This Day, July 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 2
311:
Miltiades began serving as Bishop of Rome (Pope) during the reign of
Constantine the Great, the Roman Emperor who moved against the Jews in his
effort to make the Roman Empire Christian.
419: Birthdate
of Valentinian III, the Roman Emperor who issued a decree prohibiting Jews from
practicing law and holding public office.
437:
Valentinian III began his reign as Emperor of the Western portion of the Roman
Empire
936: Otto I
began his reign as King of Germany.
During his reign Rhenish Rabbis
received ”a responsum from the rabbis of
Palestine in answer to a question addressed to them…concerning the appearance
of the Messiah” (As reported by Rabbi Isaac ben Dorbolo circa 1150)
1029:
Birthdate of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo. He was the grandson of the third
Fatimid caliph, al-Hakim founder of the *Druze sect who promulgated a variety
of ant-Jewish and anti-Christian decrees which he later he rescinded. His
grandson ruled in this more liberal environment in which the Jews were able to
propser. A Jewish merchant named Abu Sa’ad or in Hebrew Abraham ben Yashar and
his brother Abu Nasr Hesed were two leaders of the Jewish community during
Mustansir’s reign.
1298: Albert I of Habsburg defeated Adolf of
Nassau-Weilburg at the Battle of Göllheim serving to cement the dominant
position of the Habsburgs in the Germanic states of central Europe. As is the case with so many Christian
monarchs, Albert’s treatment of his Jewish subjects was a mixed bag. In 1298 he
1 endeavored to suppress riots based on the blood libel that were sweeping the
Rhineland and imposed a fine on the town of St. Poelten. But in1306, “he punished the Jews in
*Korneuburg on a charge of desecration of the Host.”
1389: The Pope
issued a bull condemning the attacks on the Jews of Bohemia that had begun on
Easter Sunday, April 18, 1389. The mobs
ignored the Pope and Emperor Wensceslaus refused to protect his Jewish subjects
claiming that they deserved to suffer since they should not have been out of
their houses on Easter Sunday.
1453: Spanish
statesman Alvaro de Luna whose friendship with the Jews including a thirty year
friendship with Abraham Benveniste and Joseph ha-Nassi was beheaded today in
the presence of Friar Alfonso de Espina “the fiercest enemy of the Jewish race”
after being falsely implicated in the death of Queen Maria.
1490: A
Chumash with commentary by the Ramban was published for the first time. This
happened 35 years after Gutenberg printed his famous Bible. This Chumash was
not the first book to be printed in Hebrew. That honor probably goes to
Tractate Berakhot of the Babylonian Talmud which was printed by Joshua Solomon
Soncino in 1483. The Ramban is Rabbi
Moshe ben Nachman also known as Nachmanides.
He was a Spanish physician and noted Torah scholar who lived during the
13th century. He is not to be
confused with the Rambam, Moses Maimonides who was also born in Spain and who
was an even greater Torah scholar. The
Ramban was born after the Rambam had already passed away.
1494: Spain ratified The Treaty of Tordesillas which divided all new
found lands outside of Europe between Portugal and Spain. This was bad news for the Jews since it meant
they would be banned from a wide swath of land including the Americas and the
Spice Islands off the coast of Asia.
Fortunately, Protestant countries like England and Holland would not
feel bound by this absurd piece of paper and Jews would be able to settle and
prosper in the lands that would be “discovered” and colonized over the next two
centuries.
1566: Nostradamus passed away. His
grandfather was Jewish, but his father converted to Catholicism. According to one source Nostradamus was thought
to have been a descendent of the lost Jewish tribe of Issacher, a tribe that
was noted to be knowledgeable in astrology and the mystical arts.
1567(15th of Tammuz 5327):
According to testimony given by Elias ben Nehemiah to the board of rabbis at
Safed, the earliest possible date for the death of Meir Ashkenazi, “the envoy
of the Tatar Khan in the 16th century killed by pirates.
1688: “The perceived linkage between Sabbatians and Protestant
subservices possibly spurred Solomon Franco” reportedly the firs Jew to live in
the North American colonies, “to publish today a royalist panegyric, “Truth
Spring Out of the Earth” which he dedicated to Charles II.
1761:Today, in New York Nellie Solomons married Abraham Andrews, the
father of Catherine Andrews and the father-in-law of Samuel Mordecais.
1765: Moses
Franks, the New York born son of Jacob and Bilha Levy, and the nephew of London
diamond merchant Aaron Franks, a friend Horace Walpole, married Aaron’s
daughter Phila today in London after which he moved into “The Villa Groves, a fine villa with large
stables Teddington” and was prominent enough to have his wife’s portrait pained
by Joshua Reynolds.
http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=65&ctid=1&cid=12
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/phila-franks-192082
1772(1st
of Tammuz, 5532): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed for the first time since the
colonist burned the HMS Gaspee, one of the steps on the road to independence which
would be declared four years later.
1776: The
Continental Congress resolved "these United Colonies are & of right ought
to be Free & Independent States." This marked the actual declaration
of independence by the thirteen colonies. While there were some Jews who were
Loyalist, most favored the cause of Independence and supported it with the
lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. (Editor’s Note – July 2 is the
date that founding father John Adams said would be “celebrated by succeeding
Generations as the great anniversary Festival…from one end of the continent to
the other.)
1778:
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau passed away.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Rousseau took a comparatively view of
the Jewish people. Among other things he
wrote, “We shall never know the inner motives of the Jews until the day they
have their own free state, schools and universities where they can speak and
argue without fear. Then, and only then,
shall we know what they really have to say.”
1779: “Lt. Colonel
Tarleton with a part of British light horse rode into Bedford, Westchester County,
NY and burned the residence occupied by Benjamin Etting Hays which was owned by
David Hays, a Jewish famer and storekeeper.
1800: Rabbi Seixas officiated at the wedding of
Charleston merchant Isaac Moses and Esther Isaacks, the daughter of the late
Moses Isaacks.
1807: Jacob
Samuel Cantor married Hannah Lazarus at the Great Synagogue.
1809: After
passing away in Spitafields, London, “the widow of Samuel Zachariah was buried
today.
1811: In Wolfenbüttel,
Germany, Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg and Henriette Ehrenberg (Maas) gave birth to
Philipp Ehrenberg
1816(6th of
Tammuz, 5576): Seventy-one-year-old Gershom Mendez Seixas passed away. Born
at New York City in 1745, he was the son of Isaac Mendez Seixas (1708-80) and
Rachel Levy, daughter of Moses Levy, an early New York merchant. Seixas became
the minister of Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese congregation of his
native city, in 1766, and occupied the rabbinate for about, half a century. At
the outbreak of the American Revolution, he at once espoused the Patriot cause,
though many of the Christian ministers of the city sympathized with the Tories.
It was largely due to his influence that the Jewish congregation closed the
doors of its synagogue on the approach of the British, and decided to leave the
town rather than continue under British rule. On the appearance of the British
fleet in New York Bay (Aug., 1776) Seixas preached a sermon in English in which
he feelingly stated that the synagogue services on that occasion might be the
last to be held in the historic edifice. On the dispersion of the congregation
Seixas left New York for Stratford, Conn., taking with him the scrolls of the
Law and other ceremonial paraphernalia belonging to his charge. At Stratford he
was joined by several members of his flock. When, in 1780, the Patriots who had
fled to Philadelphia were about to establish a permanent congregation, Seixas
was requested to officiate, and he at once proceeded thither from Connecticut,
taking with him the synagogue property of his former charge. In this way was
established the Congregation Mickvé Israel of Philadelphia. On the completion
of its newly erected house of worship, Seixas was one of the committee that
waited on the governor of Pennsylvania, inviting him to attend the dedication;
and in the course of his patriotic address at the ceremony he invoked the
blessing of Almighty God on "the Members of these States in Congress
assembled and on his Excellency George Washington, Commander-General of these
Colonies." During his entire stay at Philadelphia, Seixas showed himself a
public-spirited citizen, figuring also as a zealous defender of religious
liberty. Thus when Pennsylvania adopted the religious test as an indispensable
qualification for office, he and several members of his congregation addressed
the Council of Censors on the subject (Dec., 1783), characterizing the test as
"unjust to the members of a persuasion that had always been attached to
the American cause and given a support to the country, some in the Continental
army, some in the militia, and some by cheerfully paying taxes and sustaining
the popular cause." Westcott, the historian, expressly calls attention to
this protest, stating "that it doubtless had its influence in procuring
the subsequent modification of the test clause in the Constitution." After
the war Seixas returned to New York and resumed his former position as rabbi of
Congregation Shearith Israel. He was one of the first ministers to preach a
regular Thanks-giving Day sermon (see "Daily Gazette," Dec. 23,
1789), and was also one of the fourteen clergymen participating in the ceremony
of the inauguration of George Washington as first president of the United
States. In 1787 he became a trustee of Columbia College in the city of New
York, and held that office continuously to 1815, being the only Jew ever so
honored. When the college was incorporated, Seixas' name appeared in the
charter as one of the incorporators. Seixas was on terms of intimate friendship
with the ministers of other denominations, particularly with the Episcopal
clergy of New York. The latter, tradition relates, frequently visited the
Portuguese synagogue, while the Jewish minister in turn was invited to address
Christian congregations. The manuscript of one such discourse delivered by
Seixas (Aug., 1800) in historic St. Paul's, New York, is still preserved by his
congregation. Public-spirited at all times, he earnestly exhorted his
congregation to support the administration during the War of 1812; and an
address containing his appeal for the sufferers during that struggle is still
extant. He also took the lead in philanthropic work, founding in 1802 the
charitable organization known as "Hebra Hased Ve Amet," which is
still (1905) in existence. Seixas was twice married, his first wife being
Elkalah Cohen (1749-85), to whom he was wedded in 1775, and his second, Hannah
Manuel, whom he married in 1789. His descendants are among the prominent Jewish
families of New York. His remains lie in the old cemetery on New Bowery, in the
city of New York.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Seixas.html
1819: Michelle
Brisack and Samuel Marx gave to their daughter Sara the future wife of Israel
Lazarus.
1820: In
London, Rosetta and Edward Emanuel Micholls gave birth to Octavia Micholls who
became Octavia Dresend when she married Ephraim Dresden.
1824: Fred
Collins, he son of Hyman Collins and Mary Davis was circumcised today in
London.
1826: Official
date on which the Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society, the oldest such organization
in New York, was formed today (There are some reports that the society was
actually formed six years before this date. The eighteen founding members chose
Israel B. Kursheedt as President; Elias Phillips as Treasurer; John Jackson as
Secretary.
1828:
Birthdate of Joseph Unger, the native of Vienna who became a prominent Austrian
jurist who was appointed to the House of Lords by Emperor Franz Joseph.
1829(1st
of Tammuz, 5589): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1833: In
Germany Deichele and Abraham Josef Kohn gave birth to future Chicago resident
David Abraham Kohn, the husband of Therese A. Kohn and a partner in the
clothing firm of Kohn Brothers.
1834:
Birthdate of Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire the antidreyfusard who resigned as
President of the Civil Chamber of the Court Cassation “before the first
quashing of the verdict that had convicted Dreyfus.”
1838: A day
after he passed away, “Moses Hart of Middlesex Street” was buried today at the
Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1839: Abdülmecid
I, succeeded
his father Mahmud II as Sultan. During his reign, he promised Albert Cohn that
“no improvements should be introduced in the legal conditions of the Christian
subjects of Turkey which would not also apply to the Jews”
1843(4th
of Tammuz, 5603): Westphalia native and Baltimore “merchant and shopkeeper”
Zalma Rehine, the son of Isaac Rheine, uncle of Isaac Lesser and husband of
Rachel Judah passed away today.
1850(22nd
of Tammuz, 5610): Seventy-four-year-old Moses Ezekiel, the husband of Katherine
E. Ezekiel with whom he had ten children passed away today in Edinburgh, after
which he was buried in the Scottish city.
1852: In
Miskolcz, Hungary, author and bible scholar Michael Heilprin, the son of
Phineas Mendel Heilprin and his wife gave birth to his son Louis who came to
United States in 1856 and eventually worked on several projects in The
Historical Reference Book.
1852: In
Germany, Joseph Davis and Rosalie gave birth Sarah Bienenstock, the St. Louis
educated wife of Charles Bienenstock, a member of Temple Israel’s Sabbath School Board and “director of the
United Charities” who served as “a delegate to the National Council of Jewish
Women at Chicago in 1893.”
1853: The
Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War. The British and the
French both sided with the Turks, assisting them in the defeat of the Russians.
The Paris Treaty of 1858, concluding the war, granted Jews and Christians the
right to settle in Palestine, forced upon the Ottoman Turks by the British for
their assistance in the war effort. This decision opened the doors for Jewish
immigration to Palestine.
1854(2nd
of Tammuz, 5614): Anglo-Jewish writer Charlotte Montefiore passed away. Born in London in 1818, “she took an active
part in the Jewish Ladies' Benevolent Loan and Visiting Society as well as in
the Jewish Emigration Society, of which she was one of the founders. She was
the active friend of the Jews' Free School, the Jews' Infant School, the West
Metropolitan School, and of many other educational establishments.” Among her
works were “A Few Words to the Jews of London” which was published in 1851.
(Jewish Encyclopedia)
1854: Jews living in Los
Angeles, having recognized the necessity of organizing in order to provide for
religious services, a Jewish cemetery and Jewish welfare needs, met today and
formed the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Los Angeles, the first charitable group
to be founded in the city. Samuel K. Labatt was elected president, not only
because he had the language facility of a native-born American, but also
because he had similar experience in New Orleans. The following year, the
Hebrew Benevolent society established a Jewish cemetery in Chavez Ravine. This
society still exists, now over 145 years old under the name of Jewish Family
Service of Los Angeles having been active longer than any other such group in
Southern California. As the first president, Samuel K. Labatt was responsible
for local efforts in defending the fair name of Jewry against the 1855
anti-Semitic attack by William Stow in the California State Assembly.
1855: In a
letter written today, Thomas Hugo, Senior Curate of St. Botolph, described “The
Thieves Exchange” in London which is populated by 15,000 individuals including
“Jews of the lowest grade.” “But the
great majority are nominally Christians.”
1858: Regina
and Dr. Moses Marx, the son of Samuel Marx, were wed today in Gliwice.
1858(20th
of Tammuz, 5618): Fifty-eight-year-old Abraham Bendix Weinberg, the Westphalia
born son of Bendix and Sara Moses Weinberg and the husband of Fiekchen and
Hannchen Leffmann Weinberg passed away today.
1861:
Birthdate of New York native and CCNY educated banker and member of the NYSE Albert
Ulmann, “one of the founders and governors of the Judaens” whose interest led him
to write several books including A Landmark History of New York who
passed away in 1948 at the age of 87.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Albert-Ulmann/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAlbert+Ulmann
https://archive.org/details/landmarkhistoryo00ulma
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14573-ulmann-albert
1861: Alfred Mordecai, Jr.,
was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army. He was the son of Major Alfred Mordecai, one
of the most prominent Jewish soldiers in the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the
Civil War. Major Mordecai, who was a
southerner by birth, could not bring himself to fight against those among whom
he had grown up. Yet, unlike others, he
was honorable enough not to be able to fight against the Union, so he resigned. His son had no such qualms and served
throughout the war with distinction, eventually rising to the rank of Brigadier
General.
1862: Abraham
Lincoln signed a re-configured Morrill Act into law creating land-grant
colleges or universities. Iowa was the
first state to accept the provisions of the act, subsequently creating Iowa
State University. Dr. Alan Singer is one of the distinguished Jewish graduates
of Iowa State. The creation of tax-payer supported schools of higher education
not tied to any religious denomination would be a boon to the bourgeoning
Jewish population.
1862: In New
York City, Solomon and Jael Belais gave birth to David Belais.
1862: In the
United Kingdom, the Secretary of State “transmitted” Louis Loewe's Certificate
of Naturalization to the applicant.
1863:
Philadelphian Joseph Meyer was wounded today at Gettysburg while serving with
Company I, of the 26th of Regiment
1863: At
Gettysburg, Joshua Chamberlain, the Bowdoin College professor who was
proficient in Hebrew as well as seven other languages, combined wisdom and
courage to keep the Confederates from taking Little Round Top and thus
thwarting the attempt to roll up the Union line.
1863: Captain
Joseph B. Greenhut of the 82nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry was
selected by its commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Edward S. Salomon to
lead fifty volunteers on a mission to dislodge Confederate sharpshooters who
were “picking off” gunners and officers serving on the Union Army’s front
line. Greenhut led a bayonet charge and
successfully dislodged the Rebel marksmen from the houses in which they were
hiding. Henry L. Stimson would eventually send Greenhut an official letter of
commendation for the brave manner in which he behaved. Greenhut and Salomon were two of the many
Jews who fought at Gettysburg.
1863: At
Gettysburg, the 59th New York Volunteer Regiment which had been
formed by Philip J. Joachimsen, held off an attack by the 48th
Georgia during an assault on Cemetery Ridge.
1863(15th
of Tammuz, 5623): Simon Arnold who had been serving with Company G of the 140th
Regiment was killed today at Gettysburg while defending the United States from
those who sought to destroy her.
1863(15th of
Tammuz, 5623: Sixty-two-year-old Isaac ben Jacob Bejacob a Lithuanian born
bibliographer, author, published and leader of the Jewish community passed away
in Vilnius today.
1865:
Birthdate of Suwalk, Russia native Moses Boff who in November of 1885 went to
Buffalo where he eventually established a successful “iron and metal business,”
married Anna Sklarsky with whom he had a daughter and became a member of Beth
El Congregation.
1868:
Birthdate of Shmuel Yitchak Hillman the native of Kovno who served as a Dayan
of the London Beth Din and was the grandfather of Israeli President Chaim
Herzog and the great-grandfather of Isaac Herzog.
1870: It was
reported today that the Jewish Messenger has strongly ridiculed the efforts of
the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews.” The Messenger
proudly noted that the Society had spent $200,000 last year and had only been
able convert 4 adults and “nine infants.”
With such meager results, the Messenger suggests that the millions that
have been over the past 63 years in an attempt to convert Jews would have been
spent to improve the lot of the many indigent and needy Christians. Furthermore, if the Jews have held fast to
their faith over the centuries when faced with the threat of fire and sword,
why would anybody think that they would convert now that they were living in a
society where they enjoyed comparative peace and the rights of citizenship.
1870:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Joseph W. Salus, the “President of the Broad
Street Trust Company and head of A. Salus and Son who had previously
“represented Atlantic City in the New Jersey Assembly.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/05/03/96819180.html?pageNumber=23
1871: It was
reported today that the Jewish Times has “severely” denounced
pronouncements made at the recent conference of American Rabbis held at
Cincinnati, Ohio, as not being “representative of Judaism. The Times
took issue with the presenter who “repudiated” the concept of a personal God,
“denied that the belief in a personal God was taught in biblical Judaism and
said that the God of the Bible was “implacable,” capable only of meting out
punishment and that “the idea of personal and pardoning God had its origin in
Christianity.” The Times also took issue with another speaker who agreed
that there was no personal God which made an “absurdity” out of the concept of
offering a prayer to God. The Times was
alarmed by the fact that nobody took issues with these and other similar
speakers and that one of these speakers had been selected to develop a new
prayerbook. The Times wondered if the
leaders would ultimate wish to remain “within the pale of Judaism.”
1871: Victor
Emmanuel II of Italy entered Rome after its conquest from the Papal States
making it the capital of the newly unified nation of Italy. Jews had played an active role in the various
acts that led to the creation of modern Italy.
For once, the Jews were not disappointed at the outcome as Italy became
one of the most hospitable places for Jews to live until the 1930’s.
1871: The
Anglo-Jewish Association was established in London based on the principles of
the French Alliance Israelite. It was soon imitated in Germany in the form of
the Lifaverein der Dutchen Juden.
1872: ON the Lower East Side, Francis and Mary
Mundelein gave birth to Cardinal George Mundelein,
the Archbishop of Chicago who, in the 1930’s, was an outspoken critic of Hitler
and the Nazis.
1872: The
cornerstone was laid this afternoon at the corner of Lexington & 63rd
for a new synagogue to house Ansche Chesed which has outgrown its current
facility on Norfolk Street near Houston.
When finished, the building, which will cost a quarter of a million
dollars will have space for 1,400 congregants as well as classrooms and offices
for the staff. Rabbi Mielziner
officiated at the ceremony which included a speech about the history of the
congregation by its leader, President Herman who placed an artifact filled box
into the cornerstone. Rabbi Vidaver, of
Congregation B’nai Jeshrun gave a sermon in English and ceremonies were closed
with the singing of the 150th Psalm.
1873: Jonathan
Manly Emanuel, the London born son of Dr. Manly Emanuel who during the Civil
War began serving in the Engineer Corps of the United States in 1862, began a month-long
service at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia today.
1873: In what
has become an annual summer event, 432 children from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
and the Hebrew Free Schools of New York enjoyed a day-long outing that included
a barge trip from Manhattan to Long Island, plenty of fun and fresh air as well
as a goodly supply of food and drink including fresh milk. The group left at
8:30 in the morning and arrived home at 7 in the evening. The committee responsible for the event
included Lewis S. Levy, Chairman, Asher T. Meyer, Treasurer and Julius
Rosenbaum, Secretary. More such trips
are planned for later in the summer.
1875: Birthday
of Staten Island native Frederick Paul Keppel the Third Assistant Secretary of
War during World War I who played a key role in having “a double triangle
placed above the graves of the Jewish soldiers” who died in France “instead of
the cross.”
1876: In
Kovno, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Blasberg gave birth Samuel Zelick Basberg, who at the
age of 13 came to the United States where he married Lilly Cohen in 1898 and
eventually settled in Columbus, OH where he established the Columbus Waste
Paper Company and was a member of Agudas Achim.
1877: “The
French Parliament” published today explained the failure of the stock
exchange to fall in response to last
month’s political upheaval was a result of Germans and Jews controlling the
Bourse. As many as three-fourths the speculators on the exchange are said to
Jews or German speaking individuals regardless of their country of origin.
[This is an example of the International Zionist Jewish Banker myth that grew
right along with the growth of finance capitalism.]
1878:
Birthdate of University of Georgia trained attorney and Congressman Charles
Gordon Edwards who 1911 introduced a resolution that “would direct the
Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to ‘institute an immediate
investigation to ascertain how far and what discriminations are operating
against Jews’ in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Naval Academy, Military Academy
and all branches of the services.”
1879: The
New York Times published the terms of the will of the late Baron Lionel de
Rothschild. The estate is valued at
2,700,000 pounds. His sons, Sir
Nathaniel and Mr. Alfred were named as executors.
1881: After
President James Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau today, Jews in
Schenectady, NY held a special prayer service at Gates of Heaven
1881: Among
the speeches to be delivered as during the Commencement Ceremonies at Williams
College is “The Ancient and the Modern Jews” by Austin B. Bassett of Albany,
NY. [Note – I cannot find a reason for Bassett’s choice of topics. He must have been a good student since his
essay had won a prize when he graduated from public school in Albany.]
1882: As the
deadlock between the railroads and the freight handlers continued undelivered
materials and goods of all sorts continued to accumulate on the piers of New
York and New Jersey as the number of striker breakers, including Russian Jewish
immigrants, continued to decrease in number.
1883: At
Benevidas, “a prominent Jewish merchant” by the name of Mias was gunned down by
a Mexican named Vela whom Mias had been ejected from a store by Mias because he
was drunk.
1883: Sir
Marcus Samuel and his wife gave birth to the second child and oldest daughter
Neillie, the wife of Walter Henry Levy and then “Basil Ionides, the son of Luke
Ionides.”
1883: The
trail of the Jews charged with murdering a Christian girl, Esther Solymosi, as
part of their Passover observance, continued today at Nyireghyasza, Hungary,
with testimony by a raft proprietor testifying that he had seen the Police
Magistrate coerce witness to provide the testimony he desired.
1883: In the Land
of the Lion and The Sun: Modern Persia by C.J. Willis, M.D. which was
reviewed today, the author reported that on his visited to the Shah during “the
ceremony of Aid-i No –Ruz or New Year’s Day” “twenty wretched Jews in rags and
tatters” stood in the courtyard next toe large tank waiting “to be thrust head
over heels in the water.” [Iran is modern day Persia]
1883: Barrow
Eskin, a Jewish immigrant from Russia applied for assistance today at Castle
Garden. He had returned from Chicago along with his wife and six children
because he could not find work.
1884: Isaac
Jacobs, a Polish Jew who is suspected of murdering Mrs. Etta Carleton of
Watertown, NY, was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on charges that he had
stolen a watch and chain from Robert Douglass of Cambridge, MA. Jacobs claimed
that he was in Boston the night of the murder.
1885: Josef
Ahondorowsky, a Russian Jew, his wife and six children arrived at Castle Garden
aboard the Steamship State of Indiana.
He claims that their passage was paid for by the Hebrew Aid Society of
Paris and he is completely destitute.
1886: In Kansas
City, Missouri, Felix Victor Kander and Mathilde E Kander, gave birth to Harold
S. Kander, the husband of Bernice Kander with whom he had two children.
1887: “The
Parnellites Protest” published today described the quest for Irish Home Rule
including the statement that “The English are not amenable to reason at present
in matters of Irish politics than was Pharaoh in matters of Hebrew politics.” A
century earlier, Americans seeking “home rule” had depicted King George III as
Pharaoh and cast themselves in the role of the Children of Israel. Now it was the turn of the Irish to do the
same. The Jewish story of the Exodus has
become a common motif for slavery and liberation. This is yet another example
of Jews and Judaism have provided cultural motifs for the general society, even
when that society is busy rejecting individual, real-live Jews.
1889: In
Galicia, Chaya and “Shaya Hassenfeld” gave birth to Henry J. Hasseneld, “a
founder and board chairman of Hasenfeld Brothers, a pencil and toy
manufacturer” and “a founder of the Rhode Island Bureau of Jewish Education who
was the husband of “Marion Hassenfeld.”
1891:
Birthdate of Chicago native Alfred "Jake" Lingle, Jr, the Chicago
Tribune journalist who was shot and killed because, it was later revealed
because of his involvement with the underworld and who at the age of have been converted
from Judaism to Catholicism.
1891: Dr.
Richard J. H. Gottheil, who lectures on Syriac languages and literature at
Columbia, is scheduled to sail for Europe today aboard the Normannia for
Europe. While in London, he will be
meeting with Dr. Paul Friedman, the Berlin native who has been trying to find a
place of refuge for Russia’s suffering Jews.
1892: L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's
official newspaper, runs a front-page story about Jews trying to suppress
natural Christian reactions to their evil behavior. "Don't play with
fire. The people's ire, although at the moment somewhat dampened by sentiments
of Christian charity and by the tender influence of the Catholic clergy, may at
any moment erupt like a volcano and strike like a thunderbolt." (As
reported by Austin Cline)
1892:
Birthdate of Vienna native and journalist Jacob Landau, the longtime writer and
excutive with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency who was the husband of Ida
Bienstock Landau and who was such a close friend of Albert Einstein that the
famed physicist served as the godfather for his son Albert Einstein Landau.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/02/01/issue.html
1893:Thirty-three-year-old
Sir Charles James Jessel and twenty-two-year-old Edith Goldsmid gave birth to long-time
London resident Nina Dorothy Jessel.
1893: “A
Russian Lutheran, Chased Out of His Native Place Is Supported by Benevolent
Jews” published today described the plight of Gottfried Kasier an ethnic German
living in Russia who fled after an imperial ukase commanded that he and his
comrades convert to Greek Orthodoxy. They hid themselves among Jews leaving the
country and currently are living in a Jewish shelter in London.
1893: It was
reported today that in the United States there are 1,364 newspapers printed in
27 foreign languages, 14 of which are published by Jews. The Germans lead with
857 such publications.
1894: In
Chomutov, Czech Republic, Josef and Ida Kann gave birth to Irma Kann who became
Irma Seligman when she married Emil Seligman (Both of them were murdered at
Auschwitz in 1944)
1894: “Scarabs
and their History” published today provided a detailed review of Scarab: The
History, Manufacture and Religious Symbolism of the Sacrabaeus by Isaac
Myer.
1894: In
Budapest, Lipót Kertész, a bookseller, and his wife, Ernesztin Hoffmann gave
birth to Kertész Andor who gained fame as photographer André Kertész.
1894: It was
reported today that Harris Schneider, a Jewish cloakmaker “living at 119
Forsyth Street died while undergoing an operation in Mount Sinai Hospital eight
weeks ago. He is survived by his wife and five children the eldest of which is
12 or 13 years old.
1894: Doctors
Landinski, Solotaroff and Brothers spoke to a large group of Jewish mothers
today on “the care and feeding of children during the warm weather” and “on the
uses of sterilized milk and barley water as introduced by Nathan Straus.”
1895: A group
of underprivileged Jewish children returned to New York City from the two-day
excursion to Rockaway Beach Hebrew Sanitarium.
1895:
Birthdate of Fordham University trained attorney David Oppenheim, the president
of National Hebrew Culture Council and a trustee of the Jewish Education
Committee was wife of Minna Oppheim and the daughter of Sally Oppenheim.
1895:
Birthdate of Albert Pick, Jr. whose family had “started a hotel and equipment
supply business in 1857 and who added to the family wealth by starting Pick
Hotels Corp “which controlled 15 hotels in 1976 when it was sold to Bass
Brothers enterprises of Texas.”
1896: Theodor
Herzl began a trip to England that would last until July 20.
1896: Russian
soldiers reportedly wrecked the houses of Jews living at Mizabisch during which
they killed and wounded several of them.
1896(21st of
Tammuz, 5656): Jules S. Abecasis, the well-known rubber broker and leader of
the Sephardic community passed away today as a result of injuries suffered when
an express wagon collided with his bicycle.
1897: The will
of Mayer Lehman was filed in the Surrogate’s office today.
1898: Private
Joseph Weinstein of New London and Corporal Charles Lowenthal were among those
who were mustered into U.S. service as the mustering process began for the 3rd
Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.
1899: In
Brooklyn William and Jennie Peiser gave birth to Walter Gilbert Peiser, the
husband of Frances Henrietta Peiser, the graduate of the University of
Cincinnati and the Hebrew Union College who served as a rabbi in Cleveland, OH,
Austin, TX and Baton Rouge, LA where he also served on the faculty of LSU.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0805/ms0805.html
1899: “The
Riots in Belgium” published today attributed the “disorder” in Belgium to
“clericalism” which “in France has been allied with Jew-baiting to prolong” the
abuse of Dreyfus.
1900: Nine
year old Russian Jewish immigrant David Sarnoff arrived in the United where he
went from selling newspapers to being head of R.C.A.
1901: Jacob
Saphirstein begins printing The Jewish Morning Journal the first Yiddish
daily morning newspaper established in New York. “Its staff of writers includes
Jacob Magidoff (city editor), Ḥayyim Malitz, A. M. Sharkansky, M. Seifert, I.
Friedman, and Peter Wiernik. While professedly Orthodox and Zionistic, it is
the most secular of the Yiddish papers in America, and is an ardent advocate of
the Americanization of the Russian immigrants who form the bulk of its readers.”
1902: Leo N.
Levi, the national president of B’nai B’rith, Simon Roeder and “Isadore Singer
of the Jewish Encyclopedia are scheduled to address the first meeting of Jewish
group which has as its goal “a Jewish renaissance,” especially among young
Jews.
1903: Today,
in Detroit, “The Central Conference of American Rabbis heard a paper on the
‘Theological Aspect of Modern Judaism’ by Dr. M.L. Margolis, Professor of
Semitic Languages at the University of California.”
1903: Acting
Secretary of State Loomis was “notified that the petition in behalf of the
Russian Jews will probably be delivered at the State Department or at Oyster
Bay in about a week.”
1904(19th
of Tammuz, 5664): Parashat Pinchas
1904:
“Religion of Biblical Nations” published today described The Dictionary of the
Bible which Charles Scribiner’s plans on offering to the public this fall which
contain contains a 121 page chapter on “The Religion of Israel by Professor
Kautzsch and a 51 page chapter on the “Religion of Babylon” by Professor
Jastrow
1905: As
conditions worsen in Odessa, “there is an unconfirmed reported that the Kniaz
Poteminke,” a Russian naval vessel, “transferred a number of revolutionaries,
including students and some girls to a British steamer, the name of which is
not given.”
1905: It was
reported today that “Isaac Hyman has bought 872 Bergen Street, Brooklyn a
four-story double flash with two stores, 25 by 100.”
1906:
Delegates at today’s session of the Federation of American Zionist meeting
responded enthusiastically to a letter from Max Nordau that contained “a strong
appeal for support of the Jewish institutions in Palestine.”
1906: It was
reported today that the Oberrat of the Israelites of Baden, the national
association of the Jewish inhabitants of Baden sued Der Israelit for libel.
1906: In
Manhattan, Max and Fannie Danovitch Abrahams gave birth to their first-born son
Arthur Abrahams who would tragically die “at age 2 from measles, diphtheria and
broncho pneumonia.”
1906: In
Strasbourg, “Anna (née Kuhn) Bethe, who like her father was Jewish and Albrecht
Bethe, a privatdozent of physiology at the University of Strasbourg gave birth
Nobel Prize winning physicist Hans Bethe who was raised as a Protestant
following in the religious footsteps of his father.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1967/bethe-bio.html
1906: In
Manhattan, Max and Fannie Danovitch Abrahams gave birth to Arthur Abrahams who
would pass away before his second birthday,
1907: The 18th
annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis opened at
Frankfort, Michigan.
1908(3rd
of Tammuz, 5668): Sixty-nine-year-old German pharmacologist Matthias Eugen
Oscar Liebreich passed away today in Berlin.
1908:
Playwright and actor Charles Klein and his wife Lillian Gottlieb gave birth to
their second son, John V. Klein eight days before their 20th wedding
anniversary.
1908: Bird
Stein, the Allegheny, PA born son of Pauline Bernhard and Solomon Stein and
graduate of Columbia University, the New School for Social University and NYU
became Bird Stein Gans to hen she married attorney Howard S. Gans with who she “had
two children, Marian and Robert.”
1909: Today,
fter “her first marriage, to Louis Sternberger, ended in divorce, Bird Stein married
lawyer Howard S. Gans after which they had two children, Marian and Robert.
(JWA)
1909: At the
end of a successful seven-week strike, “triumphant bakers marched through the
Lower East of Manhattan carrying a loaf of bread five wide and fifteen feet
long” which was emblematic of their hard won victory. Most of the bakers
involved in the strike were Jewish.
1910: In
Prague, Emil and Alice Adler gave birth to Holocaust survivor “Hans Günther
Adler, who wrote under pseudonym H. G. Adler.”
1911: “Russia
Hoodwinking US About Passports For Jews” published today described how if, when
questioned by a Russian consular official if he is Jewish, “the Russian Consul,
in accordance with instructions from the Russian Government, refuses to honor
the American passport which is signed by the Secretary of State.”
1911: In Minnesota
Bertha and Oscar Appelbaum and birth to Arthur Applebaum, the husband of Edith
Applebaum with whom he had two children.
1911: In
Brooklyn, Rose
(née Netter) and Louis M. Rabinowitz, a factory owner who had emigrated from
Lithuania gave birth to Victor Rabinowitz, “a leftist lawyer whose causes and
clients over nearly three-quarters of a century ranged from labor unions to
Black Panthers to Cuba to Dashiell Hammett to Dr. Benjamin Spock to his own
daughter…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/nyregion/20rabinowitz.html
1912(17th
of Tammuz, 5672): Tzom Tammuz
1912: In
Baltimore, MD, the Democratic National Convention which Samuel Untermyer II
attended as a delegate from New York, came to a close having nominated Woodrow
Wilson for President. Among his
supporters is Louis Brandeis, the noted lawyer and future Supreme Court
Justice.
1913: The 24th
annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis opened in
Atlantic City, NJ.
1913: Miss
Elsie R. Mahler, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Mahler married Edward E.
Sebartt of St. Louis at the Congress Hotel in Chicago.
1913: In
Didsbury, Mancester, Israel Sieff and Rebecca Marks gave birth to their
youngest son Marcus Joseph Sieff who became Lord Siefff of Brmption and “was
chairman of Marks and Spencer from 1972 to 1984 during a highly successful
period.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/feb/26/guardianobituaries
1913: At 21
York House, Fieldway Crescent, Islington Simon and Marie Beloff gave birth to
Sir Max Beloff the British historian who would elevated to the Peerage
1914: Today as
the European leaders took the measures that would lead to WW I with all that
that meant for the world in general and Jews in particular “Kaiser Wilhelm II
received recommendation from the German military for Austria-Hungary to attack
Serbia as quickly as possible, since Germany was more prepared to mobilize than
either Russia or France.” (Editor’s note – this would seem to put the lie to
the German complaint that they did not bear at a disproportionate amount of
blame for the war, since they were, in effect, egging their ally to attack the
Serbs)
1914: Seventy-seven-year-old
British political leader Joseph Chamberlain, who while serving as Colonial
Secretary played a key role in the Uganda Plan, offering to provide a 5,000
square mile space in “an isolated part of what is now Kenya” to Herzl as a
place where Jewish settlers could fulfill the Zionist dream.
1914:
Today has been designated “Education Day” at the “25th anniversary
conference of the Central Conference of American Rabbis” being held “at Temple
Beth El in Detroit, Michigan.”
1915: Today,
ex-Senator Flint who represented a committee that had petitioned for the
commutation of Leo M. Frank’s death sentence invited ex-Governor Slaton of
Georgia who granted the pardon to visit southern California.
1915: In
response to “an appeal from a committee of prominent Jews” in New York City,
“headed by Jacob H. Schiff “ “an imminent strike of 50,000 garment workers was
averted today when the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Protective
Association voted to submit to arbitration the differences between it and the
Cloakmakers’ and Skirtmakers’ Union.
1915(20th
of Tammuz, 5675): Sixty-seven year old Julius Kalezky, the Russian born Rabbi
who has led Adas Israel, a 5,000 member congregation in New York City whose
written works included The History of the Jews in the Ancient East passed away
today.
1916(1st
of Tammuz, 5676): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1916:
Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis is scheduled to “address a
meeting of the Zionist Organization of America at the Metropolitan Opera House”
in Philadelphia,
1916: The
funeral for Louis Hershfield, the father of Isidore and Lillian Hershfeld, who
had come to New York more than seventy years ago and was “one of the founders
of the Ladies’ Fuel and Society is scheduled to take place the Uptown Talmud
Torah on East 111th Street.
1916: It was
reported today that Felix M. Warburg Chairman of the Joint Distribution
committee which represents the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central
Relief Committee for Jews Suffering Through the War and the People’s Relief
Committee has addressed an open letter to all the Jews of the United States
urging them to continue to give generously to the fund for the relief of the
suffering co-religionists in Europe.”
1917: In
Asbury Park. NJ, a special “Hebrew Evening” is scheduled to be held during the
9th Annual Convention of Young Judaea.
1917: Dr.
Cyrus Adler, the President of the United Synagogues of America, resigned from
that post during the organizations convention at the Jewish Theological Society
“after a resolution had been adopted according approval to the Zionist movement
and the election of a delegate” “to represent the organization at” the upcoming
meeting of the American Jewish Congress.
1918: Pratt
Institute and Adelphi College trained artist and World War I veteran Joseph
Newsman, the New York City born son of Nettie Herskowitz and Isaiah Newman
married Estelle Simons, the mother of Sheya Gisella
https://www.jimsoflambertville.com/artist-biography.php?artistId=322619&artist=Joseph%20Newman
1918: At
Winnipeg, the “Fifteenth Annual Convention of Canadian Zionists adopted a
resolution affirming their ardent wish than at an eventual peace conference the
Entente Powers grant the demand of the Jewish people for a publicly recognized
and legally assured home in Palestine and expressing the hope that the British
Government will assume a protectorate over Palestine to assure its inhabitants
a strong and just liberal government.”
1918: Pitcher
Ed Corey made his major league debut with the Chicago White Sox.
1918: It was
reported today that “widespread anti-Semitic propaganda and the danger of
anti-Jewish outbreaks have prompted the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
for the Suppression of a Counter-Revolution to issue a warning against the
agitation” and to declare “that any attempt to provoke anti-Jewish
outbreaks…will be rigorously suppressed and the participants in it executed.”
1919: Johns
Hopkins Phi Betta Kapp graduate and University of Maryland trained attorney
Allen Herbert Fisher, the Baltimore bon of Abraham and Bertha Fisher and member
of Har Sinai Congregation married Esther Kahn today.
1919: As the
great powers and local nationalist work to sort out the fate of the dismembered
Ottoman Empire, in Damascus, the Syrian National Congress declared independence
today for “Greater Syria” which included “present day Syria, Israel, Lebanon
and Jordan.”
1919: The text
of the treaty signed by Poland and the allied and associated powers published
today included Chapter 1, Article 11 that states that “Jews shall not be
compelled to perform any action which constitutes a violation of their Sabbath
nor shall they be placed under any disability by reason of their refusal to
attend courts of law or to perform any legal business on their Sabbath” and
that “Poland declares her intention to refrain from ordering or permitting
lections, whether general or local to be held on a Saturday, nor will
registration for electoral or other purposed to be compelled to be performed on
a Saturday.” (Editor’s note – this would
not keep the Poles from trying to expel their Jewish population in the 1930’s
before the start of WW II.)
1920: “Form
Family League” published today described the incorporation of “the Isaac and
Razel Salzberg Family Association” in Patterson, NJ which is made up of more
than fifty relatives of “this prominent silk merchant.”
1920: “Return
of Jewish Dead” published described the work of the Jewish Welfare Board led by
Colonel Harry Cutler “in connection with the photographing of graves soldiers
dead in France and the return of their bodies to the United States.”
1920: It was
reported today that Professor Harold Laski, the Manchester (UK) communal leader
Nathaniel Laski, is leaving Harvard “to take a chair at the London School of
Economics.
1920: It was
reported today that “Miss Jean Barondess, daughter of Joseph Barondess, was one
of the principals of the Arongo Opera Company” that performed in Cuba last
month along with the famous tenor Enrico Caruso.
1920: It was
reported today that Muriel Elise Landau, the sister of Annie Landau, the head
of the Evelina de Rothschild School in Jerusalem, “is the first Jewess in
England” to have won “the great honor of the degree of Fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons.
1921(26th of
Sivan, 5681): Jacob A. Cantor, a leader of the New York Democratic Party for
forty years, passed away. The son of
immigrants from London, Cantor served in numerous positions including President
of the Borough of Manhattan, President of the New York State, and member of the
United States House of Representatives.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990CE1D71739E133A25750C0A9619C946095D6CF
1922: Today,
“an unsubstantiated report that Max Warburg, the banker, along with other
prominent German Jews, was on the murder list of the Rathenau assassins caused
a sensation in Hamburg.”
1922: In
Johannesburg, South Africa, Victor Cohen and his wife gave birth to “Edward
(Eddie) (Shlomo) Cohen the WW II South Africa Air Force fighter pilot who made
Aliyah in 1947 and who “participated In
the first fighter sortie of the Israel Air Force, flying one of four S-199s,
attacking an advancing Egyptian motorized column that was threatening Tel Aviv”
but tragically became “the first casualty of the first fighter squadron of the
reborn Jewish state” when “his plane was downed by heavy anti-aircraft fire” on
May 28.
https://www.machal.org.il/personal-stories/edward-eddie-shlomo-cohen/
https://www.101squadron.com/101real/people/ecohen.html
1923: “The
first coupons to fall due on the bonds” issued by the municipality of Tel Aviv
“are paid at the offices of the Guaranty Trust Company.” Although the bonds were issued in pounds,
they will be redeemed in dollars for the convenience of the American
bondholders. Meyer Dizengoff, the Mayor
of Tel Aviv, is present for the redemption ceremony.
1924: “A study
of the economic possibilities of Palestine with the view of enlisting capital
for its up-building will be made by a commission of American Zionists and
businessmen, the Zionist Organization of America decided here tonight at the
closing session of its annual convention” in Pittsburgh.
1924(30th
of Sivan, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1924(30th
of Sivan, 5684): Forty-five-year-old Isabelle Estelle Levy, the daughter of
Estelle and Isaac Samuel Isaacs and wife of Edgar A. Levy with who she had
three children – Julie, Edgar and Elizabeth – passed away today in Scarsdale,
NY.
1925:
“Announcement was made of a gift of $100,000 by tobacco merchant Emanuel
Boazberg to the University of Buffalo to establish a professorship in American
history.”
1926: The
annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary
in America which is being held at Long Branch, NJ is scheduled to have its
final session today.
1927: The
Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem is partially destroyed as an earthquake hits
Palestine.
1928: A
petition of bankruptcy was filed today against The Hebrew National Kosher
Factory, Inc. whose “business amounted to about $65,000 a year” and which
attorney for the petitioning creditor “described as one of the biggest of its
kind” in New York City.
1929: In
Berlin, Fritz Ernst Oppenheimer, the future resident of Little Rock and son of Dr. jur. Ernst Oppenheimer and Clara Amalie
Oppenheimer and his wife Elizabeth (Elsbeth) Oppenheimer gave birth to Ellen
Ingrid Ingeborg Handler the wife of Paul Handler.
1929:
Birthdate of Abraham Avigdorov the native of Moshav Mitzpa whose father Gad was
killed in the 1936 Arab Revolt who received the Hero of Israel Award for
destroying two machine gun nests in March of 1948.
1930: In
Cleveland, OH, the eighth annual convention of Junior Hadassah is scheduled to
continue for a second day.
1930: It was
reported today that George S. Kaufman has been approached the “book” for a
musical comedy version of “Rain or Shine that will be co-produced by Morris
Green.
1930:
Birthdate of Jack Garfein the native of Mukacevo who survived Auschwitz and
come to the U.S. at the end of WW II where he became a successful film and
theatre director.
1931(17th
of Tammuz, 5691): Tzom Tammuz
1931: Tempers
flared at today’s meeting of the World Zionist Congress as New Yorker Berl
Locker, leader of the Paole Tzion likened the Revisionists led by Valdmir
Jabotinsky to the “Hitlerites.” Locker
relented and apologized for his remarks.
Jabotinsky responded with an impassioned speech demanding a Jewish state
on both sides of the Jordan and assailing the leadership of Chaim
Weizmann. Ben Gurion responded in
defense of Weizmann and his efforts to negotiate with the British. He ridiculed
the Revisionists as “easy Zionist” who ignored the reality of the situation in
Palestine. American Zionist leaders expressed their support for Weizmann. The conflict between the two wings of the
Zionist movement is driven by the restrictions of the Passfield White Paper and
the obvious fact that the British government is reneging on the Balfour
Declaration.
1932:
“Monsieur Albert” a comedy with a script co-authored by Benjamin Glazer and
with music by Marcel Lattès who would die at Auschwitz was released today in
France.
1933(8th
of Tammuz, 5693): Fifty-four-year-old New York College of Dentistry graduate Dr.
Herman E.S. Chayes, a founder of the Chayes Study Club and the author of the “theory
that the natural tooth is not a rigidly fixed organ” which led to a new method
of constructing dental bridge work passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/07/04/105151685.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1933: In
Chicago, Mayor Kelly addresses the ZOA at the formal opening of its convention.
1933: Chaim
Weismann is the guest of honor at Jewish Day at A Century of Progress
Exposition aka, The Chicago World’s Fair.
1933: “The
Knight of the Long Knives,” a purge of the Nazi Party that began on June came
to an end living Hitler in complete control of the party.
1934: The four
hundred delegates representing Zionist districts as far west as Portland and as
far south as New Orleans attended the thirty-seven annual convention of the ZOA
in Atlantic City for a second day.
1934: Today,
“another ‘higher-up’ was mentioned in the investigation by Maurice G. Wahl,
Assistant District Attorney, of how Jack T. Rosen, alleged racketeer and
"fixer," got three men CWA jobs in Central Park through his
"influence" in the work division of the Welfare Department last May.”
1935:
Birthdate of pianist and educator Gilbert Kalish. Kalish has been the pianist
for the Boston Symphony Chamber Players since 1969. He is the Leading Professor
and Head of Performance Activities at SUNY, Stony Brook. He was also on the
faculty at Tanglewood Music Center for 30 years.
1935(30th
of Sivan, 5695): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1935(30th
of Sivan, 5695): Seventy-five-year-old Sir Francis Montefiore, the grandnephew
of Sir Moses Montefiore, passed away today in London.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB081EF6355C167B93C1A9178CD85F418385F9
1935:
Birthdate of Budapest native and Bergen-Belsen survivor Vilmos György Stern who
gained fame as William George Stern, “the owner of the British Stern Group” who
“in 1973 became Britain's biggest bankrupt with debts of £118 million,:
1936: The
Palestine Post reported that Yitzhak Glazer, a local watchman, was shot dead by
Arab terrorists in Hadera. Another guard, Jacob Bahar, was severely injured by
Arab fire at Motza. Arab terrorists, interned at the detention camp at
Sarafand, went on a hunger strike, as a protest against the camp's conditions.
Arab "tree-killers" cut down about 40 old, fruit-bearing olive trees
in Zichron Ya'acov.
1936: The
Palestine Post reported that Dr. Paul Zubek from Vienna was to be deported after
police found a large quantity of Nazi literature in his flat in Tel Aviv.
1937: CBS
radio broadcast the last episode of “The Gumps” a radio sitcom based on the
comic strip with scripts written by Irwin Shaw and directed by Himan Brown.
1937: “New
Faces of 1937,” a musical comedy with a script by Nat Perrin, Philip G. Epstein
and Irv S. Becher and co-starring Milton Berle and Parkyakarkus (Harry
Einstein) was released in the United States today
1938: “Led by Dr. Stephen Wise of New York, more than 1,000 leaders of American
Jewry opened the forty-second annual convention of the Zionist Organization of
America” tonight in Detroit.
1938:
“Italy Puts Curbs on Books Written by Jews; Bars Translations and Obstructs
Sales” published today described what are allegedly “the first steps taken
against Jews by Italy.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/07/02/98159278.pdf
1938: In
Genoa, Rabbi Riccardo Reuven Pacifici who was murdered at Auschwitz and his
wife Gioia Pacifici Tagliacozzo gave birth to their youngest child Raffaele
Efraim who eventually settled at Kfar Saba.
1939(15th
of Tammuz, 5699): In Haifa, an unidentified killer murdered Abraham Joseph
Cohen, “one of the few surviving members of the tiny Samaritan Jewish community
in Nablus.”
1940:
Today, a US patent was granted for a process of using slow neutrons developed
by Italians physicists including Bruno Pontecorvo that “led to the discovery of
nuclear fission”
1941:
Theatrical producer Sam H. Harris who had undergone an operation for
appendicitis in March and seemed to have made full recovery, is “seriously ill”
and confined to his home in the Ritz Tower Hotel.
1941: First
broadcast of “The Adventures of the Thin Man” a radio series produced by Himan
Brown.
1941:
Nazi-instigated pogrom claimed many Jewish lives in Lvov.
1941:
Following the Nazi occupation, the telephones of all the Jews in Riga, Latvia,
were disconnected today.
1941: With the
approval of the Nazis, “Latvian armed youths wearing red and white armbands
dragged Jews out of their home after which they variously arrested them, beat
them, shot them or killed them in some other manner.
1941 (7th of Tammuz, 5701): A German cavalry unit on patrol in
Lubieszow, Volhynia, Ukraine, murders Jewish resisters.
1941(7th
of Tammuz, 5701): “A mobile killing squad, Einsatzgruppe C's Einsatzkommando
4a, assisted by an infantry platoon,massacred 1,160 Jews” at Łuck.
1941: U.S.
premiere of “Sergeant York” produced by Jesse Lasky and Hal B. Wallis, with a
script co-authored by Howard Koch, music by Max Steiner and featuring “George
Tobias as Private Michael T. "Pusher" Ross, a soldier from New York
City.”
1941: “Viktors
Arājs a Latvian/Baltic German collaborator and Nazi SS SD officer who took part
in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Latvia and Belarus as the
leader of the Arajs Kommando “started to form his armed unit of men who were
responding to the appeal of Pērkonkrusts to take arms and to clear Latvia of
Jews and communists.”
1942(17th
of Tammuz, 5702): Tzom Tammuz
1942 (17th of Tammuz, 5702): The Jewish community from
Ropczyce, Poland, is murdered at the Belzec death camp.
1942; Tom Driberg
the MP who was part of the first
official British commission to visit the concentration camps in the closing
days of WWII, cast his first vote in the House of Commons, in support of
Churchill against a rebel motion of censure on the government's conduct of the
war.
1942: The
Bulgarian government demanded that all Jewish households in Monastir hand over
20 percent of the value of all assets, including property, furniture, cash, and
household items.
1942: The
New York Times reported on the "slaughter of 700,000 Jews" in
German-occupied Poland.
1943(29th
of Sivan, 5703): Seventy-year-old Alfred Blumenthal, the German born son of
“Selig and Julian Blumenthal” died today at the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
1943(29th
of Sivan, 5703): Helena
Nordheim, later Helena Kloot- Nordheim, one of five Jewish members of the 1928
Dutch Ladies’ Gymnastic Team that placed first ahead of teams from Italy and
Great Britain was gassed today
1943:
In Chicago, insurance executive Herman Rubin and the former Lorraine Helman
gave birth to Ruthelyn “Rachel” Adler.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-rachel
1944: Salomao
Nauslausky was among the first five thousand members of the Brazilian
Expeditionary Force (BEF) that left Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General
Mann. While serving with the BEF in Italy, Nauslausky served with such
distinction that “he was mentioned in dispatches.
1944: Allied
bombers executed the heaviest bombings inflicted on Hungary during the war
which led Hungarian radio to accuse Jews of guiding the bombers to their
targets with radio transmissions and light signals
1944: As the
Red Army closed in on the Lithuanian city of Vilna, the Germans seized 1800
Jews from their work in the factories and took them to Ponar where they were
shot.
1944:
Responding to Allied threats that he would be held personally responsible for
war crimes, Regent Miklos Horthy order “a halt to all further deportations of
Jews and Eichmann was advised to return to Germany.”
1945:
Following yesterday’s comments by Monroe Goldwater, chairman of the 1945
campaign of the Jewish Appeal of Greater New York “that V-E day had brought
with it the revelation of …new opportunities to aid new opportunities to aid
the victims of war and persecution, Jews now have additional time to raise
funds since the deadline has been extended to September 1, 1945.
1945: “A
two-day seminar conducted under the auspices of the National American Christian
Palestine Committee opened at the Princeton Inn today as two score educators
and clergymen prepared an educational program on problems in the Near East.”
1946: In
Manhattan, May (née Zimelman), a substitute teacher, and Irving Roy Silver, a
clothing sales executive gave birth to Ronald Arthur “Ron” Silver Tony-award
winning actor and political activist.
1946:
President signed the Luce-Celler Act of 1946, a law that had been originally
proposed by Representative Emmanuel Celler to deal with immigration matters
related to Native Americans and Filipinos
1946: At eight o'clock this evening, radio station WEVD
will broadcast the news in Yiddish.
1946: At
8:15 pm radio station WEVD will broadcast a program called "The Jewish
Philosopher"
1946: Dr. Nahum Goldman, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Rabbi Abba
Hillel Silver and Louis Lipsky are scheduled to meet with President Truman
today "to describe the situation in Palestine and to talk over the
implementation of the Presidential recommendation for entrance of 100,000 Jews
into the territory."
1947:
Birthdate of Larry David, the actor, writer and producer best known for his
work on Seinfeld" and his own HBO show.
1947: Karl
Ettinger was among the speakers during ceremonies at the New School of Social
of Social, during which David Goldstein was one of the five students who
received a dipoloma.
1947:
Today a statement by a group of Senators
led by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Florida Democrat Claude Pepper
calling for the United Nations to take “prompt action on the Palestine issue”
was released by the ZOA.
1948: “In
Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Germany, Polish Jews, Frania and Israel Rubinek,
who was a factory worker, theatre company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and
Talmudic scholar and who were hidden by Polish farmers for over two years
during World War II” gave birth to Saul Rubinek the Canadian character actor, director,
playwright, and producer of television, theatre, and film” who has had roles in
notable films including Against All Odds (1984), Wall Street (1987), The
Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), True Romance (1993), and Unforgiven (1992).”
1948: Seventy-two-year-old
Milton Wallenstein, the youngest child of Esther Hellman Wallenstein, the
founding president of the Hebrew Infant Asylum passed away today.
1948: In Tel
Aviv, a group of “dissident artists” including Joseph Zaritsky, Moshe Castel
Yehezkel Streichman and Yohanan Simon “published a manifesto in Haaretz”
stating that new association that they were forming “must emphasize
achievements in Jewish painting and not sink into mediocrity.” (Editor’s Note – Jewish artists were “duking
it out” in the midst of the War for Independence in which the infant Jewish
state was literally fighting for its life.
1949(5th
of Tammuz, 5709): Parashat Korach
1949: “The
city Amateur Symphony Orchestra conducted by former Municipal Court Justice
Leopold Prince, gave the first of a series of five concerts on the Mall in
Central Park “tonight” before an audience estimated at 18,000 persons.”
1949: Five
hundred delegates attended the opening session of the “26th national
convention of the Hapoel Hamirachi” where they heard a messaged from Vice
President Alben W. Barkley who “saluted the state of Israel” and “expressed the
hope that it may become a powerful influence for democratic values…”
1949: After
727 performances the curtain came down at the Broadway Theatre of the original
Broadway production of “High Button Shoes” with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music
by Jule Styne.
1950: The Government of
Israel came out tonight in full support of the United Nations measures seeking
to end the war in Korea. This is stark contrast with stand of several Arab
states including Egypt, which have come out in favor of “neutrality” in
responding to what the Israeli government recognized as acts of aggression on
the Korean Peninsula.
1951: At the Congress of the
dissident Romanian Orthodox Church in America held in Chicago today, Valerian Trifa
who had belong to the anti-Semitic Iron Guard during World War II was chosen to serve as the bishop. Thanks to
the efforts of Israeli historian Zev Golan, his past was exposed costing him
his home in the United States.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post reported that China accepted the US bid for peace in Korea.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post reported that the first issue of Omer, the vowelized daily newspaper for new immigrants in simple
Hebrew, had appeared on newsstands. It included a glossary in Spanish, French,
Arabic and Yiddish.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post reported that a young man was killed by an Arab Legion sniper in
the Musrara quarter of Jerusalem.
1952(9th
of Tammuz, 5712): Seventy-one year old NYC native and CCNY alum, Elias Cohen
the realtor who provided a summer retreat for deserving boys and girls at his
“Tanquility Farm and Camp starting in the summer of 1919 passed away today in
Jerusalem.
1952:
Today, “Assisted by the staff at the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children,
Jonas Salk injected 43 children with his killed-virus polio vaccine.”
1953:
“Houdini,” the film about the Jewish magician starring Tony Curtis born Bernard
Schwartz with a script by Philip Yordan was released today in the United States
today.
1958: U.S.
premiere of “King Creole” a movie based on novel by Harold Robbins, directed by
Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal B. Wallis, co-starring Walter Matthau and
featuring Vic Morrow.
1959: Ogden
R. Reid officially presented his credentials as the United States Ambassador to
Israel.
1961(18th
of Tammuz, 5721): Tzom Tammuz observed because the 17th fell on
Shabbat.
1961(18th
of Tammuz, 5721): Eighty-nine-year-old Paul Baerwald the husband of Edith
Jacobi Baerwald and “a partner in the New York firm of Lazard Frères from 1907
to 1930, who retired in order to devote himself full-time to philanthropy”
passed away today.
1961: American
author Ernest Hemingway took his own life.
Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, featured a Jewish
character, Robert Cohn. Cohn was a friend of the novel’s protagonist, Jake
Barnes. Cohn is not only insecure, he is
an insecure Jew. While attending Princeton, his sense of insecurity is
heightened by his brushes with anti-Semitism.
In the best of tradition of Hemingway, Cohn compensates for his
Jewishness and insecurity by becoming a boxer.
The Jewish jock, especially the Jew as a boxer may have resonated well
with readers of the time, since Jews held a number of boxing titles during the
1920’s and 1930’s. Although Hemingway
was not Jewish, his books were featured at Nazi book burnings where the works
of Einstein, Freud, et al were consumed by the flames.
1962: The
first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. Over the year’s
Wal-Mart would prove to be a useful place to shop for Jews living outside of
major metropolitan areas who were observing the dietary laws. Not only did Wal-Mart carry numerous Kosher
items, but many of its affordable house-brands carried the Hechser as well.
1963(10th
of Tammuz, 5723): Fifty-six-year-old New York native and Harvard trained
attorney, “Julius S. Wilkler, the former New York State Superintendent of
Insurance” and the husband of Frances Halperin Wikler with whom he had two
children – Joseph and Anne – passed away today.
1963:Today
funeral services are scheduled to be held for builder Harry Lefrak, who “will
be honored as leader of Judaism” are scheduled to be held today in Queens and
which Counsel General Katriel Katz will attend as a representative of the
government of Israel.
1964:
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jewish
political leaders played a major role in passing this piece of landmark
legislation. Congressman Cellar, Chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, was the driving force in getting the bill through the House of
Representative. Today we take the provisions of this anti-discrimination
law for granted. It is difficult to believe how controversial it was
forty years ago and what an act of political courage it took to support this
law. Although thought of as a law to end racial discrimination, the law
banned discrimination based on several criteria including religion.
1965: The
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which had been created to enforce Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act and which put teeth in the concept of ending
discrimination based on race, sex, religion and national origin began its work
today.
1966(14th
of Tammuz, 5726): Parashat Balak
1966(14th
of Tammuz, 5726): Forty-nine-year-old Harvard trained economist and former
Brandies professor William A. Salant, the husband of “the former Dorothy
Griesbach and father of Peter, Nicholas and Tony Salant died in an automobile
accident today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/07/05/82469226.pdf
1967: “The
Israeli Air Force bombs Egyptian artillery positions that had supported the
commandos at Ras Al-'Ish”
1969: As hostilities heated up along the Suez,
Israeli paratroops conducted their second deep penetration of Egyptian
territory in less than a week, killing thirteen, taking 3 prisoners and
gathering additional intelligence for the IDF.
1969: “Daddy’s
Gone A-Hunting,” a horror film directed and produced by Mark Robson and a
screenplay co-authored by Larry Cohen was released in the United States today.
1972(20th
of Tammuz, 5732): Eighty-three-year-old New York born and Cooper Union, Carnegie Institute of Technology
and the American Expeditionary Force University trained architect Harry M. Prince
“First Deputy Commis sioner of Tenement Housing from 1934 to 1938” and “chairman
of the National Architects Panel on Synagogue Planning of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations” passed away today.
1974: It was
reported today that Joseph Zaretski has
denied that he has used public money to retain his Senate post.
1974(12th
of Tammuz, 5734); Ninety-two-year old Fannie Danovitch, the daughter of Joshua
and Freida Schlover Danovitch and the husband of Max Abrahams whom she married
in 1905 passed away today after which she was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery
in Flushing, NY
1975: An
attempt was made today at the Odessa airport to prevent Lev Roitburd, who would
be sentenced to two years in prison, from leaving for Moscow.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel
began proceedings, through the French government, for the release of 98
Israelis held by hijackers in Entebbe, Uganda. The hijackers extended their
deadline for three days and released 101 hostages. The remaining hostages
included 98 Israelis and other Jews of dual nationality, as well as a crew of
12.
1976: As the
hostage crisis at Entebbe enters Day 6 and the IDF works to refine its rescue
mission, Ehud Barak is reassigned and sent to Kenya and Yoni Netanyahu is moved
up to take charge of the assault phase of the operation.
1976: Today,
Shimon Peres wrote to Prime Minister Rabin that “the final twist” in the plan”
to rescue the hostages at Entebbe “ was that the most forward squad would leave
the plane in a flag-bedecked Mercedes, masquerading as the Ugandan strongman
Idi Amin, who was due back from Mauritius” which led Rabin to respond with ““1.
When is Idi Amin due back from Mauritius? 2. Why a Mercedes?”
1976: Joshua
Shani flies the second most important mission of his career this evening as
proves to the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff that Operation
Thunderbolt is feasible by landing his Hercules C-130 in the dark at Ofira
Airbase. Now that Shimon Peres, who was
on the plane, sees that the nighttime landing which is critical to the
operation’s success is possible he can return and sell the plan to Prime
Minister Rabin and the Cabinet.
1977(16th
of Tammuz, 5737): Parashat Balak
1977(16th
of Tammuz, 5737): Eighty-nine-year-old Rena Alsbacher passed away in Shaker
Heights, OH.
1977: Russian
born writer Vladimir Nabokov passed away.
Nabokov was not Jewish, but his wife’s family was. More importantly, his father had a champion
of Jewish rights in the days of Czarist Russia.
Nabokov was living in France in 1940.
Because of these aforementioned “Jewish connections” a Jewish welfare
organization helped get him out of the country when the Nazis marched into
Paris.
1978(27th
of Sivan, 5738): Former NYC resident Jacob (Jack) Barash, the husband of Frances
Barash and a member of Temple Beth Moshe passed away today in North Miami, FL.
1980(18th
of Tammuz, 5740): Eighty-nine-year-old Gladys Carb Gugenheim, the daughter o
Isadore and Hattie Kahn Carb the wife of Albrt Dick Guggenheim Sr. a native of
Mason, TX, “the watermelon growing capital of the world and the sister of
“Harvard graduate and New Yok playwright and drama critic David Carb whose
historical novel, Sunrise in the West, is about his grandmother, Babette
Carb, who emigrated from Alsace to Mississippi, survived he Civil War, and made
her way to Texas passed away today after which she was buried in the Llano Cemetery
in Amarillo, TX.
1980: The
first London production Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” opened at the West
End’s Theatre Royal
1980:
Birthdate of Jerusalem native Tamar Eisenman “the singer, songwriter and
producer” who began playing the guitar at the age of six when living in San
Francisco with her parents.
1983(21st
of Tammuz, 5743): Parashat Pinchas
1983(21st
of Tammuz, 5743): Seventy-year-old New York born Harvard trained physicist
Richard Present who served on the faculty of NYU, Purdue and the University of
Tennessee passed away.
1983: It was
reported today that Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir has said “that Israel had
not abandoned its determination to see simultaneous Syrian and Israeli
withdrawals from Lebanon.”
1984: Small
arms fire directed at an Israeli car in Jerusalem wounded several children.
1986: “About
Last Night” a comedy based on a play by David Mamet and directed by Edward
Zwick was released today in the United States.
1988(17th
of Tammuz, 5748): Parashat Balak
1988(17th of
Tammuz, 5748) Eighty-five-year-old Joel Sylvan Geffen the Kovno born son of
Tobias and Sara Geffen, the Conservative Rabbi and Zionist and the husband of
“the former Sylvia Mintz” with whom he had two children, passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/geffen-joel
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/06/obituaries/joel-s-geffen-rabbi-85.html
1990: Efraim
Gur was appointed Deputy Minister of Communications.
1990: Calvin
Trillin wrote the first of his weekly "Deadline Poet" column – humorous
poems about current events- for The
Nation magazine toay.
1995(4th
of Tammuz, 5755): One hundred four-year-old author and journalist George Seldes
passed away today. (As reported by William Dicke)
1995(4th
of Tammuz, 5755): Rabbi Menachem Mendel Futerfas, known informally as Reb
Mendel, who was a famous Chabad Mashpia.and
who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Union because of his religious work
passed away today after which he was buried in London.
1996(15th
of Tammuz, 5756): Eighty-six-year-old I. D. Robbins, a civic reformer and
builder whose vision of low-cost single-family homes became reality for
thousands of families in once-blighted areas of Brooklyn and the Bronx,” passed
away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/04/nyregion/i-d-robbins-is-dead-at-86-pioneer-in-low-cost-homes.html
1997: “Men in
Black,” an off-beat sci-fi comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfield was released
today in the United States.
1999: Larry
Summers replaced Robert Rubin as U.S. Secretary of Treasury
2000: The
New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing
of an American Hero by Stanley Weintraub and The Unwanted Gaze: The
Destruction of Privacy in America by Jeffrey Rosen.
2001: Doctors at Jewish Hospital in Louisville implanted the
first AbioCor heart replacement in a seven hour long operation. Unlike earlier artificial
hearts such as the Jarvik-7 the AbioCor has no wires or tubes that stick out of
the chest and connect to a big compressor. The battery-powered,
plastic-and-titanium device is the size of a softball.
2001(11th
of Tammuz, 5761): Sixty-eight year old Holocaust survivor, organic chemistry
professor and chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights Israel
Shahak passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/06/guardianobituaries.physicalsciences
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/The%20Zionist%20Plan%20for%20the%20Middle%20East.pdf
2001(11th
of Tammuz, 5761): Aharon
Obadyan, 41, of Zichron Ya'akov was shot and killed near Baka a-Sharkia, north
of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and close to the 1967 Green Line border,
after shopping at the local market.
2001: Fifty-one-year-old
Yair Har Sinai of Susiya disappeared today.
2001: The PFLP
set off two separate bombs which injured six people in Tel Aviv today.
2001: Forty-one-year-old
Aharon Obadyan was shot by a terrorist at Baka a-Sharika.
2001: Yehud
suburb bombing: 2 bombs which were planted in cars of 2 Yehud residents
explode. The explosion caused no serious injuries. PFLP claimed responsibility
2002: Because
of her past ties to Ernst and Young, Cynthia Glassman had recused herself from
the SEC’s “audit-independence case” brought against that firm which decided by
an administrative law judge today.
2003: “Palestinian
police officers, in pressed new uniforms and dented old cars, reasserted their
authority in Bethlehem after Israeli forces withdrew to the town's edges.” (As
reported by James Bennett)
2003: “Appearing
side by side before meeting here this evening, the Israeli and Palestinian
prime ministers declared mutual respect and expressed hopes for peace, while
Israeli forces prepared to withdraw from the West Bank town of Bethlehem.”
2004: In
“Arguing That Israel Should Return Land and Apologize,” published today
Jonathan Rosen reviewed How Israel Lost The Four Questions by Richard
Ben Cramer.
2004: “In an
execution-style killing carried out in front of a cheering crowd on today, a
Palestinian man accused of collaborating with Israel and of sexually molesting
his young daughters was placed on his knees in a public square and shot by
Palestinian gunmen.”
2005(25th of
Sivan, 5765): Eighty-nine-year-old Oscar winning cinema screenwriter Ernest
Lehman who was responsible for the
scripts for such hits as “The Sweet Smell of Success,” “The Sound of Music,”
and “North by Northwest” and gained
additional fame as the director of “Portnoy’s Complaint” passed away today. (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/movies/06LEHMAN.html
2006: Final
performance of a revival production Jerry Herman’s “Maime” at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, DC.
2006. Rabbis
Stephanie Alexander and Aaron Sherman celebrate their wedding anniversary
2006: Rabbi
Stephanie Alexander celebrates her birthday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2006: West Magazine published “How Hollywood
Really Operates” by Leonard Mlodinow.
2006: Israel
continued its military efforts to gain the release of abducted Israel Defense
Forces soldier Gilad Shalit. An Israel Air Force attack helicopter launched a
missile before dawn striking the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail
Haniyeh in Gaza City. Also before dawn, the IAF struck the headquarters of a
Palestinian Authority security organization founded by Hamas in Gaza, killing
one of the group's operatives and injuring another, Israel Radio reported.
2007: Matan
Vilnai began serving as Deputy Minister of Defense.
2007: The Verbatim section of Time Magazine quotes the words of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
as he withdraws from the Republican Party. “Real results are more important
than partisan battles, [and] good ideas should take precedence over rigid
adherence to any particular political ideology.” According to some, Bloomberg’s switch to independent
presages a run for the Presidency in 2008 which would make him the first viable
Jewish candidate to ever seek the top job in America.
2007: In
Jerusalem, "Life
in Film," a series focusing on the Jewish communities around the world as
captured in film, features "Judaism in Iran - Past and Present." The
event includes a meeting with Orly Rachmian from Ben Gurion University and
Machon Ben-Zvi and selections from a documentary about the lives of Jews in
Iran.
2007:
President George Bush commuted the sentence of convicted government official
“Scooter” Libby. Mr. Libby was an aide
to Vice President Cheney and one of the Jews serving in the Bush
administration.
2007(16th of
Tammuz, 5767): Famed soprano Beverly Sills passed away at the age of 78.
2007(16th of
Tammuz, 5767): Hy Zaret, one of the last of the Tin Pan Alley lyricists, whose
most indelible work was the oft-recorded 1955 hit “Unchained Melody” but whose
oeuvre ranged from jingles to songs about science to ballads of love and war
passed away at the age of 99.
2008: Samuel
Israel III the convicted hedge fund manager surrendered to federal authorities.
2008: In a
news conference held today by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the terrorist
group called Hezbollah, held a news conference during which he stated that his
group conducted a detailed investigation into the fate of Ron Arad, the missing
Israeli navigator. He declined to reveal the information unearthed during the
investigation, claiming that he had turned over the results to the United
Station
2008: Majdi
Halabi’s family received a telephone call from an inmate in Damon Prison who
claimed that Halabi had been abducted and was being held in the vicinity of
Nablus in the West Bank
2008: General
Robert Magnus completes his tour as the 30th Assistant Commandant of the Marine
Corps.
2008: In
Paris, premiere of “The Fly” “an opera in two acts by composer Howard Shore.”
2008: “Leisure
Time in Israel” featuring the works of Israeli photographer Orit Siman-Tov
opens at the JCC in Manhattan.
2008: Penny “Pritzker
and her husband hosted a $28,500 per plate fundraiser for Mr. Obama's campaign
in Chicago with Warren Buffett and his wife, and Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett.”
2008(29th of
Sivan, 5768): Three Israelis were
killed and dozens more wounded when a Palestinian construction worker driving a
bulldozer plowed deliberately into a crowded bus and a string of cars in
downtown Jerusalem. Jerusalem residents Bat Sheva Unterman, 33, Elizabeth
Goren-Friedman, 54, and Jean Raloy, were named as the fatalities in the attack.
2008: The Jerusalem Post reported that a
London university made history this week when it appointed the country's first
professor of Israeli studies. The University of London's School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) named Dr. Colin Shindler, reader in Israeli and Modern
Jewish Studies and chair of the Center for Jewish Studies, as the first
professor of Israeli studies in the UK.
2009: Today the
fourth annual week devoted to the cooperation of the IDF and the Israel
Antiquities Authority in preserving the country's environment and antiquities comes
to an end with this last day focusing primarily on current archeological
issues.
2009: The Randi & Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival
features a screening of “Goyband,” a
campy comedy that’s a cross between “Dirty Dancing” and “My Big Fat Greek
Wedding” in which a fading teen idol is booked to perform at a kosher Catskills
hotel-casino and a romance ensues between the hotel owner’s already engaged
daughter and the boy band icon.
2009: The
Washington Post featured a review of The Sweet Science and Other
Writings: The
Sweet Science, The Earl of Louisiana, The Jollity Building, Between Meals, The
Press by
A.J. Liebling.
2009: The
London Gazette published the official announcement from the Crown Office that
the Queen has named David Anthony Freud
Baron Freud, a life peerage.
2010: An exhibit of the
paintings of Israeli, award-winning, artist Liron Sissman is scheduled to open
at the
prestigious National Arts Club in Manhattan.
2010: A southbound lane of
traffic on Highway 4 south of Beit Leed was closed to traffic this morning
because of the march on behalf of of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit. It's the
sixth day of the march to Jerusalem from the Shalit family's home in the westen
Galilee.
2010: The Health Ministry
removed its warning about bathing at beaches in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, today
following checks of water quality. The public was warned at the beginning of
the week not to go into the water at a number of the beaches because of the
flow of sewage into the sea.
2011(30th
of Sivan, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2011: In a rare musical treat, Cantor Joel
Caplan, son of Richard and Ellen Caplan, and father of Ilan Caplan is scheduled
to lead services at Agudas Achim in Iowa City, Iowa.
2011: Rabbi Raphael Bensimon and Rabbi Feivel
Staruss are scheduled to lead services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa during which the
congregation will participate in Feivel’s Aufruf. Rabbi Strauss is the fiancée of Abbie Silber,
daughter of Laurie and Dr. Bob Silber, a mensch in the truest sense of the
term.
2011: Hani Skutch is scheduled to appear at
the Off the Wall Comedy Club in Jerusalem this evening.
2011: Eldad Hadad, one of the Nehariya policemen released from prison earlier
this year after serving time for avenging a known criminal was shot tonight
near the synagogue he normally prays at. He was taken to the hospital where he
was operated on in moderate to serious condition
2011: Today, the Quartet of Middle East peace
negotiators said it is concerned about "unsustainable conditions"
facing people in Gaza but said additional flotillas should be discouraged.
2011: Former International Monetary Fund chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose house arrest was lifted following concerns about
the credibility of a hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, left his
rented townhouse for a few hours today before returning and darting back
inside. Strauss-Kahn has been accused by the maid of trying to rape
2012: Yitzhak Shamir laid to rest at Mount
Herzl
http://www.timesofisrael.com/yitzhak-shamir-laid-to-rest-at-mount-herzl/
2012: Officials in Kenya say that two Iranian agents arrested with explosives
planned to attack Israeli, American, British or Saudi Arabian targets inside
Kenya. The officials said today that the plot appears to fit into a global
pattern of attacks or attempted attacks by Iranian agents, mostly against
Israeli interests.
2012: Rabbi Rick Jacobs, newly chosen
President of the Union for Reform Judaism is scheduled to meet with President
Shimon Peres.
2012: Israeli cellist Yoed NIr is scheduled to
perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
2012: Today the Israel Antiquities Authority
announced that an archeological dig found a mosaic floor describing the story
of biblical Samson and a Hebrew inscription from an approximately
1,600-year-old synagogue in the lower Galilee.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=275996
2013:
At Tel Aviv University, Dr. Lev Kapitaikan is scheduled to deliver a lecture
entitled "History and Religious Architecture of the Early Islamic Period,
ca.650-750: The First Mosques and the Enigma of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem”
2013(24th
of Tammuz, 5773): Eighty-eight-year-old Auschwitz survivor Simon Kohn who opened Simon Kohn’s Kosher
Deli in 1963 at University City, a suburb of St. Louis, which later moved to
Creve Cour, passed away today. (As reported by Joe Bonwich)
2013:
A 17th-century German medal that portrays the Jews as responsible for a
contemporary famine is one of some 400 Judaica items, ancient coins, medals,
Israel memorabilia and documents scheduled to be sold today at a Jerusalem
auction sponsored by the Kedem Auction House and antiquities collector L.
Alexander Wolfe. (As reported by Ofer Aderet)
http://www.artfact.com/catalog/searchLots.cfm?scp=c&catalogRef=W8TA6XWA90
2013:
A painting by Italian Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani, projected to be sold for
NIS 30 million (some $8.25 million), fetched a disappointing NIS 25.4 million
($7 million) at an auction in Jerusalem today. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2013:
A Turkish deputy prime minister linked the "Jewish diaspora" to
recent anti-government unrest and the country's Jewish community expressed
fears today the comments could make them targets of popular anger
2014:
As a part of the Alte Actors (Old Actors) program at Chai Point, are scheduled
to be performing at Summerfest
2014:
The annual rummage sale at Temple Menorah in Milwaukee is scheduled to come to
an end.
2014:
As the ‘Whole House of Israel” mourns, the families of for Naftali Frankel, 16,
Gilad Shaar, 16; and Eyal Yifrach, 19 sit shiva
2014:
“A day after slain Israeli teens Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal
Yifrach were laid to rest, Jewish-Arab tensions flared today with the discovery
of the body of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, 16, in the Jerusalem Forest.” (As reported
by Yifa Yaakov and Marissa Newman)
2014:
“The full recording of the desperate call made by one of the slain Israeli
youths to the emergency police hotline on June 12 was released today, and in it
the perpetrators can be heard singing in Arabic and whooping after loud noises
— presumably gunshots — ring out in the car. The kidnappers are also heard
excitedly crying out, “Three!” (As
reported by Yifa Yaakov)
2015:
In Philadelphia, The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to
host a panel of leading legal activists and scholars who will explore the past,
present, and future of LGBT rights as part of the “National LGBT 50th
Anniversary Celebration”
2015:
“The Israeli army archive released the hand-written operations log of the
dramatic 1976 hostage rescue in Entebbe today, including the 1:55 a.m. note
that the commander of the mission, Yoni Netanyahu, had been wounded.”
2015:
“A to Israeli officer said” today that “the IDF has acquired intelligence that
Hamas is providing weaponry and other support to the Islamic State’s Sinai
affiliate, Wilayat Sinai, the group thought to be behind yesterday’s deadly
attack on Egyptian security services”
2015(15th
of Tammuz, 5775): Ninety-one year old “David Aronson, an Expressionist artist
whose vivid paintings, charcoal drawings and sculptures captured the tension
between his Orthodox Jewish upbringing and the biblical injunction against
making graven images” passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/arts/david-aronson-expressionist-artist-dies-at-91.html?_r=1
2016(26th
of Sivan, 5776): Parsha Shelach-Lecha (Send forth) – Read about the Spies and a
whole lot more.
2016(26th
of Sivan, 5776): Eighty-seven-year-old Nobel Prize winning author Elie Wiesel
passed away today.
2016:
“Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi gave fans of Guangzhou R&F a glimpse of
possible brilliance to come during his debut match in the Chinese Super League”
today.
2016:
“The Israeli Air Force attacked targets belonging to terror groups in the Gaza
Strip early this morning, the IDF said, hours after a rocket fired from the
coastal enclave landed outside a preschool in the border town of Sderot,
causing damage but no injuries.”
2017:
The
Jazz-Klezmer-Band "Apropos.art" is scheduled to perform at the Gula
Bar-Restaurant in Jerusalem.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/klezmer-concert-of-jewish-original-folk-tickets-35519367384
2017:
Dan Shapiro, the former Ambassador of the United States is scheduled to speak
this evening at the Jerusalem Cinematheque in an event sponsored by the Times
of Israel and Nefesh b’ Nefesh.
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or books of special interest to Jewish readers
including the recently released paperback editions of The Bridge Ladies: A
Memoir by Betsy Lerner and Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon.
2017:
141st Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
2018:
Two days before the anniversary of the great rescue, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Entebbe” this evening in London.
2018:
Today, in an interview with ABC News, “made a declaration of independence from
Donald Trump” for whom he once said, he would take a bullet.
2018:
As IDF medical personnel provide aid to Syrian refugees from Assad’s attacks,
Israelis wait to see if Assad will heed Israeli warnings not to enter the
demilitarized zone along the Golan while bracing themselves for more incendiary
attacks from Gaza.
2019:
As part of his series on “The Ten Lost Tribes” Rabbi Dr.
Raphael Zarum, the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
lecture on the “Jewish versus Assyrian Culture” today.
2019: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled
to host “Mindfulness Meditation in the Gallery” led by Steven Tierney.
2019: Today’s “screening of the Pride shorts
program,” is scheduled to “be accompanied by a panel discussion featuring
Joëlle Bentolila (Director of Starboy), Rabbi Rene Pfertzel (Kingston Liberal
Synagogue), Rabbi Mark Solomon (Interfaith Consultant for Liberal Judaism) and
chaired by Asher Tlalim (Head of the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film).”
2019: Four days after she had passed, funeral
services are scheduled to be held at Eben Israel Cemetery for centenarian Ruth
Lillian Feder, the widow of Iz Feder and mother of Ron, Neil and Steven Feder
followed by a shiva minyan this evening.
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2019/Jun/Ruth-L-Feder/
2020: Urban Adamah is scheduled to host a virtual
“Singing Circle for the Soul” led by Anna Cone.
2020: Live on Zoom, the YIVO Institute is
scheduled to present “Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity.”
2020: Today, a 90 day extension order is
scheduled to end which Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of those who murder Daniel
Peal will go free.
2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host another session of Children’s Storytime.
2020: Michael Glassner,
Donald Trump’s chief operating officer, is reportedly settling into his new
role dealing with legal affairs after having been demoted following the
“disappointing Tulsa campaign rally.”
2021:
YJP Boston is scheduled to present “First Fridays Shabbat Dinner Under the
Stars, with an open bar and plenty of room to mix and mingle!”
2021:
As part of the Jerusalem Design Week, members of the Runaway Circus are scheduled to
venture out on a grand circus parade and will put on a rebellious performance
at the central tent of the circus, within Hansen House’s interior courtyard.”
2021:
As incendiary balloons launched from Gaza continue, authorities are
investigating the possibility that the fires at the Tomb of Samuel were started
by arsonists.
2021:
The City of Montreal is scheduled to name a new park in honor of Elie Wiesel on
the fifth anniversary of his death thanks to the efforts of councilor Marvin
Rotrand.
2022
(3rd of Tammuz)Parashat Korach
2022:
The Eden-Tamir scheduled to host Sonatas for the Flute and Piano, featuring
flute sound Ein Kerem with Noam Buchman and Friends.
2023:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Road to the City by
Natalia Ginzburg, the daughter of Giuseppe Levi and Professor Schiff’s Guilt
by Israeli novelist Agur Schiff.
2023:
JW3 Cinema is scheduled to host a screening of “My Extinction.”
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “The Jewish
Situation in Eastern Europe in the Interwar Period and Zionism, Part 1.”
2024:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host a new
self-guided Freedom Quest Scavenger Hunt.
2024:
The Streciker Center is scheduled to host the third virtual sessions of Hebrew
for Advanced Beginners and Intermediate Hebrew.
2024:
As July 2nd 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 270 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.)
