This Day, July 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 22
1099: During
the First Crusade, in what has to be one of the most ironic moment of the
Middle Ages, Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the leaders who had extorted money
from the Jews in Mainz and Cologne and had participated in the killing of the
Jews of Jerusalem was elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulcher of The
Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1209: Forces
that included the fanatical monk, Arnold of Citeaux, stormed the city of
Beziers as part of the war aimed at destroying the Albigensians. The destruction of the Jewish community,
including the murder of two hundred Jews, was "collateral damage
1263: The
“Barcelona Disputation” – a debate between Pablo Christiani, “a converted Jew”
and Moses ben Nachman ordered by King James of Aragon continued for a third day
1306 (10th
of Av): Philip the Fair of France arrested all the Jews, confiscated their
property, and expelled them from his lands.
1306: “When
the Jews of France were expelled today, Estoria Farhi, the native of Florenza,
Spain who had studying astronomy at Montpellier with Jacob ben Makir “went to
Perpignan” and then moved on to Palestine in 1312 where he wrote various
philosophical works as well as a study of the “history, geography, fauna, flora
and antiquities” of the country until his death which “probably” occurred in
1357.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6017-farhi-parhi-estori
1320: King
James II of France – in reaction to the excesses in southern France, proscribed
support for the Jewish survivors, including an exemption on taxes. At the same
time he refused to allow forcibly baptized children to be returned to their
parents
1444 Federico da Montefeltro began his reign
as Duke of Urbino during which he protected his Jewish subjects.
1454: The
Reign of Henry IV as King of Castile, during which “the condition of the
Spanish Jews was one of comparative peace and comfort, began today.
1456: During
the Ottoman attempts to expand its power in Europe John Hunyadi, Regent of
Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire during the Siege of
Belgrade. Mehmet’s reign was friendly to
the Jewish people including opening his empire to refugees from Christian
Europe. On the other hand, John Hunyadi
enjoyed the support of the Italian Monk Jean de Capistrano who had previously
convinced King Ludwig of Bavaria to expel his Jewish subjects.
1472: “Menahem
ben Nethaneel Raphael Trabot” a member of family scholars living in Italy
during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries
“purchased Codex Turin A. vii. 18” today.
1489: In
Soncino, printer Joshua Solomon Soncino produced the first copy Talmud Bavil,
Tractate “Niddah.”
1559: Today,
Richard Curteys, who had had Joachim Gans, the Hebrew speaking first Jew to
settle in that part of North America controlled by the English brought before
the officials of Bristol to face charges of blasphemy, “was appointed Senior
Fell of of St. John’s College Cambridge.
1570: During
the war with Venice, Ottoman forces lay siege to Nicosia, Cyprus. The Jews had
been living on Cyprus since Roman times.
Following the conquest by the Ottomans, Cyprus would become a haven for
Jews fleeing from the Spanish Inquisition.
1587: Governor
John White stopped at the Roanoke Colony, which Joachim Gans “the first
recorded Jew in Colonial America” reported played a role founding, and found
none of the settlers alive.
1588: After
one of action, the English fleet prepares to take on the Spanish Armada off the
coast of Plymouth.
1598; The Merchant of Venice is licensed for
printing. However, it would be two years
before the play featuring Shylock would be printed for the first time.
1604: King
James I sent a letter to Archbishop Bancroft that effectively permitted the
English translation of the Bible. For
most people, Jews included, the poetic tones of the King James Bible are the
sounds of the TaNaCh that they readily know.
1648: Ten
thousand Jews of Polannoe were killed in the Chmielnicki massacres.
1686: Albany,
New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
Public records indicate the presence of Jews as early as 1658. Asser Levy owned
property, obtained burgher's rights, and lived in Albany in the 1650s. Other
early Jewish merchants and traders who resided in Albany included Jacob Lucena,
Hayman Levy, Jonas Phillips, Asher Levy, Levi Solomons and Levi Solomons Albany’s most famous Jewish resident was
Isaac Mayer Wise who began what would become the Reform Movement while serving
as a Rabbi in New York’s capital city.
1676: Clement
X, the Pope who prohibited the custom of chasing Jews through the streets
during the carnival, passed away.
1706: By the
time the details of the Treaty of Union which joined Scotland and England were
worked out, at least one Jew, David Brown was living in Edinburgh.
1735: New York
native Samuel Ricardo married Ribca Israel today in Amsterdam.
1775: Today,
Dumbarton native and Scottish merchant Patrick Colquhoun and statistician according to whom “at the
opening of the 19th century,” “the Jewish population of London
amounted to 20,000” who “worshipped at six synagogues” while “various
provincial centtres held five or six thousand additional Jews” who worshipped
at twenty synagogues” “married his cousin Janet, the daughter of James
Colquhoun, the Provost of Dumbarton.”
1785(15th
of Av, 5545): Tu B’Av observed on the same day that John Jay wrote to Richard
Henry Lee about commerce with the French West Indies which very favorable to
the most valuable ally that the United States had had in the American
Revolution.
1787: In
Kuttenplan, Bohemia, Benedikt Baruch Veith and Bräumel Veith gave birth to
Johann Emanuel Veith who became “a Bohemian Roman Catholic Priest.
1798: The day
after Napoleon defeated the Mamluks ending their control over Egypt the leaders
of Cairo offered the French General who would take his army to Palestine
eventually, control of the city.
1801 In
Friedland, Saxony, Salomon Moses and Henriette (Jette) Marcus Levin gave birth
to Marcus (Moses) Mosse, a German medical doctor.
1801: Abigail
Dias, the London born daughter of Haham Moses Cohen d'Azevedo and Sara de Haham
Moses Cohen D'Azevedo and her husband Isaac Haim de Abraham de Jacob Dias gave
birth to Sarah Dias.
1806: In
Philadelphia, Zalegman Phillips, the Philadelphia born son of Jonas Phillips
and Rebecca Mendez and his wife Arabella Phillips gave birth to Jonas Altamont
Phillips, the husband of Frances Phillips and the “father of Henry M. Phillips,
II; Edwin Phillips; Rebecca Phillips; Catherine Phillips; Charles Lex Phillips;
Ellen Samuel; Altamont Phillips; Emily Phillips and Gabriel Phillips.”
1809(9th
of Av, 5569): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av observed as Sir Arthur
Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) prepared to meet the French Army at
Talavara. in what was part of his
success campaign to dislodge the French from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars.
1817(9th
of Av, 5577): Tish’a B’Av
1817:
Birthdate of Lazare Eliezer Wogue the French rabbi from Fontainebleau who was
director and editor-in-chief of the "Univers Israélite,"
1823:
Birthdate of Louis Raphael Bischoffsheim the Dutch born French banker who
founded the Nice Observatory.
1823:
Birthdate of Barbados native Esther Brandon who became Esther Abecasis when she
married Aaron Abecasis.
1823:
Birthdate of Ludwig Bamberger “political economist” and confidant of Otto von
Bismarck.
1826: In
Arnhem, Netherlands, Benjamin Philip Haas and Christina Haas gave birth to
future New Yorker Henry Bernard Haas, the husband of Sarah Haas.
1832: A day
after she passed away, Ann Lazarus, the wife Lewis Lazarus was buried at the
Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1833: In the
United Kingdom, Daniel Levy and Amelia Jacobs gave birth to Henry Levy and
Lewis Levy.
1833: the
House of Commons passed a bill for the emancipation of the Jews of England. The
House of Lords would reject the bill.
1839:
Birthdate of August Wunsche, “the German Christian Hebraist” who “devoted his
attention almost exclusively to rabbinic literature as can be seen by a work
published in 1878 which was one of “the most complete collection of the
parallel passages of the Talmud and the New Testaments as well as his
translations into German of the Midrash Rabbah, portions of the Jerusalem
Talmud and Babylonian Talmud.
1841: The 1841
United Kingdom general election in which Disraeli running as Tory from
Shrewsbury won “one o the constituency’s two seats.”
1842(15th
of Av, 5602): Tu B’Av observed on the same day that Representative John Minor
Botts introduced a proposal to impeach President John Tyler which was the first
time such a motion had been introduced in American History.
1847(9th
of Av, 5607): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that most of the Mormons
arrived in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Valley.
1848: Michel
Goudchaux, the newly appointed French Minister of Finance who was in charge of
putting the nation’s ailing finances in order “presented a statement of the
country’s financial situation to the Assembly in which he said there would a
deficit of 209 million” which could only be ended by the unpopular measure of
“restoring tax that had been abolished too quickly.
1849: In New
York, the former Esther Nathan and Moses Lazarus gave birth to poet Emma
Lazarus who became famous as the author of "The New Colossus" written
in 1883, four years before her death. This poem appears at the base of the
Statue of Liberty and is a celebration of America as the land of the immigrant.
To give one a sense of the times in which she lived the New
York Times described her not as a Jew, but as who belonged "to one of
the best known and oldest Hebrew families
of the city..."
1850: In New
Orleans, the cornerstone is laid for a new Synagogue, Shangaray Chassed.
1850: Today,
during the dedication of the new synagogue building of Temple Beth El, “Rabbi
S.M. Isaacs of New York” delivered the “dedicatory sermon” which was the first
English language sermon ever delivered in a Jewish house of worship in
Buffalo.”
1853: In a
sign of how quickly Jews were accepted into pre-Civil War American society an
article published today describing events surrounding Columbia College’s
upcoming commencement exercises reported that while most of the college’s
trustees have been Episcopalians, members of other religious denominations have
served in that capacity including one or more Jews.
1853: In
Darmstadt, banker Simon Messel and his wife gave birth to his third son,
architect Alfred Messel whose works include the “Wertheim department store on
Leipziger Platz and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin” and who converted in 1899.
1854(26th
of Tammuz, 5614): Parashat Matot-Masei
1854: In
Newark, NJ. Louisa Roos and Charles Leppert gave birth to St. Louis furrier
Charles Joseph Leppert the president of the Leonhard Roos Fur Company and
husband of Ida D. Strauss with he had one daughter, Lillian.
1859: In
“Aldgate, London,” Jacob Aarons and Abigail Jacobs gave birth to Abraham
Aarons, the husband of Miriam Solomons.
1860: In
Copenhagen, Philip August Fischer and
Gustafva Albertina Svedgren gave birth
painter Paul Gustav Fischer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gustav_Fischer#/media/File:Pgfisher.jpg
1861(15th
of Av, 5621): Tu B’Av
1861: In New
York City, Gustavus Speyer and Sophie (Rubino) Speyer gave birth James Joseph
Speyer, the German educated banker who was part of “The House of Speyer” which
before WW I was the “third largest investment banking firm” and whose
philanthropies included founding the Museum of the City of New York and the
University Settlement Society of New, “the first settlement house in the United
States.”
http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2845
https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/speyer.pdf
1861: Despite
the attempt by Ohio Congressman Representative Clement Vallandigham to change
the language, President Lincoln signed into law that said chaplains in the
United States Army had to be “regularly ordained clergyman of some
Christian denomination” which he would come to regret and would be overdid by a
bill that he signed a year later.
1864: In
Ihringen, Baden, Germany, Samuel Wile and Mathilde Block gave birth to Herman
Wile, the president of Herman Wile and Company, the Buffalo Clothiers’
Association and Temple Beth Zion and the husband of Elka Hochstetter with whom
he lived in Buffalo, NY.
1864: Two days
after he passed away, Abraham Alexander, the son of Isaac Alexander and Esther
Barnard, was buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1864: In
Minsk, Rose Kaufman and Noah Zelenko gave birth clothing manufacture and
contractor Joseph Zelonko who came to the United States in 1882 where he served
on the board of Beth Israel Hospital and married Fannie Weinstein in 1885.
1864: During
the Civil War Union forces under General Sherman defeat the Confederates at the
Battle of Atlanta which was actually one of series of clashes that would lead
to the fall of the South’s major transportation and manufacturing center. Among
those serving with Sherman was Edward S. Salomon whose distinguished service at
the Battle of Gettysburg earned him the rank of Brevet Brigadier General.
1865:
Philadelphia native Henry Z. Lazarus who had “enlisted in a New York Regiment
at the beginning of the Civil” before transferring to a Pennsylvania regiment
in 1864” and who suffered a “broken collar-bone” earlier in the year completed
his military service today.
1866(10th
of Av, 5626): Tish’a B’av
1866: “Le
Sermon du Daian Cardozo a la Synagogue d’Amsterdam” painted by Paris born
artist Jacob Emile Edourard Brandon was exhibited today.
1866: “A
Jewish fruit importer at Spitalfields” and his wife gave birth to Godfrey
Charles Joseph Isaacs, the brother of Rufus Isaacs, the 1st Marquess
of Reading, the husband of Lea Constance Perelli with whom he had two sons –
Marcel and Dennys -- and, starting in
1910, the “Managing Director of Marcon’s Wireless Telegraph Company” which led
to his involvement in an insider trading scandal known as “the Marconi Scandal
of 1912.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/03/23/84879622.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1870: The St.
Louis Democrat reported that a property dispute between two Jewish
congregations in St. Louis that stretches back to the 1840’s has resulted in
civil litigation. B’nai El Congregation
is suing the trustees of Emanuel Congregation over the transfer of property
that the plaintiffs contend the Respondents have never completed
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9507E7D7103DE53BBC4D51DFB166838B669FDE
1872: The New York Herald published an
editorial “that deplored the widely held opinion ‘that American Jews would
remain forever content to study Hebrew and German for the sake of Worshipping
God in those languages…Give them religious as well as secular instruction in
their vernacular and there will not be much cause to complain of empty pews and
neglected synagogues..’” The editorial
was written in response to a “report that the English speaking rabbis of Temple
Emanu-El and Congregation B’nai Jeshurun had resigned their pulpits and that
the congregations were having great difficulty in finding replacements.” The
Herald had previously published an editorial praising plans for the creation of
a seminary at Cincinnati to train rabbis for the American Jewish
community. The Herald believed that if
services were conducted in English, Jewish throngs would fill their
congregations. What is amazing is the
fact that a leading secular paper would involve itself in this issue.
1873: In
London, Asher Ezra Wertheimer, the son Henrietta and Samson Yechiel Wertheimer
and his wife Flora Wertheimer gave birth to Edward Wertheimer.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jacob-Kotinsky/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJacob+Kotinsky
1874(8th of
Av, 5634): Erev Tish'a B'Av observed on the same day that Lt. Col. George
Custer (of Little Big Horn fame or
infamy) arrived in the Black Hills at a time when accompanying civilians
searched for gold, setting of one of the most ill-fated gold rushes in American
History.
1876: In
Philadelphia, Isabella Polock and Morris Rosenbach gave birth University of
Pennsylvania educated Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, the nephew of published
Moses Polock whose accomplishments included founding, along with his brother,
of the Rosenbach Museum and Library.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/23/travel/a-library-where-rare-is-common.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7MVQ_Dr_A_S_W_Rosenbach_1876_1952
1877: “Heine’s Love, Apostasy and Agony” published today
described the two most painful events in the German poet’s life. The first was his star-crossed love affair
with Amalie Heine. The second was his decision to convert to Christianity so
that he could gain favor with his Prussian patrons. The conversion failed to bring the acceptance
he sought. These frustrations led him to
write “I often get up in the night, and stand before the glass and curse
myself.”
1877: “The Hebrew Controversy” published today presented a fulsome
account of the controversy created by Judge Hilton’s ban on Jewish guests at
his hotel in Saratoga Springs that includes correspondence that reveals much
about the attitude and values of those involved in the matter.
1878: In Warsaw, ‘Józef Goldszmit, a respected lawyer from a family of
proponents of the haskalah, and Cecylia née Gębicka, daughter of a prominent
Kalisz family gave birth pediatrician Janusz Korczak, who used the pen name
of Henryk Goldszmit as an author of
children’s book and who was murdered at Treblinka in 1942 at the age of 64.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/court-confirms-janusz-korczak-was-killed-in-treblinka/
1879: Mr.
Austin Corbin, President of the Manhattan Beach Railway Company, says that
Jews, as a class, have made themselves offensive to those who patronize his
railroad and hotel on Coney Island.” He
said “that they are vulgar and unclean…and that he will leave nothing undone to
get rid of them in order to save his business from ruin. While no official action has been taken by
the Board of Directors to support Corbin’s position, “many stockholders agree
with him.
1879:
Prominent Jews have condemned Austin Corbin’s derogatory comments, calling him
“a narrow-minded bigot whose proper country is Romania.” Abram Dittenhoefer, the former judge and
leader of the Jewish community, said Corbin “has not insulted the Jews, but all
Americans who are opposed to intolerance.
1880: Michael
Gernsheim, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co is scheduled to leave for Europe
today aboard the SS Scythia. He plans to
be gone for four months.
1881: I.A.
Engelhardt was elected President of the Society for Improving the Sanitary
Conditions of Poor Israelites in New York at its meeting today. The society seeks to improve “the sanitary
conditions” of the city’s poor Jews “by providing them with the necessary
information” regarding housing, including the enforcement of sanitary
regulations and the means of eradicating the causes and sources of disease from
their homes.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9902E1DC133EE433A25750C2A9619C94609FD7CF
https://feministvoices.com/profiles/augusta-fox-bronner/
1881: Based on
information supplied by the Daily News,
an English paper, it was reported today that England, Austria, Holland, and
possibly some other European powers are planning on sending a joint communique
to Russia express their concern over that nation’s “harsh laws against the
Jews.”
1882:
Birthdate of New York City native and “educator” Isaac Price, the holder of
B.S. from CCNY and M.A. from NYU, the lexicographer who worked for Pitman
Publishing.
1882: “The
Vicar of Bray,” a comic opera by Anglo-Jewish composer and conductor Edward
Solomon opened at the Globe Theatre in London.
1883: It was
reported today that Julius Hallgarten, a Jewish Philanthropist has established
a trust in the amount of $5,000 to support the Art Schools of the National
Academy of Design. Dr. Felix Adler is
among those who have been appointed to serve as trustees to manage the gift.
1883: “Not
Fond of Israelites” published today described a lawsuit Louis Batist has filed
a suit against the Manhattan Railway Company seeking $5,000 in damages after a
conductor pushed him back so that he could not board the elevated train after
saying “You are a Jew! We don’t permit Jews on this train.”
1884: Rabbis
Wise and Huebsch are scheduled to officiate at the funeral retired merchant
Mayer Schutz who passed away in his 80th year while vacationing at
Coney Island.
1884:
Birthdate of Rochester, NY native Elmer Adler, the former Andover Academy and
Harvard student co-founder of Pynson Printers, “The Colophon, a quarterly
dedicated to the interests of booklovers” and co-founder of Random House who
was the “curator of graphic arts at Princeton University” and he brother of Max
A. Adler and Eugenia Cohen.
https://rbsc.princeton.edu/collections/elmer-adler-papers
1884:
Philanthropist and financier Daneil Guggenheim, the Philadelphia born son of
Barbara Myers and Myer Guggenheim married Florence Schloss in Philadelphia.
1885(10th
of Av, 5645): Seventy-four-year-old Philadelphia born publisher Abraham Hart
who later went into the manufacture of “button-hole” machines after marrying
Rebecca Cohen Isaacks and who was President of Congregation Mikvah Israel,
passed away today in Long Branch, NJ.
1886: It was
reported today that 40 Russian Jews who had arrived in the United States
yesterday will be sent back to Europe on the next State Line Steamer because
they are destitute and “had no definite ideas as to how they were to earn a
living.”
1887(1st
of Av, 5647): Rosh Chodesh Av
1887:
Birthdate of Gustav Hertz. This German-born quantum physicist won the Nobel
Prize in 1925.
1888: “Hearing
the New Rabbi” published today described the first sermon of Rabbi Jacob Joseph
as being delivered in “a language which is a mixture of Hebrew, German and
Polish.” The younger members of the audience complained that they “had
difficulty in understanding…the language” he used. [It would appear that the sermon was
delivered in Yiddish which would have had a strange sound to those used to
hearing such talk in German.]
1888:
Approximately 1,500 Jews living on the Lower East Side, including a large
number of children took an excursion boat to Raritan Beach. The trip was sponsored by a liquor dealer
named Ehrlich. According to eyewitness
accounts, Ehrlich, who had the drink concession, salted the drinking water,
forcing mothers to buy beer and soda to slake the thirst of their children.
1888: Rabbi De
Sola Mendes, of New York’s 44th Street Synagogue officiated at
ceremonies dedicating The House of Miriam, the new synagogue in Long Branch,
NJ. S.T. Meyer of New York contributed the land and several wealthy New York
Jews who spend their summers at the New Jersey resort defrayed the cost of
Construction. [The congregation exists today as Beth Miriam, a Reform Temple.]
1888: In Nova
Pryluka, which is now in Ukraine, Fradia (London) and Jacob Waksman gave birth
to Albert Lasker Award winning researcher Selman Abraham Waksman who “was
awarded the Nobel Prize in 1952 "for his discovery of streptomycin, the
first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis."
http://www.jewoftheweek.net/?s=Selman+Abraham+Waksman+&submit=Search
1889:
“Pilgrims by the Sea” published today described the thriving ocean resort scene
in New York and New Jersey including the presence of Jewish guests at Brighton
Beach Hotel. Mr. Breen, one of the new
managers of the hotel said that reports that Jewish guests were unwelcomed and
had been excluded were false. They had
been circulated by a disgruntled former employee. The hotel admitted guests strictly on the
basis of their behavior and not ethnicity.
1889: In
Boston, MA, Rabbi Raphael Lasker officiated at the funeral of Count L.B.
Schwab. The burial took place at the
cemetery of the Union Park Street temple.
Among the pallbearers were Nathan Waxman and George Adams of the Hebrew
Benevolent Society; Alexander Simons and James H. Cohen of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association; and Isaac Young and Usher Hyman of Adath Israel.
1890: Plans
for the next free excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children
were published today.
1890: In
Cincinnati, “Bernard Goodman, a Jewish tailor from Chorsel, Poland, and Pauline
Louise Françoise de Coppet” gave birth to Theodosia Goodman who gained fame as
Theda Bara, one of the first movie stars of the 20th century.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bara-theda
1890: As the
Cloakmakers Strike continued “a Russian Jew named Germain Oxehandler” was
arrested for attacking a clerk and labor leader Joseph Barondees went around
“repeating vague remarks about ‘streets flowing in gore.’”
1890: “A
Jewish Settlement” published today described the growth of Alliance over the
last eight years fo acres of wild brush in Salem County, NJ to a flourishing
village of 612 Jewish immigrants from Russia.
The Hebrew Aid Society helped them by the land which at the time sold
for $12 per acre but is now valued at more than $100 per acre thanks to the
efforts of the Jews.
1891: It was reported
today that Jesse Seligman and A.S. Solomons, Trustees of the Baron de Hirsh
Fund have told authorities that the apparently impoverished Jewish Immigrants
they are holding are in fact honest hard workers who were “robbed of all of
their money’ at the Russian border.
1891: NYU
Medical College trained physician Dr. George Moses Price, the native of Poltava married Anna Kopkin
after which he served as Health Department inspector in New York for nine years.
1892:
Birthdate of Russian born New York lawyer and CPA, Morris Talbot, the graduate
of CCNY who “worked with aliens for the Board of Education.”
1892: “The Vicar of Bray, “a comic opera by
Edward Solomon…opened at the Globe Theatre in London…for a run of only 69
performances.” “An 1892 revival at the
Savoy Theatre” last for 143 performances.
1892: Having
been thwarted in his first attempt to assassinate the manager of U.S. Steel,
anarchist Alexander “Berkman checked into a hotel under the name Rakhmetov, his
role model from What Is to Be Done?”
1893: A
reporter for the New York Times
visited the home of 32 year old Adolf Bruckman, whose grandfather had been the
chief rabbi at a city in Russian Poland and his family at a tenement on Ludlow
Street. The destitute family had been forced to leave Russia because of
imperial decrees that denied Bruckman of a chance to earn a living.
1894: “In
Berg, Kingdom of Bavaria, master baker Max Graf and his wife Therese (née
Heimrath) gave birth to author Oskar Maria Graf who was not Jewish but who was
the husband of “Mirjam Sachs, sister of Manfred George and cousin of Nelly
Sachs.
1894: In
Merkine, Lithuania Harris Abelow and Hannah Sarah Abeloff Abelow gave birth to
Brooklyn attorney Solomon Abelow, the husband of Anna R. Abelow.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E2DD1F3EEE3BBC4E51DFB466838E649EDE
1894:
Josephine and Henry Morgenthau, Sr. gave birth to Ruth Naumburg Knight
1894: “Jews at
Buckingham Palace” published today described a visit by the Austrian Archduke
to England where he was greeted by fifty of his subjects the royal home, forty
of here were Jewish. This should have
come as no so surprise since it is believe “that in Vienna there are no fewer
than 2,500 persons bearing the Jewish name of Kohn.”
1895: Wolf
Silverman was accompanied by his counsel Abraham Joseph when he was arraigned
on charges of having attempted to swindle the Empire Life Insurance Company.
1895: Seventy-eight-year-old
Rudolf von Geist, the Protestant leader of the Berlin society fighting
anti-Semitism who signed the Declaration of 75 Notables against Antisemitism in
1880, passed away today.
1896: Fourteen-year-old
Julius Henry had a fight with his 16 year old sister Dora following which he
told their parents of her secret marriage to George Webb, a twenty year old
non-Jew. Dora’s mother asked Webb to give her a divorce and when he
refused, her husband Isaac had him arrested on charges of abduction.
1896(12th
of Av, 5656): Julia Frank-Zeckendorf the native of Hanover whose marriage to
William Zeckndorf spawned a multi-generational real estate empire.
http://swja.arizona.edu/content/julia-frank-zeckendorf-1840-july-22-1896
1896: In
Baltimore, “Jacob I. and Lillie (Panitz) Levy gave birth to University of
Maryland trained attorney who began serving as “Assistant Attorney General of
Maryland” in 1923.
1896: Herzl
visits Karlsbad, where he obtains an audience with Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria. The prince is a well-connected “royal” who will actually sit on the
Bulgarian throne. This appears to be one
more attempt on Herzl’s part to use influence and connection to create the
Jewish homeland.
1897(22nd
of Tammuz, 5657): Seventy-five-year-old Lewis May, President of Temple Emanu-El
passed away this morning at Dobbs Ferry.
1897: In a very emotional manner, Vice President
James Seligman announced at special meeting of the Board of Trustees of Temple
Emanu-El that their President, Lewis May had passed away following which
resolutions of expressing condolence to the family were adopted by the Board.
1898: In Týniště,
Czech Republic, Julius Zentner, the son of Sara and Aron Adolf Zentner and his
wife Emilie Zentner gave birth Arnost Zentner, the husband of Irma Zentner who
died at Auschwitz some time between 1942 and 1945.
1899(15th
of Av, 5659): Tu B’Av
1899: It was
reported today that Oscar S. Straus, the Minister to Turkey, is a member of the
United States Section of The International Congress of History.
1899:
Austrian-born German film producer Heinrich Nebenzal and his wife gave birth to
American-born German film producer who was forced to flee Germany along with
his father when the Nazis came to power and who “produced 46 films between 1927
and 1961.”
1899: Joseph
Reinach writes from Paris to explain that while the story of Captain Dreyfus
appears to be complicated, it is really quite simple because “it confines
itself to the manner in which the bordereau the work of Esterhazy has been
attributed to Dreyfus.”
1900(17th
of Tammuz, 5662): Tzom Tammuz
1900:
Birthdate of Frankfurt native Maurcie Dossenhim Isenberg who came to the United
States in 1925 where he worked as radiologist and served as President of the St
John X-Ray service.
1900: Today Edgar Goldberg, the Delta, LA born son of
Caroline Manheim and Moses Goldberg who was raised in the Jewish Orphan Home in
New Orleans and had begun his career as printer’s apprentice on the Jewish Spectator
in Memphis married Esther Ruppin before going on to founding the Texas Jewish
Herald which he served as publisher and editor while being a member of
Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, TX.
1901(6th
Av, 5661): According to some sources, in Nachod, Bohemia, seventy-seven-year-old
textile manufacturer Isaac Mautner passed away today.
1901: In
Denver, CO, “Juda Eisten Lasky” and “Ida Grossman Lasky” gave birth to mining
engineer Samuel Grossman Lasky, a graduate of the Colorado School Mines and the
holder of an MS from Yale.
1902: Herzl and Wolffsohn leave for
Constantinople with hopes that the Sultan will support a Jewish Homeland in the
Ottoman Empire. The trip did not go well
as can be seen when Herzl writes his conclusions when the visit ends on August
5.
1903: “Plehve
Threatens the Jews” published today described a meeting today between
representatives of the Jewish population of Kishinev who had just suffered a
pogrom and Russian Minister of the Interior and Vyacheslav von Plehve who said
that “If we find he anti-Government movement among the Jews does not cease…we
shall be obliged to get rid of you” and “we shall facilitate your emigration”
by excluding “all Jews from the schools” thus rendering your “lives in Russia
impossible.”
1903: Francis
Lewis Cardozo, the first African American to hold statewide office in South
Carolina passed away today. The son
Isaac Cardozo, a Sephardic Jew working in the customhouse in Charleston and
Lydia Weston, a free black woman, Cardozo’s life reads more like a novel than
anything else. He was raised as a
Christian and is the “Cardozo” in Washington, DC’s Cardozo Senior High School.
1904:
Birthdate of New Yorker Pincus “Pinky” match the All-American CCNY basketball
player.
1904: Today,
in a second day of violence in Ostrovetz, “300 factory hands entered the town
to follow up the fight, the police directed the Jews to remain indoors which
did not keep the workmen from stoning the houses of the Jews of whom they
wounded ten and killed one.
1905(19th
of Tammuz, 5665): Parashat PInchas
1905: In
Vilnius, Sarah and Benjamin Hurtwitz gave birth to Yehsiva University professor
Abraham B. Hurwitz, the holder of bachelor’s from CCNY, an MA from Columbia and
Ph.D. from NYU and city recreation director under Mayor La Guardia “who
entertained more than a million people as New York City’s official magician”
and who raised to daughters with “his wife, the former Ann Ritz of Hallandale…”
1905: It was
reported today that “three books dealing with the Jews” – The Hebrew Prophet
by Loring W. Batten, The Religion of Israel: A Historical Sketch by the
Reverend R.L. Otley and The Jewish Spectre by George H. Warner—are
scheduled “to appear shortly in the United States.
1906: Today
Jews in Odessa are braced for another outbreak of violence after a drunken
Cossack who had “wandered through the Jewish quarter brandishing his saber,
shouting ‘death to the Jews,’ and actually striking “an old Jews” was killed in
the ensuing melee which led the authorities to “charge the entire Jewish
population with premediated murder.”
1907(11th of
Av): Rabbi Isaac Blaser, leader of the Musar movement and the author of Peri
Yizhak, passed away
1908:
Officials of the symphony orchestra in Pittsburgh said that Walter Damrosch of
the New York Symphony had been one of those who had raided their organization
and succeeded in getting violinist Victor Kolar to join his organization.
1909: The
Republic of Paraugay, whose Jewish population was bolstered by Sephardi Jews
emigrating from Palestine before World War I, “enacted its first compulsory
education law” today.
1910: Leo
Ascher, the Vienna born son of umbrella manufacturer Mortiz Ascher and husband
of Luise Frankel who would be arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938,
wrote another 30 stage works, among them
Vindobona, du herrliche Stadt” which was performed today in Vienna.
1910: The City
of Tracy, CA was incorporated today.
https://www.recordnet.com/article/20031219/A_NEWS/312199963
1911(26th
of Tammuz, 5671): Parashat Matot-Masei and the Jews complete the reading of the
book of Numbers as the “summer season” in France is threatened by an outbreak
of Cholera
1912(8th
of Av, 5672): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1912: The Summer Olympics in which Abel
Kiviat “won a silver medal in the 1500-meter race” came to a close today in
Stockholm.
1912: The
Summer Olympics, during which Jacques Ochs whose teammates included fellow Jew
Gaston Salomon, won a gold medal in the team épée event came to an end today in
Stockholm.
1913(17th of
Tammuz, 5673): Tzom Tammuz
1913: Two days
after he had passed funeral services are scheduled to be held for Abram A. Rich
at his home in Sound Beach, CT.
1913: Two days
after she had passed, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Amailia
Shongut, the widow of William Shongut and mother of New York Coroner Jacob
Shongut with interment at Mt. Nebo Cemetery.
1914: “The
first co-operative conference of Jewish farmers ever held in New York State”
opened today at Utica, NY.
1914: Before
the visit of his daughter Anna to Britain which was to be chaperoned by Ernest
Jones, Sigmund Freud wrote, “She does not claim to be treated as a woman, being
still far away from sexual longings and rather refusing man. There is an
outspoken understanding between me and her that she should not consider
marriage or the preliminaries before she gets two or three years older".
“A tentative romance between Anna” and Jones who became Freud’s official
biographer, “did not survive” Freud’s “disapproval.”
1915: State
prison authorities believe that Leo M. Frank’s condition is “steadily
improving” and that he “practically out of danger.”
1915: At
Milledgeville, GA, “Charles Miller, a convict from Atlanta was stabbed across
the abdomen by Frank Reid, a life from Columbus” it what was rumored to be “a
quarrel over the Leo Frank case.”+
1915:
According to reports published today J.W. Creen, the man who tried to murder
Leo Frank at the state prison camp “reads incessantly…does not like to be
disturbed and smokes constantly.”
1915(11th
of Av, 5675): Eighty-four-year-old Abraham S. Adler, “a Baltimore merchant”
passed away today after which he was interred at the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery
in Baltimore MD.
1915: “Our
Betters” by Somerset Maugham, “the first manuscript of a play to come from the
war zone was received by the Charles Frohman Company” today after having been
“passed by the center” and sent on to New York because Charles Frohman had
contracted for the play before he passed away.
1916: Dr. Leon
Motzkin addressed “an enthusiastic crowd” tonight that had gathered to honor
the memory of Dr. Theodor Herzl at Cooper Union at meeting organized by the
Zionist Council of Greater New York which is led by its President, Morris
Rothenberg.
1916: “Details
of the proposed Congress of Jews were discussed by committees representing the
Jewish Congress Organization and the Conference of American National Jewish
Organizations at an executive session” today but no agreement was reached on
date to hold the meeting the Congress of Jews.
1917(3rd
of Av, 5677): Sixty-nine year old Henry Bachrach, the Baltimore born son of
Aaron and Augusta Straus Bachrach, who worked in Washington, D.C., Wheeling,
W.Va. and Chicago before opening Kaufman and Bachrach, a highly successful
clothing store in Decatur, Illinois where he and his wife, the former Matilda
Hamburger raised three sons – John, Louis and Charles who became a physician –
passed away today in “Charlevioix, Michigan” after which he was buried in
Decatur, Illinois.
1917(3rd
of Av, 5677): Clifton, UK, native Alfred Mosely, “one of the earliest settlers
in Kimberly, SA” who provided aide “for the sick and wounded” during the Boer
War and who led a study examining “the American methods of education” passed
away today in London.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Mosely%2C%20Alfred%2C%201855-1917
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057876480000041
1917: In
Russia, Kerensky, the Jewish former Minister of War became the premier. After
the Czar abdicated, he took over the Russian government and formed a liberal
provisional government, which lasted four months. Although well intentioned, he
was not a strong leader and couldn't negotiate between the subversive forces
between right and left. His government would be ousted by Lenin, ending
Russia’s brief flirtation with Western style democracy.
1917: Today,
at a meeting of the Foreign Jews’ Protection Committed, resolutions were
adopted that stated, “in view of the announced intention of the British
Government to refuse facilities to families of Russian subjects of military age
to accompany them to Russia” these men will refuse to leave their families
behind or be forced to serve in the Russian Army.”
1917: As of
today, Chaim Weizmann had left Great Britain “on a secret mission to Spain on
behalf of the British government in order to meet Henry Morganthau former
American Ambassador to Turkey” who was “heading East in order to implement a
plan he has conceived to ‘remove Turkey from the war.’”
1918: Today
CCNY graduate Louis Maurice Josephthal, the New York born son Theresa Wise and
Moritz Josephthal and the husband future husband of Edyth Guggenheim began
serving as assistant to the Supply officer at the fleet supply based of the
United States Nave.
1918: British
General Allenby approved a town-planning scheme for Jerusalem complete with an
expanded road network, new parks and municipal and residential buildings.
1918(13th
of Av, 5678): Bernard Selling who was a member of a Special Committee Appointed
by the Association of the Bar of the City of Detroit in 1916 passed away today
in Detroit.
1918(13th
of Av, 5678): Rachel Goldberg passed away today in New York.
1919: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in Chicago for “Mrs. Bertha Jones,” the
“mother of Louis J. and Aaron J. Jones.”
1919: Bernard
Richards, the Secretary of the delegation from American Jewish Congress to the
Peace Conference who had “expressed his satisfaction with the work done in
Paris for the protection of Jewish rights” was on the third day of his trip
back to New York aboard the SS Loraine.
1920: This
evening, in London, Justice Brandeis of the United States chaired the closing
session of the Zionist Conference
1920:
Establishment of Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund)
1921: Winston
Churchill, Lloyd George and Lord Balfour met with Chaim Wiezmann at Balfour’s
House in London in an attempt “to reassure Wiezmann that British policy in
support of the Balfour Declaration and the Jewish home in Palestine had not
changed.”
1921:
Birthdate of Phillip Burgher, a native of Niles, Illinois who served in World
War II.
1921(16th of
Tammuz, 5681): Artist Helena Horwitz passed away today in London. (She is not
to be confused with the Shoah survivor of the same name)
1922:
Birthdate of Jack Weiner, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who enlisted in
the Army “despite being excused from the draft” and reached the rank of Staff
Sergeant while serving as a navigator with the 345th Bombardment
Group of the USAAF.
1922: The
League of Nations Council confirmed the British Palestine Mandate. The Balfour
Declaration is part of the terms of the mandate.
1922: “The
most notable reaction” to the assassination of Walther Rathenau “was the
enactment of the Republikschutzgesetz (Law for the Defense of the Republic)”
which took effect today.
1923(9th of
Av, 5683): Tisha B”Av is observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Warren Harding.
1924: The
Olympics which featured the victories by runner Harold Abrahams continued today
in Paris.
1925:
Birthdate of Benjamin Kahane, the husband of Lorelle Kahane and father of
Debbie who served in WWII and was the Sr. Vice President of Industrial
Relations at MGM.
1925: In the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Jewish Ukrainian refugees Harry and Diana
(Drozdik) Sandler gave birth to “Irving Sandler, an art critic who drew on his
extensive relationships with living artists to compile authoritative histories
of Abstract Expressionism and the artistic movements that followed…” (As
reported by William Grimes)
1925:
“Sympathy with the Jews of America in their efforts to erect a monument to the
memory of Hyam Salomon, one of the America Revolution,” is scheduled to “be
expressed in a resolution to be introduced at the first session of the
convention of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernian” which
opens this morning in Atlantic City.
1926: Cantor
Moshe Nathanson, the son of Rosa and Nachum Nathanson, and his wife Zipporah
Nathanson gave birth to Yaron Gary Nathanson, a World War II army veteran,
holder of two degrees from the University of Wisconsin who “enjoyed a long
career in the theatre.
1926: Jacob
Fishman, managing editor of the “Jewish Morning Journal,” is supposed to be one
of the attendees at the Zionist Action Committee Meeting scheduled to start
today in London.
1927(22nd of Tammuz, 5687):
Thirty-seven year old Julius Drachsler the Czech born son of Jacob and
Charlotte Newgeboren Drachsler, who, at the age of 14 came to the United States
where he earned a BS at CCNY and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia after which he
became an Assistant Professor of Sociology and CCNY and wrote Democracy and
Assimilation and Intermarriage in New York City passed away today
after which he was interred at the Riverside Cemetery in Saddle Brook, NJ>
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/253331
1927: The convention of Palestine Jewish Labor
Federation which had been meeting in Tel Aviv for the past fortnight comes to
an end. The convention adopted several
resolutions including ones calling for greater freedom for Jews to immigrate to
Palestine and more aggressive government action to deal with the problems of
unemployment.
1927: Birthdate of Israeli Mathematician
Michael Bahir Maschler known for his contributions to the field of game theory
1928: As rumors swirl around Dr. Harris and his
intention to resign as the New York City Health Commission, he denied that “he
was contemplating a journey to Palestine, as a special high commissioner of the
Zionist organization.
1929: The Hebrew University at Jerusalem is
being assisted by Julian Clarence Levi, New York architect, in its building
program.
1930(27th of Tammuz, 5690):
Fifty-four-year-old New York native, veteran of WW I and Columbia trained
surgeon Walter Max Brickner passed away today.
1931: The 27th annual convention of
the Progressive of the West is scheduled to open today at the Jefferson Hotel
in St. Louis.
1931(8th of Av, 5691): As Jews
prepared to observe Tisha’ B’Av a seven power conference in London that was
reviewing the crumbling economic conditions in Germany (which would lead to the
rise of Hitler) continued to meet for a third day.
1931: Today, the government informed the union
of bus owners and chauffeurs “that the Secretary of State for the Colonies had
been requested to approve proposals for the relief of the Palestine transportation industry including
the missions of taxes.”
1932: Birthdate of New York City native and
attorney Jack Schwartzman who married Talia Sire after divorcing his first wife
Judith Deborah Feldman and who as an executive at Lorimar Fims where he
produced several films including “Never Say Never Again” and “Rad.”
1932: The funeral for Hannah Aronson, the wife
of Dr. Samuel Aronson and mother of Jesse and Lester Aronson is scheduled to
take place this afternoon at Flatbush Memorial Chapel.
1932: The funeral for Max Warley Platzek, the
former Justice of the New York Supreme Court is scheduled to take place this
after at the Universal Funeral Parlors on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
1932: The funeral of Esther Strauss, the mother
of Benjamin and Jacob Strauss is scheduled to take place this morning in New
York City.
1933: A report issued today by Isaac L.
Asofsky, the general manager of the HIAS showed an increase in activities
during the six months ended June 30 which are attributed to the Nazi rise to
power in Germany.
1933(28th of Tammuz, 5693): Parashat
Mataot-Masei
1934(10th of Av, 5694):Tish'a B'Av observed
1934: Dr. Solomon Deutsch, a Bronx Dentist and
a leader of the JNF, and his family are scheduled to set sail today for
Palestine where they plan on settling at Netanya. (As reported by JTA)
1936: The Palestine Post reported that the insurrection of Monarchists
and Fascists in Spain was gaining momentum and was seriously threatening the
democratic regime. Arabs killed Abraham Donagi, a watchman at Even Yehuda, and
severely wounded Abraham Bauer in Jerusalem. Bombs exploded in Jaffa and the
Iraqi Petroleum Co. pipeline was severely damaged. All this was part of the
on-going Arab Riots aimed at destroying the Jewish community in Palestine.
1936: Maurice P. Davidson, the “former chairman
of the City Fusion Party called attention to a typographical error in a
statement by him which should have read “The good intentions of the Republicans
are not to be doubted.” (The original quote left out the “not.”)
1936: A British
soldier was killed in an Arab ambush near Tulkarm. Arab attacks were reported
from Ein Harod and Kfar Yehezkel. Arabs celebrated the 100th day of their
insurrection with demonstrations, calls for prayer and donations. But the Arab
Nashashibi Party proposed that the Arab Higher Committee should resign as a
protest against the non-fulfillment of their promises and leave the people to
decide the fate of their prolonged general strike by themselves.
1937: “The Toast of
New York” a fictionalized biopic about two 19th century robber
barons based in part on Robber Barons by Mathew Josephson with music by
Nathaniel Shilkret and featuring Thelma Leeds as “Fleurique” was released in
the United States today.
1937: Today, “Mayor La Guardia accepted an
invitation from Dr. Anna W. Hochfelder, the President of the Brooklyn division
of the American Jewish Congress” to attend the division’s outing being held in
August.
1937:”A protest against the possible transfer of
American Jews from their present homes in Palestine to other parts of the
country by British decree was made on the floor of the Senate” today by
Illinois Senator J. Hamilton Lewis.
1938: Radio station WABC is scheduled to broadcast
an episode of “The Goldbergs” at one o’clock this afternoon.
1938: Executive director Zelig Tygel announced today
that “A total of 99,909 zlotys, or nearly $20,000 was received by the Jewish
cooperative loans in Poland during June from the special ‘iron fund’ sent to
Poland by the American Committee Appeal for the Jews in Poland” an organization
whose “purposes are to strengthen Jewish cooperative loan funds and help
establish new cooperatives.”
1938: Radio Station WHN is scheduled to broadcast
services from Temple Emanuel for an hour this evening starting at 5:15.
1939(6th of Av, 5699): Seventy-one-year-old
Vilna born Rabbi Louis Lazerow, the “founder of Congregation Beth Hamedrosh
Hagodol on Rutgers Street in New York” and author of “32 religious works”
including “The Voice of Judea” and “The Jewish Speaker” who was the husband of
“the former Sarah Kaplan” and the father of three daughters and two sons –
Samuel and Elihu, “a high school teacher in Brooklyn” passed away today
1939(6th of Av, 5699): Parashat Devarim;
Shabbat Chazon
1939(6th of Av, 5699): Forty-seven-year-old
Dr. I.E. Greenberg the Long Island College Hospital trained surgeon and the
Captain in the Medical Corps who during WW I “had charge of Evacuation Hospital
21 at the front and of an American Base Hospital in Paris who was the husband
of Hattie Mahler Greenberg and the father of Barbara Greenberg passed away
today.
1939:
Eichmann’s Central Office for Emigration, (of Jews) in Prague, officially
opened.
1939: In
Petah-Tikva Max Alexandrowitz, a Jewish immigrant from Germany who was killed
by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman in Haifa and his wife Chaya,
whose entire family would perish in the Holocaust gave birth to Gila
Alexandrowitz who gained fame as Gila Almagor the actress and author “known as
the ‘Queen of the Israeli cinema and theatre.’”
1940:
Birthdate of “Judith Walzer Leavitt, the Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier
Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women's Studies at
the University of Wisconsin–Madison.”
https://medhist.wisc.edu/faculty/leavitt/index.shtml
1940: In
France, the Deputy Secretary of State at Vichy “created a committee to review
500,000 naturalizations give since 1927” which “resulted in 15,000 people
having their French nationality revoked, of whom 40% were Jews” preparing the
way for the first round of deportation of Jews living in France to “the East.”
1941: Fifty-one-year-old
Russian born and Kiev University graduate Solomon Cutler, the director of the
budget department of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies of New York passed away today.
1941(27th
of Tammuz, 5701): Sixty-five-year-old Isaac Ipp, “a dress manufacturer,
president of Henry Dress, Inc. and longtime Zionist who was “chairman of the
Boro Park United Palestine Appeal Committee, founder and a director of the
Israel Zion Hospital in Brooklyn and President of Temple Emanu-El of Boro Park.
1941:
“Fregattenkapitän Dr. Hans Kawelmacher the German naval commandant in Liepāja
sent a telegram to the German Navy's Baltic Command in Kiel, which stated that
he wanted 100 SS and fifty Schutzpolizei ("protective police") men
sent to Liepāja for "quick implementation Jewish problem" which meant
the “accelerated killing” of the Jews.
1941 France's
Vichy government adopted an ordinance requiring the “registration of ‘Jewish’
businesses.”
1941: France’s
Vichy government adopted an ordinance completely excluding “Jews from commerce
and industry.”
1941: France’s
Vichy government adopted an ordinance excluding those of “Jewish heritage” from
serving as administrators.
1942: In
Tashkent, “the great Uzbex singer Yunus Rajabi” and his wife gave birth to
“Khassan Rajabi, the singer who “directs the museum dedicated to his father”
and who is the brother of Tohir Rjaby.
https://www.last.fm/music/Yunus+Rajabi/+wiki
1942: On the day before Tisha B’Av German
authorities and Ukrainian and Latvian guards in SS uniforms surround the walls
of the Warsaw Ghetto. Six thousand Warsaw Jews were told to gather for
deportation. Over the next seven weeks as many as 300,000 Jews would be sent by
train to the three gas chambers of Treblinka. The railway master at Treblinka
was notified of a shuttle line being set up between Warsaw and its railroad
station for "Settlers.” THIS WAS THE LARGEST SLAUGHTER OF ANY SINGLE
COMMUNITY DURING THE HOLOCAUST. From July 22 through September 12, 1942: 4,000
Warsaw Jews per day would be gassed in Treblinka. Only those with special cards
stamped with ‘Operation Reihnard', an eagle and the swastika were saved from
deportation. Resisters or those taking flight would be shot on the spot by
Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians and German SS officers. Orphanages, children
homes, hospitals, were all emptied. Each train was comprised of sixty cars.
Each car was packed with human cargo.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/12.asp
1942: “When
(Gerhard) Richter obtained Mihai Antonescu's assent to the deportation of the
Jews to the extermination camps in Poland, the clandestine Jewish Council
immediately learned of the details of the deportation program and used personal
contacts to achieve the repeal of the agreement.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1942: Royal
Canadian Air Force fighter pilot George Beurling, who would die while flying
for the Israeli Air Force in 1948, lost his best friend in Malta,
French-Canadian Pilot Jean Paradis
1943: Because
the U.S. State Department continues to delay any action on the Riegner Plan to
save 70,000 Jews, American Rabbi Stephen Wise pleads with President Franklin
Roosevelt to support the plan. Roosevelt allows the plan to be killed because
of "strenuous British objections."
1944: German
troops withdraw from Parczew Forest, Poland, the site of numerous Nazi searches
for Jewish fugitives and partisans.
1944: Survivors
of a July 13 mass execution of Jewish slave laborers at Bialystok, Poland,
reach Red Army lines after crawling for nine nights.
1944: Samuel
Klein, who had been “transported to Auschwitz” escaped, spending “the night in
the fields, where some Christian Poles, also fugitives, helped him flee.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-founder-of-brazils-largest-retail-chain-dies/
1944: The Red
Army occupied Chelm. The 68,000 Jews left in Vilna hope the Soviets will arrive
before the Nazis can finish them off.
1944: During
the so-called “Blood for Goods” negotiations Edmund Veesenmayer a member of the
SS sent a cable to the German Foreign Office stating that Joel Brand and Andor
Grosz had been sent to Turkey on the orders of Himmler
1945:
Birthdate of award-winning British biochemist Sir Philip Cohen.
1945: “Rabbi
James G. Heller of the United Palestine Appeal in the United States” tonight
“described British rule in Palestine as iniquitous in a speech delivered at
farewell dinner in his honor” and he declare that while he admires the British
people “he was amazed by the injustice of the Palestine administration which he
has witnessed here.” (JTA)
1946: The
Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The King David was the
headquarters of the British civil and military administration. Ninety people,
including Jews, lost their lives. The Irgun, led by Menachem Begin, claimed
that they had called ahead to warn of the bombing. The British denied receiving
any such call. The Jewish Agency, the de facto government of the Jews in
Palestine and other Jewish leaders, denounced the attack. There was a
"moment of mourning" on July 23 as the Jewish community paused to
honor the dead. The attack marked a split between the recently agreed to
alliance between the Haganah and the Irgun. What is amazing about the response
of the Jewish community was that in the weeks prior to the bombing the British
had imprisoned all a couple of the leaders of the Jewish Agency and seized its
records in an attempt to squelch the Zionist movement. However terrible the
British occupation was, the terrorism of the Irgun was not to be the Jewish
answer.
1947:
“Crossfire,” “a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of
anti-Semitism” based on The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks, featuring
Sam Levene as “Joseph Samuels “premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York
City” today.
1947: “In
Beverly Hills, California, Thelma Leeds (née Goodman), a singer and actress,
and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio
program and was known as Parkyakarkus gave birth to Albert Lawrence Einstein
who changed his name to Albert “Al” Brooks after leaving college in the late
1960’s to become a comedian, director and actor who was nominated for an
Academy Award for his role as the “nebbish newsman” in Broadcast News. His
performance in “Concussion” was a tour de force in which he played a role
totally different role than normally associated with his comedic skills.
1947: “Among
the passengers boarding the” British “prison ship Empire Lifeguard at Cyprus”
were “American sailors from the Hatikvah and a Palestinian with an unassembled
bomb.” (Editor’s note – at this time the term Palestinian applied to the Jews
living the territory that would become the state of Israel a year later.)
1948: The
Israelis opened the refineries at Haifa.
They had been closed since the British shut them down on April 26 in the
waning days of the Mandate.
1949: U.S.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas today revealed here that he was
“converted to Zionism” by the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis saying in Haifa
that “I pledge to continue my sympathies for Israel and to do whatever I can
for its welfare.” (As reported by JTA)
1949: In New
York dentist Norman Menkin and his wife Judith gave birth to composer Alan
Irwin Menken who won Academy Awards for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the
Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas.
1950(8th
of Av, 5710): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1950(8th
of Av, 5710: Eighty-four-year-old Mrs. Mary Joseph, the widow of Henry Joseph
and mother of Jacob, Lewis, Irving, Benjamin and Sidney Joseph who was a
founder and former president of the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society of Greenpoint
passed away today.
1950: Captain
Moshe Idelovitch, Assistant Superintendent of Police in Israel said that “Arab
infiltration of Israeli territory could be stopped within twenty-four hours if
Jordan cooperated.” Captain Idelovitch is commander of the Petah Tigva area,
where most of the border marauders and murderers penetrate.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that
69-year-old King Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was assassinated
inside al-Aksa Mosque in the Jordanian-held Old City of Jerusalem. Emir Naif,
his second son, was declared regent. King Abdullah was known for his efforts to
reach an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. In his memoirs he wrote: "I have
been astonished at what I saw of the Jewish settlements: They have colonized
sand dunes, drawn water from them, and transformed them into paradise..."
1951: As ceremonies were being planned for the
burial of King Abdullah of Jordan in Amman, the Arab Legion turned the
Jordanian-occupied Old City of Jerusalem into an armed camp in pursuit of the
suspected Palestinian assassins.
1951: Israel observed the 47th anniversary of
Theodore Herzl's death with a solemn ceremony held on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
1951: White Sox pitcher Marv Rotblatt appeared in
his last major league game.
1951: Eighty-four-year-old of Dr.
Edward Alsworth Ross, who had been fired by Stanford University for his racist
views when it came to Chinese and Japanese immigration and who stirred up
similar controversy at the University of Wisconsin when wrote magazine articles
attacking the Jews including “Jews of Eastern Europe in America” which
contained the charge that Jews in America “are the greatest criminals” passed
away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9802E5D71638E633A25754C0A9669D946596D6CF
1952: In Washington, DC David Brinkley and his wife
gave birth to Joel Graham Brinkley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times from 1988 to 1991.
1953: In Newburyport, MA, Etta Feigenbaum and Fred
Bernstein gave birth to Academy for Jewish Religion ordained rabbi Ellen Sue
Bernstein, “a river guide turned rabbi who blazed a spiritual trail in the
environmental movement by undergirding it with the Hebrew Bible’s veneration of
nature” the wife clinical social worker and psychotherapist Steven Tenenbaum. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
https://beta.remembermyjourney.com/memorials/ellen-sue-bernstein?id=JAyDN2rJ\
https://www.ellenbernstein.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/science/rabbi-ellen-bernstein-dead.html?searchResultPosition=4
1954: Premiere of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” directed
by Stanley Donen with music co-authored by Saul Chaplin.
1954: In Brooklyn, bookkeeper “Dora Hart and Sam
Seidenberg, a garment worker” gave birth to Miachel Richard Seidenbergm, the
husband of Nicky Roe and founder of “Brazenhead Books” (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)
1955: The Empire Lifeguard, a Royal Navy
Castle-class corvette that had been part of the ships that kept Jewish
immigrants from entering Palestine in 1947 arrived at Antwerp today where she
was to be scrapped.
1955: It was reported today Connecticut Governor
Abraham had “seriously considered eliminating the boxing commission the Nutmeg
State.”
1957: Birthdate of Jonathan Michael "Jon"
Lovitz, the native of Los Angeles whose big break came when appeared on
Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990.
1959: “At Fort Sheridan, in Highland
Park, Illinois,Sonya Lee (née Edelman) and Army psychiatrist Mark Weiss Shulkin
gave birth to Dr. Mark Shulkin, an M.D. specializing “in health care management
and President Trump’s choice to serve as the 9th United States
Secretary of Veterans Affairs who is married “to dermatologist Merle Bari with
whom he had two children – Daniel and Jennifer, the winner of “a gold medal in
squash at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.”
1960: The movie version of
the Broadway comedy “the Tunnel of Love” produced by Martin Meclcher and Joseph
Fields who also wrote the script was released today in France.
1961(9th of Av, 5721): Parashat Deavrim; Shabbat
Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the
first time during the Presidency of JFK.
1964: “Marnie” a Hitchcock mystery co-starring Diane
Baker and Martin Gabel with a score by Bernard Herrmann was released in the
United States by Universal Pictures.
1965(22nd of Tammuz, 5725):
Sixty-six-year-old Isaac Aronoff, the “founder of the Airequipt Company and the
Joel and Aronoff Embroidery Company” who was the husband of Miriam Aronoff, the
father of David Aronoff and “a supporter of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth”
passed away today while a patient at Mount Sinai Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/07/23/101557737.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1965: It was reported today that Aryeh Louis Pincus,
the fifty-three native of South Africa who has been named to serve as the
acting chairman of the Jewish Agency following the death of Moshe Sharett, is
expected to be named to permanent chairman “when the General Zionist Council
meets in about six months.”
1966: “After being nominated by President Lyndon
Johnson to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit created by 80 Stat. 75 Irving Loeb Goldberg was confirmed by the United
States Senate today “and received his commission the same day.”
1967(14th of Tammuz, 5727): Parashat
Pinchas
1967(14th of Tammuz, 5727: Eighty-one-year-old
Ontario, Canada born, NYU trained lawyer, Jonah Goldstein who began his
political career as a secretary for Al Smith and rose to become a Judge of the
General Session Court while raising a family with “former Harriet B.
Lowenstein” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/07/23/93868758.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1967: Poet
Carl Sandburg passes away. Sandburg was
not Jewish. In 1999 a group of
previously unknown Sandburg poems was published. The collection included a poem entitled “To
Jacob M. Loeb” that contains the same raw power of such poems as “Chicago” –
the one that begins:
“Hog Butcher for the World
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat...”
“To Jacob M. Loeb” has that same kind of elemental
power, but takes on the form of a letter challenging Loeb. Before reading it, a little background is in
order courtesy of the Chicago Jewish Historical Society. Loeb was a real person. He was born in Chicago to German-Jewish
parents who had enjoyed economic success.
Loeb himself went into the insurance business where he too was quite
successful. The Loeb’s were active in
the community giving both of their time and their money. Loeb’s mother worked a B’nai Brith type
organization that provided educational and recreational opportunities for the
children of Chicago’s immigrant (largely eastern European) population. Along with the famous Julius Rosenwald, Loeb
helped to found the Jewish Institute and followed Rosenwald in the
presidency. Loeb was a major fund raiser
in the fight to aid the Jews of Europe during and after World War I. Loeb was also active in the civic affairs of
the city of Chicago. In 1914 he was
appointed to School Board and later became President of that body. And that is the source of the conflict
described in the poem. During Loeb’s
time on the board, the school teachers went on strike for the right to unionize. Loeb led the successful fight to give the
board the right to fire any teacher who joined the union. Sandburg could not understand how a Jew,
whose people had a history of being part of the downtrodden, could turn on the
working class once they had money and power.
He saw Loeb’s behavior as a betrayal of his Jewish origins. The poem is not anti-Semitic. There were plenty of Jews among the ranks of
the teachers and the poem sites by name several Jewish labor leaders. The conflict between the teachers and the
school district highlighted an anomaly of Jewish history that was seen most
often in the garment industry. The
owners were Jewish (usually Germans who arrived earlier) and the workers were
also Jewish (eastern Europeans.) The
strike at Hart, Shaftner and Marx had pitted Jewish owners against Jewish
garment workers. The poem highlights
this dichotomy. Sandburg wanted to
believe that Jews, of all people, would, once they had power and influence,
support the less fortunate and not, in his view “sell out.” He was expressing the same kind of outrage
that other generations of Jews have expressed over southern Jews owning
slaves. How could the descendants of
Pharaoh’s chattel take other human beings as chattel. Since the purpose of these little daily
exercises is to provide some context as well as raw information about Jewish
history, you will find the poem quoted in its entirety below. Those who know me, know that I am a fan of
Sandburg’s so this poem took on special meaning for me.
“To Jacob M. Loeb:
You are one of the Jews sore at Georgia for the way
they hanged Leo Frank and called him a damned Jew
there in Atlanta.
And you’re talking a lot about liberty and the
rights
of school children.
You came from Kovno in Russia and you ought to
know something about liberty;
And how school boards, police boards, military
boards and czars have gone on year after year
To choke the Jews from having societies,
organizations, labor unions,
Shoving bayonets into the faces of the Jews and
driving them to the ghettoes.
You know what I mean. You know these European
cities where they call the Jews a despised race;
And anybody who spits in a Jew’s face is not
touched by the police.
D’ye get me? I’m reminding you what you already
know.
You’re the man who is leading the school board
fight on the Teachers’ Federation.
And you forget, your memory slips, your heart
doesn’t picture
How you and your fathers were spit upon in the
face.
And how the soldiers and police misused your
women––
Just because they were Jews, and in Kovno
Anybody could get away with what they did to a
Jew woman or a Jew girl;
And now you, a Jew stand up here in Chicago and
act proud
Because you have in effect spit in the faces of
Chicago women, accused them, belittled them.
First you tried to cut their wages, back here in
May,
a seven-and-a-half per cent cut,
And now you’re going to make it a law that teachers
can’t have a labor union;
And they got to take what you and Rothmann and
Myer Stein hand ‘em.
I don’t think you’ll get away with it.
Sam Gompers, an English Jew, will speak tonight at
the Auditorium,
And Jacob LeBosky and Sam Alschuler and other
Jews in this town
Are against the game of shackling the teachers and
repeating Kovno and Kiev and Odessa here in Chicago.
In fact, five hundred Jews are already in revolt at
your Kovno trick
Of slamming the door on the free speech at the
Hebrew Institute.
These five hundred are the real blood of the Jew
race
That give it a clean flame of heroism.
You belong with the trash of history, the oppressors
and the killjoys.
1968: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at “The Riverside” for Rose Goodman,
the widow of Elias Goodman with whom she had four children – Elsie, Florence, Natalie,
Rita and Stanley Goodman.
1970(18th
of Tammuz, 5730): Seventy-eight-year-old Austrian actor and director Fritz
Kortner who spent the Nazi era in the United States but returned to Germany
after the war to pursue his career passed away today in Munich.
http://forward.com/the-assimilator/163533/the-jewish-actor-who-would-not-be-intimidated/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fritz-Kortner
1970(18th
of Tammuz, 5730): Forty-eight-year-old Eugene Gurkoff, the WW II veteran and
manufacturing executive who was the husband of Louis Buch Gurkoff passed away
today after which he was buried in his
hometown of Harrisburg, PA.
1970(18th
of Tammuz, 5730): Eighty-seven-year-old Moishe Chaim Boorstein, the Ukraine born
“son of Yechezkel Boorstein and Pessia Boorstein, the husband of Toby Boorstein
and father of Pearl Boorstein and William Boorstein” passed away today.
1972: Follies, a musical with music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman, opened at the Shubert Theatre in
Century City, CA.
1972(11th
of Av, 5732): Shabbat Nachamu
1972(11th of Av, 5732): Sixty-nine-year-old Max Aub, the Parisian
born author whose shifting citizenship from French to Spanish to Mexican
mirrored his changing literary and political fortunes passed away today.
http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/03/max-aub%E2%80%99s-civil-war-in-english/
1973(22nd
of Tammuz, 1973): Ninety-five-year-old Zvi Nishri the native of Russia who
began teaching physical education in Palestine in 1908 and as a founder of the
Maccabi movement passed away today.
1974(3rd
of Av. 5734): Seventy-two year old actress, the Hungarian born daughter of
“Alexander and Berta (Freiberger) Darvis who performed on the stage and in
films in Europe and the United States who may be best remembered for
co-starring as the grandmother in the “Long Distance Call,” an episode of “The
Twilight Zone” passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lili-darvas
1975: “The Presidents
Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations and National Conference on
Soviet Jewry issued a joint statement opposing changes in the Jackson-Vanik
Amendment without parallel improvement in the USSR’s restrictions on emigration.”
1975: “The Speaker of
the Netherlands Parliament Edward van Thijn, returning from a visit to Moscow,
confirmed the use of conscription in the Soviet campaign against Jewish
emigration.”
1976: The visiting
governor of the Bank of Spain, Luis Coronel del Palma, expressed hope of
"a considerable improvement of relations between Spain and Israel."
1976: According to American experts the recent
events in Lebanon and the Syrian intervention there threatened the total
dismemberment of the PLO and the demise of Yasser Arafat who had lost control
of all his forces.
1976: Mossad hit teams were reported to have been
waging a concerted assassination program against all Palestinian terrorists who
murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympiad. For those who
consider the Israeli behavior "cold blooded" remember what
happened. The Munich Olympics went on almost as if the terrorists had not
struck. The response of the world community was to invite Yassar Arafat,
complete with is pistols, to address the UN General Assembly. And for
good measure the UN passed the Zionism is Racism Resolution.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Ministry of Agriculture had
decided to enforce the law against squatting to counter the widespread increase
in the illegal Arab settlement on state lands. The popular TV show Kolbotek was
suspended following the discovery of irregularities in connection with one of
its programs. The Mossad was reported to have informed Prime Minister Golda
Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan of Arab plans to attack Israel two days
before the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but this information was
disregarded.
1977(7th
of Av, 5737): “Martin Diamond, a political scientist and professor at
Georgetown University, collapsed today moments after he testified ‐before a Senate subcommittee.”
https://contemporarythinkers.org/martin-diamond/biography/
1979(27th
of Tammuz, 5739): Seventy-seven-year-old Regina Silver, the Moises Ville,
Argentina born “daughter of Gedaliah Bublick and Elka Bublick, wife of Edward
Sholom Moses Silver and mother of David Bublick Silver; Sarah Feigel Bunim and
Jonathan Bublick Silver” passed away today in New York.
1979(27th
of Tammuz, 5739): Ninety-one-year-old immunologist Reuben Leon Kahn who
developed a test for syphilis passed away in Miami.
1980(9th of
Av, 5740): Tish'a B'Av
1980(9th
of Av, 5740): Fifty-eight-year-old Rutgers University graduate and World War II
Army Air Forces veteran Bernard D. Kahn “the former executive vice president
and creative directory of Grey Advertising and husband of “former Helen
Kennedy,” the fashion director of Foote, Cone and Belding as well as the father
of two children from his first marriage – David and Antonia – suffered a fatal
heart attack today “in his East Side apartment.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/07/23/113949238.pdf
1980: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in Manhattan for 59-year-old “community
developer and real estate investor Henry Epstein, the husband of “former Dasha
Amsterdam, a theatrical producer” with whom he had two children – Robert and
Danielle.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/07/21/113021252.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://barnard.edu/news/way-back-wednesday-dasha-amsterdam-epstein-55
1980: The
Knesset voted by ninety-nine votes to fifty-one to annex east Jerusalem
declaring that ‘Jerusalem, complete and undivided, is the capital of Israel.’
1981: Immanuel
Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
“was created a life peer in 1988, as Baron Jakobovits, of Regent's Park in
Greater London, becoming the first rabbi to receive this honor.”
1982: Marigold
Merlyn Baillieu Myer, the daughter of Merlyn and Sidney Myer married Sir Robert
Southey.
1983: “The
Wicked Lady” directed and edited by Michael Winner, who co-authored the
screenplay and produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan was released in the
United States today.
1984: The
second convention of The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) opened
today at Hertford College under the presidency of Geza Vermes.
1985:
“Sweden-based Palestinian terrorists” were among those who planted a bomb that
exploded “near the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen and a Jewish nursery home and
kindergarten.
1992: A year
and half after opening in the United Kingdom, “Captain Marvel,” a film based on
the Marvel Comics superhero created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, produced by
Menahem Golan and Stan Lee and with music by Barry Goldberg, the nephew of
former Secretary of Labor and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldber, was
released today in the United States.
1993: Israeli
Supreme court Justice, Aharon Barak, was present at Yad Vashem to watch
seventy-six-year-old Ceslovas Rakevicius plant a tree. Rakevicius had saved the eight year old
Barak, his brother and his parents and more than twenty other Jewish families
by smuggling them out of the Kovno Ghetto in 1944.
1997(17th of
Tammuz, 5757): Tzom Tammuz
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598093/
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/23/arts/corbett-monica-68-comedian-toured-with-big-name-singers.html
1999(9thof Av,
5759): Tish'a B'Av
1999(9th of
Av, 5759): David N. Myers of Cleveland, OH who died at the age of 99. He was a
dedicated leader and benefactor of the Jewish and secular communities. As a
long-time supporter of American Friends of the Hebrew University, he supported
numerous programs and established the David Meyers Skin Laboratory and David
and Inez Meyers Scholarship Endowment at The Hebrew University.
1999: Major
league baseball player Bruce Ausmus and his wife Liz gave birth to their second
child Abigail.
2000: “The
Israeli peace delegation's mood shifted from dire to hopeful today as officials
outside Camp David said Prime Minister Ehud Barak believed that the chances for
the summit meeting's success had improved.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
''Regarding Film'' by Stanely Kauffmann and “Walking the Bible” by Bruce
Feiler.
2002: Israel
“assassinated” Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm,
the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
2003: “With
little progress in the Middle East peace effort, Palestinian and Israeli
leaders set out today on separate diplomatic missions, and both sides focused
on talks with President Bush set for later this week and next week.” (As
reported by Greg Myre)
2004: Eighty-seven-year-old
George Kidd, “the first Canadian ambassador to Israel” passed away today.
2004(4th
of Av, 5764): Eighty-three year old, the Canadian born McGill University
graduate and WW II veteran Elie Abel who was a standout foreign journalist with
the New York Times and NBC before becoming Dean of the Graduate School of
Journalism who married Charlotte Hammond Page Dunn after his first wife “the
former Corrinne Adelaide Prevost” had passed away succumbed to the effects of
pneumonia in Rockville, MD. (Editor’s note – there is no way to do him justice
in this simple blog. His work was
elegant, informed and real journalism which is a far cry what the world of
“news” has become in the 21st century)
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/24/us/elie-abel-newsman-and-teacher-dies-at-83.html
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n4q2/entire_text/
2005: In the
evening, with the start of Shabbat, Rabbi Aaron Sherman officiates at his first
service as the new spiritual leader of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Jewish
Community.
2006: Israel
ousted Hezbollah guerrillas from a stronghold just inside Lebanon after several
days of fierce fighting, the army said, as it bombarded targets across the
south of the country.
2006: At least 100 Katyusha Rockets fired by
Hezbollah forces in Lebanon land in northern Israel.
2007:
Sharon Fichman was the runner-up in today’s tennis tournament in Hamilton,
Canada.
2007:
The Sunday New York Times book
section featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The House that George Built With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a
Crew of About Fifty by
Wilfrid Sheed describing a musical era dominated by George Gershwin “and a few
of his friends” and POP! Why Bubbles
Are Great for the Economy by
Daniel Gross whose earlier writings included “Can the Jews Save Christmas:
Chanukah is Late this Year. Will this help retailers?”
2007: Brad Ausmus “recorded his 100th career stolen
base today, becoming the 21st catcher all time to record that many steals
2007: Campbell Brown, who had converted to Judaism
prior to her marriage to Daniel Senor in 2006 “announced today, on Weekend
Today, that she would be leaving NBC News after 11 years to devote time to her
family and expected baby.”
2008(19th of Tammuz, 5768):Eighty-four-year-old
award winning actress Estelle Getty who was best known for her last role on the
sitcom “Golden Girls” passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jul/24/television.television
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/television/23getty.html
2008: The Karmiel Dance Festival opens. This year,
this most Israeli of festivals celebrates the country's 60th birthday via a
retrospective of Israeli dance from 1948 to the present day, yet the central
event - Let Us Grow in Peace - is a poignant reminder that for most of
those 60 years, our land has known conflict.
2008. Senator Barack Obama begins his visit to
Israel where he is expected to meet the country's top leaders: President Shimon
Peres, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign
Minister Tzipi Livni and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The publicity
of this trip is a far cry from the comparatively anonymous trip the Senator
made to Israel in 2006 when he visited the town of Fassouta,
2008: For the second time in three weeks, an Arab bulldozer driver from east
Jerusalem rammed his construction vehicle into a city bus and several cars on a
central thoroughfare in the capital on Tuesday, wounding 15 people before being
shot dead by a Druse border police officer and a civilian passerby. The early
afternoon attack on King David Street was seen as a failed copy of July 2's
lethal bulldozer rampage on Jaffa Road in which Husam Taysir Dwayat killed
three people and wounded dozens before he was killed.
2009(1st of Av, 5769): Rosh Chodesh Av
2009(1st of Av, 5769: Lynn Pressman Raymond, a leading
toy manufacturing executive, passed away today at the age of 97. (As
reported by William Grimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02pressman.html
2009: U.S. congressman Henry Waxman discusses his new book, “The Waxman Report:
How Congress Really Works,” at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue,
2009: The Randi & Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival features a screening
of “Holyland Hardball,” which describes what happens “when a Boston baker with
no sports management experience wanted to form the Israel Baseball League”
2009: Israeli
fashion model Esti Ginzburg who would later appear in the Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit issue “began her compulsory military service in the Israel Defense
Forces” today.
2009: Gen. Norton Schwartz, the chief of staff of the Air
Force and the first Jewish commander of the U.S. Air Force completed a four-day
visit to Israel.
2010: In Metro-Detroit, MI, The Jean and Theodore Weiss Partners in Torah
Program is scheduled to sponsor a program entitled "Life After
Death," which will cover such topics as: The journey of the soul, a study of scriptural
passages referencing the World to Come, the eternal nature of the soul, a look
at testimonials of near death experiences, the relevance of the soul.
2010: The Israel Navy went on high alert today amid forecasts that a flotilla
of two vessels from Lebanon was preparing to depart for the Gaza Strip in an
effort to break the blockade by the end of the week.
2011(20th of Tammuz, 5771): Yahrzeit of
“Rabbi Na'eh best known for his halachic works Ketzot ha-Shulchan and Shiurei
Torah ("measurements of the Torah"), in which he converted archaic
halachic measurements into modern terms.” He passed away on the 20th
of Tammuz (July 21) 1954.
2011: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to
sponsor its Shabba bakery which will give children a chance roll and braid
their own challah which they can take home and bake.
2011: Jailed Jewish-American aid contractor Alan Gross told Cuba's Supreme
Court today he had no intentions of hurting the Cuban government or its people.
2011: At least 200 medical students from all departments staged a protest
outside of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv today, demanding improvements in
Israel's healthcare system and pledging support for the months long battle
being waged by doctors and residents across the country.
2011: David “Leonhardt was appointed as
chief of the Washington bureau of The New
York Times” today.
2012: In Sandy Springs, GA, Rabbi Rachel
M. Bregman is scheduled to officiate at the graveside service for Laura Lynn
Becker, a very accomplished Atlanta defense attorney for the past 30 years. A
native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Ms. Becker was the daughter of Harold Becker and
Arlene Gabert Becker of blessed memory.
2012: The Center for Jewish History and
American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to present screenings of
“Radio Days,” “Broadway Danny Rose” and “Annie Hall.”
2012: The 12th Annual Summer Institute
for Synagogue Musicians, Mifgash Musicale is scheduled to begin today on the
HUC-JIR campus in Cincinnati, OH.
2012: In Columbus, Ohio, Tifereth Israel
is scheduled to sponsor a HAZAK lox and bagel brunch that will included a tour
of Motts Military Museum
2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The New Religious
Intolerance:
Overcoming the Politics of
Fear in an Anxious Age by
Martha C. Nussbaum
2012: Complaining that the Olympic
movement is still ignoring their pain, Israelis marked the 40th anniversary of
the Munich massacre today with a modest service in the atrium of a London
apartment block.http://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-mark-munich-massacre-at-small-london-ceremony-ahead-of-games/
2012(3rd of Av, 5772): Ninety-year-old
“Dr. Warren Winkelstein Jr., a physician and researcher whose groundbreaking
studies connected unprotected sex between men to AIDS, smoking to cervical
cancer and air pollution to chronic lung disease” passed away today. (As
reported by Denise Grady)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/health/dr-warren-winkelstein-jr-dies-at-90.html?hpw
http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/bio.asp?id=85
2012(3rd of Av, 5772): Eighty-nine-year-old
urban legend and art collector Herbert Vogel passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
2012: The world’s intelligence community
is on the alert for terror attacks at the London Olympics, and Israel knows
only too well that it can be targeted at such events, Defense Ministry Ehud
Barak said this morning (As reported by Gabe Fisher)
2012: Gunmen opened fire on today at a
bus of Israeli soldiers that was traveling near the Israel-Egypt border. The
bus was hit when it was on Route 10 near Har Sagi, southwest of Mitzpe Ramon.
No casualties were reported but damage was done to the bus.
2013: The annual Madridanza festival at the
Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv is scheduled to come to a close.
2013: Amos Phinhasi is scheduled to perform
“Mediterraneo” at the Between the Seas Festival.
2013: The second of two billboards sponsored by
the pro-Israel group StandWithUs is scheduled to go up today at Helena, the
capital of Montana. “The StandWithUs billboards read, “The U.S.-Israel
Relationship Creates Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in America” and “Israel
Celebrates Diversity.”
2013(15th
of Av): Tu B’Av – Jewish Valentine’s Day
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tubav.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/53680/jewish/15th-of-Av.htm
http://www.israeldailypicture.com/
2013: “A new
report from the Anti-Defamation League has found a 14 percent decline in
recorded anti-Semitic incidents across the United States, the organization said
today.The audit of 2012 records identified 17 physical assaults, 470 cases of
harassment or threat, and 440 cases of vandalism in which the target was Jewish
and the motive allegedly hatred.” (As reported by Michael Wilner)
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/ADL-reports-downtrend-in-anti-Semitic-incidents-320695
2013: Former
MVP Ryan Braun, the left field for the Milwaukee Brewers known as “the Hebrew
Hammer” was “suspended by MLB commissioner Bud Selig for the remainder of the
2013 season for violating the league's drug policy.;”
2014:
Israeli-American violinist Gil Shaham is scheduled to join the National Youth
Orchestra of America when it makes it Carnegie Hall debut with a program that
begins with Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story.”
2014: Sun Kil
Moon is scheduled to perform at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue.
2014: (24th
of Tammuz, 5774): Eighty year old Irish director Louis Lentin whose works
included “Grandfather, speak to me in Russian” a “docudrama” in which he
“reconstructs the life of his paternal grandfather, Kalman Solomon Lentin who
came to live with his family in Ireland in 1936” passed away today.
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/dear-daughter-producer-louis-lentin-dies-1.1875643
2014: For a
second time, UNRWA announced that rockets had found in their schools in Gaza.
2014: Premiere
of “Food Fighters” NBC’s “American reality based cooking television series
hosted by Adam Richman.”
2014: In Las
Vegas, Hadassah is scheduled to hold the second day of its 97th
annual convention.
2014: The
Washington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open with a “Coen Brothers”
double feature.
2015: In
Philadelphia, the National Museum of Jewish History is scheduled to host a
screening of “The Candidate” as part of its “70’s Summer Cinema” program.
2015: At the
Museum of Jewish Heritage, “a living memorial to the Holocaust” Father Leo
O'Donovan (former President of Georgetown University), Rabbi Elie Weinstock
(Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun), and David Strathairn are scheduled to discuss
"Heroes and the Holocaust.”
2016: “Kind
Words,” a comedy about three Jewish Israeli siblings is scheduled to be shown
in Coral Gables as part of the Miami Jewish Film Festival.
2016: PININA
featuring the choreography is scheduled to open Sally-Anne Friedland as Steps
On Broadway.
2016: Terrorists attacked a mall tonight that was
built on the site of the 1972 Munich Olympic Village where Palestinian Arab
Terrorists murdered Israeli athletes – an outrage that did not bother the world
but which presaged the Modern Terrorist Era of the 21st century.
2016: “In an
email leaked today by Wikileaks, Brad Marshall, the DNC’s chief financial
officer suggested the part should ‘get someone to ask” Bernie Sanders about
“his religious beliefs” which would draw attention reports that the Senator is
an atheist.
2017(28th
of Tammuz, 5777): Parashat Mattot-Mas’ey marking the end of the reading of the
Book of Numbers.
2017: New York
born producer and actor Yaniv “Nev” Schulman and Laura Perlongo got married
today.
2017:
President Donald Trump “formally commissioned” the USS Gerald Ford, the new supercarrier who on which Jewish crewman
will be able to use a Torah given in memory of “World War II veteran Jacob
Kamaras.”
2017: HIAS CEO
Mark Hetfield, Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay's Amy Weiss and
activist Subhi Nahas are scheduled to host a conversation on the current
refugee and immigration crisis and the role filmmaking plays in raising
awareness at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “The
Beguiled” and “Frames” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film
Festival.
2018(10th
of Av, 5778): Tisha B’Av observed since the 9th day of Av fell on
Shabbat
2018: The
motif of Tisha B’Av becomes even more mournful as all decent people lament the
death of 21 year old Staff Sgt. Avi Levi who was murdered by a sniper during
one of Hamas’ “peaceful protests” on the border between Gaza and Israel.
2018: JW3 is
scheduled host a screening of “Keep the Change” this evening in London.
2018: The
Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that “an international operation to
rescue more than a hundred Syrian aid workers and their families” that took
them to Israel and Jordan had been carried out due to “an immediate threat”
posed by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
2018: Temple
Israel is scheduled to host a screening of “The Last Suit” which tells the
story of an aging tailor’s quest to find “the man who same him from Auschwitz.”
2018: In
Memphis, “Temple Israel member and Holocaust Survivor Dr. Charles Blatteis” is
scheduled to read from the Book of Lamentations and share his story of survival
as part of the Tisha B’Av observance.
2019: The San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “City of
Joel” and “Echo.”
2019: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host Dr. Edna Nahshon, a
professor of Jewish Theater and Drama at The Jewish Theological Seminary and a
senior fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies as
she lectures in English on the “Yiddish Theatre In America – An Overview.”
2019: The
Workmen’s Circle is scheduled to host the penultimate session of “The Real
Tevye” in which Leyzer Burko helps students get to know the hero of
Sholem-Aleichem's novel, as well as his later incarnations in the stage and
film adaptations.”
2019: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a Walking Tour celebrating the
170th birthday of Emma Lazarus.
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2020: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “From the Inquisition to the
Mishiguene Restaurant: The Latin American Jewish Food Story” - Live on Zoom,
featuring Jayne Cohen, culture writer and cookbook author.
July 22,
2020(1st of Av, 5870): Rosh Chodesh Av
2020: As
Israelis awaken this morning, they can await response to yesterday’s call by
the Foreign Minister for the IDF to take the lead in stopping the spread of the
coronavirus epidemic which came on the same day that Professor Dov Schwartz said,
“a renewed nationwide lockdown appears to be the only way to slow the rapid
spread of coronavirus in Israel and avoid a health disaster.”
2020: The 11th
Annual Axelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a live stream
screening of “Crescendo.”
2020: “The
Mandel Jewish Community Center FilmFest is scheduled to host a virtual
question-and-answer event with Jesse Eisenberg, the star of “Resistance” this
afternoon.
2020: Dr.
Shari Rabin, assistant professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at Oberlin
College, is scheduled to discuss online via Zoom Jewish immigration to the
United States around the turn of the 20th century and its ramifications on
contemporary American life
2020: Taube
Jewish Heritage Tours is scheduled to present a virtual talk about the
1,000-year history of Jews in Poland by Antony Polonsky (author of “The Jews in
Russia and Poland”) and Marcin Wodziński (“The Historical Atlas of Hasidism”).
2020: The
Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host live stream on Zoom Marvin
Pinkert, JMM Executive Director and Tracie Guy-Decker, JMM Deputy Director as
he lectures on “Why History Matters: Especially the Difficult Parts.”
July 22, 2020:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a Virtual Poetry
Salon to mark the 171st anniversary of the birth of Emma Lazarus who
was born “in the middle of a Cholera Epidemic.” For more see
2021: “Misha
and the Wolves” is scheduled to be the opening film shown at the “Virtual San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival.”
2021: The
Contra Costa JCC is scheduled to sponsor “a talk about the Ottoman Empire
aligning with the losing side in World War I, how this led to the creation of
the modern Middle East and a Jewish Palestinian spy ring in WWI-era Palestine.”
2021: “Misha
and the Wolves,” the dramatic tale of a woman whose Holocaust memoir too the world
by storm” is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2021: The
exhibition “Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust” is scheduled to open at
the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
2021: “Michael
Shnayerson is scheduled to lead fascinating discussion about Bugsy Siegel, who
rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an
early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East
Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas” sponsored by the Park Avenue
Synagogue.
2021: The
Kindertransport Exhibit is scheduled to open in Minneapolis, MN.
https://www.lbi.org/news/kindertransport-exhibit-travels-to-minneapolis/
2021: The
Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host a screening of “Love It Was
Not.”
https://mjhnyc.org/events/love-it-was-not/
2021: In
preparation for Tu B’Av, the North Suburban Jewish Community Center is
scheduled to present online “Chocolate Trivia,” that will “a chocolate goodie
bag for pickup from the NSJCC before the event.”
2021:
Livermore Shakespeare Festival and East Bay Holocaust Education Center are
scheduled to present an in-person reading of Jennifer Le Blanc’s fictionalized
play about the Kindertransport.
2022: In
Berkley, CA Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic
Support and Center for Medicinal Mindfulness is scheduled to present a weekend
workshop that includes professionally facilitated cannabis-guided experiences
framed by Jewish spiritual traditions.
2022:Hamusika
is scheduled to broadcast the final Young Artists Concert on Kan Kol.
2022: The S.F.
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present “Perfect Strangers,” a 2021 Israeli
drama about seven longtime friends whose innocent game evolves into a
“conflagration of earth-shattering revelations.”
2022: Thanks
to what the Defense Minster described as the professional and decisive actions
by the security forces, there are no
longer any “illegal outposts” which had been created by Nachala.
2023: In
Berkeley, CA, Peet’s Theatre is scheduled to host “Out of Character,” a “one-man-show
written and performed by Ari’el Stachel about his life and career as an Israeli
American of Yemeni Jewish descent, exploring the intersections of race, mental
health and survival.
2023: Jewish
Baby Network and Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled to present a dance,
singing and play gathering for parents and children ages 5 and younger.
2023(4th
of Av, 5783): Shabbat Chazon;
2024: Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled head to Washington despite the political chaos in
the United States and on-going war which has just expanded to a fourth front in
Yemen.
2024:
Participants in the Poland 2024 tour led by David Bernstein and Jeffrey Saks
are scheduled to arrive in Tel Aviv this morning as the tour comes to an end.
2024: The San
Franciso Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to go “black” for today.
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by William Tyler on “Wars and
Intifadas.[‘
2024: The Jewish
Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to host a screening of
“Mamele.’
2024: As July 22nd 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 290 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
