This Day, July 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 16
622: The
Prophet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the
beginning of the Islamic calendar. The
importance of this to Jewish history should require no explanation.
1099: As the
Crusaders sacked Jerusalem, they burned an untold number of Jewish scrolls and
books. According to Matti Friedman, the
Christian soldiers spared some of the
texts with the hope that Jews in other communities would ransom them. Among these books was the Aleppo Codex.
[For more on this topic see The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman]
1212: In Spain, an Almohades Army was defeated
by a coalition of Catholic forces at The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa,. The
Almohades were a puritanical Moslem sect that had taken control of the southern
portion of the Iberian Peninsulas. As can be seen by their attack on the Jewish
community of Castille during which they seized the Codes Hilleli, a 600 year
old Biblical manuscript considered to be the oldest Hebrew copy of the Bible in
Spain and the decision of the family of Maimonides to leave Spain rather than
live under their rule, the Almohades did not practice the policies of religious
acceptance attributed to other Islamic sects at this time. At the time the Christian victory seemed
liked a plus for the Jews of Spain.
However, this proved to be illusory since the victory was a major step
in The Reconquista – the uniting of Spain under Christian monarchs which would
culminate with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
1216: Pope
Innocent III, a prelate who had an inimical effect on the Jewish people died.
He presided over the Fourth Lateran Council which among other things which
enacted a series of anti-Semitic canons including those that required the Jews
to wear a distinctive badge on their clothing and to pay for unfunded Christian
tithes. Other banned Jews from holding public office and denied Jews who had
converted to Christianity the right to return to the faith of their fathers. In 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council, called by
Pope Innocent III, decreed that, on the basis of Numbers 15:37-41, Jews should
wear distinctive dress (a restriction also applied to Saracens and later to
heretics, prostitutes and lepers. In addition, a distinctive mark was imposed
on their clothing -- centuries before the Nazis' Yellow Star -- the badge of
shame, the shape and color of which varied from country to country. The badge
of shame made Jews social outcasts, exposing them to both physical and verbal
abuse.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/innocent3_letterjews.html
1391:
Valencia's King Pedro IV ordered that all Jews who had hidden in Christian
houses were to be allowed to return to their homes unmolested. Furthermore he
decreed that synagogues were not to be turned into churches. This did not
prevent him from personably confiscating all the property of those Jews who had
either been murdered or fled.
1547: Pope
Paul II issued Meditatio Cordis a Bull that brought the Inquisition to Portugal
establishing offices in Lisbon, Evora, Coimbra, and even in Goa. (From The
History of the Jewish People)
1588:
Negotiations between the Spanish and the English broke off and the English
fleet at Plymouth prepared to do battle against the Spanish Armada as soon as
its location could be ascertained.
Victory for the Spanish would be a disaster for the Jews since it would
mean an end to the haven in Protestant Holland and the spread of the
Inquisition to the British Isles.
1663: In San
Miguel, Spain Felipe Nieto, the son of Phinehas Nieto and brother of David
Nieto the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue community in London and his wife Maria Flores Viya gave birth to Giusepe Nieto Viya.
1666: Francis
Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, under whose leadership a group of
Sephardic Jews migrated to Suriname in 1652 and “settled in the Jodensavanne
area” passed away today.
1707: “Dixit
Dominus,” “a psalm setting by George Frideric Handel based on Psalm 110 was
performed for the first time today.
1775: Marie
Elizabeth Louise Dubois, a native of Canada, and Ezekiel Solomon gave birth to
Ezekiel Solomon, Jr.
1781: A letter
was sent to Mordecai Sheftall instructing him to “deliver to Colonel William
Few One Thousand Silver Dollars out of the money in your hands belonging to the
State of Georgia…
1782: First
performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. Seventeen
eighty-two also marked the beginning of
the relationship between Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, the son of a
Jewish convert who had trained as a priest. Together, they co-produced such
classics as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni" and
"Cosi fan tutte".
1785(9th
of Av, 5545): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’AV
1790: In
Philadelphia, Jacob de Leon and his wife gave birth to Abraham de Leon “who
served as a surgeon’s mate in the War of 1812” and “practiced medicine in
Charleston, SC” while being Married Isabella Nones of Philadelphia.
1790: The
District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after
the signing of the Residence Act. Isaac Pollock, the grandson of one of the
founders of the Newport Jewish community, reportedly arrived in D.C. in 1795
making him the city’s first Jewish resident. [For more information about the
Washington Jewish Community see Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
http://www.jhsgw.org/ ]
1793(7th
of Av, 5553): Catherine “Kitty” Solomons who was married in the Great Synagogue
in 1792 passed away today.
1798:
Birthdate of Daniel Lope, the Charleston, SC born son of David Lopez who died
almost three months exactly after his birth.
1804(8th
of Av, 5564): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1815:
Birthdate of Wolf Alois Meisel, the native of Roth-Janowitz who became a
leading Hungarian rabbi despite his father’s conversion to Christianity.
1823(8th
of Av, 5583): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1823:
Birthdate of Gerson Wolf, the native of Holleschau, Moravia, the “Austrian
historian and educator” whose involvement in the political upheavals of 1848
and 1849 almost cost him his career.
1825(1st
of Av, 5585): Rosh Chodesh Av
1825(1st
of Av, 5585): Ephraim Hart, one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange,
passed away today. Born in Furth,
Bavaria, he served as a private in the Continental Army during the American
Revolution. While living in Philadelphia, he joined Mickvé Israel in 1782 and
married Frances Noah, sister of Manuel Noah in the following year. By 1787, he hand moved to New York where his
success as a businessman led to him being one of the founders of the Board of
Stock Brokers in 1792.
1829:
Birthdate Graziadio Isaiah Ascoli, a native of Austria who was the “godfather”
of all Italian philologists.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1901-ascoli-graziadio-isaiah
1831:
Birthdate of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, the King of Persia who employed Jakob
Eduard Polak as his personal physician for 5 years.
1832: Henry
Clay, the Senator from Kentucky, wrote a letter to Solomon Etting a Jewish
businessman from Baltimore, MD. Etting
had written a letter to Clay complaining about the Senator’s derogatory use of
the term “Jew.” In his letter, Clay
apologized since his use of the term Jew was intended to describe one person
name either Moses Meyers or Meyer Moses and was not used to cast aspiration on
the Jewish people. Clay claimed that he judged people as individuals and he was
sure that there were individual Jews, Christians and Moslems who were bad
people. Furthermore, Clay claimed to
have many Jewish friends and acquaintances including the Gratz’s of Lexington,
KY who are relatives of the Gratz family of Philadelphia, PA.
1836:
Birthdate of German physiologist Isidor Rosenthal.
1837: In
Vienna, Jonas Königswarter and his wife gave birth to Moritz Königswarter the
banker whose services to the Emperor earned him “the cross of the Order of
Francis.
1841(28th
of Tammuz): Moshe Teitelbaum, the Rebbe of Ujhely in Hungary passed away
today. Born in 1759 he also was known as
the Yismach Moshe,(Moses Rejoiced) which
was also the name of text containing homilies on the Torah which was first
published in 1849. Some of his descendants became leaders of the Satmar
Chassidim.
1842(9th
of Av, 5602): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1842: Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam (aka The Rebbe of Shineva), the son
of Admor Chaim Halberstram and his second wife Devorah Halberstram gave birth
to Rabbi Moshe Halberstram, the husband of Esther Mindel Halberstram.
1843(18th
of Tammuz, 5603): Tzom Tammuz observed
1847: In Baltimore Amalie and William Solomon Rayner
gave birth to philanthropist Bertha Rayner Frank, the wife of Dr. Samuel Leon
Frank whom she married in 1869 and who “became the epicenter of a national
debate on anti-Semitism when she forced an Atlantic City hotel to publicly
apologize for refusing to serve Jews.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/frank-bertha
1848: Today,
the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia was formally organized, with
Solomon Solis as its first president.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=479&letter=H
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=258&letter=P&search=Rabbi%20Leon%20H.%20Elmaleh
1853: Birthdate
of Hechingen, Germany native Berthold Baruch who moved to St. Louis at the age
of seventeen where he was an executive with the Mercantile Library before
moving on to Los Angeles where he helped to organize the Capitol Milling
Company and served on the Board of Directors of Congregation B’nai B’rith while
being married to Rose Wile of Laporte, IN.
1855(1st of
Av, 5615): Rosh Chodesh Av observed on the same day that the United States
signed the Treaty of Hellgate
1856: Samuel
Belasco married Hannah Isaacs at the Bevis Marks Synagogue today.
1858:
"Progress of Liberal Ideas in England" published today stated that
The Jew Bill, which has so often met its fate at the portals of the House of
Lords, has at last managed to secure a majority of forty-six on a second
reading, and all doubt as to its ultimate triumph may now be considered at an
end. No measure, since the Reform bill, has met with so many reverses, and has
had so little reason arrayed against it.
1859: In
Albany, Oregon, Bohemian natives Jacob Fleischner and Fanny Nadler gave birth
to Isaac Newton Fleishner, an 1878
graduate of St. Augustine’s College, a partner in Fleischner, Mayer &
Company, “the largest wholesale dry goods house on the Pacific coast” and
President of the local B’nai B’rith Lodge who married Tessie Goslinsky with
whom he had two daughters.
1859: Moses
and Esther Lazarus gave birth to the their Annie Lazarus who would become Annie
Humphrey Johnston when she married John Henry Johnstone
1861(9th
of Av, 5621) Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that General Irwin McDowell
departed Washington with an army of 35,000 men who were moving to dislodge a
Confederate Army at Manassas Junction that was a threat to the Nation’s Capitol
in an action that would come to be known as the First Battle of Bull Run, a
staggering defeat for the Union cause.
1861: In
Russia, Eva and Levi Isaac Haft gave birth to future New Yorker, Max H. Haft,
the husband of Jennie Haft.
1862: In
Bielitz, Austria, Bertha Joeger and Soloman Bloomfield gave birth to Fanny
Bloomfireld who became Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler when she married Sigmund
Zeisler
1862: After
having lived in England for 25 years, Louis Lowe a father of five who “had
presided over the Board School for Jewish Boys since 1861” “wore the Oath of
Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.”
1863: In
Birmingham, England, Benjamin and Charlotta Bernard gave birth to the American
actor and vaudevillian Sam Bernard, the husband of Florence Deutsch who began
his career at the age of 13 in “the Grand Duke’s Theatre.”
1863: “In
Bielitz, Austrain Silesia, Bertha Jager and Salomon Blumenfeld, gave birth to
their youngest child concert pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, the wife of
Sigmund Zeisler, the graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law who
served as “co-counsel in the trial of the Haymarket Riot ‘anarchists.’”
1863: During
the Civil War, the New Draft Riots, during which “General William Mayer”
performed “heroic service for which he received” a letter of thanks from
President Lincoln, came to an end.
1863: During
the American Civil War, Jacob C. Cohen who was serving with the 27th
Ohio Infantry wrote to the Jewish Messenger from Memphis, Tennessee.
http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/jcc07.html
1865: In
Carlsbad, Austria, Alexander and Cecilie (Oesterrich) Pam gave birth to Max Pam
who came to the United State in 1858 where served as counsel to U.S. Steel and
was a benefactor of both to a Catholic University (Notre Dame) and Hebrew
University.
1865: Rabbi
Samuel Marx Levi (Mordechai) and Eva (Chaje) Moses Lewuw gave birth to Esther
Marx, the wife of businessman Gabriel Kosel and the aunt of Karl Marx.
1865:
Philadelphian Samuel Kauffman completed his service with Company A of the 46th
Regiment.
1866: During
the Third Italian war of Independence Lt. Colonel Enrico Guastalla (Isaac
Michael Benedict) and “deputy chief of the General Staff of the Italian
Volunteer Corps” served with such distinction at the Battle of Condino today
that he “was decorated with the Cross of the Order of Savoy.
1868: In
England, “Joseph Simmons Belasco and Sarah Belasco gave birth to Rabbi George
S. Belasco, a product of “the Spanish and Portuguese Congregational Schools”
and founder of “the Jewish Communal League who was the “husband of Cordeilia
Jane Belasco” with whom he had seven children.
1869: In
Hungary, Ruchla Laja Glik and Ignacz Chaim Yitzock Brav gave birth to future Pennsylvanian
Herman Allan Brav, the husband of Henrietta Mitchell and the father of Stanley
and Ernest Brav.
1874: In
Cleveland, Ohio, the Council of American Hebrews heard the report of the
Committee on Theological Institute which presented the laws for the
organization and governance of an institution of higher learning which will be
called the Hebrew Union College which is “to be permanently located in
Cincinnati.”
1876: In San
Francisco, Fannie Worms and Jacob Goldman gave birth librarian Belle A.
Goldman, the chief cataloguer of the San Francisco and Superintendent of the
San Francisco branch libraries who was a member of Temple Emanuel in San
Francisco.
1879(25th
of Tammuz, 5639): Italian politician and journalist Giacomo Dina passed
away. Born into poverty in 1824 at
Turin, he became a teacher before founding Opinione,
a journal that he edited for 30 years and used as a springboard to serving
in the Parliament as deputy from Imola, Bologna.
1880: It was
reported today that the National Rabbinical Association has elected Dr. Max
Lilienthal as its President and chosen Chicago as the location for its meeting
in 1881.
1880: “Not A
Hebrew After All” published today described the confusion over the ethnic
origins of an unidentified body found on the Newark, NJ Turnpike near Hackensack.
Since the undertaker reported him to be Jewish, the Jews of Hoboken, NJ took up
a collection to provide him with a decent burial. After finding out that this was not the case,
the Jews asked the undertaker to return the money. He refused and told them
that they would have to sue him.
1882: “Trouble
in a Synagogue” published today described the impact of the addition of some
prayers in English at the St. Constant Street Jewish Synagogue in
Montreal. Police were stationed in the
synagogue during services after some members who were upset by the change
threatened to cause trouble.
1882: As of
today, there were 250,000 Jews living in the United States. Sixty thousand of them live in New York and
another 14,000 live in Brooklyn. San
Francisco, with a population of 16,000 and St. Louis with a population of 6,500
are the only two cities found in a list of 20 cities with the largest Jewish
populations. New Orleans, with a
population of 5,000 Jews is the only Southern city found in this same list.
Cincinnati, the home of Reform Judaism has a Jewish population of 8,000. With a
total population of over 80,000, New York State had the largest population
while at the other end of the spectrum, the Dakota Territories were home to
only 19 Jews.
1882: In New York City, Therea Bablove and Frank
Goldman gave birth to Albert Goldman, the Commissioner of Plant and Structures
in New York City who went on to become “the first Jewish postmaster of New York
City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/05/06/83592568.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1882: A young
Jewish woman named Rudolpha Leischinsky who had come to New York from Europe
several months again was taken to the Castle Garden Hospital today shortly
before she had attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat.
1882: As the
Freight Handler’s Strike continues in New York, five hundred dollars will be
given to the Jews today who have stopped working and joined the strikers.
1882. The
Committee of Persuasion, made up of striking freight handlers sent out
representatives to various ethnic groups, including the Jews, to convince them
to join the strikers. The
representatives are fluent in the language to the particular group to which
they are appealing.
1884: Lazarus
Lemisch, his wife and five children arrived in New York aboard the SS Amerique. Their passage had been paid
for by the Hebrew Relief Society of Paris.
1884: Russian
Jewish Markus Holz, Gerson Selkowitz, Adolph Lazarus and Samuel Rasenzweig and
their family members who arrived from Hamburg yesterday are being held Ward’s
Island from which they will be shipped back to Europe because they do not meet
the requirements to show they will not become public charges.
1884: It was
reported today that a young un-named Jew has openly embraced Christianity at
the Boston Industrial Home. This is
believed to the first time in the history of Boston that a Jew has responded
directly to conversion attempts by Christian missionaries. [The Boston
Industrial Home may refer to a rescue mission]
1885: The will
of Edward J. King was admitted to probate today. Among the bequests were $2,000 to Mount Sinai
Hospital; $1,000 in cash and $2,000 in bonds to the Hebrew Benevolent and
Orphan Asylum; $2,000 to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews of New York;
$2,000 to the United Hebrew Charities; $500 to Congregation B’nai Jeshrun; $500
to be held in trust by the congregation, the income of which is used to pay the
expenses to maintain the testators cemetery plot. The bulk of the estate went to King’s wife,
sons and son-in-law.
1885:
Birthdate of Austrian historian and archaeologist Robert von Heine-Geldern, a
grandnephew of Heinrich Heine.
1886: In
Russia, David and Zena (Weiss) Trager gave birth to University of Pennsylvania
trained physician and National Guard Captain Herman Trager, the husband of
Bertha Grossman.
1886: Birthdate
of Salt Lake City native Clarence Bamberger, the husband of Marie Bamberger and
father Clarence “Click” Bamberger, who was part of “a pioneering Utah mining
and railroad family” and the nephew of Utah governor Simon Bamberger, the first
non-Mormon to hold the position.
1887: As of
today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children had raised $1,944 to provide free
summer excursions for poor Jewish children and their mothers.
1887: Berthold
Riese was being held in the Jefferson Market Police Court on charges of
abandoning his wife. Riese, who is
Jewish, claimed that he had never married the woman because she had never
divorced her first husband, John T. Kennedy.
The woman in question is a Catholic who claims they were married by a
Lutheran minister as an act of religious compromise.
1887: In New
York, Simon Kleber and Judah Waser, two Jewish peddlers, have filed a complaint
against Frederick Timme, a police officer stationed at the 14th
Precinct. According to the complaint the
two men were attacked by a bartender when they went into a liquor store to sell
their wares. When they were driven into
the street, they called out to the policeman for help. He responded by clubbing them and driving
them away. This was not the first
complaint filed against this police officer. [Note – charges of police
brutality by immigrants are something that have survived into the 21st
century; the only change is in the immigrant group.]
1888(8th
of Av, 5648): Erev Tish’a B”av observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Grover Cleveland.
1890: It was
reported today that as part of the Russian government’s new “stringent measures
against the Jews, the newspaper Novosti
has been “suppressed” and the editor has been ordered to leave the country
1891: The
large number of Russian Jews who arrived in Montreal yesterday have been found
to be “poor people in a sickly condition.”
1892: The
School of Applied Ethics under the leadership of Dr. Felix Adler is holding
classes today at the Old High School Building on Main Street in Plymouth, MA.
1893: It was
reported today that “the story about the Grand Duke Michael personally saving
the Jews of the Caucasus from expulsion may be dismissed as apocryphal” since
the Grand Duke has little influed with the Czar and this region has been
“exempted from the anti-Jewish edicts” enforced in other parts of the empire.
1893: It was
reported today that while the number of anti-Semites in the Reichstag has been
growing, in a strange twist, a Jew has been elected to the Town Council of
Rostock which was one of the last cities in Germany “to abrogate the medieval
laws against the Jews.”
1893: Between
July 3 and today, “nearly 2,000 mothers and children” have enjoyed “a day’s
outing at the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children at Rockaway Park.
1893: At the
Essex Market Police Court, Police Justice Ryan “remitted the ten dollar fine he
had imposed on 25 year old Morris Goodman’ who had been arrested on charges
“obstructing the sidewalk” and assault, after he delivered a talk on his view
of Jews whom he feels do not respect the law and the rights of Christians.
1893: The Jew
of Yalta “refused to obey the decree to” leave the Crimean city and move to the
Pale.
1893: The
delegates from the Hebrew Typographical Union complained that Joseph Barondess
and Samuel Gompers had tried to get some of their members from an office where
they were working as printers.
1894: Two days
after he had passed away, 54 year old Henry Silver, the son of Samuel and
Priscilla Silver and the husband of Sarah Nathan with whom he had seven
children – Pricilla, Kate, Hannah, Sam, John, Lewis and Fanny – was buried
today at the West Ham Jewish Cemtery.
1894: It was
reported today that Herman Ahlwardt has composed a pamphlet while serving time
in prison that is “so rabidly anti-Semitic as to suggest the insanity of the
author.”
1894: The Baltimore Sun reported today that a
Judge Dennis has signed a decree giving Jacob and Henry Herman to the right to
remove the bodies of their parents from the cemetery of Shearith Israel so that
they could be re-interred at the cemetery of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
1894: “Mr.
Straus Has A New Plan” published today described the success of the 14 depots
selling low-cost sterilized and modified milk and the benefit that sick
children have enjoyed from drinking the sterilized beverage. Nathan Straus is so pleased with the results
that he has commissioned plans for a year-round depot for which construction
will begin this fall.
1897: Herzl
publishes his article "Protest rabbiner" - "Protest Rabbis"
in the German newspaper, “"Die Welt.”
The Protest Rabbis refers to western Rabbis who were opposed to
Zionism.
1897(16th of
Tammuz, 5657): Emanuel Rich, co-founder of Rich’s Department Store, passed
away.
1897(16th
of Tammuz, 5657): Sixty-eight year old German jurist and lawyer Levin
Goldschmidt passed away today.
1898: The 121st
New York State Legislature whose members included Julius Harburger met for the
last time today.
1898: “The
Numbering of Houses” published today described the role of the Jews in the
introduction of house numbers in London.
1899:
“Slavonic and Semitic Books” published today described the growth of the Jewish
Department of the New York Public Library which now contains over 4,000 volumes
in modern and ancient languages including Yiddish.”
1899(9th of
Av, 5659): Tish'a B'Av
1899: “The
Marquise de Mores has addressed an appeal to the Criminal Chamber of the Cour
de Cassaction” in which she charges that there were serious errors made in the
investigation of the death of her husband Marquis de Mores by the Court in
Algiers. Her husband, an officer in the French Army, was a vocal anti-Semite
who had befriended those who framed Dreyfus and instigated duels in which he
killed at least one Jewish officer.
Ironically, the Marquise’s maiden name was Mendora von Hoffman, the
daughter of Louis von Hoffman a prominent Jewish banker.
1899:
“Contribution to a Poor Family” published today described the efforts of the
United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York to raise $400 settle a family
of four in the country because the husband and wife have become “chronic
invalids through overwork in the city.”
1899:
Birthdate of comedian and movie director Larry Semon who appeared with Laurel
and Hardy and in the 1920’s directed the silent screen version of “The Wizard
of Oz.”
1900: It was
reported today that “it is estimated that no less than 16,000 Jews have left
Romania during the last six months and their way in small band of forty to
eighty across the Austro-Hungarian on their way to seaports” because “the
anti-Semitic population of Romania, encouraged by the anti-Semitic legislation
of the Government have combined” to deprive the Jews of the means of earning a
livelihood.
1901:
Birthdate of Austrian born composer and conductor Frtiz Mahler, the son of a
“professor of Oriental Languages who was also a cousin of composer of Gustav
Mahler.
http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20282
http://web.archive.org/web/20070712204303/http:/www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/MUSMAHLE.pdf
1902(11th
of Tammuz, 5662): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Rabbi Mordecai Dayan (
5615)
1902:
In Kazan, Roman Albertovich Luria who "worked as a professor at
the University of Kazan” and was the founder of the Kazan Institute of
Advance Medical Education and the former Evgenia Viktorovna Haskin who “became
a practicing dentist after finishing college in Poland gave birth to
neuropsychologist Alexander Luria.
http://luria.ucsd.edu/bio.html
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/07/16/on-this-day-in-1902-alexander-luria-was-born-a66435
1903: The
British Foreign Office sent a second telegram to Herzl informing him that his
idea to establish a Jewish settlement in the Sinai as first step towards
establishing a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel was not practical.
1904(4th
of Av, 5664): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1904: In
response to the calls by Dr. Harry Friedenwald the President of the Federation
of American Zionists, to take note of the recent passing of Theodor Herzl, many
Jewish congregations offered up special prayers.
1904:
Twenty-eight-year-old Harvard grad and Boston University trained attorney
Philip Davis, the Russian born son of “Dave ben and Rachel (Chemerinsky” Davis,
the “motion picture producer and distributor” who “directed and personally
supervised special educational pictures such as Jack Spruce, Life in the
Northern Woods, “married Belle Shomer today in Philadelphia.
1905: Twenty-six-year-old
Long Island Hospital College trained physician Philip L. Bereano, the Rumania
born son of Leon and Rachel (Rubin) Bereano and a member of both the Jewish
National Fund and the Palestine Foundation Fund married Clara Danzis today in
New York City.
1905: Sixty-one year old Major General Sir
Henry Trotter, who as the General Officer Commanding the Home District attended
a “public display” in 1909 of the Jewish Lads Brigade, “the UK’s oldest Jewish
youth movement founded by Colonel Albert E.W. Goldsmid” with a goal, in part of
helping the children of poor immigrants assimilate into British society passed
away today.
1905: When
Commander Robert Peary left New York today aboard the SS Roosevelt, in the
latest attempt to reach the North Pole, his crew included the surgeon Dr. Louis
J. Wolff of Silverton, Oregon who had given up his work at the Cornell
Dispensary and the Bellevue Dispensary to serve as the medical officer for the
expedition.
1906(23rd
of Tammuz, 5666): Fifty-three year old Hamburg native Alried Beit who made his
fortune in the gold and diamond fields of South Africa and whose philanthropies
included the creation of what is now the “Beit Professor of History of the
British Commonwealth” at Oxford passed away today.
1906:
Birthdate of Abraham Orovitz, the native of Vienna, who gained fame as director
and actor Vincent Sherman.
1907: The will
of the late Isidor Worsmer was filed with the Surrogate today. Among the bequests left by the successful
banker were $5.000 to Temple Emanu-El; $2,500 to both the Mount Sinai Hospital
and the United Hebrew Charities Association; $1,000 to the Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum, the Montefiore Home, the Hebrew Technical Institute, the
Educational Alliance and the Tuskegee Institute. The rest of the sizable estate was left to
family members and employees of I & S Wormser. [Contributions to non-Jewish institutions
were par for the course. The surprise
here is the contribution to Tuskegee, the newly established institution for
African-Americans headed by Booker T. Washington in rural Alabama.]
1908(17th
of Tammuz, 5668): Tzom Tammuz
1908: It was
reported today that thanks to the “learned and enlightened class of Russia”
imperial clemency has been granted to “murders, the convicted inciters of the
massacre of the Jews, for fomenting the pogroms” at Nicolaief in October of
1905.
1909:
“Condemns Russian Attitude” published today described a speech given
Congressman Burton Harrison on “Our Duty to Our Citizens abroad in which he
spoke “on the attitude of the Russian government toward Jews, both naturalized
and American born and the efforts that have been made through diplomatic
channels to obtain recognition of their rights as American citizens.”
1910(9th
of Tammuz, 5670): Parashat Balak
1910: At a
mass meeting designed to show sympathy for the striking garment workers
sponsored by the United Socialists of America, Edward Cassidy, the former
candidate for Mayor of New York, told the crowd “that most of the strikers were
Jewish” and then added “I can remember when the Jewish people were looked down
upon and spurned but I hope to see the day when the Jews shall down upon those
who spurned them and do likewise” because “they deserve it.”
1911:
Eighty-five Jews from Shiraz, Persia appeal for assistance to go live in
Palestine.
1912: Harry
Horowitz and three other Jewish gangsters gunned down bookmaker Herman
Rosenthal two days after he had complained that that “his illegal casinos had
been badly damaged by the greed of New York City Police Lt. Charles Becker and
his associates
1913: Today,
in Paris, at the opening session of the Sixth International Congress on
Religious Progress, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the rabbi of the Free Synagogue in New
York delivered an address in which he “declared that among much that he found
dispiriting in the course of his recent visit to the Holy Land nothing was more
so than the want of religious fellowship between Jew, Christian and Moslem” and
“he proposed that the next triennial session of the congress” which would meet
in 1916 “be held in Jerusalem…”
1914(22nd
of Tammuz, 5674): Fifty-six year old “Finsbury, London” native Mathilde Tuck,
the wife of Herman Tuck and the mother of David and Rosina Tuck passed away
today
1914: Dr.
Schmarja Levin of Berlin who was a member of the first Russian Duma is
scheduled to speak in Brooklyn, NY, tonight.
1915(4th
of Av, 5675): Eighty-three year old Hesse-Darllstadt native Abraham Hart who
came to the United States at the age of eighteen, rose to the rank of Captain
in the Union Army before being discharged due to a disability while raising six
children with his Bertha Swope Hart whom he married in 1855.
1915: It was
reported today that Alfred S. Engel, the son of Tammany leader and “Silver
Dollar” Smith ally Martin Engel “will inherit a comfortable fortune.”
1916(15th of
Tammuz, 5676): Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Russian microbiologist and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1908 passed away.
1916: Eighty
nine delegates from 26 Jewish organizations including the United Synagogues of
America (Conservative), the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), the
American Jewish Committee, the Council of Jewish Women, the Independent Order
of Free Sons of Israel, the National Workmen’s Committee on Jewish Rights, the
Order of B’rith Abraham and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations attended
the conference of the American Jewish Committee today at the Astor Hotel in New
York where they adopted a proposal for
the meeting of a congress with the object of obtaining full rights for the Jews
of all lands and the abrogation of all laws discriminating against them.
1916: Among
the donations to The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through
the War of which Harry J. Fischel is treasurer are $24 from the Daughters of
Jacob of Manchester, New Hampshire and $32 from the Relief Committee of
Yarmouth, Canada.
1916: It was
reported today that “Paul E. Kretzman has contributed the Library of
Educational Methods a monograph entitled ‘Education Among the Jews’” that
“deals with the years running from the earliest of times to the end of the
Talmudic Period in 500 A.D.”
1916: Among
the donations to the American Jewish Relief Committee of which Felix M. Warburg
is treasurer are $1,000 dollars from the committee in Des Moines, Iowa and
$2,000 from the Committee in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1916: “Will Immigration
Tide Rise After the War?” published today provided the views of Frederic C.
Howe, the United States Commissioner of Immigration on this topic including the
observation that “the Jews have suffered more than any one from the war, they
always do. In Russia and Rumania they
are not permitted to own real estate; they are kept within a pale, and whenever
opportunity offers are subjected to oppression.
So I expect more Jews than ever to turn to the United States when the
war is over.”
1917: As the
Kerensky government tries the impossible – staying the war while dealing with
the economic and social dislocation brought on by Revolution – “armed
anti-government demonstrations erupted in Petrograd which would lead to
anti-Semitic attacks throughout the tottering empire.
1917: Harry
Cutler began serving as Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board.
1918: The
Second Annual Zionist Summer Course sponsored by the Intercollegiate Zionist
Association continued today for a second day.
1918:
Birthdate of New York City native and CCNY and Columbia alum Irving Joseph
Gitlin, the WW II Marine who gave up a career in education to become an award
winning broadcasting journalist while raising three children – Peter, Betty Ann
and Barbara Jane – with his wife “the former Louise Ziskind.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/12/13/84922044.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1918: The
execution of Czar Nicholas II brought an end to a dynasty guilty of many crimes
against Jews. Unfortunately, the regime that replaced it was no better for the
Jews.
1918: “Jews
Lean to the Allies” published today described the feeling among Austrian Jews
that the Entente powers are prepared to do more for “the Israelites” while the
Central Powers promise to do less and less which reportedly has led to a
decision by them “to abandon their neutrality an forcibly renounce our rights
as citizens…” (Editor’s note – this seeming act of disloyalty stands in stark
contrast to the participation of Jews in the Army fighting under Franz Joseph)
1919: “The
Most Rev. Dr. Platon, the Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa…who is visiting
New York” took issue with the way the press had portrayed his view of Jews
saying that while it is true that “Jews participate in the Bolshevist movement
in Russia” he also has said that “the Jewish people cannot be held responsible
for the participation of its individual members in the Bolshevist movement” and
that “the best elements of the Russian Jewry participate actively in the great
movement head by the All-Russian Government in Omsk.”
1919:
Birthdate of McKeesport, PA native and Seattle Washington resident Lillian
Kaplan, the wife of Dr. Charles Kaplan who were founding members of Temple Beth
Am.
1920:
“Erroneous information given to The New York Times and printed yesterday
stated that Max Manschewitz, a Cincinnati Zionist was bringing five million
dollars to Palestine for economic development”
when in fact according to Adolph B. Landau, his New York representative,
Mr. Manschewitz, who has contributed a great deal of his money to the Zionist
cause believes that the wealthy Jews in the United States should as a group,
make contributions totaling five million dollars.
1921(10th
of Tammuz, 5681): Parashat Chukat chanted on the same day that the Internal
Women’s Congress opened in Vienna. o
1922: German
born American Jewish inventor and businessman Emil Berliner and his son Henry
Berliner demonstrated a working helicopter for the United States Army. Berliner had moved from Hanover, Germany and
settled in Washington, D.C. where he is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.
1923(3rd
of Av, 5683): Yahrzeit on the Jewish calendar of Shiye Mordecai Lifshits, “the
father of Modrn Yiddishism who died in 1878
1924: In the Bronx, Louis and Bella Myerson gave
birth to “the second of three daughters,” Bess who was crowned the first Jewess
to be crowned Miss America. When Bess Meyerson won the crown in 1945, it
demonstrated a certain level of acceptance of Jews in the general American
culture. She went on to a successful career that included hosting daytime game
shows in the 1950’s.
1925: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Stanley Shapiro
the screenwriter whose scripts included the WW II comedy “Operation Petticoat.”
1926: Birthdate of German native and RAF and Palmach
veteran Stef Wertheimer, the MK who was the patriarch of one of “Israel’s
richest families as of 2013.”
https://www.forbes.com/profile/stef-wertheimer/?sh=48c5b4787030
1926: In Brooklyn, “Harry Royze, who operated a
flooring business, and the former Ella Greenwald” gave birth to chemist and
Nobel Prize Winner, Irwin Rose. When
Rose won his Nobel Prize in 2004, five out of the six winners of Nobel Prizes
in the sciences were Jewish.
1927: An out of court settlement was announced today
in the defamation suit that Aaron Sapiro had brought against Henry Ford, Sr.
after The Dearborn Independent had
published claims that Sapiro and a group of Jewish bankers and merchants were
seeking to control the nation’s wheat farming. Ford would eventually close his
anti-Semitic newspaper and apologize for his role in published The
International Jew. Those who thought this demonstrated a change in Ford’s
hatred of Jews were disabused of that notion when Ford accepted the Grand Cross
of the German Eagle from the Nazis in 1938. (As reported by the Jewish Virtual
Library)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/ford.html
1928: In London, “Newson Bruckner, a Jewish
immigrant from Poland, and Maude Schiska, a singer whose father had emigrated
from Poland and founded a tobacco factory” gave birth to their only child, “art
historian and award winning author” Anita Brookner. (As reported by Alan
Cowell)
1929: Victor Luitpold Berger, the first member of
the Socialist Party to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives suffered
a fracture skull today when he was hit by streetcar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The injury would prove to be fatal.
1930: Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund
Freud is published for the first time in the United States.
1931: Based on decisions made yesterday at Basle,
the World Zionist Organization is now governed by a new executive committee
whose members include Berl Locker, Chaim Arlosoroff, Selig Brodetsky, Heschel
Farbstein and Emanuel Neumann.
1932: “Skyscraper Souls” featuring Gregory Ratoff as
Mr. Vinmont and Jean Hersholt as Jacob Sorenson with music Nathaniel Shilkret
was released by MGM in the United States today.
1933: In an interview with a deputation of
representatives of the Jewish Community of Briinn, Czech President Thomas G.
Masaryk declares that the waves of anti-Semitism “will not overflow into the
country's borders”.
1934: The body of Chaim Nachman Bialik arrived in
Tel Aviv today. Tens of thousands of
Jews from all walks of life and from all parts of the political spectrum were
on hand to mark this historic moment. It was the largest funeral in the history
of the Jewish homeland. While there was
no lack of notables in attendance, at the request of the widow, no speeches
were delivered.
1934: Morris Rothenberg, President of the ZOA,
presided over the memorial service for Chiam Nachman Bialik held at New York’s
Carnegie Hall. The near capacity crowd
heard a wide spectrum of speakers and then listened to Canter David Putterman
of the Park Avenue Synagogue chant the Hazkarah and Jewish actress Miriam Elias
recite two of Bialik’s poems including “When I am Dead.”
1935: In London, Erwin and Elisabeth Rosenthal (née
Marx), refugees from Nazi Germany gave birth to publisher Thomas Gabriel
Rosenthal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10590405/Tom-Rosenthal-obituary.html
1936: The Palestine Post reported that British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden declared that the British Mandate in Palestine
would not be relinquished. Two British officers and a Jewish driver were
wounded near Nablus when Arabs opened fire on a military patrol. Shots were
fired on a train near Lydda. The High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope,
visited the new Tel Aviv port. He hoped that over a million cases of citrus
would be handled there in the next season. The Manchester Guardian wrote that
Jewish immigration to Palestine had never been allowed to keep pace with the
"absorptive capacity." The Arab population had increased from 500,000
in 1922 to 850,000 in 1936, because Palestine became more attractive by the
Jewish influx
1936: Among
those visiting Governor Landon, the Republican nominee for President, in
Topeka, Kansas today were Eugene Myer former Chairman of the Federal Reserve’s
Board of Governors and the owner/publisher of the Washington Post, Rabbi Samuel
Mayerberg of Kansas City, the past regional President of B’nai B’rith and
Joseph Cohen the Kansas City attorney “who has been active in Jewish fraternal
association work.”
1936: In
Bucharest, Romania, the eight members of the “anti-Semitic Iron Guards” which
had murdered Premier Ion Duca four years ago fired forty bullets into the body
of Michael Stalescus who “recently violently attacked the Iron guards for mass
attacks on Bucharest Jews” as he lay “in his hospital bed…awaiting an operation
for appendicitis.”
1936: At a
meeting in the Hotel New Yorker, Rose Schneiderman was elected vice chairman of
the New York State Labor Party. The newly formed party declared its support for
President Franklin Roosevelt and New York Governor Herbert Lehman, but called
on all working people to desert the two established parties and join in a new
coalition. The party's platform, developed during the same meeting, supported
New Deal legislation and called for the extension of Social Security, further
economic reform, and unemployment relief. The platform also defined the party's
purpose as "to mobilize the political power of labor and the progressive
forces of the people everywhere, in the cities and on the farms, against
reaction and for freedom, against economic oppression and for recovery and
democracy. "When she was elected to the vice chairmanship of the New York
State Labor Party, Schneiderman was already president of the National Women's
Trade Union League (WTUL) and an established figure in labor activism. Born in
Poland in 1882, Schneiderman left school at thirteen to help support her
siblings and widowed mother by taking a job as a salesclerk at a New York City
department store. After three years, she found a higher-paying job as a cap
maker, and immediately became involved in union politics. In 1903, she
organized the workers in her shop, and the following year, she became involved
with the New York WTUL. The WTUL was a mostly middle-class organization that
hoped to gain credibility with workers by bringing women like Schneiderman on
board. For the next two decades, Schneiderman worked alternately for the WTUL
and the working-class International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU),
gaining a national reputation as "the Red Rose of Anarchy," and
becoming a central figure in both labor and feminist politics. It was through
the WTUL that Schneiderman became friends with Eleanor Roosevelt, and when
Franklin Roosevelt became President in 1933, he named Schneiderman as the only
woman on the National Labor Advisory Board. In that role, Schneiderman had a
profound influence on New Deal legislation, writing the labor codes for every
industry that had a predominantly female work force. She also helped to shape
Social Security and the Fair Labor Standards Act. In 1937, though she had publicly
called for laborers to leave the Democratic Party for the new Labor Party, she
was named secretary of labor for New York State under the Democratic governor.
In that post, she supported unionization efforts and equal pay campaigns.
Later, she was active in efforts to rescue and resettle European Jews.
Schneiderman retired from public life in 1949. In her later years, she wrote
her memoirs and spoke occasionally on the radio and to union groups. She died
on August 11, 1972. At the time of her death, large numbers of American women
were beginning to take up the fight for equal pay in the workplace and
recognition of women's labor in the home, causes in which Schneiderman was a
pioneer. While there is still no independent Labor Party in U.S. politics, the workers'
protections that Schneiderman helped to create are now an integral part of U.S.
law.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/16/1936/rose-schneiderman
1936: “Meet
Nero Wolf” directed by Herbert Biberman, produced by B.P. Schulberg and
co-starring Lionel Stander was released by Columbia Pictures Corporation in the
United States today.
1937(8th
of Ave, 5697): Fifty-four year old “Dr. Abraham Coralnik …the veteran writer
for The Day, a New York Yiddish
newspaper” passed away this morning at Mt. Kosco, NY.
https://www.jta.org/1937/07/18/archive/dr-a-coralnik-journalist-dies-of-heart-attack-at-54
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/07/17/94401563.pdf
1937: The
Buchenwald concentration camp opens when the first 300 inmates arrive the
installation outside of Weimar.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198
1938: After
500 performances at the Cort Theatre, the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “Room Service” which was “basis for the Marx Brothers
film of the same title” and which featured Alexandro Asro and Sam Levene
1938(17th
of Tammuz, 5698): Parashat Balak
1938: “A
special prayer composed by the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Dr. Joseph
Herman Hertz” which “spoke of the spirt of perverseness which has come over a
renowned nation whose rulers have proclaimed an idolatry of race and blood” was
recited this morning as part of weekend in which “Catholics and Protestants
joined with Jews in special services throughout the British and Dominions in
behalf of the persecuted Jews in all countries, particularly in Germany and
Austria.”
1938(17th
of Tammuz, 5698): Seventy-five year old Moses Jacob Mandelbaum the thrice
married Cleveland businessman and philanthropist who was the son of Jacob and
Amelia (Lehman) Mandlebaum passed away today.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/m/mandelbaum-maurice-j-moses
1938: “In
commenting on the conference at Evian, France, to assist refugees from Germany,
the Westfaelische Landeszeitung”
asserted “that the United States ‘is interested primarily in rich Jews’ and in
the ‘possibility of doing business – naturally at Germany’s expense.”
1938: “Aspect
of intergroup cooperation will be discussed this afternoon at the opening of a
two-day conference on intercultural education for teachers” being held “under
the sponsorship of the National Jews and Christians” which will be attended by
more than “500 religious education, visiting teachers and college leaders.”
1939: In an
article entitled “New Bach Arrangement,” Dr. Peter Gradenwitz describes a
performance by the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in Tel Aviv of Bach’s “Art of
the Fugue” using a new orchestration by Swiss composer Roger Vuataz. The orchestra performed under the baton of
Dr. Hermann Scherchen the famous German musician who left his native land in
protest over the policies of the current régime.
1940: Paul
Schulman, the son of Columbia trained lawyer Herman Shulman and his wife
Rebecca passed his physical for entrance into the United States Naval Academy
which was a critical step on his path to serving the USN and playing an active
role in Israel’s nascent naval force in 1948.
1941(21st
of Tammuz, 5701): Seventy-five-year-old Alfred Weinberg, the son of Pauline and
Aaron Abraham Weinberg and the husband of Bertha Stern was murdered by the
Nazis in Gurs, France.
1941: The
Final Solution came to Bar, when the Germans occupied the town in the Ukraine.
1941: Today,
Fregattenkapitän Dr. Hans Kawelmacher, who would call for a “quick
implementation of the Jewish problem” was appointed the German naval commandant
in Liepāj
1941: Vichy
continued to mirror the anti-Semitism of the Third Reich by banning Jews from
the legal profession.
1942: The
first train with Jews from Holland left for a killing camp.
1942: On order
from Pierre Laval, the Prime Minister of the Vichy French government, between
13,000 and 20,000 Jews living in Paris were rounded up by the French police for
deportation. This was known as “La Grande Rafle” or the Big Sweep. The group of
Jews in this round up is primarily German and Austrian born Jews who were
living in the French capital. The first
one thousand would be deported three days later on a so-called "Eichmann
Train." There were no protests from the Parisians.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/01.asp
1942(2nd of
Av, 5702): A large number of Jews were killed in Molxzadz.
1943: In
Vilna, Lithuanian police raided a meeting of the United Partisan Organization
attended by the head of the Jewish Council. Jewish partisans rescued the head
of the resistance.
1943: Flight
Commander Lydia Litvyak who was already an “Ace” shot down “a bomber and shared
a victory with a comrade” but took a hit from the Germans that forced her to
make a belly landing.
1943: Theophil
Wurm, bishop of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, Germany, sends a letter
to Berlin in which he asks that the persecution of "members of other
nations and races" be halted immediately.
1943(13th
of Tammuz, 5703): Sixty-one year old pioneer pathologist Dr. Avrum Herman
Zeiler, the native of Poland who came to the United States 56 years ago and
whose son Lt. Meyer Zeiler followed in his footsteps when he joined the U.S.
Army Medical Corps passed away today in Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/07/17/85110445.pdf
1943:
Birthdate of Stan Gebler Davis, the native of Dublin “who belongs to a breed of
rake-hell, rumbustious very rumbustious, very Irish journalist of great charm…”
(As reported by John Calder)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-stan-gebler-davies-1424755.html
1943(13th
of Tammuz, 5703): Eighteen year old Dutch diarist Helga Deen was murdered today
at Sobibór extermination camp.
1943(13th
of Tammuz, 5703): Thirty-six year old resistance fighter Yitzhak Wittenberg
died today.
http://www.geni.com/people/Yitzhak-Wittenberg/6000000016355083827
1943: Itzik
Wittenber (the Communist commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye
(FPO), the United Partisans Organization, the ghetto’s underground resistance
movement), whether on his own accord, or compelled, or something in between,
met with Jacob Gens (the de factor head of the Vilna Ghetto) near the Judenrat
building, where a car was waiting” which took him to the Gestapo headquarters,
a couple kilometers outside the ghetto on the day before his death. (Editor’s
note – the tumultuous events of that day are part of “Today is the Sixteenth of
July,” a poem by Abba Kovner.
1943: Today
Pravda reported: that “popular actor and director of the Moscow Jewish State
Theatre” Solomon Mikhoels who was chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
and Itizk “Feffer received a message from Chicago that a special conference of
the Joint initiated a campaign to finance a thousand ambulances for the needs
of the Red Army."
1944: Today,
in New York, Mr. and Mrs. Irving J. Lewin announced that their daughter Suzanne
Helene Lewin had married Private First Class Leonard Epstein of Atlantic Beach,
L.I. in a ceremony at the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery, AL.
1944: The
first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF) soldiers, the 6th
Regimental Combat team that had left on July 2nd arrived in Italy.
Among the members of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force was Salomao Nauslausky
who served so courageously that he was “mentioned in dispatches.”
1945: The
United States successfully tested an atomic bomb at the Trinity sit near
Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Jewish involvement in the decision to build and the
actual construction of the bomb is a well-documented fact. Thanks to these
Jews, America beat Germany in the race to build the bomb. Regardless of how
some may view the decision to use the bomb against Japan, the fact is that a
lot of Allied service men lived through the war because there was no invasion
of Japan. The estimated casualties for the invasions and pacification were in
the million plus category.
1946:
Birthdate of Ann Kathryn Turkel, the New York model who went to an acting
career starting with an appearance than the sport comedy film “Paper Lion.”
1946: “The
Jewish National Council called on the Jewish community of Palestine today to
engage in a one-day general strike tomorrow in sympathy with the 1,600 men
detained at Rafa, who have gone on a hunger strike.”
1947: Today,
in Jerusalem, the delegates from United Nations inquiry committee “were invited
to Government House for an informal discussion with British High Commissioner
Lt. Gen. Sir Alexander Committee” where for the first time, “the committee as a
group” would hear his views on the issues in Palestine
1947: “After
an appeal by Jerusalem Jewish newspaperman to the United Nations’ Secretary
General, Trygve Lie, the secretariat of the United Nations’ inquiry committee
interved with the Lebanese consul general today in an effort to obtains entry
into Lebanon for six correspondents of the Hebrew press who wish to attend the
committee’s hearings there.”
1948: After
fierce fighting, the Israelis successfully took Nazareth.
1948: The
Irgun planned to make one more attempt to re-take the Old City, “a day before
the second cease-fire” was set to begin.
1948: The Arab
Liberation Army completed its evacuation of Ein Kerem, a village which would be
incorporated into the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem.
1948: During
Operation Dekel, the Israeli 7th Armored Brigade took the villages
of Amqa, al-Damun and Lubya.
1948:
Operation Death to the Invader, an Israeli military operation designed “to link
Jewish villages in the Negev with the rest of Israel” began this evening.
1948: David
Ben Gurion noted in his diary today the arrival of three B-17’s in Israel “and
mentioned that they had already been used for several bombing runs in
Egypt. These were the only “heavy
bombers” the Israelis had. Known as 69
Squadron they had been obtained by Charles Winters who was known as “the
godfather of the Israeli air force.”
1948: While Israel was waging its War of
Independence (and survival) world-renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman was born
in Tel Aviv.
1948
Premiere of Key Largo, the truly dark film noir produced by Jerry Wald, with a
script co-authored by Richard Brooks, co-starring Lauren Bacall and Edward G.
Robinson.
1949(19th
of Tammuz, 5709): Parashat Pinchas
1949:
After having already opened in Los Angeles, “Calamity Jane and Sam Bass,”
produced by Leonard Goldstein and Aaron Rosenberg, with a script co-written by
Melvin Levy and filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg premiered in Los
Angeles.
1949:
After 157 performances at the Cort Theatre, the curtain came down on the
original Broadway production of “Two Blind Mice,” a comedy written by Samuel
and Bella Spewack.
1950: Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett declined to commit himself
today on Israel's answer to the request of United Nations Secretary General
Trygve Lie for aid in the Korean War. He said that the matter would be
considered by the Cabinet this week, but implied that Israel's defense needs
must be considered
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that
thousands of apartment-seeking Israelis registered for the government's popular
housing scheme. There were long queues for domestic ice delivery in Jerusalem.
Shoe sales increased considerably after 17 new shoe ration points went into
effect.
1951:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Daniel Singer “Dan” Bricklin, “the American
co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program” known as “the Father of the
Spreadsheet.”
http://www.bricklin.com/bontech/
1951: J.D.
Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye was published. Jerome David
Salinger was born in New York in 1919. His father was Jewish. His
was mother was Irish-Catholic. This genealogy according to some critics was
the source of some of Salinger's inner-conflict that came out in his writings
and in his decision to become the most famous literary hermit of the century.
1952: “Zombies
of the Stratosphere” featuring Leonard Nimoy in one of his earliest film roles,
was released by Republic Pictures in the United States today.
1953:
Eighty-two-year old French born English author Hilaire Belloc, the author of The
Jews a book in which he describes them “aliens,” “foreigner” and “parasites”
passed away today
1954: “The
Seagram group of companies” led by its president, Victor A. Fischel is
scheduled to hold the concluding session of four day sales meeting.
1954(15th
of Tammuz, 5714): Sixty-four year old Bernard K. Marcus, the husband of Libby
Phillips Marcus and the father of Robert P. Lloyd and James Marcus, the
“financial wizard” who went to prison after the collapse of the Bank of United
States during the depression died of heart attack while horseback riding.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/18/83342783.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1955:
Birthdate of Zohar Argov “a popular Israeli singer” who provided “a distinctive
voice in the Mizrahi music scene.”
1956(8th
of Av, 5716): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1956(8th
of Ave, 5716): Eighty-five-year old
Riga,
Latvia native and American sheet metal worker Israel Getzel Gerber known by his
new legal name Julius Gerber who “became secretary of the Socialist Party in
1895 and served throughout the period when the great Eugene V. Debs was its
leader while being married to Lena Sacht with whom he had five sons and three
daughters passed away today
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/07/18/86650082.pdf
1956(8th
of Av, 5716): Seventy-six year old Maurice P. Davidson the son of Philip and
Rebecca Davidson and NYU trained attorney who was the “founder of the City
Fusion Party” which played a key role in the election of Mayor La Guardia and
the husband of “the former Blanche Reinheimer and father of Robert, John,
Alfred, Harold and Frank Davidson passed away today.
1956:
Birthdate of Anthony Robert Julius the British lawyer whose clients included
Diana, Princess of Wales.
1956: In New York,
Sylvia (née Deutscher), a bassoonist, and William David Kushner, a clarinetist
and conductor gave birth Lake Charles, LA and Columbia educated Pulitzer Prize
winning playwright Tony Kushner whose most notable works was “Angels in America.”
1957(17th of
Tammuz, 5717): Tzom Tammuz
1958:
“Rock-A-Bye Baby” comedy produced by Jerry Lewis who was also the star with
music by Sammy Cahn and Walter Scharf premiered in Los Angeles.
1959: The movie version of the Broadway comedy
“the Tunnel of Love” produced by Martin Meclcher and Joseph Fields who also
wrote the script was released today in London.
1963: In New
York City, Lily Cates and Joseph Cates (born Joseph Katz) “a major Broadway producer”
who also helped to create the amazingly popular quiz show, The $64,000
Question, gave birth to actress Phoebe Belle Cates who became Phoebe Cates
Kline when she married fellow thespian Kevin Klin.
1964: “Circus
World” produced by Samuel Bronston, with a script by Ben Hecht and music by
Dimitri Tiomkin was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States today.
1965: “The
State Senate majority leader, Joseph Zaretski, and the Speaker of the Assembly directed
the Joint Legislative Committee on Banks yesterday to "put our state banks
in shape."
1965(16th
of Tammuz, 5725): Sixty-two year old German born Brazilian pianist composer
Henry Jolles, the son of “Dr. Oscar Jolles and his wife, Gertrude (née
Sternberg), a student of Kurt Weil the German-Jewish composer with whom he
wrote at least one composition before 1933 who left Germany because of the rise
of the Nazis, passed away today.
1966(28th
of Tammuz, 5726): Parashat Matot-Masei
1966(28th
of Tammuz, 5726): Eighty-two year old Abraham Balaban, the Russian born husband
of Tillie Adamofsky Balaban passed away today after which he was buried in the
Beth Israel Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.
1967: A young
Kibbutznik got out of his jeep at Aalleiqa, an abandoned Syrian Army base on
the Golan Heights, and became the first settler in the Golan. He would be joined by other secular Jews in
the next few days and they would form the kibbutz now known as Merom Golan.
1969: While
“there had be no casualties, several head of cattle were reportedly killed
today when “an Israeli patrol crossed the border with Lebanon and “blew up
three deserted houses in a forest in a village” approximately sixty miles from
Beirut.
1970(12th of
Tammuz, 5730): Haim-Moshe Shapira, an Israeli political leader who was one of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1948 passed away. Born in Grodno in 1902, he was a founder of
Young Mizrachi who made Aliyah in 1925. He was Israel’s first Minister of
Health and Minister of Immigration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim-Moshe_Shapira
1970:
Avner-Hair Shaki entered the Knesset as a replacement for Haim-Moshe Shapira of
blessed memory.
1970: Golda
Meir replaced the late Haim Moshe Shapira as Minister of Internal Affairs.
1970: Yosef
Goldschmidt completed his first term as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.
1971: Record
producer Bob Feldman and cocktail waitress Sheila Feldman gave birth to actor
Corey Feldman.
1971: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held to for 75 year old Cornell Medical College
trained pediatrician Dr. Samuel Zachary Levine, “the pediatrician who was
called in by the White House in August, 1963, in an effort to save the life of
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the son of” President John Kenney and Jacqueline
Kennedy and who was the husband of “the former Bella Morell” with whom he had
three children – Robert, Ted and Muriel.
1973: During
the Watergate Scandal former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs
the United States Senate of the existence of heretofore unknown recording
system that taped all conversations that took place in the White House’s Oval
Office. The system had been installed by
President Nixon. The tapes would prove
to be Nixon’s undoing and lead to his leaving office. The tapes all revealed a nasty anti-Semitic
streak in President Nixon. They also
revealed anti-Semitic remarks by the Reverend Billy Graham.
1975(8th
of Av, 5735): Erev Tish’a B’av
1975: Dr.
Abbot Kaplan, the first Jewish president of “the State University of New York
College at Purchase” responded to charges of bias against Italians because of
the school only offered a limited number of Italian language courses by saying
that the “Foreign ‐ language requirements no longer exist, so
classes are elective and given only when interest is shown…”
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel
and the US were pleased at the outcome of the UN Council's debate in which a
resolution censuring Israel for the raid on Entebbe failed to receive the
necessary nine votes. It was in effect an acknowledgement of "Israel's
right to act in the way it did."
1976:
Birthdate of Russian born, Israeli tennis player, Anna Smashnova.
1979: Funeral
services are scheduled to held today in Tel Aviv for sixty-two-year-old for
Andre Joseph Narboni, “the head of the Sephardi and Oriental Diaspora
Department of the Jewish Agency and a member of the World Zionist Organization
Executive” who “immigrated to Israel from Algeria in 1962…” (JTA)
1983(6th
of Av, 5743): Shabbat Chazon
1983(6th
of Av, 5743): Mutli-dimensional author Samson Raphaelson who wrote a story
called “The Day of Atonement” based on the youth of Al Jolson which then became
the successful play “The Jazz Singer” which then became the first talking
picture the star of which was Al Jolson.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/Raphaelson/
1985: “An
exhibition of Al Hirschfeld’s caricatures” including “several dozen of his
works dating from the 1920’s to the 1980’s” opened today “on the second floor
of London’s National Theatre” marking the first time such a showing had taken
place in the United Kingdom.
1985: In
Seligman, an Arizona named after Jesse Seligman “one of the founders of J.W.
Seligman Co. who helped finance railroad line” that made the town economically
viable, formation of the Seligman Historical Society.
1985: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this morning at the Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue for seventy-two-year-old Newark, NJ born and NYU grad, Rabbi Edward
E. Klein, the husband of Ruth Klein the father of Rabbi Stephen Klein and
Barbara Hillman who was “the longtime spiritual leader of the Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue and community activist” passed away today. (As reported by Robin
Toner)
1986(9th
of Tammuz, 5746): Ninety-one-year-old Boston University trained attorney Raphael
Phillip Boruchoff, the son of Rabbi Dov Ber Boruchoff and Bessie (Pessa Golde)
Boruchoff and husband of Celia H. Boruchoff passed away today in Florida after
which he was buried in North Reading, Massachusetts.
1988(2nd
of Av, 5748): Parashat Maot-Masei
1988(2nd
of Ave, 5748): Eighty-eight-year-old “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 passed away today.
1994: The
Sisters Rosensweig, a play by Wendy Wasserstein that focuses on three Jewish-American
sisters and their lives comes to a close after 556 performances at the Ethel
Barrymore Theatre.
1994(8th of
Av, 5754): Julian Schwinger winner of the 1965 winner of the Nobel Prize for
Physics passed away.
http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/julian_seymour_schwinger.html
1995(18th of
Tammuz, 5755): Since the 17th of Tammuz fell on Shabbat today is
Tzom Tammuz
1995(18th
of Tammuz, 5755): Eighty-six year old
poet and author Stephen Spender was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate
Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965, passed
away.(As reported by Eric Pace
1995(18th of
Tammuz, 5755): Lt. Gen. Mordechai
"Motta" Gur, former Chief of Staff of the IDF passed away. He is best remembered as the commander of the
brigade that liberated the Old City of Jerusalem in June, 1967.(As reported by
Joel Greenberg)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mordechai-motta-gur
1997: Premiere of “George of the Jungle” the movie version of the
television cartoon show featuring music by Marc Shairman and directed by
Brandeis graduate Sam Weisman.
1998: In
“Musical Plays on the Hebrew Stage” published today, Dan Almagor described the
history and the growth of “mahazemer.”
1999: Fifty-six
year old UNC graduate and Harvard trained lawyer Stuart E. Eizenstat ended his
service as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural
Affairs began serving as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
under President Clinton.
1999:
Morocco's King Hassan II passed away. The king's father, Mohammed V, is widely
credited with having saved Morocco's Jews from deportation during World War II,
and Hassan continued the philo-Semitic policies of his father. Although there
was an outbreak of anti-Jewish incidents following the establishment of the
State of Israel in 1948, the Jewish community was generally safe under the
protection of both Mohammed and Hassan, who proudly considered the Jews
"Moroccans of Jewish origin." “Hassan was considered a moderate in
the Middle East. During his 38-year reign, he at first discreetly, then openly,
promoted ties with Israel at a time when most of the rest of the Arab world
rejected such contact. His efforts helped pave the way for the 1978 Camp David
accord between Israel and Egypt. King Hassan also played a role in preparing
for the 1991 Madrid peace conference and welcomed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
in September 1993, making Morocco the first Arab nation outside of Egypt to
officially receive an Israeli leader. In 1994, Hassan hosted the first Middle
East regional economic conference, which included Israel, in the Moroccan city
of Casablanca. After the euphoria of the 1993 Oslo accords between Israel and
the Palestinians, Israel was allowed to establish a consular office in Rabat,
and an estimated 40,000 Israeli tourists visited Morocco in 1995 and 1996.”
“The Moroccan Jewish community in Israel observed a seven-day period of
mourning for the late king.”
1999: “Eyes
Wide Shut,” an “erotic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley
Kubrick, based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story)
and co-starring Sydney Pollack was released today in the United States.
2000: “Music;
Still a Sly Wit, Now Mostly for Himself” published today described the career
of Tom Lehrer, the Harvard mathematician who has entertained generations of
listeners with his satirical, musical wit.
2000: The
New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including My Love Affair With America: The
Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative by Norman Podhoretz and The Harold
Letters,1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual by Clement
Greenberg
2000: Premiere
of “Nuremberg” a “docudrama, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial
by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials.”
2001: In
Jerusalem, more than 2,000 Jewish athletes from 43 countries marched in the
opening ceremony of the Maccabiah games today.
2001: Opening
of the 16th Macaabiah
2001(25th
of Tammuz, 5761): Twenty-year old Staff Sergeant Avi Ben-Harush and nineteen
year old Corporal Hanit Arami both of Zikhron Ya’akov were killed when a
suicide bomber struck near the Binyamina
Railway Station.
2002: Simon
and Garfunkel released the album "Live In New York City."
2002(7th
of Av, 5762):Nine people, including an eight-month-old infant, were killed and
20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus #189 traveling from Bnei Brak to
Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the
bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF
uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed
responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas
cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001. The victims:
Galila Ades, 42, of Emmanuel; Yonatan Gamliel, 16, of Emmanuel; Keren Kashani,
29, of Emmanuel; Sarah Tiferet Shilon, 8 months, of Emmanuel; Gal Shilon (her
father), 32, of Emmanuel; Zilpa Kashi (her grandmother), 65, of Givatayim;
Ilana Siton, 35, of Emmanuel. The premature infant delivered after its mother,
Yehudit Weinberg, was seriously injured, died of her injuries overnight.
Yocheved Ben-Hanan, 21, of Emmanuel, who was critically wounded, died on July
18.
2002: The New York Times reports in an
obituary: "The American Sephardi Federation joins with all Sephardim of
the world in mourning the loss of the eminent Chief Rabbi David Asseo, the
spiritual leader of the vital Jewish community of Turkey. We recall his warmth,
his grace and words of wisdom on the many occasions he received our delegations
from America.
2003:
Sixty-first anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv) when
the government of Vichy France ordered “the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who were
held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before being deported to Auschwitz.”
2004: “A
Cinderella Story” featuring future “Big Bang” star Simon Heldberg as “Terrence”
was released today in the United States.
2004: After
its premier nine days ago in Los Angeles, “I, Robot”
a sci-fi thriller based on the work by Isaac Asimov, with a screenplay
co-authored by Akiva Goldsman and featuring Shia LaBeouf was released in the
United States today.
2005: The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that
Professor Chanan Eshel, an archeologist from Tel Aviv’s Bar Ilan University,
had announced the discovery of two scroll fragments near the Dead Sea. “The two small pieces of brown animal skin
inscribed I Hebrew with verses from the book of Leviticus, are from the
“refugee” caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea where Jews hid
from the Romans in the second century…The scrolls are being tested by Israel’s
Antiquities Authority” to determine their authenticity and era in which they
were written. In a repeat of history,
the fragments were discovered by a Bedouin who may have been looking for
artifacts in the area. If the documents
prove to be authentic, they will be the first scrolls discovered in the Judean
Desert since the 1960’s.
2006: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Full Swing: Hits, Runs and
Errors in a Writer's Life by Ira Berkow and the recently released paperback
edition of Salonica, City Of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
by Mark Mazower. “For over half a millennium Salonika, a port city in
northern Greece, was a place where Europe met the Middle East. Mazower, a
professor of history at Columbia University, sets the history of Salonika and
its Orthodox Greeks, Egyptian merchants and Spanish Jews within a "single
encompassing historical narrative." He reconstructs this once vibrant city
as it thrived under the Ottoman Empire (1430-1912), reverted to Greek control
after World War I, and saw its Jewish population deported en masse by the Nazis
in 1943
2006(20th
of Tammuz, 5766): “During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict train service to the
station was suspended after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot in
Haifa today killing eight Israel Railways workers.”
2006: In “Marching
as to War,” published today, The
Washington Post reported on the efforts of Mikey Weinstein, graduate of the
U.S. Air Force Academy and the father of an academy graduate, to stop the
missionary work of Christian ministers at the Air Force Academy. In particular he is targeting the Officer’s
Christian Fellowship who says its goal is a “spiritually transformed military
with ambassadors for Christ in in uniform, empowered by the Holy Spirit.”
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: Eight railway workers in Haifa: Shmuel Ben-Shimon,
41; Asael Damti, 39; Nissim Elharari, 43; David Feldman, 28; Dennis Lapidus,
24; Rafi Hazan, 30; Reuven Levy, 46; and Shlomo Mansura, 35.
2006: “INS
Hanit Suffers Iranian Missile Attack” published today
http://www.defense-update.com/2006/07/ins-hanit-suffers-iranian-missile.html
2007: Ryan
Kalish suffered a season ending injury when he “was hit by a pitch which broke the
hamate bone in his right (non-throwing) wrist” at a time when he was leading
the league in both stolen bases and runs scored, and batting .368 with a .471
on-base percentage and a .540 slugging percentage.”
2007:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel and the Palestinian
Authority for her first visit to the region since Hamas seized power in the
Gaza Strip.
2007(1st of
Av, 5767): Rosh Chodesh Av.
2007(1st
of Av, 5767): Forty-six year old Lyn Pilowsky, a “Psychiatrist renowned for her
research into schizophrenia” passed away today.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/20/guardianobituaries.health
2007: On the first anniversary of the Hezbollah-Israel War a “Free the
Soldiers Rally” takes place in New York City. It commemorates the “one long
year has passed since Israel Defense Forces soldiers Gilad Shalit, Ehud
Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev were kidnapped by Hamas and Hezbollah.”
2007:
A group representing thousands of
children of Holocaust survivors filed a class-action lawsuit against the German
government demanding that Germany pay for their psychiatric care.
2008: In Los Angeles, Hadassah’s 94th Annual Convention comes
to an end.
2008:
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library
of Congress sponsors a lecture, "The Moral Conscience of the World: The
United Nations and Palestine in 1947," by William Roger Louis, a professor of English history and culture
at the University of Texas at Austin.
2008:
Dr. Rory Miller, senior lecturer at King’s College in London gave a
presentation at the Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs as part of its fourth
annual series of lectures on changing Jewish communal policies and attitudes in
which he said that “the future of the Jewish community in Ireland is bleak as
its committed members age and the young immigrate to other European countries
and Israel.”
2008: At the WorkShop Theatre, as part of the
Midtown International Theatre Festival, the world premiere of “Yom Kippur,”
Meri Wallace’s new drama based on the 1973 war.
2009: At the 18th Maccabiah Games, in Rugby,
South Africa plays Australia, Israel plays Canada and the USA plays Chile.
2009: Julian “Edelman signed a four-year
contract with the Patriots that included a $48,700 signing bonus.”
2010:
Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni and young professionals plan to gather at the
Historic 6th & I Synagogue for “Shabbat Hoppin’: Summer Style.”
2010: The
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Announces Curatorship for Judaica
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/16/2010/judaica-curatorship-at-boston-mfa
2010: South
African Justice Albie Sachs “was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the
University of York for his contribution to the construction of post-apartheid
South Africa, in particular for his involvement in the creation of the
Constitution.”
2010: It was
announced today that seventy-one year old Harvey Golub was resigning as
chairman of the American International Group (AIG).
2011: The work
of Tel Aviv native Dana Levy is scheduled to be part of the Art Omni Weekend
which is scheduled to open today.
2011: The
Jerusalem Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end this evening.
2011: A group of close to 800 ultra-Orthodox protestors
tried to block a central Jerusalem thoroughfare today, in an attempt to prevent
what they consider the desecration of Shabbat..
2011: An IDF spokeswoman confirmed that an
aerial attack was launched today under cover of darkness against Gaza
terrorists preparing to fire a rocket into Israel, from near Gaza City. The IDF
said 16 rockets fired from Gaza have struck Israel this month some of which
damaged buildings. Israel said it responded to shooting two days ago with
aerial strikes on tunnels dug beneath Gaza's border with Egypt.
2012 Director Dan Cohen is scheduled to discuss
“An Article of Hope,” his documentary about Israeli astronaut Illan Ramon after
a noon-time showing at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
2012: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is
scheduled to meet with top Israeli leaders in Jerusalem to discuss panoply of
issues.
2012(26th of Tammuz, 5772):
Ninety-year old William Asher, a pioneer in creating television sit-coms
including “I Love Lucy” and “Bewitched” whose father was Jewish passed away
today.
2012: A memorial service will held today for
Alex Okrent, the 29 year old Evanston native who has been working for President
Obama since his senatorial campaign in 2004, at the Jewish Reconstructionist
Congregation in Evanston.
2012: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox children took
to the streets of Jerusalem this evening to protest the possible inclusion of
yeshiva students in the military draft.
2012: A 43-year-old woman started a fire at a
National Insurance Institute branch in today. The woman lit the fire in protest
of what she called a lack of financial help from the Institute, Army Radio
reported.(As reported by Greg Tepper)
2012: Australian and New Zealand premiere of
“The Dark Night Rises” based on story co-authored by David S. Goyer and
co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
2012: A man tried to set himself on fire at the
entrance of the Beersheba municipality building today. (As reported by Stuart
Winer)
2012: “Parents of Dead Billionaire Heiress Eva
Rausing Want Jewish Burial” published today described the efforts of her
parents to have her buried in South Carolina in accordance with Jewish law.
2013(9th of Av, 5773): Tisha
B’Av. Since Jews do not partake of food
for the body we may want to partake of food for the mind by reading about the
Destruction of the First Temple as described in Chapter 36 of Chronicles II; by
reading about the Destruction of the Second Temple in Rome and Jerusalem
or The Ruling Class of Judaea both by Martin Goodman; or by reading about the
fall of Betar in Bar Kochba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the
second Jewish Revolt against Rome by Yigael Yadin.
2013(9th of Av, 5773): Eighty-five
year old Marvin “Marv” Rotblatt a south-paw with the White Sox for three
seasons passed away today.(As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2013: The annual Madridanza festival is
scheduled to open at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv.
2013: Doubleday published Love, Dishonor,
Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rackoff
2013: Mortar fire from inside war-torn Syria
hit the Israeli part of the Golan Heights today, an IDF spokeswoman said.
"Several mortar rounds fired from Syria exploded in northern Golan without
causing any damage or casualties," the spokeswoman told AFP (As reported
by Gil Ronen)
2013: Ryan Giley provides a look at “Simon
Rich: The Funniest Man in America.”
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jul/16/simon-rich-last-girlfriend-on-earth
2013: Love,
Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, the late David Rakoff’s, first and
only novel, has been released by Doubleday today. (As reported by Renee
Ghert-Zand)
2014: Seventieth Anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv
Roundup – a remembrance “marking the mass arrest of over 13,000 Jews in Paris
and their shipment to Auschwitz where they met their death.
2014: Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary in
the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and
Mark Levin, Executive Director of National Coalition Supporting Eurasian
Jewry (NCSJ) are scheduled to “discuss the current situation in Ukraine and how
it is affecting the Jewish community” at a noon time luncheon in Washington,
DC.
2014: Four hundred new immigrant from France
made Aliyah today as they landed at Ben Gurion Airport.
2014: “Israel announced today that it would
halt all military operations against targets in the Gaza Strip for a period of
five hours in order to allow humanitarian agencies to transfer food and medical
supplies into the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave.”
2014: Variety reported today that “Tyrant” the
television drama which co-created by Israeli writer Gideon Raiff will move
production from Tel Aviv to Istanbul due to the on-going attacks by Hamas.
(JTA)
2014: The DCJCC is scheduled to host a concert
by Flory Altarač Jagoda featuring the Ladino.
2014: UNRWA announced today that rockets had
been found in their schools in Gaza.
2015: YIDSTOCK 2015 which “will bring the best
in klezmer and new Yiddish music” is scheduled to open on the stage at the
Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
2015: “Knight of Cups” and “The Memory of
Justice” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2015: MP Susan Veronica Kramer began serving as
the “Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for the Treasury” today.
2015: “Rocket alert sirens rang out early” this
“morning in towns near the Gaza Strip after a missile was from the Palestinian
territory” followed hours later by an IAF mission against the terrorists.
2015: “A law from the year 2000 defines today
as ‘a French national day of memory for racist and anti-Semitic crimes and day
of homage to the righteous of France.’” (As reported by Elhanan Miller)
2015: In Memphis, Temple Israel is scheduled to
host its “Trivia Night.”
2016(10th of Tammuz, 5775): Chukat
2016: In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is
scheduled to offer congregants an opportunity to combine beating the southern
heat with Jewish ritual with a “Wet Havdalah” – outdoor water play “followed by
a family Havdalah service and pizza dinner.”
2016: Thirty-eight year old Waheed Borsh, the
United Nations humanitarian aid worker who confessed he had used his position
to aid Hamas was arrested by Shin Bet and the Israel Police today.
2016: “A new Israeli documentary, ‘Down the
Deep Dark Web’” premiered today at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2016: “Schneider vs Bax” and “Death in
Sarajevo” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2017: “In what observers said was an
unprecedented statement from the leader of France in support of the Jewish
state” today “French president Emmanuel Macron condemned anti-Zionism as a new
form of anti-Semitism.”
2017: The North American Jewish Choral
Festival, sponsored by the Zamir Choral Foundation is scheduled to open today
at Kerhonkson, NY.
2017(22nd of Tammuz, 5777): Ninety
year old Clarence Sigal, the Chicago born son of “labor organizers,” WW II Army
veteran, blacklist victim and award winning author passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Away-Report-Clancy-Sigal-ebook/dp/B00DZEJSZG
2017: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Stars in Our Eyes: The
Famous, the Infamous and Why We Care Way too Much About Them by Julie Klam
as well as an interview of with Allegra Goodman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/books/review/allegra-goodman-by-the-book.html?ref=headline&nl_art=&te=1&nl=book-review&emc=edit_bk_20170714 and a list of
recommended books including Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and
Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky.
2017: “1917: How One Year Changed The World” is
scheduled to come to an end at the National Museum of American Jewish History,
Philadelphia,
2017: “Camille
Pissarro: Le premier des impressionnistes an exhibition at the Musée
Marmottan Monet, Paris, is scheduled to come to an end today.
2017: At the Maccbiah games, in basketball the
Israel and Russia are scheduled to play in 35+ finals and Israel and the United
States are schedule to play the 45+ finals/
2017: Chassida Shmella Ethiopian Israeli Jewish
Community in collaboration with the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled
to co-sponsor “From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halachic and Conceptual World of
Ethiopian Jewry” presented by Rabbi Sharon Shalom and Susan Pollack.
2018: The North Carolina Museum
of Art is scheduled to a performance by the Dana Ruttenberg Dance Group.
2018: In London, JW3 is
scheduled to host the screening of the final episodes of the Israeli television
drama “Your Honor.”
2018: “The Cakemaker” and “An
Israeli Love Story” are scheduled to be shown at the 9th annual
Axelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival.
2018: As Israelis greet a new
day, they look to the skies to see if yesterday’s cease fire “between Israel
and Hamas” will hold.
2019: In Danville, CA, the
Reutlinger Community Center is scheduled to host the opening reception for the
exhibit ““Israeli Street Life: Through the Lens of Dick Hyman” which will
include an appearance by the photographer, Dick Hyman.
2019: In Berkley, CA. the
Aquarian Minyan is scheduled to host “author, columnist and educator Lorelai
Kude who will be discussing Jewish astrology.
2019: In Coralville, IA,
Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a presentation by Gamaliel, “a
Chicago-based community organizing initiative” as attendees “discuss a faithful
response to the increase in white nationalism”
2019: The Temple Emanu-El
Streicker Center is scheduled to host “an evening with Daniel Silva” as the
author discusses he work “with his wife, CNN Special Correspondent Jamie
Gangel.”
2019: In London, JW3 is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Matchmaker” directed by Avi Nesher.
2020: AJC is scheduled to host
“a virtual conversation between President Fernández and Dina Siegel Vann,
Director of AJC's Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, to
pay tribute to the 85 victims of the AMIA attack and raise our collective
voices against terrorism and antisemitism in all its forms on the 26th
Anniversary of the AMIA attack.”
2020: The Jewish Museum of
Maryland is scheduled to Rabbi Dr. Eli Yoggev lecturing on “Are We Alone and
Does It Matter? – Jewish Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life.”
2020: The S.F. JFCS Holocaust
Center Book Club is scheduled to host an online discussion on The Night Eli
Wiesel’s 1960 book about his experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald and his
disgust with humanity.
2020: Live on Zoom, YIVO
Institute is scheduled to host “Chaim Zhitlovsky and His Philosophy of
Yiddishism.”
2020: The ADL is scheduled to
present online “Glass Leadership Virtual Happy Hour and Info Session.”
2020: Case Western Reserve
University is scheduled to host “Nazis on the Silver Screen” where attendees
“will consider the history behind four well-known films about Nazism and the
Holocaust: “Triumph of the Will” (1935), “The Great Dictator” (1940), “Das
Boot” (1981) and “Life is Beautiful” (1997).
2020: The JWA Book Club is
scheduled to host a virtual author talk with “Natasha Diaz, author of Color Me
In, a coming-of-age story about a half Black, half Jewish girl trying to find
her place in the world
2020: As Israelis awaken this
morning, they must deal with yesterday’s report that 22,704 people are
“battling the coronavirus” and that “four more people have died from the virus
bringing the total number of fatalities from COVID-19 to 375
2021: In San
Francisco, the Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to present “A Lifetime
of Levi’s”
2021: Rabbi
David Freelund is scheduled to lead in-person Shabbat services at Cape Cod synagogue.
2021: Value
Culture is scheduled to host its first “in person Shabbat experience in 2021,
with legendary Hollywood director Tony Kaye at a historic, legendary San
Francisco venue in conversation with Value Culture Founder, Executive Director
Adam Swig and special guests.”
2021: The new
restrictions requiring “that all travelers, including those vaccinated and
recovered from COVID-19, would be required to self-isolate for up to 24 hours
upon arrival to the country” are scheduled to go into effect today.
2022:
President Biden’s trip to the Middle East which has included visits to Israel
and Saudi Arabia, where the government has pledged to “open its airspace to all
air carriers, paving the way for more overflights to and from Israel” is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2022: In
Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to host “the season’s final
concert” which is a “Bach Fest.”
2022: The Quad
Cinema in New York is scheduled to host the final screening of “My Name Is Sara”
which tells the true-life story of 13-year-old Sara Góralnik whose family was
killed by Nazis in September of 1942.
2022(17th
of Tammuz, 5782): On the Jewish Calendar, celebration of Independence Day since
July 4, 1776 fell on the 17th of Tammuz)
2022(17th
of Tammuz, 5782): Fast of Tammuz observance delayed until tomorrow because
today is Shabbat.
2022(17th of Tammuz, 5782): Parashat Balak
2023: Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish
Music at the Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: ASCAP award winning flutist and composer,
Hadar Noiberg, who has come a long way
since moving to NYC from Israel at 21 is schedule to perform at Room 31 at Arlo
NoMad in NYC.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge is scheduled to
host a walking tour in which participants “follow in the footsteps of Ella,
Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney
Taylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-Kind Family.”
2023: In Atlanta, GA, as part of Something
Special Sundays. Marilyn Ginsberg Eckstein is schedule to present “Dance Talk:
In Step with Baryshnikov.”
2023: The weekly scheduled cabinet will be
postponed at least for twenty-four while the Prime Minister remains in the
hospital after having been admitted due the effects of dehydration.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is
scheduled to host “Eldridge Street Explorers,” a special program designed for
“children five and up.”
2023: Craig Newmark and Jodi Rudorren are
scheduled to have a conversation about “The Role of Journalism in Combating
Antisemitism.”
2023: The exhibition “Convergence: Arabic,
Hebrew, and Persian Calligraphy in Conversation” which has been on view in the
Leon Levy Gallery at the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to come to an
end today.
