This Day, August 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 3
8
C.E.: Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
As the stepson of Augustus, Tiberius would become Caesar four years after this
victory. Tiberius did appoint Pontius
Pilate as the procurator of Judea. On
the other hand, he did have the good sense to overrule Pilate when the Jews of
Jerusalem complained that he had desecrated the city by bringing inscribed
shields into the Jewish capital. Tiberius’ inconsistent treatment of the Jews
was consistent with the moody behavior of the Roman ruler who would have much
preferred to serve as a general.
435:
Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II exiled the deposed Patriarch of Constantinople
Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, to a monastery in
Egypt. Nestorianism was a form of
Christianity that challenged the orthodoxy of its time and presented a
political threat to the Roman Empire. Theodosius, like Constantine used the
Christian religion as part of his political power base. Therefore, it is not surprising to note that
this is the same Theodosius II who issued Anti-Judaic laws in 438 that “forbade
the Jews to accede to any public task,” made proselytism a capital crime and
denied Jews the right to build new synagogues or “to embellish the old ones.”
1108:
Coronation of Louis VI during whose reign the monarch gradually ceded control
of the Jews and the revenue they represented from the King to the Church.
1399: Thanks to the efforts of an apostate
named Pesach-Peter a large number of Jews in Prague are arrested and
imprisoned. Lipmann (Tab-Yomi) of
Muhlhaussen, the German scholar versed in Torah, Talmud as well as the New
Testament, which he had read in Latin was among the victims.
1492:
Columbus set sail for the New World. There is an entry in Columbus' diary
noting the expulsion of Jews from Spain right before he set sail. He was
accompanied by Luis de Torres who is considered to be the first Jew to arrive
in the “New World.”
1492: Jews depart Spain under orders of expulsion from the
Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand.
1493: Property confiscated from Jews and Conversos was used to finance the
construction of the monastery of Santo Tomás de Ávila, which was completed
today
1599:
During the reign of Sigismund III Vasa, the great synagogue in Grodno was
destroyed by fire.
1603:
Tamar Barocas and twenty-five-year-old Fra Diogo a Assungao, a Franciscan friar
who became attracted to Judaism were burnt at the stake by the Inquisition at
Lisbon.
1698:
South Carolina merchant Abraham Avila “was naturalized” today.
1754(15th
of Av, 5514): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu; Tu B’Av
1766:
Birthdate Rabbi Aron Chorin, the Hungarian born Rabbi who would become a center
of controversy for his non-conformist views about Judaism and support for some
of the views connected with the new-born Reform Movement.
1767(8th
of Av, 5527): Erev of Tish’a B’Av
1770:
Birthdate of King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, the reactionary monarch who
would undo the reforms of the Napoleonic period and repudiate the Edict of 1812
that had elevated the civil status of the kingdom’s Jews.
1786(9th
of Av, 5546): Tish’a B’Av
1792(15th
of Av, 5552): Tu B’Av1797: The emperor of Bohemia ordered that Jews, who
volunteered for army service, should be allowed to marry outside the restricted
quota of marriage of Jews.
1797: “The Jewish Law
of Franz II” dated today was “a milestone on the road towards equal status for
the Jews.”
1799(2nd of
Av, 5559): Parashat Matot-Masei read for the last time in the 18th
century.
1803: Birthdate of
London native Abigail Liondo, who 1837 published the first “Hebrew-English
Dictionary” compiled by a British Jew.
1803: Birthdate of
British architect Joseph Paxton who designed Mentmore Towers, the country home
of Baron Mayer de Rothschild which “was the first of what was to become a
virtual Rothschild enclave in the Vale of Aylesbury, as later, other members of
the family-built houses at Tring in Hertfordshire, Ascott, Aston Clinton,
Waddesdon and Halton.”
1804: In Phalsbourg Moselle,
France, Jonas Alexandre Aron, the “Sson of Alexandre Sender Nathan Aron and
Antoinette Judelen (Judlen, Yitele, Judle) Aron” and his wife Sara Zerlé Simon Aron gave birth
to Arnold Aron, the “usband of Félicité Aron and father of Alexandre Aron;
Adolphe Aron; Zélie Aron; Albert Aron; Jonas Aron; and Louis Aron.”
1805(8th of
Av, 5565): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1805:
Thirty-seven-year-old Abigail Dias, the London born “daughter of Haham Moses
Cohen d'Azevedo and Sara de Haham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo” and her husband Isaac
Haim de Abraham de Jacob Dias gave birth Rebecca Dias.
1806: Joseph David
Sinzheim completed answering the questions that had been laid before the
Assembly of Notables to the satisfaction of the French government officials.
1808: Birthdate of
Gratz born physician Markus Mosse who fought on the side of the Polish rebels
during the Revolution of 1848 in Poland and was the namesake of the “Dr. M.
Mosse Hospital.”
1809: Daniel Cohen
D’Azevedo, the Hakam in Amsterdam today delivered the sermon—"Sermão
Heroico pregado no K. K. de Talmud Torah en Amsterdam,"
1816(9th of
Av, 5576): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tisha’a B’Av
1822: Esther and Joseph
Davis were married today at the Western Synagogue after which they had six
children – Sarah, Hannah, Morris, Emilea, Elizabeth and Mary Ann.
1823: Birthdate of
German painter Gustav Richter, the husband of Cornelle Meyerbeer and the
son-in-law of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer.
1824(9th of
Av, 5584): Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time during the President of James
Monroe.
1825:Twenty-six-year-old
Stockholm born Rabbi Morris Raphall who in 1849 came to New York where he
became the spiritual leader of Manhatan’s B’nai Jeshurun where he defended
slavery, today married Rachel Goldston with whom he had five children –Alfred,
James, Esther, Charles and Isabella.
1829: In the Cape
Colony, Sir Anthony Oliphant and his wife Maria gave birth to Laurence Oliphant
who supported the building of a railway
between Jaffa and Jerusalem, who starting in 1879 began working to “settle large
number of Jews” especially those from Eastern Europe in Palestine and who
himself lived for a time “in the Germany colony in Haifa.”
1830(14th of Av, 5590):
Austrian Rabbi Joseph Moses Spiro, the son of Rabbi Abraham Moses whose works
included Mesillah le-Elohenu
passed away today at Kanitz, Moravia.
1832(7th of
Av, 5592): Sixty-year-old the Newport, RI born daughter of Moses Michael Hays
who married Moses Myers in 1796 passed away today.
1833: One day after he
passed away, 67 year old Godfrey Harris was buried at the Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery in London.
1835(8th of
Av, 5595): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that Clement Clay defeated
Enoch Parson during the Alabama gubernatorial election.
1836: In Rochester, NY,
Alvah Strong and his wife gave birth to August Hopkins Strong, a Baptist
minister and theologian whose Systematic Theology: The Doctrine of God “presented
another explanation of the alleged inaccuracies in the Hebrew Bible” citing the
use of idiom and metaphor by the author of the holy text which means that he
was not part of those who believed in the concept of Biblical inerrancy which
was so popular at the time.
1836(20th of
Av, 5596): Fifty-six-year-old “Dutch Jurist” Carel Asser, the son of Moses
Salomon Asser and husband of Rose Levin who worked for the full emancipation of
the Jewish people despite the opposition of Daniel Cohen d'Azevedo, rabbi of
the Portuguese, as well as by Jacob Moses b. Saul Löwenstamm, rabbi of the
Ashkenazim, who were afraid that political emancipation would result in the
disintegration of Judaism
1837: In Bavaria,
Germany, Mendel Emanuel Suessenguth and Hannah Johanna Suessenguth gave birth
to Lewis Seasongood, “the husband Emma Seasongood” with whom he had two
daughters -- Alma Bettman and Clara Berolzheimer.”
1839(23rd of
Av, 5599): Seventy-four year old German novelist Dorothea von Schlegel, the
oldest daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, passed away today.
1842: Birthdate of
Bertha Spiegelberg, the native of Borgholz, Germany who was the wife of Levi
Spiegelberg and the mother of New York City native Eugene E. Sperry.
1849(15th of
Av, 5609): Tu B’Av observed on the same day that Joseph G. Wilson of the
Presbyterian Church in Lafayette, Indiana, delivered a sermon blaming the Black
Cholera plague gripping the American Heartland on immorality.
1851: Birthdate of
Adolph Greenhut, the native of Bohemia, husband of Eva Greenhut, who came to
the United States “around 1866, became a naturalized citizen in 1874” and
served as Mayor Pensacola, FL from 1913 to 1915.
1853: Julius
Landsberger married Pauline Leo the daughter of Rabbi Simon Leo with whom he
had two children one of whom was Richard Landsberger, “the founder of a
biological dentistry.”
1854(9th of
Av, 5614): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that the United States State
approved “an act to incorporate the National Hotel Company of Washington city.”
1855: In an editorial
on the subject of masonry published today in The Israelite Dr. Isaac M. Wise
wrote “Masonry is a Jewish institution who history, degrees, charges, passwords
and explanations are Jewish from the beginning to the end with the exception of
only one by-degree and a few words of obligation.”
1856: Birthdate of
Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia.
In 1905, Deakin appointed Isaac Alfred Isaacs to the position of
Attorney General, making him the first Jew to serve in that post. The following
year, Deakin scored another “first” for the Jewish people when he named Isaacs
as a Justice to the High Court of Australia,
1857: Today’s
“Foreign Correspondence” column reports that the second reading of the Jew Bill
has passed by an immense majority.
1857: Lord
John Russell’s call for a Select Committee to inquire as to how far a certain
act of Parliament that dispensed with the use of the words in the oath which
excluded Jews from the House would go was agreed to.
1857:
Handbills were posted in Goldsboro ordering all Germans and Jews to leave
Goldsboro, NC by August 4, 1857.
1860(15th
of Av, 5620): Tu B’Av
1860: Today,
in Boston, Louis Goldenberg, a jeweler by trade, informed his neighbors that he
was lonely and he was to visit his wife who had gone to the country. Louis
Goldenberg aged 55, was a German Jew, born in Russia, who had lived in the
United States for the last ten year and had been employed by Currier &
Trott as a watch repairer for the last six years. For the last several months
Mr. Goldenberg had been engaged in a series of swindles in which at least six
prominent jewelers were victimized to the tune of $5,000 in losses. Mr. Goldenberg’s “visit to his wife in the
country” was actually his getaway.
1861(27th
of Av, 5621): Parashat Re’eh read on the same day that, off the coast of
Virginia a Union naval officer ascends in a tethered balloon to look at
Confederate controlled Hampton Roads” in what is the first balloon ascent from
a ship in naval history.
1861:
Birthdate of Australian born “mining magnate and art collector Sir Edmund
Gabriel Davis.
http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/ch-d-e/Edmund%20Davis.html
1863: Louis,
duc Decazes who while serving as Foreign Minister in 1875 “informed Henri
Blowitz, the Bohemian Jew who was the Paris correspondent of The Times of a
confidential dispatch from the French ambassador to Berlin, discussing German
plans to attack France” which he asked Blowitz to publish as part of an
effective plan to prevent the Germans from carrying out their plans married
“Séverine-Rosalie von Löwenthal” today.
1864(1st
of Av, 5624): Rosh Chodesh Av observed as Union ships prepare for the assault
on Mobile, one of the last ports remaining open to the Rebels.
1864: In
Frankfurt, Germany, Rabbi Moses Cohn the Altona, Germany born son of Rabbi
Ruben Simon Con and Doris Cohn and his wife Rosa Cohn gave birth to Amalie
Schuster, the wife of Meier Schuster.
1865:
Philadelphian Theodore Jacobs completed his services as the Assistant Surgeon
of the 187th Regiment of the Union Army.
1866:
Birthdate of Russia native Sarah Becker Hassel, the wife Elias Hassel and
mother of Max Hassel known “during prohibition as The Beer Baron of Berks County”
because of his illegal bootlegging activities as well three other children – Morris,
Calvin and Fannie.
1870: The
Toledo Blade reported that Bennett Scope has been hung after being
convicted of murdering a Jewish peddler named Jacob Goodman. Goodman had befriended his co-religionist
Scope who had only recently arrived in this country, giving him money and
employment. Although Scope protested his innocence to the end, the jury
believed that the motive for the murder had been greed. Rabbi Mayer of
Cleveland had unsuccessfully appealed to the governor of Ohio to spare his
life. Mayer was with Scope at the execution.
1870: The
Toledo (Ohio) Blade reported that Benenet Scop has been hung in Huron
Count, Ohio after having been convicted of murder Jacob Goodman, a Jewish
peddler for who he had been working. The
motive appeared to be robbery.
1870:
Birthdate of Jerusalem native Hyman Epstein who in 1884 came to the United
States where he became the general manager of the American-Palestine Line.
https://www.jta.org/archive/epstein-exonerated-from-misappropriation-in-american-palestine-line
1871: In
Versailles France, Emanuel and Adele (Dreyfuss) Weill gave birth to Sorbonne
graduate Felix Weill, the husband of Else Kirchsberger, who in 1901 began
teaching French at CCNY where he served as “Chairman of the Romance Language
Department from 1935 to 1939” and who served as Secretary of the Alliance
Francaise.
1873(10th
of Av, 5653): Tish’a B’Av observed
1873: “Death
of an Eminent Hebrew” published today memorialized the life of the late Sir
David Salomons the Jewish banker who was leader in the fight for Jews to
received full rights of citizenship. It
recounted his struggle which finally led to him serving as the Sheriff of
London and sitting in the House of Commons. Described as an able and amiable
man who was a generous benefactor to a variety of charities, readers were
reminded that Prime Minister Gladstone had advised the Queen to “create him as
a baronet,” a hereditary title that now passes to his nephew.
1873: In
Duluth, MN, Ernestine (Nettie) Weiss and Benard Silberstein gave birth to University of Minnesota graduate Edward A
Silberstein, the father father of Bernard and Helena Silberstein who was a
“memer of the City Charter Commission and organizr of the United Jewish Social
Agencies.
1873: It was
reported today, that out of the approximately 320 religious “newspapers” listed
in Rowell’s American Newspaper Directory, nine are Jewish as compared
with the 47 published by the Methodists.
1874: In
Florence, SC, Alfred Abraham Strauss, the Manheim, Germany born son of Sarah
and Aaron Strauss and his wife Amilia Strauss gave birth Esther Pearlstine, the
wife of Hayman Pearlstine.
1876: In
Boston, MA, Rebecca Wyzanski and Max Webber gave birth to Boston University Law
School trained attorney Abraham C. Webber, the husband of Sylvia Fish and for
ten years the Assistant District Attorney for the Suffolk District who was the
president of the Jewish Prison Aid Society and a member of Mishkan Tefila
Congregation in Rosbury, MA
1876: Abraham
and Zelda Rosenberg gave birth to Detroit College of Law trained attorney Louis
James Rosenberg, the husband of Millard Simons whom he married in 1924.
1876:
Birthdate of Joseph W. Pincus, the Russian born agricultural expert who worked
with Jewish farmers in the United States who was the author of “The Jewish
Farmers’ Best Friend.”
http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/pageview/1132602
1878: Solomon
Goldsmith of San Francisco received a cable today from Louis Goldsmith of New
York stating that Michael Reese, a successful Jewish businessman and civic
benefactor had died suddenly while visiting the Bavarian town of Wallerstein. 1879:
In keeping with generally accepted practice, a Jew named Adolph D. Pollack sold
cigars and neckties to customers in White Plains, NY. His action would lead to litigation
challenging the violation of so-called “Blue Laws.”
1880: In Massachusetts
Hermina and Samuel Buxbaum gave birth to Isidor (Harry) Buxbaum, the husband of
Lillian Buxbaum and father of Herman, Lillian and David Buxbaum who should not
be confused with Brooklyn municipal judge Isador Buxbaum
1881: The body “of
Samuel Alt, an aged Hebrew…was found in the water at the foot of East
Seventy-sixth Street… this morning” bearing marks that would later lead
authorities to concluded he had been “robbed and murdered.”
1882: In Rust, German,
Gustav Grumbacher and Klara Grumbacher gave birth to Holocaust victim Max
Grumbacher, “the ex-husband of Hedwig Grumbacher.
1882: As the
Tisza-Eszlar affair came to a climax, a Hungarian jury acquitted the Jewish
defendants of murder charges touching off anti-Jewish riots in Budapest.
1883: In “Darlinghurst,
New South Wales, Australia,” “Rebecca and George Judah Cohen” gave birth to
Sefton Louis Cullen, a barrister and husband of Nancy Cullen who during WW I
served with the Royal Fusiliers and the Yorkshire Light Infantry after which he
returned to Sydney in 1919 and became “a shareholder of David Cohen and
Company, Ltd. In 1935
1883: The anti-Semitic
riots continued for another day at Ekaterinoslav, Russia.
1883: A woman and her
two children burned to death in a cabin belonging to Ivan M. Lotowski at the
Jewish Colony in Estillville, NJ.
1883: Russian born
Isaac Aronoff and his wife Dora Arnoff gave birth to Louis Aronoff.
1884: The body of
Solomon Rintel, a 23 year old Hungarian Jew who worked as fresco painter, was
found today in the room he was renting at 403 Sixth Street in New York. It appears the Rinel took his own life.
1884: Birthdate of composer Louis Gruenberg. Born near Brest Litovsk Poland,
Gruenberg immigrated to the United States.
He was one of several Jewish composers, including George and Ira
Gershwin, who incorporated African-American themes in their musical works.
http://www.musicassociatesofamerica.com/madamina/1981/gruenberg.html
1886: Lord
Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, the father of Winston Churchill became his
party’s leader in the House of Commons. Churchill was also the cousin of
Colonel Charles Henry Churchill who while serving as British diplomat in the
Middle East in the middle of the 19th century “declared his support
for Jewish restoration of sovereignty over Palestine.”
1887: In
Rugby, Warwickshire, “William Parker Brooke, a Rugby schoolmaster and Ruth Mary
Brooke, née Cotterill” gave birth to poet Rupert Brooke whom Alexander Aciman
chose to characterize as his “favorite anti-Semite.”
1888: Four
days after she had passed away “in her 82nd year, Sarah Salomons
(nee Hurwitz) the daughter of Hyman Hurwitz was buried today at the Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.
1889: In Ulster County, NY, a group of ruffians
known as the “Yellowstone Cowboys,” armed with pistols and bowie knives forced
their way into a boarding house owned by J. Epstein, Jewish innkeeper in
Saugerties, chased out the guests and demanded to be fed dinner. They departed after about an hour.
1889: In
Chicago, Abraham Gamliel Becker, the Warsaw born son of Nathan and Henrietta
Beck and his wife Katherine Backer gave
birth to Helen Sulzberger, the wife of Frank Leopold Sulzberger with whom she
had three children – Kate, Ann and Jean.
1890: The
Young People’s Association of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn required the
use of two barges for their excursion today to Washington Park on the Hudson
River.
1890:
“Hebrew, Israelite and Jew” published today which relies on information first
published in the Hebrew Journal described the origins of these three terms
which today are used in the following manner: “Hebrew refers to race, Israelite
refers to the nation, Jews to the religion.”
1890:
“Expected Migration of Jews” published today described the impact of new
regulations of the Czar’s government which “will tend to drive vast bodies…of
Jews who are settled in the frontier provinces” from the country. “The dread of wholesale transportation to
Siberia for failure to observe the edicts will impel the flight westward of
many thousands of Jews.” Jewish leaders
in Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfort have communicated with Jewish leaders in
London “for the purpose of preparing” to provide relief for their “distressed”
co-religionist.
1890: “An
Empire’s Young Chief” published today provides a description of the young
Kaiser’s Germany including the fact “that a very large proportion of Germany’s present authors are Jews and
radicals which gives the contemptuous attitude of the dominant Berlin classes
toward literature a decided political twist.”
1891: In
Paris, a conference of French Jews approved the plans of Baron Hirsh “for the
amelioration of the condition of the destitute” Jews which will require “the
cooperation of the Jews in Europe and America” in organizing the emigration of
the Jews from Russia.
1891(28th
of Tammuz, 5651: Sixty-six-year-old Hermione Tobias, the youngest daughter of
Frances Isaacs and copper manufacturer Harmon Henricks and granddaughter of
Uriah Hendricks, one of the founders of New York’s Congregation Shearith Israel
who was the wife Isaac Alfred Tobias with whom she had six children passed away
today in New York City.
1891(28th
of Tammuz, 5651): Leopold Dukes, the Hungarian born student of Jewish
literature who spent :20 years in England doing research that enable him “to
complete the work of Leopold Zunz” the founder of what some call modern “Jewish
Studies” or “Judaic Studies” passed away today.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5354-dukes-leopold
1891: On
New York’s Lower East Side Jospeh Caplin and his wife, “Jewish immigrants from Russi” gave birth to Nathan
“Kid Dropper” Kaplan a petty gangster and labor racketeer in New York.
1892:
Sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel’s
“Columbus” was “subject a poetical outburst which in this case Lady
Vincent’s “To Ezekiel’s Statue of Columbus” which was published today in The
Scotsman.
1893: In
Warsaw, a Hebrew newspaper Ha’Tzfira printed a story describing “a festive
dinner held in a Warsaw suburb” in honor of Rabbi Abraham Eliyahu Harkavi.(As
reported by Vered Guttman)
1894(1st of
Av, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Av
1894: The
attorney for Jeremiah S. Levy the Jewish police officer accused of taking
bribes began presenting testimony “in defense of his client” after the Judge
denied his motion for acquittal on the grounds that the prosecution had failed
to “prove its case.”
1894(1st
of Av, 5654): Twenty-seven-year-old Adolph Hobart Henriques passed away today.
He is the son of Solomon Nunes Henriques who passed away 20 years ago.
1895:
“Sponging Houses” published today described the different literary treatment of
these temporary quarters for English debtors including that found in Henrietta
Temple a love story by the Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli.
1895:
Despite attempts to silence him Aaron Drucker spoke out at a meeting in the
Church of the Sea and Land being held to convert Jews to Christianity declaring
that such meetings should not be held because they were “an outrage to humanity
and “if a man is born a Jew of true Jewish parents he is always a Jew and
nothing change him!”
1895:
Birthdate of Orange, VA native and Washington resident Ruth Levy Illich, an
officer of the National Council of Jewish Women and husband of William G.
Illich.
1895: Seventy-three-year-old
Maria Moses, the daughter of Emanuel and Ann Moses, was buried today at the
Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1895: Third
base man Samuel Earl “Ike” Samuels makes his major league debut with the St.
Louis Browns where he “went 1-for-2 in a 5-0 loss to Chicago.
1896: In
Chicago, Ukrainian Jewish immigrants Isidore and Rose (Rabinoff) Horowitz gave
birth to Ralph Horwitz who gained fame as Harvard All-American football player
Ralph Horween who went to play football in the NFL—mirroring the career of his
brother Arnold who also played for Harvard the Cardinals.
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/212998/the-original-jewish-brothers-of-the-gridiron
1896:
Birthdate of New York City and fur merchant Abraham Isador Weinblatt, the son
of “a cigar maker who had immigrated from Russia in 1888 and “traveling
salesman for the firm of Kruskal and Kruskal” who with Milton Simon Mandel
formed Mandel and Weinblatt.
1897: In
“Hellenthal, Germany,” Bernhard Rothschild and “Henriette (Jetta) Rothschild
gave birth to Hermann Rothschild, the “husband of Gertrude Augusta Rothschild
and father of Marion and Ruth Rothschild, who died at the age of 44 in the
Minsk Ghetto during the Holocaust.
1897:
According to today’s Times of London, Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University
said [The Cairo Genizah] “is a battlefield of books, and the literary
productions of many centuries had their share in the battle.... Some of the
belligerents have perished outright and are literally ground to dust in the
terrible struggle for space, whilst others...are squeezed into big, unshapely
lumps."
1898(15th
of Av, 5658): Tu B’Av
1898:
During the Spanish-American War, the USS Scorpion, under the command of Adolph
Marix, the first Jewish graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, ended her blockade
duties which had begun after the Battle at Manzanillo Harbor, and then headed
back to Guantanamo Bay.
1898: The
funeral for fifty-three-year-old Elias Jacobs who had been realtor and “engage
in the clothing business for 21 years” is scheduled to take place at nine
o’clock this morning at his home on East 80th Street.
1899: The
funeral for 55 year old Samuel Firuski who has worked in the auctioneering and
storage business in Brooklyn for the last 22 years are scheduled to be held
today at Temple Israel in Brooklyn
1899:
“Topics of the Times” published today described life among the Boers who are
fighting the British including the decision of their Parliament to deny Jews
and Catholics which shows these rebels to be something other than advocates for
“toleration and progress.”
1900: In
rural Indiana, Maria and William Clyde Pyle gave birth to newspaperman Ernie
Pyle who was killed while covering the war in the Pacific after which the Navy
honored him by naming a troopship the SS Ernie Pyle which transported Jewish
DP’s from Europe to New York in 1947.
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1113408
1901:
Birthdate of New Orleans native and U. of Cincinnati graduate Rabbi Gustave
Ferdinand Falk, who after being ordained at Hebrew Union College went on to
post graduate studies at the University of Chicago before graduating from the
New York School Social Work and serving as the “Director at the School for
Jewish Studies” in New York City.
1902:
Birthdate of Regina Jonas who when she was ordained by Rabbi Max Dienemann in
1935 became the first female rabbi in Jewish history.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/regina-depicts-worlds-first-woman-rabbi-killed-in-holocaust/
1903:
Birthdate of Tunisian lawyer Habib Bourguiba, the first president of the
Republic of Tunisia at a time when “judicial authority was transferred from the
rabbinical court to the government court,” “the ancient Jewish cemetery of
Tunis was confiscated for use as a public park” and the constitution was
changed to read that Tunisia was a “Moslem country.”
1904: On
the west side of Chicago, Vilna immigrant and small grocery store owner Isaac
Halper and his wife Rebecca gave birth to author and playwright Albert Halper
whose “first major novel was Union Square, the husband of painter Lorna
Halper and the father of Thomas Halper.
1904:
Birthdate of Savannah, GA native and University of Georgia trained attorney
Emanual Lewis, the President of the Jewish Educational Alliance and a member of
the National Council for Palestine.
1905: A
telegram was received at the afternoon session at the conventions of the United
Orthodox Rabbis of the United States in Springfield, MA, “from the United
Reform Rabbis inviting the United Orthodox Rabis to cooperate with them in many
matters” which was unusual because “the two bodies had never worked before.”
1906:
“Wagenhals and Kemper issued a statement today to the effect that they owned
all rights to the play” “The Kreutzer Sonata by the Yiddish dramatist Jacob
Gordon” and Harrison Grey Fiske owned none which means that he cannot go
forward to produce an English version of the drama.
1907(23rd
of Av, 5667): Parashat Eikev
1907: In
Denver, CO, Joseph and Rachel (Kauffman) Weitz gave birth to HUC trained Rabbi
Martin M. Weitz, the first Hillel Director at Northwestern University, a WW II
veteran of the United States Chaplaincy Service whose first post-War pulpit was
at Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Des Moines, Iowa where he also taught at Drake
University.
1907:
During a speech given tonight “before more than 1,000 members of the Industrial
Workers of the World, Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor was
characterized as a “labor fakir” who has “always been false to the laborers in
every fight” (Editor’s note: This was
part of the on-going battle between the Wobblies and the existing labor unions
most of which were built along craft lines)
1908(6th
of Av, 5668):On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Issachar Dov Baer of
Zloczow, the author of Mevasser Zedek who passed away in 1810.
1909: “To
Relieve Russian Jews” published today reports that while “the Jew has been the
ever present victim of both revolution and reaction” there is hope on the
horizon in the form of measure soon to be presented to the Duma that “frankly
and dispassionately describes the conditions of the Russian Jews together with
a series of recommendations for the improvement of his status” of which the
Council of Ministers and the Czar have supposedly approved.
1910(27th of Tammuz,
5670): The former Chief Rabbi of Turkey, Moise Levy, passed away in
Constantinople at the age of 89.
1911(9th of Av,
5671):Tish'a B'Av
1911: In Paramaribo,
Suriname, Daniel Joseph Harogh, the “son of David Levy Hartogh and Rachel
Fernandes” married Estelle Celine Abrahams today.
1912(20th of
Av, 5672): Parashat Eikev
1912: Approximately 75
people attended services at the Social Hall of the Forest House in
Kennebunkport, Maine, led by Rabbi Bernard. G. Ehrenreich of Montgomery,
Alabama.
1913: Birthdate of
Shmuel Tolchinsky, the native of shtetl near Odessa who gained fame as Mel
Tolkin the head writer of “Your Show of Shows” where he helped to launch the
careers of such greats as “Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart.
1913: Sixty-eight-year-old
Regina Cohn Watson is scheduled to be interred this afternoon at Rosehill.
1913: In Chicago,
funeral services are scheduled to be held for Maurice H. Ellinger, the husband
of Sadie Mark Ellinger and the brother of Albert Ellinger.
1914: During WWI,
Germany declares war against France, while Turkey declares itself
neutral. During the war, Jews from around the world came to help
the French, including 600 Turkish Jews (as well as Jews from other Ottoman
territories) signed up with the French Foreign Legion to help in the battle
against the Germans.
1914: This afternoon,
“two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declared on France and France
responded by declaring war on Germany – moves which among other things would
pit French Jews against German Jews since Jews served in the armies of both countries.
1915: Congressman Mayer
London was reported today to be the chairman of the newly formed People’s
Relief Committee which is committed to raise funds to alleviate the suffering
of the Jews in the European war zone.
1915: “Russian
Allurements” published today described the importance of Riga the port city
that was home to “the first Jewish synagogue known in Europe” to the Czar’s war
effort.
1915: Edith Cavell a
British nurse was arrested in Belgium and charged with harboring Allied
soldiers. Sadi Kirschen, the father of Claude-Anne Lopez, would be chosen to
serve as her defense attorney.
1916 Birthdate of
Detroit, MI native a University of Chicago trained bio-chemist and medical
doctor Arnold Lazarow, the husband of the former Jane Sybil Klein, the
bio-chemist with whom he had two sons, Drs. Paul B. and Norman H. Lazarow.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/23.11.1104705
1916: During World War
I, near the Egyptian town of Romani the Central Powers launched their last
offensive to seize the Suez Canal in what would become known as the Battle of
Romani.
1916: It was reported
today that “a new benefit for the Actors’ Fund of America has been arranged by
Daniel Frohman in co-operation with the new theatrical club “The Lights” which
will take place at the Amsterdam Theatre.
1917(15th of
Av, 5677): Tu B’Av
1917: The “Red Glove” a
“new anti-Jewish league formed at Simferopol” “incited the populace to
participate in pogroms.”
1917: At Odessa, today,
the “Jews were accused of molesting Christians going to church and desecrating
churches.
1917: In Leeds, UK, a mass-meeting held “under the auspices of the Jewish
Representative Council” adopted a resolution asking the council “to take the
necessary steps to protect the interests of those affective by the convention
with the Russian Government affecting Russian subjects of military age” living
in the United Kingdom.
1917: In Egypt, a
Zionist Organization was “formed to guide all Zionist societies” in the country
1917: In Warsaw the
dean of the Polytechnic Institute declares “that Jews are merely guests in
Poland and their use of Yiddish evidence of the opposition to Polish
nationalism.”
1917: In Warsaw
“anti-Semites openly agitate for a boycott” against the Jews, urge the closing
of all business on Sundays” and “attacked” priests who trade with Jews.
1917: Samuel Gompers,
speaking on behalf of organized labor in America, announced that he and his
organization would not be attending the planned conference in Stockholm that is
called by some a “peace conference.” Gompers
is praised by Allied leaders for supporting the war against the Kaiser.
1918: Birthdate of Sidney Gottlieb who was an early
and important official with the
1918:
During WW I, British troops landed at Vladivostok in what the Bolsheviks would
come to view as an attempt by the West to overturn their Revolution. (For a
certain element in the British establishment the term Bolsheivk and Jew were
interchangeable. According to at least
on report Churchill supported Zionism as counterweight to the Bolsheviks.
1918: The proposal, made by the American Federation of Labor
through its President, Samuel Gompers, to the Mexican labor unions, suggesting
that conferences be held on the border between President Wilson and President
Carranza, has been favorably accepted here.
Gompers believes that the meetings will help improve relations between
the United States and Latin America.
1918: Sixteen-year-old
Yitak Jacov a member of the British Jewish Legion 38th Battalion Royal
Fusiliers serving in Palestine wrote in his diary “Now that I placed my life at
risk, it is becoming so interesting that I feel that everything must be written
down, so that later either I – if I survive – or my friends can re-live these
days.”
1919:
“Polish students at Warsaw University” decided “to bar Jews duly elected to the
Students’ Council.”
1919: A
wireless dispatch received today in London from Moscow described the shooting
of General Gregorieff, “the Russian commander who captured Odessa…and whose
troops are reported to have carried out a massacre in the Jewish quarter of
Odessa.”
1920: The
Convention the Federation of Hebrew Teachers of America, whose purpose “advance
the cause of Jewish Education in America came to a close today in Cleveland,
OH.
1920: Birthdate
of Przytyk (Radom / Kielce / Poland), Poland native Freida Tamboryn who
survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz and was saved when the British
liberated Begen Belsen.
1921: Birthdate of
Broadway Composer Richard Adler. One of his most famous hits was Damn Yankees.
1922(9th of Av, 5682): Tish'a
B'Av observed for the last time during the Presidency of Warren Harding.
1922: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native Theodore Assofsky, the nephews of Nat Lefkowitz, a general
manager of the William Morris Agency who gained fame as Ted Ashley, the
chairman of Warner Brothers from 1969 to 1980 “and the founder of the
Ashley-Famous talent agency.”
1923: Birthdate of
Hannah Golofski who would grow up to become noted fashion designer Anne Klein.
Discovering her gift for design while attending Girl's Commercial High School
in Brooklyn, she found work in the garment industry directly out of high school.
Within a year, she was working at Varden Petites where she redesigned the
firm's line, introducing a new style of ready-to-wear and sophisticated
clothing for young (thin) women that would come to be known as Junior Miss. In
1948 she married clothing manufacturer Ben Klein and became principal designer
of Junior Sophisticates, a new company established by her husband. In this
role, Anne Klein transformed the type of clothing available for petite women
like herself. Junior Sophisticates offered elegant styles to shorter women who
previously had to make due with more child-like attire. In addition, Klein was
the first designer to follow the example of French designer Coco Chanel,
adapting men's clothes (suites, jackets, shirts) for women's use. Klein continued
to innovate. During the 1950s, she introduced clothing that was sold as
"separates," offering women a range of jackets, blouses, skirts, and
slacks that could be bought together and then assembled into many different
outfits. When the Klein marriage ended in 1960, so did her connection with
Junior Sophisticates. In 1963, she remarried and established her own design
studio. She specialized in redesigning the failing clothing lines of other
companies. In 1968, Anne Klein and Company opened with Klein as director and
half-owner. By the early 1970s, more than 800 American department stores and
dress shops carried her creations. Klein
won numerous fashion awards. In 1973, she was the only woman invited to
participate in a fashion show consisting of five American and five French
prominent designers, intended to raise money for renovations at Versailles. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York restaged the American component of this
show in 1993. Since the designer's death in 1974, the Anne Klein label has remained
a strong presence in retail stores around the world.
1923: Vice President Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as
the 30th President of the United States following the death of
President Warren Harding. Coolidge was
not an anti-Semite but some of his actions had a negative impact on Jews. In
1924, he signed the Johnson Act. This
immigration law effectively ended the wave of immigration that had started in
1880. It contained a National Origins
Quota System that favored Western Europeans while barring those from Southern
and Eastern Europe. This quota system
would be in place during the Holocaust and would be used to deny Jews entry
into the United States. Silent Cal did
speak favorably about the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Finally, as Vice President he wrote a letter
to a prominent Jewish leader which read in part, “’Teach the ancient landmarks
to the youth of the Jewish race…That learning and wisdom which has been a
sustaining influence to the Jewish race through all the centuries must be
preserved for the benefit of mankind.
The youth of your people can associate themselves for no more patriotic
purpose.’”
1924: In New York
William and Esther Diamond Kaufman gave birth to Melvyn Kaufman, “a quixotic,
unabashedly contentious developer who helped shape Manhattan’s postwar
streetscape and is credited with injecting his personal brand of whimsy into
the city’s office towers…” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1924: Birthdate of author Leon Uris. The Baltimore native first came to national
attention with the publication of Battle Cry, one of a series in what
were called “the great American war novels.”
Uris based his on his own experiences as a Marine fighting during World
War II. He gained greater acclaim for
his next major work, Exodus.
Exodus is one of those epic works of historic fiction which, in this
case depicts the early days of Zionism and the fight to establish the Jewish
state despite opposition from the British and the Arabs. The novel was turned into a cinematic box
office hit. Uris followed this with
several more novels on Jewish themes. Mila
18 recounted the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
QBVII, was based on a lawsuit actually filed by somebody who felt
they had been defamed by a statement in Mila 18.
1925: In Brooklyn,
“Henry A. Rosenthal, who owned a fabric business, and the former Cecile Coles”
gave birth Lewis Phillip Rosenthal, who gained fame as Dr. Lewis Rowland, the
“leading neurologist” whose name had been in changed while he was a teen because
of the Jewish quotas at Ivy League schools. (As reported by Denise Grady)
1925: Birthdate of
Chicago native and football coach Marvin Daniel “Marv” Levy, the WW II veteran
and Coe College athlete who may have be the only holder of a master’s degree
from Harvard to coach multiple NFL teams and who, as of the turn of the century,
was the only coach to make it to four Super Bowls with winning the championship
game.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/LevyMa0.htm
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/coaches/marv-levy-1.html
1926: The contract
recently entered into between the Board of governors of the New York Athletic
Club and S.W. Straus and Company providing for a first mortgage loan of
$6,250,00 on the club’s property was unanimously approved by the club
membership tonight.
1926: It was reported
today that Dr. Stephen S. Wise, President of the American Jewish Congress is
expected to attend the funeral of Israel Zangwill as the representative of the
congress.
1927: In New York, “A group of thirty executive and
buyers of Harrod’s Ltd in London” which is one of the stores associated with
Abraham and Strauss in the Associated Merchandizing Corporation” made a
“special study of the Abraham and Strauss organization this after which they
had had tea in the store’s fifth floor restaurant.
1927(5th of
Av, 5687): Seventy-three-year-old Dr. Adolph Guttman, the husband of Marilla
Goldstein and Kakau, Austria born son of Herman and Rebeca (Cypress) Guttman
who played a formative role in the creation of the liturgy and religious
practices of Temple Concord in Syracuse, NY and who served as the chaplain at
the Auburn (NY) prison for 35 years passed away today.
1928(17th of
Av, 5688): Seventy-seven year old Viennese native Alfred Sach, the son of
Babette and Eduard Elkan Sachs and husband of Therese Sachs with whom he had
three children – “Betty, Rudolf and Marie” passed away today.
1928: “Under
Suspicion,” a “silent crime film” directed by Constantin J. David was released
in Germany today.
1929(26th of
Tammuz, 5689): Parashat Matot-Masay
1929(26th of Tammuz,
5689): Inventor and scientist, Emil
Berliner, passed away. Born in German in
1851, Berliner worked in a number of fields.
He developed a microphone for the telephone. He developed the prototype for the modern
phonograph record which replaced Edison’s original recording cylinders. Until the advent of tape and CDs, his
phonograph record was the backbone of the recording and music industries. He also developed a revolutionary lightweight
engine which he then put into a experimental helicopter he developed.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlhome.html
1930(9th of
Av, 5690): Tish’a B’Av
1930(9th of
Av, 5690): Sixty-six-year-old CCNY graduate Richard Sutro the financer and the
senior partner of Sutro, Bros and Company with an interest in railroads who was
the New York born son of Pauline Josephthal and Bernarhard Sutro, the husband
of the former Helen Hunt and father of May Rothschild and Edith Ward passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/08/04/102143121.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1930: In Newark, NJ.
Melvin Lamb and “the former Minna Feldman” gave birth to feminist playwright
Myrna Lila Lamb. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1930: It was announced today,
that MIT and Ecole des Beaux Arts trained architect, Joseph Henry Freeldlander
“, who is the president of the Fine Arts Federation of the State and the
designer of the Fifth Avenue Towers in New York City, the White Plains
Municipal Building, the Museum of the City of New York and the new Bronx County
Building” “has been appointed consulting architect of the Saratoga Springs
Commission and that his sailing “for Europe next week to study the architecture
of the various European health reports.’
1931: Irving Lehman the
bi-partisan choice to serve a Justice on the New York Court of Appeals and his
wife, Sissie Straus, the daughter of Nathan Straus were among those sailing
tonight aboard the White Star liner Majestic which is bound for Cherbourg and
South Hampton.
1931: Dr. Lester J.
Unger and his wife, residents of Scarsdale, NY gave birth to a son today.
1932: “Doctor X,” a
horror film directed by Michael Curtiz was released today in the United States
by First National Pictures through Warner Bros.
1933: The Foreign
Office agrees to support a complaint submitted by Polish Jews of German Upper
Silesia to the arbitration tribunal at Beuthen, against the prohibition of
skechita in the plebiscite area.
1933: In Toronto, Mayor
Stewart orders police to investigate the Swastika Club, an organization that
has been placarding local beaches with swastikas.
1933: The Government
approves movement for settlement of fifty Jewish families in the Macedonian
part of Yugoslavia.
1933: Der Stuermer,
Nuremberg daily, begins the publication of a black list of German young women
seen in the company of Jewish men.
1933: In Wurzburg, All
the Jewish student homes are occupied by Nazi storm troops to be used for party
offices; the Jewish Student Association is ordered to dissolve.
1933: In Breslau, The
Free Students Association, at a mass meeting decides to boycott lectures by
Jewish instructors and asks the Ministry of Education to expel the Jewish
teachers remaining in the high schools.
1933: According to
reports from Jaffa, three Revisionist Zionists are under arrest as suspects in
the murder of Dr. Arlosoroff are formally charged with conspiring to
assassinate the Zionist leader.
1934: Adolf Hitler
becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and
Chancellor into Führer.
1935(4th of
Av, 5695): Shabbat Chazon
1935: As Jews observed
Shabbat, thousands of people marched through Harlem protesting Italy’s rumored
plans to invade Abyssinia, the only independent state in sub-Saharan Africa
that was governed by the “indigenous people.”
1936: “A petition
designed to bring the German oppression of Jews and non-Aryans formally before
the League of Nations as an ‘issue of international concern’ was made public”
in New York “and in Paris at the same time” today.
1937: The debate over
the Peel Commission report continued at the League of Nations meet at Geneva.
The Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations decided to postpone
until September its deliberations of the Royal (Peel) Commission¹s Report on
Palestine. It set forth, however, in writing, the advantages and disadvantages
of such options as the maintenance of the existing Mandate or its modification,
the division of Palestine into cantons after the Swiss federal system, or a
complete partition. It was also open to other suggestions.
1937: At Zurich, during
a meeting of the Zionist Congress the Jewish leaders were also discussing
the Peel Commission Report. Dr. Chaim Weizmann said that for the past 2,000
years the Jewish people had not been confronted by the necessity to make such
an important decision. In the meantime, a Jewish water expert warned
that the proposed partition border would deprive the Jewish state of all the
most important water sources. Chaim
Weizmann and David Ben Gurion led the majority that decided to accept the partition
plan in light of the Peel Report. Berl Katznelson, Menachem Ushishkin from
Mapai (Labor) as well as the Revisionists and the Orthodox fiercely argued
against it.
1937: “In Stepney in
the East End of London,” “Pauline (née Hyman), a housewife, and Alfred Berks, a
tailor” gave birth to Leslie Steven Berks who gained fame as English playwright
and actor Steven Berkoff.
1938: “After having
spent fourteen weeks in Palestine the British commission for implementing the
partition scheme, headed by Sir John Woodhead, has finished it task and its
members sailed from Haifa today.
1938: While speaking at
a testimonial luncheon being given “to honor him for his work on behalf of
Jewish refugees children, comedian Eddie Cantor warned “against a spread of
anti-Semitism” in the United States and “bitterly denounced Henry Ford for accepting
a decoration from the German government on July 27, 1938.
1939: Less than a month
before the start of WW II, “The Spy in Black” a WW I spy movie co-produced by
Alexander Korda with a script by Emeric Pressburger was released today in the
United Kingdom.
1940(28th of
Tammuz, 5700): Parashat Masei
1940: The government at
Vichy France passed anti-Jewish racial laws.
1940: Thanks to the intervention
by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul-general in
Bordeaux, Baron Eugène von Rothschild, a member of the Vienna branch that
family arrived safely in the United States aboard the Yankee Clipper.
1941(10th of
Av, 5701): Tish’a B’Av
1941: One thousand, two
hundred Jews arrested in Czenowitz of whom almost seven hundred were executed.
1941: One thousand,
five hundred fifty Jews were removed from the town of Mitau.
1941: In the East
Galician town of Stanislawow, which was the home of Jerzy Feliks Urman which
the Russians had occupied in 1939 but was taken by the Nazis in 1941, “nearly
1,000 intellectuals and professionals” including hundreds of doctors “were
murdered” by the Germans and their Ukrainian allies.
1942(20th
of Av, 5702): Sixty-nine-year-old German born Nobel Award winning chemist
Richard Willstätter who in 1924 he left his post a prominent German university
because of the overt anti-Semitism he encountered passed away today in
Switzerland after having left his homeland in the 1930’s.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1915/willstatter-bio.html
1942:
Fifteen year old Inge Fisherova was transported today from Prague to Terezin,
the next stop on her ultimate destination – Auschwitz.
1943(3rd of Av, 5703):
At Bedzin, a man named Baruch tried to challenge Nazi deportation orders and
was shot for his effort.
1943: “The last major
deportation of residents from the Bedzin Ghetto” which sparked an uprising by
members of the ZOB ended today.
1943: In Toronto,
Canada Louis and Ruth Libman gave birth Osgoode Hall Law School trained
attorney Alan David Libman who in 1977 came to the United States where he
worked in the entertainment industry and became President of Sunset West
International in Los Angeles in 1986.
1944(14th of Av, 5704):
At Strassenhof Camp, 2,400 Jews were marched away never to return. They were
all under the age of eighteen and gassed in a makeshift crematorium. Three days
later the Red Army liberated the 600 surviving camp members
1944: After a series of delays, Monuments Man Lt.
James Rorimer landed at Normandy on what had been Utah Beach on D-Day.
1944: At the Haidari
Concentration Camp, having stolen all of the glass from the Jews of Rhodes and
extracted the gold from their teeth, the Germans loaded them in animal wagons,
sealed the doors and shipped them to Auschwitz.
1944: Fifty-five-year-old
Oslo businessman Ludvig Paul Cohen was deported to Auschwitz today.
1944: The Henry Gibbons arrived in New York
carrying a shipload of Jewish refugees bound for the Fort Ontario Emergency
Refugee Shelter.
1945: In London, “Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland told the World Zionist Conference today that
the Jews could not be patient because a new British Government had come into
office and declared that they would fight for Palestine.”
1945: It was reported
today that “the Esther Orphanage” which is providing a home “for Jewish
children who lost their parents during the German invasion of Greece has been
opened near Athens, Greece “with funds supplied by the Joint Distribution
Committee.
1946(6th of
Av, 5706): Parshat Devarim and Shabbat Chazon
1946(6th of
Av, 5706): Seventy-seven year old Edwin I. Hyneman, the son of the Leon and
Grace Marks Hyneman, varsity football and baseball player for the University of
Pennsylvania and “former part owner of the Philadelphia Phillies” passed away
today after enduring the after effects of broken hip sustained when he fell on
icy pavement. (Editor’s note - http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=40 shows him passing away
in 1945, but the New York Times obit is dated 1946)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C06E4DE1238E53ABC4C53DFBE66838D659EDE
1947: As tensions
mounted in Great Britain following the killing of two British sergeants by the
Irgun in retaliation for the execution of three of its fighters, violence broke
out today in Manchester where “groups of men began breaking the windows of shops
in Cheetham Hill…which had home to a Jewish community since the early 19th
century” while others tore “down the canopy of the Great Synagogue on Cheetham
Hill Road” and surrounded “a Jewish wedding party at the Assembly Hall”
shouting “abuse at the terrified guests until one in the morning.”
1947: Three British
ships - Runnymede Park, Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival – arrived in Marseilles
carrying the Jewish immigrants from the SS Exodus whom the French said would
only be allowed to leave the vessels if their departure were voluntary and not coerced
by the British.
1948(27th of
Tammuz, 5708): Sixty year old Beatrice Venetia Stanley Montagu who chose Edwin
Samuel Montagu over Prime Minister Asquith and converted to Judaism to marry
the Liberal MP – a marriage that was cut short by his death and was
unfulfilling for her while it lasted.
1948(27th of
Tammuz, 5708): Emanuel Rothstein died today while flying his Auster for the
IAF.
1948(27th of
Tammuz, 5708): While flying her Auster, twenty-one-year-old Zahara Levitov an
“American education bomber pilot with the IAF died today in an air crash
between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
.1948(27th
of Tammuz, 5708): Seventy-year-old Hungarian nationalist and international
pacifist Rosika "Rózsa" Bédy-Schwimmer “died of pneumonia today in
New York City.”
https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/schwimmerr.pdf
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schwimmer-rosika
1948: “In testimony
under subpoena before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC),”
penitent Communist Party member Whitaker “Chambers identified Lee Pressman” the
son of Jewish immigrants, “as a member of the Ware group.”
1949: Founding of the National Basketball
Association. Jewish players and coaches
had played a major role in professional basketball prior to World War II. Ironically, the establishment of permanent
professional league came at a time when Jewish participation had begun to
decline. There were still a few stars
like Dolph Schayes and Red Holtzman. Red
Auberbach would prove to be the dominant coach of the fledgling league and
Eddie Gottlieb continued his life time of involvement in professional
basketball as the owner of the Philadelphia Warriors.
1950: In Chicago,
“Shirley Levine (née Magaziner) and Marshall Landis, an interior designer and
decorator” gave birth to John David Landis, the director of such comedic
classic hits “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers” and
“Trading Places.”
1950: “A Lady Without
Passport” a film noir directed by Joseph Lewish, produced by Samuel Marx,
starring Hedy Lamar, featuring Steve Hill with a score by David Raskin was
released in the United States today by MGM.
1951(1st of Av, 5711):
Rosh Chodesh Av
1951: “The Secret of
Convict Lake,” a western produced by Frank P. Rosenberg, with music by Sol
Kaplan and script that Ben Hecht helped to write was released in the United
States today.
1952: In Helsinki, the
Summer Olympics, during which Holocaust survivor Agnes Keleti and gymnast, won
four medals, came to an end today.
1952: The “chairman of
the Bronx Independent Democrats announced” today “the formation of the Ideal
party, to support M. Maldwin Fertig” who
is a Democrat who has served Governors Roosevelt and Lehaman” “for election as
Surrogate of Bronx Country.”
1953: Birthdate of San
Pedro, CA native Robert Edwin “Bob” Gross the forward who played college ball
at Seattle University and Long Beach St. before pursuing an NBA career with the
Portland Trail Blazers and San Diego Clippers.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/grossbo01.html
1954: After having
premiered in New York and Los Angeles, “About Mrs.
Leslie” directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Hal Wallis and with a script
co-authored by Hal Kanter was released throughout the United States today.
1955(15th
of Av, 5715): Tu B’Av
1955: Birthdate of
Mitchell Shubow Steir the UNC alum and chairman and CEO of Savils Studley who
is married to entrepreneur Nancy Ganz with whom he had two children – Max and
Rachel.
http://www.savills-studley.com/bios/mitchell-steir
1958: The oil pipeline
from Eilat to Haifa was completed. Since
Israeli ships and ships that stopped at Israeli ports were barred from using
the Suez this joining of Israel’s two major seaports was of great economic
importance.
1958: Today the USS Nautilus which “was constructed
under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a brilliant
Russian-born” Jewish “engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946”
“accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.”
1960(10th of
Av, 5720): Irwin Stuart Block, the husband of Sonia Block and the brother of
Louis Block passed away today.
1963(13th of
Av, 5723): Parashat Vaetchcanan and Shabbat Nachamu
1963: This evening at
Congregation Emanu-El in-Mount Vernon, NY Rabbi Aaron H. Blumenthal and Cantor
Joseph Amdur officiated at the wedding of Carolyn Cohn and Dr. Daniel
Chasanoff, the NYU trained dentist and U.S. Army veteran.
1963(13th of
Av, 5723): Seventy-one-year-old James D. Zellerbach, the California born son of
“Isadore Zellerbach and the former Jennie Baruh” who served as Charmian of the
Board of the family business Crown Zellerbach before pursuing a career in
public service that including being the U.S. Ambassador to Italy.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/04/357167532.pdf
1963: Allan
Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda" the musical parody on
letters campers sent home to their parents.
1963: Philip L. Graham,
the chief executive officer of the Washington Post and the husband of Katherine
Graham passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/09/reviews/graham-philip.html
1964: Anthony Newley’s
“Feelin’ Good” was performed for the first time in public tonight on the
opening night of “The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd at the
Theatre Royal” in Nottingham
1965: “You Must Be
Joking” a comedy directed by Robert Michael Winner was released today in the
United Kingdom.
1965: Sixty year old
Murray Webber, the Los Angeles businessman who “served on the City of Hope
board of directors for 15 years” passed away today.
1966(17th of Av, 5726):
Comic Lenny Bruce passe away from a morphine overdose
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1013.html
1966: “This Property
Condemned” a tragic film set in the Deep South directed by Sydney Pollack and
produced by John Housman who was the son an Alsatian Jew was released today in
the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1966: “Two hundred
delegates from conservative synaogues in twenty-one countries are expected to
attend “The sixth international convention of the world Council of Synagogues
opened” which opened in Geneva today. (JTA)
1966: “The Man Called
Flintstone,” an animated film featuring the voices of Mel Blanc, Harvey Korman
and Paul Hersh Frees was released in the United States today.
1967: In Paris, a
Hungarian Jewish director and writer Peter Kassovitz and his Roman Catholic
wife, film editor Chantal Remy gave birth to Mathieu Kassovitz who “has
described himself as ‘not Jewish but I was brought up in a world of Jewish
humor’”
1968(9th of
Av, 5728: Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1968: ‘The Israeli-Arab
war in June, 1967, placed heavy and unexpected demands on the Joint
Distribution Committee, according to the organization's annual report issued”
today which blamed some of the additional financial burden on the fact “the outbreak
of the six-day last year triggered a mass exodus from North Africa involving
about 20,000 Jews of whom 3,000 were from Libya, 1,000 from Egypt and Lebanon and the rest in
almost equal numbers from Morocco and Tunisia.”
1969(19th of
Av, 5729): Eighty-eight-year-old Libbie Henrietta Hyman, the Des Moines, IA
born daughter of Joseph and Sabina (Neumann) Hyman who overcame anti-Semitism
in the academic world to write “the definitive texts on invertebrates” passed
away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hyman-libbie-henrietta
1970(1st of Av, 5730):
Rosh Chodesh Av
1970: “The Adventures
of Huckleberry” a film version of the novel directed by Michael Curitz,
produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr, co-starring Tony Randall and with music by
Jerome Moross was released today in the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/04/archives/philip-levinhead-of-madison-squaregarden-diesi.html
1970: Igal Shohat and
Moshe Goldwasser were taken prisoner when their F4-E Phantom was shot down
during the War of Attrition. Tragically, Goldwasswer reportedly died while in
captivity and Shohat lost his leg. [This
is entry is a tragic reminder that the brave, unsung heroes have paid the
highest price for the Jewish state of Israel.
The least we can do is remember – Zachor – their sacrifice and courage.]
1971(12th of
Av, 5731): Sixty-two year old Rutgers law school graduate Philip Jerome Levin,
the husband of “the former Janice Hoffman” with whom he had three children
“Catherine, Susan and Adam” and “the majority shareholder of MGM” as well as
the “head of Madison Square Garden” passed away today.
1972(23rd
of Av, 5732): David Abraham Jessurun Cardoza, the Amsterdam born son “Abraham
Jessurun Cardozo and Marie Serlui and the assistant rabbi at New York’s Spanish
and Portuguese Synagogue and senior rabbi at Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikveh
Israel who in 1953 became the first rabbi to publicly hold High Holiday
services in Spain since the expulsion in 1492 passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/05/archives/rabbi-cardozo-dies-a-sephardic-leader.html
1973: It was reported
today that Shaare Zedek in Jerusalem has announced “that its South African
friends” have “decided to endow a ‘Louis Pincus post-operative intensive care
project’ in memory of the late Zionist leader Louis A. Pincus.
1973(5th
of Av, 5733): Ninety-three-year-old Franz Herbert Hirschland, the Essen,
Germany born son of Henriette and Isaac Hirschland and the graduate of the
Institute of Technology in Hanover and the Institute of Technology in Berlin
who in 1906 came to the United States where he was a trustee of Montefiore
Hospital and husband of Gula Andrson Hirschland with whom he had two children,
Herbert and Richard S. Hirschland, the president of the George V. Clark Company
passed away today.
https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/ryr/id/760
1975(26th of
Av, 5735): Sixty-three old NYU trained “labor lawyer and arbitrator” Irving
Robert Feinberg, the husband Lucille Feinberg, and the father of Jean and
Richard Feinberg who was active in Jewish communal activities as can be seen
his with the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, United Jewish Appeal,
National Jewish Welfare Board, Development Corporation for Israel, Montefiore
and Maimonides Hospitals, and the Hebrew Home for the Aged” passed away today.
1975: “Prisoner of Zion
Vladimir Markman arrived in Israel after serving three years imprisonment in
the USSR.”
1976(7th of
Av, 5736): Seventy-two-year-old Max Gross “who retired in 1959 after forty
years of service as a deliverer for the New York Times” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/08/04/90387176.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1976: “Entebbe Raid
Leader Moving Up” published described plans for Brigadier General Dan Shamron
the 39-year-old commander who led the operation to free the hostages at Entebbe
and commanded an armored brigade during the Yom Kippur War to assume a more
important position in the near future.
1976: The 1976 Summer
Paralympics opened in Toronto where Hagai Zamir would win a medal for
volleyball.
1977: The United States
Senate held hearings on MKULTRA. MKULTRA
was a study of mind control methods begun at the
1977: The former chief
of US Air Force Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. George Keegan (Ret.) accused the Carter
Administration of basing its current Middle Eastern policy on quicksand. Keegan
charged that the US was not disclosing its back-door intelligence which
indicated that the real intentions of the Arab desire to destroy Israel were
still there.
1978: A Broadway
reivival of “Stop the World – I Want to
Get Off Off” a musical “with a book, music, and lyrics” co-authored by Anthony
Newley directed by Mel Shapiro with a cast that included Sammy Davis, Jr. opened
today “at the New York State Theatre in Lincoln Center.
1978: Ezzedine Kalak,
chief of the PLO's Paris bureau, and his deputy Hamad Adnan, were killed at
their offices in the Arab League building. Three other members of the Arab
League and PLO staff were wounded
1979: “North Dallas
Forty,” the movie version of a marvelous little sports novel produced by Frank
Yalbans who co-authored the script was released in the United States today.
1980: “Israel Applying
The 'Brakesim' To Foreignisms; Begin Favors Updating of Hebrew Old Language for
New Needs” published today described what some view as “the plague” of
invented, non-Hebraic terms that are rapidly being added to what was once
viewed as the holy tongue. “Israelis have injected so many non-Hebrew words
into ‘the language of holiness’” such as “autonomiya” for the English word
“autonomy” or “pluggim” for spark plugs, that “some ultra-Orthodox Hasidic
sects which formerly forbade Hebrew speech because it was the language of
prayer, have all their members to witch from Yiddish to Hebrew.”
1981(3rd of Av, 5741):
Seventy-year old chess champion Wolfgang Heidenfeld the father of chess
champion Mark Heidenfeld, passed away today.
1982(14th of
Av, 5742): Ninety-two year old Leopold Philipp passed away after which he was
buried at the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1982: Funeral
services were held today for sixty-seven-year-old Philadelphia born and
University Pennsylvania honor graduate Samuel Lewis Gaber the former
“Pennsylvania-West Virginia-Delaware regional director of the ADL” who had
passed away in West Palm Beach, FL.
1983(24th
Av, 5743): Seventy-two-year-old year old Walter Landauer, the Viennese native
who was part of a popular piano duo
whose career spanned almost 40 years passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/05/obituaries/walter-landauer-is-dead-a-partner-in-piano-duo.html
1985(15th of
Av, 5745): Tu B’Av
1985: “An exhibition of
Al Hirschfeld’s caricatures” including “several dozen of his works dating from
the 1920’s to the 1980’s” that has been on display “on the second floor of
London’s National Theatre” marking the first time such a showing had taken place
in the United Kingdom is scheduled to come to an end today.
1986: It was reported
today that Beatrice Siegel's latest book for young readers is Sam Ellis's
Island.
1991(23rd of
Av, 5751): Seventy-six Isador Perlman who worked with radio isotopes and taught
archeology at Hebrew University passed away today.
1992: Los Angeles
premiere of the “Unforgiven” a dark western featuring Saul Rubinek as W. W.
Beauchamp.
1993: The Senate voted
96-3 to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
1993: Yakov
Kreizbergmade his debut at The BBC Proms conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra
today.
1994: A
plane piloted by King Hussein of Jordan flew over Jerusalem. It was the King’s first aerial view of the
city and, at the time, seen as harbinger for better times.
1994: Stephen
G. Breyer completed his service as Chief Judge of the United States Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit.
1994: Stephen G. Breyer
was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice in a private ceremony at Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist's Vermont summer home. At this time Jews are less
than two per cent of the population and make up twenty two percent of the Justices
on the Court.
1994:
Hadassah’s 80th Convention, held at the New York Hilton, comes to an
end
1997: The Long Island Journal featured a
report about Camp Wonderland, part of the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center in
Commack that contains a city-of-Jerusalem-playground which is the newest
addition to the Y.
1997: It
was reported today that “American Jewry funneled more money into religious
education, and less into social activism, as the concern grew about runaway
assimilation.”
1997: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth
Century by Donald Sassoon who describes himself as a middle Eastern
Jew despite having lived in England for forty years, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 by Jewish born Pulitzer Prize
winner Maxine Kumin, Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of
the Perfrect Suburb by Bernard Lefkowitz and Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter.
1998: Russian composer Alfred Garyevich Schnittke whose father was
Jewish and whose mother was not, passed away.
http://www.jbtremblay.org/schnittke/chronology
1999: Janet Yellin
completed her service as Chair of “President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic
Advsioers.”
1999(21st of Av, 5759:
Eighty-five year old Yitzhak Rafael passed away today. Born in Galicia, he made Aliyah in 1935 and
eventually became active in Israeli political life as an MK and Minister of
Religions.
2000(2nd of
Av, 5760): Seventy-nine-year-old London native Michael Leverson Meyerson the
scion of “a timber merchant family of Jewish origin” who “won the 1971
Whitbread Award for Biography” and whose “autobiography Not Prince Hamlet was
published in 1989 passed away today.
2001: 98 U.S. senators
express concern about popular anti-Semitism in Russia by sending a letter to
then-President Vladimir Putin. The letter asks Putin to take a stronger stance
in publicly condemning anti-Semitism, which gained traction from “ideological...
2002(25th of
Av, 5762): Parashat Re’eh
2002: As Jews were
observing Shabbat, the Bush administration was working on plans for the
invasion of Iraq.
2003: The Sunday New York Times book section
features a review of Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein, a collection
of short stories in which “most of the characters are secular Jews who -- like
Epstein himself -- are men over 50 who grew up in or around Chicago.”
2003: HBO broadcast the
comedy special “Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales” which starred Ullman who
also wrote the script and directed the show.
2004: The United Jewish
Communities (UJC) eighth annual Jewish Leadership Forum (JLF) in Aspen, CO
comes to a close.
2005:
In a triumph for Israeli scientific and engineering capabilities a “new $250
million desalination plant in Ashkelon began pumping potable water filtered
from the Mediterranean Sea” today.
2005:
Cynthia Aaron Glassman, the holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Penn completed
a month-long stint as “acting chair” of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
2006(9th of
Av, 5766) Tish'a B'Av
2006: Jews
all over the world observe the Fast Day of Tisha B’Av as the IDF battles
against Hezbollah and Hamas. A barrage of Hezbollah rockets slammed into
northern Israel today, killing at least eight Israelis. Four people were killed
when a rocket crashed directly into a house near the northern town of Ma'alot,
and another four were killed when a rocket exploded near their vehicle in Acre.
Four people were seriously wounded and two others sustained moderate wounds in
rocket strikes in Acre, Hurfeish and Kiryat Shmona. Another 31 people were also
lightly wounded in the attacks. Shimon Zaribi, 44, and Albert ben Abu, 41, both
of Acre, were killed in the rocket attack on their hometown. Sinati Sinati,
Amir Naeem and Mohammed Fouad, all 17-year-old residents of the village of
Tarshiha, were killed in the attack near Ma'alot.
2006: In
“Hezbollah Missile Threat Assessed” published today, Frank Gardner described
the threat still facing Israel after three weeks “of an intensive…air
campaign.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5242566.stm
2007: “Hot
Rod,” directed by Akiva Schaffer, starring Andy Samberg and with music by
Trevor Rabin was released today in the United States.
2007: Israel Defense Forces troops shot and killed Read Abu Ads,
the Islamic Jihad commander in Nablus
2008: The Sunday New York
Times Editor’s Choice listings included Moral Clarity: A Guide for
Grown-Up Idealists, by Susan Neiman in which the Jewish born author
“champions Enlightenment values without any hint of oversimplification,
dogmatism or misplaced piety.”
2008: The Washington Post
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Book of Dahlia by Jewish author Elisa
Albert Hitler, The Germans and the
Final Solution by Ian
Kershaw
and Hitler’s Priests: Catholic
Clergy and National Socialism by Kevin P. Spicer
2008: At the Jewish Museum in New York, an exhibition entitled
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered comes to an end. Andy Warhol's Ten
Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980) depicts renowned
luminaries of Jewish culture: Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber,
Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx
Brothers, Golda Meir, and Gertrude Stein. Warhol referred to this pantheon of
great thinkers, politicians, performers, and writers as his "Jewish
geniuses." Warhol's iconic portraits attest to the lasting achievements
and fame of these singular figures. Originally published as a portfolio of
silkscreen prints on paper, Warhol was so pleased with the commercial success
of his Ten Portraits that he decided to create additional versions of
the series as silkscreen paintings on canvas. The Jewish Museum initially
showed three sets of paintings and an edition of prints in the fall of 1980. On
view in this exhibition are one of the five complete sets of ten paintings, an
edition of the final print portfolio, several sketches, a preparatory collage,
and the photographs that Warhol used as source images, offering new insights
into their development and historical context.
2009: In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai's
Music on Monday’s series presents A Groyse Metsie: Jewish music in various
styles.
2009:
About half of Israelis believe that in order to be a
"true Israeli," one has to have been born in Israel, so finds the
Israel Democracy Institute in its annual Israeli Democracy Index, published
today.
2009:
An American-Israeli crime ring conspired to defraud
United States tax authorities of tens of millions of dollars for at least five
years, according to Israeli and American court documents filed today.
2009(13th of Av, 5769): Rabbi Aharon Zelig Epstein Rosh
yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno, passed away today.
2009:
Chabad Lubavitch presented a request today to Yad
Vashem to recognize a high-ranking military commander in the Third Reich as a
righteous gentile for saving Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneerson, the sixth Chabad
rebbe. Admiral Canaris, commander of the Nazi Abwehr, or intelligence, had a
central role in securing Schneerson's escape from the Warsaw Ghetto along with
members of Schneerson's family and entourage, said Yosef Kaminetzky, a writer
who recently completed a book on the escape story.
2010: Tzofim Friendship Caravan Family Concert featuring the
Israeli Scouts is scheduled to take place at the Washington DCJCC.
2010(23rd of Av, 5770): Israel Defense
Forces analysts believe that the Lebanese sniper fire at the Israel-Lebanon
border today, which killed Lt. Col. Dov Harari and seriously wounded Captain
Ezra Lakia, was in fact an ambush planned by a Lebanese officer who was
encouraged by his commanders.
2010(23rd of Av, 5770): Family and friends
of Dov Harari, affectionately called "Barry", who was killed Tuesday
in a military confrontation on the Israel-Lebanon border, said that Harari
loved his country and the Israel Defense Forces, and that everyone who knew him
loved him. Harari was killed by sniper fire on his observation post while he
was overseeing a tree pruning operation along the border fence with Lebanon.
2010(23rd of Av, 5770): A
Jewish father of three was among the victims of a shooting rampage at a
Connecticut beer warehouse. Louis Felder, the director of operations at the
Hartford Distributors in Manchester, was one of eight people shot dead Tuesday
morning by an employee accused of stealing, who then killed himself. Felder was
a member of the Young Israel of Stamford. Steve Hollander, the company's head
of marketing, and a member of the Hollander family that founded and owns the
company, was reported to have been shot, according to the Hartford Courant.
“The Hollander family is probably one of the most venerated families in the
Hartford area in the Jewish community," U.S. Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.)
told the Courant. "There isn’t a charity that they haven’t contributed
to.”
2010(23rd of Av, 5770): American
Rabbi Bruce M. Cohen, who joined with Farhat Agbaria an Israeli Arab in found
Interns for Peace passed away today at the age of 65.
2010(23rd of Av, 5770): Ninety-seven Herman L. “Reds”
Bassman the native of Philadelphia native, alum of Ursinus College and Army Air
Corps Veteran who was the “oldest living former Philadelphia Eagles player”
when he passed away today in Petersburg, VA.
2011: Publication of the paperback version of A
Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
2011: Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski is scheduled to give the first in a
series of lectures entitled “The Essential Heschel: Teachings of a Modern Day
Revolutionary Prophet” at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning.
2011: Dr. Regina Stein is scheduled to give the first in a series
of lectures entitled “Jewish Holidays for Grownups” at the Skirball Center for
Adult Jewish Learning.
2011: Michael “Fishman appeared on the Passover episode of
Roseanne Barr’s reality show “Roseanne’s Nuts.”
2011:
The Knesset passed a controversial housing bill
today, despite the objections of leaders of the housing protest movement that
has been gaining momentum across the country in recent weeks. The bill, which
will slash red tape for construction by setting up national committees to
approve new housing projects, was passed by a vote of 57 to 45.
2011:
MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) told Army Radio today
that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered former Egyptian president
Hosni Mubarak political asylum several months ago.
2012(15th of Av): Tu B’Av
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Modern_Holidays/Tu_BAv.shtml
2012: Fifty-nine-year-old award winning theatre and television
producer Joan Stein passed away today.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/theater/joan-stein-theater-producer-is-dead-at-59.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-joan-stein-20120804,0,5470587.story
2012: The celebration of the Israeli holiday of love, Tu B’Av is
scheduled to begin this morning in the open courtyard of the Citadel of the
Tower of David Museum with a musical performance of Neapolitan love songs.
2012: Sam Kringlen, son of
Janice Binder and Jim Kringlen is scheduled to participate in Friday Night
Services at Temple Judah as his Bar Mitzvah weekend begins.
2012:
Hamas freed a Salafi leader of an al-Qaeda affiliated
terror group; it was reported today. His group is believed to have close ties
with terror cells currently operating in the Sinai.
2012:
A bipartisan group of six Congress members is sponsoring a bill that would
ensure recognition of the plight of 850,000 Jewish refugees displaced from Arab
countries since Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Their bill in the US
House of Representatives also would recognize other displaced populations,
including Christians from countries in the Middle East, North Africa and the
Persian Gulf.
2013:
“Lies in the Closet” is among the films scheduled to be shown this evening at
the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013:
A revival performance of Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz a
musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman
opened at the Dentsu-Shiki Theatre in Tokyo.
2013:
Final performance of “Division Avenue,” a new comedic play by Miki Bone that
uses the orthodoxy of the Hasidic culture to explore the challenges facing
those trying to find their way in the face of doubt and modern culture´ is
scheduled to take place at the June Havoc Theatre.
2013:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the traditional minyan at Temple Judah is scheduled to
observe Raoul Wallenberg Shabbat where we Remember the Righteous Among the
Nations including Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who defied his
government by issuing transit papers to Lithuanian Jews so they could escape
the Holocaust and Aristides de Sousa Mendes who defied his government and
issued transit papers to Jews so they could escape
2013(27th
of Av, 5773): Eighty-six-year-old journalist Yehuda Lev the WW II veteran who
helped to smuggle Jews into Palestine passed away today.
2013:
Israeli swimmers, Guy Barnea and Jonathan Koplover, finished first and fourth
respectively qualifying to swim in the finals at the World Swimming
Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
2013:
“Betrayed by Braun, Brewers Owner Twists in an Ill Wind” published today
described the impact Ryan Braum, “The Hebrew Hammer” has had on fans, friends
et al when “he was exposed as serial liar” whose greatness may rest not on his
skill but on his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
2014:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
by Rick Perlstein, The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman, The Rise and
Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman, J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist
by Thomas Beller, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Nigel
Hamilton and Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
by Ken Adelman as well as an interview with Amy Bloom.
2014:
The Coen Brother’s double feature is scheduled to be shown for the last time at
the Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2014
The IDF spokesman announced early this morning, Israeli time that at 11:25 p.m.
yesterday, August 2, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Brigadier Gen. Rafi Peretz,
declared the death of IDF officer Lt. Hadar Goldin, who fell in the Gaza Strip
on August 1, 2014. (In life he was loved and admired. He was swifter than
eagles and stronger than lions.)
2014:
“Israeli singer David Broza was at the Yehud military cemetery today to sing
his song "Mitahat LaShamayim" ("Under the Sky"), the song
that was to be Captain Omri Tal and his girlfriend Liat Zimerman's wedding
song. Instead, Broza's words floated through the air of the cemetery, over
Omri's grave.”
2014:
“Some 12,000 people turned out Sunday in Johannesburg, South Africa at a rally
in solidarity with Israel.”
2014:
“Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Sunday of deliberately
killing Palestinian mothers and warned it would "drown in the blood it
sheds”
2015:
“As Israel sweltered in the grips of a sizzling heat wave, with temperatures in
Jerusalem breaking 100º Fahrenheit (40º Celcius), the country broke its
electricity use record today for the second day in a row.
2015:
In Aspen, CO, Ambassador Dennis Ross is scheduled to speak at the Chabad Jewish
Community Center.
2015:
“One of the oldest surviving Hebrew manuscripts, a bible dating back more than
1,000 years, will soon be available online in a joint project with The British
Library in London, the National Library of Israel said today. Aviad Stollman,
the library’s chief of collections, said the Gaster Bible would go online as
part of a project to digitize all of the 3,200 rare Hebrew manuscripts at The
British Library.” (As reported by Miriam Berger)
2015:
Starting today, “the Jewish Museum of Maryland in conjunction with the
Baltimore Jewish Council and the Maryland State Department of Education, is
scheduled to host a three day workshop on Holocaust education that focuses on
giving educators the tools to help their students understand the Holocaust.”
2016:
Today, “Hasbara Fellowships Canada filed a formal complaint with the Ontario
Human Rights Tribunal, where it accused the student and faculty associations of
the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and Durham College of
discriminating against Jewish students and Israel, following the banning of
Hasbara Fellowships Canada from participating in a student
association-sponsored “Social Justice Week” five months ago.”
2016:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host a screening of John
Frankenheimer’s “The Young Savages.”
2016(28th
of Tammuz, 5776): Eighty-six-year-old Dolphin researcher Louis M. Herman passed
away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2016:
“International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach led a mourning ceremony
today for the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches slain by Palestinian terrorists
at the 1972 Munich Olympics — a tribute that a widow of one of the victims said
brought “closure” for the families
2016:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an exploration of the rebirth
of the Lower East Side by a tour of four art galleries conducted by Ronnit
Vasserman.
2017:
“The Heart and the Wellspring, an Israeli ensemble led by Naor Carmi and
clarinetist Chilik Frank” is scheduled to present and evening of “Chassidic
Music from Israel at YSW.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of “The Zookeeper’s
Wife.”
2017:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host
“Carnival, a Summer Soiree” a fun, fundraising activity that includes
everything from acrobats to silent auctions.
2017:
“In conjunction with the exhibition 500 Years of Treasures from Oxford
presented by Corpus Christi College, the Center for Jewish History, and Yeshiva
University Museum,” Jan Joosten, Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University
of Oxford is scheduled to lecture on “Hebrew: A Holy Language?”
2018:
The Cornelia Street Café is scheduled to host the second night of the Israeli
Jazz Spotlight Festival.
2018(22nd
of Av, 5778): Eighty-six-year-old Egyptian born Israeli director Moshe Mizrahi,
the winner of the Oscar for Madame Rosa as the Best Foreign Language Film of
1977 passed away today.
(As
reported by Richard Sandomir)
2018:
“The Prayer” and “Cellfish,” a film that “explores the life and work of artist
Shelly Federman” are scheduled to shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018:
“The American Sephardi Federation Young Leaders” is scheduled to host a
“Sephardic Summer Shabbat Dinner” this evening at the Center for Jewish History
in Manhattan.
2019:
Art Omi is scheduled to host a performance by Gilad Jerusalmy, “an independent
dancer and creator for stage and media from Tel Aviv.
2019:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screening of “The
Tobacconist” and “American Factory.
2019(2nd
of Av, 5779): Parashat Matot-Masay;
2020:
Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy is scheduled to be the Keynote Speaker on the opening day
the Summer Teachers Institute, a virtual conference hosted by the Jewish Museum
of Maryland.
2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a webinar on “Prison, Politics and
the Jewish People” with Natan Sharansky and Rabbi Rick Jacobs.
2020:
Jewish LeaerningWorks is scheduled to present a virtual “Conversation About
Racism” during which Matt Fieldman, author of White Jews Wake Up, leads
a discussion about white supremacy and “our role” in racial and economic
inequalities.
2020:
The LSJS (London School of Jewish Studies) Summer of Love, a special three week
program led by Rabbi Dr. Zarum and clinical psychologist Dr. Abram Sterne is
scheduled to begin today
2020:
Online, “Aquarian Minyan class with ex-GTU and current U. of Toronto professor
Naomi Seidman who is scheduled to talk about how Jewish education pioneer Sarah
Schenirer and her Bais Yaakov schools in pre-war Poland were instrumental in
reviving Tu B’Av years before Israel and the U.S.”
2020:
As Israelis prepare to face another day of the Pandemic they must contend with
the challenge of the possibility of more rocket attacks from Gaza like the one
last night which was successfully thwarted by the Iron Dome.
2021:
As of this morning, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was reported to be
considering “providing a third does of the coronavirus vaccine to younger
Israelis…”
2021
Based on information released last night that 2,441 new coronavirus cases were
diagnosed in Israel, Israelis today are confronted that today might even top
yesterday’s numbers which were “the highest daily rise in infections during the
current” outbreak.
2021:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host reporters Ethan Bronner, Daniel
Estrin and Janine Zacharia as they discuss what it is like to cover Jerusalem
with Jodi Rudoren, the editor-in-chief of the The Forward.
2022:Today,
Moving Traditions, Keshet and Response for Teens are scheduled to team up to
host the first of three sessions for those parenting Jewish LGBTQ+ children and
teens, from the basics of LGBTQ+ 101 to Jewish lifecycles and making them
fulfilling for your child.
2022:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a virtual screening
of “Grossman,” a documentary about one of Israel’s most acclaimed authors and
the recipient of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, reflects on how his
family has inspired his writing.
2022:
While Congress needs a month off in August, in Cedar Rapids, the board of
Temple Judah is scheduled to host its monthly meeting tonight.
2022:
Boston Jewish Film is scheduled to present a virtual screening of “Cinema
Sabaya,” followed by a Q&A with director Orit Fouks Rotem, moderated by
Nahanni Rous.
2023:
In Berkley Chochmat HaLev is scheduled to host “Sacred Hebrew Music for
Healing, Balance and Transformation,” a “Kabbalistic meditation led by world
music artist and peace activist Yuval Ron with chanting, prayer and gentle
practices using sound, breath and movement.”
2023:
Today, following yesterday’s decision by jurors to impose the death sentence on
Robert Vowers who “killed 11 worshippers are the Tree of Life Synagogue in
Pittsburgh in October of 2018, the Judge is scheduled to “formally impose
sentence at a hearing…when families of some of the victims are expected to
address the court.”
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host David Herman interviewing Michael
Ignatieff on his book Isaiah Berlin: A Life.
2024:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “Boker Tov Shabbat” for
“kids pre-K and under.”
2024:
At Noon in Jerusalem, Agnon House is scheduled to host a joint of S.Y. Agnon’s
short story “The Handkerchief” followed by a conversation led by Uri Grennspun
that “will return to Agnon's childhood, examine the narrator's relationship
with his parents and trace his childhood sins.”
2024:
Protest rallies are likely to take place again this evening in Tel Aviv.
2024(28th
of Tammuz, 5784): Parashat Mataot/Masay
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more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
As August 3rd 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 302 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
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