This Day July 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 7
1274: Pope
Gregory X confirmed a bull issued in 1272 banning charges of blood ritual.
1307: King
Edward I, the monarch who expelled the Jews from England, died.
1320: In
Pastoureaux (Southern France), an unnamed shepherd started a crusade against
the Jews. It spread throughout most of southern France and northern Spain
destroying one hundred and twenty communities. At Verdun, 500 Jews defended
themselves from within a stone tower. When they were about to be overrun, they
killed themselves.
1358: Hundreds
of Jews were murdered in Catalonia
1520: Cortes
defeats a force of Aztecs who had chased him out of Mexico City. It would
be more than a year before Cortes would be able to conquer the capital
city. Among those with Cortes was a converso or crypto-Jew named Hernando
Alonso who worked as a blacksmith.
1572: King
Sigismund II Augustus, one of the monarchs who invited Jews to settle in
Poland, passed away.
1587: Margaret
Johnson, the mother Anglo-Jewish poet Emilia Lanier who works included Salve
Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail God, King of the Jews, was buried today at
Bishopsgate.
1629(17th
of Tammuz, 5389): Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was imprisoned at Vienna today.
1637: In
Copenhagen, Denmark, found of Trinitatis Church which, during World War II
served as a hiding place for Torah scrolls belonging to the “Great Synagogue”
which were returned to the Copenhagen congregation after the War.
1639: After
having been tortured for more than a month, Sabbatarian believers who were
accused of “Judaizing” went on trial today in Transylvania.
1690(1st of
Av): Rabbi Hillel ben Naphta Zevi of Altona, author Bet Hillel, novella on the
code passed away
1733:
Forty-one Jews settled in the colony of Georgia. Among them were Spanish,
Portuguese, German and English Jews.
1743(23rd
of Tammuz): Chaim ben Moses ibn Attar also known as the Ohr ha-Chaim after his
popular commentary on the Pentateuch. Born at Meknes, Morocco in 1696, he
became a leading rabbi in his native land before leaving for Eretz Israel in
1733. He finally arrived in Jerusalem in 1742 “where he presided at the Beit
Midrash Knesset Yisrael.” He is buried on the Mount of Olives where his
gravestone may still be seen.
1753: The Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753
received royal assent today. It would be repealed a year later. Jews would not become full citizens with the
right to sit in Parliament until the middle of the 19th century.
1754(17th
of Tammuz, 5514): Tzom Tammuz
1754: At
Geislautern, Germany, Abraham Aberle and his wife gave birth to Aaron Worms,
chief rabbi of Metz.
1766(1st
of Av, 5526): Rosh Chodesh Av
1766(1st of
Av, 5526): Abraham
Ben Joseph Guggenheim, the Vienna born son of Joseph Juda Loeb Guggenheim and
Frumet Guggenheim and husband of Vogel Guggenheim and Mirjam Glückel Guggenheim
passed away today in Hamburg, Germany.
1773:
Birthdate of Isaac Ben Hrisch Katzenelnbogen, the native of Deutschland who was
the husband of Fanny Neuburg.
1781(14th
of Tammuz, 5541): Parashat Balak
1781(14th
of Tammuz, 5541): Moses Joseph Schiff, the son Joseph Schiff and Brendle
Rheinganum and husband of Gutchen Scheyer passed away today.
1787(21st
Tammuz, 5547): Parashat Pinchas
1787(21st
of Tammuz, 5547): Before reaching his first birthday, Moses d’Azevedo, the
Newport born of Isaac Cohen d’Azevedo passed away today.
1791:
Birthdate of Rotterdam native Sarah Lit, the wife of Harry De Groot with whom
she had seven children
1792:
Birthdate of Hannah Isaacs, the New York City born daughter of Isaiah Isaacs.
1795: Isaac
Nathan Lear married Ann Magnus at the Great Synagogue.
1803:
Birthdate of Bolette Salonmonsen, the wife of Zecharias Levy and the mother of
Isaac, Arnold and Herman Levy.
1814: Today at
The Great Synagogue in London. Rabbi Solomon Hirschell led special prayers of “Thanksgiving”
for the “restoration peace.”
1815: Joseph
Oppenheim, the son of Kitty Joseph and Michael Oppenheim was buried today in
the United Kingdom.
1816: Emanuel
Nunes Carvalho, the rabbi at Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikveh Israel
delivered a sermon on the “Occasion of the Death of Rabbi Gershom Mendes
Seixas.” This “was the first Jewish sermon printed in the United States.” A
native of London Carvalho had served as rabbi in Bridgetown, Barbados and
Charleston, SC, before coming to Philadelphia where he would die in 1817.
1822(18th
of Tammuz, 5582): Tzom Tammuz observed on the same day on the Jewish calendar
as the yahrtzeit of the Jewish community of Morgentheim, Austria which was
massacred on that date (5058)
1831: In
Merzig, Germany, Esther and Baruch Loew Rothschild gave birth to Columbus, GA
resident Nathan Baruch Rothschild, the husband of Sophie Rothschild and the
brother of Leopold Rothschild.
1836: Joseph
II of Galicia, in an alleged effort to improve the educational status of
Rabbis, decreed that no Rabbis be appointed if they did not attend a
University.
1840:
Orientalist Louis Loewe, who traveled with Sir Moses Montefiore and served as
his interpreter today wrote “I am about to start for Damascus accompanying Sir
Moses and Lady Montefiore on this holy miss mission to that place” which was
the first sentence in the first entry of the diary that he kept while accompanying
a party if leading Jews to Damascus where they hoped to refute the allegations
that Jews had ritually murdered Capuchin Monk Father Thomas.
http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/images/Loewe%20exhibition/LL/LL8/diary2.jpg
1842: In
Hungary, Herman (Chaim Tzvi) Klein and Juliana Klein gave birth to Rabbi Moritz
Klein the holder of a Ph.D. from Prague University, the husband of Erzsébet
Klein who began his career “as the preacher at the Great Synagogue at Miskolcz
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9380-klein-moritz
1851: Louis
Lucas, the husband of London native Frances Cohen with whom he had nine
children was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1851: Asher
and Esther Isaacs gave birth to Isaac Asher Isaacs, the husband of “Hannah
(Annie) Zyberlast Isaacs with whom he had six children and who was presented
with a “Testimonial from the Manchester Congregation of British Jews” in
February of 1908 “in recognition of her service as secretary for twenty seven
years”
1852: Polish
native Mary Goldsmith Prag, the daughter of Isaac Goldsmith, “San Francisco’s
first schochet,” the mother of Florence Prag Kahn, the first Jewish woman to
serve in Congress, arrived in San Francisco today crossed the Atlantic to New
York City, and crossing the Isthmus of Nicaragua “by mule and canoe” and then
sailing north despite chills and fever.
1853: In a
letter dated today addressed to the Emperor of Japan Commodore Mathew Perry
uses the phrase “pacific overtures” which will provide the title for the
Stephen Sondheim musical about the “opening of Japan.”
1853: In
Emden, German “Betty and Simon de Beer” gave birth to Jacob Simon de Beer, the
founder of J. de Beer and Son, the early manufacturer of baseballs that became
sports equipment manufacturer De Beer Lacrosse who was “the husband of Jenny de
Beer” and father of Fredrick S. de Beer
1855: In
Syracuse, NY, Abraham Stern and his wife gave birth to Samuel Stern an attorney
who married Libbia Wile who served as the first assistant district attorney of
Onondaga County, NY before moving to Spokane, Washington.
1857: Pinckney
A. Hyams and Pauline Baum were married today in Charleston, SC.
1858: In Great
Britain, Nahum Salamon and his wife gave birth to Alfred Gordon Salamon, a
specialist “in the Chemistry of Fermentation” who was a “member of the
Commission to Enquire in the Cause of Beer Poisoning in Manchester” and who
“was instrumental along with his father in introducing ‘Saccharin” into the United
Kingdom.
1859: Jacob
Isaac Abrahams married Nancy Bosman at the Great Synagogue today.
1859: In
Bavaria, “Seligman Sonn and Bella Heineman” gave birth to R.A. Sonn, the
husband of Dora Fried who was educated at “the German-American Seminary in
Milwaukee” before becoming the Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphans’ Home in
Atlanta and writing the Hebrew primer Or Chodosh.
1860: In
Plymouth, England, Nathaniel Hart and Dinah Nathan gave birth to Rachel Lizzy
Hart who settled in New Zealand.
1860: In the
Kaliště, Pelhřimov District, Vysočina Region,
Bernhard Baruch Mahler and Marie Mahler gave birth to composer Gustav
Mahler who converted to Catholicism to further his career, a move that earned
him derision from his critics and no relief from the anti-Semites. Mahler
passed away in 1911.
1860:
Birthdate of Abraham Cahan who from 1903
until his death in 1951, was the editor of the "Jewish Daily
Forward", the most popular and most enduring of all Yiddish newspapers.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abraham-cahan
1861: In
Dublin, Liverpool native David Jacobs and his wife gave birth to their youngest
son, Julius Jacobs, the husband of Hannah Hands of Maida-vale, London whom
married in 1882 and member of the Liverpool City Council from 1902 to 1904 who
“retired from political work in 1904” because of the terms of his father will
and devoted himself to communal work including serving as the President of the
Liverpool Hebrew Philanthropic Society.
1861:
Birthdate of Austrian native and University of Vienna educated journalist
Eduard Pollak, the “advertising manager of the New York German language
newspaper Staats Zietung.”
1862: John
Wood, Drummer, of Company A, Thirty-sixth Regiment N.Y.V., died in the Jews'
Hospital. The Jew’s Hospital (later known as Mt. Sinai) had been built in
the 1850’s to meet the health needs of New York’s burgeoning Jewish
population. Its role changed during the Civil War as it became a major
health care facility for treating the sick and wounded of the Union Army.
1862:
Birthdate of German playwright Ludwig Fulda whose works included Der Talisman
(1892), Jugendfreunde (1897) and Maskerade (1904) who committed suicide in 1939
when he was denied entrance to the United States.
1863: In Germany,
Bertha B. Elsas and Marcus Adolphus Rothschild gave birth to Mississippi cotton
broker Morris H. Rothschild the husband
of Emily Blanche Rothschild.
1865: A day
after he passed away, eighteen year old Michael Alex Aria, “the son of
Alexander and Judith Aria was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.
1866:
Birthdate of Chicago businessman and Democrat Party member Emanuel M. Abrahams
who “served in the Illinois House of Representative from 1907 to 1911” before
being elected to the Chicago City Council.
1868: Three days
after she passed away, Frances Bright was buried today at the Lauriston Road
Jewish Cemetery.
1871(18th
of Tammuz, 5631): Sixty-nine-year-old London born Dutch jurist Samuel Philippus
who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1852 passed away today at Hilversum. (As
reported by Isidore Singer)
1871: In Louisville, KY, Morris and Lina Kahn
Baldauf gave birth to social worker and kindergarten teacher Minnie Baldauf who
was an active member of the National Council of Jewish Women.
1871: Daniel
Joseph, the father of Sir Otto Jaffe established the Belfast Hebrew
Congregation “which worshipped at the Great Victoria Street synagogue.
1872: In
Philadelphia, “Fannie (née Ephraim) and Levi Mastbaum” gave birth to Jules
Ephraim Mastbaum, whose Stanley Company of American “became the largest movie
theatre chain in the world in 1926” and who was the husband of “Etta Wedell Mastbaum, the daughter of Rachel P. Lit who
founded the original store that became Lit Brothers” and the brother-in-law of
two sons of “Adam Gimbel, the founder of Gimbels department store.”
1873: Baruch
Fränkel and Rosa Eibenschütz gave birth to Sándor Fränkel who gained fame as
the Hungarian psychoanalyst and associate of Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi
1874: In
Vienna, Bustav and Charlotte Prizbram gave birth biologist Hans Leo Prizbram,
the grandson of Austrian banker Friedrich Schey von Koromla and founder of “the
biological laboratory in Vienna” who died in Theresienstadt at the age of 70.
1876:
Sixty-five year old Louis Goodman was buried today at the Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.
1879: The
Executive Board of the Council of the Union of American and Hebrew
Congregations met this morning with Moritz Loth presiding and Lipman Levy acting
as secretary. The board met to prepare for the upcoming meeting of the
Council which was scheduled to begin on the following day.
1879: In
Boston, Eva Warschauer and Simon Hirschberg the Harvard educated librarian
Herbert Simon Hirschberg, the husband of Blanche Lowe who began servings as
camp librarian for the American Library Association at the Great Lakes Training
Station starting in March of 1922.
1880: In
Romania, Sarah Sager and Irving Le Belle gave birth to Albany Medical School
trained general practitioner Dr. Louis L Dulberger the husband of Rae Brown and
member of the Yorkville and Harlem medical societies and the New York Guild for
the Jewish Blind.
1881: In
Kentucky, Governor Blackburn has declared today to be a day of public fasting
and prayer where all business is suspended so that citizens can go to churches
“or other places of worship” to pray for the recovery of President
Garfield who has been shot by an assassin. [For Jews, the importance of this is
that the governor has acknowledged that there are other houses of worship than
those used by Christians.]
1881: In
Częstochowa, Poland, Dora Paternack and Sigmund Pasternack, a bandmaster gave
birth to their eldest son Josef Alexander Pasternack who was the conductor of
several prominent American symphony orchestras including the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Philharmonic
Society where he broke musical and social grounds when he had Marian Anderson
perform there.
1882: As the
Freight Handler’s strike in New York continues cargo fails to leave the port
despite the availability of large numbers of foreign born workers including
Russian Jews to work the docks. According to critics, they lack the skill
and knowledge to work effectively. As the strikers become more desperate,
incidence of violence increase as can be seen by the stone-throwing attack on
Jews at the 30th Street Yards.
1882: The
current labor strife between the freight handlers and the railroad companies is
described as battle between Teutonic and Celtic Races on the one hand and
Russian-Semitic and Latin volunteers on the other hand. In a tactic that
would become quite common during labor disputes, the owners and their
supporters would try and pit worker against worker; in this case Germans and
Irish against Russian Jews and Italians.
1882: It was
reported today that in Russia, Count Tolstoi, the Minister of the Interior has
ordered the authorities at the frontier “to do all this is possible to
facilitate the return of the Jews.”
1882: The
newly formed Propaganda Verein, most of whose members were Jewish, met tonight
at the Golden Rule Hall on Rivington Street. The evening’s theme was “The
Jewish Question” – the future of the Jewish race and the anomaly of the
persecution of Jews.
1883(2nd
of Tammuz, 5643): Forty-six year old Joseph Reckendorfer who was a supporter of
the United Hebrew Charities and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum as well as a member of
Temple Emanu-El passed away today.
1883: “The
Alleged Passover Murder” published today described recent event in the trial of
Jews accused of ritual murder of a Christian girl, Esther Salomossy, at
Nyreghaza, Hungary. Two of the accused claimed that their confessions had
been obtained by force and coercion. The defense counsel told the court
that the people of Tisza-Eglar, where the alleged murder had taken place have
“been taught that it was not wrong to testify falsely against the Jews” if the
interests of the country required a conviction.
1884: In
Boston, Isaac Jacobs, a Polish Jew who is the prime suspect in the murder of
Etta G. Carleston, is expected to make his next court appearance on charges of
having stolen a watch a chain.
1884(14th
of Tammuz, 5644): Eleven year old Harold Phillips passed away today after which
he was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA.
1884: “Case of
Pauper Immigrants” published today, described evidence gathered by the
Emigration Commissioner that the clerks at Castle Garden were not be vigilant
in seeing to it that immigrants who lacked funds or financial sponsors were
kept from entering the country. Among those mentioned were Henry Brolsky,
his wife and six children had arrived aboard the SS Assyrian Monarch.
According to Brolsky, the Hebrew Society of London had paid for their
passage. He said he had family in St. Louis, but had no funds to make the
trip. Another example was an un-named family from Poland who had arrived on the
SS Australia. Their passage had been paid for by the Hebrew Society of
London. The immigrants claimed they had been told that the Commissioners of
Emigration would provide them with funds once they had arrived. [The report
cited examples of non-Jews as well. The issue of “pauper immigrants”
would bedevil the immigration debate among Jews as well as the general society
until World War I staunched the human flood tide.]
1884: In
Munich, “Orthodox Jewish margarine manufacturer Sigmund Feuchtwanger and his
wife, Johanna née Bodenheim” gave birth to Lion Feuchtwanger, German -born
dramatist and narrator who escaped to the United States at the outbreak of
World War II. http://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=234957&p=1559413
1884: A review
of the Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the
Greeks by Leopold von Ranke includes the famous German historian that the
laws of Moses stand in stark contrast to the Egyptians because they involve “an
opposition to kingship and claim to be an emanation from the deity.” Furthermore they represent the first attack
on “a national nature worship” and provide the grounds for the creation of
monotheism, a principle on which “is built a civil society which is alien to
every abuse of power.”
1887: Mrs.
Betty Michaelis refused to attend today’s meeting of a committee that had been
appointed by Mrs. Henrietta Loeser, the President of the Henrietta Verien to
determine if she should be expelled from the society.
1887: The
trustees of Gates of Hope suspended Rabbi E.B.M. Browne from his position as
leader of the congregation after a special committee of investigation found
that guilty of charges of “conduct unbecoming a minister.”
1887:
Twenty-six year old Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who was serving as
“an officer in the officer…was elected ruler of Bulgaria” today. In moves that
marked him as unique among European nobility Ferdinand boasted about his
relationship with Baron Hirsch saying “I was really brought by Jews; I spent my
life with Baron Hirsch. I am half a Jew,
as people often reproach me” and expressed support for Herzl by saying that his
plan to create a Jewish homeland “is a grandiose idea” that “has my full
sympathy.
1887: J.E.
Phillips presided over tonight’s meeting at the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue where the Jewish citizens discussed plans for a possible celebration
of the 400th anniversary of the expulsion from Spain and Columbus’
first voyage to the New World.
1887: In
Lizona, which was then part of the Russian Empire, Chezkel Zachar Mordechai
Chagall (Shagal) and Feige-Ite Chagall gave birth to Moishe Zakharovich
Shagalov (Moishe Segal) who gained fame as Marc Chagall whose
life lasted almost one hundred years. He developed his art against a backdrop
of World War I, the Russian Revolution and its Stalinist aftermath, Paris
during the thirties, the Holocaust and the birth of the state of Israel. One
can only appreciate Chagall by seeing Chagall. There are numerous websites
where his art may be viewed. The “Praying Jew” is my personal favorite. http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/marc-chagall/the-praying-jew-rabbi-of-vitebsk-1914
http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chagall/chagall81.html
1888: Rabbi
Jacob Charif (Jacob Sharp) arrived early this morning at Hoboken aboard the
North German Lloyd steamer. Chariff, from Wilna Russia, has been brought to the
United States by the United Society to serve the needs of New York’s “orthodox
down-town Jews.” Charif refused to leave the boat or meet with the welcoming
committee until Saturday evening, after the end of Shabbat.
1888: “On
Shabbos Maatos-Maasei, the trans-Atlantic ship Allaire docked at Hoboken, on
the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. After Havdalah, at approximately 10
p.m., the chief rabbi was taken to a nearby hotel. The leaders of the
appointing congregations and more than 100,000 people crowded the streets for
an opportunity to catch a glimpse of him. Hoboken had never before seen such a
large crowd.” (Jewish Press)
1888: “The
Summer Corps At Work” published today described the work of fifty physicians
appointed by the city to provide medical care for those living in the most
crowded quarters in the city. Dr. C.W. Wolfretz, who has been assigned to cover
“a district from Division to Broom Street and Bowery to Eldridge where the
overcrowded tenements are primarily occupied by Polish and Hungarian Jews, has
discovered that the people sleep on the roof to get relief from the heat and
that the children are susceptible to measles.
1889: It was
reported today that some social scientists, many of whom live in Germany, are
impatiently awaiting the establishment of Jewish state in Palestine as a way of
proving their theories about governance and nationalism. Since there are those
who contend that the recent success of Jews has taken place in a Christian
society and that Jews would not be nearly as successful living in a society
where they were both the governed and the governor.
1889(8th of
Tammuz, 5649): Sixty seven year old Rabbi Elias Karpeles passed away in Vienna.
1889:
“Darmesteter, The Linguist” published today notes that “scant notice has been
given in the United States to” the passing of Arsene Darmesteter the Jewish
Sorbonne lecturer on Mediaeval French and literature” whose death means that
“the world has lost one who was a Columbus in the vast eternal seas of
philological discovery.
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Talmud.html?id=HRZQfUKlTYAC
1890: In
Roundout, a case of assault and battery involving Polish Jews was withdrawn
from the Recorders Court after the parties agreed to pay court costs.
1890: In
Smyrna, Turkey, Rahamim and Sol Franco gave birth to Robert Franco, the
grandson of Rabbi Moshe Franco, the chief Rabbi of Rishon le Zion and Rabbi
Haim Franco, the chief rabbi of Salonica, who worked for Standard Oil of New
York before coming to United States in 1912 after which he served as President
of the Hebrew Charity Society and Secreatary of the Sephardic Jewish Community
of New York Inc,
1891: The
weekly cruise for underprivileged children sponsored by the Sanitarium for
Hebrew Children is scheduled to take place today
1892: The
business session of the third annual Central Conference of American Rabbis is
scheduled to open at ten o’clock this morning. Reports will be present on
conversion and cremation of the dead.
1892:
Birthdate of Chicago native Philip Sachs, the graduate of Kent College of Law
who combined the practice of law with being a leader in the Jewish community as
can be seen by his membership of the Young Men’s Jewish Charities and B’nai
B’rith.
1892: Rabbi
Kaufmann Kohler is scheduled to read a paper entitled “Is Reformed Judaism
Destructive or Constructive?” at the evening session of the Conference of
American Rabbis.
1893: “Coaxing
Immigration published today described the efforts of the Canadian government to
recruit people from the western United States to settle in the Northwest Territories
and Prairie Provinces. Including Russian Jews from Chicago some of whom the
government of Calgary feels are unfit because they “know nothing about
agriculture.”
1894: Barbara
Elisabeth Gluck who wrote her poetry under the name of Betty Paoli was buried
today at Vienna’s Central Cemetery.
1894: Seventy
one year old Christian Friedrich August Dillmann a German born orientalist and
Biblical scholar who wrote commentaries on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy and Joshua as well as “a dissertation on the origin of the
Hexateuch” passed away today.
1895: It was
reported today that Lord Rosebury has raised Sydney Stern to the Peerage after
the “well known Jewish financier contributed £50,000 to the Liberal Party.”
According to the Jewish Chronicle Stern has spent a great deal of money on his
political ambitions and little on the poor. “This is in striking to contrast of
many other millionaires of his faith” like the Rothschilds, Montefiores and
Goldsmids “whom the Queen has honored for their many acts of charity.
1895: It was
reported today that theatre goers in London have no interest in seeing Samuel
B. Curtis’s “Sam’l of Posen.” They do
not have “the faintest interest in the Polish Jews or would dream of trying to
understand his Yiddish Jargon.”
1895(15th
of Tammuz, 5655): Twenty year old Alma Meyer passed away today in Newark, NJ.
1895: “Heine
and the Germans” published today described the controversy between the Heine
Memorial Committee and the Park Commissioners in New York City over the erection
of a monument to the German author as well as the opposition of some
German-Americans who view him as “a
Napoleon worshipper, a purchased scribe of Louis Philippe and a bitter-hearted and revengeful Jew.”
1896:
Birthdate of Austrian native and American artist Joseph Margulies whose works
include “Chasid.”
http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/margulies_joseph_chasid.htm
http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/margulies_joseph_chasid.htm
1897: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this morning at Temple Beth-El for Bavaria,
Germany born Dr. Emanuel M. Friedlein who in 1850 came to the United States
where he “took a prominent role in reforming the Jewish ritual” and “was one of
the founders of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.”
1898(17th
of Tammuz, 5658): Tzom Tammuz
1898: In
Chicago, Rose (Rabinoff) and Isidore Horwitz or Horowitz gave birth to their
second son Ralph who as Ralph Horween played and coached football at Harvard
and played and coach for the Chicago Cardinals in the NFL.
1899: Benjamin
Kossman began serving as a Quarter-Master Sergeant today.
1899: “The
Straus Milk Depots Open” published today listed the three locations where
“modified milk for sick children and pure pasteurized milk in bottles can be
had at all times.” Thanks to the
generosity of Nathan Straus a half-pint of milk can be purchased for one
cent. A new formula perfected by Doctor
R.G. Freeman at the Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk Laboratory is especially
useful for “very young babies who are ill.”
1899: “On the
Lower East Side of Manhattan, “Hungarian-Jewish immigrants Viktor Cukor, an
assistant district attorney, and Helén Ilona Gross gave birth to George Dewey
Cukor, the movie director whose parents chose the middle name of Dewey as a way
to honor Naval Hero Admiral George Dewey and whose long and distinguished
career included two Catherine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy classics. But he may be
most famous for the movie that he did not direct. Cukor was the first director
for "Gone With the Wind" but he was fired before he could complete
the project. He passed away in 1983.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/41936%7C58446/George-Cukor/
1900:
Constantin C. Arion, who as the Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs would say
that his “Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with the
peace treat” and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of the
Rumanian Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens and that
naturalization is only possible for them individually” began serving as
Minister of Religion and Public Instruction today.. (Editor’s Note – Going back
to the Congress of Berlin, Rumanian government were always promising to
emancipate the Jews living in the country and always failing to do so.)
1901: The
Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society began today.
1901:
Birthdate of producer Sam Katzman. Katzman’s work includes a series of
Superman serials and early Elvis Presley films.
1901: The
New York Times reports on the popularity of Montefiore Isaacs, the Union
Club Member who is a nephew .of Sir Moses Montefiore. The popular
bachelor is known for his skill as magician which he freely shares for
charitable events as well as his knowledge of Shakespeare.
1902: Herzl
appears before the Royal Commission.
1903: The
funeral of Albert F Hochstadter, prominent businessman and a Trustee of Temple
Emanu-El is scheduled to take place today at this famous New York Jewish
house of worship.
1903: “Upward
of 6,000 Jews attended the solemn memorial service held in the Great Assembly
Hall at Mile End this evening, ‘for those of our faith murdered in Kishineff.’”
1904: Theodor
Herzl is laid to rest at the Döblinger Friedhof. Thousands of Jews took part in
the funeral procession. In his will Herzl asked that his body be buried next to
his father, "to remain there until the Jewish people will carry my remains
to Palestine."
1904: As a
sign of the political right’s loss of power in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair,
the government banned the religious orders from teaching in France. When
Pope Pius X strenuously objected, the French broke diplomatic relations with
the Vatican.
1905:
Birthdate of Anglo-Austrian violinist and viola player Max Rostal, the husband
of Sela Trau and the father of psychologist Sybil B.G. Eysenck.
1905:
Birthdate of novelist and screenwriter Frderick Kohner, the native of
Teplitz-Schönau which is now a part of the Czech Republic who like so many of
his generation was forced to leave Europe because of the United States and was
able to make it to the United States where he wrote the novel Gidget, based on
his the life of daughter, which resulted in the Gidget movies, those
quintessential surfer movies that glorified the beach world of Southern
California.
1906(14th
of Tammuz, 5666): Parashat Balak
1906: Rabbi
Browne preached a sermon this morning at the service in the Synagogue of the
Congregation Beth Tefillah, at 107th Street and Lexington Avenue, where he was
formerly the pastor, on "Hints for Christians and Jews at Summer
Resorts" where he said in part that “if you look at the Jew in the Summer
resorts I want you to remember that you see only a part of the Jew, and that is
the worst part” because “he is on a spree – he is out for fun and enjoyment –
and yet he does not forget himself to become immoral…”
1906: “The
Socialists issued a manifesto warning the people to be prepared for the next
few days for massacres of Poles and Jews which are being arranged by the police
and troops…”
1907:
Birthdate of Abraham "Abe" Ellstein an American composer who along
with Shalom Secunda, Joseph Rumshinsky, and Alexander Olshanetsky, Ellstein was
one of the "big four" composers of his era in New York City's Second
Avenue Yiddish theatre scene
1907: Rabbi
Charles Freund of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave the opening prayer at this
morning’s session of the 18th Annual Convention of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis.
1907: Papers
on “The Religious Influences of Childhood Upon Adolescence” and Judaism in the
Nineteenth Century Illustrated by Stereopticon Views – A Lesson in Popularizing
the Study of Jewish History” were presented at this evening’s session of the 18th
Annual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
1908: In Denver, the Democratic National
Convention, which nominated William Jennings Bryan who had to battle charges of
anti-Semitism, opened today.
1909:
Birthdate of Eddie Mayehoff, the Baltimore born salesman who discovered that
show business was really for him as can been by a career as bandleader, comedy
writer and actor whose work including appearing in “A Visit to a Small Planet”
for which he earned a Tony nomination.
1910: “Russian
Attack Jews” published today that “the situation of the Jews at Kieff is
becoming worse,” with “organized bands” frequently attack Jews” which the whole
“Jewish population is terrorized.”
1911: The
Jewish Chautauqua Society, which had been founded in 1893, opened its 15th
Annual Summer Assembly today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1911:
Birthdate of Alliance, Ohio native and Miami University of Ohio graduate Walter
Ings Farmer, who became a Monuments Man rather than return to the United States
when the fighting stopped in 1945,
1912(22nd
of Tammuz, 5672): Thirty-two year old “socialist and communal worker” Abraham
Litman passed away today in St. Louis.
1913: Tonight,
Franz Rosenzweig, “decided to convert to Christianity under the influence of
one of his relatives, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who was a Protestant theologian,.”
(Editor’s note – in one of the famous theological turnaround, Rosenzweig would
change his mind after attending Yom Kippur services in the fall.) (As reported
by Michael Goodman)
1913: At
Atlantic City, NJ, the 24th annual convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis which has issued a Union Prayer Book, a Union
Hymnal, a Union Haggadah and a collection of Prayers for Private
Devotion, came to an end today.
1914: Today, in the wake of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
tensions continued to mount with Austria-Hungary convening a Council of
Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of the
General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief which lasted for over six hours.
1914: “The 25th
annual convention of the Central Conference of America” which has been meeting
in Detroit for more than a week “adjourned today following the election of
officers.”
1914: It was
decided today that teacher’s schools similar to the one in Cincinnati that has
been established by the Reform movement “will, in the course of time, be
established elsewhere” in the United States.
1914:
Twenty-six-year-old Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh trained librarian Rachel
Vixman, the Pittsburgh, PA born daughter of Hyman and Rebbe (Cahen) Treelisky,
and organizer of Hadassah chapters who was a lecturer of Zionism and
Conservative Judaism married Avrom Herman Vixman today.
1915: “Rabbi
Hertz At The Front” published today described the recent visit of the Chief
Rabbi of the British Empire to the troops including a speech at Rouen where he
reminded the soldiers “of the old Jewish legend of a second deluge, a deluge of
fire that would sweep over the earth” ending with the line ‘Even our enemies
will yet bless those who will have insured victory to Great Britain.’”
1915:
According to reports published today “Alfred A. Wilson, an American engineer,
who has just arrived in” New York City “from Egypt and Palestine” said “the
Turkish Governor of Jerusalem had treated the Jews very harshly” giving them
the choice of becoming “Turkish subjects or leaving the country” which led him
to force as many as 500 to board an Italian steamship at Jaffa “in one day
without being given time to home and bid good-bye to their families or get any
of their belongings.”
1915: According
to a statement issued today by the Turkish Consulate in New York, the Jews in
Palestine are enjoying “the best treatment” at this time since the outbreak of
the World War.
1916: In
Vienna, the Yiddishe Zeitgung published “two orders by the military commander
of the Chelm District in Poland” the first of which said the Jewish community
would “fined 25,000 Kronen” if any Jew is found to be guilty” of spreading
alarming rumors and the second of which served as a reminded that Jews were not
to travel unless that had received “special permission.”
1917: At a
meeting in the offices of Nathan Straus, the Chairman of the Executive
Committee the Congress Administrative Committee of which Colonel Harry Cutler
of Providence is Chairman, it was decided to postpone the meeting of the
American Jewish Congress from September 2 to November 18, 1917.
1917: During
an afternoon when the Russian Mission “was entertained this afternoon at a
concert on the Mall of Central Park, Ambassador Oscar S. Straus appealed “to
Americans to fight with all their might to make all peoples free like those of
the United States” while condemning “the threatened streetcar strike as an aid
to the enemy” and urging “the union and the companies to accommodate their
differences until the Kaiser was beaten.
1918: Less
than a month after graduating from West Point, Meyer L. Casman began serving at
Camp A.A. Humphreys in Virginia.
1918: It was
reported today that the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire stands at
5,356,465 of which over 900,000 a Jews living in Hungary.
1918: In the
Bronx, Louis and Stella Epstein gave birth to Rose Epstein who gained fame as
“Rose E. Frisch, a scientist whose influential work showed that women without
enough body fat would have trouble becoming pregnant, but that they also had a
lower risk of breast cancer.”
1919: In
Chicago, Samuel and Sarah Braverman Polisky gave birth to Sylvia Polisky who
became Sylvia Padzensky when she married Edward Padzensky and began her life as
a member of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa community.
1919: Three
days after he has passed away funeral services were held for Emil Kahn, the
“husband of Lenora (Levy) Kahn” followed by burial at the Rosehill Cemetery.
1919: In
Chicago, funeral services were held Hyman Harvey Levine, the son of Ben and
Augusta Levine
1919: In
Chicago, funeral services were held for Charlotte Beck Switzer, “the wife of
Leon O. Switzer, the mother of Elizabeth Jane Switzer and the daughter of
Robert Beck” after which she was interred at Forrest Home.
1920: Today,
in London Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis “was elected
President of the International Zionist Conference and Dr. Max Nordeau was named
Honorary Presidentl
1920: “In
Cairo, William and Helen (Hirsch) Chalon gave birth to Egyptian
anesthesiologist Jack Chalon.
1920: In
London, Rebecca Sieff, Dr. Vera Weizmann (wife of Israel's first president, Dr.
Chaim Weizmann), Edith Eder, Romana Goodman and Henrietta Irwell founded
Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
1920: Rabbi
Nathan Krass of Temple Emanu-el and “a
member of the executive board of the American Jewish War Relief and Joint
Distribution Committees is scheduled to set sail today aboard on the New
Amsterdam as he begins his second visit to evaluate the needs “of the suffering
Jews in Eastern Europe and Palestine.”
1920: Arthur
Meighen, who was pro-Zionist, began his first term as Prime Minister of Canada.
1921: In
Chicago, Leon and Julius Bahr Kahn gave birth to University of Chicago educated
pharmacologist Julius Bahr Kahn, Jr. the husband of Carol Kahn.
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/jpet/165/2/local/front-matter.pdf
1921: Dr.
Joseph H. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire finished his visit to Vancouver,
Canada.
1922: In
Durban, South Africa, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Philip Stein, a mathematics
professor and the form Lily Rolnick gave birth to Dr/ Zena Athene Stein,
the “epidemiologist
whose influential work encompassed the effects of famine on children, the
health of entire communities afflicted by poverty and the impact of the AIDS
crisis on women in Africa…” As reported by Annabelle Williams)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/health/zena-stein-dead.html
1922: Hadoar, the first daily Hebrew newspaper
published in the United States was converted to a weekly
1923(23rd
of Tammuz, 5683): Parashat Pinchas: Shabbat Mevarchim Chodes AV
1923: Protests
from Jews throughout New Jersey to change the entrance examinations for the
State Normal Schools from Saturday to Monday, resulted today in favorable
action by State Board of Education.”
1924: “Assails
Dawes Report” published today described a speech by Erich Ludendorff, the
senior German general turned fascist political leader in which he claimed the
“Dawes plan was made and inspired by Jews for the purpose of putting Germany
under Jewish control” and told his political followers that “as in the battle
between the darkness and light, the battle between the good and the bad and the
battle between the Jews and the Nordic race, we must battle for victory and the
right.” (Editor’s night: As one of the
most senior German generals during WWI, Ludendorff had told the Kaiser he had
to surrender but also help to create the myth that German had lost because it
was stabbed in the back – a myth that covered the failure of the Imperial
General Staff that was useful in fanning the embers that would roar back in the
flames of the Second World War and the Shoah.)
1925: “A
motion by counsel for Henry Ford to vacate an attachment tying up $65,00 of Mr.
Ford’s money on deposit here, obtained by Herman Bernstein, editor of the
Jewish Tribune in his $200,000 libel suit was denied today by Federal Judge
Knox.”
1926:
Thirty-one-year-old USC trained attorney, Lester William Roth, the New York
born son of Herman Roth and the former Anna Kornfield and a second lieutenant
in the Marine Corps during WW I married Gertrude Frances Freedman while being a
member of the board of directors of the Jewish Welfare Organizations in Los
Angles where he practiced law.
1927: In New
Orleans, coffee merchant Arthur Ransohoff and the former Babette Strauss gave
birth to producer Martin Ransohoff who is responsible for one of the best
movies ever made – “The Americanization of Emily.” (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1928:
Birthdate of Avraham Shalom Bendor, the native of Vienna who joined the Palmach
in 1946 and served as head of Shin Bet from 1981 to 1986.
1928(19th
of Tammuz, 5668): Parashat Pinchas
1928(19th
of Tammuz, 5668): Michael B. Abrahams, a member of the staff of The New York
Times for almost half a century passed away this morning in his sleep.
1929: Dr.
Henry Moskowitz, the executive chairman of American Ort who “address the
International Ort Conference in Berlin on July 20” set sail for Europe tonight
aboard the Cunard liner Aquitania.
1930: It was
reported today that 75 year old Rabbi C. H. Hirshenson of Hoboken, NJ, “the
oldest Palestinian citizen of the United Stated addressed the convention of the
newly form federation of Palestinian societies made up Jews living in the
United States who were born in Palestine.
1931:
Bialystok born Rosa Raisa and her
husband Riacomo Rimini, leading performers with the Chicago Civic Opera Company
gave birth to their daughter Rosa Giuletta today at Presbyterian Hospital
1931: At
Basle, “Meer Grossman, the English Revisionist leader whom the Zionist
Executive had charge with having give to the general press the contents of the
White Paper of October 1930, before that document was officially released was
vindicated by the Zionist Congress Court of the charge of breach of confidence”
but was “reprimanded for a breach of party discipline…”
1932: “Flood
in Rumania have reached the point of a great catastrophe with severe
consequences in Moldavia, which is thickly population by Jews according to a
cable message from Dr Bernhard Kahn, European director of the America Joint
Distribution Committee made public today by Dr. Jonah B. Wise, the national
chairman of the fund raising committee headquartered at 7 Hanover Street.”
1933: Mr. and
Mrs. Sydney Ginsburg of 21 Bialik Street in Tel Aviv are the proud parents of a
newly born son. Mrs. Ginsberg is the former Ella Bach.
1933: “Thirty
physicians, most of whom are Jews, were arrested in Berlin tonight by the
combined forces the secret State Police, Hitler storm troops and the storm
troop Medical Corps.”
1933: In
Brooklyn, NY Saul Ravitch the co-founder
of HRH Construction and the former Sylvia Lerner gave birth Columbia grad and
Yale trained attorney Richard Ravitch the Democratic Party leader and
Lieutenant Governor of New York who married Kathleen M. Doyle after having
divorced Diane Silver in 1986.
1934(24th
of Tammuz, 5694): Parashat Pinchas
1934(24th
of Tammuz, 5694): Mendel Beilis—“a Jewish factory manager in Kiev, Ukraine,
accused of murdering a Christian child to use his blood to bake matzah for
Passover—“ whose blood libel trial attracted international attention died
suddenly today in Saratoga Springs, NY.
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/37.html
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beilis_Mendel
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beilis_Mendel
1935:
Birthdate of Ronald Chester Picoff, the Brooklyn born graduate of Columbia
Medical School who served on the faculty of the University of Vermont.
1936(17th of
Tammuz, 5696): Tzom Tammuz
1936: At
Providence, RI, Morris Rothenberg, who will become administrative chairman of
the Zionist Organization of American after serving as president for four terms,
closed the organization’s “convention with a final declaration of unity.
1936:
Sixty-eight year old John Foster Fraser, the author of The Conquering Jew
which contains the results the author’s studies of the Jew, his adaptability
and vitality” and well as the views on the future of the Jews, passed away
today.
1936: Rabbi
Eugene Kohn, President of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, addressed the opening meeting of its annual convention at
Tannersville, NY.
1937: The Peel
Commission Report describing the investigation of the 1936 Arab Riots was
published. The Commission recommended the partition of Mandatory Palestine into
two states. The Zionist Congress would, while rejecting the actual borders,
agree to consider the proposal. The Arabs rejected it out of hand.
1938: In
response to the growing Arab violence the British cruiser, HMS Emerald which
was “homeward bound from the East Indies was diverted to Haifa from Malta” and
is to dock at the port in Palestine today.
1938: British
troops clashed with an armed band of Arabs trying to cross in Palestine from
Trans-Jordan. This did not stop other Arab infiltrators from joining their
brethren in the fight against the British and the Jewish citizens of Palestine.
1939: “The
Rules of the Game” a big budget French film starring Nora Gregor and with music
by Joseph Kosma was released in Paris today.
1940: In
“Palestine Season Closes,” published today Dr. Peter Gradenwitz describes the
recently ended musical season of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. The
season included thirteen concert series in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem as
well as additional performances at various agricultural colonies that brought
the total of performances to 80.
1940(1st of
Tammuz, 5700): Five thousand Jews of Kovno executed by Nazis.
1940: Molka
and Mendel Dorfman, the parents of Boris Dorfman along with many of his uncles
“were arrested on charges of anti-Soviet behavior and Zionism” which led to his
mother being sent: to Solikamsk camp in the Urals and his father being “sent to
Karaganda camp in the Gulag where he died in 1942. (Editor’s note Bessarabia
native Boris Dorfman authored about 1000 articles on Jewish issues in Yiddish,
Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and German for publications including Birobidzhaner
Shtern, was one of the founders of Shofar, the first Jewish newspaper in the
former USSR and the father of American publicist Michael Dorfman)
1940: Admiral
Sir Barry Edward Domvile a leading British Pro-German anti-Semite in the years
before the Second World War was interned starting day during World War II under
Defence Regulation 18B
1941 (12th of
Tammuz, 5701): Thirty-two Jews are killed in Mariampole, Lithuania.
1941: In
France, a collaborationist military force, Légion des Volontaires Français
(French Volunteer Legion), is established.
1941 (12th of
Tammuz, 5701): Two thousand Jews are murdered at Khotin, Ukraine
1941:
Birthdate of Yisrael “Poli” Poliakov the native of Jerusalem who switched from
being an agricultural student to a career in a comedy which was marked by his
role in the creation of HaGashash HaHiver.
1942(22nd of
Tammuz, 5702): One thousand Jews from Rzeszów, Poland, are killed at the
Rudna Forest. Fourteen thousand are deported to the Belzec death camp.
1942: Himmler
held a meeting in Berlin with three high ranking men. It was decided that
medical experiments would commence on the Jews. Emphasis would be placed on
Jewish women in Auschwitz. Himmler pledged his coconspirators to secrecy.
1943:
Birthdate of Joel Siegel who would become a household icon while serving as
Entertainment Editor on GMA from 1981 through 2007.
1943: In the
Negev, about 30 minutes south of Beersheba, Kibbutz Tel Ha Tzofim (Scout’s
hill), which was later renamed Revivim (Showers) by Berl Katznelson was founded
today.
http://eng.negev-net.org.il/HTMLs/article.aspx?C2004=12760
1943(4th of Tammuz,
5703): Saul Kozlowski, an 18 year old Communist was arrested by the Gestapo in
Vilna, Lithuania. The Gestapo wanted to the known the identity of leader
of the underground known as “The Lion.” After hours of torture, Kozlowski
identifies Isaac Wittenberg, a Jew living in the ghetto, as being “the
Lion.” As the Germans turned away to discuss their next step, Kozlowski
grabbed a knife and slit his own throat.
1944(16th
of Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-eight year old photographer Erich Solomon died at
Auschwitz today.
http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2010/07/erich-salomon-king-of-indiscreet.html
http://www.comesana.com/english/salomon_gallery.php
1944:
Anti-Nazi resister Judith Auer (née Vallentin) who had been part
of the the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization was arrested today; an action
that would be followed by her being tortured and hung by her captors.
1944:
Approximately 437,000 have been deported from Hungary to Auschwitz since May
18.
1944(16th
of Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-nine year old Georges Mandel (born Louis George
Rothschild) theFrench journalist and member of the resistance was murdered by
the French fascists controlled by Vichy.
http://spartacus-educational.com/FRmandel.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/georges-mandel-french-patriot-is-executed
1944: British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill informs Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that he
is in favor of the Royal Air Force bombing Auschwitz. From July 7, 1944, to
January 19, 1945, the Allies will bomb industrial targets near Auschwitz at
least four times, including one resulting in the accidental bombing of
Auschwitz. But they will never bomb the death camps or the railroad
leading to them. To some people, Eden takes on the role of the scapegoat
regarding the Jews. Churchill always wants to help but somehow his number
two always thwarts him.
1944: During
WW II at the battle for Saipan, Bernard Gavrin, an American G.I. was declared
missing in action. (JTA)
1944(16th
of Tammuz, 5704): While serving at Saipan, in the Marianas Islands today as the
Surgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division
29 year old Captain Benjamin L. Solomon took care of the wounded as Japanese
troops charged the aid station where he was working and then refused to
evacuate but instead stayed and defended the position in hand to hand combat
and then by manning a machine gun until he was killed. This action earned him the Congressional
Medal of Honor.
http://history.amedd.army.mil/moh/Salomon.html
http://seymourbrody.com/heroes_wwii/br098a.htm
1944: Judith
Auer, a native of Switzerland who was raised by a Jewish family after she was
orphaned in 1917 and who was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance “was arrested
at her workplace” today in what would prove to be the first step towards her
death by hanging in October.
1944: In
Lithuania, partisan forces, including the Jewish Brigade led by Abba Kovner,
join the Soviets in the attack on Vilna.
1944(16th
of Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-eight year old Erich Salomon the Berlin born engineering
and zoology student turned photographer who had the unique distinction of
taking pictures of the signing of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact (which outlawed
war) and a session of the U.S. Supreme Court died in Auschwitz.
http://www.comesana.com/english/salomon.php
1944: In a case
of too little too late, Hungary’s Regent Horthy ordered an end to the transport
of Jews to Auschwitz after at least a half of a million of his countrymen had
been ship to the death camp.
1945:
Birthdate of Cleveland born Adele Goldberg the computer wizard raised in
Chicago where she earned her Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of
Chicago.
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/adele-goldberg-wcs/#gsc.tab=0
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102733960
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/muiseum/goldberg/goldberg_page.htm
1945: Chief
Judge Irving Lehman of the New York State Court of Appeals “tripped over his
pet boxer, Carlo and broke his ankle in two places” while walking around his
country estate. (This seemingly minor mishap would be a direct cause of his
death in September of 1945.
1946: “Five
thousand Jews, including members of Parliament and survivors of German camps
demonstrated in Trafalgar Square today against Britain’s ‘aggressive action’ in
Palestine and sent a deputation to present a resolution of protest to Prime
Minister Attlee.”
1947: CBS
began broadcasting “Escape,” a radio “anthology series” narrated by Paul Frees.
1947: Harriet
Shapiro married Fred Rochlin in a “small living room…packed to capacity with
relatives and friends” at the house on Sentinel Avenue in Los Angeles,
California.
1947: Final
broadcast of the Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre, a radio show sponsor by Lady
Esther a cosmetic manufacturing company
founded by German-born Syma Cohen and her siblings in Chicago in 1913.
1947(19th
of Tammuz, 5707): Sixty-three-old Abraham Bricken the husband of the former Bessie Brock with
whom he had four children – Ruth, Irving, Robert and Jules -- who arrived in
New York a penniless immigrant from Kiev, Russia, in 1905 and became one of the
largest builders of Manhattan's modern garment center, passed away today in the
Riverdale Nursing Home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, after an illness
of two years
1947(19th
of Tammuz, 5707): Seventy-year old Frank Taffel the native of Krystynopol who
settled in Atlanta where founded Fulton Auto Exchange and Congregation Beth
Jacob passed away today.
1948:
The settlers who were defending Kfar Darom against Egyptian attacks agreed to
be evacuated. Kfar Darom had been cut off from direct military help since
the end of June. Air drops of supplies failed to reach the embattled settlement
because of Egyptian anti-aircraft. Their stubborn resistance helped to
slow the Egyptian advance on Tel Aviv and bought time for the Israelis
defending the approaches to the major Jewish population centers. The successful
evacuation took place during the night of July 7-8.
1948: Franklyn
M Begley a UN official, the local Jordanian commander and by the Israeli local
commander initialed the Mount Scopus Demilitarization Agreement today.
1948: Abdullah
el-Tell, the Military Governor of Jerusalem “signed the "Mount Scopus
Agreement" by which the Israelis agreed that Mount Scopus would be
demilitarized and come under United Nations supervision.”
1948: “Givati
commander Shimon Avidan issued orders to the 51st Battalion to the
Tall al-Safi area.”
1948: It was
reported today that Bernard D. Rubin, the President of Sweets of America, the
company that manufactures Tootise Roll candies is survived by “his widow, Mrs.
Ray Rubin a daughter, Mrs. Natalie Jaffe; a son, Edgar Rubin; his father,
Joseph; a brother, William Rubin and three sisters, Mrs. Hannah Stone, Mrs.
Eleanor Messer and Mrs. Sadie Marantz, all of New York.”
1948: During
the War for Independence, with the truce period about to expire the Security
Council asked each side if they would extend it for ten days. The
Jews accepted the proposal. The Arabs rejected it.
1949: New York
City premiere of “Follow Me Quietly” the film noire directed by Richard
Fleischer and Anthony Mann whose mother was Jewish and who also co-authored the
story on which the film was based.
1949: In
Baltimore, Dr. Alfred Lieberman and the former Annette Filzer gave birth to Dr.
Marc Frank Lieberman “an ophthalmologist
and self-proclaimed “Jewish Buddhist” who, when he wasn’t treating glaucoma,
organized a dialogue between Jewish scholars and the Dalai Lama, and who later
brought sight back to thousands of Tibetans stricken by cataracts…” (As
reported by Clay Risen)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/us/marc-lieberman-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
1950: “Crisis”
produced by Arthur Freed and Directed by Richard Brooks in his directorial
debut was released today in the United States.
1950: U.S.
premiere of “Once A Thief” a film noir directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder
based on a story by Max Colpet and Hans Wilhelm.
1951: U.S.
premiere of “Queen For A Day,” a comedy in which Leonard Nimoy makes his cinema
debut in the role of “Chief.”
1952: The
Republican National Convention which Walter A Hass, the President of Levi
Strauss attended as an alternate, opened today in Chicago.
1955(17th
of Tammuz, 5715): Tzom Tammuz
1955(17th
of Tammuz, 5715):Fifty-for year old CCNY grad and U of Pennsylvania trained
dentist Nathan Chenitz who has been practicing in Newark, NY since 1956 passed
away tonight “in the Beth Israel Hospital.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/07/08/83362873.html?pageNumber=23
1955: Today
Richard L. Neuberger, the grandson of “German Jewish immigrants” and the first
Democrat to be elected to the United States from Oregon in the years between
1914 and 1954 “introduced into the Congressional Record a call for the total
abolition of all motor racing in the United States.”
1955: U.S.
premiere of “We’re No Angels” the movie version of “My Three Angels” a play
written by Samuel and Bella Spewack directed Michael Curtiz.
1956(28th of
Tammuz, 5716): Yiddish songstress Isa Kremer passed away http://www.jmwc.org/pdf/IsaKremer.pdf
1958: Today,
in Washington, D.C., Ohev Sholom Congregation which had been founded in 1886
merged with Talmud Torah which had been meeting at 467 E Street, SW “for almost
50 years” “merged creating a
congregation of more than six hundred families.”
1959: In
“Emergence of Nazis Seen” published today, Frederick Wallach claims that there
is a resurgence of Germany of support and/or lionization of Hitler as can be
seen by “a recent German poll which revealed that Germans as a whole still list
Hitler among the five Germans who did the most good for the German nation.”
1960: United
Artists releases “Elmer Gantry” directed by Richard Brooks, with a screenplay
by Richard Brooks and music by Andre Previn.
1960:
Physicist Theodore Maiman demonstrated the first laser today.
1960: In
London, world premiere of “Inherit the Wind” the film treatment of the play
co-authored by Jerome Lawrence directed and produced by Stanley Kramer with
music Ernest Gold who was forced to flee pre-war Austria because “his paternal
grandfather was Jewish.”
1961(23rd of Tammuz, 5721):
Seventy-four year old Polish born “Yiddish scholar, novelist and poet, J.J.
Trunk, a protégé of I.L. Peretz who was in 1941 was brought to the United
States where he joined the staff of The Jewish Day passed away today at Mt. Sinai Hospital
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/07/09/118043979.pdf
1962(5th
of Tammuz, 5722): Parashat Korach
1962: “Advise
and Consent,” the movie version of the novel by same name produced and directed
by Otto Preminger with music by Jerry Fielding was released today in the United
States.
1962(5th
of Tammuz, 5772): Bucharest born, Long Island College Hospital trained ear,
nose and throat surgeon John Adam Glassbury, the husband of “Betty Blanc
Glassbury, a poet and collector of Asian art and father of Eunice Glassbury
Dombroff passed away today.
1962: In New
York City “Ted Goldsman, a therapist and Mira Rothenberg, a child psychologist”
gave birth to Academy Award winning screenplay writer (“A Beautiful Mind”)
Akiva Goldsman.
1963:
“Critique” published today described the participation of five American authors
– David Borof, Leslie Fiedler, Max Lerner, Leo G. Rosten and Phillip Roth –
“along with four Israeli counterparts in the second annual Dialogues in Israel”
held in Tel Aviv where the men of letter “gave their views on ‘The Fact of
Jewishness As It Influences the Creative Process.’”
1963: Louis
Radelet, the director of national program development for community services
for the National Conference of Christians and Jews is scheduled to speak at
“the second annual Long Island Workshop in Police and Community Relations which
begins today at Adelphi College.
1963(15th of
Tammuz, 5723): Seventy-nine year old Rebecca
Tcherikower (née Teplitsky), the widow of “Russian-born Jewish historian of
Judaism and the Jewish people” who had married him “around 1910” and who was
appointed the first YIVO archivist in 1940 “at the new YIVO headquarters”
passed away today.
1964(27th
of Tammuz, 5724): Fifty-nine year old Olympic gold medal winning discus thrower
Lillian Copeland passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/copeland-lillian
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lillian-copeland
https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/lillian-copeland-1.html
1964: Tens of
thousands of Israelis paid honor tonight to Zeev Jabotinsky, whose remains were
flown to Tel Aviv from the United States for reburial.
1965(7th of
Tammuz, 5725): Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel, passed
away. Born Moshe Shertok in Russia in 1894, Sharett grew up in an Arab
village near Jerusalem. He graduated from high school in Tel Aviv and then went
to Constantinople to study law. At this time Palestine was part of the Turkish
Empire and Sharett enlisted in the Turkish Army during World War I. Sharett
rose to prominence in the Zionist movement during the 1930’s although he found
himself at odds with David Ben Gurion. Sharett was Israel’s first Foreign
Minister. When Ben Gurion retired for the first time, Sharett became Prime
Minister. Ben Gurion and Sharett continued to clash. When Ben Gurion returned
to power in 1955, Sharett returned to the Foreign Ministry. Sharett resigned
because he was opposed to the coming Sinai War in 1956. Sharret suffered from
"John Adams Disease." Just as John Adams was doomed because he was
following George Washington, so Sharrett was doomed because he labored in the
shadow of Ben Gurion.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/pages/moshe%20sharett.aspx
1966: “Three
on a Couch” a comedy starring Jerry Lewis who also served as director and
producer and featuring Gila Golan was released in the United States today.
1968(11th
of Tammuz, 5728): Seventy-two year old
Gertrude Wald Kaphan, the sister of Nobel Prize winning Professor Dr. George
Wald and the wife of Dr. Ludwig Kaphan who “was a founder and former president
of the Women’s International ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation Through
Training” and “a consultant on problems facing Jewish youth in Africa, Europe
and Israel” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/07/09/77093676.pdf
1968(11th
of Tammuz, 5728): Eighty-eight-year-old hat manufacturer Abraham Wosnitzer, the
former president of the Hat Manufacturers of the United States passed away
today in Livingston, NJ.
1968(11th
of Tammuz, 5728): Fifty-one year old Jerome D. Pitkow, the native of
Philadelphia, NYU grad, WW II veteran and vice president and director of
Supermarkets General Corporation of Cranford, NJ, passed away today at
Rockville Centre, LI.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/07/09/77093677.html?pageNumber=35
1969 (21st
of Tammuz, 5729): Sixty-nine year old Galicia native Menashe Unger whose
expertise in the field Chasidism can be seen his book Social Origins of
Chasidism” who in 1934 came to NYC where he became “a writer for The Day”
passed away today leaving his widow Ruth Brilliant Unger and his daughter Mrs.
Judith Kaiserman to mourn this loss.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/12/menashe-unger.html
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32882
1969: Today,
“Israeli soldiers gave heroes’ burials to some of the 960 defenders who
perished in the historic suicide pact on Masada 1,896” when they interred “the
remains of 27 men, women and children found on the rock fortress near the Red
Sea by archeologist” in the years between 1963 and 1965, “with full military
honors…near the ramps their Roman besiegers had built for the final attack on
the fortress.”
1970: “Miss
Lauren Taylor Levy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hyman Levy of New York, was
married at the Registry Office in Oxford, England, today to Simon Lester Adams,
who is doing research for his doctoral thesis in English history at Balliol
College.”
1971(14th of
Tammuz, 5731): Four people were killed and thirty more were injured during a
“rocket attack on a Tel Aviv suburb.”
1973: Kitty
Carlisle (born Catherine Conn – pronounced Cohen) performed for the last time with
the Metropolitan Opera.
1973: In
Israel, premiere of “Kazablan” an “Israeli musical film directed by Menahem
Golan and written by Menahem Golan and Haim Hefer.”
1973(7th of
Tammuz, 5733): Seventy-eight year old Max Horkheimer, the German born
philosopher and sociologist who sought refuge in the U.S. during the Nazi after
his academic credentials were revoked and his institute was closed. [When
you read the NY Times obit, see below, you will be hard pressed to find the
simple statement that he was Jewish.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50E12FB385C1A7A93CBA9178CD85F478785F9
1974: US
Senator William J. Fulbright who will later go to work a lobbyists for the
Saudis and the United Arab Emirates and was a constant critic of Israel said
that Senator Jackson who is working to improve the conditions for Soviet
dissidents including Jews, was undermining detente with the USSR
1976: U.S.
premiere of “Gus” a Disney comedy featuring Harold Gould as Charles Gwynn and
Tom Bosley as Spinner
1977: United
Artist released “The Spy Who Loved Me,” the James Bond with a score by Marvin
Hamlisch, a screenplay co-authored by Richard Maibum, Phi Betta Kappa graduate
of the University of Iowa and featuring Walter Gotell the German born British
actor whose family escaped from Nazi Germany, Barbara Bach whose father was
Jewish and Milo Sperber the Polish born Anglo-Jewish actor who fled Nazi
Germany in 1939.
1978: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this morning in the Bronx for Augusta B.
Shapiro, the brother of Harold Shapiro.
1979(12th
of Tammuz, 5739): Parshat Chukat-Balak
1979(12th
of Tammuz, 5739): Eighty year old Hélène Cazès-Benatar, the Moroccan lawyer and
widow of Moses Benatar “who helped refugees even while undermined by
anti-Semitic Vichy legislation” and aided Jews from North Africa in their
effort to settle in Israel, where “some of her papers are preserved in the Cental
Archives of the Jewish people, passed away today. (Editor’s Note – for more see
Destination Casablanca: Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War
II by Meredith Hindley)
1979(12th
of Tammuz, 5739): Four people were killed and 11 more injured when a bomb
exploded at Kafr Manda, a town northwest of Nazarthen
1980(23rd of
Tammuz, 5740): Famed writer Dore Schary passed away. Born Isadore Schary in
1905, Schary dropped the "Isa" from Isadore to create his first name.
Like so many other Jews of his era, Shary helped create the cinematic version
of the American Myth. He won an Oscar for the screenplay "Boys Town."
He produced the canine classic "Lassie Come Home." But his greatest
work came when he returned to Broadway and wrote the script for "Sunrise
At Campobello." Shcary did not hide his Judaism. He was active in numerous
Jewish organizations and served as the head of the Anti-Defamation League.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F00A1FFB385C11728DDDA10894DF405B8084F1D3
1981: The 11th
Maccabiah Games which opened yesterday “to the sound of clarion trumpets, the
landing of Israeli army parachutists and the spectacle of 2,000 gymnasts in a
huge Star of David formation at suburban Ramat Gan Stadium” continued for a
second day in Tel Aviv.
1982: “White
Dog,” a cinematic treatment of Romain Gary’s novel of the same name and
directed by Samuel Fuller was released in France today.
1983: The
Oklahoma Outlaws football team announced that seventy-one year old Hall of Fame
Coach Sid Gillman had come out of retirement to serve as the team’s Director of
Operations.
1983(26th
of Tammuz, 5743): Ninety-one year old Ukrainian born Music Director Samuel
Kaylin who composed the scores for the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto movies passed
away today in Bakersfield, CA.
1985(18th
of Tammuz, 5745): Tzom Tammuz observed on a Sunday.
1986(30th
of Sivan, 5746): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1986: The United States Supreme Court struck
down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. Senator Warren Rudman was an
apparent anomaly on two counts. First, he was elected from New Hampshire, not exactly a state with a large Jewish
population and second he was a conservative Republican.
1986:
American artist Rodney Ripps and his wife Helene Verin gave birth to American
conceptual artist, programmer, and creative director Ryder Ripps
1987(10th
of Tammuz, 5747): Eighty-two year old Harvard grad and NYU trained attorney
Robert Pilpel who has served on the staff of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee who raised two children – Robert and Judith – with his
wife Harriet passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/09/obituaries/robert-pilpel.html
1988:
Seventy-seven German Latin American scholar, historian, and writer Erwin Walter
Palm who escaped European anti-Semitism to which he was particularly sensitive
because he was married to the Jewish poet Hilde Löwenstein passed away today.
1989:
“Lethal Weapon 2,” directed by Richard Donner, co-produced by Richard Donner
and Joel Silver and filmed by cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt was released
today in the United States.
1991:
LL Cool J’s recording of “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” the 1933 pop song
“with additional lyrics by Ann Ronnel” was released on cassette today.
1992:
The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into the planet Jupiter. According to
David Levy, one of the trio who discovered the comet, it was the most widely
watched such phenomena in history. Canadian born David Levy was an
English major in college. His career in astronomy began as an
amateur. He sees a definite connection between his Jewish heritage and
astronomy. For example, Pesach always comes at the full moon, the night sky on
Yom Kippur is always the same and Shabbat does not end until three stars can be
seen in the sky. His Judaism and his astronomy are so intertwined that he
and his bride decided they wanted to be married under the night sky.
1993: On the
day after her death at the age of 101, Gerda Lissner the German born daughter
of Clara Krage and the wife of Herman Lissner was buried today in New York
City.
1994: “The
body of Arye Frankenthal, 20, from Moshav Gimzo near Lod, who had left his base
in the south the previous day, was found stabbed and shot near the Arab village
of Kafr Akab, near Ramallah.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1994(28th of
Tammuz, 5754: Seventeen year old Sarit Prigal, was shot to death when
terrorists opened fire from a passing car near the entrance to Kiryat Arba.
1995(9th
of Tammuz, 5755): Seventy-four year old Martin Bucksbaum who with his brothers,
Maurice and Matthew, built one of the country's first shopping centers in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa” passed away today in Des Moines, IA. (As reported by Stephanie
Strom)
1995: Today,
Ehud “Barak was appoint Minister of Internal Affair by Prime Minister Rabin.”
1996: “Star of
Joyce’s Firmament” published today described the little known story of Stella
Steyn, the Irish woman who was part of the life of James Joyce.
1997: Today in
Israel 26 year old Islamic terrorist Hassan Salameh was sentenced “to 46
consecutive life terms for engineering three suicide bombings that killed 46
people in 1996”
1998: In
Claims for Art Collection Pose a Challenge to Hungary,” published today Judith
Dobrzynski describes the efforts by the Nierenberg family to retrieve a portion
of the art collection that was successively seized by the fascists and the
communists.
1999:
Eighty-six year old Aaron M. Wise who had served as the rabbi at Adat Ari El
Synagogue from 1947 to 1978 was buried today after services his synagogue.
1998:
“Shakespeare’s Villains,” “a one man-man player created and performed by Steven
Berkoff” opened for the first time today “at London’s Royal Theatre in
Haymarket.”
2000: “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” a film
nominated for 10 Oscars with a script co-authored by James Schamus was released
today in Taiwan.
2000(4th
of Tammuz, 5760): Ninety-three year old Ruth Werner, a member of the Red
Orchestra, passed away today.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/11/guardianobituaries.richardnortontaylor
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/07/2000/death-of-soviet-spy-ruth-werner
2001: At the
Israel Festival in Jerusalem Conductor Daniel Barnboim startled the audience by
announcing that he was going to play a piece by Wagner as second encore which
sparked a half hour debate following which a few members of the audience left
but most stayed to hear the performance of the Tristan and Isolde prelude.
2002: “Behind
a Century of Photos, Was There a Jewish Eye?” published today opens with Garry
Winogrand’s claim that “to be a great photographer” “it was first of all
necessary to be Jewish and then explores the connection between Jews and
cameras.
2003:
In an attempt to comply with Palestinians demands for peace negotiations today,
“Israel’s cabinet agreed to release 300 or more Palestinian prisoners in the
coming days.” (As reported by Greg Myre)
2003:
Israeli and Palestinian ministers sat down together for meetings here today, as
the two sides worked to fill in details of a new peace plan.
2003:
Two Israelis were killed this evening when “an explosion tore apart a home in
the village of Kfra Yavetz in central Israel” in a moment of violence which
authorities have not said is “a terrorist attack.”
But
on Monday night, a powerful explosion tore apart an Israeli home near the West
Bank, and the police were investigating the incident early today as a possible
suicide bombing. Investigators found two bodies in the rubble, one of a woman
and the other of a young man, the police said.
2004:
“I, Robot” a sci-fi thriller based on the work by Isaac Asimov, with a
screenplay co-authored by Akiva Goldsman and featuring Shia LaBeouf premiered
at the Mann Village Theatre in Los Angeles.
2005:
Outfielder Adam Greenberg made his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs.
2005:
Twenty-five Outfielder Adam Stern made his major league debut with the Boston
Red Sox making him the second Jew from Canada to make the majors.
2006(11th
of Tammuz, 5766): Ninety-seven year old Dr. Israel Horowitz, who will be buried
at Adath Israel Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio,
passed away today in Chicago.
2007: “When
Nietzsche Wept” a movie based on the novel by Irvin D. Yalom and co-starring
Michal Yannai and Jamie Elman was released in Israel today.
2007: At the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in New York, an
exhibition called “Cinema Judaica: The War Years” comes to an end.
2007: In
Jerusalem, a
classical music concert entitled "Music in All the Shades" presents
"Bel Canto in Ein Kerem," featuring soprano, Maria Yofa, flautist,
Antoli Kogan, and pianist, Alexander Sneiderman.
2007: “Beyond
The Myth, Art Endures,” published today
described Mexico’s celebration of the centenary of the birth of painter
Frida Kahlo, the daughter of a Jewish businessman whose work has been
overshadowed by her husband, Diego Rivera.
2007: Today,
British born actress Rachel Hannah “Weisz presented at the American leg of Live
Earth.”
2008:
U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Jon Scoles ruled during a detention
hearing for Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 35, and Martin De La Rosa-Loera, 43
that the two Agriprocessors Inc. supervisors arrested last week for aiding and
abetting illegal workers at the Postville meat processing plant to possess and
use fraudulent identity documents will remain in federal custody until their
trials.
2008: The
Washington Post reports on the arrival of Jewish pilgrims in Safi, Morroco.
It's an
uncommon sight for an Arab country: hundreds of joyous Jewish pilgrims
gathering without fear around a rabbi's tomb, greeted by local Muslim officials
who share a prayer with them at a synagogue. Yet most of the 400 Jews who
converged on the Moroccan coastal town of Safi _ some from nearby cities,
others from as far as France or Israel _ at a weekend pilgrimage said they felt
welcome here. While religious tensions flare in Jerusalem and beyond, in
Morocco, Jews and Muslims say they nurture a legacy of tolerance and maintain
common sanctuaries where adherents of both religions pray. Decades of
emigration to Israel by Morocco's Jews and terrorist bombings in Casablanca
that targeted Jewish sites haven't diminished the draw of these annual
pilgrimages. During the festival that began Friday, visitors prayed and feasted
around the shrine of Abraham Ben Zmirro, a rabbi reputed to have fled
persecution in Spain in the 15th century and then lived in Safi, where he is
buried with six siblings. A half-Jewish, half-Muslim band played local tunes
during a banquet, including a song in French, Arabic and Hebrew with the line:
"There is only one God, you worship Him sitting down and I while standing
up." The pilgrims were joined Sunday by Aaron Monsenego, the great rabbi
of Morocco, who prayed alongside the regional governor and several other Muslim
officials at the shrine's synagogue for the good health of Morocco's King
Mohammed VI and his family. "It's very important for us to pray
altogether," Monsenego told The Associated Press. Regional governor Larbi
Hassan Sebbari said, "We're also very proud of it: it gives a lesson to
other countries of what we do together without any taboo." While several
Arab states refuse to recognize the Jewish state's right to exist, reject
Israeli visitors and ignore the remnants of their local Jewish heritage,
Moroccans insist it is not the case in this moderate Muslim nation and U.S.
ally. Once home to some 300,000 Jews, Morocco hosts the Arab world's only
Jewish museum, funds Jewish institutions and frequently holds events to
celebrate Judeo-Moroccan heritage. Still, the Jewish population here has
dwindled to about 4,000 _ most in Casablanca. Economics, fears of living in an
Arab state and sporadic discrimination drove hundreds of thousands of Moroccan
Jews to Israel, Europe or America over the past few decades. Many left in 1948
when the state of Israel was created, or in 1956 when Morocco won independence
from France. Other waves followed after the Israeli-Arab conflicts of 1967 and
1973 caused riots in some Moroccan towns. Jewish leaders who stayed say they
practice their religion freely and that synagogues are well protected by
police, especially since the 2003 bombings in Casablanca. And despite the
bombings, Casablanca _ Morocco's commercial capital _ still boasts 32 active
synagogues. "There was never any racism in Safi," said Haim Ohana,
one of only 10 Jewish people remaining in a town where 6,000 Jews once lived.
"People left from here because they were poor," said Ohana, who
helped organize the pilgrimage and runs several businesses. The pilgrimage
rituals are called Moussem in Arabic and Hilloula in Hebrew. Many of the
pilgrims, including ultra-Orthodox Jews from Israel and French and Canadian
businessmen, are émigrés who say they come to pray in Safi because of their
emotional ties to Morocco. Therese Elisha, an Israeli, said she makes the
pilgrimage every other year. "This is the town where I grew up, the
synagogue where I prayed," she said. "I feel at home."
"We're maintaining a bridge over the divide of the exodus," said
Simone Merra, a human resources manager in Paris. Some of Morocco's Jews wonder
how long their community will remain. Nadia Bensimon, who runs a fashion
boutique in a coastal town, said she had no plans to leave. "But that
could change if the Islamists become too powerful," she said. Morocco's
main Islamist opposition party _ Adl wal Ihsan _ enjoys broad support, but it
is banned from politics; secular parties dominate parliament. Though most of
his relatives now live abroad, Ohana said his family traces its arrival in
Morocco to 2,076 years ago. "As for Safi, we've been here for nine centuries,"
he said. "It's my town; I'd see no reason to leave."
2009: Barry
“Goldberg's self-titled 1974 album was reissued with never before released
tracks and a restored sound.”
2009: Starting
tonight and continuing on each successive Tuesday night during July the amphitheater
in Liberty Bell Park offers a different Jerusalem performing artist each week.
2009: The
funeral for Anita Rabinowtiz, the wife of Rabbi Stanely Rabinwoitz is scheduled
to take place at Adas Israel in Washington, DC followed by interment at the
congregation’s cemetery in southeast Washington.
2009: “In
Bruges” is the first film shown at the film festival, Summer Movies at the
Merkaz, “a unique combination of an absorption center, community center and
activism center located in the heart of the German Colony, one of the most
beautiful, peaceful and dynamic neighborhoods in Jerusalem.”
2010: The 7th
AICE Australian Film Festival is scheduled to show tense political thriller,
Balibo, in Tel Aviv.
2010: This
evening at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, the Israeli prime minister addressed a
roomful of more than 300 Jews on the subjects of Iran, his government’s
eagerness for direct peace talks with the Palestinians and the swell meeting he
had just had with President Obama at the White House.
2011:
“Rothschild Fine Art,” an exhibition featuring objects’ des art from Rothschild
Fine Art, a premier gallery in the cultural center of Tel Aviv, is scheduled to
open today at ARTHamptons Art Fair in Bridgehampton.
2011: D.C.
Councilman Tommy Wells is scheduled to take part in the Jewish Community
Relations Council’s noontime series at the Lillian and Albert Small Museum.
2011: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to fly to Sofia today for meetings
with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and President Georgi Parvanov
2011: An
Israel Defense Forces soldier was wounded lightly by an explosive device
planted near his tank in the southern Gaza Strip this morning.
2011: The
Environmental Protection Ministry ordered the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Co.
(EAPC) to cease their work in the Nahal Zin and surrounding nature reserve
following last week's devastating jet-fuel oil spill after the ministry found
that the company was not effectively carrying out the cleanup but rather
exacerbating the environmental damage.
2011: In
“Setting the record straight: Entebbe was not Auschwitz” published today Yossi
Melman marked the 35th anniversary of the mission that rescued
Jewish hostages held by Arab terrorists in Uganda.
2012: The
egalitarian-traditional minyan at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is scheduled to
celebrate “Red White and Blue Shabbat” while beating Iowa’s unprecedented heat
wave with “Sundaes on Saturday” where congregants will build their own Cool
Kosher Concoctions.
2012: One of
Israel's top contemporary troupes, Vertigo Dance Company, is scheduled to
perform Mana at Jacob’s Pillow in Beckett, Maine.
2012: “The
Alexander Soros Foundation presented its inaugural ASF Award for Extraordinary
Achievement in Environmental and Human Rights Activism to a Liberian activist.”
2012: Israeli
cellist Yoed Nir is scheduled to perform at the Super Bock Rock Festival in
Lisbon, Portugal
2012:
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered
in central Tel Aviv tonight to voice their demand for mandatory conscription in
the army or national service, in the largest protest yet of the summer, and the
biggest show of force since the “Camp Suckers” movement began six months ago.
2012:
As the country is embroiled in a debate
about turning haredi scholars into soldiers, the Jerusalem Municipality and the
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design have launched a different venture: a haredi
track at Bezalel’s prestigious art institute.
2013: “The
Dead Man and Being Happy” is among the films scheduled to be shown at the 30th
Jerusalem Film Festival.
2013: The
British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2013: “Memory,
Identity, and Boundaries of Jewishness” is scheduled to begin in Canterbury,
UK.
2013: The
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism is scheduled to host a colloquium
featuring Sham Ambiavaga, Frank Chalk, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Feldman, John
Gray, William Lamont, Paul Lay, Dame Jinty Nelson, Sir Michael Pepper, Daniel
Pick and Marina Voikhanskaya
2013: Israel Air Force rescue crews have
brought to safety the pilot and navigator of an “F-16i” training fighter jet
that broke up off the coast of Gaza this afternoon after its engines
mysteriously died. (As reported by Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu
2013: Alfred Le Guelllec, who together with his
wife Augustine, was posthumously recognized today as a “righteous gentile” in
an emotional ceremony held at his hometown of Douarnenez in the westernmost tip
of France. (As reported by Elhanan Miller)
2014: In the UK, the Wiener Library for the
Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host Dr Gábor Kádár
lecturing on “Hero or War Criminal? Regent Horthy and the Destruction of
Hungarian Jews.”
2014: “Igor and the Crane’s Journey” and “The
Sturgeon Queens” are scheduled to be shown at the Berkshire Jewish Film
Festival.
2014: As “warning sirens were heard in the
cities of Sderot, Netivot, Ofakim, and Rahat, as well as further afield in
Rehovot, Gan Yavne, Gadera and Beit Shemesh, in the hills outside Jerusalem”
and terrorists produced a video telling citizens of Beersheba to “flee before
it is too late” forty more rockets were fired from Gaza after 8 p.m. this
evening.
2014: “IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said
the military had called up 1,500 reserves troops, mostly from the Home Front
Command and Iron Dome air defense crews, and deployed two additional
conscripted infantry brigades, Paratroops and Givati, to the border with the
Palestinian enclave today” (As reported by Joshua Davidovich and Mitch
Ginsburg)
2014: “Former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team
coach David Blatt was named today as Euroleague’s coach of the year, shortly
after securing a contract with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Blatt was awarded
the prestigious title after he received a majority of votes in a ballot in
which all of this year’s Euroleague coaches took part.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/david-blatt-named-euroleague-coach-of-the-year/
2015: In Jerusalem, Ari Sacher, “a scientist
who develops missile systems in Israel” is scheduled to deliver a lecture on
“The Miracle of the Iron Dome.”
2015: “Some Like It Hot” directed by Billy
Wilder, costarring Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe is scheduled to be shown as
part of “Lights! Camera! Great German and Austrian Filmmakers of Hollywood’s
Golden Age” at the 92nd Street Y.
2015: “Israel’s Religious Service Minister
David Azoulay said today that he does not consider Reform Jews to be Jewish and
urged them to turn to Orthodox Judaism.” (As reported by Times of Israel)
[Editor’s Note: Wonder what he would have to say about Rabbi Abba Hillel
Silver]
2016: Today is the deadline for Judge Maxwell
Wiley of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan to rule on a series of
evidentiary issues in the re-trial of Pedro Hernandez who has been accused of
murdering Etan Patz the 6 year old son of Stan and Julie Patz who disappeared
in 1979.
2016(1st of Tammuz, 5776): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
2016(1st of Tammuz, 5776): Israeli
born journalist and military affairs correspondent of Time magazine Aaron J.
Klein, the author Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and
Israel's Deadly Response passed away today
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N2HCL0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
2016: “The Times
of Israel’s Jewish world editor Amanda Borschel-Dan received the B’nai
B’rith World Center Award for Journalism, which recognizes excellence in
Diaspora reportaģe, at a ceremony in Jerusalem today/. She was given the award
along with Allison Kaplan Sommer of Haaretz newspaper.”
2016: “Israeli-owned chocolate emporium Max
Brenner in New York’s Union Square is scheduled to offer Pina Chocolada drink,
Melting Chocolate Truffle cake and chocolate syringes” as part of today’s
observance of World Chocolate Day.
http://maxbrenner.com/chocolate-dessert-bar/chocolate-shop/
2016: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and
Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University are scheduled to
co-host a conference on “Women, the City and the Yiddish Theatre.”
2017(13th of Tammuz, 5777):
Seventy-eight year old Russian born brilliant mathematician who lost her
teaching position when she tried to move to Israel and eventually became a “lecturer
at Hebrew University,” “a professor of mathematics and UC, Berkeley” and a
member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National
Academy of Sciences passed away today. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/ratner.htm
2017(13th of Tammuz, 5777):
Eighty-one year old Kenneth Silverman, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants
and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes passed away today. (As
reported by William Grimes)
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled to
open at theatres in Chicago, Albuquerque, NM and Winston-Salem, NC today.
2017: In
Manhattan, the West Side Jewish Center is scheduled to host “InShabbos, July
2017.”
2017: As part of the Maccabiah, “a very special
Kabbalat Shabbat event is scheduled to take place at Jerusalem’s oldest train
station.”
2017: Daniel Polisar, co-founder of Shalem
College is scheduled to prevent the final lecture in “The Zionist Vision: A New
Look at Theodor Herzl”
2018: Israelis near Gaza observe Shabbat under
the protection of additional Iron Dome Batteries that had been sent south in
response to the heighten security threat
2018: Israeli firefighters are on high alter
“in light of the five fires that broke out before Shabbat that included one “in
the Sycamore Reservoir” where “dozens of acres of eucalyptus trees were burned
down
2018(24th of Tammuz, 5778): Parashat Pinchas;
2019: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and of special
interest to Jewish readers including The Body In Question, a novel by
Jill Ciment, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventures of Liberalism
by Adam Gopnik, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept
Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America
by Daniel Okrent and a listing of the fifty best memoirs of the past fifty
years that includes Patrimony by Philip Roth, A Tale of Love and
Darkness by Amos Oz, This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff, Personal
History by Katharine Graham and The
Memory Chalet by Tony Judt.
2019: Today, Andrés Cantor, an Argentine Jew,
and Sammy Sadovnik, a Peruvian Jew are scheduled to serve as “play-by-play
announcers for Telemundo’s” broadcast for FIFA Women’s World Cup championship
match.
2019: “Jews, Money, Myth,” and exhibition at
the Jewish Museum in London that “explores the ways in which Jews have been
associated with money over the past 2,000 years” will not be closed today as
originally scheduled because due to “popular demand” it will remain open until
October.
2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Community
Library is scheduled to host “a facilitated discussion of The Empress of
Weehawken, of Irene Dische’s 2005 novel about her family history, told from
the perspective of her anti-Semitic German grandmother.
https://www.jewishlearningworks.org/events/2019/7/7/drop-in-book-club-the-empress-of-weehawken
2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Community
Library is scheduled to host novelist Sheldon Greene whose works include Prodigal
Sons, After the Parch and The Apple Seed.
http://www.sheldongreene.com/about-me/
2020: Based on his public utterances, Prime
Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to continue working on his “annexation plans.”
2020: Havurah on the Hill is scheduled to
present on line “Tavern in the Shul: How to L’Chaim Like a Pro!” which is “a
beginner’s guide to mixing cocktails with a Jewish flair!”
2020 Via Zoom, B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is
scheduled to host “Men’s Club Happy Hour” where attendees discuss topics of
current interest along with a little comedy.
2020:
Israelis are preparing today to deal with what Dr. Moshe Sharist, the
director of Ichilov’s Emergency Medicine Division” has said is the “second
wave” COVID-19 cases the new stringent government measures enacted to limit the
impact of the upsurge in cases of the virus.
2021: Pianist-historian Ian Scarfe is scheduled
to play American classics, some composed by George Gershwin, in honor of the
Fourth of July.
2021: The Friends of the IDF New England is
scheduled to present the “2021 New England Young Leaders Summer Cruise” during
which attendees will “hear how a local lone soldier became the first American
woman to graduate from the IDF’s elite pilot course.”
2021: Urban Adamah is scheduled to an
“in-person even with Never Again Action” that “includes brunch and teachings on
ecological benefits of shmita, land ownership, immigration and border
violence.”
2021: In New Jersey, the Jewish Heritage Museum
of Monmouth County is scheduled to host “Faces of Genious,” a PowerPoint
presentation that honors and highlights the private lives of contributions of
10 Jewish American Nobel Laureates,” in the fields of Science and Medicine.
2021: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present a Spanish language version the lecture “Jewish Life I the
Arab World: A New Chapter” by Elie Abadie a trained physician and Doctor of
Medicine.
2021: Helene Wecker is scheduled to talk about
the sequel to her 2013 debut novel, “The Golem and the Jinni,” “the new
historical fantasy which is set in New York City and the Middle East before
World War I.”
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
the webinar with Dr. Marian Prisley, the Jewish Sheriff of Norwich.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/marian-prinsley-sheriff-of-norwich-anti-racism-letter-1564448
2022: YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture by
Nina Warnke on “Women on the Immigrant Yiddish Stage: Paths to Stardom.”
2022: President-elect Brian Cohen, a real
mensch and a shofar blower par-excellent, is scheduled to chair the Board
Meeting of Temple Judah for the first time.
2022: As part of the “New Interpretations of
Rabbi Sacks’s Weekly Shiur” series, LSJS Michelle Sint is scheduled to lecture
on “The Value of Life” as presented in Chukat.
2022: Today marks the one week anniversary of
the day when “several dozen Orthodox men and boys entered the egalitarian
section of the Western Wall, an area south of the main plaza also known as
Robinson’s Arch, equipped with whistles and signs, as a number of families from
the United States were holding hold bar mitzvah ceremonies for their children
there” and “attempted to disrupt the services, blowing the whistles, calling
the worshipers “Nazis” and “animals,” and at one point ripping up a prayer
book, whereupon one boy used a torn page to wipe his nose.” (As reported by
Judah Ari Gross)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-6-2022/
2023: Kan Kol Humusika is scheduled to
broadcast, live, a special concert featuring “Ensemble Finale.”
2023: The JCC Maccabi Games in Israel are
scheduled to continue for a second day.
2023: In Jerusalem, Beit Agnon is scheduled to
host a joint reading of “The Beginning of the Use of the Resin.”
