This Day, February 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 18
296: Cassius
Dio, the namesake of the historian who “frequently records the religious zeal
and self-sacrificing spirit of the Jews” and whose account of the Jewish War
against the Roman Empire that resulted in the destruction of the Temple is more
favorable to the Jews than that given by Josephus, was appointed Praefectus
urbi of Rome today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Dio_(consul_291)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dio-cassiusdeg
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/cassius-dio/cassius-dio-on-bar-kochba/
https://www.judaism-and-rome.org/cassius-dio-roman-history%C2%A0xxxvii16-17
654: “In
Toledo Spain, Receswinth, King of the Visigoths, forced Judaizing Christians
(converted Jews who still kept Jewish traditions) to swear loyalty to the
Church or die” which meant “they were forced to spend Jewish and Christian holy
days with the clergy, but were not forced to eat pork.”
1229: During
The Sixth Crusade, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signed a ten-year truce
with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither
military engagements nor support from the papacy. Prior to the Sixth Crusade,
Pope Gregory III had used the Crusading Spirit to impose anti-Semitic
legislation. Frederick II was involved in a power struggle with the
Papacy. As part of that he struggle, he defied Rome and granted a charter
of privileges to the Jews of Vienna in 1238.
1239: The ten-year
truce between Emperor Frederick II and the Sultan of Egypt came to an
end. During this period, 1236, the Emperor issued a decree refuting the
accusations of ritual murder and providing for the protection of his Jewish
subjects.
1488: The
first printed eviction of tractate Gittin of the Babylonian Talmud was
published in Soncino, Italy
1405:
Tamerlane or Timur, the Mongol leader “under whose rule the Jewish people
prospered” passed away today. (For more see Tamerlane and the Jews by
Michael Shterenshis)
1474:
According to bookplate, in Reggio de Calabria, Italy, Abraham ben Garton
printed Rashi’s commentary on the Chumash.
1546: Martin Luther passed away. Luther was a
significant figure in the movement to reform Christianity. He extended
the hand of friendship to the Jews, thinking that he could win them over to his
side with kindness. When the Jews rejected his goal - conversion - Luther
turned on them. By 1544, he was publishing a pamphlet entitled
"Concerning the Jews and Their Lies." Jews were characterized as
“venomous, virulent, thieves, brigands and disgusting vermin."
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, "'...Luther's ferocious castigation
of the Jews provided fuel for anti-Semites and vicious force of that legacy was
still evident in Nazi propaganda.'"
1559: Birthdate of Geneva native Isaac Casaubon, the French
Huguenot scholar who in 1609 invited Jacob Barnet, an Italian Jew, to his home
in Drury Lane, London” during which time they discussed Jewish texts on various
topics, and Barnet proved to Casaubon that Jesus had been buried in accordance
with standard Jewish burial practice rather than (as argued by Cardinal
Baronio) in a new way that became the method of Catholic burial” after which Casaubon
employed Barnet as his secretary, and in 1610 brought him to Oxford.
1564: Michelangelo passed
away. Among his works were a statue of Moses that had horns and a statue of an
uncircumcised David.
1574: An
auto-de-fe took place in Mexico City; nearly 100 people were sentenced that
day, including New Christians.
1577: The Jews
of Safed requested assistance from the Sultan for persecution by local
officials. In a letter to the local Ottoman officials, the Sultan told his
people that the Jews, "have complained of wrong done to them." The
Jews were forced to pay high taxes, transport dung on Saturdays, were levies
tolls on the road to Damascus, and were beaten with a strip of metal. The
Sultan ordered his people not to molest the Jews, to investigate and give back
what the Jews are owed.
1653: After
Cromwell’s government released him today, William Prynne returned to writing
pamphlets on a variety of subjects including one call the “Short Demurrer” in
which he expressed his opposition to Manasseh Ben Israel’s plea to Oliver
Cromwell to overturn King Edward’s 13th century ban and allow the
Jews to return to the British Isles.
1671: In
Berkshire, England, Margaret and William Branson gave birth to Thomas I.
Branson, the husband of Elizabeth Day with whom he had thirteen children.
1704: In
London, Richea Asher and Moses Raphael Levy gave birth to Nathan Levy, the
husband of Bila Levy and father of Rachel, Michel and Philadelphia Levy.
1723: In
Prussia a revised form of the "Aeltesten-reglement" (Constitution of
the Jewish Community) was issued. The original document which was
supposed to be read every in the synagogue was issued in March of 1722.
1732: In Rye,
NY, Hetty Adolphus and Jacob Hays gave birth to David Barrack Hays, the husband
of Esther Etting with whom he had eight children.
1751: German
native Abraham Hutzler, the son of Moses Hutzler and the husband of Rosine
Wambacher with whom he had four children – Moses, David, Isaac and Eve Hutzler.
1743: Premiere
performance of Handel’s “Samson” at Covent Garden, an oratorio based on the
life of the Biblical figure described in the Book of Judges.
1757: In Avignon, France, a local townsman walking through
the ghetto on a dark night, stumbled and fell into a well near the synagogue. Fortunately,
he was not hurt. The day was declared a local holiday for generations. The
rationale was that had the townsman drowned so near the synagogue, the Jewish
community would have been accused of complicity in his death.
1758: David Franks was sent a note telling him owed £400
for insurance on goods being shipped from Liverpool to New York aboard “the
ship Charming Rachel.”
1765: Hague native Frances Hart and Savannah, GA native
Mordecai Sheftall gave birth to Elias Sheftall.
1768: In Germany, Jetle and Salomon Ottenheimer gave birth
to Maier Ottenheimer, the husband of Madel Dreifuss with whom he had six
children.
1772(14th of Adar I, 5532): Purim Katan observed
on the day after “the first partition of Poland is agreed to by Prussia and
Russia” who would later be joined by Austria.
1785: Birthdate of Munster, Germany native Samson Nathan
Eisendrath, the son of Nathan Baruch Eisendrath and the husband of Julia Isaack
with whom he had 18 children.
1787(30th of Shevat, 5547): Rosh Chodesh Adar
observed on the same day that Thomas Jefferson, the founding father who coined
the term “separation of church and state” wrote from Paris to Michael
Carmichael the Charge d’Affaires for the United States in Spain.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-11-02-0169
1788: In Charleston, SC, Sarah de la Motta and Levi Sheftal
gave birth to Perla Shetall, the wife of Isaac Russel with whom she had nine
children.
1789: In Easton, PA, Esther Levy and Isaac Simons gave
birth to Eleazer Simons.
1789(22nd of Shevat, 5549): New York native
Jacob Rodriques Rivera, the son of Abraham Rodrigues River, the husband of
Hannah Pimentel and “prominent Newport merchant, manufacturer and member of the
United Company of Spermaceti Candlers” who “introduced sperm oil industry into
the colonies” and “was the President of the Newport Jewish Congregation” passed
away today.
1791(14th of Adar I, 5551): Purim Katan observed
on the same day that Senate and House of Representatives approved Vermont’s
petition to join the Union.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/vt03.asp
1792: In Germany, Kehla and Feis Moses Fraenkel gave birth
to Isaac Fraenkel the husband of Esther Feuchtwanger with whom he had five
children.
1793: In Germany, Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham Arnold gave
birth to Behle Arnold, the wife of Mendel Seligmann Dettelbacher and the mother
of Seligman and Voegele Dettelbacher.
1794(18th of Adar): Rabbi Alexander Suskind of Horodno
author of Yesod ve-Shoresh ha-Avodah passed away
1799: Bachu native Rebecka Obernauer and Wurtemberg native
Ruppert Einstein gave birth to Hirsch Einstein the husbad of Babet Barbara Beer.
1804:
Ohio University founded in Athens, Ohio where today approximately 10% of its
17,000 students are Jewish including Jacob Levin, a mensch and a scholar, and
there are an on-campus Chabad and Hillel
Chapter.
1810(14th
of Adar I, 5570): Purim Katan
1813:
Emancipation of the Jews of Mecklenberg, Germany
1816:
Birthdate of Maurice Block the Berlin born statistician and economist who moved
to Paris in the 1840’s to work for the French ministry of agriculture.
1819:
Today Isaac Franks whose portrait was painted by Gilbert Stewart,and is now in
the Gibson Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia was made prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and
held that position until his death three years later
1831: In
Charleston, SC, Isabella Cowen and Isaac Tobias gave birth to Colleeton Harby
Tobias.
1832: In South
London, merchant Isaac Levi and his wife who “was a first cousin of Moses
Montefiore gave birth to Georges Montefiore-Levi “a Belgian politician,
industrialist and inventor who created the first phosphorus bronze.”
1833:
Birthdate of Warsaw native Henry (Hayyim Gerson) Vidaver who served as the
Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis from 1865 through 1867.
1835: Benjamin
Woolfe Franklin married Maria Levy today at the Great Synagogue.
1835:
Birthdate of Bernhard Goldman, husband of Henrietta “Jette” Siegel Goldman with
whom he had four daughters – Helen, Caroline, Sara and Jeannette.
1839:
Birthdate of Zadoc Kahn, the Alsatian native who became Chief Rabbi of France.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_10603.html
1839:
Birthdate of Charles S. Baker who while serving as Congressman from New York in
1890 submitted a resolution “protesting…the enforcement by Russia of the edicts
of 1882 against the Jews” and requesting the President to submit a protest to
the Czar’s government.
1840: Sultan
Abdul Mejid I issued a royal decree absolving the Jewish community on the
island of Rhodes of charges “of having killed a gentile child” so that his
blood could be used in baking matzoth. The day was celebrated as The Purim of
Rhodes. The Sultan was a reformer who was trying to make the Ottoman
Empire a modern nation as can be seen by his attempts to replace the turban
with the fez, introduce the use of banknotes and the issuing of a patent so
that a telegraph system could be built in Turkey.
1843(18th
of Adar I, 5603): Parashat Ki Tisa
1843(18th
of Adar I, 5603): Sixty-two-year-old Sarah Naar, the London born daughter of
Daniel Cohen D'Azevedo and Ester Rodriques Cohen D'Azevedo and wife of Hazan
Joshua Naar passed away today at St. Kitts.
1844: In Lamar
County, Alabama, Samuel Jefferson and Martha Louisa "Tarrant"
Mordecai gave birth to their eldest child Nancy Priscilla “Nannie” Mordecai
Cash the wife of Wesley Shepard Cash.
1846:
Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt. At this time Galicia was a
province of the Austrian Empire. The revolt was one of many that would
sweep Europe during the late 1840’s. By 1851, once the revolts in Galicia had
been suppressed, the Reform Constitution would be revoked and, among other
things, Jews would lose their newly won right to purchase land in Galicia,
1848(14th of
Adar I, 5608): Purim Katan
1848: In
Pozsony, Gregor Steinbach and Therese Steinbach gave birth to Dr. Gustav
“Itzig” Steinbach the father of Leonore Steinbach and father of Karl Steinbach
and Theresa Risa Lohr.
1850: In
Budapest, Karl Ullmann and his wife gave birth to Alexander de Erény Ullmann
the political economist who served in the Hungarian Parliament from 1884 to
1892. His father who was born in 1809 and passed away in 1880 founded the
first Hungarian Insurance Company. Alexander passed away in 1897.
1850:
Birthdate of German native Isidor Georg Henschel who gained fame as Sir George
Henschel “the British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/George%20Henschel/en-en/
1850 In New
York Abigail Kursheedt (nee Judah) and Asher Kursheedt gave birth to Serena
Kursheedt
1851(16th
of Adar I, 5611): Forty-six-year-old Car Gustav Jacob Jacobi, “the first Jewish
mathematician to be appointed professor at a German university” passed away
today in Berlin
1852:
According to reports published today, a juror named Shubal Hubbard claimed that
Alexander Christallar, a witness for the defendant, had tried to engage him in
inappropriate social contact during a break in the trial. In his
deposition, Hubbard claimed that Christallar was a Jew and that he was
President of a Williamsburg Synagogue. He also claimed that Christallar
had invited him to a celebration at which Oysters would be served.
1853: August
Belmont, the Jewish banker and Democratic political leader, and Caroline
Slidell gave birth to August Belmont, Jr. who was raised as a Christian.
1856: Full
civil rights are granted to Turkish Jews under the terms of the “Ottoman Reform
Edict of 1856.”
1857: William
Meir Barack married Fanny Abraham today in the United Kingdom
1858: Lord
Palmerston who as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
had come to the defense of David Pacifico which led him to make a celebrated
speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to say, as
did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I am a
citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British
government” completed his first term as Prime Minister today.
1859(14th of Adar I, 5619): Purim
Katan
1859: Abraham Myers Cohen, the son of Solomon
Myers Cohen passed away today.
1859(O.S): In Russia, Menachem-Nukhem Rabinovich, a “rich
merchant” who lost it all and his wife Chaye-Esther gave birth to Solomon
Rabinowitz who became famous under the penname of Sholem Aleichem. Born
in Russia, Sholem Aleichem first wrote in Hebrew and only later turned to
writing in Yiddish. He moved from Russia to Denmark, to
Switzerland and ultimately moved to the United States at the outbreak of World
War I. Unfortunately, he only lived in America for two years and he
passed away in 1916. Known as the Yiddish Mark Twain, Sholem Aleichem is
most famous for creating Tevya and all of the wonderful characters who lived
with him in the shtetels of the Pale. He used humor to portray both the
joy and the suffering of his co-religionists. He became famous among
generations of Jews who had thought they had escaped from all of that
"Yiddish stuff" and gentiles as well with the production of Fiddler
on the Roof. Some of his famous lines include: "In the mud, but not
of the mud." "When a Jew eats a chicken one of them was
sick." "A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a
different direction." "Gossip is nature's telephone." "Life
is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy
for the poor." "No matter how bad things get you got to go on living,
even if it kills you." "The rich swell up with pride, the poor from
hunger." Some of his works that have been translated into English include
Tevye's Daughters, The Adventures of Menahem-Mendel, The Best of Sholom Aleichem
and The Great Fair which is his autobiography.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shalom-aleichem
1860(25th of Shevat, 5620): Parashat Mishpatim; Shabbat
Shekalim
1860: Birthdate of Bombay, India native Elia Hayeem Jospeh who was buried
in Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery.
1861:
With the Italian unification almost complete, King Victor Emmanuel II of
Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy. Jews
were active participants in the fight to unify Italy and the newly unified
Italian nation was certainly hospitable to its Jewish citizens. Historian
Elliot Rosenberg cites a quote from his fellow historian Howard Morely Sacher
to capture what the new Italian nation meant to the Jewish people. “In
1848, there had been no European country save Spain where the restrictions
placed upon Jews were more galling and more humiliating than in Italy.
After 1860, there was no country on the continent of Europe where conditions
were better for Jews.”
1863: Julius
Sax married Rachel Abrahams today at the Albion Hotel in Aldersgate.
1865:
Birthdate of Hungary native Solomon Ulmer who in 1874 came to the United States
where he became a mortgage banker and Zionist living in Cleveland.
1866:
Birthdate of Samuel Krauss, a professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary in
Budapest and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna who was a contributor to
the Jewish Encyclopedia.
1866: Today,
in Philadelphia, The Free Sons of Israel instituted two additional lodges –
Manasseh Lodge 17 and Moses Lodge 18.
1868:
Birthdate of Rockford, Illinois native Albert Henry Loeb, the husband of Anna
Bohnen with whom he had four sons – Alan, Ernest, Thomas and Richard (of
Leopold and Loeb fame) – and who practiced law in Chicago before becoming an
executive with Sears, Roebuck and Company.
https://flps.newberry.org/article/5418474_11_1375/
1870: State
Supreme Court Justice Cardozo denied a motion for an injunction in an action
styled the Mayor of New York City vs. the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company.
1870: In Long
Branch, NJ, Mortimer M. Hendricks, the Son of Montague M. Hendricks and Rachel
Seixas Nathan and his wife Jessie Justina Brandly Hendricks gave birth to
Lucien Hendricks.
1871(27th
of Shevat, 5631): Parashat Mishpatim; Shabbat Shekalim
1871(27th
of Shevat, 5631): Charleston native Esther Levy, who married Henry Nathan in
1815 passed away today in New Orleans.
1871: Rabbi
Wise delivered the first in a series of lectures on the “Origin of
Christianity” at Steinway Hall in New York City. Reverend O.B.
Frothingham introduced the Rabbi.
1872: In
“Libau, Latvia, Chaim Nathan and Yetta (Nieburg) Aronstam gave birth Noah E.
Aronstam, the Michigan College of Medicine trained doctor and professor of
dermatology and urology who served as the associate editor of both the
Indianapolis Medical Journal and the Jewish Tribune while finding time to write
the Manual on Sexual and Venereal Diseases and The Jewish Dietary Laws from a
Scientific Standpoint and marry the former Sarah D. Blumenthal in Detroit in
1899.
1873:
Birthdate of Theodore Albert Peyser the native of Charleston, West Virginia who
worked in Cincinnati before moving to New York where he was eventually elected
to Congress from New York’s 17th Congressional District.
1873:
Birthdate of Charleston, W.Va.., native Theodore A. Peyser, the Cincinnati
based traveling salesman who settled in New York where he “represented New
York’s 17th Congressional District.”
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000281
1874(1st
of Adar, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1874:
Birthdate of Junction City, Kansas native Saul Henry Ganz, the “president and
Treasurer of D. Lisner and Company, wholesalers and importers of jewelry,” the
husband of Ruth Ganza and the father of Paul and Victor Ganz.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/10/10/110067724.pdf
1874: Ida
Morgenthau, the daughter of Lazarus Morgenthau married William J. Erich.
1874: Lazarus
Morgenthau founded a society that would provide dowries for orphan Jewish
girls.
1875: Max Eckmann, the Berlin born son of
Ezekiel and Caroline (Lowenstein) Ekemann who in 1874 emigrated to the United
States, where he became a manufacturer of novelties, helped organized the
Independent Order of B’rith Abraham and served as a Republican in the New York
State Assembly married Marie Slupecki today.
1876: In
Slovakia, 37-year-old Herman Ehrenthal and Veron Ehrenthal gave birth do
Roazlia Ehrenthal who became Rozalia Fleischmann.
1876: In
Maryland, Circuit Court Judge Pinkney, ruled that the City of Baltimore did not
have the right give public funds to a variety of charitable organizations
including the Hebrew Hospital.
1876:
Ferdinand Falk and Jeannette Levy Falk gave birth to Gustave Falk, the husband
of Marguerite R. Falk.
1877(6th of
Adar, 5637): Carolyn (Norris) Horowitz, the wife of Phineas Jonathan Horowitz,
the native of Baltimore and graduate of Jefferson Medical College who rose
through the ranks of the Navy to become Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery, passed away today seven years before her husband retired.
1878:
Birthdate of Baltimore native Sidney Lansburgh, “an official of American
General Corp, the husband of Martha Epstein, “the daughter of Jacob Epstein”
the founder of the Baltimore Bargain House and the father of Richard
Landsburgh, who became President of Raleigh Stores, a high end, preppy clothing
emporium.
1880: Mr.
Moses Levinson of New Rochelle sued the New Haven Railroad today in United
States Circuit Court for “exemplary damages.” Levinson contended that he
had been wrongfully put off one of the New Haven’s trains when the conductor
claimed he had not paid for his ticket. Levinson sought $5,000 in
damages. The jury awarded him $750.
1881: In
Lithuania, Yaakov and Pearl Premesky gave birth to Rabbi Eliezer Premseky, the husband of Esther Premesky with whom he had three
children who had became the “spiritual leader of the Bronx Tremont Hebrew
School, a member of the presidium of the Rabbinical Board of New York” and
executive vice President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States
and Canada.Most important of all, he was among those who marched in Washington
in 1943 in a public demonstration demanding government action to “help save the
Jews of Europe.”
1882:
Birthdate of Frank Angone the native of New York who gained fame as
featherweight Benny Yanger, nicknamed The Tipton Slasher.
1882(29th
of Shevat, 5642): Parashat Mishpatim, Shabbat Shekalim
1882: “The
Russian War on the Jews” published today described the renewed attacks to which
the Jews of Kiev have been subjected and Count Totleben’s refusal to intervene
without special instructions from the government at St. Petersburg.
1882: In
Philadelphia, PA, the old passenger station belong to the Pennsylvania
Railroad, has been configured to provide temporary accommodations for the
Jewish refugees who will arrive in the city after having escaped from the
recent round of pogroms in Russia. A supply of food has been gathered for
the refugees and Dr. Thomas G. Morton is the head of a group of doctors who
will be available to take care of their medical needs. In the meantime,
an Employment Committee will make every effort to find jobs for the new
arrivals.
1883:
Birthdate of Nice native Jacques Ochs, the Belgian artist and fencer who won a
gold medal in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
1884: In
Hampstead, Kingston, Jamaica natives Celia Morrice and Eugene Alberga gave
birth to Ella Hortense Alberga.
1886: In
Poland Yaakov and Pearl Predmesky gave birth to Louis Predmesky who came to New
York City in 1922 where he served as a rabbi in the Bronx and was among those
who marched in Washington in 1943 in a public demonstration demanding
government action to “help save the Jews of Europe.
1886:
Birthdate of Madison, SD, native Clare Stephen Jacobs who won a bronze medal
for pole vaulting in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
1888(6th
of Adar I, 5648): Seventy-two-year Lazar Zweifel a “prolific writer and one of
the first to use Talmudic and idiomatic Hebrew for the modern poetry which he
frequently composed, stanzas being interspersed throughout his works” passed
away today.
1887: In New
York, the Hebrew Technical Institute moved from its location on Crosby Street
to its new school building at 34 and 36 Stuyvesant Street. Founded in 1884, the
school provides vocational training to young Jews most of whom are the children
of recent immigrants.
1888:
Birthdate of John U. “Jack” Zuta the Chicago gangster who had the unique
distinction of working for both Al Capone and Bugs Moran and whose death
unearthed records that helped put away several crooked politicians.
1889: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for seventy-three-year-old
Charleston, SC native and Mexican-American War veteran Julian Harby, the
husband of “Josepah Solis” who passed away in 1865, today in San Francisco, CA.
1890:
Birthdate of Jassy native Irving Haim, who relocated to Philadelphia.
1890: Ida
Cohen (nee Kuhn) and Eduard Cohen gave birth to Albert Cohen.
1890: In
Moscow, according to the Gregorian calendar, Leonid Pasternak, a professor at
the Moscow School of Paint, Sculpture and Architecture and concert pianist Rosa
Kaufman gave birth to Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago
1890: Four
days after he had passed away, 76-year-old Michael Angelo Rosselli, a native of
Leghorn, Italy, the husband of Amina Rosselli and the father of James, Joseph,
Jeanette and Ernest Rosseilli was buried today at the “Balls Pond Roach Jewish
Cemetery.”
1891: Bernard
and Ida (Levin) Appelbaum gave birth to Columbia University trained Civil
Engineer Samuel Bernard Applebaum, the husband of Juliette Bursch and inventor
of patented “Backwash Control.”
1891:
Birthdate of Polish born Yiddish actor Ludwig Satz (Editor’s note- some sources
show him being born on this date in 1895)
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/S/satz-ludwig.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23149236
http://www.jta.org/1944/09/03/archive/ludwig-satz-star-of-yiddish-stage-dies-in-new-york-was-53
1893:
“Regulators in Louisiana” published today described “the existence of an
oath-bound organization having for its object the banishment of Jewish
merchants…and Negroes from Tangipahoa Parish.” Among those threatened was
David Stern, a leading merchant in Amity, LA.
1893:
Seventy-year-old Gerson von Bleichröder the second-generation German-Jewish
banker who provided his services to Bismarck and Prussia passed away today.
1894: It was
reported today that George Eliot had told American author Charles Godfrey
Leland “that in order to write Daniel Deronda she had read through 200
books.” Leland wrote that he “longed to tell her that she had better have
learned Yiddish and talked with 200 Jews and been taught, as Iwas by my friend
Solomon the Sadducee, the art of distinguishing Fraulein Lowenthal of the Ashkenazim
from Senorita Aguado of the Sephardim by the corners of their eyes.” (Daniel
Deronda is the philo-Semitic novel written by Mary Anne Evans who used the penname,
George Eliot. At the time of this entry, Leland was doing research on
gypsies.)
1894: “All
Fools’ Day” published claimed that 17th century antiquarian John
Brand attributed the origin of April Fool’s Day to the Jews. According to
Brand, Noah sent the dove out of the ark before the waters had abated on a day
which corresponds to April 1. The celebration of fools on this date
reminds of the original “fool’s errand” on which Noah sent the Dove.
1894: It was
reported today that the late Albert S. Rosenbaum passed away as a result of
heart disease which probably does not offer any comfort to the widow and five
children who survived him.
1895:
Birthdate of biochemist Zacharias Dische who developed simple methods for
determining the amount of sugars present in tissues, such as his diphenylamine
assay, the Dische test, which is used to distinguish DNA from RNA and who fled
Austria for American following the Anschluss and whose mother, sister and
grandmother died in concentration camps.
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/56289.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0300908420303011
1896: Birthdate
of Edith Leschzine who tragically as Edith Hirschberg was transported to Auschwitz
were se died.
1897: In
Chicago, Il, Joseph and Ida (Rosin) Levin gave birth to University of Detroit
Law School trained attorney, the husband of Rohda Katzin, the father of
Charles, Joseph, Daniel and Mimi Levin and the chief Judge of the Federal
District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, President of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit and vice president and director of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
1897: In
Paris, French author Emil Zola was attacked by a mob on his way home from the
court where his case was being heard. The police were forced to intervene
to prevent a lynching. The frustrated mob then “made a rush for the Jews
threatening to throw them into the Seine.”
1900: “The 37th
Convention of District No. 4 of the Independent Order of B’Nai B’rith opened
today in San Francisco.
1901: Winston
Churchill made his maiden speech in the House of Commons at a time when he was a
member of the Conservative Party serving as an MP for Oldham. In 1904,
the Conservatives at Oldham would tell Churchill that they could no longer
support him. This would force Churchill to seek a new constituency which
would be Manchester North-West where a third of the voters were Jewish.
This change in political fortune would force Churchill to deal with Jewish
political issues for the first, but not the last time, in his career. For
more on this topic you should Sir Martin Gilbert’s highly readable Churchill
and the Jews.
1902(11th
of Adar I, 5662): Sixty-five-year-old West Prussia native, University of Berlin
trained surgeon and recipient of the Iro Cross Julius Wolf a veteran of three
wars in which Prussia emerged victorious and the chief surgeon of the newly
founded orthopedic dispensary at the u=University of Berlin passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14990-wolff-julius
1902: The
Arbitration Committee of the Thirty-six which was appointed by the National
Civic Federation at its last convention whose members included Oscar Straus and
Samuel Gompers held “its first regular meeting in the Mission Building.
1903(21st
of Shevat, 5663): Seventy-four-year-old Moses Mielziner, the Prussian born
American rabbi who had been President of the Hebrew Union College since 1900
passed away today and was succeeded by Gotthard Deutsch who filled the position
of “acting President.”
1904(2nd
of Adar. 5664): Seventy-nine-year-old composer and pianist Emanuel Abraham
Aguilar, the husband of Sarah Aguilar and the brother of novelist Grace Aguilar
passed away today in his native city of London.
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php?topic=4174.0
1904: Four
days after he had passed away, Barrow Emanuel, the son of Emanuel and Julia
(Moss) Emanuel and the brother of Edward Emanuel was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1904: In
Florence, Italy, Gilda Borghi and Mario Mordechai Pacifici who descended “from
an ancient Sephardic and religious Jewish family of Spanish origin and of
rabbinical tradition settled in Tuscany (first in Leghorn, then in Florence) in
the 16th century gave birth to Riccardo Pacifici, an Italian rabbi who would be
murdered at Auschwitz.
1904:
Birthdate of Aubrey Louis Goodman who led Baylor to a SWC championship before
leading the University of Chicago to a Big-Ten Championship giving him the
unique distinction of being one of the few players to play a key role in
winning two different major football championships.
1905:
Birthdate of Jean S. Greene, the wife of Philp M. Greene who was buried in
Durham, NC when she passed away in 1992.
1906(23rd
of Shevat, 5666): Henry Defries, the London born son Elizabeth and Henry Zvi
Defries, the husband of Hannah Defries and the father of Henry Defries; John
Defries; Daniel Defries; Rebecca Mills; Alfred (Alf) Abraham Defries; Mary
Defries; Elizabeth Jacobs; Adelaide Levy; Maria Rosenthal; Ann Defries; Michael
Defries; Richard Defries; George Defries; Isaac Defries; Henrietta Defries and
Harry Defries passed away today in the London Borough of Hackney.
1906: Dr.
Thomas R. Slicer delivered the last of a series of lectures on “Fraternity” at
the People’s Institute in Cooper Union, an organization that is unique because its
membership includes Jews as well as “Catholic, Protestant, agnostics, atheists
and Christian Scientists.”
1906: It was
reported today that Carl Stettauer of London who had gone to Russia as a representative
of the Jewish Relief formed by Jews in the United States and Great Britain told
a reporter for the Times during an interview at the Waldorf Astoria that the two
things that had impressed him while touring Kieff and Odessa, sites of some of
the worse violence against the Jews, were “that no conditions arose that the
local authorities not have prevented
and that “it was plain the police had
assisted the mob.”
1907: State
Express 111 through State Express a cigarette brand created by London tobacco
merchant Sir Albert Levy were all “registered under UK Registration No.290529”
today.
1908: Today,
contractor Emanuel M. Krulewtich is building “a row of houses at St. Nicholas
and Covenant Avenues…under police protection from the Carpenter’s and Joiners’
Union despite his having agreed to walking delegate Henry W. Blumberg that he
“employ Jewish workmen on half of the job.”
1909: In New
York, “plans have been filed for remodeling the four-story dwelling at the
corner of Madison and 48th Street, owned by Mrs. Fannie Cohen, into
a seven-story building with bachelor apartments on the upper floors.
1910: In
Lithuania, Rabbi Moshe Yom Tov Wachtfogel gave birth to Nosson Meir Wachtfogel
who became known as the Lakewood Mashgiach.
1911(20th
of Shevat, 5671) Parashat Yitro
1911: Dr.
Gerson B. Levi scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning a Congregation B’nai
Sholom-Temple Israel in Chicago.
1911: Die geschiedene Frau (The Divorcée), “an
operetta in three acts with a libretto by Victor Léon, was performed for the
first time in Paris as La divorcée
1912: “Kadimo
Hebrew School” was dedicated today in Baltimore, MD.
1913: During
the Third Republic, when real power was held by the Prime Ministers, Raymond
Poincaré becomes President of France. Along with General Pershing (commander of
the AEF), Poincare opposed the Armistice contending that Allied armies needed
to penetrate deeper into Germany lest the German people not realize that their
army had been beaten. Their view did not prevail. The German Army
marched back into Germany giving rise to the “stabbed in the back” myth that
helped Hitler come to power. During the 1920’s, Poincare intervened on
behalf of the Jews of Poland when he convinced the Polish government to refrain
from adopting legislation that would have discriminated against her Jewish
citizens.
1913(11th
of Adar I, 5673): Eighty-year-old Mortiz Loth the author and pioneer notion
merchant who “in 1873 issued a call to the Jewish congregations which resulted
in the establishment of “the Union of American Hebrew Congregations” and the
Hebrew Union College passed away today in Cincinnati, OH.
1913:
Birthdate of Rabbi Leslie Hardman, “the young chaplain” who was with the
British 11th Armoured Division when it liberated Bergen-Belsen.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/13/secondworldwar-judaism
1913(11th
of Adar I, 5673): Isaac Radinski, a Chicago merchant, passed away today.
1913: “The
Prisoner of Zenda” the film version of the novel by the same name produced by
Adolph Zukor was released in the United States today.
1914: Charles
Edward Sebag-Montefiore and Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass gave birth to Denzil
Charles Sebag-Montefiore
1914: In
Philadelphia, PA, “Jacob Loeb Langsdorf and Louise Silberman Langsdorft” gave
birth to Blanche Loeb Langsdorf who became Balance Loeb Sundheim when she
married Harry G. Sundheim, Jr.
1915: As of
today, the fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the
War has collected $482, 952.13.
1915: The
American cruiser Tennessee arrived in Alexandria carrying refugees “from the
coast of Syria” and Palestine who were escaping from the Ottomans.
1915:
The Red Cross Fund which Jacob H. Schiff serves as treasurer increased its
total by $1,112.80 bring the total collected to $460, 060.47.
1915: “The
development of the educational and social life of Jewish young people and the
improvement of the economic conditions through the operation of 200 schools
under the auspices of the Alliance Israelite Universelle of Paris were partly
described at a memorial meeting” tonight “the founder of the organization,
Narcesse Leven.
1916(14th
of Adar I, 5676): Purim Katan
1916(14th
of Adar I, 5676): Morris Quasha, the son of Hyman Quasha and Sara Coburn passed
away today after which he was buried at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Masepth, NY.
1916:
Birthdate of Maria Victoria Bloch-Bauer, who as Maria Altmann gained fame for
her “successful, five decades long fight to regain five Gustav Klimt paintings
owned by her family that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
1916: “The
Joint Distribution Committee of the Jewish Relief Fund issued a report” today
that showed that $2,900,000 has been sent to aid the Jews suffering in the war
zones including $1,285,000 to Russia, $860,000 to Poland and Lithuania,
$610,000 to Austria-Hungary and $142,000 in Palestine.
1917: Dr.
Samuel Schulman is scheduled to speak on “The Problem of American Judaism” this
morning at Temple Beth-El.
1917: At the
Free Synagogue meeting in Carnegie Hall, Rabbie Wise is scheduled to speak on
“Does the Soul Survive?”
1917: Dr.
Silverman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Martrydom of the Jews” this
moring at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue.
1917: It was
reported today that the American Jewish Relief Committee had received the
following contributions from local committees: $1,039, Baltimore; $1,000,
Indiana of which $18 came from Wabash; $35, Champagne, Illinois.
1918: Twenty-five-year-old
Aaron Maiberg, a native of Russia who emigrated to Canada in 1912 enlisted
today and served with the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers which was part
of “the Jewish Legion.:
1918: Morris
Rothenberg, Chairman of the Zionist Committee of New York, presided over the
memorial service held in honor of the late Jechiel Tchlenow, the Russian born
doctor who passed away in London only months after having participated in the
negotiations that produced the Balfour Declaration.
1919: Three
days after he had passed away, 34-year-old Mark Abrahams was buried today at
the Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1919: In
Chicago, on the final evening of the Zionist Convention, Meyer Abrams is
scheduled to chair a special session at the Hebrew Institute where all of the
papers including The Jewish State,” “The Zion Commonwealth” and “The Jerusalem
Printing Works” will be presented in the Hebrew language.
1920: The
Jewish Court of Arbitration held its first session
1921: It was
reported today that following complaints from local Jewish sources and
Professor Simon Askenazy, the Polish Ambassador to Great Britain concerning the
expulsion of Jewish refugees from Austria, the Council of the League of Nations
will take up the issue at its next meeting on February 24.
1922(20th
of Shevat, 5682) Parashat Yitro
1922:
According to an announcement made today, “some of the most eminent Jews” in the
United States will be attending the biennial convention of the Union of
American Congregations and the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods which
will be held in New York in January where “ways by which Judaism can be
preserved in the United States will be discussed.”
1923: Rabbi
Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue along with Rabbis M.S.
Margolies and Philip Klein officed at the wedding of Rose Fischel and Albert
Wald which took place at Congregation Kehillath Jershurun on East 85th
Street.
1923:
Birthdate of Robert (Bob) Sonné Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and
Physics at Boston University and cofounder of the BU Center for Philosophy
& History of Science.
https://www.bu.edu/cphs/about/robert-cohen/
1924: Birthdate of Canadian born actress
Bessie Hope Wolfe Garber who “hosted the Canadian television show, At Home with
Hope Garber.
1925:
Birthdate of Groningen native and Holocaust Survivor Timotheus Aiking.
1925:
“Palestine Pianist Here” published today described the concert given by Arie
Aeliah the “head of of the music school in Tel Aviv” who has come to the United
States to report on the progress of the fulfillment of the musical aspirations
of the Jewish community in Palestine.
1926: It was
reported today that the White Star Line has received a radio message from
Captain Arthur Holme which said that the Homeric has left Constantinople and is
on schedule for its arrival in Haifa.
1926(4th
of Adar, 5686): Ninety-seven-year-old Mrs. Mary Golden, “one of the organizers
of the Machzike Talmud Torah School and “active supporter of the Hebrew Free
Loan and several hospitals” whose last words were “I wish I could live to
continue to do good to others” passed away in New York City.
1926: A Bill
of particulars filed in he Brockton, MA, blasphemy case was characterized
tonight as “exaggerated and ridiculous” by defendant Anthony Bimba, the editor
of a Communist paper who has written “Here we are organizing among the
Lithuanians among the Lithuanians, Poles among Poles, the Jews among the Jews
and so on, to overthrow the capitalistic government by revolution in the same
way they did in Russia…”
1927: Two days
after he had passed away, 78-year-old Jacob Press was buried today at the
“Streatham Jewish Cemetery.”
1927:
Birthdate of Michael “Mike” Harari, the sabra who became an officer in Mossad.
1927: The
London Gazette reported from Whitehall that “Letters Patent have passed the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the
Dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to the undermentioned gentlemen
and the heirs male of their respective lawfully begotten: Sir Joseph Duveen, of
Millbank in the City of Westminster”
1928:
“Orient,” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released
today in Germany.
1929: First
Academy Awards are announced. “Broadway Melody” produced by Irving Thalberg was
named Best Picture for 1928 – 1929. “All Quiet on the Western Front” directed
by Lewis Milestone was named Best Picture of 1929-1930.
1929: Israel
Joseph Winkel, the husband of Phoebe Winkel and the father of Joseph, Solomon,
Kate, Sarah and Leah Winkel was buried today at the “East Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1929: In
Brooklyn, Lena and Max Weinrib gave birth to Jerome Weinrib, the retired
chairman of ABC Carpet.
1930:
Birthdate of St. Louis native James Leslie “Jimmy” Jacobs the multi-talented
athlete who concentrated on handball and managing boxers – a passion which to
him co-founding the production companies “The Greatest Fights of the Century”
and “Big Fights, Inc.”
1930: In
Brooklyn, Emil Lackow, the manufacturer of leather goods and Mildred Prozan
gave birth to Pauline Bernice Lackow who gained famed as “Pauline Bart, a
second-wave feminist sociologist who wrote with rigor and dark wit about
depression among 1950s-era housewives, gender inequities in health care and
violence against women…” (As reported by Penelope Green)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/us/pauline-bart-dead.html?searchResultPosition=3
1930: Richard
Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon" premieres in New York
1931(1st
of Adar, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1931: Over 1,500 people attended funeral services
for Louis Mann at Temple Emanu-El which were opened with a reading by Rabbi
H.G. Enelow and included a eulogy delivered by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and a
rendition of a Bach aria by violinist Mischa Elman.
1931(1st
of Adar, 5691): Fifty-year-old Russian born American actor Louis Wolheim who
gave a memorable performance in “All Quiet on the Western Front” passed away
today.
1931: King
Levinsky fought a four-round exhibition with former Heavy Weight Champion Jack
Dempsey. Levinsky the scion of a Jewish family from Chicago that had a fish
business on Maxwell Street
1932: Birthdate of Czech born film director Milos
Forman. Forman’s father was Jewish but his mother was not. They
died in the camps.
1932: O.R. Miller of Albany, “an official of the New York
Civic League” was reported today to be one of those wishing to testify against
the confirmation of Judge Benjamin N. Cardoza who has been nominated by
President Hoover to serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1933: Marinus van der Lubbe, the man who will be accused of
setting the Reichstag Fire, arrived in Berlin. There are those who contend the
fire was really set by the Nazis. Regardless, they used it as tool to
consolidate their power weeks after Hitler became Chancellor.
1933: “The Mystery of the Wax Museum” a horror film
directed by Michael Curtiz was released in the United States today.
1934(3rd of Adar, 5694): “Dr. Heinrich York Steiner,
Hungarian Jewish writer, friend of Dr. Theodore Herzl” and one of the founders
of the Zionist movement passed away today at the age of 75. Dr.
York-Steiner, who was born in Hungary, spent most of his life in Vienna.
Known as a novelist, critic and dramatist, he became friendly with Dr. Herzl as
a young man and worked closely with him to form Zionist groups. He played an
important part in the creation of the World Zionist Organization.”
1935: Nineteen days after premiere in New York City, “The
Good Fairy,” a comedy directed by William Wyler and produced by Carl Laemmle,
Jr. was released in the United States today.
1936: As a result of the assassination of Swiss Nazi leader
Wilhelm Gustloff on February 4, today, “the Swiss Federal Council ordered…the
immediate suppression of all central or regional German Nazi organizations in
Switzerland.”
1936: New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman was among the
speakers at tonight’s fellowship dinner sponsored by the National Committee for
Religion and Welfare Recovery where he told attendees “that something seemed to
be wrong with the social as well as the economic order of the nation” and
“called upon Protestants, Catholics and Jews to join in a new spiritual
awakening…”
1936: Invitations were sent today to forty national leaders
asking them to attend a meeting in Cincinnati called by Felix Warburg where
plans will be made for raising the three and a half million dollars that the
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has promised to provide assistance to refugees from Eastern and Central Europe.
1936: In a reorganization of the League of Nations High
Commission for Refugees Coming From Germany, for now, Norman Bentwich, the
director of the High Commission, a professor at the Hebrew University and
former Attorney-General of Palestine will be responsible for providing economic
assistance to the refugees.
1937: It was reported today that German born composer
Walter Damrosch who would be classified as Jew if he had stayed in his homeland
has expressed this opposition to a bill introduced by Congressman Samuel
Dickstein, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, designed “to protect the artistic
and earning opportunities in the United States for American actors, vocal
musicians, operatic singers, solo dancers, solo instrumentalists and orchestral
conductors.”
1937: The prosecution rested in the restaurant racket trial
today that involved a payment of $21,000 to Dutch Shultz, the son. of
“German-Jewish immigrants Herman and Emma Flegenheimer” who had named their son
Arthur
1938: The Palestine Post reported that owing to German
influence there had been in recent months a concentrated Italian drive against
the appointment of Jews to leading positions in the economic and political life
of the state.
1938: “The Baroness and the Butler” a romantic comedy
featuring J. Edward Bromberg and Joseph Schildkraut was released in the United
States today.
1938: “A Yank At Oxford” produced by Michael Balcon was
released in the United States today.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that there were three
successive Arab attacks on the Rana police post, near Acre. Some 150 Arab
villagers in the Tulkarm area were arrested in connection with a number of
recent railway sabotages.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that Maestro Toscanini
had withdrawn from participating in the Nazi-dominated Salzburg Festival and
announced his intention to come and conduct the Orchestra in Palestine.
1938(17th of Adar I, 5698):
Seventy-three-year-old Vilna native “Joseph Polstein, a retired builder, a
former president of Congregation Kehilath Jershurum in Manhattan and a director
of Yeshiva College died today of pneumonia in his home” today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/02/19/98099682.pdf
1939(29th of Shevat, 5699): Parashat Mishpatim
and Shabbat Shekalim
1939: Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer is scheduled to deliver a
sermon on “Brotherhood, Is It a Delusion?” at Temple Emanu-El today.
1939: The Central Synagogue in Manhattan is scheduled to
hold its “annual Youth Service in honor of the eleventh annual convention of
the New York State Federation of Young Folks’ Leagues” that will include a
sermon by Saul B. Applebaum on “Youth’s Aged Problems.”
1939: In observance of “Brotherhood Sabbath,” Rev. C.
Jeffares McCombe, pastor of the Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew is
scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Common Task of Christian and Jew” at
Temple Rodeph Sholom.
1940: In Warsaw, two Jewish girls were raped by two German
sergeants.
1941: United Sates Representative Martin L. Sweeney
testified in Federal Court” today, in “his suit for $250,000 damages, based on
allegations that he was libeled in” Drew Pearson’s Washington Merry-Go-Round
Column that “he never at any time felt or manifested prejudice against Jews or
other persons because of race or faith” and that he had not joined with the
notorious Father Coughlin to oppose a nominee for a federal judgeship.
1941: The seizure in the port of Jaffa over the weekend of
a motor launch transporting nearly a ton of opium and hashish valued at fifty
thousand pounds” is believed today by authorities “to have broken up a gigantic
plot.”
1942(1st of Adar, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1942 (1st of Adar, 5702: Fifteen-year-old Eduard
Bondy, the “son of Pavel and Franziska Bondy” died today in the Lodz Ghetto
during the Holocaust.
1942: Birthdate of Maurice Lévy, the Moroccan born French
businessman who became “chief executive officer of Publicus.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/publicis-extends-maurice-levys-term-as-ceo-1410852508
1943: A group of 1,220 Jewish refugees from Poland arrived
in Israel from Tehran where they had found refuge in 1942
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205872.pdf
1943: Joseph Goebbels gave his Total War speech which
should have put an end to any later claims that the Allies were wrong in
pursuing a policy of Unconditional Surrender when fighting the Axis.
1943: The
occupying Japanese authorities declared a "Designated Area for Stateless
Refugees" and ordered those who arrived after 1937 to move their
residences and businesses within it by May 18, three months later.
1943(13th
of Adar I, 5703): Seventy-four-year-old Dutch trade unionist Henri Polak who
was President of the General Diamond Workers’ Union of the Netherlands died of
pneumonia in Laren following which his wife Milly was shipped to Westerbrork
where she died.
1943(13th
of Adar I, 5703): Seventy-four-year-old Odessa born American Socialist Sergius
Ingerman, a graduate of “the medical school at the University of Berne,
co-founder of the Socialist Party of America with Eugene V. Debs and Morris
Hilliquit and the husband of Dr. Anna Ingerman passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/02/19/85084470.pdf
1943: The
Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement which was an anti-Nazi
movement inspired by German students. It is important to remember that
there were those in Germany who opposed Hitler and were willing to risk their
lives to express that opposition.
1944: “Action
in Arabia” directed by Leonide Moguy and with a script co-authored by Herbert
Biberman was released today in the United States.
1944:
Lightweight Al Davis scored his last victory over “a name fighter” today.
1945: The last
of six convoys of deportees arrived at The Langenstein-Zwieberge, an under-camp
of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1945: In
“Alfred Einstein’s Study of Mozart” published today, Roger Session said of Mozart,
His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein that “a new book by Alfred
Einstein is in itself an event of first-rate importance in the world of musical
scholarship” and that this “present volume on Mozart is not only an event but a
predestined one.”
1945(5th
of Adar, 5705): Fifty-five-year-old Arne Laurin the graduate of the “Technical
Academy of Prague,” the editor-in-chief of Prager Presse, a German
language newspaper regarded as the mouthpiece of the Czech government who was
forced to flee because of opposition to the Nazis and who “took charge of the
index department of the Czechoslovak Information Service” after arriving in New
York in 1939 with his wife “Olga Weiss Laurinova” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/02/19/84628244.pdf
1946: A
clandestine radio transmitter known as the “Voice of Free Israel” that is
reportedly operated by the Stern Gang was seized in Tel Aviv after “a
house-to-house search by British Soldiers and police officers.”
1946(17th
of Adar I, 5706): Eighty-one-year-old Siegfried Wachsmann, the Glewitz Germany
native and University of Berlin trained physician who in 1901 came to the
United States where he served on the faculties of Fordham and Columbia
universities and the Medical Director of the Montefiore Home and Hospital for
Chronic Diseases on Gun Hill Road passed away today in Middleton, NY<
1946: Clemens
August Galen was named as a Cardinal. During World War II, while serving
as the Bishop of Munster (Germany), he opposed the Nazis.
1947: Birthdate of Eliot Engel, Congressman representing
New York’s 17th District.
1947: “A Flag is Born” was scheduled to open in Boston, MA.
1948: “Mr. Roberts” featuring Steven Hill, Larry Blyden and
Sam Lembeck as “Sam Insigna” opened on Broadway today.
1948(8th of Adar I, 5708): Sixty-five-year-old
George Washington University trained physician Samuel Haberman, the Russian
born son of Dora and Joseph Meir who specialized in chest diseases and raised
four children while being active in Republican politics passed away today in
Massachusetts.
1949: Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach
(head of government) of Ireland. The controversial Irish leader was rumored to
have been the illegitimate son of a Portuguese Jew, a rumor he vehemently
denied. However, de Valera was not an anti-Semite as can be seen by his support
in 1937 for a provision in the Irish Constitution that explicitly recognized
the existence and rights of the Jewish community in Ireland.
1950(1st
of Adar, 5710): Parashat Mishpatim; Rosh Chodesh Adar
1950(1st
of Adar, 5710): Sixty-eight-year-old Lithuania native Charles Katz, “the
President and a founder Polan, Katz and Company, Inc. an umbrella manufacturer
located in Baltimore and a leader of the Jewish community who served a director
of the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore and a director of the United
Synagogue of America while raising two daughters and on son, Lawrence with his
wife “the former Fannie Elfant” passed away today.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Knesset
approved, by 79 votes to 16, the government's statement on the ruptured
relations with the Soviet Union. The resolution upheld the role the Soviet
Union played in the establishment of Israel in 1948 but found no justification
for the Soviet role in breaking off the diplomatic relations between the two
countries now. Mass meetings in New York asked the Soviet Union to "Let My
People Go!"
1953(3rd of Adar, 5713): Seventy-five-year-old
Columbia University trained mining engineer Leon Gilbert Simon, “a special
agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and the author of books on
insurance and taxation passed away today while returning to his New York home
after “delivering a series of lectures at Tulane University in New Orleans.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that in London the House
of Commons backed the British government's decision to continue selling jet
fighters to Arab nations to the exclusion of Israel.
1954: “The Long, Long Trailer” a comedy produced by Pandro
S. Berman was released in the United States today.
1955: Pinchas Lavon’s resignation as Defense Minister is
accepted.
1955: David Ben Gurion agrees to come out of retirement and
serve as Defense Minister. Four months later he will also agree to serve
as Prime Minister.
1957(17th of Adar I, 5717): “Two civilians were
killed by landmines, next to Nir Yitzhak, on the southern border of the Gaza
Strip.”
1959(11th of Adar I, 5719): Fifty-three-year-old Viennese
composer Erich Zeisl who came to New York via Paris after the Anschluss passed
away today.
http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/eric_zeisl/
1961: Today, Bertram W. Kornd delivered an
address on “Jews and Negro
Slaver in the Old South: 1789-1865” at the 59th Annual Meeting of
the American Jewish Historical Society at the Jewish Museum of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059130
1962: It was reported today that, on the eve of
Brotherhood Week, Rabbi William Berkowitz had presented Congregation B’nai
Jershurun’s award for being a champion of human rights to Reverend Ralph W.
Sockman, the minister of emeritus of Christ Church (a Methodist Congregation)
who was hailed as “one of the leaders who has brought the spiritual dimension
into the community, the nation and the world.”
1963 After premiering in London in January,
“Summer Holiday” a musical with a score by Stanley Black was released in the
rest of the UK today.
1963(24th of Shevat, 5723): Shlomo-Yisrael
Ben-Meir began serving as serving as a Deputy Speaker and the Deputy Minister
of Internal Affairs
1965(15th of Adar I, 5725): Eight-six-year-old
Paul Sachs, the Assistant Director of the Fogg Art Museum and founding member
of The Museum of Modern Art who played a key role in making plans for
protecting American art during WWII and retrieving art from war torn Europe as
described in The Monument Men passed away today.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/portrait-of-the-artist-a.html
http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/Sachsf
1966(28th of Shevat, 5726): Fifty-seven-year-old
Robert Rossen, the director of the Oscar winning picture “All the King’s Men”
passed away today.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArossen.htm
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/19/79292897.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1967(8th of Adar I, 5727): Sixty-two-year-old physicist
Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project and the father of the
Atomic Bomb passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0422.html
1969: The PLO attacked El-Al plane in Zurich
Switzerland. Long before 9/11, the Israelis were forced to deal with a
level of vicious terrorism aimed at strangling their avenues of commerce and
tourist industry. As a result of the PLO attacks, the Israelis were the
first to put sky marshals on their flights and to do in depth pre-screening of
all passengers. And yes, the head of the PLO was Yassar Arafat, the
"partner for peace."
1969(30th of Shevat, 5729): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1969(30th of Shevat, 5729): Mieczyslaus
Zagajski, a native of Poland who came to the United States during WWII after
which he became an industrialist and “collector
of Jewish ceremonial objects’ passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
1969: BBC2 broadcast a dramatization of The Naked Sun by
Isaac Asimov
1970: The Chicago Eight, including Abbe Hoffman and
Jerry Rubin, were found not guilty of charges relating to the riots at the 1968
Democratic Convention held in Chicago.
1971(24th of Shevat, 5731): Just seventeen days
after celebrating his 50th birthday Brooklyn College graduate and
Merchant Marine veteran Joseph Dames, an executive with the American Jewish
Committee’s Appeal for Human Relations and the husband of Lucile Dames with
whom he raised two daughter – Tamar and Lisa – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/joseph-dames-dies-jewish-appeal-aide.html
1973: A
headline in the New York Times read "Half Baghdad's Jews Said to
Apply to Leave; Property Seized." "Half the members of the tiny
Jewish community in Baghdad have applied for passports to leave Iraq in recent
weeks in the face of a crackdown by Iraqi authorities, according to a first day
account.
1973: In
Montreal's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Naim Kattan, an Iraqi-born
Jew spoke at a memorial and protest rally for nine more Jews who had been
murdered in Baghdad. (page 300 for the dead)
1974: Valery
Panov was threatened with further punishment unless he left the Soviet Union
“immediately without his wife.”
1976(17th of
Adar I, 5736): Seventy-seven-year-old John Barsha, the native of Russia
originally known as Abraham Barshofsky who played basketball and football for
Syracuse University before turning pro while in law school passed away today.
1976: In
Brussels, the Second World Conference of Jewish Communities on Soviet Jewry
continued for a second day.
1976(17th
of Adar I, 5736): Fifty-eight-year-old Milton Cohen, vice president and general
manager of Hertz System Inc., a licensee company that rents and leases cars and
trucks in affiliation with the Hertz Corporation, and the husband of Anne Cohen
with whom he had two children, Richard and Janet, passed away today in
Vancouver.
1980(1st
of Adar, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1980(1st
of Adar, 5740): Seventy-two-year-old Maxwell Goldstein, the son of Bessie and
Louis Goldstein and the Johns Hopkins trained electrical engineer who was a
leader in developing anti-submarine technology during WW II passed away today.
https://ethw.org/Maxwell_K._Goldstein
1980: In
Moscow, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist and Bella
Spektor, a professor in a Soviet college of music gave birth to
singer-songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/18/1980/this-week-in-history-singer-songwriter-regina-spektor-is-born
1981(14th
of Adar I, 5741) Purim Katan
1981: Today “Yosef
Mendelevich, 34, the last of the nine Jews jailed in the Leningrad trial,
arrived in Israel.
1981: Israel's
60,000 teachers, who earn an average of $110 a week, staged a one-day strike
today to press for a wage increase promised by the Government. The Government's
decision in principle last month to grant the raise brought the resignation of
Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, which resulted in the Government coalition
losing its majority in Parliament. Negotiations, however, have continued.
1982(25th
of Shevat, 5742): Ninety-two-year-old multi-talented musician Nathaniel
Shilkret passed away today.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Shilkret-Nat.htm
http://www.collateralworks.com/linernotes/natshilkret.html
1982(25th
of Shevat, 5742): Seventy-year-old New York born violinist and conductor Sol
Babitz, the husband of Mae Laviolette with whom head two daughters, Eve and
Miriam, passed away today.
http://www.maebabitz.com/about/sol-babitz/
1983(5th
of Adar, 5743): Eighty-two-year-old Leopold Godowsky, Jr. the American
violinist who held to create Kodachrome passed away.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/233.html
1983: Two
months after its release in Iceland, “The King of Comedy” co-starring Jerry
Lewis, Tony Randall and Sandra Berhnhard was released in the United States
today.
1983: For the
final time Stage 23 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles for the taping of an
episode of “Taxi.”
1983:
“Lovesick” a comedy featuring “the ghost of Dr. Sigmund Freud” with a cast that
included Ron Silver, Alan King, Selma Diamond and Larry Rivers was released in
the United States today.
1986(9th
of Adar I, 5746): Sixty-three-year-old decorated WW II veteran and owner of the
Westland Market Samuel H. Keyser, the husband of Eva Keyser and a member of
Beth David Synagogue passed away today
1988(30th of
Shevat, 5748): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1990: Dozens of supporters are planning to lie down across
the road here in front of Ariel Sharon's northern Negev ranch this morning to
stop him from driving to Jerusalem for the Cabinet meeting where he plans to
resign. But as the former general sees it, by resigning as Industry and Trade
Minister he is not leaving; he is simply opening a new front. And the goal of
this new campaign, he said in an interview, is to be Israel's next prime
minister replacing Yitzhak Shamir.
1992(14th of Adar I, 5752): Purim Katan
1994(7th of Adar, 5754): Forty-nine-year-old
Ruth Adler, a Devon born daughter of “two German Jewish lawyers, Charlotte
Kissinger and Rudolf Oppenheimer, who was a campaigner for human rights and
children welfare passed away today.
http://womenofscotland.org.uk/women/ruth-margaret-adler
1994: “On Deadly Ground,” directed and produced by the
film’s star Steven Seagal, the son of Russian Jewish father and featuring Irvin
Kershner was released today in the United States.
1995: Actor Bodhi Elfman, the “only child of filmmaker
Richard Elfman” got married today.
1995(18th of Adar I, 5755): Parashat Ki Tisa
1995(18th of Adar I, 5755): Seventy-year-old
Rosa Lee Blumthanal, the wife of former delegate Charles Blumenthal (D-Oxon
Hill) with whom she had four children – George, Anne, Rosemary and Cheryl -- and a Prince George's County Democrat who had
served in the House of Delegates from 1986 to 1994 who “had served on the
Judiciary Committee and had sponsored legislation dealing with victims' rights,
grandparents' visitation rights, rehabilitation of chronic juvenile offenders
and grant funds for family day-care providers” passed away today.
1997: Janet Yellen began serving as Chair of the Council of
Economic Advisers under President Clinton.
1997(11th of Adar I, 5757): Ninety-two-year-old Emily Hahn,
the St. Louis born author best known for her writings about China passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/19/arts/emily-hahn-chronicler-of-her-own-exploits-dies-at-92.html
http://www.susanbkason.com/2015/04/05/emily-hahn/#.WKZpKluQx9A
1999(2nd
of Adar, 5769): Ninety-two-year-old Paris born photographer Adnreas Feininger,
the “eldest son Julia Berg, a German Jew” and painter Lyonel Feiningerg, who
was best to many for his work in Life magazine passed away today. (As reported
by Andy Grunberg)
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/20/arts/andreas-feininger-92-dies-portrayed-new-york-in-photos.html
1999(2nd of Adar, 5759): Comedic actor and director Noam
Pitlik passed away.
2000: “The Whole Nine Yards” a really off-beat comedy
featuring Kevin Pollak and with music by Randy Edelman was released today in
the United States.
2001: The New York Times published an op-ed essay
explaining the pardon of Marc Rich which did not mention the donations of
almost two million dollars that Denise Rich had made to the Democratic Party,
Hillary Clinton’s senatorial campaign or the Clinton Library.
2002(6th of Adar I, 5762): Ahuva
Amergi (30), Maj. Mor Elraz (25), St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri and unidentified woman
were murdered today by members of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigade who opened fire on
the car driven by the woman and then hit the two soldiers who came to her aid.
2003(16th of Adar I, 5763)
Isser Harel, head of Mossad from 1952 until 1963 and was in charge of the
operation that brought Eichmann to Israel to stand trial passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isser-harel
https://spartacus-educational.com/COLDharel.htm
2004: “President Bush, helping to inaugurate a new American
television network in the Middle East, said in an interview broadcast today
that the United States would continue to press its plan for a Palestinian state
and for democracy in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other Arab countries.”
2004: It was reported today that according to Rabbi Berel
Karniol, the director of an angency In Monsey, NY that certifies kosher kitcher
“some of the most observant Hasidic communities in the United States claim
large followings of restaurant avoiders” and that these “Jews so punctilious in
their observance of the food laws that even kosher restaurants get the thumbs
down.”
2005(9th of Adar I, 5765): Lee Kahn passed away at the age
of 101. She was one of the siblings of Helen Reichert, all of whom were
centenarians.
2006(20th of Shevat, 5766): Parashat Yitro
2006: “A new Palestinian parliament dominated by the
militant group Hamas was installed
today, and immediately President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas lawmakers set
out on a collision course over the need to honor existing agreements with
Israel and conduct negotiations with it to achieve Palestinian statehood.”
2007:
The
23rd International Book Fair opens in Jerusalem
2007: The
Sunday New York Times book section featured a review of French
Seduction: An American’s Encounter With France, Her Father, and the Holocaust
by Eunice Lipton.
2007: The
Sunday Washington Post book section “Poet’s Choice” by Robert Pinksy
features a commentary on "The Amen Stone" and The Jewish Time
Bomb" that appeared in Yehuda Amichai's last collection of poems, Open
Closed Open.
2007: The
Sunday Chicago Tribune book section included a review of Amanda Vaill's Somewhere,
a biography of Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz who came to be known as Jerome Robbins
the man who “conquered--and in many ways defined--both the musical and modern
American ballet, a genius by nature…”
2008: Three
days after being released on the Continent "New Soul" a song by the
French-Israeli R&B/soul singer Yael Naïm, was released today in the United
Kingdom.
2008: In New
York, Drior
Baitel performs his graduation recital at Mannes Concert Hall.
2008: In the United States, FBI domestic terror squads remain on the alert for any
threats against synagogues and other potential Jewish targets in the United
States after the assassination of the top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah
and the movement's leader threatened to attack Israeli and Jewish institutions
around the world.
2009: In,
Manhattan’s East Village, the fourth and final part of a four part series The Comedy
and Kabbalah of Relationships featuring Rabbi YY Jacobson
2009: At New
York University, Professor Yoram Peri, head of the Chaim Herzog Institute for
Media, Politics and Society at Tel Aviv University delivers a public lecture entitled
"New Leadership in Israel and the Peace Process."
2009: Today, the IDF announced that apples grown by
Israeli farmers in the Golan Heights will be exported to Syria.
2009: The
New York Times reported that the American Tennis Channel will not televise
the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships this week to protest the United Arab
Emirates' refusal to grant an entry visa to Israeli player Shahar Peer
2009:
Holocaust survivors voiced criticism of Yad Vashem's announcement that it will
bestow its highest honor on Wilm Hosenfeld, a Nazi officer who helped save a
Polish Jew, whose story became the basis for the film The Pianist.
2010: The 92nd
St Y is scheduled to present another in the series Spiritual Journeys: Feminine
Reflections on the Rhythms of Our Lives entitled “Adar: Increasing Joy”
with Rabbi Joyce Reinitz.
2010: Today,
while the media is filled with stories about supposed Israeli responsibility
for the death of Hamas leader in Dubai, Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer
advanced to the semifinals of the Dubai Championship, after beating 10th seed
Na Li in the quarterfinal match
2010: An IDF
soldier was lightly wounded today by a bomb which exploded near a patrol unit
on the security fence near the central Gaza Strip.
2010:
Terrorists hurled a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli bus in Gush Etzion yesterday
evening. There were no casualties, but the bus was damaged.
2010: The
Washington Post features a review of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the
Most Talked About Book of All Time by Kristin Swenson in which the reviewer
recommends “Robert Alter’s books…as well as the exhilarating Richard Elliot
Friedman’s Who Wrote the Bible?
2011:
Einsatzgruppen The Death Brigades, the “harrowing two-part documentary
meticulously details the Nazi killing squads charged with destroying entire
Jewish populations in occupied Eastern Europe during WWII” is scheduled to be
shown at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
2011: A
Small Act is scheduled to be shown at the 21st Annual San Diego
Jewish Film Festival.
2011: The
Portland Jazz Festival is scheduled to start today. “This year's theme is
'Bridges and Boundaries', which refers to bridging the two minority communities
of Jewish Americans and African Americans.”
2011: A German
prosecutor said today that he has opened a murder investigation against a key
witness in the trial of alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk.
2011: Friends
and family celebrate the birthday of Joel Barnum, an un-presupposing pillar of
the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community.
2011: The
United States used its veto this afternoon to block a Security Council
resolution declaring Israel’s settlement construction in the West Bank illegal.
(As reported by Neil MacFarquhar)
2011: In
“Auschwitz Shifts From Memorializing to Teaching,” Michael Kimmelman described
the changing role of the site of the worst of the Death Camps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/arts/19auschwitz.html?pagewanted=all
2012: Shabbat
Shekalim, 5772
2012:
“Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldbeerg is scheduled to be shown at Beth El Temple Center in
Belmont, MA
2012: “Jewish
Soldiers in Blue and Gray” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth-El
Jewish Film Festival in Fort Worth, TX!
2012: In Iowa
City, Hillel is scheduled to present a concert by University of Iowa School of
Music faculty members, Uriel Tsachor and Rachel Joselson.
2012:
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza took advantage of stormy weather conditions to
fire rockets towards large southern cities in Israel. A Grad-type rocket was
launched in the direction of the Negev's largest city, Beersheba, today
triggering air raid sirens.
2012: British
Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Iran is clearly trying to develop a
nuclear weapons capability, and if it succeeds it will set off a dangerous
round of nuclear proliferation across the Middle East while the Chairman of the
US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin Dempsey said that an Israeli
strike on Iran "wouldn’t achieve its long-term objectives" and would
be "destabilizing."
2013: In
London, Professor Neil Gregor is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled
“Mockery as Politics: The Degenerate Art Exhibition, 1937” in which he examines
how the Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937 was used to prepare people
intellectually for the Holocaust
2013:
Hadassah’s National Center for Attorneys’ Councils and the Greater Washington
Area Chapter Attorneys’ Council are scheduled to host a dinner honor those who
are to be sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court
2013: At
Tulane University, the second and final day of “Jewish Secular Utopias and
Distopias in Central and Eastern Europe” co-sponsored by Dr. Brian Horowitz and
Dr. Andrew Solin
2013: At
Brandeis University, a two-day conference “Zionism in the Twenty-First Century”
is scheduled to come to an end.
2013:
“Religious Studies and Rabbinics” a conference designed to promote dialogue
between the fields of religious studies and rabbinics is scheduled to open at
the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
2013:
President Shimon Peres today announced that he will present his American
counterpart with the Presidential Medal of Distinction during his March stay in
Israel.
2013: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today sent Pope Benedict XVI a letter of
appreciation on behalf of the State of Israel, a week after the pontiff
announced his imminent resignation from office. Benedict said he would step
down as head of the Catholic Church at the end of February.
2013(8th
of Adar, 5773): Eighty-three-year-old legal scholar Alan F. Westin passed away
today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2014: The
Skirball Center is scheduled to present another in the series of lectures by
Dr. Daniel Rynhold entitled “Rav Kook and the Heroism of the Holy.”
2014: “The
Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be shown at the David Posnack Jewish Community
Center’s Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “American Jerusalem: Jews and
the Making of San Francisco.”
2014: Friends
and family celebrate the natal day of Joel Barnum, one of those quite “pillars”
of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community.
2014:
“Hungarian rabbi said today he had uncovered 103 Torah scrolls stolen from
Hungarian Jews during World War Two and stashed in a Russian library, adding he
planned to restore and return them to the Jewish community.”
2014: “Two
rockets fired from war-torn Syria struck the Golan Heights in northern Israel
today, shortly after a secret visit to the area by Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu, the army said.”
2014: A
three-day long on-line marathon brainstorming session sponsored by the Israeli
government to Plan the Future of the Jewish People is scheduled to come to an
end.
2015: In
Buenos Aires, a group of prosecutors are scheduled to hold a march in memory of
Alberto Nisamn the prosecutor who died “mysteriously” while “seeking to charge
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner with shielding Iranians from
responsibility over the 1994 bombing of Jewish community center.
2015: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a performance of “"Don't
Cry, We'll All Meet on the Other Side," explores the story of Jewish Life
in Communist Romania in the aftermath of the Holocaust
2015: Cellist
Elad Kabilio is scheduled to “a musical journey through Modeling the Synagogue
– from Dura to Touro.”
2015: “Above
and Beyond” is scheduled to be shown at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for
Holocaust Education.
http://www.ojmche.org/experience/film-2015-02-18-above-and-beyond
2016: In
Jerusalem Ariel Ben Abraham is scheduled to discuss his book God’s Love,
a book inspired in the Chassidic approach to God's love.
2016(9th
of Adar I, 5776): Twenty-one-year-old Tuvia Yanai Weissman, “an IDF soldier”
was stabbed terrorists in a supermarket today.
2016: The
exhibition Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann, opened
at the Maltz Museum today.
2016: The
Estonian Israeli Music Festival is scheduled to begin in Tel Aviv.
2017(22nd
of Shevat, 5777): Parashat Yitro
2017(22nd
of Shevat, 5777): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of
Kotzk
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-menachem-mendel-of-kotzk
2017: “Wounded
Land” and “Kapo in Jerusalem” are scheduled to be shown at the 27th
Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival.
2017: As part
of their visit to Israel, a group of players from the National Football League
(NFL) are scheduled to play players from the Israeli Football Association in an
exhibition game today.
2017: At the
second day of Limmud NY, following a wide variety of Shabbat morning services,
Efraim Chalamish is scheduled to lead a discussion on “The Chinese Revolution
and the Jewish State in 2016” and “David Gedzelman is scheduled to lead a
discussion on “Constructing a News Zionism for the 21st Century on
Old Foundations: What Do Gordon, Kaplan and Buber Have to Teach Us?”
2017: This
evening, in Jerusalem, Eliah Zabaly is scheduled to perform a “piano solo
recital dedicated to Aldo Ciccolini” who passed away in 2015.
2017: As
Shabbat came to an end, the lights came on at Turner Stadium as Hapoel Beer
Sheva owned by Alona Barakat, “the only woman to own a professional soccer team
in Israel,” prepared for another match
2018: Friends
and family celebrate the natal day of Joel Barnum, a mesnsh in the truest sense
of the word, a “great” grandfather and one of the few people who can put the
mysteries of technology into understandable English.
2018: The
University of Iowa Hillel is scheduled to an outing “at the boutique Southport
Lanes bowling alley in Chicago.
2018(3rd
of Adar, 5778): Eighty-five Brooklyn born Lee Harris Pomeroy, the
quintessential New York architect passed away today. (As reported by Richard
Sandomir)
2018: In New
Orleans, The JCC Uptown Classic 5 K and Family Fun Run are scheduled to start
at 8:30 at Audobon Park.
2018: “Russian
Jews Part Two: 1918-1948,” “the second part of a documentary trilogy that
charts the fascinating and complex history of the Jewish community in Russia
throughout the centuries” is scheduled to be shown at Cineworld Didsbury in
Manchester.
2018: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Ukrainian Night: An
Intimate History of Revolution by Marci Shore, The Triumph of
Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart D. Ehrman
and Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin
2019: Director Steve Spielberg’s family are
scheduled to reopen “The Milky Way” the kosher restaurant that his mother Leah
Adler who passed away in February of 2017, had operated for forty years.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of
“Forgotten Soldier,” a documentary about Dutch businessman Sally Noach.
2019: In conjunction “Pioneers to the Present,”
an exhibit about Jews in Richmond, the Richmond Museum of History is scheduled
to host “Bubbe Reads” with “Jewish grandmothers reading stories for local
youngsters.”
2019: In Rockville, MD, the Haberman Institute
is scheduled to host Professor Paul Root Wolpe of Emory University as he
discusses “Contemporary Ethical Challenges” including the “disproportionate
Jewish representation in the field of ethics and the reason for this.”
2019: Presidents’ Day observed in the United
States (Editor’s note- As Jews consider their unique experiences with the Chief
Executive starting with George Washington and his letter to the community in
Newport, RI and ending with Donald Trump, the first occupant of the White House
to have a Jewish child and Jewish grandchildren, they might want to look at the
recently published The Elected and the Chosen by Denis Brian.)
2019: Finally, today is that rarity - day in
Cedar Rapids without a forecast of snow which must be a result of all the
warmth generated by the celebration of Joel Barnum’s birthday.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
“The Photos” in which Adrienne Aurichio the wife of Award-winning Life magazine
photographer Bill Eppridge shares the photographic record of the life of Barbra
Streisand.
2020: The Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival
is scheduled to host the second and final screening of “City of Joel.”
2020: In Berkley, CA, the Bancroft Hotel is
scheduled to host a talk by Rutgers Professor Yael Zerubavel “about nature,
Israeli settlements, mythical stories, tourism and security concerns over the
past century.”
2020: O Brookline, MA, the Kolbo Fine Judaica
Gallery is scheduled to host National Jewish Book Award finalist Rabbi Laura
Geller as she reads from her newest book Getting Good at Getting Older.
2020: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to
present a lecture by Dr. Vladimir Levin on “Jewish Brcik and Mortar in the
Russian Capital” in which he considers “the uneasy relationship between the
architectural oeuvre of the Jewish community and the capital city of the
Russian Empire.”
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
Rabbi David Wolpe as he lectures on “Chasidic Mystics: Rabbi Nahman of
Breslov and Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev.”
2021: In Palm Beach Garden, FL, Temple Judea is
scheduled to host via zoom Herb Keinon lectuinr on “U.S.- Israel Ties Under
Biden, Israel’s new accords with Bahrain and the Redrawing of the Middle East
Map.”
2021: The Israel Office of Cultural Affairs is
scheduled to host a discussion with Sigal Avin, Ayelet Zurer and Lihi Kornowski
about the creation of “Losing Alice,” which has been named “Apple’s best drama
series yet.”
2021: In honor of Black History Month, The
Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to host a presentation by
Rabbi Rachel Mikva, author of Dangerous Religious Ideas, on “Jew and
Race” during which she will explore biblical and rabbinical ides on this
topic…”
2021: In Pepper Pike OH, Rabbi Josh Foster is
scheduled to deliver the first in a series about “Synagogues Around the World.”
2021: “The Colors of Jews: Being a Minority in
a Minority an event is co-sponsored by Temple Emanu El, The Temple-Tifereth
Israel, and Edot: The Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity Collaborative is
scheduled to take place this evening online via Zoom.
2021: The Malki Foundation and the Bushey
United Synagogue are scheduled to host an evening, via Zoom with Baroness Ros
Altman, talking about “What Might Bexit and COVID-19 mean for the Economy,
Investments and Pensions?”
2021: In Palm Beach Garden Cantorial Soloist
Abbie Strauss is scheduled to lead the morning minyan at Temple Judea.
2021: “Despite officials'
warnings to the government that Iranian hackers will attempt to strike and
poison Israel's water infrastructure, the country's water facilities are far
from prepared for such a scenario, according to a report seen by Ynet.”
2021: New England Region of BBYO is scheduled
to present online “Fighting Stigma with Effective Storystelling” with “comedian
Pamela Rae Schuller” who help attendees to learn the tools to find and craft
their own stories.
https://pamelacomedy.com/about/
2021: Kung Pao Kosher Comedy’s Lisa Geduldig is
scheduled to present “the latest edition of her monthly show, this one with
stand-up comedians Jackie Hoffman, Elvira Kurt and Bernadette Luckett, plus
Lisa’s 89-year-old mom in Florida.”
2022: A double portion of Nachas – erev Shabbat
combined with the Celebration of Joel Barnum’ natal day.
2022: Yefim Bromfman who has performed with
Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is
scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall.
2022: After yesterday’s downing of a
Hezbollah’s UAV, Israel and her supporters are reminded that she continues to
face the twin threat of COVID 19 and the real possibility of renewed attacks by
those committed to her destruction.
2023 The Palm Beach Jewish Virtual Film
Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: In Waterloo, IA, Sons of Jacob
Congregation is scheduled to hold its final Shabbat service in its long-time
home at 411 E. Mitchell Ave.
2023: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to
present “Ensemble Millennium/Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in Residence and
Friends.”
2023:
Police are reportedly on heightened alert in the “heavily Jewish
Pico-Robertson neighborhood” of Los Angeles following two shooting incidents
where Jewish men were attacked by a suspect with “a known animus towards the
Jewish community.”
2023(27th of Shevat, 5783): Shabbat
Shekalim
2024: In
Cleveland, OH, Nice Jewish Runners is scheduled to meet at 8:30 a.m. at La
Place and Run for Their Lives is scheduled to meet at La Place for an 18-minute
walk.
2024: The
Breman Theatrical Outfit is scheduled to present the final performance of
“Remember This: The Lesso of Jan Karski,” the “dazzling, tour de force solo
performance that tells the story of Jan Karski, a Polish diplomat and freedom
fighter during WWII who battled his way across Europe to bring evidence of the
Holocaust to Western governments.”
2024: The Jewish War Veterans
Atlanta Post 112 is scheduled to celebrate today World War II Combat Veteran
and Liberator Hilbert “Hibby” Margol’s 100th Birthday at its Monthly Meeting.
https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/wwii-liberator-combat-veterans-100th-birthday/
2024: The S.Y.
Agnon House is scheduled to host the first in a four-week Zoom class in which Professor
Wendy Zierler will look at “Sorrow Song: Hebrew Women’s Poetry in a Time of
War.”
2024: Martin Cohen, Yiddishkayt and Topa Institute are schedule
to present Yiddish Women in Song and Dance “Featuring Berlin-based co-founders
of Ensemble Lebedik , vocalist Sasha Lurje and violinist Craig Judelman, plus
special guests Cantor Sarah Myerson and accordionist Ilya Shneyveys.”
2024: JNFuture
Volunteer Mission is scheduled to begin today.
2024: The
Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to conducting walking tour of “the
Jewish Lower East Side.”
2024: The
Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education at The Breman Museum and community
partner Eternal Life-Hemshech are scheduled to Holocaust survivor and Breman
Museum speaker Bebe Forehand as she presents her remarkable story.
2024: As
February 18th, begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 135 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
