This Day, September 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
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1192: The Third Crusade ends as English king Richard the Lion-Heart and
Islamic sultan Saladin sign a peace treaty that allows Christian pilgrims’
access to Muslim held Jerusalem. Saladin is remembered as the ruler who
readmitted the Jews to Jerusalem in 1190 (4950) as ecstatically recounted by
the Jewish poet Al-harzi.
1347: Coronation of Emperor Charles IV, who classified his Jewish
subjects as vassals of the Emperor which meant he received an annual payment
from them, as King of Bohemia
1492: Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen
Isabella
1504: In Pilsen, “the councilors and aldermen” decreed “that all Jews
both local and visiting must wear Jewish coats so they can be distinguished
from other people, and that Jewish women must wear a veil with a broad yellow
and white ribbon. If Jews were found without such clothing, the penalty would
be five coppers for each offence. It was emphasized that Jews must not
manufacture veils or undertake any other gentile business.”
1649: In Italy, the Jews of Castro found refuge in Pitigliano when forces
supporting Pope Innocent X at the end of the Wars of Castro. The Jews had nothing to do with the fighting
and their flight is what we would call today “collateral damage.”
http://www.comune.pitigliano.gr.it/index.php?T1=80000
1660: Hugh Peter the Puritan preacher who had renounced his belief that
Jews should be readmitted to England while attending the Whitehall Conference
of 1655 was arrested today for his role in the be-heading of King Charles I.
1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days,
destroying 10,000 buildings. While Jews had already returned to London we can
assume that none of the buildings that burned were synagogues. In 1656, the Jews had been denied the right
to build a synagogue or buy land for a cemetery. The famed Bevis Marks synagogue was not built
until 1701.
1686: When imperial troops recaptured Buda, most Jewish residents were
massacred, while a “lucky few” were captured and later released for ransom.
1726: Today a rescript for Copenhagen set for the information that “an
agreement to build a house in any city that needed buildings was also a means
of gaining an entry into Denmark” which may have provided a way for German-Jews
in this tiny Scandinavian nation that would save its Jewish population during
the Holocaust.
1728: An edict issued today allowed the Jews “to attend the fairs of
Little Russia, provided they carried on wholesale business only.” (As reported
by Herman Rosenthal)
1731: In response to an application by Danil Pavlovich Apostl, who was
Hetman of the Cossacks, Jews were permitted “attend the fairs of Little Russia,
provided they” only engaged in wholesale business activities.
1735: Lewis Gomez, a Jewish merchant in New York sold 25 loads of lime to
the city for £6 pounds, 5 shillings. Gomez advertised his "lime" in
the newspaper as "good stone-lime."
1752: England and its American colonies use the Julian calendar for the
last time, dropping it in favor of the Gregorian one. Eleven days (September 3 – 13 inclusively)
vanish as the calendar was adjusted forward so that September 14 followed
September 2. This does not directly
affect Jewish history, but it is worth noting since it accounts for some of the
seeming discrepancies in providing dates for events.
1763: Moses Lindo, the Surveyor and Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugs
and Dyes wrote a letter from Charleston, South Carolina to Emanuel Mendez da
Costa containing “an account of a new die from the Berries of a Weed in South
Carolina.”
1767: In Richmond, VA, Rachel and Moses Michael Hays gave birth to Judith
Moses Myers, the wife of Samuel Myers and the “mother of Samuel Hays Myers;
Gustavus Adolphus Myers; Henry Myers, M.D.; Agnes Myers; Rebecca Hays Myers;
Ella C. Myers and Rachel Hays Myers.”
1777(30th of Av, 5537): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1777: The will of Aaron Franks, the brother of Isaac Franks was dated
tdaoy.
1778: Birthdate of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the youngest brother of
Emperor Napoleon, who thanks to his brother ruled Holland from 1806 to
1810. During his short reign he sought
to improve the condition of the Jews with such steps as moving market day from
Saturday, abolishing the “Oath More Judaico” and allowing Jews to serve in the
military for the first time by creating two battalions with Jewish enlisted men
and officers.
1796: In Holland which now was called the Batavian Republic, the National
Assembly voted in favor of emancipation for the Dutch Jews who numbered
approximately 50,000 – 20,000 of whom lived in Amsterdam. The Jews of Holland were
emancipated as the Dutch state became the Batavian Republic.
1789: Founding the
United States Department of the Treasury.
Although there is some anecdotal evidence that the first Secretary of
the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was Jewish, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. is listed
as the first Jewish Secretary of the Treasury.
He was appointed by FDR and served from 1934 until 1945. Morgenthau was chosen because he was country
squire neighbor of FDR and not for financial acumen.
1806: Birthdate of
Mikhl Yosef Gusikow (Michael Joseph Gusikow) “a Klezmer musician from Shklov
who was popular in German and France during the 1830’s.”
1807: Barnett Nathan
married Julia Solomons today.
1813: In Gibraltar,
Abraham Israel Bernal and his wife gave birth to Esther Bernal, the wife of
Samuel Levy Bensusan and the mother of Orovida, Abraham, Jacob and Miriam
Bensusan.
1818: Laurence Lazarus
married Catherine Phillips at the New Synagogue today.
1819: Birthdate of
Louisa Sophia Goldsmid, “a British philanthropist and education activist
who targeted her life at improving education provision for British women” who was the wife of
Member of Parliament Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid.
1822: Baron
Rothschild conferred with Prussian diplomat Friedrich von Gentz “at
breakfast regarding the Frankfort Jewish matter.”
1825: Mordecai Manuel
Noah led a large group of Christians and some Jews to St Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Buffalo, NY where they participated in a dedicatory ceremony marking
the founding of Ararat, which was to be a Jewish colony on an island in the Niagara
River.
1831: Thirty-seven-year-old
Daniel Lessmann, a veteran of the Battle Lutzen who converted in 1824, possibly
to advance his career as a poet and history.
1832: Hart Lyon, Moses
Cohen D’Azevedo, Meyer Abrahams, Abraham Finzi, Levi Eleazer and Joseph Hart
were among those who attended “a meeting of the Vestry” today.
1833:
Oberlin College is founded by John Shepherd and Philo P. Stewart. Today Oberlin
has about 800 Jewish students out of a student body of 3,000. It offers ten
courses in Jewish Studies as well as both a Major and a Minor in Jewish
Studies.
1839:
Birthdate of London born Australian politician Elias Solomon, an Australian who
migrated to Australia as a child. He had no formal education, but in 1868
became a clerk and auctioneer in Fremantle in Western Australia. In 1877 he was
elected to the Fremantle City Council. In 1892, he was elected to the Western
Australian Legislative Assembly as the member for South Fremantle, where he
remained until 1901. In that year, he transferred to federal politics, winning
the Australian House of Representatives seat of Fremantle for the Free Trade
Party. He was defeated by Labor's William Carpenter in 1903. Solomon died in
1909.
1839: Three
days after he had passed away English portrait painter Solomon Polack, the
husband of Sarah Polack with whom he had five children was buried today at the
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/solomon-polack/
1841:
Birthdate of Hessen, Bavaria native and future Mississippian Carrie
Lichtenstadter Kory, the wife of Abraham Kory and the mother of Max, Eugene,
Clarence, Solomon, Roscoe ad Edward Kory.
1843: In
Buchau, Sophia Moos, the daughter of Abraham Veit Neuburger and Nanette
Neuburger and her husband Hermann Naphtali Moos gave birth to Hedwig Haas, the
wife of Beneditk Haas and mother of Anton Haas; Lina Günzburger; Friedrich Haas; Ludwig Haas and Jette Haas”
1844: In
Bavaria, Seligman Ben Schemmel Landaer, the Bavarian born of Samuel Joseph
Arjeh Landauer and Rebecca Breindl Landauer and his wife Zirle (Cilli) Landauer
gave birth to Malka Landauer
1844: In
Bavaria, Emanuel Grabfelder and his wife gave birth to Samuel Grabfelder the
husband of Delia Griff who served President of the Guardians of Public Children
of Louisville and the Jewish Free Hospital and President and a trustee of
Temple Adath Israel in Louisville, KY.
1845(30th
of Av, 5605): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed for last time by the Jews living in
the Republic of Texas including Dr. Moses Albert Levy, the Dutch born son of
Abraham and Rachel Levy because by the end of the year the Republic of Texas
would become the state of Texas in the United States of America.
1850: In
Silesia, “railway entrepreneur and coal mine owner Rudolf Pringsheim and his wife Paula, née Deutschmann” gave
birth to “German mathematician and patron of the arts” Alfred Pringsheim.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pringsheim.html
1851:
Lazarus Powell began serving as the 19th Governor of Kentucky who in
an act that was totally disingenuous condemned General Grant’s General Order
No.11 two years after it was issued and withdrawn as part of his on-going
attempt to thwart Lincoln’s policies to save the Union and free the slaves –
something that Powell opposed.
1852:
Birthdate of Paul Charles Joseph Bourget one of several French authors
including Maurice Barres, Charles Maurra and Leon Daudet who engaged in
“literary anti-Semitism” that “portrayed Jews as cosmopolitan financiers,
rapacious parasites, unscrupulous parvenus, intruders and strangers, very
different from ‘ordinary’ Frenchman.” (Alan Corcos)
1856: The
"Foreign Correspondence” column published today reported that when the
subscription books opened to buy shares in the Zurich Credit Mobilier, Bavarian
Jews with with millions in their bags, were reportedly seen in the crowd of
purchasers.
1857”
Solomon Isaacs married Jane Abrahams at the Great Synagogue today.
1857: Young
Barney Aaron the son of “Hall of Famer Barney Aaron” “became the first Jewish
fighter to a win a championship” when he defeated American Lightweight Champion
Johnny Moneghan in Providence, RI in a fight that went 80 rounds and lasted 3
hours and 20 minutes,
1857: Simon
Goldman married Julia Phillips at the Great Synagogue today.
1861: Rabbi
Aaron Siegfried Bettelheim, the Slovakian born of Samuel and Chava Eva
Bettelheim and is wife Anna Henrietta Bettelheim gave birth to Felix Albert
Bettelheim, who became a successful doctor in the United States.
1863:
Birthdate of Budapest native, Isidore Phillip, “the French composer and
pianist.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/02/21/83395510.pdf
1863: Three
days after she had passed away, 11 year old Isabella Kisch, the daughter of
Simon Abraham Kisch and the former Flora Davis was buried today at the
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1864(1st
of Elul, 5624): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1864(1st
of Elul, 5624): Zidone Walkd, the wife of Joseph Hackes whom she married in
1850 and the mother and Simon Yetta
Hackes, passed away today in New York city.
1864: The
79th Indiana Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Knefler
fought the Rebels in Georgia at the Battle of Lovejoy’s State.
1864: Solomon
B. Kaufman, who rose to the rank of Sergeant began serving with Company B of
the 202nd Regiment.
1864:
Corporal Adam Salzmann began serving with Battery G of the 204th
Regiment.
1864:
Birthdate of Abraham “Abe” Reuf, the native of San Francisco and graduate of
Hastings College of Law who began his career as a fighter against political
corruption but ended up “a big city boss” who served time for his misdeeds.
http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist1/ruef.html
1864:
General Sherman and his Union soldiers capture Atlanta.
1868: Rose
Rosenberg, the daughter of Elias N. Oberndorfer and Frances (Fanny) Oberndorfer
and her husband William Rosenberg gave birth to Minnie F. Hirsh, the wife of
Harry B. Hirsh and “mother of Elizabeth Fleisher; Rose "Jim" Hirsch;
Edward W. Hirsch and Margaret Valguarnera.”
1870: In
Butka, “in that part of Austria which later became Czechoslovakia Simon and
Esther Moskowitz Hertz gave birth to Columbia trained attorney who at the age
of 14 came to the United States where he became a leader in New York’s
Republican Party and leading expert on Abraham Lincoln while raising five
children with his wife Balance Rosenthal Hertz.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hertz-emanuel
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/05/24/91581059.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1871(16th
of Elul, 5631): Parashat Ki Tavo
1871: In
Charleston, SC, “Maier and Hannah (Reichman) Trieste gave birth to College of
Charleston and Columbia graduate Montague Triest, the husband of Addie Israel
and, during WW I, a member of the Sumter Guard Reserve Company and President of
the Hebrew Orphan Society as well as chairman of the United Jewish Relief
Campaign.
1873: In
Vienna, Dr. József Bettelheim, the Son of Samuel Bettelheim and Chava Eva
Bettelheim and his wife Ernestine Bettelheim gave birth to Friedrich
Bettelheim.
1874: Princes
Road Synagogue a synagogue on Princes Road in the Toxteth district of
Liverpool, England which is the home of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation
that “was founded in the late 1860s, designed by William James Audsley and
George Ashdown Audsley, and consecrated today.
1874: In
New Orleans, David and Selma (Franko) Goldman gave birth to NYU trained attorney Mayer C. Goldman “who
made a lifelong fight to have public defenders attached to every court to
handle free the cases of poor accused persons” while raising two children ,
Allan and Helen, with his wife Matti Marcosson Goldman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/11/25/94743940.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1875: Lucy
Deborah Leonino, the London born daughter “of Ippolito Leonino and Hannah
Leonino, and her husband Adolfo Kogan
gave birth to Casimir Lisakowsky.
1876: In
New York City, Robert and Betsey (Stone) Strahl gave birth to N.Y Law School
graduate and Municipal Court Judge Jacob S. Strahl the resident of Brooklyn and
husband of Beatrice Reiss who was President of the Judea Industrial Corporation
of New York, “owner of the Near East and Palestine Exhibition and Grand Master
of the Order of the Sons of Zion.
https://www.jta.org/1965/01/25/archive/judge-jacob-s-strahl-veteran-zionist-dies-in-new-york-was-88
1877:
Birthdate of Cecile M. Pilpel, the native of Wissembourg, France and wife of
Emmanuel Pilpel who “became a leader in parent education and…an executive of
the Child Study Association of America.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0CE6DC123CE03BBC4852DFB566838D649EDE
1877: A
large group of Jews from New York and Brooklyn attended today’s dedication of
the Salem Fields Cemetery which is adjacent to Cypress Hills. The cemetery is the property of Temple
Emanu-El on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
Several lots have been sold to other Jewish congregations and benevolent
societies. Louis May, President of Temple Emanu-El and Rabbi Gottheil
officiated during the event.
1878:
Birthdate of Cincinnati native Herbert Oettinger, the investment broker who
served on the Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1878: In
New York, Rosetta Moses, the daughter of Joseph and Martha Jonas and her
husband Dr. Montefiore Moses gave birth to Montrose Jonas Moses, the “husband
of Lucille Dorothy Moses and Leah Agnes Moses and father of Montrose James
Moses and Lawrence Sutherland Moses.”
1878: The
“Israelites” of Vicksburg, MS, have made an appeal to their co-religionists
throughout the United States to provide aid for “their sick and destitute
brethren” who are trying to survive the current Yellow Fever Epidemic. Money should be sent to Alexander Kuhn
Treasure of the Hebrew Relief Society of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1881: Based
on information that first appeared in the Daily
News, it was reported today that an Anglo-Jew named Lewishon who has the
support of Lord Granville has been given permission by the Russian Government
to visit Novgorod. The British government intends to pursue the central issue –
the right of citizens, including Jews to reside and conduct business in Russia
under the terms of the treaty signed by the two countries.
1881: In
Chicago, Moses Jacobs, a Polish Jew who was attacked by Thomas Kennedy at Clark
and Taylor Streets is in critical condition.
1882: It
was reported today that that Ignace Eprhussi & Co a Jewish banking house in
Odessa was ceasing operations in Russia because of the persecution of Jews in
the land of the Czars. Founded by Charles Joachim a Russian grain trader, the
firm moved its operations to Vienna
1883:
American labor leader Daniel De Leon and his wife gave birth to Solon De Leon,
who followed in his father’s footsteps and who created The American Labor Who's
Who which is a registry or directory of people involved in the American Labor
Movement.
1883(30th
of Av, 5643): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1883(30th
of Av, 5643): Eighty-one-year-old Léon Halévy a French dramatist and historian
who was the son of cantor Elie Halevy, the brother of composer and Jacques
Halevy and the father of Ludovic Halevy passed away today.
1883: “The
Hungarian Riots” published today described th renewed attempts by the military
to stop the attacks on the Jews in Zala.
1885:
Nine-year old Samuel Neuman was sent to the Riverside Hospital because he was suffering
from smallpox which he caught in Hamburg or while sailing to America on board
the SS Firsa.
1886: It
was reported today, Jacob H. Schiff, Jess Seligman and the banking firm of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co are among those who have contributed to a fund that will
allow The Hebrew Technical Institute to move into new, enlarged quarters. Founded in 1884 to provide instruction in the
mechanical arts to poor Jewish boys, the institute now is serving 100
youngsters.
1886: It
was reported today that Mr. and Mrs. Harris Manheim and their five-year-old son
have been sent back to England before Coroner Levy of the Jewish Immigrants’
Protective Association could meet with them.
It was alleged that the Manheims were indigent when in fact that they
“had a valuable Jewish parchment which…could have easily sold for $200 or $300.
1888: In
Brest, Richard and Sarah Brodsky gave birth to Samuel Brodsky.
1888:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Charles Gerard Eichel, the NYU educated public
school teacher and principal.
1888(26 of
Elul, 5648): Eight-year-old El Sanger, the son of Samuel and Hannah Heller
Sanger passed away today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Rest Cemetery
in Waco, TX.
1888: Three
days after she had passed away “in her 88th year,” Ester (Aarons)
Ellis, the wife of Samuel Ellis and the daughter of Aron Aarons was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1889: The
New York Times reviewed The Jew In English Fiction by Rabbi David
Philipson.
1889: In
Los Angeles, Nathan and Fannie (Prager) Cohn gave birth to Sylvan Cole, Sr,
“the founder and chairman of National Shirts, a men’s apparel chain,” the
husband of Dorothy B. Stein and father of Sylvan Cole, Jr, “an internationally
art dealer who helped foster the explosion of printmaking and print collecting
in the United States in the decades after WW II… (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1890: “Jews
Ordered To Go” published today described the issuance of an by the Governor of
the Transcaspian Territories of the Russian Empire expelling the Jews of that
region.
1891: In
the United States District Court in Brooklyn, Judge Benedict heard the case of
19 Russian Jews who were seeking to reverse the order of the Immigration
Commissioner that would not let them remain in this country “because they had
no visible means of support.”
1892: In
New York, the Eldridge Street police, at the request of Justice Hogan, are
looking for “some information” that will help him decide whether or not Israel
Simovitch did or did not steal $90 of jewelry from his fellow Russian Jew Jacob
Rohnewitch.
1892: As
Europe deals with concerns about an outbreak of Cholera, it was reported today
that “hundreds of Russian Jews” arriving at Stettin “by sea from Memel or by
rail from Eidtkuhnen” are kept in quarantine until they board steamers headed
for America.
1892:
“Duels and French Duels” published today described the acquittal of Marquis de
Mores on charges of having murder Captain Mayer, a Jewish officer in the French
Army, because the killing took place during a duel and regardless of the letter
of the law, the jury rendered a verdict “that is exactly what might expect from
a jury in Mississippi or South Carolina.”
1892: A
supply of flour arrived today at Zionsville, the Russian Jewish Colony in
Gloucester County, NJ and was quickly turned in to bread to feed the “famished”
Jewish “families.
1892: A
“carload of Russian Jews arrived at Port Huron, Michigan tonight from Liverpool
by way of Montreal.
1892: In
the UK, the Jewish Chronicle described the arrival of a group of Polish Jews at
the Isle of Jersey and their desire to hold services if they can obtain a Sefer
Torah.
1892:
Gottlieb Deininger, a member of the Haifa Templer Colony passed away today
leaving his widow Mary and their children an estate valued at 50,488 Piasters
including stone house, a two and half acre vineyard and 243 gallons of “new
Carmel wine.” (The Zionists were not the
only Europeans who were settling in this part of the Ottoman Empire prior to WW
I)
1893: It
was reported today that the Jews of Camden, NJ, have formed “The Hebrew
Protective Club” to protect “the members from robbery, insult, assault and
murder” and will be retaining a lawyer “who will be permanently engaged to look
after their interests.”
1893: Dr.
Christian Adolf Stoecker the former Chaplain of the Court of Berlin and leading
anti-Semite who arrived in New York yesterday left from Philadelphia where he
had stayed with the house surgeon of the German Hospital today for Chicago.
Stoecker joined the anti-Semitic movement in 1888 “because he believed that the
Hebrews in several cities and districts in Germany were persecuting and
oppressing the Christians.” (This is four decades before the rise of Hitler)
1893: In
what may be the first round of a general strike in the clothing industry, the
finishers went on strike. Eighty per-cent of the 25,000 workers in the clothing
in New York’s clothing industry are Jewish, most of whom are immigrants from
Russia and Poland.
1893:
Birthdate of Hobart, Tasmania, native Betty Lewis, the sculptor and “wife of
City Magistrate Julius Isaacs.
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/3426
1894(1st of
Elul, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1894:
“Man’s Oldest Civilization” published today provided a lengthy review of New
Light on the Bible and the Holy Land: Recent Discoveries in the East by
Basil T. Evetts.
1894:
Approximately 600 employees decided to go on strike at Julius Stein & Co in
New York City.
1894: In Brody, Galicia, Marie Grubel and Nachum Roth gave birth to Joseph Roth whose works
included “his family saga Radetzky March about the decline and fall of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life, Job and his
seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft” translated into English in “The
Wandering Jews” died today in Paris where he had gone to escape the Nazis.
https://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/results/?qtype=pid&term=121485
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/01/05/rootless-brilliant-tragic-life-joseph-roth/
1895: The
tailors, most of whom are Jewish, “will celebrate their victory over the
contractors today, Labor Day, with a big mass meeting and parade.”
1895(13th
of Elul, 5655): Eighty-one-year-old Joshua Heschel Schorr a leading proponent
of the Haskalah (Enlightenment Movement) whose criticism of traditional rabbis
and their teachings were recorded in He-Haluz,
a Hebrew magazine that he edited, passed away today in his hometown of
Brody today
1896
Birthdate of Odessa native Shmuel Yeivin, the Israeli archaeologist who served
as the Director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities from 1948 to 1961.
1896:
“Stein’s Heavy Stealings” published today described how the jewelry firm of
Julius M. Lyon was forced to close its doors do the embezzlement orchestrated
by 26 year old Julius Stein, his most trusted employee, that cost the firm over $200,000.
1897: Dr.
Julius Wasserman conducted the funeral services for Lazarus Morgenthau at the
residence of is son J.C. Morgenthau which were followed by burial “in the
family vault at Salem Fields, Cypress Hills Cemetery.”
1897:
Birthdate of concentration camp commandant who was hung for his crimes while
his wife was sentenced to life imprisonment.
1897:
Writing in the American Israelite,
Reform Rabbi Isaac M. Wise expressed his belief in the impossibility of the
Zionist dream due in part to Herzl’s ignorance about Judaism and the inevitable
clash between him and Orthodox Jewry.
1898: At
the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan where John Maxwell who would support the
creation of the Zion Mule Corps but opposed a Jewish “fighting force” led he 2nd
Brigade in a battle that helped to burnish the reputation of Winston Churchill
who would go on to have close, yet strange relationship, with Jewish
constituents and political leaders including Chaim Weizman
1898: The
“wealthy Jews” living at Hempstead, Long Island and surrounding villages are
considering a plan to build a synagogue.
1898:
During the Dreyfus affair, the presidential decision that ratified the board of
inquiry’s decision to discharge Estherhazy “for habitual misbehavior” was made
today, three days after Colonel Henry’s suicide.
1898: Herzl
leaves Basel and sets out for the Bodensee Island of Mainau, for an audience
with the Grossherzog Friederich of Baden. The main topic of the audience is
Kaiser Wilhelm's journey to Palestine.
1899:
“Notes and News,” a compilation of information from various publishing houses
reported today that the September issue of Century contains a “timely article”
entitle “An American Forerunner of Dreyfus” that tells the story of a gallant
naval officer who early in the present century was persecuted throughout his
career because he was a Jew.” (Editor’s
note – this must be a reference to Commodore Uriah P. Levy)
1900: It
was reported today that “former Congressman Isador Strauss of New York who
recently bought an ocean-front tract of land will shortly begin the erection of
a fifty-thousand-dollar country seat” at Long Branch, NJ.
1901: Noted
Temperance Leader Carrie Nation who wrote that she “always treated the Jews
with respect,” acknowledged that “Our Savior was a Jew” and said admiringly
that “ wherever a Jew goes no matter how long he stays he remains a Jew” made her debut today as a lecturer today at
Coney Island.
1902(30th
of Av, 5662): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed as the state of Vermont held “its
lection for the House of Representatives.
1903:
Today, “The Times's "Russian Correspondents" state that a secret
circular has been issued by Minister of the Interior de Plehve to the Governors
of the provinces, Prefects, and other authorities against Zionism” and that not
only “explains the hostility of Russia to the promotion of the Jewish national
idea” orders steps to be taken “to prevent its consummation” including not
allowing “public meetings of Jews,” forbidding “conferences of delegates who
are members of Zionist organizations’ and preventing “the collection of money
for the Jewish nation fund.”
1904: Based
on reports from St. Petersburg, it can be stated today “that on high authority
Russia will decline to enter in the negotiations proposed by the United States
on August 21 in regard to the unrestricted recognition of American passports”
which means that in effect that Russia will continue to bar American Jews who
had come from Russia to do business in that empire.
1905(2nd
of Elul, 5665): Parashat Shoftim
1905: A disastrous fire
in Adrianople, Turkey destroyed 1500 Jewish homes and 13 synagogues which that 10,000
Jews were rendered homeless along with the 40,000 who already were.
1906(12th of
Elul, 5666): Rabbi Elias Epstein passed away.
1906: Birthdate of Atco, NJ native and
businessman Frederick Gordon Borowsky, a member of the board of Albert
Einstein College of Medicine who is buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in
Jenkintown, PA.
1907: Sir Matthew
Nathan, the son of Jewish Paddington businessman Jonah Nathan became the 7th
Governor of Natal.
1908: The Conference
for the Yiddish Language organized by Nathan Birnbaum continued to meet in
Czernowitz.
1909: In
Philadelphia, newspaper publisher J.
David Stern and his wife gave birth to Harvard graduate David Stern III “the
publisher of the New Orleans Item and author of the novel Francis the
Talking the Mule which gave rise to a series of films about the four legged
animal.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/David_Stern_III
1909: There are mixed
reactions to reports that Dr. Cook had reached the North Pole, a geographic
point that has been the subject of speculation among Jews in the past as can be
seen the 1881 story that Captain Joseph Wiggins had discovered an island near
the Pole “graced with vegation and fruit trees” where the inhabitants spoke
Hebrew and were thought to be the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes.
1910: “Still Expelling
Jews from Kieff” published today described the daily expulsion of twelve Jews
from the city that has been occurring since July 30 with over seven hundred
forced to return to the Pale in the last months while another 336 have been expelled
from the suburbs of Solomenka and Damieffka.
1911: Alderman Henry
E. Davis was re-elected May of Gravesend
in Great Britain.
1912: Birthdate of
David Daiches, the Scottish literary critic and writer whose memoir was
entitled “Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood.”
1913(30th of
Av, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1913: The 11th
World Zionist Congress met today in Vienna where it approved a resolution “to
establish a Hebrew University in Palestine.”
1913: Birthdate of
Israel Gelfand, the prize-winning Soviet born mathematician who immigrated to
the United States in 1989 and who married his second wife Tatiana after having
divorced his first wife mathematician Zorya Shapiro.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6440484/Israel-Gelfand.html
https://www.israelmgelfand.com/index.html
1914: “A Moscow
dispatch to the Central News” today said “it is announced that on account of
the war Jewish doctors and students will be admitted to the courses of the
Russian Red Cross Society” which is a departure from the pre-war law forbidding
their admission.
1914: “Palestine Jews
Face Crisis” published today reported that “cablegrams received from Henry
Morgenthau the American Ambassador at Constantinople and from other reliable
sources” indicate “that the Palestinian Jews were confronting a serious crisis”
because of the discontinuance of contributions from the warring nations in
Europe and “that the destruction of a number of flourishing colonies was
threatened” without immediate financial assistance from the United States.
1915(23rd of
Elul, 5676): Sixty-four-year-old Nathan S. Gutman, the German born son of Joel
and Bertha Gutman, and the husband of Emma Eleanor Gutman passed away today
after which he was buried in Chicago.
1915: In San Francisco,
“Morris and Rachel (Margolis) Podvidz gave birth to Lily Judith Pokvidz the
graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University who married Nathan Edelman
and as Lily Edeleman gained fame as an educator and the author of children’s
books including The Sukkah and the Book Wind.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/27/obituaries/lily-p-edelman-writer-and-b-nai-b-rith-official.html
1915: NYU trained
attorney Frank Aranow, the son of Max and Pauline (Slepien) Aranow, “who taught
at Emanuel Brotherhood on the East Side” and a partner in a law firm headed by
Samuel S. Koenig, the former Secretary of State of New York, married Blanche Bodenheimer
today.
1915: “Brooklyn Jews
Greet Gov. Alexander” published today described plans for the upcoming visit of
Idaho Governor Moses Alexander, the only Jewish person to serve as a state
chief executive.
1915: Two weeks after
the lynching of Leo Frank, Tom Watson equated the hanging with an act of God as
he wrote in The Jeffersonian, “the voice of the people is the voice of
God.”
1915: The circulation
of Tom Watson’s The Jeffersonian reached 87,000 today, triple the number of
issues sold before Watson began writing articles condemning Leo Frank as the
murder of Mary Phagan.
1916(4th of
Elul, 5676): Glasgow-born Lt Edwin Schonfield, 2/19 London Regiment was killed
today on the Western Front.
1916: “The Joint
Distribution Committee of the Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers
announced” today “that it had been notified from Washington that the cruiser
Des Moines now at Barcelona had been ordered to Alexandria by the Secretary of
the Navy to carry” medical supplies for the hospitals in Palestine which had
been embargoed by the Allies to the port of Jaffa.
1916: It was reported
today that Jacob de Hass, the Secretary of the Provisional Committee for
General Zionists had recently written a letter in which he took exception to a
report by three teachers from American colleges in Turkey who said “that on
their visit to Palestine they learned that all the Jews had been deported from
Jerusalem with the exception of a few who had accepted the Moslem faith.”
1917: It was reported
today that it is imperative that the drive to raise at least a million dollars
in the upcoming drive for the Jewish War Relief Fund to be successful for
Julius Ronsewald of Chicago to make good on his offer “to give an amount equal to
10 per cent of all funds raised in America.”
1917: “A committee of
100 women to canvas the east side of New York for money to be used in relief
work among the families of Jewish soldiers was organized” today “in the office
of Dr. Louis Glucksman…where the committee will have its headquarters.
1917: The American
Jewish Congress meeting did not take place today as planned because it was
postponed until November based on a recommendation made by the Administrative
Committee.
1918: “Australians of
the Second Division” under the command of Sir John Monash completed their
capture of the rest of Peronne during the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin.
1918: Private Daniel
Stern who had been drafted in February, 1918 and landed in France where he
served as a bugler was totally blinded for six week after he was gassed during
fighting today in the Argonne.
1919: “Seek Fund to Aid
Jewish Orphanage” published today described plans to a hold dinner next week at
the Hotel Astor to mark the formal start of a campaign to raise $500,000 for
the care of Jewish orphans, five hundred of whom are now being cared for by
“non-Jewish institutions.”
1920: According to a
dispatch received in Vienna today from Pressburg, Czechoslovakia, that during a
conference of Agudth Israel which has organized “a Central Council of
forty-five members” these “European
orthodox Jews have resolved to call a world conference” which may be held in
its new headquarters in London.
1921: “Roswolsky's
Mistress” a silent German filed directed by Felix Basch based on a novel by
George Froeschel who wrote the script along with Henrik Galeen and Hans
Janowitz.
1922: In Brooklyn,
Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants Isadore and Anna Ashkin gave birth to the Columbia
and Cornell trained Nobel Prize in Physics Arthur Ashkin.
http://www.laserfest.org/lasers/pioneers/ashkin.cfm
1923: Birthdate of
Mazkeret Batya native and Palmach officer Moshe Kelman whose military record
including commanding the third battalion during Operation Yiftach and Operation
Danny and who “worked as an investment consultant and in the
design and construction of factories and industrial zones” in Israel after
earning a B.A. from Columbia University.
1923: Universal
Pictures released the Irving Thalberg production of “The Hunchback of Notre
Dame.”
1924: In Wolomin,
Poland, Izaak Krasucki and his wife gave birth to French trade unionist Henri
Krasucki.
1925: In the Bronx,
homemaker Molly Kurtzman and Nathan Turkel, the owner of the New York Wet Wash
Laundry gave birth to Stanley Howard Turkel the hotelier, hospitality
consultant and historian whose works included Great American Hotel Works. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
1925: In statement made
today that bodes ill for the Jews of the United States, “Charles Evans Hughes,
former Secretary of State, opened the forty-ninth meeting of the American Bar
Association here today by sounding a warning to the United States that the
liberty of the nation is being endangered by the character of its numerous laws
and an "Intolerant spirit" which he called the "most ominous
sign of our time.
1926: Birthdate of
department store mogul, political activist and philanthropist Betsy
Bloomingdale.
1926: The opinion that
there is unity in American Jewry and the only real division is on the question
of Jewish nationalism and Zionism is voiced by today’s “American
Israel" Referring to the various
rabbinical seminaries that have been established in American Jewry, the paper
continues thus: "These widely varying institutions are typical of the
divisions in American Jewry. We have the strictly orthodox, the moderately
orthodox, the middle of the road, the moderately reform, the ultra-reform and
the Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana and Kaddish Jew, each holding firmly to his own
views. "In a number of instances these differences of opinion have
resulted in the useless duplication of philanthropic institutions, especially
hospitals, homes for indigent aged and infirm and orphans homes. "Here the
main dividing factor is the matter of 'Kashruth,' not only according to the
commands of Mosaic Law, but also the requirements added after the Scriptural
era by the Rabbis and other Talmudic authorities. "Yet all these divisions
in American Jewry, irremediable as they apparently appear are, after all, not
so wide, not so important as they seem. "Whenever persecution becomes
violent, as it is at present in Europe, and misfortune in its direct forms
comes upon our brethren anywhere, the truth of the old maxim. 'All Israel are
brethren' is sure to be again verified and help is given unstintedly by all
Jews, regardless of the particular kind of Judaism they may profess. This has
been splendidly exemplified during the last few years in which brief-period
American Jewry, in addition to private benefactions, has contributed not less,
probably more than one hundred million dollars for the alleviation of the
misery brought upon suffering coreligionists through the fanaticism and barbarism
of their Christian countrymen. "After all, there is more or less unity in
American Jewry. If there is any real division today it is on the question of
Zionism and that, except as it refers to Nationalism, is of no vital
importance."
1927: It was reported
today that “the Weizmann Administration, the Palestine Government and British
government as the mandatory power were severely criticized” in speeches given
at the 15th Zionist Congress meeting in Basle.
1928: Birthdate of Mel
Stuart director and producer whose career ranged from the ultra-light (Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) to the very serious (The Triangle Factory
Fire Scandal) http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19210701
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/movies/mel-stuart-willy-wonka-director-dies-at-83.html
1928: Birthdate of Sir
Patrick Hamilton Moberly who “worked at the British embassy in Israel as
Counsellor (Commercial) from 1970 to 1974” and “served as British Ambassador to
Israel” from 1981 to 1984.
1929: Funeral services
are scheduled to take place today Columbia University trained civil engineer and
philanthropist Alfred M. Heinsheimer, the New York born son of David and
Natalie Heinsheimer and brother the late Louis C. Heinsheimer, a partner in
Kuhn, Loeb and Company who made his brother Alfred the beneficiary of his five
million dollars which was used to support many charitable institutions including
the Federation of Jewish Charities, the Hospital for Joint Diseases and “the New
York Foundation, a non-sectarian organization that promoted charitable,
educations and philanthropic enterprises.’
1928: “Carboard Lover,”
a silent comedy featuring Pepi Lederer, the daughter of George Lederer was released
today in the United States.
1929: “Triumph of
Love,” produced by Joe Pasternak was released today in Germany.
1929(27th of Av, 5689):
Forty-four-year-old avant-garde German film make Paul Leni passed away today in
California where he had been working since 1927 when “he accepted Carl
Laemmle's invitation to become a director at Universal Studios and moved to
Hollywood.”
http://www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk/leni.htm
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fns02n8.html
1930: As of today,
$342,000 has been raised towards meeting the goal of raising $500,000 for the
purchase of land in Palestine by the Jewish National Fund.
1930: “The Second
Little Show,” “a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music mostly by
Arthur Schwartz” opened today on Broadway at the Royale Theatre.
1931: New York state
Supreme Court justice Alfred Frankenthaler will hear a motion this morning
seeking “to restrain the national officers” of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America “from interfering with the activities of the local Cutters Union 4.
1931(20th of
Elul, 5691): Sixty-nine-year-old Abraham Tobias, the Columbia, SC born son of
Jospeh and Rosa Hays Mordecai Tobias passed away today in Charleston, SC after
which he was buried in the Coming Street Cemetery.
1932(1st of
Elul, 5692) Rosh Chodesh Elul
1932: The annual
encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, where topics of
conversation will include the immediate payment of the bonus, is scheduled to
being today in Atlantic City, NJ.
1932: Birthdate of
Arnold Shepard Greenberg, the Brooklyn native who founded beverage giant
“Snapple” with his brother-in-law.
1932: In Hamburg,
Germany, George Mengers and Ruth Levy gave birth to “Sue Mengers, a powerful
agent who represented stars like Barbra Streisand and Steve McQueen and helped
shape Hollywood’s vibrant revival in the 1970s” (As reported by Michael Cieply)
1933: Marcus Eli Ravage’s
articles "A real case against the Jews" and "Commissary to the
Gentiles", published in the January and February 1928 issues of Century
Magazine were apparently translated as "a devastating admission"
first in the Czernowitz Allgemeine Zeitung today” after which “it was
re-translated as A voice in the wilderness; Jewish rabbi on Hitler's
anti-Semitism by Right Cause in Chicago.”
1934: Eighty-six-year-old
Germany military leader and President of Germany Paul von Hindenberg, who was
opposed to th Nazis and Hitler, but who named Hitler to serve as Chancellor
passed away leading the way for Hitler officially become Further.
1934: Dr. Joseph H.
Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom officiated at consecration of the
Wembly United Synagogue
1935: Hundreds of
mourners attended the funeral for Herman Bernstein in New York City. During the
eulogy, Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy said that “Herman Berstein was a fine exemplar
of the Jewish American who chooses the United States for his home for what he
can give, not for what he can get…He was an American Jew, faithful to America
an faithful to Judaism. A native of Russia, Bernstein was educated in the
United States where he wrote for several publications including the New York
Evening Post, The Nation and the New York Times. In 1921, he wrote History of a Lie, which
exposed the Protocols of Zion as being “a notorious forgery. His diplomatic
career included a stint as Ambassador to Albania. Burial was in the Montefiore
Cemetery.
1935: The funeral for
Rabbi Avraham Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook is scheduled to take place
today at l p.m. All cafes, theatres and
places of amusement throughout Palestine will remain closed until after the funeral
is over.
1936: In Budapest Maria and George Gróf gave birth to András István Gróf
who as American businessman Andrew Stephen “Andy” Grove “was one of the
founders and the CEO of Intel.”
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/21/11280004/andy-grove-intel-ceo-dies
1936: Premiere of “The
General Died At Dawn” directed by Lewis Milestone (Leib Milstein) with a script
co-authored by Clifford Odets.
1936: “The Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate, which serves fifty-nine English-Jewish weeklies made public
today Jewish New Year’s greetings from President Roosevelt and Governor
Lehman.”
1937(26th of
Elul, 5697): NYPD Lieutenant (Retired) Otto Raphael, the son of Anna Raphael
and Raphael Raphael, a butcher from Russia who was a friend of New York City
Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt the future President who was often his
sparring partner passed away today after having retired in 1921.
http://www.j-grit.com/public-servants-otto-raphael.php
http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1987_39_01_00_schoenburg.pdf
1937: The Mandatory
administration and police took summary action in connection with the recent
wave of Jewish-Arab violence. In Hadera 15 Jews, mostly Revisionists, were
arrested and summarily sentenced, under the prevention of crime ordinance, to
one year's imprisonment. In Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Hadera many Jews were held
for interrogation. The Mandatory administration was usually much
effective at arresting Jews than Arabs.
1937: An Arab constable was shot and
killed by Arab terrorists at the high commissioner's summer residence at Atlit.
1937: Birthdate of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky. Born Selma
Schwarzwald in Lvov (Lwow, L'viv), Poland, she would gain fame for her stuffed
bear named “Refugee” a replica of which would be taken into outer space by
Space Shuttle Discovery Commander Mark Polansky in December of 2006.
1938: “On the border of
Jaffa and Tel Aviv,” an Arab threw “a bomb…into a vegetable market wounding
nine Jews, including one woman.
1938: The 43rd
National Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States began today
in Detroit, Michigan.
1938: “A synagogue in
the Givat Moshe quarter,” on the border of Jaffa and Tel Aviv “was destroyed by
fire early this morning after heavy Arab sniping” kept the fire brigade from
approaching this building
1939: The
Germans established, a camp for "civilian prisoners of war" at
Stutthof, Poland
1939: As
1,400 Jews escaping from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia land on
a Tel Aviv beach, British soldiers shot and killed two refugees.
1939: In Mirecourt,
Vosges, France. Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet gave birth to French
political leader Jack Mathieu Émile Lang.
1939(18th of
Elul, 5699): Parashat Ki Tavo
1939(18th of
Elul, 5699): Sixty-eight-year-old Kovno native Abraham Alpert, the Boston
journalist and organizer of the “Boston branch of HIAS” passed away today in
Roxbury, MA.
1939: “Thirty-six hours
after the German invasion of Poland… there was widespread indignation in the
House of Commons when” Prime Minister Neville “Chamberlain spoke of the
possibility of German troop withdrawal to be followed by a territorial
settlement with which Britain would be willing to be ‘associated.’” (Editor’s
note – as can be seen by this information provided by Sir Martin Gilbert, the
willingness to make deals with Hitler was a rot that infected Europe and the
United States and helps to explain, but not excuse, the inability and
unwillingness to do anything about that unique genocide known as the
Holocaust.”
1940: German occupation authorities in Luxembourg introduced the
Nuremberg Laws. All Jewish businesses were seized and handed to
"Aryans."
1940: Bishop Theophil Wurm, head of the provincial Lutheran Church
at Württemberg, Germany, sends a second letter to German Interior Minister
Wilhelm Frick expressing his objections to "euthanasia" killings.
1941: The Germans open an exposition in Paris called "The Jew
and France." Visitors see sculptures and paintings of hideous mythical
Jews, Jews allegedly cursed to wander the world forever because of their
supposed attack on Jesus Christ, and Jews allegedly out to control the world.
Other exhibits portray the Jew as a repulsive monster destroying France. In the
first few days, more than 100,000 Parisians visit the exhibit
1941: Romanians and Germans force nearly 150,000 Jews into death
marches to internment camps in Bessarabia, Ukraine. Many died of beatings,
random shootings, fatigue, hunger, thirst, exposure, and disease.
1941: Chemists and mechanics at the RSHA (Reich Security Main
Office) Criminal Technical Institute develop an execution van with engine
exhaust directed to the sealed rear-cargo area.
1941: Jews
in Slovakia, Bohemia, and Moravia are ordered to wear Yellow Stars, effective
September 19, and to suspend all business activity.
1941 Ukrainian
nationalist Ulas Samchuk, editor of the newspaper Volhyn, writes that
Jews and Poles "must disappear completely from our cities."
1942: Over the next three days, 6,000 more Jews from Wlodzimierz would
join the 7,000 Jews gathered the previous day for transport to the death camps.
Babies were dropped to their death from hospital windows. One enterprising
German began catching them with his bayonet.
1942: The Nazis
liquidated the Mir ghetto
1942: Ten thousand Jews in Dzialoszyce, Poland
were gathered. Two thousand were killed in a bloody purge during
the day. Eight thousand were deported to Belzec.
1942 In
Oslo, Norway, Julius Samuel, the chief rabbi of Norway, refuses to go into
hiding or to flee the country. He is arrested and interned in a camp at Berg,
south of Oslo.
1942: At Lachva (aka Lachwa) in Belorussia, which at that time was part
of the Soviet Union
German troops, together with Belorussian police, surrounded the ghetto which
still contained 2,000 people. Dov Lopatin head of the Judenrat refused
the German request to line up for deportation. Although many of the town’s
elders were against taking any initiative, Lopatin and the youth leaders
decided to resist even without weapons. As the Germans entered, most of the
town attacked them even though they were only “armed” with axes, sticks, and
Molotov cocktails. Between 600 and 700 Jews were killed fighting, and a further
600 succeeded in reaching the forests after killing or wounding about 100
Nazis. The rest were shot by the Germans. Many of those who reached the forests
were killed by local police units. Approximately 90 people survived. The
resistance ended on the following day.
1942: Birthdate of
attorney Robert Shapiro, part of O.J. Simpson’s Dream Team who cofounded
LegalZoom.
1943: “Proposals for
the immediate rescue of as many Jews as possible from the Nazi-controlled
countries of Europe, for the post-war rehabilitation of Jewish life in those
lands and for an international bill of rights to safeguard their political
status in the future were approved” today “by the American Jewish Conference as
it brought to a close its five day meeting at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.”
1943: One thousand Jews are deported from Paris to Auschwitz
1943: Ten thousand Jews from Tarnów, Poland, are deported to Auschwitz
and the Plaszów slave-labor camp.
1943(2nd of Elul, 5703): Sixty-nine-year-old Oskar Michael
Blumenthal, the Egeln, Germany born son of Selig and Juliane Blumenthal and
husband of Dora Blumenthal died today in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
1943(2nd of Elul, 5703): Fifty-one-year-old Joseph Diamond, a
World War I veteran, former vaudevillian and clothing manufacture passed away
today Rochester, NY. He was a Republican and a member of Temple B’rith Kodesh
1943: During the next 48 hours, 3,500 Jews are deported from
Przemysl, Poland, to Auschwitz.
1943: At Treblinka the Jews who were left behind to clean out the
recently closed camp revolted against their guards. Wearing a guard's uniform,
Seweryn Klajnman led his fellow 12 inmates out of the camp to their freedom.
The remaining Jews would be sent to Sobribor after the final dismantling of
Treblinka. Treblinka was plowed over and turned into a farm.
1944(14th of Elul, 5704): Parashat Keitzei
1944(14th of Elul, 5704): Forty-eight-year-old Bella
Rosenfield Chagall, the first wife of Marc Chagall whom she met when he was a
penniless painter in 1909, married in 1915 and posed for several of his
pictures including “Bella with White Collar passed away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Rosenfeld#/media/File:Chagall_Bella.jpg
1944: Florence Tananbaum married Jacques Levine, a member of the U.S.
Army at the Hotel Pierre.
1944(14th of Elul, 5704): Forty-four-year-old
New York City native Pincus “Pinky” Match who played for CCNY from 1923 to 1925
when it was a national powerhouse passed away today.
1944: Walter Suskind, who had been released from
Westerbork transit camp, finds out that his family is about to be shipped to
Theresienstadt and joins them for what will be a trip that leads to their death
at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1944: Approximately 2000 Jews deported from Plaszów, Poland, are
gassed to death at Auschwitz.
1944: Diarist Anne
Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to
Auschwitz. They would arrive at their destination three days later.
1945: World War II officially ended as Japan signed the terms of
surrender on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri.
1945: Among those attending the surrender of Japan was Bernard Schwartz
who was serving aboard the submarine tender U.S.S. Proteus. Year’s later actor
Tony Curtis would say, “That was one of the greatest moments of my life.
1946(6th of Elul, 5706): Sixty-two-year-old William Harris,
Jr., the second generation of prolific Broadway producers passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/09/03/91098246.html?pageNumber=16
1946: Ayn Rand begins writing Atlas
Shrugged.
1947: After having been part of the American delegation that attended the
opening of the UN in 1945 at San Francisco, Congressman Sol Bloom at attended
the Rio Conference where today the Rio Pact, a groundbreaking mutual defense
pact for nations in the Western Hemisphere was signed.
1948: Today, while at Harvard Marvin Traub, the New York City born son of
Bea Bruckman and Sam D. Traub and the future CEO and President of Bloomingdale’s
married Lee Laufer with whom he had three children – Andrew, James and
Margaret.
1948: “A meeting to organize a Conservative congregation among Jewish
residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village” is scheduled to “be held
tonight at Stuyvesant High School” where “Dr. Max Artz, director of field
service and activities of the Jewish Theological Seminary will speak on ‘Aims
of Conservative Judaism’.”
1949: “Miss Lasker Rites Tomorrow” described plans for the funeral of
ACLU board member Florina Lasker to be held at the Universal Chapel on
Lexington Avenue on September 3, not on September 2 as previously reported.
1950: In Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Yashuva Kolontarov and Tamara Khanimova
Kolontarova gave birth to Tajik-American dancer Malika Kolontarova, known as
the “Queen of Tajik & Eastern Dance.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/02/1950/bukharan-jewish-dancer-malika-kalontarova-born
1950: Birthdate of Los Angeles native and University of Chicago Law
School grad, Harvey Robert Levin, the Emmy Award winning founder of TMA and
“longtime partner of Chiropractor Andy Mauer.”
1950(20th of Elul, 5710): Parashat Ki Tavo
1950(20th of Elul, 5710): Seventy-four-year-old Michael Tuch,
the former president of the Brooklyn
Coal Company and husband of Tessie Tuch who formed the charitable Michael Tuch
Foundation and established the Michael Tuch Chair of Hebrew Literature and
Ethics at Brandeis University passed away today in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/09/03/91112357.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951: Birthdate of Eugene, OR and Carleton College and Northwestern
trained Pulitzer Prize winning author and columnist, Kai Bird the husband of
Susan Goldmark and author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of
J. Robert Oppenheimer.
1951: In the wake of the assassination of Jordan’s King Abdullah, Israel
has informed the Big Three (U.S., Great Britain and France) that it will not
stand idly by if there is a change in the Middle East that would result in
Jordan’s union with Syria or Iraq.
Israel will take act to protect its self if Syrian or Iraqi troops take
up positions on the east bank of the Jordan River.
1952: “Monkey Business” produced by Sol Siegel with a script by Ben Hecht
and I.A.L. Diamond was released in the United States by 20th Century
Fox.
1952: Yosef Opatoshu,
the 65-year-old Polish-born Yiddish writer, arrived aboard the SS Kedma, as a
guest of the Histadrut Executive. Optashua was famous in his own right,
but he is also known as the father of American character actor David Opatoshu.
One of David Opatoshu's most famous roles was that of the Zionist leader Arik
in the movie “Exodus.” The character was loosely based on Menachem Begin.
1953: Attackers
infiltrated from Jordan, and reached the neighborhood of Katamon, in the heart
of Jerusalem. They threw hand grenades in all directions. No one was hurt.
1953: In New York, Vera
Studenski and Henry Zorn gave birth to multi-talented musician John Zorn who is
the leader of “the musical group Masada” and whose works included
“Kristallnacht,” which
was based around the events before, during, and following the infamous Night of
Broken Glass and represented his first musical exploration of his Jewish
cultural heritage.”
1954(4th of Elul,
5714): Franz Leopold Neumann a German-Jewish political activist and labor
lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best-known for his
theoretical analyses of National Socialism passed away today at the age of 54. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom
and spent the last phase of his career in the United States. Together with
Ernst Fraenkel and Arnold Bergstraesser, Neumann is considered to be among the
founders of modern political science in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1956(26th of
Elul, 5716): Sixty-two-year-old tailor Morris
Goldberg, the Russian born son of Jekiel Goldberg, the husband of Ester Golub
and the father of Leonard, Hymie and Cyril Goldberg passed away today in Stoke
Newington, London.
1956(26th of Elul, 5716):
University of Michigan trained attorney Hugo Sonnenschein, “a founder of the
North Shore Temple Israel and a member of the board of Allstate Insurance who
was the husband of Irene Plaut Sonnenschein with whom he had two sons and a
daughter passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/03/86693225.html?pageNumber=13
1957: Arthur Hiller
made his directorial debut today with the release of “The Careless Years” in
the United States by United Artists – a movie that included a musical score by
Michael Kamen.
1962(3rd of
Elul, 5723): Sixty-four-year-old Princeton graduate and World War I artillery
officer David Hays Sulzberger, the Manhattan
born son of Cyrus Leopold Sulzberger and Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger and the
husband of Louise Blumenthal Sulzberger whom he married in 1921 and with whom he
had three daughters who was “a member of Hamershlag, Borg and Company, brokers”
suffered a fatal heart attack today.
https://www.jta.org/archive/david-hays-sulzberger-dead-at-64-prominent-in-jewish-communal-affairs
1963: “The Cool World,”
produced by Frederick Wiseman was released today in the United States.
1964(25th of
Elul, 5724): Eighty-six year old Rudolph Lessing, the son of Simon and Clara
Lessing and husband of Milly Lessing the native of Bamberg who moved to England
where he was the chief chemist at the Mond Nickel Company, a member of the Coal
Smoke Abatement Society and Prsident of the National Society for Clean Air.
1965: Rabbi Amram Blau,
the legendary leader of the extremist, ultra-Orthodox group Neturei Karta
married Ruth Ben-David in a Bnei Brak yeshiva.
1965(5th of
Elul, 5726): Fifty-five-year-old Columbia University educated director and
script writer Felix Ellison Feist, the
son of a MGM sales executive, Felix F. Feist and nephew of a publishing house
magnate, Leo Feist who began his directorial career with 1933 RKO science fiction
thriller “Deluge” lost his battle with cancer and passed away today at the Encino
(CA) Hospital.
https://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/felix-feist
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270765/
1967: Uwe Kohler at
Aichach women's prison today where he found out that his mother, Ilse Koch who
was serving a life sentence for her murderous crimes during WW II had committed
suicide the day before.
1969: The last episode
of the original “Star Trek” television series is broadcast. Most people did not know that the actors
playing the Captain and his loyal first officer were played by Jewish actors.
1968: In Brooklyn,
Myron and Regina Rosen gave birth to James Samuel Rosen, the graduate of Johns
Hopkins and Northwestern universities, FOX news personality and author who
married Sara Ann Durkin in 2004.
1969: Birthdate of
Miami native Amy Schwartz, who gained fame as Amy Schwartz Gross the
professional tennis play and amateur golfer.
1969(19th of
Elul, 5729): At Qiryat Shemona two people, one of whom was a child, were killed
today and five more were injured by artillery shells fired from Lebanon.
1971(12th
of Elul, 5731): Eighty-two-year-old Joseph Jablonower, the Austrian born New
York City teacher whose “pupils included Senator Jacob Javits and author Harry
Golden” and who raised a son and a daughter with “his wife the former Hannah
Sonnenfeld” passed away today.
https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/LP000403.pdf
1973: Eighty-seven-year-old
Fritz Konrad Ferdinand Grobba Nazi Germany’s Ambassador to Iraq in 1941, who
played a key role in the coup that led to the Farhud, the pogrom in Baghdad in
which “nearly 300 Jews were killed, over 2,000 Jews were injured and 600 Jewish
businesses were looted.”
1974: “Monument of
Jewish sculptor Ernst Neizvestny was installed on the grave of Nikita
Khrushchev.”
1974(15th of
Elul, 5734): Sixty-nine-year-old Ruven Avinoam, who as Chicago native Ruben
Grossman, moved to Palestine in 1929 where he taught English literature at
Hezliyyah high school, became a published author, serve as “supervisor of
English studies at the Israel Ministry of Defense” and raised a son Noam, an
author who died in the War of Independence passed away today.
1975: Thomas Paul
Malone completed his service as Canada’s ambassador to Israel.
1975: “Jewish leaders
agree in Paris to hold a Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels in
February 1976.”
1975: Two days after he
had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for 78 year
Max Artz, the Vice Chancellor of JTS and husband of Esther Artz with whom he
raised Raphael and David Artz, both of whom became rabbis.
1975: Yasir Arafat was
awarded a gold medal by the World Peace Council an organization that traces its
origins back to Cominform (a Soviet organization known as the Communist
Information Bureau)
1976(7th of Elul,
5736): Ninety-seven-year-old Colonel Ernest Albert Rose who married Julie Eda
Lewis at the Synagogue Princes Road Synagogue in Liverpool passed away today.
1977(19th of
Elul, 5737): Sixty-two-year-old Maurice (Maury) Kozinsky one of the three
brothers who founded King Brothers Productions which had the courage to employ
blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1981/09/02/256000.html?pageNumber=17
1978: Italian premiere
of “Dawn of the Dead” co-starring Gaylen Ross as “Francine Parker.”
1981: Two days after he
had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Temple
Shalom in Greenwhich for 82-year-old financier and art patron Joseph Hirshhorn
whose name is found on the Washington museum for which he raised so much money.
1987: The Holocaust
themed film, ''Flames in the Ashes,''
opens at Film Forum 1 asking the question, ‘Who is more heroic, one who
goes in the woods to fight with a gun or one who decides to go that last road
and die with his family?
1991: “McBain,” a film
about violence and revenge “written and directed by James Glickenhaus.”
1991: Jerry
Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raised $45 Million.
1994: “The Hudsucker
Proxy” a comedy directed by Joel Coen, produced by Ethan Coen with a script
written by the brothers and Sam Raimi and starring Paul Newman premiered in the
United Kingdom.
1997: Publication of The
Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood co-authored by
Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, the Washington, DC born son of Dorothy
Legeti and Bernard Simon, the public relations director for B’nai B’rith.
1997(30th of Av, 5757):
Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning passed away. There is
no way to justice to the man or his writings in this brief space. If you have not read Man’s Search for
Meaning, you should. If you have
read it, you should read it again. “Don’t aim at success - the more you aim
at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success,
like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the
unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than
oneself or as the byproduct of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it
happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience
commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.
Then you will live to see that in the long run - in the long run, I say! -
success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of
it." - Man's Search for
Meaning
http://www.viktorfrankl.org/e/
1998: “The musical revival group
42nd Street Moon in San Francisco, presented a staged concert of Redhead,” “a
musical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who
with her brother, Herbert, along with Sidney Sheldon wrote the book/libretto.”
2002(2nd of Elul,
5760): Parashat Shoftim
2000(2nd of
Elul, 5760): Ninety-eight-year-old author and screenwriter Curt Siodmak passed
away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/nyregion/curt-siodmak-dies-at-98-created-modern-wolf-man.html
http://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2010/08/im-poor-writer-curt-siodmak-on-siodmaks.html
2000: “The Man Who
Cried,” a film about “young Russian Jewish girl who grows up in England”
featuring an appearance by Ukrainian born Israeli actor Mark Ivanir premiered
today at the Venice Film Festival.
2001: The New York Times included reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Marble Quilt: Stories by David
Leavitt.
2002: “Far From
Heaven,” a film that looks behind the façade of mid-20th century
suburbia with music by Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer Edward
Lachman premiered today at the Venice International Film Festival.
2003: The appointment
of 49-year-old Jill Abramson as the managing editor for news gathering at the New York Times takes effect today.
2003: The Boeing
Company named David Ivry who had served as commander of the IAF and Israel’s
Ambassador to the United States, as President of Boeing Israel.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ivry.html
2004(16th of Elul,
5764): In Honolulu Marilyn M. Lichton, co-founder of the
Hadassah-Hawaii chapter and secretary of Temple Emanu-El passed away at the age
of 74.
2005: Funeral services in Cedar Rapids for Leo Handler, father of Mark
Handler and Barbara Feller. Mr. Handler
passed away on September 1 at the age of 85.
2005: Writer and director Noah Baumbach married actress Jennifer Jason
Leigh today.
2005: Funeral services were held in Brookfield, Wisconsin for Ruth Swider
Gelbart (Ruchl bat Szaja Pesach v'Rivka Laiya), mother of Marsha Fensin, former
Cantor at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. Gelbart was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. She made her way to Palestine while it was
still under the control of the British before moving to the United States after
the untimely death of her husband.
2006: A revival of “Sunday
in the Park with George,” a music with lyrics and a score by Stephen Sondheim
came to an end at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.
2006:
Security forces said they had arrested
two Palestinian militants suspected of trying to launch rockets from the West
Bank into central Israel with the backing of Hezbollah.
2007:
As part of European Day of Jewish Culture and Heritage
the Manchester Jewish Museum is fully playing its part on this day when
important Jewish buildings throughout Europe are freely open to the public.
2007: The
Sunday New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Marc Chagall by Jonathan
Wilson, Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse, The World Without Us by
Alan Weisman and Away by Amy Bloom.
2007: The
Sunday Washington Post book section featured a review of Interventions
by Jewish gadfly Noam Chomsky.
2007: In London, the ZF conference, entitled “Israel at 60” comes to an
end.
2007: In Glenn Kessler’s recently released The Confidante: Condoleezza
Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy Rice is described as thinking that
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was a weak disappointment and that President Bush’s
signature Mideast peace program was unworkable.
2007: On the eve of the Labour Day classic Canadian Football League game
which he was to host, Canadian sport journalist Elliotte Friedman shaved his
head bald in secret without telling many family members or friends. This was in
recognition of a young boy he met at a shopping mall whose parents informed him
their child was a big fan of his and watched all his broadcasts. Unfortunately,
the boy was afraid to greet Elliotte due to the fact that he was bald as a side
effect of his chemotherapy. As a result, Elliotte shaved his head in secret in
order to show the young man that there is nothing wrong with being bald.
2007: Craig Breslow was sent back to the minors today after having been
called up to the Big Leagues yesterday by the Boston Red Sox.
2008: A new 120mm mortal shell with a built-in guidance system that
allows operators to direct the shell to its target with a laser-honing device
was unveiled at a press conference held at Israel Military Industries (
2008: In “Entrepreneurs Find Ways to Make Technology Work with Jewish
Sabbath,” published today Dan Levin describes how “the rabbis, scientists and
engineers of the Zomet Institute are trying to solve the problems that arise
when technology and the Torah collide.
2009: Just before the
start of the High Holidays, The Jerusalem Theater presents a festive concert of
classic pieces from the cantorial repertoire, including "Mamale” and
Rosenblatt's "All of Israel are Brothers."
2009: Archaeologists digging in
Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of
massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority
said today.
2009: At Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park,
Madonna appears at the second and last of two concerts that are the final stop
on her “Sticky and Sweet” tour. She first appeared at Hayarkon Park 16 years
ago as part of her Girlie Tour, and also visited Israel in 2006 during the
Jewish High Holidays along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah.
2010: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met today
in Washington, DC as peace talks resume under the auspice of President Obama
and Secretary of State Clinton.
2010:
Today, a Hamas spokesman said the group was responsible for another attack in
which two settlers were shot and wounded just as Mr. Obama began his White
House meetings..
2010:
Yula and The Extended Family, featuring Tel Aviv native Yula Beeri, are
scheduled to perform at the Highline Ballroom in New York.
2010(23rd
of Elul, 5770): Israeli sociologist Shmuel Eisenstadt, a native of Warsaw
passed away in Jerusalem today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3948435,00.html
http://www.donlevine.com/uploads/1/1/3/8/11384462/_eisenstadt_obituary-dlevine.pdf
2010(23rd
of Elul, 5770):
Ninety-one year
old deputy police inspector Seymour Pine who led the raid on the Stonewall Inn
passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/nyregion/08pine.html
2011:
Madelyn Kent, an award-winning theater artist and published writer with an MFA
from New York University, is scheduled to teach the first session of a four
weeklong Jerusalem Memoir Workshop.
2011: In
Washington, DC, at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue, Rabbi Shira Stutman is
scheduled to lead an egalitarian, chavurah-style service and celebrate “Labor
on the Bimah,” an initiative of Jews United for Justice. Labor on the Bimah
weaves together labor issues, social justice and Judaism, in an effort to bring
meaning and reflection back into Labor Day.
2011: Germany's
Foreign Ministry announced today that it will not take part in the UN-sponsored
Durban III anti-racism conference on September 22, because of the possibility
that the event can be turned into a forum for anti-Semitic statements.
2011:
Turkey said today it will seek to prosecute all Israelis responsible for the
deaths of nine Turkish activists during an IDF raid on a ship bound for the
Gaza Strip in May 2010.
2012:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including When We Argued All Night by Alice Mattison, “a book about the
trajectories of 20th-century Jewish life” and the recently released paperback
edition of Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England
by Anthony Julius
2012: “Jewish
Homegrown History: Immigration, Identity and Intermarriage” is scheduled to
have its final showing at the Skirball Cultural Center
2012:
In the wake of Hurricane Isaac, Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to
dedicate its new facility in Metairie.
The original building was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
2012:
All 50 families living in the Migron outpost evacuated their homes today in
advance of a court-imposed military evacuation set for September 4th.
2012:
A long-lost poem by Hannah Szenes, titled “Hora to an exiled girl,” was
revealed on Army Radio this morning, 68 years after the Jewish paratrooper author was executed by a
Nazi firing squad
http://www.timesofisrael.com/long-lost-hannah-szenes-poem-comes-to-light/
2013:
James Franco is scheduled to be roasted on Comedy Central
2013:
Secret British WWII Intelligence Files in Mandatory Palestine
http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html
2013:
“Fill the Void” is scheduled to open at Kimball Theatre in Williamsburg, VA.
2013:
Mihaela Martin, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Ori Kam, Madeleine Carruzzo and Julian
Steckel are scheduled to perform Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K515 at
The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013:
In Budapest, the Jewish Summer Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2013:
Today, “Pope Francis assigned a senior church official to investigate the
current ban on Jewish and Muslim religious slaughter in Poland, where such
practices have been illegal since January…The Pope also reiterated a statement
he made earlier this year that “a Christian cannot be an anti-Semite” (As
reported by Sam Sokol)
2013:
A 92-year-old who served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler's elite Nazi troops,
goes on trial today in the western city of Hagen on charges of having shot in
the back and killed a Dutch resistance fighter at the end of World War II.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.544859
2014:
Dr. Efraim Lev and Dr. Moshse Lavee are scheduled to begin a week-long visited
to the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University
of Connecticut.
2014:
At Temple Judah, choir rehearsal begins in preparation for the High Holidays.
2014:
“The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court issued an injunction today against an
ultra-Orthodox girls’ school that took over part of a secular Beit Shemesh
public school, ordering it to leave the building amid protests over a “creeping
conquest” into secular institutions in the deeply divided city.” (As reported
by Yifa Yaakov and Marissa Newman)
2014:
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that “the direct cost of Operation
Protective Edge stands at more than $9 billion.” (As reported by Itay
Blumenthal)
2014:
“Two French teenage girls are arrested for plotting to blow up a synagogue in
Lyon. A Central Directorate of Homeland Intelligence source said the teens were
“part of a network of young Islamists who were being monitored by security
services.” (As reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014(7th
of Elul, 5774): The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant released a video of
the beheading of a man they identified as Steven J. Sotloff.
http://forward.com/articles/204991/isis-has-reportedly-beheaded-steven-sotloff/?
2015:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a
lecture by Professor Wallace J. Mlyniec of Georgetown University Law Center on
“The Old East End: Civil War to the Modern Revival.”
2016(29th
of Av, 5776): Seventy-five-year-old music manager Jerry Heller passed away
today. (As reported by Christopher Mele)
2016:
“The Kind Words” a comedy about three Jewish Israeli siblings who learned that
the man who raised them was not their biological father is scheduled to be
shown in Columbus, Ohio.
2016:
Erev Shabbat, “Jonathan Rideau, member of the Jewish community of Porto arrived
at The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto” a town in northern Portugal
whose Jewish community was wiped out in the 15th century but today
has become “a safe haven for Jews despite the growth of anti-Semitism in other
parts of Europe.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-rising-european-anti-semitism-portugal-sees-jewish-renaissance/
2017(11th
of Elul, 5777): Parashat Ki Taytzay
2017(11th
of Elul, 5777): Ninety-year-old photographer and documentarian Murray Lerner
passed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2017:
At Shabbat services this morning, Jews will be mourning Shelly Berman who
passed away erev of Shabbat.
2017:
Israel lost to Macedonia 1-0 tonight which probably put an end “any hope it
might have had a making to the World Cup.
2017:
“Hall of Fame NFL coach and World War II veteran Marv Levy, attended a ceremony
marking the 72nd anniversary of V-J Day, today at the National World War II
Memorial in Washington, D.C
2017:
Tony Levine, the special team’s coordinator is scheduled to take the field as
Purdue begins its football season today.
2017:
As Iowa begins its 2017 football season, Esther Hugenholtz is scheduled to lead
her first Shabbat morning service at Agudas Achim.
2017:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education is scheduled to offer free
admission to those coming to see the Bill Graham Exhibit honoring “the rock
impresario who used music for social change.
2018: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions Are Setting Up a Generation
for Failure co-authored by Jonathan Haidt and the recently released
paperback edition of Improvement by Joan Silber
2018:
The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screening
of “The Unorthodox” in Uzi Wexler Hall.
2018:
In Des Moines, IA, The Jewish Federation is scheduled to co-host a matinee
screening of the newly released “Operation Finale.”
2018(22nd
of Elul, 5778): Seventy-six year old fabled restaurateur Kenny Shopsin passed away
today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2018(22nd
of Elul, 5778): Thirty-third yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah
Levin and father of Judy, Mitchell and David who in a strange twist of fate is
responsible for this blog.
2019
Following yesterday’s announcement by the IDF that the alert for the
communities on the Israel-Lebanon border, those living in these communities are
scheduled “to return to their routines.”
2019:
The Israel Museum is scheduled to host an afternoon of “Big Art for Little
Artists.”
2019:
“The Train Theatre” is scheduled to present “the theatrical performance of
‘Princess Banana.’”
2019:
Two hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the United States
Treasury. There are some who claim that
Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury who was educated at a
Jewish school in Nevis, was the son of Jewess.
Jess Seligman could have been the first Jewish Secretary of the
Treasury, but he turned down President Grant’s offer to appoint him to the
post. Henry J. Morgenthau, Jr. FDR’s
long serving Secretary of the Treasury was the first Jew to hold the position.
https://www.yu.edu/straus/hamilton-jewish
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Blinded by the Light.”
2019:
In the United States, Labor Day
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/southern-and-jewish/jewish-perspectives-on-labor-day/
2020: 75th Anniversary of
VJ – the end of WW II which actually had begun in 1931.
2020:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum Center and the Women’s Leadership are scheduled
to present a “Virtual Soiree” featuring media personality Candace Jordan, the
Social Columnist known for “Candid Candace.
2020:
The Maltz Performing Arts Center is scheduled to a livestream performance by
Uno Lady.”
2020:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present “Yoga and Torah with Moon for
the Month of Elul.”
2020:
The Virtual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
second virtual screening of “The Woman’s Balcony.”
2020:
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans in scheduled to host the
“Katz-Phillips Leadership Development Session.”
2020:
B’nai Jershurun is scheduled to host a virtual “Dive in the Mahzor” during
which Rabbi Alan Lettofksy explores “what’s new and different about Mahzor Lev
Shalem.”
2021:
Based on previously published reports as of today Israelis are dealing with a
variety of forms of fallout from the reinvigorated pandemic as can be seen by
Portugal’s ban on Israeli visitor, non-face masked individuals attacking police
officers and the rising positivity rate in covid testing
2021:
The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to resent “Songs of
Our People, Songs of Our Neighbors” with Pedrito Martinez.
https://www.nmajh.org/events/songs-of-our-people-songs-of-our-neighbors-pedrito-martinez/
2021:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host Dr
Lindsay Simmonds who will be discussing the meanings of specific Rosh Hashana
prayers and difficulties we may face in praying all day in The
Reluctant Davener.
2020:
In Palm Beach Florida Gardens, Temple Judea is scheduled to host a
Shabbat Triple Header including a Pre-Oneg, Shabbat services with Rabbi Yaron
and Cantor Abbie followed by a Shabbat Dinner.
2020: As the world tries to solve the climate
problem by turning to electric vehicles “an Israeli company that has developed
a fast electric vehicle (EV) charging system based on kinetic flywheel
technology is pressing ahead with the first commercial deals in Europe, the US,
and Israel.” (As reported by Sue Surkes)
2022: At the historic Sixth and I Synagogue on
the Shabbat “before Labor Day, Rabbi Nora and musicians Aaron Shneyer, Sarah
Fredrick, and Jeff Geld are scheduled to lead a Shabbat service that weaves
together labor issues, social justice, and Judaism.”
2023: Based on previously published
information Jews on Florida’s Gulf Coast continue with their fellow Floridians
in dealing with the impact of Hurricane Idalia.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a lecture by Dennie Davis on “The Verdict” starring Paul Newman.
2023: Beit Agnon is scheduled to host a joint
reading of the essay “Yosef Haim Brenner in His Life and Death.”
2023: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to
present a Children’s Concert with Wayne Potash and the Music Fund Band.
2023: Israeli brace for another evening of
protests over the Judicial Reform law and other related matters.
2023(16th of Elul): Parashat Ki Tavo
2024: All decent people mourn the death of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi,
24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 27.who were discovered
yesterday in a Gaza tunnel where they apparently suffered fatal gunshots
2024: Dr. Kinga
Dévényi, an independent scholar and former curator of the Goldziher and
Kaufmann collections at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is
scheduled to “present the various motifs and trends behind this unique
interest, along with some outstanding scholars who engaged in
these studies” in a lecture of the National Library of Israel.
2024: Labor Day (observed Sept. 2) is as good an opportunity as
any to remember Frederic Fradkin (1892-1963), the protagonist of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra’s first (and, to this day, only) strike.
2024: Labor Day is scheduled to be celebrated
in the United States providing Jews with a chance to remember their role in the
American Labor Movement including the fight to end sweatshops, the creation of
such unions as the ILGWU and a host of leaders including Samuel Gompers, Emma
Goldman, David Dubinsky and Sandra Feldman.
https://jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/biographies
https://reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/shabbat/labor-day-shabbat-us-all
https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/herberg-labor.pdf
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2006/01/readings_on_the_american_jewis_1.html
http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/14322
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/the-jewish-people-and-the-american-labor-movement/
2024:
As September 2nd 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 332 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)
