This Day, August 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"l

August 25

79: Pliny the Elder passed away.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15865.html

1270: Louis IX passed away. To the Christian world he became known as St. Louis.  Louis “despised his Jews” and he treated his Jewish subjects accordingly during his 44-year reign.  Louis combined the usual greed of Medieval Monarchs with a religious zeal that gave a special zest to his ant-Semitism.  To him, “the only good Jew was a converted Jew.”  He is best remembered for putting the Talmud on trial, finding it guilty and then burning twenty-four cartloads of the precious text. Two years later, a couple of more copies of the text were found and Louis repeated the public burning.

1530:  Birthdate of Tsar Ivan IV, known to history as Ivan the Terrible.  In keeping with Russian policy, few Jews were permitted in Russia and those that came on trading missions from Poland were often treated roughly.  In 1563 Ivan conquered a Lithuanian city (Polotsk) and gave the Jews the choice of converting to Russian Orthodoxy or death.  In carrying out his threat, Ivan had holes drilled in the ice of the nearby river and shoved three hundred Jewish men, women and children to their death.  Yes, “The Terrible” is a fitting title.

1569: In Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz began printing “R. Naftali Hertz ben Menahem of Lublin’s “commentary on the Torah Portion of Midrash Rabbah.

1603: Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur who used Abraham Cohen de Herrera as a “factor” and who negotiated his freedom when he was captured by the English passed away today.

1613(8th of Elul, 5373): David Gans, the son of Shlomo Ganz and  the author of "Tzemach David" passed away in Prague

1718:  Founding of New Orleans, Louisiana. The first Jews came to New Orleans in the early 1700’s as Spanish and/or Portuguese traders.  It is not clear as to whether these early settlers were “Secret Jews” and how many of them were open practitioners of their faith.  There would be at least three major waves of Jewish migration to the Crescent City and the surrounding bayou communities.  Prior to Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans boasted a vibrant Jewish community with a population that totals approximately 13,000. In addition to the various community organizations including the highly informative on-line Crescent City Jewish News http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1f78b71ba0df060842f69ae41&id=95efe5a743&e=ce59f79d80

Tulane University adds an extra dimension to Jewish life with its Jewish Studies Department chaired by Brian Horowitz.

1732: Thirty-year-old Abraham de Leon married Esther Nunes today in Jamaica after which he moved to Savannah, GA.

1732(15th of Elul, 5492): Thirty-year-old Abraham de Leon, the son of Jacob de Leon, the husband of Esther Nunes, who settled in Savannah passed away today.

1744: Birthdate of Johann Gottfried von Herder the Lutheran minister, philosopher and poet whom according to F.M. Barnard believed that “Jews in Germany should enjoy the full rights and obligations of Germans, and that the non-Jews of the world owed a debt to Jews for centuries of abuse, and that this debt could be discharged only by actively assisting those Jews who wished to do so to regain political sovereignty in their ancient homeland of Israel.” This stands in stark contrast to the view of Andrew Hamilton who said Herder saw “no continuity between (for him, legitimate) Old Testament Judaism and the Pharisaic Judaism of Jesus’ time, which he regarded as degenerate in form…For thousands of years, since their emergence on the stage of history, the Jews were a parasitic growth on the stem of other nations, a race of cunning brokers all over the earth. They have caused great evil to many ill-organized states, by retarding the free and natural economic development of their indigenous population.” (Once again we see that the Holocaust was not some aberration or an event brought on by the Versailles Treaty as apologists would have us believe)

1763: In New York, Judah Barnet and his wife gave birth to Sara Barnet who died before her second birthday.

1786: Birthdate of King Ludwig I of Bavaria who in 1829 commissioned a portrait of Nanette Kaula, the daughter of his Jewish royal agent, to be hung in his “Beauty Gallery.”

1788: Birthdate of Georg Hartog Gerson, the third generation of German-Jewish doctors who served as surgeon with the Prussian Army at the Battle of Waterloo.

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/the-mild-agressor-the-unsung-jewish-hero-of-waterloo/

1790: Barent Solomon Gompertz married Miriam Keyser at Walthamstow today.

1790: Today’s issue of the Columbian Centinel in “speaking of George Washington’s visit to Newport, says he addressed by Twon, Clerg and Society of Freemasons on Wednesday morning, August 18, 1790.

1791: Lazarus Isaacs and Rebecca Abrahams were married today in London’s  Great Synagogue after which they gave birth to Annie Isaacs who was born in 1806.

1797: Birthdate of Danish poet and dramatist Henrik Hertz

1805(30th of Av, 5565): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed as Lewis and Clark learn that their guide Sacagawea “will seen be returning home”

1813: Philip Moses Samuel married Julia Goldsmid at the Great Synagogue today.

1814. In Surinam, Dutch the former Mary Asser Levy and Judah Eleazar Lyons gave birth to Jacques Judah Lyons the chazzan, rabbi, and community leader, “He was educated in Surinam, and was minister of the Spanish & Portuguese congregation there, Neveh Shalom, for five years. He left Surinam in 1837 and went to Richmond, Va., where for two years he was minister of the Congregation Beth Schalom. In 1839 he was elected minister of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation Shearith Israel, New York city, in succession to Isaac Seixas, and served the congregation thirty-eight years, successfully combating every movement to change the form of worship in his congregation. Lyons was among those who founded The Jews' (now Mount Sinai) Hospital; he was actively concerned in founding the Jewish Board of Delegates and Hebrew Free Schools and was superintendent of the Polonies Talmud Torah School…For many years he was president of the Hebra Hased ve-Emet and of the Sampson Simpson Theological Fund. Lyons was an ardent student and collected a library that is now in possession of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.” In 1857, he joined with Dr. Abraham de Sola of Montreal, in preparing and publishing a Hebrew calendar covering fifty years, together with an essay on the Jewish calendar system

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/lyons-jacques-judah

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/2636

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/2636

1814: During the War of 1812 the British returned to their ships after a second day of trying to burn Washington was thwarted in part by one of those downpours that Washingtonians know so well that put out most of the fires and headed for what they thought would be their next easy victory at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry.  With no evidence to the contrary the “row of buildings…known as the Six Buildings” built by Isaac Polock, the first known Jewish resident of the District of Columbia survived to be used as office space for the Departments of State and Navy.

1815: In Wilmington, DE, Sarah Helen Solis and Daniel da Silva Solis gave birth to Benvenida Valenta Nathan, the wife Moses Nathan.

1819: Le Monituer Universel “published an article from Hamburg arguing that ‘the Jews’ were to blame for the violence” in the German city “since they had reportedly instigated the fighting by attacking Christians in a coffeehouse” which close “to an area of Hamburg where a high concentration of Jews lived.”

1824(1st of Elul, 5584): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1824(1st of Elul, 5584): Thirty-six-year-old Abraham Montefiore, “the lesser known brother of Sir Moses Montefiore” who “became rich as a silk merchant” before becoming a stockbroker and whose send wife was Henrietta Montefiore, the daughter of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and the sister of Nathan Mayer Rothschild passed away today.

1824: Aharon ben Moshe married Beila bat Aharon at the Great Synagogue today.

1825: Uruguay declares its independence. Unlike other parts of Latin America, the Inquisition did not have a strong influence in Uruguay.  Therefore, we find evidence of converso communities dating back to the 16th century and a true Jewish community in the last decades of the 18th century. There has been a continuous Jewish presence in the country since that time.  However, actual documentation of the current Jewish community dates only back to the second of the 19th century.

1827: In London, Joseph Gutteres Henriques, the son of Jacob Bueno Henriques and Sarah Henriques, and his wife Eliza Henriques gave birth to Frederick Gutteres Henriques

1829(26th of Av, 5589): Judith Cohen, the daughter of Kitty Etting and Benjamin I. Cohen who were married in 1819 passed away today, three months before her second birthday.

1830: Belgium revolts against the Netherlands. Belgium gained its independence as a neutral Catholic Constitutional Monarchy in 1831 at which time it “officially recognized Judaism immediately. Brussels, with a more French influenced Jewish community, had a higher rate of assimilation, while Antwerp, influenced by Yiddish and Flemish, retained traditional forms of Jewish life, a trend that remains today. Belgium's Jewish population grew significantly after 1880, when Eastern European Jews began fleeing hostile areas and settling in Belgium.”

1832: Today, Saul Samuel  and his mother arrived in Australia aboard The Brothers “to meet with Samuel's brother, Lewis, and their uncle, Samuel Lyons, was had arrived in colonial New South Wales a few years earlier.”

1833: In Rotterdam, Sara Wolf and Benjamin Phineas Moses Spiers gave birth to Matilda Spiers.

1836: In Schoken, Germany, Lewis Levy and his wife gave birth to Lipman Levy, the Cincinnati College trained Ohio lawyer and “president of District Grand Lodge No. 2 of B’nai B’rith” who the husband of the former Henrietta Feder.

1837: In London, Charlotte and Lionel Nathan Rothschild gave birth to Leonora Rothschild, the wife of Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild

1839: In the UK, Baron Lionel de Rothschild and Charlotte von Rothschild gave birth to Evelina de Rothschild.

 

1844(10th of Elul, 5604): Áron Chorin a Hungarian rabbi and pioneer of religious reform passed away.

 

1846: A wagon train owned and commanded by a Prussian Jew named Albert Speyer arrived in Penol, Mexico where all 25 wagons were seized by authorities and Speyer and his party were jailed by the Mexicans.  For the next six weeks, Speyer would petition the Mexican government to release him, his men and his wagons. The government finally agreed to the release provided that Speyer would replace his American drivers with Mexicans.  Considering the fact that an American army had invaded Mexico, this did not seem like an unreasonable request.

1850: “In the town of Potscheff,” “a poor Lithuanian Jewish innkeeper” and his wife gave birth to Pinkhus Borukh who gave fame as Pavel Borisovich Axelrod, the Jewish Menshevik who died in exile while opposing the Bolshevik Revolution and was the husband of the former Nadezhda Ivanovna Kaminer with whom he had three children – “ Vera, Alexander and Sofia.”

http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSaxelrod.htm

1850(17th of Elul, 5610): Ninety-four-year-old Abraham Mordecai who was among the earliest white residents, and likely the first Jewish resident, of what is now Alabama” and who “played a role in virtually all of the events that shaped the Southeast, including the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Creek War of 1813-14, and in Alabama's early statehood and economic development” passed away today.

1854: It was reported today that the people of Jamaica have collected $2,000 for the relief of the suffering Jews of Jerusalem.  The funds have been sent to Sir Moses Montefiore who is acting as treasurer for the British based organization seeking to aid the Jews.

1857: The "News from Europe" column reported that Lord Russell would not bring forward his bill to change the oath so that Jews could sit in Parliament because it was too late in the session.  He said he would introduce such a measure in the following session of Parliament.

1858: In Somerset, England, Edwin De Leon, U.S. Agent and Consul General for Egypt and Dependencies married Ellen Mary Nowlan, the youngest daughter of the late James Nowlan.

1850: Birthdate of James Edgar Martine, the Senator from New Jersey who was the driving force behind a resolution passed by the Senate in January 1916 asking President Wilson to “set aside a day as Jewish Relief Day” on which funds would be raised across the country to aid Jews suffering in war torn Europe.

1860: In Cincinnati, Michael Henry Silverman and Ulrika Silverman gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Silverman, the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union grad who served at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas and Congregation B’nai Israel in Galveston before becoming the first “American rabbi” to lead Temple Emanu-El in New York City.

1864: During the Sherman’s campaign to take Atlanta, the 79th Indiana under the command of Colonel Frederick Knefler began to take part in the movement to outflank the Confederates by moving toward Jonesboro.

1865: In Philadelphia, PA, Bertha Myer and Bernard Loeb gave birth to University of Missouri graduate and Columbia trained ear, nose and throat specialist Hanau Wolf Loeb, the husband of Grace Sadler and Dean of St. Louis University Medical School

1865: Four months after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, Frederick (Friedrich) C. Salomon was mustered out of the Union Army.  Salomon had begun the war as a Captain.  By the end of hostilities, he had risen to the rank of Major Genera (Brevet) a tribute to his skill, bravery and tenacity.

1867(24th of Av, 5627): Fifty-nine-year-old Levi Bodenheim who served as a rabbi at Hildesheim and Krefeld passed away there today.

1868(7th of Elul, 5628): Sixty-four-year-old Henry Benjamin Nones, the Philadelphia born son of Abraham Benjamin Nones and Miriam Mark de Nones and husband of Anna Nones with whom he had nine children passed away today in Wilmington, Delaware.

1869: Moses and Rose Harsch Fraley gave birth to Missouri resident Jessie Fraley the brother of Sadie Fraley Stix and Edward C. Fraley

1870:In New Orleans, Salomon Marx and his wife gave birth to Archibald Arthur Marx, a director of the YMHA and Turo Infirmary/

1871: Birthdate of Kovno native Morris Turtiz, the founder of “the New York Linen Supply Company
and co-founder of both “The Jewish Daily Forward” and “the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies”

1872: Four days after she had passed away, Julia Fisher, the wife of Jacob Fisher, was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.

1872: It was reported today that of the fifty-three delegates who had attended a B’nai Brith convention in Atlanta, GA, forty-five said they would vote for Grant in the upcoming Presidential election and eight said they would vote for Horace Greely.  [This might come as a surprise to those who have tried to depict Grant as an anti-Semite.]

1873(2nd of Elul, 5633): Sixty-two-year-old Harriet Mordecai, the Virginia born  daughter of Joseph and Esther "Hetty" [Marache] Mordecai and “the granddaughter of Moses Mordecai from Bonn, Germany and Elizabeth [Whitlock] "Esther" Mordecai from England. Harriett” passed away today in Charleston, SC after which she was interred at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Cemetery.

1874: Today’s “Foreign Miscellany” column offered a summary of the life of the recently deceased Baron Anselm de Rothschild and his simple burial in Frankfurt.

1876: In Berlin Deborah Leonore Cohn the daughter of Dr. Marcus M0sse and Ultrike Mosse and Emil Cohn gave birth to Fritz Cohn.

1876: Three days after he had passed away, 52-year-old Barnet Samuel Phillips was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

 1878: Today’s list of contributions to help those in the South caught in the grip of the Yellow Fever Epidemic included a $1,000 donation from Jews living in New York.

1878: In New York City, Hattie Collenberger and Lyman Bloomingdale gave birth to Irving Ingersol Bloomingdale.

1878: Three days after she had passed away, 77-year-old Phoebe Jacobs, the daughter of Isaac and Catherine Jacobs was buried today at the “Halfway (Queensborough) Jewish Cemetery

 1879: The Grand Lodge of the Southern District of Kesher Shel Barzel held a second day of meetings in Baltimore Maryland.  The district includes 33 lodges in Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and the District of Columbia.  As is the case with all such fraternal organizations, the activities are secret.

1881(30th of Av, 5641): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1881: The Young Men’s Hebrew Union is scheduled to host a garden concert at Washington Park this evening.

1881: “Anti-Jewish Agitation” published today described conditions in Germany where the Emperor has expressed his disapproval of “the anti-Jewish agitation.”  At the same time there is reportedly a great deal of “apprehension” among the Junkers concerning a governmental “inquiry into the persecution of the Jews in Pomerania and West Prussia.”  (The Junkers were the ultra-conservative landed gentry of Prussia who would have opposed the emancipation of German Jews)

 1882: The body of 20-year-old Elisa Blumer was found floating in the North River today.  A native of Baden, the young Jewess came to the United States and move in with her step-brother David Wertheimer and his wife. The brother owns a successful butcher shop on Spring and MacDougal.

1883: In the last of three articles published in the Athenaeum concerning a scroll of the Book of Deuteronomy discovered by Moses Shapira, Biblical scholar David Ginsburg wrote “I have designedly abstained from making any remark or calling attention to any anomalies in the Hebrew text, as my report, which is to appear next week, will contain a full account of all the peculiarities of the manuscript and the conclusion I have arrived at about its geniuses

1884: Four days after he had passed away, 46-year-old “Phineas Solomon de Pinna” the son of David and Caroline de Pinna was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1884: Fifty-five-year-old Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill, the British diplomat who worked tirelessly to try and gain the freedom of Edgardo Mortara from the Catholic Church and have him returned to his Jewish parents passed away today.

1885: Two days after he had passed away, “Samuel Morrice” the husband of Phoebe Morrice with whom he had seven children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1885(14th of Elul, 5645): Fifty-seven-year-old Marcus Kalisch, a native of Pomerania who served as a secretary to the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire and was tutor to the Rothschild  family as well as the author of commentaries on Exodus, Genesis and Leviticus, passed away today.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9153-kalisch-marcus-m

1887: Birthdate of New York City native Saul B. Ackerman, the Columbia University educated “actuary and insurance expert” who encouraged Asa Spaulding to become an actuary when there was not on African-American actuary in the United States.

https://books.google.com/books?id=TTha3NavN-sC&pg=PA396&lpg=PA396&dq=Saul+B.+Ackerman,+actuary&source=bl&ots=yZfSLIdtNZ&sig=L6Cnl_eOACCdueMpmupbThHrWgM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1x4KI5obdAhWM5YMKHY1XCLwQ6AEwCHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=Saul%20B.%20Ackerman%2C%20actuary&f=false

1888(18th of Elul, 5648) Parashat Ki Tavo

1888(18th of Elul, 5648): Austro-Hungarian banker and philanthropist Jacob Noisotz who founded “the first modern synagogue in Moldavia” passed away today.

1888: In London, Emil and Erna (Horowitz) Harrow gave birth Columbia trained chemist Dr. Benjamin Harrow, the husband of Carolyn Solis with whom he had one daughter, Margaret, who taught chemistry at Clark University and Fordham Medical School.

1889: According to some, Ohaveth Shalom (Lovers of Peace) the first Jewish congregation in Seattle was established today.

1889: In Long Branch, NJ, Helena Rosenburg and Julius J. Frank gave birth to Yale educated author Waldo David Frank, the husband of Margaret Naumburg from whom he was divorced in 1916 and whose first two books were The Unwelcome Man published in 1917 and The Art of the Vieux Colombier published in 1918.

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Frank%2C%20Waldo%20David%2C%201889%2D1967

1889: In Latvia, Rabbi Joseph and Alida (Gutkin) Glushak gave birth American “specialist in eye, car and throat diseases” Dr. Leopold Gulshak, who served on the faculty of Army Medical School during WW I, and was member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun.

https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24252&type=P

1889: Following the adoption of the Pittsburg Platform by the Conference of Reform Rabbis today, in Davenport, IA, Bnai Israel, “unanimously voted that the established law in Judaism that a Mynion is constituted only of ten males over thirteen years of age was too much against civilization and instead, they have made it a law in Israel that ten persons, male or female, shall henceforth be consider a minyon to conduct services with.”

1890: Chief of Police Jerry Lordan telegraphed from San Francisco that Dennis Collonge, the man who falsely accused Galveston Jewish businessmen Sampson and Isaac Heidensheimer of arson has been arrested and that he will bring him back to Galveston, TX as soon as the extradition process has been completed.

1890: Today, the managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will provide a free excursion for 592 children and teachers from the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery, the Industrial School of the United Hebrew Charities, the Downtown Religious and Sewing School of the 19th Street Synagogue and the Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood. 

1890: Thomas Abbot, who had been charged with assaulting Paul Ohlenhausen, “an aged Hebrew was discharged at the Tombs” today on grounds that he was insane at the same time.

1890: “Debarred Russian Hebrews” published today descried the efforts to overturn the decision by the Acting Superintendent of Immigration to bar ten Russian Jews from entering the United States among whom are 21 year old Moses Wolf, a jeweler from Odessa whose brother Alfred is a naturalized citizen working in Philadelphia and Jacob Cohen who speaks English fluently and whose cousin Isodor Burros who has operated a grocery store for eleven years in New York has a job for him.

1891: It was reported today that in Baltimore, “a large number of Hebrews are greatly opposed” to the “influx” of Jews from Russia.  “Elias Rohf agent of the Baron Hirsch Fund has promised…that no more Russian Hebrew immigrants when bonded out will be allowed to say remain” in Baltimore “but will be sent” elsewhere.

1891: Birthdate of Israeli poet and author David Shimoni 

1891: “The Pall Mall Gazette” said today “that the Prince of Wales is Taking great interest in the matter of the persecution of the Jews in Russia and in the condition” of Jewish immigrants “who are coming to England.” (Must to the consternation of his mother, the future King Edward numbered several Jews among his “circle’)

1892: Birthdate of Elizavetgrad native Samuel Garner who, in 1893, came to the United States where he became a composer and violinist who shared in a Pulitzer Prize.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/obituaries/samuel-gardner-92-is-dead-violinist-and-juilliard-teacher.html

1892: As French authorities wrestle with an outbreak of Cholera, the steamer Galicia from Hamburg which arrived at Havre with immigrants aboard, some of whom were thought to be Russian Jews, was placed in quarantine.

1892: Birthdate of New York native and Columbia trained attorney Henry S. Hendricks, a partner in the firm of Cardozo and Nathan, the husband of Rosalie Hendricks and Naval Reserve Ensign during WW I whose many activities in the Jewish community including served as President of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue for 25 years and treasurer of the American Jewish Historical Society from 1922 to 1944.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/03/15/110084901.html?pageNumber=88

1892: As of today, “nothing has been heard at the U.S. Treasury Department about the proposed departure from Harve for Boston of a number of Jews from Odessa who originally intended to go to New York, but whose journey was interrupted at Lyons because of the refusal of the steamship lines to take them to New York.”

1892: Birthdate of Sam Toubin, a Texas merchant who would marry Rosa Levin Toubin who wrote History of B'nai Abraham Synagogue.

1895: The list published today of the recipients of donations from the sons of the late Simon Wormser includes $2,500 to - Mt. Sinai Hospital, Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Montefiore Home; $1,000 to Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and United Hebrew Charities.

1895: Among the speakers at the dinner given tonight in honor of the English socialist J.K. Hardie, were Daniel De Leon whose topic was “Labor Movements in General and In America Especially” and A. Shapiro whose topic was “The Hebrew Labor Movement.”

1895: Among those Russian Jewish immigrants who are scheduled to be shipped back to Europe tomorrow because there is a fear that they will become “public charges” are 21 year old Moses Wolf, a professional jeweler who was met by his brother Alfred Wolf a naturalized American citizen who is employed by a company in Philadelphia and Jacob Cohen, who speaks English fluently and whose cousin Isidor Burros had already rented him an apartment and was ready to help him find a job.

1896: It was reported today that “Oscar Hammerstein has engaged a very strong stock comic opera company that will perform at the Olympic Theatre” beginning with a production of “Santa Maria” in September.

1896: “Convention of Jewish Women” published today descripted for “the first convention Jewish women ever held in” the United States which is an outgrowth of the Congress of Women held at the Columbian exposition in 1893.

1896: In Vilna, Leon and Elizabeth Gershnowitz gave birth to University of Liege alum and WWI veteran of the Russian Liege who in 1918 came to the United States where  he followed in the footsteps of his older brother Morris

Gest, the son-in-law of David Belasco and became a “theatrical manager and producer.”

https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/bib/b20306838?originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.nypl.org%2Frecord%3Db20306838

1897: Herzl arrives in Basel prior to the start of the First Zionist Congress.

1897(25th of Av. 5657): Forty-five-year-old Albert Tobias, who owned a hotel at Far Rockaway, passed away today in New York City.  A native of German, he came to the United States and leaves behind a widow and 2 sons.

1897: Birthdate of Paul Einzig, the native of Transylvania who earned a PhD at the University of Paris become moving to England where he became a leading writer on financial and commercial affairs

1898: A bank conference takes place three days before the opening of the Second Zionist Congress.

1898: In Natchez, MS, Moritz and Beulah Benjamin Hellman gave birth to Inez M. Hellman, the wife of Frederick W. Feibleman

1899: Jules Guerin and some of his followers caused a stir when they tried to pass out circulars denouncing the Jews from the windows of the office buildings where they had taken refuge from police.

1899: This evening a reporter from the anti-Semitic weekly Anti-Juif was prevented by police from sneaking food into the Paris offices were Jules Guerin and his associates were holding out against arrest by authorities.

1899: Rowland Strong, an English newspaper man testified today that “Count Esterhazy confessed to him that he wrote the famous bordeau.”

1899: Today, at the court martial of Captain Dreyfus, Albert Gobert the handwriting expert from the Bank of France “reported on examining the documents in the case that Esterhazy and not Dreyfus wrote the bordeau” (Gobert is credited by some to have “the honor of being the first man to have declared in favor of Dreyfus” since he had identified the true author of the incriminating documents, a fact which the French military chose to ignore)

1899: The funeral, Aaron J Wechsler, the eldest son of the late Joseph Wechsler, who was a partner in Wechsler & Abraham and was a member of several Jewish organizations including Temple Israel, will be held at his home on 8th Avenue in Brooklyn.
1900:  German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche passed away.  Nietzsche was not an anti-Semite and did not condone anti-Semitism. His biggest problem with Judaism was that it gave birth to Christianity, a religion he reportedly detested.  In Human, All Too Human Nietzsche derided the attempt to blame the Jews for all of society’s ills.  There were Jews with many disagreeable traits and habits, but then this was true of all groups. He canceled at least one magazine subscription because of its anti-Semitic tone.  He was extremely upset when his sister married a rabid anti-Semite with whom he declared that he had nothing in common.  Unfortunately for Nietzsche, the Nazis misappropriated some of his ideas.  They were aided in this corruption by Nietzsche’s sister who received a state funeral by order of Adolph Hitler himself.

1900: Birthdate of Arthur Kober the native of Brody who moved to the United States as a child where he became a successful press agent and author whose wife was playwright Lillian Hellman.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/13/archives/arthur-kober-humorist-is-dead-at-74.html

1900: Maurice Arnold de Forest, the adopted son of  millionaire Baroness Clara de Hirsch, née Bischoffsheim, wife of Jewish banker and philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch de Gereuth who was rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Baron was “commissioned in the militia as Second Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales’s Own Norfolk Artillery.

1901: The recent fires which partially destroyed several towns in Russia have been blamed on the Jews.

1902: Birthdate of German composer Stefan Wolpe and husband of American poet Hilda Morley, who found refuge from the Nazis on a Kibbutz in pre-War Palestine before settling in the United States.

http://www.wolpe.org/page3/page3.html

https://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00002691

1903(2nd of Elul, 5663):Sixty-two-year-old German native Wolf Landau, who served as the Rabbi at several U.S. congregations before finally settling in Bay City, MI, where he led Anshe Chesed, a Reform congregation founded in September of 1879 that met on Adams Street and offered Sunday School classes as well as regular Saturday morning services passed away today.

1903(2nd of Elul, 5663): Jacques Nissim Pasha the son of a physician who became a Turkish army surgeon serving as director of the Central Hospital of Salonica and Medical Inspector of the Third Army Corps passed away today in his hometown of Salonica.

1903: At the Zionist Congress, delegates debated the issue of Uganda with the Russians taking the stance of “Get Out” and the English responding with “Get In.”

1904: “The Cologne Gazette learns that on Aug. 12 the Russian Ministers and heads of departments discussed the repeal of a number of erroneous interpretations of the laws affecting the Jews.”

1905: The Board of the United States General Appraisers partially sustained the claims of several companies today including Samuel Schiff and Company.

1906: “Thirty-four boys and girls who became orphans during the Pogroms of November, 1905, arrived today in the United States.

1907; It was reported today that Miss Rhoda Seligman, the daughter of New York banker Henry Seligman who is staying at Pupp’s Hotel in Carlsbad is engaged to be married to Frederick Lewisohn the son Leonard Lewisohn Z”L and the brother of Jesse Lewisohn.

1907: “Prof. Vambrey on Zionism,” published today, quoted “Professor Arminius Vambrey, the noted Hungarian traveler and Orientalist” as saying of the Zionist movement “I do not think it would be a good thing to invest big capital in Palestine” because “as long as only small parcels of land are bought and purchases of land are made…the Turks will tolerate it but after a time things may change and everything may to naught.”

1908: Two days after he had passed way, Frankfort native Robert Henry Seligman, the son of Abraham and Eleonore Seligman was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1909: It was reported today that in response to the request of Albert Lucas , the Honorary Secretary of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States and Canada requesting that leave be granted to Jewish Soldiers on the High Holidays, the Adjutant General wrote to him saying “that the proper commanding officers had been authorized to grant the privilege.”

1910 Birthdate of Ethel Stark the Montreal native who “founded the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra in 1940” and which she conducted until 1960.

1910: Birthdate of Grace, Mississippi native David Danzig, the holder of degrees from CCNY and University Pennsylvania and “associate professor of Social Work at the Columbia University School of Social Work” who married “the former Maxine Friedman” with whom he had two children

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/14/78355718.html?pageNumber=35

1910:  The Yellow Cab Company is co-founded by an Austrian born Jew named John D. Hertz. Hertz will sell his cab company to another Jew, Morris Markin the owner of the Checker Cab Company.  Hertz will go on to find the leading car rental agency in the United States.  The yellow in the Hertz Rent-A-Car logo is a reminder of the yellow in the Yellow Cab Company

1911(1st of Elul, 5671): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1911: Hilfsverein der Deuteshcne Juden sent a second donation of thirty thousand marks to provide relief for the Jews who have suffered losses in the fires at Constantinople.

1911: The King of Greece decorated “Professor Theodor Gompertz with Order Grand Commander of Order of the Savior

1911: In Great Britain, Sir Phillip Magnus, M.P., resigned his presidency of the Berkeley Street Synagogue.

1911: In Montreal, the Hebrew National Society is formed to thwart attempts to convert Jews to Christianity.

1911: In the Polish section of the Russian Empire the Jews of Siedlce are attacked by anti-Semitic mobs.

1911: Six hundred Jewish families lose their homes in fires that break out in Aden while the Jews of Salonica suffer losses when fire breaks out at the library in Epoca.

1911: Ritual murder charges are revived in Galicia and Romania

1911: In South Africa, Lt. Colonel Salaman became the commanding officer of the Kimberley Regiment. 1911: In Vienna, the Rothschilds donated fifty thousand Austrian crowns for relief of the families suffering from floods at Bukovina.

1912: “Ludwig Rosenheim, a stockbroker, whose father was from Würzburg, Germany, and Martha Reichenbach, whose father was from St. Gall, Switzerland” both of whom were “non-practicing Jews” gave birth to Major Charles Leslie Rosenheim, the younger brother of “British physician Max Leonard Rosenheim.

1912: “Tax Board Completes Hearings” published today described the meeting of the Camden (NJ) Board of Taxation where it heard requests for exemptions including one from the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society for the property taxes on 1139-41 Baring Street which was granted.

1912: One day after he had passed away, Russian born Woolf Cohen, the husband of Malke Cohen with whom he had three children was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.”

1913: In an orgy of anti-Semitism, Leo Frank was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan and sentenced to death. Though there was no real evidence against, Tom Watson, the editor of the Jeffersonian, used the fact that Frank was a Jew to convict him before the public. In this charged atmosphere, all appeals failed. In 1915, Georgia Governor John Slater, knowing that the trial had been unfair, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On August 17, 1915, "an armed mob took Frank from his prison cell and lynched him.  Years later a convict confessed and implicated the primary witness against Frank.  The outburst of anti-Semitism that accompanied the Frank case was one of the prime reasons that the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith was formed in 1913.

1913: Jake Cohen, the Lithuanian born son of Zalman Gan and Dora Brusk gave birth to Marie Cohen.

1914: Following a series of defeats at the hands of the advancing German Army which contained an unknown number of Jews, the Allies began a fighting retreat from the Mons in which Jews fought in both the French and German armies.  To those on the line, this looked like the start of a debacle that would end much as things had at the climax of the Franco-Prussian War.

1915: Frank Moss, a candidate for District Attorney in New York spoke at a meeting tonight where “he denied the claims of his opponents that he had ever attacked the Jews” saying that “the Jews of New York now that I have been on the best friends they have ever had.  They are making me out to be a Jews hater in order to create an opposition to my candidacy which would be very difficult to overcome.”

1915: “Pending examination of the whole question, imperial sanction has been given the decision by the Council of the empire to abolish restrictions upon Jewish residence in” most “Russian cities.”

1915: In Albany, Frank Mann of Brooklyn spoke “at length” at the Constitutional Convention as he expressed his opposition to “the proposal requiring a literacy test as a voting qualification” – a proposal opposed by Jewish leaders but a proposal which he opposed because of his large German constituency.

1916: The Italian government developed a plan for administration of the Jewish community in Tripoli.

1916: It was reported today that Gedaliah Bublick, editor of the Jewish Daily News said that “there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Jewish refugees of military age in England” and that “the Jews in this country could have no possible objection to a campaign in England to induce the Jewish refugees from Russia to enlist in the British Army.”

1917: Representatives of the Government and the American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers entered into an agreement today for the adjustment of labor disputes in shipyards which, they believe, will hasten the settlement of the strike in New York, where more than 12,000 workers have walked off the job.

1917(7th of Elul, 5677): Parashat Shoftim

1917(7th of Elul, 5677): Fifty-year-old Judge Samuel D. Schultz of Vancouver, British Columbia, passed away today.

1917: It was reported today that the correspondent of German newspaper correspondent in Constantinople “the Presidents of various Jewish organizations in Turkey have issued statements that support the Grand Rabbinate’s declaration that “the Turkish have nothing to do with American attempts to separate Palestine from Turkey under the pretext of liberation.”

1918: In Lawrence, MA, Jennie (née Resnick) and Samuel Joseph Bernstein, a hair-dressing supplies wholesaler originating from Rovno gave birth to Louis Bernstein who gained famed American conductor, composer and pianist Leonard Bernstein.

http://www.leonardbernstein.com/

1918: Samuel Gompers, the Chairman of the Committee on Labor of the Council of National Defense, has recommended to Secretary of Labor Wilson that medical examination of workers be made one of the functions of the Government's labor recruiting agencies.

1919: Birthdate of David William Wolkowsky “a grandson of Jewish immigrants from Russia who had moved from New York to Jacksonville, Fla., and then to Key West, the southernmost Florida key, in the late 1880s where they opened a men’s clothing store on bustling Duval Street.” (As reported by Sam Roberts):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/obituaries/david-wolkowsky-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1920:  During the Polish-Soviet War the Battle of Warsaw which started on August 13 came to an end with the defeat of the Soviet Army.  This victory insured that there would be an independent non-Communist Poland with all that that would mean for the Polish Jewish community. 

1920:In New York, Louis and Leah Helen Cantor Sobol gave birth to Natalie Muriel Sobol the wife of Ramon Joseph Spritzler.

1920: NYU trained attorney Moses Maldwin Fertig the New York born son of Celia Siegel and Joseph Fertig and the co-author of the Lockwood-Fertig bill that provided “equal pay for school teachers in New York City married Mathilda Wohl today.

1921: Samuel Gompers delivered an address to the Kiwanis Club of Atlantic City, NJ.

1921(21st of Av, 5681): Dr. Robert B. Patek who had served as a captain in the Medical Corps passed away in San Francisco.

1921: In Berlin, German and the United States signed a treaty officially ending WW I – a treaty made necessary by the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Versailles Treaty which laid for the creation of the League of Nation which, with the U.S. as an active member might have avoided WW II and the Shoah.

1922(1st of Elul, 5682): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1922: Birthdate of Israeli violinists Ivry Gitlis.

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/at-90-master-violinist-wants-to-bestow-his-knowledge-onto-a-new-generation-1.468412

1923(13th of Elul, 5683): Parashat Ki Teitzei

1923: “Just how American money is being used to save war sufferers in Eastern end Central Europe from the breadline and is helping them to reconstruct their broken lives, was told today by Herbert H. Lehman, Chairman of the Reconstruction Committee of the Joint Distribution Committee”

1924: The Conference of the Committee of Jewish Delegations which “will deal with problems affecting the fight of minoriites in Eastern Europe as guaranteed by the Treaty of Versailles is scheduled to open today in Carlsbad.

1925: Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, began his tenure as British High Commissioner in Palestine.   

1925: In Birkenhead, Joe and May Makin gave birth to their only son Elkan Rex Makin the English Solicitor who provided Brian Epstein with legal help when he was the manager of the Beatles.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rex-makin-dies-liverpool-lawyer-13244311

1926: The body of sixty-eight-year-old Alfred M. Cohen who had died yesterday was on the White Star Liner Majrest as she prepared to dock in New York today.

1927: It was reported today that “the American Red Cross gave $5,000 toward the relief of sufferers in the Palestine earthquake of July 11.

1928(9th of Elul, 5688): Parashat Ki Teitzei

1928: As of today, the Jewish population in the U.S.S.R. numbers 2,600,945.

1929: A large Arab crowd made what the official British report described as ‘a most ferocious attack’ on the Jewish Quarter.  Within five hours, more than sixty Jews had been killed including many women and children.

1929: Fifty British troops arrived from Egypt to help restore order in Jerusalem.  They arrived too late for the 31 Jews who had been killed, the 100 who had been wounded and the four thousand who had been forced from their homes.

1929: “Her Private Life” directed by Alexander Korda was released today in the United States.

1930(1st of Elul, 5690) Rosh Chodesh Elul

1930: “Abraham Lincoln” a biopic produced by Joseph M. Schenck and with music by Hugo Riesenfeld was released in the United States today.

1930: “Abschied” a romantic comedy directed by Robert Siodmark and written by Emeric Pressburger premiered in Berlin today.

1930: “The Great Longing” a “comedy film” directed by Steve Sekely who co-authored the script with music by Paul Dessau and Friedrich Hollaender was released to in Germany by Deutsche Universal-Film

1931: Birthdate of L.A. television news anchor Hal Fishman.

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-fishman8aug08-story.html

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-fishman8aug08-story.html

1931: Rufus Daniel Isaacs the “son of a Jewish fruit merchant at Spitalfields” and the 1st Marquess of Reading began serving as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords.

1932: The “semi-annual meeting of the New York Zionist Region” which was also attended by representatives from Rhode Island, New Jersey and Connecticut opened tonight at White Lake, NY.

1933: In Czernowitz, military authorities suspended publication of the Jewish paper, Der Tag, because it criticized the Government for not finding it possible to protect the Maccabee World Union's sport team.

1933: The Maccabiade, the international Jewish sports festival, opened in Prague. The participating teams of Jewish athletes come from fourteen different countries.

1933: In an interview, Czech President Masaryk, declared that the Jewish situation in Germany is not a purely internal question and will be discussed by the League of Nations.

1933: Testimony given in the magistrate's court at Jaffa. Palestine, alleges that Revisionist extremists had contemplated recourse to murder

1933: In Nazi Germany, the official government gazette, Reichsanzeiger, included German-Jewish novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger's name on the first list of those whose German citizenship was revoked because of "disloyalty to the German Reich and the German people

1933: The Haavara (Transfer) agreement between the German Ministry of the Economy and the Zionist Organization facilitates a large-scale emigration of Jews from Germany to Palestine.

1934(14th of Elul, 5694) Parashat Ki Teitzei

1934: It was reported today that the police have arrested Jack Cohen, Harry Greenberg and Solomon Ladelson have been arrested for the theft of a truckload of women’s garments in Brooklyn on August 23.

1935: CCNY and Columbia educated Dr. Benjamin Malzberg, the New York City born son of “Nathan and Anna (Elson) Malzberg and “director of research and statistics in the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, married Rose Hershberg

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/14/archives/dr-benjamin-malzberg-expert-on-mental-health.html

1935: The agreement with the Nazi Government of Germany for the exportation to Palestine of seized Jewish capital in the form of German machinery was denounced today in the Eighteenth World Zionist Congress by Meer Grossman, leader of the Democratic Revisionists, a faction of the right wing extremists

1935: In New York premiere of “Broadway Melody of 1936” written by Harry Conn, Moss Hart and Sid Silvers who also performed in the movie along with Jack Benny.

1936(7th of Elul, 5695): Fifty-two-year-old Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev “one of seven members of the first politburo” was executed today one day after being found guilty in one of  Stalin’s first show trials aimed at purging all of those who might present a challenge to his dictatorship with a special emphasis on getting rid of Jewish Bolsheviks.

1936: “The Beloved Vagabond,” a British musical directed by Curtis Bernhardt who co-authored the script and music by Darius Milhaud was released today in the United Kingdom.

1936(7th of Elul, 5696): Sixty-seven-year-old Dr. Julius Tandler, the Moravian native who was a leading Social Democrat in Vienna passed away today in Moscow.

1936(7th of Elul, 5696): In Belmar, NJ, eighty-five-year-old Moses S. Margolies, “dean of the Orthodox rabbis in North American and head of the Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue of New York passed away this morning at the Carlton Hotel in the presence of his wife, his son Hyman and his daughter, Mrs. Ida Newman.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9F05EFDF1F3FEE3BBC4E51DFBE66838D629EDE

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa8388

1936: “The six-day session of the actions committee of the World Zionist Organization” which is “seeking to create a ‘united front’ of Jews throughout the world” concerning Palestine is scheduled to open today in Zurich.

1936: “At a luncheon of the sponsors committee at the Hotel Pennsylvania today the Mayors of three cities and other civic leaders pledged their support to the Palestine Maccabee-All Star soccer match to be played at Yankee Stadium in September.”

1936: “The Jewish Review, the organ of the Zionist Jews in German makes a considerable display of an article in which it ass the Zinovieff cased in Moscow is the best indication of the minor and subjugated role that Jews play in present-day Bolshevism saying ‘It is not as simple as it sometimes appears to make the terms Bolshevik and Jewish synonymous as is sometimes done.”

1936: Russian born American photographer Alexander Liberman married Hildegarde Sturm resulting in a short-lived match that would enable him to marry Tatiana Yacovleff du Plessix Liberman in 1942 after having escaped from occupied France with her in 1941,

1937: A Christian Arab, Butrus Aranki, head of the Bir Zeit Local Council, was shot dead by an Arab assailant.

1938: The British authorities declared a twenty-two hour daily curfew in Jenin following yesterday’s murder of W. S. Moffatt, Assistant District Commissioner by Arab terrorists.

1938: The Los Angeles Examiner reported today that the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (HANL) the “first American anti-Nazi organization that was not overtly linked to American Jews” and which was in fact a Communist front organization “came under attack from the anti-Communist Patriotic Sons of America.”

1939: In Rio de Janeiro, Pauline (née Wolin) and Abram Brickman gave birth to the banjo playing Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman, the husband of Editor Nina Feinberg.

1939: Today, the day after the sign of the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, the Russian refused to meet with the French and the British while the British surprised the world, including Hitler, by signing a pact with Poland that provided for the defense of the little nation caught between Europe’s two reigning dictators.

1939: After being freed from a Nazi prison and stripped of all his possession innovate Jewish businessman Arnold Bernstein and his wife Lilli boarded the SS Neiuw Amsterdam at Southampton, UK as they made their way to the United States.

1939: Today, University of Missouri and University of Chicago graduate and librarian Leon Carnovsky, the St. Louis born son of Isaac and Jennie Stillman Carnovsky who “furthered the work of librarians in the United States and around the world by publishing many works that discussed the issues that were at the heart of librarianship” married his first wife Marian Satterhwaite the director of the Enoch Library Pratt Library after whose death he married Ruth French Strot, dean of students and assoicte professor in the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago.

1940: In Chicago, the 17th Annual Convention of Junior Hadassah, the Young Women's Zionist Organization of America, comes to an end.

1940: This date marked the first British air raids on Berlin.  The raids were a blow to Goering who had promised Hitler that the German Air Force would never allow such a thing to happen. According to some, the raids were in response to the German air assault known as the Battle of Britain. One can only wonder how Jews hiding in Berlin felt when the bombs came thudding down through the night sky.   It would be another three years before the German capital would feel the full brunt of Allied airpower when the Americans began attacking by day the British by night.

1940: Agudas Israel of America, Inc, which was organized in 1921 “to act as an international religious organization for the assistance and maintenance of the spiritual life of the Orthodox Jew the world over” continued its second annual convention for a fourth day in Cincinnati, OH.

 1941: Birthdate of Academy Award winning screenwriter Arthur Brickman, the Rio de Janeiro native who joined Eric Weissberg for banjo duets during the 1960’s.

1941: At Woodmere, LI, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan officiated t the wedding of Elanor Sear and Ferdinand Spear of Albany, NY.

 1941: This date marked a turning point in the fate of approximately 14,000 displaced Hungary Jews (forced laborers), now living in Kamenets Podolsk, U.S.S.R. In July, Kamenets-Podolsk was occupied by the Hungarian forces that fought alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. Beginning in mid-July, some 14,000 Jews, residents but not citizens of Hungary, were deported to Korosmezo near the Polish border. From there, they were sent to Kolomija near Kamenets-Podolsk, and turned over to the SS. By August 10, at least 14,000 Jews had been handed over in this fashion. Today the fate of these Jews was sealed in a meeting at the headquarters of the commander of the Wehrmacht logistics division at Vinnitsa. At this meeting, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Friedrich Jeckeln promised to finish murdering the Jews whom the Hungarians had turned over by September, 

1941: German military and civilian authorities meet at Vinnitsa, Ukraine, to discuss the fate of about 20,000 Hungarian Jews impressed into forced labor and interned at Kamenets-Podolski, Ukraine. Lt. General Friedrich Jeckeln announces that all 20,000 will be liquidated by September 1st.

1941(2nd of Elul, 5701): Fifteen hundred Jews are murdered at Tykocin, Poland.

1941: In Yugoslavia, 8000 Jewish residents of Belgrade are transported to Topovske Supe, where they are murdered.

1942: Forty-one-year-old Pilsen resident Sepanka Adelerova was transported from Terezin to Maly Trostinec today where she was murdered.

 1942(12th of Elul, 5702): Jews are locked in a church at Lask, Poland, and killed. Among the victims are a mother and her baby, who is born inside the church.

1942(12th of Elul, 5702): At Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1100 Jews are herded to the local Jewish cemetery, where all but about 100 are shot and beaten to death. Survivors are forced to bury the victims.

1942(12th of Elul, 5702): At the Treblinka death camp, a deranged, young Jewish woman is discovered hiding a small child beneath the bed sheet she wears. Camp guards shoot and kill both the woman and the child.

1942:  Over the next four days Ten thousand Jews from Nowy Sacz, Poland, are deported to the Belzec extermination camp.

1942: Birthdate of Howard Jacobson author of the Finkler Question for which he won the Man Booker Prize.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/12/howard-jacobson-the-finkler-question-booker

1942: “Rose Laub married Lewis A. Coser, a fellow refugee who shared her commitment to socialism and who later became an eminent sociologist. The couple had two children, Ellen Coser Perrin, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Steven Coser, a computer scientist.” (As reported by by Suzanne Vromen)

 1943: At the Janowska camp, the Germans selected 24 of the prettiest Jewish girls, had a night of entertainment with them, and then sent all but one to their death the next day. The one was shot while trying to escape from the transport.

1943: Birthdate of Norman Geras, the native of what was then Rhodesia who became a Professor at the University of Manchester and was “one of the principle authors of the Euston Manifesto.” He is the husband of Adele Geras, the Jerusalem born author and the father of poet and author Sophie Hannah.

1944:  Birthdate of Philip Anthony Mari Heald, the actor known was Anthony Heald who converted to Judaism when he married his wife Robin.

1944: Adolf Eichmann and his staff leave Hungary, effectively ending Nazi deportations of Hungarian Jews.

1944: After an eighteen-day ordeal, Denise Bloch, a Jewish member of the SOE and fellow agent Violette Szabo who were shackled together arrived at Ravensbruck.

 1944: Paris was liberated by the allied armies after four years of Nazi occupation. For the Jews left in Paris, the Holocaust was over.

1944: Jewish resistance fighters joined the battles against the Germans in their quest for liberation of Lyon.

1944:  German troops massacred 124 of Maille’s (France) 500 residents and then razed the town in what would be the second worst German atrocity in occupied France.

1945: Jewish immigrants were permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine.

1945, In Brooklyn Abraham Levine and “Esther Edelman Levine, a professor and associate dean of psychology at Queens College gave birth to Robert Victor Levine, the longtime professor at Cal State, Fresno who specialized in the study of kindness passed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/science/robert-levine-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1946: At Hamilton, Bermuda, -President Truman interrupted his carefree vacation routine today long enough to attend divine services at Holy Trinity Cathedral, where prayers were offered at Holy Trinity Cathedral where prayers were offered for the success of the United Nations and that a way might be found to re-establish homeless Jews in Palestine.

1947: “A large section of Palestine's Jewish community went without food today, in a traditional gesture of grief and distress, to protest the deportation of 4,400 refugees to Germany in British transports. The refugees had been turned away from Palestine.”

1948: “Lou Herman, the well-known tenor from Toronto – and son of cantor from Montreal ,entertained at the Rotary luncheon in Huntsville, Ontario.

 1949: At Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, Feri Witz, a Hungarian born carpenter and Holocaust survivor Flora “Florence” Klein (Kovacs) gave birth to Chairm Wizt who gained fame as rock star Gene Simmons.

 1949: “Ma'agan Michael was founded today by a group consisting of 154 members and 44 children who had joined together in 1942, most of whom were members of the Hebrew Scouts. It was named Ma'agan (anchorage) due to the intent of its first settlers of using the land to make a living from the sea, and Michael in honor of Michael Polak, who donated money to the Palestine Immigrant Colonization Association (PICA).”

1949(30th of Av, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1949(30th of Av, 5709). Fifty-five-year-old Fannie Frank Cook, the “author of sociological novels, lecturer on inter-racial understanding and winner of the George Washington Carver Memorial Award for “Mrs. Palmer’s Honey who was the wife of Jerome E. Cook passed away today.

1950: “September Affair,” produced by Hal B. Wallis and with music by Kurt Weil premiered today in Venice.

1951: Ten days after premiering in Philadelphia “His Kind of Woman” directed by Richard Fleischer was released in the rest of the United States by RKO.

1951: In Brooklyn, Sam Augello, “a Navy Yard shipbuilder” and his wife gave birth to Josephine Augello who gained fame as Josephine Chaus, the wife of Bernard Chaus with whom she founded Bernard Chaus, Inc

https://wwd.com/fashion-news/ready-to-wear/josephine-chaus-co-founder-of-bernard-chaus-inc-dies-at-10286442/

1952: The Knesset voted down the Mapam and Communist proposal designed to bar foreign companies from oil prospecting in Israel.

1952: Seventy-two-year-old NYU trained attorney and New York City magistrate, Louis Bernard Brodsky, the Odesa born son of Sarah and Elias Brodsky “sustained injuries to his head, left hand, and left leg” today when “he was hit by a car outside the railroad station in Stamford, CT.

1954: Publication of Motivation and Personality by Abraham Maslow.

1955: The Martin and Lewis comedy “You’re Never Too Young” directed by Norman Taurog with music by Walter Scharf was distributed in the United States by Paramount Pictures.

1957(28th of Av, 5717): Six days before her 77th birthday, Washington, IN native Blanch Beitman Ottenheimer, the wife of Herbert Oppenheimer,  who settled in Louisville, KY where she was an officer of the National Council of Jewish Women and a member of the Kentucky League of Woman Voters passed away today after which she was buried in The Temple Cemetery at Louisville.

1958: Cincinnati native and University of Cincinnati trained attorney Isaac Jack Martin who was initially appointed as a Judge under Article I, but the court was raised to Article III status by operation of law as today,

1960: The Summer Olympics during which American fencer Albert “Axelrod won the bronze medal in Individual Foil competition” opened today In Rome.

1960(2nd of Elul, 5720): Seventy-five-year-old Brooklyn Law School trained attorney and Judge of the Sixth District Court in Brooklyn, Nathan Sweedler, the son of Samuel Ida Sweedler and the husband of Adar Meyer Sweedler with whom he had two children – Lenore and Edward – who served as the president of the Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn and as trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/08/26/99950923.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1960: The Zionist Organization of America opens its sixty-third annual convention and hears an address by Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for President.

1962(25th of Av, 5722): Parashat Re’eh

1962(25th of Av, 5722): Four days before his 65th birthday University of Pennsylvania trained general practitioner Dr. Jacob H. Bronstein, the Memphis, TN born son of Samuel and Esther Bronstein,the husband of former Betty Clark and father of two – Maury and Roberta – whose activities in the Memphis Jewish community include serving a first vice president of B’nai B’rith and being an active member of the Temple of the Children of Israel passed today after which was buried in the Temple Israel Cemetery in Memphis. http://www.jhsmem.org/bio/JacobBronstein.pdf

1963(5th of Elul, 5723): Sixty-two-year-old Buffalo, NY, native Philip Halpern, the University of Buffalo trained lawyer and “Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division” and the husband of “the former Goldene Friedman with whom he had two sons – James and Charles – passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/26/89956283.pdf

http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/history-legal-bench-appellate-04.html?http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/luminaries-appellate/halpern-philip-4.html

1965(28th of Av, 5725): Seventy-six-year-old art historian, Dr. Richard Offner, a resident of Florence passed away today at Ronta.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/08/28/96716351.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1966: Gene Klein and Sam Schulman “led a group of investors who purchased the San Diego Chargers for $10 million, at the time, a record price for a National Football League franchise.”

1966: Birthdate of English actress Tracy-Ann Oberman

1967(19th of Av, 5727: Actor Paul Muni passed away. Born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund in Galicia (a Polish province in the Austro-Hungarian Empire) in 1895, Muni immigrated to the United States with his parents who were well-known performers in the Yiddish Theatre.  After getting his start in the Yiddish Theatre Muni moved on to the Broadway Stage and Hollywood.  Muni was one of those stars who submerged himself in the role so the viewer focused on the character being portrayed and not the star.  This enabled him to play the leads in films as varied as Scarface, I Am Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Life of Emile Zola and The Storey of Louis Pasteur.  Muni was nominated for several best actor Oscars winning one in 1937.  He later returned to the stage where he earned a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Henry Drummond in the stage hit Inherit the Wind.   

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/253048%7C0/Paul-Muni-Profile.html

1967: Johen Patler, a former neo-Nazi shot and killed George Lincoln Rockwell the head of the American Nazi Party while he was leaving a laundromat in Arlington, VA.

1969(11th of Elul, 5729): Fifteen days after his 51st birthdate Budapest born and Budapest University of Jewish Studies alum Joseph G. Weiss the “scholar of Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism” who “studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the tutelage of Prof. Gershom Scholem from 1941 till 1950” and eventually became the director of “the Institute of Jewish Studies a University College London” passed away today.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/weiss-joseph-g

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/joseph-weiss-mystical-master

1969: The offices of the Anti-Defamation League are scheduled to be closed today in memory of sixty-year-old New York native and Cornell graduate “Samuel Dalsimer, national chairman of the ADL and vice chairman of the board and director of Grey Advertising who was the husband of the former Shirley Wasch and the father of Doctors James and Andrew Dalsimer both of whom are psychiatrists who passed away on August 23rd.

1969(11th of Elul, 5729): Two Jews were publicly hanged in Iraq after being accused of spying for Israel and the public rejoiced at the execution.

1970(23rd of Av, 5730): Seventy-year-old Dr. Belle Elizabeth Jacobson, the wife of Dr. Irving Greenwald and the mother of Dr. Edward Greenwald  who had been “an attending physician at Montefiore” where she served her internship and residency and who “for the past year and a half she practiced internal medicine and cardiology at the Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center, which is affiliated with Montefiore” passed away today.

1972(15th of Elul, 5732): Sixty-six-year-old Harvard trained physician and WW II veteran Henry Jacob Bakst, the Rhode Island born son of Adolph and Sophie Bask, the husband of Ruth Elene Miller and father of David Allan Bakst who rose from serving as an instructor of medicine at Boston University to dean of the School of Medicine at Boston University, passed away today.

1973(27th of Av, 5733): Parashat Re’eh

1973(27th of Av, 5733): Exactly two months before his 73rd birthday, Henry C. Littleton, Jr. the St. Lois born so of Balance and Henry Littleton and the sun of Nancy Strauss passed away today in Monaco.

1974(7th of Elul, 5734): Fifty-year-old Audrey Stern Hess, the Manhattan born daughter of Edgard Bloom Stern and Edith Rosenwald Stern and the wife of Thomas Baer Hess whom she married in 1944 passed away today in Greenwich, CT after which she was buried in the Metairie Cemetery in Orleans Paris.

1975: “Born to Run” co-produced by Mike Appel and Jon Landau and featuring Max Weinberg on drums was released today.

1975: “Anatoly Malkin, a 20-year-old Jewish student of metallurgy, charged in Moscow with evading military service after applying for an exit visa to Israel was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.”

1976(29th of Av, 5736): Seventy-five-year-old Omaha, Nebraska born Creighton University trained attorney Sam Beber the “founder of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization” (BBYO) and husband of “the former Helen Riekes” with whom he had three children, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/08/28/105362179.html?pageNumber=18

1977: The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council declared that it had no plans to discuss UN Resolution 242 or Israel’s right to exist.

1977: Three people including two children were injured today when a bomb went off in a trash can in Netanya.

1977:  During his visit to Romania, Prime Minister Menachem Begin vigorously defended attacks on his government and clashed with his hosts by claiming that the Six Day War had been a war of defense and that the PLO wanted to annihilate the Jewish state. Romania was the only Communist-Bloc state not to break relations with Israel after the Six Day War.

1977: The U.S. Justice Department begins charges seeking to revoke former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard John Demjanjuk's citizenship and deport him.

1978; In Londo, Victoria Lou Schott and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, par to the English Rothschild banking family gave birth to their third  and youngest child Oxford educate  David Mayer de Rothschild who gave up his youthful career as a top-ranked horse jumper to become a successful movie producer and environmentalist.
Sculpt the Future Foundation

1979: After 85 performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of the Madwoman of Central Park West  a semi-autobiographical one-woman musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and Phyllis Newman and songs by various composers and lyricists” including Leonard Bernstein, Barry Manlow, Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim and Ed Kleban

1980: Two days after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today George Kaplan, the husband of Hilda Kaplan with whom he had three children – Florence, Harry and Alan.

1981: In Los Angeles Danny Bilson, a Jewish “writer, director and producer” and Janice Stango who was Catholic gave birth to actress Rachel Sarah Bilson

1982: Murray Wiedenbaum finished his term as Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisors – a position that would be filled next by Martin Feldstein

1983: Today was Leonard Bernstein Day in Lawrence, MA

1984(27th of Av, 5744): Eighty-nine-year-old Henry Lynn, the Polish born American known for producing, directing and writing for the Yiddish cinema.

1986(20th of Av, 5746): Seventy-eight-year-old Sheboygan, Wisconsin native and University of Wisconsin Law School trained attorney David Rabinovitz who served as Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson passed away today.

https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390336

1987(30th of Av, 5747): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1987(30th of Av, 5747): Selma Amansky Caston, the daughter of Rose Bransky Amansky and Maurice “Mannie: Amansky and the wife of New York City native Saul Caston the “associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra” until 1945 “when he was hired as the Denver Symphony’s Conductor and Music” which he led with such success that in 1951 Time wrote that “the Denver Symphony was among the leaders in performing American music” passed away today in Baltimore.

1988:  Leonard Bernstein’s 3 day 70th Birthday Celebration began with an international telecast from Tanglewood.

1988: “The Thin Blue Line” a documentary directed by Errol Morris with music by Philip Glass was released today in the United States.

1989(24th of Av, 5749): Ninety-two-year-old Elsie Pelz, the German born daughter of Karl Iglauer, the wife of Emil Pelz and the mother of Irene Rose Freimark passed away today in Paramus, NJ.

1989: “Heart of Dixie” featuring Peter Berg was released in the United States today by Orion Pictures.

1993(8th of Elul, 5753): Ninety-four-year-old Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, a member of the famed clan of Jews from Baghdad and Bombay who gained fame and fortune as businessmen and philanthropist in the Orient.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/26/obituaries/lawrence-kadoorie-94-is-dead-a-leader-in-hong-kong-g-growth.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-kadoorie-1463499.html

1994: Seventy-eight-year-old Dana Schmidt who covered the Middle East for the NY Times for the better part of three decades including the siege of Jerusalem in 1948 passed away today

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/26/obituaries/dana-adams-schmidt-reporter-based-in-europe-and-mideast-78.html

1994: ABC broadcast the first episode of “My So-Called Life” an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.”

1996: Birthdate of Neta Lavi, “an Israeli footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for J1 League club Gamba Osaka and the Israel national team.”

1997: Ninety-one-year-old German actress Camilla Spira whose father, the actor Fritz Spira “died in the Ruma concentration camp” passed away today in Berlin.

http://www.max-ehrlich.org/camilla.htm

1998(3rd of Elul, 5758): Seventy-five lyricist Marshall Barer passed away today.  (As reported by Stephen Holden)

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/arts/marshall-barer-75-lyricist-for-mattress-and-mighty-mouse.html?mcubz=0

http://www.playbill.com/article/marshall-barer-75-once-upon-a-mattress-lyricist-dies-of-cancer-com-77139

1999: CTV broadcast the first episode of the mystery drama series “Twice in a Lifetime” starring Al Waxman and featuring Polly Bergen

1999: Rabbi Murray Erzing is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of 99 year old Sidney Levin at Temple Israel in Charlotte, NC followed by interment at Hebrew Cemetery.

1999(13th of Elul, 5759): Seventy-three-year-old Oscar nominated screenwriter Norman Wexler passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/25/arts/norman-wexler-73-writer-of-saturday-night-fever.html

2000(24th of Av, 5760): Seventy-one year old Peter Swerling an engineer who specialized in the development of various forms of radar who was advised by Einstein as a child passed away today.

http://news.usc.edu/6473/Peter-Swerling-Radar-Expert-Dies-at-71/

2001: “Fosse,” a musical review that included songs that Richard Adler and Jerry Ross had originally written for “Damn Yankees” and “The Pajama Game” which had opened in 1999 had its final performance.

2001(6th of Elul, 5761): Turkish businessman Uzeyir Garih, the co-founder of Alarko Holding was stabbed to death to death today in Istanbul where his funeral took place at the Neve Shalom Synagogue followed by interment at the Ulus Sephardi Jewish Cemetery.

2001(6th of Elul, 5761): Sharon Ben-Shalom (26), Yaniv Ben-Shalom (27), Doron Sviri (20), were murdered by terrorists who “opened fire on their car” outside of Jerusalem

2001: Squirtle Squirt, a thoroughbred horse for which David Lanzman had paid $25,000 at the Barretts Auction in 2000 won the Grade I King's Bishop Stakes

2002: Seventy-five-year-old Barbara Mankowitz, the sister of English author Wolf Mankowitz and  “a dominant personality in the retail china trade” passed away today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1407713/Barbara-Mankowitz.html

2002: The Sunday New York Times book section features reviews Blood of Victory by Jewish author Alan Furst, The Judges by Elie Weisel and Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner who was not Jewish but whose future wife was and whose life demonstrates that Germans had a choice

2003: “Israeli forces killed four members of Hamas with an airstrike in Gaza City tonight.” (As reported by James Bennet)

2004: Fifty-eight-year-old Tareq Abu Raja, the deputy chief of the Palestinian intelligence services was shot and seriously wounded in Gaza City today, in what “was the latest sign of the unrest and confusion in Gaza as Palestinian groups struggle for control of the Gaza Strip, which Israel says it will leave some time next year.” (As reported by Steven Erlanger

2005(20th of Av, 5765): Eighty-three-year-old Newcastle, UK native

 Gabrielle Blake, the daughter of Henry Morris Cohen and Eva Sussman Cohen and the wife of Leonard Blake passed away in Marbella, Spain

2005: The Red Sea Jazz Festival comes to an end.

2005: Matan Vilnai begins serving as Science and Technology Minister.

2005: Effi Eitam was quoted as explaining that the reason there was no violence during the withdrawal from Gaza was as a result of self-restraint on the part of the Jewish settlers and not because of any fear of the forces that surrounded them.

2005:  Israeli newspapers reported that an Arab attacker wielding a large kitchen knife stabbed a British yeshiva student to death and seriously wounded an American classmate in Jerusalem's Old City. 

2006(1st of Elul, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Elul

2006: The London Stock Exchange announced that Randolph David Lerner had become the majority stockholder for the Aston Villa Football Club giving the Jewish businessman an interest in both the English and American versions of “football.”

2006: “How to Eat Fried Worms” a comedy featuring Hallie Kate Eisenberg and Alexander Gould was released today in the United States.

2006(1st of Elul, 5766): Dr. Gail Greenberg Shapiro passed away at the age of 59 in Seattle.  She was a pediatric allergist who helped develop widely used standards for managing childhood asthma.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/25/2006/death-of-pediatric-allergist-gail-greenberg-shapiro

2006: Real estate developer Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner and father-in-law of Ivanka Trump was released from prison today where he had been serving time for “illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering.”

2006:  It was reported today that in an effort to upgrade Israel's preparedness for a possible confrontation with Iran, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz has appointed Israel Air Force Commander Major General Elyezer Shkedy as the IDF's "campaign manager" against countries that do not border on Israel - primarily Iran.

 2007: Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, hosts its annual Congregational Picnic and “Havdalah Under the Stars Ceremony.” 

2008(24th of Menachem Av, 5678): Ninety-eight-year-old Israeli composer Josef Tal passed away today in Jerusalem.

http://www.ifcm.net/index.php?c=43&see=297&from=fl

http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/music/archives/detailed_archives/Pages/Josef_Tal.aspx

2008: In “Not So Funny,” appearing in Time magazine, Joel Stein described Democrat Al Franken’s campaign for the seat of Norm Coleman, the U.S. Senator from Minnesota.  Stein, who has written about the impact of his Jewish grandmother on the upcoming Presidential elections, was able to write this two page article without mentioning the fact that both candidates are Jewish, a fact that is doubly unusual given the small size of the Jewish community in the state.

2008: Palestinian Authority terrorists launched two rockets at Jewish communities in the western Negev today.

2008: Ayelet Waldman, a supporter of Barak Obama, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which opened today.

2008: Close to 200 terrorists, including two who had murdered Jews, were freed today in another "goodwill gesture" to the PA by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

2008(24th of Av, 5768): Ninety-seven-year-old award winning composer and “grand old man of Israeli music” Josef Tal,the son of Rabbi Julius Grünthal who was murdered by the Nazis,  the husband of Rosie Löwenthal and father Rainer-Re’uven who was killed in the Six Day war passed away today.

http://joseftal.org/

2008(24 Menachem Av 5768): Upshernish (inaugural hair-cutting ceremony) of Yosef “Yossi” Ciment, son Rabbi Pinchas and Mrs. Estie Ciment, a couple that epitomizes the term “Lamplighters.”

2009: Publication date for Madoff’s Other Secret: Love Money, Bernie and Me by Sheryl Weinstein former chief financial officer at Hadassah who claims in the book that she had an affair with Bernard Madoff.

2009: In a unique attempt to help people prepare for the High Holidays and raise funds Fairfax, VA’s Congregation Olam Tikvah hosts the first day of its annual Women's Hat Sale.

2009: Gaza militants fired two mortar shells at the western Negev, which landed near an Israel Defense Forces base.

2009: Elbit Systems Ltd. is an Israel-based international defense electronics company reached traded at $70.69 per share on the NASDAQ, quite a gain from its initial price of $7.75.

2010: At Congregation Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield, Michigan, Nancy Kaplan, Ritual Assistant to Rabbi Steven Rubenstein is scheduled to facilitate a discussion as part of "Jewish Intellectual History, 16th to 20th Century," a 24-part lecture series by Prof. David B. Ruderman, presented on DVD.

2010: Today, the state charged Moshe Rips, the former director-general of Keren Or – The Jerusalem Center for Blind Children with Multiple Disabilities, with stealing close to NIS 4 million over a period of 20 years.

2010, it was announced that Avi “Arad was given a chair with the American branch of animation studio Production I.G in Los Angeles, California.”

2010: “IG Port, the parent company of the anime studios Production I.G and Xebec, announced today that film producer Avi Arad has been installed as chairperson of Production I.G's American affiliate, Production I.G., LLC

2010: One week after Martin Dannenberg's death, The Huntington Library donated “an original four-page copy of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler in September 1935”to the United States National Archives, which plans to put it on display in Washington, D.C. in advance of the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws

2011: In a case of what might be called Jocks for Judaism, in New York, the 2011 B’nai Jeshurun Softball season which began on April 28 is scheduled to come to an end

2011: The Jerusalem Theatre’s fifth annual End of the Summer Celebration is scheduled to come to an end tonight.

2011(25th of Av, 5771): Ninety-five-year-old Jewish-American archivist and records manager Seymour J. Pomrenze, one of the Monuments Men, passed away today.

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1463157

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york-news/monuments-men

2011: A renewed barrage of rockets hit Israel's south overnight, prompting Israel Defense Forces planes to carry out strikes on the Gaza Strip this morning, killing eight and wounding about 20, according to Palestinian reports.

2011: China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement today that Wu Sike, its special envoy on the Middle East, told Palestinian leaders in a meeting in Ramallah that Beijing and the Chinese people have always supported the Palestinian cause.

2011:  Hours after Palestinian sources reported that the IAF killed two Islamic Jihad operatives in the Gaza Strip, the terrorist group vowed to extend the range of their rocket capabilities, sending projectiles deeper into Israeli territory, Israel Radio reported today.

2012: Comedian Michael Aronin is scheduled to perform at fundraiser for the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia Special Needs Program.

2012: In Tel Aviv, the 10th annual Oud Festival comes to an end.

2012(7th of Elul, 5772): Eighty seven year old Robert Kotlowitz – novelist, editor and public television executive – passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/arts/television/robert-kotlowitz-a-shaper-of-channel-13-dies-at-87.html?_r=2&hpw&

2012: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the Lorton Workhouse Arts Center

 2013: “Whose Blood is Redder” a discussion on medical ethics is scheduled to take place at South Head Synagogue, Rose Bay.

2013: Professor Dan MIchman is scheduled to give a lecture entitled “The Amazing History of Yad Vashem” at the University of Sydney.

2013: In London the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host “Family History Day.”

2013: The International Summer Course of the Academy for Strings, Voice and Chamber Music is scheduled to open today.

2013: “A typing error caused the value of one of Israel’s largest companies to instantly drop over 99% in value today, dragging the Tel Aviv stock exchange down several points before the mistake was discovered and fixed. (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2013: The 16th annual Hungarian Jewish Festival opens in Budapest. (As reported by Renee Ghert Zand)

2014: In Little Rock, AR Upshernish for Moshe Ciment, the son of Rabbi and Mrs. Pinchas Ciment who have brought the light of Yiddishkeit to a “dark corner” of the world.

2014: Steve Wozniak one of the co-founders of Apple who arrived in Israel over the weekend will attend Eduaction, a conference on all things educational sponsored by Mifal HaPayis (the Israel Lottery) that is scheduled to open today in Holon, South of  Tel Aviv. (As reported by David Shamah)

2014: “A poll released this evening showed a massive drop in the Israeli public’s opinion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s performance, as well as dissatisfaction with the way the government is handling the needs of southern communities battered by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip”.

2014: “The Bank of Israel Monetary Committee today cut the interest rate to its lowest-ever level, unexpectedly halving it to .25 percent against the backdrop of disappointing economic growth at home, low inflation, a still-limp recovery in Europe and the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.” (As reported by Niv Ellis)

2014: “Two rockets were fired into Israel by Lebanese militants, prompting rocket sirens in towns along the border late today, including in the cities of Kiryat Shmona and Metula.” (JPost)

2014: “At approximately 6 p.m. this evening Gaza terrorists launched a particularly ferocious mortar barrage on the Sedot Negev and Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council areas. A full 20 mortar shells peppered the Israeli communities in the course of a mere ten minutes - miraculously no injuries were inflicted by the onslaught.” (As reported by Benny Moshe, Ari Yashar and Tova Dvorin)

2015: In Jerusalem “Go North Picnic – Nefesh bNefesih” is scheduled to begin at four this afternoon.

2015: Maccabi Tel Aviv's Eran Zahavi celebrated a goal during the UEFA Champions League play-off round second leg soccer match against Switzerland's FC Basel at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv today.

2015: Jerusalem chefs are scheduled to lead a “culinary discovery of Shuk Mahane Yehuda.”

2015: ‘Hussein Sheikholeslam, a foreign affairs adviser to parliament speaker Ali Larijani” said today “Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate slogan” meaning “that the thawing relations with the West would not translate into a shift in Tehran’s position concerning the Jewish state.”

2016(21st of Av, 5776): Eighty-six year old fashion designer Sonia Rykiel passed away today. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/fashion/sonia-rykiel-dies.html?_r=1

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-french-fashion-designer-sonia-rykiel-dies-at-86/

2016(21st of Av, 5776): Eighty-nine-year-old Brooklyn-born character actor Marvin Wilbur Kaplan passed away today.

http://www.marvinkaplan.com/

2016: In Coralville, IA, The Agudas Achim Book Group is scheduled to discuss They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Shine

2016: Avi Wisinia, the grandson of Holocaust survivor Canto David Wisnia is scheduled to perform at Grounds for Sculpture.

2016: At Temple Israel in Memphis, TN, is scheduled to host “Music Sharing for Adults” led by Abbie Straus.

2016: Jaffa native Shai Tsabari, the son of a Yemenite cantor and The Middle East Groove All Stars are scheduled to perform at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles.

2016: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host an advanced screening of “A Tale of Love and Darkness” directed by Natalie Portman which is “based on the memories of Amos Oz growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood.”

2017: Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton is scheduled to host a Singles Shabbaton as part of the Shidduch Project.

2017: Tonight, “New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman” who is unique because he is one of the few super-stars in the NFL,  “limped off the field, trying to keep weight off his injured right knee, after making a catch on the game-opening possession against the Detroit Lions.”

2017: Today “Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet L. Yellen, the first Jewish woman to hold the post, offered a forceful defense of broad new banking regulations enacted after the 2008 financial crisis, saying the rules safeguard the economy against another crisis and rejecting assertions from President Trump and top aides that they should be rolled back.”

2017: The Family Shabbat at the Plaza Hotel Nazareth is scheduled to continue for a second day.

2017: At the University of Iowa, Hillel is scheduled to host Shabbat Services and a dinner for all of the “Hebrew Hawkeyes.”

2018: This evening “Vocalist Tamuz Nissim is scheduled perform a repertoire of Israeli folk song with guitarist George Nazos” at the Beach Bakery Grand Café in Westhampton Beach.

2018: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the striking art work of Cyndie Birchansky are scheduled to be shown at the Museum Store Trunk Show hosted by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.

2018(14th of Elul, 5778): Parashat Ki Taytzay

2019: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler, Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech and Political Correctness on College Campuses by Michael S. Roth  and  Courtney Manum’s Costalegre, “ a novel based on the life of Peggy Guggenheim

2019: “The Klezkanada After Party” featuring “Montreal’s own ‘Amerike Klezmer’” is scheduled to take place this evening at La Sala Rosa in Montreal.

2019: At the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam final showing of the final exhibition “Kabbalah:The Art of Jewish Mysticism” featuring the sculptures of Ghiora Aharoni is scheduled to take place today.

2019: In Carmel, CA, Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to host a “Jewish culinary celebration with corned beef, pastrami, latkes, matzah ball soup and more for sale” that also includes music, arts and crafts.

2019(24th of Av, 5779: The Universe shattered into a million pieces this afternoon when Deb Levin, driving force behind this blog, an ahyshish chayil in the truest sense of the word and the beloved “TC” (Traveling Companion) of Mitchell Levin passed away today.

2020(5th of Elul, 5780): Eighty-six-year-old University of Texas trained attorney, Gerald Shur, the Bronx born son of Rose (Nissell) Shur and the son of dress-manufacturer Abraham Shur, who was the “father of the federal witness protection program” passed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/gerald-shur-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

2020: In a one of a kind event, “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to the Republican National Convention in a pretaped speech from Jerusalem, with the lights of the Old City and its Jewish, Muslim and Christian shrines visible over his shoulder.” (As reported Lara Jakes)

2020: “The Trump administration sought today to test the waters to determine if it can persuade other Arab and Muslim countries to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel after a breakthrough agreement by the United Arab Emirates to open normal ties. (As reported by Peter Baker)

2020: A double moment of mourning as we can mark the first anniversary of the death of Deb Levin on the secular car as her house is in shambles due to the derecho.

2021: The Jewish Climate Action Network is scheduled to present online “How to ‘Bentshmark’ Your Synagogue’s Carbon Footprint.”

2021: LBI is scheduled to host a discussion of The Golem by Gustav Meyer.

https://programs.cjh.org/

2021: Based on an announcement made on August 23, today, Palestinian protests groups Gaza are scheduled to march to the fence dividing it from Israel where, based on the past performance of these “groups” cross-border attacks can be expected to occur.

2021: “Make a Holy Noise for Strong Climate Policies,” a “demonstration and march to federal building led by Jewish Silicon Valley’s Dayenu Circle, Hindu American Foundation, Grace Baptist Church, and Calif. Interfaith Power and Light” is scheduled to take place in San Jose, CA.

2021: On the secular calendar, 2nd anniversary of Deb Levin Z”L without whom this blog and so much more would not exist.

2022: The Breman Museum is scheduled to host “an evening with Ben and Leo Sidran,” the Jewish father-son that has been writing, producing, and playing music side by side for decades.

2022: In San Francisco, Israel Policy Forum’s network for young professionals, ages 21-39, is scheduled to present  Masua Sagiv, a Koret visiting professor at UC Berkeley, talking about Israeli-Palestinian issues

2022: “Camp Tawonga Jewish Families of Color Weekend” is scheduled to begin today.

2022: In San Francisco, volunteers are scheduled to have the opportunity to work at the Giving Kitchen, a kosher, community-run, non-denominational initiative that prepares meals to distribute to people in need.

2022: Defense Minister Benny Gantz is scheduled to fly to Florida this morning and meet with the chief of the US Central Command Michael Erik Kurilla at the command’s headquarters.

2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host a walking tour of Lower Manhattan, where participants will learn how Jews of many backgrounds converged in New York and forged a uniquely American Judaism.

2022: The LBI Book Club is scheduled to present a discussion of Exile Music by Jennifer Steil.

2022:(28th of Av): Yarhtzeit of Larry Rosenstein – gone too soon but never forgotten

2022: On the secular calendar, third anniversary of the death of Deb Levin whose loss is more than words can describe.

2023: The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Community Action Lab is scheduled to provide free materials for those making their own protest signs in preparation for the 60th anniversary March on Washington.

2023: For the last time, today “Behind-the-scenes work of Cleveland photographer Jason Edleman are scheduled to be displayed in the Beck Center for the Arts’ MCAT Lobby Gallery and Main Building Studio Theater Gallery in Lakewood.

2023: The Lock Festival, which was dedicated to  Haim Nachman Bialik, Leah Goldberg and S.Y. Agnon is scheduled to come to a close at Beit Agnon in Jerusalem.

2023: The 34th Annual Conference of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants is scheduled to begin today in Washington, D.C.

2023: “Golda,” a cinematic treatment of her role during the Yom Kippur War is scheduled to premiere today.

https://www.goldafilm.com/synopsis/

2023: On the secular calendar fourth anniversary of Deborah “Deb” Levin known affectionately as Red whose accomplishments which included holding seders so “famous” and delicious that they merited coverage in the Cedar Rapids Gazette and being the driving forces behind the Traditional Shabbat minyan at Temple Judah where nobody left the “kiddish” hungry.

2024: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life  by Joshua Leifer,

2024: The Center for Interfaith Families, Temple Sinai, & Shir Chadash are scheduled to host an Jewish-Italian cooking class where attendees will  explore the cultural and historical connections between two vibrant culinary worlds.

2024: All decent people mourn the lost of Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yaniv Itzhak Oren, 35, of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion, from Ein Gedi, Sgt. First Class (res.) Danil Pechenyuk, 27, from Bat Yam, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Nitai Metodi, 23, from Ashkelon whose deaths were reported this weekend.

2024: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host a “Singles Brunch” for “for friends ages 25-35.’

2024: On the secular calendar fifth anniversary of Deborah “Deb” Levin known affectionately as Red whose accomplishments which included holding seders so “famous” and delicious that they merited coverage in the Cedar Rapids Gazette and being the driving forces behind the Traditional Shabbat minyan at Temple Judah where nobody left the “kiddish” hungry.

2024: As August 25th  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 324 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)