This Day, July 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July
26
412:
“Emperors Theodosius II and Honorius ban compulsion of public service or court
appearances for Jews on the Sabbath or any other Jewish holy day. Thus all
legal issues involving Jews must be completed between Monday and Friday, and
the Jewish Sabbath receives general protection. By the same token, Jews should
not summon Christians to court on Christian holy days.”
657:
Caliph Muawiya defeated Caliph Ali at the Battle of Siffin. Muawiya was
the founder of the Umayyad dynasty. Earlier, he had been instrumental in
the founding of a synagogue in Tripoli (in modern day Lebanon). The
Umayyads would take control of Jerusalem, allow the Jews to live openly in the
city and build one of their most famous mosques. This battle may be
“ancient history” to westerners but for some followers of Islam it resonates in
the Sunni vs. Shiite conflict we see in the 21st century.
1139:
Count Alfonso, who declared independence from Leon, proclaimed himself
the first king of Portugal and entered history as King Alfonso I. King Afonso I
of Portugal entrusted Yahia Ben Yahi III, a Sephardic Jew born in Cordoba with
the post of supervisor of tax collection and nominated him the first
Chief-Rabbi of Portugal.
1267:
Clement IV is Turbato Corde, a papal bull dealing with heresy, forbidding any
action by Jews that would lead Christians to convert and establishing the
Inquisition at Rome.
1305: Today, Rashba,
who “was opposed to the philosophic-rationalistic approach to Judaism often
associated with Rambam, and” who “was part of the beit din (rabbinical court)
in Barcelona that forbade men younger than 25 from studying secular philosophy
or the natural sciences (although an exception was made for those who studied
medicine) wrote: ‘In that city [Barcelona] are those who write iniquity about
the Torah and if there would be a heretic writing books, they should be burnt
as if they were the book of sorcerers.’” Rashba is the Hebrew acronym for the
title and name of Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet, “a medieval rabbi, halakhist, and
Talmudist. The Rashba was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1235. He became a
successful banker and leader of Spanish Jewry of his time. He served as rabbi
of the Main Synagogue of Barcelona for 50 years. His teachers were the Ramban
and Rabbeinu Yona. Among his numerous students were the Ritva, Rabbeinu Behaye,
and the Ra'ah. The Rashba was considered an outstanding rabbinic authority, and
more than 3,000 of his responsa are known to be extant. Questions were
addressed to him from Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, and even from
Asia Minor. His responsa, which cover the entire gamut of Jewish life, are
concise and widely quoted by halakhic authorities. The Rashba's responsa also
illustrate his opposition to messianism and prophetic pretensions as a general
phenomenon, with examples against Nissim ben Abraham and Abraham Abulafia. The
Rashba defended Rambam (Maimonides) during contemporary debates over his works,
and he authorized the translation of Rambam's commentary on the Mishnah from
Arabic to Hebrew.” He passed away in 1310.
1309:
Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V. Pope
Clement V is first pope to threaten Jews with an economic boycott in an attempt
to force them to stop charging Christians interest on loans.”
1534:
After a papal commission had attested to atrocities committed by the
Inquisition against pseudo-Christians, Pope Clement VII issued a brief to the
nuncio of the Portuguese court to press for the release and absolution of 1200
imprisoned Marranos. The Pope would die before action could be taken on
his order and the effort ended with his death.
1555:
The Jews of Rome were forced into a ghetto by order of Pope Paul IV
1581:
Adoption of the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration), the declaration
of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
For Christians this is part of the battle between Protestants and Catholics;
for Jews it is a conflict that will result in the independence of the
Netherlands, a Protestant nation that would be a haven of tolerance for
European Jews.
1605:
A Jesuit Missionary traveling though China wrote a letter describing his
meetings with Ai T'ien, a Chinese Jewish teacher. Most of what we know
regarding the Kaifeng Jewish community is from this correspondence.
1612:
Birthdate of Murad IV during whose Sultanate the Jews of Salonica suffered such
severe financial losses that many of them were forced to migrate to Izmir.
1645:
Alexis Mikhailovich succeeded his father as the “second czar of the Roman of
dynasty.” The czar employed a Jewish physician named Stephan von Gaden. Unlike
many other Russian rulers who pursued anti-Jewish policies, this Czar’s record
is a mixed bag. “During his reign a considerable number of Jews lived in Moscow
and the interior of Russia.” “From the edicts issued by Alexis
Mikhailovich, it appears that the czar often granted the Jews passports with
red seals (gosudarevy zhalovannyya gramoty), without which no foreigners could
be admitted to the interior; and that they traveled without restriction to
Moscow, dealing in cloth and jewelry, and even received from his court
commissions to procure various articles of merchandise.” On the other hand
he expelled Jews from various “newly acquired cities” in Poland and Lithuania.
1669: It
was finally decided, today to expel a number of Jews from Vienna and Lower
Austria; 1,346 persons were affected by this decree of banishment. In their
dire need the Jews of Vienna once more sent a memorial to the emperor; but in
vain, for the commission had attributed to them all kinds of crimes.
Readmore: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=76&letter=V&search=Albert#ixzz1SzHWrNza
1670:
The last Jews left Vienna, following expulsion orders. According to tradition,
this took place on Tish'a b'Av.
1678:
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and “his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg
gave birth to Jospeh I, Holy Roman Emperor who confirmed the title and
privileges of Rabbi Samson Wertheimer who was “an Austrian finance, court Jew
and Shtadlan.”
1719
(10th of Av): Rabbi Samuel Filorintin, author of Olat Shemel passed away today.
1723:
The mother-in-law of Joseph Delgado was burned at the stake for “refusing to
renounce” her faith.
1723:
Joseph Delgado of Castile, his wife Antonia de Cardenas and his brother Gabriel
Delgado “were sentenced to imprisonment for life by the Inquisition at Llerena”
for “refusing to renounce their faith.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5058-delgado-joseph
1729:
In Dubno, Poland, the Hevra Kaddisah inadvertently moved the remains of Jakob
Yaska today. (Abraham Bloch)
1758:
After six weeks, the siege of Louisburg, where Sir Alexander Schomberg, the son
of Meyer Löw Schomberg a German-Jewish doctor who settled in England, and who
was able to pursue a naval career only after converting so he could comply with
The Test Act “played a distinguished part in the taking of the fortress” came
to an end when the French surrendered.
1768:
Twenty-one-year-old Haim Levy, a merchant, married Grace Mears today in
Newport.
1771(15th
of Av, 5531): Tu B’Av
1772(25th
of Tammuz, 5532): Esther Aarons, the daughter of Jacob Aarons passed away today
in New York City.
1773:
In Montreal, 38-year-old Ezekiel Solomon and Marie Elizabeth Louise Dubois gave
birth to Samuel Solomon
1788:
New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of
the United States. The fate of the Jewish people and the state of New York has
been intertwined since the earliest days of settlement in what is now the
United States. For example, Isaac Moses was a co-founder of the New York
Chamber of Commerce in 1768. There were approximately 350 Jews living in
New York City at the time of the American Revolution. Many of them fled
during the British occupation and did not return until after the war.
Jews were active in New York politics from the early days of the Republic as
can be seen by Solomon Simpson’s role as a founder of the famed Tammany Society
(the cornerstone of the Democratic Party) in 1794.
1788:
British “colonists” settle in Sydney, Australia. These “colonists” were
part of an English transport of convicts shipped to New South Wales.
Australia was founded as penal colony. According to at least one source
there were eight Jews among the first shipment of eight hundred prisoners
including “sixteen year old Esther Abrahams of London sentenced for stealing a
piece of lace.”
1790(15th
of Av, 5550): Tu B’Av observed on the same day The House of Representatives
narrowly passed the Assumption Bill, making the federal government responsible
for state debts, a fundamental plank in Treasury Secretary Hamilton's economic
reforms and a critical part of the compromise that had made possible the
ratification of the Constitution.
1799:
Birthdate of Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff the German Jewish author who
“published under the pseudonym ‘Pliny the Youngest.’”
1803:
Birthdate of Johann Jacob (Joseph Isidor) Sachs the German physician who
practiced in Berlin where he also “was a prolific writer.”
1806:
Napoleon formed the Conference of Notables to deal with the relationship
between the Jews and the French State. It consisted of 112 deputies from all
parts of the French Empire. At the assembly, led by the financier Abraham
Furtado and Rabbi Joseph David Sinzheim, the delegates were confronted with a
questionnaire on polygamy, usury, loyalty and intermarriage. Pleased with their
answers, he decided to reenact the Sanhedrin, with representatives from all
congregations under his careful direction. Even though the assembly was to be
held on the Sabbath (some claim as a loyalty litmus test) it was decided to
attend and not risk the wrath of the Emperor.
1806:
In Dessau, author and publisher Moses Philippson and Marianne Levy-Wust gave
birth Phoebus Moses Philippson the author and physician who married his cousin
Sara Gottshalk in 1832 and then married her sister Pauline in 1849 after his
first wife’s death.
1809:
David Hyams married Judith Hart at the Great Synagogue.
1814(9th
of Av, 5574): Tish’A B’av observed for the last time during the War of 1812.
1815:
Birthdate of Dr. Robert Remak, “embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist”
who was denied academic tenure and credit for his work because he was Jewish.
1816(1st
of Av, 5576): Rosh Chodesh Av observed for the last time during the Presidency
of James Madison who wrote a letter to his successor James Monroe today.
1820(15th
of Av, 5580): Tu B’Av
1824(1st
of Av, 5584): Rosh Chodesh Av observed as the Marquis de Lafayette is sailing
on board “the ship Cadmus for a triumphant return to the United States.’
1826(21st
of Tammuz, 5586): Thirty-one-year-old Elizabeth Evans, the Hillstown, PA born
daughter of Mary and Josiah Lunn and the wife of David Evans passed away today.
1828(15th
of Av, 5588): Shabbat Nachamu; Parashat Vaetchanan; Tu B’Av is observed for the
last time during the presidency of John Q. Adams.
1832:
In Brono, Johanna Jeitteles and Dr. Aloys Isidor Jeittels gave birth to women’s
right activist Ottilie Bondy.
1832:
“Abraham Isaacs, Esq.” was named today “to be a Magistrate and Assistant Judge”
for the “Parish of St. Ann.”
1836:
In Prague, Bohemia, Kulif (Leopold) Fischl and Rifka (Rebecca) Gutwelig Fischl
who were married in 1820 gave birth to Ferdinand Fishcell, the husband of
Lizzie Sicher Fishell whose children included theatrical manager Daniel S.
Fishell.
1839(15th
of Av, Tu B’Av observed for the first time during the First Aghan War which
turned into a disaster for the British who were just one of many European
powers to find that Afghanistan was beyond their ability to exercise control.
(A lesson Bush and Chaney did not learn either)
1844: Today,
during the last weeks of his life, Aron Chorin wrote from his sick-bed a
declaration expressing his full accord with the Rabbinical Conference of
Brunswick, and on August 11 he sent an address to the conference of Hungarian
rabbis at Páks. He died at Arad, Hungary.
1844:
Sixty-four-year-old Carl Streckfuss the Prussian privy council who in 1833
wrote a treatise, “On the Relation of the Jews to the Christian States” in
which he expressed reluctance “to recommend a universal emancipation because of
the alleged moral and deficiencies of the common type of Jew. (As reported by
Jacob Katz)
1845(21st
of Tammuz, 5605): Parashat Pinchas read on the same day Isambard Kingdom
Brunel's iron steamship Great Britain began the transatlantic crossing from
Liverpool to New York making it the first screw propelled vessel to make the
passage.
1846(3rd of
Av, 5606): Eighty-three old Esther Mordecai Russell “the first-born daughter of
Mordecai Moses Mordecai and Zipporah "de Lyon" Mordecai” who was the
wife of “Dr. Philip Moses Russell, a Jewish Surgeon's Mate, who received a
special commendation from General George Washington for his services at Valley
Forge” passed away today in Philadelphia.
1847:
The Republic of Liberia declared its independence. One hundred years
later, in November of 1947, Liberia would be one of 33 nations to vote for
partition which would lead to the creation of the state of Israel.
1847:
Birthdate of “Isaac Minis Hays. a
Philadelphia physician and author and editor of books on medicine and Benjamin
Franklin who was Librarian of American Philosophical Society from 1897-1922.
https://snaccooperative.org/view/72573446
1848:
In New Orleans, Henry and Mary Levy Florance gave bith to Lavinia Florance
Williams, the wife of James Green Branch Williams whom she married in 1884.
1850: On
Friday Rev. S. M. Isaacs, of New York, officiated at the dedication of the new
Synagogue in Buffalo, NY. Those attending donated a sum of six hundred
dollars following the ceremony. Rev. Isaacs is the spiritual leader of
Gates of Prayer in New York City.
1851:
Birthdate of Hungarian born German actor and playwright Gustav Kadelburg best
known for his comedies.
1851:
In “Somers Town, London,” John and Adelaide Collins gave birth to Kate Collins
who would die at the age of four.
1852:
Today in San Francisco, “Congregation Sherith Israel acquired a piece of land
on the east side of Stockton Street, between Broadway and Vallejo” at which
time “a committee was appointed to obtain plans for the erection of a permanent
synagogue which was “to be built either of wood or brick, thirty feet wide,
fifty feet deep and twenty feet high.” (As reported by Martin A. Meyer, Ph.D.
1854(1st
of Av, 5614): Rosh Chodesh Av observed for the last time during The Earl of
Aberdeen’s services as Prime Minister of the United Kingdo
1856:
Birthdate of New York native Albert Arnstein, the graduate of Packards Business
College and the holder of an LL.B from St. Lawrence University who settled in
St. Louis where he was President of the United Jewish and Charitable
Associations.
1856:
Birthdate of William Rainey Harper, the Professor of Hebrew at Yale, whose
writings included “The Jews of Babylon” and “The Return of the Jews from
Exile.” He was the first President of the University of Chicago where Emil
Gustav Hirsch was among the first faculty members.
1858(15th of
Av, 5618): Tu B’Av
1858:
Sir Lionel Nathan Rothschild (the first Lord Rothschild) took his seat in the
House of Commons after a long and bitter fight. The Christian oath was amended
so that non-Christians could also serve in the House. He became the first Jew
to sit in the House of Commons because a new oath of office was agreed upon
that did not refer to Christianity.
1860:
In New York City, Philip and Hannah Proops Phillips gave birth to Amelia “
Millie” Phillips Cohen, the wife of Alfred Morton Cohen who served as chairman
of the board of HUC for twelve years, and with whom she had two children – Hannah and
Philip.
1861:
In Hamburg, Emmeline and Berman Bernays gave birth to Martha Bernays the wife
of Sigmund Freud.
1861:
At the start of the Civil War Elias Leon Hyneman, the son of Benjamin
Hyneman, enlisted as a volunteer in Company C, Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
He fought in the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, at Gettysburg in 1863 and in the
Wilderness in 1864 before being taken prisoner. He died at the infamous
Andersonville Prison.
1862:
In Bialystok, Frieda Rabinowicz and Simon Wiener gave birth to Warsaw
University trained physician turned philologist Leo Wiener the husband of
Bertha Kahn who lectured at both the University of Kansas and Harvard.
https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Leo+Wiener
1862:
The following telegram was sent today:
To
Brif.-Gen. J.T. Quimby, Columbus, Ky.:
GENERAL:
Examine the baggage of all speculators coming South, and, when they have
specie, turn them back. If medicine and other contraband articles, arrest them
and confiscate the contraband article. Jews should receive special attention.
(Signed)
U.S. Grant Major-General
1863(10th
of Av, 5623): Tish'a B'Av was observed on the same day that the Union forces
routed John Hunt Morgan’s cavalry forces at the Battle of Salineville, OH which
put an end to his annoying raids.
1863:In
Philadelphia, Hannah Fucsler and Urias Wasserman gave birth to textile
manufacturer Joseph Wasserman, the President of the Artloom Corporation,
director of the Jewish Foster Home of Philadelphia and a member of Keneseth
Israel Congregaton.
1865:
Birthdate of Philip Scheidemann, German political leader and first Chancellor
of the Weimar Republic. Scheideman was not Jewish, but his first government
included four Jews which provided ammunition for the anti-Semites and opponents
to this post-war attempt at democracy in Germany. He left Germany when
the Nazis came to power and died in exile in Denmark.
1865:
In Philadelphia, Joseph Lodge No. 14 of the Free Sons of Israel “began
operations” today
1871(8th
of Av, 5631): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that the first issue of
the Democratic Statesman, a daily newspaper, was published in Austin, TX, the
capital of the Lone Star state.
1872:
On Staten Island tobacco importer Julius Beer and Sophia (Walter) Beer gave
birth to Columbia educated historian George Louis Beer, a member of the
American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and winner of the Loubat
Prize who was the husband of Edith Hellman, the niece of Columbia trained
academic Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, the son of banker Joseph Seligman.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/beer-george-louis-1872-1920
1873:
In Philadelphia, August Benjamin Loeb, the German born son of Benjamin and
Babette Loeb and his wife Mathilde Adler gave birth to Howard Arthur Loeb
1874:
Birthdate of Dr. Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky the Russian born conductor
best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, a position he held from 1924 to 1949.
1876:
Two years before he went into the cigar manufacturing business in Savannah, GA,
24-year University of Richmond graduate Lee Roy Myers married Julia Davis today
in New York City.
1878:
In Livingston, AL, Ida Hanaw and Adolph Brown gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania educated attorney Leo Brown, a partner in the Mobile law firm of
Brown and Kohn, the husband of Birdie E. Eichold and President of Congregation
Sahaaria Shomayim who was also a member
of the board of trustees of the Jewish Publication Society of America.
1880:
“Deception” directed by David Belasco opened today in San Francisco.
1881:
It was reported today that Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem plan on
taking an excursion to Staten Island next month.
1881:
Birthdate of Clara Ferrin, the native of Tucson, AZ who taught at Stafford
Elementary School before marrying merchant David Bloom becoming Clara
Ferrin-Bloom a local civic and Jewish communal leader.
1881:
Riots took place at Baerwald, Pomerania during which “a quantity of Jewish
property was destroyed.”
1882:
In San Francisco, Samuel L. Sachs disappeared after having shot his wife
today. Sachs, the son of Louis Sachs, a co-owner of Sachs, Heller
&Co is Jewish which his wife, whom doctors say will survive her wounds,
is the daughter of Thomas Shanon, a prominent Christian who has severed as
Collector of the Port.
1882:
As the Freight Handler’s strike continued things became so violent that a group
of Russian Jews working at the Red Star dock in Jersey City began fighting
among themselves.
1883:
In New York, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment disbursed over $32,000 to
a variety of charities including $1,870.57 to the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society.
1883:
Birthdate of Lina Bach, who was deported from Wurzbrug, to Nuremberg, to
Terezin and finally to Auschwitz she was murdered.
1883:
Birthdate of Lina Bach, a residence of Wurzburg who was transported several
times before being murdered at Aushwitz.
1885:
“The Summer Boarding House” published today provided a 19th century
bucolic vision of the Catskills which would become home to the Borscht Belt in
the 20th century.
1886:
“Life at Saratoga” published today reported that the section of Broadway that
separates the Grand Union from Congress Hall is referred to as “the Red Sea”
because it separates Jew from Gentile. Ever since Judge Hilton announced
his policy of banning all Jews from the Grand Union, New York Jewish Gentry led
by the Seligman family, has been staying at the Congress. According to
Colonel Texas Ochiltree only two suspected Jews have stayed at the Grand Union
– Jacob Hess and Abraham Hummel. The latter is considered to be a
Bulgarian so he does not pose a threat.
1886:
Several New York rabbis and a representative of the Hebrew Immigration Society
met with Immigration Superintendent Jackson at Castle Garden. They asked
him not send the Russian Jews currently staying at Ward’s Island back to
Europe. They offered to post bonds so that the immigrants would not be
treated as paupers. Jackson said he would refer the request to the
Committee of Commissioners of Emigration.
1887:
L. L. Zamenhof publishes Dr. Esperanto's International Language.
The father of Esperanto was a physician, the son of Lithuanian Jews.
Before his work with Esperanto, Zamenhof had published a Yiddish grammar book.
1887:
Birthdate of Reuben Leon Kahn, the Lithuanian-American immunologist who
developed the Kahn Test for syphilis.
1887:
Birthdate of Sheffield, England native and “soccer enthusiast” Nathan Agar who
came to the United States in 1900 after which he played for the Critchleys,
served as the “owner-manager of the Brooklyn Wanders” and played a leading role
in bringing the “Hakoah of Vienna soccer” to the United States for a series of
exhibition games.
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/26/archives/nathan-agar-organizer-of-soccer-team-was-90.html
1888:
Birthdate of Moselle Elias, the wife of Reuben Ezekiel Ezra Elias and
daughter-in-law of E.E. Elias and Sarah Catherine Elias who was buried in the
Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong when she passed away in 1921.
1888(17th of
Av, 5648): Thirty-five-year-old Leopold Wiesner the son Estra (Therese) Wiesner
and Rabbi Jonas Weiesner passed away today.
1888:
Columbia graduate Jefferson Seligman, the New York born son of James and
Content Seligman who became the senior partner of J. & W, Seligman &
Co. acquired his seat on the New York Stock Exchange today.
1890:
The officers of the synagogue on Stone Avenue in Williamsburg that was
incorporated today include Alter Birn, President; Jacob Alter, Vice President,
Joseph November, Treasurer; Wolf Jakobowits, Secretary; Loeb Waldmann, Isaiah
Zwinckel and Louis Zwickel, Trustees.
1890;
“Amusements” in The Los Angeles Herald previewed the upcoming
performance of the “Shatchen” a drama by Charles S. Dickson featuring
Frank Mordaunt.
1890(9th
of Av, 5650) Shabbat Chazon: Erev Tish'a B'Av
1890:
Even though the Cloakmakers strike was settled, “very little work was in any of
the factories” today because most the workers were Jews who do not work on
Saturday.
1890:
The headquarters of the Cloakmakers’ Union on Ludlow, Suffolk and Orchard
Street were decorated with American and Red flags while the workers praised
Joseph Barondees “who had so completely vanquished the manufacturers.
1891:
“Phases of City Life” published today described the relation between the new
chef at the Democratic Club and famed thespian Sarah Bernhardt. Emanuel
Bernard is her cousin and she adopted one of his girls, part of a family 15
children, after he wife died two years ago.
1891:
While in London, Colonel John Weber, the former Congressman who is now the
Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island said that “reports” of “the reshipment
of destitute Russian Jews from England” “are unfounded. (There was a
belief in the United States that western European countries and Great Britain
were buying tickets for eastern European immigrants to travel to America.)
1891:
Officials at the Hamburg-American Packet Company issued “indignant denials” to
charges that the company is providing Russian-Jewish passengers tickets “at
reduced rates.” The “exiles’ committee pays full price for each
passenger” but the company allows them to deduct the commission associated with
these bookings.
1891:
France annexes Tahiti. The first Jew probably arrived in 1769 with Capt. James
Cook. According to Virtual Jewish History, Alexander Salmon, a Jew, moved to
Tahiti, and later entered the Tahitian royal family when he married Arrioehau,
a Polynesian princess. Today there are approximately 200 Jews living in Tahiti.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/travel/article/tahitian_jews_make_do_on_their_island_paradise_20080104/
1892(2nd of
Av, 5652): Forty two year old Yonah Halevi Ettinger who was born at Brody in
1850 passed away today.
1893:
“No Mercy For Sick Children” published today described events surrounding the
eviction of a widow, Mrs. Sarah Goldstein and her eight children which
resulted which has led to a suit against her landlords Theodor Fischer
and Marshal George Haztzel in which she is being represented by Maurice B.
Blumenthal.
1894:
Two days after she had passed away, “Esther bat Arvahom, the wife of Moshe bar
Zvi” was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1895:
Rabbi Gustav Gottheil officiated at the funeral of Abram C. Bernheim a partner
in the firm of Shekan & Bernheim which was held this morning at Temple
Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue.
1895:
In Russia, today is the deadline for all Jews “who had resided in Moscow for a
long time” to comply with the government’s order to lead the city. All
other Jews living in Moscow have already been driven out under a government
program that began last summer.
1895:
The will of Bertha May was filed for probate in the office of the Surrogate
today.
1896:
The condition of Henry Clay Frick, the steel magnate who was shot by Jewish
anarchist during the Homestead Steel Strike was said to be improving and that
he would soon be out of danger.
1896:
“Webb Charged With Abduction” published today described the case of Dora Henry
and George Webb, the 16 year old Jewish girl and 20 year old Lutheran man who
were secretly married but never lived together after the ceremony.
1896:
According to Meyer Schoenfield, the contractors will join the tailors, most of
whom are Jewish, today in their strike against the manufactures
1896:
The clothing salesmen will join the tailors in their strike today if the owners
refuse their demand for a ten hour work and a guarantee that they will not be
laid off during “slack season.”
1897:
Rabbi Kaufman Kohler was the principal speaker at today’s session of the
National Jewish Chautauqua Assembly in Atlantic, NJ.
1897:
Birthdate of Columbia trained psychoanalyst Wiiliam V. Silverberg who trained
with Franz Alexander, “an early disciple of Sigmund Freud” and who was a
founder of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/12/90406565.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1897:
A group of Jews who had gone to Woodside to visit the new Mount Sinai Cemetery
and were robbed and beaten by a group of thugs, are in the jail in the town
hall after having been charged with using the grounds as a picnic grounds which
is against the law. In the meantime, their attackers have not been
captured.
1898:
During the Spanish American War the 6th Massachusetts Regiment
whose members included Phillip Tworoger of Boston, in Company A; Johan Hamberg
of Adams in Company B; Alfred J. Hermans of Boston in Company H and Jacob
Ostreicher and Benjamin Baker both from Lowell and both in company C to part in
the battle at Guanica which helped to secure Puerto Rico for the United States.
1898: In
Marianna, AR, Isidore B. Katzenstein and Gussie Katzenstein gave birth to Etta
Brachman the wife Solomon Brachman with
whom she had two children – Malcolm and Marilyn.
1898:
In Atlantic City, NJ, Minnie and Ellis A. Gimbel, the chairman of the board of
Gimbel Brothers gave birth to Colonel Richard Louis Gimbel the veteran of WW I
who served with 8th Air Force during WW II and “in 1951, was
appointed Professor of Air Science and Tactics at Yale and raised seven
children with his wife Julia de Fernex Millhiser.
1899:
Dr. J.H. Hertz addressed a meeting of “Uitlander” on the issue of excluding
Russian and Romanian born Jews from the right to vote in South Africa. Hertz
would later be expelled from the country for this and other similar addresses
on this subject.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=988&letter=S&search=St
1899(19th of
Av, 5659): Sixty-three year old Emil Breslaur a graduate of the Julius Stern
Conservatory who composed music as well as taught music theory passed away
today in Berlin.
1900:
Jacob Trieber was appointed by President William McKinley as United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas” today making him the
“first Jewish person appointed to a federal judgeship in the United States.”
1900(29th
of Tammuz): On the Jewish calendar observance of the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Abraham
b. David Portaleone of Mantua.
1901(10th of
Av, 5661): Mme. Hortense Levi, “a sister of the late Baroness de Hirsch” passed
away today in Belgium.
1901:
In New York, Montague and Adelaide Israel Triest gave birth to Columbia
University educated realtor and insurance broker Maier Triest who settled in
Charleston SC.
1902(21st
of Tammuz, 5662): Parashat Pinchas
1902:
“Rembrandt Close at Hand” published today provided a review of Jan of the
Windmill in which the reviewer pointed that “the old commentators denounced
Rembrandt as a barbarian and inveighed at these violations of chronology when
he painted or etched the Jews of the Old and New Testament in any old garb that
remotely suggested the Orient.”
1903:
In Buffalo, NY, “the corner-stone of the synagogue Lovers of Peace was laid”
today.
1903:
“A meeting of the executive committee of the National Jewish Charities was
called to order” today “in Atlantic, NJ.”
1904:
It was reported today that the New York Festival Chorus and the Ocean Grove
Festival Chorus are scheduled to sing “Elijah” by Felix Mendelsohn tomorrow at
Ocean Grove, NJ.
1905:
The Governor of Odessa “issued an extraordinary proclamation…which many have
the effect of increasing the bitter feeling against the Jews among troops and
the more ignorant classes of” the people of Odessa.”
1905:
Twenty-five-year-old Johns Hopkins trained surgeon Bertram Bernheim, the future
WW I hero and Paducah, KY born son of Isaac Wolfe and Amanda (Uri) Bernheim
married Hilda Hess Marcus with whom he had three children, Minda, Isaac Wolfe
II and Bertram, Jr.
1906:
It was reported today that “about seventy Jews have been arrested on suspicion
of belong to a self-defense organization” in Odessa where mobs had killed two
Jews, wounded seventeen and wrecked twenty-seven shops.
1907(15th
of Av, 5667): Tu B’Av
1907:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Temple B’nai B’rith for
Polish born Rabbi A.W. Edelman the husband of Hannah Pessah Cohn with whom he
had six children – Benjam Abram, Henry David, Rachel and Matilda who was the
first rabbi in Los Angeles.
http://www.jmaw.org/edelman-jewish-los-angeles/
1908:
In Philadelphia, PA, Louis and Esther Pripstein Belsky gave birth toe Abraham
Belsky, the husband of Fannie Belstky.
1908:
In the Catskills, those staying at the Catskill Mountain House included
Florence Adler and Nathan Sobel
1909(8th
of Av, 5669): Erev Tish'a B'Av
1909:
Annette Kohn mourned the death of Dr. William R. Huntington, rector of Grace
Church who “at the time of the great Russian massacre at Kishineff” “ordered
the funeral bells of Grace Church to be tolled during” the funeral procession
held by 70,000 Russian Jews” as they marched up Broadway “bewailing the with
dirges the loss of kinsman and compatriots.”
1909:
“The New York Jewish Community, the body recently formed of most of the
organized congregations and Jewish philanthropic institutions of the city sent
out a notice to Jews telling them to beware of the "mushroom"
synagogues which will begin to organize soon to celebrate the important Jewish
holidays of New Year and Day of Atonement” because “they are run for business
purposes” by some stranger or strangers “in places which are most objectionable
to observant Jews.
1910:
“Still Expelling the Jews “published today reported that from July 16 to July
25, 941 Jews were expelled from Kieff and the suburbs of Solomenka and
Demieffka.
1911(1st
of Av, 5671): Rosh Chodesh Av
1911:
In London, services were held at the Great Synagogue honoring the memory of
Rabbi Hermann Adler, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire who had passed away
on July 18.
1911:
The First Universal Races Congress, an anti-racist organization which discussed
the “Jewish Question” opened today in London.
1912:
It was reported today that a movie which had been made by a company of English
and American actors in Jerusalem depicting the life of Jesus was shown in
Jerusalem before being stopped from any further screening by the Turkish
governor.
1913(21st of
Tammuz, 5673): Parashat Matot
1913:
Saturday morning services are scheduled to be held at Temple B’nai Jehosua
where Rabbi Weil delivers the sermons in German.
1914:
In what would prove to one of the final acts of folly on the road to World War,
Germany and Russia rejected Great Britain’s offer to mediate a solution to the
crisis that had started with the assassination of the heir to the Austrian
throne.
1914:
Birthdate of Isaac Cohen the native of Wales and son of immigrants from
Lithuania who began his rabbinic career “at Harrow and Kenton Synagogue in
Middlesex in 1935,” earned a “PhD from Edinburgh University for research into
Talmudic thought” and was he Chief Rabbi of Ireland for twenty years.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!topic/alt.obituaries/gqdzeamWVF4
1914:
German economist Moritz Julius Bonn and his wife set sail on board the
passenger ship George Washington for the United States where he was scheduled
to serve as a guest professor at three different universities.
1915(15th
of Av, 5675): Tu B’Av
1915:
Following Governor Harris’ visit to the Georgia Prison Farm where he had gone
to investigate the attack on Leo Frank, he expressed how appalled he was at
conditions at the facility “tears rolled down his cheeks as he talked about
them.”
1915:
After converting to Judaism, Beatrice Venetia Stanley Montagu officially put an
end to Prime Minister Asquith’s quest for her hand, by marrying Edwin Samuel
Montagu.
1916:
It was reported today that four as yet to named member of the commission
chaired by Dr. Judah L. Magnes will be joining him in Europe to help with the
investigation of how American funds intended to aid Jews in the war zones of
Russia, Germany and Austria.
1916(25th
of Tammuz, 5676): Rabbi Leopold Freudenthal, a graduate of Heidelberg
University, who arrived in Trinidad, CO in 1889 where he became the spiritual
leader of Temple Aaron who also traveled through parts of New Mexico and
Colorado where he performed such rites as circumcision and marriage passed away
today.
1916:
As the three-day pogrom at Lokachi in the Province of Volinski came to an end
the Cossacks rode out to the place in the woods where the Jews had taken
refuge, lined them up “and robbed them of all their money and valuables.
1917:
A cable from Petrograd received by the New York Warheit said “that anti-Semitic
propaganda is being actively carried on in Russia by both the Bolsheviks…and
the reactionary groups” working for a counter-revolution which will restore the
Czarist regime. (Editor’s note another example of both sides having one thing
in common – hating Jews.)
1918:
It was reported today that the War Department has appointed seven Jewish
chaplains – Rabbis Elkan C. Voorsagner, Louis I. Egelson, Jacob Krohngold,
David Tannenbaum, Harry S. Davidowitz, I.J. Sarasohn, and Lee J. Levinger – and
the Navy Department has appointed Rabbi David Goldberg as a chaplain which has
enabled him to minister “to the religious needs of the men of the Jewish faith
on board United States battleships.”
1918:
It was reported today that “the Jewish colony of Merchavya in Northern
Palestine had been attacked by a band of robbers, one of whom was captured and
handed over to the Turkish district commandant who released him the next day.
1919:
Famed painter and President of the Royal Academy Sir Edward John Poynter who
was noted for his large canvases many of which drew on Biblical themes – “Visit
of the Queen of Sheba,” “King Solomon” and “Israel in Egypt” passed away today.
1919(28th
of Tammuz, 5679): Seventy-four-year-old Bertha Ida Fels, the Barvian born
daughter of Susanna Freiberg and Lazarus Fels who was the wife Gustav Rosenthal
and the mother of Bella, Carrie, Bertha and Susan Rosenthal passed away toay in
Raleigh, NC.
1919(28th of
Tammuz, 5679): Parashat Matot-Masei
1919:
Social Democrat and WW I veteran Otto Bauer, the brother of Ida Bauer, one of
Freud’s patients, completed his service as Foreign Minister of Austria today.
1919(28th of
Tammuz, 5679): Fifty-eight year old Oscar Bower Teller, the son of David and
Rebecca Allen Hackenburge Teller and the brother of Solomon Teller and Alice
Hannah Teller Fleischer passed away today after which he was buried at Mt.
Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.
1920:
“The first international conference of Boy Scout executives” which Mortimer Schiff
is attending as the chairman of the American delegation of the National Council
of Boy Scout of America, is scheduled to continue today in London.
1920:
In Paris, Béatrice de Camondo and composer Léon Reinach gave birth to their
daughter Fanny who passed away in 1944.
1921:
“No Jew shall remain longer than twenty-four hours in Efferding, in Upper
Austria, according to an edict issued by the communal authorities.”
1922:
On New York’s Lower East Side, William and Bella Berger gave birth to
“character actress” Anna Berger.
1923:
Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner spoke at a dinner tonight in London
which was given in his honor and told the attendees that he “was optimistic
about the future of Palestine.”
1924(24th
of Tammuz, 5684): Parashat Pinchas
1924:
Based on reports published today in Riga, fifteen Jewish passengers on board a
Russian boat in the River Djesna were brutally murdered by bandits in what was
described as a “pogrom.”
1925:
Robert Benoist, “the son of Baron Henri de Rothschid’s gamekeeper and
member of the French Resistance murdered by the Nazis at Buchenwald, won the
French Grand Prix today.
1926(15th
of Av, 5686): Tu B’Av
1926:
Featherweight Harry Blitman fought his first professional bout at Bacharach
Ball Park in Atlantic City, NJ
1926:
In Amsterdam, diamond cutter Emanuel Emden and seamstress Rosa Emden-Devries
gave birth to Bloeme Emden a childhood friend of the Frank girls who survived
the Holocaust and gained famed as Bloeme Evers-Emden a teacher and psychologist
who has written four books on the “hidden children” of WW II.
1927:
Just outside of Florence, Italy, Corrado and Olga (Liberati) Mazzetti gave
birth to Lorenza Mazzetti “who as a child in Italy survived the wartime
killings of her caretaker family by German soldiers and went on to help create
an influential British film movement and write a prizewinning novel based on
her experiences…” (As reported by Shelly Boettcher)
1928(9th of
Av, 5688): Tish’a B’Av
1928:
Birthdate of Sarah A. Oppenheim-Barnes the Dublin born daughter of a diamond
cutter who followed in father’s footsteps before becoming a leader “British Conservative
politician” who served as an MP alongside her son Phillip Oppenheim.
1928:
At “the Lying-In Hospital at 307 Second Avenue in Manhattan, New York
City,”
Sadie Gertrude Kubrick (née Perveler) and Dr. Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a graduate
of “the New York Homeopathic Medical College gave birth award winning
“director, screenwriter and producer” Stanley Kubrick and the husband of Toba
Metz, three of whose favorite films of mine are “Paths of Glory,” “Spartacus”
and “Dr. Strangelove.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/11/12/how-about-a-little-game
https://www.theguardian.com/film/stanleykubrick
https://www.stanleykubrick.de/en/.
1928:
Birthdate of Sarah A. Viner the native of Dublin and daughter of a diamond
cutter who rose to become an MP, government minister and life peer known as
Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes and who served in Parliament
with her son Phillip Oppenheim.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15146.html
1929:
“The Last of Mrs. Cheney” a film adaption of the Broadway play by the same name
produced by Irving Thalberg and starring Norma Shearer was released in the
United States today.
1929:
Birthdate of Netiva Ben Yehuda “an Israeli author, editor, and former soldier
of the Palmach” whose “writings, including a dictionary of Hebrew slang
(written with Dan Ben Amotz) and several books on pre-state Israeli music, made
her one of the aforementioned fighting force's most famous members.”
1929:
Birthdate of Bulgarian born pianist Alexis Weissenberg. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
1930:
In Elgin, Illinois, “Sam Goldman and the former Bella Silvian, who ran an army
surplus store” gave birth to economist Marshall Irwin Goldman, the Harvard
Ph.D. who “was among the first Kremlinologists to predict the downfall Miakhail
S. Gorbachev.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1931:
“The Opera Ball” a musical comedy featuring Otto Wallburg was released today in
Germany.
1931:
Judge Lester Wm. Roth of the superior court here was elected president of the
Jewish Consumptive and Ex-patients Relief Association at the first meeting of
the newly constituted board of directors held tonight. (JTA)
1932:
“A campaign against all Jewish holidays was launched today by the Jewish
Communist with the publication of an Anti-Yomtovim Apikoires – anti-holiday
infidels’ edition” which “is devoted to describing ways and means of combating
the Jewish holidays.”
1933:
The German government adopted a statute leading to the “de-naturalization of
Jews” living in the Reich.
1933:
“On the Streets,” “a crime drama directed by Victor Trivas, and starring
Vladimir Sokooloff was released in the United States.
1933:
Twenty-two-year-old Abe Eliowitz, the All-American co-captain of the Michigan
State Football Team married Getrude Lipman today in the same year as his first
season with Ottawa Rough Riders of the CFL?
1934:
Today at Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson officiated at the funeral
services for Max James Kohler, the Columbia Law School graduate and assistant
U.S. District Attorney who was a leader of the American Jewish community and an
advocate for immigrant rights, regardless of their nation of origin who was the
Detroit born son of Rabbi Kaufman Kohler and the former Johanna Einhorn.
https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/max_/Max%20James%20Kohler.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Max+J.+Kohler
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/07/27/95489709.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1934:
In Jersey City, NJ, Michael and Esther Novick gave birth to Dr. Peter Novick,
the University of Chicago history professor who challenged the seemingly
overbearing centrality of the Holocaust among American Jewry.
1934: The Palestine
Post reports that on July 14, 1934 a Jewish delegation from Adrianople
spoke with the Turkish government, to ensure they do not remove all the police
from the Adrianople towns in order to prevent the looting of abandoned homes.
1935:
“The Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick announced today that a law forbidding
marriages between Jews and non-Jews would shortly be promulgated and
recommended that registrars should avoid issuing licenses for such marriages
for the time being.”
1935:
Birthdate of Erika Mandle who spent part of WW II at Rue du Vertbois, 9b in
Liege.
1936:
It was reported today that Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter, executive director of
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations has assumed the chairmanship of the
American Committee Appeal for the Relief of Jews in Poland” which “is a
non-sectarian organization…conducting a drive for $1,000,000.”
1936:
It was reported today that no women were included in commission headed by Earl
Peel that was selected by the British government “to inquire into unrest in
Palestine” “because the government feared that Arabs and Orthodox Jews would
object to negotiating with them.”
1936:
According to the annual report of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee made public today by Joseph C. Hyman, “the Joint” “expended $300,000
in 1935 for the rehabilitation of the Jews in Germany.”
1936; The
Palestine Post reported that a serious catastrophe, which might have
involved a serious loss of life, was avoided only by chance when rails were
loosened only a few minutes before a passenger train from Haifa was due to
reach Lydda. A goods train, however, was derailed near Ras el-Ain. The
Jerusalem water-pipeline pumping station was also sabotaged there.
1937:
It was reported today that copies of a resolution condemning the “un-American”
principles being taught at Nordland, the German-American Camp adopted by the
New Jersey War veterans of the 29th Division were sent to
President Roosevelt and the members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation.
(Editor’s note – the German-American Bund and other such organizations added to
the complications of American political leaders who wanted to do something
about Hitler and/or help Jewish refugees.)
1938: As
Arab violence continued to grow, a group of 80 American tourists who had
arrived in Jerusalem yesterday are scheduled to leave for Jaffa today where
their ship is waiting for them. The group arrived from Egypt at the same
time that an explosion rocked Haifa. Ensuring concerns about their safety
forced cancelation of part of their tour.
1939:
Adolf Eichmann “established a Central Office for Jewish Emigration the purpose
of which is to expel Jews from the Czech region now controlled by the Nazis.
Eichmann was in charge of the previous office of Jewish emigration that had
been established in Vienna in 1938.”
1939:
Birthdate of Oscar Baylin Goodman, the native of Las Vegas who became a leading
defense lawyer and the 21st Mayor of Las Vegas.
1940: Today with the approval of L. P. J. De
Decker, the Dutch Ambassador in Riga. Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the
Phillips factory in Lithuania and acting council of the Dutch government in
exile, began to issue visas to Curacao that would save the lives of a couple of
thousand Jews and earned him recognition by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the
Nations..
1940:
Birthdate of Michael “Mike” Slive the Uitca, NY, born law school graduate who
became Commissioner of the SEC (Southeastern Conference, not the Securities and
Exchange Commission) who is also a member of Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham,
Alabama.
1941(2nd
of Av, 5701): Parsashat Matot-Maesei
1941(2nd
of Av, 5701): Odessa. Russia born landscape painter Leonid Gechtoff, who came
to the United States in 1922 and made his home in Philadelphia along with his
wife who “ran a gallery in San Francisco from 1956 to 1958 passed away today.
https://www.askart.com/artist/Leonid_Gechtoff/22745/Leonid_Gechtoff.aspx
1941:
The Germans occupied Boguslav, a city in Kiev, today. By the end of the
year they will have murdered most of the Jews in the town, living alive only
some artisans whom they would execute in July of 1943.
1941:
Max Dormoy, a friend and colleague of Leon Blum was assassinated today.
1941:
In the second of a pogrom and roundup of Jews in Lvov, three of Rabbi Ben Zion
Halberstam's sons-in-law Rabbi Yecheskel Halberstam (son of Rabbi Yeshayale
Tchechoiver), Rabbi Moshe Stempel and Rabbi Shlome Rubin were taken prisoner.
1942:
Sixty-one-year-old Titus Brandsma, the
Dutch Carmelite friar who spoke out against the Nazis died today at Dachau
where he had been sent after spending time in various Dutch prisons.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1jv9mtof?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic
1942:
Isaac Asimov married Toronto native Gertrude Blugerman with whom he had two
children – David and Robyn Joan – before divorcing her in 1973.
1943:
In New York City, Ruth Hurok and theatrical producer and publicist Barry Hyams
gave birth to Peter Hayms, the grandson of “impresario” Sol Hurok, stepson of
blacklisted conductor Arthur Lief, borther of casting director Nessa Hyams
whose career has included directing a trio of sci-fi flics: “Outland,”
“Capricorn One” and “2010.”
1943:
Giorgio Bassani, the Bologna-born Jewish writer and editor who had been
arrested for his anti-Fascist activities was released from jail today “the day
after Mussolini was ousted from power.”
1943:
American born expatriate poet Ezra Pound was indicted for treason today for his
pro-Fascist, anti-American (and anti-Semitic) radio broadcasts that he made
after Italy declared war on the United States.
1944:
The Soviet army enters Lvov, a major city of western Ukraine, liberating it
from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160.000 Jews in Lvov
prior to Nazi occupation.
1944:
The first German V-2 hits Great Britain. The V-2 was vast “improvement” over
the V-1. Unlike the V-1 which was essentially a flying bomb, the V-2 was
a true Guided Missile, posing a much greater threat to the British and the
Allied forces already in Europe. Anglo-American military leaders were
forced to alter their strategy to deal with this immediate threat. This
diverted forces from driving into the German heartland which prolonged the war
and the agony of the Holocaust.
1944:
“Step Lively” a movie version of “Room Service,” play co-authored by Allen
Broetz who also wrote the script for the film was released today in the United
States.
1944:
Henri Paul Gaston Maspero, the French sinologist and son of Egyptologist Gaston
Maspero and his wife were arrested in Paris after which he was sent to
Buchenwald where died at the age of 61 after he could no longer endure the
Nazis’ brutal treatment.
1945(16th
of Av, 5707): Sixty-three-year-old Polish native Max Cline, who in 1885 came to
the United States where graduated from MIT and became “the chief chemist of the
International Paper Company’s research division passed away today.
1945:
The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom General Election, removing Winston
Churchill from power. Labor’s Prime Minister Atlee betrayed the hopes of Jewish
leaders by continuing to enforce the White Paper. The new Foreign
Minister would demonstrate a streak of anti-Semitism when he declared that the
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were “pushing their way to the head of the
cue” demonstrating the pushiness which is a Jewish trait.
1946:
The Czech government, through the influence of its foreign Minister Jan
Masaryk, opened its borders to Jews wishing to flee Poland. Within 3 months
over 70,000 Jews using transportation paid by the Czechs would use this route
on the way to Eretz-Israel.
1946:
Warner Bros. distributed “Two Guys from Milwaukee,” a comedy co-authored by
I.A. L. Diamond with music by Friedrich Hollaender.
1947(9th of
Av, 5707): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1947:
As Jews observe Shabbat President Truman signed the National Security Act of
1947, that reorganized the military and intellegince branches of the government
so that the United States could better responds to a whole range of crises
including the threat of Russian imperialism and the chaos in the Palestine
Mandate.
1948:
The Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (IDAM) of the Ministry of
Education which “took over the functions of the Department of Antiquities of
the British Mandate in Israel” was founded today with archaeologist Shmuel
Yeivin serving as director.
1948:
Operation Shoter came to a successful conclusion as the three villages south of
Haifa in an area called the “Little Triangle” surrendered to Israeli forces.
1949:
In Kansas City, KS, premiere of “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” with a closing
narration by Irving Pichel which helps to make this one of the finest movies of
its type ever made. (Excuse the editorializing but it is a personal
favorite.)
1950:
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Abramson gave birth to Elliot Lewis Abramson today at the
Newark Beth Israel Hospital.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post reported that the former Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin
el-Husseini, called in Cairo on heads of all Arab states to check the
"brutal campaign of terror," carried out by the Jordanian authorities
against Palestine Arabs, accused of carrying out the assassination of King Abdullah
of Jordan. The new Jordanian Cabinet included only four Palestinians, out of
11.
1951:
David Ben-Gurion visited Jerusalem as part of his successful campaign for
re-election as Prime Minister. Included in the trip were visits with
evacuees from the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
1951:
Six years after the end of WW II, Canada, Italy, New Zealand and the
Netherlands formally ended their state of war with Germany today.
1952:
King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel
Nasser. Nasser was the power behind the throne and did not immediately take
power.
1952(4th
of Av, 5712): Parashat Devarim
1952(4th
of Av, 5712): Fifty-two-year-old Cincinnati, OH born Bertha Cohn Vigran, the
wife of attorney and WWI Nathan Vigran passed away today after which she was
buried at the Kneseth Israel Cemetery.
1952:
In Chicago, the Democratic National Convention which had nominated Adlai
Stevenson, who would later receive the highest award possible from the ADL, as
its candidate for President.
1953:
Armistice signed today ended the Korean War. Over 150,000 Jewish men and women
served in the military during the Korean Conflict. Israel supported the
American war effort in Korea and “sent $100,000 in foodstuffs to South Korea.”
1954(25th
of Tammuz, 5714): Lithuanian born American cantor and “author of liturgical
compositions, Benjamin Jaffe who is not to be confused with Ben Jaffe, the New
Orleans born son of Allan Sandra who founded Preservation Hall” passed away today.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/3810/Yofe-Ben-Tsien-Benjamin-Jaffe-1896-July-26-1954
https://jwa.org/oralhistories/jaffe-ben
1955:
There was an 82.8% voter turnout as Israelis went to the polls to choose the
members of the 3rd Knesset
1956(18th
of Av, 5716): New York furrier Motty Eitingon, the son of Itzhak Leib Eitingon and Rebecca Nemirof
Eitingon, the usband of Bess Eitingon and Fannie Eitingon and the father of Tom
Eitingon; Eva Chalaire and Lee Frizell passed a way today.
1956:
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. This action
would lead to the Suez Crisis in the fall of 1956 that would include a
lightning strike by Israeli troops across the Sinai that would take all of one
hundred hours.
1956:
Haim Laskov replaced Yitzhak Pundak, as the commander of the IDF armored
forces.
1958(9th
5718): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1958:
“The stature of Western powers soared in Israel when United States and British
troops landed in Lebanon and Jordan but sagged after it became clear that the
landings would not be followed up by an assault on pan-Arab imperialism.”
1959(20th
of Tammuz, 5719): Seventy-seven-year-old University of Michigan Medical School
graduate, Dr, Casriel Fishman, the Vilna born son of Michael and Hattie
Goldstein Fishman and the husband of Miriam Goldman Fishman whom he married in
1912 before beginning his medical practice in Oklahoma City in 1912 and serving
on the faculty of the OU Medical School in 1918 passed away today.
1960(2nd
of Av, 5720): Rogers Adolphe Pinner “senior partner of the Mutual Electric
Company” passed away. He was the son of Moritz and Melissa Pinner; the husband
of Effie Woodruff; and the father of Karl Pinner.
1961(13th of
Av, 5721): Sixty-five-year-old Polish born poet Ayzik Platner who lived and
worked in the United States “from 1927 until 1932” which moved to the Soviet
Union passed away today after which he was buried in Minsk.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2018/07/ayzik-platner.html
1961:
“A Cold Wind in August” with music by Gerald Fried and featuring Herschel
Bernardi was released in the United States today.
1962:
Funeral services were scheduled to be held this morning at “The Riverside” for
Hannah Marx, “the widow of the late Dr. Alexander Marx, Director of Libraries
and Jacob H. Schiff, the Professor of History” at the Jewish Theological
Seminary.”
1963:
Pitcher Alan Koch made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1965:
Birthdate of Jeremy Piven the New York born actor who was raised in Evanston,
Illinois and is best known for his role as Ari in the television series
“Entourage.”
1966:(9th
of Av, 5726): Tish’a B’Av
1966:
Simon and Garfunkel recorded “Scarborough Fair/Canticle”, the first cut on side
one of the album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.”
1967(18th
of Tammuz, 5727): Sixty-nine-year-old Josef Ganz, the Budapest born son of Hugo
Markus Ganz and Maria Torok and the “Jewish engineer in Germany was the real
source of the design for the “people’s car” which eventually would provide
cheap personal transportation not only for Germans, but people all over the
globe” known as the Volkswagen Beetle passed away today in Australia.
1967:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held at “The Riverside” for Blanche R.
Morris, the “daughter of the late Harry and Rose Morris.
1967:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning a “The Riverside for Rae
Nadel, the wife of Harry A. Nadel and the mother Richard and Eugene Nadel who
was an active member of the Jewish Center of Mount Vernon and an officer in the
congregation’s Sisterhood.
1969:
Operation Boxer continued with more strikes by the IAF.
1969(11th
of Av, 5729: Composer Frank Loesser passed away at the age of 59. His
Broadway hits include Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, and How
to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
1970:
It was reported today that the wife of Jewish millionaire Norton Simon is suing
him for divorce after 37 years of marriage “because of irreconcilable differences.’
1971:
Twenty-nine-year-old Safi, Morocco native Nessim (Max) Cohen who made Aliyah in
1962 and whose record is “20 victories, seven defeats, eight draws and eight
knockouts is scheduled to face Emile Griffith, a five time middle-weight world
champion Emile Griffin tonight in Madison Square Garden.
1971(4th of
Av, 5731): Forty-eight-year-old Diane Arbus the photographer who used the
camera to create a unique form of black and white art, passed away today.
http://www.biography.com/people/diane-arbus-9187461
1972(15th
of Av, 5732): Tu B’Av
1972(15th
of Av, 5732): Seventy-eight-year-old NYU Law School graduate Daniel Auster, an
attorney “specializing in customs work” who had two children with his wife,
“the former Yetta Jean Wiener” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/27/archives/daniel-i-auster.html?searchResultPosition=3
1973(26th
of Tammuz, 5733): Sixty-nine-year-old hydraulic engineer Hans Albert Einstein
“the second child and first son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić” passed
away today.
http://www.einstein-website.de/biographies/einsteinhansalbert_content.html
1973(26th of
Tammuz, 5773): Sixty-one-year-old Louis A Pincus (Aryeh Louis Pincus), the
former “chairman of South Africa’s Zionist Socialist Party who made Aliyah in
1948 after which he practiced law and served as “the first managing director of
El-Al” passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aryeh-louis-pincus
1976:
In “6 Film Studios Vie Over Entebbe Raid,” published today Robert McFadden
describes the intense interest to be first to make hey at the box office by
telling the story of the Israeli rescue mission that took place less than three
weeks ago.
1976:
In “Book About Raid Says 50 Israeli Agents Paved Way in Kenya,” Robert Tomasson
reviewed 90 Minutes at Entebbe in author William Stevenson
reveals the key role that intelligence gathering played in the successful
rescues of the Jewish hostages. The book takes on an added authoritative
tone since Stevenson is the author of A Man Called Intrepid.
1979(1st of
Av, 5739): Rosh Chodesh Av
1979(1st of
Av, 5739): Seventy four year old Sir Charles Clore, the descendant of
Lithuanian Jews who was a successful businessman, art collector and
philanthropist passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/1979/07/30/archive/sir-charies-clore-dead-at-74
1970:
“Unidentified Flying Oddball” a film adaptation of a work by Mark Twain
co-starring Ron Moody was released in the United States today.
1981:
New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant.
1982:
Yuval Ne’eman began serving as the first Minister of Science and Development
1984:
The second congress of The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) came
to an end.
1985:
“European Vacation” a National Lampoon inspired comedy directed by Amy
Heckerling and featuring Maureen Lipman was released in the United States by
Warner Bros.
1985:
Two months after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “Kiss of the Spider
Woman” directed by Héctor Babenco was released today in the United States and
Brazil.
1987:
''East End Synagogues: From the Shtiebel to Duke's Place,'' an exhibit at the
Heritage Center in London is scheduled to come a close.
1987:
The third congress of The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) opened
at Schloss Glienicke under the presidency of Professor Arnold Goldberg.
1988:
One-hundred-year-old Meredith Rathbone Carb, the son Isadore and Hattie Kahn
Carb, the husband of Bessie Brown Carb, the father of Meredith Carb Jr. and the
brother of “Harvard graduate and New Yok playwright and drama critic David Carb
whose historical novel, Sunrise in the West, is about his grandmother, Babette
Carb, who emigrated from Alsace to Mississippi, survived he Civil War, and made
her way to Texas passed away today in Dallas, TX.
1989:
Seventy-six-year-old Max Ableman, the Russian born son of Frank and Frieda
Ableman and the husband of Lillian Napsky Ableman who had had passed away
yesterday in Evanston, IL was laid to rest today at the Westlawn Cemetery.
1991(15th
of Av, 5751): Tu B’Av
1992:
After 205 performances the curtain came down on “The Substance of Fire” a
Holocaust related play by Jon Robin Baitz today at the Lincoln Center Newhouse
Theatre.
1993(8th of
Av, 5753): Eighty-four year old author and Academy Award winning screen writer
Daniel Fuchs passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/11/obituaries/daniel-fuchs-novelist-and-screenwriter-84.html
1993(8th of
Av, 5753) Ninety-two year old Dr. Simon Greenberg the long-time member of the
Jewish Theological Seminary Faculty and leading Conservative Rabbi passed away
today in Jerusalem where he had been living for the last year. (As reported by
Marvin Howe)
1994(18th
of Av, 5754): Norma Lubell, the wife of oil and gas executive Benedict Lubell
passed away today in Tulsa, OK.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/04/12/94351832.html?pageNumber=12
1996(10th of
Av, 5756): Uri Munk, 53, and his daughter-in-law, Rachel Munk, 24, of
Moshav Mevo Betar, were killed in a drive-by shooting attack near Beit Shemesh.
30-year-old Ze'ev Munk, Rachel's husband, was critically wounded and died in
the hospital the following week.
1997:
“Early Rabbinic Judaism,” a colloquium sponsored by the The European
Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) came to an end.
1998:
A year after his first wife had passed way, 65 year old investment consultant Bertram
Frankenberg who as a Lt. Colonel was commander of the internment camp at
Stringtown, OK during WW II, married Harriet Feldman Newman.
1998: The New York Times featured books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The International
Encyclopedia of Dance, edited by dance historian Selma Jeanne Cohen and the
recently released paperback edition of The Puttermesser Papers by
Cynthia Ozick
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/26/1998/selma-jeanne-cohen
2000:
A federal judge in New York approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss
banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded
money deposited by Holocaust victims.
2000:
Following the failure of the peace negotiations sponsored by President Clinton
with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Yassar Arafat returned to Gaza having rejected
a compromise peace agreement because doing so would be, in his words, signing
his own death warrant.
2001:
Seventeen year old Ronen Landau was shot by terrorists today in Jerusalem.
2002(17th
of Av, 5762): Four people including a rabbi were killed and two children were
wounded by terrorist gunfire south of Hebron.
2003(26th of
Tammuz, 5763): Parashat Matot-Masei
2003:
“President Bush received the new Palestinian prime minister at the White House
today for the first time, and he used the occasion to signal to both
Palestinians and Israelis that he would push them toward tough decisions for
peace.”
2004(8th of
Av, 5674): Erev Tish’a B’Av
2004:
Premiere of “The Village” a horror film produced by Scott Rudin, with Adrien
Brody and Jesse Eisenberg
2005:
“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel arrived in today France for a three-day
visit described by both countries as an opportunity to turn the page after
years of diplomatic tension.” (As reported by Katrin Bennhold)
2006:
Hezbollah fired an additional 130 rockets into northern Israel wounding at
least five Israelis.
2006(1st
of Av, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Av
2006(1st
of Av, 5766): In an act of unbelievable self-less courage, Major Roi Klie threw
himself on a live grenade, sacrificing his life so that his comrades would
live. The action took place on the second day of the Battle of Bint
Jbeil.
2006(1st
of Av, 5766): 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: Maj. Ro'i Klein, 31, of
Eli; Lt. Amihai Merhavia, 24, of Eli; Cpl. Ohad Klausner, 20, of Beit Horon;
Lt. Alex Schwarzman, 23, of Acre; St.-Sgt. Shimon Dahan, 20, of Ashdod; Cpl.
Asaf Namer, 27, of Kiryat Yam; St.-Sgt. Idan Cohen, 21, of Jaffa; Sgt. Shimon
Adega, 20, of Kiryat Gat; Lt. Yiftach Shrier, 21, of Haifa.
2007:
The Vilna Shul / Boston Center for Jewish Heritage presents a screening of
“Shalom Y’All,” a documentary that examines life of Jews living the South.
2007:
Aluf David Ben Ba’ashat ended his service as commander of the Israeli
Navy.
2007(11th of
Av, 5767): Ninety-four-year-old Senetta Yoseftal the wife of Giora
Yoseftal, founder of Kibbutz Galed who served as an MK passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Former-MK-Senetta-Yoseftal-passes-away-at-95
2008:
In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai's Saturday night concert series continues with a
performance by Rona Keinan, daughter of the famous Israeli author Amos Keinan
and singer of “Through Foreign Eyes” – her 2006 hit single - fame. Keinan, who
began singing at a young age and quickly rose to prominence through her
collaboration with noted Israeli artists including Dana Berger and Eran Zur, is
also an icon of Israel's gay and lesbian community.
2009: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including A Safe Haven: Harry
S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh
and Is real is for Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the
Jewish Nation and Its History by Rich Cohen
2009: The
Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Essays of Leonard
Michaels. “Leonard Michaels writes in perfectly shaped sentences. This
would be cause for admiration and celebration in any writer, but surely it is
far more so for one who did not begin to speak English until he was 5 years
old. His parents immigrated from Poland to Manhattan's Lower East Side only
steps ahead of the Holocaust – ‘When the Nazis seized Brest Litovsk, my
grandfather, grandmother, and their youngest daughter, my mother's sister, were
buried in a pit with others’ -- and in their tiny apartment the language spoken
was Yiddish. That, and Jewishness, permeate his writing, as no one knew more
keenly than he did;”
2009:
The Cedar Rapids Gazette published “Morocco
challenges Mideast mind-set on Holocaust” which described the North
African Kingdom’s attempt to deal with the Shoah.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3751982,00.html
2010(15th of Av, 5770): Tu B’Av
2010: Rabbi Zerach Greenfield, an expert scribe, is scheduled to
be at Tifereth Israel in Columbus to check your Tefillin and discuss repairs
and for questions about any other ritual objects that people need reviewed.
2010: A screening of Hungry Hearts is scheduled to take place at
the Castro Theatre during the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2010: The parents of missing Druze soldier Majli Halabi demanded
today that authorities investigate convicted murderer Yichya Farhan regarding
the case of their son, according to Israel Defense Forces Radio.
2010: After three years of renovation, the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem reopened to the public firmly reestablishing itself as Israel’s
national museum and the most important repository of Jewish culture in the
world.
2010: The head rabbi of a prominent yeshiva in the West Bank
settlement of Yitzhar was arrested today for writing a book that allegedly
encourages the killing of non-Jews. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira is the alleged author
of the book "The King's Torah," which deems as legal, according to
"Jewish law," the killing of non-Jews.
2010: The Israel Air Force demolished a weapons plant in northern
Gaza
2010(15th of Av, 5770): Six members of the IDF - Lt. Col (Res.) Avner Goldman, 48, from Modi'in; Lt. Col.
Daniel Shipenbauer, 43, from Moshav Kidron; Maj. Yahel Keshet, 33, from
Hatzerim; Maj. Lior Shai, 28, from Tel-Nof; Lt. Nir Lakrif, 25, from Tel- Nof;
and Staff Sergeant Oren Cohen, 24, from Rehovot – were killed when their
helicopter crashed in Roumania.
2011: The International Master Course for Violinists is scheduled
to begin at Kibbutz Eilon “amid the scenic mountains of the western Galilee.”
2011: Following his appointment as “chief of the Washington Bureau
of the New York Times” four days ago, David Leonhardt wrote “his final Economic
Scene column, ‘Lessons from the Malaise,’” today.
2011: Avi Issacharoff, the Palestinian and Arab Affairs
Correspondent, Haaretz, is scheduled to deliver an address entitled
“Shifting Sands: The Mainstreaming of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim
Brotherhood” in Waukee, IA.
2011: The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip hanged a father and
son at dawn today for collaborating with Israel, a government spokesman said.
2011: Protesters in Tel Aviv's impromptu "tent city"
housing protest dismissed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest plan
today, saying that he was trying to create divisions within the protesters, by
offering discounts only to students.
2011: An
Israeli orchestra broke a taboo today as it played the music of Adolf Hitler's
favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in Germany. Some 700 spectators in Wagner's
hometown of Bayreuth loudly applauded the Israel Chamber Orchestra as its 34
musicians concluded their concert with the Siegfried Idyll, becoming the first
Israeli ensemble to perform a Wagner piece in Germany.
2011: The
Anti-Defamation League is organizing a free "community briefing"
tonight on First Amendment religious freedoms which will explain why it is
concerned about Texas Governor Rick Perry's Christian-only day of prayer in
Houston next month
2011: “Olive and the Bitter Herbs” is scheduled to have its first
preview performance at 59E59 Theaters
2012: University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Harry
Reicher is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “The Future of International
Justice” at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
2012: “Harbor of Hope” is scheduled to have its West Coast
Premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival while “Sharqiya” is slated
to have its California Premiere at the same venue.
2012: The 12th Annual Summer Institute for Synagogue Musicians,
Mifgash Musicale is scheduled to come to an end today at the HUC-JIR campus in
Cincinnati, OH.
2012: Jibril Rajoub, the former head of the Preventive Security
Force and current president of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, expressed his
approval the IOC’s decision not observe a moment of silence at the opening of
the Olympics in memory of those athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics.
Apparently the killers do not want to be reminded of their crime.
2012(7th of Av, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old Miriam
Porat, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel passed away
today. (As reported by Tomer Zarchin)
2013: “Jew New York” an exhibition at Zach Feuer Gallery and
Untitled Gallery is scheduled to come to an end today.(As reported by Nathan
Burstein)
2013: In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host the
final session of the “Yiddish Film Festival.”
2013: Mercedes Bend, Boom Pam, Vaadat Charigim are among the bands
scheduled to perform in Jerusalem at the Indie City Music Festival.
2013: San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s announcement today that he will
undergo two weeks of intensive therapy amid sexual harassment allegations me
with a negative reaction from members of the city council (As reported by Tony
Perry)
2013: “Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday that he “won’t
be pushed” into a quick deal on a new labor contract for workers at the
Department of Water and Power. (As reported by Michael Finnegan and Kate
Linthicum)
2013: In Paris, prosecutors said that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to
stand trial on charges of pimpin (As reported by Kim Willsher)
2013:
60th anniversary of the end of the Korean Conflict
2013: In what might be called a tale of Three Jewish Musketeers
“In Tug of of War Over New Fed Leader” published today described the
competition between Janet Yellin and Lawrence Summers, both of whom are Jewish,
to replace Ben S. Bernanke who is also Jewish as Federal Reserve Chairman is
described.
2013:
“Israel has agreed to release 24 Israeli Arab prisoners serving life sentences
who were incarcerated before the 1993 Oslo Accords, having already agreed to
free 82 pre-Oslo Palestinian prisoners, Israel Radio reported today. The
releases would be carried out in phases, the radio report said, in parallel
with progress at Israeli-Palestinian peace talks which are set to resume next
week. (As reported by Michal Shmulovich and Elhanan Miller)
2013:
Art Ginsberg the founder of Art’s Deli in Los Angeles who kibitzed with his
customers “amid the knishes and the kreplach” was buried today at Sholom
Memorial Park in Sylmar. (As reported by Steve Chawkins)
2014:
“Vertigo,” a leading Israeli dance company is scheduled to perform on the open
night of the American Dance Festival in New York.
2014(28th of
Tammuz, 5774): Parashat Masei
2014(28th of
Tammuz, 5774): Eighty-four year old University of Indiana graduate Arthur J.
Klein, the metals broker who owned Arthur J. Klein and Associates, was a member
of Shaarey Tefilla and the husband of Ruth Edelman Klein with whom he had two
sons – Marc and Matthew -- passed
2014:
The demonstration by “several thousand left-wing activists in Tel Avi…calling
for an end to bloodshed in Gaza and a return to negotiations with the
Palestinians” was cut short “when Hamas unilaterally ended a humanitarian truce
with Israel and resumed rocket-fire from Gaza.”
2014:
“The Hidden Passages,” an exhibition organized by Avi Lubin, a curator and head
of the theoretical studies and the visiting artists at the postgraduate
program, Ha’midrasha Art school.
2014:
“Israel agreed to halt its military offensive in Gaza for 12 hours starting
this morning amid intense international efforts to seal a broader cease-fire
deal and a new explosion of violence in the West Bank, where at least six
Palestinians were killed during clashes with Israeli forces.” (As reported by
Isabel Kershner and Michael R. Gordon)
2015(10th of
Av, 5775): Tisha B’av observed
2015: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Hirschfeld Century:
Portrait of an Artists and His Age by Al Hirschfeld.
2015:
At the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), Tomas Kovar, a native of
Slovakia, is scheduled to talk about his experiences surviving the Holocaust.
2015:
In Memphis, TN, at 4pm, members of Temple Israel are scheduled to share their
personal stories of destruction, inspiring renewal, and hope, followed by a
thoughtful learning session with Rabbi Feivel Strauss, and lovely, hopeful
songs sung by Rabbi Bess Wohlner and our Music Director Abbie Strauss followed
by a reading and discussion of a brief excerpt from the Book of Lamentations.
2016:
Three days after Monica Lewinsky’s 43rd birthday, 69 year old
President Bill Clinton is scheduled to address the Democratic National
Convention which will not be chaired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz as previously
planned.
2016:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host a musical evening –
“Kings of Stride.”
2016:
In New York, The Jewish Museum is scheduled to conduct a docent led tour of the
exhibition “Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Burle_Marx#/media/File:Roberto_Burle_Marx_1981.jpg
2017:
In “Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully” published today, Joanna
Berendt described plans for the first traveling display of artifacts from the
“Nazi death camp” to be seen in “14 cities in Europe and North America.”
2017:
Dr. Rachel Stein is scheduled to present the last lecture on “Al-Andalus:
Tolerance, Culture and Violence in Medieval Spain.”
2017:
“Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story” is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival today.
2017(3rd of
Av, 5777): Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz turns 80.
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host the last screening of “Keep the Change” a movie about
two people with autism directed by Rachel Israel.
2018:
The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Social Studies and
History educators which is designed to “introduce participants to the”
United States Holocaust Memorial “Museum’s pedagogical approaching to teaching
about the Holocaust, as well as Museum resources” is scheduled to open today.
2018:
Mercaz Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host “Musical Journey in Duo” featuring
concert pianist Eliah Zabaly and violinist Gabriel Chouraki.
2018:
The Jerusalem Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2018:
Hershey Felder began a series of concerts “at the Wallis Annenberg Center for
the Performing Arts” featuring the works of Beethoven.
2018:
Dr. Robert Silber of Cedar Rapids, IA is scheduled to lead “a discussion about
love in honor of Tu B’Av” as part of Temple Israel’s Prime Timer’s Coffee and
Conversation program.
2019:
Deb Levin lights the candles for Shabbat for the last time in her Cedar Rapids
home.
2019:
In Atlanta, “ a week-long workshop at The Breman Museum which is part of
ChopArt, “a multidisciplinary arts organization serving homeless youth ages
10-18 to help build community, cope and heal is scheduled to come to an end
today.
2019:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Army
of Lovers in the Holy Land” and “Beyond the Bolex.”
2019:
In New York, the Landmark is scheduled to host a screening of Avi Belkin’s
“Mike Wallace Is Here” a documentary about, depending on your point of view,
one of the most controversial or one of the most important television
journalists of the 20th century.
2019:
In Little Rock, AR, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Congregation
B’nai Israel for 73 year old David Alan Lockwood, the son of Shirley and Saul
Lockwood, and for 45 years the husband of Ricki Lockwood with whom he created
an amazing life followed by burial at the Oakland Jewish Cemetery.
2019:
“Goldman Sachs honcho David Solomon” is “slated to take the stage” as a DJ at
“Tomorrowland” where he “will be among more than 100 acts, including New York
rapper A$AP Rocky and pop duo The Chainsmokers.”
2019:
As the week comes to an end Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin is faced
with the challenge of selling the administration’s budget deal to a Republican
Senate many of whose members have made a career of calling for fiscal integrity
and reduced federal spending and supporting the investigation of Amazon which
he claims has ruined the retail industry in America, something his critics say
his performance with the closure of Sears is something he himself has helped to
precipitate.
2020:
The New York Times features brief
reviews of books by Jewish authors including Dare to Speak: Defending Free
Speech for All by Suzanne Nossel, The Death of the Artist: How Creators
Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech, by
William Deresiewicz and Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder,
Deceit, and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman
2020:
“Jewish Federation of the Corridor is scheduled to launch its first event in
this Zoom session, cosponsored together with Agudas Achim's Tikkun Olam and
Adult Ed committees during which Ari Braverman and Julia Zalenski will describe
their work with these Eastern Iowa social justice groups. Please join the
discussion with your questions and comments.
2020:
The 11th annual Axelrod Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to provide
a screening of “Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive.”
2020:
In Cedar Rapids, the Temple Judah Board Meeting is scheduled to take place this
evening.
2020:
The Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
is scheduled to put on its second in the series of educational anti-Semitism
webinars this afternoon.
2020:
Klezmer violinist Cookie Segelstein is scheduled to lead a KlezCalifornia
workshop about rhythmic flexibility, melody chords and counterlines” which is
for intermediate-and-above musicians on any instrument.
2020:
The 2020 Keshet Eilon Music Center String Mastercourse is scheduled to start
today with an Alumni Concert in memory of the legendary violinist Ida Haendel,
who had joined the Keshet Eilon Faculty as a distinguished guest-artist from
1999 to 2010.
2020:
Akiva is scheduled to offer a “free virtual Israel tour that “will include
Israel experts, Israeli culture, live cooking demonstrations, discussions about
security issues, and visits to the northern border and Jerusalem.”
https://akivacleveland.org/summer-2020-virtual-israel-tour/
2021: The Marin Summer Yeshiva during which
“six Chabad rabbis lead three days of study on myriad topics such as
mindfulness, Torah calligraphy, the significance of Tefillin and Mezuzot, Torah
parchment making and Chassidic texts and teaching” is scheduled to continue for
a second day.
2021: Based on yesterday’s reports more fires
being started in Israel because of fire balloons launched from Gaza and the
rising number of COVID cases, Israelis will be dealing with the double-barreled
threat of disease and terrorism.
2021: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to
present “Isaac L. Bleaman, an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC
Berkeley, lecturing on “Standardization in Contemporary Yiddish: Case Studies
from Hasidic Jews and Yiddishists.”
2022: The Museum on Eldridge Street is
scheduled to host “Make Yourself at Home! Home, Exile, and Return in the Hebrew
Bible,” a lecture by Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Regina Stein
2022: Natasha Lehrer, a writer, translator and
editor whose work as a journalist and book reviewer has been widely published;
Daniel Trilling, an award-winning journalist and author; and Olga Grjasnowa, a
prize-winning novelist whose four books have each been adapted for the stage
and translated into multiple languages are scheduled address the connections
between current and past forms of antisemitism and the reasons why antisemitism
remains.
2022: The Jerusalem Post and WE (Women
Entrepreneurship) is scheduled to the Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit.
2022: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des
Moines is scheduled to host a screening of “Here We Are.”
2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
a screening of “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” during which The James Beard
Award-winning Israeli chef and restauranteur serves as a tour guide to culinary
Israel, interviewing chefs about their dishes, discussing the intermingling of
cultures and revealing how such a young country developed its own culinary
identity.
2022: S.F. Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
present a screening of “Perfect Strangers” a 2021 Israeli drama about seven
longtime friends whose innocent game evolves into a “conflagration of
earth-shattering revelations.”
2023: The Jewish Climate Action Network is
scheduled to present “Tisha B’Av Gathering To Pause Together.”
2023: The Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to
host “Healing the Broken, Creating Hope,” a “Tisha B’Av event for mourning the
brokenness in our hearts and world and sharing stories of hope and resilience.”
2023: “The IDF says Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla
is scheduled to meet with Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi today for an
assessment on the region and to discuss cooperation between the countries. (As
reported by Emanuel Fabin)
2023: The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to
present online “Tisha B’Av: The Saddest Day in the Jewish Calendar.”
2023(8th of Av, 5783): Erev Tish’a
B’Av
2024: Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet today
with Donald Trump who has called for a quick end to the war against Hamas in
the Gaza Strip and a return of the hostages while adding that “Israel is not
very good at public relations.”
2024: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled
to make today a Free Admissions Day.
2024: In Waterloo, IA, Rabbi Ora Schnitzer is scheduled to lead
services for Sons of Jacob Synagogue at the home of Naomii McCormick.
2024: In an acknowledgement of summertime, in
Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold services in the outdoor chapel.
2024: “The Family Forum tent at Azza/Balfour in
Jerusalem is scheduled to hold a musical Kabbalat Shabbat at 4pm and
traditional Kabbalat Shabbat services around candle lighting.”
2024: As Jews are scheduled to gather to
Welcome the Sabbath, they can say kaddish for Ravid Katz, 51, Oren Goldin, 33,
Maya Goren, 56, Sgt. Kiril Brodski, 19, and Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas,
20, who were killed on October 7 after which their bodies, which
only finally recovered this week, were dragged into Gaza by Hamas-led
terrorists.
2024: Despite death threats, Israeli athletes
are scheduled to participate in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games
in Paris today.
2024: As July 26th 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 294 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
