This Day, April 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 9
193: Septimius
Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum. Severus is
the first emperor to ban proselytizing by Jews.
423: Emperor
Theodosius II reaffirms the Roman law according to which "No Jew may
purchase Christian slaves because it is abominable that religious slaves would
be defiled by the ownership of impious Jews. If anyone does this, they will be
subject to the statutory punishment without any delay."
423:
Theodosius II and Honorious reaffirm the Roman law which ban the seizure or
burning of Synagogues but which also allows the Jews to “be punished by
confiscation and exile for life if it is discovered that they have circumcised
a” Christian.
614: According
to “the Armenian bishop and historian Sebos” one of two possible dates the
residents of Jerusalem rebelled during the war between he Byzantines and the
Sasanians – a rebellion which claimed an untold number of Jews living in the
city.
1141(30th of
Nisan): Rabbi Joseph ben Meir Ha-Levi Ibn Migas “disciple and successor to
Rabbi Isaac Alfasi” passed away today
1336:
Birthdate of Tamerlane or Timur, the Mongol leader “under whose rule the Jewish
people prospered” passed away today. (For more see Tamerlane and the Jews
by Michael Shterenshis)
1362: The
Crown of Aragon (the name of the realm ruled by the King of Aragon) examined a
court case involving the murder of a Jew by two Muslims. The widow of the man
took the matter to the court after unsuccessfully seeking justice in the town
where the murder occurred.
1500: A huge
fleet under the command of Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral,
accompanied by Gaspar da Gama, a Polish born Jew whose slave name had been
Yusuf ‘Adil before being forcibly converted to Christianity, “crossed the
Equator” today and sailed westward away from the African coast.
1582(7th of
Nisan): Lemberg Rabbi Naphtali Herz ben Meir passed away today.
1609: “The
Twelve Year’s Truce” which “was a watershed in the Eighty Years' War, marking
the point from which the independence of the United Provinces received formal
recognition by outside powers” and helped to provide a Dutch haven for Marranos
and Sephardi Jews seeking physical safety and place from which to conduct their
trade with the Levant and North Africa, took effect today.
1609: The
Expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish: Expulsión de los moriscos) was decreed by
King Philip III of Spain
1723(4th
of Nisan): Judah Loeb ben David Neumark, author of Shoresh Yehuda which had
been published at Frankfort on the Main in 1692 and who had been the manager
of the printing house owned by Daniel Ernest Jablonski passed away
today.
1723(4th
of Nisan, 5483): Judah Loeb ben David Neumark, author of Shoresh Yehuda which
had been published at Frankfort on the Main in 1692 and who had been the
manager of the printing house owned by
Dr. Daniel Ernest Jablonski, passed away
today. Jablonski “a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and a court
preacher” was critical to the success of Judah Loeb’s printing projects since
Jews were forbidden to have licenses showing ownership of a printing
press. Together, they probably produced
a copy of Psalms and the Bible. Neumark was a trail-blazer in the field of
Jewish printing in Germany, as can be seen by the many people who followed in
his footsteps including his son Nathan Neumark.
1754(17th
of Nisan, 5514): 3rd day of Pesach observed on the same day that
John Adams, future President of the United States wrote in his diary “Sir Isaac
Newtons three laws of nature proved and illustrated, together with the
application of them to the planets, which are kept in their orbits by two
forces acting upon them, viz that of gravity and that which is call’d their
Centrifugal force whereby <, Start deletion, it, End,> they strives to
recede from the Center of their orbits, and fly off therefrom in tangents.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/02-01-02-0009-0001-0006
1762(16th
of Nisan, 5522): Second Day of Pesach
1768(22nd
of Nisan, 5528): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1770(14th
of Nisa, 5530): Erev Pesach
1773(16th
of Nisan, 5533): Second Day of Pesach
1774(28th
of Nisan, 5534): Parashat Shmini read on both sides of the Atlantic as British
troops begin to make their way to Boston where they will enforce the act of
Parliament closing the port in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party.
1778(12th
of Nisan, 5538): Fast of the First Born observed because erev Pesach falls on
Shabbat.
1782: Rabbi
Isaac Hess Kugelmann and his wife gave birth to German educator and author
Michael Hess whose students included “the young baron James von Rothschild.”
1792(17th
of Nissan, 5552): Third Day of Pesach
1792: On the
same day that Jews were celebrating their release from Egyptian bondage,
President George Washington was writing to the U.S. consider the advisability
of paying ransom for American captives held by those whom in Algiers who were
later described as pirates.
1796:
Birthdate of Curacao native and New York City resident Mordecai Frois, the
husband of Cynthia Gomez and father of Rachel, Morris and Abigail Frois.
1797: In
Germany, Frommet Weil and Davis Hirsch Lindauer gave birth to Jakob Hirsch
Linaduer, the husband of Therese Einstein and father of Babette, Manasse,
Rebekka, David and Joseph Lindauer.
1799(4th
of Nisan, 5559): Forty-nine-year-old Abraham Mendes Seixas, the son of Isaac
Mendes Seixas of Lisbon and Rachel Franks Levy of London passed away today in
Charleston, SC.
1800(14th
of Nisan, 5560): Ta’anit Bechorot observed for the first time in the 19th
century and for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.
1803(17th
of Pesach, 5563): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1806(21st
of Nisan, 5566): Seventh Day of Pesach
1806(21st of
Nisan): Rabbi Daniel of Horodno, author of “Hamudei Daniel” passed away today.
1807: Joseph
and Sophia Spyer were wed today at the Great Synagogue today.
1807: Forty-five-year-old
“Cornish historical and portrait painter” John Opie who created “An Old Jew”
passed away today.
http://www.cornishwonder.com/page6.htm
1809: In
Savannah, GA, Charleston native Perla Sheftall and Norfolk native Isaac Russell
gave birth to Levi Sheftall, the husband of Anna Serena Martin with whom he had
six children.
1811(15th
of Nisan, 5571): First Day of Pesach
1811: “The New
York State Legislature granted financial aid to the parochial school of
Congregation Shearith Israel.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch)
1816(11th of
Nisan): Rabbi Simchah Bunim Rapaport of Wuerzburg, author of Hiddushei Rashbaz
passed away.
1819(14th
of Nisan, 5579): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1824: One day
after he had passed away, a son Yitzhak Cohen was buried today at the “Brady
Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1825(21st
of Nisan, 5585): Shabbat Shel Pesach observed as Spain lost her control over
Bolivia.
1826: After
having laid the foundation stone for the Stadttempel in the Seitensteingasse in
1825, today “the synagogue, which had been designed by Joseph Kornhäusel, was
sanctified by Rabbi Mannheimer” after which “Salomon Sulzer from Hohenems was
appointed hazzan at the synagogue, where he served for 56 years.”
1827: In
Lenrburg, Germany, Abraham Greensfelder and his wife gave birth to Isaac
Greensfelder, the husband of Amalia Blum who founded the Hebrew Relief Society
in 1859, was charter member of Sinai Congregation in Chicago where he served as
the President of the United Hebrew Charities for thirty two years and director
of Michael Reese Hospital for 38 years.
1828: German
natives Jan and Samuel Stiebel gave birth to Rosetta Stiebel.
1830(16th
of Nisan 5590): Second Day of Pesach observed on the first day that the United
States Senate debated the “Indian Removal Act.”
1831: In
London, Frances Cohen and Joel Benjamin gave birth to Isaac Benjamin.
1833(20th
of Nisan, 5593): Sixth Day of Pesach celebrated on the same day that “the
first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, N.H.
1836(22nd
of Nisan, 5596): Shabbat shel Pesach
1838(14th of
Nisan, 5598):Ta'anit Bechorot / Erev Pesach
1838(14th of
Nisan, 5598): Sixty-year-old Hungarian physician Leopold Bettelheim Hungarian
physician “a Hebraist of some importance: who “in 1830 Bettelheim was the
recipient of a gold medal of honor from the emperor Franz I. for distinguished
services to the royal family and to the nobility passed away today.
1842(29th
of Nisan, 5602): Parashat Shimini; Pirkei Avot Chapter 1
1842(29th
of Nisan, 5602): Sixty-seven-year-old Rachel Cornelia Bernard, the Amsterdam
born daughter of Bernard Pak and the wife of Abraham Levy whom she married in
1799 and with whom she had eight children – Jacob, Julia, Rebeecca, Esther,
Mary Louisa, Isaac, Lewis and Moses – passed away today in Richmond, VA.
1844(20th
of Nisan, 5604): Sixth Day of Pesach
1845(2nd
of Nisan, 5605): Thirty-nine-year-old Dr. Henry Myers, the son of Samuel and
Judith Moses Myers passed away today.
1846: In
Oberdorf, Germany, Jacob Weil and Jette Pflaumlocher gave birth to Henry Wiel,
the husband of Mina Rosenthal who moved to North Carolina where he served as
President of both the Carolina Rice Mills and the Goldsboro Ice Company,
trustee of the University of North Carolina, Goldsboro City Alderman and a
leader of the B’nai B’rith.
1849: Jeanetta
Mallan and Kent native Joseph Davis gave birth to Esther Davis.
1851: In
Germany, Bertha and Joel Gutman gave birth to Nathan S. Gutman, the husband of
Emma Eleanor Gutman with whom he had two children, Alice and Helen.
1855: In
London Cecilia and David Woolf Marks gave birth to Harry Hananel Marks, who
founded the Financial News in 1884.
1857(15th
of Nisan, 5617): Pesach observed for the first time during the Presidency of
James Buchanan.
1860(17th
of Nisan, 5620): Third Day of Pesach
1860: In
Philadelphia, “Elias and Amelia (Mayer) Wolf” gave birth to businessman and
civic leader Clarence Wolf, a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, a
member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1908 to 1912 and a director of
Congregation of Rodeph Shalom.
1863(20th
of Nisan, 5623): 6th day of Pesach
1863: In Galicia,
Yete and Mendel Haber gave birth to Morris Haber who in 1881 came to the United
States where he became “one of the largest manufacturers of shirt waists in Philadelphia,”
a director of both the People’s Bank and the People’s Trust Company and raised
seven children with his the former Ida Shapiro.
1863: As the
Jews munch on Matzah, Samuel Dupont whose fleet of nine ironclads has failed to
take Forts Moultrie and Sumter debates whether or not it is worth renewing the
attack in Charleston Harbor.
1864(3rd
of Nisan, 5624): Parashat Tazria
1864: Today,
Jews in Keokuk, IA, chose “a Mr. J. Falk of New York…to be their schochet at an
annual salary of $300, payable quarterly.”
1865: Robert
E. Lee and U.S. Grant met at Appomattox Court House and concluded the agreement
the marked the end of Civil War. While Jews fought on both sides of the
conflict, the majority of Jews supported the Union and fought for the
North. At the same time, a description of the Siege of Petersburg
includes a notation that the Confederate lines were so thin that the Jewish
soldiers could not be allowed to be absent to observe their Day of Atonement as
they had been in past years. Simon Wolf, a Jewish activist of the 19th
Century, collected the names of over 7000 Jewish-Americans who fought on both
sides during the Civil War. In 1895, he published the list in a directory
entitled The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier, and Citizen.
1865: The
Eighty-Second Regiment, whose members included English born Louis Manly
Emanuel, the graduate of the University of Pennsylvania doctor who had been
serving as surgeon with the Army of the Potomac in every battle since Malvern
Hill, “was at the extreme front of the Union Army” when Lee surrendered today
at Appomattox.
1865: Andrew
Jackson “Jack” Moses was among the Confederate soldiers who fought against the
Union Army at Sumter, SC.
1865: In
Philadelphia, PA, Jacob and Rebecca “Betty” Bacharach gave birth to Benjamin
Bacharach, the Atlantic City, NJ banker, Republican political activist and
President of Beth Israel Synagogue who had three children with his wife Hattie
Allman Bacharach.
1865(13th
of Nisan, 5625): Lt. Joshua Lazarus Moses was killed today as Confederate
forces fought at Mobile, Alabama. Moses had been with the army since the start
of the war having fought at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1865:
Birthdate of Baltimore, MD native and Baltimore University School of Law
trained attorney Benjamin H. Hartogensis, the 1886 graduate of Johns Hopkins
University whose classmates included Woodrow Wilson, who was an associate
editor of The Jewish Exponent and president of the Baltimore branch of the
Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Hebrew Education Society.
1865:
Birthdate of Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the native of Breslau Germany, who came
to the United States in 1889. Viewed by some as brilliant theorist and
mathematical genius, Steinmetz held more than 200 patents when he passed away
in 1923. He experimented with AC electricity. His work was primarily in
the field of improving practical electrical devices and the transmission of
energy. The following comments provide some sense of his importance as a
Jew and as an America. "Where does our future lie! It lies in developing
and making use of men like the great Jews, Abram Jacobi, Charles Proteus
Steinmetz and Louis Brandeis, who are true to their own nature, and who respond
to the American environment. These men are not amateur Gentiles. They are Jews
and they are Americans."
1867: In
Rochester, NY, Abram and Caroline Stern gave birth to Cornell University
trained architect, whose works included the “Bausch and Lomb Optical Buildings
in Rocheser” and “Berith Kodesh Temple.”
1867: The
United States Senate ratified a treaty with Russia that enabled the United
States to purchase Alaska. “Jews have been a prominent part of Alaska's
history even before its acquisition by the U.S. in 1867. San Francisco Jewish
pioneering merchants Louis Sloss and Lewis Gerstle (for whom Northeast Alaska's
Gerstle River is named) are credited with opening the Alaska Territory to
settlers and commercial enterprises when establishing the Alaska Commercial
Company in 1868. Originally a fur-transporting firm, ACC expanded to become a
salmon cannery and fishing fleet, operated a chain of trading posts providing
general merchandise to natives, trappers, miners, and explorers, and supplied
Alaska's first fleet of ships during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1901”.
1868(17th of Nisan, 5628): Third Day of Pesach
1868: Birthdate of Catskill, NY and Hudson, NY building and loan director
William Kritzman.
1868: Miriam Isaacs, the daughter of Joseph Simon Magnus and Bele
Eliaser Cohen, the wife of Emanuel Isaacs and the mother of Rosetta and Esther
Isaacs was buried today in the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1870(8th of Nisan, 5630): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1870(8th of Nisan, 5630): Forty-nine-year-old Esther G.
Poznanski, the “daughter of Rachel and Isaac Barret” and “the wife of Gustavus
Poznanski” with whom she had had four children passed away today after which
she was buried in Charleston, SC.
1871: The
annual meeting of the "Hebrew Benevolent Fuel Association" was held
at Masonic Hall this morning. This organization now has over 1,000 members and
is now entirely supported by an annual subscription of $3 per capita. The
association will no long have to resort to fairs, concerts, and other
soliciting entertainments” for funding. “Last year” the Association
“distributed 1,000 half tons of coal” valued at $3,375 to needy New York Jews.
1872: In New
York, Nathan Goldberg’s home on Division Street suffered $300 dollars’ worth of
damage in a fire tonight.
1872: Two days
after he had passed away, 77-year-old Nathan Harris, the husband of Rebecca
Harris with whom he had had six children was buried today at the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1872:
Birthdate of Léon Blum the first Jew to serve as French Premier.
Imprisoned by the French and the Germans during World War II, he returned
to politics briefly after the war before passing away in 1950.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWblum.htm
1872(1st of
Nisan, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on the same day that delegates
approved a new constitution for the state of West Virginia at time when Jews in
Wheeling worshipped at Congregation L’Shem Shomayim and Jews in Charleston had
been using a Jewish cemetery since 1836 but were still a year away from
formally organizing Congregation B’nai Israel.
1874(22nd
of Nisan, 5634): Eighth Day of Pesach observed for the first time while
Benjamin Disraeli, who had succeeded Gladstone, served as Prime Minister under
Queen Victoria.
1876(15th of
Nisan, 5636): First Day of Pesach
1876:
According to a report published in the Salt Lake Tribune, the forty Jewish
families of Utah’s largest city celebrated Pesach
1877(26th of
Nisan, 5637): Henry Grass, a New York clothier passed away today. He is
survived by his wife Rebecca, six children, his brothers Abraham and Jacob and
their daughters.
1877(26th of
Nisan): Rabbi Jacob Simchah of Kempna, author of “Sha’arei Simchah” passed away
1878: In
Pinsk, “Moses and Lifsha (Rosenkranz) Chermerinsky gave birth to Jewish
Teachers Institute of Vilna graduate and Zionist Isaiah M. Chemerinsky, the
“founder and principal of the Jewish High School in Kiev” and Hebraist who in
1922 settled in the United States where he became the Executive Director of the
Jewish National Fund Educational Council and joined several Zionist
organizations including “Histadruth Ivrith.”
1879(16th
of Nisan, 5639): Second Day of Pesach
1879(16th
of Nisan, 5639): Sixty-one year old Viennese poet Karl Isidor Beck passed away.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beck_Karl_Isidor
1881: In
Hessen, Germany, Jakob and Ida Edelchen Baruch gave birth to Siegfried Baruch.
1882: Three
days after she had passed away, the former Emily Esther, the wife of painter
Phoebus Levin and the mother of Victoria Levin was buried today at the Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1882: Two days
after she had passed away, 56-year-old Miriam (Nathan) Benjamin, the daughter
of Nathan and Sarah Nathan and wife of Solomon Benjamin with whom she had had
fifteen children was buried today in the Willesden Jewish Cemetery in London.
1883:
Businessman Nathan Barnet who helped to found the Miriam Barnert Hebrew Free
School and the Barnert Memorial Hospital and the Barnert Memorial Temple was
elected Mayor of Paterson New Jersey.
1884(14th of
Nisan, 5644): Fast of the First Born
1884(14th of
Nisan, 5644): “The Festival Of Pesach” published in the New York Times today
states reported to that “the Jewish festival of Pesach, or the Passover will
begin at sunset this evening and continue for seven days…It is also known as
the Feast of Matzoth on account of the eating of the matzoth or cakes of
unleavened bread during its continuance.”
1884: In
Budapest, Leopold Lipot Friediger and Betti Bertha Friediger gave birth to
Rabbi Max Moses Friediger, the husband of Fanny Friediger and father of
Charlotte "Lotte" Jacoby and Arthur Friediger who while serving as
Chief Rabbi of Denmark was shipped to Theresienstadt by the Nazis.
https://lib.lsu.edu/sites/default/files/sc/findaid/3425.pdf
1887(15th
of Nisan, 5647): Pesach
1887(15th of
Nisan, 5647): Dr. Gustav Gottheil preached a sermon at New York’s Temple
Emanu-el.
1888:
Birthdate of Hungarian native Alexander Lichtman, the pioneer American film
producer.
http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/al-lichtman/
1888:
Birthdate of Ukrainian native Solomon Gurkov who gained fame as Sol Hurok, the
impresario who learned the meaning of anti-Semitism at an early age. When
he was 18, Hurok's father gave him one thousand rubles to go to Kiev.
Hurok took the money but went to Philadelphia instead. Once in
the States, Hurok began a career as an impresario promoting everything
from violinists, to opera, to Anna Pavlova, to an Israel-Yemenite
Singing and Dancing Troup that preserved the Jewish-Yemenite
Heritage. He passed away in 1974. Ironically, one of the first
performers whom Hurok promoted was the violinist Efrem Zimablist who was also
born on April 9 in another part of the Russian Empire.
1889:
Birthdate of Efrem Zimbalist in Rostov-on-Don Russia. Zimbalist studied
with his father who was conductor of note before coming to the
United States in 1914. He made his major musical debut in
1922. He was one of a long list Jewish violinist to populate the musical
cosmos in the last two centuries. He passed away in 1985.
1890: The will
of the late Louis Lippman was filed for probate today.
1890: An
inquest was convened to determine the culpability of Abraham Marks in the death
of Henry Heppner. Marks claimed he shot Heppner when he was trying to
break into his tailor’s shop through a rear window.
1890 Dr.
Gustav Gottheil, “the rabbi of Temple Emanuel” delivered a lecture today on
“The Christian Mission to the Jews; or Who Needs Conversion” in which he
declared himself forcibly against the missionary work among the Jews which is
being carried on by the Christian Churches.”
1890: In
Elmwood, OH, “Alexander Tedesche and Jeanette (Jennie) Greenfield gave birth
Hebrew Union College graduate and St. John’s University trained attorney,
Sidney Saul Tedesche, the holder of Ph.D. from Yale who served as a rabbi at
Brith Sholom in Springfield, Beth El in Providence, Bethel El in San Antonio,
Mishkan Israel in New Haven and Union Temple in Brooklyn while raising two
daughters – Carol and Jeanne – with his wife “the former Irma Goldman.”
https://www.geni.com/people/Sidney-Tedesche/6000000002717858029
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/19/140578272.pdf
1891: Adolph
Saphir, who had been born into a Hungarian Jewish family in 1831 and converted
in 1843 after which he “served as “Missionary to the Jews” passed away today.
1892: “Three
City Hospitals” published today described the efforts of New York City to
provide treatment for those suffering from contagious diseases including the
construction of a new pavilion at Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island
for the benefit of Jewish immigrants from Russia who are suffering from typhus.
1893: On the
day after Passover, Rabbi. Gustav G. Gottheil delivered a lecture entitled
"The Christian Mission to the Jews; or, Who Needs Conversion!" at
Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
1893: It was
reported today that the anti-Semites in Vienna claim that the man who attacked
Karl Lueger with a knife was an agent of the Israelite Alliance.
1893: In New
York City, Rebecca Rachel Blanc and Joseph Fineman gave birth MIT and Harvard
trained civil engineer Irving Fineman and husband of author Helene Hughes who
served in the U.S. Navy during WW I after which he became a successful
novelist.
https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/f/fineman_i.htm
1893: Four
days after she had passed away, 61 year old Marianne (Goldshede) Abrahams, the
daughter of Barnado and Annette Goldshede and the wife of Samuel Benjamin
Abrahams with whom she had had seven children was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery” today.
1893:
Birthdate of Victor Gollancz, the son of a London wholesale jeweler, “nephew of
Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz and
grandson of Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gollancz” the British author and publisher who
was one of the first to issue warnings about the impending mass murder of Jews
by the Nazis.
http://web.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/318.htm
1895: “Russian
Anti-Jew Edict Enforced” published today described the lasts step in the Czar’s
anti-Semitic policy in which the government has “instructed local military
officials…to enforce most strictly the ant-Jew edict of 1893” that “excluded
Jews from the health resorts in the Caucasus.”
1895(15th
of Nisan, 5655): Pesach
1895:
Birthdate of Meyer Loshie Casman, the native of Russia who “attended University
of PA, University of Michigan, and the US Military Academy at West Point” and
which he served as “a lawyer, army engineer and prosecutor during the Nuremberg
Trials.”
1895: Dr.
Solomon H. Sonnenschein who is the rabbi at Congregation Temple Israel in St.
Louis will deliver a Passover Sermon entitled “The Root and Fruit of Freedom”
in German at the Fifteen Street Temple in New York City. (Sermons in German
were still the norm in many Reform congregations and the switch to English
caused a schism in many congregations. So much for equating Reform with
being accepting of change)
1895: In
Hungary, Joseph Lichtman and Pepe (aka Josephine) Zuckermandel gave birth to
Alexander "Al" Lichtman a pioneering cinema businessman and movie
producer whose most famous work may have been “The Young Lions.”
1898(17th
of Nisan, 5658): Shabbat Shel Pesach observed on the same day that Spain agreed
to an armistice which stop the fighting in Cuba but would only allow the Cuba
to have limited self-rule which was unacceptable to members of the United
States Congress who were leading their country down a path to what would become
the Spanish-American War.
1899: Twenty-two-year-old
NYU trained attorney, Abram Morgan Frumberg the Towanda, PA born of Simon and Rachel
Frumburg and Democratic political activist who was a member of B’nai B’rith and
Temple Israel married Lillian Nebenzahl today in New York City.
1899: In
Gainesville, TX, Nathan and Eva Baum Lapowski gave birth to WW I Marine Corps
veteran Errold Baum Lapowski, the husband of Enid, OK native Eleanor Klein
Lapowski, the President of the National Council of Jewish Women and father of
Emily and Jean Lapowski.
1900: Tonight,
during a memorial service for Dr. Isaac M. Wise, “Dr. Emil G. Hirsch made an
appeal to the Jewish people to raise $500,000 which is the amount yet required
to lift the debt on Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati which was an institution
founded by the first leader of Reform Judaism in the United States.
1901: Today,
Mayor Low said that he was sympathetic to the bill before the NY State Senate
that authorizes the city to aid the Jewish Protectory and Aid Society but he
also said that it was unnecessary because “section 230 of the charter gives the
Board of Estimate full power in the premises.
1902: In
Philadelphia, Louis Bloch, the son Eva Loewenstein and Isaac Bloch and the
director of “various building and loan associations” as well as a member of the
board of directors of Adath Jeshurun married Jeanette Brylawski today.
1902: Herzl
wrote to Lord Rothschild in London asking for a meeting in the British capital.
1903(12th
of Nisan, 5663): Ta’anit Bechorot
1903:
Birthdate of Dr. Gregory Pincus. Born in New Jersey, Dr. Pincus' parents
where Jewish immigrants from Russia. Dr. Pincus' father was an agronomist
who hoped to train Russian Jews to become farmers in the United States. A
graduate of Cornell with a Ph.D. from Harvard, Dr. Pincus is known as the
"Father of the Pill." Dr. Pincus and Dr. Chiang developed the
first birth control pill; a discovery that altered American and the world's
sexual behavior forever. Pincus continued his work until his untimely
death in 1967.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0409.html
1904(24th
of Nisan, 5664): Parashat Shmini
1904: In
“Paschal Lamb Forbidden” published today the author takes issue with a
statement by the New York Times saying that the family feasted on the Paschal
Lamb during the seder since the lamb has not been sacrificed for 1,834 years”
and that Jews “were forbidden to eat the lamb” while “wine, unleavened bread,
and bitter herbs are the really important ceremonial features” of the Seder.
1905:
Birthdate of J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas.
Fulbright gained fame as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. Fulbright denied being pro-Arab or anti-Israel. However,
after he left the Senate, he became a highly paid lobbyist for the Arab oil
states.
1906(14th
of Nisan, 5666): Fast of the First Born – Erev Pesach
1906(14th
of Nisan, 5666): Morris Goldstein passed away.
1906: Austrian
native Nettie Kinsbruner, the daughter of Shmuel Meyer Stettner and Rachel
Stettner and her husband David (Aubie) Kinsbruner gave birth to Minna Katz, the
older sister of American college basketball star Mac Kinsbrunner.
1906: Louis J.
Goldman was elected President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1906: “When
Gold Boils” published reported today that Professor “Henri Moissan has been
trying some interesting experiments in vaporizing gold in the electric
furnace.” A French born Jew, Moissan won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in
1906.
1906(14th of
Nisan, 5666): Mrs. Sarah Orenstein and two of her children were almost
asphyxiated this evening. While cleaning her house in preparation for
Pesach, Mrs. Orsenstein apparently failed to replace a piece of tubing that she
had taken from the stove causing a gas leak. Fortunately, her husband
figured out what had happened and called an ambulance before the family was
overcome by the fumes.
1906(14th of
Nisan, 5666): Today in a Harlem Police Court the needs of two religions clashed
and the Jews lost twice. The magistrate fined eight Orthodox Jews who had
worked on done construction work on new building yesterday. They were
fined because they worked on the Christian Sabbath even though they explained
to the Judge that they had only been working on Sunday so they could finish the
job before the Passover. The same magistrate fined Michael Garlick for
killing chickens yesterday, Sunday, which was the Christian Sabbath. In
his defense Garlick said that his boss had told him that the Deputy Police
Commissioner said it would be alright to slaughter the chickens on a Sunday
because of the approaching Passover holiday. The magistrate did not
dispute the fact that the Commissioner had made the statement. He said
Garlick was guilty because the Commissioner did nave “the right to interpret
the law.”
1907: In St.
Petersburg, “the attention of the government has been called to the fact that
thousands of Jewish families in the southern provinces of Russia are selling
their homes and departing in fear of wholesale anti-Jewish attacks.”
1908:
Birthdate of Jersey City, NJ native and NYU alum Joseph Krumgold , the
successful scriptwriter and winner of two Newberry Medals who was the husband
of “the former Helen Litwin” and husband of Adam Krumgold.
1908: Hundreds
of poor Jews received free tickets at the offices of the United Hebrew
Communities Charity which can be exchanged for Matzoth, meat and other
groceries. Most of the recipients are women, many of whom who have brought
their young children with them. The distribution is an annual event
intended to make it possible for even the poorest Jew to be able to celebrate
Passover. Tickets will be distributed as long as funds are available to
fund the purchase of the necessary food items.
1909:
Birthdate of Galicia native Jack Diamond, the founder of “British Columbia’s
largest meat packing firm – Pacific Meats,” the Chancellor of Simon Fraser
University and husband of Sadie Mandelbuam with whom he had two son – Charles
and Gordon.
1909(18th
of Nisan, 5669): Fourth Day of Pesach
1909(18th
of Nisan, 5669): “Albert Schoengold, Jewish actor from New York dropped dead on
the stage of an east side music hall” in Buffalo tonight after which he was
buried at the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.
1910:
Birthdate of Yosef Shalom “a Haredi rabbi and posek who lives in Jerusalem,
Israel.”
1910:
Birthdate of Abraham A. Ribbicoff. Born in New Britain, Connecticut,
to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland, Ribbicoff attended New York
University and was awarded a law degree cum laude from the University of
Chicago in 1933. Starting in 1938, Ribbicoff worked his way up the Connecticut
political ladder. During the late 1950's was a popular two term governor
who became an early supporter of John F. Kennedy. Ribbicoff served
two years as Secretary of H.E.W. before resigning to begin a two decade long career
in the U.S. Senate. Ribbicoff was a champion of civil
rights, Medicare and the American workers. He passed away in
1998. Today we take the involvement of Jews at all levels of the
political process for granted. Such was not the case when Ribbicoff began
his career. An observant Jew, Ribbicoff was a trail-blazer for the
dozens of Jewish Representatives and Senators who are in Washington today.
1911: Reverand
Madison C. Peters, the Pastor Bloomingdale Church, gave a lecture today at
Temple Beth El on Haym Salomon, “the financier of the American
Revolution.” During his talk, Rev Peters stated that “Haym Solomon…did
for the Nation’s credit what Washington did on the field for freedom.”
1912(22nd
of Nisan, 5672): Eighth Day of Pesach
1912(22nd
of Nisan, 5672): Rabbi Abraham E. Dunya passed away in Racine, WI.
1912: In New
York City, Francis Nathan Wolff and Joseph F. Cullman, Jr. gave birth to Joseph
Frederick Cullman III, the businessman who turned Philip Morris into a “tobacco
powerhouse.”
https://www.nndb.com/people/509/000045374/
1912(22nd
of Nisan, 5672): Sixty-four year old Andrew Saks, the Baltimore born son of
Helena and William Saks the President and co-founder of Saks and Company best
known for Saks 5th Avenue and the husband of the former Jennie Rohr
with whom he raised three children – Horace ,William and Leila – passed away
today.
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/andrew-saks-dead-at-65.html
1912:
Birthdate of Lew Kopelew, Russian author and political dissident. Like
many of his generation, Kopelew career was a checkered one with his acceptance
or rejection depending upon the prevailing political winds. Unlike many
of his contemporaries, Kopelew survived the Soviet Union, dying peacefully in
1997.
1913(2nd
of Nisan, 5673): Sixty-five-year-old New York banker Leo Speyer, the husband of
Sara Speyer, who bought the house on 17 E. 82nd Street in 1898
passed away today.
1913: In
Chicago, Adah Stern married Walter J. Greenebaum at the Blackstone Hotel.
1913: Sixty-seven-year-old
German “philanthropist and art collector Henriette Hertz who converted to
Christianity in 1871 and “is now known mainly through her establishment of the
Bibliotheca Hertziana” passed away today in Rome.
1914: In
“America Sung in Synagogues” published today, Rabbi Edward M. Chapman, Ph.D.
took issue with the statement that “America” will be sung for the first time at
Pesach eve services on April 10 since “America” has always been sung in his
congregations “on national holidays when services are held as well as on some
of our own holidays.
1915: Rabbi
Felix A. Levy led services this evening at Temple Emanuel at Broadway and
Buckingham Place.
1915: Rabbi
A.R. Levy led services this evening at Congregation B’nai Jehoshua in Chicago.
1916(6th
of Nisan, 5676): Second Lt Benjamin James Polack of the 9 Worcestershire was
killed today during WW I while serving for King and Country.
1916:
Birthdate of Elliot Handler, who co-founded the Mattel toy company.
1916: A mass
meeting was held this afternoon at the London Casino in the Bronx to protest
against the Burnett Immigration Bill which Justice Peter Sheil described as
“class legislation” that “was aimed primarily against the Jews” since “a large
percentage of the immigration for the past several years” has been made of
Jews.
1916: Among
the donations listed today by the Special Million Dollar Fund of the American
Jewish Relief Committee $25 from the Mobile, Alabama council of Jewish Women,
$50 from Goldstein and Kirshner Co. of which Israel Kirshner was President and
$1,000 from the Harriman National Bank in New York City.
1916: Among
the donations listed today the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews
Suffering Through the War were $12 from the Ladies Aid Society of Spring
Valley, $100 from the Provisional Zionist Committee and $218 from the Rock
Island, Illinois Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War.
1917: Three
days after the United States entered WW I, Samuel Untermyer, the head of The
Jewish League of American Patriots is scheduled to go to Washington to “confer
with Secretary of War Baker on plans to enroll and drill the young Jews of New
York
1917: At a
meeting of the leaders of most the major Jewish organizations which had been
called for by Samuel A. Goldsmith, the Executive Secretary of the Army and Navy
Department of the Council of the Y.M.H.A. held today at the Astor Hotel it was
decided that “all religious welfare work growing out of the participation of
Jews in the war will be under the direction of a central board” with nine
members
1917: During
World War I, “Mark Sykes wrote to Lord Balfour that ‘The situation now is
therefore that Zionist aspirations are recognized as legitimate by the
French.’” Sykes was one of the leading British diplomats in the Middle
East. This correspondence with Lord Balfour was part of the jockeying for
Jewish support during World War I and possession of parts of the Ottoman Empire
after the war ended.
1917: It was
reported today that Herbert S. Goldstein who resigned as Associate Rabbi of the
Congregation Kehailath-Jeshurun so he could “dedicate his to a popular Jewish
revival movement in New York City” will be leasing a house where he will be
holding daily services and “a theatre for Sunday morning lectures.”
1918: Based on
previously published reports Samuel R. Travis is leading a drive supported by
“200 prominent orthodox Jews” to gain “additional members for the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Seminary.
1919:
According to a cablegram made public tonight by “the Palestine Anti-Zionism
Society” “the latest census in Palestine places Jews at less than 7 per cent of
the population and shows that only one” out of every thousand “possesses land.”
1920(21st
of Nisan, 5680): Seventh day of Pesach
1920: “The Man
in the Fog,” a silent fil directed by Mutz Greenbaum and produced by Jules
Greenbaum was released today in Germany.
1920(21st
of Nisan, 5680): Seventy-year-old Isaias Wolf Hellman the native of Bavaria who
came to the United States in 1859 where he became such a success as a banker
and philanthropist that he became one of the founders of the University of
Southern California passed away today.
http://www.jmaw.org/isaias-w-hellman-pioneer-investment-banker-part-2-san-francisco/
1920: In
Vienna, university students delivered a resolution “to the rector demanding
that in the future Jews not be appointed teachers, clerks or even servants;
that academic distinctions not be conferred on Jewish professors;” and that the
number of Jewish students must be limited so that it corresponds to their
percentage in the general population.
(Yes, 18 years before the Anschluss ant-Semitism was alive and well in
Austria.)
1920:
Anti-Jewish mass meetings were held in Vienna to commemorate “the 10th
anniversary of the death of Karl Lueger, the former Jew-baiting burgomaster.”
1921(1st
of Nisan, 5681): Parashat Tzaria; Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1921(1st
of Nisan, 5681): Seventy-two-year-old Italian political leader and the first
Jewish Mayor of Rome Ernesto Nathan, the London born of Sara Levi and Mayer
Moses Nathan passed away today in Rome.
1921:
Birthdate of Polish native, Yeshiva University graduate and Orthodox
congregational rabbi Elihu Menashe Blachowitz who gained fame as the chairman
of the billion‐dollar United Brands
Company, which has vast interests in bananas and meatpacking and other
enterprises, Eli M. Black, the husband of Shirley Lubell, the father of Judy
and Leon Black and the in-law of Benedict I. Lubell and Grace Borgenicht
Brandt.
1921:
Birthdate of George David Weiss the New York native who “was an American
songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.”
1921: In
Jerusalem, Yosef and Myriam Navon, descendants of distinguished Sephardi
families who had been living in the city since the 17th century gave
birth to Yitzhak Rachamim Navon the fifth President of Israel.
1921:
Birthdate of Eugen Merzbacher, the Berlin born American physicist.
http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?merzbachere
1922: In
Brooklyn, Samuel and Shirley Mandel, gave birth to Doctor Irwin D. Mandel, an
expert on Dental Chemistry.
1922: In
Prague, Marie Grabenstein Epstein and Dr. Moritz Epstein gave birth to Jindrich
Epstein.
1922: Birthdate
of Eleanor Chana Gordon — known as Chana – who as Chana Mlotek the “music
archivist at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and a columnist for the
Forward
http://yivo.org/about/index.php?tid=154&aid=1225
1923: A
committee which had been formed in response to the growing number of Jews,
especially those from eastern Europe, to “examine the principles and methods
for more effectively sifting candidates for admission” delivered its reported
today which on the surface looked like a victory for admission by merit but
contained to “two key recommendations” – raise the proportion of students from
the interior of the United States and limit the number of tram students – which
would lead to a decline of Jewish students to ten percent which was much more
to the liking of President Lowell.
1923:
Birthdate of Toronto native Leonard Williams Levy who won the Pulitzer Prize
for history in 1969 for Origins of the Fifth Amendment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/obituaries/01levy.html
1924: Thirteen
volumes purchased by Cotton Mather from Harvard College in 1682, including
Josephus’s History of the Jews, were returned to the college today by the
American Antiquarian Society.
1925(15th
of Nisan, 5685): Pesach
1925:
Birthdate of Winnipeg native Esther Ghan Cohen who gained fame as Esther Ghan
Firestone, the soprano and choral conductor who served as Canada’s first female
cantor.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/esther-ghan-emc/
1925: Rabbi
Israel Goldstein, the President of the Young People’s League of the United
States of America, is scheduled to deliver a sermon today on “A Plea for Poise”
at Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan.
1925: Based on
a previous announcement by the Palestine Foundation Fund, many rabbis are
expected to deliver sermons “on the significance of the Hebrew University which
was dedicated in Palestine last week.”
1925: “In
Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), in the Ural Mountains” pediatric surgeon Iosif
Neizvestny and “the former Bella Dizhur, a biochemist, poet and children’s book
author” gave birth to sculptor Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny
1926, The
Rosenblums, a professional basketball team “organized and owned by Cleveland
department stor woner Max Rosenblum, “won the ABL's first championship by
defeating the Brooklyn Arcadians by a score of 23–22 in the final game of the
league's first championship series played at Brooklyn's 71st Infantry Regiment
Armory
1926: In
Vilna, Max and Sonia Silverstein gave birth to “Mike Silverstein, a founder of
Nina Footwear, a women’s shoe company that grew from a SoHo loft to an
international concern selling around 10 million pairs of shoes a year.”
1926: It was
reported today that “budgetary allotments totaling $4,436,171.59 have been
approved for 1926 by the Federation for the Support of Jewish Charities under
the chairmanship of Felix M. Warburg.
1927: Alfred
Williams Anthony, Sidney L. Gulick and John W. Herring who have been working
with the Federal council of Churches of Christ in America “sent a cablegram to
John R. Mott, the General Secretary of the International Young Men’s Christian
Association” which is meeting in Budapest expressing the “hope that you will
recommend that the congress issue a call to the Christians everywhere to purge
the world of the curse of anti-Semitism and to accord to the Jews that highly
respected place in the brotherhood of peoples which they rich deserve on the
base of their sacred literature and history and which is their inalienable
right.”
1927: “Sacco
and Vanzetti's final appeal was rejected, and the two were sentenced to death.
Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, was considered to be
the most prominent and respectable critic of the trial. He was appointed to the
Supreme Court by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939.” (The Atlantic)
1928(19th of
Nisan, 5688): Fifth Day of Pesach
1928(19th
of Nisan, 5688): Ninety-three-year-old, Isaac Seligman the German born American
banker who became head of “Seligman Brothers, the London branch of the Seligman
merchant-banking empire” which led to his being a leading member of the Anglo-Jewish
community passed away today in London.
1928:
Birthdate of Tom Lehrer, folk singer and famed creator of political and social
musical parodies
1929: In
Brooklyn, “Samuel Lichtenstein, an immigrant from Poland, and Jennie Waldarsky,
an immigrant from Ukraine” gave birth to Harvey Lichtenstein, long-time
President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
1929: Betty
and Walter Bridgland were married at a synagogue in Adelaide, Australia
1930: In
Brookline, MA, “The Temple Chabei Shalom Congregation is scheduled to observe the
tenth anniversary of its rabbi, Samuel J. Abrams with an affair hosted by the Brotherhood
and Sisterhood.
1930:
Birthdate of Nathan Blumenthal, the native of Ontario who gained fame as
psychotherapist Nathan Branden, “the romantic partner of Ayn Rand.”
1931(22nd
of Nisan, 5691): Eighth Day of Pesch
1931: “Results
of experiments showing that softening of the brain is due to a deficiency in
the diet of some hitherto undiscovered was presented” in Montreal today, by
Professor A.M. Pappenheimer of Columbia” and one on his associates from the
Storrs Experimental Station at “the annual meeting of the Federation of
American Societies for Experimental Biology.
1932:
Birthdate of Jerzy Feliks Urman, the native of the “East Galician town of
Stanislow” under Polish rule who ended his own life by taking cyanide at the
age of 11 during the Holocaust.
http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2016/05/jerzyks-tragic-story.html
1932:
Birthdate of the multi-talented Paul Krassner
1933: As
negotiations for a Concordat between Hitler and the Vatican began Ludwig Kass
met with Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the future pope.
1934: Israel
B. Brodie announced that “more than a score of industrial nations will be
represented at the third biennial Levant Fair to be held in Palestine.”
Participating countries include Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and
Czechoslovakia.
1935:
Birthdate of comedian Avery Schreiber
1935: In an
interview at the Hotel Commodore, “Norman Bentwich, a close associate of James
McDonald in the work of the League of Nations for Refugees, a former Attorney
General of Palestine and a Professor of International Law at Hebrew University
agreed that Palestine was the ‘pivotal center’ for Jewish refugee settlement”
but that the “greatest urgency” is the need to establish a fund to the 4,000
non-Jewish refugees in France, Czechoslovakia and other countries.”
1935:
Americans took two first place finishes in the swimming events at the 2nd
Maccabiah. George Sheinberg won the 100-meter back-stroke and Janice
Lifson won the 100-meter free style competition.
1936(17th
of Nisan, 5696): Third Day of Pesach
1936: Based on
a survey conducted by economist Jacob Lestschinsky the total world Jewish
population is 16,240,000 “of whom 5,000,000 or 30 per cent live in the
Americas” of which 4,450,000 live in the United States.
1936: “The
official Nazi organ, the Angriff announced today” that Germany is to have ‘pure Easter eggs’”
because the 7,000 Jews who “composed 24 per cent of the industry” have been
eliminated “from the egg trade.”
1937:
“Striptease Held Indecent by Court” published today described the legal outcome
of a raid on Minsky’s Burlesque, precipitated in part, by the performance of
Roxana Sand. Sand was born Golda Glickman and for five weeks in 1934 she
had been the wife of the Jewish boxer King Levinsky.
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that over 10 million boxes of citrus were shipped
out from Palestine from the beginning of the citrus season 8,951,597 boxes of
oranges and 1,218,896 of grapefruit.
1937: “The
Girl From Scotland Yard,” with a screenplay by co-authored by Dore Schary and
produced by Emanuel Cohen was released today in the United States.
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that after Poland inaugurated a thrice-weekly air
service to Palestine, the Italian airline Ala Littoria started a regular weekly
hydroplane service to Haifa.
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that the largest-ever single pilgrimage from
England since 1888 including 1,050 English and Welsh tourists arrived in Haifa
aboard the S.S. Duchess of Richmond. The pilgrims proceeded to Jerusalem by two
special trains, 70 cars and 15 buses, accompanied by 70 guides. They took over,
for three days, all available Jerusalem hostels and hotels.
1937:
“Elephant Boy” a Kiplingesque film directed by Zoltan Korda and produced by
Alexander Korda was released in the United Kingdom today.
1938: “Arturo
Toscanini, who came to Palestine to conduct a series of concerts with the
Palestine Orchestra, arrived in Haifa by plane this afternoon accompanied by
his wife.” Among those greeting Toscanini was H.W. Steinberg, the
conductor who has been rehearsing the orchestra and who will leave Palestine to
become conductor of the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra which Toscanini had been
conducting.
1939: Illinois
Democrat J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis who as a Congressman had supported a “proviso
in the Balfour Declaration that Jews going to Palestine to live could retain
their original citizenship instead of automatically becoming British subjects”
and who as U.S. Senator led “a protest against the possible transfer of
American Jews from their present homes in Palestine to other parts of the
country” passed away today.
1940(1st
of Nisan, 5700): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1940: “Denmark
and Norway were invaded by Nazi Germany. Realizing that successful armed
resistance was impossible and wishing to avoid civilian casualties, the Danish
government surrendered after a few token skirmishes on the morning of the
invasion.”
1940: As the
Germans invade Norway, Sigrid Helliesen Lund burnt the entire list of Czech
Jews who had taken refuge in the country.
1940: The
Danish cabinet decided “to accept cooperation with German authorities” today
leading to the Danish police cooperating with the German occupation forces.
1940: As a
result of Operation Weserübung, Germans take control of Denmark. Three
years later, the Danes will save their Jewish population from extermination by
the Nazis in one of the most famous and daring rescue operations of the war.
1941: “The
Ghetto in Częstochowa was set up” today.
1942(22nd
of Nisan, 5702): 8th Day of Pesach
1942(22nd
of Nisan, 5702): Seventy-two-year-old Harvard trained, attorney Edwin S. Mack,
the Cincinnati born son of Herman and Jennie (Wolf) Mack, the member of the
University of Wisconsin Law School faculty and husband of the former Della
Adler with whom he had three daughters – Theresa, Elizabeth and Jean."
passed away today after which he was buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in
Milwaukee, WI.
1942: When the
outnumbered U.S. and Filipino forces surrendered at Bataan today, Sergeant
Louis Sachwald was among those who escaped capture as he was moved to
Corregidor. Eventually he would be taken prisoner and would survive the
infamous Bataan Death March and years of Japanese imprisonment.
1943(4th
of Nisan, 5703): Sixty-four-year-old Philadelphia born pediatrician Harry
Lowenburg, Sr. the medical director of the Northeastern Hebrew Orphans Home
passed away today.
1943: “Cabin
in the Sky” the movie version of the 1940 Broadway musical, produced by Arthur
Freed and Albert Lewis was released today in the United States.
1943: Forty-nine-year-old
Anna Skobisova was transported from Prague to Terezin today on what would be
next to the last stop before being murdered at Auschwitz.
1944: “The
military authorities, with headquarters at Munkacs, began the rounding up of
320,000 Jews into Ghettoes within the operational area. In order to prevent any
armed resistance by the Jews, they were concentrated in brick factories (as at
Kassa, Ungvar, Kolozsvar) or under the open skies (as at Nagybanyam,
Marosvasarchely, and Des).”
1945:
Forty-eight year old “German jurist” Karl Sack who took part in the July
20 plot to kill Hitler was executed in Flossenbürg concentration
1945:
Formation of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Two of the first
three Chairman of the Commission are Jewish. President Truman appointed
David Lilienthal and President Eisenhower appointed Lewis Strauss. Neither of
them were atomic scientists.
1945: Fifty-eight-year-old
Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris, the head of the Abwehr “was executed in
Flossenbürg concentration camp for high treason
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wilhelm-canaris
1946: Eleven
hundred Jewish refugees who had been sailing from Spezia to Palestine and who
were now being detained in Italy went on a hunger. The leaders of the
Jewish agency them not continue the fast for their own safety. They
promised the refugees that the Jews of Eretz-Israel would fast in their place
until they were allowed to continue to the Jewish homeland.
1946: “The
Dark Corne black-and-white film noir” based on a story by Leo Rosten with music
by Emil Newman was released today in the United States.
1947(19th
of Nisan, 5707): Fifth Day of Pesach
1947(19th
of Nisan, 5707): On his 63rd birthday Budapest born Rabbi Max Moses Friediger, the husband of
Fanny Friediger and father of Charlotte "Lotte" Jacoby and Arthur
Friediger who while serving as Chief Rabbi of Denmark was shipped to
Theresienstadt by the Nazis passed away today
1947: In a
criminal libel suit brought against L.M. Birkehad, “national director of the
Friends of Democracy” sixty-six-year-old Lambert Fairchild a former NYC
Alderman defended himself against claims that he was an anti-Semite, testifying
under oath “that he had been elected alderman in 1934 in a predominately Jewish
district and that he was associated with Jews in the American Legion.”
1948: The
presiding of judge at the Nuremberg Military Tribunal announced the sentence on
Eduard Strauch who was a commander of a unit of the Einsatzgruppen liquidated
55,000 Jews in a ten-week period during 1943, as death by hanging – a sentenced
he avoided due to other trials which enable to die in a hospital in Belgium in
1955.
1948(29th of
Adar II, 5708): During the fighting that preceded the actual creation of the
state of Israel, the Jewish defenders of Kastel had exhausted their supplies
and were forced to withdraw. Kastel was a village that dominated the
eastern end of the Tel Aviv – Jerusalem highway. The Haganah had taken at
the start of Operation Nachshon and the Arabs were determined to retake the
village. The last order given to the Jewish soldiers “by their platoon
commander Shimon Alfasi, ‘All privates will retreat – all commanders will cover
their withdrawal.’ Alfasi was killed in the battle, covering the retreat.
His order became a watchword during many future actions. Abdel Kader, the
commander of the Arab forces was killed in the closing moments of the
battle. Without his leadership the Arabs gave up the village a couple of
days later. The Jewish forces who were preparing to re-take the village were
surprised to find that the village was there without any further loss of
life.
1948: During
the battle for Mishmar HaEmek, Israeli forces captured and destroyed Ghubayya
al-Tahta
1949(10th
of Nisan, 5709): Parashat Tzav, Shabbat HaGadol
1949: U.S.
premiere of “Champion,” directed by Mark Robson, produced by Stanley Kramer,
starring Kirk Douglas with a screenplay by Carl Foreman and music by Dimitri
Tomkin.
1950(22nd
of Nisan, 5710): Eighth Day of Pesach
1950(22nd
of Nisan, 5710): Seventy-one-year-old Russian born Dr. Tua Shargorowska “one of
the originators of the Hebrew shorthand system who in 1928 came to Palestine
she was the author of “many Hebrew textbooks” passed away today in Tel Aviv.
1950(22nd
of Nisan, 5710): Sixty-seven-year-old Warsaw born pianist Bernard Ravitch, the
husband of Elsie Peck Ravitch who in 1911 came to the United States where
“formed the Ravitch Ensemble Music Club and trained many eighty-hand and
two-piano teams passed away today at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore………
1951(3rd of
Nisan, 5711): Seventy-four-year-old Henry Englander the native of Hungary and
1901 graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College who
served as the rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Providence, RI and lectured at Brown
University, passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0151/ms0151.html
1952(14th of
Nisan, 5712): Fast of the First Born
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported the Israeli official announcement that the
reparation talks at The Hague had only been suspended.
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Israel observed the Pesach festival with all
traditional holiday foods severely rationed and in a very short supply. Wine
shops were well-stocked, but only the more expensive brands were available.
Pesach chocolates, sweets and biscuits were completely absent. The sole bright
spot was an ample supply of vegetables. Citrus fruit was either very hard to
get or completely unavailable.
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported that the rubber industry, which employs over 1,000
workers, faced a complete shut-down owing to the shortage of raw materials.
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported The Palestine Conciliation Commission decided to
consider an Israeli request that the Jewish property confiscated in Iraq would
be charged against the abandoned Arab property in Israel.
1953: Warner
Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
1954(5th
of Nisan, 5714): Seventy-two-year-old Polish born Rabbi Solomon Krevsky, the
former “spiritual leader of Congregation Agudas Achim” and the “dean of the rabbis”
in the Allentown, PA area passed away tonight.
1954:
President Eisenhower appointed Edward B. Lawson to serve as U.S. Ambassador to
Israel.
1955(17th
of Nisan, 5715): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1956(28th
of Nisan, 5716): Yom HaShoah
1957:
The Suez Canal was cleared for all shipping. This marked one of the
final acts of the Suez Crisis that began in October of 1956 and resulted in a
swift victory of the Israelis over the Egyptians. The Egyptians blocked
the Suez Canal in attempt to get support from the world. In the end
the Israelis left the Canal and the Sinai. The Egyptians would fail
to honor their promises of peace and when they tried to destroy Israel
again in 1967, the result was an even more devastating defeat for the
Arabs.
1957: Release
date for “The Bachelor Party” Paddy Chayefsky’s screen adaptation of his 1953
teleplay of the same name.
1958(19th
of Nisan, 5718): Sixty-seven-year movie producer Solomon Max "Sol"
Wurtzel passed away today. Such was his importance that none other than
renowned director John Ford delivered his eulogy.
1958(19th
of Nisan, 5718): Fifth day of Pesach
1958: Birthdate
of Fairbanks, Alaska native and “American cross-country skier” Judy Rabinowitz,
who “finished seventh in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 1984 Winter Olympics in
Sarajevo.
1958(19th
of Nisan, 5718): Sixty-nine-year-old Clarence Yale
Palitz, the native of Lavia who came to the United States in 1900 where he
became a lawyer, alderman and active member of the Jewish community holding
leadership positions with the Jewish Ladies Day Nursery and the Jewish Social
Service Association while raising three children – Lillian, Bernard and
Clarence, Jr. – with his wife Ruth Krumnas Palitz passed away today.
1963(15th
of Nisan, 5723): Pesach
1963(15th
of Nisan, 5723): Eighty-three-year-old Mosi Moses Erlanger, the son of Abraham
and Bertha Bela Erlanger and husband of Margaret Erlanger with whom he had
three children – Edith, Lilly and Berta – passed away today.
1963:
Birthdate of New York native and Parsons School of Design trained American
fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
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1964: U.S.
premiere of “The Carpetbaggers” the move version of Harold Robbins novel
produced by Joseph E. Levine with music by Elmer Bernstein.
1965: In
Homestead, FL, Mathew Zucker, “a cardiologist” and Arline Zucker, “a
schoolteacher gave birth to Harvard graduate and television executive Jeff
Zucker
1965: “The
Greatest Story” a Biblical epic movie featuring Martin Landau, Ed Wynn and
Joseph Schildkraut in his last movie with music by Alfred Newman was released
in the United Kingdom today.
1966: Today,
the Security Council adopted resolution 221 which put an end to British
diplomat Henry Walston’s attempts “to negotiate an end to sanction-breaking
pumping of oil Southern Rhodesia.
1968: The
Jewish Orthodox Home for the Aged moved from Cleveland to a 37 acre site in
Beachwood Village “and adopted the name Menorah Park Jewish Home for the Aged.”
1969(22nd
of Nisan 5729): Seventh Day of Pesach
1969: The
"Chicago Eight" pleaded not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy
to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago,
Illinois. Three of the “Eight” - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Lee Weiner –
were Jewish. The two lead defense attorneys were Jewish and the Judge
hearing the case was also Jewish.
1971(14th
of Nisan, 5731): Ta’anit Behorot; erev Pesach and erev Shabbat
1972: “Sugar”
a musical produced by David Merrick with tunes by Jule Styne opened on Broadway
at the Majestic Theatre.
1973(7th
of Nisan, 5773): Eighty-seven-year-old “Samuel Ungerleider, the husband of
Selma Dallet and Budapest born son of
“Herman and Bertha (Atlas) Ungerleider who was the owner of Wheeling
Liquor Company in Wheeling, W. Va., the Aeon Liquor Company in Bridgeport, OH
and founder of an investment firm in Cleveland while serving as the “U.S. Asst.
Fuel Administrator” in Ohio during WW I passed away today.
1973: Israel
Defense Forces Special Forces units attacked several Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) targets in Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon in an action thought
“to be part of the retaliation for the Munich massacre at the Summer Olympics
in 1972.”
1974(17th
of Nisan, 5734): Third day of Pesach
1974: Sixty-eight-year-old
Marvin Lewis Kline, the 34th mayor of Minneapolis who was
“criticized by journalist Arthur Kasherman” for his close connection to the
“Minneapolis Mob” some of whose members were Jewish passed away.
1976: In
Israel, a car bomb was dismantled on Ben Yehudah Street shortly before it was
to have exploded.
1976: “All The
President’s Men” co-starring Dustin Hoffman with a screenplay by William Goldman
and music by David Shire was released today in the United States.
1976: “Family
Plot” a thriller with a script by Ernest Lehman was released in the United
States today.
1976: NBC
broadcast “The First Easter Rabbit” an animated tale co-starring Stan Freberg
as “Flops.”
1978: “Rabbit
Test,” directed and written by Joan Rivers, produced by Edgar Rosenberg,
starring Billy Crystal in his film debut and featuring Norman Fell was released
today in the United States.
1982:
Birthdate of Canadian Jay Burchel who numbers a Sephardic Jewish grandfather
among his ancestors.
1983(26th
of Nisan, 5743): Parashat Shmini
1983(26th
of Nisan, 5743): Seventy-four-year-old Gertrude Adelman Shapiro, the wife of
former Illinois governor Samuel Harvey Shapiro passed away today in Kankakee,
Il after which she was buried at the Waldheim Cemetery.
1984(7th of
Nisan, 5744): Joseph G. Weisberg, editor and publisher of The Jewish
Advocate, passed away Massachusetts General Hospital after becoming ill at
his desk in Boston, where The Advocate is published. He was 73 years old. Mr.
Weisberg, a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School, was head of
The Advocate, an English- language weekly, for more than four decades.
He was a founder and past president of the American Jewish Press Association
and a director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a worldwide news service.
1984(7th of
Nisan, 5744): In Portland, OR, 76 year old Sheindel Reznick, the wife of Hyman
Reznik and the mother of Naomi Blumberg passed away.
1984:
Refusnik,“Ida Nudel was summoned to the police station for interrogation.
1985(18th of Nisan, 5745): Fourth Day of Pesach
1985: In an
example of Jew slamming a Jew, Frank Rich panned “Leader of the Pack” the
musical with music and lyrics by Ellie Greenwich.
http://www.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E03E6DD1338F93AA35757C0A963948260&_r=3&
1986: Fred
Friendly began serving as Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College today.
1987(10th
of Nisan, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old Louis Nathan Cohen, the Irish born son
of Leba Rubin Cohen and Joseph Morris Cohen, the husband Edith Greenlee
Saunders Cohen and the Joyce, David and Phillip Nathan Cohen passed away today
in Albany, NY after which he was buried in the Riverside Cemetery.
1988: Pitcher
Jose Bautista, a native of the Dominican Republic, played his first major
league game with the Baltimore Orioles.
1988(22nd
of Nisan, 5748): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1988(22nd
of Nisan, 5748): Eighty-one-year-old Sydney Harry “Syd” Cohen who spent parts
of three seasons during the 1930’s pitching for the Washington Senators where
his only act of distinction was striking out Babe Ruth in 1934, making him the
last American League pitcher to whiff the great Bambino passed away today.
1989(4th of
Nisan, 5749): Eighty-six-year-old Moshe Ziffer, a native of Przemyśl, who came
to Palestine in 1919 where he became an artist and sculptor whose works
included busts of Einstein, Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weismann passed away today.
1989: In t
“Unearthing a Roman City in Israel,” published today Matthew J. Reisz described
the history of Beit Shean including the latest archeological discoveries at
this ancient city whose ties to the Jewish people date back to the days of Saul
and David.
1990(14th
of Nisan, 5750): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1990: “Telling
the Seder's Story In the Voice of a Woman” published today provides Nadine
Brozan’s description of the celebration of Pesach with a unique, feminist
twist.
1990(14th of
Nisan, 5750): Louis Rappaport, called Calev
Ben-David and asked him to join him in interviewing Barbara Walters just hours
before the start of the first Seder.
1990: Twenty-year-old
pitcher Scott Radinsky made his major league debut with the Chicago White Sox.
1991:
Statements made in an interview with James Randi published in the International
Herald Tribune resulted in a suit being filed by illusionists Uri Geller.
1992: Nigel
Lawson retired as Member of Parliament for Blaby.
1992: Peter
Benjamin Mandelson began serving as an MP for Hartlepool.
1993: “This
Boy’s Life” a film version of the memoir by Tobias Wolff who did not find that
his was Jewish until he was an adult co-starring Ellen Barkin was released
today in the United States.
1993(18th
of Nisan, 5763): Fourth Day of Pesach
1993(18th
of Nisan, 5763): Ninety-year-old Rabbinic heavyweight Joseph Ber Soloveitchik
passed away today in Boston.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/no-headline-684393.html
http://www.manfredlehmann.com/news/news_detail.cgi/110/0
1993(18th
of Nisan, 5763): Eight-six-year-old middle-weight Abie Bain who lost a title
bout to Maxie Rosenbloom passed away today.
http://www.njboxinghof.org/abie-bain/
1995(9th of
Nisan, 5755): Alisa Flatow, 20, was riding a public (Jewish) bus near the
Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom when an Arab suicide bomber plowed his car
into that bus. Alisa and seven Israeli soldiers, all under the age of 21,
were killed. Alisa was one of 20 American victims of the so-called
"Peace" process!
1995(9th of
Nisan, 5755)Staff-Sgt. Yuval Regev, 20, of Holon; Staff-Sgt. Meir Scheinwald,
20, of Safed; Sgt. Itai Diener, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Zvi Narbat, 19, of
Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Netta Sufrin, 20, of Rishon Lezion; Cpl. Tal Nir, 19, of
Kibbutz Miflasim; Sgt. Avraham Arditi, 19, of Jerusalem; and Alisa Flatow, 20,
of the United States were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van
near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack.
1997(2nd
of Nisan, 5757): Eighty-year-old screenwriter and author Helene Hanff best
known for 84, Charing Cross Road passed away in New York City.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-helene-hanff-1267169.html
1998(13th of
Nisan, 5758): Fast of the First Born takes place today because the 14th
of Nisan falls on a Friday.
1999: “Never
Been Kissed” a comedy co-starring Michael Vartan, Leelee Sobieski and James
Franco was released in the United States today.
2000: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback
editions of “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges” by Nathan Englander in which
the author “combines a compassionate grasp of the Orthodox Jewish world with
the skeptical irreverence of one estranged from yet still oddly defined by
it,'' “The Last of the Just” by Andre Schwarz-Bart a French novel that
chronicles the agonies of a Jewish family from 12th-century England to Nazi
Germany,” and “Picture This” by Joseph Heller.
2001(16th
of Nisan, 5761): Second Day of Pesach
2001(16th
of Nisan, 5761): Eighty-six-year-old Communist Party member and Buchenwald
survivor Emil Carlebach passed away today in Frankfurt am Main.
https://www.buchenwald.de/en/1202/
2002(27th of
Nisan, 5762): Yom Ha Shoah
2002: During
Operation Defensive Shield a battalion commanded by Major Oded Golomb was
ambushed by terrorists in Jenin
2002(27th
of Nisan, 5762): Maj.(res.) Oded Golomb, 22, of Kibbutz Nir David;
Capt.(res.) Ya'akov Azoulai, 30, of Migdal Ha'emek; Lt.(res.) Dror Bar, 28, of
Kibbutz Einat; Lt.(res.) Eyal Yoel, 28, of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel; 1st Sgt.(res.)
Tiran Arazi, 33, of Hadera; 1st Sgt.(res.) Yoram Levy, 33, of Elad; 1st
Sgt.(res.) Avner Yaskov, 34, of Be'er Sheva; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Ronen
Alshochat, 27, of Ramle; gt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Eliyahu Azouri, 27, of Ramat
Gan; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Amit Busidan, 22, of Bat Yam; Sgt. 1st Class (res.)
Menashe Hava, 23, of Kfar Sava; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Shmuel Danny Meizlish,
27, of Moshav Hemed; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Zimmerman, 22, of Ra'anana were
killed today while fighting at Jenin. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2002(27th
of Nisan, 5762): Thirty-year-old Major Assaf Assoulin of Tel Aviv was killed
during fighting at Nablus.
2002(27th
of Nisan, 5762): Twenty-one-year-old Staff Sergeant Malik was killed today.
2002: A
pro-Israel drew 4,000 supporters today in Miami Beach, FL.
2003: “A
Little Plantain At the Passover Table” https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/dining/a-little-plantain-at-the-passover-table.html?searchResultPosition=2 “How to Boil an Egg:
So Simple, but Not Easy” https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/dining/how-to-boil-an-egg-so-simple-but-not-easy.html?searchResultPosition=3 and “Nostalgia, the
Secret Ingredient of Matzo Brei” https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/dining/nostalgia-the-secret-ingredient-of-matzo-brei.html?searchResultPosition=4 published today
provide food history and cooking tips for the upcoming Passover holiday.
2003: Said
Aldin al-Arabid, the Hamas leader whom has been accused “of directing dozens of
attacks that killed many Israelis when the Subaru he was riding in was reported
hit by a salvo of two missiles fired from an Israeli aircraft.
2004:
“The Alamo” an epic about the Texas war for independence co-produced by Brian
Grazer and with a script co-authored by Leslie Bohem was released in the United
States today.
2004:
U.S. premiere of “The Girl Next Door” with a screenplay co-authored by Stuart
Blumberg.
2005(29th of
Adar II, 5765): Fifty-eight-year-old author Andrea Dworkin who was variously an
anarchist, anti-war activist, radical feminists and an outspoken critic of
pornography which viewed as being a cause of the violent attacks suffered by
women passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/arts/andrea-dworkin-writer-and-crusading-feminist-dies-at-58.html
2006: The
Washington Post featured a review of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a
City and the Conflict that Divided America by Eyal Press. The book is
an account of the battle over abortion in the United States. The book is
written by the son of Dr. Shalom Press, one of two doctors who performed
abortions in Buffalo, New York. The other was Dr. Barnett Slepian who was
murdered in his kitchen when he came home from Friday night Shabbat services.
Interestingly enough, the local leaders of the anti-abortion movement are twin
brother who had grown up in a Jewish home and had converted to Christianity
before becoming “pro-life.”
2006: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Suite Francaise by Irène
Némirovsky; translated by Sandra Smith
2006:
Concentration camp survivor Emil Alperin of the Ukraine is pictured in an AP
photo laying down flowers at Buchenwald near Weimar in eastern Germany as part
of the commemoration ceremonies for the 61st anniversary of the
liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp.
2007: Haaretz
reported that archeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered
evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient
honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever
found
2007(21st of
Nisan, 5767: Seventh Day of Pesach: Reform Jews recite Yizkor on what is for
them, is the last day of the holiday.
2007: In
“Girls: Israel’s Racy New PR Strategy Israel” published today Kevin Peraino
describes Israel’s flirtation with a new public-relations strategy.”
2008:
Madeleine M. Kunin, the former governor of Vermont, the first Jewish
woman governor and an ambassador under the Clinton administration, discusses
and signs her new book, “Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and
Lead,” at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.
2008(4th of
Nisan, 5768): 21-year-old Staff Sgt. Bisan
Sayef from the village of Jatt was killed during clashes with Palestinian
gunmen.
2008: April
will be known as Jewish Heritage Month in New Jersey, thanks to legislation
Gov. Jon Corzine signed at Passaic’s Ahavas Israel in front of a multi-ethnic
group.
2009: “X-Men
Origins: Wolverine” with a screenplay co-authored y David Benioff and
co-starring Liev Schreiber was released today in Sydney.
2009:
In “So You Think Know Matzo?” published today in Time magazine,
Claire Suddath provides a brief history of this famous unleavened bread.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1890268,00.html
2009(15 Nisan
5769): First Day of Pesach
2009(15th of
Nisan, 5769): US President Barack Obama will celebrate Passover tonight with
staff and friends in what is believed to be the first White House Seder
attended by an American president. President Obama is not the first US
President to attend a Seder. That honor belongs to William Howard Taft
who was the first president to attend a Seder while in office. In 1912, when he
visited Providence, RI, he participated in the family Seder of Colonel Harry
Cutler, first president of the National Jewish Welfare Board. Why did Taft
go? Was it an act of brotherhood and good will or was it an act of
political fence mending brought on by Taft’s support of measures that were
harmful to Jewish immigration. Since 1912 was an election year and Taft
was faced with a stiff challenge from Theodore Roosevelt, he needed all of the
support he get from Jewish voters who had supported the Republican
Party.
2010(25th
of Nisan, 5770): Ninety-year old British soldier and diplomat Sir Peter
Ramsbotham whose “mother was the daughter of Jewish banker Sgismund de Stein of
London” passed away today.
2010: The
Westchester Film Festival is scheduled to show “Hello Goodbye” a romantic
comedy about a Jewish couple from Paris who go through a midlife crisis and
move to Tel Aviv staring Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant.
2010: Three days after premiering in New York “Date
Night,” a comedy directed and co-produced by Shawn Levy was released to
theatres throughout the United States.
2010:
Rich Recht is scheduled to lead a musical and interactive Shabbat evening at
the Historic Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C.
2011:
Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to perform with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
2011:
Machaya Klezmer, “the premier klezmer band,” is scheduled to perform at The
Jewish Study Center Spring Fund Raiser at Tifereth Israel Congregation in
Washington, DC.
2011:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Jewish community gathered for shiva minyan at the
home of Kate and Gary Goldstein in memory of Gary’s father, Harold Goldstein of
blessed memory.
2011: Hamas
said today that it “did not intend to target Israeli schoolchildren when they
fired a rocket at a bus two days ago, critically wounding a teenager and
moderately wounding the bus driver, in an attack that sparked the latest round
of border fighting."
2011: Today
the Israel Defense Forces spokesman's office confirmed that IAF jets attacked
three top Hamas officials in the Gaza strip, as well as a smuggling tunnel and
a truck carrying ammunition, after southern Israel suffered a barrage of
rockets overnight.
2011:
This morning two additional Grad rockets were fired at Ofakim, and 25 mortar
shells were fired into the Eshkol Regional Council. Fifteen Grad-model rockets
had been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory during the night.
2011(5th
of Nisan, 5771): Eight-six-year-old move director Sidney Lumet passed away
today.
2012:
In the third and final event in Adam Gopnik’s “Table Comes First” series, Padma
Lakshmi and Amanda Hesser are scheduled to discuss the unique strengths and
differences of our culinary masters and mavens at the 92nd Street Y
in Manhattan.
2012: At least
70,000 people from Israel and abroad gathered at the Western Wall in
Jerusalem's Old City today for the traditional priestly blessing.
2013:
“The Last Flight of Petr Ginz” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester
Jewish Film Festival
2013: An
exhibit of letters, manuscripts, images, and objects about the life and
literary career of Hyam Plutzik opened at Connecticut’s Trinity College of
which he was one of the first Jewish alums.
2013: “Melting
Away” an Israeli film with English subtitles is scheduled to be shown at the 17th
Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Fest.
2013: In
Mandeville, LA, the Northshore Jewish Congregation is scheduled to host its Yom
HaShaoah Holocaust Remembrance Program.
2013: Jack
Tytell, an American-born Israeli Jew who was convicted in January of murdering
two Palestinians and wounding two Israelis, was sentenced today by the
Jerusalem District Court to two consecutive life sentences plus 30 years jail
time and was ordered to pay NIS 680,000 ($190,000) compensation to the victims’
families.
2013: Jewish
Agency head Natan Sharansky was in the United States today to present to
American Jewish leaders part of his proposal to resolve the issue of
nontraditional prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, which will reportedly
include a greatly enlarged section for egalitarian services.
2014: “Holy
Ground: Woody Guthrie's Yiddish Connection” is scheduled to best shown at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “Women
Unchained” is scheduled to be shown at The JCC Rockland International Jewish
Film Festival.
2014(9th of
Nisan, 5774): Eighty-seven year old Jacob Birnbaum passed away today.
http://forward.com/articles/196373/soviet-jewry-activist-jacob-birnbaum-dies-at-/
2014: The
Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund chaired by Dr. Bob Silber is scheduled to
co-host a speech by Holocaust survivor Cesare Frustaci at Coe College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
2015: In
Orono, ME, Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Collins Center for Arts
at the Univeristy of Main.
2015: “When a
Plane Seat Next to a Woman Is Against Orthodox Faith” published today described
the conditions aboard planes flying to Israel when men insist on preferential
treatment because they do not want to sit next to women for religious reasons.
2015: Shoah
survivor Margit Meissner is scheduled to speak today at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum.
2015:
“Blumenthal,” “A Place in Heaven” and “Famous Nathan” are scheduled to be shown
at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015: The
Argentine government announced today that it “will declassify all intelligence
documents about the March 17, 1992, attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos
Aires that killed 29 people and wounded hundreds. (As reported by JTA)
2015: Vandals
smashed a window and scrawled anti-Semitic messages at Copenhagen’s only kosher
deli, police said today, less than two months after a man was killed in an
attack outside a synagogue on the Danish city.”
2015: Funeral
series are scheduled to take place for Bernice Tannenbaum, the past National
President of Hadassah who passed away at the age of 101 at Riverside Memorial
Chapel in New York City.
2016(1st
of Nisan, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Nisan and Shabbat HaChodesh.
2016: “Rock in
the Red Zone” is scheduled to be shown at the Hartford Jewish Film Festival.
2016:
“JeruZalem” and “Baba Joon” are scheduled to be shown for the first time at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2016: “Laugh
Lines” and “Suicide” are scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish
Film Festival
2017: “In an
statement timed just ahead of Passover, the Temple Mount Sifting Project said
today it had found a stone finger that may have belonged to a Bronze Age
Egyptian statue, but conceded it wasn’t sure.”
2017: The New York Times published reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy and Our Short History by
Lauren Grodstein,
2017: The
Autohaus on Edens is scheduled to be the venue “for an exclusive event
benefiting the Women's Leadership Committee of the Illinois Holocaust Museum
& Education Center.”
2017: In “Keep
Your Politics Out of Passover,” published today, Shmuel Rosner, the political
editor at The Jewish Journal and a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy
Institute examines the problems with using what are supposed to be unifying
Jewish customs and ceremonies to promote partisan political views.
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Bye, Bye,
Germany” in London today.
2018: The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish
Historical Society are scheduled to host Psoy Korolenko and Anna Shternshis
performing “satirical Yiddish anti-fascist songs from the lost Archive of the
Bureau for Jewish Culture at the Ukrainian Academy of Science, written during World
War II in the Soviet Union.”
2018:
The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players which was founded by Jens Nygaard who
directed the Washington Heights YW-YMHA concerts for 25 years is scheduled to
perform “The Great vs. The Five” featuring the music of Tchaikovsky versus the
music of Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky,
and Alexander Borodin.
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “1945” in London
today.
2018: “From Poland to Israel: The March of the Living” sponsored
by the Temple Emanu-El Streicker center is scheduled to begin today.
http://assets.emanuelstreickernyc.org/publications/Poland_2018/#page=1
2019: The Skirball Center is scheduled to host the first session
of “Modern Jewish Philosophy” during which Dr. Daniel Rynhold examines “what
got Spinoza in trouble, and how thinkers like Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen,
Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig responded.”
2019: In New York, the City Winery is scheduled to host an
evening, with Keren Ann (Zeidel) the Caeserea born singer and composer.
2019: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host an
“Educators Open House” where, among other things attendees will receive
“Ready-to-Use lesson plans and free access to online lessons and lectures.”
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to
host the “debut of ‘And All The Days Were Purple,’ new album by composer Alex
Weiser featuring Yiddish and English poems set to music.”
https://yivo.org/and-all-the-days-were-purple
2019: As Israelis
prepare to go to the polls, scientists make corrections in the orbit of the
Beresheet lunar lander in preparation for the events of April 11.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5491242,00.html
2020(15th of Nisan, 5780): First Day of Pesach
2020: Based on the number of funerals carried out by burial
societies, where covid-19 appeared on the deceased’s death certificate as of
the last figures released before Pesach, at least 152 Jews in the UK have died
because of the virus.
2020: “Rabbi Danny Gottlieb and Ricki Weintraub of S.F.
Congregation Beth Israel Judea are scheduled to host a Seder on Facebook Live.
2020: As of seven o’clock this morning Israelis are scheduled to
be able to leave their houses after having been confined to their homes since
six o’clock yesterday evening.
2020: In the evening, the ASF Young Leaders are scheduled to
host a “Virtual Sephardic Passover Seder.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/270815277260614/
2020: 155th anniversary of the Confederate surrender
at Appomattox where Grant showed the kind of magnanimity that he hoped would
quickly bind up the nations’ wounds -- a hope that others defeated.
2021: In Palm Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host two
ways to welcome Shabbat -- Shabbat B’Yachad (Shabbat Together) and Shabbat Worship
services with Rabbi Yaron and Cantorial Soloists Abbie.
2021:
As we mark Yom Ha’Shoah, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to to welcome Abe Foxman, now VP of the Board at
the Museum of Jewish Heritage, as he talks about his life, his life’s work and
about keeping Jews and Judaism alive.
2021:
In Beachwood, OH, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple is
scheduled to begin the ceremonies marking the installation of Cantor Vladimir
Lapi.
2021: “Many of the curbs on the education
system are set to expire tomorrow in Israel (As reported by Tamar Trabelsi
Hadad and Adir Yanko)
2022: Modern JewISH Couples and Repair the
World Boston are scheduled to present a “Couples Social Justice Shabbat Brunch”
with Rabbi Jen Gubitz.
2022: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled
to host violinist Yevgenia Pikovsky, cellist Alexander Kaganovsky and pianist
Michel Zartsekel playing “the Best of Chamber Music.
2022: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled
to present online “Poetry for Your Seder” during which attendees “explore and discover new pieces for this
year’s seder around the themes of Passover, including freedom, slavery, spring,
spiritual memory and more” followed by Havdalah..
2022: Based on today being Shabbat
HaGadol, 91st anniversary of the Bar Mitzvah of Joseph B. Levin.
2022: Grateful Labs is scheduled to host
“Tel Aviv’s largest ever guided gratitude gathering” at the Gratitude Wall in
Habima Square.
2022: As Jews celebrate
Shabbat HaGadol, they remember Tomer Morad 28, Eytam Magini 27 and Barak Lufan,
35 who were murdered this week by a terrorist in Tel Aviv.
2022(8th of Nisan, 5782):
Shabbat HaGadol;
2023(18th of Nisan, 5783):
Fourth Day of Pesach.
2023: Bank Hapoalim is scheduled to
continue to sponsor free entrance to 170 museums, national parks, and heritage
sites in Israel, including ANU - Museum of the Jewish People.
2023: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host an adult ed event on the spiritual perspective of Buddhism,
led by Naomi Bloom
2023: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker
invites all who are interested “to see the highly anticipated Broadway run of
“Parade,” which revolves around the story of Leo Frank.
2023:
Twenty-year-old Maya Dee and her fifteen-year-old sister Rina Dee who were
murdered by a terrorist on April 7 in an attack that has left their 48 year old
mother Lucy fighting for her life are scheduled to be buried this afternoon at
Kfar Ezion Cemetery.
2023: In Brookline, MA, Congregation
Kehillath Israel is scheduled to present “What is Happiness and Why Does It
Elude Us?” with the father and son team of authors Michael and Adam Sandel.
2023: The New York Times features
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS and the Masterminds of World
War II Secret Warfare by John Lisle and The Collaborators: Three Stories
of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ina Buruma
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “bar
Kokhba/ben Zakkai: Who are the Heroes of the Jews?
2024:
Online David Williams, Cook County State’s Attorney Special Investigations
Bureau, Adjunct Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at UIC, Co-Founder,
Regional Antisemitism Taskforce, and IHMEC LEAD Training Facilitator is
scheduled to discuss “case studies about hate crimes that have occurred in the
Chicago area including the damage at the Loop Synagogue and vandalism on Devon
Avenue.”
2024:
As part of the New York Klezmer Series, the Hudson Yards Synagogue is scheduled
to host “Tantshoyz with Steve Weintraub!”
2024:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host
the fourth session of “Telling Our Stories,” during which attendees can
discover “their family's stories with Tribe 12's Mick Brewer, the Weitzman's
Director
2024: The Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host a conversation with Brett Gelman, author of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible and Andrew Silow-Carroll, Managing Editor for Ideas at JTA
2024:
In New Orleans the board of Tulane Hillel is scheduled to meet this evening.
2024(1st
of Nisan, 5784): Rosh Chodesh Nisan;
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2024:
As April 9th begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 186 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.)
