This Day, October 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 6
877: Charles the Bald, King of France, passed away. Regardless of whatever others may think of him, Charles the Bald, who was King of France, comes up on the plus side in Jewish history when compared to other monarchs since he resisted enforcing the anti-Semitic edicts of the Archbishop of Lyon. Charles motives were political and economic, not religious.
1014: Samuil of Bulgaria passed away. He was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 986 until his death in battle while fighting the Byzantines. Jews fleeing from the persecution of the Byzantine Empire had found refuge among the Bulgarians. Samuil was a member of the Comitopuli dynasty whose leaders had names like Samuel (Samuil), Moses and David, which “could indicate partial Jewish origin, most likely maternal, though this is disputed.”
1254: Innocent IV who expelled the Jews from Venice in 1253 issued
“Querentes In Agro” a papal bull recognizing the University Oxford which today
is the home to the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies which “was
founded in 1972 by Dr. David Patterson.”
1533(17th of Tishrei, 5249): Third Day Sukkoth
1536: William Tyndale, whose “English translation for Pentateuch in 1530 which was the first-ever English translation from the Hebrew would provide the fabric for the King James Bible and inject a Hebraic quality into the syntax and phraseology of English literary and religious usage without parallel in any European culture” was strangled and then burned at the stake today in Belgium.
1552: Birthdate of Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit missionary to China
whose manuscripts indicate there were only approximately ten or twelve Jewish
families in Kaifeng in the late 16th and early 17th century, that they had
reportedly resided there for five or six hundred years, that there was a
greater number of Jews in Hangzhou which could be taken to suggest that loyal
Jews fled south along with the soon-to-be crowned Emperor Gaozong to Hangzhou.”
1737: In Altona, Germany, Abraham Ben Joseph Guggenheim, the
Vienna born son of Joseph Juda Loeb Guggenheim and Frumet Guggenheim and his
wife Mirjam Gluckel gave birth Fromet Mendelssohn, the wife of Jewish religious
reformer Moses Mendelsohn.
1755(1st of
Cheshvan, 5516): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1755(1st of
Cheshvan, 5516): A.M. Rothschild’s father died of smallpox.
1759(15th
of Tishrei, 5520): Sukkoth
1762:
Birthdate of Sarah Judah, the daughter of Samuel Judah who passed away in 1763.
1770(17th
of Tishrei, 5531): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1776(23rd
of 5537): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the first since the signing of the
Declaration of Independence.
1778(15th
of Tishrei, 5539) First Day of Sukkoth observed as the British conducted a
supply raid at the settlement of Chestnut Neck, NJ.
1780: Thomas
Dobson the printer who was “the first in the United States to publish a
complete Hebrew Bible and his way gave birth to their second child Alison.
1783(10th
of Tishrei, 5544): As the American Revolution reaches its final conclusion with
a treaty between Great Britain and her former colonies Jews on both sides of
the Atlantic observe Yom Kippur in peace.
1784(21st
of Tishrei, 5545): Hoshana Raba observed for the first time while Richard Henry
Lee served as President of the Continental Congress, the governing body of the
United States after the American Revolution.
1786(14th
of Tishrei, 5547): Erev Sukkoth observed on the same day as the launching of
the HMS Bellerophon the site of Napoleon’s final surrender that led to his
exile at Elba.
1789(16th
of Tishrei, 5550): Second Day Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Presidency of George Washington.
1791:
Zipporah Isaacs and Hymen Cohen gave birth to Alexander Cohen who passed away
61 years later in London.
1792(20th
of Tishrei, 5553): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1795(23rd
of Tishrei, 5556): Simchat Torah
1795(23rd
of Tishrei, Sarah, the wife of Alexander Phillips and mother of Frances,
Alfred, Michael, Ester and Judith Phillips passed away today.
1795:
Rachel Sapnier, “the daughter of Nathan Spanier, the head of the Ravensberg
Jewish community” and her husband author and bookseller Saul Ascher gave birth
to their “only child, a daughter named Wihelmine.”
1800(17th
of Tishrei, 5561): Third Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that Gabriel
Prosser went on trial for having “planned a slave revolt” in Virginia.
1803(20th
of Tishrei, 5564): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1805(13th
of Tishrei, 5566): Twenty-four year old Rachel Aasron passed away today in
London.
1806: The
Assembly of Jewish notables is required to answer 12 questions intended to
inform the authorities about the nature of Judaism and to test the knowledge of
French among the Jews.
1808(15th
of Tishrei, 5569): Sukkoth
1812: In
Warrenton, NC, Jacob Mordecai and Rebecca Mears Myers gave birth to Emma
Mordecai.
1816(14th
of Tishrei, 5577): Erev Sukkoth observed during what was known as the “Year
Without a Summer.”
1817: Birthdate
of “Dutch physician and medical author Levi Ali Cohen” “who was one of the
organizers of the new medical laws for the Netherlands” and who was “a member
of the committee on Jewish affairs in Holland for twenty years.”
1819:
Birthdate of John M. Brunswick, a native of Switzerland who came to the New
York in 1834 where he worked as a butcher before eventually settling in
Cincinnati, OH where he went from “making carriages” to building a billiard
ball empire.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JohnMBrunswick.htm
1820: “At
Charles-Valentin's piano audition which was held oday when he was nearly seven
(and where he is named as "Alkan (Morhange) Valentin"), the examiners
comment "This child has amazing abilities."
1821(10th
of Tishrei, 5582): Yom Kippur
1822(21st
of Tishrei, 5583): Hoshana Raba
1823:
Deborah and Solomon Bennett gave birth to Aaron Bennett.
1824(14th
of Tishrei, 5585) Erev Sukkoth
1824: In
Alsace, Alexandre Aron and Charlotte Aron, the daughter of Asser Lion and Gitlé
Loëw gave birth to Rose Rosalie Bloch the wife of Marx Marc Bloch
1825:
Rachel Gomes and John Meseena gave birth to Hannah Meseena.
1825:
Birthdate of wine merchant Herman Seligman, the native of Germany who was the
husband of Olivia Seligman and the father of Charles J. Seligman all of whom
lived in London.
1827(15th
of Tishrei, 5588) First Day of Sukkoth and Shabbat
1829(9th
of Tishrei, 5590): Erev Yom Kipppur; Kol Nidre
1837(7th
of Tishrei, 5598): Twenty-nine year old Moses Loeb Mack the “son of Löb Moses
Mack and Henriette Samuel Mack” passed away today in his native Bavaria.
1838(17th
of Tishrei, 5599): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1838: Birthdate of German art historian Friedrich Lippmann, the
director of the Berlin State Museum.
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/friedrich-lippmann/g12ckhjv0g?hl=en
1841(21st
of Tishrei, 5602): Hoshana Raba
1843: In
Courland, Russia, Mortiz Rosenthal and Pauline Birkhann gave birth to Herman
Rosenthal the husband of Anna Rosenthal who, after arriving in the United States
in 1881, “organized agricultural for Russian Jews in Louisiana, South Dakota
and New Jersey, “started the Russian daily Zarya in 1890, published and edited
the Hebrew Monthly Intelligencer in New York” and served as the secretary of
the German American Reform Union.
1844(23rd
of Tishrei, 5605): Simchat Torah
1846(16th
of Tishrei, 5607): Second Day of Sukkoth
1846: In
India, Jessie Sarah and Henry Edward Goldsmid gave birth to Albert Edward
Goldsmid. A graduate of Sandhurst, the
famed military school, he held a series of progressively more important
positions in the British army until he was “selected by Baron de Hirsch to
supervise” the colonies being established in Argentina for Jewish refugees from
Eastern Europe. He went to serve with
distinction during the Boer War.
1847:
Michael Isaacs married Elizabeth Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.
1848: In
South Carolina, Lizar and Perla Shetall Solomons gave birth to Cecilia Solomons
who became Cecilia Solomons Abrahams when she married Edmund H. Abrahams.
1849: The
victorious Austrian general orders the execution of 13 rebel Hungarian generals
in Arad. These men are known as the 13
Martyrs of Arad. Their execution marked
an end to the revolt by Kossuth against the repressive Austrian regime. Kossuth had supported emancipation for the Jews
of Hungary and the Jews had supported the revolt. The Jews of Hungary suffered cruelly at the
hands of the victorious Austrians as well as the local Slavic population that
had viewed the uprising as a Magyar dominated event. The defeat of the liberal forces in Hungary
led to immigration of Hungarians – Jews as well as non-Jews – to the United
States just as a similar defeat for German liberals led to their migration to
the United States
1850: In
Baltimore, MD, Moses Keyser and Betty Preiss gave birth to sculptor Ephraim
Keyser whose works included “busts of Sidney Lanier, Cardinal Gibbons, Dr.
Daniel Gilman, and Henry Harland” and a “statute of Major-General Baron De
Kalb” for the United States Government which was “erected at Annapolis, MD.
http://famousamericans.net/ephraimkeyser/
https://jewishmuseummd.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Keyser%2C+Ephraim
1851: “The
Hungarians,” published today reported that the U.S.S. Mississippi, “commanded by Captain Levy” had arrived in
Constantinople for the purpose of providing Louis Kossuth, the exiled Hungarian
political leader, with safe passage to France.
The Mississippi was one of the first ocean-going steam vessels belonging
to the U.S. Navy and would be part of the fleet that entered Tokyo Bay with
Commodore Perry. Captain Levy would not
be part of that voyage.
1851(10th
of Tishrei, 5612): Yom Kippur
1851: The
first recorded Jewish religious observance in Southern California was held at
the home of Lewis Abraham Franklin in San
Diego on Yom Kippur. Franklin had held what may have been the first High
Holiday Services in the history of the state. In 1849, he held Rosh
Hashanah services in his "store" (a tent) in San Francisco.
He later moved to San Diego. The first synagogue, Adath Jeshurun, was
founded 10 years later by Louis Rose. Rose was a less than successful
land speculator in San Diego.
1852(23rd
of Tishrei, 5613): Simchat Torah
1853: The Foreign Items column published today reported that
Alexander Weill, a Jew who converted to Catholicism attributes the diseases
attacking crops in parts of Europe "to the non-observance to the precepts
of Moses who ordained that the soil should be left fallow during every seventh
year, as God rested on the seventh day.
1853: In
Germany, “Morris and Blume (Brodek) Treiber gave birth Arkansas lawyer Jacob
Treiber, the husband of Ida Schradzki who began serving as Judge of the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in 1900.
1854(14th
of Tishrei, 5615): Erev Sukkot
1854: In recognition of Abraham Alexander Wolff’s “services in
the organization of the Royal Library of Copenhagen he was created a knight of
the Order of Dannebrog today and was also awarded the title of professor.”
1855(24th
of Tishrei, 5616): Parashat Bereshit read in San Diego where the editor of the Herald had previously portrayed “the
difficult conditions under which Judaism was maintained” in this “small California
town.”
1856: “Pleasant Prospect for Foreign Voters” published today
reported that, “Some ‘Jew’ having interrupted Governor Floyd, when he was
avowing his readiness to vote for Fillmore, with the pertinent inquiry, ‘how
about the foreign vote?’ the Governor replied, that they should be treated as
the Greeks proposed to do with Hector, feed him on one day and disembowel him
the next. Fillmore is Millard Fillmore former President of the United States
who had been a member of the Whig Party. When the Whigs collapsed, Fillmore
joined the American Party, the political party of the anti-immigrant,
anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Movement. John Floyd was a prominent member of the
Democrat Party who had served as Governor of Virginia. Considering the surge in
Jewish immigration to the United States during the 1850’s Fillmore and the
Know-Nothings were a great concern to all Jews.
1857:
Birthdate of physiologist Joseph Paneth, the native of Vienna who was the
father of chemist Friedrich Paneth and “a good friend of Sigmund Freud.”
1858:
Emanuel Vandervelde married Caroline Van Goor at the Great Synagogue today.
1862:
Birthdate of “businessman and philanthropist” Harry Sachs, “the founder of the
Boston Curb Exchange,” “a member of the board of trustees of the National
Jewish Hospital in Denver and a national director of the Jewish Consumption
Relief Society.”
1862: In
Russia, Rose Berger and Abraham Fischkin gave birth to University of Berlin
trained physician and author Edward A. Fischkin the husband of Bertha Felsetnhal who served as
attending dermatologist at several facilities in Chicago including the United
Hebrew Charities Free Dispensary and the Home for Orthodox Aged Jews while
penning such works as “Songs from the Ghetto” and “Tolstoy.”
1863(10th
of Tishrei, 5764): Yom Kippur
1863: In
Hungary, Cecilia Steiner and Mayer Samuel Weiss gave birth to future New York
resident Herman M. Weiss.
1863:
During the U.S. Civil War, Union authorities began the process of mustering the
15th Kentucky Cavalry (a unit formed by Lt. Col. Gabriel Netter) out
of active service. There is a note of
irony that this process affecting a unit formed by a Jewish soldier, should
begin on the Day of Atonement.
1864: In
Náchod, Czech Republic, Isaac and Julie Judith Josephine Mautner gave birth to
Adelheid Mauter who became Adelhied Goldschmid when she married Otto
Goldschmid.
1865(16th
of Tishrei, 5626): Second Day of Sukkoth
1865: In
Frankfurt Selig Meier Goldschmidt, and his wife Clementine Fuld gave birth to
Meier Selig Goldschmidt the husband of Selma Cramer and the son-in-law of
Salomon Cramer and Therese (Röschen) Oppenheimer.
1866: In
New York Hertz Bonart and Berthat Cohen gave birth to Emma Schornstein, a
student at the New Orleans Hebrew-English College, the wife of Sam Schornstein
“who worked among the stricken during the New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of
1878 before relocating to Galveston, TX.
1867:
Elizabeth Samuels and George Joel Marks gave birth to Samuel Marks.
1870: “Loss
of Life in War” published today described what is considered to be “the
shocking slaughter” taking place on 19th century battlefields. In making comparison, the article reports
that when Titus took Jerusalem, “more than a million Jews are believed to have
perished.”
1871(21st
of Tishrei, 5632): Hoshanah Rabah
1872(4th
of Tishrei, 5633): Fast of Gedaliah is observed since the 3rd of
Tishrei fell on Shabbat
1873(15th
of Tishrei, 5634): Sukkoth
1873:
According to published reports today’s “Jewish festival of ‘Succoth’ or the
Feast of Tabernacles…is the harvest feast of the Jews and is a season for
rejoicing and thanksgiving…The observance of this festival is not general,
being confined almost entirely to the orthodox portion of the Jewish community.
1873: At
meeting of leading Christians held at Steinway Hall in New York City a person
from Cincinnati claimed “the Jews in that section of the country asserted that
America was their promised land, and they no longer believed the ideas taught
by their forefathers.” [Cincinnati was the stronghold of the Reform Movement.]
1874:
Jacques Lang married There Cowvan today.
1876(18th
of Tishrei, 5637): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed as Hays and Tilden battle for
the White House.
1877: In
New York City, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association sponsored a program at the
Lyric Hall that was attended by “the elite of Jewish society. Mr. I.S. Isaacs presided over the event. He
was joined on the platform by Dr. De Sola Mendez and Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs.
General Stewart L. Woodford, who had served with distinction in the Civil War
and was active in the New York State Republican Party delivered an address
entitled “Toleration.” Professor J.L.
Rice played a piano solo and Miss Gertrude Emanuel sang a ballad. The evening ended with a recitation of “Phil
Blood’s Leap by Joseph Michaels.
1878(9th
of Tishrei, 5639): Erev Yom Kippur
1878:
Seventy-eight year old Maria Michael who passed away yesterday was interred at
the Bath Jewish Burial Ground today.
1878: “The
Hebraic Day of Atonement” published today reported that “the Jewish fast of Yom
Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, commences at sundown this evening. This fast is more generally observed than any
other o the numerous fasts and feasts in the Hebraic calendar…This is
particularly the case among the orthodox Jews who keep a strict fast for 24
hours…The Reformed Jews, while they have discarded the fast, still regard the
day as one of solemn import…”
1879: On
the Gregorian calendar, birthdate of Russian born Yiddish author Nohum Shtif
who wrote under the pseudonym of Baal Dimon (Master of Imagination)
1880: In
Los Angeles, founding of the University of Southern California whose original
benefactors were a “Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic
former-Governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W.
Hellman”
1880: Just
3 weeks before his 49th birthday, Philadelphia born Colonel Myer
Asch was “transferred to the Commandery of New York of the Loyal Legion of the
United States.
1880:
Godfrey Isaacs married Amelia Aarons at the Hambro Synagogue.
1882(23rd
of Tishrei, 5643): Simchat Torah
1882: In
St. Louis, MO, Marcus and Ella (Hayman) Bernheimer gave birth to Corinne
Bernhimer who as Corrine Bernheimer Bauman, the wife of Louis Bauman served as
the National Treasurer of the Council of Jewish Women, the first vice president
of the Ben Akiba Home For Jewish Girls and a member of the board of the New Jewish
Hospital of St. Louis.
1883(5th
of Tishrei, 5644): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva
1883: In
New York City, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association hosted a meeting of Jewish
immigrants from Germany and Russia at the Five Points House of Industry. The YMHA shared its plans to start classes in
English and American social customs.
1884:
Gabriel Richter, a Hebrew teacher, who had been arrested on charges of setting
fire to his apartment at 219 Division Street was released today following a
hearing at the Tombs Police court during which he said he was innocent because
he was not at home and the police officer “could not swear” that the defendant
“was the man whom had seen descending the stoop after the alarm was given.
1884: It
was reported today that three alleged accomplices of Gabriel Richter who have
conspired to set the three fires in the last 15 months set one at 203 East
Broadway, “a three story tenement, occupied by” three Jewish families from
Poland.
1884:
Birthdate of Felix Weltsch, a German-speaking Jewish librarian, philosopher,
author, editor, publisher and journalist who was a close friend of Max Brod and
Franz Kafka, he was one of the most important Zionists in Bohemia.
1885: In
Washington, DC, Fanny and Joseph Luchs gave birth to realtor Morton James Luch,
the father of Frank Joseph Luchs and the
husband of Ernestine Luchs who was co-founder of one of Washington’s oldest
real estate company Shannon and Luchs.
https://www.american.edu/library/archives/finding_aids/shannonandluchs_fa.cfm
1885:
Birthdate of Ludmila Pickova who traveled from Prague, to Terezin to Lublin
where she murdered in 1942
1887: In
Chicago, Samuel and Sarah (Fernberg) Ehrlich gave birth to Elma Ehrlich who
became Elma Ehrlich Levinger, when she married Rabbi Lee J. Leving, the name
she used as the author of over thirty children’s books. (As reported by Joan Moelis
Rappaport)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levinger-elma-erlich
1887:
“Dr.M’Glynn and the Jews” published today briefly described the views of Edward
McGlynn about religious doctrine stating that the difference between Judaism
and Christianity was that the former placed a premium on universal justice
while the latter placed a premium on “blind faith.” (McGlynn was a Roman Catholic priest who had
been excommunicated earlier in the year because of his political positions
including the support of Henry George.)
1889:
Attorney Alexander Rosenthal, representing Joseph Linkowitz, the President of
the synagogue at 91 Delaney has charged Officer Gebhard of entering the
institution as the second day of Rosh Hashanah was ending and Shabbat was
beginning and turning out the lights thus forcing the worshippers out into the
street.
1889:
Birthdate of Miguel Mariano Gómez, the President of Cuba who Representative
William I. Sirovich met with in July of 1936 in an attempt to get “Cuba to open
her doors for at least 100,000 persecuted German Jews.”
1889: “Talk
of the Day Abroad” published today described the latest act of anti-Semitism in
Leipzig as transcending “the ordinary in sheer stupidity.” In response to the thousands who visit the
home of Mendelssohn, the citizenry raised money for a stained-glass window at
the church of St. Thomas, to honor the composer of “Elijah.” However, the project came to a grinding halt
when “somebody started an outcry that the Mendelssohns were Jews.
1890(22nd
of Tishrei, 5651): Shmini Atzeret
1890:
During today’s meeting of the Trustees of Columbia University, it was reported
that Jesse Seligman had donated another $1,000 for the Seligman Fellowships.
1891:
Edward, the Prince of Wales, gave a luncheon today at the Grand Hotel for the
King of Greece and Baron Hirsch before beginning a12 day stay at the Baron’s
retreat at St. Johann.
1891: Charles I king of
Württemberg during who bought one of the wooden models of the Temple Mount
created by Conrad Schick, the “German architect, archaeologist and Protestant
missionary who settled in Jerusalem in October of 1846 passed away today. Schick “designed the Mea Shearim
neighborhood” and his home, Tabor House “is today considered one of Jerusalem’s
most beautiful buildings.” (Moshe Gilad)
1892(15th
of Tishrei, 5653): Sukkoth
1892: In New
York City, Addie Untermyer and Adolph M. Steinhard, one of the founders and executive heads of National
Enameling and Stamping Co gave birth to Columbia trained attorney Laurence A.
Steinhard, the husband of Dulce Yates Hoffman with whom he had one child – Dulcie
Ann Steinhardt and WW I U.S. Army
Veteran who switched from the world of
law to the world of diplomacy where he served as ambassador to several countries
including the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941 while also serving as a member of
the executive committee of the American Federation of Zionists.
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/steinhardt-laurence-adolph
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lasteinh.htm
https://moscow.usembassy.gov/laurence_steinhardt.html
1893: Birthdate of
Milton Ager the Chicago native and song writer who served in the US Army’s
Morale Division in Fort Greenleaf, Georgia and cranked out a slew of hits,
including the “anthem of the Democratic Party, “Happy Days are Here Again.
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/bio/C205
1894: Mrs.
Elke Rubenstein, the widow of convicted murderer Pesach N. Rubenstein and her
sister Basche Ragleski were sent back to Jerusalem today after having been
denied entrance to the United States because they “had only $50 and government
authorities are not permitted to land anyone who may become a public charge.
1894: Those
in charge of the Bureau of Elections are concerned that they will have
completed their list of polling places in time for the first day of voter
registration which begins on October 9 and continues on October 10. Several the locations used in the past are
owned by Jews and they do not want to sign a lease that will have their
property being used Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur.
1894(6th
of Tishrei, 5655): Shabbat Shuvah
1894(6th
of Tishrei, 5655): Seventy year old German botanist Nathanael Pringsheim who
ranks as the founder of our scientific knowledge of the algae” passed away
today.
1895(18th
of Tishrei, 5656): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1895:
“Prof. Haupt’s Literary Treasures” published today described the return of
“Professor Paul Haput of the Oriental department of Johns Hopkins University”
to Baltimore from Europe, where among other things he met with Professor Howard
Furness who is working on a the new translation of “The Hebrew Bible” of which
Professor Haupt is the editor in Chief.
1895:
Professor Cyrus Adler explained how the United States National Museum acquired
two Persepolitan cast one of which he says resembles “a frieze of enameled
bricks found at Susa which is now in the Louvre.
1896: The
list of gifts received by Columbia University published today provided by the
Secretary of the Board included $5,000 from Jacob F. Schiff to aid needy
students get through college.”
1896(28th
of Tishrei, 5657): Dr. Moriz Schiff, the native of Frankfort-on-the-Main whose
services as a surgeon in the rebel army during the Baden Revolution of 1849 led
to him being labeled a “dangerous student” which forced him to pursue his
medical career in Switzerland where he passed away today at Geneva.
1897(10th
of Tishrei, 5658): Yom Kippur
1897: In
Camden, NJ, Yom Kippur services “were held in Newton and Furey Halls.
1897:
“Jew’s Greatest Fast Day” published today included a description of the
preparation for Yom Kippur by “the orthodox Jew” who has for the past nine days
been preparing himself for this day by doing “penance” which has entailed
rising early “every morning since the New Year’s festival and repairing to the
Beth Hamiderash (house of learning)” where he recited psalms and prayers for
forgiveness and seeking “out his enemies” and making “peace with them” while
discharging “all his worldly obligations.
1897: Dr.
Gustav Gottheil led the services at Temple Emanu-El
1897:
“There was a general suspension of business among the” Jewish merchants in
Camden, NJ, because they were attending Yom Kippur Services.
1897: At
Temple Elohim in Brooklyn Rabbi Taubernhaus delivered a sermon based on the
Sayings of the Father that begin “Bear in mind three things and thou shalt
escape sinning.
1897: At
Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise delivered a sermon entitled “Moses
and Aaron.
1897: At
Temple Rodoph Sholom, Dr. Rudolph Grossman delivered a sermon entitled “Home,
Religion and Reconciliation.”
1897: At
Temple Beth-El, Dr. Kauffman Kohler delivered a sermon on the “Dove of Peace.”
1897(10th
of Tishrei, 5658): Fifty-three year old Lewis Stark, successful clothing
merchant, passed away today at the home of his sister today from the effects of
Bright’s disease.
1898: In
London, Sime Zamremba and Avroam Kohen, a tailor from Lodz gave birth to Jacob
Edward Kohen who gained fame as Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco Supermarket
Chain – an accomplishment that led to him being Sir John Edward Cohen.
1898: Herzl arrives in Berlin for another conversation with Graf
Eulenberg.
1900: It
was reported today that A.C. McClurg and Company of Chicago will be publishing
“a study of modern social conditions as they affect the Jews in the United
Stated which is presented by Miss Emma Wolf in her novel, Heirs of Yesterday.”
1901(23rd
of Tishrei, 5662): Simchat Torah
1901:
“Cremation in England,” published today described how the London Cremation
Company deals with the remains of different groups including the Jews whose
“ashes are taken to the synagogue after cremation for religious rites…”
1902(5th
of Tishrei, 5663): Eighty-three year old Austrian Rabbi Jacob Jacques Heinrich
Hirschfeld, the son “Marie and Emanuel Isak Hirschfeld” and the husband of
Pauline Hirschfeld passed away today in Vienna.
1903(15th
of Tishrei, 5664): Sukkoth
1903(15th
of Tishrei, 5564): Eighty-year old Saul Isaac, who had been in the army
contracting business with his brother in Samuel and who had served as an MP
passed away today.
1903:
Birthdate of St, Louis and Harvard educated neurologist, Dr. Robert Sidney
Schwab the WW II veteran and husband of Dorothy Miller.
1903: In
Wiesbaden, Dr. Georg Honigmann and his wife gave birth to journalist Georg
Honigmann.
1903: The
High Court of Australia sits for the first time. In the early 1930’s Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs
would be the first Jew to serve as Chief Justice of Australia.
1904: In
New York, Felix Mortiz Warburg and Frieda Fanny Warburg, the daughter of Jacob
and Theres Schiff, gave birth to Paul Felix Solomon Warburg.
1905: The
problems of today’s “tight money market” on Wall Street were acerbated by “the
fact that serval large Jewish banking houses” will be closed on Monday in
observance of “a religious holiday” which in this case means erev Yom Kippur.
1906: “A
Polish Jew known as Abraham Kahn, who would eventually be jailed on charges of
swindling young women out of their savings, arrived at Ellis Island today where
he told authorities “he was married and had a wife and children at home.”
1907: In
Nice, France, Henri Daniel Mayrargue and Eveline Bethsabee Lattes, the daughter
of Marie and Israel-Vita Lattes gave birth Fernand Leon Mayrargue
1907:
Birthdate of Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch,
a German-born geneticist and co-founder of developmental genetics who fled
Hitler’s German to pursue her career in the United States. Winner of the Thomas
Hunt Morgan Medal in 1993 and the National Medal of Science in 1996, she passed
away in November of 2007, a month after celebrating her 100th
birthday.
1908: It
was reported today that Secretary Straus will make five speeches this month
during the Presidential election campaign.
1908: It
was reported today that the shortfall in registrations in New York City which
began yesterday was due to the fact that the first day of registration
coincided with the observance of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
1909(21st
of Tishrei, 5670): Hoshanah Rabah
1909: In
Philadelphia, Irving Kohn and Rebekah Kohn, the daughter of Simon and Florence
Liveright gave birth to Florence Kohn who became Florence Abrahams after she
married Robert David Abrahams.
1909: The
funeral for Rabbi Falk Vidaver who passed away yesterday at the age of 65, is
scheduled to be held today at his home in New York City. Burial will take place
in the cemetery belonging to the Temple at 72nd and Lexington Avenue
where Falk served as rabbi for twelve years.
1909: Miss Clara L. Clemens, daughter of Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark
Twain,) was married at noon to-day to Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pianist.
The wedding took place in the drawing room at Stormfield, Mr. Clemens's country
home, with the Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twitchell of Hartford, a close friend of Mr.
Clemens, as officiating clergyman. The groom was Jewish. The bride was not.
1910(3rd
of Tishrei, 5671): Tzom Gedaliah
1910: It
was reported today that “five thousand mothers of the east side, many of them
are expected to march to Copper Union on” the evening of October 8 “to ask
Nathan Straus to reconsider his project of determination to close this
pasteurized milk depots” in New York City.
1911: A
correspondent of the Wolff Bureau telegraphed from Dehibat on the Tunisian
frontier that “six soldiers and six Jews were killed, and five soldiers and one
Jew wounded during the bombardment of Tripoli.”
1912(25th
of Tishrei, 5673): Sixty-six year old philanthropist Simon Newman passed away
today in San Francisco.
1913:
Abraham and Sarah Kaminsky gave birth to Leo Kaminsky, the father of Stuart
Kaminsky.
1913:
Twenty-five year old handbag manufacturer and member of B’nai Jeshrun Morris
White, the Russian born son of Isaac and Bessie White married Lillian Brenner
today.
1914(16th
of Tishrei, 5675): Second Day of Sukkoth
1914: The
battleship U.S.S. North Carolina brought $50,000 from the Jews of the United
States to the Jewish community in Palestine.
1914: It
was reported today that U.S. government officials in the United States have not
decided how to deal with reports of that a large part of the population of
Jerusalem is facing starvation.
1914:
Gilbert Frankau, the London born Jew who was baptized at the age of 13 and
whose father Arthur converted to Roman Catholicism “a few months before his
death” “was first commissioned in the 9th Battalion of the East
Surrey Regiment” today.
1914: It
was reported today that Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. Ambassador at Constantinople
“has appealed to the State Department for additional funds for the relief of
American in the Ottoman Empire.”
1915: In
Woodmere, NY, attorney Edward Drucker and his wife gave birth to Carolyn
Elizabeth Drucker who became Carolyn Goodman after marrying civil engineer
Robert W. Goodman which was the name she was known as when she gained gamed
fame as the Manhattan clinical psychologist and mother of murdered civil rights
worker Andrew Goodman. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/18/us/18goodman.html?_r=1&
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/17/2007/death-of-carolyn-goodman-not-just-jewish-mother
1916(9th
of Tishrei, 5677): Erev Yom Kippur and Erev Shabbat
1916:
Appeals for funds are being made this evening in all Jewish houses of worship
on “behalf of the Russian and Polish Jews in the war zones of Europe.”
1916: At
Congregation Pincus Eliza on 95th Street General Sessions Judge
Rosalsky “made an appeal for contributions to the fund for the aid of Jewish
men, women and children affected by the war” which produced pledges of
approximately $10,000.
1916:
“Simon Samuel Frug, Yiddish Poet” published today reported the recent death of
the Jewish poet from the Ukraine who following pogroms “circulated a poetic
appeal asking for bread for the living and shrouds for the dead.”
1917(20th
of Tishrei, 5678) Sixth day of Sukkoth and Shabbat
1917: As
politicians sought to appeal to the Jewish vote on the Lower East Side William
Hard, a supporter of New York Mayor John Mitchell wrote in today’s New Republic that Socialist Morris
Hillquist who was Jewish had “a very considerable skill in the management of
practical negotiations and an excellent command of quotations from standard
authorities of his intellectual club and a manifest dislike for new and painful
ideas.
1917:
Today, during World War I, the 65th U.S. Congress passed an act that allowed
for the creation of an additional twenty chaplains to serve in the United
States Army. These positions were for
representatives of "religious sects" not usually represented in these
positions. The language of the act was
convoluted but what Congress was really doing was creating positions to be
filled by Jewish and Unitarian chaplains - religious sects that had hitherto
been under-represented or unrepresented in chaplaincy.
1918: In
Philadelphia, Manuel and Blanche (née Bergman) Korn gave birth to the Reform
Rabbi Bertram Wallace Korn whose service as a chaplain began with the U.S. Navy
in WW II and led to him reaching the rank of Rear Admiral in 1975.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0099/ms0099.html
1918:
Birthdate of Abraham Robinson the German born, Israeli trained mathematician
who earned his first degree from Hebrew University after he made Aliyah in
1933.
http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.bams/1183538895
1918: While
serving “on liaison duty with a battalion of the 308th Infantry
which was surrounded by the enemy north of the Forest de la Buironne in the
Argonne forest” and “after patrols had been repeatedly shot down while
attempting to carry back word of the battalion’s position and condition”
Abraham Krotoshinsky “volunteered for the mission and successfully accomplished
it” in such a manner that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
1918: On
the Lower East Side of Manhattan the former Jennifer Garlick and her first
husband gave birth to Joseph Nathaniel Glassman who gained fame as Joseph Frank
author of the five volume life of Fydor Dostoevsky which is viewed as one of
the greatest literary biographies of the 20th century. (As reported
by Bruce Weber)
1919:
Joseph Irving Pascal the Polish born son of Chaim Hchstein and Celia Rubinson who came to New York
City in 1901 where he earned two degrees at Columbia before graduating from the
Rochester School of Optometry and his wife Rose Pascal gave birth to Alma Read,
the wife of Myron Read.
1920:
Theresa Bruckner, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Bruckner is scheduled to
marry Stanley Lee Weil this evening at the St. Regis in New York City.
1920: The
High Commissioner for South Africa and Mrs. Blankenberg are scheduled to attend
a dinner for Dr. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of England and Albert M. Woolf today.
1921: In
Tel Aviv, Samuel Lewin-Epstein, the “son of Judith and Eliyahu Ze’ev Lewin
Epstein” and his wife “Madeline Lewin-Epstein” gave birth to “Noah
Lewin-Epstein”
1921: Great
Britain, the mandatory power governing Palestine, announced that Haifa will
become a free port and that a new harbor will be constructed by a British
company with a loan from the Palestine Mandatory Government of 10,000,000
English pounds. As part of a tariff agreement reached with the French, the
mandatory power governing Syria, goods entering Haifa bound for Syria will be
treated as duty free. This should be a
boon to trade with those living in Mesopotamia as well.
1921:
Birthdate of Soviet mathematician Yvgeny Landis who is known for his work on
partial differential equations. (I do
not have clue as to what that means)
1922(14th
of Tishrei, 5683): Erev Sukkoth
1922: “One
of the passengers arriving today from England on the Cunarder Carmania was
Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood, D.S.O., M.P., writer and Vice Chairman of the
British Labor Party, who has come to take part in a campaign for a fund to
finance the development of Palestine.”
1923:
Birthdate of Newark, NJ native Gideon Lichtman who became the first fighter
pilot in the young Israeli affair to shoot down an enemy fighter in aerial
combat, a feat that would make him a target for terrorists and force him use a
an assumed name while teaching high school in Florida for thirty years.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article204127679.html
1923: In
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, scrap metal dealer Isadore Block and his wife gave birth to
Allan Forrest Block “a leather craftsman and fiddler who made sandals and music
in his Greenwich Village shop — which became a bubbling hub of folk music
during the 1950s and ’60s.” (As reported
by Bruce Weber)
1924: In
the Bronx, Lillian and Nathan Ginsberg gave birth to Syracuse University
graduate Irma May Ginsberg who as Irma May Kalish, the wife of Austin Kalish
gained fame sitcom writer and producer at a time when women were all but frozen
out of these fields.
1925(17th
of Tishrei, 5686): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1925(17th
of Tishrei, 5686): “The noted Jewish scholar, Dr. Israel Abrahams, reader in
Talmudic and Rabbinic literature at Cambridge University passed away today in
Cambridge” (UK) at the age of 66. Dr. Abrahams came from a family of
scholars. “His father, Barnett Abrahams,
was the Dayan of the Spanish & Portuguese Congregation in London.” Two of his brothers are rabbis including Dr.
Joseph Abrahams, the Chief Rabbi of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Abrahams has been
at Cambridge for the last twenty three years.
He was the first President of the Union of Jewish Literary Societies and
held several leadership positions with the Jewish Historical Society of
England. Dr. Abrahams was a prolific author whose best known work maybe “Jewish
Life in the Middle Ages” which was published in 1896. In his later years he identified with the
more liberal wing of Judaism. Abrahams’
first speaking tour in the United States was in 1912. He returned again in
1924. [Abrahams comment that anti-Semitism is on the wane in Germany made in
1912 stands in stark contrast to the reality of the post war years.]
1925: In Manhattan, on his 32nd birthday, “Milton Ager,
a successful composer whose tunes included ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’” and his
wife “Cecilia, a film critic gave birth to Shana Ager who gained famed as
journalist Shana Alexander between known as the liberal part of the
Point/Counterpoint segment on “Sixty Minutes” with conservative columnist James
Kirkpatrick. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1926(28th of Tishrei, 5687): Fifty-four year old Horki
native Israel Joseph Zevin who gained fame as “a humorist and pioneer of the
Yiddish press in America” using the pseudonym “Tashrak” passed away today.
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33811
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tashrak
1926(28th of Tishrei, 5687): Eighty year old Simon
Bamberger the fourth governor of Utah who was the first non-Mormon to hold the
post and the third Jew to be elected to a state chief executive position passed
away today
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bamberger.html
1927(10th of Tishrei, 5688): Yom Kippur
1927: The
era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer,''
starring Al Jolson.
1927: Jewish editor Herman Bernstein post a $15,000 bond so that
Mordechai Golinkin, conductor of the Palestine Opera and former director of the
Petrograd Opera, his wife Lea and a fellow traveler can be released from their
three day detention on Ellis Island. Authorities
detained the party because Golinkin had no contracts to perform in the United
States which meant he did not meet the legal requirement of being able to
demonstrate that he had a means of support.
1928: In the aftermath of the Massena (NY) Blood Libel that Assemblyman
Julius Berg said that the apology by Mayor Gilbert Hawes “showed conclusively
that he had been guility of a serious injustice against the Jews of Messina.
Berg said no apology could make up for the wrong done and that unless the mayor
resigned he would go to court to have him removed from office. When a four year
child had been reported missing on the eve of Yom Kippur, the mayor had
suggested that the disappearance might be due to a ritual murder. This resulted in Rabbi Brennglass being
summoned to the police station for questioning.
1928(22nd of Tishrei, 5689) Shmini Atzeret
1928:
“The Wedding March” an
“American silent romantic drama film written and directed by and starring Erich
von Stroheim which was produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Laskey and edited by
Josef von Sternberg was released in the United States today by Paramount
Pictures.
1929: “Two prizes of $10,000 and $1,500 respectively for the best essays
on the Future of American Jewry have been offered by Julius Rosenwald of
Chicago, it was announced today the Dr. Samson Benderly of the Julius Rosenwald
Prize Essays Committee.”
1930: Allan Bloom, “the general secretary of the Jewish Community
Association of Indianapolis” is one of five of the delegates chosen to attend
the National Recreation Congress in Atlantic City which is scheduled to begin
today.
1931: “The laying of the cornerstone for the first home for the blind in
Palestine which his taking place today is scheduled to be observed in New York
today by the Palestine Lighthouse of which Mrs. Samuel D. Friedman is
president.
1932: It
was reported today that “during the last hundred years the world's Jewish
population has grown from 3,000,000 to 16,000,000, having quintupled in numbers
from 1825 to 1925, whereas Europe, America, South Africa and Australia
increased their population only three and a half times, according to figures
published in the current number of the Menorah Journal by Jakob Lestschinsky of
Berlin, an authority on Jewish demography.”
1933:
Birthdate of Ludwik Begleiter, the native of Stryj, Poland who survived the
Holocaust, graduated from Harvard Law School and who as Louis Begley became a
successfully and author whose first book Wartime Lies was published in
1991.
1934:
Birthdate of Philadelphia born, Ivy League educated philosopher and author
Jacob Needelman.
http://www.jacobneedleman.com/
1934(27th
of Tishrei, 5695): Parashat Bereshit – The Cycle beings again
1934(27th
of Tishrei, 5695): Max Yuditzky, who joined the Jewish Legion in 1918 and
served in Palestine with the 38th Royal Fusiliers passed away today
in Winnipeg, Canada, where his passing is mourned by “his wife Katee and four
son” Dave, Harold, Joseph and Bernard.”
1935(9th
of Tishrei, 5696): Erev Yom Kippur
1935(9th
of Tishrei, 5696): Eighty-three year old composer and conductor Sir Frederic
Hymen Cowen passed away.
http://www.btinternet.com/~john.parker17/index.html
1935: Daniel Persky, editor of the Hebrew-language newspaper
Hadoar and its sister publication for youth, Doar L’Noar wrote to Aliza Dworkin
that ““In my opinion, Sara Kucikowicz’s future will be that of a great Hebrew
poet,” who wrote “The Cruel Winter” and “The Vicious Spring.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/young-holocaust-victims-poems-hint-at-what-might-have-been/
1936(20th of
Tishrei, 5697): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1936: Birthdate of
Budapest native John Bienenstock, “one of the fathers of mucosal immunology”
whose parents escaped to England where he received his medical education before
eventually settling in Canada
https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083419/http://cdnmedhall.org/dr-john-bienenstock
http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/medicine/Immunology_Allergy/faculty_member_bienenstock.htm
1936:
Sir Oswald Mosley planned a provocative meeting of
his British Union of Fascists in the East End for today. The inhabitants of the
area determined that ''They shall not pass!'' and congregated at Gardner's
Corner. When in response Mosley and his Black Shirts, with a fair degree of
police support, changed direction, the protesters dashed along the Commercial
Road, surged down Christian Street and turned right into Cable Street. At the
junction with Royal Mint Street, now marked by a plaque, the Fascists indeed
''did not pass.'' They were later ordered to disperse, and Mosley thundered:
''The government surrenders to Red violence and Jewish corruption. We never
surrender.'' In fact, Fascism in Britain, at least as an organized political
movement, was soon a dead letter.
1936: Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson led the funeral services for Jesse
Isidor Straus this morning at Temple Emanuel which were attended by an array of
dignitaries from several walks of life including Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt who
represented the President, Governor and Mrs. Lehman, Mayor La Guardia and Andre
de Laboulaye, the French Ambassador which served as a reminder of the close
links that Straus had forged with that country while serving as the U.S.
Ambassador in Paris.
1936: The
New York City Public School system announced today that it is beginning a
series of radio broadcasts as part of its educational efforts. Among the
broadcasts will be a series aimed at language students including those studying
Hebrew who will hear programs about Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the Waves of
Galilee.
1936: In
Geneva, at a meeting of the League of Nations, the Polish representative said
that it was becoming increasingly necessary to find outlets other than
Palestine for the “immense reservoir of the Jewish population in Central and
Eastern Europe” and that includes Poland where “overpopulation creates a need
for new immigration outlets for the Jewish masses whose economic structure
makes it difficult to integrate them in Poland’s contemporary social
evolution.”
1936: It
was reported that Judge Bleakly, the Republican running against Herbert Lehmann
for Governor of New York and who had “described David Dubinsky” the Jewish
labor leader “as a renegade Socialist who sent money to the Reds in Spain” was
making an erroneous charges since “the funds raised by the president of the of
International Ladies Garment Workers went not to the Reds but to the Red Cross
1937: The Palestine Post reported from Berlin
that German Jews might soon be ordered to wear yellow badges. Jews were ordered
to report to local police stations where they were forced to stand for hours,
facing the wall, until they collapsed and were ready to give up their property
for nothing.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that he Arab
Defense Party, which had broken away from the Husseini-run Arab Higher
Committee, was allowed to meet in Jerusalem, under the chairmanship of Ragheb
Bey Nashashibi.
1938: “Fast and
Furious, a mystery comedy” written by Harry Kurnitz was released in the United
States today by MGMm
1938: The last casualty
of the International Brigades, Haskel Honigstern, was given a state funeral in
Barcelona. The Spanish poet Jose Herrera wrote of him: "Haskel Honigstern,
Polish worker of the Jewish race, son of an obscure land, killed in the light
of my homeland." Coincidentally, the first casualty of the International
Brigades was Leon Baum, a Jew from Paris
1939: In an address to the Reichstag, Hitler offers peace to
England and France, but only if Germany's former colonies are returned, Germany
is allowed to join world trade, and Britain and France allow Germany to solve
the "Jewish problem."
1939: In Bucharest, “the Zionist organization announced today that Jewish
refugees from Poland between the ages of 14 and 17 are being allowed to enter
Palestine and that negotiations to obtain entrance permits for the remained of
the Polish Jewish refugees hare are proceeding.”
1939: “Ninotchoka” a romantic comedy that was thinly veiled satire of the
Soviet Union “based on a screen story by Melichor Lengyel, produced and
directed by Ernst Lubitsch with a script by Billy Wilder, co-starring Melvyn
Douglas and featuring Alexander Granach was released in the United States by
MGM.
1940(4th of Tishrei, 5701): Tzom Gedaliah
1940: Birthdate of music manager Gerald Eugene “Jerry” Heller, the
Cleveland, Ohio native who was a driving force behind rap and “gangsta rap.”
1940: “The United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs” is
scheduled to “present a high holiday broadcast” today “at 2:35 p.m. over the
WABC-Columbia network.
1940(4th of Tishrei, 5701): Illinois Governor Henry Horner passed away
today at the age of 62. Horner was a
distinguished jurist before entering state politics as a reformer. Henry Levy
was the son of Solomon Levy and Dilah Horner.
When his parents divorced, his mother resumed using her maiden name and
young Levy became Horner.
1941(15th of Tishrei, 5702): First Day of Sukkoth
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/october/07.asp
1941(15th of Tishrei, 5702): Over the next 48 hours, the majority of
Jews in Dvinsk, Latvia, are murdered.
1941(15th of Tishrei, 5702): Phillip Manson, a one-time
Rochester newspaper boy and advisor to Presidents Wilson and Harding, who
“started the first regular steamship service between New York and Bermuda and
who was the husband of Isabelle Manson passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/10/07/87679319.pdf
1941(15th of Tishrei, 5702): In Kovno, 1,500 Jews without work passes were
taken away to be shot. The Kovno hospital was sealed shut and burned to the
ground with everyone still in it.
1941: It was reported
today that Dr. Benjamin Harrow, author of “Jews who Have Received the Nobel
Prize” and Chemistry Professor Dr. Harry Wagreich have received a grant from
the medical fund of the Ella Sachs Plotz Foundation.
1942: “Twenty-five
service flags, each studded with stars representing members of congregations
affiliated with the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues, were massed today
at a special service at the Central Synagogue, Fifty-fifth Street and Lexington
Avenue.”
1942: As the United
States stopped to mark the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor,
“Rabbi Israel Goldstein, president of the Synagogue Council of America said ‘As
we pray in our Sabbath services for the safety of our men and women in uniform
and for victory, let us gird ourselves for victory by deed. The free will to
sacrifice is the test of worthiness to be free.”
1943: Helen
Manaster a Jew posing as a Catholic, was called out of the delivery room in the
Kraków, Poland, hospital while in the throes
labor pains to face two Gestapo agents. She keeps her calm and the
Gestapo agents tell her to go back to bed.
1943: “In the Posen
town hall” Heinrich Himmler delivers a speech in which he openly admits to the
extermination of the Jews assuring this listeners that “The Jewish question in the countries that we occupy will be solved by the end of
this year. Only remainders of odd Jews that managed to find hiding places will
be left over."
1943: Sixty-four-year-old Ignacz Trebitsh the son of Paks, Hungary
merchant, who left his native land in 1896, converted to Christianity and led a
life as Lincoln Trebitsch whose remarkable life included serving three years in
a British jail for being a German spy and as an MP from Darlington passed away
today in Shanghai.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Lives-Trebitsch-Lincoln/dp/0300040768
1943: This is “The Day
the Rabbis Marched on Washington.” Dr. Rafael Medoff‘s article describes one
attempt to save the Jews of Europe. That
they did not succeed is beside the point in terms of the historic record; they
made the attempt. Each time we read of
these “small” efforts, we cannot help but wonder what a concerted effort might
have brought. The Jews of Europe Save or
the Jews of America condemned as putting their own parochial interests ahead of
the war effort?
http://wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-10-rabbi.php
1944(19th of Tishrei, 5705): During Sukkoth Chol
Hamoed, a two day uprising begins at Auschwitz. Sonderkommando
Jews from Poland, Hungary, and Greece, who are forced to transport gassed
corpses to crematoria at Auschwitz, attack SS guards with hammers, stones,
picks, crowbars, and axes. They also blow up one of the four crematoria with
explosives smuggled into the camp from a nearby munitions factory. Russian POWs
throw an SS man alive into a crematorium furnace. The SS fights back with
machine guns, hand grenades, and dogs. 250 Jews are shot outside the camp wire.
An additional 12 who escape will later be found and executed.
1945(29th
of Tishrei, 5706): Parashat Bereshit
1945:
Leonardo Conti, the Reich Health Leader, the doctor who betrayed his oath by
taking a leading role in the Nazi euthanasia program committed suicide today
before he could be tried for his crimes.
1946:
Eleven kibbutz settlements were established in a single night.
1946: Urim,
a kibbutz located in the Negev, was established today.
1946:
Kibbutz Beeri which “which was named after Berl Katznelson” was established
today “near Wadi Nahabir, a few kilometers south of Be’erot Yitzhak” by
“members of the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed movement.”
1946:
Kibbutz Kedma, in south-central Israel, was founded today.
1946: Dan
Zur was amont those who founded Kibbutz Nirim, “which named after the Nir
brigade of the Hashomer Hatzair” today in the Negev.
1946:
Kibbutz Neavtim, which would hold out against the Egyptian Army despite being
completely surrounded during the War of Independence, was founded today “by
immigrants from Hungary in the northern Negev.
1946:
Kibbutz “Hatzerim” which is “located 8 kilometers west of Beersheba in the
Negev desert in Israel” was founded today.
1946: Mishmar HaNegev was established today by members of
Borochovi Youth, a youth group affiliated with Poalei Zion,
1946:
Establishment of Kfar Darom, not far from Gaza. Two years later, attacking
Egyptian forces would capture the Kibbutz after a prolonged siege.
1946:
Tkuma, a moshav located in the Negev whose original settlers were Holocaust
surviors, was established today.
1946:
Kibbutz Gal-On (Monument of Strength)
“which stands on a hill approximately twenty kilometers from the
Mediterranean Sea” was founded today by members from Poland some of whom had
survived the wartime ghettos or had fought as partisans against the
Germans. The name was a memorial to
those who had died in the Ghetto revolts.
1946:
Shoval, named for a nearby ancient biblical town, was established by South
African Jews sixteen miles north of Beersheba.
To deal with the harsh climate the kibbutzim used contour plowing and
built a modern reservoir. While
cultivating the land, they also cultivated good relations with the Bedouin who
passed through the area.
1946: “Bill
Steiner, representing the Maccabiah club of New York, captured the U.S.
national title in the 30 kilometer run today” with a time of 1 hour, 38 minutes
and 2 seconds. Steiner’s win was no fluke.
He had won the AAU 20 mile run in Philadelphia in 1932 and won the
Maccabiah marathon championship in Tel Aviv in 1935.
1947(22nd
of Tishrei, 5708): Shmini Atzeret
1947(22nd
of Tishrei, 5708): Just two days before his 57th birthday composer
and screenwriter Samuel “Sam” Hoffenstein whose most famous work was “The
Wizard of Oz” passed away today.
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6xs5whh
1947: After
having opened at the National Theatre in 1946 and moved to the Majestic Theatre
in July of 1947, Call
Me Mister,” a revue with words and music by Harold Rome and a cast that
included Jules Munshin continued its Broadway run at the Plymouth Theatre.
1948:
Frederick Sylvester, a former employee of the Jerusalem Electric Corporation
was found guilty of espionage in connection the Ben Yehuda Street Bombing and
was sentenced to seven years in prison.
1949(13th
of Tishrei, 5710): Sixty-two year old major league outfielder Guy Zinn who
played from 1911 through 1915 and who scored the first run at Fenway Park, home
of the Red Sox, passed away today.
1949: “The
Heiress,” the film version of the 1947 play, directed and produced by William
Wyler was released today in the United States.
1949: In
New York City, “Josephine (Schleifer) Moonves, a nurse, and Herman Moonves gave
birth to Leslie Roy “Les Moonves who in 2018 “stepped down as President and CEO
of CBS after being named in multiple, credible claims of sexual harassment.
1949(13th
of Tishrei, 5710: Fifty-five year old Rumanian native and NYU trained dentist
Dr. Moses Diamond, a professor of dental anatomy at Columbia University’s
College of Dental and Oral Surgery who raised a son, Eli, with his wife Frances
Goodman Diamond passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/10/07/84222951.pdf
1950:
Birthdate of science fiction author David Brin.
1951(6th of
Tishrei, 5712): Shabbat Shuva
1951(6th of
Tishrei, 5712): Otto Fritz Meyerhof,
German born American physician and biochemist passed away. Mayerhof shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in
Medicine with Archibald Vivian Hill.
Meyerhof left Germany in 1938, settling in Philadelphia in 1941 where he
joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/10/08/91130525.html?pageNumber=18
1952: “The Mousetrap” a
very successful play by Agatha Christie and which provided the inspiration for producer
Stephen Waley-Cohen to establish the theatrical education charity Mousetrap
Theatre Projects which helps young people experience London's theatre “had its
world premiere at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham” today.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
Prof. Nelson Glueck was invited by the Israel Exploration Society to head a
projected 10-year archeological survey of Israel. Nelson Glueck was one of the
great names among the archeologists working in Israel. Born in 1900,
Glueck graduated from the University of Cincinnati and earned his PhD from the
University of Jena (Germany) in 1926. During his career he uncovered over
1,000 sites in the Middle East including the copper mines of King Solomon and
the Red Sea port of Ezion Geber. Glueck's discoveries provided
archeological verification for information found in the Bible. In 1947,
Glueck was named President of Hebrew Union College. One of his most
famous and popular books was Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev,
published in 1959. Glueck's fame was such that he appeared on the cover of Time magazine in December, 1963,
under the title "The Search for Man's Past." Glueck passed away
in 1971.
1953(27th
of Tishrei, 5714): Seventy-nine year old Moshe Smilansky, the Ukrainian native
who became part of the first Aliyah when he moved to Palestine in 1890, who
served with the Jewish Legion during WW I and “who considered himself a
disciple of Ahad Ha’aim passed ways today.
http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13843
1953(27th
of Tishrei, 5714):
Doctor Rahel Hirsch the German born doctor who became
the first woman in the Kingdom of Prussia to be appointed as a professor in
medicine passed away. Born in 1870 in Frankfurt am Main, she was one of eleven
children of Mendel Hirsch, the director of the girls’ school of the Jewish
religious community in Frankfurt am Main. From 1885 to 1889, she took a degree
in education in Wiesbaden. She then worked until 1898 as a teacher. After her
doctorate she was assistant to Friedrich Kraus at Charité. Since she was
Jewish, the takeover by the Nazis meant she could not practice medicine. In
October of 1938 she moved to London, where one of her sisters lived. Since her
degree was not recognized by the British, she worked as a laboratory assistant
and later as a translator. The last years she spent plagued by depression,
delusions and persecutory fears. She was in a mental hospital on the outskirts
of London, where she died on October 6, 1953 at 83 years old.
1955(20th
of Tishrei, 5714): Chol HaMoed Sukkoth
1955(20th
of Tishrei, 5714): Sixty year old English poet John Rodker, one of the
“Whitechapel Boys” passed away today.
1956: Prime
Minister David Ben Gurion rejects Moshe Dayan’s demand for a reprisal raid,
assuring his chief of staff that plans were in the works for a major operation
against the Egyptians.
1957:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Malinow & Silverman
Mortuary on Venice Blvd. for Arthur (Artie) Auerbach best known for his comedic
role of “Mr. Kitzel who was survived by his widow Mrs. Doris Auerbach.
1959: NBC
broadcast “The Wonderful World of Entertainment” the first episode of
“Startime” with a script by Larry Gelbart and starring Polly Bergin.
1959(4th
of Tishrei, 5720): Ninety-four year old Lithuanian born American art critic
Bernard Berenson who was baptized as an Episcopalian and who was the prototype
for a character in Wouk’s Winds of War passed away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Berenson
1960(15th
of Tishrei, 5721): Sukkoth
1961: Vic
Morrow “appeared in an episode of the ABC drama series “Target: The
Corruputers.
1962(8th of Tishrei, 5723): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1962(8th of Tishrei, 5723): Eighty-five-year-old Dr. Leopold
David Weiss, the Appleton, WI born son of Cecilia Steiner and Rabbi Mayer
Samuel Weiss and the husband of Sady Glautz Weiss whom he married in 1917 and a
brother of magician Harry Houdini passed away today in Manhattan after which he
was buried at the Machpelah Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
1962: After 677 performances at the Brooks Atkinson the curtain came down
on the original Broadway production of Neil Simon’s first play “Come Blow Your
Horn.”
1963: Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
1963: Sandy Koufax leads the LA Dodgers to a four
game sweep of the Yanks in the 60th World Series. Koufax pitched victories against Yankee ace
Whitey Ford in games one and four.
1964(30th
of Tishrei, 5725): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1964(30th
of Tishrei, 5725): Fifty-six year old who reached the rank of staff sergeant in
WW II where his work of preparing paratroopers’ equipment included using his
tailor skills to work on parachutes died of a heart attack today which led to
his family memorializing his life fifty years later by donating a Torah written
in his honor the USS Gerald R. Ford, “the U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier.”
(As reported by Rich Tenorio)
1965(10th
of Tishrei, 5726): Yom Kippur
1965: It
was reported today from “Jerusalem, Israeli Sector” that “that the 25 hours of
fasting and worship will last until this evening.” (Editor’s Note – The use of
the term “Israeli Sector” when used in terms of Jerusalem may sound strange to
some. But this report was filed during those 19 years when Jordan illegally
occupied the Old City in violation of UN resolutions passed in 1947 –
violations which brought no condemnation from the World Community nor any
accompanying demand to turn the city over to the local Arab population.)
1965(10th
of Tishrei, 5726: Romania native Marcus Elie Ravage who “at the age of 16 came
to New York’s Lower East Side and worked as a peddler, bartender and in a
sweatshop as he struggled to learn English in night school” after he went on to
a career as an author whose seminal work was the autobiographical An American
in the Making passed away today/
1965: Sandy
Koufax refuses to pitch in the first game of the World Series because it is Yom
Kippur. “In October 1965, the Los Angeles Dodgers were playing the Minnesota
Twins in the World Series. The opening game was on Yom Kippur and Sandy Koufax,
who had won 26 games that season and struck out 382 batters to set a major
league record, did not pitch for his team. Koufax was not treated with respect
by the local press in St. Paul. He did pitch the second game and lost, but won
the fifth and seventh games (both complete game shutouts), and the Dodgers won
the World Series. Koufax won the Cy Young Award three times, as well as being
voted the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1963. In 1965 he pitched a
perfect game against the Chicago Cubs, the fourth no-hitter of his career.
Koufax is considered by many to be one of the greatest pitchers of all time.”
1966(22nd
of Tishrei, 5727): Shmini Atzeret
1966(22nd
of Tishrei, 5727): Eighty-year-old Benjamin N. Dorman who had been with Kings
Country Surrogate’s Court since 1908, retiring
as the deputy chief clerk of that institution and the husband of Blanche
Rosenthal with whom he had one child – attorney and Board of Higher Education
member Mrs. Gladys M. Raphael – suffered a fatal heart attack today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/10/07/83547005.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1966(22nd
of Tishrei, 5727): Sixty-two year old Carl Mandell, the Hungarian born son of
Jacob and Sarah Mandell passed away today.
1967(2nd
of Tishrei, 5728): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1967(2nd
of Tishrei, 5728): Eighty-nine year old Woodbury, KY native Admiral Claude
Charles Bloch, a veteran of the Spanish American War, the Boxer Rebellion and
two World Wars and the Commandant of the 14th Naval District at the
time of the attack on Pearl Harbor who raised a daughter, Ethel, with his wife
Augusta passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/07/83152080.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1968:
Eighty-nine year old Maurice Arnold de Forest passed. He was the adopted son of
the millionaire Baroness Clara de Hirsch, née Bischoffsheim, wife of Jewish
banker and philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch de Gereuth and/or the
illegitimate son of Juliette Arnold de Forest fathered by the Baron. Regardless, the motor car race, aviator and
British politician converted to Catholicism
1969: NBC
broadcast episode for of “My World…and Welcome to it” created by Melville
Shavelson, co-starring Harold J. Stone.
1969: “The
Royal Hunt of the Sun,” the film version of Peter Shaffer’s play with a
screenplay by Phili Yordan was released in the United States today.
1969:
Israeli officials reported today that three Egyptian MIGs (Soviet built
warplane) had been shot down in a battle over the Suez Canal.
1970(28th
of Tevet, 5730): Seventy year old Edith Halpert, the Odessa born wife of Samuel
Halpert and not art dealer and collector who is best known as the owner of the
Downtown Gallery passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/halpert-edith-gregor
1973(10th
of Tishrei, 5734): Normal life grinds to
a halt in Israel on Yom Kippur which also happens to fall on Shabbat.
1973: At
1973: Prime
Minister Golda Meir convened an emergency meeting in Tel Aviv with senior
defense officials at 8:05 this morning.
Six hours before the outbreak of the war, Israeli preparations for a
general offensive by Arab armies finally began. The warnings of the
intelligence source were being taken seriously, as was the fact that the
Russians were pulling families out of Egypt and Syria, a sign of approaching
war. But U.S. intelligence was not predicting war. Minister Yisrael Galili said
a source had suggested the war could be prevented by leaking information that would
reach the Egyptians and Syrians, so they would knew their plans for attack had
been discovered. The Israeli officials at the meeting were concerned about
Jordan because it wasn't clear if the kingdom would join in the assault on
Israel. Initially, Mrs. Meir deliberated between Chief of Staff Elazar's call
for a full mobilization of the reserves and Moshe Dayan's request for a limited
call-up. "If you approve a major mobilization of the reserves, I won't
resign," Dayan said. But with an eye to international reaction, he added,
"A full mobilization before even one shot is fired - they will say right
away that we are the aggressors." At 9:20 A.M., a full mobilization was
approved.
1973: War
erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom
Kippur holiday. The two Arab states attacked with hundreds of planes and more
than a thousand tanks. By the end of the day, the Egyptians have established
three bridgeheads across the Suez, Syrian artillery is shelling Israeli
settlements and Israelis were being told to black out their windows in case of
an air raid. By the end of the day
200,000 Israeli soldiers, most of whom were mobilizing reservists faced 300,000
Syrians and 850,000 Egyptians.
1973:
According to ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak he personally started the
Yom Kippur War today “by attacking an Israeli communications base in his
fighter jet six minutes before the rest of the Arab Armies’ surprise attack on
the Jewish state began.” (As reported by Naama Barak)
1973:
On the first night of the Yom Kippur War five
boats led by flotilla commander Michael Barkai sailed north to engage in the
first-ever missile battle at sea off the main Syrian port of Latakia. The
feisty Barkai told his captains that their objective was to draw the Syrian
missile boats out of harbor. "If they don't come out, I mean to sail in
and get them with guns." Two Syrian picket boats were encountered well off
the Syrian coast. The first, a torpedo boat, was sunk with gunfire. The second,
a minesweeper, was hit with missiles, the Gabriel's first blood. Three Syrian
missile boats already at sea turned to meet the intruders. With their
25-kilometer advantage, the Syrians got in the first salvo. The Israeli boats
raised their electronic umbrella and charged. In naval headquarters, officers
monitoring Barkai's radio net heard him report the Syrian launch. His voice was
level but taut. Herut Tzemah braced. The lives of 200 men as well as the fate
of the missile boat program hung now on whether he had assessed the Styx's
parameters correctly. The radio remained silent for the two minutes it took for
the Syrian missiles to complete their flight. Then Barkai's voice. "They
missed." The three Syrian boats ran for harbor, but one, the only one with
missiles remaining, turned on the closest Israeli pursuer. As the two boats
raced at each other, the Syrian fired first. The Israeli vessel again put up
its electronic and chaff umbrella and at maximum Gabriel range launched two
missiles. The Styx and Gabriel missiles passed each other, the former hitting
the sea, the latter exploding on the deck of the Syrian vessel. A second Syrian
boat was sunk a few moments later. The Soviet-built vessels had no
countermeasures and were doomed once the Israelis reached Gabriel range. The captain
of the third Syrian boat, realizing the situation, ran his vessel onto the
shore to escape.
1973: Shmuel Gonen who had “inherited the IDF
Southern Command from Arik Sharon” on July 15, faced an Egyptian force of five
infantry divisions, three mechanized divisions and two armored divisions that
included 1,400 tanks with one division at the front that included 294 tanks.(As
reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
1973: The 162nd Division under the
command of Major General Avraham Adan began the first three days of desperate
attempts to drive the Egyptians back across the Suez Canal.
1973(10th of Tishrei, 5734): Yadin Tannenbaum, a young flautist was killed
in 1973 while fighting in the Yom Kippur war. The 1981 Halil, Leonard
Bernstein’s nocturne for flute, percussion, and strings, it is dedicated “to
the spirit of Yadin and to His Fallen Brothers.”
1973: For action today simply described as delaying enemy
armor, Captain Zvika Greengold earned Israel’s Medal of Valor. The events that
earned him Israel’s highest commendation are as follows.
Twenty-one-year-old Lieutenant Greengold was home on
leave when Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attack on two
fronts. He was not attached to any unit as he was about to take a course for
company commanders. Once he realized war had broken out, he hitchhiked to
Nafekh, a command center and important crossroads in the Golan Heights, where
he initially helped with the wounded, as no tanks were available. When two
damaged Centurion tanks were repaired, Greengold was put in charge of them and
sent with hastily-assembled scratch crews down the Tapline Road.
Greengold's "Koah Zvika" (Zvika Force) spotted
Syrian tanks belonging to the 51st Independent Tank Brigade of the Syrian Army
which had broken through the line and were advancing unopposed northwest along
the road to Nafekh. Greengold's two tanks engaged the opposing T-55s at 2100
hours, with Greengold destroying six. Later, he had lost contact with his other
tank when he spotted the advancing 452nd Tank Battalion. He engaged the enemy,
taking advantage of the darkness and moving constantly to fool the Syrians into
thinking the opposition was stronger than it was. Greengold destroyed or
damaged ten enemy armored vehicles before the confused Syrians withdrew,
believing they were facing a sizable force. Even Greengold's superiors were
deceived; as the fighting wore on, he did not dare report how weak he actually
was over the radio for fear it would be intercepted; at best he could only hint
"the situation isn't good". At a time when Force Zvika was only one
tank, Colonel Yitzhak Ben-Shoham, the brigade commander, assumed it to be
"of at least company strength". For the next 20 hours, he fought,
sometimes alone, sometimes in conjunction with other tanks, displaying an
uncanny knack for showing up again and again at the critical moment to tip the
scales of a skirmish. He had to change vehicles "half a dozen times"
as his tanks were knocked out. He soldiered on, even after he was wounded and
burned. When Nafekh itself came under attack from a fresh force of T-62s, he
rushed over to bolster the defense. In a lull in the fighting, an exhausted
Greengold got out of his latest tank and dropped to the ground, murmuring,
"I can't anymore." Afterward, he claimed 20 enemy tanks destroyed;
other estimates place his tally at 40 or more.
1973: “The Syrian 7th Infantry Division attacked the Israeli
7th Armored Brigade in the area between Mount Hermon and a southern ridge known
as "Booster" in Israel” in what was the first day of the Battle for
the Valley of Tears.
1973: “Rabbis throughout” New York City interrupted…Yom
Kippur service…to tell their congregations about the outbreak of war in the
Middle East and to offer special prayers for Israel.
1974: Rose Kushner’s “first major article on the topic of breast cancer
was published in The Washington Post”
today.
1974: Soviet authorities allowed 90 Jews “to hold picnic in the woods
outside Moscow in celebration of the festival of Succoth”
1977(24th of Tishrei, 5738): Ninety-eight-year-old Lithuania native Samuel H. Siegel, the author and artist
who in 1904 came to the United Staes where he settled in New Brunswick, NJ and joined
the Yiddish Workmen’s Circle while serving as editor of The Banner.
1977: The West End production of “I Love My Wife” with a book and lyrics
by Michael Steward, music by Cy Coleman and directed by Gene Sakes opened today
at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
1978(5th of Tishrei, 5739): Jacob Grobstein, the husband of
Sarah Grobstein with whom he had four children – Albert, Selma, Howard and
Harry – passed away today in Youngstown, OH.
1978: “Goin’ Coconuts” “a musical comedy directed by Howard “Howie”
Morris was released in Hawaii today.
1979(15th of Tishrei, 5740): Sukkoth and Shabbat.
1980: “Refuseniks Yacov Ariev and Haim Solovey from Riga, and Isai Minkin
from Moscow, began a hunger in protest against the authorities’ refusal to
grant them exit visas.”
1981: Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Moslem fanatics angered by the
peace treaty with Israel. Sadat was murdered on the 14th anniversary
of the Yom Kippur War.
1981: Israel, using the United States as a go between to gain
Saudi cooperation, rescued a grounded Israeli missile ship from a sandbar off
the coast of Saudi Arabia, Israeli military sources said today.
1983:
During the Israel bank stock crisis, “Black Thursday.”
1984(10th
of Tishrei, 5745): Yom Kippur
1985(21st
of Tishrei, 5746): Hoshanah Rabah
1985(21st
of Tishrei, 5746): Seventy-nine year old Czech engineer Vilém Klíma passed away
today.
1986: CBS
broadcast the first episode of “My Sister Sam” co-starring Rebecca Schaeffer
1986: NBC
broadcasts the first episode of the 6th Season of the “Cosby Show,”
a sit-com created by Ed Weinberger.
1989:
“Drugstore Cowboy” with a score by Elliot Goldenthal was released in the United
States today.
1990:
“American Dream” a documentary directed by Barbara Kopple who produced the film
along with Arthur Cohn premiered today at the New York Film Festival.
1991:
Elizabeth Taylor who had converted to Judaism in 1959 a year after her husband
Michael Todd had died in a plane wreck, married her seventh husband today.
1991:
During the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Nominee Clarence Thomas,
Nina Totenberg filed a report on NPR outlining claims by Anita Hill that she
had been the victim of sexual harassment by the nominee. (Totenberg was Jewish; the other two were
note)
1993:
“Marilyn” an opera by Ezra Laderman premiered at City Opera.
1994: Tova
Blitz wrote a letter today historian Martin Gilbert today in which she
described “a whimsical moment in the maternity ward of a Toronto hospital” on
VE Day when she “Tova Blitz gave birth to her son while a Mrs. Berlin gave
birth to her son
1995: Two
days after premiering at the New York Film Festival, “Kicking and Screaming”
directed by Noah Baumbach and co-starring Eliot Gould was released in the
United States today.
1995:
“Assassins” produced and directed by Richard Donner was released in the United
States today.
1995:
Melissa Gilbert gave birth to a son whom she named Michael, in honor of Michael
Landon, her “father” Little House on the Prairie a slice of Americana in which
Jews played a key creative role.
1996(23rd
of Tishrei, 5757): Simchat Torah
1996: The New York Times features Meyer
Levin’s review of The Diary
of a Young Girl by Anne
Frank
1997(5th
of Tishrei, 5758): Eighty year old Yevgeny Khaldei the Soviet combat
photographer best known for the iconic picture of a Russian soldier raising a
flag over the Reichstag at the end of the Battle of Berlin passed away today.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstag_flag_original.jpg
(This means
that three of the iconic photos of WWII were taken by Jews, the others being
Joe Rosenthal and Robert Capa)
1998(16th
of Tishrei, 5759): Second Day of Sukkoth
1998(16th
of Tishrei, 5759): Eighty-five year old Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and
author Jerome Weidman passed away today. (As reported by Mel Gussow)
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/07/theater/jerome-weidman-dies-at-85-author-of-novels-and-plays.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/07/theater/jerome-weidman-dies-at-85-author-of-novels-and-plays.html
1999:
A
75-year-old American woman sued the Hungarian Government today for the return
of art masterpieces looted by Nazis from the Jews and now held by Budapest
museums, lawyers said. Martha Nierenberg, granddaughter of Baron Maurice
Herzog, who once owned a Budapest mansion filled with art valued today at $10
million to $20 million, filed the suit in Budapest City Court, the lawyers
said..
2000: CBS
broadcast the first episode of the original CSI
(later known as CSI Las Vegas) a long-running cerebral crime series
created by Antony E. Zuker and brought to the small screen by executive
producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Carol Mendelsohn
2000: U.S.
premiere of “Meet the Parents” directed by Jay Roach with a score by Randy
Newman and a script co-authored by Jim Hamburg.
2000(7th
of Tishrei, 5761): Fifty-four year old Bachor Jann was killed by stone-throwing
Palestinians on the Coastal Highway near Jisr az-Zarqa
2000: After
having premiered at Cannes in May, “Requiem for a Dream,” an American
psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky was released today in the
United States.
2001: In
response to the killing of three Israelis and wounding of 13 by a Palestinian
who opened fire on disembarking at a bus station in Afula, “Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon sent troops, tanks and Apache helicopters against Palestinian
gunmen here.”
2002:
Today, Ruth Gruber, who had worked to bring European Jews to a safe haven in
Oswego, NY, helped to “dedicate the Safe Haven Museum” which houses of library
named in her honor.
2002: The New York Times featured a review of Mr.
Strangelove, Ed Sikov’s biography of Peter Sellers the son of a Jewish
mother and a descendant of famed Anglo-Jewish prize fighter Daniel Mendoza.
2003(10th
of Tishrei, 5674): Yom Kippur
2003: Aviel Barclay has
become the first certified Soferet, or female Torah scribe. (As reported by
Jewish Women’s Archive)
2004(21st of
Tishrei, 5765): Hoshana Raba
2004: Two Israelis and
an American, Aaron Ciechanover, 57, and Avram Hershko, 67, both of the
Technion, in Haifa, and Irwin Rose, 78, of the University of California at
Irvine. were awarded the Nobel Prize in
chemistry today for their work in discovering how unwanted proteins in humans
are given "the kiss of death" and sent for destruction
2005: U.S. Air Force
Academy Michael Weinstein sued the United States Air Force for failing to
prevent religious proselytizing in the U.S. Air Force.
2005: The High Court of
Justice established the absolute illegality of using Palestinian civilians in a
military operation, whether in the "neighbor procedure" or the
related "early warning procedure."
2005: The
Jerusalem Post reported that two Israelis have undergone successful
transplants over Rosh Hashana, in Israel and in Europe.
2005:
In the Jewish Journal, Jonathan Kellerman who along with his wife Faye, are
writers of murder mysteries, publishes “Boy Do We Need Teshuvah Now!”
http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/boy_do_we_need_teshuvah_now_20051007
2006(14th
of Tishrei, 5767): Erev Sukkoth and Erev Shabbat
2006:
“Little Children” co-starring Gregg Edelman and featuring Rebeca Schull was
released in the United States today by New Line Cinema.
2006:
Robert Adler's latest patent application was filed on today for his work on
touch-screen technology
2007(24th
of Tishrei, 5768): Parshat Bereshit – the cycle begins again.
2007:
In an article entitled “D.M. synagogue’s all-female leaders a rare feat,” the
AP reports that Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Des Moines is unique among
Conservative Congregations because it boasts
both a female rabbi and a female cantor.
Rabbi Beryl Pador and Cantor Deborah Bletstein make up this dynamic
duo. Rabbi Pador had been leading the
congregation for several years when the decision was made to hire Cantor
Bletstein in time for the 2007 High Holiday season. In the Mid-Continent Region of the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism which is composed of 48 congregations only
one other has a female lead rabbi and only two others have female cantors.
2007: “A Priest Methodically Reveals Ukrainian Jews’
Fate” published today, Elaine Sciolino describes the efforts of a French Roman
Catholic Priest named Patrick Desbois to discover and document the fate of the
Ukrainian Jews.
2007: The New
York Times featured a review of Francisco Goldman’s The Art of Political
Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
2008(7th of Tishrei, 5769): Ninety-four
year old anti-Zionist Alfred Lilienthal passed away today.
http://www.realnews247.com/alfred_lilienthal.htm
http://mondoweiss.net/2008/10/alfred-lilienthal-prophetic-anti-zionist-writer-is-dead/
2008: At
Rutgers University in New Jersey, Arie Nesher, architect, city planner and
professor at Tel Aviv University delivers an address entitled “Politics of the
Environment in Israel and the Region” as part of the Ruth Ellen Steinman
Bloustein and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture series.
2008: Sports
Illustrated Magazine includes a review of Boys Will Be Boys by Jeff
Pearlman and an article about Joe Maddon, “Tampa Bay’s progressive contrarian
skipper” who “was hired by” Matt Silverman, the Jewish President of the team
whose primary owner is Jewish financier Stuart Sternberg.”
2009(18th of Tishrei, 5770): Raymond Federman, the French born American
author who wrote Double or Nothing, passed away today.
2009: Mark A. Grey, Michele Devlin and Aaron
Goldsmith are scheduled to discuss their new book “Postville, U.S.A.” at
Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City, IA.
2009: MK
Yossi Beilin, former head of the Meretz Party, announced tonight that he is
quitting politics to enter business.
2009(18th of Tishrei, 5770: Ruth L. Kirschstein, a National Institutes of
Health pathologist, passed away today.
http://blog.womenshealth.northwestern.edu/2009/10/ruth-kirschstein-dies-at-age-82/
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/ruthkirschstein.htm
2010: A program styled Defiant Requiem: Verdi at
Terezín, “We Will Sing to the Nazis What We Cannot Say to Them” is scheduled to
be performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, DC.
2010: The
New York Public Library (NYPL) has named Anthony W. Marx as the new president.
Marx calls New York City his native hometown, and currently serves as president
of Amherst College
2011: Publication of “My Favorite Things: Calvin
Trillin.”
http://gvshp.org/blog/2011/10/26/my-favorite-things-calvin-trillin/
2011: Sage “Rosenfels signed a one-year deal for
$970,000 with the Miami Dolphins
2011: The Jewish Museum is scheduled to offer the
last of its High Holiday Themed docent tours of the permanent exhibition,
“Culture and Continuity.”
2011: Timothy Shriver is scheduled to moderate a
program based on “War of the Worldviews” by Deepak Chopra and Leonard Llodinow,
whose father led the Jewish resistance against the Nazis in Częstochowa, Poland
and survived imprisonment at Buchenwald.
2011:
Police arrested a suspect from northern Israel
several days ago in connection with the torching of a mosque in the village of
Tuba Zanghariya overnight Sunday in an apparent "Price Tag" attack.
2011:
Thirty-eight years after the Yom Kippur War broke
out, the IDF held a surprise drill today for two reservist divisions in an
effort to prepare the Reserve Corps for possible emergency call-up orders.
2012: Arnon Goldfinger’s “The Flat” is scheduled for a second and
final screening at the Hampltons International Film Festival.
2012: Director Erez Laufer’s “One Day After Peace” is scheduled
for a second and final screening at the Hampltons International Film Festival.
2012: In Washington, DC the annual Cleveland Park Sukkah walk is
scheduled to take place after Kiddush.
2012: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the “Art
on the Avenue” festival in Alexandria, VA.
2012: In Grand Forks, ND, Cantor Alane Katzew is scheduled to lead
services at B’nai Israel Synagogue that will encompass the themes of Sukkoth,
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.
2012: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the traditional Saturday morning
includes a special memorial to mark 39th anniversary of the start of
the Yom Kippur which began on October 6, 1973.
2012:
Police carried out raids across France today after
DNA on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocery store led them to
a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam.
2012:
The IDF shot down a foreign drone that had penetrated
deep into Israeli airspace this afternoon, flying for half an hour before it
was intercepted.
2012:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense
Minister Ehud Barak seemed to turn the page on their recent public bickering
during a one-and-a-half-hour meeting tonight, saying that they had agreed to
continue working together to overcome Israel's security threats.
2013:
In New York the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Hidden from
History: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court, 1771-1789,” “a conference that
explores French and German rabbinic courts of the late 1700s.”
2013:
“Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra
Synagogue” is scheduled to open at
Yeshiva University Museum.
2013: The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department is scheduled to
sponsor a lecture by Jack Kulgelmas of the University of Florida, "Sifting
the Ruins: Jewish Journalists Return to Poland, 1945-1947"
2013:
E.L. Doctorow is scheduled to give an exclusive preview of his newest book, Andrew's
Brain: A Novel at the opening of The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish
Literary Festival in Washington, DC.
2013:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Hotel Francforts by
David Leavitt and “Unzipped,” an essay by Erica Jong “about storytelling – why
certain stories stick with us and others don’t.”
2013:
The formal ceremony installing Rabbi Asher Lopatin as the new president of
Yeshivat Chovevi Torah is scheduled to take place today.
2013:
The Jewish Endowment Foundation (JEF) of Louisiana is scheduled to honor
several Jewish
2013: “Israel Prize winner David Kazhdan, 67, was severely
injured when he was hit by a truck while riding his bike in Jerusalem.” (As
reported by Spencer Ho)
2013:
Eli Zeira and Zvi Zamir, former heads of the IDF Military Intelligence
Directorate and the Mossad respectively, bitter
rivals who stood at the center of the drama leading up to the surprise Arab
attack on Israel that launched the 1973 Yom Kippur War, shared their sharply
divergent narratives about the outbreak of the fighting today. (As reported by
Mitch Ginsburg)
2013:
“Hundreds of Labor party activists, volunteers and supporters gathered in Tel
Aviv tonight for the formal launch of MK Shelly Yachimovich’s campaign for
reelection as party leader.” (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)
2013:
Rabbi March Schneier, the graduate of Yeshiva University and founder of the
Hampton Synagogue and The Foundation of Ethnic Understanding married his fifth
wife who would later be replaced by his sixth wife “Simi Teitelbaum.”
2013:
Two of the three winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine winners were Jews –
James Rothaman of Yale and Randy Schekman of the University of California. Two
of the candidates who did not win were Israelis – Professors Howard Cedar and
Aharon Razin from Hebrew University.
2013(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5774): Ninety three year old Rabbi Ovad Yosef, the spiritual
leader of the Sephardi community passed away today.
2014:
Roman Rabinoivich who “made his Israel Philharmonic debut…before his 11th
birthday is scheduled to perform with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.
2014:
“A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons was unable Monday to explain the change
on the bureau’s “inmate locator,” which changed Jonathan Pollard’s release date
on its website from “Nov. 15 2015” to “Life.” (As reported by JTA)
2014(12th
of Tishrei, 5775): Eighty-six year old actress Marian Seldes the niece of
journalist Gilbert Seldes passed away today.
2014:
In Washington, DC, the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum is scheduled to
host a panel discussion “From Church to Condo: D.C.'s Urban Evolution.”
2014:
Sweden’s Ambassador is scheduled to come to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem
“for a reprimand meeting” following that country’s announcement that it intends
to recognize Palestine. (As reported by Itamar Eichner)
2014:
“The White House hit back today at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
accusation that US criticism of Israeli settlement construction was
"against American values."
2014:
“Welfare and Social Services Minister Meir Cohen announced today a budget
increase of NIS 1.7 billion was approved for the implementation of the
recommendations of the Elalouf Committee to Reduce Poverty in Israel.” (As
reported by Omri Efraim)
2015(23rd
of Tishrei, 5776): Simchat Torah
2015:
“Vera Rubin, a US astronomer who has described herself as a religious Jew,” and
who had “emerged as the pundits’ choice for the Nobel Prize Physics…failed to
win the prestigious award” today. (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2015:
After Simchat Torah Services the Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled
to host a Pita Luncheon!
2016:
In London, the UKJF is scheduled to host a screening of “Little Men.”
2016:
“AKA Nadia” is scheduled to be shown at SERET DC, “a celebration of
contemporary Israeli cinema.
2016:
Shimon Dotan’s “The Settlers” is scheduled to be shown at the 54th
New York Film Festival.
2016:
“A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip landed in an open area in southern
Israel today” making this “the second such attack in as many days.”
2016:
The Israeli Supreme Court Project at Cardozo Law School in collaboration with
Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to a panel discussion on “Women at the
Wall on the Bus, and in Front of the Court: Religious Women as Agents of Change
through the Israeli Supreme Court.”
2017(16th
of Tishrei, 5778): Second Day of Sukkoth; for more see
2017: On the secular
calendar, 44th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur when a
handful of brave men held the line on the Suez Canal and the Golan fighting
desperately to avoid what could have been a Holocaust in the truest sense of
the word – a Holocaust that was brought on in part by the hubris of leaders who
refused to believe the intelligence reports they received warning of the
attacks. Of these men we can repeat the
words of Churchill – never have so many owed so much to so few.
2017: The Bloomfield
Science Museum in Jerusalem is scheduled to host special Chol Hamo’ed “special
activities all about sugar…sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development.”
2017: The evening,
the University of Iowa Hillel is scheduled to host “Sushi Shabbat.”
2017: Two days
“after his body was found covered in stab wounds” and one day after he was
supposed to have celebrated his 70th birthday, Reuven Schmerling was
laid to rest at a funeral attended by “over a thousand people” (As reported by
Jacob Magid)
2018: On the secular
calendar, 45th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur War. (Editor’s Note: Adjusting Sights a novel by
IDF veteran Sabato, does an amazing job of capturing the desperation and
bravery of the fighting on the Golan)
https://www.amazon.com/Adjusting-Sights-Haim-Sabato/dp/159264127X
https://theislandnow.com/community-news/commemorating-the-yom-kippur-war/
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/yom-kippur-war
https://www.amazon.com/Yom-Kippur-War-Encounter-Transformed/dp/0805211241
2018: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to a host a luncheon after Shabbat
services and Seudah Shlishit following Mincha
2018: In another
example of the vitality of “small community Judaism,” Ari Collins is scheduled
to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Agudas Achim in Coralville, IA.
2018(27th
of Tishrei, 5779): Parashat Bereshit;
the cycle begins again.
2019: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
significance to Jewish readers including A State At Any Cost: The Life of David
Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev and The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by
Edward Berenson.
2019: The Katonah
Museum of Art is scheduled to host the opening of “Arcadia,” a creation of
Israeli artist Rotem Reshef.
2019: In San
Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host “a discussion of
Dani Shapiro’s most recent memoir, Inheritance.”
2019: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Never Heard, Never Forget: Holocaust in
the Former Soviet” which is “a commemorative service honoring the victims and
survivors of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Soviet territory.”
2020(18th
of Tishrei, 5781): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2020: Sitcom star
Mayim Bialik is scheduled to return, virtually, to the National Museum of
American Jewish History where she will discuss, among other things, her new
show “Call me Kat.”
2020: The San
Francisco Jewish Community and the SFSU Jewish Studies program are scheduled to
host “Jews and Moneylending in the Middle Ages” during which online,
“Stanford’s Rowan Dorin talks about how Jewish usury played a prominent role in
defining Jews of that era, along with accompanying myths (both old and new) and
stereotypes.”
2020: In New Orleans
the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold its Board Meeting.
2020: The Baruch PAC
is scheduled on online, live discussion American pianist Yael Weiss.
2020: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker center is scheduled to host “live from Israel, an intimate
conversation with Abassador Ido Aharoni.”
2020: Nadav Dav, and
Professors Rachel Kranson, Maragaret Chin and Rachel Sherman are scheduled to
discuss “1950s: Affluence and Its Discontents” as part of the webinar series
“Jews, Class and History.”
2020: The
Commonwealth Club’s Middle East Forum is scheduled to present a virtual panel
including Alon Sachar, Banafsheh Keynoush, and Robert Rosenthal as they discuss
“The UAE and Israel Deal.”
2020: As Israelis prepare
to deal with another day of Pandemic closures and rebellion against the
measure, they are reminded of the real threat of Palestinian terrorists
following yesterday’s rocket launch from Gaza.
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host “How God Works,” with “pioneering psychologist
David DeSteno, who will present cutting-edge scientific evidence that religious
practices and faith provide a toolbox for coping — even for the skeptical.”
2021: Live on Zoom
the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Jews and Muslims in
Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds.”
2021: The Jacob
Burns Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald”
today.
2021(30th
of Tishrei, 5782): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2022: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar featuring Walter Russell Mead
lecturing on “The Arce of the Covenant: The United States, Israel and the Fate
of the Jewish People.”
2022: Carmit Zori
and Assaff Weisman are scheduled to channel the spirits of Mozart, Brahms and
Bartók to kick off the first in series of The Israeli Chamber Project –
Intimate Evenings.
2022: Based on
previously published information, that include reports of a large number of clashes between Palestinians and Jewish settlers,
especially in the Nablus area, “the IDF continues to be concerned about losing control over the
conflicts which could become a daily occurrence.”(As reported by Elisha Ben
Kimon and Einav Halab)
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a walking tour
of the Lower East Side which a century ago.”
2023: “The Belly of an Architect” and “Berlin Blues” are scheduled to be
shown at the Haifa International Film Festival.
2023: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host the Yiddish
Study Group.
2023(21st
Tishrei, 5754): Hoshana Raba; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
