This Day, July 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 1
69: Tiberius Julius
Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to
Vespasian as emperor. This consolidation of Vespasian’s imperial power helped
to seal the fate of Jerusalem since the destruction of the Jewish capital was
his way of proving that law and order would prevail in the empire.
70 C.E.: Titus set up
battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem.
397: Emperors
Arcadius and Honorius decree that Jewish clergy are allowed to keep their own
laws and rituals and are exempt from service in municipal senates. This creates
the superficial impression that Jewish clergy are on an equal footing with
their Christian counter-parts. (As reported by Austin Cline)
985: In Barcelona,
several Jewish residents were killed by the Moslem leader Al-Mansur. Many of
them were land owners who left no heirs. According to the law, all their lands
were given over to the Count of Barcelona. In Spain at this time it was not
uncommon for Jews to own vineyards and other lands.
294: Cassius Dio, the
namesake of the historian who “frequently records the religious
zeal and self-sacrificing spirit of the Jews” and whose account of the Jewish
War against the Roman Empire that resulted in the destruction of the Temple is
more favorable to the Jews than that given by Josephus began serving as Proconsular
governor of Africa
295: Cassius Dio, the
namesake of the historian who “frequently records the religious
zeal and self-sacrificing spirit of the Jews” and whose account of the Jewish
War against the Roman Empire that resulted in the destruction of the Temple is
more favorable to the Jews completed his service as Proconsular governor of
Africa.
1187: As the showdown
between Crusaders and Saracens gets closer, the forces of Saladin bypass
Belvoir, whose defenders fail to come to do battle, and heads for
Tiberias. The Jews are bystanders as
these two interlopers fight to protect their “claim” to the Promised Land.
1244: Duke Frederick
II granted a charter to all Jews under his control which “became the model by
which the status of the Jews of Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, Silesia, and Poland
was regulated.”
1388: Jews of
Lithuania received a Charter of Privilege.
1392: Pope Boniface
IX “appointed the physician Solomone de Sabalduchio his "familiaris."
1462: In a document
signed today, King Georg reconfirmed the requirement that Jews of Pilsen will
pay “the Reeve (local ruler) for each household on St. Martin's Day one
corn-fed goose, at Christmas a pound of pepper, and at Easter one guilder plus
one pound of pepper” and “confirmed that the Jews are obliged to register their
pledges” with the added proviso that failure to register will “loose the pledge
or the income from the pledge.”
1490: Twenty year old
Yucef Franco, a Jewish cobbler from Tembleque and his 80 year old father Ça
Franco was arrested by the Inquisition.
1517: “Giles
Antonini, referred to as Giles of Viterbo” was “elevated to the rank of Cardinal
by Pope Leo X” which provided him with the position and power to offer
sanctuary to the Jewish grammarian Elias Levita whose family lived with the
Catholic prelate for ten years.
1534: King Christian
III of Denmark and Norway and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg gave birth to
Frederick II of Denmark who moved to keep Jews out his realm by ordering ‘that
all foreigners in Denmark had to affirm their commitment to 25 articles of
faith central to Lutheranism on pain of deportation,
1569: The Union of
Lublin joins The Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania into a
united country called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of
Both Nations. This had to be an improvement in the situation for the Jews of
Lithuania who were governed by statutes that read in part, "The Jews shall
not wear costly clothing, nor gold chains, nor shall their wives wear gold or
silver ornaments. The Jews shall not have silver mountings on their sabers and
daggers; they shall be distinguished by characteristic clothes; they shall wear
yellow caps, and their wives’ kerchiefs of yellow linen, in order that all may
be enabled to distinguish Jews from Christians." During the 15th and 16th centuries the Jews
of Poland enjoyed an increasing amount of political autonomy and economic
wellbeing which would come to a crashing end with the Ukrainian uprisings in
the 17th centuries.
1581: Gregory XIII
issued “Antiqua judaeorum improbitas,” a Papal Bull that “authorized the
Inquisition directly to handle cases involving Jews, especially those
concerning blasphemies against Jesus or Mary, incitement to heresy or
assistance to heretics, possession of forbidden books, or the employment of
Christian wet nurses.” (Jewish Virtual Library shows the date as June 1, 1581)
1589: In Antwerp,
Christophe Plantin, a Dutch publisher who printed “a good many Hebrew texts”
passed away today. Plantin printed the
“Biblia Poygotta” a Bible containing five languages one of which was Hebrew.
“The first four volumes contain the Old Testament. The left page has two
columns with the Hebrew original and the Latin translation, the right page has
same text in Greek with its own Latin translation. Underneath these columns
there is an Aramaic version on the left-hand page and a Latin translation of
this on the right-hand side. For printing the Hebrew text Plantin used among
others Daniel Bomberg's Hebrew type, which he had received from Bomberg's
nephews.Volume 5 contains the New Testament in Greek and Syriac, each with a
Latin translation, and a translation of the Syriac into Hebrew. Volume 6 has
the complete Bible in the original Hebrew and Greek, as well as an interlinear
version that has the Latin translation printed between the lines.”
The last two volumes
contain dictionaries (Hebrew-Latin, Greek-Latin, Syriac-Aramaic, grammar rules,
list of names, etc.) that were of value to scholars
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1651: Poland was
victorious over the Cossacks. The Jews were allowed to return to their lands
but the society that they had built was gone forever.
1734: In conformity with
an agreement with Prince Carl, Duke of Wurttemberg Joseph Oppenheimer took
control of the mint having guaranteed the ruler a large increase in revenue.
1736: Ahmed III, the
Sultan who appointed Judah ben Samuel Rosanes to serve a “hakam bashi” (Chief
Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire passed away.
Rabbi Judah was a noted scholar who was an ardent opponent of the
Shabbethaians (the followers of the “False Messiah”)
1742: In Darmstadt,
Pastor Johan Conrad Lichtenberg and his was wife gave birth to physicist and
satirist Georg Chrsitoph Lichtenberg whose “invention of a ‘Compass of
Motives;’”Sigmund Freud (in his “Why War?” letter to Albert Einstein)
mentioned in a discussion on the
combination of human compounded motives and quoted him as saying, “The motives
that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and
might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, ‘food-food-fame’ or
‘fame-fame-food’.”
1749(26th
of Tammuz, 5509): Elisha ben Abraham ben Judah, the Russian rabbi who was chief
of the Yeshiva at a Luciez passed away today.
1772:The infant
daughter of Abraham de Leon died today, the day of her birth.
1774: In Montreal,
Marie Elizabeth Louise Dubois and Ezekiel Solomon gave birth to Joseph Solomon.
1776: “Cherokees
attacked settlement along the” South Carolina frontier resulting in a “Paul
Revere-like Ride” by Francis Salvador to sound the alarm for those living
within a 30 mile radius.
1776: First Jew lost
his life in the American Revolution.
1783(1st
of Tammuz, 5543): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1792: Baruch Hays,
and his second wife Rachel (de Costa) Hays gave birth to Joseph Lopez Hays
1798: In Switzerland,
special taxes on the Jews were finally abolished.
1798: After eluding
the British fleet, the French Army under Napoleon landed at Alexandria in a
military action where the Eliyahu Hanavi Syngouge which had been built in 1354
was bombed to such an extent that it would not be re-built until 1850.
1805(4th of Tammuz,
5565): Pinchas Horowitz, a rabbi and Talmudist who was born at Chortkiv in 1731
died today at Frankfort-on-the-Main
1810: The reign of
Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, as King of
Holland, came to an end. Bonaparte sought to improve the condition of the
Jews. Among other things he abolished
the “Oath More Judaico” and opened military service to Jews by creating two
battalions made up exclusively of Jewish soldiers and officers.
1815: Charlotte
Drace, the daughter of Sara and John King, “moneylender and radical writer” who
wrote “under the pseudonym ‘Rosa Mtailda’” married widower Nicholas Byrne
today.
1818: Joseph Leigh
married Sarah Abrahams at the New Synagogue.
1824:
Twenty-eight-year-old Isaac Tobias, the son of Rachel Aarons and Joseph Tobias
married Isabella Cowen today, after which they had six children – Augustus,
Virignius, Colleton, Sara, Marion and Sophie.
1825: In Virginia,
Hyman Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Benjamin Mendes Seixas and Zipporah
Mendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to ,,
Sarah Hass, the wife
of Henry Haas.
1829: Jamaica native
Joseph Gutteres Henriques, the son Saran and Jacob Beuno Henriques and Eliza
Henriques gave birth to Alfred Gutteres Henriques
1835: The day after
he had passed away, 70 year old Simon Medex was buried today at the “Brady
Street Jewish Cemetry.”
1845: David Levy
Yulee began serving as the United States from Florida. This was in the days
before the direct election of Senators.
After Florida joined the Union, the state legislature chose Yulee to
fill the position. This made him the
first Jew to be elected to the United States.
Yulee would desert the Union and join the Confederacy at the start of
the Civil War. Yulee would ‘desert’ the
faith of his fathers’ when he married a Christian and raised his children in
her faith.
1845: In London,
Moses Botibol and the former Jessie Myers gave birth to Isaac Botibol.
1850: In
Philadelphia, George H. Earle, Sr. and Mrs. Frances ("Fanny") Van
Leer Earle gave birth to American Poet Florence Earle Coates.
http://florenceearlecoates.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-dreyfus-affair.html
1851: Morris Lee
married Laura Levy at the Great Synagogue.
1853: Coleman Defries
married Cordelia Magnus today.
1853: George
Washington Mordecai, the Warrenton, NC born son of Rebecca and Jacob Mordecais
marrie Margaret Cameron today
1855: In Georgetown,
SC, Joseph Sampson and Esther Cohen gave birth to Arthur Fischel Sampon, the
graduate of U. Va. Medical School who practiced medicine in Galveston, TX
before settling in San Francisco in 1901 where he invented the Sampson Urethal
Speculum.
1857: According to
the New York Times, there are 1,500,000 Jews living in Russia out of a population
estimated at 63,000,000.
1858: The House of
Lords took up the question of admitting Jews into Parliament. Lord Derby expressed a willingness to end his
opposition to the measure as a way of avoiding a major collision with the House
of Commons. [Editor’s note – The issue of Jewish emancipation was not strictly
a “Jewish issue.” It may also be seen as
part of a larger power struggle between the Establishment as represented by the
Lords and the changing economic and social milieu as represented by the Commons. The issue of Jewish Emancipation was but one
of many issues over which this battle was fought with the Commons ultimately
emerging victorious.]
1859: “In Kalamazoo,
Michigan, Mannes and Tillie, the first Jews to settle in Kalamazoo” gave birth
to University of Michigan astronomer Edward Israel who perished on a Polar
Expedition “under the leadership of Adolphus Greely.”
1860:
Twenty-nine-year-old Anthony-Mayer, the second son of Solomon Benedict de
Worms, the Baron de Worms, married Emma Augusta the daughter of Baron Frederick
Von Schey of Vienna.
1860: In Memphis,
Simon Tuska was unanimously elected to serve as the rabbi at Temple Israel and
signed to a three-year contract at $800 per year”
1861(23rd of Tammuz,
5621): Bernhard Beer, a member of the prominent Bondi family, who as a
journalist worked for the emancipation of his co-religionists in Saxony and
who, although a layman, “was the first to introduce German language sermons at
the congregation in Dresden, passed away today.
1862: Russian Jews were
granted permission to print Jewish books
1862: In
Philadelphia, Elias Wolf and Amelia Mayer gave birth to Benjamin Wolf, the
husband of Fredora Kahn the Treasurer of the National Metal Edge Box Company
and Vice President of Standard Machine Company who was also the Director of the
Hebrew Education Society and Vice President of the Jewish Hospital.
1862: While serving
with Company H of the 61st Regiment, Jacob Miller was wounded at the Battle of
Malvern Hill.
1863: First day of
the Battle of Gettysburg. Just as the war pitted brother against brother, so it
pitted Jew against Jew. At Gettysburg, Prussian born Major Adolph Proskauer of
Mobile led the 12th Alabama against the Army of the Potomac which included
Lieutenant Abraham Cohn, a native of East Prussia, who fought with the 6th New
Hampshire Volunteers. Cohn fought in 11
battles and won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Proskauer did not survive his service with
the Rebel Army.
For more information
about Jews in the Civil War
see http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/default.htm
1863: Lieutenant
Colonel Israel Moses was among those who arrived with Sickle’s brigade as it
tried to stem the Confederate tide on the first day of fighting at Gettysburg.
1863: Raphael Moses,
“the chief commissary officer for General Longstreet” and a confidant of
General Lee was among those who found themselves facing the Union Army at the
sleepy Pennsylvania village of Gettysburg.
1863: Jacob Ezekiel
Hyneman had sufficiently recovered from the wounds sustained at the Battle of
Brandy Station to serve with United States Army Signal Corps at the Battle of
Gettysburg.
1863: “The First
National Bank of Chicago” which would be described in glowing terms on its 50th
anniversary by The Reform Advocate “opened its doors for business today.
1864: In Columbus, GA,
Frank Rothschild, the German born son of Henriette and Isack Rothschild and his
wife Amanda Rothschild gave birth to Alfred Rothschild who gained fame as actor
Alfred Redgis
1865: Lieutenant
Tobias Rosensteel who had been serving with the 64th Regiment, also designated
as the Fourth Cavalry since 1861 completed his military service today.
1865: American
surgeon and U.S. Naval officer Phineas Jonathan Horwitz was appointed Chief of
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery with a rank equivalent to that of Commodore.
1866(18th of Tammuz,
5626): Tzom Tammuz observed because the 17th fell on Shabbat.
1867: William
Flegenheimer of Baden became a U.S. citizen today.
1867: Leon Jastremski, the French born son of Vincent Jastremski, a
Polish Jewish emigre who settled in Louisiana married Rose Larguier today
1867: With the
passage of the British North America Act, Great Britain officially recognizes
the Dominion of Canada as an independent country. Jews had been living in Canada since the
British took it from France in the 17th century. There were enough Jews living
in Montreal to allow for the creation of a synagogue called Shearith Israel.
While most members of the small Jewish community lived in various towns in the
eastern part of the country enough Jews arrived in British Columbia during the
Gold Rush that a synagogue was constructed in Victoria in 1862. At the time that Britain recognized the
independence of Canada there were about 1,000 Jews living in “our neighbor to
the North.” This number would explode
shortly thereafter with the beginning of the immigration of Russian Jews.
1868: In Pittsfield,
MA, “Moses and Rosa Rosenthal England gave birth to Daniel England Sr. “vice
president and treasurer of England Brothers Department store” founded by his
father in 1857 and the husband of “the former Myra Bendell; with whom he raised
two sons and one daughter.
1869: Today, Phineas
Jonathan Horwitz completed his service as Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery and moved on to take charge of the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia.
https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:p16313coll59
1872: In what was
“first case of its kind in Prussia,” it was reported today that the “Grandlodge
Royal York” has decided to admit Jews as members making 1872 a year for
“firsts” since Ludwig Traube became the first Jew to be appointed “to a regular
professorship in Prussia” and Harry Bresslau became the first Jew to be
appointed as teacher in the Berlin public schools.
1873: Prince Edward
Island joins the Canadian Confederation. Apparently, Jews did not start
settling in Prince Edward Island until the first decade of the 20th century
with the arrival of Louis, Israel and Abie Block. The three brothers were from
Riga and may have been the Jews who were described in 1908 newspaper article as
having celebrated Passover in this part of Canada.
1873: The government
closed the “rabbinical school of Jitomir” where Chaim Lerner, a native of Dubno
had been service as the Hebrew teacher since 1851.
1873: In Detroit,
Michigan, founding of Congregation B’nai Israel whose members included Louis
Goldsmidt, Meyer Jacobson and Louis Thorner and which owned a cemetery on
Williams Avenue.
1873: In Berlin, Emil
Cohn and his wife Deborah Lenore Cohn, the daughter of Ulrike and Marcus Mosse
gave birth to Antonie Hirsch
1874: “Ivanhoe or,
Rebecca, the Jewess,” a “dramatization” of Sir Walter Scott’s famous novel
opened tonight at Niblo’s Theatre in New York City. The play, which presents a sympathetic
depiction of Isaac of York and his daughter was well received by the audience. [Editor’s Note – The positive response of the
audience to Jewish characters stands at odds at with the outbreak of genteel
anti-Semitism that is soon about to infect polite society in New York and
elsewhere.]
1876: Sixty-two year
old Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin one of the founders of Anarchism whose
anti-Semitism would seem to show that hating Jews was part of the Russian
mentality regardless of political philosophy passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01912.html
1877: It was reported
today that people in Bucharest were quite surprised to learn that Jewish
citizens in the United States had presented a petition to Secretary of State
William Evarts asking him to intervene on behalf of their co-religionists in
Romania and Turkey. According to the
reports, the Jews of the region were even more surprised than the gentiles to
hear of this request for intervention by the government of President Rutherford
B. Hays.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE0DF133FE63BBC4953DFB166838C669FDE
1877: Philadelphia
merchant Edward J. Ettings’ son, Theodore Minis Etting, a student at the U.S.
Naval Academy who at the age of sixteen volunteered to serve on active duty
during the Civil War and who had risen to the rank of Lieutenant in 1874
resigned his commission today and began studying law which would lead to a
career in maritime law that combined both of his interests.
1877: Wilhelm Bacher
“was appointed by the Hungarian government to the professorship of the newly
created Landesrabbinerschule of Budapest.”
1878: Karl Nobling
“shot and wounded Kaiser Wilhelm I in a failed assassination attempt.” It was
the second such attempt in less than a month and provided Chancellor Otto von
Bismarck with the leverage of implement the Anti-Socialist Law in October which
was meant to curb the growth the Marxist Social Democratic Party,
1878: At the
insistence of Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck the Congress of Berlin
incorporated into the Treaty of Berlin an article intended to provide the Jews
of Romania with the opportunity for full citizenship. Unfortunately, the Romanians evaded the
article and only a hand full of Jews would gain citizenship.
1879: In New York
City, ” Berlin-born Moses Arndstein who fought in the Franco-Prussian War” and
“his wife Thekla Van Shaw” gave birth to Julius W. “Nicky” Arnstein a small
time gambler and swindler whose greatest claim to fame was his marriage to
Fanny Brice.
1880: “A Survey of
Assyrian Art” published today provided a detailed review of Manual of Oriental
Antiques, Ernest Babelon’s tome about the architecture, sculpture and
industrial arts of ancient civilizations which includes one chapter devoted to
the Jews. The representations of “Jewish art and architecture…supplied from the
work of de Vogue and from ‘The Recovery of Jerusalem’ by Wilson and Warren.”
1880: “In Chernowitz,
Austria-Hungary (now Chennivst, Ukraine) Abba and Chaya Fassler (Aaron and
Gussie Fassler) gave birth to Samuel Fassler, the owner of a trucking company
owner before founding Fassler Iron Works before WW I who was the City
Commissioner of Buildings in New York, “a trustee of Yeshiva University and
“founder and president of the Ninth Street Day Nursery and Orphans Home.
1880: (12th of Tammuz):
Birthdate of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok who would become the Sixth Lubavitcher
Rebbe. The Rebbe would overcome a
terrifying imprisonment at the hands of Stalin’s henchmen in the 1920’s. Later, he would escape the clutches of the
Nazis and settle in Brooklyn where he revived the cause of
Chabad-Lubavitch. The Rebbe would
launch, what would become under his son-in-law who was the Seventh Lubavitcher
Rebbe, one of history’s most successful Jewish outreach programs.
1881: “Scenes in
Parisian Life” published today reported that “Fashionable Paris kept its word
loyally” by keeping its promise not to leave the city until after the concert
which was to raise funds for the Jews of Russian had been held. The Gaulois
sponsored a concert that included performances by Faure and Mme. Alder-Devries
the proceeds of which were to go to the “evicted and demolished Israelite of
Southern Russia.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05EEDD103CEE3ABC4953DFB166838A699FDE
1881: “In
Częstochowa, Poland, “Sigmund and Dora Pasternak” gave birth their eldest son
director and producer Joseph Alexander Pasternack, the brother of Samuel and David
Pasternack and the husband of Helen Feirman with whom he “had two daughters, Florence and Cecile.”
1882: The
Memphis (TN) Avalanche reported that during the commencement address
delivered by George Cable at the University of Mississippi, the distinguished
author called for embracing the future included the challenge - “Let us search provincialism out the land as
the Hebrew housewife purged her house of leaven on the eve of the Passover.”
(Apparently this custom of the Jews was so well known that the New Orleans
author felt that it would be easily understood by those attending an event in
rural Oxford, MS.
1883: It was reported
today that ten new rabbis will be ordained later this month at the first
graduation ceremony of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1883: “A Middle Age
Trial” published today described the Christian community of Hungary as being
dense an dark in light of the trial being conducted Nyreghhaza where Jews are
charged with having killed a Christian girl “in order to use her blood in ceremonies
of the Passover;” a charge that “reads like a chapter from the history of the
Middle Ages…What is taking place in Hungary is what was a common occurrence a
few hundred years along. It only within
the present century that the cruel and causeless prejudice against Jews has
disappeared in civilized communities…Hungary is only about four hundred years
behind the age.” [Note – The same
article contained the oddly prophetic statement “In Germany the cry is raised
that a few Jew have, by their talents and industry, made themselves the ruling
class.”
1883: Joseph
Blumenthal completed his term as President of the Board of Trustees of Shearith
Israel in New York City.
1883: Albert Moritz,
who would eventually be assigned to the USS
Newark, was made an Assistant Engineer today.
1883: Since the Board
of Directors were in a deadlock when they voted for a new president for
Shearith Israel, Joseph Blumenthal “was made Chairman Pro Tem and authored to
act as President until” the board elects a president.
1884: Isaac Jacobs, a
middle aged Jew, is being held in Boston, MA on charges that he murdered Mrs.
Etta Carlton of Watertown in 1883.
Jacobs had been extradited from New York where he had been arrested on
an outstanding larceny warrant.
1884: It was reported
today that anti-Semitic riots have broken out in Algiers. Order was restored by
troops who put an end to the pillaging of the Jewish the city’s Jewish quarter.
1884: It was reported
today that in St. Petersburg, Russia The New Times has declared its opposition
to granting Jews equal rights with Christians saying that this “would be a
greater misfortune for Russia” than when it had been ruled by the Mongols. [Statements like this should help readers
understand the depth of anti-Semitism in Russia which propelled the massive
migration to the West, primarily to the United States.]
1885: In Brooklyn,
Rabbi Leopold Wintner officiated at the wedding of New Yorker Arthur Hirsch and
Helen Ottolengui, the “only daughter of Daniel Ottolengui” of Charleston, SC.
1886: The first
edition of the Menorah, a monthly magazine published by the B’nai Brith is
scheduled to appear for the first time today.
1886: Birthdate of
Ithak Katzenelson, a native of Karleichy who became a teacher, poet and
dramatist. Like so many of his generation, he was caught in the web of the
Holocaust. He took part in the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising before being murdered in May of 1944. He wrote Dos lid funem oysgehargetn yidishn
folk( "Song of the Murdered Jewish People") which was retrieved from
its hiding place after the war and taken to Israel.
1888: Rabbi Jacob
Sharp who arrived this morning at Hoboken aboard the North German Lloyd steamer
met with the welcoming committee but refused to leave the ship until sundown
since it was Shabbat.
1888(22nd
of Tammuz, 5648): Chana Rachel Verbermacher, sometimes transliterated
as Hannah Rochel, Khana Rokhel, or Khana Rakhel, also known as the Maiden of
Ludomir, the Maiden of Ludmir, the Ludmirer Moyd (in Yiddish), HaBetula
miLudmir in Hebrew), or rarely, the Ludmirer Rebbe, who was the only independent female Rebbe in the
history of the Hasidic movement passed away today in Jerusalem after which she
was buried on the Mount of Olives.
1888: A summer term
instituted by the trustees of the Jewish Theological Seminary will begin today.
Among the instructors will be Dr. Cyrus Adler who will lecture on
“Assyriology.”
1889: Birthdate of Vinnytsia
native Todros Geller the master printmaker and artist who moved to Montreal
before going on to Chicago in 1918 where he refined his craft at the School of
the Art Institute in Chicago.
https://www.chicagomodern.org/artists/todros-geller
1889: Manuel of
Oriental Antiquities by Enest Babelon which was reviewed today devotes one
chapter to the Jews. Information on Jewish art and architecture is based on The
Recovery of Jerusalem by Wilson and Warren and the works of Eugène-Melchior,
vicomte de Vogüé
1889: The Will of
Alexander Bach which left bequests of $1,000 each to Mount Sinai Hospital,
Montefiore Home for Incurables, Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society,
United Hebrew Charities, Temple Gates of Hope Hebrew Free School Association,
Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and Temple Israel of Harlem was executed
today.
1889: Birthdate of
Russian born artists and printmaker Todros Geller who settled in Chicago where
he became a leader in the art community and an activist among Yiddish speaking
artists.
1890: In San
Francisco, Samuel and Lillian Magnin gave birth to Edgar Fogel Magnin the
husband of Evelyn B. Rosenthal with whom he had two children – Henry and
Mae—and grandson of Mary Ann and Isaac, the founder I. Magnin department stores
who was the rabbi at Congregation B’nai B’rith and the Wilshire Boulevard
Temple, referred to by some as the “Hollywood House of God” because so many of
its members were associated with the film and television industries.
1891: The Hansa Line
Steamship Pichuben left Antwerp today carrying a large number of Jews who have
been expelled from Russia.
1891(25th of Sivan,
5651): Forty-four year old Alexander Weisse, a native of Budapest who had been
in the United States for six years and was the advertising agent for a German
language evening paper, took his own life after attempting to murder the young
girl who had been in his companion for several months.
1891: According to today’s
“Theatrical Gossip” the comedy company of Jewish producer Charles Frohman “has
made a great hit in Chicago” with its performance of ‘Mr. Wilkinson’s Widows.’”
1892: “Jewish
Pawnshops Must Go” published today described the government’s order that all
Moscow pawnshops owned by Jews will be closed.
The Jews will be given six months to close down their businesses.
1892: In Sheboygan, Wisconsin, “Max and Natalie (Fradkin) Eisenberg” gave
birth to U.S. Army WW I veteran David Berton Eisenberg, the husband of Natalie
Marcus and “President of Graphic Arts Publishing Company” who was also a member
of the B’nai B’rith in Chicago.
1892: In San
Francisco, 14 year old Evelyn Kate Aronson, the daughter of Liverpool, UK,
native Philip N. and Carrie Aronson and future wife of Max Margolis entered
Girls High School from which she would graduate in June of 1895 and then attend
the University of California, Berkley, from which she would graduate in 1900.
1892: Today’s
investigation of an explosion at a New York Tenement that was home to Russian
and Polish Jews including butcher shop owner Myer Kohn and the family Moses
Lefkowitz revealed the fact that the tenants have been complaining about the
smell of gas ever since the Consolidated Gas Company began putting a new pipe
into the building. Their complaints were ignored.
1893: Birthdate of
Paul Swartz, the native of Roumania who arrived in Canada in 1913 and served at
El Arish, Rafa, Ludd, Haifa, Kandara and Ismaliah as a member of the Jewish
Legion from which he was demobilized in 1919 allowing him to return to Canada
in 1919 where he married and had four children.
1894: It was reported
today that the Hebrew Institute will be hosting free talks by leading
physicians on the “Care and Feeding of Infants and Children During the Warm
Weather.”
1894: It was reported
today that the 265 students who have stayed at Cypress Hill, a facility for
truants, in the past year, 18 of them have been Jewish.
1894: In a comment
that would have a rabbi proud, Dr. Jesse W. Brooks told his Christian audience
that “of all the ancient nations…the Hebrew was the only survivor because it
obeyed God’s injunction to keep holy the Sabbath Day.”
1895: It was reported
today that “the notorious Jew-baiter Hermann Ahlwardt” is among those who are
about to be prosecuted by the Imperial Treasury “for their flagrant misuse of
free passes to canal fetes.”
1895: A group of
underprivileged children left today for a two day excursion at the Rockaway
Beach Hebrew Sanitarium.
1895: Colonel Nicolas
Jean Robert Conrad Auguste Sandherr left his job at the Statistical Section
(the counter-espionage service of the French Army) to take command of the 20th
Infantry Regiment at Montauban. In 1894,
when the Statistical Section had intercepted a handwritten note that established
that French military secrets had been handed over to the Germans, Sandherr
convened the secret commission that “hastily” decided Alfred Dreyfus was the
spy. Sandherr was replaced by Colonel Georges Picquart who was a key figure in
proving Dreyfus’ innocence.
1896: Newark, NJ
native Louis Schlesinger, the founder of the Union Building Company and his
wife, the former Sophie Levy gave birth to Joel L. Schlesinger, the younger
brother of Princeton graduate and U.S. Army Lieutenant Alexander L. Schlesinger.
1897: Birthdate of
Cleveland native Albert “Bert” Schneider, the Montreal raised boxer who “won
the gold med in the welterweight division” at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp as a
member of the Canadian team.
1898: Birthdate of
Jacob A Samuel, the husband of Madeline
Samuel
1898: In the
Spanish-American War Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charged up San Juan
Hill in Cuba. The Rough Riders was a
cavalry unit recruited by Roosevelt that drew on every strata of American life
from Western cowboys to Yankee Bluebloods.
Several Jews served with the unit including Jacob Wilbusky, the first
Roughrider killed in action, Hyman Rafalowitz of Santa Fe, NM, who was a
Private with Troop of the first 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, Adolph S. Wertheim
of San Antonio, TX, who was a Private with Troop G of the 1st U.S. Volunteer
Cavalry, Frederick W. Wolff of San Antonio, Tx, who was a Private with Troop
D and Hyman Litowski of Santa Fe, NM who
was a private in Troop E of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. The Roughriders were forced to leave their
horses back the United States so the famous charge was made on foot.
1898: Three days
after she had passed away, Priscilla Boam, the daughter of Henry Lyons and
Rachel Hart and the wife of Joseph Boam with whom she had had six children was
buried today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1898(11th of Tammuz,
5658): Sixteen year old Jacob Wilbusky of New York who had “enlisted in the
Rough Riders under the name ‘Jacob Berlin’” was killed today “in the first
skirmish.”
1898: Private Samuel
Goldberg of Santa Fe, NM of Troop F, Rough Riders, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
was wounded today in action today.
1898: Four days after
she had passed away, 49 year old Johana Plunket was buried today in London at
the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1898: Adolph Marix who
had served on the USS Maine before it was sunk took part in the Second Battle
of Manzanillo today as the commander of the USS Scorpion.
1899: The Conference
of the English Zionist Federation comes to an end.
1899: After five
years of imprisonment, Alfred Dreyfus who had returned to France yesterday was
locked up today in the military prison in Rennes.
1900: Herzl turns to
Prime Minister Koerber and asks him to use his influence with the Sultan to
permit the Rumanian Jews to immigrate into Turkey and to receive him, in order
to discuss the question of colonization and settlement.
1901: In New York
City, “Moses and Runia Halpern gave birth to NYU trained attorney “Yitzhak
Isidore Halpern.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/02/obituaries/isidore-halpern-88-brooklyn-lawyer-dies.html
1901: The month in
Morgan City, LA the building housing Shaarey Zedek burned down.
1901: In Chicago, two
Jewish immigrants, William S. and Betty (Buxbaum) Phillips gave birth to their
tenth child, Irna Phillips, who began creating soap operas in the 1930’s.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/phillips-irna
http://www.oldradioshows.org/2011/02/irna-phillips-mother-of-the-soap-opera/
1901: “New Capital of
China” published today that “Kai-fung-Foo in the Province of Ho-Nan” which is a
remarkable city because it was, as first reported by Marco Polo, “the only city
in which there was a colony of Jews” will replace Peking as the capital of
China.
1902: In Alsace,
Leopold Weiller and Melanie Auerbach gave birth to Wilhelm Weiller who gained
fame as Oscar winning director Billy Wyler whose many classics including the
World War II tear-jerker Mrs. Miniver.
Ironically, his greatest hit was The Best Years of Our Lives, a film
that described the return of four veterans to civilian life after World War II. Once again, the Jews played a major role in
crafting the cultural myths of Middle American Culture.
1902: In Grodno,
Barnett and Rebecca Feinstein Cohen gave birth to American comedian Myron Aaron
Cohen.
1903: Jacob A. Voice,
the Jassy, Rumania born son of Nathan and Sofia Voice who was a senior manager
with the Consolidated Lithographing Company and the Pasbach-Voice Lithographing
Company while serving as a trustee of the Temple Israel of Far Rockaway married
Edith I. Littenberg today.
1903: In Detroit,
“the reports of the Sabbath Commission to central conference of American rabbis
today provoked a hot discussion which occupied a large of the two sessions and
resulted in the report being referred back to the commission to be place in
more concise form.”
1903: It was reported
in this month’s issue of the Maccabean that “Miss Jane Addams of Hull House,
Chicago” told the members of the Council of Jewish Women, that she “thinks
Jewish women are peculiarly well prepared to fill a place in the larger life”
and “that among all the women in the foreign quarters of Chicago none showed
the same aptitude as Jewish women for absorbing the civic and social spirit
characteristic of modern life.”
1904: As of today,
only one person has been reported to have been injured in fire that broke out
at the old Mount Sinai Hospital, which is being torn down and was started by
the explosion of leaking gas.
1904:
Thirteen-year-old Harry William Davis, the Poltava born son of Louis Benjamin
and Cyrl Dora Zlatkovski arrive in Duluth, MN after which earned a law degree
from the University of MN in 1918, served in the U.S. Army during WW I, married
Ida Miriam Blehert in 1918 and became a leader of the Duluth Jewish community
as can be seen by his presidency as the Duluth District, director of the Duluth
Hebrew Brother Brotherhood and the trustee of Temple Emanuel.
1905: Sixty-six year
old former Secretary of State John Hay whom The Board of Delegates on Civil and
Religious Rights of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations hailed for his
support of the Jews in Romania and Kishinev, passed away today.
1906: As of today,
the Central Conference of American Rabbis has a total membership of 191.
1906: On New York’s
Lower East side, “Russian immigrants Harry and Clara Pressman gave birth to Lee
Pressman Harvard Law School graduate turned Communist spy.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Lee_Pressman.htm
1906: The Jewish
Herald reported today that “in Sydney, Australia, rabbis are not permitted to
receive proselytes until the board of the congregation passes on them.”
1906: In Queens, NY,
Rose Schotz Rosenthal, and Max Mentzer gave birth to Josephine Esther Mentzer
who became famous as Estée Laude, a woman who took her place in the world of
business in a manner that marked her as a trailblazer. She was the co-founder,
along with her husband, Joseph Lauder, of Estée Lauder Companies and the mother
of Jewish leader Ronald Lauder.
1906: Birthdate of
Estee Lauder. Lauder was born Josephine Esther Mentzer, the daughter of
Hungarian Jewish immigrants. She married Joseph Lauter who changed the family
named to Lauder in the late 1930’s. Mrs. Lauder was CEO of Estee Lauder’s
Cosmetics. . She was one of several Jewish women who found fame and fortune in
the cosmetics business. She was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of
the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She passed away
in 2004 at the age of 97.
1906: “At 3
Kew-villas, Jersey, Alfred Krichefski and his wife, the former Sarah Blank,
gave birth to a daughter.
1907: Birthdate of
famed sportscaster Bill Stern.
1907: As of today,
the Central Conference of American Rabbis has a total membership of 201
1907: Corresponding
Secretary Tobias Schanfarber reported that during the fiscal year that ended
today the Central Conference of American Rabbis have issued 89 vouchers
amounting to $6,959.73.
1907: The SS Cassel
entered the port of Galveston, Texas with 87 Russian Jews aboard, heralding the
start of the Galveston Movement - an organized attempt to bring Jews to less
populated parts of the US.
1908: The Hebrew
Board of Relief contributed $50 to the National Conference of Jewish Charities.
1909: Birthdate of
Antonina Pirozhkova, the common-law widow of Russian literary giant Isaac Babel
who wrote a well-received memoir that provided a rare glimpse of the persecuted
writer's final years in the 1930s.
1909: It was reported
today that a helicopter built by Jewish inventor Emile Berliner and J. Newton
Williams had lifted Williams “from the ground on three occasions at Berliner’s
laboratory in the Brightwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
1910: Birthdate of
Viennese native Harry Bachrach, who came to the United States after Anschluss
where he became a manufacture of neckties, a student at Iona College and
“elected Man of the Year by Men’s Neckware Foundation.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/29/obituaries/harry-bachrach-necktie-maker-79.html
1910: “Samuel Steiner
began serving as a member of “the Board of Visitors of the Virginia State
School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children at Newport News.”
1911(5th
of Tammuz, 5671): Parashat Korach
1911: “The Federation
of American Zionists” did not meet today during their annual convention due to
it being the Sabbath but many of the delegates from “a message from Dr. Max
Nordeau declaring that American restriction of immigration would tend to close
to the Jews their most important harbor of refuge” and “he urged the Zionists
to oppose” any restrictive measures
1912: “Owing to the
lack of space, the Trade School” of the Chicago Hebrew Institute was
discontinued today.
1913(26th
of Sivan, 5673): Forty-seven year old Emanuel Abrahams passed away today after
which he was buried at the Jewish Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.
1913(26th of Sivan,
5673): Seventy-eight year old Nanette Flesch, the aunt of Walter, Eugene, W.P.,
Edwin and Rose K. Flesch passed away today at the Home for Aged Jews in
Chicago.
1913(26th of Sivan,
5673): Emanuel (Manny) Abrahams, the 20th ward alderman who was born in Chicago
in 1866 and went from begin a saloon owner to a career in politics that
included serving as “bailiff in the Maxwell Street Court” passed away “after
having spoken before the City Council Judiciary Committee” today.
1914: Worton Hall
Studios, one of the two studios that will later become Isleworth Studios were
officially opened today under the leadership of producer George Berthold
Samuelson.
1914: “Journalist,
satirist and writer Kurt Tucholsky, who would be baptized in 1918, “left the
Jewish community today.”
1914: This morning at
9:30, Rabbi William of Friedman is scheduled to offer the opening prayer at
today’s session of the “25th anniversary conference of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis” being held “at Temple Beth El in Detroit,
Michigan.”
1915: In Cincinnati,
Ohio, Dr. Joseph Louis Ransohoff II, a surgeon who himself was the son of a
surgeon and his wife gave birth to pioneer neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Louis
Ransohoff II, who married psychotherapist Rita Meyer in 1940 and after
divorcing her married Lori Cohen, DDS.
http://www.ajnr.org/content/ajnr/22/7/1440.full.pdf
1915: John M. Slaton,
the former Governor of Georgia “who commuted the sentence of Leo M. Frank to
life imprisonment” talked with reporters today that he would return to Atlanta
“after a trip to San Francisco and would continue his law practice there” which
some might consider a rather bold statement considering the anger felt at the
time of the commutation.
1915: The list of
newly elected officers of Hadassah published today included Henrietta Szold,
Chairman; Sophia Berger, Treasurer; Lotta Levensohn, Recording Secretary and
Rose A. Herzog, Corresponding Secretary who enjoy the support of such prominent
Jews as Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Mrs. B.A. Rosenblatt and Miss Alice L.
Seligsberg.
1916: University of
Vermont rained engineer Jacob Frank, the Burlington, VT born son of Dora Shufro
and Jospeh Elihu Frank was promoted to the rank of Captain while serving in the Coast Artillery Corps.
1916: In New York
City Rose and Samuel W. Halprin gave birth to landscape architect Lawrence
Halprin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/design/28halprin.html
1916: “The
advisability of resurrecting a petition addressed to President Harrison in 1891
asking that the United States help the Jews re-establish themselves in
Palestine will be discussed at the convention of the Zionist Organization of
America which opened” in Philadelphia today.
1916: In Wildwood,
NJ, “the 27th convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis formally
opened its business sessions tonight with the reading of the annual message of
the President, Rabbi William Rosenau of Baltimore.”
1916: As the Battle
of the Somme began, English composer Jane Marian Joseph who had left Gitron
College, Cambridge, took up part-time welfare work in Islington as part of her
attempt to assist in the war effort.
1917: Per the request
of Colonel Milton J. Foreman, the conversion of the First Cavalry unit of the
Illinois National Guard in the Second Field Artillery began today – a change
that Foreman wanted because he felt that would lead to his unit going to fight
in France sooner than later.
1917: This evening a
banquet is scheduled to be held as part of the Ninth Annual Convention of Young
Judaea being held in Asbury Park, NJ.
1917: Birthdate of
Manhattan native and cartoon artist Jack Adler the winner of the Shazam Award
for Best Colorist in 1971.
http://www.bailsprojects.com/(S(fulrppzyue13yt45mxat5rax))/bio.aspx?Name=ADLER%2c+JACK
1918: Louis Maurice
Josephthal was promoted to Commander in the United States Naval Reserve where
he was serving as Pay Inspector.
1918: “According to
word received” today in New York by cable “842 American citizen are now in the
hands of the Turks in Damascus and other cities of Galilee have been” forcibly
“removed from Jerusalem when the Turk evacuated” that city as the British approached
the city prior to its capture.
1919: Menachem
Ribalow, founded a newspaper for Jewish immigrants called Hadoar; the paper was
published in New York and distributed nationwide, and his wife Shoshana gave
birth to sports columnist and author Harold U. Ribalow.
http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/HaroldURibalow.html
1919: In act of
gemilut chasadim, Elias A. Cohen hosted the first of the many summer “camps”
for “deserving boys and girls at “Tranquility Farm and Camp.
1920: Sir Herbert
Samuel, a British statesman was appointed High Commissioner of Eretz-Israel.
His first official act was to grant amnesty to political prisoners including
Jabotinsky. He governed the British Mandate for five years. Sir Herbert
governed as a British official, not as a Jew and there were clashes between him
and some Zionist leaders.
1920: In an attempt
to strengthen the American labor movement, Benjamin “Schlesinger addressed a
letter to the Neckwear Workers' Union of New York, the International Journeymen
Tailors' Union of America, the International Fur Workers' Union, the United
Garment Workers of America, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and
the United Cloth Hat, Cap Makers and Millinery Workers' Union of America,
proposing an alliance of all garment workers unions.”
1920: Nashville, TN
born Reform Rabbi Abram Simon, the longtime leader of Washington Hebrew
Congregation was elected president of the Board of Education today.
1920:
Thirty-six-year-old University of Vermont trained Chemical Engineer and WW I
veteran Jacob Frank, the Burlington, VT born son of Joseph Elihu and Dora
Frank, who had joined the military in 1908 was promoted to the rank of Major
today and was transferred to the Quartermaster Corps.
1921: Dr. Thomas G.
Allen, Secretary of the Oriental Institute announced today that thanks to a
$60,000 grant by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. the University of Chicago will
excavate the site of Armageddon or Megiddo.
1921: University of
Colorado trained physician and surgeon Lewis Isaac Miller, the Denver born son
of Libby Lipchitz and Joseph Miller as well as the senior surgeon at Beth Israel
Hospital in Denver married Ethel Bluestone today.
1922: After 96
performances at the Winter Garden Theatre the curtain came down on “Make It
Snappy” a musical revue starring Eddie Cantor, who introduced the hit songs
Yes! We Have No Bananas and The Sheik of Araby.
1922: In Syracuse,
NY, prominent lawyer Warren Winkelstein and his wife gave birth to Warren
Winkelstein, Jr. “a physician and researcher whose groundbreaking studies connected
unprotected sex between men to AIDS, smoking to cervical cancer and air
pollution to chronic lung disease” (As reported by Denise Grady)
1923(17th
of Tammuz, 5683): Fast of the 17th of Tammuz
1923: In Mannheim,
Germany, Otto Michel, the owner of a cigar factory and the former Frieda Wolff
gave birth to Ernst Wolfgang Michel the Holocaust survivor who lived to the
ripe old age of 92.
1923: “The Heights Jewish Center,” which “initially met in the home of
Jacob Makorr, was established “as the Heights Orthodox Congregation,” “the
first Jewish Congregation in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs.
1923(17th of Tammuz, 5683): Milwaukee, WI born Ferdinand Levy, who
served as a Captain in the New York Volunteers during the Civil War and whose
leading role in the Democratic Party led to him serving as a coroner and City
Register in New York passed away today after having suffered “a stroke of
apoplexy.”
1924: Birthdate of
economist Harvey Joshua Levin
1924: In London
Kathleen Garman and Jacob Epstein gave birth Theodore Garman, the English
painter known simply as “Theo.”
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw58101/Ida-Kar-Theodore-Garman
1925: In Washington,
“Assumption of responsibility for financing all medical work in Palestine was
urged on American Jewish women in a report presented today at the opening
session of the eleventh annual convention of 5Iadassah. the women's Zionist
organization of America.
1926: The New York
Joint Board called a general strike by the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union (ILGUWU)
1926: Birthdate of
Robert William Fogel, “Nobel-winning economist whose number-crunching
empiricism upended established thinking, most provocatively about the economics
of slavery” (As reported by Robert D. Hershey)
1927: (12th of
Tammuz): Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok is liberated from his death sentence and
imprisonment in the Soviet Union. With
the outbreak of World War II, the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe would make his way to
New York where he would establish the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown
Heights. From there, he would launch
what would become a highly successful world-wide outreach program designed to
educate Jews and heighten their awareness of their heritage.
1929: Opening of Earl
Carroll’s Sketch book with the “book” by Eddie Cantor.
1929: Julian Mack
“was reassigned as an additional judge to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Sixth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit.:
1929: In Queens, NY,
Dr. Edward Edelman and Anna (née Freedman) Edelman gave birth to Gerald Maurice
Edelman, “an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine.”
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1972/press.html
1930: At the morning session of the International
Wailing Wall Commission, Rabbi Ben Zion Meyer Uziel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv,
described Jewish prayer rituals conducted at the Wall declaring that the High
Commissioner’s recent ban on the use of the Torah Scroll, Lulav, tefillin and
tallit was unacceptable. While questioning Rabbi Uziel, Arab leader Abdul Auni
implied that the Zionists were using bogus claims of the right to worship at
the Wall as a form of propaganda to recruit Jews to settle in Palestine. At
this afternoon's meeting of the International Wailing Wall Commission, the
three commissioners watched a movie filmed in 1911 showing Jewish men and women
praying at the wall, Jewish worshippers sitting on benches and Jewish women
kissing the stones of the Wall. The
commissioners pronounced the film as authentic and thus it became further
evidence of the long standing connection of the Jewish people to the Wall. The International Wailing Wall Commission was
established by the League of Nations after Arab rioters violently denied Jews
access to the Western Wall
1930: Birthdate of
Carol Doris Schatz, the Philadelphia native who would marry Noam Chomsky in
1949 and gain fame in her own right as a linguist and educator. Mrs. Chomsky passed away at the age of 78 in
December of 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21chomsky-carol.html
1930: Three hundred
delegates are expected to attend the “eighth annual convention of Junior
Hadassah” opening today in Cleveland, Ohio.
1930: Julian Mack
“was reassigned to serve solely on the Second Circuit.
1930: In this month’s
issue of The Atlantic Harvard Professor William Ernest Hocking describes his
view of conflict between “Zionists” and Arabs in “Palestine: An Impasse?” in
which claim that the “two enemies of peace…are fanaticism and fear.”
1931: A nation-wide
strike of all motor and bus lines which was scheduled to begin today was
postponed until July 22.
1931: “Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, placed his resignation
officially before the seventeenth World Zionist Congress today in a three-hour
"farewell address" in which he vigorously defended his policies in
the last thirteen years.”
1932: Over the next
11 months (June 1, 1933), the ZOA will clear the cases of 1,622 people wishing
to settle in Palestine.
1932: Release date
for the German film Mensch ohne Namen (Man Without a Name) featuring
performances by Julius Falekenstein a Jewish actor who died the same year the
Nazis came to power and Fritz Grünbaum who would die at Dachau where he
performed for the last time for his fellow prisoners on New Year’s Eve, two
weeks before his death in January, 1941.
1932: Birthdate of
Ze’ev Schiff, the French born Jew who gained fame as an Israeli journalist and
military correspondent for Haaretz.
1933: With a message
of "cordial greetings and best wishes" from President Roosevelt and a
declaration that "the calamity that has overtaken the 600.000 Jews in
Germany has cast a shadow over everything else in Jewish life," the Zionist
Organization of America opened its convention today in Chicago. Five thousand delegates and observers
attended this meeting which was described as being the largest in the history
of the ZOA. At this evening’s opening session at the Palmer House, Moriss
Rothenberg, President of the ZOA reported that 20,000 Jews had entered the
National Home in the last 18 months and that during 1932 12 million dollars in
new investments had been made in Palestine.
While Rothenberg had words of praise for the British High Commissioner,
Sir Arthur Grenfeel Wauchope, he was highly critical of the Mandatory
Government (the British) for not increasing the allotment of immigration
certificates in light of the events in Germany.
1933: “The
Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Chicago reports in a copyrighted article
today that its excavations at Beth-zur, in Palestine, have produced "the
prototype of the saloon," and that "the only divine image that we
found, except those stamped on coins, was the head of a very crude Astarte (the
Phoenician goddess of love) figurine."
1933 The German
government states that "Reich Chancellor Hitler still belongs to the
Catholic Church and has no intention of leaving it."
1934: In Lafayette,
IN Rebecca (née Miller) and David
Pollack, a semi-professional boxer and pharmacist gave birth to director Sydney
Pollack whose hits have included Tootsie and Presumed Innocent.
1934: Erich Gans was
murdered in Dachau. It was the last such murder for ten months. The Jewish
population at Dachau was almost non-existent at the time since most had been
killed or released by end of 1933.
1934: The New York
Times reviews From Nebuchadnezzar to Hitler by Danish author Peter Hemmer
Gudme. In this sympathetic study of the Zionist movement which the reviewer is
sure will be translated in English, the non-Jewish Gudme traces the ancient
connection of the Jewish people with their homeland before describing modern
efforts beginning with Pinsker, Hess and Herzl to create a modern Jewish home
in Palestine. Gudme will die at the hands of the Nazis in Copenhagen in 1945.
1934(18th of Tammuz,
5694): Tzom Tammuz observed
1934: Birthdate of
Jewish author Leonard Fein.
1935(30th of Sivan,
5695): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1935(30th of Sivan,
5695): In London, Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore the head of the London
Portuguese community and a great philanthropist passed away today after which
he was buried in the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Cemetery on Mile End Road,
London
1935: In the Nahalat
Ahim quarter of Jerusalem, Rosa and Musa Kraus gave birth to Israeli
entertainer Shmuel “Shmulik” Kraus.
1936: Alexander
Berkman, the anarchist who attempted to assassinate Carnegie Steel Chairman
Henry Clay Frick in 1892 was buried today in the Cochez Cemetery on the
outskirts of Nice, France under the direction of his long time comrade Emma
Goldman
1936: The Palestine
Post reported from London that the House of Commons discussed the question of
the composition of the proposed Royal Commission for Palestine. The Colonial
Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, explained that the appointment of women members to
the commission was undesirable, due to the sensitivities of the Moslems and
Orthodox Jews.
1936: As Arab
violence continued to intensify, The Palestine Post reported that the Christian
communities of Beit Jala and Kafr Kana were warned by Arab terrorists that they
must deliver 60 young men as volunteers for their ranks, or face the
consequences. There were sporadic shootings, bombs thrown and trees uprooted
throughout the country. Two British soldiers were hurt by flying debris during
the demolition of houses in the old quarter of Jaffa.
1936: In New York
City, Lewis and Augusta Feuchtwanger gave birth to Rebecca Feuchtwanger.
1937: The Entartete
Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition of "unacceptable" artwork by Jews
and others opens in Munich. A concurrent event of "approved" art held
nearby attracts far fewer people than the Entartete Kunst
1937: Pastor Martin
Niemöller's anti-Semitism does not prevent the Nazis from arresting him because
of his opposition to Hitler.
1937: William George
Arthur Ormsby Gore, the Secretary of State for Colonies announced today in the
House of Common the British Government will attempt “to end the Jewish-Arab
unrest in Palestine by a partition scheme as drastic as the separation of the
North and South of Ireland fifteen years ago.”
1938: “Having
Wonderful Time,” a film version of Arthur Kober’s 1937 play with a script by
Morrie Ryskind was released in the United States today.
1938: Birthdate of
Houston, TX native and Wellesley and Columbia alum Diane Silvers who gained fame as
Diane Silvers
Ravitch, a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former
United States Assistant Secretary of Education who became a research professor
at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human
Development.
1938: As of today,
“the Italian Government has taken measures against the Jewish intelligentsia by
issuing decrees designed to prevent or limit circulation of books by Jewish
authors among the Italian public” which puts the lie to the statement of
February 16 by the Foreign Ministry that “it was completely erroneous to think
the Italian Government was about to inaugurate an anti-Semitic policy since no
specifically Italian Jewish problem existed.”
1938: Under a
proposal called the Sosua Project, the Dominican Republic offers to accept
100,000 European Jewish refugees, to be settled in an area near Santo Domingo,
in return for payment of millions of dollars from the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee (JDC). (Under the plan the Dominican Republic actually
admitted on only about 500 Jews by 1940 when immigration was halted)
1939: Today, about
three months after Nazi troops goose-stepped into Prague and three days before
Vera Diamantova’s 11th birthday, she was bundled onto a train bound for Britain
with hundreds of other Jewish children which made her one of three of 16
relatives she left behind would perish in the Holocaust.
1939: Henry Guggenheim
married for the third time to Alicia (née Patterson) Brooks
1939: Fourteen year
old Rudolf Wessely arrives in London from Prague. Wessely was the son of Charles Wessely, a
successful Czech businessman and civil servant.
The British could find room for the son but not his 43 year old father
or 38 year old mother.
1939: In Park Ridge,
Norman Ziegler and the former Elsie Reif gave birth to Karen Blanche Ziegler
who gained fame as actress Karen Black who starred in two 1970’s cult films –
“Easy Rider” and “Five Easy Pieces.”
1940: A war emergency
program to aid in the defense of the 500,000 Jews in Palestine was adopted
unanimously by the convention of the Zionist Organization of America meeting
today in Pittsburgh, PA.
1940: The America
First Committee is formed. It is the most significant American isolationist
group, and it is also infiltrated by Nazis, who are working to prevent American
intervention in Europe. Several prominent Americans speak in support of the
committee. Many in Congress attack the Jews of Hollywood as attempting to
involve America in opposition to Hitler.
1940: Bloody
anti-Jewish riots erupt in cities throughout Romania
1940: In a letter to
German Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, Bishop Theophil Wurm, head of the
provincial Lutheran Church at Württemberg, Germany, objects to
"euthanasia" killings at the nearby Grafaneck crippled-children's
institution; See September 5, 1940.
1940: In Holland, a
collaborationist propaganda group, Nederlandse Unie (Netherlands Union), is
established.
1940: A Jewish ghetto
is established at Bedzin, Poland.
1940: U.S. premiere
of “The Sea Hawk” a 16th century swashbuckler directed by Michael Crtiz,
produced by Hal B. Wallis with music by
Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,
5701): The first day of a three day killing spree in Drohobych, during which
Ukrainians, assisted by Whermacht soldiers killed three hundred Jews.
1941: A Pogrom in
Jassy, the cradle of Rumanian anti-Semitism claimed 5000 Jewish lives.
1941: In New Haven,
CT, Alfred Gilman who co-authored Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological
Basis of Therapeutics and his wife gave birth to Dr. Alfred G. Gilman recipient
of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1941: British code
breakers monitoring radio traffic coming from German troops in the Soviet Union
become aware of Nazi massacres of Soviet Jews.
1941: Two thousand
members of Minsk, Belorussia's intelligentsia are executed by German troops in
a nearby forest.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,
5701): More than 2500 Jews are slaughtered at Zhitomir, Ukraine.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,
5701): During an Einsatzkommando Aktion (murder operation) at Mielnica,
Ukraine, a Jew named Abraham Weintraub hurls himself on a German officer and
shatters the officer's teeth. Weintraub is immediately shot.
1941: In the Bialystok
region of Poland, Nazis murder 300 members of the Jewish intelligentsia.
1941: German killing
squads begin to murder Jews remaining in Kishinev, Romania.
1941: The Hungarian
government undertakes a mass roundup of almost 18,000 Jewish refugees for deportation
to Kamenets-Podolski, Ukraine.
1941:
Twenty-two-year-old Jew Haya Dzienciolski finds a pistol, leaves Novogrudok,
Ukraine, and helps to organize a group of young partisans in nearby forests.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,
5701): One hundred Jews are murdered at Lyakhovichi, Belorussia.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,
5701): Hundreds of Jews are killed at Plunge, Lithuania.
1941 In the Ukrainian
town of Koritz, Nazi troops begin what would become a three day murder
spree. The Jews are forced to prepare
three burial pits, one each for men, women, and children. For sport, a man's
corpse is propped atop one of the pits, in which some Jews have been buried
alive.
1941: Harry A.
Hatry’s resignation as vice president and merchandise director of
Bloomingdale’s is scheduled to be effective today.
1941: Members of the
Einsatzgruppen, the Wehrmacht, and Esalon Special, a Romanian unit, begin
murdering the Jews of Bessarabia in eastern Romania. By August 31st, they will have killed more
than 150,000 Jews.
1942: Hundreds of
German Jews are deported to the ghetto/camp at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia.
In Paderborn, Germany, all Jewish orphans are deported to Theresienstadt.
1942: In the
Netherlands, the Westerbork “deportation” Camp became operational. The camp had
originally been established by the Dutch government as a place to house German
Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. The term
deportation camp is a bit mis-leading since it was the last stop before
arriving Auschwitz,, Bergen-Belsen or the other death camps.
1942: Seven trains of
Jewish deportees leave Westerbork, Holland, for the Auschwitz death camp.
1942: Today, Abraham
Icek Tuschinski a Dutch businessman of Jewish Polish descent who ordered the
construction of the Tuschinski Theater, a famed cinema in Amsterdam, “was
transported to the Westerbork concentration camp in the northeast of the
Netherlands, and from there to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.:
1942: At Kleck,
Belorussia, a few dozen Jews break out and join partisans.
1942 (16th of Tammuz,
5702): The Jewish community at Gorodenka, Ukraine, is wiped out.
1942: Extermination
activities at the Sobibór death camp are temporarily halted for railway
construction and enlargement of the camp's gas chambers.
1943: In an American
radio broadcast, U.S. Congressman Emanuel Celler excoriates the U.S. government
for its continuing silence on Nazi treatment of European Jews. This is the same
Congressman Celler whom Senator Bilbo of Mississippi will refer to as a “kike”
while giving a speech in the Upper Chamber; a reference that brings no response
from those who hear it and who will guide the 1964 Civil Rights Act to a
successful in the House of Representatives.
1943: The American
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom estimates that millions of
Jews have already been murdered by the Germans in Poland, and that the American
government and people share in the guilt for these atrocities because they are
complacent cowards covered "with a thick layer of prejudice."
1943: Forty-eight
year old Willem Arondeus., a member the Resistance Council which worked to
provide Jews with false documents that would keep them out of the clutches of
the Nazis and declared after his capture that “"Let it be known that
homosexuals are not cowards." was executed by a firing squad today.
1944(10th of Tammuz,
5704): Parshat Chukat
1944(10th of Tammuz,
5704): Forty-nine year Austrian born screenwriter Carl Mayer who had fled to
London to escape the Nazis lost his two year battle with cancer died today
almost penniless and forgotten.
1944: During the
month of July, Jewish-Soviet partisans from Poland and Lithuania are active
behind the lines at Lublin, Poland, and Kovno, Vilna, and Siauliai, Lithuania,
as Soviet troops approach from the east.
1944(10th
of Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-eight year old Coschocton, OH native and Ohio State
University trained attorney Edwin J Schanfarber, the vice president and
director of the National Hospital for Consumptives at Denver and the president
of the United Jewish Fund and the Jewish Welfare Federation passed away today
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/07/03/83984121.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1944: The Red Army
liberates Lvov, Ukraine.
1944: The SS
completes the evacuation of the death camp at Majdanek
1944: The SS
evacuates the concentration camp at Kovno, Lithuania
1944: Neutral
Switzerland ends long-standing, restrictive Jewish-immigration standards and
admits all Jewish refugees who wish and are able to enter.
1944: Jewish-American
Lieutenant Colonel Murray C. Bernays is assigned by the U.S. Army Civil Affairs
Division to collect evidence of war crimes committed against American
servicemen. Bernays begins to formulate his concept of Nazism as a criminal
conspiracy, which will be central to the Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945-46.
1944: Eighteen year
old Eva Fahidi arrived at Auschwitz.
1944: As the war put
additional strains on the German labor force, 1,000 Jews were taken from
Birkenau and put to work within Germany.
1944: “There were
still 185 Jews living in Magdeburg, mainly partners of mixed marriages, who
managed to survive the war.” The
Magdeburg Jewish community was one of the oldest in Germany dating back to 965.
1944: In New York,
Joseph Geffen and Therese Aub Geffen, the daughter of Jacob ad Bertha Mack,
gave birth to Alice Geffen
1944: “I’ll Be Seeing
You” “a popular song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal”
reached number on the pop charts today.
1945: Establishment
of “The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews”, whose primary offices were
located in Munich, close to Leipheim. “The Central Committee represented
175,000 Jews living in the DP camps in the American and British zones in
Germany and Austria.” The committee was dissolved in December of 1950. (As
reported by Yad Vashem Archives)
1945: In New York,
Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux gave birth to Michael
Burstein, who gained fame as actor Mike Burstyn who was nominated for Drama
Desk Awards for his performance as Mayer in The Rothschilds off-Broadway in
1990.
1945: “The first
regular passenger service at the Nahariya Railway Station began today during
the British Mandate.
1945: Nathan D.
Perlman was re-appointed as Justice of the Court of Special Sessions of the
City New York today.
1946: The Haganah
officially withdrew from its alliance with Irgun and Lehi. The Haganah did not renounce its role in
defending the Yishuv against the British and Arab attacks.
1946: It was reported
today that "Palestine Jews were considering a campaign of passive
resistance" aimed at the British while the Irgun was threatening to kill
three British hostages.
1946: As American
businessmen, labor leaders, and consumers adjusted to the first day without the
existence of the OPA, "Israel Sachs, president of Sachs Quality Stores,
announced that" his stores "would raise prices." "At the same time he "appealed to
Congress to enact immediately 'intelligent, workable price
legislation.'" At the same time,
"Victor A. Fishcell, vice president and general sales manager of
Seagram-Distillers Corporaton announced that Seagram was continuing its
shipments at regular OPA ceiling prices."
1946: During an
interview given today at the New York office of the United Jewish Appeal, Rabbi
Leopold Neuhaus that "Jews returning from concentration camps owned
nothing but cast-off army clothing and were living under 'infinitely worse
considitons' than the Germans. Rabbi
Neuhuas, the "former Chief Rabbi of Hessen and liaison officer with the
American Military Government in Germany" said that "the situation of
the Jews in Europe is growing more
critical, with displaced persons embittered by their 'no-man's land' status and
the renewal of anti-Semitic outbursts in many countries."
1946: "Dr. Nahum
Goldman, a member of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, said at
a press conference today that Great Britain's latest program was a provocation
to war, not only to the Palestinian Jews but to those all over the world. Dr. Goldman described as a 'breach of
faith'...the arrest of 2,000 Jews in Palestine. 'If Britain persists in her
present aggressive policy against the Jewish population in Palestine and its
officially recognized leaders and bodies, she will create a state of permanent
hostility against Britain on the part of Jews everywhere.' Dr. Goldman denied statements that the"
British "government had informed" the United States government of its
plans to crack down on the Jews of Palestine, including a massive round-up of Jewish
leaders.
1946: "Three
hundred persons attended a funeral service today at the Free Synagogue, 40 West
Sixty-Eighth Street, for Dr. Emanuel Libman, noted diagnostician, who died on
Friday at the age of 73." During the
service, Dr. Stephen S. Wise praised his friend of sixty years, Dr. Libman, for
his efforts to train medical professionals and for his work on behalf of Mt.
Sinai Hospital and the medical facilities at "the Jewish University of
Jerusalem."
1946:
1946: In what would
prove to be the first act in series of event that would lead to a pogrom in
Kielce, Poland , eight-year-old Henryk Blaszcyk of Kielce, Poland, hitched a
ride to his old hometown, visiting friends and picking cherries. Since his parents did not know about this
they filed a missing person report with the local police.
1946: The Fair
Employment Practices Commission issued a final report as it was forced to close
down due to Congress' failure to enact legislation that it would have extended
its existence. The report warned that
"Wartime gains of Negro, Mexican-American and Jewish workers are being los
through an 'unchecked revival' of discriminatory practices." The report also said that "a survey of
job seeking by Jews since V-J Day conducted in fifteen cities, showed a marked
rise of discrimination against all Jewish applicants and that 'Jews who had
fought for their country fared no better than those who had not.'"
1946: In a displaced
persons camp at Stuttgart, German Jacob and Fanny Silberman gave birth to Rosie
Silberman who as Rosalie Abella became Canada’s first Jewish woman justice.
1946: The Mayor’s
Committee on Unity headed by Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. recommended to that the
Board of Regents conduct an investigation “into racial and religious
discrimination in the admission of students to intuitions of higher
learning…” The committee contended that
“there could not long be any reasonable doubt that racial and religious
discrimination was practiced by” colleges and universities “in New York and
elsewhere” usually through the employment of some kind of quota system. According to the committee’s findings, this
discrimination is directed at “Jewish, Negro, Catholic and Italian
students.” While Medical Schools seem to
be the prime practitioners of this discriminatory behavior, “it exists in other
graduate and undergraduate schools as well.”
1947: Arthur S.
Davis, the treasurer of the E. Greenbaum
Meat Packing Company was honored with a testimonial dinner tonight “for
his work on behalf of the HIAS” during which the featured speaker, former
Senator James M. Mead “declared that in post-war Wurope the solution for the
problems of the Jews as well as other displaced persons lies in ‘immigration
now.’”
1947: “In a statement
to the Associated Press, Haganah announced an early end to its temporary
interruption of immigration which was halted for a time because of difficulties
in ports of embarkation.”
1948: In Jerusalem
Yehudith and Yaacov gave birth to Michael (Mickey) Gal (Hepner) who would be
among the crewman lost when the Dakar sank in 1968
1948: On the night of
July 1 - 2, the first shipment of arms to be used by the Jewish forces arrived
from Czechoslovakia by air. The arms
were landed in a single DC-4 trans-port.
The twin engine plane delivered 200 rifles, 40 machine guns and 150,000
rounds of ammunition. In an act of daring, the plane landed at an abandoned
British air field which was illuminated by intermittent flashes of light so
that the British forces would find out what was happening. The Jewish state was
still six weeks way from reality and at this point in time, the British were
doing all they could to disarm the Jews even as the Arab attacks grew bolder
and more deadly. The weapons would be
used in Operation Nachshon, the desperate attempt on the part of the Yishuv to
open the road from the coast to Jerusalem, thus ending the Arab siege of
Jerusalem.
1948: Birthdate of
Michael (Mickey) Gal (Hepner), son of Yehudith and Yaacovm the native of
Jerusalem who perished aboard the INS Dotan at the age of 20.
1949(4th
of Tammuz, 5709): Sixty-one year old attorney and Democratic Party member
Benjamin Charles Ribman, “a leader in the civic and Jewish communities” passed
away today in Brooklyn.
1949: At the Rockdale
Avenue Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Nelson Glueck, the President of Hebrew
Union College and Rabbi Victor Reichert officiated at the funeral services for
Dr. David Philipson who served as Rabbi of Rockdale Temple for 61 years and who
was the last surviving member of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union
College.
1950(16th
of Tammuz, 5710): Parashat Balak
1950: Dr. Serge
Koussevitzky, the 75 year old \emeritus conductor of the Boston Symphony is
scheduled to conduct at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the Berkshire Hills.
1951: Six Arab
terrorists were killed in two engagements with security forces in Emek Hefer,
Israel. A number of other infiltrators fled into the Jordanian-occupied
territory across the border.
1951: The Jerusalem
Post reported that six Arab terrorists were killed in two engagements with
security forces in Emek Hefer. A number of other infiltrators fled into the
Jordanian-occupied territory across the border.
1951: In “A Fertile
Error” published today H.R. Trevor-Roper reviewed The Jews and Modern
Capitalism by Werner Sombart who had written in Deutscher Sozialismus his contention that “the antithesis of the
German spirit is the Jewish spirit, which is not a matter of being born Jewish
or believing in Judaism but is a capitalistic spirit” and the "chief
task" of the German people and National Socialism is to destroy the Jewish
spirit.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-jews-and-modern-capitalism-by-werner-sombart/
1951: The Jerusalem
Post reported that Israel presented to the US State Department a detailed
aide-memoire urging the settlement of Israel's $1.5 billion restitution claim
against Germany. The police had so far examined 150 war-crimes cases since the
Knesset passed the War Crimes Law, directed at persons who cooperated with the
Nazi regime during the Holocaust. The experience of the first few cases had
raised some doubts as to the possibility of obtaining convincing evidence
against the accused.
1952(8th of Tammuz,
5712): Seventy-five year old Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach the Philadelphian
who, along with his brother found the Rosenbach Museum and Library passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/23/travel/a-library-where-rare-is-common.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7MVQ_Dr_A_S_W_Rosenbach_1876_1952
1953: Harry A.
Shulman, the Belarus native who came to the United States as a child in 1912
and after graduating from Harvard Law School eventually became a Professor at
Yale University “received an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Brown University,”
his alma mater today.
1953: Paramount
Pictures releases “Stalag 17” directed and produced by Billy Wilder, with a
screenplay by Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum, with a score by Franz Waxman and
featuring Otto Preminger as the Nazi prison camp commandant. (Editor’s note –
this is a great, must-see film)
1954: Harry A.
Schulman became the Dean of the Yale Law School today, less than a year before
he would die from cancer.
1953: “The 5,000
Fingers of Dr. T” “a musical fantasy
film” produced by Stanley Kramer was released in the United States today.
1954: Harry Shulman
became Dean of the Yale Law School.
1955: Louis F.
Costuma who when named a deputy police inspector in 1929 was the highest
ranking officer in the NYPD left the Parole Board today and went into retirement.
1955: “Ain’t
Misbehavin” a musical comedy starring Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs) and
produced by Samuel Marx.
1956: WCUNC graduate
Janet Stern married Rutgers grad Leslie Howard Unger today in Newark.
1956:Funeral Services
are scheduled to be held in Forest Hills for Albert Farkas, the husband Sari
Farkas, and the father of “Robert and the late George” Farkas who was
“President of the American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers Association” which he
also served as an executive board member.
1958: Birthdate of
Brooklynite Nancy Lieberman.
1958: Yosef Burg
completed his term as Minister of Communications
1959: “Master of
Persuasion” published today provided a sketch of the life and accomplishments
of David Ben-Gurion.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/01/80590050.pdf
1960: “Theory of
Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in Muon Captures, co-authored by Daniel
Greenberg was published today.
https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.119.435
1960: It was reported
today that Louis H. Hartman would president of the L.H. Hartman would have a
position with The Grey Advertising Agency which is merging with L.H. Hartman
company.
1961: Coronet
Magazine published “Rudolf Kasztner” Eichman’s Last Victim”
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Rudolf_Kastner_Article_pdf
1964(21st
of Tammuz, 5724): Eighty-two year old Russian born American architect Boris W.
Dorfman, the husband of “the former Elizabeth Glassman” and father of Mrs. Rose
Cohan passed away today.
https://www.newyorkitecture.com/tag/boris-w-dorfman/
1965: The 68th
annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America opened today the Hotel
Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
1965: “The Great
Race” a comedy starring Tony Curtis and featuring Peter Falk, Larry Storch and
Marvin Kaplan was released today in the United States.
1967(23rd
of Sivan, 5727) Parashat Korach
1967: An Israeli
armored infantry company attacked an Egyptian force entrenched at Ras el 'Ish,
located 10 miles south of Port Said. The Israeli company drove off the
Egyptians but loses 1 dead and 13 wounded.
1967: Stephen Neal
Shulman, the son of Harry Shulman, a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire
who served as a professor and eventual dean at Yale Law School completed his
services as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1967: An Egyptian
commando force from Port Fuad moves south and takes up a position at Ras el
'Ish, located 10 miles south of Port Said on the eastern bank of the Suez
Canal, an area controlled by the Israelis since the ceasefire on June 9, 1967.
1969(15th
of Tammuz, 5729): Just three days before his 85th birthday Grodno
born American “calligrapher, designer and artist Joseph B. Abrahams, the
husband of “the former Mrs. Lillian Manning” whose creations included “the
bronze doors of Temple Emanu-El” in New York
and “the interior décor for the Ziegfeld Follies” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/02/78354344.pdf
1970: The Mordecai
House was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
1970: “The Boatniks”
a comedy starring Phil Silvers and Norman Fell was released in the United
States.
1971(8th
of Tammuz, 5731): Bialystok born author Shmuel Zabludovski, who moved to Mexico
City where he continued his career until he passed away today.
1971: In one of those
ironies of “progress,” while bagel production and consumption soared to new
heights, Local 338, the fabled bagel bakers local, ceased to exist and Local 3
acquired a Bagel Division.
1971: In the UK,
premiere of “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” a film whose primary protagonist is a
Jewish doctor “Daniel Hirsch” directed by Joseph Schlesinger and produced by
Joseph Janni.
1972: After 12
previews and 522 performances “Follies,” a musical with music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman completed its original run on
Broadway.
1972: Screenwriter
and novelist Don Mankiewicz, the German born so of “the screenwriter Herman J.
Mankiewicz and brother of journalist Frank Mankiewicz” took his second trip
down the aisle today when he married Carol Bell Gidi today with whom he had two
children, John, “a screenwriter and producer” and Jane, “a fiction writer”
whose work has appeared in the New Yorker.
1973(1st of Tammuz,
5733): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1973(1st of Tammuz,
5733): A few minutes before 1 A.M. Colonel Yosef (Joe ) Alon and his wife Dvora
returned to their home in a quiet Washington, D.C., suburb. Alon, the air
attaché at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, had been at a farewell party for
an Israeli diplomat. They parked the car. Dvora went into the house and then
heard five gunshots. She rushed outside, saw her husband lying in a pool of blood,
and glimpsed a white car driving away. She and her daughter Dalia, then 17,
tried to help him. The other two girls, 14-year-old Yael and 6-year-old Rachel
woke up. Joe tried to mumble something. An ambulance rushed him to a hospital,
where he was pronounced dead. (The murder remains unsolved. As reported by
Yossi Melman)
1972: The “economic
agreement between Israel and the Common Market” is scheduled to take effect
today. (JTA)
1974: An
International scientific symposium at Professor Alexander Voronel’s apartment
in Moscow was thwarted by KGB while 3 scientists were removed by police and
Western correspondents were asked to leave.
1974: “Assemblyman
Franz S. Leichter, who is challenging the State Senate minority leader, Joseph
Zaretski, for the latter's seat, charged today that the Republican leadership
in Albany had used public money to help the Senator retain his post.”
1974: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held in Manhattan for Dr. I. Edwin Goldwasser, the holder
of a Ph.D from NYU who “left teaching in 1915 to become the first executive
director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York “ and after his
retirement in 1953 “became a vice president of the Commercial Factors
Corporation.
1975: Rabbi Bertram
Wallace Korn who began his chaplaincy career as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant during
WW II serving with U.S. Marines First and Sixth Divisions, “was promoted to the
rank of Rear Admiral in the Chaplain Corps, USNR” making him “the first Jewish
chaplain to obtain flag rank in any of the United States armed forces.”
1976(3rd of Tammuz,
5736): Seventy-three year old Philip Hickman, the Anglo-Jewish boxer who fought
under the name of “Johnny Brown” passed away today in London.
1976: As the hostage
crisis at Entebe enters Day 5, in the morning, having been told that there is
no viable military option to rescue the hostages, and with the deadline fast
approaching, the Israeli government reluctantly agrees to begin negotiations
knowing the terrorists will indeed keep their word about murdering those they
hold.
1976: As the day
wears on, Faiz Jaber, one of the hijackers takes special delight in torturing
and beating Nahum Dahan whom at one point had a gun held to his head with the
promise that he would be shot if he did not cooperate.
1976: In the evening
Brigadier General Dan Shomron presented the plan for rescuing the hostages to
the Chief of Staff Motta Gura and Defense Minister Shimon Peres who accepted it
following which the operational officers began gathering the men and equipment
who would carry out the mission.
1977: In Caribou,
Maine, an “immigrant mother from Sweden and an Iraqi- Israeli physician gave
birth to astronaut Jessica Meir, the holder of a Ph.D. from the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography who “is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-risk-no-reward-says-fearless-jewish-astronaut-jessica-meir/
1979(6th
of Tammuz, 5739): Eighty-seven year old Columbia trained physician Ephraim
Michael Bluestone, the New York City born son of “Joseph Isaac Bluestone and
Sarah Bluestone” a Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps during WW I, a director of
the Hadassah Hospital in Palestine and director of Montefiore Hospital as well
as the husband of “the former Bertha Rodetsky” passed away today.
https://library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/obit/ephraim-michael-bluestone
http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=364826
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/03/archives/dr-em-bluestone-87-a-pioneer-in-home-care.html
1980(17th of Tammuz,
5740): Tzom Tammuz is observed for the last time during the Presidency of Jimmy
Carter.
1981(29th
of Sivan, 5741): Seventy-nine-year AIA Gold Medal winning architect Marcel
Lajos Breuer, the Hungarian born furniture designer whose artistic
accomplishments are far beyond the capabilities of this blog.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcel-Breuer
1981: U.S. premiere
of “S.O.B.” a comedy featuring Stuart Margolin, Marissa Berenson, Shelly
Winters and Larry Storch.
1983: “How Am I
Supposed to Live Without” a song co-written by Michael Boton was released
today.
1983(20th
of Tammuz, 5743): Six days before his 87th birthday Northwestern
trained federal judge Julius Hoffman the Chicago born son of Bertha an Aaron
Hoffman who presided over the case the anti-war trial originally known as the
“Chicago Eight” passed away today.
1984(1st of Tammuz,
5744): Moshe Feldenkrais passed away.
Born in the Ukraine in 1901, Feldenkrais moved to Palestine in 1918
where he continued his education. After
living in France before World War II and serving with the British Navy in World
War II he returned to Israel. He was a
renowned physicist and judo expert, who developed a method of education and
self-awareness training called The Feldenkrais method.
1985(12th
of Tammuz, 5745): Eighty-six-year-old Vilna born and Harvard trained attorney Goodman
A. Sarachan, a former chairman of the New York State Investigation Commission
and the husband of Evelyn Simon Sarachan with whom he had three children –
Donna, Niki and Richard – passed away today.
1985: Today Paul R.
Verkuil, the husband of Judith Rodin the Jewish academic and philanthropist who
was “the first permanent female president of an Ivy League University, began
serving as the 24th President of the College of William and Mary”
today.
1987: ''Portraits of
an Era: Photographs by Irv Kline'' opens Bishopsgate Institute Foyer as part of
this summer's Jewish East End Celebration.
1990: Final Broadway
performance of “The Cemetery Club” produced by Philip Rose.
1991(19th of Tammuz,
5751): Michael Landon, born Eugene Horowitz, passed away at the age of 54.
Landon gained fame for his portrayal of Little Joe on the television western,
Bonanza. He gained additional fame for his work in front and behind the camera
in another television hit, Little House on the Prairie. (As reported by Peter
Flint)
1992: “A League of
their Own” with a screenplay Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel and featuring Jon
Lovitz was released today in the United State.
1992: U.S. premiere
of “A League of Their Own” a film based on women’s baseball teams in WW II with
a screenplay by Lowell Ganz and music by Hans Zimmer.
1993: Today, Leonard
B. Sands completed fifteen years of service as Judge of the United States
District court for the Southern District of New York and began serving as
“Senior Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York?
1993: Anne Lapidus
Lerner became Vice Chancellor of the Seminary, the first woman to hold that
post. As Vice Chancellor, Lerner was one of the highest-ranking women in all of
American Jewish institutional life. In that role, she devoted her energy to
adult education, working to bring Jewish education to the lay community. After
earning bachelor’s, master's, and doctoral degrees from Harvard, Anne Lapidus
Lerner joined the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS)
in 1969, becoming the first American-born woman to hold a full-time position
there. JTS trains rabbis and cantors for the Conservative movement and offers a
range of masters and doctoral degree programs. Today, Lerner is an assistant
professor in the Department of Jewish Literature at JTS, where she teaches
courses in Hebrew and American Jewish poetry, modern Jewish literature, and the
portrayal of women in Jewish literature. In addition, she is the director of
the JTS Jewish Women's Studies Program, which she also founded, and Director of
the Jewish Feminist Research Group. In 2001-02, she was a visiting lecturer at
the Harvard Divinity School. Lerner has published two books and is at work on a
third. In Passing the Love of Women: A Study of Gide's "Saül" and Its
Biblical Roots Lerner examines how the Biblical book of Samuel inspired a novel
by French author André Gide. In Who Has Not Made Me a Man: The Movement for
Equal Rights for Women in American Judaism
Lerner discusses the interaction between Judaism and the modern American
feminist movement. A new book on the image of Eve in Jewish literature is due
to be completed soon. In addition, Lerner has published a range of articles,
and sits on the editorial boards of the journals Women's League Outlook,
Hadassah, Judaism, Nashim, and Lilith.
1993 (12th of Tammuz,
5753): Olga Khaikov a Jewish immigrant from Russia and the mother of an 11 year
old daughter was killed when terrorists tried to seize a bus near French Hill
in Jerusalem.
1993: Gil Stein’s
term as President of the NHL came to an end. The duties of the president were
given to the commissioner. Stein then served as advisor to the commissioner for
over three months, retiring from the league in October.
1993: “Rudolph Giuliani,
who would become the next mayor of New York, called the Crown Heights riot a
"pogrom" today in a speech at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: "You can use
whatever word you want, but in fact for three days people were beaten up,
people were sent to the hospital because they were Jewish.”
1994: PLO chairman
Yasser Arafat drove from Egypt into Gaza, returning to Palestinian land after
27 years in exile.
1994: Judith Rodin
began serving as President of the University of Pennsylvania.
1995: Sir James David
Wolfensohn began serving as the 9th President of the World Bank.
1996: Robert Wilentz
resigned as Chief Justice of the New Jersey State Supreme Court because of his
cancer.
1997(26th of Sivan,
5757): Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan, GBE, KCMG, LVO, QC passed away. Born in 1915,
he “was a Gibraltarian politician, and first Mayor and Chief Minister of
Gibraltar, serving two terms as Chief Minister for a total of 17 years. He is
seen as the key figure in the civil rights movement in Gibraltar and played a
key role in the creation of the territory's institutions of self-government.”
1998: First Lady Hillary Clinton, her daughter
Chelsea and Secretary of State Madeline Albright visited the Ohel Rachel
Synagogue in Shanghai, China, accompanied by Rabbi Schneier. In a speech on
this date the First Lady commented, "So, for [the Ohel Rachel Synagogue]
to be restored, I think, is a very good example of respect for religious
differences and an appreciation for the importance of faith in one's
life."
1998: U.S. premiere
of science fiction disaster flic “Armageddon” directed by Michael Bay, Produced
by Jerry Bruckheimer, with a script co-authored by J.J. Abrams with music by
Trevor Rabin.
1999(17th of Tammuz,
5759): Tzom Tammuz is observed for the last time in the 20th Century.
1999(17th of Tammuz,
5759: Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, known as Yaakov Weinberg an Orthodox Jewish
rabbi, Talmudist, and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Ner Israel Rabbinical College in
Baltimore, Maryland passed away today.
1999(17th of Tammuz,
5759): Eight-eight year old film star Sylvia Sidney (Sophia Kosow) passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/02/movies/sylvia-sidney-30-s-film-heroine-dies-at-88.html
1999: “After Janet
Rosenberg Jagan returned from the European-Latin American summit in Rio de
Janeiro, she was admitted to St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in the capital,
Georgetown, due to chest pains and exhaustion.”
2000(28th of Sivan,
5760): Actor Walter Mattheau passed away. Born Walter Matthow in 1920, Mattheau
began work at the age of 11 selling candy and playing bit parts in a Yiddish
theatre on the Lower East Side. Years later he claimed that his birth name was
Matasschanskayasky. According to his son, his father did this as a prank.
However, the myth has become accepted as fact by many sources. Mattheau had a
long, successful career playing in films some of the best of which paired him
with Jack Lemmon. These included, "The Fortune Cookie," a re-make of
"Front Page," and that greatest of hits, "The Odd Couple."
2000: Publication of
Haviva Ner-David's book, Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Toward
Traditional Rabbinic Ordination.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/01/2000/haviva-ner-david
2000: The judge in the
Revolutionary Court in Shiraz announced the verdicts on the 13 Jews on trial
for spying for Israel.
2001: Bruce Fleischer
won the U.S. Senior Open.
2001: Caesarea-Pardes
Hanna Railway Station was opened today “as a suburban station on the newly
inaugurated Tel Aviv – Binyamina Suburban Service. The station was constructed
to provide a railway link for the area's growing population as well as
encourage rail commuting to the industrial zone in the vicinity.”
2001:
Fifty-two-year-old Aaron Brown, the Minnesota born son of Rose and Morton
Brown, who had left ABC news began working at CNN today where he would win the
Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the attack on 9/11.
2001: Eric Garcetti
began representing the 13th district on the Los Angeles City Council.
2002: An
International Criminal Court for which American attorney and WW II war crimes
investigator Benjamin B. Ferencz had expressed strong support in Defining International
Aggression-The Search for World Peace was established today.
2002: U.S.A.F. Lt.
Col Jack Weinstein was promoted to Colonel today.
2002: Michael Slive
who had been the Commissioner of Conference USA since1995 today became the
seventh commissioner of the powerful South Eastern Conference of SEC.
2003(1st of Tammuz,
5763): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2003(1st of Tammuz,
5763): Seventy three year old Jazz legend Herbie Mann, born Herbert Jay Solomon
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/03/arts/herbie-mann-73-musician-who-gave-flute-a-jazz-sound.html
2003: “Fifty-nine
years to the day after she arrived” at Auschwitz-Birkenau Eva Fahidi returned
to death camp.
2003: Elena Kagan
begins serving as the 11th Dean of the Harvard Law School.
2004: Actor Marlon
Brando passed away. No, Brando was not
Jewish. But he did have this to say
about Jews. “Marlon Brando…once told an interviewer that, per capita ‘Jews have
contributed more to American…culture than any other single group.’ Without
them, the actor claimed, ‘we wouldn’t have music,’ ‘we wouldn’t have much
theater,’ and we wouldn’t have “all the songs that you love to sing.’”
2005: The New York
Times reported that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had moved decisively
to deal with killing of a African-American man by two white males in Howard
Beach. The Times favorably compared
Bloomberg’s swift action with the city’s reaction to a racially inspired killing
in the same neighborhood in 1986.
2005: The New York
Times reported that Time’s editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine made the
decision to follow a court order and turn over a reporter’s documents to a
grand jury investigating a leak of a CIA operative’s identity. Pearlstine wrestled with the compelling
issues – freedom of the press versus the need to submit to the rule of law –
and he came down on the side of the latter.
The decision was not an easy one for a man who was a lawyer as well as
the head of one of America’s flagship communication corporations.
2005: The New York
Times reported that Bank of America had agreed to buy MBNA. MBNA was founded by Alfred Lerner who passed
away in 2002. Learner supported numerous philanthropies including the Jewish
Foundation for the Righteous. The JFR
seeks out to fulfill the age old injunction to seek out and recognize
righteousness. In particular, the JFR
works to help aged and indigent righteous gentiles who helped save Jews during
the Shoah.
2005: Future United
States Senator Michael Bennet began serving as the Superintendent of the Denver
Public Schools oday.
2006: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Din In the Head: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
2006(5th of Tammuz,
5766): Eighty-three year old Philip Rieff the author of a number of books about
Sigmund Freud passed away today.(As reported by Robert D. McFadden)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/us/04rieff.html
2006(5th of Tammuz,
5766): Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs, who founded the British branch of the
Conservative Movement and was voted the greatest Jew in the history of
Britain's Jewish community last year, passed away today. (As reported by Ari L.
Goldman)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/world/europe/09jacobs.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print
2006: David J.
Skorton begins serving as President of Cornell University.
2007: Arnie Eisen
assumed the office of Chancellor-elect of the Jewish Theological Seminary
2007: The Opening Day
game of the Israel Baseball League is broadcast on a delayed basis on PBS in
major US markets.
2007: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by
Bernard-Henri Lévy and The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph
of Hope by Jonathan Alter.
2007: The Sunday
Washington Post book section featured a review of a collection of here-to-for
unpublished stories by Primo Levi entitled A Tranquil Star. According to the review, those who think of
Levi only in terms of being a “Holocaust writer” will be pleasantly surprised
by the wide ranging topics and unique style displayed in this posthumously
published tome.
2007: Avraham
Hirschson resigned as Israel’s Minister of Finance following an investigation
of an alleged embezzlement in which he was allegedly involved.
2007: Moseh Katzav
resigned as President of Israel.
2007: Dalia Itzik,
who had been serving as Speaker of the Knesset became action President of the
state of Israel.
2007: Marvin Krislov
became the 14th President of Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio
2008: Lauren Weisberger, author of the bestselling
novel The Devil Wears Prada, reads from and signs her new book, Chasing Harry
Winston, at a Borders Books in suburban Virginia.
2008: Arnie Eisen,
who took office as Chancellor-elect of the Jewish Theological Seminary on July
1, 2007 assumed the position full time
2009: In Cedar
Rapids, IA, meeting of the Hadassah book club discusses Courtesan, a novel by
Dora Levy Mossanen.
2009: After 29 years
of serving as supporting character
alongside Marvel greats like the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, Sabra, the
alias of Ruth-Bat Seprah, mutant superhero and former agent, makes her first
headlining print appearance in the Marvel anthology Astonishing Tales #6.
2009: Today President
Shimon Peres invited Saudi King Abdullah to come to Jerusalem, or meet him in
Riyadh, to initiate discussions that would enable the implementation of a
comprehensive peace between Israel and all the Arab states. Peres spoke at an
interfaith conference in Kazakhstan, addressing some 150 religious leaders from
around the world, including a large delegation of imams, calling on King
Abdullah to meet with him in Jerusalem, in Riyadh or in any other place
"in order to fulfill his prayer for peace between all people, without
differences of religion."
2009: A
Chabad-sponsored Women's Empowerment Rally is held at Tel Aviv's Nokia Stadium.
2009: Leonard “Cohen
started his marathon European tour, his third in two years.
2009: Romanian Jewish
leaders met in Bucharest today to address allegations that medical students
have been using the remains of Holocaust victims for research.
2009: In “Ruth Madoff
and the Husband She Never Knew” published today, Richard Cohen described the
life of the wife of the financial predator who was his classmate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063002895.html
2009: In a case of
Jewish Woman follows Jewish Woman Professor Martha Louis Minow, the legal
scholar who is the daughter former FCC Chairman Newton Minow became the 12th
Dean of the Harvard Law School replacing Elena Kagan.
2010: Yeshiva
University Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art are scheduled to present “As
it is Written: Lectures on the Art of Hebrew Manuscripts and Books” in New York
City.
2010: The Wall
Street Journal reported today that Tehran has equipped Damascus with a
sophisticated radar system to help thwart a surprise Israeli strike against
Iran's nuclear facilities..
2011: Cantor Joel
Caplan, son of Richard and Ellen Caplan, and father Ilan Caplan is scheduled to
lead a Shabbat evening program called “Shabbat Spirit” that includes guitar,
keyboard and PowerPoint projections of all the songs that will be sung.
2011: Today, Susan
Herbst took office as the 15th President of the University of
Connecticut making her the first of her gender to hold the position.
2011: As the case
sexual assault case fell apart due to questions of credibility regard of the
alleged victim, Dominque Strauss-Kahn
was released from house arrest today.
2011: At Shabbat Eve
Services at Temple Judah a baby naming is to take place for Natanel, the son of
Chavah and Stephen Rosenbaum of Jerusalem and the grandson of Kathe and Gary
Goldstein of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2011: With the
departure of Rabbi Joseph R. Black, today Harry L. Rosenfeld becomes the rabbi
of Congregation Albert in Albuquerque, NM which was established in 1897 making
it “the oldest Jewish organization of continued existence in the state of New
Mexico.”
2011: Abbie Silber,
daughter of Laurie and Dr. Bob Silver (pillars of the Cedar Rapids Jewish
Community) and Rabbi Feivel Strauss are scheduled to receive a blessing at
Shabbat Eve services as they prepare for their upcoming nuptials.
2011: This Day In…In Jewish
History makes its first appearance on http://shtetl.ca/ a must read website for
anybody interested in the comings and goings of the Canadian Jewish community.
2011: Dominique
Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest today as the sexual assault case
against him moved one step closer to dismissal after prosecutors told a
Manhattan judge that they had serious problems with the case.
2011: The Canadian
Jewish Congress for which Bernie M Farber served as the chief executive officer
was absorbed by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
2011: The Greek
Ministry of Citizen Protection issued a statement today saying that the Minister, C. Papoutsis, decided to
prohibit the departure of ships flying either Greek or foreign flags "to
the maritime area" of Gaza.
2012: A revival of
“On Second Avenue,” “a musical journey through Yiddish Theatre” is scheduled to
have its final performance at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. (As
reported by Mike Cohen)
2012: The Labor Party
is scheduled to hold its convention today in Tel Aviv.
2012(11th of Tammuz,
5772): Eighty-six year old “Evelyn Lear, an American soprano who became a star
in Europe in the 1950s and later won acclaim in the United States for singing
some of the most difficult roles in contemporary opera” passed away today. (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/arts/music/evelyn-lear-versatile-soprano-dies-at-86.html?hpw
2012(11th of Tammuz,
5772): Ninety-two year old “Estelle Ellis Rubinstein, who as promotion director
of the brand-new Seventeen magazine helped American businesses discover what
she called “a whole new country” — the untapped market of millions of teenage
girls —” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2012: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish authors including
the recently released paperback edition of Bloom of Darkness, Aharon
Applefeld’s novel about “a Jewish child is hidden in a brothel in a Ukrainian
village during the Holocaust.
2012: Mario
Balotelli, a black Italian soccer start who was raised by a Jewish Italian
foster mother from the age of three is scheduled to lead his team into the
final of the Euro 2012 soccer championships. (As reported by the Times of
Israel)
2012: Today the
cabinet approved doubling the 2013 budget deficit target to 3 percent of gross
domestic product, despite strong opposition from central bank and Treasury
officials. It also agreed to set a new long-term target of gradually reducing
the deficit back to 1.5% by 2019.
2013: The Aleph
Kallah –Connecting the Divine Within and Around Us – is scheduled to begin
today.
2013: The North
American Jewish Date is scheduled to move from the University of Connecticut to
the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) in New York.
http://www.jewishdatabank.org/
2013: Christopher
Ludwig Eisgruber who was raised Catholic but now describes himself as nontheist
Jew became the 20th President of Princeton University today. “While helping his
son, then in the fourth grade, with a school project, he discovered that his
Berlin-born mother, who had arrived in New York as an eight-year-old refugee,
was Jewish. In 2009, a Holocaust claims tribunal awarded Eisgruber and his
three sisters 162,500 Swiss francs, representing the value of the bank account
of their maternal great-grandfather, Salomon Kalisch”
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.532963
2013: Peter Salovey,
a descendant of the Soloveichik rabbinic family, became the 23 President of
Yale University.
2013: Mark Dreyfus
began serving as Minister for the Public Service and Integrity in Australiza.
2013: With Stanley
Fischer's eight-year term as Bank of Israel Governor completed as of last night,
his deputy Karnit Flug stepped into the role of acting governor today. (As
reported by Niv Elis)
2013: Eric Garcetti
began serving as the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles.
2013: As part of the
fallout from a reported cover-up of sexual abuse by Yishiva University rabbis,
Rabbi Norman Lamm stepped down as the chancellor and Rosh yeshiva. (As reported
by Uriel Heilman)
2014: Decent people
everywhere continue to react with shock and horror to the news concerning the
murder of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers - Naftali Frankel, 16, Gilad
Shaar, 16; and Eyal Yifrach, 19 - who
were abducted on their way home from school on June 12 and whose bodies were
found near Hebron.
2014: A community
wide memorial service is held for Three Israeli Teens, z”l today at the Jewish
Center on West 86th Street
2014: Scott S. Cowen
is scheduled to step down as President of Tulane University.
2014: In Israel “1.5
million elementary students and over 71,000 teachers are scheduled to begin
their summer break.”
2014: Today, Mark
Steven Schlissel was named the 14th president of the University of
Michigan.
2014(3rd of Tammuz,
5774): Ninety-two year old spy David Greenglass who betrayed his country and
helped send his sister to the electric chair passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/one-million-to-mark-anniversary-of-three-teens-killing-as-unity-day/
2014(3rd of Tammuz):
20th Yarhrzeit Menachem M. Schneerson of blessed memory simply known as “the
Rebbe.”
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/244372/jewish/The-Rebbe-A-Brief-Biography.htm
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schneerson.html
2014: Opening of the
Chabad-Lubavitch Library.
http://chabadlibrary.org/exhibit/exhibition2.pdf
2014: “Terrorists
from Gaza launched a salvo of mortar shells towards the Eshkol Regional Council
today, during the very hours that hundreds of thousands attended a funeral in
Modi'in for the three teens who were abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists
on June 12.”
2014: Mushir
al-Masri, a Hamas spokesperson released a statement just after the funeral of
the three kidnapped Jewish boys in which he labeled the abduction as “an
activity that failed.”
2014: Hugh Segal
began serving as “5th Principal of Massey College” today.
2014: Following
individual funerals. Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach were laid
to rest side by side in Modi'in cemetery this evening, a day after the bodies
of the three teens were found in the West Bank and 19 days after they vanished
while hitchhiking near Hebron. (As reported by Shahar Chai, Itay Blumental and
Ahiya Raved
2015: Today,
Frederick Lawrence is scheduled to step down as President of Brandeis
University.
2015: Dr. David J.
Skorton assumed the position of the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian which
means he “oversees 19 museums and galleries, 20 libraries, the National Zoo and
numerous research centers, including the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory,
the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center.”
2015: “The first
anniversary of the deaths of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach,
the Israeli teenagers kidnapped and killed by Palestinian terrorists last
summer, is being marked today with a Unity Day.”
2015: “Several
hundred Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem this evening, calling on Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act against a recent surge in deadly attacks
carried out by Palestinians.”
2015: “Auto |
Biography,” an exhibition that explores the social phenomenon of Jews and their
cars is scheduled to open at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust
Education.
2015(14th of Tammuz,
5775): Terrorist murder Rabbi Miki Mark
and wounded three of his family members in a drive-by shooting south of Hebron.
2015(14th of Tammuz,
5775): Ninety year old Israeli born multimillionaire jeweler Shlomo Moussaieff
who spent the last 52 years of his life in the United Kingdom and was the found
of Moussaieff Jewellers Ltd passed away today in Jerusalem.
http://www.jpost.com/printarticle.aspx?id=407717
http://www.gemselect.com/other-info/moussaieff.php
2015: “Milk” is
scheduled to shown during the “70’s Summer Cinema” program at the National
Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia, PA.
2015: Sir Nicholas
George Winton, the man who arranged the “Kindertransport” from Czechoslovakia
which saved 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust at a time when most people
did nothing passed away today.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-33350880
http://www.nicholaswinton.com/
2015: In Coralville,
Iowa, the mantle of Rabbi officially transfered from Rabbi Jeff Portman to
Rabbi Barry Diamond.
2016: Two days after
his confirmation on June 18, David L. Goldfein began serving as the 21st Chef
of Staff of the United States Air Force today.
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108013/general-david-l-goldfein/
2016: Ronald D.
Liebowitz is scheduled to assume the presidency of Brandeis University.
2016: Mahin Khan, who
would plead “guilty to plotting an attack on government buildings and the Tuscon
Jewish Community Center” was arrested today at his parents’ home.
2016(25th of Sivan,
5776): As Jews prepare for Shabbat, all decent people pray for the recovery of
the men stabbed by a terrorist in Netanya on June 30 and mourn the loss of 13
year old Hallel Yafa Ariel who was stabbed to death as she slept in her bed on
June 30.
2017(7th of Tammuz,
5777): Yahrzeit of Saul Lowenstam who followed his father Aryeh Leib ben Saul
as Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam and who died
on the 7th of Tammuz, 5550 (1790)
2017(7th of Tammuz,
5777): Yahrzeit of Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister and second
Prime Minister who passed away on the 7th of Tammuz, 5725 (1965).
2017(7th of Tammuz,
5777): Parashat Chukat;
2018: JW3 is
scheduled to host the first screening of “Entebbe” today in London
2018: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions
of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and Wrestling
With His Angel by Sidney Blumenthal.
2018: 155th
anniversary of the start of the Battle of Gettysburg where Union Lt. Abraham
Cohn faces against Confederate Major Adolph Proskauer showing the House of Israel to be divided.
2018: 120th anniversary
of the Teddy Roosevelt and his Roughriders, including Jacob Wilbusky, the first
Roughrider killed in action charged up San Juan Hill and into the White House
and the history books.
2018: Having won
nearly 50% of the vote against six other candidates, 56 year old Claudia
Sheinbaum Pardo was elected mayor of Mexico City today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/01/2018/claudia-sheinbaum-pardo-elected-mexico-citys-first-female-mayor
2019: “Sde Dov
Airport, which is located in northern Tel Aviv, is set to close” today, leaving
“Ben-Gurion Airport, located 20 kilometers southeast of the metropolis, as the
only domestic origin for Eilat-bound flights, a change that many experts say
will have a devastating impact on tourism to the southern city.”
2029: Susan Herbst’s
stepped down today as President of the University of Connecticut after which
she planned to remain on the faculty, teaching political science at the
Stamford campus.
2019: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present “Radical Traditions of
Yiddish Poetry” a talk that “will survey the radical traditions of Yiddish
poetry focusing on anarchist poetics and the press.”
2019: “After more
than a century of service in Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa and Solano counties,
the Jewish Federation of the East Bay” is scheduled to dissolve today, “with
core programs and operations to be absorbed into the San Francisco-based Jewish
Community Federation and Endowment Fund.”
2019: As Americans
prepare to rush off for their Independence Day celebrations, hopefully they
will take a moment to remember the thin Blue Line of Union troops who held off
the Rebel waves on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
2020: Live via Zoom,
the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host “The Must of North
Africa: Modern and Contemporary Judeo-Arabic Song and Performance.”
2020: The government is “due to start disusing as
of today,” a plan which will make “some 30% of the West Bank” including areas
home to several Jewish settlements a part of the state Israel but which will
not include certain archaeological sites that “Safeguarding Eternity” see as
critical to maintaining “the connection of Jewish people to its land and
heritage.” (As reported by Rinat Harash)
2020: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Dov Boros as part of the “Coffee with a
Survivor” program.
2020(9th
of Tammuz, 5780): Ida Haendel, the native of Chelm who became a world-class
violinist in Great Britain where she played for factory workers and military
personnel passed away today.
http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/haendel.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/01/ida-haendel-obituary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXArQJA3Po
2020: The Lappin
Foundation is scheduled to host online, “The Joys, Oys and Challenges of Being
a Jewish Transracial Family.
2020: The National
Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host a livestream
conversation and concert featuring Joey Weisenberg as part of the Songs of Our
People, Songs of Our Neighbors series.
2020: Congregation
Rodef Sholom’s Rabbi Stacy Friedman is scheduled to host Dr. Marc Dollinger as
he lectures on “1619, 1654, 2020: Jews, Race, and American Jewish History.”
2020 Live on Zoom the
Jewish Genealogical Social of New York and the Leo Baeck Institute are
scheduled to host “Rescue and Resettlement: Researching Refugees from Nazi
Europe.”
2021: The Osher Marin
JCC is scheduled to present James Sokol singing Broadway, pop, country and
other genres in honor of Independence Day.
2021: The Jewish
Community Center of the North Shore is scheduled to present “Israeli Folk
Dancing.”
2021: First day of
“The Last Days of Pompeii: A Jewish Perspective” is scheduled to open at
HAMAQOM.
2021: Allen
Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump organization is
expected to appear in court today as district attorney’s office is expected to
bring charges on tax-related crimes.
2021: At the London
School of Jewish Studies Dr Rona Novick is scheduled to lead the first interactive
workshop as part of the new Baderech program.
2021: The YIVO
Institute is scheduled to present Mark Slobin, the Winslow-Kaplan Professor of
Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University, lecturing on the Yiddish Folksong.
2021: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture on “Where History Meets
Geography: Travels with an Historian” during which “Esther, Lady Gilbert, will present
an A to Z of wanderings through Jewish history with Sir Martin Gilbert.”
2022: A live
broadcast on Kan Kol Hamuiska is scheduled to feature a concert by the winners
of the Dina Turgeman Chamber Music Competition.
2022: In Newton, MA,
Beth Menachem Chabad is scheduled to present a “Musical Tot Shabbat and Challah
Bake.”
2022: Based on a
previous announcement by Peter Title, Rabbi Scott Hoffman is scheduled to take
over as the spiritual leader of Shir Chadesh Conservative Congregation today.
2022: Israelis
prepare to observed Shabbat with a new prime minister, Yair Lapid, the son of
Holocaust survivor, Yosef “Tommy” Lapid.
2023: Eden-Tamir
Music Center is scheduled to host “Flute Sounds in Ein Kerem with Noam Buchman
and Friends.
2023: At Temple
Judea, Rabbi Feival Strauss is scheduled to lead the Torah Study session
2023(12th
of Tammuz, 5783): Parashat Chukat/Balak;
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