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://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.
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.
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.
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.”
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):
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.
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)
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
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
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.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
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)
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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)
