This Day, July 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 3
324: Constantine the Great defeated Licinius at
the Battle of Adrianople. Constantine ruled the western half of the Roman
Empire. Licinius ruled the eastern half. In 313 the two rulers had issued the Edict of
Milan which opened the Roman Empire to Christianity. In 320, Licinius rejected the edict. These led to a clash of political and
religious power that was settled at the Battle of Adrianople. When the war ended, Constantine and
Christianity were secure in their respective positions of power and the history
of the Jews of Europe would take a turn for the worse.
353:
Emperor Constantius II issues a decree to confiscate all of the property anyone
who converts from Christianity to Judaism. Christians worked hard to convert
Jews, and they absolutely rejected conversion back to Judaism. Being Jewish is
apparently something that one should be ashamed of. (As reported by Austin
Cline)
987:
Hugh Capet is crowned King of France,
the first of the Capetian dynasty. “The Capetian dynasty lasted for more than
300 years. Capetian rule was weak, especially during the first hundred years. Thus,
each duchy decided for itself how to treat its Jews. The Church gained enormous
influence over local affairs and promoted the idea that the Jews were in league
with the Devil - declaring them the antichrist".
1187:
As the conflict between the Crusaders and Saladin comes closer to a climax, the
King of Jerusalem, Guy de Lusignan leads his army on a forced march under the
broiling sun of the Galilee
1247:
Pope Innocent IV
issues the encyclical Lacrimabilem Judaeorum condemning blood libels against
Jews.(As reported by Austin Cline)
1431:
Queen Violante,
the second wife of Juan I of Aragon passed away. Unlike other Catholic monarchs of her
time, Violante showed herself to be a friend of the Jews. When she found out that Christian mobs had
attacked the Jewish community of Majorca, killing at least three hundred of them,
she order that “inhabitants of the islands to pay a fine of 150,000 florins
(or, according to some authorities, 104,000 florins).”
1475:
Meshullam Cusi Rafa ben Moses Jacob established the first
Hebrew press in Italy at Piove di Sacco near Padua and printed Jacob ben
Asher's Arbah Turim. The same year he also printed a Slichot
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=344&letter=P
1608:
Quebec City was founded by French explorer Samuel Champlain. Prior to 1760, when the British took Canada
from France, officially there were no Jews living in Quebec or any other part
of the French colony. The King of France
had decreed that only Roman Catholics could settle in the colony. This declaration was aimed at potential
Protestant colonists, but it hit Jews as well.
The first known Jew settled in Quebec in 1767.
1642:
Sixty-seven year old Marie de’Medici,
the daughter of Francesco I de’Medici, the 2nd grand duke of
Tuscany who “invited Jewish merchants to settle in Livorno, granting them free
residence, unlimited access to trade and extensive self-government in this new
Medicean free-port on the Mediterranean” and the queen consort of Henry IV of France and
the mother of King Louis XIII who “signed letters patent renewing the expulsion
order "against not only Jews but also those who profess and practice
Judaism” passed away today.
1744(5th of Av, 5504): Jacob Louzada passed away
today in New York City. (This appears to be a common name so dates can get
confusing.)
1749:
Seventy-year-old Menahem Man ben Aryeh Löb of Visun, who had tortured was
executed in Vilna
1759(19th
of Tammuz, 5519): Forty-eight-year-old Samuel de Lucena, the New York born son
of Abraham Haim de Lucena “became a freeman” today after which he was a
merchant in Philadelphia and supporter of the American Revoltuion.
1762:
Birthdate of Moses Abrahams, the New York born son of Abraham Isaac Abrahams,
became a freeman today after which he became a merchant who among other things
supplied sulphur which was as gunpowder by the Americans during the Revolution.
1767(18th
of Tammuz, 5528): Tzom Tammuz observed.
1769:
In London, Aaron Gomes Da Costa, the Portuguese born “son of Abran Gomes da
Costa and Abigail Gomes da Costa and his wife of Miriam De Solomon Gomes Da
Costa gave birth to Moses Gomes Gomes Da Costa, the “husband of Abigail Gomes
Da Costa and Rachel Gomes Da Costa and father of Miryam Gomes Da Costa; Aaron
Gomes Da Costa; Isaac Gomes Da Costa; Moses Gomes Da Costa; Esther Tanqueray;
Soloman Israel Da Costa and Ellen Da Costa.”
1772:
Birthdate of New York native Rachel Judah, the daughter of Hillel Judah and the
wife of Alma Rehine whom she married in 1800.
1778(8th
of Tammuz, 5538): Fifty-three-year-old German born American “American merchant
and Indian trader” Elijah Etting who in 1758 came to the United States where a
year later her married Shinah Solomon and was “naturalized in 1765 passed away
today in York, PA.
1785(25th
of Tammuz, 5645): Ninety-year-old Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist Aryeh Leib
Gunzberg (As reported by Abraham Bloch)
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Gintsburg_Aryeh_Leib_ben_Asher
1799: Dutch
jurist Carel Asser, the son of Moses Salomon Asser “obtained a doctor’s degree”
degree following which “he devoted himself to the practice of law in Amsterdam”
making him one of the first Jewis lawyers in the Batavian republic.
1800:
Following Napoleon’s return to France following his failed Egyptian campaign
which took him to Palestine where he met many un-kept promises to the local
Jewish population, General Menou took command of the French army in Egypt which
would eventually surrender to the British and lead to a cessation of
hostilities between France and the Turks.
1803: Today
Bavarian born Leser Lazarus Oschsenhorn married Nanette Wexler with whom he had
eight children.
1806(17th
of Tammuz, 5566): Tzom Tammuz as Lewis and Clark “split their force in order
to scout more of
the mountainous country and look for an easier pass over the Rockies.”
1814:
Birthdate of Helen Moos, the wife of Abraham Einstein and the mother of Herman
Einstein.
1816(7th
of Tammuz, 5576): Forty-one-year-old Samuel Elias, the London born boxer known
as Dutch Sam who carried the sobriquet “The Terrible Jew” and was the father of
Welterweight Champion Young Dutch Sam passed away today.
1819: At the
age of 5 years and 7 months Charles-Valentin Alkan has his solfège audition
during which the examiners noted that he had “a pretty little voice.”
1822(14th
of Tammuz, 5582): Isaac F. Cohen, the infant son of Rebecca Benjamin Sheftall
and Isaac Cohen passed away today in Savannah, GA.
1822: Joseph
ben Moses married Esther bat Mordecai at the Western Synagogue.
1822: In
Bavaria, Isaac Kohn and Pearl Baron gave birth to the president of the North
American Relief Society for the Indigent Jews of Palestine Hezekiah Kohn the
husband of Louise Sanger and founder and president of the Hebrew Frees Schools who was a member of the Board of Delegates of
American Israelites and president and trustee of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in
NYC.
1825(17th
of Tammuz, 5585): Tzom Tammuz observed on the same day that former President
James Monroe wrote to future President Andrew Jackson
1830: In
Natzungen, Prussia. Jacob and Betty Spiegelberg gave to Levi Spiegelberg, the
husband of Bertha Spiegelberg who moved to New York where he passed away in
1905 at the age of 74.
1832: Mortimer
Salmon the son of John Salmon and Catherine Polack was circumcised today in
London.
1832(5th
of Tammuz, 5592): Forty-eight-year-old Uriah Lyons, the son of Hannah Levy and
Eleazer Lyons who had been married in Harrisburg, PA two days after the end of
Passover, and husband of Surinam native Mary Ann Alexander with whom he had
three children passed away today.
1833: A day
after he had passed away, 67-year-old Godfrey Harris was buried today at the
Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1835:
Birthdate of Daniel Spitzer, the native of Vienna who gained fame as a lawyer,
author and journalist.
1837: In
Ermreuth, German, Loeb and Bunte Babett Munker gave birth to Miriam Marianne
Rothschild, the wife of Baruch Rothschild
1844:
Birthdate of Joseph Chayyim Mendes Chumaceiro who studied “under his father at
Curaçao” before serving as the rabbi in a series of congregations including
“from 1867 to 1874 Beth-El congregation, Charleston, South Carolina; from 1874
to 1880, of Nefashot Yebudah, New Orleans, Louisiana; from 1884 to 1887, of
Beth-El Emeth, Philadelphia; from 1889 to 1891, of Mikwe, Yisrael, Curaçao; and
from 1892 to 1898, of Children of Israel, Augusta, Georgia;
1844: In
Stadtlengsfeld, Germany, Rabbi Liebman Adler and his wife gave to Dankmar
Adler, American architect and engineer. Adler’sname is first name is a
combination of the German word for thanks –‘dank’- and the Hebrew word for
bitter – ‘mar’. Adler’s father created the name since Adler’s mother died in
childbirth. The Adler family moved to Chicago where young Adler learned his
trade as a draftsman. He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War
fighting his way across Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. After the war, Adler
designed or helped build a variety of buildings including The Stock Exchange in
Chicago and Carnegie Hall in New York. He also built Temples and Synagogues in
Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America’s most famous architects trained in
Adler’s offices. Adler passed away in 1900 after having just completed Temple
Isaiah in Chicago
1849: The
French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. After his return
to power Pius re-instituted the Ghetto for the Jews of Rome 1850. In 1858, he would gain greater fame (or
infamy) during the Mortara Affair during which Pius refused to return young
Edgardo to his Jewish family.
1850 In New
Orleans, Henry and Mary Levy Florance
gave birth to San Francisco resident Alfred Florance.
1851:
Birthdate of Isaac de Camondo, the French banker who had been born in
Constantinople and whose “noteworthy” art collection was bequeathed to the
Louve
1852:
Birthdate of Hungarian pianist and composer Rafael Joseffy
1855(17th
of Tammuz, 5615): Tzom Tammuz
1855: “Jewing the Jews”
published today reported that “Lord John Russell who is notorious for great
promises and abundant non-performance” has backed out on his promise to remove
the legal obstructions preventing Jews from serving in Parliament. The article goes on to trace Lord Russell’s
history of involvement in the issued beginning in 1847 when he needed the
financial support of the Rothschilds to win the election. While the Rothschilds provided the funds need
by Lord Russell, Lord Russell, for some mysterious reason, avoided the easy
route that would have it possible for Rothschild to take his seat in the
Commons and opted instead for a broader reform that was sure to fail because it
needed the support of the House of Lords.
It would seem that Lord Russell really never wanted a Jew to sit in
Parliament.
1857: It was reported today that a Jewish
boy named Isaac Jackson was robbed and murdered in Russell, MA by a man named
Charles Jones from Blanford. Jones had
recently been released from prison and had been arrested for this latest
criminal act.
1860:
Birthdate of Théodore Reinach “a French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer,
papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist,
professor, and politician.”
1863: In New
York City Sophie and Abram J. Dittenhoefer gave birth to Irving Meade
Dittenhoefer. Dittenhoefer was the
grandson of Isaac Dittenhoefer a native of Germany who came to the United
States in 1834 settling first in Baltimore and then Charleston, SC where he
became a successful merchant. Irving
followed his father into the legal arena graduating from Columbia Law School in
1885. He and his wife Fannie have one
son, Newman Erb Dittenhoefer.
1863: In New
York City, Solomon and Emma Blogg Unger gave birth to Municipal Court Judge
Henry W. Unger, “one of the thirteen sachems of Tammany Hall and the husband of
Isabella Peyser Unger with whom he had two sons Albert and Herbert.
1863:
Birthdate of Samuel Bernard, the London born, New York educated son of Benjamin
Bernard, who went on to pursue a career as a stage manager and comedian. (other
sources show his dob as June 5)
1863: Union
forces decisively defeated the Rebels on the third and climactic day of the
Battle of Gettysburg. The war would last
for almost two years, but the tide had been turned. The “last best hope of man” would survive.
The United States, with all of its freedom, would become home to one of the
largest and most dynamic Jewish communities in the four thousand year history
of the Chosen People. Edward S. Salomon,
a German-Jewish immigrant who had settled in Chicago, “became a hero during the
Battle of Gettysburg.” Lt. Colonel
Salmon had two horses shot out from under him and assumed command of his
regiment when the commanding officer was wounded. The regiment was the 82nd Illinois which had
over a hundred Jewish members in its ranks. Major General Carl Schurz, his
corps commander, described him during the battle: "He was the only soldier
at Gettysburg who did not dodge when Lee's guns thundered; he stood up, smoked
his cigar and faced the cannon balls with the sang froid of a Saladin ...”
Apparently the irony of comparing this brave Jewish officer to a Moslem
military hero was lost on Schurz. Such
was Salomon’s skill and bravery that he would be promoted to the rank of
Brigadier General before the end of the war when the Confederate and Union
armies collided and battled at the Battle of Gettysburg July 1–3, 1863. His
ability to lead men was quickly recognized and he rapidly rose through the
ranks. Salomon received a brevet promotion to brigadier general in March 1865.
After the Battle of Atlanta, Colonel John Cleveland Robinson recognized the
feats of Colonel Salomon when he wrote: "I consider Colonel Salomon one of
the most deserving officers. His regiment is deserving of high praise. In a
point of discipline it is second to none in the corps. Among other Jewish soldiers who fought at
this climactic battle were Elias Leon Hyneman who had volunteered to serve in
Company C, Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry at the start of the conflict; Captain
Joseph B. Greenhut who had enlisted in the 12rh Illinois Infantry at the start
of the war and served with the 82nd Illinois Infantry at Gettysburg.
1863: The 59th
New York which had been organized by Philip J. Joachimsen was one of the
regiments that held the line on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett’s charge.
1863: As the
Battle of Gettysburg came to a close, Major Rafael Jacob Moses of Columbus, GA,
shared the battlefield with his friend, Robert E. Lee
1863: The
Tullahoma or Middle Tennessee Campaign a military action in which Confederate
forces were defeated by Union Forces that included 79th Indiana
under the command of Frederick Knefler came to an end.
1863: In
“Plymouth, Devon,” Nathaniel Hart and Dinah Nathan gave birth to Benjamin Hart.
1863(16th
of Tammuz, 5623): Among the dead at Gettysburg was Philadelphian Simon Arnold
who had been serving since 1862 with Company G of the 140th
Regiment, reminding us that preservation of the United States of America from
those who wanted to destroy her was paid for in human blood.
1866: Prussia
defeats Austria at the Battle of Königgratz. The victory seals the victory of
the Prussians over the Austrians during Austro-Prussian War which lasted as
scant six weeks. This little-known
battle is one of the most decisive in modern history because of all the major
events that flowed from it. The victory
removed Austria as a power among Germanic states. This opened the way for German unification
under Prussian dominance which lead to the Franco-Prussian War, which led to
World War I which led to the Shoah. The
defeat of Austria led the Austrians to turn to the rest of the empire and create the Austro-Hungarian Empire which
gave empowered the Hungarian nationalist which led to granting of full rights
to the Jews of the empire who gave the world everybody from Freud to Herzl and
a whole lot more. And this only
scratches the surface of the impact of this one brief battle.
1867: In Bar,
near Kamenetz Podolsk (modern Ukraine) Rabbi Judah Samuel Baronedess and his
wife gave birth to New York political and labor leader Joseph Barondess.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/11/yoysef-barondes-joseph-barondess.html
http://archives.nypl.org/mss/216
http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0507/
1867: Fifty-four-year-old
Lazarus Powell the Senator from Kentucky who was anti-Lincoln, pro-slavery and
who feigned indignation over General Order No. 11 as a way of attacking the
President and General Grant passed away today.
1868: Anselm
Ascher Luchs, the German born “son of Seligmann Pinchas Luchs and Judith Marx
Luchs and his wife Klara Luchs gave birth to Sigmund Luch, the “husband of
Amalie Luchs and father of Arthur Luchs; Siegfried Luchs; Alfred Luchs; Herta
Leven and Ida Firnbacher
1869: In
Germany (Prussia), all restrictions against Jews were lifted. After the war of
1866 Prussia increased its territory to include Hanover, Hesse-Kassel Saxony,
and other territory that became part of the North German Confederation. Under
the initiative of the Liberal party, full rights were extended to Jews
including serving in public positions. By April 16, 1871, it became Imperial
Law and was extended to the entire empire. Although later reaction revoked most
of this freedom, the discrimination never returned to the level existing in the
"Middle Ages" - until the rise of Hitler.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3337-bismarck-prince-otto-eduard-leopold
1869: Founding
of the Union of Judæo-German Congregations" during a synod that was held
at Leipzig.
1870: Members
of Beth Jacob consecrated their house of worship in Brooklyn this
afternoon. After a procession from the
local Masonic Hall to the new edifice, Rabbi Samuel M. Issacs addressed the
congregation, speaking proudly of the advances that had been made recently in
religious thought and strongly endorsing reforms that were being adopted by
many congregations. He also addressed the wonderful climate of freedom that
Jews enjoyed in the United States. Rabbi
Adolph Huebsch of Brooklyn also addressed the crowd after which a total of
$1,000 was contributed by the attendees.
The new building had cost $8,000 and was fully paid for without this
additional sum.1872: An English version of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein a
Jacques Offenbach operetta, opened at the Union Square Theatre in New York
City.
1874: In
Chicago, “Henry and Rose (Swart) Sincere gave birth to banker and broker
Charles Sincere, the husband of “Mayme W Wershinksi” and member of the Illinois
National Guard who was a member of the International Order of B’nai B’rith and
the North Shore Congregation.
1874: Starting
with this issue The Israelite, an
English language weekly founded by Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise was renamed The American Israelite
1874: Among
those who were arriving at Saratoga Springs at the beginning of the Summer
Social Season were “Mrs. Joseph Seligman wife of the wealthy banker” and her
two daughters, Miss Bella Seligamn and “Mrs. Hellman whose husband is a
Director of the Bank of New Orleans.”
1875: The
Foreign Notes column reported that “a new invention by Sir David Salomons for
preventing railway accidents by an improved system of signaling” has been
exhibited to “a large number of engineers and inventors” in London. The invention “consists of an insulated rail
laid beneath the four way, by means of which station-masts can telegraph to a
train while in motion.” Also this makes
it possible for people on one train to communicate with people on another
train. Salomons is best known for his several attempts to assume political
office to which he had been elected with taking the oath that called for an
affirmation of Christian beliefs.
1875: The
Foreign Notes column reported that the Russian government is going back to its
past practice of persecuting Jews. Many
Jews have moved their homes and businesses to take advantage of new
opportunities created by the developing railroad system. Authorities are now enforcing an old law and
forcing the Jews to return to their former homes, leaving behind their new
businesses and homes.
1877: Two Jews
named David Milstein and Isaac Goldstein were tried today in New York and found
guilty of first-degree burglary. They
had broken into the home of a butcher named Meyer Freeman, robbing him of money
and jewelry. They were sentenced to 12
years in the state prison. Milstein has
spent 21 of his 28 years in prison while Goldstein has served one term in the
state penitentiary.
1877: In
Earlville, Illinois, Morris Levy and Isabelle Baker gave birth to Martha Levy
the future wife Maurice Steinfeld the son of Jacob Steinfeld and Caroline
Stern.
1878: Erik
Weisz, who would gain fame as Houdini, arrived today in the United States “on the SS Fresia with his mother
(who was pregnant) and his four brothers” after which the family changed their
name to the German spelling Weiss, and settled in Appleton, Wisconsin “where
his father served as Rabbi of the Zion Reform Jewish Congregation.”
1879: In
London, a formal announcement was made that the three sons of the recently
deceased Baron Lionel de Rothschild will carry on their father’s business
activities.
1880: In
Pittsburgh, PA, Hannah Meyers and Rabbi Louis H. Broudy gave birth to August
Charles Broudy the husband of Jennie Barckley McKain.
1881:
Birthdate of Dov Ber Borochov, the son of Russian school teachers who in his
brief life left his imprint on “the study of Yiddish” and the Labor Zionist
movement.
http://www.freepaperz.com/biographies/Dov-Ber-Borochov-28565.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ber-borochov
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Borokhov_Ber
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/21/96281987.pdf
1882: As
boatloads of Italian and Russian Jewish workers who had replaced the striking
freight handlers returned from New Jersey, they were set upon and beaten by
gangs of local thugs. The strikers
claimed that they were not involved and that this was merely the work of young
toughs.
1882: A
Russian Jew employed on the Pennsylvania pier, No.1 North River tore a piece of
his scalp that was two inches in diameter from his forehead when a heavy bale
that he was putting on a truck broke free and hit an obstruction. The Russian
Jews was one of the strikebreakers who were plentiful in number but inept at
doing the work.
1883: In
Prague, “Hermann Kafka the fourth child of Jakob Kafka, a shochet or ritual
slaughterer in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located
near Strakonice in southern Bohemia” NS and his wife “Julie, the daughter of
Jakob Löwy, a prosperous retail merchant in Poděbrady” gave birth to author
Franz Kafka. The famous Czech born author gained his real fame after his death.
After many false starts Kafka earned a Doctorate of Laws and then took a
mind-numbing job with an insurance company. Ill health finally enabled him to
work shorter hours, which gave him time to pursue his writings. Three of his
best known works are the Trial, The Castle and America. Kafka became famous in
spite of himself. He had left word that at the time of his death all of his
manuscripts were to be destroyed. Fortunately his friend Max Brod disobeyed him
and had the works published. Kafka had planned to immigrate to Palestine before
his untimely death in 1924 hastened by the effects of tuberculosis. On being
Jewish Kafka wrote, "Not one calm second is granted to the Western Jew.
Everything has to be earned, not only the present and the future but also the
past…",
1884: The attorney for Gustave
Jean Jacquet defended the painter from charges by Alexandre Dumas fils that he
had defamed him by caricaturing the French author and dramatist as Baghdad Jew
by arguing that the author’s features were public property. In making his argument he cited the precedent
of Horace Vernet “who depicted a well-known Jew running away with the cashbox.”
Dumas was the illegitimate son of the more famous author of the same name. He was also the maternal grandfather of
Alexander Lippman the French Olympic fencer whose father was Jewish.
1885: In
Palestine, Ezekiel and Tamar Melamed gave birth to NYU grad and JTS ordained
rabbi, Raphael Hai Melamed, the holder of a Ph.D. from Dropsie College and
husband Deborah Marcus who severed
several congregations including the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in
Montreal before becomes the leader B’nai Israel Congregation in Elizabeth, NJ.
1885: In
Chicago, Joel Leon Goldsmith, the New York born son of Charlotte and Leon
Emanuel Goldsmith and his wife Cecilia Goldsmith gave birth to Max Alexander
Goldsmith, the “husband of Joan Platner.
1885: “Sending
Back French Paupers” published today described the situation of indigent Jewish
immigrants who had been sent to the United States by the Hebrew Aid Society of Paris last
season and been returned to their place of origin because of their lack of
funds and financial sponsors.
1886(30th
of Sivan, 5646): Parashat Chukat; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1886:
Birthdate of Jerusalem native Israel Porath, the husband of Miriam Titktin with
whom he “had 7 children - Shoshana, Samuel, Tzve, Benjamin, Ben Zion, Joseph,
and David – and “for almost five decades,” “the ‘dean’ of Cleveland, Ohio’s
Orthodox rabbis.”
https://case.edu/ech/articles/p/porath-israel
1887: “The
Goethe-Zelter Letters” published today provides a detailed review of Goethe’s
Letters to Zelter With Extracts From Those Of Zelter To Goethe, selected,
translated and annotated by A.D. Coleridge. The book includes a description of
the strange relationship between Carl Zeller, who did not like Jews, and his
favorite pupil Felix Mendeslohn, whose family was Jewish.
1887: In St.
Louis, MO, Nicholas Scharff and Carrie Bernheimer gave birth to their sixth
child, Aurelia S. Scharff.
1888: The Sanitarium
for Hebrew Children conducted the first of its ten summer excursions for poor
Jewish children and their mothers.
1888: Four
days after she had passed away, Sarah Salomons, (nee Hurwitz), the native of
Highgate, London and daughter of Hyman Hurwitz and Hester Levy was buried today
at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1889:
“Dramatic poet and writer” Josef von Weilen passed away today.
1889: In
Chicago, Adolph Ungar, the Bonn, Germany born son of Loeb Leopold Ungar and
Adelheid Edel Ungar and his wife Henrietta Ungar gave birth to Frederick Unger,
a brother of the banker and investor Arthur Arnold Ungar who was a trustee of
the University of Miami.
1889: In
Brooklyn, Dr. Henry M. Leipzieger of the Hebrew Technical School presented a
paper entitled “Manual Training in Relation to Public School Work” at a meeting
of the New York State Teacher’s Association.
1890: The
striking cloakmakers and tailors, most of whom are Polish and Russian Jews,
resorted to violence after have peacefully endured the lockout for several
weeks. Groups of strikers attacked scabs working at the Mercantile Cloak
Company and Meyer Jonason & Co.
1890: Idaho
joins the Union becoming the 43rd star on the Star Spangled
Banner. Despite a comparatively small
Jewish population, Idaho was the first state to elect a Jew as Governor. On his
second try for the top spot Moses Alexander was elected in 1914. He served from 1915 until 1919. A
German immigrant, Alexander had previously been elected Mayor of Boise.
Alexander was not casual about his Jewish identity. His wife was a Jew by choice, having
converted when she married Alexander.
1891:Reports
published today describing the recent death of
Prince Vladimir Andreyevich Dolgorukov, governor-general (mayor) of
Moscow included a description of the positive relationship he enjoyed with the
Jews of that city which ran contrary to the policy of the Czar. The Czar
finally became so upset with him over this that he replaced him with the Grand
Duke Sergius and forced him into virtual exile.
1892: In
Kensington, London Samuel Octavius Lazarus and Mary Sara Jane Hallenstein gave
birth to Kenneth Michaelis Lazarus, the husband of Mary Rebecca Lazarus and the
father of Sir Peter Esmond Lazarus, K.C.B.; Norman Arthur Lazarus and Margaret
Hilda Rigal who “was also
a Vice-Chairman of the Jewish Blind Society, a Treasurer of the Jewish Lads'
Brigade and a Trustee of the Jewish Orphanage, Norwood, who served on the
committee of the Association for Jewish Youth.”
1893: In New
York, “the Baron Hirsch Fund Schools held their ‘English Day’ exercise today
during which the students’ songs and recitation showed their “undying
allegiance to the flag of their adopted country.”
1893: “Growth
of the Feeling Against the Jews in Germany” published today that by having
elected sixteen members to the Reichstag, the anti-Semites have exceeded by one
the number need to claim the privileges of a Party including the right to
introduce legislation. Herman Ahlwardt,
who has just been released from prison and is the group’s leader, plans on
introducing “special taxes on Jew bankers and traders. “Anti-Semitism in
Germany has ceased to be a sporadic local phenomenon.” In 1887 one anti-Semite
was elected to Reichstag; in 1890, it was five; and now it is 16 who “have
almost 500,000 voters behind them. Nor do these figures tell all” since “the
Conservative Party…pledged by its platform…to any decent and practicable
measures against the Jews.” (Editor’s
Note – I realize this is a long entry but it challenges the notion that
anti-Semitism in Germany was the product of the Versailles Treaty, the Great
Depression or intimidation by a handful of brown-shirted thugs.)
1893: Today’s
London Times is scheduled to publish
a “startling photographic glimpse of what Russia is really like” which had been
prepared by Sir Julian Goldsmid.
1894: Dr.
Adolph Radin, Isidor D. Morrison and Julius Harburger addressed those attending
tonight’s exercise hosted tonight by the Russian American Hebrew Association in
honor of the Fourth of July. The program also included music and a benediction
by Rabbi Moses of Port Gibson.
1894: Rabbi
Levy of New Haven, CT officiated at the wedding of Sadie Bentschner to Isadore
Israel at the home of the bride’s parents in Charleston, SC.
1895: Maria
Moses, the daughter of Emanuel and Ann Moses, was buried today at the Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1895: The will
of the late Lewis S. Levy was filed for probate in the Surrogate’s office
today.
1896:”
Gathered About Town” published today provided further indication of the large
number of foreign born Jews living in New York.
Notices posted in the main corridor of the General Post Office are
printed in Hebrew letters providing “instruction for the many Russian Polish
Jews who have business with the postal authorities.” Similar notices have been
printed in German and Italian for years.
1896: The body
of the man found floating in New York’s Clyde River on June 25 has been
identified as 25-year-old Simon Mischel, a member of well-to-do family living
on Delancey Street. Apparently he was
shoved into the water after having been robbed an strangled by a gang of
robbers who have been operating in the area.
1896: In
Vienna, the Diet took up the question of extending the franchise. An amendment, which seems to have great
support, was proposed that would exclude Jews and Converts from exercising the
franchise.
1896:
According to a report to be published in today’s Daily News, the attacks on the Jews at Mizalbisch were orchestrated
by a Russian officer who was seeking “revenge against a Jewish” tavern keeper
who had rescued a peasant whom the officer “was thrashing.”
1896: In
Russia, Local administrators arbitrarily reclassified certain “townlets” as
“villages” which caused havoc for Jewish merchants due to the restrictive
nature of the May Laws.
1896: “Death
of Jules S. Abecasis” published today described the fatal collision between the
“well known rubber broker” and active member of the Jewish community who was
riding his bicycle when it was struck by an express wagon.
1896: Twenty-two-year-old
Mary Colar was fined five dollars on a charge of disorderly conduct based on
the claim of 2 police officers “that she had made improper proposals to them”
- a claim that she denied and which
appeared questionable since the officers “can speak no Hebrew and she can speak
no English.”
1897: A
summary of the acquisitions made by the New York Public Library during May
published today show that of the institution had acquired, by various means,
1,600 books and pamphlets written in Hebrew and 360 works in Yiddish. In
additions to the Bible and Commentaries, Talmud, Midrash, Cabala and Jewish
History books, the library now owns “165 photographs of prominent Jews.”
1897:
According to figures released yesterday when his will was filed for probated
Mayer Lehman “left an estate valued at $450,000 in real and $500,000 in
personal property. In addition to
bequeathing thousands of dollars to a variety of Jewish and Gentile charities,
Lehman left $20,000 for the executors to use as they see fit to assist family
members and “for such employees of Lehman Brothers as may be in need of aid.
1897: “Jewish
Pupils Celebrate” published today described the exercises at the Baron de
Hirsch English Day School in which children of Jewish immigrants demonstrated
their patriotism and fluency in English as they prepare to observe Independence
Day.
1897:
“Americans in Babylonia” published today provided a review of Nippur or
Explorations and Adventures by Dr. John Punnett Peters in which the author
describes the Jewish community that originated during the period of “Captivity”
which created to great centers – Sura near Babylonia and Nehardea or Nearda
which is not far from Anabar. The latter
was a prominent Jewish center, he says for 800 years until it was replaced by
Baghdad.
1898: “Jewish
Chautauqua Society” published today described plans for the Second Assembly of
the society which will be held at Atlantic City later this month with
headquarters at Congregation Beth Israel on Pennsylvania Avenue.
1899:
Birthdate of Atlanta native and Peabody College graduate Hattye Raphael Bubis,
the wife of David Stcklar Bubo and mother of WW II Naval veteran and Dallas
marketing executive Ralph Bubis who was a member of the National Council of
Jewish Women.
1899:
Birthdate of German native and “British neurologist, Ludwig Guttman, the
founder of the Paralymics.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-Guttmann
1900: It was
reported today that while being interviewed by The Herald, Oscar Straus,
the American Minister to Turkey gave “a forcible statement on the impossibility
of partitioning China.
1901: Today’s
sessions of the Central Conference of American Rabbis meeting in Philadelphia
“were devoted principally to routine business” which included the treasurer
report by Charles S. Levi and a report “on Summer schools non-affiliated with
congregations.”
1902: In
Argentina, Gedaliah Bublick and Elka Bublick gave birth to Regina Silver, the “wife
of Edward Sholom Moses Silver and mother of David Bublick Silver; Sarah Feigel.”
1902:
Birthdate anthropologist Melville Jacobs a long-time member of the faculty of
the University of Washington and the husband of fellow anthropologist Elizabeth
Jacobs.
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/jacobs_melville_1902_1971_/#.Wzrrn_ZFx9A
1903: In
Dusseldorf, Gustav Cohn, the German born son of “Levi and Eva Regina Cohn” and
his wife Paul Cohen gave birth to Leo Ernst Cohen.
1903: Today,
as the meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis in Detroit, a
motion made by Dr. J.M. Margolis that a committee be appointed to draw up a
reform creed” which will be submitted to the organization at their meeting in
1905 is scheduled to be discussed today.
1903: Pogrom
began in Bialystok.
1904(20th of
Tammuz, 5664): Theodor Herzl passed away at the age of 44. One person can make
a difference. “If you will it, it is no
dream!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CdfCZa2XOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO88cy4YgHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWi3pV8_XQY
1904: In
Manhattan Mollie (Isaacs) Lefkowitz and Samuel Lefkowitz gave birth to Louis J.
Lefkowitz the Republican lawyer who served the state’s Attorney General for 22
years.
1904(20th
of Tammuz, 5664): Sixty-four-year-old Charles Wessolowsky, the husband of
Johanna Wessolowsky passed away today.
http://www.jewishsouth.org/resources/reflections-southern-jewry-letters-charles-wessolowsky
http://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Southern-Jewry-Wessolowsky-1878-1879/dp/0865540209
1905: Today,
“while the general situation in Odessa has improved “those best knowing the
conditions in the city are of the opinion that the graves danger now lies in a
possible anti-Jewish rising” because the Jews who number about 175,000 are
“deeply hated for a variety of reasons.
1906: As the
seventh annual convention of the Federation of Zionists in Canada continues to
meet in Toronto could take satisfaction in yesterday’s announcement by
President De Sola of Montreal “that the Sultan of Turkey had revoked the laws
forbidding Jews to settle in Palestine” which meant
that it was no possible for Jews to inhabit the country and enjoy the
protection of its laws.
1907: Rabbi
Joseph Stotlz delivered the “President’s Message” at the annual convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
1907: This
evening, at the convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbi Max
Heller led the Round Table on the “Compatibility of Zionism and Reform Judaism”
and Rabbi William S. Friedman led the Round Table on “The Rabbi and Public
Activities.”
1907:
Birthdate of Felix Solomon Cohen, the New Deal lawyer who re-shaped the legal
status of Native Americans.
1908: On the
Western calendar, seventy-six-year-old Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, the
prime mover behind the anti-Semitic May Laws passed away today.
1909(14th
of Tammuz, 5669): Parashat Balak was chanted on the same day that “Federal
charges were filed against the manufacturers of Koca Nola, the third most
popular cola after Coke and Pepsi, after a one-gallon jug of the syrup was
found to include cocaine.”
1909: In
Dresden, Germany, Eva Wollheim Sten and Dr. Leopold Stein, the “rabbi of the
Dresden Conservative community” gave birth to University of Leipzig trained attorney
and “street photographer” Fred Stein, the husband of Liselotte Salzburg with
whom he had two children – Peter and Ruth – who was saved from the Nazis by
Varian Frey and the Emergency Committee and pursued his artistry with a Leica
in New York City.
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/fred-stein-5962
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/fred-stein-5962
1910: Dr.
Harry Friedenwald of Baltimore, the out-going President was among those who
address the three hundred delegation of the American Federation of Zionists who
were attending the organizations 13th annual convention in
Pittsburgh.
1911: “Zionist
Discuss Plans” published today described “a plan to buy one hundred thousand
acres of land annually in Palestine in order to established colonies of Jews”
which presented at the fourteenth annual convention of the Federation of
American Zionist” meeting at Tannersville, NY>
1912(18th
of Tammuz, 5672): Seventy year old Abraham Boehm, the German born son of Sara
and Hirsch Bohm passed away today in Mt. Vernon, NY.
1912: Harvard trained surgeon and Harvard Medical
School instructor Albert Ehrenfried, the Lewiston, ME born son of George and
Rachel Ehremfroed who was instructor for army surgeons during WW I and the
chairman of the health committee of the Federation of Jewish Charities of
Boston married Grace Waterman today in Bangor, ME.
1913: The
factional trouble that had been predicted broke out today on the second day of
the 24th annual convention of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis which split over several matters including “publication of a special
prayer book for Sunday services” for “those congregations that must have a
Sunday service” and which found a tearful Rabbi Isaac S. Moses of New York, one
of the oldest members of the conference asking “that either new methods be
adopted by the Conference or that his name be stricken from the membership
roll” since he objected to the “defaming of rabbis anywhere.
1913: Two
after she had passed away at the Home for Aged Jews in Chicago, 78 year old
Nanette Flesch, the aunt of “Walter J, Eugene, Edwin and Rose Flesch was
scheduled to be buried at Rosehill today.
1913(28th of
Sivan, 5673): Printer Solomon Geisenberg passed away today in Memphis, TN.
1913: In
Manhattan, Rene and Samuel Hoffman gave birth to art collection Janice H.
Levin, the widow of attorney and real estate developer Philip J. Levin (As
reported by Enid Nemy)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html
1914: As the
“winds of world war” begin to blow across Europe, today” a state funeral was
held for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Vienna, with Emperor Franz
Joseph I of Austria and other members of the imperial family in attendance.”
1914(5th
of Tevet, 5674): Parashat Vayigash
1914: Today University
of Maine Law School graduate and Republican Party leader Edward I. Gleszer, the
Hartford, CT born son of Rebecca Taiz and Samuel Gleszer married Ada M. Cohen
after which he went on to become a Bangor Municipal Court Judge and she went to
become “the first Jewess” to serve a member of a local school board in Maine
when in 1930 she was elected to the School Board in Bangor, ME.
https://www.jta.org/archive/first-jewess-named-to-school-board
1914:
Rabbi David Lefkowitz of Dayton, OH, led Sabbath morning services at the “25th
anniversary conference of the Central Conference of American Rabbis” being held
“at Temple Beth El in Detroit, Michigan.”
1915: Frank
Flint, the former U.S. Senator from California who supported efforts have Georgia
Governor Slaton commute of Leo Frank’s sentence was quoted as saying “We want
to honor Slaton for the manly thing he did in giving Frank the benefit of the
doubt and saving his life.”
1916: In
Philadelphia, Zionists continued their convention for a third day.
1916(2nd
of Tammuz, 5676): Twenty-two-year-old Lance Corporal Hyman Baum the son of Leah
and Nathan Baum died today while serving with the “1st Battalion,
Border Regiment” after which he was buried at Louvencourt Military Cemetery.
1917(13th of
Tammuz, 5677): Twenty-six-year-old
Lieutenant Benjamin Cohen of South Africa became a casualty of war today.
1917: In
Asbury Park, NJ, delegates at the Ninth Annual Convention of Young Judaea were
scheduled to attend a business session this morning.
1917: “Because
of various conflicting reports, Ira Nelson Morris, the American Minister has
requested the Swedish Foreign Office to use its best efforts to ascertain the
truth about the condition of the Jews in Palestine.”
1917: It was
reported to that “the Jewish Teachers’ Congress, which is now meeting in
Petrograd, has appointed a committee to see the Minister of Education in order
to obtain the abolition of certain restrictions which still attach to the
education of Jewish children.”
1917:
Ex-Ambassador Abram I. Elkus who is traveling aboard a French steamer, did not
arrive in New York City as originally planned.
1918:
According to reports received today by the Jewish Corresponded Bureau in
Amsterdam, “anti-Semitic outbreaks have occurred in Jaroslau and other Galician
towns” where it is said “Jewish residents have been made the victims of
excesses and their shops have been plundered” while the authorities refused “to
interfere” with the attacks.
1918: In the
South Bronx, clothing store owner Henry Adelson and seamstress Rose (Zagor)
Adelson, gave birth Yale trained attorney Shirley Adelson, the wife of
filmmaker Elwood Seigel who gained fame
as leading civil rights attorney Shirley Siegel who had personal experience
with discrimination when no law firm would hire because she was Jewish and a
female
https://www.nycbar.org/shirley-adelson-siegel
1918: Sultan
Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire passed away at the age of 73. He had been the titular head of the empire
that sided with the Central Powers during World War I. Among the Jews who died fighting under the
Sultan’s banner were Major Isaac Adjubel, Captain Albert Cohen, Captin Izidor
Shalom, Captain Zavarro, Captain Albert Menashe, Captain Pepo Akshiote, Captain
Siyaves, Captain Albagli, Captain Asa, Captain David Feder and Captain
Pharmacist Behor Alfandar.
1919: Today, enemy
subjects residing in Nagasaki including Austrian born Sigmund Lessner “a
merchant and leader of the Jewish community in Nagasaki” were ordered to report
to the Prefectural government offices and directed to submit an inventory of
their possessions.
1919:
Birthdate of Orange Free State native Colin Legume, the journalist and
ant-Apartheid activist.
http://spartacus-educational.com/JOUlegum.htm
1920(17th
of Tammuz, 5680)
1920: In
Manhattan, attorney Selig Seligman and his wife, concert pianist Selma Edelman,
gave birth to Columbia University trained journalist and WW II U.S. Army
veteran Daniel Joseph Edelman, the founder of Edelman, one of the world’s
largest P.R. firms and the husband of
Ruth Ann Rozumoff with whom he raised Richard Edelman who took over as head of
the firm in 1985.
https://www.edelman.com/about-us/our-history
1920: Columbia
University College of Dental and Oral Surgery trained orthodontist Samuel
Abraham, the Budapest born son of Fannie Gottesman and Jehuda Abraham and
author of “Conservative Treatment of Pulpless Teeth” who was a member of both
Ohab Zedek and Temple Israel in Long Branch married Stella Lillia Kronovet
today.
1920: “The
Love of a Thief” featuring Julius Falknstein in the role of “Piselli” was
released today in Germany.
1921: Solomon Lozovsky ended
his service as Chairman of the International Trade Union Council and began
serving as General Secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions.
1921:
Birthdate of Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, the second Rebbe of the Boston Hasidic
dynasty founded by his father, Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz.
http://www.haaretz.com/the-bostoner-rebbe-the-first-american-born-hasidic-leader-1.2308
1922: Harvard's reputed
attitude toward Jews was criticized today by Rabbi Louis L. Mann of New Haven,
a lecturer at Yale, in a report on "The Relation of Judaism to
Democracy," which was presented at a meeting of the National Council of
Education.
1923: In
Paris, Béatrice de Camondo and Léon Reinach the son of Théodore Reinach gave
birth to their second child, Bertrand.
He would die a t Auschwitz in 1944.
1923: Mayer
Dizengoff, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, sails from New York City aboard the
Aquitania.
1924: In
Syracuse, NY, Bessie and Harry Israel gave birth to Marvin Israel “a painter
and editorial art director and a teacher of graphics and photography.”
1924:
Birthdate of Jiri Drillich who, in 1942, was transported from Prague to Ujazdow
where she was murdered.
1924: In the
Bronx, “Hyman Bassen, a writer and labor activist, and Ida (Orland) Bassen”
gave birth to Nancy Bassen who gained fame as Nancy B. Reich, the author of
Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman.
(As reported by Corinna de Fonseca-Wollheim)
1924: Ted
"Kid" Lewis (born Gershon Mendeloff) “won his last two titles, the
British and European Welterweight crowns, today — again at London's Royal
Albert Hall — by defeating Johnny Brown.
1925: In the
Bronx, birthdate of Bernard Schwartz who gained fame as Tony Curtis and who was
sometimes referred to as "a poor man's Cary
Grant." One of his biggest hits came when he played
opposite Grant in the film "The Pink Submarine." Other
famous roles were in "Some Like It Hot" with costars Jack
Lemmon and that famous Jewess, Marilyn Monroe and as the wisecracking New York
born orderly in "Dr. Newman, M.D."
1925: In
Baltimore, MD, Gerson and Dorah (Steinbach) Grollman gave birth to HUC trained
rabbi Earl Alan Grollman a prolific
writer on grief who became widely known for ministering to those mourning the
death of loved ones in the 9/11 attacks, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and
other times of loss…” (As reported by Annabelle Williams)
1926(21st
of Tammuz, 5686): Parashat Pinchas
1926(21st
of Tammuz, 5686): Sir Adolph Tuck, 1st Baronet more commonly known as Adolph
Tuck, a British fine art publisher and chairman of Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd
who was the Prussian born son of Raphael Tuck and husband of Jeanetta Flatau
with whom he had five children, the elest of whom was Major Reginald Tuck
passed away today.
1926:
Birthdate of Meyer Kupferman, the New York born clarinet player and composer.
http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/594/Kupferman,+Meyer
http://www.meyerkupferman.com/
1926: In
Providence, RI, Samuel Goldberg and the former Elsie Hamburger gave birth to
Elsie Marie Goldberg who gained fame as Elena Doria, “the longtime director of
the Metropolitan Opera’s children’s chorus. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/arts/music/elena-doria-beloved-and-strict-as-hell-director-of-met-childrens-chorus-dies-at-90.html?_r=0
1927: It was
announced today that “the Jewish community in Baltimore pledged itself to raise
one hundred thousand dollars to go to the five million campaign being waged to
raised fund for the creation of “Yeshiva College for American Jewry” whose
building will be “erected at Amsterdam Avenue and 186th Street.
1928: Michael
Mindlin, the President of Mindreyer Productions said today “he had a sent a
representative to Albany to see James Wingate, Director of the State Board of
Censors concerning the banned film ‘The City Without Jews’”. a 1924 Austrian
Expressionist film by Hans Karl Breslauer, based on the novel of the same title
by Hugo Bettauer.
1929: At the
opening meeting of the Assembly of the Elected, “the national body which elects
the National Council of Palestine Jews, a dispute broke out between Dr. Ton,
the presiding officer and revisionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky. The dispute revolved around revisionist
claims that several of their delegates were attacked by Labor delegates and was
so intense the meeting was adjourned.
1929: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for sixty-year-old
Boris D. Bogen, a “teacher at the Baron de Hirsch Trade School in New York and
“the principal of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School in Woodbine, NJ” and
author of Psychology of Teaching Foreign Languages and Born a Jew who was the
husband of Elisabeth Scholtz.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0003/ms0003.html
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Alfred-Segal-Boris-Bogen/dp/B00COBYN3S
1930:
“Holiday,” a “romantic comedy with music by Josiah Zuro was released today in
the United States.
1931: Today,
in Philadelphia, “a resolution urging that World War veterans refrain from
borrowing on their adjusted compensation certificates except in case of
emergency was offered at the tenth national encampment of the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States.
1932: “Fortified
by optimistic reports of economic conditions in Palestine and by a belief that
the spirit of defeatism had been banished by Zionism, leaders of the Zionist
Organization of America at the opening of its annual convention here today
appealed for continued support to the upbuilding of a Jewish national home in
spite of the world-wide depression.”
1933: The 8th
annual convention of Junior Hadassah is scheduled to come to an end today in
Cleveland, OH.
1933: In
Chicago, the convention of the ZOA comes to a close.
1933:
Birthdate of Harvard trained attorney Herbert Elish, a New York City Sanitation
Commissioner, the husband of the former Leslies Jane Rubin and the father of
Harry and Daniel Ellish.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/27/archives/zealous-sanitation-commissioner-herbert-elish.html
1934:
Rebbetzin Renee Schick who founded the Schick's Bakery in Boro Park in 1941,
and her husband gave birth to Professor Marvin Schick “an expert on Jewish Day
Schools who served “as liaison to the Jewish Community” for John Lindsay during
his second term as Mayor of NYC and his twin brother Allen.
1934: “The
annual convention of District Grand Lodge No. 4 of B’nai B’rith is scheduled to
begin today in Vancouver, BC.
1934: The 37th
annual convention of the ZOA is scheduled to come to an end in Atlantic City.
1935(2nd
of Tammuz, 5695): Ed Sachs, the “pioneer merchant” who may have been the owner
of the Ed Sachs Curio Store in San Antonio, passed away today.
1935(2nd
of Tammuz, 5695): Fifty-seven-year-old André-Gustave
Citroën, the son of “diamond merchant Levie Citroen from the Netherlands and
Masza Amelia Kleinman from Warsaw, Poland” the automobile manufacturer best
known for the car that bears his name passed away today in his native Paris.
http://www.citroenet.org.uk/miscellaneous/history/history01.html
1935: Sir
Francis Montefiore, grandnephew of the noted philanthropist, who had served for
several years President of the Board of Elders of the Spanish Portuguese
Synagogue in London; a position to which he was first elected in 1904 was
buried today at the Spanish & Portuguese Jews Cemetery at Mile End Road in
London.
1936(13th of Tammuz, 5696): German Jew Stefan Lux kills himself in
the assembly room of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The suicide
is in protest of Germany's persecution of Jews. He was an early supporter of
Theodore Herzl and Zionism but curtailed his efforts following the Great War.
1936 The
Palestine Post
reported from London that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby Gore, told the
House of Commons that "there were no provisions in the Covenant or Peace
Treaties or the Mandate regarding the withdrawal of the Mandate from the Power
entrusted with it."
1936: Sir
Sidney Abrahams became the 26th Chief Justice of Ceylon, a post he
would hold until 1939.
1936 The
Palestine Post
reported that Hebron was fined a collective fine of £2,000 for ambushing an
army patrol. Two British soldiers were hurt in this encounter.
1936: The
Palestine Post
reported that ten suspected Jewish communists were rounded up by police in Tel
Aviv and interned at the army's Sarafand detention camp.
1936 The
Palestine Post
reported that when questioned about a news item which appeared in an Arab
newspaper, the management of the Jerusalem YMCA declared that it offered a
platform on which young men, irrespective of their race, creed and religion
could cooperate and meet in an atmosphere of congeniality and goodwill.
1936: Jewish
stores were sacked and several Jews were wounded by Moslems in Gafsa and Sousse
Tunisia which led the Jewish merchants in Sousse to barricade “themselves in
their shops” and fight “off attacking Moslems with rifle and pistol fire” while
they awaited the arrival troops who were supposed to restore order.
1937(24th
of Tammuz, 5697): Parashat Pinchas
1937(24th
of Tammuz, 5697): Fannie Hoffner Lainer, the wife of Samuel Lainer passed away
today in Worcester.
1937: In
Buffalo, NY Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and
piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire gave birth to David Lee Shire the songwriter
and composer whose work included the soundtracks for “The Taking of Phelham One
Two Three” and “The Conversation.”
1937: Twenty-nine-year-old
Brooklynite Moe Schultz returned today on the President Roosevelt from
Palestine, where he said he had driven a truck for three years between the
towns of Haifa and Tel-Aviv, a distance of ninety miles, and had many thrilling
escapes from Arab snipers.
1938: The
unveiling of a memorial in memory of Sarah Leah Broadwin is scheduled to take
place this morning at the Mt. Zion Cemetery on Long Island.
1938: Today
“hundreds of house owners in the fashionable suburbs” of Vienna “have been
ordered by National Socialist organizations to give notice immediately to
Jewish tenants to vacate their apartments within a fortnight” with the purpose
of keeping “the fashionable districts ‘clear.’”
1939: A
sailboat of unknown nationality arrived in Haifa flying the blue and white
colors of the Zionist cause. British
police boarded the boat “where they found 697 Jewish immigrants including 192
women and 37 children.” The immigrants
are classified as “illegal” and their total will be deducted from the pitifully
small allotment of Jews allowed to enter Palestine under the White Paper.
1939(16th of
Tammuz, 5699): Tonight Arabs attacked Tel Hayim, a settlement near Tel Aviv,
killing one Jewish supernumerary.
1940:
Following yesterday’s request by the OKW, the German military were working on
the plans for the invasion of England code named Operation Sea Lion.
1941:
Associate Justice Harlan Fisk Stone began serving as Chief Just of the U.S
Supreme Court. From 1932 until 1937, Stone, the New England Protestant joined
the two Jewish Justices – Cardozo and Brandeis – as the 3 Musketeers, the
liberal faction of the Supreme.
1941(8th of
Tammuz, 5701): At Nowogrodek, the Nazis sought fifty "volunteers" to
be members of the Jewish council there. They are taken away and never seen
again. Fifty more were shot in the town square.
1941(8th
of Tammuz, 5701): Sixty-nine-year-old theatrical producer Sam Harris passed
away today after suffering a relapse following his operation for appendicitis.
1941: In
Vilna, all the Jews were required to wear identity badges.
1941: In Liepāja,
SS-Obersturmbannführer Reichert’s EK 1a men began their roundup of and began
marching to trenches in Rainis Park where they will begin massacring them.
1941(8th of
Tammuz, 5701): One hundred Jews are murdered at Bialystok, Poland.
1941: “Arājs Kommando started
arresting, beating and robbing the Riga Jews.”
1941(8th of
Tammuz, 5701): In the Ukraine, 3500 Jews are killed at Zloczow and hundreds die
at Drohobycz.
1941(8th of
Tammuz, 5701): Fifty Jews in Novogroduk, Belorussia, who volunteer for a
German-organized Jewish council, "disappear." Another 50, selected at
random, are shot in the town square to the accompaniment of music played by a
German band.
1941: Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin orders the establishment of partisan units to harass
German troops in occupied Soviet territory. Jews would play an active role in
these units. There were also units made up exclusively of Jewish partisans.
1941:
Birthdate of American contractor Warren Weinstein who was kidnapped by al-Qaeda
in 2011.
1941:
Birthdate of Gloria Rachel Bloom, who gained fame as Gloria Allred, the
publicity seeking lawyer.
1942: In Manhattan, the United Palestine Appeal
reported today that “The Palestine Government granted 1,500 immigration
certificates in Palestine in the three months ending on June 30.”
1942(18th of Tammuz, 5702):
Forty-eight-year-old the Rengshausen, Germany orn of Abraham and Berth Beilchen,
the husband of Hilda Hoflich and the father of Gerda Hoflic was murdered today
at Majdanek.
1943: Birthdate of self-promoting television news
personality Geraldo Rivera. Rivera’s
father was from Puerto Rico. After
moving to New York he married a Jewish woman named Lily Friedman. Contrary to popular urban legend, Rivera’s
original name was not Gerry Rivers. And
he did not change his name to appeal to Hispanic audiences.
1944: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by
Soviet troops during Operation Bagration
1944: The
British War Cabinet agrees to examine Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann's request
for the formation of a Jewish Brigade to fight in the British Army, with the
white and blue Star of David as its standard.
1945: In
Jerusalem, Israeli poet and political activist Yonatan Ratosh and his wife gave
birth to award winning mathematician Saharon Shelah who splits his time between
Hebrew University and Rutgers in New Jersey.
http://www.omath.org.il/image/users/112431/ftp/my_files/the_interview.pdf
1946: Theodore
Levin was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a seat on the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by Edward Julien
Moinet.
1946: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis met for the first
time in Atlantic City. They would become
one of the leading comedy teams of their time.
The Italian Crooner played straight man to the Jewish clown.
1946: After
having been “missing” for two days, 8 year old Henryk Blaszcyk returned to his
family at Kielce having gone to his hometown to visit friends which led his
father to file a second report with the local police “claiming his son had been
kidnapped by the Jews” but had managed to escape.” This false report would result in a police
investigation that would provide the excuse for another round of Poles
murdering Jews.
1947:
Birthdate of brilliant attorney, Renaissance man and all-around great guy,
David Robert Levin- a real Mensh. He is also one heck of a great brother!
1948(26th
of Sivan, 5708): Parashat Sh’lach
1948: A double
celebration marking Shabbat and the first birthday of David Levin
1948: Rumors
abound in besieged Jerusalem that a new road was being built that would bring
supplies to the embattled city.
1949:
Birthdate of world traveling computer whiz and pillar of the Cedar Rapids
Jewish community, Bill Hurwitz
1949 David
Ben-Gurion issued a public exoneration of Meir Tubiansky “who was executed as a traitor on
circumstantial evidence on the orders of Isser Be'eri,’ and restitution of his
rank and rights. Four days later his body was re-buried on Mount Herzl. In
November 1949, after a trial at which Binyamin Gibli appeared as a witness for
the prosecution, Isser Be'eri was found guilty of manslaughter.
1950: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at “The Riverside” for Aaron Lesser,
the husband of Ida Lesser Z”L with whom he had three children – Florence, Elsie
and Mildred.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that the first reading of the Women's Equal Rights Bill was passed by
the Knesset. The Knesset had also passed a bill empowering the government to
float loans up to IL5m. from financial institutions to be applied to the
defense budget. 128,223 new immigrants entered the country during the first six
months of 1951. Since the state was established in 1948, 638,597 immigrants
arrived.
1951(29th
of Sivan, 5711): Sixty-one-year-old Russian born and New York Homeopathic
Medical College trained radiologist and roentgenologist Dr. Abraham Ossip who was the husband of Ida Ossip with he
raised a son, Seymour, and two children passed away today at Beth Israel
Hospital.
1952: NBC
broadcast the first episode of “Mr. Peepers” in which Walter Matthau using the
name “Leonard Elliot” portrayed “the gym teacher Mr. Wall.
1953(20th
of Tammuz, 5713): Forty-seven-year-old New York native Irving Reis, the creator
of the radio anthology Columbia Worship who turned his skill to screenwriting
and movie director and the husband of Meta Arenson with whom he had three
children passed away today after which he was “buried in the Jewish Cemetery
Hillside Memorial Park.
1953: Today,
in Portland, Oregon, at the “94th annual convention of the National
Education Association” “the delegation of New York State teachers…opened fire
on the NEA’s sponsorship of travel tours to Arab countries in the Middle East
from which American Jewish teachers are barred. (JTA)
1956: Seventy-nine-year-old
Lithuanian native Kalman Marmor who in 1906 came to the United States where he
pursued a career in journalism with such publications as “the Jewish daily
Morning Freiheit” and the Daily Forward.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/marmor-kalman
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32584
1956: Release
date for “Somebody Up There Likes Me” starring Paul Newman, with a script by
Ernest Lehman and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg.
1957(4th
of Tammuz, 5717): Sixty-five-year-old Benjamin Daniels, the husband of Gertrude
Daniels and father of Doris Kaufman who rose from being a clerk to the
Presidency of the A.S. Beck Shoe Corporation passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/04/96954602.pdf
1957(4th
of Tammuz, 5717): Seventy-year-old Russian born Joseph Breslaw who came to the
United States in 1907 who was simultaneously vice president of the ILGU,
manager of Local 35 of the Cloak and Pressers Union and chairman of the Trade
Union Division of the National Committee
for Labor Israel and was the husband of Rosa Breslaw wit whom he raised three
sons – Alfred, Bernard and Leon --- passed away today at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/04/96954605.html?pageNumber=19
1958(15th
of Tammuz, 5718): Fifty-four-year-old Dr. Samuel T. Yuster, a “Professor of
Engineering at U.C.L.A.” and “an authority on petroleum engineering” who was
the husband of Rose Yuster and the father of Frances and Louis Yuster passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/07/05/82210353.pdf
1958: Slightly
after 4:00am a fire destroyed all the sets and costumes putting an end to the
planned dress-rehearsal the movie version of Gershwin’s “Porgy Bess” directed
by Otto Preminger, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and co-starring Sammy Davis, Jr.
1959:
Birthdate of Julie Burchill, “a defender of Israel, The Jewish Chronicle
described … in 2008 as "Israel's staunchest supporter in the UK
media"; who has two Israeli flags in her home”
http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/julie-burchill-brash-outspoken-and-wishing-she-was-jewish
http://www.timesofisrael.com/playing-hatikvah-on-a-desert-island/
1959:
Birthdate of David Shore the Canadian lawyer turned writer, who is “best known
for his work writing and producing television shows including Family Law, NYPD
Blue, Due South and House.
1962: The
Algerian War for Independence ends with Algeria gaining its independence from
France. The end of the war with the
Algerians marked a shift in French attitudes and policies in the Middle East. Under De Gaulle’s leadership, the French
government sought to develop a power base among the Moslem nations of North
Africa and the Near East. This meant a
growing policy of hostility towards Israel that would ultimately lead the
French government to attempt to block the delivery of patrol boats to Israel later
in the decade. The naval craft had
already been paid for when the French refused to deliver them so Israeli agents
seized them and brought them to Haifa.
1963:Today
funeral services are scheduled to be held for builder Harry Lefrak, who “will
be honored as leader of Judaism” are scheduled to be held today in Queens and
which Counsel General Katriel Katz will attend as a representative of the
government of Israel.
1963(11th
of Tammuz, 5725): Fifty-nine-year-old “Mrs. Rosa Brown Eisendrath” the Bonham,
TX born wife “Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, the president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations who gave up her career as a concert pianist to
help her husband fulfill his calling passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/07/04/86712588.pdf
1963(11th
of Tammuz, 5725): Eighty-two-year-old Isaac Feinstein, the husband of Jennie
Avent Feinstein passed away today after which he was buried at Mount Hebron
Cemetery in Flushing, NY.
1964: In
Scarsdale, NY, this afternoon, Rabbi Joachim Prinz officiated at the marriage
of Herbert Horn to Mrs. Carol Coan Petergorsky, the associate director of the
National Federation of Temple Young and the “widow of David W. Petegorsky,
national executive director of the American Jewish Congress:
1965:
On Long Island, at Temple Israel of Great Neck, Rabbi Harold Kushner and Cantor
Benjamin Siegel officiated as the wedding Susan Hope Rieder and Dr. Cyrus Ira
Kahn.
1966:
Ten rabbis, led by Rabbi Aaron Solveicik, officiated at the marriage of Golda
Reena Shatz and Henry Isaac Rothman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/07/04/121727549.html?pageNumber=8
1967(25th
of Sivan, 5727): Seventy-one year old Hymen Alpern, the long-time New York City
high school principal and “author of books on Spanish literature” whose
education included a BA from CCNY, an MA from Columbia and PH.D from NYU and as
the husband “of the former Belle Kopperman” with whom he had three children –
Stanley, Dorothy and Rosylyn – passed away today.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/785994?c=people
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/07/07/90367291.pdf
1967: After
two days of fighting in and around Ras el 'Ish, neither Egyptians nor Israeli
forces move against the other.
1968:
Birthdate of Alan Schwartz, the White Plains, NY native “Pulitzer
Prize-nominated National Correspondent at The
New York Times best known for writing more than 100 articles[1] that
exposed the seriousness of concussions among football players of all ages.
1969(17th
of Tammuz, 5729): Tzom Tammuz
1969(17th
of Tammuz, 5729): Sixty-three-year-old Slonim native and Warsaw University graduate
Yoysef Abramovitsh who changed his name to Aviram when he made Aliya and “the
author in Yiddish several works concerned with sports: Shpilbukh (Book of
play); Arbeter-sport (Workers’ sports); Di oyfgabn fun der proletarisher
fizisher dertsiung )The tasks of proletarian physical education) passed away
today in Tel Aviv.
1969(17th
of Tammuz, 5729): Fifty-six-year-old Elizabeth H. Friedman passed away today.
1969: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for eighty-four-year-old
Grodno born American “calligrapher, designer and artist Joseph B. Abrahams, the
husband of “the former Mrs. Lillian Manning” whose creations included “the
bronze doors of Temple Emanu-El” in New York
and “the interior décor for the Ziegfeld Follies.”
1970: ITV
broadcast the final episode of “Doctor in the House” in which Jonathan Lynn played
the Irish medical student Danny Hooley.
1971(10th
of Tammuz, 5731): Parashat Chukat
1971 (10th
of Tammuz, 5731): Charles B. Edison, the Clayton, MO born son of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel B. Edison who survived being shot down while serving as a navigator with
the 15th Air Force and an executive in the family Edison Brothers
Stores passed away today.
1971(10th
of Tammuz, 5731): Sixty-four-year-old David “Cy” Kaselman the native of
Philadelphia who played basketball for the “Sphas from 1928 to 1940” passed
away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/04/archives/cy-kaselman.html
http://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2018/01/cy-kaselman.html
1974:
Authorities began releasing Jewish activists held in prisons at Moscow,
Leningrad, Odessa and Kiev during the visit of President Nixon.during Nixon’s
visit begin to be released. Estimates of number of Jews detained in Moscow,
Leningrad, Odessa and Kiev and other cities vary from 50 to 100.
1974(13th
of Tammuz, 5634): Eighty-eight-year-old New York City native and holder of two
degrees from Harvard Monroe Gutman, a long-time partner at Lehman Brothers and generous
supporter of Harvard who was the “principal benefactor of the Monroe C. Gutman Library,
which “is the primary library for and one of four main buildings comprising the
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/05/archives/monroe-gutman-88-lehman-executive.html
1975(24th
of Tammuz, 5735): Seventy-six-year-old “Wolf Ladejinsky, a leading American
agricultural technician who played a key role in agrarian reform in Asia, died
today in George Washington University Hospital in Washington.”
1975(24th
of Tammuz, 5735): Eighty-year-old South Carolina born, suffragette and aunt by
marriage of folk singer Pete Seeger, Anta Pollitzer passed away today in New
York City.
http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/content/anita-pollitzer-family-papers
http://americancivilwar.com/women/Womens_Suffrage/Anita_Pollistzer.html
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pollitzer-anita
1976: “At 2:30” this “afternoon, Prime
Minister Rabin told the security for the first time since hostage situation
developed on June 27 that he was in favor of the military option” saying that “Not
out of an idealization, far from that, but with knowledge toward what we are
heading, toward wounded, toward dead… nonetheless, I recommend that the
government to authorize this,” (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
1976: By the end of Day 7 the
rescue mission portion of Operation Thunderbolt had been completed as Hercules
Four flown Amnon Halivni took off from Entebbe and headed for Kenya carrying
all of the hostages with the exception of Dora Bloch who was in a Ugandan hospital.
1976: At 8 pm
EDT in Washington, DC, an aide to President Gerald Ford responded to a
telephone call from Amos Erian telling of the rescue by saying “Tell Mr. Rabin
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the Bicentennial” – a reference to
the celebrations marking the two hundredth anniversary of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence.
1978(28th of
Sivan, 5738): Seventy-seven-year-old Hungarian born economist and philosopher László
Radványi whose academic odyssey including from Nazi Germany to stops in Paris
and Mexico before a return to West Germany passed away today.
1979: Edward
Graham Lee completed his service as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
1979:
Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government
voted to continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of
limitations on murder.
1980: One
person was injured in Gaza from a terrorist bombing.
1980(19th of
Tammuz, 5740): Anatoli
(Tankhum) Lvovich Kaplan “a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose
works often reflect his Jewish origins” passed away. One of his most noted
works was “The Musicians” painted in 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaplanmusicians.jpg
1982: Uri Avnery, the Israeli
writer and Knesset member who has traveled from the Irgun to the leftist peace
movement met Yasser Arafat today during the
"Battle of Beirut" — said to have been the first time an Israeli met
personally with Arafat.
1983: In Los
Angeles, Catherine (Noriega) and Michael D. Silber who is Jewish gave birth to
multi-talented actress and author Alexandra Silber who appeared as “Tzeitel”
and “Hodel” in different productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” while also
writing the debut novel After Anatevka (chronicling what happens to the
characters of Hodel and Perchik made famous by the Sholem Aleichem stories and
in the musical Fiddler on the Roof.”
1985: “Back to the Future:
directed by Robert Zemeckis was released today, “and became the most successful
film of the year, grossing more than $383 million worldwide and receiving critical
acclaim.”
1987: ''Furniture Making in
East London: 1830 to 1980,'' an exhibition that is part of this summer's Jewish
East End Celebration opened at Geffrye Museum,
1989: Opening
of the Thirteenth Maccabiah.
1991(21st
of Tammuz, 5751): Seventy-seven-year old Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen the
633rd Lord Mayor of London who was
the son of Ali Beddington and Sir Robert Waley Cohen, the husband of
Joyce Constance Ina and son-in-law of Harry Louis Nathan passed away today.
1991: “Problem
Child 2” a sequel comedy co-starring Laraine Newman and featuring Gilbert
Gottfried was released in the United States today.
1991(21st of
Tammuz, 5751): Seventy-nine Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, the native of Bialystok
who made Aliyah in 1937 and was a Professor of Talmud at Hebrew University
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/obituaries/ephraim-e-urbach-hebrew-scholar-79.html
1992(2nd
of Tammuz, 5752): Just four days before his 85th birthday, Mark
Feder, the Minsk born son of Hirsch and Toby Fedeer and the husband of Ethel
Grumer with whom he had a daughter named Tova
who “was a leading figure in Cleveland theatrical circles and was the
founder of the Jewish Community Theatre of the (JCC), serving as its drama
director from 1948 until retirement in 1972 passed away today in San Diego, CA.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/f/feder-mark
1992: The
curtain came down on a revival performance of It's a Bird... It's a Plane...
It's Superman, a musical composed by
Charles Strouse” at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut.
1993(14th
of Tammuz, 5753): Parashat Balak
1993(14th
of Tammuz, 5753): Ninety-one-year-old Holocaust survivor Joseph Gruss who used
the fortune he amassed from the oil and gas industry to support various
philanthropies including the Be’er Hagolah Institute passed away this evening
in Manhattan. (As reported by Eric Pace)
1995(5th
of Tammuz, 5755): Ninety-two-year-old Berlin born American interior designer Margot
(Holzman) Wittkower who was forced to flee Nazi Germany because her husband art
historian Rudolf Wittkower was Jewish passed away today in Manhattan.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130619210635/http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/wittkowerm.htm
1996(16th
of Tammuz, 5756): Seventy-nine-year-old U.S Army and NYU educated
financier Bernard Gerald Cantor, the Bronx born son of Belarus
immigrants Rose Delson and Julius Cantor who was the founder of the securities
firm Cantor Fitzgerald and co-owner of the Kansas City Kings passed away today.
1997: Poet Adrienne
Rich made headlines today by refusing to accept the National Medal for the
Arts. “Ms Rich informed Jane Alexander, chair of the National Endowment for the
Arts, that she would not accept the National Medal for the Arts. To accept the
award, she felt, would be hypocritical in view of the country's widening
socio-economic gap. In her typical hard-hitting style, Rich wrote that,
"art—in my own case the art of poetry—means nothing if it simply decorates
the dinner table of power which holds it hostage." Both the national
recognition and Rich's principled refusal were emblematic of the place this
poet has come to occupy in American culture.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/03/1997/adrienne-rich
1998(9th
of Tammuz, 5758): Eighty-five-year-old life-long Maryland Democratic Paty leader
and ten-term Comptroller for the State of Maryland, Louis L. Goldstein, the son
of Goodman Goldstein, “a Jewish immigrant from Prussia” and the husband of
fellow attorney Hazel Horton with whom he had three children suffered an
apparent fatal heart attack today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/links/goldstein.htm
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/former/html/msa01579.html
1998(9th
of Tammuz, 5758: Eighty-six-year-old architect Albert Carl Koch whose firm help
design the building for Temple Israel in Sawmpsoctt, MA and WW II Navy veteran
who was one of the Monuments Men, passed away today.
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/koch-lt.-albert-c.-usnr
1999: Janet Rosenberg Jagan
was released from the hospital in Georgetown after being treated for a heart
condition.
2000: C.K.
Williams wrote today in the New Republic that “If there really is such a thing
as wisdom, it might well reside in the character a master such as Yehuda
Amichai can fashion for himself and so for us.”
2001: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C. for
Brooklyn born attorney and WW II Army veteran Julius Dankin, the President of
Rutha Rales Jewish Family Service of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach
County who was the husband of Jeanne Sankin Z”L with whom he had three children
– Marilyn, Andrew and Steven Z”L – after which “he will be buried at King David
Cemetery in Falls Church, VA.
2001(12th of
Tammuz, 5761): Mordecai Richler passed away. Born in 1931, Richler was a
prolific prize winning author. One of his most famous books was the “Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz,” which was later made into a movie starring Richard Dreyfus.
2001: The body
of Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Susiya in the Hebron hills, missing since yesterday
was found early Tuesday morning shot in the head and chest
2002: Vandals
attacked a synagogue and a memorial to Holocaust victims in the western spa
town of Karlovy Vary, daubing red paint on the synagogue and the memorial, and
leaving posters and leaflets calling for
a pogrom against Jews and labeling them the founders of capitalism. (As
reported by Peter S. Green)
2003: In a
brief hearing today Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in
Manhattan refused a request that she immediately order the city prison to
provide vegan diets to the three Jewish inmates at Rikers Island who have filed
a federal lawsuit saying their constitutional rights were violated by prison
officials' refusal to provide them a vegan diet, which the inmates say is
required by their religious beliefs.”
2004: In
“Meanwhile: Theodor Herzl’s Dream 100 Years After His Death,” Geoffrey
Wheatcroft, concluded that “anyone can
see by visiting Israel, Montefiore and others who disparaged Zionism were wrong
in saying that the Jews could not become a nation. That part of Herzl's dream
has come true.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/03/opinion/03iht-edwheat_ed3_.html
2004: Ninety-six-year-old
“actress and acting teacher” Phoebe Brand Carnovsky who worked with the
legendary Clifford Odets Passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/theater/phoebe-brand-96-actress-and-group-theater-co-founder.html
2005: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback
editions of The Missing Peace: The Inside Store of the Fight for Middle East
Peace by Dennis Ross and Codex by Lev Grossman
2006: In
“Entebbe’s Unsung Hero,” Eyal Ben described the fate of 19-year-old Jean
Jacques Maimoni, one of the hostages who did not survive.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3270314,00.html
2006: In the
following review of “Up, Up and Oy Vey!” by Simcha Weinstein, Louis Parks
describes “the obvious parallels” between the origins of Superman and Biblical
depiction of Moses.
A loving
parent tries to save the life of a child by placing him in a basket—or space
capsule—and sending him floating/blasting to safety. Found and adopted into a
new family in his new world, Moses/Superman is still guided by the wisdom and
counsel of his parent. He lives a double life with a secret identity. Moses
eventually leads people from abuse to freedom. Superman rescues people from
disasters and crime. Superman's creators, Jewish immigrant sons Jerry Siegel
and Joel Shuster, invented the superhero in 1938 Cleveland, Ohio. They never
declared Superman was Jewish and their ambiguity was probably intentional.
Though they didn't give their hero a specific ethnicity or religion, there are
hints at his Jewishness. In some of his earliest stories, Superman sometimes
foiled the plans of thinly disguised German Nazis, whose persecution of Jews
already was infamous. Americans may not have noticed, but apparently the Nazis
snapped to the implications, quickly blasting the new comic. Weinstein writes
that in 1940, Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels denounced Superman as
Jewish. Weinstein also "recounts the Jewish influence on superheroes such
as Batman, Captain America, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and X-Men,
most of whom were created by Jewish artists."
2007: Friendship:
An Expose by Joseph Epstein goes on sale to the general public today.
2007: Much to the delight of all
who know him, David Levin, a mensch in the truest sense of that word,
celebrates his sixtieth birthday.
2007: In Jerusalem, The Israeli Ballet, featuring Yevegenia Oberzatsuba
and Vladimir Shaklerov, will perform the famous, romantic ballet,
"Giselle," in the Sherover Theater at the Jerusalem Theater.
2007: As of today, Ryan Kalish led with New-York Penn League with 12
stolen bases.
2008: Rosh Chodesh Tammuz (First Day)
2008: Birthday celebration of David Levin, a grand gabbai and, like his
Biblical namesake, a sweet singer of song.
2008: Yehudit Ravitz performed her first Caesarea Amphitheatre show in
a decade to a sold-out crowd
2008: A foundation created by Steven Spielberg is giving $1 million to
the National Museum of American Jewish History. The money from the Righteous Persons
Foundation will go toward a new, five-story museum building being built in
Philadelphia.
2008: Today, Saudi Arabia invited an Israeli rabbi to attend an interfaith
conference to be held in Madrid. Rabbi David Rosen, president of the
International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, is the only
rabbi who lives in Israel who was invited by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and
the World Muslim League to the conference that is slated for July 16 to 18.
Other rabbis representing Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism have also
been invited. Rosen said that the conference was the Saudis' first initiative
to reach out to other religions in this way.
2008: During the ceasefire with Hamas a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza
struck near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. No casualties or
damage was reported.
2009: Bill
Hurwitz, world traveling computer whiz pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish
community, and a Zeda twice over celebrates the BIG Six-O.
2009: Israeli
celebrity Dudu Topaz attempted to commit suicide at the Abu Kabir Detention
Center in Tel Aviv.
2009: The
family and friends celebrate the anniversary of the natal day of David Levin
whose accomplishments are so numerous that we would have to start a separate
blog just to cover them.
יום הולדת שמח
2010: The
United States Holocaust Museum is scheduled to present a special program
entitled France Pruitt "Faith, Courage, and Survival in a Time of
Trouble"
2010: The joy
of Shabbat is doubled as it coincides with the celebration of the birthday of
David Levin, a hamesha mensch par excellence and a great brother.
2010: In Cedar
Rapids, the traditional Shabbat minyan at Temple Judah celebrated the holiday
weekend with a “Red, White and Blue” themed kiddish.
2010: Palestinian Authority
chief negotiator Saeb Erekat categorically denied today a report that the PA
told George Mitchell it would allow or accept Israeli sovereignty over the
Western Wall in a new Arab state. The London-based Al-Hayat Arabic language
daily had reported today that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave U.S. Middle East
envoy George Mitchell a signed letter that the PA would surrender its demand
that the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem be part of his proposed PA
state.
2011: The
family and friends of David Levin are glad to be able to share in celebrating
the natal day of this hamesha mensch.
2011: The
wedding ceremony joining Abbie Silber and Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to
take place in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A
sweet singer of song joins a budding sage!
2011: The
Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “To End All Wars” by Adam Hochschild.
2011:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “Manstein: Hitler’s Greatest
General” by Mungo Melvin and the recently released paperback editions of “Necessary Secrets: National Security, the
Media, and the Rule of Law” by Gabriel Schoenfeld and “Spies of the Balkans
Alan Furst’s that centers around “Costa Zannis, a police official and fixer who
has taken to helping Jewish refugees from Berlin complete the difficult route
to safety.”
2011(1st
of Tammuz, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2011:
Terrorists in
Hamas-controlled Gaza resumed rocket fire on the western Negev this morning.
2011:
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Jerusalem today in support of Rabbi Yaakov
Yosef, who was arrested that morning for questioning over incitement to racism
and violence, and released in less than one hour.
2011(1st
of Tammuz, 5771: Seventy-six-year-old Fred Newman whose “influential role in
New York life and politics defied easy description” passed away. (As reported
by Douglas Martin)
2012: The European Union of Jewish Students is
scheduled to sponsor “Sharing Our Common Past: Christian and Jewish students”
where young Jews and Catholics come together in Krakow to look for answers to
the following questions: What divides us? What do we have in common? How can we
work together? What are our roles and niches in contemporary Europe?
2012:
After having premiered four days ago in Tokyo, “The Amazing Spider-Man” based
on the Stan Lee created character and co-produced by Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin
was released today in the United States.
2012: American
hard rockers Guns 'N Roses who are heading back to Israel for the first time
since 1993 are scheduled to perform at Hayarkon Park along with support acts
Ugly Joe Kid and local favorites Hayehudim
2012:
In the midst of a record-breaking heat wave, friends and family of David Levin
prepare to celebrate the birthday of one “cool dude.”
2012:
Kadima party chairman Shaul Mofaz, angered by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s dissolution of a Kadima-led panel tasked with drafting new universal
draft legislation yesterday, refused to meet with Netanyahu on today to try to
solve a crisis that threatens the stability of the national unity government.
2012:
Today the state prosecutor filed an indictment against an ultra-Orthodox man
for defacing the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and two IDF war memorials. At Yad
Vashem, the graffiti he allegedly sprayed included: “If Hitler hadn’t existed,
the Zionists would have invented him.”
Elhanan
Ostrowitz, a 31-year-old Jerusalem resident, was charged at the Jerusalem
Magistrate’s Court for spraying anti-Zionist hate slogans at the sites and,
apparently, has shown no remorse for his actions.
2013:
“Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait” which “was co-curated with Winehouse's
brother Alex and sister-in-law Riva” is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum
London.
2013:
Friends and family are thrilled to be able to celebrate another birthday of
David Levin whose many stellar qualities have outstripped my list of
superaltives
2013:
In Tel Aviv, the U.S. Embassy is scheduled to host the July 4th
Celebration which will include remarks by the U.S. Ambassador, the Israeli
President and the Israeli Prime Minister.
2013(25th
of Tammuz, 5773): At Camp Tawonga, a Jewish summer camp in Northern California
Annais Rosenberg, a counselor, was killed today when a tree fell through the
dinning hall. Twenty campers were also injured (As reported by JTA and the
Jewish Press)
2013:
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, a candidate for Sephardi chief rabbi, was due to be
summoned today by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein for a hearing, following a
request by MK Eitan Cabel (Labor) earlier this week that the rabbi be
disqualified from running due to “racist” comments he’d made about Arab
citizens of Israel. (As reported by The Times of Israel)
2013:
The Administrator General announced today that a group led by businessman Ori
Allon has purchased a 60 percent stake of Hapoel Jerusalem previously owned by
Guma Aguiar. (As reported by Allon Sinai)
2014:
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology is scheduled to host Dr Becky Taylor, Dr Matt Cook and Dr Jessica
Reinisch speaking on “Histories of Prejudice: Persecuting Others.”
2014:
As “Arthur” threatens to “rain on the holiday weekend,” nothing can dampen the
enthusiasm of those celebrating the birthday of David Levin whose wit and
wisdom would lighten even the darkest storm.
2014:
“While some in the right are calling for revenge for the kidnapping and murder
of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel, hundreds of protesters
gathered at HaBima Square in Tel Aviv this evening urging "No to
Escalation, No to Revenge." (As reported by Itay Blumenthal)
2014:
“Around 100 residents of the rocket-battered Sderot located just west of Gaza
protested on today at the entrance to the city, in response to the rapidly
deteriorating security situation and after two direct hits on buildings were
recorded since last night.” (As reported by Yoni Kempinski and Ari Yashar)
2014:
“Over 15 rockets, part of the roughly 40 that have been fired from Gaza in the
last two days, were fired at southern Israel in a salvo this afternoon that,
causing two fires to break out.” (As reported by Ari Yashar)
2014:
“In one of the first responses from Israel’s Jewish religious leadership to the
violent aftermath of the deaths of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal
Yifrach, former Sephardi chief rabbi Shlomo Amar on Thursday issued a fervent
plea to Jewish youths to trust in God and the country’s political leadership
and avoid taking the law into their own hands.” (As reported by Yifa Yaakov)
2014(5th
of Tammuz, 5774): Eighty-nine-year-old Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi passed
away today.
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_26084358/zalman-schachter-shalomi-dies-jewish-renewal
2014: “Palestinian
terrorists fired eight rockets and mortar shells into Israel tonight, bringing
to over 20 the number of projectiles launched from the Gaza Strip throughout
the day. The rockets fell in open areas and did not cause damage or injuries. :
2014: In
response to attacks from Gaza, the IAF hit three Hamas targets which have yet
to be further identified by the government.
2014: “A tense
calm descended upon the capital this evening after a day of heavy rioting and
emotionally charged demonstrations, as an Arab teenager allegedly murdered by
Jews was laid to rest in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.” (As
reported by Advi Sterman)
2015:
In Washington, DC, the historic 6th & I Synagogue is scheduled
to host the “6th Street Minyan, laid-back Friday night service led
by David Goldstein and Jenn Queen.”
2015:
“A group of Islamic State supporters in Gaza claimed responsibility” for
launching the “two rockets that exploded in Israeli near the Gaza Strip this
afternoon.” (As reported by Itamar Sharon)
2015:
The first ever Tel Aviv Blues Festival is scheduled to open today.
2015(16th
of Tammuz, 5775): Seventy-year-old Kathe Goldstein, an award-winning Spanish
Teacher and pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community passed away today.
http://www.thegazette.com/obituaries/kathe-goldstein-20150707-0001072351-01
2015:
Friends and family of David Levin begin the Holiday Weekend by celebrating the
most important holiday of all – David’s natal day.
2016(27th
of Sivan, 577 6): Ninety-four year old
Rabbi Max Ticktin, the former associate director of Hillel and Professor at
George Washington University passed away today.
2016:
In Washington, DC, “District Merchants” playwright/director Aaron Posner’s
version of The Merchant of the Venice is scheduled to be performed for the last
time.
2016:
As threatening weather closes in on Washington, DC, there is one ray of
sunshine – the celebration of the birthday of David Levin
2016:
“Soldiers in the IDF Home Front Command’s search and rescue units clear debris
during a large-scale exercise in Zikim near the Gaza border” today
2016:
The New York Times reviews books
written by Jews and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Extra by A. B. Yehoshua, The Sun in Your Eyes by Deborah Shapiro and
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow
2017:
Friends and family of David Levin celebrate his reaching the Biblically
mentioned tally of three score plus ten and wish many, many more years of life,
happiness and health for this hamisheh mensch, tzadek and chacham who is always
the world’s best brother.
2017:
In Brooklyn, Congregation Shevas Achim is scheduled to host “Celebratin Jewish
Women!” with Marcy Katz, CEO and Business Coach.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Alone in Berlin.”
2018(20th
of Tammuz, 5778): Ninety-six-year-old D-Day veteran Max Fuchs, who in 1944 led
“fifty fellow Jewish Soldiers in reciting the Jewish Sabbath service which was
“the first Jewish service to be broadcast from German soil since the rise of
Hitler” passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2018:
Having reached that moment when there are no superlatives to describe him, all
we can say is Best Birthday Wishes to David Levin – who truly is the world’s
best brother.
2018:
155th anniversary of the day at Gettysburg, when, against all
reason, a determined group of Union soldiers including Sergeant Elias Leon
Hyman of Company C of the Fifth Calvary who volunteered to serve as one of the
skirmishers and who would eventually die in the hell-hold of Andersonville
Prison, threw back an army whose leaders were committed to ending what Lincoln
called “the last best hope of man” which has provided a welcoming home to an
untold number of Jews.
2018:
In Durham, NC, the American Dance Festival is scheduled to present “L-E-V”
which “is the culmination of years of momentum, choreographed by Sharon Eyal
and Gai Behar, accompanied by the original music of Ori Lichtik”
2018:
With the passage of the “new IDF draft legislation” by a vote of 63 to 39,
supporters begin preparing to clear the next hurdle, approval of the second
reading during this session of the Knesset.
2018(20st
of Tammuz, 5778): Seventy-nine-year-old “convicted drugdealer Herbert Sperling
passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2019:
In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host a concert by “Bay Area
musician and guitar teacher” Kurt Huget this afternoon.
2019:
Friends and family prepare to celebrate the birthday of Washingtonian David
Robert Levin, who is proof that you do not need the fanfare of tanks and planes
to celebrate the natal day of real mensch.
2019:
In Alberta, Canada, the first session of Camp BB Riback which for almost 60
years has given Canadian a chance to connect with their Jewish roots and nature
at the same time is scheduled to begin today.
2019:
“The Great Jewish Bake Day,” an event that helps to “to fund the Jewish Care
buses” is scheduled to take place today in the UK.
https://www.jewishcare.org/about-us/campaigns/the-great-jewish-bake-day
2020:
Andrew Polk is scheduled to narrate “the Cape Cod Theatre Project’s
live-streamed debut of “Moses” by veteran playwright Michele Lowe.”
2020:
Shabbat Stream is scheduled to co-sponsor online “SoulVey! Shabbat Experinee, a
“celebration of the relationship between Black and Jewish communities featuring
music, comedy and civil rights, with rapper Kosha Dillz,”
2020:
Friends and family of David Levin, the embodiment of the terms mensch and
Renaissance man’ are awaiting to see how he his birthday celebration will
overcome the current pandemic
2020:
The Eden Tamar Music Center is scheduled to host “Excellence” – Pianists,
Pedagouges and Young Artists in Concert” with the winners of the 2019 Kan Voice
of Music Young Artists Competition, Tom Zalmanov and Nabil Haik.
2021(23rd
of Tammuz, 5781): Parashat Pinchas;
2021:
As a sign of improved times, in Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to
hold Shabbat morning services, live, with signup required in advance.
2021:
The Eden Tamir Center in Jerusalem is scheduled to host a chamber music concert
with Orit Orbach – Clarinet; Zvi Carmeli – Viola; Ariel Halevy – Piano.
2021:
Double Simcha – The celebration of the natal day of David Levin and Shabbat.
2022:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “All-of-a-Kind Family
Walking Tour” in participants “follow in the footsteps of the beloved sisters
depicted in Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family” and “stroll through
the story and into the streets to learn about the real-life people and Lower
East Side places that inspired this children's classic.”
2022:
In Jerusalem Dynasty is scheduled to host an auction of “Eretz Israel,
Holocaust, Judaica, Maps and travel books.”
2022:
A chance to celebrate two great moments in history – the Union victory at
Gettysburg which turned the tide in the battle against those who sought to
destroy the United States and the birthday of David Levin, a renaissance man in
the truest sense of that term and an all around great guy whom I am lucky
enough to have for a brother.
2022:
The Pardes Learning Seminar which brings together community leaders,
professionals and lifelong learners, who wish to study classical Jewish sources
either online or within the landscape of Israel and this year will focus on the
topics of Shabbat and Shmittah is scheduled to open today in Jerusalem.
2022:
The “bar mitzvah of Austin Morris” is scheduled to take place this morning at
the Egalitarian Kotel
2022:
As part of Hebrew Book Month, the National Library of Israel is scheduled to
host a conversation with former army intelligence officer and Hebrew University-trained
attorney Yishai Sarid, the Tel Aviv born son of Israeli politician Yossi Sarid
Z”L.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/visit/events/yishai-sarid
2023:
As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, friends and family of David
Levin, for whom we have run out of superlatives to describe and who is the best
brother, celebrate his natal day.
2023:
In Israel, protestors are scheduled to stage a blockade of Ben Gurion airport
today.
2023:
Quinn Levin is scheduled to become a licensed driver today in Bexley, OH.
2023:
Graveside services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at Shalom Memorial
Park in Arlington Heights, IL for Jerry Naylor, longtime member of Temple Judah
in Cedar Rapids where he served as President and showed the utmost kindness to
so many for so many years as can be seen by his having received a Governor’s
Volunteer Award in 2013.
https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/news/naylor-receives-award-for-child-advocacy/
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Making
Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Deuteronomy 5, How
Many Sets of Ten Commandments?”
2024:
A tour of Hansen House that is a key factor in Shira by S.Y. Agnon is scheduled
to begin this evening at Beit Hansen.
2024:
Friends and family of David Levin, the sweet singer of song and chef par
excellence prepare to celebrate his natal day.
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “The Jewish
Situation in Eastern Europe in the Interwar Period and Zionism, Part 2.”
2024:
As July 3rd begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has
included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway
to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages
begin day 271 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.)
