This Day, July 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 14
1086:
Toirdelbach Ua Briain passed away. Born
in 1009, he was the King of Munster and the High King of Ireland. During his
reign, in 1079, Jews reportedly made their first appearance in the Emerald
Isle. “The Annals of Inisfallen record ‘Five Jews came from over sea
with gifts to Toirdelbach [king of Munster], and they were sent back again over
sea’”.
1223: Philip
II Augustus, King of France died. Like so many other anti-Semites, King Phillip
based his animus towards the Jews on Christian teachings and then used this
hate to despoil. Shortly after his
coronation, the King ordered the arrest of all the Jews on a Saturday, when
they were easy pickings and then demanded a ransom for their release. He canceled the loans Christians owed to the
Jews, seized their property and then expelled them. Years later he would readmit the Jews but
only after they paid another ransom and submit to a confiscatory scheme of
taxation.
1223: Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the
death of his father, Philip II of France.
After his coronation, Louis reversed the policy of his father and
ordered his officials to stop recording the debts Christians owed to Jews. This was part of the on-going struggle that
Christians had over the question of usury – charging interest when lending
money. For Christians usury was a sin
that led to excommunication. Since Jews
were not Christians they could not be excommunicated so some Christian leaders
felt it was acceptable to borrow from them.
The Church frowned on this.
Louis’ ban was an attempt to reach a compromise. Jew could lend. Christians could borrow. But Christians did not necessarily end up
having to pay back. At least one major
French noble became a foe of Louis over this since he had taxed his Jews on the
profits from their money-lending activities.
This was a fry cry from the days of Louis VI and Louis VII both of whom
were protective of Jews to the extent that Jews were a significant part of the
populace of Paris.
1349: Today
“all the Jews living in Frankfurt were murdered and their houses burnt.”
1391: The jurados of Valencia reported today
that Don Samuel Abravalla, “the richest Jew in Valenciea” had been baptized
yesterday in the palace of En Gasto. His
Christian name is Alfonso Ferrandes de Villaneuva.” (According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, this
Samuel Abravalla should not be confused with
Don Samuel Abravanel, who was also forcefully
baptized in 1391, but took the name Juan de Sevilla. Both men returned to
Judaism as soon as they had the chance to recant their respective baptisms.
1555: Paul IV
issued Cum nimis absurdum, a Papal Bull that “placed religious and economic
restrictions on Jews in the Papal States. The bull renewed anti-Jewish decrees.
It forced Jews to wear special clothing, to live in a ghetto in Rome and
forbade them to own real estate or practice medicine among Christians. Jews
were forbidden to practice any trade except ragpicking, and were restricted to
one synagogue per city. Since all property had to be sold, and was inevitably
sold at below market value, the Bull, like most such ordinances was theft as
well.”
1614: The Jews
of Worms succeeded in repelling an attack on the Jewish quarter today.
1638:
Following the trials of Sabbatarian believers who were accused of “Judaizing”
that had begun on July 7, today Samuel Pechi was sentenced to prison where he
died the following year in Transylvania.
1647: A Jew
from the city of Alessandra “who had discovered a new process of refining
gunpowder” told the city officials of the plans the Duke of Modena to take
control of the city by bribing him to destroy the supply of gunpowder.
1656: In New
York, the municipal authorities grand the Jews a lot “for a place of interment”
which “was on New Bowery, near Olive Street” “which the Jewish community” later
“augmented by the purchase of adjoining tracts in 1681, 1729, and 1755.”
1663(9th
of Tammuz, 5423): According to Leopold Zunz, Nathan ben Moses Hannover the
Jewish historian and Talmudist best known for writing Yeven Mezulah that
described the Khmelnytsky Uprising in which an unprecedented number of Jews
were murdered, passed away today. “Some
of them [the Jews] had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to
the dogs. The hands and feet of others were cut off and they [their bodies]
were flung onto the roadway where carts ran over them and they were trodden
underfoot by horse ... And many were buried alive. Children were slaughtered at
their mother’s bosoms and many children were torn apart like fish. They ripped
up the bellies of pregnant women, took out the unborn children, and flung them
in their faces. They tore open the bellies of some of them and placed a living
cat within the belly and they left them alive thus, first cutting off their
hands so that they should not be able to take the living cat out of the belly
... and there was never an unnatural death in the world that they did not
inflict upon them.” (from Yeven Mezulah, pp. 31-32)
1757: During a
dispute surrounding titles used by members of the Bet Din in London, Isaac
Nieto “was prohibited from exercising the functions of assessor.” The son of
David Nieto, Isaac Nieto had served as spiritual leader of Bevis Marx and had
started the first synagogue in Gibraltar.
He had returned to London in 1751 to serve as one of three judges in the
city’s Rabbinical Court. He passed away
in 1774.
1766(8th
of Av, 5526): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1785:
Birthdate of Mordecai Manuel Noah, the native of Philadelphia, who “was an
American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. Born in a family of
Portuguese Sephardic ancestry, he was the most important Jewish lay leader in
New York in the pre-Civil War period, and the first Jew born in the United
States to reach national prominence.”
1789: This
date marks the fall of the Bastille in France. Although Jews by and large were
not allowed to participate in the election of the Estates-General, which became
the Constituent National Assembly, they viewed the fall of the Bastille as a
triumph. Many of them enlisted in the National Guard. At the same time more
than 1000 Jews in Alsace were forced to flee during the Agrarian revolt there.
1790(3rd
of Av, 5550):Uziel Barrah the English born butcher whose conviction led to his
being sent as a convict toe Australia passed away there today.
1792: Coronation
of Francis II who relied on Berhnard Eskeles for financial “advice.”
1795: In
Baltimore, MD, Frances Gratz Reuben Etting who were married in 1794 gave birth
to University of Pennsylvania trained attorney Elijah Gratz Etting who “was admitted to the bar in 1816” and was
later “elected district attorney for Cecil County, MD.
1796: As the
sun rise over Frankfort, the Jews examined the extensive damage done to the
Judengrasse by the French shelling. The
damage was so extensive that the Jews were allowed to disperse to other
sections of the city leading to the de facto end of the “Jewish Quarter.:
1798: The
Sedition Act, part of the four laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts become
law during the administration of President John Adams. Adams was the leader of
the Federalist Party and the opponents of the Democrat Party led by Thomas
Jefferson. According to historian Howard
M. Sachar, “the Federalist remained plainspoken opponents of political rights
for non-Christians.” The Jews “sensed that the underlying animus” expressed
against the French and other “foreigners” in this legislation was aimed at Jews
(the quintessential foreigners) as much as anybody else. This drove most Jews into the welcoming arms
of the Democrat Party which a strange admixture of Southern aristocrats and
Northern urban leaders as typified by Aaron Burr.
1800: In
Verdun, France, Mayer Lippmann, the Alsace born “son of Raphaël Isaac Lippmann
and Jutelé Lippmann” and his wife Madeleine Lippmann gave birth to Isaac Lippmann
1805(17th
of Tammuz, 5565):Tzom Tammuz observed as Lewis and Clark made their way through
what is now Montana.
1816(18th of
Tammuz, 5576): Tzom Tammuz observed for the last time during the Presidency of
James Madison, the husband of Dolly Madison
1820: Rebecca
Phillips and Isaiah Moses gave birth to Leonora Moses, the wife of Jacob
Rosenfeld with whom she had five children – Isidore, Adelaide, Rosa, Isaiah and
Levy.
1827:
Birthdate of Wilhelm Rapp, the German native who participated in the Revolutions
of 1848 before moving to United States in 1852 where he became a newspaper
whose anti-slavery views led to a meeting with President Abraham Lincoln.
1828: Today
“Dora Wordsworth and her father William Wordsworth and their friend Samuel
Taylor Coleridge…came upon a Jewish family while walking along the Rhine near
St. Goar.” Dora recorded the meeting in
her journal, while her father, the poet, recorded his feelings in a poem
entitled “A Jewish Family” that was published in 1835. According to Judith W. Page,
“Dora attempted to humanize the family and to see them as individuals. William…idealized and distanced his subjects,
thus denying them their particular identities and historical grounding. What
follows is Wordsworth description of the events that led to the creation of “A
Jewish Family.”
Coleridge, my
daughter, and I, in 1828, passed a fortnight upon the banks of the Rhine,
principally under the hospitable roof of Mr. Aders of Gotesburg, but two days
of the time we spent at St. Goar in rambles among the neighbouring valleys. It
was at St. Goar that I saw the Jewish family here described. Though exceedingly
poor, and in rags, they were not less beautiful than I have endeavoured to make
them appear. We had taken a little dinner with us in a basket, and invited them
to partake of it, which the mother refused to do, both for herself and
children, saying it was with them a fast-day; adding diffidently, that whether
such observances were right or wrong, she felt it her duty to keep them
strictly. The Jews, who are numerous on this part of the Rhine, greatly surpass
the German peasantry in the beauty of their features and in the intelligence of
their countenances. But the lower classes of the German peasantry have, here at
least, the air of people grieviously opprest. Nursing mothers, at the age of
seven or eight and twenty often look haggard and far more decayed and withered
than women of Cumberland and Westmoreland twice their age. This comes from
being underfed and overworked in their vineyards in a hot and glaring sun.
“A Jewish
Family”
GENIUS of
Raphael! if thy wings
Might bear
thee to this glen,
With faithful
memory left of things
To pencil dear
and pen,
Thou would'st
forego the neighbouring Rhine,
And all his
majesty--
A studious
forehead to incline
O'er this poor
family.
The
Mother--her thou must have seen,
In spirit, ere
she came
To dwell these
rifted rocks between,
Or found on
earth a name;
An image, too,
of that sweet Boy,
Thy
inspirations give--
Of
playfulness, and love, and joy,
Predestined
here to live.
Downcast, or
shooting glances far,
How beautiful
his eyes,
That blend the
nature of the star
With that of
summer skies!
I speak as if
of sense beguiled;
Uncounted
months are gone,
Yet am I with
the Jewish Child,
That exquisite
Saint John.
I see the
dark-brown curls, the brow,
The smooth
transparent skin,
Refined, as
with intent to show
The holiness
within;
The grace of
parting Infancy
By blushes yet
untamed;
Age faithful
to the mother's knee,
Nor of her
arms ashamed.
Two lovely
Sisters, still and sweet
As flowers,
stand side by side;
Their
soul-subduing looks might cheat
The Christian
of his pride:
Such beauty
hath the Eternal poured
Upon them not
forlorn,
Though of a
lineage once abhorred,
Nor yet
redeemed from scorn.
Mysterious
safeguard, that, in spite
Of poverty and
wrong,
Doth here
preserve a living light,
From Hebrew
fountains sprung;
That gives
this ragged group to cast
Around the
dell a gleam
Of Palestine,
of glory past,
And proud
Jerusalem!
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/William_Wordsworth/william_wordsworth_744.htm
1835(17th
of Tammuz, 5595):Tzom Tammuz was observed on the same day “the universal
Catholic Apostolic Church was organized in the United Kingdom making for one of
the most ironic of Calendar Coincidences.
1828: Francis
Bond Head, the grandson of English poet and dramatist Moses Mendez was created
a baronet today.
1847(1st
of Av, 5607): Rosh Chodesh Av
1847(1st
of Av, 5607): Miriam Andrews, the wife of Reuben Levy, passed away today.
1850:
Following a major fire in Philadelphia, the Hebrew
ladies of Philadelphia met this morning and afternoon and made up a large
quantity of garments to supply immediate necessities for those who had suffered
losses as a result of the blaze.
1850:
Sixty-one year old German theologian and historian Johann August Wilhelm
Neander who had been born David Mendel, the son of Jewish peddler Emmanuel
Mendel, passed away today.
1852:
In the Netherlands, Abraham Delmonte, the Amsterdam born son of fAbraham Juda
Delmonte / van den Berg and Rebecca / Ribca Abraham da Silva Abenatar and his
wife Sara Rimini gave birth to David Delmonte.
1854:
The New York Times published a letter from James Finn, the English
Consul at Jerusalem that was critical of an U.S. citizen named Jones who was
allegedly selling relics to visitors for 60 pounds sterling. Finn was a philanthropist as well as diplomat
who established a farm for training Jewish agriculture workers and employed
Jewish workers to build the first house at Kerem Avraham, a piece of land he
had purchased that was outside the walls of the Old City.
1858:
In Chicago Gertrude and Herman Benjamin Felsenthal, “a school board member in
Chicago” gave birth to University of Chicago trained lawyer Eli Benjamin
Felsenthal who was a “charter member of the board of trustees of the University
of Chicago” and the husband of Nettie Felsenthal.
1858:
"The First Mormon Settlement--Its Temple" published today described
the Mormon settlement in Ohio including a school that has a classroom for the
teaching of Hebrew which is overseen by a Jew named Sexias whom the Reverend
Stewart also consults on matters relating to "Hebrew authority."
1859: Six days
before his 25th birthday, Jacob de Vries, the Amsterdam born son of
Benjamin Wolf Liepman de Vries married Grietje Kloot today.
1861:
Birthdate of New York City native Sigmund Saxe, the husband of Constance Saxe,
the father of Alexander Saxe and Marguerite S. Cohen, the businessman who
“discovered new leather tanning techniques.”
1862: Jeweler
Isaac Sommers, the son of Lawrence and Rebecca Somers was buried today in the
West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1863: Jews of
Holstein, Germany were granted equality.
1865(20th
of Tammuz, 5625): Eighty-six-year-old British self-educated mathematician and
actuary Benjamin Gompertz who became a Fellow of the Royal Society and is now best known for his Gompertz law of
mortality, a demographic model published in 1825 while being an early advocate for
an organized effort to aid the poor Jews of London passed away today.
1866: Mary and
Jacob Isaac Nesson gave birth to Israel Nesson who was the father of Julius,
Dorothy and Samuel Nesson who has the same name as a passenger who died aboard
the Titanic.
1867:
Birthdate of Georg Stern, the native of Konigsberg who pursued a career as an
engineer with AEG until he retired in 1930 to devote himself to his musical
compositions.
1869:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native and publisher Maurice Nathan Weyl.
1870: After
five Ashkenazi shuls in London - The Great, The Hambro, The New, Central and
Bayswater – had decided they were stronger together and formed the United
Synagogue, today the United Synagogue was brought into official existence when
the United Synagogue Act received Royal Assent creating an institution that
still guides Anglo-Jewish thinking to this day.
1870: In
Shreveport, LA Arthur Lee Kahn and Julia Sour gave birth to playwright Arthur
Lee Kahn.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10417946209371645?needAccess=true&
1871: In
Kensington, London, “Leopold (Lippmann) Seligman, the son of Fanny and David
Isaac Seligman and Julia Seligman gave birth to Herbert Spencer Seligman
1871:
Birthdate of New York “metallurgical chemist” Sigmund Cohn, who began his
business career “by partnering with David Belais with whom he formed the
company of Belais and Cohn.
1872: In
Nashville, TN, “David and Rachel (Lederhandler) Simon gave birth University of Cincinnati
graduate and HUV trained Reform Rabbi, Abram Simon, the husband of Carrie
Obendorfer, and father of California, Sacramento, Leo and David who “served as
Red Cross searcher near Verdun during WW I” and was chairman of the Synagogue
Council of America.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/12/25/99578073.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1874: The newly formed
Union of American Hebrew Congregations is scheduled to have its second annual
meeting today.
1874: At Cleveland, Ohio,
Moritz Loth of Cincinnati was elected President of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
1875: In Williamsport, PA,
Baruch and Pauline Fleishman gave birth to Estelle A. May Affedler, the wife of
Louis J. Affelder, the Pittsburgh civil engineer and civic leader with whom she
had three children Mrs. Emanuel, Mrs. S. Lewis Merritt and Paul B. Affelder,
the music critic for the Brooklyn Eagle.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/12/13/99901883.pdf
1877: Leopold Ullstein, a
Bavrian Jew, purchased the Neue Berliner
Tageblatt newspaper, a subsidiary of the liberal Berliner Tageblatt
published by Rudolf Mosse who was a leader of the Berlin Jewish community.
1878: While meeting in Milwaukee, the Jewish Council “formally approved
the union of all Hebrew congregations under one organization. The goals of the organization include the
creation of institutions “for instruction in Hebrew literature and theology,”
the establishment of relations “with other Jewish organizations in different
parts of the world” dedicated to improving the conditions of oppressed Jews and
the promotion of religious instruction for young people include young Jewish
ladies.
1880: A free aquatic excursion for poor Jewish children six years of age
and under is scheduled to begin at nine o’clock this morning.
1881: In Brooklyn, “Samuel and Minnie (Celler) Lederman gave birth to
Jeannette Lederman, the sister of Captain Jerome A. Lederman who, after her
first husband Mark Salomon passed away, married Abraham H. Arons and as
Jeanette Arons became a leader of several social action programs and the
National Council of Jewish Women.
1881:” The secretary of the Manchester Congregation of British Jews”
Isaac Asher Isaacs, the “son of Asher and Esther Isaacs” and Hannah “Annie”
Isaacs gave birth to Edward Maurice Isaacs today.
1881: In Chicago, Illinois the 8th annual meeting of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations came to an end. Moritz Loth of Cincinnati has served as
President and Lipman Levy has served as the Secretary of the Union.
1882: Birthdate of Latvian native musicologist and cantor Abraham Zevi
Idelsohn, the husband of Tzilla Idelsohn who established a music school in
Palestine in 1905 and who served as a music professor at Hebrew Union College
before finally settling in South Africa where he was a support of “South
African Progressive Judaism,” which was the name for the Reform movement in
that part of the world.
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/abraham-zvi-idelsohn
1882: It was reported today that Patrick Auglen has charged a group of
Polish Jews living in the same rooming house where he was staying had dragged
him into their apartment and beaten him brutally. The Jews did not deny having fought with him
but claimed they were acting in self-defense since Auglen had begun the
disturbance by kicking down their door.
The fight was part of the violence that was surrounding the current
Freight Handlers Strike.
1882: “Help For The Russian Jews” published today the Executive Board of
the Union of American Hebrew Congregations had agreed to issue an appeal to all
of its member congregations to solicit aid for Russian refugees and to require
every Jewish male over the age of 13 to contribute one dollar to a fund for
aiding the poor.
1882: Nearly 300 Russian Jewish refugees arrived in Philadelphia aboard
the SS Pennsylvania. They came from
Odessa and Kiev and have left for settlement in the West.
1882: In Baltimore, MD, Jennie R. Saks and Andrew Saks whose “daughter,
Leila Saks Meyer…survived the sinking of the Titanic when she was returning
from his funeral” gave birth to Horace A. Saks, who along with Bernard Gimbel
created Saks Fifth Avenue
1883: It was reported today that
“several Jews have been tortured and murdered” in the Russian town of Ostrog.
1883:In Brest-Litvosk, Esther Kornblatt and Israel Jasin gave birth to
Rabbi Joseph Jasin, the graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew
Union College the husband of Ada Rosenblatt who began his career in Ft. Worth,
TX and after stops became the leader of the Free Synagogue in Miami while being
an active Zionist.
1884(21st of Tammuz, 5644): Rabbi George Jacobs of Beth El-Emeth in
Philadelphia, passed away today in Germantown, PA after an extended illness. A
native of Kingston Jamaica, he came to the United States at the age of two and
went into business in Richmond Va. In
1857, he joined the rabbinate in that Southern city and served there until 1869
when he moved to Philadelphia. Jacobs
was the author of numerous works including “Sketches of Abarbanel’s
Commentaries” and “Specimens of Hebrew Literature, from the Redaction of the
Mishnah to 1800.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0DE0DF1E3BE033A25756C1A9619C94659FD7CF
1884: Birthdate of Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, the Latvian born South African
cantor who is one of the earlies students of the history of Jewish music.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Zevi-Idelsohn
1884: It was reported today that the courts have ruled that the French
artist Gustave Jean Jacquet may not display his portrait showing Alexander
Dumas as a Jew of Baghdad. The son of the great novelist apparently felt to be
portrayed as member of this ethnic group was an insult. The whole matter was moot, since 18 months
ago, the son-in-law of Dumas had struck the head in the painting with his cane
thus destroying the offending visage. [Another example of the uneven French
view of Jews]
1885: The Union of Hebrew Charities met in St. Louis, MO, this morning
and voted unanimously to change the name to the Associated Hebrew Charities of
the United States. Delegates from
Louisville, Nashville, Baltimore, St. Paul, MN, New Orleans, Wilmington,
Delaware and Montgomery, Alabama promised to immediately join the newly
re-named organization.
1885: It was reported today that Marcus Bernheimer has been elected of a
yet unnamed national union of Hebrew charities.
J.L. Isaacs of New York has been elected Vice President and Albert
Arstein of St. Louis has been elected to serve as Secretary.
1885: “A Weakness for Pictures” published today reported that Dr. Felton
proposed that $500 be appropriated by the Georgia Legislature to buy pictures
of Reverend Mercer and Bishop Pierce in what some saw was an attempt to gain
votes in his upcoming run for the governorship. Representative Arnheim drew
laughter from the attendees when he moved that an additional $25 be
appropriated to buy “a cheap picture of Moses.
[Note - Louis Arnheim was Jewish and represented Dougherty County in the
state legislature. Dr. Felton is a candidate for Governor]
1886: Birthdate of Henry Hurwitz, the native of Lithuania whose family
immigrated to Massachusetts in 1891 where he earned a B.A. and M.A. from
Harvard and went on “to establish the Intercollegiate Menorah Association (IMA)
which expanded the objectives of the Harvard Menorah Society to a national
scale.”
1886: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of
Isaac P. Rosenthal and Hannah Kosminsky.
1886: This evening, in Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the
wedding of Emanuel Iseman of Darlington, SC, to Hulda Lewith “the eldest
daughter of E.J. Lewith” at the home of the bride’s parents.
1887: Birthdate of New York native Milton Montague Adler, the graduate of
Adelphi College and Newark, NJ, merchant who served as an officer of the New
Jersey Jewish War Relief and was “active in B’nai B’rith.
1887: It was reported at Pittsburg, PA, the Committee on Civil Rights
recommended that the Board of Delegates should take notice of the recent
outbreak of prejudice aimed at the Jews of Louisiana and urged the Jewish
delegated to work for legislations that would protect them throughout the
United States.
1889: It was reported today from Round Lake, NY, that this season’s Round
Lake Assembly will feature a new attraction – a replica of the Tabernacle used
by the Israelites in the Wilderness.
Built to one third the scale of the original, it will include the a
replica of the ark and all of the sacrificial accoutrements used by the priests
and Levites. W.H. Groat of Rupert, VT, who furnished the designs and oversaw
the actual construction, will deliver lectures about the Tabernacle using the
model as a teaching tool.
1890: Birthdate of Russian born sculptor Ossip Zadkine.
1891: Birthdate of Trondheim native Marie Dvoretsky, the homemaker who
was deported Auschwitz in 1942 where she was murdered in 1943.
1891; Joseph Thoron, the President of the French Hospital Board and the
French Benevolent Society prepared the program which is being distributed at
today’s celebration of Bastille Day and the centennial of the political
emancipation of the Jews of France. The pamphlet includes “a sketch of the
emancipation of the Jews of France and an outline of the life of Coroner
Ferdinand Levy.” Coroner Levy delivered an address on behalf of the Jews.
1891: The weekly excursion for sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children for underprivileged Jewish children and their mothers is scheduled to
take place today.
1892: Birthdate of St. Joseph, MO native Doris R. Gordon Kangisser.
1892: Agent Rheinherz of the United Hebrew Charities presented
Superintendent of Immigration Weber with “a fine crayon port of himself by the
Hebrew, German, Irish, Polish and Italian Societies.”
1892: Alexander Berkman, the anarchist who would attempt to assassinate
Clay Frick, arrived in Pittsburgh today.
1893: Russian Jews made up the majority of the 800 refugees aboard the
Red Sea, a tramp steamship that arrived today at Ellis Island. The immigrants were not allowed to land due
to concern about their financial situation.
1893(1st of Av, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Av
1893(1st of Ave, 5653): While sailing from New York to
Liverpool aboard the Cunard Line steamship Umbria, New York realtor Ascher
Weinstein who was connected with several Jewish charitable institutions fell
overboard today in a tragic accident.
1894: Fifteen hundred members of the United Hebrew Trades Unions led by
the International Cloakmakers Union marched up with Bowery behind an array of
Red Flags on their way to mass meeting at Union Square where supporters of the
Pullman strikers were gathered.
1895: The attendees at the annual Central Conference of American Rabbis
including begin leaving Rochester, NY for the homes in Cincinnati, Louisville,
and New York City to name but a few of the cities from which the delegates
came.
1895: “The Brightside Day Nursery” published today described the function
of this institution which, for the payment of 5 cents a day, provides care for
children under the age of six whose mother must work during the day. The organization is led by its President,
Mrs. S.R. Guggenheim and a Board of Managers that includes Rabbi Gustav
Gottheil, Rabbi Joseph Silverman, Jacob Schiff and Solomon Guggenheim.
1896: Birthday of Bialystok native and WW I veteran Hyman who came to the
United States in 1909 and became a haberdasher in Jersey City, Jersey.
1897:
“After an interval of seven years, T.
Macon, a printer, undertook the publication of a third "Anti-Juif,"
which” first appeared today “in Algiers as the "organ of the Anti-Semitic
League
1897: In Chicago, Barney and Rose (Brodsky) Slesnick gave birth to Penn.
State trained journalist the husband of Sara Padoll and the editor of “Stark
Jewish News” in Canton, OH.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37558837/archie-slesnick-remembers-a-grocery/
1899: According to Andrew Sarris, In New York City Victor and Helen
Cukor, immigrant Jews from Hungary gave birth to director George Dewey Cukor
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/15/books/the-man-in-the-glass-closet.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
1899: Birthdate of Léonide Maguilevsky, the native of St. Petersburg,
Russia who gained as French moviemaker Léonide Moguy
1899: “Knights of Zion Incorporated” published today described the
function of the new Jewish organization that was “formed to promote good
fellowship and social intercourse…as well as to inculcate a love for the Jewish
faith in the hearts and minds of Jewish children. Directors include Samuel W.
Greenbaum, Nathan Greenbaum, Jacob Hamburger and Herman Schapp.” (This should
not be confused with the Knights of Zion, a Zionist organization formed in
Chicago in 1895)
1899(7th of Av, 5659): Forty six year old pioneer German
social worker Jeanette Schwerin passed away.
1899: During proceedings at the County Court House in which Reverend
Herman Faust was contesting the judgment obtained by the Sun Printing and
Publishing against him, Faust claimed that he was a converted Jew and this
litigation was a manifestation of the persecution he was suffering at the hands
of Orthodox Jews. He offered no evidence
to support his contention.
1899: “Harper and Brothers are about to issue a translation of the
letters of Dreyfus to his wife” which Emile Zola described as “admirable” and
“eloquent.”
1900(17th of Tammuz, 5660): Parashat Balak observed on the
same day that Allied forces captured Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion
1900: Birthdate of “Samuel Ruben, a scientist who had no formal education
beyond high school but whose inventions led to more than 300 patents, including
the alkaline battery” who was the husband of the former Rena Koch with whom he
had one son.
https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1025886~S6
1901 In London, John Abraham (Jack) Finzi (of Italian Jewish descent) and
Eliza Emma (Lizzie) Leverson (daughter of Montague Leverson, of German Jewish
descent) gave birth to British composer Gerald Raphael Finzi.
1901: Birthdate of George Tobias, one of those
marvelous “character actors” whose name you don’t know but whose visage in
quickly recognized as when he played “Pusher” in “Sergeant York” or Abner Kravitz, the
husband of the busybody neighbor Alice Kravitz on the television sitcom
“Bewitched.”
1902(9th of Tammuz, 5662): Russian sculptor Mark Antokolsky
passed away. In an unusual turn of events, this Litvak (Lithuanian Jew) ended
ups studying at the Imperial Academy of Art where his impoverished
circumstances forced him to do some of his initial work in wood instead of
marble. Some of his early works - "Jewish Tailor", "Nathan The
Wise", "Inquisition's Attack against Jews", "The Talmudic
Debate" – were based on Jewish on themes
1903: In San
Francisco, Charles Tennenbaum and Pauline Rosenberg gave birth to Irving
Tennenbaum who gained fame as author of Irving Stone one whose most famous
works was Lust For Life, a fictionalized biography of Vincent Van Gogh,
the film version of which provided employment for another Jew, Kirk Douglas who
played the starring role.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/28/obituaries/irving-stone-author-of-lust-for-life-dies-at-86.html
1904:
Birthdate of Rudolf Julius Arnheim, the Berlin native, “a distinguished
psychologist, philosopher and critic whose work explored the cognitive basis of
art — how we interpret it and, by extension, the world.” (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
1904: In
Vilnius, Aaron and Rachel Reisenberg gave birth to American concert pianist and
teacher Nadia Risenberg, the sister of violinist Clara Rockmore, the wife of
Isaac Sherman and mother of author and music critic Robert Sherman.
1905: The
Ninth Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society continued for a 7th day in Atlantic City, NJ.
1906(21st
of Tammuz, 5666): Parashat Pinchas
1906: A.H.
Fromenson chaired “a large mass meeting in Cooper Union” tonight “in honor of
Theodore Herzl who died two years ago where attendees also heard a speech by
J.L. Magnes, the new rabbi at Temple Emanu-El.
1907: In
Berlin, Georg Joseph Stern and Bertha Elisabeth Stern gave birth to Maria Solveg-Matray
the German actress who fled the Nazis, eventually finding refuge in the United
States before returning to Germany after WW II.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/11/classified/paid-notice-deaths-silver-rabbi-david-l.html
1908: It was
reported today that AFL led by Samuel Gompers will be support William Jennings
Bryant and the Democrats in the elections this fall after the Republicans
turned down the labor union’s for a positive “political declaration” while the
Democrats met the demand “fairly and
squarely.”
1909: In New
York City, Hart, Schaffner and Marx summer suits were on sale for fifteen
dollars.
1909: Dorothy
Levitt attended Major General Sir Alfred Turner's "Salon reception"
at the Piccadilly Hotel today,
1910: “Fast
Train Derailed” published today described a Pennsylvania Railroad train
derailment at East Palestine, OH, one of the many towns in the United States
that deliberately chose its name from the Old Testament.
1911: In
Mannheim, Germany Otto and Nell Scharff gave birth to Gertrude Scharff the
renowned physicist who fled Germany after she earned her Ph.D in 1935 and
eventually came to the United States where married Maurice Goldhaber and became
famous as Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber.
1911(18th
of Tammuz, 5671): Seventy-one year old German banker, the son of Adolph Meyer
and the grandson of Simon Meyer who was a leader of the Hanover Jewish
community passed away today
1911(18th
of Tammuz, 5671): Fifty-nine year old Alfred Chalom passed away in Cairo,
Egypt.
1912: The
Advisory Council the Jewish Community of New York City endorsed a resolution
adopted by the Board of Alderman calling for consideration of the “building of
structures for pushcart peddlers and adopted another resolution “asking
authorities to permit pushcart peddlers to use vacant property belonging to the
city.”
1912: “Julius
Tannenbaum, a captain in the New York State National Guard” sued the
“management of the Mononotto Inn,” at Fisher’s Island, NY “which had requested
him to leave the hotel” because he was Jewish.
1912: Birthdate of Woody Guthrie, famed American
folk singer who gave a musical voice to downtrodden masses suffering during the
Great Depression and the fight against fascism as can be heard in the famed
tune describing the sinking of the Rubin James.
Guthrie was not Jewish, but his Brooklyn born mother-in-law, with whom
he collaborated was. For more about
Woody’s Jewish connection see http://www.woodyguthrie.org/merchandise/klezmatics.htm.
1913: In
Omaha, Nebraska, “Dorothy Ayer Gardner and Leslie Lynch King Sr.” gave birth to
Leslie Lynch King Jr. who as Gerald Ford would on the day after he became the
38th President of the United States invited his “friend” Prime
Minister to come to Washington and who spoke out against the U.N.’s resolution
equating Zionism with racsism.
1914: Leon
Zalatkoff, editor of The Jew Daily News is scheduled to preside over a
memorial service marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Theodore Herzl
being held in the Bronx at the London Casino.
Rabbi Bernard Wolf will lead a religious service after which Dr.
Schmarja Levin of Berlin who was a member of the first Russian Duma will deliver
an address. His remarks will include a
response to Jacob Schiff’s criticism of Levin’s role in the debate over the use
of Hebrew or German at the Technion in Haifa.
1914: Today,
in Chicago, “Bernice Mabel Lieberman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.M.
Lieberman married Leonard D. Lewis of Champagne, Illinois.”
1914: Two days
after she had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held in Chicago
for Mrs. Henrietta Cohn, the 84 year old mother of Mark G. Cohn.
1914: Louis
Lipsky, Chairman of The American Federation of Zionists is scheduled to preside
over a memorial service marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Theodore
Herzl being held at the National Theatre on Houston Street in New York City.
Rabbi Joseph Rosenblatt will lead a religious service after which Dr. Schmarja
Levin of Berlin who was a member of the first Russian Duma will deliver an
address. His remarks will include a
response to Jacob Schiff’s criticism of Levin’s role in the debate over the use
of Hebrew or German at the Technion in Haifa. Bernard Rosenblatt, the Secretary
of the American Federation of Zionists will also speak at the memorial service.
1915: During
World War I, the New York Times
published reports from “the semi-official Wolff Telegraph Bureau” that the
French had been the first to used gas in February of 1915 two months before the
Germans used at the Second Battle of Yypres. (In one of those many ironies of
German history, the Wolff Telegraphy Bureau, which was seen as a spokesman for
the Kaiser was the creation of Bernhard Wolff, a German-Jewish businessman.)
1915: In
Cleveland, Ohio, Sarah and Samuel Schwartz gave birth to Jerome Lawrence
Schwartz who gained fame as Jerome Lawrence the co-author of “Inherit the
Wind.”
https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-161540.html
1916: In
Palermo, Sicily, “Giuseppe Levi, a renowned Italian histologist, was born into
a Jewish Italian family and Lidia Tanzi, who was Catholic” gave birth to Natlie
Levi who gained fame as novelist, essayist, translator and playwright Natalia
Ginzburg. During the 1930’s her parents’ home was bastion of anti-Mussolini
sentiment. She married Leon Ginzburg, a brilliant intellectual of that time.
The Ginzburgs endured exile and house arrest for their anti-fascist views.
During the war Leon Ginzburg was arrested and murdered for his anti-fascism.
Ginzburg returned to Rome after the war where she resumed her career. She died
in 1991.
1916: On
Manhattan’s Lower East Side, David Hoffzimer, a manufacturer of children’s
books and the former Rebecca Gross gave birth to Irving Hoffzimer who gained
fame as furniture designer Irving Harper. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1916: Samuel
Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labor came to New York
from Washington in what proved to be a futile effort to “prevent the settlement
of the eleven week long strike by the cloakmakers.”
1917: It was
reported today that the Joint Distribution Committee has appropriated $150,000
for Jews living in Poland and Lithuania under German occupation and $100,000
for Jews living in Poland under Austrian occupation as well as $50,000 for
feeding and clothing the children in Hebrew schools in Warsa and $40,000 for
the Jews of Romania.
1917: It was
reported today that during the month of June, Michael Reese Hospital treated
669 free patients, 247 private ward patients and 275 private room patients.
1917:
Birthdate of Arthur Laurents, “the playwright, screenwriter and director who
wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway’s landmark shows, “Gypsy” and
“West Side Story,” and created one of Hollywood’s most well-known romances,
“The Way We Were.”
1918: In
Shanghai, E.S. Kadoorie gave twenty five thousand francs ($5000) for the
purchase of ambulances for the French Army today.
1918: At the
London Opera House, “The importance of the work for civilization which the
Jewish State in Palestine could perform was the keynote of the speeches” at
this afternoon’s welcoming ceremony for the American Zionist Medical Unit where
Sir Alfred Mond “spoke of wha Jews had already done in the war, saying that now
they were determined that Palestine should never again be returned to the devastating
hands of the Turks.”
1918: At
Chalons, American troops including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein of the 165th
Regiment who would eventually receive the Croix de Guerre, drove back the
“Boche” who counter-attacked five times in a battle that would prove to be a
turning point in the war on the Western Front.
1919: In New
York, Archbishop Platon, “who is the senior surviving Bishop of the Russian
Church” delivered a speech today in which he said “I warn the Jews, woe will be
their future in Russia when a stable” i.e. non-Bolshevik “government is
restored.”
1919: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in Chicago for twelve year old Oscar
Birk, the “brother of Tena Birk.”
1919: Eight
days after she had passed away in San Francisco, funeral services are scheduled
to be held today in Chicago for Rose Rosenthal, the wife of Samuel Rosenthal.
1919: It was
reported today that New York District Attorney Edward Swann “has appointed Rose
Rothenberg to “serve as a deputy assistant to his staff” making her the first
woman to fill this post, which in her cased “will have special charge of the
cases involving girls and women in the local criminal courts.
1920: In
Halifax, Nova Scotia, the cornerstone was laid for the Robie Street Shul.
1920: As
matters deteriorate in the Middle East with the French and British asserting
their colonial plans, in Syria, French General “Gouraud gave Faisal an
ultimatum demanding he submit to French authority and disband his ‘Arab Army.’”
1921:
Birthdate of John Gordon Miller the son of London tobacconist and cousin of
violinist Yehudi Menuhin who served in RAF during WW II and went on to become
“a co-presenter of ‘How,’ Southern Television’s popular science show for
children.
1921: Sacco
and Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's
paymaster. The case of the two Italian
immigrants would become a cause célèbre among civil libertarians and their
reactionary opponents. Felix
Frankfurter, who would become the third Jewish member of the Supreme Court, was
part of the legal team that sought, unsuccessfully, to save their lives.
1921: In NYC,
Manhattan dentist “Howard N. Hyman and his wife Marie Ziegler gave birth to
Joan Hyman the University of Michigan graduate who became Joan Tisch when she
married Preston Robert “Bob” Tisch in 1948 with she had three children – Steve,
Jonathan and Laurie Tisch.
1922: “The
White Desert,” a silent German adventure movie filmed by cinematographer Mutz
Greenbaum.
1923: At
Inwood Country Club, which was “a so-called Jewish club” Bobby Jones led a
field of golfers as they teed off for the second day of the 1923 U.S. Open.
1924: It was
reported today that the approximately 80,000 Jews of Saloniki who had enjoyed
their office and shops on Sundays” lost that right when the Assembly in Athens
passed a law “imposing Sunday closing on the Jewish shops.”
1925: It
became known today when a judgment was entered in the First District Municipal
Court against Charles Berlin the “unfilled pledges amounting to nearly
$1,500,000 have been recovered by the Jewish War Relief Committee in the last
two years through civil actions.”
1926: The
rarity of suicide among Jews was commented on by the City of London Corner…at
an inquest into the suicide of Sophie Hart, said to have been the first act of
this kind among the Jews of London in the last twenty-five years.”
1927: Today
the “latest estimates of the earthquake casualties place the number killed in
Palestinian and Transjordanian cities and villages at 670 and the injured at
3,000” and “the property damage was to be $2,000,000.”
1928: In,
Timisoara, Transylvania Judah Loeb Fleisher and his wife gave birth to Ezra
Fleischer the Romanian born Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist who
served as the director of the Geniza Research Institute for Hebrew Poetry of
the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
1929: “Chaplain Praises Near East Schools” published
today quoted Reverend Raymond C. Knox, the chaplain of Columbia University, who
had just returned from tour that included Cairo, Constantinople and Palestine
as saying that “Jews and Moslems are
also seeking a wholesome spirit of unity in Palestine” and that “the American
colony, a group of sixty people, is doing splendid work in congested Jerusalem
among Jews, Armenians, Orthodox Greeks and Moslems.”
1929: “German Ant-Semites Easy” published today
described the case of Albert Bruchan who has begun serving a 15 month prison
sentence for fraud after having gotten several prominent Germans to invest in
an electric death ray machine which he told them would be placed in airplane
and then used to attack Jews in a Berlin synagogue.
1930:
Outfielder Harry Rosenberg made his major league debut with the New York
Giants.
1930: In
Knoxville, TN, Lucy (née Lawhorn) and William Hugh Burgin gave birth to Nellie
Paulina Burgin who gained fame as actress Polly Bergen who converted to Judaism
when she married Freddie Fields in 1957.
1930:
Birthdate of Transylvania native Shoney Alex Braun, the violinist who as a
youngster “would steal into the woods to hear Gypsies play until at the age of
13 he “was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp” and after the war which he
and his wife Shari survived wrote a “Symphony of the Holocaust.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/09/local/me-passings9.2
1931: In
Basle, Switzerland, Nahum Sokolow was elected president of the World Zionist
Organization today by a vote of 118 to 48, succeeding Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who
had been president for ten years.
1932: “A list
of 133 prominent Jews outside of the United States was published in today's
issue of The American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune” which included Alfred Isaacs,
the Governor General of Australia, Paul Hyams, the Belgian Minister of Justice,
and Henry Citron, “the Henry Ford of France.”
1933: In
Germany, all political parties were outlawed except for the Nazi Party.
1933: Hitler’s
cabinet formally approved the Concordat between the Vatican and Germany. The
Concordat was one of the earliest expressions of “approval” of the new Nazi
regime.
1933: In
Poland, “Dr. Jacob Wigodsky wrote in a Vilna newspaper: ‘We must continue to
fight against the Hitler pogroms…We are fighting for the equal rights of all,
everywhere in the world, but first and foremost, equal rights for us.’”
1933: Germany adopts The Law Regarding
Revocation of Naturalization and the Annulment of German Citizenship that
stripped German citizenship from Eastern European Jews. This will eventually
lead to the forced repatriation of Polish Jews living in German – an act of
great misery since the Poles did not want to admit the Jews.
1933: It was
reported today that Czechoslovak and German Governments have reached agreement
under which Czech citizens residing in Germany, who wish to return to
Czechoslovakia, will be permitted to take with them all their possessions. The
reports do not say if this includes Czech Jews who have been living in Germany.
1933: It was
reported today that “The Arische Rundschau, a Nazi weekly established but a few
months ago, has been discontinued.” (As reported by JTA)
1933: “The Oil
Sharks” produced by Sam Spiegel and co-starring Peter Lorre was released today
in Germany.
1934(2nd
of Av, 5694): Parashat Matot-Masei
1934:
“Forty-nine year old Valerian Dovgalevsky, the Ukrainian born “son of Zaiwel
Dovgalevsky and Berta Dovgalevsky, an “intimate of Lenin” and a participant in
the October Revolution died of a heart attack today in Paris where he has been
serving the Soviet Ambassador to France since 1927.
1934: A Jewish
delegation from Adrianople spoke with the Turkish government in an attempt to
ensure that police would continue to present to prevent looting.
1934:
Birthdate of Lee Friedlander, one of those Jews who used a Leica 35 mm camera
and rolls of black and white film to create unforgettable art.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/2.234/defining-the-jewish-photographer-1.417981
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/03/lee_friedlander_exhibit_at_cle.html
1935:
Birthdate of New York City native Paul Zweig, “the chairman of the department
of comparative of literature at Queens College” and the poet and critic who
wrote the “highly acclaimed” Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet.
1936: In New
York Pearl (née Zisez) and Alexander Turner gave birth to Gloria Rose Turner
who gained fame as screenwriter and actress Barbara Turner, the wife of actor
Vic Morrow and the mother of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
1937(6th
of Av, 5697): Sixty-two year old Julius L. Meir, the Portland, OR born son of
Abraham and Jeannette Hirsch Meier and University of Oregon trained lawyer who
served as the 20th Governor of Oregon and President of Congregation
Beth Elohim while raising three children with the former Grace R. Mayer passed
away today after which he was interred at Beth Israel Cemetery in Portland.
1937: “They
Won’t Forget” a film based on fictionalized version of the Leo Frank case
directed by Mervyn LeRoy, who produced it along with Jack L. Warner with a
script by Robert Rossen was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United
States today.
1938(15th
of Tammuz, 5698): Isaac Goldberg passed away. Born in 1887, he was an American
journalist, author, critic, translator, editor, publisher, and lecturer. Born
in Boston he studied at Harvard University and received a BA degree in 1910, a
MA degree in 1911 and a PhD in 1912. While he actively covered European culture
for the Boston Evening Transcript during World War I, Goldberg never actually
traveled abroad. In fact, he turned down a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship awarded
to Goldberg for travel to South America. He wrote biographies of H. L. Mencken,
Havelock Ellis, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, and George Gershwin, books on
theatrical and musical appreciation, and contributed articles for many
magazines. He also founded, published, and edited a monthly news magazine
called Panorama. He was fluent in Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, Italian,
and Portuguese and translated a variety of literary works into English. He
received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in 1932 to write a history
of Spanish and Portuguese literature in America. He was also a lecturer on
Hispanic literature at Harvard University from 1931 to 1932.
1938: Recognizing
the intent of the Evian Conference nations in regard to the Jews, a Nazi
newspaper headlines: "JEWS FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN PRICE--WHO WANTS THEM? NO
ONE."
1938:
Birthdate of self-proclaimed political activist Jerry Rubin who passed away in
1994
1938:
Birthdate of Moshe Safdie the native of Haifa whose parents moved to Canada in
1953 where he became a leading architect, designing “Habitat 67” as well as
fathering playwright Oren Safdie.
1938: A week
after their civil marriage in Amsterdam, Ruth and Max Nussbaum were
photographed “descending the steps of a Berlin synagogue” after they had been
“married under a chupah by Rabbi Baeck.
1939: On
Bastille Day, the 17,000 internees at Gurs Concentration Camp of Spanish origin
arranged themselves in military formation in the sports field and sang La
Marseillaise, followed by sports presentations and choral and instrumental
concerts.
1940: “The
fourth and last meeting of the National Executive Council of the Jewish War
Veterans is scheduled to take place this afternoon at the Belmont Plaza in New
York.
1940(8th
of Tammuz, 5700): Seventy-one-year old University of Cincinnati trained
orthopedic surgeon, Albert Henry Freiberg and the World War I veteran and
member of the board of Hebrew Union College who was the Cincinnati born son of
Amelia and Joseph Fienberg and the husband of Jeanette Freiberg as well as the
father of Joseph Freiberg passed away today.
https://litfl.com/albert-henry-freiberg/
1941(19th of
Tammuz, 5701): Six thousand Lithuanian Jews were killed.
1942:
Fifty-five year old Kamila Adelova was transported today from Terezin to the
Maly Trostinec death camp where she was murdered.
1942: Thousands of
Dutch Jews were arrested in Amsterdam and deported to Auschwitz, where many are
gassed.
1942: “The Pride of the Yankees” produced by
Samuel Goldwyn, with a screenplay by Jo Swerling and Herman J. Mankiewicz and
filmed by cinematographer Rudolph Maté was released by RKO Radio Pictures in
the United States today.
1942: The Przemysl,
Poland, ghetto is sealed by the Nazis.
1943: During WW II, on Sicily, as of today
Samuel Fuller and the rest of the 16th Regiment had fought their way
through Pietraperzia, Enna, and Villarosa as they head toward the high ground
west of the Cerami River.
1944(23rd of Tammuz,
5704): Hungarian
Jews held at the Reval, Estonia, slave-labor camp are shot in a nearby forest.
1944(23rd of Tammuz,
5704): Germans
murder hundreds of POWs and Jewish partisans at Vercors, France.
1944(23rd of Tammuz,
5704): Forty-two
Jews laboring in workshops at the Pawiak prison in Warsaw are executed by
Germans anticipating a Red Army assault.
1944: Approximately 200 Jews were alive today
in Grodno when it was liberated by Soviet troops.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/08.asp
1945: A train left Los Alamos carrying several
"bomb units" for Little Boy (the major non-nuclear parts of a
gun-type bomb) together with a single completed uranium projectile; the uranium
target was still incomplete.” Little Boy
was the name given to the first atomic boy which was developed by the Manhattan
Project under the command of Robert Oppenheimer.
1945: “As a result of Military Government Law
No. 52, all Reich-owned film assets of UFI Holding” a German film company
co-founded by Hermann Frenkel that the Nazis took control of” were seized
today.
1945: "Lest We Forget," an exhibition
of death-camp photography organized by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and
the Washington Evening Star
comes to an end. By the end of the tour nearly 90,000 Americans have viewed
this testament to the Holocaust.
1945: “The Cheaters,” a Christmas comedy
starring Joseph Schildkraut was released in the United States today.
1946: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and C.I.T.
and M.I.T graduate Ira Herskowitz geneticist who headed his own lab at the
University of California in San Francisco.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-analysis/ira-herskowitz-dies-51712
1947: Birthdate of Cy Young Award winning
pitcher and sportscaster Steve Stone. “He was one of the best Jewish pitchers
in major league history, 3rd career-wise in wins (107) and strikeout (1,065),
behind Ken Holtzman and Sandy Koufax, and 9th in games (320).“
http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=baseball&ID=54
1948: During Operation Dekiel, the Irgun
occupied the Arab village of Malha after a fierce battle. Several hours later,
the Arabs launched a counterattack, but Israeli reinforcements arrived, and the
village was retaken at a cost of 17 dead.
1948:
After failing to capture the northern Negev town of Negba, the Egyptians
attacked the settlement of Gal-On.
Gal-On was 15 miles east of Negba and another impediment to the Egyptian
advance towards Tel Aviv. The defenders
beat off the Egyptian attackers forcing them to seek another route to the
Jewish metropolis.
1948: The Israelis launched their third attack
on the Arab fortress of Latrun. Latrun
was held by the crack Arab Legion and blocked the normal road to
Jerusalem. The Arabs, who had modern
armored vehicles, beat off the attacking Israelis who had not anti-tank
weapons.
1948: As part of “Operation Dekel,” an offensive
designed to take the city of Nazareth, Israeli forces move southeast from the
coast and take the town of Shefaram.
1948: Forces of the Arab Liberation
Army which had been staying in the village began their retreat from Ein Kerem.
1948(7th of Tammuz,
5708): Sixty-eight-year-old San Francisco architect Samuel L. Hyman, the father
of Mrs. Gerald Marcus and Mrs. Richard Meyerhoff passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/07/15/85258193.html?pageNumber=23
1948: The Irgun lost 17 men in the
battle for the village of Mahla.
1948: Israeli
planes bombed the airport at Cairo.
1949(17th
of Tammuz, 5709): Tzom Tammuz
1949: “Follow
Me Quietly” a film noire directed by Richard Fleischer premiered in Los Angeles
today.
1950: Today,
Erev of Shabbat, Moscow radio broadcast charges that “Israel ‘openly sided with
the American aggressors’ in approving United Nations intervention in
Korea.” The broadcast repeated published
charges “that Prime Minister David Ben Gurion’s speech before the Israeli
Parliament was a repetition of recent statements by President Truman and
Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
1951: After
102 performances the curtain came down on “Make a Wish” a musical at the Winter
Garden Theatre with a book co-authored by Abe Burrows.
1956(6th
of Av, 5716): Parashat Devarim
1956(6th
of Av, 5716): Fifty-three year old Siegfried Ferdinand Stephan Nada, the son of
a Galician lawyer and recipient of a Doctorate in Musicology from the
University of Vienna who served as an officer with the British Army during WW
II and was a Professor of Anthropology at the ANU and Dean of the School of
Pacific Studies at the time of his death on this date.
1956: Sidney
Schwartz is scheduled to play this morning in the semi-finals of the New York
State clay court tennis championships.
1956(6th of
Av, 5716): Isaac Rosenfeld passed away. Born in Chicago in 1918, he was a
Jewish-American writer who became a prominent member of the New York literary
elite. Rosenfeld wrote one novel Passage from Home which, according to
literary critic Marck Shechner, "helped fashion a uniquely American voice
by marrying the incisiveness of Mark Twain to the Russian melancholy of
Dostoevsky," and many articles for The Nation, Partisan Review,
and The New Republic. Some of those articles were posthumously published
in a volume titled An Age of Enormity, and his short stories were later
published as Alpha and Omega.
1958: In Iraq,
Arab nationalists overthrew the monarchy which had been installed by the
British, in a violent, gruesome revolt that included the murder of Faisal II.
As with so much turmoil in the Middle East, this had nothing to do with Israel.
The revolt was anti-Western. As the Arab leader Nasser said, the Arabs were not
anti-Western because of Israel. They were anti-Israel because Israel was
Western.
1958:
Birthdate of producer Scott Rudin who is “one of the few people who have an
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony”
1960(19th
of Tammuz, 5720): Eighty-eight year old Mrs. Louise Liebowitz Frankel, the wife
of “fur jobber Abraham Frankel and mother of Anna Stark and Sidney H. Frankel
who “was a founder in 1935 of the Brooklyn Women’s Division of the American
Jewish Congress” and an active member of Hadassah passed away today at Doctors
Hospital.
1960: Congress
authorized a one-time Chaplain’s Medal for Heroism today. The medal was created to honor The Four
Dorchester Chaplains and had to be created because of the strict definition of heroism
under fire used for awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor. Rabbi Alexander
Goode, of blessed memory, was one of the four recipients of the medal.
1960: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services conducted by Rabbi Max Nussbaum were
held today for movie executive Buddy Adler at Temple Israel which were attended
by “more than 600 people including George Jessel who delivered the eulogy and
his widow Anita Louise, the actress.
1962: “That
Touch of Mink,” a light-hearted comedy co-produced by Stanley Shapiro who also
co-authored the screenplay was released today in the United States.
1963: Today,
in Youngstown, OH, while “addressing a meeting of Slovak American of the Roman
Catholic faith,” “Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy drew attention to the fact
that anti-Jewish discrimination still exists in the United States and must be
combatted.” (JTA)
1963: Edward
Cassidy, Paul Joachin and John Corrigan who “were accused by the policy of
being members of Nazi groups were arrested in The Bronx this morning” and “were
charged with having a truckload of arms and ammunition.”
1963: In
“Keeping the Peace” published today Dana Adams Schmidt reviews Between Arab
and Israeli by Lt. Gen. E.L.M. Burns
1966: “Torn
Curtain” a Cold War thriller starring Paul Newman and David Opatoshu was
released by Universal Pictures today in the United States.
1966(26th
of Tammuz, 5726): Eighty-four-year-old Columbia trained attorney Samuel
Blumberg, “who represented trade associations and manufacturers and who “had
been Chairman of Congregation B’nai” while being married to the former
Jeannette Kahn, of blessed memory, the former Ruth Alton Geiger of blessed
memory and the former Josephine Harris Kutscher passed away today.
1966:
Birthdate of Brian Selznick the New Jersey native and distant blood relation of
producer David O. Sleznick who “won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for The
Invention of Hugo Cabret, “an American historical fiction book” which he
both wrote and illustrated.
1967:
Chile voted against the reunification of Jerusalem after the *Six-Day War
1967: As
artillery exchanges and aerial duels erupt near the Suez Canal. Israeli forces
shot down 7 Egyptian fighter aircraft.
1969: As they
worked for “finding a workable method for reaching a lasting accord” between
Israel and her Arab neighbors, “Assistant Secretary of State of Joseph J. Sisco
met for two and a half hours today with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko” in
Moscow.
1973(14th
of Tammuz, 5733): Parashat Balak
1973(14th
of Tammuz, 5733): Seventy-four year old Rabbi William S. Maley who had been the
spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Yeshurun, “the largest congregation in
the Southwest” since 1946 died “suddenly today after suffering a heart attack.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/malev-william-s
1973(14th
of Tammuz, 5733): Seventy-year-old Frankfort born Dr. Walter J. Fischel, the
‘professor emeritus of Semitic languages and literature at the University of
California, the husband of the former Irene Markrich, with whom he had a
daughter, Corinne, passed away today.
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/fischel
1975:
Following a “similar announcement in the Soviet weekly Nedelya, Intourist announced that ‘tourist-Zionists’ will be
regarded as ‘interfering in Russia’s internal affairs.’”
1976: After 4
days of debate, the Security Council of the United Nations failed to adopt a
resolution supported by most African states condemning Israel’s raid on Entebbe
as violation of Uganda’s sovereignty. At
the same time, a majority could not be mustered to support the Anglo-American
resolution condemning the hijacking of airplanes and calling on “all
governments to prevent and punish all such terrorist acts.” (Note – Is today’s
news nothing more than a recycling of yesterday’s events?) As reported by
Kathleen Teltsch
1976: In light
of Mexico’s denunciation of the raid on Entebbe, Zionist in the United States
are calling on American Jews to boycott Mexican goods and to avoid travel to
Mexico.
1977: “I Never
Promised You a Rose Garden,” “film based
on the Joanne Greenberg novel of the same name was released today in the United
States.
1978: Anatoly
Sharansky was “found guilty of espionage and treason and sentenced to 3 years
in prison plus 10 years in a forced labor camp.”
1978: “The
Swarm,” the movie version of Arthur Herzog’s novel of the same name directed
and produced by Irwin Allen was released today in the United States.
1978: “Moscow
dissident Alexandr Ginzburg was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in a forced
labor camp for anti-Soviet activities and propaganda and Viktor Petkus,
chairman of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group – to 10 years imprisonment, as “an
agent of foreign intelligence”.
1979(19th
of Tammuz, 5739): Parashat Pinchas
1979(19th
of Tammuz, 5739): Sixty-eight-year-old Vienna born American “art critic and
author” Alfred Werner an editor for the Jewish Encyclopedia editor who came to
the United States after spending a year at Dachau, the husband of Lis Werner,
who was preceded in death by his first two wives – Trudy and Judith – passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/16/archives/alfred-werner-critic-and-author.html
1980(1st of
Av, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Av
1981(12th
of Tammuz, 5741): One soldier was killed and five others were injured by a
terrorist’s bomb in southern Gaza.
1982: After
premiering at Cannes, “Pink Floyd – The Wall” with music by Michael Kamen was
released by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer today in the United States.
1985: Today,
the New York Times described David Cantor’s performance of “Che” in the musical
“Evita” as “marvelous…never lapsing into excessive snideness, singing
gorgeously and, at times, sailing into the stratosphere with his crystalline
'high-flying, adored' pianissimi."
1989: An
Israeli F-16 shot down a Syrian MIG-21. This marks the first time that an
Israeli piloted F-16 has shot down an enemy aircraft.
1992: Shimon
Peres begins serving as Israel’s Foreign Minister.
1992: Yitzhak
Rabin, Israel’s new Prime Minister awaited a response to his offer made the day
before to travel to the capitals of any Arab country to further the cause of
peace in the Middle East.
1995: “The
Indian in the Cupboard” directed by Frank Oz with music by Randy Edelman was
released in the United States today.
1997: The
opening of the 15th Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv was marred by
disaster. As the Australian team walked
across a bridge, the bridge collapsed plunging the team into the Yarkon
River. Greg Small Elizabeth Sawicki,
Yetty Bennett and Warren Zines lost their lives and 60 others were injured.
1998(20th
of Tammuz, 5768): Ninety year old Janice Rubenstein Sachse, the daughter of
Madeleine Phillips Rubenstein and the wife of Victor Alphonse Sachse passed
away today after which she was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Baton Rouge,
LA.
2000: Israeli
and Palestinian leaders continued their secret negotiations at Camp David for a
third day today.
2001(23rd
of Tammuz, 5761): Twenty eight year old David Cohen of Betar Illit “died today
of injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting on July 12.
2002: In “The
Shadow of Circumstance,” published tdoayDaphne Merkin describes her visit to
Israel with her daughter to attend a nephew’s wedding; a visit of unbelievable
normality except for the fact it was bracketed by two bombings and included a
“red alert” in Jerusalem.
2002: A
three-week workshop on Jewish History and Culture opens at Nanjing University,
Nanjing, China.
2002(5th
of Av, 5762): Eighty-eight year David Asseo who was the Hakham Bashi (or Chief
Rabbi) of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 until his death in 2002 on this
date.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/world/david-asseo-88-of-turkey-europe-s-senior-chief-rabbi.html
2003: Today,
in an act that right wingers would have called treasonous, political
commentator Robert Novak’s column publicly divulged he CIA identity of Valery
Plame.
2003: Jerry
Springer filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio.
2004: After
having premiered in February at the Berlin Film Festival, “Avanim,” “Raphael
Nadjari’s fourth feature film was screened today at the Jerusalem Film
Festival.
2005: As the
police sealed off streets and scoured homes for clues about the London bombing
attacks today, untold thousands of people” in the U.K. “and across Europe stood
in silence for two long, quiet minutes today in memory of those who died in the
attacks just a week earlier” while “Mayor Ken Livingstone said the
commemoration drew in "young Londoners, old Londoners, Muslim, Christian
and Jew, every faith, every nationality" sending a message to the bombers
"you will not succeed."
2005: Israelis
continued to mourn for, Rachel Ben
Abu and Nofar Horowitz, two 16-year-old Israeli girls who were best friends and
who were killed in two days ago in a terrorist
bombing, and who were buried in a joint funeral at cemetery outside of
Tel Aviv.
2006: Stéphane
Frédéric Hessel “was made Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur, having already
been given the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit in 1999.”
2006: George
R. Blumenthal, the Milwaukee, WI born son of Lillian and Marcel Blumenthal and
hold of a Ph.D. in phsyics began serving as the tenth Chancellor of the
University of California, Santa Cruz.
2006: While Jews across the world recite the lines
Sim Shalom at the conclusion with a renewed fervor they also offer up prayers
for the safety of the IDF and the citizens of Israel as they deal with attacks
from terrorists operating from Gaza and Lebanon.
2006: This morning,
“one of the branch heads of naval intelligence, Lieutenant-Colonel Y. briefed
the head of naval intelligence, Colonel Ram Rothberg, telling him that
"ships enforcing Israel's naval blockade on Hezbollah should take into
account the possibility of a C-802 missile being fired on them."
2006: The INS
Hanit, Sa'ar 5-class corvette, was damaged today when it was struck by a C-802
anti-ship missile fired by Hezbollah.
2006: The
following were among a total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who died
of heart attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers were killed in
the Israel-Hizbullah war: St.-Sgt. Tal Amgar, 21, of Ashdod; Cpl. Shai Atias,
19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitz, 21, of Haifa; and St.-Sgt. Dov
Shtierenshos, 37, of Karmiel. Yehudit Itzkovich, 58, of Meron, and her grandson
Omer Pesahov, seven, of Nahariya.
2007: In
Jerusalem, Off the Wall Comedy Empire presents "The Jerusalem Comedy
Show," starring David Kilimnick, Boris Melamed and Anat Hoffman, a comedy
show about life in Jerusalem.
2007: The
Cedars Rapids Gazette featured “N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg’s Jewish faith a
non-issue” describes Bloomberg’s upbringing as a Conservative Jew in Medford,
Mass. and his philanthropic support of Jewish institutions. The article states
that “there’s no evidence Jews will support Bloomberg because of their shared
faith.” But the article says nothing about how non-Jews would respond to a
serious Jewish candidate for President.
2007: PLO Ambassador
Afif Sieh, a supporter of Fatahn and Ali Abunimah, a support of Hamas appeared
on Worldview, a daily global affairs program produced by Chicago Public Radio
station WBEZ (91.5),
2008: Eli
Aflalo succeeded Yaakov Edri was Minister of Immigrant Absorption. Edri continued to serve as Minister of Negev
and Galilee Development.
2008: In
Washington, D.C. Ethan Canin
reads from and signs his new novel, America
America, at Politics and Prose Bookstore.
2008: Barring
any rebellion before votes are tallied, Randi Weingarten is expected to be
elected to the top position of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of
Teachers at its Chicago convention.
2009: Arthur
Laurents “Broadway’s Last Ferocious Man” celebrates his 92nd
birthday.
2009: Adam
Stern was selected to be a starting right fielder for the Southern League North
Division All Star team, which was played today in Birmingham, Alabama/
2009: At the
18th Maccabiah Games the following basketball games are played: Germany v
Canada, Greece v Brazil, Russia v Argentina and Mexico v the United States.
2009: Israel
accused Lebanon of violating United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701
today after a Hizbullah arms cache hidden inside a southern Lebanese town
accidentally exploded.
2009: The
softball tournament at the Maccabiah Games was brought to an abrupt close on
this afternoon when police stormed the field at the Baptist Village without any
prior warning.
2009: In a new
signal to Iran, two Sa'ar 5-class Israeli Navy ships crossed through the Suez
Canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea today to beef up Israel's naval
presence near Eilat.
2000: Today’s
MLB All Star Game could feature play by four Jewish players -- "Ryan
Braun, Kevin Youkilis, and Ian Kinsler and pitcher Jason Marquis who had the
most wins in his league through June 30.” (As reported by Josh Levitt)
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/211251-all-star-jews
2009: In a
move that threatens to strain diplomatic ties, Britain has blocked the sale of
spare parts for Israel’s fleet of missile gunships because they were used in
the recent campaign in Gaza.
2010: Tovah Feldshuh,
star of stage and big and small screen, is scheduled to make a special
appearance at the screening of the indie comedy hit Goyband today where
she will receive the Jersey Shore Film Festival Award for Artistic Achievement
2010: The
Knesset voted today, in a preliminary reading, in favor of a bill that would
prevent the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority if it continues to
encourage and enforce a boycott of goods manufactured in Jewish communities.
2011: “Daphni
Leef inspired the Occupy Israel” movement.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/14/2011/daphni-leef-inspires-occupy-israel
2011: Nirvana,
a dance show from Korea, which is based on ancient ritual Buddhist dances, is
scheduled to appear at TAPAC in Tel Aviv.
2011: Violinist Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to
return to Israel to perform Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the
Jerusalem Symphony under the baton of Dmitry Sitkovetsky at the Jerusalem
Theater.
2011: A memorial service for Suzanne Rosenbaum
Katz, wife of Bert Katz and a longtime member of Hadassah, Temple Judah and its
Sisterhood, is scheduled to be held at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2011: Israeli Air Force
planes bombed two smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza in retaliation for rocket
attacks on southern Israeli communities.
2012: French filmmaker
Claude Lanzman received the French Legion of Honor.
2011: The mayor of San
Antonio, Texas, Julián Castro, signed agreements with Israel to share knowledge
and economic cooperation today as he was wrapping up a five-day trip to Israel
focused on economic cooperation.
2012: Jerusalem’s
Vertigo Dance Company is scheduled to perform for the last time at the Durham
Performing Arts Center in North Carolina.
2012: A man set himself
on fire on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street during a social justice rally tonight,
police said. The Haifa man identified as Moshe Silman, 46 years old, came out
of an apartment building, poured flammable material over his clothes and body
and lit himself with a burning object (As reported by Yaakov Lappin, Michael
Omer-Man and Gil Shefler)
2012: Rabbi Brous is
scheduled to lead a discussion about “The IKAR Phenomenon” as part of the Bnai
David Judea Nosh and Drosh Summer Series.
2012: Israeli
organizers expect tens of thousands to take part in nationwide demonstrations
tonight to mark the first anniversary of last summer’s social justice protests
2012(24th of
Tammuz): Yarhrzeit for the Jews of Jerusalem who were murdered by the crusaders
on this date in 1099 (5772)
2012(24th of
Tammuz, 5772): Sixty five year old “Gustin L. Reichbach who went from the
carefree fraternity life to leading student protests at Columbia University in
1968 and then to a career as a fiercely independent lawyer and judge” passed
away today. (As reported by Jim Dwyer)
2013: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman.
2013: Final day of the
30th annual Jerusalem Film Festival.
2013: Pianist Sagy Segal and Vocalist Gal Klein are
scheduled to perform at a special Bastille Day Concert at the Eden-Tamir Music
Center.
2013: Observance of
Bastille Day which provides an excellent opportunity to consider the uneven
history of the Jews of France which, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia dates
to the first decades of the common era when Jews were found at Vienna and Lyon.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/newsletter/24/main_article.asp
http://www.timesofisrael.com/france-thanks-sephardi-jews-for-chocolate-500-years-too-late/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/France.html
The Jews of France: A
History from Antiquity to the Present by Esther Benbassa http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-jews-of-france-a-history-from-antiquity-to-the-present-esther-benbassa/1104161920?ean=9781400823147
2013: The police reported that another haredi attack on a
religious soldier took place this afternoon in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem
neighborhood of Beit Yisrael, close to Mea Shearim. (As reported by Jeremy
Sharon)
2013:
Today “Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu telephoned Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas and said he hoped the two sides could resume peace
talks, stalled for three years, Israeli officials said
2014: On
Bastille Day, “celebrations in Paris turned violent” when “anti-Israel rioters
attacked the Don Isaac Abravanel synagogue on Rue de la Roquette, and its
congregants fought back.” (As reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014: In
New Orleans, final shivah minyan for Dietician, artist Bettie Florence Stovall
Rosenbaum who passed away at the age of 87 is scheduled to take place at the
home of Linda and Scott Hart in Lakeview. (As reported by the Crescent City
Jewish News)
2014: “The
Places You’ll Go” by Israeli playwright Hila Ben Gera, a graduate of Yoram
Lowenstein’s Performing Arts Studio in Tel Avi is scheduled to open at @Dixon
Place in New York.
2014:
“Sukkah City USA” and “Under the Same Sun” are scheduled to be shown at the
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “A
delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations is scheduled to arrive today, and meet government and military
officials and tour areas susceptible to rocket fire by Hamas.” (As reported by
JTA)
2014:
Following a day in which the IAf shot down a drone for the first time over Tel
Aviv, 2 rockets hit the city of Eilat at Israel’s southernmost tip tonight,
lightly injuring five people in the first attack on the city from Gaza since
the campaign began.
2014:
Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said today that Hamas still has almost 90 percent of their rockets as
the government prepares to consider Egypt’s proposal for a cease fire.
2014: The
Israeli government accepted a cease-fire that was backed by Palestinian
president Mahmoud Abbas but would prove worthless since he could not control
Hamas.
2015(27th
of Tammuz, 5775): Eighty-four year old pioneering news broadcaster Marlene
Sanders, the wife of television producer Jerome Toobin and the mother of CNN
legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin passed away today.
2015:
“Paper Planes” and “Songs my Brothers Taught Me” are scheduled to be shown at
the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2015: “Wet
Hot American Summer” is scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film
Festival.
2015: The
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is scheduled to host
Benjamin Steiner's seminar, "The Lieberman Clause Revisited: Panacea or
Polemic?"
2015: In
what some may consider a case of carrying coals to New Castle, the OU Israel
Center is scheduled to host a “Challah Baking Workshop” in Jerusalem.
2015: At
its convention in Philadelphia, the NAACP hosted the showing of “Rosenwald” a
documentary about Julius Rosenwald whose philanthropy created educational
opportunities for African-Americans in the Jim Crow 1930’s.
2016: The
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a special
commemorative event in memory of Elie Weisel who passed away last Saturday
2016(8th
of Tammuz, 5776): Eighty-six year old New Orleans advertising Peter Arno Mayer
passed away today.
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/ad-executive-peter-mayer-dies-funeral-set-for-monday/
2016: In
Des Moines, Iowa AIPAC is scheduled to host its annual event, “Iowa Celebrates
Israel”
2016: The
UKJF is scheduled to host a showing of “Labyrinth of Lies,” a “drama about
an idealistic young prosecutor who begins a campaign against Nazis who
seemingly faded away at the end of World War II” at Cineworld Manchester.
2016: In
Jerusalem, “The High Rabbinical Court” sentenced a man to five years “in prison
for refusing to give his wife a divorce.
2016: In
what may be a sign of changing diplomatic dynamics “Foreign Ministry
Director-General Dore Gold met Chad President Idriss Déby today at his
presidential palace in the city of Fada,
2016: “My
Friend Yaniv” and “To Take a Wife” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem
Film Festival.
2017: Today
on “a day of prayer for Moslems and the eve of the Jewish Sabbath two
policeman, Hail Satawin and Kamil Shnaan, were brutally gunned down and a third
was lightly wounded “in a terror attack this morning when three terrorists
opened fire at Border Police forces at the Lions' Gate in Jerusalem's Old
City.” (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2017(20th
of Tammuz, 5777): “An infant girl was among three people injured in a firebomb
attack in Jerusalem today hours after two Israeli police were killed in an
attack by three Israeli-Arab terrorists on the Temple Mount.”
2017:
"Majesty and Humility: The Life, Leadership, and Legacy of Joseph B.
Soloveitchik" led by Professor Jacob J. Schacter is scheduled to come to
an end.
2017:
“Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled to open at Houston, Portland, OR, Detroit,
Dearborn, MI and Eugene, OR.
2017: The
master’s hockey teams are scheduled to compete for the gold at today’s
Maccabiah games in Jerusalem.
2017: As
part of the events surrounding the Maccabiah Games, “a Kabbalat Shabbat and lunch
are scheduled to take place at Jerusalem’s Cinema City.
2018: Inbal
Segev and Juho Pohjonen are scheduled “to open their program at the Tannery in
New Lebanon with two works by Beethoven.”
2018(2nd
of Av, 5778): Ninety-four year old Hazel Block who along with her husband, Dr.
Walter Block, z"l were former long-time members of Temple Judah passed
away today in Minneapolis.
https://www.thegazette.com/obituaries/hazel-block-20180722-0000126088-01
2018(2nd
of Av): On the Jewish calendar Yahrtzeit or “Talmudic scholar and author of
Mate Aharon” Rabbi Aaron ben Moses Teomim of Worms.
2018(2nd
of Av, 5778): Parashat Matot – Masay marks the end of the reading of the Book
of Numbers
2019 In an
interview with Argentine journalist Marcelo Longobardi scheduled to be aired
today on the CNN en Español channel, “President Mauricio Macri of Argentina
says his country is “moving forward” to declare the armed Lebanese group
Hezbollah a terrorist organization.”
2019: In
Saratoga, CA, Congregation Beth David is scheduled to host “Run, Hide, Fight!”,
a presentation hosted by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s “on what to do when
confronted with an active shooter.”
2019: The
Jewish Federation of Edmonton, Ontario, is scheduled to host its “Bagel Loop
Annual, Run, Roll,” an event open to the entire community.
2019: The New York Times published reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities,
1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi, Serious Eater: A Food Lover’s
Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption by “knish-loving journalist” Ed
Levine, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff and A
Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father by David Maraniss,
2020: ASF
IJE Travels in Jewish History... from home and the Sephardic Heritage Alliance
(SHAI) is scheduled to present “Passport to Persia,” “an online pilgrimage to
Iranian Jewish Sites and Stories,
powered by Diarna Geo-Museum Tours”
2020: The
Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host “Become a Wondernaut,” a
hands-on celebration of the 51st anniversary of the moon landing.
2020: Live
on Zoom, the Leo Baeck Institute Book Club is scheduled to host a discussion of
“Her First American by Lore Segal.”
2020: The
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education is scheduled to host “U.S. Army Colonel
(Ret.) Krewasky A. Salter, Executive Director of First Division Museum at
Cantigny, as he chronicles the 1st Infantry Division’s legendary military
involvement from the Battle of the Bulge to the occupation of Germany.”
2020: The
JWA is scheduled to co-host “Poetry in Times of Peril: Four Women’s Vocies,”
featuring Alondra Bobadilla, Marilyn Nelson, Alicia Ostriker, and Alicia Jo
Rabins
2020: The
Riverway Project is scheduled to present online “Riverway Café: Moses’
Wilderness Survival Skills.”
2020: The
Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to host “Jewish Comedy and Jewish Satire,” a
virtual multimedia talk by former “Mork and Mindy” story editor and writer
David Misch on Jews and comedy, suffering and stereotypes.”
2020: Today
the United Synagogue is scheduled to celebrate its 150th anniversary
for which the Chief Rabbi issued a special message that reminds us that “the
importance of the number 150 in Jewish tradition is rooted in the fact that
there are 150 chapters in the Book of Psalms.”
2020: As Israelis begin the day,
they will wonder how much higher the total number of cases will be since some
20,251 active cases of the coronavirus were reported in Israel as of yesterday
afternoon, the highest such tally since the onset of the epidemic in the
country, bringing the total number of cases since the beginning of the outbreak
to 39,871.
2021: KlezCalifornia
is scheduled to present a community-building online social event with laughs,
recipes, Jewish themes and games for “thinking people.”
2021: Temple Emanuel of Newton is
scheduled to present an evening focused on “Israel and Anti-Semitism” led by
Rabbi Aliza.
2021: The 7th Global
Forum for Combating Ant-Semitism is scheduled to continue for a second day in
Jerusalem.
2021: The Streicker Center is
scheduled to host the second session of “Israel Therapy” which “is for those
who love the Jewish state — or love to hate it, hate to love it, wonder why it
doesn’t always love them back.”
2021: “Gan HaLev Congregation of
San Geronimo Valley and Fairfax Library are scheduled to present a discussion
of Arthur Miller’s 1945 novel Focus, which addressed the rising tide of
antisemitism in America during WWII.
2022: LSJS is scheduled to present
Rabbi Jeremy lecturing on “Being Human,” his shiur on Parashat Balak.
2022: President Biden is scheduled
to continue his trip to the Middle East which includes visits to Israel and
Saudi Arabia for a second day.
2022: The Vilna Shul, Boston’s
Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to present a screening of “40 Days of
Teshuvah,” followed by a discussion led by Rabbi David Jaffe.
2022: “Bad Jews,” a play by Joshua
Harmon is scheduled to open at the Arts Theatre in London
2022: As part of the Yiddish
Civilization Lecture Series, YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture in English
by Sonia Collance on “Tea
Arcizewska’s play Miryeml
and Yiddish Plays by Women.”
2023: “Rite of Passage,” Izzy Salant’s “new
semi-autobiographical play” which “brings his family’s true story to life” is
scheduled to be performed for a second night at the Windhover Center for the
Performing Arts.
2023: In Columbus, OH, the Book Club at Tiftereth
Israel is scheduled to discuss Well of Living Insight: Comments on the
Siddur.
2023: “Yid-Stock” sponsored by the
yiddishbookcenter.org is scheduled to continue for a second night.
