This Day, August 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 30
70: According to Josephus, the day one which the Second Temple was set aflame
500: Having conquered Italy, Ostrogoth King Theodoric gave the Jews freedom to worship.
526 Death of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths (the eastern Goths) who controlled the Italian Peninsula and area adjacent to it. Theodoric had a reputation for religious toleration which he extended to the Jewish people. He encouraged them to settle in his kingdom reportedly because he saw them as a source of economic benefit.
1179: As the Crusaders and the Moslems jockey for control over Palestine, soldiers under the command of Saladin had sacked the castle at Jacob’s Ford, the critical passageway across the Jordan River. The crossing takes its name from the Biblical patriarch and would be a scene of fighting in 1948 and 1967.
1181: The papacy of Alexander III comes to an end. He was “the author of the oldest extant version of the bull “Sicut Judaeis” (As the Jews) first promulgated in 1120 by Calixtus II.
1334: Birthdate of King Peter who reigned over Castile and Leon from 1350 to 1369. “Peter's rival Henry of Trastámara continuously depicted Peter as "King of the Jews” and had some success in taking advantage of popular Castilian resentment towards the Jews. Henry of Trastámara instigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and forced conversions in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390. Peter took forceful measures against this, including the execution of at least five anti-Jewish leaders of a riot.”
1465: Johannes Hinderbach, who blamed the Jews for the death of Simon of Trent which was his justification for murdering “several of them” and working to canonize the boy in what was one of many of the blood libels, was elected Prince-Bishop of Trent today.
1563: The Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia was expelled.
1757: The HMS Diana, a 32-gun frigate which would play a key role in the capture of Louisburg during the Seven Years War and was commanded by Captain Sir Alexandr Schomberg, the son of German-Jewish doctor who was raised Jewish but baptized so he could further his naval career was launched today.
1761(30th of Av, 5521): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1782: In New York, Hillel Judah and his wife gave birth to Rebecca Judah, the wife Of Isaac B. Siexas whom she married in 1809.
1793(22nd of Elul, 5553): In his 37th year, Judah Levy passed away erev Shabbat after which he was buried in the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.
1797: Twenty-two-year-old New York City physician, Bernard S. Judah, the London-born son of Samuel Judah married Catherine Hart today.
1803: Twenty-two-year-old Leo Wolf and Johanna Wolf gave birth to Dr. Moritz (Morris) Wolf
1808: The Magistrate of Frankfurt (a puppet of the French Government) summoned Rothschild to give an account of his business dealings with the Landgrave.
1809: Benjamin Lewin married Sarah Elkin at the Great Synagogue today.
1810: Philip Wilks married Hannah Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1812: Phillip Solomon married Jane Aaron at the Great Synagogue today
1813: Following today’s attack “on white settlers and allied Creeks at Fort Mims” Abraham “Mordecai aided the federal troops in tracking down the members of the Red Stick faction” responsible for this action that took place during the Creek War.
1815: This evening Henry Nathans of London married Hester Levy in Charleston, SC.
1815: Birthdate of Schaltiel Isaac Cohn, the husband of Vilhemine Meyer.
1817: In Philadelphia, Arabella Solomon and Zalegman Phillips, who had been married in 1805 gave birth to Naphtali J. Phillips.
1817: In Groningen, Netherlands, Simon Jacob Jacobs and Marianne Abraham Hamming / Hammo gave birth to Abraham Jaobs, the “husband of Anna Israel de Jongh and father of Israël Abrahamsz Julius Karel Jacobs; Charlotte Jacobs; Simon (Sam) Jacobs; Marianne Jacobs; Johan Rudolf Jacobs; Eduard 'Emil' Jacobs; Herman Jacobs; Emma Jacobs; Frederika Jacobs and Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs.”
1818: Lewis Barnett married Elizabeth Levi at the Great Synagogue today.
1821: Mr. Myer Ellis of Charleston, SC married Francis Polack the daughter of New Yorker Jacob Abrahams.
1821(2nd of Elul, 5581): Rachel Deborah Levy, the daughter of Hayman and Sloe Myers Levy and the sister of Miriam, Zipporah and Richa Levy passed away today after which she was buried at the First Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel.
1824: Simon Drukker married Mary Emanuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1825: Birthdate of Kovno native Rabbi Isaac Wolf Olschwanger a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe, the author of the "Lebushim," and Judah Löw ben Bezaleel of Prague and R. Meïr of Padua who served as the rabbi in St. Petersburg from 1878 until his death in 1896.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11694-olschwanger-isaac-wolf
1826: In Paris, Moise Mayer Fichel and Lili Abigail Sasias gave birth to French painter Benjamin Eugène Fichel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fichel#/media/File:Eugene_fichel_painting_1.jpg
1829(1st of Elul, 5589): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1829: 1829: Two days after he had passed away, 22-year-old Samuel Solomon, son of “Michael and Hannah Solomon” was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery
1832: Dr. Daniel Moses Levy Maduro Prexi gave birth to Rebecca Peixotto.
1835: Founding of Melbourne, Australia. The first synagogue opened in Melbourne in 1847. Melbourne provided the first native born Australian to serve as Governor-General – a lawyer named Isaac Isaacs. King George V was reportedly reluctant to appoint Isaacs to the post because he was Jewish. Prime Minister James Scullin assured the reluctant monarch that Australians took a more liberal view than most Englishmen did in such matters. They were not bothered by the matter of religion and therefore, the appointment was made without further complications.
1836: The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. Within twenty years after the founding of the city there were enough Jews living in Houston to form a burial society. In 1859, Congregation Beth Israel, the first chartered Jewish congregation in Texas was founded as an Orthodox Synagogue but switched to the Reform movement fifteen years later. In 1906, Houston saw the publication of The Jewish Herald Voice, the first journal of its kind to appear in the state. A list of early Houston Hebrew businessmen would include Joseph Weingarten, Simon Sakowitz and Tobias Sakowitz. Houston established its Jewish Community Council in 1936 under the presidency of Max Nathan and enhanced its Jewish Family Service under Ruth Fred.
1836: Hart Levy married Julia Woolf at the Great Synagogue today.
1837(29th of Av, 5597): In South Carolina, eight-year-old Isaac S. Hyams, the son of Susanna and Moses David Hyams passed away today.
1838: In New Orleans, Hannah Levy and Jacob Levy Florance gave birth to Florian Hart Florance, the husband of Sarah Hendricks whom he married in 1860 and with whom he had four children – Edwin, Daisy, Sylvia and James.
1842: In Charleston, SC, Adeline Moses and Levy I. Moses, who were married in 1832 gave birth to Mordecai Lyons Moses.
1843: Mary and Philip William Flower gave birth to Cyril Flower, the 1st Baron of Battersea who married Sir Anthony de Rothschild’s daughter Constance in 1877. The couple were the last of their line since they had not children.
1843: Lewis Levy married Catherine Elias at the Great Synagogue today.
1844: In Amsterdam, Lea Nabarro and David Zacharias Baruch gave birth to Gratia David Baruch.
1848(1st of Elul, 5608): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1851: In New York City, Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs and his wife gave birth to Abram S. Isaacs, who served as the Rabbi for Barnett Memorial Temple in Paterson, NJ, who served as the first Professor of Hebrew at New York University and who edited The Jewish Messenger and published several books including A Modern Hebrew Poet: The Life and Writings of Chaim Luzzatto
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1853: In New York City, Jane Symons and Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs gave birth to CCNY graduate and Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary trained rabbi Abram S. Isaacs the professor of Hebrew and professor of German at the University of the City of New York and the Edtior of the Jewish Messinger who also served as the spiritual lead of “Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Patterson, NJ.”
1855: James Finn, the British Counsel in Jerusalem reported to the British Ambassador in Constantinople that Sir Moses Montefiore had been given permission by the Ottoman government to purchase land in Jerusalem on which he would be allowed to build a hospital and where he could employ poor Jews in gardening. Montefiore was only the second European who had been allowed to purchase land. Finn had been the first.
1857: Birthdate of Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Svyatopolk-Mirsky who in 1904 while serving as Minister of the Interior “received a deputation of Zionists” whom “he informed that he sympathized with the movement they represented and would withdraw the Governmental opposition to it hitherto existing in Russia.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/03/101402704.html?pageNumber=2
1860: Birthdate of Isaac Levitan famed Russian landscape painter.
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=219
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levitan
1862(4th of Elul, 5622): As the Union Army suffers a crushing blow thanks to the stupidity of General Pope, thirty-three-year-old Captain Jacob A. Cohen, Company A, 10th Louisiana, was killed today fighting for the Confederacy.
1862: William Krouse, from Iowa, enlisted today in Company H of the Second Cavalry after which he “distinguished himself in many fierce cavalry charges and had the good fortune to return home without a scar.”
1863: Birthdate of Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, who provided a photographic record, in color of Jews living in far-flung parts of the empire.
http://thejewniverse.com/2017/see-1900s-bukharan-jews-in-gorgeous-full-color/
1865: On Broadway, Mr. Edmund Kean is scheduled to play "the Jew" in tonight's performance of the Merchant of Venice.
1865: Judah P. Benjamin arrived at Southampton, Britain marking the final stop on his flight from America when the Confederacy was finally defeated.
1867: In Seneca Falls, NY, Lewis and Anne Zalinski Adler gave birth the Cornell and Harvard trained attorney Louis Simon Adler, the U.S. Judge for the Western New York District Court and Republican majority leader in the New York State Assembly.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/05/24/93628957.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1867: The Washington Avenue Synagogue, also known as Temple Beth El, was dedicated today in Detroit, Michigan.
1867: Prince Charles, the future King Charles (a.k.a. King Carlos I) wrote a letter to Sir Moses Montifore, expressing his pleasure at the Anglo-Jewish leader’s recent visit to Romania and his support for better treatment of the Jews living in Romania.
1868: Three days after he had passed away, 72-year-old Ralph Isaacs, the father of nine children – Caroline, Julia, Isabella, Esther, Rosina, Frances, Emma, Ameilia and Ralph – was buried to at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1869(23rd of Elul, 5629): Jacob Romm, one of the three sons of printer and published Joseph Reuben Romm, passed away today in Vilna.
1871: Birthdate of Vilna native Nathan Weinstein, the “officer of the Zionist Organization of America” who settled in Portland, Oregon.
1872: In Philadelphia, Abraham and Barbara Wilder Salus gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained lawyer Samuel W. Salus, the member of both houses of the state legislature and Republican Party leader who was the husband of Ada R. Salus, the father of Arthurs S. Salus and the grandfather of Samuel W. Salus II.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/30/109349549.pdf
1872: It was reported today that Sir Moses Montefiore has completed his trip to St. Petersburg, Russia and returned to his home at Ramsgate. Sir Moses had gone to Russia at the behest of the Board of Deputies to intercede with the Czar’s government on behalf of the Jews of Russia.
1873(7TH of Elul, 5633): Parashat Shoftim
1873(7th of Elul, 5633): Eighty-seven-year-old “economist and journalist Jacob Newton Cardozo” the Savannah born son of Sephardic merchant David N. Cardozo passed away today.
1873: In the United Kingdom, Sir George Jessel begins serving as the Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls. For the two years prior to accepting this position, he had served as Solicitor General.
1875: The New York Times published an account of Sir Moses Montefiore’s trip to Palestine including his visit to Jerusalem.
1875: It was reported today that Abraham H. Guedalla has provided The Jewish World with some of the correspondence between him and Sir Moses Montefiore that provided details of his visit to Palestine during July of 1875.
1876: Henry Schneeberger was sent a letter inviting him to become the first rabbi of Chizuk Amuno in Baltimore, MD.
1877: While “on special service at the European Station, U.S. Navy Lt. and future Rear Admiral Edward D. Taussig and his wife Ellen Kneffler gave birth to Joseph K. Taussig, the U.S. Naval Academy quarterback who served in every conflict from the Spanish American War to WW II and rose to the rank of Vice Admiral.
1878(1st of Elul, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1878: In New York, Judge Van Rant granted a writ of habeas corpus directing Thomas F. Fallon to bring Caroline Cohen to court. Caroline was the 15-year-old daughter of Loewenthal Cohen, a Jewish clothing dealer. Fallon was a Roman Catholic who allegedly had eloped with young Caroline. The judge had granted the write in response to Cohen’s petition claiming that his daughter was being held against her will having been enticed away from her home “under the pretext that he wanted to marry her.”
1879: In New York, 12-year-old Henry O’Brien decided to find out if it was true that Jews did not eat pork. He thrust a piece of pork down the throat of Harris Goldstein, a Polish Jew. Goldstein chased after O’Brien who hit Goldstein with a shovel when the Jewish boy caught up to him. O’Brien hit him in the face and broke his nose. At the end of the melee, both of the boys were arrested by Officer McCarthy of the Tenth Precinct.
1879: In Kovno, Lithuania, Rabbi Zalman and Malke Caplan gave birth journalist and Zionist Ephriam Caplan who in 1901 came to the United States where he married Eva Kaplan, became a member of the editorial staff of the Jewish Morning Journal and helped to establish the Yeshiva College.
1880: David Belasco’s version of the drama “True to the Core” was performed today at the Baldwin Theatre.
1880: Kaspar von Preysing and his wife, Hedwig von Walterskirchen gave birth to anti-Nazi Cardinal Konrad von Preysing who as Bishop of Berlin “had vainly appealed to the Pope to protest specific Nazi actions, including those directed at the Jews.”
1881: In Lakeside, WI, Isaac Lazarus Lyons, the Columbia, SC born son of Jacob Cohen Lyons and Louisa Elizabeth Lyons, and his wife Eva Lyons gave birth to Dr. Randoph Lyons, the New Orleans doctor and husband of Marie Celeste Lyons.
1881: It was reported today that authorities have denied “Jew-baiter” Ernst Henrici the right to address a public meeting in Hamburg, Germany. [His speeches had been connected to riots in Berlin and the burning of the synagogue in Neustettin.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950CEED9153BE033A25753C3A96E9C94609FD7CF
1882: In Williamsburg, VA, “William and Lena (Engelberger) Teiser” give birth to University of Virginia trained attorney Sidney Teister who lived and worked, for a time, in Portland, Oregon and who was the husband of the former Betty Kline with whom he had two children – William and Ruth.
https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Chief-Justice-George-H-Williams/dp/B0007FZY6I
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24133
1883: It was reported today that martial law has been declared at Eglerszeg, Hungary after an outbreak of anti-Jewish riots. All of the shops remain closed and many of the Jewish families have fled from the city.
1884: In Kovno, Russia, to Jacob Baruch and Sarah Golde (Arenovski) Askowith gave birth to Dora Askowith, the author, historian, and college educator, who believed that a knowledge of Jewish women’s history would serve as a catalyst for organization, activism, and moral leadership and taught at Hunter College for forty-five years.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/askowith-dora
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dora-askowith
1885: Rabbis Mendes and Morais are scheduled to speak at the service being held at the 19th Street Synagogue in memory of the late Sir Moses Montefiore.
1885: “New Antiquities” published today described the career of Moses Shapira, “the converted Jew” whose discovery of a “so-called Moabitish manuscript of Deuteronomy…and a Moabitish dictionary” which he offered to sell to the British Museum for $5,000,000 has been declared to be “a clumsy forgergy” by experts from Germany. This, and other forgeries tied to Mr. Shapira, is attributed to the fact that he left the faith of his birth.
1885:Twenty-three-year-old Houston native and Northwestern University trained attorney Israel Cowen, the son of Bennett ad Bertha Cowen presided over the memorial services for Sir Moses Montefiore that were held in the Chicago Opera House today.
1886: Thirty-one of the forty Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in the U.S. yesterday left Castle Garden with friends who had promised to provide support for them.
1887: Chicago Commercial Business graduate Jacob Levi Kesner, the London born son of Sarah Staal and L.J. Kener who rose from being a “cash boy at The Fair Department Store” to serving as the director of many financial institutions including the Greenebaum Sons Bank and Trust and Guardian National Bank in Chicago while being a member of Chicago Sinai Temple married Bettie Frohmann today.
In London, Sarah Staal and L.J. Kesner gave birth to Chicago Commercial Business graduate Jacob Levi Kesner, the husband of Bettie Frohmann who rose from being a “cash boy at The Fair Department Store” to serving as the director of many financial institutions including the Greenebaum Sons Bank and Trust and Guardian National Bank in Chicago while being a member of Chicago Sinai Temple.
1890: The boy’s band from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum will perform at the Summernight’s festival sponsored by District No. 1 of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith which is being held at Sulzer’s Harlem River Park.
1890: In Moravia, Leopold and Florentina Kulka gave birth to Robert Kulka, the husband of Elsa Skutzka and father of Tomas Kulka who was deported to Ossowa in 1942 where he died.
1890: In Kiev, Rosa Magaziner and Abraham Cherniavsky gave birth to violinist Leo Cherniavsky who “made his first public appearance at the age of six,” toured Russia as member of the Cherniavsky Trio who settled in New York where he recorded exclusively for Columbia Gramophone Company.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/107670/Cherniavsky_Leo
1891: The tenth free excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will begin with a boat ride up the East River starting at 9 a.m.
1891: “Famine Face in Russia” published today described how the government’s anti-Jewish laws have exacerbated the situation since, in the past, Jewish money lenders have provided funds for the peasants when their crops have failed. Such is not the case which makes the agricultural crisis all the worst and the government refuses to alter the laws.
1891: State Senator Jacob A. Cantor is preparing for the upcoming election following his return from Europe yesterday.
1892(7th of Elul, 5652): Four-year-old Ida Samyan, the daughter of a Russian Jewish couple who had just arrived from Hamburg passed away today. Much to the relief of authorities “a post-mortem examination showed that her death was not due to cholera.”
1892: Max Strassburger, a representative of the United Hebrew Society arrived at Ziontown, NJ to investigate the claims that the Jewish settlers had been brought their under false pretenses and were now facing the prospect of starvation.
1892: In Elizabeth, NJ, the city Board of Health met this evening and adopted measures to deal with the threat of cholera including measures to improve the sanitary conditions in the First War which is home to “a large number of Russian and Polish Jews.”
1893: Nikolai Illarionovich Skrydlov, “who had married a Jewess” was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral today in the Russian Navy.
1895(10th of Elul, 5655): Mrs. Rebecca Kastor who left legacies of $100 each to several Jewish institutions including Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, passed away today.
1896: Birthdate of Kossuth, Russia native and future Missourian Myer Silverberg, the husband of Jeanette Rosenfeld and the father of Leona and Harriet H. Silverberg who should not be confused with Lithuanian portrait artist E. Myer Siberg who painted under the name of Ellis Myere Silvette,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ellis_Meyer_Silvette
1896: Herzl received a "Shana Tova" from Jerusalem signed by Ephraim Cohn, director of the Lämel School, David Yellin, Eliezer ben Yehuda and Wilhelm Gross.
1896: At Elizabetgrad, Russia Phineas and Eva Bodansky gave birth TO “medical scientist Meyer Bodansky” who in 1907 came to the United States where he received his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1918, his M.A. from the University of Texas in 1922, his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1923, and his M.D. from the University of Chicago in 1935 and married Eleanor Abbott, with whom he had two daughters.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bodansky-meyer
1897: The funeral for David J. Seligman who passed away in his 48th year and was the son of the late Joseph Seligman is scheduled to take place at his home on East 55th Street in Manhattan.
1897: In Michigan, the Montefiore Pleasure Club which meets every Thursday evening and “aids the Hebrew Charities of Detroit” was founded today.
1897 In Amsterdam, art dealer Eduard Goudstikker and his wife gave birth to Jacques Goudstikker whose “extensive and significant art collection” was stolen by the Nazis” and then became the subject of decade’s long litigation in the post-War years.
1897: At today’s session of the Zionist Congress being held in Basel, Switzerland, “the delegates…unanimously adopted, with great enthusiasm, the program for re-establishing” the Jews “in Palestine, with publicly recognized rights.” “A dispatch was sent to the Sultan of Turkey thanking his Majesty for the privileges enjoyed by “the Jews “in his empire.”
1898: Godefroy Cavaignac, the Minister of War, stated that the document “which definitely incriminated Captain Alfred Dreyfus” “had been discovered to be a forgery by Hubert-Joseph Henry” “but he refused to concur with his colleagues in a revision of the Dreyfus prosecution” opting instead to resign and join with the nationalists and anti-Semites in the Chamber of Deputies.
1898: During the Dreyfus Affair, Major Henry, one of those who had helped to frame the French officer, was arrested. Following his arrest, Henry confessed to his role in the matter.
1898(12th of Elul, 5658): In Chicago sixty-four-year-old Rabbi Louis Rosenbloom was kicked to death by seventeen-year-old John Schlechta when he tried to the teenager from attacking various members of the Levi family.
1898: The second annual Zionist Congress at Basel Switzerland, where the American delegation was led by Dr. Richard J.H. Gottheil, Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Semitic Languages at Columbia University was scheduled to come to an end today.
1899: On this date Herzl wrote in his diary “While riding out to Währing today on a jolting bus the title for my Zion novel occurred to me: Alt-Neuland [Old-Newland].”
1899: Three handwriting experts, including Paul Meyer, Director of the of the School of Ancient Manuscripts all testified today at the court martial of Captain Dreyfus that Estherhazy and not Dreyfus had written the bordereau that was at the heart of the claim that Dreyfus had betrayed France to the Germans.
1900: Four days after he had passed away, 74-year-old Charles Cleve, the husband of the former Adeline Stiebel, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1902: Jewish Stories” published today provided a review of The Gates of Israel by Herman Bernstein which contains a large number of stories that “are pervaded with gloominess.”
1902: Birthdate of Paul Massing the German sociologist who wrote “Rehearsal for Destruction: A Study Of Political Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany.”
1902: Birthdate of Gisela Kohn Dollinger the native of Baden-be-Wien, a Vienna suburb, who survived the Holocaust and lived to be 111. (As resulted by Julie Wiener)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/refugee-who-rescued-husband-from-dachau-dies-at-111/
1903: In Scranton, PA, a meeting is scheduled to be held today at Keneseth Israel Synagogue on Linden Street “for the purposed of organizing a council” made up “of the following societies – Chovevi Zion, Daughters of Zions, Sons of Zion all in Scranton; Chovevi Zion of Wilkes-Barre; Machsi Zion of Pittson and Tifereth Zion of Olyphant, PA.
1904: Birthdate of Saul Pollock, the Newark native who earned a PhD in Mathematics and was a consultant for the Hall of Science at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.
1904(19th of Elul, 5664): Sixty-three-year-old Baden native, Lippmann Mayer the German trained Reform Rabbi who led Congregation Rodef Shalom in Allegheny City, PA and served as the Chaplain for the petitionary and “as a director of home for the aged in Pittsburgh” passed away today.
1905: It has been decided to form territorial zones for Jews” in Russia and “lists are now being drawn up of new townships and villages where they will be permitted to live.”
1906: Native Muslim soldiers attacked the Hara (Jewish Quarter) of Tunis.
1906: The first synagogue was dedicated in Finland.
1906(9th of Elul, 5666): Edward Rosewater passed away. Born in Bohemia in 1841, he came to the United States in 1854. He became the publisher and editor of the Omaha (Neb) Bee. “Rosewater had a reputation for always being ‘aggressive and controversial’ and was influential in Nebraska politics as one of the leaders of the state Republican Party.”
1907: It was reported today that Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor” while stopping at the immigration office in Salt Lake City discovered “that certain Boston lawyers have been charging Chinaman from $5 to $25 for making out a simple application blank” which “the regular immigration officials” are supposed to be completing at no charge and that the secretary has issued an order to all immigration offices to put an end to this practice.
1908: First Conference for the Yiddish Language opened in Czernowitz
1909 (13th of Elul, 5669): Yosef Chaim (a leading Hakham (Sephardic Rabbi), authority on Jewish law (Halakha) and Master Kabbalist passed away two days before his 71st birthday. He is best known as author of the work on Halakha Ben Ish Chai ("Son of Man (who) Lives"), by which title he is also known.
1909(13th of Elul, 5669): Chaim Jossel Eidelsohn passed away today.
1909(13th of Elul, 5669): A young girl named Scheitel Lewin passed away today.
1910: The leaders of the cloakmakers union who are on strike “were still in a fighting mood” and “Meyer London, their counsel said he was preparing an appeal to higher courts” to overturn the injunction issued against the striker in which the Justice of the New York State Supreme Court “declared any demand for a closed to be illegal and restrained all acts to advance it…” (Editor’s note – London and most of the strikers were Jewish)
1911: Today East London College University trained engineer Samuel Bakesef, the London, England born son of Sarah Mily Katz and Morris Bakesef who in 1919 moved to the United States where he became the chief designer of pumping equipment for Layne and Bowler and invented a “new type of folding hammock’ while belong to Temple Beth Israel in San Diego married Esther Rosenberg.
1911: As of today, there are no Jews listed among the fifteen people who lost their lives in the storm that swept through Charleston, the home to Beth Elohim one of the oldest congregation in the United Staes yesterday causing a million dollars in damages and which had struck Savannah, home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the United States, earlier in the week.
1912: Founding of Temple Israel in Gary, Indiana.
1912: In Wellington, NZ, Ella Wake (née Rosieur) and Charles August Wake gave birth to SOE agent Nancy Wake known at the White Mouse.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nancy-wake
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/europe/14wake.html
1912(17th of Elul, 5672): Eighty-six-year-old Colonel Max Hirsch passed away at Petrikau.
1913: The Manchester Guardian and the New York Times, report that Max Nordeau will not be giving the opening address at the upcoming Eleventh Zionist Congress. This is first time Nordeau will not have given the opening address since the Zionists began their meetings. It is further evidence of a shift to the program of the practical Zionists as opposed to those Zionists who had looked to a combination of European nations acting in concert to create a Jewish Homeland.
1914(8th of Elul, 5674): Twenty-seven-year-old “Archaeologist and Egyptologist” Adolphe Joseph Reinach, the son of archaeologist Joseph Reinach and Henriette-Clemintine Reinach and husband of Marguerite Dreyfus, daughter of Mathieu Dreyfus and niece of Alfred Dreyfus, with whom he had a son, Jean-Pierre Reinach was killed in Fosse in the Ardennes while serving as a “Lieutenant of Cuirassiers in the French Army.
1914: During World War I, the Battle of Tannenberg came to an end with the Germans defeating the Russians.. At the urging of the French, the Russian Army had begun advancing before it was fully mobilized and ready for battle. The Russian Army advanced into East Prussia which caused panic in Berlin. The Germans transferred troops from the Western Front to meet the Russian advance. This shift of troops weakened the German forcing attacking the French, undermined the German grand strategic design and enabled the French to finally halt the advance. This would lead to the four year stalemate known as World War I. The strengthened German forces in Prussia blocked the Russians and hurled them back. The fighting in the East would be a see-saw affair that would bleed Russia until the Revolutions of 1917 and 1918. The Jews living in the Pale of Settlement which was in the path of this clash between the Kaiser and the Czar suffered great privations. The irony was that the Germans could probably have won the battle without the additional troops and World War I might have been a rather brief affair where the troops were home by Christmas and Europe (including the Jews) would not have experienced the upheavals that led to World War II and the Holocaust.
1915: “Storm Delays Dedication of Home” published today described plans for the dedication of the home for convalescents established by the Federation of Rumanian Jews of America” which will take place next week because inclement weather had forced a postponement of the ceremony.
1915: Birthdate of composer Robert Strassburg whose works would span both the secular and religious worlds as can be seen by his work on such Broadway shows as “The Rose Tattoo” and such compositions as “Torah Sonata” and the opera “Chelm.”
1915: Birthdate of Shifra Lerer, “who was discovered at age 5 in Argentina by the great Yiddish actor Boris Thomashefsky and went on to become a winsome and wide-ranging trouper of the Yiddish theater for the next 90 years.”
1915: It was reported today that Rabbi Henry M. Fisher of New York “will conduct a campaign among” visitors to, and permanent residents of, New York City to raise money “for the relief of the Jews in Poland and Palestine” who are suffering from the effects of the World War.
1915: It was reported today that the supporters of Eleftherios Venizelos “have cast suspicions of treason and sedition upon the Jews because they voted for candidates” supporting Dimitrios Gounaris in the recent Greek parliamentary elections.
1916: In “America and Russia” published today Louis Marshall refuted the arguments of Montgomery Schulyer that the economic interests of the United States were being subverted by the Jews who were blocking trade agreements with the Russians by insisting that U.S. citizens who were Jewish would be treated in the same ways as all other Americans and not subject to the anti-Jewish laws of the Czar. (Editor’s note – While serving as an officer with the U.S. Army in Russia during WW I, Schulyer would create a volume of correspondence equating Bolshevism with Judaism)
1917: “Says Turks Pay The Jews” published today provided the description of Djemal Pasha, Commander of the Turkish forces in Syria of the treatment of the 5,000 Jews living in Jaffa which he described as a “small Jewish settlement about which so much fuss is made which is administered by a self-elected commission and maintained by the Ottoman Government which spends 7,000 pounds Turkish (about $30,000) on it monthly.”
1917: In Frankford, Michigan, eighteen-year-old Alice Stix Eiseman, the daughter of David and Amelia Stix Eiseman married Milton Alfred Hellman today.
1917: Crystal Eastman, the sister of Max Eastman and Jacob Panken were among the delegation of 150 pacifists gather at the Weehawken Station of the West Short Railroad this afternoon but absent from the group were Morris Hillquit and Rabbi J.L. Magnes
1918: Samuel Gompers and the American Labor Mission were entertained by the British Government today at a luncheon, where the visitors were welcomed by Lloyd George, G.H. Roberts and Lord Reading. The British Prime Minister lauded Gompers saying that “no man has done more to convince civilization must fight to victory.
1918: It was reported today that “the Irving Place Theater” which was “abandoned by the Germans” has been taken over by a Yiddish theatrical company head by the well-known actor, Morris Schwartz.”
1918: It is reported today that the Jewish Welfare Board has established headquarters at 41 Boulevard Haussman in Paris to enable it to work with members of the American Expeditionary Force
1918: “An East End Tailors’ Strike” published today described a strike by 3,000 London tailors most of whom are Jewish where the participants are not asking for more money but better working conditions.
1918: The Jews of Salonica who were originally Ottoman subjects are exempted from alien restrictions, under which they had previously lived.
1918: Fanya Kaplan a disillusioned revolutionary shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for what is known as the Red Terror.
1918: This evening, “Australians of the Second Division” under the command of Sir John Monash, “crossed to the north bank of the Somme River” in the first move of what would become the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin.
1919: The Emergency National Convention of Socialist America at which New York State Secretary Julius Gerber and Jacob Panken played crucial roles opened today in Chicago.
1919: Samuel Gompers announces support for the Versailles Treaty and denounces Republican leaders for opposing a document, which among other things, contains provisions beneficial to labor and workers.
1919: The Jewish Commissariat Yevsektsiya of Russia proclaimed Hebrew a "reactionary language." As such the teaching of Hebrew was prohibited in all educational institutions and books in Hebrew removed from libraries.
1920: “The Devil’s Pass Key” a “silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim was released in the United States today by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
1920: The reign of Mohammed Alim Kahn, the last Emir of Bukhara whom Levi Babakhan served as court vocalist came to an end. Babakhanov was part of dynasty of Jewish musicians that included his son Moshe and grandson Ari.
1921: The list of corporations that were charted today in New York State included Jacob Weiss, a Manhattan men’s apparel store and Saul Shapiro, a Manhattan maker of cloth hats.
1922: In Philadelphia, at Independence Hall, “thousands of Zionist marching to the strains of ‘Hatikvah’ celebrated the opportunity given to the Jews by the Leagues of Nations to establish a national homeland in Palestine.”
1922: Birthdate of famed mezzo-soprano Regina Resnik.
1923: Today the United Jewish People's Bank, Ltd., was registered in London by the cirectorium of the United Jewish Emigration Committee. The bank which, according to its articles of incorporation, will seek to promote the development of handicraft industries and agriculture among Jews starts with a capital of £500,000. It will aim to foster in particular all kinds of cooperative undertakings and assist in the emigration and immigration of Jews throughout the world. While its ultimate objects are of a social nature the institution is authorized to conduct a regular banking business. Among the subscribers are Latzki-Bertholdi, Advocate Sliosberg, Leo Motzkin, Dr. L. Branson, Vladimir Tiomkin, Rabbi Jochelman, and Dr. Brutzkus. The directors of the bank have not yet been appointed. (As reported by JTA)
1924(30th of Av, 5684): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
1924: Isadore and Rose Levine gave birth to Barbara Levine Jacobi the wife of Peter Jacobi.
1924: “The Jewish Telegraphic Agency made public” today “a letter received from H.W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in which he said that the prerequisites for membership in the Klan had not been changed.”
1925: Harvard graduate and folklorist Benjamin Albert Botkin the Boston born son of Albert and Annie Botkin, the holder of a Ph.D from the University of Nebraska who taught at the University of Oklahoma and who is the namesake of Benjamin A. Botkin Prize present by the American Folklore Society married Gertrude Frtiz today
https://www.loc.gov/folklife/botkin/hirsch.html
1925: The 14th Zionist Congress continues to meet in Vienna.
1926: “Jewish leaders from all parts of the United States are holding a conference” in Chicago “to organize the campaign of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith for two million dollars for cultural and relief work.”
1927: The Fifteenth Zionist Congress, the legislative body of the International Zionist movement, went into session at Basel, Switzerland, today with 280 delegates representing Zionist societies from all parts of the world present. Forty of the delegates are from the United States and chooses Sokolow at President
1927: According to reports published today, the Palestine Economic Corporation which had been organized in February, 1925, has increased its investments in Palestine by $575,000 during its first year of operation. The corporation was organized by the Non-Partisan Palestine Conference under the Chairmanship of Louis Marshall, with investments of $620,000. Substantial funding has gone to support the citrus growing industry.
1928: Birthdate of Barbara Zimmerman who became Barbara Epstein after marrying Jason Epstein and gained fame as “the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl.”
1929: “A telegram from Reuter’s news agency was sent to all its subscribers: ‘Jerusalem has now been a city of death for eight days during which work has ceased and people are starving. Hundreds are receiving bread rations. Everywhere it is deadly quiet, and everyone is very nervous.’”
1929: With relative quiet restored to central Palestine today, people and officials looked anxiously to the north, where a force of Syrian Arabs has crossed the border to march on Jerusalem. British planes are searching for them. The incursion of large forces of Arabs over the Syrian frontier is causing considerable uneasiness in London tonight.
1930: Leila (née Stahl) and Congressman Howard Buffett gave birth to their only son, Warren Buffet the investor who became close friends with Dorothy and Myer S. Kripke, the Omaha rabbi whose investment of $70,000 turned into $25 million which they donated to a variety of philanthropic causes.
1930: “The Zionist Organization of America announced” today “that it had decided to establish a research library at its headquarters” on Fifth Avenue in New York.
1931: In Hamburg, Temple Israel dedicated its third house of worship which had been built as a result of the relocation of many congregants from “the old city center.”
1932(28th of Av, 5692): Eighty-one-year-old Ester Ernestine Hortner, the Tarnow born “daughter of Isaak Ettinger and Rebecca [Riwke] Schapiro, the wife of Gerson Hortner (Gumprich) and mother of Regina (Rele) Hirschfeld; Ruchel Bravmann; Frania Grumprich/Hortner; Michael Hortner; Adolf Hortner; Ludwig Naftali Hortner; Sabine Ginzig and Fanny Zwinge passed away today in Vienna where she was buried.
1932(28th of Av, 5692): Pauline Golberg, the wife of Joseph Goldberg with whom she had five children, and a member of Temple Israel in New York City passed away today.
1933(8th of Elul, 5693): Seventy-year-old British author Ada Esther Leverson, the daughter of Zillah and Samuel Henry Beddington and wife of Ernest Leverson who was a close friend with her contemporary, the better-known Oscar Wilde.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leverson-ada
1933: “Sensation Hunters” directed by Charles Vidor and with music by Bernie Grossman was released today in the United States by Monogram Pictures.
1933: In a bid for the support of the Laborite faction in the forthcoming election of the administration of the World Zionist Organization, Nahum Sokolow, 72-year-old president of the organization, addressing the World Zionist Congress tonight, defined his views on the position of labor in the building of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
1933: William Dodd began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. He was the first Roosevelt appointee to deal with the Hitler government. Unfortunately, the professionals in the State Department would not listen to the warnings offered by this American college professor.
1933: The Hessische Volkswacht publishes a list of 30 concerns in Hessen that have been represented by Jews in court actions.
1933: In a published declaration the Union of German National Jews protests against the resolution adopted by the Zionist Congress against Nazi Germany and blames Zionism for the present situation of German Jewry.
1933: In Worms, the police announce that "a large number of Jews" have been arrested and taken to a concentration camp because of their provocative attitude and degrading remarks against the Nazi regime.
1934(19th of Elul, 5694): Sixty-two-year-old anthropologist Dr. Maurice Fishberg passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/1934/08/31/archive/dr-m-fishberg-dies-of-heart-attack-at-home
http://research.policyarchive.org/19590.pdf
1935: “Catherine the Last,” “a romantic comedy directed by Henry Koster, produced by Jose Pasternak and starring Otto Walberg who was murdered at Auschwitz was released in Austria today by Universal Pictures.
1935: Sixty-two-year-old French anti-fascist author and friend of Albert Einstein and Egon Kisch passed away today in Moscow.
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/book-burning/author_detail.php?content=bbbarbus.xml
1936: “Catherine the Last” a comedy directed by Henry Koster, produced by Joe Pasternak and starring Otto Walberg was released today in Austria.
1936: Charles Edward Russell, the President of the Pro-Palestine Federation of America announced plans to “launch a nationwide effort to mobilize and encourage Christian interest in the right of the Jews to establish a national home in Palestine.
1936: Morris Rothenberg announced today “a gift of $20,000 to the meet the emergency situation in Palestine has been made to the United Palestine Appeal of which he is the co-chairman by Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg.
1937: In what was described as “a new political murder against Jews in Palestine” heats up. “A bomb was thrown in a Tel Aviv thoroughfare severely wounding at least one Jew while two Jewish workers – Daniel Swanitsky and Isar Pankus – were murdered early this morning.
1937: The Arab Higher Committee decided that the Arab General Strike, begun on April 19, would continue. The problem of Jewish refugees from Jaffa and the surrounding area had been finally solved after every family was furnished with a home, comprising a large room with a balcony, kitchen, lavatory and a shower at the cost of 90 pounds, paid back in form of rent at the rate of half a pound a month over a period of 15 years. One British soldier was severely wounded at Lydda, and more British troops arrived from Malta
1938: Several cases of Arab arson attacks are reported to authorities throughout Palestine and Haifa police shot and killed a fleeing Arab terrorist.
1938: “As part of the tower and stockade settlement campaign” “immigrants from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany” established Ma’ayan Tzvi a kibbutz “named after Henry Zvi Frank, a Zionist activist and head of the Jewish Colonization Association, which had acquired the land on which the kibbutz was built.” Boy Meets Girl a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.
1938: Birthdate of Owen Jacob Laster, the son of immigrants from the Ukraine and Russia, who became one of the most powerful literary agents of his generation, running William Morris’s worldwide literary operations that had a long list of best-selling writers including James A. Michener and Gore Vidal (As reported by William Grimes)
1938(3rd of Elul, 5698): Max Factor, Sr. passed away. Born Max Firestein, this Russian Jewish immigrant had reportedly been a makeup artist for Russian nobility. He made his debut as Max Factor, Sr. at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair to launch what would become a cosmetics empire with a special relationship with the stars of the Hollywood film industry.
1938(3rd of Elul, 5698): “Merchant and communal worker” Samuel Axelrod passed away today in Albany, NY.
1939: “The Federation of Polish Jews in America announced” today “that it had received a telegram from Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States, thanking the federation for its pledge of support to the Polish Republic in its resistance to the threat of Nazi invasion.”
1940: Registration of all Jewish property became mandatory in Slovakia.
1940: Much to the initial pleasure of the Jews, the Nazis returned Kolozsvar to Hungarian control. The Jews did not realize how much influence the Nazis had over the Hungarians or the depth of anti-Semitism that existed among some of their non-Jewish neighbors. Kolozsvar was the home of Rudolf Kastner who at this time was thirty-six years old and writing for the Jewish newspaper Új Kelet
1940(26th of Av, 5700): Eighty-three-year-old “former Supreme Court Justice and New York County Sherriff” and “the head of so-called Theatrical Syndicate Mitchell L. Erlanger the Buffalo, NY born son of Leopold and Regina Erlanger who was a law school classmate of Teddy Roosevelt at Columbia passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/31/91587833.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1940(26th of 5700): Sixty-one-year old Moses Ferdinand Aufsesser the Albany, NY born son of Ferdinand and Mollie Barnet Aufesser and the husband of Ethel Rose Levy Mahler whom he married in 1914 who was the president of the Star Woolen Company, the president of Beth Emeth Congregation and a Republican Party activist passed away today in Casco, ME after which he was buried at the Beth Emeth Cemetery in Loudonville, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/31/91587838.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1941: The SS at Chelmo work camp ordered fifty Jewish workers to dig trenches. Five were shot at a time, as five would dig a new trench, until all but the last five were killed.
1941: A second round of daily shootings which last until December began today at the Latvian city of Liepāja
1942(17th of Elul, 5702): Fifty-two-year-old Nissim Joseph Ovadia, the Turkish born chief rabbi of Vienna and Paris who came to the United States after the French surrendered to the Nazis passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1942/09/01/archive/dr-nissim-j-ovadia-prominent-sephardic-rabbi-dies-at-52
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4824816
1942: Seventy-four-year-old Breslau resident Laura Braniss was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto today.
1942: Members of the Jewish community at Rabka, Poland, were murdered today.
1942: French Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas reminds his parishes that all human beings are created by the same God, Christians and Jews alike, and that "all men regardless of race or religion deserve respect from individuals and governments."
1943: The Army Show, starring Jewish comedians Frank Shuster and Johnny Wayne opened at the Forum in Halifax, Canada.
1943: A statement by the American Council for Judaism stating its opposition to “the creation of a Jewish national state” was made public today in Philadelphia.
1943: The American Council for Judaism, Inc “appealed to the United Nations for the earliest possible repatriation or resettlement under the best possible conditions of all peoples uprooted from their homes by the Axis Powers” while expressing its “hope for the ultimate establishment of a democratic autonomous government in Palestine where Jews, Moslems and Christians shall be justly represented.”
1943: The Jews of Denmark began their first day of living without the protection of the Danish government which had resigned meaning the country was now under the direct control of the Nazis.
1944: In Warsaw, Władysław Szpilman, whose story of survival was chronicled in The Pianist moved back into his old building, which by this time had entirely burnt out but where the larders and bathtubs provided the bread and rainwater, which kept him alive.
1944: The SS St. Louis, which had been the centerpiece of the famous 1939 voyage “was heavily damaged” today during an Allied bombing attack at Kiel.
1944: As of today, “about 70,000 Jews from Lodz had been sent to Auschwitz.”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/11.asp
1944: After visiting Majdanek and seeing firsthand what the Germans had done, W.H. Lawrence wrote in the New York Times, “I am now prepared to believe any story of German atrocities no matter how savage, cruel and depraved.”
1944: Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael completes his term as British High Commissioner of Palestine.
1945: Today, Frank Oppenheimer helped to found the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, “an organization that promoted the international peaceful control of nuclear power.”
1945: Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, the lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge who had been serving with the British Army since 1940 and had joined the Monuments Men (the unit that was so helpful in rescuing Jewish owned art and valuables stolen by the Nazis and their collaborators) in 1944 was unable to take up his position today ,as scheduled, “as Monuments Officer for the First Canadian Army due to crowded roads, poor transport and destroyed bridges” all products of the Allied drive across France.
1946: “The Killers” a cinema treatment of Hemingway’s short story directed by Robert Siodmak, produced by Mark Hellinger and co-starring Sam Levene was released in the United States by Universal Pictures.
1947(14th of Elul, 5707): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1947: Albert S. Pinkus of the Manhattan Chess Club defeated Richard Einhorn “in a Slav defense after thirty-seven moves” on the opening day of the New York State Chess Association’s annual general tournament.
1947: Henry Morgenthau, Jr. the chairman the $170,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal today announced “plans for a program to meet the rising needs of Europe’s 1,500,000 destitute Jewish survivors in the face of cuts in inter-governmental relief appropriations” which would be finalized at meeting on September 6.
1948: In Silver Spring, MD, Jeannette and Sam Black gave birth to comedian and social commentator Lewis Black. http://lewisblack.com/
1948(25th of Av, 5708): “A Jewish worker was shot dead by sniper fire from the Old City walls while crossing a street on the Israeli side of the city.” This threat of death would only finally end when the Israelis reunited the city in 1967.
1948: Alice Salomon passed away in New York City. She was a pioneer German social worker who fled the Nazis after being arrested and interrogated. She was not Jewish, but her Jewish origins put her at risk given the Nazi racial laws.
1949: Today in London, “Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York predicted the population of Israel would reach 2,000,000 in the next five years.
1951: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for sixty-two-year-old Lawrence S. Greenbaum, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff Ernst and a former chairman of the New York State Board of Social Welfare, the graduate of Columbia Law School and son of Selina and Justice Samuel Greenbaum.
1951: The twenty-third World Zionist Congress, which closed early this morning, unanimously adopted a resolution asking the Israeli Government to give the world Zionist organization legal status.
1954: This evening, start of Operation Binyamin 2 under the command of Ariel Sharon.
1954: Birthdate of Shlomi Shabat, the native of Yehud who has become a popular singer and musician.
1955(12th of Elul, 5715): Seventy-two-year-old NYU trained labor lawyer David Drechsler, the former “president and chairman of the board of Sons of Israel in Brooklyn and the husband of Fannie Drechsler with whom he had one child – Selma – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/08/31/82202895.pdf
1956: In Israel, the eight day nation-wide bus strike ended today. The strikers were from the Egged Bus Company which serves Haifa and provided interurban services and the Dan Company that serves the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. These companies are owner-operator co-ops.
1968: Birthdate of Scottish author and broadcaster Muriel Gray who creating a documentary entitle “The Wandering Jew” in 1996 which traced the Jewish roots of her mother’s which stretched back to Moldova.
1961: The Maccabiah Games continue in Tel Aviv for a second day.
1962(30th of Av, 5722): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1963: Today, in Rockville, MD, Washington, DC, native William Peyser “Bill” Jacobson, the son of Aaron Jacobson and Victoria Peyser married Barbara Johnson with whom he had two children Michael and Stay Ann Jacobson.
1964: Five hundred Orthodox rabbis issued a proclamation calling on religious Jews to join the Religious Zionists of America
1965: The album ''Highway 61 Revisited'' by Bob Dylan was released.
1966: The first Knesset building was dedicated in Jerusalem. This was one of several artistic ventures that marked 1966. Two others were the opening of the America-Culture House in New York which displayed Israeli arts and crafts while providing scholarships for Israeli artists to study in the United States and the naming of Israeli author Shai Agnon as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1968: Based on an earlier vote by the Directors of Avnet, Inc. a company led by Lester F. Avnet and Morton Weiner, a ten cent cash quarterly dividend was paid today.
1969(16th of Elul, 5370); Parashat Ki Tavo chanted for the first time during the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
1970: Sarah Jacobs the Polish born daughter of Abraham Simcha (Simon) Flashtiq and Rebekah Flashtiq and the wife of Abraham Goodman Jacobs passed away today in London.
1976: An Israeli patrol killed two terrorists who infiltrated through a security fence from Lebanon.
1976: London's Spectator weekly claimed that the PLO was making millions out of terror and had some £50 million invested in Britain. For those of you who think terror began on September 11, think again. .
1976: Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party's major newspaper, described the US proposal to send American monitoring personnel to Sinai as a "questionable development." This should serve as a reminder that the conflict in the Middle East was fueled, in part, by the needs of Soviet imperialism.
1976(4th of Elul, 5736): Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld, a Columbia University sociologist whose studies of American voting patterns and the influences of the printed and electronic press on society are classics in his field, died of cancer at New York Hospital today at the age of 75.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0B12FC3E5C137B93C3A91782D85F428785F9
1980: At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, final performance of “Latin! or Tobacco and Boys” written by Stepen Fry the son of Alan John Fr and the former Marianne Newman who was Jewish.
1981(30th of Av, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1981: Terrorist bombing at a market in Nablus.
1981: At Temple Emunah in Lexington, Massachusetts, “Rabbi Moses Mescheloff of Chicago” officiated at the wedding of his nephew Dr. Jonathan Furth Schoneld, “a theoretical physicist” and grandson of Rabbi Lazar Schonfeld, the former chief rabbi of Nagy Karoly, Hungary to “Jonina Tessa Gorenstein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gorenstein, of Medford.”
1983: “A tired and depressed Prime Minister Meachem Begin turned to his colleagues and said with a sigh, ‘I cannot go on any longer.’” [Begin would leave office a few days and return to his Jerusalem apartment at 1 Semach Street where he would lead a life of almost total isolation.]
1983: In what would prove to be the first act in what some describe as a tragedy and others describe as murder, “23-year-old Alice Ephraimson-Abt, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, boarded KAL Flight 007 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.”
1984(2nd of Elul, 5744): Sixty-eight-year-old Oscar nominated composer Emil Newman who was the brother of two other composers – Alfred and Lionel Newman – the father of composers Maria, David and Thomas Newman and the uncle of songwriter Randy Newman passed away today.
http://www.wildcelt.com/newman-dynasty-film-scoring-composors.php
1984(2nd of Elul, 5744): Forty-nine-year-old “poet, critic and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Queen College, Paul Zweig, and the author of Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet passed away today.
1984: Judith Resnik began her first space flight aboard the Discovery which was making its maiden voyage.
1985: After premiering at the Seattle International Film Festival, “Flesh and Blood” co-starring Jason Leigh was released in the United States today by Orion Pictures.
1985: “Compromising Positions” with a screenplay by novelist Susan Isaacs, the Jewish born daughter of electrical engineer Morton Isaacs and Helen Asher Isaacs and the wife of attorney Elkan Abramowitz whom she married in 1968 was released today in the United States.
1985: “American Ninja” directed by Sam Firstenberg and Produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan was released today.
1987: Author Jean Hanff Korelitz got married today.
1987(5th of Elul, 5747): Ninety-four year old Abraham Bernard “Abe” Levy, the native of Hull who moved to the United States to “pursue a career in design” after having served in World War I and then returned to England in the 1930’s where he wrote “articles on what remained of Jewish life in the East End and on the occupation patterns of Anglo-Jewry” which formed the basis for East End Story passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Sephardim-problem-survival-Abraham-Levy/dp/B00AGD6TF6
1987: Multi-talented musician John Zorn who is the leader of “the musical group Masada” whose works included “Kristallnacht,” which was based around the events before, during, and following the infamous Night of Broken Glass finished recording “News for Lulu, an album of hard bop compositions.”
1988: In Sugar Land, TX, Kempner High School which was named after Isaac Herbert Kempner, the son of Jewish immigrants and the founder of Imperial Sugar “opened its doors to the first Open House.”
1989: A federal jury in New York found ''hotel queen'' Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion.
1989(29th of Av, 5749): Dorothy Schiff owner and publisher of the New York Post for nearly 40 years passed away. She was a granddaughter of German born Jewish financier Jacob H. Schiff and the daughter of Mortimer Schiff and Adele Neustadt Schiff.
1989(29th of Av, 5749): Author, essayist and editor Seymour Krim passed away. According to at least one critic, “some of the Jewish themes that obsessed him were post-Holocaust anger, the lack of a nourishing Jewish culture, assimilation and emasculation, and the ugliness of self-hatred.”
1992(1st of Elul, 5752): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1992: “Two Trains Running,” for which Mordecai Benjamin served as executive producer was performed to the last time on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
1992: “The American Jewish Congress is offering a 21-day tour called a Jewish Heritage Expedition that will take travelers to places prominent in the life of Maimonides, the Hebrew scholar who was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 1135, and spent most of his life in Morocco, Israel and Egypt.”
1998: The New York Times book section features reviews of two works by Jewish authors: Theatre on the Edge by Mel Gussow and Capital Dilemma by Michael Z. Wise.
1998: In article entitled “First, the People Moved East. Now, So Are the Cemeteries,” John Rather describes the changes in the New York cemetery scene including four Jewish cemeteries on Cemetery Row including Mount Ararat, New Montefiore, Beth Moses and Wellwood . The Jewish community faces its own unique set of challenges. ''Very often what Jews do is arrange for family plots, which means there may be people who pass away in Florida who want to return to New York to be buried,'' said Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg, president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis. Some Long Island funeral homes have affiliates in Florida to speed the return home.
2000(29th of Av, 5670): Ninety-three-year-old movie and television director Joseph H. Lewis passed away today. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/13/arts/joseph-h-lewis-93-director-who-turned-b-movies-into-art.html
2001(11th of Elul, 5761): Sixty-year-old Amos Tanjouri was “shot at point blank range” by Palestinian terrorists.
2002: “As Palestinians buried four family members killed by Israeli tank fire and vowed revenge; Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer expressed regret over the loss of innocent lives.”
2003: “Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli settler and wounded his pregnant wife on the West Bank today…”
2004: Based on previously published information, Lawrence A. Franklin “the Pentagon official under suspicion of turn over classified information to Israel” has begun “cooperating with federal agents…and was preparing to lead the authorities to contacts inside the Israeli government…”
2005(25th of Av, 5765): Eighty-five-year-old James H. Scheuer who served 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives passed away today. (As reported by Jennifer Lee)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/nyregion/31scheuer.html?pagewanted=print
2005: “A Scrappy Congressman, Ready for His Next Risk” published today examined the career of Congressman Anthony D. Weiner and his chances to become Mayor of New York City. (The more things change, the more they stay the same)
2005: Today, Tulane University which was being led by President Scott Cowan reported that due to Hurricane Katrina “physical damage to Tulane’s campuses was extensive” with several feet of standing water on the campus north of Feret Street which included most of the dorms and eating facilities but fortunately “no serious flooding on the portion of the campus between Feret Street and St. Charles Avenue which encompassed the original academic quad of the school.
2005: The Bedouin guard who subdued a suicide bomber in Beersheba was hailed as a hero of the state of Israel in headlines of the Jerusalem Post.
2006: America gets ready for new Jewish-themed cable network. “First there was the Kinky Friedman documentary Shalom Y'All, and now there's Rabbi Mark S. Golub's Shalom TV. Golub is launching America's first national television channel dedicated to celebrating Jewish life and culture. The channel will initially be available as an on-demand network costing subscribers $7.99 monthly and will present 50 hours of programming weekly only to those living in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware.
2006: The Bank Leumi announced that leak concerning the stock transactions of Lt. Gen. Dan Haulutz that took place before fighting broke out Hezbollah did not come from anybody working that institution.
2007: An exhibit at the Land of Israel Museum in Tel Aviv featuring hundreds of works by cartoonist Kariel Gardosh, who became famous under his pen name “Dosh” comes to an end. Dosh was the first Israeli cartoonist to have his work published in a daily newspaper.
2007: An article entitled “Faith and Civic Pride Clash Over Parade on Yom Kippur” published today describes the conflict between Yom Kippur and a civic celebration in Herkimer, NY.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/nyregion/30parade.html?pagewanted=print
2007: Ant-Zionists Max Blumenthal and Norton Mezvinksy were joined by Tehran Professor Kaveh Afrasiabi on WBEZ”s “Worldview” which features discussions on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
2007: A national tour of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” which would last until November, 2007 began today.
2007: The Red Sea Jazz Festival comes to an end at Eilat.
2008: The Eleventh Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival opens today.
2008: Today, Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida lashed out at John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, accusing her of supporting "Nazi sympathizer" Pat Buchanan, and branding the move an "affront to all Jewish Americans."
2009: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Village Life by Louise Glück and I’m So Happy For You by Lucinda Rosenfeld.
2009: Today’s announcement by Africa Israel Investments which is owned by Lev Leviev “that it could not repay billions of dollars in debt… caused shares to drop 25.5 percent on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.” (As reported by JTA)
2009: The Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Too Good To Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund, Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff by Andrew Kirtzman, Madoff With The Money by Jerry Oppenheimer, Israel is Real by Rich Cohen and The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli
2009: The Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow and A Village Life: Poems by Louise Gluck
2009: Israel Air Force planes struck a tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip early today in response to a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants into the western Negev early yesterday, which was Shabat. Also, today Army Radio said an IDF unit patrolling Gaza's northern border reported it went under fire. No injuries were reported. The Israel Defense Forces said the attacked tunnel was was dug from underneath a building located one and a half kilometers away from the security fence. An Israeli security source said intelligence indicated the tunnel had been dug by several Palestinian factions other than Hamas. It was intended for use to infiltrate into Israeli territory in order to execute a terrorist attack against Israeli citizens or IDF soldiers, the IDF added.
2009: In Little Rock, the Jewish community gathers at the Chabad House to celebrate the completion of the first sefer torah to ever be written for the Jewish community of Arkansas. The project is one more example of the great works done by Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, a mensch in the truest sense of the word who is the epitome of the Rebbe’s concept of “the Lamplighter.
2009: Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted today in three corruption affairs, concluding months of investigations into cases allegedly conducted during his tenure as Jerusalem mayor and trade minister.
2009 Israeli singer Roni Dalumi was the final of Kochav Nolad 7.
2010: Seth Rudetsky co-starred “in a one-night-only concert performance of “They’re Playing Our Song,” “a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.”
2010: Release of “Box of Secrets,” featuring “Let Me Back,” “Box of Secrets” and “Over which was the debut album of Zarif Davidson, better known as Zarif the daughter of an Iranian Jewish mother.
2010: Bernice K. Weiss, author of Converting to Judaism - Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories is scheduled to lead a course entitled “Basic Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike” that provides an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how to observe kashrut and the Jewish laws of death and mourning.
2010(20 Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton) Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren. To his brother Joe, he was the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living proof that good guys finish first.
2010: Israeli archeologists unveiled a 2,000-year-old semi-precious cameo bearing the image of Cupid today, which the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA) said was among several items located in the City of David archeological area in Jerusalem's Old City in the last 12 months.
2011: An exhibition of charcoal drawings by artist Jean Barry that interpret the Book of Job is scheduled to come to a close at the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives in Washington, DC.
2011(30th of Av, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2011: Israel has been warned that a terrorist cell linked to the Islamic Jihad and based in the Sinai Peninsula may try to carry out a series of attacks over the coming days, Home Front Minister Matan Vilnai said today.
2011: Iran is planning to send its 15th fleet, comprised of a submarine and a warship, to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, semi-official news agency Press TV quoted Iranian naval commander Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying today The announcement came after the IDF modified the operational doctrine of the Navy Command Center in Eilat which is responsible for protecting southern Israel from threats originating in the Red Sea. Yesterday, two large Navy corvettes were seen docked in Eilat, likely for anti-terror and smuggling operations in the Red Sea
2011: Labor Party leadership candidate Erel Margalit demanded today that the upcoming primary be delayed, because the list of party members eligible to vote has yet to be published. If the Labor Party’s administration does
2011(29th of Av, 5771): Ninety-nine-year-old Ayala Zacks Abramov, the Israeli-born art collectior passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=236084
2012: Yemen Blues is scheduled to appear at The Montreal Jewish Music Festival
2012: In Berkeley, Urban Adamah and Wilderness are scheduled to sponsor “Mother-Daughter Full Moon of Elul Circle,” an event that will “include harvesting wheat, grinding it into flour with a new grain mill and then baking it into pita over an open fire.”
2012: Without naming Iran, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon denounced his hosts in Tehran today for threatening to destroy Israel and for denying the Holocaust.
2012: The Egyptian army began withdrawing tanks from the Sinai Peninsula today, pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported. The report comes just a day after Egypt's army said it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.
2013: “Fill The Void” is scheduled to open at the Ridgeway Quarter in Memphis, TN
2013: Rabbi Shira Stutman is scheduled to lead Shabbat eve services which will be a celebration of “Labor on the Bimah,” an initiative of Jews United for Justice that “weaves together labor issues, social justice and Judaism, in an effort to bring meaning and reflection back into Labor Day.”
2013: Michael Barenboim and Alexander Melnikov are scheduled to perform Mozart’s Sonata for Piano and Violin in D Major at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013: “IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz visited Artillery Corps units stationed on the Golan Heights this morning, and received a briefing by commanders on the state of readiness of the military forces on the northern border.” (As reported by Yaakov Lappin)
2013: Safety Jordan Dangerfield, a member of the Ethiopian Jewish community who had been signed by the Bills as an undrafted rookie free agent following the 2013 NFL Draft was released by the team today.
2013: “US President Barack Obama said today the chemical weapons attack in Syria threatened US allies Israel and Jordan and said his preference would have been for the international community to move forward on a response.” (As reported by Michael Wilner)
2013: As his legal woes mounted, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner “signed a letter of resignation that became effective at 5 pm PDT.”
2014: Chani Nachmias and Friends are scheduled to sing in Tel Aviv as part of the Performing Arts Center August Concert Series.
2014: Ashkelon’s annual pop music festival Briza is scheduled to come to an end today. (As reported by Simone Somekh)
2014: Turkey’s president-elect Recep Tayip Edrogan who had served as Prime Minister for the past 11 years shook hands with Yosef Levi Sfari, the charge d’affaires of Israel’s embassy in Ankara marking the first time the Turkish leader had done this in six years.
2014: Seventy-five UN peacekeepers stationed on the Golan Heights “fled Syrian territory for Israel today “after their positions were attacked by rebels who are affiliated with al-Qaida. (As reported by Times of Israel)
2014: Eighty-four-year-old Joseph E. Perisco author of Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial which “tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials” passed away today.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Joseph-Persico-acclaimed-historian-biographer-5724215.php
2014: As fighting raged between rebels and government forces in Syria, two mortar shells, thought to be strays, exploded inside Israel near the Golan Heights border.
2015: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host Grand Slam Sunday Jewish Community at Nationals Park.
2015(15th of Elul, 5775): Ninety-five-year-old Maryland political leader and former governor Marvin Mandel passed away today.
http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/former/html/msa01487.html
2015: In Coralville, Iowa the House of David Softball Team is scheduled to sponsor its annual car wash while Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its End of the Summer Picnic.
2015: Slovakia native Tomas Kovar is scheduled to describe surviving the Holocaust at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
2015: A Study Mission to New Orleans sponsored by the American Jewish Archives as part of its Travels in American Jewish History is scheduled to come to an end.
2015(15th of Elul, 5775): Seventy-nine-year-old novelist Rhoda Lerman passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/arts/rhoda-lerman-writer-who-defied-labels-dies-at-79.html?_r=0
2015(15th of Elul, 5775): Eighty-two-year-old neurologist and author Oliver Sacks passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/esteemed-jewish-neurologist-oliver-sacks-dies-at-82/
2015: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb, Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman and The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven which given the large number of Jews who lived in Russia or left it for the West and Palestine qualifies it for this list.
2016: “Hundreds of people turned out in Holon today for the funeral of former MK, minister and IDF general Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer, who died Sunday at the age of 80.”
2016: “Roseanne Barr, the Jewish actress with an outsized Twitter personality who called Hillary Clinton an anti-Semite and her aide Huma Abedin a “filthy nazi whore,” lectured tonight in a prominent San Francisco synagogue about Judaism, Israel and the critics who have been calling her a racist.”
2016: In “Israel Quietly Legalizes Outposts in the West Bank” published today Isabel Kershner provided one view of the “unauthorized settlements.”
2016: “Israeli society is heading for civil war and the country must take steps to counter it, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo warned today in his first public remarks since stepping down as the spy agency director in January.
2016: “Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will keep her seat in the US House after defeating Tim Canova today in a bruising primary that featured traded barbs over Israel.”
2016: “Three Balconies and a Door,” a new exhibition of the works of Jerusalem born artist Michal Nachmnay is scheduled to open at the Manny Cantor Center.
2017: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Dough,” the “film adaptation of Hans Fallada’s bestselling novel.”
2017: Despite bomb threats earlier in the week, classes are scheduled to begin for the fall term today at Brandeis University.
2017: The City Contemporary Dance Company of Hong Kong is scheduled to perform at the Tel Aviv Dance Festival for the last time this evening.
2017: In Australia, the Sydney Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Harvesting hidden treasures in the community: Advancing the science of proactive collecting” with Roslyn Sugarman.
2017: The Noam David Trio is scheduled to perform on the final night of the Red Sea Jazz Festival.
2018: The National Geographic Channel is scheduled to broadcast “Titanic: 20 Years Later” in which James Cameron, to whom the Straus Historical Society provided “information and photographs” about Isidor and Ida Straus asks and hopefully answers the question “Did we get it right?”
https://www.smore.com/pqe3c-titanic-20-years-later?ref=email
2018: The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host “From Folk to Flamenco - An Intimate Journey through Landscapes, Boundaries, Stories and Cultures” featuring Haifa born guitarist David Broza.
2018: In the wake of yesterday’s recommendation by the CDC that “consumers avoid kosher chicken and the Empire Kosher brand for now” following an outbreak of salmonella that has killed one and sickened at least 17” Jews who pay a premium for fowl with a Hechsher may be wondering if the companies cannot maintain basic cleanliness, how do they know they are really observing the ritual laws concerning the slaughtering of animals.
2019: Five days after she passed away funeral services are held for Deb Levin, the beloved wife of the creator of this blog who was the driving force behind its creation and an Ayshish Chayil in the truest sense of the word. The Light has gone out of the Universe.
2019: “Uncut Gems” starring Adam Sandler and with music by Donald Lopatin, the son of refusniks was released today in the United States.
2020: The corona virus has accelerated its spread in Gaza since last week, when Hamas officials reported the first cases of community transmission.
2020: Because of the Derecho which struck Cedar Rapids, on the first anniversary of her funeral we are busy trying to restore the house she loved so much.
2020: Today, “Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, the director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, delivered a seminar, “Wishes and Witches in Samuel and Shakespeare.” The seminar was the first of a series of discussions for the Straus Center’s Wilf Straus Scholars, who, this year, along with the Beren Straus Scholars, will be studying the Bible’s influence on the works of playwright William Shakespeare.”
https://blogs.yu.edu/news/wishes-and-witches-in-samuel-and-shakespeare/
2021: Urban Adamah is scheduled to host “Shofar Call to Justice,” an activism event” that is part of attempts “to stop the line 3 Tar sands pipeline expansion.”
2021: The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present online “Mosaics With Mia,” during which participants can join Israel-based mosaic muralist Mia Schon for a one-hour collage workshop via Zoom.
2021(22nd of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah Levin, father of Judy, Mitchell and David Levin, without whom this blog would not have been possible in more ways than one.
2022: The Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to host Abraham Riesman, author of “True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee,” as he discusses how Jews essentially built the superhero industry, the complicated intersection of Jewishness and superhero comics, largely through the lens of the two Jews who built Marvel: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
2022: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Beyond Roe” during which a lawyer, a doctor and an agency head involved in reproductive justice will discuss the past, present and future of abortion access in the U.S. and what Judaism teaches about the subject.
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to presents “Bene Israel Selichot” during which Hazzan Joshua Daniels will introduce attendees to the Bene Israel piyyutim and selichot tunes as he shares stories from his life within and outside the Bene Israel community.
2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to present a program exploring “Project Paperclip” with Dr. Michael Neufeld, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, and Eric Lichtblau, author of The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. The conversation will be moderated by Linda Dawson, author of The Politics and Perils of Space Exploration.
2022: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an online program during which Dr. Mark Stout will discuss the activities of top-secret “Ghost Army” and its role in Allied success during WWII.
2023: The Mandel JCC in Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida cancelled a talk by Rachel Beanland cause her book The House is on Fire “mentions slavery.”
https://forward.com/fast-forward/559619/rachel-beanland-florida-jcc-book/
2023: In Metairie, LA, Chabad is scheduled to host “A Taste for the Holiday for Women.”
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Patrick Bade on “Jerome Kern.”
2023: The Aden Conference presented by the ASF”s Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program is scheduled to hold its “Second Annual Siegal Showcase.”
2023: The JNF is scheduled to host “Scripting History,” an exclusive interview with Guy Nattiv, the director of “Golda.”
2024: A Science Fiction in Jerusalem Outdoor Escape Game in which participants “ play as a lost alien who crashed with his spaceship in Jerusalem and needs to find this energy to recharge his spaceship's battery” is scheduled to take place today.
2023: In Cedar Rapids, under the leadership of Nancy Margulis the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to meet to discuss I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg.
2024: Temple Judea is scheduled to host a “Pre-Oneg,” prior to Friday night services led by Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie.
2024: Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to present online Friday Morning Meditation which is part of Nishmat Hayyim: The Breath of Life Project.
2024: Weather permitting, in Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold Friday night services outdoors.
2024: As August 30th 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 329 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)
70: According to Josephus, the day one which the Second Temple was set aflame
500: Having conquered Italy, Ostrogoth King Theodoric gave the Jews freedom to worship.
526 Death of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths (the eastern Goths) who controlled the Italian Peninsula and area adjacent to it. Theodoric had a reputation for religious toleration which he extended to the Jewish people. He encouraged them to settle in his kingdom reportedly because he saw them as a source of economic benefit.
1179: As the Crusaders and the Moslems jockey for control over Palestine, soldiers under the command of Saladin had sacked the castle at Jacob’s Ford, the critical passageway across the Jordan River. The crossing takes its name from the Biblical patriarch and would be a scene of fighting in 1948 and 1967.
1181: The papacy of Alexander III comes to an end. He was “the author of the oldest extant version of the bull “Sicut Judaeis” (As the Jews) first promulgated in 1120 by Calixtus II.
1334: Birthdate of King Peter who reigned over Castile and Leon from 1350 to 1369. “Peter's rival Henry of Trastámara continuously depicted Peter as "King of the Jews” and had some success in taking advantage of popular Castilian resentment towards the Jews. Henry of Trastámara instigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and forced conversions in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390. Peter took forceful measures against this, including the execution of at least five anti-Jewish leaders of a riot.”
1465: Johannes Hinderbach, who blamed the Jews for the death of Simon of Trent which was his justification for murdering “several of them” and working to canonize the boy in what was one of many of the blood libels, was elected Prince-Bishop of Trent today.
1563: The Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia was expelled.
1757: The HMS Diana, a 32-gun frigate which would play a key role in the capture of Louisburg during the Seven Years War and was commanded by Captain Sir Alexandr Schomberg, the son of German-Jewish doctor who was raised Jewish but baptized so he could further his naval career was launched today.
1761(30th of Av, 5521): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1782: In New York, Hillel Judah and his wife gave birth to Rebecca Judah, the wife Of Isaac B. Siexas whom she married in 1809.
1793(22nd of Elul, 5553): In his 37th year, Judah Levy passed away erev Shabbat after which he was buried in the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.
1797: Twenty-two-year-old New York City physician, Bernard S. Judah, the London-born son of Samuel Judah married Catherine Hart today.
1803: Twenty-two-year-old Leo Wolf and Johanna Wolf gave birth to Dr. Moritz (Morris) Wolf
1808: The Magistrate of Frankfurt (a puppet of the French Government) summoned Rothschild to give an account of his business dealings with the Landgrave.
1809: Benjamin Lewin married Sarah Elkin at the Great Synagogue today.
1810: Philip Wilks married Hannah Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1812: Phillip Solomon married Jane Aaron at the Great Synagogue today
1813: Following today’s attack “on white settlers and allied Creeks at Fort Mims” Abraham “Mordecai aided the federal troops in tracking down the members of the Red Stick faction” responsible for this action that took place during the Creek War.
1815: This evening Henry Nathans of London married Hester Levy in Charleston, SC.
1815: Birthdate of Schaltiel Isaac Cohn, the husband of Vilhemine Meyer.
1817: In Philadelphia, Arabella Solomon and Zalegman Phillips, who had been married in 1805 gave birth to Naphtali J. Phillips.
1817: In Groningen, Netherlands, Simon Jacob Jacobs and Marianne Abraham Hamming / Hammo gave birth to Abraham Jaobs, the “husband of Anna Israel de Jongh and father of Israël Abrahamsz Julius Karel Jacobs; Charlotte Jacobs; Simon (Sam) Jacobs; Marianne Jacobs; Johan Rudolf Jacobs; Eduard 'Emil' Jacobs; Herman Jacobs; Emma Jacobs; Frederika Jacobs and Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs.”
1818: Lewis Barnett married Elizabeth Levi at the Great Synagogue today.
1821: Mr. Myer Ellis of Charleston, SC married Francis Polack the daughter of New Yorker Jacob Abrahams.
1821(2nd of Elul, 5581): Rachel Deborah Levy, the daughter of Hayman and Sloe Myers Levy and the sister of Miriam, Zipporah and Richa Levy passed away today after which she was buried at the First Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel.
1824: Simon Drukker married Mary Emanuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1825: Birthdate of Kovno native Rabbi Isaac Wolf Olschwanger a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe, the author of the "Lebushim," and Judah Löw ben Bezaleel of Prague and R. Meïr of Padua who served as the rabbi in St. Petersburg from 1878 until his death in 1896.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11694-olschwanger-isaac-wolf
1826: In Paris, Moise Mayer Fichel and Lili Abigail Sasias gave birth to French painter Benjamin Eugène Fichel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fichel#/media/File:Eugene_fichel_painting_1.jpg
1829(1st of Elul, 5589): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1829: 1829: Two days after he had passed away, 22-year-old Samuel Solomon, son of “Michael and Hannah Solomon” was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery
1832: Dr. Daniel Moses Levy Maduro Prexi gave birth to Rebecca Peixotto.
1835: Founding of Melbourne, Australia. The first synagogue opened in Melbourne in 1847. Melbourne provided the first native born Australian to serve as Governor-General – a lawyer named Isaac Isaacs. King George V was reportedly reluctant to appoint Isaacs to the post because he was Jewish. Prime Minister James Scullin assured the reluctant monarch that Australians took a more liberal view than most Englishmen did in such matters. They were not bothered by the matter of religion and therefore, the appointment was made without further complications.
1836: The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. Within twenty years after the founding of the city there were enough Jews living in Houston to form a burial society. In 1859, Congregation Beth Israel, the first chartered Jewish congregation in Texas was founded as an Orthodox Synagogue but switched to the Reform movement fifteen years later. In 1906, Houston saw the publication of The Jewish Herald Voice, the first journal of its kind to appear in the state. A list of early Houston Hebrew businessmen would include Joseph Weingarten, Simon Sakowitz and Tobias Sakowitz. Houston established its Jewish Community Council in 1936 under the presidency of Max Nathan and enhanced its Jewish Family Service under Ruth Fred.
1836: Hart Levy married Julia Woolf at the Great Synagogue today.
1837(29th of Av, 5597): In South Carolina, eight-year-old Isaac S. Hyams, the son of Susanna and Moses David Hyams passed away today.
1838: In New Orleans, Hannah Levy and Jacob Levy Florance gave birth to Florian Hart Florance, the husband of Sarah Hendricks whom he married in 1860 and with whom he had four children – Edwin, Daisy, Sylvia and James.
1842: In Charleston, SC, Adeline Moses and Levy I. Moses, who were married in 1832 gave birth to Mordecai Lyons Moses.
1843: Mary and Philip William Flower gave birth to Cyril Flower, the 1st Baron of Battersea who married Sir Anthony de Rothschild’s daughter Constance in 1877. The couple were the last of their line since they had not children.
1843: Lewis Levy married Catherine Elias at the Great Synagogue today.
1844: In Amsterdam, Lea Nabarro and David Zacharias Baruch gave birth to Gratia David Baruch.
1848(1st of Elul, 5608): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1851: In New York City, Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs and his wife gave birth to Abram S. Isaacs, who served as the Rabbi for Barnett Memorial Temple in Paterson, NJ, who served as the first Professor of Hebrew at New York University and who edited The Jewish Messenger and published several books including A Modern Hebrew Poet: The Life and Writings of Chaim Luzzatto
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1853: In New York City, Jane Symons and Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs gave birth to CCNY graduate and Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary trained rabbi Abram S. Isaacs the professor of Hebrew and professor of German at the University of the City of New York and the Edtior of the Jewish Messinger who also served as the spiritual lead of “Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Patterson, NJ.”
1855: James Finn, the British Counsel in Jerusalem reported to the British Ambassador in Constantinople that Sir Moses Montefiore had been given permission by the Ottoman government to purchase land in Jerusalem on which he would be allowed to build a hospital and where he could employ poor Jews in gardening. Montefiore was only the second European who had been allowed to purchase land. Finn had been the first.
1857: Birthdate of Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Svyatopolk-Mirsky who in 1904 while serving as Minister of the Interior “received a deputation of Zionists” whom “he informed that he sympathized with the movement they represented and would withdraw the Governmental opposition to it hitherto existing in Russia.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/03/101402704.html?pageNumber=2
1860: Birthdate of Isaac Levitan famed Russian landscape painter.
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=219
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levitan
1862(4th of Elul, 5622): As the Union Army suffers a crushing blow thanks to the stupidity of General Pope, thirty-three-year-old Captain Jacob A. Cohen, Company A, 10th Louisiana, was killed today fighting for the Confederacy.
1862: William Krouse, from Iowa, enlisted today in Company H of the Second Cavalry after which he “distinguished himself in many fierce cavalry charges and had the good fortune to return home without a scar.”
1863: Birthdate of Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, who provided a photographic record, in color of Jews living in far-flung parts of the empire.
http://thejewniverse.com/2017/see-1900s-bukharan-jews-in-gorgeous-full-color/
1865: On Broadway, Mr. Edmund Kean is scheduled to play "the Jew" in tonight's performance of the Merchant of Venice.
1865: Judah P. Benjamin arrived at Southampton, Britain marking the final stop on his flight from America when the Confederacy was finally defeated.
1867: In Seneca Falls, NY, Lewis and Anne Zalinski Adler gave birth the Cornell and Harvard trained attorney Louis Simon Adler, the U.S. Judge for the Western New York District Court and Republican majority leader in the New York State Assembly.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/05/24/93628957.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1867: The Washington Avenue Synagogue, also known as Temple Beth El, was dedicated today in Detroit, Michigan.
1867: Prince Charles, the future King Charles (a.k.a. King Carlos I) wrote a letter to Sir Moses Montifore, expressing his pleasure at the Anglo-Jewish leader’s recent visit to Romania and his support for better treatment of the Jews living in Romania.
1868: Three days after he had passed away, 72-year-old Ralph Isaacs, the father of nine children – Caroline, Julia, Isabella, Esther, Rosina, Frances, Emma, Ameilia and Ralph – was buried to at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1869(23rd of Elul, 5629): Jacob Romm, one of the three sons of printer and published Joseph Reuben Romm, passed away today in Vilna.
1871: Birthdate of Vilna native Nathan Weinstein, the “officer of the Zionist Organization of America” who settled in Portland, Oregon.
1872: In Philadelphia, Abraham and Barbara Wilder Salus gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained lawyer Samuel W. Salus, the member of both houses of the state legislature and Republican Party leader who was the husband of Ada R. Salus, the father of Arthurs S. Salus and the grandfather of Samuel W. Salus II.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/30/109349549.pdf
1872: It was reported today that Sir Moses Montefiore has completed his trip to St. Petersburg, Russia and returned to his home at Ramsgate. Sir Moses had gone to Russia at the behest of the Board of Deputies to intercede with the Czar’s government on behalf of the Jews of Russia.
1873(7TH of Elul, 5633): Parashat Shoftim
1873(7th of Elul, 5633): Eighty-seven-year-old “economist and journalist Jacob Newton Cardozo” the Savannah born son of Sephardic merchant David N. Cardozo passed away today.
1873: In the United Kingdom, Sir George Jessel begins serving as the Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls. For the two years prior to accepting this position, he had served as Solicitor General.
1875: The New York Times published an account of Sir Moses Montefiore’s trip to Palestine including his visit to Jerusalem.
1875: It was reported today that Abraham H. Guedalla has provided The Jewish World with some of the correspondence between him and Sir Moses Montefiore that provided details of his visit to Palestine during July of 1875.
1876: Henry Schneeberger was sent a letter inviting him to become the first rabbi of Chizuk Amuno in Baltimore, MD.
1877: While “on special service at the European Station, U.S. Navy Lt. and future Rear Admiral Edward D. Taussig and his wife Ellen Kneffler gave birth to Joseph K. Taussig, the U.S. Naval Academy quarterback who served in every conflict from the Spanish American War to WW II and rose to the rank of Vice Admiral.
1878(1st of Elul, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1878: In New York, Judge Van Rant granted a writ of habeas corpus directing Thomas F. Fallon to bring Caroline Cohen to court. Caroline was the 15-year-old daughter of Loewenthal Cohen, a Jewish clothing dealer. Fallon was a Roman Catholic who allegedly had eloped with young Caroline. The judge had granted the write in response to Cohen’s petition claiming that his daughter was being held against her will having been enticed away from her home “under the pretext that he wanted to marry her.”
1879: In New York, 12-year-old Henry O’Brien decided to find out if it was true that Jews did not eat pork. He thrust a piece of pork down the throat of Harris Goldstein, a Polish Jew. Goldstein chased after O’Brien who hit Goldstein with a shovel when the Jewish boy caught up to him. O’Brien hit him in the face and broke his nose. At the end of the melee, both of the boys were arrested by Officer McCarthy of the Tenth Precinct.
1879: In Kovno, Lithuania, Rabbi Zalman and Malke Caplan gave birth journalist and Zionist Ephriam Caplan who in 1901 came to the United States where he married Eva Kaplan, became a member of the editorial staff of the Jewish Morning Journal and helped to establish the Yeshiva College.
1880: David Belasco’s version of the drama “True to the Core” was performed today at the Baldwin Theatre.
1880: Kaspar von Preysing and his wife, Hedwig von Walterskirchen gave birth to anti-Nazi Cardinal Konrad von Preysing who as Bishop of Berlin “had vainly appealed to the Pope to protest specific Nazi actions, including those directed at the Jews.”
1881: In Lakeside, WI, Isaac Lazarus Lyons, the Columbia, SC born son of Jacob Cohen Lyons and Louisa Elizabeth Lyons, and his wife Eva Lyons gave birth to Dr. Randoph Lyons, the New Orleans doctor and husband of Marie Celeste Lyons.
1881: It was reported today that authorities have denied “Jew-baiter” Ernst Henrici the right to address a public meeting in Hamburg, Germany. [His speeches had been connected to riots in Berlin and the burning of the synagogue in Neustettin.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950CEED9153BE033A25753C3A96E9C94609FD7CF
1882: In Williamsburg, VA, “William and Lena (Engelberger) Teiser” give birth to University of Virginia trained attorney Sidney Teister who lived and worked, for a time, in Portland, Oregon and who was the husband of the former Betty Kline with whom he had two children – William and Ruth.
https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Chief-Justice-George-H-Williams/dp/B0007FZY6I
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24133
1883: It was reported today that martial law has been declared at Eglerszeg, Hungary after an outbreak of anti-Jewish riots. All of the shops remain closed and many of the Jewish families have fled from the city.
1884: In Kovno, Russia, to Jacob Baruch and Sarah Golde (Arenovski) Askowith gave birth to Dora Askowith, the author, historian, and college educator, who believed that a knowledge of Jewish women’s history would serve as a catalyst for organization, activism, and moral leadership and taught at Hunter College for forty-five years.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/askowith-dora
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dora-askowith
1885: Rabbis Mendes and Morais are scheduled to speak at the service being held at the 19th Street Synagogue in memory of the late Sir Moses Montefiore.
1885: “New Antiquities” published today described the career of Moses Shapira, “the converted Jew” whose discovery of a “so-called Moabitish manuscript of Deuteronomy…and a Moabitish dictionary” which he offered to sell to the British Museum for $5,000,000 has been declared to be “a clumsy forgergy” by experts from Germany. This, and other forgeries tied to Mr. Shapira, is attributed to the fact that he left the faith of his birth.
1885:Twenty-three-year-old Houston native and Northwestern University trained attorney Israel Cowen, the son of Bennett ad Bertha Cowen presided over the memorial services for Sir Moses Montefiore that were held in the Chicago Opera House today.
1886: Thirty-one of the forty Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in the U.S. yesterday left Castle Garden with friends who had promised to provide support for them.
1887: Chicago Commercial Business graduate Jacob Levi Kesner, the London born son of Sarah Staal and L.J. Kener who rose from being a “cash boy at The Fair Department Store” to serving as the director of many financial institutions including the Greenebaum Sons Bank and Trust and Guardian National Bank in Chicago while being a member of Chicago Sinai Temple married Bettie Frohmann today.
In London, Sarah Staal and L.J. Kesner gave birth to Chicago Commercial Business graduate Jacob Levi Kesner, the husband of Bettie Frohmann who rose from being a “cash boy at The Fair Department Store” to serving as the director of many financial institutions including the Greenebaum Sons Bank and Trust and Guardian National Bank in Chicago while being a member of Chicago Sinai Temple.
1890: The boy’s band from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum will perform at the Summernight’s festival sponsored by District No. 1 of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith which is being held at Sulzer’s Harlem River Park.
1890: In Moravia, Leopold and Florentina Kulka gave birth to Robert Kulka, the husband of Elsa Skutzka and father of Tomas Kulka who was deported to Ossowa in 1942 where he died.
1890: In Kiev, Rosa Magaziner and Abraham Cherniavsky gave birth to violinist Leo Cherniavsky who “made his first public appearance at the age of six,” toured Russia as member of the Cherniavsky Trio who settled in New York where he recorded exclusively for Columbia Gramophone Company.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/107670/Cherniavsky_Leo
1891: The tenth free excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will begin with a boat ride up the East River starting at 9 a.m.
1891: “Famine Face in Russia” published today described how the government’s anti-Jewish laws have exacerbated the situation since, in the past, Jewish money lenders have provided funds for the peasants when their crops have failed. Such is not the case which makes the agricultural crisis all the worst and the government refuses to alter the laws.
1891: State Senator Jacob A. Cantor is preparing for the upcoming election following his return from Europe yesterday.
1892(7th of Elul, 5652): Four-year-old Ida Samyan, the daughter of a Russian Jewish couple who had just arrived from Hamburg passed away today. Much to the relief of authorities “a post-mortem examination showed that her death was not due to cholera.”
1892: Max Strassburger, a representative of the United Hebrew Society arrived at Ziontown, NJ to investigate the claims that the Jewish settlers had been brought their under false pretenses and were now facing the prospect of starvation.
1892: In Elizabeth, NJ, the city Board of Health met this evening and adopted measures to deal with the threat of cholera including measures to improve the sanitary conditions in the First War which is home to “a large number of Russian and Polish Jews.”
1893: Nikolai Illarionovich Skrydlov, “who had married a Jewess” was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral today in the Russian Navy.
1895(10th of Elul, 5655): Mrs. Rebecca Kastor who left legacies of $100 each to several Jewish institutions including Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, passed away today.
1896: Birthdate of Kossuth, Russia native and future Missourian Myer Silverberg, the husband of Jeanette Rosenfeld and the father of Leona and Harriet H. Silverberg who should not be confused with Lithuanian portrait artist E. Myer Siberg who painted under the name of Ellis Myere Silvette,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ellis_Meyer_Silvette
1896: Herzl received a "Shana Tova" from Jerusalem signed by Ephraim Cohn, director of the Lämel School, David Yellin, Eliezer ben Yehuda and Wilhelm Gross.
1896: At Elizabetgrad, Russia Phineas and Eva Bodansky gave birth TO “medical scientist Meyer Bodansky” who in 1907 came to the United States where he received his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1918, his M.A. from the University of Texas in 1922, his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1923, and his M.D. from the University of Chicago in 1935 and married Eleanor Abbott, with whom he had two daughters.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bodansky-meyer
1897: The funeral for David J. Seligman who passed away in his 48th year and was the son of the late Joseph Seligman is scheduled to take place at his home on East 55th Street in Manhattan.
1897: In Michigan, the Montefiore Pleasure Club which meets every Thursday evening and “aids the Hebrew Charities of Detroit” was founded today.
1897 In Amsterdam, art dealer Eduard Goudstikker and his wife gave birth to Jacques Goudstikker whose “extensive and significant art collection” was stolen by the Nazis” and then became the subject of decade’s long litigation in the post-War years.
1897: At today’s session of the Zionist Congress being held in Basel, Switzerland, “the delegates…unanimously adopted, with great enthusiasm, the program for re-establishing” the Jews “in Palestine, with publicly recognized rights.” “A dispatch was sent to the Sultan of Turkey thanking his Majesty for the privileges enjoyed by “the Jews “in his empire.”
1898: Godefroy Cavaignac, the Minister of War, stated that the document “which definitely incriminated Captain Alfred Dreyfus” “had been discovered to be a forgery by Hubert-Joseph Henry” “but he refused to concur with his colleagues in a revision of the Dreyfus prosecution” opting instead to resign and join with the nationalists and anti-Semites in the Chamber of Deputies.
1898: During the Dreyfus Affair, Major Henry, one of those who had helped to frame the French officer, was arrested. Following his arrest, Henry confessed to his role in the matter.
1898(12th of Elul, 5658): In Chicago sixty-four-year-old Rabbi Louis Rosenbloom was kicked to death by seventeen-year-old John Schlechta when he tried to the teenager from attacking various members of the Levi family.
1898: The second annual Zionist Congress at Basel Switzerland, where the American delegation was led by Dr. Richard J.H. Gottheil, Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Semitic Languages at Columbia University was scheduled to come to an end today.
1899: On this date Herzl wrote in his diary “While riding out to Währing today on a jolting bus the title for my Zion novel occurred to me: Alt-Neuland [Old-Newland].”
1899: Three handwriting experts, including Paul Meyer, Director of the of the School of Ancient Manuscripts all testified today at the court martial of Captain Dreyfus that Estherhazy and not Dreyfus had written the bordereau that was at the heart of the claim that Dreyfus had betrayed France to the Germans.
1900: Four days after he had passed away, 74-year-old Charles Cleve, the husband of the former Adeline Stiebel, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1902: Jewish Stories” published today provided a review of The Gates of Israel by Herman Bernstein which contains a large number of stories that “are pervaded with gloominess.”
1902: Birthdate of Paul Massing the German sociologist who wrote “Rehearsal for Destruction: A Study Of Political Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany.”
1902: Birthdate of Gisela Kohn Dollinger the native of Baden-be-Wien, a Vienna suburb, who survived the Holocaust and lived to be 111. (As resulted by Julie Wiener)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/refugee-who-rescued-husband-from-dachau-dies-at-111/
1903: In Scranton, PA, a meeting is scheduled to be held today at Keneseth Israel Synagogue on Linden Street “for the purposed of organizing a council” made up “of the following societies – Chovevi Zion, Daughters of Zions, Sons of Zion all in Scranton; Chovevi Zion of Wilkes-Barre; Machsi Zion of Pittson and Tifereth Zion of Olyphant, PA.
1904: Birthdate of Saul Pollock, the Newark native who earned a PhD in Mathematics and was a consultant for the Hall of Science at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.
1904(19th of Elul, 5664): Sixty-three-year-old Baden native, Lippmann Mayer the German trained Reform Rabbi who led Congregation Rodef Shalom in Allegheny City, PA and served as the Chaplain for the petitionary and “as a director of home for the aged in Pittsburgh” passed away today.
1905: It has been decided to form territorial zones for Jews” in Russia and “lists are now being drawn up of new townships and villages where they will be permitted to live.”
1906: Native Muslim soldiers attacked the Hara (Jewish Quarter) of Tunis.
1906: The first synagogue was dedicated in Finland.
1906(9th of Elul, 5666): Edward Rosewater passed away. Born in Bohemia in 1841, he came to the United States in 1854. He became the publisher and editor of the Omaha (Neb) Bee. “Rosewater had a reputation for always being ‘aggressive and controversial’ and was influential in Nebraska politics as one of the leaders of the state Republican Party.”
1907: It was reported today that Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor” while stopping at the immigration office in Salt Lake City discovered “that certain Boston lawyers have been charging Chinaman from $5 to $25 for making out a simple application blank” which “the regular immigration officials” are supposed to be completing at no charge and that the secretary has issued an order to all immigration offices to put an end to this practice.
1908: First Conference for the Yiddish Language opened in Czernowitz
1909 (13th of Elul, 5669): Yosef Chaim (a leading Hakham (Sephardic Rabbi), authority on Jewish law (Halakha) and Master Kabbalist passed away two days before his 71st birthday. He is best known as author of the work on Halakha Ben Ish Chai ("Son of Man (who) Lives"), by which title he is also known.
1909(13th of Elul, 5669): Chaim Jossel Eidelsohn passed away today.
1909(13th of Elul, 5669): A young girl named Scheitel Lewin passed away today.
1910: The leaders of the cloakmakers union who are on strike “were still in a fighting mood” and “Meyer London, their counsel said he was preparing an appeal to higher courts” to overturn the injunction issued against the striker in which the Justice of the New York State Supreme Court “declared any demand for a closed to be illegal and restrained all acts to advance it…” (Editor’s note – London and most of the strikers were Jewish)
1911: Today East London College University trained engineer Samuel Bakesef, the London, England born son of Sarah Mily Katz and Morris Bakesef who in 1919 moved to the United States where he became the chief designer of pumping equipment for Layne and Bowler and invented a “new type of folding hammock’ while belong to Temple Beth Israel in San Diego married Esther Rosenberg.
1911: As of today, there are no Jews listed among the fifteen people who lost their lives in the storm that swept through Charleston, the home to Beth Elohim one of the oldest congregation in the United Staes yesterday causing a million dollars in damages and which had struck Savannah, home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the United States, earlier in the week.
1912: Founding of Temple Israel in Gary, Indiana.
1912: In Wellington, NZ, Ella Wake (née Rosieur) and Charles August Wake gave birth to SOE agent Nancy Wake known at the White Mouse.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nancy-wake
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/europe/14wake.html
1912(17th of Elul, 5672): Eighty-six-year-old Colonel Max Hirsch passed away at Petrikau.
1913: The Manchester Guardian and the New York Times, report that Max Nordeau will not be giving the opening address at the upcoming Eleventh Zionist Congress. This is first time Nordeau will not have given the opening address since the Zionists began their meetings. It is further evidence of a shift to the program of the practical Zionists as opposed to those Zionists who had looked to a combination of European nations acting in concert to create a Jewish Homeland.
1914(8th of Elul, 5674): Twenty-seven-year-old “Archaeologist and Egyptologist” Adolphe Joseph Reinach, the son of archaeologist Joseph Reinach and Henriette-Clemintine Reinach and husband of Marguerite Dreyfus, daughter of Mathieu Dreyfus and niece of Alfred Dreyfus, with whom he had a son, Jean-Pierre Reinach was killed in Fosse in the Ardennes while serving as a “Lieutenant of Cuirassiers in the French Army.
1914: During World War I, the Battle of Tannenberg came to an end with the Germans defeating the Russians.. At the urging of the French, the Russian Army had begun advancing before it was fully mobilized and ready for battle. The Russian Army advanced into East Prussia which caused panic in Berlin. The Germans transferred troops from the Western Front to meet the Russian advance. This shift of troops weakened the German forcing attacking the French, undermined the German grand strategic design and enabled the French to finally halt the advance. This would lead to the four year stalemate known as World War I. The strengthened German forces in Prussia blocked the Russians and hurled them back. The fighting in the East would be a see-saw affair that would bleed Russia until the Revolutions of 1917 and 1918. The Jews living in the Pale of Settlement which was in the path of this clash between the Kaiser and the Czar suffered great privations. The irony was that the Germans could probably have won the battle without the additional troops and World War I might have been a rather brief affair where the troops were home by Christmas and Europe (including the Jews) would not have experienced the upheavals that led to World War II and the Holocaust.
1915: “Storm Delays Dedication of Home” published today described plans for the dedication of the home for convalescents established by the Federation of Rumanian Jews of America” which will take place next week because inclement weather had forced a postponement of the ceremony.
1915: Birthdate of composer Robert Strassburg whose works would span both the secular and religious worlds as can be seen by his work on such Broadway shows as “The Rose Tattoo” and such compositions as “Torah Sonata” and the opera “Chelm.”
1915: Birthdate of Shifra Lerer, “who was discovered at age 5 in Argentina by the great Yiddish actor Boris Thomashefsky and went on to become a winsome and wide-ranging trouper of the Yiddish theater for the next 90 years.”
1915: It was reported today that Rabbi Henry M. Fisher of New York “will conduct a campaign among” visitors to, and permanent residents of, New York City to raise money “for the relief of the Jews in Poland and Palestine” who are suffering from the effects of the World War.
1915: It was reported today that the supporters of Eleftherios Venizelos “have cast suspicions of treason and sedition upon the Jews because they voted for candidates” supporting Dimitrios Gounaris in the recent Greek parliamentary elections.
1916: In “America and Russia” published today Louis Marshall refuted the arguments of Montgomery Schulyer that the economic interests of the United States were being subverted by the Jews who were blocking trade agreements with the Russians by insisting that U.S. citizens who were Jewish would be treated in the same ways as all other Americans and not subject to the anti-Jewish laws of the Czar. (Editor’s note – While serving as an officer with the U.S. Army in Russia during WW I, Schulyer would create a volume of correspondence equating Bolshevism with Judaism)
1917: “Says Turks Pay The Jews” published today provided the description of Djemal Pasha, Commander of the Turkish forces in Syria of the treatment of the 5,000 Jews living in Jaffa which he described as a “small Jewish settlement about which so much fuss is made which is administered by a self-elected commission and maintained by the Ottoman Government which spends 7,000 pounds Turkish (about $30,000) on it monthly.”
1917: In Frankford, Michigan, eighteen-year-old Alice Stix Eiseman, the daughter of David and Amelia Stix Eiseman married Milton Alfred Hellman today.
1917: Crystal Eastman, the sister of Max Eastman and Jacob Panken were among the delegation of 150 pacifists gather at the Weehawken Station of the West Short Railroad this afternoon but absent from the group were Morris Hillquit and Rabbi J.L. Magnes
1918: Samuel Gompers and the American Labor Mission were entertained by the British Government today at a luncheon, where the visitors were welcomed by Lloyd George, G.H. Roberts and Lord Reading. The British Prime Minister lauded Gompers saying that “no man has done more to convince civilization must fight to victory.
1918: It was reported today that “the Irving Place Theater” which was “abandoned by the Germans” has been taken over by a Yiddish theatrical company head by the well-known actor, Morris Schwartz.”
1918: It is reported today that the Jewish Welfare Board has established headquarters at 41 Boulevard Haussman in Paris to enable it to work with members of the American Expeditionary Force
1918: “An East End Tailors’ Strike” published today described a strike by 3,000 London tailors most of whom are Jewish where the participants are not asking for more money but better working conditions.
1918: The Jews of Salonica who were originally Ottoman subjects are exempted from alien restrictions, under which they had previously lived.
1918: Fanya Kaplan a disillusioned revolutionary shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for what is known as the Red Terror.
1918: This evening, “Australians of the Second Division” under the command of Sir John Monash, “crossed to the north bank of the Somme River” in the first move of what would become the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin.
1919: The Emergency National Convention of Socialist America at which New York State Secretary Julius Gerber and Jacob Panken played crucial roles opened today in Chicago.
1919: Samuel Gompers announces support for the Versailles Treaty and denounces Republican leaders for opposing a document, which among other things, contains provisions beneficial to labor and workers.
1919: The Jewish Commissariat Yevsektsiya of Russia proclaimed Hebrew a "reactionary language." As such the teaching of Hebrew was prohibited in all educational institutions and books in Hebrew removed from libraries.
1920: “The Devil’s Pass Key” a “silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim was released in the United States today by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
1920: The reign of Mohammed Alim Kahn, the last Emir of Bukhara whom Levi Babakhan served as court vocalist came to an end. Babakhanov was part of dynasty of Jewish musicians that included his son Moshe and grandson Ari.
1921: The list of corporations that were charted today in New York State included Jacob Weiss, a Manhattan men’s apparel store and Saul Shapiro, a Manhattan maker of cloth hats.
1922: In Philadelphia, at Independence Hall, “thousands of Zionist marching to the strains of ‘Hatikvah’ celebrated the opportunity given to the Jews by the Leagues of Nations to establish a national homeland in Palestine.”
1922: Birthdate of famed mezzo-soprano Regina Resnik.
1923: Today the United Jewish People's Bank, Ltd., was registered in London by the cirectorium of the United Jewish Emigration Committee. The bank which, according to its articles of incorporation, will seek to promote the development of handicraft industries and agriculture among Jews starts with a capital of £500,000. It will aim to foster in particular all kinds of cooperative undertakings and assist in the emigration and immigration of Jews throughout the world. While its ultimate objects are of a social nature the institution is authorized to conduct a regular banking business. Among the subscribers are Latzki-Bertholdi, Advocate Sliosberg, Leo Motzkin, Dr. L. Branson, Vladimir Tiomkin, Rabbi Jochelman, and Dr. Brutzkus. The directors of the bank have not yet been appointed. (As reported by JTA)
1924(30th of Av, 5684): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
1924: Isadore and Rose Levine gave birth to Barbara Levine Jacobi the wife of Peter Jacobi.
1924: “The Jewish Telegraphic Agency made public” today “a letter received from H.W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in which he said that the prerequisites for membership in the Klan had not been changed.”
1925: Harvard graduate and folklorist Benjamin Albert Botkin the Boston born son of Albert and Annie Botkin, the holder of a Ph.D from the University of Nebraska who taught at the University of Oklahoma and who is the namesake of Benjamin A. Botkin Prize present by the American Folklore Society married Gertrude Frtiz today
https://www.loc.gov/folklife/botkin/hirsch.html
1925: The 14th Zionist Congress continues to meet in Vienna.
1926: “Jewish leaders from all parts of the United States are holding a conference” in Chicago “to organize the campaign of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith for two million dollars for cultural and relief work.”
1927: The Fifteenth Zionist Congress, the legislative body of the International Zionist movement, went into session at Basel, Switzerland, today with 280 delegates representing Zionist societies from all parts of the world present. Forty of the delegates are from the United States and chooses Sokolow at President
1927: According to reports published today, the Palestine Economic Corporation which had been organized in February, 1925, has increased its investments in Palestine by $575,000 during its first year of operation. The corporation was organized by the Non-Partisan Palestine Conference under the Chairmanship of Louis Marshall, with investments of $620,000. Substantial funding has gone to support the citrus growing industry.
1928: Birthdate of Barbara Zimmerman who became Barbara Epstein after marrying Jason Epstein and gained fame as “the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl.”
1929: “A telegram from Reuter’s news agency was sent to all its subscribers: ‘Jerusalem has now been a city of death for eight days during which work has ceased and people are starving. Hundreds are receiving bread rations. Everywhere it is deadly quiet, and everyone is very nervous.’”
1929: With relative quiet restored to central Palestine today, people and officials looked anxiously to the north, where a force of Syrian Arabs has crossed the border to march on Jerusalem. British planes are searching for them. The incursion of large forces of Arabs over the Syrian frontier is causing considerable uneasiness in London tonight.
1930: Leila (née Stahl) and Congressman Howard Buffett gave birth to their only son, Warren Buffet the investor who became close friends with Dorothy and Myer S. Kripke, the Omaha rabbi whose investment of $70,000 turned into $25 million which they donated to a variety of philanthropic causes.
1930: “The Zionist Organization of America announced” today “that it had decided to establish a research library at its headquarters” on Fifth Avenue in New York.
1931: In Hamburg, Temple Israel dedicated its third house of worship which had been built as a result of the relocation of many congregants from “the old city center.”
1932(28th of Av, 5692): Eighty-one-year-old Ester Ernestine Hortner, the Tarnow born “daughter of Isaak Ettinger and Rebecca [Riwke] Schapiro, the wife of Gerson Hortner (Gumprich) and mother of Regina (Rele) Hirschfeld; Ruchel Bravmann; Frania Grumprich/Hortner; Michael Hortner; Adolf Hortner; Ludwig Naftali Hortner; Sabine Ginzig and Fanny Zwinge passed away today in Vienna where she was buried.
1932(28th of Av, 5692): Pauline Golberg, the wife of Joseph Goldberg with whom she had five children, and a member of Temple Israel in New York City passed away today.
1933(8th of Elul, 5693): Seventy-year-old British author Ada Esther Leverson, the daughter of Zillah and Samuel Henry Beddington and wife of Ernest Leverson who was a close friend with her contemporary, the better-known Oscar Wilde.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leverson-ada
1933: “Sensation Hunters” directed by Charles Vidor and with music by Bernie Grossman was released today in the United States by Monogram Pictures.
1933: In a bid for the support of the Laborite faction in the forthcoming election of the administration of the World Zionist Organization, Nahum Sokolow, 72-year-old president of the organization, addressing the World Zionist Congress tonight, defined his views on the position of labor in the building of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
1933: William Dodd began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. He was the first Roosevelt appointee to deal with the Hitler government. Unfortunately, the professionals in the State Department would not listen to the warnings offered by this American college professor.
1933: The Hessische Volkswacht publishes a list of 30 concerns in Hessen that have been represented by Jews in court actions.
1933: In a published declaration the Union of German National Jews protests against the resolution adopted by the Zionist Congress against Nazi Germany and blames Zionism for the present situation of German Jewry.
1933: In Worms, the police announce that "a large number of Jews" have been arrested and taken to a concentration camp because of their provocative attitude and degrading remarks against the Nazi regime.
1934(19th of Elul, 5694): Sixty-two-year-old anthropologist Dr. Maurice Fishberg passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/1934/08/31/archive/dr-m-fishberg-dies-of-heart-attack-at-home
http://research.policyarchive.org/19590.pdf
1935: “Catherine the Last,” “a romantic comedy directed by Henry Koster, produced by Jose Pasternak and starring Otto Walberg who was murdered at Auschwitz was released in Austria today by Universal Pictures.
1935: Sixty-two-year-old French anti-fascist author and friend of Albert Einstein and Egon Kisch passed away today in Moscow.
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/book-burning/author_detail.php?content=bbbarbus.xml
1936: “Catherine the Last” a comedy directed by Henry Koster, produced by Joe Pasternak and starring Otto Walberg was released today in Austria.
1936: Charles Edward Russell, the President of the Pro-Palestine Federation of America announced plans to “launch a nationwide effort to mobilize and encourage Christian interest in the right of the Jews to establish a national home in Palestine.
1936: Morris Rothenberg announced today “a gift of $20,000 to the meet the emergency situation in Palestine has been made to the United Palestine Appeal of which he is the co-chairman by Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg.
1937: In what was described as “a new political murder against Jews in Palestine” heats up. “A bomb was thrown in a Tel Aviv thoroughfare severely wounding at least one Jew while two Jewish workers – Daniel Swanitsky and Isar Pankus – were murdered early this morning.
1937: The Arab Higher Committee decided that the Arab General Strike, begun on April 19, would continue. The problem of Jewish refugees from Jaffa and the surrounding area had been finally solved after every family was furnished with a home, comprising a large room with a balcony, kitchen, lavatory and a shower at the cost of 90 pounds, paid back in form of rent at the rate of half a pound a month over a period of 15 years. One British soldier was severely wounded at Lydda, and more British troops arrived from Malta
1938: Several cases of Arab arson attacks are reported to authorities throughout Palestine and Haifa police shot and killed a fleeing Arab terrorist.
1938: “As part of the tower and stockade settlement campaign” “immigrants from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany” established Ma’ayan Tzvi a kibbutz “named after Henry Zvi Frank, a Zionist activist and head of the Jewish Colonization Association, which had acquired the land on which the kibbutz was built.” Boy Meets Girl a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.
1938: Birthdate of Owen Jacob Laster, the son of immigrants from the Ukraine and Russia, who became one of the most powerful literary agents of his generation, running William Morris’s worldwide literary operations that had a long list of best-selling writers including James A. Michener and Gore Vidal (As reported by William Grimes)
1938(3rd of Elul, 5698): Max Factor, Sr. passed away. Born Max Firestein, this Russian Jewish immigrant had reportedly been a makeup artist for Russian nobility. He made his debut as Max Factor, Sr. at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair to launch what would become a cosmetics empire with a special relationship with the stars of the Hollywood film industry.
1938(3rd of Elul, 5698): “Merchant and communal worker” Samuel Axelrod passed away today in Albany, NY.
1939: “The Federation of Polish Jews in America announced” today “that it had received a telegram from Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States, thanking the federation for its pledge of support to the Polish Republic in its resistance to the threat of Nazi invasion.”
1940: Registration of all Jewish property became mandatory in Slovakia.
1940: Much to the initial pleasure of the Jews, the Nazis returned Kolozsvar to Hungarian control. The Jews did not realize how much influence the Nazis had over the Hungarians or the depth of anti-Semitism that existed among some of their non-Jewish neighbors. Kolozsvar was the home of Rudolf Kastner who at this time was thirty-six years old and writing for the Jewish newspaper Új Kelet
1940(26th of Av, 5700): Eighty-three-year-old “former Supreme Court Justice and New York County Sherriff” and “the head of so-called Theatrical Syndicate Mitchell L. Erlanger the Buffalo, NY born son of Leopold and Regina Erlanger who was a law school classmate of Teddy Roosevelt at Columbia passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/31/91587833.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1940(26th of 5700): Sixty-one-year old Moses Ferdinand Aufsesser the Albany, NY born son of Ferdinand and Mollie Barnet Aufesser and the husband of Ethel Rose Levy Mahler whom he married in 1914 who was the president of the Star Woolen Company, the president of Beth Emeth Congregation and a Republican Party activist passed away today in Casco, ME after which he was buried at the Beth Emeth Cemetery in Loudonville, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/31/91587838.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1941: The SS at Chelmo work camp ordered fifty Jewish workers to dig trenches. Five were shot at a time, as five would dig a new trench, until all but the last five were killed.
1941: A second round of daily shootings which last until December began today at the Latvian city of Liepāja
1942(17th of Elul, 5702): Fifty-two-year-old Nissim Joseph Ovadia, the Turkish born chief rabbi of Vienna and Paris who came to the United States after the French surrendered to the Nazis passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1942/09/01/archive/dr-nissim-j-ovadia-prominent-sephardic-rabbi-dies-at-52
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4824816
1942: Seventy-four-year-old Breslau resident Laura Braniss was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto today.
1942: Members of the Jewish community at Rabka, Poland, were murdered today.
1942: French Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas reminds his parishes that all human beings are created by the same God, Christians and Jews alike, and that "all men regardless of race or religion deserve respect from individuals and governments."
1943: The Army Show, starring Jewish comedians Frank Shuster and Johnny Wayne opened at the Forum in Halifax, Canada.
1943: A statement by the American Council for Judaism stating its opposition to “the creation of a Jewish national state” was made public today in Philadelphia.
1943: The American Council for Judaism, Inc “appealed to the United Nations for the earliest possible repatriation or resettlement under the best possible conditions of all peoples uprooted from their homes by the Axis Powers” while expressing its “hope for the ultimate establishment of a democratic autonomous government in Palestine where Jews, Moslems and Christians shall be justly represented.”
1943: The Jews of Denmark began their first day of living without the protection of the Danish government which had resigned meaning the country was now under the direct control of the Nazis.
1944: In Warsaw, Władysław Szpilman, whose story of survival was chronicled in The Pianist moved back into his old building, which by this time had entirely burnt out but where the larders and bathtubs provided the bread and rainwater, which kept him alive.
1944: The SS St. Louis, which had been the centerpiece of the famous 1939 voyage “was heavily damaged” today during an Allied bombing attack at Kiel.
1944: As of today, “about 70,000 Jews from Lodz had been sent to Auschwitz.”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/11.asp
1944: After visiting Majdanek and seeing firsthand what the Germans had done, W.H. Lawrence wrote in the New York Times, “I am now prepared to believe any story of German atrocities no matter how savage, cruel and depraved.”
1944: Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael completes his term as British High Commissioner of Palestine.
1945: Today, Frank Oppenheimer helped to found the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, “an organization that promoted the international peaceful control of nuclear power.”
1945: Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, the lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge who had been serving with the British Army since 1940 and had joined the Monuments Men (the unit that was so helpful in rescuing Jewish owned art and valuables stolen by the Nazis and their collaborators) in 1944 was unable to take up his position today ,as scheduled, “as Monuments Officer for the First Canadian Army due to crowded roads, poor transport and destroyed bridges” all products of the Allied drive across France.
1946: “The Killers” a cinema treatment of Hemingway’s short story directed by Robert Siodmak, produced by Mark Hellinger and co-starring Sam Levene was released in the United States by Universal Pictures.
1947(14th of Elul, 5707): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1947: Albert S. Pinkus of the Manhattan Chess Club defeated Richard Einhorn “in a Slav defense after thirty-seven moves” on the opening day of the New York State Chess Association’s annual general tournament.
1947: Henry Morgenthau, Jr. the chairman the $170,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal today announced “plans for a program to meet the rising needs of Europe’s 1,500,000 destitute Jewish survivors in the face of cuts in inter-governmental relief appropriations” which would be finalized at meeting on September 6.
1948: In Silver Spring, MD, Jeannette and Sam Black gave birth to comedian and social commentator Lewis Black. http://lewisblack.com/
1948(25th of Av, 5708): “A Jewish worker was shot dead by sniper fire from the Old City walls while crossing a street on the Israeli side of the city.” This threat of death would only finally end when the Israelis reunited the city in 1967.
1948: Alice Salomon passed away in New York City. She was a pioneer German social worker who fled the Nazis after being arrested and interrogated. She was not Jewish, but her Jewish origins put her at risk given the Nazi racial laws.
1949: Today in London, “Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York predicted the population of Israel would reach 2,000,000 in the next five years.
1951: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for sixty-two-year-old Lawrence S. Greenbaum, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff Ernst and a former chairman of the New York State Board of Social Welfare, the graduate of Columbia Law School and son of Selina and Justice Samuel Greenbaum.
1951: The twenty-third World Zionist Congress, which closed early this morning, unanimously adopted a resolution asking the Israeli Government to give the world Zionist organization legal status.
1954: This evening, start of Operation Binyamin 2 under the command of Ariel Sharon.
1954: Birthdate of Shlomi Shabat, the native of Yehud who has become a popular singer and musician.
1955(12th of Elul, 5715): Seventy-two-year-old NYU trained labor lawyer David Drechsler, the former “president and chairman of the board of Sons of Israel in Brooklyn and the husband of Fannie Drechsler with whom he had one child – Selma – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/08/31/82202895.pdf
1956: In Israel, the eight day nation-wide bus strike ended today. The strikers were from the Egged Bus Company which serves Haifa and provided interurban services and the Dan Company that serves the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. These companies are owner-operator co-ops.
1968: Birthdate of Scottish author and broadcaster Muriel Gray who creating a documentary entitle “The Wandering Jew” in 1996 which traced the Jewish roots of her mother’s which stretched back to Moldova.
1961: The Maccabiah Games continue in Tel Aviv for a second day.
1962(30th of Av, 5722): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1963: Today, in Rockville, MD, Washington, DC, native William Peyser “Bill” Jacobson, the son of Aaron Jacobson and Victoria Peyser married Barbara Johnson with whom he had two children Michael and Stay Ann Jacobson.
1964: Five hundred Orthodox rabbis issued a proclamation calling on religious Jews to join the Religious Zionists of America
1965: The album ''Highway 61 Revisited'' by Bob Dylan was released.
1966: The first Knesset building was dedicated in Jerusalem. This was one of several artistic ventures that marked 1966. Two others were the opening of the America-Culture House in New York which displayed Israeli arts and crafts while providing scholarships for Israeli artists to study in the United States and the naming of Israeli author Shai Agnon as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1968: Based on an earlier vote by the Directors of Avnet, Inc. a company led by Lester F. Avnet and Morton Weiner, a ten cent cash quarterly dividend was paid today.
1969(16th of Elul, 5370); Parashat Ki Tavo chanted for the first time during the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
1970: Sarah Jacobs the Polish born daughter of Abraham Simcha (Simon) Flashtiq and Rebekah Flashtiq and the wife of Abraham Goodman Jacobs passed away today in London.
1976: An Israeli patrol killed two terrorists who infiltrated through a security fence from Lebanon.
1976: London's Spectator weekly claimed that the PLO was making millions out of terror and had some £50 million invested in Britain. For those of you who think terror began on September 11, think again. .
1976: Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party's major newspaper, described the US proposal to send American monitoring personnel to Sinai as a "questionable development." This should serve as a reminder that the conflict in the Middle East was fueled, in part, by the needs of Soviet imperialism.
1976(4th of Elul, 5736): Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld, a Columbia University sociologist whose studies of American voting patterns and the influences of the printed and electronic press on society are classics in his field, died of cancer at New York Hospital today at the age of 75.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0B12FC3E5C137B93C3A91782D85F428785F9
1980: At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, final performance of “Latin! or Tobacco and Boys” written by Stepen Fry the son of Alan John Fr and the former Marianne Newman who was Jewish.
1981(30th of Av, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1981: Terrorist bombing at a market in Nablus.
1981: At Temple Emunah in Lexington, Massachusetts, “Rabbi Moses Mescheloff of Chicago” officiated at the wedding of his nephew Dr. Jonathan Furth Schoneld, “a theoretical physicist” and grandson of Rabbi Lazar Schonfeld, the former chief rabbi of Nagy Karoly, Hungary to “Jonina Tessa Gorenstein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gorenstein, of Medford.”
1983: “A tired and depressed Prime Minister Meachem Begin turned to his colleagues and said with a sigh, ‘I cannot go on any longer.’” [Begin would leave office a few days and return to his Jerusalem apartment at 1 Semach Street where he would lead a life of almost total isolation.]
1983: In what would prove to be the first act in what some describe as a tragedy and others describe as murder, “23-year-old Alice Ephraimson-Abt, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, boarded KAL Flight 007 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.”
1984(2nd of Elul, 5744): Sixty-eight-year-old Oscar nominated composer Emil Newman who was the brother of two other composers – Alfred and Lionel Newman – the father of composers Maria, David and Thomas Newman and the uncle of songwriter Randy Newman passed away today.
http://www.wildcelt.com/newman-dynasty-film-scoring-composors.php
1984(2nd of Elul, 5744): Forty-nine-year-old “poet, critic and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Queen College, Paul Zweig, and the author of Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet passed away today.
1984: Judith Resnik began her first space flight aboard the Discovery which was making its maiden voyage.
1985: After premiering at the Seattle International Film Festival, “Flesh and Blood” co-starring Jason Leigh was released in the United States today by Orion Pictures.
1985: “Compromising Positions” with a screenplay by novelist Susan Isaacs, the Jewish born daughter of electrical engineer Morton Isaacs and Helen Asher Isaacs and the wife of attorney Elkan Abramowitz whom she married in 1968 was released today in the United States.
1985: “American Ninja” directed by Sam Firstenberg and Produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan was released today.
1987: Author Jean Hanff Korelitz got married today.
1987(5th of Elul, 5747): Ninety-four year old Abraham Bernard “Abe” Levy, the native of Hull who moved to the United States to “pursue a career in design” after having served in World War I and then returned to England in the 1930’s where he wrote “articles on what remained of Jewish life in the East End and on the occupation patterns of Anglo-Jewry” which formed the basis for East End Story passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Sephardim-problem-survival-Abraham-Levy/dp/B00AGD6TF6
1987: Multi-talented musician John Zorn who is the leader of “the musical group Masada” whose works included “Kristallnacht,” which was based around the events before, during, and following the infamous Night of Broken Glass finished recording “News for Lulu, an album of hard bop compositions.”
1988: In Sugar Land, TX, Kempner High School which was named after Isaac Herbert Kempner, the son of Jewish immigrants and the founder of Imperial Sugar “opened its doors to the first Open House.”
1989: A federal jury in New York found ''hotel queen'' Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion.
1989(29th of Av, 5749): Dorothy Schiff owner and publisher of the New York Post for nearly 40 years passed away. She was a granddaughter of German born Jewish financier Jacob H. Schiff and the daughter of Mortimer Schiff and Adele Neustadt Schiff.
1989(29th of Av, 5749): Author, essayist and editor Seymour Krim passed away. According to at least one critic, “some of the Jewish themes that obsessed him were post-Holocaust anger, the lack of a nourishing Jewish culture, assimilation and emasculation, and the ugliness of self-hatred.”
1992(1st of Elul, 5752): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1992: “Two Trains Running,” for which Mordecai Benjamin served as executive producer was performed to the last time on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
1992: “The American Jewish Congress is offering a 21-day tour called a Jewish Heritage Expedition that will take travelers to places prominent in the life of Maimonides, the Hebrew scholar who was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 1135, and spent most of his life in Morocco, Israel and Egypt.”
1998: The New York Times book section features reviews of two works by Jewish authors: Theatre on the Edge by Mel Gussow and Capital Dilemma by Michael Z. Wise.
1998: In article entitled “First, the People Moved East. Now, So Are the Cemeteries,” John Rather describes the changes in the New York cemetery scene including four Jewish cemeteries on Cemetery Row including Mount Ararat, New Montefiore, Beth Moses and Wellwood . The Jewish community faces its own unique set of challenges. ''Very often what Jews do is arrange for family plots, which means there may be people who pass away in Florida who want to return to New York to be buried,'' said Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg, president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis. Some Long Island funeral homes have affiliates in Florida to speed the return home.
2000(29th of Av, 5670): Ninety-three-year-old movie and television director Joseph H. Lewis passed away today. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/13/arts/joseph-h-lewis-93-director-who-turned-b-movies-into-art.html
2001(11th of Elul, 5761): Sixty-year-old Amos Tanjouri was “shot at point blank range” by Palestinian terrorists.
2002: “As Palestinians buried four family members killed by Israeli tank fire and vowed revenge; Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer expressed regret over the loss of innocent lives.”
2003: “Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli settler and wounded his pregnant wife on the West Bank today…”
2004: Based on previously published information, Lawrence A. Franklin “the Pentagon official under suspicion of turn over classified information to Israel” has begun “cooperating with federal agents…and was preparing to lead the authorities to contacts inside the Israeli government…”
2005(25th of Av, 5765): Eighty-five-year-old James H. Scheuer who served 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives passed away today. (As reported by Jennifer Lee)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/nyregion/31scheuer.html?pagewanted=print
2005: “A Scrappy Congressman, Ready for His Next Risk” published today examined the career of Congressman Anthony D. Weiner and his chances to become Mayor of New York City. (The more things change, the more they stay the same)
2005: Today, Tulane University which was being led by President Scott Cowan reported that due to Hurricane Katrina “physical damage to Tulane’s campuses was extensive” with several feet of standing water on the campus north of Feret Street which included most of the dorms and eating facilities but fortunately “no serious flooding on the portion of the campus between Feret Street and St. Charles Avenue which encompassed the original academic quad of the school.
2005: The Bedouin guard who subdued a suicide bomber in Beersheba was hailed as a hero of the state of Israel in headlines of the Jerusalem Post.
2006: America gets ready for new Jewish-themed cable network. “First there was the Kinky Friedman documentary Shalom Y'All, and now there's Rabbi Mark S. Golub's Shalom TV. Golub is launching America's first national television channel dedicated to celebrating Jewish life and culture. The channel will initially be available as an on-demand network costing subscribers $7.99 monthly and will present 50 hours of programming weekly only to those living in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware.
2006: The Bank Leumi announced that leak concerning the stock transactions of Lt. Gen. Dan Haulutz that took place before fighting broke out Hezbollah did not come from anybody working that institution.
2007: An exhibit at the Land of Israel Museum in Tel Aviv featuring hundreds of works by cartoonist Kariel Gardosh, who became famous under his pen name “Dosh” comes to an end. Dosh was the first Israeli cartoonist to have his work published in a daily newspaper.
2007: An article entitled “Faith and Civic Pride Clash Over Parade on Yom Kippur” published today describes the conflict between Yom Kippur and a civic celebration in Herkimer, NY.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/nyregion/30parade.html?pagewanted=print
2007: Ant-Zionists Max Blumenthal and Norton Mezvinksy were joined by Tehran Professor Kaveh Afrasiabi on WBEZ”s “Worldview” which features discussions on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
2007: A national tour of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” which would last until November, 2007 began today.
2007: The Red Sea Jazz Festival comes to an end at Eilat.
2008: The Eleventh Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival opens today.
2008: Today, Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida lashed out at John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, accusing her of supporting "Nazi sympathizer" Pat Buchanan, and branding the move an "affront to all Jewish Americans."
2009: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Village Life by Louise Glück and I’m So Happy For You by Lucinda Rosenfeld.
2009: Today’s announcement by Africa Israel Investments which is owned by Lev Leviev “that it could not repay billions of dollars in debt… caused shares to drop 25.5 percent on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.” (As reported by JTA)
2009: The Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Too Good To Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund, Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff by Andrew Kirtzman, Madoff With The Money by Jerry Oppenheimer, Israel is Real by Rich Cohen and The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli
2009: The Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow and A Village Life: Poems by Louise Gluck
2009: Israel Air Force planes struck a tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip early today in response to a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants into the western Negev early yesterday, which was Shabat. Also, today Army Radio said an IDF unit patrolling Gaza's northern border reported it went under fire. No injuries were reported. The Israel Defense Forces said the attacked tunnel was was dug from underneath a building located one and a half kilometers away from the security fence. An Israeli security source said intelligence indicated the tunnel had been dug by several Palestinian factions other than Hamas. It was intended for use to infiltrate into Israeli territory in order to execute a terrorist attack against Israeli citizens or IDF soldiers, the IDF added.
2009: In Little Rock, the Jewish community gathers at the Chabad House to celebrate the completion of the first sefer torah to ever be written for the Jewish community of Arkansas. The project is one more example of the great works done by Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, a mensch in the truest sense of the word who is the epitome of the Rebbe’s concept of “the Lamplighter.
2009: Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted today in three corruption affairs, concluding months of investigations into cases allegedly conducted during his tenure as Jerusalem mayor and trade minister.
2009 Israeli singer Roni Dalumi was the final of Kochav Nolad 7.
2010: Seth Rudetsky co-starred “in a one-night-only concert performance of “They’re Playing Our Song,” “a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.”
2010: Release of “Box of Secrets,” featuring “Let Me Back,” “Box of Secrets” and “Over which was the debut album of Zarif Davidson, better known as Zarif the daughter of an Iranian Jewish mother.
2010: Bernice K. Weiss, author of Converting to Judaism - Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories is scheduled to lead a course entitled “Basic Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike” that provides an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how to observe kashrut and the Jewish laws of death and mourning.
2010(20 Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton) Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren. To his brother Joe, he was the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living proof that good guys finish first.
2010: Israeli archeologists unveiled a 2,000-year-old semi-precious cameo bearing the image of Cupid today, which the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA) said was among several items located in the City of David archeological area in Jerusalem's Old City in the last 12 months.
2011: An exhibition of charcoal drawings by artist Jean Barry that interpret the Book of Job is scheduled to come to a close at the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives in Washington, DC.
2011(30th of Av, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2011: Israel has been warned that a terrorist cell linked to the Islamic Jihad and based in the Sinai Peninsula may try to carry out a series of attacks over the coming days, Home Front Minister Matan Vilnai said today.
2011: Iran is planning to send its 15th fleet, comprised of a submarine and a warship, to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, semi-official news agency Press TV quoted Iranian naval commander Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying today The announcement came after the IDF modified the operational doctrine of the Navy Command Center in Eilat which is responsible for protecting southern Israel from threats originating in the Red Sea. Yesterday, two large Navy corvettes were seen docked in Eilat, likely for anti-terror and smuggling operations in the Red Sea
2011: Labor Party leadership candidate Erel Margalit demanded today that the upcoming primary be delayed, because the list of party members eligible to vote has yet to be published. If the Labor Party’s administration does
2011(29th of Av, 5771): Ninety-nine-year-old Ayala Zacks Abramov, the Israeli-born art collectior passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=236084
2012: Yemen Blues is scheduled to appear at The Montreal Jewish Music Festival
2012: In Berkeley, Urban Adamah and Wilderness are scheduled to sponsor “Mother-Daughter Full Moon of Elul Circle,” an event that will “include harvesting wheat, grinding it into flour with a new grain mill and then baking it into pita over an open fire.”
2012: Without naming Iran, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon denounced his hosts in Tehran today for threatening to destroy Israel and for denying the Holocaust.
2012: The Egyptian army began withdrawing tanks from the Sinai Peninsula today, pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported. The report comes just a day after Egypt's army said it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.
2013: “Fill The Void” is scheduled to open at the Ridgeway Quarter in Memphis, TN
2013: Rabbi Shira Stutman is scheduled to lead Shabbat eve services which will be a celebration of “Labor on the Bimah,” an initiative of Jews United for Justice that “weaves together labor issues, social justice and Judaism, in an effort to bring meaning and reflection back into Labor Day.”
2013: Michael Barenboim and Alexander Melnikov are scheduled to perform Mozart’s Sonata for Piano and Violin in D Major at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013: “IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz visited Artillery Corps units stationed on the Golan Heights this morning, and received a briefing by commanders on the state of readiness of the military forces on the northern border.” (As reported by Yaakov Lappin)
2013: Safety Jordan Dangerfield, a member of the Ethiopian Jewish community who had been signed by the Bills as an undrafted rookie free agent following the 2013 NFL Draft was released by the team today.
2013: “US President Barack Obama said today the chemical weapons attack in Syria threatened US allies Israel and Jordan and said his preference would have been for the international community to move forward on a response.” (As reported by Michael Wilner)
2013: As his legal woes mounted, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner “signed a letter of resignation that became effective at 5 pm PDT.”
2014: Chani Nachmias and Friends are scheduled to sing in Tel Aviv as part of the Performing Arts Center August Concert Series.
2014: Ashkelon’s annual pop music festival Briza is scheduled to come to an end today. (As reported by Simone Somekh)
2014: Turkey’s president-elect Recep Tayip Edrogan who had served as Prime Minister for the past 11 years shook hands with Yosef Levi Sfari, the charge d’affaires of Israel’s embassy in Ankara marking the first time the Turkish leader had done this in six years.
2014: Seventy-five UN peacekeepers stationed on the Golan Heights “fled Syrian territory for Israel today “after their positions were attacked by rebels who are affiliated with al-Qaida. (As reported by Times of Israel)
2014: Eighty-four-year-old Joseph E. Perisco author of Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial which “tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials” passed away today.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Joseph-Persico-acclaimed-historian-biographer-5724215.php
2014: As fighting raged between rebels and government forces in Syria, two mortar shells, thought to be strays, exploded inside Israel near the Golan Heights border.
2015: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host Grand Slam Sunday Jewish Community at Nationals Park.
2015(15th of Elul, 5775): Ninety-five-year-old Maryland political leader and former governor Marvin Mandel passed away today.
http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/former/html/msa01487.html
2015: In Coralville, Iowa the House of David Softball Team is scheduled to sponsor its annual car wash while Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its End of the Summer Picnic.
2015: Slovakia native Tomas Kovar is scheduled to describe surviving the Holocaust at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
2015: A Study Mission to New Orleans sponsored by the American Jewish Archives as part of its Travels in American Jewish History is scheduled to come to an end.
2015(15th of Elul, 5775): Seventy-nine-year-old novelist Rhoda Lerman passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/arts/rhoda-lerman-writer-who-defied-labels-dies-at-79.html?_r=0
2015(15th of Elul, 5775): Eighty-two-year-old neurologist and author Oliver Sacks passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/esteemed-jewish-neurologist-oliver-sacks-dies-at-82/
2015: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb, Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman and The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven which given the large number of Jews who lived in Russia or left it for the West and Palestine qualifies it for this list.
2016: “Hundreds of people turned out in Holon today for the funeral of former MK, minister and IDF general Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer, who died Sunday at the age of 80.”
2016: “Roseanne Barr, the Jewish actress with an outsized Twitter personality who called Hillary Clinton an anti-Semite and her aide Huma Abedin a “filthy nazi whore,” lectured tonight in a prominent San Francisco synagogue about Judaism, Israel and the critics who have been calling her a racist.”
2016: In “Israel Quietly Legalizes Outposts in the West Bank” published today Isabel Kershner provided one view of the “unauthorized settlements.”
2016: “Israeli society is heading for civil war and the country must take steps to counter it, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo warned today in his first public remarks since stepping down as the spy agency director in January.
2016: “Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will keep her seat in the US House after defeating Tim Canova today in a bruising primary that featured traded barbs over Israel.”
2016: “Three Balconies and a Door,” a new exhibition of the works of Jerusalem born artist Michal Nachmnay is scheduled to open at the Manny Cantor Center.
2017: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Dough,” the “film adaptation of Hans Fallada’s bestselling novel.”
2017: Despite bomb threats earlier in the week, classes are scheduled to begin for the fall term today at Brandeis University.
2017: The City Contemporary Dance Company of Hong Kong is scheduled to perform at the Tel Aviv Dance Festival for the last time this evening.
2017: In Australia, the Sydney Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Harvesting hidden treasures in the community: Advancing the science of proactive collecting” with Roslyn Sugarman.
2017: The Noam David Trio is scheduled to perform on the final night of the Red Sea Jazz Festival.
2018: The National Geographic Channel is scheduled to broadcast “Titanic: 20 Years Later” in which James Cameron, to whom the Straus Historical Society provided “information and photographs” about Isidor and Ida Straus asks and hopefully answers the question “Did we get it right?”
https://www.smore.com/pqe3c-titanic-20-years-later?ref=email
2018: The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host “From Folk to Flamenco - An Intimate Journey through Landscapes, Boundaries, Stories and Cultures” featuring Haifa born guitarist David Broza.
2018: In the wake of yesterday’s recommendation by the CDC that “consumers avoid kosher chicken and the Empire Kosher brand for now” following an outbreak of salmonella that has killed one and sickened at least 17” Jews who pay a premium for fowl with a Hechsher may be wondering if the companies cannot maintain basic cleanliness, how do they know they are really observing the ritual laws concerning the slaughtering of animals.
2019: Five days after she passed away funeral services are held for Deb Levin, the beloved wife of the creator of this blog who was the driving force behind its creation and an Ayshish Chayil in the truest sense of the word. The Light has gone out of the Universe.
2019: “Uncut Gems” starring Adam Sandler and with music by Donald Lopatin, the son of refusniks was released today in the United States.
2020: The corona virus has accelerated its spread in Gaza since last week, when Hamas officials reported the first cases of community transmission.
2020: Because of the Derecho which struck Cedar Rapids, on the first anniversary of her funeral we are busy trying to restore the house she loved so much.
2020: Today, “Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, the director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, delivered a seminar, “Wishes and Witches in Samuel and Shakespeare.” The seminar was the first of a series of discussions for the Straus Center’s Wilf Straus Scholars, who, this year, along with the Beren Straus Scholars, will be studying the Bible’s influence on the works of playwright William Shakespeare.”
https://blogs.yu.edu/news/wishes-and-witches-in-samuel-and-shakespeare/
2021: Urban Adamah is scheduled to host “Shofar Call to Justice,” an activism event” that is part of attempts “to stop the line 3 Tar sands pipeline expansion.”
2021: The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present online “Mosaics With Mia,” during which participants can join Israel-based mosaic muralist Mia Schon for a one-hour collage workshop via Zoom.
2021(22nd of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah Levin, father of Judy, Mitchell and David Levin, without whom this blog would not have been possible in more ways than one.
2022: The Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to host Abraham Riesman, author of “True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee,” as he discusses how Jews essentially built the superhero industry, the complicated intersection of Jewishness and superhero comics, largely through the lens of the two Jews who built Marvel: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
2022: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Beyond Roe” during which a lawyer, a doctor and an agency head involved in reproductive justice will discuss the past, present and future of abortion access in the U.S. and what Judaism teaches about the subject.
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to presents “Bene Israel Selichot” during which Hazzan Joshua Daniels will introduce attendees to the Bene Israel piyyutim and selichot tunes as he shares stories from his life within and outside the Bene Israel community.
2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to present a program exploring “Project Paperclip” with Dr. Michael Neufeld, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, and Eric Lichtblau, author of The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. The conversation will be moderated by Linda Dawson, author of The Politics and Perils of Space Exploration.
2022: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an online program during which Dr. Mark Stout will discuss the activities of top-secret “Ghost Army” and its role in Allied success during WWII.
2023: The Mandel JCC in Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida cancelled a talk by Rachel Beanland cause her book The House is on Fire “mentions slavery.”
https://forward.com/fast-forward/559619/rachel-beanland-florida-jcc-book/
2023: In Metairie, LA, Chabad is scheduled to host “A Taste for the Holiday for Women.”
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Patrick Bade on “Jerome Kern.”
2023: The Aden Conference presented by the ASF”s Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program is scheduled to hold its “Second Annual Siegal Showcase.”
2023: The JNF is scheduled to host “Scripting History,” an exclusive interview with Guy Nattiv, the director of “Golda.”
2024: A Science Fiction in Jerusalem Outdoor Escape Game in which participants “ play as a lost alien who crashed with his spaceship in Jerusalem and needs to find this energy to recharge his spaceship's battery” is scheduled to take place today.
2023: In Cedar Rapids, under the leadership of Nancy Margulis the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to meet to discuss I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg.
2024: Temple Judea is scheduled to host a “Pre-Oneg,” prior to Friday night services led by Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie.
2024: Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to present online Friday Morning Meditation which is part of Nishmat Hayyim: The Breath of Life Project.
2024: Weather permitting, in Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold Friday night services outdoors.
2024: As August 30th 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 329 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)
