As reported by Leo Castelli)
1907:
Sixty-four year old the great composer and conductor
Edvard Greig who in 1899 refused a request to participated in Colonne Concerts
in Paris because of his opposition to the way Dreyfus had been treated,
that like any other individual who is not a member of the French nation,
I am shocked by the disgusting manner in which your compatriots treat both the
law and justice, and my disgust is so great that I have no desire to appear
before a French audience” passed away today. (As reported by Shaul Koubovi)
1908: Birthdate of Edward Dmytryk an American film
director, one of the "Hollywood Ten who passed away in 1999 at the age of
90 who was not Jewish but who directed "Crossfire" in 1947, one of
the first films to deal with anti-Semitism. He directed "The Young Lions”
which is listed by some as one the Top Fifty Jewish Movies of the 20th
Century. And he directed "The Cain
Mutiny" which was written by Herman Wouk.
Because of his foreign sounding name, his association with Communists
and these and other films, he is erroneously listed by several anti-Semitic
websites as being Jewish or part of the Jewish Conspiracy
1908:
“The Czernowitz Conference,” “the first international conference in support of
the Yiddish language” which had begun on August 30th came to an end
today.
1909:
Prussian born German movie producer Paul Davidson, “the son of Moritz Davidson”
“opened the Union Theater” today in Berlin.
1909:
In Allahabad, Brijlal Nehru and Rameshwari Nehru gave birth to Braj Kumar
Nehru, the husband of Holocaust survivor Magdolna Friedman.
1910(30th
of Av, 5670): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed on the same day that anarchist
exploded three bombs in Peoria in preparation for their attack on the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
1911:
The Chicago Hebrew Junior Leage us scheduled to host a handball tournament
today.
1912:
Birthdate of Alexander Liberman, the Kiev native who escaped the effects of the
Russian Revolution to pursue a career in photography and fashion that led to
him being the real power at Conde Nast Publications. (As reported by Deirdre
Carmody)
1912: Birthdate of film composer David Raksin. The
Philadelphia native graduated from Penn and played with Benny Goodman before
settling down to writing scores for films
Two of his early and famous works were for Hitchcock’s Life Boat and Otto Preminger’s Laura.
1913:
In Brooklyn, NY, Fanny Cohen and her husband gave birth to mobster Mickey
Cohen.
1914:
Forty-one year old French author Charles Pierre Péguy who followed the lead of
Lucien Herr and became a one of those seeking to overturn the conviction of
Alfred Dreyfus (Dreyfusard) and whose writings would be cited by those opposed
to the anti-Semitism of the Vichy government was shot in the head “on the day
before the beginning of the Battle of the Marne.”
1914:
Following the outbreak of World War I, L.J. Greenberg’s Jewish Chronicle showed its support for Great Britain and its
Russian ally by stating "From the Russian people Jews have never
experienced anything but the deepest sympathy, and with the Russian people they
have ever felt on mutually agreeable terms." Before the outbreak of hostilities,
the Jewish Chronicle had been a vocal critic of Russia and its treatment of her
Jewish citizens. Once Germany violated
Belgium’s neutrality, the event that brought the UK into the war, Greenberg was
determined to show his and Jewish support for the country that had proved to be
such a hospitable homeland.
1915: Birthdate of pianist Irving Fields nightclub
entertainer and practitioner of a Latin/Hebrew hybrid style of music.
1915:
As Germany sought to sway public opinion in its favor, The Daily Chronicle reported that Count Johann von Bernstorff,
Berlin’s emissary to the United States “issued a manifesto” portraying the
Germans as the universal emancipator including her role as the emancipator of
the Jews. (As strange as this claim might sound to some, there were those who
saw German Armies as the liberator of Russian Jews living under the Czarist
despot.)
1915:
“American correspondents in London” were reminded that Great Britain intends
“fight on with the object of freeing Europe from the menace of militarism” (a
code word for the Kaiser and German) and that in fact the German peace program
“as it became known in London did not include Jewish freedom.”
1915:
“More than three hundred delegates from Jewish organizations met at Cooper
Union tonight” under the auspices of The National Workmen’s Committee on Jewish
Rights “to launch a movement for the emancipation of the Jews in Russia after
the war.”
1915:
In Cleveland, opening of the Jewish National Workmen’s School and Institute.
1916:
“War Refugees Reunited” published today tells of the 20,000 mile journey
through Russia made by Mrs. Etta Kaufman and her three year son so they could
rejoin their husband and father, Aaron Kaufman the former professor at the
Royal Petrograd Conservatory of Music, in New York City where he had taken
refuge to avoid being drafted into the Czar’s army.
1916(6th
of Elul, 5676): Fifty-five-year-old Charles A. Stix, the St. Louis born son of
Aaron and Hannah Rice Stix and the husband of Sadie Fraley Stix passed away
today in St. Louis after which he was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in
Affton, MO.
1916:
Approximately 3,000 people attended the opening day of “the bazaar for the
relief of the Jews in Galicia and Bukharan, a weeklong affair sponsored by the
Federation of Galician and Bukharin Jews
1917: Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII and
current Apostolic Nuncio to Germany, writes to Cardinal Pietro Gasparri,
Vatican Secretary of State, about a request from German Jews to have a shipment
of palm fronds from Italy released. He advised him to refuse the request for
these items that are necessary for the observance of Sukkoth.
1917:
A statement issued by the Federation of Oriental Jews of America included a
request that contributions for the relief of the men, women and children of
Salonika who lost everything during a fire started by “enemy bombs” “be sent to
the Joint Distribution Committee for the Relief of War Sufferers of which Felix
M. Warburg is Chairman and Arthur Leman is Treasurer.
1917:
Harvard trained attorney and Zionist Robert Szold, the Streator, Il born son of
Rachel and Adolph Szold and the cousin of Henrietta Szold married Savannah, GA
native and president of Hadassah
Zipporah “Zip” Falk.
1918:
During World War I, the Battle of Mont St. Quentin comes to an end. The British commanding general described the
spear-head advance of the Australian Corps under Sir John Monash as “the
greatest military achievement of the war.”
Monash was the Australian born son of two Jewish immigrants from
Germany.
1918:
The Zionist Organization of America received a cable today stating that the
American Zionist medical unit which had left the United States in June had
arrived in Eretz Israel. The unit established its main headquarters in Tel Aviv
and set up branch offices in Jerusalem and Jaffa.
1919:
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, gathered a congress in Sivas to make decisions about the
future of Anatolia and Thrace. Atatürk, the general who played a key role in
thwarting the Allies at Gallipoli was the secular leader who created the modern
state of Turkey. This congress was one
of the steps on the road to that creation.
There are unproven reports that he had Jewish ancestors. Regardless of that, he created a state that
recognized the rights of Jews. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Attaturk
sought to convince German Jewish scholars that they should move to Turkey.
Turkey was neutral during the war, but unlike neutral Switzerland, Turkey
followed the example set by the now deceased Attaturk and did what it could to
provide a haven for Jews fleeing from Hitler’s Europe.
1919:
A resolution was unanimously adopted by thousands of people meeting in the
offices of the Jewish Welfare Board which called upon the United States “to blockade
against those nationals while will not insure protection to the Jews” with
special reference to the governments of Poland and Ukraine.
1919: In the Bronx, “Elsie and Hugo Morris, a
rubber company executive” gave birth to Howard “Howie” Morris who gained fame
as the “third banana” on the 1950’s hit Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” with
Carl Reiner as the “second banana.”
Morris passed away in 2005.
1920:
Rabbi Max Reichler is scheduled to deliver a Shabbat morning sermon on “A
Religion of Joy” at Sinai Temple in New York City.
1920:
Rabbi I. Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver a Shabbat morning sermon on
“The Big Me” at the Hebrew Tabernacle in New York City.
1920:
Rabbi Aaron Eiseman is scheduled to deliver a Shabbat morning sermon on the
“Portion of the Law” at Mt. Neboh Congregation on 150th Street near
Broadway.
1920:
A film made by “six of the best American Jewish cameramen” who escaped Warsaw
before the arrival of the Bolsheviks and eluded capture by the Polish police
that provides “a complete story of Jewish Poland as it is today” that is
accompanied by a score especially prepared by “Josiah Zuro, former conductor of
the Manahattan Opera Company” is scheduled to be shown for the last time
tonight at Madison Square Garden.
1921:
“A Virgin Paradise,” a “silent adventure movie filmed by cinematographer Joseph
Ruttenberg was released in the United States today by Fox Film Corporation.
1921:
In Berlin Rabbi Ezekiel Landau and Helen (Grynberg) Landau gave birth to
conductor and composer Siegfried Landau, one of those fortunate to escape Nazi
Germany and settle in the United States.
1922:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held
for Maxwell S. Silverman, the husband of Carrie (Nee Katz) Silverman with whom
he had a daughter, Shirley.
1922:
It was reported today that the Philadelphia branch of the Jewish Peoples’
Relief Committee has contributed ten thousand dollars toward the national
committee’s campaign to raise a million dollars for a fund “to aid Jews in
Western Europe.”
1923:
Today at Saranac Lake, NY, “more than $6,000 was pledged at the start of a nation-wide
campaign” to raise “funds to erect a permanent center for welfare work among
the “Jewish health seekers who flock here from all parts of the world.”
1923:
Alfred Frankenthaler, the New York born son of Mary and Louis Frankenthaler and
his wife Martha Frankenthaler gave birth to Gloria Ross, the ex-wife of Arthur
Ross.
1924:
In Jerusalem, Azaria Levy, the author of The Jews of Mashad, and Zipora
Levy gave birth to Hanna Levy.
1924:
Today Drexel Institute trained artist Joseph Sloman the Philadelphia born son
of Miriam Levy and Moses Sloman who designed the
stained glass memorials for Temple Israel in Union City, NJ, who was a member
of Adas Emuno in Hoboken, NJ married Martha Stein.
1925:
“Hebrew Plays in Moscow” published today described the Hebrew theatre known as
“Habima” which is located in the Soviet Union. “the only country in the word
that maintains a special Hebrew theatre where plays are produced in the modern
style but by a special cast artists using the ancient Hebrew tongue.
1926:
It was reported today that Sir Austin Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary,
and Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister have accused the Permanent
Mandates Commission of overstepping its
authority and threatening to undermine their authority in Palestine and Syria,
respectively. (Once again, we are reminded that trouble in the Middle East is
not always connected to the Jews or the Zionists. In fact, blaming them as the
sole cause of unrest in the region has actually made matters worse.)
1926(25th
of Elul, 5686): Aspiring Hungarian artist Emerich Loewi committed suicide today
after having been denied admittance to the Hungarian Art College under the
terms of a numerous clausus law that limited the number of Jews would attend
education institutions.
1927:
“Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, peace advocate and one of the organizers of Henry
Ford's Peace Ship expedition during the war, who has addressed an open letter
to Mr. Ford asking him to exonerate her of blame for the failure of the
expedition said that the manufacturer had revealed prejudice against the Jews
before the Peace Ship expedition ever was decided on.”
1927:
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, leader of the International Zionist movement, gave his
answer at the meeting of the Fifteenth Zionist Congress to the numerous
criticisms heaped upon him during the general debate of previous days.
1928:
In Manhattan, Abraham J. Hellman, a Romanian-born insurance broker, and Ethel
(Greenstein) Hellman gave birth to movie producer Jerome Hellman, “best known
for being the 42nd recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture for Midnight
Cowboy.” (As reported by Anita Gates)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/movies/jerome-hellman-d
1929:
“The central bodies of two Orthodox rabbi associations in Germany have declared
today a national rabbinical day for all Jews in Germany over the Palestine
events.”
1929:
Valdamir Jobotinsky said today in London that “if the Zionist organization
refuses to ask the British Government for a permanent Jewish legion as a part
of the British Palestine forces, Zionist revisions…will take matters into its
own hands with Downing Street.”
1930:
“The need for the continuance of financial assistance by the Jews of United
States for near need brethren in Poland, Rumania, Russia and other countries
was emphasized by American philanthropist Felix Warburg in Berlin today.
1931:
Today “The end of the mandatory regime in Iraq and Syria and the establishment
of independent Arab States in these two neighbors of Palestine moved nearer in
the Council of the League of Nations meeting here in Geneva.
1932:
The annual encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States is
scheduled to continue in Atlantic City, NJ.
1933:
“I Was a Spy,” a “British thriller” produced by Michael Balcon with music by
Louis Levy was released in the United Kingdom today by Woolf & Freedman
Film Service.
1933:
After having premiered in France at the end of July, “On the Streets” (Dans les
rues) based on the French novel, directed by Victor Trivas , with music by Hans
Eisler and filmed by cinematographer Rudolph Mate was released today in the
United States.
1934:
After reporting that the mayor Westphalia had made a Storm Trooper clean up a
Jewish graveyard (a charge the mayor denied)
The Struermer, the newspaper of virulent anti-Semite Julius Streicher
has been “suppressed throughout Westphalia.”
1935:
“Rabbi Bernhardt L. Levinthal, 70-year old orthodox Jewish rabbi of
Philadelphia and Mrs. Sarah Samson of Brooklyn took out a marriage license in
Camden City Hall today.
1936:
“Swing Time,” a musical comedy produced by Pandro S. Berman with music by
Jerome Kern was released in the United States by RKO.
1936:
Funeral service for “Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow of Cincinnai, a pioneer in the
American social security movement and international secretary of the
Independent Order of B’nai B’rith” who is survived by his widow and three
children - Raymond, Laura and Dr. Olga Rabinow – are scheduled to be held this
morning at the Free Synagogue on West 86th Street in New York City
1936:
Arthur T. Buch, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Buch delivered a sermon on
“Nazis of Jews?” after he was inducted this evening as the Rabbi at Temple
Gates of Israel in New York.
1936:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Judea Pearl, the IDF veteran and American trained
computer scientist, the husband of Ruth Pearl and the father of journalist
Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by terrorists because he was an American Jew
which led to the writing of I Am Jewish, edited by Judea and Ruth Pearl.
https://amturing.acm.org/bib/pearl_2658896.cfm
http://www.jewishlights.com/page/product/978-1-58023-259-3
1936:
“The Road to Glory” a WW I movie featuring Gregory Rattoff, and Julius Tannen
was released today in the United States.
1936:
“Four religious leaders” including Rabbi Morris Lazaron of Baltimore joined
today “in a statement through the Good Neighbor League asserting that more
progress had been made toward establishment of economic principles of organized
religion during the Roosevelt administration than in the preceding thirty
years.”
1936:
In Paris, “a plan for implementing the decisions of The World Jewish Congress”
made at its first meeting at Geneva in August is scheduled to “be presented to
a meeting of the executive committee” whose members include Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, the chairman and Louis Lipsky of New York today.
1936:
The Midwest Institute of Human Relations ended its six days of deliberation
today at the end of which Dr. John A. Lapp, a Catholic layman, Dr. Felix Levy
of Temple Emanu-El of Chicago and Dr. James M. Yard, the executive secretary of
the Chicago Round Table of Jews and Christians said they recognize that one of
the main causes of prejudice “is the implanting of false ideas of religions,
races, people and institutions in the mind of our youth, either in the schools,
on the playgrounds or in the homes.”
1937:
Eliezer Gerstein was badly wounded by a young Arab while returning from prayers
at the Western Wall. For those of you
who thought that Arabs only got mad when Sharon goes to the Western Wall guess
again.
1938:
Dr. Appaly, the President of the Medical Association of Danzig announced today
without any prior warning that effective October 1, Jews, including those who
had served in the German Army during the Great War, would not be allowed to
practice medicine.
1938:
At Andover, NJ, “Fritz Kuhn, the newly re-elected national leader of the
German-American Bund” announced to the thousands of Bundists at Camp Nordland a
nineteen point program which included a demand that in a “white, gentile-ruled
United States” “no Jews shall hold ‘positions of importance’ in government,
national defense forces and educational institutions.”
1939: Seventy-seven Jewish children ranging in
age from 15 through 17, who are refugees from Germany and hold certificates for
entrance into Palestine, were put on a board an Italian steam ship at Trieste
by representatives of Youth Aliyah. It
is unknown if the ship will dock at Haifa or Tel Aviv.
1939: Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, a
Scottish Unionist Member of Parliament and vicious anti-Semite wrote a poem
that would “later…be printed and distributed by the Right Club” that began “
Land
of dope and Jewry
Land that once was free
All
the Jew boys praise thee
Whilst they plunder thee
1939:
In air raid by the Luftwaffe on the Polish town of Sulejow, over a thousand
Jews were listed among the dead. The entire Goldblum family was wiped out. From
the outset of the war, the German air force conducted bombing attacks on urban
population without regard to civilians.
In other words, there was no attempt to limit attacks to military
targets. Recent books by revisionist historians have complained about the
suffering of the German population at the hands of Allied air men. These writers make little or no mention of
attacks like those at Sulejow or even worse ones to follow at
1939:
Germany occupied Kalisz, Poland which has a Jewish population of 30,000.
1939:
Warsaw is cut off by the German Army.
1939(20th
of Elul, 5699): The invading Nazis shot 180 Jews in the city of Czestochowa.
When the Jews refused to burn the Torah, the Germans burned the rabbi, Abraham
Mordechai
1939:
“The Germans occupied Bendzin, and just a few days later, they burned down the
synagogue and damaged some 50 adjacent houses, while their Jewish inhabitants
were inside.” (Yad Vashem)
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/06.asp
1940:
Chiune Sugihara the Japanese Vice-Consul had to stop issuing visas to Jewish
refugees when he was forced to close his office in Lithuania.
1940:
Eva Schott Berek celebrated her 19th birthday a week after she and
her parents, who had fled the terror of Nazi Germany, arrived Angel Island
Immigration Station.
1940:
Emmy Lou Asch and attorney Howard Lilienthal gave birth to University of
Virginia trained lawyer Philip H. Lilienthal, the husband of Lyn Langman and
son-in-law of Anne Wertheim Langman Simon who “assumed his father's position as
the director of Camp Winnebago, one of Maine's most prestigious and venerable
boys' summer camps” when his father passed away unexpectedly in 1974.
1941:
J.D. Salinger who had been corresponding with Marjorie Sheard, a Toronto woman
about his own age provided her with literary advice when he wrote today, “Seems
to me you have the instincts to avoid the usual Vassar-girl tripe” and then
suggested the names of some smaller publications “where she could submit her
work” even though “You can’t go around buying Cadillacs on what the small mags
pay,” he wrote, “but that doesn’t really matter, does it?”
1941: Jewish Resistance members based in
Dubossary, Ukraine, and led by Yakov Guzanyatskii assassinate a German
commander named Kraft. Another group blows up a large store of German arms.
1942:
In the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburg, Sarah and Joseph Filner gave birth
to Bob Filner future California congressman and Mayor San Diego.
1942: Jews in Macedonia are required to wear
the Yellow Star.
1942: Lódz (Poland) Ghetto's Jewish Council
leader, Chaim Rumkowski, acquiesces to Nazi demands for deportation of the
community's children and adults who are over the age of 65. During the action
which will last until September 14, Germans fire randomly into crowds, execute
individual Jews, and invade Jewish hospitals. They deport approximately 15,000
people.
1942:
Young Jews take on the Gestapo in act of desperate resistance in Lachwa,
Poland. One thousand Jews died on this
day while 600 escaped into the surrounding woods. Of these an estimated one hundred survived
the war
1942:
Premiere of wartime spy thriller “Across the Pacific directed by Vincent
Sherman who stepped into the job after the original director joined the U.S.
Army Signal Corps, produced by Jerry Wald.
1943:
The curtain came down today on “The Snark Was A
Boojum” produced by Alexander Yokel which had recently opened on Broadway at
the 48th Street Theatre.
1943
Six months after the overthrow of Mussolini, prisoners at Ferramonti, the
largest Italian concentration camp for Jews were released.
1943:
A private funeral will be held today for Edward S. Rothchild who died after
being struck by a cab. The 88 year old former banker is survived by his widow
Stella M. Rothchild and his son Lewis H. Rothchild.
1944:
Jacobus Hnericus Kann, “banker and owner of Lisa & Kann Bank” whose
“bureaucratic transport number was XXIV/7” was deported from Westerbork today.
1944:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Yiddish actor Ludwig Satz.
http://www.jta.org/1944/09/03/archive/ludwig-satz-star-of-yiddish-stage-dies-in-new-york-was-53
1944:
The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp. The
Jewish population of the city had been reduced from 35,000 to 15,000 as a
result of Nazi attacks and those from their Flemish supporters.
1944: At Lugos, Hungary, hundreds of Jews are
massacred by Hungarian Fascists.
1945:
“Dead of Night,” “a British anthology horror film produced by Michael Balcon
was released today in the United Kingdom by Eagle-Lion Distributors Limited.
1945:
At 8:00 pm WEVD broadcast “the news in Yiddish.”
1945:
In New York this evening, WEVD broadcast “The Jewish Philosopher.
1945:
From 11:30 pm until midnight WEAF broadcast the play “Behold the Jew” with
Aline McMahon as the narrator.
1945(26th
of Elul, 5705): Seventy-two year old Montefiore Bienenstok, a reporter for the
St. Louis Star and editor of The Owl
and the author of “short accounts about the Jews of St. Louis” as well as a
novel on a Jewish theme who also served as “Assistant Secretary of the Jewish
Charitable and Educational Union, Manager of the Free Employment Bureau of the
United Jewish Charities and Secretary of the Home for Aged and Infirm
Israelites” and who was the St. Louis born son of Charles Bienenstok and Sarah
Davis, passed aay today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1945: Ruben Fine won 4 simultaneous rapid chess games
blindfolded. Fine is one of a long line
of great Jewish chess players. In
addition to his chess playing skills, Fine spent part of World War II
calculating the probability of German submarines surfacing at certain points in
the Atlantic Ocean.
1945:
Birthdate of David Monsonego who is now known as David Magen an Israeli
politician who served as a Minister without Portfolio and Minister of Economics
and Planning in the 1990s. “Born in Fes in Morocco, Magen made aliyah to Israel
in 1949, where he attended high school in Jerusalem. Between 1976 and 1986 he
served as mayor of Kiryat Gat. In 1981 he was elected to the Knesset on the
Likud list, and was re-elected in 1984 and 1988, becoming chairman of the
party's local authorities elections headquarters in 1989. In March 1990 he was
made a Minister without Portfolio by Yitzhak Shamir, becoming Minister of
Economics and Planning in June that year. Although he retained his seat in the
1992 elections, Likud lost power and Magen lost his ministerial position. He
returned to the cabinet after Binyamin Netanyahu's victory in the 1996
elections, and was reappointed Minister without Portfolio. However, he left the
cabinet in May 1997. In February 1999 he was amongst the Likud MKs to break
away from the party and establish Israel in the Center (later renamed the
Centre Party). Magen lost his seat in the 1999 elections, but returned to the
Knesset in March 2001 as a replacement for Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. He lost his
seat again in the 2003 elections.”
1945:
German soldiers who had been operating a weather station at Svalbard since
September of 1944 and who did not know the war was over “were picked up by a
Norwegian seal hunting vessel and surrendered to its captain” making them the
last German soldiers to lay down their arms.
1946:
“A Flag Is Born,” a play promoting the creation of a Jewish State in the
ancient land of Israel opened on Broadway on today. The cast included Paul
Muni, Celia Adler and Marlon Brando. Hollywood’s most successful screenwriter,
Ben Hecht was the playwright; it was directed by Luther Adler with music by
Kurt Weill. It was produced by the American League for a Free Palestine, an
organization headed by Hillel Kook, known in America by the anglicized name
Peter Bergson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Flag_is_Born#/media/File:AFlagIsBorn.jpg
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365562
1946(8th
of Elul, 5706): Sixty-five year old Reform Rabbi Isaac Landman whose
accomplishments included editing the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia but who was
an ardent ant-Zionist passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9904E3D61F39E73ABC4D53DFBF66838D659EDE
1946(8th
of Elul, 5706): Fifty-two year old otolaryngologist “Dr. Louis S. Deitchman,
the former Army surgeon” discharged in April with the rank of Lt. Colonel and
“chief of staff of the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium” who is married to “the
former Anna Galen” passed away today in Youngstown, Ohio.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/09/06/121026625.pdf
1947:
“The British Foreign Office said tonight that it had made a final, unsuccessful
effort to debark 4,400 Jewish refugees from the Exodus 1947 in northern France
and that the three transports carrying them were headed for Hamburg, Germany,
as scheduled.”
1948:
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicated for health reasons. In 1939, when
the government had proposed building a refugee camp for German Jews fleeing
from the Nazi regime, Wilhelmina complained about the planned location because
it was “too close” to her summer residence. The camp was finally erected about
10 km from the village of Westerbork.
This is the camp from which the Anne Frank would be shipped to
Auschwitz.
1948:
Warner Brothers released “Two Guys from Texas,” a musical comedy co-authored by
I.A.L. Diamond and produced by Alex Gottlieb.
1949:
Today, at an assembly of delegations attending the National Jewish Youth
Conference in Narrowsburg, NY, Arnulf M. Pins of Paterson, NJ, announced
plans “for a leadership training seminar
in Europe in 1950 om cooperation with the Jewish Youth Federation there and the
world federations of Young Men’s Hebrew Associations and Jewish Community
Centers.”
1950:
“A new immigrant village named Kfar Trujman in honor of the American President
was established near Lydda Airport.
Eighty families from Poland, Rumania and Jungary comprise the first
settlers. A scroll lauding President
Truman for his assistance to Israel was read at a dedication ceremony attended
by fifty American Jewish leaders.”
1951:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and Tel Aviv University trained attorney Doron
Kochavi an “Executive Director of the Buchman Heyman Foundation founded by his
grandmother in 1942 to help needy people all over Israel.”
1951:
After meeting with David Ben Gurion, Mr. Warburg, General Chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal announced that the UJA would work to raise 35 million
dollars to pay the cost of moving
60,000 Jews from Eastern Europe and Moslem countries to Israel by the
end of the year.
1953(24th
of Elul, 5713): Seventy-three year old Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, the Jerusalem
born son Joseph Rapahel (the av bet din of the Sephardi Community, “who was the
Sephardi Chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948 and of Israel
starting in 1948 passed away today.
https://mizrachi.org/rav-ben-zion-meir-hai-uziel-1880-1953/
1954:
“In today’s issue of The British Medical Journal” Holocaust survivor Dr. Joel
Elkes and Dr. Chrmian Elkes, his wife at the time “concluded that the drug
chlorpromazine “may have its place” in the management of psychosis, the
signature symptom of schizophrenia.”
1955:
Birthdate of David Broza, a multi-platinum Israeli singer-songwriter and
guitarist.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071121043502/http://www.jewishmusicgroup.com/artist.php?id=41
1955:
Following the successful completion of Operation Elkayam, “the U.N. mediated a
ceasefire today” with Egypt which decided to halt, even if temporarily, the
infiltration of the terrorists called Fedayeen into Israel.
1957(8th
of Elul, 5717): Seventy-six year old Maurice de Rothschild, the Paris born son
of Adelaide and Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the husband of Noémie de Rothschild
and father of Edmond de Rothschild who was noted for his vineyards and who was
able to escape the Holocaust thanks to Aristides de Sousa, the Portuguese
diplomat who defied his government and risked his career by issuing visas to an
untold number of Jews fleeing the Nazis. Passed away today.
1961:
Pitcher Joe Holen made his major league debut with the Chicago White Sox.
1963(15th
of Elul, 5723): Eighty-three year old University of Wisconsin Law School
graduate Alexander A. Landesco, the Romanian born son of Abraham and Vera
Landesco who founded the Mohawk State of Ohio in Cincinnati before spending “25
years with Lazard Freres and Company and who was the husband of Olga Speigel
Landesco with whom he had two sons, Alex Jr. and Frederick passed away today in
New Rochelle, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/05/82146327.pdf
1964(27th
of Elul, 5724): Fifty-one-year-old Russian born Rabbi Abraham L. Poupko who in
1932 came to the United States where he served as chairman of the judiciary of
the Rabbinical Association of Philadelphia” and “spiritual leader of
Congregation Shari Eli in South Philadelphia” while raising three daughters
with his wife “the former Sonia Ssestack” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/05/archives/rabbi-abraham-poupko.html?searchResultPosition=1
1964:
Ken Harrleson “created” the prototype of the modern batting glove when he wore
a golf glove to protect his blistered hand in a game between the K.C. Athletics
and the N.Y. Yankees. But it would Irving Franklin, working with Phillies’ 3rd
baseman to actual make the first true batting glove which was adopted as the
official standard by Major League Baseball in the 1980’s. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
1964(27th
of Eul, 5724): Seventy-year-old Roslyn Doris Mayerson Alpher, the Brooklyn born
daughter of Annie Jacobs and Max Mayerson who married Louis W. Alpher after her
first husband Nathaniel Pepis passed away died today after which she was buried
in Wellwood Cemetery in West Babylon, NY.
1964:
Birthdate of Anthony Weiner, New York political leader and former member of the
U.S. House of Representatives.
1965:
Pitcher Ken Holtzman made his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs.
1966:
NBC broadcast the last episode of “Branded” a television western created by
Larry Cohen
1967:
CBS broadcast the last episode of “Coronet Blue” a dramatic series created by
Larry Cohen and produced by Herbert Brodkin.
1968:Gertie
Meyer Feinstein, the German born daughter of Nathan and Rose Meyer and the wife
of John Feinstein passed away today in St.Louis after which she interred at the
New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum in Affton, MO.
1968(11th
of Elul, 5728): In Tel Aviv, one person was killed and 71 were wounded when
three bombs exploded “in and near a bus station.”
1971(14th
of Elul, 5731): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1971(14th
of Elul, 5731): Ninety-one-year-old of John Marshall Law School trained
Phoenix, AZ attorney Barnett Ellis Marks, the Russian born son of Isaac and
Jennie (Samson) and the husband of Freeda Lewis who was a legal advisor for the
Board of Supervisors in Maricopa County, AZ and President of the Board of
Trustees of Congregation Beth Israel passed away today.
1972:
This evening, at the Munich Olympics, Israeli athletes watched Shmuel Rodensky
the role of Tevya during a performance of “Fiddler On the Roof.”
1972: Mark Spitz won a record seventh gold medal by
with a victory in the 400-meter relay at the Munich Summer Olympics. Spitz victories would prove to be
bitter-sweet. The medal winning triumph
would be followed by the slaughter of Israeli athletes by the Arab
terrorists. Spitz was spirited out of
Munich to make sure that as a Jew he would not meet the same fate.
1973(7th
of Elul, 5733)
1974:
“Jewish activist Vitali Rubin, a specialist in Chinese philosophy, suffered a
heart attack when arrested by police for “parasitism"
1974:
“Gold,” the movie version of the novel Gold Mine, with music by Elmer Bernstein
and that featured “Wherever Love Takes Me,” by the Jewish duo of Don Black and
Elmer Bernstein which received an Oscar nominated for “Best Original Song” was released today in the U.K.
1975:
The USSR did not attend today’s signing of the Sinai Interim Accord between
Israel and Egypt which took place in Geneva.
1976:
BBC1 broadcast the first episode of “The Duchess of Duke Street” featuring June
Brown as “Mrs. Violet Leyton.”
1977:
Birthdate of New York native and NYU alum Andrew Levitas the multi-talented
painter, sculptor, filmmaker, photographer and restauranter who married
Katherine Jenkins in 2014.
1977:
Moshe Dayan flew to Morocco, where, in a secret meeting with King Hassan, he
asked the King to help expedite a meeting between Begin and Sadat.
1978(2nd
of Elul, 5738): Eighty-nine year old Morris J. Cluman, the husband of Lena
Shimsak with whom he had two children – Herman and Bernice – passed away today
after which he was buried at the Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens County, NY.
1978:
Talks begin at Camp David between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat.
1980(23rd
of Elul, 5740): Seventy-seven year old Washington
University trained lawyer Sam Elson, the New York born of Alex and Sarah Elison
and the holder of JSD from Yale who taught at his alma mater, was a member of
the National Conference of Christians and Jews and was the husband of Getrude
Clemens Palmer with whom he had four children passed away today.
1980:
ABC broadcast the final episode of “Angie” the sitcom starring Donna Pescow
with theme music created by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox.
1983(26th
of Elul, 5743): Eighty-five-year old Brooklyn born, Brooklyn Law School trained
attorney Nat Lefkowitz, the husband of Sally Feigelman with whom he had three daughters – Dorothy,
Rona and Helene – who was the “co-chairman of the William Morris Agency” passed
away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/06/obituaries/no-headline-145877.html
1984(7th
of Elul, 5744): Sixty-nine year old Thomas L. Adams, the Bangor, ME born so of
“the town schochet” and the 1936 graduate of Yeshiva College who was the Rabbi
at “Congregation Mt. Sinai in Jersey City and Ohab Zedek in Manhattan and who
was the husband of Rebbitzen Bernice Adams with whom he had four children –
Larry, Howard, Sivi and Myril – passed away today.
1986(30th
of Av, 5746): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1986(30th
of Av, 5746): Sixty year old former NYU basketball great Sid Tanenbaum was
murdered in bicycle shop today.
1986(30th
of Av, 5746): Ninety-seven-year old Milton Stanley Kronheim, the Washington
D.C. born son of Judith Bensinger and Jacob Kronheim and husband of Meryl B.
Goldsmith who lived in New York during the 1930’s passed away in Washington, DC
today.
1986(30th
of Av, 5746): Hank Greenberg passed away.
Greenberg was a slugger for the Detroit Tigers. He was the first Jew who was a national hero
in what was at that time, the national pastime.
He endured his share of anti-Semitic catcalls and abuse. He would later provide aide and comfort to
another more famous baseball pioneer – Jackie Robinson. One of the great debates that swirled around
Greenberg was whether or not to play ball on the Jewish High Holidays.
http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Owners/Greenberg.Hank.Obit.html
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/hank_greenberg_article.shtml
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-05/sports/sp-13339_1_babe-ruth
1987:
''World of Yesterday: Jews in England 1870-1920,'' an exhibition that is part
of the Jewish East End Celebration is scheduled to come to an end.
1992:
“Bob Roberts,” a “mockumentary” featuring Bob Balaban, Jeremy Piven, Shira
Piven and Jack Black was released today in the United States and the United
Kingdom.
1993:
Catcher Eric Helfand made his major league debut with the Oakland Athletics.
1994(28th
of Elul, 5754): Twenty-four year old Sergeant Victor Shichman was gunned down
at the Morag junction while on patrol.
1994:
Woody Allen’s “Bullets over Broadway” premiered at the Venice International
Film Festival today.
1995(9th
of Elul, 5755): Attorney and activist William Kunstler passed away at the age
of 76. (As reported by David Stout)
1995:
Alisa Beth Lebeau, the daughter Rabbi William Lebeau the vice chancellor at JTS
and dean of the rabbinical school married Eric Reuven Goldman today.
1997(2nd
of Elul, 5757): In Jerusalem three Hamas suicide bombers simultaneously blew
themselves up on the pedestrian mall, killing five Israelis including three 14
year old girls -- Sivann Zarka, Yael Botvin and Smadar Elhanan, “the daughter
of peace activist Nurit Peled-Elhanan and the granddaughter of Israeli general
and politician Mattityahu Peled.
1998:
“The Rounders,” a dark drama about the world of high stakes poker co-starring
Martin Landau with a script by David Levien and Brian Koppelman premiered at
the Venice Film Festival.
1999: Daniel
Hamidou, the Berber born Jew who gained fame as French comedian Dany Boon who
played “Private Ponchel” in Joyeux Noël, a gem of a film and his second
wife Judith Godrèche, gave birth to Noé, his second child and their first
child.
2000: Ogen Rintzler came from Israel to the
blue-green waters of the Black Sea this afternoon to say farewell to his
parents and to heal a wound even deeper than their loss while Chefner Tudor
made the journey in memory of his best friend. Ilana Blum came to acknowledge
the father whose death she had long refused to accept as “70 relatives and
friends from around the world gathered for a memorial service at sea honoring
778 Romanian Jews and crew members who died in 1942 when a Russian submarine
sank their disabled ship, the Struma.”
2001:
Hamas took credit for today’s bombing on Hanevi’im Street in Jerusalem which
injured 20 innocent civilians.
2002:
In “To the New Year, Southern Style,” published today, Joan Nathan introduces
readers to a side of Jewish cooking and culture with which most people, Jew and
Gentile alike, are not aware.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/04/dining/to-the-new-year-southern-style.html?searchResultPosition=4
2002:
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled today that the army could expel from the West
Bank the brother and sister of a Palestinian terrorist accused of organizing suicide bombing and send them to the Gaza
Strip. (As reported by Joel Greenberg)
2003:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon in Short Hills, NJ for
Edna (Jay) Lazarus, the “wife of the late Max A. Lazurus” and the “mother of
Elaine Lieb, James L. Lazarus and Susan Shapiro.”
2003:
The British Embassy in Tehran came under gunfire just after Iran announced that
it was temporarily calling its ambassador back from Britain. The diplomat was
recalled to protest the arrest in London last month of Iran's former ambassador
to Argentina in connection with a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires. No one was
injured in the gunfire, but the embassy was closed as an investigation was
begun.
2004:
It was reported that while Israeli polticians “generally refrain from picking
favorites” in U.S. Presidential elections “it is quite clearn that Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon prefers Bush, in part because “Bush is known and Kerry is
not.”
2005: The New York Times included reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. Sachar.
2005:
Haaretz reported that Israel's World Cup qualifying match against Switzerland ended in a
1-1 draw. Unfortunately, the sporting
event was marred by pro-Palestinian demonstrators who ran across the field
during the match. Hopefully the
Palestinian protestors will remain non-violent and not follow the path of
the terrorists who murdered Jewish athletes at the Munich
Olympics.
2005(30th
of Av, 5765): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2005: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the
Israeli government has offered everything from a field hospital to specially
trained disaster forensic teams, to organized prayer in an attempt to help the
United States cope with this disaster.
In addition to sending words of official condolences, Israeli government
officials conceded that this would not be a good time to go to Washington
asking for additional aid for those who have left Gaza.
2006:
Jerry Lewis host’s the annual Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. Tikun Olam comes in many forms.
2007: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism by
Naomi Klein, a Jewish supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
campaign against Israel, which challenges the free market policy of Jewish
economist Milton Friedman was published today.
2007: In Jerusalem, the weeklong festival known as
Jewish Music Days continues with a second concert at Beit Shmuel, featuring the
HaYona Ensemble in its own blend of traditional Jewish "piyut" music
with Sufi music.
2007:
In New York, Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir is named this year’s recipient of the Jan
Karski and Pola Nirenska Prize. Endowed by Professor Jan Karski at YIVO in
1992, the $5,000 prize goes to authors of published works documenting
Polish-Jewish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish culture.
2007: The New
York Board of Rabbis unveiled its official Jewish New York History and Heritage
Map today at an event attended by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The illustrated
map, poster and guide lists scores of noteworthy sites throughout the city,
spanning Jewish history since 1654, when Jewish settlers arrived in New
Amsterdam from Recife, Brazil, founding what is now Congregation Sheartih
Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue on Central Park West.
The sites include historic and cultural landmarks,
to be sure, but also a hodgepodge of places of interest to those who closely
follow popular culture. A sampling, by borough, follows.
·
Baith Israel-Anshei Emeth (Kane Street
Synagogue),
·
The
·
The Midwood homes where Woody Allen
spent his teenage years (
·
The childhood home (663
·
The childhood homes of Ralph Lauren,
formerly Lifshitz (
·
The Sholom Aleichem Houses (
·
·
The childhood homes of Paul Simon (
The Jewish deli which has been a bit of an obsession for some readers (and
writers) on this blog, is not a focus of the map, which lists just two
·
Guss’ Pickles (
·
Kossar’s Bialys (
·
The map was produced with city funds and includes
statements by Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn,
welcoming visitors to the city. The back of the map also states, “The map is
inclusive and includes those who identify themselves as Jewish and are seen as
such by certain segments of the Jewish community.” Although copies of the map
were made available to journalists at a news conference yesterday, the map is
not publicly available yet, and we were not given permission to share it here.
The New York Board of Rabbis intends to put a copy on its Web site after the
High Holy Days this month. The map is the result of a two-year effort by a
committee that included several scholars and writers, including Ilana
Abramowitz, Gerald Chatanow, Joseph Dorinson, Mark Gordon, Oscar Israelowitz
and Deborah Dash Moore. Ron Schweiger, the
2008: Haaretz reported
that leaders in the US Reform Movement said they hope the privately run Aliyah
organization Nefesh B'Nefesh will support programs developed with the Jewish
Agency to attract liberal Jews who want to split their time between Israel and
their existing homes in North America
2009: Performance of “Zero Hour” written and performed
by Jim Brochu which channels Zero Mostel’s wild moods, crazy humor and
righteous anger.
2009: As happens every Friday throughout the months of
July, August, and September, The Alrov Mamilla Mall outside the Jaffa Gate is
transformed into one big street theatre featuring a series of “family friendly”
performances that include plays, jugglers, magicians, pantomime, stand-up
comedy, circuses, music, acrobatics, and more.
2009: It took 70 years for this reunion, but when the
vintage steam train pulled into London today with a group of elderly Holocaust
survivors, the emotions started to flow. Under the sprawling canopy of the
Liverpool Street Station, the survivors were reunited today with Nicholas
Winton the man who as a fearless young stockbroker saved every one of them from
the Nazis.
2010: At
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Bentlee Birchansky, son Dr. Lee and Cyndie
Birchansky, was called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah
2010
(5770): This evening, Rabbi Todd Thalblum is scheduled to conduct his second
Selichot service as the leader of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2010: A Kassam
rocket launched from Gaza exploded in the southern Israel Negev area on
Saturday morning. There were no reported injuries.
2010: IDF bombed smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip tonight.
2010: Yael Rapaport Schoenbaum enjoyed her first
Shabbat. She was born today in Bethesda, MD much to the joy of her parents
Michael Schoenbaum and Elisa Rapaport and her grandparents Dr. David and Mrs.
Schoenbaum of Iowa City, IA.
2011: Anita, a
film about a young Jewish woman with Down syndrome, is scheduled to be shown at
the Ninth Annual Jewish Film Series sponsored by The Jewish Federation of the
Quad Cities.
2011: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Sleeping with the Enemy Coco Chanel’s Secret War by Hal Vaughan which
says that Chanel’s “anti-Semitism was vociferous and well-documented,” The
Emperor of Lies, a novel by Steve Sem-Sandberg that paints a picture of the
Lodz Ghetto including the role of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski and Except When
I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic by Arthur Krystal
2011: The
Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Wendy and the Lost Boys: The
Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein by Julie Salamon and The Astonishing
Secret of Awesome Man: A Picture Book by Michael Chabon, with illustrations
by Jake Parker
2011: The National Union of Israeli Students began
folding up its campsite on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard this afternoon, the
day after more than 400,000 Israelis hit the streets in a series of social
justice protests across the country.
2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense
Minister Ehud Barak ordered Israel's top security bodies to keep mum about
intelligence information gathered prior to the terror attacks in the south two
weeks ago, it emerged today.
2011(5th of
Elul, 5772): Seventy-nine year old Eliyahu Naim died today “in a Jerusalem
hospital, two weeks after hitting his head while running for shelter in
Ashkelon” during a “massive rocket barrage on southern Israel” that took place
two weeks ago. His death brings the toll from that attack to three. Sixty-two year old Varda Nachimas and 38 year
old Yossi Shushan died earlier.
2012(17th of
Elul, 5772): Eighty-three year old Abraham Avidgdorov who was received the Hero
of Israel Award (the forerunner of the Medal Valor) “for destroying two Bren
machine gun positions on March 17, 1948 passed away today. (As reported by Boaz Flyer)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4277294,00.html
2012(17th of
Elul, 5772): Eighty-seven year old Tony Award winning director Albert Marre
passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/albert-marre-director-of-man-of-la-mancha-dies-at-86
2012: Shir Hadash is
scheduled to offer training in how to blow a ram’s horn at its Shofar Workshop
and a course in Jewish ethics and values – A Taste of Judaism.
2012: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Marc Caplan
and Beatrice Lang Caplan entitled “Watch the Throne: Spectacle and Specters in
the Stories of Reb Nakhmen and Der Nister.”
2012: The Israeli Opera
is scheduled to present a performance of “The Magic Flute.”
2012: A new film series
sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Embassy of the Czech Republic
titled “Doc in Salute” which focuses “on interesting personalities who have
been touched by Jewish themes” is scheduled to open today with a showing of “What
Doesn’t Kill You.”
2012: Cyprus hopes to
begin importing liquefied natural gas from Israel by early 2015, Cypriot
Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Neoklis Sylkiotis was quoted as saying
by Famagusta Gazette Online today. Israel is in favor of supplying Cyprus with
between 0.5-0.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas for electricity production,
he reportedly said. The island country is planning to import natural gas in the
short-term.
2012: The New York Times featured a review of Telegraph
Avenue by Michael Chabon
2013: “Rock Hashana: 10
Stars of the New Jewish Music” published today provides a look at what is no
longer “your bubbe’s Jewish music”
2013: After serving
more than three years David I. Adelman completed his term as U.S. Ambassador to
Singapore.
2013: Latica
Honda-Rosenberg and Yaron Kohlberg are scheduled to perform Hindemith’s Violin
Sonata in E flat major, op. 11/1 at The Jerusalem International Chamber Music
Festival.
2013: “Fifteen
Palestinians were arrested Wednesday morning, including seven youths ahead of
the Jewish New Year after they threw stones and clashed with police on the
Temple.” (As reported by the Times of Israel Staff)
2013: In an interview
published in Yedioth Ahronoth today a
cting Bank
of Israel Governor Karnit Flug said her gender may have something to do with
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to overlook her for the top post at the
central bank.(As reported by the Times of Israel Staff)
2013(29th of
Elul, 5773): Erev Rosh Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2014:
“The solo Exhibition ‘Lotus Eaters’ presenting paintings by Canadian-Israeli
artist Melani Daniel is scheduled to open at the Asya Geisberg Gallery
2014:
“The Shin Bet released further information about the abduction and killing of
three Israeli teens in June, including the transfer of money from Gaza to
Hebron to fund the triple killing and the failed escape to Jordan of Hussam
Kawasme, who allegedly helped bury the three teens on his land and was indicted
Thursday in a military court.” (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
2014:
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy announced that David Makovsky, a
member of the State Department’s Middle East peace team, is returning which is
seen as “a signal that the Obama administration is retreating from its efforts
to broker a peace deal.” (JTA)
2014: “The IDF returned fire at a Syrian army
position along the northern border this afternoon, after a mortar shell struck
Israeli territory.”
2014:
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, “My Old Lady” a
marvelous little comedy with a twist which marked the directorial debut of
Israel Horovitz who also wrote the script and was produced by Rachael Horovitz
was released in the United States today by the Cohen Media Group.
2014(9th
of Elul, 5774): Eighty-one year old comedian Joan Rivers passed away today.
2015(20
Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of
Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton)
Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud
Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren. To his brother Joe, he was
the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living
proof that good guys finish first.
2015: The
Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: In
“Israeli Terrorists, Born in the U.S.A.” published today, Sara Yael Hirschhorn
described a segment of society that Prime Minister Rabin had described as “an
errant weed” that “sensible Judaism spits out.”
2015:
Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, David Tanis provided recipes for holiday
treats.
2016(1st
of Elul, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Elul – Begin reciting Psalm 27 and blowing the
shofar.
2016:
Israeli songwriter Yoram Teharlev and The Quartet are scheduled to perform this
evening at the the 14th Street Y in New York.
2016:
“Women of the Wall prayed under police presence at the Western Wall this
morning after the group complained to Israel’s attorney general about the lack
of protection at their monthly prayer service” which did not stop their
opponents from expressing their “holiness” by blowing whistles to disrupt the
davening.
2016;
“Israel Railways restored full services this evening, at the end of a day in
which trains ground to a halt after political wrangling delayed weekend
maintenance work, leaving tens of thousands commuters stranded.”
2016:
According to statements made to by Baruch Abramzaiov, the country’s chief
rabbi, “Uzbekistan’s Jews are not worried for their future after the death of
the country’s longtime President, Islam Karimov,”
2016: As
part of Mekudeshet, “a joint house of prayer” is scheduled to open today “at
the Louis & Tillie Alpert Youth Music Center of Jerusalem in the Wolfson
Garden for followers of the three major monotheistic faiths — Judaism,
Christianity and Islam.”
2016: The
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host
its third and final summer-time Docent Tour of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial
2016:
“Israel targeted Syrian Army artillery in the Golan Heights” tonight “hours
after a mortar shell landed on the Israeli side of the DMZ.”
2016: The New York Times Book Section featured
an interview with Daniel Silva, the author of the Gabriel Allon thrillers.
2017: Jordan Dangerfield was placed on the injured reserve list by
the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2017: On Labor Day, American Jews can reflect on their role in the
American Labor Movement:
http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/14322
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/the-jewish-people-and-the-american-labor-movement/
2017:
“The 2nd Original Red Beans & Rice Cook-Off, co-sponsored by the
Crescent City Jewish News, is scheduled to be held today from 12:00 – 2:30 pm
at Torah Academy with all profits going to the Jewish Community Day School and
Torah Academy
2017:
On Labor Day, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled
to honor all military personnel and their families by waiving the admission
fee.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “The Venice, Ghetto, 500
Years of Life.”
2018:
After having visited Yad Vashem yesterday, the President of the Philippines is
scheduled to continue his visit to Israel for a third day.
2018:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “Dough.”
2018:
This is evening in Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host “Food for the
Soul” featuring Professor Dalia Marx and Shmil Holland who will present “a
culinary encounter in honor of Rosh Hashanah with lessons on symbolic New Year
foods and practical cooking tips to prepare sumptuous meals for the holiday
table.”
2018:
“The members of the Joint List are scheduled to meet today with EU Foreign
Affairs Chief Federica Mogherini as part of the series of meetings the party is
holding in the international arena in protest against the Nation-State Law.”
(As reported by Itay Blumenthal)
2018:
At Vanderbilt University, the fall Holocaust Lecture Series is scheduled to
begin with “Coexistense: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians on Poland’s Eastern
Borderlands.”
2019:
The Mekudeshet Festival is scheduled to begin in the “Old City, Jerusalem”
today.
2019:
Gershion Leizerson and the Yiddish Blues Concert are scheduled to be held this
evening at the Besarabia Bar on Ben Yehuda in Jersualem.
2019:
“How To Keep Your Husband,” an Amanda Mehl fashion show is scheduled to take
place this evening in Manhattan
2019:
In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled host a “cruator’s talk for” the
extremely popular exhibition “Jews, Money, Myth.”
2019:
Three hundred sixty-fifth anniversary of the “Birth of the American Jewish
Community.”
2020:
In another session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators
Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about 17th-century
Italy in the virtual presentation of “Ethnic Diversity at the University of
Padua.”
2020:
The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host a second screening of
“Hummus! The Movie”
2020(15th
of Elul, 5780): Less than three weeks shy of her 73rd birthday,
Ronnie Sue Penner, a New Orleans native, who married and became a homemaker
and, later, a paralegal for the Spiegel and Barbato law firm while living in
New York, passed away today. (As reported by CCJN, the voice for everything
Jewish in Cajun country)
https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/ronnie-sue-penner-roth-dies-in-houston-suburb/
2020:
In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert “The
Dramatic and Virtuosic Mozart – on period instruments.”
2020:
Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to host online “Kabbalat Shabbat” during
which Rabbi Polisson will lead a service welcoming Shabbat with “songs and
gratitude.”
2020:
In Cedar Rapids where citizens are dealing with the worst natural disaster in
the city’s history, Temple Judah is scheduled to host, live-streamed on Zoom,
Kabbalat Shabbat Services
2020:
In Ohio, B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to livestream “Kinder Shabbat.”
2020:
Israelis can assume that the number of coronavirus cases will continue to soar
“since the country saw a record-breaking 3,074 confirmed COVID-19
cases in the 24 hours, ending morning, with a 9.4% positivity rate out of the
32,700 tests conducted.”
2021: “Israeli airlines are facing new waves of
mass layoffs and potential collapse as the global aviation market continues to
be pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic.” (YNET)
2021(27th of Elul, 5781): Parashat
Nitavim
2022: In San Ramon, CA “Limmud Bay Area,” a “two-day
learning event with lectures, workshops, text-study sessions, discussions,
exhibits, performances and more in a retreat-style setting” is scheduled to
being today.”
2022: In Pepper Pike, OH, the Gottlieb family is
scheduled to dedicate a new Torah scroll to B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in
memory of their parents, Saul and Bernice Gottlieb.
2022: The Contemporary Jewish Music in
conjunction with exhibit “Oz is for Oznowicz: A Puppet Family’s History” is
scheduled to present “actor-filmmaker Frank Oznowicz (Frank Oz) discussing his
parents’ remarkable story of survival from Nazi-occupied Belgium, the art of
puppetry and resistance, and how stories of Holocaust survivors are shared in
new ways.”
2022: “Mr. Saturday Night,” Billy Crystal’s
musical about an aging comedian trying to reboot his career, will end its
Broadway today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/17/theater/billy-crystal-broadway-closing.html
2022: President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michael
are scheduled to begin an official state visit to Germany which is being made
in the wake of the agreement by Germany to pay compensation to the families of
the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorist at the 1972 Olympics.
2022: As part of it “In Her Majesty's Kingdom -
Celebrating the Rich History of Anglo-Jewry” The National Library of Israel is
scheduled to present a lecture by Professor David Latchman “Anglo-Jewry: A
History of Controversy.”
2022: The New York Times featured books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Bad
Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution, by Nona Willis
Aronowitz , The Arc of the Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate
of the Jewish People, by Walter Russell Mead and The Stolen Year: How
Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now by Anya Kamenetz
2023: Beit Agnon is scheduled to host a lecture
by Professor Ruham Weiss on “Is Forgiveness Always Possible?”
2023: As Labor Day is
celebrated in the United States, Jews, who are commanded to Labor for six days
before they can rest, might want to contemplate their changing views and roles
in the history of the American Labor Movement (Lest we forget, in the garment
industry it was often Jewish owners versus Jewish sweatshop workers
http://www.csjo.org/resources/essays/jews-in-the-american-labor-movement/
https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/herberg-labor.pdf
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2006/01/readings_on_the_american_jewis_1.html
http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/14322
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/the-jewish-people-and-the-american-labor-movement/
