This Day, August 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 18
1201:
Founding of Riga, capital of modern-day Latvia. The first Jews appeared in Riga
three centuries later and despite Czars, Nazis and Commissars continue to live
in the city to this day.
1227:
Genghis Khan dies. According to Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe,
Genghis Khan wiped out the Khazar Empire.
1307:
Jaime II (James) of Majorca expelled the Jews from the provinces of Rousillon
and Montpellier. Many escaped to Barcelona where they were welcomed.
1393: King John I, in an effort to prevent
"backsliding" by converted Jews, prohibited them from living in the
same quarter or even eating together.
1503:
The Papacy of Alexander VI known in history as the most profligate of all the
popes who “allowed the exiles from Spain to settle in his states, and whose
leniency toward the Jews “was prompted
by his greed” came to an end today.
1533:
The Queen of Poland granted the Jews of Pinsk all the rights already granted to
the Jews of Lithuania.
1559:
The Papacy of Paul IV, who issued “Cum Nimis Absurdum”, the Bull that order the
creation of the Jewish Ghetto in Rome came to an end today.
1765(1st
of Elul, 5525): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1765:
Samuel Levy Maduro, son of Moses Levy Maduro married Leah Cohen Peixotto in
Curacao
1615:
Birthdate English lawyer John Sadler “the Hebraist, politician and master of
Magdalene College who “boldly championed the cause of the Jews in his “Rights
of the Kingdom” published in 1649.
1670:
A church called the Leopoldskirche was dedicated today in Vienna. The church had been a synagogue, but it was
no longer used as such because the Jews had all been expelled from the Upper
and Lower Austria.
1765(1st
of Elul, 5525: As Jews observed Rosh Chodesh Elul Francis I, the Holy Roman Emperor died today
paving the way for Joseph II to assume the throne.
1765: Joseph
II the Holy Roman Emperor began his
reign over the Holy Roman Empire which was “neither holy nor Roman.” For his
time, he was a benign despot who sought to reform his empire. Jews viewed
him with mixed feelings. On the one hand he abolished many of the archaic
restrictions on Jewish social and commercial life. He abolished laws
pertaining to wearing the yellow badge and prohibiting Jews from practicing law
and medicine. At the same time, he called for an end to writing public
documents and contracts in Yiddish or Hebrew and the abolition of certain
aspects of self-governance in the Jewish community. On the one
hand even a reformer like Moses Mendelssohn was concerned about the impact
of Joseph's plans on Jewish identity. On the other hand, a century and a
quarter later, Adolph Hitler expressed his disdain for this Austrian
monarch. I guess you will have to be the judge after you have had a
chance to the history of Jews in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries.
1771:
Jacob Pinto, the son of Abraham and Sarah Pinto and his second wife Abigail
gave birth to Samuel Pinto
1775:
The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called
Tucson, Arizona. The first openly Jewish settlers did not arrive in Tucson
until the 18th century. They
included Nathan Appel, a noted merchant who served as a delegate to the first
Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1863 and Chief of the Tucson Police, William
Zeckendorf, the Tucson merchant who was the grandfather of the famous real
estate magnate and the brewer Alex Levin, founder of Levin’s Park, the
three-acre entertainment center that was the site of every important social and
communal event in Tucson during Arizona’s territorial days. Country Singer Linda Ronstadt is one of
Levin’s descendants.
1777(15th
of Av, 5537): Tu B’Av
1778:
Richea Hart and Abraham Mendes Seixas who were married at Charleston in 1777
gave birth Isaac Mendes Seixas, the husband of Abigail Valencia and the father
of Abraham, Sarah, Benjamin and Caroline Seixas.
1788(15th
of Av, 5548): Tu B’Av
1790:
George Washington wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, RI.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0135
1790(8th
of Elul, 5550): Sarah De La Motta, the
wife of Isaac De La Motta and the mother of Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Moses,
Emanuel and Rachel De La Motta passed away today.
1792:
The 6th Duke of Beford and his wife gave birth John Russell, the
first Earl Russell, the British Prime Minister who supported legislation
removing the “disabilities of Jews.
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/feb/24/jewish-disabilities
1793:
Aaron Barrow married Rosetta Benjamin at the Great Synagogue today.
1813:
Nathan Phillips married Adolphus Esther at the Great Synagogue today.
1815:
Twenty-five-year-old Meno Burg who “for a long time would be the only Jewish
Prussian staff officer” was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant of
Artillery shortly after which he became “a company officer in the First
Artillery Brigade at Gdansk.
1822(1st
of Elul, 5582): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1822:
Lipman Myers married Rebecca Mordecai at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1822(1st
of Elul, 5582): Joshua Zeitlin passed away. Born in 1742, he “was a Russian
rabbinical scholar and philanthropist. He was a pupil of the Talmudist Rabbi
Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg who was the author of Sha'agat Aryeh; and, being
an expert in political economy, he stood in close relations with Prince
Potemkin, the favorite of Catherine II. During the Turko-Russian war Zeitlin
furnished the Russian army with various supplies, and managed that business so
cleverly that he was afterward appointed imperial court councilor. On retiring
from business in civil rank of Court Counsellor, Zeitlin resided on his estate
Ustzia, where he was consulted by the rabbis with regard to rabbinical
questions. He rendered pecuniary assistance to many Talmudists and scholars,
and supported a magnificent beit midrash, in which many Jewish scholars were
provided with all the necessaries of life, so that they could pursue their
vocations without worries of any kind. Among the scholars who benefited by his
generosity: Rabbi Nahum, author of Tosafot Bikkurim; Mendel Lepin, author of
Cheshbon ha-Nefesh; and the physician Baruch Schick. Zeitlin was the author of
annotations to the Sefer Mitzwot Katan, printed with the text (Kopys, 1820),
and supplemented by some of his responsa.”
1823:
Birthdate of Phoebe Yates Levy Pember. During the Civil War, Pember served as
the chief matron of Richmond’s Chimborazo Hospital. After the War, she wrote
her memoirs, which were published as A
Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond, in 1879. This
book, which details her daily life through anecdotes of the war years, remains
one of the best sources for understanding the experiences and ideas of
upper-class Southern Jewish women before and during the Civil War. Following
the War, Pember maintained her elite social status, and traveled extensively
through the U.S. and Europe. She died on
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/18/1823/phoebe-yates-levy-pember
https://www.mdgorman.com/Hospitals/pember_memoir_cosmopolite.htm
1824:
Lewis Lazarus married Clara Raphael at the Western Synagogue today.
1826:
Birthdate of William Isaac Wolf (Ritter von Gutman) who founded the largest
coal company in the Austro-Hungarian empires and served as the President of the
Jewish Community of Vienna from 1891 through 1892.
1828: Birthdate of Paris born “pianist, organist,
music teacher and composer Ernest Cahen.
1830:
Birthdate of Franz Joseph I, the penultimate Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. During his long reign, for whatever reason or reason(s), Franz Joseph
improved the conditions of his Jewish subjects to the point that “three years
after he celebrated his Jubilee the Jewish Chronicles’ Vienna correspondent
wrote “the Jews owe a great deal to their Emperor Franz Joseph” and that they
do not blame him for any “retrogressive measures” taken against them. At the same Franz Joseph’s enemies derisively
referred to him as the “Judenkaiser.”
1830:
Birthdate of Henry Strauss, the native of Alsac who moved to Jackson,
Mississippi before the Civil War.
1834: Birthdate of department store owner, Marshall
Field. Marshall Field was not Jewish but
his partner Levi Ziegler Leiter
was. In 1865 Field and Leiter bought a
dry goods store which they named Field and Leiter. They built and re-built the
signature State Street Store. When
Leiter retired, the company was renamed Marshall Field and Company.
1835: Birthdate of Amalia Nathansohn Freud, the
mother of Sigmund Freud.
1838(27th of Av, 5598): Parashat Re’eh
1838(27th of Av, 5598): Rachel Cohen Lyona,
the daughter of Rabbi Jacob Raphael Cohen and the wife of Isaac Lyons whom she married in 1803 passed
away today in Columbia, SC after which she was interred at the Hebrew
Benevolent Society Cemetery in Columbia.
1838: Birthdate of Emil Ganz a Civil War veteran who
went West and became a successful businessman and three-time mayor of Phoenix,
Arizona.
1838: In Calcutta, R.E. Belilios and his wife gave
birth to Regina Sassoon who became Regina Belilos after she married R.E.
Belilios of Aleppo.
1839: Birthdate of Edward Lee the “member of the
Corporation of the City London” starting in 1886 who chaired the Law and City
Courts Committee and the Coal, Corn and Finance Committee and who was named
“Chief Commoner of the City Lands Committee” in 1895.
1839: Henry Joel married Sarah Simmons at the Great
Synagogue today.
1841: In New York City, Moses Lazarus and Esther
Lydia Mary Lazarus, the daughter of Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan and Sarah Mendes
Nathan gave birth to Isaiah Lazarus
1843: Birthdate of Moritz Brasch, the native of
Prussia who gained fame as a philosopher and essayist.
1845(15th
of Av, 5605): Tu B’AV
1846:
The Jewish Oath, originally established by Charlemagne, was abolished in
Austria. Until then, a Jew who took oath in a Christian court against a
Christian was forced to stand on the skin of a dead animal or be surrounded by
thorns and call down the curses of Korach or Naaman if he were not telling the
truth. In Romania it was only repealed in the 20th century.
1846:
‘The Religious Opinions Relief Act removed some of minor disabilities which
affected British Jews and dissenters from the Established Church; the only
state office which still remained closed to Jews was Parliament.”
1854:
Starting today M.H. Bresslau began editing The
Jewish Chronicle and Working Man’s Friend which under his leadership was
re-named The Jewish Chronicle and Hebrew
Observer.
1855:
The Concordat that went into effect today in Austria led to the exclusion of
Jews from such “positions as teachers in elementary and high schools and
attempts by the government to exclude Jewish children from the public schools,
which were to be exclusively Catholic
1855:
The New York Times reported that Solomon Rothschild who died in Paris in
July was buried "with a certain degree of financial pomp. The hearse was followed by a large number of
artistic and literary celebrities by the old men supported at the hospital
endowed by the deceased and by 1,200 children educated at his school. Then, in the procession, was the Grand Rabbi
and the Israelite Consistory. The body
was buried in the tomb of the Rothschild family, which is in the Jews' corner
of Pere La chaise."
1856:
In La Porte, IN, Jacob and Henrietta Wile gave birth to Annette Nettie Wile who
became Annette Nettie Hamburger when she married Max Mayer Hamburger with whom
she had three children – Leon, Amy and Walter.
1856:
Birthdate of Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg who gained fame using the Hebrew pan
name Ahad Ha'am (אחד העם,). A pre-eminent
essayist he was the founder of Cultural Zionism with a vision of a Jewish
"spiritual center" in Palestine. Ha'am strived for "a Jewish
state and not merely a state of Jews." In what would appear to have been a
detour from his intellectual pursuits Ahad Ha’am managed the Anglo-Asiatic tea
company established by Kaloniumus Wolf Wissotzky, the founder of the Wissotzky Tea Company
which prior to the Bolshevik Revolution was the largest tea company in the
world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissotzky_Tea
https://archive.org/details/at_the_crossroads_0902_librivox
http://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/echad_haam_eng.htm
1957:
In Bavaria, Therese and Jacob Weil gave birth to future Bostonian August Weil,
the husband of Emma “Anna” Wei; and the father of Glady Axman, the wife of
Clarence Axman.
1860:
Birthdate of Theodore Lewald, the nephew of “Jewish novelist Fanny Lewald” and
loyal servant of the Reich before, during and after World War I who spent his
life as a Christian but was removed from leadership role at the 1936 Olympics
because his “paternal grandmother was Jewish.”
1860:
“Sunday at Newport” published today states that the Jews might teach the
current inhabitants “a lesson of reverence; for, although long since departed
from Newport, where their social and commercial position was once superior, by
ample testamentary provision, their Synagogue and Cemetery are preserved in
admirable order -- reproachful to Christian neglect and indifference…It was
startling, when the remains of the benevolent Judah Turo were brought here for
interment, to hear the Rabbi, who pronounced the funeral discourse -- alluding
to his change of abode and the vicissitudes of his life -- say, as a matter of
course, "Like his great ancestor, Jacob, he was a pilgrim and sojourner.”
1863:
During the Civil War, 1st Lieutenant Michael Rosenstein completed
his service with Company K of the 172nd Regiment.
1863:
Birthdate of Victor-Guillaume Basch, the native of Budapest who was the son of
journalist Raphael Basch and who became a professor at the Sorbonne and a
French political leader.
1866:
Julie Pollitzer and Henry Morris gave birth to George Henry Morris who would
only live for ten weeks.
1866:
In New York, Mariana Marcuse and Samuel Stroock gave birth to Columbia trained
attorney and director of the Jewish Board of Guardians Moses J. Stroock, a
director of the School for training Jewish Social Workers and member of Temple
B’nai Jeshurun.
1869:
Henry Fileman, the second son of John Fileman mairred Theresa Clara Leopold,
the eldest daughter of Louis Leopold at the Masonic Hall, Bedford Row, Holborn,
WC.
1869:
Ivan Andreevich Shingarev, a prosperous merchant, and Zinaida Nikanorovna gave
birth to Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev, a physician and leader of the Kadets
(Constitutional Democrat Party) who in March of 1916 took the unusual position
of defending the Jews against charges of destroying the war effort, boldly
pointing the disabilities under which Jews lived in the Czar’s Empire.)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D00E1D8113FE233A2575AC0A9609C946796D6CF
1870: During the Franco-Prussian War, the
Kaiser’s forces defeated the French Army which included Bernard Abraham, a
decorated artillery officer, in what would prove to a strategic victory that
helped to seal the fate of the Napoleon with all that that would come to mean
in 1870 which would lead to 1914 which would lead to 1939.
1870:
The Baltimore American reported that members of the Lloyd Street
Synagogue had filed suit against various officers of synagogue in Circuit Court
over what they considered violations of the charter as it pertains to matter of
ritual and the hiring of a Chazan, among other matters.
1871:
It was reported today that a large quantity of diamonds, rubies and other
precious stones which had been concealed in the luggage of three French Jews
has been seized by Custom House authorities on suspicion that they had been
smuggled into the country aboard the SS Italy.
1872:
In Baden bei Wien, Baden, Lower Austria,
Austria, “stockbroker Arnold (Samuel Aron) Bettauer from Lemberg (Lviv) and his
wife Anna (née Wecker)” gave birth to author and journalist Maximilian Hugo
Bettauer later known as Hugo Bettauer the convert to the Evangelical (Lutheran Church,
the husband of Olga Steiner whom he divorced, and Helene Muller as well as the
father of Heinrich Gustav Hellmut Bettauer who died at Auschwitz, whose best-known
novel was Die Stadt ohne Juden ("The City Without Jews") a satire on
the acutely topical subject of antisemitism and who was murdered by Nazi Party
supporter Otto Rothstock because of “his opposition to anti-Semitism.
1872:
In New York City, Gusta Marks and Lehman Aarons, gave birth to University of
Wisconsin trained attorney Charles L.
Aarons a member of Congregation Emanu-El
and husband of Des Moines born Rose Sheuerman who was active in the Milwaukee
chapter of B’nai B’rith, the ADL and the American Jewish Committee who began
serving a six year term as a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge in 1926.
1873:In
Hungary, Jahanna Goldberger and Gimbel Herbach gave birth to Temple University
graduate and cigar manufacturer turned building and loan association executive
Joseph Herbach who was the husband of Fannie Wiessler and the editor and
publisher of the Philadelphia Jewish times.
1875:
In Erie, PA, “Isaac and Bertha (Ernhorn ) Baker gave birth University of
Chicago graduate and founder of the Federation of Jewish Charities “Edward Mose
(Max) Baker,” the longtime President of the Cleveland Stock Exchange” and a
leading Progressive Republican political leader.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/baker-edward-max
https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/baker-edward-mose-max
1877:
Esther Hannah Samuel, the daughter of Maurice Moses Beddington and Hannah Maria
Beddington and her husband Henry Sylvester gave birth to Hilda Beatrice Samuel
who became Hilda Beatrice Weiner when she married Charles Jacob Wiener, the
mother of Eric and Philippe Wiener.
1878:
“The Happy Californians” published today described the surprise expressed by
Christians in California that Michael Reese, the recently deceased
German-Jewish millionaire had bequeathed “large sums to different institutions
irrespective of their denomination.”
1878: During the Yellow Fever epidemic
that has gripped New Orleans Rabbi J.K. Gutheim, Edward J. Krsheidt and other
officers of the Hebrew Benevolent Assoication made the following appeal, “
Sickness, distressand suffering amont the poor are increasing daily. Our funds are nearly exhaustaed. In this sad calamity we deem it our
melancholy dutry to appeal to the sympathies of our brethern throughout the
United States for speedy aid.”
1879: The Notes of Foreign News column
reported the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs has issued a circular to its
missions abroad concerning the condition of the Jews living in the
country. On the one hand the government
claimes that “In the future every foreigner” Jewish or non-Jewish, will be
eligible to become naturalized citizens regardless of religion. At the same time, the government claimes that
“the Jews in Roumania at the present moment have never been Romanian
citizens. The government questions how
it can make them citizens “in one day” since it will that Moldavia will be
over-run by 300,000 Jews who are “uneducated fanatics, having a different
language, a different language, a
different different customs, different
sentiments and whom the” Romanians have always considered foreginers. Granting the Jews currently living in
Romanaia would “stirke a terrible blow to the economic interest of the
county…and would drive the population to revolt…” [The treatment of the Jews living in Romania
was a cause that had been taken up by the Great Powers. The Romanians wanted recognition as an
independent state while working tenanciously to avoid improving the lot of its
Jewish citizens.
1879:
It was reported today that The Pall Mall
Gazette (an English publication) “says that a Mr. Austin Corbin has ‘gone
so far as to exclude Jews from the Manhattan Beach Railway…’” The columnist
concludes that this “will be news to Corbin and the Jews.” (Apparently, the English author did not know
that report of Corbin’s ban was quite true.]
1880:
In Bohemia, Jennie Weil and Solomon Robitshek gave birth to University of
Minnesota trained surgeon Emil C. Roitshek, the husband of Leonora Millhauser
and instructor in surgery at the University of Minnesota who was a member of
the Selective Service Board during WW I, a staff surgeon at the Eitel Hospital
in Minneapolis and a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Welfare
Association.
1880:
A barge filled with children on an excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for
Hebrew Children narrowly avoided colliding with a yawl-boat as it came through
the Narrows today.
1880:
Mr. Mendel denied recent reports that the Sharon Hotel at Sharon Springs does
not accept Jewish guests is false. He has
been staying there for the last three summer seasons as have been several other
guests whom the proprietors know are Jewish.
(This comes on the heels of the Saratoga Springs incident)
1881:
Birthdate of Prussian native” Gus Edwards, song writer and “talent scout whose
discoveries included Eddie Cantor and George Jessel and who was the husband of
the former Lilian Boulanger, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/11/08/103602025.pdf
1881:
Two days after he had passed away, Morris Harris, the son of Nathan and Rebecca
Harris and the husband of the former Catherine Myers with whom he had five
children was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery)
1881:
The SS Bellevue will leave for an
excursion to Hart’s Island today at 11 am sponsored by the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society
1881:
“A Pawnbroker Swindled” published today described the victimization of Ellis Silbertsein,
a Jewish pawnbroker who owns a shop on North 9th Street in
Philadelphia, PA.
1882:
In Chicago, “Louis Ullman and Eleanora Fried” gave birth to University of
Chicago graduate and Professor of Latin and Department Chair at the University
of North Carolina Berthold Louis Ullman, the husband of Mary Louise Bates and
the father of geographer Edward Ullman.
https://classics.unc.edu/about-us-2/departmental-history/b-l-ullman/
1882(3rd
of Elul, 5642): Forty-two-year Leon Jacob Wetheim the Dutch bank employee
turned author who was the brother of A.C. Wertheim and the son of Dina Minden
and Carl Wertheim, passed away today.
1883(15th
of Av, 5643): Parashat Vaetchanan; Tu B’Av
1883:
In Canajoharie (Montgomery County) NY, Judge Thomas W. Bingham officiated at
the wedding of New Yorker Joseph P. Joachimsen and Caroline Cohen, “the
daughter of the late Marx E. Cohen of Charleston, SC.”
1883:
It was reported that “Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under Foreign Secretary stated
in the House of Commons…that the government…has asked the Russian government
to” explain why a British Jewish businessman who had “a proper British
passport” was expelled.
1886:
Birthdate of Sholom Schwartzbard a Bessarabian-born Jewish anarchist known
primarily for the assassination of the Ukrainian politician Symon
Petliura. Schwartzbard held Petliura
responsible for the death of his parents who had been murdered in a pogrom in
1919.
1887(28th
of Av, 5647): Julius Weisbaden a miser who has no friends or family in the
United States died today Bellevue Hospital
1887:
It was reported today that Adolph Stern a commercial traveler who passed away
yesterday will be buried by the Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society at the Salem
Fields Cemetery. Stern, who was a member
of the society, died alone since his wife and grown daughter still lived in
Germany.
1888(11th
of Elul, 5648): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1888(11th
of Elul, 5648): Fifty-one-year-old prominent New York merchant Marks Laski, the
husband of Carolina Wassman Laski whom he married he 1874 and the father of
Charles, Leon, Isaac and Abraham died suddenly today at his home on West 36th
Street after which he was interred at Bloomingdale Broder Verein, Brotherhood
of Israel Polt in the Salems Field Cemetery.
1888:
“Jews in Prussia” published today relied on reports from the London Times to
report that in 1880 there were 363,790 Jews living in Prussia which made them
1.33 percent of the population. Five
years later the number of Jews had grown to 366,543 but they were now only 1.29
per cent of the population.
1889:
“Right or Left” published today described Dr. Friedrich Erlenmeyer’s “proof”
that “the ancient Hebrews” were “a left-handed people.”
1889:
Jacques Damala, the non-Jewish husband of Sarah Bernhardt, passed away.
1889(21st
of Av. 5649): Thirty-seven-year-old Lewis Arnheim, a member of the Georgia
State Legislature passed away today.
1889:
Birthdate of St. Louis University trained attorney Maximilian George Baron, the
Ukraine born son of Julius and Rose (Shucart) Baron and the husband of Dorothy
Catlin, who became a member of the faculty at his alma mater and served as the
Vice President of Board of Education of Associated Hebrew Schools of St. Louis
married Dorothy Catlin
1890:
Rabbi E.M Chapman of Dallas and Samuel Gompers delivered the eulogies at the
funeral for Montague L Marks who was buried at Washington Cemetery on Long
Island “according to the practice of the Orthodox Jews.”
1890:
“Baron Hirsch, the well-known Jewish financier and philanthropist sent the
Hebrew Young Men’s Benevolent Society of Montreal a check for $20,000 after it
was discovered that the Canadian society could not participate in the benefits
of the American trust fund which he had created.”
1890:
Birthdate of Solomon Rosenthal, the Lithuanian born chess master.
1890:
Fifty-three-year-old Samuel Cohen was arrested today on charges that he was
falsely representing himself as an agent of the Hebrew Aid Society and was
collecting money which was intended to help poor Jews.
1890:
Birthdate of journalist and linguist (Hebrew and Yiddish) Daniel Persky, the
native of Minsk who came to the United States at the age of 1921 who motto was
“Eved L’Ivrith Anokhi” – “A slave unto Hebrew am I.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E0DE1D71539E43BBC4E52DFB5668389679EDE
1890:
Sixty-two-year-old John Cooper Vail, the librarian at Bellevue Hospital and
author of the prize-winning poem “The Hebrew Gladiator” which was first
published in the New York Clipper passed away today.
1891:
Solomon Sassoon Benjamin married Fanny Van Nierop at the Bayswater Synagogue.
1891:
“City and Suburban News” published today described an appeal that Rabbi William
M. Krauskopf made that raised $165 for the Hebrew Sheltering House.
1891:
“Brazil Wants Farmers” published today that a large number of Russian Jews have
gone to the Brazilian Consul’s office in New York to apply for permission to go
that country where they can work as farmers.
Many of those who have already gone there do not know anything about
farming and seemed to be more interested in pursuing the profession they know
best – peddling.
1892:
“The Pope on Jews and Frenchmen” published today provided a summary of Mme.
Severine’s interview with the Pope that appeared in Figaro in which he
discussed his views about the Jews and anti-Semitism.
1892(25th
of Av, 5652): Sixty-one-year-old German author Elise Henle, the wife of Leopold
Levi, passed away today at Frankfurt-on-Main.
1892:
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, the son of Ridley Haim Herschell a
Jewish convert who founded “the British Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel among the Jews” began serving as Lord Chancellor today.
1893:
Birthdate of old “Romanian born American businessman, Benjamin Abrams, a
“founder of Emerson Radio and Phonography Corporation” and the Jewish communal
leader who “was a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the
Greater New York Committee for State of Israel Bonds.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/06/24/83124611.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20100105174830/http://www.ce.org/Events/Awards/441.htm
https://www.hbs.edu/leadership/20th-century-leaders/Pages/details.aspx?profile=benjamin_abrams
1893:
The Park Departments has issued a permit to allow the thousands of unemployed
Jewish workers to hold a mass meeting in Union Square.
1893:
Emma Goldman the wife of the man who shot Chairman Frick of Carnegie Steel
delivered “a violent speech’ at a meeting in Golden Rule Hall on Rivington
Street.
1894(16th
of Av, 5654): Shabbat Nachamu
1894(16th
of Av, 5654): Nine days after his 53rd birthday Maier Triest, the
Bavarian born son of Caroline Hollander and Joseph Triest, the husband of
Hannah Richmond and father of Montague and Caroline Triest passed away today in
Charleston, SC.
1894:
Seventy-one-year-old Eugene Lawrence, the author of The Jews and Their
Persecutors, passed away in New York City.
1895:
“Kesher Shel Barzel” published today traces the history of the organization
from its founding in 1860 as a mutual aid society in New York City to becoming
one the largest national Jewish benevolent and protective societies in the
United States. Kesher Shel Barzel means “Iron Knot.”
1896:
The body of the man with the Hebraic features which was found yesterday in a
New Jersey barnyard was identified as Arthur Malke of Newark who has been
missing for four days.
1896:
In Hamburg, Nina J. Loeb, the daughter of Solomon Loeb and Paul Warburg gave
birth to James Paul Warburg, a World War I veteran and banker who was “a
financial adviser to FDR.”
1897:
A crowd of 15,000 heard Mayor Strong when he delivered an address at the Summer
Festival given tonight by District Grand Lodge, No.1 Independent Order Free
Sons of Israel at Sulzer’s Harlem River Park.
1897:
J. S. Koenigsberg, a leading member of the Jewish community in Denver received a letter for Edwin Wallace, the
American Counsel at Jerusalem “giving an account of gross misappropriation of
money sent by American Jewish societies for the relief of their fellow
countrymen” living in that city.
1898(30th
of Av, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1898:
All the children living at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum should have been removed
today from the facility at 138th Street and Amsterdam Avenue as
officials dealt with an epidemic of dysentery.
1899:
When the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus resumed this morning at 7:25 AM in
Rennes, “Colonel Picquart, former Chief of the Intelligence Department of the
War Office, was called to the witness stand and continued his deposition which
was interrupted yesterday by the adjournment of the court.”
1899:
The meeting of the Third Zionist Congress comes to an end.
1899:
It was reported today that Rigmund Albert, a Jewish cadet, had left the
Military Academy at West Point because of he had been persecuted because of his
religion.
1899:
Thirty-one-year-old Siegfried Wolf and Ida Wolf gave birth to Alfred Emil Wolf
1900:
Birthdate of Passaic, New Jersey native and Princeton University graduate Berry
Pink, the WW I U.S. Navy veteran the head of Berry Pink Industries “which
reportedly manufactured about a billion marbles a year” leading to be “known as
‘the Marble King.’”
1901:
“The Sacred Seven” published today described the numerous times that the number
seven occurs in the Bible including the laws pertaining to slavery, treatment
of a woman after she has given birth and the conquest of Jericho. (Editor’s
note: This story is noteworthy because it appeared in a daily newspaper and not
in a religious tract or magazine)
1902(15th
of Av, 5662): Tu B’Av
1902(15th
of Av, 5662): Hungarian born Leopold Schenck, “The Austrian Embryologist”
passed away today.
https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/ishm/vesalius/VESx2004x10x01x037x037.pdf
1902:
Birthdate of Dallas, TX native B. Benedict Glazer the University of Cincinnati
grad and HUC trained rabbi who served congregations in New York and Detroit
while being a supporter for the fight for equal rights in Michigan.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0148/ms0148.html
1902(15th
of Av, 5662): Isaac Blumenthal whose estate was valued at $172,000 in real
estate and upward of $25,000 in personal property passed away today.
1903:
Johns Hopkins graduate and University of Pennsylvania trained physician Sydney
M. Cohen, the Jonesboro born son of Helen and Herman Cone who was “a consultant
in orthopedic surgery at Hebrew Hospital,: an associate professor of pathology
at the University of Maryland and a “major in the Reserve Corps, U.S.A.”, vice
president of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and and a member of the “Medical
Veterans of the World War married Bessie Skutch today
1903:
“The first conference of the Greater New York societies, affiliated with the
Federation of American Zionists was held” today “in the Bnei Zion rooms” on
Montgomery Street
1903:
Today, while the Sixth Zionist Congress was meeting Jacob de Haas “came in
contact with three Jews, one of whom had been a Zionist and was now
indifferent; the second was too religious and the third…a Russian Parisian
socialist” who “regretted the hold Zionism was taking on the Russian Jewish
students.”
1904:
Max Factor, Sr. moved to the United States and opened a small perfume and
cosmetics concession at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Over time, this would grow into Max Factor
and Company, one of the leading makers of cosmetics in the world.
1904: Birthdate of Max Factor Jr. Max Factor, Jr. would follow in his father’s
footsteps as
1906(27th
of Av, 5666): Parashat Re’eh; Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Elul
1906:
It was reported today that in an interview in St. Petersburg, Premier Stolypin
“asserted that he was in no way an anti-Semite” and that “he considered that
the Jews should be consulted relative to their condition.”
1906:
“A children’s costume carnival is scheduled
to take place at the Royal Palace Hotel for the benefit of children’s
war in the Atlantic City Hospital and the Jewish Seaside Home at Ventnor, NJ.”
1907:
Electrical engineer Maurice M. Goldenstein, the Rumanian born son of Anna
Kitzis and Solomon Goldstein, the inventor of a “multi-unit printing press
control system who worked for Hammer Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee before becomes the “District
Printing Press specialist for General Electric in Chicago married Rose Levit
today in Kansas City, MO.
1907:
Czar Nicholas wrote “received with pleasure” on the margin of address sent to
him by the Union of Russian People “demanding the entire exclusion of Jews from
the Duma…”
1907:
Col. Schroetter, the Commander of the Bialystok Military Station who was
accused of organizing and helping to court the recent attacks on Jews in
Bialystok “was assassinated today.”
1908:
One day after he had passed away, Russian born Myer Genn, the husband of Annie
Genn with whom he had five children was buried at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery
in Northern Ireland” today.
1908:
One day after she had passed away, Belfast native Lillie Genn, the daughter of
Abraham and Fanny Genn was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in
Northern Ireland.”
1908:
The New Jersey convention of the American Federation of Labor adopted a
resolution endorsing Samuel Gompers and his policies. The real issue was Gompers’ support William
Jennings Bryan’s bid to be elected President in the race against William Howard
Taft.
1909:
New York Democratic political leader Charles F. Murphy reminded an interviewer
that ex-Police Commissioner Bingham “has had to take back almost everything he
said while in office” including his statement that 50 per cent of the Jews are
crooks.
1910:
Ossip Gabrilowitsch and his wife Clara Clemens (the daughter of Mark Twain)
gave birth to their daughter Nina who turn out to be the last known lineal
descendant the great American humorist and author.
1911:
In Great Britain, the University of Birmingham conferred an honoree degree on
Professor Dr. Hermann Oppenheim, a leading neurologist.
1911: The Alliance Israelite Universelle sends ten thousands francs to
relive the suffering resulting from the fires at Constantinople.
1911: Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres awards Captain Raymond
Weill a grant of six thousand francs to continue excavations in Egypt. Weill
would go on to lead archaeological expeditions in Palestine in 1913-1914 and
1923-1924 that would include exploration of the part of the ancient Jerusalem
water system known as the Siloam Channel.
1911: Anti-Semitism took on many faces in Russia as Jewish families were
expelled from two more cities that had been part of the Pale of Settlement. The
Czar’s government also enforced restrictions on the number of Jewish students
attending high schools and confiscated property owned by Jews outside of the
Pale.
1911: Founding of Tifereth Israel in Everett, MA.
1911: James Simon, President of Hilfsverein der Deuteshcne Juden, gave
one hundred thousand marks to the Technical Institute in Haifa.
1912: In Chicago, Illinois, dedication of Temple Beth Israel.
1912: In New Brunswick, NJ, founding of Avhas Achim synagogue.
1913(15th of Av, 5673): Tu B’Av
1913: “Too Aid The Jews” published today described “ a plan to call a
world congress to protest against Russian persecution of the Jews and to
denounce the ‘ritual murder’ charge now being prosecuted in Kieff against a Jew
named Bellis” who is “alleged to have killed a Russian boy” which was proposed
in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle by Dr. Armand Kamnika, secretary of the
Israelitische Allianz and a rabbi in Vienna.”
1913: Leo Frank took the stand and testified in the trail which was an orgy
of anti-Semitism.
1914: Today, “only eighteen days after the outbreak of” World War One,
the Jews of the United States “began to take steps for the relief of their
brethren whom they knew would be suffers from the conflict.”
1914: “In Trachin, an outbreak of fires as Russian troops marched through
the town was immediately blamed on the Jews” whose goal, according to the
locals, was to let the Germans know where the Russians troops were located. In this case 14 Jews were arrested and
although they were later released their “pillaged goods” were neither returned
nor paid for. (During August and
September, the Jews of Poland were subject to numerous pogroms, usually at the
hands of the Cossacks forcing them to flee to Warsaw from which they would
later be forcibly be deported eastward (263 As reported by Max Hastings)
1915(8th
of Elul, 5675): Schumel Itzig Gordon, the son of Salman Yehuda Gordon, passed
away today.
1915:
A group of Jewish leaders met at the Wave Crest Manor, at Wave Crest, L.I., “to
consider plans for the publication of a number of classics.”
1915:
Leo “Frank's body arrived at D.C.'s Union Station on its way to New York for
burial. Among the 200 people gathered were local members of B'nai B'rith's Argo
Lodge, headed by Rabbi Abram Simon of Washington Hebrew Congregation.”
1915:
“The feeling in Marietta over the (Leo) Frank lynching is illustrated by a
jeering, sarcastic telegram sent today by the Chief of Police H.H. Looney to
Detective William J. Burns who was employed by Frank’s friends and was run out
of Marietta after an attempt to lynch him which read ‘Leo Frank lynched here
yesterday. Come quick and help
investigate.’”
1915:
“Under the title ‘Finis’ an editorial in this morning’s Macon Daily Telegraph”
reads in part, “The Frank case has come to an end – climatic, catastrophic,
stunning in is conclusiveness, its absolute finality.”
1916(19th
of Av, 5676): Eighteen-year-old Samuel Salomo Israelsohn passed away.
1916:
Rabbinical seminaries in Florence and Leghorn, Italy merged due to lack of
funds.
1916:
“Turn to the Right” staring Abraham Sincoff opened today on Broadway
1916:
It was reported today that “the condition of the Jews in Palestine calls for
immediate attention” and that “the Jewish farmers in Syria have been facing a
serious economic crisis which threatens the survival of the promising growth of
Jewish agricultural industry – an industry on which so many hope throughout the
Jewish world have been built.”
1916:
After nine days, an Allied force of three French divisions and one British
division were defeated by the Bulgarians at the little known Battle of Dorian
1917:
Vilmos Vázsonyi completed his term in office as Minister of Justice of Hungary.
1917:
A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000
individuals homeless. The downfall of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki
started with a fire in the Jewish quarter in 1917. Prior to the start of the
fire Thessaloniki had been one of the two o
most important Jewish communities in pre-World War II Greece. In the 1600s,
Thessaloniki, a Sephardi community, became one of the largest Jewish
communities in the world and was known as "ir v’em beyisral,"
metropolis and mother of Israel. By 1900, more than half of the town’s
population was Jewish, which was about 80,000 Jews. In 1900-1910 Thessaloniki
had more than 50 synagogues, 20 Jewish schools and numerous Jewish institutions
and associations. It was a center of Torah learning for all of Europe. Business
was generally conducted in the Sephardi language of Ladino and, on Friday
afternoons, almost all commercial life stopped since most of the city’s workers
were Jewish. A sprawling Jewish cemetery that was destroyed during World War II
to make room for a new university lay in the center of the city (. The Jewish
population was varied and included both Kararites and followers of the false
messiah Shabbatai Zevi. The city had a strong Judaeo-Spanish culture. For all
intents and purposes, this all disappeared with the Holocaust.
1917(30th
of Av, 5677): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1917:
In San Francisco, Herman Weinberger, a native of Bohemia “of Jewish descent”
and his wife whose family came from England gave birth Republican leader who
held a variety of positions including Secretary of HEW under Nixon and Ford and
Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan.
1917:
It was reported today that nearly 100 Americans Jews who had been living in
Palestine have left Constantinople for Switzerland.
1918: Due to massive fires in Salonica, 50,000 Jews are homeless. This represents nearly the entire Jewish
population of the city.
1918:
Premiere of “Our Mrs. McChesney” a silent film “based on the 1915 play by Edna
Ferber.
1918:
Thirty-four-year-old Russian born American lawyer and Democratic Party leader
Benjamin Antin married Dora Polsky today.
1918:
Today, in Vienna, “a Jewish father and a Catholic mother” gave birth to pianist
and WW II G.I., Otto-Karl Gruenbaum who escaped Austria after the Anschluss, made
his way to New York where “gave piano concerts and concert referrals” before joining
the U.S. Army which in 1944 sent him to fight in France and Germany where he was
assigned to interrogate prisoners who all denied knowing about concentration
camps after which he was killed while stationed in post-war Germany in a case
that “is still under investigation.
1918:
Benjamin Antin, “a member of the New York Bar and examiner for the Municipal
Civil Service Commission and Miss Dora Polsky a New York public school teacher
and the daughter of Morris Polsky were married today at the bride’s home on
Fulton Avenue in the Bronx.
1919:
An appraisal of the estate of Ludwig Dreyfus filed today shows “that the total
was worth $1,305, 318.”
1920:
The Tennessee State Legislature approved the Nineteenth Amendment providing
“the final ratification necessary to add the Amendment” that gave women the
right to vote “to the United States Constitution.
1920
Isaac Rabinowitz of New York City received the Distinguished Service Cross
today.
1920:
In Holyoke, Vincent and Antoinette D’Addario gave birth to Raymond D’Addario,
“an Army photographer whose images of Hitler’s top henchmen during the
Nuremberg war crimes trials put their faces before the world as it became
increasingly aware of Nazi atrocities.” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1920:
Alfred Mond was the subject of a cartoon in Punch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Mond_cartoon_from_Punch_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_16707.png
1921:
Birthdate of Lydia Litvyak a Soviet fighter pilot during WW II who flew 66
missions before being shot down in 1943.
http://www.jewoftheweek.net/?s=Lydia+Vladimirovna+Litvyak+&submit=Search
1921:
In London, The Times published the
third in a series of articles by it “Constantinople Correspondent” that
“incontrovertibly demonstrated that ‘The Protocols’ consist in the main of
‘clumsy plagiarisms’ from a French political pamphlet directed against Napoleon
III and published in Brussels in 1865 by a French Lawyer named Maurice Joly and
entitled ‘Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu.’”
1922(24th
of Av, 5682): Sixty-three-year-old “dental surgeon and businessman Dr. Hugo
Ascher, the husband of Minna Luise Ascher and the father of German artist Fritz
Ascher passed away today in Berlin.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/if-not-for-the-nazis-he-may-have-been-the-next-leonardo/
1922: In St. Louis, MO, “Rose (née Winter), a singer
with The Muny, and Jonas Schrift, a designer of men's clothing” gave birth to
Sylvia Schrift who gained famed as actress Shelly Winters who enjoyed a long and
varied career and who,unlike her fellow acting student Marilyn Monroe, was able
to make the transition from female leading lady to character actress which made
possible a five decades long career in which she made over 130 films.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011401166.html
1923(6th
of Elul, 5683): Parashat Shoftim
1923(6th
of Elul, 5683): Fifty-six-year-old Pauline “Lena” Peyser the daughter of Philip
Peyser and Natalie Ann Kilinksi, wife of Morris Gusdorf and mother of Melvin
and Florence Gusdorf passed away today after which she was buried at
Hebrew Cemetery in Washington, DC.
1924:
It was reported today that “following an executive conference of the American
Emergency Committee on Jewish Refugees at the Hotel Astor Louis Marshall, the Chairman, announced that
the committee had seriously considered the invitation extended by
President-elect Calles of Mexico for Jewish mass migration into Mexico.”
1925:
“The fourteenth Zionist World Congress was opened here this evening with a
speech by President Weizmann, who welcomed the emissary of the Austrian
Government, 8,000 delegates and diplomatic representatives of the powers.”
1925(28th
of Av, 5685): Eighty-three-year-old James Evan Creamer the husband of Sarah
Florence Sheftall Creamer and the
son-in-law o Emanuel and Jane L. Theiss Sheftall passed away today in Savannah.
1926:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service reported that “the number of families
to be settled in the Ukraine during the years 1927 and 1928 is not to be less
than during the present year, that is, not less than 4,000 families each year,
the Ukrainian Government Commission for Jewish Land Settlement decided at its
meeting here. Since the number to be settled outside the Ukraine during 1927
will not exceed 1,000 families, and in 1928 will be 3,000 families, it has been
decided that sufficient land should be allocated in the Ukraine for the
settlement in 1927 of 3,000 families and in 1928 of 1,000 families.”
1926: Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service reported that “The
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has this year produced a new
form of collapsible Succah, which can be erected within an hour. These Succahs
give an opportunity to the Jews of America to have their observance not only in
the Synagogue, but at their homes. Applications can be made to the office of
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, 131 West 86th St., New
York City.”
1926:
In Warsaw, “Alina (née Fryszman) Lewinson and Szymon Lewinson , a urologist and
Polish Army officer murdered in Katyń” gave birth to journalist Janina (née
Lewinson) Bauman, the wife of “socialist
and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman.”
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jan/26/janina-bauman-obituary
1927:
Moselle “Molly” Elias, the Rangoon born daughter of Sassoon and Rachel Ezekiel
and her husband Harry Moses Elias gave birth to Mervyn Elias.
1928:
In Manhattan, “Abner Millon, a tailor, and the former Mollie Gorkowitz” gave
birth to Theodore Millon “a psychologist whose theories helped define how
scientists think about personality and its disorders, and who developed a
widely used measure to analyze character traits.” (As reported by Benedict
Carey)
1929:
Arabs, following their attack Friday on the Wailing Wall and on groups of Jews
yesterday, today stoned Rabbi Nical of the College of Torah Chaim.
1929(12th
of Av, 5689) A young Sephardic Jew named Abraham Mizrachi who was stabbed at
the Maccabi grounds near Mea Shearim, in the Bukharan Quarter on Shabbat by
Arab rioters died of his wounds today.
1930:
In Ploiesti, Romania, Isidor and Mina Librscu gave birth to Holocaust survivor
and Israeli professor Liviu Librescu, who was murdered while trying to protect
his students during the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007
https://www.weremember.vt.edu/biographies/librescu.html
1931:
Birthdate of political scientist and author of The Political Science of
British Politics Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward the native of Shanghai and
scion of an Iraqi family that was interred by the Japanese during WW II who
served in the RAF and who has been a Professor of Politics at the University of
Hull and the University of Oxford.
1932:
It was reported today that those left to mourn the Louise H. Pollak of blessed
memory include her husband Julian A. Pollak, the Cincinnati City Councilman,
her three children – David, Julian R. and Betty – her mother Mrs. David M.
Hyman, her brother Mark Hyman and her sister Mrs. Alfred Friedlander.
1932:
“The Beautiful Adventure” a romantic comedy directed by Reinhold Schunzel who
also co-authored the script was released today in Germany.
1932:
In Germany, premiere of “The Bartered Bride” a film based on the comic opera
directed by Max Ophüls who also co-authored the script.
1933:
In Paris, Bula (née Katz-Przedborska) and Ryszard Polański, a painter and
manufacturer of sculptures gave birth to Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański who
gave fame as Roman Polanski.
1933:
According to press reports published in Jerusalem, Mrs. Sarah Levi of Singapore
has set aside her fortune of £100,000 to rebuild Safed, which suffered during
the 1929 riots.
1933:
It was reported from Jerusalem that Aba Achimeir, a Revisionist, has been
charged with having conspiring to assassinate Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff.
1933:
The British High Commissioner issued an order that in all towns of mixed
population a third of the wages spent in public works shall be assigned to
Jewish labor.
1933:
According to the official count, there are a total of 297 accredited Zionists
delegates to the Zionist Congress meeting in Prague: 139 are Laborites, 79
General Zionists, 47 Revisionists and 32 Mizrachi.
1933:
The meeting of the International Congress of Mizrachi meeting in Cracow,
Poland, comes to an end. Before
adjourning delegates the delegates called for the reorganization of the Jewish
Agency, expressed opposition to the leadership of Chaim Weizmann and called for
a world Orthodox religious congress to be held in Jerusalem no later than 1935.
1933:
In Germany, the Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment prohibits the filming
of a scenario based on Stefan Zweig's "Amok."
1934(7th
of Elul, 5694) Parashat Shoftim
1934:
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi J.L. Goldberg, Mrs. G.A Holzman and Professor M.H.
Kallen are in Geneva awaiting to attend a world congress of Jewish leaders that
will begin on August 20 where “a campaign to combat what is termed anti-Semitic propaganda will
be proposed.
1935:
“An appeal to rabbis throughout the country to urge their congregations in the
forthcoming high holiday to support the drive by the UJS for $3,250,000 to help
Jews in Germany and other lands to settle in Palestine was made today by Felix
W. Warburg, national chairman of the appeal.”
1936(30th
of Av, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1936(30th
of Av, 5696): Eighty-two-year-old Martha
Springer Fleisher passed away today after she was interred at Mount Sinai
Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1936:
“In a statement released today by the National Conference of Jews and
Christians, leaders in the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths in American
expressed resentment at the speech of Father Charles E. Coughlin in which he
challenged the Jews to affirm their belief in the principle of brotherly love”
– a belief that he said Christians accepted but which he did not think Jews had
demonstrated their belief.
1936:
Fifty thousand Jewish residents of Tel Aviv attended the funeral today of two
nurses killed by Arab snipers yesterday. “Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, British
High Commissioner in Palestine, expressed his ‘deepest sorrow and abhorrence of
the recent brutal murders and attacks on a perfectly innocent people.’”
1937: In Geneva, the Permanent Mandates Commission
had completed its sessions and submitted a secret report on the British
partition of Palestine scheme to the Council of the League of Nations.
1937: In Zurich, Dr. Chaim Weizmann opened the fifth session of the
Jewish Agency Council and announced that it would support the Zionist Congress
policy of negotiating with Britain, in principle, the terms of the
establishment of a Jewish state. He was opposed by Dr. Felix Warburg, of the
council’s non-Zionist representation.
1938: Birthdate of Marcia Lewis who received an RN from the Jewish
Hospital School of Nursing in Cincinnati before gaining fame as a Tony
nominated actress and singer. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1938:
A British military column was ambushed
this afternoon by a gang of well armed Arabs near Acre. The troops assisted by
aircraft fought back and in the battle at least twenty-seven Arabs were killed
by the fliers and ten more by the troops.
1938: As Arab violence continued, an eight-year-old Jewish boy was killed
and four others were wounded when a bomb was thrown at a crowd on the border
between Tel Aviv and Jaffa while another Arab threw a bomb at truck carrying
eleven Jewish workers, wounding nine of them.
1938: As Arab violence continued to escalate in Palestine, hundreds of
Moslems took to the streets of London shouting “Down with the ignorant Wells”
as they protested the publication of A Short History of the World by
H.G. Wells. At the same time a Moslem
delegation complained to the High Commissioner of India that the book “insulted
the memory of Mohammed and the Koran.”
1939(3rd of Elul, 5699): Eight-year-old Walter Bodner passed
away today after which he was buried at the Poali Zedek Cemetery in Everett, Massachusetts.
1939(3rd of Elul, 5699): Forty-nine-year-old Austrian native
“an architect, film produce and director” Robert Neppac the husband of Jewish
tennis player Nelly Neppach who committed suicide because of Nazi persecution
and the husband of Grete Walter, the Jewish daughter of composer Bruno Walter
who “oversaw the art direction of over 80 films” and who returned to working as
an architect in Switzerland because of the Nazis committed suicide today after
shooting his estranged wife.
1940: Birthdate of Nelli Abramova the Jewish volleyball player who helped
the Soviet Union win a Silver Medal at the Olympics in 1964
1941:
The Nazis took over authority of Kovno and sealed off the ghetto. Five hundred
Jews were taken from the ghetto to be killed. Looting and killing of the
Intelligentsia would soon follow.
1941:
Adolf Hitler ordered the end to the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and
handicapped persons due to protests within Germany. This change in policy at least raises the
question as to what effect similar protests by Church leaders and others might
have had in averting the Final Solution.
1942: The Nazis deported 998 Jews,
including 287 children, to the East from Belgium.
1942(5th
of Elul, 5702): Thirty-year-old Marianne Baum, the wife of Herbert Baum with
whom she helped to organize resistance to the Nazis “was executed in Plötzensee
Prison” two months after Herbert was murdered by the Nazis.
1942(5th
of Elul, 5702): Forty-eight-year-old Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff who had
been “deported to the Wülzburg concentration camp, near Weißenburg, Bavaria” in
1941 died there today from the effects of tuberculosis.
https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/central-europe/wulzburg/schulhofferwin/
1943:
Thousands of more Jews were deported from Bialystok to Treblinka. This was the
last train to ever be sent there. All the Jews were sent to the gas chambers.
Afterwards, the camp closed down for good.
1943:
The last transport from Salonika arrived in Auschwitz consisting of 1,800
laborers, the last of 48,533 people to be deported from that town. Almost
38,000 of them would be exterminated on arrival.
1943:
The process of destroying the evidence of mass murder that took place at Babi
Yar, a suburb of Kiev in the Soviet Ukraine, began. Jewish and Soviet prisoners
were set to work, unearthing thousands of bodies and burning them in huge
pyres. The Jewish prisoners attended to the horrible task knowing that they too
would be shot and burned at the end they tried an escape. During attempt to
hide the evidence of genocide, 311 out of 325 Jewish and Soviet prisoners would
be killed in their break-out attempt.
1944:
Fifty-eight-year-old Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party in
Germany and a foe of Adolph Hitler was murdered today at Buchenwald
concentration camp.
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERthalmann.htm
1945:
A group of refugees in the “Beriha” movement in Komo, Italy were captured by
the camera.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/15.asp
1946:
Colonial Secretary George Hall returned today from Paris to report to Prime
Minister Attlee on consultations with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Jewish
Agency leaders concerning Palestine.
1947:
“The Jewish refugees aboard the ship Empire Rival, one of three British
transports off Port-de-Bouc with about 4,500 visaless immigrants to Palestine
who had been brought back after their ship, the Exodus 1947, had been
intercepted by the British Navy, announced this morning that they were starting
a hunger strike.”
1948:
“Hollow Triumph,” a film noir directed by Steve Sekely, with a screenplay by
Daniel Fuchs and music by Sol Kaplan premiered in Reading, PA.
1948:
Yiftah, a kibbutz in northern Israel located near the Lebanese border “was
established today “by demobilized Palmach soldiers who were members of the
Yiftach Brigade, after which the kibbutz is named.”
1949:
“Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, director of the United Nations trusteeship division,
tonight called the Senate Judiciary Committee "irresponsible" and
said its cognizance of false charges against the United Nations Secretariat
constituted an "absurd witch hunt."
1950:
First performance of "The Village I Knew," choreographed by Sophie
Maslow.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/18/1950/sophie-maslow
1950:
In Chicago, “Albert Friedlan, who survived three years in Auschwitz” and the
former “Ilona Muller,” who worked “as a forced laborer during the Holocaust:”
gave birth to Robert Martin Friedland, the Reed College friend of Steve Jobs
and international businessman who has been involved in some questionable
business dealing.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/robert-friedland/#78267cf33214
1951:
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive's American section,
appealed tonight to the delegates to the twenty-third World Zionist Congress to
shelve the ideological debate on whether it was the duty of all Zionists to
settle in Israel.
1951:
In Ramala, Moshe Moshonov a native of Bulgaria and his wife gave birth to
“Israeli actor, comedian and director” Shlomo “Moni’ Moshonov.
1952: The US granted Israel over $73
million for the relief and resettlement of immigrants and for technical
cooperation.
1952:
Birthdate of comedic talent Elayne Boosler
1953(7th
of Elul, 5713): Sixty-two-year-old Clara Rose Lazarus Snyder, the Romanian born
daughter of Rebecca and Morris Lazarus and the wife of Benjamin S. Snyder with
whom she had three children – Sylvia, Ruth and Milton – passed away today in
Gloucester County, NJ after which she was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in
Jenkintown, PA/
1954:
Today “Jerusalem honored Joseph Carlebach's work, among others at the local
Lämel-School, by naming a street, Rekhov Carlebach/Karlibakh רחוב קרליבך, after
him in the neighborhood of Talpiot.”
1955(30th
of Av, 5715): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1955(30th
of Av, 5715): Seventy-five-year-old Metta Pollack Bettman, the Cincinnati born
daughter of Carrie Benjamin and Emil Pollak the wife of clothing manufacturer
of Irvin Bettman whom she married in 1903 who was “one of the founders of the
St. Louis Section of the National Council of Jewish Women” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bettman-meta-pollak
1956(11th
of Elul, 5716): Parashat Ki Teitzi
1956(11th
of Elul, 5716): Seventy-six-year-old
Shaindel “Jennie” Buchalter Nadler, the wife of Abraham Nadler and mother of
Gertrude Nadler Perlman pass away today after which she was buried at the Baron
de Hirsch Cemetery in Montreal, Canada.
1957(21st
of Av, 5717): Sixty-two-year English born film composer Louis Levy who composed
themes for Alfred Hitchcock passed away today.
1957(21st
of Av, 5717): Rabbi Aharon Rokeach the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty
passed away. Born in 1877, he led the movement from 1926 until his passing in
1957.
http://matzav.com/the-belzer-rebbe-rav-aharon-rokeach-ztl-upon-his-yahrtzeit-today-21-av-5/
http://www.hevratpinto.org/tzadikim_eng/148_rabbi_aaron_rokeach.html
1959:
“Wanda Landowska” published today eulogized the great harpsichordist described
as “a musician’s musician.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/08/18/80599220.pdf
1959:
Eighteen-year-old David Twersky the son of Chasidic Rabbi Jacob Joesph Twersky
is scheduled to marry sixteen-year-old Hannah Hagar at B’nai B’rak tonight
after which the couple will return to Spring Valley, NY where his father has
his headquarters at Temple Zemach David.
1962:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Noam Kaniel who “has sold over 8 million records.”
1963:
“’55 Pulitzer Jury Chose Odets Play” published today described the decision
eight years ago of the Pulitzer Prize Board to over-rule the Pulitzer Prize
jury’s choice of “The Flowering Peach,” a play based on the story of Noah by
Clifford Odets, as the winner of the drama prize for 1955.
1964(10th
of Elul, 5724): Fifty-three-year-old Broadway producer Bernard Hart, the
Brooklyn born son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker and the
brother of playwright and director Moss Hart passed away today.
1967:”The
Tiger Makes Out,” a comedy based on The Tiger by Murray Schisgal who wrote the
screenplay, directed by Arthur Hiller, staring Eli Wallach and with a cast that
included Dustin Hoffman who was making his screen debut was released today in New
York Cit.
1967(12th
of Av, 5727): Sixty-seven-year-old University of Cincinnati trained physician
Dr. Zolton Tillson, Wirtschafter, the Cleveland born son of Tillie and Adolph
Wirtschafter, the husband Reitz Dine who was research director of the Veterans
Admin. Hospital, Portland, and Associate Prof. of Medicine of the University of
Oregon Medical School passed away today in Portland, OR after which he was
buried in the Ahavai Sholom Cemetery.
1968(24th
of Av, 5728): Seventy-seven-year-old College of Physician and Surgeons trained
surgeon Dr. Julius Gottesman, the New York born son of George Gottesman the husband of Jesse Marmorston and Irene Frankenstein
Gottesman and the father of two
daughters who “served as first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps during World
War I and was an attending surgeon at Montefiore Hospital for 40 years passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/20/76965942.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/julius-gottesman-24-b81t8d
1968:
A funeral service is scheduled to be held in New York for 67-year-old Joseph
Platzker, the former Commissioner of Housing and Buildings.
1969:
“Take the Money and Run” starring Woody Allen and Louise Lasser and with music
by Marvin Hamlisch was released today in the United States.
1969:
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair which was held on the land of Max B. Yasgur
came to an end.
1970(16th
of Av, 5730): Forty-nine-year-old Louis Pollack the art dealer and historian
who founded Peredot Gallery passed away today.
1974:
Birthdate of Nicole Krauss, the New York novelist best known for Man Walks Into
a Room, The History of Love and Great House who married Jonathan Safran Foer
with whom she had two children – Sasha and Cy.
1975:
Today, Brown & Williamson Industries, the American tobacco manufacturer and
subsidiary of the British American Tobacco Company, Ltd., which paid $205 million
to acquire, Gimbel Brothers, Inc in a tender offer two years ago announced that
“Martin S. Kramer, a 54‐yearold retailing executive, has been named
chairman and chief executive officer of the retail chain effective Sept. 1.”
1975(11th
of Elul, 5735): Sixty-five-year-old George Leo Gruskin, the Pittsburgh son of
Dr. Benjamin Gruskin and Mary Rosenthal Gruskin, and the husband of Victoria
Mary Faust whom he married in 1934 and Florence Halop whom he married in 1949
passed away today in Los Angeles after which he was interred at the Valhalla
Memorial Park.
1976(22nd
of Av, 5736): Fifty-seven-year-old Chicago born and University of Chicago
trained marketing specialist Edward S. Gordon who a WWII veteran and member of
the faculty at Roosevelt University passed away today.
1976:
In Washington, DC, the National Hadassah Convention came to an end.
1977: The US formally and publicly rebuked Israel’s
decision to extend certain new services to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and
to approve, by the Ministerial Committee for Settlement, the three new
settlements on the West Bank: south of Tulkarm, at Mevo Horon and between
Hebron and Beersheba. The US expressed deep disappointment that Israel ignored
President Jimmy Carter¹s appeal to avoid such actions before the reconvening of
the Geneva Peace Conference.
1977: The ambassador to the UN, Chaim Herzog, lashed out at UN Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim, who had also expressed regret that Israel set up new
settlements. Herzog reminded Waldheim that double standard and discrimination
had long been a norm at the UN.
1978: In Berkley, CA, Marjorie and Joe Samberg gave birth to American
entertainer David A.J. “Andy: Samberg.
1978(15th of Av, 5738)
1978: “Girlfriends, a comedy directed and produced by Claudia Weill,
starring Jewish actress Melanie Mayron “as Jewish photographer Susan Weinblatt”
and featuring Eli Wallach and Bob Balaban was released today in the United
States.
1978(15th of Av): One person was killed when a terrorist bomb
went off in a Tel Aviv market.
1979(25th of Av, 5739): Parashat Re’eh
1979(25th of Av, 5739): Eighty-one-year-old Bialystok native Joseph
Berger, the husband of Sadie Cohn Berger whom he married in 1924 and with whom
he had three children – Sylvia, Adolf and Bernice – passed away today after
which he was interred at Temple Beth El Memorial Gardens in Broward County, FL.
1980: Funeral services are scheduled to take place today for Esther
Grossmann, the widow of James Grossman and the mother of Edward and David
Grossman.
1981: Jerry Lewis appeared on "Donahue" to defend Telethons.
https://hevratpinto.org/tzadikim_eng/173_rabbi_eliezer_zusha_portugal.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/19/obituaries/eliezer-portugal-rabbi-dead-at-86.html
1983: In
Los Angeles Henry Winkler, best known as
“The Fonz” on “Happy Days” and Stacy Furstman Weitzman gave birth to
screenwriter and director Max Daniel Winkler.
1983: The
Park East Synagogue building at 163 East 67th Street (NYC) which had
been established as Congregation Zichron Ephriam by Rabbi Bernard Drachman was
[laced on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places today.
1983(9th
of Elul, 5743): Eight-one year old Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (Bernhard Leon), the
German born son of a Jewish furrier who became the British art historian “best known for his
46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England “
passed away today.
http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/W83-84.5.4.PevsnerObituary.pdf
1986:
Morton Abramowitz was commissioned as Assistant Secretary of State for
Intelligence and Research.
1988: “ABC
Suing Israeli Agency for Showing News Tapes” published today described
litigation involving the screening of news footage in Jerusalem.
1989: “Let
It Ride” a comedy starring Richard Dreyfus and featuring Allen Garfield was
released in the United States today.
1990(27th
of Av, 5750): Parashat Re’eh
1990(27th
of Av, 5750): Ninety-four year old Harvard trained attorney Lee Ferbstein, the
husband of Helen Turner Crecilius and the father of “Anne and Froncie Ferbstein
passed away today in Akron, OH.
1993: In
Israel, the Supreme Court “rejected the petitions” challenging the
Attorney-General’s decision to release Demjanjuk “on the grounds that (1) the principle of
double jeopardy would be infringed, (2) that new charges would be unreasonable
given the seriousness of those of which he had been acquitted, (3) that
conviction on the new charges would be unlikely, and (4) that Demjanjuk was
extradited from the United States specifically to stand trial for offenses attributed
to Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, and not for other alternative charges.”
1994: In
Copenhagen, the fifth congress of the EAJS came to an end.
1994(11th
of Elul, 5754): Latvian born Israeli scientist and philosopher Yeshayahu
Leibowitz passed away. (As reported by Joel Greenberg)http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/obituaries/yeshayahu-leibowitz-91-iconoclastic-israeli-thinker.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
1995(22nd
of Av, 5755): Sixty-six-year-old author James Maxwell
whose works include “The Night Everything Was Simple” in which “Zionist plans
for Palestine are viewed with approval” and “Village Incident” and
“Strictly From the Mississippi” in which “the Jewish characters are presented
sympathetically” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/25/94941819.pdf
1996: Devorah Zlochower, Leora Bednarsh, and Laura Steiner were
recognized for completing a three-year program of Talmud study at the Drisha
Institute for Jewish Education in New York City
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/18/1996/dije
1996(3rd
of Elul, 5756):
Sixty-six-year-old Hugo Gabriel Gryn , a leader in
the Reform movemtn, passed away. A
native of Berehovo, he survived Auschwitz, trained in America and served as the
Rabbi for West London Synagogue for 32 years
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/21/world/rabbi-hugo-gryn-66-a-reform-leader-in-britain.html
1999(6th of
Elul, 5759): Fifty-five-year-old award winning playwright and author Hanoch
Levin passed away today.
http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=27&pagenumber=2
1999: The
Drisha Institute for Jewish Education graduated its first class. According to its mission statement the Drisha
Institute “provides women with the opportunity to engage in traditional Jewish
text study in an environment which encourages seriousness of purpose, free
inquiry and respect for classical texts. Drisha offers a wide variety of study
options for women of all backgrounds and levels.”
2000: “Shimon
Peres lavishly praised China today as he finished a two-day visit intended to
bolster Israel's ties with this onetime adversary and shore up global support
for continued peace talks.” (As reported by Erik Eckholm)
2001:
Elisabeth Murdoch married Matthew Freud, head of Freud Communications and the
great-grandson of Sigmund Freud.
2002: The Sunday New York Times featured a
review of Stone Kiss by Jewish mystery writer Faye Kellerman and a
printing of the poem “Like a Seal” by Abba Kovner translated from the Hebrew by
Eddie Levenston
2003(20th of Av, 5763): Seventy-eight-year-old bookseller and former
“Timesman” Julius Ochs Adler, Jr. passed away today. (As reported by Robert D.
McFadden and Eric Pace)
2004: Eighty-two-year-old composer Elmer Bernstein
passed away. Born in 1922, the Academy Award winning composer gave us memorable
scores for many movies including The
Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Escape, The Man With A
Golden Arm. (As reported by Adam Bernstein)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17322-2004Aug19.html
2004(1st
of Elul, 5764): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2005:
Shirat HaYam was evacuated today as part of Israel’s unilateral disengagement
from Gaza.
2005: Kfar
Darom was evacuated as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan.
2006:
Congressman Steve Rothman married Jennifer Beckenstein, the community affairs
coordinator at the Center for Food Action in Englewood, New Jersey. The couple
met through JDate, an online dating website for Jewish singles. Between them,
Rothman and Beckenstein have five teenage children and two dogs, who plan to
live in Rothman's home, which is being expanded to accommodate the blended
family
2006: Haim
Ramon resigned as Justice Minister.
2006: “On
Sontag: Essayist as Metaphor and Muse” published today provides Holland
Cotter’s description of the photography show at the Metropolitan Museum
designed to honor the memory of Susan Sontag.
2006: “The
Illusionist” produced by Brian Koppelman and Bob Yari and with music by Philip
Glass was released today in the United States.
2007: In
Jerusalem, "Music in All the Shades" presents "A Musical Trip in
the Balkan Countries," featuring Constantine Kitlin on the clarinet, Olga
Dshbeski on the flute, Yulia Sinaibeski on the mandolin, and Yuri Pobolotskion
on the accordion.
2007: The Shabbat observance of the San Diego Humanistic Jewish
Congregation will celebrate Individualism with an investigation of the
Essenes, Jews who settled at Qumran and created the Dead Sea Scrolls.
2008: James
B. Cunningham presented his credentials as U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
2008(17th
of Av, 5768):
Ninety-one-year-old Manny Farber, a painter whose
spiky, impassioned film criticism waged war against sacred cows like Orson
Welles and elevated American genre-movie directors like Howard Hawks and Sam
Fuller to the Hollywood pantheon, died today at his home in Leucadia, Calif.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19farber.html
2008: Time magazine includes an article about
the critical swing vote that begins, “The most important demographic for Barack
Obama in November might be old Jews in Florida, and the most important old Jew
in Florida is my grandmother” and a review of Neillie Hermann’s novel, The
Cure for Greif featuring Ruby Bronstein, her “strong, loving family”
including her father a “Holocaust survivor father, whose observance of Jewish
customs persists despite his professed loss of faith” with whom she visits the
camp where he was interred as a young boy
2008: Tzfat [Safed]
Klezmer Festival opens.
2008: In an article
entitled “Under ‘Kafkaesque’ Pressure, Heir to Kafka Papers May Yield Them,”
Ethan Bronner described the fate Franz Kafka’s personal papers which had
been rescued by Max Brod and eventually became the property to Esther Hoffe who
has now passed away.
2009: “It was reported
today that Paula Abdul was negotiating to return to Idol after not taking part
in season nine of Dancing with the Stars
2009(28th of
Av, 5769): Ninety-eight-year-old Rose Friedman, the widow of Milton Friedman
with whom she was an intellectual and personal soul-mate, passed away today.
(As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/business/19friedman.html
2009: Dan Zofi and Jack Germany led and
evening of Israeli & International Folk dancing at Beit Shalom Synagogue,
the Jewish Congregation of Maui.
2009: Today Israeli
novelist David Grossman was named a finalist for the only international
literary peace prize awarded in the United States.
2010: "A Film
Unfinished" directed by Yael Hersonski is scheduled to be shown at the
Film Forum in New York.
2010: In Cedar Rapids,
IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to meet at the home of Andrea Liu where
Ina Loewenberg is scheduled to
facilitate a program entitled “Reading Aloud: Poems on Jewish Themes.”
2010: With the
mid-August heat showing no mercy on the Holy Land, locals broke an all-time
single-day record for electricity use this afternoon, the Israel Electric
Corporation announced. The corporation said demand topped 11,200 megawatts,
following 19 straight days of unprecedented energy usage
2010(8th of
Elul, 5770): Ninety-nine-year-old Benjamin Kaplan who as an U.S. Army officer
played a critical role in the Nuremberg trials and then went to become a
Harvard Law Professor and jurist passed away. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/us/25kaplan.html
2010(8th of
Elul, 5770): Ninety-four-year-old Martin Dannenberg the man who “found the
Nuremberg Laws Document” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/us/29dannenberg.html
2011: David McKenzie,
JHSGW Interpretive Programs Manager is scheduled to lead a Walking Tour of
Jewish Washington in which participants will learn what it was like to live and
worship as a Jew in Washington from 1850 to 1950 in the historic Seventh Street,
NW, neighborhood, now known as Chinatown but originally settled largely by
German Jews.
2011: The Fourth Annual
Pickle eating contest is scheduled to take place at the Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue. The pickles are being
supplied by Sixth & Rye, a food truck that travels the streets of the Nation’s
Capital offering a variety of kosher delights including corned beef on
rye.
2011: Attackers mounted
at least three separate strikes on Israeli civilians and soldiers around the
popular Red Sea resort of Eilat today, killing seven and wounding at least 20,
in what the country’s defense minister called a “grave terrorist incident.”
2011: The IDF attacked
terror targets in Rafah in the Gaza Strip today, in response to a three-stage
terrorist attack which killed seven Israelis and wounded dozens in the South
earlier in the day.
2011:
Social justice protests have been canceled for the coming days, including a
mass rally planned for Saturday night in Jerusalem, following combined terror
attacks in the South of Israel that left seven Israelis dead and over two dozen
wounded this afternoon.
2011: The New York
Times featured a review of Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of
Wendy Wasserstein by Julie Salamon
2011: Members of the
Cedar Rapids Jewish community gather at Temple Judah for a Surprise Birthday
Party celebrating the birthday of Marianne Bern.
2011(18th of
Av, 5771): Eighty-two-year-old Sally Goodgold, an activist who defied
‘pigeon-holing’ passed away today. (As reported by David W. Dunlap)
2011(18th
of Av, 5771): Forty-nine year old “Paskal Avrahami, a member of the YAMAM
Counter-terrorism Unit was killed this evening during a firefight with
terrorists north of Eilat on the border with Egypt. He was married and had
three children.”
2011(18th of
Av, 5771): St.-Sgt. Moshe Naftali was killed today while responding to the
terrorist attacks near Eilat.
2011(18th of
Av, 5771): Fifty-seven Yossef Levy was killed during a terrorist attack and his
wife was injured during today’s terrorist attack.
2011(18th of
Av, 5771): Ninety-one-year-old biochemist Maruice M. Rapport passed away today
in Durham, NC. (As reported by William Grimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/health/03rapport.html?pagewanted=print
2012: Nicole
Wolf-Camplin is scheduled to celebrate
her Bat Mitzvah at Agudas Achim in Iowa City, IA
2012:In Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Temple Judah is scheduled to host
an open house in honor of Marianne Bern’s 90th birthday.
2012: Kippah-wearing
Jews and non-Jews are expected to march today in Sweden as a sign of solidarity
with Malmö’s Jews.
2012(30th of
Av, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2012: Amy Schumer’s
“standup comedy special Mostly Sex Stuff premiered on Comedy Central” today.
2012: Three Egyptian
policemen and a soldier were injured near the Sinai town of Sheikh Zuwaid today
when armed men fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their convoy during an
operation against militants following the killing of 16 border guards.
2012: A savage fight
between Jewish and Arab teenagers in downtown Jerusalem late at night on August
16 that left a 20-year-old Arab man in critical condition, with witnesses
calling it a "lynch situation" against the three Arabs. A 19-year-old
Jewish Jerusalem man was arrested on this afternoon in connection with the
beating. He will be remanded at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court today. Police
refused to say whether he had a history of similar incidents, though they
expect a number of additional arrests in the coming days.
2013: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies by
Jonathan Alter and the recently release paperback edition of Iron Curtain”
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
2013: Starting today
the Health Ministry is scheduled to “offer oral polio vaccine to children up to
the age of nine-and-a-half years.” (As reported by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich)
2013: In Coralville,
Iowa Congregation Agudas Achim under the leadership of Rabbi Jeff Portman is
scheduled to host its annual synagogue picnic.
2013: “When Comedy Went
to School” is scheduled to shown at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival.
2013: “The campaign to
recall Mayor Bob Filner amid accusations of sexual harassment” began gathering
signatures today. (As reported by Tony Perry)
2013: “Archaeologists
working in Jerusalem have discovered what they say is a 2,700-year-old pottery
fragment with an ancient Hebrew inscription possibly containing the name of a
Biblical figure.” (As reported by Gavriel Fiske)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/2700-year-old-hebrew-inscription-found-in-jerusalem/
2014:
Klezkanada, the international festival of Jewish/Yiddish culture and the arts
is scheduled to open today.
2014:
“Alive Inside, A Story of Music and Memory” and “Alive Inside, A Story of Music
and Memory,” a film about “a downed Israeli fighter pilot and a Palestinian
boy” are scheduled to be shown at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
The 16th Street Book Club at the Jewish History Center is scheduled
to host a discussion of Stations West Allison Amend’s novel about Jewish
life in the early days of the Oklahoma Territory.
2014:
“British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s apologized today after staff at a
central London store removed kosher food from shelves in response to protesters
outside demanding a boycott of Israeli goods.” (As reported by JTA)
2014:
Egypt confirmed that both Israel and Hamas have agreed to another extension of
the current cease-fire.
2014:
The number of senior Republican Jewish leaders in the House of Representatives
went to zero today as the resignation of Eric Cantor from Congress took effect
today following his defeat by a “Tea Party” Republican in the party’s primary.
2015:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a showing of “Iris” the “50th
and last film of Albert Maysles” in which he pays a wry tribute to Iris Apfel,
a quick-witted, highly original 93-year-old New York style icon.”
2015:
Docent Training is scheduled to begin at the Breman Jewish Museum in Atlanta,
GA.
2015(3rd
of Elul, 5775): Eighty-nine-year-old Bud Yorkin who teamed with Norman Lear to
create a string edgy comedies including “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The
Jeffersons” passed away today.
2015:
As we mark the centennial of Leo Frank’s lynching, “the Anti-Defamation
League’s Washington, DC Regional Director, David Friedman” spoke “about the
ADL’s fight against ant-Semitism.
2016:
In Brooklyn, Halyards bar is scheduled to host a Tu B’Av event this evening
where “a group of talented storytellers and comedians will share their tales of
love lost, found, and everything in between.”
2016:
Today “begin the 100-day countdown to the kickoff” to the start of a year-long
celebration marking the creation of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in
Canada.
2016:
Finally screening of “Bulgarian Rhapsody” sponsored by the UKJF is scheduled to
be shown at the JW3.
2017(26th
of Av, 5777): Seventy-two-year-old campaign strategist and political guru
Arthur Finkelstein passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2017:
In Atlanta, GA, The Breman Museum is scheduled to host program where attendees
learn “about Josef Skupa, a Czech puppeteer who performed satirical puppet
shows during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.”
2017:
The first Sababa NJ Shabbat dinner for young Jewish adults in Union Country is
scheduled to take place this evening.
2017:
The Modern Dance Theater Istanbul of Istanbul State Opera & Ballet is
scheduled to perform tonight as part of Tel Aviv Dance presented by the Suzanne
Dellal Centre.
2018:
Israeli comedian Naor Zion, “the son of Persian Jewish parents” is scheduled to
return to his stand-up comic roots with a show at Beit Shmuel.
2018(7th
of Elul, 5778): Parashat Shoftim
2019:
Five days after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held this
morning at Mt. Zion Temple in St. Paul, MN for 93 year old Dale Cowle, “one of
the founding members of the Ames, Iowa, Jewish Congregation” and the husband of
Marion Cowle.
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Sarah.”
2019:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Soccer Day the J with
Maccabi Tel Aviv Soccer Coaches.
2019:
“Rosenwald” is scheduled to “have a special screening at Temple B’nai Israel in
Oklahoma City…followed by a talk about ‘Education and Justice: Understanding
and Reawakening the Black-Jewish Partnership’”
2019:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Jacob’s Ladder by Ludmila Ulitskaya and Places and Names:
On War, Revolution and Returning by Elliot Ackerman as well as Rutu Modan’s
“homage to Lean Goldberg on of Israel’s celebrated poets and children’s
authors.
2020:
Tonight, Democrats officially
approved a new party platform that expresses support for a two-state solution
that would establish an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, and
which expresses a belief that Jerusalem should remain the capital of Israel.
2021: San Francisco performer Gilda Solve and
the Osher Marin JCC are scheduled to host, virtually, “A Tribute to Irving
Berlin.”
2021: “Congregation Beth Emek is scheduled to
present, online “Political Events Affecting Israel” during which Matan Zamir,
deputy consul general at S.F.-based Israeli consulate, will the effect of
Israel’s March elections and coalition formed.”
2021: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present “The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of
Family Fiction” which includes a conversation with author Julie Klam and
genealogist Jennifer Mendelsohn.
2021: Based on report published yesterday,
Israelis should be able to have a small sigh of relief because the fires around
Jerusalem have been contained.
2021: Based on reports of rockets having been
fired from Gaza, Israelis may awake today wondering if they are going to have
to endure another round of violence from the Hamas enclave.
2021: The National Museum of American Jewish
History, for which Mitchell Levin is an “official content provider,” is
scheduled “Songs of Our People, Songs of Our Neighbors” with Susana Behar, “the
Havana-born singer of Ladino and Latin American songs.
https://www.nmajh.org/events/songs-of-our-people-songs-of-our-neighbors-susana-behar/
2022: Park Synagogue is scheduled to hold “An
Evening of Israeli Dancing” this evening in the Wain Pavilion.
2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is schooled
to host a “Modern Jewish Sounds Concert” with Kami Maltz and Friends.
2022: Jewish Gateways is scheduled to present
“Rags of Light: The Music of Leonard Cohen from a Jewish Perspective.”
2022: Session 1 of Trybal Berkshires, a summer
camp for young adults is scheduled to begin today.
2022: In San Francisco, Congregation Sherith
Israel is schooled host “Expecting Jewishly,” a meet-and-greet and laid-back
text study for expecting parents with rabbinic intern George Altshuler, snacks
and schmoozing
2022: Allen Weisselberg, the former chief
financial officer of the Trump Organization is expected to plead guilty to a
15-year tax fraud scheme today.
2023: “Musical Park Shabbat” is scheduled to be
held in Berkley, CA.
2023: In Brookline, MA, Temple Zion is
scheduled to host “Kabbalat Shabbat followed by a Picnic.”
2023: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural
Center plans to host “Summer Shabbat @ Just for Us” with Alex Edelman as his
repeatedly extended Off-Broadway one-man show moves to Broadway for just nine
weeks.
2023: Beit Agnon is scheduled to host a lecture
by Bilha Ben-Eliyahu on the works created by S.Y. Agnon and Leah Goldberg.
2023(1st of Elul, 5783): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
2024: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is
scheduled to host its annual picnic at the Zusman Pavillion.
2024: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
by Jane Rosenberg and On the Edge:
The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver
2024: The Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to
host the “Museum Member’s Farewell Celebration for the Deli Exhibition.
2024: The Documentary Film Festival at the
National Library of Israel, which keeps a copy of SEGULA in its reading room,
is scheduled to begin today with screenings of “Anselm,” “Pianoforte,” and “We
Will Dance Again,’ which provides “a harrowing glimpse through the eyes of
individuals who endured the brutal October 7th onslaught at the Nova
music festival.”
2024: The IAJGS International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy is scheduled to take place today in Philadelphai.
2024: In “Essential Shel Silverstein,”
published today Elisabeth Egan draws a portrait of the poet and author known
for such works as “The Giving Tree.”
2024: Negotiations for the return of the Israeli
hostages and the end of fighting in Gaza are scheduled to resume in Doha.
2024:As
August 18th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling
for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 317 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)
