This Day, July 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 29
1099: Pope Urban II, the man behind the First
Crusade, passed away. Considering the
impact of the Crusades on the Jews of Europe, his impact on Jewish history is
self-obvious.
1108: Philip
I, King of France one of whose subjects Rashi and who was not allowed to
participate in the Crusade because Pope Urban II had excommunicated him which
may account, to some extent, why the Jews of France did not suffer in the same
as did their Germanic co-religionist during what turned out to be the start of
one of the deadliest periods of Jewish history passed away today.
1108: Louis
VI, during whose reign “jurisdiction over the Jews and their revenues gradually
passed from royal control to the hands of the Catholic Church” began his reign
as King of the Franks.
1336: Led by
John Zimberlin, a self-proclaimed prophet, a group of peasants in Germany known
as the Armleder (for their leather straps warn on their arms) attacked Jewish
communities in Franconia and the Alsace region. They also destroyed Jewish
communities in Bohemia, Moravia and elsewhere along the Rhine. Roughly 1500
Jews were murdered. Eventually when the Armleder began to attack non-Jews, they
were opposed by local Lords.
1567: James VI
is crowned King of Scotland. Scotland’s King James VI will enter history as
King James I of Great Britain, the monarch who gave his name to the King James
Bible, the English translation of the holy book whose text most Americans
(including many Jews) will think of as the real words of God.
1569: Isaac
ben Aaron Prositz who had successfully “petitioned King Sigismund II Augustus
for the right to establish a Hebrew press” that would “print the Talmud and
other Hebrew books for fifty years” began operating today.
1588: English
naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats
the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. The defeat of the
Spanish Armada meant that the Catholics and their Inquisition would not take
control of the British Islesor re-take the Netherlands, the Protestant nation
that was haven for European Jews.
Morrano spies reportedly provided information to the English which
helped them to know when and where to expect the arrival of the Armada.
1612(29th
of Tammuz, 5372): Abraham Portaleone, the Italian physician who studied under
Jacob Fano and who was granted special dispensation so he could treat such
prominent Christians as the Dukes Guglielmo and Vincenzo of Mantua and Pope
Gregory IV passed away today.
1644: Urban
VIII, the Pope who issued an edict in 1625 forbidding Jews in Rome from
erecting gravestones, passed away.
1654(Av,
5414): Miriam Lucerna, “the daughter of a well-known rabbi and physician, Leo
Lucerna” and the wife of Meshullam Solomon Fischhof-Auerbach passed away today
in Vienna.
1762(9th
of Av, 5522): Tish’a B’Av
1768(15th
of Av, 5528): Tu B’Av
1773(9th of Av, 5533): Tish’a B’Av observed on
the same day that the Santa Marta earthquake hit in Guatemala.
1775(1st of Av, 5535): Rosh Chodesh Av
observed on the same day that “The Continental Congress established the
Chaplain Corps at the request of General George Washington.’
1784: Nathan
Barnett and his wife gave birth to Jonas Barnett, the husband of Maria (Miriam)
Marks “who served as paymaster in the U.S. Navy
1785:
Birthdate of Isabella (Bella) Lazarus, the daughter of Marks Lazarus and the
wife of Aaron Philips whom she married in 1821l
1792(10th
of Av, 5551): Fast of Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that President
George Washington wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton on the
problems present by the federal debt.
1801:
Catherine Manuel, the daughter of David Manuel married Levy Solomons today.
1806: Two days
after he had passed away, Samson Gompertz, the son of Barent Gompertz and
Rachel Benjamin Isaac was buried today in the United Kingdom
1808: As he
prepared for surgery, Rothschild drew up his last will and testament.
1811(8th
of Av 5571): Tish’a B’Av
1814: One day
after he passed away “Moshe ben Eliezer” was buried today at the Brady Street
Jewish Cemetery.
1816: “Abraham
Wolf was ordered” by a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court “to pay a fine
of $4 for doing business on a Sunday” in violation of what were known as “Blue
Laws.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch)
1827: In
Strasbourg, “banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim” gave
birth to French author Louis Raisbornne whose uncles had converted to
Catholicism and become priests.
1819: David
Moses Dyte and Hannah Lazarus gave birth to Charles Dyte, who married Evelina
Nathan and with whom he had five children.
1821: In
London, Hyam and Fanny Ansell gave birth to Joseph Ansell.
1830:
Abdication of Charles X of France. Charles abdicated in favor of his
grandson. But the Chamber of Deputies
rejected this move and chose Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, to fill the vacant
throne. This proved to be a good thing
for the French Jews since Louis would ratify
a motion putting Judaism on a par with Christianity, granting State support to
Synagogues and their Minister of Religion. This meant that France extended
financial support to Jewish religious institutions on par with Christian
institutions.
1832(2nd of Av, 5592): Seventy-three-year-old Isaac Levy “of
Bevis Marks, the faithful servant for 44 years to the family of Aaron Solomon”,
passed away today and was buried this evening and was buried this evening at
the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1832: Moses Levy, who had died on Shabbat, was buried today at the
Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.
1836(15th of Av, 5596): Tu B’Av celebrated for the last time
during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1836: In Canterbury, Kent, Nathan Jacobs and Hannah Barnard gave birth to
Israel Jacobs.
1840: Benjamin Samuel Phillips and Rachel Faudel gave birth to Sir George
Faudel-Phillips, the husband of the former Helen Levy whose father was Joseph
Moses Levy, the owner of The Daily
Telegraph, the father of Benjamin, Beatrice, Lionel, Stella and Nellie
Fauduel-Phillips and the Lord Mayor of London.
1840: Birthdate of Simon Baruch, a physician, who was born in Schwersen,
Germany (now part of Poland). He attended German schools and received a degree
from the Medical College of Virginia (1862); was surgeon for the Confederate
Army (1862-1865); and practiced in Camden, South Carolina, until 1881, then in
New York. He was the Chairman of the South Carolina Board of Health (1880) and
was the author of books on the use of hydrotherapy. He married Isabel Wolfe in
1867. His greatest claim to fame was that he was the father of Bernard Baruch,
the famed financier and advisor to Presidents.
1844: One day after he had passed away, Meyer Tobias Levy Keeling, the
son of Sophia and Henry Levy Keeling was buried at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)
Cemetery” today.
1845(24th of Tammuz, 5605): Sixty-five-year-old Sallie
Salomon, the Philadelphia born daughter of Hyam Solomon and the wife of Joseph
Andrews to whom she had been married since 1794 passed away today in New York
City.
1847: Grace Aguilar made her last entry in her Frankfort Journal, a
34,000 word long effort that recorded her family’s journey through Belgian and
Germany. It was also her last literary
effort since she would pass away in September.
1849(10th of Av, 5609): Tish’a B’Av observed
1849: In Pest,
Gabriel Südfeld, a Hebrew poet and his wife gave birth to Simon Maximilian
Südfeld who gained fame as Max Nordau, the Zionist leader, physician, author,
and social critic. He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist
congresses. Nordau died in Paris, France in 1923. In 1926 his remains were
moved to Tel Aviv.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/max-nordau
1850(20th of
Av, 5610): Sarah Moses, the daughter of Abraham Moses and the wife of Lazarus
Moses, passed away and was buried in Chatham, Kent, England.
http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I1826&tree=Knowles
1853: Levy
Jacobs and Caroline Davis gave birth to Charles Jacobs.
1854(4th
of Av, 5614): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1857(8th
of Ave, 5617): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1858(17th
of Tammuz, 5618): Tzom Tammuz observed on the same day that Japan and the
United States signed the Treaty of Amity of Commerce on the “deck of the USS
Powhatan” in Tokyo which was a key in opening Asian island kingdom to Western
trade.
1859: In
Rengshausen, German, Giedel and Natan Hoeflich gave birth to Abraham Hoflich,
the “husband of Bertha Beilchen Höflich and father of Hanna Falkenstein;
Private and Nathan Höflich.”
1860(10th
of Av, 5620): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day New York Herald reported that “James Valentine, a negro drayman”
who was erroneously arrested under the Federal Fugitive Act has been freed
after the case against him was dismissed.
1861:
Philadelphian R.A. Schoneman began serving with the Keystone Battery.
1863:
Birthdate of Max Schwarz, the Budapest native who in 1880 followed his father
Austrian born chemist Anton Schwarz to the United States where he followed in
his father’s footsteps and became editor of The American Brewer” and the
“principal of the Brewer’s Academy”
1864: An
article published today describing President Jefferson Davis' cabinet, the
Richmond Sentinel reported that "The whole burden of the objections to the
Secretary of State seems to have dwindled down to the fact that he is a Jew,
for all admit his distinguished abilities. The time is at hand when his
abilities will be needed, and we feel confident that when the occasion occurs
he will not be found wanting, but will ably sustain the dignity of his office
and his already acquired high reputation. "
1865: In
Washington, DC, “Joseph and Carrie (Friedenwald) Cahn gave birth to Sophie Cahn
who, after marrying clothing merchant Charles David Axman, became Sophie Cahn
Axman the name under which she became fighter for the improvement of less
fortunate, especially newly arrived Jews on the Lower East Side.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/axman-sophie-cahn
1866: In Germany, “Levi and Eva Regina Cohn”
gave birth to Gustav Cohn, the “husband of Paula Cohn” and the father of
Charlotte, Leo, Lore and Luise Cohn.
1866:
Birthdate of New York native Solomon J. Wallach, the CCNY graduate and
President of the Mendelssohn Benevolent Society who attended the organizations
100th anniversary celebration in 1941 where he read congratulatory
letters from Governor Lehman and President Roosevelt.
1866: In
Charleston, SC, Laura and Charles Ferdinand Levy gave birth to Laura Louise
Hart, the wife of David Lopez Hart.
1868: Today,
“Joseph Kirsh, Henry Walterstein and Isaac Hollander were named as trusteed to
hold, manage and disposed of the of the property of Congregation Beth Israel”
in Richmond, VA.
1868: Today, Franklin
J. Moses, Sr. “ was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court as chief
justice,” by a Radical Republican-dominated state legislature which diminished
his standing among his peers with many of them classifying him as a scalawag
1870: Benjamin
Nathan’s body was discovered at 5:50 a.m. in his New York mansion. “Mr. Nathan
was found lying dead with his skull smashed in…A heavy iron instrument used by
ship carpenters called a ‘dog’ was found near the body.” This was the murder instrument. Apparently,
Mr. Nathan was killed when he interrupted a robbery that was taking place at
his home. (Despite the offering of a large reward and numerous arrests, the
murder remains unsolved.)
1870: An
“excitable weekly” called the Sunday Mercury published an unsigned
article accusing Washington Nathan of murdering his father, Benjamin Nathan
1870: The New
York Stock Exchange offered a $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of
the murder or murderers of Benjamin Nathan.
Nathan had been a member of the Exchange for thirty years.
1872(23rd of
Tammuz, 5632): Grace Labat, the daughter of David Labat and the wife of Isaac
Davega whom she married in 1815 passed away today.
1872: In
Cincinnati, Eva Levy and Morris Michaels gave birth to Chicago businessman
Joseph Michaels, the husband of Belle Ettlinger and founder and president of
Hyman Michaels Company, vice president of the North Shore Congregation and
trustee of the Jewish Peoples Institute in Chicago.
1873: In
Odessa, Russia, Isaac Stone and Rose Leviash gave birth to Nahum I. Stone, the
husband of Bertha Esther Levinson who earned an M.A. from Columbia University
and was he the author of several works including “Capitalism on Trial in
Russia,” “Economic Resources of Siberia” and “A Study of Agricultural
Statistics in the United States.”
1873: At
Castle Garden (NY), the President of the Romania Society presented a letter at
today’s meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration requesting “that the board
take charge of five Rumanian emigrants and send them back home.” The five are Orthodox Jews who could not
exist on the food prepared at the commission’s Ward’s Island facility. The
letter also stated that if the Commissioners would send the Jews home, the
Society’s President would see to it “that the emigration” would be stopped in
Roumania. The commission agreed to send them back and expressed “regret that
the American Consul in Roumania had not stopped the emigration” in the first
place.
1875:
Suffering from the effects of his trip to Palestine, a fatigued Sir Moses
Montefiore spends the day rest in bed.
1875: While
visiting Palestine, Sir Moses Montefiore wrote a letter to Hayyim Guedalla in
which he described the marked increase in the number of dwellings in Jerusalem,
and, given the increasing density of the population, the need to start building
“suitable dwellings” beyond the current city limits.
1876(8th of
Av, 5636): Shabbat Chazon, Erev Tish'a B'Av
1877: It was
reported today that the Jews have established Young Men’s Hebrew Associations
in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and Cincinnati. They are modeled after the YMCA’s. The Jewish
Messenger “thinks the system should be extended to other cities” because they
have the “power to mold American Judaism.”
1877: Seventy-eight-year-old
Morris Abrahams who was born in 1799 and passed away on July 27 was interred
today at the Bath Jewish Burial Ground.
1877: In New
York city, Marx and Caroline Weill gave birth to Adelphi Academy trained
painter and engraver Edmund Weill the husband of Carolyn Wenstock and a member
of Temple Beth Emeth in Brooklyn.
https://www.askart.com/artist/Edmond_Edmund_Weill/110161/Edmond_Edmund_Weill.aspx
1877: “Any
Change in Turkey For the Better” published today relying on information from
the Duke of Argyll that first appeared in the
Contemporary Review, described conditions in the Ottoman Empire in which
“Moslem tyranny” exercises control “over the whole non-Moslem population while
the government “has been friendly to the Jews”
“this toleration is nothing” in reality “but equal and indiscriminate
contempt.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B07EED9163EE73BBC4151DFB166838C669FDE
1878:
“Palestine” published today described “the model of the entire country” now on
exhibit at on the grounds near the Round Lake Hotel built on a scale of “two
and a half feet to the mile” that allow “visitors” to walk from Jaffa to
Jerusalem to the Dead Sea and after having taken a dip in the Jordan River to
visit Bethlehem and Mt. Hermon
1878:
Five days after he has passed away, “Joseph Cohen, the eldest son of Minna and
Leopold Cohen” was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1878:
Hans Magnus who had been born in 1867 to Samuel and Zerline Magnus was buried
today at “the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1879(9th
of Av, 5639):Tish'a B'Av
1879: The Standard’s Constantinople dispatch
reported today that the Jewish quarter at Orta Keui, a village on the Bosporus,
has been destroyed by “a terrific fire.”
1881:
Birthdate of San Francisco native, German trained thoracic surgeon Leo Eloesser
a member of the Stanford Medical School Faculty whose fascinating life
including serving with the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and
being the 8th Route Army in China during WW II.
1881:
Birthdate of Berlin native and University of Berlin Musicologist Dr. Curt
Sachs, the husband of Irene Sachs and father of Gabriella, Judith and Ernest
Sachs who after the rise of Hitler came to the United States where he taught at
NYU and was a “music consultant to the Public Museum” in New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/02/06/80759518.pdf
1881: The
first ships containing large numbers of Russian Jews arrived in New York
following pogroms in Russia. This was the beginning of mass immigration to the
U.S. during that would change the face of the American Jewish Community.
The great waves of immigration would slow with World War I and come to a halt
during the 1920's when an isolationism, nativism and racism closed the
doors of America to most immigrants.
1882: In
Hungary, Solomon Schwarz, Abraham Buxbaum, Leopold Braun, and Hermann Wollner,
were charged with murdering a Christian girl named Esther Solymosi . Josef
Scharf, Adolf Jünger, Abraham Braun, Samuel Lustig, Lazar Weissstein, and
Emanuel Taub, were charged with voluntarily assisting in the crime. Anselm
Vogel, Jankel Smilovics, David Hersko, Martin Gross, and Ignaz Klein, were
charged with abetting the crime and smuggling the body. This case which turned
into a blood libel began in April and would rile the kingdom for at least
another two years.
1883: “Scenes
on the East Side” published a visitors account of what he saw when he visited
this section of Manhattan including “a colony of foreign-born Jews of the lower
classing inhabiting the southern end of Allen-Street” and polyglot
neighborhoods on Essex, Ludlow and Hester Streets that included poor immigrants of many nationalities
including Jews from Russia.
1884:
Birthdate of Kiev native Joseph Karr, the longtime president of the Mohawk
Shirt Company, the husband of Betty Karr with whom he had two children, Babette
and Peggy.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/05/16/80578648.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1884: It was
reported today two of the rioters who participated in the anti-Jewish riots at
Zaleszozuky, Hungary were sentenced to five years in prison and another was
sentenced to four years in prison. This was the Hungarian town that was the
home of Esther Solomossy, a Christian girl who was allegedly killed by Jews as
part of their religious rituals.
1885: In
Cincinnati, Ohio, Bernard Goodman and Pauline Louise de Coppetti gave birth to Theodosia Burr Goodman who gained fame as Theda Bara, the
silent screen star known as “The Vamp.” (Please note, there is some
confusion. Everybody agrees she was born
in July, 1885 but not on which day)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bara-theda
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theda-Bara
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000847/bio
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000847/bio
1885: The
Chaplain of the British Embassy in Vienna has completed a census of the
religious affiliations of Englishmen and Americans living in the Austrian
capital. The Anglo-American population
of 1,316 included 111 Jews.
1885: The
“majority of the shops” in Ramsgate are closed today because the town is in
mourning over the death of Sir Moses Montefiore. The Town Hall is draped as sign of mourning
and the municipal authorities including the Mayor plan to at tend the funeral
for the Jewish philanthropist.
1886: In St.
Louis, Bertha Simon and Sigmond Platt gave birth to banker Edward George Platt
the husband of Helen Waldheim and Preside of Waldheim Platt Company who was a
member of YMHA, the Jewish Shelter Home and the Jewish Loan Association.
1886: At their
meeting this afternoon, The Commissioners of Emigration listened to an appeal
by several Jewish leaders including a representative of the Hebrew Immigration
Society on behalf of eastern European immigrants being detained on Ward’s
Island. The commissioners accepted the argument by the Jewish leaders that the
immigrants had friends who would take care of them and were not therefore not
indigent. With the exception of a couple
of the families in question, the rest were allowed to pass through Castle
Garden on their way to a new life in the New World.
1887: in
Gross-Kanizsa, which at that time as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Adam
and Clara Rosenberg gave birth to Siegmund Rosenberg who gained fame as
composer and conductor Sigmund Romberg.
1887: Isaac
Ullmann, Jr. the secretary of the Utopia club obtained an injunction today
restraining the club from keep him from exercising his rights a member. The members of the Utopia Club are wealthy
New Haven (Ct) Jews. Ullmann had been
banned for a year when it was discovered that he had not paid a fine levied
against him.
1887: Adolph
Reich, who had been convicted of murdering his wife is scheduled to be hung
today. When the Judge had pronounced the
death penalty he expressed his surprise at a Jew being brought before him on
such a charge, “since they were, as a rule orderly, law-abiding citizens.” He
could not remember ever sentencing a Jew to be hanged.
1888: In the
UK, Tress Hart and Deborah Jacob gave birth to Henry Jacob Hart who died at the
age of six months.
1888(21st
of Av, 5648): Forty-five-year-old Amelia Stein, the German born daughter of
“Moses and Elizabeth Keyser, the wife of Daniel Stein and the mother of Simon,
Bertha, Leo, Michael and Gertrude Stein passed away today in Oakland, CA. (In
one of those calendar oddities, art critic died exactly thirty-five years
later)
1888: In Mir,
Russia Samuel and Anna Lubetsky Cooper gave birth Leon Cooper, the 1910 graduate of CCNY,
“president of the Cooper Safety Razor Corporation in Brooklyn and husband of
Lucy Price Cooper with whom he had two children – George W. Cooper and Mrs.
Arthur Kimelfield.
1889: A three-story
house owned on Main Street, Sing Sing, owned by David Ross which was home to
numerous Jewish peddlers burned in a fire that started at three in the
morning. A machine shop owned by Abram
Kipp then caught fire and, by the time it was over, only the walls remained.
1889(1st of
Av, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Av
1890: “City
and Suburban News” published today described plans for the upcoming benefit
sponsored by B’nai B’rith as a fundraiser for the Home for old and Infirm
Hebrews.
1890: “The
Shatchen” by Charles S. Dickson, featuring M.B. Curtis who starred in “Sam’l of
Posen” is scheduled to open today at the Grand Opera House in Los Angeles.
1890: Four
Russian Jewish immigrants were stopped from going to work for Marcus Ullman, a
peddler on New York’s east side when it was discovered that he was going to pay
them $12 a month while the Labor Bureau had found work for them at salaries of
$14 to $17 per month.
1891(23rd
of Tammuz, 5651): Sixteen-year-old Louis Rabinowitz, a Russian Jew, passed away
today at New Haven, CT.
1891(23rd
of Tammuz, 5651): Jacob Levy, one of the suspects in the “Ripper Murders”
passed away this evening at in the asylum for the mentally ill where had been
confined.
1891:
Birthdate of Bernhard Zondek, the German born Israeli gynecologist who
developed the first reliable pregnancy test.
1891: Thirty
Russian immigrants who sailed from Liverpool on the SS Norseman arrived in
Boston today where they have been refused permission to land..
1891: “The
Russian Jew Persecutions” published today described the burning of “a little
farming settlement four Russian miles from Veile” where fourteen Jews were
burned today and twenty more were seriously injured. “All the time the Russians
were rushing wildly about shouting, ‘Kill the Jews! Kill the Jews!’”
1892: Henry
Heller, who had served as a Sergeant in Company A of the 66th Ohio
Infantry during the Civil War was issued his Medal of Honor today for voluntary
crossing into enemy lines under heavy fire to bring a Confederate officer who
provided his superiors with “invaluable information” concerning the position of
the enemy during the Battle of Chancellorsville, which was one of the worst
defeats suffered by the Army of the Potomac.
1892: “Dr.
Michael Singer, who was reported a few weeks ago to have absconded with $25,000
of the Baron Hirsch Fund at Budapest” today “denied the charge and said he had
written to Dr. Alexander Klein…to bring a suit for libel against” the paper
that had published the charge.
1893(16th of
Av, 5653): Shabbat Nacahamu
1893(16th
of Av, 5653): Sixty-two-year-old historian Julius Aronius who was working on
Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland at the time of his death
passed away today.
1894: Two days
after she had passed away, 56-year-old “Augusta Stock Levy…the wife of Samuel
Levy” was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery” on Buckingham Road.
1894: As of
today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has provided excursions for 2,647
children and 1,213 mothers free of charge.
In addition, 233 sick infants and children have been cared for at the
Rockaway facility.
1894:
Contributions needed for the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children to continue its
work may be sent to its managers – Nathan Lewis, Hezekiah Kohn and Joseph
Davis.
1894: “Germany
In Earliest Times” published today provides a review of A History of Germany
In The Middle Ages in which the author begins with a critical overview of
the efforts of past historians including Josephus who he said “wrote of the
same events in his Antiquities as in the War of the Jews and
reported them differently.
1895(8th of
Av, 5655): Less than a month before his 84th birthday Joseph
Derenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg, a Franco-German orientalist, who wrote
an Essai sur l'histoire ella geographie de la Palestine passed away
today.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1449830
http://archive.org/stream/jstor-1449830/1449830_djvu.txt
1895(8th of
Av, 5655) Erev Tish'a B'Av
1895: Two days
after she had passed away, forty-year-old Leah Brenner, the daughter of Rebecca
and Jacob Roxas was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1897: The
Protective Musical Union Band will provide the entertainment at the second
annual outing of the Brooklyn Hospital Society which is being held at Wissel’s
Ridgewood Park.
1898: “The
Russian Jew in America” by Abraham Cahan, the man who ran the Forverts for 40 years appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly. This brought together one of those unlikely combinations –
the immigrant Jew and the classical WASP intellectual journal.
1898:
Birthdate of physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi whose exploration of the atom earned
him a Nobel Prize in 1944. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1944/rabi-facts.html
1898: Birthdate of
Pittsburg, PA native Irving Ralph “Red” Perlman” the WW I veteran who played
guard for the undefeated 1917 U. of Pittsburgh “Panthers” and pursued a pro
career in the 1920’s.
1898: Isaac F.
Goldenhorn, the attorney for Michael Aaronberg, Abraham Hoffman, Mendal
Bloomkey, Jacob Joseph and Adolph Horowitz, the Trustees of the Moses
Montefiore Congregation in Hoboken, NJ, went into court today to seek an
injunction to keep David Engler from removing the building from its location at
76 Grand Street.
1899: In describing
his trip to Europe, John Ireland, the Archbishop of St. Paul, MN is reported to
have told friends “that there is not so much turmoil over the Dreyfus Affiar as
would appear from the press reports and that the decision of the court-martial
whatever it may be will be accepted as final.” (Editor’s note – boy was he
wrong) He also said that the issue was
no longer the guilt or innocence of Dreyfus but the honor of the army. (He was
right about that)
1899: “The treaties,
declarations and final acts of the Hague Peace Conference which Jan Bloch
attended were signed today.”
1899: “Book
News In London” published today described a English language translation of a
monograph by Jules Huret on Sarah Bernhardt which has a preface by Edmond
Rostand, the author of Cyrano de Bergerac.
1900: In El
Paso, TX, “Albert and Hannah (Kirske) Kaplan gave birth to Golden Gate College
trained attorney Walter Francis Kaplan the management consultant and President
of Goodwill Industries of San Francisco who was the husband of the former
Margaret Jacob and the father of Margery and Charles Kaplan.
1900” “Notes
of the Labor World” published today reported that “The Brotherhood of Tailors
will hold a mass meeting in the Hebrew Institute on August 1st to
decide on whether or not they should go out on strike “for better conditions.”
1901(13th
of Av, 5661): On the Jewish calendar,
yahrzeit of Rabbi Mordecai b. Abraham Benet, the author of Biur Mordecai
who died in 1829.
1902: Today,
“a group of sixty Orthodox rabbis hailing from Russia, Poland and Austria
-Hungary met in the auditorium of the Machzike Talmud Torah on New York’s East
Broadway to formalize the creation of the Agudat ha-Rabbinim (Union of Orthodox
Rabbis of the United States and Canada).
1902(24th
of Tammuz, 5662): “In accordance with the customs of the Orthodox Jews, prayers
were said” tonight” for the reposed of the soul of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, whose
funeral is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning followed by burial at the
Jewish cemetery near Cypress Hill.
1903: “To
Scrutinize Russian Travelers” published today described announcement by the
Russian Charge de Affairs that it would limit the locations that Americans
planning to travel to Russia could have their passports “vised” which was seen
as an attempt to limit the ability of American Jewish citizens to go to the
Czar’s kingdom.
1904: Mathew
Nathan, the second son of Anglo-Jewish businessman Jonah Nathan and Miriam
Jacob Nathan succeeded Sir Henry Arthur Blake as the Governor of Hong Kong.
1905: In
Worcester, MA, Yetta Helen (née Jasspon) and Solomon Z. Kunitz gave birth to
their third child, future Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of
Congress Stanley Jasspon Kunitz.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/books/16kunitz.html?_r=0
1906:
Birthdate of New York native and youthful resident of Oakland, CA, Norman Frank
Feldheym who majored in history at the University of Cincinnati while earning
ordination from HUC in 1932 after which he served congregations in Panama City
and San Bernardino and earning a Bronze Star and 6 battle stars while serving
as a U.S. Army chaplain in WW II and Korea.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47296380/norman-frank-feldheym
1906:
Birthdate of New York City and attorney Gertrude Caesar who was the “Caeser” in
the law firm of Feuer and Caesar founded “in the early 1930’s with her husband
attorney Moses A. Feuer with whom she had two children Robert and Nancy, the
future wife of attorney Milton Fischel.
1907: Lt. Col.
Mathew Nathan completed his service as the 13th Governor of Hong
Kong.
1908(1st
of Av, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Av observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Theodore Roosevelt.
1909:
Birthdate of Plonsk, Poland native and historian Rabbi Moyshe-Avigdor Shulvas
aka Moses A. Shulvass.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/08/moyshe-avigdor-shulvas-moses-shulvass.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shulvass-szulwas-moses-avigdor
1909: “An
Example of His Sympathy with Russian Jews” published today described how on the
first anniversary of the Kishinev massacres when “thousands of Jews were
marching up Broadway” approached Grace Church the late Reverend William Reed
Huntington “appeared bareheaded at its portals and remained there until the
people passed while the church bells tolled” showing “that the typical American
Christian clergyman is of a different type to the priests whose bigotry is
largely responsible for the persecuting spirit in Russia…”
1910: “Mrs.
Henriette Seligman, who died on July 23, 1910, left a net estate in New York of
$431,668, according to an appraisal fixed” today “in the Transfer Tax office.”
1911: In
London, the First Universal Races Congress, an anti-racist organization which
discussed the “Jewish Question” came to a close today.
1912(15th
of Av, 5672): Tu B’Av was celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
William Howard Taft.
1912(15th
of Av, 5672): Mayer Hahn, who on May 17, 1898, was nominated by William
McKinley to serve as Collector of Customs for the District of Pamlico, in North
Carolina and later approved by Congress, passed away today in Long Branch, NJ.
1913: Two days
after she passed away, funeral services were held for Mrs. Lena Jonas of
Waterloo, IA at Furth’s Chapel.
1913:
Birthdate of Mankato, MN native Helen Barbara Kruger who gained fame as “Bobbie
Nudie” Cohn the wife Nudie Cohn, the creator of outrageous clothing for such
stars as Cher and Elvis Presley.
http://www.nudiesrodeotailor.com/
1913: Funeral
services were held today for Mrs. Helena P. Monash, the mother of four sons and
two married daughters at her home in Chicago.
1913: After
having received a letter from Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador
describing the Kaiser’s position on protecting the rights of Jew in Romania,
Henry Green, the Executive Secretary of the American Rumanian Jewish
Emancipation Committee, said today that he feels “certain that once the matter
is properly brought to his Majesty’s attention – as the committee proposes to
do by sending a delegation to lay the facts before him and the German Reichstag
– the matter will be taken up with the Romanian Government in a manner that
will leave King Charles no option but to do what we are working for.”
1914: Solomon “Sol” Tarlow, the Russian born
son of Wolf and Odessa Tarlowski emigrated to the United States today under the
sponsorship of his brother-in-law Sam Stolaroff the owner of the dry goods
store in Roswell, NM where Sol was employed as a tailor while raising three
children with his wife Audra.
1914: In “Whitechapel, London, photographer
Joseph Gamse and the former Sarah Rosenberg, a seamstress, gave birth to
Abraham Gamse, who gained fame as “graphic designer Abram Games” who designed
patriotic posters during World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Games#/media/File:Join_the_Ats_Art.IWMPST2832.jpg
1914: In one
of those examples of too little too late, today, in a telegram to the Kaiser,
Czar “Nicholas suggested submitting the Austro-Serbia problem to the Hague
Conference or Tribunal on the same day that that the Austrians began shelling
the Serbs.
1914:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Irwin Eli Cohen who gained fame as comedian Irwin
Corey. (As reported by Ron Wertheimer)
1914(5th
of Tammuz, 5674): Eight-four-year-old Esther Baum passed away today in
Philadelphia, PA.
1915: It was
reported today the Liberal MP, Josiah Wedgewood who had been wounded at
Gallipoli where he served alongside the Zion Mule Corps and became “a devoted
Zionist” spoke in favor of Parliament adopting legislation that would lead to
conscription for the British military.
1916(28th
of Tammuz, 5676): Parashat Masei; as Jews finish reading the Book of Numbers
the latest Russian offensive ended in complete failure with the loss of 80,000
casualties.
1916(28th
of Tammuz, 5676): Ninety-six-year-old Rabbi Leopold Freudenthal passed away
today after which he was buried in Trinidad, CO.
1917(10th
of Av, 5677): Tish’a B’Av observed on Sunday
1917: “In
connection with the observance” of Tish’a B’Av, “special appeals have been sent
to all rabbis throughout the city to ask their congregations to make
contributions to the Joint Distribution Committee of Funds for Jewish War
Sufferers.
1917: “In
the…the east side Jewish schools…the rabbis with the children prayed and
mourned over the fate of Palestine” and “chanted the songs of Judah Halevi, the
ancient poet and especially the ode to Zion that brings to every heart…a real
yearning for Palestine.”
1917: It was reported today that in a statement
celebrating Finland’s independence from Russia, the Diet issued a statement
which provided assurances that “the rights of Russian citizens in Finland as
well as those of the Jews will not undergo any modification.”
1917: In an
unusual move, today the New York Times
published a list provide by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of
American Jews whom thousands of Jews in Russia and Poland are seeking to reach
along with instructions for anybody seeing their name on the list trying to
contact these relatives.
1917: The
Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War of which
Harry Fischel is the treasurer, as of today reported that it “had received new
gifs totally more than $14,300.”
1917: “Wife
Number Two” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was
released in the United States today by Fox Film Corporation.
1917: Today,
forty-five-year-old Yale and Sheffield Scientific School educated biochemist
Lafayette Benedict Mendel, the Delhi, NY born son of Pauline Ullan and Bendect
Mendel who was one of the cofounders of “the science of nutrition, and the
Sterling Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Yale who was the only Jew
among the first twenty professors to be “designated a Sterling professor
married Alice R. Friend today.
1917: It was
reported today that the Finnish Diet has adopted a resolution reassuring the
Jews that their rights “will not undergo any modification” under the new
government.
1918(20th
of Av, 5678): Seventy-year-old Charles Henry Hart, a noted art expert and
authority on historical portraiture, whose "discovery" of Gilbert
Stuart's work years ago brought that artist posthumous fame passed away today.
1918: It was
reported today that Minister of Foreign Affairs Constantin C. Arion “declared
in an interview that the Rumanian Government…would grant rights to the Jews in
accordance with the peace treaty, and even more fully, and would completely
abolish Article 7 of the Rumanian Constitution which lays it down that Jews in
Rumania are aliens and that naturalization is only possible for them
individually.” (The Rumanian government might hold a record for promising to
grant full citizenship to Jews and then reneging on the promise – a pattern
that began in the middle of the 19th century and continued through
the Shoah when the issue became moot.)1919(2nd of Av, 5679):
Twenty-eight year Jewish American racketeer Johnny Spanish, born John Weyler,
was murdered by three unknown gunmen while entering a restaurant at 19 Second
Avenue in Manhattan ending what was the “Second Labor Sluggers War.”
1919: Nathan Kaplan,
the son of Russian Jewish immigrant Joseph Kaplan, known to his racketeering
buddies as Jack the Dropper, was reported to be among the three men who killed
fellow gangster Johnny Spanish .
1919: Today,
the Chicago Hebrew Institute is scheduled to host the International Gymnastic
Union Track meet
1920: Today
after 270 of the Templers who had been living at the Tel Aviv neighborhood of
Sarona and interred in Egypt by the British during WW I “had been repatriated
in April to Bad Mergentheim, Germany, the House of Lorder permitted the
remaining” 580 “internees to return to Palestine” where they found colony at
Sarona to have been “plundered and vandalize.”
1920: In
Rochester, NY, Dr. Leo M. Franklin told the delegates attending the opening
session of the 31st annual convention of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, “that in the abnormal situation in which the world finds
itself, the Jew is being blamed as the scapegoat for the untoward condition”
and that the Conference should devote its energies” to combat the spreading
anti-Semitism and to foster a better understanding between Jew and non-Jew.”
1921: In
Germany Hedwig Ehrenberg and Max Born gave birth to Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
who served as the Sheild Professor of Professor of Pharmacology at Cambridge.
He is the father of Professor Georgina Born and the uncle of singer Olivia
Newton-John
1921: Adolf
Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1922: In Los
Angeles, “Benjamin Lewis, a lawyer and pianist Pauline Kallin” gave birth to
Flora Lewis “a correspondent and columnist who explained international politics
to readers of The New York Times and other publications for nearly 60 years.”
[editor’s note- Wiki shows the date as July 25 but quotes from the NYT obit
that shows July 29] (As reported by Craig R. Whitney)
1923: A review of The Soul of Woman: A
Reflection on a Life by Gina Lombroso, the Italian-Jewish sociologist was
published today.
1923: In
Bennington, VT, Congregation Beth El, which was founded in 1909 dedicated its
new synagogue “at the corner of North and Adams Streets.”
http://www.cbevermont.org/about/history.php
1924: In
London, working class Polish-Jewish immigrants Golda (née Schag) and Simon
Weinstock gave birth to London School of Economics graduate Arnold Weinstock
who rose to be Baron Weinstock, “ an English industrialist and businessman
known for making General Electric Company one of Britain's most profitable
companies.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jul/24/guardianobituaries.alexbrummer
1925(8th
of Av, 5685): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1925: In Lviv,
Izzak Natali Botwin a Polish communist and “labor activist assassinated Josef Cechnowski an agent of the Polish secret police who had infiltrated
the Communist Party and worked as an informer.
1926: Jewish immigration to Palestine during the year
1926 will equal the volume of Jewish immigration for the preceding year
according to figures made known today the Palestine Zionist Executive.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/07/30/99391664.html?pageNumber=5
1926: Birthdate of Baltimore native Harold Hill, who was
an active member of the World Zionist Organization.
1927(29th of Tammuz, 5687): Sixty-five-year-old
Jacob Elia Cohen, the Irish born Jacksonville, FL department store owner who
raised five children with his Tennessee born wife Hattie passed away today.
1928: The
Day, a Jewish newspaper printed in New York City, published a report from
its correspondent in Palestine that Frieda and Goldina Rubinson, two sisters
born in Hamburg now living in Tel Aviv claimed that the late composer Giacomo
Pucini had plagiarized the score of his opera “Turnadot” from them. They claim
to have proof that they composed the work in 1896 at which time they obtained a
copyright in Germany and the United States.
The two sisters plan on making a trip to the United States to pursue their
claim against, among others, the Metropolitan Opera Company which produced the
work in 1927.
1929: “River
of Romance” with a screenplay co-authored by Joseph L. Mankiewicz was released
today in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1929: Dr.
Arthur Ruppin addressed the second session of the 16th Biennial
Zionist Congress in Zurich, Switzerland today.
He said that “conversion to other faiths, intermarriage, a decreasing
birth rate and unchanged mortality rate” were “disintegrating forces menacing
the continued existence of the Jews as a people.”
1930:
Birthdate of Sol Steinmetz, the Hungarian born American “lexicographer, author
and tenured member of Olbom (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1931(15th
of Av, 5691): Tu B’Av
1931:
Birthdate of Art Ginsburg the native of Troy, NY, who gained fame as the
television chef and author known as “Mr. Food.
1932: “The Vanishing Frontier” directed by Phil Rosen and produced by Sam Jaffe
was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1933(6th
of Av, 5693): Parashat Devarim
1933(6th
of Av, 5693): Socialist Party leader Isidore Phillips passed away today in New
York City.
1933: In
Vienna, Sara and Herman Kirchenbaum gave birth to Peretz Kidron who became a
noted Israeli writer, journalist, and translator.
1934:
Birthdate of Stanton Friedman a nuclear physicist who was “the original
civilian investigator of the Rockwell Incident.”
http://www.stantonfriedman.com/
1934: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services were held to for 68-year-old Louis
Ziv, the Russian born American attorney and the husband of Mary Ziv with whom
he had five children – Sylvia, Lawrence, Royal, Seymour and John – at Beth El
Temple in Chicago where he had been president of the congregation followed
“burial in Waldheim Cemetery.”
1934: The
New York Times publishes an article by Sir Herbert Samuel in which the
first British High Commissioner for Palestine describes the progress and
problems facing the country. His lengthy
commentary is based on his first visit to Palestine in nine years.
1935:
Publication of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence’s somewhat
overwrought account of the “Arab Revolt” during World War I. Lawrence supported the interests of Feisal
against the Europeans including his own British Foreign Office. Lawrence believed that there was room in the
Middle East for both a Jewish homeland and an Arab Caliphate.
1936: The Palestine Post reported that a
British constable and 10 Arabs fell in a day-long battle near Nablus. Among the
many arrested, one Arab claimed that he was forced to join the marauders. The
Royal Air Force joined the land forces in their organized pursuit of the rebels,
many of whom escaped into the more inaccessible areas, carrying their wounded.
Arab terrorists warned local Arab villagers living near Motza and other
neighborhoods close to Jerusalem that they would be killed and their property
destroyed unless they submitted to all their demands. Six Jewish communists
were deported to Russia and one to Poland.
1936: The plan
of the Austrian Government to broadcast to Germany the Salzburg festival
performances has run afoul of Arturo Toscanini. It has just leaked out from
circles in close contact with the Italian conductor that Mr. Toscanini has
threatened to leave Salzburg immediately, never to return, if any performance
conducted by him is broadcast to Germany.
1936: “Abraham
Kraditor, commander-in-chief of the Jewish War Veterans returned” today aboard
the “French liner Champlain from Vienna where he had attended the second World
Congress of Jewish War Veterans.
1936: “Julius
Streicher’s newspaper, the Stuermer, far from suffering suppression during the
Olympics as has been reported appeared today with a special Olympic number” on
the front page of which is a half-page cartoon showing a degenerate and brutal
person labeled ‘Jew’ starring with envy and hatred at a Germanic-looking
Olympic victor crowned with laurel” while the bottom of page is emblazoned with
the slogan “Jews Are Our Misfortune.”
1936: In
Vienna this evening in pre-Olympic ceremony, the Nazi mob “formed in a
procession” “howling down the Jewish Olympic athletes with shouts of ‘Perish
the Jews! Go back to Palestine.’”
1936: “While
the Jews in Palestine are not displeased by Colonial Minister Ormsby-Gore’s
statement in the House of Commons today concerning the terms of reference of
the royal commission, the Arabs are keenly disappointed.”
1936: Levi
“Lee” Shubert “the eldest of seven siblings of the theatrical Shubert family”
“secretly married” Marcella Swanson today in Germany following which they would
divorce in 1948 and re-marry in 1949.
1936: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel for Mollie Stern, the
widow of Daniel Stern and the mother of Milton and Isador Stern.
1937: Oscar A.
Lewis, the leader of the La Guardia Republicans in Brooklyn was among those
disappointed tonight when “the Kings County Republican Committee” voted to
withhold “their endorsement of Mayor La Guardia as Republican candidate for
re-nomination as Mayor.”
1937: Columbia
trained attorney Mortimer Feuer, the New York City born son of William and
Gussie (Goldenberg) Feuer, a “partner in the firm of Hays, Feuer, Porter &
Spanier” and the first vice president of the Amsterdam Democratic today married
Louis Younker Gottschall with whom he had two sons – Thomas and Richard.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549458.pdf
1938(1st of
Av, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Av
1938: Dr.
Kallman M. Davidson “reportedly” passed away today in Boston, MA.
1938(1st of
Av, 5698): Confronted with the realities of life in Nazi Germany, Dr.
Friedreich Gernsheim and his wife Rosa committed suicide
1838: It was
reported today “that 2,980 Austrian Jews have emigrated with the aid of of
other Jews since the March 13 annexation of Austria” and “that emigration would
be faster if conditions for leaving Germany were simpler.
1938: “Another
appeal for German cooperation in” dealing with “the refugee problem was made in
the House of Commons today by Earl Winterton, who head the British delegation
to the conference on refugees at Evian.”
1939: Ben Zion
Meir Hai Uziel was installed as Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Haifa.
1940: In a
case of misplaced hosannas, Life
magazine “praised António de Oliveira Salazar as ‘the greatest Portuguese since
Henry the Navigator’” because Portugal was “seen…as a haven of hospitality for”
Jewish refugees. In point of fact,
Salazar destroyed the career of Aristides de Sousa Mendes the diplomat who
rescued thousands of Jews in defiance of the dictator’s wishes.
1940: Orson
Welles films the first scene of his classic “Citizen Kane.” Herman J. Mankiewicz shared the Oscar for
best screenplay for his work on this epic.
Who actually wrote the screenplay would become a source of controversy
with many critics siding with Mankiewicz.
1941(5th of
Av, 5701): Twenty-nine Jewish mental patients from Lotz were taken away by
truck and shot in the woods
1941: In
Manchester, Lancashire, Ada Doreen (née Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner, a
Russian-Jewish nursing home proprietor David Warner, the stage actor who made
his film debut in “Tom Jones”.
1941: The Second Lvov Pogrom came to an end.
“According to Yad Vashem 6 thousand Jews were killed by Einsatzgruppen, some
Ukrainian nationalists and some Ukrainian militia.
1942: A
religious youth center, Tiferet Bachurim, was secretly opened in the Kovno
ghetto
1942: Signs
were put up in the Warsaw Ghetto offering free bread for any family
volunteering to be deported. This was a scheme designed to make the German job
of rounding up 6,000 Jews a day a little easier.
1943: Admiral
Sir Barry Edward Domvile a distinguished Royal Navy officer who turned into a
leading British Pro-German anti-Semite in the years before the Second World War
was released today after having been interred for three years under Defense
Regulation 18 B which allowed the government to inter people for their pro-Nazi
sympathies. (The British had no trouble with his anti-Semitism, just his views
on Hitler, et al.
1943: During
WW II, in Italy, the 16th Infantry including Samuel Fuller “had
taken the high ground west of the Cerami River.”
1944(9th
of Av, 5704): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1944:
Birthdate of American drama writer Yuri Rasovsky, the founder of “The National
Theatre of Chicago who “in the 1990s forsook radio for audiobooks.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/yuri-rasovsky-renowned-audio-dramatist-283651/
https://www.suttonelms.org.uk/yuri-rasovsky.html
1944: 3520
Jews are forced on a death march westward from Warsaw. More than 200 die.
1944: Final performance
of “The Doughgirls” at the Lyceum Theatre parking the end of the Broadway run
for the play for which Bernard Hart served as stage manager./
1945: Rabbi
Martin Riesenburge celebrated the first wedding at Berlin’s Rykestrasse
Synagogue since the Nazis closed it in 1940.
1946(30th of
Sivan, 5706): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1946: Seventy-nine-year-old
Leonore Rothschild Tauszky, the California born daughter of “Baruch and Louisa
Montag Rothschild” and the wife of Edmond Tauzsky passed away today.
1946: The
Paris Peace Conference during which the “victorious wartime Allied Powers”
began negotiations with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland which
would lead to peace treaties officially marking the end of the war.
1946: The New
York State Supreme Court revoked the charter of the Ku Klux Klan thanks in no
small part to the efforts of Nathaniel Goldstein, the New York State Attorney
General.
1947(12th of
Av, 5707): Seventy-five-year-old art collector and critic Leo Stein, the
Allegheny, PA born brother of Gertrude Stein and an influential promoter of
20th-century paintings passed away today in Florence, Italy.
1948: For the
first time since the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics, London hosts the Fourteenth
Olympiad where two American Jews each won Gold Medals. Frank Spellman won his for weightlifting and Henry Wittenberg won
his in freestyle wrestling.
1948: Today,
Samuel Hamilton Kaufman was nominated to serve as Judge for the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York.
1948: As the
United Nations investigates claims by Azzam Pasha, the Secretary General of the
Arab League, that Israeli forces had committed atrocities during Operation
Shorter, a team of UN observers came to survey the damage” at al-Tira “and did
not find any bodies…”
1949: “In the
Good Old Summertime” a musical directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by Joe
Pasternak based on a play by Milos Laszlo, with a screenplay co-authored by
Samson Raphaelson and co-starring S.Z. Sakall was released in the United States
today.
1948: In
Nahalal, Israel “Jerusalem poet Yitzhak Shalev” and his wife gave birth to
award winning author Meir Shalev.
1949(3rd
of Av, 5709): Thomasville, GA native David Albert Schulte, “the merchant,
industrialist” and President of Dunhill International (tobacco company) who was
active in “Jewish philanthropies” passed away today in Holmdel, NJ.
1950(15th
of Av, 5710): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu; Tu B’Av
1950(15th
of Av, 5710): Fifty-five-year-old Polish born “essayist, critic and journalist”
who had escaped from Siberia during the war passed away today in New York.
1951(25th
of Tammuz, 5711): On the day before his 71st birthday, Bernhard
Weiss, the most prominent Jewish member of the Berlin police department who
challenged the Nazi Party and successfully sued Joseph Goebbels, passed
away.
http://forward.com/articles/151805/jewish-creator-of-modern-german-police/
1951:
Following its premiere in Albuquerque, NM in June, today Billy Wilder’s “Ace In
The Hole” a film that provides a dark look at the values of a newspaper man
starring Kirk Douglas was released to the rest of the United States by
Paramount Pictures.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the stage was set for the
elections to the Second Knesset. The number of eligible voters reached 900,000.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs signed an agreement with the UN providing for
the training of nine experts in various economic, social and administrative
fields.
1952: “Affair
in Trinidad,” a “film noir” directed and produced by Vincent Sherman was
released in the United States today
1954(28th of Tammuz, 5714): Seventy-seven-year-old
Cincinnati, OH born architect A. Lincoln Fecheimer, “a graduate of Clark School
for the Deaf, Columbia University and the Ecole des Beuax Arts in Paris passed
away today in London, England.
1954: The 1953
Stephen S. Wise award for an outstanding contribution to Jewish welfare was
presented today to Youth Aliyah. The citation described the organization's work
as "rescuing more than 65,000 children from over seventy-two lands during
the past twenty years and educating them for creative citizenship in the land
of Israel."
1956: It was
reported today the Rabbi Samuel Plutzik who came to the United States from
Minsk in 1905, “served as spiritual head of the Jewish Community in Bristol, CT
in the 1930’s and has been head of the teaching staff of the Talmud Torah of
East New York” passed away yesterday leaving behind his widow Sadie, three
sons, Hyam, David and Emanuel and two daughters Mrs. Alice Kurland and Mrs.
Naomi Reiss to mourn his passing.
1957(1st of
Av, 5717): Rosh Chodesh Av
1957: “The
board of Loew's, Inc., was reduced today to nine directors with the resignation
of Fred F. Florence, chairman of the executive committee of the Republic Bank
of Dallas, Texas.”
1957(1st
of Av, 5717): Sixty-six-year-old A.C. (Alfred Cleveland) Blumenhal the
speakeasy owner turned movie producer whose many friends including the famous,
or infamous, New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/31/121462235.pdf
1958: “I’ll Met by Moonlight” on which Emeric
Pressburger served as co-writer, co-director and co-producer was released today
in the United States.
1959(23rd
of Tammuz, 5719): Harry Rosenwartz, the husband of Mary Rosenwartz and the
father of Sylvia Levine passed away today at Lebanon Hospital.
1960(5th of Av, 5720): Sixty-one-year-old
Columbia University graduate and co-founder of Simon and Shuster Richard Leo
Simon, the New York born son of Anna Meier and milliner Leo Simon, the husband
of Andrea Heinemann and father of singer-song writer Carly Simon passed away
today.
1961: “New York Times critic Robert Shelton
first considered Bob Dylan in a review of Izzy Young's production for WRVR of a
live twelve-hour Hootenanny today.”
1962(27th
of Tammuz, 5722): Ninety-two-old Rabbi Edward LIssman, the husband of Hannah
Meyers and Sheffield, England born son of Marks Lissman and Bluma Wollman who in 1889 came to the United States where he
founded the Hebrew Tabernacle in 1904, served as City Chaplain for the Street
Cleaning Department of Manhattan and founded the Riverside Synagogue passed
away today.
1963(8th
of Av, 5723): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1963(8th
of Av, 5723): Sixty-seven-year-old Rivka Pinchasovich, the daughter of Avraham
and Liba Rochel Shapira, wife of Moshe Pinchasovich and mother of Mina
Pinchasovich; Amnon Pinchasovich and Tamara Pinchasovich passed away in Petah
Tikva, Israel.
1964: “One
Potato, Two Potato,” directed by Larry Peerce, the son of Jan Peerce and
produced by Sam Weston was released today in the United States.
1964: “Abe
Feinberg, general director of Supersol, a chain of supermarkets in Israel owned
largely by Canadian investors, was arrested here last night in connection with
suspected arson ‘is scheduled to appear before a magistrate in Tel Aviv today.
1965: “Ship of
Fools” the cinematic treatment of the novel by the same name set at the start
of the Nazi era directed and produced by Stanley Kramer with a script by Abby
Mann and music by Ernest Gold was released today in the United States.
1966(12th of
Av, 5726): One day after his 98th birthday French poet and Zionist
Andre Spire passed away today.
1966(12th
of Av, 5726): Forty-nine-year-old “Professor Benjamin Joseph Lazan” the New
York born son of “Samuel and Pauline (Brenson) Lazan” and husband of Jeannette
Wazler with whom he had had two son – Gilbert and Douglas – who had served for
12 years as “the chairman of the University of Minnesota departments of
aeronautics and engineering mechanics” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/07/05/82469229.pdf
1967(21st of Tammuz, 5727): Parashat Matot
read as sailors aboard the USS Forrestal dealt with a disastrous fire that
broke out while it was on station in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1968(4th of Av, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old
Hiram Levin the Maryland born son of Rachel and Isaac Aaron Levin passed away
today after which he was buried in Baltimore, MD.
1969: The 8th Maccabiah Games began in Tel
Aviv today.
1969: Under
the leadership of General Sharon, the Head of the IDF’s Southern Command,
Israeli frogmen attacked Green Island during the War of Attrition.
1970(25th
of Tammuz, 5730: Seventy-eight-year Hungarian native Dr. Melichior Palyi, the
economist and adviser to the pre-Nazi era Reichsbank who fled to the United
States where he taught at the University of Chicago, “wrote a weekly business
column for The Chicago Tribune and authored several tomes including Man Aged
Money at the Crossroads and An Inflation Primer passed away today
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.PALYI
1970(25th of
Tammuz, 5730): Seventy-three-year-old George Szell who had had leading the
Cleveland Orchestra since 1946 and the husband of the “former Helene Schulz
whom he married in 1938 at Glasgow” passed away today.
1970(25th
of Tammuz, 5730): Sixty-nine-year-old Romanian conductor Jonel Perlea passed
away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D04EEDB1E3AE03BBC4950DFB166838B669EDE
http://www.soundfountain.org/rem/remperlea.html
1974(10th of
Av, 5734: Cass Elliott passed away. Born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore in 1941,
Elliott dropped out of school, changed her name and headed for New York. She found
fame in fortune performing with the singing group, Mamas and Poppas.
http://www.biography.com/people/mama-cass-9542256
1974: Seventy-four-year-old
real estate developer Joseph Eichler who had passed away four days ago was
buried today in Palo Alto, CA.
1975: Edward
Graham Lee began serving as the Canadian ambassador to Israel.
1975(21st of
Av, 5735): Eighty-six-year-old Ray (Scull) Jacoby, the wife of Columbia trained
neurologist. Dr. James Ralph Jacob, MD, passed away today in Miami, FL.
1975:
President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of
the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the
camp's victims.
1976(2nd
of Av, 5736): Sixty-two-year-old mobster Mickey Cohen passed away today.
1976:
“Rescuing the Entebbe Hostages” published today provides a detailed review of 90
Minutes At Entebbe, William Stevenson’s “hurriedly published paperback
account of the” hostage rescuing raid. Stevenson, who is best known for A
Man Called Intrepid, appears to won the race to publish the first account,
if not the most thorough one.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported from
Washington that contrary to earlier reports, the US had had direct contacts
with the PLO "for some time" and that they would continue. Three
hundred Americans were evacuated from Lebanon as Syrians and the PLO reached an
agreement on this issue. The price of meat rose by two to three shekels per
kilo as agreed between the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture and the
Histadrut's Consumer Authority.
1977(14th
of Av, 5737): Nachman Karni, a retired IDF Colone passed away today in New
York.
1979(5th of
Av, 5739): Herbert Marcuse leftist German born, American philosopher passed away. Marcuse influenced a whole generation of
leftists, radicals and anarchists including Angela Davis and Abbe Hoffman.
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcuse/
1979: A fifteen-day conference organized by Gerda Lerner and
co-sponsored by Sarah Lawrence, the Women's Action Alliance and the Smithsonian
Institution, which was intended for female leaders came to an end today.
1980:
Today, 53-year-old Cambridge graduate and University College Hospital trained
physician Dr. .Jacob Lionel Kopelowitz the Newcastle-upon-Tyne born son of
Moses Kopelowitz and the former Mabel Garstin married Sylvia Waksman five years
before becoming President of the Board of Deputies.
https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/dr-lionel-kopelowitz-jp-mbe-1.495410
1981(27th of
Tammuz, 5741): Ninety-two-year-old
Robert Moses scion of a well-to-do German Jewish family, who gained fame as New
York’s master builder and whose critics and
supporters agreed that he was one of the 20th century’s
influential urban planners passed away today
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1218.html
1981: A bus
was attacked in the entrance to Kibbutz Ma'ale Hahamisha near Jerusalem. A boy
of 12 and a girl of 17 were wounded.
1982(9th of
Av, 5742): Tish'a B'Av
1982: Sir
Zelman Cowen, who was the 19th Governor-General of Australia,
completed his term of office.
1983(19th
of Av, 5743): Ninety-nine-year-old Columbia University trained
gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Chron the New York born son of Jewish
immigrants Leah and Theodore Crohn whose name provided the appellation for
Chron’s disease passed away today.
1983: “Private School,” a teenage comedy with a script co-authored by Dan
Greenburg and starring Phoebe Cates was released in the United States today.
1984: The first events were run today at 1984 Summer Olympics in Los
Angeles where Mel Rosen serving was serving as assistant coach for the U.S.
Men’s Olympic Track Team
1985(11th of Av, 5745): Sixty-six-year-old Presidential Medal of Freedom
honoree, former assistant surgeon general in the United United States Public
Health Service and “a professor of community and preventive medicine and
associate dean of the State University of New York School of Medicine at Stony
Brook, L.I. Dr. Tamarath K. Yolles, the wife of Stanley Faust Yolles, with whom
she had two children – Melanie and Jennifer – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/04/nyregion/dr-tamarath-k-yolles-dies-associate-dean-at-state-u.html
1986(22nd of Tammuz, 5746): Seventy-seven-year-old Richard David Barnett
a product of Cambridge, a veteran of WW II, and a Fellow of the British Academy
who also served as President of the Jewish Historical Society of England and
Chairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society.
1986(22nd of Tammuz, 5746): Fifty-five-year-old Israeli poet
and Holocaust survivor Dan Pagis passed away today. A native of Romania, one of his most famous
poems is “written in pencil in the sealed railway car.”
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/18706
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/dan_pagis.asp
1986: Chaim “Drukman left Morasha and returned to the NRP
1986(22nd of Tammuz, 5746): Seventy-seven-year-old Richard
David Barnett, a graduate of Cambridge, WW II RAF veteran and Fellow of the
British Academy who was “the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities
of the British Museum passed away.
1987: Ben & Jerry's agree on a new flavor - Cherry Garcia
1988: “Cocktail,” the film version of a book by the same name featuring
Gina Gershon was released today in the United States.
1990(7th of
Av, 5750): Bruno Kreisky who became the first Jew to serve as Prime Minister of
Austria passed away today.
1992: Aryeh
Gamliel begins serving as Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction.
1993: “Robin
Hood: Men in Tights” produced and directed by Mel Brooks who also
co-authored the script and co-starring
Richard Lewis was released in the United States today by 20th
Century Fox.
1993: The
Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of
all charges, and he is set free
1994: Today
the Senate confirmed Stephen Breyer’s nomination as an associate justice of the
Supreme Court.
1995(2nd
of Av, 5755): Parashat Matot-Masei
1995(2nd
of Av, 5755): Fifty-seven-year-old Mayfield, KY native Richard Weisenberger who
ran for the Kentucky state senate as a Democrat passed away today.
1996(13th
of Av, 5726):Anne Simon the Cos Cob, CT born daughter of Alma Morgenthau and
Maurice Wertheim and Smith and Columbia educated author whose works included
No Island Is an Island: The Ordeal of Martha's Vineyard and who was the
sister of author and historian Barbara Tuchman passed away today in Manhattan.
1997: The
documentary film Blacks and Jews, written and directed by Deborah
Kaufman and Alan Snitow, was aired on PBS.
1998: “The
Parent Trap” a family comedy co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers was
released in the United States today.
1998(6th of
Av, 5758): Seventy-nine-year-old Tony Award winning choreographer Jerome
Robbins whose list of famous musicals is almost endless and West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy and
The Pajama Game passed away today.
http://www.biography.com/people/jerome-robbins-9459896
2000:
In “The Bible, as History, Flunks New
Archaeological Tests; Hotly Debated Studies Cast Doubt on Many Familiar
Stories,” Gustav Neibur described the supposed conflict between the tales of
the Bible and findings of modern archaeology:
2001(9th
of Av, 5761): Tish’a B’Av
2001: The New York Times book section includes
a review of Blue Diary by Jewish author Alice Hoffman
2001: Two
people were injured today in a Jerusalem car bombing.
2002: Today in
the Edna Ferber’s “hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin, the U.S. Postal Service
issued an 83¢ Distinguished Americans series postage stamp honoring.” which
artist Mark Summers, well known for his scratchboard technique, created by
referencing a black-and-white photograph of Ferber taken in 1927
2002(20th
of Av, 5762): Eighty-two year old Ruth Adler, the Mainz, Germany, born daughter
of “Wolf and Hermine Bloch” and the “wife of Berthold Adler” passed away today
in New York City.
2003: Singer
Barry “Manilow had a complete upper and lower facelift, which includes the
removal of drooping skin from the eyelids and the general tightening of facial
skin.”
2004: A photo
exhibit designed to memorialize Anne Frank in what would have been her 75th
year closes at the Kraushaar Galleries in New York City.
2004: Seventy-two-year-old
Susan Buffett, the wife of Warren Buffett, whose friendship with Dorothy Kripke
the wife of Omaha Rabbi Myer S. Krippe led to a $70,000 investment turning into
almost 25 million dollars which went to aid a number of worthwhile causes
passed away today.
2005(22nd
of Tammuz, 5765): Eighty-two-year-old Sonny Hertzberg, an early NBA star,
passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2006: On
Shabbat Chazon, Jews respond to a request from the Governing Council of the
Chief Rabbinate by continuing to recite Psalms 83, 130 and 142 on a daily
basis.
2006(4th
of Av, 5766): Eighty-four-year-old Warren, OH native and Columbia trained
composer and educator Sol Berkowitz who had been a a professor at Aaron Copland
School of Music at Queens College passed away today.
2006(4th
of Av, 5766): Seventy-six-year-old French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet passed
away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/world/europe/14vidal-naquet.html
http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article258.html
2007: The
National Gallery of Art presents a screening of “The Dybbuk,” the Yiddish film based on Ansky’s celebrated drama.
2007: In
Jerusalem, Off the Wall Comedy Empire
presents "Find Me a Wife: Find You a Husband," an annual Tu B`Av
special event show starring David Kilimnick. Kilimnick approaches the issues of
the single man/woman in Jerusalem.
2007: The
Washington Post book section features reviews of a biography of America’s
first Jewish Secretary of State entitled Henry Kissinger and the American
Century by Jeremi Suri and a novel entitled Kalooki Nights by Howard
Jacobsen. The novel which purports to be an “examination of a Jewish
sub-culture is a convoluted combination of family saga and semi-tepid murder
mystery, focusing on its narrator, Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist with a
hefty persecution complex and a series of anti-Semitic non-Jewish ex-wives.”
2007: “Ariel
Sharon Hovers Between Life and Death and Dreams of Theodor Herzl” has its final
performance at Theatre J.
2007: The
first edition of Yisrael Hayom (Israel Today) appeared.
2007(14th of
Av, 5767): Raya Czerner Schapiro, psychiatrist, Holocaust educator and author
passed away at the age of 73 in Chicago.
After a harrowing experience, Mrs. Schapiro arrived in the United States
at the age of 5 after fleeing from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. She was inspired to pursue a medical career
in memory of her uncle, a doctor, who had sheltered her before her escape and
who died during the Holocaust.
2007: Rep.
Anthony Weiner and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) objected to a $20 billion arms
deal that the Bush Administration had negotiated with Saudi Arabia because they
do not want to provide "sophisticated weapons to a country that they
believe has not done enough to stop terrorism," also noting that 15 of the
19 hijackers of September 11, 2001 were from Saudi Arabia.
2008: Robert Wexler, a six-term Jewish U.S. congressman from
Florida, discusses and signs Fire-Breathing
Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress
(written with David Fisher) at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in
Washington, D.C.
2009(8th of Av, 5759): Fast begins at sundown
2009(8th of Av, 5769): Eighty-six-year-old Dina Babiit who
used her artistic skills to survive Auschwitz and to save her mother’s life,
passed away.(As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/arts/02babbitt.html
2009:
The Randi & Bruce Pergament Jewish
Film Festival came to a close with a “Closing Night Bash!” - A gala dessert reception and a chance to win
membership and fitness benefits at the JCC.
2009:
An archeologist announced today that a
unique Aramaic inscription on a stone cup commonly used for ritual purity
during the first century has been uncovered in a dig on Mount Zion in
Jerusalem.
2009: In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a security guard at the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., a seven count indictment
was handed up in U.S. District Court charging white supremacist James von Brunn
in his murderous attacked on museum guard Stephen T. Johns.
2009: The New York Times reviews books by Jewish authors including
Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes Rouges, and the Inside story of the
Baseball Hall of Fame by Zev Chafets.
2010: “A Film Unfinished,” a rigorous and profound documentary that
simultaneously exposes the perversity of Nazi propaganda, honors its victims
and pays tribute to the resiliency of the filmmaker’s own grandmother and the
other survivors of the Ghetto is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival.
2010: The Washington Post
reported today that Jewish nonprofit group whose leader was accused of
fabricating dramatic stories about rescued sefer Torahs has reached a deal with
Maryland investigators forbidding it from publicizing such stories about sacred
scrolls unless it can prove them. The agreement ends an investigation into the
Rockville-based Save a Torah and its driving force, Rabbi Menachem Youlus,
often described as "The Indiana Jones of Torah Scribes."
2010:
Israel is tied with Canada,
Switzerland, and Australia as the world's eighth happiest country out of 155
surveyed, according to a Gallup World Poll posted by Forbes today.
2010: The 9th Congress of The European Association for Jewish
Studies (EAJS) came to a close in Ravenna today.
2010(18th of Av, 5770): Ninety-two-year-old Emmy Award winner Bernie West
who served as a writer and producer for such cutting edge sitcoms and “All in
the Family” and “The Jeffersons” passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bernie-west-20100804-story.html
2010: Congressman Anthony “Weiner criticized Republicans for opposing the
James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act which would provide for funds
for sick first responders to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, many
of whom reside in Weiner's district. In a speech on the floor of the House, he
accused Republicans of hiding behind procedural questions as an excuse to vote
against the bill.”
2011(27th of Tammuz, 5771): Eight-year-old Shulamit Shamir,
wife of Yithak Shamir, passed away today in Tel Aviv. (As reported by Gabe
Kahn)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146231#.UfRdz50o6po
2011:
“Sarah’s Key,” a French film that
centers on events that began with the roundup of French Jews in 1942, is
scheduled to open in major US cities today.
2011: Starting at 1 pm, a Beach Party, complete with eighty-tons of sand
brought in just for the event, is scheduled to take place at the Malcha Mall in
Jerusalem.
2011:
Following a day of advocacy and
meetings at the White House, grassroots leaders from about twenty Jewish social
justice organizations are scheduled to gather for Shabbat services and dinner
at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: As the doctor’s labor
dispute entered its 132nd day Israel Medical Association chairman Dr. Leonid Edelman continued his
one-man hunger strike
2011(27th
of Tammuz, 5771): Tens of thousands mourned the death of Rabbi Elazar
Abuchatzeira at his Jerusalem funeral this afternoon, after he was stabbed to
death in the early hours of the morning
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4101678,00.html
2011: Women’s organizations that operate public day
care centers for preschoolers, including WIZO and Naamat, today called for
parents to join the housing protests and take part in demonstrations on
Saturday night. The organizations said that the call comes following an
announcement from the Finance and Industry Ministries' proposing a solution the
law that currently offers education free from the age of three.
2011: After finishing
his career at Wisconsin, Gabe Carimi signed a four year contract with the
Chicago Bears.
2011: Punter Adam
Podlesh signed with the Chicago Bears today marking the start of season which
would see him play in all 16 regular season games where he kicked 89 punts for
3,903 yards for a 43.85 average
2011: Minor league
pitcher Josh Zeid who had played his college ball at Tulane was traded to the
Houston Astros today.
2012: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including the
recently released paperback editions of The Emperor of Lies by Steve
Sem-Sandberg and An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and
the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel
2012(9th
of Av, 5772): Tish’a B’Av
2012(9th
of Av, 5772): Eighty-six-year-old Amos Degani, the Sabra born at Kfar Vitkin
who was an MK passed away today.
https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=355
2012: The fundraiser
being held for US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney while he’s in
Israel is scheduled to start at 9:30 p.m. this evening well after Tisha B’Av
ends at sundown. The fundraiser will reportedly cost $60,000 a plate.
2012: “Glickman,” a
documentary about Marty Glickman, is scheduled to have its Bay Area Premiere at
the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2012: Police closed the Temple Mount to Jewish
visitors this morning, the fast of Tisha Be’av, due to fears of “provocation” –
despite a promise last night that the holiest site in Judaism would be open to
Jewish worshipers
2012: Shahar Peer was
the last Israeli to play today, and she too lost in the first round. The tennis
player was eliminated from competition at the London Games by Russian medal
favorite Maria Sharapova, ending a disappointing day for the blue-and-white
team. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
2012: US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today
touted the close security relationship between Israel and the US, suggesting
that Israel remained on board with international efforts to pressure Iran on
its nuclear program and had not decided to unilaterally strike the Islamic
Republic.
2012(9th of Av, 5772): Ninety-year-old
August Kowalczyk the last survivor of the June 10, 1942 breakout from Auschwitz
passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/last-member-of-1942-escape-from-auschwitz-dies/
2013: “The Last Sentence” a movie about Swedish
anti-Nazi journalist Torgny Segerstedt is scheduled to be shown at the San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Leading Jerusalem chefs are scheduled to
lead a “Mahane Yehuda Shuk Outing!”
2013: An Israeli negotiating team led by
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is scheduled to meet with Palestinian negotiators
at the Washington, DC home of U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry prior to the
start of peace negotiations which are scheduled to begin in earnest on July 30.
(As reported by Herb Keinon)
2013: A full-capacity crowd gathered this
evening at the capital’s newly-launched Jerusalem Press Club to hear a panel
discussion among luminaries Dr. Mehmet Oz, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Jewish
Agency chairman Natan Sharansky about Jewish values and its impact on society.
(As reported by Daniel K. Eisenbud)
2013: Former Bank of Israel Governor withdrew
his nomination to return to the position, Channel 2 reported today, following
an ongoing scandal over an alleged shoplifting incident at a Hong Kong duty
free store. (As reported by Nev Elis)
2014: The JDC
Archives is scheduled to host a presentation by Dr.Gerald Steinacher the Hymen
Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
entitled “The Red Cross, Jewish Relief Agencies, and the Holocaust” at the
Center for Jewish History.
2014: The Washington
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a Coen Brothers double header with
showings of “Blood Simple” and “No Country For Old Men.”
2014: The Historic 6th
& I Synagogue is scheduled to host an hour of “Jewish Sangha.”
2014: For the third
time since the start of Operation Protective Edge “a UN aid agency for
Palestinian refugees said today that a stockpile of Hamas rockets was found in
of UNRWA’s Gaza School” – a fact “not publicized by UNRWA on its website or
official Twitter feed.” (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2014: After a night
where rockets “were fired at central and southern Israel more missiles were
fired at Ashkelon and Sderot.
2014: “Amid reports
that jihadists with fighting experience from Syria were planning an imminent
terrorist attack on Norwegian soil, the Jewish museum of Oslo is scheduled to
remain closed today based on a recommendation from the police in Norway. (As reported
by JTA)
2014: “A high ranking
military official spoke with journalists today about the next stages of the
operation and said that "the political leadership must decide now – either
we push deeper (into Gaza) or we backtrack." Indicating tensions between the IDF and
Israel's political leadership, the senior official said "our
responsibility is to lead the offensive to where it needs to go, not to where
the public wants. This is not reality TV and rating is not a factor." (As
reported by Yoav Zitun)
2014: Today, US-born Sgt. Sahar Elbaz, from the
Rimon Unit in the Givati Brigade remained in place while his unit came under
attack from a grenade throwing terrorist cell “and despite coming under intense
enemy fire” and “a glitch in his firearm” provided “covering fire” killing four
of the attackers in the process.
2014: For the third time in less than two
weeks, UNRWA announced that rockets had been found in their schools in Gaza.
2015: The StandWithUs Israel Education Center
is scheduled to host a speech by Christian Arab Israeli diplomat George Deek.
2015: Channel 2 reported today that an “Israeli
strike on a car in the Syrian Golan Heights targeted notorious terrorist Samir
Kuntar who took part in a 1979 terror raid where he killed four people
including four year old Einat Haran whose head he smashed in with his rifle
butt and “has planned multiple attacks against IDF soldiers on the Golan
Heights.” (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)
2015: The 92nd St Y is scheduled to
host “Jazz & Sondheim, Side by Side,”
https://www.92y.org/Event/Jazz-in-July-Jazz-and-Sondheim
2016: At the invitation of The Bucksbaum family
the Des Moines Art Center and the Temple B'nai Jeshurun communities are
scheduled to celebrate the life of Melva Bucksbaum at the Des Moines Art
Center.
2016: Twenty-seven-year-old Jehoshua Gross “was
heading for the north coast of Wales today when he collided with a truck” and
then continued to drive recklessly for another sixty miles so that he could,
according to his attorney, reach home before Shabbat.
2016: In a refreshing change of pace, Rabbi
Feivel Strauss is scheduled to deliver the sermon this evening at Temple Israel
in Memphis, TN.
2016(23rd of Tammuz, 5777): Ninety-one-year-old
patron of the theatre Zelda Fichandler passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber and Bob Levey)
2016: The first of the Great Jewish Books
Summer Programs “a weeklong exploration of literature and culture for high
school students” sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to come to
an end. 2017(6th of Av, 5777): Shabbat Chazon; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2017: “Futures Past” is scheduled to be shown
at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
2018” “Djon Africa” and Samouni Road” are
scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education center is scheduled to host a presentation in which “Dr. Diane
Afoumado reveals how the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center staff
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum assist people from all over the
world to find their families and learn their fate using the International
Tracing Service collection and the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database”
2018: Today, “a week after an El Al flight was
delayed by ultra-Orthodox men’s refusal sit beside women,” an “Austrian
Airlines plane left Ben Gurion Airport 40 minutes late due to the refusal of 26
ultra-Orthodox men to be seated by women passengers” which led to a late
arrival in Vienna which meant other passengers missed their connecting flights.
2018(16th of Tammuz, 5778):
One-hundred-four-year-old pioneering attorney Patricia Schiller, the Brooklyn
born daughter “pharmacist Louis Silverman” and “homemaker Gussie (Zuckerblatt)
Silverman” and wife of fellow attorney Irving Schiller passed away today,. (As
reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2018: As part of the “Home: Lens on Israel”
series, the Temple Emanuel Streicker Center is scheduled to open the
photographic exhibition “The Ultra-Orthodox of Bnei Brak.”
2018: The University of Iowa Hillel chapter is
scheduled to host an evening of “Bowling for Dollars” at Pinstripes for the
“Chicago Hawkeye Community.”
2019(26th of Tammuz, 5779): Ninety-six-year-old
Adelphi and Columbia alum Phillip Fredrick Hymes, the Manhattan born son of
Jacob and Regina (Rothenberg) Hymes and husband of Virginia (May) Hymes, the
“veteran lighting director” known best for his work with “Saturday Night Live”
passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2019: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host screenings of “King Bibi” and “You Only Die Twice.”
2019(26th of Tammuz, 5779):
Ninety-five-year-old award-winning Israeli poet Tuvya Rubener who had married
Galila Yisraeli after the death of his first wife, Ada Klein, passed away
today.
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/tuvya-ruebner
2019: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is
scheduled to host a performance of “Hanna Senesh,” a play with music and song”
about the brave paratrooper/poet.
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to host a lecture by “Samuel Kassow, the Charles H. Northam Professor
of History at Trinity College, and one of the world's leading scholars on the
Holocaust and the Jews of Poland” on “The Keeper of the Flame: Rachel Auerbach
and the Holocaust Witnessing.”
2019: JAHSENA’s (Jewish Archives and Historical
Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta) Casino is scheduled to take place
today.
2019: Today, a Yemeni court ordered the Houthis
to free Levi Salem Musa Marhabi who five years later, he remains a Houthi
hostage.
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to host a lecture by “Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett , the Chief
Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
and University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies
at New York” on “Coming of Age: Jewish Youth in Poland Between the Wars.”
2020: UCSF professor Dr. Jonathan Graf and
Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf of Congregation Sherith Israel are scheduled to
interview hospital emergency-room physician Dr. Jeremy Faust of Boston about
Covid-19 and the pandemic
2020: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled
to host a “Kids Cook Club” for those seven and above.
2020(8th of Av, 5780): Erev Tish’a
B’Av;
2020: In Des Moines, IA, Tifereth Israel is
scheduled to host a special “Top Sugyiot All Jews Should Know” class on the
Rabbinic Story of Hurtful Words leading to the Destruction of the Temple.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
a book launch with Bernard-Henri Levy, author of The Virus in the Age of
Madness and columnist Thomas Friedman.
2021: Chabad of the Delta is scheduled to offer
a “Pop-Up Kosher Deli” with “an order-ahead menu that includes sandwiches on
rye bread stuffed with deli meats from New York, pickles, potato knishes,
coleslaw, challah, babka and more.
2021: The Jewish Community Center of the North
Shore is scheduled to present Israeli Folk Dancing in Marblehead, MA.
2021: The OrShalom Jewish Community is
scheduled to open the first in a four-part series on “Identity and Belonging
Through Israeli Arts & Culture” with Vavi Toran.
2021: LBI is scheduled to present a lecture by
Kerion Pim on Job: The Story of a Simple an by Joseph Roth which was published
in 1930.
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a webinar featuring Rabbi Shippel discussing this week’s
Torah Reading
2022(1st of Av, 5782): Rosh Chodesh Av
2022: S.F. Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
host the first screening of “1982.”
2022: Free Admission Friday is scheduled at the
Illinois Holocaust Museum
2022: Following yesterday’s dedicatory
ceremonies, Israelis now have access to the world’s largest emergency room, an
8,000 square meter (86,000 square foot) facility, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical
Center (Ichilov) that includes self-triage upon check-in and robots to help you
find your way.
2022:The Maryland-based Alexander Historical
Auctions is scheduled to go ahead today with sale of Nazi paraphernalia that
“includes personal items belong to Hitler and Eva Braun despite calls from the
Brussels-based European Jewish Association (EJA) to cancel the auction.(As
reported by Itamar Eichner)
2023: The Borscht Belt Fest created by the
Catskills Borscht Belt Museum “which celebrates and pays homage to the Borscht
Belt’s vibrant past” is scheduled to take place today in Ellenville NY.
2023: Starting today “Behind-the-scenes work of
Cleveland photographer Jason Edleman are scheduled to be displayed in the Beck
Center for the Arts’ MCAT Lobby Gallery and Main Building Studio Theater Gallery
in Lakewood.
2023: An exhibition of Orit Ben Shirit’s video
installations and paintings curated by Maureen Sullivan is scheduled to come to
a close at “The Opening Gallery” in Tribeca.
2023(9th of Elul, 5783): Shabbat
Nachamu;
2024: In another lecture in the online lecture
series "The Legend of the Writers: Kafka and Agnon", Hasidic scholar Dr.
Zeev Kitsiswill is schedule to “compare Kafka's stories dealing with gates and
walls with parallel Hasidic stories.”
2024: Based on the responses to date to the
rocket attacks which killed at least dozen people, most of them young people at
soccer field, nobody holds Lebanon responsible for providing safe haven and
base for Hezbollah.
2024: JDC Archives Fellow Yurii Kaparulin is
scheduled to present a webinar on “Between Soviet Modernization and the
Holocaust: Jewish Agrarian Settlements in Southern Ukraine (1924-1948)” which “focuses
on the social history of the Jewish agrarian settlements of the Kherson Oblast
in Southern Ukraine from 1924 to 1948.”
2024: Dara Horn is scheduled to deliver the
keynote address "American Jews in
Challenging Times" at the launching of the New Speakers Series from the
Weitzman Museum’s National Educator’s Institute which explore American Jewish
History through a modern lens.
2024: The Hadassah National Conference is
scheduled to continue for a second day in Las Vegas.
2024: As July 29th 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 297 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
