This Day, August 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 15
423: Honorious Flavius, the Western Roman Emperor who confiscated gold
and silver which had been collected by the synagogues to be sent to Jerusalem
and “defined Judaism as an unworthy superstition passed away today.
1096: The armies of the First Crusade set out from Europe to deliver
Jerusalem from the occupying forces of Islamic Turks. Championed by Peter the
Hermit in 1093, Pope Urban II had sanctioned the crusade at the Council of
Clermont in 1095.
1286: As
what the original and 21st tenants of the city might find as an act
of usurpation, during the era of the Crusaders, Henry II was name King of
Jerusalem succeeding his brother John I whose death he was rumored to have
hastened with the use of poison.
1309:
Knights of St. John, complete their conquest of Rhodes. Apparently the Knights
treatment of the Jewish population was comparatively benign since many Sicilian
conversos would move to the island because “they remembered the Knights’’
liberal policy towards the Jews or Rhodes.”
1418:
Birthdate of Johannes Hinderbach, the Prince-Bishiop of Trent who created a
blood libel when he blamed the Jews for the death of Simon of Trent.
1461: Trapezunt
surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II marking the real end of the
Byzantine Empire. The experience of the Jews of Anatolia had been uneven in the
days of the Byzantine (Christian) Empire.
The Jews of Constantinople remained in place after the Islamic forces
came to power under Mehmet II.
1488: In Cordoba,
Christopher Columbus and his companion Beatriz Enriquez de Arena gave birth to
the explorer’s second son Ferdinand Columbus
http://frostsnow.com/ferdinand-columbus
1534: Ignatius of
Loyola and six classmates took initial vows that would lead to the creation of
the Society of Jesus in September of 1540. In its early days, the Jesuits
accepted Jewish converts and their descendants who were known as New Christians
were admitted to the order. After the
death of Loyola, the Jesuits adopted the Spanish attitudes and refused to
accept New Christians or their descendants as members.
1724: Birthdate of
Hamburg, Germany native and convert to Christianity Aaron Isaacs, a merchant,
landowner and supporter of the American Revolution who lived in Connecticut
during the war, “helped found the Clinton academy and married Mary Hedges in
1750.
1753(15h of Av, 5513):
Tu B’Av
1769: Birthdate of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon had profound effect on the Jews of Europe. But if one asks, “Was Napoleon good for the
Jews” the best answer might be, “It depends.”
For one version see
http://www.aish.com/jl/h/h/48945221.html
1776(30th of
Av, 5536): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1784: In Gorizia, Rabbi
Abraham Vita and his wife gave birth to Isaac Samuel Reggio an Austro-Italian
scholar and rabbi.
1796: In what may have
been the first attempt for a governmental entity to protect Kashrut in the
United States, the Common Coincil suppressed the butcher license of Nicholas
Smart, a non-Jew, for affixing Jewish seals to non-kosher meats. Pg 246
1806: Rabbi Joseph
David Sinzheim delivered a sermon in the synagogue of Paris in honor of the
emperor's birthday that strengthened Napoleon's favorable opinion of the Jews,
who received the imperial promise that their rights as French citizens would not
be withdrawn.
1815 (9th of Av): Rabbi
Joseph Isaac Horowitz, known as “The Chozeh” of Seer of Lublin author of Divrei
Emet, passed away.
1815: In “Fryingpan
Alley,” Elizabeth and Benjamin Fileman gave birth to Rachel Fileman
1818: In Alsace,
France, Alexandre Aron and Charlotte Aron, the daughter of Asser Lion and Gitlé
Loëw gave birth to Jérôme Aron-Duperret
1819: Birthdate of
Joseph Jacob Goldmark, the Hungarian physician who came to the United States
after the failed revolution of 1848 where he discovered red phosphorous and
became the father-in-law of Louis Brandeis and Felix Adler.
1829: In “Leigh, Essex”
Catherine Phillips and Laurence Lazarus gave birth to Benjamin Lazarus.
1829: Sara and Jacob
Nunes Castello gave birth to Baruch Castello, the husband of Sophia Woolf.
1830: Birthdate of
Henry Aaron Isaacs who became sheriff of London and was knighted in 1887 and
was elected Lord Mayor of London two years later.
1831: In Bavaria, David
Isaac Seligmann and Fanny Seligmann gave birth to Leopold Seligmann, the
husband of Julia Levi.
1831: Birthdate of
Leopold Morse, the native of Wachenheim, Germany who moved to the United States
in 1849 where he opened a successful clothing store in Massachusetts and became
so active in the Democratic Party that he served as a delegate to the National
Convention and a member of the House Representatives.
1838: Lewis Nathan
married Hannah Cohen at the New Synagogue.
1838(24th of
Av, 5598): German businessman Moses Moser whose business associates included
Moses Friedländer and Moritz Robert and who was a close personal friend of
Heinrich Heine passed away today in Berlin.
1842: Charles Henry
Churchill, the British Consul in Damascus whose area of responsibility included
Palestine, delivered his formal proposal to Sir Moses Montefiore concerning the
role of Jews in the Middle East. A
Zionist before Zionism existed, Churchill proposed “that the Jews of England
conjointly with their brethren on the Continent of Europe should make an
application to the British Government through the Earl of Aberdeen to accredit
and send out a fit and proper person to reside in Syria for the sole and
express purpose of superintending and watching over the interests of the Jews
residing in that country.” Charles Churchill was the grandfather of Sir Winston
Churchill.
1844: In Hungary,
Aharon Rausher and his wife gave birth to future Chicago resident Celia Raucher
Goldfinger, the wife of Charles Ignat Goldfinger with whom she had four children
– Samuel, Catherine, Sallie and Lillye.
1849: Moss Davis and
Jane Davis were married today at the Great Synagogue.
1849: Joseph Seligman
and Babette Seligman gave birth to Helene Seligman who became Helene
Spiegelberg when she married Emanuel Spiegelberg.
1854: M.H. Bresslau
began serving as editor of The Jewish Chronicle (New Series) and Working Man's
Friend" an Anglo-Jewish newspaper which he renamed “The Jewish Chronicle
and Hebrew Observer."
1854: In Hesse, Levi
Hoechster and Betty Hoechster gave birth to Max Hester.
1855(1st of Elul,
5615): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1855: Birthdate of Czech
native and future Ohio resident William W. Pollack, the husband of Marrie Leder
Pollak with whom he had eight children – Herman, Sophia, Eleanor, Robert, Olga,
Edwin and Nelson
1855: Birthdate of
Baden, Germany native Julius J. Dukas who came to New York at the age of 19 and
eventually start a brush manufacturing company known as J. Dukas and Company
while raising a daughter with his wife Sarah Hyman Dukas.
1857: Birthdate of
Albert Ballin, the German-born businessman who served a general manager of the
Hamburg America (Shipping) Line.
1858: In Montreal
Abraham de Sola, the first chazzan Shearith Israel and Esther Joseph, “daughter
of Henry Joseph, one of Canada’s earliest Jewish settlers” gave birth to
“businessman, Zionist leader and author Clarence Isaac de Sola, the husband of
Belle Maud Goldsmith with whom he had “two sons and two daughters.”
1859: In Baden Baden,
Magdalena Madel and Leopold Dukas gave birth to Julius Juda Dukas, the husband
of Sara Dukas and the father of Madeline Samuel
1859: In Russia, “Loeb
and Cima (Davidow) Davidson gave birth to Benjamin Davidson, who arrived in
Sioux City, IA with two dollars, began peddling “tinware,” and later opened a dry goods store which was
the foundation of Davidson Brother’s owned by Benjamin, David and Abraham
Davidson which at one time was described as one of Iowa’s “leading department
stores..”
1861: Ralph Disraeli,
the brother of Benjamin Disraeli, and Katherine Trevor were married today in
Middlesex, England.
1861: Austen Henry
Layard, the archeologist who excavated Nimrud and Niniveh as described in Discoveries
at Nineveh began serving as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
http://www.aina.org/books/dan.pdf
1862: Philadelphians
Corporal Lehman K. Strouse and Sergeant Albert Mers began serving in the 125th
regimen.
1862: Philadelphian
Private Joseph Levi began serving with Company G of the 129th
Regiment.
1864: During the
American Civil War, Isaac M. Abraham of Philadelphia who had been serving with
the Union Army since November of 1861 was wounded while fighting near Deep
Bottom Virginia as member of Company G of the Eighty-Fifth Regiment.
1865: The New York Times reported that "A
letter in the Journal de Posen alleges that the official journals, not daring
to support the accusations launched by the Moscow Gazette against the Polish
nobility, imputing to them the recent fires in Lithuania, and, on the other
hand, feeling it necessary to throw the blame upon somebody, represent the Jews
as the authors of these disasters. According to the official journals, the
Jews, having first insured their houses for a sum superior to their real value,
themselves set fire to the buildings to pocket the difference. If this criminal
calculation has been made in certain cases, the supposition of its existence
cannot give an explanation of all the disasters of this nature that have lately
taken place; for, although insurance against fire is much practiced in
Lithuania and Ruthenia, it is to be seen only in the more important towns,
while a great number of fires have broken out even in the smallest towns."
1867: Birthdate of
Esther Lefkowitz who was buried alongside Sam, Shimon and Anna Lefkowitz at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, NY
1868(27th of
Av, 5628): Parashat Re’ey
1868(27th
of Av, 5628): S.A. Bierfield was lynched by the K.K.K. in Franklin TN. This was
the first such reported incident involving a Jew. “A masked mob of Ku Klux
Klansmen broke into the dry goods store of S. A. Bierfield, a Russian Jew, in Franklin,
Tennessee, and fatally shot both Bierfield and his Black clerk, Lawrence
Bowman. The reason given by the lynchers was a false charge of Bierfield's
implication in a murder a few days earlier. But as the New York Times reported about a week later, the real reason for the
lynching was that Bierfield was "an intelligent advocate of the present
reconstruction policy of Congress and a friend to the freedmen of his
neighborhood, among whom--he being a merchant--he commanded quite a trade, and
perhaps found it expedient to keep one from among their number in his
employ." A Nashville newspaper account stated that Bierfield was "an
active and prominent Republican, having considerable influence with the colored
people. . . . Our informant says that was his only crime"
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=26256707
http://forward.com/news/210334/untold-story-of-the-first-jewish-lynching-in-ameri/
1869:
Two days after he had passed away, Joshua Jacobs, the son of Isaac and
Catherine Jacobs was buried today at the “Halfway (Queenborough) Jewish
Cemetery” in Kent.
1870:
Birthdate of Ukraine native Yitskhok Perkov the photographer and author who
moved to London where he worked in the Yiddish theatre.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2018/08/yitskhok-perkov.html
1871:
Jacob Levi a German Jew swindled Alois Grieshaber out of $545 today using a
form of the “pigeon drop.” Grieshaber
eventually discovered the swindle and went to the police. Levi, who had become wealthy as a swindler,
was tried, convicted and sent to Sing Sing Prison in 1872.
1871:
In Lithuania, Mary Yaffe and Nathan Levin gave birth to Lippa Levin, the
husband of Molly Miller and Charman of the Calumet Gate Zionist Organization
who in 1925 began serving as Chairman of the Indiana State Zionist
Organization.
1872:
In New York City, Agusta Stern and Leo Goldmark gave birth to composer Rubin
Goldmark.
https://www.universaledition.com/rubin-goldmark-263
1873:
On his 42 birthday, Leopold Seligman and Julia Levi gave birth to Walter
Seligman
1873:
John J. Malloy, Chief of the Brooklyn Police, notified police in several
“Western cities” to be on the lookout for Emil Lowenstein, a German Jewish
barber who sometimes uses the alias of Livingston. Lowenstein is wanted in connection with his
part in the murder of John Weston. The
governor of New York has offered a $500 reward for his capture. Police believe that Mrs. Weston was a
confederate in the plan and that she planned to run off with Lowenstein once
they had murdered Mr. Weston and taken his money.
1873:
“England’s New Master of the Rolls,” an article published today reports on the
announcement that Sir George Jessel will soon be serving as the new Master of
the Rolls. The Master of the Rolls dates back to the 13th century
and “is the second most senior judge in England and Wales, after the Lord Chief
Justice”. When he assumes the office later this month, Jessel will be the first
Jew to serve in this capacity. The Jewish Chronicle noted the irony of Jessel’s
appointment. At one time the Master of
the Rolls was officially known as “the Guardian of the Converted Jews” but
thanks to a changed in the Judicature Act such is no longer the case. Jessel
was the son of a coral merchant named Zadok Aaron who graduated from the
University College London because his religion kept him from attending either
Oxford or Cambridge.
1874:
Birthdate of Cincinnati, Ohio native
Rose Fechheimer who ”like many
other Rookwood artists, studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, decorated pieces
at Rookwood Pottery for ten years, between 1896 and 1906 and died in October,
1961 at Santa Monica, California.
1875:
In Cincinnati, OH, Therese Gutmann and Joseph K. Fechheimer gave birth to
artist Rose Fechheimer who passed away at Santa Monica, CA in 1961.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/rose-fechheimer/
1877:
The funeral of Rabbi J.J. Lyon took place at the 19th Street Synagogue today.
Albert Cardozo, father of future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo was one
of the pallbearers.
1877:
In Minsk, Russia, “Samuel and Leah (Mekler) Touroff gave birth to Nisson
Touroff one of the founders of the Girls School in Jaffa before WW I and one of
the founders of Hebrew Teachers College in Boston after WWI.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/touroff-nissan
1878(1st
of Elul, 5547): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1879:
In Belarus, Zvi Mileikowsky and Liba Gitl Milikovsky gave birth to Rabbi Nathan
Mileikowsky the father of historian Benzion Netanyahu and the grandfather of
Yonatan Netanyahu of blessed memory (the Hero of Entebbe) and Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
1879:
According to reports published today police still do not feel like they have
the true story surrounding the shooting of Harris Levy, a 28 Polish Jew who
worked as a night watchman for a workshop owned by Louis Soloman, a
manufacturing tailor. Levy claims he was
shot by an unknown assailant. The police
think the wound was self-inflicted.
However, they cannot find any evidence that it was suicide and Soloman
believes the story about the burglar since his workshop was robbed 5 or 6 weeks
ago.
1879:
Justice C.W. Chocrane found Adolph D. Pollack, a Jew from White Plains, NY,
guilty of having sold merchandize on Sunday, in violation of the law. Chochrane suspended the sentence because it
was Pollack’s first offense, but warned the defendant not to open his store
again on Sunday.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940DE5D8133EE73BBC4E52DFBE668382669FDE
1879:
It was reported today that Lord Salisbury, British Foreign Minister, feels that
it is time for Romania to fulfill to honor its commitments to improve the
situation of its Jews since the autonomy the country enjoys was conditional on
these promises.
1880:
It was reported today that Silesia has a population of 3,800,000 of which
47,000 are Jewish.
1881:
It was reported today that M.J. Butler, the proprietor of the Manson House
donated the use of the hotel’s dining room for the concert that had been held
to raise funds for a cemetery in Long Branch, NJ, that will be open to all
regardless of faith or financial status.
1881:
“Jews in Germany” published today described the pervasive anti-Semitism in that
country that stands in stark contrast to the theme of the “Nathan the Wise”
which is a popular German theatrical production.
1881:
In New York City, “Moses Siegman and Anna Solfrey gave birth to Arthur Siegman
the owner of Arthur Siegman, Inc. “one of the largest manufacturers of men’s
neckwear in New York, if not in the whole United States who married Beatrice
Rosenzweig of Brooklyn in 1912 and whose
advice to young men in is “Work Hard, be steady, learn to love your business
and make friends.”
1882(30th
of Av, 5642): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1882:
In Walla Walla Washington, “shopkeeper Jacques Bauer” and “modern language
teacher Julie Bauer gave birth to Marion Bauer the composer and music critic
who was the younger sister of fellow musician Emilie Bauer.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bauer-marion-eugenie
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/marion-eugnie-bauer
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/archives/bauer/bioghist.html
1882:
“Mr. Cox’s Wild Eloquence” published today provided a summary of speech by
Representative Samuel S. Cox that he delivered during the last session of
Congress in which he “eloquently” reviewed “the atrocities perpetrated on the
Jews of Russia” and concluded “with an appeal for help and sympathy from
America” to help the Jews overcome their plight.
1883:
Birthdate of Russian born Yiddish author and co-founder of the Sholem Aleichem
Schools, Joshua Kaminsky who in November of 1937 “introduced the new Kinder
Tsaytung (Children’s newspaper) with a “cover that features a buoyant
impressionistic drawing by Nota Koslowsky” passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1958/12/02/archive/joshua-kaminsky-educator-and-author-dies-in-new-york
1883:
An unnamed British Jew representing a London business firm was expelled from
Russia today even though he was carrying a British Passport.
1883:
Among those receiving funds from the Board of Estimate and Apportionment was
the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society which got $1,896.85.
1884:
“Doom of the Ghetto at Rome” published today described the crumbling condition
of the former Jewish quarter. Paul IV
was the first Pope to move the Jews across the river into “somber Tower of
Marcellus. He was the same Pope who used
to force the Jews to listen to annual sermons on Holy Cross Day in hopes that
they would convert.
1884:
Birthdate of Moses Garber, the Western Reserve trained physician who became
“chief in Obstetrics at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland where “he was one of
the directors of the city’s Hebrew School and as chairman of the Keren Hayesod
Committee.
1885:
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, “Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper, Jacob Charles
Ferber, and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Julia (Neumann) Ferber” gave
birth to Pulitzer prize winning author Edna Ferber who works included Show
Boat, Giant and Cimarron – big books that treated big topics.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ferber.html
1885:
In Kovno, Hyman Jehuda Osinksy and Rachel Osinsky gave birth to Meshe David
Osinsky who came to Britain in 1900 where he gained fame as Sir Montague
Maurice Burton the founder of Burton London and Burton Menswear.
1886:
In Wilno, Rabbo Zalman M. and Rebecca Shapiro gave birth to CCNY and Syracuse
University graduate Abraham Shapiro, the husband of Minnie Pink who served as a
the rabbi at Congregation in Shaary Torah in Canton, OH before accepting a
pulpit in Utica, NY in 1920.
1886:
Based on information that first appeared in the Hebrew Standard it was reported
today that a young Jewish lady “refused to play at a game of kissing forfeits,
giving as her reason the quotation ‘Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves’
(Hosea, XII, 2)”
1887:
It was reported today that Israel Lipski has been granted a reprieve from the
hangman’s rope.
1887:
Three days after he had passed away, seventy-two year old Philip Gowa, the
husband of Juliette Gowa and father of Josephine Gowa was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1887(25th
of Av, 5647): Sixty-seven year old Danish author Meïr Aron Goldschmidt whose
works included A Jew, “the first novel to provide an” an insider’s “description
of the Copenhagen Jewish milieu” passed away today.
1887: Birthdate of novelist Edna Ferber. Born in Michigan, Ferber wrote sweeping epics
many of which became equally famous films.
Included in these are Showboat, Cimarron and Giant. Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature
in 1925 for the novel So Big. She
passed away in 1968.
1888:
Congressman Ford’s Immigration Committee heard testimony today in New York from
Daniel Harris a journeyman cigar maker who testified on the impact of
foreigners on his business. In the past
two decades foreigners have gone from being 10 per cent of the cigar makers to
being 90 percent. Wages have gone from
fifty dollars a week to twelve dollars a week.
He blames part of this one the arrival of thousands of Russian and
Polish Jews many of whom have their tickets to the United States by charitable
organizations.
1888:
Birthdate of Girsh Yankelovich Brilliant who as Grigori Yakovlovich Sokolnikov
became a leading Bolshevik who would be murdered by Stalin during the purges of
the 1930’s/
1888:
In Vienna Leopold Leopoldi (whose name was Kohn before he changed it) and his
wife gave birth to Herman Leopoldi the Austrian composer and performer who
survived Buchenwald.
1889:
Birthdate of Jekuthiel Ginsburg, the native of Poland, who came to the United
States in 1912, earned his degrees in Mathematics at Columbia and founded the
Institute of Mathematics at Yeshiva University.
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79127004/
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/08/yekutiel-ginzburg-jekuthiel-ginsburg.html
1888: Birthdate of
Ukrainian-American Cantor Joshua Samuel Weisser.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/joshua-weisser/
http://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/weisserjoshuasamuel/index.html
1890: Jacob Levy was
delivered to the City of London lunatic asylum, Stone, in Kent, as an insane
person. Born in 1856, at Aldgate to Joseph and Caroline Levy, he was a butcher
who was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper Cases.
1890: The Jewish Messenger reported that Mr.
Lippman Levy has left New York and returned to Cincinnati, Ohio.
1890(29th of
Av, 5650): Montagu Meyer Gluckstein, the German born husband of Betsey
Gluckstein passed away today in London
1890: It was reported
today that Mount Sinai Temple has elected Godfrey Taubenhaus as rabbi
1891: Congregants at
the House of Miriam in Long Branch, NJ, donated approximately $165 in response
to today’s appeal made by Rabbi William H. Karuskopf.
1891: In London, the
lead article in the Daily News deals
with “the question of the Jews of Russia.”
1891: “Russian
Refugees” published today described the difficulties faced by the Jewish
immigrants from Russia who had been sent to Hightstown, NJ by the Baron Hirsch
Fund. Wallach & Sons of New York
opened a shirt factory there and agreed to hire them as workers. However, none of them have any experience and
do not like the work. They have
complained to Jesse Seligman about conditions, but Seligman has expressed the
feeling that those who are complaining are a few malcontents who do not want to
work.
1892: “Orthodox or
Reform?” published today described main issue that will be dealt with when a
“conclave of Rabbis gathers in New York in October. The Reform have clashed with the Orthodox by
adopting a resolution making performance of “the Abrahamic rite” (circumcision)
optional for those wanting to convert to Judaism. The change championed by the Reform movement
grew out of the fact that the daughter of Rabbi Wise, their leader, had married
her physician, Dr. Maloney, who was Catholic.
Maloney said he would convert but he would not submit to
circumcision. According to the Orthodox,
it was at that point that Rabbi Wise decided that the “Abrahamic rite” was
optional.
1892: Meyer Reinherz of
the of the United Hebrew Charities appeared in the Essex Market Police Court as
the complainant in the case again Edward Pollock, an Austro-Hungarian reporter
who had written several articles about Ellis Island and the Jewish boarding houses
1892: “A Wedding of
Midgets” published today described the courtship and marriage of Leopold Kahn
and Lottie Naomi Swartwood. The 48 inch
tall Jewish comedian met the 49 inch tall love of his life in Philadelphia where
he was performing with the American Lilliputian Company. They overcame the
obstacle of religion when she agreed to convert before they married and took
the name Naomi which she incorporated into her secular name.
1892: “Will Not Object
to Crosses” published today described the decision of Russian Jews who are the
members of the Erie Street Congregation in Cleveland, Ohio to rent a hall from
the Young Men’s Christian Association for use during Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur. It was agreed that “inasmuch as
the crosses were more than twenty feet above the hall…and there were no crosses
in the decoration in the room itself” there was no reason not to rent the room
which will provide the needed space for the upcoming High Holiday services.
1893: The police
promise to keep Hester and Mulberry Streets clear of all peddlers and vendors,
many of whom are Jewish, after having conducting a successful operation to
remove all such obstacles.
1893: In Seattle, WA,
“Viola (Cohen) Kahn, the daughter of a famous rabbi” and “successful
businessman Julius Kahn gave birth to “Dorothy Kahn, the eldest of their three
children” and a leading Social Worker during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Kahn-Dorothy-C
1894: One day after he
had passed away sixty-seven year old Leah Cohen, “the widow of Woolf Cohen was
buried at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1894:
Birthdate of New York song writer Harry Askt who began his career playing piano
for such vaudeville performers as Al Jolson and who began his partnership with
Irving Berlin while they were serving at Camp Upton during WW I.
https://www.songhall.org/profile/Harry_Akst
1894: Birthdate of
Louis B. Popkin the New York born journalist and public relations executive who
was the editor of the American Hebrew and a board member of the Joint
Distribution Committee, Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Fair
Play for Palestine Radio League.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9806EFD6163CEE3BBC4A52DFB7668388659EDE
1895: While stopping at
the Union Square Hotel Senor Segundo Alvarez, the Mayor of Havana blamed the
troubles in Cuba on American adventures including Carlos Roloff, “a Polish Jew”
who has gotten funding from “the cigar-makers of Key West” whom some “say has
landed in Cuba with a thousand men, guns and ammunition and dynamite.
1896: In Prague, Martha
and Otto Radnitz, the manager of a sugar refinery, gave birth to “Dr. Gerty
Theresa Radnitz Cori was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize
for Medicine and Physiology, in 1947, which was shared with her husband, Dr.
Carl F. Cori, and Dr. B.A. Houssay of Argentina.” (As reported by Jewish
Virtual Library)
1897: The New York
Times published a lengthy favorable article about the Zionist cause led by
Herzl and the upcoming congress to be held in Basel, Switzerland.
1897: It was reported
today that Joseph Barondess has started a new labor organization in opposition
to the Hebrew Trades and the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance.
1897: “The Jewish State
Idea” published today described the history of Jewish settlement in Palestine
and the challenges facing the Zionists as they meet at Basle.
1897: “The Adaptiveness
of the Jew” published today summarizes an article by Professor A.S. Isaacs that
first appeared in the August issue of the North American Review in which he
said that “critic of Judaism…must familiarize himself with the history of the
Jew in every land” in which he has lived.
And then “he must account for that marvelous vitality…which has made the
Jew at home whether” on the banks of the Vistula, the Thames or the Euphrates
or “amid the orange groves of Sicily or the plains of Arabia.
1898: “Bad Water Kills
Orphans” published today described the efforts to care for those at the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum who have become ill during the latest outbreak of dysentery in
the neighborhood which has been attributed to polluted city water.
1898: On this date
Clara, Baroness von Hirsch signed the 15th and final codicil of her
will.
1898: The fifteenth and
final codicil for the will of Clara, Baroness von Hirsch, formerly
Bischoffsheim, the widow of Baron Moritz von Hirsch which declares that her
estate should be administered in Vienna under the terms of Austrian law is
filed and attested to
1899: In Washington,
DC, the Treasurer of the Dewey Home Fund received a letter and a contribution
of ten dollars from Mrs. Lizzie A. Cohen, Treasurer of the Woman’s Democratic
Club of Salt Lake City which did not surprise him since the Jews have
“contributed liberally” to this cause from the beginning.
1899: As passions flare
in France during the second court martial of Captain Dreyfus Bonapartists and
Oreleanists held rallies and dinners during which they challenged the very
existence of the French Republic. (These divisions are meaningless today. In a nutshell, these were two right wing
groups seeking to bring down the republican government and replace it with a
monarch. Of course, each group wanted
their own candidate to fill the job. The
important thing to remember is that while Jews focus on the anti-Semitic aspect
of the Dreyfus Affair, it really was part of a larger conflict between
republicans and reactionaries. The last
act of this dreadful conflict would be played out at Vichy and Drancy four
decades later)
1899: The Third
Zionist Congress begins meeting in Basel.
1899: The American
delegation at today’s Third Zionist Congress includes Professor Richard
Gottheil of Columbia University and his wife, Miss Eva Leon, Rabbi Stephen
Wise, Rabbi Marcus Jastrow of Philadelphia, Henrietta Szold of Baltimore and
William Schurr of Chicago.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20B11FF3E5C11738DDDAB0994D0405B8985F0D3
1899:” Would-Be Suicide
Shaming” published today described the condition of Abraham Reinold who has
been a patient at Georgetown Hospital ever since he tried to shoot himself
while visiting Washington, DC.
1900: In New Orleans,
“the Hebrew congregation Somach Nochlin, organized to succor the needy, held a
meeting” tonight “and decided to raise funds during coming holiday,” half of
while go to the society’s relief fund and half of it will “be sent to the
Central Committee in New York to aid in taking care of the Romanian refugees
coming to” the United States.
1901: Birthdate of
Manhattan native and NYU trained attorney Herman M. Albert, the Democratic
Party leader who served as an Assemblyman and Bronx County Register.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/02/05/87505205.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1902: Birthdate of Iris
Margaret Origo, an Anglo-Irish writer who helped to save Jewish children through
the kindertransport including the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach.
1902: Birthdate of Jack
S. Popick, the native of Kishinev who came to the United States in 1904, became
a successful businessman who helped co-found the Graduate School Education at
Yehsiva University and served on the board of the Jewish Family and Children
Services.
1902: In Montreal,
Clarence Isaac de Solla and Belle Maud de Sola gave birth to Raphael David de
Sola, the grandson of Cantor Abraham de Sola.
1902: In the “Jewish
Harlem Section” of New York City, Ruth Green, a widow whose husband died in a
factory accident before the birth of her son, gave birth to Charlie Green who
gained famed as World Bantamweight Champion Charlie Phil Rosenberg.
1903(22nd of
Av, 5663): Parashat Eikev
1903: Birthdate of
Wilma Shannon Warburg the wife of Frederick Marcus Warburg.
1903: Issac Berner, the
Tukan, Courland born son of Harry and Rose Brenner, married Bessie Abrams of
Boston after which founded the Tampa Bag Company and Palm Soap Company of Tampa
while serving as a trustee of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Tampa.
1904(4th of
Elul, 5664): Fifty-nine year old Gustav Przibram, the son of Salomon and Marie
Przibram and the husband of Charlotte Przibram passed away today in
Switzerland.
1905: Birthdate of
Philadelphia native and violinist Louis Pearlman, the “director of the Pearlman
School of Music” and the “conductor of the Doylestown Symphony.”
1906: During a fight
between Revolutionists and Police on Torgovia Street in Warsaw, “a Jewish
merchant was killed by a stray bullet.
1907(5th of Elul,
5667): Seventy-six year old violinist and composer Joseph Joachim passed away.
http://www.nndb.com/people/463/000105148/
1908: In Galicia,
Joseph Weinberg, “a metal worker who operated a body and fender repair business
after he came to Baltimore” and homemaker Sarah Weinberg gave birth to their
second child Harry Weinberg the successful businessman and husband of the
former Jeanette Gutman with whom he had one child, Morton and created the Harry
and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, just one of his many charitable entities.
https://hjweinbergfoundation.org/
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/7394091/who-were-harry-jeanette-weinberg
1909: It was reported
today that Nathan Straus will be making a presentation to the International
Medical Congress at its meeting in Budapest on “the necessity for
pasteurization of milk to prevent the spread of tuberculosis and other
infectious diseases.”
1910: “Drops Dead in
Synagogue” published today described the death of 70 year-old Israel Hamel who
dropped dead while attending a special meeting a B’nai Jeshurun after having
suffered “an epileptic fit.”
1910: The Marriage of a
Star” translated and performed by Clara Lipman opened the Hackett Theatre
todayl
1911: B’Nai Brith
contributes $3,382 to Jews who have suffered during the fires that raged
through Constantinople.
1911: The 10th
Zionist Congress elects Professor Otto Warburg, Dr. Hantke, Dr. Shmaryahu
Levin, Hahum Sokolow and Victor Jacobsohn as successors to David Wolffsohn
1912: Birthdate of
Glasgow native and University of Glasgow trained metallurgical chemist Monty
Finniston, the son of Robert Finniston whose “family were of Russian Jewish
origin” who “became chairman of British Steel Corporation in 1973 and who was
“knighted in the same year” after which he was known as Sir Harold Montague
"Monty" Finniston.”
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1992.0007
1913: In London,
Abraham Jacobs and Sarah Jacobs, the daughter of Abraham Simcha (Simon)
Flashtiq and Rebekah Flashtiq gave birth to Marie (Esther Miriam) Lewis
1914: The Panama Canal opened to traffic. The territory that made up the nation of Panama
had been amputated from Columbia in a revolution supported, if not created, by
the United States so that a canal could be built. Panama has a very old Jewish community. When the Canal opened there were about six
hundred Jews, mostly Sephardic, living in Panama. Panama is the only country, with the
exception of Israel, to have elected two Jews as President.
1914: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native Peretz Rosenbaum who gained fame as Paul Ryan “the creator of
sleek graphic designs.” (As reported by Steven Heller)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1996/11/28/506699.html?pageNumber=98
1915(5th of Elul,
5675): Albert Bettelhein, journalist and author, convicted by a Georgia jury of
murder, was lynched by an anti-Semitic mob.
1915(5th of
Elul, 5675): In Frankfurt am Main 62 year old Karl Ferdinand Moritz Flesch
passed away.
1915(5th of
Elul, 5675): Ninety year old Sarah Blumenthal, who was living with her Mr. and
Mrs. Solomon Shillon, her son-in-law and daughter and her granddaughter Fanny
“was killed last night when she accidently “feel from a window of her room on
the 5th floor of an apartment house at 34 West 116th Street.”
1915: Birthdate of
Julie Fisherova, the wife of Salomon Fisher, who was deported from Prauge in
1941 to Lodz where she was murdered.
1915: Robert Moses
married “Mary Louise Sims, of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, the granddaughter of the
Reverend George Sims, a Methodist circuit rider.
1915: In Asbury Park,
NJ, a crowd of more than 200 people heard several prominent rabbis say that
“the very fate of the Jewish race in Continental Europe and Palestine depends
in large measure on America’s response to the Old World’s entreaties” for
financial aid.
1915: “An Inside View
of Russia in War Time” published today provided a review of Russia and the
Great War by Gregor Alexinsky
1915: “Russia’s
Expulsion of Jews” published today described “the horrors wrought by a decree
that forced 200,000” Jews to “leave the War Zone” with almost no warning.
1915: The original
Broadway production of “The Blue Paradise” with music by Signmund Romberg and
Edmund Eysler opened at the Casino Theatre.
1915: “Miss Theresa
Dreyfus of New York, who has recently returned from Jerusalem” where she “said
thousands of male Jews had allied to the Moslem war colors while their women
and children remained at home in poverty and misery.”
1916: In the see-saw
fighting in the Caucasus Mountains the Turks took back Mush and Bitlis from the
Russians in the kind of miserable fighting that would help to bring on the
Revolution in 1917.
1917(27th of
Av, 5677): Eighty-two year old philanthropist Abraham Slimmer passed away today
in Dubuque, IA.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE0D9113BE733A25750C1A9619C946397D6CF
http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SLIMMER,_Abraham
1917: It was reported
today that Samuel Gompers has been “denounced at a workingmen’s council.”
1917: It was reported
today that Minister for Jewish Affairs in Ukraine Silverfarb is the first
person to hold this unique position that he uses the penname “Basin.”
1918: Birthdate of
Sanford Daniel Garelik, the first Jewish chief inspector of the New York Police
Department. Garelik graduated from the
Police Academy in 1940 along with Gertrude Schimmel who became the first female
and the first Jewish female deputy chief of police.
1918: As the effects of
the Aimens offensive in which Sir John Monash played such a major part took
effect, German long-range guns fired on Paris for the last time.
1919: Birthdate of
Stanley Frazen, “a longtime film and television editor who was a member of the
Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit during World War II.”
1920: Today, Louis
Lipsky, “one of the American delegates” who attended the World Zionist
Conference in London “declared that that the British government had promised to
aid in the development of” “Palestine as a Jewish homeland.”
1920:
Twenty-six-year-old Nathan Daimont, the Gomel, Russia born son of Jacob and
Sarah (Saubor) Demichorsky, who was a vice-commander of the American Legion of
Newport, NH, a vice president of the New Hampshire Zionist Organization and a
member of Congregation Agudath Achim in Newport, NH, married Libbie D. Esersky
today in Brooklyn
1921: Birthdate of
August Marian Kowalczyk, the Polish actor and director who “was the last
survivor of a breakout from Auschwitz on June 10, 1942.”
1922:
Birthdate of sculptor and printmaker Leonard Baskin.
1923:
Specific recommendations for the improvement of conditions at Ellis Island, the
principal gateway into America for European emigrants including millions of
Eastern European Jews are contained in a report to the Foreign Secretary. Lord
Curzon, from Sir Auckland Geddes. British Ambassador to the United States, made
public here today.
1924(15th
of Av, 5684): Tu B’Av
1924:
In Brooklyn, Dr Henry and Celia Kresky gave birth to Edward Mordecai
Kresky “an investment banker who was an
architect of the debit refinancing plan that saved New York City from
bankruptcy in the 1970’s” (As reported by Paul Vitello.
1925:
Dr. Henry Moscowitz, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the ORT
Reconstruction Fund for aiding impoverished Jews in Southern Europe is
scheduled to sail for Europe this morning where “he will spend several months
in applying the fund to the needy and making a survey of the economic
rehabilitation activities.”
1925:
Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" opens with a gala performance at
1926:
Birthdate of Sami Michael, the left wing native of Baghdad who in 1949 came to
Israel where he became an author and the President of The Association for Civil
Rights in Israel (ACRI).
1926:
The Chevra Kadisha, at its last meeting here, decided to contribute a sum of
5,000 pesos to the Palestine campaign. At the same time, it decided to
contribute a sum of 500 pesos to the Jewish Colonization work in Russia. (As
reported by JTA)
1927:
Rabbi B. Leon Hurwitz of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center was one of the speakers at
the general conference on European Dictatorships at the Institute of Politics
in Williamstown, MA.
1928:
In Rochester, NY Abraham and Hannah Glazer gave birth to their fifth child
Malcolm Irving Glazer the CEO of First Allied Corporation who owned two
football teams – Manchester United (soccer) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL)
1928:
“The International Congress of Student Organizations” which opened today in
Paris decided by a majority vote “not to take any action on the motion of
delegation of British students to exclude the Romanian Students’ Federation
from the organization because of their policy of anti-Semitic violence.”
1929(9th
of Av, 5689): Tish'a B'Av observed on the day after the founding of “The Jewish
Agency for Palestine” which was, in fact, “the de factor government of the Jews
in the Yishuv.”
1929:
Several hundred members of Joseph Klausner's Committee for the Western Wall,
among them members of Vladimir Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism movement Betar
youth organisation, under the leadership of Jeremiah Halpern, assembled at the
Western Wall. They raised the Jewish national flag and sang the Hatikvah. The
authorities had been notified of the march in advance and provided a heavy
police escort in a bid to prevent any incidents.
1930:
“The Arab daily paper Al Hayat, the organ of the extremists in the Arab Executive
was indefinitely suspended today for publishing a speech of Zaki Pasha, the
Egyptian Arab leader in which he said that the Arab murderers of the Jews of
Hebron and Safed were heroes before whom the Arabs should bow down.
1931(2nd
of Elul, 5691): Parashat Shoftim
1931:
“Jewish orphanages in Poland and Latvia, caring for 10,000 parentless and
homeless children were enabled to continue their work of sheltering and feeding
them through aid of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and TOX,
the Europeans Health Society, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise chairman of the 1931 fund of
the committee which is seeking $2,500,000 from American Jewry to carry on their
program announced” today.
1931:
With the exception of an attempt by about a score of Arab youths at Nablus to
stage a demonstration by marching through the streets and beating tin cans, the
entire country was normal today despite Arab plans to protest the government’s
granting of sealed armories to outlying Jewish colonies.”
1932:
Theatrical producer Morris Green who is represented by Bloomberg and Bloomberg
filed a voluntary petition of bankruptcy today in United States District Court
that showed his principle creditors to be the Shubert Theatrical Corporation,
Lee Shubert and J.P. Warburg.
1933:
In Prague, the Conference of the Women's International Zionist Organization
(Wizo), attended by 103 delegates from 19 countries, came to a close after
hearing that its membership is now 50,000; adopts budget of £47,000, and
approves resolutions encouraging immigration into Palestine of German-Jewish
youth, especially those of the middle classes, urging more certificates for
girl immigrants, and equal rights for women.
1933:
In New York City Romanian born Adele (née Israel), and Hungarian-born baker,
Samuel Milgram gave birth to social psychologist Stanley Milgram.
1933:
In Bucharest.—M. Pandrei, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education, in an
interview with the press, denies that the Government intends to establish a
“numerus clauses” in the universities of Romania, and announces that owing to a
lack of laboratory facilities, a general limitation of students is
contemplated.
1934:
Premiere of “Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back,” a comedic murder mystery with a
script co-authored by Henry Lehman and music by Alfred Newman.
1934:
Deadline, according to “Leroy Peterson, the New York poultry code supervisor
for settling all disputes “with the live poultry industry” including issues
pertaining to the proposed “rabbinical supervision of poultry markets.”
1935:
“Alice Adams” produced by Pandro S. Berman with music by Max Steiner was
released in the United States today by RKO.
1935:
Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their
airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
Rogers was one of the most popular celebrities of his time. His radio shows, movies and columns were
devoured by millions of Americans. This
son of the American Plains got his first big break when Flo Ziegfield featured
him in the famous Zigfield Follies.
According to legend, he took away Will’s horse, left him with a rope and
he wit that became his trademarks.
1936(27th of Av, 5696): Parashat Re’eh
1936: In Geneva, The World Jewish Congress adjourn
tonight until 1938 after approving the recommendation of the nominations
committee that included naming Federal Judge Julian W. Mack of New York as
honorary president; “”Rabbi Stephen S. Wise as chairman of the executive
committee; Louis Lipsky of New York as chairman of the council; and Louis Sturz
who is chairman of the American Jewish Congress’s finance committee as
treasurer.”
1937: In Tel Aviv, Amnon Drori, the son of Isaschar
Dov (Bar-Drora) Drori (Freier) and Shulamit Drori (Bar-Drora) and Ella Drori,
the daughter of Alexander Govorkovski and Ester Goverkovsky gave birth to
General Amir Drori, the winner of the Medal of Courage and “the first director
general of the Israel Antiquities Authority.” (Some sources show his birth at
August 5)
http://members.bib-arch.org/publication.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=31&Issue=3&ArticleID=18
1937: Sha’ar HaNeveg (which was renamed Kfar Szold)
a new agricultural village east of Gedera was established. It was the 17th
village to be settled in 1937. Kfar
Szold was only two hundred yards from the Syrian border. In January, 1948, even before the state of
Israel had been created, the Syrian army attacked the settlement in a
determined effort to destroy it and kill the inhabitants. Nine hundred Syrian soldiers attacked a
settlement manned by fewer than hundred defenders. After a spirited defense, the British army,
for once, intervened on behalf of the Jews and the Syrians withdrew.
1937: Lord Melchett, Prof. L. Namier, H. Sacher, M.
Ussishkin, Dr. S. Wise, Berl Katznelson, Dov Hos, Rabbi Berlin, Dr. Glickson,
and Franz Bernstein joined the Advisory Commission, formed to assist the new
Zionist Executive to negotiate the country’s partition under the Royal (Peel)
Commission¹s scheme.
1937(8th of Elul, 5697): Solomon Wander, one of the first Jewish
immigrants to form the Jewish community in Albany. New York passed away at the
age of 71.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/08/16/118986900.pdf
1937: The New York Times describes the
growing tension in Palestine on the streets of Jerusalem and Haifa and the
British response which includes the recommendation by a Royal Commission for
"a surgical operation" on Palestine which will result in the creation
of a Jewish State, an Arab State and a new British mandate over Jerusalem with
a corridor to the sea.
1938: “The Gladiator” a comedy produced by David L.
Loew with a script by Arthur Sheekman and music by Victor Young was released in
the United States by Columbia Pictures.
1938: Birthdate of Lewis E. “Lew” Lehrman the
founder of Rite Aid Drugstore and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History who ran for Governor of New York in 1982 on the Republican ticket.
1938: In San Francisco, CA, Anne A. and Irving G.
Breyer gave birth to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
1938:
As Arab violence spirals to new levels of intensity, “six Jews were killed and
two, both women, were seriously injured near Haifa this afternoon when a bus
going to Mount Carmel was ambushed by Arabs while passing through a forest. It
is believed several of those killed were Jewish special policemen.” A bomb was
detonated on the road running between Herzliah and Raananh wounding some of the
25 workers in a truck bound for a local orange grove. Several other acts of violence and sabotage
took place including a bomb-throwing episode on the streets of Tel Aviv.
1938:
Paul Ferdinand Strassmann, the Jewish born German gynecologist who became a
Protestant, passed away.
1939:
“The Wizard of Oz” the classical musical produced by Mervyn LeRoy with music by
Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg “both of whom won the Academy Award for
Best original Song for ‘Over the Rainbow’ “had its Hollywood Premiere at
Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
This
is another example of Jews creating an icon of American popular culture.
1939(30th
of Av, 5699): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1940:
Baden, Germany native Julius J. Dukas, the founder of the brush making company
that bears his name and for the for the last 35 years the “president of the
Hebrew Free Loan Society” celebrated his 85th birthday today with
his daughter and his wife, Sarah Hyman Dukas.
1941: Heinrich Lohse, Reich commissioner for
Eastern Territories of the Ostland (Eastern Europe) region, decrees that Jews
must wear two yellow badges, one on the chest and one on the back; that Jews
cannot own automobiles or radios; and that their presence in public places will
be severely proscribed.
1941 A Jewish ghetto is established at Riga, Latvia.
1941:
Last of the remaining 25,000 Jews in Kovno were removed to Viampole. Each is
allotted three square feet of living space.
1941:
Six hundred Jews are taken from Stawiski and shot in nearby woods.
1941:
A massacre begins at Rokiskis that leaves 3,200 men, women and children, shot
by the next evening.
1942(2nd
of Elul, 5702): Parashat Shoftim
1942:
On Shabbat, “the Germans entered the ghetto in the village of Zagrodski,
ordering the Jews to leave their houses for a roll call” and then left to stand
outside all day without any food or water.
1942:
This evening, “a truck arrived at the ghetto in the village of Zagrodski. “The
Jews were ordered on to it, and drove out of the ghetto. Those for whom there
had been no room on the truck were ordered to run after it. For the rest of the
tale of the ensuring slaughter read http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/einsatz/rytest.html
1942:
“Memoirs of a Liberal Lawyer” published today provides a review of City Lawyer:
The Autobiography of a Law Practice by Arthur Garfield Hays.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/08/16/85578152.html?pageNumber=56
1942: The Germans open Jawiszowice, a slave-labor camp located
near Auschwitz.
1942: One thousand Belgian Jews, including 172 children,
are deported to their deaths in the East.
1943: Nearly 1000 French Jews of Polish birth
are deported to a slave-labor camp on Alderney, one of the British Channel
Islands seized in 1940 by Germany, and are put to work building fortifications.
Hundreds of the Jews die due to ill treatment and exhaustion
1944:
“Operation Dragoon,” the Allied invasion of southern France in which former
B-17 pilot Bruce Sundlin served as a bombardment spotter for the OSS, began
today.
1944:
“Children standing behind the ghetto fence in Lodz, Poland.”
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/11.asp
1945: V.J. Day – Victory over Japan Day is
proclaimed by the Allies after having received official word of that the
Japanese had indeed surrendered.
1945:
Bess Myerson, who refused to change her name to something less Jewish and won
the Miss New York beauty pageant based on her performance of music by Edvarg
Grieg and George Gershwin as well as on her looks.
1946:
“The American Jewish Committee announced today that delegation headed by Jacob
Blaustein, chairman of the executive committee, was conferring in Paris with
representatives of other Jewish groups to prepare a joint recommendation to the
peace conference on treaty clauses relating to human rights.”
1947:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Allen H. Weisselberg, the “CFO the Trump
Organization.”
1947: With the end of the British rule of the
Indian subcontinent, two new nations declared the independence. One was Islamic Pakistan; the other was India
which while heavily Hindu retained a large Islamic population. India’s relations with Israel have been a
mixed bag. In the early days, under
Nehru, the Indian government was anti-Israel, taking the lead, for example in
denying it admittance to the Bandung Conference. In more recent times, relations between the
two states and their citizens have improved.
1947:
Following today’s division of the Indian sub-continent into two states, Indian
airlines responded to the Prime Minister Nehru’s request that they fly Hindus
living in Pakistan to India. Among those
participating was Abie Nathan who was a co-pilot for one of the Indian
airlines.
1948(10th
of Av, 5708): Tish’a B’Av observed since the 9th of Av fell on
Shabbat
1948(10th
of Av, 5708): As Israel fights for her independence Tish'a B'Av is observed
today because the 9th of Av fell on Shabbat.
1948:
Mitchell Flint, a WW II naval combat pilot who had planned to celebrate his
graduation UC-Berkley by attending the Olympics in London but chose to fly for
the IAF “out of concern for the plight of Holocaust survivors” flew his first
two missions today – the first involving “a search for a last aircraft” and the
second being an “attempted interception” of an enemy aircraft.
1948:
In Iraq, a leading Jewish businessman, Shafiq Adas was hanged on trumped up
charges of treason. His body was
mutilated by a crowd of on-lookers.
1948:
American Michael “Mike” Flint joined Israel’s squadron 101.
1948:
Two Israeli and two Arab soldiers were killed during a second unsuccessful Arab
attack on the Mandelbaum House a key defensive point in Jerusalem.
1949(20th
of Av, 5709): Fanny Binswanger Hoffman passed away. (As reported by Selma
Weintraub, a past national president of the Women’s League for Conservative
Judaism)
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hoffman-fanny-binswanger
1950:
In Indianapolis, Indiana, Anne and Wolf Rosenblum gave birth to Gail Sue
Rosenblum who gained fame as Gaylen Ross “American actress, writer, producer
and director” who produced the awarded “Killing Kasztner”
(For more see Gaylen Ross’s award winning documentary “Killing
Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis” http://www.killingkasztner.com/
1951:
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's plan to take control of the Zionist movement
outside of Israel from political parties and transfer it to non-partisan
regional organizations was attacked here today by delegates to the twenty-third
World Zionist Congress.
1951(13th
of Av, 5711): Pianist and composer Artur Schnabel passed away.
http://www.schnabelmusicfoundation.com/Artur%20Schnabel.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiPHjSRUOg
1951:
The last inmates of Bergen-Belsen left the camp on their way to the United
States. Bergen- Belsen was originally set up in 1943. Many of its inmates were
Jewish prisoners who had dual citizenship with Latin American countries or
entry permits to Palestine. A few hundred were used by the Germans for prisoner
exchanges. Though not a death camp per se, over 51,000 people died there
including Anne Frank.
1951:
In Philadelphia, premiere of “His Kind of Woman” directed by Richard Fleischer
1952)24th
of Av, 5712): Eighty-three year old Waynetown, Indiana, born Louis Landman,
“the president and director of the Parmelee Transportation Company passed away
today while visiting his son Roger Kahn and his wife.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/08/16/84344923.html?pageNumber=15
1953:
Seventy-seven year old Reinhold Quaatz the German right wing politician “who
endorsed anti-Semitic policies” despite the fact that his mother was Jewish and
avoided the Holocaust passed away today.
1954(16th
of Av, 5714): Abram Pofcher, the son of Michael and Rose Nizel Pofcher and the
husband of Mamie Pofcher with whom he
had five children passed away today after which he was buried in Suffolk
Country, MA.
1955(27th
of Av, 5715): Lucille Turak Ginzburg “beloved wife of Ralph Ginzburg passed
away today.
1955:
“A Kid for Two Farthing” a screen version of the novel by Wolf Mankowitz who
wrote the screenplay with music by Benjamin Frankel and co-starring David
Kossoff was released today in the United Kingdom.
1959(11th
of Av, 5719): Shabbat Nachamu
1959:
“In the summer of her freshman year of college Judith Sussman married John M.
Blume which meant she was Judy Blume, the name under which she became an award
winning auther.
1959:
Today, Guggehiem awarding winning syndicated columnist Nathan Irving “Nat”
Hentfoff “married his third wife, Margot Goodman, with whom he had two
children: Nicholas and Thomas.
1959:
As the Los Angeles Dodgers made a surprising run for the National League
pennant ‘Larry Sherry walloped three hits, including his first home run, and
pitched eight and two-thirds innings of scoreless relief ball today in leading
the second place Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-3 decision over the Cardinals.”
1960:
It was reported today that “some quiet talk in the corridors of the U.N. here
and in the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires may lead soon to restoration of
full diplomatic relations between Israel and Argentina which had soured after
“the two countries had clashed bitterly over the abduction of Adolf Eichmann.”
1961:
“Marines, Let’s Go” a Korean War that President Kennedy did not like with music
by Irving Getz was released today in the United States.
1961:
Elections were held today for the fifth Knesset Ben-Gurion’s Mapai came in
first with 34.7% of the vote which earned 42 seats. Herut, led by Menachem Begin and Liberal led by Peretz Bernstein tied for second with
each getting a little more than 13% of the vote which translated into 17 seats
for each party.
1961:
“The Lawbreakers” with music by Johnny Mandel who wrote the theme for MASH
(Suicide is Painless) and featuring Jay Adler as “Abe Hirsch” was released in
Germany today.
1962(15th
of Av, 5722) Tu B’Av
1962(15th
of Av, 5722): Sixty-three year old Russian native David Jacob Sandweiss who
came to the U.S. in 1909, earned a Medical Degree from the University of
Michigan, practiced in Detroit where he raised his son Samuel with his wife
Frieda.
1967(9th
of Av, 5727): Tish’a B’Av
1968: In Brooklyn, “Sandra (née Simons), who has
worked as a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent, and
Brian Messing, a sales executive for a costume jewelry packaging manufacturer”
gave birth to actress Debra Messing who plays Grace, “the Jewish interior
designer” on the television show Will and Grace.
1968:
Funeral services are scheduledto be held today Charles Gottlieb, a partner in
the firm of Gottlieb and Schiff who passed away “suddenly in Rome,”
1968:
Peter Max appeared on the Tonight Show.
1969(1st
of Elul, 5729): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1969(1st
of Elul, 5729): Sixty-six year old movie producer William B. “Bill” Goetz, the
husband of Edith Mayer, who was one of the founders of what is now 20th
Century Fox and who had a stormy relationship with is father-in-law Louis B.
Mayer passed away today
1969:
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which became the iconoclastic hippie
happening simply known as Woodstock, began today in Bethel, NY, at the farm of
Jewish dairyman Max B. Yagur.
1970:
“The Appointment” a drama directed by Sidney Lumet and written by James Salter
(James Arnold Horowitz) was released today in Sweden.
1971(24th
of Av, 5731): Eighty-year old Paul Lukas, the Budapest born Jew Pál Lukács, who
won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the anti-fascist drama Watch on
the Rhine passed away today in Morocco.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/17/archives/paul-lukas-1943-oscarwinne-des.html
1971:
A new paperback version of Tillie Olsen's classic short story collection Tell
Me a Riddle was issued today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/15/1971/tillie-olsen
1973: Black September, the
Palestinian terror group, kills 3 and wounds 55 in Athens
1974(27th of Av, 5734): Seventy-eight year old prolific
Russian born American Yiddish author Saul Saphire who was a graduate of
Columbia University’s Teachers College and the husband of the former Bessie
Rubin with whom he raised a son, William, passed away today in Miami Beach.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/08/17/79373524.html?pageNumber=26
1974: “Once Upon a Scoundrel” a comedy starring Zero Mostel was
released today.
1975: “Yakov Vinarov, a 21 year old engineering student who
refused conscription into the army, was sentenced in Kiev to three years’
imprisonment for “evading military service”.
1976: It was reported today that “in preparation for the raid on
Entebbe Airport, Israeli intelligence officers allegedly hypnotized several
previously-released hostages” one of whom “was able to give helpful physical
details of the airport” where the terrorists were holding their captives.
1976: The National Convention of Hadassah is scheduled to open
today in Washington, DC.
1977: The Arabs in the administered territories and
neighboring countries continued to dismiss the Israeli government’s decision to
equalize the standard services on the West Bank and in Gaza as one more step
toward annexation. Israeli opposition, the Alignment and the Democratic
Movement for a Change, dismissed the plan, claiming that Israel could not afford
to give residents of the administered territories services equal to those
enjoyed by Israelis. The new prime minister, Menachem Begin called upon the
Labor Opposition to support his government if and when Israel would be pressed
to accept the PLO as a negotiating peace-talks partner.
1977(1st
of Elul, 5737): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1977(1st
of Elul, 5737): Ninety-one year old Upper Silesia
native and multiply married art collector Hugo Perls who came to the United
States in 1941, worked at the Perls Gallery founded by his Klaus and devoted
himself to writing about philosophy passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/08/16/75296131.pdf
1980:
The World Conference on Records – Preserving our Heritage at which Malcom H.
Stern spoke on “Jewish Families: Their Assimilation into North American Culture”
came to a close today.
1980:
“The Girl in the Book” by Primo Levi was published for the first time in La Stampa.
1982(26th
of Av, 5742): Seventy-seven year old Minsk born American journalist, “Joseph
TAishoff, the editor and co-founder of Broadcasting
magazine passed away in Washington, DC
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1982/08/16/086151.html?pageNumber=55
1983(6th
of Elul, 5743): Seventy-six year old Brooklyn born Julius Yablok, the son of
Lena and Louis Yablok and the husband of Miriam Yablok who played quarterback
for Colgate University, coached St. Francis College and law partner of Mickey
Marcus passed away today in California. (There is some confusion since
some sources report his demise as taking place on August 14)
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/Y/YablIz20.htm
1983(6th of Elul, 5743): Eighty-eight year old Benjamin V. Cohen a member of FDR’s “Brain
Trust” who stayed on to work with Harry S. Truman passed away. (As reported by Marjorie Hunter)
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/17/obituaries/benjamin-cohen-new-dealer-dies.html
1984:
A car bomb was discovered on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem and defused about
10 minutes before it was to have exploded. In the car were about 12 kilograms
of explosives and another three kilograms of iron nails.
1984:
“Buckaroo Banzai” a sci-fi film co-starring Ellen Barkin and Jeff Goldblum was
released in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
1984:
“The Woman in Red” a comedy directed by Gene Wilder who also wrote the script
and starred in this film produced by Victor Drai which also featured
performances by Charles Grodin and Gilda Radner opened today in the United
States.
1985(28th
of Av, 5745): Eighty-one year old Lester Cole, one of the founders of the
Writers Guild of America and a member of the Communist Party who was among the
ten writers sent to prison for failing to answer questions asked by a committee
of the House of Representatives passed away today in California.
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/18/nyregion/lester-cole-dies-in-hollywood-10.html
1986:
“The Fly” a remake of an early version the sci-fi thriller directed by David
Cronenberg with music by Howard Shore and starring Jeff Goldblum was released
in the United States today 20th Century Fox.
1986:
“Manhunter” a “crime thriller” directed by Michael Mann who also wrote the
script was released in the United States today by De Laurentiis Entertainment
Group.
1986:
“Armed and Dangerous” a comedy produced Brian Grazer who co-authored the script
along with Harold Ramis and co-starring Eugene Levy was released in the United
States by Columbia Pictures.
1987:
Today actress Jennifer Grey the daughter of actor Joel Grey and actress Jo
Wilder Brower, both of whom are Jewish, “suffered severe whiplash in a car
collision in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with actor
Matthew Broderick, who she had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming
of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.”
1991(5th
of Elul, 5751): Sixty-six-year-old Dr. Gerson D. Cohen the chancellor emeritus
of the Jewish Theological Seminary, who in 1985 ordained the first female rabbi
in Conservative Judaism” and husband of Naomi Cohen with whom he had two
children, Jeremy and Judith, passed away today.
1992:
Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman who saved more than 3,000 Jews from
deportation to Nazi concentration camps in World War II, passed away today at
his home in Padua, Italy. He was 82 years old. Mr. Perlasca died of a heart
attack, The Associated Press reported. Trapped in Budapest late in the war by
the fall of the fascist Italian Government, Mr. Perlasca, a livestock trader,
joined in a plan conceived by international relief workers and diplomats from
neutral countries to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazis. When the
Spanish diplomatic representative fled Budapest in November 1944, Mr. Perlasca,
who had been a volunteer in Franco's army in the Spanish Civil War, persuaded
Hungary to accept him as the Spanish representative, and in two months he
issued travel documents to thousands of Jews to save them from deportation. In
1987 Mr. Perlasca, whose achievements had gone largely unnoticed, was made an
honorary citizen of Israel and was honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
Museum there. In 1990 he received the Medal of Remembrance of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council. A tall, quiet man, Mr. Perlasca told The Jerusalem
Post in 1987 that he had been motivated by neither religion nor politics.
"I couldn't ignore it," he said. "I did what I had to do. I was
lucky. I had friends among the Jews who were being killed by the Nazis. That
gave me courage."
1993:
TraveldoctorOnline commemorated “the 55th anniversary of the death of the
Berlin gynecologist Prof. Paul Ferdinand Strassmann. In the first half of the
20th century, Strassmann was one of the leading specialists of plastic surgery
of the female genital tract. Famous gynecologists and surgeons, e.g. the Mayo
brothers, visited the Strassmann clinic in the Schumannstrasse with the aim of
learn new surgical techniques. The present paper aims to outline particularly
the life of Paul F. Strassmann but also his importance in the creation of
modern gynecological surgery.”
1996(30th
of Av, 5756): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1997:
“Event Horizon” a sci-fi film co-starring Jason Isaacs with music by Michael
Kamen was released in the United States today by Paramount Pictures.
1998:
The curtain came down tonight on a three month revival of Neil Simon’s “Sweet
Charity” at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre.
1998:
A Broadway revival of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” a musical with a “book” co-authored
by Murray Horwitz” opened today at the Ambassador Theatre “where it ran for 176
performances and eight previews.
1999:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Edward Albee: A Singular
Journey: A Biography by
Mel Gussow and Inside Picture Books
by Ellen Handler Spitz.
2000(14th
of Av, 5760): Eighty-year old Harry Kuniansky the native of Atlanta and star
football player for the Georgia Bulldogs who earned a Purple Heart in WW II and
formed Raco General Contractors in Marietta, Georgia, passed away today.
2001:
It was reported today that “Romance and Ritual: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding”
is scheduled to open on August 18 at the Skirball Cultural Center and Museum in
Los Angeles.
2002(7th
of Elul, 5762): Haim Yosef Zadok a native of Galicia who made Aliyah in 1935
and served as Jurist and political leader, passed away.
http://onlineathens.com/stories/082100/dog_0821000032.shtml#.V6_BC4-cF9B
2003:
Seven months after premiering at Sundance, “American Splendor” co-directed by
Shari Spring Berman and her Italian husband Robert Pulcini who also co-authored
the script was released today in the United States.
2003:
Stan Lee voiced the character “Frank Elson” in the broadcast of an episode of
“Spider Man” titled “mind games.”
2003:
“In Doctor Writes ‘Epic Saga’ of Jews in Medicine,” Max Gross reviewed Jews
and Medicine: An Epic Saga by Frank Heynick
http://forward.com/articles/7926/doctor-writes-epic-saga-of-jews-in-medicine/
2004:
The Sunday New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish authors
including Dark Voyage by Alan Furst and The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong
Fascination With Statistics by Alan Schwarz
2004:
In “Past, Prologue and Paris” published today Alice Steinbach visits the world
of the Camondo family and reminds us tenuous the fate of even the most powerful
Jews can be.
2005:
Deadline for Israeli citizens living in Gaza to accept government compensation
packages as part of the voluntary evacuation plan.
2005:
The evacuation of Gaza “under Major General Dan Harel of the Southern Command”
began at 8 a.m. when “a convoy of security forces entered Neve Deakalim.”
2005: Haaretz reported that the Israeli Defense
Forces unit that is responsible for finding the remains of missing soldiers
discovered the burial site of eight soldiers who died during the War of
Independence. The missing eight died in
fighting on
2006:
The Sony BMG Masterworks label released Jay "Bluejay" Greenberg’s
first CD. It includes his Symphony no. 5
2006(21st
of Av, 5766): Myriam Fefer, a Jewish businesswoman, was brutally murdered in
her home in Lima Peru.
2007(1st
of Elul, 5767: Rosh Chodesh Elul; First Day of the month of Elul. Psalm 27 will be recited from this date
through Shemini Atzeres. Shofar is blown
daily at Shacharit except on Shabbat through the penultimate day of the month
of Elul.
2007:
Yad Vashem posthumously honored a Romanian reserve officer who blocked the
deportation of Romanian Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II. Theodor
Criveanu joined the Righteous Among the Nations group of non-Jews who rescued
Jews from the Nazis. His son, Willie Criveanu, accepted the award on his
behalf. Yad Vashem said it could not estimate how many Jews he saved. Criveanu
married the daughter of one of the Jews he saved. He died in Romania in 1988.
2008:
At the Israel Museum an exhibition entitled “Swords into Plowshares: The Isaiah
Scroll and Its Message of Peace” comes to an end.
2008: Bais
Chana Jewish Women's Weekend Retreat opens in St. Paul, Minnesota
2008: A
Kassam rocket was launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip in the afternoon.
The rocket hit an open field in the western Negev. No casualties or damage were
reported.
2008: In a letter
published today in Corriere della Sera, former Italian President
Francesco Cossiga described a "secret 'non-belligerence pact' between the
Italian state and Palestinian resistance organizations, including terrorist
groups" such as the PFLP.
2008: Jody Wagner announces her candidacy for Lt.
Gov. on the Republican ticket in the state of Virginia.
2008(14th of Av, 5768): Ninety-one year record
producer Jerry Wexler who coined the term “rhythm and blues” passed away today.
(As reported by Patricia Sullivan)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502076.html
2009: The 92nd Street Y sponsors Israeli
Folk Dance: Summer Marathon 2009.
2009: In Jerusalem, Amit Erez hits the stage at
Hama'abada, playing an acoustic show which blends folk and indie style music,
influenced by musicians such as Nick Drake and Elliot Smith on the one hand,
and Shalom Hanoch on the other. Erez performs songs from his new album,
including "Last Night When I Tried to Sleep" and "I Felt the
Ocean on my Fingertips."
2009: As part of the activities designed to welcome
Rabbi Todd Thalblum and his family to Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah celebrates a
special outdoor Havdalah service at Woodpecker Lodge.
2009: A revival “How Now Dow Jones” with a book by
Max Shulman, music by Elmer Bernstein and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh opens at the
New York International Fringe Festival.
2009: According
to a report broadcast today on Voice of Israel government radio wealthy foreign
Arabs have bought up hundreds of dunams of land in the Galilee, land, which was
owned privately and which was zoned for agricultural use, was sold due to
economic hardship.
2010: Defense Minister Ehud Barak gave his approval
today for the purchase of the fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
by the Israeli Air Force from the US.
2010: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Denial:
A Memoir of Terror By Jessica Stern
2010: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Red
Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman and Quantum:
Eisenstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit
Kumar.
[Editor’s note – The only person I know who is smart enough to
understand this is Dr. Joe Rosen, so if you have questions write to him not to
me.]
2011: The 31st International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy (sponsored by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington) and
the Washington Division of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library are scheduled to
offer a free talk on "What’s Your Story? An Introduction to Genealogy and
Family History"
2011: Hutzot Hayotzer, the popular international arts and crafts
fair that has become a Jerusalemite ritual, is scheduled to open today.
2011(15th
of Av, 5771): Tu B’Av- Jewish Saidie Hawkins Day
2011: A marble statue of Hercules dating back to the second
century C.E.has been found in an archeological dig in northern Israel, Israel's
Antiquities Authority announced today.
2011: The Israel Medical Association said in a discussion at the
High Court today that it would be willing to hold mediated talks on points of
contention with the Ministry of Finance, so long as certain conditions are
upheld.
2011: A
column entitled “No Loss For Words” published in today’s Sports Illustrated provides a portrait of Marv Levy, the coach who
took the Bills to four Super Bowl, and a review of his soon to be published
first novel, Between the Lines.
2011: The
documentary “Gloria: In Her Own Words” about the life and times of Gloria
Steinem premiered on HBO. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/15/2011/gloria-steinem
2012: The
brit of “Baby Boy Sann” the son of Debbie and Ron Sann is scheduled to take
place at Adas Israel in Washington, DC
2012: In
Boston, MA, Congregation Beth Elohim is scheduled to sponsor an evening of
“Jewish Meditation.
2012:
Cantor Regina Heit is scheduled to lead the Learn and Lunch at Temple Emanuel
in Denver, CO.
2012:
Members of Israel’s national soccer team apologized today for laughing during a
lecture the day before on the murder of Hungarian Jewry by the Nazis. Some
players tittered during a talk in Budapest, one day before the team’s friendly
match against Hungary, the Sport Channel reported today
2012: Egg, milk and chicken prices are expected to rise by up to
17 percent by the end of this year, the Agriculture Ministry forecast today. A
study conducted by the ministry’s Research, Economy and Strategy Division said
the price increases can be attributed mainly to the prolonged drought in the
US, which has triggered a rise in the cost of agricultural commodities.
2012(27th
of Av, 5772): Sixty-eight year old “David M. Lederman, who led the team of
scientists that developed the first fully implantable artificial heart — which,
although it had limited success, prompted further advances in the treatment of
late-stage heart disease” passed away today (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2013: Israeli
jazz guitarist Assaf Kehati and his trio are scheduled to perform at the
Bar Next Door in New York City.
2013: Gene
Simmons and Paul Stanley, two of the Jewish members of “Kiss” “became a part of the ownership group that
created the LA Kiss Arena Football League team, which plays their home games at
the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.”
2013: Oakland
A’s first baseman Nate Freiman had four hits today including a homer and a
double.
2013: “Soul
Doctor,” a musical based on the life of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach opened tonight
at the Circle in the Square in New York City.
2013: “An
archeological team headed by Dr. Alexander Fantalkin of Tel Aviv university has
announced the discovery of one of the largest construction projects in the
entire Mediterranean basin: a system of fortifications from the 8th century
BCE, as well as coins, weights and parts of buildings from the Hellenistic
period, have all been found in the archeological dig Tel Ashdod Yam – where the
harbor of the philistine city of Ashdod used to be. The site is about 3 miles
south of today’s thriving Israeli city of Ashdod.’ (As reported by Yori
Yanover)
2013:
Documents linked to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist known for his
efforts to save Jews from World War Two concentration camps, were sold at
auction for more than $122,000, a New Hampshire auction house said today.
2013: Hebrew
University is ranked first in Israel and 59th globally, according to the 2013
Academic Ranking of World Universities released today. (As reported by Lahav
Harkov)
2014:
Today is the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington’s deadline for
raising funds to save the original portions of the synagogue mural on 415 M
Street, NW in Washington, D.C.
2014:
Mark Ethan Toporek is scheduled to lead a talk on “Gender Benders” following a
screening of “Liberace” at the 92nd Street Y.
2014:
In London, The Tricyel Theatre and the UK Jewish Film Festival issued a joint
statement saying that the Tricycle’s initial decision to refuse to host the
festival “because of the event’s Israeli’s government funding “provoked
considerable public upset” and that the theater has “invited back the UK Jewish
Film Festival on the same terms as in previous years with no restrictions on
funding from the Embassy of Israel in London.” (As reported by JTA)
2014: “After nearly two years of campaigning, millions of dollars spent and one
tropical storm that delayed voting in this easternmost corner of Hawaii for
nearly a week, Senator Brian Schatz won the Democratic nomination for his seat
today defeating his challenger, Representative Colleen Hanabusa, by fewer than
1,800 votes — less than 1 percent of the total cast -- bringing one of the
longest and most acrimonious primary contests in the state’s history to an
apparent end.” (As reported Ian Lovett)
2014:
“Israeli-American athlete Donald Sanford, the husband of Israeli baskeball
player Danielle Deke., made some Israeli history todayy when he won a bronze
medal in the 400 meter dash in the European Athletics Championships in Zurich,
Switzerland – the first running medal for Israel in the history of the
championships.” (Times Of Israel)
2014:
Even as the cease fire seems to be holding for another day, Israel's Davis Cup
tie against Argentina originally scheduled for Tel Aviv next month has been
moved to Florida, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said today.
2014:
In Zurich, American-Israeli sprinter Donald Sanford won the bronze medal in the
400 metres sprint at the European Athletic Championships which “he dedicated to
the IDF.”
2014:
Nate Freimans “61-game errorless streak, the seventh-longest first baseman
errorless streak in Oakland history” came to an end today.
2015(30th
of Av, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2015:
Tenth anniversary of the Israeli evacuation from Gaza.
2015:
A sixteen year old Palestinian stabbed a border police officer who was
“conducting a routine security check…at the Beita Junction.”
2015:
The friends, family and fans of Gaylen Ross “American actress, writer, producer
and director” who produced the awarded “Killing Kasztner” are scheduled to join
in celebrating a “milestone birthday.”
(For
more see Gaylen Ross’s award winning documentary “Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who
Dealt With Nazis” http://www.killingkasztner.com/
2015:
One hundred thirtieth anniversary of the birth of Edna Ferber.
https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553273/abramsonanne.pdf?sequence=1
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ferber.html
http://www.biography.com/people/edna-ferber-9293049
2015:
The 2015 MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence Exhibit featuring the works
of Israeli illustrator Keren Katz is scheduled to come to an end today.
2015:
“A Decade Later, Many Israelis see Gaza Pullout as a big Mistake” published
today described the reaction to a move that was supposed to put end to violence
in Gaza which was attributed to the presence of Jewish settlements.
2015:
The Havdalah Bike Ride, a six mile event is scheduled to depart from the park
across from the Historic 6th & I Synagogue this evening followed
by a community Havdalah service.
2015:
At the Concordia Library in Oregon, Jeannie Opdyke Smith is scheduled to speak
about her mother, the late Irene Opdyke who was a brave and inspiring figure
who received international recognition for her life-saving actions during the
Holocaust when working for a high ranking German official.
2016:
“Scapegoat,” a short film by Gal Haklay and Shulamit Tager, won first prize in
the original design category at the 13th annual Animation Block Party Awards,
Bezalel announced today. (Reported by JTA)
2016:
“Hanna’s Journey” is scheduled to be shown as part of The Hampton Synagogue
Film Series.
2016:
“The Israeli orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta,
performed today at the National Grand Theater during celebrations of the 109th
anniversary of the Lima Philharmonic Society at which Peru’s President Pedro
Pablo Kuczynski, whose father was a Jewish refugee, conducted Israel’s
Philharmonic Orchestra during the playing of the Peruvian national anthem
2016: On what is a double header for the
celebration of women of Jewish letters celebration of the anniversary of the
birth of Edna Ferber and the birth of Gaylen Ross.
http://www.grfilmsinc.com/aboutgr.asp
2017 In partnership with Confucius Institute U.S. Center,
the Jewish Historical of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a concert
featuring Robyn Helzner who “served as Cantor for the United Jewish
Congregation of Hong Kong and officiated at the first modern bar mitzvah
celebrated in Beijing” followed by a viewing of “the exhibition Jewish Refugees
in Shanghai on loan from the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum.
2017: “Israeli Mizrahi pop singer-songwriter and composer
Moshe Peretz is scheduled to host 31 year old singer and songwriter Nathan
Goshen at the Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair.
2018: In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host
“David” a children’s play about the king and the future mother of Solomon
2018: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
is scheduled to host “a concert with Robyn Helzner to celebrate Jewish culture
and history in China through lively stories, photos, video and music.”
2019:
At the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Little Rock, AR, The Upshernish for
Binyamin Kramer, the son of Rabbi Yosef and Mushka Kramer is scheduled to take
place this evening.
2019:
In North Carolina, the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “The Spy Behind Homeplate.”
2019:
In Palo Alto, CA, the West Coast Chapter of the ZOA is scheduled to host
“Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA” who will deliver “a special
lecture on Israel and the clear and present danger of anti-Semitism in America.
2019:
JW3 is scheduled to host the last two London screenings of “Ask Dr. Ruth.”
http://ukjewishfilm.org/film/ask-dr-ruth/
2020(25th
of Av, 5780): Parashat Re’eh
2020:
The president of The National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s thanked
former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp “for
their assistance in offsetting the increased costs associated with the health
and safety considerations around 9/11 the tribute this year, and the technical
support of so many that will enable the Tribute to be a continuing source of
comfort to families and an inspiration to the world going forward.”
2021:
Today “over 33 of Israel's brightest young talents in
classical music are scheduled play a concert in Tel Aviv following a unique
two-week masterclass taught to them by 11 award-winning instructors from
Israel, the United States and South Korea.” (As reported by Yulia Karra)
2021:
In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to present “Perla Batalla: In The House of
Cohen,” a musical tribute to the works of Leonard Cohen.
2021:
Peninsula JCC and Shalem are scheduled to offer a redwood forest hike
punctuated with yoga poses, periods of silence, breathing and meditation in
preparation for High Holidays, led by yoga teachers.
2021:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a conversation between Haim
Watzman “the leading Israeli translator of Hebrew non-fiction into English” and
Akin Ajayi, a British-Nigerian-Israeli writer, co-founder of the Tel Aviv
Review of Books.
2021:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host its annual Picnic and
Kickball Tournament complete with a chance to dunk Rabbis Braver and Skolnik in
a dunk tank.
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Hanna Halperin’s debut novel Something
Wild, The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup
Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrel and Three Days at Camp David:
How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy by Jeffrey E.
Garten
2021: The Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and
Museum is scheduled to present the Greek Jewish Block Party.
https://www.kkjfestival.com/?mc_cid=af015f9ccb&mc_eid=9870a7a862
2022:
The Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a special concert in memory of
Professor Alexander Tamir, the founder and director of the Eden Tamir Music in
commemoration of the third year of his passing.
2022:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host
the first session, only of the National Educators Institute which will cover
“The Art and Science of Teaching Jewish History in America.”
2022:
The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute and Leo Baeck Institute are
scheduled to present “Family History Today: Finding Overlooked Clues in German
Records - Live on Zoom”
2022:
The Alliance for Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host “JxGen: Next Generation
Series.
2022:
At the S.F. JCC Culinary historian and chef Michael W. Twitty is scheduled to
talk about his new book “Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African
American Jew” and Black Jewish identity lived/expressed through food. In
conversation with educator Jhos Singer. Presented by JCCSF in partnership with
Omnivore Books. Registration required.
2022:
Chabad S.F. is scheduled to host “Waking Up to Life, “a gratitude seminar from
the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute that explores Torah and positive psychology.
2023:
In New Orleans, Gates of Prayer is scheduled to hold its board meeting.
2023
The Oshman Family JCC is scheduled host Zaki Cooper, former assistant press
secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, as he “discusses the historic and modern-day
relationships between the royal family, the U.K. Jewish community and U.S.
presidents.”
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Crazy
Jewish Mystics: Mysticism Starts with a Mist and Ends in a Schism: Why Do We
Take Them Seriously?”
2023(28th
of Av): Yahrzeit of Larry Rosenstein, husband of Judy Rosenstein Z”L, and
father of Danny, David and Joel – gone too soon but never forgotten.
