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44: Birthdate of Pope Evaristus, who was “born in Greece of a Jewish father
named Juda, who was originally from the city of Bethlehem and who reigned for
thirteen years, six months and two days, under the reigns of Domitian, Nerva
and Trajan.
69: After the First Battle of Bedriacum,
Vitellius became Roman Emperor. The year 69 was called “The Year of the Four
Emperors” because four different claimants held the position in this brief
period of time. According to Rome and Jerusalem, the sacking of
Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple were byproducts of this
violent year and grew out of a need by Vitellius’ successor, Vespasian, to
prove his power and legitimacy.
392: The Roman Emperors issued a new law
“stating that Jewish leaders who have been expelled by their community cannot
be forced back on the” Jewish community by Roman judges. While this may
seem like a gain for the Jews, the decree refers to them as “belonging to the
Jewish superstition” – language that does not bode well for the long-term
well-being of the Jews in the Roman Empire.
1222: Deacon Robert of Reading
(England) was burned for converting to Judaism, setting the precedent for
the burning of heretics.
http://www.executedtoday.com/tag/robert-of-reading/
1280: Today Richard Swinefeld who 1286
“threatened to excommunicate several of his flock who wished to attend the
wedding of the daughter of a leading Jew of Hereford” was named Archdeacon of
London
1397: Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury
Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have
also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury
starts. There should be no connection between the Jewish people and Chaucer
since the Jews had been expelled from England a century before he told his
“tales.” But Chaucer is proof that you do not need Jews to have
anti-Semitism. The “Prioress’s Tale,” one of the the twenty-three stories
contains the following plot line, “While wandering through the Jewish
section of town singing hymns of his faith an eight-year old Christian child is
murdered…The frantic mother uncovers the crime when she hears her newly buried
son singing Alma Redemptoris. Justice is sternly served when the
Jewish community is wiped out in retaliation.”
1506(Nisan, 5266): In Lisbon, several Conversos
were discovered who had in their possession "some lambs and poultry
prepared according to Jewish custom.” They also had “unleavened bread and
bitter herbs” needed “according to the regulations for the Passover, which
festival they celebrated far into the night." Several of them were seized,
but were released after a few days. Angered by the release, mobs would riot and
attack conversos living in the Portuguese capital.
1525(Nisan, 5285): Isaac ben Jacob Margolioth,
the son of Nuremberg Rabbi Jacob Margolioth, who served as a rabbi at Prague
and wrote a preface to one of his father’s works passed away today.
1528: First Jews settle legally in Fuerth,
Bavaria
1559: At Cremona, Italy, Sixtus Senesis,
an apostate Jew, who had become a Dominican, tried to convince the local
Spanish governor to burn the Talmud. The governor demanded witnesses before he
would give the order. Vitttorio Eliano the converted grandson of Elias Levita
and one Joshua dei Cantori bore witness that the Talmud was full of lies about
Christianity. A few days later approximately 10,000 books were burned. The
Zohar was not touched since the Pope and the Catholic Church was interested in
its publication believing that it would supplant the Talmud and make it easier
to convert the Jews. Ironically it was Eliano himself who wrote the preface to
the Cremora Zohar.
1579: The seaside town of Youghal in County
Cork, Ireland was damaged during the which was badly damaged today during the
Second Desmond Rebellion had had the unique distinction in 1555 of being the
first Irish town to have a Jewish mayor – William Moses Annyas Eanes, the
grandson of Gil Eanes of Belmonte, Portugal. Francis Eanes served as the
town’s mayor on three different occasions coinciding with the rebellion but the
relation between the two men has yet to be determined.
1581: King Phillip, who commanded the governor
of Milan to expel the Jews from Alessandra, began his reign as King of Portugal
and Algarves.
1670(27th of Nisan, 5430): Jakob
Koppel ha-Levy Fränkel the Höchstadt an der Aisch, Germany born son Jeremiah
Isaak ha-Levy and his wife Ritschl and the father of David Isaac Seckel, Israel
and Enoch who was a successful banker and “court Jew” passed away “shortly
before the expulsion of the Viennese Jews” and whose descendants included
several “rabbis and rabbinic scholars such as R. David ben Naphtali Fränkel and
R. Zecharias Frankel.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6284-frankel-frankel
1671: In Amsterdam, construction began on a
synagogue under the direction of the architect, Elias Bouman. The Sephardic
community had bought the land in December of 1670.
1682(9th of Nisan, 5441): Today a
riot broke out in Carpentras which “French liturgical poet” Saul ben Joseph of
Monteux memorialized in a piyyut.
1702(30th of Nisan, 5462): Saul
“David’ Pardo Brown, the Rotterdam born son of Sara and Josiah David Pardo and
the husband of Esther Pardo Brown who moved to New York City from Newport in
1685 where he had been a merchant and who was one of the earliest members of
Shearith Israel passed away today in Curacao.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/brown-saul-pardo
1711: The reign of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I
who had confirmed the title and privileges of Rabbi Samson Wertheimer who was
“an Austrian finance, court Jew and Shtadlan” came to an end today.
1731: Yeshivah Minhat Arab became the first
Jewish day school in North American when it was founded today in the colony of
New York. “The hazzan who taught the classes was instructed to teach the
students ‘the Hebrew Spanish and English writing and arithmetick.’Eventually
its name was changed to the Polonies Talmud Torah.”
1748(19th of Nisan, 5508): Raphael
Meldola passed away at Leghorn. Born at Leghorn in 1685, he was the son of
Eleazar Meldola and Reina Senior. He served as rabbi in Pisa, Bayonne and
St. Esprit.
1750: Frederick II issued a general
patent to the Jews limiting their role in the Prussian economy to activities
involving commerce and industry. Jews were no longer viewed as dependents of
the monarch but as citizens of the state even though they were not first-class
citizens. On the one hand, Jews were encouraged to be part of the state and its
economy. On the other hand, they were still second-class citizens and divided
into two classes - privileged and protected. Considered by some to be an
"enlightened monarch," King Frederick wrote his “Political Testament”
that was published in 1752 in which he described Jews as dangerous,
superstitious and backward.
1760: According to his will dated today,
English businessman Sampson Gideon, the son of West India merchant Rowland
Gideon “left legacies to many charities, both Jewish and Christian, including
the Portuguese synagogue and the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, to
which he had been an annual subscriber during his lifetime.”
1761: In New York, Hayman M. Levy, the Hanover,
Germany born son of Reyna and Moses Levy and his wife Sloe Levy gave birth to
Rachel Deborah Levy
1764(15th of Nisan, 5524): Pesach
1765: Jews of Arnhem were given permission to
build a synagogue.
1770: Charleston (SC) merchant, Moses Lindo
responded to an appeal from Hezekiah Smith and contributed five pounds to Rhode
Island College which is now known as Brown University. (As reported by Abraham
Bloch) “Moses Lindo was the inspector-general and surveyor of indigo, drugs,
and dyes for South Carolina.”
1772(14th of Nisan, 5532): Fast of
the First Born; Erev Pesach observed as conditions deteriorate between the
thirteen colonies and mother country as can be seen by formation of the
Committees of Correspondence.
1773(24th of Nisan, 5533): Parashat
Shimini read as the Parliament debated the Tea Act which would be passed ten
days later.
1775(17th of Nisan, 5535): Third Day
of Pesach
1775: As “Paul Revere clattered through ‘every
Middlesex village and farm’ there were approximately 3,000 Jews living in the
thirteen colonies to respond to his call to arms.
1777: Birthdate of Bavaria native Abraham
Bendel, the husband of Pessle Bandel and the father of Elias, Sophia, Henry,
Hendil and Bertha Bendel.
1778(20th of Nisan, 5538) Sixth Day
of Pesach
1779(1st of Iyar, 5539): Parashat
Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1779(1st of Iyar, 5539):
Sixteen-year-old Joseph Benzaken, the New York City born son Eleazer Benzaken
passed away today in his hometown.
1782(3rd of Iyar, 5542): Chaim Samuel Jacob
Falk, known as the “Baal Shem of London” passed away. Reportedly born in 1708,
possibly in Furth, Germany, Falk escaped to England in 1742 after authorities
in Westphalia had sentenced the Kabbalist and Mystic to death on charges of
sorcery. “Falk left a diary, now in the library of the bet
ha-midrash of the United Synagogue, which is a quaint medley of dreams, records
of charitable gifts, booklists, cabalistic names of angels, lists of pledges,
and cooking-recipes.”
1783(15th of Nisan 5543): First Day
of Pesach
1783: “Jews were expressly excepted from the
benefit” of The Irish Appeals Act or the Renunciation Act which was passed by
Parliament today.
1783: Jewish pugilist Daniel Mendoza “won a
ten-round fight in 26 minutes” with “Sam Martin the Bath Butcher in Barnet”
after which “he was transported home followed by a cheering crowd who carried
lighted torches and sang 'See the Conquering Hero Comes'” and “the Prince of
Wales, who would become King George IV, presented Mendoza with 500 pounds, in
addition to the 500 pounds he had won in the match, and shook his hand in full
view of the gallery.”
1789(21st of Nisan, 5549): Seventh
Day of Pesach 13 days before the inauguration of George Washington.
1790: American Patriot, Scientist, Printer and
liver of the good life Benjamin Franklin passed away at the age of 84. As
with so many of those of his time, Franklin espoused moral values but
mistrusted organize religion. He used the Exodus from Egypt as a metaphor
for the colonists clash with King George, a modern day Pharaoh. He wanted
to have a depiction of the Israelites crossing the Sea of Reeds as part of the
Great Seal of the United States. At a more practical level, his name was
at the top of the list of prominent Philadelphians who contributed funds to
Congregation Mikveh Israel at the time of its financial need.
1790(3rd of Iyar, 5550): A major
pogrom took place in the Jewish community of Tetouan, Morocco. On this day the
Muslim ruler Mawlay Yazid entered the city, rounded up all of the Jews, men
women and children, and violently stripped them of their clothing. They were
left with no dignity, naked for three days in prison. Some of the Jews fearing
for their lives escaped to the graves Moorish saints where they would pray for
their lives. The Muslim leader had some Jews beheaded to make a statement.
1793: In Richmond, VA, Judith I. Solomon and
Israel I. Cohen gave birth to Philip I. Cohen, a veteran of the War of 1812 and
the postmaster at Norfolk, VA who was the husband of Augusta Myers.
1794: In Arnheim, Holland, Fronika Alexander
Van Zanten and Philip Levie Haas gave birth to Benjamin Philip Haas, the
husband of Christina Hartog with whom he had seven children including one who
settled in Connecticut and another who settled in Montana.
1797: “The status of the Jews of Posen was now
determined by the "General-Juden-Reglement" of this date which aimed
to make them, as mechanics and tradesmen, useful members of the state.
1797: In Eastern Poland, after falling to
Prussia in the third partition of Poland in 1793, the government enacted
"The Regulation" which removed a number of regulations regarding
occupations and domicile restrictions for Jews. This still left many of the old
regulations in place, including that of not being able to marry under the age
of 25 and then only upon proof of a fixed income.
1798: Jews were given permission to “settle
within the old city walls of Cologne.”
1798: David Leion, the future present of
Congregation Mikveh Israel in Savannah, GA married Hannah Minis toda.
1799: Birthdate of Cleveland, OH naïve Karl
Strauss, the wife of Hendel Strauss and father of Ferdinand Strauss.
1800(22nd of Nisan, 5560): Eighth
Day of Pesach; Yizkor recited for the last time as part of Pesach during the
administration of President John Adams.
1801(4th of Iyar, 5561):
Fifty-one-year-old Ruben Moses Rubino the husband of Minkel Rubino passed away
today.
1802(15th of Nisan, 5562): First Day
of Pesach and Shabbat
1802: In London, Matilda De Metz and Levy
Salomons gave birth to Joseph Solomons, the husband of Rebecca Montefiore, a
daughter of Joseph Montefiore, the father of Sophia, Henrietta and Matilda
Salomons and the father-in-law of Aaron Goldsmid, Lionel Benjamin Cohen and
Professor Jacob Waley Salomons. (As reported by Sir David Salomons)
1803: In Charleston, SC, Sarah Levy and
Zachariah Florance, the Netherlands native gave birth to Jacob Levy Florance,
the husband of Hannah Levy with whom he had six children all of whom were born
in New Orleans.
1805(18th of Nisan, 5565): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1805: As Jews munch on their matzoth, Lewis and
Clark their trek up the Upper Missouri from Fort Madan.
1809(1st of Iyar, 5569): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar observed on the same that, during the Napoleonic Wars, Austrian
troops massed on the Bavarian border, preceding their invasion of Bavaria the
next day, which initiated the War of the Fifth Coalition against France.
1811: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Rachel
David Blok, wife of Meyer Hartog Silver and the mother of London born Clara
Silver.
1813(17th of Nisan, 5573): Shabbat
shel Pesach observed on the same day as he issuance of the Constitution of the
“First Independent State of Texas; Part of the Mexican Republic.”
1817(1st of Iyar, 5577): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
observed on the same day that poet John Keats wrote John Hamilton Reynolds in
which he said, “‘I find that I cannot exist without poetry – without eternal
poetry – half the day will not do – the whole of it – I began with a little,
but habit has made me a Leviathan – I had become all in a Tremble from not
having written anything of late –,”
1818: In Mainz, Germany, Michael Creizenach and
his wife gave birth to poet and historian Theodor Creizenach.
1818: At the Consecration of Sherith Israel in
New York, Mordecai Manuel Noah seemed to be speaking language that Zionist
would understand when he “delivered an address in which he said that “when the
signal for breaking the Turkish scepter in Europe is given, the Jews who hold
the purse strings and can wield the sword and can bring one hundred thousand
men into the field will possess themselves once more of Syria and take rank
among the nations of the earth.
1818: Birthdate of Rouen, France native Henry
Salomon, the “bootmaker and merchant” and husband of Edinburgh native Clara
Jacob with whom he had eight children, all of whom were born in Edinburgh,
Scotland.
1819(22nd of Nisan, 5579): Eighth
Day of Pesach; Shabbat shel Pesach
1827(20th of Nisan, 5587): Sixth of
Pesach
1829: The consecration of the Maiden Lane
Synagogue that had originally been established in 1810 in Soho “as a result of
a rupture with the Westminster Congregation (the future Western Synagogue) took
place today in London.
1830(24th of Nisan, 5590): Parashat
Shmini
1832(17th of Nisan, 5592): Third Day
of Pesach
1833: Thomas Babington Macaulay delivered his
speech “on the disabilities of the Jews” in the House of Commons.
http://mises.org/library/civil-disabilities-jews-britain
1835(18th of Nisan, 5595): Fourth
Day of Pesach observed on the birthdates of American poet Augusta Coope Bristol
and Major General Zenas R. Bliss who was awarded the Medal Honor during the
Civil War.
1837: In Savannah, GA, William and Eliza Ann
Nelson Heidt gave birth Georgia Medical College trained physician and
pharmacist Dr. William Theodore Heidt, the husband of Caroline E. Sheftall
Heidt whom he married in 1856 and with whom he had two children, a daughter who
died in infancy and a son, William Horace Heidt.
1837: Albert Moses Levy's ship, the
Independence, was captured by two Mexican brigs-of-war. After three months he
escaped and walked back to Texas, where he set up medical practice in
Matagorda. The next year he received an appointment to a medical board
established by both houses of the Congress of the republic.
1838(22nd of Nisan, 5598): Eighth
Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1839: In Poland, Jeffe and Zadek Salomon gave
birth to future Denver resident Adolph Zadek Salomon, the husband of Mathilde
Salomon and father of Frederick Z Salomon; Amy Gertrude Lifton and Joel Salomon.
1840(14th of Nisan, 5600): Erev
Pesach
1840: In Frankfurt, Clementine Oppenheim and
her husband Adolphe de Reinach the Belgian consul in Frankfurt gave birth to
French banker Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach
1840: Birthdate of Hippolyte Bernheim the
French born physician whose work with hypnotherapy attracted the attention of
Sigmund Freud.
1843(17th of Nisan, 5603): Third Day
of Pesach observed as President John Tyler continues his efforts to have Texas
join the Union.
1844: Hannah Van Gelder and Philip Marcus Leuw,
both of whom were natives of Holland, gave birth to their daughter Mattje
Philip Leuw.
1844: A cabinet order issued today allowed Meno
Burg “to replace his black epaulettes with the red shoulder pieces” that were
indicative of his role in the Prussian Artillery and which he had been denied
to the right to wear because he was Jewish
1846(21st of Nisan, 5606): Seventh
Day of Pesach observed as American and Mexican forces prepare to fight what
became known as the Mexican-American War.
1846:In Germany, Leopold Solomon Bernheimer,
the son of Salomon Bernheimer and Ella Bernheimer and his wife Fanny Weil—Bernheim
gave birth to Henry Bernheim
1848(14th of Nisan, 5608): Fast of
the First Born; erev Pesach
1848: The gates of the Rome Ghetto were
pulled down during the Revolutions of 1848 that swept much of Europe in general
and Italy in particular. Ciceruacchio, a popular Italian Catholic leader, led a
group who tore down the gates Passover eve. The Jews in the ghetto at first
thought they were being attacked and hid in their houses.
1848: In London, Rebecca Crawcour and Aron Hart
gave birth Eve Hart.
1849: Birthdate of Manhattan native Rosalie
Jacobs Lewisohn, the wife of Leonard Lewisohn and the mother of Jesse, Julia,
Samuel, Lillie, Florence, Walter, Frederick, Alice, Aaro and Irene Lewisohn.
1849: Edward Adolphus St. Maur, 12th Duke of
Somerset, who in 1861 was among those who assaulted “Dollar Scott” and beat him
“within an inch of his life” without knowing that “Dollar Scott” was not “a
gentleman of fortune belonging to one of the most distinguished families in
England” but was “in fact a Jew, money lender and a betting man” began serving
as the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests today
1851(15th of Nisan, 5611): First day
of Pesach observed for the first time during the Presidency of Millard
Fillmore.
1852: In Montgomery, AL, founding of “Kahl
Montgomery” led by Rabbi A. J. Messing, President David Weil and Vice President
Nathan Greil.
1853: Birthdate of German mathematician Arthur
Moritz Schoenflies, the great-uncle of Walter Benjamin.
1854: A French-language version of “Margherita
d'Anjou an operatic melodramma semiseria in two acts by Giacomo
Meyerbeer was performed in New Orleans today.
1854: One day after she had passed away,
70-year-old Hannah Crawcoure, the wife of Moses Crawcoure, was buried today at
the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1855: One day after he had passed away, 63 year
old Jacob Moses was buried today at the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.”
1856(12th of Nisan, 5616): Fast of the First
Born observed for the last time during the Presidency of Franklin Pierce.
1858(3rd of Iyar, 5618): Parashat
Tazria-Metora
1858: In London, Louis Lionel Cohen, MP and his
wife gave birth to Sir Leonard Lionel Cohen, the son-in-law of Sigismund Slosh
and “a partner in the family fir of Louis Cohen and Sons, foreign banks founded
by his grandfather and, the President of the Board of Guardians.
1859: In New York City, Joseph and Theresa Bien
gave birth to University of California trained engineer and George Washington
University trained attorney Morrie Bien, the husband of Lilla Virginia Hart who
among other things, worked for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1879 to 1893 and
for the U.S. General Land Office from 1893 to 1902.
1860(25th of Nisan, 5620):
Watchmaker and owner of “a library rare Hebrew books” Moses Samuel, the London
born “son of Emanuel (Menachem) Menachem Samuel and Hannah (Hinde) Isaac Samuel,
the husband of Harriet Samuel and father of Hannah Woodburn; Henry Israel
Samuel; Marian Schoeppler; Walter Samuel and Alfred Samuel who been born in
1795 passed away today in Liverpool
1861(17th of Iyar, 5621):
Two-year-old Zachary Kowalski, the New Orleans bon son of Bernard and Sophia
Bernstein Kowalski passed away today after which he was buried in the Gates of
Prayer Cemetery.
1861: Virginia, whose Jewish population goes
back to at lest 1624, seceded from the Union choosing to destroy the last best
hope of man so that slavery would be a permanent fact of life.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14708-virginia
1861: One day after she had passed away, Lucy
Esther Goetz, the daughter of Edward Ludwig Goetz and Angelina Levy was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1862(17th of Nisan, 5622): Third Day
of Pesach observed on the day after “Abraham Lincoln signed a bill abolishing slavery that compensated loyal
Union slave owners in the District of Columbia up to $300 for each slave
freed.”
1863: Today, on
the 13th day of the Omer sawthe start of Colonel Ben Grierson’s
Union legendary raid into the Confederacy. With 1700 cavalrymen, Grierson
roamed 600 miles during his raid deep into the South. The raid lasted 16 days
and within the Union army Grierson became a legend.
1865(21st of Nisan, 5625): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1865: In North Carolina, Union General William
Tecumseh Sherman met with Confederate General Johnston to discuss the surrender
of the Rebels on the same day he learned about the assassination of President
Lincoln.
1866: Bryants Minstrels acting as Ethiopian Fun
Makers will perform “The Challenge Dance of Shylock” or “The Jew of Chatham
Street” tonight in New York City. [Most Jews are aware of Shylock as a
figure of anti-Semitism. In 19th century American references
to Chatham Street were equally anti-Semitic. Chatham Street was the locale
of the 2nd hand clothing business in New York. Supposedly the
trade was dominated by Jews were who always exploiting the Christians who
frequented their shops]
1866: In Cincinnati, OH, Caroline Stix Swarts
and Joseph Louis Swarts gave birth to St. Louis attorney Solomon Louis Swarts,
the husband of Florene Eiseman Swarts and the father of John and Frederick
Swarts.
1868(25th of Nisan, 5628): Abigail
Gomes de Costa, the wife of Joseph Abendana the mother of grocer Hananel
Abendana, who was a steward of the Spanish Portuguese Hospital passed away
today.
1869: The Mercantile Club, a Jewish social club
established in Philadelphia in 1853, was incorporated today. Louis Bomeisler
and Clarence Wolf have served as Presidents of the club. Other Jewish clubs
included The Garrick, the Progress, and the Franklin.
1870(16th of Nisan, 5630): Second day of
Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1872: In Tarnow, Galicia Miriam and Jacob
Dintenfass gave birth to Mark Dintenfass, the husband of Esther W. Wallace
Dintenffass and a “co-founder of Universal Studios (Universal Pictures) who “was
a producer, known for Between Two Husbands (1922), My Four Years in Germany
(1918) and Love That Never Fails (1912).”
http://www.historyoffilm.net/picture/studios-locations-mark-dintenfass/
1873(20th of Nisan, 5633): Sixth Day
of Pesach18
1873: In Mariampol, Leah and Pesach David
Greenstone gave birth to CCNY grad and JTS trained rabbi Julius Hillel
Greenstone, the holder of Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania who began
teaching at Gratz College in 1905 and author several works including The
Religion of Israel and The Messiah Idea in Jewish History.
1873: Birthdate of Kovno native Mike Miller who
in December of 1885 came to the United States where they went into the scrap
metal business in Lancaster and Reading, PA and after the death of his father,
Miller moved on to Sundbury, PA where he owned “a large iron and medal business
where he rasied a family of ten children with his wife, the former Rebecca Fink
while belonging B’rith Shalom and “Havra Samra Habrith Congregation of Reading,
PA” and serving as Preside of the Talmud Torah and “Moses Israel of Northumberland
of Sundbury, PA.”
1874(30th of Nisan, 5634): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar
1874:In Lithuania, Simon (Simcha) Margolyes and
Golda 'Goldie' Margolyes gave birth to Philip Margolyes, the husband of Rebecca
Margolyes and father of Joseph Margolyes the physician who married Ruth
Margolyes in 1930 and whose daughter Miriam spoke about his battle with
dementia ” in support of
Alzheimer's Society, the UK’s leading dementia charity.”
1875(12th of Nisan, 5635): Shabbat
HaGadol
1875: “Die Maccabäer” (The Maccabees) an opera
in three acts by Anton Rubinstein and Salomon Hermann Mosenthal which is itself
based on the biblical story of the Maccabees was first performed today at the
Hofoper, Berlin.
1876: Today Lionel Louis Cohen and Michael
Henry interested themselves in the United Synagogue movement which was instrumental in the creation of the
East London Synagouge which was consecrated by Rabbi Abler in 1877
1876: Birthdate of Vincennes, Indiana native
and Vincennes University graduate Jacob Gimbel who in 1910 “financed an
expedition which explored rivers of British Guiana and studied the life habits
of the symnotide, cell-like fish”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/01/30/87410740.pdf
1878(14th of Nisan, 5638): Ta’anit
Bechorot; erev Pesach
1878: In Hamburg, Germany Hermann and Henrietta
(Wollenberg) Fuchs gave birth to birth NYU trained attorney and owner of the
Boston Braves Judge Emil Fuchs who was the husband of Aurelia Marcovich and who
was the last man to give Babe Ruth to play Major League baseball.
1878(14th of Nisan, 5638): “The Deliverance of
Israel” published today noted that some Jews are no longer substituting bread
for Matzoth during Passover especially thosr who are members of the
congregations led by Rabbi David Einhorn and Rabbi Gustave Gottheil two Reform
rabbis who led Congregation Adath Israel and Temple Emanu-El respectively.
1880: Birthdate of Sir Charles Leonard Woolley,
the British archeologist whose work at Ur (the Biblical city) led him to
“finding ties between ancient Aegean and Mesopotamian civilizations” which led
to greater understanding to some of the references in the Bible and who also
found substantiation for Noah’s flood.
1881(18th of Nisan, 5641): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1881: Nathan Blesenthal, a prominent Buffalo,
NY, Jew became a Presbyterian today. His conversion was a condition set by
Gertrude Deming if the couple was going to be wed. Blesenthal’s mother
had opposed the conversion and young Nathan only left the “faith of his
fathers” after his mother passed away.
1881: The property occupied by the Brooklyn
Hebrew Orphan Asylum was purchased today for $12,500.
1881: It was reported today that the Jews are
talking about erecting a national synagogue in Washington, DC.”
http://www.schnabelmusicfoundation.com/Artur%20Schnabel.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiPHjSRUOg
1882(28th of Nisan, 5642): Joel
Samuel Polack passed away. Born in 1807, he was the first Jewish settler
in New Zealand, arriving there in 1831.
1883: The Royal Word, the first opera of
Isidore da Lara (born Isidore Cohen) premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, London to
with de Lara portraying the role of Charles II of England
1883: In Minsk, “Polish singing professor”
Eduard Darewski and his wife gave birth to “British composer and conductor” the
brother of fellow musician Max Darewski and the husband of “musical comedy
actress Madge Temple.”
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/106880/Darewski_Herman
1883: In London, Hannah Cohen and James John
Woolley gave birth to Moss DaCosta Woolley, the husband of Hannah Levy whom he
married at the New Synagogue in London in 1910.
1884(22nd of Nisan, 5644): 8th day
of Pesach
1884: In Cuero, Texas, Rudolph Frank and Rachel
Rae Jacobs gave birth to Leo Frank who moved to New York when he was three
months which would lead some to characterize him as “a New York Jew” when he
was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan – a crime of which he was innocent
but thanks to a wave of anti-Semitism led to his lynching in 1915 – an event
that seems to be part of an unusual “amnesia” for much of the American Jewish
community.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/leo-frank
http://the-temple.org/AboutUs/History/TheLynchingofLeoFrank.aspx
1884:
Theodore Hoffman who will be hanged tomorrow after having been found guilty of
murdering a Jewish peddler named Zife Marks, ate a breakfast of fried oysters
this morning in his cell at White Plains, NY
1887: President Levy presided over tonight’s
meeting of the Jewish Immigrants’ Protective Society which was held at the
synagogue on Rivington Street in New York. In its first year of operation
the society has given $1,600 to “newly arrived immigrants.
1888(6th of Iyar, 5648): Businessman
and philanthropist Abraham Warshawski passed away in St. Petersburg.
1889(16th of Nisan, 5649): Second day of Pesach
observed for the first time during the Presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
1890: Birthdate of Russian born, Columbia
trained attorney Samuel J. Levinson, “a partner in the law firm of Weinstein
and Levison” who was the husband of the “former Silvia Opalinsky” and the
father of Mrs. Lila Perlstein.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/06/01/86600975.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1891: Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman, a Union veteran of
the Civil War resigned as 1st Lieutenant Veteran Corps of the First
Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard
1891: Birthdate of University of Maryland
Medical School graduate and WW I Army Medical Corps veteran Dr. Herbert L
Langer, “the president of the medical board of Peninsula General Hospital” and
the husband of “the former Helen Stein” with whom he had “two sons, Howard and
Irwin”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/26/96969974.pdf
1891: Birthdate of Rudolf Propper, a resident
of Pilsen who was murdered at Izbica.
1892(20th of Nisan, 5652): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1892: “Jews Who Speak Spanish” published today
provided a review of Biblioteca Espanola-Portugueza Judaica:
Jewish Authors-Titles of their Works in Spanish and Portuguese with a notice on
Spanish Jews and a Collection of Spanish Proverbs by Meir Kayserling.
1892: In Brooklyn, NY, Temple Israel dedicated
its new building at the corner of Bedford and Lafayette Avenues.
1892: In Minneapolis, David and Claudia Allman
Abraham gave birth to Allan Douglas Abrahm the husband of Leah Reva Trabich
Abraham and the father of Claudia Arline Abraham Cohen who passed away at the
age of 58 in Philadelphia.
1892: Based on reports published today the
personal efforts of Emperor William bring peace between the Government and the
Conservatives have been hampered by Pastor Stoecker and his anti-Jewish
policies which are growing ever more popular.
1892: “Clerical Control of Education Their
Ultimatum” published today included a description of a libel trial in Berlin
during which the President of the Berlin Municipal School Bard testified “that
out of the twenty-four members composing the board thirteen, or a majority,
were Jews and the rest agnostics and that all of them cooperated against
religious teaching in the schools.”
1892: “Given A Breathing Spell” published today
attributes the sluggishness in the New York real estate market to the
celebration of Easter and Passover. As the author says, “It is a good
thing for the real estate market that such holidays as the Passover and Easter
do not come too often.”
1893(1st of Iyar, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1893: The will of Mrs. Babet Karl, the widow of
Abraham Karl was executed today and Benjamin Blumenthal, Simon Goldsmith and
Theodore Hirsch were named as executors.
1893: It was reported today that the leading
Jews of Bulgaria have ordered from Budapest “an album inlaid with diamonds,
rubies and emeralds to be given to Prince Ferdinand and his bridge on their
wedding day.”
1893: As the New York Jewish community
responded to aggressive attempts by Protestants to convert Jews, Rabbi Joseph
Silverman of Temple Emanu-El embellished on his sermon give yesterday by saying
“I am not ready to be drawn into a public discussion on this subject but the
charges which I make against the Christians I can prove, and if the Protestant
organizations which are devoting themselves to this work of so-called
convention will come forward and deny my general charges I will produce the
facts on which my allegations rest specifically and in detail.”
1894: In Russia, “Nicholas and Fannie (Silver)
Ehrlich” gave birth to Columbia educated physician David Ernest Ehrlich, the
roentgenologist who raised his daughter Frances with his wife “Emma Grace
Smith.”
1894(11th of Nisan, 5654):
Seventy-five-year-old Fanny Neuda passed away.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Neuda_Fanny_Schmiedl
1895: As beef prices continue to rise, Jewish
butchers on the lower East Side express their gloom about any chance of
improvement.
1895: Birthdate of Warsaw native “Samuel
David Landau,” the painter known as Lev-Landau who raised his son Jacob with
his wife Lola
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/09/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html
1895(23rd of Nisan, 5655):
Fifty-two-year-old Moritz Dessauer, the son of Gabriel L. Dessauer, who was the
district rabbi at Meiningen and author of several works including one on
Spinoza and Hobbes passed away today.
1895(23rd of Nisan, 5655):
Seventy-seven-year-old Hermann “Hirschel” Bodenheimer, the son of Emanuel and
Johanna Bodenheimer passed away today after which he was buried in the Durbach
Jewish Cemetery.
1895(23rd of Nisan, 5655):
Fifty-eight-year-old Jorge Isaacs Ferrer, the son of “George Henry Isaacs, an
English Jew originally from Jamaica” and whom Isaac Goldberg described as “a
half-Jew” “who is “Spanish America’s most famous novelist” passed away today.
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/jorge-isaacs
1895: Three days after she had perished in a
yachting accident, 15 year old Lily Gertrude Barton, was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”
1895: Thanks to the efforts of New York state
senator Joseph C. Wolff, the Hebrew Infant Asylum received its charter today.
1895: In South Carolina, Mary Beatrice Levy
married Miguel Bofill
1896: The will of the late Leonard Friedman was
filed for probate today in the Surrogate’s office.
1897(15th of Nisan, 5657): Pesach
1897: A list of the bequest’s made by the late
Frances Danzig, the widow of Frances Danzig, whose estate was valued at $40,000
included “$500 to each of the following instiutions: The Montefiore Home for
Chronic Invalids, the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, the Mounts Sinai
Hospital and the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews” as well as “the income of
the sum of $1,000 to be applied by Temple Emanu-El to the care of the Danzig
family plot in the Salem Fields Cemetery.”
1897: Art and Artists published today described
recently published books including A Handful of Exotics: Scenes and
Incidents Chiefly of Russo-Jewish Life by Samuel Gordon
1898: “Comic Opera for Charity” published today
described the performance given by the Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Infant
Asylum of “The Little Tycoon” in which Silas Musliner directed the members
including Henry D. Kleinman Emanuel Cohen, Celia Baumann, Clara Weinstein and
J.S. Kornicker, in an event designed to raise fund for the orphans.
1900(8th of Nisan, 5660): Fourth Day
of Pesach
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/09/26/78395024.html?pageNumber=47
1900: Herzl began a two-week journey that would
take him from Karlsruhe to Paris and finally to London. Like so many of his
trips, Herzl was again seeking support from the rich and famous for the
creation of a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel.
1901: “Jewish Visitors to Palestine” published
today described the response of Secretary of State Hay to an inquiry by Senator
Mitchell of Oregon concerning a request by one of his constituents, Solomon
Hirsch of Portland, that the United States lodge a protest with the Ottoman
government over its new regulation that foreign born Jews not be allowed to
stay in Palestine for any more than three months.
1902: Three days after he had passed away,
Lionel Jacob Samuel “the elder son of” Frederick Samuel and Sarah Mocatta” was
buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1902: “Exhibition by East Side Artists”
published today, described the plans of the Education Alliance to hold the
second annual exhibition of the work of east side artists this weekend.
1902: The Dr. Joseph H. Hertz, who was a member
of Lord Milner's High or Advisory Committee in South Africa, and Chaplain of
the Rand Rifles, was among the passengers who arrived on the White Star liner
Teutonic today. Yes, the Rabbi Hertz who gave us the “Hertz Chumash” and
the “Hertz Siddur” served as the chaplain for a military unit that helped
protect Johannesburg during the Boer War.
1903(20th of Nisan, 5663): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1903: Birthdate of Russian born, cellist Gregor
Piatigorsky. This musical prodigy escaped Lenin’s Russia, made his way to
the United States where he made a name for himself as a performer and
academic. He passed away in 1976.
1903(20th of Nisan, 5663):
Seventy-year-old Abraham Printz, the native of Kashau and husband of Rosa
Printz with whom he had seven children including Bert H. Prtinz the founder and
own of Printz Company Men’s Clothing and Furnishings passed today in
Youngstown, Ohio.
1904: Birthdate of New York native and
playwright Edward Chodorov.
1905: The First American Rumanian Congregation
was scheduled to continue distributing matzoth to poor Jews living on the Lower
East Side today.
1905: Birthdate of Italian Zionist Enzo Sereni,
the founder of a kibbutz and volunteer member of British parachute unit that
jumped behind German lines along with others including Hannah Senesh who was
murdered at Dachau.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_enzo_sereni.htm
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/enzo-sereni
1906(22nd of Nisan, 5666): Eighth
Day of Pesach and Yizkor are completed just in the nick of time for the
residents of San Francisco since the great earthquake took place on the
following day.
1907: “A menacing French naval demonstration”
which was thought by some to increase France’s influence in Morocco, took place
off of Mogador, “a fortified city and seaport on the Atlantic whose population
of Jews went from approximately 4,000 in the 1840’s to 12,000 by 1912.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mogador
1908(16th of Nisan, 5668): Second
Day of Pesach and the first day of the Omer is counted for the last time during
the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
1909: Birthdate of Alain Poher, the French
President and member of the French Resistance during WW II whom an Iraqi
commando unit tried to kidnap in 1973 allegedly because of his “close ties to
Israel.
1909(26th of Nisan, 5669):
Sixty-year-old Andrew Rosewater, the native of Bohemia who came to the United
States in 1854 and pursued a career where he pursued a career as a civil
engineer passed away after which he was buried in Omaha, Nebraska.
http://www.jmaw.org/rosewater-jewish-omaha-bee/
1910: In Warsaw, Zelig and Henia (nee
Lieberman) Vilenski gave birth to Israeli composer Moshe Vilenski who “was
voted the 187th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news
website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest
Israelis.” He collaborated with lyricist Nathan Alterman and singer Shoshana
Damari to create the Israeli classic “Kalaniyot.”
1910: By four o’clock this afternoon, at least
3,000 persons had been given supplies for Passover by the United Hebrew
Community at their offices on East Broadway. Distribution of the supplies is
scheduled to continue throughout the week or until they run out, whichever
comes first.
1910: Louis Diamond, Secretary of the United
Hebrew Community called for additional contributions to help defray the costs
of the increased demand for Passover supplies to help out the city’s needy
Jews.
1911: According to statements made tonight, a
Kheillah is meeting to consider what steps to take in the case of Esther
Yachnin, the sixteen-year-old girl who converted to Christianity last year at
the age of 15. Esther had come to United States at the age of 13 and had
enrolled in an English language class offered by the Young Women’s Christian
Association which eventually led to her conversion. The parents had no
prior knowledge of the plans for the conversion. Given the Esther’s youth
and the estrangement from her family and community, Jews living on the Lower
East Side question the validity of the conversion. They may also be
concerned that their unsuspecting children will become candidates for similar
such conversions. The Kheillah is considering legal action if such recourse to
law can be effective.
1911: Birthdate of George Stenius who grew up
to be director George Seaton. According to Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho
and His Friends by Charlotte Chandler, Seaton “grew upon in a Jewish
neighborhood in Detroit where he was the “Shabbas goy for his friends” learned
enough Hebrew to be “bar mitzvahed” receiving the fabled fountain pen as a
gift.
1912: Birthdate of British lawyer and patron of
the arts Isador Caplan.
1912: “Mountain Ridge Country Club, located in
West Caldwell, New Jersey, was officially formed today, when 25 charter members
filed a Document of Incorporation with the State of New Jersey. Among its
founders were Louis Bamberger, whose Newark department store, Bamberger’s, was
among the largest in the Unites States, and Felix Fuld, Bamberger’s
brother-in-law who was the first Parks Commissioner of New Jersey. The
prominent membership has also included Joseph Weintraub, former Chief Justice
of the New Jersey Supreme Court, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, and A.J. Dimond.
1913: Seventy-eight-year-old German-born
British shipbuilder and politician Gustav Wilhelm Wolff passed away. He was
raised as a Lutheran because his father had converted before his birth.
This was one of many examples of Jews who were “lost” in the wake of those who
thought a trip to the baptismal font was the price of economic success and/or
social acceptance. The racial policies of the Nazis would prove them
wrong.
1914(21st of Nisan, 5674): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1914: Original date set for the execution of
Leo Frank.
1915(3rd of Iyar, 5675): Parashat
Tazria-Metzora
1915: The Zion Mule Corps left for Gallipoli.
Commanded by Colonel Henry Patterson and organized by Trumpeldor and
Jabotinsky, they were a Jewish auxiliary unit of the British Army. The British
were not interested in giving them the ability to fight, so they were assigned
to provide provisions to the front lines. Gallipoli was part of the
Ottoman Empire. With the stalemate on the Western Front, Churchill
convinced other Allied leaders to attack at Gallipoli in an attempt to outflank
the Central Powers. Churchill thought the Allies would easily defeat the
Turks, open up the water route to Russia and end the
war. Unfortunately, the plan and the Allied Forces,
including the Zion Mule Corps were forced to withdraw. The Jewish troops
performed with distinction and later became the nucleus for the Jewish Legion
that was formed in 1917. This was part of the on-going process of the
creation of what would eventually become the IDF. While the original
Zionist dream had been a peaceful, almost pacifist comments, the realities of
the neighborhood forced the Jews to become adept warriors.
1915: “The following additional appropriations
for the relief of the war sufferers” were reported today” to have been made by
the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee: “$15,000 to
Russian Poland; $15000 to German Poland; $50,000 to those parts of Galicia now
occupied by Russia; $3,000 to Monastir, Serbia and $2,500 to Aleppo, Syria.”
1916(14th of Nisan, 5676):Ta'anit
Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1916: Harold Rich “was the master of
ceremonies” at a Seder held tonight in Sing Sing Prison conducted by the Jewish
member of the Mutual Welfare League which included a sermon by Dr. Abraham
Cronbach of the Free Synagogue of New York City “on the religious significance
of the event” and a violin solo by Dachin Jacobson.
1916: Approximately “175 Jewish soldiers and
sailors from forts and battleships near” New York City joined “with 200 others”
for “a Seder at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association building at the corner of
Lexington Avenue and Ninety-second Street.
1916: Rabbi Stephen Wise officiated at the
marriage of Elinor Fatman and Henry Morgenthau, Jr; a marriage that was unusual
for its time because the bride had proposed to the groom.
1916: Isadore Hershfield of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society of New York returned to Berlin from Vienna and a trip
through Galicia and the Austrian-occupied sections of Poland where he
“completed arrangements for forwarding letters and appeals for assistance from
distressed Jews and other inhabitant to relatives in the United States.
1916: It was learned today that David R.
Francis, the new American Ambassador to Russia who has just left for his new
post is carrying with him a draft for a new treaty of commerce which is
intended to replace the old treaty which was allowed to lapse a few years ago
“because of the refusal of the Russian Government to honor proper passports
issued to American Jews, particularly to American Jewish citizens of Russian
birth.”
1916: “Herman Bernstein” became “editor of the American Hebrew today.”
1917(25th of Nisan, 5677): During WW
I, Lieutenant-colonel Rene Cahen was killed today.
1917(25th of Nisan, 5677): Gustavus
I. Peavy, of Peavy Brothers who was a director of the National Association of
Clothiers passed away today.
1917: In Russia, “the first congress of the
Jewish Social Democratic Party known as ‘the Bund’ opened today” and the
leading item on the agenda was the condition of the Jews in Finland.
1917: French President Raymond Poincare
bemoaned the fact that “in London our agreements are now considered null and
void.” He was upset by the fact that the British were now calling for a
larger role in the post-World War Middle East including acknowledgement of
Zionist plans for Palestine.
1917: During World War I, the British army
employs tanks for one of the first times in the Middle East in an attempt to
defeat the Turks at Gaza. The so-called Second Battle of Gaza will prove
to be a costly defeat for His Majesty’s Forces who will suffer over six
thousand casualties.
1918: “Jews Protest To Baker” published today
described the formal complaint being lodged by Louis Marshall the prominent New
York lawyer and chair of the American Jewish Committee with Secretary of War
Newton Baker concerning discrimination against Jewish soldiers that also
contends a demand that the discrimination be stopped and the officers
responsible for it be punished.
1919(17th of Nisan, 5679): Third day
of Pesach
1919: Bernhard Dernburg, whose father publisher
Friedrich Dernburg had converted to the Lutheran religion began serving today
as “Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Canceller” during the early days of
the Weimar Republic.
1919: In Chicago, the funeral was today for
Jacob Joel, the husband of Elise Joel
1919: As part of an episode that would have
far-reaching implications for the Middle East in general and Israel in
particular, the French prepared a declaration today that was presented to
Prince Feisal. Feisal expected the document to be a written affirmation
of Clemenceau’s promise of total Arab independence for Syria – a Syria to be ruled
by Feisal. But according to the French document, the French army would
occupy Damascus, and the new Arab nation would actually exist as a mere
federation of local autonomous states in which all the government advisers,
including the governors and heads of major government bureaus, as well as the
judiciary, would be French, under Paris's control as they were in Lebanon.
What's more, Faisal himself would be compelled to publicly declare the
importance of France's historic relationship with the Maronite Christians.
Other than that, said the French, Syria would be completely
"independent." Faisal quickly refused, encouraged by Lawrence
of Arabia, who advised him to demand total independence "without
conditions or reservations." Clemenceau, however, would not tolerate what
he considered Arab impudence. Faisal summarily left Paris for Syria to claim
his nation. Faisal, who had signed a letter welcoming the Zionists to
Palestine, would fail. The perfidy of the French would lead to an
unstable Syria that would become an implacable enemy of Israel. Faisal would
settle for throne of another British creation, Iraq.
1920(29th of Nisan, 5680) Parashat
Shimini; Mevarchim Chodesh Iya
1920(29th of Nisan, 5680):
Seventy-five-year Bavarian born Samuel Grabfelder, the husband of Cordelia
“Delia” Grabfelder and long-time resident of Louisville, KY where he founded S.
Grabfelder s, served as president of both
Adath Israel, the Jewish Elderly Home in Cleveland and “was a major
contributor to te National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver” passed
away today in Atlantic City after which he was buried in Brooklyn’s Salem
Fields Cemetery
https://pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com/2012/11/sam-grabfelder-and-distillery-of-his-own.html
1920: The Twelfth Conference of the Bund
continued its meeting Gomel.
1921: “The 32nd annual convention”
of American Reform Rabbis that had included a lecture by Professor Jacob Z.
Lauterbach “on the attitude of the Jew toward the non-Jew” and a visit at the
White House with President and Mrs. Harding is scheduled to come to an end
today in Washington, D.C.
1922(19th of Nisan, 5682): Fourth
Day of Pesach.
1922: “5,000 Begin Drive For Zionist Fund”
published today described a meeting at Carnegie Hall which marked the opening
of campaign to raise three million dollars for the Palestine Foundation Fun
which was addressed by Colonel John H. Patterson, the former commander of the
British “Jewish Legion” during the World War.
1923(1st of Iyar, 5683): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1923: Birthdate of Zaslav native and former IDF
Chief of Staff Tzvi Tzur who made Aliyah at the age of two, joined the Haganah, served as battalion
leader of the Givati Brigade during the fighting in 1948, founded “Samon’s
Foxes,” and who following an illustratious military career eventually served as
an MK and pursued a business career that included serving in “several managing
positions, including the Israeli Aircraft Industries, the shipping company Zim,
and "Hevra LeYsrael".
1923: “Turkish Jews Dine Fouad” published
today, described a dinner “given by the Sephardic and Ottoman Societies of New
York at which “Dr. Fouad Bey, a former Minister of the Interior and Social of
Turkey and a member of the Turkish National Assembly was the guest honor” which
was a fund-raiser to provide assistance for Turkish orphans.
1924: "The President Arthur, which was
owned by the American Palestine Line set sail from Haifa for the United States
after taking passenger on a ten-day cruise of the Mediterranean with stops at
Jaffa, Beirut, Alexandria, and Naples, among others.
1924: Today, the ownership of “The Dewey House,
also referred to as Building 29, North Chicago VA Medical Center,” which was
designed by David Adler “was transferred to the United States Department of
Veterans Affair.”
1924: In Brooklyn, Joseph Geller, an artist who
earned a living painting signs, and his wife, Olga gave birth to” Andrew
Geller, an architect who embodied postwar ingenuity and optimism in a series of
inexpensive beach houses in whimsical shapes, many of them in the Hamptons, and
who helped bring modernism to the masses with prefabricated cottages sold at
Macy’s.” (As reported by Fred A. Bernstein)
1924: Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures &
Louis B Mayer Company merged to form MGM. Many of the early motion picture
studios were dominated, if not owned outright, by Jews. Many of them were
immigrants who made movies idealizing America since that was what sold at the
box office. The film industry may have been run by Jews, but you sure
would not have known from the content.
1925: “The Golden Calf” a silent drama filmed
by cinematographer Mutz Grennbaum was released in Germany today.
1925: It was reported today that the London
Yiddish paper Zeit, the New York Jewish Daily New (Tageblatt), the Jewish Daily
Jud of Kishinef and the Hebrew daily Ha’arezt, published in Jerusalem are among
the Jewish newspapers that the Polish government has banned from being sold.
1925: Brooklyn businessmen are scheduled to
“discuss the organization of a luncheon the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce by
S.P. Rothschild, the President of Abraham and Straus.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/04/17/104172092.html?pageNumber=22
1925(23rd of Nisan, 5686) One day
after the end of Pesach, fifty-eight year old Godfrey Charles Joseph Isaacs,
the brother of Rufus Isaacs, the 1st Marquess of Reading, the
husband of Lea Constance Perelli with whom he had two sons – Marcel and
Dennys -- and, starting in 1910, the “Managing Director of Marcon’s
Wireless Telegraph Company” which led to his involvement in an insider trading
scandal known as “the Marconi Scandal of 1912 passed away today.
1925: “Father Voss” a silent comedy written by
Robert Liebman was released in Germany today.
1926: Birthdate of Aharon Yadlin, the sabra
from Ben Shemen who served with Palmach and as an MK and Education Minster from
1974 through 1977.
1926: In San Francisco, Bessie Nova married
Stanford University educated engineer and World War I veteran Norman Jerome
Mittenthal, the Waxahachie, TX born son of Elizabath Novashelsky and Louis
Mittenthal who began his career with General Electric.
1926: Birthdate of British composer Ronald
Senator.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-composer-and-his-musician-wife-die-in-ny-house-fire/
1927(15th of Nisan, 5687): Pesach
1927: At Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi
Israel Goldstein is scheduled to deliver a Passover sermon “The Messiah – A
Universal Hope.”
1927: “HIAS Now Aids Immigrants Who Must Go To
Other Lands” published today described the assistance the organization is
giving to settle Jews in places including South America.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D02E5DD1430E033A25754C1A9629C946695D6CF
1928: A check for $50,000 from S.R. Guggenheim
of New York for the $5,000,000 endowment fund of the Hebrew Union College,
National Theological Seminary, was received by the seminary today.
1928: According to an interview sent out by the
Jewish Telegraph Agency, Emil Vandervelde, a member of the Belgian Cabinet, is
“greatly impressed” with the work being done by the Jewish settlers in
Palestine. He said that it was only through personal observation that he “had
he been able to understand the difficulties and appreciate their achievements
in transforming deserts and swamps into flourishing” settlements. He
“cited the municipality of Tel Aviv as a marvelous expression” of the Jewish
ability to build and improve the land. Furthermore, in a speech at Hebrew
University, the Belgian leader cited Zionism’s “fraternal tendencies toward the
Arabs which was an important factor toward international peace.
1928: A conference of Communist youth being
held in Tel Aviv was broken up by police. Fourteen boys, including one
Arab, and six girls were detained by the authorities.
1928: Birthdate of Cynthia Ozick, author of the
“Puttermesser Papers”. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrants from Russia,
who both worked as pharmacists, Ozick grew up in the care of her grandmother,
who was always telling her stories. She grew up to write several more novels
full of Jewish mysticism and history, including “The Messiah of
Stockholm” and “The Puttermesser Papers” but she's
perhaps best known for her essays, collected in Art and Ardor,
Metaphor and Memory and Quarrel and Quandary (2000). Ozick
said, "I believe a writer can weave in and out of genres—do it all. It is
a gluttonous point of view, to be sure. Then again, when it comes to writing,
that is what I truly am and nothing less: a glutton."
1929: As of today, the Jews of Cincinnati have
contributed $107,000 to the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home Fund for a New
Building chaired by Herbert R. Bloch.
1929: Mayor Walker of New York and Louis are
scheduled to be the principal speakers at the United Palestine Appeal dinner
which approximately 400 will be
attending at the Brooklyn Jewish Center
1929: “Mascots” a silent movie filmed by
cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in Germany.
1930: “The board of trustees of the Federation
for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies has voted to fix the 1930
budget at $5,080,000, a record amount, to be devoted to the maintenance of its
ninety-one constituent agencies, it was announced today by Dudley D. Sicker,
president.”
1931(30th of Nisan, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1931: “Born to Love,” directed by Paul L. Stein
was released today in the United States.
1931: In South Central Los Angeles, Morris
George Axelrod, “an organizer for the radical Industrial Workers of the World
union” and “the former Pearl Plaskoff” gave birth to “producer, arranger and
composer” David Axelrod.
1931: Birthdate of Harold Martin Feinstein,
whose black and white pictorial record of his native Coney Island marked him as
yet “another Jew with a camera.”
1931: The Post Office in England is planning to
broadcast “from Jerusalem” today “as part of the celebration of the seventh
anniversary of the Hebrew University.” (JTA)
1932(11th of Nisan, 5692):
Thirty-eight-year old University of
Illinois College of Medicine educated gynecologist and surgeon, DR. Goldye L. Hoffman the Chicago born
daughter of Ida Louis La Pook and Jacob Hoffman and a “member of the Volunteer
Medical Service Corps during World War I” who “a the time o her death was an
associate in gynecology at her alma mater,” president of the Medical Woman’s
Club of Chicago and a member of Hadassah passed away today.
1932: “Announcements have been received” in New
Haven CT of the engagement of Miss Leone Yaffe, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Yaffe of Park Avenue, New York to Syracuse University graduate Myles
Stodel Friedman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abram of New Haven.
1933(21st of Nisan, 5693): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1933: Drawing their illustrations from the
present economic and political situation, Seventh Day Passover sermons
delivered today in some of New York City’s synagogues emphasized the thought
that economic as well as moral justice should be the concern of religious
leaders.
1933: At Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in
Manhattan Rabbi Israel Goldstein delivered a sermon in which he “recalled the
efforts of Moses to establish a social and economic justice among the Jews and
declared that President Roosevelt has caught something of the vision of the
economic emancipator.”
1933: Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of Temple
Israel delivered a sermon in he “pleased for a militant Judaism” which “will
bring us security and peace as a people.”
1933: In Antwerp today “at a conference of
Jewish market traders in the fur business, resolutions binding the organization
to boycott German furs and accessory goods used in the trade were passed
unanimously.”
1934: “The three-day annual convention of the
New York State Conference of the National Council of Jewish Women” is scheduled
to come to an end in Syracuse, NY.
1934(2nd of Iyar, 5694):
Fifty-three-year-old Harry Krensky, a merchant in Waterloo, Iowa, passed away
today.
1934(2nd of Iyar, 5694): Maria Isaak
the wife of Abraham Isaak with whom she “founded the anarchist-inspired Aurora Colony
near Lincoln, California” in 1909 passed away today.
1934: Birthdate of Don Kirshner who was “known
as The Man With the Golden Ear.” He was an American song publisher and rock
producer who is best known for managing songwriting talent as well as
successful pop groups such as The Monkees and The Archies. He passed away in
2011.
1935(14th of Nisan, 5695): Ta’anit
Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1935: Ben Heiineman married Natalie Goldstein
who as Natalie Goldstein Heineman became a pioneering national champion for
children’s welfare and respected community and national leader, who changed the
lives of thousands of children through her innovative and thoughtful
leadership.” (As reported by Pastora San Juan Cafferty)
1935: In a sermon delivered this evening “at
the Downtown Branch of the Institutional Synagogue” Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein
said that “the world has come to realize that Hitler is not only the enemy of
the Jew but also the enemy of God” and that “Hitlerism could have and would
have been nipped in the bud” it had not been deemed a Jewish problem “but a
humanitarian problem.”
1936: Eighty-one-year-old German orientalist
Fritz Hommel author of Ancient Hebrew Tradition passed away today.
1936: In Tel Aviv, the funeral for 61-year-old
Israel Hazan who had been killed during a robbery two days ago by Arab who said
they were stealing money “to buy arms to carry on the work of the ‘Holy
Martyrs’” turned into demonstration which turned violent when “police
prohibited eulogies” and attempted to divert the funeral procession.
1936: At a funeral held this morning in Tel
Aviv for a Jewish victim of Arab violence, a clash broke out between Jewish
protesters and police.
1936: Mrs. Amy G. Wyle, the chairman of the
Women’s Division of the Greater New York Campaign of the Joint Distribution
Committee which seeking to raise $1,500,000 as the city’s share of the national
fund for the aide of Jews of Germany and Central and Eastern Europe hosted a
dinner at Park Avenue home tonight.
1936: At today’s hearings being conducted by
the Senate Lobby Committee correspondence was produced between W. Cleveland
Runyon of Plainfield, NJ and Alexander Lincoln, an investment bank from Boston
and the President of the Sentinels of the Republic in which Mr. Lincoln
“declared the ‘Jewish threat’ to the United States was a ‘real one’” to which
Mr. Runyon replied, “old-line Americans…want a Hitler.”
1937: Rabbi William Rosneblum is scheduled to
lead services this morning at Temple Israel.
1937: Today, “The Committee for Special Jewish
Interests” “which represents 120,000 Jews living in the Netherlands” “issued a
protest against the prohibition by Germany of all Jewish meetings for sixty
days in retaliation for Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s speeches in New York.”
1938(16th of Nisan, 5698): Second
Day of Pesach
1938: “Attacking ‘totalitarian religion’ Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise declared in” his Sunday morning sermon at the Free Synagogue in
Carnegie Hall “that Jews cannot believe in ‘the Christ of dogma’ in order ‘to
be saved or to be safe.” The sermon was in response to two books Where Now,
Little Jew”? by Magnus Hermansson and An Open Letter to Jews and
Christians by John Cournos that “attempt to prove that the answer to the
Jewish problem lies in the acceptance of Jesus Christ.”
1938: Arturo Toscanini conducts the Palestine
Orchestra in a second performance in Tel Aviv. Unlike last night’s
performance which was given to a packed house filled with officials and those
who could afford high priced tickets, tonight’s performance was for workers who
paid greatly reduced prices for their tickets.
1939: “Menuhin Aids Refugees” published today
described a concert given by Yehudi Menuhin in London that raised more than
five thousand pounds “for the benefit of Jewish refugees.”
1939: Adolf Hitler said he would respond to
yesterday’s speech by FDR which was a “plea for peace” at a meeting of the
Reichstag on April 28.
1940: In Brooklyn, “George Stein, a
stockbroker, and the former Anne Shuchman, who taught history and civics at
Erasmus Hall High School” to award winning author Professor Judith Stein. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/books/judith-stein-dead-historian-author-on-marcus-garvey.html
1940: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt went to
dinner this evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. at
the Washington residence of the Secretary of the Treasury.
1941(20th of Nisan, 5701): Sixth day
of Pesach
1941: In the Warsaw Ghetto, “Michał Klepfisz, a
member of the Jewish Labour Bund (Yiddish: der algemeyner yidisher arbeter
bund), and his wife, Rose Klepfisz (née Shoshana Perczykow)” gave birth to
“Yiddishist” Irena Klepfisz, the co-editor of The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish
Women’s Anthology.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/klepfisz-irena
1941: Following a coup staged by “four
anti-British army colonels” who called themselves “The Gold Square” staged a
coup which was supported by the Nazis, “British troops landed unopposed in
Basra” and following military successes forced the Germans, Italians and their
Arab Allies, including the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, to flee.
1941: Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
Nearly 60,000 Jews were murdered by the German army. Gold teeth
from the murdered victims were later found in the palace of the Catholic Bishop
of Zagreb (Croatia).
1941(20th of Nisan, 5701): In Warsaw, a
Jewish policeman named Ginsberg was bayoneted and shot by German soldiers after
asking a soldier to return a sack of potatoes taken from a Jewish woman.
1941: Photojournalist David E. Scherman was
among the 201 passengers aboard the Egyptian liner Zamzam when it was sunk by
the German “surface raider” Atlantis which the British would find and sink
thanks to the photographs he took from a lifeboat.
1942: French General Henri Giraud escapes from
his castle prison in Festung Königstein where he was a German POW. Giraud
joined the Free French in North Africa. In 1943, while serving as High
Commissioner he said that Vichy's anti-Jewish laws "no longer exist,"
promised to hold municipal elections in North Africa. He also revoked the
Cremieux Decree of 1870, which granted French citizenship en bloc to Jews in
Algeria, but excluded the Arabs. Henceforth, Moslems and Jews must complement
each other economically, "the latter working in his shop, the former in
the desert, without either having advantage over the other, France assuring
both security and tranquility." This even-handed sounding speech is a bit
disingenuous. Many of the Vichy restrictions against Jews continued
during this period in an attempt by the Allies to placate the Arabs.
1942(30th of Nisan, 5702): The Gestapo
entered the Warsaw ghetto and shot 52 people on Rosh Chodesh Iyar.
1942(30th of Nisan, 5702):
Sixty-five-year-old Hugo Hirsch, the German born son of Caroline and Moises
Hirsch was murdered in Lodz, Poland during the Shoah
1943(12th of Nisan, 5703): Parashat
Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1943: Birthdate of journalist, writer and
member of the Brandeis faculty, Robert Kuttner.
1943: Sixty-nine-year-old German native Alfred
Hertz, the second conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, who replaced Henry
Hadley, in 1915, when the orchestra was just four years old and who remained
with the symphony until his farewell performance April 15, 1930” passed away
today.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hertz.html
1943: In a meeting at Klessheim Castle near
Salzburg, Hitler met with the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, to urge the
Hungarians to deport their Jewish population. Hitler explained, ". . .
they are just pure parasites . . . they had to be treated like tuberculosis
bacilli which in a healthy body may become infected." Horthy and Hungary
continued to hold out against Hitler's demands. Things would change in
1944 and most of Hungary's Jews became victims of the Final Solution.
[Editor’s Note: Holocaust Deniers might want to
consider the findings of British author Gerald Reitlinger. He claimed to
have found conclusive proof of a Hitlerian liquidation policy in the protocol
of a conversation between Hitler and Hungarian Regent Horthy on April 17, 1943.
Hitler complained about the black market and subversive activities of Hungarian
Jews and then made the following comment: "They have thoroughly put an end
to these conditions in Poland. If the Jews don't wish to work there, they will
be shot. If they cannot work, at least they won't thrive"]
1944: Mordechai (Motke) Eldar was among the
Jews from Transylvanian taken to the Sltina Ghetto where he would be held until
May when he was shipped to Auschwitz.
1944: Seventy-three-year-old German actor Eugen
Burg who had converted to Christianity to Judaism but was banned from the film
industry when the Nazis came to power died today at Theresienstadt
concentration camp today.
1944: The Lady and the Monster” based on a
novel by Curt Siodmak with a script by Frederick Kohner co-starring Erich von
Stroheim was released in the United States today.
1945: Surviving inmates of Sachsenhausen and
Ravensbrück were forced to march deeper into Germany. With the war coming
to an end, the Germans continued to force evacuees including 17,000 women
and 46,000 men to move away from the Allied armies. Those who
once boasted of their effort to make Europe "Jew Free" now worked
feverishly to cover up what would come to be called "Crimes Against
Humanity."
1945: Today, Captain Leslie Hardman, “the
32-year-old Senior Jewish Chaplain to the British Forces, attached to the 8th
Corps of the British 2nd Army” “entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, two
days after it had been liberated by British military forces…”
1945: Lieutenant Al Ungerleider approached
Nordhausen with orders to take and hold part of an industrial complex there.
“His detachment had to fight its way through the gates and the barbed wire,
dodging machine-gun fire from enemy soldiers hiding in towers near the
entrance. After his men took out the enemy, the camp inmates began to appear.
They were so emaciated that only a few could stand upright. Some fell over, he
recalled. Still others were lying in bed, covered in lice and sores. Lt.
Ungerleider sent his men to check the grounds for remaining Nazi soldiers. They
captured 44 SS troopers, all of whom surrendered. Billy Millhander, one of” his
“soldiers, Ungerlider entered a large building at the center of the camp
and discovered 10 huge ovens — crematoriums.” At the time, he did not know what
they were. According to Ungerleider, “The ovens were cold, and the doors were
closed.” he said. He began opening the doors of the oven expecting to find
German troops in hiding. “The first four contained ashes. But when the
lieutenant opened the fifth, Millhander immediately fired several rounds,
killing an armed German guard.” They returned to the main yard, and Lt.
Ungerleider spoke a mixture of Yiddish, English and German to the camp inmates.
He asked how many were still alive. The reply came: maybe 250 out of thousands.
He asked what they were making at the plant. Someone said V-2 rockets, missiles
that were launched against England. “And that’s when the enormity of the evil
that the Germans were doing to these people hit me,” Ungerleider said later.
“And this was a slave labor camp, not a death camp. They were making a product
for the war effort. The first thought that came into my mind is how the Germans
could take [thousands of people] and put them to work. How could they not feed
them, take care of their medical needs, not clothe them?” He led the survivors
in the mourner’s kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Al Ungerleider
enjoyed a successful career in the U.S. Army rising to the rank of General.
At the same time, he remained an active member of the Jewish community wherever
he was stationed.
1945: Robert Limpert, the head of a genuine
anti-Nazi underground group, sought to get the leaders of the Bavarian city of
Ansbach to defy Wehrmacht fanatics and to surrender to the approaching American
Army.
1945: William Scott of the 183rd
Combat Engineers, an all-African-American unit took pictures of Leon Bass and
other members of the unit at Buchenwald six days after its liberation by the
U.S. Army.
1946(16th of Nisan, 5706): Second
Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1946: “Admission after admission fell from the
lips of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg today as the United States prosecutor, Thomas J.
Dodd, destroyed the Nazi philosopher's selfportrait as a kindly benefactor and
forced the German to admit responsibility for the Nazi regime in the plundered
and devastated lands of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.”
1946: It was reported today that the “hunger
strike by 15 Jewish leaders” in Palestine came to an end after “it was
announced that the Palestine administration had agreed to the admission of all
1,200 refugees detained in northern Italy.
1947: One day after he
had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held today for 83-year-old Rabbi Simon Finkelstien, “the dean of the Brooklyn
Rabbinate.
https://www.cincinnatijudaicafund.com/index.php/Detail/objects/4331
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/04/17/87517640.pdf
1947: General Lucius D. Clay, the United States
Military Governor, announced today the closing of displaced camps in Germany
“to further Jewish refugees infiltrating from Poland.”
1947: “Top representatives of the
American-Jewish Joint Committee were scheduled to meet in Paris in response to
General Clay’s announcement.
1947: “Pan Ruczaj, described as the organizer
of last July’s anti-Semitic riot in Kielce, where forty-two Jews were killed,
surrendered to Polish security officers in Waldenberg, Silesia” but even though
he “made a full confession, “under the terms of the Polish amnesty, he will not
be punished.”
1948(8th of Nisan, 5708): On Shabbat Hagadol
news came that a convoy bringing in needed supplies to Jerusalem had broken
through by night. Crowds came down to the Romema road block to greet the
convoy. Over 250 lorries bringing a thousand tons of food and arms and
ammunition came streaming into the entrance to the city. Written on the first
lorry were the words: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand
forget its cunning".
1948: As Jewish soldiers fight to open the road
to Jerusalem and break the blockade that was strangling the city reports
circulate through the City of David that five Arab villages had been taken and
as many as 350 Arab fighters had been killed.
1948: In his report on the massacre of the
staff going to the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus, Robert Watson, the American
Consul in Jerusalem wrote " . . . queried as to whether convoy included
armoured cars, Haganah guards, arms and ammunition in addition to doctors,
nurses and patients, Kohn [of the Jewish Agency] replied in affirmative saying
it was necessary to protect convoy."
1949(18th of Nisan, 5709): Meir Bar-llan, an
Orthodox Rabbi from Lithuania who was a leader of the Mizrachi movement passed
away today in Jerusalem. Bar-Illan University was named in his memory.
1950: The New York Times reported that
the obsolete conditions at the port of Tel Aviv pose a threat to the continued
economic growth of the infant Jewish state. According to Jose Ensuade,
President of Flomarcy Company, “Israel’s maritime position and the continued
growth of her foreign comer, which has had an almost phenomenal growth may be
impaired unless harbor facilities are improved.” He marveled at the fact
that the port which is the nation’s entry point for 25,000 immigrants arriving
each month and which has seen a remarkable growth in trade “is virtually
without modern docking facilities.”
1951: Birthdate of Yaky Yosha, the Tel Aviv
born award winning film director.
1952(22nd of Nisan, 5712): 8th day
of Pesach observed for the last time during the Presidency of Harry Truman.
1954(14th of Nisan, 5714): Shabbat Ha-Gadol;
Erev Pesach
1954: Hanoch Bartov, an author and journalist
whose parents immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland before Hanoch was
born and his wife gave birth Yom Kippur War Veteran and hold of degrees from
the University of Tel Av and Oxford, Omer Bartov, a Holocaust historian and
“leading authority on genocide who is the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and
Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000.”
https://vivo.brown.edu/display/obartov
1954: Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger who was born as
into an Ashkenazi Jewish family was ordained as a Roman Catholic Priest today.
1954: In Tel Aviv, the family of Emanuel Shoam
celebrates the first Seder with three friends of his brother Joe, who had been
held as a prisoner of war by the Jordanians during the War of
Independence. The three were a young Canadian Jew named Martin and two
gentile deserters from the British army named Paddy and Harry who had stolen
tanks from the British in 1948 and brought them to the Haganah.
1955: Chicago Cubs’ pitcher Hy Cohen played in
his first major league baseball game.
1955: “Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey is
scheduled to be given the annual Amity Award of the North Hudson chapter of the
American Jewish Congress” today.
1957(16th of Nisan, 5717): Second
Day of Pesach
1957: George Pirkis Kidd, Canada’s first
Ambassador to Israel, completed his term of service.
1957: Margaret Blanche Meagher began serving as
Canada’s Ambassador to Israel, making her the first Canadian woman to hold an
ambassadorial place.
1958(27th of Nisan, 5718): Yom
HaShoah
1958: Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitcher Larry Sherry
appears in his first major league baseball game. Sherry would lead the
Dodgers to a World Series Championship in 1959.
1959: U.S. premiere of “Imitation of Life” the
cinematic treatment of Fannie Hurt’s novel produced by Ross Hunter with a
musical score co-authored by Sammy Fain.
1960(20th of Nisan, 5720): Sixth Day
Pesach
1960: ABC broadcast “Blind Marriage” an episode
of “The Rebel” directed by Irvin Kershner.
1961: In London, Bernardine Coverley and artist
Lucian Freud gave birth to fashion designer Bella Freud, the great
granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud.
1962(13th of Nisan, 5722):
Eighty-one-year-old C.C.N.Y (B.S.) and Columbia University (Ph.D.) trained
biologist Dr. Abraham Goldforb, the London born son of Morris and Anna
(Mishkowsky) Goldforb and CCNY Professor specializing in physiology and
experimental embryologist who was the husband of Dr. Frances Shostac and father
of Mrs. Miriam Dinerman passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/18/94100787.html?pageNumber=37
1962: “The Counterfeit Traitor,” a thriller
about a Swede who spied on the Nazis, produced by Wiiliam Perlberg whose
parents Israel Jakob Perelberg and Tajbe Markus had named him Wolf Perleberg
and with music by Alfred Newman, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants was
released today in the United States.
1963: “Rattle of a Simple Man,” produced by
David Merrick and for Harvey B. Sabinson served as Press Representative opened
on Broadway at the Booth Theatre.
1964: Birthdate of Ofer Hugi, the Shas MK who
ended up going to prison for two years after being convicted of numerous
illegal acts.
1965(15th of Nisan, 5725): 1st day
of Pesach
1965: Cincinnati Reds outfielder Art Shamsky
appears in his first major league baseball game.
1966: Two days after he
had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be held this afternoon at
the Riverside for sixty-year-old University of Chicago alum Alvin Handmacher,
the president of Handmacher-Vogel Inc. and founder of the Handmacher Foundation
who raised three daughters with his wife “the former Margaret Murdock”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/16/82431991.pdf
1967: CBS broadcast the
final episode of “Gilligan’s Island” a sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and
co-starring Natalie Schafer as “Lovey Wentworth Howell.”
1967: Egypt, Syria and Iraq signed a
treaty of alliance that placed their military forces under a unified command
with the stated purpose of “liberating Palestine” i.e. destroying the state of
Israel.
1968(19th of Nisan, 5728): Fifth Day
of Pesach
1968(19th of Nisan, 5728):
Fifty-year-old “American microbiologist” Sol Haberman, the Chicago born son of
“Nathan and Eva (Yankovitch) Haberman” and husband of “Carletta Jeanne Rambo”
who had earned a PhD from OSU and went from being lecturer on bacteriology at SMU
to directing the graduate studies division of the Graduate School College of
Dentistry passed away today.
1968(19th of Nisan, 5728):
Seventy-five-year-old Birmingham born Pathologist Arnold Rice Rich, the husband
of “pianist and composer Helen Jones and the father of Adrienne and Cynthia
Rich, whose scientific work led to the discovery of Rich Focus, passed away
today.
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2547.html
1969: Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian terrorist,
was convicted of murdering Senator Robert Kennedy, the leading nominee for the
Democratic nominee for the Presidential nomination, thus single handedly
changing the course of history.
1969: Today Salesman a 1969 direct cinema
documentary film, produced and directed by brothers Albert and David Maysles,
the children of Jewish immigrants was released in the United States today.
1969(29th of Nisan, 5729):
Eighty-four-year-old banker and University of Miami trustee Arthur Arnold Ungar
who was a member of the Orange Bowl Committee passed away today.
1970: The Auditorium Building in Chicago “one
of the best-known designs of Dankmar Adler” and his partner “was added to the
National Register of Historic Places” today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auditorium_Building_Chicago_June_30,_2012-92.jpg
1971(22nd of Nisan, 5731): Eighth
Day of Pesach and Shabbat Shel Pesach
1971(22nd of Nisan, 5731):
Seventy-five-year-old Austrian native and New York tobacco wholesaler Harry
Sackler, the husband of Freda Sackler, “father of Helen Muller Raphael; Susan
Sylvia Chayefsky; Philip Sackler and Claire Landau and the father-in-law of
playwright and screen writer Paddy Chayefsky passed away today.
1971: Susan Brownmiller organized today’s New
York Radical Feminist Conference on Rape
1973(15th of Nisan, 5733): Pesach
1973(15th of Nisan, 5733):
Ninety-one-year-old Clara Ferrin-Bloom the native of Tucson, AZ who was a
schoolteacher when she married merchant David Bloom with whom she had three
children, one of whom David A. “established the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives
at the University of Arizona passed away today.
1974: “Professor David Azbel and his family were
granted permission to emigrate to Israel” today.
1974: “Thursday’s Game” “a made-for-television
comedy written by James Brooks with a cast that includes Gene Wilder, Norman
Fell and Rob Reiner was released today.
1976(17th of Nisan, 5736): Third Day
and Shabbat Shel Pesach
1976: Brooklyn
born Ruby Mazur is an American artist who has created the cover art of over
3,000 albums for artists including The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, Sarah Vaughn,
Elton John and Ray Charles gave birth to actress Monet Happy Mazur who “is of
Jewish ancestry on her father's side.”
1977: The Broadway production of “I Love My
Wife” with a book and lyrics by Michael Steward, music by Cy Coleman and
directed by Gene Sakes opened today at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
1978: NBC broadcast “The Road to Babi Yar” the
second part he miniseries “Holocaust.”
1979(20th of Nisan, 5739): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1979(20th of Nisan, 5739):
Sixty-sixty-year-old Brooklyn born Edward Field, “the Manhattan rug designer
and manufacturer” and husband of Eleanor Field with whom he raised one son
passed away today.
1979(20th of Nisan, 5739):
Terrorists who had crossed the border from Lebanon killed one Israeli soldier
today and injured six others.
1980: The Presidium of
the Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry had its final meeting today in
Paris.
1980: Today the art
critic of the Chicago Evening post described Rumanian native Emil Armin, the
grandson of a sofer who in 1905 came to the United States where he joined his
brother, enrolled in night art classes after which he became a leading American
painter “as perhaps the most finely sensitized artist in Chicago…with a soul of
a peasant and poet and the mind of a philosopher.”
https://richardnortongallery.com/artists/emil-armin
https://richardnortongallery.com/artists/emil-armin/artworks/7148-humoresque
1981: The funeral for
77-year-old Philadelphia born University of Pennsylvania graduate Lillie
Schultz, the author and former administrator of the American Jewish Congress is
scheduled to be held today in Manhattan.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shultz-lillie
1982(24th of Nisan, 5742):Parashat
Shmini
1983(4th of Iyar, 5743): Yom HaZikaron
1984(15th of Nisan, 5744): Pesach
1986: Authorities foiled an attempted bombing
at Heathrow Airport. Israeli airline security guards at Heathrow Airport in
London took a hard look at Anne-Marie Murphy and her luggage as she was about
to board an El Al flight for Tel Aviv. Beneath a false bottom in her bag they
found 10 pounds of plastic explosive rolled paper-thin -enough, the police
said, to destroy the El Al Boeing 747 and its 340 passengers. The police said
Miss Murphy told them that the bag, which had passed unnoticed through Heathrow
security checks, had been handed to her by Nazar Hindawi, a Jordanian who had
several passports. The woman's father said Mr. Hindawi had given Miss Murphy,
who is pregnant, $300 to buy a wedding dress and promised that they would be
married yesterday in Israel. At the airport, according to the police, Mr.
Hindawi told his fiancée he had second thoughts about flying on an Israeli
plane and would take a different airline. He hurried off but was arrested later
at a London hotel. A sophisticated microchip timer was set to ignite the bomb
after a stopover in Munich, the police said. It was possible that Miss Murphy,
who had been working as a hotel maid in the London Hilton, intended to
disembark at Munich, the police said, but more likely she was an innocent victim
of the plot.
1986(8th of Nisan, 5746): Steven M.
Tielsch who while in a jail cell in Allegheny Country who “bragged that he had
killed a Jew, and would often make antisemitic remarks and draw swastikas, a
common antisemitic symbol, on himself” murdered Neal Rosenblum as he walked to
the Kollel Bais Yitzchok Torah Institute Study Center in Squirrel Hill to daven
ma’ariv.
1986(8th of Nisan, 5746):
Ninety-four-year-old French aircraft builder Marcel Dassault who as Marcel
Bloch was imprisoned in Buchenwald for his refusal to collaborate with the
Nazis passed and who became a Catholic after the war passed away today.
1987(18th of Nisan, 5747): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1987(18th of Nisan, 5747): Comedian Dick Shawn,
born Richard Schulefand, died on stage from a heart attack at age 63.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/19/obituaries/no-headline-625287.html
1987: “Wild Thing,” a murder mystery featuring
Maury Chaykin and Shawn Levy was released today in the United States.
1987: In the UK, premiere of “Prick Up Your
Ears” directed by Stephen Frears based on the by John Lahr.
1988(30th of Nisan, 5748):
Eighty-eight-year-old Russian born American sculptor Louis Nevelson passed away
today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/nevelson.html
1989(12th of Nisan, 5749):
Eighty-year-old Bernard “Ben” Fishman, the son of Abrham and Sarah Eckstein
Fishman and the husband of Jeanette Felsen Fishman passed away today after
which he was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Commerce City, CO.
1990(22nd of Nisan, 5750): Eighth
Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1991(3rd of Iyar, 5751): Yom
HaZikaron
1991(3rd of Iyar, 5751):
Ninety-seven-year-old songwriter Jack Yellen whose most famous ditty was FDR’s
campaign song, “Happy Days Are Here Again” passed away today.
1992(14th of Nisan, 5752): Fast of
the First Born; erev Pesach
1992(14th of Nisan, 5752): Eric M. Lipman whose
“collection of Nazi documents offered researchers and students alike a
wide-ranging glimpse into the evolution of the Third Reich’s political and
military apparatus, in addition to revealing salient aspects of Nazi racial
policy in action” passed away today.
https://www.brandeis.edu/library/archives/essays/special-collections/nazi-documents.html
1993: “As Israel prepared for the resumption of
the Middle East peace talks in Washington next week,” two Arabs were killed and
eight Israeli soldiers and an Arab were slightly wounded today when a car bomb
exploded at an Israeli roadside restaurant frequented by servicemen in the
occupied West Bank in an attack for which “a caller to an international news
agency said the Qassam military wing of Hamas, an Islamic militant group, had
detonated the car.”
1994: After Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had
said that "Israel cannot tolerate the situation of Amman being a paradise
for the activities of the Hamas" “a senior Jordanian Government official
rejected Israeli accusations that Jordan helped Hamas, whose suicide bombers
have killed 12 Israelis this month.
1996: “Laura Kam-Issacharoff, special projects
coordinator of the Washington office of the Anti-Defamation League, said that
in recent months her office had been flooded with telephone calls from District
residents, most of them Jews living in the northwest section of the city,
complaining about the appearance of Nazi symbols in their neighborhoods.”
1997: The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra made its Carnegie
Hall debut under the direction of Jewish conductor Yakov Kreizberg
1997: Joyce Shepard of the Citizens Action
Committee for Change met with Alan G. Hevesi and Mayor Giuliani at City Hall
where they promised her that more facilities would be provided for the victims
of domestic abuse.
1997(10th of Nisan, 5757): Chaim Herzog passed
away. Born in Ireland in 1918, Herzog was the son of the
distinguished Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog. Herzog moved to Palestine in 1935
and served in the Haganah during the Arab Uprising that started in 1936.
During World War II, Herzog served in the British Army where he worked with
intelligence units liberating concentration camps. During the War for
Independence, Herzog was a leader in the fighting at Latrun, part of the heroic
campaign to keep the road to Jerusalem open thus ensuring that the ancient city
would be part of modern Israel. Herzog had a distinguished career in the
IDF and retired in 1962 with the rank of Major General. In civilian life
he pursued a career in business and the law while also serving as a media
commentator on military matters. In the middle seventies, he returned to
public service as Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. and then as a Member of the
Knesset for the Labor Party. He served two terms as Israel's President
(1983-1993). His historical writings include The Arab-Israeli Wars, War of Atonement: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War, Who Stands Accused? and Israel's Finest Hour.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-04-17/news/9704180154_1_chaim-herzog-tel-aviv-shin-bet
1998(21st of Nisan, 5758): Seventh day of Pesach
1998(21st of Nisan, 5758): Fifty-six-year-old Linda
McCartney the wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, the granddaughter of Jewish
immigrants from Germany and Russia passed away today.
1998: In “Putting the Inquisition on Trial”
published today, Richard Boudreaux reports on newly published records from the
Vatican that shed light on the ancient practices of the church.
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/17/news/mn-40292
1998:Six months after it opened in the U.S.,
”Deconstructing Harry” a Woody Allen comedy co-starring Bob Balaban, Richard
Benjamin and Billy Crystal was released in the United Kingdom today.
1998: Marek Edelman one of the last
surviving leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was awarded with Poland's
highest decoration, the Order of the White Eagle.
1998: U.S. premiere of “The Object Of My
Affection” directed by Nicholas Hytner, with a script by Wendy Wasserstein and
co-starring Paul Rudd.
1999: In Australia, a production of Harold
Pinter’s “Betrayal” closed today at the Sydney Theatre Company.
2000: “The Israeli police today recommended
that Transportation Minister Yitzhak Mordechai be prosecuted on three counts of
sexual assault, dealing a humiliating blow to the former general, who ran for
prime minister last year as the first Sephardic candidate in Israel's history.”
2001: “Israeli officials said today that the
overnight airstrike in Lebanon, which demolished a Syrian radar installation
and killed three soldiers, was meant as a warning to Syria and not as an
invitation to further conflict in the region.”
2002(5th of Iyar, 5762): Yom Ha’atzmaut.
2002: “Shortly after calling a game between the
Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT,” Marv Albert was injured in a car
crash in which he “sustained facial lacerations, a concussion, and a sprained
ankle” leaving him unable to call the opening game of the NBA playoffs.
2003(15th of Nisan, 5763): Pesach
2003: “Tonight, survivors of last year's”
Passover attack at the seaside Park Hotel where a Palestinian terrorist
murdered 29 people “were invited back, along with other Israeli victims of
Palestinian violence for another Seder meal that begins the week of Passover,
the most significant holiday on the Jewish calendar
2004: For the fifth time terrorists, in this
case Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Bridge, staged an attack at the Erez Crossing.
2004: An Israeli missile strike killed Hamas leader Abdel Aziz
Rantisi. In the words of the Associated Press, "Rantisi was
Hamas' top leader in Gaza and one of the most hard-line members of the militant
movement who rejects all compromise with Israel and calls for the destruction
of the Jewish state."
2005: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “The Outlaw Bible of American Literature” Edited by Alan Kaufman,
Neil Ortenberg and Barney Rosset and the recently released paperback edition of
“Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow.
2005: A Jewish Museum of Belmonte (Museu
Judaico de Belmonte) opened today. Marranos living in Belmonte are sometimes
referred to as the "Belmonte Jews." They are a community that has
survived in secrecy for hundreds of years by maintaining a tradition of
endogamy and by hiding all the external signs of their faith. The community in
the municipality of Belmonte, Cova da Beira subregion, Portugal, goes back to
the 12th century and they were only discovered in 1917 by a Polish Jewish mining
engineer named Samuel Schwarz. Some of them returned to Judaism in the 1970s
and opened a synagogue in 1996. In 2003, the Belmonte Project was founded under
the auspices of the American Sephardi Federation, in order to raise funds to
acquire Judaic educational material and services for the community which now
numbers 300. William Annyas (or Anes) - a descendant of a Marrano family from
Belmonte who immigrated to Ireland - became the Mayor of Youghal in County Cork
in 1555, the first person of the Jewish religion to hold such an elected
position in Ireland or Britain. William Annyas was the grandson of Gil Anes.
Many of the first Jewish people to come to Ireland were Marrano merchants from
the Iberian Peninsula. His daughter married Yacov Kassin (Shamus Ciosain)
daughter of Yehuda Kassin (Juan Cassin) a Marrano merchant who had moved to
Galway in Ireland.
2006: At precisely 4:00 P.M., President Moshe
Katsav calls the 17th Knesset to order in its maiden session with three blows
of the gavel. MK Shimon Peres (Kadima) is invited to conduct the
session. As the most senior MK, Peres will be acting speaker of the Knesset
until a permanent speaker is selected.
2006(19th of Nisan, 5766): Nine
people were killed and at least 40 wounded in a suicide bombing near the old
central bus station in Tel Aviv. The blast ripped through Falafel Rosh Ha'ir,
the same restaurant that was hit by an attack on January 19. The Islamic Jihad
and Fatah’s Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the
attack. The Hamas led PA government defended the suicide bombing, calling it an
act of "self-defense." Hamas official spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called
the attack "a natural result of the continued Israeli crimes against our
people".
2006(19th of Nisan, 5766): Rabbi Arthur
Hertzberg, a leading Jewish scholar and civil rights advocate known for his
provocative, often contrarian views, has passed away at the age of 84.
The cause of death was heart complications. Hertzberg was president of the
American Jewish Congress from 1972 to 1978, and vice president of the World
Jewish Congress from 1975 to 1991. He also wrote a dozen of books on Jewish
thought and history. Dedicated to the creation of Israel, he angered many Jews
by also calling for a Palestinian state. An early advocate of civil rights for
blacks, Hertzberg was among the prominent participants in Martin Luther King
Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington. Nine years later, he headed the first Jewish
delegation to meet formally with the Vatican about the Roman Catholic Church's
silence during the Holocaust. Born in southeastern Poland, Hertzberg's family
emigrated to the U.S. when he was five. He studied at the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York and met his wife while serving as an air force chaplain in
Britain. After returning to the U.S., he became a congregational rabbi at the
conservative Temple Emanu-el in New Jersey, where he served until 1985.
2006: Today “to mark the centennial of the
birth of the playwright Clifford Odets, Lincoln Center Theatre is scheduled to open
a new production of “Awake and Sing!,” Odets’s first full-length play and the
one that made him a literary superstar in 1935, at the age of twenty-eight.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/17/stage-left
2006: In today’s issue of The New Yorker Seymour
“Seymour Hersh reported on the Bush administration's purported plans for an air
strike on Iran” that would include “the possible use of B61-11 bunker-buster
nuclear weapon to eliminate underground Iranian uranium enrichment facilities.”
2007: The Israel Project and The Hebrew
University's Truman Institute sponsors a one day conference entitled “IRAN,
HIZBALLAH and HAMAS: Money, Martyrdom and the Mahdi.” The Israel Project
describes itself as “an international non-profit organization devoted to
educating the press and the public about Israel while promoting
security, freedom and peace. It provides journalists, leaders and
opinion-makers accurate information about Israel. The Israel Project is not
related to any government or government agency.”
2007: The New York Times reviewed Shimon
Peres: The Biography by Michael Bar-Zohar.
2008: Famed author Cynthia Ozick celebrates her
80th birthday. "Ozick is the most high-browed of all the
Jewish-American writers, completely lacking well-read Saul Bellow's interest in
the demimonde and the low-life. And yet her prose is always alive and
crackling, flashy and sensuous, and as distinctive as the markings on a
hoopoe." - Clive Sinclair, Times Literary Supplement (3/11/2006) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ozick.html
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Hedy Epstein, whose
parents died in concentration camps during the Holocaust speaks at Coe College
and at Kennedy High School.
2008: In Iowa City, Iowa. Agudas Achim and
Hillel hold a siyyum for the Fast of the Firstborn. For the siyyum, Professor
Steven Green leads a presentation on the Talmudic section called “Yadyim,”
which discusses the laws of Levitical cleanliness or un-cleanliness of the
hands.
2008: UNITE HERE, a union of textile
workers and hospitality workers, organized a rally outside the offices of
Goldman Sachs in downtown Manhattan to advocate higher wages for the company’s
cafeteria workers. Though few of the cafeteria workers are Jewish, the rally
will feature a mock Seder along with Passover songs.
2008: “A Catered Affair” starring Harvey
Fierstein who also wrote the book for the musical opened on Broadway today.
2009: A.B. Yehoshua, the award-winning Israeli
writer, presents a lecture, "From Mythology to History," as well as
discusses his latest novel, “Friendly Fire.” This event is part of the
University of Maryland’s (College Park),"George Wasserman Family Israeli
Cultural Event" series.
2009: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah hosts the
final Musical Shabbat in this the second season of this popular celebration of
the start of the “Day of Rest.”
2010: The Westchester Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to show “Rafting to Bombay,” a documentary about three generations of a family who recollect their history
among the European Jews who found safe haven in Bombay after fleeing the Nazis
and “Forgotten Transports: To Estonia,” the third in Lukas Pribyl’s
seminal series of documentaries on Czech Jews in WWII which in this case,
chronicles girls who were transported together through the Nazi archipelago of
camps in Estonia.
2010: Jonathan Biss, American-Jewish pianist is
schedule to perform at the Kaufman Concert Hall in New York City.
2010: As part of its pre-festival screening The
Northern Virginia 10th International Jewish Film Festival showed of
"No. 4 Street of Our Lady" a film tells the story of a
Polish-Catholic woman who rescues 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the war.
2011: The Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater
Washington is scheduled to sponsor a workshop entitled Women’s World War II
Resistance at Beth El Hebrew Congregation is Alexandria, VA.
2011: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag” by Sigrid Nunez.
2011: The Los Angeles Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including “Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited
Our Modern World” by James Carroll.
2011(13th of Nisan. 5771): “The
teenager who was critically wounded after Gaza terrorists launched an
anti-aircraft missile at a school bus in southern Israel earlier this month
succumbed to his wounds today. 16-year-old Daniel Viflic died in the Soroka
Medical Center in Be'er Sheva after his condition seriously deteriorated last
week. The missile hit the bus traveling near Kibbutz Sa'ad just moments after
it had dropped off the rest of the school children, wounding Viflic and the bus
driver, who was moderately wounded by shrapnel wounds in his leg.
2011 Israeli security forces have arrested two
teenage residents of the West Bank Arab village of Awarta for allegedly
carrying out last month's murder of five family members in the settlement of
Itamar, the lifting of a gag order revealed today.
2011(13th of Nisan. 5771):
Ninety-four-year-old Dr. Alfred M. Freedman, a psychiatrist and social reformer
who led the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 when, overturning a
century-old policy, it declared that homosexuality was not a mental illness”
passed away today.
2012: Dr. Neil Gillman is scheduled to begin
teaching “The Prophets: An Anthology” at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish
Learning.
2012: “On the run from the Nazis. A Boynton man
remembers” published today.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/on-the-run-from-the-nazis-a-boynton-man-remembers/nN3DP/
2012: “Paul Goodman Changed My Life is
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival followed by a
Q&A with filmmaker Jonathan Lee.
2013: Dr. Diane M. Sharon is scheduled to begin
teaching “Reading the Hebrew Bible in One Year’ at the Skirball Center for
Adult Jewish Learning.
2013: The Center for Jewish History, Leo Baeck
Institute and Taschen Books are scheduled to present “The Hanover Esther
Scroll, 1746 – a Masterpiece of Jewish Scribal Art Rediscovered.
2013: “Let My People Go and “Simon and the
Oaks” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Renee Firestone, the native of Hungary
who survived Auschwitz is scheduled to address students at Washington High
School, Xavier High School and Coe College.
2013: The Helly Nahmad Gallery remained closed
today following the arrest of Hillel Nahmad for his alleged role in an
international money laundering and gambling conspiracy. Nahmad is the scion of
a prominent family that traces its roots to the famous Jewish community of
Aleppo where it was led by the patriarch who was also named Hillel Nahmad
2013: Two Grad rockets were fired on the
southern city of Eilat this morning. One landed in a residential neighborhood
and the other in an open area in the outskirts of the city
2014: Alexander Fiterstein, Ian David Rosenbaum
and Arnaud Sussman are scheduled to perform at the Kaplan Penthouse.
2014: “The Jewish Cardinal” is scheduled to be
shown at the JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival.
2014: "Zero Motivation” a zany, dark
comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers
is scheduled to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2015(28th of Nisan, 5775):
Ninety-one-year-old real estate tycoon A. Alfred Taubman passed away today.
2015: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met
with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett today and later with Yisrael Beytenu
head Avigdor Liberman as well, as an initial deadline for the formation of a
new governing coalition approached with no deals yet made.”
2015: It was reported today that “over 90
people had attended a Yom HaShoah Commemoration at the Dublin Hebrew
Congregation sponsored by the Jewish Representative Council.
2015: “Woman in Gold” is scheduled to open in
Israeli theatres today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-woman-in-gold-premieres-meet-the-man-who-battled-for-the-klimt/
2015: “Rue Mandar” and “The Art Dealer” are
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015: “Lost Stories, Found Images: Portraits of Jews in Wartime
Amsterdam” which has been on display at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco
is scheduled to come to an end today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/wartime-mystery-on-display-with-new-portrait-trove-of-dutch-jews/
http://www.jewishfed.org/news/events/lost-stories-found-images-portraits-jews-wartime-amsterdam
2016(9th of
Nisan, 5776): Eight-four-year-old broadcaster Elton Spitzer, the driving force
behind WLIR, passed away today.
2016: Under the
leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz, the chair of the Jewish Studies Department,
Tulane University is scheduled to host “Kol
Minei Dvarim: All Different Things” - The Inaugural Jewish Studies
Colloquium
2016: In Cedar Rapids,
Iowa The Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund under the leadership of Dr. Robert
Silber and the Inter-Religious Council of Linn County are scheduled to host the
annual Yom HaShoah Service where “the speaker will be Magda Brown, who was 17
years old in 1944 when she and her family were deported on one of the final
transports to Auschwitz-Birkenau..
2016: In Northern
Virginia, the Olam Tikvah Men’s Club is scheduled to host its Survivors Tribute
Brunch where Irene Fogel Weiss, “a survivor of Auschwitz who has made many
presentations of her story and testified recently at the trial of a Nazi
Auschwitz official in Germany” will be honored.
2016: “Raise the Roof”
is among the pictures to be shown on the final day of the Northern Virginia
Jewish Film Festival.
2016: In Atlanta, GA,
the Breman Museum is scheduled to host Hershel Greenblat who spent the first
two years of life hiding with other Jews in a dark cave in Ukraine and the next
five years in a DP camp before coming to the United States in 1950.
2016: “Rock in the Red
Zone” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2016: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
America’s War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich and the recently released paperback
editions of Michelle Obama: A Life by Peter Slevin, Ravensbrück: Life
and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm, Thieves
of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes and Publishing:
A Writer’s Memoir by Gail Goodwin
2017(21st
of Nisan, 5777): Seventh Day of Pesach
2017(21st
of Nisan, 5777): Eighty-one-year-old forensic psychiatrist Dr. Robert L. Sadoff
passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/robert-sadoff-dead-forensic-psychiatrist.html
http://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/36/3/286.full.pdf
2017: In Jerusalem,
the Hebrew Music Museum is scheduled to host several “interactive exhibits and
activities” as part of their Passover program to acquaint visitors with “the
rich traditions of Jewish and Israeli music.”
2017: While
hundreds of Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike, Israelis used “life
fire” to control the mobs who joined in supporting the prisoners, many of whom
were convicted terrorists.
2018: The Jewish
Federation of Cleveland Yom Hazikaron ceremony is scheduled to take place today
at the Mandel JCC Stonehill Auditorium in Beachwood.
2018: Today, “the
state attorney general plunged” Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, the Jewish
Republican who had already “admitted to an extramarital affair with his former
hairdresser” “even more deeply into political and legal jeopardy saying the
governor may committed a felony in using a charity’s donor list for political
funding raising.”
2018: Today, four
days after he had passed away funeral services were scheduled to be held at
Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan for award winning chemist
Charles Gelman, the New York born son of Fay and Rita Gelman and husband of
Rita Gelman who was the holder
of a BS from Syracuse and MS from the University of Michigan and who after
serving in the United States Army founded Gelman Instrument Company led to him
being a “recipient of the Michigan Science and Technology Trailblazer Award.”
http://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/annarbor/obituary.aspx?n=charles-gelman&pid=188743198&fhid=16291
2018: The Leo Baeck
Institute is scheduled to host a talk by Rudolf Klein a professor of modern
architectural history at Szent István University” “on his new book, Synagogues
in Hungary, 1867–1918 “which “is the first comprehensive study that
systematically covers all synagogues in Hungary from the Edict of Tolerance by
Joseph II to the end of World War I.”
2018: Holocaust
survivor Michael Bornstein who was only four years old when liberated and his
daughter Debbie Bornstein Holinstat are scheduled to speak at Kirkwood
Community College in Cedar Rapids and at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon as part
of the Yom HoShoah memorial which is being sponsored by The Thaler Holocaust
Education Programming Committee chaired Dr. Robert Silber.
2018: Today in
Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chais is scheduled to host a Yom HaZikaron event that will
include “animated films from the Panim project” as well as music and personal
stories.
2019: At the University
of Pennsylvania, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies is scheduled to
host Dr. Keren Dotan as she shares her research on “Hebrew Prose by
Late-Ottoman Rabbis from Eretz Israel.”
2019: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Holocaust
survivor Steven Fenves as part of First Person Conversation series.
2019: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “From Swastika to Jim Crow”
the documentary “based on the book by Gabrielle Simon Edgecomb.
2020: The day after
Pesach ended, the Lido Kosher Deli and Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen are among the
kosher eateries scheduled to open today.
2020(23rd of
Nisan, 5780): Yahrzeits Rabbis Moses Tani of Safed and David Deutsch of
Budapest.
2020: The Israeli
American Council in Boston is scheduled to present on-line “Flow No Fear: How
to Stay Calm and Grounded During Challenging Times.”
2020: The ban on Muslim
at the Temple Mount which has the approval of the Waqf which means no Friday
Prayers today, is now scheduled to continue through the end of Ramadan.
2020: As Israelis
prepared for Shabbat, they can contemplate the impact of yesterday’s decision
to “slowly start re-opening businesses on April 19.
2021: After two
successive nights of rocket attacks from Gaza, Israelis prepare for a possible
third such attack as Shabbat ends this evening.
2021: This afternoon,
the JCC Contra Costa is scheduled to present an in-person, Israel-themed
scavenger hunt for Israel Independence Day.
2021: Jazz singer Noa
Levy is scheduled to present Jewish contributions to Broadway musicals in her
one-woman show that includes the 2019 documentary “On Broadway.
2021: The JCC of
Greater Boston is scheduled to present the “PJ Library Woodland Art Hike.”
2021(5th of
Iyar, 5781): Parashat Tazria-Metzora;
2021: Scott Rudin, a
powerful Broadway producer facing renewed accusations of bullying, apologized today
for “troubling interactions with colleagues” and said he would step aside from
“active participation” in his current shows. (As reported by Michael Paulson)
2022(16th of
Nisan, 5782): Second Day of Pesach
2022: Jewish Heritage
Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to be closed today in observance of
Pesach.
2022:
2022: For the first
time UK Jewish Film is scheduled host an online screening of “The Dinner.”
2022: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems by
Nelly Sachs, “best known as a Holocaust poet.”
2023: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Maiken
Umbach on “Photographing Departures and Arrivals: Picturing global Jewish
migrations in the era of the Holocaust.”
2023: Based on
previously published reports the Labour party is scheduled to withdraw from
talks sponsored by President Herzog “aimed at reaching a broad agreement over
the government’s controversial judicial overhaul legislation, because it claims
that backroom deals were being cut without its involvement” at the same time
that the Netanyahu government is moving to pass legislation that would lower
the age for Hardei exemption from serving in the IDF and other legislation that
would “severely limited the power of ministry legal advisers.”
2023: The Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host its Yom HaShoah
observance this evening at Caspe Terrace.
2023: Through the
generous support of the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization, the
Provost’s Global Forum is scheduled to host the “Festival of Cotemporary Music
from Israel” which begins tonight.
2023: Feast Day of Pope
Evaristus, who was “born in Greece of a Jewish father named Juda, originally
from the city of Bethlehem, reigned for thirteen years, six months and two
days, under the reigns of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan, from the Consulate of
Valens and Veter (96) until that of Gallus and Bradua.”
2023: In the evening,
beginning of the observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
2024: The Elie Wiesel
Foundation, chaired by the writer’s son Elisha, has joined the Uyghur Human
Rights Project and the World Uyghur Congress is scheduled to hold a two-day New
York conference starting today entitled “Disrupting Uyghur Genocide.”
2024: The Jewish
Federation is scheduled to host it’s phonathon fund raiser “Wonderful
Wednesday.”
2024: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host an evening with Randolph Churchill
and Allen Packwood as they discuss “Churchill, the Jews and Israel: Romantic
Saviour or Political Pragmatist.”
2014: Town Hall in New
York is scheduled to host a performance of “Address Unknown,” which is “based
on the bestselling novel, which was written as an anti-fascist warning and
banned in 1930s Germany for dramatically exposing the threat of Nazism, Address
Unknown tells the story of one friendship, one love, and one betrayal.”
2024: Beit Agnon is
scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Daniel Epstein on “What Can Socrates Teach
Us These Days?”
2024: As April 17th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 194
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.)
2025(19th of
Nisan, 5785): Fifth Day of Pesach
2025: Based on
previously published reports the Islamic Jihad terrorist have released “the
first video showing proof of life of Rom Braslavski, a 21-year-old Israeli
hostage abducted during the October 7 attack.”
2025: Based on
previously published reports, “Noa Argamani, a Hamas captivity survivor who was
abducted from the Nova music festival and rescued in a daring operation that
claimed the life of commando Arnon Zmora, after 245 days held by Hamas, has be
selected for Time magazine's list of the
100 most influential people in the world.”
2025: “Israeli YouTube
sensation DJ Raphi has officially crossed the one million subscriber mark — an
achievement he calls “definitely surreal.”
2025: “Agnon’s Poetry
Passover Theatrical Tour” is scheduled to take place at the Hansen House in
Jerusalem
2025: As April 17th
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, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages
begin day 559 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: In Jerusalem, the
Yedidya Synagogue is sched to host “a weekly literary sermon by Rabbi Daniel
Epstein” during which he will discuss the concept of time through reading
various works of literature and thought.
2026: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host Rabbi Jonathan Shippel as he discusses the
Parsha of the Week.
2026: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Renee Birnberg Silberman whose
“presentation is focused on her mother, Manya, a Polish Jewish Holocaust
Survivor.”
2026: Observance of
National Ellis Island History Day which encourages families to explore their
ancestry and discover family who immigrated through Ellis Island which was the
entry point into the “Golden Land” for untold number of Jewish immigrants
2026(30th of
Nisan, 5786): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2026: As April 17th begins in Israel, a ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is scheduled to take place. (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)
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