This Day, August 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 24
410:
The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days. According to
tradition, the treasures of the Temples taken by the Romans in 70 now fell into
his hands. The Visigoths would move and
by the start of the 8th century they had converted to Christianity
and established a kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula which was “hostile” to its
Jewish inhabitants. In 711, Berbers would defeat the Visigoths marking the
start of what would be the Golden Age in Spain for the Jewish people
1215:
Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid. Magna Carta contained two
articles related to money lending and Jews in England. “If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, die
before that loan be repaid, the debt shall not bear interest while the heir is
under age, of whomsoever he may hold; and if the debt fall into our hands, we
will not take anything except the principal sum contained in the bond. And if
anyone die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and pay nothing
of that debt; and if any children of the deceased are left under age,
necessaries shall be provided for them in keeping with the holding of the
deceased; and out of the residue the debt shall be paid, reserving, however,
service due to feudal lords; in like manner let it be done touching debts due
to others than Jews.” The Pope’s displeasure with Magna Carta was part of power
struggle between church and state. The
Jews only figured into the issue because as non-Christians some contended that
they were beyond the power of the Church and therefore a group of unique
individuals controlled by the secular authorities. Interestingly, versions of
the Great Charter issued after the annulment contained no mention of the Jews.
1263:
The Jews in Barcelona received permission to build a new synagogue. Four years
later the building needed repairs, and the government authorized the Jewish
community to go ahead with the repairs on March 24, 1267.
1313:
Emperor Henry VII who was “presented with a scroll of the law by Jews in Rome”
when he entered that city, passed away today.
1315:
At Reims, Clementia, daughter of Charles Martel of Anjou and the niece Charles
of Valois and Louis X, who took measures to allow the Jews, who had been
expelled in 1306, to return to France “under his special protection and
administration” celebrated their coronation today.
1349:
Some ten thousand Jews were massacred during riots in two of the largest
communities of Germany - Mainz and Breslau. They were killed because the Jews
were deemed responsible for the bubonic plague that was sweeping Europe.
1349:
Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism at the end of
pogrom that had begun the night before which was known as the “Slaughter of the
Jews.”
1358:
Birthdate of King Juan I of Castile. In 1379 he placed the Jews of his kingdom
under the protection of his horsemen of Espinosa. For this effort the Jews were
required to pay a tax of 12 maravedis for each Torah. In 1380 King Juan ordered
that the Jews top uttering those portion of their prayers that condemned
heretics. He was convinced that these
utterances were aimed at Christians.
1358:
Birthdate of King Juan I of Castile, which based on his record, was not a “red
letter day” for the Jewish people. In 1379 Juan I of Castile placed the Jews of
his kingdom under the protection of his horsemen of Espinosa. For this effort
the Jews must pay a tax of 12 maravedis for each Torah. . In 1380 King Juan ordered that the Jews top
uttering those portion of their prayers that condemned heretics. He was convinced that these utterances were
aimed at Christians.
1391:
On Majorca, Jewish homes were sacked; and even the houses of Christians
sheltering Jews in concealment were not spared. About 300 Jews were put to death,
800 saved themselves in the royal castle, and the rest underwent baptism. When
Queen Violante was informed of the outrage, she condemned the inhabitants of
the islands to pay a fine of 150,000 florins (or, according to some
authorities, 104,000 florins). A year later (1392), however, Juan I. granted
full amnesty to all who had practiced violence against the Jews or "the
Calle," because they had done it for the welfare of king and state; and he
further declared all debts of the Christians to the Jews to be null and void.
1391: Hundreds of Jews living in Palma on the
island of Majorca were slaughtered. The
mobs had been incited by a monk named Ferrand Martinez. This priest was the father-confessor to the
queen-mother. He used his position to
offer Jewish communities throughout the Spanish peninsula the choice between
the Cross or death. The Jews of Palma
were merely the last to taste this medieval brew of anti-Semitism.
1456: The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
Printing of Hebrew texts followed soon after. ”The first printed Hebrew
biblical text was an edition of the Psalms, printed in Bologna in 1477.
In 1482, the first complete Pentateuch was printed in the same city along with
the Aramaic translation.” Yehoshua Shlomo, the head of the Soncino family of
Jewish printers printed the first complete “Hebrew Bible in Italy in 1488, The
edition was composed of only 200-300 copies, and we know that the great scholar
Johannes Reuchlin paid six gold coins for the copy he bought in Rome in 1492,
at a time when the salary of a government clerk was about five gold coins a
year.”
1489: “In a letter written to his brother from Jerusalem” “Obadiah
ben Abraham Bartenura, a 15th century Italian rabbi known for his
commentary on the Mishnah” a leader who helped to rejuvenate Jerusalem’s Jewish
community “mentions that Jews flock to Jerusalem from Egypt, Damascus, Aleppo
and other places in order to worship God.
1572: The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre which was the subject of
a painting by Eugène Fichel entitled "The Night of August 24, 1572"
came to an end.
1607: Thomas Brightman, a theologian, seen as a founder of the
idea of restoring Jews to the Holy Land who delivered the question in his
posthumously published work : 'Shall they return to Jerusalem again?' to which
he replied: 'There is nothing more certain: the prophets do everywhere confirm
it and beat upon it'” passed away today.
1613:
The Jews of Frankfurt, Germany who were waiting for almost a year for their
fate to be decided, were allowed to leave but without any property. One
thousand three hundred and eighty left.
1690:
Calcutta, India, is founded by representatives of The British East India
Company. According to some sources the
Jewish community traces its origins to the Bene Israel (Sons of Israel) who
arrived from the Galilee during the second century BCE, a period associated
with the Greek persecutions of the Jews in Eretz Israel. Shalom Aharon Ovadiah HaCohen was the founder
of the Calcutta community, Born in Aleppo in 1762, he moved to Calcutta in
1798. For more about the Jews of India, see
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/indians.html
1690(19th
of Elul, 5450): On August 24, Calcutta, India, was founded by the British East
India Company. According to some sources, the Jewish community in India traces
its origins to the Bene Israel (Sons of Israel) who arrived from the Galilee
during the second century BCE, a period associated with the Greek persecutions
of the Jews in Eretz Israel. Shalom
Aharon Ovadiah HaCohen, a native of Aleppo was the founder of the Calcutta
community. An older Jewish community already existed at Madras, another town
founded by the British in 1639. Evidence of this can be seen by the fact that
three of the town’s first 12 Aldermen were Jews.
1785:
Birthdate of Savannah, GA native Bilhah Cohen, the daughter of Moses Cohen.
1786:
Today, in Philadelphia, PA, Rachel Franks married David Heildron.
1804:
In Cambridge, UK, Rachel Hart and Solomon Levy gave birth to Abraham Septimus
Lyon
1804:
Thanks to the efforts of Wolf Breidenbach “he Jewish Leibzoll—an obnoxious toll which Jews had to pay on entering towns
where they did not dwell or had no special privileges” was abolished today in
Frankfort, German.
1808(1st
of Elul, 5568): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1808(1st
of Elul, 5568): Twenty-one-year-old Miriam Etting, the Lancaster, PA born
daughter of Solomon Etting and the wife of Jacob Myers whom she married in 1806
at Baltimore passed away today at Georgetown, SC.
1811:
In London, West India merchant Abraham Samuda and “Joy, daughter of H.
d'Aguilar of Enfield Chase, Middlesex” gave birth to Jacob Samuda whose
tombstone “in the Sephardic cemetery at Mile End in London.” described him “as
the first Jewish engineer.”
1814:
Birthdate of Jacob Ezekiel Löwy who served as the rabbi at Beuthen from 1854
until his death in 1864.
1814:
David Davis married Hannah Cohen today at the Hambro Synagogue.
1814:
Following the defeat of American forces at the Battle of Bladensburg, British
forces entered Washington, D.C. and began burning by the city by trying to set
ablaze the Capitol Building and the White House. Isaac Polock a transplant form Savannah is
the only Jewish person identified by name living in Washington at this
time. While it is not known if any Jews
served with rag-tag U.S. forces at Bladensburg, several Jews would help to
defeat the British when they attacked Baltimore’s Fort McHenry in the following
month.
1819:
It was reported today “that quarrels and fights erupted every night” in Hamburg
when Christians would attack Jews for almost any reason including if a Jew
would “enter a coffeehouse frequented largely by Christians.”
1826:
Michael Joshua married Sarah Solomon today at the Great Synagogue.
1828(14th
of Elul, 5588): Sixty-five year old Galician Rabbi Ephiram Zalman Margolis and
author of Bet Hadash ha-Hadashot passed away today.
1836:
Isaac Abraham Boss married Rose Alexander today at the Hambro Synagouge.
1841(7th
of Elul, 5601): Jewish educator Herz Homberg whose works included Ha-Korem,
“a commentary on the Pentateuch and on Job and Jeremiah,” passed away today in
his home town of Prague.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Homberg_Herz
1844(9th
of Elul, 5604): Áron Chorin passed away. Born in 1766, he “was a Hungarian
rabbi and pioneer of religious reform. He favored the use of the organ and of
prayers in the vernacular and was instrumental in founding schools along modern
lines. Chorin was thus regarded as a leader of the newer Judaism. He also
interested himself in public affairs — he took an active part in the efforts
for Jewish emancipation and was very influential with the state authorities.”
1849:
The will of Aaron Aarons, the Russian born English furrier was probated today
with Benjamin and Solomon Aarons being named as Executors and Administrators.
1854:
Elise Henle and Leopold Levi gave birth to their daughter Matilda.
1854(30th
of Av, 5614): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1854(30th
of Av, 5614): Sixty year old Frances Gratz Etting, the daughter of Solomon
Etting passed away today.
1855:
Publication of the first issue of "Die Deborah," a German-language
newspaper focused on serving women's interests. Die Deborah, the most
important German-Jewish newspaper in the U.S. in its time. Reform leader Rabbi
Isaac Mayer Wise served as editor and published Die Deborah as a
German-language supplement to his English-language The Israelite (later The
American Israelite) and designed it particularly for "the instruction
and the intellectual entertainment of the ladies."
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/24/1855/die-deborah
1857:
According to the New York Times Lord Russell has delivered a report from
the Parliamentary Select Committee saying that the Jews could not be admitted
as members of Parliament under the existing Act for the modification of oaths.
1859:
Joseph married Hannah Abrahams today at “21 Finsbury Square, St Luke,
Middlesex.”
1859(24th
of Av, 5619): Sixty-eight year old Louis Samuel (Eliezer ben Menachem) the
father of Montagu Samuel, the 1st Baron Swaything passed away today.
1859:
Cecilia Pfeisher, a 45 year old German Jewish woman appeared before Justice
Beenman today and preferred charges of larceny and assault and battery against
King Schoenfeld, who was also a German Jew, his sons – Louise and Abraham and a
fourth man named Schwartz.
1861: Eugenia Levy Phillips was arrested as a
Confederate spy. Mrs. Phillips is listed
prominently on the Home Page of Notable Women of Alabama History. The details of her life include the fact that
she was Jewish and that her husband was Jewish.
Mrs. Phillips sister was also a staunch supporter of the South, serving
as a volunteer nurse. There is some
question as to the nature of Mrs. Phillips espionage activities. However, she was a confidant of the famous
Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow. (As reported by the Jewish Women’s
Archives)
1861:
"From London: The Effort to Break Down American Credit in England
Danger" published today described efforts to destroy the financial
position of the United States government in Europe following the Union defeat
at the Battle of Bull Run. According to the writer, the pro-Southern forces
want to drive the U.S. government out of the normal financial market and “leave
us at the mercy of a few rich and powerful Jews.”
1863:
In Iwye, Belarus, Rabbi David Shlomo Grodzinski, who was Rav of Iwye for over
40 years and his wife gave birth to Chaim Ozer Grodzinski a leading Lithuanian
religious judge and expert on Halachah.
1864:
Morris Wolf completed his three year enlistment with Company A of the 60th
Regiment of the Third Cavalry.
1864(22nd
of Av, 5624): Eighty-seven-year-old Rebecca Lyons, the Lancaster, PA born
daughter of Eleazar Lyons and the wife of John Moss passed away today.
1864:
Philadelphian Samuel Baum began serving with Company G of the 200th
Regiment in the Union Army.
1865:
The citation naming Sergeant-Major Abraham Cohn a recipient of the
Congressional Medal of Honor was issued today.
“During Battle of the Wilderness rallied and formed, under heavy fire,
disorganized and fleeing troops of different regiments. At Petersburg, Va.,
July 30, 1864, bravely and coolly carried orders to the advanced line under
severe fire.”
1865:
The New York Times reported that The Memphis Bulletin, “always an
unconditional Union paper, contains a denunciation against Gov. William
Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow’s letter against the Jews.
1869:
Birthdate of German native Emil Bernstein, the husband of Clare Bernstein and
the father of Henry Emil Bernstein, who in 1885 came to the United States where
he settled in Jacksonville, FL and became a partner in the “Stuart Bernstein
Company which sold hats, clothing and furnishing goods in the Benedict Building
on 14 West Bay Street.”
https://www.shorpy.com/node/16074
1871(7th
of Elul, 5631): Eighty-one year old Rachel Luzzatto, known as “the Queen of
Hebrew Versifiiers” who was a descendant of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato passed
away today. (As reported by Rabbi Leah
Novick)
1871:
John Moss, the son of Mary Levy and Eleazer Moss married Fleurette Lieber today
in Philadelphia.
1872:
Birthdate of Sir Max Beerbohm, English caricaturist and writer. He passed away in 1956 after a long and
successful career. This item and the one just above provide a taste of the
“schizophrenic” attitude that the British have about Jews. It will be a subject that we will tackle in
class when the time comes.
1872:
Fifty-three delegates from Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Georgia attended a
regional convention of the B’nai Brith that came to an end today in Atlanta,
GA.
1873(1st
of Elul, 5633): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1873:
In East Attleboro, MA, Joseph Cohn and his wife gave birth to Frederick Cohn
the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union
College became the rabbi at Congregation Achudth Vesholom in Fort Wayne,
Indiana in 1896.
1873(1st
of Elul, 5633): Moses Schiff, the son of Jacob Hirsch Schiff and the father of
Jacob H. Schiff (he was named for his grandfather) “a strictly observant Jew of
that peculiar Frankfurt, Germany, type that found its leader in Samson Raphael
Hirsch, passed away today.
1876:
In New York City, Solomon Feiner and Sarah Cohn gave birth to CCNY alum and NYU
trained lawyer Benjamin Franklin Feiner, the husband of “May (Adelson) Feiner”
and father of Dorothy Belle Feiner.”
1877:
Emma Samuel and Alfred Isaac Haldinstein gave birth to Rachel Augusta
Haldinstein, the wife of Alfred Edward Lewis Emmanuel.
1878:
It was reported today that the poorer class of Jews are among those suffering
the most as a result of the famine that has struck southern Morocco. The government has not done anything to
alleviate the suffering and the Jews are relying on their co-religionist for
assistance and relief.
1878:
It was reported today that the Italian government has voiced it opposition to
any modification in the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin relating to the
treatment of the Jews of Romania. The
Romanians are seeking changes in the treaty because they claim that it might to
“social and legal inconvenience” as well as the fall of the current government.
1878:
In a letter signed “Old Subscriber,” a writer who knew the late Michael Reese
expressed both his pleasure and displeasure with an article about the recently
deceased California Jew. He agreed that
Reese had surprised everybody by leaving money to Jewish and Christian
institutions because it has yet to occur “to a Christian to leave in his will
bequests alike to Jew and Gentile.” He disagreed with the depiction of Reese
speaking with a foreign accent since he knew the deceased did not speak in that
manner.
1879:
In Baltimore, MD, Grand Master Simon Wolff presided over the opening meeting of
the Grand Lodge of the Southern District of the Order of Kesher Shel Barzel,
the Jewish benevolent and protective society
1880: Birthdate of Joshua Lionel Cowen who was one
of nine children born to Jewish immigrants. He dropped out of college to pursue
a life of tinkering and inventing. Cowan
invented what would become the Eveready Flashlight. While Cowan invented the light, he did not do
with it and sold the rights for a pittance.
He did develop the toy electric train and co-founded the Lionel
Corporation maker of electric trains and the equally famous Erector Set. He is
credited with convincing department stores to feature displays train sets at
Christmas time, thus tying his invention to America’s greatest gift giving
holiday. He passed away in 1965.
1880:
In Brooklyn, Jacob Baker, the son of Adolph Baker, and his wife Carrie Besthoff
Baker gave birth to NYU Law School graduate Joseph J. Baker, “a senior member
of the law firm of Baker, Obermeir Rosenson and Rosner,” “President of the
Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn and the husband of the former “May Lautman” with
whom he had two children – Ruth and Edward.”
1881:
Edward Solomon’s comic opera “Claude Duval” premiered today at the Olympic
Theatre in London.
1882:
In Poland Solomon and Ida Sara Abrams gave birth to Israel A. Abrams who in 18
came to the United States where he served as “superintendent of Northwestern
Talmud Torah and Hebrew institute of Chicago, the first modern Hebrew school in
Chicago” and in “1916 became Head of the Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh” while
serving as treasurer for the National Council for Jewish Education.
1884:
It was reported today that “Mr. W.W. Story…is at work on ‘Miriam’” a statute of
the sister of Moses “clad in a simple tunic,” hold a timbrel and her mouth open
“in a song of triumph at the deliverance of the Jews from captivity.” (Story is William Wetmore Story, the scion of
patrician New England family who was, among other things, a noted 19th
century sculptor whose work can be seen at the Metropolitan and in Washington,
DC)
1884:
It was reported today that “during the last two months the Jewbaiters in…the
provinces of Wilna, Minks, Kowno and Mohilew have burned over a thousand Jewish
houses, shops and synagogues reducing many hundreds of people to beggary” This is only one example of “the pathetic
tales” of Jewish suffering from all over Russia.
1884:
It was reported today that a mob “assaulted the Jewish quarter” of Kutais, in
Transcaucasia (Russia) and threatened “a general massacre of the Jews” when it
was reported that “the Jews had stolen a Christian child.” The rioters desisted when the child was
found.
1884:
Several Jews from Paterson, NJ, attended the burial of Samuel Lavner at Mount
Hebron Cemetery. Lavener who may or not
be Jewish was found at Little Falls, the victim of a gunshot which may or may
not have been self-inflicted.
1885:
In Cleveland, OH, Augusta Jacobs and David J. Jacobs gave birth to Western
Reserve University educated Maurice Bernon, the husband of Minnie Reiss who
served a state senator and municipal judge and was am member of the board of
trustees of the Euclid Avenue Temple.
1885:
“A Revival of Judaism” published today provides a summary of the
recommendations that have been sent to the Executive Board of the Union of American
Congregations by Rabbis from across the country since their last annual meeting
at Niagara Falls.
1886(23rd
of Av, 5646): Seventy-five year old Wolf Landau, the grandson of Chief Rabbi
David Landau, who “was unanimously elected as Zacharias Frankel’s successor” as
the chief rabbi in Dresden in 1854” passed away today.
1887:
In Philadelphia, PA founding of Ahava Achim Anse Nazin Nusach Hoarie which held
three service daily, and sponsored three auxiliary societies – Chevra Kasisha,,
Chevra Mishnais and Chevra Gemult Chasidim.
1887:
In New York, Judge Donohue refused to vacate the order of arrest that had been
issued for Meyer Goldberg on charges that he was planning on absconding with
goods belonging to his wife Lena who has already filed for a divorce. After hearing the conflicting stories, the
judge withheld his decisions on Mrs. Goldberg’s application for temporary
alimony and attorney’s fees. Goldberg is
out on bail.
1889(27th
of Av, 5649): Parashat Re’eh
1889(27th
of Av, 5649): Aaron Hirschfeld passed away suddenly today in Saratoga, NY.
1889:
“An Unsectarian Hotel” published today described the events that have led to an
option being taken on a tract of beach front property at Ocean City, NJ for the
construction of new, first class hotel. Early last month, the Brunswick, “a
fashionable hotel” in this summer resort community refused to honor the
reservations of Mrs. Joseph Davis because she was Jewish. Mrs. Davis, her children and servants were forced to take refuge in the cottage of
Moses Strauss, “a wealthy leather merchant from Newark.” At dinner attended by several wealthy Jews from
Philadelphia and New Jersey, it was decided to build a hotel that will be open
to Jews and Gentiles who have “satisfactory references.” Fifty thousand dollars
was immediately raised to begin work on the project. (The problem of being
banned from fashionable resorts began with at Saratoga in the 1870’s and would
continue to be a problem until it was banned by federal law in 1964)
1890:
“Under The Czar’s Empire” published today provided a summary of the 290 page
volume that provides a compilation of all the “legislative acts of the Russian
empire relative to the Jews.”
1890:
Samuel D. Levy of the 11th Ward, a popular young lawyer and a
director of the United Hebrew Charities has been mentioned as a likely
candidate to fill one of the openings on the Board of Education.
1890:
“Armenians, Turks, Jews and Russians” published today compared the treatments
of Armenians by the Ottomans with the treatment of Jews by the Czars.
1891:
Labor organizations in Baltimore are beginning to express their opposition to
the admission of anymore Jewish immigrants from Russia because they have taken
sewing jobs away from the women in the city who used to do the work.
1891:
At Hebrew Union College, Gotthard Duetsch was elected Professor of History and
Literaure.
1891:
At HUC, David Philipson was appointed Professor of Homiletics and Instructor in
Assyriology.
1891:
At HUC, Charles Fleischer, Leo M. Franklin and Abraham were names as “assistant
teachers.
1891:
Coroner Levy said today that he would appeal the decision the Acting
Superintendent of Immigration barring some of the Russian Jews who had arrived
on the Westernland from entering the United States because they were likely to
become public charges even though Levy had secured a bond for each them.
1892(1st
of Elul, 5652): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1893:
In Chicago, at Temple Anshe Maariv
“Rabbi Leon Harrison of St. Louis opened this morning’s session the
meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis with prayer.”
1894:
Birthdate Jan Weiss who was murdered by the Nazis after being transported from
Prague in 1942.
1894:
In Chicago, Rose Eisendrath, the “daughter of Michael and Sarah Greenbuam” and
her husband Joseph Nathan Eisendrath gave birth to Louise (Eisendrath) Nathan.
1895:
The sons of the late Simon Wormser donated $15,000 to a variety of charitable
institutions today.
1895:
According to “Prisoners Sent to Siberia” published today of the 11,500 prisoners
sent to Siberia last year, 510 were Jews.
1895:
“Convention of Jewish Women” published today described plans for the upcoming
Convention of National Council of Jewish Women which will be “the first
convention of Jewish women ever held” in the United States.
1895:
Birthdate of France Pearcy, the Kelso, West Virginia native and graduate of
Rush Medical College who served on the faculty of the University of W. Va., and
the University of Texas.
1895:
J. Keir Hardie, President of the British Independent Labor Party visited Staten
Island where he heard Professor Daniel De Leon, the Sephardic Jewish editor of The People deliver a speech on
“Socialism.”
1896:
“Notes of Stage People” published today previewed the upcoming New York Theatre
season including Oscar Hammerstein’s plans to present “stock comic opera” at
the Olympia Theatre.
1897:
Birthdate of New York City native and “hardware merchant” Jacob (Jack)
Schulman, the Mayor of Monticello, NY and the husband of Sophie Schulman with
whom he had two daughters, Mildred and June.
1898:
“Taunts Drove a Jew to Suicide” published today described events leading up to
the suicide of Herman Rosenthal. He had quit his job at the Colonial Brewery
because he had been ridiculed for being a Jew and then “became despondent:”
over the persecution of “the Jewish race.”
1898:
Birthdate of Rosa Goldschmidt, a German born American author who gained fame as
Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck, a correspondent for Newsweek and author of Athene Palace.
1899:
Jonathan Berthold Lasker and Else Lasker-Schüler, the German Jewish playwright
and poet, gave birth to their first son, Paul
1899:
Today, Dr. Jonathan Berthold Lasker and
Else Laker-Schuler gave birth to their Paul on the same day that “her first
poems were published.”
1899:
Former Judge Henry Hilton who created a cause célèbre when he banned Jews from
staying at his hotel in Saratoga Springs passed away today.
1899:
In Rennes, at the court martial of Captain Dreyfus, Colonel Jouasut, President
of the Court, ordered that the evidence of Monsieur Penot, a friend of the late
Colonel Sandherr be read by the clerk of the court. According to Penot, Colonel Sandherr had said
that the Dreyfus family had offered him 150,000 francs if he would clear the
Captain. The defense attorney then read
the actual note that the late Colonel had written proving that Penot’s version
was distorted. All the note from the
family had said was “We are convinced of the innocence of our brother and will
spend our entire fortune to discover the truth.”
1900(29th
of Av, 5660): Seventy-year old “Dutch painter and vignette-engraver Elchanan
Verveer whose work included “illustrations for Eugène Sue's "Le Juif
Errant," passed away today.
1901:
In Johnstown, PA, Esther Ann Shinberg and William Shamberg gave birth to
University of Pittsburgh trained C.P.A. and statistician Abram D. Shamberg, the
accountant and statistician for the Johnstown Telephone Company and vice
chairman of the United Palestine Appel who was a member of the B’nai B’rith and
Congregation Rodef Sholom.
1901:
Birthdate of Davenport, IA, native Richard Emanuel Petersberger, a graduate of
Iowa State and the husband of Bernice (Klemperer) who pursued a career in
advertising and insurance.
1902(21st
of Av, 5662): Eighty-four-year-old Bernhard Eliasberg, the Hanover, Germany
born son of Elchanan Eliasberg and Lehne Hindla Eliasberg and the husband of
Johanna Eliasberg passed away today in Montgomery, AL>
1902;
Benjamin Agruss, the Russian born sone of Mordecai “Max” Agruss and Faega
“Fannie” Arguss and his wife Ross Arguss gave birth to Ida Mae Finger who
became Ida Mae (Chick) Finger when she married Manuel “Manny” Finger.
1903:
At Basle, Max Nordau addressed the Sixth Zionist Congress on its second day of
meetings.
1904:
It was reported today that the only violence that has taken place during the
strike of the Amalgamated Association of Beef Cutters and Butcher Workmen was
an attack on Isaac Cohen “a strike breaker” working the night shit at
Schwarzshild and Sulzberger.
1905:
According to a letter-to-the-editor published today, Jacob A Cantor or Oscar
Straus would defeat the present mayor of New York if they ran as Fusion
candidate.
1906:
Today, in an “order of the day issued to the troops at Warsaw, the District
Government” claimed that the Jews led the rebels in the Duma.”
1906:
In Siedice, Poland the Jews are in a panic and are fleeing the city for fear of
pogrom like the one that has taken place in Biaylystok.
1906:
Birthdate of Russian-American cinematographer Boris Abelevich Kaufman “the
younger brother of filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman.”
1907(14th
of Elul, 5667): Parashat Ki Teitzi
1907:
“Hyman Mosowvitch, a Russian Jew, who fled to America from the outrages in his
country, has had the unique experience of landing on the shores of America
nailed in a light barrel” while his shipmate Max Goldman who had been informed
“that he would not be able to land” in the United States “because of his
defective eyes” decided not to risk the barrel ride.
1908:
It was reported today that Oscar Straus’ private secretary has left the
department to work for the National Republican Committee and will return to
work for Straus, the Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor after
the election this fall.
1909:
Nathan Straus, in a letter to the Association of State and National Food and
Dairy Departments, in session here to-day, urged the association to give
earnest support to the public officials who are endeavoring to prevent the sale
of tuberculous milk.”
1910:
It was reported today that “Isaac Minsky of Newark, has been chosen rabbi of
the Congregation of the Sons of Israel Synagogue at 8th and Sycamore
Streets” in Camden, NJ.
1911(30th
of Av, 5671): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1912:
In New Jersey, the Camden County’s Board of Taxation granted an exemption to
the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society on “property at 1139-41 Baring Street.”
1912:
Birthdate of Brooklyn born sports columnist Barney Nagle who was best known for
writings about boxing and horse racing.
1912:
Alaska is granted Territorial Status.
The first Jews came to Alaska in 1898 when some San Francisco fur
traders settled in Dawson City. The Jewish steamboat operator Lewis Gerstle
provided transportation to the Yukon River during the Gold Rush. The Gerstle
River is named for him. By the time Alaska had gained territorial status, the
Jews of Nome had formed the Nome Hebrew Benevolent Society and Robert Bloom had
founded the Jewish community of Fairbanks.
1914
Sholom Schwartzbard and his brother enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He
served in the 363e régiment d’infanterie and was wounded in the Battle of
Carency in the Battle of the Somme. To acknowledge his courage he was awarded
the Croix de Guerre. Schwartzbard was wounded by a grenade blast while on
patrol in March 1916. His lungs were riddled, and he was not expected to live.
His left arm was virtually useless
1914:
An American version of “The Girl from Utah” produced by Charles Frohman opened
today at the Knickerbocker Theatre – a production for which Frohman hired
Jerome Kern to write five new songs including “They Didn’t Believe Me”
1915:
Birthdate of Sydney S. “Spike” who played End on the Pennsylvania State
University Football which he captained in 1939 when the “defeated arch-rival
Pittsburgh for the first time in twenty years.”
1916:
“Influential Jews” in New York City “took the keenest interest” today in two
dispatches that have been published regarding “the future of the Jews in Europe
– one from Russia forecasting an enlargement of Jewish rights there and one
from London stating that there was no longer serious consideration in England
of the proposals to return refugees of military age to Russia or to force them
to serve in the British Army. (Editor’s note – there is a special irony to the
part about Jewish service in the British Army since in 1915 Jewish leaders
tried to have the British form a Jewish military unit and were forced to settle
for the creation of the Zion Mule Corps which was a supply unit and not a
combat force.)
1916:
It was reported today that after the French found that foreign Jewish soldiers
“were found to be brilliants in attack but undisciplined and difficult to
manage in the ordinary routine of camp” they overcame this apparent
contradiction by putting in them a “single corps” where the use of a common
language – Yiddish – solved the problems.
1917:
The Vossische Zeitung newspaper
“quotes a letter sent to the Ottoman Ministers of Worship by the Grand
Rabbinate which says that the Turkish Jews have nothing to do with ‘American
attempts to separate Palestine from Turkey under the pretext of liberation’ and
declares their allegiance to Turkey.”
1917:
“A great Jewish library was lost when a fire swept through Kolna in Poland.
1918:
In Petrograd, “Public Prosecutor Kerinsky appealed to the government for the
promulgation of a new law prohibiting anti-Jewish agitation.
1918(19th
of Av, 5678): Twenty year old Corporal Harry Weiner who had lived at “185
Rivingston Street, NYC” and who was serving with “Company M, 26th
Infantry, U.S. Army” a part of the American Expeditionary Force died at a “Base
Hospital in France” after having been wounded in action.
1919(28th
of Av, 5679): Mrs. Roche Siegel passed away today.
1920:
In Woodmere, NY, Sidney Benjamin Cardozo, Sr, the Manhattan born son of Clara
and Daniel Henry Cardozo, Sr and his wife Eva Cardozo gave birth to Richard
Henry Cardozo
1921:
Since the U.S. Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, of 1919 the United States negotiated a separate peace
treaty with Austria to officially end WW I which was signed today in
Vienna. (This marked the rise of the
Isolationism which would prove a boon to Hitler during his march to power,)
1921(24th
of Av, 5681): Lewis J. Goldman, the Cincinnati born president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations passed away.
1922(30th
of Av, 5682): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1922: Birthdate of Howard Zinn, self-styled
people’s historian and author of “A People’s History of the United States.” (As
reported by Howard Powell)
1923:
A trained filled with passengers “mostly Jews” a large number of whom were
emigrants bound for American “proceeding from Vilna to Warsaw left the racks
near Lida crashed into a dam” killing more than fifty people and injuring at another
one hundred.
1924(24th
of Av, 5684): Saul Frank, the husband of Sarah Vasen, the first Jewish female
doctor in Los Angeles, CA, passed away today from a heart attack
1925:
Paramount Pictures released “Beggar on Horseback” a cinematic version of the
play co-authored by George S. Kaufman.
1925(4th
of Elul, 5685): Seventy-five year old Moritz Henle, a German composer and
leading cantor in the Reform Movement passed away today. His wife, Caroline
Franziska Herschel, whom he married in 1882, would survive him by almost twenty
more years perishing at Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943.
1926(14th
of Elul, 5686): Sixty-eight-year-old New York City resident Alfred M. Cohen
suffered a fatal heart attack tonight as the White Star Liner Majestic which he
had boarded in Cherbourg with his wife and daughter, was steaming toward Sandy Hook, NY,
1926:
“Under the caption ‘A Liberal Spirt Passes,’ the American Hebrew made public
today an article lauding” the late Charles W. Eliot, the former president of
Harvard.
1927:
In Chicago, Morris and Mildred Markowitz gave birth University of Chicago
educated and Noble Prize winning
economist Dr. Harry Max Markowtiz.
https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty-research/faculty/emeriti-faculty/harry-markowitz.html
1927:
“Puttin’ On the Rights” a song composed by Irving Berlin in of May of 1927 “was
registered as an unpublished song” today.
1928:
“Nathan Lamport, who came to the United States from Poland fifty-four years ago
and amassed a fortune of between one and two million dollars left half of his
fortune to benefit fellow-Jews, it was revealed today when his will was filed
for probate in Surrogates Court.”
1929:
Arab attacks continued on Jews living in the section of Jerusalem known as
Talipot. Women and children had to be evacuated to the New City. Arab mobs
looted Jewish homes including that of the author S.J. Agnon. They destroyed his collection of rare
documents related to the history of Palestine.
1929:
Arab mobs attacked Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall.
1929:
By August today, another 17 Jews had been killed in the Jerusalem area. The
worst killings occurred in Hebron and Safed while others were killed in Motza,
Kfar Uria, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
1929(18th
of Av, 5689): On Shabbat, Arab mobs killed five members of the Maklev family
and their two house-guests one of whom was an 85 year old Rabbi.
1929:
Arab rioters attacked Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, laying waste to the three year old
settlement.
1929(18th
of Av, 5689): In Hebron, Arabs massacred fifty-nine Jews including five rabbis
and eight American students studying at a local Yeshiva. This slaughter would
lead to Jews being driven out of the city putting an end to this ancient Jewish
community and making the home of the Cave of Machpelah “Jew free” except for
the remains of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs.
Jews would not be able to return to their ancient community until after
the 1967 war.
1930:
U.S. premiere of “All Quiet on the Western Front” – the classic anti-war movie
told from the German side of WW I - directed by Lewis Milestone, produced by
Carl Laemmle, Jr and co-starring Louis Wolheim.
1931:
“The Mandates Commission's report to the Council of the League of Nations,
dealing among other things with Palestine and Iraq, was released here tonight,
as well as the minutes of the commission's June meeting.”
1932:
“Evidence of a highly skilled and artistic civilization that existed in
Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age, about 1700 B.C., has been dug from a huge
mound at ancient Kiryath Sephr, now known as Tellbeit Mirsim, near Hebron.”
1932:
Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, Dr. Irving Goldman and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Straus were among those who attended the midweek dinner
dance at the Sand Point Bath Club.
1933: “In address on the status of the Jews in the
world, Nahum Sokolow, criticizes Soviet Russia for outlawing Zionism and the
Hebrew language”
1933:
The man who had assaulted New Yorker Dr. Daniel Mulvihill “while he was
visiting Berlin” was arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
1933:
An official announcement is made stating that Dr. Albert Einstein, Dr. Georg
Bernhard, famous journalist, and Dr. Bernhard Weiss, former assistant police
president of Berlin, have lost their German citizenship.
1933:
The Government forbids German-Jewish Maccabee team of 100 athletes to
participate in the world Maccabiade to be held in Prague.
1933:
A delegation of leading Jews urges the High Commissioner to issue regulations
governing the daily closing of shops and Sabbath observance in Jewish
localities.
1934:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held at the Progressive Synagogue for
Russian born and Columbia, Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College educated Rabbi
Jacob B. Pollack, the first director of the new College for Jewish Teachers at
Temple Emanu-El, the husband of Bernice Pollack and the father of James
Pollack.
1935(25th
of Av, 5695): Parashat Re’eh
1935:
“Several hundred lay and clerical leaders of the Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish faiths from all parts of the country” are scheduled to attend the
Williamstown Institute of Human Relations sponsored by the National Conference
of Jews and Christians opening today at Williams College.
1936:
Three United States Senators, Royal S. Copeland of New York, Warren Austin of
Vermont and Daniel Hastings of Delaware, marked the second day of their tour of
Palestine which had begun in Jerusalem.
1936:
Topics of the Times published today provided evidence that the Olympic Games in
Germany are over as can be seen by the fact that “Herr Streicher’s paper
specializing in stories of Jews who kill little Christian children for Passover
need no longer practice a modicum of self-restrain, but now may go full steam
ahead” and that now “there is talk about the Nuremberg annual of the Nazi party
in September” where new racial decrees will be promulgated.
1936:
Zionist leaders gathered in Zurich tonight in preparation “for the opening
tomorrow of the six day session of the actions committee of the World Zionist
Organization.”
1936:
In Tarrytown, NY, Rabbi Manning H. Bleich and his wife Beatrice gave birth to
J.(Judah) David Bleich, who, among other accomplishments is the Rabbi for B’nei
Judah, a Professor at Yeshiva University and an instructor at Cardozo Law
School.
1936(6th
of Elul, 5696): Fifty-four-year-old
“manufacturer” Louis Baskin passed away in New York City.
1936(6th
of Elul, 5696): Two more Jews fell victim tonight to the murderous Arab
violence that began on April 19, bringing the Jewish death toll to
sixty-six. One of the victims was Julius
Vagshall, “an employee of the Palestine Electric Company was murdered…near
Mikveh Israel. Two of his companions were wounded making them part of the
twenty others who were shot during the night.
1937:
The U.S. Blue, a destroyer that would survive the attack on Pearl Harbor thanks
to the courage and creativity of Ensign Nathan Asher who took control of the
vessel in the captain’s absence, left Norfolk Navy Yard for “builder’s trials”
today.
1937:
The Times of London praised the impartiality and objectivity of
the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations which, following
prolonged deliberations, reached conclusions similar to those of the Royal
(Peel) Commission on Palestine, recommending an eventual partition. The PMC
said that the fluctuations in the policy of the Mandatory Power in Palestine
encouraged the Arabs in their belief that violence could stop the Jewish
immigration.
1938:
Birthdate of David Freiberg bass player with Quicksilver Messenger Service and
Jefferson Starship
1938: At Jenin Arabs terrorists shot and killed W.
S. Moffatt, Assistant District Commissioner
1938: After meeting with Hitler, Joseph Goebbels
wrote in his diary that they had “discussed removing all Jews from Germany.”
1939: Louis
“Lepke” Buchalter, the Jewish gangster who ran Murder Incorporated surrendered
himself to the Jewish Columnist, Walter Winchell. Winchell turned him in to the FBI.
1939: Today, Pravda
and Izvestia carried news of the
non-secret portions of the Non-Aggression Pact that was the final step on the
road to World War II, complete with the now infamous front-page picture of
Molotov signing the treaty, with a smiling Stalin looking on.”
1940(20th of Av, 5700): Parashat Eikev
1940: It was reported today newspapers in France
“have unanimously attacked the Jews since the German occupation” and the
newspaper Matin said that “it was whole-heartedly in favor of fighting Jewish
influence…”
1941: “Under pressure from growing protests, Hitler
halted the main euthanasia program today though less systematic murder of the
handicapped continued.”
1941:
In a broadcast to the British people, Churchill announced that as German troops
advanced in the Soviet Union, "whole districts were being
exterminated." He did not mention that it was the Jews getting killed.
This broadcast came only two months after Hitler had invaded Russia. At the time, Churchill was busy trying to get
the British (many of whom were anti-Communists) to view the Soviets as a
much-needed ally in the war against Hitler.
Talking about dead Jews would not have kindled the spirit of support
that Churchill was trying to create.
1941: Eighty-six-year-old Dr. Jacob Wigodsky,
longtime leader of the Jews of Vilna, Lithuania, is arrested and imprisoned. He
will be executed a week later at Ponary, Lithuania.
1942:
Poet and author Joy Davidson who would later become an Anglican married her
first husband, William Lindsay Graham.
1942:
As of today, 21,000 Jews from Kielce had been deported to Treblinka where they
were all murdered.
1943: Five thousand Jews from Bialystok,
Poland, are killed at Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek.
1943:
King Boris of Bulgaria was summoned to Berlin, where Hitler personally
subjected him to a harsh browbeating on his vacillation when it came to
deporting Jews to the death camps.
1943:
French philosopher Simon Weil the daughter of two Alsatian Jews who converted
to Christianity during her exploration of various religions passed away today.
1944: Three thousand slave laborers are killed
at Mielec, Poland
1944: A Jewish survivor in liberated Lvov,
Ukraine, notes in her diary that only three percent of the region's Jews remain
alive.
1944:
“Two thousand prisoners were wounded and 388 were killed when bombs from an
American raid fell on Buchenwald during a raid “on a nearby armaments factory.”
1945:
Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, “the secretary-general of the Arab League and
undersecretary for foreign affairs in the Egyptian government, announced
publicly that FDR had given a pledge to Ibn Saud ‘that he would not support any
move to hand over Palestine to the Jews.’”
1946(27th
of Av, 5706): Parashat Re’eh;
1946:
“Otomar Kubala, whose wartime persecution of Jews made him known as ‘the Slovak
Himmler’ was sentenced today to death by shooting.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/08/25/93147034.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1947:
“A "fair prospect" of Jewish acceptance of a partition of the Holy
Land is seen by the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine only if an
Galilee, the northern Negev and the Jewish part of Jerusalem are included in
the Jewish area, according to a letter addressed by the Agency to the United
Nations Special Committee on Palestine today.”
1948(19th
of Av, 5708): Forty-one year old Seymour “Cy” Schindell the Brooklyn born boxer
turned actor died today from cancer the origins of which came from his service
with the Marines on Guadalcanal.
1949:
“The United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission decided today to send an
economic survey mission to the Middle East "to study the economic
situation in the countries affected by the recent hostilities."
1950:
Operation Magic Carpet, which brought 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel, was
concluded. This rescue of the ancient
Yemenite community began shortly after the creation of the Jewish states. Anti-Jewish riots broke out even though the
Jews of Yemen had done nothing. The
easiest way would have been to bring them to Israel by ship, but the Egyptians
would not let the Israelis use the Suez Canal.
So the Israelis mounted an airlift (hence the name magic carpet) and
flew the people to safety with between 500 to 600 Yemenites on each
flight. Many had never seen a plane
before. Many people remembered the words
of the prophet who said the Jews would be redeemed on Wings of Eagles. This was the first large scale saving of a
Jewish community. It would not be the
last. Israel critics might do well to
remember that there is a reason for a Jewish state.
1951:
“Jim Thorpe” a sports biopic directed by Michael Curtiz and with music by Max
Steiner was released in the United States today.
1952: Although no diplomatic steps followed the
direct peace offer made by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to Egypt, the
Foreign Ministry spokesman said he believed such action was possible in the
near future.
1952: Dr. Jonah B. Wise officiated at the wedding of
Geraldine Warburg, the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Warburg and a great
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schiff and Dr. Arthur Kohlenberg, the
holder of Ph.D. from Harvard and WW II veteran who is “a member of the research
staff at MIT.”
1953: It was reported today that Louis M. Cahn, the
former President of the Board of Jewish Education of blessed memory is survived
by his brother Tillman and his sister Mrs. Fanny C. Holzheimer.
1954: A plan
to transfer 450,000 Jews from North Africa to Israel because of "the
threat of renewed anti-Jewish outbreaks by Arab extremists" was outlined
here tonight. Three thousand delegates to the fortieth annual convention of
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel were told of the proposal by Moshe Kol, world chairman of the Youth
Aliyah (immigration) movement, Jewish child-rescue agency.
1954(25th of Av, 5714): Seventy-five year
old Uriah Myer Simon, the Mississippi born son of “Uriah and Hannah (Goldsmith)
Simon and U.T.
undergrad and U of Denver Law School trained attorney, who was husband of Hattie Weltman, the father
of Richard, Ruth and Henry Simon whom
were raised in Ft. Worth, TX where the elder Simon practiced law, served as
President of the Isador Strauss Lodge of the I.O.B.B. and Congregation Bethel,
passed away today.
1954: “The Young Lovers” with a screenplay by George
Tabori, a score by Benjamin Frankel and featuring David Kossoff who would win a
British Film Academy Award as “most promising newcomer to film” was released in
the United Kingdom today.
1956:
In Philadelphia, “Irwin and Myrna Gopnik” both of whom were professors at
McGill University gave birth to journalist and author of the best-selling Paris
to the Moon Adam Gopnik, the brother of art critic Blake Gopnik and
psychologist Alison Gopnik and the husband of Martha Rebecca Parker with whom
he had two children – Luke and Olivia.
1957: Bosley Crowther reviewed Billy Wilder’s “Love
in the Afternoon” which he believes helps to put Wilder on the same level of
the great Ernst Lubitsch.
1958: In Brooklyn, surgical assistant Ann
Newman and electrical engineer Jerome Stanley Guttenberg gave birth to “actor, author, businessman,
producer, and director” Steven Robert “Steve” Guttenberg who claims that his
extensive career began playing opposite Colonel Sanders “in a Kentucky Fried commercial.”
1959(20th of Av, 5719): Eighty-one-year-old NYU trained attorney and
former Judge of the Hudson Country District Court David Berman, the “chairman
of the building fund committee of the Bayonne, NJ, Jewish Center who was the
husband of Mary Berman with whom he had two children – Edward and Iris – passed
away today in the Bayonne Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/08/25/80546223.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1960(1st of Elul, 5720): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1960: Birthdate of Lexington, KY native Marvin
Krislov the graduate of Yale and Rhodes Scholar who became the 14th
President of Oberlin College in 2007.
1960 “Sex Kittens Go to College” a comedy featuring
Louis Nye and Martin Milner, the son of a Jewish immigrant father from Poland
was released in the United States today.
1961(12th
of Elul, 5721): Seventy-nine year old Budapest born shoe manufacture Andrew
Geller, who came the United States in 1883, started out “as family operated
retailer before WW I” and then added a “wholesale line in 1919” passed away
today.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158450
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/94924
1962(24th
of Av, 5772): Fifty-nine-year-old Boston born, Harvard trained geologist Arnold
Hoffman, the mining engineer and President of the Mesabi Iron Company whose
brother David died during WW I and who was married to the former Patricia
McGreevy with whom he had a two children, Michael and Jacqueline – passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/08/26/90578021.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1963(24th
of Elul, 5723): Parashat Shoftim
1963(24th
of Elul, 5723): Seventy-two-year-old Boston University trained Massachusetts attorney
the New Haven, CT born son of Aaron Moshe Ehrlich and Esther Bracha Holstein
Ehrlich, the husband of Rose Feinberg Ehrlich and father of Ruther Ehrlich Werman
who was chairman of the Keren Hayesod and United Palestine Appeal and President
of the Springfield Y.M.H.A. passed away today after which he was buried in the
Congregation Kodimoh Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.
1964:
Bruce Sundlun was one of the delegates attending the National Democratic
Convention when it opened today.
1965:
Birthdate of Academy Award winning actress Marlee Matlin. The Chicago born Matlin gave of the most
moving performances of her life when she spoke at the 2004 Keshet Dinner.
1966:
“Alfie,” an off-beat romantic comedy co-starring Shelly Winters (Shirley
Schrift) filmed by cinematographer Otto Heller and featuring Eleanor Bron was
released in the United States today 6 months after being released in the UK by
Paramount Pictures.
1966:
“Fantastic Voyage” a sci-fi film directed by Richard Fleischer and with music
by Leonard Rosenman was released in the United States today.
1967:
Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the
NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in
trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.
1968(30th
of Av, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1968(30th
of Av, 5728): Albert D. "Dolly" Stark who was reported to be the first Jewish umpire in the
modern Major Leagues passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E04E1DF1F3BE73ABC4D51DFBE668383679EDE
1970:
In Los Angeles, Carolyn Surtees and Don Gregory gave birth to NBC newsman and
host of Meet the Press David Gregory.
1973:
In East Hampton, L.I., Rabbi Elihu Schgrin officiated at the marriage of Mrs.
Susan R. Simon and Habert S. Adler, a
first vice president and treasurer of E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc.,
investment bankers in New York, and a general partner of Lionel L. Pincus &
Co.
1978:
Seventy-two year old archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon best known for her
excavations at Jewry Wall in Leicester before WW II and Jericho passed away
today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewry_Wall#mediaviewer/File:Jewry_Wall_ruins_panorama_3.jpg
1980(12th
of Elul, 5740): One person was killed and twelve were injured when a terrorist
bomb went off in Jerusalem gas station.
1984:
“Oxford Blues,” a British comedy produced by Elliott Kastner and Cassian Elwes
was released today in the United Kingdom
1984:
After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival where it won First Prize, “Old
Enough,” directed and written by Marisa Silver was released in the United
States today.
1985(7th
of Elul, 5745): Parhshat Shoftim
1985(7th
of Elul, 5745): Eighty-nine year old Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and
screenwriter Morris Ryskind passed away today. (As reported by Jeffrey Schmalz)
1986:
The New York Times included a brief
review of A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today, Charles
E. Silberman's survey of American Jewish life and Jewish identity.
1988(11th
of Elul, 5748): Eight days after her 105th birthday, Anna
(Lerchenthal) Bellman passed away today.
1989:
“Millennium” a sci-fi film starring Al Waxman and featuring Maury Chaykin was
released in the United States today by 20th Century Fox.
1991(14th
of Elul, 5751): Parshat Ki Teitzei
1991(14th
of Elul, 5751): Ninety-nine year old Silver Medal Olympian and record-holding
long distance runner Abel Kiviat passed away today. (As reported by Frank
Litsky)
1991:
Robert S. Strauss begins serving as U.S. Ambassador to Russia (formerly the
U.S.S.R.)
1992(25th
of Av, 5752): One hundred year old track and field start Abel Kiviat who won a
silver medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics where his former roommate Jim
Thorpe was the dominating force passed away today.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbelKiviat.htm
1994: Initial accord between Israel and the PLO
about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
1995(28th
of Av, 5755): Ninety-four year old Blanche Sternberger Benjamin, the
Mayesville, SC born daughter of Emanuel and Bertha Strauss Sternberger, the
wife of New Orleans native and Harvard graduate Edward Bernard Benjamin passed
away today in New Orleans after which she was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in
Greensboro, NC.
1996(9th
of Elul, 5756): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1996(9th
of Elul, 5756): Eighty-one year old Houston, TX native Frank Guzick, the Center
on Texas Tech’s first team to play in bowl game and WW II Navy veteran who
pursued a career in Secondary Education in Texas, passed away today.
1997:
The New York Times book section
featured a review of Yehudi Menuhin’s autobiography entitled Unfinished
Journey: Twenty Years Later and My American Century by Studs Terkel
1999(12th
of Elul, 5759): Eighty-five-year-old Sarah Jane Landauer, the Dallas born
daughter
of Horace Haas Landauer and Gertrude E Landauer the wife of Frank Hart
Lichtenstein passed away today in Houston, TX.
1999(12th
of Elul, 5759): Ninety-nine year old Sidney Lev, the native of Branchville, SC
who lived in Charlotte, NC passed away today in Cocoa Beach, FL.
2000:
“Contesting the Holocaust Deniers” published today provides a lengthy review of
Deny History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say it
by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, the Camden, NJ native who “earned his PhD
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2001:
“An American Rhapsody” a biopic starring Tony Goldwyn, the grandson of Samuel
Goldwyn and featuring Emmy Rossum was released in the United States by
Paramount Classics.
2002(16th
of Elul, 5762): Parashat Ki Tavo
2002:
“Amir Hadad of Israel and Aisam Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan were awarded a wild
card into the United States Open doubles draw today and will play their
first-round match against Mariano Hood and Sebastian Prieto of Argentina.”
2003:
Final broadcast of Season Two of “The Wire,” a gritty cops and crime show
“created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Judah
Simon.
2003(26th
of Av, 5763): Seventy-seven year businessman Jack Eisner, the Holocuast
survivor and author passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/30/nyregion/jack-eisner-77-holocaust-chronicler-dies.html
2004:
Chris Young pitched in his first game for the Texas Rangers, making him the
first Princeton baseball player to appear in the majors since Bob Tufts, who
had converted to Judaism during his pitching career.
2005: Egypt and Israel reached an agreement that
would allow troops to patrol the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The Egyptains have guaranteed that they will
not allows arms to be smuggled into Gaza.
A small Egyptian naval squadron will patrol the coast.
2006(30th
of Av, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2006(30th
of Av, 5766): Eighty-three year old Pulitzer Prize winning historian Leonard
Williams Levy passed away today. (As reported by Adam Liptak)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/obituaries/01levy.html?mcubz=0
2006(30th
of Av, 5766): Ninety-three year old Canadian composer John Weinzweig passed
away today.
http://www.johnweinzweig.com/biography/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1531197/John-Weinzweig.html
2007(10th
of Elul, 5767): Sixty four year old Brooklyn born producer and political
activist Aaron Russo passed away today in Los Angeles.
http://www.arm.iwarrior.net/?viewing=aaron_russo_biography
2007(10th
of Elul, 5767): Seventy-eight year old Clarence “Click Bamberger, Jr. the only
son of Marie Odell Bamberger and Clarence G. Bamberger, “a pioneering Utah
mining railroad family” that included his Uncle Simon Bamberger, the first
non-Mormon to serve as the state’s chief executive passed away today.
2007:
“Sam Friedman, a son of the late Louisiana State Senator Sylvan Friedman of Natchitoches
Parish, of Dimension Development Company from Natchitoches, Louisiana,
announced the purchase of the Fairmont Hotel by First Class Hotels for $17
million from the owners, Roosevelt Ventures, LLC.”
2008:
An exhibition at Yeshiva University Museum entitled “Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land: Photographs by Neil
Folberg” comes to an end.
2008:
The Sunday New York Times book
section featured books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of Jewish interest
including The Black Hole War: My
Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Leonard Susskind, A Path Out of the Desert by Kenneth M. Pollack,
Epilogue: A Memoir by
Anne Roiphe and The Lost Spy: An
American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier
2008:
The Washington Post book section
featured books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of Jewish interest including For The Thrill Of It: Leopold, Loeb and the
Murder That Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz, Explainers:
The Complete Village Voice Strips (1956-66) by Jules Feiffer and The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier
2008:
As the Democratic National Convention opens in Denver, the Jewish friends of
Susan Turnbull, a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee join her
in a "nosh" at Zaidy's delicatessen in Denver at 2 p.m. These friends
may include the thirty Jewish Democrats serving in the US House of
Representatives and nine in the Senate.
2008:
The DNC launches the convention with an interfaith gathering featuring Jewish,
Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim clerics. The Jewish speaker is Rabbi Tzvi
Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox Union.
2008:
In New York, the Mets host the Houston Astros on Jewish Heritage Day, an annual
promotion that is part of the “Mets International Heritage Week.”
2008:
With the scored tied 4 – 4 Brad Ausmus of the Astros, who is Jewish, “led off
the 10th inning with his second homer of the season leading to a 6 –
4 win” over the Mets on Jewish Heritage Day.
2009:
David Wessel, the economics editor at the Wall Street Journal and author
of the "Capital" column, discusses and signs his new book, In Fed
We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, at Politics and Prose
Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.
2009:
Two mortar shells struck a kibbutz near Ashkelon this evening. One person was
lightly wounded by shrapnel in the incident, which was the first of its kind in
months.
2009:
Nate “Freiman was named Northwest League Player of the Week today.”
2009:
A Palestinian gunman was killed this evening in a shootout with IDF troops on
the northern border of the Gaza Strip.
2009:
An agreement struck between the Tiberias Magistrate's Court and a Tzipori
land-owner today will allow the
excavation of a tomb that may contain the remains of famed 3rd century Rabbi
Yehoshua ben Levi to begin next month.
2009: Today Lithuanian President Dalia
Grybauskaite promised the country's remaining Jewish community that it would
receive restitution for property seized during the Second World War.
2009: In another recent incident, an IDF patrol opened fire on
Palestinian militants today after spotting their approach to the Gaza border
fence
2010: In
Vermont, Peter Shulman “placed first in the five-way Democratic primary”
2010: “Like a Fish Out of Water,” a film that follows Marcelo, a
recent emigrant from Argentina to Israel who has found the perfect job on an
Israeli soap opera and “Black Over White,” featuring the popular multi-cultural
Israeli band, the Idan Raichel Project are scheduled to shown in Washington, DC
as part of the WJFF.
2010: Jewish Art for the New Millennium: 3 Alicias 3 an evening
of Music and Poetry with Alicia Svigals, Alicia Ostriker, and Alicia Jo Rabins
is scheduled to take place at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in New York.
2010: The 'Voice of Music' channel of 'Kol Israel' is scheduled
to a r broadcast during which Yeheskell Beinisch, chairman of the Jerusalem
International Chamber Music Festival presents this year's program and the
participating artists .
2010: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to face
serious obstacles as he travels to Washington for a high-profile peace summit –
but this time it is his own diplomats, not the Palestinians, who are causing
him strife. Today the foreign ministry's workers' committee sent a telegram to
Israel's Washington embassy, instructing staff there not to assist the prime
minister during his visit. At a meeting early today, the committee decided to
ramp up labor sanctions it imposed a few weeks ago to demand more pay.
2010: An Israeli company that breeds and markets hybrid plant
varieties announced a new innovation today: A tomato that doesn't need to be
refrigerated. The tomato, named Antonella, retains its firmness, flavor and
aroma and does not begin to rot even after a week at room temperature.
2011: Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
have announced that they will not be attending the Glen Beck rally scheduled to
be held in Jerusalem tonight.
2011: In Jerusalem, Daniel Zamir is scheduled to perform new
arrangements of songs by the composer and poet Talma Alyagon Rose, accompanied
by a unique female ensemble including Galia
Hai, viola; Karni Postel, cello; Tamar Eisenman, guitar.
2011: Close to 200 taxi drivers congregated on Rothschild
Boulevard, the hub of Tel Aviv’s tent city, today, to protest high gas prices
and work conditions.
2011: Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Benny
Gantz decided today to appoint Colonel (res.) Danny Efroni to be the next IDF
military advocate general. Efroni will replace Major General Avichai
Mendelblit. Efroni retired from the IDF a year and a half ago after serving as
the deputy military advocate general.
2011: A three-month-old baby was lightly injured in her hand
after one of two rockets fired at the Ashkelon Regional Council hit a car and
caused it go up in flames this evening.
2011:
Arnold Eidus was interviewed about his role in performing Raymond Scott’s
“Suite for Violin and Piano” at Carnegie Hall in 1950.
2012(24th
of Av, 5771): Eighty year old Steve Franken best remembered for his role in the
1950’s sitcom “The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis” based on the writings of Max
Schulman, passed away today.
http://abc7.com/archive/8792889/
2011(24th
of Av, 5771): Fifty-nine year old Jeanette Ingberman, the daughter of Holocaust
survivors who co-founded “Exit Art” passed away. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2012:
NFTY Songleading Instituted is scheduled to begin at Kutz Camp
2012:
Camp Massad, the only Hebrew-immersion summer camp in Western Canada, which is
celebrating its 60th anniversary, is scheduled to host an alumni
reunion beginning today.
2012:
Cantor Alane Simons Katzew, Director of Music Programming at the Union for
Reform Judaism is scheduled to conduct Shabbat Eve services at B'nai Israel
Synagogue in Grand Forks North Dakota
2012: In
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it is “Musical Shabbat” time as Temple Judah hosts the
first of this year’s ever popular Friday evening events.
2012:
Jewish Democrats slammed Republicans for planning a tribute to Rep. Ron Paul
(R-Texas) at the Republican convention. In a press call today, a top aide to Romney
confirmed that there would be a prime time video tribute to Paul.
2012:
Germany's main Jewish body has announced its intention to institutionalize the
training of mohels or ritual circumcisors.
2012: In the first
direct contact with his Israeli counterpart since taking office, Egypt’s new
defense minister defended his country’s increased military presence in the
Sinai Peninsula, saying it is needed to fight terrorism and is temporary,
Egyptian officials said today.
2013: Amir Levy is
scheduled to appear in “Bellini and the Sultan” at the Robert Moss Theatre.
2013: Anat Cohen, the
sensational young Israeli clarinetist and saxophonist is scheduled to bring her
unique musical stylings to New York’s 54 Below nightclub
2013: Despite the
rocket attack on the Galilee two days ago, scores of families and travelers
arrived in the area today to enjoy the north's beautiful scenery and
specifically the popular Achziv beach (As reported by Maor Buchnik)
2013: As the United
States positions its warships in the eastern Mediterranean for a possible
attack on Syria, “Israel …is raising its alert level, as Syria's retaliation
may include an attack on Israeli targets.(As reported by Yoav Zitun)
2013(18th of
Elul, 5773): Eighty-four year old Muriel Siebert, “the first woman to buy a
seat on the NYSE” passed away today. (As reported by Enid Nemy)
2014: Toronto Blue Jays
outfielder Kevin “Pillar hit his first career home run” in the majors – “a
three-run shot the off Houston Astros starting pitcher.
2014:
The New York Times featured books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana
Goldstein, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the
Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz, and Powers of Two:
Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs by Joshua Wolf Shenk
2014(28th
of Av): Yarhrzeit of Larry Rosenstein loving husband of Judy Levin Rosenstein,
of blessed memory who fifty years ago regaled me tales of death “Blaze” (his
car, not his horse)
2014:
Gil Shaham is scheduled to perform as guest violinist with the National Youth
Orchestra of the United States at Tangelwood.”
2014:
“After having been postponed twice due to continuous rocket from Gaza,
Ashkelon’s annual pop music festival Briza is scheduled to open today. (As
reported by Simone Somekh)
2014:
KlezKanada in collaboration with the Montreal Jewish Music Festival is
scheduled to host Der Groyser Kontsert Internationale
2014:
Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough, who died
Sunday at 90, grew up together with two younger brothers… and two German-Jewish
girls – Helga and Irene Bejach -- whom his parents took in as refugees in 1939.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-refugee-girls-with-whom-richard-attenborough-grew-up/
2014:
Four year old Daniel Tragerman who was killed by Hamas
rocket fire erev Shabbat after a rocket struck near his home in Kibbutz Nahal
Oz is scheduled to be laid to rest this morning at the Hevel Shalom cemetery in
the Eshkol Region. (As reported by Arutz Sheva)
2014:
More than 120 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza while the Lebanese
army found the rocket launchers today from missels had been launched against
Israel last night.
2014:
Hamas took credit for firing 15 rockets at the Erez Crossing where three
Israeli Arab taxicab drivers were wounded by mortar fire while waiting to drive
Palestinians into Israel for medical care.
2015: This evening in Jerusalem, Rav Nasan Maimon is
scheduled to lead a shiur “Are You Ready For Elul?!”
2015: “A video released today by Combined Jewish
Philanthropies showed Super Bowl champion Julian Edelman traveling through
Israel…last June.”
2015: Israeli triple jumper Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko “won a
silver medal at the 15th World Championships in China” today making
her “the first Israeli woman and only the second Israeli to win a silver medal
at the event.”
2015: A U.S. judge
ordered the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization today
to post $10 million in cash or bond while they appeal a jury's finding that
they supported militant attacks in Israel.
2015: “Israeli
Villages Near Gaza Rebound Warily Year After the War” published today described
conditions along Israel’s eastern frontier” following the latest round of
fighting with Hamas. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2015: Long time NBC news reporter Jamie Su Gangel, “the
daughter of Richard I. Gangel and Phyllis Gangel-Jacob” and wife author Daniel
Silva began working as a correspondent to CNN today.
2015: The Association of Americans & Canadians in
Israel (AACI) is scheduled to host an open house for new olim and not-so-new
olim at its Jerusalem Center.
2015(9th of Elul, 5775): Eighty-three year old
Joseph F. Traub who founded the computer science department at Columbia passed
away today. (As reported by Steve Lohr)
2016: “In a complex operation, a group of animals was transferred
this morning from the Gaza Strip via Erez Crossing, in order to receive better
living conditions and improved care.
2016: The Nadine Bommer Dance Company, “founded by Israeli
choreographer Nadine Bonner” is scheduled to appear at Jacob’s Pillow.
2016: “Syrian opposition figures said Israeli warplanes
struck targets belonging to the Shiite terror group Hezbollah in the Qalamoun
Mountains along the Syria-Lebanon border, today, according to Hebrew news sites
citing Arab media.”
2016: “The iconic, charismatic Morrissey, originally of
Manchester indie band The Smiths, now a solo artist, is scheduled to perform in
the Caesarea amphitheater.
2017: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last
screenings of “Dough.”
2017: The Jerusalem Beer Festival being held at the
Independence Park is scheduled to come to an end this evening.
2017: The American Sephardi Music Festival is scheduled to
being this evening at the Center for Jewish History.
2017: In Iowa City, the University of Iowa Hillel is
scheduled to host its first Challah Baking for Hunger of the academic year with
all proceeds being donated to local charities.
2017: At the Tel Aviv Museum, the final “T-Art” which
“will include musical and dance theater performances, lectures and tours” is
scheduled to take place this evening.
2018: In New York, the Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host the opening of “The American Sephardi Film Festival presented
by the American Sephardi Federation.”
2018: The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is
scheduled to host a screening of “The
Unorthodox,” “a film by Eliran Malka this afternoon before Shabbat.
2018: As of this morning at least 68 Israelis “have been hospitalized
with West Nile Fever virus.”
2018: With a week to go, Israelis are waiting to see if work on “the new
bridge over Ayalon” will take place on Shabbat as originally planned or whether
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s new decision will prevail.
2018: The State Department announced today that “the Trump administration
had decided to cut more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians” because
it felt that “those tax-payer funds no longer served American interests.”
2019 As it celebrates its tenth year, The Oshman Family Jewish Community
Center is scheduled to its annual benefit party complete with “Tacos, Margs and
Ping Pong.”
2019: “A Healing Weekend for Bereaved Individuals and Families” sponsored
by the Jewish Healing Center is scheduled to offer a “Shabbat under the open
sky and Jewish rituals for honoring and remember those whose who have died.”
2019: So&So, “a collective of international musicians” founded by
Jerusalem born “violinist and conduction Daniel Zinn” is scheduled to perform
at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
2019: In Des Moines, IA, members of Temple B’Nai Jershurun are scheduled
to “gather at the Blank Park Zoo for a special Shabbat program in which we will
visit animals discussed in the Jewish
tradition and learn some of what Judaism has to say about them.”
2019(23rd of Av, 5779): Parashat Ekev;
2019: Final Shabbat for Deb Levin who made so many of them so special.
2020: Secretary of State of State Pompeo is on a diplomatic trip to
Israel which will include a speech to the Republican National Convention
tomorrow evening from Jerusalem.
2020: “1,100-Year-Old Treasure Is Unearthed by Teenagers in Israel”
published today described the discovery that “offers proof of interactions
between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, two rival powers of the
time.”
2021: JCCSF and JCC Book Fest In Your Living Room are scheduled to
present Francine Prose a she discusses her new book, The Vixen, in which
a young Jewish man in 1950s New York City must edit a steamy romance novel
based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
2021:
“The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center and The Forward are scheduled to host a “chewy,
carb-o-licious competition between the best bagels from New York and California”
with Len Berk, Zabar Lox Counterman, Emily Winston, Boichik Bagels, Chef Imani Jackson, founder
and CEO of Chopped and Served Catering.
2021:
Israeli singer Liraz Charhi, who is already a well-known actress in her
homeland and who writes her songs in Farsi, the language of her native nation
of Iran is scheduled to perform, live, in-person, at the Lincoln Center Plaza.
2022:
In partnership with the NYPL’s Seward Park Library, the Museum at Eldridge is
scheduled to host a virtual tour of the Lower East in which participants will learn
how the Lower East Side has changed, and how the Museum at Eldridge Street and
Seward Park Library, which continue to serve residents after almost 150 years,
have changed with it.
2022:
Iran, which has been previously accused of using drones to attack U.S. forces
and Israel-linked ships in the Gulf, is scheduled to launch large-scale drone
drills across the country involving 150 unmanned aerial vehicles today.
2022:
This year’s Rewind: Shenson Retrospective Film Series from Stanford’s Taube
Center is scheduled explore the topic
“Jews and Genre,” starting with “The Congress,” a 2013 sci-fi film directed by
Ari Folman.
2022:
The Tikvah Online Academy, which provides is an
exciting opportunity to study some of the greatest speeches and greatest
leaders in Jewish, Zionist, Western, and American history. The range of choices
is amazing—from King David to Ben-Gurion, Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan,
Pericles to The Lord of the
Rings is scheduled to come to an end.
2023: The Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust is scheduled to sponsor
the JNOLA Pool Party at the Uptown JCC in New Orleans.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to present a lecture by
Trudy Gold on “Wolfgang Lotz, the so-called Champagne Spy.
2023: The Center for Jewish History (CJH) which houses the
largest archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel, illuminating
the history and culture of Jewish communities around the world is scheduled to
present a lecture by Moriah Amit, the
CJH’s Senior Genealogy Librarian, who will answer your questions about searching
our online catalog, using archival finding aids, and determining what’s
available online, as well as those about specific record types or collections.
2023: The Westside Comedy Club is scheduled to host “Talking
Sabra – Israeli Comedians doing comedy in English.
2023: Today the Tikvah Foundation is scheduled to host a
conversation during which Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Tikvah CEO Eric Cohn hold
a special conversation “reflecting on these last two years of learning and
study and looking ahead at Rabbi Soloveichik’s many programs starting later
this fall.”
