This Day, August 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 30
70: According to
Josephus, the day one which the Second Temple was set aflame
500: Having conquered
Italy, Ostrogoth King Theodoric gave the Jews freedom to worship.
526 Death of Theodoric
the Great, king of the Ostrogoths (the eastern Goths) who controlled the
Italian Peninsula and area adjacent to it. Theodoric had a reputation for
religious toleration which he extended to the Jewish people. He encouraged them to settle in his kingdom
reportedly because he saw them as a source of economic benefit.
1179: As the Crusaders
and the Moslems jockey for control over Palestine, soldiers under the command
of Saladin had sacked the castle at Jacob’s Ford, the critical passageway
across the Jordan River. The crossing takes
its name from the Biblical patriarch and would be a scene of fighting in 1948
and 1967.
1181: The papacy of
Alexander III comes to an end. He was “the author of the oldest extant version
of the bull “Sicut Judaeis” (As the Jews) first promulgated in 1120 by Calixtus
II.
1334: Birthdate of King
Peter who reigned over Castile and Leon from 1350 to 1369. “Peter's rival Henry
of Trastámara continuously depicted Peter as "King of the Jews” and had
some success in taking advantage of popular Castilian resentment towards the
Jews. Henry of Trastámara instigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish
riots and forced conversions in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to
1390. Peter took forceful measures against this, including the execution of at
least five anti-Jewish leaders of a riot.”
1465: Johannes
Hinderbach, who blamed the Jews for the death of Simon of Trent which was his
justification for murdering “several of them” and working to canonize the boy
in what was one of many of the blood libels, was elected Prince-Bishop of Trent
today.
1563: The Jewish
community of Neutitschlin, Moravia was expelled.
1782: In New York,
Hillel Judah and his wife gave birth to Rebecca Judah, the wife Of Isaac B.
Siexas whom she married in 1809.
1793(22nd of
Elul, 5553): In his 37th year, Judah Levy passed away erev Shabbat
after which he was buried in the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.
1797:
Twenty-two-year-old New York City physician, Bernard S. Judah, the London born
son of Samuel Judah married Catherine Hart today.
1803: Twenty-two year
old Leo Wolf and Johanna Wolf gave birth to Dr. Moritz (Morris) Wolf
1808: The Magistrate of
Frankfurt (a puppet of the French Government) summoned Rothschild to give an
account of his business dealings with the Landgrave.
1809: Benjamin Lewin
married Sarah Elkin at the Great Synagogue today.
1810: Philip Wilks
married Hannah Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1812: Phillip Solomon
married Jane Aaron at the Great Synagogue today
1813: Following today’s
attack “on white settlers and allied Creeks at Fort Mims” Abraham “Mordecai
aided the federal troops in tracking down the members of the Red Stick faction”
responsible for this action that took place during the Creek War.
1815: This evening
Henry Nathans of London married Hester Levy in Charleston, SC.
1815: Birthdate of
Schaltiel Isaac Cohn, the husband of Vilhemine Meyer.
1817: In Philadelphia,
Arabella Solomon and Zalegman Phillips who had been married in 1805 gave birth
to Naphtali J. Phillips
1818: Lewis Barnett
married Elizabeth Levi at the Great Synagogue today.
1821: Mr. Myer Ellis of
Charleston, SC married Francis Polack the daughter of New Yorker Jacob
Abrahams.
1821(2nd of
Elul, 5581): Rachel Deborah Levy, the daughter of Hayman and Sloe Myers Levy
and the sister of Miriam, Zipporah and Richa Levy passed away today after which
she was buried at the First Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel.
1824: Simon Drukker
married Mary Emanuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1825: Birthdate of
Kovno native Rabbi Isaac Wolf Olschwanger a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe, the
author of the "Lebushim," and Judah Löw ben Bezaleel of Prague and R.
Meïr of Padua who served as the rabbi in St. Petersburg from 1878 until his death
in 1896.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11694-olschwanger-isaac-wolf
1826: In Paris, Moise
Mayer Fichel and Lili Abigail Sasias gave birth to French painter Benjamin
Eugène Fichel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fichel#/media/File:Eugene_fichel_painting_1.jpg
1829(1st of
Elul, 5589): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1829: 1829: Two days
after he had passed away, 22 year old Samuel Solomon, son of “Michael and
Hannah Solomon” was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery
1832: Dr. Daniel Moses
Levy Maduro Prexi gave birth to Rebecca Peixotto.
1835: Founding of
Melbourne, Australia. The first
synagogue opened in Melbourne in 1847. Melbourne provided the first native born
Australian to serve as Governor-General – a lawyer named Isaac Isaacs. King
George V was reportedly reluctant to appoint Isaacs to the post because he was
Jewish. Prime Minister James Scullin assured the reluctant monarch that
Australians took a more liberal view than most Englishmen did in such
matters. They were not bothered by the
matter of religion and therefore, the appointment was made without further
complications.
1836: The city of
Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. Within
twenty years after the founding of the city there were enough Jews living in
Houston to form a burial society. In 1859, Congregation Beth Israel, the first
chartered Jewish congregation in Texas was founded as an Orthodox Synagogue but
switched to the Reform movement fifteen years later. In 1906, Houston saw the
publication of The Jewish Herald Voice, the first journal of its kind to appear
in the state. A list of early Houston Hebrew businessmen would include Joseph
Weingarten, Simon Sakowitz and Tobias Sakowitz. Houston established its Jewish
Community Council in 1936 under the presidency of Max Nathan and enhanced its
Jewish Family Service under Ruth Fred.
1836: Hart Levy married
Julia Woolf at the Great Synagogue today.
1837(29th of
Av, 5597): In South Carolina, eight-year-old Isaac S. Hyams, the son of Susanna
and Moses David Hyams passed away today.
1838: In New Orleans,
Hannah Levy and Jacob Levy Florance gave birth to Florian Hart Florance, the
husband of Sarah Hendricks whom he married in 1860 and with whom he had four
children – Edwin, Daisy, Sylvia and James.
1842: In Charleston,
SC, Adeline Moses and Levy I. Moses, who were married in 1832 gave birth to
Mordecai Lyons Moses.
1843: Mary and Philip
William Flower gave birth to Cyril Flower, the 1st Baron of Battersea who
married Sir Anthony de Rothschild’s daughter Constance in 1877. The couple were the last of their line since
they had not children.
1843: Lewis Levy
married Catherine Elias at the Great Synagogue today.
1844: In Amsterdam, Lea
Nabarro and David Zacharias Baruch gave birth to Gratia David Baruch.
1848(1st of
Elul, 5608): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1851: In New York City,
Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs and his wife gave birth to Abram S. Isaacs, who served
as the Rabbi for Barnett Memorial Temple in Paterson, NJ, who served as the
first Professor of Hebrew at New York University and who
edited The Jewish Messenger and published several books including A
Modern Hebrew Poet: The Life and Writings of Chaim Luzzatto
1855: James Finn, the
British Counsel in Jerusalem reported to the British Ambassador in
Constantinople that Sir Moses Montefiore had been given permission by the
Ottoman government to purchase land in Jerusalem on which he would be allowed
to build a hospital and where he could employ poor Jews in gardening. Montefiore was only the second European who
had been allowed to purchase land. Finn
had been the first.
1860: Birthdate of
Isaac Levitan, famed Russian landscape painter.
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=219
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levitan
1857: Birthdate of
Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Svyatopolk-Mirsky who in 1904 while serving as Minister of the Interior “received a deputation of
Zionists” whom “he informed that he sympathized with the movement they
represented and would withdraw the Governmental opposition to it hitherto
existing in Russia.”
1862(4th of
Elul, 5622): As the Union Army suffers a crushing blow thanks to the stupidity
of General Pope, thirty-three year old Captain Jacob A. Cohen, Company A, 10th
Louisiana, was killed today fighting for the Confederacy.
1862: William Krouse,
from Iowa, enlisted today in Company H of the Second Cavalry after which he
“distinguished himself in many fierce cavalry charges and had the good fortune
to return home without a scar.”
1863: Birthdate of
Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, who provided a photographic
record, in color of Jews living in far-flung parts of the empire.
http://thejewniverse.com/2017/see-1900s-bukharan-jews-in-gorgeous-full-color/
1865: On Broadway, Mr.
Edmund Kean is scheduled to play "the Jew" in tonight's performance
of the Merchant of Venice.
1865: Judah P. Benjamin
arrived at Southampton, Britain marking the final stop on his flight from
America when the Confederacy was finally defeated.
1867: In Seneca Falls,
NY, Lewis and Anne Zalinski Adler gave birth the Cornell and Harvard trained
attorney Louis Simon Adler, the U.S. Judge for the Western New York District
Court and Republican majority leader in the New York State Assembly.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/05/24/93628957.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1867: The Washington
Avenue Synagogue, also known as Temple Beth El, was dedicated today in Detroit,
Michigan.
1867: Prince Charles,
the future King Charles (a.k.a. King Carlos I) wrote a letter to Sir Moses
Montifore, expressing his pleasure at the Anglo-Jewish leader’s recent visit to
Romania and his support for better treatment of the Jews living in Romania.
1868: Three days after
he had passed away, 72 year old Ralph Isaacs, the father of nine children –
Caroline, Julia, Isabella, Esther, Rosina, Frances, Emma, Ameilia and Ralph –
was buried to at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1869(23rd of
Elul, 5629): Jacob Romm, one of the three sons of printer and published Joseph
Reuben Romm, passed away today in Vilna.
1871: Birthdate of
Vilna native Nathan Weinstein, the “officer of the Zionist Organization of
America” who settled in Portland, Oregon.
1872: In Philadelphia,
Abraham and Barbara Wilder Salus gave birth to University of Pennsylvania
trained lawyer Samuel W. Salus, the member of both houses of the state
legislature and Republican Party leader who was the husband of Ada R. Salus,
the father of Arthurs S. Salus and the grandfather of Samuel W. Salus II.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/30/109349549.pdf
1872: It was reported
today that Sir Moses Montefiore has completed his trip to St. Petersburg,
Russia and returned to his home at Ramsgate.
Sir Moses had gone to Russia at the behest of the Board of Deputies to
intercede with the Czar’s government on behalf of the Jews of Russia.
1873(7TH of
Elul, 5633): Parashat Shoftim
1873(7th of
Elul, 5633): Eighty-seven year old “economist and journalist Jacob Newton
Cardozo” the Savannah born son of Sephardic merchant David N. Cardozo passed
away today.
1873: In the United
Kingdom, Sir George Jessel begins serving as the Keeper or Master of the Rolls
and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls. For
the two years prior to accepting this position, he had served as Solicitor General.
1875: The New York
Times published an account of Sir Moses Montefiore’s trip to Palestine
including his visit to Jerusalem.
1875: It was reported
today that Abraham H. Guedalla has provided The Jewish World with some of the
correspondence between him and Sir Moses Montefiore that provided details of
his visit to Palestine during July of 1875.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B00E3DE1F39EF34BC4850DFBE66838E669FDE
1876: Henry
Schneeberger was sent a letter inviting him to become the first rabbi of Chizuk
Amuno in Baltimore, MD.
1877: While “on special
service at the European Station, U.S. Navy Lt. and future Rear Admiral Edward
D. Taussig and his wife Ellen Kneffler gave birth to Joseph K. Taussig, the
U.S. Naval Academy quarterback who served in every conflict from the Spanish
American War to WW II and rose to the rank of Vice Admiral.
1878(1st of Elul,
5638): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1878: In New York,
Judge Van Rant, granted a writ of habeas corpus directing Thomas F. Fallon to
bring Caroline Cohen to court. Caroline
was the 15 year old daughter of Loewenthal Cohen, a Jewish clothing dealer. Fallon was a Roman Catholic who allegedly had
eloped with young Caroline. The judge had granted the write in response to
Cohen’s petition claiming that his daughter was being held against her will
having been enticed away from her home “under the pretext that he wanted to
marry her.”
1879: In New York, 12
year old Henry O’Brien decided to find out if it was true that Jews did not eat
pork. He thrust a piece of pork down the throat of Harris Goldstein, a Polish
Jew. Goldstein chased after O’Brien who
hit Goldstein with a shovel when the Jewish boy caught up to him. O’Brien hit
him in the face and broke his nose. At
the end of the melee, both of the boys were arrested by Officer McCarthy of the
Tenth Precinct.
1879: In Kovno,
Lithuania, Rabbi Zalman and Malke Caplan gave birth journalist and Zionist
Ephriam Caplan who in 1901 came to the United States where he married Eva
Kaplan, became a member of the editorial staff of the Jewish Morning Journal
and helped to establish the Yeshiva College.
1880: David Belasco’s
version of the drama “True to the Core” was performed today at the Baldwin
Theatre.
1880: Kaspar von
Preysing and his wife, Hedwig von Walterskirchen gave birth to anti-Nazi
Cardinal Konrad von Preysing who as Bishop of Berlin “had vainly appealed to
the Pope to protest specific Nazi actions, including those directed at the
Jews.”
1881: It was reported
today that authorities have denied “Jew-baiter” Ernst Henrici the right to
address a public meeting in Hamburg, Germany. [His speeches had been connected
to riots in Berlin and the burning of the synagogue in Neustettin.]
1882: In Williamsburg,
VA, “William and Lena (Engelberger) Teiser” give birth to University of
Virginia trained attorney Sidney Teister who lived and worked, for a time, in
Portland, Oregon and who was the husband of the former Betty Kline with whom he
had two children – William and Ruth.
https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Chief-Justice-George-H-Williams/dp/B0007FZY6I
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24133
1884: In Kovno, Russia,
to Jacob Baruch and Sarah Golde (Arenovski) Askowith gave birth to Dora
Askowith, the author, historian, and college educator, who believed that a
knowledge of Jewish women’s history would serve as a catalyst for organization,
activism, and moral leadership and taught at Hunter College for forty-five
years.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/askowith-dora
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dora-askowith
1883: It was reported
today that martial law has been declared at Eglerszeg, Hungary after an
outbreak of anti-Jewish riots. All of
the shops remain closed and many of the Jewish families have fled from the
city.
1885: Rabbis Mendes and
Morais are scheduled to speak at the service being held at the 19th
Street Synagogue in memory of the late Sir Moses Montefiore.
1885: “New Antiquities”
published today described the career of Moses Shapira, “the converted Jew”
whose discovery of a “so-called Moabitish manuscript of Deuteronomy…and a
Moabitish dictionary” which he offered to sell to the British Museum for
$5,000,000 has been declared to be “a clumsy forgergy” by experts from
Germany. This, and other forgeries tied
to Mr. Shapira, is attributed to the fact that he left the faith of his birth.
1886: Thirty-one of the
forty Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in the U.S. yesterday left Castle
Garden with friends who had promised to provide support for them.
1887: Chicago
Commercial Business graduate Jacob Levi Kesner, the London born son of Sarah
Staal and L.J. Kener who rose from being a “cash boy at The Fair Department
Store” to serving as the director of many financial institutions including the
Greenebaum Sons Bank and Trust and Guardian National Bank in Chicago while
being a member of Chicago Sinai Temple married Bettie Frohmann today.
In London, Sarah Staal
and L.J. Kesner gave birth to Chicago Commercial Business graduate Jacob Levi
Kesner, the husband of Bettie Frohmann who rose from being a “cash boy at The
Fair Department Store” to serving as the director of many financial institutions
including the Greenebaum Sons Bank and Trust and Guardian National Bank in
Chicago while being a member of Chicago Sinai Temple.
1890: The boy’s band
from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum will perform at the Summernight’s festival
sponsored by District No. 1 of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith which is
being held at Sulzer’s Harlem River Park.
1890: In Moravia,
Leopold and Florentina Kulka gave birth to Robert Kulka, the husband of Elsa
Skutzka and father of Tomas Kulka who was deported to Ossowa in 1942 where he
died.
1890: In Kiev, Rosa
Magaziner and Abraham Cherniavsky gave birth to violinist Leo Cherniavsky who
“made his first public appearance at the age of six,” toured Russia as member
of the Cherniavsky Trio who settled in New York where he recorded exclusively for
Columbia Gramophone Company.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/107670/Cherniavsky_Leo
1891: The tenth free
excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will begin with a
boat ride up the East River starting at 9 a.m.
1891: “Famine Face in
Russia” published today described how the government’s anti-Jewish laws have
exacerbated the situation since, in the past, Jewish money lenders have
provided funds for the peasants when their crops have failed. Such is not the case which makes the
agricultural crisis all the worst and the government refuses to alter the laws.
1891: State Senator
Jacob A. Cantor is preparing for the upcoming election following his return
from Europe yesterday.
1892(7th of
Elul, 5652): Four year old Ida Samyan, the daughter of a Russian Jewish couple
who had just arrived from Hamburg passed away today. Much to the relief of authorities “a
post-mortem examination showed that her death was not due to cholera.”
1892: Max Strassburger,
a representative of the United Hebrew Society arrived at Ziontown, NJ to
investigate the claims that the Jewish settlers had been brought their under
false pretenses and were now facing the prospect of starvation.
1892: In Elizabeth, NJ,
the city Board of Health met this evening and adopted measures to deal with the
threat of cholera including measures to improve the sanitary conditions in the
First War which is home to “a large number of Russian and Polish Jews.”
1893: Nikolai
Illarionovich Skrydlov, “who had married a Jewess” was promoted to the rank of
Rear Admiral today in the Russian Navy.
1895(10th of
Elul, 5655): Mrs. Rebecca Kastor who left legacies of $100 each to several
Jewish institutions including Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society, passed away today.
1896: Birthdate of
Kossuth, Russia native and future Missourian Myer Silverberg, the husband of
Jeanette Rosenfeld and the father of Leona and Harriet H. Silverberg who should
not be confused with Lithuanian portrait artist E. Myer Siberg who painted under
the name of Ellis Myere Silvette,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ellis_Meyer_Silvette
1896: Herzl received a
"Shana Tova" from Jerusalem signed by Ephraim Cohn, director of the
Lämel School, David Yellin, Eliezer ben Yehuda and Wilhelm Gross.
1896: At Elizabetgrad,
Russia Phineas and Eva Bodansky gave birth TO “medical scientist Meyer
Bodansky” who in 1907 came to the United States where he received his B.A.
degree from Cornell University in 1918, his M.A. from the University of Texas
in 1922, his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1923, and his M.D. from the University of
Chicago in 1935 and married Eleanor Abbott, with whom he had two daughters.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bodansky-meyer
1897: The funeral for
David J. Seligman who passed away in his 48th year and was the son
of the late Joseph Seligman is scheduled to take place at his home on East 55th
Street in Manhattan.
1897: In Michigan, the
Montefiore Pleasure Club which meets every Thursday evening and “aids the
Hebrew Charities of Detroit” was founded today.
1897 In Amsterdam, art
dealer Eduard Goudstikker and his wife gave birth to Jacques Goudstikker whose
“extensive and significant art collection” was stolen by the Nazis” and then
became the subject of decade’s long litigation in the post-War years.
1897: At today’s
session of the Zionist Congress being held in Basel, Switzerland, “the
delegates…unanimously adopted, with great enthusiasm, the program for
re-establishing” the Jews “in Palestine, with publicly recognized rights.” “A dispatch was sent to the Sultan of Turkey
thanking his Majesty for the privileges enjoyed by “the Jews “in his empire.”
1898: Godefroy
Cavaignac, the Minister of War, stated that the document “which definitely
incriminated Captain Alfred Dreyfus” “had been discovered to be a forgery by
Hubert-Joseph Henry” “but he refused to concur with his colleagues in a
revision of the Dreyfus prosecution” opting instead to resign and join with the
nationalists and anti-Semites in the Chamber of Deputies.
1898: During the
Dreyfus Affair, Major Henry, one of those who had helped to frame the French
officer, was arrested. Following his arrest, Henry confessed to his role in the
matter.
1898(12th of
Elul, 5658): In Chicago Sixty-four year old Rabbi Louis Rosenbloom was kicked
to death by seventeen year old John Schlechta when he tried to the teenager
from attacking various members of the Levi family.
1898: The second annual
Zionist Congress at Basel Switzerland, where the American delegation was led by
Dr. Richard J.H. Gottheil, Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Semitic
Languages at Columbia University was scheduled to come to and today.
1899: On this date
Herzl wrote in his diary “While riding out to Währing today on a jolting bus
the title for my Zion novel occurred to me: Alt-Neuland [Old-Newland].”
1899: Three handwriting
experts, including Paul Meyer, Director of the of the School of Ancient
Manuscripts all testified today at the court martial of Captain Dreyfus that
Estherhazy and not Dreyfus had written the bordereau that was at the heart of
the claim that Dreyfus had betrayed France to the Germans.
1900: Four days after
he had passed away, 74 year old Charles Cleve, the husband of the former
Adeline Stiebel, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1902: Jewish Stories”
published today provided a review of The Gates of Israel by Herman
Bernstein which contains a large number of stories that “are pervaded with
gloominess.”
1902: Birthdate of Paul
Massing the German sociologist who wrote “Rehearsal for Destruction: A Study Of
Political Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany.”
1902: Birthdate of
Gisela Kohn Dollinger the native of Baden-be-Wien, a Vienna suburb, who
survived the Holocaust and lived to be 111. (As resulted by Julie Wiener)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/refugee-who-rescued-husband-from-dachau-dies-at-111/
1903: In Scranton, PA,
a meeting is scheduled to be held today at Keneseth Israel Synagogue on Linden
Street “for the purposed of organizing a council” made up “of the following
societies – Chovevi Zion, Daughters of Zions, Sons of Zion all in Scranton; Chovevi
Zion of Wilkes-Barre; Machsi Zion of Pittson and Tifereth Zion of Olyphant, PA.
1904: Birthdate of Saul
Pollock, the Newark native who earned a PhD in Mathematics and was a consultant
for the Hall of Science at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.
1904(19th of
Elul, 5664): Sixty-three year old Baden native, Lippmann Mayer the German
trained Reform Rabbi who led Congregation Rodef Shalom in Allegheny City, PA
and served as the Chaplain for the petitionary and “as a director of home for
the aged in Pittsburgh” passed away today.
1905: It has been
decided to form territorial zones for Jews” in Russia and “lists are now being
drawn up of new townships and villages where they will be permitted to live.”
1906: Native Muslim
soldiers attacked the Hara (Jewish Quarter) of Tunis.
1906: The first
synagogue was dedicated in Finland.
1906(9th of Elul,
5666): Edward Rosewater passed away. Born in Bohemia in 1841, he came to the
United States in 1854. He became the publisher and editor of the Omaha (Neb)
Bee. “Rosewater had a reputation for always being ‘aggressive and
controversial’ and was influential in Nebraska politics as one of the leaders
of the state Republican Party.”
1907: It was reported
today that Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor” while stopping
at the immigration office in Salt Lake City discovered “that certain Boston
lawyers have been charging Chinaman from $5 to $25 for making out a simple application
blank” which “the regular immigration officials” are supposed to be completing
at no charge and that the secretary has issued an order to all immigration
offices to put an end to this practice.
1908: First Conference
for the Yiddish Language opened in Czernowitz
1909 (13th of Elul,
5669): Yosef Chaim (a leading Hakham (Sephardic Rabbi), authority on Jewish law
(Halakha) and Master Kabbalist passed away two days before his 71st
birthday. He is best known as author of the work on Halakha Ben Ish Chai
("Son of Man (who) Lives"), by which title he is also known.
1909(13th of
Elul, 5669): Chaim Jossel Eidelsohn passed away today.
1909(13th of
Elul, 5669): A young girl named Scheitel Lewin passed away today.
1910: The leaders of
the cloakmakers union who are on strike “were still in a fighting mood” and
“Meyer London, their counsel said he was preparing an appeal to higher courts”
to overturn the injunction issued against the striker in which the Justice of the
New York State Supreme Court “declared any demand for a closed to be illegal
and restrained all acts to advance it…” (Editor’s note – London and most of the
strikers were Jewish)
1911: As of today,
there are no Jews listed among the fifteen people who lost their lives in the
storm that swept through Charleston, the home to Beth Elohim one of the oldest
congregation in the United Staes yesterday
causing a million dollars in damages and which had struck Savannah, home to one
of the oldest Jewish communities in the United States, earlier in the week.
1912: Founding of
Temple Israel in Gary, Indiana.
1912: In Wellington,
NZ, Ella Wake (née Rosieur) and Charles August Wake gave birth to SOE agent
Nancy Wake known at the White Mouse.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nancy-wake
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/europe/14wake.html
1912(17th of
Elul, 5672): Eighty-six year old Colonel Max Hirsch passed away at Petrikau.
1913: The Manchester
Guardian and the New York Times, report that Max Nordeau will not be
giving the opening address at the upcoming Eleventh Zionist Congress. This is first time Nordeau will not have
given the opening address since the Zionists began their meetings. It is further evidence of a shift to the
program of the practical Zionists as opposed to those Zionists who had looked
to a combination of European nations acting in concert to create a Jewish
Homeland.
1914(8th of
Elul, 5674): Twenty-seven-year-old
“Archaeologist and Egyptologist” Adolphe Joseph Reinach, the son of
archaeologist Joseph Reinach and Henriette-Clemintine Reinach and husband of Marguerite
Dreyfus, daughter of Mathieu Dreyfus and niece of Alfred Dreyfus, with whom he
had a son, Jean-Pierre Reinach was killed in Fosse in the Ardennes while
serving as a “Lieutenant of Cuirassiers in the French Army.
1914: During World War
I, the Battle of Tannenberg came to an end with the Germans defeating the
Russians. At the urging of the French, the Russian Army had begun advancing
before it was fully mobilized and ready for battle. The Russian Army
advanced into East Prussia which caused panic in Berlin. The Germans
transferred troops from the Western Front to meet the Russian advance.
This shift of troops weakened the German forcing attacking the French,
undermined the German grand strategic design and enabled the French to finally
halt the advance. This would lead to the four year stalemate known as World War
I. The strengthened German forces in Prussia blocked the Russians and
hurled them back. The fighting in the East would be a see-saw affair that
would bleed Russia until the Revolutions of 1917 and 1918. The Jews
living in the Pale of Settlement which was in the path of this clash between
the Kaiser and the Czar suffered great privations. The irony was that the
Germans could probably have won the battle without the additional troops and
World War I might have been a rather brief affair where the troops were home by
Christmas and Europe (including the Jews) would not have experienced the
upheavals that led to World War II and the Holocaust.
1915: “Storm Delays
Dedication of Home” published today described plans for the dedication of the
home for convalescents established by the Federation of Rumanian Jews of
America” which will take place next week because inclement weather had forced a
postponement of the ceremony.
1915: Birthdate of
composer Robert Strassburg whose works would span both the secular and
religious worlds as can be seen by his work on such Broadway shows as “The Rose
Tattoo” and such compositions as “Torah Sonata” and the opera “Chelm.”
1915: Birthdate of
Shifra Lerer, “who was discovered at age 5 in Argentina by the great Yiddish
actor Boris Thomashefsky and went on to become a winsome and wide-ranging
trouper of the Yiddish theater for the next 90 years.”
1915: It was reported
today that Rabbi Henry M. Fisher of New York “will conduct a campaign among”
visitors to, and permanent residents of, New York City to raise money “for the
relief of the Jews in Poland and Palestine” who are suffering from the effects
of the World War.
1915: It was reported
today that the supporters of Eleftherios Venizelos “have cast suspicions of
treason and sedition upon the Jews because they voted for candidates”
supporting Dimitrios Gounaris in the recent Greek parliamentary elections.
1916: In “America and
Russia” published today Louis Marshall refuted the arguments of Montgomery
Schulyer that the economic interests of the United States were being subverted
by the Jews who were blocking trade agreements with the Russians by insisting that
U.S. citizens who were Jewish would be treated in the same ways as all other
Americans and not subject to the anti-Jewish laws of the Czar. (Editor’s note –
While serving as an officer with the U.S. Army in Russia during WW I, Schulyer
would create a volume of correspondence equating Bolshevism with Judaism)
1917: “Says Turks Pay
The Jews” published today provided the description of Djemal Pasha, Commander
of the Turkish forces in Syria of the treatment of the 5,000 Jews living in
Jaffa which he described as a “small Jewish settlement about which so much fuss
is made which is administered by a self-elected commission and maintained by
the Ottoman Government which spends 7,000 pounds Turkish (about $30,000) on it
monthly.”
1917: In Frankford,
Michigan, eighteen-year-old Alice Stix Eiseman, the daughter of David and
Amelia Stix Eiseman married Milton Alfred Hellman today.
1917: Crystal Eastman,
the sister of Max Eastman and Jacob Panken were among the delegation of 150
pacifists gather at the Weehawken Station of the West Short Railroad this
afternoon but absent from the group were Morris Hillquit and Rabbi J.L. Magnes
1918: Samuel Gompers
and the American Labor Mission were entertained by the British Government today
at a luncheon, where the visitors were welcomed by Lloyd George, G.H. Roberts
and Lord Reading. The British Prime Minister lauded Gompers saying that “no man
has done more to convince civilization must fight to victory.
1918: It was reported
today that “the Irving Place Theater” which was “abandoned by the Germans” has
been taken over by a Yiddish theatrical company head by the well-known actor,
Morris Schwartz.”
1918: It is reported
today that the Jewish Welfare Board has established headquarters at 41
Boulevard Haussman in Paris to enable it to work with members of the American
Expeditionary Force
1918: “An East End
Tailors’ Strike” published today described a strike by 3,000 London tailors
most of whom are Jewish where the participants are not asking for more money
but better working conditions.
1918: The Jews of
Salonica who were originally Ottoman subjects are exempted from alien
restrictions, under which they had previously lived.
1918: Fanya Kaplan, a
disillusioned revolutionary, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader
Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official
Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompted the decree for what is known as the Red
Terror.
1918: This evening,
“Australians of the Second Division” under the command of Sir John Monash,
“crossed to the north bank of the Somme River” in the first move of what would
become the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin.
1919: The Emergency
National Convention of Socialist America at which New York State Secretary
Julius Gerber and Jacob Panken played crucial roles opened today in Chicago.
1919: Samuel Gompers
announces support for the Versailles Treaty and denounces Republican leaders
for opposing a document, which among other things, contains provisions
beneficial to labor and workers.
1919: The Jewish
Commissariat Yevsektsiya of Russia proclaimed Hebrew a "reactionary
language." As such the teaching of Hebrew was prohibited in all
educational institutions and books in Hebrew removed from libraries.
1920: “The Devil’s Pass
Key” a “silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim was released in the United
States today by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
1920: The reign of Mohammed
Alim Kahn, the last Emir of Bukhara whom Levi Babakhan served as court vocalist
came to an end. Babakhanov was part of dynasty of Jewish musicians that
included his son Moshe and grandson Ari.
1921: The list of
corporations that were charted today in New York State included Jacob Weiss, a
Manhattan men’s apparel store and Saul Shapiro, a Manhattan maker of cloth
hats.
1922: In Philadelphia,
at Independence Hall, “thousands of Zionist marching to the strains of
‘Hatikvah’ celebrated the opportunity given to the Jews by the Leagues of
Nations to establish a national homeland in Palestine.”
1922: Birthdate of famed mezzo-soprano Regina Resnik.
1923: Today the United Jewish People's Bank, Ltd.,
was registered in London by the cirectorium of the United Jewish Emigration
Committee. The bank which, according to its articles of incorporation, will
seek to promote the development of handicraft industries and agriculture among
Jews starts with a capital of £500,000. It will aim to foster in particular all
kinds of cooperative undertakings and assist in the emigration and immigration
of Jews throughout the world. While its ultimate objects are of a social nature
the institution is authorized to conduct a regular banking business. Among the
subscribers are Latzki-Bertholdi, Advocate Sliosberg, Leo Motzkin, Dr. L.
Branson, Vladimir Tiomkin, Rabbi Jochelman, and Dr. Brutzkus. The directors of
the bank have not yet been appointed. (As reported by JTA)
1924(30th of
Av, 5684): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
1924: Isadore and Rose
Levine gave birth to Barbara Levine Jacobi the wife of Peter Jacobi.
1924: “The Jewish
Telegraphic Agency made public” today “a letter received from H.W. Evans,
Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in which he said that the prerequisites for
membership in the Klan had not been changed.”
1925: Harvard graduate and folklorist Benjamin Albert Botkin the Boston
born son of Albert and Annie Botkin, the holder of a Ph.D from the University
of Nebraska who taught at the University of Oklahoma and who is the namesake of
Benjamin A. Botkin Prize present by the American Folklore Society married
Gertrude Frtiz today
https://www.loc.gov/folklife/botkin/hirsch.html
1926: “Jewish leaders from all parts of the United States are holding a
conference” in Chicago “to organize the campaign of the Independent Order of
B’nai B’rith for two million dollars for cultural and relief work.”
1927:
The Fifteenth Zionist
Congress, the legislative body of the International Zionist movement, went into
session at Basel, Switzerland, today with 280 delegates representing Zionist
societies from all parts of the world present. Forty of the delegates are from
the United States and chooses Sokolow at President
1927: According to reports published today, the Palestine Economic
Corporation which had been organized in February, 1925, has increased its
investments in Palestine by $575,000 during its first year of operation. The corporation was organized by the
Non-Partisan Palestine Conference under the Chairmanship of Louis Marshall,
with investments of $620,000. Substantial funding has gone to support the
citrus growing industry.
1928: Birthdate of Barbara Zimmerman who became Barbara Epstein after
marrying Jason Epstein and gained fame as “the editor at Doubleday of Anne
Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl.”
1929: “A telegram from Reuter’s news agency was sent to all its
subscribers: ‘Jerusalem has now been a city of death for eight days during
which work has ceased and people are starving.
Hundreds are receiving bread rations.
Everywhere it is deadly quiet, and everyone is very nervous.’”
1929:
With relative quiet
restored to central Palestine today, people and officials looked anxiously to
the north, where a force of Syrian Arabs has crossed the border to march on
Jerusalem. British planes are searching for them. The incursion of large forces
of Arabs over the Syrian frontier is causing considerable uneasiness in London
tonight.
1930: Leila (née Stahl) and Congressman Howard Buffett gave birth to
their only son, Warren Buffet the investor who became close friends with
Dorothy and Myer S. Kripke, the Omaha rabbi whose investment of $70,000 turned
into $25 million which they donated to a variety of philanthropic causes.
1930: “The Zionist Organization of America announced” today “that it had
decided to establish a research library at its headquarters” on Fifth Avenue in
New York.
1931: In Hamburg, Temple Israel dedicated its third house of worship
which had been built as a result of the relocation of many congregants from
“the old city center.”
1932(28th of Av, 5692): Pauline Golberg, the wife of Joseph
Goldberg with whom she had five children and a member of Temple Israel in New
York City passed away today.
1933(8th of Elul, 5693): Seventy year old British author Ada
Esther Leverson, the daughter of Zillah and Samuel Henry Beddington and wife of
Ernest Leverson who was a close friend with her contemporary, the better known
Oscar Wilde.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leverson-ada
1933: “Sensation Hunters” directed by Charles Vidor and with music by
Bernie Grossman was released today in the United States by Monogram Pictures.
1933: In a bid for the support of the Laborite faction in the forthcoming
election of the administration of the World Zionist Organization, Nahum
Sokolow, 72-year-old president of the organization, addressing the World
Zionist Congress tonight, defined his views on the position of labor in the
building of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
1933: William Dodd began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. He was the first Roosevelt appointee to deal
with the Hitler government.
Unfortunately, the professionals in the State Department would not
listen to the warnings offered by this American college professor.
1933: The Hessische Volkswacht publishes a list of 30 concerns in
Hessen that have been represented by Jews in court actions.
1933: In a published declaration the Union of German National Jews
protests against the resolution adopted by the Zionist Congress against Nazi
Germany, and blames Zionism for the present situation of German Jewry.
1933: In Worms, the police announce that "a large number of
Jews" have been arrested and taken to a concentration camp because of
their provocative attitude and degrading remarks against the Nazi regime.
1934(19th of Elul, 5694): Sixty-two year old anthropologist
Dr. Maurice Fishberg passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/1934/08/31/archive/dr-m-fishberg-dies-of-heart-attack-at-home
http://research.policyarchive.org/19590.pdf
1935: “Catherine the Last,” “a romantic comedy directed by Henry Koster,
produced by Jose Pasternak and starring Otto Walberg who was murdered at
Auschwitz was released in Austria today by Universal Pictures.
1935: Sixty-two year old French anti-fascist author and friend of Albert
Einstein and Egon Kisch passed away today in Moscow.
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/book-burning/author_detail.php?content=bbbarbus.xml
1936: “Catherine the Last” a comedy directed by Henry Koster, produced by
Joe Pasternak and starring Otto Walberg was released today in Austria.
1936: Charles Edward Russell, the President of the Pro-Palestine
Federation of America announced plans to “launch a nationwide effort to
mobilize and encourage Christian interest in the right of the Jews to establish
a national home in Palestine.
1936: Morris Rothenberg announced today “a gift of $20,000 to the meet
the emergency situation in Palestine has been made to the United Palestine
Appeal of which he is the co-chairman by Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg.
1937: In what was described as “a new political murder against Jews in
Palestine” heats up. “A bomb was thrown
in a Tel Aviv thoroughfare severely wounding at least one Jew while two Jewish
workers – Daniel Swanitsky and Isar Pankus – were murdered early this
morning.
1937: The Arab Higher
Committee decided that the Arab General Strike, begun on April 19, would
continue. The problem of Jewish refugees from Jaffa and the surrounding area
had been finally solved after every family was furnished with a home,
comprising a large room with a balcony, kitchen, lavatory and a shower at the
cost of 90 pounds, paid back in form of rent at the rate of half a pound a
month over a period of 15 years. One British soldier was severely wounded at
Lydda and more British troops arrived from Malta
1938: Several cases of
Arab arson attacks are reported to authorities throughout Palestine and Haifa
police shot and killed a fleeing Arab terrorist.
1938: “As part of the
tower and stockade settlement campaign” “immigrants from Austria,
Czechoslovakia and Germany” established Ma’ayan Tzvi a kibbutz “named after
Henry Zvi Frank, a Zionist activist and head of the Jewish Colonization
Association, which had acquired the land on which the kibbutz was built.” Boy
Meets Girl a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam was filmed on
location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.
1938: Birthdate of Owen
Jacob Laster, the son of immigrants from the Ukraine and Russia, who became one
of the most powerful literary agents of his generation, running William
Morris’s worldwide literary operations that had a long list of best-selling writers
including James A. Michener and Gore Vidal (As reported by William Grimes)
1938(3rd of Elul,
5698): Max Factor, Sr. passed away. Born
Max Firestein, this Russian Jewish immigrant had reportedly been a makeup
artist for Russian nobility. He made his
debut as Max Factor, Sr. at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair to launch what
would become a cosmetics empire with a special relationship with the stars of
the Hollywood film industry.
1938(3rd of
Elul, 5698): “Merchant and communal worker” Samuel Axelrod passed away today in
Albany, NY.
1939: “The Federation
of Polish Jews in America announced” today “that it had received a telegram
from Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States, thanking the
federation for its pledge of support to the Polish Republic in its resistance
to the threat of Nazi invasion.”
1940: Registration of
all Jewish property became mandatory in Slovakia.
1940: Much to the
initial pleasure of the Jews, the Nazis returned Kolozsvar to Hungarian
control. The Jews did not realize how much influence the Nazis had over the
Hungarians or the depth of anti-Semitism that existed among some of their
non-Jewish neighbors. Kolozsvar was the home of Rudolf Kastner who at this time
was thirty-six years old and writing for the Jewish newspaper Új Kelet
1940(26th of Av, 5700):
Eighty-three-year old “former Supreme Court Justice and New York County
Sherriff” and “the head of so-called Theatrical Syndicate Mitchell L. Erlanger
the Buffalo, NY born son of Leopold and Regina Erlanger who was a law school
classmate of Teddy Roosevelt at Columbia passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/31/91587833.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1940(26th of 5700): Sixty-one-year old
Moses Ferdinand Aufsesser the Albany, NY born son of Ferdinand and Mollie
Barnet Aufesser and the husband of Ethel Rose Levy Mahler whom he married in
1914 who was the president of the Star Woolen Company, the president of Beth
Emeth Congregation and a Republican Party activist passed away today in Casco,
ME after which he was buried at the Beth Emeth Cemetery in Loudonville, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/31/91587838.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1941: The SS at Chelmo
work camp ordered fifty Jewish workers to dig trenches. Five were shot at a
time, as five would dig a new trench, until all but the last five were killed.
1941: A second round of
daily shootings which last until December began today at the Latvian city of
Liepāja.
1942(17th of
Elul, 5702): Fifty-two year old Nissim Joseph Ovadia, the Turkish born chief
rabbi of Vienna and Paris who came to the United States after the French
surrendered to the Nazis passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1942/09/01/archive/dr-nissim-j-ovadia-prominent-sephardic-rabbi-dies-at-52
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4824816
1942:
Members of the Jewish community at Rabka, Poland, were murdered today.
1942: French
Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas reminds his parishes that all human beings are
created by the same God, Christians and Jews alike, and that "all men
regardless of race or religion deserve respect from individuals and
governments."
1943: The Army Show,
starring Jewish comedians Frank Shuster and Johnny Wayne opened at the Forum in
Halifax, Canada.
1943: A statement by
the American Council for Judaism stating its opposition to “the creation of a
Jewish national state” was made public today in Philadelphia.
1943: The American
Council for Judaism, Inc “appealed to the United Nations for the earliest
possible repatriation or resettlement under the best possible conditions of all
peoples uprooted from their homes by the Axis Powers” while expressing its
“hope for the ultimate establishment of a democratic autonomous government in
Palestine where Jews, Moslems and Christians shall be justly represented.”
1943: The Jews of
Denmark began their first day of living without the protection of the Danish
government which had resigned meaning the country was now under the direct
control of the Nazis.
1944: In Warsaw,
Władysław Szpilman, whose story of survival was chronicled in The Pianist
moved back into his old building, which by this time had entirely burnt out but
where the larders and bathtubs provided the bread and rainwater, which kept him
alive.
1944: The SS St. Louis, which had been the
centerpiece of the famous 1939 voyage “was heavily damaged” today during an
Allied bombing attack at Kiel.
1944: As of today,
“about 70,000 Jews from Lodz had been sent to Auschwitz.”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/11.asp
1944: After visiting Majdanek and seeing firsthand
what the Germans had done, W.H. Lawrence wrote in the New York Times, “I am now prepared to believe any story of German
atrocities no matter how savage, cruel and depraved.”
1944: Sir Harold Alfred
MacMichael completes his term as British High Commissioner of Palestine.
1945: Today, Frank
Oppenheimer help to found the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, “an
organization that promoted the international peaceful control of nuclear
power.”
1945: Major Ronald
Edmond Balfour, the lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge who had been serving
with the British Army since 1940 and had joined the Monuments Men (the unit
that was so helpful in rescuing Jewish owned art and valuables stolen by the
Nazis and their collaborators) in 1944 was unable to take up his position today
,as scheduled, “as Monuments Officer for the First Canadian Army due to crowded
roads, poor transport and destroyed
bridges” all products of the Allied drive across France.
1946: “The Killers” a
cinema treatment of Hemingway’s short story directed by Robert Siodmak,
produced by Mark Hellinger and co-starring Sam Levene was released in the
United States by Universal Pictures.
1947(14th of
Elul, 5707): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1947: Albert S. Pinkus
of the Manhattan Chess Club defeated Richard Einhorn “in a Slav defense after
thirty-seven moves” on the opening day of the New York State Chess
Association’s annual general tournament.
1947: Henry Morgenthau,
Jr. the chairman the $170,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal today
announced “plans for a program to meet the rising needs of Europe’s 1,500,000
destitute Jewish survivors in the face of cuts in inter-governmental relief
appropriations” which would be finalized at meeting on September 6.
1948: In Silver Spring, MD, Jeannette and Sam Black
gave birth to comedian and social commentator Lewis Black. http://lewisblack.com/
1948(25th of Av, 5708):
“A Jewish worker was shot dead by sniper fire from the Old City walls while
crossing a street on the Israeli side of the city.” This threat of death would only finally end
when the Israelis reunited the city in 1967.
1948: Alice Salomon
passed away in New York City. She was a
pioneer German social worker who fled the Nazis after being arrested and
interrogated. She was not Jewish, but
her Jewish origins put her at risk given the Nazi racial laws.
1949: Today in London,
“Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York predicted the population of Israel would
reach 2,000,000 in the next five years.
1951: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today for sixty-two-year-old Lawrence S. Greenbaum, a
senior partner in the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff Ernst and a former
chairman of the New York State Board of Social Welfare, the graduate of Columbia
Law School and son of Selina and Justice Samuel Greenbaum.
1951: The twenty-third
World Zionist Congress, which closed early this morning, unanimously adopted a
resolution asking the Israeli Government to give the world Zionist organization
legal status.
1954: This evening,
start of Operation Binyamin 2 under the command of Ariel Sharon.
1954: Birthdate of
Shlomi Shabat, the native of Yehud who has become a popular singer and
musician.
1955(12th of
Elul, 5715): Seventy-two year old NYU trained labor lawyer David Drechsler, the
former “president and chairman of the board of Sons of Israel in Brooklyn and
the husband of Fannie Drechsler with whom he had one child – Selma – passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/08/31/82202895.pdf
1956: In Israel, the
eight day nation-wide bus strike ended today.
The strikers were from the Egged Bus Company which serves Haifa and
provided interurban services and the Dan Company that serves the Tel Aviv
metropolitan area. These companies are
owner-operator co-ops.
1968: Birthdate of
Scottish author and broadcaster Muriel Gray who creating a documentary entitle
“The Wandering Jew” in 1996 which traced the Jewish roots of her mother’s which
stretched back to Moldova.
1961: The Maccabiah
Games continue in Tel Aviv for a second day.
1962(30th of
Av, 5722): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1963: Today, in
Rockville, MD, Washington, DC, native William Peyser “Bill” Jacobson, the son
of Aaron Jacobson and Victoria Peyser married Barbara Johnson with whom he had
two children Michael and Stay Ann Jacobson.
1964: Five hundred
Orthodox rabbis issued a proclamation calling on religious Jews to join the
Religious Zionists of America
1965: The album
‘Highway 61 Revisited'' by Bob Dylan was released.
1966: The first Knesset
building was dedicated in Jerusalem. This was one of several artistic ventures
that marked 1966. Two others were the
opening of the America-Culture House in New York which displayed Israeli arts
and crafts while providing scholarships for Israeli artists to study in the
United States and the naming of Israeli author Shai Agnon as the winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature.
1968: Based on an
earlier vote by the Directors of Avnet, Inc. a company led by Lester F. Avnet
and Morton Weiner, a ten cent cash quarterly dividend was paid today.
1970: Sarah Jacobs the
Polish born daughter of Abraham Simcha (Simon) Flashtiq and Rebekah Flashtiq
and the wife of Abraham Goodman Jacobs passed away today in London.
1976: An Israeli patrol
killed two terrorists who infiltrated through a security fence from Lebanon.
1976: London's Spectator weekly claimed that the PLO
was making millions out of terror and had some £50 million invested in Britain.
For those of you who think terror began on September 11, think again. .
1976: Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party's
major newspaper, described the US proposal to send American monitoring
personnel to Sinai as a "questionable development." This should serve
as a reminder that the conflict in the Middle East was fueled, in part, by the
needs of Soviet imperialism.
1976(4th of Elul,
5736): Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld, a Columbia University sociologist whose studies of
American voting patterns and the influences of the printed and electronic press
on society are classics in his field, died of cancer at New York Hospital today
at the age of 75.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0B12FC3E5C137B93C3A91782D85F428785F9
1981(30th of Av, 5741):
Rosh Chodesh Elul
1981: Terrorist bombing
at a market in Nablus.
1981: At Temple Emunah
in Lexington, Massachusetts, “Rabbi
Moses Mescheloff of Chicago” officiated at the wedding of his nephew Dr.
Jonathan Furth Schoneld, “a theoretical physicist” and grandson of Rabbi Lazar
Schonfeld, the former chief rabbi of Nagy Karoly, Hungary to “Jonina Tessa
Gorenstein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gorenstein, of Medford.”
1983: “A tired and
depressed Prime Minister Meachem Begin turned to his colleagues and said with a
sigh, ‘I cannot go on any longer.’”
[Begin would leave office a few days and return to his Jerusalem
apartment at 1 Semach Street where he would lead a life of almost total
isolation.]
1983: In what would
prove to be the first act in what some describe as a tragedy and others
describe as murder, “23-year-old Alice Ephraimson-Abt, the daughter of a
Holocaust survivor, boarded KAL Flight 007 at John F. Kennedy International
Airport.”
1984(2nd of
Elul, 5744): Sixty eight year old Oscar nominated composer Emil Newman who was
the brother of two other composers – Alfred and Lionel Newman – the father of
composers Maria, David and Thomas Newman and the uncle of songwriter Randy
Newman passed away today.
http://www.wildcelt.com/newman-dynasty-film-scoring-composors.php
1984(2nd of
Elul, 5744): Forty-nine year old “poet, critic and chairman of the department
of comparative literature at Queen College, Paul Zweig, and the author of Walt
Whitman: The Making of a Poet passed away today.
1984: Judith Resnik
began her first space flight aboard the Discovery which was making its maiden
voyage.
1985: After premiering
at the Seattle International Film Festival, “Flesh and Blood” co-starring Jason
Leigh was released in the United States today by Orion Pictures.
1985: “American Ninja”
directed by Sam Firstenberg and Produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan was
released today.
1987: Author Jean Hanff
Korelitz got married today.
1987(5th of Elul,
5747): Ninety-four year old Abraham Bernard “Abe” Levy, the native of Hull who
moved to the United States to “pursue a career in design” after having served
in World War I and then returned to England in the 1930’s where he wrote “articles
on what remained of Jewish life in the East End and on the occupation patterns
of Anglo-Jewry” which formed the basis for East End Story passed away
today.
https://www.amazon.com/Sephardim-problem-survival-Abraham-Levy/dp/B00AGD6TF6
1989: A federal jury in
New York found ''hotel queen'' Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but
acquitted her of extortion.
1989(29th of Av, 5749): Dorothy Schiff owner and publisher of the New York Post
for nearly 40 years passed away. She was a granddaughter of German born Jewish
financier Jacob H. Schiff and the daughter of Mortimer Schiff and Adele
Neustadt Schiff.
1989(29th of Av, 5749): Author, essayist and editor Seymour Krim passed away.
According to at least one critic, “some of the Jewish themes that obsessed him
were post-Holocaust anger, the lack of a nourishing Jewish culture,
assimilation and emasculation, and the ugliness of self-hatred.”
1992(1st of Elul,
5752): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1992: “The American
Jewish Congress is offering a 21-day tour called a Jewish Heritage Expedition
that will take travelers to places prominent in the life of Maimonides, the
Hebrew scholar who was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 1135, and spent most of his
life in Morocco, Israel and Egypt.”
1998: The New York Times book section features
reviews of two works by Jewish authors: Theatre on the Edge by Mel
Gussow and Capital Dilemma by Michael Z. Wise.
1998: In “First, the People Moved East. Now, So Are the
Cemeteries,” published today John Rather describes the changes in the New York
cemetery scene including four Jewish cemeteries on Cemetery Row including Mount
Ararat, New Montefiore, Beth Moses and Wellwood . The Jewish community faces its own unique
set of challenges. ''Very often
what Jews do is arrange for family plots, which means there may be people who
pass away in Florida who want to return to New York to be buried,'' said Rabbi
Bruce Ginsburg, president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis. Some Long Island
funeral homes have affiliates in Florida to speed the return home.
2000(29th of Av, 5670): Ninety-three year old movie and
television director Joseph H. Lewis passed away today. (As reported by Lawrence
Van Gelder)
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/13/arts/joseph-h-lewis-93-director-who-turned-b-movies-into-art.html
2001(11th of Elul, 5761): Sixty year old Amos Tanjouri was
“shot at point blank range” by Palestinian terrorists.
2002: “As Palestinians buried four family members killed by Israeli tank
fire and vowed revenge, Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer expressed
regret over the loss of innocent lives.”
2003: “Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli settler and wounded his
pregnant wife on the West Bank today…”
2004: Based on previously published information, Lawrence A. Franklin
“the Pentagon official under suspicion of turn over classified information to
Israel” has begun “cooperating with federal agents…and was preparing to lead
the authorities to contacts inside the Israeli government…”
2005(25th of Av, 5765): Eighty-five year old James H. Scheuer
who served 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives passed away today. (As
reported by Jennifer Lee)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/nyregion/31scheuer.html?pagewanted=print
2005: “A Scrappy Congressman, Ready for His Next Risk” published today
examined the career of Congressman Anthony D. Weiner and his chances to become
Mayor of New York City. (The more things change, the more they stay the same)
2005: Today, Tulane University which was being led by President Scott
Cowan reported that due to Hurricane Katrina “physical damage to Tulane’s
campuses was extensive” with several feet of standing water on the campus north
of Feret Street which included most of the dorms and eating facilities but
fortunately “no serious flooding on the portion of the campus between Feret
Street and St. Charles Avenue which encompassed the original academic quad of
the school.
2005: The Bedouin guard who subdued a suicide
bomber in Beersheba was hailed as a hero of the state of Israel in headlines of
the Jerusalem Post.
2006: America gets ready for new Jewish-themed cable
network. “First there was the Kinky Friedman documentary Shalom Y'All,
and now there's Rabbi Mark S. Golub's Shalom TV. Golub is launching America's
first national television channel dedicated to celebrating Jewish life and
culture.
2006: The Bank Leumi
announced that leak concerning the stock transactions of Lt. Gen. Dan Haulutz
that took place before fighting broke out Hezbollah did not come from anybody
working that institution.
2007: An exhibit at the
Land of Israel Museum in Tel Aviv featuring hundreds of works by cartoonist
Kariel Gardosh, who became famous under his pen name “Dosh” comes to an end.
Dosh was the first Israeli cartoonist to have his work published in a daily newspaper.
2007: An article
entitled “Faith and Civic Pride Clash Over Parade on Yom Kippur” published
today describes the conflict between Yom Kippur and a civic celebration in
Herkimer, NY.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/nyregion/30parade.html?pagewanted=print
2007: Ant-Zionists Max Blumenthal and Norton
Mezvinksy, were joined by Tehran Professor Kaveh Afrasiabi on WBEZ”s
“Worldview” which features discussions on the conflict between Israel and the
Palestinians.
2007: A national tour
of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” which would last until November, 2007 began
today.
2007: The Red Sea Jazz
Festival comes to an end at Eilat.
2008: The Eleventh Jerusalem International Chamber Music
Festival opens today.
2008: Today, Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida lashed
out at John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate,
accusing her of supporting "Nazi sympathizer" Pat Buchanan, and
branding the move an "affront to all Jewish Americans.".
2009: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including A Village Life by Louise
Glück and I’m So Happy For You by Lucinda Rosenfeld.
2009:
Today’s announcement by Africa Israel Investments which is owned by Lev Leviev
“that it could not repay billions of dollars in debt… caused shares to drop 25.5 percent on the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange.” (As reported by JTA)
2009: The
Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Too Good To Be True: The Rise
and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund, Betrayal: The Life and Lies
of Bernie Madoff by Andrew Kirtzman, Madoff With The Money by Jerry
Oppenheimer, Israel is Real by Rich Cohen and The Secret Life of
Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli
2009: The
Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Homer & Langley by E.L.
Doctorow and A Village Life: Poems by Louise Gluck
2009: Israel Air Force planes struck a tunnel in the northern
Gaza Strip early today in response to a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian
militants into the western Negev early yesterday, which was Shabat.
2009: In
Little Rock, the Jewish community gathers at the Chabad House to celebrate the
completion of the first sefer torah to ever be written for the Jewish community
of Arkansas. The project is one more example of the great works done by Rabbi
Pinchas Ciment, a mensch in the truest sense of the word who is the epitome of
the Rebbe’s concept of “the Lamplighter.
2009: Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted today in
three corruption affairs, concluding months of investigations into cases
allegedly conducted during his tenure as Jerusalem mayor and trade minister.
2009
Israeli singer Roni Dalumi was the final of Kochav Nolad 7.
2010:
Seth Rudetsky co-starred “in a one-night-only concert performance of “They’re
Playing Our Song,” “a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer
Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.”
2010:
Release of “Box of Secrets,” featuring “Let Me Back,” “Box of Secrets” and
“Over which was the debut album of Zarif Davidson, better known as Zarif the
daughter of an Iranian Jewish mother.
2010: Bernice K. Weiss, author of Converting to Judaism -
Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories is scheduled to lead a course entitled “Basic
Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike” that provides
an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how to observe
kashrut and the Jewish laws of death and mourning.
2010(20
Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of
Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton)
Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud
Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren.
To his brother Joe, he was the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was
my wonderful Uncle Jack – living proof that good guys finish first.
2010: Israeli archeologists unveiled a 2,000 year old
semi-precious cameo bearing the image of Cupid today, which the Israel
Antiquities Authorities (IAA) said was among several items located in the City
of David archeological area in Jerusalem's Old City in the last 12 months.
2011: An
exhibition of charcoal drawings by artist Jean Barry that interpret the Book of
Job is scheduled to come to a close at the Charles Sumner School Museum and
Archives in Washington, DC.
2011(30th
of Av, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2011: Israel has been warned that a terrorist cell linked to
the Islamic Jihad and based in the Sinai Peninsula may try to carry out a
series of attacks over the coming days, Home Front Minister Matan Vilnai said
today.
2011: Iran is planning to send its 15th fleet,
comprised of a submarine and a warship, to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea,
semi-official news agency Press TV quoted Iranian naval commander Admiral
Habibollah Sayyari as saying today. The announcement came after the IDF
modified the operational doctrine of the Navy Command Center in Eilat which is
responsible for protecting southern Israel from threats originating in the Red
Sea. Yesterday, two large Navy corvettes were seen docked in Eilat, likely for
anti-terror and smuggling operations in the Red Sea
2011:
Labor Party leadership candidate Erel Margalit
demanded today that the upcoming primary be delayed, because the list of party
members eligible to vote has yet to be published. If the Labor Party’s
administration does
2011(29th of Av, 5771): Ninety-nine year old Ayala
Zacks Abramov, the Israeli-born art collectior passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=236084
2012: Yemen Blues is scheduled to appear at The Montreal Jewish
Music Festival
2012: In Berkeley, Urban Adamah and Wilderness are scheduled to
sponsor “Mother-Daughter Full Moon of Elul Circle,” an event that will “include
harvesting wheat, grinding it into flour with a new grain mill and then baking
it into pita over an open fire.”
2012:
Without naming Iran, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon denounced his hosts in Tehran today for
threatening to destroy Israel and for denying the Holocaust.
2012: The Egyptian army began withdrawing tanks from the Sinai
Peninsula today, pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported. The report
comes just a day after Egypt's army said it would broaden its offensive against
militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel
about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=283240
2013:
“Fill The Void” is scheduled to open at the Ridgeway Quarter in Memphis, TN
2013:
Rabbi Shira Stutman is scheduled to lead Shabbat eve services which will be a
celebration of “Labor on the Bimah,” an initiative of Jews United for Justice
that “weaves together labor issues, social justice and Judaism, in an effort to
bring meaning and reflection back into Labor Day.”
2013:
Michael Barenboim and Alexander Melnikov are scheduled to perform Mozart’s
Sonata for Piano and Violin in D Major at the Jerusalem International Chamber
Music Festival.
2013:
“IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz visited Artillery Corps units
stationed on the Golan Heights this morning and received a briefing by
commanders on the state of readiness of the military forces on the northern
border.” (As reported by Yaakov Lappin)
2013:
Safety Jordan Dangerfield, a member of the Ethiopian Jewish community who had
been signed by the Bills as an undrafted rookie free agent following the 2013
NFL Draft was released by the team today.
2013:
“US President Barack Obama said today the chemical weapons attack in Syria
threatened US allies Israel and Jordan and said his preference would have been
for the international community to move forward on a response.” (As reported by
Michael Wilner)
2013:
As his legal woes mounted, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner “signed a letter of
resignation that became effective at 5 pm PDT.”
2014:
Chani Nachmias and Friends are scheduled to sing in Tel Aviv as part of the
Performing Arts Center August Concert Series.
2014:
Ashkelon’s annual pop music festival Briza is scheduled to come to an end
today. (As reported by Simone Somekh)
2014:
Turkey’s president-elect Recep Tayip Edrogan who had served as Prime Minister
for the past 11 years shook hands with Yosef Levi Sfari, the charge d’affaires
of Israel’s embassy in Ankara marking the first time the Turkish leader had
done this in six years.
2014:
Seventy-five UN peacekeepers stationed on the Golan Heights “fled Syrian
territory for Israel today “after their positions were attacked by rebels who
are affiliated with al-Qaida. (As reported by Times of Israel)
2014:
Eighty-four year old Joseph E. Perisco author of Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial
which “tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials” passed away today.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Joseph-Persico-acclaimed-historian-biographer-5724215.php
2014:
As fighting raged between rebels and government forces in Syria, two mortar
shells, thought to be strays, exploded inside Israel near the Golan Heights
border.
2015:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host Grand Slam
Sunday Jewish Community at Nationals Park.
2015(15th
of Elul, 5775): Ninety-five year old Maryland political leader and former
governor Marvin Mandel passed away today.
http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/former/html/msa01487.html
2015:
In Coralville, Iowa the House of David Softball Team is scheduled to sponsor
its annual car wash while Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its End of the
Summer Picnic.
2015:
Slovakia native Tomas Kovar is scheduled to describe surviving the Holocaust at
the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
2015:
A Study Mission to New Orleans sponsored by the American Jewish Archives as
part of its Travels in American Jewish History is scheduled to come to an end.
2015(15th
of Elul, 5775): Seventy-nine year old novelist Rhoda Lerman passed away today.
(As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/arts/rhoda-lerman-writer-who-defied-labels-dies-at-79.html?_r=0
2015(15th
of Elul, 5775): Eighty-two year old neurologist and author Oliver Sacks passed
away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/esteemed-jewish-neurologist-oliver-sacks-dies-at-82/
2015:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb, Give Us The Ballot: The Modern
Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman and The End of
Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven
which given the large number of Jews who lived in Russia or left it for the
West and Palestine qualifies it for this list.
2016:
“Hundreds of people turned out in Holon today for the funeral of former MK,
minister and IDF general Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer, who died Sunday at the
age of 80.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-bid-farewell-to-fearless-fighter-binyamin-ben-eliezer/
2016:
“Roseanne Barr, the Jewish actress with an outsized Twitter personality who
called Hillary Clinton an anti-Semite and her aide Huma Abedin a “filthy nazi
whore,” lectured tonight in a prominent San Francisco synagogue about Judaism,
Israel and the critics who have been calling her a racist.”
2016:
In “Israel Quietly Legalizes Outposts in the West Bank” published today Isabel
Kershner provided one view of the “unauthorized settlements.”
2016:
“Israeli society is heading for civil war and the country must take steps to
counter it, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo warned today in his first public
remarks since stepping down as the spy agency director in January.
2016:
“Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will keep her seat in the US House after
defeating Tim Canova today in a bruising primary that featured traded barbs
over Israel.”
2016:
“Three Balconies and a Door,” a new exhibition of the works of Jerusalem born
artist Michal Nachmnay is scheduled to open at the Manny Cantor Center.
2017:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Dough,” the “film adaptation of Hans
Fallada’s bestselling novel.”
2017:
Despite bomb threats earlier in the week, classes are scheduled to begin for
the fall term today at Brandeis University.
2017:
The City Contemporary Dance Company of Hong Kong is scheduled to perform at the
Tel Aviv Dance Festival for the last time this evening.
2017:
In Australia, the Sydney Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Harvesting hidden
treasures in the community: Advancing the science of proactive collecting” with
Roslyn Sugarman.
2017:
The Noam David Trio is scheduled to perform on the final night of the Red Sea
Jazz Festival.
2018:
The National Geographic Channel is scheduled to broadcast “Titanic: 20 Years
Later” in which James Cameron, to whom the Straus Historical Society provided
“information and photographs” about Isidor and Ida Straus asks and hopefully
answers the question “Did we get it right?”
https://www.smore.com/pqe3c-titanic-20-years-later?ref=email
2018:
The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host “From Folk to
Flamenco - An Intimate Journey through Landscapes, Boundaries, Stories and
Cultures” featuring Haifa born guitarist David Broza.
2018:
In the wake of yesterday’s recommendation by the CDC that “consumers avoid
kosher chicken and the Empire Kosher brand for now” following an outbreak of
salmonella that has killed one and sickened at least 17” Jews who pay a premium
for fowl with a Hechsher may be wondering if the companies cannot maintain
basic cleanliness, how do they know they are really observing the ritual laws
concerning the slaughtering of animals.
2019:
Five days after she passed away funeral services are held for Deb Levin, the
beloved wife of the creator of this blog who was the driving force behind its
creation and an Ayshish Chayil in the truest sense of the word. The Light has gone out of the Universe.
2019:
“Uncut Gems” starring Adam Sandler and with music by Donald Lopatin, the son of
refusniks was released today in the United States.
2020:
The corona virus has accelerated its spread in Gaza since last week, when Hamas
officials reported the first cases of community transmission.
2020:
Because of the Derecho which struck Cedar Rapids, on the first anniversary of
her funeral we are busy trying to restore the house she loved so much.
2020:
Today, “Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, the director of the Zahava and Moshael
Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, delivered a seminar, “Wishes and
Witches in Samuel and Shakespeare.” The seminar was the first of a series of
discussions for the Straus Center’s Wilf Straus Scholars, who, this year, along
with the Beren Straus Scholars, will be studying the Bible’s influence on the
works of playwright William Shakespeare.”
2021:
Urban Adamah is scheduled to host “Shofar Call to Justice,” an activism event”
that is part of attempts “to stop the line 3 Tar sands pipeline expansion.”
2021: The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present online
“Mosaics With Mia,” during which participants can join Israel-based mosaic
muralist Mia Schon for a one-hour collage workshop via Zoom.
2021(22nd
of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah Levin, father of
Judy, Mitchell and David Levin, without whom this blog would not have been
possible in more ways than one.
2022:
The Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to host Abraham Riesman, author of “True
Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee,” as he discusses how Jews essentially
built the superhero industry, the complicated intersection of Jewishness and
superhero comics, largely through the lens of the two Jews who built Marvel:
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
2022:
In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Beyond Roe”
during which a lawyer, a doctor and an agency head involved in reproductive
justice will discuss the past, present and future of abortion access in the
U.S. and what Judaism teaches about the subject.
2022:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to presents “Bene Israel
Selichot” during which Hazzan Joshua Daniels will introduce attendees to the
Bene Israel piyyutim and selichot tunes as he shares stories from his life
within and outside the Bene Israel community.
2022:
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to present a program exploring
“Project Paperclip” with Dr. Michael Neufeld, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum and author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space,
Engineer of War, and Eric Lichtblau, author of The Nazis Next Door: How America
Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. The conversation will be moderated by
Linda Dawson, author of The Politics and Perils of Space Exploration.
2022:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an online program during
which Dr. Mark Stout will discuss the activities of top-secret “Ghost Army” and
its role in Allied success during WWII.
2023:
In Metairie, LA, Chabad is scheduled to host “A Taste for the Holiday for
Women.”
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Patrick Bade on “Jerome
Kern.”
2023:
The Aden Conference presented by the ASF”s Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2023:
Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning
Program is scheduled to hold its “Second Annual Siegal Showcase.”
2023:
The JNF is scheduled to host “Scripting History,” an exclusive interview with
Guy Nattiv, the director of “Golda.”
2023:
In Cedar Rapids, under the leadership of Nancy Margulis the Hadassah Book Club is
scheduled to meet to discuss I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami
Attenberg.
