This Day, July 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 19
64: During the reign
of Nero, The Great Fire at Rome comes to end. According to the Jewish
Encyclopedia, Jews had been living in Rome since the second century before the
Common Era since “the pretor Hispanus issued a decree expelling all Jews who
were not Italian citizens” in 139 BCE. “Under Nero the Jews of Rome had a
comparatively peaceful time, owing to the favorable attitude of the empress
Poppæa Sabina” a situation that would change the aftermath of the Great Revolt
that would begin in two years.
362: The Roman
Emperor Julian, known to Christians as Julian the Apostate, left Constantinople
and arrived in Antioch to prepare for the invasion of Persia. While preparing for the invasion he met
Jewish leaders to whom he promised he would re-build the Temple. Julian’s short reign would come to an end in
the following year and nothing came of his plans for the Third Temple.
711: Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat
the Christian Visigoths led by their king Roderic at the Battle of
Guadalete. This decisive Moorish victory
was the key to the Moslems establishing their rule over the Iberian
Peninsula. Jews living in Christian
Spain had suffered under the Visigoths and helped the Moors. The Battle of Gaudalete was one of the events
that led to the five-century period known as the Golden Age of Spain for the
Jewish people.
939: The Battle of
Simancas (also called Alhandega or al-Khandaq) began today in the Iberian
Peninsula between the troops of the King of León Ramiro II and Cordovan caliph
Abd al-Rahman III who employed Hasdai ibn Shaprut as his financier.
1195: In Spain the
Almohades defeat the Christians under Alfonso I of Toledo. The Jews of Toledo
had willingly helped to finance the impoverished Alfonso in his fight against
the Almohades despite recent anti-Jewish violence that had claimed the life if Abraham
Ibn-David among others.
1215: In return for
King John setting his seal to “The Magana Cara” which contained a special
section about the Jews” the “barons renewed their oath of fealty to” to the
monarch.
https://www.thejc.com/magna-carta-s-three-jewish-clauses-1.56652
1385 (10th of Av):
Rabbi Menachem ben Aaron ibn Zerah, author of Zeidah la-Derekh passed away.
1490: Yucef Franco,
aged 20, a cobbler who had been arrested by the Inquisition, along with his 80
year old father at the beginning of the month, fell ill. He asked the doctor who was treating him if
he would arrange for a Rabbi to visit him.
1510: In Brandenburg,
Prussia, Joachim the Elector burned 38 Jews at the stake on a charge of
desecrating the host. Another two accepted Christianity and were mercifully
beheaded.
1588: The Spanish
Armada was spotted off the coast of Cornwall but the English could not do
anything about it since their fleet “was trapped in Plymouth Harbor by the
incoming tide.” (In an era when people think they have overcome nature in times
of war, it is humbling to remember that there was a time when the future of
religious freedom was at the mercy of the tides and the winds)
1706: Birthdate of
New York merchant Isaac Levy, the son of Moses Levy and the husband of
Elizabeth Pue.
1737(2nd of Av,
5497): Benjamin Levi passed away today in South Carolina.
1753(17th of Tammuz,
5513): Tzom Tammuz
1778: In
Philadelphia, Jonas and Rebecca Mendes Machado Phillips gave birth to Esther
“Hetty” Phillips Moses, the wife of Meyer Moses whom she married in 1803 and
with whom she had three children Franklin, Montgomery and Hortensia.
1779: Birthdate of
London native Samuel Noah, a cousin of Mordecai and 1807 graduate of the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point who reached the rank of First Lieutenant before
resigning in 1811 because of his disgust with “ignorant civilians” being appointed
to positions that outranked him.
1785: Birthdate of
Mordecai Manuel Noah, the native Philadelphian who, according to some “was the
most influential Jew in the United States in the early 19th Century.” Educated
as a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, Noah settled in New York where he was
a politician, newspaper editor, diplomat and the visionary who wanted to create
a Jewish colony in New York called Ararat.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/MNoah.html
1790(8th of Av,
5550): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1791(17th of Tammuz,
5551): Tzom Tammuz
1794(21st of Tammuz,
5554): Parsaht Pinchas was chanted on the same day that the Russian attacked
Vilinus, the home of the Vilna Gaon.
1797: While visiting
Amsterdam, Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto, a rabbi and merchant born in Curaçao,
married Judith Lopez Salzedo. Eventually
Peixotto would settle in the United States where he served as the head of Congregation
Shearith Israel.
1802: In Lorraine,
France, Moses Cahn and Sarah Gillen gave birth to Johanna Cahn Oppenheimer the
wife of Salomon Oppenheimer and the daughter-in-law of Jakob Oppenheimer and
Johanetta Jacob.
1812(10th
of Av, 5572): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that American forces
defeated British troops at Sackett’s Harbor, ME, during the War of 1812.
1817: “Romilda e
Costanza,” an opera composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer premiered in Padua, Italy
1820(8th
of Av, 5580): Erev Tisha B’Av observed for the first time after the Missouri
Compromise had become law in the United States.
1821: George IV is
crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland. King George would actively oppose
legislation introduced in the 1830’s designed to grant Jews full rights of
civil and political citizenship.
1826: Abraham Slowman
married Sara Levy today at the Great Synagogue.
1828(8th of Av,
5588): Parshat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1829(18th of Tammuz,
5589): Tzom Tammuz observed because the 17th of Tammuz fell on
Shabbat.
1832: One day he had
passed away, George Heilbert Israel the son of Israel and Maria Israel was
buried today
1833: In Thorn,
Germany, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, the Posen born son of “Rahel Gutel
Kalischer and Salomon Kalischer” and his wife Henrietta Kalischer gave birth to
Jakob Kalischer.
1834: In
Williamsport, KY, Abraham Jonas and Louisa Block gave birth to Benjamin Jonas,
the recipient of “a diploma from the law department of the University of
Louisiana (now Tulane University) and veteran of General Hood’s Corps in the
Army of the Tennessee who served as a U.S. Senator from Louisiana, making him
the third Jew to serve in that legislative body. (All three of them came from
southern states – 2 from Louisiana and one from Florida.)
1835(22nd of Tammuz,
5595): Sixty-four-year-old Benjamin Sheftall, the Savannah born son of Sarah De
La Motta and Levi Sheftall and father of South Carolina native Mordecai
Sheftall passed away today.
1836(5th
of Av, 5596): Eight days after her first birthday, Marion J. Tobias, the
Charleston, SC born daughter of Isabella Cowen and Isaac Tobias passed away
today.
1839: In
Pennsylvania, Joseph Ullman, the German son of Rosa and “Hayim Simon Uhlman”
and his wife Sarah Ullman gave birth to Pauline Ullman, who became Pauline
Greenbaum when she married Julius Greenbaum with whom she raised their son
Joseph Greenbaum.
1839: Loebel and
Henriette Grossmann Schottlander gave birth to Bruno Schottlander, the brother
of Julius Schottlander.
1843: Isambard
Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol; it will be the
first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean
1848: In London,
Isaac Samuel and Fanny Heilbronner gave birth to Lyon Samuel, the husband of
the former Abigail Jacob.
1849: In Islington,
London, Samuel Meldola and his wife gave birth to their only son, Raphael
Meldola who served as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of
London and invented Meldola’s Blue Dye.
1850: In Westphalia,
Germany, Abraham Bendix Weinberg and Fiekchen Sophia Weinberg gave birth to
Alexander Weinberg, the husband of Elise Weinberg and father of Arnold and Iwan
Weinberg.
1854: Israel Cohen,
the “son of Benjamin and Kitty Cohen” and his wife Cecilia Eliza Cohen gave
birth to Kitty Cohen.
1855(4th
of Av, 5615): London born merchant Bernard Hart, who in 1780 came to the United
States where he served with the quartermaster corps of the American Army during
the War of 1812 passed away today
1858(8th
of Av, 5618): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1858: In Charlotte
County, VA, Isaac L. and Minna Weil gave birth to University of Virginia
graduate Adolphus Leo Weil, the prominent Pittsburgh, PA attorney and member of
the executive board of the Jewish Publication Society of America who was the husband Cassie Ritter Weil and the father
of Ferdinand and Adolphus Weil.
1863: Birthdate of
Hermann Bahr, the Austrian author and critic who sued the Jewish journalist
Karl Kraus because he felt had been unfairly attacked in Die Fackel (The Torch)
a newspaper founded and published by Kraus.
1865: Birthdate of
Yisroel Aaron Fishel, the native of Meretz (Russia) who came to the United
States at the age of 20 where he gained fame and fortune as Harry Fishel, New
York businessman and supporter of numerous Jewish causes. In 1931 he founded The Harry Fischel
Institute for Talmudic Research. He passed away in 1948.
http://fischelfoundation.org/about_bio3.htm
1865: In Virginia
City, Nevada, Mark and Bertha (Roman) Levsion gave birth to Stanford University
trained surgeon Charles Gabriel Levison who was a Colonel in the Medical Corps
serving with the AEF before returning to practice in San Francisco.
1866: In San
Francisco, William J. Mack and Rebecca M. (Tandler) Mack, gave birth to Julian
Mack the distinguished jurist who was a leader of the American Jewish community
who attended the Peace Conference with Woodrow Wilson and was an advocate for a
Jewish state in Palestine.
1868: Birthdate of
“American socialite” and amateur, poorly skilled singer Florence Foster
Jenkins” who Anglo-Jewish actress Maureen Liipman portrayed from November, 2005
to April 2006 “in the Olivier Award nominated show Glorious! at the Duchess
Theatre in London's West End.”
1870: The Franco-Prussian War begins when Napoleon
III declares war on the Germans. The two
states were each looking to be the dominant power in Europe. The immediate cause of the conflict was a
clash over who would rule Spain. The
war, which ended in May, 1871, was a total disaster for the French. In addition to the general humiliation of
having her capital occupied by the Prussians, the French were force to give up
the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine and to pay a large indemnity to the German
state. This loss of territory and the
desire to avenge the humiliation of 1870 were part of the causes of World War
I. “A number of Jews, including Jules Moch and Leopold See, attained high rank
in the French army. See later became Secretary General of the Ministry of the
Interior. The war also marked the beginning of Rabbis serving as chaplains in
the German army.” After the War, Many Jewish families preferred to emigrate
from Alsace and Lorraine rather than be under German rule.
1870: A “Hebrew
clothier” from Albany was taken to court today by his maid who claimed he had
prevented her from carrying away her clothing despite the fact that he owed her
for two years in back wages.
1871: In Kiev, Jacob
Nicholas Pritzkeer, the son of Naphtali Pritzker and his wife Sophia Pritzker
gave birth to Nicholas Jacob Pritzker, the Northwestern trained Pharmacist and
DePaul trained attorney who was a director of the Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home in
Chicago.
1872: Birthdate of
New Rochelle, NY native Benjamin Levison, the Attorney who was a justice of the
peace in Orangetown, NY.
1873(24th of Tammuz,
5633): Parashat Pinchas
1873(24th of Tammuz,
5633): Sixty-three-year-old Hamburg born violinist and protégé of Felix
Mendelssohn, David Ferdinand passed away today in Switzerland.
1874: Har Sinai, a
Reform Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland, unanimously elected Joseph Meyer of
Cleveland to serve as its rabbi.
1877(9th of Av,
5637): Tish'a B'Av;
1877: “The Fast of
AAB,” an article published in today’s New York Times reported that “Today is
the ninth day of Aab” the fast marking “the anniversary of the temple and of
Jerusalem. The reformed Israelites have abandoned the observance, but it is
held in veneration and kept by both orthodox Jews, both in Europe and America
with fasting and gloomy services…Today is the 1,825th anniversary of the second
destruction of the temple.”
1877: At sunset, with
the end of Tisha B’Av the black crepe draperies will be removed from the pulpit
and furniture at the synagogue on West 19th Street in New York and the usual
lighting will be returned to the structure.
1880: It was reported
today that the August edition of the Atlantic Monthly will include “The
Preceptor of Moses” in which Francis H. Underwood “reconstructs a chapter of
Hebrew History.” [Underwood was an American biographer who founded the Atlantic
Monthly as part of the fight against slavery.
In its comments about the article, the Uitca (NY) Gazette, said that it
should been included as a work of fiction since “it does not possess any
particular value as a historical study.”
1880: Nine, the
daughter of Anthony-Mayer and Emma Augusta, the
daughter of Baron Frederick Von Shey married Baron Geoerge-Henry Levi
today.
1881: Two thousand
people attended an “anti-Jewish” meeting in Berlin today.
1882: As the Freight
Handler’s Strike continued, today was a bad day for the Russian Jews. An extra detachment of police had to be
called out protect the Jews from the strikers at one of the piers in Jersey
City while 35 Jews were fired at the Star Union Pier in New York.
1883: In Kraków,
William Fleischer, a tailor and his wife gave birth to Max Fleischer, pioneer
animator and film producer.
1884(26th of Tammuz):
Mayer Schutz, passed away today at the Brighton Beach Hotel on Coney
Island. Born in Bavaria in 1814, he came
to the United States in 1840 where he “made his fortune” in the wholesale dry
goods business. He retired fifteen years
so he could devote himself “to
charitable and benevolent work” including membership in the Hebrew Benevolent
Society, serving as a director of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Mount Sinai
Hospital and holding the Presidency of Rodef Sholom. [All glory is fleeting]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05E1DE1E3BE033A25753C2A9619C94659FD7CF
1884: Wolf
Finkelstein is being held Ward’s Island until arrangements can be made to send
him back to Russia. The Jewish immigrant has a brother in Chicago who is a
peddler but there is no means of getting him there and thus avoid being “a
public charge.”
1885: Two days after
he had passed away, eighty-nine year old R’David Tebele Bondi, the Frankfurt,
Germany, born son of Bella and “R’Jonas Moshe Bondi” and the “husband of Matele
Bondi” was buried today in Frankfurt.
1885: It was reported
today that among the new rules that theatrical director Heinrich Conried has
imposed on the performers of the Casino Company is one that states, “Any
principle member seen talking with a rival manager will be regarded…as lukewarm
to the present management” and “will subject himself to being talked about in
Hebrews.” [Note - No explanation is given for this apparently odious use of the
language of the Bible. Conried was no
crackpot since he would later serve as director the Metropolitan Opera. He was from a Jewish family in Silesia, so
this may have been his way of saying they would be subject to verbal abuse that
they would not understand.]
1885: In Portugal,
Maria Angelina Ribeiro de Abranches de Abreu Castelo-Branco and José de Sousa
Mendes gave birth to José de Sousa Mendes the Portuguese diplomat who defied
his government and issued visas to 30,000 people fleeing the Nazis in 1940
including 12,000 Jews.
1887: A free
excursion for underprivileged Jewish children sponsored by the Sanitarium for
Hebrew Children and partially underwritten by the staff of the Hebrew Journal
will take place today.
1887: Louis
Keptlovwitch a Jewish immigrant working as a printer in upstate New York was
arrested today after his wife and child arrived today. The charge was bigamy. It seems that Mr. Keptlovwitch had forgotten
about his Polish family and had married a Jewish woman from Newburg, NY.
1888: In Frankfurt on
Main, Germany Dr. Rudolf Reuben Plaut and his wife Rosa gave birth to Alfred
Plaut, the University of Freiburg trained physician who came to the United
States in 1922 where he worked as a pathologist at Beth Israel Hospital and
since 1954 at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/10/01/90192710.pdf
1888: The third free
excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will leave at nine
o’clock this morning from a pier at 5th Street and the East River. [There were usually three such boat trips
each summer intended to get poor little children and their mothers out of the
tenements on the Lower East Side. These Jewish efforts mirrored the work of
Julia Hull.]
1890: Birthdate of
Bialystok native Jacob Pat, the Yiddish author who came to the United States
where he became the executive secretary of the Jewish Labor Committee.
http://yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32911
1891: In Chicago,
Henrietta Arnheim and Benjamin Arnheim, the son of Walter and Sophia Arnheim,
gave birth to Ralph Leroy Arnheim
1891: “Famine In
Russia” published today expressed the fear that Czar may cope with the problem
in the traditional manner, starting a war with a nation on one of its
borders. The French are trying to calm
the situation by extending credit but they are being hampered by the hostility
of “all the great Jewish financial houses in Western Europe” brought by the
shameful persecution of the Jews.
1891: “Aid For A
Worthy Charity” published today described the excursions that the Santiarium
for Hebrew Children is offering on a weekly bases “to poor Jewish women and
children.” Approximately 700 people take part in each outing which includes two
“substantial meals” for each of the travelers.
1892: Coroner Lindsay
attempted to hold an inquest to determine the cause of death for Berhr
Israelson, whom the doctors said died of apoplexy but whom the Jews living in
the building said died after being clubbed by a police officer named Clarke.
1892(24th of Tammuz,
5652): In London, Abraham Swift, who had been born Abraham Asher ben Joshua in
Russia in 1869, passed away today.
1895: The Children’s
Street Cleaning Brigade is scheduled to have its second meeting tonight at the
Hebrew Institute.
1895: Sydney James
Stern, the eldest son of Viscount David de Stern “was raised to the peerage as
Baron Wandsworth, of Wandsworth in the County of London.”
1895: The funeral of
Simon M. Erhlich, the Chief Justice of the City Court, is scheduled to take
place at Temple Emanu-El this morning.
1896(9th of Av,
5656): Tish’a B’av
1896(9th of Av,
5656): Fifty-five year old Charles Liebhaber, who had just gotten out of the
hospital, passed away today while attending services at Congregation Tifereth
Israel on 126 Allen Street in New York.
1897: In Baltimore,
MD, Isaiah S. and Bertha (Adler) Weil gave birth to Joseph Weil, the Johns
Hopkins graduate who “was dean of the College of Engineering at the University
of Florida from 1937 to 1963” and should not be confused with the Chicago con
man with the same given name who was as “The Yellow Kid.”
http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/archome/MS42.html
1897: Birthdate of
Theresa Wolfson, professor of economics and labor relations at Brooklyn
College. Born in Brooklyn just three years after her parents had emigrated from
Russia, she earned her bachelor's degree at Adelphi College (1917). During
college, she spent a summer investigating wage standards in the New York
garment industry; it was the beginning of a long career in labor relations.
After her graduation from Adelphi, Wolfson took a position as a health worker
in New York City, then worked for the National Child Labor Committee,
investigating child labor across parts of the South and Midwest. Then, from
1920 to 1922, Wolfson served as executive secretary of the New York State
Consumers League, where she lobbied for minimum wage and maximum hour legislation.
For her M.A. degree (1924) at Columbia University, Wolfson conducted a study of
posture, lighting, and fatigue in New York's garment factories. After Columbia,
Wolfson became director of education at the Union Health Center of the
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. At the same time, she conducted
research on the barriers to organizing women workers; this research, published
in 1926, brought Wolfson her Ph.D. from the Brookings Institution. Wolfson
joined the faculty of the Brooklyn branch of Hunter College in 1928. When this
branch became Brooklyn College soon thereafter, Wolfson helped to develop the
curricular and organizational design of the new institution. Her scholarly work
also took her into public life. She served on the public panel of the War Labor
Board (1942 to 1945), was involved in the New York State Board of Mediation
(1946-1953) and the Kings Country Council Against Discrimination (1949-1953),
and served as president of the New York chapter of the Industrial Relations
Research Association. She won the John Dewey Award from the League for
Industrial Democracy in 1957 for her work in mediating labor disputes.
Throughout her career, Wolfson combined academic expertise with a concrete
approach to the workings and status of labor unions and to the dynamics of
gender in labor and labor organizing. Combining research and social action, her
focus on worker education was designed to break down barriers to the
advancement of women in the workplace and gender inequality within trade unions.
Wolfson believed that a worker's ability to deal effectively with society
depended on a sound education. Thus, in addition to her scholarly teaching and
writing, she also taught in non-academic settings, including classes for the
International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Summer School for Office
Workers, and, after her retirement, for a continuing education program at Sarah
Lawrence College. Theresa Wolfson died on May 14, 1972 at the age of 74. A
scholarship in her name allows a Brooklyn College student to pursue graduate
studies in labor economics each year.
1897: Sir John
Skelton who was appointed by Benjamin Disraeli to serve as secretary of the
Scottish Board of Supervision passed away.
1898: After having
been discharged as a 2nd Lt. from the 3rd Missouri Infantry yesterday, Albert
Lieberman began serving as Assistant Surgeon in the 6th Missouri Infantry
today.
1898: "Novelist
Emile Zola fled France after being convicted of libel against the French Army
in the...Dreyfus affair." Zola had
written a famous letter to the newspaper entitled "J'Accuse" (I Accuse). The letter exposed the conspiracy at the
highest level of the French military establishment to convict Dreyfus and then
to cover up the fact that he another officer was guilty of crime of which
Dreyfus had been accused.
1898: A list of
bequests by the late Jacob Berk published today including $1,000 each to the
Montefiore Home, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew
Technical Institute and the Home of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith at
Yonkers, NY.
1899: Philip H. Stern
began actively serving as a Captain with the 29th Infantry.
1900: For the second time New York Supreme Court
justice Henry Bischoff denied a plaintiff’s motion which their attorney to tell
the Judge that he would appeal the decision.
1901: In Budapest, Charlotte Sarolota
Bacskai and Albert Lederer gave birth to administrator, diplomat, and public
relations and manpower expert Anna Lederer Rosenberg, who married Paul G.
Hoffman after divorcing Julius Rosenberg an administrator, diplomat, and public
relations and manpower expert who advised multiple presidents passed away
today.
https://erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu/anna-lederer-rosenberg-hoffman-1902-1983
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rosenberg-anna-marie-lederer
1901: The Conference
on Settlement and Club met today “under the auspices of the Jewish Chautauqua
Society” and adopted a motion requesting the Board of Trustees of the Jewish
Chautauqua Society organize “a Summer School in Applied Philanthropy in which instruction
shal be given in the requirements for social serve and philanthropic work…”
1902(14th of Tammuz,
5662): Parashat Balak
1902: Isadore
Newburger and Philip Levy were among those who arrived at Sharon Springs, NY
seeking “cures” effected by waters.
1903: A convention
being held in Vienna by the Committee on the National Fund came to end today
with the delegates having “decided that the central office of the National Fund
shall be in England and chartered by the English Government.” (Unbeknownst to the attendees this decision
to ally the Zionist cause with the English would lead to the Balfour
Declaration and all that that would come to mean.)
1904: On the Lower
East Side of New York, Jewish immigrant from Russian and Hungary gave birth to “American
painter, printmaker and educator” Harry Sternberg the husband of Mary Gosney who, along with the
rest of her family was “depicted in the Ambler, Pennsylvania post office mural,
The Family, Industry and Agriculture” and an instructor a the Art Students
League of New York from 1933 to 1966 who was the recipient of a Guggenheim
fellowship.
https://www.tfaoi.org/aa/4aa/4aa284.htm
1904: After sending a
letter to President Roosevelt saying that he is leaving the Democratic Party
and support the President for re-election, Oscar S. Straus made a statement
tonight listing his reasons which included the fact that the Roosevelt
Administration “has been foremost among the Chancelleries of world “in makings
influences felt in arresting massacres of Christians in Turkey and of
persecutions and massacres of Jews in Rumania and Russia.”
1905: Birthdate of
Max Kolpenitzky, the native of Königsberg who gained fame as “scriptwriter and
lyricist” Max Colpet
1905: Birthdate of
Giuseppe Girotti, the Dominican priest who died at Dachau after having been
imprisoned for protecting and saving Jews – a feat for which “he was declared
Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1995 and recognized as a Catholic
martyr and declared Venerable by Pope Francis.”
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/197834/righteous-italian-priest-put-on-path-to-sainthood/
1906: The entries of
Lehman Strauss failed to win a blue ribbon at the Atlantic City Horse Show
today.
1906(26th
of Tammuz, 5666): Fifty-five-year-old attorney Michael Hart Cardozo, the son of
Abraham Cardozo and Sarah Peixotto passed away today after which he was buried
at Beth Olom Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
1907: Today “in reply
to a query, the correspondent at Warsaw of the Russian Telegraph Agency
declared that there has been no anti-Jewish outbreak in the Polish provinces of
Russia.”
1908: Emma Goldman's personal manifesto, "What
I Believe," was published by the New York World.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/19/1908/emma-goldman
1909(1st of Av,
5669): Rosh Chodesh Av observed on the same day that The Hudson & Manhattan
Railroad's Hudson Terminal, the largest underground station in New York City,
was opened” which was designed to make life easier for thousands of commuters
including many of whom must have been Jewish, easier.
1910: “Officers of
the Jewish Relief Committee of Kieff stated today that an estimated 700
families had already been" expelled from the city and another 400 families
were still waiting to be expelled.
1911: “Congressman
Didn’t Help” published described Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle boarding the
North German liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie at Hoboken whose passengers included
“Miss Minnie Garrison, a buyer of a department store in Philadelphia” whose problems
with customs over her trunks seemed to disappear when the Congressman
identified himself.
1912(5th of Av,
5672): Seventy-six-year-old Dr. Raphael Hausman, passed away today in Breslau.
1912(5th of 5672): Fifty-two-year-old
Gustav Frankenstein, the President of the Jewish Community of Bielefeld passed
away today.
1913(14th of Tammuz,
5673): Parashat Pinchas
1913(14th of Tammuz,
5673): Eighty-year-old German born Sophie Schriesheimer Waldstein, the wife of
Henry Waldstein with whom she had four children, passed away today in England.
1913: Rabbi Abram
Brill of Wheeling, West Virginia “led the first service of the summer season in
the auditorium of the Forrest Park Hotel at Forrest Park, PA.
1914: King George V
“summoned a conference to discuss the issues raised by the Irish Home Rule
movement” who supporters included Michael Noyk who the Lithuanian born graduate
of Trinity College Dublin whose work as a solicitor led to a personal and political
friendship with Arthur Griffin, the found of Sinn Fein.
1914: As leaders
stumbled toward WW I with all that would mean for civilization in general and
the Jews in particular, “the Council of Ministers in Vienna finalized the
wording of the ultimatum to be presented to Serbia.”
1915(8th of Av,
5675): Rabbi Cranmer, a veteran of the America Civil War passed away today in
Washington, D.C.
1915(8th of Av,
5675): In the evening observance of Tisha B’Av began
1915: “Hung with
black, with all lights out except a few candles which made the darkness all the
weirder, the congregants of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue at Central
Park West and Seventieth Street,” observed “the fateful Ninth of Av” with the
same signs of mourning that were first used two hundred and sixty years ago
when the Jews worshipped “in a room near Bowling Green”
1915: During World
War One, as services ended this evening marking the start of the observance of
Tisha B’Av Rabbi Pereira Mendes told his Sephardi congregants, “The world is
sick of war. Let justice be heard but let
mercy prevail. Let us forgive, forget
and forbear. Then only will world peace
and heart peace prevail.”
1915: Florence
Oppenheimer, who was embarking on “5 years of service on-board hospital ships
during the First World War, sailing to Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo, left
London today and traveled to Devonport, Plymouth while writing in her diary
“Coming along through the peaceful country, it seemed impossible to realize
that there really was this fiendish war going on but now it was bought home to
us.” (Jewish Military Museum)
1915: In Atlanta, GA,
“the Penitentiary Committee of the House of Representatives…voted to table
three resolutions which would have provided for a legislative investigation of
the attack made on Leo M. Frank at the State Prison Farmer.
1915: In Brooklyn,
Otto Stern, Leo Frank’s brother-in-law said that Mr. and Mrs. Frank had no
comment to make on the attack on their son.”
1915: Two dozen names
were signed to a telegram “from a body of citizens in a small city near
Columbus, GA, asking Governor Harris to grant a pardon to the man who attempted
to murder Leo Frank at the state prison farm.
1916: Adolph Zukor's
Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in
Famous Plays—and Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Company merged today to form
“Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, an American motion picture and distribution
company.”
1916: Today, the
Crakow Tchas published “two orders by the military commander of the Chelm
District in Poland” the first of which said the Jewish community would be “fined
25,000 Kronen” if any Jew is found to be guilty” of spreading alarming rumors
and the second of which served as a reminded that Jews were not to travel
unless that had received “special permission.”
1916: “The Joint
Distribution Committee of the American Jewish Relief for War Sufferers and the
People’s Committee met in the office of Felix Warburg…and appropriated more
than $600,000 for relief work among Jewish suffers in the war zone of Europe.”
1916: Dr. Karl
Helfferich, the Secretary of the Interior and Imperial Vice Chancellor who had
just returned to Berlin from Russian Poland, described the changes the Germans
have made in the region including an amelioration of the “terrible suffering
that had existed before the Germans had arrived” as could be seen in the
admittance “of Jewish representative to the governmental bodies.”
1917: The
announcement by the new Russia government that it considers “Russians who have
taken out citizenship papers in the United States are still being considered
the new Petrograd government unless they have obtained the consent of the
Russian government to their change of allegiance” “is considered of
considerable interest to a great number of American Jews of Russian origin who
have relatives and friends whom they desire to visit in Russian and whom they
might wish to go there to bring back with them to the United States.”
1917(29th
of Tammuz, 5677): Sixty-seven-year-old Clerk of the District Court in
Brownsville, TX, Louis Kowalski, the New
Orleans born son of Sophie Bernstein and Bernard Kowalski and the husband of
Ameli Kowalski whom he married in 1876 passed away today after which he was
buried in the Hebrew Cemetery at Brownsville, TX.
1917: Yale trained
chemist, the Delhi, NY born son of Pauline Ulman and Benedict Mendel married
Alice R. Friend today in Milwaukee.
1918: Newman Erb was one of two people appointed to
serve as receivers “for the British-American Chemical Company which has offices
in New York City and a plant in Bergen County, NJ/
1918: In Wloclawek,
Poland, in an action that affected six thousand Jews, the chief of the
districted ordered all Jewish refugees who had settled there during the war to
leave.
1918: In New York,
the Second Annual Zionist Summer Course sponsored by the Intercollegiate
Zionist Association of America is scheduled to come to an end today after
hearing presentations by Otis Glazebrook on “Conditions in Jerusalem,” Col.
F.C. Jamieson on the Military Campaign in Palestine, L. N. Moisseiff on
“Engineering Problems” and Dr. Schmaria Levin, speaking in Hebrew, on “The
University of Jerusalem.
1918: It was reported
today that “the Italian Jewish Community has elected Cavaliere A.L. Bianchini
to go to Palestine as a delegate to serve with the Zionist Commission now in
the Holy Land.
1918: Persian Jews in
Hamadan wire the Zionist headquarters in Petrograd, asking that representation
be made to the Russian government on behalf of 20,000 Jews who were robbed and
left homeless by the Bolshevik troops before their departure.
1918: During the
Aisne-Marne Offensive on the Wester Front, as the Sixth Marine Regiment
attacked a German position east of Vierzy, Bernard W. Herrman, a Navy Corpsman
serving with the 76th Regiment displayed “conspicuous courage and coolness.”
1919(21st of Tammuz,
5679): Parashat Pinchas
1919: In Chicago,
Rabbi Joseph Hevesh is scheduled to lead Saturday morning services at Anshe
Emes Temple.
1919: It was reported
today that Rabbi Bernard Brickner, a graduate of Hebrew Union College has
accepted the offer to serve as “Superintendent of the United Jewish Charities
of Cincinnati” while declining the offer to serve as the “rabbi of Congregation
B’nai El in St. Louis.
1919: It was reported
today that after 24 years of service “Morris Newfeld has unanimously been
re-elected rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama to serve for another
five years.
1919: Birthdate of
Alfred Abraham, the native of Pretoria better known as welterweight boxer Alf
James.
1919:
Lawyer-statesman, Louis Marshall, addressed an overflow crowd of Jews at
Carnegie Hall. They were there to
celebrate Marshall’s achievement of having the rights of Polish Jews recognized
by the Minorities Treaty.
1920: In New
Brunswick, NJ, David Stollman and the former Julia Friedman who had immigrated
from Poland and “met in the balcony of a Yiddish theatre on the Lower East
Side” gave birth to “Bernard Stollman, whose staunchly independent record
label, ESP-Disk, provided an indispensable chronicle of the free jazz of the
1960s, and a series of provocations from the psychedelic counterculture.” (As
reported by Nate Chinen)
1921: Birthdate of Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Rosalyn
Sussman Yalow. When she won the Nobel
Prize in Medicine in 1977, she was only the second woman to win the prize in
the field of Medicine. "Her achievement was the development of RIA, an
application of nuclear physics in clinical medicine that makes it possible for
scientists to use radio tropic tracers to measure the con- concentration of
hundreds of pharmacologic and biologic substances in the blood and other fluids
of the human body and in animals and plants. She invented this technique in
1959 to measure the amount of insulin in the blood of adult
diabetics." As can be seen from the
following excerpt from the New York Times, Dr.Yalow is proud of being Jewish.
“As a Jew, I share a strong commitment to the Jewish intellectual tradition.
That tradition places emphasis on learning--learning for the sake of
understanding and perfecting our world and learning for its own sake. Through
the ages, we have taken pride in being known as the "People of the
Book" and have carried our Torah and our traditions with dignity and
affection. Even in the face of persecution and dispersion, and often denied
access to centers of learning, the Jewish people, never satisfied with
conventional answers, have always valued intellectual inquiry and continued to
honor wisdom and learning. Moreover, being Jewish means to me having a deep
attachment to family. I grew up in an era of tightly-knit families which shaped
our values and world-view. Today, the family, including the Jewish family, is
said to be an endangered institution. It is time for us to rededicate ourselves
to strengthening Jewish family life. Surely this is our best investment in the
Jewish future." Finally, Judaism represents a great synthesis of universal
and Jewish values. For me as a Jew, there need be no conflict between science
and religion. Moses Maimonides, philosopher and codifier of Halacha (Jewish
law) also graced the world of medicine. He is a role model of living in two
worlds, Jewish and universal, and of making them one. The greatness of this
country is that here we can be fully Jewish and fully American. American Jews
are blessed to be living in a country where one need not compromise one's
Jewishness to enjoy the opportunities of an open, pluralistic society. In a
world which is too often concerned with instant pleasures and
self-gratification, Jews have long believed in the importance of scholarship
and disciplined learning. Accordingly, let us rededicate ourselves to the
traditional values of our people and the service of humanity. "
1922: “The Mandates
which govern the British occupation of Palestine…came before the Council of the
League of Nations today.
1923: Former heavyweight champion James J.
Jeffries, who has taken up a career as an evangelist is preparing to give a
talk in Los Angeles on “The Restoration of Palestine to the Jews.”
1924: The anti-Jewish
sentiment of the "Volkisch" extremists has never been expressed so
unequivocally as in the recent motion laid by them before the Bavarian
Legislature, which came up for discussion at Munich today. If the motion should
become law, as its sponsors desire, it would bar all Jews in Bavaria from
occupying Government posts, forbid them from change their names and prevent
them from acquiring land.
1925: In Vienna, the
press is demanding that measures be taking to suppress the Hakenkreuzler, the
anti-Semitic organization, that made this mistake invading a fashionable
restaurant “where they fell upon
peaceful guests” men as well women and Christians as well as Jews and beat them
with clubs.
1926(8th
of Av, 5686): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1926: In London, the
Economic Board of Palestine under the leadership of chairman Sir Alfred Mond is
scheduled to meet today.
1927: The Maccabee
soccer team from Palestine returned to New York after its “swing through” the
western and is getting ready for its match at Hawthorne Field on July 24.
1928: Sir Harry
Charles Luke, a British colonial official, assumed the position acting Chief
Secretary to the Government of Palestine today. In 1929, he would make an
unsuccessful attempt to mediate an agreement between Jewish and Arab leaders.
1928: Joseph
Lefkowitz is scheduled to be executed today at Sing Song for arranging the
drowning of Benjamin Goldstein so that he could collect on an $80,000 insurance
policy issued by Metropolitan Life.
1929: In Montreal,
Joseph and Annie (Mandel) Melzack, Jewish immigrants from Poland gave birth to
their youngest child Ronald Hyman Melzak the McGill University trained
psychologist best known for his 1973 book The Puzzle of Pain and husband of
interior designer Lucy Birch.
https://www.cdnmedhall.org/inductees/ronaldmelzack
1930: Birthdate of
Joseph Persico author of Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial which tells the story of
the Nuremberg Trials and was adapted for television as the docudrama
“Nuremberg.”
1931(5th of Av,
5691): Seventy-eight-year Joseph E. Newburger who had served as a state Supreme
Court Justice and President of the Board of Trustees of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum passed away today at Bluff Point, NY.
1931(5th of
Av, 5691): Fifty-one-year-old Morris Sigman the former president of the
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union who in 1928 resigned as president
and retired to his farm in Iowa “died suddenly of heart disease at his home in
Storm Lake, IA” today.
1932: The official
results for the Parliamentary elections held in Romania on July 17 show that
out of the 277 seats, the “anti-Semites won 11 and the “Jews won 5.”
1933(25th
of Tammuz, 5693): Manufacturer Henry S.
Hartmann passed away today in Milwaukee.
1934(7th
of Av, 5694): Rebecca (Taube) Grabelsky the Ukrainian born daughter of Moses
and Rufka Cohen Grabois, the wife of Pincus Kirscher and the mother of Rose
Kirschner passed away today in Brooklyn.
1934: Birthdate of
Larry Zolf, a Canadian journalist and commentator.
1935: “Silk Hat Kid,”
a “crime drama” with a screenplay co-authored by Dore Schary was released in
the United States today.
1936: “Tales From the
Chassidic Folklore” published today provides a review of Miracle Man by David
Meckler.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9405E6DF173DE33BBC4152DFB166838D629EDE
1936: The Palestine
Post reported that four more Jews were killed by Arabs in various separate
murderous assaults throughout the country. This raised the number of Jewish
victims of Arab disturbances to 47 since April 19. Guards at Ein Harod and Kfar
Saba repulsed Arab attacks. Six Arab terrorists were killed when they bombed a
military convoy near Tulkarm. A gaping hole was reported to have been made by
Arab terrorists in their first attempt to sabotage the Iraqi Petroleum Co.'s
pipeline. Police protection was promised for the traditional visit of religious
Jews to Rachel's Tomb on the Bethlehem road, during the month of Av.
1936: In Brooklyn New
York, Elias Levy, “a cabdriver” and his wife “Rose (Laufer) Levy, who “sold
women’s clothing gave birth to Constance Levy better known as “Connie Kurtz,
who turned her coming out as a lesbian into a lifetime of activism with her wife,
Ruth Berman.” (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1936: “A committee of
delegation for the defense of Jewish rights” sent a telegram signed by Rabbi
Stephen Wise, its chairman, to Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary and
President of the League of Nations Council protesting against the Danzig
administration’s new moves which “menace the equality of rights of Danzig Jews
guaranteed under the Constitution of the Free City and the League of Nations.”
1937: Dr. Chaim
Weizmann recorded the details of conversations held with William Ormsby-Gore,
the British Colonial Secretary in which the two leaders discussed the
recommendations of the recently released report by the Royal Commission.
1938: “Members of the
Gordonia youth movement” founded Ma'ale Hahamisha (lit. Ascent of the Five)
“a kibbutz in central
Israel in the Judean Hills” which one of “the 57 tower and stockade
settlements” built during the Arab Revolt.
1938: “Virginio
Gayda, the Fascist editor said today that Jews of the United States, France,
Great Britain and Russia were responsible for the Fascist race policy”
announced on July 14 which “declared Italians were ‘Aryans’ and that Jews did
not belong to the Italian people.”
1939(3rd
of Av, 5699): Sixty-four-year-old University of California graduate and tobacco
company executive Herman Esberg, the San Francisco born son of Matilda and
Mendel Esberg, the husband of Carolie Sloss Esberg and the father of Milton H.
Esberg, Jr and Ernest L. Esberg who was
a “patron member and a member of the Board of Directors of the California Historical
Society passed away today at Monte Rio after which he was buried in Colma, CA.
1939: “President
Roosevelt today invited Earl Winterton, chairman of the Inter-Governmental
Committee on Refugees; Sir Herbert Emerson, director, and the five vice
chairmen to confer with him in Washington early in September on means of
speeding up permanent settlement of the victims of Nazi "racial" and
political persecution.”
1940: Dr. Leopold
Wallach is scheduled to lead his first Friday Night Service at Temple B’nai
Israel in Sheffield, Alabama. The 30-year-old rabbi arrived in the United
States 10 months ago from Germany and is “the first full-time Rabbi” employed
by the rabbi for many years.
1941: Nazis conquer
Vinnesta, a Ukrainian city with a Jewish population of 25,000 of whom
approximately 17,500 were able to flee eastward.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/07.asp
1941(24th of Tammuz,
5701): Parashat Pinchas
1941(24th of Tammuz,
5701): Sixty-four year old long-time realtor Matias Last, “a director of the
Hebrew Home for Orphans and Aged of Hudson County, president of the Bergen
Hebrew Institute of Jersey City, director of Yeshiva College “and the founder
of the Jersey City Jewish Community Center and the Free Burial Society of
Jersey City” who raised one son, Aaron and
six daughters – Zelda, Bella, Lillian, Bluma, Mollie and Deborah –
passed away today in his home in Jersey City, NJ.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/07/21/87646100.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=LedeAsset®ion=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=15
1941: Vinnitsa,
Ukraine was captured by German troops which would eventually lead to the
massacre of the town’s 28,000 Jews.
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/last-jew-in-vinnitsa/
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/07.asp
1942: Himmler sent a
directive to SS Lieutenant-General Wilhelm Kruger, head of the German police
forces in the General Government. The directive ordered "the resettlement
of the entire Jewish population of the General Government be carried out and completed
by December 31.The General Government was the term for the Nazi administration
in occupied Poland. The order was issued "in the name of the New Order,
security and cleanliness of the German Reich."
1942: Deportations to
the Auschwitz death camp begin for Parisian Jews who have been held at Drancy,
France, since July 16.
1942(5th of Av,
5702): Sixty-six-year-old CCNY alum and NYU trained attorney Martin Wechlsler,
“a past president of the Flatbush Jewish Center, vice president of the United
Synagogue of America and the father of two – Lean and Daniel – passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/07/20/88110403.html?pageNumber=13
1942: A ceremony was
held today at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, IA honoring Des Moines men serving
in the Armed Forces at which “Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer from Temple B’nai
Jeshurun led a salute to the flag.”
1942: The Family
Hostage Law is announced in Occupied France. Under its provisions, fugitive
"terrorists" who do not surrender to German authorities can expect
their male relatives to be killed, female relatives sent to work camps, and
children sent to special schools for political reeducation.
1943: Three thousand, five hundred Jews were
taken from the Birkenau camp to the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. Their task is
to comb the ruins for valuables left by the Jews.
1943: Lydia Litvyak,
the commander of the 3rd Aviation Squadron “shot down two more Bf 109’s today
as the Soviets sought to halt the Nazi advance.
1944: “Two SS
officers who were sent from the ‘Rosenberg Command’ in Athens…assigned the
president of the community” in Rhodes “the task” of informing “the women to
join their husbands” on penalty of death. The women were told to bring with all
of their belongings including “jewelry, gold sovereigns, banknotes, a few
personal items and food.”
1944: Twelve hundred
Hungarian Jews from Kistarcsa are trucked to Rákoscsaba, Hungary, and then
loaded onto trains bound for Auschwitz.
1944: Relying on
information leaked by British intelligence, “BBC Radio broadcast a story that
two emissaries of the Hungarian government had appeared in Turkey, proposing
that all Jews in Hungary would be allowed to leave if England and America
supplied pharmaceuticals and transport to the Germans, with a promise from the
Germans that the equipment would not be used on the Western front. The
proposal, which the BBC called "humanitarian blackmail," was reported
as a crude attempt to set the Allies against each other. The report added that
it was not clear whether the plan had the approval of the German and Hungarian
authorities.” [This is part of one of the most improbable tales from the Shoah
in which Eichmann supposedly was ready to swap a half million Hungarian Jews
for equipment that he could only have been used to fight the Soviets]
1944: Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII,
appeals to Admiral Miklós Horthy on behalf of 5000 Hungarian Jews with
Palestinian visas. Roncalli provides baptismal certificates for Jews in hiding.
1945: Starting today,
the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff “managed the capture of rocket scientists from
the German Army Research Center at Peenemunde under “Operation Overcast” which
would be re-named “Operation Paperclip” in 1946.
1945: “Anchors
Aweigh” a musical comedy directed by George Sidney and produced by Joe
Pasternak
1946: In Los Angeles,
“Jewish pickets and other demonstrators…swarmed around the downtown office
building housing the British Consulate today in protest again British policy on
Palestine and particularly against the detention of 2000 Jews whom they described
as “2000 innocent hostages.”
1947: Birthdate of
famed trumpeter and leading conductor, Gerard Schwarz. In addition to his many professional honors
and accomplishments, Schwarz is active in the Jewish community. “Schwarz was a
founding member of Music of Remembrance, an organization dedicated to
remembering Holocaust victim musicians. He is also an active member of
Seattle’s Temple De Hirsch Sinai and has lectured on Jewish music there and at
various Jewish Federation events, both local and regional.”
1947: After over 500
performances at the National Theatre, the curtain came down on “Call Me
Mister,” a revue with words and music by Harold Rome and a cast that included
Jules Munshin but which would continue its Broadway run at the Majestic and
Plymouth theatres.
1947: The Runnymede
Park, Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival, three deportation ships under British
control, which were filled with Jewish refugees from the SS Exodus, set sail
from Haifa bound for Port-de-Bouc, France.
The British sailed the commandeered ship into Haifa port, where its
passengers were transferred to three more seaworthy deportation ships,
Runnymede Park, Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival. The event was witnessed by
members of UNSCOP. These ships left Haifa harbour on July 19 for Port-de-Bouc.
Foreign Secretary Bevin insisted that the French get their ship back as well as
its
1948: After ten days
of fighting, the road from Haifa to Nazareth was firmly in Israeli hands.
1948: The “Second
Truce” goes into effect. The state of
Israel had survived for two months despite two rounds of fighting with invading
Arab Armies. The Jewish state was still not
one contiguous unit. Egyptian forces
were still in the Negev. The Jerusalem
corridor was a slender strip of land and some northern settlements were cut-off
from the rest of the country by Arab forces. Despite the truce, there would
still be more fighting before the armistice documents would be signed in
1949. Still and all, the Jewish nation,
even a precarious state, was a reality.
1948: In Jerusalem,
Israeli forces drive off an Arab attack designed to penetrate the new, modern,
Jewish section, of the city
1948: The main Cairo
store owned by Cicurel family was damaged by a bomb today. The attack was
thought to be the work of the Muslim Brothers. The store was part of a chain
started by the family of Moreno Cicurel had migrated to Cairo from Izmir in the
mid-nineteenth century
1949: Delegations
returning from Israel make a mistake in saying everything's wonderful there,
Louis Hollander, president of the State Congress of Industrial Organizations
and vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, declared
today at luncheon given to honor him and Israel Feinberg the vice President of
the ILGWU
1949: It was
announced today that “radio and electrical valued at $6,200” which is bound for
Israel has been donated to the American trade Union Council by local 430 of the
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union.”
1950: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in Washington, for Edmund I Kaufman the
Detroit born son of the former Jeanette Marx and Aron Kaufmann and the husband
of Gertrude Dryfoos whom he married after the death Lillian Swope, the mother
of his three sons – Joel, Robert and Aron – who was the founder of Kay Jewelers
and former President of the ZOA after which he will be buried in the Washington
Hebrew Congregation cemetery.
1950: Today “was the
date on which a new Jewish community in Germany was officially constituted”
when “25 leading representatives of the reestablished Jewish communities met in
Frank am Main to fond an umbrella group that would represent all Jews living in
Germany” which “they decided to call the Central Council of Jews in Germany”
1951: Sir Laurence
Olivier presided at the opening of the Irving Memorial Garden, built to honor
memory of Sir Henry Irving who as an actor was known for his portrayal of
Shylock and as a theatre manager for the production of “The Bells”, a version
of Erckmann-Chatrian's “Le Juif polonaise” by Leopold Lewis. According to
contemporaries, “he invested” his portrayal of Shylock with a “dignity” that
was a marked “departure from the traditional interpretation of the role.”
1951: “Two on the
Aisle,” “a musical revue with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph
Green and music by Jule Styne” opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger
Theatre.
1951: The US, Britain
and France were prepared to back Israel's protest to the UN Security Council
against the Egyptian blockage of the Suez Canal for shipping destined for
Israel. The Egyptian blockade was a violation of international law. It would
take the war in 1967 to finally establish Israel’s right to have access to the
international waterway.
1951: In New York,
John Blandford, the new director of UNWRA, was planning a tour of the Arab
countries in order to provide the Palestine Arab refugees with homes and
constructive work. This was the beginning of the "Arab Refugee
Problem" created, in part, by the unwillingness of Arab states to allow
the Palestinians to live in the homelands of their fellow Arabs.
1952: The 1952 Summer
Olympics, during which Agnes Keleti would win a gold medal in the floor
exercises opened in Helsinki today.
1953: Birthdate of
Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks.
1953(7th
of Av, 5713): Seventy-eight-year-old Tillie Endel Hyman the “vice president and
a director of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association who was the
wife of the “the late Samuel I. Hyman, an importer of feathers and a founder of
the Central Jewish Institute passed away today.
1955(29th of Tammuz,
5715): Seventy-four-year-old Russian born Rabbi Abraham Abrahams, the “former
principal of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School who had come to New York in 1926
from South Africa passed away today in Shenandoah, PA.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/07/20/79391987.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1955: The Yarkon
water project was opened. The Yarkon River flows near Tel Aviv.
1956; “Dag
Hammarskjold is scheduled to arrive today in Jerusalem to review with Premier
David Ben-Gurion the cease-fire agreements he obtained between Israel and her
Arab neighbors when he visited this area last April.”
1957: “I Was a
Teenage Werewolf” a horror flic “co-written and produced by cult film producer
Herman Cohen” and starring Michael Landon was released in the United States.
1958(2nd of Av,
5718): Parashat Matot-Masei
1958:
Forty-eight-year-old New York native and NYU alum stage manager Milton Stern
who gave up the brokerage business
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/07/21/79457133.html?pageNumber=21
1958: Judge and Mrs.
Goodman A. Sarachan announced the engagement of their daughter, University of
Michigan senior and niece of Sir Leon Simon, Naomi Kitty Sarachan to University of Michigan College of
Engineering graduate Warren Singer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Singer,
1959: In “Was It
Murder or Was It Suicide” published today Emanuel Perlmutter provided a
complete review of The Nan Patterson Case by attorney Newman Levy.
1961: “By Love
Possessed,” a film version of the novel of the same name produced by Walter
Mirish, featuring Susan Kohner and with music by Elmer Bernstein was released
today in the United States.
1962(17th of Tammuz,
5722): Tzom Tammuz
1962(17th of Tammuz,
5722): Eighty-year-old “Mrs. Rose Esserman Kantrowitz, a former costume and
dress designer and “the widow of Dr. Bernard A. Kantrowitz” with whom she
raised four children – Arthur, Adrian, Benjamin and Dorothy – passed away today
at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
1962(17th of Tammuz,
5722): Sixty-nine Abraham Waxman “a former director of advertising and
publicity for Warner Brothers” known as A.P. Waxman and the husband of Roberta
Waxman suffered a fatal heart attack today.
1963: Birthdate of
Afula native Ronen Pinchas Hoffman a MK for Yesh Atid and Israeli ambassador to
Canada.
1963: The second
annual Long Island Workshop in Police and Community Relations which had opened
with an address by Louis Radelet, the director of national program development
for services of the National Conference of Christians and Jews is scheduled to come
to an end today.
1964(10th of Av,
5724): Tish’a B’Av is observed for the first time during the Presidency of
Lyndon Johnson who had helped Jews enter the United States before WW II and who
had visited a concentration camp in 1945 – a visit that had a searing effect on
him according to Ladybird Johnson.
1964(10th
of Av, 5724): Seventy-eight-year-old Max Henry Goldhammer, the New York born
son Bertha and Philip Goldhammer, the husband of Frances and Jeanette
Goldhammer and the father of Philip David Goldhammer passed away today.
1964(10th of Av,
5724): Abraham Heuer, the husband of Sally Heuer, with whom he had had five
children, passed away today in Rahway, NJ.
1965: In Kingston,
Jamaica, Patricia Levy and Sir John Simon Rawson Golding, a British orthopedic
surgeon whose parents were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants gave birth to Oxford
educated British-Jamaican political leader Mark Jefferson Golding, the husband
of Sandra Golding with whom he had three children who served as Minister of
Justice from 2012 to 2016.
1965(19th of Tammuz,
5725): Eighty-four-year-old Czech sculptor and artist Rudolf Saudek who had
survived Theresienstadt passed away today in Prague.
1969: Israeli commandos begin a night attack on
Green Island, a major military installation in the Gulf of Suez. The attack is one of the most difficult
undertaken by Israel’s special operations forces. It would be a joint attack included forces
from the Army’s Sayeret Matkla unit (a cross between the Green Berets and the
Rangers) and the Navy’s Sayetet 13 or Flotilla 13, commonly known as
Ha’commando Ha’yami, similar to the U.S. Navy’s SEALS.
1969: For the feats
of heroism performed today during Operation Bulmus Ami Ayalon was awarded the
Medal of Valor, the IDF’s version of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1969: In Los Angeles,
“actor/director Richard Elfman and Rhonda Joy Saboff” gave birth to Bodhi Pine
Saboff, the “grandson of author Blossom Elfman, and nephew of composer Danny
Elfman” who gained fame as actor Bodhi Elfman.
1970: “The Valley of
Gwangi” a fantasy film that featured Gila Golan in her final film appearance
and filmed by cinematographer Jerome Moross was released in Japan today.
1970: Yosef
Goldschmidt began his second term as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.
1972(8th of Ave,
5732): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1972: In Paris,
historian Laurent Binet and his wife gave birth to Lauren Binet, the author of
HHhH, the chronicles the events surrounding the assassination of “Reinhard
Heydrich, the Butcher of Prauge.”
1972: “Ciao!
Manhattan” co-directed, produced and written by David Weisman premiered today
“in Amsterdam.”
1973: Ninth Maccabiah
comes to a close.
1973: Paul Simon’s “Loves Me Like a Rock” was
released today.
1976: St. Thomas
Synagogue a historic synagogue at 2116
Crystal Gade, Queens Quarters, in Charlotte Amalie on the island of Saint
Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands was designated as a CP today.
1976: The Jerusalem
Post reported that the Israeli pound was again devalued by 2 percent, to IL
8.12 to the dollar. But the cabinet ended its exclusive linkage to the dollar
and altered the year-old system of creeping devaluations to make their dates
harder to guess. The pound was linked to a basket of currencies (including the
dollar). The special ministerial committee was empowered to devalue the pound
by up to 8 percent within the set four-month period in any way it chose. The
Histadrut Executive decided to increase the membership dues and allowed Kupat
Holim to charge its members for doctors' prescriptions
1980(6th of Av,
5740): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1980(6th of Av,
5740): Seventy-six year old “author,
teacher and Viet Nam Critic Hans J. Morgenthau passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/07/20/111795844.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hans-Morgenthau
1980)6th
of Av, 5740): Fifty-nine-year-old Henry David Epstein, a community developer
and real estate investor who was chairman of the board of Gulfstream Land and
Development Corporation and who raised two children, Robert and Danielle, with
his wife, the “former Dasha Amsterdam” passed away today.
1981(17th of Tammuz,
5741): Tzom Tammuz
1981(17th of Tammuz,
5741): A boy of 17 was killed and 15 people were injured as a result of
Katyusha bombardments on western Galilee.
1981: In “Imaginings
of a New Life” published today Stanley Kaufman reviews Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
by Gregor von Rezzori.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/19/books/imaginings-of-a-new-life.html?searchResultPosition=3
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-lost-world
1982(28th of Tammuz,
5742): Seventy-three-year-old David Frankfurter who created an international
sensation when he assassinated the Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP
Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland passed away today.
http://ashkenazhouse.org/frankfurtereng.html
1983(9th of Av,
5743): Tish'a B'Av
1983: Max M.
Kampelman delivered a speech today in which the “United States strongly accused
the Soviet Union and its allies of continuing violations of human rights…”
1985(1st of Av,
5745): Rosh Chodesh Av
1985(1st of Av,
5745): Captain (Hon). Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, RNR, CBE, QC, DL passed away.
Born in 1901, he was a British judge, writer and Naval intelligence officer.
Montagu was the second son of the prominent peer Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd
Baron Swaythling. During World War II, Montagu served in the Naval Intelligence
Division of the British Admiralty, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander
RNVR. While Commanding Officer of NID 17M, Squadron Leader Charles Cholmondely,
RAFVR and he conceived Operation Mincemeat, on the war’s most successful acts
of deception. Thanks to Operation
Mincemeat, the forces of Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, enjoyed the
element of surprise that helped to make the invasion a success. For his role in
Mincemeat, he was awarded the Military Order of the British Empire. He wrote
The Man Who Never Was in 1953 which was an account of Operation Mincemeat that
was made into a movie three years later. He was president of the United
Synagogue, 1954-62, and vice-president of the Anglo-Jewish Association.
1985: Five children
were stabbed and wounded by a terrorist from Dura in the center of Jerusalem.
1989(16th of Tammuz,
5749): Eighty-six-year-old J.M. (John Michael) Cohen, the English businessman
and WW II schoolmaster who found his niche as a translator of foreign language
passed away today.
http://prhsales-stg.tgix.com/author/?authorid=230466
1989(16th of Tammuz,
5749): Seventy-year-old Israeli author and sculptor Benjamin Tammuz passed
away.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/21/obituaries/benjamin-tammuz-70-a-writer-and-sculptor.html
http://www.europaeditions.com/author.php?Id=9
1991: Under the
leadership of Dr. Fred Bolotin, ground-breaking ceremonies took place for a new
addition to what is now known as the Heights Jewish Center Synagogue.
1993(1st of Av,
5753): Rosh Chodesh Av
1993(1st of Av,
5753): Eighty-four year old violinist and conduct Szymon Goldberg passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/20/obituaries/szymon-goldberg-84-violinist-and-teacher.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-szymon-goldberg-1461478.html
1994(11th of Av,
5754): Eighty-one year old Gottfried Reinhardt, the German born film director
and producer who was the son of the Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt,
passed away in Los Angeles.
1994(11th of Ave,
5754): “Lt. Guy Ovadia, 23, of Kibbutz Yotvata, was fatally wounded in an
ambush near Rafiah. HAMAS took responsibility for the attack, saying it was
"a response to the massacre at the Erez checkpoint". (Jewish Virtual
Library)
1995(21st of Tammuz,
5755): Seventy-two-year-old Chelsea, MA, native William J. “Bill” Weinberg, the
heavyweight boxer whose career began “at the age of 18” in 1941 and ended with
his retirement in 1951.
1995: “Clueless” a
comedy directed by Amy Heckerling, produced by Scott Rudin and co-starring
Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd was released by Paramount Pictures in the
United States today.
1996: An exhibition
featuring the works of Stella Styne is scheduled to come to an end at Belgrave
Gallery.
1998: The New York
Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including Stephen Sondheim: A Life by Meryle Secrest, Explaining
Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum, Summer
Sisters by Judy Blume and The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard
Zimler
2000: An
international organization that seeks compensation for Holocaust survivors said
yesterday that it planned to pressure the Austrian government to acknowledge
complicity during the Nazi regime and to improve reparations to Jews.
2001: Maxim
Tcherkassov was arrested to and charged “with felony criminal mischief” for
having spray pained anti-Semitic remarks and swastikas on homes “in Midwood
where many Orthodox Jews live” and on synagogue on East 13th Street.
2002: Today “exactly
thirty years after its world premiere in Amsterdam” “Ciao! Manhattan” which had
co-directed, produced and written by David Weisman “opened at New York’s Cinema
Village.
2002: “In his regular
column for the National Catholic Reporter, John L. Allen Jr. quotes
unidentified Vatican officials who suggest that Jewish bias against the Roman
Catholic Church is partially responsible for the widespread media coverage and
bias in the sexual abuse scandal.”
http://skepticism.org/timeline/july-history/7666-national-catholic-reporter-john-allen-quotes-vatican-official-jewish-bias-against-church.html
2003(19th of Tammuz,
5763): Parashat Pinchas
2004(1st of Av,
5764): Rosh Chodesh Av
2004: Eliezer Sanburg
swapped ministerial portfolios today began serving as Minister of Energy and
Infrastructure after completing his term as Minister of Science and Technology.
2004: TNT broadcast
the first episode of “The Grid,” a miniseries co-starring Julianna Margulies.
2005: Today, “German
prosecutors charged Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel with 14 counts of inciting
racial hatred, which is punishable under German penal code, Section 130, 2.(3)
(Agitation (sedition) of the People) with up to 5 years in prison. The indictment
stated Zündel "denied the fate of destruction for the Jews planned by
National Socialist powerholders and justified this by saying that the mass
destruction in Auschwitz and Treblinka, among others, were an invention of the
Jews and served the repression and extortion of the German people.
2006: “Strike on
Israeli Navy Ship” published today that after having been suffered damage from
a missile attack off the coast of Lebanon, “ the INS Hanit stayed afloat, got
itself out of the line of fire, and made the rest of the journey back to Ashdod
port for repairs on its own
2006: The second in a series of three concerts
takes place at Jerusalem’s Confederation House featuring bakashot (prayers of
request in the Sephardic fashion). This concert focuses on the bakashot of
Morocco. Morocco was the only Arab country not conquered by the Ottomans and
Jewish Moroccan music, having avoided centuries of Turkish influence, retains
an older style harking back to the Golden Age of Spain before the expulsion.
The cantors for this concert are Rabbi Meir Eliezer Attia, Maimon Cohen, David Attia,
Haim Elon and Moshe Louk.
2006: The following
were among the total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who died of heart
attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers who were killed in the
Israel-Hezbollah war: St.-Sgt. Yonatan Hadassi, 21, of Kibbutz Merhavia; St.-Sgt.
Yotam Gilboa, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim, Rabiya Abed Taluzi, three, and his brother
Mahmoud, 7, of Nazareth.
2007: In Jerusalem,
The Zeek Gallery at the Yellow Submarine presents an exhibition entitled
"Chance Music."
2008: Police arrested
seven IDF soldiers on suspicion of involvement in a quarrel with civilians
which took place on Friday night near Atlit Navy base. The soldiers claimed
they tried to prevent the citizens from entering a closed military area;
however the civilians, members of two Druze families from Bet Ja'an, claimed
that the soldiers had attacked them for racial reasons.
2008: Less than a
month after meeting the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in Israel, IDF
Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi left for the United States for a
week of talks - with a focus on Iran - with top US defense and diplomatic officials
2008: Another production of Kurt Weill’s American
opera, “Street Scene” was performed today on the grounds of the Old Royal Naval
College in Greenwich “with a cast largely from students attending Trinity
College of Music.
2009: A stretch of
Vienna’s Danube River will be transformed into a sunny beachfront from April
through October. Today’s official launch party pays tribute to Tel Aviv’s
Centennial with Israeli music, concerts and an upbeat summer party.
2009: At the 18th
Maccabiah Games the Israel cricket team plays a team from South Africa and
Great Britain plays India as the round robin matches continue.
2009: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year by Alistair Horne.
2009: The Governor of
Kentucky announced that Jerry Abramson would be running of Lt. Gov. on his
ticked in 2011.
2010: An advanced
screening of “Lebanon,” a film based on Post-screening discussion with director
Samuel Maoz’s own experience during the war with Lebanon in 1982, is scheduled
to take place at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
2010: It was
announced today that The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) have
arrested a Hamas terror cell that was operating in the West Bank and was behind
a shooting attack last month in the southern Hebron Hills which killed
policeman Shuki Sofer. The Shin Bet revealed in the investigation that the
Hamas operatives had several years ago established a terror cell that had
stockpiled weaponry hidden in nearby mountains to use in attacks. Among the
weaponry found were three Kalashnikov rifles that were used by the perpetrators
of the attack in June. IDF sources said that Hamas was continuing to try and
reestablish its terror infrastructure in the West Bank but was encountering
difficulties due to continued IDF operations in the area as well as increased
activity by Palestinian Authority security forces.
2010(8th of Av,
5770): “In her 100th year,” the widow of artist Reuven Rubin Esther (nee Davis)
Rubin, “who had arrived in Tel-Aviv from the Bronx in 1929 after winning first
prize in a national oratorical contest of Young Judea” and was “at the forefront
of Tel Aviv’s cultural scene” passed away today leaving behind two children –
David Rubin and Ariella Giniger
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=esther-rubin&pid=144534892
2010(8th of Av,
5770): Eighty-six-year-old particle physicist Gerson Goldhaber, whose
accomplishments earned him the title of California Scientist of the Year and
the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society. (As reported by Jascha
Hoffman)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/science/26goldhaber.html
2011: In New York
City, The Dor Chadash Book Salon series is scheduled to present Dorit Rabinyan,
the Israeli author of A Strand of a Thousand Pearls,
2011: “The official
gala opening” of “Ghost the Musical” for which Caissie “Levy originated the
role of Molly Jensen” took place this evening in London.
2011: IDF Chief of
Staff Benny Gantz ordered the Israel Navy to intercept the French yacht
Dignite-Al Karame after it had refused to stop heading toward the Gaza shore.
2011: The New Zealand
Security Intelligence Service (SIS) suspected that Israeli spies may have been
among the Israeli casualties in the powerful 6.3 earthquake which hit New
Zealand earlier this year, killing 181 people including three Israelis, New Zealand
newspaper The Southland Times reported today
2011(17th of Tammuz,
5771) Fast of the 17th of Tammuz
2012: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to present “Seeking
Justice,” a lecture by Eli Rosnebam, “the longest-serving prosecutor and
investigator of Nazi criminals and other perpetrators of human rights
violations.”
2012: “Hava Nagila”
(the movie) is scheduled to be shown on the opening night of the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival.
2012: Twenty of those
“lightly injured” in yesterday’s terrorist attack in Bulgaria are scheduled to
be flown to Israel starting today.
2012: An airplane
carrying 32 Israeli tourists wounded in the attack in Burgas yesterday landed
in Ben Gurion Airport this afternoon.Three victims remained in serious
condition at a hospital in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Military medical
staff currently in Bulgaria have yet to determine whether they will be flown to
Israel later in the day.
2012: The five
Israelis killed in yesterday’s terror attack in Bulgaria arrived in Israel late
tonight, as their plane touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv shortly
after 12:30 a.m. Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov oversaw an official ceremony
for the victims, whose relatives were present for their arrival. The victims
were named this evening as Amir Menashe, 27; Itzik Kolengi, 27; Maor Harush,
26; Elior Priess, 26; and Kochava Shriki, 42.
2012: Israel has
raised its military alert on the northern border, and cancelled some weekend
furloughs, amid fears that the situation in neighboring Syria is rapidly
spiraling out of control. Touring the border area today, Defense Minister Ehud
Barak found himself within earshot of mortar shells fired between Syrian Army
and rebel forces, which landed just a few hundred yards away, and he and senior
Israeli army officers watched clouds of smoke rising from conflict zones that
were being shelled
2013: In Trancoso, “a
learning center” devoted to the history of the Jewish community in Portugal is
scheduled to open today. (As reported by Cnaan Liphshiz)
2013: “The Snowy Day
and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats” the first major exhibition in this country to
pay tribute to award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats whose
beloved children’s books include Whistle for Willie, Peter’s Chair, and The
Snowy Day is scheduled to open at the National Museum of American Jewish
History.
2013: The Maccabeats
are scheduled to perform at the Hampton Synagogue in West Hampton.
2013: “Mamele” is
scheduled to be shown this evening as part of the “July Yiddish Film Festival
at Agudas Achim” immediately after Shabbat Eve services.
2013: A directive
from the “European Union that bars its 28 members from all cooperation with
Israeli entities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and requires that any
contracts between EU member countries and Israel henceforth include a clause
stating that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are not part of the State of
Israel is scheduled to take affect today. (As reported by Gavriel Fiske)
2013: An army
spokesperson has confirmed that the IDF has stationed an Iron Dome missile
defense battery near the southern city of Eilat. “The move comes amid the
latest bout of unrest in Egypt that has put Israel on edge in part because of
an increase of Islamist militancy in the Sinai region.”
2013: Today at the
Maccabiah, Israel takes on India in cricket, Canada in softball and the USA in
baseball
and basketball.
2013: “The 14 pages
containing the original Schindler’s List will be auctioned off toay by
California collectors Gary Zimet and Eric Gazin, who set the reserve price at
$3 million but are hoping to sell it for $5 million.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/original-schindlers-list-to-be-sold-on-ebay-for-3-million/
2014: As of 1:30 a.m.
Israeli time, the IDF continues its mission in Gaza to destroy the capability
to launch missiles into Israel and to conduct cross-border raids through
tunnels.
2014: “Fourteen
French police officers were wounded, and 38 people were arrested” today at an
anti-Israel rally held in defiance of a “city-issued ban” on the demonstration.
(JTA)
2014: “In Brussels,
calls to “kill the Jews” were heard at a demonstration of a few thousand
people, where approximately 200 protesters smashed shop windows and parked
cars.” (JTA)
2014: “In London,
approximately 10,000 people attended a protest rally that featured calls to
destroy Israel.” (JTA)
2014: The Historic
Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to host the “Carsie Blanton CD Release
Show.”
2014(21st Tammuz,
5774): Col. Amotz Greenberg, 45, of Hod Hasharon, and Sgt. Adar Bersano, 20, of
Nahariya, were killed this morning (Shabbat) after a terrorist squad
infiltrated from Gaza into Israel through a tunnel. (As reported by Gil Ronen
and Tova Dvorin)
2014(21st of Tammuz,
5774): Eighty-year-old Pediatrician Paul
Fleiss, who despite his long medical career was best known as the father of
Heidi Fless, the “Hollywood Madam” passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-fleiss-20140720-story.html
2014(21st of Tammuz,
5774): Ninety-two year pioneering television producer Madeline Amgott passed
away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2015: An exhibition
featuring a selection of the “illustrations, sketches and etchings” of
cartoonist Liana Finick is scheduled to come to an end today at the Spertus
Institute for Jewish Learning.
2015: The Oregon
Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust is scheduled to host an “historic
walking tour of Jewish South Portland.”
2015: Bob Geminder, a
native of Poland whose family survived the Warsaw Ghetto and escaped from a
train bound for Auschwitz is scheduled to speak at the Los Angeles Museum of
the Holocaust.
2015: The Jerusalem
Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: In Amherst, MA,
“a concert featuring the Yidstock All-stars with Frank London and a group of
all-star guests including Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics is scheduled to
take place at the Yiddish Book Center.
2015:
“Scalia/Ginsburg” an opera that looks at the Supreme Court through the eyes of
its leading conservative justice and liberal justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is
scheduled to be performed for the third and final time at the Castleton
Festival.
2015: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Pinch: A History by Steve Stern, The Goddess Pose:
The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West
by Michelle Goldberg and One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard
Nixon by Tim Weiner.
2016: The 92nd Street
Y is scheduled to host a “Summertime Swing Party” this evening.
2016: The Republican
Convention in Cleveland is scheduled to nominate Donald Trump, whose daughter
and son-in-law are Jewish as President of the United States.
2017: “Clashes
between Muslim protesters and Israeli police erupted today at one of the
entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City for the fourth day in a row over new security
measures at the Temple Mount following a recent terror attack.” (As reported by
Dov Lieber and Alexander Fulbright)
2017: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a session of “Al-Andalus: Tolerance,
Culture and Violence” taught by Rachel Stein.
2017: “April’s
Daughter” and “The Most Beautiful Island” are scheduled to be shown at the
Jewish Film Festival.
2017: In London, UK
Jewish Film is scheduled to host the next FilmClub this evening “where a
discussion will follow the screening of ‘Eva Hesse,” “the pioneering Jewish
American artist.”
2017: “Eva Hesse,”
film that tells the story of the short and tragic of this artist” is scheduled
to be shown in Glasgow, Scotland.
2017: D.B. “Weiss
announced that he was going to begin production on another HBO series,
Confederate, after the final season of Game of Thrones.”
2017: “Jerusalem’s
Mayor Nir Barkat has reached a deal with ultra-Orthodox leaders to carve up the
city’s neighborhoods along religious lines, in a move which critics say is
aimed at guaranteeing him ultra-Orthodox support for the next mayoral
elections, due 2018.” (As reported by Sue Surkes).
2018: At Temple
Israel in Memphis, TN, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to “lead a discussion
on ‘The Jewish Value of Mercy’” as the community prepares to observe Tisha B’Av
this weekend.
2018: “The world
premiere of Stories of Survival, a landmark exhibit that showcases more than 60
never-before-seen personal items brought to America by Survivors of the
Holocaust and genocides including Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda,
South Sudan, and Syria” is scheduled to take place at the Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Center.
2018: This morning
Dov Haiyun, “a Conservative rabbi” “was taken from his home at 5 a.m. and
detained for performing weddings outside the auspices of the state-run Chief
Rabbinate” which led to the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) to
send a statement later in the day “directly to Prime Minister Netanyahu, saying
the episode ‘marks a new and dangerous step in the ongoing attack on religious
freedom and civil liberties in Israel.” (As reported by Eric Cortellessa)
2018: “Pianist Alon
Goldstein is scheduled to perform at the annual International Keyboard
Institute and Festival with the Fine Arts Quartet, celebrating the Institute’s
20th anniversary.”
2018: JW3 is scheduled
to host a “special preview of ‘Generation Wealth’” at the Phoenix Cinema.
2019: This evening in
San Francisco, the Davies Symphony Hall is scheduled to host “Shabbat at the
S.F. Symphony” complete with a “OneTable Shabbat dinner in VIP Green Room at
Davies, followed by symphony performance commemorating the 50th anniversary of
the moon landing.”
2019: In Berkley, CA,
Urban Adamah is scheduled to host “Wilderness Torah Shabbat” featuring a
Kabbalat Shabbat serviced followed by a vegetarian potluck dinner” for which
the price of admission is “a canned good for the farm food bank.”
2019(16th of Tammuz,
5779): Ninety-year-old Agnes Heller, the daughter of Pal Heller, the lawyer who
was sent to his death at Auschwitz for helping people to the Nazis and Angela
Ligeti “a prominent Hungarian philosopher and dissident who repeatedly found
herself unwelcome in her own country” passed away today.
2019: This morning,
in San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Bagels and
Babies.”
2019: In Berkley, CA,
the Live Oak Theatre is scheduled to host “Cyla’s Gift,” “a story of wartime
experiences with traditional Jewish folk tales, written and performed by Samara
Lerman.”
2019: Israeli brace
for another of the weekly outbreaks of Friday violence on the border of Gaza
where Palestinians, for months, have engaged in a range of violent activities
including hurling rocks, firebombs and explosives while launching incendiary balloons
designed to burn soft targets including forests and homes.
2020: The final day
of the Cinegogue Summer Days” film festival is scheduled to included screening
of the 2019 Hungarian drama “Those Who
Remained” (subtitled) and Q&A with filmmakers: a conversation with Pulitzer
Prize-winning critic Emily Nussbaum about Jewish female characters on TV; a
screening of English/Hebrew documentary “Love & Stuff” and conversation
with filmmaker Judith Helfand; and
closing night awards ceremony and cocktail hour; and two shorts -- narrative “The Shabbos Goy” and documentary “Caregiver:
A Love Story.
2020: The 11th Annual
Axelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open with “the North
American Premiere of the Tribeca Award winning film, ‘Asia’”
2020: The Drive In,
Troubadour Meridian Water, Harbet Road, Edmonton, London is scheduled to host a
screening of “Yentl” starring Barbra Streisand
2020: The “National
Day in Memory of the Victims of the Racist and Anti-Semitic Crimes of the
French State and Tribute to the Righteous of France” which is scheduled to be
held today in France in accordance with the health rules in force, “will mark
this year’s 78th anniversary of the round-up of the Vel’ d’Hiv.”
2020: KlezCalifornia
is scheduled to hold an online conversation for fluent Yiddish speaker
2020: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Desert
Notebooks by Ben Ehrenreich, The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and
the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution by David Paul Kuhn and Burning
Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New
Republican Party by Julian E. Zelizer
2021: Congregation
Emanu-El historian Judi Leff is scheduled to lead a tour of two cemeteries in
Colma during which participants can “learn about the deceased there who helped
shape S.F. and Jewish community, including Levi Strauss, Isaias W. Hellman, Wyatt
Earp and 1880s Emanu-El cantor Julie Rosewald.”
2021: The YIVO
Institute is scheduled to preset a lecture by Abraham Novershtern on “Yiddish
Women Writers” which provides an analysis of the challenges faced by this group
of authors.
2021: The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host an online lecture by Judy Batalion,
author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women's Resistance Fighters
in Hitler's Ghettos
2022: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar featuring Trudy Gold lecturing on
“Stalin, Zionism and Israel.”
2022: As part of the
Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, YIVO is scheduled to present a language in
Yiddish lecture on “Libes Briv (18th C.): Issac Wetzlar’s Call for
Reform of Jewish Society and Education.”
2022: Erev National
Hot Dog Day (for what looks like a good buy, try the super pack of Hebrew
National Franks at Walmart)
2022: The Museum on
Eldridge Street is scheduled to present the second session of “Make Yourself at
Home! Home, Exile, and Return in the Hebrew Bible,”
2022: The YIVO
Institute is scheduled to present “Storytelling With YIVO’s Beba Epstein: The
Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Exhibition.”
https://yivo.org/Storytelling-Workshop
2022: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar featuring a lecture by Jeremy Rosen
on “Ecclesiastes: The First Self-Help Builder.”
2023(1st
of Av, 5683): Rosh Chodesh Av
2023: Temple Emanu-El
is scheduled to host a screening of “Mary Poppins,” part of the Movies Under
the Stars program.
2023: Andrew
Silow-Carroll, managing editor for Ideas at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and
editor at large at the New York Jewish Week, is scheduled to teach the fourth
session of "Inside Jokes: Explore the Essence of Jewish Humor.”
2023: President Herzog
is scheduled to be in Washington to give an address on today to a joint session
of Congress in honor of Israel’s 75th anniversary.
2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Lyn Julius on “What is the Nakba?”
2023: The
Commonwealth Club is scheduled to host journalist and CNN chief Washington
correspondent Jake Tapper as he discusses All The Demons Are Here his
mystery novel set in the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid
journalism, serial killers, disco and UFOs
2023: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Keys for a Cause,” a fundraiser, hosted
by the Young Professional Board.
2024: Those participating
in the tour “Poland 2024” are scheduled to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau before returning
“to Krakow for Shabbat preparations, prayers, and dinner.”
2024: The San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings “Highway 65,” “Love
Machina,” “Mediterranean Fever” and “Oys and Joys.”
2024: Lockdown University
is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Shippel on the Parsha of the Week.
2024: The Family
Forum tent in Jerusalem is scheduled to hold Kabbalat Shabbat and Friday night
services on Azza/Balfour.
2024: As July 19th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling
for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 287 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time.)
