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399 BCE: Socrates drank hemlock as he carried out the death
penalty that had been imposed on him by the government. For centuries to come
some Jews would study Socrates and other Greeks, in many cases trying to find a
harmony between Judaism and Greek philosophy.
Other Jews would view Socrates and the other Greeks as the mortal
enemies of Judaism and go so far as to attempt to officially ban the study of
their works.
711: Tarik, a Moslem
general attacked southern Spain from a place known as Jebel Tarik or Gibraltar.
He soon defeated Roderic, last of the Visigoth kings, at the Battle of Xeres.
Tarik was helped by both the Jews and the rebel Prince Witiza. After each city
was conquered - Cordova, Granada, and Malaga - the Jews were often given
positions of safeguarding Moslem interests.
1220(4th of
Iyar): Today after having
responded “negatively” to “an ultimatum by the provincial council, held at
Osney Abbey, charged with applying the Lateran decrees in England, that he must
abandon his faith, Haggai of Oxford, formerly Robert of Reading, who had
converted to Judaism from Christianity and married a Jewish wife in the Oxford
Jewry “was burnt alive at the stake at the entrance to Osney Abbey.” (As
reported by the Oxford Chabad Society)
1296: During the First
War of Scottish Independence, King Edward I defeated the Scots at the Battle of
Dunbar. The first written evidence of their presence dates from the last decade
of the 12th century. However, nobody is sure when Jews first arrived
in the land of Kilts and Pipes. King
Edward had already issued his edict of expulsion six years before the battle,
and it is thought that some of the Jews fleeing his realm went north to
Scotland.
1495: Birthdate
Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire one of the most
philo-Semitic rulers in history. He
built the walls around Jerusalem that impress tourists to this day. He intervened with Pope to protect the Jews
of Ancona. He provided a haven for the
Sephardim and Marranos fleeing the Inquisition.
He intervened on behalf of Dona Garcia and her nephew Joseph Nassi,
bringing them to his capital from a Venetian captivity. Nassi became a close advisor to the
Sultan. In 1564, the aging Ottoman
leader gave Nassi the city of Tiberias so that Jewish refugees from Europe
would have a place to settle. And that is just the tip of the iceberg!
1509: As part of what was really a temporal and not a
religious dispute with the Doge, Pope Julius II places the Italian state of
Venice under interdict. Fortunately for the Jews of his days, Julius was more
concerned about art (he was the one who Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel)
and power politics as can be seen with his on-going political and military
confrontation with the Doge of Venice, among others. His lack of theology
concerns meant that the Jews enjoyed a period of benign Papal neglect. Furthermore, Julius II employed a Jew named
Samuel Sarfatti as his personal physician. Life for the Jews living in Venice
at this time was becoming increasingly precarious. Three years before this,
several Jews died in violence brought on by a “blood libel” and seven years at
this, the Jews would be confined to Ghetto Nuova an island containing a foundry
(geto in Italian) which made it the original Ghetto.
1584: Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched an
expedition to explore the area of the Atlanta Coast around Roanoke Island that
probably included Joachim Gans, which made “Gans the first recorded Jew in
Colonial America.”
1596(9th of Iya, 5356): Rabbi Yakov
Eberles, the Krakow born son of R' Moshe Gershon Altschuler and Chana
Yonah Altschuler, the husband of Gittel
Eberlis (Rapaport) and father of Royzu Schrentzel, Golden Heart; Moshe Eberles
and Rabbi Eisik Jekels passed away today in Lesser Poland.
1607: As the Inquisition took action against “Jorge de Almedia, a Portuguese residing in
Mexico, the prosecuting attorney renewed the motion that he be
adjudged in contumaciam (in contempt)
1667: The blind and
impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of “Paradise Lost” for £10.
According to Elliot Rosenberg, “Milton wrote as Puritan in the England of
Cromwell’s heritage, and from a Jewish perspective he was a good man. He respected the Hebrew Bible, read it each
morning until his vision failed, and as he aged, turned more and more to the
precepts of Mosaic law. In his more
worldly capacity as Cromwell’s’ Latin secretary, he may had had a hand in the
negations that led to the return of Jews to England.”
1678: Spanish born
Dutch-Jewish printer Joseph b. Abraham Athias “succeeded, through a Jewish agent of the Polish crown in
Holland, Simon by name, in gaining still more favorable protection from the
Council of the Four Lands at their meeting today in Lublin,
1694: August II, the
ruler whom Naphtali Cohen would go to in an attempt “to secure reinstatement in
his former rabbinate at Posen” began his reign as Elector of Saxony. His rise
to power was facilitated by his “court Jew” and financier Issachar Berend Lehmann.
August II was a contemporary of the Besht who was making his public personna
known at about the same time as the Polish King passed away.
1701(19th of
Nisan, 5461): Moses Germanus passed away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_18945.html
1727: Empress
Catherine, I ordered the expulsion of all Jews from the Ukraine.
1737: As far backs as
today, records show that the partnership of Minis and Salomons had “dealings
with the Trustees of the Colony (Georgia) in relation to issuing what were
known as ‘Sola Bills’.”
1737: Birthdate of English historian Edward Gibbon,
author of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. In an attempt to blame Jews for anti-Semitism
at least one writer has claimed that Gibbon wrote “ that, while Jews were
populous in Rome and suspected and resented by the Romans, Nero’s Jewish wife,
the beautiful Poppaea Sabina, probably incited him, as a convert to her
Judaism, against a relatively obscure sect, the Christians. Nero’s accusation
that they had set the fires that ravaged Rome began centuries of Roman
persecution of Christians.” However, in Chapter XV:
Progress Of The Christian Religion. -- Part II of Gibbon’s
classic, the historian seems to paint a picture of a Christianity’s efforts to
distance itself from “Mosaic” doctrine when convenient and adopting its own
version when it felt it would advance its cause.
1748: The South Carolina Gazette reported
today that Solomon Isaacs, an early Jewish settler who under the names of
Solomon Isaacs and Company “sold goods at the House on the Bay in which Captain
Colcock lives” “is a plaintiff in a lawsuit.
https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/The_Jews_of_South_Carolina_B_A_Elzas_1905.pdf
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1758(19th of Nisan, 5518): Fifth
Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Delaware and Shawnee Indian
warriors attacked Fort Upper Tract in present Pendleton County, West Virginia.
1763(14th of Iyar, 5523): Pesach
Sheni
1764: In Amsterdam,
Haham Moses Cohen d’Azevedo, the Amsterdam born son of Daniel David Cohen d'Azevedo and Sara
Cohen d'Azevedo and his wife and Sara de
Haham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo gave birth to Benjamin Cohen D’Azevedo
1771(13th of
Iyar, 5531): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1773: In an attempt to save the British East
India Company whose first and only Jewish director was Joseph Salvador and
whose records showed “that Jewish traders controlled virtually the entire World
diamond traffic by the end of the 18th century,” today Parliament
passed the “Tea Act” which gave it a monopoly on the sale of the brown liquid
in North America.
1774: Today, Pierre
Briet, acting as a front man for Hanover born Jewish businessman Liefman Calmer
who became the official purveyor for King Louis XV “bought from the creditors of the duke of
Chaulnes the lordship of the barony of Picquigny and the function of vidame of
Amiens in the Somme for 1,500,000 francs.”
1776(8th of
Iyar, 5536): Parashat Achrei Mot - Kedoshim
1777(20th of
Nisan, 5537): Sixth Day of Pesach
1781: Charleston
merchant and Revolutionary War veteran Marks Lazarus and Rachel De Torres gave
birth to Rachel Lazarus.
1783: In Rheinpalz,
Germany Johanna and Abraham Rubel gave birth to Mayer Rubel the husband of
Regina Ehrma and father of Sabina, Reuben, Esther Abraham and Joseph Rubel.
1796(19th of
Nisan, 5556): Fifth Day of Pesach
1796: In London, Hanna
Montefiore and Judah Moses Ancona gave birth to Sarah Ancona.
1796(19th of Nisan
5556): The Jewish community of
Fossano, Italy was miraculously saved from the hands of a murderous mob by a
French bomb which landed just in time to scare away the attackers. This day was
established as "Purim Fossano" in commemoration of the miraculous
salvation.
For the complete story,
see Purim Fossano
1798: In the
Netherlands, Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the son “of Benjamin Jonas Cohen-Amesfoort
and Eva Jacob Cohen” and Eva Gompertz gave birth to Henri Theodor Cohen.
1799(22nd of
Nisan, 5559): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1799: As Jews munched
on their Matzah for the last time in the 18th century, during the
“War of the Second Coalition, Austrian and Russian forces under the command of
Alexander Suvorov defeated the French army lead by Jean Moreau at the Battle of
Cassano d’Adda in Lombardy which is now part of modern day of Italy.
1801(14th of
Iyar, 5561): Pesach Sheni
1801: In Warrenton, NC,
Norwalk, CT native Rebecca Mears Myers and Philadelphia native Jacob Mordecai
who were married in 1798 gave birth to George Washington Mordecai who married
Margaret Cameron in 1853.
1802: Birthdate of
London native and Amsterdam attorney Samuel Philippus Lipman who converted to
Roman Catholicism in 1852.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10007-lipman-samu
1803(5th of
Iyar, 5563): London born jeweler’s
apprentice Abraham Wagg, the holder of “a seat in the Great Synagogue who
because a successful grocer and chocolate manufacturer in New York where he
married Rachel Gomez, a member of the wealthy, prominent Sephardi family with
whom he had ten children passed away today in the United Kingdom to which he
had returned because he was a Loyalist during the American Revolution
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wagg-abraham
1805: Twenty-three-days
after turning 30, Anglo-Jewish boxer Samuel Elias beat his opponent popularly
known as “Britton of Bristol”
1815: In Charleston,
SC, David Nunes Carvalho and Sara Cohen D’Azevdo, both English born Sephardi
Jews gave birth to “painter, photographer, author and inventor Solmon Nunes
Carvalho who traveled with fabled explorer John C. Fremont on his 5th
expedition.
https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/artist/solomon-nunes-carvalho-american-1815-1897
1819: Isaac Harby’s
“third and last play, ‘Alberti’” opened today at Charleston Theater in
Charleston, SC.
1820: Birthdate of
Herbert Spencer, the English biologist who coined the term “Survival of the
Fittest” which he took from the world of biology and applied it to world of
human social development. This concept
stands in stark contrast with the Jewish concept of creating a society that
calls for us to protect “the widow, the orphan and the stranger in our midst”
i.e. the weakest
1821: Sarah Mocatta and David Abarbanel Lindo gave birth to Leah David Lindon.
1821: Today, when the
Greek Patriarch Gregory, head of the Greek Orthodox Church had been publicly
executed, the Turkish Grand Vizier Benderli Ali Pasha was reportedly to have
said to the Jews present, "Here hangs your enemy and ours."
1821(25th of
Nisan, 5581): Hungarian historian and poet Solomon Löwisohn passed away today.
1822: Birthdate of U.S. Grant, “savior of the
Union” and President of the United States.
Grant did issue the infamous Order #10.
But at the same time, he had Jewish political allies, was a voluntary
contributor to the building for Adas Israel, the famous congregation in
Washington, D.C. the dedication of which he attended. A majority of Jews
supported Grant’s election as President and this eulogy by Felix Adler adds
additional proof to the fact that Grant’s Jewish contemporaries did not view
him as an anti-Semite.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50E15F8355911738DDDAF0A94DC405B8785F0D3
1824: At “York Place
Queens Elm, Sophia and Nathaniel Levy gave birth to Elizabeth Levy.
1826(20th of
Nisan, 5586): Sixth Day of Pesach
1826(20th of
Nisan, 5586): Seventy-one-year-old Austrian rabbi and author Eleazar ben David
Fleckeles, author of “Olat Hodesh” passed away today in his hometown of Prague.
1826(20th of
Nisan, 5586): Denmark born Sara Wulff von Essen, the wife of Isac Hartvi Ree
and mother of Thamar, Berend, Hanschen, Israel and Wulf Ree passed away today
in Hamburg, Germany.
1827: This evening in
Charleston, SC, Rabbi S.C. Peixotto officiated at the wedding of Rosina
Florance, the daughter of Dr. Florance to Dr. Audler of Augusta, GA.
1829: In Bavaria,
Zidone Wald and Joseph Hackes gave birth to Yetta Hackes, the wife of Louis
Stix whom she married at Cincinnati in 1852 and with whom she had ten children.
1829: In Baden,
Germany, Max Oppenheimer and his second wife Sarah gave birth to Zacharias
Oppenheimer who was named in honor of Max’s father.
1831(14th of
Iyar, 5591): Pesach Sheni
1832: One day after he
had passed away “Feivel bar Abraham” was buried today at the “Brady Street
Jewish Cemetery.”
1832: Benjamin Disraeli
met his future wife “Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis at a soiree at Bulwer Lytton’s
house today;” a meeting which he described: 'I was introduced by particular
desire to Mrs Wyndham Lewis, a pretty little woman, a flirt and a rattle, indeed
gifted with volubility I should think unequalled and of which I can convey no
idea. She told me she liked silent, melancholy men. I answered that I had no
doubt of it.'
1834(18th of
Nisan, 5594): Fourth Day of Pesach
1835: Founding of the
11th Regiment of the New York State Militia which was commanded by
Colonel Joachim Maidhof when it went off to fight in the Civil War
1837(22nd of Nisan, 5597): Eighth Day and final day of Pesach
observed for the first time in the Presidency of Martin Van Buren.
1838: A huge fire
destroyed the synagogue in Charleston, S.C. Moses C. Levy, who had been
worshipping there for forty years, rushed to synagogue in an attempt to save
the Torah scrolls. According to an eyewitness account, he was overcome by
inconsolable grief at the sight of the conflagration.
1839(13th of
Iyar, 5599): Parashat Achrei Mot -- Kedoshim
1842: In Sydney,
Australia, “Samuel and Rachel (Nathan) Cohen gave birth to London educated,
Australian businessman George Judah Cohen who after inheriting a portion of the
fortune of his uncle David Lewis pursued a series of philanthropies while
serving as Vice President of Sydney’s Great Synagogue and raised a family with
his wife Rebecca Levy.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-george-judah-5711
http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cohen-george-judah-5711
1843: In Bratislava,
David and Karoline Wottitz gave birth to Moritz Wottitz.
1844(8th of
Iyar, 5604): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim read for the last time during the
Presidency of John Tyler.
1845(20th of
Nisan, 5605): Sixth Day of Pesach
1845(20th of Nisan):
Rabbi Ezekiel Panet, the Silesia born “son of Joseph Paneth, Bielitz, Austrian
Silesia and Breindel Paneth,the
husband of Rebitzen
Chaya Rachel Paneth and father of R' Haim Bezalel Paneth, AB"D Tășnad;
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Paneth; R' Isaac Moshe Paneth, of Dej; R' Menahem Mendel
Paneth (פנט), (Maglei Tzedek); Chantze Paneth Kahana; Sarah Kahana; Betti Beile
Rothmann; and Chava (/Eva) Berger ×/(Kahana) who was the author of “Mareh
Yehezkel” passed away today in what is now Romania.
1845: In Marylebone,
Middlesex, London, Hannah (Chana) Benjamin Leonino, the London born daughter of
Justina Sebag Cohen and Benjamin Barnet Cohen and her husband Ippolito Leonino
gave birth to Barone Charles Emanuel Leonino and Edward Emanuel Benjamin
Leonino
1846(1st of
Iyar, 5606): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1846: Birthdate of
Baltimore native Martin Emrich who in 1887 moved to Chicago where he was a
successful businessman and Democrat Party activist who was elected to the House
of Representatives for one term.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000170
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-emerich
1847: Birthdate of New
York native Henry S. Hernnan, the banker and realtor who was a director of the
Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.
1849: Today, Ahavas
Achim Congregation which became Temple Israel “was formed” in Lafayette, IN
making it the “second Jewish congregation organized in Indiana.
1850(15th of
Iyar, 5610): Parashat Emor
1853(19th of
Nisan,, 5613): Fifth Day of Pesach
1854: In Winnsboro, SC,
Sailing and Sarah Cohen Wolfe gave birth to Solomon Wolfe, the husband of
Callie Caroline Stephenson who was sixty-two when he passed away in New York
after which he was interred in the Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery in Columbia,
SC.
1856(22nd of
Nisan, 5616): Eighth Day and final day of Pesach observed on the birthday of
the Tongzhi Emperor, “the tenth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty.
1857: Establishment of Jewish congregations in
Lower Austria prohibited.
1857: Joseph and Rosina
Leopold Lebensburger gave birth to Nora L. Treusch who passed away at the age
of 45 in Montgomery County, OH.
1857: It was reported
today that Baron Rothschild attended an auction on Rue Druot where he expressed
a dismissive view of the items being offered.
1859(23rd of Nisan,
5619): Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, English financier and the first Jewish baronet
passed away. “Born in London on Jan. 13, 1778 “he was the son of Asher
Goldsmid, and nephew of Benjamin and Abraham Goldsmid, the financiers. Educated
at an English school in Finsbury square, he received a sound financial training
in the technicalities of his father's business of bullion-broking. At a later period,
his association with Ricardo made him familiar with the leading questions of
political science. He became in due course a partner in the firm of Mocatta
& Goldsmid, bullion-brokers to the Bank of England and to the East India
Company. His early ventures on the Stock Exchange were unfortunate, and, after
losing on one occasion £16,000, he abandoned speculation and contented himself
with steady business as a jobber. Goldsmid gradually rose to eminence as a financier
and ultimately amassed a large fortune. His most extensive financial operations
were connected with Portugal, Brazil, and Turkey; and for his services in
settling an intricate monetary dispute between Portugal and Brazil he was, in
1846, created Baron de Palmeira by the Portuguese government. Goldsmid was one
of the founders of the London Docks. The main effort of his life was made in
the cause of Jewish emancipation. He was the first English Jew who took up the
question, and he enlisted in its advocacy the leading Whig statesmen of the
time. Soon after the passing of the Act of 1829, which removed the civil
disabilities of the Roman Catholics, he secured the powerful aid of Lord
Holland, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Sussex, and other eminent
members of the Liberal party, and then induced Robert Grant to introduce in the
House of Commons a similar measure for the Jews. During more than two years
from the time when Jewish emancipation was first debated in Parliament,
Goldsmid gave little heed to his ordinary business, devoting himself almost
exclusively to the advancement of the cause. He was one of the chief agents in
the establishment of University College, London, purchasing at his own risk the
site of the university. Goldsmid was a liberal supporter of the Reform
synagogue and of all Jewish institutions (As reported by the Jewish
Encyclopedia)
1860: In Vilna,
Lithuania, Aaron Hourwich, a well-educated bank employee and his wife Rebecca
Shevelevich gave birth to Isaac Aaronvich Hourwich the lawyer, economist and
statistician who fought for social reform in both the United States in Russia
and who was the husband of Louise Joffe.
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1358888
1862: Birthdate of
Rudolph Schildkraut, the son of Constantinople hotel owners who grew up on
Romania before moving to Austria where he pursued a career as an actor before
moving to United States in the 1920’s.
1864(21st of
Nisan, 5624): Seventh Day of Pesach
1864: As Jews munched
their Matzahs, Union Armies under Meade and Sherman broke camp and headed South
to start General Grant’s national campaign designed to crush the Confederate
Armies under General Lee and General Johnston which he knew was the key to ending
the Civil War.
1865(1st of
Iyar, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1865: In San
Bernardino, CA, Isaac H. Levy and Johanna Gans gave birth to Meyer H. Levy, a
member of numerous Jewish communal organizations including the Pacific Hebrew
Orphan Asylum and Home Society, the husband of Rose Anita Harris and the author
of “numerous reports and articles pertaining to the Jewish charities of San
Francisco.”
1865: The New York
State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant university.
According to recent figures, Cornell has 13,800 undergrads, 5000 of whom are a
Jewish. It has 3000 graduate students of
whom approximately 500 are Jewish. The
school offers sixteen courses in Jewish Studies. Students may major or minor in the subject.
1865: “April 27, 1865”
by Emma Lazarus
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-2305.html
1866: As another sign
of how it has changed from a medical facility for indigent Jews to a community
hospital, Officer Milcahy sent Herman Deutch to the Jews' Hospital
after he had been stabbed with a carpenter’s chisel during a drunken
brawl with Rudolph Schriever.
1866: In New York City,
Levi Morris was arrested today on charges that he had attempted to leave the
store of David Valentine &Co with three pieces of silk, valued at more than
sixty dollars, for which he had not paid.
1866: Fromental Halevy’s grand opera, “Charles VI” was performed
for the first time in Batavia, Indonesia.
1867(22nd of
Nisan, 5627): Eighth Day of Pesach
1867: In Latvia, Jonah
Abravnel Kaplan and his wife gave birth to Mary Katherine Kaplan Fleischer, the
wife of Jacob “Yankel” Fleischer and mother of Sam, Etta, Louis and Henry
Fleischer who was buried in the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery in Ladue, MO
when she passed away at the age of 76 in 1943.
1867: At the Crystal
Palace in London, first performance of Piano Concerto [No.2] in E flat, Op.89
composed Julius Benedict, the Stuttgart, Germany born “son of a Jewish Banker.
1868: In London, UK,
Henry and Rachel Greenburg gave birth to Heidelburg University Ph.D and
graduate from the University of London and Montefiore College, Ramsgate
London,” Rabbi Willliam H. Greenburg “a
professor of Semitic languages and literature as well as the author of “The
Haggadah, in Arabic and Hebrew with an English translation” who at the age
of 29 he began serving as the leader of the largest congregation in Albuquerque
before moving on a congregation in Sacramento, CA before settling in at Temple
Emanu-El in Dallas, TX.
1868: Mlle. Janauschek
gave a performance of "Deborah" tonight at the Academy in New York
City where "she presented her enthusiastic conception of the ideal Hebrew
maiden."
1869: In New York,
Jacob Harris and his wife gave birth to composer and conductor Victor Harris,
the husband of the former Catherine L. Richardson and the father of Cecilia,
Victor, David and Mary Harris.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/50056/Harris_Victor_composer
1870: In Prasnysz,
Poland, Amalie Grinberg, the daughter of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and
Henrietta (Gütel) Kalischer and her husband of Moritz Grünberg gave birth to
Nataly Grünberg
1875: Birthdate of
Louisville, KY, native and architect William G. Tachau who as partner in the
firm of Pilcher and Tachau designed Mikveh Israel, Gratz College and Dropsie
College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning all of which were located in
Philadelphia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/19/90040073.pdf
https://www.peoplemaven.com/p/K62EoG/william-g.-tachau
1876(3rd of
Iyar, 5636): Fifty-year-old German native and Princeton and Harvard alum Samuel
Hirsch, “the well-known Hebrew lawyer” who “reportedly lost heavily in the late
commercial crisis” died today from an apparent drowning accident in the East
River.
1877(14th of
Iyar, 5637): Pesach Sheni
1878(24th of
Nisan, 5638): Parashat Achrei Mot read on the birthdate of actor Lionel
Barrymore who “forged a good relationship with Louis B. Mayer early on at Metro
Pictures” and who made several silent films for Metro during the 1920’s.
1879: Rabbi Elias Hilikowitz and Riva Rebecca Hilikowitz gave
birth to Anna Bressler, the wife of Abraham Nachman Bressler and mother of Riva
and Elya Bressler.
1880: Obituary of
Joseph Seligman expressed surprise at his sudden death and recounted his
distinguished career.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E0D91F31EE3ABC4F51DFB266838B699FDE
1880 Birthdate of Russian born Rabbi Leon
Album, the University of Chicago and Stanford University alum who was the
husband of Amelia Album with whom he raised two children – Selma and Manuel
Album, the “dentist who was a pioneer in the care of children and the
handicapped.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/27/119099940.pdf
1881: Benjamin J and
Eliza (Cohn) Goldsmith gave birth to Cornell undergrad and Columbia trained
attorney Irving Islington Goldsmith who rose to the rank of 1st Lt.
while serving with the U.S. Army in WW I and who was a partner in the Saratoga
Springs, NY law firm of Schwartz, Slade, Harrington and Goldsmith
1881: A Pogrom began in
Elisabethgrad
1881: Yesterday and
todays attacks on the Jews of Kiev “were encouraged by the authorities” and
“the promoters of the persecution of the Jews” acted with “impunity.” (As
described by the Vienna correspondent for the London Telegraph)
1882: Birthdate of
Austria native Edward Hoenig, the Cornell trained gynecologist.
1882: In Jamaica, Isaac
Gomes DaCosta was “named to be Quartermaster” today.
1882: “More Room for
Patients” published today described the remodeling project at Mount Sinai
Hospital.
1882: Samuel Ellis, the
husband of Esther Aarons, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1883(20th of
Nisan, 5643): Sixth Day of Pesach
1884: In Moncton, New
Brunswick, Nelson Rand and Minnie Turner gave birth to “Canadian lawyer,
politician, academic, and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Ivan
Cleveland Rand, the husband of Iredell I. Baxter the father of Charles Gordon
Rand , who was Canada's appointee to the United Nations Special Committee on
Palestine following World War II and visitor to Mandatory Palestine in 1947 who
became a supporter of the state of Israel once it was created in 1948 and
visited in 1959 to dedicate a forest in Jerusalem named in his honour.”
1884: Jesse Seligman,
the President of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, gave his
report at today’s annual meeting.
According to Seligman, the asylum served 361 boys, and the institution
had total assets of almost three hundred thousand dollars.
1885(12th of
Iyar, 5645): Seventy-one-year-old English “engineer and politician” Jacob
d’Aguilar Samuda, the “younger son of Abraham Samuda” and brother of Jacob
Samuda with whom he formed Samuda Brothers and who was both an MP and the
husband Louisa Samuda with whom he had one daughter, Ada, passed away today.
1885: In New York, a
jury was chosen to hear the case in which Ferdinand Mayer, a Jewish businessman
is charged with having committed perjury and is represented by Albert Cardozo.
1886(22nd of Nisan,
5646): 8th day of Pesach
1886: In St. Louis
Yetta and Samuel Goldman gave birth to Leo Goldman, the father of Celia,
Benjamin, Freda, Helen and Morris Goldman.
1887: Certificates of
incorporation for a Talmud Torah in Brooklyn were filed in the County Clerk’s
office.
1888: In New York City,
Celia Block and Solomon Levin gave birth to CCNY graduate and Columbia trained
medical doctor Oscar L. Levin, the husband of Fanny Franklin and chief of
clinic and instructor at the Cornel University Medical College who was also the
director of dermatology at Israel, United Israel Zion Hospital and the and
author of “Your Hair and Your Health.”
1889: In the Ukraine
“Joseph Yussel Handelman and Dobris (Dora) Handelman” gave birth to Abraham
Handlelman, the husband of Anna (Boorstein( Handelman with whom he had two
children – Lillian and Arnold
1889: Ester and
Benjamin Leventhal gave birth to Jacob Frank Leventhal, the husband of Ida
Tobolowsky Leventhal and the father of Grace Jean Leventhal Goodman.
1890: “Mr. Delaney’s
Little Scheme” published today described efforts by of one of the incumbent Tax
Commissioners to thwart the plans of Mayor Nathan Barnett, the city’s first
Jewish mayor, to appoint a new person to the position.
1890: Based on
testimony given to the sub-committee of the Joint Congressional Committee on
Immigration it was reported today of the 25,000 Jewish immigrants who have come
to the United States, 17,000 were Russians and Poles. There are approximately 500,000 Jews living
in the United States of whom 130,000 reside in New York City.
1890: In New York City,
Israel Bella Epstein Unterberg gave birth to Mabel Unterberg who became Mabel
Unterberg Nathan when she married Edgard Joshua Nathan
1890: The Hebrew
Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society held its annual meeting today.
1890: In Pittsburgh,
PA, Tinnie Klee and Isaac W. Frank gave birth to Cornell University graduate
William K. Frank, the husband of Florene Kingsbacher and starting in 1917,
general manager of the Damascus Bronze Company where he had begun his career
working as a chemist in 1911.
1890: Henry Seligman
was re-elected President at today’s annual meeting of the Hebrew Benevolent and
Orphan Asylum Society. Seligman
delivered the society’s 67th annual report which included the
information that the Asylum had cared for 559 youngsters in the past year.
1891(19th of
Nisan, 5651): Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Joachim Oppenheim, the husband of
Helen Pund and the father of Berthold Oppenheim passed away today in Berlin.
1894(21st of
Nisan, 5654): Seventh Day of Pesach
1894: A circular
describing the dangers of consumption and providing about ways to avoid
contracting is being printed in several different languages, including Hebrew,
in an attempt to reach New York’s large immigrant population
1896(14th of
Iyar, 5656): Pesach Sheni
1896: “A Large
Betrothal Reception” published today described the engagement party held for
Lucien Bonehur and Ameila Simon.
Bonehour is the President of the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League of
the Montefiore Home, Vice President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and
Manager of the Educational Fair. He is
also the nephew of Rosa Bonheur, the famous painter. Miss Simon is the
Secretary of the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home.
1897: Birthdate of New
York native Noel Nathaniel Moscovitch who gained fame as movie actor Noel
Madison.
1897: “Jews Barred from
Romania” published today described a reported given to the U.S. State
Department “that the government of Romania has prohibited the entry of Jews
into that country.”
1898: B. Albert
Lieberman was commissioned as 2nd Lt. in the 3rd Missouri
Infantry.
1899: Eleven months
after being mustered into U.S. Service, the 4th Virginia Volunteer
Infantry whose members included Corporal William D Kahn from Phoebus, Private
Julius T. Lansberg from Norfolk and Captain Bernard W Solomonsky from Norfolk
was mustered out of U.S. Service.
1899: Reverend Madison
C. Peters, the author of Justice to the Jews, The Wit and Wisdom of the
Talmud and The Jew as a Patriot defended himself against the accusations
leveled against him Lionel de R. Cohen of London
1899: In “Dr. Peters
Advised to Study” published today Frances Freda praises Lionel de R. Cohen’s
negative comments about the views of Reverend Madison Peters
1900 Dr. Maurice H.
Harris, the Rabbi at Temple Israel in Harlem released a letter today “to the
Jewish press of America” in which he calls attention to the fifty million
people starving in India during its latest famine using words that paraphrases
Pirke Avot --“The time is short, the work is great, the necessity is urgent; we
ae not expect to finish the work but we are not exempt from doing our share” –
and then ends by asking for each person to contribute “two dollars which will
save a life until harvest.”
1901: On Shabbat, Rabbi
Henry Pereira Mendes delivered a sermon at Shearith Israel in which he
described the work of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
1902: In Yonkers, NY, the
police here have evolved a new plan for arresting the drivers of motor vehicles
which run faster than the laws allow which led to bankers Jefferson Seligman,
Isidor Wormser and Maurice Wormser being stopped by authorities.
1902: Henry Rice and
other officers of the United Hebrew Charities expressed their confidence that
members of the Jewish community would raise the $50,000 necessary to match the
$50,000 gift from William Guggenheim.
Guggenheim’s contribution is contingent on the UHC raising a similar
amount.
1902: Birthdate of
Pittsburgh native and University of Michigan alum Sally Oram Krauss the
volunteer social worker at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and officer in
the National Council of Jewish Women.
1902: The New York
Times reports that macaroons, an Italian delicacy, have become quite
popular during the Passover holiday with Jews living on the Lower East Side
1903(1st of Iyar,
5663): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1903: On his 23rd
birthday, NYU trained a lawyer and future Deputy Attorney-General for the State
of New York Israel M, Lern , the Russian born son of Celia Rosenthal and Meyer
Lerner married Hilda Goldberg today.
1903: Samuel Dort,
Grand Master of the Order of Brith Abraham presided over a mass held this
evening in the synagogue at 316 East Fourth Street in New York “to protest
against the massacre of the Jews in Kishinev Russia last week.”
1904: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and music executive Sydney Nathan
the founder of King Records who “used the pseudonym Lois Mann for song
publishing and copyrights in order to obtain a share of the songwriting
royalties, a common practice among record company owners.”
1904: Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Pinner gave birth to Karl Pinner
1905(22nd of Nisan, 5665): Eighth and final day of Pesach
1905: Birthdate of Aiken, SC native Anna G. Efron
1906: As Russia prepares to live under a new “Fundamental Law” or
Constitution, it was reported today that a coalition of Russians, Letts,
Estonians and Jews had combined to defeat the German landowners seeking to
become electors from the Baltic Provinces proving that politics does indeed
make for strange bedfellows.
1906: Today, the Homestead reported that the “Hebrews were initiating
their own fundraising effort” to aid the victims of the San Francisco
Earthquake.
1906: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for German native Caroline Meyer Steppacher, the wife of Wolf
Steppacher whom she married in 1851 and with whom she had four children –
Marcus, Walter, Emanuel and Oscar –after which she was buried at the Mount
Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1907: On the day after the dissolution of Klauber, Horn and Company,
Samuel David Klauber formed Klauber Brothers and Company which made no profits
in its first six months of operation at which time Kaluber passed away.
1908(26th of Nisan, 5668): Fifty-five-year-old Jacob
Voorsanger, the native of the Netherlands who has been serving as the rabbi at
San Francisco’s Congregation Emanu-El since 1889 passed away today.
1908: Freud's early followers met together formally for the first time at
the Hotel Bristol, Salzburg
1909: Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and is
succeeded by his brother - Mehemed V. Sultan
Abdul Hamid II is famous for his refusal to allow Dr. Theodore Herzl, the
founder of Political Zionism, to settle Palestine with Jewish colonists. But this does not mean that he was unsympathetic to his Jewish subjects or that Jews were kept from settling in other parts of Turkey. Abdul Hamid II was born in 1842 and died in 1918. During his reign, Turkey was defeated in a war with the Russians. As a result of the Treaty of
Berlin, the Turks lost a substantial amount of their holdings in the
Balkans. This triggered a migration of
Turks and Jews into the remaining lands of the Ottoman Empire. Abdul Hamid made plans for an influx 200,000 Jewish immigrants from Russia. Jews played an ever more active role in Turkish
affairs. Several Jewish leaders played prominent roles in the Parliament. Turkish Jews participated in special festivities
celebrating the 400th anniversary of their arrival from Spain. After the Alfred
Dreyfus case, Herzl made three visits to Turkey (1898, 1901 and 1903) in
attempt to see the Sultan. It was on his third voyage that he was finally granted one through the intervention of the Chief Rabbi, Moshe Levy. The Sultan received him and Herzl tried to obtain a Jewish
homeland under the protection of the Sultan under the same statutes as the
Island of Crete.
1909(6th of Iyar,
5669): Heinrich Conried, the Austrian born theatrical manager who became
director of the Metropolitan Opera passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D17F63A5512738DDDAE0A94DC405B898CF1D3
1909: It was reported
today that “The executors of the estate of the late Louis A. Heinsheimer of the
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb Co., 52 William Street, will hold a conference in
the near future to discuss whether it is possible to make available the $1,000,000
that Mr. Heinsheimer willed to six Jewish benevolent institutions on the
condition that those institutions shall form a confederation.”
1910: “Supreme Court
Justice Greenbaum, Jacob H. Schiff, the banker; Cyrus L. Sulzberger, President
of the United Hebrew Charities; Dr. L. Rosenberg, Superintendent of the Bedford
Sanitarium, and Dr. Maurice Fishberg united tonight at the Educational Alliance
in East Broadway in urging the people of the lower east side to move out of
that section if they wished to escape the menace of tuberculosis.:
1911: Today, The Jewish
Chronicle stated that it is rumored that Sir Mathew Nathan, the former Governor
of Natal will become the next “British Resident in Egypt” which would make him
the first Jew since Joseph to “have taken the most prominent place in the
government of Egypt.”
1912(10th of
Iyar, 5672): Parashat Kedoshim
1912: Dr. Judah Magnes
presided over the third annual convention of the Kehillah or Jewish Community
which opened tonight with “Jacob Schiff offering memorial resolution for the
Jews who had lost their lives on the Titanic including, Benjamin Guggenheim,
Henry B. Harris, Edgar J. Mayer, George Rosenchein, Benjamin L Foreman and Mr.
and Mrs. Isidor Strauss” after which “the whole gathering a rose in silence as
the resolution was put to a vote.”
1913(20th of
Nisan, 5673): Sixth of Pesach
1913: At 3:00 a.m. the police received a call from the factory's
night watchman, Newt Lee, reporting the discovery of a dead girl who was in
fact Mary Phagan.
https://famous-trials.com/leo-frank
1913: In Chicago, at
Sinai Temple Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch will oversee Pesach and Confirmation Services
which will be led by the students.
1913: In Manhattan,
Marcus and Celia Adler, two Jewish immigrants from Poland, gave birth to
“Irving Adler, a former New York City teacher who became a prolific writer of
books on math and science for young people after being forced from the
classroom during the Red Scare of the early 1950s…” (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)
1913: Dr. Samuel Schulman delivered his last lecture for the
season today at the Temple Beth-El in New York. It was on the “Song of Songs.”
He talked combined the themes of Passover and the ideal woman as presented in
this book of the Bible. “The love of
nature, the love of woman, the love country and the love of god – that is what
the book, the Songs of songs teach us.
That is every Passover the book Song of Songs is read.”
1913: Rabbi Joseph
Stolz is scheduled to deliver a sermon “An Old Love Song” at the Isaiah Temple
in Chicago.
1914: During the second
day of the Fifth Assembly of the Eastern Council of Reformed Rabbis a luncheon
was given in honor of Adolph Lewisohn, the founder of the Lewisohn Lectureship.
1914(1st of
Iyar, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1914(1st of
Iyar, 5674): Fifty-six year old James Doppelmayer, the Marshall, TX born son of
Meyer and Rosalie Doppelmayer, the husband of Bella Davis Doppelmayer and the
father of Marguerite, Walter and Rose Marie Doppelmayer who worked in the
family dry goods store with his brother Moses passed away today in Marshall
where his father Meyer and his Uncle Daniel and his Uncle Isaac Woolf had
arrived in the 1850’s which later led to his cousin Joe Weisman settling there,
passed away today.
1914: Today, the
Reverend C.B. Ragsdale signed an affidavit “in which he swore he overheard the
negro ‘Jim’ Conley confess to killing Mary Phagan” which on January 28, 1915,
he testified was a “false affidavit” for which he was paid $200 by attorney
Arthur Thurman, C.C. Tedder and Dan S. Lehon, the Southern Manager of the W. J.
Burns Detective Agency which employed both Thurman and Tedder.
1915: During the
Gallipoli Campaign, the 300 men serving under Colonel John H. Patterson in the
Zion Mule Corps landed off the Dundernoon.
Despite having had only three weeks of training, the Mule Corps served
with distinction.
1915: Birthdate of
Abraham Judah Klausner the native of Memphis, TN who was one of five children
of Rabbi Joseph Klausner and Tillie Binstalk Klausner. After graduating from
Hebrew Union College in 1941 he served as “a Jewish chaplain in the United
States Army who arrived at the Dachau concentration camp a few days after its
liberation in 1945 and a strong voice for thousands of Holocaust survivors who
remained in displaced persons camps for years after the war…(As reported by
Dennis Hevesi)
1916: One day after he
had passed away, 68-year-old Israel Miller, the husband of the former Liba
Nachama, with whom he had had five children was buried at the “Belfast Jewish
Cemetery” in Northern Ireland.
1916: “Joseph
Barondess, Chairman of the Jewish Congress Organization Committee sent word to
the newspapers tonight that news had been received by the committee that a
massacre of Jews had been arranged by reactionaries in Russia, to begin with
the Easter holiday, which under the Greek calendar will be in about two weeks.”
1916: In an example of
Jews versus Jews, the efforts of the Mayor of New Yoek “to avert a lockout of
more than 60,000 workers in the cloak and suit industry by offering their
services as mediator came to naught” tonight “when the Executive committee of
the Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Protective Association decided the that they
close shop immediately” in what is called a lockout” and “fight the union.” (A
number of the clothing manufacturers were Jewish and a large number of the
workers in the garment industry were also Jewish.)
1916: As a threat of a
work stoppage in New York’s garment industry seem to become a reality, Dr.
Felix Adler, a member of the Council Conciliation could not be reached.
1916: “Benjamin
Schlesinger, President of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union said
that if the manufacturers carried out their threat of a lockout the entire
(garment) industry would be tied up next week.”
1917: U.S. Ambassador
Francis sent a cable today from Petrograd to the United States Department in
response to a message “sent by Louis Marshall, Henry Morgenthau, Jacob H.
Schiff, Oscar Straus and Julius Rosenwald of the American Jewish Committee to
the Russian Foreign Minister” which said that “the Russian Provisional
Government is very appreciative of the sympathy of American Jews,” realizes the
threat posed by German militarism and will not make a separate peace with
Germany.
1917: “A.B. Leah &
Co., investment bankers, who had made a specialty of Russian securities
received today from A. Oppenheim, their Petrograd representative, a cable
message which said that conditions in Russia were ‘very satisfactory’ and
announcing that the new Government loan was a ‘complete success’ with Jews
participating largely in the purchase of the bonds.”
1917: “It was announced
today that a Poale-Zion ‘tag day’ would be held in May to raise funds for the
establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1917: Dr. M.H. Harris
is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Our Duty to America” at Tempe Israel of
Harlem.
1917: Adolph Lewisohn
who has previously not been a supporter of the Zionist movement “authorized the
Provision Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs to issue a statement
tonight beginning “I think favorably of the establishment of a Jewish State in
Palestine and hope that the League to Enforce Peace will include the Jewish
nation among those small nationalities which ought to be liberated and
protected.”
1917: Albert Lucas, the
Executive Secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee, was quoted today as
having said that “in Constantinople there a 60,000 destitute Jews” of whom
thanks to “the efforts of the American Jewry” 20,000 “are enabled to get one meal
– only a bowl of soup of some kind – every other day.”
1918: A cable was
received today by the Provisional Zionist Committee of New York City describing
“the reception accorded to the Jewish Administrative Commission when it arrived
at Jerusalem where it was greeted by several dignitaries including the Orthodox
rabbis representing the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews and the Colonel Storrs, the
British Military Governor.
1919: Else
Lasker-Schüler’s her first and most
important play, Die Wupper, was performed for the first time at the Deutsche
Theatre in Berlin.
1920: In Vienna,
violence aimed at Jews continued with German students attacking Jewish students
with swords and canes and a riot broke out when Monarchist students barred
Jews, socialists and several eminent professors from entering.
1921(19th of
Nisan, 5681): Fifth Day of Pesach
1921: As part of the
peace settlement ending World War I, Germany is ordered to pay 132 billion gold
marks in reparations. The economic
dislocations that would be caused by these reparation payments are given as one
of the underlying causes for the disintegration of the inter-war German economy
and society and the rise of Hitler.
1921: In Chicago,
Robert Tandler Mack, the son of Rebecca and William Jacob Mack and Jeanette
Mack gave birth to Robert Tandler Mack, Jr, the author of Raising the
World’s Standard of Living who was the husband of Doris Mack and the father
of Robert Tandler Mack III
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Worlds-Standard-Living-Tandler/dp/1258197340
1921: In the Bronx,
Alfred C. Nietzel and Ruth Laence gave birth Alfred B. Nietzel who was
posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor during the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest
in November, 1944. The citation for the
award read in part “"That afternoon, Sergeant Nietzel fought tenaciously
to repel a vicious enemy attack against his unit. Sergeant Nietzel employed
accurate, intense fire from his machine gun and successfully slowed the hostile
advance. However, the overwhelming enemy force continued to press forward.
Realizing he desperately needed reinforcements, Sergeant Nietzel ordered the
three remaining members of his squad to return to the company command post and
secure aid. He immediately turned his attention to covering their movement with
his fire. After expending all his machine gun ammunition, Sergeant Nietzel
began firing his rifle into the attacking ranks until he was killed by the
explosion of an enemy grenade.”
1922(29th of
Nisan, 5682): Seventy-four-year-old Russian born “Jewish scholar” and Rabbi
Simon Zaretsky, the founder of “Congregation Anshe Oshmane and the husband of
Dora Zaretsky with whom he had five children passed away today.
1922: Birthdate of
Warren, Ohio Sol Berkowitz, the Queens College and Columbia trained composer
and music educator who “was a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at
Queens College.”
1922: Birthdate of Manfred Gans. When he was 16
when his parents sent him to England, fearing for his life as a Jew in Nazi
Germany, and when war broke out he clamored to join the British armed forces.
Finally he was accepted, his fluency in German earning him a spot with a secret
commando unit.” As a Captain in the
British Army, he helped free his hometown, the ancient walled city of Borken
His house, on the outskirts of town, had been used as a Nazi headquarters; the
wine cellar was a torture chamber. His parents, Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans,
had been taken away. Eventually Ganz was able to trace them to Theresienstadt
where they were re-united.
1922: Birthdate of Jack Klugman. Born in
Philadelphia, Klugman had a very successful career on the stage, film and
television. Like all good Jewish boys, he was a doctor - in this case
Quincy, the Medical Examiner. Many of you remember him as Oscar Madison
in the Odd Couple. The oddest thing about this television version The Odd
Couple is that Tony Randall (born Leonard Rosenberg) was Jewish giving a whole
new dimension to the term popularized by the Jewish playwright Neil Simon.
1923: Rabbi Joseph S.
Kornfeld of Columbus, Ohio, the American Minister to Persia was presented by
representatives of the Persian Jewish with a silver plate inscribed with the
Ten Commandments which was a token of gratitude for his intervention in their behalf
which end the anti-Semitic disorders last year.
1924: “Seventy-five
representatives of Temple Sisterhoods are attending the annual meeting and
conference of the New York State Federation of Temple Sisterhoods which opened
tonight in the auditorium of Temple Beth Emeth in Albany, New York
1925: “It was
officially announced tonight that the Earl of Balfour” who as Foreign Secretary
in November, 1917 made “his famous declaration regarding the provision for a
national home for the Jews in Palestine” will be appointed Lord President of
the Privy Council.
1926: “New
contributions of $324,230 were announced today at the first rally and report
meeting, held in the Hotel Biltmore, in the United Jewish Campaign to raise
$6,000,000 in Greater New York toward a $15,000,000 national fund to relieve
the millions of Jews who are suffering from famine, disease and unemployment in
Eastern Europe.”
1927: Austrian born
American composer Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner married Audree van
Lieu today.
1928: In the Bronx,
“Meier Weintraub, who owned a toy and baby-carriage business, and the former
Anna Bogatz” gave birth to Fred Robert Tucker, the Bar Mitzvah student of
Metropolitan Opera star Richard Tucker, the driving force behind the Bitter
End, a cultural force that reached far beyond Greenwich Village.
1929(17th of
Nisan, 5689): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1929: In an interview
with the representative of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency in Jerusalem, Felix M. Warburg revealed that “the Zionists
and the non-Zionists who are to form jointly the extended agency for Palestine
have reach a completed agreement on the constitution of the new body…”
1930: In his sermon
this morning at Temple Emanu-El, “Dr. Nathan Krass declared that as very man
sees the truth in a different light, he can but preach it as he understands it,
that the false prophets are only those who know they are preaching what is wrong,
that the pulpit speaks the truth as it understands it.”
1930: “According to a
report on investigations by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
made public” today “the Allied Jewish Campaign, “an abnormal record of Jewish
insolvency, with may resulting suicides, revealed in Eastern Europe, indicates
that the hope that Jewish populations there would soon be able to get along
without American charity is no way justified…”
1931: “The Budapest
Rabbinate has proclaimed” today a “fast day in commemoration “ of the shooting
earlier this month at the Great Synagogue in the Tabek Gasse during Emil
Zatloka shot four Jews -- Tauglich, Ignatz Pinter, Leo Kera, and Eugen Roth (As
reported by JTA)
1931: The Washington,
DC campaign to raise $60,000 for the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee is scheduled to come to an end today.
1931: It was reported
today that the speakers at the testimonial dinner for Herbert D. Perlman
included Solomon Schelinsky, Leon Sanders, Mrs. David de Sola Pool, Max
Silverstein, Samuel Koenig, Albert Ottinger and Magistrate Adolph Stern.
1931: Birthdate of
refusenik and Israeli economist Ida Nuel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/world/middleeast/ida-nudel-dead.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nudel-ida
1932: The New Republic
published “The Supreme Court and a Balanced Budget” by Felix Frankfurter.
http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/felix-frankfurter
1932(21st of
Nisan, 5692): Seventh Day of Pesach
1932(21st of
Nisan, 5692): Forty-two-year-old Sutter, CA native Otto Oscar Dannenberg, “the
youngest child of Charles and Mary Amanda Dannenberg and husband Iceophine
Elsie Zimmerman passed away today after which he was buried in Dixon, CA.
1933: The American
Jewish Congress and other organizations continued preparations for a march to
be held on May 10 in New York to protest Germany’s treatment of her Jewish
population. At the same, the American Jewish Committee and its allies issued a
statement opposing the upcoming event as “futile.” “They serve only as an ineffectual channel
for the release of emotion.”
1933: The German
government prohibited the practice of ritual Jewish slaughter of animals for
meat.
1933: Denouncing the persecutions and discriminations practiced
against Jews in Germany by the Hitler government, the American Jewish
committee, acting in conjunction with the B'nai B'rith, Jewish fraternal
organization, issued a statement today disapproving boycotts, parades and mass
meetings as measures for bringing relief to the sufferers.
1933: Otto Blumenthal,
a German mathematician who converted to Christianity as young student, “was arrested and detained. He had been denounced as a
communist by the Aachen Student Association, certainly a false accusation, and
after two weeks he was released but he was suspended from his teaching duties
at the university. The official reasons were not racial, but rather cited his
involvement with the German League for Human Rights and the Society of Friends
of the New Russia.” In other words he
was not arrested because under German racial laws, he was a Jew because his
parents were Jews.
1934: Premiere of
“Liliom,” a “French fantasy film” directed by Fritz Lang whose Jewish converted
to Catholicism with music by Franz Waxman.
1934: George Gershwin and George S. Kaufman are
among those sponsoring t “The Film and Photo League” motion picture costume
ball scheduled to take place this evening which also include a photo exhibit of
the works of Ralph Steiner.
1935: In Brooklyn,
Dorothy Alter, a housewife and her husband Morris, the owner of “lamp repair
shop” gave birth to Lean Rose Napolin the Alfred University graduate who gained
fame as the playwright who created the Broadway hit “Yentl.” (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)
1935: In Syria, Beirut
banker Jacob Sifra who founded Banco Safra in São Paulo and his wife gave birth
Moise Y. Safra who followed in his father’s Brazilian Banking footsteps.
1936: It was reported
that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise told a meeting of 1,500 at the Hotel Astor that an
additional $150,000 was being raised in addition to the $3,500,000 already
being raised by the United Palestine Appeal Campaign in response to the recent outbreak
of violence in Palestine.
1936: In Berlin, “the Official Gazette announced today that two
scholarships of the Felix Mendelsohnn-Bartholdi Foundation would be awarded in
October this year to talented and diligent music students” who can present data
proving that they are not Jews” which based on Nazi race laws Mendelssohn was
and his music has been officially banned for that reason.
1937: “Officials of B’nai B’rith said today they had been given to
understand that Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in a letter to be sent soon to
Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati, the president of the organization, would set
forth his views concerning the recent dissolution of B’nai B’rith in Germany.
1938: The
Palestine Post reported
from Warsaw that the Polish Vice-Prime Minister, Professor Kwiatkowski,
declared that his government intends to pursue a vigorous policy of
Polonization of cities and trade and will further the emigration of all
non-Polish elements. This statement was seen as a call for a further
intensification of the economic boycott and a direct threat to the existence of
the three-and-a half million strong Jewish Polish community.
1938: Lev
Landau, the head of the Theoretical Division at the Institute for Physical
Problems, was arrested by the NKVD and sent to Lubyanka prison for comparing
“the Stalinist dictatorship to Hitler.”
1939: There
is hope in Hungary that both house of parliament will pass the “compromised
Jewish bill” “which provides that all persons whose ancestors live in Hungary
prior to 1848 and who were themselves baptized
for August 1, 1919 shall be recognized as non-Jews apart from certain
disqualifications to which are also subject.” (Editor’s note – in the end the
tap-dance would not matter to the mass of Jews sent to Auschwitz in 1944.)
1939:
Today, “American authorities are investigating the case of Leib Schenker a
Galician born Jew and American citizen now imprisoned at Reichenberg having
been charged with complicity in plot to kill Hiterl
1940: British Foreign Office official H. F. Downie
argued that the Jews are "enemies just as the Germans are, but in a more
insidious way," and that "our two sets of enemies [Nazis and Jews]
are linked together by secret and evil bonds."
1940: Himmler ordered the establishment of
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/auschwitz-birkenau-concentration-camp
1941: In “Franz Boas
and the Aims of the Science of Man,” published today Ernest Harms provides a
detailed review of Race, Language and Culture by Franz Boas.
1941: German troops occupied Athens
Greece. This would be the opening act in a tragic drama that would lead
to the demise of the very old, Greek Jewish Community, including the Jews
of Salonika.
1942: Jews living in Belgium were
forced to wear stars.
1942: Jews throughout
Greater Germany were prohibited from taking public transport.
1942: One thousand Jews
were deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Izbica Lubelska, Poland; only
one person survived - a woman who escaped after arrival. Other Theresienstadt
deportees were sent to their deaths at the Sobibór and Belzec extermination
camps.
1942(10th of
Iyar, 5702): Eleven-year-old Ruth Bachrachova was murdered today at Isbica.
1942(10th of Iyar, 5702): The Nazis
executed 60 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Among the victims were people suspected
of being involved with the ghetto's underground newspaper.
1942: After three days,
the liquidation of the Wloclawek Ghetto was completed when the remaining Jews
were sent to Chelmno.
1943(22nd of
Nisan, 5703): Eighth Day of Pesach
1943(22nd of Nisan,
5703): Cantor Gershon Yitzchak
Sirota ”was murdered with his entire family during the destruction of the
Warsaw Ghetto on the last day of Passover.” Gershon Sirota was born in Podolia
Guberne in 1874. When just a young child, he was already helping his father, a
noted cantor, to conduct services in the local synagogue. Soon his parents
moved to Odessa and Gershon's wonderful voice began to become well known.
Yakovkin, cantor Yankel Seroka's choir director at the Shalashner Shul
immediately offered the young Sirota a position in his choir. Shortly
afterwards, Sirota was introduced to Baron Kalbos, the director of a Music
Conservatory, and admitted on a scholarship. Gershon quickly made great
stridges in his musical education and, as a result, was assigned larger solos
in Yakovkin's choir. One Shabbat morning Sirota was asked to sing in the
Shalashner Shul. After his magnificent performance he was appointed Assistant
Cantor, with the salary of 100 rubels a month. It was not long before Yankel
Seroka came complaining to Gershon's father that his young son ws trying to
take away his position. Sirota resigned and accepted the Cantorial post at the
Prikashtchikes Shul in Odessa.
In 1896 Sirota became
Cantor of the famous Vilna Shtat Synagogue, where he remained for nine years.
There is choir directors were Yitzchak Schlossberg, Nathan Abramson and later
Leo Loew. When Leo Loew became choir director, he arranged for a special concert,
in which Cantor Sirota sang with the accompaniment of a large, newly founded
choir. This concert was a tremendous success, and the newspapers wrote
enthusiastic reviews. He and Leo Loew began to receive invitations from
Bialystok, Grodno, Minsk and other Russian cities to make new concerts.
Sirota's appearances were so well received and praised that Svatopolk-Mirsky,
the Russian Gubernator General decided to visit the Vilna Shtat Synagogue to
hear Sirota. A few days later, the General sent a letter to the Czar's wife,
Maria Feodorovna, highly praising the young cantor's talent. She requested that
he perform at a concert sponsored for the benefit for the Vilna Institution for
the Blind. Shortly arfterwards, Gershon Sirota was called to St. Petersburg to
give a series of concerts before Czar Nicholas II. He was then asked to give
yearly concerts in St. Petersburg, and Moscow by Imperial Command. The
publicity of Sirota's name soon came to the attention of the major recording
companies in Europe. In 1903, twelve records of Sirota's liturgical selections
were released. This event achieved for him the great honor of being the first Cantor
to record his voice of phonograph records. His recordings were distributed
throughout Europe and later appeared in America. The medium of these records
soon made Sirota's name world famous, even though he had not yet appeared in
many of the countries which his records had already reached. Meanwhile, in
Warsaw, the directors of the Tlomackie Synagogue were looking for a new Cantor.
Gretzhandler, who had held the Cantorial post, was now old and the Synagogue
needed a fitting successor to take his place. They offered Sirota the position
because of his great popularity and Cantorial ability. He was thirty-one years
old when he accepted the position, which he held for nineteen years. In
February 1912, Cantor Sirota made the first of what was to be many concert
tours of America. He appeared at Carnegie Hall, The Hippodrome, and the Academy
of Music in New York before making tours to the other large cities.
During 1913 he returned
again on another concert tour, appearing at Kessler's Theatre, The New Star
Casino, The Palace Garden, and Carnegie Hall.
His third American visit in 1921 began with an appearance at the
Metropolitan Opera House, accompanied by Meyer Machtenberg's hundred voice
choir. Arturo Toscanini and the famous Opera Star Joseph Schwartz were among
the prominent celebrities who attended the concert. He then conducted services
in many famous Synagogues, singing for the High Holy Days at the Kalvariah Shul
in Harlem. During the seasons of 1924, 1925, and 1927, he also officiated in
New York for the Yamim Noraim. When he returned to Europe (after conducting
services at the Bronx Winter Garden for the Benefit of the Beit HaMidrash
HaGadol of Harlem in 1927), the Tlomackie Synagogue had already chosen a Cantor
to replace him. They took this action, because they were very disturbed about
his constantly leaving them to daven elsewhere in America for the High Holy
Days.In 1935, Sirota became Cantor of the Norzick Shul. That year, a concert
was held in his honor at the Warsaw Coliseum and he also made a trip to Israel.
There he conducted services for the High Holy Days at Magrabi Theatre.His last
trip to America was made in 1938, when he davened for the Yamim Noraim in
Chicago and during Succot in Milwaukee. He then returned to Europe, after
receiving a telegram that his wife was critically ill in Warsaw. With the
outbreak of the war, Sirota was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with his family
and the other Jews of the city. He conducted High Holy Day Services in the
Warsaw Ghetto in 1941
1943: The Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising continued into its third week. This is amazing when you
consider that France with a modern Army surrendered to the Nazis after six
weeks. By now thousands of Jews were being rounded up and marched away. But
the Jews continued their counter attacks from rooftops above, doorways and
windows. Jewish women and children huddled in buildings, staying
with their armed protectors fleeing only when those
structures were set on fire by the advancing Nazis.
1943: Eminent American
poet Ezra Pound continued his anti-Semitic broadcasts from Italy. He called the
Jews "rats," "bedbugs," "vermin,"
"worms," "bacilli," and "parasites" who
constitute an overwhelming "power of putrefaction."
1943: During WW II,
G.I. (and future New York Mayor) Ed Koch wrote “I’m tired but not dismayed. The
chow (chili con carne) was terrible, but I scraped the plate. It will be a long
time before I’ll get used to the open latrine. The fellows in the bunk are
pretty good. Mother acted fine in the station. I think that I’ll get along
fine. . . . The beer stinks, it leaves a taste in my mouth.
1943: "The United
States Vice Counsel in Casablanca reported that 'it seems indubitable that
there is a systematic persecution of the Jews by the Pasha of
Beni-Mella.' Jews had been expelled from their homes and shops for up to
a week and 'arbitrary economic measures had been directed against them,
including a ban on any Jewish trade in vegetables or poultry. There had
also been random arrests and beatings...David Cohen, who half-blind, was
sentenced to six weeks in prison for not saluting a Muslim official." [For
more on this see Gilbert's "In Ishmael's House" and Statloff's
"Among the Righteous"]
1944: Psychoanalyst Helene
Deutsch published the first of two volumes of The Psychology of Women. http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/27/1944/helene-deutsch
1944(4th of
Iyar, 5704): Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Israel, the Jewish, French doctor and
resistance fighter was arrested and summarily by the French Milice, murderous
para-military organization organized by the pro-Nazi Vichy government after
which “during his funeral, the people of Mâcon rallied together, and more than
a thousand individuals attended, despite the city still being under Nazi/Vichy occupation.”
1945: Mussolini and his mistress were caught while
trying to escape outside of Lake Como. They were executed and their
bodies were brought to Milan where the next day they were hung up by
their heels from lampposts, then cut down, and mutilated. When
Hitler heard of this, supposedly, he made his decision to take his own
life and have his body burned. He was afraid of being captured by the
Russians and/or having his corpse savaged by those upon whom he had unleashed
so much misery.
1945: The British
Parliamentary Delegation organized at the request of Churchill in order that
they would have first hand, visual proof German atrocities reached Buchenwald
where they saw a “half-naked skeleton tottering painfully along the passage as
though on stilts” who “drew himself …smiled and saluted” as the delegates
approached.
1945: An original
typescript of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler was found today by the 203rd
Detachment of the U.S. Army's Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), commanded by
Martin Dannenberg, in Eichstätt, Bavaria.
1945: 2nd Lt. William
Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko (Red Army) pose for a formal
picture signifying the final link up of the two armies at the Elbe River.
1946(26th of
Nisan, 5706): Parashat Achrei Mot
1946(26th of
Nisan, 5706): Fifty-nine-year-old Russian born, NYU graduate Boris Fingerhood,
“one of the founders of Israel Zion Hospital” who had married Mrs. Sylvia
Golden after his first wife Nadezhda Finerghood had passed away died today at
his home.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/04/28/91613055.pdf
1946: In separate
speeches the Premier of Iraq and Ahmed bey Shukairy head of the Arab Office in
Palestine threatened unspecified action that “will not be word” should the
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommend the admission of any additional
Jewish immigrants to Palestine. The Iraqi premier promised action, not just on
the part of his country, but on the part of the Arab League as well.
1946: After 657
performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of
“Bloomer Girl,” a musical with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and a score by Harold
Arlen
1946: U.S. premiere of
“The Glass Alibi” directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder.
1947: “Representatives
of member states of the Arab League met for four hours” tonight “to plan
strategy to force inclusion of their demands for the immediate independence of
Palestine on the agenda of the special session of the United Nations General
Assembly.”
1948(18th of Nisan, 5708): Fourth Day of Pesach
1948: During the
Israeli War for Independence, the British landed a tank battalion and an
artillery regiment at Jaffa. Ernest
Bevin, the British Foreign Minister, informed the British commanders that they
must prevent the capture of Jaffa by the Jews ‘at all costs’.” The British artillery shelled Haganah units
and British aircraft attacked Jewish settlements in the area. This is an example of the “even handed”
policy pursued by the British during this period.
1948: The Arab Legion crossed the Jordan River on the
“road bridge” near the town of Gesher, a Jewish settlement. The Arab Legion was the name given to the
army of what is now the Kingdom of Jordan.
It was trained, equipped and officered by the British. It was the most effective fighting force in
the Middle East. The Jordanians crossed
the river with intention of seizing a police fort and the town of Gesher. The Jewish settlers were told evacuate within
an hour and to turn the fort over to the Arab Legion. The Jews refused to leave, and the Legion
attacked. So confident were they of
success that the heir to the Jordanian throne had come to watch what was sure
to be a victorious battle. However, when
the smoke cleared, the Jews had held on and the Legion retreated back from
whence they had come.
1949: : Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog, Israel's chief rabbi,
arriving this afternoon at the New York International Airport, Idlewild,
Queens, said that unless Israel's housing situation was remedied immediately
"a condition may arise that may cause us to consider a curtailment of
immigration."
1949:
“United States Major General John H. Hilldring” who had sympathized with Jewish
statehood project” and who had helped stimulate the United States delegation to
secure the needed two-thirds majority vote in the General Assembly favoring
partition, arrived at Haifa today “aboard an Israeli ship that had sailed from
Marseille” for what he described as a private visit.
1950: The modern state
of Israel was officially recognized by the British government.
1950: Britain
recognized the annexation by King Abdullah of Jordan of all land west of the
Jordan River and the Dead Sea seized by his troops during the fighting that
followed the partition vote of November, 1947.
1951: “The Thing From
Another World,” a sci-fi thriller with a screenplay co-authored by Ben Hecht
and Charles Leder, the son of George Leder, was released today in the United
States..
1950: “Tickets,
Please!” for which Karl Bernstein served as General Press Representative opened
on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported
that Jerusalem suffered a severe shortage of water because the Jerusalem
Electric Corporation had withdrawn power from the water pumping stations until
the municipality settles a debt of IL60,000.
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported
that Israel expressed regret at the resignation of General William D. Riley, as
the Chief of Staff of the U.N. Truce Supervisory Organization. A further
deterioration of the border situation was expected, as the appointment of
General Riley's expected successor, General de Ridder, known for his one-sided
decisions, was completely unacceptable.
1953: Maud
Gonne, the Irish born actress and revolutionary who was on “good terms with
Marcel Habert” a known French anti-Semite, passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20817FF3E5811738DDDAC0894DB405B8985F0D3
1954: The film White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby
and Danny Kaye, premiered. Once again a
signature piece of Americana bears a Jewish imprint.
1954(24th of Nisan): Underground fighter and Yiddish poet
Shmerke Katcherginsky died in a plane crash today
1955(5th of Iyar, 5715): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1956: U.S. premiere of “Godzilla, King of the Monsters!”
produced by Joseph Levine.
1957(26th of Nisan, 5717): Parashat Kedoshim
1957(26th of Nisan, 5717): Sixty-nine-year-old
Lithuanian born “businessman, philanthropist art collector and founder of L.M.
Rabinowitz and Company (a corset manufacturing company) Louis M. Rabinowitz,
the husband of Rose Rabinowitz and father of University of Michigan trained
civil rights attorney Victor Rabinowitz who “established endowments at Yale
University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem” and who “funded Nelson
Glueck's archaeological trips to the Negev of Israel” while seeing to it that
his art collection went to Yale University Art Gallery after he passed away
today.
1957: “Livin’ The Life,” with a book by Dale Wasserman the
child of Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel Wasserman and Bertha Paykel and Bruce
Geller, directed by Melvin Bernhardt and for which Nat Parnes served as company
manager opened on Broadway at the Phoenix Theatre.
1958: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hurwitz announce the engagement of
their daughter Helen Saundra to Mr. Paul David Peisach, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Peisach.
1958: During an interview with Mike Wallach. Dr. Reinhold
Niebuhr discussed several topics including anti-Semitism.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/niebuhr_reinhold_t.html
1959(19th of Nisan, 5719): Fifth Day of Pesach
1960(30th of Nisan, 5720): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1960(30th of Nisan, 5720): Sixty-seven-year-old
Boston born Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the President of the United States Shoe
Corporation and Jewish leader who was “a member of the board of governors of
HUC and the board of trustees of the Jewish Hospital” known as A.B. Cohen, the
husband of Dolly Lurie Cohen and the father of Ralph I. Cohen passed away
today.
1962: Connie Francis recorded “Button and Bows” a popular
song created by the Jewish team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
1962: Some of My Best Friends…” a report by the ADL
about discrimination written by Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster is
scheduled to be published today by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy.
1962: But Not Next Door in which authors Harry Rosen,
an executive of the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis and David Rosen, “an executive
of the Jewish Community Centers Association of Chicago” describe what happened
when it was learned that some houses in Deerfield, IL “were to be sold to
Negroes” is scheduled to be published today by Ivan Obolensky.
1962: “Chips With Everything” by Sir Arnold Wesker opened
“in the West End at the Royal Court Theatre” today.
1963(3rd of Iyar, 5723): Parashat Tzaria-Metzora
1963(3rd of Iyar, 5723): Eighty-year-old New York native and NYU trained real estate lawyer
Alexander Pfeiffer who “was a founder and board chairman of the United Home for
Aged Hebrews in New Rochelle and the husband of the “former Lilie Lowenfield”
with whom he had three children – Fred, Paul and Roslyn – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/04/28/356684532.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1963: Rabbis used the
upcoming 15th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel as
a theme for their sermons. At New York’s Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Julius Mark
said that “for a small nation to have achieved and maintained its independence
for a decade and a half in these turbulent times is in itself no mean
accomplishment…Of one thing we may be certain, Israel is here to stay. While her constant plea is for peace, she
will not shrink from war – may God forefend it – if her sovereignty is threatened.
Her citizens are determined not to be
exterminated as were their fellow Jews in Hitler’s hell holes. If Israel goes down, she will go down
fighting.” At Congregation Tifereth Israel, Rabbi Kurt Klappholz said that “The
successful experiment of the state of Israel will, in the words of Isaiah, be a
‘light unto the nations.’” He went on to praise Israel for her willingness “to
share her scientific and technical edge as her educational know-how with the
new emerging republics of the African continents.”
1963: Ambassador
Katriel Katz, Consul General of Israel, spoke at Congregation B’nai Jershurun
where he paid tribute to the late Izkhak Ben-Zvi, Israel’s second President and
reviewed the accomplishments of the state of Israel over the past fifteen years.
1964: Birthdate of
Jennifer Burstain, physician par excellence, mother of four really neat sons
and an asset for the Temple Judah Jewish community.
1964: German born Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum whose family had escaped the
Holocaust convened a meeting today at Columbia University that planned what
would become the first public demonstration demanding freedom for the Jews of
the Soviet Union.
http://azure.org.il/include/print.php?id=221
1965: Birthdate of Dr.
Jennifer Burstain, the wife of Dr. Todd Burstain and the mother of four of the
neatest sons who are the pride of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community.
1965: Famed Broadcast Journalist
Edward R Murrow passed away at the age
of 57 after fighting a losing battle with lung cancer. Murrow gained fame for
his coverage of World War II. One of his
most famous broadcasts came on April 15, 1945 when he described the Liberation
of Buchenwald to the American listening public. Murrow was a staunch supporter
of Israel. When Teddy Kollek visited him
in 1964, Murrow told him that once he had licked cancer he wanted to be the
United States Ambassador to Israel.
1966: After having
served as head of the Air Department in the General Staff since 1961, Mordechai
"Mottie" Hod became Commander of the IAF. Hod led the Israeli Air Force through its
most brilliant moment, the strikes that opened the Six Day. Hod served as the
air commander until 1973, leaving office six months before the Yom Kippur War.
1967(17th of
Nisan, 5727): Third Day of Pesach
1967: The 20th
Cannes Film Festival where “Three Days and a Child” was nominated for Best Film
opened today.
1967: Birthdate of
Rhehovot, Israel Yitzhak Avni, the “actor entertainer and television” known as
Aki Avni whom American audiences saw in “Free Zone” starring Natalie Portman.
1968(29th of
Nisan, 5728): Parashat Shimini
1968: “I'm Solomon,” a musical
with music by Ernest Gold which had opened
April 23, 1968, and closed today after seven performances.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/04/24/77085874.html?pageNumber=51
1968: Birthdate of Todd
Thalblum, husband of Sabrina Thalblum (Cedar Rapids’ ashish chayel) who would
become the Rabbi of Temple Judah in 2010.
1969: Birthdate of Bat
Yam, Israel native Yinon Magal, journalist, performer and MK.
https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/930
1969: Three days after
he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Roth Memorial
Chapel this afternoon for seventy-seven-year-old Yonkers NY, native and
Dickinson College trained attorney, Joseph Altman a powerful figure in New
Jersey politics which led to his serving six terms as the Mayor of Atlantic
City while raising his son Michael with his wife Lillian.
1970(21st of
Nisan, 5730): Seventh Day of Pesach
1971(2nd of
Iyar, 5731): Sixty-six-year-old Galveston, TX native and University of Texas
physician Harry Hauser, the Professor of Radiology at the Western Reserve
University’s School of Medicine who raised two sons, David and Daniel, with his
wife Miriam passed away today.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148/101.2.455?journalCode=radiology
1971: “1776,” directed
by Lester Osterman which has transferred from St. James Theatre re-opened on
Broadway at the Majestic Theatre today,
1973: An Italian clerk
was killed when Palestinian terrorists attacked the El Al office in Rome.
1972: “The new chess
champion of Israel is Uzi Geller who won the title in a 16‐man tournament recently in Tel Aviv with a score of 9½‐5½” and who is the first Sabra to win the national championship,
1973: A terrorist plot
was foiled today when 3 Arabs carrying explosive were arrested before they
could board a plane bounced for Nice, France. (As reported by Jewish Virtual
Library)
1974: “The Vatican made
public today wartime documents showing that Pope Pius XII learned no later than
the beginning of 1941 that the Nazis, were deporting large numbers of Jews from
areas in their grip.”
1975: “At a dinner of
the Agudath Israel of America, a national movement of Orthodox Jewry, in the Commodore Hotel, Governor Carey voiced confidence tonight that the American
people would not permit “petty and blind so-called political considerations' to
obstruct military and economic aid for the security of Israel's position as a democratic
state In the Middle East.”
1976(27th of
Nisan, 5736): Yom HaShoah
1976: “So Long, 174th
Street,” “a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and lyrics and music by Stan
Daniels” opened on Broadway today at the Harkness Theatre.
1976: Sophie Masloff
began serving as a member of the Pittsburgh City Council.
1977: “Between the
Lines,” a romantic comedy directed by Joan Micklin Silver, the Omaha born
daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Doris Shoshone and Maurice David Micklin,
directed by her husband Raphael D. Silver and co-starring Jeff Goldblum was
released in the United States today.
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported
that two German volunteers were killed when Arab terrorists threw a bomb into a
tourist bus parked in the center of Nablus.
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported
that in Washington, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan, and the U.S.
Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, were reported to be unable to reach an
agreement in their quest for peace in the Middle East, and awaited the arrival
of the Prime Minister, Menachem Begin.
1979: Soviet dissidents and Jewish activists,
including Mark Dymshitz and Edward Kuznetsov who were exchanged by America for
two Soviet spies, arrived in New York City today.
1980: One
hundred thousand “people attended the ninth annual Solidarity Day rally of the
Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry.”
1980: This
afternoon Rabbi Charles Lippman of Temple Beth Am in Pearl River, NY officiated
at the wedding of “Marcia Robinson Lowry, director of the children’s rights
project of the ACLU and Frederic Adams Mosher, a program officer at the
Carnegie Corporation” which was held at the home of the birde’s aunt and uncle,
“Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Finkelstein of Manhattan.”
1981:
Actress Barbara Bach (born Barbara Goldbach) married Ringo Starr
1981: “The
Floating Light Bulb” written by Woody Allen and directed by Ulu Grosbard and
starring Beatrice Arthur as “Enid”
“opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center today.”
1982(4th
of Iyar, 5742) Yom HaZikaron
1983(14th
of Iyar, 5743): Pesach Sheni
1983:
Today, Southpaw Bob Tufts pitched his “first and only game in Yankee Stadium.”
https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/now-pitching-the-great-bob-tufts/
1983: In
Boston, Jewish parenting expert Joani Geltman and her non-Jewish husband Greg
Graynor gave birth to actress Ariel Geltman “Ari” Grayenor
1984(25th
of Nisan, 5744): Sixty-one-year-old Hans Arthur Aalsmeer, the son of Charles
Aalsmeer and Margaretha Schwarz passed away today.
1984: A
revival of “Hello Dolly” starring female impersonator Danny La Rue as Dolly
came to a close at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
1984: The
daily Israeli newspaper Hadeshot “was ordered to stop publishing for four days”
for having reported that Minister of Defense Arens had set up a committee of
inquiry, headed by Reserve General Meir Zorea to investigate facts surrounding
what became known as the Bus 300 Affair.
1985: “The
U.S. failed to get an agreement that could bring about direct talks between
Israel and Jordan” because, according to Assistant Secretary of State Richard
W. Murphy, “the Arab world was still too divided to support a move by King
Hussein of Jordan to enter talks with Israel and a delegation of Palestinians
not affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization.”
1986(18th of
Nisan, 5746): Fourth Day of Pesach
1986: “Sweet Charity,”
with a book by Neil Simon and produced by Jerome Minskoff opened on Broadway
today at the Minskoff Theatre.
1986(18th of
Nisan, 5746): Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at
Congregation Beth Sholom in Rhode Island for 87 year old Morris I. Fishbein the
Chelsea, MA born son of Sarah Miller and Louis Fishbein, the husband of Helen
(Bennett) Fishbein with whom he had four children – Gilbert, Joseph, Ruth and
Harriet – who was “a contractor and real investor as well as a member of
Congregation Beth Sholom, Congregation Mishkon Tifiloh and the Providence, RI
Hebrew Free Loan Association.
1987(28th of
Nisan, 5747): Eighty-seven-year-old Rachel Lichterman, the London born daughter
of Emanuel and Sarah Leah Epstein and the wife of New Yorker Abraham Lichterman
passed away today.
1987: The Justice Department barred Austrian
President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he aided in the
deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army
officer during World War II. Yes, the Secretary General of the United
Nations was a soldier an officer in Hitler's army.
1989(22nd of
Nisan, 5749): Eighth Day of Pesach
1989: “Ghetto” a play
set in the Vilna Ghetto written by Joshua Sobol opened in the Olivier Theatre
today under the direction of Sir Nicholas Hytner.
1990: After having
premiered in Italy in December, “Black Orchid” directed by Zalman King was
released today in the United States.
1990(2nd of
Iyar, 5750): Ninety-one-year-old Bucharest born and Washington Irving High
School educated playwright and screen writer Bella Cohen part of the playwright
team with her husband Samuel Spewack who among other things earned an Academy
Award nomination for Best Original Story for “My Favorite Wife” passed away
today.
1991(13th of
Iyar, 5751): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1991(13th of
Iyar, 5751): Eighty-six-year-old Samuel Zetzer, the “son of Cala and Jacob
Zetzer” passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
1993(6th of
Iyar, 5753): Ninety-year-old Dresden born “poet, critic and novelist” and
refugee from Nazi Germany Hans Sahl who worked with Varian Fry to help others
fleeing the Nazis passed away in Tubingen, Germany.
https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz109546.html#ndbcontent
1993: In a story
entitled “Museum Opens With Firm Grip On the Emotions,” Diana Jean Schemo
described the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/27/us/museum-opens-with-firm-grip-on-the-emotions.html
1994: A revival production of “An Inspector Calls,” opened
on Broadway at the Royale Theatre which is Owned and Operated by The Shubert Organization
(Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
1995(27th of Nisan, 5755): Yom HaShoah
1996: Operations
Grapes of Wrath, the Israeli military incursion into Lebanon brought on by
terrorist attacks and the inability of the Lebanese government to control its
own borders, came to an end.
1997(20th of Nisan, 5757): Sixth Day of Pesach
1997: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Irving Berlin: Songs From the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914 by Charles Hamm, Streisand: A Biography
by Anne Edwards and Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich.
1997: Memorial services
are scheduled to be held this after at the UCLA Faculty Center for Judge Jerry
Pacht.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-04/news/mn-45393_1_jerry-pacht
1998(1st of Iyar, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Iyar.
1998: In South Orange County, CA, “Gideon Bernstein, an
equity partner at Leisure Capital Management and Jeanne Pepper, a former lawyer
who retired from law in 2000 to raise their 3 children” gave birth to
University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein who was murdered in 2018 by a “former high school classmates
and a member of neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division” in what police
described as a hate crime for which the perpetrator was convicted of first
degree murder.
https://patch.com/california/lagunabeach/life-too-short-blaze-bernstein-obituary
1998: “Hacker Case Taps Into Fame, Fury” published today provides a description of the activities of
18-year-old computer hacker Ehud Tenenbaum whose skills were praised by Prime
Minister Netanyahu admiringly as “damn good.”
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/27/news/mn-43491
2000(22nd of Nisan, 5760): Eighth Day of Pesach;
Yizkor
2000(22nd of Nisan, 5760): Ninety-three-year-old
University of Chicago trained attorney Elmer Gert whose clients included Nathan
Leopold, Arthur Miller and Jack Ruby and who married Mami Laitchin Friedman
after his first wife Ceretta Samuels had passed away died today. (As reported by Eric Pace)
2000: Today, Steve “Wynn purchased the Desert Inn for $270
million.
2000: Jack Lang completed his second terms as a member of
the French National Assembly for Loir-et-Cher.
2001: A Central Intelligence Agency file on Adolf Hitler was made
public today, including a report that described the Nazi leader as a
"border case between genius and insanity" and predicted that Hitler
could become the "craziest criminal the world ever knew."
2001:The C.I.A. files on 19 other wartime figures, like
Josef Mengele, the sadistic doctor at the Auschwitz death camp; Adolf Eichmann,
the Nazi architect of the extermination of Europe's Jews, and Heinrich Mueller,
the feared Gestapo chief were released today.
2002(15th of Iyar, 5762): Seventy-seven-year-old
Jakub Goldberg the Polish film maker who “was co-writer and assistant director
of Polanski's feature debut Knife in the Water” passed away today in Denmar,
2002(15th of Iyar,
5762): Ruth Handler passed away at the age of 85, having provided America with
a revered icon and piece of popular culture. Born in 1916, Handler was the
youngest of 10 children in a Polish-Jewish immigrant family that settled in Denver.
In 1945, Handler's husband and a partner started what would become the Mattel
Toy Company. During the 1950's Handler invented the "Barbie
Doll" which took its name if not its anatomy from her daughter,
Barbara. Barbie was joined by the "Ken Doll" named for
Handler's son, Kenneth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/arts/ruth-handler-whose-barbie-gave-dolls-curves-dies-at-85.html
2002(15th of
Iyar, 5762): Danielle Shefi, 5; Arik
Becker, 22; Katrina (Katya) Greenberg, 45; and Ya'acov Katz, 51, all of Adora,
were killed when terrorists dressed in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through
the settlement's defensive perimeter fence and entered Adora, west of Hebron.
Seven other people were injured, one seriously. The terrorists entered several
homes, firing on people in their bedrooms. Both Hamas and the PFLP claimed
responsibility for the attack. (As described by theJewish Virtual Library)
2003: The New York Times
included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including recently released paperback versions of Elvis In
Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel by Tom Segev in
which “the author maintains that Israel's connection to the United States is
driving a transformation in the nation's cultural life, weakening social
solidarity while boosting the role of the individual.”
2003: In
Champaign-Urbana, The fifth annual Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival
closes.
2004(6th of
Iyar, 5764): Yom HaAtzma’ut
2005(18th of
Nisan, 5765): Fourth Day of Pesach
2005: In “Nothing Can
Be Compared to the Massacre of 6 Million Jews” published today “Israeli
President Moshe Katsav discusses Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the
new pope, the special relationship between Jerusalem and Berlin and his worries
about the rise of anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism in Europe and Germany.”
2006: “Rabbi Yona Metzger filed a petition with the Supreme Court
of Israel to protest Mazuz's public declaration alleging that his image had
been destroyed without a chance to tell his side of the story, and accusing
Menachem Mazuz of engaging in "child-like" tactics.Metzger's lawyer
charged that Mazuz's report on Metzger contained unverifiable information and
that it constituted a personal attack on the rabbi without giving him the
benefit of a defense or hearing. The petition requested that the second half of
Mazuz's 30-page report, in which he harshly attacked Metzger's conduct and
recommended his removal, be stricken from the record.”
2007: Dr. Jonathan Karp and Dr.
Jonathan Schorsch present "Blacks and Jews in American Popular Music-The
Business of Cultural Mediation" at the Center for
Jewish History in New York City.
2007: New York Mets star
Shawn Green (currently sixth in National League hitting), along with teammates
David Newhan, Scott Schoeneweis and Aaron Sele, reportedly paid a visit to the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Green, who called
the visit “intense” and “educational,” found himself particularly moved by a
display of victims’ shoes. Newhan, whose great-grandmother was killed during
the purge of the Warsaw Ghetto, was also deeply moved. “It was pretty heavy,”
he told the Journal News, “but something definitely worthwhile.” He said he
planned to take his 2-year-old son when the time was right. Newhan, though bar
mitzvahed at a Conservative synagogue, today considers himself to be a
messianic Jew. Green and Schoeneweis are both Jewish; Sele is not. The Mets’
chief operating officer, Jeff Wilpon, who serves on the museum’s board,
arranged the outing.
2008:
Eighth Day of Pesach, 5768 – Traditional (Orthodox, Conservative, et al) Jews
recite Yizkor
(Here is a
suggestion for what do with the all the leftover Matzoth Butterfinger Comedy Network on Yahoo! Video.
2008: The Ramle Conference 'Between Israel and the Nations' takes
place. The Ramle Conference
which deals with the relationship between the Jewish people and the non-Jewish
minorities living in Israel is the first of its kind.
2008: Annie Leibovitz’s
topless photo of a 15 year old entertainer “was published with an accompanying
story on The New York Times' website” today.
2009(3rd of Iyar,
5769): Phillip Stein, the musician who created the mural on the back wall of
the Village Vanguard, passed away today at the age of 90.
2009: At the JCC in
Columbus, Ohio, Israel Memorial Commemoration features a remembrance ceremony
with former IDF soldiers and screen the documentary film "A Hero in
Heaven" about the life of Michael Levin (Z"L)
2009: The Leo Baeck Institute presents multi-media event
featuring a book and film both which are entitled “The Kissinger Saga, Two
Brothers from Fürth.” “Evi Kurz, a journalist from Fürth where the
Kissingers were born, has forged a family portrait of a Nobel laureate and
a successful CEO. Through years of diligent research and respectful encounters,
Ms. Kurz was able to earn the trust of both Walter and Henry, who rewarded
her with a personal look into the family life of a German-Jewish family.
The result is an award-winning documentary film and a book. As we accompany the Kissingers on visits to
places of their childhood and youth, it becomes very clear how these
formative years provide the context for much that comes later.
2009: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, the former (now emeritus)
president of George Washington University, discusses and signs Big Man on
Campus: A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education at Reiter's
Scientific & Professional Books in Washington, D.C.
2009(3rd of Iyar,
5769): Yom Hazikaron events
begin this afternoon with a ceremony at the Ammunition Hill battlefield in
Jerusalem in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
2009: “The Confession
of Eliot Spitzer” is the cover story for Newsweek
magazine.
2009: Florida’s
Governor Charlie Crist “signed legislation removing the word ‘shylock’ from
Florida’s criminal money-lending laws.”
2010: "My Father's
Microcosm, Tel Aviv", a photographic installation by Israeli photographer
Yossi Guttmann is scheduled to have its final showing at the Williams Club of
New York.
2010: Dr. Ori Z. Soltes,
Goldman Lecturer in Theology at Georgetown University, is scheduled to discuss
“Famous Jewish Trials: From Jesus to Eichmann” at Northern Virginia focusing on
the cases of Jesus of Nazareth, the “Blood Libel" cases during the Spanish
Inquisition, the early twentieth century trials of Jews in Czarist Russian, the
U.S. trial in the 1920's of Leo Frank, the Rosenberg trial in the 1950's, and
the1961 Israeli trial of Adolf Eichmann.
2010(13th
of Iyar, 5770): Doctor Stanley I. Greenspan, a psychiatrist who
invented an influential approach to teaching children with autism and other
developmental problems by folding his lanky six-foot frame onto the floor and
following their lead in vigorous play, died today at a hospital in Bethesda, MD
at the age of 68.
2010:
The Jewish Federation communities of the Commonwealth of Virginia “have written
a letter to Governor Bob McDonnell asking him to reconsider this decision that
lifted a ban on Virginia State Police troopers referring to Jesus Christ in
public prayers.
2011:
Kinky “Friedman launched his Springtime For Kinky Tour (cf. "Springtime
For Hitler") in Kansas City, Missouri at Knuckleheads Saloon] which
includes dates in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky before heading towards the east
coast.
2011: In preparation of Yom
HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Detroit’s Congregation Beth Ahm is
scheduled to screen “Hidden Poland”, a one-hour documentary film recounting the
experiences of four people who were hidden children in Poland during the Shoah.
2011:
Three days after she had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be
held today for Joan Peyser, “the master storyteller who was a biographer of
seminal figures in 20th-century music, as well as an editor and a winner of six
ASCAP/Deems Taylor Awards.”
2011:
Today on the 189th anniversary of U.S. Grant’s birth it was
announced “Ron Chernow has signed a deal to write a ‘comprehensive biography’
of Ulysses S. Grant” just days after he Chernow had won the Pulitzer Prize for
Biography or Autobiography for his book Washington: A Life.
2011: Fatah and Hamas, the
rival Palestinian movements, announced an agreement in principle today to end a
years-long internal Palestinian schism.
2011: Moroccan Jews who
suffered under the Nazis and their allies during World War II will for the
first time ever receive compensation from Germany, a Jewish group announced
today.
2011(23rd
of Nisan, 5771): Sixty-year-old Dr Stanley I. Greenspan, a psychiatrist who
documented the developmental milestones of early childhood and developed the
widely used "Floor Time" method for teaching children with autism and
other developmental disorders, passed away today.
2011:
In Mitzvah Tanks Roll Again,” Gabe Johnson and Tamir Elterman describe the
reappearance of this unique Chabad invention.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/mitzvah-tanks-roll-again/
2012: “Love During
Wartime,” a film about an Israeli Jewish woman in love with a Palestinian
Moslem man, is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012: “Safe” directed
and written by Boaz Yakin was released in the United States today.
2012: Shabbaton Shira
v’Kehilah, a Shabbat of Song and Community is scheduled to begin at the Kane
Street Synagogue.
2012:
David Samson, the owner of the Miami Marlins baseball team “completed a 52.4
mile run to honor the workers who built the new ballpark, and which raised over
$550,000 to be split among 10 charities.
2013: Ossie Schectman, “is credited with having scored the
first basket in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which would later
become the National Basketball Association (NBA)” ‘gave his very last autograph
to young NBA fans who came to visit him in his home for the elderly in New
City, New York.”
2013: The recently retired chief of Israel’s internal security agency
said tonight that he had “no faith” in the ability of the current leadership to
handle the Iranian nuclear threat, ratcheting up the criticism of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak from the defense
and intelligence communities. (As reported by Jodi Rudoren)
2013: “Dancing In
Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2013: In Livonia,
Michigan, “Bookstock,” co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council
is scheduled to come to an end
2013: The National Park
Service and the United States Military Academy are scheduled to host the
official government ceremony commemorating the 191st anniversary of President
Grant’s birth. While there are those who would paint Grant as an anti-Semite his
Jewish contemporaries did not view him as can be seen by the fact that Jews
overwhelming supported him when he ran for President and by this eulogy by
Professor Felix Adler http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50E15F8355911738DDDAF0A94DC405B8785F0D3
2013: A heat wave hit
Israel today and caused several fires across Israel, ahead of Jewish holiday
Lag Ba'Omer (bonfire night). Army Radio reported that one man was lightly
injured today in a fire started from burning embers left by hikers.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Heat-wave-causes-outbursts-of-fires-across-Israel-311273
2014: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including I
Pity the Poor Immigrant, Zachary Lazar’s “novel of spiritual discovery
featuring Meyer Lansky, an American journalist and the murder of an Israeli
poet,” Mount Terminus, David Grand’s novel about the early days of the
movie industry featuring half-brothers Simon Reuben and Bloom Rosenbloom and In
Paradise, “Peter Matthiessen’s novel about a Zen retreat at Auschwitz.”
2014: The Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host “Downtown
Washington,” a “tour of the historic 7th Street, NW neighborhood”
that “includes four former synagogues.
2014(27th of
Nisan, 5774): In the evening start of Yom Hashoah. While the 27th of Iyar is the
official date for Yom Hashoah, when the 27th of Nisan falls on a
Sunday, the observance takes place on the 28th of Nisan (Monday) “to
avoid adjacency with Shabbat.”
2014: Three days after
he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Dr. Charles
A. Schwartz, the husband of Dr.Sheila Schwartz, the father of Pamela Fay Cohen,
Julia Molly Healy, David Ansin Schwartz and Columbia and Boston University
graduate and award winning television journalist Elizabeth Cohen (Elizabeth
Sondra Schwartz) and wife of Israeli-born Entrepreneur Tal Cohen.
https://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cohen.elizabeth.html
2014: “Light and
Shadows: The Story of the Iranian Jews” an “exhibition that tell the rich and
complex history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities” is scheduled
to come to an end at Yeshiva University Museum.
2014: “The March of
Life” under the title “Remembering, Reconciling and Shaping the Future in
Friendship” is scheduled to come to an end in Hungary.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179748#.U1smEJtOWpo
2014: Popes John XXIII
and John Paul II are being declared saints of the Roman Catholic Church today,
the day that is also the eve of Yom Hashoah
http://www.timesofisrael.com/from-pope-to-saint-two-men-who-revamped-jewish-catholic-ties/
2014: In New Orleans,
the keynote speaker at the Holocaust Memorial Program is scheduled to be
eighty-eight year old Philip Bialowitz, one of only seven survivors of the
Sobribor revolt at the Nazi death camp who was 17 at the time of the revolt,
joined with his brother and others to overwhelm the guards and helped free 200
of the 600 prisoners housed there” whose memoir is A Promise at Sobribor: A
Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland. (As
reported by the Crescent City Jewish News)
2014: “Golda’s Balcony”
a one-woman show starring Tova Feldshuh as the Israeli Prime Minister is
scheduled to be performed for the last time this evening at the D.C. Jewish
Community Center.
2014: In Coralville,
Iowa, Rabbi Jeff Portman has organized a memorable and meaningful series of Yom
HaShoah events that are scheduled to include the Fourth Annual Music of
Commemoration at Agudas Achim and a reading by Professor Lud Gutmann, MD from
his book Richard Road: Fleeing the Holocaust and Growing Up In Rural America.
2014: Holocaust
Remembrance Week is scheduled to begin today.
2015: “The Last
Sentence” and “Let’s Go” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish
Film Festival.
2015(8th of
Iyar, 5776): Ninety-year-old Dr. Alexander Rich who provided the visual proof
of the DNA’s Double Helix passed away today.
(As reported by Denise Gellene)
2015: Dana Kalishov is
scheduled to discuss the important role of the IDF in providing invaluable
educational and leadership opportunities, fostering the growth of pluralism,
encouraging respect and equal rights for women, members of the LGBT community, and
other minorities at the Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center.
2015: “In the
Community: Touchdown Israel” is scheduled to be shown at the Gershman Y as part
of the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.
2015: Michele Gold
author of Memories that Won't Go Away:A Tribute to the Children of the
Kindertransport is scheduled to speak at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2015: Mark Gelber and Birger Vanwesenbeck are scheduled to
discuss “Stefan Zweig and World Literature: 21st Century Perspectives” at the
Center for Jewish History.
2015: In Baltimore looters carried away over a million
dollars in merchandize as they vandalized the Sports Mart a business started in
1980 by 89-year-old Leon Levy and his sons Harvey, Marc and Brian.
2015: Congregants Challenge Sale of Bulwark of Judaism on
Lower East Side published today described the dispute surrounding the sale of
the Home of Sages “a Manhattan nursing home in the shadow of the Williamsburg
Bridge.”
2016(19th of Nisan, 5776): Fifth Day of Pesach
2016(19th of Nisan, 5776): Eighty-seven-year-old
abstract artist Harold Cohen passed away today in California.
2016: “Common Ground” written by Israel Yael Ronen is
scheduled to be performed at the Segal Theatre tonight.
2016; “The first Jewish film festival of Casablanca, which
was organized in the Moroccan city by a Sephardic Jewish woman from Atlanta”
and which was attended by nearly 300 people came to an end today.
2016: “Two Palestinian terrorists this morning attempted to
stab Border Policemen at Qalandiya checkpost north of Jerusalem before being
shot and killed by security forces.”
2017(1st of Iyar, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2017(1st of Iyar, 5777): Ninety-six-year-old
Julius Young “the last surviving member of Jonas Salk’s original research team”
passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/science/julius-youngner-dead-salk-polio-vaccine-researcher.html
2017(1st of Iyar, 5777: Eighty-nine-year-old
Holocaust survivor and “award winning author and illustrator Peter Spier”
passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2017: Dan Margulies is scheduled to lead an early Talmud
study session on Tractate Sukkah at the Streicker Center
2017: The National Museum of American Jewish Military
History and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington are scheduled
to host a tour of the exhibition “Jews in the American Military” followed by a
presentation by JHS curator Christiane Bauer, who will share treasures from our
collection related to the involvement of Jewish Washingtonians in "The
Great War."
2017: The UKJF is scheduled to host a screening of “Photo
Farag” which tells “the story of the photography studio in Israel” as the
Phoenix Cinema.
2017: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to
present “A Vanished People: Jewish Heritage in the Greater Middle East.”
2017: 195th Anniversary of the birth of U.S.
Grant, the underrated general who understood modern warfare which led to the
Union victory and who offered the position of Secretary of the Treasury to his
friend Jesse Seligman who declined the offer which would have made him the
first Jewish member of the Cabinet.
2018: Today, “flanked by the Nassau County Democratic
Chairman and the Governor of New York, Anna Kaplan, the native of Tabriz and
Cardozo School of Law trained attorney, who had fled her homeland after the
Islamic Revolution, “announced her candidacy for the New York State Senate's
7th District to a large gathering of supporters and state and local Democratic
elected officials at the "Yes We Can Community Center" in Westbury,
New York.”
2018: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Friday night services followed
by a Shabbat dinner.
2018: “The Love Letter
“directed by Atara Frish is scheduled to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2018: “The National
Park Service and the United States Military Academy at West Points” are
scheduled to “host the official government commemorating the 196th
anniversary of the birth of President U.S. Grant, the first sitting President
to contribute to a synagogue building fun and to attend synagogue services – in
this case Adas Israel in Washington, D.C.
2019: Israeli Culture
in North America, which presents and discusses “the works of young emergin and
established Israeli artists in the performing, visual, literary and cinematic
arts recommends attendance at the “Debut concert of so&so” that is scheduled
to take place this evening at the Brooklyn Armory Terminal.
2019: On the secular
calendar, six-month anniversary of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Slaughter, the
deadliest one day killing of Jews in the United States.
2019(22nd of
Nisan, 5779): As Jews attended services at Chabad of Poway Synagogue in Poway,
CA, a gunman shot four including the rabbi, murdering one woman.
2019: This evening
award winning biographer Ron Chernow is scheduled to be the featured speaker at
the 2019 White House Correspondents Dinner
2019(22nd of Nissan,
5779): Eighth Day of Pesach; 7thDay of the Omer;
2020: ASF IJE Travels
in Jewish History... from Home is scheduled to present Expedition to Iraq, a
journey in time and space, that features Babylonian Jewish shrines, schools,
cemeteries throughout the country with stops in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, al-Kifl,
and Amediye, powered by Diarna Geo-Museum Tours
2020: The Israeli American Council – Boston is scheduled to
host the Yom Hazilkaron Online Commemoration Ceremony.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Jewish
Resilience Through Chocolate” a virtual “sweet” presentation by Rabbi Debbie
Prinz.
2020: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem
State University is scheduled to host a livestream of a Holocaust remembrance
ceremony.
2020: As part of a special Israel Independence Day “Tikvah
Life” presentation, Dr. Ran Baratz is scheduled to speak live from Jerusalem on
“The Strengths of Israel: A Civilizational Assessment.”
2020: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host
its first Yiddish study group via Zoom.
2021: The Combined
Jewish Philanthropies are scheduled to present, online “Redemption and the
Unquiet Mind in the Exodus Narrative” during which “world-renowned author and
Torah scholar Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg discuss mental unease as a factor in
the Exodus epic” as part of the
Ruderman Synagogue Inclusion Project (RSIP)
2021: The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies is scheduled
to present online an “Artist Workshop with Dana Arieli: “The Zionist Phantom.”
2021: In New Orleans, LCMC
and the Schoenbaum Family Foundation are scheduled to sponsor "Hello Gorgeous," a
virtual tour of the life of Barbra Steisand, located at the Bernard Museum of
Judaica in New York which is open to Lions of Judah (women who give a minimum
household gift of $5,000 to the Federation's 2021 Annual Campaign) and the
members of their households.
2021: YIVO is scheduled
to present “The Jewish Experience in Opera” a panel discussion which “will
include four prominent composers of such operas of Jewish experience: Ofer
Ben-Amots, composer of one opera in Hebrew based on The Dybbuk and another in
Yiddish on Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, "A Fool's Paradise"; David
Schiff, whose opera, Gimpel the Fool is also to a Singer story; Bruce Adolphe,
whose operas include Mikhoyels The Wise—about the legendary Soviet Yiddish
actor—and Shabbtai Zvi, about the 17th-century so-called "false
messiah" naively followed by many thousands of Jews; and Alex Weiser, who
wrote an opera about Theodor Herzl, State of the Jews, with librettist Ben
Kaplan who will also join the panel.”
2021: As part of The
Sir Martin Gilbert Churchill Conversation Series Allen Packwood and Lord
(Michael) Dobbs are scheduled to “discuss Churchill’s legacy on stage and
screen.”
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host Malcolm Gladwell as “he discusses the launch of his
new book The Bomber Mafia.”
2021: The ADL is
scheduled to host the webinar “A Special Briefing on the State of Antisemitism
in the U.S.”
2021: Following a
weekend where “at least 36 rockets were launched on Israeli communities in the
south” and yesterday’s meeting of the Security Cabinet, as of today Israel is
prepared to launch a “substantial air force attack on the Gaza Strip if the launch
rocket fire into Israeli territory persists.” (As reported by Itamar Eichner
and Yoav Zitun).
2022: In London, The
Wiener Library is scheduled to host a “Virtual Panel Discussion on Holocaust
Distortion.”
2022: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an online lunch and learn on “Stories of
Survival: In Conversation With Jim Lommasson, Holocaust Survivor Ralph Rehbock,
and Deputy Consul General Daniel Aschheim”
2022: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host the first session of “Paul: Radical Convert of
Lifelong Jew?” with Dr. Mark. W. Weisstuch.
2022: The auction for
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s modern art collection is scheduled to take place
today.
2022: This evening, the
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host Steven Pressman
who will discuss his film “”50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs.
Kraus” as part of their Yom Ha’Shoah Holcaust Remembrance Day observance.
2022: LBI is scheduled
to present Lore Segal discussing her latest book , The Journal I Did not
Keep.
2022: This evening UK
Jewish Film is scheduled to present the first screening of “I Am Here.”
2022: Erev Yom Hashoah,
the American Society for Jewish Music, the Center for Jewish History, LBI and
YIVO are scheduled to present flutist Urlrike Anton, the Selini String Quarter
and students from the Mannes School of Music at the New School performing
“Forbidden Music: Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis.”
2022: Two months after
initial reports of the Polio outbreak in Israel, the Health Ministry is
prepared to begin a widespread vaccination drive for children.
2022: Ninety-six-year-old
Olga Czike Ka, a survivor of Auschwitz and the Kaufering and Bergen-Belsen is
one of six Holocaust survivors scheduled to
to light memorial torches at Israel’s official state Yom Hashoah
commemoration ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem this evening.
2023: The Weitzman
National Museum of American Jewish History and ADL Philadelphia are scheduled
to host “Faith in the Face of Hate” during which “prominent national faith
leaders, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Temple Emanuel and Reverend Mark Kelly
Tyler, Ph.D. of Mother Bethel AME Church, will discuss combating rising
antisemitism and hate crimes in a conversation moderated by Jane Eisner,
director of academic affairs at Columbia University.”
2023: In Cleveland, the
Maltz Performing Arts Center is scheduled to host “An Evening With Josh Ranor,”
the actor, writer, director and musician originally from Columbus, OH who “can currently be seen hunting Nazis in
the Jordan Peele-produced “Hunters” for Amazon Prime and “Fleishman Is In
Trouble.”
2023: The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic
Studies, and the Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU are scheduled to present
"You can't look at the same Cloud twice": An encounter with acclaimed
Israeli poet and writer Tal Nitzan.
2023: In New Orleans, Tulane Hillel is scheduled to host a
gallery viewing and opening reception to celebrate “Tulane Hillel's Portrait
Identity Project which uses portraiture
photography and interviews to share the unique stories of Tulane students and
diversify the narrative of what it looks like to be Jewish.”
2023: The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan is scheduled to
present the first session of “Who Are We? 120 Years of Art in Israel.”
2023: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community Center is
scheduled to host a screening of “Code Name: Ayalon” which “is a documentary to
forever preserve an important period in the infancy of the Jewish state.”
2023: The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a lecture by Rachel B. Gross
on “Family History Today: Give Us Our Name - Jewish Genealogy and American
Jewish Religion - Live on Zoom.”
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Peimer on “Jerusalem in
Poetry and Myth.”
2024: “Nebulous,” Orit
Hofshi’s debut solo exhibition is scheduled to come to a close at the Yossi
Milo Gallery
2024: Eden Tamir Center
is scheduled celebrate the 85th birthday of pianist Oxana
Yablonskaya with a “Cello and Piano Recital.”
2024: As April 27th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United
States, and the Hamas held hostages begin day 204 in
captivity. (Editor’s note:
this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2024(19th of Nisan, 5784): Shabbat Shel Pesach
2025: The Bremen Museum in Atlanta is scheduled to co-host, the 60th
Annual Community Wide Holocaust Commemoration is scheduled to take place at the
Memorial to the Six Million in Greenwood Cemetery.
2025: In New Jersey, the Jewish Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled
to host “The Art of Marc Chagall”
2025: This evening, The World Zionist Organization is scheduled to hold
its annual reading Megillat Ha'atzmaut at the Egalitarian Kotel which is
broadcast live in several different languages.
2025: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled a screening of
“Unspoken,” which is “a journey of identity and history.
2025: Qesher is scheduled to present “The Musical Traditions of Moroccan
Jews,” a talk which will explore the diverse musical traditions within Moroccan
Jewish practice
2025:
As April 27th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps
across the globe that includes the fire-bombing of the mansion housing the
family of Governor Josh Shapiro on Pesach and neo-Nazis marching through
Marion, IA, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 568
in captivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover
so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2026: The tour of
northern Italy, including Milan, Florence and Venice sponsored by Agnon House
is scheduled to begin today
2026: Jack Howard
Jacobs, a retired colonel in the United States Army and as of this date, the
only living Jewish-American recipient of the Medal of Honor is scheduled to speak at the “Grant
Day Dinner and Colloquy” marking the 204th anniversary of the birth Ulysses
S. Grant.
2026: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to present Bret Stephens and Jeremy Ben-Ami as they discuss
“The Great Divide: American Jews and Israel Today.”
2026: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of Inked: Our Stories
Remarked which is an exploration into a captivating yet complex, new
phenomenon—where third generation descendants of Holocaust survivors choose to
remember their ancestors through commemorative Holocaust tattoos “followed by a
lively discussion with filmmaker Dara Bratt, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth
Elohim in Brooklyn Rabbi Rachel Timoner, 3G Katherine Fishman, and founding
partner at Plan A Advisors Adam R. Gaynor, Ph.D.”
2026: In Somerville,
MA, Lehrhaus is scheduled to host “The Jewish Studio Process: The Heart of the
Torah.”
2026: The14th Street Y
in partnership with the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present
the “Kedmah Song Circle”
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