This Day, July 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 25
306:
Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. Under the rule of
Constantine, Christianity would in effect become the official religion the
Roman Empire. This was the beginning of a downward spiral in the life of
European Jewry. No century was more decisive for Jewish-Christian relations
than the fourth century. The Edict of Milan issued by Emperor Constantine in
313 CE granted freedom of worship to all religious groups, including Jews. But
Christianity quickly was to become the chief beneficiary of this decree, while
Jewish fortunes were to sink to a new low. In 323 CE Christianity was granted a
special position within the empire. Judaism theoretically continued as a legal
religion, but it was frequently abused by Christian preachers and people
without any action being taken by the imperial government. By the time Emperor
Constantine converted to Christianity on his deathbed in 329, the imperial
government had already begun to institute restrictive measures against Jewish
privileges. By the end of the fourth century the civil status of Jews was in
serious danger and their image had greatly deteriorated. The Jew was now seen
as a semi-satanic figure, cursed by God, and specially set apart by the civil
government.
404: “Emperors
Arcadius and Honorius repeal an earlier law which prohibits the Jewish
patriarchs from collecting their own taxes.” (As reported by Austin Cline)
864: Charles
the Bald orders defensive measures to be taken against the Viking
marauders. Regardless of whatever others
may think of him, Charles the Bald, who was King of France, comes up on the
plus side in Jewish history when compared to other monarchs since he resisted
enforcing the anti-Semitic edicts of the Archbishop of Lyon. Charles’ motives were political and economic,
not religious.
1016:
Birthdate of Casimir I the Restorer, a member of the Piast dynasty, the dynasty
under which the first Jews would live in Poland during the 11th
century.
1100: Jewish
residents of Haifa joined with the Fatimids of Egypt in defending the city.
Tancred, who unsuccessfully attacked Haifa, was reprimanded for his lack of
success and told that he made "a mockery of the God of the
Christians." Once the city fell, the remaining Jews were massacred by the
crusading forces.
1195: Herrad
of Landsburg, the abbess of Hohenburg Abbey and the author of Hortus Delicarum
(The Garden of Delights which contains depictions of King Solomon and the
banquet where Queen Esther exposed Haman as well as a depiction of Hell
connected with the Jews passed away today.
1196: Al
Mohades despoiled the Jewish community of Castille, taking the Codes Hilleli,
a 600 year old Biblical manuscript considered to be the oldest Hebrew copy of
the Bible in Spain. (Other sources date this to August 14, 1197)
1215:
Frederick II, under whom the Jews prospered because he recognized them as “a
separate ethnic and religious group, and were not bound to the laws that
targeted the Christian population” had a second coronation as King of Germany
at Aachen today.
1261: The city
of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios
Strategopoulos. As head of the Byzantine
Empire, Alexios followed the pattern of toleration towards the Jewish people
started by his father despite pressure from leaders of the church to do
otherwise.
1312: In
Worms, Bishop Emerich “ordered that the Jew-bishop (the name the gentiles gave
to the leader of the Jew they chose to lead the community) should no longer be
confirmed in his office by the emperor, but by the bishop of the diocese; and
also that a Jew-bishop once appointed should retain his title until his death,
although his official duties should each year devolve on another member of the
council.” (This was more about money than theology since the Jews had to pay
the Catholic Bishop an annual fee under the new arrangement.)
1360:
Anti-Jewish riots in Breslau resulted in many deaths and the expulsion of those
that remained alive.
1492: In
Toledo, “eight days before the expulsion, 5 Maranos were led to the stake, and
many others were condemned to imprisonment for life” today.
1492: The book
of Proverbs with commentaries of Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides) and Menham Meiri
was published in Leira Portugal by Abraham d’Ortas
1492: Innocent
VIII passed away. The Pope’s Jewish
doctor had made a last-ditch attempt to save Innocent’s life by providing him
with a transfusion of human blood. This
was an experimental operation and all three attempts failed. The Jewish doctor
fled when it did not work.
1547:
Coronation of King Henry II of France to whom Italian Rabbi Obadiah ben Jacob
Sforno dedicated his commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes and to whom
he sent a copy of Or Ammim which he had translated into Latin.
1554: King
Phillip II, “who was a symbol of ‘Tyranny’ in Spinoza’s Political Writings” and
who expelled the Jews from Milan, began his reign as “jure uxoris King of
England and Ireland during his marriage to Queen Mary I.”
1554: Charles
V, who was known for his “intolerant treatment of the Jews” “formally abdicated
the throne of Naples
1572 (5 Av
5332): Isaac Luria the foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of
Safed in the Galilee region passes away.. He is considered the father of
contemporary Kabbalah. He is known for the interpretation of his teachings in
Kabbalah known as Lurianic Kabbalah. There is no way that this simple blog can
do justice to his writings and their effect.
1603: James VI
of Scotland, son of Mary Queen of Scots is crowned first king of Great Britain
and becomes King James I. During his
reign Jews were still not allowed to return publicly to England, but there was
an active community of Marranos living in the British Isles. Kings James is most famous for the King James
Bible, a translation commissioned during his reign completed in 161l. Most Americans, including a large number of
Jews, only know the words of this translation of the Bible.
1644: Spanish
martyr and knight ("caballero i mui emparentado," Lope De Vara Y
Alacaron as he is designated by a contemporary) of noble family who was born about
1619 at San Clemente la Mancha; passed away today at Valladolid.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14671-vera-y-alarcon-lope-de
1670: The
Jewish community of Vienna was expelled.
1720: A Cuban
named Jose Dias Piamena was burned at a grand auto-de-fe in Seville. A pirate,
Piamena had been imprisoned in Cadiz. In his cell he wrote an anti-Christian
tirade on Isaiah 53. When he escaped from jail, he left a message saying he,
"desired to live and die for Judaism." He was sentenced because he
had converted to Judaism while in Curacao and married a Jewish girl.
1721(1st
of Av, 5481): Rabbi Aaron ben Benjamin Wolf, the son of Isaac Benjamin Wolf ben
Eliezer Liebman, author of Naḥlat Binyamin passed away today at
Frankfort-on-the-Oder.
1739: Fifty-six-year-old
Johann Christoph Wolf the “German Christian Hebraist” who authored the 4 volume
Bibliotheca Hebræa which “brought together almost all the accessible
information relating to Jewish authors and their works, as well as to the
writings of Christians on Jewish subjects.”
1771: In
Philadelphia, Congregation Mikveh Israel which “had moved to a rented building on Cherry Street and held their
first Sabbath services” today.
moved to a rented building on Cherry Street and held their
first Sabbath services
1775: In
Zwolle, Holland, Joseph Simon Magnus and Bele Eliaser Cohen gave birth to
Elimelech (Elias) Magnus.
1776:
Birthdate of Emanuel Abrahams, the New York born son Abraham Isaac Abrahams.
1778: Moses
Dobruška, “the first cousin once removed of Jacob Frank” who had converted to
Catholicism and taken the name Franz Thomas Schonfeld “was elevated to the
nobility in Vienna along Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld who had not converted.
1799: At
Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. This
was part of Napoleon’s opening gambit to fulfill his imperial designs which
would include promises during the siege of Acre about the creation of a Jewish
home in Palestine.
1799: 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 Nathan Dias
1804 Jacob
Abraham de Mist, the Dutch commissioner-general issued a proclamation in Cape
Town instituting religious equality for all which allowed for the Jews, among
others, to practice their religion openly in public.
1804: David
Davis married Elizabeth Lazarus in the Great Synagogue today.
1808: One day
after she had passed away, Deborah Proops, the wife of Nathan Vallentine, with
whom she had four children was buried today.
1809: Birthdate
of Memmelsdorf, Bavaria native and future Philadelphian Abraham Adler, the
husband of Hannah Technor Adler and the father of Mathilde Adler Loeb.
1810: In South
Carolina Mordecai and Leah Lazarus Cohen gave birth to Marx E. Cohen, the husband of Armida Harby
Cohen with whom he had six children – Marx E., Eliza, Octavia, Herbert, Leah
and Armida.
1814(8th
of Av, 5574): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time during the War of
1812.
1818: In
Baghdad, David and Hannah Sassoon gave birth to Sir Albert Abdullah David
Sassoon who was a leading merchant in Baghdad who settled in Bombay where his
business success reportedly made him “one of the richest men” in the city
1819: In
Battenberg, Germany, Herz Seelig Langsdorf and Bina Biene Bienchen Langsdorf
gave birth to Morris Langsdorf, the husband of Hannah Hessel Langsdorf with
whom he had had nine children.
1823:
Birthdate of Hildesheim, Germany native Henriette Leon, the wife of Abraham
Leon and the mother of Golda and Joseph Leon.
1826:
Birthdate of Spiesen, Germany native Pauline “Barbara” Victor Barth the wife of
Gottieb Barth whom she married in 1846 and the mother of Victor, Simon, Bustav,
Moses, Alexander and Solomon Barth.
1829(24th
of Tammuz, 5589): Parashat Pinchas chanted for the first time during the
Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
http://www.famousamericans.net/simonhassler/
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7323-hassler-simon
1833(9th
of Av, 5593): Tish’a B’Av
1835: The Jews
of Hebron were attacked.
1839: In
Canterbury, England, Abraham Abrahams and Elizabeth Levi gave birth to Jacob
Abrahams.
1841: In
Grunberg, Silesia, Schiee Jaffe, the son of Simon Abraham Jaffe and Johanna
(Cohn) Jaffe, and his third wife Ernestine (Neumann) Jaffe gave birth to Dr.
Max Jaffe
1843: Père
Antoine Désiré Mégret, a Capuchin missionary, purchases for $900 the land that
will become Abbeville, Louisiana located in Vermillion Parish which is also the
home of Kaplan, LA founded by Polish born Jew Abrom Kaplan
https://forward.com/culture/179473/abrom-kaplans-cajun-dream/
1844(9th
Day of Av, 5604): Tish’a B’Av observed on the birthdate of painter Thomas
Eakins who “according to Weda Cook, a sitter for one of Eakins’ most famous
portraits, the painter “didn’t like Jews” and who “was also a friend and ally
of the reactionary arts administrator Harrison Morris, who believed that modern
art was a conspiracy of Jewish artists and art dealers.”
1848:
Birthdate of Arthur Earl Balfour.
Balfour will serve as Prime Minister in the first decade of the
twentieth century. But his real claim to
fame came during World War I with the issuance of the British policy statement
that bears his name – The Balfour Declaration.
1851: In
London Barnett Phillips and his wife gave birth to Sidney Phillip Phillips the
physician who served as “lieutenant colonel in RAMC during World War I.
1853: In San
Francisco, Abraham H. Belasco and Reyna Belasco (née Nunes), Sephardic Jews who
had moved from London’s Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community during the
California Gold Rush”gave birth to the highly prolific theatrical producer and
writer, David Belasco who was involved in the production of almost 400 plays
during a career that spanned one of the most dynamic periods in American
theatrical history.
http://www.broadway.tv/broadway-features-reviews/haunting-broadway-the-ghost-of-david-belasco
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Belasco.html
1854:
In Frankfurt am Main Dr. Moritz Schiff and Caludia Trier gave birth to “Dr.
Robert Schiff” who was “appointed professor of chemistry at the University of
Modena in 1879” and then moved on to the same position at the University of
Pisa in 1892.
1855:
Birthdate of Edward Solomon, the English composer, pianist, and orchestra
conductor. Solomon was the composer and first night conductor of two works at
the Savoy:The Nautch Girl in 1891 and The Vicar of Bray in 1892.
1855:
Louis Lumley married Eliza Slowman at the Great Synagogue today.
1857:
The New York Times carried a report that an English paper, The
Advertiser, says there will be a new election for the city of London
because Baron Rothschild had explicitly promised to resign if the bill for the
removal of Jewish disabilities was not carried during this session of
Parliament.
1857:
In Cleveland, OH, Rosa and Isaac Strauss gave birth St. Louis photographer
Julius Caeser Straus, the wife of Flora Isaacs Strauss whom he married in 1883
with whom he had three sons – Benjamin, Charles and Irving.
1858: After a five-and-twenty
years' wrangling the admissibility of the Jews to Parliament has been conceded.
1861: Birthdate of
Cincinnati native and future St. Louis resident Aurelia Stix Eiseman, the wife
of David Eiseman, Sr. with whom she had three children – Etta, Richard and
Alice.
1861: In Russia, Abraham
Bernstein and his wife gave birth to Samuel Bernstein who served as a rabbi at
Pottsville, PA before assuming the leadership of Congregation B’nai Israel in
Ansonia, CT.
1861(18th of
Av, 5621): Fifty-eight-year-old Sophia Goldsmid passed away today in
Birmingham, UK.
1862: Birthdate of
Austrian native Pepi Eidelstein, who was buried at Hong Kong in the Happy
Valley Jewish Cemetery when he passed away at the age of 37.
1863(9th of Av,
5623): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same
day that the Confederates reorganized their forces in the West by merging the
commands of Generals Buckner and Bragg.
1864: Corporal Nathaniel
Bloom of the 45th Regiment who had been serving since 1861 was
wounded today at Petersburg, VA
1866: In
Dayton, Ohio Isaac Pollack and his wife gave birth to Hattie Pollack who became
Hattie Rauh when she married Leopold Rauh under which name she served as
President of the Hebrew Ladies’ Relief Association, treasurer of the Council of
Jewish Women and Director of the National Jewish Home for Consumptives in
Denver, CO.
1867: In
Moscow, David Katzenelenbogen and Lina Meerowitz gave birth to Boris D. Bogen,
a “teacher at the Baron de Hirsch Trade School in New York and “the principal
of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School in Woodbine, NJ” and author of
Psychology of Teaching Foreign Languages and Born a Jew who was the husband of
Elisabeth Scholtz.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0003/ms0003.html
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Alfred-Segal-Boris-Bogen/dp/B00COBYN3S
1869; In
Moscow, David Katzenelenbogen and Lina Meerowitz gave birth University of
Moscow and NYU School of Pedagogy Boris Bogen, the husband of Elizabeth Scholtz
whom he married in 1890 with whom he had six children who rose from being a
librarian and teacher at the Educational Alliance, to serving “as the director
of the United Jewish Charities in Cincinnati to serving as “director-general of
the Joint Distribution Committee” before settling in California where he “served
as superintendent of the Jewish Charities in Los Angeles,” “international
secretary of B'nai B'rith” and “national secretary of the Anti-Defamation
League”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/07/01/95973457.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1870:
Birthdate of Tuini, Russia native and Yiddish author and paper bag and
packaging manufacturer Pincus Puchkoff, the husband of Braian Puchkoff with
whom he had five children – Abraham, Louis, Theodore, Morris and Rose – whose
autobiography was entitled My Four Homes.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2018/07/pinkhes-pushkof-pincus-puchkoff.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/01/82093584.html?pageNumber=27
1873(1st
of Av, 5633): Rosh Chodesh Av
1875: Sir
Moses Montefiore arrived in Jerusalem.
1876:
Birthdate of Louis Thomas McFadden the Pennsylvania Congressman who was the
first to insert excerpts from the Protocols of Zion into the Congressional
Record” [Editor’s Note – McFadden was an outspoken foe the Federal Reserve
Board. He blamed the board for the Great
Depression and saw it as part of a Jewish conspiracy to control the
economy. McFadden also wanted to impeach
President Hoover.]
1877(15th
of Av, 5637): Tu B’Av celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of
Rutherford B. Hayes.
1878: It was
reported today that “some officers of a Jewish synagogue in Liverpool” have
recently been “tried for cruelty to animals” because they allowed a bullock to
bleed to death “instead of slaughtering him in the usual way. Professional experts testified that there was
no cruelty…and the charge was dismissed.”
1879: A report
published today described the desperate conditions in Russia brought on by an
extended heat wave and an infestation of locust. Towns in Poland and Lithuania towns “are
swarming with…a large…unemployed Jewish population” that has caused the
government to establish “more agricultural colonies in the various Provinces”
because those created several years ago for the Jews surprisingly enough “have
shown signs of prosperity.”
1879(1st
of Av, 5739): Rosh Chodesh Av
1880: In
Minsk, Abraham Mordecai and Bessie (Farfel) Cohen gave birth to CCNY, Columbia,
Harvard and NYU Law School trained philosophy professor Morris Raphael Cohen
the husband of Mary Ryshpan with whom he raised two children Leonora and Felix
S. Cohen,
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/morris-raphael-cohen
1880: In Manchester,
England, Frankfurt born Clementine Fleischman and Altona, Germany born Ephraim
Ascoli gave birth to Bettina Ascoli, the hus and of Oskar Ludwig Lagenbach whom
she married in 1901 at the Park Place Synagogue and with she had three children
– Cyril, Margaret and Joan.
1880: It was
reported today that the Southeby’s has just completed a showing and sale of the
works of George Cruikshank whose works include an illustration of Dickens’
“Fagan” – “the foiled Jew sitting in his cell more like an evil bird of prey
than any human thing.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cruikshank_fagin_cell.jpg
1881: It was
reported today the estate of the late Earl Beaconsfield was valued at
approximately £76.687 and after deducting for debts and funerals a net value of
£63,312. His executors include Sir
Philip Rose, a prominent gentile lawyer and Sir Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild.
1882(9th
of Av, 5642): Tish’a B’Av
1882: “Louis
Berkowitz and Ignatz Mueller were appointed assistant teachers” at Hebrew Union
College.
1882: The
Turkish government added to the list of “bad things” that happened to Jews on
the 9th of Av when it barred immigration of Russian and Romanian
Jews and forbade the sale of land in Eretz Israel to Jews. The irony is that
the Turks feared the Jews because they were Russians. Russia had cast covetous
eyes on Turkish territory as it sought a warm water port.
1883:
Birthdate of Lithuanian native Henry B. Cohen who came to the United States in
1901, settling in Minneapolis, MN where he was an officer of the Jewish
Sheltering Home and worked with Leo H. Frish, Benjamin Zalkind and Rabbi S. I.
Levin as part of the Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service.
1883: In
Baccau, Rumania, “Nathan and Mollie (Greenberg) Falick gave birth to Abraham
Falick who came to the United States in 1903 as political refugee and began
working in the furniture business where he formed and led two of his own
companies – Bauman and Falick, Inc. and Windsor Furniture Company – while
becoming a leader in the Jewish community as can be seen in his membership in
the “First Rumanian Congregation of New York,” serving as treasurer of the
United Rumanian Jews of America and President of the Beuzeur Rumanian
Benevolent Society and his repeated visits to his homeland since 1916 “to plead
for the betterment of the conditions among Rumanian Jews.”
1883: Among
those arriving aboard the SS Persian
Monarch from England were a Hungarian Jew named Anton Simony along with his
wife and two children and Russian Jew named Nathan Smilansky along with his
wife and six children. The Hebrew Relief
Society of London had paid for their tickets.
Both families were destitute.
[This is an example of what appears to be a pattern – European Jewish
agencies buying tickets for eastern European refugees to make sure they would
not settle in English and other cities.]
1883: Maria
Kozorswska, a Jewish immigrant who had arrived in the United States from Russia
in June, was swindled out of 25 dollars today. For some inexplicable reasons
she gave a stranger the money so that he would buy her a ticket on a steamship
that would take her back to Europe.
1884: It was
reported today the conspirators who had tried to kill the Czar on his visit to
Warsaw planned to start a rebellion in Poland and Western Russia that would
include a plundering of the Jews.
1885(13th
of Av, 5645): Parashat Vaetchanana; Shabbat Nachamu
1885(13th of
Av, 5645): On Shabbat Nachamu, Sir Moses Montefiore passed away at the age of
101. Although he was an English man, Jews celebrated his 100th birthday around
the world and his passing was marked in the same way. Born in 1784, Montefiore
was a successful businessman and civic leader. He was recognized as a leader of
the Jewish community and was knighted in 1837. He was a brother-in-law to the
head of the English branch of the House of Rothschild. Montefiore was an
observant Jew and a frequent visitor to Eretz Israel. He donated large sums of
money for the development of agricultural settlements and built the first
modern Jewish housing complex outside the walls of what is called the Old City.
In other words, he started the expansion of what is Jerusalem today. He also
provided funds for a windmill for grinding corn which is now known as
“Montefiore’s Windmill.” It still stands today in Jerusalem as a testament to a
man who supported the Jewish homeland and worked to alleviate the suffering of
European Jewry.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/montefiore.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112353/jewish/Sir-Moses-Montefiore.htm
http://www.teachittome.com/seforim2/seforim/diaries_of_sir_moses_and_lady_montefiore_1.pdf
1886: “Baron
de Worm’s Suit” published today provides details of the divorce action brought
Baron Henry de Worms. He sued his wife
Baroness Fannie de Worms (nee Von Todesco) on grounds of adultery and named
Mortiz von Leon as correspondent. The Baron is a member of a prominent Jewish
family and a Member of Parliament. His
wife was an Austrian Jewess. At the end
of the hearing the President of the court granted the petition and awarded
custody of the children to the father.
1886: Jacob
Novek and Samuel Sturmak two Russian Jewish peddlers went to the police station
in New York and asked when the balloon would be leaving for Hamburg. They explained that any single person who
made the trip would be paid five hundred dollars and married travelers would be
paid one thousand dollars. The two said
they were willing to go since they were starving. The police made inquiries and discovered that
the two immigrants were the victims of a hoax perpetrated by a boy who ran a
soda water stand on Canal Street.
1888: In New
York City, Anna and Abe Dubilier gave birth to Cooper Institute trained
inventor William Dubilier “a pioneer in electronics and radio who was the
holder of 600 patents” and a “founder of the Cornell-Dubilier Electric
Corporation” who was the husband of Florence Don.
https://cooperalumni.org/2015/01/alumni-profile-william-dubilier-eng-1909/
1888: “Put
Salt in the Water” published today described a scheme to victimize poor east
side Jews seeking relief on excursion to Raritan Beach.
1889:
Birthdate of New York native Jerome Schneiderman, the Bayonne, NJ insurance
agency who was a leader of the New Jersey Federation of YM and YWHA’s and “a
director of the Hebrew Home for the Aged.
1889: Herzl
married Julie Naschauer in Reichenau. The young couple traveled to Switzerland
and France and awaited the completion of their home in Vienna.
1889: Ohaveth
Sholum (lovers of peace) was founded today in Seattle, Washington, making it
the first Jewish congregation in the state’s largest city.
1890: “For
Charity’s Sake” published today described the upcoming fund-raiser that B’nai B’rith
is sponsoring for the benefit of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews at
Yonkers.
1890:
Birthdate of Minks native Maurice
Liberman the Fordham College of Pharmacy alum and Boston University trained
attorney who served on the staff of the Jewish Advocate.
1891:
Birthdate of Northeastern University Law School trained attorney Harry N.
Guterman, the United States Commissioner and Assistant Attorney General who
divided his paychecks “equally among Catholic, Protestant and Jewish Charities”
who was “a director of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society” while raising a
daughter, Paula, with his wife Henrietta Cooper Guterman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/04/20/84636688.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1891: All but
two of the members of the United States Immigration Commission returned to
London from Liverpool today where they have been investigating the involvement
of the steamship companies and railways in sending “pauper immigrants” to the
United States including Jews who had originally lived in Russia.
1892(1st of
Av, 5652): Rosh Chodesh Av
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/26/83752645.pdf
1892(1st of
Av, 5652): Washington Nathan died today in Boulogne, France. Nathan was the son
of Benjamin Nathan, the prominent New Yorker, whose murder 12 years ago has
never been solved. There are those who
are still convinced that Washington Nathan was involved in his father’s murder.
1892: Modest
Aronstam arrived in Pittsburgh intending to finish the botched attempt on the
life on Henry Clay Frick but panicked and went back to New York when newspaper
articles identified him as a possible assassin
1892:
Birthdate of South Africa native of Brigadier General Hugh Llewellyn Glynn
Hughes the first British medical officer to enter Bergen Belsen who did
everything possible to save the victims and hold the perpetrators accountable.
(Some sources show his birthdate as July 24)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Hardman#/media/File:Bergen_Belsen_Liberation_03.jpg
1893:
Birthdate of New York native Joseph Clarence Seide, the long-time employee of
the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, leader of the Free Sons of Israel and the
husband of “the former Eva Kinder” with whom he had three sons – Walter, Louis
and Maurice.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/28/90412860.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1893: A crowd
of about 2,000, a third of whom were Jewish immigrants listened to the band
concert tonight at Paradise Park.
1893(12th
of Av, 5653): Forty three year old Paul d’Abrest, born Friedrich Kohn in
Prague, the husband of Fanni Sulzer and the son-in-law of Cantor Salomon Sulzer
and who pursued a career as a journalist in Paris and Vienna passed away today.
1893(12th
of Av, 5653): Eighty-four-year-old Asher Kursheedt passed away in New York
City.
1894(21st of
Tammuz, 5654): Fifty-two-year-old Dr. Isidor Cohnstein, the husband of Ida
Cohnstein, who was an author as well as a physician passed away today in
Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany
1895: The
Sanitarium for Hebrew Children’s rail excursion is scheduled to leave this
morning at 9:20.
1895: It was
reported today that out of the nearly five million people in Belgium only 4,000
are Jews.
1896(15th
of Av, 5656): Parashat Vaetchanan; Tu B’Av
1896: On
Shabbat, striking Jewish tailors and those who had not yet joined the strike,
attended a mass meeting at Walhalla Hall
1896: The
Chairman of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration offered his services
to the General Executive Committee of the Brotherhood of Tailors, most of whom
were Jewish in an effort to end their strike with their employers.
1897: Two days
after he had passed away, Michael Greenstone, the husband of Leah Greenstone
and the father of George Greenstone was buried today at the Wolverhampton Old
Jewish Burial Ground
1897: The
funeral services for Lewis May are scheduled to be held at 11 A.M. this morning
at Temple Emanu-El the congregation he served as President up until the time of
his death.
1897: A party
of thirty young Jewish men and women who were enjoying “some refreshments”
after having visited the New Mount Sinai Cemetery at Woodside were accosted by
a man claiming to be a police officer who said he would arrest them “unless he
was paid to leave them alone.”
1898: In
Hoboken, NJ, during a dispute over landownership, workmen arrived at the Moses
Montefiore Congregation and used jack-screws to raise the building thirty feet
in the air.
http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:821564/OVERVIEW
1900: In
Berdichev, Maurice (Elimelech) Shulman, a peddler and Rachel Nemerov Shulman
gave birth to Ohio Northern University Law School trained attorney and Hebrew
Union College trained rabbi Dr. Charles E. Schulman who saw active duty in the
South Pacific during WWII as a Navy Chaplain and wjp served as the rabbi for
Riverdale Temple in the Bronx for more than twenty years while raising a
daughter, Deborah, with his wife “the former Avis Clamitz.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/03/77090475.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1900: Percy
George de Worms married Sir Harry Simeon Samuel’s only daughter, Nora, today.
Although he was an English barrister and philatelist he was descended from
Austrian nobility; his great-grandfather having been made a Baron by Emperor
Franz Joseph.
1901(9th
Av, 5661): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day Russia banished American
journalist George Kennan in the kind of hostile move usually reserved for
American Jews trying to do business in the Empire under the terms of the treaty
of 1832.
1901: Harry
Rosenberg who had been born in Kidev in 1883 today came to America first
settling in Montreal and then New York before coming to Reading, PA where he
became a partner in a successful “iron and metal business:” while raising three
children with his wife, the former Anna Mahel.
1902(20th
of Tammuz, 5662): Eighty-one-year-old Louis Stix, the Demmesldorf. Germany born
son of Deborah Cohen and Solomon Stix were married in 1815 and the husband of
Yetta Hackes whom married at Cincinnati in 1852 with whom he had ten children,
passed away today in New York City.
1902: James J.
Jeffries defended his title as Boxing World Heavyweight Championship, a title
the only Jew, Max Baer, ever one which is surprising considering the large
number of Jewish prizefighters in the first half of the 20th
century. (For more see Ellis Island to Ebbets Field)
1903(1st
of Av, 5663): Parashat Matot-Masei: Rosh Chodesh Av
1903(1st
of Av, 5663): Fifty-two-year-old Ralph Lazarus of Columbus, OH, “a member of
the firm of F and R Lazarus, a trustee of the Cleveland –Columbus Jewish Orphan
Asylum” and the owner of the Southern Hotel, passed away today leaving a large
fortune to be distributed among currently unnamed heirs since he never married.
1903: “Theodor
Herzl arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia to intervene with the Russian
government to life the prohibition of Zionist activities and stop the
persecution of Zionists.”
1903: At the
Sun-Rise Hill Climb near Edgehill in Warwickshire Dorothy Levitt was the
official passenger of S.F. Edge because her Gladiator was a non-starter. Levit
was born Dorothy Elizabeth Levi, the daughter of a tea dealer named Jacob Levi.
1904(13th of
Av, 5664): In a calendar coincidence the Yahrzeit Sir Moses Montefiore falls on
the 19th anniversary of his death on the secular calendar. (July 25,
1885)
1905: In Ruse,
Bulgaria, Jacques Canetti and Mathilde née Arditti gave birth to Elias Canetti
who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.
1906(3rd
of Av, 5666): Seventy-one-year-old Isabella H. Pollock, the wife of Abraham
Rosenbach and the mother of Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, her 8th
child known as a “collector, scholar and seller of rare books and manuscripts.”
1907: American
businessman and philanthropist, William Guggenheim, the so of Meyer Guggenheim and
his second wife Aimee Lillia Steinberger gave birth to their only son, William
Guggenheim, Jr.
1907:
Birthdate of Jacob Gillman the New York City native who gained fame as actor
Jack Gilford whose "rubber-face" led him to play numerous character
roles in films, televisions and commercials. One of his most famous roles was
in “Cocoon” where he played the role of a gravelly voiced "doubting
Thomas.”
1908(26th
of Tammuz, 5668): Parashat Matot-Masei; the Book of Numbers is completed for
the last time during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
1908: In New
York City, Sophie and Aaron Gilman gave birth to Jacob Aaron Gellman, who
gained fame as character actor Jack Gilford, the husband of Madeline Lee who
also was one of those who made the infamous Hollywood Blacklist.
https://www.nndb.com/people/985/000132589/
1909:
Birthdate of Hudson, NY native and University of Virginia graduate Harry Eugene
Elmlark, the “president and editor of the Washington Star Syndicate” which
published the nation capital’s last evening newspaper and the husband of
Lillian Rosenthal Elmlark with whom he had a daughter – “Mrs. Walli Kellert.
1910: The Haym
Solomon National Monument Association was organized tonight in San Francisco
for the purpose of building “a monument in-Washington to the financier who
contributed $600,000 to the Colonies' Treasury during the Revolution.”
1911: “The
cause of action in the landmark case of MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. happened
near Saratoga Springs, New York, when Donald MacPherson was severely injured
when the wooden spokes of the left rear wheel of his Buick Model 10 automobile
collapsed, throwing the car into a telephone pole and throwing him under the
car's rear axle” setting in a motion a chain of legal developments that would
to “a famous New York Court of Appeals opinion by Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo
which removed the requirement of privity of contract for duty in negligence
actions.”
1912: It was
reported today that Professor John A. Paine “the archeologist for the first
expedition of the Palestine Exploration Society east of the Jordan River and
the Dead Sea has passed away.
1913: Twenty-eight-year-old
Harry Mann, the Kovno born son of Zelick Mann, brother of Aaron Mann and
co-owner of the Mann Iron and Steel Company in Norristown, PA married Bessie
Michelson of Baltimore, MD today.
1913: “Mr.
Maurice Salzman, a prominent lawyer, delivered the first Friday night sermon at
Eagle’s Hall in Venice, CA at services which were arranged by Rabbi Hecht of
Los Angeles.
1913: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for Clemmie Nahm Ware, the “wife of
Oscar W. Ware” and the mother of Sidney, Aimee and Leona Ware at the “Anshe
Maariv Cemetery.”
1913: Rabbi
Israel Klein is scheduled to lead Friday evening services at the Zion Temple in
Chicago.
1914(2nd
of Av, 5674): Parashat Matot-Masei
1914: This
morning “Mr. A.H. Silver, a senior at the Hebrew Union College, conducted
services for Jews staying at the resort at Cedar Lake, Wisconsin.
1914: As Jews
observed Shabbat, the Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire signed the
mobilization that included orders to start offensive actions against Serbia
“within 72 hours” which war was inevitable, but the question still hung in the
air if it would be a Balkan War or a World War.
1915:
Sephardic Bikur Holim Synagogue opens in Seattle, Washington.
1915: In
Chicago, a special summer course sponsored by HUC came to a close today.
1915: Pictures
taken by Hal Reid showing Leo Frank in “prison garb” and showing his “life in
jail” will start appearing “on the screen in all Marcus Loew’s theatres in New
York as an addition to the regular program on view in these houses.”
1915: After
visiting Leo Frank today and seeing his wounds, Governor Harris expressed the
opinion that “Leo Frank’s days are numbered” despite what the doctors have said
about his recovery.
1915:
Birthdate of solicitor Sir David Napley.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12671206.Sir_David_Napley/
1916: Russian
Cossacks and Dragoons continued their Pogrom at Lokachi for a second day.
1916: “Dr.
Judah L. Magnes, the Acting Chairman of the American Jewish Relief Committee
and a member of the Joint Distribution Committee” is scheduled to set sail for
Europe today where will “investigate the condition of the Jews in the war zones
and the machinery used for the distribution of the large sums sent from the
United States for relief work.”
1916:
Reinforcements for No. 1 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps, a unit which
played a critical role in the campaigns to liberate Palestine from the Turks,
were photographed today aboard the P & O “Malwa” on their way to Egypt.
1917: The
appeal for funds by the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering
Through the War published read “Was there ever sorrow like unto their sorrow?
Their countless voices cry to us Jews in America. No man can escape this duty;
rich and poor alike must give.”
1917: Benny
Leonard (Dov Ber ben Avraham Gershon) won a non-title bout by a TKO at Shibe
Park in Philadelphia, Pa.
1918: After
five days, on the Western Front, fighting along the Ourcq River during which
Artilleryman Louis Henry served with such bravery that he was twice decorated,
came to an end today.
1918: It was
reported today that Americans will follow the practice of other allied nations
and use the double triangle to mark the graves of soldiers killed in combat.
1918: Louis N.
Hammerling, President of the of Association of Foreign Language Newspapers was
arrested today on a charge of him criminally libeling Vaclav G. Hajek a former
investigator for the Department of Justice.
1919(27th
of Tammuz, 5679): Thirteen-year-old Mitchell Levin the Stafford Springs, CT
born son of Eli and Bessie Aronson Levin passed away today after which he was
buried in the Beth Israel Cemetery at West Springfield, MA.
1919: Funeral
services were held today for Louis Marx, the husband of Rose Marx with whom he
had two daughters and two sons – Milton and Harry – followed by burial at the
South Side Hebrew Congregation Cemetery.
1919: “The
Canonsburg Jewish Community” published today in the Pittsburgh Jewish Criterion
opened with a sentence “Thirty years ago [c. 1890] Morris Bernstein came to
Canonsburg and his is the distinction of being the first Jewish settler of that
thriving and progressive community.”
1920(10th of
Av 5680): Tish’a B’Av
1920(10th
of Av, 5680): Albert Hessberg, the Albany, NY born son Simon Hessberg and
Hannah Westheimer and the husband of Frederika Cohen who became a partner in
the law firm of Peckham, Rosendale and Hessberg and who served as president of
the Albany Jewish Society as well as Recorder of Albany for two terms and
President of the Gideon Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith passed
away today.
1920: French
forces captured Damascus, forcing out King Faisal who would be made King of
Iraq as a consolation prize for the British not keeping their promise – a move
that would help to sow dissension in the Middle East that is felt to this day.
1921:
Birthdate of Murray Handwerker, “who transformed his father’s Brooklyn hot dog
business, Nathan’s Famous, into a celebrated national fast-food chain.”
1922: In Los
Angeles, CA, attorney Benjamin Lewis and pianist Pauline Kallin gave birth to
journalist Flora Lewis, the wife of New York Times correspondent Sydney Gruson
who eventually joined that same paper as foreign and diplomatic correspondent
in 1972.
1923: In New
York City, Polish-Jewish immigrants “Sarah and Charles Scher, the owner of a
glass store” gave birth to Estelle Scher, who gained fame as Emmy-Award winning
actress Estelle Getty best known to most for her role in the sitcom “Golden
Girls.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/television/23getty.html
1923:
Birthdate of “David Gerber, an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning television
producer who brought forward-thinking series like “Police Story” and “Police
Woman” to prime time in the 1970s and produced more than 50 television films
and mini-series during a four-decade career.”
1924: “Die
Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews) an Austrian Expressionist film based
on a book of the same name was released today in Austria.
https://www.lbi.org/events/city-without-jews/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-city-without-jews
1924:
Birthdate of Hans Arnold Wangersheim who fled to the United States from Nazi
Germany as a 13-year-old and as Arnold Hans Weiss returned as an American
soldier during World War II, becoming a principal in the investigation that led
to the discovery of Hitler’s last will and political testament.”
1925: In Ohio,
the Sandusky Star Journal ran “an
uncredited illustration of Louis Wolheim.
1926:
Birthdate of Ray Solomonoff, the son of Julius and Sarah Solomonoff, “the
inventor of algorithmic probability, and founder of algorithmic information
theory, who was an originator of the branch of artificial intelligence based on
machine learning, prediction and probability.”
1927: The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency announced that “Nathan Straus will build a $75,000
health center” at Tel Aviv. Straus has
already funded a similar clinic in Jerusalem.
1927: In St.
Paul, MN, clothing and sporting goods store owner Harry Rosenthal and Rose
Calemnson gave birth to Midge Rosenthal who gained fame as “Midge Decter, a
writer and editor who abandoned liberalism to help lay the intellectual
foundation for the neoconservative movement and the so-called culture wars over
feminism, gay rights and other social issues…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1927: “His
Dog,” a silent film starring Joseph Schildkraut was released today in the
United States.
1928:
Birthdate of “Igor Birman, a Russian émigré economist who virtually predicted
the collapse of the Soviet Union years before its fall.”
1928(8th
of Av, 5688): Sixty-three-year-old Monia Mathers, the sister of Henri Bergson
passed away today.
http://www.golden-dawn.org/biomoinam.html
1929: Ahdut HaAvoda and Hapoel HaTzair, the
two major labor parties in Eretz Israel officially merge.
1929(17th of Tammuz, 5689): Tzom
Tammuz
1929: In New York City, Solomon and Cecelia
Farb gave birth to Vanderbilt University Phi Beta Kappa graduate Peter Farb,
the linguist and author of such books as Man’s Rise to Civilization and Word
Play: What Happens People Talk who was the husband of the former Oriole Horch
with whom he had two sons – Mark and Thomas.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/04/09/111149566.pdf
1929(17th of Tammuz, 5689): Seventy-two-year-old
Morris Gusdorf, the husband of Pauline “Lena” Peyser, the father of Melvin and
Florence Gusdorf and the son-in-law of Philip Peyser and Natalie Ann Kilinksi
passed away today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in
Washington, DC.
1929: Jackie Fields (born Jacob Finkelstein)
won the Welterweight Championship today when his opponent whom he had knocked
down twice in the second round “delivered a foul blow which left Fields
incapable of continuing the fight.”
1929: Birthdate of Yosef Alon, an Israeli Air
Force officer, who was murdered in suburban Maryland while serve as Air
Attaché. The murder has never been
solved.
1929: Anna Rachel (Berman) Asimov and Judah
Asimov gave birth to Stanley Asimov, a younger brother of author Isaac Asimov
“who was vice president of New York Newsday.”
1929: In Los Angeles, Nathaniel Shenberg, who
“owned a business that specialized in beveled glass” and his wife Hortense gave
birth to Mildred Shenberg who gained fame as “Mildred Friedman, a curator at
the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the 1970s and ’80s.” (As reported by
William Yardley)
1930: In Green Bay, WI, Morris and Fanny Saidel
gave birth to Lillian Saidel who gained as comedian Mitzi Shore, “the
co-founder of the Comedy Store.”
1931(11th of Av, 5691): Dr. Lee K. Frankel
passed away.
1931: “The Magnificent Lie” with a script by
Leonard Merrick and Samson Raphaelson was released today in the United States.
1932: Hermann Pressman wrote in his diary today
that “the people are all waiting for the voting on the new Reichstag,” which
“would be a contest between the Social Democrats and the Nazis.” 1934: In
Manhattan investment banker Marcos F. Hellman and the former Ruth Koshland gave
birth to Frederick Warren Hellman the great-grandson of “Isaias W. Hellman, a
Jewish immigrant from Bavaria who became one of California’s leading financiers
and served as president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, which later became
Wells Fargo” who became a president of Lehman Brothers. (As reported by Peter
Lattman)
1933: Rabbi
Jonah B. Wise announced today that “total pledges of $950,000 have been made in
the two million dollar campaign of the American Jewish Joint Distribution for
the relief of German Jews…”
1933: “The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency was informed through the United States Consulate
General here today that the German Government had lifted its prohibition and
granted permission to the organization to resume its foreign news service,
permitting its correspondents here to resume sending out news of events in
Germany.”
1934: The
Nazis attempted to overthrow the Austrian government. Chancellor Dollfus was
assassinated, but the putsch failed and Kurt von Schuschnigg was appointed
Chancellor. He in turn tried his best to curtail Nazi influence in Austria.
1934(12th of
Av, 5694): Louis E. Afenger passed away today in St. Louis, MO.
1935: New York born Dartmouth graduate and Time
Magazine Moscow Bureau Chief Richard Edward Lauterbach, “the son of Morton
Edgar and Hazel Augusta (Kronthal) Lauterbach” today married the former “Elizabeth S. Wardell” with whom
he had three children – Jennifer, Ann and David”
1935: Birthday
of Larry Sherry. Along with his brother
Norm, they formed an all Jewish battery combo that led the L.A. Dodgers to the
World Series Championship in 1959.
1936: In
Palestine, “military planes today again dropped leaflets printed in Arabic over
Arab villages…pleading with the villagers to cease acts of violence and call of
their strike” since as the leaflets also stated, “the royal commission will not
come until order is restored.”
1937(17th
of Av, 5697): Sixty-seven year old Jacob Diner, the Russian born son German
Jews who went on to become the “first president of the New York Academy of
Pharmacy” and “founder and first dean of the Fordham University College of
Pharmacy” and who was the husband of Hilda Diner with whom he had two children
– Milton and Irene – passed away today.
1937:
Representative Hamilton Fish, the New York Republican stated today “that the
proposed partition of Palestine by the British Government was ‘a deliberate
breach of trust’” which “smacks of duplicity and double dealing.”
1937: Hyman
Safran, the Detroit born son of Elias and Freida (Mendelsohn) Safran, married
the former Leah Yoffee before going on to serve as U.S. Navy Lieutenant during
WW II and founded Safran Printing Company
https://myjewishdetroit.org/2018/02/lchaim/
1938: Fifty
three persons were killed and fifty-eight were today as a bomb exploded at the
entrance of the Arab market in the heart of Haifa. While Arabs rioted in response to the
violence, Jewish newspapers called for an investigation to find out who was
responsible “demanding that the guilty parties, whether Jew or Arab, be brought
to justice.”
1938(25th of
Tammuz, 5698: A Jewish farmer was killed by a land mine planted near Ein Vered
and Jewish guard was killed at Kfar Haroesh when he was attacked by a band of
25 armed Arabs.
1938: A group
of Jewish laborers were fired on this morning as they worked in quarry in
Tiberias. One worker was killed and
another was wounded.
1938: Tonight,
the National Council of Palestine Jews issued a proclamation holding the Arabs
accountable for the horrific outbreak of violence in Haifa saying that “the
outrages” were an attempt to bring about a civil war in Palestine.
1939(9th of
Av, 5699): Tish’a B'Av
1939: As part
of the observance of Tish’a B’Av, “the interior of the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue was draped in black” as “the congreagants read their prayer books in
semi-darkness during a service led by Rabbi David de Sola Pool, Rabbi D.A.
Jessurun Cardozo and assistant rabbi James M. Wahnon
1939: The
observance of Tish’a B’Av included he traditional fast was an appeal by the JNF
for contributions for its Palestine Land Redemption work.”
1940: French
army officer and rabbi, David Feuerwerker was demobilized today following
France’s defeat by Germany. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with a bronze
star for his service as chief of artillery communications during which he
showed “drive, courage”…and contributed to maintain “the fighting spirit” of
those around him.
1940:A cable
from Simon Davidovitch Kremer, Secretary to the Soviet Military Attaché in
London specifically identified Ivor Montagu as the head of the X Group spy ring
“Ivor Montagu (brother of Lord Montagu) sic, the well-known local communist,
journalist and lecturer.”
1941: In
London, cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky and his wife gave birth to Peter
Suschitzky who followed in his father’s professional footsteps and is best
known for his work on The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Empire Strikes
Back,
1941:
“Immediately after the Germans occupied the city of Lvov, Ukrainian militia
commanders proclaimed Petliura Day (in memory of the Ukrainian nationalist hero
who was assassinated in 1926 during his exile in Paris by a Jewish avenger) and
embarked on a three day pogrom that massacred 6,000 Jews.
1941: After
two day killing spree in Liepaja conducted primarily by the Arajs Kommando, “a
unit of Latvian Auxiliary Police, approximately 900 Jews lay dead.
1941: In
five separate incidents, Jews in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, threw gasoline bombs at
Nazi cars.
1941: A two day long Pogrom began in Kovno, Lithuania which would claim
the life of 3, 800Jews.
1942(11th
of Av, 5702): Shabbat Nachamu; Parashat Vaetchanan
1942(11th
of Av, 5702): Fifty-year-old New York College of Dentistry, Dr. Milton Cohen,
D.D.S. the long born son of David and Pauline Greenberg Cohen, the husband of
Ada Cohen with whom he raised one daughter, Shirley, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/07/26/223790632.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1942: In
Belgium, The Jewish Council completed a comprehensive list of the names and
addresses of approximately 56,000 Jews living in the country. The SS ordered
the creation of the list which was no available through existing governmental
channels since Belgium did not track citizens by their religious affiliation.
The SS told the Jews they needed the list so they could organize labor groups
to be sent East to work. When the Jewish Council did not produce the list
quickly enough, the SS threatened to start grabbing Jews off the street and
shipping them East regardless of age, sex or physical description. What the
Jewish Council did not know was that the SS was implementing the first steps of
the Final Solution that had been agreed to in January, 1942. This list of Jews
would in fact be used to prepare the transports for Auschwitz.
1943:
Mussolini was dismissed from office. It was hoped that his downfall would ease
the situation for Italy's Jews. In point of fact, things would actually get
worse as the Nazis seized control of the Italian mainland.
1943: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held for Amelia Ackerman the mother of Max, Abe,
Stella Yarvin, Lt. Sidney and Myron Ackerman and a member of of the Ansche
Chesed Sisterhood at The Riverside..
1943: John
Garfield and his wife Roberta Seidman gave birth to their second child and only
son David Garfield whose middle name was Patton in honor of the famous general.
1943:
Birthdate of actress Janet Margolin. Born in New York City, she first gained
popular acclaim for her role in the 1962 film David & Lisa.
1944: Three tankers carrying more than
1600 Jews from the Italian-held island of Rhodes stop at the island of Kos,
where 94 additional Jews are forced aboard
1944: Thirty-one faked postcards from
deportees arrive at the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto. The writers claim to have been
happily resettled, when in reality they have been gassed at Chelmno.
1944: Lord Walter Moyne, chief British
official in the Middle East, finally approves British military training for
Jewish Palestinians who are being sent on suicide missions into Occupied
Europe. He writes: "The scheme would remove from Palestine a number of
active and resourceful Jews.... The chances of many of them returning in the
future to give trouble in Palestine seem slight."
1945(15th of Av, 5705): Tu B’Av
1945: Following duty in England and on the
Seine River, the SS President Warfield
arrived at Norfolk, Virginia. After deactivation and re-sale, the President
Warfield would gain fame as the SS Exodus.
1945: Kurt Gerstein, the
former head of the Waffen-SS Institute of Hygiene in Berlin and an
advocate of euthanasia hangs himself in prison.
1946: Birthdate of Nicole Farhi, “a French
fashion designer and sculptor” who “is the daughter of Sephardic Jews from
Turkey” and who is married to author David Hare.
1946: Theodore Levin was confirmed by the
United States Senate to a seat on the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Michigan vacated by Edward Julien Moinet.
1946: Dean Martin (the Italian crooner) and
Jerry Lewis (the Jewish clown) perform together for the first time. During the next ten years, Martin and Lewis
would move from clubs, to movies to a hit television program.
1947: Birthdate of Moroccan native Victor Drai,
the “Franco-American nightclub owner, entrepreneur and film producer” whose
credits include “The Woman in Red” and “Weekend at Bernies.”
1948: During Operation Shoter, Israeli forces
renewed their attack on an area south of Haifa known as the “Little Triangle.”
1949: As the war with Israel wound down “Mohsen
el Barazi, Premier and Foreign Minister of Syria, said today that the Syrian
Government would welcome a United States plan for settlement of the Palestine
problem and that Syria would study it with greatest interest.”
1949(28th of Tammuz, 5709): Rabbi
Eliyahu Mordechai Finkelstein pass away today.
1950: The government of Lebanon protested to
the United Nations claiming that an Israeli fighter plane had crossed into its
territory and fired on a civilian airliner.
According to the Israelis, the airliner had violated Israel’s airspace
when it flew over the northern Galilee.
When the plane failed to obey signals to land, the Israeli fighter fired
warning shots. The Israelis said they also
planned to file a protest with the UN.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported from Poland
that former SS General Jurgen Stroop and Captain Franz Konrad were sentenced to
death in Warsaw for the extermination of the Jewish population of the Warsaw
Ghetto. In Jaffa, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, addressing a crowd of 10,000,
mostly new immigrants, insisted that food and other government controls were
necessary to fulfill the aim of reaching a population of two million and to
establish 1,000 new settlements, even if this meant a temporary shortage of
food and housing. "The newcomers will build their own homes and will grow
their own food," he concluded.
1952:
Birthdate of Ephraim “Effi” Eitam, the native of kibbutz Ein Gev whose
political career has included membership in the Knesset from 2003 until 2009.
1952: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at the Riverside Chapel for Morris
Schacther, the husband of Ruth Schacter and a member of the Associated
Millinery Men, Inc. followed by burial at the Mouth Judah Cemetery.
1953(13th
of Av, 5713): Shabbat Nachamu observed for the first time during the Presidency
of Dwight David Eisenhower.
1955: “New
Found Land” published today provided a review of The Little Tailor,
written and illustrated by William Gropper, the New York born of son of Jewish
immigrants and garment industry workers Harry and Jenny Gopper.
1956: Actress
Ruth Roman was one of those aboard the Andrea Doria who was rescued when the
liner collided with the MS Stockholm.
1956(17th
of Av, 5716): Seventy-four-year-old New York native and NYU trained attorney
Elias D. Cohen, a leader in “the wallpaper, paper box and graphic arts
industries” who raised a daughter, Estelle, with his wife “the former Anna
Brandenburg” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/07/27/86662977.pdf
1956: The
Jordanians attacked UN Palestine truce keepers.
1956: In Los
Angeles, Mona (Weichman) Bilson and Bruce Bilson, the director of such sitcoms
as “Bewitched” and “Get Smart” gave birth to writer, director and producer
Daniel “Danny” Bilson, the father of actress Rachel Bilson, Hattie Elizabeth
Bilson and Rosemary Bilson.
1957: The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
Despite the fact that Jews like André Barouche had played an active role in
Tunisia’s struggle for independence and the fact that it was a Pierre Mendes
France, the Jewish Prime Minister of France, who granted Tunisia her
independence, the conditions for Tunisia’s Jews deteriorated rapidly. The newly
chosen President, Habib Bourguiba “ordered the dissolution of all Jewish
organizations into one body known as the Jewish Religious Council, the members
of which were appointed by the President... Under an order for slum clearance,
the ancient Jewish quarter was razed to the ground, thereby demolishing the
oldest and most historic synagogue in Tunis.” Things were so bad that 40,000
Jews (about 40% of the 1948 Jewish population) left for Israel. (This is the Refugee Problem that nobody
talks about)
1957: “Run of
the Arrow,” directed, produced and written by Samuel Fuller, the Jewish son of
Rebecca Baum and Benjamin Fuller.
1958: Today “Highland
Park Reform Synagogue will raise the curtain on its first “temple-in-the-round”
production which Rabbi Sholom Singer will be the first in a series of dramatic
readings that will replace the customary Saturday morning sermon.”
1958(8th of
Av, 5718): Movie mogul, Harry Morris Warner passed away. Along with his three
brothers, Harold Warner founded Warner Brothers Studio in 1923. These Jews made
American movies. There first major star was a dog, “Rin Tin Tin.” The canine
hero made 26 films for them and these hits were a big help in providing cash
for the brothers. Warner Brothers took a gamble in 1927 and produced the first
talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer. Harold apparently was not originally
enthusiastic about the project since one of his most famous quotes is,
"Who wants to hear actors talk?"
1959(19th
of Tammuz, 5719): Parashat Pinchas
1959(19th of
Tammuz, 5719: Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog
who had been serving as the second Chief Rabbi of Israel since 1936 passed away
today. Born in Poland 1888, the son of a rabbi, Herzog spent his childhood in
England and France. A brilliant student, he completed the study of the Talmud
at the age of 16. He pursued secular academic excellence as well, earning a
doctorate from London University. His thesis was uniquely Jewish – "The
Dyeing of Purple in Ancient Israel." Herzog served as the Chief Rabbi of the
Irish Free State before moving to Palestine to succeed the great Rabbi Abraham
Isaac Kook. Herzog worked diligently to try and save Jewish children trapped in
Europe. After the creation of the state of Israel, he was faced with the
challenge of applying halachah to life in a modern Jewish state, something
nobody had done since the fall of Jerusalem in 70. His two most famous works
are Main Institutions of Jewish Law and his responsa entitled Hekhal
Yitzhak. Herzog’s life is life is a testament to the best in combining
Orthodoxy and Zionism.
http://www.archives.gov.il/ArchiveGov_Eng/Publications/ElectronicPirsum/RabbiHerzog/
1960(1st of
Av, 5720): Rosh Chodesh Av
1964:
Birthdate José Joaquín Bautista Arias who may have been the only Jewish
baseball player from the Dominican Republic to pitch in the Major Leagues.
1964: In
Washington, DC, Harvey M. Applebaum, a Covington and Burling partner, and
Elizabeth Applebaum of the Corcoran Gallery of Art gave birth to Pulitzer-prize
winning author Anne Elizabeth Applebaum.
1965: Bob
Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport
Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1966(8th
of Av, 5726): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1966:
Eighty-four-year-old Cara B. Baldauf Fohs, the Kentucky born daughter of Morris
a d Lina Kahn Baldauf and the wife F. Julius Fohs whom she married in 1908
passed away today after which she was buried in the Westchester Hills Cemetery.
1966: Four
months after the merger of the AFL and NFL, when Al Davis found he would not be
commissioner of the new league, Davis resigned as Commissioner of the AFL
rather than stay in the figurehead position until 1970.
1967(17th
of Tammuz, 5727): Tzom Tammuz
1967: Rabbi
Phillip Hiat officiated at the funeral for former General Sessions Jonah J.
Goldstein which were held at the Mount Neboh Congregation on 79th
Street followed by burial the Nebo Congreation Cemetery in Glendale, Queens,
NY.
1967: In Los
Angeles, producer and director Irwin Winkler and his wife Margo gave birth to
NYU trained attorney Adam X. Winkler, “a professor of constitutional law at the
UCLA School Law.”
1967: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at “The Riverside” for Jacob
Frankel the father of Emmy Rosenstein with whom he raised three children and “a
founder and president of the American Friends of ORT.”
1969: As
Operation Boxer continues, IAF aircraft pounded Egyptian positions.
1969: In
Highland Park, Illinois, Elise and Henry Loeb gave birth to screenwriter and
producer Allan Loeb.
1969(10th
of Av, 5729): Cooper Institute trained inventor William Dubiller, the New York
born son of Anna and Abe Dublier, and “a
pioneer in electronics and radio who was the holder of 600 patents” and a
“founder of the Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corporation” passed away on his 81st
birthday.
https://cooperalumni.org/2015/01/alumni-profile-william-dubilier-eng-1909/
1970(21st
of Tammuz, 5730): Parshat Pinchas
1970: Today, the
wife of Norton Simon. the millionaire industrialist and Portland born son of Jewish
parents Lillian Gluckman and Meyer Simeon filed suit yesterday to end their 37‐
year marriage because of “of irreconcilable differences.”
1970)21st
of Tammuz, 5730): Eighty-six-year-old American businessman Joseph Grosberg, the
son Jacob and Anna Lasky Grosberg and husband of Rachel Grosberg who “a founder
and the president of Central Markets, a chain of grocery stores in upstate New
York that established some of the first supermarkets in the United States”
passed away today in Miami Beach, FL.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/27/archives/joseph-grosberg.html?searchResultPosition=1
1971(3rd of
Av, 5731): Eighty-two-year-old Smith College graduate Margaret Adler, the New
York born daughter of Felix Adler and a former teacher at the Ethical Culture
School, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/27/archives/margaret-adler.html?searchResultPosition=1
1972(14th
of Av, 5732): Seventy-seven-year-old Lodz Poland native Zalman Zylbercweig, who
followed in the footsteps of his father, author and publisher Tsvi, Hirsh
Zylbercweig and became an authority on Yiddish literature and thespians while
living in Palestine, New York and Los Angeles passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/07/27/80798633.pdf
http://yiddish-sources.com/cumulative-index-zalman-zylbercweigs-leksikon-fun-yidishn-teater
http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/zalman-zylbercweig
1972: Two days
after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held for Eighty-five-year-old
New York native Moses Fertig, the CCNY trained teacher and NYU trained lawyer
Maldwin Fertig, the unsuccessful candidate for President of the New York City
Council who was “president of the Bronx Young Men’s Hebrew Association.:
1973: “The
Mackintosh Man” a cold war thriller starring Paul Newman and featuring Wolf
Morris was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.
1973(25th
of Tammuz, 5733): Ninety-two-year-old NYU trained attorney Isaac Allen, “a
founder of the of the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish
Congress,” an organizer of “the Federation of American Zionists” and “a founder
of the Mizrachi Organization of America who “wrote regularly for the Yiddish
Tageblatt” passed away today.
1973:
Birthdate of Israeli champion Paralympic swimmer Keren Or Leibovitch
1974(6th
of Av, 5734): Ninety-two Dr. Nima H. Adlerblum, a promoter of the works of John
Dewey as well and active member of the world’s Jewish community as can be seen
in her role as “a founder of the national cultural and educational program of
Hadassah and her authorship of such works as A Perspective of Jewish Life
Through Its Festivals passed away today at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem,
her original hometown.
https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Childhood-Approach-Jewish-Philosophy/dp/0765760126
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nima-adlerblum
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adlerblum-nima
1974(6th
of Av, 5734): Seventy-four-year-old real estate develop Joseph Eichler passed
away today.
https://www.eichlerforsale.com/joseph-eichler.php
1975: Marvin
Hamlisch’s “A Chorus Line” opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre tonight.
1975: “The
Other Side of the Mountain” a skiing biopic with a screenplay by David Selzer
and music by Charles Fox was released today in the United States
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Asian Games Federation resolved that it was in the interest of Israel and for
the safety of other nations' athletes that Israel should not participate in the
1978 Asian Games. [In the early days of the War on Terror, this is an easy victory
for the forces of terror.] The Defense
Ministry announced that it intended to allow Arabs living in Southern Lebanon
to work inside Israel and that there would be no discrimination between
Christians and Moslems willing to come. Israel had also sent truckloads of food
to the Lebanese civil war victims. [This would be the start of what was known
as The Good Fence Policy.] In his address to the Israeli Press Council, Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin severely criticized the country's press and other media
for "failing to check facts and for not presenting a balanced picture of
news."
1976 (27th of
Tammuz, 5736): One soldier was killed and three more were wounded when a
terrorist set off a bomb in a restaurant in Batala.
1976: The
first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach
1977: Funeral services are scheduled to be held at noon today at Temple
Beth Israel for eighty-four year old Kiev born Abraham Feldman who 1906 where
he “graduated from HUC and the University of Cincinnati and was ordained in
1918 after which he Temple Beth Israel in West Hartford and served as
“president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and Synagogue Council
of America while raising three children – Daniel, Joan and Ella – with “his
wife, the former Helen Bloch.”
1979: Another
section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
1980: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held at The Riverside, for Rabbi Max Kadushin, the
husband of Evelyn Kadushin and the father of Phineas and Charles Kadushin who
had been part of the Jewish Theological Seminary for six decades.
1981: On the
second day of The Battle of Bint Jbeil Brigadier General Gal Hirsch prematurely
announced that the town had been taken.
1981(23rd of
Tammuz, 5741): Former MK Yosef Goldschmidt passed away today. Born at Frankfurt in 1907, he was certified
as a high school science teacher before he made Aliyah in 1935. After leaving the Knesset, he served as
Deputy Mayor Jerusalem.
1982: In
Massachusetts, two “Russian-Jewish refuseniks” with musical background gave
birth to Daniel Lopatin “best known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is an
American experimental electronic music producer, composer, singer and
songwriter.”
1983(15th
of Av, 5743): Tuba Av
1983(15th
of Av, 5743): Sixty-nine-year-old composer Jerome Moross passed away today in
Miami.
http://jeromemoross.com/bio.html
1986(22nd
of Tammuz, 5646): Five days before his 73rd birthday, Walter Bergman
the refugee from Nazi Germany who arrived in 1936 arrived in South Africa where
he joined the Army, fought his way across North Africa and Italy and returned
to Cape Town where he became a leading numismatist.
1989(22nd
of Tammuz, 5749): Seventy-six year old Max Ableman, the Russian born son of
Frank and Frieda Abelman and husband of Lillian Napsky Ableman passed away
today after which he was buried at the Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois.
1990: Roseanne
“Barr performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a baseball game
between the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds at Jack Murphy Stadium.”
1991(14th
of Av, 5751): Eighty-three-year-old Pennsylvanian Paul Friedlander, the
Carnegie Tech quarterback who led his 6th ranked team to play No. 1
Texas Christian University in the fifth annual Sugar Bowl passed away today.
1991(14th
of Av, 5751): Ninety-seven-year-old Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, one of the
last of the original Bolshevik revolutionaries passed away today. (As reported
by Francis X. Clines)
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/27/obituaries/l-m-kaganovich-stalwart-of-stalin-dies-at-97.html
1993: The IDF
crosses into Lebanon in Operation Accountability. The weeklong incursion was brought on by
Hezbollah’s rocket attacks on Israeli settlements and the PLFP’s a killing of
Israeli soldiers.
1993: Alan
Blinken began serving as United States Ambassador to Belgium
1994: Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at
the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old state of war.
1994(17th
of Av, 5754): “Border policeman Sgt.-Maj. Jacques Attias, 24, died of his
wounds after being shot by Palestinian policemen during the riots at Erez
checkpoint on July 17.”
1996: Yakov
Kreizberg performed the United Kingdom premiere of Berthold Goldschmidt's
Passacaglia op.4 today in the presence of the composer just months before he
died.
1996(9th
of Av, 5756): Tish’a B’Av
1996:
In “Jewish
Studies: Part of the Canon,” published today Jonathan Mahler warns that “the
quarrel at Queens College over the selection of a non-Jewish professor to lead
the school's Jewish studies program provides a lesson in the dangers of
combining academic disciplines with identity politics.
1997: In
Jerusalem, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years After Their Discovery a conference
organized by Emanuel Tov came to an end.
1998(2nd
of Av, 5758): Parashat Matot-Masei
1998: Selma Jeanne Cohen's
"Encyclopedia of Dance"
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/26/1998/selma-jeanne-cohen
1999: The New York Times featured an article
entitled “Streetscapes /Giorgio Cavaglieri; Near 88, a Preservationist Is Still
a Maverick describing the importance of the Jewish, Italian born, architect.
1999: The
New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Legacy:
A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg by Christopher Ogden and recently released paperback edition of The
Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East by Uri Savir
1999: “The Chicago Jewish Historical Society, in cooperation with the
Dawn Schuman Institute are scheduled to offer a tour that includes a stop at
Ligonier “a special Indiana community where the Jewish population made a
significant impact from the 1850’s well into” the 20th century and a
stop at South Bend, “an active Jewish community with a rich history.”
2000: The Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp
David was issued today.
http://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/rls/22698.htm
2000: The INS Tkuma was
commissioned today.
2001: The SS Regent Sun formerly the SS
Shalom of the Israeli Zim line, sank off the coast of South Africa.
2001(5th of
Av, 5761): Ninety-one-year-old “Lillian Kiesler, artist, art patron and the
widow of the sculptor and avant-garde architect Frederick Kiesler” passed away
today in Manhattan. (As reported by Holland Cotter)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/obituaries/03KIES.html
2001: “Issues
in Jewish Philosophy,” a colloquium sponsored by The European Association for
Jewish Studies (EAJS) came to a close today.
2001: After
four hours of searching for the body of Chandra Levy under a broiling summer
sun in Rock Creek Park, 28 police candidates break off the hunt not knowing
that that missing interns body was a mere 79 yards below the trail where they
had stopped.
2002: In
Amsterdam, the seventh conference of The European Association for Jewish
Studies (EAJS) under the presidency of Professor Albert van der Heide came to
an end.
2003(25th
of Tammuz, 5763): Seventy-seven-year-old film director John Schlesinger passed
away today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/jul/26/guardianobituaries.filmnews
2003: Gesher
gives its last performance of “Shoshah” a play based on a novel of the same
name by Isaac B. Singer at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
2003:” Seabiscuit,” the horse biopic directed by Gary Ross who also wrote
the screenplay, filmed by cinematographer John Schwartzman and with music by
Randy Newman was released today in the United Sates.
2004: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently
released paperback edition of When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew
Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence Connie Bruck’s
''fascinating book which is a methodical portrait of an often secretive mogul
whose vindictiveness, cunning and temper matched his shrewdness and
prescience.''
2005(18th of Tammuz, 5765): Eighty-two year old Sonny
Hertzberg, the CCNY guard who was a leading player for the New York Knicks in
their first season, passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein).
2005: Starting today the Zabriskie Gallery began showing a selection of
watercolors of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz, the Siberian born Jew who
came to the United States with his mother
2006: In “…No, It’s Survival” published today Richard Cohen defends his
controversial comments about the existence of the state of Israel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/24/AR2006072400808.html
2006: Today in
a “column for the New York Post that
discussed the Israel-Lebanon conflict, JohnPodhoretz advocated a more
Machiavellian policy in Iraq, writing: "What if the tactical mistake we
made in Iraq was that we didn't kill enough Sunnis in the early going to
intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything?
Wasn't the survival of Sunni men between the ages of 15 and 35 the reason there
was an insurgency and the basic cause of the sectarian violence now?"
2006(29th of Tammuz, 5766): Seventy-eight-year-old
Professor Ezra Fleischer, an Israeli poet whose scholarly work re-defined views
on the antiquity of prayer, passed away today.(As reported by Ari L. Goldman)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/arts/01fleischer.html
2006: Eliot Spitzer took part in a gubernatorial debate at Pace
University prior to the Democratic primary which is scheduled for September.
2006: At
Jerusalem’s Confederation House, the third and last concert in the series based
on baskot (requests), songs of supplication traditionally sung during the early
hours of Shabbat morning in Middle Eastern Jewish communities.
2006: The
following were among a total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who died
of heart attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers were killed in
the Israel-Hezbollah war: Doua Abbas, 15, of Mughar; David Mazen, 75, of Haifa.
2006: Blu
Greenberg, best known for her work on behalf of feminism within Orthodox
Judaism, was honored with Hadassah's highest honor, the Henrietta Szold award
for outstanding leadership in the Jewish community. Greenberg, who shared the
award jointly with her husband, Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg, thus
joined a list of prominent world leaders—from Elie Wiesel to Yitzchak Rabin,
Shimon Peres, and Golda Meir—to be so honored. (As reported by JWA)
2007: CBS
distributed the last of episode of “Clark and Michael” produced and directed by
Max Winkler.
2007: In
Jerusalem, a celebration of International
Jewish Music entitled “Come to the Jewish Music Marathon,” features
Jewish musicians from around world including, Daniel Kahan of Germany, PSOY of
Russia, DJ Yonatan from Oi Va Voi of England, Trio Karfion of Israel, and Oy
Devision of Israel.
2007: The
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's traveling exhibition Fighting the
Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Bookburning opens in Baltimore, at the
Enoch Pratt Free Library.
2008: A
powerful explosion ripped through a car on a busy Gaza City killing four and
wounding 23, Hamas security officials said.
2008: At
Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, an exhibition that tells the story of
Jewish refugees who took Trujillo up on his offer and settled in the town of
Sosua, on the Dominican Republic’s northeastern shore comes to an end.
2008: Larry
Leiber was presented the Bill Finger Award today “during the 2008 Will Eisner
Comic Industry Awards ceremony at Comic-Con International.”
2009: A
screening of “Rachel.” a controversial film that purports to investigate the
death of anti-Israel activist Rachel Corrie, is scheduled to take place the
Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
2009:
In “Shabbat special for C.R. congregation,”
published today Molly Rossiter of the Gazette describes upcoming events at
Temple Judah.
The Shabbat service on Aug. 1 at Temple Judah will have
triple significance for the congregation there. The Shabbat is the first for
the congregation’s new rabbi, Todd Thalblum. The day also marks the Shabbat
Nachamu, the Sabbath of Consolation, which follows the Jewish fast of Tishah
B’Av, the first of seven services leading up to Rosh Hashanah. And for the
third year, it is also the Raoul Wallenberg Sabbath, a day marked by Gov. Chet
Culver in 2007 to remember the man who helped the Jews in Budapest avoid the
concentration camps. Thalblum joins the congregation after being named rabbi
last month. Thalblum, 41, last served a congregation in Texas. He said last
month that he was “looking forward” to returning to the Midwest and to serving
as rabbi at Temple Judah. “The first priority is going to be getting to know
the congregation, that’s going to come first,” he said. But he plans to get
actively involved fairly early in community interests, as well. “The
congregation has talked very much about what they’ve enjoyed about the rabbi
being involved in the community,” he said.
2009: This
year’s “World Outgames,” a festival of sports and culture hosted by the gay community
in a different city every four years opens in Copenhagen where it pays tribute
to Tel Aviv’s Centennial celebration by converting on of Copenhagen’s canal
into a Tel Aviv Beach and hosting leading Israeli artists, Israeli music and
beach games.
2009: In Jerusalem “Beit Avi
Chai's Saturday night music line, directed by Shaanan Street, presents Amir Lev
in a new concert marking the release of his album Hakol Kan. The concert
features familiar and new songs about the lives of ordinary people, with their
laughter and tears. The concert will include a special piyyut for Tisha B’Av.”
2010: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to
Jewish readers including The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman and Dreyfus:
Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris
2010: Hadassah 95th annual convention opened
today.
2010: “Jews and Baseball: An American Love
Story” premiered at the Stony Brook Film Festival
2010: During the afternoon session of the annual Hadassah
Convention, Deborah Rosenbloom, Jewish Women International (JWI) program
director, was a presenter at a workshop that will provide resources and a
Jewish context for parents to help their daughters identify and develop healthy
relationships entitled “Dating, Sex and Love: How to Help Our Daughters Develop
Healthy Relationships,” based on two national curricula—Love Shouldn’t Hurt and
Strong Girls, Healthy Relationships.
2010: Israel and the United States signed an agreement
today under which the Defense Ministry will receive full funding for the
development and production of the Arrow 3 ballistic missile defense system. The
agreement was signed in Tel Aviv by head of the ministry’s MAFAT Research and
Development Directorate, Brig.-Gen. Ofir Shoham, and the head of the US Missile
Defense Agency, Lt.-Gen. Patrick O’Reilly.
2010: The ninth congress of The European
Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) opened today in Ravenna
2010: First Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Book Fair
presented by ASF opened at noon today.
2010: Rabbi Manfred Gans announced his retirement after
60 years behind the pulpit that now stands in Forest Hills.
2011: The Silver-Garburg Piano Duo is
scheduled to perform at Mannes College The New School for Music. “Sivan Silver,
born in Israel in 1976, and Gil Garburg, born in Israel in 1975, studied with
Prof. Arie Vardi at Tel-Aviv University and at the “Musikhochschule” in
Hanover, Germany.”
2011: Israeli born dancer and choreographer
Dana Ruttenberg is scheduled to conduct a Contemporary Dance Workshop at the
Peridance Capezio Center in New York City.
2011: The chairman of the Israel Medical Association, Dr.
Leonid Eidelman, announced that he was going on a hunger strike today to
protest the state of the health care system in Israel, after exhausting all
efforts to reach a negotiated agreement with the Finance Ministry
2011: After 5 protesters
were arrested for blocking traffic in Jerusalem this morning, at least 200
protesters demonstrating against soaring rent prices gathered in Kikar Paris
outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem today, blocking traffic on
Aza Road.
2011: Nobel Prize winning
economist Joseph “Stiglitz participated in the "I Foro Social del
15M" organized in Madrid (Spain) expressing his support for the 2011
Spanish protests.”
2011: The first ever
reunion of the Ritchie Boys, a unique intelligence unit that served in Europe
from D-Day to VE-Day came to a close today at the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills, Michigan.
2012: The North American
Premiere of “Ameer Got His Gun” and the West Coast Premiere of “Just 45 Minutes
from Broadway” are scheduled to take place at the San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival.
2012: In New Orleans,
Gates of Prayer and Beth Israel are scheduled to present part 2 of Tevye’s
World, their combined continuing education program. (For more about Jewish life
in the Big Easy, see
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/
2012: Israel’s gas mask
distribution centers are reporting a significant rise in the number of
civilians seeking protection against chemical weapons.(As reported by Stuart
Winer)
2012:
“Mogul’s Latest Foray Courts Jews for G.O.P.” published today described Sheldon
Adelson’s mulit-million dollar effort to gain Jewish votes for Mitt Romney.
2012: White House
counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan arrived in Israel today for talks with
several senior officials, according to a statement from the National Security
Council spokesman. (As reported by Sam Ser)
2012: Under the Lone Star
another the Star of David is blessed when Abbie and Feivel Strauss gave birth
to their first child this evening in Houston, TX. Mother and son are doing well as is the dad
and the proud maternal grandparents Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber.
2012: Former Citigroup
chairman Sanford Weill publicly changed his views on banks as the financial
supermarket, when he told CNBC that “what we should probably do is go and split
up investment banking from banking, have banks be deposit takers, have banks
make commercial loans and real estate loans, have banks do something that’s not
going to risk the taxpayer dollars, that's not too big to fail."
2012(6th of
Av, 5772): Sixty-four-year-old Suzy Gersham the author of 16 “Born to Shop
Guides” including Born to Shop New York passed away today in San
Antonio, TX. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2013: “Next Stop, Greenwich Village,” “a
semi-autobiographical account of Paul Mazursky’s life” is scheduled to be shown
this evening as part of the Only In New York Summer Film Series
2013: The 17th annual
Jerusalem 3x3 Streetball tournament at Safra Square is scheduled to come to an
end today.
2013(18th of
Av, 5773): Ninety-year old “decorated World War II veteran, attorney and
judge, Arthur Edwin Lasker,” the second son Philip and Hannah Lasker and the nephew Emmanuel Cohen, a former
president of Paramount Pictures, passed away today.
2013: After a busy year that has included a trip to
Jerusalem and a move to Columbus, Ohio, Jacob Strauss celebrated his first
birthday.
2013: In the southern
Russian state of Dagestan, Rabbi Ovadia Eisekoff, a Chabad “emissary in the
city of Derbent who was shot in the chest by an unknown assailant was taken to
a hospital for emergency treatment at 1 a.m. this morning.
2013: Following an
increase in violence that has included a double homicide two days ago and a
stabbing last week, authorities in Jerusalem are stepping up their patorls in
the Israeli capital. (As reported by Daniel Eisenbud)
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=321064
2014: Following services
at Riverside Memorial Chapel, Madeline Amgott, one of the female pioneers in
the field of television news production is scheduled to be interred at Beth
Israel Cemetery in Norwalk, CT.
2014: When a unit of the
Nahal infantry brigade was “targeted by a terror cell with an anti-tank
missile” 22 year old Staff Sgt. (res.) Yogev Ofir, responded “to the
sounds of blasts, rushed to the site and returned fire, using ammunition from
other soldiers when his own ran out and provided cover so the wounded could be
evacuated and helped treat them while returning fire despite sustaining an injury
himself during the battle” – actions for which he received “the Chief of Staff
Decoration.”
2014(27th of
Tammuz, 5774): Eighty-six-year-old financial mogul Alan C. Greenberg passed
away today.
2014: “A French Jewish
activist whose address was published in anti-Israel forums online was ambushed
outside his home by several men who caused him minor injuries.”
2014(27th of
Tammuz, 5774): Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Downstairs passed away
today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2015: “My Report to the
World: The Story of Jan Karski” is scheduled to be performed for the last time
tonight.
2015: Dan Bern, the son
of Marianne Bern, is scheduled to perform at a special kid’s show in Mt.
Vernon, IA at the First Street Community Center.
2015: “Israel’s national
soccer team faces slim chances against two of the world’s best soccer teams in
order to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia after being picked in the
same group as titans Spain and Italy” today.
2015: The Museum of
Jewish Heritage and Lab/Shul are scheduled to host “a curated night of
innovative performances, discussions, gallery tours, and candlelit
contemplation as we mark Tisha B'Av”
2015: Aly Raisman
competed at the U.S. Classic where she “performed her Amanar vault for the
first time since 2012 and scored a 15.400.”
2016(19th of
Tammuz, 5776): Ninety-four year old James M. Nederlander “the American Jewish
theater impresario” passed away today. (As reported by Bruch Weber)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/theater/james-nederlander-theater-magnate-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
2016: Today, New York’s
Metropolitan Transit Authority announced today that the L. Train “will stop
running in Manhanttan for 18 months beginning in 2019 “which could make life
tougher for the Satmar Hasidim who rely on Williamsburg’s booming real estate
industry for jobs and income.”
2016: The American Dance
Festival featuring Dafi Atabeb and LeeSaar, the company established in Israel
in 2000 by Lee Sher and Saar Harari is scheduled to open in Durham, NC.
2017: The San Francisco
Historical Association is scheduled to
host an appearance by Lynn Downey who will talk about her latest book, Levi
Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
2017: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host “New and Journalism in the Age of Trump”
presented by Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Gerard Baker.
2017: “After
years of backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the free daily Israel Hayom
castigated the premier’s “display of feebleness” and his “helpless” response to
the Temple Mount crisis on its front page, in a large above-the-fold headline.”
2017(2nd of
Av, 5777): One hundred three year old high jumper Margaret Bergman Lambert who
was kept from competing in the 1936 Olympics because she was Jewish pass away
today. (As reported by Ira Berkow)
2017: “Israel ministers
decided that the metal detectors set up outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem —
in the wake of a terror attack at the holy site in which two Israeli police
officers were killed — would be removed and replaced with security measures
based on “advanced technologies.” (As reported by TOI)
2017: “The Young Karl
Marx” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival.
2018: In Memphis, TN,
Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lecture on “How Playfulness Can Get You
Out of a Rut” at the JCC’s Shainberg Art Gallery.
2018: Diarna, The
Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life is scheduled to
present the Passport to Jewish History lecture describing the results of a
recent expedition to Egypt featuring Josh Shamsi.
2018: The Nefesh B’Nefesh
Aliyah Ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Ben Gurion Airport.
2018: In Beachwood, Ohio,
“The Matlz Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host its ‘Panel Discussion
on Cleveland African-American Heroes.
2018: The photographic
exhibition “Bedouin and Arab Israeli Communities in the Negev” which is part of
the “Home: Lens on Israel” is scheduled to come to an end today at the
Streicker Center.
2019: Clare Bronfman, an
heiress to the Seagram's liquor fortune, who “pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
conceal and harbor people who were not in the United States legally for
financial gain and fraudulent use of identification” and who was “part of an
alleged pyramid scheme that involved sex trafficking and racketeering” is
schedule to be sentenced in a New York federal court.’
2019: Today the San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of the
documentary “You Only Die Twice” and “Latter Day Jew” which tells the tale of
Mormon comedian H. Alan Scott’ conversion to Judaism.
2019: The YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research is scheduled to host Dovid Braun as he talks about “What
Yiddish Is That?” part of the Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
2019: In Des Moines, IA,
at Tifereth Israel Synagouge, Jonathan Schachter, a “former advisor to Prime
Minister Netanyahu” is scheduled to speak at “The 2019 AIPAC Iowa Annual event.
2020: B’nai Jeshurun
Congregation is scheduled to host “Starbucks, Bread & Torah Online.”
2020: The Village for
Families With Young Children at Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present
online “TGIS at Home.”
2020: In Tel Aviv-Jaffa,
the Barby Club is scheduled to host Israeli singer-songwriter Daniela Spector
2020: B’nai Jeshurun
Congregation: Starbucks, Bread & Torah Online
2020: The Vision for
Shabbat Chazon will be even brighter today as the friends and family of Joseph
Levi Strauss celebrate his birthday along with the Day of Rest.
2020: Temple Israel is
scheduled to present online “Clergy Havdalah, Cocktails and Mocktails” where
people gather with the clergy for Havdalah and say goodbye to Shabbat.
2020(4th of
Av, 5780): Parshat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon;
2021: Contemporary Jewish
Museum is scheduled to present “The Fabric of Heritage,” an in-person talk
about a new addition to the Levi Strauss exhibit: a jacket belonging to Al
Smith, a Klamath Nation member and activist who shaped U.S. religious freedom
laws.
2021: The Breman Museum
is scheduled to host the opening tour of the “The Absence of Humanity Exhibit.
2021: ENGAJ, Moishe House
Silicon Valley and Young Adults at Addison-Penzak JCC are scheduled to present
“It’s a Hot Summer,” a “Tu B’Av party to celebrate the Jewish day of love, with
music, munchies, games and open bar.”
2021(16th of
Av, 5781): Worldwide people will
mark the first anniversary of the passing of our beloved Rabbi Adin Even-Israel
Steinsaltz z"l with an online Zoom gathering scheduled take place take
place at 1:00pm Eastern (8pm Israel).
2021: Hagai Segal is
scheduled to return to LSJS for a special session exploring the changing nature
of US-Israeli relations now that both states have new leaders and new political
agendas and priorities.
2021: YJP of Boston is
scheduled to present a “Tu B’Av White Party,” where participants party in their
“best white outfit.”
2021: Vocalist Sigal
Vardi is scheduled to lead a kid-friendly sing-along for Tu B’Av, the Jewish
day of love, in OFJCC’s Jessica Lynn Saal Town Square
2022: Final performance
of Tom Dugan’s one-man show “Tevye in New York” is scheduled to take place
tonight at the Wallis Theatre in Los Angeles.
2022: New Lehrhaus and Contra Costa JCC are
scheduled to present U. of Oklahoma
professor Andrew Porwancher discussing The Jewish World of Alexander
Hamilton his 2021 book which tells the story of the founding father’s
likely Jewish birth and upbringing, and its consequences for the nation.
2022: The Center for Jewish History (CJH) in
New York City is scheduled to hold a
virtual talk about a new memoir by author Lisa Brahin, Tears Over Russia: A
Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’s Pogroms.
2022:
The
Wiener Holocaust Library in London is scheduled to hold a virtual screening of the documentary film
“Complicit,” about the fate of the refugee ship MS St. Louis in 1939, as well
as a panel and talk featuring former child refugees aboard the vessel and the
film’s creator and director, Robert Krakow.
2022:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present “Remember This,”
“ a one-man filmed play about Jan Karski’s amazing diplomatic/undercover work
for Poland during WWII.”
2023:
YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture by Shachar Pinsker on “When Yiddish Was
Young In Israel.”
2023:
“In response to the Kneseet’s passage of the government’s first judicial
overhaul law” yesterday the Israeli Medical Association is calling for a
one-day general strike on the on healthcare system today. (As reported by Renee
Ghert-Zand)
2023: The Tzofim (Israeli Scout) Friendship Caravan is scheduled to be in Des
Moines, Iowa today.
2024: The Prime Minister of Israel is scheduled
to meet separately today with President and Vice President of the United States.
2024: The ADL is scheduled to host a webinar on
“Mistinformation and Disinformation: What Can You Do?”
2024: As July 25th 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 293 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
