This Day, October 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
October 2
825 BCE (22nd of Tishrei, 2936): According to traditionKing
Solomon bid farewell to the Jewish people who had come to Jerusalem for a
14-day ceremony dedicating the Holy Temple (1-Kings 8:66). King David had
brought the Ark of the Covenant up to Jerusalem's Mount Moriah, but as a
warrior he was not permitted by God to erect the Temple. However, his son
Solomon did so. The Temple was the most important site in Israel -- a spiritual
magnet for the Jewish nation's yearnings. The magnificent structure took seven
years to build, and stood for 410 years.
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tishrei_22.html
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1187: Sultan Saladin captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders. While the Crusaders had held Jerusalem, they
had barred Jews from living in the city.
Saladin allowed them to return.
Saladin’s physician was none other than Maimonides.
1264: The
papacy of Urban IV who had written “Bela, the Hungarian
King who was using Jews as agents” “reproaching him for giving opportunities to
the people whose own sin had condemned them to eternal servitude, to exercise
official authority over Christians” ended today.
1373: Wenceslaus IV who as
Emperor failed to continue the Imperial protection of the Jews of Luxembourg
led to their expulsion in 1391 was named Elector of Brandenburg today.
1535:
French explorer Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec. The French did not
allow Jews to settle in Canada. Jews
were only able to settle in Montreal until after the British defeated the
French in the 18th century.
In 1768, 12 families arrive in Montreal from New York marking the start
of one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in North America.
1596(10th
of Tishrei, 5357): Yom Kippur
1596: For
the first time in the history of Amsterdam, sixteen “met together for worship”
at the house of Don Samuel Palache, ambassador of the emperor of Morocco to the
Netherlands.”
1682: “John
George III of Saxony issued a new decree, in which the onerous regulations
relating to Jews passing through the country were somewhat modified, since
those regulations were found to be detrimental to the yearly fairs at Leipsic.”
1724(Tishrei,
5485): Solomon Sasportas, son of Isaac Sasportas and grandson of Jacob
Sasportas who had served as the Rabbi at Nice, France since 1690 passed away
today.
1734: Based
on the date on the document, Isaac Franks, the brother of Aaron Franks, wrote
the final version of his will today.
1755: In
Medfield, MA, Thomas Adams and Elizabeth Clark gave birth to Hannah Adams, “the
first woman in the United States who” was a professional write and whose works
included a History of the Jews: From the Destruction of Jerusalem published in
1812 making it one of the earliest books written in the United States on this
subject.
http://www.notevenpast.org/discover/hannah-adams-historian-american-jews
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/graduate/gradstudents/profile.php?id=aes2596
1762:
“Rabbi” Moses Lyon who “came to America from Poland” was buried today in New
York City.
1766: In
York, PA, Elijah Etting and his wife gave birth to Fanny Etting, the wife of
Robert Taylor.
1767(9th
of Tishrei, 5528): Erev Yom Kippur observed for the first time after the
passage of infamous Townshend Acts which were part of the path that led to the
American Revolution.
1768: Myer
Moses and his wife gave birth to Rebecca Moses who became Rebecca Moses Harby
when she married London born Solomon Harby who had settled in South Carolina.
1774:
Birthdate of Louis-Gabriel-Ambrose Bonald the opponent of the French Revolution
whose anti-Semitism ran so deep that he believed the only way Jews could become
morally fit was for them to convert to Catholicism.
1777(1st
of Tishrei, 5538): Rosh Hashanah observed two days before George Washington
faced off against the British at the Battle of Brandywine and five days before
the British lost the Second Battle of Saratoga, a major turning point in the
American Revolution
1780(3rd of
Tishrei, 5541): Tzom Gedaliah
1780:
Colonel David Salisbury Franks, the aid-de-camp to General Benedict Arnold was
arrested on suspicion of treason following the exposure of the Arnold’s plot to
betray the Americans and turn West Point over to the British. Franks was the
son of Jacob Franks, a prominent Jewish Philadelphia (PA) family. [You have to wonder if Colonel Franks was
fasting on the day of his arrest.]
1783 (or
1784): In London, Jacob Israel Bernal and Leah da Silva gave birth to Ralph Bernal,
who began as an actor, moved to Parliament and end up as president of the
British Archaeological Society. Along
the way he converted (the price of success?)
1784(17th
of Tishre1, 5545): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth observed by David Hays of Bedford, the
brother of New Castle Merchant Michael Hays.
1786(10th
of Tishrei, 5547): Yom Kippur
1789:
George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United
States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. The First Amendment had particular
for the small America Jewish community and has loomed large for the growth of
the modern Jewish community. The
Amendment opens with the following declaration “Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof;” In other words, the government would not establish a state religion
and at the same time, the citizens were free to practice whatever religion they
individually chose. This simple clause,
one part of a single sentence, is the legal underpinning for the reality that
has made the American Jewish community different than all of its predecessors.
1791(4th
of Tishrei, 5552): Tzom Gedaliah
1792(16th
of Tishre, 5553): Second day of Sukkot on the same day that the National
Convention in France “created the Committee of General Security” which sent an
untold number of people to the guillotine.
1793: Joseph Friedberg married Matilda Joachim
at the Great Synagogue.
1795(19th of Tishrei, 5556): Fifth
Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that the British scored a victory
against the French at “the Île d'Yeu off the coast of Brittany.”
1796(29th of Elul, 5556): Erev Rosh
Hashana observed for the last time during the presidency of George Washingto.
1798(22nd of Tishrei 5559: Shmini
Atzeret
1798: Birthdate King Charles Albert of
Piedmont-Sardinia who promulgated the Codice Albertino “which made Piedmont the
first Italian state to grant its Jewish citizens equal rights and allow them to
enter the military.”
1800(13th of Tishrei, 5651): Sarah
Aguilar, a native of Bayonne who married Abraham Tores from Bayonne in
Charleston, passed away today.
1803(16th of Tishrei, 5564): Second
Day of Sukkoth
1803(16th of Tishrei, 5564): Letitia
Lemon, the wife of Penzance merchant Lemon Hart, the grandson of Abraham Hart died in a fire today along with the child which
she was carrying.
1805(9th of Tishrei, 5566): Erev
Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre observed on the
same day that that the Lewis and Clark expedition had nothing left to eat
except a “small prairie wolf” that hunters brought back to camp today.
1807(29th of Elul, 5567): Erev Rosh
Hashanah observed as the French and the Spanish were negotiating what would
become the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
1809(22nd of Tishrei, 5570): Shemini Atzertz observed
on the same day that British artist Thomas Rowlandson designed and etch a print
of the “Vauxhaul Garden.”
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/744566
1811(14th of Tishrei, 5572): Erev
Sukkoth
1811: In London, Samson Beck and his wife gave
birth to Elizabeth Beck.
1811: Laura Block, the daughter of Abraham
Block and the daughter of Frances Isaiah Isaacs was today in New Yor,
1813: Birthdate of Rabbi Ephraim Israel
Blucher, the native of Moravia who was “the author of Healing of the Aramaic
Tongue, a Hebrew grammar and whose German translation of the Book of
Ruth was published at Lemberg in 1843.
1816(10th of Tishrei, 5577): Yom
Kippur
1817(22nd of Tishrei, 5578) Shimini
Atzeret
1824(10th of Tishrei, 5585): Yom
Kppur observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.
1825(20th of Tishrei, 5586) Sixth
Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the Presidency of John Q.
Adams
1826(1st of Tishrei, 5587): Rosh
Hashanah
1831: Birthdate of botanist Julius von Sachs,
the native of Breslau, who held the chair of botany at the University of
Wurzburg from 1868 until his death in 1897.
1835(9th of Tishrei, 5596): Erev
Yom Kippur
1835: The
Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales. Jews were active
participants in the Texas fight for freedom including Dr. Albert Levy became a
surgeon to revolutionary Texan forces in 1835.
1835:
Cécile Furtado, the daughter of Elias Furtado whose father had been a rabbi in
Bayonne married banker Charles Heine, the son of Salomon Heine and the cousin
of poet Heinrich Heine.
1836(21st
of Tishrei, 5597): Hoshana Raba
1836:
Barnett Lee married Diamond Foligno today at the Western Synagogue.
1837(3rd
of Tishrei, 5598) Tzom Gedaliah
1838: MP
Frederick D. Goldsmid and his wife gave birth to Sir Julian Goldsmid.
1836: In
Bavaria, Seligman Baer Bamberger, the son of Shimon Simcha Bamberger and Judith
Bamberger and Kela Bamberger gave birth to Judith Bamberger who became Judith
Adler when she married Rabbi Immanuel Menachem Adler.
1841(17th
of Tishrei, 5602): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1841(17th
of Tishrei, 5602): Sixty-four-year-old the
Charleston born Aaron Marks Lazarus son
of Marks and Rachel Dorris Lazarus and
the husband of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus whom he married in 1821 and with whom he
had six children – Gershon, Phila, Washington, Ellen, Julia and Anna – passed away
today Petersburg, VA after which he was buried at the Hebrew Cemetery in
Richmond, VA.
1842: In
Prussia, Moritz Gruening and Bertha Thorner gave birth to Emil Gruening, the
veteran of the Union Army and ophthalmic and aural surgeon who had graduated
from the College and Physicians and Surgeons in New York and was the husband of
Phoebe Fridenberg.
1845(1st
of Tishrei, 5605): Rosh Hashanah
1845:
“Charles VI,” an opera composed by Fromental Halevy was performed for the first
time in French at Brussels.
1845: In
New Orleans, LA, Daniel Goodman and the former Amelia Harris gave birth to
Benjamin Franklin Goodman.
1846:
Birthdate of German statistician Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt.
1847: In
Posen, Prussian aristocrat Robert von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg and his
wife Luise Schwickart gave birth to Paul von Hindenburg
1850: In
California the Eureka Benevolent Association, whose embers included Charles Hirsch,
Sam W. Heller, Albert Meyer and Meyer Levy was found today.
1852(19th
of Tishrei, 5613): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1852: “At
Blank Place in Mallow, County Cork, “James O’Brien, a solicitor’s Clerk and his
wife Kate the daughter of James Nagle” gave birth to “Irish nationalist” and
Member of Parliament, William O’Brien, the husband Sophie Raffalovic, a Jewess
and a friend and supporter of Michael Daivtt, the author of The True Story of
Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia who “attacked those who participated in the
riots at Limerick and visited the Jewish victims.”
1853(29th of Elul, 5613): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1853: Austria adopted laws forbidding Jews from owning land
1854(10th
of Tishrei, 5615): Yom Kippur
1855*20th
of Tishrei, 5616): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1856(3rd
of Tishrei, 5617): Tzom Gedaliah
1856: In
the United Kingdom, Israel and Rebecca Marks gave birth to Isaac Marks.
1856:
Birthdate of Hyman B. Isaacson, the native of “Kozlishon, on the outskirts of
Kovno” and son-in-law of Russian cigar manufacturer Reuben Pupkin who came to the United States in 1890 and who
in 1896 “started manufacturing boy’s was suits with his son Nachum” which was
such a profitable venture that it enabled him to become a leader in the Jewish
community as can be seen by his service as “treasurer of the Order of the Sons
of Zion,” Chairman of the Board of Education of the Uptown Talmud Torah and the
“vice president of the Hunts Point Talmud Torah.”
1856: The
New York Times reported that “The Hebrew New Year’s Festival ended
yesterday and the shops and stores of Jews re-opened today. The ‘Reformed Jews’
do not carefully observe the occasion.”
1858: A
funeral notice wass published today inviting the members of the Hebrew Mutual
Benefit Society to attend the funeral of Mrs. Raphall the wife of Rabbi Morris
Raphall which will be held tomorrow at her residence.
1859(4th
of 5620): Tzom Gedaliah observed on Sunday
1862(8th
of Tishrei, 5623): Fifty-five year old attorney Jonas Altamont Phillips the
Philadelphia born son of Arbabella Solomon and Zalegman Phillips and husband of
Frances Cohen with whom he had nine children who as a Democrat ran for mayor of
Philadelphia and who declined an appointment to the federal bench by President
Buchannan passed away today.
1862: The Board of Alderman in NYC referred to the
Committee on Sewers a petition on behalf of the Hebrew Benevolent Society to
build a drain on 77th street between 4th and 5th Avenue.
1863(19th of Tishrei, 5624): Fifth Day of
Sukkoth
1864: An article published today entitled "Prussia
and Her Poles" which described the trial of several Polish gentlemen from
the Grand Duchy of Posen who have been charged with treason betrayed a strange
admission about Germany's treatment of her Jews over the centuries. Dr. Gueist, the defense attorney demanded of
the court, "Where are the facts?"
And if there are no facts, then are these men being prosecuted for their
thoughts and sentiments -- a mode of proceeding which would carry us back to
the trials of the Jews in the dark ages." How strange to hear a German
lawyer admit that the Jews had in fact been convicted of crimes when they were
guilty of nothing else but being Jewish.
1866(23rd of Tishrei, 5627): Simchat Torah
1867(3rd of Tishrei, 5628): Tzom Gedaliah
1869: Today, the New York Herald praised the building
housing Temple Emanu-El as an “extraordinary creating of art…combining with a
rare, and it might be said, an unconscious harmony of six different orders of
architecture – Saracenic, Byzantine, Moresque, Arabesque, Gothic and Norman –
has at length reached after great expenditure of money, taste and skill, its
culminating effect in the dazzling splendor of its interior decoration.”
1870: In Opava, Moravia, Charlotte and Samuel D. Klauber
gave birth to Edmund Kaluber.
1870: As part of the climax to the Risorgimento or Rebirth, the name
given to the unification of Italy, the Italian government annexed
Rome and the Papal States. Rome was made the Italian capital. Jews were active in the fight for the
reunification of Italy. Mazzini,
Garibaldi and Cavour, the leaders of the movement believed in liberty for all
Italians including their Jewish compatriots.
1870: “The
oldest reform temple in Kansas City, MO, Congregation B’nai Jehuda was
organized today by 25 Jewish pioneer residents who utilized acreage in Elmwood
Cemetery for services until the first permanent sanctuary at 6th and
Wyandotte was dedicated in 1875.”
1870: “A
deputation, of which Samuel Alatri (the leader of the Jewish community in Rome)
was a member, handed over to King Victor Emmanuel the result of the plebiscite
by which the inhabitants of the Papal Territories declared in favor of
annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.
1871: In
Grand Rapids, Michigan, founding of Temple Emanuel which would employ Gustav N.
Hausmann as its Rabbi.
1871: Birthdate of Cordell Hull. Among his other accomplishments, Hull was
Secretary of State during World War II and winner of the 1945 Nobel Peace
Prize. Hull was not Jewish, but his wife
Frances was described as being “half-Jewish.”
During the 1930’s when Hull entertained thoughts of following FDR to the
White House, Hull’s opponents attacked him as a slave to Jewish interests. Other critics contended that he was not as
aggressive as he might have been in opening the gates of the U.S. to Jewish
refugees because he feared attacks that he was a pawn of Jewish interests; that
these Jewish interests had gotten us into the war; and that these charges would
impair FDR’s plans to win the war. Henry
Morgenthau, who was Secretary of the Treasury at this time, was working to save
the Jews of Europe. At a meeting in
1943, he became so exasperated with Hull’s lack of action that he told him that
if this were Germany, Hull would not be in the Cabinet Room. Instead he would be in prison and who knew
where his wife would be. Hull remained
unmoved. The State Department, led by
Breckinridge Long continued its policy of polite anti-Semitism and untold
numbers of Jews perished who might have otherwise been saved.
1872(29th
of Elul, 5632): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1872: In
Amsterdam, Karel Abraham Wertheim and Henriette van Heukelom gave birth to
Henri Hendrik Pieter Wertheim van Heukelom
1872:
Birthdate of Jacques Abady, the son of a stockbroker from Aleppo, who began his
career as a gas engineer before being called to the bar.
1872: An
article published today entitled “Rosh Hashono” reported that “this evening the
Hebrews throughout the globe will commence the celebration of their New Year
festival. With..the solitary exception
of the Day of Atonement…the New Year is more strictly observed than any other
of the periods set apart for religious observances in the Jewish calendar.”
1874(21st
of Tishrei, 5635): Hoshanah Rabbah
1874: In
Poland, Jacobi Bornstein, the son of Aron and Sara Bornstein and Thelka
Bornstein gave birth to Rosa Wittenberg.
1875: It
was reported today that the cattle sale was off at the end of this with only a
few carloads of Texas Cattle having been sold.
The reason for this drop off in business was the absence of the “Hebrew
butchers” from the market due to the observance of “a high Jewish festival.”
1875(3rd
of Tishrei, 5636): Shabbat Shuvah
1876: In
“Egeln, Germany, Selig Blumenthal, the “son of Salomon and Lea Blumenthal” and
his wife “Julianne Blumenthal gave birth to Willi Blumenthal
1877(25th
of Tishrei, 5638): Forty year old Lyon Levy Emanuel, the native of Philadelphia
and brother of Louis Manly Emanuel, who served with the Eighty-Second Regiment
during the Civil War after which he pursued a business career in New York City,
passed away today.
1879(15th
of Tishrei, 5640): Sukkoth
1881:
“Current Foreign Notes” published today includes a synopsis of a circular from
Russia’s Minister of the Interior in which
he says “The Government recognizes the detriment to the Christian
population of the commercial activity, exclusiveness and religious fanaticism
of the Jews, which are still predominate in spite of the 20 years’ efforts to
blend the population.” He goes on to say
that recent violence is because “of the monopolization of trade…by the Jews”
and that “energetic measures must be taken to shield Christians from the
effects of” the Jews’ “injurious
activity.” (Anti-Semitism and the big
lie existed decades before Goebbels)
1881: In
Baltimore, MD, “Samuel and Eliza (Millhauser) Ullman gave birth to College of
Physicians and Surgeons trained Dr. Alfred Ullman, he husband of Bertha Katz,
the attending surgeon at Sinai Hospital and a member of the Baltimore Hebrew
Congregation.
1881: “The
Jews in Germany” published today, described “the extent and progress of the new
anti-
Semitic movement” and the motives of the men behind it. They claim they are worried about “Jewish
tyranny” and “Jewish domination” as if the land led by Bismarck and possession
“the most powerful military machine” could be taken over by “a handful of ‘the
outcast people.’”
1882(19th
of Tishrei, 5643): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1882(19th
of Tishrei, 5643): French philanthropist Charles Netter passed away at Jaffa. Born at Strasburg in 1828, he” studied at Strasburg and
Belfort, and then engaged in business in Paris. He was one of the founders of
the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and for a long time his house was its only
home. The work with which his name is most closely connected is the foundation
of the agricultural school at Jaffa; and he devoted several years of his life
to promoting agriculture among the Jews of Palestine. It was Netter who, at the
end of 1876, submitted to the conference at Constantinople the memorandum in
favor of the Jews of the East, prepared by the meeting convened about that time
by the Alliance Israélite at Paris. In 1878 he went to Berlin, with some other
members of the central committee, to lay before the congress the memoir of the
Alliance in favor of the same Jews and to support their claims, which had been
formally recognized by the Treaty of Berlin. With two other members of the
committee he went to Madrid in 1880 to maintain before a European conference
the right of the Jews of Morocco to protection.In 1881, when the disturbances
in Russia drove thousands of unfortunate Jews from Brody and the Alliance was
desirous of sending them assistance, Netter volunteered to discharge the
difficult mission. He was the first to arrive there, and lived for weeks among
the unhappy refugees, arranging a plan of emigration to America. On his return
to Paris he was appointed secretary of the special committee established in
that city for the Russian work. From morning till night his house was besieged
by the Russian refugees, who found in him an untiring protector. When death
overtook him he was visiting the agricultural school at Jaffa. A monument has
been erected over his grave by the Alliance Israélite Universelle (As reported
by Isidor Singer and Jaques Kahn
1883(1st
of Tishrei, 5644): Rosh Hashanah
1883: In
New York “the synagogues…were crowded during the day and evening and in many
cases services were held in improvised houses of worship for the overflow from
the congregations.”
1883: Rosh
Hashanah “was observed by nearly all” of the Jewish “members of the New York
Stock Exchange” and the market performed with “depressing dullness” due to
their absence.
1883: In
Lithuania, Miriam Harris and Samuel A. Ettleson gave birth to University of
Cincinnati graduate and HUAC ordained rabbi, Dr. Harry W. Ettelson, the holder
of Ph.D from your Yale and the husband of Nell R. Schwab who served as Chaplain
in the U.S. Navy in WW I and led congregations in Ft. Wayne, Hartford and
Philadelphia before assuming the leadership of Temple Israel in Memphis, TN.
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/harry-w-ettelson/
1883: Rabbi
Isaac Noot will deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon at B’Nai Israel in New York
City.
1883: Dr.
Kaufman Koehler will deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon, in German, at Temple
Beth-El in New York City.
1885(23rd
of Tishrei, 5646): Simchat Torah
1885: “In
Memory of Montefiore” published today included
the views or Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler who felt that it ‘was quite
unnecessary” to erect a memorial to the great philanthropist and that it would
be more appropriate to donate the money that would be used for such an effort to
Montefiore Home for Aged Hebrews in New York. Kohler believed that the works of
Moses Montefiore, like those of his biblical namesake, spoke for themselves and
were his true memorial. (Ask your
friends and your children who Sir Moses Montefiore was and see if Kohler was
right)
1886:
Having left her home in secret, Clara Prager, the eldest daughter of Jewish
businessman Julius Praeger sent a telegram to her family that she had married
Horace J. Young, whom she would later have arrested on charges of abandonment
after he allegedly deserted her when she became pregnant.
1886: In
Paris, Albert and Camille Lazard gave birth to Pauline Lazard who became
Pauline Hirschfeld when she married Raymond Hirscfeld.
1887: The
“New Books” column published today contains a detailed review of Job and
Solomon: The Wisdom of the Old Testament by T. K. Cheyne who has already
produced the two volume work The Prophecies of Isaiah and is working on
volumes covering the Song of Songs, the Lamentations of Jeremiah and the Psalms
of David. (Cheyne was an English Protestant minister who became a Bahia)
1888: In
Washington, D.C. Judith Bensinger and Jacob Kronheim gave birth to Milton Stanley
Kronheim, the husband of Meryl B. Goldsmith who moved to New York City in 1937.
1890: In
New York City, the former Miene “Minnie” Schoenberg and Simon “Sam” Marx gave
birth to Julius Marx, who gained fame as comedian Groucho Marx, the most famous
of the Marx Brothers, who enjoyed success in vaudeville, movies, radio and
television. For millions of baby
boomers, their first encounter with the famous Marx leer, cigar and wit
including rapid fire double entendre came from watching his television show, “You
Bet Your Life.”
https://www.biography.com/people/groucho-marx-594094
1890: “A
Sanitarium Burned’ published today described the financial impact of the fire
at Hebrew Sanitarium where there is $5,000 in insurance to cover the losses
valued at $11,000.
1891(29th
of Elul, 5651): Erev Rosh Hashanah
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40E1EF73E5E10738DDDAB0894D8415B8185F0D3
1891(29th
of Elul, 5651): Charles Bruckner the first husband of Jennie Wallenstein passed
away today following which he was buried in Beth El Cemetery in Ridgewood,
Queen County, NY.
1891:
“Seligman Honored” published provided a list of those responsible for the
banquet given last night in honor of Jesse Seligman which included a veritable
“who’s who of New York Jewry” among whom were Jacob H. Schiff, Lewis May,
Emanuel Lehman, Myer L Isaacs, Oscar S. Straus, Hyman Blum, Henry Rice, Charles
L. Bernheim and James. H. Hoffman.
1891: After
taking a child staying at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum suffering from diphtheria to
the Willard Parker Hospital yesterday, Dr. Cyrus Edson “that there need be no
apprehension for the other inmates.”
1892: Sixty
nine year old French scholar, author and expert on ancient Middle East
languages, Joseph Ernest Renan, passed away today. Nine years before his death
he began work on the five volume work History of Israel the first volume
of which published in 1887 and the final volume of which was published after
his death.In “his 1883 essay ‘Le Judaïsme comme race et religion’
he disputed the concept that Jewish people constitute a unified racial entity
in a biological sense, which made his views unpalatable within racialized
Antisemitism. Renan was also known for being a strong critic of German ethnic
nationalism, with its anti-Semitic undertones.”
1892: Sixty-nine year old French historian and philologist Joseph Ernest
Renan who is credited as being among the
first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews
were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion
and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanat” passed
away today.
1892: The fire in New Jersey that threatens the agricultural colony
established by the Jewish immigrants near May’s Landing continues to burn for a
second day.
1893: “Hard Words for Samuel Gompers, et al” published today quoted Abraham
Cahan criticizing “many of the present leaders of the working men” such as
“Samuel Gompers, Joseph Barondess and Henry Weismann” as simple “intriguers”
who “purposely keep the workingmen in ignorance of what is good for them.” (Editor’s Note – this is a case of Jew versus
Jews)
1893: Birthdate of Savannah, GA native Harvard trained attorney William
Berman who rose to the rank of Captain during WW I and served as “commander in
chief of the Jewish War Veterans.
1894(2nd of Tishrei, 5655): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1894: Birthdate of American cartoonist Alva “Al” Posen best known his comic
strip Sweeny and Son.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/posen_al.htm
1894: On the same day that Connecticut is holding “town elections”
“politicians of both parties are looking at a circular claiming that when David
Callahan, a candidate for State Senator from the New Haven District, was
serving as Judge of the Police Courts he dismissed a case brought by an
Israelite against an Irishman because “the Judge was influenced by race
prejudices” or as the pamphlet said, “It is therefore to be understood that a
descendant of the House of Israel can be persecuted with impunity, unless the
poor Jew can explain to the satisfaction of an Irish Catholic Judge the reason
why an Irish Catholic hoodlum, backed by his crowd, should assault a poor
inoffensive Israelite.”
1894: “In the Real Estate Field” published today attributed yesterday’s
lack of sales at auction and general lack of real estate transactions in New
York to the fact that it “was a Hebrew holiday.” (Rosh Hashanah)
1898: An informal meeting of the members of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the
City of New York which is preparing to dedicate a new home at 161st
Street and Eagle Avenue is scheduled to take place today.
1896: “Accused of Stealing a Horse” published today provided a description
of charges that Samuel Burnstein, a Jewish dry goods peddler has brought the
sons of Cortland D. Morse and Robert C. Livingston for stealing and abusing his
horse.
1897(6th of Tishrei, 5658): Parsahat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva
1897(6th of Tishrei, 5658): In Richmond, VA, Lewis Gitner, who
will included bequests to Jewish and Christian institutions passed away today.
1898(16th of Tishrei, 5659): Second Day of Sukkoth
1898: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan
conducted the services today during which Leon M. Nelson was installed as the
rabbi at Temple Israel in Brooklyn, NY.
1898: The public got its first look at “the new home of the Hebrew
Infant Asylum of the City of New York” which is located at the old De Graff
mansion at 161st Street and Eagle Avenue.
1898: In Detroit, Michigan, “a large gathering of citizens who are
friends of Rabbi Louis Grossman was held this afternoon to testify to the high
character and progressive citizenship of the rabbi who has been called by
Congregation B’nai Yeshurun in Cincinnati where he will be associated with
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise.”
1898: In Chicago, Illinois, during the Spanish-American War,
members of Anshe Knesset Israel gathered to pray for victory for the forces
under the command of Admiral Dewey.
1900(9th of Tishrei, 5661): Erev Yom Kippur
1900(9th of Tishrei, 5661): Forty-seven year old German
sculptor Hugo Rheinhold creator of Ape With Skull passed away today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Rheinhold#mediaviewer/File:Affe_mit_Sch%C3%A4del.jpg
1900: Birthdate of Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns “a Mexican
researcher, physician and physiologist, who is known as one of the pioneers of
cybernetics.”
1900: Birthdate of Nicolai Poliakoff, the native of Dvinsk who
gained fame as Coco the Clown.
http://www.circopedia.org/Coco
1901: Fifteen-year old Maurice Gusman, the Russian born son of
Jacob and Brucha (Cantor) Gusman today arrived in the United States where he
rose from working in pocketbook factory to becoming President of Gusman
Investment Company in Cleveland OH where he married Hanna C. Epstein.
1902(1st of Tishrei, 5663): Rosh Hashanah
1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter the
children’s author and “social reformer” who “was also passionate about
expressing the dangers of incorporating Jews in British society” as can be seen
from her statement that “the strongest impelling motive of the Jewish race is
love of profit from any other form of money earning” was published today. (As
reported by Ilana K. Levinksky)
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-you-find-out-that-your-favorite-writer-was-an-anti-semite/
1903(11th of Tishrei, 5664): Just four days before his
65th birthday German art historian Friedrich Lippmann, the director
of the Berlin State Museum passed away today.
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/friedrich-lippmann/g12ckhjv0g?hl=en
1903: Dorothy Levitt won her class (cars costing between £400 and
£550) at the Southport Speed Trials driving S.F.Edge's 12 (or 16) hp Gladiator.
1904(23rd
of Tishrei, 5665): Simchat Torah
1905(3rd
of Tishrei, 5666): Tzom Gedaliah
1905: Rabbi
Silverman of Tempe Emanu-El took exception to Bishop Potter’s staeemetn that
the Hebrews are a “arace who do not hold to Sunday” saying that “there are about 1,500,000
Hebrews in this country and 99 per cent of them do no work on Sunday” and
“there are eighteen Jewish congreations in the United States that hold
supplementary services on Sunday.
1906(13th
of Tishrei, 5667): After having led the court of Sadigur for 24 years, Reb
Yisrael, the youngest son of Reb Yitzchak, passed away.
1906:
Thirty-one year old Georgetown University and George Washington University
trained attorney, Julius I. Peyser, the Washington, DC born son of Phillip and
Natalie (Rosenberg) Peyser who was a member of both Adas Israel and Washington
Hebrew Congregation married Miriam I. Prince today in Washington, D.C.
1906:
Birthdate of David Jacob Cohen, the Brooklyn native and University of Michigan
trained lawyer.
1907: It
was reported today, the day after Simchat Torah, that James S. Metcalfe, the
dramatic critic of Life who had been barred by the managers of New York
theatres from their established “on accounted his “cartoons and remarks about
Jews printed in Life” “won his fight against the theatrical managers when the
Court of Appeals “hand down a decision that Charles S. Burnham, the manager of
Wallack’s Theatre had been properly arrested and confined in city prison on a
charge of conspiracy brought by Mr. Metcalfe.”
1908 (7th
of Tishrei, 5669): In Houston Texas Adath Yshurun Friday night services began
at 7 p.m. with a sermon entitled “Ourselves.”
1909: The
University of Tennessee coached by George Leven, tied Centre in a home football
game in Knoxville, TN.
1910: In
New York, Maurice Wertheim and his first wife Alma Morgenthau gave birth to
Josephine Wetheim
1910(28th
of Elul, 5670): Max Hamburger the long-time owner and editor of the Mobile
Herald and a an Alabama State Senator “
was found dead in a room at the Cawthon Hotel about 2 o’clock this afternoon”
having, according to the county corner, died several hours earlier from
“apoplexy brought on by exposure.”
1911(10th
of Tishrei, 5672): Yom Kippur
1911: In
London, the East End Guardians passed a resolution saying that “no child of the
Christian faith is to be sent to service with persons of the Jewish Religion.”
1912(21st
of Tishrei, 5673): Hoshana Raba
1912: The
Council of Jewish Women meeting today at the Selling-Hersh Building heard an
address today by its President, Mrs. Rose Selling who “pleaded for more
cooperative work by the members” followed by the reading of a paper by Mrs.
Isaac Swett which covered “the work done by the Jewish race in this past year.”
1912: Jacob
Feuerwerker and Regina Neufeld gave birth to David Feuerwerker, the Swiss born
Canadian Rabbi and Historian. He was the
husband of Antoinette Feuerwerker, a French jurist and member of the resistance
during World War II.
1913(1st
of Tishrei, 5674): Final observance of Rosh Hashanah before the madness of
World War I and all the evil that has followed in its wake over the last one
hundred years.
1913:
Birthdate of Chaim Yosef Zadok, the native of Galicia who made Aliyah in
1935. He pursued a career in government
and jurisprudence that included service in the Knesset and government
ministries including Religious Affairs and Justice.
1913: In
New Haven, CT, the first annual convention of the Jewish Socialist Federation
of America whose five thousand members included Jacob B. Salutsky came to an
end today.
1913(1st
of Tishrei, 5674): Elias Jankel Hellerman passed away today after which he was
buried in the Liepaja Jewish Cemetery.
1914:
Birthdate of Pennsylvania native Selma Kaizen Cogen the wife of Rabbi Marcus M.
Cogan whom she married in 1936.
1914: “Refugees
Crowd Vienna” published today described the flow of Jewish fugitives from
Galicia which is overwhelming the resources of the Austrian capital and has
been diverted to “various places in Moravia, Upper Austria and Salzburg.”
1914:
Sixty-two year old Rabbi Daniel Lowenthal a native of Horfstenin who came to
the United States in 1874 where he served as the Rabbi for B’nai Salem and then
Etz Chaim passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E7D71638E633A25750C0A9669D946596D6CF
1915:
“Louis Biel, who was Vice President of the United Cigar Stores Company, left
personal property amounting to at least $800,000 and real estate worth at least
$20,000 according to the statement of his widow, Mrs. Rose B. Biel, in her
application for letters of administration on the estate filed’ today.
1916: The
American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Relief Committee and the People’s
Relief Committee have raised a total of six million dollars as of today.
1916: in
St. Louis, neurosurgeon Ernest Sachs and “playwright and poet Mary Sachs” gave
birth to Harvard trained neurosurgeon Ernest Sachs, Jr. the Bronze Star winning
WW II veteran who landed at Normandy, survived the Battle of the Bulge and
helped liberate Buchenwald and who “started his career as an Assistant
Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Tulane Unviersity.
1917(16th
of Tishrei, 5678): Second Day of Sukkoth
1917: Just
twelve days before his 21st birthday, William Shemin, who would win
the Medal of Honor, enlisted in the U.S. Army.
1917: British Intelligence learned of a meeting in Berlin at
which plans were made by the Germans and Turks to offer the Jews of Europe a
German-sponsored Jewish National Home in Palestine. (This stimulated the British to finalize what
became known as the Balfour Declaration.)
1919:
During WW I, “the ‘Lost Battalion’ made up of men from the 308th and
307th regiments including Abraham Krotoshinsky the recipient of a
Distinguished Cross “was surrounded and cut off by the Germans” today.
1918: The
165th Regiment, including the recently promoted Sergeant Abraham
Blaustein traveled by camion (truck) head for Mondrecourt.
1918: General Allenby leaves his headquarters at Tiberias and
drives to Damascus to install the Emir Feisal as head of the local
government. Only later would the Arab
leader learn that Syria was to be under French control and that his dreams of
ruling the Arabs from this ancient city were merely that – dreams. It was the mischief making by the British and
French that destabilized the entire region, not the promise of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine.
1919: US
President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially
paralyzed. Wilson suffered the stroke during a cross country speaking tour that
was intended generate support for the ratification of the Versailles Treaty
which included the creation of the League of Nations. With Wilson out of the picture, the forces
favoring ratification lost their champion.
The United States rejected the treaty and chose note to join the League. There is a large body of opinion that the
America’s failure to join the League doomed the organization even before it had
its first meeting and this was one of the causes of World War II, the greatest
catastrophe in Jewish history since the destruction of the Second Temple.
1920(20th
of Tishrei, 5681): Shabbat and Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1920: Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Johl are scheduled to host a reception “to celebrate the
engagement of their daughter Sadie Johl to Mr. F.S. Stern.
1921(29th
of Elul, 5681): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1921: The
newest Jewish house of worship in Camden, NJ, Beth-El Synagogue, “was formally
opened” tonight with services marking the start of Rosh Hashanah led by Rabbi
Solomon Grayzel.
1921: Rabbi
Joseph Krauskopf, first head of “the National Farm School” said “Our nation was
conceived in simplicity and frugality, and nurtured in godliness and
righteousness, and by those alone can it be preserved."
1922(10th
of Tishrei, 5683): Yom Kippur
1922: It
was reported today that Samuel S. Koenig, Chairman of the New York County
Republican Committee opposed an attempt by some of his fellow party members to
propose a slate of Republican nominees to serve as Justices on the State
Supreme Court. He claimed that it was party policy to endorse justices who had
served well in the position regardless of their party affiliation. Koenig’s view carried the day. Koenig was a Hungarian-born Jew who rose to a
position of power in the New York State Republican Party.
1922(10th
of Tishrei, 5683): Fifty eight year old Fanny Printz, the Austrian born
daughter of Abraham and Rosa Printz passed away today after which she was
buried in the Rodef Sholom section of the Tod Homestead Cemetery in Youngstown,
OH.
1922: It
was reported today that Justice Irving Lehman, a Democrat, who has successfully
served one full term on the bench is one of three judicial candidates endorsed
by the Republican Party. The Republicans
base their endorsement for these positions on merit rather than party
affiliation.
1923(22nd
of Tishrei, 5684):Shmini Atzeret
1923(22nd
of Tishrei, 5684):
This morning, while he was on his way to his beloved
"bondage," as he used to call his work, Abraham Solomon Freidus
collapsed and died almost immediately at the foot of the Library stairs. He was
the “custodian of the Jewish Room at the New York Public Library.”
1923: It was
reported today the assessed value of real estate and person property of New
York City for 1924 total $12,116,155,725, an increase of $1,153,669,747 over
the assessment of 1923 according to figures made public by Henry M. Goldfogle,
President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6749-goldfogle-henry-mayer
1924:
“Every trade campaign interested in real estate operations in the metropolitan
district was represented at a luncheon meeting of the Real Estate Club of the
Business Men’s Council” today “at the Pennsylvania Hotel as its official
entrance into the $1,250,00 campaign which the Federation for the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies will inaugurate on October 26
1924: Felix
M. Warburg, the associate chairman of the Business Men’s Council to the “real
estate men, builders and architects that a careful survey had been made of all
industries in New York in which Jews were active, with a view to a fair
apportionment of the amounts each would be expected to raise” in the upcoming
campaign to raise $1,250,000 for the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies.
1925(14th
of Tishrei, 5686): Erev Sukkoth
1925:
Infielder Buddy Myer who would see action in the World Series, appeared in his
fourth and final regular season game for the Washington Senators/
1925(14th
of Tishrei, 5686): Nine-three Berhnhardine Wetzlar Warburg, the widow of Jonas
R. Warburg, passed away today.
1926: In
New York today, “Joseph M. Levy, manager for Clark’s Tours in Palestine and
Syria” who has just arrived from Jerusalem, reported that there was “keen
interest” revolving around the first municipal to be held “under the British
mandate.” According to his figures
Jerusalem had a population of 60,000, 37,000 of whom were Jewish. He also described progress being made on
railroad being built between Jaffa and Haifa, with a junction at Tel Aviv that
will connect the line with Jerusalem.
1927: The
New York Times describes the vibrant music scene among the Jewish community
in Palestine which includes jazz bands playing at a dance hall near Jerusalem’s
Jaffa Gate and a group of musicians in Tel Aviv who have established a company
that performs grand opera in which is described as “a most acceptable manner.”
1928(18th
of Tishrei, 5689): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1928: Field
Marshal Lord Allenby “the hero of the Palestine campaign” during World War I
and Lady Allenby are expected to arrive in the United States today “for a tour
of the country which will include a visit the annual convention of the American
Legion at San Antonio, TX.
1928:
Hungarian photographer Rogi Andre began a “short-lived marriage” with
photographer Andor Kertesz, the Budapest born son of book sell Lipot Kertesz
and Enesztin Hoffman.
1929(27th
of Elul, 5689): Seventy-three-year-old Lancaster, PA native and “clothing
merchant” Abraham Erlanger, the president of the Society for the Welfare of the
Jewish Deaf passed away today in New York City. (Not to be confused with the
theatrical producer with a similar name)
1930(10thof
Tishrei, 5691): Yom Kippur
1930: At
the community house of Temple Emanu-El “Rabbi A. Felix Nash preached a sermon
in sign language before the Congregation of the Death.”
1930: At
the Institutional Synagogue Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein delivered a sermon in
which he “declared” that “loyalty to Judaism” was “the chief concern of those
dealing with the Jewish problem in America.”
1931(21st
of Tishrei, 5682): Hoshana Rabba
1931:
Birthdate of Barbara K. Adasm, the wife of Dr. Jerome J. Abrahams, the member
of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation who was also a member of Hadassah and
the National Council of Jewish Women.
1932(2nd
of Tishrei, 5693): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1932:
Universal Studios releases the screen version of the Moss Hart and George S.
Kaufman play, “Once in a Lifetime.”
1933(12th
of Tishrei, 5694): Thirty six year old Ray Block who is interred at Ahavas
Shalom Congregation Cemetery, passed away today.
1933: “Sweeny
and Son” a comic strip created by Al Posen made its debut on the “Sunday page”
today.
1934(23rd
of Tishrei, 5695): Simchat Torah
1934: Pianist
Rose Spiegel and Manuel Fredkin, who “ran a chain of radio stores that failed
during the Great Depression” gave birth MIT and Carnegie Mellon educated computer scientist, physicist and businessman”
Edward Fredkin, the creator of “Fredkin’s
paradox which posits “that when one is deciding between two options, the more
similar they are the more time one spends fretting about the decision, even
though the difference in choosing one or the other may be insignificant” and “conversely,
when the difference is more substantial or meaningful, one is likely to spend
less time deciding.”
https://gizmodo.com/fredkins-paradox-explains-why-you-waste-time-on-meaning-1629941418
1934: In
Philadelphia, “salesman Edward Isaac Zall” and “bookkeeper Esther (Perlestein) Zall
gave birth to Deborah Miriam Zall the ‘dancer and choreographer who studied
with Martha Graham.” (As reported by Marina Harss)
1935: Mrs.
Richard Percy Limburg, is the chairman of the women’s division of the United
Jewish Appeal which is backing an emergency relief drive for Jews in Germany by
presenting “Night of Stars” at Madison Square Garden tonight.
1935:
Today, Hyman Barnett “Harry” Mizzzler, the East End born Jewish boxer “fought one of his most exciting bouts, a dramatic come from
behind knock out in the eight round against Gustave Hummery of France.”
1936: It
was announced today that Leo Perper who has been with R.H. Macy & Co. for
the last 25 years has been named to become the new president of the Roger Kent
Stores.
1936: In
Los Angeles, “Louis Siegel, a banker and the former Mildred Kaufman” gave birth
to Stanley Milton Siegel the host of the live talk-show “The Stanley Siegel
Show” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1937(27th
of Tishrei, 5698): Parashat Bereshit
1937: “Justice
Black's "pious words may serve as atonement for him and some explanation
to those who have been questioning his fitness to sit on the Supreme bench of
the land," Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of Temple Israel said today in a
sermon calling attention to ‘the rebirth and rapid growth’ of the Klu Klux
Klan.”
1938:
Pitcher Sam Nahem made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1938:
Publisher Oscar “Dystel married Marion Deitler with whom he had two children
John and Jane.
1938(7th of
Tishrei, 5699): “Twenty one Jews including three women and ten children,
ranging in age from 1 to 12 years were killed and three others were wounded”
tonight “on the shores of Lake Galilee in the old Jewish quarter of Tiberias in
a massacre by stabbing shooting and burning perpetrated by Arabs.” The Arab violence was described as the worst
since 1929 when “Arabs fell on Jewish men, most of whom were rabbinical
students as well woman and children in the ancient towns of Hebron and
Safed.” Among those killed by the Arab
attackers were Jacob Zaltz, the beadle of the central synagogue; Menachem
Kabin, “an elderly American Jew” who had recently moved to Palestine and his
sister who was stabbed and then burned to death; Joshua Ben Ariah, his wife and
two sons, one of whom was an infant; the three children of Shlomo Leimer, “aged
8,10 and 12” who “were stabbed and burned to death; Shimon Mizrahi, his wife
and five children ranging in ages from 1 to 12 years; Jacob Gross and two as yet to be identified Jewish
constables.
1939: “New
Yiddish Comedy” published today contained a review of “Chever Nachman,” I.J.
Singer’s dramatization of his own novel East of Eden directed by Jacob Ben-Ami
playing at the National Theatre on Houston Street as well as “In a Jewish
Grocery” by Nuchim Stutchkoff playing at the Second Avenue Theatre.
1939: The
text of a telegram which Edward Bernays sent to the secretary of the Executive
Committee of the World’s Fair explaining his reasons for withdrawing as the
non-salaried counsel on public relations for the fair was published today.
1939: “Dr.
Bernhard Weiss formerly vice president of the Berlin police” and who fled when
Chancellor Hitler came to power because he was Jew “deprived of his nationality
and property by the Nazis” and who has been earning his living by running a
small printing business in London “has been interned by a Special Branch of Scotland
Yard because he is classified as “German national.”
1939: It
was reported today that a recently published editorial in the “atheist organ, Bezbozhnik” that in Poland “rabbis
(were) acting as police agents.”
1939: The
funeral procession for Frank Margolis, the husband of the President of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the East Side Hebrew Institute is scheduled to pass by that
institution at 10:30 this morning.
1939:
Congressman John Dingell of Michigan addressed the first meeting of the
American Jewish Congress since the outbreak of WW II which was being held at
the Edison Hotel in New York. The 1,561
delegates representing 420 different organizations heard his denunciation of
the Nazis followed by an impassioned speech from Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president
of the American Jewish Congress.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=980DE4DB173EE23ABC4B53DFB6678382629EDE
1939: WEVD
broadcast “Jewish Melodies at 2pm today.
1939:
Cardinal George William Mundelein, the Archbishop of Chicago, who was an early
critic of the Nazis, passed away.
1939:
“Effective today, Jewish men in Slovakia are conscripted for labor service.”
1939:
Academy award winning composer Bernard Herrmann, the son of Russian Jewish
immigrants married Lucille Fletcher today.
1940(29th
Elul, 5700): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1940: In
New York, “the kosher kill was very light today” because “the Jewish new year
holidays begin at sundown” today.
1940: In
New York, the supplies of “kosher steer chucks and places” “were very light
with only two large packers slaughtering” beef.
1940:
Comedian Eddie Cantor and singer Dinah Shore are scheduled to perform on WEAF
from 9 until 9:30 this evening.
1940: The
Benny Goodman Orchestra is scheduled to perform on WABC between nine and ten this
evening.
1940:
“Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, urged the
Jews of America to give greater support to the ‘embattled Palestine Jewry.’”
1940: Dr.
Israel Weinstein is scheduled to deliver a talk on WYNC.
1940: In his
New Year’s message, “William Weiss, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America called for continued optimism and faith in the midst
of a world crisis and for prayers for the preservation of American democracy.”
1940: In
His New Year’s message, “Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National
Fund termed the Jewish national home in Palestine an outpost of democracy and
stressed the importance of its wartime program.”
1940:
“Edwin F. Jaeckle, chairman of the Republican State Committee” in New York,
“said in a holiday greeting that “The period represents merely another tragic
interlude in the onward march of a people whose will to live and prosper has
never been successfully halted by passing tyrants or dictators since the dawn
of civilization.
1940: With
the presidential election just weeks away, “in a New Year’s Message to Paul
Felix Warburg, vice president of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver,”
“Wendell Wilkie joined with President Roosevelt in praising the hospital as ‘an
effective symbol of the truly American ideals.’”
1940:
“Abraham Herman, president of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society
announced appeals would be made in Synagogues throughout the country for the
society’s “Rescue Through Emigration Campaign” which has a goal of raising one
million dollars.
1940: This
evening WMCA is scheduled to broadcast Rosh Hashanah Services from Mt. Neboh
Temple led by Rabbi Samuel Segal.
1940: “The
New York and Brooklyn Federations of Jewish Charities prepared for special
services this evening in each of its 116 welfare agencies including two series
for the deaf.”
1940:
“Junior Hadassah, the Young Women’s Zionist Organization of America voted”
today “to contribute $5,500 for the care of underprivileged children in Palestine
and cabled the first installment of $1,500 as a Rosh Hashanah offering.”
1940: At
Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson delivered a sermon on what
constitutes a spiritual blessing” saying that “we are living at a time when
groups of men under powerful leadership are trying to achieve the blessings of
life without regard for the sorrows that their ambitions and their achievements
are bringing to masses of men all over the world.”
1940:
“Congregation Habonim, made up of 400 refugees from Germany affiliated with
Central Synagogue will observe its first anniversary at Town Hall.”
1940: At
the Free Synagogue meeting at Carnegie Hall, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise delivered a
sermon in which he said “Not once to every man and nation but a thousand times
has come the choice to Israel between self-destructive disloyalty and
self-maintaining loyalty, despite everything and everything. The glory of
England in this hour, unbroken and even unstooping, has been the glory of the
Jewish people for not less than a thousand years.”
1940: At
Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman told worshippers “The New Year
despite its vast tribulations, should bring fresh courage and fresh hope not
only to the household of Israel but to all mankind.”
1940: At
Mount Zion Congregation, Rabbi B.A. Tintner addressed that issue of first time
peace military draft in U.S. history saying that “Fathers and mothers in
America should now be assured that the conscription policy will build up a
mechanism of defense that will not plunge into war but hopefully keep war from
our midst.”
1940: At
the West Side Institutional Synagogue Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said: “Let us
pray that the New Year will bring new hope, new vision and a new and true
interpretation of the universal Fatherhood of God and of the common brotherhood
of man.
1940: At
Temple Israel, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum took note of “Nazi threat to
liberalism and tolerane” saying “Men are not yet awake to the real danger of
losing with a decade what it took a century to gain.
1940: “The
Republican National Committee made public today a message from Wendell L.
Willkie addressed to Jewish citizens on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, the
Jewish New Year” in which he knew that “on this day in every land the Jewish
people are gathering in their synagogues praying for peace and for the ultimate
victory of right and justice” and asked “for the privilege of joining in your
prayers and of pledging to you today that in so far as it is with my capacity
to keep so sacred a pledge the United States will never harbor racial or
religious intolerance and persecution.
1940: In
compliance with War Department circular No. 5 all soldiers of the Jewish faith
will be granted furloughs” starting at noon today until revile on October 5
(which ironically is Shabbat) “so they may observe the Jewish New Year.
1941:”One
Foot in Heaven” a nominee for the Best Picture Oscar produced and directed by
Irving Rapper and with music by Max Steiner was released in the United States
today.
1941: SS Chief Helmut Knochen ordered the systematic destruction
of synagogues in Paris (As reported by Aish.com)
1941: Six
Parisian synagogues were bombed. At this
time, Paris was occupied by the Nazis. As we have seen in our own time, bombing
synagogues takes place in Paris regardless of who is in power.
1941(11th
of Tishrei, 5702): In Zhager, a small town on the Lithuanian-Latvian border,
over 3000 Jewish men, women and children were massacred by members of the
Lithuanian militia. They lie in a mass grave in Naryshkin Park, the heart of
the shetl.
1941(11th
of Tishrei, 5702): A Nazi raid on the Jewish ghetto at Vilna, Lithuania, leaves
3000 dead at nearby Ponary. One victim, Serna Morgenstern, is shot in the back
by an SS officer after he complimented her beauty and told her she was free to
go.
1942(21st of Tishrei, 5703): Hoshana Rabah
1942(21st of Tishrei, 5703): At the Treblinka death camp,
Jews from Zelechów, Poland, are murdered.
1942: In
Moorestown, NJ, Edwin Milton "Ed" Sabol and his wife gave birth to
Stephen Douglas "Steve" Sabol who, along with his father, was one of
the founders of “NFL Films” which changed the way football fans experience the
professional game.
1943: In Holland, the families of Jewish men drafted for forced
labor are sent to the concentration camp in Westerbork, Holland.
1943: Eight
year old Steen Metz and his parents were arrested today in Odense, Denmark and
shipped to Theresienstadt.
http://www.steenmetzneverforget.com/my-story.html
1943: The first Jewish paratroopers from Palestine landed in the
Balkans. Many of them had been chosen because they were born in the region and
spoke the languages of the land like natives. These Jews agreed to help
organize non-Jewish underground units on behalf of the British war effort. The
British agreed to let them aid other Jews once they had completed their primary
mission. The British also made it clear that they would not offer support for
this secondary party of the mission.
1943(3rd of
Tishrei, 5704): Shabbat Shuvah; given the events that took place on this date
in Denmark –see item below – the day lives up to its name of The Sabbath of
Return.
1943: The Danish people rescue about 7000 Jews, only 500 of whom
are captured by the Germans. The 500 seized by the Germans are sent to the
Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto; all but 77 will survive the war.
The Danish government will persistently check on the health and welfare of the
Jews who were sent to Theresienstadt, enabling almost all of them to survive to
war's end.
1943: “The Swedish government announced in an official statement
that Sweden was prepared to accept all Danish Jews in Sweden.”
1943: “Some
arrested Danish communists witnessed the deportation of about 200 Jews from
Langelinie via the ship Wartheland. Of these, a young married couple were able
to convince the Germans that they were not Jewish, and set free. The remainder
included mothers with infants, the sick and elderly, chief rabbi Max Friediger,
and the other Jewish hostages mentioned above, who had been placed in the
Danish internment camp, Horserød, on August 28–29. They were driven below deck
without their luggage while being screamed at, kicked and beaten. The Germans
then took anything of value from the luggage.
1944 (15th
of Tishrei, 5705): Sukkoth
1944: On the first day of Sukkoth Jews in Palestine
attempt to celebrate the Chag while dealing with a British curfew.
1944:
Today, “Monuments Man” Major
Ronald Edmond Balfour, the lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge who had been
serving with the British Army since 1940 and who had reduced to hitch-hiking
for the past five weeks in his quest to save such pieces of art as
Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna, got a truck which served him until the middle of
the month when “it died” due to repeated mechanical problems.
1944: The
original Broadway production of “Angel Street,” directed by Shepard Traube,
transferred from the John Golden Theatre to the Bijou Theatre.
1945:
“Several thousand troops of the British Sixth Airborne Division disembarked at
Haifa” today. For all intents and
purposes, this elite military unit had been sent to Palestine to put an end to
“illegal Jewish immigration.”
1946:
Seventy-eight year old Ignacy Mościcki who in 1935 as President of Poland and despite
the growing anti-Semitism in the country appointed Biblical scholar, historian
and Jewish community leader Moses Schorr to serve in the Senate passed away
today.
1946:
“Hundreds of heavily armed British soldiers and police raided as fashionable
Tel Aviv café today and seized fifty Jews, thirty of whom were immediately sent
to the Rafa detention camp on the Egyptian frontier.” The raid at the Ginati
Café was aimed at capture leaders of the Irgun.
1947: The
Geula, which had been a U.S Coast Guard Cutter and had taken on “passengers at
Burgas Bulgaria arrived in Haifa today after having been intercepted by the
British Blockade and her 2,644 ‘illegals” were shipped to the camps at Cyprus.
1947: The
“Jewish State which had been U.S. Coast Guard Cutter arrived in Haifa today
after being intercepted by the British Royal Navy and it 2,644 passengers were
then shipped off to Cyprus.
1947:
Cleveland Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and a leading spokesman for the Zionist
cause appeared before the United Nations during hearings on the proposed
partition of Palestine. Silver spoke in
a favor the partition, which was the two state solution that was rejected by
the Arabs.
1947:
Birthdate of Sergio Kerbis
1948: In
Queens, Gabby Faske, “a tailor and haberdasher” and his wife Helen, nicknamed
“Quennie: who had been a designer and model, gave birth to Donna Ivy Faske, the
graduate of the Parsons School Design known to one and all as American fashion
designer, Donna Karan.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/karan-donna
1948:
Birthdate of Jack Leon Terpins, a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, who
serves as President of the Latin American Jewish Congress.
1949(9th of Tishrei, 5710): Erev Yom Kippur
1949: In Waterbury, CT,
Marilyn Edith, née Heit and Air Force Lt. Col. Samuel Leibovitz gave birth to
Anna-Lou Leibovitz, who gained famed as photographer Annie Leibovitz. Leibovitz was chief photographer for Rolling Stones
Magazines for ten years. She later moved
on to Vanity Fair Magazine. She was named Photographer of the Year in
1984 by the American Society of Magazine Photographers.
1950(21st of Tishrei, 5711): Hoshana Raba is observed for the
first time during the Korean War.
1950(21st of Tishrei, 5711): Moses Feinberg, the husband of
Elizabeth Rosenthal Feinberg, passed away today after which he was buried in
the Montefiore Cemetery in “Springfield Gardens, NY.”
1951: Birthdate of Ashkelon native and Shas Party leader Rabbi Yitzhak
Cohen.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel had purchased 27 Mustang fighters from the Swedish Air
Force. The propeller driven fighters, known as the P-51 during WW II, were
obsolete in a world of Jet Age aircraft.
But for the fledgling Israeli Air Force, they would have to do as they
confronted their better armed and equipped Arab neighbors.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
overwhelming majority of the 34,000 immigrants who arrived in Israel from
October 1951 to the end of September 1952 were members of Oriental communities.
There were 9,800 immigrants from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, 3,800 from
Libya, 1,350 from Egypt, 5,800 from Iran, 1,000 from Iraq, 650 from Turkey,
6,800 from Romania, 650 from Bulgaria, 160 from Poland, 170 from the US and the
rest from other countries. This rapidly growing Sephardic population would
eventually change the demographics of the new state. The early settlers had been primarily of
Russian, Polish and later German origins.
In other words the Ashkenazim, or those whose roots were found among the
Ashkenazim, dominated the Yishuv and the state of Israel in its early
decades. Many Sephardim felt that they
were treated like second-class citizens.
Interestingly enough, it would be Likud under the leadership of Menachem
Begin that would give voice to these feelings.
And it would the votes of these Oriental Jews that would bring Begin to
power in 1977.
1953(23rd
of Tishrei, 5714): Simchat Torah is observed for the first after the guns have
gone silent in Korea.
1954:
Birthdate of Eran Riklis, the veteran of the Yom Kippur War and husband of Dina
Riklis who went on to make such films as Cup Final, The Syrian Bride, Lemon
Tree and Dancing Arabs.
1955: The
Brooklyn Dodgers took a three to two lead over the Yanks when they won the
fifth game of the World Series.
1955: Coach
Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Rams defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers today.
1957: “The
Bridge on the River Kwai” the WW II epic produced by Sam Spiegel with a
screenplay co-authored by Carl Foreman was released in the United Kingdom
today.
1957:
“Who’s Sorry Now?” a popular song with lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby
published in 1923 and which “was featured in the Marx Brothers film A Night in
Casablanca” was recorded today by pop star Connie Francis who is the only one
of those mentioned who is not Jewish.
1958(18th
of Tishrei, 5719): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1958(18th
of Tishrei, 5719: Sixty-four-year-old Nathan Shulman, the Manhattan born son of
Molka and Abraham Shulman passed away today in Houston, TX.
1958: CBS’s
Playhouse 90 broadcast the original production of “Days of Wine and Roses” a
chilling look at alcoholics starring Piper Laurie, born Rosetta Jacobs, the
daughter of eastern European Jewish immigrants.
1959(29th
of Elul, 5720): Erev Rosh Hashana
1959: The
anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television. The show was
created by Rod Serling who was raised as a Reform Jew. “At high school, where he edited the newspaper, Serling
experienced anti-Jewish discrimination when he was blackballed from the Theta
Sigma fraternity. In an interview in 1972 he said of this incident, "it
was the first time in my life that I became aware of religious
difference." Serling did not consider himself to be a practicing Jew and
he and his future wife Carol Kramer became Unitarians.
1961(22nd
of Tishrei, 5722): Shmini Arzeret
1961: In
London Clive Milton, “one of the Jewish children rescued by the Kindertansport
mission and brought to Britain in 1939” and Ruth Milton gave birth to Cambridge
educated Conservative politician Sir Simon Henry Milton, “London’s Deputy Mayor
for Policy and Planning.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8446352/Sir-Simon-Milton.html
1965:
Birthdate of David Nehaisi, the native of Holon who traces his lineage back to “Jews
expelled from Spain” in 1491 and who gained fame as singer, composer and
songwriter David D’Or
1965:
Eight-six year old Julius W. “Nicky” Arnstein who, thanks the musical “Funny
Girl” is best known as the husband of Fanny Brice, passed away today.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40029578
1966(18th
of Tishrei, 5727): Fourth Day of Sukkot
1967(27th
of Elul, 5727): Seventy-six year old dancer and choreographer Albertina Rasch
who was the wife of Dimitri Tiomkin passed away today.
http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2rasch.htm
1967: In
Minneapolis, Paula Goldberg, “co-founder and executive director of the Pacer
Center and Mel Goldberg the associate dean and professor at the William
Mitchell College of Law gave birth to David Bruce "Dave" Goldberg the
CEO of SurveyMonkey and the husband of Facebook executive of Facebook.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dave-goldberg-20150503-story.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/husband-of-facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-dies-suddenly/
1968(10th
of Tishrei, 5729): Yom Kippur
1968: Birthdate
of actor Joey Slotnick who has appeared on Broadway, the movies and television
including crime dramas “Blue Bloods” and “Law and Order SV,U
1968: U.S.
Premiere of “Coogan’s Bluff” directed and produced by Don Siegel, co-starring
Lee J. Cobb with music by Lalo Schifrin.
1969:
Robert Louis Rogers completed his service as Canada’s ambassador to Israel.
1969:
Eighty-five year old William F. Bleakly the Republican who lost to Governor
Lehman in 1936 and who “described David Dubinsky as a renegade Socialist who
sent money to the Reds in Spain” when in fact he was sending funds raised by
the International Ladies Garment Works to the Red Cross in Spain, passed away
today.
1971(13th
of Tishrei, 5732): Parashat Ha’azinu
1971:
“A
weekend revival program of Yiddish‐language feature films with English subtitles, produced here and
abroad will start today at the Anderson Theater, Second Avenue and Fourth
Street” with a screening of the 1939 version of Sholem Aleichem's “Tevye,”
directed by and starring Maurice Schwartz.
1973:
Birthdate of relief pitcher Scott Schoeweiss who played for the 2002 World
Champion Anaheim Angels.
1972 "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater New York
City for 8 performances
1973:
Senior military officials ignore the warnings of Lieutenant Binyamin Siman-Tov
that Egyptians are in fact preparing to launch a military action that will take
them across the Suez Canal.
1974: “The
Taking of Pelham One Two Three” produced by Edgar J. Scherick, co-starring
Walter Matthau and Martin Balsom with music by David Shire was released today
in the United States.
1974: “The
Gambler” a dramatic film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Irwin Winkler and
Robert Chartoff, written by James Toback, starring James Caan and with music by
Jerry Fielding was released in the United States today.
1974:
“Monument of Jewish sculptor Ernst Neizvestny was installed on the grave of
Nikita Khrushchev.”
1975; “Dr.
Mikhail Stern’s son Viktor arrived in London to launch a world-wide campaign
for the release of his father from a Soviet prison camp.”
1975: In
Moscow, Premier Kosygin told Sargent Shriver that “the very idea of creating a
Jewish state originated in Russia and that the USSR was prepared to guarantee
Israel’s integrity providing she withdraws to the 1967 border and conforms to
all UN resolutions. (Editor’s Note – In the second decade of the 21st
century we are still hearing about those “1967 borders” which in fact were
nothing more than armistice lines from 1949)
1977: Three
people were injured in Jerusalem when a bomb went off in a bus station.
1977: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the US and the Soviet Union, in a formal communiqué issued
simultaneously in Washington and Moscow, announced that any Arab-Israeli peace
settlement would have to ensure "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian
people." Israel sharply criticized this statement as likely to harden the
Arabs¹ stance and impede the peace-making progress. Jordan informed the US that
it would not agree to the incorporation of Palestinian negotiators within its
own Geneva Peace Conference delegation. Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who had
a heart attack shortly before his election, was again admitted to hospital,
suffering from exhaustion.
1978(1st
of Tishrei, 5739): Rosh Hashanah
1978(1st
of Tishrei, 5739): Fifty-four-year-old George Washington University trained attorney
and U.S. Army Air Force WWII veteran Irving Abraham Levine, the Washington, DC,
born son Minnie Cohen and Benjamin Levine the Maryland jurist and husband of
Shirley Routhenstein with whom he had two children, Karen and Susan, passed
away today.
1978: Syrians and Palestinians battled in East Beirut, 1,300
killed
1979: In
Manhattan, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Benedict Kanter,
the “husband of the late Ruth Kanter” and the father Dr. Joel Kanter.
1981:
Birthdate of New York native Marek Ariel “Rel Schulman, best known for
“directing the 2010 documentary ‘Catfish’” and the older brother of actor Nev
Schulman.
1980(22nd
of Tishrei, 5741): Shmini Atzeret observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Jimmy Carter.
1981(4th of Tishrei, 5742): Harry Golden passed away passed away
at the age of 79. Born Harry Goldhirsch
in what is now the Ukraine, Golden gained famed as the publisher of the
Carolina Israelite. Golden used his
publication to advocate desegregation in the days when Jim Crow dominated the
South and to provide folksy tales about his days growing up on the Lower East
Side. Two of his better known books were
Only in America and for Two Cents Plain. Sometimes Golden
combined his passion for social justice with his satiric wit. One such example was the Vertical Negro
Plan. In the days of the segregated
South, African-Americans were not allowed to sit down in a restaurant and eat
their meals. African-Americans were
allowed to go to a window at the side or in the back of many eating
establishments, order their food and take it to eat elsewhere. Golden decided that the problem was with
African-Americans and Whites eating together, but of sitting together while
they were eating. He proposed removing
all chairs and stools from eating establishments. That way, the races could eat in the same
establishment without violating the time honored tradition of not sitting down
to eat together.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/03/obituaries/harry-golden-an-editor-and-humorist-79-dead.html
1981:
Soviet
authorities in Kharkov summon factory workers to special meetings to inform
them that they have “unmasked” a Zionist movement in Kharkov. They say the
movement’s members will shortly be put on trial.
1981: “Paternity,” a comedy directed by David Steinberg, featuring
Norman Fell and with music by David Shire was released today in the United
States.
1982(15th of Tishrei, 5743): Sukkoth and Shabbat
1982(15th of Tishrei, 5743): Seventy one-year old NYU
graduate William Bernbach “the founder and chairman of the Doyle Dane Bernbach
advertising agency and the husband of the “former Evelyn Carbone with whom he
had two sons, John and Paul – the New York attorney and patron of the arts –
passed away today.
1982(15th of Tishrei, 5743): Seventy-year old Sidney Z.
Vincent, the Case Western Reserve University Graduate, executive director of
the Cleveland Jewish Community Federation and husband of Ruth Vincent with whom
he had two children – Jill and Norman—passed away today in his home town of Cleveland,
Ohio.
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi0289.xml;query=;brand=default
1983: The Israel Bank Stock crisis “erupted fully” today, “the
first day after the Sukkoth holiday” when “the public sold more bank stocks
than in the entire month of September.”
1983: Bonnie Franklin’s “One Day At A Time” begins its ninth and
last season.
1984:
“Love on the Beat,” is an album by French singer and songwriter
Serge Gainsbourg featuring a duet with his daughter Charlotte was released
today.
1985(17th of Tishrei, 5746): Third Day of Sukkoth
1985(17th of Tishrei, 5746): Eighty-four year old
Bucharest native Leon Feldstein who in 1908 came to America where he settled in
Portland, OR, married Esther Gumbert and owned and operated Hollywood
Furniture.
https://www.ojmche.org/oral-history-people/leon-feldstein/
1987: Release date for “Big Shots,” a film edited by Sheldon Kahn
and written by Joe Esterhas.
1987: “Near Dark” a horror film co-starring Jenette Goldstein and
filmed by Israeli cinematographer Adam Greenberg was released in the United
States today.
1987: Refusenik Ida Nuedl learned today that she had been granted
an exit visa so she could leave the Soviet Union and go to Israel.
1988: In “Goetz Estate on the Market” Ruth Ryon described the art
and estate left behind by Hollywood producer William Goetz.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-02/realestate/re-4661_1_william-goetz
1989(3rd of Tishrei, 5750): Tzom Gedaliah
1989(3rd of Tishrei, 5750): Abraham Alper passed away
today after which he was buried in the “Beth Joseph Agudath Sholom Cemetery in
Madison Heights, VA.
1991: Grigory Yavlinsky, the son of the former “Vera Naumonvna, a
Russian Jewish Chemistry teacher” completed his service as “Deputy Chairman of
the Committee on the Operational Management of the Economy of the Soviet Union”
today.
1992: U.S. Premiere of “Hero” a dark comedy produced and written
by Laura Ziskin and co-starring Dustin Hoffman.as the anti-hero “Bernie LaPlante.”
1994(27th of Tishrei, 5755): “The Board of Trustee of
Bene Naharayim honored Dr. Gourji Ray, the son of Meir and Mariam Raby “for his
accomplishments both in Iraq and the United States.
1994: A revival production of Show Boat produced and directed by Harold
Prince which had premiered in Toronto opened on Broadway at the George Gershwin
Theatre where “it ran for 947 performance” making it the longest running
Broadway production of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical based on
Edna Ferber’s novel.
1995(8th of Tishrei, 5456): Seventy-five year old
Quincy, Massachusetts native Bernard Adler, the stepfather of director Steven
Spielberg who along with his wife of 28 years Leah Adler “operated the Milky
Way kosher dairy restaurant in Los Angeles” passed away today.
1997(1st of Tishrei, 5758): Rosh Hashana
1997: Emmy award winning actress Rena Sofer completed her second
round of guest appearances on “General Hospital.”
1998: “Divorcing Jack” a comedy co-starring Jason Isaacs premiered
in the United Kingdom today.
1998: “Hideous Kinky” a film based on the autobiographical novel
of the same name by Esther Freud, the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud was
released today by AMLF.
1999(22nd of Tishrei, 5760): Shmini Atzeret observed
for the last time in the 20th century.
2000(3rd of Tishrei, 5761): Tzom Gedaliah
2000: Twenty-four year old Wichlav Zalsevky was shot by “an
unknown Palestinian” today.
2000: CBS broadcast the first episode of season six of “King of
Queens” co-starring Jerry Stiller.
2001(15th of Tishrei, 5762): Sukkoth
2001: Osama Awadallah, a college student with no criminal record
who was one of dozens Arab men detained around the country in the days after
9/11 as potential witnesses in terrorism investigations appeared in the Federal
District Courtroom of Judge Michael B. Mukasey. Responding to Awadallah’s
claims that he had been beaten, the judge said, “I will tell you he looks fine
to me…If you to file a lawsuit, you can file a lawsuit.” Mukasey, an Orthodox Jew did not recues
himself from this case which should have come as no surprise since he did not
recues himself during the trials of the “Blind Sheik” was part of the
conspiracy to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.
2001:
In
a statement issued today, Aipac officials criticized President Bush's advisers
who advocated support for the creation of a Palestinian state. Those advisers
''are encouraging the president to reward, rather than punish, those that
harbor and support terrorism,'' the statement said.
2002: Randy Lerner succeeded his father Al as the leader of the
Cleveland Browns football team
2003: “Israel announced today it intended to build about 600 new
homes in three large West Bank settlements, a move that contradicts the current
Middle East peace plan.”
2003: In “Combing the Ashes of Another New York Disaster”
published today” Mike Wallace provided a complete review of Triangle – The
First That Change America” in which David Von Drehle gives a 21st
century view of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
2004(17th of Tishrei, 5765): Shabbat Chol HaMoed
Sukkoth
2004(17th of Tishrei, 5765): Sixty-three year old Shaul
Amor, the native of Morocco who served in the Knesset as “Minister without for
Portfolio” passed away today.
2004: Amy “Goodman was presented the Islamic Community Award for
Journalism by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
2005: The New York Times reported that Franzi Groszman had passed away at
the age of 100. Mrs. Groszman is
believed to be one of the last survivors of the parents who put their children
on the Kindertransport, the London bound trains that took Jewish children out
of Nazi Germany before World War II.
2005: Books by Jewish
authors or on Jewish topics were featured in several newspapers. The New
York Times Book Review Section included a review of Party In The Blitz
a memoir by Elijah Canetti. The winner
of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature is described as “a Spanish Jewish
Viennese Swiss Bulgarian Refugee. The Times also reviewed Blood
Relation a biography of Harold “Heshy” Konigsberg, a Jewish racketeer and
hit man. As the review points out, Jews
may be criminals, but they are not heroes.
Hehsy’s family describes him as a “shanda” which is Yiddish for
‘Shame.”
2005: After fracturing his finger in September Boston Red Sox
Kevin Youkilis returned to the lineup today the last day of the 2005 season
during which he hit .278.
2006: The Washington Post
reviewed Dogs of War by James Reston.
It is subtitled, “Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the
Moors.” As the reviewer says, “in 1492,
Sapin expelled its Jews and crushed a caliphate.” Finally the Post also reviewed The
Last Days of Dogtown by
Anita Diamant. “In The Red Tent
Diamant used a gaudy, Technicolor style to engineer her Old Testament visions
of sex and violence, while The Last Days of Dogtown is as plain as
sunlight on polished wood. But in both books, she has managed to find an
appropriate (if not a true) vocabulary to conjure up a world. Like Las Vegas
reproductions of old Venice or ancient Egypt, these novels are proudly
inauthentic yet still entirely original.”
2006(10th of Tishrei, 5767:) Yom
Kippur,
2006: The first Yom Kippur is observed
with all IDF Troops out of Lebanon.
2006: As the sun set on Yom Kippur the
last Rabbi in Baghdad, Emad Levy, sat down for his last “break the fast’ meal
in Iraq. As he ate the piece of cake and
ranks the two glasses of milk he shared his thoughts with a Washington Post
reporter realizing that next year he would be doing this in another land.
2006: Allegations arose that Alan
Hevesi had fired Alexander McHugh, a receptions who had filed a sexual
harassment charge. Hevesi’s office
contended that she had not cooperated with their investigation and that no
evidence had been found to support her claim.
2007: Solomon Wachtler “was reinstated to the New York
state bar.”
2007: The Special Olympics open in
Shanghai where the 2,000-strong Jewish community has raised $20,000 to support
Israel’s Special Olympics team. The
community, headed by Maurice Ohama, has provided the 38 Israeli athletes with
uniforms, sports shoes as well as access to a Sukkah and kosher food.
2007:
Israel eased a strict news blackout on an airstrike on stories related to the
September airstrike against Syria that has been described as destroying
shipments of arms for Hezbollah or a nuclear facility built with North Korean
technology.
2007: Frank Lowy
received the Henni Friedlander Award for the Common Good at Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine, United States.
2007:
“Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel opens at the American Folk Art Museum under
the aegis of guest curator Murray Zimilies.
2008:
At Columbia University, the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies presents an
address by renowned Israeli author Amos Oz, Agnon Professor of Hebrew
Literature, Ben-Gurion University entitled “A Tale of Love and Darkness” as
part of the Syliva and Joseph Radov Lectures
2008(3,
Tishrei, 5769): Fast of Gedaliah,
2008:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced today that he would abandon his earlier
opposition to changing the term limits law and seek a third term as mayor,
arguing that the economic crisis buffeting the nation called for continuity in
municipal leadership.
2008
An “abridged version of Girl Crazy,” a 1930’s George and Ira Gershwin musical
opened at the Kennedy Center.
2008:
In “Rabbi Has Message, So Does
Cellphone,” published today James Barron describes how Jewish businessmen are
coping with the financial meltdown during the High Holidays.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/nyregion/02holidays.html?_r=0
2009: Singer-songwriter
Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary fame) reads from and discusses his new
song-inspired children's picture book, Day is Done, (illustrated by
Melissa Sweet) at Politics and Prose Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.
2009: Icelandic
experimental band mum (with a lower-case "m" and pronounced moom) is
scheduled to open its European tour at Tel Aviv's Barby Club today. Seven
musicians will perform their indie-pop combination of electronic music and soft
vocals, accompanied by traditional acoustic instruments and some less
conventional ones. The band was begun in 1997 by Gunnar Om Tynes and Orvar
Poreyjarson Smarason and is now considered Iceland's No. 2 band (after Sigur
Ros).
2009:
The Coen Brothers latest film, “A Serious Man,” opens in theatres throughout
the United States.
2009:
According to reports published in today’s Washington Post, “Israeli
writer Amos Oz is the favorite to be picked for the 2009 Nobel literature prize
next Thursday, but with the judging notoriously hard to predict, he is far from
a safe bet. Oz, who deals with life in
modern Israel in his novels, and reflects decades of commitment to the Israeli
peace movement in his political writing, is quoted at 4/1 by the British
bookmaker Ladbrokes, meaning he has one chance in five of winning.”
2009(14th
of Tishrei, 5770): Erev Sukkoth
2009(14th
of Tishrei, 5770):
Captain
Benjamin Sklaver was killed in Afghanistan.
2009:
Thin and wan, but lucid and very much alive, Gilad Shalit, the captured Israeli
soldier whose fate has gripped Israel for more than three years, appeared in a
video today holding a Palestinian newspaper dated Sept. 14. Israel obtained the
DVD today in a deal brokered by German and Egyptian mediators.
2009(14th
of Tishrei, 5770):
Seventy-six
year old photographer of the famous, Nat
Finkelstein, passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/arts/13finkelstein.html
2010:
On Shabbat, the traditional minyan at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA joins
the rest of the world in reading Parsha Bereshit, marking the start of the new
Torah reading cycle.
2010: Miki
Gavrielov, one of Israel’s leading singer/song writer is scheduled to perform
at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY.
2011:
Israelis change their clocks as daylight savings time comes to an end.
2011:
The New York Times features books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” by
Stephen Greenblatt, “Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer, “All Our Worldly
Goods” by Irène Némirovsky and “The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène
Némirovsky by Her Daughter” by Élisabeth Gille
2011: Gilo is not
a settlement but an “integral part of Jerusalem,” Deputy Foreign Minister Danny
Ayalon stressed during a tour of the capital’s third-largest neighborhood for
50 members of the foreign media today.
2011:
Today, Israel formally accepted an international proposal to return to peace
negotiations with the Palestinians, but any immediate resumption of talks
appeared unlikely as the Israelis and Palestinians differed sharply over the
letter and spirit of the proposal.
2012(16th
of Tishrei, 5733): Second Day of Sukkoth
2012:
This evening, Michael Stewart, author of The Gypsy Menace: Populism and the
New Anti Gypsy Politics is scheduled to discuss treatment of Europe’s
largest minority at the Wiener Library in London.
2012: Vandals
attacked the Franciscan convent on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion early this morning,
spray-painting it with anti- Christian graffiti in the third “price tag” attack
against a Christian site this year.
2012:
Funeral services for the late Stephen O. Frankurt, former President of Young
& Rubicon will be held today
2012:
“Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Julius Berman, Colette Avital and Rafi Eitan were among
those who spoke at the funeral of Holocaust survivor and Israeli economist
Moshe Sanbar which was held at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery today.
2012:
Five people, including Likud activist Moshe Feiglin, were arrested for a
confrontation on the Temple Mount this morning during Feiglin’s monthly trip to
Judaism’s holiest site.
2012:
Friends and Family will celebrate the birthday of Barb Feller today in Cedar
Rapids, where her many accomplishments include being a Hebrew teach par
excellence.
2013:
In the UK, the Wiener Library is scheduled to host Bernd Koschland who will
share his experiences of the Kindertransport, the humanitarian effort that
brought 10,000 persecuted children to the UK from Europe in 1938-39.
2013:
The Greater Washington Area Chapter of Hadassah is scheduled to host its
Special Gifts Dinner this event at Woodmont Country Club.
2013:
In a commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur a
screening of “The Battle Over the Soul” followed “by a conversation with Dan
Almagor, the producer and a soldier at the battle of ‘Tel Saki’ is scheduled to
take place at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.
2013:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host the Hadassah Book Club
which will discuss The List by Martin Fletcher.
2013:
In Budapest, the Conference on Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe
came to an end.
2013:
“Poverty is the greatest menace to the Middle East, overtaking terrorism and
conventional wars, Israeli President Shimon Peres told the Dutch parliament in
a speech today.”
2013:
“Finance Minister Yair Lapid y0day harshly condemned Israeli citizens who
emigrate to improve their standard of living, saying he had “no patience” for
people who leave the Jewish state behind for reasons of convenience.”
2013(28th
of Tishrei, 5774): Ninety-four year old “Abraham Nemeth, the creator of a
Braille Code for math” passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)
2013: Based the media coverage, the most important Jew in the
world today is fashion designer Marc Jacobs who announced that “he is leaving
Louis Vuitton after 16 years to concentrate on his namesake line”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/fashion/marc-jacobs-to-leave-louis-vuitton.html?_r=0
2014:
The Kaufman Music Center is scheduled to host “An Evening with Paul Reiser.”
2014:
In an interview published today IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said
“Israel achieved a decisive victory in this summer’s hostilities with Hamas,
but maintaining a long-term ceasefire depends on improving the day-to-day
conditions and economic conditions of Gaza residents.” (As reported by Gavriel
Fiske)
2014:
In an attempt to avoid armed clashes, a closure of the West Bank begins as
ll:59 p.m. today (JTA)
2014:
France joined the United States in condemning a plan to build over two thousand
new homes in east Jerusalem, thus worsening a pseudo –crisis created by Prime
Minister Netanyahu who successfully shifted attention away from what he claimed
was a primary security concern i.e.
keeping Iran from developing nuclear capability.
2015:
Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Belle Mehus Auditorium in Bismarck,
ND.
2015:
Today, Spain approved the granting of “citizenship to 4,302 people who
identified themselves as descendants of Sephardic Jews.”
2015:
“Congo Beat the Drum,” a documentary about “two musicians from Tel Aviv who
travel to Jamaica to record an album with forgotten reggae artists from the
past” is scheduled to be shown at the Bushwick Film Festival.
2015:
Erev Shabbat, Border Policemen shot a young Palestinian Arab man in the leg in
the Issawiya neighborhood of Jerusalem, after he approached them with a
firebomb in his hand and tried to throw it at them.
2015:
As part of the International Balloon Festival, balloons are scheduled to be
launched “early this morning from Eshkol Park in the northern Negev region.
2015:
“Over 200 Palestinian Arabs waited for police forces at Rachel's Tomb in
Bethlehem this afternoon, throwing rocks and firebombs and burning tires at the
Jewish holy site.”
2015:
All decent people throughout the world mourn the deaths of Eitam and Haama
Henkin who were murdered when terrorists opened fire on their car in which they
were traveling with four of their children in an attack which Hamas praised as
“heroic” followed by a call for “more high-quality attacks.”
2015:
“As Syria Reels, Israel Looks to Expand Settlements in Golan Heights” published
today described the changing face of Israel’s northern border.”
2015:
Thousands attended the funeral in Jerusalem this morning for Eitam and Naama
Henkin, who were killed in a shooting attack in their car near the settlement
of Itamar yesterday evening during which nine year old Matan said Kaddish for
his parents
2016(29th
of Elul, 5776): Eighty three year old Brooklyn born director and producer
Gordon Davidson who transformed the theatrical scene in Los Angeles passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/theater/gordon-davidson-dead.html?_r=1
http://www.timesofisrael.com/gordon-davidson-moses-of-las-theater-scene-dies-at-83/ 2016:
The first show of the seventh season of “Shameless” starring Emmy Rossum is
scheduled to be broadcast tonight.
2016:
In Moscow, police said they had arrested “a 40-year old man” who had stabbed a
security a guard during an attack at the central synagogue.
2016:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That
Reshaped the Middle East by Jay Solomon, The Fix: How Nations Survive
and Thrive in a World in Decline by Jonathan Tepperman and Little
Nothing by Marisa Silver
2016(29th
of Elul, 5776): Erev Rosh Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last screening “The Exception” a film
that tells the tale of a Nazi officer sent guard Kaiser Wilhelm II after the
start of WW II.
2017:
The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Center for Jewish History
are scheduled to host the final session of “Proust in Time: Sawnn’s Way” that
examines Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
2018:This
evening the Illinois Museum and Education Center to host “cast members from the
Victory Gardens Theatre production performing selections from Paula Vogel’s
play ‘Indecent’” after which they will “discuss the responsibility of the
artist in times of injustice, oppression and censorship.”
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Simchat Torah lunch
today.
2018(23rd
of Tishrei, 5779): Simchat Torah
2018:
Today, Jason Kander, who had voluntarily served in Afghanistan dropped out of
the race for Mayor of Kansas City, “citing symptoms of PTSD and depression.
2018:
Having released the music video for “All of Tears” at the end of September, Z
Berg released the single “on music platforms” today.
2019:
The opening celebration for the exhibition “The Art of Exile: Paintings by
German-Jewish Refugees presented by LBI is schedule to take place today.
2019:
In New York, the School of Visual Arts is scheduled to host an “evening
celebrating the 60th anniversary of ‘The Twilight Zone,’ the seminal
show” of Jewish born convert to Unitarianism Rod Serling.
2019:
In Mill Valley, CA, the Outdoor Art Club is scheduled to host Tffany Shalin,
“the San Francisco based Jewish author who will discuss her new book, 24/6:
The Power of Unplugging.”
2019(3rd
of Tishrei, 5779): Fast of Gedaliah
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2316462/jewish/Tzom-Gedaliah-Fast-Day.htm
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tzom-gedaliah/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fast-of-gedaliah
2020(14th
of Tishrei, 5781): Erev Sukkoth and Erev Shabbat
2020:
Despite the lockdown and the government promise of large fines, as Israelis
prepare to begin observe Sukkot this evening “many major ultra-Orthodox communities in Jerusalem have said
they will observe the communal living customs of the Sukkot holiday.” (As
reported by Kobi Nachshoni)
2020:
In Ohio, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat
services via Zoom and livestream links.as well an evening service followed by a
Kiddush with Rabbi Stephen Weiss.
2020:
Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to “present percussionist David
Freeman, accompanied by sitar player Mustafa Bhagat, performing compositions
that blend Indian raga, folk and jazz”.
2020:
In Bexlely, OH Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host its Friday Book Club this
morning
2020:
JCC Boston is scheduled to present a “PJ Library Shabbat Circle Time
Celebrating Sukkoth.”
2021:
The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present “Into the Ark Celebration” during
which Rabbi Perry of Congregation Shalom “will lead a prayer over the animals”
as part of an animal adventure show that tells the story of Noah.
2021:
The Eden Tamir is scheduled to host its Season Opening Concert with Yevgenia
Pikovsky, Asaf Maoz, violins;Dmitri Ratush, viola; Felix Nemirovsky, cello;
Jonathan Hadas, clarinet; Dror Semmel, piano.
2021:
The USS Carl M. Levin, a 510-foot-long Arleigh Burke-class destroyed named for
Carl Levin Z”L, the long time Senator from Michigan is scheduled to be
christened today at the Bath Works in
Maine, where his three daughters, Kate, Laura and Erica, will perform the
actual christening ceremony.
2021(26th
of Tishrei, 5782): Parashat Bereshit; The Cycle begins again.
2022:
the Lower East
Side Jewish Conservancy and the Museum at Eldridge St a walking tour “Shuls of Grandeur on the Lower East
beginning at the Bialystoker Synagogue.
2022:
The ASF Institute
of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “Prepare for Yom Kippur with
Hazzan Yehiel Nahari.”
2022:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Ariel
Ziner on “You’re Never Alone: a Piyut for Yom Kippur.”
2022:
The American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History are
scheduled to host the book launch event for Yearning to Breathe Free, a “comprehensive
volume, featuring contributions from twenty of American Jewish history’s most
preeminent scholars, details Jewish life in Gilded Age America, and provides a
much-needed glimpse into the political, economic, and social histories of
Jewish Americans.”
2022:
“ Leopoldstadt,” the semi-autobiographical work by acclaimed British playwright
Tom Stoppard is scheduled to begin its Broadway
today
2022:
The Breman Museum and Lumière are scheduled to host a presentation by San Francisco filmmaker Jane
Levy Reed, the director of the film :My Eyes Were Fresh: The Life and
Photographs of John Gutmann” on the life and work of John Gutmann.
2022:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Red Widow: The Scandal That
Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It by Sarah Horowitz.
2023(17th
of Tishrei, 5754): Third Day of Sukkoth; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2023:
In New Orleans, The Jewish Community Day is scheduled to hold its Sukkoth BBQ.
2023:
The Haifa International Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of the
silent class “A Woman of Paris” written by Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney’s
“Fantasia.”
2023:
The Museum at Eldrige Street is scheduled to host “a Zoom exploration of Jewish
activism at the beginning of the twentieth century” which “will trace its
origins in Eastern Europe, explore its landmarks in the Lower East Side, and
meet its leaders that stood on the frontlines.”
2023:
In Metairie, LA, Beth Israel is scheduled to host a “Men’s Sukkoth Event”
complete with “football and BBQ under the stars.”
