This Day, July 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 11
1174: Amalric I who had been King of Jerusalem since 1162 passed
away. During his reign most of the Jews
were expelled from Jerusalem; a ban that would last until 1175.
1244:
“Khorezmian Turkish horsemen launch an
attack on Jerusalem, sacking the city and killing most of the Christians and
driving out the Jews. The Khorezmian Turks then move on to Egypt. Khwarezmia is
at this time a state located around the Aral Salt Flats near the Caspian Sea.
It has allied itself with the Ayyub sultan of Egypt against the Muslims in
Damascus.”
1346: Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman
Empire which included the Bohemian city of Prague. According to the descendant
of Moses ben Israel Naphtaly Hirsch Porges, “The long reign of Emperor Charles
IV brought the Prague Jews new privileges and relative calm even though the
Luxembourg rulers - the reigning local dynasty - treated Jewish property as
though it were their own. They put it in pawn, sold it, or used it as backing
for guarantees. But the king ensured protection and, among others, offered a
chance for them to settle inside the walls of the arising New Town. A sign of
the status of the Jewish community is a banner that has survived, given to the
Jews of Prague by Charles IV in 1375.From that year on the Jews would, over the
centuries, come to the gates of the ghetto to welcome the kings of Bohemia in
Prague.”
1533: Clement
VII excommunicated Henry VIII for divorcing Catherine of Aragon, and afterward
marrying Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII had relied on the Book of Leviticus when he
sought to marry Catherine, the widow of his brother. Nobody was going to hit him with a
sandal. When it came time to shed Mary,
Henry sought support from Rabbis, hoping that their interpretation of Biblical
law would somehow sway the Pope. The
Rabbis, who were living in Italy, stayed out of the conflict. They had no
reason to trust Henry, who had promised to keep the Jews out of England, when
he got married.
1578: In
Emden, Moses Uri (Philip Joosten) Halevie, the “founder and first ḥakam (Rabbi)
of the Spanish-Portuguese congregation in Amsterdam in 1596/97” and Bele Halevi
gave birth to Aaron Halevie
1657: Birthdate of King Frederick I of Prussia
whose greatest claim to fame is the fact that he was the father of King
Frederick II also known as Frederick the Great.
Father and son quarreled about many things but they did agree on at
least one thing. They both abhorred
their Jewish subjects, viewing them as aliens in their Germanic kingdom.
1715: During
the War of the Spanish Succession which came to an end today, Samson
Wertheimer, “the chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia” who was “also an Austrian
financier, court Jew and Shtadlan to Austrian Emperor Leopold I” and Samuel
Oppenheimer procured “the money necessary” to equip and supply the victorious
Austrian imperial army
1720(5th
of Tammuz, 5480): Ahron Lwow passed away in Vienna.
1733: A month
after the founding of the colony of Georgia by James Oglethorpe, Jewish
settlers arrived in Savannah. The group of forty Sephardic Jews was joined
within a year by a group of Ashkenazi Jews. The Sephardic Jews had brought a
Torah and other religious items with them and quickly founded a congregation
called Mikveh Israel (Hope of Israel). One of the reasons given for the lack of
European-styled anti-Semitism in America was that the Jews arrived in the New
World at the same time everybody else did.
1734: In
Savanah, GA, Abigail and Abraham Minis gave birth to Philip (Uri) Minis, the Jewish
infant and the first male white child
born in Georgia who was a the husband of Judith Polock with whom he had five
children, a supporter of the American
Revolution and a President of Mikveh Israel Congregation.
1740: Czarina
Anne ordered the Jews expelled from Little Russia. Little Russia is another
term for an area that includes the Ukraine.
1752:
Birthdate of Easthampton, Long Island naïve Aaron Isaacs who “was reared as a
Christian” and was married to Esther Mulford who is not be confused with an
older woman of the same named who was the daughter of Captain Matthew Mulford.
1767: Birthdate John Quincy Adams,
Sixth President of the United States. Like his father, John Quincy had a positive
attitude towards the Jewish people. In a
letter to Major Mordecai Manuel Noah, he wrote, “[I believe in the] rebuilding
of Judea as an independent nation.” Of
course, this could have been one the earliest attempt to secure Jewish
political support by espousing the cause of the Jewish homeland. More than
likely, it was an expression of popular Protestant belief of the time that Jews
returning to the Promised Land was a necessary precursor for the ultimate
Second Coming. While many Jews know Noah
as the founder of the utopian Jewish community of Ararat, he was a major
diplomatic and political figure who was the leader of the Tammany Hall
political machine during the 1820’s.
1775(13th
of Tammuz, 5535): Abraham Seligman, the patriarch of the family that included
American financiers Joseph and Jacob Seligman passed away today.
1797(17th
of Tammuz, 5557): Tzom Tammuz
1797: Charles
Macklin, the famous Anglo-Irish actor whose greatest claim to fame was his
portrayal of Shylock in a completely new manner, passed away.
1797: The
gates of the Jewish ghetto in Venice were torn down. This was a direct result
of the victories of the French armies led by Napoleon.
1782:
Following the British departure from Savannah today, Mordecai Sheftall, the
Georgia merchant and highest ranking Jew to serve in the Colonial Army and whom
the British threatened with the forced feeding of Pork and his family returned
to the city in much reduced circumstances.
1798(27th of
Tammuz, 5558): Breina Jaffe the daughter of Mordechai Jaffe passed away today.
1804: Vice President Aaron Burr and Secretary of
the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton fought a duel.
Hamilton fell mortally wounded. Hamilton had been born on the British
controlled island of Nevis in the West Indies in 1755. His mother was Jewish. His father was a prominent citizen. Hamilton’s mother was married, but not to
Hamilton’s father. Hamilton attended a Jewish school which was housed in a
synagogue in the island’s capital city.
After finishing his school he made his way to North America where he
would eventually become a favorite of George Washington and was one of the
authors of the famous Federalist Papers.
Hamilton never identified himself as a Jew and lived the life of a
prominent Protestant political and financial leader.
1810: Today,
Sarah Isaacs, the daughter of Abraham Isaacs, Jr. married Abraham L. Phillips
less than a year before she died in New York City.
1814: In
“Bunhill Row, London,” Solomon Jones and Sara Rebecca Daniels gave birth today
to Daniel Jones.
1817: Eight-year-old
Ralph Disraeli, the son of Maria and Isaac Disraeli, and the brother of
Benjamin Disraeli was christened today at St. Andrew’s in a ceremony that would
change the history of the United Kingdom.
1821: Issachar
Ber ben Eliezer Jacob married Yetta bat Aaron at the Western Synagogue today.
1821: James
Samuel married Elizabeth Davis at the Great Synagogue today.
1824: In
Frankfurt, Germany, James de Rothschild married his niece Betty Salomon von
Rothschild the daughter of his brother, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild
1826(6th
of Tammuz,5686): Fifty-seven-year-old composed Karl Bernhard Wessely, the son
of scholar Naphtali Hirz Wessley whose works included “a cantata mourning the
death of Moses Mendelssohn” passed away today in Potsdam.
1827: Rabbi
S.C. Peixotto officiated at the wedding of Nathan A. Cohen and Clara Harris,
the third daughter of Jacob Harris, Jr. of Charleston, SC.
1827: Lewis
Lyon married Mary Phillips at the Western Synagogue today.
1827: Solomon
Worms married Henrietta Samuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1827: In
“Lancaster Court, Strand, Westminster, London,” Victor Abraham and Rebecca Levy
gave birth today to Samuel Victor Abraham.
1831:
Birthdate of Mark Blumenthal, the Bavarian born American graduate of College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University who “was president of and
physician to the Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes,
founded and supported by Jews for the benefit of Jewish and other children”
from 1862 to 1894.
1832: Reuben
Salomons married Sarah Hurwitz today.
1835: In
Charleston, SC, Isabella Cowen and Isaac Tobias who were married in 1824 gave
birth to Marion J. Tobias who would die a year later.
1838: Hannah
Abrahams, the daughter of Abraham Isaac Abrahams who was born in 1774 passed
away tododay.
1841:
Birthdate of Amsterdam native Levy Duis, the husband of Phoebe Neuburger.
1849: Today, The
Constituent Assembly enacted the Constitution of the Free State of Hamburg confirming the equal rights to all citizens
which was the start for widespread integration and “unlike some other states in
the German Confederation the city-state did not revoke the Jewish emancipation
in the following years in the restorative Concert of Europe.”
1854(15th
of Tammuz, 5614): Fifty-six-year-old Moses Mendes Seixas Phillips, the
Philadelphia born “son of Naphtali Phillips and Rachel Mendez Phillips, the husband
of Rebecca Phillips and father of Rachel Phillips; Naphtali Jacob Phillips;
Corinna Moses Jacobs; Esther Ells and Rebecca Phillips” passed away today in
Albany, NY.
1857: In
“Clapham, Surrey, England,” Maurice Moses Beddington, the son of Esther and
Henry Moses, and his was wife “Hannah Maria Beddington: gave birth to Ada
Rachel Beddington who became Ada Rachael Micholls when she married Edward
Montefiore Michools.
1859:
Birthdate of John Grenfell Maxwell, who as a Lt. Col in his majesty’s army
served as commander of the Zion Mule Corps which is considered to be the first
“Jewish fighting force” since the end of the Bar Kochba Revolt.
1860: “A
meeting of residents in the new suburb of Bayswater was held, and an agreement
reached as to the desirability of establishing a new congregation in the
neighborhood.”
1861: Jules
Mires, the Franco-Jewish banker, was condemned to five years in prison and
order to pay a fine of 3,000 francs by the Correctional Tribunal of Paris.
1861 In London
Assur Henry Moses and Henrietta Moses gave birth to Marianna Floretta Raphael
the wife of Arthur Lewis Raphael.
1865(17th of
Tammuz, 5625):Tzom Tammuz
1865(17th of
Tammuz, 5625): Author and historian Elias Chaim Lindo, the native of St. Thomas
who settled in London in 1832 where he published several works including
History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal passed away today.
1866: Upon
recurrence of blood libel accusations, Sultan Aziz issued a firman taking the
Jews under his protection. Thanks to this firman the Greek Orthodox
patriarchate had to issue encyclicals to all churches, forbidding such
practices.
1869:
Birthdate of Elyakum Heinrich or in German Heinrich Loewe, the German
intellectual who attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel and as an
orientalist was appointed to a professorship at the University of Berlin in
1915.
1870:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Mitchell May, the graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic
and Columbia University Law school whose political career including serving one
term as a member of the U.S. House Representatives and 18 years as justice of
the New York State Supreme Court.
1877(1st of
Av, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Av
1877: Reports
published today described conditions in Eastern Europe as the Russian Army
continues its advance against the forces of Romania including the execution of
two spies by the Russians. According to
the reporter, one stood tall and faced his executioners with a sneer before
being shot. The other, a Jew, groveled
in front of his captors invoking his forefathers and expressing a willingness
to convert if they would spare his life.
He was shot where he lay. The
reporter also included a description of Galician Jews whom he said were “so
disgusting that even their co-religionists in Europe and America would refuse
them all sympathy if they could see them.”
1877: In
Philadelphia, PA, Simon Benjamin Fleisher and Cecilia Hofheimer Fleisher gave
birth to Dr. Edwin Adler Fleischer, “one of the most influential and important
musical philanthropists of the 20th century” who established the
Symphony Club in 1909.
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/collections/detail/14
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/assets/pdf/fleisher/Canadian-Composers.pdf
1877: The
Fourth Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations met for a second
day in Philadelphia, PA.
1878: Chester
A. Arthur, who as President would champion the rights of American Jews visiting
Russia and who appointed Adolphus Simon to serve as one of the first two
American delegates to the International Congress of the Red Cross completed his
service today as Collector of the Port Of New York.
1879: In
Cleveland, Ohio, Emanuel and Sarah Ullman gave birth to Solomon Emanuel Ullman
the “husband of Belle May Lowenstein
1879:
Delegates to the Sixth Council of the Union of American and Hebrew
Congregations visited various public institutions controlled by the
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections followed by visits to various
institutions supported by Jewish charities.
1879; In
Cincinnati, Ohio, “Louis and Rose (Winkler) Amerberg gave birth to Constance
Amberg, the University of Cincinnati graduate who worked as a volunteer in New
York settlement houses before marrying attorney William Dick Sporborg and
becoming Constance Amberg Sporborg, the mother of Elizabeth and William Dick
Sporborg, Jr.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sporborg-constance-amberg
1879:
Delegates to the Sixth Council of the Union of American and Hebrew attended a
banquet at Delmonico’s
1879: In
“Moores Landing, Mississippi, “Uriah and Hannah (Goldsmith) Simon gave birth to
U.T. undergrad and U of Denver Law School trained attorney Uriah Myer Simon,
the husband of Hattie Weltman with whom he had three children – Richard, Ruth
and Henry – whom they raised in Ft. Worth, TX where he practiced law, served as
President of the Isador Strauss Lodge of the I.O.B.B. and Congregation Bethel.
1879: Rabbi
Isaac Meyer Wise of Cincinnati delivered a lecture at Temple Emanu-El based on
the renewal of the covenant at Gilgal in the days of the prophet Samuel
1881: “The
Bible and Science” published today provides a detailed review of Hours With
the Bible: Volume II by Cunningham Geikie.
In this second of what will become a multi-volume work, Geike provides
an in depth study of the period from Moses to the Judges.
1881: Arnold
Bogumil Ehrlich, the native of Wlodawa, Poland who came to New York from
Hamburg in 1874 to teach at the Emanu-El Theological School became a
naturalized U.S. citizen today, listing as “his occupation ‘Teacher of
Languages.’”
1881: In
Chicago, Dr. Ellinger read a paper tonight on “Ancient and Modern Rabbis” at a
meeting of the Rabbinical Literary Society.
The society is a national organization that draws it membership from
Jewish theologians throughout the United States.
1881: In
Selma, Alabama, “Edward and Elizabeth (Long) Bloch gave birth to composer
violinist Alexander Bloch, the husband of Blanche Bloch.
1882: In
Cracow, Anna and Baum gave birth to City College graduate and Columbia trained
electrical engineer Harry Baum the husband of Cecilia Bernstein and U.S. Signal
Corps instructor who worked for General Electric from 1902 to 1907.
1882: As the
Freight Handlers’ strike turned violent, Levi Cossowtich, a Russian-Jewish
peddler was assaulted this morning at Henderson and 11th Streets by
person or persons unknown. At noon, as he went to dinner, Louise Marble, one of
the Jewish freight handlers working at the Erie depot, was assaulted and
robbed.
1882: In
Chicago, “Simeon and Adelaide (Eisendrath) Straus gave birth to Rush Medical
College trained surgeon, Dr. David C. Straus, the “clinical professor of
surgery at Rush Medical College, attending surgeon at Michael Reese and Cook
County General and Member of the AEF who rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel after
having served in France for a year.
1882:
Birthdate of German mathematician Leonard Nelson who was the co-founder of The Internationaler Sozialistischer
Kampfbund ("International Socialist Militant League")
1883: “Current
Foreign Topics” published today described events at the trial in Hungary where
Jews who were charged with murdering a Christian girl lost an important witness
when a local coachman committed suicide.
1883: The Hebrew Union Council met for a second day
in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Committee on Circuit Preaching reported favorably on a
proposal of engaging circuit rabbis to service those areas where the Jewish
population is too scattered to support full-time ministers. The Rabbinical Association asked that the
Union provided a fund for “the support of enfeebled ministers in their old
age.”
1883: Today’s
commencement exercises of the Hebrew Union College are scheduled to be held at
the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio followed by a banquet at the
Highland House and a reception at the Zoological Garden. The high point
of the event will be the consecration of seven new rabbis, the first such class
to be produced by the school and the first rabbis to be trained solely in the
United States.[Note HUC would become the flagship institution for the Reform
Movement. While there is a popular misconception of American Jewry being
a New York centric culture, in this a city in eastern Ohio, at the entry to the
American heartland was the focal point of this significant segment of American
Jewry.]
1883: In
Cincinnati, Ohio, a banquet was held “in honor of the first graduating class of
HUC” and the delegates attending “the Hebrew Union Council” where shell fish
were served and other aspects of the Jews dietary laws were violated earning
the event the title of “The Trefa Banquet” which marked an irreparable break
between the Reform movement and the Orthodox and Conservative branches of
Judaism
http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2005_57_01_02_sussman.pdf
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-trefa-banquet/
1883: County
Coroner A.F Park came to the Oakdale, Connecticut to examine the body of a 24-year-old
Russian Jew, Moses Sadock. Sadock’s body
was found in the woods, lying on his back “with his throat cut from ear to
ear.” Sadock was the center of a developing scandal involving accusations that
he was a bigamist.
1884: As word
reached Albany, New York that Governor Grover Cleveland had been selected as
the Presidential nominee of the Democrat Party, the Jewish “banking firm of
Wormser & Co in New York sent hearty congratulations…”
1884: It was
reported today that in Brooklyn, Beth Elohim has hired William Sparger to serve
as its rabbi. The 26 year old Sparger
was born in Hungary graduated from Prince Rudolph University of Vienna. A member of the reforming movement, Sparger
replaces Rabbi Mosher who left the pulpit 6 months ago due to illness.
1885: In an
attempt to put an end to the disputes with Rabbi Kauffman Kohler of Temple
Beth-El, Rabbi Alexander of Kohut of Ahavath Chesed said today, “I desire that
it should be understood that as far as I am concerned the pulpit controversy
that has been carried out between myself and Dr. Kohler… is declared at
end. I will make no more responses to
any of Dr. Kohler’s sermons and expect a reciprocation from in this matter…In
the interest of my religion and for the sake of harmony…I wish to avoid
controversy in the pulpit.” This was an
attempt to bring an end to the public dispute between these leaders of
traditional and liberal Judaism.
1885: In Baltimore,
MD, Judge Phelps rendered a decision in the case of the District Grand Lodge of
B’nai B’rith v the Jedijah Lodge. The
District had revoked the chapter’s charter and was seeking to recover funds
that the lodge had collected. The judge
decided that under the rules of equity, the District Grand Lodge had no right
to the funds.
1886(8th
of Tammuz, 5246): Eight-six-year old “kosher butcher, master baker and cantor,
Baruch Rosenstiel, the “son of Samuel Levi Rosenstiel and Bessla Rosenstiel, the
husband of Zipora Rosenstiel and Marie Mariam Rosenstiel and father of Babette
Rosenstiel; Samuel Rosenstiel; Salomon Rosenstiel; Eva Rosenstiel; Helene
Rosenstiel; Emanuel Rosenstiel; Isaak Rosenstiel; Fanny Auerbacher; Leopold
Rosenstiel; Zechiel Rosenstiel; Heinrich Rosenstiel and Sigmund Rosenstiel”
passed away today after which he was buried in his hometown Schmieheim Baden
Germany,
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/schmieheim/
1886: It was
reported today that the lady managers of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
have accepted the offer of boats from the New York Towing Company to be used
for upcoming summer-time excursions.
1889: It was
reported today that the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio is in
desperate need of funds. The school is
$9,000 in debt and needs an additional $15,500 to maintain operations. (More to
added next year)
1889: The
Trustees of the Harlem Club met this evening to consider the application for
membership of New York State Senator Jacob A. Cantor. Robert Bonynge nominated him and David F.
Porter seconded the nomination. However,
there was enough opposition that it was obvious that the Senator would be
“blackballed.” At the end of the meeting
the Trustees refused to announce their decision saying that they would send a
letter with the information to Cantor within the next ten days
1889: The
cornerstone for a new synagogue to be used by New York’s Sephardic Jews was
laid today at the corner of 160 East One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. This is the second synagogue in New York
designed to meet the needs of the Spanish-Portuguese Community.
1889: Joseph
Davis, “a junior member of…S&J Davis” a catering firm serving Orange and
Newark, NJ, rented a summer cottage for his wife and their children at Ocean
Beach after they had been forced to leave the Brunswick Hotel because the
proprietor found out that they were Jewish.
1890:
Birthdate of Captain Koreshige Inuzuka the native of Tokyo who “was the head of
the Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs from March 1939
until April 1942” and who in 1941 was granted a silver cigarette case by the
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States” for his role in rescuing Jews
from Nazi Germany. (Yes history can be convoluted and complicated)
1890:
Theatrical manager Daniel Frohman described some of the plays he acquired on
his recent trip to London and Paris that will be produced in the coming season.
Among them are two French comedies – “Fen Toupinel” and La Femme Nervevie” –
and two English comedies – “The Idler” and “The Solicitor.”
1891(5th
of Tammuz, 5651): Parashat Korach
1891(5th
of Tammuz, 5651: Seventy-three-year-old Amsterdam native Catherine de Castor,
the wife of Jacob Ezekiel and the mother of Cincinnati auctioneer Henry Clay
Ezekiel passed away today in Old Point Comfort, VA.
1891: “The
Expatriated Jews” published today described a letter the Assistant Secretary
sent to the Acting Superintendent of Immigration at New York to question
Russian Jews arriving at his port to see if any of them “had been diverted from
their original destination to this country by foreign officials”, to record any
such incidents in detail and send the report to Washington.
1891: On New
York’s Lower East Side, Dr. Samuel Clurman and his wife Bertha gave birth to
World War I veteran Albert Clurman, the graduate of Cornell who earned an LL.B
from NYU and went on to practice in his hometown.
1891:
Birthdate of Otto Armster a German intelligence officer who was one of the few
participants in the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler who survived WW II.
1891: Israel
Pimkus a sixty-year-old Russian Jew was among the passengers who arrived at New
York’s Barge Office aboard the SS Fürst Bismarck. When asked if he would become
a public charge he opened a satchel containing $17,500 which he said he was
planning on using to buy land in the “West” before sending for his brothers.
1892:
Birthdate of Hungarian born Dr. Joseph Shick, a chaplain in the Hungarian Army
during WW I who came to the United States in 1922 where he served as the Rabbi
of the West Side Jewish Center and the principal of the West Side Hebrew
School.
1892: “Close
of the Rabbis’ Convention” published today described the final session of “the
annual convention of American rabbis that ended last night at a well-attended
meeting at Temple Israel on 125th Street and Fifth Avenue.
1892: In
Little Rock AR, eighty-two-year-old Samuel Bloch, a well-known writer who had
lived in Cincinnati and Chicago passed away today.
1893(27th
of Tammuz, 5653): Israel Joshua Trunk, the rabbi at Kutno, passed away today.
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8282-israel-joshua-of-kutno
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0020_0_20068.html
1894: In San
Francisco, Stella (Stettheimer) and Sigmund Feuchtwanger gave birth to Walter
Feuchtwanger who gained fame as movie producer Walter Wagner.
1894: “Aid For The Workingman” published today describes
the success of the Order of Round Robins a fraternal and welfare organization
designed to benefits workers and employers originally conceived by Colonel
Jacob Bloom, the manager of the Baron de Hirsch Trade School located in New
York City.
1894: The
representatives of the United Hebrew Trades Union, the Socialist Party and the
Knights of Labor met tonight at the Labor Lyceum to finalize plans for the
upcoming mass meeting in Union Square.
1894: A list
of the amount of annual appropriations of state moneys to be paid to different
New York institutions and the year the appropriation was first approved
included the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum $110 per head by law of 1874,
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society $104 per head by law of 1889 and the
Sanitarium for Hebrew Children $5,000 a year by law of
1894: In
Albany, during the Constitutional Convention’s Committees on Legislate Powers,
Education, Taxation and Charities hearing “on the question of abolishing
sectarian appropriations Elbridge T. Gerry expressed his fear that adoption
“would cripple the great Hebrew Guardian Society.”
1894: Samuel
Gompers will chair the meeting of the Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor in Chicago where they will discuss the possibility of a
general strike if the current strike against Pullman fails.
1895: In Rochester, NY, the annual Central
Conference of American Rabbis continues to meet for a second day.
1895: A list
of the bequests of the late Moses Heidelbach published today included $500 to
Mount Sinai Hospital; a one-thousand-dollar bond to the Hebrew Benevolent and
Orphan Asylum of New York City; $500 to Abraham Friedlander which he is to
contribute charities in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1895:
According to figures published today during the month of June, the Employment
Bureau of the United Hebrew Charities of New York found employment for 667 of
its 748 applicants
1896: Herzl
achieves the agreement of Sir Samuel Montagu and Colonel Goldsmid to work with
him for a vassal Jewish state under Turkish rule. Goldsmid promises to write a
letter to Baron Rothschild.
1896: Luigi
Luzzatti, the second Jew to serve as Prime Minister of Italy, began serving the
first of three terms as Minister of the Treasury.
1897: Forty
Jewish families from Poland who had arrived in New York aboard the steamships
Veendam and Scilia were turned over to the Immigration Bureau on the suspicion
that they were destitute and therefore not eligible to enter the United States.
1897:
Birthdate of New York native Oscar Tobler, the lightweight boxer who fought
under the name of Willie Jackson or Young Willie Jackson.
1897: It was
reported today that “Yemen’s Arabian Jews have Negus Menelek for permission to
settle in the towns of Abyssinia on the ground that Menelek is one of the
chosen people being descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba”
1898:
“Restlessness Among Children: Its Causes; Its Effects; Its Treatment” a
presentation by Miss Carrie W. Kearns of New York City will be the feature of
today’s session of the Teachers’ Institute
1898: The
Hebrew Bath House Society, whose members include S.D. Solomon, Charles Serling
and Israel Kaplan was founded today in Syracuse, NY.
1898: During
the Spanish-American War, Sergeant Philips S. Golderman began serving as the
Color Sergeant in Company I, of the 203rd New York Infantry.
1899: Nathan
Israel, the founder of Israel’s Department Store which was “one of the largest
and oldest stores in pre-World War II Germany” and his wife gave birth to
Wilfrid Israel “an Anglo-German businessman who was active in the rescue of
Jews from Nazi Germany.
http://www.wilfridisraelfilm.org/
1899: “To
Punish Dreyfus’s Foes” published today reported that “it is rumored that as a
result of the revelation of the inhuman cruelty practice upon Dreyfus while on
Devil’s Island, M. Lebon, the Minister who was responsible for the orders sent
to M. Deniel while in charge of the pean settlement where Dreyfus was confined
will be proceeded against.” (Editor’s note – M. Lebon is Andre Lebon who was
Minister of Colonies.
1899: “The
papers print columns describing the tortures of Dreyfus on Devil’s Island” and
The Figaro calls his persecutors vipers…”
1899: In
Poughkeepsie, NY, the leaders of the Y.M.C.A. who have been conducting a
crusade to enforce the Sunday closing laws, have asked that the fines of the
merchants convicted of violating the law, including Louis Grossman and Aaron
Friedman be remitted because they only wished to have their stores closed on
Sunday and not to have the merchants punished.
1899: The
American Jews wishing to present a jeweled sword to Captain Dreyfus to mark his
successfully overcoming the charges of treason received a telegram from Emile
Zola stating “Dreyfus family consulted.
Thank you, but impossible to accept.”
1900(14th
of Tammuz, 5660): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of the 250 Jews killed in
Rothenberg, Germany (5058).
1900: Today,
Kovno native Israel Goldman came to the United States after which he joined his
brother Harris Goldman in Easton, PA where they created the firm of Goldman Brothers,
a successful “iron and metal yard” and
married Ida Burgen in 1907 after which they raised five children while he was a
member of Congregation Children of B’nai Abraham.
1900: Today, Joeph
Rittenberg, the Bialystok born son of Isaac and Miria Rittenberg who lived in
New York and Albany before settling in New Orleans in 1895 where he established
a business that was “both a loa office and jewelry store” and who is a member
of Beth El Congregation and Touro Synagogue as well as director of Touro Infirmary
married Rebbeca Baron with whom he had
four children – Leon, Philip, Mildred and Ida.
1901:
Grossherzog Friedrich of Baden informs Herzl that the Czar will not receive
him.
1902: In The
Hague, Isaac Goudsmit, a manufacturer of water-closets, and Marianne
Goudsmit-Gompers who ran a millinery shop who were murdered by the Nazis in
1943 gave birth to Dutch American physicist Samuel Goudsmit.
http://alsos.wlu.edu/information.aspx?id=4210&search=Goudsmidt,+Samuel+
1903: Birthdate
of Sidney Frumkin who gained fame as Sidney Franklin the first famous
bullfighter from north of the Rio Grande.
https://www.amazon.com/Bullfighter-Brooklyn-autobiography-Sidney-Franklin/dp/B0007DKOUG
1903: Today,
the sculptor Moses Jacob Ezkiel wrote to his brother Henry that “My relief Israel
my Judith, David and Christ in the Tomb show that my ideals have always been
deeply connected with Jewish traditions and ideals.”
1904:
Birthdate of London native Joshua Trachtenberg who at the age of three came to
the United States where he was ordained at Hebrew Union College, served as a
congregational rabbi and became “an ardent Zionist while authoring several
works including Jewish Magic and Superstition.
1904: The
Eight Annual meeting of the Board of Governors of The Education League for
Higher Education led by its President, Rabbi Moses J. Gries was held today in
Cleveland, Ohio.
1905: The
Ninth Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society continued for a fourth day in Atlantic City, NJ.
1906:
Thousands of Jews have fled Warsaw following rumors that an outbursts of
anti-Jewish violence is expected to take place tomorrow.
1907: It was
reported today that Miss Florence Levy will hold her second “art exhibition and
talk” designed to “create a taste for art” on July 10 where students from the
Hebrew Technical School Girls will bring sketches of St. Mark’s Church.
1908(12th
of Tammuz, 5668): Parashat Chukat-Balak
1908: “Russia
to Placate Jews” published today said that “the British Foreign Office has
received a report from the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg to the effect
that Russia is willing to enter into a treaty with England regard the rights of
British subjects of the Jewish faith to sojourn and do business in Russia…”
1909: “Tribute
to Zion’s Founder” published today described the “dozens of meetings” held in
New York last night to mark the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the
death of “Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement.”
1910: Max
Rindskopf was chosen to served as president of the Associate Manufacturers of
Ladies and Misses’ Garments of New York which formed to fight The Cloakmakers’
Union, an organization with a large Jewish membership.
1910: Samuel
Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor and President Rosenberg
of the International Women’s Garment Workers “visited several halls” where
striking members of the Cloakmakers’ Union were meeting, including the
Manhattan Lyceum where Gompers “spoke in Yiddish and English.”
1911: In
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the 15th annual summer assembly of the Jewish
Chautauqua Society led by Chancellor Henry Berkowitz continued for a fifth day.
1911: A strong
protest was provided by Moses Gaster when the London Times published an article from Vienna stating that Jews are
influencing the Salonica Committee which is bringing harsh measures to bear
against the Albanians.
1912: Sarah
Sophia Bensaude Abecassis “married her cousin Salomão Abecassis Seruya in the
Great Synagogue, Cape Town, South Africa. He was the son of Mark (Mojluf)
Seruya and Esther Conquy Abecassis. Born in Lisbon 1883, she was the daughter
of Isaac Conquy Abecassis and Helena Nathan Bensaude
1913: In
Seattle, WA, penultimate meeting of National Charities and Correction which
Hermann Wollenberger has been attending as a delegate from Chicago, Illinois.
1913:
Birthdate of Ostrov, Poland native Nathan Maidenbaum, the husband of “the
former Esther Roserunan” with whom he had “four daughters, Hadassah Schreiber,
Rachel Gober, Tamar Petersiel and Ora Ramat” and “two sons, Yehuda Aryeh and
Sholom” and the president of Associated. Food Stores who was “a Jewish’
community leader long connected with Yeshiva University”
1914(17th
of Tammuz, 5674): Parashat Balak
1914: Mr.
Abraham Holtzberg of the Hebrew Union College is scheduled to lead services
this morning at Isaiah Temple in Chicago.
1914:
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels who in 1942 re-enforced his commitment
for the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine and Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. attended today’s launching of
the USS Nevada, the Navy’s first modern battlemship.
1914: It was
reported today that “Bernard Alexander, a professor of philosophy at the
Budapest University” and the author of several texts on the subject “has been
appointed Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University.”
1914: It was
reported today that Rabbi George Solomon of Savannah, GA plans on making a
second visit to Brunswick, GA where he plans on “assisting the re-organized
congregation in their quest for a” rabbi.
1914: It was
reported today that “Temple Israel of Far Rockaway, NY,” led by Rabbi Ephraim
Frisch “has just become a member of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.”
1914(17th
of Tammuz,5674): Seventy-three-year-old Julius Rodenberg, (born Julius Levy)
who “wrote the libretto to Anton Rubinstein's opera, “Feramors” and who founded
the political journal Deutsche Rundschau in
1874 passed away today.
1915: Dr.
Cyrus Adler addressed the opening session of the convention of the United
Synagogue of America today.
1915: Funeral
services are scheduled to take place today for fifty-four-year old vintner
Henry Lachman, the Weaverville, CA born son of Henrietta and Samuel Lachman and
founder of the California Wine Association who passed away yesterday.
http://www.jmaw.org/lachman-jewish-wine-california/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22743802/1915-henry-lachman-obituary/
1915: As of
today, The Red Cross European Fund in New York City of which Jacob H. Schiff is
the treasurer has raised $511,185.56
1916:
Birthdate of Mortimer Caplan the New York attorney who was a founding member of
Caplin & Drysdale and who was appointed IRS Commissioner by President
Kennedy
1916: British
businessman and cricket enthusiast Sir Julien Cahn married Phyllis Muriel Wolfe
with whom he had three children – Patience, Albert Jonas who assumed the
baronetcy when his father passed away and Albert Jonas Cahn.
1917: Samuel
Katzprowsky, a native of Russia now residing in Berkeley, CA applied for a
patent on “a certain news and useful Process of Treating Dried Fruit” which
“relates to a processing of treating raisings, prunes, figs and other fruits
which are dried.”
1918: “At the
semi-annual convention of the Orthodox Rabbis of America” led by its President,
Rabbi Margolies of New York, being held at the Broadway Central Hotel,
“resolutions were adopted thanks Great Britain and the Allies for their formal
declarations favoring the establishment of a national Jewish homeland in
Palestine.”
1919(10th
of Shevat, 5679): Parashat Bo
1919:
Birthdate of Russian born Israeli artist and author Benjamin Tammuz.
1919: In
Chicago, at B’nai Sholom Temple Israel services, led by Dr. Gerson Levin at are
scheduled to begin at 10:00
1919: In
Chicago, at Temple Sholom, services led by Rabbi Abram Hirschberg are scheduled
to begin at 10:30
1919: In
Chicago, at Temple Israel on Lawrence Avenue, services led by Rabbi Julius
Gussfeld at scheduled to begin at 10:00 as they do every Saturday morning.
1920: For a
second day in row there were no business meetings of Zionist International
Conference which will resume deliberations tomorrow, Monday.
1920: Olga
Ginsburg initiated the founding of the Women’s International Zionist
Organization (WIZO), together with representatives from organizations in
Palestine, England, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Russia and South Africa.
It was decided to establish the central office in Palestine and to divide the
work between the world center and London. (As reported by Esther Carmel-Hakim)
1921: Former
US President William Howard Taft was sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US
Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief
Justice. Unlike the Associate Justices,
the Chief Justice has major administrative responsibility for both the High
Court and the Federal judiciary system.
It was in this latter arena that both Louis Brandies and Felix
Frankfurter reported that Taft excelled.
1921(5th
of Tammuz, 5681): Sixty-nine year old Hungarian native Rabbi Joseph Zeisler,
the son Edouard and Josefine Zeisler, the “husband of Mrs. Hermaine Kafka
Zeisler and father of Eugene, Cornelius, Pauline and Florance Zeisle” who had
lead several congreagations including San Bernardino’s Congregation Emanu El
and Beth Ha-Tefilah in Ashville, NC, passed away today in Brooklyn.
1921: The
Irish War of Independence in which Robert “Bob” Briscoe, the second Jewish Lord
Mayor of Dublin, served in the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Fein, came to an
end.
1922: In
Minneapolis, MN, Rabbi Calman David Matt and Lena Matt gave birth to U of
Pennsylvania Phi Beta Kappa graduate Hershel Johan Matt, who after earning a
MHL from JTS and receiving Semicha at JTS went to lead several congregations
while raising four children – Jonathan, Daniel, David and Deborah—with his wife
Gustine.
1923:
Birthdate of Helen Wasser, the native of the Lower East Side who gained fame as
the “matriarch” of Kutsher’s Country Club, the last of great borscht belt
hostelries. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
1923: Albert
Einstein delivers his Nobel Lecture in Gothenburg, Sweden
1923: In
Cieszyn, Poland, “Marek Pipes who ran a chocolate factory” and “homemaker Sara
Sofia (Haskelberg) Pipes, who went by Zosia” gave birth to Ryszard Edgar Pipes
who gained fame as Richard Pipes, the American historian who specialized in
Russian affairs.
http://www.persiancarpetguide.com/sw-asia/People/Bio938.htm
1924: It was
reported today that the Counsel for Fanny Brice’s husband Nicky Arnstein, who
had entered Leavenworth in May, “sought before General Sessions Judge Koenig to
have the charges against him relating to having received $5,000,000 of
securities stolen by messengers of Wall Street brokers five years ago
dismissed.
1924(9th
of Tammuz, 5684): Eighty-six-year-old Abraham Kory, a longtime resident of New Orleans
and husband of Carrie Lichtenstadter Kory with whom he had six children Max,
Eugene, Clarence Roscoe, Edward and Rabbi Solomon Kory passed away today in
Vicksburg, MS after which he was buried at the Hebrew Rest Cemetery in New Orleans,
LA.
1925(19th
of Tammuz, 5685): Parashat Pinchas
1925(19th
of Tammuz, 5685): It was announced today that David A. Brown, President of the
General Necessities Corporation of Detroit, who recently returned to the United
States after a tour of the Ukraine and Crimea gave a report to the Joint
Distribution Committee “of an interview with Peter Smidovitch , Vice President
of the Federation of the Soviet Republics and the President of the Government
department whose function is to facilitate the settlement of the Jews on the
land, explaining the Government’s policy toward the Jews” which included the
Russian Government’s decision to settle 100,000 Jews as farmers in the Ukraine
before the end of 1926.” (Editor’s note: None of the so-called policies of the
Soviets about the Jews can be trusted since the policy led to the great famine
of the 1930’s)
1926: The
first international conference of representatives of Liberal Judaism will open
in London today. Delegates from the reform congregations of the United States
and several European countries, ministers and laymen, are expected to
participate. The majority of the papers to be read at the conference will deal
with the fundamental aspects of Liberal Judaism today.
1927:
Birthdate of Holocaust survivor Vera Lindeblit, the Berlin native whose father was murdered at Auschwitz and
who gained fame as Vera Stern, the one-time wife of Isaac Stern with whom she
helped to save Carnegie Hall from the wrecking ball.
1927: The
Hadassah offices in New York City received a cable from Dr. E.M. Bluestone,
director of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Palestine stating that “the
earthquake situation ‘is well in hand.’” (As reported by William Grimes)
1927: In Los
Angeles, CA, electrical engineer Abraham “Abe” Maiman and inventor Rose
Abramson gave birth to Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman the “American
engineer and physicist credited with the invention of the first working laser.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/obituaries/11maiman.html?_r=0
1928 In
Cardiff, Wales, Litvaks “Barnett Janner and Elsie Sybil, née Cohen” gave birth
to Granville Janner, the Member of Parliament and future Baron Janner of
Braunstone whose sister Ruth became Lady Morris of Kenwood.
1929: Critic
and producer Mark Helleinger and Gladys Glad got married today.
1929:
Birthdate of Juergen Corleis whose mother was Jewish which did not keep him
from hiding as a student in an elite SS training school. A 1985 film produced
by Corleis is a permanent feature at the Bergen-Belsen memorial, where it has
been seen by millions of visitors.
1930:
Birthdate of literary critic Harold Bloom. Bloom is the Sterling Professor of
Humanities at Yale. The Bronx born Bloom
is reputed to have learned Yiddish and literary Hebrew before he learned
English.
1930: In
Delaware, OH, Joe Vogel, who “ran a men’s and boy’s clothing store” and the
former Edith Nachman gave birth to Ezra Feivel Vogel, “an eminent scholar of
East Asia at Harvard University whose writings about modern politics and
society in China and Japan helped shape how the world understood the rise of
those two Asian powers…” (As reported by Amy Qin)
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/ezra-vogel-leading-expert-on-east-asia-dead-at-90/
1931: “Smart
Money” a gangster movie starring Edward G. Robinson (Emanuel Goldenberg) was
released in the United States today.
1931: In New
York City Charles Kelm, who was Jewish, and the former Gertrud Gelien was not
gave birth to Arthur Andrew Klem who gained fame as Tab Hunter, the teenage
heartthrob who was raised by his mother after his parent’s divorce
1932: The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency was informed today in Bucharest that “disciplinary
action” has been taken “against Captain Panisoara and the gendarmes responsible
for the torture of Samson Bronstein, the Zionist leader” in Bessarabia.
1933:
Birthdate of George R Whyte, a British national who had been born in Budapest
and whose greatest claim to fame is his recognition as a “world authority on
the Dreyfus Affair.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/31/arts/classical-music-who-owns-the-dreyfus-affair.html
1933: In
Floral Park, NY, Dr. Abraham and Mrs. Phyllis Neuwirth gave birth to Robert
Samuels Neuwirth, “a prominent gynecologist who developed minimally invasive
techniques that helped many women avoid hysterectomies.” (As reported by
William Yardley.)
1934: “In an
effort to keep racketeers posing as rabbis from defrauding Jews in the Bronx,
District Attorney Samuel J. Foley issued a warning today against ‘mushroom
synagogues’ what are opened by r racketeers as the Jewish holidays approach.”
1935: “The
health resort officials at Bad Duerckehim have places signs readings ‘Jews are
forbidden to enter the gardens’ at all entrances which a stronger statement
‘Jews are not wanted’” which has been used up until now.
1935: Dr.
William B. Peck, the managing director of the Post-Graduate Medical Association
of North America said that his “tour in Europe had convinced him that the
condition of Jewish doctors and scientists in German…had improved definitely in
the last two years.” (Editor’s note:
Does this qualify for one of the ten dumbest statements made during the Hitler
period)
1936: “Bury
the Dead, “ starring Jay Adler and produced by Alexander Yokel completed its first
Broadway run today with a performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
1936: A review
of What I Left Unsaid by Daisy, Princess of Pless (yes that is the name
of a real person) included her observation that “in Soviet Russia Jews ‘are
crucifying the Russian peoples as their ancestors crucified Christ.” Furthermore “for twenty-five years the ‘low,
base Jewish profiteers’ who run the moving picture industry have ‘mentally
posed the people of the British Empire and have ‘almost destroyed the immense
prestige England once enjoyed’ throughout the world” and her solution is that
“Great Britain and Germany must unite for the good of mankind.”
1936: To the
surprise of everybody, Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg delivered a speech over the
radio tonight announcing, “the conclusion of an agreement between Austria and
Nazi Germany” which has left “the Jewish population fearful” because “it sees
the door opening to rapid Nazification of Austria and the introduction of
German methods of anti-Semitism.”
1937(3rd of
Av, 5697): Composer George Gershwin passed away. Born in 1898, Gershwin made
musical history during his very short lifetime. Among his most famous
productions was "Porgy and Bess" a classic whose music is still sung
today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805E6D61F3AE23ABC4A52DFB166838C629EDE
1937: “In
Jerusalem, the Arab National Defense issued a manifesto severely condemn the
recommendation of the British Royal Commission for splitting Palestine into
separate Arab and Jewish states and the creation of a new British mandate
controlling the holy cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth.”
1937: George
Srausser Messersmith who as head of the US Consulate in Germany during the Nazi
rise to power granted a life-saving visa to Albert Einstein completed his
service as U.S. Ambassador to Austria today.
1938: During
an appearance in the House of Commons, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald
refused to respond to an inquiry about whether he would ask the French to expel
the Grand Mufti from Syria, the base from which he is directing the on-going
campaign of violence gripping Palestine.
1939: In
London, “the War Office announced tonight that because of ‘improved conditions’
in Palestine one brigade of British infantry would be transferred shortly from
there to Egypt.”
1940:
Admiral Raeder met with Hitler today where he persuaded the Nazi leader that a
combined massive bombing attack and aggressive submarine attacks would be the
best way to bring England to her knees with all that this would mean for the
implementation of the Final Solution in the British Isles.
1941In
Liepāja, Latvia, SS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) Wolfgang Kügler
replaced Erhard Grauel, as commander of Einsatzkommando 2 today and continued
shooting “small groups of Jews’ every evening.
1941(16th of
Tammuz, 5701): Forty-four-year-old bond
broker, Monroe Mayhoff, who had risen to the rank of Captain while serving in
the New York National Guard passed away today. He was the son of Charles
Mayhoff and Ameilia Levy Mayhoff who survived both her husband and son.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50C10F834581A738DDDAB0994DF405B8188F1D3
1941: Following the murder of most of the Jews at
Jedwabne, Poland by the Polish population on the previous days, the Germans
reasserted their authority and forbade the Poles from killing any more Jews on
their own.
1941: The
Gestapo officially took control of the prisons in Riga where “Latvian gangs had
already killed a number of Jewish inmates.”
1942:
Sixty-four year old artist and designer Friedrich Adler, the native of
Laupeheim whose”birthplace is now the Café Hermes, was shipped to Auschwitz
today and was killed soon after because he was “judged too old to work.”
1942: This day
was called the "Black Sabbath" in Salonica, Greece. Ten thousand men
were assembled for forced labor registration by the Germans. Surrounded by
machine gun carrying Germans, 7,000 Jews had to stand erect, and sometimes in a
squatting position in the 100-degree sun under threat of death nearly all day.
An untold number of Jews died because they were beaten, tortured, and deprived
of both food and water. Nine thousand of them were assigned to the Organisation
Todt labor battalions.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/08.asp
1943: In the
early morning hours, airborne troops drop onto Sicily followed by a seaborne
assault by troops under the command of Patton and Montgomery in what was known
as Operation Husky. At that time
Operation Husky was the largest amphibious assault ever attempted and its
success depended on fooling the enemy as to where the landings would take
place. Thanks to Operation Mincemeat,
which has been described as the Allies’ most successful act of deception during
the war, the Axis forces were taken by surprise. Operation Mincemeat was masterminded by
Captain Ewen Montagu, a member of a prominent British Jewish family who would
serve as President of the United Synagogue and Vice President of the
Anglo-Jewish Association. [For more
about this fascinating act of deception see a movie called The Man Who Never
Was or read Operation Mincemeat.]
1943: Martin
Bormann, head of the Nazi Party secretariat, issued a circular on the
instructions of Hitler. "Whenever the Jewish question was brought up in
public, there may be no discussion of a future overall solution. It may however
be mentioned that the Jews are taken in groups for appropriate labor
purposes."
1944: “Prime
Minister Winston Churchill put an end to the proposal to swap Jews for trucks
and other goods with a memo that there should be ‘no negotiations of any kind
on this subject.’”
1944:
Birthdate of Michael Abraham Levy, “a Labour member of the House of Lords,
President of Jewish Care and the Jewish Free School, and formerly the chief
fundraiser for the Labour Party and several charities.”
1944: The
Nazis liquidated the Kovno Ghetto.
1945: The
British High Commissioner caves in to Arab pressure and issues a decree ending
the Jerusalem municipality. He imposed a
system of six British officials to administer the city, a system that ended the
democratically elected government of Jerusalem.
1945: During
WW II, at Pearl Harbor, Dr. Abraham Koransky who was awarded the Silver Start
for his role at the Battle of Attu in 1943, married “Lt. Pauline Setnetsky, an
Army nurse” in a marriage that lasted until he passed away in 1999.
1946: A
Polish primate, Cardinal August Hlond, blames the Jews of Kielce, Poland, for
the murderous pogrom that had taken place on July 4.
1947: Today,
the SS Exodus with 23-year-old Yitzhak Ahronovitch at the helm, a dilapidated
American coastal steamer, left Sete, France filled with Jewish refugees who
planning on defying the British ban on Jewish immigration to Palestine. The events surrounding the real SS Exodus
would form the nucleus of Exodus by Leon Uris, a novel (and later movie) that
provided a sympathetic description of events surrounding the birth of the
modern state of Israel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(ship)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Exodus#/media/File:Exodus_1947_after_British_takeover.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24ahronovitch.html
1947: George
Srausser Messersmith who as head of the US Consulate in Germany during the Nazi
rise to power granted a life-saving visa to Albert Einstein completed his
service as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina today.
1948: During
“Operation Danny,” Israeli forces captured Lydda.
1948: In
London, Marguerite and Soloman Lebrect
gave birth Bar Illan University and Hebrew University alum of Norman
Lebrecht known as a controversial music and cultural affairs critic who was the
author of the novel The Song of Names, which was turned into a unique
“Holoaust” movies of the same name.
1949: United
Nations officials led by Brig. Gen. William E. Riley of the United States
Marine Corps hope that the disagreement between the Syrians and Israelis over
“the demilitarization of a small strip of territory three miles long around
Samakh on the southeast shore of Lake Tiberias” can be “ironed out” before
tomorrow’s scheduled armistice talks.
1950: The New
York Times reports that Crown Publishers will distribute “an American edition
of Ari Ibn-Zahav’s second novel, David and Bathsheba in 1951. “The book, on which the author worked nearly
seven years covering those places in Israel where the incidents took place was
published in Hebrew in Jerusalem in 1929.”
Jessica My Daughter was the name of Ibn-Zahav’s first novel.
1950: Two
British planes which had landed at Lydda Airport without permission last week
have been released by Israeli and are scheduled to leave Lydda Airport today.
The two planes had landed in Israel on July 9 carrying more than 100 Iraqi Jews
who had fled to Teheran where they had chartered these two British
aircraft. The planes had been detained
because landing rights had been obtained for only one plane.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel
had been allocated $23.5m. grant-in-aid under the economic part of the US
Mutual Security Program for the Middle East. The size of the no-man's-land in
Jerusalem had been reduced by marking of the border houses by the joint
Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission. Syria asked Iraq to withdraw all its
troops which had been sent to reinforce the Syrian forces during the Hula
conflict with Israel.
1951: In in
Winthrop, Massachusetts, Rabbi and psychologist Dr. Simon "Sy"
Eckstein and his wife Belle Eckstein (née Hirschman] of Tampa, Florida, gave
birth to Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein.
1951: Today,
W.H. Young, a deputy undersecretary of state, “sent a secret cablegram to the
American consul in Haifa, directing that the passport of Paul Shulman” the man
described a Israel’s Vounteer Admiral “be canceled except for travel to the
United States.
1952: The
Republican National Convention which Walter A Hass, the President of Levi
Strauss attended as an alternate, ended today in Chicago.
1952: In New
York, Theresa (née Volmer) Lang and Eugene Lang, a prominent entrepreneur and
philanthropist gave birth to actor and playwright Stephen Lang, the youngest
brother of Jane and David Lang.
1952:
“Speaking at a reception given by Labour MPs in honour of a Histadrut
delegation of 62 American and Canadian Jews en route to Israel,” “Labour Party
leaders praised the courage and enthusiasm of the new State of Israel and said
that it would overcome the great odds which it faces.
1953(28th
of Tammuz, 5713): Parashat Matot-Masei
1953(28th
of Tammuz, 5713): Seventy-one-year-old Königsberg native and NYU trained
attorney Harry Zirn, the chess champion and co-founder of the Brooklyn Jewish
Center on Eastern Parkway who was the husband of Fanny Zirn with whom he had
three daughters pp Hilda, Sylvia and Ruth – passed away today.
1955: Susan
Strasberg, who was nominated for a Tony for her portrayal of Anne Frank,
appeared on the cover of Life Magazine.
1955: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held in the Bronx, for Anna Thaler, the “daughter
of the late Aaron and Gertrude Thaler.”
1956: Seventy-four-year-old
Vienna born banker Felix Somary who before the Anschluss repeatedly tried to
get Baron Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild to leave Austria passed away today.
1957: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in the Bronx, Samuel Cohen the father
of Jack Cohen and Pauline Gluckow and the brother of Sadie Garson.
1957: Funeral services
were held today for Maxell Abbell, Lodz
born son of Morris and Freida (Alpert) Abbell,
who 1905 came to the United States where he graduated magna cum laude
from Harvard, earned an MBA from Northwestern and after a career in social work
developed the a real estate empire that included the Abell Hotel Chain while
serving as the president of the United Synagogue of American, the Vice
President of the American Palestine Trading Corporation and raising a family of
five children with his wife Fannie.
1958: In
Tunisia, one of the last vestiges of this venerable community, The Jewish
Community Council in Tunisia was dissolved. The Jewish Community Council was
one of the last vestiges of the venerable Tunisian Jewish Community. The Jewish
Community in Tunisia traced its roots to the days of the Second Temple. The
community began in Carthage, the rival to Rome that you may remember as the
homeland of the great general, Hannibal. Soon after the council was dissolved,
the Hara, (Jewish quarter) together with the oldest synagogue was destroyed as
part of a slum-clearance project.
1958(23rd
of Tammuz, 5718): Seventy-six year old Sir Eric Miller the Chairman of the
Board of Harrisons and Crosfield who was lifelong champion of the rubber
industry passed away today.
1959:
Birthdate of New York comedian, comic actor and scriptwriter Barry Sobel
https://people.com/archive/barry-sobel-who-taught-tom-hanks-to-stand-up-and-be-funny-vol-30-no-13/
1961(27th
of Tammuz, 5721): Thirty-one-year-old Sidney Cole, who had ridden his first
victory in 1950 “died today after being thrown from the saddle of a 2-year-old
filly and into a guard rail at Aqueduct.”
1961:
Birthdate of Ophir Pines-Paz, the native of Rishon LeZion who served as an MK
and filled several ministerial posts.
1962(9th
of Tammuz, 5722): Today, a day after his 57th birthday Polish native
Maurice B. Pekarsky who came to the United States in 1921 and was ordained in
1933 by Hebrew Union College after which he began a lifetime of service to
Hillel including serving as Director of the Jewish College youth organization
at the University of Chicago starting in 1940 passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/07/12/82054830.pdf
1963: Arthur
Goldreich, a South African Jew, who helped lead the armed struggle against
apartheid in South Africa was among the top 16 ANC leaders who were arrested
today at Liliesleaf. This was the farm
where Goldreich posed as the manager while Nelson Mandel masqueraded as his
houseboy in their fight against the apartheid government of South Africa.
1964: Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Jr. announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss
Margaret Lawrance Frelinghuysen, to Paul Alfred Kurzman “a great-grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus. who went down with the Titanic in 1912.”
1964: One day
after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be held today in
New York for eighty-year-old Chicago born University
of Michigan alum and advertising executive Louis H. Hartman who began his
career with Lord and Thomas in 1922 and who raised bees while raising his son
Robert with his wife Ann Hoffman Hartman.
1966(23rd of
Tammuz, 5726): Poet Delmore Schwartz, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania
passed away.
1966: In Los
Angeles, Sandy (née Klein) and Gerry Grunberg gave birth to American television
actor Gregory Phillip Grunberg,
1967: The
Battle of Rumani a naval engagement that took place tonight between Israeli and
Egyptian naval forces, near the vicinity of Rumani. Two Egyptian torpedo boats
were sunk in the action for no Israeli losses.
1969: As “open
warfare” appeared to have opened along the Suez Canal, today “Israel charged
the cease-fire had been broken because of recurrent armed attacks from the Arab
side” such as the Egyptian commando raid across the Suez Canal last night in
which four Israelis were killed and four were wounded.
1969:
Eighty-fifth anniversary of the birth of “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” and whose communal efforts included
serving as the “head of the Overseas Depart of the Jewish Welfare Board” and
“Secretary of the Jewish Theological Seminary” starting in 1902 who passed away
on July 1, 1969.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/02/78354344.pdf
1971(18th
of Tammuz, 5731): Tzom Tammuz is observed because the 17th fell on
Shabbat.
1971(18th
of Tammuz, 5731): Seventy-six-year-old Albany Law School trained attorney
Reuben Lazarus, the New York born son of Isaac Lazarus, the husband of “the
former Freedman” and the father of Andrew J. Lazarus who was a closed aid to
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia passed away today.
1972: Second
day of The Democratic National Convention which Robert Abrams, the 9th
Borough President of the Bronx attended as a delegate from New York.
1972:
Birthdate of actor Michael Rosenbaum whose current claim to fame is his
portrayal of Superman’s evil opponent - Lex Luthor.
1973: Barbara
R. Bergmann, professor of economics at the University of Maryland whose grandparents
and parents had European anti-Semitism in 1914 testified before Congress today and said “that
of seven recent studies that have been done on this question, only one showed a
differential as low as 20 per cent. This was the one the council quoted.”
1973: Herbert
Stein, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers was among those
who testified before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and who told the legislators
“that what appeared to be pure discrimination reduces the average earnings of
women to 80 or 90 per cent of what men make for the same work.”
1973(11th
of Tammuz, 5733): Seventy-eight-year-old jurist Simon Sobeloff who served as
Solicitor General passed away today.
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/sobeloff/
1974: The
funeral for Samuel Reisman, the husband of the former Mollie Fairman and father
of Leonard Reisman who was a member of the Brotherhood of Israel, President of
the Downtown Home for the Jewish Aged and a “life member of Deboarh” is scheduled to take place at Goldsteins this morning
followed by burial at Montefiore Cemetery.
1975:
“Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold,” a sequel to “Cleopatra Jones”
starring Norman Fell was released today in the United States.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel
told the UN Security Council that the entire Entebbe hijack affair was one of
collusion, from beginning to end, on the part of the Ugandan government and
Palestinian terrorists. Israeli envoy Chaim Herzog challenged Uganda to produce
Mrs. Dora Bloch, who was both a British and Israeli national and was
hospitalized in Entebbe the day before the raid. The British official who
visited her a day after the raid reported that she was guarded by two
plainclothes men and that he was denied access after he returned to meet her
again an hour later. The British Foreign Office recalled its high commissioner
from Kampala after he received a "totally unacceptable" reply from
Idi Amin on the fate of Mrs. Bloch.
1976: In a
pre-recorded interview broadcast today on the CBS news program Face the Nation,
“Prime Minister Rabin denounced President Amin. ‘For years he has given refuge,
assistance, training, support of all kinds to Palestinian terror organizations
that worked against Israel.’” He went on to say “that President Amin was a full
partner to the hijacking, if not when it began, then certainly in the later
stage.” [Note – Rabin’s comments came in the wake of attacks by Uganda, and
other nations of sub-Saharan Africa on Israel and implied, if not stated,
support for the hijackers. Thirty years later, some of these same states would
get a taste of what Israel was dealing with when they began to deal with Al
Qaeda and other Moslem terrorists operating in their countries.]
1976: “An
all-black cast staged the first Broadway review” of “Guys and Dolls a musical
with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows”
which opened with a preview performance
today at the Broadway Theatre.
1977(25th
of Tammuz, 5737): Sixty-one-year-old Berlin born Israeli sculptor Yitzhak Danziger “one of the pioneer
sculptors of the Canaanite Movement” and creator of the controversial sculptor
“Nimrod” passed away today near Ramala.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Danziger%2C_Itzhak%2C_Nimrod%2C_1939.jpg
1978(6th
of Tammuz, 5738): Seventy-two-year-old “art historian and critic” Harold
Rosenberg passed away today.
https://www.theartstory.org/critic-rosenberg-harold.htm
1978(6th
of Tammuz, 5738): Fifty-four-year-old New York native Dr. Irving Geschwind, “a
member of the faculty in the Department of Animal Husbandry at UC Davis” passed
away today.
https://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/about/alumni-and-friends/memorial-book/geschwind-irving
1978: The
trial of Anatoly Sharansky continued for a second day.
1981(9th
of Tammuz, 5741): Shabbat Balak observed during the 11th Maccabiah
Games which began on July 6.
1983(1st of
Av, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Av
1983: Fifty-year-old
Brooklyn born Harvard undergrad and Yale trained “Dr. Richard K. Gershon,
professor of pathology, immunology and biology at the Yale University School of
Medicine and a leader in the exploration of the immune system” who was the
husband of “the former Robyn Mione” and the father of one daughter, Alexandra,
passed away.
1986:”Two
Israeli soldiers were killed and nine wounded today in a three-hour battle with
four Palestinian guerrillas on the coast just north of Israel's border with
Lebanon.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/11/world/israel-intercepts-raiders-at-sea-6-dead-in-fight.html
1986: In Los
Angles “Lee Schwartz, a business consultant to manufacturing companies, and
Olivia Goodkin, an attorney” gave birth to Offensive Tackle Geoff Schwartz
1986: As part
of the celebrations of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, Liz Lerman's Still
Crossing was performed in Manhattan.
1987(14th of
Tamuz, 5747): Avi Ran, Israeli goalkeeper for Maccabia Haifa died in a boating
accident.
1987(14th
of Tammuz 5747): Rabbi Jacob I Ruderman who served the Ner Israel Rabbinical
College and the Tifereth Israel Congregation of Forest Park passed away today.
1987(14th of
Tammuz, 5747): Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman passed away. Born in 1901 at
Daŭhinava he “was a prominent Talmudic scholar… who founded and served as Rosh
Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ner Yisroel in Baltimore.
1988: Today,
Economics Minister Gad Yaacobi said the 7-month Arab uprising has cost Israel
more than $600 million, including losses in tourism, exports and production
revenues. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Israel has spent about $160
million to quell the unrest.
1990(18th
of Tammuz, 5750): Eighty-six-year-old Jacob J. Alpern, the owner of Grand Iron Works, fabricator and
erector of Structural Steel, the son of Kiev émigré Emil Alpern who was “a founder of the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine and who married the former Gertrude Silverman after the
death of his first wife passed away today in Manhattan.
TimesMachine: July 13,
1990 - NYTimes.com
1993: In “Erasing
the Holocaust” published today Walter Reich reviews Denying the Holocaust: The
Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt and Assassins
of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust by Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/books/erasing-the-holocaust.html?searchResultPosition=7
1994: The
second round of family tours of Israel sponsored by the American Jewish
Congress are scheduled to begin today.
1995(13th
of Tammuz): 5655): Rabbi Abraham Shulman who also served as cantor for Mikro
Kodesh for ten years before filling a similar position at Beth Israel
Congregation passed away today.
1995: Today
the “decoded Venona cables indicating Julius Rosenberg's involvement in
espionage were released by NSA and CIA.
1995: General
Ratko Mladic and the Bosnian Serb Army invaded the small town of Srebrenica
during the Bosnian War, murdering approximately 8,000 men and boys, and
deporting the women to Bosnian Muslim-held territory of Tuzla – an event that is
highlighted in the Spagat Family Voices of Genocide Exhibition at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum.
1997: The Mall
at Tuttle Crossing which had been developed by Taubman Centers, a real estate
development firm founded by A. Alfred Taubman, and which included Lazarus as
one of its anchor department stores opened today.
1997(6th
of Tammuz, 5757): Eighty-five-year-old Edward Lasker, the son of Albert Davis
Lasker and his first wife Flora, who was a movie producer, thoroughbred
racehorse owner and businessman passed away today.
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8d79gzd/entire_text/
1999: Roman
Bronfman and Alexander Tzinker left Yisrael BaAliyah and formed the Democratic
Choice faction.
1999(27th
of Tammuz, 5759): Seventy-nine-year-old Everett Greenbaum, the native of
Buffalo, NY, who wrote scripts for several movies starring Don Knotts and who
wrote script for numerous popular television shows including “Mr. Peepers” and
“MASH” passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-everett-greenbaum-1110721.html
1999: The
New York Times reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including recently release paperback editions of Explaining
Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil” by Ron Rosenbaum and “Between
Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany”, by Marion A. Kaplan.
2000; Talks
opened at Camp David between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak under the auspices of
Bill Clinton. “Israeli Prime Minsiter, Ehud Barak, tells US President, Bill
Clinton, his starting position: Jerusalem would never be shared. Palestinian
Chairman, Yasser Arafat, demands half Jerusalem as his capital and Palestinian
sovereignty over what the Muslims know as the Haram al-Sharif, which is the
Jews' Temple Mount.”
2002: An
exhibition entitled “Michael Rovner: The Space Between” opened at the Whitney
Museum in New York City.
2000: Yithak
Vankin ended his service as Deputy Minister of Communications when Shas
resigned from the government today.
2000: Haim
Ramon succeeded Natan Sharansky as Internal Affairs Minister.
2000: Eli
Suissa completed his service as Minister of Energy and Water Resources
2000: Starting
today, President Clinton hosted negotiations between Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and Chairman Yassar Arafat aimed at creating “an agreement on permanent
status.”
2001: Today
Israeli Army bulldozers levelled houses and shops at Rafah “on the Gaza Strip’s
border with Egypt” which the army said “had been used by Palestinian gunmen as
cover for attacks on Israeli troops.”
2001: “Sixty
years after as many as 1,600 Jews were killed in eight hours in a village in
northeast Poland, the nation's president offered a strong apology today: it was
not Nazi soldiers, he affirmed, but ordinary Poles who beat, stabbed and,
finally, burned their fellow villagers alive in a barn.” (As reported by Ian
Fisher)
2002: In
Helena, Montana, the building that housed Temple Emanu-El which had been
dedicated in 1891 “was placed on the National Register of Historic Places”
today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Emanu-El_(Helena,_Montana)#/media/File:Temple_Emanu-El_02.jpg
2003: Kate
Remembered by A. Scott Berg “a biography-cum-memoir detailing his 20-year
friendship with the Hollywood actress Katharine Hepburn was published today, 12
days before her death.
2004(22nd
of Tammuz, 5764): “Sgt. Ma'ayan Na'im, 19, of Bat Yam, was murdered and 33
others were wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at
about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded,
and the rest were lightly hurt.”
2004(22nd of
Tammuz, 5764): Eighty-two-year-old fitness guru Joe Gold, the creator of the
ubiquitous Gold’s Gyms, passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/14/us/joe-gold-82-creator-of-mecca-of-bodybuilding.html
2005: Opening
ceremonies for the 17th Maccabiah.
2005: The
second version of “The Woman White” opened with Alexandra Silber in the role of
Laura.
2006:
“Grilled” featuring Lisa Edelstein, Michael Rapaport and Barry Newman “was
released direct-to-video in the United States today.
2007: Ninety-two-year-old
American born Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario Ed
Mirvish, the owner of Hones Ed’s discount store passed away today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/jul/14/guardianobituaries.obituaries
http://www.newspoil.com/pid-1367105271718159872/Canadian-merchant-Ed-Mirvish-Dies-at-92.html
2007: In
Sydney, Australia, the International Conference of Christian and Jews comes to
an end.
2008: US
Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones leave his post, some three years after
taking up the position. He will be replaced by James Cunningham, whose
appointment has already been confirmed by the US Senate.
2008: U.S.
premiere of “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” produced by Lloyd Levin and Joe Roth,
co-starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Jeffrey Tambor and with music by Danny
Elfman.
2008: At a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Orion
Center held by the Hebrew University's Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies and
the Israel Museum Professor Israel Knohl from the Department of Bible
Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem presented a new and surprising
interpretation to a text found on a stone tablet that has been called the
''Vision of Gabriel''.
2009: In Tel
Aviv, Israel faces Russia in Day 2 of the Davis Cup Quarterfinals.
2009: At the
Jerusalem Film Festival, a screening of “Camera Obscura” a film based on a
novel by Angélica Gorodisher set at the end of the 19th century, in a colony of
Jewish immigrants living in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina.
2010: The
final performance of the World Premiere engagement of The Socialization of
Ruthie Shapiro is scheduled to take place at Theatre West in Los Angeles.
2010: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Council of Dads: My
Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me by Bruce Feiler and The
Men Who Would Be King by Nicole LaPorte which chronicles how Jewish showbiz
veterans Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg banded together
to form DreamWorks SKG, their own custom-designed production studio and the
first new Hollywood studio in 60 years.
2010: The 70th
yahrzeit of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky was marked today, at Mount Herzl cemetery
in Jerusalem, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres
2011: Nirvana,
a dance show from Korea, based on ancient ritual Buddhist dances, is scheduled
to performed at the Performing Arts Center in Herzliya
2011: The
"Boycott Bill" was approved in its final reading in the Knesset
tonight, after a plenum discussion that lasted nearly six hours and uncertainty
throughout the day as to whether a vote would take place.
2011:
Argentinean Rabbi Sergio Bergman won a seat on the Buenos Aires municipal
legislature today, leading the vote tally with 45 percent of the votes. Bergman garnered triple the number of votes
of the candidate who came in second place, Juan Cabandié of the Victory Front
Party, who won 14 percent of the vote.
2011: A
leading rabbi and halachic authority in Israel has recognized the Chuetas of
Palma de Majorca as Jewish, the Shavei Israel organization announced today. The
Chuetas are descended from the Jewish inhabitants of the Spanish island of
Majorca who suffered extreme oppression in the Middle Ages, until by 1435 all
of them had been killed or forcibly converted to Catholicism. Because the
Chuetas are related to the previous generations and married among themselves
they should be considered Jewish, Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund told
reporters that Rabbi Nissim Karlewitz, chairman of the Beit Din Tzedek
(rabbinical court) in Bnei Brak, wrote in a letter to the organization.
2011: A
four-alarm fire broke out tonight at an Upper East Side synagogue, Congregation
Kehilath Jeshurun, which was being renovated, spitting flames through
stained-glass windows, destroying the roof and heavily damaging the upper
floors, the Fire Department said.
2011: Aaron
“Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, computer
fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and
recklessly damaging a protected computer.”
2012: While it
is said that “wine gladdens the hear” the Historic 6th & I
Synagogue in Washington, DC turns its attention to another form of fermented
refreshment tonight when it is scheduled to host “Summer Brews: A Season
Tasting with The Beer Activist.”
2012: The 92nd
Street Y is scheduled to present “Saving America’s Working Class” – a
discussion with James Carville and Stan Greenberg.” (Guess which one is not Jewish)
2012: In
Jerusalem, Dalik Voloniz is scheduled to moderate “Destruction and Hope,” a
pre–Tisha B’Av event that combines discussion, song, and music.
2012: Former
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice today confirmed the accuracy of her
account of a 2008 meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in
which he had told her why he couldn’t accept then-Israeli prime minister Ehud
Olmert’s terms for a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. In an
interview over the weekend, Abbas had denied that the conversation Rice
described and quoted in her memoir had taken place at all.
2012(21st
of Tammuz, 5772): Eighty-seven-year-old author Donald J. Sobol passed away
today.(As reported by Denise Grady)
2012: A
meeting between Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon and MK Yohanan Plesner
focused on drafting universal conscription legislation ended today with the two
sides unable to come together, and with Plesner storming out.
2012(21st
of Tammuz, 5772):Eighty-seven-year-old ” Marvin S. Traub, the retailing
impresario who transformed Bloomingdale’s from a stodgy Upper East Side family
department store into a trendsetting international showcase of style and
showmanship in the 1970s and ’80s” passed away today. (As reported by Robert D
McFadden)
2013:
“The Longest Journey – The Last Days of the Jews of Rhodes” is scheduled to be
shown at the 30th Jerusalem Film Festival.
2013:
In San Francisco, the Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to host an
examination of the life of Allen Ginsberg entitled “The Beat Generation with
Biographer Bill Morgan and Poet David Meltzer”
2013:
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide and the
International Study Group for Education and Research on Anti-Semitism are
scheduled to sponsor a workshop that seeks to analyze “the University and
College Union, Anti-Semitism and the boycotts campaigns against Israel”
2013:
The UKJF is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Salsa Tel Aviv” preceded by a
free salsa class.
2013:
In the second such attack in two days, this evening a uniformed soldier was
assaulted in the capital by fellow haredim opposed to ultra- Orthodox army
service. (As reported by Daniel K. Eisenbud and Jeremy Sharon)
2013:
Today, Nicholas Brooks, the second of Joseph Brook’s (Joseph Kaplan) children
was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend, a crime for which he was
sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
2013:
The Dallas Mavericks signed Gal Mekel a native of Ramat HaSharon to a
three-year minimum fully guaranteed contract, and he became the second Israeli
to join the NBA
2013:
Egypt is reported to be prepared to ask Israel for permission, under the terms
of their decade’s long peace treaty, to enter the Sinai with such sufficient
forces “to launch a broad campaign to root out Islamic extremists in the
largely wild peninsula.” (As reported by Asher Zeiger)
2013(4th
of Av, 5773): Eighty-six-year-old Reuven Helman, a Weightlifting Champion, hero
of the 1948 War for Independence and follower of the Lubavitcher Rebbe passed
away today.
http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=26123
2014:
Members of SHINDC (Sephardic Heritage in DC) are scheduled to lead a service
spiced with Sephardi traditions, melodies, and practices, followed by a Persian
(Iranian) dinner at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue.
2014:
John and Susan Nicholson are scheduled to play at the Summer Kaleidoscope Music
Series in Milwaukee which begins after Shabbat eve services.
2014:
A group of anti-Israel hackers who support the Palestinian terrorists are
scheduled to launch a large-scale cyber-attack on Israel with a denial of
service (DDOS) Attack. (As reported by David Shamah)
2014:
“At least one rocket fired from southern Lebanon exploded early this morning in
an open area near Metula, Israel's most northern town sitting on the Lebanese
border.” (As reported by Roi Kais and Itay Blumenthal)
2014:
“Rocket fire on Israel from Gaza continued tonight as Israel went into the
Sabbath.
2014:
“The Israel Air Force targeted a meeting of senior terrorists in the Gaza
Strip, the IDF said tonight, after a day of Israeli air strikes in Gaza and
Gazan rockets on Israel.”
2015:
The new documentary about Amy Winehouse which was first shown at the Cannes
Film Festival is scheduled to be shown today at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2015:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host the Ensemble Concertante.
2015:
Larry and Mindy are scheduled to perform at Ornament Harmonya Gallery in Jaffa.
2016:
Maxwell Wiley of State Supreme Court in Manhattan is to rule on a series of
evidentiary issues in the case in which Pedro Hernandez is charged with killing
of Etan Patz, the 6 year old Jewish boy who vanished in 1979.
2016
David Cameron who describes 16th century as Elia Levita “a Renaissance Hebrew
grammarian, scholar, and poet” as
"my
forefather Elijah Levita who wrote what is thought to have been the first ever
Yiddish novel" completed his service as Prime Minister of the UK today
2016:
“Weiner” a documentary about the disgraced New York Congressman whose wife is a
close confidante of Hillary Clinton is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem
Film Festival.
2017:
Russ and Daughters is scheduled to celebrate the New Catch Holland Herring
Season which includes New Catch Holland trays certified as kosher by the Chief
Rabbinate of Holland at the Astor Center today, a month after holding such a
celebration at the Jewish Museum.
2017:
“Tribe is scheduled to come together to practice mindfulness in a session that
will include mindfulness readings, guided meditation, and discussion for the
purpose of being present in the moment as a community” at Congregation Rodeph
Sholom in NYC.
2017:
“A tournament named after” Holocaust survivor and wrestler Josef Roytman “who
can be credit with the Russian martial art Sambo to Israel” “in honor of the 20th
Maccabiah Games is scheduled to take place in Bat Yam today “with participants
from the world Sambo team, Maccabi Russia, and the Israeli team all competing
for the Josef Roytman medal.”
2017:
“Several hundred Bostonians gathered to rededicate the New England Holocaust
Memorial today following an act of vandalism committed two weeks ago.” (As
reported by Matt Lebovic)
2017:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Muses of Bashevis Singer” followed by a Question and Answer session with
Director Asaf Galay.
2017(17th
of Tammuz, 5777): Tzom Tammuz
2017:
Today placed “Maj-Gen. (res.) Eli Marom the former commander of the Israeli
Navy under house arrest after question him for hours on suspicion of receiving
bribes in the multi-million dollar purchase of naval vessels from Germany” (As
reported by TOI)
2018:
“The Cakemaker” is scheduled to be shown at The 9th Annual AXELROD
Israel Jewish Film Festival.
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of episodes four through six of “Your
Honor” the Israeli series directed by Ron Ninio in London today.
2018:
“With the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup games, “Kulna Jerusalem” and the
Tower of David Museum” are scheduled to present “a penalty-kick contest for the
general public at the Tower of David Museum garden exit” after which “when
Jerusalem discovers who the penalty-kick champions are, the second game of the
semi-finals will be screened both at the Tower of David and Jaffa Gate in
Hebrew and Arabic.
2019:
In California, the Oshman Family Jewish Center is scheduled to host a
conversation with Anne Kornblut and former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano who will discuss her book How Safe Are We?
2019:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present the first night-time
performance of “The Marriage of Figaro” adapted and directed by David Serero
who stars as Figaro.
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final two screenings of “Tel Aviv on
Fire.”
2019:
As part of the Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, The YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research is scheduled to host an English language lecture on “Myth and
History in the Russian Past”
2020:
“B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to host “Starbucks, Bread & Torah
Online.”
2020:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to host on line “Clergy Havdalah,
Cocktails and Mocktails.”
2020:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled host “The Best of Chamber Music” with
cellist Simcha Heled and pianist Michael Zartsekel
2020(9th
of Tammuz, 5741): Eighty-four-year old Rabbi Joel Matthew Chazin, who retired
in 2018 after 53 years in the pulpit, passed away today from COVID-19 at
Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield.
2020:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host Saturday Morning Shabbat
Service Live Online where congregants will offer to comfort Carolyn Simon over
the loss of her cousin Dr. Daniel Kaufer best known for his work “on Lewy Body
Dementia and Primary Progressive Aphasia.
2020(9th
of Tammuz, 5741): Parashat Pinchas; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2020:
As they prepare to continue with their Shabbat observance Israelis are working
“to continue to respond to a once-in-a-century health crisis involving
individual citizens and many layers of bureaucracy, yet because government
guidelines change frequently, there is confusion about what to do.”
2021:
The New York Times publishes reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Hirschfeld: The Biography
by Ellen Stern, Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the
Cancer-Diet Connection by Sam Apple, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A
Witch by Rivka Galchen and The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and
Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
by Joshua Cohen.
2021:
The American Sephardi Federation in partnership with the National Museum of
American Jewish History is scheduled to present another session of “Sephardic
Culinary History with Chef and Scholar Helene Jawhara-Piner.”
2021:
The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to open its doors to the public today.
2021:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host a brand new tour with
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz that will tract the history of the Jews of Ancient
Rome.
2021:
In Atlanta, at the Bremen Museum, Jeremy Katz, Director of Archives and author
of The Jewish Community of Atlanta is scheduled to lead the last tour of the
exhibition “Eighteen Artifacts.”
2021:
The Noga Band, featuring “NY music legend Avram Pengas who was raised in Jaffa
is scheduled to perform at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this afternoon.
2021:
In New Orleans, attendees at the Limmud Board Meeting are scheduled “to discuss
strategy and future community programming.
2022:
JCC Rochester is scheduled to host a screening of “Rise,” a new musical Joshua
Daniel Hershfield.
2022:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to the second session of “A
Tale of Two Trucks: The Problem of Moral Luck” during which Rabbi Michael
Harris delivers a lecture on “Which Matters more intentions or results?”
2022:
“Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party and Justice Minister
Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party are reportedly in advanced negotiations to run as
a joint slate in the upcoming election.”
2023:
The Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is scheduled to begin
deliberations on a bill to curtail judicial review of government policies by
depriving the Supreme Court of its “reasonableness” yardstick today.
2023:
YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Glenn Dynner on “The Hasidic
Revival on the Eve of the Holocaust.”
2023:
Protest organizers are scheduled to hold a major day of protests today if the
“reasonableness” bill passes its first reading. (Michael Horovitz)
2024:
YIVIO is scheduled to present a lecture in Yiddish by Professor Emeritus Moshe Taub
on “Testimonies in Response and What They Tell Us About the Development of Spoken
Yiddish.”
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Lyn Julius on “Germans
and Nazis in the Middle East.”
2024:
Mushka Cohen of Chabad New Orleans is schedule to lead “a women's centered
discussion centered around a fusion of the physical and spiritual realms of
Judaism.”
2024:
Bradley Shaw is scheduled to lead a walking tour sponsored by the Museum at Eldridge
Street that will explore the “The Hidden Jewish History of Greenwich Village.”
2024:
Noga Erez is scheduled to perform live outdoors in the Idan and Batia Ofer Park
at the National Library of Israel.
2024:
In Philadelphia, the Weitzman Museum is scheduled to hos the first in a series
of “Sunset Socials.”
2024: As July 11th
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 279 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.)
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