This Day, July 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 27
1192: As
Richard the Lionheart and Saladin continued their conflict during the Third
Crusade, Saladin laid siege to Jaffa.
1214: French
King Phillip II defeats the forces headed by Otto IV, the Holy Roman Emperor
and King John of England at the Battle of Bouvines. For the Jews, this is
a lose-lose proposition. King John and King Phillip were both notorious
for the mistreatment of their Jewish subjects. Four years before the battle,
King John had locked a group of Jews at Bristol Castle and said he would only
free them if a 66,000-mark ransom were paid. King Phillip began
exploiting and expelling Jews from the start of his reign in 1180. At the
time of the battle, the king had actually allowed Jews back in his realm so he
could take further financial advantage of them. Otto gets a pass because
his relations with Jews are a “blank slate.”
1245: At the
First Council of Lyons Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor is deposed by Pope
Innocent IV, the pope who will condemn the Blood Libel in 1249 but who will
authorize the use of torture against Jews by Spanish inquisitors in 1252. The
First Council of Lyons would follow in the footsteps of the Fourth Lateran
Council and adopt decrees compelling Jewish creditors to renounce all claims to
interest on debts or similar ordinances which supposedly would encourage men to
“take up the Cross” and become Crusaders.
1290:
Following his edict expelling the Jews from England, King Edward issued the
following concerning how they were to be treated as they left the country. “The
King to all his wardens, officers and sailors of the Cirque ports, greeting…You
should ensure that their passage is safe and speedy…free from
danger.” According to Elliot Rosenberg, “the king meant what he
said. When a ship’s captain took passage money from a group of Jews, then
left them stranded on asandbank to drown at high tide, Edward ordered him
hanged.”
1400: King
Ladislas offered the Jews of Naples a charter which would give them economic
equality.
1420:
Sigismund of Luxemburg, who “drained the Jews of their wealth whenever he
could” celebrated his official coronation as King of Bohemia in Prague today.
1452: In
Vigevano, Francesco I Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti gave birth to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of
Milan who “expelled all the Jews from the duchy on December 3, 1490.
1588: After
having been driven back across “the Channel” the Spanish Armada anchored at
Calais where its leaders found out that the greatly reduced Spanish Army of
invasion was not ready to attack England which meant that the Inquisition was
still not a fact of life for the Netherlands and the British Isles.
1655: Jews in
New Amsterdam request a place to bury their dead. "Abraham de Lucena,
Salvador d'Andrade and Jacob Cohen, Jews in the name of the others, petition
the Honorable Director General this day to be permitted to purchase a burying
place for their nation…." Less than a year after arriving, the Jews of New
Amsterdam requested permission to open a cemetery in 1655. Permission was
initially denied and was finally granted a year later. Very often, the
formation of a burial society and the start of a cemetery preceded the
organization of the Synagogue or Temple. In fact, these community organizations
were often the progenitors of the house of worship which would follow as the
community grew.
1656: Spinoza
was excommunicated in Amsterdam. . Spinoza had been accused together with Juan
de Prado of denying the being of Angels, the immortality of the soul and that
the Torah was given by God. De Prado apologized but Spinoza refused. The
council forbade anyone to communicate with him in any fashion or to read any of
his books.
1671(20th
of Av, 5431) Abraham
de Fonseca ḥakam of the Portuguese community at Glückstadt, and later at
Hamburg and author of Ene Abraham” passed away today.
1754(8th
of Av, 5514): Parashat Devarim; erev Tish’a B’Av; Shabbat Chazon observed for
the first time during the French and Indian War.
1765(9th
of Av, 5525): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1772: In
Barbados, Daniel Baruch Louzado was discharged as the Chazan of Congregation
Kaal Kadosh Nidhi Israel.
1782(16th of
Av): Rabbi Jacob Raphael Hezekiah Hazak (Forti) author of Meginnei Erez passed
away
1789: Sir
Sampson Gideon, the “son of another Sampson Gideon, a Jewish Banker in the
“City of London” and advisor to the British government, “legally changed his
surname to that of Eardly” which lead to him be known as Sampson Eardly, 1st
Baron Eardley who was able to keep his seat in the Commons because his title
was Irish, not English.
1789: The
United States Congress creates the Department of Foreign Affairs which later be
renamed the United States Department of State. A Jew would not get the
top job at State until 1973 when Richard Nixon appointed Henry Kissinger to
position of Secretary of State.
1800: Ephraim
Levy Green and Eva Piepa gave birth to Sarah Green the wife of Isaac
Vallentine.
1822(9th
of Av, 5582): Parashat; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same
day that Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin, two of the leaders who freed
South America from Spanish Colonial rule me today in Guayquil, Ecuador.
1822: In
Leiden, The Netherlands, Benjamin Hartog Vos and Geertruida Isak van Raalte,
gave birth to Renetta Netje Benjamin Goldsmith the w ife of prof. Joel Emanuel
Goudsmit and the “mother of Marinus Theodorus Goudsmit; Boudewijn Casper
Goudsmit; Helena Geertuida Goudsmit; Frederick Carel Henri Goldsmith
(Goudsmit); Eduard Maurits Goudsmit; Geertruida Elizabeth Goudsmit; Henri
Rudolph Goudsmit; Ferdinand Gerardus Goudsmit; Cornelis Julius Goudsmit;
Geertruida Therese Goudsmit; Elisabeth Henrietta Goudsmit; Jan Herman Goudsmit;
Henriette Eveline Goudsmit and Alexander Lodewijk Goudsmit
1825: Forty-six-year-old
Jakob Salomon Bartholdy the Jewish born German diplomat who converted to
Christianity and was the brother-in-law of Abraham Mendelssohn passed away
today.
1827:
Birthdate of Stockbridge, VT, native and Rush Medical College graduate Solomon
Marks who during the Civil War rose from being a surgeon with the Tenth
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry to being the Chief Surgeon of the First Division
of the Fourteenth Army Corps and who after the war served as the “Chief Surgeon
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and the Chief Surgeon of St.
Mary’s Hospital for over thirty years.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/09/30/101756411.pdf
1830: One day
after he had passed away, Benjamin Wolfe was buried today at “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1831: Abraham
Abrahams married Julia Jacobs at the Great Synagogue today.
1836 (13th of
Av): Rabbi Abele Poswoler a leading Lithuanian Talmudist, “head of the Vilna
rabbinic court who had also supported the publications of works by maskilim”
including Mosdei Hokhmah by Hayyim
Zelig Slonimski passed away.
1839(16th
of Av, 5599): Parasaht Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1839:
Birthdate of David Kahn Hermann, who was buried at the Freudenburg Cemetery in Germany
when he passed away.
1842: Joseph
Latto married Rachel Solomon at the Great Synagogue today.
1843: In
Somos, Hungary, Emanuel Rich and Sara Gladstone gave birth to Adolphus W. Rich
the husband of Rosa Sidenberg, whose success in Wisconsin led to his being
named President of Congregation Emanu-El and to the founding of a “settlement
for Jewish farmers at Arpin, Wood County, Wisconsin.
1846: In South
Carolina, Marx E. Cohen and Armida Harby Cohen gave birth to Herbert Cohen who
passed away before he reached the age of two years.
1846: Joseph
B. Montefiore, his wife, nine daughters and two sons accompanied by two
servants arrived in Adelaide where he went into “business with his nephew
Eliezer Levi Montefiore as importers and shipping agents.
1849: In
Philadelphia, Adeline and Isaac Hyneman gave birth to Herman Naphtali Hyneman,
painter whose works included “It Might Have Been” and “Marguerite in
Prison."
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/12/24/106771708.html?pageNumber=7
1851: In Great
Britain, Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, née Cohen gave birth to
their only child, Hannah de Rothschild who would marry the 5th Earl
of Rosebery and become Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery.
1852: In
Manchester, England, Rebecca and Horatio Lucas Micholls gave birth to Edward
Montefiore Micholls, the husband of Ada Rachael Micholls.
1853:
Birthdate of Vladimir Korolenko, “one of the few Russian writers who created
positive Jewish images in his works, condemned the Kishinev pogrom” and the
trial of Menachem Belis.
1853: Jewish
architect Leopold Eidlitz and Lazelle Warner, his non-Jewish wife gave birth to
Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz who designed One Times Square and the New York Times
Building on Times Square.
1855: Today’s
issue of The Israelite was published
by Edward Bloch. Bloch replaced Charles F. Schmidt who had been
publishing The Israelite since it was founded by Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise in
1854. Bloch would also publish another publication founded by Rabbi Wise,
Die Deborah.
1855: On the
day before the death of Solomon Rothschild, the French poet Joseph Mery
"said in his weekly article: If I owned the Hotel of the Rue Lafitte
(Rothschild's) where ennui and lassitude reign undisputedly, I would do so and
so and it would the first time in which a million was ever of benefit to
mankind."
1857: The
“Foreign Correspondence” column reported today on the status of the “Jewish
Oaths Bill” now before Parliament, specifically, the House of Lords.
1859:
Birthdate of Hugo Ascher, the Neugard, Germany born “dental surgeon and
businessman” who was the husband of
Minna Luise Ascher and father of expressionist painter and Holocaust survivor
Fritz Ascher.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/if-not-for-the-nazis-he-may-have-been-the-next-leonardo/
1860: “Remarkable
Archaeological Discovery in Ohio” published today reported that “several
New-York Archaeologists have, within the past week, received various
communications concerning the discovery of a very curious stone relic, covered
with Hebrew inscriptions, said to have been found by Mr. Wyrick of Newark,
Ohio, in one of those artificial earthworks so numerous in that vicinity.” The
inscription on the stone, which may easily be rendered by any Hebrew scholar,
reads as follows
1. Kedosh
Kedoskim -- The Holy of Holies.
2. Torath,
Jehovah -- The Law of God.
3. Melec Erets
-- The King of the Earth.
4. Devar
Jehovah -- The Word of the Lord.
“Some have
suggested that the stone might be a Masonic emblem -- the keystone which Master
Masons anciently deposited in the corner-stone of their temples. (But,
unfortunately for this hypothesis, the shape is not the same.) Others have
supposed it furnished evidence of the presence of the lost tribes of Israel.
Copies of the inscription have been submitted to some of our learned Rabbis,
who generally agree that the above is a fair rendering of the text. But a
difference of opinion has been expressed with regard to the antiquity of the
characters, some carrying them back to the rime of Ezra, whilst others think
them more modern.” To date, there has been no agreement on the antiquity or
sources of the stone.
1860: “A
Jewish Republican Candidate” published today reported that “an expression
having been made in a Republican meeting, at St. Louis, that ‘even the Jews’
were represented on the Republican legislative ticket of Missouri, Mr. Isidor
V. Bush takes the remark as the text of a communication to the Democrat. Mr.
Bush is a Jew and a Republican candidate for the Legislature. He contends that
neither he nor his people have any personal or selfish ends to serve in
politics, but that the Jews unite their interests with those of the State. He
adds the following suggestive observations: ‘At the same time you will find the
Jews, with few exceptions, in favor of our party, and naturally so -- first,
from the impression's received in early youth by the teachings of the Bible,
(Exodus xxi., Deuteronomy xv., Leviticus xxv.) "And ye shall proclaim
liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof;"
secondly, from his own historic recollections. His daily prayers remind him
that his forefathers were slaves in the land of Egypt, freed and brought forth
by the Lord; and almost like slaves, worse than free negroes here, burdened
with exceptional laws, disfranchised, were our fathers -- are to this very day
millions of Jews in some other countries. From sympathy, therefore, the Jew
cannot and will not vote for those who enact such cruel, inhuman laws as the
selling of free Negroes into Slavery again.’"
1861(20th of Av, 5621): Parashat Eikev
1861: As Jews in the North and the South observed Shabbat six days after
the Rebel victory at Bull Run, President Lincoln replaced General McDowell, the
Commander of the Department of the Potomac with George B. McClellan, known as
Little Mac by his fans and the Little Napoleon by others.
1862: The
Richmond Enquirer printed in full what it terms "an eloquent
invocation for the success of the Confederate Army," which was pronounced
in the synagogue on Mayo-street ( Bayeth Ahabah) by Rabbi J.M.
Michelbacher.
"We give Thee thanks, O God of Israel for Thou hast brought the
vaunting and insulting army of our enemy to naught -- they boasted of strength
and valiant deeds, and Thou hast made them weak and caused them to flee. Their
wisdom and their cunning arts of war they exalted and enthroned as the minor of
might, to be reflected upon the numerous hosts that believed their standards to
anticipated triumphs; but Thou, O Eternal God of Israel; hast debased their
proud exaltation, and brought it down in its pride, its vanity and its
foolishness. Their vain and forward words were like the sound of threatening
thunder from an approaching and lowering cloud -- as to meet David, Thy
servant, so they come forth to the army of people who trust in Thee; and Thou
hast caused their threatenings and their vain is to be heard me more! For all
these manifestations of Thy divine care and goodness we desire, with of
hearts, to other the cure of our worship of thanks to Thee with dispositions of
joy and gladness in the presence of the country unity shining light of Thy
visible and emitting protection."
The following is its conclusion:
"O, God, continue Thy protecting care of our army -- and our soldiers
to deeds of self-sacrifice and value in the battles for the liberty and
independence of our country. Be with them, O Lord! in the lights and push them
with Thy right hand against the enemy, and give them a firm foot-hold upon the
trend, and let them think of Thee, and call upon Thy name, that they may be
always led to victory -- let one of them be as ten thousand in the sight of the
toe; and giant that in all engagements our soldiers may win the victory by the
presence of Thy countenance. O, God! the perpetuity of a patriotic and just
government, with counsellors and refers of wisdom, is a great blessing from
Thee to the people; therefore, we pray Thee, that the Government of the Confederate
States of America may be firmly established, and that Thou be unto it the rock
upon which it shall be founded. Let the nations of the earth respect and revere
it, and [???] its just resentment; let the dispensation of its laws be equal
and just, and let its exaltation consist in the righteousness of the people.
Protect and defend it from enemies abroad and foes within; and grant that the
hearts of the people may be ever turned toward Thee, both in the public and
private affairs of life. Grant that the Ministers of Government may have a
constant fear of Thee, and a continual desire to subserve the best interests of
the common welfare. We earnestly pray Thee to inspire the President of the
Confederate States of America with true piety, courage, wisdom, prudence and
foresight. Give unto him a just fear of disobeying Thy divine laws, and let his
heart do reverence at the mention of Thy great and glorious name, that our
people may be blessed in the Chief of their choice. Keep him in the path of
patriotism and rectitude, that he may be a model the people of an upright
citizen that [???] the Lord. Endow our Governor with all the attributes meet
and proper for his station; and let his private and official conduct redound to
the honor had best interests of the State of Virginia, and the happiness and
prosperity of the people.
1862: The
Knoxville Register reported that it has been informed that certain parties
in Huntsville, who were unpatriotic enough to sell their cotton to the Jews who
swarmed there from the North, were paid by them in bogus gold. “The galvanized
coating has worn off the pewter, and these gentlemen have lost their cotton as
effectually as if they had burned it like other true Southerners.”
1862:
Philadelphian Lazarus Belsinger began a three year enlistment with Company D of
the 28th Regiment.
1862:
Birthdate of Bialystok native Leo Wiener, the graduate of the University of
Warsaw and the Polytechnic of Berlin, who after coming to the United States
worked in New Orleans and Kansas City as “a day laborer and fruit peddler”
before becoming a Professor at the University of Kansas and then an Assistant
Professor in Slavic Languages at Harvard after which he wrote The History of
Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century.
1863: As the
United States implemented a draft during the Civil War that resulted in a major
riot in July of 1863, today a man, said to be a “Jew broker, made his
appearance in Westchester, Penn., accompanied by a dozen others, whom he
represented as anxious to serve as substitutes, for a consideration. Although
some of the men, it is said, boasted of having taken part in the New-York
riots, yet they were eagerly caught up by drafted men, and engaged at various
prices as substitutes. Two of the number were sharp enough to get their money
before being mustered in, and they immediately skedaddled. Four others were
accepted by the Enrollment Board, and sent to the barracks, but three out of
the number turned up missing the next morning. They were pursued by the Deputy
Provost-Marshall and by dint of threats, and the more powerful argument of a
loaded revolver, were induced to return, when they were lodged in jail for safe
keeping. Three others escaped, and have not yet been caught.
1863: Sgt.
Maj. Simon J. Arnold of Company K, 151st Regiment who was wounded on
the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg was mustered out of the Union Army
today.
1863: Jonas H.
Kauffman who had been serving as the assistant surgeon with the 151st
Regiment since November of 1862 was mustered out of the Union Army today.
1865:
Philadelphian Philip A. Barnet, who had been serving since January, 1864
completed his service as a Corporal with Company B of the Fifty-First Regiment
in the Union Army.
1865:
Philadelphian Henry Jacobs who had risen from the rank of Sergeant to Second
Lieutenant of Company F in the Fifty-First Regiment completed his service which
had begun in October of 1861.
1866(15th
of Av, 5626): Tu B’Av observed on the same day that the Trans-Atlantic Cable
successfully, connected “the Old World with the New.”
1868(8th of
Av, 5628): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1868:(8th
of Av, 5628): “Russian Hebraist and poet Aaron Jonathanson, the father of poet
Zebi Jonathanson and Jonathan Jonathanson, who writes “under the nom de plume
‘Kal wa-Homer’” passed away today in Kovno.
1868:
Birthdate of Milton S. Florsheim, the native of Chicago, Illinois who founded
the Florsheim Shoe Company in 1892.
1868:
Birthdate of Michael Adler, the native of Spitalfields and son of a tailor who
was the rabbi at Hammersmith Synagogue and then Central Synagogue in London
while also serving as the “Senior Jewish Chaplain in France during WW I and
authoring several works in Jews of Medieval England.
https://sarahfairhurstjmm.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/a-chaplain-in-the-trenches/
1870(28th
of Tammuz, 5630): Playwright and poet Hermann Hersch passed away today in
Berlin.
1871(9th of
Av, 5631): Tish’a B’Av
1874: In the District
of Columbia, Isaac Ottenberg, the son Bavarian born son of Rosa and Maier
Ottenberg and his wife Regina Ottenberg gave birth to Abraham Ottenberg.
1874(13th of
Av, 5634): Baron Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, the second generation
leader of the Austrian branch of the House of Rothschild passed away. Born in
1803 in Frankfurt am Main he was the son of Baron Salomon Mayer von Rothschild
and his wife Caroline. In 1826 he married his cousin Charlotte Nathan
Rothschild, daughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild from the London branch of the
family; they had eight children.
1875: Nathan
and Bertha Speer gave birth to Baltimore resident Moritz “Moshe” Speier the
husband of Jeanette Speirer.
1876: Two days
after she had passed away, Julia Solomon, the wife of Samuel Lawrence with she
had four children – “Jessie, Harriet, Solomon and Michael” – was buried today
at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1877(17th
of Av. 5637): Seventy-eight-year-old Morris Abrahams passed away today in
London.
1879: In the
wake of Austin Corbin’s announcement banning Jews from Manhattan Beach, it was
reported that “they are not prohibited on account of their religious principles
from buying Humphrey’s Parisian Diamonds” which are on sale at Humphrey’s
Jewelry Store at the corner of Broadway and 12th Street.
1879: “In
Galtati, Romania, Isadore Blank and the former Marian Greenberg gave birth Iowa
philanthropist Abraham Harry Blank, the founder of the Central States Theatre
corporation, the founder of the Raymond Blank Memorial Hospital for Children
and the father of Myron Blank.
1880: Theodore
Herzl passes his first legal exam.
1881: Forty-eight-year-old
Michael Meyer, a Jewish immigrant from Germany, lies in a hospital bed in
Jersey City fighting for his life. Meyer, a popular cattle driver, was
attacked by a bull this morning leaving him with crushed ribs and a mangled
right leg. Meyer, who lives in Brooklyn with his wife, had begun working
in the cattle business in Germany before coming to the United States.
1881: “The
Affairs of Russia” published today described the outbreak of new violence aimed
at the Jews of Pultava in the Ukraine.
1882: In San
Francisco, CA, nobody has seen Samuel L. Sachs since he shot his wife
yesterday. Sachs is the son of Louis Sachs and a partner in Sachs, Heller
& Co, a firm that specializes in importing dry goods.
1883:
Birthdate of Arkansas native Harry “Klondike” Kane, the southpaw who pitched
for the St Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies.
1884:
“Lessing” published today provided a summary of the writings and philosophy of
Gotthold Ephriam Lessing best known for “Nathan the Wise” that portrays
religious toleration in mythical meeting of a Jewish merchant, Saladin and a
nameless Templar during the Crusade.
1884:
Birthdate of Vilna native Max Perlman, the NYU Law School grad who practiced
law in Astoria while serving on the board of the Jewish Home for Convalescents
and being active in Republican Party Politics while being the husband of
Gertrude Hyams Perlman with whom he had one son, Franklin Perlman.
1885(15th
of Av, 5645): Tu B’Av
1885: “The
Russian Idea of Cowboys” published today described the offer of a Polish born
Jew living in Dallas, TX to supply to supply the Czar with 106 cowboys if he
should go to war with England. (Considering the oppressive treatment of Jews in
Russia, this is a bizarre offer to say the least.)
1885: In
Frankfurt am Main, Ida Flesch and Karl Ferdinand Moritz Flesch, a Doctor of
Jurisprudence, gave birth to Jacob Flesch.
1886:
Birthdate of Dubrovne native Avrom Kantor the journalist and translator who
part of the revolutionary movement in Russia.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/02/avrom-kantor.html
1886: The
United Kingdom Geneal Election, which led Lionel Louis Cohen being returned to
the House of Commons for the Paddington North constituency came to an end
today.
1887: It was
reported today in New York that Joseph Levy will act as business agent for
Booth-Barrett.
1887: It was
reported today that John Howson has been chosen to play the part of “the Jew”
in “Pawn Ticket No. 1,525) a play by Clay M. Green which is an adaptation of
the novel Court Royal
1887(6th of
Av, 5647): Long-time Brooklyn resident, Hirsch Harris who was known as “Rabbi
Hirsch” passed away today at the age of 109. A native of a small town near
Warsaw, Harris made his fortune making and selling kimmel a liqueur made from
cumin, fennel and caraway seeds. He came to the United States in 1850 where he
continued to enjoy success manufacturing kimmel. His nickname came from his
scrupulous observance of Jewish laws and customs.
1888:
Birthdate of Harry Pepper, the native of Austria who came to the United States
in 1896 and became a successful realtor in Daytona Beach, FL where he was also
a leader of the Jewish community serving as the “President of the Hebrew
Charity Society” and a member of B’nai B’rith
(While this
date is from the American Jewish Archives other sources give his birthdate a
July 7, 1855)
http://aportraitofthejewishcommunity.weebly.com/early-jews-in-daytona-beach.html
1888: The
managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children have collected $179 to pay for
next week’s excursion. Since the children are poor and the excursions are
free, the public can send additional donations to Nathan Lewis, Hezekiah Kohn
and Joseph Davis.
1889: The
general public is invited to attend the upcoming lecture by Cyrus Adler of
Johns Hopkins University that will be delivered at the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York City.
1889: It was
reported today that the 5th free excursion sponsored by the
Sanitarium For Hebrew Children will take place next week. The cruise will
be limited to children six years and younger.
1890(10th
of Av, 5650): Tish’a B’Av
1890: In St.
Petersburg, Russia, the Minister of the Interior “has ordered the local
authorities to prevent foreign missionaries from” proselytizing among the Jews
since it infringes on the Orthodox Church’s “exclusive right of conversion
“
1890: “A Queer
Sort of Victory” published today described the victory of the workers led by
Joseph Barondees over the Cloak Manufacturers Association during a season of
strikes that spread throughout the New York area.
1891: Members
of the United States Immigration are scheduled to leave Great Britain for the
European continent where they will continue their investigation into abuses of
the system including the practice of buying cut-rate tickets for Russian Jews
to sail for America so they will not remain in France and England.
1891: The U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury received a communication from Simon Wolf and Lewis
Abraham written on behalf of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
objecting to Russian Jewish immigrants being classified as “paupers or assisted
immigrants” “when hands of help to elevated them to the exalted position of
American citizenship without demanding any contributions from national or local
taxes.”
1892: The New York Times reported that
Washington Nathan had died in France. Nathan was the son of Benjamin
Nathan, the prominent New Yorker who was murdered in 1870. The murder has
never been solved. There are those who think that the son was involved in
his father’s murder.
1892: Police
continue to scour the area around Pittsburg looking for other anarchist who may
have been part of the plot in which the Jewish-born anarchist Alexander Berkman
shot Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Steel Strike.
1893: The
funeral of Priscilla J. Joachimsen, President of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and
the widow of Judge Joachimsen is scheduled to take place this morning.
1893: Fire
broke out this afternoon at 123 Clinton Street, a double tenement occupied by
sixteen Russian-Jewish families when the stove of Mrs. Morris Lewenthal
exploded. Her husband operates a butter and provision store on the ground
floor next Meyer Norman’s poultry and meat store.
1894: In
Minneapolis, MN formation of Council No. 9 of the National Council of Jewish
Women with Nina M. Cohen serving as President and Mrs. Mamie Lehmaler serving
as Secretary. (Council No 10 would be
formed at Duluth in September and Council No. 11 would be formed at St. Paul in
October giving the state three chapters of this major national Jewish women’s
organization.
1895:
Birthdate of Victor George Paradise, the native of St. Louis who became an
investment broker with Kuhn, Loeb in NYC.
1895: Herzl
leaves Paris and will never return as a resident. He will become an editor for
the Neue Freie Presse at a reduced
salary.
1895(6th of
Av, 5655): Austrian physician Karl Bettelheim passed away.
1895: The
resolution adopted by the Council of the University Settlement Society of New
York published today expressed the members’ sense of loss at the death of Abram
C. Bernheim and acknowledged his contributions including the organization of
the first free art exhibition on the Lower East Side which has become an annual
event.
1896: In
Baltimore, MD, Ida and Perez Tarshish gave birth to Allan Tarshish, the husband
of Mildred Weiss Tarshish and brother of Rabbi Jacob Tarshish.
1896: Today
Joe Bernstein “met Dolly Lyons, a well-known Jewish Bantamweight and
Featherweight in an eight-round draw at the Palm Athletic Club in New York.”
1897:
“National Jewish Chautauqua” published today described events at the second
assembly which is meeting at Atlantic City including Dr. Henry Berkowitz’s
report on the work of the society and a talk by Dr. M.H. Harris on Ezra the
Scribe
1898: Twenty-three-year-old
Tobias Geffen, the Kovno born son of Joseph and Kune (Strauss) Geffen, who
began serving Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, GA in 1910, married
Hannah Rabinowitz today.
1898(8th
of Av, 5658): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1899: This
evening at mass meeting in Cooper Union, Morris
Hillquit, the son of an ethnic Jewish factory owner living in Riga and a member of the new National Executive
Committee of the Socialist-Labor Party “undertook to explain the principles and
workings of the party’ and “warned al working men to steer clear of the newly
organized political party.’’
1900(1st
of Av, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Av
1900: Birthday
of Károly Vidor, the WW I veteran of the Austro-Hungarian Army who gained fame
as director Charles Vidor whose works included a remake of “A Farewell to Arms”
and who was married to Doris Warner, the daughter of Harry Warner (one of the
Warner Bros.) at the time of his death.
1900: Karl
Low, the Czech born son of Helene and Daniel Low and his wife Rosa Low gave
birth to Paul Low.
1901(11th
of Av, 5661): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1901:
Birthdate of Sataniv native Sol Liptzin, the Yiddish and Hebrew language expert
and husband of Anna Ohrsenstein Liptzin who “was a founder of Bar-Ilan
University and Jerusalem University College.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/liptzin-sol
1901: “Zionist
Was Rebuked” published today described an episode at a meeting of the Jewish
Chautauqua Assembly when “Clarence I. De Sola, President of the Federation of
Zionist Societies of America and Canada took exception to a remark by Dr.
Kohler” who said that “the Zionist movement tended to disunited the Jews…”
1902: As the
debate over whether or not Yiddish is a jargon which was triggered by the New
York School Board’s decision to offer a series of lectures in Yiddish, “Whether
Yiddish is a ‘Jargon’” published today takes issue with the contention that
Yiddish is a language because six “great daily newspapers in New York use
Yiddish and contends that Yiddish is jargon as defined by the Century Dictionary
which defines jargon as being a mixture of two or more discordant languages”
which in this case would be German and Hebrew.
1903: It was
reported today that Dr. Reginald John Campbell, the past of the City Temple in
London, had praised Nathan Strauss for his “philanthropy in providing
sterilized milk free of cost to the poor in New York.”
1904(15th
of 5664): Tu B’Av
1904:
It was reported today that the New York Festival Chorus and the Ocean Grove
Festival Chorus are scheduled to sing “Elijah” by Felix Mendelsohn tomorrow at
Ocean Grove, NJ.
1905: The
seventh annual Zionist Congress opened today in Basle, Switzerland. Dr.
Max Nordau was elected President at the afternoon session and Rabbi Judah L.
Magnes was elected as Secretary of the English-speaking section.
1905: Birthdate
of Avnerne, NY native and Dartmouth College graduate Robert L. May, the convert
from Judaism to Catholicism who “was
best known for creating the fictional character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
1906: Today,
the Jewish Chronical reported that Yiddish has been “recognized as European
language in the education immigrant in the Cape Colony, S.A.
1907(16th
of Av, 5667): Parsashat Vaetchanan: Shabbat Nachamu
1907: Eighty-six-year-old
Confederate veteran and KKK grand dragon Edmund Pettus, the name sake for the
bridge over which Rabbi Joshua Heschel and “dozens of Rabbis from Reform to
Orthodox” marched in a line led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis to
protest against racism in demonstration that played a direct role in the
passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, passed away today.
1907: In
Vienna, Dr. Armand Ahron Noach Kaminka, the Ukraine born son “of Wolf and Sura
Beile Kaminka” and his wife Klara gave birth to Irene Nekhama Kaminka who
gained fame as Dr. Irene Nekhama Fischer, the wife of Dr. Eric Fisher.
1907: Police
Recorder Hyman Lazarus of Bayonne, NJ ordered that 38 year old milkman Harry
Smith who has been accused of attacking a nine year old girl be held without
bail until the Grand Jury had convened adding at the end the proceedings that
“if such as you were lynched this assaulting of children would stop.”
1908: In Milan
Italian socialist Claudio Treves and his wife gave birth to Italian politician,
publicist, political scientist, academic and anti-fascist Paolo Treves.
1908: Today
great typhoon struck Hong Kong one year almost to the day that Sir Mathew
Nathan ended his service as Governor of the Colony marking him as the only Jew
to hold that position.
1909(9th of
Av, 5669): Tish'a B'Av
1909: In
Cologne, Eugen Löwenstein, a German Jewish lawyer and his wife gave birth to Hilde
Palm (née Löwenstein) who wrote under the pseudonym Hilde Domin.
1909: In
Dunedin attorney Henry Brash (born Hyam Brasch) and Helene Mary Fels gave birth
to Charles Orwell Brasch New Zealand poet and patron of the arts.
1909: Turkish
Parliament passed a law allowing Jewish societies to have the privilege of
purchasing land in their own names.
1910: Today
Saks and Company, which was founded by Andrew Sakes and incorporated in 1902,
advertised the sale of The Mendel Wardrobe Trunk for Men and Women ranging in
price from $45 to $100.
1911: In
London, the First Universal Races Congress, an anti-racist organization which
discussed the “Jewish Question” continued to meet for a second day.
1911:
Birthdate of New York City native Edward Ralph Schlesinger, the holder of an
M.D. from Columbia and “Maser of Health degree from Johns Hopkins” whose career
peaked when he was named “head of the maternal and child-health programs at the
University of Pittsburgh” and who was married to Sylvia Schlesinger with whom
he had two children – Stephen and Anne Louise.
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/22/archives/e-r-schlesinger-63-child-health-expert.html
1912(13th
of Av, 5672): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu was observed for the last
time during the Presidency of William Howard Taft whose administration was
caught up in the issue of the treatment of American Jews trying to do business
in Russia.
1912: Godman
Korff and Jacob Israel Korff, gave birth to Rabbi Samuel Isaac Korf, the
husband of Anna Twersky and the son-in-law of Rabbi Nachum and Malcha Twersky,
who was the spiritual leader of Congregation Kehillath Jacob in Newton” and “a
founder of the Associated Synagogues of New England.”
1912: NYU
trained lawyer Meyer Greenberg, the son of Tessie Pukarch and Henry M.
Greenberg and an organizer of the Order of United Hebrew Brothers married his
second wife, Pauline Reeves, today.
1913(22nd
of Tammuz, 5673): In Waterloo, Iowa, Lena Jones, the mother of Mrs. Sidney
Simon and Mr. James Jonas, passed away today.
1914: On the
same day that Great Britain told the Central Powers that she would be forced to
side with Allies if broke out, the Kaiser returned from his yachting vacation
to meet with his war council where for the first time according to some, the
German leader realized the enormity of the situation.
1914:
Birthdate of “Auguste “Gusti” Huber, who according to her second husband “an
officer in the U.S Army was "the first Austrian actress to be cleared by
the American military government" which made it possible for to come to
the United States where she “was critically acclaimed as Edith Frank in the
1956 production of The Diary of Anne Frank, a role she reprised in the 1959
film of the same name. (Editor’s note -
some were upset by this since in American Heritage Magazine article we find “In
Vienna before the war she [Huber] had refused to work with a Jewish actor and
director, and in Germany during the war she had continued to make movies under
the Third Reich. ... At the very same time Anne was murdered in Bergen-Belsen,
Gusti was busy shooting a screen comedy. ... But Huber was a Broadway star and
[the charges against her] never ... gained traction.”
1915: “A
training school for Jewish communal workers” which has enabled “those engaged
in Jewish charitable labors to exchange views” and has featured such speakers
Dr. Ludwig B. Bernstein, Miss Lillian D. Wald and Professor Mordecai Kaplan” is
scheduled to come to an end today
1915: During
WW I, in Berlin, Albert Einstein was among a group of 91 prominent German
intellectuals who signed a declaration opposing all territorial annexations and
calling for a compromise peace
1915: Thirty-four-year-old
Columbia University trained educator, Dr. Isaac Leon Kandel, the Romanian born
son of Abraham and Fanny Kandel married Jessie S. Davis today in Manchester,
England.
1916: It was
announced today that many of the philanthropic organizations working in New
York City had come together to form The Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies. The new organization should increase efficiency both in
the soliciting and distribution of funds. Based on the experience of
other cities, there should be a 30% increase in the amount of money
raised. Abram I. Elkus, whom President Wilson recently named to serve as
Ambassador to Turkey is the Chairman of the new federation. Alfred M.
Heinsheimer kicked off the donation process with a contribution of $25,000.
1916 Ed Wynn
the Jewish comedian whose career ran from Vaudeville to Television and Hilda
Keenan gave birth to actor Keenan Wynn.
1916(26th
of Tammuz, 5676: Private Solly Littman, the Russian born son of Polly and
Abraham Littman was killed in acted today at Longueval while serving with the
23rd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers after which he was buried in
the Delville Wood Cemetery.
1917: In
Nikolaev (also known as Mykolaiv), authorities denied the demand of workmen
under the control of the Black Hundreds to dismiss Jewish laborers employed by
the Admiralty Committee and “dismissed the ringleaders from government employ.”
1917: “After
deliberating for more than six hours” last night a jury found Joseph Cohen
“guilty of instigating the murder of poultry dealer Barnet Baff, found Abraham
Graff guilty “of manslaughter in the first degree” in connection with the death
of Baff and acquitted Jacob Cohen, Joseph Cohen’s brother and David Jacobs.
1917: In
London, the War Office announced “the formation of a special Jewish regiment of
infantry with experience officers in the higher commands” that will be open to
Jewish soldiers already serving with British regiments who speak Russian or
Yiddish.
1917: Although
they had been residents for decades, Austrian Jews were expelled by Oppeln and
Breslau.
1917: In the
United Kingdom, the police raided the offices of the Foreign Jews’ Protection
Society and arrested “two leaders of the movement on charges of conspiring to
defeat the Military Service Act as applied to aliens”
1917: It was
reported today that “the reactionaries who strongly oppose the Bolsheviks but
who agree with them in their anti-Semitic propaganda are working together in
this matter. (Anti-Semitism – the glue
that holds Western Civilization together.)
1918:
Birthdate of Washington, D.C. native Leonard Rose, the concert cellist with the
New York Philharmonic from 1943 to 1951.
http://www.cello.org/cnc/rose.htm
1918: “Near
Croix Rouge Farm, northeast of Chateau Thierry, in an action at Hill 212”
Private Abe Levinson, while serving as a lookout observed the Germans setting
up a machine gun position and then after “waiting until they were within close
range, exposed himself to heavy machine gun and artillery fire and succeeded in
killing or disabling the crew of two machine guns” which saved “his company
from suffering heavy causalities.”
1919: The 21st
Annual Convention of the Progressive Order of the West opened in Chicago under
the leadership of Grand Master Samuel Epstein.
1920: Keren
Hayesod (Eretz-Israel Foundation Fund) was created in London at the London
Zionist Conference. It was intended for education, absorption and the
development of rural settlements in Eretz-Israel.
1920: In New
York, Russian immigrants Sasha (Sam) Cherry and Ida (Agranovitch) Cherry, a
dentist turned homemaker gave birth to “Vivian Cherry, a photographer whose
gritty black-and-white images of street scenes recall a bygone era in New York
City…” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1920: Chaim
Weizmann was elected president of the World Zionist Organization.
1920: After
Faisal had been defeated and deposed by the French, he left Damascus which
would eventually lead him to Haifa, the port city that would provide him with a
safe refuge.
1921: Jewish
members of the Assembly have petitioned the government in Vienna to overrule an
edict issued by the communal authorities in Efferding in Upper Austria say that
“no Jew shall remain longer than 24
hours in Efferding” “saying that the
edict is contrary to the law and also to the minority clause of the Peace
Treaty” that ended WW I.
1921: Lord
Northcliffe, the owner of the London Times who is scheduled to spend
today golfing in Westchester County, NY, has told four leading Zionists that Palestine “is a
very poor country” and that he does not think that “it would be wise to send
too many Jewish immigrants there until the conditions have been improved” so
that they can earn a living.
1922: In New
Haven, CT, “Jeanette (née Seicol) and Hyman "Herman" Lear, a
traveling salesman” gave birth to Norman Milton Lear, the man who made Archie
Bunker a national institution, who created the “Jeffersons” which provided a
acting vehicle for numerous Afro-American performers and who got Americans to
look at their own prejudices.
1923: “A new
kind of balance of power, more likely to keep the world in a ferment of trouble
than to preserve peace was described today by Henry Morgenthau, former
Ambassador to Turkey in address today at the opening session of the Institute
of Politics in Williams College.
1924: In “Long
Lost Jews of China to be Sought and Aided” published today, it was reported
that “if a movement now on foot among wealthy Jews in Shanghai, China, backed
by influential support in the United States, is successful. Jewish colonies in
China that have been virtually cut off from the Western World for more than a
thousand years will again be brought in touch with the main body of their race.”
1924:
The Eighth Olympic Games close in Paris. The 1924 Olympics were the focal
point of the movie hit “Chariots of Fire” which featured the struggle of Harold
Abraham to gain social acceptance and athletic success. The real Abraham
had lost in his attempt to win a medal in the 1920 Olympics. In 1924, he
surprised everybody by winning the Gold Medal in the 100 meter race, making him
the first European to win in one of the sprint competitions.
1925:
Birthdate of Marion “Meg” Dulin, a native of Vinton, Iowa, who served with the
423rd Medical Collecting Company during World War II and “was among the young
Americans who entered Buchenwald Concentration Camp to free prisoners” an event
that must have been of some significance in his life since it was specifically
mentioned in his obituary when he passed away in July, 2009 at the age of
83. While there are those who have been quick to criticize America for
its lack of effort to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust, Dulin is an
example of the American G.I.’s who literally liberated the remnant of our
co-religioinst from “the Night.”
1926:
Birthdate of Bernard Harper Friedman, known as Bob to his friends, “a real
estate executive who gave up his business career to write well-received novels
and art criticism and whose books include an early biography of Jackson
Pollock.”
1926: In Neve
Tzedek, Tel Aviv, Miriam Rokach and Joseph Katzenelbogen-Katz gave birth to a
fifth generation Israeli Dahlia Greidinger, a pioneer in Israel’s Chemistry
Industry and the wife of Coleman Greidinger.
http://wertheimer.info/family/GRAMPS/Haapalah/ppl/6/7/aff72bf8660312a4976.html
1927(29th
of Av, 5687): Less than two months before his 67th birthday, Solomon
Joseph Solomon the acclaimed artist who was the brother of Lily Delissa Joseph,
who was also an artist, passed away today.
http://underpaintings.blogspot.com/2011/09/color-palettes-solomon-j-solomon-1860.html
1928: For the
second time Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On the Ritz” was “registered as an
unpublished song.”
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/fred_astaire/puttin_on_the_ritz___crazy_feet/
1929(19th
of Tammuz, 5689): Parashat Chukat-Balak
1929(19th
of Tammuz, 5689): Fifty-six year old Buffalo, NY native David Abram Ellis the
Harvard trained lawyer who was a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary
passed away today in Boston.
1929:
Birthdate of Alan Lloyd Haberman, the native of Worcester, MA, who led the
industry committee that chose the bar code over other contenders in 1973.and
then spent years afterward cajoling manufacturers, retailers and the public to
accept the strange new symbol, which resembles a highly if irregularly
compacted zebra. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1930: U.S.
premiere of Le Miracle des Loups, a French silent film directed by Raymond
Bernard where it was known by its English subtitle “The Miracle of the Wolves.”
1930:
Birthdate of Anthony Janoff Weiner, the New Jersey native who became a noted
futurist after he co-authored The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on
the Next Thirty-three Years (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1931: In what
would be the first step down the long road of appeasement, Ramsay MacDonald,
the first Prime Minister to visit Berlin since WWI, expressed his admiration
for the country and its “intellectual, moral and economic powers.
1931: Dr.
Morris Levine, the Associate Professor of Otology at Columbia University, who
has been selected to make “an extensive study of the effect of the Near Eastern
climate on eye, ear and nose diseases” is enjoying is second day on board the
S.S. Exeter which is taking him to Palestine for a six month visit to Palestine
and other near eastern countries.
1932: In
today’s diary entry, 18-year-old Hermann Pressman described his visit to Strent
Bart Mittlesi, an Atlantic City-like resort.
1933: Isaac
Babel, the Soviet writer who had become disillusioned with the Stalinist regime
and gone to visit his estranged wife and daughter in Paris in 1932 wrote a
letter to a friend today saying that “he had been summoned to Moscow and was
leaving immediately” a decision that would eventually lead to his being shot as
a traitor and spy in 1940.
1934(15th
of Av, 5694): Tu B’Av
1934: A
dispatch to The
Times
from Palestine calls the attention of the British Government and people to the
fact that the Jewish national home is turning out to be something very
different from what they expected and even from what the first Zionists
expected. The Anti-Jewish Campaign in Germany has sent a flood of immigrants to
Palestine. In the meantime the Revisionists appear to be gaining recruits and
support.
1934: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services were held to for 68 year old Louis
Ziv, the Russian born American attorney and the husband of Mary Ziv with whom
he had five children – Sylvia, Lawrence, Royal, Seymour and John – at Beth El
Temple in Chicago where he had been president of the congregation followed
“burial in Waldheim Cemetery.”
1935(26th
of Tammuz, 5695): Parashet Matot-Masei
1935:
Producer, director and writer Ernst Lubitsch, who was working as the production
manager for Paramount Pictures married “British actress Vivian Gaye” with whom
he had a daughter Nicola 3 years later.
1935: After
184 performances at the Belasco Theatre, the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “Awake and Sing”
written by Clifford Odettes and directed by Howard Clurman with a cast that
included “Luther Adler (Moe Axelrod), Stella Adler (Bessie Berger), Morris
Carnovsky (Jacob), John Garfield (Ralph Berger) and Sanford Meisner (Sam
Feinschreiber).
1935: As the
condition of German Jews continues to deteriorate an “article entitled ‘Finish
Up with the Jews’ urges German girls to wake up and not go with Jews any
longer.” Equating social interaction with economic activity, the article
continues, ‘German woman, if you buy from, and German girl if you carry on with
Jews, then both of your betray your German Volk and its Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler,
and commit a sin against your German volk and its future.’”
1936: The Palestine Post reported that 12
Arabs were known to have been killed in a battle with British troops in the
hills, off the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. Barbed-wire barricades and other police
precautions were evident in Jaffa as Arabs observed the 100th day of their
national strike and uprising. The Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline and railway lines
were damaged and the government imposed heavy collective fines on villages
suspected of sabotage. Arabs attacked Ramat Hakovesh and other settlements near
Kfar Saba but were beaten off.
1936: It was
reported today the “chief obstacle to large scale emigration” of the threatened
Jews of Europe “was the rigid immigration laws of those countries offering the
best prospect for permanent settlement” of which South Africa is the sole
exception since it “did not offer grave obstacles.”
1936(8th
of Av, 5696): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1936: It was
reported today that “Jews throughout the world beginning at sunset” will
observe Tisha B’Av the fast day commemorating the destruction of the Jerusalem
1,867 years ago.
1936: Governor
Alf Landon, the Republican candidate for President met with Chicago businessman
Max Epstein, Lewis L. Strauss of New York and J.A. Harzfeld of Kansas City
after which they signed a statement for public distribution exonerating the
Governor of all charges of intolerance and describing as a man who has always
“had a deep hatred for all bigotry and injustice toward minority races and
religions.”
1937 A
ritual-murder trial of five Jews opened today in Bamberg, Germany.
1937: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services for “Dr. Jacob Diner, founder and
first dean of the Fordham University College of Pharmacy,” the husband of Hilda
Diner and father of Milton Diner and Mrs. Irene Koenigsberger are scheduled to
be held this morning at Riverside Memorial Chapel.
1937: It was
reported today that “the American Jewish Historical Society” in New York “has
received as a gift from its President Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, a collection of
about 600 volumes of Yiddish periodices and books in memory of his mother, Mrs.
Isabella H. Rosenbach” who had help found the society in 1892.
1937:
“Rustler’s Valley” a western featuring Lee J. Cobb as “Cal Howard” was released
by Paramount Pictures in the United States today.
1938(28th
of Tammuz, 5698): Arthur Benjamin Cohn, the Arkansas born son of Theresa and
Mathias Abraham Cohn and husband of Pauline Fox Cohn passed away today.
1938: The
Federation of Polish Jews in America sent a telegram to the Italian Ambassador
protesting his government’s order expelling Dr. I. David Kleinlere, a Polish
citizen and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s correspondent in Rome from Italy,
stating that he “has proven himself for a period of fifteen years a fair,
accurate and objective publicist.”
1938: This
afternoon, Eleanor Roosevelt, the President’s wife, “visited a thrift shop
maintained by the women’s division of the Greater New York Campaign of the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee” which had opened to raise money
for the Jews in Germany and Austria, (FDR frequently used his wife to show
support for activities that would have been politically toxic for him.)
1939:
Birthdate of Eldad Davidovics who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
1939: David
Wetheim, the executive secretary of the Poale Zionist Labor Organization
addressed a dinner tonight “attended by five hundred people at the Palestine
Pavillion at the World’s Fair” which was “a farewell party for thirty-four
Zionist labor delegates who will be” attending the meeting of the World Zionist
Congress in Geneva.
1940: “They
Drive by Night” a pre-war film noire produced by Mark Hellinger, with a
screenplay by Jerry Wald and was featuring George Tobias as “George Rondolos”
was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.
1940: With Mel
Blanc providing the voice Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated
cartoon A Wild Hare. The Bunny had the voice of the Jew without a
Yiddish accent.
1941: German
and Rumanian troops entered Kishinev, Soviet Union. Five thousand Kishinev Jews
would be executed within a week.
1941(3rd
of Av, 5701): Jews were taken from the Kovno and executed by Lithuanian militia
at the Seventh Fort.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/06.asp
1941(3rd of Av, 5701): In retaliation for Jewish resistance, 1,200 Jews were
taken from Belgrade to the labor camp at Tasmajdan. One hundred twenty of them
were taken to Jajinci and shot. In other words, one out of every ten captives
is shot. The reality is that they would all have been killed at some point in
time as part of the Final Solution.
1941: A second
pogrom known as the "Petliura Days”, which had been named for Symon
Petliura came to an end. “For three straight days, Ukrainian militants
went on a murderous rampage through the Jewish districts of Lwów. Groups of
Jews were herded out to the Jewish cemetery and to the prison on Łąckiego
Street where they were shot. More than 2,000 Jews were killed and thousands
more were injured.”
1941: The
clothing of Jews murdered in Ponas, Ukraine, is sold by the Ukrainian and Nazi
killers
1941: In
Holland, a collaborationist military force with ties to the SS, Freiwillingen
Legion Niederlander (Dutch Volunteer Legion), is established.
1942: The
Nazis take Rostov for a second time, touching off another wave of slaughter for
the Jews that would take the life of Sabina Spielrein, the first female
psychoanalysts.
1942: The
Germans distributed a proclamation stating that any Pole or Ukrainian who tried
to help a Jew would be shot.
1942(13th
of Av, 5702): Thirty-three-year-old Russian-born French philosopher Valentin
Feldman who was a member of the French Resistance “called out to his firing
squad ‘Imbecile, it is for you that I die’ just before he was murdered by the
Nazis today.
1942(13th
of Av, 5702): Eighty-one-year-old Seraphine Eppstein Pisko who played an active
leadership role at the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver from
1911 until her retirement in 1938 passed away today.
http://digital.library.du.edu/findingaids/view?docId=ead/b242.xml
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pisko-seraphine-eppstein
1942: The
first Belgian Jews arrived at Mechelen. The ancient fortress in this small town
between Brussels and Antwerp was actually the first stop for the Jews being
transported to Auschwitz. The Jews thought they were going to work in factories
in the East. Mechelen would serve as the collection point. Each time a thousand
Jews were brought together, a train would leave for the death camp in Poland.
1943: While
combing the ruin of the Warsaw Ghetto for loot, the Germans uncovered hidden
Jews, most of who are shot on the spot.
1943:
“Undercover” a British made movie about guerrilla’s fighting Nazis in
Yugoslavia produced by Sir Michael Balcon was released in the United Kingdom
today.
1943:
The Leon Group escaped from the ghetto in Vilna. The Leon Group was made
up of 21 Jewish partisans under the command of Joseph Glassman. Michael
Kovner, brother of Abba Kovner was a member of the group. The Leon Group
was the first group of what were intended to be many groups of partisans that
Abba Kovner would send into the woods beyond Vilna to take part in guerilla
warfare against the Nazis and their allies. As the group of 21 made the
fifty mile trek to the forests they were ambushed. Nine of the Jews died
in the brief, uneven fight. A search of the corpses produced the names
and addresses of the victims.
1943: A Nazi
operation to liberate deposed Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, led by
Otto Skorzeny, a favorite of Adolph Hitler who later became a “hitman for
Mossad” was foiled today.
1944: Siauliai,
Lithuania, is liberated by the Red Army, 12 days after German deportations of
7000 local Jews and the murder of 100 left behind.
1944: Dvinsk,
Latvia, is liberated by the Soviet Union two years too late to save the Jewish
community. When the Germans occupied Dvinsk at the end of June 1941, the Nazis
organized a Pogrom. Synagogues were burned down or taken over by the army. A
ghetto was set up in July 1941 including Jews from the surrounding localities.
In October, 1941, most of the Jews in the Ghetto were murdered and the Ghetto
was liquidated in May, 1942
1944: The Wehrmacht
retreats from Lvov, Ukraine. Only a few of the city's Jews, many of them hiding
in sewers, have lived through the German occupation
1945(17th
of Av, 5705): Shakne Epshtein, the “Jewish-Russian journalist
and the secretary and editor of the Eynikayt (Unity) the newspaper
published by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee who championed the creation of a
Jewish republic in the Crimea passed away today.
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/E/epstein-shakhne.htm
1945: Sir Stafford Cripps began serving as President of
the Board Trade which led to him attending the Potsdam Conference where he expressed the
“opinion through economic development Arabs and Jews would learn to cooperate”
and that “with a view to an independent Palestine, we must partition the
country temporarily in order to safeguard the interests of the Jewish people.”
1946(28th of
Tammuz, 5706): Seventy-two-year-old Gertrude Stein passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0203.html
1946: Theodore Levin received his commission to serve as a judge on the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan He served as
chief judge of that court from 1959 to 1967, and thereafter served until his
death.
1946: In Metuchen, New Jersey, Helen and Stanley Cowen gave birth to Scott
Cowen who served as President of Tulane during the challenging times brought on
by Hurricane Katrina.
1947(10th of Av, 5707): Tish’a B’Av observed since the 9th
of Av fell on Shabbat
1947: “Fecund Musical Century” published today provided a review of Music
in the Romantic Era by Alfred Einstein.
1947: Jews who had tried to enter Palestine aboard the Exodus, observed the
fast of Tish’a B’Av as the Empire Rival
transported them back to France.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/16.asp
1948(20th of Tammuz, 5708): Forty-four year old S.J. “Skid”
Simon the native of Harbin who gained fame as a bridge player and author of
comic works including Don't, Mr. Disraeli passed away today.
http://www.ebu.co.uk/biographies/sj-simon
1948: “Hatikvah” which had served as an icebreaker and cutter for the U.S.
Coast Guard and had carried “illegal” Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1947
completed its service as part of the Israeli Navy today after which it was sold
for scrap.
1948(20th of Tammuz, 5708): Fifty-two year old Joel Woolf
Barnato, the British financier, racing driver and RAF veteran passed away
today.
1949: In Brooklyn, Irving and Clarice Chaykin gave birth to Maury Alan
Chaykin, Canadian character best known to many for his portrayal of detective
Nero Wolfe. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1949: In a move that surely would not have set well with Henry Ford, “The
Ford Motor Company and the Israeli Government ended two months of negotiation
today with an agreement that will bring an initial consignment of $4,000,000
worth of cars, trucks and parts to” Israe;
1950: New
Zealand recognized Israel.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel
had asked the UN Security Council to instruct Egypt to open the Suez Canal for
Israeli cargoes and shipping "permanently and unconditionally." Final
plans were made for the new Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem,
including a 430-bed hospital, a nursing training school and nurses' home and a
medical school.
1952: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this morning for Rebecca “Becky” Potofsky the
mother of Sylvia, Hyman and Julius Potofsky and a ‘descendant of Rabbi Joseph
Shapiro” followed by interment at Mount Judah Cemetery.
1952(3rd
of Av, 5712): Fifty-eight-year-old Russian born American author Yehuda Guz
Rifkin, the resident of New York who “a contributor to several Jewish daily
newspapers in New York” passed away
today.
1953(15th
of Av, 5713): Tu B’Av
1953: King
Hussein of Jordan declared that east Jerusalem was the ‘alternative capital of
the Hashemite Kingdom.’ In fact, the Jordanians would do all they could
to discourage development of the portion of Jerusalem they had occupied since
1948.
1953: “Colonel
Jonathan de Sola Mendes, an exemplary member of Congregation Shearith Israel's
Spanish & Portuguese community and veteran combat pilot who served in WWII
(100 missions; two Air Medals) and Korea (70 missions; 8 Air Medals, including
the Distinguished Flying Cross), where he flew the last US Marine Corps Mission
today.”
1955(8th
of Av, 5715): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1955(8th
of Av, 5715): A plane bound for Israel was shot down by Bulgaria. Fifty one
passengers and seven crew members were killed. This episode took place at the
height of the Cold War when such incidents were not that uncommon. The plane
was flying from Vienna to Tel Aviv when Bulgarian fighters forced the El Al
plane to land at Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital. As the plane was circling to land,
it was shot out of the sky by the Bulgarians. The Israeli government claimed
the bodies and buried them in Israel. The episode provided opponents of El Al
with an argument for doing away with a national airline as a luxury the infant
state could not afford. But the government stuck to its guns. There were no
other such incidents and El Al continued to fly.
1955: Forty
year old Pinchas Porat who was one of Israel’s pilots who flew with 101
Squadron died today while serving as the co-pilot aboard El Al Flight 402 which
was shot down by Bulgaria.
1956:
Birthdate of Carol Leifer, an American comedian, writer, producer and actress
who describes herself as a Jewish lesbian vegan.
1956(19th
of Av, 5716): Sixty-nine-year-old Rabbi Samuel Plutzik the native of Minsk who
came to the United States in 1905 and has served as “head of the teaching staff
of the Talmud Torah of East New York in Brooklyn for twenty years” passed away
tonight after suffering a heart attack.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/07/29/107156538.pdf
1958(10th
of Av,5718): Tish’a B’Av observed
1959(21st
of Tammuz, 5719): Seventy-three year old Colonel Max Robert Wainer, a native of
Zitomir, Russia who came to the United States in 1887 and answered his
country’s call in two world wars earning the French Legion of Honor “for his
service on General John Pershing’s General Staff” in WW I and serving as
“Chairman of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Board at Fort Lee” during WW II passed
away today in Havertown, PA after which he was buried at Arlington National
Cemetery.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/29/89228200.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1960: “Pay or
Die,” a biopic featuring Zohra Lampert and with music by David Raskin was
released today in the United States.
1961:
Birthdate of Israeli performer Erez Tal whose “first
hit program was "Ma Yesh" ("What's Up"), broadcast on Galatz,
Israel's Army radio.”
1962: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services
are scheduled to be held this morning in New York for Eugen Meyers, the husband
of Edna Meyers.
1964(18th of Av, 5724):
Seventy-eight-year-old Ida Farber
Epstein, the daughter of Anna Frida Farber, the wife of Solomon Epstein whom
she married in 1907 and the mother of Isadore and Morris Epstein passed away
today after which she was buried in Lakewood, WA.
1966: Birthdate of Judah Benjamin Pushkin, whose life
would be cut short at the age of 19,
1967(19th of Tammuz, 5727): Sixty year old
Lillian Klein Pollack, the native of Pittsburgh who moved to New York when she
married Milton Pollack passed away today.
http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/klein-family/
http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/photo/the-lillian-and-milton-pollack-family/
1968(2nd
of Av, 5728): Seventy-five-year-old Czech architect Otto Eisler passed away
today a Bron.
1969(12th of
Av, 5729): Seventy-three-year-old Vivian de Sola Pinto the British poet who
served at Gallipoli in World War and who “appeared for the defense in the
obscenity trial regarding Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960 passed away.
(For the ultimate literary experience consider the during WW I he served in a
company in which he was second in command to Siegfried Sasson – were the orders
in prose or poetry)
1969: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held tis afternoon at Temple Beth Miriam in
Elberon, NJ for eighty-one-year-old Milton S. Erlanger, the Baltimore born son
of Charles and Rebecca Erlanger the husband of Alene Stern Erlanger, the woman responsible for the formation of the
Canine Corps during WW II with whom he had a son and two daughters
Charles and
Rebecca Erlanger gave birth to Johns Hopkins lacrosse player and textile
executive Milton S. Erlanger, the husband of Alene Stern Erlanger “who was
responsible for the formation of the Canine Corps during WW II and with whom he
had a son and two daughters.
1969: As
Operation Boxer continues “several 109 Squadron Skyhawks carried out a
nighttime attack.”
1970(23rd
of Tammuz, 5730): Eighty-four-year-old poet Jean Starr Untermeyer, “the former
wife of poet Louis Untermeyer” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/untermeyer-jean-starr
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/part2/untermeyer02.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-starr-untermeyer
1972: After
896 performances at the Palace Theatre, the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “Applause” “a musical with a book by Betty Comden and
Adolph Green” and a cast that included Lauren Bacall and Bonnie Franklin.
1973: Two days
after he had passed away, sixty-one-year-old South Africa native and Zionist
pioneer Louis A. PIncus the first managing director of El Al Israel Airlines
and the “chairman of the executive of the World Zionist Organization and the
Jewish Agency for Palestine” is scheduled to be “interred with state honors
this morning on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, near the graves of earlier leaders of
the Zionist movement
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aryeh-louis-pincus
1975(19th
of Av, 5735): Less than a month after celebrating his 82nd birthday,
WW I veteran David Berton Eisenberg, the Seboygan, WI, born son of Max and
Natalie Eistenberg who attended Marquette and the Armour Institute of
Technology, served for almost thirty years as President of the Graphic Arts
Publishing Company and was the husband of the late Natalie Marcus, passed away
today.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the US
State Department sought to downplay the significance of its contacts with the
PLO, stressing that they were only "technical" and designed to assure
a safe departure of American citizens from Lebanon. The management of the Koor
Industries decided to close the Steel City until further notice, after one of
the workers, unhappy with his job, locked the gates and accompanied by his wife
stopped 900 workers from entering the factory.
1977: “Dire
Straits” featuring David Knopfler as rhythm guitarist “recorded the now famous
demo tapes of five songs: "Wild West End", "Sultans of
Swing", "Down to the Waterline", "Sacred Loving" (a
David Knopfler song), and "Water of Love".
1978(22nd
of Tammuz, 5738): Ruth Apfelbaum, the “daughter of Lena Geller” passed away.
1979: Zuheir
Mohsen, head of PLO military operations was killed by unknown parties as he
exited a casino in the fames French resort of Cannes.
1980(14th of
Av, 5740): A Jewish boy from France was killed and others were injured
when terrorists threw grenades at a group of children in Antwerp, Belgium.
1981: Today, Secretary
of the Navy John Lehman who had been looking for away to force Admiral Rickover
to retire “was handed the final impetus for ending Rickover's career by way of
an operational error on the admiral's part: a "moderate" loss of ship
control and depth excursion while performing a submerged "crash back"
maneuver during the sea trials of the newly constructed USS La Jolla.”
(Editor’s note – Rickover was Jewish; Lehman as not.)
1981(25th of
Tammuz, 5741): Award winning movie director William Wyler passed away. There is
no way that this blog can do justice to his career.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/alt.obituaries/Wx2KzqNjebo
1982: Two months after opening “Off-Off-Broadway” Little Shop of Horrors
is a horror comedy rock musical, by composer Alan Menken opened “Off-Broadway
at the Orpheum Theatre in Manhattan’s East Village” today.
1982(7th of Av, 5742): Sixty-six-year-old Dr. Albert Dorfman,
the holder of a PhD in Chemistry and an MD from the University of Chicago and a
WW II Army Veteran who “discovered the cause of Hurler’s Syndrome and who was
the husband of the former Ethel Steinman and the father of Abby and Julie Dorfman
passed away today.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dorfman-albert.pdf
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dorfman-albert.pdf
1984: Dorothy “Fuldheim's long and distinguished career, where, at age
91, she still conducted interviews and read commentaries on-air three times
every day, ended when she suffered a stroke today, shortly after interviewing
U.S. President Ronald Reagan via satellite”
1985(9th of Av, 5745): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1987(1st of Av, 5747): Rosh Chodesh Av
1987(1st of Av, 5747): Eighty-year-old
painter Alma Binion Schapiro, the wife of investment banker and chess master Morris A.
Schapiro and the mother of Daniel and Linda Schapiro who was the Brooklyn born daughter of Edward and
Martha Esther Cahn passed away today in London, England.
1990: U.S. premiere of “Flatliners” a “sci-fi horror thriller” directed
by Joel Schumacher.
1991: “The Pit and the Pendulum” a horror film starring Frances Bay as
“Esmeralda” and Mark Margolis as “Mendoza” was released in the United States
today.
1991: TV Guide publishes its 2000th
edition. This icon of American culture was created by Jewish millionaire
publishing magnate Walter Annenberg.
1992(26th
of Tammuz, 5752): Seventy-two-year-old Marjorie Guinzburg Fribourg, the
Chappaqua, NY born son of Ralph Kleinert Guinzburg and Edna Louise Stern
Guinzburg and the wife of Arthur H. Fribourg whom she married in 1941 passed
away today after which she was buried at the Quantico National Cemetery in
Quantico, VA.
1993(9th
of Av, 5753): Tish’a B’Av
1993: “The
Senate today confirmed the nomination of Arthur Levitt Jr., President Clinton's
selection as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.”
1993: The
Senate confirmed the nomination of Joseph Stiglitz to serve on President
Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers.
1993: Alan
Blinder began serving “on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers”
today.
1995: In “Dead
Birdie” published today, Gerald Thomson pans the Davis Production of Charles
Strouse’s musical “Bye Bye Birdie.”
1995(1st
of Elul, 5755): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1995(1st
of Elul, 5755): Seventy-nine-year-old Hungarian born Holocaust survivor and
lawyer Stephen Jeffrey Roth, the “head of the Institute of Jewish Affairs in
London” and the husband of Eva Gondos passed away today.
https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-stephen-roth-1596303.html
1996(11th
of Av, 5756): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1996(11th
of Av. 5756): Eighty-four-year-old Columbus born Yale graduate and WW II
veteran Fred Lazarus 3rd, the son of the founder of the Federated
Department Stores and descendant of Simon Lazarus who married Diane Zins
Lazarus after the death of his first wife Irma, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/us/fred-lazarus-3d-84-retailing-executive.html
1997: The Sunday New York Times features a
review of Bloomberg by Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg
1998: G. Oliver Koppell, a
candidate for the Democratic nomination for state attorney general, attacked
two of his rivals on of which was Elliot Spitzer, today for accepting campaign
contributions from members of the Tisch family, which controls the Lorillard
Tobacco Company.
1998(4th
of Av, 5758): Ninety-five-year-old English actress Binnie Barnes whose father
George Barnes was a Jewish policeman in London passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/arts/binnie-barnes-95-actress-known-for-her-feisty-roles.html
1999: Detroit
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus and his wife Liz gave birth to their second
daughter, Abigail
2000: Medieval
Hebrew Poetry in its Religious and Secular Context, a colloquium sponsored by The
European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) came to an end.
2001: “Planet
of the Apes” part of a series of science fiction films with a music by Danny
Elfman was released today in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
2002: John
Phillip Key “assumed office as a Member of the New Zealand Parliament for
Helensville.”
2003: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including History of
Britain by Simon Schama, Support Any Friend by Warren Bass and My
Anecdotal Life: A Memoir by Carl Reiner.
2004(9th of Av, 5746): Tish’a B’Av
2004: A revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
Fleet Street” opened today at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England
2006(2nd of Av, 5766): Ninety-five-year-old Alexander Safran
the former chief Rabbi of Romania and chief Rabbi of Geneva passed away today
after which he was buried in Israel next to his wife Sarah.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/world/29safran.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0
2005: “Attorney General Menachem Mazuz announced that he would indict
Omri Sharon, a member of Parliament and the son of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
today on allegations of violating campaign finance laws, forging corporate
documents, breaching trust and lying under oath, according to an online report
by the newspaper Haaretz”
2005: In “Personal Complexity Amid Global Anxiety” published today
Richard Eder provides a complete review of The Task of This Translator by Todd
Hasak-Lowy who “teaches modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Florida.”
2006: The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the
attack on 59 year old Dr. Daniel Yaakobi whose burned body was found today in
the trunk of his car.
2006: Shemi Zarhin’s “Aviva, My Love” was released today in Israel.
2006: Police interrogated Haim Ramon for seven hours today, the same day
on which, in an unrelated matter he said "Everyone in southern Lebanon is
a terrorist and is connected to Hezbollah”
2006: During the first round of what would become his 15th tour title,
Jewish golfer Corey Pavin broke the record for the fewest number of strokes
needed to complete nine holes at a PGA Tour event, with an 8-under par score of
26.
2006: Yaakov Edri “was named Minister without Portfolio responsible for
Jerusalem Affairs.”
2007: Brad Ausmus “recorded his 100th career stolen base today, becoming
the 21st catcher all time to record that many steals.”
2007: “Bravo network” broadcast the final episode of “Hey Paula” starring
Paula Abdual.
2007: Toby
Press publishes the thirtieth anniversary edition of Brothers by Chayym
Zeldish.
2007: In
Jerusalem, Zubin Mehta leads the Israel Philharmonic in a concert to celebrate
the birthday of philanthropist Edmund Safra and the 40th anniversary of
united Jerusalem.
2007: Ralph A.
Alpher awarded the National Medal of Science, the highest such honor in the
United States, which was presented to his son Dr. Victor S. Alpher because he
could not travel to receive the award due to failing health.
2007: The U.S.
Post Office released a full-sheet pane of Marvel Super Heroes. Ten of the
stamps are portraits of individual Marvel characters and the other 10 stamps
depict individual Marvel Comic book covers. According to the credits printed on
the back of the pane, Jack Kirby's artwork is featured on: Captain America, The
Thing, Silver Surfer, Amazing Spider-Man #1, The Incredible Hulk #1, Captain
America #100, X-Men #1, and Fantastic Four #3
2008: The Saul
Steinberg: Illuminations travelling exhibition, which displays original
Steinberg works at various museum and galleries around the world has its final
showing the Fondation Cartier-Bresson, in Paris.
2008: In “A
Modest Proposal: Eco-Friendly Stimulus” published today Alan S. Blinder
described the “Cash for Clunkers” program.
2008: The Sunday New York Times book section
featured a review of Moral Clarity A
Guide for Grown-Up Idealists
by Jewish author Susan Neiman.
2008: The musical “A Catered Affair” with a book by Harvey Fierstein who
also starred in the production which “won the Drama League Award for
Distinguished Production a Musical was performed for the last time today.
2008(27th of Tammuz, 5768): Eighty-four-year-old Mexican
multi-millionaire Isaac Saba Raffoul, the son of an immigrant from Aleppo,
passed away today.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/M12Y.html
http://www.respectance.com/Isaac_Saba_Raffoul/
2008: The Washington Post book
section featured reviews of a children’s book entitled Little Brother by
Canadian born Jewish author Cory Doctorow and The Fall and Rise of the
Islamic State by Noah Feldman.
2008: In The Washington Post, “The Poet’s Choice” column
features reviews of the work of Jewish poet Allen Grossman including "A
Pastoral," "The Piano Player Explains Himself" and
"The Work" from The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected
2009: In Jerusalem, it is Open Mic Night In
English at the Off the Wall Comedy Basement on Ben Yehuda Street.
2009: In Jerusalem, Agite Drive plays Balkan
music at the Biblical Zoo aka, The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens (Biblical
Zoo)
2009: Newsweek magazine reads like a copy of the Forwards with a spate of articles about Jews and/or of special interest to Jews
including “Israel Fights Wire With Wire,” “Hit Squad vs. Mossad,” “The
Israel Trail,” about a 600-mile footpath “that ambles from the country’s…border
with Egypt…to the edge of Lebanon”, a profile on the views of economist
Joseph Stiglitz and the semi-positive quote from “the normally pessimistic
economist Nouriel Roubini” that “the light at the of the tunnel, for once, is
not an incoming train.”
2010: Random House is scheduled to publish Gary
Shteyngart’s third novel, Super Sad True Love Story today.
https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/dr-lionel-kopelowitz-jp-mbe-1.495410
2010: As part of WJFF Year-Round, a creening
of Eli & Ben is scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C.
2010: After a 29-year hiatus, the Annual
National Bible Quiz for Adults is once again underway with 2,078 contestants
taking part in the first round in Jerusalem today.
2010: “Junk food junkies” were saddened today
at the passing of 90-year-old Morrie Yohai, the “developer of Cheez Doodles.
(As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/business/03yohai.html
2010(16th of Av, 5770): Sixty-one-year-old
character actor Maury Chaykin, passed
away today in Toronto. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/arts/29chaykin.html
2011: Rabbi Mordechai Becher is scheduled to
deliver a lecture entitled “Two Great Jewish Mystics – The Ramcal and the
Maharal of Prague at the Philadelphia Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square.
2011: YJAM-Young Jewish Adults of Milwaukee is
scheduled to provide a free nosh for those attending the Battle of the Bands at
River Rhythms.
2011: Planet Money reporters Alex Blumberg and
Adam Davidson are scheduled to offer a practical and humorous field guide to
America's economic future at Washington’s Sixth and I Historic Synagogue.
2011: Today, the French
Foreign Ministry circulated comments made by its minister Alain Juppe last week
saying that any solution to the Middle East will need to recognize Israel as
the nation-state for the Jewish people.
2011: Histadrut chairman
Ofer Eini pledged support today for demonstrators protesting across the country
for affordable housing, saying the Histadrut would join protests "at all
levels" if the government did not invite the labor organization to discuss
real solutions to the issues facing the middle and lower classes, Israel Radio
reported
2011(24th of Tammuz, 5771)):
Ninety-three year old Admiral Maurice “Mike” Rindskopf, a hero of the Silent
Service during WW II passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi and
Emily Langer)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/us/07rindskopf.html
2012: Donald Sanford, the
400 meter runner, is scheduled to be part of the Israeli team representing the
Jewish state at the Olympics which open today in London.
2012: The Tel Aviv
International Children’s Festival which features 30 films for children between
the ages of 3 and 13 is scheduled to come to an end today.
2012: The public is
scheduled to join Leket Israel’s gleaning initiative where participants can
pick vegetables for distribution to Israel’s needy at Moshav Nahal. (For more
pre-Shabbat fun see www.janglo.net )
2012: Since the IOC has
sided with the killers and decided against “a moment of silence” to honor the
memory of those slaughtered at 40 years ago at Munich the following
prayer composed by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is scheduled to be offered by many Jews
throughout the world
2012: The faces of the 11
murdered Munich Olympians, flashed on the screen in Israel as the Israeli
delegation marched into the stadium.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/2012-olympics-opening-ceremony-live-from-an-israeli-point-of-view/
2012: Terrorists fired
two Kassam rockets from Gaza into southern Israel this evening. The rockets landed
in an open field. No injuries or damage to property has been reported. Security forces
are scanning the area looking for the fallen rockets.
2012: “The Watch” the
second film directed by Akiva Schaffer, produced by Shawn Levy with a script by
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg was released in the United States today.
2012: Ninety-eight-year-old
Tony Martin, the son of Polish immigrants, whose singing career spanned eight
decades passed away today. (As reported by Frank J. Prial)
2013: The Arab-Hebrew
Theatre is scheduled to present “Eyes based on the works of Palestinian Poet
Mahmoud Darwish in New York City.
2013: “Joe Papp in Five
Acts” is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Avital Raz is
scheduled to debut her newest album in Jerusalem.
2013(20th of
Av, 5773): Seventy-seven-year-old Rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet passed away
today.
http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/2285972/jewish/Rabbi-Jacob-Immanuel-Schochet-77.htm
2013(20th of
Av, 5773): Eight-six-year-old pioneering television newsman Herbert Kaplow
passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2014: In a sign of that
summer is ending, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its Religious School
In-Service.
2014: “A Serious Man” and
“The Big Lebowski” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film
Festival.
2014: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center and the ADL are scheduled to host
“Family Day” where attendees can explore identity through art.
2014: The New York Times
reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird, Good
Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story by Jack Devine and Vernon Loeb, Lucian
Freud: Eyes Wide Open by Phoebe Hoban, The Golden Age Shtetl: A New
History of Jewish Life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and The
Essential Ellen Willis edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz.
2014(29th of
Tammuz, 5774): Twenty-seven-year-old Sergeant First Class (Res.) Barak Fefael
Degorker fomr Gan Yavne died today from wounds he suffered last night during a mortar attack. (“In life they were loved and admired; they
were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.”)
2014: “Vic Alhadeff, the
chief executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, stood down today
as the part-time chair of the NSW Community Relations Commission just two weeks
after an email he sent accusing Hamas of “war crimes” triggered outrage among
Arab and Muslim organizations.” (As reported by JTA)
2015: In Tel Aviv, at
Midnight the “6th Annual Tisha B'Av by Candlelight on the Beach - Eicha, Story
& Songs of Jerusalem” is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: The U.S. Coast
Guard said today that it had extended the search for two missing boys, one of
whom was Perry Cohen, the son of Pamela Cohen, whose “empty boat was found
adrift” off the coast of Florida two days ago.
2015: The European
Maccabi Games are scheduled to open today in Berlin “at a site constructed by
the Nazis for the 1936 Olympics.” (As reported by David Rising)
2015: Forty-six-year-old
Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg the head of Orot HaAri Yeshiva who “was arrested at Ben
Gurion Airport on July 1 while waiting to catch a flight to Brazil” was charged
today in the Nazareth District Court, with “rape, indecent assault, sexual
harassment, fraud and obstructing an investigation.” (As reported by JTA)
2015(11th of
Av, 5775): Eighty-six-year-old Samuel Pisar, the native of Bialystok, who
survived Majdanek, Auschwitz and Dachau to graduate from Harvard, advise
American and French presidents and create the text for Leonard Bernstein’s
symphony ‘Kaddish’” passed away today. (As reported by Steven Erlanger)
2015: Forty-six year old
Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, “a Safed rabbi was indicted on 13 counts of grave sexual
crimes against women who had turned to him with religious questions.” The charges include rape, indecent assault,
sexual harassment, fraud and obstructing an investigation, Ynet reported.
2016: Today, the State
Department announced that Secretary of State John Kerry would visit the Middle
East, including Egypt and Qatar, to discuss” the Iran nuclear deal “but would
not visit Israel.”
2015: This year’s winners
of the MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence included Israeli Keren Katz
whose work will be on display at an exhibition scheduled to open today.
https://kerenkatz.carbonmade.com/projects/5475597#1
2016:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and the Institute
of Judaic Studies are scheduled to cosponsor “Free Voice of Labor—The Jewish
Anarchist,” a documentary film about “the Jewish anarchists of the early 20th
century in the New York garment industry and their Yiddish newspaper Freie
Arbeiter Stimme.”
2016: The Center for
Jewish History and Brooklyn Institute for Social Research are scheduled to host
the final session of “Primo Levi: Memory, Meaning, and the Holocaust” in which
Dr. Suzanne Schneider examines the transformation of Primo Levi from an Italian
chemist to an internationally renowned author who wrote movingly about his
experiences at Auschwitz and the aftermath of the Holocaust.
2016(23rd of
Av, 5776): Parashat Ekev
2016(23rd of
Av, 5776): Ninety-year-old Elena Doria (born Elsie Marie Goldberg), the
Director of the Metropolitan Opera’s Children’s Chorus” passed away today. (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
2016: President Obama who
according to press reports was the one who told Debbie Wasserman Schultz she
had to resign as chair of the DNC and who kept the money flowing to Israel for
its defense during the second worst economic downturn in American history and
Vice President Biden are scheduled to speak at the Democratic National
Convention this evening.
2017: “The Nate D.
Sanders auction house” announced this evening that “a famous photo of Albert
Einstein, sticking out his tongue at a photographer and signed by the renowned
scientist, has been sold for £95,000 ($125,000).”
https://static.timesofisrael.com/jewishndev/uploads/2016/06/Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg
2017: In London JW3 is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Graduate” marking the 50th anniversary of
Mike Nichols’ classic film starring Dustin Hoffman with music by Simon and Garfunkel.
2017: Documentary
filmmaker Joe Berlinger, whose latest work is “Intent to Destroy” is scheduled
to receive the Freedom of Express Award at the San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival today.
2017: “Letters from
Baghdad” a documentary about the “true story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq” is
scheduled to be premiere at The Screen in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Landmark
River Oaks Theatre in Houston, TX.
2017: The Carmelite Order
is scheduled the feast day in honor Titus Brandsma, the Dutch Carmelite friar
and outspoken critic of the Nazis who was murdered at Auschwitz on July 26,
1942.
2018: “Pitch Point
Jerusalem” and “The Wild Pear Tree” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem
Film Festival.
2018: “Sheldon Silver, a
former New York Assembly speaker who brokered legislative deals for two decades
before criminal charges abruptly ended his career, was sentenced today to seven
years in prison by a judge who said political corruption in the state must
end.”
2018: At noon today, JW3
is scheduled to host a screening of “Tracking Edith” in London.
2018: As RAGBRAI reaches
Iowa City/Coralville, Agudas Achim and Chabad are each scheduled to host a
Shabbat Eve Dinner for “riders, families, friends and team mates.”
2018(15th of
Av, 5778): Tu B’Av or in English simply the 15th Day of Av which was
“originally a post-biblical day of joy, that served as a matchmaking day for
unmarried women in the second Temple period which went virtually unnoticed for
almost 2,000 years before being “rejuvenated in recent decades, especially in
Israel as Jewish Day of Love which at least one sabra likened to Valentine’s
Day but which has “no formal legal status.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tubav.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/53680/jewish/15th-of-Av.htm
http://www.israeldailypicture.com/
2019(24th of
Tammuz, 5779): Parashat Pinchas;
2019: Deb Levin wakes up
in her own home for the last time and, unbeknownst to her and all of us who
loved, takes what would be last trip to the hospital in Iowa City.
2019: The Museum of
Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host a preview performance of “Hanna Senesh,”
“a one-women show that tells the true story of this heroic Jewish woman.”
2019: The Maltz Museum of
Jewish Heritage of is scheduled to host the Katz Family Re-Union.
2019: The San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the “West Coast Premiere” of
“Standing Up, Falling Down.”
2019: Observance “within
the Carmelite Order of the feast day Father Titus Brandasma” the Dutch
Carmelite who died at Dachau because of his outspoken opposition to the Nazis
and who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1958. (Editor’s note – Since this
coincides with Shabbat you would hope that a rabbi somewhere would find this as
a useful topic for a sermon.)
2020: “Singer-songwriter
Itai Gal s scheduled to perform music that blends ecstatic singing, folk, funk
and klezmer to raise money for the Louisville NAACP.”
2020: The Jewish
Community Center of Greater Columbus (OH) is scheduled to host, virtually, the
first day of the John Diebler Basketball Camp.
2020: The Center of
Natick is scheduled to present “Jewish-Themed Socially Distant Outdoor
Activities” for youngsters from ages six to twelve.
2020: POV is scheduled to
host a screening of Rachel Lea Jones and Philllipe Bellacihe’s film “The
Advocate,”
2020: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host “Countdown to Catastrophe” a conversation with Jay
Winik and Chris Wallace, the FOX newsman and author of Countdown 1945.
2020: Case Western
Reserve University is scheduled to host online the first session of “Jews and
Revolutions” with Josh Meyers, the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard
University.
2020: As Israelis prepare
to face a new day, they are confronted with the realty that when it comes to
the coronavirus, the contagion rate is 9.8% which indicates “that every tenth
person who tests for the virus turns out to be infected.
2021: Trudy Gold is
scheduled to present a webinar by Trudy Gold on “Napoleon, the Jews and Jewish
Identity.”
2021:
The Marin Summer Yeshiva during during which “six Chabad rabbis lead three days
of study on myriad topics such as mindfulness, Torah calligraphy, the
significance of Tefillin and Mezuzot, Torah parchment making and Chassidic
texts and teaching” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host “Close Encounters” with Harvard astrophysicist Avi
Love.
2021: The Breman Museum
is scheduled to present “Jewish Influence on Flamenco in Music, Dance, and Song
featuring Live Flamenco Music, Dance, Song and Stories.”
2021: The YIVO Institute
is scheduled to host Anna Szyba delivering a lecture in Yiddish on “The New
Jewish School and Its Role in Educating a New Generation of Jews in Poland.”
2021: The JFCS Holocaust
Center is scheduled to present a special look into the Stanley Steyer
collection at the Tauber Holocaust Library & Archives with Stanley's
daughter, Helen.
2022: S.F. Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled present a screening of “Perfect Strangers,” a 2021 Israeli drama about seven longtime
friends whose innocent game evolves into a “conflagration of earth-shattering
revelations.”
2022: Lockdown University
is scheduled to host David Makovsky presenting a webinar on “The Biden Middle
Visit: An Assessment and a Look Ahead.”
2022: The Jewish Heritage
Museum of Monmouth County is to host
online or in person, “Coming to America,” multimedia program will shake up the “from
shtetl to America” story and enrich it with history about the fantastic global
traders of La Nación, Portuguese Jewish world explorers, and others such as
Moses Cohen Henriques present by Marc Diament.
2022: The Combined Jewish
Philanthropies is scheduled to present a virtual information session about
CJP’s $100,000 Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund.
2023: As part of the
observance of Tish’a B’Av Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead a video and
discussion of the classic work, Maus by Art Spiegelman, "Unveiling the
Holocaust Narrative through Art and Storytelling."
2023: YIVO is scheduled
to present a lecture in Yiddish by Miriam Trinh on “Chaim Grade’s Two Faces –
Poetry and Prose.”
2023(9th of
Av, 5783): Tish’a B’Av
2024: The San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present Julie Cohen with its Freedom of
Expression Award.
https://jfi.org/sfjff-2024/film-guide/freedom-of-expression-award-julie-cohen
2024: Following this
morning’ Street Fair. Rachel Feinstein is
nationally acclaimed comedian and actress on the first day of Borscht
Belt Fest 2024 sponsored by the Catskills Borscht Belt Museum.
2024: In Jerusalem, Agnon
House is scheduled to host a joint reading “Twofold” by S.Y. Agnon followed by
a discussion Adin Ne-David that “will try to define anchoring time in relation
to traditional time and examine the fascinating structure of the story.”
2024: The badminton
tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in which Israeli Misha Zilberman is completed are
schedule to begin today.
2024(21st of
Tammuz, 5784): Parashat Pinchas
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2024:
As July 27th 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 295 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
