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1457 BCE: Egyptian forces under Thutmose III defeated a
group of rebellious Canaanite Vassal States at the Battle of Megiddo. This
would have taken place while the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. The strategic
position of Megiddo would make it the site of many battles including one
between Egypt and the Kingdom of Judah in 609 BCE and the British and the Turks
in 1918. This is the same Megiddo where Solomon kept horses and chariots, and
which is thought to be the site of the mythic Battle of Armageddon.
537 BCE (1st of Iyar, 3223): According to the Book of Ezra,
the foundation of the Second Temple was laid on this date.
69: Otho, Roman Emperor, commits suicide ending his short-lived reign. Otho was the second of the four men to hold the position of Emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors. According to some, it was the instability that Otho and his compatriots brought to the Empire that led to Titus destroying the Temple instead of merely settling for the defeat and humiliation of the Jews of Judea.
73: According to some calculations this is the day that Masada fell to the Romans after several months of siege, ending this Jewish Revolt against Rome. Of course, this was not the final revolt.
1158: In Genoa, the name of a Jewish trader, Jusuphus
Judeos, appeared for the first time on an official deed drawn up âfrom the
public notary Giovanni Scriba.
1198: Fredrick I. the Duke of Austria who employed a Jew
named âSchlomâ as his Munzmeister or Master of the Mint, and who had been a
part of the âGerman Crusadeâ that began in 1197 âfell ill and died today while
returning from Palestine to Acre.â
1203(26th of Nisan, 4963): âGerman synagogal
poetâ Menahem Ben Jacob Ben Solomon whose great-grandfather Simson, was living
in Worms at the time of the First Crusade and was surnamed
"Ha-Darshan," passed away at Worms today.
1319: Birthdate of King John II of
France. During the Hundred Years War,
John was captured by the English and held for ransom. Desperate for funds, Johnâs son who was
serving as Regent during his fatherâs imprisonment negotiated a deal with
Manessier de Vesoul that would allow Jews to return to France in return for
their financial support of the impoverished kingdom. Once John was ransomed, he gave into pressure
and reneged on some of his sonâs promises.
1520: âThe Revolt of the Comuneros,â an
uprising by the citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles I who continued
to exclude Jews from Spain and supported the Inquisition began today.
1581: Today in Tomar the Portuguese Cortes
(feudal parliament) acclaimed the King of Spain Felipe II, âwho was a symbol of
âTyrannyâ in Spinozaâs Political Writingsâ and who expelled the Jews from
Milanâ as Portugal's Filipe I as part of the Iberian Union.
1592: The Maharal âset off for the holy
community of PoznaĹ and there for the second time became head of the yeshiva
and head of the rabbinical courts of all the Diaspora of Poland.â
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/maharal-of-prague-joanna-weinberg
1641: âDon Lope de Vara y Alarcon,
alias Judah the Believer, appeared before the Inquisition to repudiate a
previous spurious defense which he had offered to the tribunal against its
charge of heresy.â Don Lope was a
Christian (not a Convserso) who converted to Judaism. Eventually he would be burned at the stake
because he referred to recant and return to Christianity. (As reported by
Abraham Bloch)
1669(15th of Nisan): Rabbi Jonah Teomim of Metz, France,
author of Kikayon de-Yonah passed away
1681: A rescript issued today ârepeated that Jews were not
to come into Denmark without a special Geleitsbrief.â
1728(7th of Iyar, 5488) Esther Florshiem, the
wife of Amshel Mendel Ottingen, the mother of Hindchen Mendler Ottinger and the
great-grandmother of Benedikt Moses Worms and the great-great-grandmother of
Henry de Worms, the first Baron Pirbright passed away today.
1729(17th of Nisan, 5489): Seventeenth and 18th
century âGerman rabbi and Talmudic authorâ Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig passed
away today.
1741(30th of Nisan, 5501): Abraham Spitz, âwho
purchased the freedom of Imprisoned Jews from Budaâ passed away today.
1744: The South Carolina Gazette reported today that âon
Sunday, the 8th instant the Charles-Town, on of the Governmentâs
Gallies having sailed over the Bar to convoy a Sloop, met with a sudden hard
Gale of Wind, oversent and sunk, 10 men were drowned and among that was Mr.
Hart the Jew.â
https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/The_Jews_of_South_Carolina_B_A_Elzas_1905.pdf
1746: âThe Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuartâ
whose invasion had caused panic among many of Londonâs financiers, except most
notably Sampson Gideonâ who provided the government with money and support,
were defeated today at the Battle of Culloden which ended a major threat to the
Hanovarian English monarchy.
1746: An army commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, loyal to the British government defeated Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Culloden. George Frideric composed âJudas Maccabaeusâ a three-act oratorio âas a compliment to the victorious Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.â The oratorio was based on the characters known to all who have celebrated the holiday of Chanukah.
1753: Two days before the first Pesach
Seder, âThe Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753â âa bill which permitted âJewish
immigrants to England to become naturalized citizens with receiving the
Sacrament of the Lordâs Supperâ and had
been introduced by George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifaxâ was passed today
by the House of Lords.
1760(30th of Nisan, 5520):
Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed on a day when the lunar phase was a Waxing Crescent
and at 11:00pm ET, the face of
the moon was 3% illuminated.
1764(14th of Nisan, 5524): Fast of the
First Born; erev Pesach celebrated that Abigail Smith, who would gain fame as
Abigail Adams wrote to her future husband and second President of the United
States, John Adams
1767(17th of Nisan,5527):
Third Day of Pesach observed for the last time while Charles Towsend was Prime
Minister of England.
1774(5th of Iyar, 5534):
Parashat Tazria-Metzora read today for the last time before the British
officially closed the Port of Boston in retaliation for the Boston Party.
1775(16th of Nisan, 5535):
Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1775: In New York City, Myer and
Elkaleh Myers gave birth to Richmond tobacco dealer and Revolutionary War
Veteran Samuel Myers, the husband of Sarah Myers and Judith Moses Myers.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/myers-samuel
1775: As Jews munch on their matzah, in
Boston, General Gage moved forward with plans to âdisarm and the rebels and to
imprison the rebellionâs leadersâ whom a spy had told him yesterday were
sending delegates âto other New England Colonies to see if they would cooperate
in raising a New England arm
1778(19th of Nisan, 5538):
Fifth Day of Pesach
1782: Eighty-two-year-old Gulta bat
Yehiel was buried today at the âAlderney Road (Globe Road) Jewish Cemetery.â
1783(14th of Nisan, 5543):
Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1784: Hendele Mozes Gankfort and Simon
Simon, both of whom were natives of Holland gave birth to Yeshayahu Simon.
1786(18th of Nisan 5546):
Fourth Day of Pesach
1786: In Worcester, MA, Rachel Brittin
and Josiah Lunn, both natives of Bucks County, PA gave birth to Jesse Lunn.
About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount
Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed
with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out
for New York in company with Mr. Charles Thompson, [sic] and Colonel Humphries,
with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its
call, but with less hope of answering its expectations
.1794(16th of Nissan, 5554):
Second Day of Pesach
1794: One day after he had passed away,
75-year-old Barnet Davis was buried today at the âAlderney Road (Globe Rd)
Jewish Cemetery.
1794: Birthdate of Bobenhausen, Germany
native Merle Baer who eventually settled in Baltimore, MD, the husband of Jonas
Friedenwald with whom she had five children before marrying Moses Stern with
whom she had one son, Bernard Stern.
1796(8th of Nisan, 5556):
Shabbat HaGadol
1799: French general Jean Baptiste
Kleber defeated the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Mount Tabor and drove them
across the Jordan River thus preventing them from reaching Acre where they
could attack the main French force under the command of Napoleon This the same Mount Tabor that was the staging area for the
armies of Deborah and Barak, as they faced the assembly of Canaanites and their
chariots arrayed below them on the plain to the west. It is also the same Mount Tabor where the
Midianite kings killed the brothers of the Judge named Gideon. Both episodes are described in the Book of
Judges.
1802(14th of
Nisan, 5562): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1803(24th of
Nisan, 5563): Parashat Shmini
1804: Establishment of the London Board for Shechita.
1805(17th of Nisan, 5565): Third Day
of Pesach
1805: Birthdate of Bavaria native Abraham
Lowenthal, the husband of Mary Laupheimer with whom he had eight children in
Baltimore, MD.
1809(30th of Nisan, 5569): Rosh
Chodesh Nisan
1811(22nd of Nisan, 5571): Eighth
Day of Pesach
1813(16th of Nisan, 5573): Second
Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer.
1815: âAs shown by the diary of Friedrich von
Gentz, the secretary of the Congress of Vienna,â beginning today, Carol August
Bucholz, âa German Christian lawyerâ who had been sent to Vienna by the
communities of Lubeck, Hambrug and Bremen âwas in constant communication with
the von Gentz concerning the issue of Jewish rights.
181730th of
Nisan, 5577): Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed a year to the day before the U.S.
Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot Treat
which improved relations between the United States and Canada.
1819(21st
of Nisan, 5579): Seventh Day of Pesach
1820: Isaac
Dreyfus, the Alsace, France born son of Jacob Dreyfus and his wife Gertrude
âJulieâ Dreyfus gave birth to Samuel Dreyfus
1823: In
Berlin, Johan Konstantin Eisenstein and Helene Pollack who had converted from
Judaism to Christianity gave birth to mathematician Ferdinand Gotthold Max
Eisenstein.
1824(18th
of Nisan, 5584): Fourth Day of Pesach
1824:
London born Esther Nathan and John Nathan gave birth to Elizabeth Nathan
1826: In
The Hague, Leonardus Levy Abraham Verveer and Caroline Elkan gave birth to
Dutch painter and engraver Elchanan Verveer.
1827(19th
of Nisan, 5587): Fifth Day of Pesach
1832(16th
of Nisa, 5592): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1835(17th
of Nisan, 5595): Third Day of Pesach
1835: In
Hungary, Deborah Klein, the daughter of Rosa and Joseph Desberg, and her
husband of Julius Klein gave birth to future Cleveland resident Josep Desberg
Klein, the husband of Rose Klein and the father of Dr. Alfred Klein.
1837: Two
days after she had passed away, 64-year-old Phoebe Abrahams was buried at the
âBrady Street Jewish Cemeteryâ today.
1838(21st
of Nisan, 5598): Seventh Day of Pesach
1842:
Today, as part of the Creole case during which Judah P. Benjamin represented
the insurance companies and stated in his argument that the âa slaveâŚis a human
beingâ who âhas feelings, passion and intellect, the Admiralty Court in Nassau
âordered the surviving mutineers to be releasedâ today.
1842:
Bavarian born Samuel Marx, the chief rabbi of Bayonne, France published âSermon
PrononcĂŠ Ă la Synagogue de Nancyâ today.
1843(16th
of Nisan, 5603): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1843: In
Germany, Elizabeth and Moses Keyser gave birth to Amelia Keyser who became
Amelia Stein when she married Daniel Stein.
1844(27th
of Nisan, 5604): Seventy-one-year-old Abraham de Lyon Abrahams, the New York
City born son of Joseph Abrahams passed away today.
1844: Birthdate of
Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France.
The non-Jewish France joined his friend Ămile Zola in the Dreyfus case
and was the first to sign Zola's famous article J'Accuse, condemning the
false treason indictment of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer. At a 1904
International Congress of Freethinkers at Paris, France said, "The gods
advance, but they always lag behind the thoughts of men.... The Christian God
was once a Jew. Now he is an anti-Semite."
1845: Birthdate of
Solomon Brachman who would die just eight days before what would have been his
35th birthday.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104871675/solomon-brachman
1846(20th of
Nisan,5606): Sixth Day of Pesah observed on the same day that nine covered
wagons left Springfield, Illinois on the 2,500-mile journey to California, in
what would become one of the greatest tragedies in the history of westward
migration known as the tragedy of the Donner Party.
1848: Edward Falcke
married Ann Russell today.
1849: âLe prophèteâ (The Prophet), an opera in five acts by Jewish
composer Giacomo Meyerbeer was first performed today by the Paris Opera at the
Salle Le Peletier
1850(4th of Iyar, 5610):
Solomon Cohen the son of Isaac Cohen and Judith Lyon, who served as an ensign
during the War of 1812 and was the wife of Eleanor B. Cohen, passed away today
in Charlestown.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/370984088044328560/
1850: In Shutesbury, MA, Nathaniel and Harriet Adams gave
birth to Herbert Baxter Adams, the Johns Hopkins University who has contributed
âvaluable papers on the services ofâ Haim Solomon, âthe patriotic Jew.â
1851(14th of Nisan 5611): Taâanit Berchorot;
Erev Pesach
1851: Jeanetta Mallan and Kent native Joseph Davis gave
birth to Samuel Davis.
1851: âBânai Israel, the âNetherdutchâ Congregation
dedicated its âhandsome new homeâ which was located âat 63 Chrystie Street, on
the lower East Sideâ this evening.
1852: In Pest, Hermina and J. Samuel Oppenheim gave birth
to Emil Oppenheim, the father of Margit Oppenheim and Maria Oppenheim.
1852: In New York, Johan Levy, a merchant and sea captain,
and Francis Phillips gave birth to Jonas Levy the New York Congressman who was
the nephew of Uriah Phillips Levy.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000268
1855: In St. Louis, over 400 hundred people attended that
cornerstone laying ceremony for the first synagogue constructed in St. Louis
and the first synagogue built west of the Mississippi.
1856(22nd of Nisan, 5617): Eight Day of Pesach
1856: Today, thirty-five-year-old Philadelphia born jewelry
businessman Moses Aaron Dropsie who read law under Benjamin Harris Brewster,
the future attorney-general of the United States who had been âadmitted to the
bar in Philadelphia in 1851â was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court
of the United States. When Dropsie passed away he âleft his entire fortune for
the establishment of a college offering instruction "in the Hebrew and
cognate languages and their respective literatures, and in the rabbinical
learning and literature which became known as Dropsie College founded in 1906.
1856: Emanuel Dreifuss, the German born son of Araon and
Breunia Dreifuss and his wife Friederika Dreifuss gave birth to Samuel Dreifuss
who passed away at the age of three.
1857(22nd of Nisan, 5617): Eighth Day of Peach;
Yizkor recited for the first time during the Presidency of James Buchanan
1858(2nd of Iyar, 5618): Sixty-three-year-old
Alois Isidor Jeitteles the Austrian physician who co-founded the Jewish weekly
Siona with his cousin Ignaz Jeitteles passed away today.
1859(12th of Nisan, 5619): Parashat Achrei Mot
1861(6th of
Iyar, 5621): One year old Lucy Esther Goetz passed away today after which she
was interred at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1861: In London,
Caroline Lazarus and Mark George Simmons, the London born some of Ellen Jacobs
and George Gabriel Simmons gave birth to Walter Simmons.
1862(16th of Nisan,
5622): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1862: Sixty-five-year-old
Max Samuel Mayer, the son of the rabbi in his native Fruendal who became a
Lutheran in 1834, five years after he earned a law degree, and eventually
became a Professor at the University of Tubingen (a position that was open to
him because he was no longer a Jew) passed away today.
1862: Franziska
Montefiore, the daughter of Salomon Bernard Sichel and Fanny Sichel and Joseph
Mayer Montefiore gave birth to Edward Mayer Montefiore
1862: It was reported the Jewish dealers
had been present when the cattle market opened on Monday but were absent the
following day because it was Passover; a fact that caused a drop off in market
activity.
1864(10th of
Nisan, 5624): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1864: Copies of âA
History of the Worldâ by Philip Smith are now available. The second part of
this volume presents the history of Egypt including the âhistory of the Hebrew
Theocracy and Monarchy from the exodus to the destruction of the kingdoms or
Israel and Judah, and the Babylonian Captivity of the Jewish nation.â The work includes information based on newly
revealed discoveries about the area.
1864: Todayâs âLiterary
Gossipâ column reported that a new edition of Reverend Henry Hart Milmanâs âHistory
of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the
Roman Empire by Constantineâ by Henry Hart Milman, the noted English clergyman
has been published. This work is part of
trilogy, the other two works of which are âHistory of Latin Christianityâ and
âHistory of the Jews.â Milman published âHistory of the Jews in 1829 was unique
for its time since it tried to portray the Jews as a historical people and
âminimized the miraculous.â This
approach, which he used in his later works, made him the target of attacks from
Biblical literalists among others. This
portrayal of the Jews actually impeded the career of this Christian minister.
1865: In the waning
days of the Civil War, Union forces defeated the Rebels at the Battle of West
Point, Georgia whose first Jewish residents Prussian born Heyman Heyman and Bavarian
born Louis Merz who opened Heyman and Merz, a dry goods store, in 1854.
https://www.isjl.org/georgia-west-point-encyclopedia.html
1865(20th of
5625): As Jews observed the Sixth Day of Pesach, John Wilkes Booth continued his escape across
southern Maryland and General James H. Wilson led the Union Forces to victory
at the Battle of Columbus, GA which was the âlast battle of the Civil War.
1866(1st of Iyar, 5626): Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed on
the same day that 15 people were killed in the offices of Wells Fargo a crate
filled with nitroglycerin exploded in what was considered to be âan American
disaster and a large-loss-of-life event.
1867: In New York Eva
Powell and Civil War veteran Andrew Powell gave birth to Columbia graduate
Henry M. Powell âwho was a prominent tax lawyer for than fifty yearsâ and the
husband of Hazel Felleman Powell with whom he raised one daughter, Myrtle
Powell Levinson.,
1867: Nathan Mayer
Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild married Emma Louise von
Rothschild, a cousin from the Rothschild banking family of Germany in Frankfurt
with whom he had three children Lionel Walter, Evelina Rothschild-Behrens and
Nathaniel Charles.
1868(OS): Birthdate of
Berdyansk native Yuliy Dmitrievich Engel who gained fame as âcomposer, teacher
and organizer Joel Engelâ who made Alyiah in 1924.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Engel_Yoel
https://promusicahebraica.org/the-musical-tradition/composers/joel-engel
1871: Three days after
she had passed away, 23-year-old Gertrude Salomons, âthe second daughter of
Aaron Salomonsâ and the former Adelaide Cohen was buried today at the âBalls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.â
1871: All civic limitations imposed on Jews of the
German Empire were lifted. It was thought that this would bring medieval
anti-Semitism to a conclusion.
1871: In âHebrew
Charityâ published today provided a most positive report on the various
benevolent activities engaged in by the Jewish community to alleviate the
suffering of their less fortunate co-religionists. Last fallâs Hebrew Charity Fair raised enough
funds to provide over $100,000 for Mount Sinai Hospital and over $33,000 for
the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum.
The Hebrew Benevolent Fuel Association, the Bânai Brit, the Society of
Bânai Abraham and the Society of Kesha Shel Barsel (Order of the Golden Crown)
are among other community-wide organizations aiding the needy. This does not include Mt. Sinai Hospital
(formerly the Jews Hospital) which now serves Jews as well as the general
population or the various aid societies sponsored by the 30 synagogues and
temples located in the city.
1872(8th of
Nisan, 5632): Moritz Reichenheim, founder of the Orphanâs Home passed away
today in Berlin.
1873(19th of Nisan, 5633): Fifth Day of Pesach
1873(19th of Nisan, 5633): Senor Florence Ribas
the former Charge affairs for Venezuela
in Washington and the Consul in New York for the Republic of Venezuela passed
away today at the New York home of his father-in-law Jacob L. Seixas.
1874: Birthdate of Ashland, Ohio, native Louis M. Cahn, the
Harvard lawyer and âfirst executive director of the Jewish Federation Charities
of Chicago who was the brother of Tillman Cahn and Mrs. Fanny C. Holzheimer.
1874: In Rondout, NY, Julius and Jenny (Voss) Basch gave
birth to German trained research engineer David Basch who was employed by
General Electric in Schenectady, NY, who married Marian W. Willard in 1917 and
the death of his first wife Ruby Garcia Chapman.
1875: The Jewish Chronicle reported on the death of Posen
born English School master Leopold Neumegen who passed away on April 8th and
whose school at Highgate attracted many students whose parents âwho worshipped
at Westminster Schoolâ and whose students included : Sir George Jessel, Sir B. S. Phillips, Professor Waley,
Professor Sylvester, Sampson Lucas, and Sebag Montefiore.
1876(22nd of Nisan,
5636): 8th day of Pesach; Yizkor for Passover is recited for the
last time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant.
1877: Esther W.
Scherck, the New Orleans born daughter Cecilia and Joseph Hart Marks, and her
husband Isaac Scherck gave birth to Ernestine Mau Maude Liberman, the future
resident of Memphis, TN and the wife of Mortimer G. Liberman.
1877(3rd of
Iyar, 5637): Forty-six-year-old Mathilda Rebecca Baruc, the Charleston born
daughter âof Hertz Wolf (Fritz) Oppenheim and Catharine Oppenheim, the wife of
Bernard S. Baruc and
mother of Nannie
Baruch; Emmie Baruc; Rachel Baruc; Kate Baruc; Catherine O. Menke; and Mathilda
Rebecca Baruc passed away today in New York.
1879: Birthdate of New York native and Columbia
trained cardiologist Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohn, âan authority on the human heart
and one of the first physicians to make electrocardiogramsâ who was the husband
of Ruther Walker Price Cohn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/23/84736623.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1879(23rd of Nisan,
5639): Leyser Lazarus who had been elected President of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of Breslau in 1875 following the death of Zecharais Frankel passed
away today.
1880: Two days after
she had passed away, 71 year old Rosetta Phillips, âthe daughter of Abraham and
Sarah Phillipsâ was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.â
1880: David Smith, a Jewish speculator and cigar dealer who
has been a long-time resident of Chicago has disappeared, reportedly leaving
behind âfraudulent debts in the amount of nearly $5,000.â It is thought that he
may have gone to be with his daughter who lives in Australia.
1880: It was reported
that The Young Menâs Hebrew Association held its 6th annual
reception last night at the Chickering Hall in New York City.
1880: It was reported
today David Smith, a Jewish speculator and cigar dealer, has disappeared in
Chicago leaving behind him debts totaling $5, 000. Smith has a daughter living
in Australia and it is thought he may have to seek refuge with her.
1881(17th of
Nisan, 5641): Third Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1881: In Toledo, OH,
Sarah and Benjamin Bellman gave birth to grocery store owner Sam Bellman, the
husband o Miss Hilda Michael and âa prominent member of the Bânai Bârith and
the Federation of Jewish Charities.â
1881: According to âThe
Jews In Germanyâ published today Prime Minister Bismarck and the Crown Prince
Frederick William are not sympathetic to the movement sweeping parts of Germany
aimed at limiting the number of and opportunities for Jews in Germany.
1881: Pogroms spread to
villages surrounding Elizavetgrad (Russia) where anti-Semitic violence had
broken out during Easter observances.
1881: In Dodge City,
Kansas, Bat Masterson fought his last gun battle. This happened at the same
time that Beersheba, the first of seven agricultural colonies established in
Kansas was being started by 60 Jewish families from Russia. Wyatt Earp, one of Mastersonâs best friends
married a Jewish woman named Josie. Gene
Barry, a Brooklyn born Jew, played the title role in a television series about
the western lawman called âBat Masterson.â
1881: In New York, the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment made the annual distribution of financial
aid to a variety of charitable institutions including a payment of $1,440 to
the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and $240 for the Zion Aged Relief Association.
1881: A review of
âBuried Alive: Or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberiaâ reports that the
cast of characters includes a hypocritical âJew who acts a pawnbroker and
money-lender to the other convictsâ while observing his religious with a great
display of public piety. [The stereotype of the Jewish money lender survived in
Russian literature about Siberia only to be joined by another stereotype â the
Jewish revolutionary, be he communist, socialist or anarchist.
1882: Jakob and
Barbara/Babette Bondy gave birth to Antonie Wagner who died at Riga in 1942
during the Holocaust.
1882(27th of Nisan, 5642): Forty-two-year-old
Isaac Levy passed away today after which he was buried at the Washington
Cemetery in Brooklyn
1883: On the day after his marriage to Pauline Moses, David
Holtz endures a âviolent lunaticâ from his wife.
1884(21st of Nisan, 5664): Seventh Day of Pesach
1884: Thirty-four-year-old German historian Ernst Bernheim
married 22-year-old Amalie ("Emma") Henriette Jessen
1885(1st of Iyar, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1885: Birthdate of
Hungarian composer and music educator Leo Weiner.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Weiner
1885: In Rumania, Hillel and Hannah Luttinger gave birth to
Jaffa Agricultural College alum and NYU and Bellevue Hospital Medical College
trained physician and bacteriologist Paul Luttinger, the husband of Shirley
Levey who was a lectured at the Sholem Aleichem Volks Schule and a director of
the Workmenâs Circle Sunday Schools.
1886: In Hamburg, the former Mary-Magdalene Kohpeiss and
Johannes Thalman give birth to decorated WW I German war hero and Chairman of
the German Communist Party Ernst Thalmann who was one of the non-Jews murdered
at Buchenwald.
1887(22nd of Nisan, 5647): 8th day of Pesach
observed for the first time that Lord Salisbury was serving as Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom
1888: In Savannah, GA, Zipporah Alice DeCastro Lazaron and
Samuel Louis Lazaron gave birth to Morris Samuel Lazaron, the graduate of HUC
and longtime rabbi at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation which he finally left
because of his strong anti-Zionist positions who married Pauline S. Horkheimer
in 1916 with whom he raised three children â Clementine, Harold and Morris
Lazaron
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lazaron-morris-samuel
1889(15th of Nisan, 5649): First day of Pesach
1889: Birthdate of Silent Screen Star Charlie
Chaplin. Many will consider the Little Tramp as his
greatest comedic triumph. Others will remember him for The Great
Dictator, "a talkie" that poked fun at Hitler and Mussolini
when the world was still having trouble standing up to the Nazis and the
Fascists. According to Einstein who spent several days with him in 1931,
Chaplain had a Jewish grandfather. The ârumorâ that he was Jewish was
reportedly a creation of the fascists who did not like him for his anti-fascist
stands and for his comic portrayal of the âgreat dictators of the 1930s.â he
was forced to retreat to his native soil during the McCarthy Period. He
passed away on December 25, 1977.
1890(26th of Nisan, 5650): Ninety-three-year-old
Amsterdam native Sidney Zadoc Aloe, the husband of Nancy Hart Aloe and father
of Seline, Janet, Francie, Albert and Sarah Aloe passed away today in St. Louis
after which he was buried in the New Mount Sinai Cemetery
1890: It was reported
today that Jesse Seligman was one of those be considered as the Republican
nominee in the upcoming mayoral race. It is felt that in addition to drawing
the âfull Republican voteâ he would also be able to attract a large percentage
of the Jewish vote.
1891(8th of
Nisan, 5651): Fifty-six-year-old Joseph H. Hepner, a Jewish immigrant from
Poland who came to the United States 8 years ago, took his own life at the
grocery store he has owned for the last three years on East Broadway.
1891: Birthdate of
Alfred Adler who was transported from Pilsen to Terezin in 1942 and was later
transported from Terezin to an âunknown placeâ where he was murdered.
1891: Birthdate of
Hartford, CT native George Fine, the husband of Charlotte S. Friedman Fine and
the father of composer Irving Gifford Fine.
https://www.irvingfinesoc.org/about\
1892(19th of
Nisan, 5652): Shabbat Shel Pesach observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
1893(30th of Nisan,
5653): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1893: At Temple
Emanu-El, during his sermon which was a response to aggressive attempts by
Protestants to convert Jews, Rabbi Joseph Silverman âcharged corruption in the
methods by which the Protestants are seeking to proselyte the Jewsâ saying that
âthe Christian missionaries and the so-called âconvertedâ Jews are paid
commissions for making converts and in order to make their business brisk and
produce a good showing they divide their commissions with their âconvertsâ.â
1893: The Reverend Merle St. Croix Wright, pastor of the
Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church delivered a sermon condemning the Union League
Clubâs rejection of Theodor Seligman because of his ârace.â
1894: The doctors reported today that four-year-old Jacob
Green, the son of a Jewish peddler had only suffered a broken collarbone when
he fell from the fifth floor of his tenement. Before he hit the ground,
the boy landed on Morris Eisenberg who was standing in front of the
building. Despite great pain from what turned out to be a broken
shoulder, Eisenberg got the boy to the hospital where he received prompt
medical attention.
1895: The newly incorporated Hebrew Infant Asylum of New
York City is publicly committed to provide care for Jewish orphans under the
age of five. Among the trustees are Jacob Fleishhauer, Minnie Frank,
Jacob B. Seligman and Esther Wallenstein.
1895: In Kiev, âDavid and Pessie (Burakowsky) Madison gave
birth to Charles Allan Madison who in 1906 came to the United States where he
earned a BA from Michigan and an MA from Harvard while becoming a managing
editor for publisher Henry Holt and Company and raising one child with his wife
Edith Hellman.
1895: Birthdate of Proskuriv native Mischa Fishberg who
gained fame as American violinist and concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff.
http://pronetoviolins.blogspot.com/2012/08/mischa-mischakoff.html
1896: Birthdate of Samuel
Rosenstock, who gained fame as Tristan Tzara, poet, playwright and founder of
the Dada Movement. He passed away in
1963.
1897(4th of Nisan, 5657): Taâanit Bechorot
1897: Two days after he had passed away, Joshua Isaacs was
buried today in the âPlashet Jewish Cemeteryâ in London.
1897: The will of Francis Danzig, the widow of Louis Danzig
was filed for probate today.
1897: Fifty-nine-year-old August Seligman passed away today
at his home in New York City. A native of Oppenheim, Germany, he came to
the United States 45 years ago where he began in the importing business before
turning to the manufacture of corsets He was a member of Temple Beth El
and was active in Jewish fraternal organizations.
1897: Birthdate of John
B Glubb the British officer who was the commander of Jordan's Arab
Legion. It was Glubb and those like him who trained the Jordanian Army
and made it in effective fighting force against the Israelis. The Arab
Legion was the only force to score a meaningful victory over the Jewish
fighters which left the Jordanians in control of the eastern section of
Jerusalem and what is now the West Bank. Nobody wanted to set up a
Palestinian State in the West Bank in those days.
1897(14th of Nisan,
5657): The New York Times reported that âAt sundown this evening the
Feast of Passover will begin, and will continue for seven days, ending at
sundown on April 22. The feast is celebrated generally by the Jews, with
services in the synagogues on the first and last days, and the evenings preceding
those days. The "matzoth," or unleavened bread, is used in place of
the usual bread during the weekâŚEach family, however poor, manages to live well
by some means or other during the Passover week, the poorer ones being assisted
by others who are more fortunate.â
1898: âFour days before
the Spanish-American War was declared, Dr. Joseph M. Heller who went to the
Surgeon General of the Army and volunteered his services.
1899: âUrge a Branch of
a New Jewish Bankâ published today reported that Richard J.H. Gottheil of
Columbia, Rabbi S.S. Wise and Rabbi Philip Jaches had addressed a meeting in
Brooklyn where it was proposed âto take action looking toward the establishment
of a permanent branching the United States of the New Jewish Bankâ which had
recently been founded in London in an attempt
to further emigration to Palestine and to better the condition of the Jewish
nation.â
1900(17th of
Nisan, 5660): Third Day of Pesac
1900: Birthdate of Polly Adler
Russia, author of A House is not a Home. Long before âSex and the Cityâ
was a television show, this famous Madame was providing the real thing.
1901: Secretary of
State Hay informed Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon the Charge dâAffairs at
Constantinople had anticipated the request of Solomon Hirsch of Portland and
had already lodged a protest with the government of Turkey concerning its new
regulations that would prevent âany foreigner o the Jewish faithâ from
âsojourningâ in Palestine for âa period longer than three months.â
1902: It was reported
today that âRobert Hunter, head worker of the University Settlementâ will
deliver a lecture on April 24 on âThe Musical Genius of the Jewish Immigrantsâ
during a recital âat the home of Mrs. James Speyer.
1903(19th of
Nisan, 5663): Fifth Day of Pesach
1903: During the
so-called Melvin Bellis Case, as rumors of pogroms began to circulate, the
Russian Minister of Justice telegraphed the Kiev District Prosecutor ordering
him to personally investigate the cause of Andrei Yustschinkskiâs death.
1904(1st of
Iyar, 5664): Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosch Chodesh Iyar
1904: âBoston Notesâ
which was published today included a review of The Neighbor by Professor
Nathan S. Shaler which âincludes consideration of the two serous presented to
Americans by the presence of the Jews and the Negroesâ and which provides a
âhistory of the hatred of the Jewsâ that âwill astonish all who have previously
studied the question rather carefully.â
1904(1st of
Iyar, 5664): SĂĄndor Salamon Rockenstein the son of Isaak Rockenstein and Esther
Netti Rockenstein, the husband of Nina Genendel Rockenstein and father of
Jozefa Bettelheim; Carl David Rockenstein; Eugenia / Jenni / Zseni Flesch;
Rachel Rockenstein; Malvin Malka Rockenstein; Regina Rebeka Rothauser; ĂdĂśn
Edmund Rockenstein; Laura Leah Mandl; Irma Mirel Weisz; Samu Rockenstein;
Hermina Chaya Rockenstein and RozĂĄlia David who was born in 1828 passed away
today in Budapest.
1905: Peddlers on the
east side planned to be out selling their wares today even though it was
Sunday. Sigmund Schwartz, President of
the East Side Peddlers Association had told them that Police Commissioner
McAdoo had given them permission to ignore the laws because of the approaching
celebration of Passover.
1905: Today, Fannie
Unger married Max Thorek the Hungarian born son of Sarah Mahler and Issac
Thorek, a graduate of Rush Medical College and the âfounder the International College of
Surgeonsâ
https://www.bmj.com/content/1/5170/431.3
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/07/85131581.pdf
1905: In âHow Passover
Will Be Observed on the East Side; The Beautiful Sentiment of Opening the Door
to the Poor with Which This Time-Honored Jewish Festival Is Initiated at the
Seder Table," published today it
was reported that âNext Wednesday evening, the first night of Passover,
thousands of the Children of Israel on the great east side will sit by their
firesides in faith, hope, and contentment. From the dim haze of antiquity
hunted from shore to shore, they have at last found peace -- in this country of
glorious freedom, where they can at least worship their God in peace, and where
their Passover comes without menace of riot and bloodshed.â
1906: Twenty Jewish
butchers working in Harlem were found guilty of selling meat after midnight on
Saturday. The magistrate hearing the
case said that he was fining them reluctantly and wished that âthe legislature would
repeal this absurd law.â
1907: In âThe Roumanian
Revoltâ published today A.H. Fromenson, the Secretary of the Independent Order
of Bânai Bârith said that the Roumanian
uprising was not, as the New York Times had reported âessentially agrarian and
only incidentally anti-Semiticâ but was âfrom its inception entirely
anti-Semiticâ and trace their beginnings to attacks last December on attacks on
a concert sponsored by the Jewish Ladiesâ Society of Bucharest and that
authorities had only taken action when the anti-Semitic looters, emboldened by
the successes attacked the property of Gentile land owners.â
1908(16th of
Nisan, 5668): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer is counted
for the last time during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
1909(25th of
Nisan, 5669): Sixty-three year old Alfred Lipman Levy, the Wellington, NZ born
son of Jane and Solomon Levy and the husband of Mary Ann Levy and Annie Levy
whose business varied and successful business interests including sitting on
the boards of the Wellington Gas Company and the Welling Trust Loan and
Investment Company passed away today.
http://mtvictoria.history.org.nz/lipman-levy/
1910: âFormer Director
of the Police Department of the Russian Empire and Associate Minister of the
Interior, Alexander Lopukhinâ who has been exiled to Siberia wrote to Premier
Stolypin âthat many of the proclamations inciting the people to riots and massacres
of the Jews were printed within the walls of the police department and were
distributed by that department.
1911: During what would
become known as âThe Case of Mendel Bellis,â the Russian Minister of Justice
ordered the Kiev District Prosecutor to personally investigate the death of
Andrei Yustschinski; an investigation that would include a second autopsy conducted
by two professors from the Kiev Medical School.
1912: The RMS
Carpathia, carrying hundreds of the Titanic survivors including journalist
Edith Rosenbaum and Elizabeth and Martin Rothschild, the aunt and uncle of
Dorothy Parker, began making its way to New York.
1912: âIn CzÄstochowa,
Poland, Rabbi Awigdor Szapiro of the Kosnitz Hasidic dynasty and his if gave birth
to Alta Fajge Szapiro who gained fame as Faige Teitelbaum, the wife Rabbi Joel
Teitelbam, the first rebbe of the Satmar Community an who as the Satmar
Rebbetzin gained a following of
supporters who stood in opposition to her husband's successor, the second Rebbe
of Satmar, Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum.â
1913(9th of
Nisan, 5673): Sixty-five-year-old Leo
Speyer, who was a member of the New York Stock Exchange for 25 years and was a
director of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Association âdied suddenly today in
his apartment at the Savoy Hotel in New York.â
1913: Twenty-nine-year-old
Lt. J.G. Albert Morris Cohen was âappointed as an aid on the staff of the
Commander-in-Chief of the United States Atlantic Fleet today.
1913: Mrs. I.J. Robin,
the president of the Jewish Consumptivesâ Relief Society and Mrs. Ignatz J.
Reis, the president of the Conference of Jewish Womenâs Organizations were
among those who spoke at conference day arranged by the Jewish Consumptivesâ
Relief Society of Chicago.
1914: In Lithuania,
Rabbi Nathan Milikowsky and Sara Milikowsky gave birth to Matthew Milikowsky
1914:
Sixty-seven-year-old German anti-Semite Herman Ahlwardt died today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/04/18/100087049.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/997-ahlwardt-hermann
1914: According to Dr.
Ben Wildauer, a friend of Leo M. Frank, Dan S. Lehon of the Burns Detective
Agency hired C.C. Tedder today âpaying him $500 cash, $250 as an advance on his
salary and $250 for expensesâ as part of plan to have the detective agency look
at the possibility that perjured evidence had been used to convict Frank, the
Jewish factory who was convicted of killing a Mary Phagan in one of the worst
orgies of anti-Semitism in the history of United States.
1915: Birthdate of
Coleman Jacoby, the native of Pittsburg, PA
a comedy writer who created laughter for many famous names including
Fred Allen, Phil Silvers, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. He passed away at the age of 95 in 2010.
1915: Five foot, 3
inches, Issy Smith received the Victorian Cross and other awards today for his
role in the fighting at Ypres in 1915 where despite being severely wounded he
carried several wounded comrades back to safety âwith no regard for his own
safety.â
1916: Abraham K. Cohen,
Samuel Fleishman and Joseph Levinson presided over âthe dedication of the Bânai
Bârith Building of the Independent Order of the Bânai Bârith tonight at the new
headquarters on Broadway where attendees heard speeches by Marcus M. Marks,
Otto Irving Wise, Abraham K. Cohen and Herman Asher followed by âa prayer for
peace delivered by Herbert S. Goldstein.
1916: Among the
contributions reported today by The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews
Suffering Through the War were $31 from Rabbi L.J.Haas and $32 from people in
Wharton, TX.
1916: Jacob Schiff, Dr.
Cyrus Adler, Dr. J.L. Magnes and Professor Mordecai M. Kaplan were among the
speakers when âthe new quarters of the Teachersâ Institute of the Jewish
Theological Seminary on the fifth floor of the annex to the Hebrew Technical
Instituteâ were dedicated this afternoon.
1916: âJews in Americaâ
published today provided a review of the 23rd of the American Jewish
Historical Societyâs series of Publications that deals âin the main with the
history of Jews of Americaâ including William Vincent Byars discussion of the
papers of 18th century Philadelphia merchants Bernard and Michael
Gratz.
http://discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-Am.413
1916: Birthdate of âRabbi
Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the leader of one the worldâs largest Hasidic sects, the
Viznitz Hasidim.â (As reported by Joseph Berger)
1916: France and Britain divided up the
Middle East in the Sykes-Picot Agreement. France was assured of Syria and the Mosul, with English gaining
control of Northern Arabia and Central Mesopotamia. Pre-state Israel was
divided with France controlling the Galilee, Britain the Haifa area and the
rest of the region to be under some sort of undefined international control.
1917(24th of Nisan,
5677): Edouard Gaspard Marcel Kahn, âchief of battalionâ was killed today
during WW I.
1917: Twenty-four-year-old
philosopher Walter Benjamin married Dora Pollak today after which they went to
a sanatorium in Dachau for treatment of his sciatica.
1917: The American
Jewish Relief Committee received telegrams today from the brothers of Utah
Governor Simon Bamberger â J.E. Bamberger and Herman Bamberger, âwho control
large mining interestsâ â promising to match the Governorsâ pledge to
contribute an amount equal to 10 per cent of the contributions from Utah.
1917: Reports received
today in New York from Jerusalem claim that âfully 50 per cent of the
population of Palestine and Syria are facing death by starvationâ and that âthe
only chance for relief is the capture of Jerusalem and the seaport of Jaffa by
British forcesâ which would âenable the Allies to bring supplies from Egypt.â
1917: Herman H. Lehman,
Treasurer of the Joint Distribution Committee announced that the committee
received $180,000 today.
1917: In Berlin, Dr.
Albert Salomon, a prominent surgeon, and his wife gave birth to Charlotte, the
artist who was gassed at Auschwitz in 1943.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Salomon#/media/File:Charlotte_Salomon_-_JHM_4351.jpg
1918(4th of
Iyar, 5678): 2nd Lt. Cecil Shekury, a native of Singapore and was
attending school in England in 1914 when the war broke out and he enlisted in
the Army was killed today.
1918: Four days after
he had passed away, 23-year-old Pvt. Charles Alexander Cassell, a member of the
Norfolk Yeomanry and the son of Solomon Cassell and Bloomer Isaacs was buried
today at the âPlashet Jewish Cemeteryâ in London.
1918: Dr. Hyman Gerson
Enelow completed his services âas a member of the Overseas Commission of the
Jewish Welfare Board.â
1918: âA protest
against alleged âcontinuous unjust, unfair, and discriminatory treatmentâ of
Jews in the war was with Secretary Baker today by Louis Marshall of New York,
head of the American Jewish Committeeâ including the complaint âthat not a
single among the large number with the expeditionary forces in France has been
commissioned from the ranksâ although many such commissions have been awarded
to others.
1919(16th of
Nisan, 5679): Second Day of Pesach
1919: Furloughs granted
to members of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) so they could observe
Passover came to an end at midnight.
1920: A union was founded to strengthen
and develop friendly relations between Moroccan Jewry and Spain.
1920: The Twelfth Conference of the
Bund continued to meet for a fifth day in Gomel.
1920: Birthdate of Richard Nathaniel
Goldman, a native of San Francisco who founded Goldman Insurance Services for
co-founded âthe Goldman Environmental Prize, which is given to six grass-roots
environmental activists every year.â He
pass away in 2010 at the age of 90.
1921(8th of Nisan,
5681):Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1921: Penultimate day of the conference
of Reform Jews that has been meeting in Washington, DC.
1922: Po'al ha-Mizrachi, the religious Zionist
labor movement, founded. Unlike many other Orthodox, the followers of
Mizrachi were ardent Zionist from the earliest days. They played a vital
role in the creation of Jewish Palestine under the mandate and the creation of
the state of Israel in 1948.
1922: Germany and the
Soviet Union sign the Treaty of Rapallo which was effectively a peace treaty
between these two parties from WW I. The
Russian and German empires that had been warring parties had been replaced by
these two national entities. The treaty
drew the two âpariah statesâ of Europe into an embrace that included training
of the German Army in the Soviet Union.
Yes, in one of those great ironies of history, Stalin would provide the
training for the Wermacht that would invade his country; an invasion that
resulted in the death of millions of Jews.
1923(30th of Nisan,
5683): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1923: âDr. Fouad Bey,
former Minister of the Interior and Social Welfare of Turkey and a member of
the National Turkish Assembly was the guest of honor at a dinner at the Hotel
McAlpin tonight given by the Sephardic and Ottoman Societies of New Yorkâ whose
members are âJews of Turkish birthâ living in New York City.
1924: While addressing
a crowd of five thousand people tonight at Carnegie Hall, William D. Guthrie
âsaid there was no nobler page in American history than that written by the
Jews who had contributed more than $60,000,000 since the armistice for the relief
of suffering in the Near Eastâ and âhe pointed out that much of this money had
been spent on Christians and he wished Christians had set as good an example as
had the Jews.â
1925(22nd of
Nisan, 5685): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1925: Jews who form the
bulk of the population of Ryki, village in the vicinity of Berlin, suffered the
most when fire almost completely destroyed the village today.
1926(2nd of
Iyar, 5686): Fifty-nine-year-old Daniel Lucien Espir the Paris born son of London
wine merchant Elie Camille Espir and Sophie Nymarck and younger brother of
Ferdinand Espir passed way today in Paris.
1926: âJudge Mack and
Rabbi Landman Debate Zionismâ published today described the presentation of the
different opinions about Palestine held by Judge Julian W. Mark and Rabbi Isaac
Landman.
http://www.jta.org/1926/04/16/archive/judge-mack-and-rabbi-landman-debate-zionism
1926: âThe Wooing of
Eveâ a silent film written by Robert Liebmann was released in Germany today.
1927(14th of
Nisan, 5687): Shabbat HaGadol; erev Pesach
1927: Judge Otto A
Rosalsky, the Vice President of the Jewish Educational Association which is
seeking to raise a half million dollars âto provide religious training for the
Jewish youth of New York Cityâ said today âthat the world more than ever today
must turn to the task of providing religious training for the youngâ a
sentiment echoed by Jonah J. Goldstein, the Chairman of the campaign who said
that âgiving our youth a Jewish education is giving them a heritage that will
proved more valuable than merely earthly possessions.â
1927: The Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society is scheduled to hold a Seder at 425
Lafayette Street which will be attended by âthe fifteen members of the Hakoah
soccer team of Vienna.â
1927: The Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society is scheduled to hold a Seder on Ellis
Island for approximately â150 immigrants temporarily detained thereâ as well as
for an untold ânumber of deportees.
1927: Temple Anshe
Chesed began its last Passover observance at its current location at Seventh
Avenue and 114th Street before moving into the facility âbeing
erected at West End Avenue and 100th Street.
1927: Seventy-six-year-old
Florence Earle Coates who âwas among "artists and intellectuals" who
spoke out against the wrongful imprisonment and would pen four poems relating
to the affair: "Dreyfus" (1898), "Dreyfus" (1899),
"Picquart" (1902) and "Le Grand Salut" (1906)â passed away
today. (As reported by Sonja N. Bohm)
1927: Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist, arrived on the
White Star liner Adriatic after a visit to Palestine. He said that he found
steady progress there, in spite of the crisis in Tel Aviv, which he said was
temporary. Straus praised Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner and reported that
âfriction between Arabs and Jews was on the decline.
1928(26th of
Nisan, 5688): Seventy-seven-year-old Pavel Axelrod, the Jewish Menshevik born Pinchus
Borukh, died in exile today in Berline.
http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSaxelrod.htm
1928: In Brooklyn, Samuel
and Lily (Lazell) Sylbert gave birth to âRichard "Dick" Sylbert, a
two-time Academy Award-winning production designer.â
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/27/local/me-sylbert27
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/movies/paul-sylbert-dead-oscar-winner-heaven-can-wait.html?_r=0
1929: Violinist Efrem
Zimbalist is scheduled to perform this on radio station WOR.
1929: âA large audience
is expected to be present at the celebration of the 50th birthday of
Professor Albert Einstein which is scheduled to be this evening at the
Metropolitan Opera House.
1930: In Jamaica,
Queens, NY, store owner Louis Herman and âthe former Yetta Scheer, a seamstressâ
gave birth to Dolphin researcher Louis Herman.
1930: Birthdate of
Herbert Jay Solomon who gained fame as Herbie Mann, a leading American jazz
flutist.
1931(29th of Nisan,
5691): Rachel Bluwstein Sela passed away at the age of 40. She âwas a Hebrew
poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909 who was known by her first name,
Rachel, (ר××â)
or as Rachel the poetess (ר×× ××׊×ררתâ). Born in Saratov[ in Russia in 1890, she was âthe eleventh
daughter of Isser-Leib and Sophia Bluwstein, and granddaughter of the rabbi of
the Jewish community in Kiev. During her childhood, her family moved to
Poltava, Ukraine, where she attended a Russian-speaking Jewish school and,
later, a secular high school. She began writing poetry at the age of 15. When
she was 17, she moved to Kiev and began studying painting. At the age of 19,
Rachel visited Eretz Israel with her sister en route to Italy, where they were
planning to study art and philosophy. They decided to stay on as Zionist
pioneers. They settled in Rehovot and worked in the orchards. Later, Rachel
moved to Kvutzat Kinneret on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where she
studied and worked in a women's agricultural school. At Kinneret, she met
Zionist leader A. D. Gordon who was to be a great influence on her life, and to
whom she dedicated her first Hebrew poem. During this time, she also met and
had a romantic relationship with Zalman Rubshov - object of many of her love poems
who later became known as Zalman Shazar and was the third president of Israel. In
1913, on the advice of A. D. Gordon, she journeyed to Toulouse, France to study
agronomy and drawing. When World War I broke out, unable to return to
Palestine, she returned instead to Russia where she taught Jewish refugee
children. It may have been at this point in her life that she contracted
tuberculosis. After the end of the war in 1919 she returned to Palestine on
board the ship Ruslan and for a while joined the small agricultural kibbutz
Degania, a settlement neighboring her previous home at Kinneret. However,
shortly after her arrival she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, then an
incurable disease. Now unable to work with children for fear of contagion, she
was expelled from Degania and left to fend for herself. In 1925 she lived
briefly in a small white house in the courtyard of No. 64 Street of the Prophets
in Jerusalem (courtyard of the William Holman Hunt House). She spent the rest
of her life traveling and living in Tel Aviv, and finally settled in a
sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in GederaâŚ. She is buried in the Kinneret
cemetery in a grave overlooking the Sea of Galilee, following her wishes as
expressed in her poem âIf Fate Decrees.â Alongside her are buried many of the
socialist ideologues and pioneers of the second and third waves of immigration.
In recent years, Naomi Shemer was buried near Rachel, according to Shemer's
wish. Rachel began writing in Russian as a youth, but the majority of her work
was written in Hebrew. Most of her poems were published on a weekly basis in
the Hebrew newspaper Davar, and quickly became popular with the Jewish
community in the Palestine and later, in the State of Israel. The majority of
her poetry is set in the pastoral countryside of Eretz Israel. Many of her
poems echo her feelings of longing and loss, a result of her inability to
realize her aspirations in life. In several poems she mourns the fact that she
will never have a child of her own. Lyrical, exceedingly musical and
characterized by its simple language and deep feeling, her poetry deals with
fate, her own difficult life, and death. Her love poems emphasize the feelings
of loneliness, distance, and longing for the beloved; her lighter poetry is
ironic, often comic. Her writing was influenced by French imagism, Biblical
stories, and the literature of the Second Aliyah pioneers. In one poem she
identifies with Michal, wife of David. Rachel also wrote a one-act comic play âMental
Satisfaction,â which was performed but not published in her lifetime. This
ironic vignette of pioneer life was recently rediscovered and published in a
literary journal. Anthologies of
Rachel's poetry remain bestsellers to this day. Many of her poems were set to
music, both during her lifetime and afterwards, and are widely sung by Israeli
singers. Her poems are included in the mandatory curriculum in Israeli schools.
A selection of her poetry was translated to English and published under the
title âFlowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Rachel,â by the London publisher
Menard. In his foreword to the 1994 edition of âFlowers of Perhaps,â the
acclaimed Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai stated: âWhat may be most remarkable
about the poetry of Ra'hel, a superb lyric poet, is that it has remained fresh
in its simplicity and inspiration for more than seventy years.â In 2011, Rachel
was chosen as one of four great Israeli poets whose portraits would be on
Israeli currency (the other three being Leah Goldberg, Shaul Tchernichovsky,
and Nathan Alterman).â
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Bluwstein#/media/File:His_06big_-_Degania.jpg
1931: Birthdate of Ruth
Bachravochova who was murdered eleven years later at Izbica.
1932: In Karlovac,
which at the time was part of Yugoslavia, Iva (Ischak) Goldstein and his wife
gave birth to Danko Goldstein who changed his name to Daniel Ivin when he moved
to Israel but later returned to his native Croatia where he pursued a career as
a writer and human rights activist.
1933( 20th
of Nisan, 5693): Sixth Day of Pesach
1933: âThe newspaper El
Sol, which is closed to the government, asks the Spanish Republic, in a
front-page editorialâ on April 16 âissued a decree annulling the order signed
in 1492 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella order the expulsion of the Jews
from Spain.â
1933: Based on a report
âthat Professor Albert Einstein has accepted a chair at the College de France,â
âit is now demanded that the thirteen Jewish and three âMarxistâ university
professors who were ousted on April 7 should be forbidden to leaveâ Germany
âand take positions abroad.â
1934(1st of
Iyar, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1934: âKashruth
Movementâ published today described the efforts of Rabbi Solomon Schienfeld, a
leading Orthodox rabbi in Milwaukee to make sure that Jews confined to the Muirdale
Tuberculosis Sanitarium âand other
Milwaukee county public institutionsâ will have âkosher foods on all Jewish
holidays.
1934: âRabbi Samuel H.
Goldenson of Congregation Emanu-El and Mrs. Goldensonâ are scheduled to âbe
honored at a luncheon to be given under the auspices of the executive board of
Federation of Jewish Womenâs Organizations at the Harmonie ClubâŚâ
1935: As the Red Sox
open their A.L. season, Moe Berg is the teamâs third-string catcher thanks to
the efforts of Joe Cronin who signed after the Jewish âodd-ballâ had been
released by the Cleveland Indians.
1935: Birthdate of Steffi
Sidney-Splaver, the daughter of famed Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky, who
as a young actress appeared in and then gave up acting to become a Hollywood writer,
publicist and producer. She passed away
in 2010 at the age of 74.
1935: Birthdate of
American âcharacter actorâ Al Israel, one of those people you send an untold
number of movies such as âCarlitoâs Wayâ and âScarfaceâ but whose name you
never know.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=149420890
1936: âMr. Deeds Goes
to Washingtonâ the comedy for which Robert Riskin wrote the Oscar winning
script was released in the United States toay.
1936: In Bucharest,
Rumania, âthe Liberal Party combined with the National Peasant Partyâ today
demanded âthat the government put an end to the activities of the Iron Gaurdsâ
and others that are part of âthe extreme right wing anti-Semitic Fascist movement.â
1936: In the
Netherlands, âHet Volk, the leading Labor newspaperâ said the German âconsulate
distributed copies of a Nazi publication, âGermans Abroadâ which contains an
article that is an insult to Amsterdamâs Jewish population.â
1936: Dr. Albert
Einstein wrote a letter to Rabbi Lazar Schonfeld soliciting his support for
Yeshiva College.
http://yu.edu/libraries/digital_library/einstein/33.html
1937: When a caretaker
opened the gates at a Jewish cemetery this morning he âfound sixteen tombstones
overturnedâ and damage to the cemetery wall in several places which was
âbelieved to have beenâ done by the Nazis.
1938(15th of Nisan, 5698): First Day of Pesach
1938: On the first day
of Pesach, Rabbi David de Sola Pool at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
said " The Passover message of freedom is a ringing call to- man to
struggle to preserve his civic liberty and his freedom of thought, speech and
conscience." Speaking to a crowd of 2,500 at Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Samuel
Goldenson stressed the necessity for Jews âto reaffirm the importance of
liberty and freedom.â He also drew a
comparison between the plight of the Jews of Egypt and plight of Jews living in
totalitarian states in Europe.
1938: Arturo Toscanini
conducted the Palestine Orchestra in Tel Aviv. âThe program was a repetition of
that given in Haifa earlier this week, but tonightâs performance was even more
brilliant because the better acoustics at the Tel Aviv Hall.â
1939: Birthdate of New
York native and NYU alum Harvey Golub, âa senior partner with McKinsey and
Companyâ and the CEO of American Express.
1939: Stalin requested the creation of a British,
French & Russian anti-Nazi pact. Stalin was not blind to Hitler's
ambition. He sought an alliance with the West. However, London and Paris
dithered because they were concerned about joining forces with the Communist
dictator. Fearing isolation and having to fight the Germans alone,
Stalin negotiated a non-aggression pact with Hitler which freed the Nazis to
attack Poland and then turn against the West. By the time the Germans
attacked the Russians, a new government was in power in London.
When Churchill was asked if he would aid Stalin, Churchill said that he
would help the Devil if he were fighting the Nazis.
1939: Sensing
opportunities with the Soviet Union, Mussolini welcomed the notion of a pact of
solidarity with that country.
1940: âMorning Starâ featuring
Sidney Lumet as âHymie Tashmanâ opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre
1940(18th of
Nisan, 5700): Sixty-nine-year-old Esther Greenebaum, the daughter of Adolph and
Johanna Loeb and the wife of Henry Naphtali Greenebaum with whom she had four
children â Charlotte, Sarah, Michael and Henry â passed away today in Chicago.
1940: Before going to
Griffith Stadium to watch the opening game of the baseball stadium, President
Roosevelt met this morning with Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
1940: On opening day at
Griffith Stadium, the home of the Washington Senators, President Roosevelt
accidently smashed the camera of a Jewish photographer. Irving Schlossenberg was a photographer with the Washington
Post. After FDR had thrown the
ceremonial âfirst pitch,â Schlossenberg convinced him to do it a second time so
that he could get a better picture.
Unfortunately, Rooseveltâs second pitch went wild and smashed
Schlossenbergâs camera. Schlossenberg
went on to serve as a combat photographer with the United States Marine Corps
hitting the beach in the first wave at four different landings â a fete that
help to earn him four bronze stars.
1941: Germans invade
Sarajevo, and with the help of Muslims (of whom they had incited) looted and
destroyed the main Sephardic synagogue. All Jews were ordered to
surrender their radios.
1941: German troops and
local Muslims looted and destroyed the main synagogue in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
1941(19th of Nisan, 5701): Aron Beckermann
became the first Jew to be shot by the Germans for resistance in France.
1942: SS officials in
the Ukraine informed authorities in Berlin that the Crimea is judenrein
(purged of Jews).
1943: Today âRabbis
Solomon Foster, Louis M. Levitsky Joachim Prinz and David H. Wise, all of whom
head large congregationsâ issued statements today âtrhough Major Howard J
Lepper, area director of the War Manpower Commissionâ urging Jews workings in
New Jersey war production plants to say at work during Passover when Jews
normally do not work during the first two and last two days of the holiday
observance.
1943: âRabbi Irving
Miller, Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress who has arrived in
London from New York, said today that the time had come for an earnest and
effective effort to save the Jews in Europe from total destruction.â
1944: After forcing the
Jews to register, the Hungarian government confiscated the property of the
Jewish population.
1944: The Parczew
partisans, fighters in irregular military groups participating in the Jewish
resistance movement against Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War
II âparticipated in the take over the city of Parczew today.
http://chelm.freeyellow.com/partisans.html
1944: In impressive services held this afternoon at the Central
Synagogue, Lexington Avenue at Fifty-Fifth Street, three American Jewish
leaders including S.W. Baron, J.N. Rosenberg and W. Rosenwald received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College
1945: âRepresentatives
of a non-Jewish group head by the Bishop of Wellington, NZ, the Right Reverend
Herbert S. Barbe Holland, issued a statement today urging âthe opening of
Palestine to Jewish victims of oppression.â
1945: âFoe Killed
Manila Jewsâ published today described how at least seventy-five Jews were
killed in February during the Battle of Manila including fifty-five-year-old
âAlexander M. Bachrach, the owner of the Manila Motors and Hixbar Mining
Companies who was bayoneted at his home.â
1945: âSummer Welles,
former Undersecretary of State, called today for the establishment by the
coming international organization of an international trusteeship over
Palestine to replace the present British mandate.â
1946(15th of Nisan,
5706): On the first day of Pesach, American journalist Mrs. Margaret Ashton Stimson Lindsley entered Acre Prison
so that she could interview imprisoned members of the Irgun. The British had turned down her requests to
review the prisoners, so Mrs. Lindsley took advantage of the British practice
of allowing family members to visit prisoners on Pesach. Mrs. Lindsley pretended to be a member of the
first family of Revisionist Zionism, the Jabotinskys, so she could join them on
a visit to jail. There she interviewed
Eri Jabotinsky, son of the Revisionist Zionist leader, Vladimir Ze'ev
Jabotinsky. a leader of the Irgun's "aliya bet" underground railroad,
which smuggled tens of thousands of Jews from Europe to Palestine in defiance
of British immigration restrictions and his 17-year-old cousin Peleg Tamir, who
was also an Irgun activist
1946: Birthdate of
Little Rock, AR native Margot Adler, the granddaughter of Alfred Adler, the
author whose writing on Neopaganism showed how far she had moved from her from
the faith of her grandfather.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/business/margot-adler-68-journalist-and-priestess-dies.html?_r=1
1947:
Bernard Baruch the famed Jewish financier and unofficial advisor to
several Presidents reportedly coined the term âcold warâ to describe the
relationship between the U.S. and the Soviets.
1947(26th of Nisan, 5707):
Fifty-eight-year-old Russian born and Long Island Hospital College of Medicine
trained roentgenologist Dr. Frank Liberson, the husband of Rose Liberson with
whom he had three children Dr. Sarah Liberson, Sylvia Lipkowitz and Dr. Isaac
Liberson who died last December â and âthe inventor of improvements in X-ray
and radiological workâ passed away today at his home in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/04/17/87517630.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1947(26th of Nisan, 5707): The British executed four members of the Irgun â Dov
Gruner, Mordechai Alkahi, Hehiel Dresner and Eliezer Kashani â in Acre Prison.
1947(26th
of Nissan, 5707): Eighty-three-year-old Rabbi Simon Finkelstien, âthe dean of
the Brooklyn Rabbinate passed away today.
https://www.cincinnatijudaicafund.com/index.php/Detail/objects/4331
1948:
Jamal Husseini, âthe former Secretary
to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Arab Congressâ told the Security
Council today, âThe representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that
they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not
deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight.â
1948: In
Manhattan, Sam Aaron âa founder and chairman of Sherry-Lehman, the New York
wine merchantâ and âthe former Florence Goldberg, a geriatric therapistâ gave
birth to Jane Frances Aaron the âfilmmaker and illustratorâ best known to many
for the animated shorts she made for âSesame Street.â
1948: The Harel Brigade, a unit of the Palmach
began a relief operation designed to provide relief for besieged Jerusalem.
1948(7th
of Nisan, 5708: On April16, During the Israeli War for Independence a platoon
of Palmach soldiers made its way into the city of Safed where the Jewish
quarter was under siege from a large Arab force. The appearance of this small but tough group
of Israeli fighters stiffened the spirit of the besieged population. With the sanction of the local rabbis, the
largely Orthodox population worked to improve the defenses of the Jewish
quarter even though the work would interfere with preparations for Pesach. The Palmach arrived just in the nick of time,
since the departing British forces turned over the keys to their police
fortress and other fortified positions to the Arab military forces. Ultimately,
the Jews of Safed would prevail and the Arab military units would be driven
out.
1949(17th of Nisan, 5709): Third Day
of Pesach and Pesach Shabbat Chol HaMoed
1949: âIn tribute to high-ranking Israeli
diplomats â Foreign Minister Moshe Sharrett, Ambassador Eliahu Elath and U.N.
representative Aubrey S. Eban â more than five thousand persons gathered
tonight âat three ballrooms of the Astor
and Commodore Hotels a the seventeenth annual Histadrut third Seder, sponsored
by the National Committee for Labor Israel.â
1949: âA general rededication to the principle
of the brotherhood of man as a means of promoting world peace was urged upon
religious leaders by rabbis in sermonsâ in New York today, during the
confluence of the Jewish Passover and the Christian Easter.â
1949: At Temple Bânai Jeshurun in New York,
Rabbi David H. Panitz âspoke against the dangerous policy in Western Germany of
permitting former Nazis to regain positions of leadership.â
1950(29th of Nisan, 5710): A four-story
building in Jaffa collapsed killing twelve and injuring thirty. Most of the dead were newly arrived
immigrants. The cause of the collapse is
still under investigation, but it is thought to have been the result of the
removal of one of the buildingâs pillars to make room for carpentry equipment
being installed in a shop on the ground floor.
1951: The Beh Sabagahs arrived at the airport
at Baghdad where they were greeted by mobs yelling âRot in Hellâ and then were
abused by guards before they could board a plane for Israel.
1951: Cantor David Werdyger and his wife gave
birth to .Mordechai Werdyger, âan American Hasidic Jewish singer and songwriter
popular in the Orthodox Jewish community known by his stage name Mordechai Ben
David.
1951: âThe Great Carusoâ the biopic produced by
Joe Pasternak was released in the United States today.
1952(21st of Nisan, 5712): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1952: Birthdate of Esther Roth-Shachamorov ,
the native of Tel Aviv and record-setting track and field star who married
gymnast and coach Peter Roth with she had two children â a daughter Einat and a
son Yaron who became a national fencing champion.
1953(1st of
Iyar, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1953: U.S.
premiere of âTitanicâ a cinematic treatment of the ocean disaster with music by
Sol Kaplan.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that army engineers had completed a
new road, bringing Wadi Ramon within 212 km. of Tel Aviv. The last stage
comprised a steep descent of 250 meters along 4.5 km. of the literally vertical
wall of the Makhtesh - a great engineering achievement. The road was now
planned to reach Eilat. Syria reportedly prepared a list of all Jewish property
to be placed in the hands of a custodian, should Israel carry out its decision
to sell the property of Arab refugees.
1953:
Birthdate of J. Neil Schulman author, screenwriter,
journalist, radio personality, and filmmaker who is the son of famed violinist
Julius Schulman.
1953:
The New York Times reports that âJack Benny plans to increase his
television appearances next fall to once every three weeks and will film six of
the half-hour programs this summer. The six or seven remaining shows for the
1953-54 season will be done "live."
1954: In
the Bronx, Evelyn (nĂŠe Rozin) Barkin and Sol Barkin gave birth to actress Emmy
and Tony award winning actress Ellen Rona Barkin, the sister of George Barkin
who has been the editor-in-chief of National
Lampoon and High Times. The Bronx born actress appeared in such films as the big
Easy and the Sea of Love and gained additional fame as the fourth
wife of âCosmeticâs Kingâ Ron Perlemen.
1956(5th of
Iyar, 5716): Yom HaAtzmaâut
1956(5th
of Iyar, 5716): Fifty-eight-year-old British philanthropist, Zionist, and
businessman, Sigmund Aviezer Gestetner, the London born son of âJewish inventor
David Gestetnerâ the husband of Hetty Gestetner with whom he had three children
â Sophie, David and Jonathan -- who was
Managing
Director of Gestetner and president of the Jewish National Fund of Great
Britain passed away today in Nice âof lung cancer, stemming from his injury when
he was gassed World War I where he lied about his age to get into the military.
1957(15th of
Nisan, 5717): First Day of Pesach
1957: Terrorists
infiltrated from Jordan and killed two guards at Kibbutz Mesilot.
1959: Vic Morrow
appeared in the premiere of NBC's 1920s crime drama âThe Lawless Yearsâ in the
episode "The Nick Joseph Story".
1958(26th of
Nisan, 5718): Thirty-seven-year-old English chemist and X-ray crystallographer
Rosalind Franklin, the Notting Hill born daughter of Ellis Arthur Franklin, a
politically liberal London merchant banker who taught at the city's Working
Men's College and Muriel Frances Waley and the great-niece of Herbert Samuel (later Viscount Samuel), who
was the Home Secretary in 1916 and the first practicing Jew to serve in the
British Cabinet who died before she could be considered for a Nobel Prize but
whose âwas never nominated for a Nobel Prize but whose work was a crucial part in the discovery of DNA's
structure, which, along with subsequent related work, led to Francis Crick,
James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins being awarded a Nobel Prize in 1962 passed
away today.
1960(19th of
Nisan, 5720): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1960: Birthdate of Long
Island native award-winning author Daniel Mendelsohn the graduate of U. Va. and
holder of a Ph.D. from Princeton whose works include The Lost: A Search for
the Six Million.
http://www.danielmendelsohn.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost:_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million
1962: In New York City,
Judith and Donald Blinken gave birth to Columbia graduate and Harvard trained
attorney, Anthony âTonyâ John Blinken, the 71st United States
Secretary of State who was raised in part his step-father attorney and
Holocaust Survivor Samuel Pisar.
1963(22nd of
Nisan, 5723): Eighth Day of Pesach
1963: It was reported
today that producer Herman Levin as two new projects in the works: âSleeping
Princeâ which is due to premier on November 28 and âCat Mouseâ which is due to
premier in March of 1964 with books and lyrics written by Irae Levin.
1964(4th of
Iyar, 5724): Yom HaAtzmaâut
1964: Publication date
of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden âa semi-autobiographical novel by
Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green.â
1964: In New York City
âwriter Buz Kohan and novelist Rhea Kohan gave birth to producer and writer
David Sanford Kohan and his âtwin brother Jono.
1965(14th of Nisan,
5725): Ta'anit Bechorot
1965(14th of Nisan,
5725): Seventy-eight-year-old Mendel Osherowitch, a former editor âThe Jewish
Daily Forwardâ and a leading Yiddish author passed away today in Manhattan
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50F16FE345415738DDDAE0994DC405B858AF1D3
1966: âThe Zulu and the
Zaydaâ produced and directed by Dore Scharya and for which Ruben Rabinovitch
served as Press Representative was performed on Broadway at the Cort Theatre
for the last ime.
1966: Jan Peerce âwas
one of the participants in the Metropolitan's farewell gala marking the last
performance in the old opera house.â
1968(18th of Nisan,
5728): Fourth day of Pesach
1968(18th of Nisan,
5728): Eighty-two-year-old author Edna Ferber passed away. Born in Michigan in
1885, Ferber's parents were Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Ferber
was proud of her Jewish heritage. In her autobiography she described
anti-Semitic episodes of her youth. She also recounted the story of a
meeting with three of her friends and a New York society matron.
When the society lady, boasted about having thrown away a book because it
was written by a Jew, Ferber and her friends (all Jewish as well) walked out on
her. Ferber won a Pulitzer for So Big. She is also known for
other epics including Showboat and Giant, both of which
became successful movies.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ferber.html
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ferber-edna
1969: âThe official Red Army newspaper, Red Star, hit at two favorite
targets today when it charged that Israel had usedâ â7,000 German mercenaries
and 800 West German military vehiclesâ âin the fight against the Arab statesâ and
âaccused the West German Government of urging Israel to oppose any peaceful
settlement in the Middle East, including threats to use the atomic bomb.â
1970(10th of Nisan, 5730): Seventy-eight-year-old Vienna born
American architect Richard Joseph Neutra passed away today.
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/richard-joseph-neutra
1971(21st of Nisan, 5731): Seventh Day of Pesach
1971: In Miami Beach, the former Yaffa Rosenthal, a sabra and attorney
Jay Dermer, the former Mayor of Miami Beach gave birth to Wharton graduate and holder
of a doctorate from Oxford Ron Dermer the Israeli diplomate and Likud supporter
of Benjamin Netanayahu and the husband of Rhoda Pagano whom he married after
the death of Adi Blumberg whose career has included serving the Minister of
Strategi Affair and Ambassador to the United States and who chose to go to
Wharton after reading Donald J. Trump's book The Art of the Deal. (Editorâs
note: An acolyte of Trump and Bibi)
1971(21st of Nisan, 5731): Seventy-nine-year-old WW I AEF veteran Joseph
Love, the husband of the former Minerva Rosetsky with whom he had four children
Matthew, Stanley, Robert and Jane â and a member of Temple Emanu-El who used
âhis Army bonus âto start the firm of Joseph Love, Inc., which he built into a
leading manufacturer of children's wearâ passed away today at Beth Israel
Hospital.
1972: âThe Culpepper Cattle Co.â the first film produced by Jerry
Bruckheimer as released today in the United States.
1973(14th of Nisan, 5733): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1975(5th of Iyar, 5735): Yom HaAtmaâut
1975(5th of Iyar, 5735): Seventy-four-year-old Berlin born
expert on Greek and Arabic Philosophy who found a refuge from Nazi German in Great
Britain where he served as lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford from 1942 to 1962
passed away today.
1975: Sixty-seven-year-old Dr. James H. Sheldon, âa leading New York
ecumenist and supporter of humanitarian causesâ and âa longtime supporter, âthe
administrative chairman of the Anti-Nazi league and advocate of the cause of Soviet Jewryâ
suffered a fatal heart attack today âwhile addressing the United Nations
Association of the United States.â
https://www.lebookiniste.com/pages/books/2180/james-h-sheldon/letter-about-a-neo-nazi-group
1976(16th of
Nisan, 5736): Second Day of Pesach
1977(28th of
Nisan, 5737): Parashat Shmini
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/low
1978: NBC broadcast âThe Gathering Darknessâ the first episode of the
miniseries âHolocaustâ tonight.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that US president Carter's
Administration, which had just sold 50 F-5E jet fighters to Egypt, was prepared
to approve the sale of 3,000 US-made armored carriers to Egypt. In Washington,
Alfred Atherton, the US Middle Eastern envoy, said that it was up to Israel to
make the stalled peace negotiations with Egypt possible.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
number of those making Aliya in March 1978, increased by 35 percent in
comparison with that of March, 1977. The majority of the 1,988 new immigrants
who arrived in March came from the Soviet Union.
1979: Zaventem Airport in Belgium was the scene of
a failed attack by Palestinian terrorists.
1980: The Presidium of
the Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry opened its meeting today in
Paris.
1980: Phyllis Trible
whom Athalya Brenner called one of the "prominent matriarchs of
contemporary feminist bible criticism" became a full Professor at Union
Theological Seminary.
http://library.columbia.edu/locations/burke/archives/awts/exhibit/trible.html
1981(12th of
Nisan, 5741): Fast of the First Born
1982: âLeningrad refusenik student Mikhail Tsyvin was again
arrested after chaining himself to the railings outside St. Basilâs Cathedral
in Red Square, demanding permission to emigrate to Israel.â
1984(14th of
Nisan, 5774): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1984: Birthdate of
White Plains, NY native Noah Fleiss, the actor who âis a distant relativeâ of
the infamous Heidi Fleiss.
1986(7th of
Nisan, 5746): One day after celebrating his 75th birthday,
University of Wisconsin alum Charles âBucketsâ Goldenberg who played for 13
years with the Green Bay Packers passed away today.
http://www.packers.com/history/hall-of-famers/goldenberg-charles-buckets.html
1986: Yitzhak Moda'I switched from serving as Minister of Finance
to Minister of Justice.
1987(17th of
Nisan, 5747): Third Day of Pesach
1988(29th of
Nisan, 5728): Parashat Shmini
https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/4596/Reiss/Lionel
1988: Fifty-two-year-old
terrorist mastermind âAbu Jihadâ was killed in Tunis today during an Israeli
commando raid.
1989: âIn recognition
of Rabbi Schneersonâsâ works âCongress, by House Joint Resolution 173
designatedâ today as âEducation Day, U.S.A.â
1990(21st of
Nisan, 5750): Seventh Day of Pesach
1990: TNT broadcast
âThe Rose and the Jackalâ directed by Jack Gold.
1991: Administration
official said today that âSecretary of State James A. Baker 3d will head back
to the Middle East on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks, seeking to
overcome remaining obstacles to an Arab-Israeli peace conferenceâŚâ
1992: Robert Stephan
Cohen, the lawyer for Ivana Triumph said that he would appeal yesterdayâs
ruling that she may not discuss life with her former husband, Donald Trump, who
is by Jay Golder, without his permission.
1993(25th of
Nisan, 5753): Hamas stages what is believed to be its first suicide car bombing
at Mehola Junction, killing two and wounding ten.
1994(5th of
Iyar, 5754): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1994: Terrorists fired
Katyusha rockets from Lebanon âinto northern Israel today.â
1995(16th of
Nisan, 5755): Second Day of Pesach
1995(16th of
Nisan, 5755): Eighty-four-year-old Lucille Shulman, the widow of Louis Shulman
passed away today after which she was buried at the Agudas Achim Cemetery in
Iowa City.
1995: âThe Sarajevo
Haggadah,â one of the world's most beautiful illustrated Jewish manuscripts,
emerged today from the chaos of the Bosnian war at a Passover ceremony that
offered a moment of reconciliation in a shattered city. The fate of the richly
illustrated 14th-century Haggadah, or Passover ceremonial book, had been
unknown since the war began in 1992. Rumors circulated that the medieval book,
perhaps the best-known Hebrew illustrated manuscript in existence, had been
destroyed, lost or sold. But the Bosnian Government, acting at the request of
Sarajevo's vestigial Jewish community, laid the rumors to rest today by
bringing the Haggadah from the vaults of the national bank to an unusual
Passover ceremony. In a city encircled and bereft of freedom, about 70 people
gathered for a feast celebrating the freedom of the Jews through deliverance
from Egypt. Addressing himself to Sarajevo's Jews, of whom 525 remain from a
prewar total of 1,300, President Alija Izetbegovic said: "I ask you not to
leave Bosnia, I ask you to stay here. This is also your country. "Our wish
is that this country should be a tolerant community of religions and nations,
as it has been for centuries," he added. President Izetbegovic, the leader
of Bosnia's governing Muslim nationalist Party of Democratic Action, did not
remain in the synagogue for the Seder itself. But his presence at the start of
a ceremony also attended by religious leaders of the city's Catholic, Orthodox
and Muslim sects was clearly intended to buttress emotional support for a multi-ethnic
Bosnia at a time when three years of war appeared to have done irreparable
damage to that ideal. "Spend your holiday in peace, and enjoy,"
President Izetbegovic said, "as much as is possible in these
circumstances." In the synagogue, where Jews, Muslims, Serbs and Croats
mingled amid quiet conversation and mutual respect, peace appeared possible for
a moment. It was as if the frail Haggadah, with its painstakingly beautiful and
vivid illustrations of subjects including the creation of the world and Moses
blessing the Israelites, had imparted a lesson of patience and tolerance. But
outside, the city lived another day of ordinary violence. A French soldier in
the United Nations peacekeeping force was killed while trying to set up an
anti-sniper barrier outside the Holiday Inn, where many journalists and
diplomats stay. He was the second French soldier killed in two days. NATO jets
swooped overhead, to no visible effect, and there were regular bursts of
machine-gun fire. It had been thought that the Haggadah, created in northern
Spain between 1350 and 1400, might have been another victim of this violence.
Kept but very rarely shown at the Sarajevo National Museum before the war broke
out, the book had disappeared from view completely. Before today, the book was
last seen in 1989, on a single afternoon as part of an exhibition called
"The Jews of Yugoslavia." Before that, it had only been seen once
since World War II, when it was displayed for a few hours in 1966, on the 400th
anniversary of the arrival in Sarajevo of the Spanish Jews. The Haggadah
(meaning "the telling" in Hebrew) is an account of the Egyptian
bondage of the Jews, a thanksgiving to God for deliverance and a prayer for
ultimate redemption. The Sarajevo manuscript, consisting of 142 pages of vellum,
some illustrated, some blank, belonged to a Jewish family that was probably
expelled from Spain in 1492. From there, the exact steps are unknown, but in
1609 it was sold in Italy. After that, it did not resurface until 1894, when a
Sarajevo family of Sephardic Jews named Kohen sold the book to the National
Museum, then under the administration of Austro-Hungarian officials. The book
was then taken to Vienna. Later it was returned to the Sarajevo Museum, where a
German officer tried to take it in 1941. But the museum's director contrived to
hide it from the Nazis, and the book was returned to the museum at the end of
the war. Marked with wine stains and children's scrawls, the book bears the
evidence of its peregrinations. It is at once a religious manuscript of unusual
beauty and a well-used family prayer book. The Haggadah's value was appraised
at $700 million in 1991, when Spain asked for it to be sent there for an 1992
exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of its expulsions of Jews. The book
was not lent. Today, Ivan Ceresnjes, the head of the Jewish community of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, said that President Izetbegovic had mentioned the possibility
of sending the Haggadah somewhere for restoration, perhaps the United States.
"It's 700 years old, but who will take care of it for the next 700
years?" he asked. But President Izetbegovic made no reference in his
remarks, and it appeared unlikely that a book so identified with this city
could be sent elsewhere at this time. Mr. Ceresnjes said he believed that Bosnia's
mixed society was not yet totally destroyed, but that "the longer the war
goes on, the more difficult it is because people are losing confidence in each
other." He added that the Government was being pushed toward a more
radical identification with Islam. At the start of the war, the Jewish
community, helped by Muslim, Croatian and Serbian volunteers, established an
aid organization called Benevolencia -- named after a society set up by
Sarajevo Jews in 1892 to help the poor. The organization has provided medicine,
a first-aid clinic, food and postal services. "Our work, it shows us our
standpoint," said Mr. Ceresnjes. "We are a small community, but we
have set out to show that it is still possible to live like before."
1996(27th of
Nisan, 5756): Yom HaShoah
1996: âThe London
Guarantee Building or London Guaranty & Accident Building is a historic
1923 commercial skyscraper whose primary occupant since 2016 is the London House
Chicago Hotelâ which was designed by Chicago architect Alfred Samuel Alschuler,
the son of Fannie Guggenheimer and Samuel Alschuler was designated today as a
Chicago Landmark today.
1997: In âRetracing
Jewish Steps, Through Harosethâ Joan Nathan traces the origins of this staple
of the Seder plate.
1998(20th of
Nisan, 5758): Sixth Day of Pesach
1999(30th of
Nisan, 5759): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1999(30th of Nisan.
5759): âEighty-seven-year-old German-born American film editor and studio
executiveâ Rudolf "Rudi" Fehr, the refugee from Nazi âwho worked for
more than forty years at Warner Brothers where his credits include âKey Largo,â
âDial M for Murderâ and âPrizziâs Honorâ passed away today in Los Angeles.
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/obituary-rudi-fehr-1100401.html
1999: A symposium
entitled The History of American Jewish
Political Conservatism held at American University in Washington, D.C. comes to
a close.
1999: âNo Vacancy,â an independent comedy film written and directed by
Marius Balchunas, âa Russian film director, producer, and screenwriter of
Lithuanian and Jewish descentâ was released in te United States.
2000: Fifty-year-old Raik Haj Yahia, an Israeli Arab who had served in
the Knesset as a member of the Labor Party passed away today.
2000: The New York Times
included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including âLingua Ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brainâ by
William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, âThe Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University
and Creating True Higher Learningâ by
Stanley Aronowitz and the recently released paperback edition of âThe First Two
Centuries of Slavery in North Americaâ by Ira Berlin in which âthe historian
examines the many forms and meanings of slavery between the arrival of the
first blacks in Virginia in 1619 and the rise of King Cotton.â
2000(11th of Nisan, 5760): Seventy-seven-year-old
international law scholar Abram Chayes passed away today.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/04.20/chayes.html
2002(4th of Iyar, 5762): Yom Hazikaron.
2001: In response to
mounting violence, Israel launched âair, sea and ground attacks on the Gaza
Stripâ today.
2002: The Sherman Brothers' classic motion picture, âChitty
Chitty Bang Bangâ was adapted into a London West End Musical in 2002 and
premiered at the London Palladium today featuring many new songs and a reworked
score by both Sherman Brothers
2003(14th of
Nisan, 5763): Taâanit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
2003(14th of
Nisan, 5763): Eight-five year old builder Samuel J. LeFrak, the Brooklyn born
son of âHarry Lefrak and the former Susan Schwartzâ and the chairman of LeFrak
Organization who had followed in the family footsteps while raising four
children â Denis, Richard, Francine and Jaqueline â with his wife, the former
Ethel Stone, passed away today. (As reported by Alan Oser)
2003: U.S premiere of
âA Mighty Windâ a comedy based on âthe 2003 tribute concert to folk music
producer Harold Leventhalâ featuring Harry Shearer and Eugene Levy who also
co-authored the script.
2003: In âOnce
Sweet and Heavy, Now Dry and Desirable,â
published today Amanda Hesser describes the change in the nature of Kosher for
Passover wine and the growth of it is a commercial operation.
http://www.hagshama.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=884
2004: âAn Agent for
Goodâ published today described the life and career of âEdward Lewis Wallantâ
an author whose premature death did not keep people from comparing him to âpostwar
Jewish American writers - Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer and
Philip Roth.â
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/apr/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview13
2005: âTears as day of deliverance from Belsen recalledâ published
today described the liberation of Begen-Belsen in the words of the survivors.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/tears-as-day-of-deliverance-from-belsen-recalled-1-708065
2006: The New York Times featured a review of Sweet and Low: A Family Story, by Rich Cohen. Yes, it is a Jewish family
that is responsible for bring Sweet N Low, that staple of the diet world, to
the American dieting consumer. Eat, eat
my child gives way to diet, diet my child. The Times also reviewed the recently
released paperback edition of âThe Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a
Strange and Dangerous Lifeâ by Tom Reiss. âPart cultural biography, part
literary mystery, Reiss's book chronicles the life of Lev Nussimbaum (1905-42),
a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a bestselling
author in Nazi Germany. Under the pen name Kurban Said, Nussimbaum wrote
"Ali and Nino," a romance novel set in Azerbaijan at the time of the
Russian Revolution. His enormously popular books and articles as "Essad
Bey" opened a window on the Islamic world. Disentangling fact from fiction
in Nussimbaum's life, Reiss also unlocks fascinating details on everything from
the rise of fascism to the origins of the Shiite-Sunni split.â
2007: An exhibition entitled âDaring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the
Holocaustâ opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
2007: Time Magazine featured an
article by Walter Isaacson entitled âEinstein & Faith.â The article was based on Walter Isaacsonâs latest
literary effort, Einstein: His Life
and Universe.
2007(28th of Nisan, 5767): Ninety-three-year-old college
basketball star and attorney Abe Weissbrodt passed away today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101925.html
2007(28th of Nisan, 5767): In one of historyâs many ironies, a Holocaust
Survivor was murdered on the day after Yom HaShoah. Liviu Librescu aged 76; a Romanian born Israeli teaching at
Virginia Tech was killed in a massacre, in which a gunman killed 33 people at
the university before committing suicide. This was the deadliest shooting
rampage in modern U.S. history. Students of the Israeli lecturer who said he
saved the lives of several students by blocking the doorway of his classroom
from the approaching gunman before he was fatally shot. "He himself was
killed but thanks to him his students stayed alive," an Israeli student
who survived the massacre told Army Radio. Librescu, had known tragedy since
childhood. When Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany in World War II, the
young Librescu was interned in a labor camp, and then sent along with his
family and thousands of other Jews to a central ghetto in the city of Focsani,
his son said. Hundreds of thousands of Romanian Jews were killed by the
collaborationist regime during the war.
2007:
Israeli photographer Oded Balilty working for
the Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. This is the award-winning picture of the Amona
outpost evacuation.
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2008(11th
of Nisan, 5768): Three IDF soldiers were killed and two others were wounded
Wednesday after coming under heavy fire from Palestinian gunmen while
patrolling the border with the Gaza Strip. The soldiers who were killed were identified as
Sgt. Matan Ovdati, 19, from Patish, Sgt. Menhash Albaniat, 20, a tracker from
Kuseife in the Negev and Sgt. David Papian, 21, from Tel Aviv.
2008: In Florida, Rabbi Andrew Baker presents a program entitled âConfronting the
Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Europe.â As the American Jewish
Committee's Director of International Jewish Affairs, Rabbi Baker is a leading
expert on anti-Semitism in Europe and other challenges including Holocaust
restitution. As director of European affairs for 8 years he was instrumental in
developing programs to promote tolerance in the emerging democracies of Central
and Eastern Europe and was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of
the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a founding member of a national
commission in Romania chaired by Elie Wiesel that examines the history of the
Holocaust.
2008: As part of the
Israel at 60 Celebration, the 92nd Street Y presents Professor Uri
Cohenâs review of the development of Israeli
culture from 1948 to the Present through an
examination of Israeli Film, Music and Literature.
2008: Hedy Epstein,
whose parents died in concentration camps during the Holocaust speaks at
Cornell College in Mt. Vernon and Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2008: In New York, The Center for Jewish
History presents âThe History of Jewish Involvement
in Building New Yorkâ with the following breakout sessions:
- New York 1908: The Apartment House Comes to Gotham...
and Look Who Moves In presented by Barry Lewis, Architectural Historian - Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Jewish Migration and
Ethnicity in New York City presented by Joseph Salvo, Demographer
- The Banker, the Realtor, and the Delicatessen Owner: The Jewish
Businessmen of the Lower East Side presented by Annie Polland, Lower
East Side Historian
- The Evolution of the Jewish Real Estate Family moderated by
Judith H. Dobrzynski, former New York Times Editor and Reporter and Simon
Ziff, Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
2008: The New York Times reviewed The Much
Too Promised Land by Aaron David Miller a Jewish native of Cleveland, Ohio
who spent most of two decades as diplomat involved in Americaâs attempts to
bring peace to the Middle East.
2009(22nd of Nisan,
5769): Eight Day of Pesach.
2009: Jan Karski was honored
by the Polish Government and New York City today. In recognition of Karskiâs
wartime courage and lifelong commitment to the memory and history of Polish
Jews, Poland memorialized Karski with the unveiling of a new street sign in
front of the De Lamar Mansion, the Consulateâs residence at 233 Madison Avenue
at East 37th Street, which was officially designated Jan Karski Corner during
the ceremony. As a courier for the Polish Underground during World War II,
Karski was the first person to bring news of the Holocaust directly to
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and English Prime Minister Winston
Churchill.
2010: A memorial
service is scheduled to be held today honoring Steffi Sidney-Splaver.
2010: The United States
Senate Committee on the Judiciary held hearings on the nomination of Richard
Mark Gergel for a federal judgeship.
2010: Altered States of
Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Photography an exhibition
featuring six Israeli artists, Offer Goldfarb, Goodash, Gabriel Leitner, Uri
Mahlev, Eli Matityahu and Shifra, is scheduled to open at Agora Gallery in New
York City.
2011(12 Nisan, 5771):
Shabbat Ha-Gadol.
2011(12 Nisan, 5771):
Television and film script writer Sol Saks passed away at the age of 100. Among other accomplishments was his role in
the creation of the hit television sit-com, âBewitchedâ for which he wrote the
first script. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2011(12 Nisan, 5771):
Milton D. Glick, 73, the 15th president of the
University of Nevada, Reno and nationally respected figure in higher education,
whose academic career spanned more than 50 years, passed away today in Reno.
2011: Yahrzeit for the
Jews of York, England: On Shabbat Ha-Gadol (Nisan, 4950) in 1190 the Jews of
York were attacked by a mob including crusaders heading for the Holy Land. They gave the Jews the choice of converting
or death. Most of the Jews chose death,
which meant murder-suicide pacts. A few
Jews did surrender to the mob, but they were murdered any way.
2011: âA Late
Marriage,â an Israeli film set in the Georgian community of Tel Aviv, is
scheduled to be shown at Columbia Jewish Congregationâs (CJC) 2011 - Nineteenth
Season of Movies in Columbia, MD.
2011: Gil and Orli
Shaham are scheduled to give a recital at the 92nd St Y that will
include Achronâs Hebrew Dance, Op. 35, No. 1 and Hebrew Melody, Op. 33 as well as Blochâs Baâal Shem for Violin and
Piano.
2011: Air Force fighter jets struck two targets in Gaza early today
in response to a double-Grad rocket attack on Ashdod that shattered a six-day
cease-fire.
2012: Holocaust
survivors John and Michael Schwabacher are among those who are planning on
attending the memorial program scheduled to begin today in Wurzburg, Germany â
the city from which they fled after having survived the Holocaust.
2012: âFollow Me: The
Yoni Netanyahu Storyâ is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2012: Rabbi Alfredo F.
Borodowski is scheduled to begin teaching âThe Maimonides Letters: Leadership
at a Time of Crisisâ at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning.
2013(6th of Iyar, 5773): Yom Haatzmaut (Israel
Independence Day)
2013: âKochâ and âYossiâ are scheduled to be shown at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2013: In London, the Wiener Library is scheduled to host a
genealogy workshop, at no charge, that âis designed for descendant of refuges
and Holocaust survivors, especially members of the second generation.â
2013: The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish
Historical are scheduled to present an evening with Ann Kirschner author Lady
at the O.K. Corral, a biography of Josephine Sara Marcus Earp, the wife of
the famous western lawman who had him buried in a Jewish cemetery.
2013: The Center for Jewish History and Israel Film Center
are scheduled to present âThrough His Eyes,â a â documentary history of Israeli
cinema through the eyes of a still photographer, Yoni Hamenahem, who for the
past 40 years has photographed the sets of many of Israel's classic films.â
2013: Mathew Nashâs film â â16 Photographs at Ohrdrufâ
âwhich tells of the first concentration liberated by the U.S. Army in 1945 is
scheduled to be shown at the Boston International Film Festival
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/grandfathers-hidden-photos-inspire-holocaust-film-060811442.html
2013: Eighty-nine-year-old
Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone is scheduled to speak at Kirkwood Community
college this morning and at Mount Mercy University this evening. Her
appearance is sponsored by the Joan and David Thaler Holocaust Memorial
Foundation.
2013(6th of
Iyar, 5773): Ninety-eight-year-old Jake Alhadeff, the native of Atlanta, GA who
moved to Maitland, FL in 2003 passed away today.
2014(16th of
Nisan, 5774): Second Day of Pesach â First day of the Omer
2014: Macon Openshaw, 21,
of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the District
of Utah to firing three rounds from a handgun at the Congregation Kol Ami
synagogue in Salt Lake City (As reported by JTA)
2014: The Magical Festival
is scheduled to open this morning in Tel Avivâs Hayarkon Park.
2015(27th of
Nisan, 5775): Yom HaShoah
2015(27th of
Nisan, 5775): Ninety-three-year-old mental health pioneer Mira Rothenberg whose
father died in the Holocaust passed away today.
2015: As part of the
Skirball Centerâs Yom HaShoan observance Menachem Z. Rosensaft the editor of God,
Faith & Identity from the Ashes, New York Times reporter Joseph Berger,
senior editor of Tablet Magazine Stephanie Butnick, Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder
of Storahtelling, David Miliband, former Foreign Secretary of the UK, and
senior fellow at New York University, Thane Rosenbaum, are scheduled to discuss
how memories of the past affect their lives.
2015: Holocaust survivor
Bob Behr is scheduled to speak at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of
the First Person program.
2015: âBialikâ King of the
Jewsâ is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015: âSaviors on the
Screen,â âa special Films Series
dedicated to the rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust presented by the
International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and the JCC Manhattan is scheduled to
take place today.
2015: On Yom HaShoah,
Nancy Baron-Baer, the Regional Director of the ADL is scheduled to âconduct a discussion
about Anti-Semitism in today's world and how to combat itâ at the National
Museum of American Jewish History.
2015: According to Army Radio, an âultra-Orthodox
soldier was threatened and called a Nazi by Haredi men today in Beit Shemesh
near Jerusalem.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-soldier-called-nazi-on-holocaust-memorial-day
2016(8th of
Nisan, 5776): Shabbat HaGadol
2016: âJununâ and
âRosenwaldâ are scheduled to be shown for the last time at the Westchester
Jewish Film Festival.
2016: Israeli composer Ophir
Ilzetzki is scheduled to have his American premiere at the 2016 MATA Festival.
2017: The Jerusalem
Bird Observatory is scheduled to conduct a trip on the Knesset trail â âa free
tour about birds, Jerusalem history and nature.â
2017: In upholding âthe
governmentâs closure of the Taba border crossing into Egypt over the Passover
festival,â Israelâs High Court âfound that there was a genuine threat and risk
to Israeli touristsâ and that therefore, âthe government was correct in closing
the border.
2017: Today the navy
sent a specialized search ship and an elite team of divers to the Sea of
Galilee to help in the search for three people -- Itamar Ohana, 19, from the
northern city of Kiryat Shmona; Nahman Itah, 21, from the West Bank settlement
of Beitar Illit; and Liron Karadi, 17, from the coastal Israeli city of Netanya
-- who went missing last week after they were swept by winds away from the
coast and into deeper water.â
2017: The New York Times featured reviews by
Jewish writers and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
First Love Story: Adam, Eve and Us by Bruce Feiler and What to do About
the Solomons by Bethany Ball.
2018(1st of
Iyar, 5778): Rosh Chodesh Iyar;
2018: The YIVO
Institute is scheduled to present âa discussion led by Edna Nahsohn about her
recent book Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to the Merchant of
Venice.
2018: The ADLâS 30th
annual Sam Miller Catholic Jewish Colloquium with Rev. Dennis McManus and Rabbi
Stephen Weiss is scheduled to take place in the Center for Pastoral Leadership.
2018: Holocaust
survivor Michael Bornstein who was only four years old when liberated and his
daughter Debbie Bornstein Holinstat are scheduled to speak at the Community Yom
HaShoah Service in Cedar Rapids, IA which is being sponsored by The Thaler
Holocaust Education Programming Committee chaired Dr. Robert Silber.
2018: In Cleveland,
Ohio, the Ritz-Carlton is scheduled to open its new Kosher kitchen with a staff
trained by âIsraeli kosher chefs Kobi Ohanyon and Adir Cohen.
2018: âMartin Baron,
the executive editor of the Washington Post said todayâ âthat journalist needed
both a soul and spineâ as he received word that his paper had on the Pulitzer
Prize for Investigative Reporting.
2019: In New York, âAt
the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi and Russian-Speaking Worldsâ a âa three
part learning and cultural series on the greater Sephardic communities in the
former Soviet Unionâ is scheduled to begin today. 2020
2019: While attending
âa lavish eventâ at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem where he
was celebrating his election victory, Prime Minister Netanyahu âvowed to be a
leader for those who did not vote for him, attacked the media and boasted of
receiving congratulatory messages from Arab leaders, all while being serenaded
by Israeli pop stars.â
2019: Early today âPresident
Reuven Rivlin said that a majority of parliament members had advised him to
have Netanyahu form a government after the April 9 vote, effectively ensuring
his nominationâ
2019: Today, âthe White
House hosted more than 80 Jewish non-profit leaders, business leaders and
rabbis that included representatives of Orthodox
Union, Agudath Israel, and America Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, Hadassah, the National Council of Young
Israel, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Federations of North America,
the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Zionist Organization of America, the
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, the Coalition for Jewish Values, the Republican
Jewish Coalition, the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce and the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations but not representatives âthe
Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements, the ADL, J Street, HIAS,
the Israel Policy Forum and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.â
2019: Erica Jong, the
author of Fear of Flying is scheduled to âread selections from her new
book of poetry, The World Began With Yes at the Osher Marin JCC.
2019: The AJHA,
American Sephardi Federation and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to
present âIranian Jews Between Iran, Zion and America,â a âtalk with Leah
Mirakhor (Yale University), Lior Sternfeld (Penn State University) and
moderator Atina Grossman (Cooper Union) that celebrates the new groundbreaking
work of two social historians on Iranian Jewish life and community in the 20th
century between immigrations and diasporas in Iran, Israel, and the U.S.â which
will include a âtribute to the work of HIAS in helping Jews immigrate and
resettle in the U.S. in the years post the 1979 revolution in Iran.â
2019: The Thaler
Holocaust Memorial Foundation is scheduled to host an appearance by Holocaust
survivor Rachel Miller at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA and
Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, IA.
2020(22nd of
Nisan, 5780) Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
2020(22nd of
Nisan, 5780): Yahrtzeit for the 3,000 nameless Jews who were massacred in
Prague in 5149.
2020: Israelis are
scheduled to hear possible plans, some of which have been proposed by financial
advisor Professor Avi Simhon which allow some local stores to open on Sunday
along with Special Ed classes.
2021: Jazz-rock vocalist Noa Levy and singer Achi Ben-Shalom are
scheduled to lead a sing-along concert highlighting Israelâs music history,
with lyrics and Israeli images on the screen.
2021: The Riverway
Project is scheduled to present an engaging, musical, upbeat Qabbalat Shabbat
service led by Rabbi Jen Gubitz â virtuallyâ where attendees can participate
over zoom, offering names for healing and kaddish.
2021: In a session examining UC Berkeleyâs
Magnes Collection, curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled
to talk about an exhibit of more than 150 items that examined the links between
food, ritual, identity, activism, and Jewish life.
2021: The Jewish Womenâs Archives 25th anniversary
survey is scheduled to come to a close today.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/jwa2021
2021: The East Bay Intâl Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present
Israeli filmmaker and actress-singer sharing the behind the miniseries she
created, âMuna,â about an Israeli Arab photographer.
2021: In the first of its kind event, âthe foreign ministers of
Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Greece and Cyprus are scheduled to meet in
Paphos, Cyprus today.
2021: Jerusalem police are scheduled to continue their
investigation into reports that âUltra-Orthodox youth
allegedly burned flags and floral wreaths left on fallen IDF soldiersâ graves
during Memorial Day.â
2022(15th of Nisan,
5782): First Day of Pesach
2022(15th of
Nisan, 5782): In the evening 2nd Seder and count the Omer for the
first time.
2022: A 47-year-old man was modernly
wounded yesterday after being stabbed in the northern city of Haifa in what
appears to be a terror attack reportedly is in an intensive care unit where he
is receiving further treatment at [Haifa's Rambam Hospital.]"
2022: Security forces are on heightened alert following yesterdayâs
violence at the Temple Mount which apparently came in response to a call issued by âa collective of Gaza Strip terror
groupsâ on April 13 calling âon our people in the West Bank, Jerusalem and
Israel to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque this coming Friday and calling on the Palestinian resistance to stay vigilant
and be prepared to defend the mosque."
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s3expj9a4
2023: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including The American Way: A True Story of Nazi
Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe by Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler
and The Struggle For Decent Politics:
On âLiberalâ as an Adjective by Michael Walzer.
2023: The Jewish
Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to present A New Awakening: a
talk by Sol Romano on the History and Background of the Sephardic Jews of Spain
through family heritage.
2023: The Illinois
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host an on-site program âYom HaShoah
Commemoration - "Voices of Children".
2023: The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Tom Navon on "Socialist
Youth Were Still Fighting": The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Modern Jewish
Politics.â
2023: The Breman Museum
is scheduled to host the â58th Annual Community-Wide Holocaust
Commemoration.â
2023: In honor of Yom
HaShoah, Congreagation Agudas Achim in Coralville, IA is scheduled to convene a
panel discussion, âan event where children of survivors speak.â
2023: JW3 is scheduled
to host a screening of J'ACCUSE! A CRY FROM THE KILLING PITS OF LITHUANIA
followed by a post-screening discussion with the director Michael D Kretzmer.
2023: In an example of
what a difference a year makes, last April Israels were learning how to live
with an upgrade to âa positive outlookâ from Moodyâs while as of today Israelis
will have to learn to live with a downgrade from âpositive to stableâ which has
come in the wake of the governmentâs drive to âreform the judiciary.â
2024: The Marcus Cinema
in Cedar Rapids, IA and the Marcus Sycamore Cinema in Iowa City are among the venues
scheduled to host the second and final screening of âIrenaâs Vow,â which tells
âthe incredible true story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who heroically saved
Jewish lives during WWII. When Irena finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about
to be liquidated, she decides to shelter Jewish workers in the safest place she
can think of â the basement of a Nazi majorâs house.
2024: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled host a Cinema Chat âLive at Misterâs Kellyâs which
âis a testament to the impact of renowned cultural icons and the unexpected
origins of legendary musicians, comedians and the rich cultural history of the
1950s and 1960s.â
2024: In New Orleans,
Gates of Prayer and Touro Synagogue are scheduled to hold their monthly board
meetings.
2024: YIVO is scheduled
to present historian Jeffrey Herf who will lead a panel exploring responses to
Hamasâ October 7th massacres and to the state of Israelâs subsequent military
response.
2024: The Jewish Womenâs
Archive is host to âLetâs Talk: Gen-Z Jewish Feminism.â
2024: As April 16th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 193
in captivity. (Editorâs 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.)
2025(18th of
Nisan, 5785): Fourth Day of Pesach
2025: A special tour of
the Hansen House sponsored by Agnon House is scheduled to take place at 14
Gedaliah Alon Street in Jerusalem
2025: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on âPassover in Times
of Appalling Persecution and lectured by Jeremy Rosen on âThe Biblical
Prophets: 1 Samuel 17:38, David Kills Goliathâ
2025: As April 16th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the
globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 558 in
captivity (Editorâs 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)
2026: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host âAt Lunch With Winnie Holzman â
Live on Zoom.â
2026: YIVO is scheduled
to host scholar-musician Jermiah Lockwood as he lectures on âThe Cantorial
Golden Age in America..â
2026: Qesher in
partnership with the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present âRecovering
the Lost World of Iraqi Babylonian Jew.â
2026: The Temple
Emanu-El Strecker is scheduled to host Naomi Miller as she teaches online
âBeginners Yiddish Through Role Play.â
2026: As April 16th
begins in Israel, the security cabinet is wrestling with ânext stepsâ following
the unprecedent direct talks with Lebanon and the country continues to be
bombarded by terrorist ordinances from Lebanon.(Editorâs 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.)
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