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753 BCE: According to
tradition, on this date Romulus and Remus founded Rome. Considering the impact that Rome would have
on the Jewish people this date is worth noting.
586: Ricard I became
King the Visigoth King of Hispania. “A
year later converted from Arianism to Catholicism, which changed the nature of
life in Iberia in the same way that Constantine's conversion had changed things
in the Roman Empire. Recared approved the Third Council of Toledo's move in 589
to forcibly baptize the children of mixed marriages between Jews and
Christians. Toledo III also forbade Jews from holding public office, from
having intercourse with Christian women, and from performing circumcisions on
slaves or Christians. Still, Recared was not entirely successful in his
campaigns: not all Visigoth Arians had converted to Catholicism; the
unconverted were true allies of the Jews, oppressed like themselves, and Jews
received some protection from Arian bishops and the independent Visigothic
nobility.”
629: Emperor Heraclius
marched into Jerusalem at the head of his army. Heraclius was head of the
Eastern Roman Empire. During the fifth and sixth centuries the Christian
rulers tried to make life for Jews in Palestine as difficult as possible.
Heraclius was defeated by the Persians and the Jews sided with the Persians who
were viewed as liberators. The joy was short lived as the Christians
re-took the land from the Persians and punished the Jews severely.
Ultimately all of this matter very little since the Arabs would soon appear in
Palestine and Islam would become the dominate force.
1073: Pope Alexander II
passed away. In 1063, Pope Alexander II had given his blessing to Iberian
Christians in their wars against the Muslims, granting both a papal standard
and an indulgence to those who were killed in battle. This was another act in
the battle between Moslems and Christians for control of Spain. The Jews were caught in the middle and their
fortunes fluctuated over the centuries.
In hindsight, this was really just one more step in the long path that
led to the expulsion in 1492.
1142: Theologian and
philosopher Peter Abelard “who had written dialogues that, while insisting that
Christianity was superior to Judaism showed scholarly respect for Jewish
sources” passed away today. (Josephus 229)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abelard/
1214: Innocent III who “established
a restrictive, "servitude" status for Jews, blending official
protection against violence with policies promoting deep social and economic
degradation” and who “prohibited Jews from holding public office, mandated they
wear distinctive clothing, and urged segregation, initiating policies that
heavily impacted Jewish life for centuries” the Papal bull called Bulla Aurea.”
1481(13th of
Iyar, 5241): Jews of Seville burned at the stake
1499: The New
Christians, including those who had been forcibly baptized, are forbidden to
leave Portugal.
1500: Today “seaweed
was spotted by sailors serving in the fleet under the command of Portuguese
explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral who was accompanied by Gaspar da Gama, a Polish
born Jew whose slave name had been Yusuf ‘Adil before being forcibly converted to
Christianity, which led them to believe they were near land.
1506: Three days of
anti-Semitic rioting ends in Lisbon, Portugal where two thousand Jews were
killed by the mobs.
1509: Henry VII, King
of England passed away. Henry negotiated
the marriage between his son, the Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand
and Isabella of Spain (the monarchs who had expelled the Jews from Spain). One of the terms of the marriage was that the
Jews would never be allowed to return to England. If Henry had not agreed to this term, the
marriage would not have taken place.
1551: Charles V, who “issued
a proclamation against Christians who were suspected of being lax in the faith
and against Jews who had not been baptized in Gelderland and Utrecht; and he
repeated these edicts in 1545 and 1549” completed his reign as Archduke of
Austria under the name of Charles I
1564 Thomas Lorkin the father-in-law of Edward Lively, the
Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge and considered “the greatest of
Hebraist, was created Regius Professor of Physic.”
1574: Fifty-four-year-old
Cosimo de’ Medici whose record regarding the Jews was a mixed bag passed away
today. On the one hand in “1551 he had issued an invitation to merchants from
the Levant, including Jews, to settle in Tuscany and do business there and in
1557 he gave asylum to Jewish refugees from the Papal States while refusing to
implement the anti-Jewish restrictions issued by Pope Paul IV “or to hand over
the Jews to the Inquisition. On the
other hand, “he yielded to Papal pressure” ordering the burning of the Talmud
and “rigorously applying the requirement the Jews wear the distinctive ‘Jews
Badge.’” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1585(22nd of Nisan, 5345): Sixteenth century Salonica born
Rabbi Moses ben Joseph di Trani (Mabit) passed away in Safed.
http://www.zissil.com/topics/Rabbi-Moshe-ben-Yosef-di-Trani
1619: Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz, who was born at Lenczyk in 1550 and
who studied with Solomon Luria in Lublin before being appointed rabbi of Prague
in 1604 passed away today
1649: The
Toleration Act was passed by the Maryland Assembly. It protected Roman
Catholics within the American colony against Protestant harassment, which had
been rising as Oliver Cromwell's power in England increased. Maryland had been founded under the Catholic
Calvert family. They were trying to
create a refuge for English Catholics.
The Jews benefited from what was a clash between different branches of
Christianity.
1729: Birthdate of Catherine the Great, Tsarina of Russia from 1762 to
1796. Under Catherine, Russia took part
in the three-way partition of Poland which gave Russia its large Jewish
population. At first, her treatment of
her new Jewish subjects was fairly tolerant.
She saw them as an economic asset.
But in her later years she succumbed to the demands of Christian
merchants and began to tighten the noose around the neck of the Jews. In the end, she laid the groundwork for the
creation of what came to be known as The Pale of Settlement.
1761(17th of Nisan, 5521): Third Day of Pesach
1767(22nd of Nisan, 5527): Eighth Day of Pesach
1764(19th of Nisan, 5524): Shabbat shel Pesach
1769(14th of Nisan, 5529: Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1769: The group of Spanish soldiers and priests continued their northward
trek towards California bringing the Inquisition to the Pacific Coasts.
1772(18th of Nisan, 5532): Fourth Day of Pesach observed on
the same day as the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Meir Abulfaya, Ha Levi who passed away in
1244 observed.
1775(21st of Nisan, 5535): Seventh Day of Pesach
1775: Rebel forces, now serving under General Artemas Ward, began to
extend their lines around Boston in what would become the eleven-month siege of
Boston.
1777(14th of Nisan, 5537): Fast of the first born; erev Pesach
observed on the same day that General George Washington wrote to British
General William Howe concerning the exchange of prisoners during the American
Revolution.
1778: In Savannah, GA, Sarah De La Motta and Levi Sheftall who were
married in 1768 at St. Croix, the bride’s home island, gave birth to Rachel
Sheftall.
1783(19th of Nisan 5543): Fifth Day of Pesach
1787(3rd of Iyar, 5547): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1787: In Georgetown, SC, Bella Moses and Samuel Cohen who had been wed in
1786 in the bride’s hometown of Charleston gave birth to Divinah Cohen, the
wife of Isaac Minis with whom she had sixteen children.
1791(17th of Nisan, 5551): Third Day of Pesach
1797: Birthdate of Joseph Defflis who passed away at the age of 13 months
after which he was buried at the Bray Street Jewish Cemetery.
1798: Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born son of Eva Jacob Cohen and
Benjammin Jonas Cohen and his wife Eva Gompertz gave birth toe Henri Theodor
Cohen who died before his first birthday.
1799(16th of Nissan, 5559): Second Day of Pesach
1799: Having defeated an Ottoman Army five days ago, French forces
continued their siege of Acre while waiting for field guns that could breach
the walls.
1800: In Amsterdam, Eva Gompertz and Abraham Benjamin Cohen gave birth to
Charles Cohen.
1805(22nd of Nisan, 5565): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1805: Birthdate of Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd baronet, a Christian
evangelical who was, on his mother’s side of the family, the great-grandson of
Jewish financier Sampson Gideon and a financial support of the Jaffa-Jerusalem
railway.
1808: The name of Raphael Bischoffsheim was included on a
list dated today that “included…the twenty-five foremost Jews” in the city of
Mayence. The authorities were to choose the representatives for Napoleon’s
Sanhedrin from the names on that list.
Born in 1773, at Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber, he went to Mayence during
the French Revolution, and from a small merchant became a purveyor to the army.
Bischoffsheim was president of the Jewish community of Mayence prior to his
death in 1814.
1813(21st of Nisan, 5573): Seventh Day of Pesach
1813(21st of Nisan, 5573): Pinkus Landau, the Polish born son
of Wolf and Estera Landau, the husband of Rozla Landau and the father of Icek
Lanau passed away today.
1814: Birthdate of Brigitte Simon, the husband of Hartvig Abraham von
Essen the mother of Ferdinand and Ida Frederikke Von Essen.
1818(15th of Nisan, 5578): Pesach
1821(19th of Nisan, 5581): Shabbat shel Pesach
1821(19th of Nisan, 5581): Frances Lazarus, the wife Ezekiel
Hart the Canadian Jewish businessman and political leader whom she married in
1794 passed away today at Trois-Rivieres.
1822(30th of Nisan, 5582): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1822: Abraham ben Simon married Beila bat Simhah HaLevi at the Western
Synagogue.
1822: Two days after he had passed away Abrahm Hart, the father of Hyman
Hart, was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1823: At “Old Change, Cheapside,” Rose and Barnet Salomons gave birth to
Julia Salomons who passed away two months after her third birthday.
1825: In the Netherlands, Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the son of Levie
Emanuel Goudsmit and Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife Aleida Leentje
Abraham van Raalte gave birth to Joel Goldsmith the husband of Hannah Samuels
and father of Henry Goldsmith; Solomon Goldsmith; Lizzie Goldsmith; Abraham
Goldsmith; Louisa Goldsmith; and Margaret Goldsmith.
1826(14th of Nisan, 5585): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1827: Esther Gabriel Nunes Da Costa and Jacob Samuel Suhami gave birth to
Rachel Jacob Suhami.
1833: In London James Graham Lewis and his wife gave birth to George
Lewis who would become a successful lawyer known to posterity as Sir George
Henry Lewis, 1st Baronet, whose first wife Victorine Kahn, the
daughter of Philip Kahn of Frankfort, passed away his 32nd birthday
after which he married Elizabeth Eberstadt, the daughter of Ferdinand Eberstadt
of Manheim Germany.
1835(22nd of Nisan, 5595): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1836: Three days after he had passed away, 7-year-old John Cohen, the son
of Isaac and Sara Cohen was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1836: Texans under the command of General Sam Houston defeated the
Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto which resulted in Mexican recognition
of the Republic of Texas. Among the Jews who served with Houston was Dr. Albert
Moses Levy, the Surgeon in Chief for this fledgling force. Adolphus Sterne was a friend of Houston from
their days in Tennessee, and he helped raise funds for the Texans.
1840(18th of Nisan, 5600): Fourth Day of Pesach
1840: Birthdate of Asher (Arthurd) Simhah Weissmann, the native of
Galicia who served as director of two different Jewish schools before settling
in Vienna where he pursued a literary career that included workds on “cremation
according to the Bible and Talmud” and “the canonization of the of the Books of
the TaNach.”
1843(21st of Nisan, 5603): Seventh Day of Pesach
1843: Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, the sixth son of George III
(the one who lost the 13 colonies) who “became
a Patron of the Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum, later to become the charity
known as Norwood” and who supported legislation to remove “the civil
liabilities of Jews” passed away today.
1845(14th of Nisan,
5605): Fast of the First Born and erev Pesach
1846: Formation of the United Order of True Sisters
1848(18th of Nisan, 5608): Fourth Day of Pesach observed on
the birthdate of Carl Stumpf, the psychologist and musicologist whose students
included Wolgang Kohler who protested again the dismissal of Jewish professors
during the Nazi regime and Kurt Lewin
1849: In Paris, Nathé Weil and
Adèle Weil gave birth to Jeanne Clemence Weil who became Jeanne Clemence Proust
when she married Dr. Adrien Proust with whom she had two children, Marcel
Proust and Robert Proust.
1851(19th of Nisan, 5611): Fifth Day of Pesach
1853: In London, Ann Davis and Solomon Hyman Cohen gave birth to Louisa
Cohen
1854: In Brighton, Joseph Pyke, the ward of the Central Synagogue in
London and his wife gave birth to London University educated barrister, a
member of the executive committee of the Anglo-Jewish association, an avid
yachtsman the holder of a “leading position of the Admiralty Court.”
1855(3rd Iyar, 5615): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1855: The Lackawanna and Western Railroad for which Chicago native and
Purdue University graduate Abraham Burton Cohen “an American civil engineer
built record-breaking concrete Tunkhannock Viaduct, the world's largest
concrete structure leased the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad to Ithaca on
Cayuga Lake today.
1856(16th of Nisan, 5616): On the same day Jews observed the
Second Day of Pesach, in Melbourne, “building workers agitated for the
eight-hour day.”
1858: As of this date, records show that the Association for the Free
Distribution of Matzos to the Poor had spent a grand total of $691.87 to ensure
that indigent Jews would have unleavened bread to celebrate the recently
completed Passover holiday.
1859(17th of Nisan, 5619): Third Day of Pesach
1860: In “From Southern Africa” published today it was reported that “The
Jews of the Cape had subscribed £183 for the benefit of their suffering
brethren in Morocco. Where is the place in the wide world to which the Jew does
not penetrate?”
1860: A letter to the editor published today from a former prizefighter
recounts the history of pugilism in England and the United. It included the
following positive description of Jewish skill in the ring. ‘”In spite of their
muscle, their undoubted courage, and admitted pugnacity, no Irishman has ever
long held a distinguished place in the Ring. The Jews, on the other hand, not
famous for any of these qualities, have always, from the days of Menodoza and
Aby Belasco, had a good position, and like their great countryman, Judas
Maccabeus, have "made battles and been renowned in the uttermost part of
the earth." [Mendoza is the 18th century British fighter Daniel
Mendoza. Belasco was a well-known
fighter in “the post Mendoza era.”]
1861: It was reported today that in his study of the synchronisms of
ancient Assyrian and Egyptian History, Sir Henry Rawlinson has discovered “the first clear account of a conflict between the
Egyptians and the Assyrians occurs in the reign of Sargon, (B.C. 721- 702,) who
was, as we know from the Bible, the King who carried away the Jews captives
from Samaria.”
1862(21st of
Nisan, 5622): Seventh Day of Pesach
1863(2nd of
Iyar, 5623): Edwin Warren Moise the ten-year-old New Orleans born son of Judge
Edwin Warren Moise and Louise Hubert Moise passed away today in Alexandria, LA
after which he was buried in Lafayette Cemetery in New Orleans.
1863: Union General Hooker
finalized his plan of attack for what would become the Battle of
Chancellorsville, which would prove to be Lee’s He hoped to fool the South into thinking that
Fredericksburg was his main target while moving three corps of troops against
Lee’s left flank. 2000 mules were acquired by Hooker to speed up the movement
of his army.
1864(15th of Nisan,
5624); First day of Pesach
1864: Today at Chicago
Johanna Haas, the German born daughter Levy and Helena Haas became Johanna Haas
Westheimer when she married St. Joseph, MO merchant Samuel Westheimer after
which she moved to St. Joseph where she served as the treasurer of the Jewish
Ladies’ Benevolent Society of St. Joseph and raised eight children.
1864: Isaac J. Levy, a
Confederate Soldier serving with the 46th Virginia Infantry participated in a
Seder at Adams Run South Carolina. Levy
would later admit that he was confused as to the date of the start of the
holiday. (As an example of the confusion
that can take place in reporting events, Abraham Bloch described Levy as being
a Union soldier)
1864: Birthdate of Max
Weber of German native who was one of the fathers of modern
sociology. He was also a noted economist and historian. "Weber
was among those who believed that modern capitalism was the product of
religious notions, variously termed the Protestant work ethic and the Calvinist
salvation panic...He also believed that Jewish businessmen, like Calvinist
ones, tended to operate most successfully when they had left their traditional
religious environment." Obviously, some of his ideas are
open to debate based on historical evidence. But he was an intellectual
giant regardless of whether or not you agree with his theories. He passed
away in 1920.
1865(21st of
Nisan, 5625): Seventh Day of Pesach
1865(21st of
Nisan, 5626: The former Victorine Kahn, the daughter of Philip Kahn, the wife
of Sir George Henry Lewis and mother of
Alice Victorine Kahn, the wife of Abraham Lionel Hart, passed away today on her
husband’s thirty-second birthday.
1865: In Albany, NY,
the Argus published an account of Rabbi Max Schlesinger’s talk at Temple Anshe
Emeth expressing his feelings about the assassination of President Lincoln and
the decision of Congregation to hold services three times on the day of Lincoln’s
funeral, “first at 6 a.m. for morning prayers, at 10 a.m. for a sermon by Rabbi
Gotthold and at 6 p.m. for evening prayers.”
1865(21st of
Nisan, 5625): Twenty-five-year-old Victorine Kann, the first wife of Sir George
Lewis died today shortly after having given birth to their daughter Alice
Victorine Lewis.
1866: Birthdate of San
Francisco native and University of California graduate Julius Wangenheim, “a
bridge engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad and San Diego wholesale
grocer who was instrumental in developing Balboa Park and other civic endeavors
in San Diego.
https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations/wangenheim/juliuswangenheim
https://pancalarchive.org/wangenheimjulius/
1866: Birthdate of
Prussian Army officer and American and German journalist Eduard Golbeck, the
husband of Lina Abarbanell, the German soprano who was a descendent of
Sephardic Jews from Bulgaria and the father-in-law of composer Marc Blitzstein.
1867(16th of Nisan, 5627): Second Day
of Pesach celebrated that the Springhill, TN home of Henry Eddy, a veteran of
the Union who defied the KKK and was running a Freedmen’s Bureau was attacked but
he remained at his work in defiance of the forces of bigotry which we taking
hold in the former slave holding states.
1868: Birthdate of
Bella (Epstein) Unterberg, the wife of philanthropist Israel Unterberg who
founded the Young Women’s Hebrew Association in her home in September of 1902
passed away today.
https://jwa.org/media/ywha-bella-unterberg-still-image
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/young-womens-hebrew-association
https://www.jta.org/1935/12/12/archive/rites-held-for-mrs-unterberg-dead-at-67
1868: Birthdate of Vilna native Rabbi Louis
Lazerow, the “founder of Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol on Rutgers Street
in New York” and author of “32 religious works” including “The Voice of Judea”
and “The Jewish Speaker” who was the husband of “the former Sarah Kaplan” and
the father of three daughters and two sons – Samuel and Elihu, “a high school
teacher in Brooklyn” passed away today
1869: In Rohrheim,
Germany, Hirsh and Jette (Schloss) Gutman gave birth to Joseph Gutman who in
1884 came to New York where he founded Pacific Novelty Company, married Emma A
Haas and served as member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Society of
New York City.
1870(20th of
Nisan, 5630): Sixth day of Pesach
1870: Birthdate of
University of North Carolina trained lawyer Angus W. McClean who in 1926 while
serving as Governor “issued a proclamation urging all the leaders of public
thought, non-Jews as well as Jews, throughout the State to volunteer their
services to help raise North Carolina’s quota of $200,000 which is the state’s
part in the national United Jewish Campaign.
1871(30th of Nisan,
5631): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1871: In New York,
Bernard Werner and his wife gave birth to lithographer Simon Werner, the Paris
trained artist whose “drawings and illustrations” appeared in many popular
magazines including Harper’s and Ladies’ Home Journal and whose paintings were
“exhibited at the National Academy of Design.”
1875(16th of
Nisan, 5635): Second Day of Pesach
1878(18th of
Nisan, 5638): Fourth Day of Pesach
1878: In Podrovnah,
Russia, Rabbi Baruch Schneur and Zelda Rachel Schneerson gave birth to Levi
Yitzchak Schneerson, the father of the seventh and last Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/117515/jewish/Biography-of-Rabbi-Levi-Yitzchak.htm
1880: In New York,
Matilde (de Perkiewicz) and Max Liebling gave birth to soprano Estelle
Liebling, one of the most influential teachers of singing in America
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/liebling-estelle
1880: For the fiscal
year that ended today, the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum had receipts totaling
a little more than $35,000 and had made expenditures of $12, 327.34.
1880: In Prague, Barbara
/ Babette Bondy and Jakob Bondy gave birth to Bertha Fried
1880: In New York City
Matilde Perkiewicz and composer Max Liebling gave birth to soprano Estelle
Liebling, “one of the most influential teachers of singing in America…”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/liebling-estelle
1880: Benjamin Disraeli
completed his second and final term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1881(22nd of Nisan,
5641): 8th day of Pesach
1881: John J. and
Sophie Rosenthal gave birth to College of Pharmacy graduate Louis J. Rosenthal
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, MD trained surgeon and
husband of Beatrice L. Lauchheimer who
was an associate professor of proctology at the University of Maryland and
attending surgeon at Hebrew Hospital while also rising to the rank of Lt. Col.
in the United States Army Medical Corps during WWI where he saw action in the
Battle of Verdun and the Argonne Forest.
1881(22nd of
Nisan, 5641): “Jurist, publicist and scholar, Wolfgang Wessely who had been
born in Moravia in 1801 passed away today in Vienna.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Wessely_Wolfgang
1882: Based on
information first published in The Allegemeine
Zeitung, it was reported today that troops in the Russian city of Balte
joined in the plundering of the Jewish population instead of protecting it.
Forty Jews were injured in the riots, an unknown number of which later
died. A thousand homes were destroyed
and damage is estimated to be in excess of 4,500,000 rubles.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B01E0DB113EE433A25752C2A9629C94639FD7CF
1883: Birthdate of
Russian native Arnold K. Isreeli, the editor of newspapers in St. Petersburg
and Constantinople who in 1911 came to the United States where he continued
working as a newspaper editor before becoming the advertising manager for
General Motors and an active Zionist while raising a family with his wife, “the
former Sara Weitz Rubinstein.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/20/82046859.pdf
1883(14th of Nisan,
5643): Shabbat HaGadol; Erev Pesach
1883: In Birmingham,
AL, the Phoenix Club, whose members included M.V. Joseph and Joe Slaughter
which “meets the second Monday in April, July, October and January, was founded
today.
1884: Three men were
arrested tonight in Nashville, TN on charges that they took part in the assault
that left a Jewish citizen named Meyer Friedman beaten to death.
1884: The Montefiore
Home for Chronic Invalids was incorporated today, “under the name of the
"Montefiore Home, a Hospital for chronic Invalids"
1884: The Board of
Estimate and Apportionment met today and awarded funds to a variety of
charitable institutions including the United Hebrew Charities of the City of
New York ($8,500), Mount Sinai Hospital
and Dispensary (4,250) and the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews (1,820).
1884: The New York
Times reported on the plans being developed by the Jewish community to
celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore which will take
place in October. Leaders of the
community are calling for the establishment of Home for Chronic Invalids named
in the philanthropist’s honor. In
addition to raising funds to construct the building, the community will have to
raise $20,000 a year to operate the home.
1885: In Romania.
“Joseph and Yetta (Berman) Zingher gave birth to Cornell trained physician and
bacteriologist Abraham Zingher, the WW I Medical Corps Veteran and husband of Anna
L. Cherry who died prematurely under unusual circumstances.
1886: It was reported
today that oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller has gone to New York to meet with
those holding the mortgage on the University of Chicago. Rockefeller has taken an interest in creating
a course that will lead to solvency for the school provided that Professor H.L.
Harper would be named President of the school. Harper’s area of academic
expertise is the Hebrew language of which he is a professor. At this point in America, the only people
interested in Hebrew were a handful of Jews and academics teaching Biblical
topics at Protestant dominated colleges.
1886(16th of Nisan,
5646): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1888(10th of
Iyar, 5648): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1889: A report
published today described the transformation of a German Jewish intellectual
named Emin Bey into Emin Pasha a Moslem leader ruling over a large swath of
central Africa. Much of the information
was supplied by Henry Stanley, the same man who “found” Dr. Livingston.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D02E5D9123AE033A25752C2A9629C94689FD7CF
1890(1st of Iyar,
5650): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1890: Lucie Hadamard,
married Alfred Dreyfus.
1890: Alfred Dreyfus is
accepted at the Ecole Superiore de Guerre (Superior War College), the
prestigious French military school designed to train the elite members of the
French officer corps. Dreyfus will
graduate 9th in his class but his final evaluation will be marred by
the entries of an anti-Semitic French general.
1890: Birthdate of
Silesian native and decorated member of Austria’s World War I Army, Benno
Landsberger, a leading Assyriologist who like so many of his generation had his
career “interrupted by the rise of the Nazis
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcm4fww
1891: Rosa Gombesky a
young Russian Jewish immigrant who jumped from a fires-escape to the street
when the tenement at 194 Henry Street caught fire is being treated at
Gouverneur Hospital for the serious injuries she has suffered.
1892: In New York City,
Israel and Bella Epstein Unterbert gave birth to Doris Epstein Unterberg who
became Dore Epstein Unterberg Powell when she married Milton J. Powell.
1892: “A Moorish Jew,
Joseph MIzrachee” was sentenced to 10 years for shooting Henry Pereira Mendes,
the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel.
1892: “Typhus Among the
Russian Jews” published today described efforts by the Germans from preventing
infected Russians from crossing the border.
1893: The Austrian
Premier has informed the American government that it will not grant diplomatic
recognition to Max Judd, the St. Louis Jew, whom President Grover Cleveland
appointed as Counsel General for the United States at Vienna.
1893: “Jewish Ministers
Aroused” published today described the action being taken by Christian
organizations to convert Jews and the response of the Jewish community
including that of Temple Beth Israel’s Rabbi Lustiwig who said “The trouble is
that we have provided sufficient instruction for our people in the Jewish
faith. The introduction of Friday night and Sunday night lectures to take the
pace of Saturday services has done no good to Judaism. While it may be well enough to have lectures
at other times than Saturdays, we should above all other things observe Saturday,
and all of our synagogues should be supplied with minsters who will impress
upon the people the importance of Bible subjects.” (Editor’s note – This was
from a reform rabbi at a Reform Temple)
1894(15th of
Nisan, 5654): Pesach
1894(15th of
Nisan, 5654): Twenty-four-year-old Jessie Fraley, the son of Moses and Rose
Harsch Fraley and the brother of Sadie and Edward Fraley passed away today
after which he was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum in
Afton, MO.
1894: Today as Jews
munch on their matzah the bituminous coal strike that had come during the four
year-long Panic of 1893 came to an end and Norway formally adopted the
Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon
that would remain in service for almost 50 years
1894: Albert Goldsmid
whose father Henry Edward Goldsmid “had converted to Christianity to achieve
social and economic opportunities that were denied Jews” who as an adult converted to Judaism was
promoted to the rank Colonel while serving 104th Regiment of Foot in
the British Army today
1895: Professor Felix
Adler delivered a lecture on “The Ten Commandments: at Carnegie Hall” this
morning
1895: “The Trustees of
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which is controlled by the Hebrew Benevolent Society,
held their annual meeting” this morning.
1895: “Care of Hebrew
Orphans” published today described the origins and growth of Brooklyn Hebrew
Orphan Asylum which opened its doors fifteen years ago.
1895: Birthdate of
Alexander Raymond Katz, the Hungarian born “painter and muralist’ who in 1910
came to the United States where he studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and
gained fame as being “among the first Jewish artists to receive the approval of
Orthodox rabbis for his interpretive handling of such subjects as the Ten
Commandments” while raising two children, Joan and Donald, with his wife “the
former Elsie Engel.”
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alexander-raymond-katz-shabbat
1896(7th of Iyar,
5656): Baron Maurice de Hirsch passed away at his estate in Pressburg,
Hungary. While the name of Baron Hirsch
may be unfamiliar to many living in the 21st century, he was one of
the great philanthropists his time. The
Baron (and he really was a Baron) was part of an established, and extremely
wealthy family. The Baron funded a
variety of charities many of which were designed to provide relief for the
sufferings Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe.
He donated great sums to establish agricultural communities in North and
South America including Argentina, Canada and rural areas of the United
States.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Baronhirsch.html
1896: Oscar S. Straus,
who had served as U.S. Minister to Turkey told a reporter from the New York
Times that “It was my good fortune to enjoy the personal acquaintance of Baron
de Hirsch and my recollections of him, while tinged with sorrow at his sudden
death, are of the pleasantest kind.
1896: Léon Say, who had
worked on the on the Northern Railway Company which was owned by his friend
Alphonse de Rothschild and who had supported Rothschild’s fight to maintain
bimetallism while serving as Minister of Finance passed away today.
1897(19th of
Nisan, 5657): Fifth Day of Pesach
1897: Three days after
war broke between the Ottoman Empire, today the Jews of Salonika which was
still a part of the Ottoman domain munched on their Matzah, heavy fighting
began in Thessaly
1898: As the United States and Spain drifted into war after the
sinking of the Maine, “Spain severed diplomatic relations with the United
States and the U.S. Navy began a blockade of Cuba.” Fifteen of the sailors who died on the
Battleship Maine were Jewish.
Approximately 5,000 Jews served as volunteers in the military during the
war. A sixteen-year-old Jewish trooper
was the first casualty among Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
1899:
“Dreyfus Case Evidence” published today summarized the 24 columns of coverage
The Figaro devoted to the coverage of “testimony offered before the Court of
Cassation in the Dreyfus revision inquiry” including the statement by Major
Forzinetti who was the Director of the Chereche-Midi Prison in 1894 that
“Dreyfus consistently and persistently protested his innocence” and declared
“that his only crime was in having been born a Jew.”
1900(22nd
of Nisan, 5660): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat; Yizkor recited for the first
time in the 20th century.
1900: It
was reported today that Cobwebs “the famous Chestnut gelding” driven by Nathan
Straus was
in prime condition” but was carrying “a trifle too much flesh for speeding”
when last seen at “the Speedway.”
1901” “The
Jewish King Lear,” published described plans for “a performance of the Jewish
‘King Lear’ and his company which will be given at the People’s Theatre…for the
benefact of the Seward Park Playground.”
1901(2nd
of Iyar, 5661): Sixty-eight-year-old Isaac Gomez Peso, “the son of Gustavus I.
Pesoa and Juliet Pesoa, the husband of Elizabeth Pesoa and father of Florence
Gomez Pesoa passed away today in his hometown New York City.
1902(14th
of Nisan, 5662): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1902: In
New York, as Jews sit down to their Seders, they do not have to worry about
being able to buy supplies during the holiday because Mayor Low has told the
authorities not to enforce the Sunday closing laws during the holiday.
1903: Herzl
arrived in London as he continued to his quest to get support from leading
British political leaders and prominent English Jews for a Jewish homeland.
1903: The
Kishinev Pogrom “which began on Easter Day, and during which 49 Jews were
killed, 92 were gravely injured, over 500 were lightly injured and 1,500 homes
were damaged” came to an end today
1904: “The
resolution by Representative Goldfogle of New York to secure the recognition of
United States passports when presented by American citizens in Russia without
regard to their religious faith was adopted by the House to-day without
dissent, having been unanimously recommended by the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
1905(16th
of Nisan, 5665): Second Day of Pesach
1905(16th
of Nisan, 5665): Meyer Kayserling a
German-born rabbi who held pulpits in Switzerland and Hungary passed away in
Budapest. Born in 1829, Kayersling was a noted historian and prolific author.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kayserling_Meir
1906(26th
of Nisan, 5666):Parashat Shmini
1906: In
Moscow, at the Congress of Monarchists publisher Valdimir Gringmuth…” declared
that ‘Holy Russia’ must be saved from the Revolutions” whose “chief
conspirators” include “Jewish rabbis.”
1907:
Birthdate of Zuromin, Poland native and Hebrew scholar Elchanan Indelman who in
1947 came to the United States where he continued to write Hebrew and Yiddish
poetry while raising his two daughter Alta and Esther with his wife Leah.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/28/obituaries/elchanan-indelman.html
1907: The
invitations to the wedding of Abram Bijur and Angelita Wertheim which was to
have taken place tomorrow were “withdrawn today” because Isaac Bijur, the
father of the bridegroom” had died of apoplexy yesterday.
1908:
Birthdate of Berlin native Alfred Loew who gained fame as the American record
executive and co-founder with Max Margulis
of Blue Note Records
https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=112
1909(30th
of Nisan, 5669): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1909: In
Bridgeton, NJ, University of Pennsylvania graduate William M. Lewis, the son
Lithuanian born so of Jonas and Mildred Lewis married Marie Rosenthal today
after which he served on the Philadelphia City Council and on the Municipal
Court.
1909(30th
of Nisan, 5669): Eighty-year-old Edward Salomon, the 8th governor of
the state of Wisconsin passed away today.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5243
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&keyword=Edward+Salomon&term_id=2686
1910(12th
of Nisan, 5670): Ta’anit Bechorot
1910:
Tonight, Reverend Thomas M. Chalmers of the Jewish Evangelical Society of New
York City refused to discuss the Mayor’s rejection of his request “for a
license to preach for the conversion of Jews to Christianity…in the Brownsville
section of Brooklyn.”
1911: In
New York City, cigar maker Barnett Hart and the former Lillian Solomon gave
birth to producer and stage manager Bernard Hart, the younger brother of
playwright Moss Hart.
1911:
Birthdate of Bronx born Leonard Warenoff, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants
who gained fame as Leonard Warren, a leading baritone with the Met who died
suddenly while singing with his Richard Tucker another of the Jewish immigrants
who was a giant in the world of opera.
https://operawire.com/artist-profile-baritone-leonard-warren-legendary-verdi-interpreter/
1912: “The
year-old Wager Earners’ League for Woman Suffrage” whose co-founders included
Clara Lemlich and Rose Schneiderman “held its first mass rally today at New
York’s Cooper Union’s Great Hall of the People.”
1912: Rabbi
Stephen Wise, assisted by Rabbi Emil Hirsch of Chicago, is scheduled to lead a
memorial service at Carnegie Hall this morning honoring those who lost their
lives when the Titanic sank.
1912: In
Minneapolis, “Isadore and Molly (Edelman) Davis” gave birth to University of
Minnesota trained attorney and WW II veteran Julius E. Davis, the husband of
Lillian Stacia Kropman and father of Lawrence and Stephen Davis.
1912: In
speaking about the sinking of the Titanic, Rabbi Joseph Silverman says, “"Not
God was responsible for this great disaster but the imperfection of human
knowledge and judgment."
1913:
Tonight, Reverend Thomas M. Chalmers of the Jewish Evangelical Society refused
to comment on his application “for a license to preach for the conversion of
Jews to Christianity” on street corners in the sections of Manhattan,
Brownsville and Brooklyn that have large Jewish populations or on Mayor William
J. Gaynor’s letter rejecting his request.
1913(14th
of Nisan, 5673): Fast of the First Born
1913:
“Feast of Passover Begins This Evening”
published in the New York Times reports that “at sunset this evening, the celebration of
Pesach, the Feast of the Passover, will begin in the Jewish households
throughout the world. Pesach is the Spring festival of the Jews and was
specially ordained to commemorate the providential deliverance of the children
of Israel from the bondage in which they had been held for many years under the
Pharaohs of Egypt.”
1913(14th
of Nisan, 5673): The Young Men’s Hebrew Association will be holding a seder
tonight beginning at 7 o’clock which will be attended by many of the soldiers
and sailors stationed at nearby forts and naval yards.
1913(14th
of Nisan, 5673): Sixty-nine-year-old Isaac Aronwitz was the youngest person and
109-year-old Ettel Polansky was the oldest person at the seder held at the Home
of the Daughters of Jacob on East Broadway.
1914: The
second annual track and field championships of the Metropolitan League of the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association to plan tonight at the 69th Regiment
armory where Edward Lindebaum failed to break the world’s record for the 35-foot
rope climb.
1914:
Gompers (as in Samuel Gompers) versus the United States is reargued for the
second and final day today before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1915:
“Professor David G. Lyon of Harvard University gave an illustrated lecture on
‘The Samarian Excavations’ at the Menorah Society of Brown University.
1915(7th
of Iyar, 5675): Eighty-one year old Abraham Berliner who served as professor of
Jewish history and literature at Israel Hildesheimer’s Yeshiva in Berlin while
publishing an acclaimed edition of Rashi’s commentary on the Pentateuch and
bringing new life to the Mikitze Nirdamin, “a society for the publication of
old Hebrew books and manuscripts that were either never published or long out
of print” passed away today.
1915: In
London, Sarah and Abraham Goodman Jacobs gave birth to Henry Jacobs
1915: Seventy Jews from Palestine arrived in Alexandria. They described
the conditions in Jerusalem as terrible, with many people dying from
starvation. An eyewitness account from the village of Mea She’arim in Jerusalem
tells of the conditions:
"My God…I never imagined that such wretched poverty really
exists and that there really are such dark and filthy corners…. old men and
women bloated with hunger. Children with an expression of horror, the
devastation of hunger written on their faces…" This is an example of how
the fate of the Jewish homeland was tied up in the game of international power
politics. Palestine was part of the
Turkish Empire. The Turks were at war
with the Allies including the British who sought to take Palestine as a way to defend
the Suez Canal; the French who wanted colonies in that part of the Turkish
Empire that is now Syria and Lebanon; and the Russians who wanted to take
control of the Dardanelles and the Black Sea away from the Turks. A large
percentage of the Jewish population in Palestine had Russian origins. While many of the Jews in Palestine were
willing to fight on the side of the Turks, the Turks viewed the Jews as
Russians or English sympathizers. There
was more than a little truth to the Turkish view of things. At any rate, as the war dragged on, the Turks
worked to make life miserable for the Jews and the Jews became more sympathetic
to the Allied cause.
1916(18th of Nisan, 5676): Fourth Day of Pesach
1916: Dr. S. M. Melamed said today that The American Jewish Chronicle, a soon to published new publication,
said today it “would not in any sense be pro-German, but that it would give all
the news of Jewry without reference to race or religious differences.”
1916: It was reported today that one women in Kansas City have each
pledged “to donate a dollar a month to the Women’s Division of the Central
Jewish Relief Committee” for as longs the World War lasts.
1916: Today, in New York, “County Clerk Schneider received a letter from
Louis Schaffer, manager of the Naturalization Aid League” in which he wrote
“Permit us to thank you for the very splendid arrangements your office made for
the Passover week in order to accommodate the hundreds of Jews in this city who
applied for naturalization papers.”
1917(29th of Nisan, 5677): Parashat Shmini
1917(29th of Nisan, 5677): Nineteen-year-old Lance Corporal
the UK born son of Polly and Abraham Littman was killed in action today while
fighting with his Majesty’s Forces at Jerusalem where he was buried.
1917: Rabbi M.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Work
That Is Blessed” at Temple of Israel Harlem.
1917: Dr. Enelow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “God’s Dwelling
Place” at Temple Emanu-El
1917: Birthdate of Emanuel Vardi.
Born in Jerusalem Israel,
Vardi became a world-class violist who was featured with the San Diego Symphony
from 1978 to 1982.
1917: In a memorandum
bearing today’s date (April 21, 1917) Lord Cecil, who was deputizing for Lord
Balfour as Foreign Secretary during the Balfour Mission to America, wrote that:
‘I quite recognize the
very great difficult of carrying out the Zionist policy involving as it does a
strong preference for a British protectorate over Palestine. That seems to me
to make it the more desirable to get France to join us in an expression of sympathy
for Jewish Nationalist aspirations.’”
1917: A report
published today from the Central Committee of the Bund in St. Petersburg
concluded by saying “With one blow the Russian revolution has conquered
Czarism, abolished all restrictions and opened a new page in Jewish history. The liberation of the Jewish nation is in the
faithful hands of the revolutionary Russian nation.”
1918(9th of
Iyar, 5678): Lt. Frederick Adolphus Arron who had attended Uppingham and then
Cambridge before enlisting died today while serving with the Royal Field
Artillery.
1918: World War I:
German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", was
shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France. Despite rumors to the
contrary, the Red Baron was not Jewish.
According to film based on his life, one of his close friends was a
Jewish pilot named Friedrich Sternberg who was shot down and killed during the
war. This would have made Sternberg one
of over a hundred Jewish pilots who flew for the Kaiser during the Great War.
Ironically, Richtofen’s death would result in Herman Goering, the future Nazi
Number Two and head of the Luftwaffe, taking command of what was left of the
famed Flying Circus.
1918: Dr. Schulman is
scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The War and American Ideals” at Temple
Bethel.
1918: Dr. Isaac
Alcalay, the Chief Rabbi of Serbia, is scheduled to deliver a talk on “The Jews
of Serbia and of the Allied Countries” at Temple Emanu-El.
1918: At the Free
Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, Dr. Wise is scheduled to speak on “Why the World’s
Woe, Where the World’s Comfort? The Answer of Job.”
1918: Dr. Lissman is
scheduled to serve as the Master of Ceremonies at the installation ceremony of
Maxwell Sacks as Rabbi at Temple Israel of Washington Heights
1918: Birthdate of
Stephen Theodore Norman, the only grandchild of Theodore Herzl.
1919(21st of
Nisan, 5679): Seventh Day of Pesach
1919: In New York, the
East Side is expected “secure $100,000,000 in subscriptions during the Victory
Liberty Loan campaign opening today.
1919: Professor William
E. Dodd of the University of Chicago History Department is scheduled to discuss
“The Value of the League of Nations” during an open forum at the Sinai Social
Center in Chicago.
1920: One of two dates in FSB archives for the
death of Alexander Dubrovin, the founder of the anti-Semitic journal Russkoye
Znamya who helped organized “the pogroms of the Black Hundreds.
1920(3rd of
Iyar, 5680): Seventy-eight-year-old Silesian born American artist Henry Mosler
best known for his illustrations and the paintings of the Civil War passed away
today in New York City.
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=3435
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE4D9133FE432A25751C2A9629C946195D6CF
1921: “The Keren Yaseod
Bureau was open for the first time” today “at 50 Union Square and it was filled
all day with Jews offering their saving the” Zionist cause “in which they
believe.
1921: As the government
in New York State moved to enforce the prohibition laws, First Deputy Police
Commissioner Johan A Leach “received a call this afternoon from a delegation of
rabies who said they were short of wines for Passover” which begins tomorrow
evening.
1922: Final publication
of The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger.
1922(23rd of
Nisan, 5682): Seventy-year-old Philadelphia pawnbroker Abraham Henry Marcus the
husband of Sophia Marcus and father of Bertha, Retta and Henry Marcus, the
vaudevillian and “Pulp publisher” passed away today.
1923(5th of
Iyar, 5683): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1923: “Forty Jewish
students were seriously wounded to in clashes with Rumanian students on the
grounds of the University of Bucharest, despite the posting of military guards
to prevent a recurrence of the disorders which started” on April 20.
1924(17th of
Nisan, 5684): Third Day of Pesach
1924: In Berlin,
Johanna (Marcuse) Rothman and Max Rothman gave birth to Hans Rothman, who
gained fame as John Rothman, the developer of the New York Times Information
Bank, “a revolutionary system “that let computer users easily find journalism
by The Times and dozens of other publications” and who raised two children with
his Gertrude (Ullman) Rothman. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1924: In Berlin, Hanna
Wiernik and Egon Gluecksman gave birth to Syracuse alum and Cornell trained
attorney J.D. (Joe Dave) Gluecksman, the WW II veteran who settled in Los
Angeles.
1924: Birthdate of MGM executive Daniel Melnick, who was producer of the television comedy hit, Get Smart
1925: In
Vienna, Leontine and Moses Pollak, who perished during the Holocaust gave birth
to Siegfried Pollak who survived thanks to the Kindertransport program and who
gained fame as Sidney Pollard, the “British economic and labor historian and
Professor at the University of Sheffield” who “pioneered the study of the role
of economic management in the process of industrialization.”
1925: In
Little Rock, AR, Jesse Heiman and his wife gave birth to Max Adolph Heiman, the
brother of Rose Heiman and Robert Jesse Heiman.
1926: Zeta
Beta Tau fraternity announced today that “Rabbi Stephen S. Wise has been
awarded the Gottheil medal ‘for distinguished service to the cause of Judaism.
1926: In
Manhattan, Laurence Mayer and the former Mildred Miller gave birth to Roger
Laurance Mayer a film executive who was instrumental in preserving and
restoring countless classic movies and who owed his career, in a strange twist
to anti-Semitism since he turned to movie production work only after having
been turned down by several L.A. law firms because he was Jewish.
1927(19th
of Nisan, 5687): Fifth Day of Pesach
1927: In
Manhattan, Isidor Brokaw, a lawyer who was wiped out in the Great Depression
and the former Marie Hyde gave birth to Norman Robert Brokaw, the head of
William Morris and driving force in the entertainment industry.
1927: In New York Blanche Haft Brustein and Max Brustein gave birth to Robert Brustein, Dean
of the Yale School of Drama.
https://americanrepertorytheater.org/bio/robert-brustein/
1928(1st
of Iyar, 5688) Rosh Chodesh Iyar; Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1928: Dos
Heymishe Shtetl” directed by David Vardi
was performed today in New York City.
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/V/vardi-david.htm
1928: “The
Passion of Joan of Arc” a silent biopic based on the Joan’s trial filmed by
cinematographer Rudolph Maté was released in Denmark today.
1929: Mark
Eisner presided over a dinner tonight at the Biltmore which “marked the opening
of campaign to raise one million dollars to be used for assistance to
impoverished Jews of Eastern Europe” where attendees heard “messages from
President Hoover, Professor Albert Einstein and former Governor Al Smith” as
well as speeches by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor Lehman.
1929: “To
Honor Rabbi Loew” published today described the decision of “the Prague City
Council…to name a street in the former Jewish quart of the city for Rabbi
Jehuda Lowe-Bezalel, who is buried in the ancient Jewish cemetery” and who “was
known to thousands of Americans through the film ‘The Golem; based on the novel
by Gustav Maybrink.”
1930: Hank
Greenberg made his major league baseball debut.
1930:
“Ceremonies inaugurating the planting of two forests in honor the late King
Peter of Serbia and President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia” are scheduled to take
place today “in the ‘Ginegar Emek’ near the Balfour Forest on land owned by the
Jewish National Fund.”
1931:
Brooklyn outfielder Max Rosenfeld made his major league baseball debut.
1932: In Philadelphia,
PA, “theater director/actor Jack Berlin and actress Ida (Aaron) Berlin” gave
birth to Elaine Iva Berlin who gained fame as writer, director and comedian
Elaine May.
1932: In New York City,
Russian Jewish immigrant “Celia and Benjamin Melnick,” gave birth to “Daniel
Melnick, a producer and studio executive who brought an innovative and often
unconventional sensibility to films that included “Straw Dogs,” “All That Jazz”
and “Altered States.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/movies/17melnick.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/21/daniel-melnick-obituary
1932(15th of Nisan,
5692): Pesach
1932: On the first day
of Pesach Rabbi Rosenbaum of Temple Israel and Rabbi Katz of Montefiore Hebrew
Congregation tied the current economic crisis to the themes of Passover. Katz said that today, the entire social and
economic structure is falling and that a return to the Mosaic system offers a
source of salvation. After gaining their
freedom, the Jews were taught that periodically “they must emancipate those
elements in the population who, because of lack of foresight or ability lose
their status as self-supporting and self-respecting men, who, in other words
relinquish their freedom because of economic compulsion.” We must adopt a modern version of the Mosaic
codes which in ancient times called for periodic redistribution of the land and
those who sold themselves because of debt were freed.
1933: The slaughter of
animals according to the rules of Kashrut was banned by the Nazis in
Germany. Nazi propaganda portrayed Jewish slaughtering customs as
treating animals in an inhumane way. Yes, the people who would butcher
six million of our co-religionists actually hid behind the animal rights’
movement. There were many Jewish butchers who defied the law as long as
possible and continued to supply kosher meat to their observant customers.
1933: King Christian X
of Denmark attended the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Crystal
Synagogue in Copenhagen to demonstrate his sympathy for the Jews. This is the
same King Christian who is the hero of a famous "urban legend."
According to the story he wore a Yellow Star during the war in support of his
Jewish subjects. While Christian showed great fortitude by staying with
his people during the war and while the Danes protected their Jewish fellow
citizens, the story of the star is a myth. In fact, most of the Jews were
not required to wear the star. The important thing is the lengths to
which the Danes went to protect the Jews. If others had done as much, the
Shoah would not have happened.
1933: “According to a
cable message received today by The Jewish Morning Journal” in New York,
“Baruch Schwartz, noted Jewish educator passed away at the age of 72 in Tel
Aviv. Born in the Ukraine, Schwartz was
an early member of the Zionist movement.
His greatest contribution was his work to modernize the Hebrew language
and the development of simplified methods of teaching what had been considered
to be a “dead language.” Schwartz made
Aliyah in 1923 and had completed three volumes of his memoirs before he passed
away.
1934: In
Vienna, Emmanuel and Lilly (Hillel) gave birth to Michael Shinagel who “grew up
to be the longest-serving dean in Harvard’s 380-year history.
1934: Moe Berg, catcher for the Washington
Senators, played his 117th consecutive game without an error, setting a record
for his position. Moe Berg is one of the strangest and most fascinating
of all baseball players. Born to Russian immigrant parents on the Lower
East Side in 1902, Berg graduated from Princeton magna cum laude with the
ability to speak seven languages. He also played shortstop for the
Tigers. Berg played for five teams during a fifteen-year career. He
was labeled good field, no hit and was considered a good journeyman
player. What made him unique were his intellectual feats and the legends
that surrounded them. He bought numerous papers each day which insisted on
being the first to read. If you grabbed a section of one of his papers
before he had read it, he cast the paper aside because it was dead. In
the 1930's, Berg joined an All-Star baseball team that made a barnstorming trip
to Japan. Berg was a strange choice since he certainly was not a
star. Beg did not join in the carousing and went off to be by
himself. It was only later, during World War II that people found out
what Beg had been doing. He spoke Japanese. He wondered around
taking pictures of Japan and some of these photographs were used by the
Doolittle Raiders in 1942 to help them find their targets when America bombed
Japan for the first time. And this is only the tip of the iceberg or
should I say Moe Berg.
1935: It was reported
today that New York Governor Lehman has issued an appeal for contribution “to a
fund for the relief and rehabilitation of European Jewry” which collecting
$3,250,000 nationwide “to help the Jews from Germany and other lands to settle
in Palestine.”
1935: In Pittsburgh,
PA, “Lena (née Singer), who worked in the family store and volunteered for
disabled veterans, and Theodore I. Grodin, who sold wholesale supplies” gave
birth to actor and talk show host Charles Grodin.
1936: In Tel Aviv and Jaffa,
Arabs riot to protest Jewish immigration to Palestine. This was the beginning of two years of
violence that would not end until 1939. Contrary to popular misconception,
these riots were not a spontaneous expression of Arab feelings. Arab leaders called for a general strike and
a rebellion against the Mandate and in an effort to prevent Jewish immigration.
Initially 80 Jews were murdered and 308 wounded. By fall of 1939, over one hundred Jews had
been killed in Arab attacks. The official Zionist policy at the time was “Havlagah” (self-restraint). In other
words, the Jewish forces acted in self-defense.
They did not go out after their attackers, nor did they stage attacks on
Arab villages or centers of population.
The Arabs would succeed in their efforts. In 1939, just prior to the start of World War
II, the British government violated the terms of the Mandate and the Balfour
Declaration by all but putting an end to Jewish immigration to Palestine and
ending the purchase of land by Jews. The
British zealously enforced the ban on immigration which played a helpful role
in the success of the Final Solution.
1936: The funeral for six Jews who were murdered by
Arab rioters in Tel Aviv yesterday was held at 6 o’clock this morning at the
end of which all were buried in a common grave including one of the victims who
was never identified.
1936: “The newspaper
the Journal said in an editorial
today that the disordered in Palestine between Jews and Arabs were Great
Britain’s penalty ‘for supporting the Ethiopians against Italy.’”
1936: “Former Governor
Alfred E. Smith, Postmaster General James A. Farley and Senator Royal S.
Copeland joined today in an appeal for support for the drive of the Greater New
York campaign of the Joint Distribution Committee which is seeking $1,500,000 as
this New York City’s share of a $3,500,000 nation-wide fund for the aid of Jews
in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe.
1936: Five Arab leaders
who met with the British High Commissioner today said, “the rioting had been
caused by the government’s refusal to forbid Jewish immigration and by the sale
of land to Jews.”
1936: The Jews of
Hebron who lived through the riots of 1929 when sixty-two Jews were murdered
are now “safely sheltered in the Hadassah Hospital.”
1937: “Rabbi William F.
Rosenblum of New York urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject” President
Roosevelt’s court program saying “that the supreme judiciary is the rock of
ages against which demagoguery and dictatorship alike will be dashed to pieces.”
1937: In Chicago,
costume jeweler Sidney Kass and the former Celia Gorman gave birth to Jerome
Kass, the author best known for the Emmy nominated “Queen of the Stardust
Ballroom.”
1937: “The Second
Hurricane,” Aaron Copland's first attempt at composing opera which was
commissioned by the Henry Street Settlement in New York City where it premiered
today, at the settlement's playhouse and was performed by students at its music
school.
1938: Germany issued a decree
that effectively eliminated Jews from the nation's economy and provides for the
seizure of Jewish assets.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that five Arab terrorists were killed when they attacked the Tel Amal
police post and the neighboring Jewish settlement. One Arab constable was
killed during the attack.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that Switzerland demanded that all foreign nationals and in particular
Austrian refugees leave the country. The acquisition of land, or even a
substantial financial investment could not any more serve as a reason to obtain
a permit to remain on the Swiss soil. (This was aimed at Jewish refugees who
sought safe haven in supposedly neutral Switzerland. It is only one example of how the Swiss
betrayed the much touted moral high ground of neutrality to ingratiate
themselves with the Nazis at the expense of the Jews of Europe.)
1939: In a letter
written from Germany to Max Marx in Palestine, Jenny Marx described the
family’s desperate condition including Siegmund Mayer’s internment in a
concentration, while thanking him for sending a picture of his new fiancée – a
measure that seemed to fill her with hope for the future.
1940: “An assertion that America could learn from the lesson taught by
the tragedy of Europe only if people were wise enough, patriotic enough, and
united enough, was made by Governor Lehman in an address tonight at a dinner of
the State Conference of the National Council of Jewish Women.”
1940: “In the cities of the Free Zone, especially in Marseille, which
continues to harbor a very large number of refugees from all parts of Europe,
it is understood that steps are being taken to take a census of all Jews.
Identity papers are being examined in all instances and it seems clear that it
is desired to prepare lists of various classes of Jews.”
1941 (24th of Nisan,
5701): A mentally ill woman was forced
by the sentries to dance by the barbed entrance to the Lodz Ghetto. When she
was done they shot her dead. This unfortunate soul perished with no record of
her name. By mentioning the episode, she may remain nameless, but not
unremembered.
1942: Tonight, as part
of “Operation Delay II,” the leader of a unit of British commandos that
included Jewish wireless operation Edward Zeff and Captain Isidore Newman
landed off the coast of the French Rivera and mad it successfully to #31 Avenue
Marechal Foch, “the home of the Jewish Restiance leader Dr. Louis Levy (Louis
of Antibes).
1942: “Nazis
Concentrate All Dutch Jews in Amsterdam Ghetto” published today described how
“Nazi officials in occupied Holland ae now moving the Jews from Dutch
provincial towns into the Amsterdam ghetto under the pretext that they intend
to make Amsterdam “a port of exodus for Jews from Europe” and that the
“Supervision of these Dutch Jews has been entrusted to the German police only,
since the Nazis have found the Ductich police to be ‘overly-sympathetic’ to the
Jews.”
1943(16th of
Nisan, 5703): Second Day of Pesach
1943: Sixty-eight-year-old
Austrian biologist Hans Leo Prizbram and his wife who had fled to “Amsterdam in
December 1939” were deported today to Theresienstadt where he died in 1944.
1944: It was reported
today that Max Zaritsky, the president of the United Hatters, Caps and
Millinery Workers Union of America and Chairman of the Palestine union
committee released a letter from Philip Murray, the President of the CIO
expressing his support for the American Jewish Trade Union Committee of which
he is now serving as honorary co-chairman.
1945: In St. Louis, MO,
Nathan and Bluma (Rubin) Schwartz gave birth author Howard Schwartz whose
efforts have him the Koret Jewish Book Award and the National Jewish Book
Award.
1945: Birthdate of
director and screenwriter Nadav Levitan, a native of Kibbutz Kfar Masayrk
https://human-knowledge.online/en/persons/nadav-levitan-2830302/
1945: In Montreal, Abe Wainberg, a glassware company employee and his
wife Fay gave birth to Mark Arnold Wainberg, the microbiologist who played a
key role in developing treatment for AID’s patients.
1945: Robert Limpert who had been brutally hung in the Bavarian town of
Ansbach for courageously trying to sabotage the Nazis in the waning days of WW
II was buried today.
1946 (20th of Nisan, 5706): On the 6th Day of Pesach, five Jews, each of them a concentration-camp
survivor, motoring near Nowy Targ, Poland, were stopped at a mock police
checkpoint and shot to death. The oldest victim was 35, one was 25, and the
remaining three were 22.
1946: The Palestine
civil service strike gained new support when “municipal workers in Nazareth and
employees of the Trans-Jordan railways walked out in sympathy with the other
strikers.”
1946: Thirty-five-year-old
Wisconsin native Morrie “Snooker” Aronvich the outfielder who “kept kosher for
his whole life” ended his seven-year major league baseball career today as a
player with the New York Giants.
1947(1st of
Iyar, 5707): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1947(1st of
Iyar, 5707): Nineteen-year-old British Army veteran and Irgun member Meir
Feinstein and twenty-year-old Moshe Barazani blew themselves up with a hand
grenade hours before they were scheduled to be hung in the Jerusalem Central
Prison.
1948(12th of
Nisan, 5708): Seventy-three-year-old Gomel born, Columbia educated physician
Nicholas Dobkin passed away today in Brooklyn
1948: In “Big Convoy
Fights Way To Jerusalem” Dana Adams Schmidt described the attack by the Arabs
at Deir Ayoub on the 260 vehicles bring food and other supplies to the besieged
Jewish community which last for a full day claiming the lives of five members
of the Haganah leaving another twenty-four wounded.”
1948: It was reported
today “Trans-Jordan’s Arab Legion and other Arab regular armies would soon
invade Palestine” and that “the Arab League’s Political Committee had decided
to set up a government claiming sovereignty over all of Palestine.”
1948: The British
government in Palestine denied that any promises had been made guaranteeing
“Jews access to the Wailing Wall…during the” upcoming “Passover festival” – a
claim disputed by the Zionists.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9B01E7DC123EE03BBC4951DFB2668383659EDE
1949(22nd of Nisan,
5709): 8th day of Pesach
1950: “Senator
Democratic leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois said today” that “Secretary of
State Dean Acheson will discuss all aspects of the Israel-Arab problem with
British Foreign Secretary in London next month.
1951(15th of
Nisan, 5711): As UN Forces fight the Chinese and the North Korean forces trying
to conquer South Korea, the Jews observe Pesach and Shabbat.
1951(15th of
Nisan, 5711): Seventy-five-year-old Belarus Rachel Gold Levy, the husband of Aaron Malitz
Levy with whom she had five children – Matthew, Sarah, Rosaline, Jack and
Dorothy – passed away today in Savannah, GA after which she was buried in the
Bonaventure Cemetery.
1951: “Second
Threshold,” for which Bernard Simon served as Press Representative was
performed on Broadway for the last time at the Morosco Theatre.
1952: Sir Stafford
Cripps, who as President of the Board of Trade attended the Potsdam Conference where
he expressed the “opinion through economic development Arabs and Jews would
learn to cooperate” and that “with a view to an independent Palestine, we must
partition the country temporarily in order to safeguard the interests of the
Jewish people” passed away today.
1953: Roy Cohn and G. David Schine, two
of Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief aides, recommend the removal of 30,000 books
from the libraries of the United States Information Service posts in Europe,
including works by Dashiell Hammett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Herman Melville, John
Steinbeck and Henry David Thoreau, calling them "pro-Communist.” Not all Jews, even ones who were New York
born lawyers, were liberals. This also
puts the lie to the notion that all Jews were Communists.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that on the occasion of Israel's sixth birthday, the President,
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, ordered the release of eight prisoners and reduced the
sentences of about a hundred others. Nazareth and Arab villages in Galilee were
richly decorated with flags of the State. Arab and Druze notables participated
in the Haifa march-past army parade and other celebrations.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that diplomatic steps were taken in an urgent effort to improve the
deteriorating conditions on Israeli borders, troubled by a continued
infiltration, murder, theft and sabotage.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel accused Egypt of an act of piracy when three Israeli
fishing smacks were stopped and searched, in international waters, by an
Egyptian corvette.
1954(18th of
Nisan, 5714): Fourth Day of Pesach
1954: In Chicago, Dr.
Karl E. Ettinger presented a reported today at the 51st annual
convention of the National Catholic Educational Association that claimed “a
dangerous monopoly, amount to a virtual academic ‘cartel’ exists in the
granting of research funds to colleges and unviersities by the Federal
Government.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/22/83752014.html?pageNumber=35
1954: Danny Kaye was
appointed UNICEF's Ambassador at Large and made a 40,000-mile good-will trip,
which resulted in the short, Assignment Children.
1955(29th of
Nisan, 5715): Eighty-four-year-old Freda
Verbitsky Ominsky, the widow of Louis Ominsky, the owner of a meat market and a
member of the ZOA chapter in Philadelphia and the mother of Esther, Ida,
Joseph, Maxwell and William Ominsky passed away today in Marple, PA.
1956(10th of
Iyar, 5716): Seventy-one-year David Samuel Gottesman, the son of Sarah and
Mendel Gottesman and “husband of Jeanne Regina Gottesman” passed away today.
1956(10th of
Iyar, 5716): Seventy-two-year-old Samuel Gottesman, the “Hungarian-born,
American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist” who best known for
“the donation of the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls to the State of Israel, where
they are housed in the Shrine of the Book” passed away today.
1957(20th of
Nisan, 5717): Sixth Day of Pesach
1957: Judge Hyman
Barshay participated in the panel discussion “The Jury System: Is Justice
Done?”
https://www.thirteen.org/openmind-archive/government/the-jury-system-is-justice-done/
1958(1st of Iyar,
5718): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1958: Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the
American Jewish Congress, tonight, advised Zionists living outside of Israel
not to become part of any political movement in Israel.
1958: At Treblinka, the
construction of a monument 8 meters (26 ft) tall was inaugurated today with the
laying of the cornerstone at the site of the former gas chambers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszek_Duszeńko#/media/File:Treblinka_memorial.jpg
1959: In Argentina, a
group of “rowdies” inspired by speech by Pro-Fascist sociologist Giordan Bruno stoned
the Argentine Hebraic Society in an outbreak of anti-Semitism during which they
broke the windows in the glass doors of the society, shouting: "Down with
Blejer! Out with the Jews!" referring to David Blejer, Minister of Labor, who
is Jewish.
1960: Dr. John Slawson,
executive vice president the executive head of the American Jewish Committee
said today that “opportunities for Jews in the country's top economic positions
have been “drastically limited compared with their Christian fellow students of
equivalent scholastic levels,” and that “discriminatory barriers are preventing
major American industries and financial institutions from utilizing fully a
substantial portion of the United States manpower resources.”
1961: “On his 50th
birthday, more than 200 persons attended a party for” Bernard Hart, the younger
brother of Moss Hart, “at Sardis” where “Bernie heard himself roasted and
eulogized in songs and skits…”
1961: “Israel: The Man
in the Cage, an article published” by Time magazine described the events
at the Eichmann Trial
http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,895278,00.html
1962: “The Century 21
Exposition” also known as the Seattle World’s Fair for which Lawrence Halprin
provided the “master landscaping plan” opened today
1962(17th of
Nisan, 5722): Shabbat shel Pesach
1962(17th of Nisan, 5722): Fifty-one-year-old
Philadelphia native Jeannette Orleans Gayl, the husband of Joseph Gayl and
President of the Women’s Division of ORT passed away today.
1963: While speaking at a solemn ceremony closing Martyrs
and Heroes Remembrance Day marking the Warsaw tragedy and the slaughter of
6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis in World War II, “Premier David Ben-Gurion declared
tonight that the memory of the Warsaw uprising was in effect a reminder to Jews
everywhere that their best hope lay in a return to Zion.”
1964: Funeral services ae scheduled to held at noon today
in Temple Ahavath Sholom in Brooklyn for sixty-seven-year-old NYU trained
attorney, State Supreme Court Justice and Surrogate of Kings County Maximillian
Moss, the husband of the former Grace Leffert with whom he raised three daughter and World War I veteran who was a member of the Democratic Party,
President “of the Jewish Community Council which he had founded in 1940…to
combat Nazi intolerance” and chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish
Hospital in Brooklyn
1964: Houston Third
Baseman Steve Hertz appeared in his first major league baseball game.
1964: “The appointment
of Leonard Kaufman as general counsel of the Paramount Pictures Corporation was
announced today by Barney Balaban, president of the motion‐picture producer. Mr. Kaufman was formerly house counsel
for the company in New York.”
1964: “Funeral
services” are scheduled “to be held at Temple Rodeph Sholom” today “for Ben
Hecht, American-Jewish author, journalist, playwright, and stormy petrel in the
Zionist movement, who died suddenly at the age of 70.” (As reported by JTA)
1965: Phillips Talbot,
United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs, arrived in Jerusalem today for brief talks on the Middle Eastern
situation with Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Foreign
Minister Golda Meir.
1966:
Sixty-one-year-old Hebrew Institute of
Vilna graduate and former prisoner in Soviet labor camps Mordecai Bernstein,
the husband of Velda Bernstein with whom he had one daughter – Marsha - who was
the editor of Der Wecker, a publication of the Jewish Socialist Farband
passed away today in Beth Israel Hospital
1966: Soviet poet,
novelist and playwright Konstantin Simon “who is considered a liberal among Soviet
writers” is scheduled to leave today for a ten-day trip to Israel.
1967: As a result of
the military take-over in Greece, El Al Israel Airlines, whose route from
Israel to the United States normally stops at Athens and London, ordered its
flights to bypass Athens and land in Rome instead.
1968: Bernard Gersten,
a man who served in many theatrical capacities married a dancer named Cora
Cahan.
1968(23rd of Nisan,
5728): Seventy-four-year-old Chicago native and Tufts Medical School graduate
Dr. Benjamin Sachs, the ophthalmologist and member of the faculty of Tufts and
Harvard who was the husband of Bessie Cushing Sachs and father of Baruch J.
Sachs and Tikvah Sachs Portnoi passed away today after which he was buried in
Beth El Cemetery at West Roxbury, MA.
1969: Today, at the
closing session of the ADL’s 56th annual meeting, Samuel Dalsimer “a
New York City advertising executive” as chosen to serve as the league’s
national chairman and “playwright and producer Dore Shary” became honorary
chairman of the league.
1969(3rd of
Iyar, 5729): “Three Israeli soldiers were killed in one of the clashes with
Egyptian commandos on the east bank of the Suez Canal” tonight during a time
when Egypt refused to take part in any kind of ceasefire.
1969: “The Night
Thoreau Spent in Jail” co-authored by Jerome Lawrence (born Jerome Lawrence
Schwartz) opened today for the first time at Ohio State University.
1970(15th of
Nisan, 5730): Pesach
1971: Publication of The
Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, ‘a book by the American pianist
and author Charles Rosen” that “analyses the evolution of style during the
Classical period of classical music as it was developed through the works of
Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
1972(7th of
Iyar, 5732): Seventy-two-year-old Mrs. Dorothy Silberman Hartman, the Albany
Law School trained attorney and law partner of her father Louis Silberman who
was the widow of real-estate executive Jesse Hartman passed away today at her
home on Fifth Avenue.
1974: After 538
performances and “two previews” the curtain came down on the original Broadway
production of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys” produced by Emanuel Azenberg,
directed by Alan Arkin and co-starring Sam Levene as “Lewis” and Jack Albertson
as “Clark.”
1974: “That
Championship Season,” for which Eugene Wolsk and Emanuel Azenberg served as
General Manager was performed on Broadway for the last time at the Booth
Theatre which was “Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Executive
Directors: Irving Goldman, Bernard B. Jacobs, Gerald Schoenfeld)”
1974(29th of Nisan,
5734): Seventy-one-year-old Vienna native Dr. Dora Karplus Hartmann, a
psychoanalyst long associated with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and
the widow of Dr. Heinz Hartmann passed away today.
1976(21st of
Nisan, 5736): Seventh Day of Pesach
1976(21st of
Nisan, 5736): Seventy-six-year-old Odessa born Léonide Moguy “French director
and screenwriter” whose birth name was Leonid Mohylevskyi passed away today in Paris.
1977(3rd of Iyar, 5737):
Yom HaAtzma'ut
1977(3rd of Iyar, 5737):
Eighty-four-year-old Gummo [Milton] Marx passed away fifth son Minnie and Sam
Marx. Born in either October 1892 or 18993, he is the Marx brother most
people do not remember. Although he and Groucho were the original
performers in the family, Gummo left show business to join the Army. He
was replaced by Zeppo. After the war, Gummo sold dresses and cloth.
He came back to show business, but not as a performer. He was the agent
for his famous brothers.
1977: The original
Broadway production of “Annie” with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin
Charmin opened at the Alvin Theatre today.
1978: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the Government and the Histadrut reached a mini-package
anti-inflation deal, providing for a six-month freeze on taxes, prices and
service charges, with an option to be extended for another six months.
1978: Lemon Popsicle a teen comedy-drama film co-written and
directed by Boaz Davidson which “is the most commercially successful Israeli
film of all time and which has led to the production of a series of sequel” was
released today in West Germany.
1978: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Israeli authorities had recently been looking into the
possibility of curbing what was termed as an increased partisan activity by the
too inquisitive foreign diplomats in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1979(24th of
Nisan, 5739): On Shabbat, in Nahariya, terrorists attacked an apartment
building killing four people including two children and injuring four others.
1980(5th of
Iyar, 5740): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1981(17th of
Nisan, 5741): Third Day of Pesach
1983: “The Anti-Zionist
Committed of the Soviet Public was formed in Moscow to combat Jewish cultural
and emigration activities.”
1984(19th of
Iyar, 5744): Marcel Janco, Romanian and Israeli
visual artist, architect, art theorist and cultural promoter, known as the
co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern
Europe passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/23/obituaries/marcel-janco-a-dada-founder.html
1985(30th of Nisan,
5745): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1985(30th of Nisan,
5745): Ninety-one-year-old songwriter
and music scout Irving Mills passed away.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/23/arts/irving-mills-dies-at-91-jazz-music-publisher.html
1985(30th of Nisan,
5745): Sixty-two-year-old fashion designer Rudi Gernreich passed away.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/22/nyregion/rudi-gernreich-avant-garde-designer-dies.html
http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Fr-Gu/Gernreich-Rudi.html
1985: “The Normal Heart,” a largely autobiographical play by
Larry Kramer” premiered at The Public Theatre in New York City.
1986: “Act of Vengance”
an HBO film featuring Ellen Barkin as “Annette Gilly” and Maury Chaykin as
“Claude Vealey” was broadcast for the first time.
1987(22nd of
Nisan, 5747): Eighth Day of Pesach
1987(22nd of Nisan, 5747): Eighty-two-year-old
NYU graduate and JTS trained rabbi, Morris Aaron Gutstein who in 1921 came to
the United States where he led “the famed Touro Synagogue of Newport, RI and
then went on to Congregation Shaare Tikvah in Chicago “which he led for
twenty-four years” while producing serval noteworthy articles, teaching at the
Spertus College of Judaica and winning several awards for his work one from
Valley Forge’s Freedom Foundation passed away today.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/04/22/rabbi-morris-a-gutstein/
https://www.kurtgippert.com/advSearchResults.php?authorField=Morris+A+Gutstein&action=search
1987: In today’s
“Postscript” German historian Joachim Fest wrote "In its substance, the
dispute was initiated by Ernst Nolte's question whether Hitler's monstrous will
to annihilate the Jews, judging from its origin, came from early Viennese
impressions or, what is more likely, from later Munich experiences, that is,
whether Hitler was an originator or simply being reactive. Despite all the
consequences that was arouse from his answer, Nolte's question was in fact a
purely academic exercise. The conclusions would probably not have caused as
much controversy if they had been accompanied by special circumstances."
1988(4th of
Iyar, 5748) Yom HaAtzma’ut
1988: Five days after
he was killed in Tunis, terrorist leader Khalil al-Wazir was buried today in
Damascus on the same day that the Washington Post reported “that the Israeli
cabinet” had approved his “assassination.”
1988(4th of
Iyar, 5748): Sixty-seven-year-old I.A.L. Diamond screenwriter whose work
included “The Apartment” and “Some Like It Hot” passed away today.
1989(16th of
Nisan, 5749): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
1989: The Price Center,
named for Sol Price, the founder of COSTCO who “donated two million dollars for
the construction of this student center” at the University of California, San
Diego, opened today.
1992(18th of
Nisan, 5652): Fourth Day of Pesach
1992(18th of
Nisan, 5652): Eighty-one-year-old Chicago born and University of Chicago
trained attorney Morris I. Leibman, the husband of Mary Leibman with whom he
raised two sons and recipient of the Freedom Medal passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/29/obituaries/morris-i-leibman-81-a-senior-law-partner.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-04-22-9202050616-story.html
1993:
Yiddish theater producer and advocate
Dora Wasserman received the Order of Canada, the highest honor bestowed on
civilians by the Canadian government
1994(10th of
Iyar, 5754): Officer cadet Shahar Simani , age 20, of Ashkelon, was found
stabbed to death near the roadside at the village of Beit Hanina , north of
Jerusalem . He had been kidnapped while hitchhiking in the south.
1995(21st of
Nisan, 5755): Seventh Day of Pesach
1995: “While You Were
Sleeping” a comedy directed by Jon Turteltaub, produced by Roger Birnbaum and
Joe Roth and with music by Randy Edelman was released today in the United
States.
1996: The New York Times published an article
entitled “Modern Holocaust Memorial:
Thesis of Victim on Internet” that tells the story of Esther Hautzig’s very
personal, very innovative efforts to ensure that the life of her Uncle
Ela-Chaim Cuzner will be remembered.
1997(14th of Nisan, 5757): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1997(14th of Nisan, 5757)): Ninety-two-year-old Herbert
Zipper, the composer and conductor who survived Dachau and co-composed “the
Dachau Song” passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/23/arts/herbert-zipper-92-founder-of-secret-orchestra-at-dachau.html
1998: “We’ve Never Heard of You, Either” the first major album for Evan
and Jaron was released today.
1999(5th of
Iyar, 5759): Final Yom HaAtzma’ut celebration of the 20th century.
2000: “President
Clinton met at the White House tonight with the Palestinian leader, Yasir
Arafat, to begin a last-stage American effort to work out a final agreement
between the Israelis and Palestinians.”
2001(28th of
Nisan, 5761): Dr. Mario Goldin, 53,
of Kfar Sava, was killed when a terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was
carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman
and Tchernichovsky streets. About 60 people were injured in the blast. Hamas claimed
responsibility.
2001: “Varian’s War,’ a
movie based on the exploits Varian Frey was released in the United States.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245540/
2001(28th of
Nisan, 5761): Thirty-eight-year-old Stanislav Sandomirsky was murdered by an
unknown terrorist north of Ramallah today following which his body was
“mutilated.”
2001: The 2001 NFL
Draft in which Sage Rosenfels was drafted by
the Washington Redskins began today.
2002: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the recently published paperback edition
of “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American
Consensus” by Rick “The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the
Temple Mount” by Gershom Gorenberg in which the “ senior editor and columnist
for The Jerusalem Post examines the incendiary mix of religious groups
-- Arab, Jewish and fundamentalist Christians -- that view the destiny of the
sacred Temple Mount as crucial to their apocalyptic faith.”
2002: Official end of
Operation Defensive Shield, the Israeli response to a wave Arab terrorism that
included the murder of 30 people during a Seder.
2003: Seventy-year-old
singer/song stylists and civil rights activist Nina Simone,who brought her own
unique style to the singing of “Eretz Zavat Halav” and who recorded “Strange
Fruit” written by a Jewish songwriter about lynchings in the South on her 1965
album Pastel Blues” passed away today
2003: An Israeli
intelligence officer identified only as “Colonel K” gave a lecture today predicting
that Hezbollah had shore-to-sea missiles in its possession.
2003: In the United Kingdom, “Rififi” directed by Jules Dassin
was released on DVD by Arrow Films.
2004: Today “the
Israeli Army sent tanks into the northern Gaza Strip to try to halt repeated terrorisy
rocket fire coming from the tense territory…”
2005: Ivri Lider performed in Tel Aviv where he was joined by
Rita, Berry Sakharof, and Assaf Amdursky.
2005(12th of Nisan,
5765): Fast of the Firstborn.
2005: “A Lot Like Love”
co-starring Amanda Peet premiered in Israel today.
2005: Premiere of
“Fathers and Sons” featuring Linda Edelstein and Mordecai Finley.
2006(23rd of Nisan,
5766): The Brit of Joshua Larry Rosenstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. David
Rosenstein and the grandson of Larry and Judy Rosenstein (of blessed memory) took
place in New York City.
2006: President Bush
proclaims May as Jewish American Heritage Month.
2007: Sara Paretsky,
creator of the V.I. Warshawski novels, took part in a book reading and book
signing in Forest Park, Illinois. Ms.
Paretsky is an outspoken critic of the powers the Patriot Act. Despite threats from a variety of sources, she
reported that she found the courage to speak out because of her Jewish
heritage. Silence had enabled those who
made the Holocaust and she was not going to be threatened into silence.
2007: An exhibition entitled “Otot” featuring the
works of Yosef Halevi opens at the Meirov Municipal Art Gallery in Holon. Halevi
won the then-coveted Diezengoff Prize in 1962.
2008(16th of Nisan, 5768): Second Day
of Pesach, First Day of the Omer – 5768.
2009(27th of Nisan,
5769): Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day
2009: In Cedar Rapids,
Holocaust Survivor Irene Furst speaks at Mt. Mercy College. Irene Furst, at 87,
still travels the country to tell her story because it’s one she doesn’t want
to be forgotten. Furst is a Holocaust survivor. She fears that as the survivors
die, so, too, will their stories.
“I don’t know what will happen when all the survivors will be gone,”
Furst said. “My children’s generation would still probably remember and talk
about it, but I don’t know what will happen after that. The Jewish people will
not forget, but I don’t know about everyone else.” Furst, a native of
Poland, spent six years in three locations during the Holocaust. These included
the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp. She celebrated her 18th
birthday shortly after being detained in the first ghetto, in 1939, and wasn’t
liberated until May 1945. After the war, she met her future husband, who had
been imprisoned in Latvia. They came to the United States in 1947. Furst tells
her story not only to keep the memories going but to help ensure the event
won’t be repeated.
“It should never happen again,” she
said. “Germans wanted a final solution to the number of Jews. They wanted to
kill all the Jews. “It’s important to know that one race can hate another so
badly that they wanted to kill them,” she said. Her visit to Cedar Rapids
is funded through the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund.
2009: A Holocaust
Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) ceremony takes place this evening at the Waterloo
Center for the Arts. The ceremony involves participants of different faiths and
backgrounds and includes a candle-lighting to pay tribute to the victims,
liberators and rescuers of the Holocaust, as well as victims of other
genocides. The event was organized in collaboration with the Sons of Jacob
Synagogue of Waterloo.
2009: Today, for the first time, Israel Kasztner, the man, who
organized a train that saved 1,682 Hungarian Jews from death at the hands of
the Nazis will be honored in a ceremony near the scene of the murder. Among
those present will be the children and grandchildren of those he saved. A
little over 52 years ago, Israel Kasztner was murdered on his doorstep on
Emanuel Haromi Street in Tel Aviv. The trial for libel of journalist Malkiel
Gruenwald, who accused Kasztner of collaborating with the Nazis to organize the
train for a select few Jews, and Kasztner's subsequent murder, wracked Israel
in the 1950s. Kasztner was posthumously exonerated by the High Court of
Justice, but the controversy persists. The ceremony was organized by Itamar
Sagi, whose mother and grandmother were on the Kasztner train. "I don't
want to fight with angry people. But I think that after 60 years we must give
respect to a person who saved hundreds of people," Sagi said. Sagi's
grandmother did not talk about the affair for years, and his mother was too
young to remember. "A few years ago I went to look for the report that
Kasztner himself wrote. You can see that at a time when people were being
murdered in the street, a man used his political talents to save as many as he
could, all the while in danger himself. Some people think only the rich and
influential were on the train. I don't think that's true."
2009: Saleh Bahman, a Kuwaiti journalist who will be running for
parliament in next month's general election today called on the Gulf state to
establish full diplomatic ties with Israel. "Israel is a reality and has
international influence... Kuwait would benefit from Israel's influence if we
establish relations with them."
2009: In a statement
issued in the House of Commons today, Foreign Secretary David Miliband
announced that “in light of Operation Cast Lead and in line with” the British
governments “obligations after a conflict” there would be “a review of extant
export licenses for Israel”
2009: “The government
filed a motion with the Sixth Circuit asking for the stay against deportation
to be lifted, arguing that accused war criminal John Demjanjuk had sought the
stay in order to provide an opportunity for the BIA to rule upon his motion to
reopen the deportation order. Since the BIA denied the motion, the government
argued, the basis for the Sixth Circuit's stay was no longer valid, and the
stay should accordingly be dismissed
2009: After over 14
years Leonard Hoffman, Baron Hoffman completed his service as Lord of Appeal in
Ordinary, a senior position in the British judiciary.
2009: Eighty-three-year-old
Vivian Dorothy Maier the creator of a photographic record of “Jewish Chicago”
passed away today.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/113385/vivian-maier-jewish-chicago
2010: Centro Primo Levi and the Center for Jewish History are
scheduled to present a Panel Discussion with Moshe Idel about his Book Old
Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and 20th-Century Thought
2010:Nevin Shapiro, the
crooked University of Miami booster who orchestrated a $930 million Ponzi
scheme “was charged in New Jersey with
securities fraud and money laundering” today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszek_Duszeńko#/media/File:Treblinka_memorial.jpg
2010: Israeli authors Assaf
Gavron and Eshkol Nevo are scheduled to read from their newest novels at
Cornell University as part of a program entitled “Israeli Literature Today.”
2010: Whitney Harris, one of the last of the prosecutors who
brought high-ranking Nazi war criminals to justice at the Nuremberg trials and
who, a half-century later, was a significant voice in the creation of the
International Criminal Court, died today at the age of 97. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/world/europe/29harris.html
2011: “Rabies” an
Israeli film about a psychotic serial killer, is scheduled to be shown today at
the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
2011: Ten thousand Jewish worshipers gathered at the Western Wall
Plaza today take part in the bi-annual Priestly Blessing, which usually occurs
on the second intermediate days of Sukkot and Pesach. The blessing, known in
Hebrew as the Birkat Hakohanim, is a public gathering in which the Kohanim –
the priestly class – bestow upon the Jewish people a three-fold blessing that
originated with the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Massive police presence
ensured that the prayers passed peacefully and without incident.
2011: Joining the likes
of US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, UK Prime
Minister David Cameron and teen pop sensation Justin Bieber, Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu was named by Time Magazine today as one of the 100 most
influential people of 2011
2011: The Haggadah Fair
sponsored by the Kol HaOt organization and the Inbal Hotel featuring “the
magnificent Haggadot of such internationally renowned artists as Avner Moriah,
Maty Grünberg, David Moss, Eliyahu Sidi, Matt Berkowitz, Ya’akov Daniel and
Ilya Gefter” came to an end today.
2012: Former Ambassador Richard Schifter is scheduled to speak
about Israel's relations with the international community, the United Nations,
the U.S. Congress and the American Rabbinate at Tifereth Israel Congregation in
Washington, DC.
2012: “Jewish Luck” is
scheduled to be shown at the Columbia Jewish
Congregation’s (CJC) 2012 - Twentieth Season of Movies.
2012: “Restoration” and
“Mabul” (The Flood) are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2012: “Avigdor
Arikha: Works from the Estate” an exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery is
scheduled to come to an end.
http://www.marlboroughgallery.com/exhibitions/avigdor-arikha
2013: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer and the recently released paperback edition
of Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany by
Frederick Taylor.
2013: Today, Stephan A.
Schwarzman, the Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group “announced a $100
million personal gift to establish and endow a scholarship program in China,
Schwarzman Scholars, modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship program.”
2013: “Microcosms: Ruth
Abrams, Abstract Expressionist” which opened in August, 2012 is scheduled to
come to an end at Yeshiva University Museum.
2013: Consultation on
Conscience, Reform Judaism’s flagship social justice conference, is scheduled
to open in Washington, D.C.
2013: International
conference “Being witness to the Holocaust. 70th anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising” is scheduled to open in Warsaw.
2013: An exhibition of
the work of Holocaust survivor Israel Bernbaum at the George Segal Gallery at
Montclair State University is scheduled to come to an end.
2013: Tiftereth Israel
in Des Moines is scheduled to host a giant Israel Festival called “A Taste of
Israel.”
2013: Today the cabinet
approved an Open Skies Agreement with the European Union, even as Israeli
carriers grounded their fleets and hundreds of airline workers gathered outside
the meeting in protest.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Amid-strike-Cabinet-approves-Open-Skies-Agreement-310557
2013: U.S. Secretary of
Defense of Chuck Hegel arrived in Israel today vowing to provide Israel “with
advanced weapons that will enhance its abilities to strike at Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Hagel-Israel-has-right-to-decide-on-Iran-strike-310555
2014(21st of
Nisan, 5774): Seventh Day of Pesach
2014: Today the Supreme
Court granted Nathan Lewin's certiorari petition in the follow-up case of
Zivotofsky v. Kerry, which concerns the question whether a federal statute that
directs the Secretary of State, on request, to record the birthplace of an
American citizen born in Jerusalem as born in "Israel" on a Consular
Report of Birth Abroad and on a United States passport is unconstitutional on
the ground that the statute "impermissibly infringes on the President's
exercise of the recognition power reposing exclusively in him.”
2014 (21st
of Nisan, 5774): Eighty-two-year-old Herb Gray who “represented Windsor West
for almost 40 years” and was “Canada’s first Jewish federal cabinet minister”
passed away today.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/herb-gray-former-mp-and-deputy-prime-minister-dead-at-82-1.2617214
2014: In Marionville,
MO, a special meeting of the Board of Alderman is scheduled to be held to
accepting the resignation of Jessica Wilson, an alderwoman who is giving up her
position in response to the endorsement of Mayor Daniel Clevenger’s endorsement
of the views of Frazier Glen Miller, the anti-Semitic gunman who murdered three
people when he attacked a Jewish community center and assisted living facility
in Kansas City.
2015: SS guard Oskar
Groening is scheduled to go on trial for his role in the murder of Hungarian
Jews at Auschwitz.
2015: The Jewish
Historical Society of England is scheduled to sponsor Simon Anglim’s lecture on
“Major General Orde Wingate: Unconventional Warrior.”
2015: The Oregon Jewish
Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host a bilingual
poetry reading from the works Russian born poet Boris Slutsky followed by a Q
& A session with
“Marat Grinberg, Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College,
and Judith Pulman, poet and translator, who have been collaborating to
translate a selection of Slutsky’s unpublished poetry.”
Whether I grow wiser or
I grow older—
I grasp myself clearly
to be a Jew.
I thought that I had made it.
And I thought I’d broken through—
I didn’t make it, I
unmade myself,
I didn’t break through, I broke down,
I am not to be read from left to right,
but in Jewish, from right to left.
-Boris Slutsky, translated by Judith Pulman and Marat
Grinberg
2015: Israel is
scheduled to “come to a standstill this evening at 8 p.m. for a minute long
memorial sired to commemorate the country’s
fallen soldiers and terror victims…followed by the lighting of a
memorial flame for the fall at the Western Wall, the site of the official state
commemoration ceremony.” (As reported by Times of Israel)
2015: The Consulate
General of Israel in New York is scheduled to host The Official Memorial Day
Service “honoring the soldiers who gave their lives in defense of the State of
Israel and the victims of terrorist attacks” at the 92nd Street Y.
2015: Flight 2521 to
Prague by El Al’s budget carrier UP! “made an emergency landing at Ben Gurion
Airport shortly after having taken off amid fears that one of its tires had
been damaged during take-off. (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2015(2nd of
Iyar, 5775: One hundred two year old literary critic M.H. Abrams passed away
today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2015: Today “Abu
Khdeir’s name showed up on the government’s online database of terror victims,
next to an Israeli flag overlaid with a picture of the Blood of the Maccabees
flower, which has come to symbolize the country’s fallen.” (As reported by
Judah Ari Gross)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/slain-arab-teen-added-to-terror-victims-monument/
2016: 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 spoked at Washington High School as part
of the “annual Yom HaShaoh sponsored in Cedar Rapids, IA by Iowa The Thaler
Holocaust Memorial Fund under the leadership of Dr. Robert Silber and the
Inter-Religious Council of Linn County.
2016: As part of The
Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for
Holocaust Education is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Heather Ohaneson
on “The Syrian Crisis in Terms of the Trauma of the Armenian Genocide.”
2017(24th of
Nisan, 5777): Seventy-six-year-old Albert Samuel “Sandy” Gallin the General
Artists mailroom employee who worked his up to a vice presidency and booked the
Beatles for the first time on the Ed Sullivan television show passed away
today.
2017: In Iowa City, the
University Of Iowa Chapter Of AEPhi Sorority in act of “gemilut chasadim” so
appropriate to this time of the year, is scheduled to sponsor “Jazz on the
Rocks” – a fund raiser of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
2017: In the United
Kingdom, after Kabbalat Shabbat, The Oxford Jewish Society is scheduled to host
“Oth Week” Friday Night Dinner
2018(6th
Iyar, 5778): Parashat Tazria and Metzora; Pirke Avot Chapter 2;
2018: In Metairie, LA,
as part of the celebration of Israel at 70, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger is
scheduled to speak at Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation following Shabbat
morning services.
2018: In the United
Kingdom, The Oxford Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Seudah on Pirke Avot
following Mincha services.
2018: The Jewish Lake
Alliance is scheduled to host Havdalah this evening at the Bottlehouse Brewery.
2018: At Agudas Achim
in Coralville, IA, Rabbi Jackie Tabick is scheduled to officiate at the
Installation of Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz between Mincha and Havdalah.
2018: The Be’er Sheva
Theatre House is scheduled to perform “Lost in Yonkers.”
2019: An exhibition of
the work of the Israeli artist Shay Arick is scheduled to come an end today at
the Compère Collective
2019: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Ben
Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman, The Notorious
Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist by Julien Gorbach, Working:
Researching, Interviewing and Writing by Robert A. Caro and Naamah
by Sarah Blake.
2019(16th of
Nissan, 5779): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
2020(27th of
Nisan, 5780): Yom HaShoah
2020: MK Mansour “Abbas delivered a historic
speech on the Holocaust in the Knesset in which he spoke of the suffering of
the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis.”
2020: The Museum of
Jewish Heritage in New York is scheduled to host a Zoom presentation “about
Heroines of the Holocaust, focusing on women who fought as members of
resistance movements.”
2020: In observance of
Yom HaShoah (Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day), the ASF IJE, Diarna
Geo-Museum, and an international team of researchers for Sephardim in the Shoah
are scheduled to provide a survey of how Sephardic communities
experienced the Holocaust.
2020: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a virtual presentation by Anat Hoffman on “Women of
the Wall – Resilience and Resistance.”
2020: “HaMaqom|The
Place and the JFCS Holocaust Center are scheduled tolead daylong, virtual
Holocaust Remembrance Day event, with talks by survivors, survivors’ children,
authors and historians.
2020: Public Holocaust
Memorial Day activities scheduled for today have been canceled due to the
Pandemic but thanks to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum each
self-quarantined individual can conduct memorial of their own by “reading aloud
at ten names of victims and survivors.”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/landing/en/id-cards
2020: At 11 a.m ET, the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to present its “virtual Days of Remembrance commemoration” featuring “Holocaust
survivors’ tributes to family members they lost, a stirring message from
Benjamin Ferencz (the last living Nuremberg prosecutor), and timeless words
from the late Elie Wiesel.”
2020: The Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host, on-line “a brief
memorial prayers and songs” as part of its Yom HaShoah observance.
2020: Today, thanks to
a list provided by the Jewish Board of Deputies, people can follow a series of
Yom HaShoah events which are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. with “two minutes of
silence to coincide with the siren from Israel to “Saving A Life, Saving the
World, Searching for Hope” presented by “Learning from the Righteous” starting
at 9:15 p.m.
https://www.yomhashoah.org.uk/live
2021: The East Bay
International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present SFSU professor Eran
Kaplan talking about immigration and economic/societal challenges in Israel in
the 1940s following a screening of “Ma’abarot”
2021: ONEINFORTY is
sched to present, online, “Understanding the Jewish-Cancer Connection” where
attendees can learn “about Ashkenazi Jews’ one-in-40 risk of inheriting a BRCA
gene mutation which significantly increases one’s risk of developing breast,
ovarian, prostate and other cancers.”
2021: Taube Center for
Jewish Studies is scheduled to present UC Santa Cruz professor Alma Heckman
discussing The Sultan’s Communists, her book about Moroccan Jews.
2021: The American
Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Global Nacao: How the Unique
Confluence of Culture Can Benefit Modern Jewry.”
2021: YIVO and the
American Society for Jewish Music are scheduled to present a digital premiere
performance of 5 new compositions engaging with Yiddish folksongs as part of
“Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music.”
2021: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host Tovah Feldshuh as she talks
about “The Mother, Daughter and Other Roles She’s Played.”
2021: The National
Museum of American Jewish History, for which Mitchell Levin is an official
content provider, is scheduled to present “The Color of Law: A Forgotten
History of How Our Government Segregated America, a virtual book talk with
Richard Rothstein and Lila Corwin Berman.
2021: In Palm Beach
Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host, online, a “discussion of the
movie American Muslim with Rabbi Yaron and filmmaker, Adam Zucker.”
2021: The Jewish
Community Center of the North Shore is scheduled to present, online, a live
discussion with “Code Name Ayalon” producer Laurel Fairworth.
2021: Rabbi Ramon Widmont is scheduled to begin his
course introducing the visionaries and dreamers of Zionism, their writings and
teachings and how they saw and shaped the future at the London School of Jewish
Studies
2021: Israel’s
parliamentary paralysis appears to be ready to continue today following Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement yesterday, that “he sees no option of
forming a government backed by the Islamist Ra’am, after the Arab Israeli party
voted against his bloc Monday in a key Knesset vote.”
2022(20th of
Nisan, 5782): Sixth Day of Pesach
2022: Based on
yesterday’s report by the BfV, Germany’s domestic intelligence “that
antisemitic offensies are continuing to rise and those that come to light are
only ‘the tip of the iceberg,’” Jews in Germany join t their co-religionists in
other European countries and the United States in feeling less secure in their
safety in societies where among other things “the internet has served as
fertile ground for antisemitism.”
2022: In Boston, The
Jewish Climate Action Network is scheduled to present a Passover Rally calling
for an end to the funding of fossil fuels outside of the Prudential branch of
Chase Bank.
2022: The Alliance for
Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host a lecture on “The Artist’s Mindset” during
which Jesse Bernstein will examine such issues as how do “artist measure
success when so many professional outcomes are out of their control” and how do
artists “avoid allowing the subjective views of others (producers, agents,
critics, directors, audiences) be the guide for their achievements?”
2023: Temple Emanuel of
Newton, MA is scheduled to present “Shabbat Alive.”
2023: Temple Emanu-El and Temple Israel of the City of New York are
scheduled to proudly welcome Achinoam “Noa” Nini and Gil Dor to pay musical
tribute to the creation of the State of Israel.
2023: At the Hotel
Kirkwood in Cedar Rapids, IA, “Olympic medalist and sexual assault survivor”
Aly Raisman is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Luncheon of Light
today.
2023: In Beverley, MA,
Temple B’nai Abraham is scheduled to present Havurah Shabbat.
2023: “A special World
Zionist Congress” which has been meeting in Jerusalem to mark the 75th
anniversary of the State of Israel is scheduled to come an end today.
2024: The Museum at
Eldridge is scheduled to host a children's program on the sanctuary’s stained-glass
windows.
2024: Qesher is
scheduled to present “Sefarad: Music of the Jews of Spain, Portugal and their
diaspora.”
2024: As part of the Understanding
& Confronting Anti-Jewish Hate Community Series the Illinois Holocaust
Museum is scheduled to host the on-site program “Confronting Antisemitism - A
Training for Parents & Caregivers.”
2024: “Wondering Jew,” a solo exhibition
of new works by Rishon LeTsiyon resident Erez Aharon is scheduled to come to an
end at the Gordon Gallery.
2024: The Museum of the
Southern Jewish Experience is scheduled to go on a field trip to the River Road
African American Museum in Donaldsonville, LA, home to one of the few restored
Rosenwald schools still standing today where participants “will explore the
school and hear a panel discussion featuring historians Kathe Hambrick and
Jeanne Cyriaque and exhibit photographer Andrew Feiler. Lunch is provided. A
paid charter bus will depart from MSJE.”
2024: As April 21st
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 198
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: In another
lecture in the online lecture series, "A Bird Between Continents", attendees
are scheduled to read together with Dr.
Omri Hanna Ben-Yehuda the novel "The One with Our Faces" by Ronit
Matalon and will examine Matalon's unique literary and political outlook, which
saw her work as a natural continuation of Jacqueline Kahanoff's philosophical
work
2025: LBI and the
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Historian Raphael Gross,
Director of the German Historical Museum and editor of a history of the
worldwide reception of Anne Frank’s diaries, who will discuss the making of and
response to a unique document in literary history – Anne Frank’s Diary.
2025: As part of the Sidney
Krum Young Artists Concert Series, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to present “An Evening of Sephardic Art Song”
2025: The Jerusalem
Quartet, celebrating 30 years together, is scheduled to perform in Cleveland as
the Cleveland Chamber Music Society turns 75 today.
2025: In Columbus, OH,
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host Tammy Gottlied, a leading Israeli activist
and leader of Women Wall “as she shares stories from her time fight for
democracy and equality in Israel
2025: Marlene Meyerson
JCC Manhattan in partnership with the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled
to present “The Upper West Side Mimouna Celebration.”
2025: As April 21st
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 563 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: A Yom Ha'zikaron
commemoration and Yom Ha'atzmaut Celebration are scheduled to be held tonight
in Metairie, LA.
2026: The Illinois
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a talk by Marguerite whose
parents died at Auschwitz and who along
with her sister was saved by the Belgian Resistance and a courageous Catholic
family who hid them.
2026: Tamid Palm Beach
is scheduled to host the first of its weekly Rabbi Feivel Strauss who has a
unique of opening the world of Jewish study.
2026: Lockdown University
is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold, the CEO of the London Jewish
Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)on “The Betrayal of the
Jews.”
2026: In honor of Yom Ha’Atzma’ut Jayne Sandler is scheduled to discuss
her recent travels to Israel at this evening Agudas Achim in Coralville, IA
2026(4th of
Iyar, 5786): Yom HaZikaron; in the evening Yom HaAtzma’ut
2026: As April 21st
begins in Israel, due to the on-going attacks from Iran and Hezbollah the sounding
of the second siren two minutes siren at 11:00 AM is the only Yom HaZikaron
which is guaranteed to take place while ceremonies may have to be cancelled due
to concerns for public safety. (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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