This Day, July 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 24
1148: Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus
during the Second Crusade. The Second Crusade gained nothing for the
Christians. The failure of the crusade
may help explain “the long period of persecution that included French clergyman
giving frequent anti-Semitic sermons. In some cities, such as Beziers, Jews
were forced to pay a special tax every Palm Sunday. In Toulouse, Jewish
representatives had to go to the cathedral on a weekly basis to have their ears
boxed, as a reminder of their guilt. France’s first blood libel took place in
Blois in 1171 and 31 Jews were burned on the stake.”
1263: Today,
at the end of the Disputation of Barcelona, “King James I awarded Nachmanides a
prize of 300 gold coins and declared that never before had he heard ‘an unjust
cause so nobly defended’” and then addressed the Jews in their synagogue in
Barcelon.
1298(14th of
Av): During the Rindfleisch massacres, the Jewish community of Bischofsheim on
the Tauber, Germany perished
1349(8th
of Av): The Jews of Frankfort were killed in what would be called the Black
Death Massacres
1518: Sefer
ha-Harkavah, a Hebrew grammar written by Elijah Levita (Bahur) was published in
Rome today. 249
1567: King
James VI, who as James I the ruler of England, Ireland and Scotland oversaw the
creation of the “King James Bible” a project for which he insisted that Hebrew
Scholars play a prominent role and who treated The World’s Great Restoration,
or Calling of the Jews as libel, began his reign as king of Scotland today.
1716:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Posin.
1768(10th
of Av, 5525): Tish’a B’Av observed
1786: In New
York, Jacob and Judith Myers Mordecai gave birth to their second son Samuel
Mordecai, the successful Virginia merchant
and War of 1812 veteran who had taught at the Mordecai Female Academy in
Warrenton, NC and wrote a history of Richmond, VA entitled Richmond in
By-Gone Days.
1793(15th
of Av, 5553): Tu B’Av observed on the one month anniversary of the adoption by
French Constitution of 1793.
1806: Henry
Collins, the son of Hyman and Mary Collins was circumcised today in the UK.
1809: In
Utrecht, Holland, Hannah Rebecca Israel and Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel gave birth to
Martha Ezekiel the husband of Jacob Abraham Levy who she married on her 19th
birthday and with whom she had nine children.
1812(15th
of Av, 5572): Tu B;Av observed on the one-month anniversary of Napoleon’s
invasion of Russia.
1819: Eliezer
Cohen the son of Elyakum Cohen, was circumcised today at Chelmsford, Essex
today.
1823: In
London, Benjamin Barent Cohen the London born son of Levi Barent Cohen and
Lydia Barent-Cohen and his wife Justina Sebag Cohen gave birth Hannah Benjamin
Leonino, the wife of Italian resident Ippolito Leonino and “Mother of Arthur
David Leonino; Lucy Deborah Leonino; Edward Emanuel Benjamin Leonino; Barone
Charles Emanuel Leonino and Alfredo Davide Leonino.”
1825(9th
of Av, 5585): Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time during the Presidency of
John Quincy Adams.
1826: In the
Netherlands, Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the son of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit and
Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife Aleida Leentje Abraham van Raalte gave
birth to Elisabeth Goudsmit, the wife of Joseph de Jong and mother of Louise
Bronkhorst.
1827: In
Altenbuseck, Hessen, Germany, Merle Baer and Jonas Friedenwald gave birth to
Joseph Friedenwald , the husband of Rosewald
and President of the Crown and Seal Company in Baltimore who was
President of the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum Association and one of the founders
of the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, the Hebrew Friendly in and Home for the Aged
and the Hebrew Sheltering Inn.
1828:
Nineteen-year-old Martha Ezekiel, the Dutch born daughter of Hannah Rebecca
Israel and Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel married Jacob Abraham Levy today.
1832: Wolfgang
Mack the son of Sara Aub and Alexander Mack married twenty-four-year-old Louis
Geldrsheimer in her native Bamberg, Germany.
1833(8th
of Av, 5593): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that “The Beagle”
carrying Charles Darwin sailed from Maldonado bound for the Rio Negro.
1836(10th
of Av, 5596): Tish’a B’Av
1836:
Birthdate of Radom, Poland native and Jewish convert to Calvinism Jan Gotlib
Bloch the banker and railway financier who “spent considerable effort to
opposing the prevalent Anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist government and was
sympathetic to the fledgling Zionist Movement.”
1836:
Birthdate of Jan Gotlib Blich the Polish banker who converted to Calvinism to
avoid the disabilities the Czar placed on Jews but who remained sympathetic to
the plight of his people and who was an eaerly supporter of the Zionist
Movement.
1840:
Birthdate of Abraham Goldfaden, a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage
director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays
who is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Goldfaden
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Goldfadn_Avrom
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/06/avrom-abraham-goldfaden.html
1841: “In
Elmshorn, Duchy of Holstein, Marcus Cohen, a physician,’ and his wife gave
birth to poet Minna Cohen Kleeberg, the wife of Rabbi Leopold Kleeberg whom she
followed when he took a pulpit before settling in New Haven, CT/
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9370-kleeberg-minna-cohen
1842: Henry
Nathan married Sarah Costa at the Great Synagogue.
1844(8th
of Av, 5604): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1845: An
advertisement for Organ Sonatas by Felix Mendelson appeared in today’s issue of
The Musical World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn#/media/File:Mendelssohn_oregan_sonatas.jpg
1844(8th
of Av, 5604): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed as authorities investigate the causes
of the Southwark Riots which featured “nativist” attacks on Roman Catholics and
Irish immigrants in Philadelphia,
1848: The will
of Mr. Isaac D ’Israeli was “proved” today by Benjamin D ’Israeli, his son and
“sole executor.”
1850(15th
of Av, 5610): Tu B’Av observed for the last time while Alphonse Henri, comte
d'Hautpou was serving as Prime Minister of France during the Second Republic.
1853(18th
of Tammuz, 5613): Tzom Tammuz observed
1855(9th of
Av, 5615): Tish'a B'Av observed as
pro-slavery forces seek to impose their will from the newly created territorial
capital of Shawnee Mission – all a part of the episode known as “Bloody
Kansas.”
1857: In
Rotterdam, Benjamin Moses Verveer, the Hague born of Mozes Abraham Verveer and Saartje Isaac
van der Velden and his wife Clara de Bok gave birth to Sara Verveer.
1858(13th
of Av, 5618): Parashat Vaetchanan: Shabbat Nachamu
1858: In New
York City Babetta New and Israel Altmayer gave birth to NYU trained attorney
and Democratic Party activist Max Altmayer, the husband of Rosa Sickles who was
a member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York and
Temple Israel.A
1858: In
reporting on a case of alleged war profiteering in the boot business that took
place at Weedon in England, the New York Times correspondent writes that
“if the Jews are excluded from Parliament, they are certainly compensated in
some measure by the handsome share the Government allows them in the pretty
pickings of such places as Weedon.”
1861: In
London was Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire gave birth to
historian and solicitor Elkan Nathan Adler who had a unique knowledge of the
Jews of Persia and whose works included Jew In Many Land.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/04/29/101704852.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/09/16/93150588.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1861: In New
York City, Elizabeth Cohen, the Dutch born daughter of Emanuel Levie Goldsmith
and Alijda Joseph Joel Goldsmith and her husband Moses S. Cohen gave birth to
Solomon Henry Cohen who gained fame as author and lecturer S.H.Clark.
1862: Martin
Van Buren, 8th President of the United States passed away. “Martin Van Buren was the first President to order an American
consul to intervene on behalf of Jews abroad. In 1840 he instructed the U.S.
consul in Alexandria, Egypt to protect the Jews of Damascus who were under
attack because of a false blood ritual accusation.” Van Buren ordered his diplomats “to extend
‘the active sympathy and generous interposition of the Government of the United
states’ on behalf of ‘an oppressed and persecuted race, among whose kindred are
found some of the most worthy and patriotic of our citizens.’”
1864: Union General James A. Mulligan was
mortally wounded as he led his troops Second Battle of Kernstown, near
Winchester, Virginia. The last entry in his diary read, “The last thing in it,
written that day, is: "Well, our cause is gloomy; we will conquer the
South about the time the Jews all return to Jerusalem." (The general was
not Jewish. But his statement shows the
depth of his despair and the universal symbolism that Jews had come to
represent.)
1865: Mortimer M. Hendricks, the son Montague
M. Hendricks and Rachel Seixas Nathan and his wife Jessie Justina Brandly
Hendricks to Elmer Hendricks the “husband of Sophia Hendricks and father of
Montague Naphtali Hendricks and Louise Burdie.”
1865: On this date, Baron Lionel de Rothschild
signs his last will and testament. The
will is in his own handwriting. Among
the terms of the will is a request that “‘my good wife’ shall give 10,000
pounds to Jewish charities.”
1865(1st of Av, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Av
1865: In Vienna, Ignatz and Anna
Rosenbaum Grossmann gave birth to Rudolph Grossman who would serve as associate
Rabbi at Temple Beth El before becoming the spiritual leader of Rodef Sholom in
New York City.
1866: In Dulendurf, Germany, Jacob Maier,
“a cattle dealer” and his wife Dina gave birth to Sigmund Maier who at the age
of 16 came to the United States where he worked in Appleton, Milwaukee and
Warsaw Wisconsin before settling in Fort Wayne IN where he became a manager
with Will Brothers and Married Charlotte Lowenstein with whom he had four boys
and one girl.
1867: In Vienna Rabbi Ignatz and Anna
Rosenbaum Grossman gave birth to Hebrew Union College trained rabbi Rudolph
Grossman and the husband of Martha Keller who began his career with at Temple
Beth El in New York and Temple Rodeph Sholom and was a member of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis.
1871: Birthdate of Paul Epstein, the
native of Frankfurt who followed in the footsteps of his professor father by
becoming a professor in 1919 but who would lose his career when the Nazis came
to power.
1873:In Cardiff, Wales Rabbi Solomon S.
Philo gave birth to Isador E. Philo, the holder of a BA from CCNY and a doctorate from the
University Illinois who went on to become a Rabbi in Akron, Ohio and
Youngstown, Ohio.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/obits/p1/philo-isador.txt
1874: Today’s
“Foreign Notes” column reported that “Jaffa is to be dismantled. The walls and turrets are advertised for sale
and the old fortifications will soon be utterly razed.”
1874(10th
of Av, 5634): Seventy-one year old Baron Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, a
member of the Vienna branch of the famous banking family who founded
Creditanstalt passed away today.
1875: Gabriel
Lippmann's PhD thesis, presented to the Sorbonne today, was on
electro-capillarity
1875: In
Odessa, Joseph Grubman and Flora Franckman gave birth to Adolph Joseph Grubman,
the husband of Minnie Freid who arrived
in the United States in 1887 after which he worked as a jeweler and master
machinist before attending NYU, passing the bar, serving in leadership roles at
various Jewish organizations including assistant superintendent and had master
of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum in New York, assistant
superintendent of the Educational Alliance in New York Vice President of B’nai
B’rith’s Liberty lodge, Number 550.
1876: In New
Haven, CT, Mark Fisher and his wife gave birth to Henry M. Fisher the graduate
of Yale and HUC and the husband of the former Madeline Schubart who became the
Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Atlantic City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/25/87634033.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1876(3rd
of Av, 5636): Nine-month-old Mabel Myers passed away today after which she was
buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1877: Henry
Ward Beecher, a friend of Joseph Seligman's, preached a sermon against
anti-Semitism. Beecher was the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle
Tom's Cabin. He was an ardent abolitionist and a champion of what
today we would call civil rights. Despite this appeal to reason, the policy of
social discrimination soon became widespread. Though the Grand Union
Hotel was not the first incident in the U.S., it received a great amount
of publicity. Seligman was a renowned philanthropist and helped the Union cause
during the Civil War. In recognition, President Grant offered him the post of
Secretary of Treasury.
1877: The New York Times published a letter
from Edgar M. Johnson, a prominent Jewish lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio. He stated that he did not like to engage in a
“newspaper controversy…especially one on such a disagreeable topic as the Seligman-Hilton
imbroglio.” However, he took issue with
the false statements that he had tried to hide his religion when making
reservations to stay at the Grand Union or that Judge Hilton’s employees did
not know he was Jewish when they offered to let him stay at the hotel. He
included the text of the communication in his letter and ended by saying that
hotel owners in Saratoga Springs had not
had any problem accepting his “Jew money” when he had stayed there in the past. But they need not concern themselves with the
matter, since he had no intention of ever visiting again.
1878: In
Oakland, CA, Michael Harris Coffee and Rosa (Abrahamson) Coffee gave birth to
Rudolph Isaac Coffee, the holder of degrees from Columbia, JTS and the
University of Pittsburgh who married
Minnie J. Jaffa in 1925 after the death of his first wife Doris
Hirschfield who served as the rabbi of
several congregations including Temple Judea in Chicago and Temple Sinai in
Oakland while also serving as the editor of the Jewish Times of San
Franciso and writing several books beginning with Hebrew Cosmology in 1908.
1880(16th
of Av, 5640): Shabbat Nachamu
1880:
Birthdate of Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch.
1880: The Rochester (NY) Union reported that Rabbi
Max Moll has officiated at the conversion ceremony of Mrs. Morse. Her husband
is a member of Aitz Raanon. The ceremony
included a detailed examination on Jewish customs and laws which the young
woman promised to obey. The ceremony
ended with the appropriate benedictions and the announcement that her name was
now Sarah.
1881: “Notes
of Foreign Life” reported that funds have been collected in Brussels to aid the
persecuted Jews of Russia.
1882(8th
of Av, 5642): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1882:
Professor Felix Adler sent a check for one hundred dollars to the striking
freight handlers.
1883:
“Burdened With an Insane Wife” published today described the attempts of David
Holtz, a young Jewish immigrant to annul his marriage to Pauline Moses on
grounds that he was misled as to the nature of the ceremony, that he has had to
have her committed to an asylum and that he family concealed her history of
mental illness from him prior to the marriage.
1883: In
Munich artist Alfred Pringsheim and Hedwig Dohnm Pringsheim gave birth to
musical marvel Kalus Pringsheim ,Sr.
1883 In Munich
artist Alfred Pringsheim and Hedwig Dohnm Pringsheim gave birth to Katharina
"Katia" Pringsheim, the twin sister of Klaus Pringsheim, Sr. who was
the wife of author Thomas Mann.
1883: It was
reported today Jews dominated a recent chess tournament. Six of the fourteen players were Jewish, and
the Jews won first, second and fifth place.
This should come as no surprise because since “the times of the Talmud,
Jews have been pre-eminent at games similar to chess, while in modern time”
Jews have been some of the best players for several generations.
1884: “A Queen
Among Thieves” described the career and capture of Mrs. Fredericka Mandelbaum,
a German born Jewess who is one of the most important and famous receivers of
stolen goods. Her reputation and
criminal activities, which have been going on for 25 years, are national in
scope. The Pinkerton detectives have been tracking her for years and said that
some of her confederates include her husband,, her brother-in-law Hirsh, “Mose”
Erich and “Jew” Harris. Don’t be
deceived by the names; she dealt with crooks of a variety of ethnic origins.
1885: In San
Nicandro, Italy, Giuseppe Manduzio and Concetta
Frascaria, gave birth to Italian WW I veteran Donato Manduzio the convert to
Judaism who founded “ small Jewish Sabbatarian Sect” which the chief rabbi in
Rome later officially converted to Orthodox Judaism.
1888 In
Russia, Sarah Levine and Morris Reder gave birth to Northeastern University
School of Law trained attorney and Republican party leader Joseph Reder, the
President of the Lawrence, MA Zionist District and a member of Temple Emanuel.
1888: Mrs.
Solomons, one of the Jews who had been on an excursion to Raritan Beach, went
to the police to complain about a scheme by one of the organizers to force the
patrons to buy beer and other drinks to slake their thirst.
1889: In
Baltimore, MD, Solomon and Eva Levin Altfeld gave birth to Emanuel Milton
Altfeld, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1914 to 1916 and a
member of the Maryland State Senate from 1930 to 1934 who was the author The
Jew’s Struggle for Religious and Civil Liberty in Maryland
1889: In San
Francisco Dahlia H .Levy, “the daughter of Herman M. Levy, a wealthy merchant
who made his fortune selling goods to miners during the California gold rush
and the Comstock Lode silver rush in Nevada” and Solomon E. Loeb, “a wealthy wine
merchant from New Orleans” gave birth to a founding partner of E.F. Hutton and
Company and author of The Battle For Investment Survival and The
Battle For Stock Market Profits Gerald M. Loeb, the husband of Rose Lobree
Benajamin who was the Brentwood born daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Lobree and the “widow of Shanghai real estate developer Maurice
Benjamin” who he married in 1947.
1890: In
Kippenheim, Germany, Dr. Julius and Emilie (Durlacher) Stern gave birth to
historian and archivist Selma Stern-Taeubler.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stern-taeubler-selma
1891: W.D.
Owens, the Superintendent of Immigration arrived from Washington, DC and met
for several hours with the Acting Superintendent of Immigration at the Barge
Office to discuss policies related to the detention of Jewish immigrants from
Russia and Poland.
1891: In New
York, Coroner Ferdinand Levy succeeded in finding bondsman who would post
$1,000 for the six Jewish families Russia being held at the Barge Office so
that they could enter the United States.
1892:
“Berkmann An Anarchist” published today provided a profile of Alexander
Berkman, the Lithuanian born Jewish anarchist who attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick whom he held responsible for
the murder of nine striking steelworkers during the infamous Homestead Steel
Strike.
1892: In
commenting on the shooting of Henry Clay Frick by Alexander Berkman, one
“workingman was heard to say, “Served him right to be shot by a Russian
Jew! He was a Pole and” Frick “has
brought thousands of pauper Polish laborers in this country.” (Frick was one of
the many industrialists who used the contract labor system to bring in workers
from eastern and southern Europe with a view to driving down the pay for
workers.)
1893(11th
of Av, 5653): Sixty-one-year-old Priscilla J. Joachimsen, the widow of Judge
Joachimsen passed away today. Born in
Plymouth, England, she married the Judge when she was eighteen. The marriage
lasted forty-seven years during which they founded the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and
were active in the Hebrew Lying-In Asylum, the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews
and the Deborah Nursery.
1893: Simon
Bernheimer, the senior partner of Bernheimer and Schmidt, is among those
mourning the passing Isaac Burnheimer, the founder of the real estate and
property management firm.
1894: “Meeting
In Clarendon Hall” described the lecture delivered by Charles Wilfred Mowbray,
“the English labor agitator and anarchist” to an audience that included a
contingent of Jewish anarchists as can be seen by the fact that literature
printed in Hebrew was distributed to throng.
1894: Two days
after she had passed away, 69 year old Polly Levy was buried at the West Ham
Jewish Cemetery.
1895: “While
on vacation, Sigmund Freud carries out his first lengthy dream analysis”
1895(3rd of
Av, 5655): Twenty-nine-year-old Columbia trained attorney Abram C. Bernheim of
the firm of Shekan & Bernheim who was a member of Temple Emanu-El passed away
today.
1897: The
Special Board of Inquiry approved the entry of Adolf Bernstrom a Polish Jew who
had arrived aboard the SS Lahn after his son, an east side tailor, had given
“the necessary assurance that” he “would become a charge on the community.”
1897(3rd
of Av, 5655): Less than two weeks before his 45th birthday Hungarian
Rabbi Julius Klein one of the first to introduce preaching in Hungarian into
the synagogue service” and whose” chief work, besides his collection of
material for a history of the Jewish community of Alt-Ofen, which appeared in
the periodical "Magyar Zsidó Szémle," was his translation of the
Talmud into Hungarian, with notes” passed away today. (Editor’s note: He is not
to be confused with Hungarian Rabbi Julius Klein who moved to Cleveland, OH)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70D17F63F5913738DDDAD0A94DF405B8785F0D3
1897: In
Silesia which was then part of Germany, Marie Kallmann and Bruno Kallman, a
surgeon and general practitioner gave birth to Breslau University trained
psychiatrist Franz Josef Kallman the husband of Helen J. Bruger who was forced
to flee to the United States in 1936 because he was classified as a Jew due to
the fact that his father who had converted to Christianity was born Jewish.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/05/13/97200829.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/franz-josef-kallmann-1897-1965
1897: It was
reported today that the dispensary of the Brooklyn Hebrew Hospital, under the
direction of Dr. Solo, which is open from 3 to 5 in the afternoon, provides
free treatment to 40 or 50 patients each day.
1898: “The
Persecution of Polish Jews Still Going On” published today described “the
pillaging of Jews” and the burning of Jewish property which has been going on
for the past three weeks.
1898:
Following his funeral today, Benjamin Marks, who is survived by his widow
Esther Cohen Marks and six children, will be buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery.
1898: In
Atlantic City, NJ, the second Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society
is scheduled to come to an end.
1899: Emil
Worms, the German born of Babbete and Gabriel Worms and his wife Clara Worms
gave birth to Gilbert Worms, the husband of Irma Worms and the father of four
children, three of whom were Gerta, Lilien and Getrde.
1899:
According to a summary of the annual report of the Bureau of Immigration for
the fiscal year ending last June, most of the 29,000 immigrants from Poland and
the 2,000 immigrants from Russia were Jewish.
1899: In San
Francisco, Dahlia Levy and Solomon Loeb gave birth to Gerald Martin Loeb the
husband of Rose Lobree Benjamin and a “founding partner of E.F. Hutton and
Company.”
1899:
“Mistakes Made in Philippines” published today described the challenges facing
the Americans in this Pacific Island change including the fact that the many of
the military units are composed of unqualified recruits including “a low class
of Romanian, Russian and Polish Jews.”
1900:
Birthdate of Russia native Ralph Astrofsky, who came to the United States where
he earned degrees from Columbia, Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law after
which he pursued as a career as a playwright and a social worker.
https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/trom/TROMBENICKS%20OR%20JEWISH%20HOBOES.PDF
1901(8th
of Av, 5661): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1901: In
Haverhill, MA, Flora Craft and Leopold Albertson gave birth to actress Mabel
Ida Albertson, the sister of actor Jack Albertson.
1902: “Simon
Sterne Fountain” published today included a description of Sterne’s affection
for horses and his support for the Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.”
1902: Claude
Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, the son of Nathaniel Montefiore, the great-nephew
of Sir Moses Montefiore and “the founding president of the World Union for
Progressive Judaism” – an outgrowth of his leadership of “Anglo-Liberal Judaism
– married Florence Fyfe Bereton Ward at the West London Synagogue after his
first wife – Therese Alice Schorstein –had died in 1889
1903: John C.
Rice, Sally Cohen and Minnie Seligman are among the volunteers scheduled to
take part in the benefit being given to raise funds for the Hebrew Infant
Asylum of New York on Long Island.
1904: Today,
Lee Kohns of L. Straus and Sons was reported to be a member of the newly formed
National Importers Association.
1905:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Brooklyn Law School trained attorney Nat
Lefkowitz, the husband of Sally Feigelman
with whom he had three daughters – Dorothy, Rona and Helene – who was
the “co-chairman of the William Morris Agency” .
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/06/obituaries/no-headline-145877.html
1905: Official
circles in Paris are not worried about the Czar’s visit to the Kaiser who is
undoubtedly trying to undermine the alliance between France and Russia which
will become critical during World War I with all that this meant for
civilization in general and the Jews in particular.
1906(2nd
of Av, 5666): Seventy-six-year-old German born Max Lindau, the husband of
Henrietta Ullman Lindau with whom he had seven children – Bertha, Sophie,
Jacob, Jules, Albert, Clemintine and Solomon – passed away today after was
buried in the Oheb Shalom Cemetery in Baltimore
1906:
Birthdate of Julius Raskin, the CCNY basketball star known as “Little Tubby”
because his older basketball playing brother Morris was known as “Big Tubby.”
1907: B.
Altman and Company is having a sale today on the “balance of several
discontinued line of women’s low cut shoes.’
1907: The fourteenth
annual assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society under the leadership of
President George W. Ochs is scheduled to continue in Atlantic City, NJ.
1908: In
“Correction from Jewish Federation” published today, Manuel F. Behar, the
Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Jewish Organizations
is quoted as saying that there are no plans to hold a mass meeting on August 2
to “discuss” the attitude of Republican Presidential candidate William H. Taft
sponsored by the federation since “the federation is not a political body.”
1909: On the
Saturday before his 60th birthday The New York Times reviews
an anniversary volume of essays and speeches by the Zionist leader Max Nodeau.
In the chapter on Zionism, the Hungarian born leader writes “Zionism is but a
new name for a very old cause, in as much as it merely expresses the longing of
the Jewish race toward Zion.”
1909: George
Picquart, the French officer who risked everything to expose the falsehood of
the Dreyfus Conviction completed his service as Minister of War in the cabinet
of Georges Clemenceau.
1910(16th
of Tammuz, 5670): Parashat Pinchas
1910:
Birthdate of Harry Horner, the native of Holitz, the Austro-Hungarian city now
part of the Czech Republic, the Academy Award winning art director who garnered
Oscars for “The Heiress” in 1949 and “The Hustler” in 1961.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/08/obituaries/harry-horner-84-designer-of-films-plays-and-operas.html
1911: Fire in
Balata district of Constantinople destroys Boys' and Girls' Schools of the
Alliance Israelite Universelle, four synagogues, and 1,000 houses, about 600,
which belonged to Jews.
1912: In
Chicago, Professor Berthold Louis Ullman whose teaching positions included
serving as head of the Latin Department at the University of Iowa and his wife,
the former Mary Louise Bates gave birth to University of Chicago geographer Edward
Louis Ullman, the WW II OSS transportation specialist who worked for several
governmental agencies after the war who developed a tri-part theory of trade
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv01385
1913(19th
of Tammuz, 5673): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of Rabbi Aaron Samuel
Koidonover of Cracow, author of Birkat Shumel who died in 1676.
1913(19th
of Tammuz, 5673): Furth Bavaria born son of Orthodox Jews and founder of Stettauer
& Wolff, leather merchants of Bermondsey, Carl Stettauer the husband of Bettina Cohen Stettauer whom he
married in 1891and father of Eleanor Joan Clara Nathan passed away today.
https://london.fandom.com/wiki/Carl_Stettauer
1914(1st
of Av, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Ave
1914: In
Charlevoix, Michigan, a summer resort community, over 400 persons attended
services led by Rabbi I. E. Marcuson of Charleston, SC where Dr. J. Leonard
Levy of Pittsburgh delivered the sermon.
1914: In
Konstantynów Łódzki, Russian Empire, ”Tzvi Yitzchok Abramowicz, who had been
the shochet for Rav Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin, the Rebbe of Alexander, and
had been a chosid of the Chidushei Harim of Ger” and his wife gave birth to
Israeli rabbi Yehuda Meir Abrmowicz who made Aliyah in 1935 where “he served as general secretary of
Agudat Yisrael, which he represented in the Knesset from 1972 until 1981, and
as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset between 1977 and 1981.”
1914:
Birthdate of Jan Kozielewski, who as Jan Karski, risked his life to infiltrate
the Warsaw Ghetto and then escaped to the West bringing a first-hand account of
the Holocaust.
1914: In
Colonial Beach, Virginia, David and Anna Mirvish gave birth to Yehuda Mirvish,
who gained fame as Canadian businessman and philanthropist Edwin “Honest Ed”
Mirvish.
1915: Having
arrived in Milledgegville, GA yesterday today Governor Harris and the state
prison authorities began their investigation into the attack on Leo M. Frank.
1915: This morning “William Creen told Governor Nat
E. Harris that he tried to kill Leo M. Frank…because he believed that in doing
so he would rid the Georgia State Prison of a man who presence would result in
the attack by a mob on the prison and loss of live in a battle with the guards”
– an opinion he said he had formed from reading newspapers. 2=
1915(13th
of Av, 5675): Twenty-year-old 2nd Lieutenant Philip Brydges Gutterez
Henriques, the son of Philip Joseph Gutterez Henriques and Beatrice Rachel
Faudel-Phillips who attended Eton and Oxford was killed today Ypres while
serving with the 8th Battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
1915: Warden
Smith wants those investigating the recent attack on Leo M. Frank today to
examine charges “George Johnson, a prisoner whose term has recently expired
that Frank had been treated at the prisons as if he was on a social visit and
the he had been provided with a roll-top desk.”
1916:
“According to a message received” tonight in New York “from Boston” Justice
Louis D. Brandeis has resigned from the Executive Committees of the American
Jewish Relief Organization and the Jewish Congress Organization” saying that
his “official duties would not permit him to give the organizations the time
they demanded.”
1916: In New
York City, Alfred and Georgina (Ballin) Braun gave birth to Susan Braun, “the
founder and director of Dance Films Association” today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/07/obituaries/susan-braun-79-dance-archivist.html
1916: Today,
“in the town of Lokachi, the Province of Volinski,” “the Cossacks and the
Dragoons” order the Gentiles to put ikons in their windows” so that they would
not suffer during today’s pogrom which began when a Jewish tobacconist could
not fill a Cossack’s order for high priced tobacco and the angry Cossack killed
the Jew with his lance.
1916: It was
reported today that the most important bill drafted by the new Minister of
Interior in Russia, Alexei Khvostoff, “related to the admission of Jews to the
practice of law…”
1916: “The
Joint Distribution Committee of Funds for Jewish War Suffers” today received
from the State Department a report sent from Albert Haistead, the American
Consul General at Vienna that “$130,000 had been received in June by the
Israelitische Allianz in Vienna from the American Jewish Relief Funds” of which
$70,000 is to be spent for the relief” of Jews in Galicia and $50,000 for Jews
living in the part of Poland under Austrian occupation.
1917: As the
Kerensky government contends with competing views of what the new regime should
look like, the peasants who “are no friend of the Jews” are calling for a new
monarchy while “it is possible that the Jewish question, especially n view of
the attitude of the Jews in political organizations of Petrograd, will play an
important part in deciding the future Constitution of Russia.”
1917: “The
Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War announced”
today “that a special nation-wide appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Jewish
war relief campaign would be made this Sunday which is the 10th of
Av but which will be observed as Tish’a B’av because the 9th of Av
falls on Shabbat.
1917(5th
of Av. 5677): Twenty-nine-year-old Captain Charles Lauff passed away today in
Marin County, CA
1917(5th
of Av, 5677: Ninety-five-year-old
Charles August Lauff, a native Strasbourg, the son of Jacob and Caroline
(Ashelmann) Lauff and the husband of Maria J. Cibrian with whom he had nine
children and who wrote a book of reminiscences in 1916 passed away today.
1918(15th
of Av, 5678): Tu B’Av
1918: The
Paris Zionist Committee, led by its President, Baron Edmond de Rothschild
greeted the American Zionist Medical Mission which is on its way to Palestine
this afternoon “at the Synagogue on the Rue de la Victorie.”
1918: Colonel
Harry Cutler, the Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board “received a letter from
the Third Assistant Secretary of War” Frederick Keppel stating that his
suggestion for placing “a double triangle” above the graves of the Jewish
soldiers killed in France instead of the cross has been adopted.
1918: Funeral
services were held this afternoon for Henry Roth, the President of the Henry
Roth Building Company and “one of the most influential Jews in Brooklyn.
1918: On Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem, Dr. Chaim
Weizmann laid the cornerstone for Hebrew University. It would be several more
years before construction began and the university would actually become a
reality.
1919: “Louis
Marshall, the chairman of the Committee of Jewish Delegations at the Peace
Conference” and Dr. Cyrus Adler returned to the United States from the Peace
Conference in Paris aboard the La Touraine which was so filled with passengers
that they were in “the second cabin and Mr. Marshall issued a statement saying
that “he hoped the League of Nations Covenant would be adopted” because it was
the only “sure” way to prevent wars.
1920: In New
York, “Alexander H. Cohen senior, a successful businessman, and Laura Tarantous
Cohen” gave birth to theatrical producer Alexander H. Cohen, older brother of
Gerry Cohen and the father of producer Christopher A. Cohen.
http://archives.nypl.org/the/21770
1920(9th
of Av, 5680): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1920: Dr.
Gerson B. Levi is scheduled to lead services this morning in Chicago at B’nai
Sholom-Temple Israel.
1920: “Mr.
Abraham Feinberg of the Hebrew Union College” is scheduled to conduct services
this morning at Isaiah Temple in Chicago.
1920: It was
reported today that in New York, “the Socialist Party has nominated Leon A.
Malkiel, a local lawyer as its candidate for one of the two vacancies in the
Court of Appels and Municipal Court Justice Jacob Panken for United States
Senator.
1920: About 16
miles west of Damascus, in what is known as the Battle of Maysalun, the French
Army defeated forces of King Faisel putting an end to the reign of this Arab
leader who was sympathetic to the Zionist cause over Syria and Lebanon with
consequences that can be seen on the nightly news of the 21st
century.
1920: In the
Bronx the former Esther Tanklefsky, “a homemaker” and Emanuel Savitzky who “ran
the Live and Let Live Meat Market gave birth to Bella Savitzky, who gained fame
as Columbia trained attorney and Congresswoman Bella Abzug, the wife of
novelist and stockbroker Martin Abzug
https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/8276
1920:
Birthdate of Bella Abzug. Born Bella Savitzky in the Bronx, she was the second
daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her father Emanuel Zavtizky was a
butcher who ran the Live and Let Live Meat Market. Abzug became a lawyer and a
politician. She was a feminist and anti-Viet Nam War Activist. While in
Congress, she was a strident critic of the war and an unabashed supporter of
liberal causes. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 77.
1921(18th of
Tammuz, 5681): Since the 17th of Tammuz fell on Shabbat, observance
of Tzom Tammuz.
1921: It was
reported today that “the Council of Jewish Women, an organization, that now
numbers 40,000 members, has in the last three years developed a special program
of work for Jewish women on farms.”
1922: The
League of Nations confirmed Britain’s mandate over Palestine.
1922: Three
days after she had passed away, Rose Gorwitch was buried at the East Ham Jewish
Cemetery today.
1923: In
Switzerland, The Treaty of Lausanne was signed today officially ending the
state of war between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies with the exception of
the United States. The treaty marked the end of the Ottoman Empire, the
reverberations of which are being felt in the 21st century. Albert
Karasu covered the negotiations leading up to the signing of the treaty for the
French-language Istanbul newspaper Le
Journal d’Orient he founded in 1918. Born at Salonika in 1885, he passed
away in 1982, five years after the newspaper closed down.
1923:
Birthdate of Gerard Irwin Nierenberg, the Queens born lawyer who authored The
Art of Negotiating and How To Read a Person Like a Book.
1924(9th
of Av, 5680): Shabbat Chazon;; Erev Tish’a B’Av; Parashat Devarim
1924:
Birthdate of Max Palevsky, a pioneer in the computer industry and a founder of
the computer-chip giant Intel who used his fortune to back Democratic
presidential candidates and to amass an important collection of American Arts
and Crafts furniture.
1924: In
London, Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine, told the Actions
Committee of the World Zionist Organization that substantial progress in the
building up of Palestine has been made in the past four years,
1924: The
World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris. Approximately 47% of the world’s chess
champions have been Jewish.)
1924: Matteo
Mathieu Maurice Alfassa became (acting) Governors-general of French Equatorial
Africa at Brazzaville. The community had a population of 4,500,000. Alfassa
served till 16 Oct 1924. Today the country is called Republic of Congo.
1925: Based on
previously published reports, the Downton Chamber of Commerce is
enthusiastically supporting Senator Nation Straus, Jr. for the nomination of
Aldermanic President.
1926:
Birthdate of Zvi Dinstein, the Tel Aviv native who served as member of the
Knesset from 1965 to 1974.
1926: Premiere
of “Mantrap,” a product of the Famous-Players-Lasky Corporation co-produced by
B.P. Schulberg.
1927:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Alex Katz “an American figurative artist known for
his paintings, sculptures, and prints.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/t-magazine/alex-katz.html
1927:
“Tartuff” a screen version of the French play, with a script by Car Mayer and
photographed by cinematographer Karl. W. Freund was released today in the U.S.
18 months after premiering in Germany.
1928: The
Soviet Government and American Ort have signed a contract “making it possible
for Russian Jews to received American tools and machinery duty freed during the
next five years…”
1929: Nine
days after celebrating his 86th birthday William W. Morrow, the
Indiana native who as a Congressman from California championed the cause of
Adolph Kutner, the Russian born American businessman who was afraid to return
to his native land because of the Czar’s policies regarding Jews passed away
today.
1930: In
Brooklyn, Phyllis Cohen and Abraham Pomerantz, “an American attorney who pioneered
shareholder suits against major corporations and for a time directed the
prosecution of German industrialists after World War II” gave birth Sarah Lawrence
College educated children’s write and journalist Charlotte Inez Pomeranz, the
author of The Prince and the Admiral which “won a Jane Addams Children’s
Book Award and wife of Carl Marzani who died on her 92nd birthday in
2022.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/books/charlotte-pomerantz-dead.html
1931: “The
Flower of Hawaii,” “an operetta in three acts by Hungarian born Jew Paul
Abraham and with a libretto by Alfred Grunwald and Fritz Lohner-Beda,” who was
beaten to death at a concentration camp near Auschwitz, “premiered today at the
Neues Theatre in Leipzig.”
1931(10th
of Av, 5691): Seventy-six-year-old Max Shloss, the son of Samuel Shloss and the
former Mary Blenn and the husband of Rosa Shnerman passed away today and was
buried in the Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, the capital of the state of Iowa.
1932: In New
York City, Clara and M.S. Bart gave birth to journalist Peter Benton Bart, the
longtime editor in chief of Variety.
1932(20th
of Tammuz, 5692): Theatrical producer Max Tomashefsky, the husband of Rachel
Tomashefsky, the father of Morris Tomashefsky and the grandfather of Louis
Thomas passed away today.
1932: Hope for
improvement in the serious water situation in Jerusalem is seen in an
announcement by the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope, that the concession
previously held by a British firm had been terminated and immediate steps were
being taken to float a loan to meet the cost of a new water supply which will
be undertaken by the government. The project will take at least a year to
complete which means water rationing will be enforced to deal with any
shortage.
1933: Birthdate of George Martin Rosenkoff the
native of West Philadelphia, who as
George M. Ross, became a Goldman Sachs executive and a philanthropist and the
driving force behind the establishment a major museum of Jewish history in
Philadelphia for which he raised $154
million.
1933: Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 1st
Viscount Burnham was buried today at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
1934(12th of Av, 5694): Sixty-three-year-old
Max James Kohler, the son of Reform Rabbi Kaufman Kohler and husband of
Winifred Lichtenauer, the daughter of banker Joseph Lichtenauer, who was active
in Jewish communal affairs and a partner in the firm Lewinson, Kohler, and
Schattman passed away today.
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6st7q85
1934 (12th of
Av, 5694): Hans Hahn “an Austrian mathematician who made contributions to
functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real
analysis, and order theory” passed away.
1935:
“Increasing anxiety is being caused among the Jews of Eastern Europe because a
constantly rixing infant mortality rate according to a report made public”
today “by the United Jewish Appeal” which had been prepared by Dr. Bernhard
Kahn, the overseas director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee.
1936: The
Palestine Post
reported that Arab terrorists threw a bomb at a small religious school (Talmud
Torah) in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv. Nine children were injured. One of
the terrorists was later caught by a British constable and arrested. The
British government had officially declared that there would be no change of
policy in regard to the issue of Jewish immigration into Palestine until the
Royal Commission was able to visit the country, study the subject and publish
its findings. Britain expected that all Arab terrorist activities would stop
before the commission's arrival in the country.
1936: The New
York Committee of the People’s Delegation to Biro-Bidjan “announced today that
Representative William I. Sirovich and James Waterman Wise, son of Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, have been elected along with seven others to membership in the
New York delegation to Biro-Bidjan, the Jewish autonomous territory in Soviet
Russia”
1936: In
commenting about the Olympic Games, Richard Wingate wrote today, “The Olympic
team has arrived in Germany. Avery
Brundage now can rest comfortably, happy in his victory over ‘un-American’
forces which attempted to prevent the United States from competing in the
Olympic Games. Mr. Brundage has reached
his destination, the Utopia of sportsmanship and good-will where Nazi beer and
Jewish blood flow freely…”
1937: Thanks
to the efforts of two Jewish lawyers from New York with connection to the
Communist Party, Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph Brodsky Alabama dropped rape
charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys
1937: It was
announced today that “an elaborate anti-Semantic exhibition” “sponsored by the
local district of the National Socialist Party” “which will be officially
designated ‘The Eternal Jew’” “will be held in Munich this fall.
1938: “The
words ‘kill the Jews’ were carved in letter three feet high on Bowling Green at
Tottenham, while Nazi swastikas were smeared on the main door and red paint and
tar were daubed on the wall of the synagogue at Finchley” tonight in London.
1938: Near
Athlit, Arab snipers fired on a large party of American tourists who were
returning to the liner Roma docked at Haifa. The fifteen shots did not claim
victims.
1938: At Acre,
a Jew was wounded when a sniper opened fire on a Jewish owned bus.
1939(8th
of Av, 5699): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1939: Judge
Jacob Panken, an active leader in the Jewish community administered the oath of
office to Jane Bolin, “first black women to receive a law degree from Yale, who
had been appointed two days earlier as a Judge of the Domestic Relations Court
by Mayor La Guardia
1939:
Birthdate of “Israeli writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter” Tamar Adar.
1940(18th
of Tammuz, 5700): Sixty-year-old Mollie Kahn Fuchs, the German born daughter of
Joseph and Rosalie Kahn, the wife of University of Michigan trained civil
engineer Walter Mortiz Fuchs and mother Miriam, Elizabeth and Walter Paul Fuchs
passed away today after which he was interred at Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit.
1940(18th
of Tammuz, 5700): Eighty-two-year-old Lizzie Black Kander, the Milwaukee born
daughter of “Johan and Mary (Perles) Black”, the creator of The Settlement Cook
Book: The Way to a Man’s Heart and the wife of Simon Kander to whom she was
married for fifty years passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kander-lizzie-black
1941(29th of
Tammuz, 5701): The entire Jewish male population of Grodz, Lithuania was killed
by the Nazis.
1941 A
ghetto is established in Kishinev, Ukraine.
1941: Today,
Paul Shulman, the son of Herman and Rebecca Shulman, who would help the naval
forces of Israel in 1948 “took the oath of office” after which he was appointed
as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.
1941: Two days
after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held at noon in
Manhattan for fifty-one year old Solomon Cutler the Russian born graduate of
Kiev University who came to the United States in 1913 where he worked for
several philanthropic organizations including the “Federation for the Support
of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York” which he served as director of
the Budget Deparment.
1941: An
Einsatzgruppe report stated that 4,435 Jews were liquidated in the town of
Lachowicze.
1941: “The
mass arrests of Jewish men in Liepāja continued for another day today while the
The Arājs commando arrived from Riga to carry out the shootings of the Jewish
prisoners.
1942. “Samuel
Buchler, 60 years old, a disbarred lawyer and former rabbi at Sing Sing, was
arraigned in General Sessions today on an indictment containing ten counts of
grand larceny, two of petit larceny and one of practicing law in his Jewish
court of arbitration, at 377 Broadway, although he had been disbarred ten years
ago.”
1942: Opening
of Treblinka II, which is a mile from Treblinka I. The opening is part of Operation Reinhard,
the Nazis’ plan for wiping out Polish Jewry.
1942: Fifty-nine-year-old
Cacilie Altman today was transported from Hanover, Germany to the Terezin, the
first step on the ultimate trip to Auschwitz.
1942(10th of
Av, 5702): Three thousand Jews were killed in the Dereczyn action
1942: Royal
Canadian Air Force fighter pilot George Beurling, who would die while flying
for the Israeli Air Force in 1948, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal
today.
1942(10th
of Av, 5702): Forty-two-year-old Erich Klibansky, a schoolmaster from Franfurt
am Main and his family were murdered near Minks today after having been
deported from Cologne.
1942: Martin
Luther, undersecretary of state at the German Foreign Ministry, alerts Nazi
Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to the fact that the Italian
authorities are resistant to the German plan to deport Jews from Italian-held
regions of Croatia.
1943(21st
of Tammuz, 5703): Parashat Pinchas
1943: The
Spanish government saved 367 Sephardic Jews by diverting them in transport from
the death camp of Birkenau to the camp at Bergen-Belsen. Six months later they
were released back to Spain.
1943: During
World War II, Operation Gomorrah begins. British and Canadian airplanes bomb
Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. I do not know who was
responsible for naming this round-the-clock bombing campaign. But it must have
been somebody who had read the Book of Bereshit or Genesis. The
name Gomorrah as in Sodom and Gomorrah conjures up the image of fiery
destruction that the Allies sought to inflict on the Nazis.
1943: Twenty-one
young Jewish partisans in Vilna, Lithuania, join forces with Soviet partisans
fighting behind German lines. North of Vilna, nine Jews were killed in an
ambush at the Mickun Bridge. Three days later, 32 relatives of the nine dead
partisans are seized by the Gestapo at Vilna, taken to nearby gravel pits at
Ponary, and executed. Bruno Kittel, head of the Gestapo in Vilna, announces
that the entire family of any Jew who escapes the ghetto to the forest will be
executed. If an escapee has no family or roommates, all residents of his
building will be executed. Further, if any ten-man Jewish labor gang comes back
short, the remaining gang laborers will be executed.
1944: The
Russian army liberated the concentration camp at Lublin.
1944: The
deportations continued from Sarvar, Hungary, despite the fact that the German
Army was retreating. One thousand, five hundred were sent to Birkenau. The fact
that a retreating army would take time and resources for this is just one more
reminder that the War Against the Jews was an intrical part of the German
military plan. Contrary to what the Holocaust Deniers and their
fellow-traveling Revisionist Historians say, the destruction of the Jews was a
critical part of the Nazi program and not just a mere after-thought.
1944: Soviet
forces entered Majdanek. For the first time, Allied soldiers saw the gas
chambers, crematoria and the remains of thousands of charred human remains.
1944: The Nazis seize 258 Jewish orphans from Paris and the surrounding
areas. By now the Anglo-American armies
have landed at Normandy, broken out of the hedgerow country and are sweeping
across France. If the war had only been
about defeating the Allies, all German efforts would have been focused on
stopping this advance. This minor
episode serves as a vivid reminder that the German war effort was indeed about
wiping out the Jewish people.
1944: At
Bourges, France, Gestapo agents and militiamen massacre 28 Jewish men and eight
Jewish women active in the Resistance. Some victims are thrown alive into a
well.
1944: The
German Army adopts the Nazi salute, abandoning the standard military salute.
1944: Time
magazine reported that Louis “Waldman believes that the strength of Communism
in the U.S. is now reaching a new peak in the C.I.O.'s Political Action
Committee ‘the catch-all for the political activities of unions dominated by
Communists, militant Socialists and others willing to cooperate with them…
Unless the New Deal casts out the seeds of left-wing totalitarianism, which it
fosters today, it may either lead to an American variety of Communism, or, what
is more likely, provoke an American expression of unadorned fascism.’"
1944: “The Seventh Cross” the cinematic
adaptation of a novel by Anna Seghers, with a script by Helen Deutsch, directed
by Fred Zinnemann, produced by Pandro S. Berman and filmed by cinematographer
Karl Fruend was released in the United States by MGM.
1945: A letter written today addressed to
Nathan Shilkret indicated that “Béla Bartók had received a down payment for
writing the ‘Prelude’” the opening movement of the “Genesis Suit”, “a musical
interpretation of the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis.”
1946: Today Andrei Gromyko told a closed
session of the United Nations Security Council that the Soviet Union would not
accept Bernard Baruch’s Plan to ban all further production of nuclear weapons
1946: “Son Dernier Rôle” (translated into
English as “Her Final Part” or “Her Last Role”) co-starring Marcel Dailo was
released today in France.
1946: “The Strange Love of Martha Ives”
directed by Lewis Milestone, produced by Hal B. Wallis, with a screenplay by
Robert Rossen and Robert Riskin and co-starring Kirk Douglas was released in
the United States today
1947: “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” a
comedy directed by Irving Reis, produced by Dore Schary and a script by Sidney
Sheldon premiered today in New York City.
1948: During War of Independence, Israeli
forces launched an assault as part of Operation Shorter on an area south of
Haifa called the "Little Triangle." With “six 65 mm Napoleonchik
cannons…stationed about 3 km to the west of the village and mortars placed to
the southeast, a Golani company left a farm near Mazar (north of Jaba') to
attack the Arab positions. “They encountered an ambush and retreated after 6–9
soldiers were injured.”
1948: At a Mapai Center meeting held today
during the War of Independence, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion accused Mapam of
hypocrisy regarding its treatment of Arabs in the combat zone.
1949: In “Poet of Exiles” published today
Alfred Werner reviewed The World of Emma Lazarus by H.E. Jacob.
1950: Seth Glickenhaus, the founder of
Glickenhaus & Co. and his wife gave birth investment professional turned
movie maker James Glickenhaus.
1950: The first World Congress for the
Promotion of the Hebrew Language and Culture met in Jerusalem
1951:
The Jerusalem Post reported that thousands of mourners led the black-draped gun
carriage carrying the coffin of King Abdullah of Jordan to the royal cemetery
in Amman. The Jordanian police rounded over 70 suspects in connection with the
king's assassination, including two relatives of the former Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini. There were clashes in the Jordanian-occupied
Old City of Jerusalem between Arab Legion Bedouins and the local Arabs. The
first immigrant from Russia, 73-year-old Tova Lerner from Soviet Bessarabia,
arrived together with 993 newcomers from Romania. The committee appointed to
study the cost-of-living index found that it was not a true judge of Israeli
living standards.
1952: Premiere
of Western classic “High Noon” directed by Fred Zinnemann, produced by Stanley
Kramer, with a screenplay by Carl Foreman and a most memorable score by Dimitri
Tiomkin that included “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’”
1952(2nd
of Av, 5712): Sixty-five-year-old “real estate investor and banker,” Richard M.
Lederer, Sr., the husband of Mrs. Marguerite Kern Lederer with whom he had two
children passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/07/26/84337845.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1952: In
Jerusalem Zila née Segal and Professor Benzion Netanyahu gave birth “physician
and author Iddo Netanyahu” the younger brother of Benjamin and Yonatan
Netanyahu.
1953(12th
of Av, 5713): Louis Levand, who along with his brothers Max and John purchased
the Beacon a Wichita, Kansas
newspaper on July 4, 1928 and who with his wife Lillian raised three sons –
Elliot, Jack and Marvin – passed a way today.
1956 At New
York City’s Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last
comedy show together.
1956: Today,
in the disputed armistice line of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus demilitarized zone,
Jordan’s Arab Legion occupied a house close to what was claimed as Jewish
property on Mount Scopus which led to a fire fight when Israeli began shooting
from their positions at the Hebrew University.
1957:
Birthdate of Susan A. Gelman “a Heinz Werner Collegiate Professor of Psychology
at the University of Michigan.”
1958: Daniel
Melnick and Linda Rodgers gave birth to Harvard graduate Peter Rogers Melnick who followed in the
footsteps of his grandfather Richard Rodgers to become a composer
1960: “The
Gazebo” produced by Lawrence Weingarten, featuring Carl Reiner, Mabel
Albertson, Martin Landau and Robert Ellenstein, was released today in the
United Kingdom after having been released in the United States in December of
1959
1961: The
fifth and final convey of Jewish children left Morocco “under the guise of
taking a vacation trip to Switzerland” which hid the reality that the children
were being taken to leave in Israel as part of what is known as Operation
Mural.
http://www.dhimmitude.org/books/operation_mural.html
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Mural-David-G-Littman/dp/1618613405
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/codename-operation-mural-1.235412
1962(22nd
of Tammuz, 5722): Seventy-nine-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained
dentist and physician Theodor Blum, the Vienna born son of Max and Elsie Blum
the husband of Bertha Roth whom he married at Newark in 1909 and director and
chief of the oral surgery department at the N.Y. Throat, Nose and Lung Hospital
who was the consulting oral surgeon at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum passed away
today.
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/7563
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/07/25/80420806.html?pageNumber=33
1964: Seventy-nine-year-old
“German astronomer and working associate of Albert Einstein who “introduced
experiments for which the general theory of relativity could be tested by
astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift Erwing-Finlay-Freundlich,
the husband of Kate Hirschberg and the Protestant raised son of Elizabeth Finlayson
and Friedrich Philipp Ernst Freundlich who probably lost his position at the
Charles University of Prague when the Germans occupied the country dur to his
father’s “Jewish heritage” passed away today.
1963:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Alan Stuart Veingard, the NFL offensive lineman
who played five seasons with the Green Bay Packers and two seasons with the
Dallas Cowboys that included winning Super Bowl XXVII.
1964(15th
of Av, 5724): Tu B’Av – Jewish Valentine’s Day – is celebrated for the first
time during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
1965: In New
York City, “Ellen (née Fogelson), a painter and writer, and Arthur L. Liman, a
lawyer well known for his public service, which included serving as chief
counsel for the Senate Iran-Contra hearings” gave birth to movie producer and
director Douglas Eric “Doug” Liman best known for his work with the “Bourne”
family of movies.
1967(16th
of Tammuz): Polish born Grand Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel passed away today in
Brooklyn, NY.
1967: Zvi Dinstein
was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance.
1968(28th
of Tammuz, 5728): Eighty year old Aleppo born Isaac I Shalom, who went from
being a textile peddler on the Lower East Side to founding and running “the
handkerchief firm of I. Shalom & Co., which developed into one of the
leading manufacturers in its field in the United States” which provided him
with the wherewithal to become a leading benefactor for “the Sephardi and
Syrian Jewish communities in New York” and who raised five children with his
wife, the former Alice Chabot, passed away today.
1969(9th
of Av, 5729): Tish’a B’Av
1969(9th
of Av, 5729): Sixty-four-year-old Carlos L. Israels, the Amherst Phi Beta Kappa
and Columbia Law School Graduate, “a specialist in securities law,” “former
President of United HIAS” and “a director of the United Jewish Appeal” who was
the husband of “the former Ruth Goldstein” with whom he had three children –
Charles, Michael and Elizabeth – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/26/81552662.pdf
1969:
Operation Boxer continued with IAF attacking a radar station at Gebel Ataka and
SAM sites.
1969: IAF
pilots Shmuel Gordon, Michael Zuk and Ran Goren were responsible for shooting
down three Egyptian aircraft today.
1970(20th
of Tammuz, 5730): Eighty-eight-year-old Jesse Shwayder who grew a small Denver
trunk manufacturing company into Samsonite passed away today.
http://www.jmaw.org/shwayder-jewish-samsonite-denver/
1971: In
Denmark, two “American expats” gave birth University of Colorado graduate and
University of North Carolina trained lawyer Esther Manheimer, the wife of Mark
Davis Harris with whom she had three children and the third Jewish mayor of
Asheville, N.C.
1971(2nd
of Av, 5731): Parashat Matot-Masei
1971: “Drive,
He Said” the movie version of Brandeis University grad Jeremy Larner’s novel by
the same name with music by David Shire was released in Finland today.
1972:
“Marjoe,” a documentary film about an American evangelist co-produced and
directed by Howard Smith was released in the United States today.
1973(24th
of Tammuz, 5733): Twenty-nine-year-old CCNY and NYU grad and award winning film
producer David Bienstock, the son of Mrs. Charlotte Bienstock and the “curator of films at the Whitney Museum of
Art” passed away today.
1976(26th
of Tammuz, 5736): Parashat Matot-Masei
1976(26th
of Tammuz, 5736): Sixty-eight-year-old psychoanalyst Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin
passed away today.
1976: As
conditions between Uganda and Kenya continue to worsen President Idi Amin cut
off supplies to its African neighbor.
The core of the dispute is based on reports that Israeli planes that had
conducted the raid on Entebbe had refueled in Nairobi.
1977(9th
of Av, 5737): Tish’a B’Av
1977: The
funeral for Dr. Abraham J. Feldman who during his 84 years of life was a leader
of the Reform Rabbinate, author and active in the nascent Civil Rights movement
is scheduled to take place today at Temple Beth Israel in West Hartford, CT.
1979(29th
of Tammuz, 5739): Sixty-nine-year-old Columbia educated “literary critic,
author and editor” David Maxwell Geismar, the husband of the former Anne
Rosenberg with whom he had two daughters – Katie and Elizabeth – passed away
today.
1979(29th of
Tammuz, 5739): Eighty-three-year-old Dr. Jacob Furth a pioneering pathologist
passed away today. (As reported by George Goodman, Jr.)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A14FE3E5A12728DDDA10A94DF405B898BF1D3
1981: “William
Wyler gave an interview with his daughter, producer Catherine Wyler for
Directed by William Wyler, a PBS documentary about his life and career. A mere
three days later, Wyler died from a heart attack. Wyler's last words on film
concern a vision of directing his "next picture...Going Home". Wyler
is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
1982: In
Lakeland, FL, Adele and Scott Miller gave birth to FSU grad, screenwriter and
actress Lauren Anne Miller, the sister of Danny Miller and the wife of Seth
Rogen.
1982: “In
Watt’s Warning to Jews” published today Dale Russakoff reported that “Interior
Secretary James G. Watt cautioned in a letter” sent “last month to Israeli
Ambassador Moshe Arens that American support for Israel could be jeopardized if
‘liberals of the Jewish community join with the other liberals of this nation’
in opposing the Reagan administration’s accelerated energy development
policies.”
1983: Joel and
Amy Barnum were married today in Omaha, Nebraska, the next step in a trip that
would lead them to Cedar Rapids, where they raised three daughters – Emma,
Sasha and Gail – and became pillars of the Jewish Community and a whole lot
more!
1983: A
Broadway revival of Jerry Herman’s “Mame” opened at the George Gershwin Theatre
where “it ran for only 41 performances.”
1984: Radio
Luxembourg reported that Ya'acov Nimrodi, an intimate of leaders across the
Israeli political spectrum, had met in Zurich with the deputy defense minister
and the top intelligence officer of Iran and with Rif'at al-Assad, the brother
of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Swiss government sources said that the
meeting resulted in a deal to ship 40 truckloads of weapons a day from Israel
to Iran, via Syria and Turkey.
1985: “The
Black Cauldron” an animated feature film with music by Elmer Bernstein was
released today in the United States.
1986(17th of
Tammuz, 5746): Tzom Tammuz
1986(17th of
Tammuz, 5746): Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine passed away.
1990: Today,
the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors named a day in honor of comedian Sammy
Shore.
1991(12th of
Av, 5751: Author Isaac Bashevis Singer passed away. Singer was born near
Warsaw. His father was a rabbi, and his
mother came from a family of rabbis. He
moved to the United States in 1935.
Singer’s genre of choice was the short story. His language of choice was Yiddish. Many of his works first appeared in the “Forwards,” the popular Yiddish language
daily. Singer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. He was the first Yiddish writer to win the
prestigious award
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/home/singer-obit.html?_r=2
1992(23rd of
Tammuz, 5752): Seventy-one year old Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov (a Soviet
physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb
bones and for his eponymous surgery” passed away today.
1992:
After already having premiered in the United States, “Beethoven,” the first in
a series of dog comedy films co-produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Charles
Grodin and with music by Randy Edelman was released today in the United Kingdom
1992(23rd of
Tammuz, 5752): Samuel “Sam” Berger
passed away. Berger was a driving force
behind the Canadian Football League. At
different times he owed the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Montreal Alouettes. In
1986 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian
honor, for "his commitments to the sport and to the City of
Montreal". In 1993 he was inducted
into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
1992: “Mom and
Dad Save The World” starring Jon Lovitz as “Emperor Tod Spengo” with music by
Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States by Warner Bros. today.
1993(6th
of Av, 57530: On Shabbat Chazon, ninety-four-year-old “Dr. Abram Leon Sachar, a
historian who led the Hillel Foundation for 22 years and was the founding
president of Brandeis University” passed away. Sachar was a descendant of
Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph the 16th century Italian Talmudist
whose ‘chief work was the Sefer Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, called also
Sefer Yaḥya, on which he labored for more than forty years.’
(As reported by Richard D. Lyons)
1995(26th of
Tammuz, 5755): Mordechai Tuvya, 38, Nehama Leibowitz, 61, Zehava Oren, 60,
Rahel Tamari, 65, Moshe Shkedi, 75 and Zvia Hacohen, 62 were killed and 30
Israeli civilians were injured when a Hamas suicide bomber detonated 33 pounds
of TNT aboard No. 20 commuter bus in Ramat Gan near the Diamond Exchange.
1996(8th
of Av, 5756): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1996: “A Time
to Kill,” the movie version of the novel of the same name directed by Joel
Schumacher, with a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and music by Eliot Goldenthal
was released in the United States today.
1997: 15th
Maccabiah came to a close.
1999: In Kfar
Saba, Israel, physical education teachers Ayala and Yossi Solomon gave birth to
Manor Solomon “an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking
midfielder or as a winger for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and
the Israel national team.”
2000: Medieval
Hebrew Poetry in its Religious and Secular Context, a colloquia sponsored by
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) is scheduled to being today.
2000:
Negotiations that had begun on July 11 at Camp David between Barak and Arafat
under the auspices President Clinton came to end with a final announcement to
be made tomorrow.
2001: Jewish
American real estate mogul Larry A. Silverstein signs a $3.2 billion, 99-year
lease on the entire World Trade Center complex, 7 weeks before the September
11, 2001 attacks.
2001: In Jerusalem, the body of seventeen-year-old Ronen Landau which was
covered with stab and bullet wounds was found today.
2002: Hadassah’s 88th annual national convention comes to a close
2002(15th of Av, 5762): Aaron Albert “Al”
Silvera, a journeyman outfielder who played for two seasons with the Cincinnati
Reds in the mid-1950’s passed away. This meant he was a teammate of such
talented players as Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan and Slugger Ted Kluszewski. He
was also the nephew of former Major League pitcher "Subway Sam" Nahem.
2003(24th of Tammuz, 5763): Ninety-four-year-old Jesse
Abrahams, the New York of Max and Fannie Danovitch Abrahams and the husband of
Estelle Sheikowtz whom he married in 1938 passed away today after which he was
buried at the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY.
2003: At the Lincoln Center Festival, Israel’s Gesher Theatre
gives its opening performance of of its adaptation of “Shosha.”
2004(6th
of Av, 5764): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
2004: In a
reminder that all violence in the Middle East is not caused by the Israelis, in
the attack today, “about 20 members of
Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades seized the governor's office in the southern Gaza town
of Khan Yunis around dawn” and demanded “that 11 Aksa members recently fired
from the security forces be reinstated and that Mousa Arafat, a cousin of Prime
Minister Yassar Arafat who was appointed the chief of general security in Gaza
a week ago, be dismissed.”
2005: In
“Giving Hitler Hell,” Matthew Brzezinski recounted the travels of Arnold H.
Weiss from youthful refugee from Nazi Germany to his return as an intelligence
officer in the U.S. Army to his ultimate triumph as a successful businessman
and philanthropist.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072101680.html
2005:
"Romantic Modernist: The Life and Work of Norman Jaffe, Architect",
the first major exhibition examining Norman Jaffe's life and work opened today
at “at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY.”
2005(17th of
Tammuz, 5765): Shiva Asar Be-Tammuz (Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz).
2005:
The New
York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Bernard Goldberg’s 100
People Who Are Screwing Up America which lists Jewish comedian Al Frankin
as number 37.
2006:
It was reported today that Randy Lerner, the son of the late Al Lerner intended
to purchase Premier League club Aston Villa.
2006:
During the 2006 Lebanon War, the IDF begins its attack on Bint Jbeil
2006: "Army chief of staff Dan Halutz has given the order to
the air force to destroy 10 multi-storey buildings in the Haret Hreik
("Dahiya") district (of Beirut) in response to every rocket fired on
Haifa," a senior air force officer told army radio today.
2006:” The Association for Civil Rights in Israel appealed to
Defense Minister Amir Peretz after IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz
apparently said that “for every Katyusha barrage on Haifa, 10 more buildings in
the Dahiya neighborhood of south Beirut will be bombed.” “The group also
condemned the "grave and illegal" attacks carried out on the Israeli
civilian population by Hezbollah” (As reported by Aviram Zino)
2006: The
following were among a total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who died
of heart attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers were killed in
the Israel-Hizbullah war: St.-Sgt. Koby Smileg, 20, of Rehovot; Col. Zvi Luft,
42, of Hogla; Sec.-Lt. Lotan Slavin, 21, of Hatzeva; Lt. Tom Farkash, 23, of
Caesarea.
2007(9th
of Av, 5767): Tish'a B'Av
2007(9th
of Av, 5767):
Psychoanalyst Albert Ellis “a founder of the now widely practiced cognitive
behavioral therapy” whose “blunt advice to patients included “forget god-awful
pasts, face fears and change actions”
passed away at the age of 93.
2007: Jacques
Attali was entrusted “with the presidency of a commission dedicated to the
study of the obstacles to economic growth, known as "The Commission for
the Liberation of the French Economic Growth".
2008:
The three-day Karmiel Dance festival came to an end. www.karmeilfestival.co.il in English
2008:
Begin reading the Ezekiel as part of the “Daf Yomi Program” on
DownHomeDavar
2008: Tonight, “after returning to Earth, Gargett Reisman
appeared in person on The Colbert Report as the night's
featured guest” during which the Jewish astronaut gave the host “the
WristStrong bracelet he had worn while in Space.”
2009
(3rd of Av, 5769): One hundred twenty-eighth anniversary of the arrival of “the
first shipload of Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York City” on 3rd
of Av, 1881. “This began the mass immigration of eastern European Jews to
America, and in the next half-century over 2 million Jews would flee Russian
pogroms for the safety of the U.S. This influx indelibly altered the
demographics of American Jewry; according to the U.S. census of 1940, 1.75
million Jews spoke Yiddish at home.”
2009(3rd
of Av, 5769:
Ninety-year-old George Weissman, the businessman and
patron of the arts, who revamped Philip Morris, passed away today. (As reported
by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/business/28weissman.html
2009:
The Junior Philharmonic gives its annual Jerusalem performance at the YMCA with
a program that includes Beethoven’s Symphony #6 – Pastoral, Ravel’s Bolero and
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
2009:
Scottish actress Ronni Ancona appeared on the BBC’s “The One Show”
2009:
Amid another round of political scandals, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine named
state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck), a self-described “Jewish grandmother
from Bergen County” as
his new pick for lieutenant governor.
2010:
In Cedar Rapids, Jacob Sarasin, son Amanda Colehour and Dr. Dan Sarasin
(President of Temple Judah) is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar
Mitzvah.
2010:
Opening night of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2010: Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza launched a number
of rocket attacks on southern Israel today. At least four rockets and mortars
were fired at Jewish communities in the Gaza Belt region throughout the day,
including one attack on Kibbutz Nachal Oz. Several rockets exploded in the
Ashkelon Regional Council district. No one was wounded in any of the attacks.
One of the missiles appeared to be a special “import” (possibly from Iran)– a
more advanced version than the missiles usually fired at Israel that had
apparently been smuggled into the region
2011:
Bruce Sundlin, the second Jew to serve as Governor of Rhode Island “was buried
at Sons of David and Israel Cemetery (Temple Beth El Cemetery) in Providence,
Rhode Island”
2011:
The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host an Ice Cream
Social For New and Prospective Members
2011:
The Ritchie Boys Exhibit which will give visitors a chance to “witness how a
small group of misfit intellectual Jewish boys formed a US Army intelligence
unit and waged warfare against the Nazis during World War II” is scheduled to
take place at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan Guy
Stern, one of those "Ritchie Boys” is scheduled to attend the event.
2011:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including An Anatomy of Addiction:
Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel and the recently released
paperback edition of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters,
edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford
2011: A group of university students interrupted a Knesset
Finance Committee meeting in Ramat Gan today, as part of the current protests
against housing prices.
2011:
In New York, 85 year old Connie Kopelov married 76 year old Phyllis Siegel “the same day that a state law
took effect allowing same-sex couples to marry.”
2011(22nd
of Tammuz, 5771): Four days after Bella
Freud’s father, Lucien died, her 68 year old mother Bernardine Coverley lost
her battle with cancer and passed away today.
2011:
At the International Math Olympiad that came to an end today, “Israeli whiz
kids walk away from competition with 1 gold, 4 bronze medals, as Israel reaches
23rd spot out of 101 teams.”
2012(5th
of Av, 5772): Eighty-eight year old Irvin Faust, the high school guidance
counselor who found time to write novels and short stories that critics likened
to the magic realist fiction of South America” passed away today (As reported
by Douglas Martin)
2012:
“God’s Fiddler,” a documentary about Jascha Heifitz and “The Moon is Jewish”
are scheduled to have their west coast premieres at the San Francisco Jewish
Film Festival.
2012:
Marbin which first started in 2007 as an improvised music duo consisting of
Israeli-American guitarist Dani Rabin and Israeli saxophonist Danny Markovitch,
is scheduled to perform at the Bowery Electric in New York
2012:
Today, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said any attempt by Hezbollah to
attain non-conventional weapons from Syria would prompt Israeli military
intervention (As reported by Raphael Ahren)
2012:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the government will have to
raise taxes by August 1. He said the move was necessary to head off economic
crisis. His plan includes a hike in VAT, which is sure to cause friction with
protesters already concerned at economic inequalities in Israel. (As reported
by Michal Shmulovich)
2013:
The Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a screening of “REFUSENIK,” the
first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free
Soviet Jews
2013:
“Broadway Babes,” a musical revue that “is a tribute to the female voice on
Broadway” is scheduled to open at 9 pm in Modi’in.
2013: The exquisite dancers of L-E-V, including Sharon Eyal
herself, are scheduled to perform the provocative work HOUSE in its U.S. debut
2013(17th
of Av): Yarhrzeit of Isidor Bush, publisher of Israel’s Herald, a German language publication that was the first
Jewish weekly published in the United States.
2013(17th
of Av): Seventy-eight-year-old Art Ginsburg the founder of Art’s Deli passed
away today. (As reported by Steve Chawkins)
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-art-ginsburg-20130726-story.html
2013:Bravo
began the broadcast of fifth season of
“Top Chef Masters” with Ruth Reichl as one of the celebrity judges.
2013: Rabbis Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau defeated Shmuel Eliyahu
and David Stav to win ten-year terms as chief rabbis of Israel today, in a
victory for Shas and United Torah Judaism over religious Zionism and Bayit
Yehudi (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2013:
A middle-aged Jewish man was stabbed in the upper torso and arm during an
unprovoked attack in a public bathroom at Bloomfield Park in Jerusalem this afternoon,
allegedly by an Arab assailant (As reported by Daniel K. Eisenbud)
2014:
American-Israeli violist Gil Shaham is scheduled to perform at Tanglewood with
the National Youth Orchestra of the United States.
2014:
Today, visitors inspected “the destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah
in Mosul” under which archeologist “found a previously undiscovered palace
built in the seventh century BCE for the Biblical Assyrian King Sennacherib and
renovated by his son Esarhaddon.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/islamic-state-looting-uncovers-ancient-palace-beneath-jonahs-tomb/
2014:
Poet Davi Walders and Dr. Jenna Weissman Joselit the Charles E. Smith Professor
of Judaic Studies, The George Washington University are scheduled to speak at the luncheon
honoring Laura Cohen Apelbaum’s 20th anniversary as Executive
Director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.
2015:
Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to perform at the Koussevitzky
Music Shed in Lenox, MA.
2015:
Scheduled “Opening of the End of Year Exhibition of the Architecture Department
at1 Bezalel Street.”
2015:
“What European Studies owe to J. M. Cohen (1903-1989)” published today
described the literary contribution of this little-known translator.
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/european/2015/07/what-european-studies-owe-to-j-m-cohen.html
2015:
“Secretary of State John Kerry met today with the leaders of US Jewish
organizations in New York, with the Iran nuclear agreement taking center stage,
at the end of which the fears of the leaders which gripped them as Jews and as
Americans were not allayed.
2016:
“Aka Nadia” is scheduled to be shown at the 14th annual Hampton
Synagogue Film Series.
2016:
The first of the weeklong Great Jewish Books Summer Programs sponsored by the
Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to begin today.
2016:
“Tikkun” is scheduled to be shown for the last time at the Cleveland (Ohio)
Cinematheque.
2016:
It was announced today that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is scheduled to resign as
party chairwoman after her anti-Bernie Sanders e-mails were exposed. (As
reported by JTA)
2016(18th
of Tammuz, 5776): Tzom Tammuz observed.
2016(18th of Tammuz,
5776): Eight-six-year-old Polish born Australian businessman Abraham “Abe” Goldberg
who, in 1948 arrived in Australia where found the Linter Group and then became
embroiled in financial scandal passed away today.
2016:
“To Life!” a film about the reunion of two Holocaust survivors is scheduled to
be shown for the last time at the Reel in Borehamwood sponsored by the UK
Jewish Film.
2016:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt
and the recently released paperback editions of The Seven Good Years: A
Memoir by Etgar Keret and Days of Awe by Lauren Fox.
2017:
The 9th International Conference on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts and The
2nd International Conference on Phosphate Materials where Dr. Steve Feller of
Coe College in Cedar Rapids will honored is scheduled to begin at St. Anne’s
College, Oxford University.
2017:
Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to appear the San Francisco Jewish
Film Festival today following a screening of “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to
Power.”
2017(1st
of Av, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Av
2018(9th
of Av, 5778): Three days after he had passed away graveside services are
scheduled to be held this morning for eighty-nine year old Philip Rosen, the
Philadelphia born son Robert and Helen Rosen and husband of Lillian Schachter
Rosen who was “curator and educational director of what is now the Esther Raab
Holocaust Museum and Goodwin Education Center in Cherry Hill.
2018:
In Des Moines, IA, AIPAC is scheduled to host its “Iowa Annual Event” featuring
a speech by Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies whose major donors included Sheldon
Adelson.
2018:
DC Public Schools Interim Chancellor Alexander is scheduled to host a film
screening and panel discussion of Rosenwald: The Remarkable Story of a Jewish
Partnership with African American Communities. This powerful documentary tells
the life story of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish businessman and philanthropist who
partnered with Booker T. Washington to build more than 5,500 schools that
served African-American children in the south from 1915 – 1952.”
2018:
Karlie Kloss, who had converted to Judasim and Joshua Kushner, the venture
capitalist and brother of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump
“publicly announced their plans to wed” today.
2019:
Today, Israelis ponder a vague offer made yesterday by Hamas “to negotiate for
the return of Israeli MIAs and POWs” including the bodies of Hadar Goldin and
Oron Shaul who were killed five years ago during operation Protective Edge.
2019:
Bar-Ilan University is scheduled to host an International School Information
Session complete with Pizza.
2019:
In New York, the Quad City Cinema is scheduled to host a screening “The Other”
a Hebrew language fill with English subtitles that examines “the conflicts
between secular and ultra-Orthodox Israelis.”
2019:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of
“Curitz” a documentary about Michael Curitz who won the Oscar as best director
for “Casablanca” followed by discussion led by Eddie Muller, “founder and
president of the Film Noir Foundation.
2019: In San Francisco, the Castro Theatre is
scheduled to host a free screening of “The Rabbi Goes West,” a film “about a
haredi guy,” Chabad Rabbi Chaim Bruk, “who uproots himself from everything he
knows to move to” Montana.
2020: The Eden Tamir Center is
scheduled to present a live broadcast on Kan Kol Hamusika a concerter featuring
Itamar Feinberg and Tomer Rubinstein, “young outstanding pianists of the
Aldwell Institute who play selections from Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Haydn,
Brahms and Ravel.
2020: OneTable Live is scheduled to present Shabbat
Cooking with Top Chef Katsuji Tanabe
2020: The Breman Museum in partnership with the
Savannah Jewish Federation, Savannah Jewish Educational Alliance, and the
Southern Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host via ZOOM journalist and
author Ann Woolner as she “traces Georgia’s first Jews from the torture
chambers of the Portuguese Inquisition through escape to London and then onto a
forbidden voyage to Savannah.”
2020: After his appointment yesterday as the
chief of the national coronavirus task force, today Professor Ronni Gamzu may
begin to find out if his title as “coronavirus czar” is a public relations
euphemism or a reality.
2021: The Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host “The Best of Chamber Music” with violinist David Radzinsky, cellist
Simca Heled and pianist Miachel Zarsekel
2021: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host a live screening of the U.S. premiere of the 2019 World War
II concentration camp drama “Persian Lessons.”
2021: Urban Adamah is scheduled to host “A
Midsummer Night’s Tu B’Av,” an “in-person celebration of Jewish Valentine’s
Day.”
2021: Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen, who in recent
years have appeared on the biggest stages between Jerusalem and Morocco, are
scheduled to perform a Tu B’Av Virtual Concert.
2021: Rabbi David Freelund is scheduled to
leave in-person Shabbat services at Cape Cod Synagogue.
2021: Drama therapy student Tova Abelman is scheduled
to lead an online workshop for people experiencing pain related to their Jewish
identity, such as antisemitism or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
2021(15th of Av, 5781): Parashat
Va’etchanan: Shabbat Nachamu; Tu B’Av;
2022: As of
today, Israel’s economic picture is a mixed bag with tourism in Israel
is enjoying an exciting recovery with thousands of travelers expected this
summer while “after a record-breaking year, Israel’s tech sector is headed for
a slowdown, as hundreds of Israeli workers were laid off in recent weeks and
investments have dropped amid global economic uncertainty.”
2022: LSJS is scheduled to host “A Stroll
Through Bushey Cemetery: Celebrating Anglo-Jewry”
with Simon Goulden
2022: The National Museum of Israel is
scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Vivi Lachs on London Yiddishtown: A
Glimpse into the Jewish East End Through Yiddish Song and Story which is part
of the series In Her Majesty's Kingdom - Celebrating the Rich History of
Anglo-Jewry
2022: Duo Amal, an acclaimed
Israeli-Palestinian piano Duo of Yaron Kohlberg, President of Piano Cleveland,
and Bishara Haroni, who “bear testament to the capacity of music to transcend
conflicts that have proved intractable is scheduled to perform at the Cleveland
Museum of Art.
2022: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial
That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray with
David Fisher.
2023: In Swampscott, MA, Congregation
Shira Haaym is scheduled to hold “North
Shore Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament.
2023: Doctors are dealing with the aftermath of
implanting a pacemaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday morning.
2023: The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to
present “ Not Your Bubbe’s Book Club.”
2024: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Nancy Margulis is
scheduled to facilitate a discussion of the Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero
at the Hadassah Book Club meeting.
2024: Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to
address a joint session of Congress.
2024: Mosaic is scheduled to host a discussion with
Scott Abramson, Haviv Rettig Gur, and Jonathan Silver on the findings of the ‘Israeli
Commissions of Inquiry and October 7.”
2024: As July 24th 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 292 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
