This Day, March 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
19 BCE (12th of Adar
II, 3741): The Temple “built” by King Herod was dedicated. Technically, Herod had refurbished the Second
Temple and not built a ‘third Sanctuary.”
1239: With the Edict of
Valencia, Spanish King James I validated privileges of the Jews of Aragon. The
Jewish courts (Bet din) were authorized to try all cases except capital
offenses.
1405: In Toro, Zamora,
King Henry III and Catherine of Lancaster gave birth to John II, who as King of
Castile and Leon overturned the Valladolid laws that restricted Jewish
activities and adopted “a more tolerant attitude toward the already battered
Jewish population of Castile following the mass wave of conversions” that had
taken place from 1391 to 1415.
1447: The papacy of
Nicholas V began today. According to Shlomo Simonsohn he “changed course
several times in his policy the Jews just as his predecessors had done.” (For
more on Nicholas V and the Jewish people see The Apostolic See and the Jews)
1475: Birthdate of
famed Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Say Michelangelo to most people and they respond, Sistine Chapel
ceiling. Say his name to Jews and the
response is “Moses.” “Moses” is a
marble sculpture which depicts the greater Jewish leader. Originally intended
for the tomb of Pope Julius II in St. Peter's Basilica it was placed in the
minor church of San Pietro in Vincoli on the Esquiline in Rome after the pope's
death. The statue depicts Moses with horns on his head. This is believed to be
because of the mistranslation of Exodus 34:29-35 by St Jerome. Moses is
actually described as having "rays of light" coming from his head,
which Jerome in the Vulgate had translated as "horns." This horned
Moses provided further proof that the Jews were, as the Gospel says, “the
Devil’s spawn.”
1663: Alexander VII
issued the Papal bull “Illius, qui illuminat.”
1754:
Fifty-nine-year-old British statesman Henry Pelham who while serving as Prime
Minister introduced the Jew Bill of 1753 “which allowed Jews to become
naturalized citizens by application to Parliament” passed away today.
1758: Abraham de
Mesquito was one of those witnessing the changes of the will made by Abraham
Menedes Seixas also known as Miguel Pancheco Da Silva.
1760: New York native
Abigail Seixas and Hillel Judah who were married in 1759 gave birth to Sarah
Judah, the wife of Ralph de Pass, whom she married in 1798 at Newport, RI.
1762: In Germany,
Dreile Schweizer and Philip Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Moses Faist
Rosenheim who was the husband of Jentle Loeb and Rehle Jonathan.
1765(13th of
Adar, 5525): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1766(25th of
Adar): “The Sefardim congregation of London passed a resolution that a Sefardi
marrying an Ashkenazi has forfeited his claim on congressional charities.
1774: Birthdate of
Stuttgart, Germany native Sarah Benedictus, the husband of Jacob Ottenheimer
with whom she had six children.
1776: English born
Lucius Levy Solomons and Rebecca Franks gave birth to Mary Solomons, the wife
of Jacob Franks.
1777: In Norwalk, CT,
Judith Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Sampson Mears Isaacks the
husband of Catherine Cohen with whom he had five children.
1781: James Wright, the
British Colonial Governor ordered the Jews of the Georgia to leave; accusing
them of disloyalty to his majesty by supporting the revolution. The order was
never carried out. For the most part, Wright had it right. Most Jews did support the American
Revolution.
1789(8th of
Adar, 5549): Fifty-five-year-old Phillip Minis, the Savannah born son of
Abraham and Abigail Minis and the husband of Judith Pollock with whom he had
five children – Isaac, Abigail, Frances, Phillipa and Abaham – who “was paymaster
to the Continental troops in Georgia” during the American Revolution and wo the
first president of Savannah’s Congregation Mickve Israel passed away today.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575523?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents
page 47 ff.
1789(8th of Adar, 5549):
Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Jacob Joshua Falk, author of Penei Aryeh, passed away
1791: Birthdate of
David Paul Drach the native of Strasbourg who converted to Catholicism after
moving to Paris and eventually became the librarian of the College of
Propaganda in Rome
1792: Moses Alexander
(Moshe ben Abraham) was buried today at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.
1799: General Kleber,
Commander in Chief of the French forces in Palestine, “instructed General Damas
to undertake a reconnaissance in the mountains which was met with such fierce
resistance from the Turks that the French were forced to retreating having lost
sixty dead.
1801: Phillip Abraham,
the husband of “Jane Vogg” and the father of Victor Abraham was buried today.
1815: With the defeat
of Napoleon, new restrictions were imposed on the Jews all over Europe.
1816: The
Jews were expelled from the Free City of Lubeck, Germany at the instance
of the local guilds. This was part of the reactionary backlash that followed
the defeat of Napoleon a year earlier. Many of these Jews finally found refuge
in the German of city of Moisling. After
“a period of adjustment” where the citizens of Moisling determined how many
Jews would live in their city and under what conditions, the government
provided a house for a rabbi and constructed a building that the Jews were
allowed to use as a synagogue if they paid “a moderate annual rent.”
1819: Birthdate of
Fanny Neuda author of Studen de Anacht (Hours of Devotion) a prayer book for
women.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Neuda_Fanny_Schmiedl
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/neuda-fanny
1819: In Leiden, Emanuel
Levi Goldsmith, the Dutch born, son of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit and Magdalena
Hartog Goudsmit, and his wife Alijda Joseph Joel Goldsmith gave birth to Leon
Emanuel Goldsmith, the future resident of New York State and husband of Charlotte
Goldsmith with whom he had two children – Joel and Mary.
1821: Start of the
Greek War for independence. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Jewish
populations in the Peloponnese had become in disfavor with the Greeks by
apparently supporting the Ottomans, and during the Greek War of Independence
thousands of Jews were massacred alongside the Ottoman Turks by the Greek
rebels, with the Jewish communities of Mistras, Tripolis, Kalamata and Patras
completely destroyed. At the same time, Jews throughout other parts of Europe,
including the Rothschilds supported the revolt, which captured the popular
imagination with its imagery of Greece the cradle of Democracy versus the
Ottoman Sultan.
1821: In Paris Elie
Furtado and Rose Fould gave birth to Cécile Charlotte Julie Fould-Furtado who
was the wife of Charles Heine who unlike his cousin Heinrich did not convert to
Christianity.
1822(13th of
Adar, 5582): Erev Purim
1822: In Liverpool,
Sarah and Lyon Samson gave birth to Frances Samson.
1823: In Aldingen,
Germany Zerla Wromser and Salomon Pappenheimer gave birth to future Cincinnati
resident Leopold Pappenheimer, the husband of Maie Pappenheimer and father of Helena
Meyer; Sara Pfeiffer; Emma Dreyfuss; Rae Pappenheimer; Oscar Pappenheimer;
Alexander T. Pappenheimer; Eda Newelt; Sigmund Pappenheimer; Anna Pappenheimer
and Dora Pappenheimer.
1823: In Stuttgart,
King William I and his third wife Pauline Therese gave birth to Charles I who during
his reign as the king of Württemberg 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. Schick “designed the Mea Shearim
neighborhood” and his home, Tabor House “is today considered one of Jerusalem’s
most beautiful buildings.” (Moshe Gilad)
1825(16th of
Adar, 5585): Hungarian Talmudist Shalom Charif Ullman passed away at Lackenbach
where he, his son and grandson all served as Rabbis.
1830(11th of
Adar, 5590): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
1834: In Canada, York
was incorporated as the city of Toronto. It was not until the 1840s that small
numbers of Jewish immigrants from Western and Central Europe began to arrive in
Ontario and settle in the cities of Hamilton, Kingston, and Toronto. In 1849,
Abraham Nordheimer moved from Kingston to Toronto and purchased a plot of land
for a cemetery on behalf of the Toronto Hebrew Congregation. The congregation
was originally an Orthodox synagogue, made up of members from Germany,
including Bavaria, Bohemia, and Alsace, Great Britain, the United States,
Russia, Galicia, and Lithuania. It became known as the Daytshishe Shul because
of its modernized services. In 1856, Lewis Samuel of York, England, immigrated
to Toronto and helped organize the Sons of Israel Congregation. In 1858, the
two congregations combined to form the Toronto Hebrew Congregation-Holy Blossom
Temple. Holy Blossom was Orthodox, but in the 1920s joined the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and became Reform. It was the only Reform temple
in Toronto until the 1950s, when it was joined by Temple Sinai and Temple
Emanu-El. Today Holy Blossom is the largest Reform Congregation in Canada. In
the 1880s, the arrival of large numbers of Eastern European Jews escaping the
pogroms of czarist Russia, led to the creation of three new synagogues. Goel
Tzedec and Beth Hamidrash Hagadol Chevra T'Hillim were founded in 1883 and were
made up of mostly Russian members. They merged in the early 1950s to form Beth
Tzedec, a Conservative congregation. The third synagogue, Shomrei Shabbos, was
started in 1889 by Orthodox Galician Jews. Also in 1889, Beth Jacob, known as
the Poylishe Shul and Rumanian Synagogue or Adath Israel came into existence.
By the 1940s, Toronto had about 60 synagogues. These were mainly small
Landsmannschaften, which were immigrant synagogues that represented the
different hometowns of settlers from Russian Poland, the Ukraine, Lithuania,
and Belorussia. In the 1950s and 60s, the smaller shtiblekh merged into larger
synagogues. Therefore, the number of synagogues decreased, but in their place
were larger and more stable congregations. The Jewish population of Toronto
started out small in the 18th and 19th centuries and grew slowly but steadily
into the early 20th century. In 1871, 157 Jews lived in Toronto, in 1891, the
number rose to 1,425, and, by 1901, the Jewish population had increased to
3,090. The size of the community always depended on waves of immigration from
Europe, based on pogroms and persecution in various countries. In 1911, the
Jewish population of Toronto had expanded to 18,237 and, by 1921, had almost
doubled to 34,619. In 1931, 45,000 Jewish immigrants, made up of mostly Poles,
settled in Canada after the United States tightened its immigration quota in
1924. Because of restrictions imposed by the Canadian government during the
Depression, Immigration preceding and during World War II declined significantly.
This was a huge blow to Eastern European Jews trying to escape persecution, and
only small groups of Austrian and German Jews fleeing Hitler were able to
immigrate to Toronto during this period. In 1941, the number of Jews in Toronto
had only risen slightly to 49,046, despite the thousands who desperately sought
refuge in Canada. After World War II, the Canadian
government established anti-discrimination laws and eased immigration
regulations. The Canadian Jewish Congress and needle traders helped refugees
come to Toronto from displaced persons camps. In addition, an important
development in the Toronto community was the growth of the Jewish day school
system in the post-World War II era. Previously, the Montreal and Winnipeg
Jewish communities had larger networks of congregational and day schools. The
1950s and 60s saw a tremendous growth of population and community life. In
1951, the Jewish population of greater Toronto reached 66,773. It was augmented
further after the 1956 Hungarian uprising brought a new influx of Jewish
refugees to the city. In the 1960s, the first Sephardic Jews came to Toronto
from Morocco, and established the first Sephardic synagogues and organizations
in the city. Toronto's economic developments of the 1960s, combined with the
rise of Quebec's separatist movement in the 1970s, led to a mass migration from
Montreal to Toronto in the late 70s and early 80s. In 1971, the Jewish
population stood at 105,000, by 1981, it reached 128,650 and, by 1991,
increased to 162,605. When the Parti Quebecois won the provincial election in
1976, 20,000 to 30,000 Jews fled to Toronto, fearing an independent Quebec
would divide and weaken the national Jewish community. Toronto assumed
Montreal's position as the center of Jewish activity. However, the economic
recession of the 1990s had a deleterious impact on the Jewish community's
finances and its ability to subsidize Jewish day schools. Despite this setback,
Toronto maintains the largest Jewish population of any Canadian city. In recent
years, Toronto has received Jewish immigrants from South Africa, the former
Soviet Union, the United States, and Israel. Today, the Jewish community stands
at approximately 150,000 out of Toronto's 3.5 million inhabitants. Most Jews
living in Toronto have only been there for one or two generations. With such
close ties to their homelands, Torontonian Jews are typically more traditional
than those in the rest of Canada and the United States. Of the 50 percent or so
of the Jewish population that associate themselves with the community, 20
percent are Orthodox, 40 percent Conservative, 35 percent Reform, and the
remainder nondenominational. Toronto maintains around 50 synagogues, a growing
network of Jewish day schools, and a number of Jewish organizations.
1835: In London, Sarah
and Jacob Nunes Castello gave birth to Hannah Jacob Nunes Castello.
1836:
The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
Antony Wolfe, a young Englishman, was reportedly the only Jew who fought and
died at the Alamo.
1838: Two days after he
had passed away, Naphtali Cohen, the father of John Hart, was buried today at
the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1841: Joseph and Nanny
Rosenheim gave birth to Simon Rosenheim
1844: In Amsterdam,
Ahasuerus Salomon van Nierop and Lady Rachel Salvador gave birth to Frederick
Salomon van Nierop the Dutch lawyer who became a director of the Amsterdam Bank
in 1871 and also served on the City Council.
1845: In Canterbury,
Kent, Hannah Barnard and Nathan Jacobs gave birth to Jane Jacobs.
1845: John Samuels, the
26-year-old “son of Alexander and Ann Samuels” was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1850: In Darmstadt,
Germany, Salome Loew and Moses Altheimer gave birth Benjamin Altheimer, who
came to the United States 1868 where he engaged in a variety of business
enterprises and married Jeny Eisenstadt in 1880.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/altheimer-benjamin
1850: In Darmstadt,
Germany, Moses Altheimer and Salome Loew gave birth to Benjamin Altheimer the
math and language tutor in Germany and husband of Jennie Eisenstadt who settled
in the United States where he “director of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum,”
“Treasurer of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver” and a
member of of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Charitable and Educational
Union in St. Louis, MO.
1851(2nd of
Adar II, 5611): Benjamin Wolf Löw passed away today. Born at Loslau in 1775, this Polish-Hungarian
rabbi was the son of Eleazar Low, the father of Eleazar Low and the grandfather
of Abraham and Benjamin Singer.
1856: The University of
Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.
According to recent figures approximately 5,000 of the school’s 25,000
undergraduate students are Jewish while 1,500 of the 10,000 grad students are
Jewish. These figures do not include the
other U of Md. Campuses. The school
offers 35 Jewish studies courses with a major and minor in Jewish Students. In
1949, Evelyn Levow Greenberg, the wife of the Hillel Rabbi at the University of
Maryland published The Little Tractor who Traveled to Israel one of the
first children’s books to celebrate the Kibbutz movement and the creation of
the state of Israel.
1857(10th of
Adar, 5617): Leopold Reiss, the husband of Caroline, the father of Emily and
the Manchester woolen merchant who with his brother James owned Reiss Bros.
passed away today in France “leaving £180,000 in England.”
1858: In Lynchburg, VA,
Isadore Untermyer and Therese Laudauer, two Jews from Bavaria, gave birth to
Columbia trained attorney Samuel a civic leader, successful businessman and
pillar of the Jewish Community who had three children with his wife Minnie Carl.
https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/sociology/reform-bios/untermyer-samuel
1860: Forty-year-old
Henry Cantor was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1860: In Biblis, Germany,
Auguste
Gustina (née Bendheim) and Koppel Jakob Hochschild gave birth Berthold
Hochschild the “mining magnate who co-founded the American Metal Campaign while
raising three children Harold, Walter and Gertrude.
1862: In Manitowoc, WI, Brandies Department Store founder Jonas Leopold
Brandeis, the Prague born so of Helena and Lazar Brandeis and his wife Franziska
Brandeis gave birth to Arthur D. Brandeis.
1863(15th of
Adar, 5623): Shushan Purim
1863: Mr. Max Maretzek
resumption of his old position at the Academy of Music this evening was greeted
with the full approval of “all classes of the music-loving community in New
York/
1865: Sara Kosman and
Jacques Lang gave birth to Judith Lang.
1865: In Vilna, Sarah
Rachel Milchiger and Hirsch Wolf gave birth to Peter Wiernik who in 1885 came
to the United States “where he wrote for the Yiddish Chicago Daily Courier”
before becoming editor for New York's most important Yiddish daily, the Jewish Morning Journal.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/06/perets-vyernik-peter-wiernik.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wiernik-peter
1866: Birthdate of NYC
native and Chicago Medical College graduate Sydney Kunn, the alienist and
neurologist who served on the faculty of the University of Chicago and was a
director of the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene.
1867: In Manhattan, Louis
Frankenthaler and Frau Frankenthaler gave birth to Joseph Frankenthaler, the
brother of Benjamin Frankenthaler.
1868: In New York City,
Julie Lilienfeld and Joseph Bierhoff gave birth to CCNY grade and Columbia
trained surgeon, Dr. Frederick Bierhoff
1870: Birthdate of Austrian-born composer Oscar
Straus whose most famous work is an operetta called “Der tapfere Soldat” or “The Chocolate Soldier.”
1870: In Rochester, NY, founding of the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society
whose members included Mrs. Levi Adler, and Mrs. Simon Guggenheimer.
1871(13th of Adar, 5631): Ta-anit Esther; Erev Purim
1871: Birthdate of German native and London resident Wily Herzfelder,
the husband of Anne Frances Strauss and father of Dorothy Herzfelder.
1871(13th of Adar, 5631): Fast of Esther
1871: In Blaydon, Newcastle on Tyne, Thomas and Hannah Oxberry gave
birth to James Henry Oxberry, the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in Kowloon,
China who was the founder of several lodges of the Royal Antediluvian Order of
Buffalos, the fraternal organizations knowns as “the Buffalos” or “the Buffs.”
1871: Two days after she had passed away, “Ellen (nee Joseph) Jewell,”
the wife of Moss Jewell with whom she had had eight children was buried today
at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1872(26th of Adar I, 5632): Fifty-one-year-old Theodor Goldstücker, the
German born Sanskri school who was appointed professor of Sanskrit at
University College London in 1852 passed away today in his adopted homeland.
1874: Birthdate of Hugo Dreschfeld who was bur at the Reform Jewish
Cemetery in Bradford.
1875: In Kensington, London Leopold (Lippmann) Seligmann, the son of
Fanny and David Isaac Seligmann and Julia Levi gave birth to Clara Schloss
1876: Birthdate of Chaim Aaron ben David the native of Berlin who
gained fame as artist Hermann Struck an ardent Zionist who “helped establish
the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
1876: “Ben Israel or Under the Curse” opened at the Grand Opera House
in New York City this evening. Described
as “a Jewish drama” in five acts, the drama had previously been performed in
Troy, New York.
1876: It was reported today that the Purim Association will host a full-dress
reception at Delmonico’s that will mark the end of five days of festivities
celebrated the Jewish people who hold private masquerade parties as is their
“usual custom.”
1877(21st of Adar, 5637): Seventy-one-year-old Johann
Jacoby, the physician turned political activist passed away today in his native
Konigsberg.
http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/ip/jacoby.htm
1877(21st of Adar, 5637): Franklin J. Moses, Sr. an attorney, planter,
politician and judge in South Carolina who both opposed secession, then
supported the Confederacy and then was accused of being a scalawag during
Reconstruction, passed away. His maternal grandfather was Jonas Phillips a
founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, PA and the paternal grandfather
Commodore Uriah P. Levy, the highest-ranking Jewish officer to serve in the
U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Yes, you
got it right. These two Jewish grandees
were on opposite sides during the Civil War, a fight that pitted brother
against brother, father against son and in this case, grandson against
grandson. For a contemporary view of Moses, written by a Northern newspaper see
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D1FF63E5A127B93C4AB1789D95F4C8784F9
1877: It was reported
today that humorist Raphael J. de Cordova is scheduled to deliver a lecture at
an upcoming fundraiser to be held at Steinway Hall sponsored by the Hebrew
Lodge for those who suffered during the recent fire in Brooklyn.
1878: “Beaconsfield on
the Jews” published today described Disraeli’s view of the Jews as described in
Coningsby, a novel he wrote before he entered political life including
the fanciful sentiment that “the Jews hold in their hands the destinies of
Europe.”
1879 (11th
of Adar, 5639): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar is
Shabbat
1879: The Purim
Association is sponsoring this evening’s fancy dress charity ball which is
taking place at the Academy of Music.
1880(23rd of
Adar, 5640): Parasaht Vayakhel-Pekudi ending the reading of Exodus and Shabbat
Parah.
1880: In Bavaria, Baruch and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Ida
Rothschild, who became Ida Strauss when she married Siegmund Strauss. (She died
at Auschwitz, and he died at Theresienstadt.)
1881: In Kieff, Euphrosyne Khatavner and Greogry Korshoon Cournos gave birth
to Ivan Grigorievich Korshun who gained
fame as American translator and novelist John Cournos who “used the pseudonym
John Courtney” and was married to Helen Kestner Satterhwaite who used the
penname Sybil Norton.
https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/bookshopdoor/signature.cfm?item=136
1882(15th of Adar, 5642): Shushan Purim observed as Congress
is considering the Chinese Exclusion Act which would become effective in May.
1883(27th of Adar): Jacob Barit (Yankele Kovner) passed away
1885: President Grover
Cleveland appointed Thomas Francis Bayard as Secretary of State in which
capacity he wrote to the U.S. charge d’affairs in Vienna expressing his disgust
with the government of Austria-Hungary’s refusal to accept Anthony M Keiley as
the American minister “on the ground of his wife being a Jewess.”
1886 Nine thousand
members of the Knights of Labor struck Jay Gould’s Southwestern Railroad
System. The Knights were one of the earliest attempts at forming a national
labor union in the United States. The
Cloak and Suit Maker’s Union which was made up largely of “westernized Jews
from Austria, Galicia and Germany” was part of the Knights which made it one of
the successful joining of Jewish laborers with this umbrella labor
organization. Cultural and linguistic differences as well as plain old-fashioned
anti-Semitism trumped the supposed solidarity of labor.
1886: Birthdate of
Shmuel “Samuel” Eisner, the native of Kolomyia, Austria-Hungary and father of
“American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur” William Erwin “Will” Eisner.
1887: In New York City,
Fannie and Samuel Werner gave birth to Columbia University educated author and
WW I veteran of the U.S. Army Medical Corps Morris R. Werner whose career included
a stint as the Obituary Editor for the Herald-Tribune after WW I.
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/3289
https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/wernerm.pdf
1889: Today, two years
after having been elected rabbi of Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Rabbi
Maximilian H. Heller married Ida Annie Marks with whom he had four children.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/03/07/103188184.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1889: Henry Cohen, the graduate of Jews’
College, who served as rabbi at several congregations included, the Amalgamated
Congregation of Israelites in Kingston, Jamaica, Congregation Beth Israel in
Woodville, Mississippi and Congregation B’nai Israel in Galveston, Texas as
well as being the Librarian of the Texas Historical Society, an executive board
member of the Jewish Publication Society of America and the American Jewish
Historical Society and following the historic hurricane, the Central Relief
Committee of the Galveston Storm Sufferers married Molly Levy today in Galveston,
TX.
1890(14th of
Adar, 5650) Purim
1890: It was reported
today that the United Hebrew Charities have offered to post a bond on behalf of
Lazar Anezes, his wife and four children who have been detained by the
Commissioners of Emigrations because they are “paupers.”
1890: It was reported
today that the next event sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association will
be held at the Vienna Hall on Lexington Avenue at 58th Street.
1890: Solomon Barnett,
a Jewish tailor who had thwarted an attempt to rob him “is lying at his home in
a badly demoralized condition” as a result of the injuries he received at the
hand of the thieves.
1891: I.S. Isaacs of
the United Hebrew Charities was among those who a attended a conference in the
office of the President of the Sanitary Aid Soceity where plans were made to
promote a municipal lodging house law in New York City.
1891: It was rumored
today that United States Collector of Internal Revenue Ernst Nathan had
retired.
1891: “They Ask For
Palestine” published today described the efforts of William E. Blackstone,
Chairman of the Conference of Christians and Jews to present “a memorial to
President Harrison concerning the Russian Government’s treatment of the Jews.”
1892: In New Jersey,
two Jewish grocers operated their business today for which they would be
arrested because they were open on Sunday.
1892: The
Superintendent of the orphan asylum operated by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society said that only of the youngsters was suffering from measles and that
the twelve other youngsters who had been diagnosed with the disease have been
sent to the Willard Parker Hospital.
1892: Henry Pereira
Mendes, the rabbi at Shearith Israel is recovering from the gunshot wound he
suffered at the hands of Jose Mizrachee who some describe as a “professional
beggar”
1892: “To Establish
‘Special Alcoves’” published today described the efforts of the directors of
the Aguilar Free Circulating Library to establish special alcoves at the
various branches of the library” including the one in the Hebrew Institute at
East Broadway and Jefferson Street “for the reception of works on particular
lines of reading.”
1893: Charles W. Foster
completed his service as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during which he dealt
with issues surrounding the massive influx of Russian Jews as can be seen by
his response to the letters of 1891 from Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations in which he expressed his appreciation
for their “expressions of confidence” that the department would act humanely
“while executing the immigration laws efficiently.”
1893: It was reported
today the William E. Blackstone Chairman of the Conference of the Christian
Jews” which was held recently in Chicago “has presented a memorial to President
Harison concerning the Russian Government’s treatment of Jews” which includes the
rhetorical question “Why not give Palestine back” to the Jews “since according
to God’s distribution of nations it is their home—an inalienable possession from
which the wee expelled by force.”
1893: “The Answers to
Correspondence Column” published today included the information that “a fellow
badge, round or square, was the mark of degradation a Jew was obliged to wear
in certain parts of medieval Europe.”
1893: Four days before
what would have been his 83rd birthday, “Henry Sigismund Straus” the
husband of Henrietta Straus with whom he had had seven children was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1894: In New York City,
Leopold and Rebeca Weil gave birth to Leopold Weil Columbia Law School trained
attorney Frank Leopold Weil, the husband of the former Henrietta Simons who was
active in the Jewish community as can be seen by “chairmanship of the National
Jewish Committee on Scouting of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts
of America” passed away way today and who was award the Medal of Merit by
President Truman
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059041?seq=1
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0048/ms0048.html
1895: In New York City,
Richard and Eugenie Hahn gave birth to Columbia University trained attorney
Paul M. Hahan, the husband of the “former Nannette Hogan Wells” who gave up the
law for tobacco which led to his serving as “President and Chief Executive
officer the American Tobacco Company.”
1895: In Germany, by a
vote of 167 to 51, the Reichstag rejected the bill to restrict Jewish
emigration.
1896(21st of
Adar, 5565): Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor a leading Russian rabbi and Talmudist
passed away. Born in 1817, Rav Spektor engaged in a wide variety of activities
including visiting St. Petersburg to ameliorate the suffering that followed the
Pogroms of 1881, the establishment of yeshivas and involvement with the Hovevei
Zion movement. His impact was so great
that the Yeshiva University named it theologic seminary after him - Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), or Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak
Elchanan,
1896: Rabbi M.H. Harris
delivered the first in a series of lectures on the Inquisition tonight at
Temple Israel in New York City.
1896:
Thirty-four-year-old Behrendt Pick, who would eventually hang himself as a
result of Nazi persecution began teaching “as an adjunct professor of ancient
numismatics at the University of Jena” today.
1897: In City Court
today, Justice McCarthy signed an order for the release of Oscar Altman from
the Ludlow Street Jail where he has been held on a charge of “breach of promise
of marriage.”
1897: In St. Louis,
George Washington Milius, the son Eva and William Solomon Milius and his wife
Pauline gave birth to Helen Dinah Milius who became Helen Dinah Baum when she
married Isaac Albert Baum.
1897: It was reported
today that Mrs. Esther Herrmann whose late husband was a partner in H.
Herrmann, Sternbach & Co has given $10,000 to the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association. According Percival Menken, the President of the association, the
money will make it possible to improve the facility at 861 Lexington Avenue
which Jacob Schiff had donated to YMHA last January.
1897: Seymour Mork and
Philip Harrison won the prizes at the debate hosted this evening by the Young
Men’s Literary Society of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association which was held at
Temple Ahawath Chesed.
1897(2nd of
Adar II, 5657): Parashat Pekudi
1897: Cantor David Kahn
led “the regular Sabbath” at Temple Rodloph Shalom at Lexington and 63rd.
1897: Rabbi Kaufman
Kohler delivered the “charge” to Dr. Rudolph Grossman at services marking his
installation as the new rabbi at Temple Roloph Sholom.
1897: A two-day conference begins in Vienna
with members of the Zionist circles of Vienna, Berlin, Breslau and Galicia.
Herzl's proposal of a general Zionist Congress is adopted with the reservation
that the cooperation of the Russian Zionists will be obtained. München is
chosen as the city for the congress.
1898: Congregants from
Beth Elohim with a membership of 150 and Congregants from Temple Israel with a
membership of 140 met in Brooklyn and voted unanimously to consolidate the two
congregations and build a new building to serve as their synagogue.
1898: More than a
thousand people attended the annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews hosted by the President Simon Borg and the Board of Trustees.
1898: It was reported
today that the “heads of the army” refused to allow Commandant Esterhazy who
played a key role in framing Dreyfus with Colonel Picquart because they were
afraid of “the effect on popular sentiment if Esterhazy were defeated.”
1899: According to the
Court Circular, today "The Emperor of Austria has given the title of Baron
De Forest to M. Arnold [De] Forest and to his brother M. Raymond De Forest,
both the adopted sons of Baroness de Hirsch de Gereuth, widow of the late Baron
de Hirsch."
1899: Bayer registers
aspirin as a trademark. According to Diarmuid Jeffreys, the author of Aspirin:
The Story of a Wonder Drug, a Jew named Arthur Eichengrün, was “the Bayer
chemist who first found an aspirin formulation which was tolerable in the human
stomach and did not have the unpleasant side effects of nausea and gastric
pain. Eichengrün also invented the name aspirin and was the first person to use
the new formulation to test its safety and efficacy. However, Eichengrün was
excluded from the official version of Bayer's history in 1934 because of his
Jewish origin. Instead, it was claimed by Bayer that aspirin was
‘discovered" by an Aryan scientist, Felix Hoffman, to alleviate the
sufferings of his rheumatic father.”
Fritz ter Meer who “became chairman of Bayer's supervisory board” in
1956 had been “convicted at the Nuremberg trials for his part in carrying out
experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz and was imprisoned for five years.”
1900(5th of
Adar II, 5660): Samuel Joseph Gelman, the Warsaw born son of Abraham Gelman and
the husband of Kate Gelman passed away today after which he was buried at
Kingston upon Hull, England.
1900: The Council of
Jewish Women which was founded in 1897 continued its triennial meeting today in
Cleveland under the leadership of its president Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon.
1900: Birthdate of
Avraham Shlonsky, a Russian born Israeli poet.
1900: Birthdate of
Viennese native Ludwig Donath whose European acting career was cut short by the
Anschluss which led him to the United States where his film career included the
portrayal of Al Jolson in two biopics about the Jewish performer.
1901: In Baltimore, MD,
Isadore and Caroline Ester Blustein gave birth to Reba Golda Blustein Cohen,
the wife of Charles Cohen who attended Syracuse University and was a member of
the National Board of the Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.
1901: Birthdate of Russian born film director Mark Donskoy
1902: Herzl informs the
Sultan that on March 15th three million francs will be deposited to his account
in banks in Paris, Berlin and London.
1903: On this date it
is announced that the King has been pleased to give and grant unto the Right
Honorable Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, E.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., his Majesty's Royal
license and authority that he may accept and wear the Grand Cordon of the Imperial
Ottoman Order of the Osmanieh, conferred upon him by his Highness the Khedive
of Egypt, authorized by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey, in
recognition of valuable services rendered by him to his Highness.
1904: Columbia trained
attorney Solomon Strook, the New York City born son of Mariana Marcuse and Sameul
Strook and future President of the Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York
City married Hilda Weil today.
1904: It was reported
today that “A Book of Hours, lent by Mr. Felix Warburg” that included a picture
of King David “having doffed his turban and crown” and showing that he has “a
Hebrew face and long white beard” was among the rare manuscripts of the 14th
and 15th century now on display at the library of Columbia
University.
1905: In Chicago, Julia
Sanditz and Benjamin J. Ettelson gave birth to University of Michigan graduate
and University of Chicago trained attorney Leonard Bert Ettelson, the husband
of Leula Bone and Senior partner firm Ettelson, O’Hagan, Ehrlich & Frankel
as well as Chicago Chairman board First Drovers Corporation.
1905: It was reported
today that “At the regular meeting of the Jewish Union Veterans held at their
headquarters in the Yorkville Court building a letter was from President
Roosevelt acknowledging his election to honorary membership and expressing his
regrets that he could not find it convenient to attend the ninth annual
campfire and installation of officers on March 14.”
1906: In Chicago, Hyman
and Rebecca Bertha Goldstein gave birth to Bertha Rebecca Goldstein who became
Bertha Rebecca Brownstein when she married Henry J. Brownstein.
1906(9th of
Adar, 5666):Sixty-eight-year-old Isabelle Rosenbaum the Richmond born daughter
of Caroline and Joseph Myers, the wife of Michale Rosenbaum and the “Mother of
Joseph Marx Rosenbaum; Bertha Varina Guggenheimer; Florence Virginia Lippman;
Morton Beauregard Rosenbaum; Minnie Lee Guggenheimer; Daisy Wise Estelle Prag;
Sidney Beale Rosenbaum; unknown Rosenbaum; Adele Rita Prag; unknown Rosenbaum;
Irma Belle Rosenbaum and Corinne Omega Hirsh” passed away today in her
hometown.
1907: Birthdate of
Mariners Harbor, Staten Island native and University of Michigan trained doctor
Julius Edwars Astrchan, a trustee of the Queens Jewish Center.
1907: It was reported
today that at its annual meeting, “the German Jewish Relief Society…paid a
tribute to Jacob H. Schiff” the “noble philanthropist” who “rendered service of
great importance in supporting the efforts on behalf of the Jews of Morocco.”
1908: Saks and Company
advertised “Spring Apparel for Men with “suits and topcoats” selling for $15 to
$45.
1909: Charles Nagel
succeeded Oscar Straus as the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor and
proved to be supportive of Jewish immigrants when in
1910 he “ruled that thirteen of the twenty Russian Jewish immigrants being held
at Galveston, TX as likely to become public charges may be admitted to” the
United States” and that “the other seven will receive further consideration.”
1909:
Birthdate of Albany, NY native and University of Pennsylvania graduate Max Leon
Forman, the JTS ordained rabbi, the husband of Diana Slavin Forman and father
of Gayle, Cyrelle, Jane, Donna and Dr. Barr Forman who was serving the Hollis
Hills Jewish Center in Queens in 1970.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/max-l-forman/
1910(25th of Adar I,
5670): Sixty-three-year-old Zygmunt Wartski, the husband of Eugenie Wartski
passed away today in Vienna.
1910: In New York,
Nathan Feinerman, the future President of the Workmen’s Circle and Ida Joffe
Feinerman gave birth to Louis Edwin Feinerman, the brother of Berta and Mollie
Feinerman.
1910: Fifteen hundred
members of The Hebrew Actor’s Union honor the memory of Morris Horowitz with
“an elaborate funeral” that remembered his contributions to the Yiddish Theatre
yet belied the impoverished state to which he had fallen in his declining years.
1910: Rufus Daniel
Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, began serving as Solicitor General for
England.
1911: Tonight, a mass
meeting organized by Drs. Solomon and William Neuman is scheduled to take place
at Progress Hall where members of the Federation of Galician Jews will register
their displeasure with the reports, already denied by Superintendent Abraham
Spector, the Har Moriah Hospital which was built with funds from the federation
places to “secede from the federation.
1911: Birthdate of
Sodus, NY, native and Syracuse University graduate Louis Gassell the publisher
of the Jewish Ledger who was an active member of the ZOA.
1912: It was reported
today that” Mortimer L Schiff and Howard S. Gans, who so far have been
unsuccessful in their efforts to tell their stories to the special Grand Jury
investigating the case of Foulke E. Brandt, the former servant of Mr. Schiff
who was sentenced to thirty years in prison for burglary, are now expected to
appear as witnesses before that body early next week.”
1913: In a reminder of
how determined Christians were to convert Jews, the will of Mrs. Martha W.
Wardell, the widow of the Treasurer of the Standard Oil Company which was filed
for probate today included a bequest of one thousand dollars for the Society
for the Promulgation of the Gospel among the Jews.
1914: In Swampscott,
MA, Russian-Jewish immigrants Simon and Rose Alfond gave birth to Harold
Alfond, the founder of Dexter Shoes who was the husband of Dorothy Levine, the
father of Ted, Susan Bill and Peter Alfond and the grandfather of Tulane
graduate and Maine State Legislator Justin Alfond.
1915: As of today, “the
Palestine Relief Ship Fund, which is being raised by the American Jewish Relief
Committee and will used purchase supplies to be shipped on the naval collier
Vulcan has reached a total of $34,413.86.
1915(20th of
Adar, 5675): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1915: The list of
contribution to the Palestine Relief Ship Fund published today includes the
Lawrence, MA Jewish Relief Committee, the Zadek Lodge, International Order of
B’nai Brith of Selma, Alabama and the Minneapolis American Jewish Relief
Committee.
1916: Felix A. Levy is
scheduled to present a paper on Egyptian Obelisks at this morning’s meeting of
the Chicago Rabbinical Association at the Stratford Hotel.
1916: It was reported
today from New York that Jacob H. Schiff has issued another statement
expressing his continued opposition to “the negotiation of any loan by Russia
in” the United States.
1916: It was reported
today from New York that the custom tailors, many of whom are Jewish “are now
on strike for higher wages.
1916: It was reported
today from New York that Ambassador Henry Morgenthau has met with “two
delegations of Oriental Jews” and after having discussed their problems with
them “agreed to send them a Ladino-speaking chief rabbi to care for their
spiritual needs” when he returns to his post in the Ottoman Empire.
1917: In Haifa Rachel
Klimker and Zwi Schwarz gave birrg to Ruth Schwartz who gained fame as Ruth
Dyan, the first wife of Moshe Dyan, the mother of Yael, Ehud and Assi Dyan and
the sister of Reuma Schwartz, the wife of Ezer Weizman
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/obituaries/ruth-dayan-dead.html
1917: In Brooklyn, the
former Fannie Ingber and Shmuel “Samuel” Eisner gave birth to cartoonist Will
Eisner who was a mentor for Jules Feiffer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/will-eisner-a-pioneer-of-comic-books-dies-at-87.html
https://www.economist.com/node/3555931
1917: Albert Lucas, the
Secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee on Jewish War Relief traveled
from Washington to New York today where he announced that the committee had
made new arrangements making it possible to send money from the United States to
people living “in the territory occupied by Germany and her allies.”
1917: Birthdate of
Irving Torgoff, the Brooklyn born basketball player who led Long Island
University to “an undefeated record and National Invitation Tournament” in 1939
before going on to a career as a pro.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/25/obituaries/irving-torgoff-75-liu-star-in-30-s-and-nba-player.html
1918(22nd of
Adar, 5678): Ludwig Dreyfus whose estate was valued at $1, 305, 318, passed
away today.
1918: During a
patriotic gathering at Congregation Ohab Zedek attended by an array of
dignitaries including Dr. Isaac Alcalsy, the Grand Rabbi of Serbia, Rabbi
Bernard Drachman and Rabbi Pereira Mendes a “service flag bearing eighty-seven
stars was presented to the congregation and Albert Lucas, he Secretary of the
Union of Orthodox Congregations of American expressed the loyalty of American
Jews saying “We shall continue to support the Government even to the sacrifice
of our lives where this sacrifice is ask asked of us and as this flag
expresses.”
1919: It was learned
today that “the resignation of Henry Morgenthau, the former Ambassador to
Turkey, as President of the Free Synagogue was due to his unwillingness to
continue as lay leader of the congregation while its rabbi, Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, champions the cause of Zionism.”
1919: Today, at the New
York home of Henry Morgenthau Jacob Billikopf, the executive director of the
American Jewish Relief Committee who was described as the “Marshal Foch of the
army of solicitors of the Jewish Relief Committee” received “a check for $50,000
in recognition of his services as head of the Relief Committee since January
1915.”
1920: “Harry Levine scored
25 points to lead” the University of Pittsburgh Panthers” to a 33-24 victory
over “the University of West Virginia Mountaineers.”
1920(16th of
Adar, 5680): Parashat Ki Tisa
1920(16th of
Adar, 5680): Forty-nine-year-old Nebraska City, NB born University of
Pennsylvania trained attorney Henry N. Wessel a judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia and a long-time member of the American Jewish Committee
passed away today.
1921: In Vienna, Max
Bretholtz, a Polish born tailor and Yiddish actor and Dora Fischmann Bretholtz,
a seamstress gave birth to Leo Bretholz a Holocaust survivor who played a key
role in the class action lawsuit against the French railway system - the Société
Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, or S.N.C.F.
1921: Birthdate of
Austrian born conductor Julius Rudel who fled to the United States at the age
of 17after the Anschluss.
http://www.music.buffalo.edu/bpo/rudel.htm
1921: As the lockout
aimed of members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers enters its 14th
week, Joseph Schlossberg told a meeting at New York’s Town Hall, that employers
were trying to the old sweatshop environment.
Schlossberg was a Russian born Jewish was one of the founders the
Amalgamated and served as its Secretary General.
1922: “More than $300,000 in pledges to the Jewish relief fund
were turned in tonight at a meeting of campaign workers at the Hotel
Pennsylvania, making $2,800,000 toward the quota of $5,000,000.”
1923: The will of
William S. Slater who passed away on February 25 was filed for probate today
and included bequests in the amount of $3,000 to the Federation For the Support
of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and $2,000 to The federation of Jewish
Charities of Boston.
1924(30th of
Adar I, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1924(30th of
Adar I, 5684): Seventy-one-year-old Thomas Jefferson Levy, the three-term
Congressman from New York who followed in the footsteps of his uncle Uriah P.
Levy by spending a great deal of his time and fortune on the preservation and
restoration on Monticello, the home of President Thomas Jefferson.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000268
1924: The Jewish
Transcript of the Pacific Northwest now known as JTNews was published for the
first time today. (JTA and Times of Israel)
1925: Banker and
philanthropist Ben Altheimer turned 75 today
1925: It was reported
today that “the New York Board of Jewish Ministers has appointed Rabbi Israel
D. Levnehtal to represent it at the opening of the Hebrew University in
Palestine at Jerusalem on April 1.
1925: After having
addressed more than 300 guests at a farewell dinner given last night at the
Hotel Astor by the Society of for Advancement of Judaism, Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
President of the World Zionist Organization spent his last full day in the
United States before setting sail with Dr. Mordecai Kaplan aboard the Olympic
on the first leg of their trip that will end when they arrive in Jerusalem for
the opening of the Hebrew University.
1925: “Looking back
from his seventy-fifth birthday over a career of material success and of
unusual aid to the needy, Ben Altheimer, retired banker, revealed today the
activity which has brought the greatest satisfaction to him” “was a work that
began the united efforts of all religious denominations to help a common cause
and has developed into the widespread cooperative welfare movements in this
country.
1926(20th of
Adar, 5686): Parashat Ki Tisa
1926(20th of Adar, 5686):
Eighty-year-old Isabella Prince Aloe, the Belfast born daughter of Isabella
Hill Prince and Louis Morris Prince, the wife of Albert Sidney Aloe and the
mother of four sons including Republican party leader and Washington University
Louis P. Aloe who would serve as acting mayor of St. Louis during World War and
Vice President of the Federation of Jewish charities while being married to
Edith Rosenblatt, passed away today.
1926: “Miss Henrietta
Szold, President of Hadassah…sailed” today for Palestine “take charge of the
construction of the Nathan and Lina Straus Health Center in Jerusalem made
possible by a recent gift of $100,000 by Mr. Straus.”
1926: Russian born New
Yorker David Alper married his second wife “Minnie ‘Manya’ Machle Isiomin”
today
1926: In Washington
Heights (NYC) stockbroker and market analyst Herbert Greenspan and Rose
Goldsmith gave birth to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
http://www.biography.com/people/alan-greenspan-9319769
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/alan_greenspan
1926: Birthdate of New
Jersey resident Dr. Maurice Gerstein, Ph.D.
1927: In Jersey City,
NJ, “Herman Firstenberg, a plumber and the former Elizabeth Loeb gave birth to
Elaine Firstenberg who gained fame as graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen.
1927: Fritz Lang's
silent film epic “Metropolis” is released.
Lang’s murky ethnic heritage is typical of many Germans of his era. Lang’s parents were practicing Roman
Catholics. But Lang’s mother was born Jewish,
and she did not convert until Fritz was ten.
Sort of makes hash of those easy answers about “who is a Jew” although
by Nazi standards Fritz and his brother would have been fodder for the
Holocaust.
1927: “The New Yok cast
of ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’” is scheduled to “be guests of honor at the open meeting
o the Jewish Theatrical Guild of America this afternoon at the Republic
Theater.
1928(14th of
Adar, 5688): Purim
1928(14th of
Adar, 5688): Mrs. Lewis M. Nelson who was a member of the Directors of the Beth
El Sisterhood and Hadassah, passed away today in Camden, NJ.
1929: In Weymouth, Massachusetts,
“Ruth (Sward and Hollis Judson Wyman gave birth historian and author David
Sword Wyman, the grandson of Protestant ministers who “was chairman of the
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.”
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168516
1930: In Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Marion "Marie" Shulman
Maazel, the founder of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orcestra and multi-talented
actor and musician Lincoln Maazel gave birth to conductor and composer Lorin
Maazel (As reported by Allan
Kozinn)
1930: In the Bronx,
David and Dora Rubin gave birth to “Ira Rubin, a champion
bridge player and an innovative theorist who was nicknamed the Beast because of
the emotional intensity of his play…”
(As reported by Paul Vitello)
1931: The Mayor of New York appointed Ontario native and NYU trained
attorney Jonah J. Goldstein, the American representative of the Jewish Agency
that investigated the Palestine warfare in Jerusalem in 1929 and the husband of
prominent social worker Harriet B. Lowenstein, as a City Magistrate today.
1932(26th of Adar I, 5692): Seventy-two-year-old German author
Alfred Bock from Giessen, the father of author Werner Beck passed away today.
1932: As the confirmation process comes to a close, it was reported today
that “Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo who has been appointed to succeed Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court bench is the author of two books, The
Growth of the Law and The Nature of the Judicial Process by
published by the Yale University.
1932: It was reported today that the Song of Songs Publishing Company in
Jerusalem has recently issued a new edition of the Solomon’s Song of Songs with
the text printed in Hebrew and English and with illustrations by Zeeb Raban,
one of the leading artists of the Bezalel Arts and Crafts School” which “is on
sale in a number of bookshops and department stores in New York.”
1933: Premiere of “The Merry Heirs” a German comedy directed by Max Ophüls.
1934(19th of Adar, 5694): Fifty-nine-year-old Antopol, Russia
native Isaac Kahanowitz, the resident of “Greensburg, Pennsylvania…who in the
early twentieth century amassed the greatest private collection of Yiddish and
Hebrew books and periodicals in western Pennsylvania, meaning that his library
surpassed anything that could be found even in Pittsburgh, with a Jewish
population of over 50,000” passed away today.
1935(1st of Adar II, 5695): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1935(1st of Adar II, 5696): Forty-nine-year-old “Emanuel
Aronsberg, a member of the United States Legation in Latvia and former member
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency staff in New York and London passed away today
in Riga.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/03/07/93457818.html?pageNumber=24
1935: As part of his 85th birthday celebration philanthropist
Ben Altheimer received “two cablegrams, one from Cairo, Egypt, from Dr. Samuel
Schulman, rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanu-El and the other form Commodore Louis
D. Beaumont of Antibes, France, honorary of the National Jewish Hospital at
Denver.
1935: It was reported today that “an appeal for contributions to buy
Passover food for Jewish prisoners in Sing Sing” has been sent out by Dr. Jacob
Katz, Jewish chaplain at the prison.
1936: As Jews prepared to observe Shabbat this evening and Purim tomorrow
evening, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El sent a letter to all of
his colleagues reminding them and their congregants of “the campaign of the
American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee to raise $1,500,000 in” the New
York metropolitan area “as a part of the nationwide effort to raise $3,500,000
for the benefit of Jews in Germany and in other European countries.”
1936: In Amsterdam, “Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic Stuermer was burned during a mass meeting” tonight “organized by
the Liberal State party as a protest against the distribution of this paper in
the Netherlands by an Amsterdam news store circulating propaganda for the
Netherlands National Socialist movement.”
1936: “In a sharp message to the Legislature delivered today, New York
Governor Herbert Lehman demanded that that the Republicans restore to the
budget an item of $11,160,010 for the debt service” which he said was a clear
violation of the state constitution
1936 In Warsaw, “prohibition of Hebrew ritual slaughtering would
unconstitutional, Monseigneur von Golowicz, State Under-Secretary in the
Ministry of Education and former Professor of Canon Law at Vilna University
declared today at a meeting of the Sejm committee appointed to deal with the
bill for the abolition of ritual killing of cattle.”
1936: In Berlin, “it was confirmed today that the first mutually
satisfactory agreement for the exodus of foreign Jews from Germany had been
concluded between the Reich and the Netherlands” (Editor’s note – the term
mutually satisfactory cannot have been applied to the Jews since the price of
being effectively deported was that they had to give up most of their wealth.)
1936: While “official records on the number of German Jewish refugees
received visas for the United States were not available in Washington, DC, as
of today it is know that “the annual quote for Germany is theoretically 25,957
but nothing near that number of German immigrants has been admitted” to the
United States “in any recent year.
1936: “The Home Office has received a series of complaints from Jews in
Jewish districts of London who have been subjected to abuse and in some cases
assault” and “there can be no doubt…people have been molested because they are
Jews in pursuance or as an outcome of a campaign that is being carried on to
some extent by Fascist speakers at Fascist meetings” in Britain.
1937: And on the other
side of the financial ledger, birthdate of Ivan Boesky the stockbroker
convicted of insider trading.
1937: “Despite the
official statement of regret made by the State Department yesterday for Mayor
La Guardia’s attack on Adolf Hitler, the Mayor said he would stand by what he
had said.”
1937: In the Old City
section of Jerusalem, an Arab shot and wounded M. Schneerson as he walked to
daven at the Western Wall.
1938: Author Ludwig
Lewisohn “declared in an address before the congregation of the Free Synagogue
in Carnegie Hall” this morning that “the Greeks had their Homer and the Jewish
people have their Torah which is their great historical novel” that “is the eternal
expression of our character and our faith.”
1938: Birthdate of
Bronx native and note photographer Joel Meyerowitz.
https://www.theartstory.org/artist-meyerowitz-joel.htm
https://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that an armed Arab gang was routed by troops in the Umm el-Fahm area.
One British soldier was killed and three wounded in this operation, while
numerous Arabs were killed, wounded or arrested. There was also unrest in the
Acre northern district.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that the new High Commissioner, Sir Harold MacMichael, had outlined
his immediate policy in a radio broadcast. He asked the rival parties in the
area to reconcile their claims “upon an amended basis.”
1938: Today “Communist
activity and propaganda were denounced at the closing session of the first
national convention of the Jewish Labor Committee at the Capitol Hotel” where
“delegates…representing more than 500,000 organized Jewish workers in this country,
rejected suggested participation and cooperation with Communist groups” in the
labor committee’s “fight against anti-Semitism and fascism)
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that the first Palestinian “Who’s Who” was published by Masada in Tel
Aviv.
1939(15th of
Adar, 5699): Purim
1939: “Representative
Sol Bloom of New York” is scheduled to “read President Roosevelt’s greeting
from Washington today in a Purim festival program” being “broadcast by the
National Broadcast Company that will include speeches by “Rabbi Joseph H.
Lookstein and Mrs. Moses L. Isaacs, the chariman of the women’s division of the
Orthodox Union for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the
inauguration of George Washington.”
1939: “Plans for a
‘Jewish College of Exile’ at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and a
program for a ten-year campaign of spiritual education by the college and the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations were outlined” tonight “at a dinner at
the Hotel Ambassador by Ralph W. Mack, hairman of the board of the college and
Robert P. Goldman, president of the Union.”
1939: In Brighton
Beach, Brooklyn, Jack London, “a lapsed socialist who sold fabric, leather and
vinyl for upholstery” and “Esta (Epstein) London gave birth to Herbert Ira
London, the basketball playing Columbia graduate and husband of Vicki London,
who made the transition from “New York Liberal” to self-proclaimed Conservative
(As reported by Sam Roberts)
1940: The Nazis barred
Jewish physicians from treating Aryans and vice-versa.
1940: Vladimir Jabotinsky, president of the New
Zionist Organization of the World lectures on "The Fate of, Jewry" at
Manhattan Center.
1940: “Three leaders of
the Jewish Labor party were sentenced to three months in prison today on
charges of organizing recent demonstrations against the British government that
took place in Tel Aviv.
1940: Laborite M.P.
Philip J. Noel introduced a motion to censure the British government in
response to the newly enacted laws restricting the purchase of land in
Palestine by Jews. In defending the
government’s action, Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary, said, in
effect, that the restrictions were put in place to placate the Arabs and avoid
more Arab-led violence. Baker contended
that the enactment of the new laws was in violation of the rules of the League
of Nations. Furthermore he said that “if
the Jews were not a weak and hunted race today, the British government would
have repudiated the moral contract which we made with them while the last great
was going on.” Sir Archibald Sinclair,
the Liberal leader and Leopold S. Amery, the former Colonial Secretary spoke
out against the government’s action, with Mr. Amery reminding the House that
Winston Churchill also opposed the new rules.
All of the talk was useless since the Chamberlain government had the
votes to thwart any vote of censure.
1941: In a move that
does not bode well for Jews living in French North Africa, “Italian armistice
commissioners have left French Morocco, and their duties are being performed by
German members of the commission.”
1941: As the Nazis
tightened their control over Holland and its Jewish population “Hollanders were warned today in a military
court, which had heard a striking account of a secret organization for
espionage and sabotage all over the Netherlands, that anyone who conspired,
even in thought, against the German Army was playing with a death sentence.”
1942: Adolph Eichmann
talked of deportation of 50,000 Jews from the Old Reich. He emphasized the
importance of secrecy.
1943: In Swieciany,
Ukraine, 20 youths armed with two revolvers escaped the ghetto and hid in the
forest.
1943: The
Bulgarian army started to liquidate Jewish property. All confiscated gold and
silver was deposited it in sealed packages in the Bulgarian National Bank. Many
Bulgarian officials became rich by stealing from the Jews.
1944: An internal memo
from the United States Government War Refugee Board states that the United
States was negotiating the purchase of a ship for $400,000. The S.S. Necat
would be donated to the Turkish Red Crescent after evacuating 5,000 Jewish
refugee children from Romania to Palestine.
1945: “The demands of
Jews to be represented as a nation in the peace conference are growing in
Middle East Zionist circles, and it was reported” in Cairo “today that David
Ben Gurion of the Jewish Agency is soon to visit Britain and America to push
the claims.
1946: “One person was
killed and several others were injured in recent disturbances between Germans
and displace persons at the Jewish displaced persons camp at Zeilsheim near
Frankfort, United States authorities said today.” (The Nazis got to keep their country while
their Jewish victims got to languish in the hell of DP camps.)
1946: Today, “the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations adopted a twelve point statement on ‘Judaism
and the Moral Challenges of Today’ and elected officers and excusive board
members” today in Cincinnati “in the closing hours of the biennial assembly.”
1947: Birthdate of John
Stossel, the Chicago born journalist who was born to two Jewish refugees from
Nazi Germany who raised him as a Protestant.
1947: In the Bronx,
“Estelle Reiner (née Lebost), an actress, and Carl Reiner, a renowned comedian,
actor, writer, producer, and director” gave birth to actor and director Rob
Reiner best known for his role of “Meathead.” Archie Bunker’s son-in-law in the
comedy hit “All in the Family.”
1947: In his second
visit to Tel Aviv in two days, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the former President of the
Zionist organization and world-class chemist, told a group of civic leaders
that he is setting aside his research to do whatever he can to help the people on
the coastal plain who are living under strict martial law.
1947: “The Guilt of
Janet Ames” a post-WWII movie directed by Henry Levin, produced by Helen
Deutsch, with a screenplay co-authored by Devery Freeman and Allen Rifkin and
co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States today.
1947: In a
demonstration of how successful their campaign has been, British authorities
announced today that “25 known terrorists have been captured in Palestine in
recent days.” Authorities said that many
of them are members of Irgun or the Stern Gang.
1948: It was announced
today that the Joint Distribution Committee “has appropriated $50,400 for
emergency aid and relief” for Jews in the British protectorate of Aden where
“Arab violence…has totally paralyzed Jewish business” and led to “four
synagogues and two schools” being “looted and ruined.”
1948: In New York City,
the former Sheila Lorna Siegel and businessman Stanley Leonard Schwartz gave
birth to Carnegie Mellon University graduate Stephen Lawrence Schwartz, the
Grammy award winning composer and lyricist who gave us “Godspell” and “Pippin.”
1949: In Los Angeles,
novelist Blossom Elfman (aka “Clare Elfman”) and elementary school teacher
Milton Elfaman gave birth to actor, director and author Richard “Rick” Elfman.
1949: On the second day
of Operation Uvda “the Negev Brigade travelled to Sde Avraham and began to
clear land for an airfield there” and that night the “7th Brigade
reinforcements from the Gahal platoon arrived by air in the newly cleared
airfield” carrying “supplies and fuel vital to continue the operation.”
1949: Birthdate of
Norman Spector, the native of Montreal who after a career as a civil servant
became publisher of the Jerusalem Post in 1997.
1950(17th of
Adar, 5710):Fifty-your-year old Lew Lehr, the comedian, writer and editor who
authored Lew Lehr's Cookbook for Men and Stop Me If You've Heard This
One passed away toda
1951: Tonight, when his
Unit's positions at Yangpyong were
overrun by the enemy Pvt, Leonard M Kravitz voluntarily manned a machine-gun
position, forcing the enemy to direct its efforts against him and helping his
comrades to retreat,:
1951: Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg go on trial charged with espionage for providing secret information
concerning the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union.
In this case the defendants, the prosecutor and the Judge will all be
Jews. But right-wing America fixated on
the ethnicity of the defendants and used it to equate beings Jewish with being
anti-American.
1953: U.S. premiere of
“Battle Circus” a Korean War movie directed by Richard Brooks (b. Ruben Sax)
and produced by Pandro S. Berman.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Stalin¹s condition was very grave.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that The World Jewish Conference, scheduled to open in Zurich was
postponed.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill had promised that the
British sales of jet aircraft to Arab States would take care to preserve the
balance of power in the area.
1954: “New Faces” a
film adaptation of 1952 musical revue directed by Harry Horner and written by
Mel Brooks was released today in the United States.
1956: CBS Television
broadcast the last episode of “Meet Millie,” a sitcom that had featured Marvin
Kaplan as Alfred Prinzmetal
1956(23rd of
Adar, 5716): Seventy-five-year-old Russian born Englishman Abraham Joseph
Hyman, the Titanic survivor and husband of Esther Levy with whom he had five
children – Julius, Ann, Lilian, Morris and Ena – passed away today.
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/abraham-hyman.html
1957: At Mt. Sinai
Hospital, the former Miss Joan Seck and her husband Samuel I Hyman gave birth
to their child, a daughter named Susan Marjorie Hyman.
1957: United Kingdom
colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of
Ghana. Israel and Ghana formed several
joint ventures including a shipping company.
The leaders of Ghana and other emerging African countries saw Israel as
a non-threatening source of Western technology and training. The African leaders were afraid that
accepting similar assistance from the major Western powers would lead to
re-colonization, something they did fear from the tiny nation of Israel. The Israelis provided aid to Ghana and other
newly independent countries as a way of breaking out of the diplomatic and
economic isolation that the Arabs and their allies were trying to use to
destabilize and destroy the Jewish state.
1957: Israel withdrew
its troops from the Sinai Peninsula. The
withdrawal followed the October, 1956 war with Egypt. The Americans and the Soviets joined forces
to make the Israelis leave. They saved
President Nasser of Egypt. The Soviets
quickly re-armed Nassar. The American
action had the effect of giving Nasser a free hand to follow his Pan-Arab dream
which included the destruction of the state of Israel.
1958(14th of
Adar, 5718): Purim
1958: U.S. Premiere of
“Star Struck” directed by Sidney Lumet and co-starring Susan Strasberg.
1959: Birthdate of actor Tom Arnold.
1964: Allan Sherman
sang “The Dropouts March” on tonight’s edition of “That Was The Week That Was.
1964: Jewish movie star Liz Taylor divorced
Jewish “crooner” Eddie Fisher so that she could marry Richard Burton. Fisher
and Taylor were Jewish – he by birth, she by choice.
1965: “Alain Calmat of
France won the men’s world figure skating championship in Colorado Springs, CO
today” (As reported by Bob Wechsler)
1965: “Items for the
home and its inhabitants will be featured at the annual games and auction night
of the Livonia Jewish Congregation” which is scheduled to be held this evening at
East Junior High School in Farmington, MI
1965: On the day before
her 17th birthday, Vivian Joseph joined her brother Ronald to “win a
silver medal in pairs skating.”
1966(14th of
Adar, 5726): Purim
1967: Today, “the
architect, Saul Berkoiwtiz, gave an elaborate description” of the Chapel
planned for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal which “will seat
approximately 289 people, cover an area 50 feet by 70 feet” with “windows that
will be fitted with solar bronze glass.”
1967: In New York City,
Arlene and Daniel Greenwald gave birth to “lawyer, journalist and author” Glenn
Greenwald.
1969: Twenty-nine
people, most of whom were students were injured when a terrorist detonated a
bomb in the cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
1969: One person was
injured when a terrorist exploded a grenade at a bank in Al Bireh
1969: Yonatan Netanyahu
wrote to his parents, "In another week I'll be 23. On me, on us, the young
men of Israel, rests the duty of keeping our country safe. This is a heavy
responsibility, which matures us early... I do not regret what I have done and
what I'm about to do. I'm convinced that what I am doing is right. I believe in
myself, in my country and in my future."
1971: Publication of
“Diplomacy in the Living Room.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10810F83A55127B93C4A91788D85F458785F9
1972: Birthdate of
Israeli Olympic swimmer Yoav Bruck
1973: Marcel Marceau
appears at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA.
1974(12th of
Adar, 5734): Forty-nine-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning author and cultural
anthropologist Ernest Becker passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/14/archives/further-intimations-of-immortality.html
1975(21st of
Adar, 5735): Eleven people were killed and twelve more were injured during a
terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.
1975: “On the ABC
late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera), two
assassination researchers presented the first-ever network television showing
of the Zapruder home movie.
1976(4th of Adar II,
5736): "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom light-heavyweight box champion from
1932 to 1934 passed away at the age of 71. Rosenbloom boxed
during a period when Jews dominated the ring. In 1933, during Maxie's
reign as light-heavyweight champion, Jewish boxers were the champions in four
out of the eight weight classes.
1977(16th of
Adar, 5737): Shushan Purim
1977(16th of
Adar, 5737): Seventy-six-year-old Richard Jacob Mack, the son of Bertha and
Jacob William Mack and the husband of Elizabeth Mack passed away today in his
home town of Cincinnati.
1978: Birthdate of Sage
Rosenfels, the native of Maqkoketa, Iowa, who as quarterback, led Iowa State
University to its victory in a bowl game before going to a career in the NFL.
1978: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Premier Menachem Begin, on the eve of his departure to the US,
was adamant that Resolution 242 did not specify the withdrawal of the
“territories occupied in the recent conflict” and that the war of 1967 was a
war of national self-defense, while the West Bank was never under Jordanian
sovereignty. Begin did not rule out any West Bank territorial compromise, but
argued that 242 was unspecific, and Israel reserved its position until there
was a practical prospect of negotiating the issue.
1979: It was reported
today that The Jewish Chronicle is planning to its current office building and
may establish its headquarters out central London for the first time in its 138
year history. (JTA)
1981: Canadian attorney
Samuel “Sam” Berger sold the Montreal Alouettes football team to a Vancouver
businessman.
1981: The Mannes
Orchestra performed under the baton of Yakov Kreizberg as part of his
graduation ceremony from the Mannes College The New School for Music.
1981: U.S. premiere of
“On the Right Track” featuring Herb Edelman and Norman Fell.
1982(11th of Adar,
5742): Russian born Ayn Rand, author and social commentator, passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/obituaries/07randobit.html
1982: Nathan Teitel's
''The Keymaker,'' described as the story of a Jewish Paul Bunyan in New York
City in 1910, is scheduled to have its premiere today at the American Jewish
Theatre at the 92nd Street Y.
1984: Ninety-two-year-old
“German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller passed away
today. He is best known for his statement:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak
out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak
out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak
for me
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392
1985(13th of
Adar, 5745): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim
1986: “The West End
production” of “Lend Me a Tenor” for which Jerry Zaks won a Tony Award as Best
Director opened today at the Globe Theatre.
1986: In Santa Monica,
CA, Penny Marienthal and Joseph Cross gave birth to actor Eli Marienthal whose
two siblings Harley Cross and Flora Cross are also thespians.
1986: It was reported
today that those who gathered at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to
celebrate the wisdom of Maimonides whose work they have been studying for the
past year “were centuries removed from
the life” of the sage “who was born 851 years ago in Cordoba, Spain.
1987(5th of
Adar, 5747): Fifty-eight-year Edward Zorinsky, the Democrat who served as Mayor
of Omaha and United States Senator from Nebraska while raising three children –
Barry, Jeffrey and Susan – with his wife Cece.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/obituaries/edward-zorinsky-58-dies-us-senator-from-nebraska.html
1987: U.S. premiere of “Tin
Men,” the second of Barry Levinson’s four “Baltimore films co-starring Richard
Drefyus and Barbara Hershey, whose father was Jewish.
1989(29th of Adar I,
5749): Eighty-three-year-old Erwin Charles Ginsburg who earned All-Far Western
Conference honors while playing for Fresno State College from 1925 thought 1929
passed away today.
1990: In Tel Aviv,
architect Arik Ginzburg and his wife gave birth to fashion model Esti Ginzburg.
1991: Harry Heinz
Schwarz began serving as the Ambassador of South Africa to the United States.
1991: “CBS Newsman Bob Simon
Tells of Ordeal as Captured Jew” published today
http://www.jta.org/1991/03/06/archive/cbs-newsman-bob-simon-tells-of-ordeal-as-captured-jew
1992: U.S. premiere of
“Once Upon A Crime” a comedy directed by Eugene Levy with a script co-authored
by Nancy Meyers and co-starring Richard Lewis as “Julian Peters.”
1993: Having just
completed a short run at the WPA, Paul Rudnick’s “Jeffrey” opened at the
Off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre today.
1994: It was reported
today that “The Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles has installed
stained-glass "Sephardic Heritage Windows" designed by Israeli artist
Raphael Abecassis.”
1994: Twenty-six-year-old
Rabbi David Keehn, who is legally blind, is one of 144 rabbis who is honored
with formal ordination at the quadrennial Chag HaSemikhah (rabbinic
convocation) of Yeshiva University's affiliated Rabbis Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary (RIETS) in the Nathan Lamport Auditorium, Joseph and Faye
Tanenbaum Hall, New York City.
1995: FOX broadcast the
final episode of “Models, Inc” directed by Paul Lazarus for which Aaron
Spelling served as executive producer.
1997: Janet Rosenberg
Jagan, the daughter of middle-class Jewish parents from Chicago moved from
being the first lady of Guyana to the role of Prime Minister.
1998: The Times of London featured a review
of The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism and the Making of
the Jewish State by Zeev Sternhell; translated by David Maisel.
2000: First showing of
''The Life of the Jews in Palestine'' at the Museum of Modern Art. The classic
documentary was produced in 1913 by the Odessa-based Mizrakh Company and
presumed to be lost for some 80 years -- has resurfaced in New York. This excellent
new print with English inter-titles of Noah Sokolovsky's 78-minute silent film
is quite likely the rarest of the rarities featured in the museum's 10-program
tribute to France's national film archives, the Centre Nationale de la
Cinematographie.
2001: As Israel braced
for more terror attacks, Ariel Sharon finished creating “his unity government”
as the Knesset prepared to pass legislation that would lead to “a fundamental
restricting of Israel’s political system.
2002(22nd of
Adar, 5762): Seventy-four-year-old “Walter Goodman, a former reporter and
critic at The New York Times and the author of a widely read history of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities” passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/arts/walter-goodman-74-tv-critic-and-reporter-for-the-times.html
2002(22nd of
Adar, 5762): Eighty-five-year-old Scottish economist and psychologist Ralph
Glasser passed away today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389641/Ralph-Glasser.html
2003: Israel mourned
the 15 people, at least 8 of whom were students under the age of 18, killed
yesterday by a Palestinian terrorist in Haifa and prepared for their funerals
tomorrow which, for many of the victims would take place “in the section of a Haifa
cemetery reserved for victims of terrorism.
2004(11th of
Adar, 5764): Ta’anit Esther
2004: Those opposed to
the release of convicted Nazi war criminal who “was convicted in 1997 for a
1944 massacre in which more than 300 Italian civilians were killed” is
scheduled to take place today.
2005: After 138 years,
Rich's whichbegan as a dry goods store run by Morris Rich in 1876 disappeared
and became part of Macy’s-Central.
2005: The Washington Post book section
features a review of Michael Medved’s autobiography, The Faith of a Critic.
2005: The Chicago Tribune reported that
despite an anti-Semitic backlash, the renaissance of Jewish culture and
religion continued its growth in Russia.
This “quiet cultural revolution” has been fueled, in part, by Jews who
moved to Israel during starting in the 1970’s and have returned at the start of
the 21st century.
2005: The New
York Times reported that Robert K. Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
made his thirtieth visit to Israel since 1963.
On this most recent visit he took the Lombardi Trophy which was proof of
his teams’ Super Bowl Victory and showed it Prime Minister Sharon.
2005: The New York Times reviewed Ester and
Ruzya by Masha Gessen. The title
characters are Gessen’s grandmothers.
The biography tells how these two women maintained their Jewish
identities while living through Stalin, Hitler and the Cold War.
2005: The cover story
of The New York Times Magazine was “A
Memory Loop” by Joseph Lelyveld featuring an account of life with his father
Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld.
2006(6th of
Adar, 5766): Ninety-seven-year-old Ruth F. Weiss, also known as Wèi Lùshī, an
Austrian born Chinese “educator, journalist and lecturer” passed away today.
2007: The Colorado
Jewish Artist’s Guild of the Mizel Museum hosts a workshop styled “Catapulting
Your Visions to Achievements: Do You Want to Be A Working Artist or An Artist
Who Works?”
2007: “The Project
Gutenberg eBook, Rabbi and Priest” by Milton Goldsmith was released today.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20756/20756-h/20756-h.htm
2007: Former White
House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. was found guilty on four of five counts of
perjury and obstruction of justice trial. The one person convicted in the whole
Plame Affair was a practicing Reform Jew.
2008: As part of its Israel
at 60 celebrations, the 92nd Street Y presents “Lee Saar The
Company & Netta Yerushalmy: Out of Israel” as two innovate Israeli dance
companies join forces to present a compelling evening of duets.
2008(29th of
Adar, 5768): Ninety-year-old screenwriter who was nominated for Best Story
Oscar for “Naked City” passed away today.
2008(29th of
Adar, 5768): Eight people were killed and nine others were wounded this evening
when a terrorist infiltrated a Jerusalem yeshiva and opened fire. Three of the
wounded in the attack at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the Kiryat Moshe
neighborhood were serious condition and taken to Hadassah Medical Center in Ein
Karem. The other six were lightly hurt and taken to Sha'arei Tzedek Medical
Center. One of the wounded is 15 years old. Magen David Adom emergency medical
service declared the incident a "multiple casualty event."
2009: Agudas Achim
hosts Shabbat Across Iowa City with an early Friday evening service followed by
a Shabbat Dinner.
2009: Composer Samuel Adler lights up the marquee at
Temple Emanuel’s Synaplex Shabbat service on Friday night. The German-born son
of a cantor showcases a sampling of his music, performed by the Los Angeles
Zimriyah Chorale. In addition to putting his musical talents on display,
Adler also exhibits his strong faith in a musical sermon.
2009: At the Kirk
Douglas Theatre in Culver City, Kirk Douglas appears in “Before I Forget” a
scripted one-Douglas show all about the 92-year-old Hollywood icon. In this
rare theatrical appearance, Douglas shares stories about his life and acting
career — the stroke he suffered in 1996 that left him unable to speak, his
numerous starring roles and his return to Judaism.
2009: Today was a double-header for Jews and the
criminal justice system. The lawyers for
Bernard Madoff, the goniff who ran the biggest Ponzi Scheme in history, has
taken steps that could lead to him pleading guilty as early as next Tuesday and
in Des Moines a federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss illegal immigration
and bank fraud charges against Agriprocessors Inc. and its former
owner/manager, Sholom Rubashkin.
2009: The Foreign
Ministry said today it had closed its embassy after the government of
Mauritania, an overwhelmingly Muslim West African nation asked the Israeli
ambassador and his staff to leave.
2009: In Davis Cup
competition, Thomas Johansson put Sweden ahead of Israel with a five-set win
over Harel Levy Israel’s Duda Sela even the series with a five-set victory
against Andreas Vinciquerra.
2010 (5770): Shabbat
Parah
2010: The 40th
Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches” opened in
Philadelphia, PA.
2010: Theater J in
association with Jonathan Reinis Productions is scheduled to present the World
Premiere of Andy Warhol - Good for the Jews?
2010: In London, UK,
Jewish Book Week came to an end.
2010: U.S. President
Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell met with Defense Minister
Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv today as he began a round of meetings aimed at
relaunching peace negotiations.
2011: Today, Professor
Geoffrey Alderman was named the recipient of the Chaim Bermant Prize for
Journalism.
http://www.geoffreyalderman.com/
2011: Veretski Pass is
scheduled to perform their new composition “Klezmer Shul” as well as their
standard repertoire and some special surprises at the Freight and Salvage
Coffee House in Berkeley, CA as part of the Jewish Music Festival.
http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/veretski-pass
2011: Mlle. God” by
playwright Nick Kazan is scheduled to have iis final performance at the Atwater
Village Theatre in Los Angeles. “The subtext of Kazan’s production is an
attempt to mitigate the controversial role the playwright’s father — Oscar- and
Tony-winning director Elia Kazan — played during the era of the Hollywood
blacklist.” Regardless of how you may
view the elder Kazan’s role during the Red Hunting days of the 1950’s, this
Greek immigrant had the courage to serve as director of “Gentlemen’s
Agreement,” the 1947 film that dealt with the issue of anti-Semitism in the
United States. Jewish directors and
movie moguls had shied away from making the film because they were afraid of an
anti-Semitic backlash. [Yes, this is post Holocaust America]
2011: “Down Home,” a
multi-media project that “celebrates Jewish contributions to North Carolina
social, civic and commercial life” that has been appearing at the North
Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh is scheduled to come to a close today.
2011: The Los
Angeles Times featured reviews by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis
— Suez and the Brink of War by David A. Nichols
2011: Most of the
Israel’s welfare services will be suspended indefinitely starting today morning
after negotiations between representatives of social workers and the Finance
Ministry broke down two days ago.
2011: A sanitation
worker of the Jerusalem Municipality was moderately injured today by an
explosion apparently set off when he picked up a garbage bag in Jerusalem..
2011(30th of
Adar I, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
2011(30th of
Adar I, 5771) Ninety-two year old Dr. Sholom Omi Waife a noted writer and
medical researcher who was the grandson of Sholom Aleichem passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=sholom-omi-waife-md&pid=149526929
2012: The annual AIPAC
Policy Conference is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host its annual
Humanitiarian Awards Dinner.
2012: The Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a noontime
screening of “Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the
Olympics,”
2012: Jewish Women's
Morning at the Capitol (JWMC) is scheduled to take place in St. Paul, MN.
2012: Professor Deborah
E. Lipstadt is scheduled to deliver the annual Charles Grossman Lecture In
Jewish Intellectual History entitled “History Written, History Re-Written: On
American, The Holocaust and Playing the Blame Game” at The Skirball Center for
Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El
2012: The organization
Peace Now filed a complaint with police this morning after a death threat was
made against director Yariv Oppenheimer the night before
2012: Following the
death of Robert Sherman, the founder of Music World, “his son Robert J. Sherman
succeeded him as CEO and President.”
2012(12th of
Adar, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old “Albert Abramson, who became a principal
force in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington by using the same pragmatic approach that had made him a successful
developer of apartments, offices and malls” passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/us/albert-abramson-94-holocaust-museum-advocate.html?hpw
2012: Israel Military
Industries will be barred from submitting bids for Indian defense contracts for
the next ten years, along with five other firms, The Times of India reported
today.
2013: The Humanitarian
Awards Dinner co-sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education
Center is scheduled to take place this evening in Chicago, Illinois.
2013: To mark its
acquisition of the defense archive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews,
The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a public panel discussion on the
subject of Anglo-Jewish responses to domestic fascism in the 1930s.
2013: “The Last White
Knight: Is Reconciliation Possible?” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premier
tonight at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.
2013: The Hebrew
language edition of Playboy will be
available on newsstands today in Israel.
2013: “Agriculture
Ministry workers armed with pesticides went into action at first light today
morning, distributing both aerial and ground sprays in the area where millions
of locusts descended upon southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula the day before.”
(As reported by Sharon Udasin)
2013: New York police
today said they arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver following a weekend
accident that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple whose baby was later
delivered by C-section but then died.
2013: A global Shi’ite
terrorism network made up of Iranian Quds Force operatives and Hezbollah
continues to target Israelis overseas, the National Security Council’s
counterterrorism bureau warned today, ahead of the Passover vacation season.
2013: The Los Angeles
mayoral runoff opened today with Democrats Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greue, each
of whom have Jewish connections, l fighting over who can best craft an image of
fiscal restraint in a cash-strapped city whose voters refuse to raise taxes to
maintain public services.
2014: Shaul Magid,
professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University
Bloomington is scheduled to deliver a lecture “After Multiculturalism: Post
ethnicity and Judaism in America” at the University of Colorado Boulder.
2014: Leslie Maitland
is scheduled to discuss “Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War,
Exile and Love Reclaimed.”
2014: “Dove’s Cry and
“Sukkah City” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2014(4th of Adar II,
5774): Eighty-year-old theatre critic and author Martin Gottfried passed away
today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)
http://www.faber.co.uk/author/martin-gottfried/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/theater/martin-gottfried-theater-critic-and-author-dies-at-80.html
2014: Dr. Rose Cohen is
scheduled speak on “Facets of Holocaust Research: Victims and Survivors,
Possessions and Plunder Search strategies and Integrating Resources” at the
Center for Jewish History.
2014: A source at the
Foreign Ministry confirmed today that the trip of Pope Francis scheduled for
this May has been cancelled because Foreign Ministry workers “are currently on
strike and are unable to make the necessary arrangements for the visit.”
2014: In Columbus,
Ohio, Abbie and Feivel Straus have a new daughter; Joseph Straus has a new
sister and Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber have a new granddaughter.
2014: Today’s decision
“in Crimea’s parliament to hold a referendum on March 16 asking whether the
semi-autonomous region should become part of Russia took some members of the
peninsula’s 17,000-strong Jewish community by surprise.”
2015: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host the “penultimate Friday night
dinner.”
2015: Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host “Shabbat Across Iowa City.”
2015: Lewis Black is
scheduled to perform at the Club Regent Event Center in Winnipeg, Canada.
2015: “In U.C.L.A.
Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases” published today
Adam Nagrourney described the assault that Rachel Beyda endured from members of
the Undergraduate Students Association because, as they said, she “a Jewish student
and very active in the Jewish community.”
2015: “Police in the
northern town of Dokkum said in a statement today that they are investigating
the attempted sale of the soap online dating back to WW II that purportedly
contains remains of Jews murdered in the Holocaust,
2015: “Five people were
injured Friday morning in a car-ramming terror attack near a Jerusalem Light
Rail station in the north of the city.”
2015: “Deli-Man” a
documentary by Erik Greenberg Anjou opened in New York City.
2016: “A tribute to
Ephraim Kishon’s work that includes
2016: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir by Joel Grey
with Rebecca Paley and Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan
2016: Hunter College is
scheduled to host the Sixth Annual Diaspora-Israeli Russian Film Festival.
2016: In Iowa City
Rabbi Avremel and Chaya Blesofsky are scheduled to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of
their son Yehoshua.
2016: In Atlanta, GA,
the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “a very special one-time-only
performance of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow: The Music of Harold
Arlen."
2016: Evelyn “Evie”
Banko, a native of Vienna whose family fled after the Anschluss, is scheduled
to speak at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
2016: “A Torah scroll
from the synagogue in the northern Italian town of Biella has been identified
as probably the oldest in the world still owned and used by a Jewish community”
is scheduled to “returned to the Biella synagogue at a ceremony” today.
2016: Temple Beth Ami
is scheduled to Dr. Ramon Tasat speaking on the “Music of the Jews In Italy” –
a lecture that includes musical selections.
2017: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host Hershey Felder in “George
Gershwin Alone.”
2017: ‘The heirs of
Robert Gotschalk Lewenstein and his sister Wilhelmine Helena Lewenstein have
filed a lawsuit against a Munich bank, claiming ownership of a Wassily
Kandinsky painting that was allegedly stolen from a Netherlands museum during
World War II, Colin Moynihan and Alison Smale of the New York Times” reported today
2017: The Yeshiva
University Museum is scheduled to host “Out of the Whirlwind: Hugh Mesibov and
the Legacy of the Book of Job” during which Mordechai Cohen will “explore the
character of the Book of Job and its legacy within the Jewish imagination.”
2017: The Times of Israel is scheduled to host
a screening of “Norman” at Cinema City in Jerusalem
2018: In Washington,
DC, the annual AIPAC Conference is scheduled to come to an end today. (Editor’s note – you have to wonder how many
of the attendees feel about the fact the state of Israel does not recognize them
as Jews and/or does not regard their religious practices as being Jewish?)
2018: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Hummus Off where teams compete
to create the best form of this Oriental treat.
2018: The screening of
“The Jews of Syria” is scheduled to be shown at the 21st NY
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival “followed by an After Party! Featuring Music by
Maury and Josh Blanco, Mazza and a special performance by crooner Steven Chera
and his quartet.”
2019: Tonight’s opening
of the 22nd NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
include the New York Premiere of “El Hara.”
2019: At the Jewish
Book Festival, Anna Nyburg and Daniel Snowman are scheduled to examine Insiders/Outsiders
which “examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from
Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world
structures of the United Kingdom.”
2019: In Beverly Hills,
CA, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled “to honor Sylvie
and Mark Deutsch and Linda and Tony Rubin as they receive the National
Leadership Award.
2019: In Washington,
DC, Adas Israel is scheduled to host its annual Latke-Hamentasch Debate.
http://www.jewishstudycenter.org/
2020: The JCC Chicago
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the screening of the “Keeper” and
“Golda’s Balcony.”
2020: “The
Booksellers,” a documentary about rare book sellers co-produced by Judith
Mizrachy and featuring Fran Leibowitz amongst others, was released today in the
United States.
2020: In Louisiana,
Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to begin a weekend Shabbaton “featuring Scholar-in-Residence Tanya
Farber, a student at Yeshivat Maharat.:
2020: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to Friday night preceded by an orthodox minyan and a student-led egalitarian minyan
2020: “Chained”
and “God of the Piano” are scheduled to be shown at the East Bay International
Jewish Film Festival
2020:
MoMA is scheduled to host a screening of “Berlin-Jerusalem” with a screenplay
by Amos Gitai the film’s director.
2020: In Brookline, MA,
the Chai Center is scheduled to host “First Fridays Shabbat Dinner” preceded by
Kabbalat Shabbat services.
2021: The Boston
Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to present online “a collection of some of
Israel’s best new short cinema.”
2021: Temple Emunah is
scheduled to present online a “Kiddush Schmooze and Q&A With Comedian and
Activist Pamela Schuller.”
2021: In Columbus, OH,
at Tefereth Israel Lola Lewin, the daughter of Stephanie and Adam Lewin is
scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2021: Ayelet
Gundar-Goshen, Israeli author of “One Night Markovitch,” “Walking Lions” and
“The Liar” is scheduled to give a talk exploring truth, lies and the truth that
hides inside lies” sponsored by Congregation Beth Am.
2021(22nd of
Adar, 7801): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah;
2022: Lily Brosch, an
Orthodox woman from Chicago who had delivered a lecture at the Case Western
Reserve University Chabad on she is overcoming a rare form of muscular
dystrophy is scheduled to climb Camelback Mountain in Arizona today.
2022: The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Shai Secunda on “Between
Worlds: The Context of the Talmud.”
2023(13th of
Adar, 5783): Fast of Esther; in the evening read the Megillah.
2023: The HUB is
scheduled to host a class on “Mordechai the Villain: The Shocking Story Behind
Drinking on Purim.”
2023: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to present a Purim Party including “reading of the Guinness
World Record Longest Megillah and a special live performance by the Maccabeats.
2023: The Oscar J.
Tolmas Charitable Trust is scheduled to sponsor the Federation-JNOLA Purim held
jointly with Beth Israel
2023: IN Columbus, OH,
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host its Community Purim Celebration that will
includes its annual costume contest and “The Totally Rad 80’s Spiel
Performance.
2024: Never Is Now —
the world’s largest summit on antisemitism and hate — is scheduled to begin
today.
2024: YIVO is scheduled
to host a conversation with Jeremiah Lockwood and Jessica Roda, led by Jonathan
Boyarin in celebration of Lockwood and Roda’s new books Golden Ages: Hasidic
Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era (Lockwood, UCPress) and For
Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the
Digital Age (Roda, NYU Press)
2024: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture by Professo Ari Joskowicz
on “Roma, Jews and the Holocaust.”
2024: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a screening of “#NOVA,” a compilation real-time
video and audio footage taken by more than 3,500 Nova partiers and by Hamas
militants into a searing documentary film” depicting the events of October 7.
2024: As March 6th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 152 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.)
