This Day, October 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 27
312: Constantine the Great is said to have received
his famous Vision of the Cross which will join the Sword of Constantine to the
Cross of Christ in the governing of the Roman Empire, much to the detriment of
the Jews for centuries to come.
710: Islamic forces,
variously described as Saracens, Berbers or Moors, raided Sardinia which is
under the nominal control of the Byzantine (Christian) Empire. This is just one
more in a series of raids that began in the first decade of the eighth
century. Jews had been living on the
island from the days of the Emperor Tiberius when 4,000 of them were banished
from Rome. While information about the
Jews living on Sardinia during this period is sketchy there were numerous
Jewish communities including one at Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. Toward
the end of the sixth century, a converted Jew named Peter placed images of
saints in the synagogue in Cagliari on Easter Monday. The Jews lodged a
complaint with Pope Gregory the Great, who ordered Bishop Januarius of Cagliari
to have the images at once removed. We also know that the Jews must have
survived whatever damage was done to the island by marauding Moors because
there is a record of the synagogue in Cagliari having been destroyed by a fire
at the end of the 8th century.
1156: Birthdate of
Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence. He was considered to be so sympathetic to the
Jews that Pope Innocent III caused him to take an oath "that he would
deprive the Jews of their offices and that he would never appoint any Jews or
in any way favor them.
1275: Founding of the
modern city of Amsterdam. While there
are reports of Jews living in the Low Countries an area that would have
included the Netherlands, going back to Roman times, the Jewish community of
Amsterdam dates from the 16th century when Marranos and Sephardim
found there way to the Protestant city.
1430: Vytautas the
Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania, passed away. According to some Jewish
historians, the reign of Vytautas the Great was the golden age for Jews of
Lithuania-Poland.
1466: Birthdate of Dutch humanist and theologian
Desiderius Erasmus. While Erasmus may be
revered by the world at large, he gets mixed notices from Jewish sources. On the one hand he spoke up for Jews when he
said, “If it is Christian to hate the Jews, all of us are only too good
Christians.” At the same time he was above a little Jew-bashing when wrote,
“Jews are very numerous in Italy; in Spain there are hardly Christians. I am aft raid that when the occasion arise,
that pest formerly suppressed, will raise its head again.”
1495: Coronation of Manuel
I, the king of Portugal who “at the outset of his reign released all of the
Jews who had been made captive during the reign of John II” but who changed his
policy towards the Jews and agreed to persecute and expel them as the price for
being able to marry Infanta Isabella of Aragon the daughter of the Spanish
monarchs who had expelled the Jews from their realm.
1597: Sixty-three-year-old
Alfonso II d’Deste who employed Italian engineer Abraham Colorni whom he sent
to Prague on a mission in 1588 passed away today.
1682: Founding of the
city of Philadelphia by William Penn.
The city’s name means “brotherly love.” Twenty-six years before William
Penn, the Quaker leader who founded Philadelphia set foot in the New World in
1682, a few Jews were trading with the Native Americans along the South River, later
known as the Delaware River. After the British took New York, merchants from
the former Dutch city, included Jewish merchants, saw opportunity in
Philadelphia. One of them was the New
York-born son of Moses Levy, established merchant, active in the Jewish
community of New York. In 1737, Nathan Levy settled permanently in Philadelphia
where he built a business of his own. He and his cousin, David Franks, formed
the first important Jewish company there, Levy and Franks, importers and
merchants. In the 1740’s Levy would be the leader of the group that formed
Mikveh Israel Cemetery. Mikveh Israel
Cemetery would lead to the formation of the first Jewish congregation in
Philadelphia, Mikveh Israel.
1708: The community of
Metz entered into contract with Abraham ben Saul Broda for him to serve as the
community’s rabbi.
1752: Isaac ben
Issachar of Einhorn who had passed away on Shabbat was buried today at the
“Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.
1753(29th of
Tishrei, 5514): Abraham Oppenheimer, who had been born in 1740, passed away
today in Vienna.
1765: The last public
Auto da Fe was held in Portugal.
1786: Birthdate of Frédéric
Cerfberr, the native of Strasburg whom Napoleon appointed secretary of the
imperial commissariat in the Ionian Islands and who served as the French consul
during the post-Napoleonic period in several places including New York, New
Orleans and Hatti.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4186-cerfberr-frederic
1779: During the
American Revolution, Solomon Bush, whose father Matthias had been one of the
signers of the non-importation agreement in 1765, was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel today.
1780: In a letter
General George Washington wrote a letter to Sir Henry Clinton informing him
that David Franks by direction of Congress, David Franks “will not be permitted
to as commissar to the British prisoners after the the 10th of next
month…”
1785: Major-General
Oliver De Lancey the British loyalist who married Phila Franks, the daughter of
Abigail and Jacob Franks, which led to a complete break between the daughter
and her parents, passed away today.
1786: Birthdate of Frédéric
Cerfberr, the native of Strasburg, the French diplomat who served as consul in
New York, New Orleans and Haiti where his daughter was killed in an earthquake,
and he suffered what would prove to be fatal injuries.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-01-02-0058
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0006-0021
1798: In Germantown, PA
Miriam Marks gave birth to Clara Nones the twin sister of Aaron Nones, who
passed away at the age of two.
1798: In Germantown,
PA, Miriam Marks and Benjamin Abraham Nones gave birth to Aaron Benjamin Nones,
the twin brother of Clara Nones who outlived by fifty-four year years, passing
away at the of fity-six
1807: Ephriam Mosely,
the father of Francis, Moses and Rosetta Mosely, was buried today in the UK.
1809: Birthdate of New
York City native and attorney Emanuel Bernard Hart, a member of the New York
City Board of Alderman and colonel in the militia who when he was elected to
serve in the 32nd Congress became New York’s first Jewish member of
Congress.
1818: Birthdate of
Bavaria native and future Ohio resident Joseph Louis Swarts, the husband
Caroline Stix Swarts and the father of Solomon Louis Swarts
1820: In Alsace,
France, Charlotte Aron, the daughter of Asser Lion and Gitlé Loëw and Alexandre
Aron gave birth to Henri Alexandre Aron.
1823: Birthdate of
William Dunlap Simpson, the Governor of South Carolina who pardoned Francis
Cardozo, the “son of Lydia Weston, a free woman of color, and Isaac Nunez
Cardozo” and a cousin of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo” who had been convicted on
trumped up charges of fraud.
1825(15th of
Cheshvan, 5586): Sixty-six-year-old Jacob (Jehuda) Herz Beer, the son of Naphtali
(Herz) Beer and Jente Enoch Beer, husband of Amalie Beer and the father of
composer of Giacomo Meyerbeer passed away today in Berlin.
1827: Birthdate of Levi
Goldenberger, the native of Germany who came to the United States where he
became a successful lace importer.
1827: At Bučovice, near
Brno, South Moravia Julia and Leopold "Löbl Jünger" Strakosch gave
birth to Anna Strakosch
1831: Alexander Bravo,
Esq. was named to be a Provost Marshal-General in Jamaica today.
1833:
In Třešť (Triesch), Salomon and Josef Birnbaum gave
birth to Carl Karoly Birnbaum, the husband of Sofie Zsofia Birnbaum and the
father of Salomon Birnbaum; Moriz Moritz Birnbaum; Kamilla Birnbaum and Gizella
Pauker
1839: Birthdate of
Karolin native “Yitzchak Yaakov Reines (Isaac Jacob
Reines) the Orthodox rabbi whose belief in Zionism led him to found the
Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement and who was the father of Jewish author
Moses Reines, the native of Lida who pre-deceased his father.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Reines_Yitshak_Yaakov
1840, Sultan Abdulmecid
issued his famous ferman concerning the "Blood Libel Accusation"
saying: "... and for the love we bear to our subjects, we cannot permit
the Jewish nation, whose innocence for the crime alleged against them is evident,
to be worried and tormented as a consequence of accusations which have not the
least foundation in truth...". (from Jews in the Ottoman Empire and
Turkey)
1843: In New York City,
Grace and Jacques Judah Lyons gave birth to Julius Judah Lyon the husband of
Constance Lyons and the father of Edwin Jacques Lyons
1844: Birthdate of
Russian born “American author” William Schur who taught Hebrew in
Constantinople and Egypt before finally coming to the United States in 1887
where he finally settled in Chicago in 1897.
1844: Ferdinand
Eberstadt of Worms/Mannheim and his wife Sara Seligmann gave birth to Elizabeth
Eberstadt, the sister of architect Rudolph Eberstadat and the second wife of
Sir George Henry Lewis.
1848: Königsberg native,
Johann Jacoby, a doctor by training who became active in the political
upheavals of the 1840s called for ‘the rescue of the Viennese revolution” when
the “counter-parliament convened in Berlin” today.
1856:In Lithuania,
Hannah and Jacob Mayerberg gave birth to Julius Lewis Mayerberg the husband of
Rachel Rae Israel Mayerberg with whom he had five children – Florence, Israel,
Sarah, Emil and Samuel – who served as the Rabbi for Oheb Shalom in Goldsboro,
NC for 34 years starting in 1890
1858: RH Macy & Co
opened its first store on Sixth Avenue in New York City. Gross receipts for the
day totaled $1106. The Straus family,
which had been leasing space in Macy's to operate a chinaware department, the
store's most profitable section, acquired Macy’s in 1896 and turned it into one
of the country’s leading department stores.
One sign of the change came in when they relocated
the store to its Herald square location at 34th Street and Broadway in
1858: Birthdate of Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States. In 1903, Roosevelt moved boldly to confront
the Czar over the massacre of the Jews at Kishinev. Roosevelt’s intervention on behalf the Jews
was unusual and won him and the Republican Party a great deal of support in
years to come. Theodore Roosevelt
was the first President to appoint a Jew to a presidential cabinet. In 1906 he
named Oscar S. Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt was
also the first President to contribute his own funds to a Jewish cause. In
1919, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts while President to
settle the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt donated some of his prize money to the
National Jewish Welfare Board.
1859: Sir Saul Samuel
begins serving the first of two terms as Treasurer of New South Wales.
1861: In Cincinnati,
Ohio, Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs gave birth George Ochs who gained fame as
George Washington Ochs-Oaks a member of the Ochs family of New York Times whose
varied career included serving as newspaper reporter, a member of the New York
National Guard during WW I and mayor of Chattanooga, TN who died one day before
his seventieth birthday.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=22878
1862: Emanuel Moyer,
who would reach the rank of Sergeant before being killed in fighting at White House,
VA, began his services in Company H of the 155th Regiment.
1862: In a report
published today the New York Times special correspondent covering the Army of
the Potomac described troop movements in and around Culpepper and Warrenton, VA
as well as the disposition of Rebel troops in Richmond. The report is based on an interview that he
had with a man whom he described as “a Jew” who has resided in the South for
several years, “so that his statements are not considered the most
reliable.” This Jew claimed that the
reason he had taken refuge within the lines of the Union Army was to escape the
rebellion.
1863: Birthdate of
Chasniki native Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, “a Jewish author, playwright,
researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist,
best known for his play The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, written in 1914, and
for Di Shvue, the anthem of the Jewish socialist Bund.”
https://www.jhom.com/personalities/ansky/index.htm
1863: In Louisville,
Theobold and Adelaide (Strauss) David gave birth to Joseph B. David the husband of Emma Siesel who practiced law
in Chicago where he was a Special Assistant City Attorney before serving
several terms on the Superior Court of Cook County, first as a judge and then
as Chief Justice.
1864: Philadelphian
Theodore Jacobs began serving as Assistant Surgeon with the 187th
Regiment in the Union Army.
1864: In Paris, Lazar
Schorstein, the Vienna born son of Yitzhak Schorstein and his wife Clara
Schorstein gave birth to Therese Alice Schorstein who became Therese Alice
Montefiore when she married Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore.
1865: Four days after
he had passed away, Edward Crawcour, the son of “Isaac and Simha” Crawcour and
the husband of the former Margaret Buchanan with whom he had two children –
John and Helen – was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1866: Sir George
Jessel, Solicitor-General and Master of the Rolls and Amelia Moses gave birth
to Herbert Jessel, British soldier and Member of Parliament.
1870(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5631): Joseph Jakob Dreifuss the “son of Meier Dreifuss and Sara
Dreifuss, the husband of Jeanette Dreifuss and father of Sara Dreifuss; Babette
Meyer; Meier Dreyfuss; David Dreifuss; Madel Dreifuss; Marx Dreifuss; Emanuel
Dreifuss; Fanny Schleicher Rosenstiel; Clara Dreifuss and Baruch Dreifuss
passed away today after which he was buried in Schmieheim.
1872: “A Startling
Novelty” published today traces the history of embalming. Based on Genesis, “And Joseph commanded his
servants, the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed
Israel” and “So Joseph died, and being an hundred and ten years old; and they
embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.” While the Israelites learned about embalming
from the Egyptians, the latter used a much more elaborate process and “the
embalmers were regarded as…sacred persons.”
1874: Birthdate of San
Francisco native and Stanford undergrad Henry Harris, the Johns Hopkins trained
physician who practiced in his hometown while serving on the faculty of
Cal-Berkley.
1874: Isaac Alsbacher,
the son of German-Jewish immigrants Jetta and Moses Alsbacher and his wife
Rebecca Klein gave birth their first child Moses Alsbacher, a resident of
Cleveland, OH.
1875: “Hebrews of New
York” published today praised the record “which Jacob Hess has made for himself
in one session of the Assembly” as “one of which any patriot may be proud.”
1877:
In Forkland, AL, Maurice and Jennie (Samter) Levy gave birth to Yale Phi Beta
Kappa graduate and Columbia trained attorney Louis Samter Levy, the husband of
Irma Boskowitz and co-founder of Pi Lamba Phi Fraternity in 1895
1877: In Mayesville,
SC, A.A. Strauss and Emelia Weinberg Strauss gave birth to Bertha Straus, who became Bertha Sternberger
when she married Emanual Sternberger who was the “President of Revolution
Cotton Mill.”
1878: It was reported
today that the Hebrew Benevolent Society is among those organizations in New
Orleans that is continuing to provide aid to those suffering during the
region’s Yellow Fever Epidemic.
1878: In Cincinnati,
OH, Emily Fechheimer and Alfred Seasongood
gave birth to Harvard trained attorney and the husband of Agnes Senior,
Murray Seasongood, the Mayor of Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati law school
professor who was a trustee of HUC, vice president of the Ohio Jewish
Publication Society and a member of K.K.B.L. (Rockdale Avenue Temple).
1879(10th of
Cheshvan, 5640):Twenty-year-old A. Louis Hutzler, the Petersburg, VA born son
Fanni and Seligman L. Hutzler passed
away today in Richmond, VA.
1879: “Bull-Dozing In
Mississippi” published today described a political meeting held at Bolivar
Landing, in Bolivar Country, MS, where a resolution was allegedly passed
denouncing Edward Storm as “a dishonest Jew, the servile tool of the
slave-owner before the war, and the convenient and abandoned ally of the
corrupt carpet bagger” since the end of the Civil War. (Since no record can be
found of a Jew by this name, one has to wonder if labeling him as a “Jew” was
an attempt to smear him by his political opponents who had already identified
him with the aristocracy, carpetbaggers and Republicans)
1880: Henry Abbey and
Louis de Bebian were among those who greeted the famous Jewish actress Sara
Bernhardt when she arrived off the coast of the United States aboard the SS Amerique.
1880: “Jewish
Longevity” published today reported that the Jews “have become the admired and
beloved of the life insurance companies…The reason is that the Christians,
after paying one or two premiums, has an unpleasant way of dying…The insured
Jew…pays his premium year after year and thus becomes a constant source of
income.” There is a great deal of
speculation as to why this is true. According to the author, it may be tied to
the business practices of Jews which tend to be less speculative than those of
Christians. This enables the Jew to
sleep soundly at night while his Christian counterpart tosses and turns. Diet
is another reason. Jews eat and drink in
moderation as compared to their Christian counterparts and do not eat pork.
Finally, Jews marry other Jews which preserves “the purity of their blood.”
1881: A woman who
claimed to be Mrs. Amelia Goldberg, an
English Jew and her 11-year-old child were found wandering the streets of New
York dressed in rags today which led to them being taken into custody and
“being committed to the care of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction.
1882: Julian Adolf
Cannot, the infant son of Kitie (Rebecca) and Emile Henri Cannot was buried
today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1882: “Mordecai Lyons”
published today reviewed Edward Harrigan’s new play which features “a Jew who,
when he finds that his daughter has been betrayed” tries to avenge her. While
the reviewer found the play disappointing he felt that Mr. Harrigan “was
artistically effective as the Jew, Mordecai, though rather uncertain at the important
situations.
1884: “A service was
held at Ramsgate to-day in honor of Sir Moses Montefiore. Chief Rabbi Adler
read a special prayer. Sir Moses insisted upon standing through the entire
service, at the conclusion of which he said in a very strong voice: "I
cannot tell a thousandth or a ten thousandth part of what I feel when by the
blessing of the almighty I have arrived at so full an age.” A reception
followed the service. On this day alone,
Montefiore received more than 800 letters and 600 telegrams from a whole host of
well-wishers, Jew and Gentile alike.
1884: “A Life Spent In
Charity” published today described the various services held to honor Sir Moses
Montefiore on his 100th birthday. Henry Ward Beecher, the leading
Protestant minister of his time, described him as being “the distinguished
citizen of the world” who “by his long life and by his splendid services in the
way of humanity, has become himself a text that involves in it the truths both
of the Old and the New Testament.”
1885: It was reported
today “Miss Rebecca Rosenthal, a Baxter Street Blond” joined hands with Patrick
Divver, the candidate for Ward 6 Alderman, to lead the opening march at the
Patrick Divver Hebrew Association’s annual ball. Jewish political leader Coroner Levy
addressed the attendees and urged them to vote for Divver.
1886: Birthdate of New
York City native and Packard Business College graduate Robert Joseph Gans, the
vending machine manufacture who settled in Los Anglese.
1886: Reports published
today described the view of S.S. (Samuel Sullivan) Cox, the U.S. Ambassador to
the Ottoman Empire, on the condition of Jewish communities overseas including
the fact that “he had been as favorably impressed by the Hebrews of Turkey as
by those of Western Europe and America.”
1886: Three days after
she had passed away, Rebecca (nee Mocatta) Montefiore, the daughter of Daniel
Mocatta and the former Nancy Goldsmid and the husband of Joseph Barrow
Montefiore with whom she had thirteen children was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1888: Heinrich Graetz,
the author of the multi-volume History of the Jews “was appointed an
honorary member of the Spanish Academy, to which, as a token of his gratitude,
he dedicated the third edition of the eighth volume of his history.”
1889: “A Patriarchal
Scribe” published today described the work of an aged Hebrew working in the
corner of a grocery store on Division Street in New York’s lower east
side. For a small fee he wrote letters
in Hebrew to be sent back to families in Europe while demonstrating the skill
to complete the information on the envelope so that the epistle would arrive at
its proper destination.
1889: It was reported
today that while on their way back from raiding the offices of the Louisiana
Lotter, police in Boston had arrested “Barnett Gompertz, the little English Jew
eyeglass peddler who has had a stand at the head of Williams Court, otherwise
known as Pie Alley, for over twenty years.”
1889: “Christians Made
Jewess” published today described the process by which a young English woman
converted to Judaism before she was married at the West London Synagogue on
Upper Berkeley Street.
1889: In Vienna, Josef
Schoenstein, the son of Moritz Schoenstein married Perla Pauline Mose, the
daughter of Josef Mose.
1891: Birthdate of Paul
Grüninger the police commander in Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland who saved
3,601 from the Nazis following the Anschluss in 1938.
https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/grueninger.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/beautiful-souls-by-eyal-press.html
1891: It was reported
today that the government of Turkey has prohibited the immigration of Jewish
families of any nationality meaning that they cannot settle in Palestine. But
individual Jews are allowed to pass through the empire.
1893: Riga born
Socialist Party leader Julius Gerber “applied for and was granted USA citizenship
on today in Kings County, Brooklyn, New York.”
1893: Alice Emily
Henriques, the daughter of Philip Joseph Gutteres Henriques and the former
Beatrice Rachel Faudel-Phillips was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1894(27th of
Tishrei, 5655): Parashat Bereshit
1894: At Temple
Emanu-El in New York, Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon related to the
upcoming election in which he used the life of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to
deliver an apolitical lesson on civic responsibility.
1894: In the
Netherlands, Jette Eppenheim, the Brandenburg born daughter of Louis Eppenheim
and Marianne Steinhardt and her husband Fredrick de Jong gave birth to Leo de
Jong
1895: Austrian Prime
Minister Badeni revives the "Presse", forerunner and now out-lived
rival of the "Neue Freie Press." Herzl is offered the editorship of
the "Presse". After some days of negotiations with Moritz Benedikt,
Herzl refuses the offer.
1896(20th of
Cheshvan, 5657): Less than a month before his 62nd birthday, Isaac
Bamberger, the rabbi at the reform congregation in Königsberg passed away
today.
1896: Birthdate of
Cardiff native Isaac E. Feinstein, who in 1903 came to the United States where
he graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia and who as “president of
both the local and state nursing convalescent homes” promised in 1953 full
cooperating “in preventing overcrowding and fire hazards” in these facilities.
1896: Birthdate of New
York native Herbert Raubenheimer, the first basketball coach and athletic
director at Long Island University.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/herbert-raubenheimer-1.html
1897(1st of
Cheshvan, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1897: In Cheshire, Mr.
and Mrs. Louis S. Breslauer gave birth to a son.
1897: In Philadelphia
Emmett Baum and his wife gave birth to University of Pennsylvania Phi Beta
Kappa graduate and U.S. Navy veteran, Morton J. Baum, the President of Hickey
from 1959 until 1963 and the husband of Margaret Hayes with whom had two children,
Helen and Morton Baum, Jr.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/02/80461146.html?pageNumber=27
1898: In Tangier, Rachel
Hélène Cazès gave birth to Rachel Hélène Cazès who gained fame as Hélène
Cazès-Benatar, “Morocco’s first woman lawyer” organizer of relief efforts for
North African Jews during WW II who “after the war helped Jewish refugees move
to Israel.”
1898: Philip S.
Golderman served his last day as Color Sergeant of the 203rd New
York Infantry.
1899: It was reported
today that Charles Frohman, the Sandusky born son of Jewish parents Barbara
Straus and Henry Frohman, has returned from Buffalo, NY where he produced “Sherlock
Holmes” and arranged “his attractions for the balance of the year Madison
Square Garden” which include a production of “Wheels Withing Wheels.”
1900(4th of
Cheshvan, 5661): Parashat Noach chanted on the same day that Buster Keaton,
whose parents Joe and Myra “who co-owned a medicine show with Erik Weisz (Harry
Houdini) made his vaudeville debut today.
1901: Today “William N.
Cohen, the ex-Justice of the Supreme Court sent a letter to a Jewish paper
published on the east side which has asked for expressions of opinion from Jews
on the issues of the” city’s political campaign in which he expressed his opposition
to Tammany Hall candidates.
1902: Herzl arrives in
Vienna having finished his trip to London.
1903: Herzl travels to
Edlach, Austria.
1903: Yale Phi Beta
Kappa graduate and Columbia trained attorney Louis Samter Levy, the Alabama
born son of Maurice and Jennie (Samter) Levin a co-founder of Pi Lamba Phi
Fraternity married Irma Berkowitz today.
1903: Birthdate of
Oklahoma native Eleanor Klein the Washington University graduate who married
Errold Baum Lapowski and as Eleanor Lapowski gave birth to Jean and Emily and
served as President of the National Council of Jewish Women while living in El
Paso, TX.
1904: In New York
businessman Leo Arnstein and Elsie Arnstein gave birth Smith College graduate
Margaret Arnstein, the holder of Master of Arts from Columbia who was the chief of nursing for the United
States Public Health Service and dean of the Yale University School of Nursing.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/margaret-arnstein
1904: Rabbi Rubin
officiated at the marriage of Joseph Baron and Annie Pinosky in South Carolina
today.
1904: At seven this
evening the general public began riding the first subway in what has become
“the largest transit system of its kind” and includes the A Train which travels
through the Jewish neighborhoods in Washington Heights, the Village and Crown Heights
and “the 1, which passes through Riverdale, Washington Heights and the “one
true shtetl” of the Upper West Side. (As reported by Jonathan Paul Katz)
Read more:
http://forward.com/opinion/321620/what-is-the-most-jewish-subway-line/
1905: William T.
Jerome, who was running for re-election as New York County District Attorney
addressed a crowd of about 3,000 Jews in Beethoven Hall this evening where he
made a reference to one of his opponents eating hogs, which some considered
prejudicial concerning the dietary laws.
1906: Mutilated bodies
of Jewish women were found in the streets of Arzila, Tangier.
1906: It was reported
today that “a number of organizations will march to the house” of Simon Wolf in
Washington, DC as part of the celebration of the “seventieth anniversary of his
birth” which occurs on October, 28.
1907: As a sign of the
determination of Oscar S. Straus to bring the Department of Commerce and Labor
“into its own, get in touch with the business world and let the people know
that is a department of commerce as well as of labor,” the new Secretary of the
Department of Commerce and Labor has “issued a call for a meeting of
representatives of the various Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce and other
commercial organization to be held in Washington on December 5th.
1908: Two days after
she had passed away, “Esther Goldstein, the widow of Abraham Goldstein” was
buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”
1908: In Brooklyn, NY,
“Russian Jewish immigrants “Chane (nee Weiss) and Joseph Krasner gave birth to
Lena Krassner who gained fame as abstract expression painter Lenore “Lee”
Krasner, the wife and helpmate in the truest sense of that word, of Jackson
Pollock.
1909(12th of
Cheshvan, 5670): Theresa Otterbourg, the older daughter of Raphael Isaac Cohen,
the sister of Bertha Lewis, the sister-in-law of David Lewis and wife of Dr.
Jonas Salomon Otterbourg who “directed a very successful girls’ school at
Marine House in Dover” passed away today.
1910: In New York,
George de Cordova “who worked in the theatre” business and who “was from a
Jamaican Sephardic Jewish family related to Julian de Cordova, founder of the
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and Waco, Texas, founder Jacob de Cordova”
and Margaret Timmins gave birth to director and producer Frederick Timmins de
Cordova, best known to Americans as Freddie de Cordova, the producer and
director of the Tonight Showing Starring Johnny Carson in which he transformed
a daytime game show host into a national cultural icon.
1911: Samuel Morris was
elected a member of the Town Council in Doncaster, England.
1911: In Manchester,
the Beth Din adopted a resolution “protesting against an amendment proposed by
the Board of Deputies to Animals Slaughter Bill.”
1911: An article
datelined Yuzivka, Russia, entitled “More Jews to be Expelled: Will Cause Much
Hardship,” reports that the Governor has signed a proclamation stating that all Jews in the Province of Ekaterinoslaff are
subject to expulsion, with some limited exceptions.
1912: Erna Reiss and Alfred
Döblin, the German born physician and author gave birth to their first son
Peter “who was baptized a Protestant.
1912: In Denver,
Colorado, dedication of the “Schoenberg Memorial Hospital Building of National
Jewish Hospital Jewish Hospital for Consumptives.
1912: Today Montefiore
Home for Chronic Invalids “laid the cornerstone for its new buildings on Gun
Hill Road (East 210th Street).
1912: In New York City
Leopold "Leo" Sulzberger and Beatrice Sulzberger gave birth to Cyrus
L. Sulzberger, the “husband of Mariana Tatiana Sulzberger” and the New York Times Pulitzer prize winning
correspondent and author, the nephew of NYT publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberg, who
was known by his initials as C.L. Sulzberger
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/21/obituaries/c-l-sulzberger-columnist-dies-at-80.html
1913: In Brooklyn,
“pharmacist Louis Silverman” and “homemaker Gussie (Zuckerblatt) Silverman”
gave birth to Pearl Silverman who gained fame as Patricia Schiller, the
pioneering attorney and wife of fellow attorney Irving Schiller. (As reported
by Neil Genzlinger)
1913: During the first
Balkan war, practically the entire Jewish community of Itchip numbering 710
people fled to Salonica to avoid having to face the conquering Bulgarian army. Only
6 men and 2 youths stayed behind. Two of the old men were killed; all the
Jewish homes were plundered and demolished. Synagogues were desecrated and
burned, as were 24 Jewish stores and homes.
1914: Twenty-four-year-old
Louis Weinstein “a British subject from Cape Town, described the events that
took him from the coast of South Africa to Brazil and eventually to New York
where he “is in the care of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society.”
1914: As Americans
respond to the needs for funds to relieve the suffering of war-torn Europe,
Jacob Schiff, the Treasurer of the New York branch of the American Red Cross
“announced additional subscriptions amounting to $2, 841.”
1915: In Manchester,
England, Neville Jonas Laski and the former “Phina Emily, the eldest daughter
of Moses Gaster” gave birth to English author Marghanita Laski, the niece of
Harold Laski.”
https://apnews.com/9b43bdd6498e9ea92ec014d5f3652bb4
1915: Dr. Anthony
Maliauskis, a Lithuanian priest who arrived in New York today on the Norwegian
steamer Frederik VIII said that the plight of refugees fleeing the fighting on
the Russian front which included at least 200,000 Jews “appears to be far worse
than anything of the kind that afflicted the people of Belgium.
1915: Birthdate of
Quebec native Herschel Saltzman, who gained fame as Harry Saltzman, the
co-producer of the James Bond film series.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html
1916: After having been
arrested for distributing information about birth control and spending the
night in jail Fania Mindell and her two colleagues were released on bail today
1916: It was reported
today that the Adjutant General of the New York National Guard has offered
assurances that if the changes recommended by the Governor to the recruiting
regulation do not end discrimination against Jews in the recruiting process
others “with teeth” will be inserted in the Military Regulations” while the
Committee for the Protection of the Good Name of Immigrant Peoples “proposes to
see to it that no offending officer shall escape punishment…”
1916: Part II of “The
Uncanny House,” a three-part mystery movie directed by Richard Oswald was
released in Germany today.
1916: In his erev
Shabbat sermon at Temple Israel in Brooklyn, Rabbi Nathan Kress condemned the
resolution adopted by the Episcopal General Convention at St. Louis “urging the
conversion of Jews to Chrsitianity.”
1917: Based on reports
from the Petrograd correspondent of the Jewish Daily Forward, it was reported
today that “the Central Committee of the All Russian Councils” wants to
immediately “organize anti-Pogrom Committees throughout the provinces to combat
and suppress the counter revolutionary and anti-Semitic agitation.”
1917: In London, the Jewish Chronicle published a report from
its Petrograd correspondent in London describing the mistreatment of the Jews
by the Germans in Russia in which he said the German “commandant of a village
order the Jews to remove from here streets because he had to pass through those
streets on the way to his office and objected to meeting so many Jews”
1917: Colonel Harry
Cutler, of Providence, RI, the Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board discussed
the drive to raise one million dollars which would enable the Board to provide
Jewish soldiers with “the same facilities for recreation and religious observance
provided for soldiers of other faiths” which was necessitated by the fact that
forty percent of the men at Camp Upton were Jews, 16 percent of the men at Camp
Meade were Jews and seven percent of the men at Camp Dix were Jews.
1918: The Citizen’s
Union’s analysis of judicial and legislative included the following: “Justice
Nathan Ottinger, a Republican, has demonstrated clearly during the period that
he has sat on the bench by appointment that he possesses high judicial qualifications
which justify his election.”
1918: German General
Erich Ludendorff, the second in command of the German Army who was the brains
behind the figurehead Hindenburg, a declared anti-Semite, one of the architects
of the “stabbed-in-the-bag” canard and a partner with Hitler in the 1923 attempted
putsch, was forced to resign his position today just a couple of weeks before
the end of WW I.
1918: University of
Pennsylvania and Columbia educated author Arthur K. Stern, the Philadelphia bon
son of Carrie Kaufman and Moses Stern and the President of the Jewish
Chautauqua Society from 1920 to 1925 married Henrietta Berkowitz today
1918: Fifty-one-year-old
Alexander Protopopov who as Russian Minister of the Interior who said in 1916
that he believed “in equal rights for Jews” and that this would be part of the
move to abolish “everything that hinders further progress” in Russia was
executed by the Cheka (Soviet secret police) today.
1919: In Philadelphia,
the Public Ledger published excerpts from “The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion.”
1920: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native and meteorologist Seymour Lester Hess the holder of degrees
from Brooklyn College and the University of Chicago and the husband of Jeanne
Lester with whom he had three children – Stephen, Robert and Barbara – “who
gave his first weather report on the conditions on Mars on July 27, 1976.”
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9293
1920: Rabbi Joseph
Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth began his
year-long tour of the British Empire today in South Africa which as that time
“had Jewish population of 66,000.”
1921: At a meeting in
Cincinnati tonight, “the Executive Committee of the Union of Hebrew
Congregations decided to have a committee of nationally known Jews “come to
Washington to join other Jewish groups in submitting “the question of religious
equality and racial prejudice before the” upcoming meeting of the Washington
Conference on the Limitation of Armament” because there cannot “be any hope of
real world peace until religious equality is established and racial prejudice
eradicated.”
1922(5th of
Cheshvan, 5683): Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor winner who received the
commendation at the Battle of Franklin (TN) passed away today.
1922: Wake Forest,
coached by Gene Stevens, tied Guilford at Greensboro, NC. (Yes, once upon a
time, football games lasted sixty minutes making it a metaphor for life where you work to do it
all because there is no unlimited amount of time)
1922: “Marie
Antoinette, the Love of a King” “a silent historical drama film directed,
produced and written by Rudolf Meinert was released in the Weimar Republic
(Germany) today.
1923:
On the upper West Side of Manhattan realtor Milton Lichtenstein and Beatrice
Werner Lichtenstein gave birth to Roy Lichtenstein who “did cartoon inspired paintings
that helped launch the Pop Art movement. “
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/1417
1924: Grigorii Zinoviev, the Jewish born head of the
Comintern issued a denial that he authored the so called Zinoviev Letter that
stated in part "The letter of 15th September, 1924, which has been
attributed to me, is from the first to the last word, a forgery. Let us take
the heading. The organization of which I am the president never describes
itself officially as the "Executive Committee of the Third Communist
International"; the official name is "Executive Committee of the
Communist International." Equally incorrect is the signature, "The
Chairman of the Presidium." The forger has shown himself to be very stupid
in his choice of the date. On the 15th of September, 1924, I was taking a
holiday in Kislovodsk, and, therefore, could not have signed any official
letter...” The denial was finally
published in the December 1924 issue of The Communist Review, the monthly
theoretical magazine of the CPGB, well after the MacDonald government had
fallen. Decades later, independent academic research proved that the letter was
a forgery.
1924(29th of Tishrei, 5685): Fifty-six-year-old Chicago
attorney and Sears, Roebuck and Co. executive Albert Henry Loeb “died of a
heart attack today less than two months after his son was sentence to life plus
ninety-years” for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks.
https://loebandleopold.wordpress.com/loebs/
http://flps.newberry.org/article/5418474_11_1375/
1924: Premiere of “The Story Without A Name,” a silent film melodrama
produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky.
1925: “Figures submitted today by the budget department of the Federation
for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies to Frederick Brown, General
Chairman of the federation's $4,000,000 campaign, indicate that the cost of
collecting, administering and distributing its funds will be lower than in
1924, when it was 3.83 cents on the dollar.
1926(19th of Cheshvan, 5687): Seventy-eight year old Harry
Bresslau, the father-in-law of Albert Schewitzer and German historian who “believed
in the possibility of a complete assimilation of German Jewry through an open
affirmation of the ideal of German nationhood” and who played a key role in the
founding of the Historical Commission
for the History of the Jews in Germany by the Union of German-Jewish
Congregations passed away today.
1927(1st of
Cheshvan, 5688): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1927: According to Dr.
Judah L. Magnes, “opening exercises of the fourth year of activity of the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem were held” today.
1927: Shlomo
Schawartzbard, the acquitted slayer of Semion Petlura was released late”
tonight from the Paris prisoner where he spent eighteen months awaiting trail”
and then went home to sleep in his own bed.
1927: The USS Scorpion (PY-3)
which had been commanded by Adolph Marx the first Jewish graduate of the United
States Naval Academy during the Spanish-American War was decommissioned for the
last time today.
1928: “From January to
September 1928, a total of 10,484 Jewish aliens arrived in the United States,
7,973 of them immigrants and 2,511 non-immigrants, according to the report of
the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of 425 Lafayette Street, made
public” today
1928: After opening at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 3, 1927, “A
Connecticut Yankee” with a book by Herbert Fields, music by Richard Rodgers and
lyrics by Lorenz Hart was performed for the last time on Broadway.
1929(23rd of Tishrei, 5690): Simchat Torah
1929: “Two Jacobs Brothers, Pioneer Merchants, Were First Tucson Bankers”
published today described the career of Barron M. Jacobs and his brother Lionel
M. Jacobs.
1929: “The Naer Tomid Society, Inc of the New York Fire Department is
scheduled “their Fourth Annual Entertainment and Reception at the Astor Hotel
this evening. (JTA)
1929: “Albert Steinfeld, Tucson's Merchant Prince, Arrived Here 57 Years
Ago, When City Had Only 1200 Population” published today described the career
of one of the leading early citizens of southeast Arizona.
1930: The weekly Forum of the Brooklyn Jewish Center which last week had
heard an address by English labor leader Harry Snell is scheduled to meet
tonight.
1930: At Jerusalem “a resolution that the coming Zionist Congress should
be held early in the winter was adopted today at a meeting of the Vaad Leumi,
the Jewish National Council of Palestine.”
1930: “The Singing City,” a
musical co-produced by Arnold Pressburger and music by Paul Abraham was
released today in Germany.
1931: President Herbert Hoover wrote a note expressing his sympathy over
the death of George Washington Ochs Oakes, the director of the NYT who had
passed away on October 26.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-sympathy-the-death-george-washington-ochs-oakes
1931: “Without Meyer, No Celebration” one of a number comedies made by
Caro Boese during the “Weimar Era” featuring Jewish comedians was released
today in Germany.
1932: A cordon of police “was drawn around the Vienna University” today
following yesterday’s ant-Semitic riots during which “several American
students” were “mistreated.”
1932: Industrialist Roger W. Straus, the son of the late Oscar S. Straus
delivered a radio address tonight over the NBC network expressing his support
for Herbert Hoover who is running against FDR.
1933: Arabs protesting Jewish immigration to Palestine clashed with
police today resulting in at least twenty deaths and injuries to another 130 of
the demonstrators. Among the dead and
wounded were Arabs who had attacked a police station in Haifa where a policeman
was stabbed in the back.
1933(7th of Cheshvan, 5694): Forty-six-year-old Rabbi Meir
Shapiro who made “the proposal of the study of Daf Yomi in 1923 passed away
today.
http://www.jewishhistory.org/daf-yomi/
http://www.hevratpinto.org/tzadikim_eng/159_rabbi_meir_shapira.html
1934: “A pact to insure peace in the Zionist ranks by putting an end to
riotous clashes among Jewish groups in Palestine or in any other country was
signed today by David Ben-Gurion, on behalf of the World Zionist Executive, of
which he is a member, and Vladimir Jabotinsky, as head of the Zionist
Revisionist World Union.”
1935: Baltimore native and Johns Hopkins graduate Simon Cohen, the HUC
trained rabbi wrote to President Roosevelt today express his support for the
New Deal in general and specifically for the Social Security program that had
been adopted in August.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0077/ms0077.html
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/2029
1935: “East Side People” published today provides a review of Unquiet
by Joseph Gollomb that features
the author’s alter ego, the fictional David Levitt and deals with “the familiar
matter an East Side Jewish adolescence.”
1935: One hundred and fifty Zionists honored Morris Rothenberg President
of the Zionist Organization of America with banquet at New York’s Hotel
Astor. After being introduced by Louis
P. Rocker, Rothberg described the progress he had seen on his recent visit to
the Palestine but said that “a concerted drive to unite all American Jews in
support of the” development of Palestine was necessary for ultimate success.
1936: Today, the National Conference of Jews and Christians announced
“that six honorary vice presidents of the Freethinkers Association had their
names to be removed from the roster of the organization because of an appeals
to Jews by Joseph Lewis, its president to renounced their ‘antiquated creed’
1936: “Seven Jewish students were severely injured today by Nationalist
in the Warsaw College where a virtual battle was fought between the police and
the rioters” who ignored the appeal from the Minister of Education “against the
persecution of Jews in the colleges.”
1936: “The National Conference of Jews and Christians announced” today “
that six honorary vice presidents of the Freethinkers Association had” had
“their names removed from the roster of that organization because an appeal to
Jews by Joseph Lewis, its president to renounce their ‘antiquated creed.’”
1936: Due to “a heavy rain” the only demonstration that greeted the 537
Jewish refugees who arrived at Cape Town today aboard the Stuttgart “consisted of subdued booing from a small
knot of Gray Shirts” “a local anti-Semitic organization.
1937(22nd of Cheshvan, 5698): “Hannah Leerburger, the former
President of the Sisterhood of Central Synagogue where she was an active member
of more than fifty years and the widow of Benjamin Leerburger passed away today
in Manhattan.
1937: The Palestine Post
reported that in Danzig Jewish shops and houses were pillaged and windows
smashed. This outbreak of violence against the Jews took place almost two years
before the outbreak of World War II. The
Nazis did not invent anti-Semitism. They
exploited it and made it as efficient as an assembly line for automobiles.
1937: As the Arab violence against the Jews continued The Palestine
Post reported that a Jew and an Arab constable were killed when some 15
Arab terrorists ambushed a six-truck convoy carrying 21 Jewish laborers from
the Palestine Potash concession on the Dead Sea back to Jerusalem. A number of
policemen were injured in various shooting incidents, reported throughout the
country, and in particular in Safed where the Jewish community was almost under
siege.
1938: Ho Feng-Shan who was appointed First Secretary at the Chinese
legation in Vienna in 1937 signed the 1906th visa for Jewish refugees.
1938: Ernst Lubitsch, the German American movie director and his wife,
British actress Vivian Gaye gave birth to their daughter Nicola who survived a
1939 U-Boat attack on the SS Athenia which was taking her to Montreal.
1938(2nd of Cheshvan, 5699): Fifty-four-year-old Soprano Alma
Gluck passed away today in New York
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gluck-alma
1938: German authorities began arresting Jews of Polish citizenship
living in the Reich and transporting them to the Polish border. Responding to a
Polish decree that all passports of Polish residents abroad would be rescinded
by the end of October unless a special permit for reentry to Poland was
received, the Germans preempted the Polish government by forcibly deporting
thousands of Jews across the border into Poland.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/02.asp
1938: Hitler expelled 18,000 Jews from Germany who were born in the
former Polish provinces. The Jews were abused and tortured as they made their
way to the border. The Poles did not
want to admit the Jews and for a while many were left to languish on the
border. This was a prelude to the
statelessness that would help ensure the death of millions of Jews.
1938: The Germans began arresting Jews with Polish citizenship who had
been living in Germany and began deporting them to Poland. The Polish
authorities placed the Jews in the border town of Zbaszyn and forbade them from
leaving in the hope that the large number of Jews near the border would
pressure the Germans into beginning negotiations to allow them back into
Germany. The negotiations ended in January 1939- some Jews had already been
taken in by friends and family in Poland, while other deportees were permitted
to return to Germany to wind up their affairs, and then return to Poland. For a photographic record see:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/october/03.asp
1938: Sendel Grynszpan described the deportation of the Jews to Poland,
“Then they took us in police trucks, in prisoners’ lorries, about 20 men in
each truck, and they took us to the railway station. The streets were full of
people shouting: "Juden raus! Aus nach Palästina!" ("Out with
the Jews! Off to Palestine!") The
Grynszpans and thousands of other Jews were stranded at the border because the
Poles refused to admit them.
1938(2nd of Cheshvan, 5699): Following the massacre of Jews by
Arabs in Tiberias on October 2, “Tiberian Arabs murdered the Jewish mayor Isaac
Zaki Alahdif” today.
1939(14th of Cheshvan, 5700): Eighty-one-year-old the attorney
from Erie, PA who was one of the founders of B’nai B’rith and an original
member of the American Jewish Committee passed away today.
http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=19364
1940: “Claergymen reported from the pulpits of all the Protestant
churches in German occupied Netherlands that Protestant groups were uniting in
a protest” against the recently announced “anti-Jewish decree by Dr. Arthur
Seyss-Inquart, the German commissioner for the Netherlands which excluded “Jews
from government services” and ordered that “all Jewish enterprises existing in
the Netherlands before the German invasion last May must be registered with a
statement of their capital.”
1940: Ritual slaughter was banned
in Belgium
today Were the conquering Germans animal lovers or did they realize the
importance of the dietary laws in maintaining Jewish identity.
1941: Jews
of Sluzk, 60 miles south of Minsk, Belorussia, are annihilated by Einsatzkommando
troops, half of whom are German, half Lithuanian.
1941:
In the Polish town of Kalisz, a large black truck drove up and took on a
passenger load of Jews. Escorted by two Gestapo cars, the truck drove away. Its
passengers were never heard from again. This was the first of the
gas-wagons. This method of extermination
was not efficient and would give way to that ultimate in German efficiency –
the gas chamber.
1941
“A cryptic message from SOE said that it had ‘been decided that the progress”
Isidore Newman “has made justifies his selection for work of a very responsible
nature abroad” so “kindly take the necessary action and get him post to us” as
of the first of November.
1942: The Nazis sent 3,000 Jews from Opoczno, Poland to Treblinka. At the start of the war almost half the town
of Opoczno was Jewish. Jews had lived
there since the 14th century.
The Jews had lived there continually since the start of the 18th
century. At the time of the mass deportation in
October 1942, scores of Jews fled to the forests and organized partisan units
there. The best known unit, "Lions", under the command of Julian
Ajzenman- Kaniewski, conducted a number of successful guerilla actions against
Nazi forces and the Opoczno-Konskie railway line. After the war, the Jewish
Community of Opoczno was not reconstituted.
1942: Max Basseches, David Becker, Nils Beck, Adolf Berkowitz, Richard
Bernstein, Samuel Bernstein, Seiki Bernstein, Sigmund Bernstein, Herman Bild,
Leopold Bild, Philip Moses Bild, Hillel Blatt, Benjamin Bodd, Bernhard Bodd,
Isak Bodd, Leiser Bodd, Salomon Bodd, Salomon Bogomolno, Paul Borinsky, Abraham
Borochstein, Harry Braude, Isak Braude, Rubin Claes, Fritz Cohn and Franz Daus
were among the Norwegian Jews arrested today prior to being sent to Auschwitz.
1942: Seven thousand Kraków, Poland, Jews are
deported to Belzec while another 600 are killed in Kraków.
1943: Germany announced that any Pole helping Jews to escape should be
dealt with “without the necessary delay of court hearings.” The penalty for
assisting Jews was death.
1944: In the parts of Warsaw still under German control the Nazis still
search for hidden Jews. Seven would be found and shot. For those who doubt that the War Against the
Jews was of primary consideration for the Germans, remember that they were busy
tracking down Jews while the Soviet Army was breathing down their necks.
1944(10th of Cheshvan, 5705): Thirty-nine-year-old Judith
Auer, the daughter of writer Erich Vallentin, the wife of Erich Auer and a
genuine resistance fighter was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin for her
role in the fight against Hitler.
1945(20th of Cheshvan, 5706): Parashat Vayera
1945: Tonight four hundred Jews from various concentration camps who will
be sailing from Italy to Palestine next are sleeping in barracks at an Allied
displace persons camp near Rome.”
1946: In Komárno, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia), Klara and Ladislav
"Leslie" Reitman who were respectively a survivor of Auschwitz and a
member of the underground in WW II, gave birth
to Canadian producer-director Ivan Reitman whose most famous cinematic
effort was the hit comedy “Animal House.”
1947: At Petah Tikva a house belonging to a member of Haganah was blown
up, reportedly by members of the Irgun.
Haganah leaders said they will not back down despite warnings by Irgun
of a looming civil war between the two Jewish organizations.
1947: CBS broadcast the first episode of “This Is Nora Drake,” the
long-running soap opera written by Milton Lewis
1947: The quiz show "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx,
premiered on
1948: During Operation Yoav, Israeli forces capture the Egyptian held
fort at Bet Guvrin. The Egyptians had
taken the fort when the invaded Israel in May of 1948.
1948 Israel recaptured Nizzanim in the Negev. Nizzanim is in southern
Israel on the,Mediterranean. In 1990,
the same people who high jacked the Achille Loro planned a terrorist attack on
the beaches of Nizzanim. The attack was
foiled.
1948(24th of Tishrei, 5709): Seventy-one-year-old Rabbi Judah
Leon Magnes passed away.
http://www.magnes.org/sites/www.magnes.org/files/wjhc1968-030-ar1.pdf
1949(4th of Cheshvan, 5710): Seventy-three year old University
of Vienna trained dermatologist Maurice Oppenheim, the husband of Lilly
Oppenheim and the father of Emmy and Maria Oppenheim passed away today in
Chicago.
1950: Birthdate of Fran Lebowitz,
“a Jewish-American author. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on
American life as filtered through her New York sensibilities. She has been
compared to Dorothy Parker. She was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey
by an observant family. After being expelled from high school, Lebowitz was
hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist for Interview. This was followed by a stint
at Mademoiselle. Her first book was a collection of essays titled Metropolitan
Life, released in 1978, followed by Social Studies in 1981, both of which were
collected into The Fran Lebowitz Reader.”
1952: The Jerusalem Post
commented in an editorial that a number of ugly incidents in Nazareth and the
arrest of an Arab underground group, undergoing military training in the Majdal
Krum area, drew less public attention than it deserved. There were obvious
severe shortcomings in the management of the affairs of Arabs living in Israel.
The government undertook to build 50,000 concrete dwellings within the next
three years in order to accommodate the almost 80,000 families still living in
ma’abarot.
1952(8th of Cheshvan, 5713): Forty-eight-year-old Mrs. Frances
Moses Singer the wife of attorney Henry B. Singer and the Scranton, PA born son
of Bernhard and Johanna Moses who “had been active in the Red Cross” and who
during WWII worked for “Bundles for Britaian” while serving as a member of the
Ladies Auxiliary of Temple Emanu-El passed away today at her home on Park
Avenue.
1953: Birthdate of New York native Michael M. Kaiser the Brandeis and MIT
graduate who served “as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts from 2001 to 2014.
1954:
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
William O. Douglas and Congressman Emanuel Celler spoke to 500 people attending
a dinner sponsored by the American Mogen Dovid for Israel where “Morris
Morgenstern and S. Ralph Lazrus were honored at the dinner for donating an
ambulance to the Red Mogen David, the equivalent of the Red Cross in Israel.”
(As reported by JTA)
1955: A paratroop regiment which “is on a mission to capture the Kuntila
Fortress in Sinai, deep in Egyptian territory…kills ten Egyptian soldiers and
captures twenty nine” while suffering casualties that included two dead and two
wounded.”
1955: “Rebel Without A Cause” the cult adolescent rebellion film with a
screenplay by Stewart Stern and Irving Shulman and music by Leonard Rosenman
was released today by Warner Brothers.
1957(2nd of Cheshvan, 5718): Galicia
native and Yiddish author Fishl Verber, the Zionist who made Aliya in 1934
passed away today “in Ramatayim, Israel.”
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/06/fishl-verber.html
1957: Psychologist Dr. Joyce
Brothers put her boxing trivia to the test and came away with $64,000. Dr. Brothers, who was appearing on the game
show The $64,000 Challenge, took the top prize, competing against a team
of seven boxers on boxing lore. This was her second time winning the program's
top prize — two years earlier she had claimed her first victory (when the show
was called The $64,000 Question), also on the subject of boxing.
Brothers' appearance on The $64,000 Question not only garnered her a substantial
prize, but also sparked her career as a talk-show psychologist. After her
appearance on Challenge, Brothers was picked to co-host WATV's show, Sports
Showcase. In 1958, NBC offered Brothers her own talk show, The Dr. Joyce
Brothers Show. The show, which counseled viewers on childrearing, marriage,
and sex, was an instant success and soon became syndicated nationally. In 1963,
Brothers began writing a monthly column for Good Housekeeping, which
remains a feature of the magazine today. She also writes a daily column that is
published in more than 350 newspapers, and has written several books, including
What Every Woman Should know About Men (1982) and How to Get Whatever
You Want Out of Life (1978). Her most personal and popular work was Widow
(1990), which described Brothers' emotional journey after the death of her
husband in 1989 after thirty-nine years of marriage. (JWA)
1958(13th
of Cheshvan, 5719): Eighty-four Lithuanian born “professor of Hebrew
Literature” and “chief redactor of the Encyclopedia Hebraica” Joseph
Gedaliah Klausner, “the great uncle of Amos Oz” whose seminal works were Jesus
of Nazareth and From Jesus to Paul passed away today in Jerusalem.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9368-klausner-joseph
https://www.jta.org/1958/10/28/archive/prof-joseph-klausner-noted-scholar-dies-in-israel-was-84
1959:
“Problems of Jewish education in Israel were discussed” in New York “today at
the opening session of a meeting of the board of directors of the National
Council of Jewish Women” where “plans were mapped for the launching a
nationwide campaign to build a campus for the Model High School of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.” (JTA)
1959:
NBC broadcast “The Secret World of Kids” featuring Ed Wynn in Episode 4 of the
Startime television anthology series.
1962:
The Broadway Company of “Beyond the Fringe” a British comedy revue co-authored
by Jonathan Miller opened today in New York.
1963:
It was reported today that when the San Franciso Film Festival begins this
week, “it will be marked by two precedents” because “the opening move, ‘The
Victors’ produced, written and directed by Carl Foreman will be a product made
for Hollywood” the screening of the “picture will violate the Hollywood boycott
of this cinema fair.”
1963:
Birthdate of Givatayim, Israel native “the singer and musician” who has
composed music for such movies as “Broken Wings” and at the other end of the
spectrum the Batsheva Dance Company.
1964:
In the wake of Barry Goldwater’s nomination to lead the Republican Part, the
Ripon Society, an organization of liberal Republicans endorsed seventy-five
candidates for major office including New York Congressman Seymour Halpern.
1964:
U.S. premiere of “The Americanization of Emily” a great film that must be seen
by everybody directed by Arthur Hiller, with a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky,
co-starring Melvyn Douglas and featuring Steve Franken was released in the
United States today.
1964(21st
of Cheshvan, 5725): Sixty-six-year-old director and producer Rudolph Maté, born
Rudolf Mayer in Krakow who began his career as a cinematographer passed away
today.
http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/mate.htm
1964:
“Ben Franklin in Paris” a musical with songs by Jerry Herman opened at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,
1964:
Linda and Malcolm Glazer gave birth to Bryan Glazer, a graduate of American
University and Whittier Law School became an executive vice president of the
NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1966(13th
of Cheshvan, 5727):
“A civilian was wounded by an explosive charge on the railroad
tracks to Jerusalem.”
1967(23rd
of Tishrei, 5728): Jews celebrate Simchat Torah in a united Jerusalem.
1967(23rd
of Tishrei, 5728): Seventy-four-year-old New York native Joseph Clarence Seide,
the long-time employee of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, leader of the Free
Sons of Israel and the husband of “the former Eva Kinder” with whom he had
three sons – Walter, Louis and Maurice – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/28/90412860.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1967:
In Redondo Beach, “forty-four first grade students of the Temple Menorah
Religious School are scheduled to be consecrated during services tonight.
1967:
“Kites,” a ballad co-authored by Brooklyn born, WW II veteran Lee Julian
Pockriss was releasd today.
1967:
In London, Susan Davis and David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, gave
birth to Simon Adam Wolfson, Guise the chief executive of the clothing retailer
Next and a Conservative life peer who is the founder of the £250,000 Wolfson
Economics Prize.
1968(5th of Cheshvan,
5729): Lise Meitner, a physicist who played a key role in the discovery of
Nuclear Fission passed away at the age of 89.
1968: In Mexico City,
the Summer Olympics, during which the Soviet Union’s Volleyball Team led by
Georgy Mondzolevski, came to a close.
1969(15th of Cheshvan,
5730): Sixty-eight-year-old British entertainer and broadcaster Albert Eric
Maschwitz passed away today.
http://spartacus-educational.com/SPYmaschwitz.htm
1969: “La
Strada,” “a musical with lyrics and music by Lionel Bart, with additional
lyrics by Martin Charnin” and featuring Larry Kert as “Mario” began
“out-of-town tryouts at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit today.
1970: ITV broadcast the
first episode of “The Lovers” a British sitcom created by Jack Rosenthal who
also served as the writer and director.
1970(27th of
Tishrei, 5731): Seventy-two-year-old Henrietta L. Pitler, the wife of Jacob
Albert Pitler, a coach on the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series champions
passed away today after which she was buried at “Temple Israel Riverside
Cemetery.”
1972(19th of
Cheshvan, 5733): Seventy-year-old Dr. Fritz Yitzchak Ullman, the Czech born son
of Bertha and Hermann Ullman and the husband of Charlotte Einhorn passed away
today in Jerusalem.
1973(1st of
Cheshvan 5734): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan and Parashat Noach
1973: The first season
of “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” with Lou Scheimer doing the voice of “Dumb
Donald” came to an end.
1973: Cable service
which provided telex and telecommunication between Syria and the outside world
including Egypt was restored after having been knocked by Israeli frogman on
October 18.
1974(11th of
Cheshvan, 5735): Ninety-three-year-old City College graduate NYU trained
attorney Bennett Edward Siegelstein, the Romanian born son of Paul and Clara
Siegelstein and Democratic party leader who served in the New York State
Assembly and who “was also an organizer and/or officer of the Jewish Center of
East Side, the Federation of Jewish Charities, the Jewish Publication Society,
the Jewish Theatrical Guild, the Grand Street Boys Association, and the Jewish
Educational Organization.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/28/archives/bennett-siegelstein.html
1975: Eight people,
including two Israelis, were injured “by a car bomb detonated in front of a
hotel in Jerusalem.
1977(15th of
Cheshvan, 5738): Eighty-four-year-old Therese Benedick, the Hungarian born
daughter of Ignatius and Charlotte Link Friedmann and wife of “dermatologist”
Tibor Benedick who was a leading psychoanalyst for more than fifty years passed
away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/benedek-therese
1977(15th of
Cheshvan, 5738): Seventy-eight-year-old Hungarian football (soccer) player and
coach who was a member of Hakoah in the 1920’s passed away today.
1978: Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named
winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979(6th of
Cheshvan, 5740): Parashat Noach
1979(6th of
Cheshvan, 5740): Eight-one year old Sir Louis Gluckstein, the son of “Joseph
Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a
British coffee house and catering empire” and brother of painter Hannah Gluck
who served in both World Wars and served as a Conservative MP passed away
today.
1981: “SOS Children's
Village Arad (known as Kfar Neradim) which was built in the southern outskirts
of Arad was inaugurated” today.
1983: Four days after
the attack on the Marine Barracks the White House team that visited Beirut, led
by Vice President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, asked Rabbi Arnold
Resnicoff to write a report on the attack and its aftermath.
1984(1st of
Cheshvan, 5745): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1984(1st of
Cheshvan, 5745): Eighty-five-year-old Gilbert Worms, the son of Clara and Emil
Worms, the husband of Irma Worms and the father of Gerta Kaplan, Lilien Kaplan
and Gertrude Worms passed away toda.
1986: In the UK, “the
sudden deregulation of financial markets” known as the “Big Bang” which Nigel
Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, played a key role
began today.
1986: “The Man Who
Mistook His Wife for a Hat” “a one-act chamber opera by Michael Nyman…adapted
from the case study of the same name by Oliver Sacks” “was first performed
today at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.’
1986: “Meatballs III”
co-starring Al Waxman and featuring Maury Chaykin was released in Canada today.
1986: In an article
published today. Time magazine correspondent provides background on the life of
Elie Wiesel as describes the Nobel Laureate’s work on behalf of mankind and the
Jewish people including his efforts on behalf of Cambodian refugees, the
Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa. “Last week he
exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as
Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling
to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism.”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962649,00.html#ixzz1bqTDkv6O
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962649,00.html#ixzz1bqT3kgNd
1987: Actor Dustin
Hoffman and Lisa Gottsegen Hoffman give birth to Alexandra Lydia.
1987(4th of
Cheshvan, 5748): Sixty-nine-year-old Mt. Pleasant, TN born son of Jacob and
Nelli Goldberg Flexer and Vanderbilt University graduate David S. Flexer, the
wife of Eleanor Flexer and the father of Joel Peter Flexer passed away today in
Nashville, TN after which he was buried in the Sherith Israel and West End
Synagogue Cemeteries in Nashville.
1988: NBC broadcast the
first episode “Cheers” a sitcom created by James Burrows and co-starring Rhea
Perlman and Bebe Neuwirth.
1988(16th of Cheshvan,
5749) Just days before her 93rd birthday, Hadassah and ZOA leader
Judith G. Epstein passed away. (As reported by Susan Fox)
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/epstein-judith-g
1989: “Worth Winning” a
comedy featuring David Brenner and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg was
released in the United States today by 20th Century Fox.
1992(30th of Tishrei,
5753): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1992(30th of Tishrei,
5753): Seventy-year-old David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and
neuropsychologist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was a victim of
McCarthyism passed away.
1993: Today, Steve
Wynn’s Treasure Island Hotel and Casino “opened in the Mirage’s old parking
lot.
1994: Judith R. Shapiro, a widely
respected cultural anthropologist who has done pioneering research on gender
differences, was inaugurated as president of Barnard College. Dr. Shapiro came
to Barnard after eight years as provost of Bryn Mawr College where she had
taught in the department of anthropology since 1975. Before that, she was the
first woman to teach anthropology at the University of Chicago. Shapiro became
president of a school that owed its initial existence to another Jewish woman,
Annie Nathan Meyer. Meyer had petitioned, lobbied and raised funds for the
creation of Barnard, as a woman's college associated with Columbia College,
back in 1889.
1995:
Prime Minister Rabin took the courageous step of agreeing “that when the time
came for Palestinian elections, election posters could be placed anywhere in
East Jerusalem and that the voting in the city would be supervised by the
Palestinian Central Election Commission.
1995:
“Leaving Las Vegas” co-starring Richard Lewis was released in the United States
today.
1995:
“Mighty Aphrodite” a comedy directed, written and starring Woody Allen,
produced by Letty Aronson and featuring Michael Rapaport and Clair Bloom
1996:
The first episode of Season eight of the “The Simpsons” a cartoon sitcom
developed by James L. Brooks and Sam Simon was broadcast tonight.
1996(15th of Cheshvan, 5757): Seventy-four-year-old comedian Morey
Amsterdam passed away (As reported by David Stout)
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/29/arts/morey-amsterdam-comedian-and-joke-encyclopedia-dies.html
1997: “Losses resulting from Victor Niederhoffer’s investment in Thai
banks stocks combined with a 554-point (7.2%) single day decline in the Dow
Jones Industrial Average (the eighth largest point decline to date in index
history), forced Niederhoffer Investments to close its doors.
1997: “Fair Tale: A True Story” produced by Wendy Finerman and
co-starring Harvey Keitel was released today in the United States today.
1998(7th of Cheshvan, 5759): Eighty-year-old Morris R. “Moe”
Becker the Guard for he Duquesne University Dukes passed away today. (According
to Wikipedia he passed away in 1998. At
this point I have not been able to resolve the discrepancy)
1999: “Esther Williams Is All Wet” published today provides a defense of
the late Jeff Chandler from accusations that appeared in her autobiography.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/27/entertainment/ca-26587
2000: U.S. premiere of “Requiem for a Dream” directed by Darren Aronofsky
featuring Ben Shenkman
2001: Following “a meeting today between Israeli and Palestinian security
officials organized by officials from the Central Intelligence Agency,” Israeli
officials announced plans “to withdraw force from two towns that they had
entered last week following the murder of an Israeli cabinet minister.
2002: The New York Times
book section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of
special Jewish interest including Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred
Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom.
2002(3rd of Cheshvan, 5775): Three Israelis
– 41-year-old Tamir Masad, 22 year old Lieutenant Matan Zagron and 32
year old Sgt.Maj. Amihud Hasid -- were killed, and 20 bystanders were wounded
in a suicide bombing at a gas station near the settlement of Ariel. The two
officers and soldier were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from
detonating the bomb. Hamas and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
2004: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel's Knesset approved a plan for disengagement from
Gaza. Those citing the Bible for opposing this decision should re-read
the text. From David to David - from King David to David Ben Gurion-
Jewish leaders have avoided taking control of Gaza. Furthermore, the wise
King Solomon is reported in the Book of Kings to have given up 23 towns in
Israel to Hiram. And I do not remember any Rabbi threatening to
assassinate King Solomon over the issue.
2004: Under the executive
leadership of Theo Epstein, the Red Sox win the World Championship for the
first time since 1918.
2004: CBS broadcast the first episode of Season Eight of “The King of
Queens” a sitcom cost starring Jerry Stiller.
2005: Citizens of Hadera, a city of 82,000, thirty miles north of Tel
Aviv, were still dealing with the effects of yesterday’s terrorist bombing
which twisted corrugated tin roofs and shattered windows of grocery stores
across the street from Falafel Barzalai, a restaurant popular with Arabs who
work in the central market and left the sidewalk carpeted in leaves and
branches.
2006: The Anti-Defamation League posthumously presented to Hiram
"Harry" Bingham IV its "Courage to Care" award at the ADL’s
national conference in Atlanta. As Vice Consul in Marseille, he helped to save
2,500 Jews from the Nazis as they swept through France at the start of WW II.
2006: The
Jewish Daily Forward reported “that in a startling move, Primo Levi’s 1975
book The Periodic Table, was named ‘best science book ever written’ by
the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
2006: “The Last Virgin”, “a bluntly satirical comedy
about Jews and Muslims in the Middle East” is performed for the last time in
Frankfurt, Germany. The play was written
by Tuvia Tenenbom and Maria Lowry.
Tenenbom is an Israeli and founder the Jewish Theatre in New York.
2007: New York’s Erez Safar celebrates
the launch of his new website called Shemspeed (www.shemspeed.com) with a gala event in London.
2007:
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra performs Broadway show music from Evita, Les Miserables, The Phantom of
the Opera, Chicago, Cats, Cabaret and more at the Performing Arts Center in
Jerusalem
2007:
An exhibition entitled “The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend”
opens at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
2007(15th
of Cheshvan, 5768): Eighty-year Leslie Eleazer Orgel” the Salk Institute
theoretical chemist who was the father of the RNA world theory of the origin of
life and the author of Orgel's Second Rule: "Evolution is cleverer than
you are" passed away today.
http://www.salk.edu/news/pressrelease_details.php?press_id=185
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/31/local/me-orgel31
2007:
The lawyers representing Mariane Pearl, the widow of slain journalist Daniel
Pearl, dropped “the lawsuit seeking damages against al-Qaida, a dozen reputed
terrorists, and Pakistan's largest bank” citing personal reasons that “should
have no bearing on the merits of the lawsuit.”
2008:
In Washington, D.C., opening of the Ethics
and War Reading and Discussion Series, an interfaith reading series
co-sponsored by Theatre J that deals with questions concerning “ethical
behavior” when a nation is at war.
2008: The winter session of the Knesset opens with
President Shimon Peres calling for early elections since Kadima leader Livini
cannot form a government.
2008: Time magazine
includes a review of “All My Sons” by Jewish playwright Arthur Miller which is
“now getting a starry revival on Broadway.”
2008: “The Jews Who Built Dallas” published today provides a history of the
Jews of one of the major populations in Texas.
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2008/november/the-jews-who-built-dallas/
2008: “During a guest appearance on The Daily Show,
journalist Campbell Brown and the wife of Daniel Samuel Senor, announced her
second pregnancy.”
2009:
At The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Dara Horn reads
from and discusses her novel "All Other Nights" (Jewish spies in the
Civil War)
2009: At Cornell College in Mt.
Vernon, Iowa, a screening of Paper Clips in the Rathskeller. Paper Clips is the
moving and inspiring documentary that captures how students from Whitwell,
Tenn. responded to lessons about the Holocaust—with a promise to honor every
lost soul by collecting one paper clip for each individual exterminated by the
Nazis. The amazing result: a memorial railcar filled with 11 million paper
clips.
2009: Iran-backed Hezbollah based in southern Lebanon fired a Katyusha rocket
into Israel today. Lebanese and United
Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) discovered four more rockets close
to the launch site, three of which were ready in launching position. The rocket
launched today was the ninth one launched into Israel since its defensive war
again Hezbollah in 2006
2009: Today, a right-wing comedian was fined 10,000 euros by a French court for
"public anti-Semitic insults" after he invited Robert Faurisson, an
academic and Holocaust denier, on stage during a comedy show to receive an
"award" from an actor dressed as a Jewish deportee. The Paris court
told Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, a 43-year-old French stand-up comic, to pay a
further 10,000 in damages and legal fees to organizations that sued him, French
news agency AFP reported.
2009: Government prosecutors tried to use
witness testimony today to prove a former kosher slaughterhouse manager knew he
was employing illegal immigrants at his plant.
2010: Award winning author Rebecca
Newberger Goldstein, a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is
scheduled to deliver The Gerald L.
Bernstein Memorial Lecture entitled “36
Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction” on the closing night of
the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
2010: Comedian Jon
Stewart is the most influential man of 2010, according to a poll released today
by AskMen.com, an American online magazine. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg,
creator of Facebook, were in the second and third places. About
500,000 people voted in the poll that put the Jewish-American host of Comedy
Central's The Daily Show in the top spot, but ranked US President Barack Obama
at only 21.Stewart will be hosting Obama on his influential "fake
news" show later this week. The Daily Show has as many viewers as news
shows on major networks like Fox and PBS. Eight of the 49 men on the list are
Jewish. This includes author Jonathan Franzen, designer Marc Jacobs and rapper
Drake. Andy Rubin, inventor of the Google Android platform, as well as
"Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner and actor James Franco were also on
the list.
[Stewart
is Jewish. Gates and Obama are not.]
2010: The Israel Forum
for International Humanitarian Aid (IsraAID) announced on today that it will
send a team to Haiti, despite the current cholera outbreak.
2011:
Robert Lipsyte and John Bloom are scheduled to take part in “Telling It Like It
Is; Jews, Sports and Writing,” a panel discussion that is part of The Hyman S.
& Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival.
2011:
The New York Review of Books published part one of Saul Bellow’s “A Jewish
Writer in America.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/10/27/jewish-writer-america/
2011:
Dr. Hasia Diner the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg
Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, and founder and
Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History is scheduled
to deliver a lecture entitled “Between History and Memory: Rethinking the
American Jewish Past” in Washington, D.C.
2011: Marvin Kalb and his daughter Deborah Kalb “participated in a
webcast of the book Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency
from Ford to Obama at the Pritzker Military Library today.
2011:
Ilan Grapel, an American-Israeli citizen jailed in
Cairo on suspicion of espionage for over four months, met with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel today after he was released. (As reported by Barak
Ravid and Natasha Mozgovaya)
2011 The Israel Air Force targeted three centers of terrorist
activity in the Gaza Strip and a weapons storage site in the South early this morning,
IDF Spokesman's Office said in a statement.
2011:
As the death toll in the deadly earthquake in eastern
Turkey rose today, an Israeli cargo plane landed in Ankara, carrying
humanitarian aid that Turkish officials at first had declined to accept. The
Israeli plane carried seven prefabricated houses and other supplies, NTV
television reported said. The plane was redirected to Ankara because the
airport near Van, the hardest-hit area, was too small.
2011(29th of Tishrei, 5772): Eighty-five-year-old Allen
Mandelbaum, the award winning translator of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” passed away
today. (As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/arts/allen-mandelbaum-translator-of-divine-comedy-dies-at-85.html
2012: “Youth movements and social NGOs are scheduled to gather in
Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square for an
alternative ceremony to honor the anniversary of former prime minister Yitzhak
Rabin’s assassination” this evening. (As reported by Lahav Harkov
2012: Israeli cellist Elad Kabilio is scheduled to perform at the
Joyce Theatre in NYC.
2012: The Edent-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to present “Musica
Antiqua” featuring Zohar Shefi on the harpsichord and Drora Bruck on the
recorder.
2012: Andras Schiff is scheduled to play Book 1 of “Well-Tempered
Clavier” at the 92nd Street Y
2012(11th of Cheshvan): On the Hebrew calendar, the
Yahrzeit of Rachel which is normally observed by pilgrimages to her tomb. Since the event fell on Shabbat, the
observant made their pilgrimages on the 25th.
2012: The “Broadway-style musical Loving the Silent Tears which
included songs composed by David Shire premiered in Los Angeles.
2012(11th of Cheshvan, 5773): Ninety-six-year-old
Joseph Hazan whose family traced their roots to the Jewish community of
Salonica passed away today.
http://thevillager.com/2012/11/21/joseph-hazan-96-artist-whose-building-abutted-radicals-blast/
2012: Seventeen-year-old Naomi Cohen won
gold today at the 2012 RS:X Youth World Windsurfing Championships in Taiwan. Several
other Israeli participated in today’s competition, with Shahar Tibi finishing
fifth, Ofri Givati 10th, Noga Geller 12th and Adi Cohen in 18th place,
according to Ynet. (As reported by Yoel Goldman)
2012: “Israeli immigrant’s joyful art
products designed to be worn, used” published today highlights the life and
artistic creations of Giora Neta an Israeli living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
http://thegazette.com/2012/10/27/israeli-immigrants-joyful-art-products-designed-to-be-worn-used/
2012: An American monitoring group said
today that satellite images of the aftermath of the explosion on October 24th
at a Sudanese weapons factory suggested the site was hit by an airstrike.
2012: An estimated 20,000 Israelis
gathered tonight in Tel Aviv to commemorate the 17th anniversary of former
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination at the square where he was killed
in 1995, and which was subsequently renamed in his honor.
2013:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel
as well as interviews with J.J. Abrams http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/j-j-abrams-by-the-book.html?ref=books
and Jill Abramson’s “Kennedy, the Elusive President.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/the-elusive-president.html?ref=books&_r=0
2013:
Dr. Elliot Lefkovitz is scheduled to moderate a panel discussion among several
survivors of the Kindertransport at the Illinois Holocaust Museum &
Education Center.
2013:
Chicago Premiere of “Signs of Life” a musical which is “based on the true story
of Terezin” comes to an end.
2013:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host its
Guardain-Benefactor Luncheon featuring Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff who will speak on
the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Bombing of the
Marine Barracks in Beirut.
2013:
In New Orleans, Beth Israel, the Orthodox Synagogue that survived Hurricane
Katrina, is scheduled to host its annual fundraiser.
2013:
For the first time in history two Jewish brothers squared off against each in
an NFL game today at Arrowhead Stadium when offensive tackle Mitchell Schwartz
of the Cleveland Browns played against offensive guard Geoff Schwartz of the
Kansas City Chiefs.
2013:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet today unanimously approved the
appointment of Karnit Flug as the first female governor of the Bank of Israel
(As reported by Moti Bossok)
2013(23rd
of Cheshvan, 5774): Eighty-one-year-old Dr. Leonard Herzenberg who “created a
device that can pick out individual cells from a mass of trillions of them and
then capture, sort and count them so they can be analyzed and used to fight
disease” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2013(23rd
of Cheshvan, 5774): Seventy-one year old rock and roll innovator and icon Lou
Reed passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Jewish-rock-star-Lou-Reed-passes-away-at-age-71-329871
2013:
Daylight Saving Time will switch to Standard Time in the early hours of Sunday
morning marking Israel's transition to the winter clock.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=329797
2013:
Two mortar shells were fired from Gaza into the Eshkol region in the western
Negev.
2014:
The American Sephardi Federation and the Center for Jewish History are
scheduled to honor the legacy of Daniel Pearl with a special concert “Building
Bridges: From Bene Beraq to Baghdad.
2014:
At the Gerard Behar Theatre the all-male religious dancers of the Ka’et
Ensemble are scheduled to perform at the Heaven and Earth Festival starting
today.
2014:
“The Garden of Eden” and “Life Sentences” are scheduled to be shown at the
Israeli Film Festival hosted by the Tulane University Jewish Studies Department
chaired by Dr. Brian Horowitz.
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host Rabbi Deborah Prinz speaking
about “Jews on the Chocolate Trail.”
2014:
Mathew Klickstein, author of Slimed: An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden
Age is the feature at the Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary
Festival.
2014:
PuppetCinema which “began in 2009 as an experiment in Israel” is scheduled to
open with Zvi Sahar in New York.
2014:
Hundred atteneded the funeral this morning for 22 year old Karen Yemima Muscara
who was killed “in last week;s terrorist a ttack on a Jerusalem light rail
station.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-attend-funeral-of-woman-killed-in-jerusalem-attack/
2014:
“Putting perceived security concerns before conscience, US intelligence and law
enforcement agencies likely employed over 1,000 Nazis as spies during the Cold
War, sometimes ignoring or concealing their war crimes and helping them
immigrate to the United States, the author of a soon-to be released book wrote
in an article published today.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-1000-nazis-worked-for-us-as-spies-author-says/
2014:
Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel which were scheduled to resume today
will not take place because Egypt has closed its border to the Hamas delegation
following a deadly terror attack in Sinai for which the Egyptians hold Hamas
responsible. (As reported by Elhanan Miller)
2015(14th
of Cheshvan, 5776): Seventy-six-year-old Richard Larkin, an American educator
who had moved to Israel and became an advocate for coexistence between Jews and
Muslims succumbed to the wounds he had suffered when a terrorist bombed the bus
he was riding in Jerusalem two weeks ago.
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-american-palestinian-attack-israel-20151028-story.html
2015: “Apples from the Desert” an
Israeli film is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Arts & Film Festival of
Fairfield County.
2015: The YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research and the JDC Archives are scheduled to present a lecture by Mish Itsel
on “The Great Terror in the USSR (1937-1938) and the Destruction of the
Agro-Joint Program.”
2015: The David D. and Betty Cooper Wallerstein
Fund for Judaic Studies, the GW Law School, the Program in Judaic Studies and
the Department of History are scheduled to sponsor “Reckoning with the Ghosts
of Leo Frank” a “public conversation among journalist Steve Oney, lawyer David
Kendall and GWU Law Dean Blake Morant, that commemorates the centennial of Leo
Frank's lynching, a national cause célèbre that exposed the racial, religious,
ethnic and sectional divides in 20th century America, revitalizing the Ku Klux
Klan on the one hand and galvanizing the Anti-Defamation League on the other.”
2015: Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the President of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical
School, is scheduled to lecture on "Does God Care” at the Skirball Center
2015: “The Garden of Eden” and “Life
Sentences” are scheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival at Tulane
University.
2016: Ari Shavit, a prominent Haaretz
columnist and author of the bestselling My Promised Land “accused of unwanted groping and sexual
advances during an interview with American Jewish reporter apologized to her
today ‘from the bottom of my heart’ but insisted the incident was ultimately
the result of a ‘misunderstanding.’”
2016: “At a conference today,
archaeologists Assaf Avraham and Perez Reuven presented an ancient Muslim
inscription that refers to the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount as
"Bait al-Maqdess," an Arabicized version of the Hebrew words for the
Temple, Beit Hamikdash.”
2016: Today “the Syrian government complained
about alleged Israeli archaeological excavations at Bir Ajam on the Syrian
Golan Heights, drawing an irate response from Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO.”
2016:
“Israeli archaeologists today presented new details of what they said were the
first tiny artifacts, unearthed in situ on the Temple Mount, ever conclusively
dated to the time of the First Temple over 2,600 years ago.”
2016:
“Yaad, Biran, a Ph.D. candidate in the Yiddish program of the Hebrew University
is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Yiddish Writers Do The Holy Land”
where he examines the lives of three writers who moved to Palestine from New
York – “Yehoash, a Poaley Tsionist and the story of his failed immigration in
1914; Tsivyon, a Bundist who criticized the Zionist project in his 1921 visit;
and Yosef Opatoshu, a socialist writer who turned his experience in 1934 into a
novella, offering an unusual understanding of old and new Palestine.”
2016:
The Skirball Center is scheduled to host “an evening with Jeffrey Goldberg” the
new editor of the Atlantic magazine.
2016:
At Tulane University, Hillel is scheduled to host its Hebrew Café as alumnae
come to campus for pre-homecoming events.
2016:
Today, “workers removed the top marble layer of the tomb said to Jesus, in the
Church of Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/scientists-expose-original-stone-of-jesuss-jerusalem-tomb/
2016:
Jess Olson is scheduled to conduct “a gallery talk and tour of Yeshiva
University Museum’s exhibition exploring the vital creative character and
dramatic social context of pre- and post-revolutionary Odessa, Ukraine
(formerly Russia) through the work of two of the city’s most important artists
- the writer Isaac Babel and the painter Yefim Ladyzhensky.”
2017(7th
of Cheshvan, 5778): Yom HaAliyah
2017:
“At least 15 firefighting crews and four planes were still battling the forest
fire in the Sataf area west of Jerusalem this morning, almost 24 hours after it
began.”
2017(7th
of Cheshvan, 5778): Eighty-year-old Joe Taub, the co-founder of ADP and “part
owner of the NBA New Jersey Nets” passed away today. (Richard Sandomir)
2017:
Publication of Jewish Anzacs: Jewish in the Australian Military by Mark
Dapin.
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat,
followed by dinner, a Q&A with Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schuler and a tisch.
2017:
ShabbatUK which Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said is “one of the most inspiring
events of the ear bringing together Jewish children united in their enthusiasm
for Shabbat and Judaism” is scheduled to begin today.
2018
(18th of Cheshvan, 5779): Parashat Va-yayra
2018:
In Pittsburgh, PA, eleven Jews, including Joyce Feinberg, Richard Gottfried,
Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice
Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Cooper were gunned down at their synagogue on
Shabbat morning by ant-Semite armed with an “AR-15-style assault rifle.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.html
2018:
In Jerusalem, the Nocturno Café is scheduled to host “A Spiritual Stand Up with Mrs. Rabia”
2018:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music
with Cellist Simcha Heled and Friends.”
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a full day of
services along with a Shabbat Lunch and Seudah Shlishit as part of the Oxford 3rd
Week Bring a Friend Shabbat.
2018:
The Jerusalem Theatre Piano Festival is scheduled to host its closing concert,
“Hebrew Love” featuring Einav Jackson Cohen and Daniel Shoham.
2018:
The 14th Street Y is scheduled to host the final performance of
“Theo’s Dream,” “a radical, hallucinogenic trip through the fever dream of
Theodore Herzl.”
2019:
In Atlanta, the Bremen Museum is scheduled to host Holocaust survivor Paula
Neuman, who “with her mother performing backbreaking labor for the Nazis in the
rock quarries of Transnistria, was the sole caretaker of her baby sister who
she protected by using “her own smarts and spirited nature to survive.”
2019:
“Activists and Icons: The Photographs of Steve Schapiro Challenging the Status
Quo through the Lens of a Camera” an exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust
Museum is scheduled to come to an end today.
2019:
“Picture of His Life” is scheduled to be shown at the opening night of the
Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival in Palo Alto. CA.
2019:
The Jewish Genealogical Society and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled
to present “The Wedding Photo: Genealogy Comes Alive” led by Dr. A. Oren, the
Yale University psychiatrist and author of the Wedding Photo.
2019:
In Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is scheduled to host NPR”s Peter Sagal as part
of the “JFCS annual gala.”
2019:
As we mark the first anniversary on the secular calendar of the Squirrel Hill
Massacre, we find that there have been more attacks at synagogues, an uptick in
anti-Semitism and no meaningful action taken to stop this kind of behavior.
2019:
The New York Times featured books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Accomplice by Joseph Kannon
2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to co-present Dr. Amy-Jill Levine lecturing
on “The Book of Jonah: How Anti-Jewish Readings Are Created.”
2020:
The livestreaming of “Rosenwald” provided by the Marlene Meyerson JCC is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2020:
The Office of Cultural Affairs of the Consulate General of Israel in New York
is scheduled to present a screening “Sublet” directed Eytan Fox.
2020:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host Michelle Sint
lecturing on “Through Rashi’s Eyes: Abraham and Sarah.”
2020:
The annual conference of The Alliance For Jewish Theatre, which is being held
completely online is scheduled to come to an end today.
2020:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum’s “One Museum, One Book” Book Club is scheduled
to host a discussion The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.
2020:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a weekly short on a
genealogy topic on FACEBOOK
2021:
“The Israeli government advanced plans today to build more than 3,000 new
settlement units in the occupied West Bank, which brought criticism from the
United States State Department
2021:
On the third anniversary of the Squirrel Hill Synagogue Massacre, “What
Happened After the Most Deadly Anti-Semitic Attack in American History?”
published today provides a review of Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life
Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
by
Mark Oppenheimer
2022:
As the White Supremacists post signs endorsing the anti-Semitism of Kayne West,
today marks the fourth anniversary of the Squirrel Hill Synagogue Massacre.
https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-synagogue-massacre/
2022:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to co-host an on-site and online
program The Einsatzgruppen Trial: The Biggest Murder Trial in History.
2022:
LBI is scheduled to present a discussion with Mimi Schwartz, author of Good
Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited who “father was born Jewish in a tiny German
village thirty years before the advent of Hitler…”
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host webinar with Trudy Gold lecturing on
“Phillips the Fair, the Jews and Isabella the She-Wolf of France.”
2022:
In Cedar Falls, IA, The UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education is
scheduled to present the 2022 Norman Cohn Family Holocaust Remembrance &
Education Lecture on “The Ethics of Rescue: True Stories Behind Bergen-Belsen's
Liberation.”
2023:
Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope is scheduled to welcome Shabbat with “Blue
Moon Full Moon Walk.”
2023:
The Nashville Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the last screening of
“Love Gets A Room.”
2023:
Today is scheduled to be the final day for completing the Alliance For Jewish
Theare’s “inaugural DEI Survey.”
2023:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Free Admission Friday”
which will give visitors a chance to view its newest special exhibition “I’ll
Have Shat She’s Having: The Jewish Deli.”
https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/exhibitions/ill-have-what-shes-having-the-jewish-deli/
2023:
As we mark the fifth anniversary on the
secular calendar of the Squirrel Hill Massacre, we find that there have been
more attacks at synagogues, an uptick in anti-Semitism and no meaningful action
taken to stop this kind of behavior.
2023:
As October 27 begins in Israel, “heavy rocket fire targets central Israel,”
Israeli airstrikes have reportedly killed at least five senior Hamas leaders
and reports and the two hundred or more hostages
(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:
Sixth anniversary of the deadliest
antisemitic attack in US history, when a lone gunman killed 11 worshippers from
three congregations at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
2024:
The Elgin (IL) Hadassah is scheduled to host its “Annual Donor Luncheon.”
2024:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long
Journey Toward Equity by Claudia Golden, the Bronx born daughter of Leon
and Lucille Rosansky Goldin, and We’ve Got You Covered by Liran Einav, a
native of Tel Aviv and Amy Nadya Finkelstein
2024:
The Jewish Agency for Israel is scheduled to host online, a presentation by Itay
Ken-Tor – Filmmaker, Educator, & Cultural Activist, Co-founder of Edut 710,
Israel’s largest documentation organization, dedicated to creating a video testimony
database to be preserved for future generations
2024:
The Washington Next Generation Board is scheduled to present “An Evening to
Honor Holocaust Survivors 2024.”
2024:
The Lillian and Albert Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a
members-only preview of the exhibition “JEWCE: The Jewish Comics Experience.”
2024:
In Metairie, LA, Gates of Prayer is scheduled to host the “JCRS's annual
Hanukkah Wrap-a-thon to wrap gifts for Jewish children and families going
through difficult financial times.”
2024:
As October 27th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters
calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands,
sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 386 in captivity
while Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists
based in Iraq (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)
