This Day, July 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 5
1247: Pope
Innocent IV, semi-retired by Emperor Frederick II, issued a Bull refuting blood
libels and sent it throughout Germany and France.
1247: Today, Innocent IV
dispatched a bull from Lyons to the Church dignitaries of France and Germany in
which for the first time, the repeated baseless and fiendish imputations
against the Jews were officially contradicted. "Certain of the clergy
and princes and nobles and great lords of your dioceses have falsely devised
certain godless plans against the Jews, unjustly depriving them by force of
their property and appropriating it themselves; they falsely charge them with
dividing up among themselves on the Passover the heart of a murdered boy.
Christians believe that the Law of the Jews prescribes this to them, whilst in
their Law the very reverse is ordained. In the face of their malice, they
ascribe every murder, wherever it chance to occur, to Jews. And on the
ground of these and other fabrications, they are filled with rage against them,
rob them of their possessions, without any formal accusation without confession
and without legal trial and conviction. Contrary to the
privileges graciously granted to them from the Apostolic chair, and
opposed to god and his justice, they oppress the Jews by starvation,
imprisonment and by other tortures and sufferings; they afflict them with all
kinds of punishments, and sometimes even condemn them to death, so that
the Jews, although living under Christian prices are in a worse plight than
were their ancestors in Egypt under the Pharaohs...Since it is our pleasure
that they shall not be distressed, we ordain that ye behave towards them in a
friendly and kind manner. Whenever any unjust attacks upon them come
under your notice, redress their injuries and do not suffer them to be visited
in the future by similar tribulations." Anti-Semitism and belief and
in the blood libel were so much a part of European culture that the Pope's bull
was ignored.
1345: Pope
Clement VI banned forced baptism of Jews. Subsequent Popes overturned this
decree in 1597 and 1747
1532: In a letter dated today, Erasmu derided the Theatre
of Memory, the seminal work of Guilio Camillo who had “labored at building
a seven level ‘memory theatre’ representing the seven sefiort (in Kabbalah,
divine emanations) seven planets and plethora of Kabbalistic language imagery.”
1629: Jacob Bassevi von
Treuenberg “a Bohemian Court Jews and financier” “was a warm friend of Rabbi
Lipmann Heller and befriended him during the latter's arrest today.
1687: Sir
Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Newton was also a millenarian and a theologian who thought the world would end
in 2060. A treatise he wrote contains a diagram is of the Holy Temple in
Jerusalem. The Jewish National and University Library at Hebrew University has
an exhibit of these more unusual aspects of Newton's career, and Ha'aretz has a story on the exhibit (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/871575.html). For more about
Newton and the Jewish religion see Judaism
in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton by Matt Goldish.
1687: Isaac
Newton published “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica,” the ground
breaking three volume work that included Newton’s Laws of motions and
revolutionized the field of physics.
Based on documents from the Jewish National and University Library first
shown to the general public in 2007, we know that we that Newton “found time to
write on Jewish law” and used the Book
of Daniel “for clues about the” date for the end of the world. “In one
manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to
calculate the date for the Apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world
would end no earlier than 2060. ‘It may end later, but I see no reason for its
ending sooner,’ Newton wrote. However, he added, ‘This I mention not to assert
when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of
fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so
bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.’
In another document, Newton interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the
Jews would return to the Holy Land before the world ends. The end of days will
see ‘the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles,
the return of the Jews captivity and their setting up a flourishing and
everlasting Kingdom,’ he posited.” Newton also wrote “treatises on daily
practice in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. In one document, Newton discussed
the exact dimensions of the temple — its plans mirrored the arrangement of the
cosmos, he believed — and sketched it. Another paper contains words in Hebrew,
including a sentence taken from the Jewish prayerbook. For more about Newton and the Jewish religion
see Judaism in the Theology of Sir
Isaac Newton by Matt Goldish For more on the exhibit
of his papers see:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-06-19-newton-religious-papers_N.htm#
http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/newton/
1712(1st
of Tammuz, 5472): Esther de Castro, the wife of Issac Orbio de Castro, the
Portuguese marrano physician and philosopher who reclaimed in his Jewish
heritage when he moved to Amsterdam, passed away today.
1719(18th
Tammuz, 5479): Rabbi Shmuel Schotten known as the Mharsheishoch, who was
born at Schotten in 1644 and was
appointed Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva in Frankfurt am Main and Rabbi of the
Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1685 passed away today.
1742: During
“The War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain,
Spanish troops landed on St. Simons Island as part of their Invasion of
Georgia. Most of the Sephardi Jews abandoned Savannah, fearing that if captured
they would be treated as apostates and burnt at the stake. The Minis and
Sheftall families of Ashkenazi Jews were the only ones to remain” This quaintly named conflict between the
Spain and Great Britain would become part of a larger conflict that engulfed
most of Europe – The War of the Austrian Succession – which would come to a
close with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. This would lead in turn to the
French-Indian War which would lead to the American Revolution.
1755: Birthdate of Bohemia native Karl Fischer,
“the Christian censor of Hebrew book in Prague” who succeeded Leopold Tirsch in
this position.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6148-fischer-karl
1764:
Birthdate of Daniel Mendoza ((often known as Dan Mendoza) an English
prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England 1792-95. He is sometimes
called the father of scientific boxing. Mendoza's style consisted of more than
simply battering opponents into submission; his "scientific style"
included much movement. His ability to overcome much heavier adversaries was a
consequence of this. In 1789 he published The Art of Boxing. Mendoza was so
popular that the London press reported news of one of his bouts ahead of the
storming of the Bastille which marked the start of the French Revolution. He
transformed the English stereotype of a Jew from a weak, indefensible person
into someone deserving of respect. He is said to have been the first Jew to
talk to the King, George III. His early boxing career was defined by three
bouts with his former mentor Richard Humphries between 1788 and 1790. The first
of these was lost due to Humphries’s second (the former Champion, Tom Johnson)
blocking a blow. The second two bouts were won by Mendoza. The third bout was
the first time spectators were charged an entry payment to a sporting event.
The fights were hyped by a series of combative letters in the press between
Humphries and Mendoza. Mendoza's "Memoirs" report that he got
involved in three fights whilst on his way to watch a boxing match. The reasons
were: (a) someone's cart cut in; (b) he felt a shopkeeper was trying to cheat
him; (c) he didn't like how a man was looking at him. In 1795 Mendoza fought "Gentleman"
John Jackson for the Championship at Hornchurch in Essex. Jackson was five
years younger, 4 inches taller, and 42 lbs. heavier. The bigger man won in nine
rounds, paving the way to victory by seizing Mendoza by his long hair and
holding him with one hand while he pounded his head with the other. Mendoza was
pummeled into submission in around ten minutes. Since this date boxers have
worn their hair short. After 1795 Mendoza began to seek other sources of
income, becoming the landlord of the "Admiral Nelson" pub in
Whitechapel. He turned down a number of offers for re-matches and in 1807 wrote
a letter to The Times in which he said he was devoting himself chiefly to
teaching the art. In 1809 he and some associates were hired by the theatre
manager Kemble in an attempt to suppress the OP Riots; the resulting poor
publicity probably cost Mendoza much of his popular support, as he was seen to
be fighting on the side of the privileged. Mendoza made and spent a fortune.
His Memoirs (written in 1808 but not published until 1816) report that he tried
a number of ventures, including touring the British Isles giving boxing
demonstrations; appeared in a pantomime entitled Robinson Crusoe or Friday
Turned Boxer; opening a boxing academy at the Lyceum in the Strand; working as
a recruiting sergeant for the army; printing his own paper money; and being a
pub landlord. Mendoza made his last public appearance as a boxer in 1820 at
Banstead Downs in a grudge match against Tom Owen; he was defeated after 12
rounds. Intelligent, charismatic but chaotic, he died leaving his family in
poverty. In 1954 Mendoza was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame. In 1990 he was
inducted into the inaugural class of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Mendoza, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall
of Fame in 1981. The actor Peter Sellers was a descendant of Dan Mendoza.
Prints of the boxer can be seen on Inspector Clouseau’s wall in the Pink
Panther films.
1777: During
the American Revolution, the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania appoint Solomon
Bush, the son of Matthias Bush, Deputy Adjutant-General of the State Militia
1778: Abraham
Furtado, the President of the Assemblee des Notables and his wife Sara
Rodrigues Alvares gave birth to their first child Joseph Elie.
1784:
Birthdate of Abraham Sutro, the native of Brück who served as a
"Landesrabbiner" and wrote protests “against religious reforms,
especially the use of the organ in the synagogue.”
1791:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Myer Jacobs the son of Moses Jacobs and the husband
of Recca Lazarus whom he married in 1817.
1792: Francis
II who relied on Bernhard von Eskeles the founder of the Austrian National Bank
for financial advice began his reign as Holy Roman Emperor and King in Germany.
1796: In
Philadelphia, PA, Samuel and Richea (Gratz) Hays gave birth to their second
child and eldest son Isaac Hays, “a nephew of Rebecca Gratz, the alleged model
for Sir Walter Scott’s “Rebecca” in Ivanhoe,” who chose to pursue a career as
an ophthalmologist instead of entering the family business.
1797:
“Naphtali Moses Taylor Phillips, generally known as N. Taylor Phillips”
“married Rachel Hannah, daughter of Moses Mendez Seixas, a prominent Newport,
RI, merchant and banker and a brother of Gershom Mendez Seixas…
1800:
Birthdate of Benjamin Dores Lazarus, the son Marks Lazarus and the husband of
Marks Lazarus and the husband Cornelia Cohen whom he married 1840.
1811:
Venezuela declares its independence from Spain. According to the “Virtual
Jewish History Tour,” Simon Bolivar, considered Venezuela's liberator, found
refuge and material support for his army in the homes of Jews from Curaçao.
Jews such as Mordejai Ricardo, Ricardo Meza and his brother Abraham Meza
offered hospitality to Bolivar as he fought against the Spanish, thus
establishing brotherly relations between Jews and the newly independent
Venezuelan republic. Several Jews even fought in the ranks of Bolivar's army
during the war.”
1814(17th
of Tammuz, 5574):Tzom Tammuz
1814(17th
of Tammuz, 5574): Joseph Moes the husband of Rachel Moses and the “father of
Catharine Oppenheim; Mordecai Moses; Sarah Hart; Col. Hart J. Moses; Adeline
Lyon Moses; and Hetty (Henrietta) Moses” passed away today after which he was
buried in Charleston, SC.
1814: Lyon De
Symons, the husband of Mary Goldsmid with whom he had seven children was buried
today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1824(9th
of Tammuz, 5584): Forty-three-year-old Amelia Leven, the wife of Jacob Leven
passed away today after which she was buried at the Lauriston Road Jewish
Cemetery.
1825: Today
Samuel Evans known as Young Dutch Sam, the London born so Samuel Elias, the boxer
known as Dutch Sam, fought his bout beating Ned Stockman at Maiden, Bersjoe/
1826: Michael
Emanuel married Hannah Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1832(7th
of Tammuz, 5592): Fifty-three-year-old Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Robert author of
“Die Macht der Verhältnisse” the 1819 play that ‘deals with the position of
Jews in society.” Born Liepmann Levin,
he was the brother Rahel Varnhagen, one of the most unusual women of her time
who was the subject of Hannah Arend’ts biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life
of a Jewess.
1834: In
“Lobau” which was at time in West Prussia, Phillip and
Esther Newmark gave birth to Harris Newmark who worked in boot-black
manufacturing enterprise until he came to Los Angeles in 1853 where worked for
his brother J.P. Newmark before founding “the wholesale grocery house of H.
Newmark and Company” before moving on to San Francisco where he organized a
successful business dealing in “hides, pelts and furs” before returning to Los
Angeles where he married his niece Sarah Newmark, raised five children and
served as “Chairman of the Charity Committee of the Hebrew Benevolent Society”
from which position he raised thousands of dollars for those who had been
trapped in the Johnstown Flood.
1838: The Jews
of the city of Safed came under attack from the Druze, who also had sacked an
Ottoman caravan capturing 300 fully loaded camels of the Sultan. "While it
was still night, the entire city was suddenly and terrified because unknown men
were seen walking around the streets, and there were signs of malice on their
faces." The attack on the Jews was by a group men armed with rifles,
knives, axes and clubs.
1843: Simon
Bennett married Leah Solis today.
1845: In
Bavaria, Germany, Therese and Jacob Weil
gave birth to future Bostonian Charles (Carl) Weil the husband of Caroline
(Carry ) Weil
1848:
Birthdate of Leone Bolaffia, the native of Padua, who became a lawyer in Venice
and who became the editor of the judicial paper "Temi Veneta," in
1876.
1848: Philip
Hanau married Maria Van Goor at the Great Synagogue.
1851: In Ironton,
OH, Moses and Esther Frank gave birth to “their eldest son, Henry L. Frank who “settled
in Butte, MT where he “found prosperity in the retail and wholesale liquor
business while founding the Butte Water Co. and the Silver Bow Electric Company
and served as Mayor from 1885 to 1886.
https://www.jmaw.org/henry-frank-jewish-butte/
1853:
Birthdate of Cecil Rhodes one of the two dates that his Jewish rival Barney
Barnato gave as his birthdate – the other being July 5, 1852. His birth
certificate showed the date as February 21, 1851. (And you wonder why this is
not always easy to do)
1853: At the
Wentworth Street Synagogue, Rabbi Solomon Jacobs officiated at the wedding of
Levy Drucker and Rebecca Cohen, the youngest daughter of Aaron N. Cohen of
Charlotte, NC
1853(29th
of Sivan, 5613): Sixty-two-year-old Isaac Levin Auerbach the German-Jewish
education and reformer who was the son of Rabbi Levin Isaac Auerbach and the
brother of Baruch Auerbach, the founder of the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Berlin,
passed away at Dessau.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2118-auerbach-isaac-levin
1855: In Cincinnati,
Leopold Pappenheimer, the German born “son of Salomon Pappenheimer and Zerla
Pappenheimer (Wormser) and his wife Marie Pappenheimer gave birth to Sara Pfeifer,
the wife of Isaac Pfeiffer.
1857: In the
Russian Empire, Baron Horace Günzburg, the son of Baron Joseph Günzburg, and
his wife gave birth to Baron David Günzburg, a Jewish intellectual who had one
of the best private libraries in Europe and who was a major leader of the
Jewish community.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/12/24/104958949.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1858:In Vilna,
Russian Hebraist and poet Aaron B. Zebi Jonathanson and his wife gave birth
Jonathan Jonanathanson who moved to New York where he became a contributor to
the Yiddish periodical press under the nom de plume "Ḳal wa-Ḥomer."
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8777-jonathanson-aaron-b-zebi
1858: The
Hebrew Benevolent Society which “attend to the sick, assists members and buries
the dead in the cemetery owned by the Society, was founded today in Alexandria,
VA.
1860(15th
of Tammuz, 5620): Seventy-five-year-old Amsterdam native Leonardus Levy Abraham
Verveer, the husband of Caroline Elkan passed away today in The Hague.
1861: Armed
only with hunting-whip Sir Lawrence Oliphant fought off a Japanese attacker who
was trying to kill them. If the attack had succeeded, Oliphant would not have
lived to promote his project for colonizing the northern section of Palestine
with Jewish settlers; a plan that he did not begin to pursue until the 1870’s
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/de-philippe-edis
1862(7th
of Tammuz, 5622): Parashat Balak
1862:
According to reports in Hanover, Germany, an un-named Jewish banker in banker
plans to present a proposal to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to raise the
necessary revenue to fight the Civil War by adopting the same lottery system
that the Austrians and Russians use.
1863(18th
of Tammuz, 5623(: Hannah Levy, the daughter of Simon Levy passed away today in
Washington, D.C.
1863(18th
of Tammuz, 5623) Tzom Tammuz observed as Union cavalry fought with Lee’s Rebels
who retreating back towards Virginia after their staggering defeat at
Gettysburg
1864(1st
of Tammuz, 5624): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed on the same day that General
Jubal Early crossed the Potomac River in what would prove to be the Rebels
final attempt to capture Washington, D.C. in their war to preserve slavery even
though it meant destroying the United States of America.
1866(22nd
of Tammuz, 5626): Forty-four-year-old Edmund Myer Tobias, the son of Myer
Tobias and Hannah Woolf passed away today in the UK.
1867: Two days
after he passed away, 23-year-old Emanuel Israel Brandon, “the young son of
Abraham Israel Brandon” was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.
1868: In Riga,
Lazar b. Jacobson and Ida Cohn gave birth to Maurice Jacobson, the Librarian
for the Bureau of Statistics at the Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington,
who was educated at the University of Moscow and Columbia University in NYC.
1870(6th
of Tammuz, 5630): Moses Sachs, the German rabbi who settled in Jerusalem in
1830 and “married Rachel, daughter of Rabbi Zadok HaLevi Cruiz” in 1832 passed
away today after spending almost four decades trying to settle “Jews as farmers
in the Land of Israel under Austrian protection.”
1870: In New
Yor City, Tillie Hirshkind and Meyer Goldsmith gave birth to fertilizer and
chemicals broker Simon M. Goldsmith, the husband of Gertrude Levy whose
philanthropic work including member in the Business Men’s Council of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies in NYC.
1870: The New York Times published a summary
of reviews from English publication of Disraeli’s “Loathair.”
1871: Two days
after she passed away, fifty-six-year-old Julia (nee Hyman) Phillips, the wife
of Isaac Phillips with whom she had ten children was buried today at the West
Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1872: In Tula,
Russia, Myron O. and Reba (Rubens) Getman-Gideon gave birth to Cornell
University trained engineer Abraham Getman Gideon, the husband of Mary Bickford Young, who
pursued his career in the Philippines where he was a Major in the U.S. Reserves
and a Professor of Engineering at the University of the Philippines.
1872: Today’s
Foreign News Notes column cited a report by the Jewish Chronicle that the Jews
of Smyrna are being persecuted by the Greeks as a way to gain the release of a
group of “Greek ruffians now in prison.”
The Greek mob has threatened to burn the city and massacre the Jews if
their demands are not met.
1873: “Cosas
D’Austria” published today provides a potpourri of information about various
aspects of life in the Hapsburg Empire including a disparaging portrait of the
Jews. According to the author, “the Jews
have not invented anything” but they exploit in the inventions of others to
their own advantage. For example, the
Jews did not invent the telegraph, but Reuters profits from it by supplying all
the news to British newspapers and the Wolff Agency, founded by Berhnard Wolff
does the same by supplying news to the newspapers of Central Europe. The Agence
Havas which is not owned by Jews but is indebted to them because they control
the money, does the same in France. The
article contend that there are more Jews of Vienna are more numerous in number
than the band that crossed the Jordan with Joshua and that there as many Jews
in the Austrian Empire today as there Jews in Judea at the time of Titus’
victory. The Jews own the best of
everything. But their wealth comes not
from leading in combat but from being “gleaners who gather the fruits of
victory. [This article demonstrates how
anti-Semitism rose at the same time as Jewish Emancipation became more of a
reality. ]
1874:
Birthdate of Dr. Eugene Fischer, the professor of eugenics who was a member of
the Nazi Party and “was appointed rector of the Frederick William University of
Berlin by Adolf Hitler.”
1874(20th of
Tammuz, 5634): Rabbi Julius Eckman passed away.
Born in Rawicz, which was then part of Prussia, in 1805, he studied at
Berlin before moving to the United States where he held pulpits in a variety of
cities including in New Orleans, Charleston, San Francisco, and Portland,
Oregon and then back to San Francisco.
During his first stay in San Francisco Eckman was the first rabbi employed
by Temple Emanu-El and the published of a new Jewish weekly, The Gleaner, which
merged into the Hebrew Messenger. When
he returned to San Francisco from Portland, Eckman served as the Superintendent
of the Sabbath School at Congregation Shearith.
http://www.jmaw.org/eckman-rabbi-jewish-san-francisco/
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E7D91139EF34BC4C52DFB166838F669FDE
1875: Marcus
Jastrow, the Rabbi at Rodef Shalom and Lewis Abrahams addressed the members of
B’nai Brith who had gathered in Philadelphia for groundbreaking ceremonies that
marked the start of the building of a statute to religious liberty. The statue should be ready for next year’s
centennial observance. Rabbi George
Jacobs presided over the ceremonies and Moses Elbrigh of New York assisted him.
1875(2nd
of Tammuz, 5635): Fifty-nine-year-old Henrietta L. Cohen Long, the Maryland
born daughter of Rabbi Abraha Hyam Cohen and Sarah Janette Picken Cohen and the
mother of William Willis who married her second husband, William Long, after
her she had divorced her first husband William Willis because “he deserted her
and went to Mexico” passed away today after which she was buried in the
Hillcrest Cemetery in Holly Springs, MS.
1875: In
Lithuania, “Rabbi Abraham Bejr ad Sara Beulah Gordon gave birth to Jefferson
Medical College of Philadelphia trained eye physician and co-founder of the ZOA
and the American Jewish Congress ,Dr. Benjamin L. Gordon, the husband of
Dorothy Cohen and the physician at the Jewish Maternity Hospital and Jewish
Seaside Home who served as lieutenant in Keegan’ Brigade in the Spanish
American War and a volunteer with the Medical Corps during WW I.
1877:
Birthdate of Rabbi Judah Leib Magnes. Born in San Francisco and educated at
Hebrew Union College, Magnes was a life-long maverick. He was an early and
ardent Zionist, which was unusual among the Reform movement since it was
largely anti-Zionist at the time. He was named Rabbi at New York’s prestigious
Temple Emanu-el in 1906 but left four years later because he found it "too
assimilationist", another unusual stance for a Reform Rabbi. He was an
outspoken pacifist during World War I. (He would change his views during World
War II.) In 1925, he became the first Chancellor of the brand new Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. He held the post for ten years. He was ousted as
Chancellor as a result of an academic squabble and "kicked upstairs to the
Presidency. . Although he was a Zionist, Magnes believed in a binational
Arab-Jewish state. While there were other Jews including the famous philosopher
Martin Buber who supported Magnes, none of the "Moderate" Arabs would
join his efforts. This did not stop Magnes from pursuing what became his
Quixotic Quest. He passed away in 1948.
1877: It was
reported today that the war between the Turks and the Russian has caused an
“appalling” amount of misery as can be seen by the way Jews in Romania have
been beaten, stabbed and “outraged in various ways.”
1878: It was
reported today that the leaders of the Romanian government are holding secret
meetings to determine how they will respond to the Congress of Berlin’s demands
that the Romanians improve the treatment of their Jewish countryman. The Congress wants the Jews to be grant full
emancipation making them citizens in the true sense of the word.
1879:
Birthdate of Wanda Landowska whose performances, teaching, recordings and
writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in
the early 20th century.
1880: It was
reported today that “Alfred Simpson, alias ‘Jew Al,’ a German, and a notorious
…bank thief…was arrested” in Boston.
[Was Simpson really Jewish or was this a case of a tendency of some
journalists and others to deal in catchy stereotypes]
1880: “A Rush
to Long Branch” published today described the great popularity enjoyed by the
New Jersey resort. All of the hotels and
cottages are filled with a cross section of the nation’s “high society”
including W.W.(William Waldorf) Astor and family, the Hartman Kuhn family of
Philadelphia and former New Jersey Governor J.D. Bedle and family. The fact
that Joseph Seligman occupied one of the private cottages attested to the fact
that the innkeepers in Long Branch had not succumbed to the anti-Semitic policies
being followed in Saratoga and this fact had not harmed business.
1882: At the
Pennsylvania Railroad’s piers No. 35 and 38, Hungarian and Austrian Jewish
freight handlers were fired because the company could hire German workers. This
took place during the Freight Handler’s Strike which was an example of how
companies pitted native-born workers against immigrants and then immigrants
against immigrants to keep wages low and working conditions miserable.
1882: “A
Spanish Novel” published today provided a review of Gloria, a novel by
Perez Galdos that incorporates themes of modern day anti-Jewish attitudes with
the harsh reality of the persecution of the Jews completed with auto-de-fes and
the Expulsion of 1492. [This was an unusual topic for its time and even more
unusual one for a Spanish author to tackle.]1883(30th of Sivan,
5643): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1883:
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg was one day old today.
1884: It was
reported today that in the matter of the Parisian court found in favor of the
author and ordered the painter not display a picture that depicted Dumas as a
“Baghdad Jew.” The ruling was based on the fact that the painter had not gotten
the consent of the author to use his visage and that portraying him in this
manner (as a Jew) was “very uncomplimentary.”
1884: It was
reported today that last month in southern Russia, the Cossacks had to
intervene in a conflict between the Armenians and Jews in Titlis. [Attacks
against Russian Jews were not unusual.
But all too often the Cossacks (part of the government’s “police
authority” sat by and let the Jews be brutalized.]
1885: Today
the Jewish congregation in in Davenport Iowa decided to “let out” a contact for
the “building of a Temple” in a year that saw the building synagogues for B’nai
Yershurun and B’nai Israel in Des Moines and the organization of a congregation
in Sioux City, Iowa.
1886: In Kiev,
Leah and Morris Dubin gave birth to future Californian Abrahm Dubin the husband
of Anna Dubin.
1887:
Birthdate of Mary Gelperin Aronoff, the wife of Isaac Aronoff, with whom she
had two children – Sarah, Nathan and Louis.
1887: The
Board of Directors of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews held a special
meeting where they adopted a resolution praising and expressing their
condolences at the passing of their colleague Jonas Heller.
1887: Grace
(Colbert) Weinschenk, the wife of Albert Weischenk gave birth to a baby boy
today in New York. The father is a young
German Jew whose Christian in-laws had originally opposed the marriage. But they became reconciled to the fact and
the couple was living with their in-laws at the time of the birth. [ Why does
this matter. You will have to come back and the next installment]
1888:
Birthdate of Herbert Spencer Gasser, the Wisconsin born doctor who won the 1944
Noble Prize In Medicine and became the director of the Rockefeller Institute.
1888: In
Suwalki which at that time was part of the Russian Empire, Alexander and Sonia
Daneilewicz Banov gave birth to Leon Banov who came to Charleston, SC at the
age, earned a Ph.G. and an M.D. from the Medical College of South Carolina
after which he “served as the public health officer for both the county and the
city of Charleston which time he married Minnie Monash with whom he had three
children. (As reported by Patricia Evridge Hill)
http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/banov-leon/
1889: In New
York, Regina Horowitz and Ignatiz Margareten gave birth to Carrie Unterberger,
the wife of Moriss Unterberger with who she had three children – Sarella,
Judith and Jersome.
1891: The
New York Times published a review of Dr. Mendlesonn’s Hebrew
Jurisprudence: The Criminal Jurisprudence of the Ancient Hebrews.
1891: A
meeting was held in St. Louis, MO to address the needs of the increasing number
of Russian Jews arriving in the city.
The attendees decided to establish a school with daytime and night
sessions that would make the new immigrants “thorough American citizens.” They would first be taught the English langue
which the key to learning about government, politics and the “social economy”
of their new home. Over one hundred of
the attendees signed up to support such an endeavor and each paid three dollars
in dues to support the project.
1893: The
1,800 people who attended the Kra Kauer Charity and Aid Society Summer-night’s
festival at Sulzer’s Harlem River Park were entertained by the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum Military Band and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Drum and Fife
Corps.
1894(1st
of Tammuz, 5654): Seventy-nine year old Barbara Elisabeth Gluck whose father’s
death when she was very young which forced her to turn to writing poetry to
earn a living, where she used the name Betty Paoli passed away today.
1894: Two days
after he passed away “in his 71st year, Joseph Schloss was buried
today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1894: Seventy-seven-year-old
British political leader and archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard, whose
family had been close friends with Benjamin Disraeli in his youth and whose
discoveries at Niniveh helped to provide proof for the portions of the TaNaCh
that dealt with the Assyrians passed away today.
1896: Herzl
met with Claude Montefiore and Frederic Mocotta of the Anglo-Jewish Association
who are anti-Zionist.
1897(5th
of Tammuz, 5657): Eighty-nine-year-old Bavarian native Dr. Emanuel M. Friedlan
who came to the United States in 1850 where he “took a prominent part in
reforming Jewish ritual and served as a Grand Master of B’nai B’rith passed
away today in New York.
1897(5th
of Tammuz, 5657): Flour merchant Mayer Gottlieb, a member of the Produce
Exchange passed away today during his 69th year at his home on east
92nd Street.
1897: Birthdate of Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim. Born Paul
Frankenburger
in Munich, “he trained at the Munich Academy of Arts from 1915 to 1920. He was
assistant conductor in Walter and Knappersbusch, 1920 to 1924, and then
conductor at Augsburg from 1924 until 1931. He then abandoned conducting and
devoted himself to teaching and composition. In 1933, he emigrated to Tel Aviv
and changed his name to Paul Ben-Haim. Some of his works include the Concerto
Grosso (1931), Symphony No. 1 (1940) and Symphony No. 2
(1945). In 1953, he won the Israeli State Prize for the composition Sweet
Psalmist of Israel, scored for harp, harpsichord and orchestra. According
to the critics, Ben-Haim’s music can best be described as late romantic with an
Oriental/Mediterranean overtone. He embodies the general tendencies of this
group of composers who were trained in the classic late romanticism of the late
19th and early 20th century. Ben-Haim died in 1984.”
1898: The
first convention of the FAZ came to a close.
1898:
Birthdate of New York native and author Zelda F. Popkin, (née Feinberg) the
wife of Louis Popkin and “the first woman general-assignment reporter on The
Wilkes Barre Times Leader whose novels on Jewish subjects included Quiet
Street “based on the siege of Jerusalem during the Israeli War of
Independence.”
1898: Two days
after he passed away, 54-year-old Phillip Uri Felsenthal was buried today at
the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1898:
Wisconsin native Louis C. Wolf was promoted to the rank of 2nd
Lieutenant today.
1899:
Birthdate of Israel Goldblatt, the native of Manchester who gained famed as
cinema and television actor Harold Goldblatt.
1899: Major B.
Albert Lieberman was appointed as the Surgeon for the 33rd U.S.
Volunteer Infantry.
1899: Philip
S. Golderman named a 1st Lt. in 26th U.S. Infantry.
1899: Louis C.
Wolf of Wisconsin who had begun his military service as a Cadet at West Point
in 1893, was made a 2nd Lieutenant.”
1900:
Birthdate of Detroit native Bernard Zieger, the U of Michigan and Hebrew Union
College graduate who while serving as the Hillel Rabbi at the University of
North Carolina recited Kaddish at Duke Chapel after learning of the death of
“Louis Stern, the director of the Psychological Institute of Hamburg who had
coined the term ‘intelligence quotient’” who was the rabbi at Temple Beth
Israel in Jackson, Michigan.
1901: The
Conference of American Rabbis opened its annual meeting today in
Philadelphia. The major business of the
day was resolving the question “Whether or not the religion of Jesus should be
taught in the Jewish theological Schools.”
The conference unanimously adopted the conclusions of a report prepared
by Rabbis Philipson, Deutsch, Krauskopf
that stated that while some of Jesus’ message contained “beautiful more
teachings” they “cannot form part of,
nor be incorporated in any official statement of declaration of Jewish
belief.” This was the defining moment
for setting boundaries of the Reform Movement.
1902(30th
of Sivan, 5662): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1902: “The
Story of the Moors” published today provided a review of The Moors: A
Comprehensive Description by English journalist James Meakin that included “a
chapter on the literal and primitive customs of the Jews as practiced by the
Jews of Morocco” which “offers material for a comparative study of the social
and religious customs of Israel in Morocco with the observance of Jewish
ceremonial in other countries.”
1903: In
Charleston, SC, Rabbi Simenhoff officiated at the wedding of George Osterman
and Rosa Pearlman.
1904:
Birthdate of Baltimore, MD native and Johns Hopkins University educated
engineer Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. who became a full professor at Hopkins in
1947.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-02-10-1994041015-story.html
1904: The body
of Benjamin Cohen, who had passed away on July 2 remained in the morgue waiting
to be claimed by his stepson Philip Simon after it was discovered that Roman
Catholic Thomas Carroll who had also died on July 2 had been mistakenly buried
at Mt. Sinai Cemetery.
1905: This
morning’s session of the 18th annual convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis began with a prayer by Rabbi Jacob Mielziner
followed by Rabbi Julian Morgenstern’s reading of “History and Functions of
Ceremonies in Judaism” by Rabbi Kaufman Kohler
1906: The
Executive Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis held its first
post Conference meeting today in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1907: Today’s
session of the meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis opened with
a prayer by Rabbi Jacob Mielziner of Cincinnati, Ohio and in the afternoon
sessions heard the Report on the Geiger Centenary prepared by Rabbi Kaufman
Kohler and the Report of the Committee on Uniform Pronunciation of Hebrew
1908: It was
reported today that a benefit will be held on August 4 to raise funds “for the
erection of a Hebrew temple and religious school in Far Rockaway.
1909: The
Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Richmond donated five dollars to the
National Conference of Jewish Charities.
1910(28th
of Sivan, 5670): Eighty-five-year-old Henry Levy, the son of Joseph Levy and
Blumah Jacobs passed away today in the UK.
1911: “East
Side Patriots March” published today described the participation of 75 Jewish organizations,
including a unit of girls from the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian School in an
Independence Day parade for which Joseph Barondess served as Grand Marshall.
1912:
Birthdate of New York native and law school drop-out Mack David, the lyricist
and songwriter known for creating “the
mostly-English lyrics through which Édith Piaf's signature song "La Vie en
rose" gained much of its familiarity among native speakers of English” who
was the husband of Beatrice David with whom he had two children – John and
Rosemary --- and the brother of songwriter Hal David.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/01/obituaries/mack-david-81-a-composer-and-lyricist.html
1912: It was
reported today that “the United Hebrew Charities is trying to induce” New York
City “authorities to adopt ordinances for the control and protection of
pushcart peddlers, from whom hundreds of thousands of people buy “many
necessary articles at a much lower rate than they could be obtained even in the
cheapest stores”, and having adopted them, to see to it that they are enforced”
by the city.
1913: It was
reported today that Rabbi David Frankel, formerly of Scranton, PA has begun
serving as the Rabbi for “the Austrian congregation on Attorney Street, in New
York
1913: The
National Conference of Charities and Correction which Miss Francis Taussig,
Superintendent of the Relief Department of the Jewish Aid Society is attending as a delegate from Illinois
because of a Gubernatorial appointment, was scheduled to open today in Seattle,
WA.
1913: The
National Conference of Charities and Correction which Simon I. Blum is
attending as a delegate from Illinois was scheduled to open today in Seattle,
WA.
1913: Staring
today, “and until further notice Congregation B’nai Sholom Temple Israel will
hold services on Saturday morning at the new Sinai Temple” in Chicago.
1913: Detroit
College of Medicine trained pharmacist Maurice H. Zackheim, the Poland born son
of Sundel and Rebecca Zackheim married Rea E. Kreinson today afer which he
president of the Talmud Torah in Detroit and President of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek.
1913: Since
today was Shabbat, the Conference of American Rabbis which had begun meeting in
Atlantic City since July 2, did not have any business sessions today.
1914:
Birthdate of Yitzhak Rafael, a native of Galicia who made Aliyah in 1935 and
eventually became an Israeli political leader who served in the Knesset and as
Minister of Religion.
1914: In
Detroit, at Temple Beth El, Rabbi Samuel Sale of St Louis is scheduled to
deliver the opening prayer at today’s session of the “25th
anniversary Conference of the Central Conference of American Rabbis which will
include a report by Rabbi Solomon Foster of Newark, NJ on “Synagogue and
Industrial Relations” and report by Rabbi Louis Bernstein of St. Louis on
“Defectives, Dependents and Delinquents.
1915: In the
“Jewish neighborhood” on the Lower East Side, a part of Henry Street has been
roped off for an “impromptu jollification” that included a “great neighborhood
dance” as part of the two-day celebration of Independence Day.
1916: It was
reported today that the Central Conference of American Rabbis has authorized
“its committee on national cooperation to ascertain the character and purposed
of the National Federation of Religious Liberals with a view of joining this
body” next year “if deemed advisable.”
1916: In
Philadelphia, PA, at its closing session The Federation of American Zionists
“endorsed the plan of the Palestine Committee of the Federation to undertake
the organization of a corporation with capital stock of one million dollars for
the purpose of aiding Jewish settlements in Palestine and developing its
resources,” voted to spend $25,000 annually for the maintenance of a hospital
unit in Palestine” and heard Hadassah President Henrietta Szold describe the
need the war in Europe had created for doctors and nurses.
1916: In
Wildwood, NJ, “A special commission on ‘Jews of Other Lands’” chaired by Rabbi
Louis Grossman of Cincinnati, “reported to the central Conference of American
Rabbis today that conditions arising due to the war in Europe had prevent the
commission from proceeding with its work” because “it had been impossible to
maintain correspondence” so “there had been no access to sources of information
which ordinarily would available.”
1917:
Political philosopher, Leo Strauss who would be forced to flee his country when
the Nazis came to power, began serving in the German Army during WW I today.
1917: Former Ambassador
Abram I. Elkus was honored with a formal reception at City Hall in New York
City.
1918:
CCNY graduate Louis Maurice Josephthal, the New York
born son of Theresa Wise and Mortiz Josephthal and husband of Edyth Guggenheim
who was “one of the organizers of the Naval Militia of the State of New York in
which he enlisted as an Ordinary Seaman in 1891” began serving with the Chief
of Bureau at the Navy Department in Washington, D.C.
1918: It was
reported today that the members of the Executive Committee of the Central
Conference led by Rabbi Louis Grossman of Cincinnati includes, G.G. Fox, Fort
Worth, TX; E.N. Callisch, Richmond, VA; Ephraim Frisch, New York; Max J.
Singer, Evansville, Indiana; Jacob Singer, Lincoln, Nebraska; W. H.
Fineshriber, Memphis, TN; Joseph Stolz, Chicago, Illinois and David Lefkovits,
Dayton, Ohio.
1919(7th
of Tammuz, 5679): Parasaht Chukat
1919(7th
of Tammuz, 5679): “Mr. Samuel Kaplan of the Hebrew Union College” is scheduled
to leader Shabbat morning services at Isaiah Temple in the absences of Rabbi
Joseph Stotltz who is visiting in Syracuse, NY.
1919(7th
of Tammuz, 5679): Thirty-six year old Eugen Leviné was executed in Munich after
it was retaken by the German Army and the right-wing Freikorps.
1919: It was
reported today that Judge Julian W. Mack has been elected to serve as a member
of “the Board of Overseers at Harvard University.”
1919: It was
reported today that “Harriet B. Lowenstein” a representative of the Joint
Distribution Committee working in Paris has purchased “a large quantity of
surplus army supplies,” consisting most of clothing which have been shipped to
Poland where the Jewish population is in great need of “raiment.”
1920: At
today’s session of the Central Conference of American meeting in Rochester, the
attendees “overwhelmingly rejected political Zionism” and elected officers
including President, Leo M. Franklin of Detroit: Vice President, Edward N.
Calisch of Richmond, VA; Treasurer, Louis Wolsey, Cleveland, OH; Recording
Secretary, Isaac E. Marcuson of Macon, GA and Corresponding Secretary, Felix A.
Levy of Chicago.
1920: In New
York, Charles Polakoff, the son of Louis and Annie Polakoff and his wife
Rebecca Polakoff gave birth to Leah Goldman.
1920(19th
of Tammuz, 5680): Bernard Cantor and Professor Israel Friedlaender together
with a leader of the Tarnopol Jewish community named Grossman, set out early today
to return to Lemberg. On the highway leading from Kamenets-Podolsky at the
entrance to Yarmolintsy, in the vicinity of the shtetl of Sokolovka, their car
was attacked by members of a Red Army cavalry unit that had broken through a
section of the frontline. Cantor and Friedlaender were mistaken for Polish
officers while Grossman was mistaken for a landowner. They were killed by
Bolshevik soldiers and their driver escaped.
1921: It was
reported today that Associate Supreme Court Justice Brandeis has been named
“Honorary President of the Palestine Development Council” and that Dr. Stephen
S. Wise and Nathan Straus have been named Honorary Vice President.
1922:
“Palestine Mandate Upheld in Commons” published today described the failure of
the attack in the House of Commons on the Government’s Palestine Policy during
which Winston Churchill argued the case so well that the motion that attacking
the policy was defeated by 292 votes to 35.
1923: Today, SS
Albert Ballin “an ocean liner of the Hamburg-America Line named after Albert
Ballin, the visionary director of the Hamburg-America line, who had committed
suicide several years earlier” began her maiden voyage.
1923(21st
of Tammuz, 5683): Sixty-seven-year-old Russian born chemist Harry Mann Gordin,
the holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Berne who served on the faculty of
Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois passed away today.
1923: In
Fischhausen, Germany, “Herman Motulsky, a shopkeeper, and the former Rena Sass”
gave birth Arno Gunther Motulsky, the “refugee from Nazi Germany who became a
founder of medical genetics” and a mentor to at least one Nobel Prize winner.
(As reported by Denise Grady)
1923: The
dedication of Bernard Cantor’s tombstone took place today, the second
anniversary of his murder.
1923: Third
baseman Joe Bennett made his major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies.
1924(3rd
of Tammuz, 5684): Parashat Korach
“Sites and
cities of Jewish interest in Palestine are not pointed out to their full
advantage to tourists to the Holy Land, according to Abraham L.C. Goodall, a
native of Palestine who announced today a series of distinctly Jewish tours to
that country,” the first of which will begin today.
11924:
Official opening ceremonies conducted in Paris marking the start of the Summer
Olympics during which Harold Abrahams won the 100 m in a time of 10.6 seconds
and provided part of the plot line for “Chariots of Fire.”
1925: In “Sir
Moses Montefiore, Prince in Israel” published today, A.R. Ross provided a
detailed review of Moses Montefiore by Paul Goodman which was published
by JPS.
1925:
Birthdate of Anna Wittner the wife of Australian Jurist Sir Zelman Cowen and
mother of Yosef, Kate, Ben and Rabbi Shimon Cohen, the “Director of the
Institute of Judaism and Civilization in Melbourne.”
1926: “The
Joint Distribution Committee, of which Felix M. Warburg is the Chairman, made a
bitter attack today upon the Zionists in this country, whom it charges with
attempting to wreck the United Jewish Campaign for $25,000,000, which the Joint
Distribution Committee and affiliated relief bodies recently conducted.”
1927: The 27th
annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America opened today at Asbury Park, NJ
1927: “Jewish
internes in Kings County Hospital were not summoned promptly to the bedside of
patients in urgent need of treatment, according to Dr. Edward Katskee, who was
a witness today at Mayor Walker's investigation into alleged anti-Semitism at
the hospital.”
1927: Alfred
M. Cohen of Cincinnati, the President of the International of B’nai B’rith who
has already “installed officers in the Grand Lodge comprising England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland and who has also visited lodges in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
is scheduled to “be received today by Chancellor Marx of Germany which “now has
102 lodges numbering 10,000 members” as well as many women’s auxiliaries
1927: Alfred
M. Cohen of Cincinnati, the President of the International of B’nai B’rith who
has already “installed officers in the Grand Lodge comprising England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland and who has also visited lodges in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
is scheduled to “be received today by Chancellor Marx of Germany which “now has
102 lodges numbering 10,000 members” as well as many women’s auxiliaries.
1928(17th of Tammuz, 5688): Tzom
Tammuz observed for the last time under President Calvin Coolidge.
1928: “Colone Sir John Robert Chancellor,
Governor of Southern Rhodesia since 1923, was appointed High Commissioner for
Palestine and Transjordania succeeding Field Marshall Lord Plumer” “who was
retiring because of a disagreement as to whether the cost of maintaining
military forces in Transjordania should be borne by the Imperial Government or
Palestine.”
1929: “Minority stockholders of the Judea
Industrial Corporation, of which Municipal Court Justice Jacob S. Strahl of
Brooklyn is president, brought suit today before Supreme Court Justice John L.
Walsh to enjoin seventeen officers and directors of the corporation and
subsidiaries , the Judea Insurance Company, Ltd., of Palestine and the Judea
Life Insurance Company of New York from increasing the capital stock of the
Judea Life Insurance Company from $150,000 to $1,000,000.”
1929: “Improvement in the relations of Arabs
and Jews in Palestine during the year was reported to the Mandates Commission
of the League of Nations today by Sir John Chancellor, High Commission.”
1930(9th of Tammuz, 5690) Parashat
Chukat
1930: “More than forty Jews were injured, many
seriously, when gangs of hooligans attacked the Jewish quarter of Koval .”
1931: At today’s meeting of the Zionist
Congress in Basle delegates learned that “a part of the Zionist Revisionists, the
official Zionist opposition, is considering withdrawing from the Zionist
Congress in the event that their two fundamental demands, namely, the rejection
of the MacDonald letter and the admission that a Jewish majority in Palestine
is a fundamental of Zionism are rejected by the Congress.”
1932: In New York City “Esther (Goldberg)
Navasky and Macy Navasky gave birth to Victor Saul Navasky youthful Zionist and
“a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism” who held
a variety of positions at the Nation from 1978 to 2005 when “he became the
publisher emeritus” and was married to Anne (Strongin) Navasky with whom he had
three children.
1933: An
agricultural settlement, Kadima, was founded on the initiative of Yehoshua
Hankin. In 2003, it merged with Tzoran
to become Tzoran-Kadima
1933: Heinrich
Brüning who served as Chancellor from 1930 t0 1932 during the Weimar Republic
dissolved his Centre Party to pre-empt the Nazis from banning the party.
1933: In
Brooklyn, Harold Baumbach, “a noted painter” and Ida Baumbach, “a schoolteacher
gave birth to novelist Jonathan David Baumbach whose works included Separate
Hours and Reruns passed away today.
(As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1934: In
Vancouver, the annual convention of District Grand Lodge No. 4 of the B’nai
B’rith is scheduled to come an end today.
1934: In
Vienna, the body of Chaim Nachman Biliak, the great Hebrew poet who died last
night of a heart attack lay in state in the ceremonial hall of the Central
Jewish Cemetery surrounded by an honor guard of Jewish students from the
University of Vienna.
1934: In
announcing plans for U.S. memorial services honoring the late Chaim Nachman
Bialik, Morris Rothenberg, President of the ZOA, described him “the foremost
Hebrew Poet of the last 500 years.
1935: The
Bialik Institute invited authors throughout the world to compete for eight
prizes with a total value of 900 pounds which will be awarded in January, 1936.
The winners will be determined based on their contributions to Hebrew
literature. Submission may include
original Hebrew works as well as efforts translated from the original into
Hebrew.
1935: Konrad
von Presying, who became “one of the strongest and most vocal opponents of the
Nazis and their anti-Semitic policies among Germany's Catholic hierarchy” was
made Bishop of Berlin today. (As reported by Austin Cline)
1936: A
Czechoslovak press photographer, Stephan Lux, shot himself in Geneva, during
the League of Nations Assembly meeting, in protest against the treatment of
Jews in Germany. He died in hospital the following night.
1936: “An
increase of 300 per cent since 1934 in sums raised through Jewish welfare funds
in the United States for non-local relief and other philanthropic activities
were reported today in Notes and News
the publication of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds,
1936: The Palestine Post reported that in spite
of the six-week-long general Arab strike, work was still going on the Jaffa
Port improvement. A Czechoslovak press photographer, Stephan Lux, shot himself
in Geneva, during the League of Nations Assembly meeting, in protest against
the treatment of Jews in Germany. He died in hospital the following night. Four
cars belonging to Jews were set on fire in Jerusalem. The shooting, bomb
throwing and tree uprooting by Arab terrorists continued throughout the country.
1936: In
Providence, RI, “Morris Rothenberg announced at a caucus of his followers at
12:30 o’clock this morning that he had accepted the compromise proposal that
will Rabbi Stephen S. Wise head of “the Zionist Organization of America.”
1936: In
Jerusalem, an Arab was arrested after three Jews were wounded, two of them
critically, as they were passing the new Public Works Department as they walked
to work.
1936: As of
today, more than 260 of food poisoning due to the consumption of tainted fruits
and fish have been reported, most of them among the Jews living in the Old City
of Jerusalem.
1936:
Delegates to the 39th annual convention of the Zionist Organization
of America meeting in Providence, RI, upset this afternoon’s schedule to
provide a final opportunity to settle the issue of who will serve as the
organization’s President.
1936: “The
Montag, a sports paper, carried a German government news service dispatch
charge that ‘Jews were conspicuous’ in the group of journalists who are
asserted to have molested Arthur Karl Greiser” after he gave a speech in Geneva
“attacking the control of the League of Nations over the Free City of Danzig.”
1937: During
the Spanish Civil, New Yorker Moe Fishman, a volunteer with the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade, was wounded while fighting in a battle west of Madrid.
1937: “Reform
Judaism’s prospects in America are exceedingly favorable, Rabbi Joseph Ruach of
Louisville, KY, concluded today in a paper he read before the Fourth Congress
of the World Union Progressive Judaism” which is meeting in Amsterdam
1937:
Birthdate of New York Congresswoman Nita Melnikoff Lowey.
1938(6th
of Tammuz, 5698): Sixty-eight-year -old Percy Peixotto, the Cleveland, OH born
son of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, “the minister to Rumania under President
Grant” who “as president of the American Club of Paris in 1927 introduced
Charles Lindbergh at luncheon following his transatlantic flight, passed away
today in Paris where he will be buried.
1938: Herb Caen's first
column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Caen’s father was Jewish, but his mother was not.
1938: In an
action by the Nazi controlled government that affects several hundreds of poor
Jewish families, “Jewish tenants in Vienna’s municipal dwellings have received
a notice” ordering them to move within a fortnight.
1939(18th
of Tammuz, 5699): Seventy-eight-year-old Dr. of Jurisprudence Marcus Ettinger,
the Tarnow born son or Rebecca Schapiro and Isaak Ettinger and the husband of
Adele Ettinger passed away today in Vienna.
1939: “Despite
demands from all parts of the House of Lords for a more liberal policy toward
refugees, a government spokesman today reiterated its refusal either to loosen
existing restrictions on immigration or to provide public funds to aid the
proposed settlement of German Jews in British Guiana” while the Parliamentary Under Secretary for
Colonies announced “that the Home office was discussing…the possibility of
permitting some of the 7,000 Jewish children brought” to the United Kingdom
“from German to remain here after they become 18 years old, instead of being
required to emigrate.”
1940: The 17th
convention of Aleph Zadik Aleph, which was formed in 1924, came to an end today in Peninsula, OH
1940: In
Rumania, “the press resumed Jew-baiting which had been forsaken for the past
several days” and “the State censor refused to permit publication of a
statement of loyal by the Grand Rabbi, which he had intended to make in the
Senate while “the bodies of seven Jews were found along the railway line
running between Bucharest and Lespezile.”
1941: After 54
Jews were shot the prior day, 93 more were killed in Vilna by members of the
Einsatzkommando unit. The Einsatzkommando were the SS killing squads that
followed the Nazi Army into eastern Poland, the Baltic States and the Soviet
Union. They were to round up the Jews and other undesirables and kill them. But
special emphasis was placed on the Jews in this next phase of the Final
Solution.
1941: In
Liepāja, Latvia, Korvettenkapitan Brückner, of the
Kriegsmarine, “issued a set of anti-Jewish regulations including:
1.
All
Jews must wear the yellow star on the front and back of their clothing;
2.
Shopping
hours for Jews were restricted to 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Jews were only
allowed out of their residences for these hours and from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m.;
3.
Jews
were barred from public events and transportation and were not to walk on the
beach;
4.
Jews
were required to leave the sidewalk if they encountered a German in uniform;
5.
Jewish
shops were required to display the sign "A Jewish-owned business" in
the window;
6.
Jews
were to surrender all radios, typewriters, uniforms, arms and means of
transportation
1941: In Lvov,
the local Ukrainians continued to take Jews from their homes and murder them.
Among the victims were a 49-year-old ophthalmologist, Kornelia Graf-Weisenberg,
and her daughter.
1941: The
Nuremberg Race Law was extended to include Czech citizens.
1941: In
the Ukraine, 3000 Jews are murdered at Chernovtsy; 600 are killed at Skalat.
1942: Margot
Frank, the sister of Anne Frank, received a notice to report to a labor camp
1942(20th of Tammuz, 5702): Sixty-eight-year-old Rabbi Chaim
Fishel Epstein who “served as Chief Rabbi in St. Louis, MO for the Vaad Hoeir
of the United Orthodox Community for 12 years from 1930 to 1942 passed away
today.
1943: Heinrich
Himmler orders that Sobibór, a death camp, be made a concentration camp.
1943: Today
authorities put an end to the special status granted to personnel at the
Westerbork section of the Jewish Council. Half of the personnel had to return
to Amsterdam, while the other half became camp internees. Etty Hillesum joined
the latter group: she wished to remain with her father, mother and brother
Mischa, who had meanwhile been brought to Westerbork.
1943: “Thumbs
Up” a musical with a score by Walter Scharf and produced by Albert J. Cohen was
released today in the United SAttes.
1944:
Additional deportations of Jews from Budapest which had been planned to take
place today did not take place today because Regent Miklos Horthy cancelled
them, in part because of pressure from the Pope, the King of Sweden and
President Roosevelt.
1945: Great
Britain holds its first general election since 1935. The election pits Churchill and his
Conservative Party against Atlee and the Laborites. Churchill and the Conservatives will go down
to defeat. Unfortunately for the Jews,
the new Laborite government will enforce the White Paper and support the Arab
cause with even more tenacity than the Churchill government had.
1945: After a
ten year absence, Barnett Janner, the future Baron Janner, returned to
Parliament when was elected at the 1945 general election as Labour MP for
Leicester West.
1946: “Representative
Sol Bloom, Democrat, of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, said today he would demand United Nations action on the world Jewish
problem as a result of the anti-Semitic riots in Poland.”
1947: William
Green, President of the American Federation of Labor and Philip Murray,
President of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the two leading labor
organizations in the United States, sent messages tonight to the 50th
Annual Convention ZOA demanding “that the doors of Palestine be opened to
Jewish immigrants and that the Palestine Mandate be carried out pending the
final decision of the United Nations.”
1947:
Following the death of his first wife, Bertha Freshman who had died of a
collapsed lung in 1946, movie make Mike Todd married his second wife Joan
Blondell today creating a union that would not last but would lead to Todd’s
third and final marriage to movie start Liz Taylor.
1948: It was
reported today that “eight Jews were wounded and one Araba woman, a patient in
the Israeli held Norte Dame Hospice was shot fatally by an Arab bullet” when
Arab snipers began shooting in Jerusalem forcing Israeli troops to return fire.
1949: “Polish
security police today arrested ten persons including the Rabbi of Walbrzych in
Lower Silesia for helpings thousands of Jews” who were said to be on their way
to Israel by of Western Germany, “to cross the frontier into Czechoslovakia.”
1950: The
Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, passed the “Law of Return” which “granted all
Jews the right to live in and become a citizen of Israel.” (Editor’s note
- at the time most Jews did not know
that a group of Orthodox in Israel would determine that a large number of
people who thought they were Jews and had lived their lives as Jews really
weren’t Jewish; something that certainly was not part of the Zionist dream)
1951(1st of Tammuz, 5711): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that
registration began of all the Israeli-occupied houses in Jerusalem's
no-man's-land by the joint subcommittee of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice
Commission. It was hoped that the registration would eliminate the neutral
areas and all the trouble spots in which many lives were lost during the past
three years. Israeli seamen demanded a large share in their foreign currency
earnings.
1955: As Lord
Russell prepared to release a anti-Nuclear message that had been signed by many
leaders including the late Albert Einstein, “it was recalled in London tonight
that sometime before his death, Dr. Einstein had said ‘At the decisive moment I
shall speak” but “I am waiting for the right moment.”
1956: It was
reported today that “President Eisenhower had personally decided against
approval of the arms list submitted by Israel” which followed the policy
originally recommended by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
1957: It was
reported today that in New York State Senator Joseph Zaretski, a Democrat, had
accused the Republicans of using the state legislature’s watchdog committee “as
a political propaganda machine.”
1959:
Birthdate of Daniel Gordis, a rabbi ordained at JTS who is the President of the
Shalem Foundation and the founding dean of the Ziegler Rabbinical School.
1959: In
Israel, the 8th government “collapsed when David Ben Gurion resigned
after Labor Unit and Mapam had voted against the government on the issue of
selling arms to West German and refused to leave the coalition.
1959: After
being first shown to a limited audience at New York in June, a film version of
Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” directed by Otto Preminger and produced by Samuel
Goldwyn opened at the Carthay Circle Theatre”
1959: “The Big
Circus” a mystery “produced and co-written by Irwin Allen” was released in the
United States today.
1960: In
Detroit, Michigan, “Rhoda (Nemeth) and Archie Sills” gave birth to University
of Michigan alum and Tony Award
nominated actor Douglas Sils
1960: The then
50-year-old Jewish community of the Belgian Congo, consisting of 2500 Jews fled
in the wake of riots that followed independence of that former Belgian colony.
1961: In
Beersheba, Yitzhak Banai and his wife gave birth to “Israeli musician, singer
and songwriter” Meir Banai, the brother of “comedian Orna Bania and singer
Evitar Banai
http://www.timesofisrael.com/meir-banai-55-led-israeli-music-into-a-more-soulful-space/
1962: “Yossel
Schumacher” the central figure in a case involving his “abduction by his Haredi
Jewish grandparents” was reunited today for the first time in two years with
his parents.
1962(3rd
of Tammuz, 5722): Seventy-four-year-old Johns Hopkins trained medical doctor
Arthur Leonard Bloomfield, the Baltimore born so of Rose Leisler and Maurice Bloomfield
and the husband of Julie Mayer with whom he had a son, author Arthur
Bloomfield, who was a “senior member of
the Editorial Board of the Archives of internal medicine passed away today
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/564661
1963: “Israel
told the United Nations today that virulent ant-Semitism was being promoted in
the Soviet Union by Moscow’s denial of the huma rights to the 3,000,000 Jews in
soil.”
1964: Two days
after she had passed away, funeral services as scheduled to “be held at the
House of Living Judaism of the Union of American Congregations” for fifty-nine-year-old
“Mrs. Rosa Brown Eisendrath” the Bonham, TX born wife “Rabbi Maurice N.
Eisendrath, the president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations who
gave up her career as a concert pianist to help her husband fulfill his
calling.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/07/04/86712588.pdf
1965: Moshe
Bartur, Israel’s permanent delegate to the United Nations told the UN today
that “virulant anti-Semitism was begin promoted in the Soviet Union by Moscow’s
denial of human rights to the three million Jews on Soviet soil.”
1965: In the
U.K., premiere of “Darling” directed by John Schlesinger, produced by Joseph
Janni, written by Frederick Raphael and starring Laurence Harvey, born
Laruschka Mischa Skikne
1966(17th
of Tammuz, 5726) Tzom Tammuz
1966(17th
of Tammuz, 5726): Eighty-year-old Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in
Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of
radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of
animals and the co-discover of the
element hafnium George Charles de Hevesy, born György Bischitz in Budapest
to Lajos Bischitz and Baroness Eugénia (Jenny) Schossberger and the husband of
Pia Riis with who he had one sone and three daughters passed away today in what
was then called West Germany.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1943/hevesy/facts/
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Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music &
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1968: In Long
Beach, CA, Susan and Mort Stuhlbarg gave birth to Julliard trained American
actor Michael S. Stuhlberg who played Arnold Rothstein in “Boardwalk Empire.”
1968(9th
of Tammuz, 5728): Today in Findon, Sussex, England, UK, cinematographer and
movie director Mutz Greenbaum, the Berlin born son of the pioneering film
producer Jules Greenbaum who had founded Deutsche Bioscope “who began working
as a cameraman in 1915” and was forced to flee from Nazi Germany to England
where he also worked under the name of Max Greene working on such films The
Stars Look Down (1940), Hatter's Castle (1942), Thunder Rock (1942), So Evil My
Love (1948), Night and the City (1950) and I'm All Right Jack (1959) passed
away.
https://bscine.com/bsc-members/?id=315
https://dbpedia.org/page/Mutz_Greenbaum
1969(19th
of Tammuz, 5729): Parashat Pinchas
1969: In
“Stand on Zionism” published today Paul Boutelle of the Socialist Workers Party
takes issue with a letter written by Arnold Forster, general counsel of the ADL
taking issue “with the A.D.L.’s recent defamation of the S.W.P.” in which it
labels the organization’s “anti-Zionist stand as anti-Semitic.”
1969: In Los
Angeles, novelist Rhea Kohan (née Arnold), and writer, producer, and composer,
Alan W. "Buz" Kohan gave birth to television writer and producer Jenji
Leslie Kohan the creator of “Weeds” and “Orange Is the New Black” and sister of
David and Jono Kohan.
1970: Amos
Zamir and Amos Levitov were captured when their FE4 Phantom was shot down by
Egyptian SAM’s during the War of Attrition.
1970: “The official
founding ceremony” for Alon Shvut, settlement
in Judea-Samaria which was planned by Moshe Moskovic, who had been a member of
the Masu'ot Yitzhak settlement in the Etzion Bloc before 1948 took place today.
1972(:
Birthdate of Leningrad native Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart who, 1979, came to
the United States, graduated from Oberlin and gained fame as award winning
author Barry Shteyngart whose “debut novel” was The Russian Debutante’s
Handbook.
1974: “Leonard Cohen: Bird on
the Wire,” Tony Palmer’s documentary about the singer, songwriter, novelist and
poet was shown for the first and only time at the Rainbow Theatre in north
London today. (As reported by Cathryn J. Prince)
1975: Sixty-seven-year-old
Otto Skorzeny, the Austrian born German Waffen-SS Lieutenant Colonel who may
have been the only person to be decorated by Hitler with the Iron Cross and to
have worked for Mossad, passed away today.
1975(25th of
Tammuz, 5735): In Jerusalem, a refrigerator that had five kilograms of
explosives packed into its sides exploded on Zion Square, a main square leading
to Ben Yehuda Street and to Jaffa Street. Fifteen people were killed and 77
were injured. After the attack, Yitzhak Rabin, then prime minister, said:
"The murder serves as a warning not to get caught up in illusions about
the intentions of the terror organizations ... Therefore, we must follow a
strict policy of not negotiating with them. We must speak to them only in the
language they understand, the language of the sword." Ahmad El-Sukar, the
terrorist responsible for placing the bomb, was released from Israeli prison in
2003 as a gesture to Arafat.
1975: “A 57
page new edition of the dissident “Chronicles of Current Events” began to
circulate in Moscow.
1976: Birthdate of New York native Benjamin David “Jamie” Elman the
Canadian born actor “who taught four graders at synagogue religious school in
Southern California.” (Editor’s note – having taught Jewish youngsters in more
than religious school, I can attest to the fact that all Jewish teachers don’t
end up as famous thespians.)
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported on the
successful completion of the Entebbe rescue operation, the joy at the freeing
of hostages who arrived home to a jubilant Israel. Four Israelis - the
commander of the rescue team, Yonatan Netanyahu, and three other soldiers -
were killed during the operation. A number of wounded Israelis were still under
treatment in Nairobi hospital. Idi Amin, Uganda's ruler was working together
with Palestinian gunmen, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the Knesset.
1976: The
Associated Press published an interview with “Muki” Betser, one of the
organizers of the Entebbe Rescue Operation.
According to the interview, the raid was so successful, in part, because
of information supplied to the Israelis by the hostages who had been released
by the terrorists.
1976: In an
attempt to cover up the savage murder of Dora Bloch, Idi Amin instructed his
Health Minister respond to any “inquiries about the sick hostage” by saying
“she had been returned to the airport one hour before the Israeli commandos had
arrived and that the commandos had taken her with them.”
1976: In an
attempt to thwart an attack on Kenya by Idi Amin who had been warring with his
neighbor and might know had provided a landing site to the Israelis, The United
States Seventh Fleet “including the aircraft carrier USS Ranger” sailed toward
East Africa, a naval frigate docked at Mombassa and US naval patrol aircraft
flew o Nairobi’s Embakasi Airport.
1978(30th
of Sivan, 5738) Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1978(30th
of Sivan, 5738): In New York, Jacob Sasonkin, the husband of Millie Sasonkin
and the father of Judith Lowenstein passed away today.
1978: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today for Frederick E. Goldstein, the husband of Lillian
Goldstein and President of the Men’s
Club at the West Side Institutional Synagogue.
1978:
Production of “Taxi” co-starring Judd Hirsh and Andy Kaufman began on Stage 23
at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.
1979(10th of
Tammuz, 5739): Ninety-one-year-old Rose Alice Alschuler the daughter of Charles
and Mary Haas and the wife of Alfred Samuel Alschuler, Sr. passed away today in
Chicago.
1979: Sixty-seven-year-old
Edis De Philippe, who founded the Israel National Opera Company in 1947 passed
away today. (As reported by Shabtai Benaroyo)
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/de-philippe-edis
1981: Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Gorenstein announced the engagement of their daughter Cornell
University graduate Jonina T. Gorenstein to theoretical physicist Dr. Jonathan
Furth Schonfeld, the son of Frances
Schonfeld and Gabriel B. Schonfeld, the educational director of Temple Israel
Center in White Plains, NY and the grandson of the late Rabbi Lazar Schonfeld
of the Bronx, a former chief rabbi of Nagy Karoly, Hungary, who broadcast
sermons in Hungarian for the Voice of America.”
1983: Menachem
Begin appointed Sarah Doron Minister without Portfolio.
1985(16th
of Tammuz, 5745): Fifty-seven-year-old Detroit native and television producer
and director Barry Crane, a world class bridge champion was murdered today in
Studio City.
1988: “Ben
Briscoe Follows Father to Become Dublin’s 2nd Jewish Mayor”
published today described the father-son relationship to the ceremonial
position of Lord Mayor.
1988(20th
of Tammuz, 5748): Seventy-four-year-old Ben Irving Peason, the Palestine, TX
bon son of Eva Pearlstone and Julius Hart Pearson passe away today in Los
Angeles.
1989:
An
exhibition entitled ''Robert Capa: Photographs From Israel, 1948-1950,''
appearing at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan comes to a close. The following review entitled “Slices of
Time, Preserved in Deft Images” describes the exhibition and its importance.
A photograph, whether intended to or not,
speaks of the time in which it was made. This is obvious in the case of images
taken years ago -pictures from the first days of Israel's independence, for
example, or from the tumultuous decade of the 1960's. But it is also true of
contemporary art photographs of the sort one finds displayed in SoHo galleries.
This weekend affords an unusually rich opportunity to look at photographs of
the past and present, and to assess how much the world has changed in the last
40 years. Robert Capa's photographs of the first years of the State of Israel
were taken at a time - 1948 to 1950 - when photojournalism was in full flower.
Not only was this genre the most visible and provocative manifestation of
photography, but it was also the primary means by which the events of the world
were conveyed. Capa, considered by many the quintessential photojournalist,
made a considerable reputation by photographing the Spanish Civil War and World
War II. His images of those conflicts have become so well known that they could
be considered among the lasting monuments of war. With relatively few
exceptions, however, Capa's pictures of Israel did not achieve wide currency
during his lifetime (he died, the victim of a land mine in Vietnam, in 1954).
Curiously, given the potential interest in their subject matter, they have
rarely been published or seen in exhibitions. Thus the show ''Robert Capa:
Photographs From Israel, 1948-1950,'' which has opened this week at the Jewish
Museum has an unusual fascination. The 107 black-and-white images in the
exhibition, which was organized by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art from the archives
of the Capa estate, depict an Israel in the throes of self-definition. There
are pictures of immigrants in transient camps, of politicians electioneering,
of soldiers mobilizing. We see the first meeting of the Knesset (the Israeli
parliament) as well as the unloading of mattresses beside rows of tents pitched
in the desert. There are pictures of combat as well, but they do not seem as
vivid or vital as Capa's earlier war work. Perhaps that is because Capa, a Jew
born in Hungary, had his heart elsewhere. The most affecting images in the show
are filled with human interest, not action. For a picture called ''Funeral,''
1949, Capa framed a grieving elderly woman in the foreground, but the camera
focuses behind her, on the beautiful and stoic face of a young girl. In his
pictures of the transient camps, Capa concentrated on faces that bespeak
optimism and pride. Children, especially, seemed to catch his eye. In addition
to depicting farmers, construction workers, soldiers and shopkeepers, he
photographed a couple dancing to the music of an accordion, a painter, several
musicians - with the apparent aim of bearing witness to the perseverance of the
nobler aspects of the human spirit. In appreciating these images as historical
artifacts, however, one might also wonder why it is that they have lain in such
desuetude all these years. Is it that once their news value had faded, they
became no more than relics? That doesn't seem likely, since none of Capa's
other work has remained unseen for so long. A more reasonable speculation would
be that Capa's attempt to put a good face on what was happening in Israel was
not sufficiently convincing to the editorial tastes of his day, and that
consequently the pictures never acquired the aura of news. One could also
wonder whether the photographs' focus on human interest, rather than on combat
or other action, made them seem dispensable. But human interest is one of
photojournalism's perennial staples, as can be gleaned from ''Life: Through the
60's,'' an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (1130 Fifth
Avenue, at 94th Street, through May 21). The show consists of more than 100
photographers' pictures taken between 1956 and 1972 and culled from the archive
of Life magazine. ''Life: Through the 60's'' has its fair share of bedrock
photojournalism, including such ''hard news'' specimens as a view of James
Meredith being shot during a civil-rights march, a frame from the Zapruder film
of the Kennedy assassination, and a score of examples of first-rate war
photography from Vietnam. But Life's editors, and Doris C. O'Neil, who selected
the images in the exhibition, were savvy enough to know that the 60's could not
be encapsulated solely by cataclysmic events. So the show also includes
pictures of women in mini-skirts, communal-living hippies, sports figures and,
of course, movie, television and rock stars like the Beatles. Compared with
Capa's view of Israel at the end of the 40's, Life's retrospective of the 60's
seems well balanced to a point close to blandness. But the period itself gives
the show a flavor that is even more pronounced than the magazine's two previous
forays into the past, ''Life: The First Decade'' and ''Life: The Second
Decade.'' Any review of the 60's comes complete with a hearty helping of
nostalgia to enrich its already complex, confounding texture, and the images
here are no exception.
1989: The
sitcom “Seinfeld” aired its first episode.
Much to everybody’s surprise, this sitcom built around the life of a New
York Jewish comedian becomes a smash hit.
1991(23rd of
Tammuz, 5751): Seventy-one-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning, poet laureate of
the United States Howard Nemerov passed away today. (As reported by Eric Pace)
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/howard-nemerov
1993: Opening
of the 14th Maccabiah
1995: Sir
Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, the Edinburgh born member of “a Jewish family that
emigrated to Britain in 1890s from Lithuania, completed his term as Secretary
of State for Defense.
1995: With his
party in the opposition, Sir Malcolm Rifkind became the Shadow Secretary of
State for Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom.
1997(30th of
Sivan, 5757): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1998(11th of
Tammuz, 5758): Football great Sid Luckman passed away. Luckman gained fame as
quarterback with Columbia and then with the Chicago Bear. His success earned
him a spot in the NFL Hall of Fame.
1998:
The New York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Nineteen to the Dozens: Monologues and
Bits and Bobs of Other Things by Sholem Aleichem.
1999(21st
of Tammuz, 5759): Eighty-six-year-old Rabbi and Civil Rights leader Aaron Wise
passed away today. (As reported by Myrna Oliver)
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/08/news/mn-53994
2000: “Prime
Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, have
agreed to meet at Camp David next week for a summit conference intended to help
them frame the peace agreement they hope to reach by September, President
Clinton announced today.”
2001:
“Israel's security
cabinet decided today to press ahead with a policy of assassinating suspected
Palestinian militants in an effort to stop persistent killings of Israelis,
officials said.”
2002:
Opening of the Imperial War Museum which was designed by Daniel Libeskind
2002(25th
of Tammuz, 5762): Just eight days before his 79th birthday Brazilian
economist Samuel Isaac Benchimol whom the Brazilian government memorialized
with the creation of the Benchimol Prize, passed away today.
2003:
As of the first anniversary of the opening of the Imperial War Museum designed
by Daniel Libeskind 470,000 had visited
the building.
2004:
In one of those cross-cultural mixtures that is uniquely America Takeru
Kobayashi, a native of Japan won the “Mustard Yellow Belt at Nathan’s Famous
hot-dog eating contest, an event meant to sell more of sausages originally by
Nathan Handwerker.
2005:
Two undercover police officers in Torrance, California, noticed a car nosing
slowly past a Chevron station. Two men wearing ski masks jumped from the car,
one brandished a shotgun, and they stole $252 from the night clerk. Police
arrested the two men without incident, but a search of their shared apartment
yielded jihadist literature and plans to bomb synagogues in Los Angeles.
2006:
Today Israel responded to yesterday’s rocket attack that hit a “high school in
Ashkelon” “with an airstrike that caused extensive damage to offices of the
Interior Ministry in Gaza City.
2007: The 24th Jerusalem International Film
Festival opens. This is one of the world’s premier film festivals,
featuring dozens of films from Israel and around the world. The 2007 festival
will inaugurate the renovated Jerusalem Cinematheque.
2007:
It was announced that Ken Feinberg
would work pro bono as the chief administrator to the Hokie Spirit Memorial
Fund (HSMF) which was set up by the Virginia Tech Foundation in the aftermath
of the massacre of students and faculty by a lone gun man on the Virginia Tech
Campus
2007(19th of Tammuz, 5767): Sylvan
R. Shemitz, whose lighting designs warmed the facade of Grand Central Terminal
and flooded the Jefferson Memorial, passed away at the age of 82.
2007(19th of Tammuz, 5767): Ninety-five-year-old “David
Hilberman, whose union activities at Walt Disney Studios and brief membership
in the Communist Party led to his blacklisting and shadowed a long career that
included founding the innovative United Productions of America studio” passed
away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/21/local/me-hilberman21
2008: At the Joyce Theatre in New York
City, the Pilobolus Dance Theater, in collaboration with Inbal Pinto Dance
Theater, performs “Rushes.” The Inbal Pinto Dance Company was founded by Inbal
Pinto and Avshalom Pollak in 1992. “Together, they have been involved in a
variety of artistic endeavors - mainly the creation, direction, choreography
and design of unique and award winning, dance performances for their Company.
The Israeli company consists of 12 dancer/actors working together and motivated
by the collective wish to make connections among various artistic disciplines
to convey new stage creations informed by memories, longings, ideas and imagination.”
2009(13th of Tammuz, 5769):
Anita “Nita” Rabinowitz, who for 65 years was the wife or Rabbi Stanley
Rabinowitz, Rabbi Emeritus of Adas Israel Congregation, and a woman of unique
style and charm, passed away today. She is survived by two daughters, Dr.
Sharon Chard Yaron of San Diego, CA and Judi Argaman of Herzlia, Israel; four
grandchildren, Maiya Chard Yaron of San Diego, Omri, Elad and Noa Argaman of
Herzlia,Israel and her brother a
brother, Kalman Lifson of Rydal, PA.
Zichrona Livracha - May Her Memory Be A
Blessing
2009: The Sixth Australian Israel Film
Festival, sponsored by AICE, the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange comes to an
end today.
2009(13th of Tammuz, 5769): Ninety-seven-year-old poet and “renowned
authority on Hans Christian Andersen” Naomi Lewis passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/14/obituary-naomi-lewis
2009: The New York Times featured books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone by D. D.
Guttenplan.
2009: The Washington Post featured books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Sweet Science and
Other Writings: The Sweet Science, The Earl of Louisiana, The Jollity Building,
Between Meals, The Press by A.J. Liebling and The Waxman Report: How
Congress Really Works by Henry Waxman and Joshua Green.
2010:
Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to present "Truly
Very Strange People!": The heroes of the Second Aliyah
2010(23rd of Tammuz, 5770): Ninety-year-old CCNY and
professional basketball player Hal Friend passed away today.
https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/hal-judenfriend/
2010: Today Israeli-American Amar'e “Stoudemire and the New York
Knicks agreed in principle to a contract estimated to be worth around $99.7
million over five years.”
2010: Firefighters succeeded in bringing a fire in the Yehudiah
nature reserve in the Golan Heights under control this afternoon. Firefighters
on the ground and in the air were still trying to control the giant fire
burning out of control in the Bar'am forest north of Tzfat and the Meitzar
stream. Additional crews are fighting a blaze that broke out in the area of
Alonei Habashan in the Golan Heights. Firefighters are also at work on a brush
fire in the city of Nesher near Haifa.
2011(3rd of Tammuz): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Bernard (Dov)
Illoway, a leader of American Orthodox Judaism, who passed away in Cincinnati
on 3rd of Tamuz, 5631 (June 22, 1871).
2011(3rd of Tammuz): Yahrzeit of The Lubavitcher Rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who passed away on 3rd of Tammuz, 5754 from
creation (June 12, 1994)
2011: The Milwaukee Jewish Community Chorale Board of Directors is
scheduled to meet at Fox Point, Wisconsin.
2011:
Two bills aimed at alleviating the woes of women
whose husbands refuse them divorces passed the Knesset Law Committee today,
ahead of votes in the plenum.
2011: The Israel Air Force targeted a terror cell in Gaza today,
after it was identified as attempting to fire projectiles at Israel.
2011: Israeli professional basketball player Gal Mekel signed a two-year
contract with Italian team Benetton Treviso
2011: Sale date for Joel Levitt’s “Kishinev Pogrom.”
http://www.artnet.com/artists/joel-j-levitt/kishinev-pogrom-xDSaQAliDQCQyOmb9_HROw2
2012: Israeli cellist Yoed Nir is
scheduled to perform at the Trianon in Paris
2012: Funeral
services for Lauren Reece Flaum (z"l) conducted by Rabbi Jeff Portman, are
scheduled to be held this morning at Agudas Achim Congregation with the burial
at the Agudas Achim Cemetery in Iowa City. Zichrona Livracha - May Her Memory
Be A Blessing
2012: Woody Allen's romantic
comedy, "To Rome With Love," is scheduled to open the 29th Jerusalem
Film Festival.
2012: Israel
will launch a brutal war against Lebanon if provoked by Hezbollah, senior
Israel Defense Forces officers warned today.
2012: A Tel Aviv-bound El Al plane was forced to make an emergency landing
at Heathrow Airport early today morning after one of its engines caught fire.
No injuries were reported
2013: Pope
Francis was scheduled to meet today at the Vatican with a delegation of
relatives of victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community building
in Buenos Aires.The meeting between the Argentinean pope and the relatives
takes place two weeks before the anniversary of the attack that killed 85
people (As reported by JTA and Jersualem Post)
2013: Israeli
ambassador to the United States Michael Oren announced today that he would
conclude his term as envoy to Washington in the fall, after four years on the
job. Oren wrote on his Facebook page today, "I am grateful for the
opportunity to represent the State of Israel and its Government, under the
leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to the United States,
President Barack Obama, the Congress, and the American people." (As
reported by JPost)
2013: Jonathan
Yardley, reviewed My New Orleans, Gone Away by New Orleans native Peter Michael
Wolf, “a sixth-generation member of the Godchaux-Weis clan.”
2014: In Cedar
Rapids, the Traditional Minyan is scheduled to celebrate Red, White & Blue
Shabbat with a Sundaes On Saturday Kiddush featuring that all-American treat –
Kosher Ice Cream – thanks to the efforts of Deb Levin who is responsible for
these monthly culinary delights.
2014:
Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, he founder of the Zimor Project a unique
ensemble dedicated to incorporating Jewish art music into chamber music
programs, is scheduled to perform works by Chausson, Messian, Weinberg, Yedidia
and Weber at Bargemuisc, “New York City’s floating concert hall.”
2014: “The
True Story of Curious George --- The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey’s
Journey From France” an exhibition that tells how “the Jewish Couple fled Paris
in June 1940, starting a five-month odyssey by bike, train and boat that
eventually would bring them to American shores” opens today at The Carl &
Mary Koehler History Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2014: Three rockets fired from Gaza struck at
Beersheba, the largest city in southern Israel. (As reported by Itmar Sharon)
2014: Arabs continue to riot in Israel in
response to the murder of a teenager in what was supposedly a revenge
killing.
2014: This evening Hamas threatened to reach
“all” of Israel’s cities with its rockets, several hours after targeting the
city of Beersheba. (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion and Itamar Sharon)
2015: “Trained Oregon Holocaust Memorial
docents” many of whom are Holocaust survivors are scheduled to host tours that
“will focus on Holocaust history and the stories of Holocaust survivors and
their families whose hard work and dedication is largely responsible for the
conception, design, and construction of the Memorial.”
2015: Today,Carli Lloyd whose coach was
Holocaust survivor Rudi Kolbach scored the “opening goal against Japan in the
FIFA Women’s World Cup” being held in Vancover.
2015: The curtain is scheduled to come down on
the final performance of “The Tale of the Allergist Wife” at Theatre J, sponsored
by the Washington DCJCC.
2015: In Atlanta, GA, the William Breman Jewish
Heritage Museum is scheduled to host a “theater workshop for Jewish girls ages
11-14 developed in collaboration with Out of Hand Theater!”
2015: “From Shtetl to Swing” is scheduled to be
shown at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
2015: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
by Etgar Keret and Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen.
2015(18th of Tammuz, 5775): Fast of
the 17th Tammuz observed since the 17th of Tammuz fell on
Shabbat.
2015(18th of Tammuz, 5775): Eighty-year-old
Ingram Berg “Burt” Shavitz, the Manhattan born Main beekeeper the co-founder of
“Burt’s Bees” passed away today.
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2015/07/23/buzz-buzz
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/burt-s-bees-cofounder-dies-at-80-1.5375452
2015(18th of Tammuz, 5775):
Eighty-five year old James Marcus the Goldman Sachs partner and managing
director of the Metropolitan Opera passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
2016: “Natural Resistance, an exhibition at the
Y Gallery featuring the works of Israelis Shay Arick and Tamara Kostianovsky,
is scheduled to close today.
2016: Jonathan Tobin is scheduled to moderate “a
panel discussion about the Entebbe rescue with one of the hostages and a former
Mossad officer at Congregation Mikveh Israel and then directly after emcee the
40th anniversary Commemoration ceremony at the Yoni Netanyahu Memorial off of
Philadelphia's Independence Mall.”
2017: Brooklyn Institute for Social Research,
Center for Jewish History and American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to
present the first session of “Al-Andalus: Tolerance, Culture and Violence in Medieval
Spain.”
2017: In Memphis, TN at Temple Israel, Rabbi
Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead a discussion on “Abraham Isaac Kook: From
Child Prodigy to Mystic and Beloved First Chief of Rabbi of Israel” which is
part the Greatest Jewish Thinkers of All Time series
2017(5th of Tammuz, 5777):
Sixty-eight Bracha Garber, the Tel Aviv native who was a driving force behind
the “overhaul” of “New York City’s foster care system” passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2017: “The Ministry of Antiquities’ Project
Sector today approved the funds for restoring and developing the Eliyahu Hanavi
Synagogue, according to the head of the Islamic and Coptic Monuments
Department, al-Saeed Helmy Ezzat,”
2017: Daniel Polisar is scheduled to present
the first session “The Zionist Vision: A New Look at Theodor Herzl.”
2017: In Haifa, the HUB, “the Maccabiah version
of an ‘Olympic Village” is scheduled to open today.
2017: Jewish Care’s 5th annual Bake
Day is scheduled to take place in the United Kingdom today.
2018: The Jerusalem Festival of Light is
scheduled to come to an end tonight.
2018: “A special screening of ‘The Rocky Horror
Picture Show’ with a live shadow cast is scheduled to take place at the
Cinematheque Tel Aviv.”
2018: “Batsheva – The Young Ensemble is
scheduled to perform Ohad Naharin's Bessie Award-winning dance, Naharin's
Virus, inspired by the great Austrian writer Peter Handke's play” at Jacobs
Pillow today for the second time.
2018(22nd of Tammuz, 5778):
Ninety-two year old Claude Lanzmann, the Paris born son of “Armand and Paulette
(Grobermann) Lanzmann who served with the French Resistance during WW II and
who is best known for “Shoah,” his “1985 groundbreaking film about the Holocaust”
passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/obituaries/claude-lanzmann-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/05/claude-lanzmann-obituary
2018: Following yesterday’s “4.5 earthquake and
4.1 earthquake” that sent tremors from the Golan Heights to Tel Aviv, Israel’s
have been cautioned “to listen only to official updates and instructions and to
ignore unconfirmed reports.”
2019: In Terre Haute, IN, The CANDLES Holocaust
Museum and Education is scheduled to be closed in honor of its founder “Eva
Mozes Kor, who underwent experiments in Auschwitz together with her twin sister”
who passed away July 4, 2019
2019: In
Baltimore, MD, director Aviva Kempner is scheduled to take part in a Q and A
following a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate” a biopic about Moe Berg.
2019: The Shabbat Shop, a one stop place to
fill all the needs for the Sabbath which is a fundraiser Jack and Shirley
Silver Center for Special Needs at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan is
scheduled to be open from 8:30 to 5 at JCC Manhattan.
2019: Today, The Jerusalem Theatre is scheduled
to “return to the tradition of Kabbalat Shabbat at the theatre, with the
participation of the multidisciplinary Vocalists’ Workshop of the Jerusalem
Academy of Music and Dance, led by Prof. Michael Wolpe”
2020: Michelle, Jacob and Rachel Levin will be
among those adjusting to the executive order requiring the wearing of masks in
Columbus, OH, which was scheduled to go into effect this weekend.
2020: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is
scheduled to livestream “Sunday Stories: Summer in the Catskills,” a talk about
the summer resorts, music and comedy that became symbols of mid-century
American Jewish life.
2020: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Surviving Autocracy by Masha
Gessen and The Demagogue’s Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy form the
Founders to Trump by Eric A. Posner as well as an essay, “The Book That Shaped
Foreign Policy for a Generation Has More to Say” that examines the impact of
Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among the Nations and a Podcast in which Jules Feiffer examines
“His long, varied career.”
2021: An international workshop on “Living
with…”: From the COVID-19 Pandemic to the Climate Crisis is scheduled to being
to at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
2021: According to previously published report,
The Israeli government is expected to reimpose some new restrictions to curb
the COVID-19 outbreak in the country this week, including limiting some
gatherings and restricting access for the unvaccinated to some venues,
2021: The Tel Aviv Art Museum is scheduled to
host “America Night at the Museum.”
2021: Sam Shonkoff, Taube Family Assistant Professor
of Jewish Studies, is scheduled to lecture on “Deracination and Racialization
in Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales.”
2022: As part of the Yiddish Civilization
Lecture Series, presented by YIVO, Gennady Estraikh is scheduled to deliver a
lecture in Yiddish on “Kyiv and Karkiv – Two Centers of Yiddish Culture,
1917-1941.” (Editor’s note – if the
names sound familiar they should – this is where the Ukrainians led by their
Jewish president are resisting the
Russian invasion.
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a webinar on “The Development of Zionism in the Russian Empire with Trudy Gold.
2022: The Rehovot International Live Statues
Festival is scheduled to open today.
2023: Andrew Silow-Carroll, managing editor for
Ideas at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and editor at large at the New York
Jewish Week, is scheduled to teach the second session of "Inside Jokes:
Explore the Essence of Jewish Humor.”
2023: Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled
to host an information session on the congregations upcoming December to
Israel.
2023: Based on previously published information
Israel is scheduled to continue its anti-terrorism in Jenin.
2023: Following yesterday’s car-ramming attack
in Tel Aviv, Israelis are braced to deal with additional terrorist attacks.
2024: Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast “A Program of Psalms” featuring
the Ankor Choir of the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and Dance.
2024: Director Ofir Raul Grazier is scheduled
to attend the screening of “America” “a
new film starring Michael Moshonov as a former champion swimmer from Israel now
living in Chicago who returns to Tel Aviv after learning his estranged father
has died” at Laemmle’s Royal in Los Angeles.
2024: As July 5th 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 273 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.)
