This Day, August 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 29
1255: The body of
little boy who had disappeared was found in a well at Lincoln. The boy would become known as Little Saint
Hugh of Lincoln (England) was the subject of an infamous ritual murder libel.
It was alleged that Jews enticed the boy and while starving him, invited Jews
of Lincoln to murder him ritually. (Jews did come to Lincoln at that time to
attend a wedding.) His body was cast into a well and a month later,
"miracles" followed the discovery of his corpse. On the basis of the
alleged "confession" by Jopin (Jacob), the secular authorities (for
the first time) and the Church sent 91 Jews to the Tower of London. Eighteen
were executed before Richard and the friars stopped the killings. This incident
provided Chaucer with the idea for his Prioress Tale and the hero of the
popular ballad, "Little Sir Hugh."
1261: Urban IV, who
reaffirmed Sicut Judaeis the papal bull first issued by Calixtus II which “was
intended to protect the Jews” during the Crusade, began his papacy today.
1263: King Jaime of
Spain gave the Jews three weeks to remove all blasphemy from their books
(Talmud).
1288: Pope Nicholas IV
“wrote to Emperor Rudolph “requesting the release of Meir b. Baruch of
Rothenburg from prison.
1338: Pope Clement VI
directed “that an investigation be made into the miracles connected “with a
host in Pulka” the desecration of which was used as “as a pretext” for
attacking and robbing the Jews.
1435: Paul of Burgos
the Spanish Jew who converted to Christianity, and became an archbishop, Lord
Chancellor, and exegete passed away today. He was also known as Pablo de Santa
Maria or Paul de Santa Maria. His original name was Solomon ha-Levi. Like many
converts of his time he took a leading role in the persecution of his former
co-religionists.
1477: T'hilim
with Kimchi's commentary was published for the first time in Bologna, Italy by
Hayyim Mordecai and Hezekiah de Ventura.
T’hilim is the Book of Psalms. Kimchi is David Kimchi also known as
RaDAK. He was the third in a line of
grammarians, lexicographers and Biblical commentators. RaDAK’s more accurate renderings of the
ancient texts helped to fuel the Protestant Reformation.
1484: Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of
the Spanish Inquisition, was elected Pope.
The significance to Jewish history of this event is self-evident.
1526: An Ottoman army
defeated the Hungarians at the Battle of Mohács following which the Turks
pillaged the city. The Christians nobles and the handful of wealthy Jews fled
in fear of the Ottomans. While Jews had
lived in Hungary since the third century C.E., many of them had fallen on hard
times during the 15th and 16th centuries as they dealt
with accusations of Blood Libels and decrees designed to avoid repayment of
just debts. The Ottomans left but
returned to stay in 1541 when much of central Hungary became part of the
Ottoman Empire and a refuge for Sephardic Jews moving eastward to avoid the
clutches of the Inquisition.
1541: The Ottoman Turks
capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. On the anniversary of the
battle of Mohács, Sultan Suleiman I again took Buda by a ruse. This event marks
the beginning of Turkish rule in many parts of Hungary, which lasted down to
the end of the 17th century. The Jews living in these parts were treated far
better than those living under the Habsburgs. During this period, beginning
with the second half of the sixteenth century, the community of Ofen (Buda)
flourished more than at any time before or after. While the Turks held sway in
Hungary, the Jews of Transylvania (at that time an independent principality)
also fared well. At the instance of Abraham Sassa, a Jewish physician of
Constantinople, Prince Gabriel Bethlen of Transylvania granted a letter of
privileges (June 18, 1623) to the Spanish Jews from Turkey.
1596: Coronation of
Christian IV, the King of Denmark and Norway who lifted the restrictions that
had been placed on Sephardic Jews when he took control of the town of Altona.
1605: Herman
L’Estrange, the author of Americans
no Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race which refuted the theory that the “Indians were the ten
lost tribes” was baptized today.
1611: In Hamburg, after the senate had obtained the expert
opinion of Viadrina's faculty of Lutheran theology today that tolerating
Portuguese Jews was "paternal and Christian" as is the continuation
of this practice, the senate rejected the criticism by aldermen
1632: Birthdate of English philosopher John Locke. Locke
influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States. In 1689 he wrote his “Letter Concerning
Toleration” in which he stated, “Neither Pagan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded
from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.” Locke was asked to right a constitution for
the new colony of South Carolina. At the
time, Christian merchants were complaining about the active involvement of Jews
in the trade between South Carolina and the English Colony of Barbados. Locke saw the problem as bigotry, not
“swarming Jewish merchants.” He inserted
a line in the colonial charter that called for the protection of “Jews, heathens
and other dissenters.”
1643: The oldest
existing ketubbah written in the Western Hemisphere was executed in Surinam at
the marriage of Yehudit to Hakaham Yizhak Meatob. The Jewish community in
Surinam began with the arrival of a party Sephardic Jews in 1630. By the second
half of the 17th century, there were at least Sephardic Jewish communities in
the colony, numbering several hundred families.
As you can see from the attached, this item has been challenged
http://americanjewisharchives.org/journal/PDF/1984_36_01_00_cohen.pdf
http://www.suriname-jewish-community.com/our-history.html
1655:
Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X
Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge. The Deluge is a general expression for a
series of misfortunes that befell the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth starting
with the uprising of the Cossacks and including an invasion by the Swedes. When
it was all over, Poland was a much diminished entity and much less tolerant of
its Jewish population. This defeat was
part of the long road that would lead to the partition of Poland in the late 18th
century, which, among other things, would give Russia its large and unwanted
Jewish population.
1703:
Following the death of Samuel Oppenheimer Emperor Leopold I named Samson
Wertheimer to serve as his successor as “court factor” while extending “for
twenty years his privileges of free religious worship, denizenship, and
immunity from taxation.
1712:
Today, during the Danish siege of the Prussian city of Stade “a fire broke out
that destroyed the Jewish street” and other parts of the town.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13981-stade
1756:
Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War. The Seven
Years War was one of what seems to be a long list of interminable wars in
Europe. Americans know the Seven Years
War as the French-Indian War; a fight that led directly to the American
Revolution and the creation of the United States, and all that that means for
the Jews of the world. Frederick’s
mistreatment of his Jewish subjects is too big a subject for this brief
entry. After visiting Frederick’s
Berlin, the French statesman Mirabeau described the Prussian monarch’s decrees
concerning Jews as “worthy of a cannibal.” Frederick characterized Jews
“usurious vermin;” “wretches who
“multiply infamously.” Saxony was the
site of Martin Luther’s famous fight with the Roman Catholic Church. He had the Jews expelled from Saxony in 1537.
It would be centuries before they were readmitted, and they would not gain full
rights of citizenship until the second half of the 19th century.
1764(1st
of Elul, 5524): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed 11 days after the birth of Judah
Leib Ben-Ze’ev.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-leib-ben-ze-ev-jewish-virtual-library
1766(24th
of Elul, 5526): Mrs. Esther Abrahams, the wife of Isaac Abrahams passed away
today in New York City.
1766: “An
enlarged building, designed by George Dance the Elder” which served as the home
of The Great Synagogue was consecrated today in London.
1770: At
the age of 25, A.M. Rothschild married Guttle Schanpper, age 17.
1776(14th
of Elul, 5536): Jose Pereira supplied a flotilla which General Washington used
to move his army across the East River and escape destruction at the hand of
the British. Unfortunately, the young
Sephard lost his life as helped to provide covering fire for the army as it
crossed to temporary safety.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112355/jewish/Dr-Pereira-of-Boston.htm
1783(1st
of Elul, 5543): Rosh Chodes Elul observed five days before the signing of the
Peace of Paris aka Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
1799:
Papacy of Pius VI, who issued the anti-Semitic “Editto sopra gli ebrei” came to
an end today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Edict1775.html
1813:
Samuel Abrahams married Rachel Joseph at the Great Synagogue today.
1813: In
London, Abraham Pinto, the Moroccan born so of Meir Pinto and his wife Esther
Pinto gave birth Meir Pinto, the “husband of Annaatje (Anna & Hannah)
Joseph Pinto and father of Abraham J Pinto.
1814:
Birthdate of London native Rebecca Micholls, the wife of David Quixano
Henriques.
1822: In
London Morocco native Solomon Ben Masud Ben Abraham Sebag (Solomon Sebag and
his wife Sarah, “the eldest sister of Sir Moses Montefiore gave birth to Sir
Joseph Sebag-Montefiore, the stockbroker who held several positions including
Justice of the Peace of Kent and President of the Board of Deputies.
1825: Seventy-three-year-old
Flora Aarons, the widow of Aaron Aarons, who passed away two days ago was
buried today at the Brady Street in Jewish Cemetery in London.
1826:
Birthdate of French portrait painter Emile Levy who passed away in 1890.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_L%C3%A9vy#mediaviewer/File:Barbey.jpg
1827: Jacob
Lyons married Pessa Elizabeth at the New Synagogue today.
1829(30th
of Av, 5589): Parashat Re’eh and Rosh Chodesh Elul
1832:
Samuel Moses married Elizabeth Davis today.
1834: In
Bavaria, Jacob and Jeanette Bettmann gave birth to Bernhard Bettman who would
become a successful businessman and leader of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Jewish
community.
1836:
Samuel and Jane Stiebel, both of whom were natives of Germany gave birth to
Flora Stiebel.
1837: In
Hamburg, Moses Nathan Levy, the Hamburg born son of Jette and Nathan Levy and
his wife Frederike Levy gave birth to Brunette Emma Levy.
1841:
Birthdate of German native Lina Kahn Baldauf, the wife of Morris Baldauf who
settled in Louisville, KY where she had four children – Julius, Minnie, Leon
and Cora.
1842: Jews
began arriving in Hong Kong after it was ceded to Great Britain by China today.
The first synagogue would not come into use until 1870 when a house on
Hollywood Street was rented for that purpose.
1843(3rd
of Elul, 5603): Sixty-year-old Ludwig Lewin Jacobson the Danish surgeon who
developed several surgical instruments including “the lithoclast for the
crushing of stones in the bladder.”
1843:
Birthdate of David B. Hill, the Governor of New York who was supported by
Samuel Gompers and opposed the American Protective Association (A.P.A.) the
anti-immigrant organization that was hostile to Jews.
1846: In Apalachicola,
FL, Major Raphael Jacob Moses, (CSA) and Eliza Matilda Nunez gave birth to
Penina Septima Robison, “wife of William Moultrie Moses and Alexander Robison
and mother of Albert Luria Moses; Captain William Moultrie Moses, Jr. (USN);
Montefiore Jacob Moses; Capt. Stanford Elwood Moses; Lionel Bel Moses; and
Walter Robison.”
1848(30th
of Av, 5608): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1848(30th
of Av, 5608): Deborah Cohen, the daughter of Jacob Raphael Cohen who married
Israel Moses in 1810, passed away today in St. Joseph, FL.
1848:
Birthdate of Henry Schneeberger, the "first American-born, ordained rabbi
who was the spiritual leader of Chizuk Amuno in Baltimore, MD.
1849(11th
of Elul, 5609): Seventy-year-old Judah Lyons, the Philadelphia born son of
Eleazar Lyons who married Mary Levy in 1804 passed away today in New York City.
1851: The U.S.S. Mississippi, under the command of Captain Uriah P.
Levy, the highest-ranking Jewish officer in the U.S. Navy, arrived today in
Constantinople. The American warship had been sent to the
Ottoman capital for the purpose of providing Louis Kossuth, the exiled
Hungarian political leader, with safe passage to France.
1853: Two days after having fallen victim to cholera, Major Meno Berg, the
fist Jewish Prussian staff officer was buried with full military honors in the
Jewish cemetery in the Schönhauser Allee in a ceremony that police estimated
was attended 60,000 people.
1853: Birthdate of Solomon Bibo. Born in Prussia,
Bibo would come to the United States where, in the 1880’s he became the first
non-Indian governor of the pueblo of Acamo in New Mexico Territory.
1854:
Birthdate of Joseph Jacobs an Australian literary and Jewish historian, who was
a writer for the Jewish Encyclopedia.
http://www.mainlesson.com/displayauthor.php?author=jacobs
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html
1855(15th
of Elul, 5615):
Isaac Samuel Reggio passed away at the age of 71.
Born in 1784 at Goriza, he was an Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi born at
Gorizia. Reggio studied Hebrew and Talmud with his father, Abraham Vita, the
Rabbi at Gorizia. At the same time he attended the gymnasium where he acquired
knowledge of secular science and languages. Reggio's father, one of the liberal
rabbis who supported Hartwig Wessely, paid special attention to the religious
instruction of his son, who displayed unusual aptitude in Hebrew, and at the
age of fourteen wrote a metrical dirge on the death of Moses Ḥefeẓ, who has
served as the Rabbi of Gorizia.
1855: The New York Times
reported that "a child of Mr. Louis
Levinson of Providence, and of scriptural age, 'eight days old' was circumcised
according to the ancient Jewish method at the house of his father...The
ceremony was performed by Mr. Wolf of this city."
1857:
Birthdate of Waverly, PA native Clara Lieber Cardoz the wife of Daniel Henry
Cardozo whom she married in 1886.
1858:
Birthdate of French archaeologist Salomon Reinach whose “first published work
was a translation of Arthur Schopenhauer’s “Essay on Free Will.”
1858: Dr. Joseph Bondi was installed as Rabbi of Anshi Chesed,
the synagogue on Norfolk Street between Stanton and Houston Streets.
1859: The
Tory (NY) Times reported that there was a quarrel taking place in the Jewish
community over the ownership of a Bible. The Hebrew Bible which mysteriously
disappeared and was found only after a search warrant had been issued by a
member of the local judiciary.
1861:
Birthdate of San Francisco native Albert Ernest Castle, Sr. the husband of
Virginia Castle who was a member of the Committee of Fifty, an organization
created to deal with the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906
1862:
During the reign of Napoleon III modifications were made today in the decree
promulgated by Napoleon I in the method of choosing delegates to the Jewish
Consistory.
1862: The
Second Battle of Bull Run, during which Philadelphian Morris Lang of the 12th
Cavalry, was taken prisoner, continued for a second day.
1863: Today,
during the Civil War, Lieutenant Charles
E. Etting who had fought at Gettysburg and resumed command of his old company
on July 4 reported to Philadelphia as ordered
and “was assigned to staff duty.”
1863: The five deserters in the Fifth corps, reprieved on
Wednesday, will positively be shot to-day, at 3 o'clock, in presence of the
corps. Two of them are Catholics, two Protestants, and one a Jew. Spiritual
advisers have been with them to-day, a Jewish Rabbi having come expressly at
the request of the one of that persuasion. The unfortunate men have finally
made up their minds that they must die, though they have made several efforts
to have their sentences commuted to hard labor for life. But the President, to
his credit be it said, telegraphed yesterday that he could not interfere with
the sentence, and the men will die. Their death is necessary to save hundreds
of other lives, and to put a stop to the desertion of this class of men. Thirty
more are on trial for the same offence in the first corps, and they will
probably meet with a like fate.
1863: In
New Haven, CT, “Morris and Mina (Fleischner) Ullman gave birth to Isaac Morris
Ullman, the Quartermaster General of the Connecticut National Guard, “a member
of the firm of Strouse, Adler and Company, and Treasurer of the American Jewish
Committee who was the husband of Flora Veronica Adler.
1864:
Democrats nominated Union General George B. McClellan to run against Abraham
Lincoln who enjoyed a significant amount of support among the Jewish community
in the upcoming Presidential campaign.
1865:
Corporal Isaac Myers completed his service with Company G, 74th
Regiment of the Union Army.
1865:
Philadelphian Samuel Rothschild who rose from the rank of private to Commanding
Sergeant of Company I of the 74th Regiment completed his term of
service in the Union Army.
1865: In
Pomerania, Hedwig and Isaak Lachmann gave birth to poet and translator Hedwig
Lachmann. (As reported by Hanna Delf von Wolzogen)
1865: The New York Times
reported from Washington D.C. that the court-martial an Army Paymaster named
Webb has come to an end. Webb was
accused of playing a key role in swindling hundreds of soldiers out a total
$400,000. According to the report “a Jew
who was dismissed the service for defrauding the government at the beginning of
the war” played a key role in the swindle.
This unnamed Jew testified against Webb during the trial confessing his
own role in the scheme. [Editor’ note – the religion of no other person
involved in the scheme was mentioned in the article.]
1865(7th of
Elul, 5625): Dr. Robert Remak, Polish born German physician, neurologist and
embryologist passed away at the age of fifty. While in medical practice, he
researched unpaid at university. As a Jew, he was barred from teaching. In 1847
he became the first Jew to officially teach a university and was later promoted
to the position of assistant professor. He discovered the fibers of Remak,
nonmedullated nerve fibers and named the three germ layers he discovered of the
early embryo: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm. In 1844 he
discovered the nerve cells in the heart now called Remak's ganglia and provided
the first illustration of the 6-layered cortex. He was a pioneer in the use of
electrotherapy for the treatment of nervous diseases.
1867: One
day after she had passed, 56-year-old Brina (Joseph) Morris, “the wife of Henry
Morris” with whom she had four children – “Cordelia, George, Deborah and Roas”
– was buried today at the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.”
1867:
Birthdate of Cincinnati native Belle Levy Johnson, an officer of the National
Council of Jewish women and the husband of Frederic A. Johnson.
1868: In
Chicago, Benjamin and Theresa Eisendrath gave birth to MIT trained architect
Simeon B. Eisendrath, the husband of Arlita L. Leszynsky who “designed many
Jewish public institutions in Chicago including the Home for Aged Jews” who
moved to New York in 1901 where he designed several Jewish institutions
including The Free Synagogue and Beth Elohim.
United
Hebrew Congregation – Temple Israel – Synagogues360 (anumuseum.org.il)
http://www.eisendrath-stories.net/cont_19thcenturystories_jewish_real_property_in_dorsten.php
1870(2nd
of Elu, 5630): Forty-one-year-old Lazarus Geiger, the brother of Rabbi Abraham
Geiger and the nephew of Rabbi Abraham Geiger, who was “intrigued” by the
psychology of color passed away today.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Geiger,_Abraham
1871: In
Vilna, Sophia and Isaac Press gave birth to Lithuanian American violinist, conductor and
music educator Mikhail (Moisej) Isaakovich Press, the husband of Vera Maurina
and a member of the violin faculty at Curtis institute Music who taught at
Michigan State University for ten years and “was guest conductor with the
Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others.”
1871:
“Sketch of the Prison Rosenzweig, Alias Archer” published today described the
activities of a German or Russian Jew named Rosenzweig who has been jailed for
posing as medical doctor named Archer – a position for which he lacks both
training and credentials.
1872: Among
the 400 passengers arriving in New York on board the Packet-ship Charles H.
Marshall was a German Jew named Meyer Velt
1873: This
morning’s New York newspapers published a copy of a telegram from San Francisco
that contains the confession of John T. Irving who claims to have murdered
wealthy businessman Benjamin Nathan.
1873: “The
Nathan Murder” published today described the confession of John T. Irving to
the murder of Benjamin Nathan which included a claim that his son Washington
Nathan was the mastermind of the crime.
1875: As
the Shooting Season opens in France, Baron Hirsch entertains several of the
“leading shots” on the land he leases in the forests around Saint-Germaine.
1878: After
being attacked by a political opponent because of his religion, Raphael J.
Moses, a prominent resident of Columbus, GA, responded in the local newspaper
by asserting his Jewish pride in an article that was reprinted around the
country: “I feel it an honor to be of a race whom persecution cannot crush,
whom prejudice has in vain endeavored to subdue.” When he ran for congress,
Moses explained, “I wanted to go to congress as a Jew and because I would have
liked in a public position to confront and do my part towards breaking down the
prejudice.”
1878(30th
of Av, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1878: It
was reported today that there are four Jews serving on the newly created 18 man
Communal Council at Sarajevo.
1878: It
was reported today that a Communal Council has been formed in Sarajevo. The
Council, which represents a cross section of Sarajevo’s religious communities,
includes four Jews, five Muslims, three Catholics and six Orthodox (Greek or
Russian, not Jewish).
1880: Birthdate of Jassy native Stephen Cahana,
who in 1903 came to the United States where he earned an MD at the University
of Illinois, practiced medicine in Milwaukee and served on the faculty of
Marquette University while also serving as President of the Wisconsin State
Board of Health.
1882: Seventy-two-year-old
Friedrich Adolf Philippi the son a Jewish bank and family friend of the
Mendelssohn who converted to Christianity in 1829 and became a Lutheran
minister passed away today.
1882: Eliot
Arthur De Pass married Beatrice “Trixie” De Mercado in Jamaica today.
1883: In
South Yarra, Australian journalist, Maurice Brodzky, the East Prussian born son
Israel Brodzky and Bella Czerwynkowsky and his wife gave birth to his eldest son
Leon Herbert Spencer Brodzky known as Spencer Brodney and the husband of Esther
Siebel who began his journalistic career by writing articles on the theatre.
1885: In
Rochester, NY, Samuel and Anna F. Egelson gave birth CCNY and Columbia alum
Louis Egelson who became a Rabbi after studying at the Jewish Theological
Seminary and served as Chaplian of the 91st Division of the AEF
during WW I after which he married Augusta Cronheim.
1886: A
party of forty Russian Jews landed at Castle Garden today and was detained by
authorities.
1886(28th
of Av, 5646): Gretchen Kauffmann Born, the first wife of Gustav Jacob Born and
the mother of Nobel Prize winner Max Born, passed away.
1887:
Birthdate of Clarence Yale Palitz, the native of Lavia who came to the United
States in 1900 where he became a lawyer, alderman and active member of the
Jewish community holding leadership positions with the Jewish Ladies Day
Nursery and the Jewish Social Service Association while raising three children
– Lillian, Bernard and Clarence, Jr. – with his wife Ruth Krumnas Palitz.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/10/89074647.pdf
1888: Today
marks the tenth free excursion of this season sponsored by the Sanitarium for
Hebrew Children. As of this date, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children the ten
excursions have provided relief from the summer heat for 6,127 babies, 3,812
children and 3,678 mothers.
1888:
Birthdate of St. Louis businessman and Jewish community leader Ben Weisman.
1888:
“Bloody Days In Morocco” published today described the violence in the North
African country that has included Arab leaders calling for a Holy War. This has
prompted at least one newspaper in Tangiers to call for the European powers to
send ships to protect the Christians and the Jews.
1889(2nd
of Elul, 5649): Eighty-one-year-old Gustav Weil who switched from studying to
be a rabbi to become a leading Orientalist and whose Mohammed der Prophet served as resource for Washington
Irving when he wrote the Life of Mohammed passed away today.
1889:In Des
Moines, IA, Israel and Yent Adler gave birth San Antonio merchant Ben Adler the
husband of Dora Hahn and father of Hortense and Edyth Adler who is “president
of the Jewish Literary Society” and “a trustee of Agudah Ahim.”
1891:
“Russian Jewish Refugees” published today described the “considerable
complaints” being made by people in Detroit because “the Canadian authorities
send all the penniless Jews who get into that country” here to be taken care
of.
1891:
Recorder Albert Hessberg of Albany was among those who greeted Senator Jacob A.
Cantor of the Tenth Senatorial District and his wife when they returned from
Europe today aboard the Hamburg steamer Columbia today.
1891: In
Cincinnati, OH, Rachel Friedman and Abraham Isaacs gave birth to Raphael
Isaacs, the husband of Agnes Wolfstein,
the University of Cincinnati educated physician and Associate Professor
of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan who served as the Assistant
Director of the Simpson Memorial Institute and the “Editor of the section of
‘Pathology of the Blood’ in Biological Abstracts while also being “a member of
the Editorial Board of the medical journal Harefuah
Haivri.
https://www.ima.org.il/medicine/default.aspx
1892: “No
Way To Stop Immigration” published today discussed the challenges of protecting
the United States from the European cholera outbreak including the comment that
once the danger from cholera is out of the way, “it is plain that the United
States would be better off if ignorant Russian Jews…were denied a refuge here.”
1892:
Birthdate of Alexandre Koyré, the Russian born French philosopher who served
with the French Foreign Legion in WW I and spent WW II teaching at the New
School for Social Research in New York City.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4024941?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1892: In
Chicago, Benjamin R. and Belle (Austrian) Cahn gave birth to Alvin Robert Cahn,
the Cornell alum and holder of Ph.D. from Illinois where he served on the
faculty and who was stationed at Dutch Harbor for three years during WW II.
1893: In
“Solotwina, Austria,” “Jehuda Leib and Genendel (Schwager) Soltes, gave birth
to Mordecai Soltes the holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia and husband of Ida Levy
who was President of the Jewish Council of Greater New York, director of the
Extension Education for the Bureau of Jewish Education of New York City and
authored numerous “articles on Jewish Education and Jewish Education Centers.”
1896:
Birthdate of New
York native Dr. John Henry Garlock a member of the faculties at Columbia and
Cornell
1897: The First Zionist
Congress (Basle, Switzerland) was convened by Theodore Herzl. It was
represented by one hundred and ninety-seven delegates. This was one of the most
important yet unexpected convocation in modern Jewish History. Against
all odds, Herzl had Jews from twenty-four different states as varied Palestine,
the United States and an array from across Europe. The Congress adopted a
document known as the Basile Program that declared, "The task of Zionism
is to secure for the Jewish people in a Palestine in a publicly recognized
legally secure homeland." The Congress also announced that it would
dedicate itself to strengthening Jewish consciousness and national
feeling." Writing in his diary on September 3 of the same year Herzl
stated,” At Basle I founded the Jewish state. If I said this out loud
today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years,
and certainly in fifty, everyone will know it." In 1947, just a few
months beyond those fifty years, the UN approved the partition of Palestine
that gave birth to the Jewish state.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/hdoc/Nordau_1897.htm
1897: In Memphis, TN
Samuel and Esther Bronstein gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained
general practitioner Dr. Jacob H. Bronstein, the husband of former Betty Clark
and father of two – Maury and Roberta – whose activities in the Memphis Jewish
community include serving a first vice president of B’nai B’rith and being an
active member of the Temple of the Children of Israel. http://www.jhsmem.org/bio/JacobBronstein.pdf
1897: In Jersey City,
NJ, Rabbi Jacob Boer led members of the Society of Teferith Israel in the
ceremonies which converted a structure that had housed the German Evangelical
Church into a synagogue. Rabbi Moses Wechsler, Rabbi Jacob Goodman and the
Mayor of Jersey City were among the dignitaries who addressed the congregation.
1897: “The Snake in the
Bible” published today described two appearances of the serpent in the Torah –
the first in the Garden of Eden and the second when God calls on Moses to go
before Pharaoh – each of which shows a different aspect of Biblical philosophy.
1898: The Zionist
Conference chaired by Dr. Herzl continues for a second day in Basel,
Switzerland.
1898: It was reported
today that at age 22, Abram Herschberger is youngest Rabbi to lead a
congregation in Chicago, Illinois and he may be the youngest clergy of any
denomination serving in the Windy City.
1899: NYU trained
surgeon Max Danzis the Russian born son of Benjamin and Rachel Danzis, the organizer of the Newark, NJ, Beth Israel
Hospital and chairman of the “local chapter branch of the American Jewish
Physicians Committee for Hebrew University, married Jennie Reich today.
1899: When the court
martial of Captain Dreyfus resumed today Colonel Cordier, the Deputy Chief of
the Intelligence Department was the first witness to take the stand and he
testified based on his examination of the documents in question “he was now
convinced Dreyfus was innocent.”
1899: Nouri Bey received
10,000 Francs to arrange an audience for Herzl with the Sultan.
1900(4th of
Elul, 5660): Seventy-nine-year-old Sir Saul Samuel, 1st Baronet, the
Australian merchant, government official and leader of the Jewish community
passed away today.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/samuel-sir-saul-4534
1902: In what sounds
liked a merger of department store moguls, It was reported today that Miss
Edith Abraham, the daughter of Abraham Abraham of Abraham and Straus, is now
engaged to Harvard graduate Percy S. Straus the son Isidore Straus and “a
member of the firm of R.H. Macy and Company.
1902: In Baltimore,
Rena Ambach and attorney Eli Frank gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Eli
Frank, Jr. the state court of appeals judge who was the brother of Mrs. Bertram
S. Friedman and Mrs. Sydney M. Cone, Jr.
1903(6th of
Elul, 5663): Parashat Shoftim
1903(6th of
Elul, 5663): Forty-year-old Rabbi Hirsch Zvi Goiten, the Hungarian born son of
of Eliyahu Menachem Goitein and Amalia Mahala Goitein passed away today in
Copenhagen, Denmark.
1903: Die Welt publishes the declaration of
the British Government on the allocation of a "Jewish territory" in
East Africa. Die Welt was the name of
publication started by Herzl in 1897 to further the Zionist cause. It should not be confused with the modern
German publication of the same name.
1904: Joseph E. Nowrey,
the Mayor of Camden, NJ, was reported today to have compared the conditions of
Jews in the United States and in Russia when he said, “What a great sensation
it would be if a Russian official, presiding over a city, should appear on a
platform and speak words of encouragement at the dedication of a Jewish
synagogue. But thing are different in
the broad land of ours.”
1904: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native Samuel Klaus, the Columbia trained attorned who held the rank
of brigadier general in the U.S. Army during WW II and served as a “special
counsel to the State Department.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/03/81820415.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1905: “The Jewish Name
‘Gordon’” which first appeared The London Chronicle published today looks at
examples that “show that Gordon in Jewish nomenclature is by no means a case of
latter-day usurpation” and challenges the notion that there is a connection
between Jews named Gordon and the Russian town of Grodno.
1906: “The Union of
Genuine Russians” issued a platform that called for Jews to be denied the right
to serve in the military, to study at schools and universities, to be
druggists, journalists, and to vote while also calling for them to pay a
special tax for not serving in the army or navy.
1907: At the behest of
“Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor,” who sought putting an
end to the payment of fees to lawyers by Chinese workers, the Commissioner General of Immigration sent
out a circular addressed to all Chinese Inspectors that stated “by direction of
the Secretary you are instructed to encourage the practice among Chinese
laborers who intend to leave this country and return after an absence, of
calling upon Inspectors of the Immigration Service for assistance in filling
out their applications for return certificates.”
1908(2nd of
Elul, 5668): Parashat Shoftim
1908: “The editorial
statement of President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor…in
which he again called upon union men to support the Democratic Party surprised
labor men” in New York.
1909: It was reported
today that “The Chocolate Soldier,” “the Viennese operetta by Oscar Straus” is
scheduled to open at the Lyric Theatre on September 14th.
1910(24th of
Av, 5670): Sixty-eight-year-old San Francisco attorney and Democratic
politician Joseph Naphthaly, the Prussian born son of Samuel and Julia
Naphthaly who married the former Sarah Schmitt, the daughter of Blaize L. and
Pauline Schmitt with whom he had two children, Samuel and Leon, passed away
today.
1911: In Great Britain
the Tredegar District Council adopted a resolution protesting against
“disgraceful rioting and looting” attacks against Jews in New South Wales. The riots, which had begun on August 19
following the end of strike, were the worst outbreak of anti-Semitic violence
in the British Isles in modern times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/classified/paid-notice-deaths-borgenicht-jacob-moses-jack.html
1912: Birthdate of
Wolfgang Suschitzky, the “the photographer and cinematographer” who was the
brother of Edith Tudor-Hart.
1912(16th of
Elul,5672): Seventy-eight-year-old Nathan Keyfitz, the former “Crown Rabbi at
Rogacheff, Russia” passed away today in Toronto.
1912(16th of
Elul, 5672): Eighty-year-old Brno born philosopher and author Theodor Gomperz
passed away today.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Gomperz,_Theodor
1913(26th of
Av, 5673): David Shubert, the Lithuanian born husband of Gittel Helvich Shubert
whose children – Lee, Fannie, Samuel, Sarah, Jacob and Dora – the male members
of which were the famous producers and theatrical entrepreneurs passed away
today in Manhattan.
1913: Birthdate of
Sylvia Fine, the Brooklyn native who was an “American lyricist, composer,
producer and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye.”
1914: Two-year-old future
award-winning author Barbara Tuchman and her father traveled from Constantinople
to Jerusalem today “to deliver funds to the Jewish community” in the “City of
David.”
1914: Solomon Standwood
Menken, a Memphis born New York lawyer who had converted to Christianity
“returned to the United States today” from Great Britain where “he helped form
the National Security League, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to
higher military budgets, universal conscription and tight regulation of the
economy” after having seen how poorly prepared the United Kingdom had been
prepared to go to war against the Central Powers.
1914: Much to the
delight of the Jews serving with the Kaiser and to the disappointment of Jews
serving under the Tricolor, the Germans thwarted an attack at Guise which would
lead to further retreat by the French.
1915: In Atlantic City,
NJ, 500 people attended a meeting at the Garden Pier sponsored by the Central
Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering through the war where arrangements
were completed “for raising a fund throughout the country for the relief of
Jews in Poland and Palestine.”
1915: “The dedication
of the home for the convalescents established by the Federation of Rumanian
Jews of America did not take place this afternoon as planned due to inclement
weather.”
1915: According to
reports published today, Dr. Jacques Faitlovich is planning on starting “a
school for the Abyssinian black Jews in the Italian colony of Eretria” with the
help of two young men he had brought to Italy for an education, and which is
supported “by Jewish organizations in America.”
1915: In Chicago, Jacob
and Ester Pritikin, the University of Chicago dropout and millionaire inventor
who created the “Pritkin Diet.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-23-mn-1021-story.html
https://www.pritikin.com/home-the-basics/about-pritikin/38-nathan-pritikin.html
1915: James Huneker
provides an insight into the works of Russian author Mikhail Artsybashev
including “The Doctor” which provides “a view of pogrom in a tiny Russian
province town” that provides details “of the wretched Jews shot down ripped
open, maltreated and driven into the wilderness” which makes the reader “shudder.
1915: In Richmond, VA,
founding of Beth Israel Synagogue.
1915: In Baltimore
founding of Ahavas Sholom.
1915: In Newark, NJ,
founding of Aahavath Zion Synagogue.
1915: In Los Angeles
dedication of the Home for the Aged.
1916: During World War
I, Paul von Hindenburg became Chief of the German General Staff. Hindenburg’s
supposed brilliance was really the work of his loyal lieutenant Erich
Ludendorff. Among other things, Hindenburg helped provide ammunition for the
myth that that German Army was stabbed in the back (by the Jews) and actually
brought Hitler to power as Chancellor.
1916: Jacob de Hass,
the Secretary of the Provisional Committee for General Zionists wrote a letter
today in which he took exception to a report by three teachers from American
colleges in Turkey who said “that on their visit to Palestine they learned that
all the Jews had been deported from Jerusalem with the exception of a few who
had accepted the Moslem faith.”
1916: “Austrian Threats
to Jews” published today described two orders by the military commander of the
Chelm District which The Day, a Jewish newspaper published in New York
described as “an open provocation, the purpose of which is to make the Jews of
invaded Poland the scapegoat for all Austrian misfortunes.”
1917: Today, in Moscow,
at the closing session the third sitting of the national conference, “the
representative of the Jews said that they loved their country, notwithstanding
their unprecedented persecution under the old regime and had contributed greatly
to the emancipation of the people and the defense against the enemy.”
1918: In Manhattan
Thomas Rockwell Shepard Sr. and the former Marie Maze Dickinson gave birth to
Thomas Rockwell Shepard Jr. the last publisher of Look magazine “which helped to launch the photography career of
Stanley Kurbrick” and which published Thomas Morgan’s ““The Vanishing American
Jew: Leaders fear threat to Jewish survival in today’s ‘crisis of freedom.'”
1918: Charles
Rosengarten the New York City born son of Dora Drexler and Isaac Rosengarten
and President of the Waterbury, CT Board of Fires Underwriters who was vice
president of Congregation Bethel married Florence Rohowsky today in Hartford.
1918: Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation of Labor, who arrived in Great Britain
yesterday from the United States at the head of a labor delegation, visited his
birthplace in Spitalfields.
1918: “Bennett Charges
Forgery” published described complaints of voting irregularities that had been
lodged by Ex-Senator William Bennett who was seeking the Republican nomination
for Lt. Gov. of New York with Samuel S. Koenig, the chairman of the county
Republican Committee – charges which the Jewish political leader dismissed as
being groundless.
1919: Sendel and Riva
Grynszpan gave birth to Mordechai Grynszpan, the brother of Herschel Grynszpan
the man who assassinated Ernst vom Rath which was the excuse for Kristallnacht
1919: Harvard graduate
and Columbia trained medical doctor Bernard Sutro Oppenheimer, the New York
City born so of Laura Sutro and Leopold Oppenheimer who was a professor of
clinical medicine at Columbia and officer in the U.S. Army medical corps
serving in France during WW I married Enid Simmons today in New York.
1920: At Surprise Lake
Camp, Cold Spring on the Hudson, Herman Lehman presided over the dedication of
the Marx Building where the 75 attendees heard a speech by Judge Samuel
Greenbaum and “a talk by Eddie Cantor who traced the beginning of his
theatrical career to the summer, 18 years ago, when he was first sent to
Surprise Lake Camp by the Education Alliance” and found himself providing
entertainment for his 450 fellow campers.
1920: “The first issue of Di Tsayt,” a Yiddish daily newspaper that would survive
for two year “was published today in New York.
1920: JTS trained rabbi, Herman Price, the
Lithuanian born son of Judith Baron and Beer Price married Ida M. Schneider
today after which he led several congregation culminating with assuming the at
Beth El Congregation in Sunbury, PA.
1921: In Budapest, the
United States and Hungary signed a peace treaty because the Senate had rejected
the Versailles Treaty – a rejection that many believe was a step on the road to
WW II and all that that came to mean.
1921: In Queens, NY, Samuel
Barrel “whose family owned a glass and mirror business” and the former Sadye “Syd”
Asofsky gave birth Iris Barrel, the NYU and University of Wisconsin alum who
married Carl Apfel and who as Iris Apfel gained fame as “an American
businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her
flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses” who “was the
focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary Iris”
How
Iris Apfel became an icon in her 90s (bbc.com)
1922: Comintern agent
Mikhail Borodin was arrested today in Glasgow, “ostensibly for breaking
immigration regulations” but more likely because the authorities in the UK knew
about his role as a spy and agent for the Soviet government.
1923: Jewish gangsters
Samuel "Sammy" Weiss, Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen and Samuel
Gepson were arraigned at Essex Market Courthouse today on charges of having
violated New York’s Sullivan Law.
1924: Birthdate of
Warsaw born filmmaker and actor Jakub Goldberg whose most famous collaboration
with Roman Polanski.
1924: Birthdate Victor
Parsonnet, the WW II Navy veteran and NYU Med School graduate “who became a
thoracic and cardiac surgeon in Newark, New Jersey and is affiliated with
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center” and served as Chairman of the New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra.
1925: Today marks “the
anniversary of the foundation of a committee for the settling of the Jewish
population on the land in the region of Kherson, in Ukraine” which over the
last five years has “settled eighty-thousand Jewish land-worker in forty-five colonies
covering “upward of 25,000,000 acres.”
1926: Observers are
waiting to see whom the powerful Ku Klux Klan of Monroe Country, NY will
endorse in the race for the 38th Congressional District since “James
E. Cuff, the Republican candidate is a Catholic while his opponent on the
Democratic ticket is Representative Meyer Jacobson who is Jewish.”
1926: The 14th
Zionist Congress continued to meet today in Vienna.
1927: In Atlanta, GA,
Florence Rubin and Samuel A. Massell gave birth to University of Georgia
graduate and U.S. Air Force Samuel A. “Buddy” Massell, the realtor and first
Jewish mayor of Atlanta who married Sandra Gordy after the death of his first
wife Doris.
1927: In Worms,
birthdate of furniture designer Vladimir Kagan who was brought to the United
States in 1937 by his mother Hildegard to escape the Nazis.
1928: Birthdate of
Perry K. Peskin, the Western Reserve University educated high school and U.S.
Army veteran who was best known for his hobby as a “Bird Watcher”
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/cleveland-heights-oh/perry-peskin-7670471
1929: The day began
with an Arab attempt to massacre the Jewish population of Safed, one of the
sacred cities of Palestine and the center of study of the Kaballah. Initially
nine Jews were killed and thirty wounded. As day turned into night the attack
continued with the Arabs killing twenty-two Jews, wounding scores more and
burning the whole town except the government buildings. Fighting proceeded for
eight hours before British troops arrived from Tiberias. At least one American was found among the
wounded. According to reports
circulating in the ancient Jewish settlement 3,000 have been left homeless and
some of the wounded were tortured by the Arab raiders.
1929: After six days of
Arab attacks, 133 Jews had been killed throughout Palestine. The casualties would have been higher if had
not been for the work of the Haganah.
Established nine years earlier, members of the Haganah worked to defend
settlements through Palestine. At Hulda,
twenty-three Haganah members held off more than 1,000 Arab attackers. The success came at a cost - Ephraim Chizik,
commander of the unit and one of the earliest members of the Jewish defense
force was killed during the action.
1929:
After a week of Arab riots that started on August 23, as of today, 113 Jews had
been killed and 339 wounded. As a result of the riots, Sir Walter Shaw headed a
commission which urged the banning of Jewish immigration and absolved the Arabs
and the Mufti of guilt. Another commission led by Sir John Simpson declared
that the entire Zionist operation was unsound and undesirable. Both of these
commissions were under the auspices of Lord Passfield, the British Colonial
Secretary.
1929: In a letter to The Times of London, British Zionist
Harry Sacher refuted Arab claims that the Wailing Wall was part of the Mosque
of Omar and that the Jews had no right to be there. The Mufti had claimed that the Arab Riots
were provoked by Jews marching to the Wailing Wall and violating the law by
hosting a Zionist flag. (Please note the similarity of this claim to the one
that would be made at the end of the century to justify the violence known as
the Second Intifada.)
1930: Details of the
position of the Jewish Agency regarding Palestine were outlined in Berlin
“today by Felix M. Warbug, chairman of the administrative committee at a
session of the committee attended by members from all parts of the world…”
1931: In London, of
Anthony Gustav de Rothschild and Yvonne Lydia Louise Cahen d'Anvers gave birth to Trinity College Cambridge educated
polo playing financiers Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild a member of the
Rothschild banking family and the namesake of “his uncle Evelyn Achille de Rothschild who was killed in
action in World War I” and the father of Jessica, Anthony James and David Mayer
de Rothschild who in 1968 was appointed a director of Paris-based de Rothschild
Frères, the first leg on a business career that culminated in the founding of
the holding company E.L. Rothschild wit his fourth wife Lynn Forester.
https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/132-evelyn-robert-adrian-de-rothschild-1931-2022
1931: Robert Szold said
in a statement issued on behalf of the administration of the Zionist
Organization of America that the great majority of the American delegation to
the recent World Zionist Congress at Basle applied itself to averting continued
internal dissension in the organization and accomplished that goal.
1932(27th
of Av, 5692): Sixty-eight-year-old Hyman M. Lasker, the rabbi of Beth Israel in
Troy, NY and the grandfather of Harold I Saperstein, the Rabbi at Temple
Emanu-El in Lynbrook, NY passed away today after which he was buried in “Beth
Tephilah Cemetery” in Troy, NY.
https://kevarim.com/rabbi-chaim-mordechai-lasker/
1932: In Vienna, Nazis
attacked the Palace of Justice, smashed furnishings and “menaced” the President
of the Chamber who was Jewish.
1932: “A 250-year-old
Jewish cemetery in Oschersleben, Germany was desecrated by vandals.”
1933(7th of
Elul, 5693): Ninety-year-old Sir Philip Magnus, the rabbi who gave up the
pulpit to pursue a career furthering technical education and the husband of
Katie Magnus with whom he had two children biographer Philip Magnus and
published Laurie Magnus.
http://www.jta.org/1933/08/30/archive/sir-philip-magnus-dead-scientist-communal-leader
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/29779957.pdf
1933: In the Bronx, the
former Rachel Gutman, a nutritionist and Judah Wattenberg, a real estate lawyer
who gave birth to Joseph Ben Zion Wattenberg who gained fame as Democratic
Party activist, author and social commentator Ben Wattenberg.
1933: “Dinner at Eight”
the film version of the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, directed by
George Cukor, produced by David O. Selznick with a script by Herman Mankiewicz
was released in the United States by MGM.
1933: “The New York Times runs a story about
the existence of 65 concentration camps in Germany where at least 45,000 people
are being held in inhuman conditions. Most of the prisoners in these camps are
political: communists, socialists, and liberals of various sorts.”(As reported
by Austin Cline)
1933: In Canada, A
spokesman of the Immigration Department publicly announces that the Government
does not intend to amend the present restrictive immigration policy, thus
responding to the objections of anti-Jewish groups and a section of the press
to the proposed admission of German-Jewish refugees.
1933: The conflict
within the World Zionist Congress, caused by the presentation during the
week-end of charges that the Palestine labor leader, Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, had
been murdered by Zionist Revisionists, overshadowed today’s discussions when
the congress met today.
1933: Dr. Chaim Weizmann definitely declines to
accept the presidency of the World Zionist Organization, though he agrees to
head the campaign for funds to settle German Jews in Palestine.
1934: “Reich Bishop
Ludwig Meuller issued an order reinstating the portion of last year church laws
involving the enforced retirement of Protestant pastors of Jewish origin or
pastors with Jewish wives.”
1935: The delegates to
the World Zionist Congress were saddened by the death of Queen Astrid of the
Belgians. This was reflected by the decision of the delegates to limit their
activities today the holding a series of quiet sectional conferences.
1935: The Los Angeles
Times reported that “a Los Angeles based anti-Nazi League” had been operating
in that city at least since February of 1934.
1935: In Chicago, Louis
Friedkin, “a semi-professional softball player, merchant seaman, and men's
clothing salesman” and Rachael (née Green) Friedkin, “an operating room
registered nurse gave birth to Oscar winning director whose works included the
“French Connection” and “The Exorcist.”
1935: New York premiere
of “Top Hat” a musical produced by Pandro S. Berman with a score by Irving
Berlin and Max Steiner.
1936: Pravda, the official newspaper of the
Soviet Union, “warns that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are planning a
massive war that will lead to slaughter across Europe.”
1936: It was announced
today that “The American Committee Appeal for the Relief of Jews in Poland”
which is seeking to raise one million dollars “has asked Jewish congregations
throughout the United States to raise funds during the coming Jewish holidays
for the relief of destitute co-religionists in Poland.”
1936: Two British
soldiers were killed tonight and three more were wounded when Arabs attacked a
patrol near Mount Tabors.
1936: Arabs attacked
Jewish settlement in the Sharon Valley in southern Judea and in the Jordan
Valley tonight.
1936: In light
of the violence in Palestine and the pressure being brought on the British
government to stop Jewish immigration, a special evening prayer is scheduled to
be recited in all Dutch synagogues in response to an order from the Association
of Chief Rabbis of Holland.
1936: “Unless
unforeseen circumstances arise between tonight and tomorrow morning, an Arab
High Committee meeting then will accept the intervention of General Nuri Pasha
as-Said, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, for a settlement of the present deadlock
between the Palestine Arabs and the Palestine (British Mandate) Government.
1937(22nd of Elul,
5697): In the ongoing violent uprising against the Jews and in an attempt
to silence Arab opposition, Abraham Berkowsky, aged 45, a Tel Aviv
tailor, was killed on an Egged bus by a terrorist firing from an ambush just above
Motza.
1937: At Oxford, Prof.
Dr. Herbert Danby, who translated the Mishna into English, severely
criticized Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi scholar and the head of the German
Foreign Affairs section, who had just published his book The Immorality of
the Talmud. Danby said that the book, published by Friends of Europe, was
full of malice and misquotations
1937: New York’s WNEW
radio station broadcast a memorial show honoring cartoonist Frederick Burr
Opper who had passed away on August 28.
1938: In New York City,
Sylvia (née Seiderman) and Alexander Rubin gave birth to Robert Rubin, the
United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton.
1938: In Brooklyn, the
former Lucille Raver and Bernard Goldstein gave birth to Elliott Goldstein who
gained fame as Elliot Gould one of the most prominent American film actors in
the early '70s, best known for playing Trapper John in the satirical 1970 film M*A*S*H.
Time magazine put him on its cover in
1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a
"star for an uptight age
1938: According to the London
Daily Mail, a group of Arabs attacked Jerusalem tonight. The same report included a description of an
attack on Mothea, a kibbutz known for its dairy, during which the barns were
burned and “a number of the pedigreed cattle” were deliberately burned alive.
1939: On the eve of
World War II, Chaim Weizmann informed the prime minister of England that the
Jews of Eretz Israel would stand by Great Britain and fight on the side of the
democracies.
1939: Birthdate of director
William Friedkin. He is best known for
his work with The Exorcist and the French Connection for which he won an Oscar.
1939: Birthdate of movie director Joel Schumacher
the son of Marian (née Kantor) Schumacher, whose “mother was a Swedish Jew.”
1940: The National
Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States continued to a
second day in Boston.
1940: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Sadie Ullman the Waynesboro, PA
born date of Ansel and Maggie Blum Ullman followed at interment at the Hebrew
Friendship Cemetery in Baltimore, MD
1941: The remainder of
11,000 displaced Hungarian Jews (forced laborers), now living in Kamenets
Podolsk and whom Hungary did not want to take back were taken out of town to a
pit and machine gunned down.
1942(16th of Elul,
5702): Rabbi Simcha Oberbaum, Aleksanderer Chassid; a central figure in the
Lodz Jewish community; born in Warsaw in 1852, died in the Lodz ghetto.
1942(16th of
Elul, 5702): Parashat Ki Tavo
1942: As can be seen
from the attached photograph, more Jews were deported today from Wiesbaden
Germany to Auschwitz.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/08.asp
1942: It was reported
today that Dominican President Rafael L. Trujillo’s offer to provide a haven
for 3,500 Jewish refugee children living in Vichy has been forward, Marshal
Petain, the head of the French government. A few years earlier, Trujillo had provided
land at Sousa for a Jewish refugee colony.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sosua1.html
1942: Twelve Jewish
American women were included among the first graduating class of WAAC officers
at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. They were Ruth Ginns, Beatrice Berg, Carolyne Casper
and Jean Korn from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kathryne Goldfluss, Rose Ross
and Joan Strongin from New York, New York; Bee Rosenberg and Ruth Spivak from
Chicago, Illinois; Rita Fink and Isabel Bayley of Buffalo, New York; and
Elizabeth Morgenstern of Seattle, Washington.a
1942: The
Jewish community from Olesko, Ukraine, is deported to the Belzec death camp
1942: Occupation
officials in the East inform Berlin that the "Jewish problem" has
been "totally solved" in Serbia. Since German occupation, 14,500 of
Serbia's 16,000 Jews have been murdered.
1943: The American
Jewish Conference “opened at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. More than five hundred delegates were present
representing sixty-five different national organizations.” Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver gave an
“electrifying speech” in which he “convinced his audience to support the
Biltmore Declaration.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/biltmore.html
1943: After almost 8
years, the New Deal agency known as The Federal Art Project (FAP) whose artists
included Leon Bibel, Adolph Gottlieb, Harry Gottlieb, Isaac Soyer, Moses Soyer.
Raphael Soyer and Lee Krasner came to an end
1943: Six hundred
prisoners were sent from Larissa to Athens so they could be held Haidari, a
concentration camp that was really a stopping point for the ultimate trip to
Auschwitz.
1943: In Denmark, the
official chief rabbi, Dr. Max Friediger is detained as a "hostage" of
along with some 100 prominent Danes, including a dozen Jews, in a camp near
Copenhagen.
1944:
More than 800 Jews earmarked for forced labor are transported from Auschwitz to
the labor camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, for assignment to nearby factories.
Elsewhere in Germany, about 72 ill or pregnant Jews are taken from a labor camp
near Leipzig and transported to gas chambers at Auschwitz.
1944: The last
transport left the Lodz Ghetto after two months of final liquidation of the
Jewish population. Only 600 Jews remained from 76,000 who were still alive
there on June 15, 1944.
1944: Father Giuseppe
Girotti was arrested today when he was “caught in the middle of transferring a
wounded Jewish partisan” to a safe house –a deed that earned him a one-way
ticket to Dachau where he was murdered on Easter Day. (As reported by JTA)
1945: Lt. Colonel Judah
Nadich entered the Feldafing D.P. camp.
Nadich was a rabbi serving as the senior Jewish chaplain in Europe. Nadich was repelled by the barbaric conditions
under which the Jews were living; especially by the fact that they were
confined behind barbed wire just as had been the case in the Concentration
Camps while “The conquered Germans had complete freedom.”
1945: Lt. Col. Louis
Geffen, who had served as a judge advocate in the US Army since January 1941,
set sail from Oakland, CA for Japan.
1945: Rabbi Samuel M.
Cohen, who resigned last Dec. 31 after twenty-seven years as executive director
of the United Synagogue of America, died today, after a long illness, at his
home, 785 West End
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/30/305793892.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946: “Message from
President Truman, Governor Dewey, Senator James M. Mead and Representative Sol
Bloom were read today at the opening of the twenty-fourth national convention
of the Agudath Israel Youth Council of America.”
1947: In Brooklyn,
Sally Cohen Sher, a rent control examiner for New York City’s Housing and
Development Administration and Benjamin, a postal worker, had participated in
the Normandy invasion in World War II gave birth to NYU trained attorney Neal
Matthew Sher and husband of Bonnie Kagan “who for 11 years ran the federal
office that rooted out World War II-era Nazis in the United States and moved to
revoke their citizenship and deport them…” ( As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1947: “Moshe Levy Nahum
Mukhtar of the Yemenite Jewish quarter of Jaffa, who was sometimes called ‘King
of the Yemenite Jews’ had forty Arabs and Jews at peacemaking feast in his
house today,” in attempt to counteract the Arab-Jewish rioting that has taken
place on the border between Jaffa and Tel Aviv.
1948: Based on comments
made by Julius Levine who has spent nine month as the director of the Joint
Distribution Committee activities in Prague it was reported today that “the
Czechoslovak administration is especially helpful to Jews who wish to go to Israel”
and that emigration from Czechoslovakia to the United States, Israel and other
lands has reached 500 a month.”
1949: “Unit of Religion
Among Jews Urged,” published today described the start of “a movement to do
away with sectarianism in Jewish religious life in favor of a ‘universal
synagogue’” which has begun in Paterson, NJ with the established of
Congregation Beth-El under the leadership of Rabbi Reuben Kaufman.
1951: In Chicago,
Edward H. Levi the former President of the University of Chicago and Attorney
General and his wife gave birth to David F. Levi who served a federal judge
before becoming Dean of the Duke University School of Law.
1952: Birthdate of
Baltimore native Karen S. Hesse winner of the Newbery Medal for Out of the
Dust and the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2005 for The Cats in Krasinski
Square.
1954: WNBC is scheduled
to broadcast “first radio performance of Maria del Carmen (Granados) and
Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra by Nathaniel Shilkret.”
1955: In New York City,
the former Ruth Turoff, and Irving Lew “a Jewish lawyer and rare book dealer
who came to the United States from Poland as a child” gave birth Harvard
graduate and Georgetown University trained attorney Jacob Joseph “Jack” Lew, the
husband of Ruth Schwartz with whom he had two children and member of at least
three Orthodox Congregations – Beth Sholom, Kesher Isreal and the Hebrew Institute
of Riverdale – who has served as White Chief Staff under Obama, Secretary of
the Treasury under Obama and U.S. Ambassador to Israel under Biden.
1956: After having been
destroyed by a fire in 1955, Mr. Kelly’s, the famous Rush Street nightclub
owned by Oscar and George Mairenthal reopened today.
1957: Premiere of The Pajama Game featuring a score by Richard
Adler and Jerry Ross, two more of the Jews who created and nurtured the
“Broadway Musical,” one of America’s unique contributions to the world of
entertainment.
1958: United States Air
Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado. According to the latest
figures available, there are approximately fifty Jewish cadets attending the
Academy.
1959(25th of
Av, 5719): Parashat Re’eh
1959(25th of
Av, 5719): Sixty-two-year-old Denver born Zionist leader David Tannenbaum
passed away today in Tel Aviv.
https://www.jta.org/1959/08/31/archive/david-tannenbaum-director-of-z-o-a-house-in-tel-aviv-dies
1960(6th of
Elul, 5720): Fifty-two-year-old Hedwig “Vicki” Baum whose 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel would be made
into the Academy Award winning “Grand Hotel” passed away today.
http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/192334/throwback-thursday-vicki-baum-wrote-a-novel-per-y/
1961: “Bear Meat,” a
short story by Primo Levi, was published for the first time in Il Mondo.
1961: The Sixth Maccabiah opened today in Tel Aviv.
1963(9th of Elul,
5723): Eighty-two-year-old Harry Fleishman Affelder, the Pittsburgh born son of
Catherine and Jacob Isadore Affelder and the husband of Rhoda E. Affelder with
whom he had two children – Lewis and Ruth – who was a member of the Cleveland
Hospital Council passed away today in Cleveland.
1964(21st of
Elul, 5724): Leil Sleichot
1964: After 964
performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” the Stephen Sondheim Tony award
winning musical comedy starring Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford (both of whom had
been blacklisted) featuring Karen Black
1965(1st of Elul,
5725): Rosh Chodesh Elul
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1968: In Chicago, the
National Democratic Convention which has been held against a backdrop of
demonstrations led in part by Lee Weiner, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, comes
to an end.
1969: At the New York
Shakespeare Festival, final performance of “Electra” featuring David Hurst in
the role of “Paedagogus”
1969: A deranged
Australian tourist who was a Christian fundamentalist set fire to the Al Aksa
Mosque claiming that it was “Satan’s Temple.”
1969: Two Palestinians
hijacked a TWA plane after it had left Los Angeles and forced it to land at
Damascus where 6 Israeli passengers were detained.
1969: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held at the Riverside Chapel for Brooklyn born and Columbia
trained attorney 64 year old federal judge William B Herlands who was “involved
in tracking down Nazi fifth columnists and a member of the Jewish Education
Committee while raising three children – Barbara, James and Jonathan – with his
wife “the former Gertrude Carol Bendheim.
1970: Plans for
Israel's forthcoming appeal to the world's Jews for $1-billion next year for
nondefense needs of the country were outlined at a meeting of the newly
reorganized Jewish Agency
1972(19th of Elul,
5732): René Leibowitz, Polish
born French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher passed away.
1973: Birthdate of
Argentine movie director Daniel Burman who “is of Polish-Jewish descent” and “one of the members of the so-called
"New Argentina Cinema", which began circa 1998.”
1974: Just days before
his 65th birthday, Biblical scholar and archeologist George Ernest
Wright who directed the Drew-McCormick
Archaeological Expedition to Shechem and the Hebrew Union College Biblical and Archaeological
School Expedition at Tell Gezer passed away today.
1975: Colonels Lev Ovsischer and Yefim Davidovich
and other Zionist activists protested the imminent screening in Minsk of new
anti-Zionist documentary film, “The Secret and the Obvious”.
1976: John Darnton described the volatile
conditions in sub-Saharan African including “the recent dispute between Kenya
and Uganda stemming from President Idi Amin’s charge of Kenyan complicity in
the Entebbe raid.”
1976: The first Conference on Alternatives in
Jewish Education began at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/29/1976/caje
1977(15th of Elul,
5737): Seventy-nine-year-old Aharon Menachem Shapira, the son of Avraham and
Liba Rochel Shapira passed away today at Petah Tikva.
1977: Prime Minister
Menachem Begin and Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu cruised peacefully on
Lake Snagov, discussing peace prospects and bilateral relations. They
reaffirmed Israeli-Rumanian friendship but haggled over the wording of the
final joint announcement.
1977: In Jerusalem
Mayor Teddy Kollek asked whether the ³equalized services² promised for the West
Bank and Gaza by the new Likud government would be extended to east Jerusalem,
as well as to the new Jewish neighborhoods, deprived so far of adequate religious,
educational and communal facilities.
1979(6th of
Elul, 5739): Eighty-four-year-old newspaper mogul Samuel I. Newhouse passed
away today.
1979: Birthdate of Ehud
“Udi” Tenenbaum the native of Ramat HaSharon who was arrested for hacking into
a wide variety of computer systems including those at NASA, MIT and the
Knesset.
1981(29th of
Av, 5741): Parashat Re’eh
1981(29th of Av, 5741):
Ninety-one-year-old Rajgrod born NYU University Law School graduate Samuel Orr,
the husband of Bertha Orr with who he had one son, Martin and the Socialist politician who was expelled from
the New York State Assembly during the Red Scare of 1920 who practiced law with
fellow Jews Nathan Bijur and Benjamin Cardozo passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/01/obituaries/samuel-orr-dies-at-91-former-assemblyman.html
1982: Dr. Sari Lynn
Kramer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian S. Kramer of South Orange, N.J., was
married to Samuel L. Margulies, son of Mrs. Emmanuel Margulies of New York and
the late Mr. Margulies. Rabbi Barry Greene of Livingston, N.J., performed the ceremony
at the home of the bride's parents.
1982(10th of Elul,
5742): Eight-seven-year-old Zionist leader Nahum Goldmann, the founder of the
World Jewish Congress passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/goldmann.html
1983: “Strange Brew”
directed and written by Rick Moranis who also starred in the comedy was
released in Canada today by MGM.
1984(1st of
Elul, 5744): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1985: One person was
injured during a stabbing attack by a terrorist in Jerusalem.
1986: “In an essay
entitled "Encumbered Remembrance: The Controversy about the
Incomparability of National-Socialist Mass Crimes" first published in the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today, Joachim Clemens Fest claimed that Ernst
Nolte's argument that Nazi crimes were not "singular" was correct.”
1986: Birthdate of
Canadian actress, Lauren Collins.
1992(30th of
Av, 5752): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
1992: Eighty-seven-year-old
Jean S. Greene, the wife of Philip M. Greene passed away today.
1993(11th of
Elul, 5753): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1993(11th of
Elul, 5753): Eighty-year-old Arthur J. Katzman, the native of Belarus and
Brooklyn Law School graduate who served on the City Council for almost three
decades passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/09/01/694993.html?pageNumber=20
1994: Solomon “Sol”
Wachtler, the Republican Chief Judge of the New York of Appeals who had been
convicted and sentenced to prison for “acts stemming from threats he made
against a former lover and her daughter” was scheduled to be released to a
half-way house today.
1994(22nd of Elul,
5754): Ninety-five-year-old Walter Gilbert Peiser, the Brooklyn born son of
William and Jennie Peiser and the husband of Frances Henrietta Peiser who was a
graduate of the University of Cincinnati and the Hebrew Union College and who
served as a rabbi in Cleveland, OH, Austin, TX and Baton Rouge, LA where he
also served on the faculty of LSU passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0805/ms0805.html
1996: The Democratic
National Convention comes to an end having nominated Bill Clinton for President
comes to an end. His second
administration will include Monica Lewinsky, a failed attempt to force a peace
agreement at Camp David and the pardon of Marc Rich.
1996(14th of
Elul, 5756): Eighty-three-year-old Irving Simon Katcher, the North Dakota born
son of ois and Rebecca Katcher and the husband of Nettie Katcher passed away
today after which he was buried in the Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery in
Livonia, Michigan.
1997(26th of
Av, 5757): Seventy-three-year-old Ilya Gazarkh, a resident of Pisgat Ze’ev who
had survived the combat of WW II, died of the wounds he sustained during a
terrorist bombing at the Mahane Yehuda Market in July.
1999: David Berger
completed his service as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
1999: “The Chicago
Jewish Historical Society – in cooperation with the Dawn Schuman Institute – is
scheduled to lead a tour of southwest Michigan led by Leah Axelrod where
participants will “learn about early Jewish farmers” and the development of the
resorts at South Haven and Benton Harbor.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and
the Catholics Stayed by Gerald Gamm, The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in
Chinese History by Joanna Waley-Cohen daughter of Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, the Jewish
businessman who became Lord Mayor of London, Kosovo Crossing by David
Fromkin and The Birth of
Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel by Arnold Wesker.
1999: The 7th World Championships in Athletics in which Aleksandr
Valeryevich Averbukh placed third in the Pole Vault representing Israel came to
a close today in Seville, Spain.
2000(28th of Av, 5760): Ninety-seven-year-old Gertrude H. Schaefler, the
widow of the late Leon Schaefler passed away today.
2001(10th of Elul, 5761): Thirty-five-year-old Oleg Sotnikov
was shot by terrorists today.
2002: “The Israeli Defense Ministry said today that an Israeli ship had
been detained in the German port of Hamburg on suspicion that its cargo of
rubber treads for armored personnel carriers was bound for Iran, “a spokeswoman
said that the export license had indicated Thailand as the destination, and
that Israel was joining Germany in an investigation.”
2003(1st of Elul, 5763): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2003(1st of Elul, 5763): The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades “claimed
responsibility for the murder of 25 year old Shalom Har-Melekh and the wounding
of his “wife Limor who was seven months pregnant” and subsequently “gave birth
to a baby girl by Caesarean section.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003: Eric Edelman began serving as United States Ambassador to Turkey.
2003: Pulitzer-Prize
Winning Poet Louise Glück (pronounced “Glick”) was named poet laureate of the
United States. http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/29/2003/louise-gluck
2004: In the following
article entitled “In New York Try and Find A Genuine New York Bagel,” Molly
O’Neill decries the downward spiral of the genuine bagel while providing a list
of places where the aficionado can find this unique hunk of boiled dough.
Beware the billowy
bagel. It bears no resemblance to its small, gnarly forebears. The traditional
bagel was as tough as New Yorkers imagine themselves to be. It was a workout:
the carb count of a handmade bagel was net zero once the chewing was done. This
bagel was one of the reasons that the typical New Yorker found it difficult to
wake up elsewhere and one reason people came here. Today the typical New York
City bagel is no different from the ones served in malls nationwide. The
traditional bagel, born of Eastern European shtetls, was made of yeast, malt,
flour, water and salt. It was rolled by hand, first boiled and then baked.
Today's version is made from yeast and sugar, flour, water and salt, extruded
through machines and baked. The result is a big, fat, soft pillow suitable only
for naps. Had we not been focused on other issues in recent years, New Yorkers
would have taken swift and certain action against the airy and flaccid
interlopers that dare to call themselves bagels. Rather than a daily entitlement,
the authentic bagel has become a special event. We generally find them behind
well-steamed windows -- the secret is in the malt, the baker and the boiling --
in places like these:
BAGEL HOLE -- 400
Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, (718) 646-2210
BAGEL OASIS -- 183-12
Horace Harding Expressway, Queens, (718) 359-9245
BAGELWORKS INC. -- 1229
First Avenue, (212) 744-6444.
ESS-A-BAGEL -- 359
First Avenue, (212) 260-2252; 831 Third Avenue, (212) 980-1010.
MURRAY'S BAGELS -- 242
Eighth Avenue at 23rd Street; (646) 638-1335
NEPTUNE BAGELS -- 371 Neptune Avenue,
Brooklyn; (718) 462-2830
ROCCO'S PASTRY SHOP AND
ESPRESSO CAFE -- 243 Bleecker Street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh
Avenue, (212) 242-6031
2004: The Sunday New York Times book section
includes a review of Blackbird House by Jewish novelist Alice Hoffman.
2004: The New York Mets
held their annual “Jewish Heritage Day” game by playing the Los Angeles Dodgers
who roster includes Shawn Green, the 21st century version of Sandy
Koufax.
2005(24th of
Av, 5765): Seventy-eight-year-old Rabbi Balfour Brickner whose accomplishments
included the founding to Temple Sinai in Washington, DC passed away today.
https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E1DB1731F932A3575AC0A9639C8B63
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102485.html
2005: Hurricane Katrina
strikes New Orleans causing untold suffering among the Jewish community as well
as the secular community. In the coming days, the world will be treated to
Tzizth wearing rabbis rescuing Torah Scrolls from flooded buildings as the Crescent
City suffers one of the worst disasters in American history.
2005: The issue of Sports Illustrated Magazine of this date
contained an article entitled “Stars Of David” about the two Arab Israelis
named Abbas Suan and Walid Badir. They
are stars on Israel’s World Cup soccer team.
They each scored a critical goal in two games that have left Israel
undefeated in seven qualifying games and on the verge of reaching its first
World Cup in 36 years.
2005: In Little Rock,
AR, Rabbi Pinchas Ciment and his wife Estie Ciment announce the arrival of
their new son.
2006: In San Francisco a SUV struck two people in front of the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco on
California Street, a few blocks from where the hit and run rampage ended. Blood
covered the sidewalk in front of the center’s gift store entrance, and 50 feet
farther down the sidewalk lay a mangled bicycle. Security cameras in front of
the center captured images of the incident, which happened at 1:12 p.m.,
according to Aaron Rosenthal, spokesman for the community center
2007: In Eilat, second night of the Red Sea Jazz Festival.
2007:
In response to the Larry Craig scandal
Al Goldstein declared in his blog that he was bisexual, and said he'll be
"the first presidential candidate to admit to sucking cock and the first
to turn fully gay mid-campaign."
2007: Boaz Mauda won Kochav Nolad 2007 with 50% of the votes.
2008: “Lifetimes To Go in Old
Mexico” published today provides a of “My Mexican Shiva” based on "Morirse está en hebreo," a short
story by Ilan Stavans “about Jewish life in Mexico at the time of the 2000
presidential election.”
http://www.nysun.com/arts/lifetimes-to-go-in-old-mexico-my-mexican-shivah/84860/
2008: The Red Sea Jazz Festival comes to an end.
2008: The Avishai Cohen Trio
performs at the Blue Note in New York City. “Acclaimed bassist Avishai
Cohen, whose most recent recording, “Gently Disturbed,” continues to earn rave
reviews, visits NYC for three days of performances where he is joined by the
same trio – Shai Maestro on piano and Mark Guiliana on drums – who perform with
him on Gently Disturbed, which Jazz Times
recently lauded as “scintillating”, Downbeat
praised as “simultaneously delicate and fierce,” and which the Washington City Paper called “unpredictable” and “deeply
compelling.”
2009: Ceremonies commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the
Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto by German authorities came to an end.
2009:
Palestinian militants fired a Qassam
rocket into the western Negev early Saturday. The rocket fired by Palestinian
militants hit an open area in the Sdot Negev regional council. The Qassam, fired at around 6 A.M., was one of several
military incidents along Israel's border with Gaza, coming after months of
relative calm.
2009:
In the evening, The Cedar Rapids Jewish
community gathers for the first Shiva minyan honoring Peggy McHugh beloved
mother of Sabrina Thalblum and the mother-in-law of Rabbi Todd Thalblum.
2010:
Annual dinner to support Magan David
Adom in Israel is scheduled to take place at Adat Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills, Michigan
2010: The Stern Senior Art Show is scheduled to come to an end at Yeshiva
University Museum.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen
2010: With Mideast peace talks due to restart in Washington this week,
Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with Jordan' King Abdallah today to offer
assurances that Israel is committed to a lasting peace with the Palestinians.
"Peace is a strategic objective for Israel," Barak told the king.
"We expect the Palestinians to come to the peace talks with
openness."
2010: It was reported from Jerusalem today that “recent discoveries of
large natural gas reserves off Israel's coast have set in motion a battle
between investors and the government over how to divide up the profits.
2011: “Ushpizin” is scheduled to be the movie shown
at Movies Under the Stars at the Chabad Community Campus in Fairfax, VA.
2011: Seven
people were injured in south Tel Aviv early this morning, when a terrorist from
the West Bank carjacked a taxi and rammed it into a police road block
protecting a Tel Aviv nightclub, before going on a stabbing spree .
2011: Top
Israeli singer and TV personality Margalit "Margol" Tzan'ani and
convicted criminal Michael Hazan were indicted this morning on charges of
extortion, and conspiracy to commit a crime..
2012: “Advanced Kashrut Seminar for Women” is
scheduled to take place at the OU Headquarters in New York City.
2012: In “Boys Own Adventures in Wartime and
Sterling Public Service” published today John Farquharson described the
exemplary life of Sir Richard Kingsland who had been born Julius Cohen but
changed his name “to avoid anti-Semitism.”
2012: A 25 person Israeli team is set to compete at
the Paralympic Games which are scheduled to open today in London (As reported
by Aaron Kalman)
2012: One hundred fifteenth anniversary of the
opening of the First Zionist Congress in Basle.
2012: A New
York City hardware store clerk who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, killing and
dismembering a lost little boy was sentenced today to 40 years to life in
prison
http://www.timesofisrael.com/leiby-kletzys-killer-sentenced-to-minimum-of-40-years/
2012: The
office of Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg, who has been serving the Berlin Jewish
community since 1997, confirmed today in an email that criminal charges had
been filed against him. Ehrenberg has received a letter from the prosecutor’s
office because of comments he made on a nationwide broadcast television show,
an aide confirmed. At this point it is not known who filed the complaint and
what exactly the letter states.
2012:
In “Peeking through the highrises: famed Jerusalem street's old architectural
glories” published today Moshe Gilad provides cultural history of the Jewish
state disguised as a tour of Jerusalem's Hanevi'im (Prophets) Street
2013:
The Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival presents “In Conversation with Laurent
Binet” whose award winning first novel HHhh “recounts the assassination
of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.”
2013:
Denis Kozhutkin is scheduled to play Hindemith’s Piano Sonata no.3 in B flat
major at The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013:
Nicholas and Jacobina, the children of Judith (Perlman) Martin “began sharing
the credit for the Miss Manners columns today.
2013:
Félix Lajkó and his band are scheduled to perform at the Dohany Street
Synagogue in Budapest.
2013:
"Praying for peace is not enough when God’s children are being gassed,” a
leading British rabbi, Dr Jonathan Romain, said in an expression of support for
military intervention in Syria, British media reported today.”
2013:
“Thousands of Israelis lined up outside gas mask distribution centers today,
despite efforts by authorities to calm fears of being on the receiving end of a
threatened Syrian retaliation should the US take military action against the
Assad regime.” (As reported by Rettig Gurg and Stuart Winer)
2014:
Valerie Sassyfras is scheduled to perform “a vocal set of original songs” at
the Banks Street Bar in New Orleans.
2014:
The Tel Aviv International Synagogue is scheduled to host a Carelbach Kabbalat
Shabbat Service followed by a Champagne Kiddush.
2014:
At Friday night services in Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah celebrates the 10th
anniversary of Kathe Goldstein’s serving as Cantorial Soloist.
2014:
Twenty-three-year olf Aaron Sofer, a US yeishiva student from Lakewood, NH
whose body had been found in Ein Kerem, “was laid to rest in Beit Shemesh.” (As
reported by Marissa Newman and Advi Sterman)
2014( 3rd of Elul, 5774); Twenty-two-year-old
Sgt. Natanel Maman died this morning at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah
Tikva as a result of shrapnel wounds suffered last week when a
rocket exploded next to Gan Yavneh in the Ashdod region. (“In life he was
loved and admired; he was swifter than eagles and stronger than lions.”)
2015: As the Israel Museum celebrates its 50th
anniversary “6 Artists / 6 Projects” an exhibition featuring contemporary
Israeli artists is scheduled to come to a close today.
2015: This year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival which has
featured the work of Israeli choreographers:
Hofesh Shechter, Saar Harari, Roy Assaf,Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar is
scheduled to have its finale tonight.
2016(25th of Av, 5776): Eighty-three-year-old
comedic actor Gene Wilder passed away today. (As reported by Daniel Lewis)
2016: Only months after having signed him a one year
contract, the Detroit Lions released thirty year old Offensive Guard Geoff
Schwartz today.
2016: “The Kind Words,” a comedy about three Jewish
Israeli siblings at The Hampton Synagogue Film Series which is now in its 14th
year.
2016: Classes are scheduled to begin at Missouri State
University the academic home of Marc Cooper, a professor emeritus of history
who was stabbed to death last week. (As reported by Ari Feldman)
2016: “A free public reception is scheduled to take place
at 402 College Street, the home of Makom, a space dedicated to ‘creative
downtown Judaism’ which is also the location for Mandel’s Dreamery, an art
installation at the Fenster Gallery in Toronto.
2016: In Chicago, the Institute of Cervantes is schedule
to host a screening of “Heaven in Auschwitz,”
“a documentary film that tells the incredible story of 13 Jewish
children during World War II, whose lives were changed forever by the legendary
Fredy Hirsch, a German-Jew who worked to provide arts, culture and sports to
improve the lives of children in the Terezin Ghetto.”
2017:
In Israel, the Foreign Ministry is scheduled to host the third and final of its
two-hour tours of its Jerusalem offices complete with short lectures designed
to provide families with a sense of “what it is like to be a diplomat.”
2017:
The Rothbard Trio featuring Wayne Escoffery is scheduled to appear at the Red
Sea Jazz Festival today.
2017:
“The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco” is scheduled to open
today.
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/invisible-museum-history-and-memory-morocco
2017:
“Sketching "Fiddler": Set Designs by Mentor Huebner” is scheduled to
open today.
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/sketching-fiddler-set-designs-mentor-huebner
2017:
“The Power of Attention: Magic & Meditation in Hebrew "shiviti"
Manuscript Art” is scheduled to re-open today.
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/power-attention
2018:
“Operation Finale,” a cinema depiction of the capture of Adolf Eichmann is
scheduled to open today in the United States.
https://www.fandango.com/operation-finale-212332/movie-overview
2018:
In Jerusalem, Hashaa Theatre is scheduled to host a performance of “The
Dolphin,” “musical fantasy for children.”
2018:
“Map Story – an experiential activity for children who like stories and for
those willing to set out on adventures and discoveries between the words” is
scheduled to come to an end today at the National Library of Israel.
2018:
At part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, the Temple Emanuel Streicker
Center is scheduled to open the photographic exhibition “The Storied Druze
Village of Yanuh-Jat.”
2018: In Sandy Springs, GA, Israeli pianist Asrtith Baltsan is scheduled to
perform at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center.
https://www.musiccathedra.com/astrith-baltsan-english
2019:
“Author and theologist Robert Schoen” is scheduled to discuss his book On
God’s Radar at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, CA.
2019(28th of Av): Yarhrzeit for Larry
Rosenstein, of blessed memory, husband of Judy Levin Rosenstein, of blessed
memory. Gone too soon but always remembered!
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final two screening of “Skin,” “Israeli
filmmaker Guy Nattiv’s first English language feature” film.
2019:
The Website Holocaust. CZ, which is an amazing resource, is up and running
again.
2020:
Princess Lockerooo, a woman of Jewish and Dominican ancestry who grew up on
Rogers and Hammerstein, “is a whirling force with a singular focus: spreading
the gospel of waacking.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/nyregion/waacking-nyc-club-dance.html?searchResultPosition=3
2021:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Fruits and Spiced
Round Challah for Rosh Hashana with chef and scholar Hélène Jawhara-Piñer’s.
2021:
Tickets are scheduled are on sale today for the Alliance for Jewish Theatre’s
Virtual Conference which will take place in October.
2021:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not be meeting with Prime Minister Bennett
or participating in today’s cabinet meeting because she has postponed her trip
to Israel because the situation in Afghanistan.
2021:
The Breman Museum is scheduled to host guided tours of the exhibition “Absence
of Humanity.”
2021:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a All-of-a-Kind Family
Walking Tour which “follows in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte,
and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-Kind
Family”
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Today A Woman Went Mad In the
Supermarket, stories by Hilma Wolitzer
2022:
At Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, CA Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel Fund and
former executive director of S.F.-based Federation, talks with Rabbi Jill
Perlman about his 2021 book Can We Talk About Israel on the basics of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, subtitled “A Guide for the Curious, Confused,
and Conflicted.”
2022:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “T-JEM: New
Year, New Ideas’” a series of online workshops by the ASF Institute of Jewish
Experience for Jewish educators on understanding the Jewish mosaic and
practical applications for incorporating the beauty, depth, diversity, and
vitality of the Jewish experience into their classrooms.
2022:
The Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition is scheduled to come to a
close in Laramie, WY, Independence, KS and Watertown, SD.
2022(2nd
of Elul, 5782): Eighty-eight-year-old “ground-breaking photographer” and film
director Melvin Sokolsky passed away today. (Editor’s note – another Jew with a
camera)
Melvin Sokolsky
Photography - Holden Luntz Gallery
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host lecture by Howard Epstein on “
Sizilard: The Father of the Manhattan Project.”
2023:
The Aden Conference presented by the ASF”s Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to continue for a second day.
2023:
The Agnon House is scheduled to host another meeting of joint reading of
Agnon's stories, this time called "Until Here".
2023:
In Saratoga, CA, “Beth David Women is
scheduled to present a discussion with retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris
Hazzard Cordell, the first Black woman judge in Northern California and the
first Black judge in Santa Clara County, talking about her 2021 memoir.
2023:
The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to present online “Judaism 101.”
2023:
In New Orleans, the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold its
Executive Committee Meeting.
2024:
In Berkley, CA, Urban Adamah is scheduled to host a screening of “May God With
You,” a film by Cléo Cohen, who investigates her own identity as the
granddaughter of Jewish Arabs who emigrated from Tunisia and Algeria to France.
2024:
“Virtuoso singer and musician Marina Maximillian’ and her band –-- Michael
Hershkowitz – Guitars; Omri Behr – Keyboards and computer; Ofer Levi – Drums; Gilad
Abro – Bass --- are scheduled to perform this evening at the Idan and Batia
Ofer Park at the National Library of Israel,
2024:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Beauty Behind Walls of
Horror: The Role of Music During the Holocaust” during which Internationally
renowned flutist Dr. Christine Erlander Beard will “present a powerful recital
of music performed in the concentration camps and ghettos of German-occupied
Europe during the Holocaust, accompanied by a discussion.”
2024;
In Oakland, CA, Moishe House Rockridge is scheduled to host “Music Mishmar,” a
weekly Jewish sacred music jam that rotates throughout the East Bay area.
2024: At Temple Judea in palm Beach
Gardens, FL, davening is a “family affair” as the husband-and-wife team of
Rabbi Feivel and Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead the morning minyan.
2024:
As August 29th 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 328 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)
