This Day, October 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

OCTOBER 20

1409 BCE (10 Cheshvan 2351): This is the traditional date of the death of Gad, son of Jacob, one of the Twelve Tribes (born 2196).

460: Aeilia Eudocia, the Byzantine Empress who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem in 438, passed away today.

1314: Louis IV, who in 1349 would authorize the Duke of Guelders “to receive Jews in his duchy where they provided services, paid a tax and were protected by law” began his reign as “King of the Romans.”

1314: In an agreement signed today by Rabbenu Asher and his sons “Judah ben Asher and his brother Jacob were appointed trustees” of a trust that would distribute funds to the poor.”

1614: Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, “the most famous (or infamous) Christian Kabbalist of the 17th century” and author of the Short Sketch of the Truly Natural Hebrew Alphabet who “claimed that he had rediscovered the key to peace on earth in the shape and sound of the Hebrew letters” was baptized today.

http://www.brill.com/francis-mercury-van-helmonts-sketch-christian-kabbalism

1650: Coronation of Queen Christina of Sweden, who became a Catholic, moved to Rome in December 1655 and made Clement X prohibit the custom of chasing Jews through the streets during the carnival.

1710: Robert Raymond, who while serving as Attorney General “was asked to decide whether a Jew born in England but of foreign parentage could purchase and enjoy an estate in fee” ruled that such a Jew “was fully capable of purchasing and enjoying the land and that the law had put no disability upon him account of his religion” became Sir Robert Raymond when he was knighted today.

1714: Coronation of George I during whose reign as King of Great Britain and Ireland “an act of Parliament allowed Jews holding land to omit the words "on the true faith of a Christian", when registering their title.”

1722: Wolf Popper “a Primator of the Jews of Bohemia” and his wife gave birth to banker Joachim Edler von Popper, “commonly known as ‘Court Jew’ to the Habsburgs.”

1740: Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honor the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins. At the end of the war, unfortunately for the Jewish people, she would still be on the throne. She attempted to expel all of the Jews from Bohemia. She imposed a myriad of restrictions on the Jews living in her realm but was not averse to gouging them for as much money as she could. Like her Russian counterpart, she sought to limit the number of Jews living in her empire. And then, with the partition of Poland the number of her Jewish subjects soared when she acquired Galicia. The famous Jewish historian Simon Dubnow said that this Empress caused the Jews more trouble than all of the Emperors who had come before her.

1748: “Sussel Strauss” and his wife gave birth to Samuel Strauss, the husband of Judith Baierthaler and father of Carolline, Isack, Abraham, Moses and Grace Strauss.

1753(22nd of Tishrei, 5514): Shabbat and Shemini Atzeret

1769(19th of Tishrei, 5530): Fifth Day of Sukkot

1772(23rd of Tishrei, 5533): As relations between Britain and her American colonies begin to deteriorate to a level that will eventually lead to revolution, Jews on both sides of the Atlantic observe Simchat Torah

1778: Birthdate of Baltimore native John Jeremiah Jacob, the husband of Ann Overton Fontaine and father of John Jeremiah Jacob.

1779: During the American Revolution, the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania passed a series of resolution related to Solomon Bush who had been wounded and taken prisoner by the British before being paroled so he could recuperate at the home of his father, Matthias Bush.

1780(21st of Tishrei, 5541): Hoshana Rabah observed on the same day that Letizia and Carlo Buonparte gave birth to Pauline Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte who had such a major impact on the Jewish people from his campaign in Palestine to his calling for a meeting of a Sanhedrin at the start of the 19th century.

1781(1st of Cheshvan, 5542): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1781: The Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II of Austria issued the Patent of Toleration which was an edict extending to religious freedom to non-Catholic Christians living in the Habsburg Empire. The Jews would have to wait another year. In 1782 Joseph II issued the Patent of Toleration for the Jews of Lower Austria, thereby establishing the civic equality of his Jewish subjects.

1784: In his family’s Westminster house, The 2nd Viscount Palmerston and his wife Mary gave birth to Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, who while serving as of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during which tinw the British blockaded  the port of Piraeus as part of the response to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, whom Palmerston defended as this “man of Jewish persuasion” and on whose behalf he “made a celebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to say, as did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I am a citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British government”

1791(22nd of Tishrei): Shemini Atzeret observed for the first time in France under “the short-lived French Constitution of 1791.”

1802: Hyman Hurwitz married Hesther Levy at the Great Synagogue today.

1805: Eva Katz and Salomon Reiss gave birth to Abraham Weiss who married Jette Reiss after the death of his first wife.

1803: The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. The tiny Jewish population of New Orleans and the surrounding bayou country were now “American Jews.” The first Jews probably came to the Louisiana coast at the start of the 18th century when they brought trade goods from the Caribbean. Ironically, Judo Turo, the famous merchant and philanthropist who would contribute to the development of Jewish communal institutions arrived the same year that the Louisiana Purchase was ratified. St. Louis, the other “city” the United States acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase would not see its first Jewish settler until 1807.

1807(18th of Tishrei, 5568): Fourth Day of Sukkoth

1820: Birthdate of Whilhelm Wolfensohn the Odessa born author and playwright.

1827: During the Greek Liberation War, an allied fleet made up of British, French and Russian ships defeated a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino. The battle effectively marked the end of the war and paved the way for the creation of the independent nation of Greece which had been part of the Ottoman Empire. According to Nikos Stavrolakis one of the founders and director of the Jewish Museum in Greece from 1977 until 1993, “The Greek War of Independence brought disaster to the Jewish communities in the Peloponnesos the place where the revolution erupted in 1821. The Jews, because of their close association with the Ottoman administration, were massacred along with the Turks. The Jewish communities of Mistras, Tripolis, and Kalamata were decimated; the few survivors moved north to settle in Chalkis and Volos, still under Ottoman rule. Patras lost its ancient Jewish community, which was re-established only in 1905.”

1824: Abraham Jacob Jones married Rebeca Montefiore at the New Synagogue today.

1827: Birthdate of Viennese native Magdelena “Lena” Woolner, the wife of Abraham Woolner and mother of Sophie, Hanna, Maximillian Isabella and Gisela Woolner

1828: Birthdate of Horatio Gates Spafford , the New York born lawyer who was one of the founders of the “American Colony,” whose members “engaged in philanthropic work amongst the people of Jerusalem regardless of their religious affiliation and without proselytizing motives.”

1829(23rd of Tishrei, 5590): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.

1832: In Buttenwiesen, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany,

Seligmann Pinchas Luchs, the son of Moses Luchs and Marianne Marie Luchs and his wife Judith Marx Luchs gave birth to Sophie Bach, the wife of Israel Bach and mother of “Melanie Bach; Moritz Moses Bach; Anselm Bach; Salomon Bach; Marx Bach; and Solomon Bach”

1834(17th of Tishrei, 5595): Third Day of Sukkoth

1835: Ellen Hart and Michael Hart Cardozo gave birth to Lavina Abigail Cardozo.

1837(21st of Tishrei, 5598): Hoshana Raba

1840: Solomon Benedict de Worms, Hereditary Baron of the Austrian Empire, and Henrietta Samuelde Worms gave birth to their third son, Henry de Worms, a leading member of the Conservative Party in the UK.

1842: In South Carolina, Ann Cohen and Myer Nathan, who were married in Charleston in 1841 gave birth to Cecilia Nathan.

1845(19th of Tishrei, 5606): Fifth Day of Sukkot

1845: In New Orleans, Julie Cohen and Isaac Hart gave birth to Morris Hart and Rachel Hart the wife of Meyer Halff with whom she had four children.

 

1848(23rd of Tishrei, 5609): As Europe is racked by Revolutions and thousands head for California in search of the newly found gold, Jews observe Simchat Torah

1850: Birthdate of Adolf Rosenzweig, the Hungarian born Biblical and Talmudic scholar.

1852: It was reported today that “An insane Jew died at the House of Industry in Boston, last week, at the age of 30 years. This is the 1st Jew that ever became a public charge in the City of Boston within the memory of one of its oldest city officials.”

1852: In Romania, Idel Ber Brociner and his wife gave birth to author Marco Brociner who was the brother of Joseph Brociner, Maurice Brociner and Andrei Brociner.”

1853(18th of Tishrei, 5614): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed as Ottoman forces crosed the Danube during the Crieman War.

1854: Birthdate of New York City native Louis Seigman Ehrich, the future resdient of South Carolina and husband of Cornelia C. Sampson Ehrich

1855: Reverend Findlay is scheduled to deliver a sermon tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian Church in the Williamsburg section of NYC entitled "The Restoration of the Jews."

1856(21st of Tishrei, 5617): Hoshana Rabah observed for the last time during the Presidency of Franklin Pierce.

1856: Birthdate of German native and future Fort Worth, TX resident Louise Weltman, the wife of Louis Weltman with whom she had six children – Hattie, Flora, Leon, Maguerite, Hazel and Sidney Weltman

1859(22nd of Tishrei, 5620): Shmini Atzeret

1859: Birthdate of John Dewey, the American educational philosopher who met Anzia Yezierska in 1917 while she was auditing one of his seminars at Columbia.  Despite the differences in their ages, they became romantically involved which led to his writing her poems and she describing their relationship in a novel, All I Could Never Be.

http://books.google.com/books/about/John_Dewey_and_Jewish_education.html?id=Zx48AAAAIAAJ

1862: Abraham Hart who had enlisted in the 73rd Pennsylvania Infantry in 1861 was “discharged for disability today.”

1862: In Washington, DC Rachel Seixas Phillips and Adolphus Simeon Solomons gave birth to Julia Solomons

1862: In New York City, Robert Weeks Nathan and Anne Augusta Florence gave birth to Maud Nathan, the wife of Frederick Nathan and an American social worker, labor activist and suffragist for women's right to vote who came from a prominent Sephardic family that included her cousins Emma Lazarus and Benjamin Cardozo and the author of several “papers on Christianity and Judaism” including “The Heart of Judaism” which she “read before the Council of Jewish Women.”

1865(30th of Tishrei, 5626): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1865: Sir Saul Samuel began his second term as Treasurer of New South Wales.

1866(11th of Cheshvan, 5627): Parashat Lech-Lecha read for the first time with Austria at peace with Prussia and Italy, both of whom triumphed over what would become the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1867(21st of Tishrei, 5628): Hoshana Rabah

1867(21st of Tishrei, 5628): In Prague, five days after he had passed away, Rabbi Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport was buried after eulogies were delivered by Rabbi Hurwitz and Dr. Jellinek, who had come from Vienna for this solemn occasion.

1867: In Philadelphia, the funeral of Rabbi Rapport which had been delayed for four days, because the Jewish community wanted to send its deputies Rabbi Hurwitz and Dr. Jellinek took place today.

1868(4th of Cheshvan, 5629): Ephraim "Ferdinand" Waldstein, the son of Zadok and Esther Waldstein and the husband of Lea "Lisette" Koppel Waldstein, passed away today after which he was buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery at Muenchen, Bavaria.

1869(15th of Cheshvan, 5630): Selina Prince Harris, the Scottish born daughter Nancy Hart Aloe and Sidney Zadoc Aloe,  the husband of Morris Harris and the mother of Reuben Harris passed away today in Manhattan after which she was interred in Beth Olom Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens

1869: In Sály, Hungary, Rabbi David Margittai, the “son of Rabbi Yitzchok Tzvi Margaretten and Rachel Lea Margaretten and his wife and Rachel Rozalia, Juli Margittai” gave birth to Eva Schwartz, the wife of Herman Schwartz.

1870: Edward Chancellor, of Woodhall House, Juniper Green, Midlothian, and Anne Helen Tod the daughter of John Robert Tod gave birth to “British soldier and colonial administrator Sr. John Robert Chancellor who in 1929, “following the Hebron Massacre “condemned ‘the atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and bloodthirsty evildoers... murders perpetrated upon defenceless members of the Jewish population... accompanied by acts of unspeakable savagery.”

1870: In Baden-Wurteemberg, Germany, Lena and Max Jeselsohn gave birth to Samuel Jeselsohn the husband of Malchen Jeselsohn and the father of Albert, Sigmund and Ludwig Jesselsohn

1872: In Egeln, Germany, Selig and Juliane Blumenthal, gave birth to Alfred Blumenthal who would die at the age of 70 in Theresienstadt.

1872: In Cleveland, founding of The Excelsior Club whose members have included Nathan Loeser, Sol M. Hexter, Joseph Goodhart and Herman Koppel.

1874: On his twentieth birthday, Adolf Aharon Rosenzweig “entered the rabbinate of Pasewalk in Pomerania.

1874: Baruch Berthold Dukas the Sulzburg born son of Hirschel Naphtali Dukas and Helena Hendle Dukas and his wife Sara Duka gave birth to Charlotte Dukas

Sara Dukas burg born of

1875(21st of Tishrei, 5636): Hoshana Rabah

1875: Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH native  Edgard Simon who gained fame as and “theatrical producer playwright Edgard Selwyn, the brother of Archibald Selwyn with whom he formed a successful production and the husband of Ruth Wilcox whom he married after divorcing Margaret Mayo.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783629/bio

1876: Samuel A. Lewis, who is a candidate for Alderman at Large in New York City, was described as a native New Yorker and a Hebrew who “occupies a god social position.”  He has served as a School Commissioner and has twice been elected Alderman at Large.  Currently he is President of the Board of Alderman and editor of the Hebrew Leader.  He had unsuccessfully sought the nomination to serve as Mayor of New York.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900E2DC153FE63BBC4851DFB667838D669FDE

1877: Birthdate of Newark, NJ native and  Columbia trained urologist Maximillian Stern, the husband of Gertrude W Wolfe Stern whom he married in 1905 and who was the “inventor of the "resectoscope" an instrument for the transurethral prostatic resection.”

1878(23rd of Tishrei, 5639): Simchat Torah

1878: According to a report published today on conditions in the French colony on the island of Cyprus the native (non-European) “community consists of Muslims, Jews and Christians.  Of these a European merchant can always believe the first upon his simple word, the two latter he can rarely credit on oath, and the harder they swear the more certain one may be that they are stating what is not the case.” [The report is unusual for two reason – first it lumps Jews and Christians together and second it speaks highly of the trustworthiness of a local Muslim population, two things that Western writers rarely, if ever, did.

1879: According to a letter published today reported that Joseph Barclay, the recently consecrated Bishop of Jerusalem, “showed an extraordinary interest in the conversion of the Jews” even when he was a “mere child.” Before being appointed Bishop, Barclay served as the Superintendent of the Church of England’s Missions to the Jews of the Continent and served in Jerusalem for ten years where he became a noted Orientalist. [Barclay was one of a large cast on English characters who showed an unusual interest in Palestine and the Jewish people.]

1879: In Los Angeles, Jacob and Jeannette (Weiler) Baruch gave birth to University of California trained chemical engineer Edgard Baruch  the husband of Paloma Schramm whom he married in 1914.

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1879: In Philadelphia, Julia Kohlberg and Isaac Nusbaum gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained mechanical engineer Lee Nusbaum, the husband of Josephine Adler, the “owner of Pennsylvania Engineering Company and the designer and builder of numerous refrigerating plants throughout the United States  who was the director of Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia and member of Rodef Shalom Congregation in Philadelphia.

1880: Three days after he had passed away, 87-year-old Jacob Quixano Henriques, a native of “Spanish Town, Jamaica” was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1880: In Jackson, CA, Dora Steckler gave birth to her third child who was born two months after the death of his Charles Steckler, a local merchant who is buried in Givoth Olam Cemetery.

http://www.weeklypioneer.com/2010/08/charles-steckler.html

1880: Three days after he had passed away, Karl Schmidt, a native of German and the husband of Mary Schmidt, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1880: In Minsk “Nachim Mendel and Rose Baskin” gave birth Joseph Baskin the husband of the “former Mary Plotkin,” the father of Geraldine and Gilbert Baskin and since 1916 the “general secretary of the Workmen’s Circle” and “editor of The Friend”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/27/92667566.pdf

1880: Rosa and Adolphus Rich gave birth to Clara Wilhemine Rich who became Clara Wilhemine Fechheimer when she married Carl J. Fechheimer, the Purdue trained engineer who left “a $150,000 bequest…to establish a chair in electrical engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology”

188O: Birthdate of Kolin native Rudolf Saudek, the sculptor and graphic artist who after surviving Theresienstadt returned to Prague where “he held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts.”

1881: Birthdate of Romanian native Joseph Solomon Diamond, the NYU-Bellevue Medical College trained internist who “helped to introduce the Secretin Test for pancreatic test” in the United States and who was the husband of Ethel Diamond with whom he raised two daughters, Naomi and Adele.

1882(7th of Cheshvan, 5643): Eighty-one year old Solomon Benedict de Worms the grandson of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who was successful British stockbroker and plantation owner in Ceylon before being named as a Baron by Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, passed away today.

1882 George de Worms “became 2nd Baron de Worms” after which he “was awarded the honor of Knight Commander of the Order of Franz Joseph.”

1883(19th of Tishrei, 5644): Shabbat shel Sukkoth

1883: It was reported today that the families that recently arrived from Odessa aboard the SS Canada will be sent back to Europe because they are destitute.

1883: It was reported that Henry J. Greenberg a Jewish peddler from Pennsylvania, whose body was found in a hotel in the Bowery probably committed suicide.  Before coming to New York, he had visited his brother Marcus in Boston.

1883: This morning, Isaac Cohen, President of Ansche Chesed on Hester Street, visited the Tenth Precinct and requested that a police officer be sent to the synagogue that evening because he feared that there might be an “uprising” during the scheduled business meeting.

1883: Harry and Caroline Breslau gave birth to Hermann Bresslau

1883: In Nizhny Novgorod violinist Abram Krein and his wife gave birth to composer Alexander Abramovich Krein whose works included “Kaddish” which he composed in 1921 “for tenor soloist, choir and orchestra.

http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/krein-three-sketches-on-hebrew-themes.htm

https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/2041

1883: Violence broke out during the business meeting of Ansche Chesed B’nai Kovanah that was held tonight at the Hester Street Synagogue.

1884: It was reported today that in the past year St. Luke’s Hospital in New York treated 1.497 patients, 18 of whom were Jewish.

1884: Professor Felix Adler was among the members of the Tenement House Commission that met this afternoon in New York.

1884: In Safed, Meyer and “Bet-Sheba Taubenhaus gave birth to the Cornell University and U. of Pennsylvania trained “plant pathologist” and husband of Esther Hirschenson who in 1916 found “TAMC Menorah Club” which was became the Hillel chapter at Texas A & M.

1884: Isaac Hamburger, Grand Master of The Grand Lodge of the United States of the Independent Order of Free sons of Israel and H.I. Goldsmith, the organization’s Grand Secretary sign an address on behalf of its 12,000 members living throughout the United States, that is being sent to Sir Moses Montefiore on “the one hundredth anniversary” of his birth “recognizing his unique greatness to which no one nation can lay claim.”

1884: In Romania, Antonette Friedman and John Fligelman gave birth to University of Minnesota Phi Beta Kappa graduate Fanny Fligelman Brin, the husband of Arthur Brin whom she married in 1913 and President of the Minneapolis Section of the Council of Jewish Women who was a member of the League of Women’s Voters and Haddasah.

1885: “A Suicide At Riverside” published today describes events surrounding the death of Albert Unger whose body was found by a police officer after he heard two gunshots.  Unger, who belong to several Jewish organizations, had recently been discharged by Steinhardt Brothers where he had worked for 12 years, but Abraham Steinhardt refused to discuss the matter. 

1886(21st of Tishrei, 5647): Hoshana Rabah observed for the last time during the Presidency of Grover Cleveland, the only presidential candidate to have been defeated for re-election and then secured a second term, whose support and friendship with Jews could be seen when he appointed Oscar Strauss to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

1886: Birthdate of Odessa native and CCNY graduate Sherman Lippitt, the George Washington University trained physician and a member of the Marquette University faculty

1887(2nd of Cheshvan, 5648): Baron Hermann de Stern, the husband of “Julia Goldsmid, daughter of Aaron Asher Goldsmid, brother of Sir Isaac Goldsmid and father of Herbert Stern, 1st Baron Michelham. y passed away in London. Born at Frankfort in 1815 he and his brother moved to London in 1844 where they became respected members of the financial community through their company, Stern Brothers

1889(25th of Tishrei, 5650): Sixty-nine-year-old George Judah Cohen, the London born son of “Barnett and Sierlah Cohen” and husband or Rosa Solomon who was “a storekeeper” and for a short while “postmaster” in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia passed away after which he was buried in the Maitland Jewish Cemetery.

1889: In Owensboro, KY, founding today of The Standard Club whose members included Phillip Dahl, Lee Levy and Ben C. Koltinsky.

1889: “Russian Converts” published today described the pressure brought to bear on Jews to convert to the Orthodox Church. As a result, “young men” who were “once honest Jews” are now “spurious Christians.”

1890: Sixty-nine-year-old Sir Richard Francis Burton a British orientalist and explored who antagonized the Jewish population of Damascus while serving there as consul in 1869, passed away. Burton’s The Jew, the Gipsy and el Islam which was published 8 years after his death was critical the Jews and “asserted the existence of Jewish human sacrifices.

1892: Eduard Schnitzer passed away. He was born in 1840 to assimilated German Jewish parents. His parents had him baptized at the age of two because they thought it would advance his career. Schnitzer later converted to Islam and took the Turkish name of Emin Pasha. As, Emin Pasha, he traveled throughout the world as an explorer, adventurer and doctor, spending much of his time in Khartoum in the Sudan. He was a tireless fighter against the slave trade which was still rampant. He returned to Central Africa on a semi-political voyage for Germany and was killed there by slave traders.

1893: Birthdate of New York native chemist William Edward Popkin, the graduate of CCNY and Cornell who had two daughters – Mae and Jane – with his wife Esta.

1893: “George Samuel’s Big Estate” published today described the disposition of his estate which was valued at $2,365,000 most of which went to his nephew Baron Henry de Worms who represents a Liverpool borough in the House of Commons.

1893: In Germany, the annual report of the Social Democrats published today complained that when the right wing Anti-Semites boycott Jews firms nothing is done but when the Social Democrats do the same they are prosecuted with the full “rigors of the law.”

1893: In Vienna, Ludwig Teller, the “son of Isak and Anna Teller, and his second wife Natalie Thalia Teller  gave birth to Erwin Teller,

1894: Seventy-six-year-old James Anthony Froude who in 1869 “was elected Lord Rector of St. Andrews, defeating Benjamin Disraeli by a majority of fourteen” and who wrote Lord Beaconsfield, a biography of Benjamin Disraeli published in 1890, passed away today.

1894: When Alexander III died in Crimea today, “according to Simon Dubnow: ‘as the body of the deceased was carried by railway to St. Petersburg, the same rails were carrying the Jewish exiles from Yalta to the Pale. The reign of Alexander III ended symbolically. It began with pogroms and concluded with expulsions.’"

1894(20th of Tishrei, 5655): Shabbat Sukkoth Chol Hamoed

1894: In Minsk, Shimon and Zishe Feigin gave birth to Dr. Solomon S. Feigin, the optician who was the husband of “Dorothy Dee Lubell Feigin and father of Dr. Simeon Lubell Feign.

1894(20th of Tishrei, 5565): Fifty-four-year-old Austrian neuroanatomist and ophthalmologist Ludwig Mauthner who discovered “Mauthner Cells” passed away today.

1894: Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, the leader of the “municipal purity movement” in New York told a reporter today of the broad support he has found among women in New York including “Mrs. Frederick Nathan, who belongs to an old and highly distinguished Hebrew family of great wealth and social position.”

1894: French police officer and handwriting expert Alphonse “Bertillon's provisional report, submitted today inferred ‘without any reservation whatever’ that Dreyfus was guilty.”

1894: Samuel Greenbaum, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Educational Alliance took issue with  a request by the Women’s Municipal League for the use of the Hebrew Institute Building which is controlled by the Alliance was handled; especially the influence the of Nathan Straus who is neither an officer or a director of the Alliance.

1895(2nd of Cheshvan, 5656): Seventy-eight-year-old German-Jewish “jurist and politician” Isaac Wolffson, a member of both the North German Reichstag and the German Reichstag passed away today in Hamburg.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14994-wolffson-isaac

1895: In New York, “Russian Jewish immigrants Ida (Edelson) and Abraham Ryskind multi-talented author and political activist Morrie Ryskind who earned  “the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the Broadway production “Of Thee I Sing.” (As reported by Jeffrey Schmalz)

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/25/nyregion/morrie-ryskind-dies-at-89-wrote-plays-and-screen-comedies.html

1897: As of today, there eight men, six women and two children residing as patients “in the Jewish Seaside Convalescent Home at West Brighton.”

1897: Birthdate of London born American Oscar winning composer Adolph Deutsch.

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/adolph-deutsch-mn0000497873/biography

1897: Bernard Mannes Baruch, the CCNY educated son of Simon B. Belle Baruch who was a long-time member of the New York Stock Exchange married Annie Griffen today.

1897: The Jewish Board of Guardians Emigration Committee is scheduled to meet at 4:30 pm

1897: The Jews’ College Education Committee is scheduled to meet this evening at Tavistock House.

1898: In Wilkes-Baree, PA, Edward and Bess Cohen gave birth to Edith Cohen who became Edith Lieberman when she married William Lieberman.

1899: “Sherith Jacob Israel Congregation, one of Cleveland's principal Orthodox Jewish congregations during the 1920s and 1930s, was established as Sherith Jacob Congregation today by 18 Jewish Hungarians who lived near East 20th Street and Orange Avenue.”

1899: In Paris Gaston Michel Calmann-Lévy and Hélène Koenigswarter gave birth to Robert Paul Michel Calmann-Levy

1899: One day after he had passed away, 72-year-old Solomon Simons was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1900(27th of Tishrei, 5661) Parashat Bereshit.

1900: Birthdate of Sidney R. Rabinovitz who gained fame as philanthropist and supermarket executive Sidney R. Rabb.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/15/us/sidney-rabb-84-dies-supermarket-executive.html

htp://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109208

1901: “Vanity at the Photographers” published today provided insights into the world of commercial and portrait photography in New York including the fact that Russian Jews on the east side of they “are accustomed to wed quite unanimously on Sudan” which means that “many galleries on the east side keep open on that day.”

1902(19th of Tishrei, 5663): Fifth Day of Sukkoth

1902: It was reported today that the Armenians were looking to the United States for protection from the Ottomans because she had intervened with Romania on behalf of the country’s Jewish population.

1903: Today, the Court of Appeals sustained the judgement of all lower courts in their refusal to grant a writ of mandamus to Camille Weidenfeld to secure his reinstatement as a member of the New York Stock Exchange which would lead to him selling his seat to Herman Cohen.

1904: Maurice H. Harris, the rabbi of Temple Israel in Harlem wrote in a letter today that he “heartily approves of the East African project, the establishment of a refuge for Russian, Romanian and Galician Jews” something for which has pleaded “but let us not base” these projects “on the ground that America’s doors are closed to further Jewish immigration.”

1904(11th of Cheshvan, 5665): Sixty-one-year-old Joseph Bernhardt Bloomingdale the husband of Clara Koffman and the father of Rosalie Stanton Bloomingdale passed away today in New York City.

1904: Birthdate of Breslau native and mathematician Hans Lewy the holder of a PhD from the University of Gottingen who in 1933 came to the United States where he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkely.

1904: Birthdate of multi-talented author Charles Kaufman, the native of Patterson, NJ, who screenplay for the film “Freud” was nominated for an Oscar.

1905(21st of Tishrei, 5666): Hosahan Raba

1905: A two day pogrom at Kishinev came to an end. According to some reports only 19 Jews were killed and 56 were injured.  This was the second pogrom that had taken place at Kishinev in the first decade of the twentieth century. The first pogrom in 1903 was the more infamous and deadly of the two.  Jewish self-defense leagues formed in 1903 helped to hold down the casualties in the second pogrom.

1905: A two-day pogrom at Rostov came to an end leaving more than 150 Jews murdered, 500 more wounded and great damage done to the “Jewish shops, stores, warehouses and mills” despite the efforts of “a small self-defense detachment organized by the Po’le Zion.

1906(1st of Cheshvan): Parashat Noach and Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1906: Solomon Rabinovich, the Russian writer known as Sholem Aleikhim “who has been called the Jewish Mark Twain” arrived this afternoon in New York aboard “the American liner St. Louis”

1907: “A monument to the memory of Mrs. Tillie Wundoehl Moses” which “was erected by the Tillie Memorial Society” was unveiled today “in a free burial ground for deserving Jews in Mount Carmel Cemetery” during a ceremony in which Brooklyn Borough President Bird S. Coler “made the principle of address,”  Rabbi L.B. Michaelson gave the dedicatory address and Dr. Simon Cohen actually unveiled the monument.

1908(25th of Tishrei, 5669): Fifty-five-year-old Vaiben Louis Solomon, the son of Rachel (Cohen) Solomon and Judah Moss Solomon, husband of “Mary Bridgland” and then Alice Solomon  who combined a career as a businessman with a career in politics that climaxed with him becoming the “21st Premier of South Australia” passed away today.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/solomon-vaiben-louis-8577

1908: Birthdate of Hyman Arbeid, the “Vice Chairman of the Association of Synagogues of Great Britain, the forerunner of Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, the Warden and Chairman of the of the executive at West Lond Synagogue and Chairman of the Leo Baeck College Appeal.

1909: Birthdate of silent screen actress Rebekah Isabelle "Carla" Laemmle, “the niece of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures.

1910: Sixty-seven-year-old David B. Hill the Democratic political leader who as U.S. Senator from New York and Governor of New York openly opposed the American Protective Association (APA) an powerful anti-immigrant organization that favored discrimination against many groups including Jews, passed away.

1911: In the United Kingdom, the Home Secretary declined “to reduce sentences in connection with anti-Jewish riots in Wales.

1911:The “American Jewish Community in Jerusalem resolved to ask Jews in the United States to effect repeal of clause of naturalization laws providing for expatriation of naturalized American citizens residing abroad.”

1911: “Ernst Schenieder, a notorious anti-Semite” was “appointed Chief of the Education Department for Lower Austria.

1911: In Austria, “Albert Frankfurter and Leopold Kronberger” received the “title of Court Councillor.”

1912(9th of Cheshvan, 5673): Oscar E. Appelgreen passed away today in “the Jewish Hospital” in Philadelphia where he had spent the last five weeks of his life.

1912: It was reported that Newman Erb who has recently been placed in control of “The Mofat Line,” is making arrangements for the extension of” this railroad “to Salt Lake City from which point it will eventually go to the Pacific Coast…”

1913(19th of Tishrei, 5674): Fifth Day of Sukkoth

1913: Rabbi Bernard Drachman, the President of the Board of Jewish Ministers who along with Dr. Samuel Schulman of the Temple Beth El  had been appointed to obtain the opinions of various faiths” on the Bellis Trial taking place in Kiev, made public today, “a letter he received from Cardinal Farley with reference” to this matter.

1913 John Cardinal Farley wrote a letter today to Dr. Bernard Drachman which he said, “In reply to your request that I give expression of my views on the existence of  ritual murders in the worship of the Jewish people, I am free to say that I have never for an instant given credence to any such accusations.

1914: “The first remittance” from the American Jewish Relief Committee consisting of five thousand dollars for the Jews of Palestine and five thousand dollars for the Jews of Galicia was sent abroad today.

1915: A wireless telegraph from Berlin received at Sayville, Long Island today said “286 Jews in the German Army have been promoted to be officers.”

1915: In Revere, Massachusetts, “Harry J Ginsberg, a maintenance worker and Rose Harris gave birth to the Tufts and Columbia trained social worker and WW II veteran Mitchell Irving Ginsberg, the husband of Ida Robbins, who held leadership roles in the Peace Corps and VISTA while also teaching at Columbia.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ginsberg-mitchell-irving

1916(23rd of Tishrei, 5677): Simchat Torah

1916(23rd of Tishrei, 5677): Eighty-three-year-old  Louis Tavriger passed away today in Liverpool.

1916: Producer Joseph M. Schenck who was Jewish married actress Norma Talmadge following which the couple formed the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation.

1916: It was reported today that at the Republican rally held at the Star Casino on Lexington Avenue, “the most enthusiastic applause came when Isaac Siegel happened to mention the name of Morris Hillquit, the Socialist writer and candidate for Congress” in what was supposed to have been a speech that would generate support the candidacy of Republican Charles Evans Hughes.

1917: In Berlin, Helen and Franz Hessel gave birth to Stéphane Frédéric Hessel, the naturalized French citizen who “was a diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, French Resistance member and BCRA agent.”

1917: During WW I, a German submarine commanded by Martin Niemoller sank a British steamer. This is the same Martin Niemoller who as Pastor Niemoller became an anti-Nazi who went to the camps in 1937 where he remained until the end of WW II.

1918: Twenty-six-year-old Rabbi Aaron D. Bruack, the Kovno born son of Chaim Nathan and Basse Burack who had come to the United States in 1914 married Esther Inselbuch today.

1918: The New York Branch of the Jewish Welfare Board has transformed the dormitories of the Jewish Theological Seminary into a canteen for soldiers. Among other things, the canteen will provide meals for the troops and their visiting family members. The effort is being led by Mrs. Solomon Schechter whose son, a graduate of Columbia, is serving with the Army in France.

1918; Sergeant Abraham Blaustein who had been attending Army Candidate School at Dijon left today heading for La Vallone where he was to rejoin the 165th Regiment

1918: The founding conference of Yevsektsiya took place today. Yevsektsiya was the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist party and was established to popularize Marxism and encourage loyalty to the Soviet regime among Russian Jews. “For most of its existence, the Yevsektsya was headed by Semyon Dimanstein. Yevsektsiya was entirely subordinate to leadership of the Soviet Communist party. Yevsektsiya members were people of Jewish origin, but they were hostile to traditional Jewish culture and instead sought to assimilate Jews into the new Soviet society, often by repressive measures. In line with official Soviet doctrine, Yevsektsiya was deeply opposed to Bundism and Zionism, labeling them forms of "bourgeois nationalism”. The Yevsektsia was disbanded in 1929. Many leading members perished in the Great Purge. Dimanstein was arrested and received death sentence in 1938 and was executed. He was rehabilitated posthumously in 1955, 2 years after the death of Joseph Stalin.”

1919: “Park Commissioner Francis D. Gallatin gave a hearing today to members of the Jewish Welfare Board. who pleaded for the use of a service hut in Seward Park as a special school for children suffering from heart trouble.”

1920: Max Bruch passed away. The German composer and conductor was a Protestant. However, he wrote a piece for cello and orchestra which remains quite popular, Kol Nidrei based on Hebrew melodies, most notably the melody of the Kol Nidre, which gives the piece its name.

1920: Birthdate of Janet Rosenberg, the Chicago native who married Cheddi Jagan and as Janet Jagan played a key role in the political life of Guyana including serving as its sixth President.

1920: Birthdate of Clara Bagelman who gained fame as Claire Barry who with her sister formed a popular Yiddish singing duo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/arts/music/claire-barry-half-of-yiddish-singing-duo-dies-at-94-.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1921: In speaking at three meetings tonight Mayor Hylan renewed his defense of the public system saying that because of the public schools “the citizens of Jewish birth learns to appreciate his fellow citizen from sunny Italy” and “the citizen of Irish birth learns to understand his Jewish neighbor.”

1922: “Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood, M.P., who is visiting the United States in the interests of the Palestine Foundation Fund, said the most important question was whether Bonar Law would dissolve Parliament…”

1922: In Kaunas, Lithuania, Alte (Anna) Leie Gan, the daughter of Avrom Chaim Gan and Chana Ann Rissel and her husband Leizer Bliumas gave birth to Aaro Ziselis Bliumas, the husband of Rosa Berta Zejani.

1922(28th of Tishrei, 5683): Fifty-nine-year-old grocer Solomon Cahn, son of Bavarian natives Lazar and Fredericka Cahn  and the husband of Nettie Cahn, with whom he had six children including Reine, Leah, Laza, Lewis and Gladys passed away today after which he was buried in the Temple Beth El Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida.

1923: Birthdate of actor Herschel Bernardi who is best remembered as Lt. Jacobi on the television hit, “Peter Gunn,” the voice of Charlie the Tuna and the second person to play Tevye in the Broadway hit, “Fiddler on the Roof.”

1924(22nd of Tishrei, 5685): Shemini Atzeret

1924: It was reported today that “Mme. Isa Kremer, the accomplished singer of folk-songs has given first recital at Carnegie Hall” which included songs in Yiddish.

1925: In Hechingen, Germany, writer, doctor and diplomat Friedrich Wolf who would take his family to the Soviet Union after the Nazis came to power and his wife gave birth to movie director Konrad Wolf, “the younger brother of Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf.”

1925: Birthdate of columnist Art Buchwald. The cigar-chomping humorist first gained popular acclaim for his daily column written from Paris. His annual Thanksgiving column where he would explain the holiday to the French was a classic.

1926: Seventy-year-old-Socialist leader Eugene V. Deb who when he ran for president in 1920 received the votes of only 3 per cent of the American electorate but who received the votes of 38 per cent of the Jewish voters passed away today.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/28/these-are-few-my-favorite-jews

1926: Sioux City, Iowa merchant David Davidson, the Russian born son of Henry L. and Cima Davidson marries for a second time today after the death of his first wife Sara Frank in 1919.

1927: Station WEVD is scheduled to broadcast a memorial to Eugene V. Debs “marking the first anniversary of the Socialist leader’s death that will include an address by Morris Hillquit who was born Moishe Hillikowitz in Riga.

1927: In Brooklyn, Estelle (née Rapaport)and Morris K. Bauer, attorneys who shared a law practice gave birth to Joyce Diane Bauer who gained fame as psychologist, quiz show contestant and columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers.

1927: In St. Louis, Louise and Arthur Benjamin Cohn gave birth to Arthur B. Cohn.

1927: “The Eleven Devils,” a “sports film” directed by Zoltan Korda, a member of the famous Korda family, was released today in Germa

1928: “Love in the Cowshed” directed by future Nazi party member Carl Froelich and starring Jewish actor Eugen Neufeld and featuring Felix Bressart, the Jewish character actor who left Germany after the Nazis came to power was released today in Germany

1928: “In the presence of 400 Jewish leaders representing twenty-five States and Canada, Mr. Louis Marshall opened the Non-Zionist Conference at the Hotel Biltmore” this evening. (As reported by JTA)

1929(16th of Tishrei, 5690): Second Day pf Sukkoth observed for the first time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover and four days before Black Thursday.

1929: “Judge Samuel D. Levy of the Children’s Court” spoke this afternoon at meeting of the Jewish Theatrical Guild where he asked for the aid of that organization in support of child welfare work.”

1929: Dr. Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to be “the principal speaker” at today’s annual meeting of National Farm School in Doylestown, PA.

1929: In Brooklyn, garment worker Reuben Jacobson and his wife Beatrice gave birth to Sidney Jacobson who gained fame as “Sid Jacobson, a veteran comic book writer and editor whose work took him from the opulent, fanciful world of Richie Rich to the real-life terrorist attacks of 9/11…” (As reported by George Gene Gustines)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/arts/sid-jacobson-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1930: Lord Passfield issued his "White Paper" banning further land acquisition by Jews and slowing Jewish immigration. Chaim Weizmann who had always toed a pro-British line resigned in protest.

1930: In Boston, Sam Fisher who “ran the Fisher Shoe Company” and his wife gave birth to Jerome Fisher, the founder of “Nine West, a women’s shoe company.” (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/business/jerome-fisher-a-founder-of-nine-west-dies-at-85.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1930: Rabbi Albert G. Baum, a graduate of the New York Jewish Institute of Religion in the class of 1930, and the former acting Rabbi of Temple Israel in Amsterdam, NY, was installed tonight “as spiritual leader of Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim

1931: “The outlook for Palestine is better than in years, because the Jewish groups have made an impression the British Government and the Colonial Office has adopted a new attitude Rabbi Stephen S. Wise told the Women’s Organization of the Free Synagogue at its first luncheon of the season today at the Synagogue House…”

1932: “The Old Dark House” a horror film produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr, with a script co-authored by Benn W. Levy and co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States by Universal Pictures.

1932: “A testimonial performance for Bertha Kalich, well-known actress of the Yiddish and English stages, who has been in retirement because illness, is scheduled to be given tonight at the Jewish Art Theatre at Second Avenue and 12th Street.”

1933: “The Perils of Pauline” filmed by cinematographer Richard Fryer was released in the United States today by Universal Pictures.

1933(30th of Tishrei, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1933(30th of Tishrei, 5694): “Loney” Haskell, the husband of the former Jessie Garson Haskell and the businessman turned entertainer who delivered the eulogy for Harry Houdini and was Secretary of the Jewish Theatrical Guild of America at the time of his death passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/10/21/105809314.pdf

1933(30th of Tishrei, 5694: Seventy-year-old Bertha Simon Dreyfus, the New Orleans born daughter of David and Theresa Kaufman Simon, the wife of Isaac Dreyfus and the mother of Ruth, H. Artie, Jerome, and David Dreyfus   passed away today after which she was buried in the Congregation Anshe Emeth Cemetery in Pine Bluff, AR.

1934: Birthdate of New York City political scientist and author writing about Jewish life in Israel Charles S. Liebman who “published a pioneering essay, “Orthodoxy in American Jewish Life” in 1965.

1935: Birthdate of Jerry Orbach. The actor has played everything from the father in the film “Dirty Dancing” to Detective Lenny Briscoe in “Law and Order.”

1935: “Herbert D. Allman, president the National Farm School,” “the school which was found by Dr. Joseph I. Krauskop, the late Philadelphia rabbi” and which “is a nonsectarian philanthropy sponsored by the Jews of America” “advocated a back-to-the land movement today and pointed to the possibilities of farming as a creative, independent career.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/10/21/93495611.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1935(23rd of Tishrei, 5696): Simchat Torah

1936: Birthdate of Alexandria native Jacques Hassoun, the French psychiatrist who became an amateur export on the history of the Egyptian Jewish Community.

http://www.bassatine.net/hassoun.php

1936: In Philadelphia, “delegates at the annual convention of Hadassah…cheered today” when a cablegram from Palestine was ready “announcing that ground had been broken on Mount for the Rothschild Hadassah University and Medical School, the first Medical Center in Palestine.”

1936: Felix M. Warburg announced last that for “the third successive year Lawrence Marx” “the guest of honor at a dinner tonight at the Hotel Plaza” “will head the annual deficit campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.

1936: In Warsaw, “at the College of Commerce more than twenty Jewish students were severely beaten today by Nationalists when they refused to obey an order to leave their seats at the front of a class and occupy ‘ghetto’ back benches.”

1936: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” a film set in the Crimean War directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Samuel Bishcoff, Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner with music by Max Steiner was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.

1936: In Philadelphia Jerome Waxman “an insurance and real estate agent who specialized in the poultry farms that proliferated around Vineland, N.J., where Jews from Eastern Europe had resettled”  and the former Minnie Kaner, “an educator” gave birth to Nahum Joel Waxman who gained fame as “Nach Waxman, who combined his seasoning in anthropology and nonfiction editing to found a Manhattan bookstore that became a global mecca for chefs, cooks, culinary academics, epicurean writers and just about anyone who enjoyed eating as much as he did…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)

1936(4th of Cheshvan, 5697): Mrs. Sarah Sandler, mother of New York Attorney Bernard Sandler, passed away in Tel Aviv today at the age of 85. Mrs. Sandler had lived in Palestine for the last 18 years. She was active in numerous charitable activities and refused her son’s request that she return to New York after the most recent outbreak of Arab violence.

1937(15th of Cheshvan, 5698): Felix M. Warburg, a member of the Jewish family known for its financial acumen and philanthropies passed away today at the age of 66.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30C15FC3959177A93C3AB178BD95F438385F9

1937: In response to discrimination policies, Jews of Poland, assorted liberals and students went on strike. Within a few weeks the government succeeded in putting down the strike and enforcing its decrees. The environment of anti-Semitism obviously existed before the Nazis arrived and made their work much easier.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that a loud explosion which shook the American Colony was found to be due to a bomb thrown at a Jewish shop at the Simon the Just Quarter, just off the Nablus Road in Jerusalem. Shots were also fired at Jewish buses and an Armenian photographer was hit. A £2,000 fine was imposed on the Adh Dahariya village for raiding a police post. An immediate fine collection began in kind, livestock, wheat and other movables.

1938: Adolf Hitler gave “a speech at the city hall of Krumau, a city in southern Bohemia, in which he praised ‘Providence’ for having helped the German people achieve so much in recent years” bit added that “this was only possible because we stood armed…”

1939: “At the Circus,” a Marx brothers comedy produced by Mervyn LeRoy was released today in the United States.

1939(7th of Cheshvan, 5700): Fifty-five-year-old Zanesville, OH native and University of Cincinnati graduate Israel Klein, the HUC trained rabbi who served congregations in Evansville and Grand Rapids passed away.

1940(18th of Tishrei, 5701): Fourth Day of Sukkoth

1940: More than 7000 Jews from the Saar region of Germany are interned at the camp at Gurs, France.

1942(9th of Cheshvan, 5703): Twelve thousand Jews are murdered at Bar in the Transnistria region of the Ukraine.

1942: “The Art of This Century Gallery,” which “exhibited important modern art until it closed in 1947” and which was designed by Frederick Kiesler was opened today by Peggy Guggenheim today in Manhattan

1942: Samuel “Willenberg boarded the Holocaust train along with 6,500 inmates of the then-liquidated Opatów ghetto, and went with them to the extermination camp at Treblinka.”

1942(9th of Cheshvan, 5703): Seventy-four-year-old classical scholar Friedrich Münzer who had been officially classified as Jewish in 1935 by the Nazis died today at Theresienstadt concentration camp.

1942: The deportations of Jews from Slovakia were halted today after a group of Jewish citizens, led by Gisi Fleischmann and Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, built a coalition of concerned officials from the Vatican and the government, and, through a mix of bribery and negotiation, was able to stop the process. By then, however, some 58,000 Jews had already been deported, mostly to Auschwitz. The deportations would be resumed in 1944.

1943: Mrs. Moses Schorr, her daughter Felicia and the grandchildren of Moses Schorr arrived in the French town of Vittel where they were supposed to be exchanged for German POW’s.

1943: Irene Sendler was arrested in a Gestapo night raid on her apartment and taken to Pawiak prison where she was tortured. Sendler held out and did not betray any of confederates with whom she worked to smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/20/1943/this-week-in-history-irena-sendler-saves-jewish-children-from-warsaw-ghetto

1944: Nazis put 25,000 Hungarian Jewish men and 10,000 Jewish women to work digging anti-tank trenches in the path of the advancing Red Army.

1944: Men of the Polish Home Army attack Jewish houses in the freshly liberated village of Ejszyszki. The village's Jews subsequently retaliate against the Poles.

1944: 22,000 Budapest Jews are entrained for deportation to Auschwitz.

1944: Nazi administrators at Auschwitz burn documents related to prisoners and their fates.

1944: Nazis initiate death-march deportations of Jews from Budapest, Hungary, to Germany.

1944(21st of Tishrei, 5769): At Birkenau, 600 of 650 boys between the ages of 14 and 16 whohad been locked in barracks since the Revolt at Birkenau on October 7, would be gassed. Most of them were Hungarians. Many race about the camp, naked and panicked, before being clubbed by the SS guards who pursue them. The 50 survivors are put to work unloading potatoes from railcars.

1944: On this day the deportations from Hungary begin again. Despite the uprisings, more Jews from Theresienstadt were selected for death. Another 1,416 would be gassed.

1945(13th of Cheshvan, 5706): Parashat Lech-Lecha

1945(13th of Cheshvan, 5706): Eighty-four-year-old Isaac (Isaak)) Plaut, the German born son of Betti and Mendel Manachem Plaut and the husband of Fannie Plaut passed away today in the United States.

1945: In Milwaukee, WI, “Lillian and Marcel Blumenthal, the owners of a small Venetian blinds operation” gave birth to “George R. Blumenthal an American astrophysicist, astronomer, professor, and academic administrator. He is the tenth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

1946: Birthdate of Austrian Novelist Elfriede Jelink, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature. “Elfriede Jelinek was born in the village of Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria. Although Jelinek’s father was classified a Mischling (a person of “mixed races”) under National Socialism, he and his wife escaped the most extreme excesses of anti-Semitic persecution due to his work as a chemist in war research. Jelinek is not considered a Jewish writer per se, but the author herself positions her writings within the Jewish tradition and history. Critics, too, prompted by the scathing irony underlying her texts, traces a continuity between the Austrian Jewish satirical tradition - represented in the writings of Karl Kraus or Elias Canetti - and Jelinek, while recognizing the latter’s radicalization of that tradition.”

1947: The leaders of the Jewish refugees living in DP camps under British control sent a telegram that “makes clear the wishes and determination of the refugees to find a home in Palestine.’ Nothing will deter us from Palestine. Which jail we go to is up to you (the British). We did not ask you to reduce our rations; we did not ask you to put us in Poppendorf and Am Stau.’" [Poppendorf and Am Stau were in Germany.]

1947: HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) opened hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood. While engaging in its highly publicized search for alleged Communists, HUAC certainly had a tendency to stir up a lot of collateral anti-Semitic dust. Ironically, many of the cooperative witnesses who were the first to take the stand were Jewish including Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer (ex-chairman of the Republican Party's California State Committee) and Ayn Rand. Warner told HUAC: "Ideological termites have burrowed into many American industries, organizations and societies. Wherever they may be, I say let us dig them out and get rid of them. My brothers and I will be happy to subscribe generously to a pest-removal fund. We are willing to establish such a fund to ship to Russia the people who don't like our American system of government and prefer the Communistic system to ours." Ayn Rand who was identitified as a “Russian émigré” attacked "Song of Russia," complaining that the Soviet peasants smiled too much. Red-baiter Adolphe Menjou testified on Oct. 21 that he believed the Communist Party should be "outlawed." HUAC and its right-wing supporters were quick to tie Jews to Communists, making the two seem to be one in the same. However, they never identified the friendly witnesses as Jews. This would have interfered with the Right Wing prejudice and conspiracy theoris.

1947: "The Careful Dreamer," a Time magazine cover story on Oscar Hammerstein II, was published today.

1948: After five days of fighting along the Jerusalem Corridor, there is no major change in territorial holdings.

1948(17th of Tishrei, 5709): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth

1948(17th of Tishrei, 5709): “In a low-level bombing attack on the strategic Egyptian-held fortress of Iraq-El-Suweidan, one of the recently acquired Bristol Beaufighter Bombers was shot down, killing Len Fitchett, Dov Sugarman, and Stanley Andrews

1948: “A smaller force from the Fifth Battalion broke-away and travelled with a battle corps of the 10th Armored Brigade on the Bayt Jibrin highway and captured Beit Jimal.

1948: The internal Negev Road from Julis to Bror Hayil through Kawkaba and Huleiqat was taken today by Givati's 52nd and 54th battalions. Upon taking Huleiqat, the Israelis discovered a mass grave where the Egyptians buried Israeli casualties of the failed July Negev Brigade attack.

1949(27th of Tishrei, 5710): Seventy-three-year-old Cincinnati born “artist, etcher” and portrait painter David Rosenthal passed away today.

1950: The SS Benjamin Peixotto, a decommissioned Liberty ship  which was named after the 19th century American-Jewish leader who had served as U.S. Consul to Bucharest was refloated in a harbor in Hong Kong after having been damaged by a typhoon. 

1950: In Camden, NJ, at Sabbath Services, a new Torah was presented in honor of Louis Berkowitz's 75th birthday.

1952: In Philadelphia, PA, Norma (née Goodman)Mayron, a real estate agent, and David Mayron, a pharmaceutical chemist gave birth to actress and director Melanie Joy Mayron who was the product of a “mixed” marriage since her father was Sephardic and her mother was Ashkenazi family.

http://www.filmreference.com/film/53/Melanie-Mayron.html

1952: Birthdate of Dalia Itzik, the native of Jerusalem born to a family of Iraqi Jews who was the first female Speaker of the Knesset.

1953(11th of Cheshvan, 5714): Sixty-one-year Fred E. Ahlert, the Fordham Law School graduate who decided to become a composer and songwriter passed away today.

http://www.jazzbiographies.com/Biography.aspx?ID=1

1953(11th of Cheshvan, 5714): Forty-seven-year-old Harvard graduate Isaac H. Kempner, who has been serving as president fth Imperial Sugar Company in Sugar Land, TX passed away today in Houston

1953: CBS broadcast an episode of “See It Now” entitled "The Case of Milo Radulovich" co-produced by Edward R. Murrow and Joseph Wershba which was a landmark in exposing the Red Scare led by Joe McCarthy and other reactionaries. (Wershba was Jewish; Murrow wasn’t)

1953: General Kenneth Nichols retired from the Army which enabled him to become a senior management at the AEC which would enable him to lead the fight to take away the security clearance for J. Robert Oppenheimer.

1954(23rd of Tishrei, 5715): Simchat Torah

1954: The 1954 musical version of “Peter Pan” directed by Jerome Robbin with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.

1955: Composer Alfred Newman and Martha Louis Montgomery gave birth to Grammy, Golden Globe and Emmy award winning composer Thomas Newman.

1955: Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga, better known as Susana Duijm, represented Venezuela in the fifth Miss World contest, where she became the first Latin American woman to be crowned Miss World.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/20/1955/susana-duijm-becomes-first-latin-american-woman-be-crowned-miss-world

1958: A Broadway revival of the Family Reunion opened today at the Phoenix Theatre with Nathan Parnes as Company Manager.

1959: CBS broadcast an adaptation of “The Turn of the Screw” directed by John Frankenheimer.

1960: “The appointment of Sidney L. Solomon as chief executive officer of Abraham Straus, Brooklyn department store, was announced today by Federated Department Stores, Inc.”

1962(22nd of Tishrei, 5723): Shemini Atzeret and Shabbat

1962: It was reported today that Mayor Wanger has directed Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to “take every possible action against street violence” in the wake of the fatal beating of 55-year-old Rabbi Eisendorf of Brooklyn that took place on October 18.

1962: It was reported today, that “Israeli musicians” from the Ramat-Gan Chamber Orchestra “have yielded to public pressure and decided to drop engagements in West Germany from a European concert tour that is scheduled to start tomorrow.”

1963(2nd of Cheshvan, 5724): Eighty-one-year-old Elias Tobenkin, the Russian born son of Mark A and Fanny Tobekin, University of Wisconsin graduate whose career in journalism including working for the “Hearst Newspapers,” “The New York Tribune” and JTA who was the husband of the former Rae Schwid.passed away today

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00256

http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6259g62

1963: Today “a special memorial programs was held at the Hebrew Confederate Cemetery the plaque marking the final resting place of Henry Grintberger who was killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor was corrected so that it no longer showed the last name of Gersberg.

1963: In Moscow, Rudolf Naumovich Solovyov, and Inna Solomonovna Shapiro gave birth to Russian electronic journalist Vladimir Rudol'fovich Solovyov who “was awarded the TEFI Russian television prize as the best interviewer.”

1964: Herbert Hoover 31st President of the United States passed away. Hoover named Benjamin Cardozo as Associate Justice to the Supreme Court in 1932. How a Hawkeye Quaker came to name a liberal Sephardic New York Jew to the High Court without incurring a burst of anti-Semitic diatribes is one of the under-told stories of the 20th century

1964: “Golden Boy” a musical based on Clifford Odets’ play of the same name produced Hillard Elkins by with music by Charles Strouse starring Sammy Davis, Jr. opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre.

1964: Henry David Leonard George Walston, the son of Florence and Sir Charles Waldestein began serving as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a position he would hold until the “beginning of 1967.

1965: In Ramat HaSharon, Jacob Mansdorf, a chemical engineer and his wife Era, a school teacher gave birth Israeli tennis player Amos Mansdor.

1966: “In Star Trek: Voyager, Estelle Harris, the younger of two daughters of Isaac ("Ira") and Anna Nussbaum, Polish Jewish immigrants who owned a candy store and soda shop

 portrayed the old woman who was actually a projection of the Nechani Spirits in the third-season episode "Sacred Ground," which aired today.”

1967: Seven men were convicted in Meridian, Miss., of violating the civil rights of three murdered civil rights workers. Two of the three victims were Jewish youngsters who had come South during the summer of 1964 to work on a voter registration project. Their deaths helped bring about the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

1969: NBC broadcast episode six of “My World…and Welcome to it” created by Melville Shavelson, co-starring Harold J. Stone.

1970(20th of Tishrei, 5731): Sixth Day of Sukkoth

1970(20th of Tishrei, 5731): Seventy-five-year-old  two-time World Welterweight Champion Ted “Kid” Lewis who had been born Gershon Mendeloff in a tenement in London’s East End and husband of Elsie Schneider passed away today in Nightingale House in Clapham after years of dealing “with failing eyesight and Parkinson’s disease.”

1971: “The Organization” the third and final of the “Mr. Tibbs Trilogy” that began with the ground-breaking “In the Heat of the Night” produced by Walter Mirisch was released today in the United States.

1971: “T. R. Baskin” a dark “romantic” drama directed by Herbert Ross, produced and written by Peter Hyams and co-starring James Caan was released today in the United States by Paramount Pictures

1972: In Ann Arbor, Michigan, cardiologist Irwin Schatz and his wife gave birth to Brian Emanuel Schatz, the future Senator from Hawaii.

1972: Tonight, Maurice Gusman “the 87-year-old immigrant, now a millionaire, with tears in his eyes faced a standing and cheering audience of some 1,800 Miamians who came to the inauguration of the Maurice Gusman Philharmonic Hall, formerly the Olympia Theater, the new home of the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra.”

1973: When their F-4E Phantom Jet was hit by an Egyptian SAM, Aharon Sagi and Moshe Barton were recovered by the IDF after safely ejecting from their aircraft.

1973: David Zeit and Yoram Rubenstein were taken prisoner after their F-4E Phantom Jet was hit by an Egyptian SAM.  The Israeli Air force faced a Soviet designed air defense network that was more sophisticated than anything any air force had had to cope with in modern warfare.  The willingness of these flyers to take to the skies is a tribute to their individual courage and those who were shot down were no less heroes than those who made it safely back to base.

1973: “Starting at sunrise” today, “the Israeli Air Force launched aerial attacks for the duration of the day, targeting Ismailia, the nearby al-Galaa' army base, and Jebel Mariam

1973: Israeli forces came within 10 miles of Damascus.

1973: William Shatner married Marcy Laffert. Yes, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock were both played by Jewish actors.

1973: The Israelis shot down Syrian aircraft on its way to bomb the oil refineries at Haifa. The IDF force on the west bank of the Suez Canal continued to widen its area of activity. The Israelis were actually taking control of some of the roads between Cairo and the Canal – between the Egyptian capital and the attacking Egyptian armies. While the Israelis understand what is happening, the Egyptian high command either is not aware of what is going or is hiding the truth from its battlefield commanders.

1976: Twenty-eight activists demonstrated at the Supreme Soviet demanding that those who beat up Jewish activists on October 19 be punished.

1977: Rachel Vixman, “authority on parliamentary procedure and a founder of the Pittsburgh Chapter of Hadassah” was interviewed to by Ida Selavan for a project created by the Pittsburgh Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.

https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3Aais196440.477

1978: In Inglewood, CA, a Mexican-American mother and a Jewish father gave birth to Stanford graduate and Duke University trained attorney Michael “Mike” Ted Levin a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 48th district and the husband of Chrissy Parker whom he married in 2011.

1978(19th of Tishrei, 5739): Fifth Day of Sukkot

1978(19th of Tishrei, 5739): Eighty-nine-year-old actress and screenwriter Salka Viertel the Sambor born daughter of August Amster and Joseph Stuermann, “a lawyer and the first Jewish mayor of Sambor, the wife of director Berthold Viertel and the mother of author and screenwriter Peter Viertel who wrote the scripts for movies starring her friend Greta Garbo including Queen Christina and Anna Karenina.

1978(19th of Tishrei, 5739):

1979(29th of Tishrei, 5740): Parashat Bereshit; Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Cheshvan

1979(29th of Tishrei, 5740): Seventy-seven-year-old Manistique, MI native Isadore Winkelman the co-founder of “the Detroit-based women’s clothing chain Winkelman Stores, Inc who was the youngest son of “Jewish shopkeeper Isadore Winkelman” and the husband of Beryl Winkelman with whom he had three sons, and two daughters passed away today.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58773397/obituary-for-isadore-winkelman-aged-77/

http://www.winkelmans.com/aboutus.html

1980: “At 80, He’s a Thread in City’s Tapestry published today traced the career of Benjamin Joseph Buttenwieser the Jewish banker and Kuhn Loeb partner two days before the celebration of his 80th birthday.

1982: Revival performance of Abraham Goldfaden’s “Shulamith” presented by Ben Bonus, Lively and Yiddish Productions, in association with the Yiddish Musical Theater of Israel, producer, Dr. Rabbi Israel Walin at the Norman Thomas Theater in New York City.

1982(3rd of Cheshvan, 5743): Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz “the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he taught for over 30 years” passed away today.

1983: Today, “Lillian Goldman moved out of the Waldorf-Astoria suite she shared with her husband Sol” the hold of “New York City’s largest private real estate empire” and “began divorce proceedings in which she asked for half of his $1 billion in assets.”

1984(24th of Tishrei, 5745): Parashat Bereshit; Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Cheshvan

1985: In a review entitled “A Place Like No Other,” Michael Grant, the author of The Jews in the Roman Empire and A History of Ancient Israel examines Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets From the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Times  by F. E. Peters.

1985: At Temple Beth Am, Rabbi Sanford E. Saperstein officiated at the wedding of Cornell underrad Donna Sue Glickstern, and Albert Wise Tanenbaum, “the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Jerome Tanenbaum, Jr. of Dumas, Arkansas.

1986: Shimon Peres completes his second term in office as Prime Minister of Israel.

1986: Yitzhak Shamir began his second office term as Israel's prime minister

1988: In Moscow, founding of Mikhoel’s Cultural Center.

https://www.rbth.com/arts/2013/05/06/a_memorable_embassy_performance_pays_tribute_to_the_legacy_of_solomon_mi_25743.html

1989(21st of Tishrei, 5750): Hoshana Rabah

1989(21st of Tishrei, 5750): Sixty-five-year-old “Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, playwright, and author” Dahn Ben-Amotz who made Aliyah in 1938 and whose parents died in the Holocaust lost his battle with liver cancer and passed away today.

1990: Among those celebrating today’s Cincinnati’s four game sweep that made them World Champions is Larry Rothschild the former pitcher now serving as a coach for the Reds.

1990(1st of Cheshvan, 5751): Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Chehsvan; parashat Noach

1990(1st of Cheshvan, 5751): Eighty-two-year-old Stanley “Stan” Jaloff, the California native who was a star basketball player for the University of Washington Huskies from 1928 to 1930 passed away today.

1992(23rd of Tishrei, 5753): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of George Bush.

1994(15th of Cheshvan, 5755): Sixty-nine-year-old Rabbi, Shlomo Carlebach, the  religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer dubbed "the singing rabbi" during his lifetime the husband of Elaine Neila Glick, the twin brother of Eli Chaim Carlebach and the father of singer and teacher Neshama Carlebach passed away today after which he was buried at Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem, Israel. Words cannot describe what he has done. Everybody has their favorite Carlbach tunes or songs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlebach_movement

http://www.israel-music.com/ben_zion_solomon_sons/nishmas_kol_chai/</a

1995: NBC broadcast the first show of season 4 of “Homicide: Life on the Street” based on a book by David Simon and co-starring Richard Belzer and Yaphet Kotto.

1995: “Get Shorty,” a “gangster comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld was released today in the United States.

1998: “After eighteen years of using the Sabin vaccine, the federal government recommended that children use the Salk vaccine exclusively” today

2000(21st of Tishrei, 5761): Hoshana Rabah

2000: “Bedazzled” a remake of the 1967 comedy directed by Harold Ramis who co-produced the film and co-authored the screenplay with Larry Gelbart was released in the United States today.

2002: In “Funny, You Don't Look Jewish,”  published today Judith Shulevitz reviews Hillel Halkin's Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of IsraelAcross the Sabbath River relates an improbable story: a people on a remote border of India, Tibet and Burma want to migrate to modern Israel because they believe themselves to be descended from one of the 10 tribes exiled from ancient Israel 2,700 years ago, and close analysis of their folklore hints that they may be right.”

2002: Ceremonies marking the dedication of Har Sinai’s new facility in Owings Mill, a reform congregation with roots in pre-Civil War Baltimore came to an end.

2003: “President Bush ran into Malaysia's pugnacious prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, at the opening of the Asian summit meeting” in Bangkok” today and told him out of the earshot of the other 19 leaders that Mr. Mahathir had been "wrong and divisive" when he declared last week that Jews run the world by proxy, the White House said.

2003(24th of Tishrei, 5764): Ninety-one-year-old Newcastle upon Tyne native  Professor Ben Segal,  Cambridge student and holder of a Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford whose WWII military career including serving as an intelligence office in the Sudan, workings behind enemy lines in North Africa and taking the surrender of the Italian garrison at Derna  and whose academic career included lecturing at the School of Oriental and African Studies for over thirty years and serving as “Principal of the Leo Baeck College from 1982 to 1985  while also serving as “a member of the Jewish Chronicle Trust” passed away today.

2003: Following yesterday’s ambush of an Israeli patrol which left three dead,  Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships struck Gaza five times today,

2004: The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported on a speech given by Schindler's List survivor Rena Finder. Now 75 and living in Massachusetts, Finder told of what it was like to be a ten-year-old in Krakow, Poland in 1939 when the Nazis arrived. "Nobody saw us, nobody helped us, nobody cared." In speaking about Schindler she said, "What Oskar Schindler did for us and for the world, nobody, nobody had achieved."

2004: The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that "a Holocaust-era diary and love letters written by a Jewish woman for her Dutch boyfriend in an internment camp in 1943 have been donated to a Dutch archives." The woman who was named Helga Deen died at Sobibor.

2005: Mikhail Khodorkovsky was delivered to the labor camp YaG-14/10.”The labor camp is attached to a uranium mining and processing plant and during Soviet times had a reputation as a place from which nobody returned alive.”

2005: Earle Irving Mack, the son real estate developer H. Bert Mack and Ruth Kaufman Mack, completed his service as the 30th United States Ambassador to Finland

2006: “The Great Conjurer,” a new play about Franz Kafka, premiers at the Kirk Theatre in New York City

2007: As part of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Concert the Alei Gefen Chorus performs "A Ceremony of Songs" at Kol Haneshama Synagogue, to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of Jewish journalist, Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan.

2007: In a story with dateline of Fayetteville, Arkansas, The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that “a Jewish synagogue is rising in the hills of Arkansas, in large part because of the generosity of the project contractor: a Muslim immigrant from the West Bank. Fadil Bayyari, a Springdale, Ark., general contractor, agreed to waive his regular fee for Temple Shalom, saving the Reform congregation at least $250,000. Bayyari, who built the mosque in Fayetteville, cited both religions’ ties to Abraham and said the fact that his faith community, too, lacked its own building until the mosque was completed.”

2008(21st of Tishrei, 5769): Hoshana Rabbah

2008: “The re-trial of Phil Spector for murder in the second degree in the death of Lana Clarkson began today.

2008: Haaretz reports that “the Foreign Ministry is examining an initiative aimed at reaching a long-term non-belligerence pact with Lebanon to prevent renewed fighting along the northern border.”

2008: The Menier Chocolate Factory production of Jerry Herman’s “La Cage aux Folles” transferred to the West End at the Playhouse Theatre co-produced with Sonia Friedman Productions, Robert G. Bartner, David Ian Productions, The Ambassador Theatre Group, Matthew Mitchell and Jamie Hendry Productions

2009: The first group of Kaifeng Jews arrived in Israel, in an aliyah operation coordinated by Shavei Israel.

2009: Andrew Ross “Sorkin's book on the Wall Street banking crisis, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, was published by Viking” today.

2009: Opening session of the National Jewish Democratic Conference Washington Conference.

2009: Opening session of the Presidents’ Conference in Jerusalem.

2009: At the Hyman S. Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Zoë Heller discusses The Believers in a conversation with Ron Charles, Senior Editor of The Washington Post Book World

2009: International Harp Contest in Tel Aviv-Jaffa comes to an end.

2010: A program entitled “Miryam Kabakov, ed., Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires” is scheduled to be presented at The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary in Washington, D.C.

2010: The American Jewish Historical Society and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to present :Revisiting the American Soviet Jewry Movement: A Panel Discussion Honoring the Publication of Gal Beckerman's book When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

2010(12th of Cheshvan, 5771): Ninety-five-year-old Coleman Jacoby, “a comedy writer during the golden age of television who, with his partner Arnie Rosen, created some of Jackie Gleason’s most memorable characters and engineered one of the great match-ups in television history, Gleason and Art Carney,” passed away today (As reported by William Grimes.’)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/arts/television/13jacoby.html

2010(12th of Cheshvan, 5771):Seventy-seven-year-old  Robert Katz, an author and screenwriter who incurred the wrath of the Vatican by accusing Pope Pius XII of failing to act to stave off a Nazi massacre of Italians in 1944, passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/arts/22katz.html?_r=0

2011(22nd of Tishrei, 5772): Shemini Atzeret

2011: Today, two Israeli soldiers were struck by a Palestinian vehicle at a checkpoint near Beit Ur al-Fauqa south of Ramallah in the West Bank.

2011: Noam Shalit, father of recently released Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, said on today that claims his son was not tortured during his time in Hamas captivity should be taken "with a grain of salt."

2012(4th of Cheshvan, 5773): Eighty-six-year-old philosopher Paul Kurtz passed away today.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/22/us-religion-kurtz-idUSBRE89L19D20121022

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/paul_kurtz_obituary

2011: Ninety-year-old Jerzy Bielecki, a World War II resistance fighter, passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/world/europe/jerzy-bielecki-dies-at-90-fell-in-love-in-a-nazi-camp.html

2012(4th of Cheshvan, 5773): Eighty-five-year-old science writer and Time magazine editor Leon Jaroff passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/business/media/leon-jaroff-editor-at-time-and-discover-magazines-dies-at-85.html?hpw

2012: Temple Beth-El in Bloomfield, Michigan, is scheduled to host a special ceremony blessing pets belonging to members of the congregation

2012: The Israeli band, Flora, is scheduled to perform at Muchmore’s in Brooklyn, NY

2012: Shalom Bard is scheduled to make his debut as RBC resident conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra today “at a special concert featuring violinist and conductor Maxim Vengerov.”

2012: Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid called to "finally get rid of the Palestinians" by giving them their own state at a cultural event in Kiryat Motzkin today.

2012: The Israeli Navy today surrounded a ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaching Gaza’s blockade as it approached the coastal strip. IDF soldiers boarded the vessel without employing the use of force and rerouted it to the port of Ashdod, where it arrived just after 8 p.m. local time

2013: In Baltimore, Barry Steelman is scheduled to present “Standing by Their Flags,” exploring the Jewish military experience on both sides of the Civil War at the Jewish Museum of Maryland

2013: Dani Shapiro “appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul to discuss her new book Devotion.

2013: ‘Nazi loot’ Is In Major National Gallery Show” published today described E. Randol Schoeberg’s contention that “An unfinished portrait by Gustav Klimt used as the centrepiece of the National Gallery's major new exhibition is loot stolen by the Nazis.”

2013: Folk/Reggae/songwriting Rabbi Jack Gabriel, a leader in the Jewish Renewal Movement is scheduled to perform in Alexandria, VA.

2013(16th of Cheshvan, 5774): Ninety-year-old Sid Yudain, the founder of “Roll Call” passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us/politics/sid-yudain-who-created-roll-call-dies-at-90.html?ref=obituaries

2013: In Australia, “The Songs They Sang,” a musical narrative of the Vilna Ghetto during World War II is scheduled to be performed at the South Melbourne Town Hall

2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a walking tour that will showcase Jewish life in the historic Seventh Street, NW Community from 1850 to 1950

2013: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host as special of book launch of Out Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust edited by Elaine Saphier Cox

2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto”

2013: The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats is scheduled to close today.

http://www.nmajh.org/SpecialExhibitions/

2013: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Claudia Roth Pierpont, Norman Mailer: A Double Life by J. Michael Lennon, Identical by Scott Turow and Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi

2013: In Milwaukee, WI, Meaghan Meredith Reider, daughter of Sue and Dr. Ron Reider, pillars’ of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Jewish community married Mikhail Iosifovich Guterman son of Dina Gezhes and Iosif Guterman.

2013: While no injuries or significant damages afflicted surrounding areas, a string of minor earthquakes have rattled Israel’s North over the past few days – including two today alone. An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale hit the Hula Valley-Kinneret region this morning at around 11:50 am, with its epicenter in the northwestern portion of the Kinneret – a few kilometers northeast of Kibbutz Ginosar and a few kilometers south of Capernaum, according to data from the Israel Geophysical Institute’s Seismology Division. Just four hours later, at 3:54 p.m., another quake with a 3.5 magnitude similarly shook the region. (As reported by Sharon Udasin)

2013: News of Karnit Flug's appointment as the head of the Bank of Israel has been well received, with opposition leader Shelly Yacimovich of Labor even hailing the appointment as "enlightened." Her appointment along with that of Janet Yellin as Chair of the Federal Reserve Board means that Jewish women occupy the two highest financial positions in their country’s for the first time in history

2014: John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer” which is  consistently accused of being anti-Semitic because of its sympathetic and factually inaccurate portrayal of the terrorists who hijacked the “Achille Lauro” and murdered wheelchair-bound Jewish-American Leon Klinghoffer” is scheduled to have its debut at the Met in New York today.

2014: The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival  is scheduled to host “Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks for a multi-media concert based on the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah and featuring Bosnian-born composer and accordionist Merima Kljuco.”

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present an evening of film and discussion with historian Linda J. Borish, examining “Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics.”

2014: “Twenty-one-year-old British citizen Garron Helm was sentenced to jail for sending a “grossly offensive” anti-Semitic tweet to Liverpool Labor MP Luciana Berger, UK's Jewish News reported today.”

2014: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its inaugural Sisterhood Lunch Out for 5775.

2014: “Former Nazis should not be collecting Social Security benefits as they age overseas, the White House said today, responding to an Associated Press investigation that revealed millions of dollars have been paid to war-crimes suspects and former SS guards forced out of the US.” (As reported by Richard Lardner, David Rising and Randy Herschaft)

2014: “Former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon announced today that he will start a new political party focused on reducing the cost of living in Israel.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)

2014: “A former National Union of Students (NUS) President voiced condemnation for the Goldsmith University and its Student Union's rejection of a motion to commemorate the Holocaust.” (As reported by Cynthia Blank)

2015: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival are scheduled to host “The Game Must Go On: Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII.”

2015: At the Skirball, Dr. Ron Wolfson, a native of Omaha, Nebraska, is scheduled to discuss The Best Boy in the United States: A Memoir of Blessings and Kisses

2015: The Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art foundation which was established to honor the hundreds of “Monuments Men” who saved more than 5 million artworks stolen by the Nazis announced today that it will cease operations at the end of October due to a lack of funds

2016(18th of Tishrei, 5777): Fourth Day of Sukkoth

2016(18th of Tishrei, 5777): Ninety-one-year-old Litvak Stanley Silverstein, who co-founded Nina Footware with his brother Mike passed away today. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/business/stanley-silverstein-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016: In England, an election is scheduled to be held to fill the seat vacate by former Prime Minster David Cameron in which 81 year old Larry Sanders, the brother of Senator and failed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is the Green Party Candidate.

2016: In Haifa, “a competition for the title of Strongest Person” is scheduled to take place “at the BIG station in the Checkpoint intersection.”

2016: The Skirball Center is scheduled to host “Let’s Talk About Pickles” a discussion about the best green vegetable in the world lead by Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation.

2016: “Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombarded and breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago, officials said today.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-find-battle-site-where-romans-breached-jerusalem-walls/

2016: The London Jewish Cultural Centre is scheduled to host a screening of “Watermarks” Yaron Zilberman’s film about “the champion women swimmers of the legendary sports club, Hakoah” which “was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes.

2017(30th of Cheshvan, 5778): First Day Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “a special Oneg Shabbat” marking the opening of the exhibition of “On Jews and Chocolate” – “an indulgent evening for the chocolate lover in all of us.”

2017: Today, a group of about 300 men and women including “dozens of veterans of the Six Day War” were barred by Security guards from “entering the main plaza of the Western while holding a Torah scroll while a “Six Day War veteran named Micha Eshet, 70, was shoved to the ground by Orthodox protesters while holding the scroll…” (JTA)

2017: In Atlanta, the High Museum of Art is scheduled to host a talk by Holocaust survivor Henry Friedman “talk about his post-war experience as a street artist in Italy on his way to America.”

2018: In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a “Special Concert” featuring Pianist Oxana Yablonskaya playing the works “by Schubert, Liszt, Chopin and Mendelssohn.”

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a lunch after morning services.

2018: During Homecoming Week at the University of Iowa, this evening Hillel, led by its Executive Director David Weltman, is scheduled to host a special evening complete with drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

2018(11th of Cheshvan, 5779): Parashat Lech-Lecha

2019: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich by Mary Lane.

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a walking tour led by Tony Michels who “traces how the Yiddish socialist movement influenced NY politics and culture.”

2019: French historian and psychologist Jacques Sémelin is scheduled to discuss his book, The Survival of the Jews in France at the Breman Museum in Atlanta.

2019: The Eyal Vilner Big aBand is scheduled to return to Birdland Jazz Club.

2019: In Los Gatos, CA, the Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to host the “Sukkot BBQ.”

2019: In San Francisco, Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled to host a performance of “Nabucco,” Verdi’s opera based on the story of the Babylonian king who destroyed the First Temple.

2019: In New Orleans, the Jewish Federation is scheduled to host “JNOLA’s Safari in the Sukkah.”

2019(21st of Tishrei, 5780): Hoshana Rabah

2020: The Boston Workers Circle is scheduled to present online “People Power: Bridging Movements and Generations in 2020.”

2020: The Consulate General of Canada in New York and the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York are scheduled to co-host “Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade..?

2020: Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “Dinner, Drinks and Drash,” a night of learning and discussion with rabbis and guest teachers from all across Columbus, OH.

2020: The Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish FilmFest is scheduled to make “House on Wannsee Street” available for viewing for the next 48 hours.

2020: The JCCSF is scheduled to host online “actor-director Natalie Portman as she discusses her new picture book Fables.”

2020: “The Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood at JCCSF is scheduled to present a talk by Jewish studies scholars Arnold Elsen and Deena Aranoff, moderated by JCCSF CEO Marci Glazer” that will also include a performance by Yiddish singer Ola Bilinsk

2020: The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is scheduled to present via Zoom a “Jerusalem Center Strategic Roundtable” on “Assessing the Role of Institutions in the Fight against Anti-Semitism.”

2020: Based on yesterday’s clash in the Knesset over the response to the COVID closures and the road closures by the IDF along the Gaza strip, Israeli’s are reminded today that they are dealing with two life threatening realities – the Pandemic and Terrorist attacks.

2021: The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host a conversation with Rabbi Shira Stutman, in which attendees will learn about Dr. AlexandraFriedman’s upbringing, her decision to join the Hasidic movement after graduating from college, her commitment to religion and family as well as the myriad ways that she has stretched the community’s social norms.

2021: The Jew­ish Book Coun­cil,  JBC Network partners, and inter­na­tion­al­ly best-sell­ing author David Gross­man joined with Jew­ish Book Council’s  own Mar­i­lyn Has­sid, in a con­ver­sa­tion that allowed the audi­ence a peek inside his inspi­ra­tion for writ­ing his book The Last Million

2022: Via Zoom, the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host Professor Shirli Gilbert in conversation with Elizabeth Anthony, the Director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the author of The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust  which was a commended finalist for the Wiener Holocaust Library’s Ernst Fraenkel Book Prize.

2022: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center, the Book Festival of the MJCCA and the National JCC Literary Consortium are scheduled to host Benjamin Netanyahu, upon the release of his new memoir, Bibi: My Story.

2022: In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to co-host “a special hometown performance of saxophonist Eddie Barbash.

2022: The Center for Jewish History and the American Sephardi Association are scheduled to present Dr. Joseph Sassoon, Professor of History and Political Economy and Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, who will discuss  The Sassoons: The Great Global  Merchants and the Making of an Empire with Lauren Gilbert, Senior Manager for Public Services at the Center for Jewish History.

2023: The live broadcast on Kan Kol Hamusika from the Eden-Tamir scheduled to take place has been postponed in the wake of violent attacks on Israel.

2023: In Brookline, MA, Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to present  “Shabbat Nariya: The Shabbat Sing-Out and Potluck Dinner” “Co-sponsored by Kavod Boston and led by TBZ’s musical prayer leader Noah Weinberg and the mehalelim (praisers).”

2023: In London, the exhibition “The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90” which opened July 4 is scheduled to come to an end today.

2023: Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and National Director of the Ant-Defamation League is scheduled to speak at Temple Emanu-El’s Special Shabbat service showing “Unity and Solidarity with Israel.

2023: As October 20,  begins in Israel, “air raid sirens have sounded across central Israel, including Rishon Lezion, Tel Aviv, Bat Yam and Holon, after a barrage of rockets is fired from Gaza,” rockets continued to be fired from Lebanon and “nearly two weeks after Hamas’s attack southern Israel, some 100 to 200 people remain unaccounted for, with bodies still being found” while the IDF has said over 200 people are being held as hostage.”

(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)

2024: “Comedy for Koby” featuring Tom Cotter Judy Gold, Nick Griffin and Avi Liberman is scheduled to be performed at the Jerusalem Theatre on David Marcus Street.

2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host “Heroes in Times of Tragedy” during which Trudy Gold will examine the nature of heroism and the variety of forms it can take including the “appalling and acute situations in which the Jewish people have found themselves, such as the Warsaw ghetto.

2024(17th of Tishrei, 5785): Third Day of Sukkot; for more see Weekly Torah Reading / Weekly Torah Portion

2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to participate in the 22nd annual Open House New York Weekend, a festival celebrating the best cultural offerings across the five boroughs.

2024: The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to host a “Curators Tour of Tapestries by Shoshana Comet,” a “psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor.”

2024: Eylon Levy and Rachel Riley, MBE are scheduled to host “Zumba in London and Tel Aviv,” a JNF UK fund raiser for the survivors of the NOVA Festival.

2024: Tikvah is scheduled to host the first session of “The Wisdom of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks” that provides parents with a unique to study the weekly Torah Portion with children in grades 6, 7, or 8.

2024: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “B.R.E.A.D. "Rodef Tzedek" Network Listening Session” where “seekers of justice” can discuss the local issues that mean the most to them.

2024: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including When We Flew, a children’s book by Alice Hoffman based on the life of Anne Frank, Peggy, a novel by Rebecca with Leslie Jamison based on the life of Peggy Guggenheim and  Life After Kafka, a novel by Magdaléna Platzová based on the life of Franz Kafka.

2024: The Weitzman is scheduled to host “award-winning journalist Yardena Schwartz as she  discusses her new book examining the 1929 Hebron massacre and its critical role in understanding the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict.”

https://theweitzman.org/events/ghosts-of-a-holy-war/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=events&utm_content=Oct-1-Nova

 

2024: Final screening of “Bella! This Woman’s Place Is In The House” is scheduled to take place.

2024: As October 20th 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 380 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah  (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)