This Day, June 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 16
1221: Massacre of the Jews of Erfurt, Germany which at one
time was commemorated as a Fast Day on
the 25th of Sivan.
1295: Mahmud Ghazan the seventh ruler of the Mongol
Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran converted to Islam which marked
a downturn in the fortunes of Jews in Tabriz because they were “relegated to
the status of dhimmis” as required by the covenant of Omar.
1385: Emperor
Wenceslaus arrested Jews living in what was known as the Swabian League, (the
league of free cities in South Germany) and confiscated their books. A hefty
fine had to be paid for their return and the release of the prisoners.
1591: In Crete, “Elijah, a
rabbi in Crete” and his wife gave birth to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, who moved
to Italy where he gained fame as a rabbi, physician and author. “A member of
this family, Mordechai Gorodinsky (later Hebraized to Nachmani) was one of the
founders of the Israeli city of Rehovot.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05064.html
1612: Birthdate of Murad IV. During his reign as Sultan, Murad executed Rabbi Yehuda Kovo over a dispute revolving around the quality of cloth being supplied by the Jews of Salonika for army uniforms and the amount of taxes to be paid
1613: “Orientalist and
astronomy student” Jakob Christrman, a German Jew who converted to Christianity
and who was a Professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg University passed away today.
http://histmath-heidelberg.de/zitat/christmann-dsb.htm
1639: Today Diego de Lima
began his denunciation of ‘Duarte Esteves de Pina ,a Portuguese Jew living in Hamburg
to the Portuguese Inquisition.’
1660: The
debate between Jacob Abendana, the “hakham of London from 1680 until his death
in 1695” and Anton Hulsius, which was actually a series of letters written
covering a ninth month period, over the meaning of a verse in the Book of
Haggai, came to an end.
1775: Birthdate of Judah
Touro, the native of Newport, Rhode Island who was the son of Isaac Touro who
moved to New Orleans where he became a successful businessman. Touro fought in the Battle of New Orleans
under Andrew Jackson and became one of the nation’s leading philanthropists
contributing to a wide variety of secular and Jewish causes.
1779: Beila bat Michael
Benjamin zl was buried today at the Hoxton Old Jewish burial ground.
1782(6th of
Tammuz, 5542): Based on the description of ceremony that had taken place in
Bordeaux, France that had been given to Isaac Moses, today in Philadelphia,
“Messrs. Jonas Phillips, Isaac Moses, Jacob Mordecai and Barnard Gratz” laid
the four cornerstone for the new home of
Mikve Israel in a ceremony led by Gershom Mendes Seixas and attended by
the entire congregation
1784: In New York City,
Judith Myers and Jacob Mordecai, the parents of Moses Mordecai and the in-laws
of Margaret Lane were today.
1786: Benvenida de Isaac
Solis, the daughter of Isaac Henriques Valentine and Simha Mandil and her
husband Solomon da Silva Solis gave birth to Simha Phillips.
1800: Birthdate of Jacobus
(Jacques) Marx Lewy, the native of Trier who was the brother of Samuel Marx,
the uncle of Karl Marx, and who gained fame as successful businessman Jacob
Marx, the father of Rachel and Henriette Marx.
1802: Francis Mosely and
Elizabeth Samuel were married today at the Great Synagogue in the United
Kingdom.
1812: In New York,
Naphtali Phillips and Rachel Mendez Phillips gave birth to Isaac Phillips, a
New York lawyer who served as an appraiser for the Port of New York and who was
a member of Shearith Israel up until his death in 1889.
1821(16th of
Sivan, 5581): Parashat Beha’alotcha read as Mexico fights to gain its independence
from Spain.
1823: In London, The Piano
Concerto No. 4 (Op.64) written by Ignaz Moscheles was
performed for the first time
1825(30th of
Sivan, 5585): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1826; Birthdate of
Moravia, Austria native and Buffalo, NY officer of the Juvenile Court Leopold
Keiser “one of the founders of the Hebrew Benevolent Society and Temple Beth
Zion who “was a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Orphan Asylum
in Rochester.
1829: Birthdate of Baden,
Germany native William Armholdm the graduate of “the Teachers Seminary in
Karlsruhe who served as the rabbi at congregations Etz Chayim and Rodeph Shalom
(both in Pittsburgh) and Philadelphia’s Keneseth Israel. (JTA)
1830: Samuel Nathan and
Rebecca Cohen were married today at the Great Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1830: One day after he had
passed away, Joseph Abrahams was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”
1832: Anna Netti von
Goldschmidt married 29-year-old Mortiz Moses von Goldschmidt.
1835: Birthdate of Samuel
David Klauber, the husband of Charlotte Klauber.
1841:In Bechtheim,
Germany, Benjamin Loeb and his wife gave birth to August B. Loeb, the President
of the Tartar Chemical Company in Jersey City, NJ, “vice president of
Tradesmen’s National Bank in Philadelphia” and “treasurer of the Jewish
Hospital Association in Philadelphia who was the husband of Mathile Adler.
1844: In Amsterdam,
Abraham Delmonte, the Dutch born son of Rebeca and Abraham Juda Delmonte and
his wife Sara Rimini
gave birth to Alexander Abraham Delmonte.
1846: The Papal conclave
of 1846 concluded. Pope Pius IX was chosen to lead the Catholic Church,
beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy. The
papal reign of Pius IX was marked by a variety of reactionary policies as he
sought to deal with the loss of the papal temporal power to the emerging united
nation of Italy. The Pope returned those Jews under his control to the Ghetto.
“Pius IX was the Pope who decided in 1867 to raise to sainthood one of
sixteenth-century Spain's notorious grand inquisitors, Don Pedro Arbues de
Epilae. He was considered a martyr (witness to the Catholic faith) after some
of the family of his Jewish victims managed to assassinate him -- and then
suffered grievously themselves.-- It was the conviction of the great liberal
theologian of that time, Father Dollinger, that canonizing the inquisitor
"served the pope's campaign of riding roughshod over liberal Catholics as
well as Jews. The pope was celebrating a man who had sanctioned compulsory
baptism of Jews, then inflicted judicial torture to make sure these conversions
were sincere.” The most stinging example of the Pope’s anti-Jewish views and
behavior is abduction of a Jewish child named Edgardo Mortara. When Pious IX
was beatified in 2000, the ADL issued the following statement which summarizes
the event. “The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern at the
Vatican’s beatification of Pope Pius IX, who was responsible for the 1858
abduction of a six-year old Jewish child. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National
Director, issued the following statement: "The beatification of Pius IX is
troubling for the Jewish community. Pius was responsible for the case of
Edgardo Mortara, who at the age of six was abducted from his family in Bologna
and taken to the Vatican by Papal police after it was reported that the Jewish
child has been secretly baptized. Many European heads of state protested the
1858 kidnapping, as did Jewish leadership. As a result, Pius blamed Rome’s Jews
for what he believed was a widespread Protestant conspiracy to defeat the
papacy and levied medieval restrictions on the community. While ADL respects
the beatification process as a matter for the Catholic Church alone, we find
the selection of Pius IX as inappropriate based on policies he pursued as the
head of the Church. It is in the context of the many years of positive progress
in Catholic-Jewish relations, including the historic visit of Pope John Paul II
to Israel and his asking for the forgiveness of the Jewish people, that the
beatification of Pius IX, whose role in denying Edgardo Mortara his family and
his right to be who he was, is most unfortunate."
1847: Ruben Samuel Heilbut
and Matilda Symons were married today at the Great Synagogue in the United
Kingdom.
1849(26th of
Sivan, 5609): Parashat Sh’lach
1849(26th of
Sivan, 5609): Isaac ben Hayyim of Volozhin, the Russian Talmudist who succeeded
his father as head of the yeshiva of Volozhin and in 1844 was called to St.
Petersburg as a member of the rabbinical commission appointed by the emperor to
consider a proposal to found rabbinical seminaries and schools for Jewish
children passed away today
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8172-isaac-ben-hayyim-of-volozhin
1849: Sixty-nine-year-old
German theologian and biblical scholar Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette whom
Julius Wellhausen described as "the epoch-making opener of the historical
criticism of the Pentateuch” passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_20866.html
1850: Birthdate of Breslau
native Newman Erb, who “abandoned his law practice in Little Rock, AR in 181 to
pursue a career in railroading that led to him being the President of the Ann
Arbor Railroad as well as the President of the Western Telegraph Company.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/03/25/98819573.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1851: Adolf Jellinek, the
spiritual leader of Vienna’s Jewish Community and his wife gave birth to legal
theorist George Jellinek author of the 1895 essay “The Declaration of the
Rights of Man and the Citizen. He and
his wife had six children, two of whom Walter and Dora were deported to
Theresienstadt and a third, Otto who was murdered by the Gestapo in 1943.
1852: Jacob Aarons and
Abigail Jacobs were married today at the New Synagogue in the United Kingdom
1853: Isaac Kohn the
native of Bavaria who settled in Philadelphia and his wife Henrietta Yetta Kohn
gave birth to Samuel Kohn today.
1854: "The Position
and Power of Prussia" published today includes the information that
200,000 of its inhabitants are Jewish.
1854: Isabella (Salamon)
Jonas, the wife of German native Benjamin Julius Jonas, was buried today at the
“Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1862: Frederick C. Salomon
who had served with units from Missouri and Wisconsin was promoted to the rank
of Brigadier General in the Union Army.
1862(18th of Sivan, 5622):
Nineteen year old Gustavus Poznanski, Jr. a private, Company D, 1st
(Charleston) Battalion South Carolina Infantry who had enlisted in March of
1862 “was killed in action in Charleston County, SC.
1863: In Philadelphia,
Hannah and Michael Jacobs gave birth Pauline Jacobs Bien the wife of Isadore
Bien and mother of Morris and Walter Bien.
1864: In the Netherlands,
Jacques Löehman Sachs and Rebekka de Jonge gave birth to Louis Sachs, the
husband of Emma Sachs who was murdered at the age of 78 in Auschwitz.
1865: Having completed its
work – a survey of Jerusalem – the team led by Captain Charles W. Wilson left Jaffa
for a return trip to England.
1865: In Pittsburg, PA,
Samuel Floersheim and Pauline Wertheimer gave birth to Bertha Floersheim, who
married Enoch Rauh and became Bertha Rauh, a member of the Board of the Humane
Society and Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Allegheny General hospital as well as the
author of several articles including “Justice to the Jew,” “Reform in
Confirmation” and “Woman’s Place in
Judaism.”
1868: Austrian businessman
Eugen Rappaport and his wife gave birth to Austrian diplomat and author Alfred
Rapport who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1883 – a move designed to enhance
his career and social status.
1870: Lithuanian native
Abraham Moses Jacobson and his wife “Sarah Leah Jacobson” gave birth to Judah
Jacobson, the husband of Sarah Rose Jacobson with whom he had six children.
1871: One day she had
passed away today, Elizabeth Barnard, the wife of Mordecai Barnard and mother
of Catherine, Rebecca and Sarah Barnard, was buried today at the “West Ham
Jewish Cemetery.”
1871: In San Francisco,,
Mathilda Bock and Louis Lissner gave birth to Los Angeles Law School graduate Meyer
Lissner, the husband of Ermine Greenhood and “organizer of the successful
movement in Los Angeles in 1906” to divorce “party politics from municipal
affairs” who was also an organizer of the “movement to redeem the state of
California from the political domination of the Southern Pacific Railroad and a
member of B’nai B’rith.
1871: Former U.S.
Secretary of State Seward ate dinner with the American Counsel General in
Jerusalem.
1871: “An editorial in the
Jewish Messenger criticized the New York
Herald for lecturing Jews on the need for English-speaking rabbis and
suggested that the problem be left to ‘rabbis and Jews.’ The editorial in the New York Herald was prompted by a
resolution of Reform rabbis meeting at Cincinnati, to establish a rabbinical
seminary. The Herald applauded the resolution and blamed American Jewry for
its failure to halt the decline of attendance at religious services.” (As
reported by Abraham P. Bloch)
1873(21st of
Sivan, 5633): Hettie Hellman, the infant daughter of Lena and Louis M. Hellman passed
away today after which she was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in
Affton, MO.
1875(13th of Sivan, 5635):
Forty-five-year-old Kennington, London native Michael Henry, the founder of the
General Benevolent Association and editor of the Jewish Chronicle “succumbed to
the effect of an accident” and passed away today.
https://www.thejc.com/news/the-diary/ex-editor-s-lifeboat-sale-1.28404
1877: Harry J. Hirsch
became a Cadet today at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
1878: The New York
Times published a review of “Philochristus: A Memoirs of a Disciple of the
Lord” which is a work of historical fiction designed to reconstruct the life
and times of Jesus. Among the book’s
many shortcomings is the author’s description of events immediately following
the Crucifixion. On the one hand he explains the empty cave of the third day by
insisting that the Jews stole the body of Jesus and then “disposed of it in
some unknown manner” yet also insisting that the Resurrection was a reality.
[Editor’s Note – The book serves a reminder that even in a world where authors
were re-examining the stories of the New Testament, the Jew still is depicted
as the villain.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9406E7D7173EE63BBC4E52DFB0668383669FDE
1878: "Three Golden
Spheres" published today described the history and current status of
pawn-broking in the United States. "It has long been generally
supposed that the money-lending, and especially the
pawn-brokering, business is monopolized by the Jews. This is far from
being the truth, for in this city the pawnbrokers who belong to the Jewish
faith hardly represent one third of the total number." All religious
groups are represented in the business. Among national groups, the Irish
make up the greatest number.”
1879: According to reports
published today, Sarah Bernhardt’s current performance at the Gaiety has been
well received by audiences in London.
Unfortunately, Mme Bernhardt has not made good on her promise she was learning
English and would be able to speak in that language when she appeared in the
UK. Nobody in the cast can speak
English. At the same time, her
reputation for eccentric behavior continues to grow. Photographs already exist proving that she
dresses as a man when working on her sculpture and there is proof that she
travels with her own coffin. But now
there are new rumors claiming that her next portrait will be in a Napoleonic
Pose complete with a hat model after that worn by the Emperor.
1879: The Commencement
Ceremony of the Emanu-El Preparatory School of the Hebrew College took place at
Temple Emanu-El this evening. Rabbi
Gottheil officiated at the ceremony which included addresses in German, Hebrews
and English.
1880: Louis Davis and
Moritz Hartman of the Simon Benevolent Association went to the Coroner’s office
in New York to tell him the story of how they were mistakenly given the body of
a Christian boy over the weekend when they had come to claim the body of a
young Jewess named Kate Ungerleider. The
mix-up was an example of official incompetence not anti-Semitism.
1882(29th of Sivan, 5642):
Five-year-old Albert Aaron Scharff passed away today in St. Louis.
1882: It was reported
today that “serious obstacles have risen” to thwart Laurence Oliphant’s plan to
“re-establish the Jews in Palestine.”
The Turkish government said that Russian Jews are welcome to settle in
any part of the empire except in the land of their fathers. While the Sultan did not give a reason for
the ruling it is assumed that the Porte does not consider prudent to give the
Jews a national center which might attract others of their faith
1882: It was reported
today that Julius Porgas left two notes behind explaining that he had taken his
own life because of financial difficulties that left him to embezzle funds left
in his care. In an example of being
worth more dead than alive, he told his wife that he had life insurance
policies with three entities including one for a thousand dollars with the
Kesher Shel Barzel Society.
1883: In Norfolk, VA,
Michael and Esther (Cohen) Umstadter gave birth to Miriam Umstadter who became
Miriam U. Blaustein when she married Dr. David Blaustein and whose communal
activities included serving as “a field organizer throughout Virginia for ZOA,”
working with the American Red Cross during World War I and being a leader of
the Ohab Sholom Temple Sisterhood in Norfolk, VA.
1883: As he was about to
board the elevated at the Bowery and Canal Street Station, a conductor pushed
Louis Batist back saying “You are a Jew!
We don’t permit Jews on this train.”
1883(11th of
Sivan, 5643): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1883(11th of
Sivan, 5643): Eighty-eighty-year-old Deborah Cohen Stix, the widow of Solomon
Stix and the mother of Charles, Herman, Louis, Henry, Caroline and Aaron Stix
passed away today after which she was buried at the Walnut Hills Jewish
Cemetery in Evanston, OH.
1883(11th of
Sivan, 5642): Eight-eight-year-old Deborah Cohen, the Bavarian born daughter of
Comendal Moses and Aron Cohen and the wife of Solomon Stix with whom she had
ten children, passed away today in Cincinnati, OH.
1884: “Germany’s Dead
Railway King” published today described the rise and fall of Dr. Bethel
Stousberg.
1884: In Watertown, WI,
Flora Kahnheimer and Moses B. Schwab gave birth to Western Reserve University
graduate Ida Schwab Lazard the wife of Dr. Edward M. Lazard with who she had
the children and President and director of the Council of Jewish Women in Los
Angeles who was a secretary of the Los Angeles League of Women Voters and a
member of Temple B’nai B’rith.
1885: In Indiana, David
Jacob Wile and Harriet Wile, the daughter of Leopold and Rose Adler gave birth
Helen C. Wile who became Helen C. Burkhardt when she married Charles Ernest
Burkhardt with she had three children – Alice, Ralph and Billy Burkhardt.
1885: In Charleston, SC,
Rabbi Levy officiated at the wedding of Bertha V. Williams and Camden, SC
resident Samuel Rosenberger
1887: Harry J. Hirsch
began serving as a Cadet at the U.S. Military Academy.
1887: Four young girls and
five young boys attending the public schools in New York’s 19th Ward
competed tonight for the Hornthal Prizes for Elocution which were created by
Louis M. Hornthal.
1887: Maurice
Arnold de Forest and his younger brother Raymond were adopted today “by the
millionaire Baroness Clara de Hirsch, née Bischoffsheim, wife of Jewish banker
and philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch de Gereuth, and given the surname de
Forest-Bischoffsheim
1888(7th of
Tammuz, 5648): Parashat Chukat
1888: Birthdate of
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian born physicist and mathematician. “He
discovered the expanding-universe solution to general relativity field
equations in 1922, which was proven by Edwin Hubble’s observations in 1929.” He
died of typhoid fever at the age of 37.
1888: The staff of the
Hebrew Journal is hosting a fundraiser tonight at the Lyric Hall proceeds of
which will go to the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. The society was
established in 1879 to care for destitute children, including, but not limited
to, orphans. At its founding the society
had an all-female board and its first president was a woman. In 1940, the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society merged with Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Fellowship
House and the Jewish Children’s Clearing Bureau to form the New York
Association for Jewish Children which became the Jewish Child Care Association.
1888: At Temple Beth El in
New York Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler “paid an eloquent tribute” to the late Kaiser
Wilhelm I who passed away earlier this year. He praised the emperor for having
“all the noble ideal qualities of the German without the rather coarse ways of
the Prussian soldier.” The rabbi also
praised him for conferring the highest honors upon several Jews and for
denouncing anti-Semitism; something his wife continued to do after his death. Kohler believed that he had “transmitted his
liberal ideas to Bismarck and his son and that so long as they are a power
there is little fear of anti-Semitism.”
1889: It was reported
today that the Hebrew Benevolent Orphan Asylum was among the organizations
awarded a banner as part of the centennial celebration in New York.
1889: In Baltimore, Max
and Annie Jacobs Mayerson gave birth to Samuel Mayerson, the brother of Harry
E. Mayerson and Roslyn Doris Mayerson Alpher.
1890: “Medals for Jewish
Students” published today identified the outstanding scholars at New York’s
Ahavath Chesed’s Sabbath School. Roderick Goetz was the Dr. Adolph Huebsch
Medal for being the outstanding student. Louis Obermeyer actually was the best
student, but since he had won the award last year it was decided to let another
have the medal and Louis was given “a set of books to show that his scholarship
was appreciated. Margaret Kohut received
the Rasker Medal and Lillie Ahrens received the Eisner Medal.
1890: “A short, stout,
red-whiskered Polish Jew” later identified as Marcus Goldstein, entered the
office of Gill Engraving Company and asked a junior member of the firm, George
M. Gill, “to make him a plate for reproducing tickets of the Hamburg Lottery
Company of Germany. After Goldstein explained to Gill what he wanted and made
arrangements to pick up the finished product he left the store. Gill contacted the police because he thought
Goldstein was part of a plan to print and sell counterfeit lottery tickets. (More to come, so keep reading during the
next few days)
1891: It was reported that
600 to 700 tailors, most of whom are Jewish have gone on strike in Philadelphia
in an attempt to get a more equitable distribution of work from the “
‘sweaters’ who employ them.”
1891: “Told By An
Eyewitness” published today of the persecution of the Jews in Russia provided
by Miss Adele M. Fielde a Baptist missionary who had been in Moscow this spring
as she traveled across the country on her way to Russia. “The sights that met her eye on every side in
Moscow and other places along her journey were so frightful that she could not
help sending a description of the Russian outrages to New York in the hope that
it might attract notice and sympathy for the suffers.
1892: The eighth annual
exhibition and commencement exercises for the students of the Hebrew Technical
Institute took place today.
1892: In London, Sarah
Bernhardt performed her new drama “Pauline Blanchard” which “was first seen in
Australia” for the first time in the imperial capital.
1892: In Baligrod, a small
village in Galicia, Austria, Malka and Ashe Selig gave birth to Jennie
Grossinger, the wife of Harry Grossinger who created Grossinger, the iconic
Borscht Belt hostelry.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/grossinger.html
1893: Birthdate of Lemberg,
Austria native and NYU trained
accountant Jacob Alson, “the national treasurer of the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith” who raised “two sons, Lawrence and Ernest Alson” with his wife
Adele .
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/23/84754586.pdf
1893: The ninth annual
exhibition and commencement exercises of the Hebrew Technical Institute took
place this afternoon at Arlington Hall on St. Mark’s Place.
1894: In Łódź, in
Russian-occupied Poland, Solomon Szyk and his wife Eugenia gave birth to
illustrator and “political artist” Arthur Szyk.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/uc-berkeley-to-display-jewish-artists-unique-work/
1895: It was reported
today that Rothschild’s in Paris and London “refuse to touch the Russo-Chinese
loan.” This was a loan that the Russians were guaranteeing so that the Chinese
could pay money owed to the Japanese under the Shimonoseki Treaty. (The complexity of international finance
began long before the 21st century)
1895: In Cincinnati, Ohio,
Max and Sarah Hexter gave birth to Betty Hexter who became Betty Fabe when she
married Isadore Fabe.
1895: “Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Daily School” published today
described it as “a magnificent example of what can be accomplished by
noble-minded women among the young and old of their sex in the hearts of the
slums. From that up-town section where the wealthiest of the community live a
few of the philanthropic Jewish women have combined for the highly laudable
purpose of elevating the children of the lowliest of the Jewish population in
the thickly settled down-town districts.”
1896: In St. Louis, MO,
the opening prayer at the Republican National Convention was offered by a local
rabbi “who is a Democrat” and who has brother who “are very active as Democrats
in local political affairs.”
1896: In today’s diary entry, Herzl described his vision of
the Jewish state as "a destination for the civilized world which will come
to visit as it now visits...Sadigura" – a vision that was rejected by the
Rebbe of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty along with the rest of his ideas.
1896: Birthdate of Meta
Neumann, nee Greenbaum, one of the last Jewish inhabitants of Kleinsteinach who
was deported to Isbica or Theresienstadt.
1897: Two days after he
had passed away, 61 year old Solomon Jacobs was buried today in London at the
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1897: Birthdate of Elaine
Hammerstein, “an American silent film and stage actress” who was the daughter
of opera producer Arthur Hammerstein
1897(16th of
Sivan, 5657): Orange, NJ, banker, Jacob Seholle passed away today.
1898: Birthdate of
Atlanta, GA native and Emory University trained psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Kahn,
the husband of Karen Khan with whom he raised two daughters, Janice and
Susannah, while teaching, practicing and writing in the New York Metropolitan
area.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/28/obituaries/dr-samuel-kahn-dies-psychiatrist-and-writer.html
https://www.amazon.com/Essays-Freudian-psychoanalysis-Samuel-Kahn/dp/0802221742
1898: Birthdate of NYC
native and economist William Jaffe, the
holder of a Docteur en Droit from the University of Paris who was on the
faculty of Northwestern University.
1899: In Vlagtwedde,
Netherlands, Louis and Emma Sachs gave birth to Sophie Josephine Sachs who
became Sophie Josephine Frank when she married Siegfried Frank with whom she
had two children – Julius and Emma Frank.
1899: Twelve-year-old
Julia Lichtner arrived in New York aboard the White Star liner Cymric from
Liverpool today. Her father, Herman
Lichtner, a Hungarian-Jewish tailor died during the crossing.
1899: Oscar I.Lembergle,
who has been working with Wilson Dunlap to convert Jews to Christianity wrote a
letter to Mayor Van Wyck protesting the Mayor’s ruling that conversion attempts
would not take place on public street corners and should be confined to private
halls.
1899: It was reported
today in Brest, France, “posters announcing the Court of Cassation…have been
torn down and defaced with inscriptions hostile to the Jews and Dreyfus. (The
Dreyfus Affair would continue to embroil France for years to come, in part because
it was a stalking horse used by the Right to inflame passions against liberals,
modernity and the Jews)
1900: Herzl meets Arminius
Vámbéry a Hungarian Jewish Orientalist with connections to the Ottoman Empire
who will write to the Sultan on Herzl's behalf.
1901: “The fourth annual
convention of the Federation of American Zionists” opened in Philadelphia today
with speeches explaining the Zionism was attempting “to esasblished a legal
home of the oppressed and persecuted Jews of Russia, Romania and other European
Countries in Palestine” and give them a place of “asylum where they could begin
life anew.
1902: Vaudevillian Sam
Bernard married Florence Deutschu today thirteen years before he “entered films
with the Triangle Film Corporation.
1902: “Metallurgist”
William B. Klee, the Pittsburgh born son of Jacob Klee and Lena Hirsch and
President of the Damascus Bronze Company who was a director of the Montefiore
Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Y.M. and Y.W.H.A as well as a member of
Congregation Rodef Shalom mar ried Blanche Westheimer today.
1903: “President Hears the
Case of the Jews” published today described the meeting between leaders of
B’nai B’rith, President Teddy Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hay where they
were able to lay out all of the facts surrounding the Massacre of Kishniiff and
where the President had a chance a to express his sympathy for the plight of
the Jews as well as his commitment to help ameliorate the situation within the
limits of his office.
1904: Irish author James
Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently uses the date
to set the actions for his novel Ulysses. This date is referred to as
“Bloomsay”; a reference to Leopold Bloom. Bloomsday has been celebrated since
1994 in the Hungarian town of Szombathely, the birthplace of Leopold Bloom's
father, Virág Rudolf an emigrant Hungarian Jew.
1905: It was reported
today that “the New York Branch of the Bund ….had received a telegram from its
headquarters state that the anti-Jewish riots at Brest-Litovsk, Minks and
Warsaw” were “done with the aid of soldiers” and are part of “new tactics of the
autocracy.”
1906:Twenty-three-year-old
Zionist and NYU trained lawyer, Abraham Goldberg, the Russian born son of
Nathan and Shifka (Grossberg) Goldberg who became a vice president of the American Jewish
Congress, a member of the executive committee of the World Jewish Congress and
Chairman of the Jewish council of Russian War Relief married Sarah Dancis today
in New York City.
1906: After three days of
violence, the Bialystok Pogrom came to an end. The death count varies; from a
low of 80 to a high of 100. Hundreds of
Jewish owned shops were destroyed. A major textile manufacturing center and a
hot bed or revolutionary activity, approximately three-fourths of the city’s
population was Jewish. This did not
protect the Jews from violence instigated by the Russian authorities.
“Russian authorities tried
to blame the pogrom on the local Polish population in order to stir up the
hatred between two ethnic groups (both of which generally opposed the Tsar).
However Jewish survivors of the violence reported that the local Polish population
had in fact sheltered many Jews during the pogrom and did not participate in
it. Apolinary Hartglas, a Polish Jewish leader and later a member of the Polish
Sejm, together with Ze'ev Jabotinsky, managed to obtain secret documents issued
by Szeremietiev which showed that the pogrom had been organized well in advance
by Russian authorities who had actually transported Russian railroad workers
from deep within Russia to participate.”
1907: Today, Rabbi Kaufman Kohler, the chair of the Committee on Uniform
Pronunciation of Hebrew, submitted a recommendation to the Central Conference
of American Rabbis that “as soon as it seems feasible the same pronunciation of
Hebrew that is now being used at HUC should be introduced “in the Religious
Schools and Children’s Services” so as overcome the various forms of Hebrew
pronunciation that do more to divide Jews than to unite them.
1907: Birthdate of actor Jack Albertson. Albertson appeared in numerous films,
but he may be best remembered for his starring role in the television sit-com
“Chico and the Man.”
1908: The Republican
Convention, which would select William Howard Taft, the first President to
attend a Seder while in office, opened today in Chicago.
1908: Birthdate of
Augusta, GA native and Cornell trained physician Jack Masur the creator of the
National Institute of Health (NIH)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/historyatnih/30017107682
https://onih.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Masur%2C+Jack
https://www.facebook.com/NIHClinicalCenter/photos/a.251027269913/10152574503049914/?type=1&theater
1909: It was reported
today that delegates at the just concluded 12th annual convention of
the Zionists” had “reaffirmed the Basle program, congratulated the Turks upon
their victory for popular government” and congratulated the Turkish Jews for
achieving their citizenship.
1909: Johns Hopkins trained
medical doctor Arthur Solomon Loevenhart, the Lexington, KY born son of Henry
Lovenhart and Jenny Lind Goldsmith who had been a professor of pharmacology and
toxicology at the University of Wisconsin since 1908 married Minni Rose
Goldsmith today in Chicago.
1910: “Eighty-nine Jews
were expelled from Kiev today.”
1910: “Today, the Russian
Senate granted the appeal of the Jewish pharmacists in Moscow who had been had
been regarded as subject to expulsion” and “ordered the repeal of the
ministerial circular under which provisional authority had recently begun to act.”
1911: Jews in Sfru (south
of Fez) were attacked by rebellious Berbers.
1912: Seventy-two-year-old
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, author of Les Juifs et l'Antisémitisme; Israël chez les Nations in
1893 and L’Antisémitisme in
1897 passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800E3DD103DE433A2575AC1A9609C94649ED7CF
1912: Birthdate of Olga
Ivinskaya, the Russian poet and writer who was the friend and lover of Boris
Pasternak “and the inspiration for the character Lara in Doctor Zhivago.”
(He was Jewish; she wasn’t)
1912(1st of Tammuz, 5672): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1912(1st of
Tammuz, 5672): Fifty-five-year-old Adolf Landesberger, the Director of the
Anglo-Austrian Bank who was honored by being named Knight of the Order of the
Iron Crown, passed away today in Vienna.
1912: Sir Charles Waldstein and his wife Florence (nee Einstein) gave birth to
agricultural researcher and MP Henry David Leonard George Walston, the future
Baron Walston.
1913: The first edition of
the “Follies” whose performers would come to include Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor
and Sophie Tucker, “was hosted today at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
1913(11th of
Sivan, 5673): Henry S. Herman, “one of the Directors of the Hudson Realty
Company” and a trustee of New York’s Temple Beth-El passed away today “at Dral
NY.
1913: Birthdate of Phillip
M. Kaiser who would serve as a diplomat or political appointee under every
Democratic President from Harry Truman to Jimmy Carter. He was the ninth of 10
children of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from imperial Russia. He wrote in his
1992 memoir that "whatever political skills I may have, I attribute to the
fact that I had to develop them early to cope with sibling rivalries." In
his childhood home, his mother rarely spoke English, communicating with her
children in Yiddish. But they spoke English to her. At a parochial school, the
young Mr. Kaiser learned Hebrew, which, he later wrote, "established my
credentials as a Jewish boy and enabled me to feel superior to Yiddish, which I
considered a 'greenhorn's' jargon." He graduated from the University of
Wisconsin, where he won a Rhodes scholarship. In September 1936 he arrived in
England, which was his home base for three subsequent years of study and travel
in the European continent as it was lurching toward World War II.
1914: In New York, Joseph
“Yussel” Lubarsky, the Ukrainian born son of Devorah and Israel Lubarsky and
his wife Bertha Lubarsky gave birth to Leo Lubarsky.
1914: In Pittsburgh, PA,
Mary Rosenthal Gruskin and Dr. Benjamin Gruskin, “a graduate of the
University of Pittsburgh and Rush Medical School who was “a leader in
experimental medicine” gave birth to writer and producer Edward Gruskin who was
“known for Flash Gordin, Cain’s Cutthroats and Up Your Teddy Bear.
1914: Eight-fifth birthday
of “Dr. William Armhold, Rabbi Emeritus of Philadelphia’s Congregation Keneseth
Israel.
https://www.jta.org/1924/03/06/archive/dr-william-armhold-passes-away-in-atlantic-city
1915: At Albany, NY, the
Bill of Rights Committee of the Constitutional Convention held a hearing on a
proposal for “an amendment to the Constitution providing for the abolition of
capital punishment” at which Rabbi Jacob Goldstein, the Jewish Chaplain of Sing
Sing” testified in favor of the amendment telling “the committee that one of
the gunmen sent to their death in connection with the murder of Herman
Rosenthal was a victim of injustice.” Committee Chairman Marshal received a
letter from Jacob H. Schiff “in which the case of Leo M. Frank was advanced as
a convincing argument in support of the contention that the death penalty
should be abolished.”
1915: “Ex-Congressman W.
M. Howard closed his plea for a commutation of the sentence” of Leo Frank
“shortly after 4 o’clock this afternoon” meaning that “the fate of Leo M. Frank
has been finally committed to the hands of Governor John M. Slaton” who will
decide if “Frank shall die on the gallows or spend the remainder of his life in
the penitentiary.”
1916: Birthdate of Irma
Silberbach, the native of Lippe Detmold, Germany who would marry Werner Julius
Seligman and become Irma Seligman.
1916: Today, Maurice
Simmons released a copy of a letter previously sent to the Adjutant General of
the New York National Guard in which he said that the National Guard was not
taking the investigation of alleged discrimination against Jews seriously.
1916: In St. Louis, MO,
the National Democratic Convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson, the
President who appointed the first Jewish justice to the Supreme Court, came to
a close.
1917: In New York, Eugene
Isaac Meyer, Jr. and Agnes Elizabeth Ernst gave birth to Katharine Myer who
became Katherine Graham after marrying Phil Graham and was the publisher of the
Washington Post. Although Katherine Graham came from a distinguished
Jewish background she was baptized at the age of ten. The only people who
thought she was Jewish were the myriad of anti-Semites who loved to write about
the "Jewish Controlled Media in America." Mrs. Graham died in 2001.
1917: Birthdate of Irving
Penn “an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion
photography.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html?_r=1&hp
1917: It was reported
today that there will be no funding raising by Jewish organizations including
the American Jewish Relief Committee during Red Cross Week which is scheduled
to begin on June 18.
1918: It was reported
today that the Central Jewish Relief Committee has received $1,050 from
Congregation Beth Israel in Milwaukee, $100 from Shearith Israel in Atlanta and
$100 from Shaare Zedek in Clinton, MA.
1918: Three days after he
has passed away, David Worrow, the son of Barnet and Sarah Worrow, was buried
today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1918: Dr. Eugen Kohn of
Baltimore delivered the opening pray at today’s joint session of the United
Synagogue and the Jewish Women’s League was held at the Jewish Theological
Seminary.
1919: The annual
conventions of the United Synagogues of America and the Women’s League which
opened on the grounds of JTS on June 15 ended tonight with a dinner tonight
where Dr. Charles I Hoffman served as toastmaster and Rabbi Elias L. Solomon
and Mrs. Charles I. Hoffman, President of the Women’s League were among the
principle after-dinner speakers.
1920: Birthdate of
basketball player Henry “Hank” Rosenstein who played forward for the City
College of New York.
1920: Following Henry
Ford’s declaration that “It is impossible for the Jew to be a patriot” the
editors of the American Hebrew wrote to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels
his opinion on the subject to which Daniels responded in a letter today writing,
in part, “I wish to express my sense of the fullest appreciation of the
generous, wholehearted and effective service rendered by the Jewish race in
positions of administration on battleships and in every military way to help
win the war..
1921:It was reported today
that “The Twice-Born Woman” produced by Malcom Strauss and partially filmed in
Palestine is scheduled to be shown next week at the Hippodrome in New York.
1922: Birthdate of William
Korey the University of Chicago graduate who became Director of the
Anti-Defamation League.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/06/16/109806957.html?pageNumber=10
1922: It was reported
today that that a papal protest has been lodged with the League of Nations
regarding the terms of the Great Britain’s mandate for Palestine which includes
objections to the favorable treatment of Jews in what some do not realize is
there historic homeland.
1923: Elizabeth Lloyd
Holzman, known as singer an actress Libby Holman graduated from the University
of Cincinnati today.
1924: “Citing the present
plight of the youthful Chicago murderers of Robert Franks as the result of lack
of religion in the home, Rabbi Nathan Krass of Temple Emanu-El advocated the
taking of a census of Jewish youth in order to bring them into direct contact with
the forces of Judaism.”
1925: The third session of
the National Assembly of the Palestine Jewry split today over the question of
woman suffrage with the progressive elements demanding that women have right to
vote and be elected to the National Assembly and the Orthodox Jews opposing it.
1926: Today, “David M.
Bressler, Acting Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign announced that
contributions totaling $25, 791 have be received in the last week at the
Pershing Square Headquarters bringing the total collected up to $6,801,247
1927: Dr.Solomon Stan
Bauch, the Podelov, Romania born son of Rose Cohen and Meusha Chaim Bach, who in 1900 came to the
United States where he earned a medical degree at Long Island College Hospital
and developed a specialty in treating tuberculosis and his wife Yetta
Blumenfeld gave birth to Rolleta Bauch.
1928: “Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Adler of Rochester
gave a reception tonight at the Irondiquoit Country Club of Rochester at which they
announced the engagement of their daughter Helen Adler,” a graduate of the
University of Michigan and Dr. Harry Weinstock, a graduate of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
1928: The Birmingham News
quoted Moses V. Joseph who had been serving as President of Temple Emanu-El
since 1910 as saying that “Religious training, in my judgement, is fundamental
to all human development,” and “therefore, I believe in attendance upon public
worship” and “no would wish to live in a community where there were no houses
of worship, since we all desire such insitutuions it is plain that we should
support them in every way.”
1929: “Jews In The Old
World” published today provided a review of Frontiers of Hope by Horace
M. Kallen
1930: “A contribution of
$150,000 by Felix M. Warburg to the New York Allied Jewish Campaign was
announced today at a tea and rally at the Biltmore at which Mr. and Mrs.
Warburg entertained the campaign workers.”
1931(1st of Tammuz, 5691):
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1931: Three days after he
had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held for seventy-five year old
Richmond born dramatist Sydney Rosenfeld, the “first editor of Puck,” “one of
the main movers in the effort to secure a National Theatre for the United
States” and husband of “Genie Holzmeyer Johnson” who was the author of several
plays including “A Possible Case” and “The Club Friend” as well as several
“operettas and musicals” including “The Lady or the Tiger” and “The Passing
Show” after which burial will take place at Kensico.
1931: Birthdate of
American sociologist Donald Nathan Levine, one of the leading figures in the
field of Ethiopian Studies.
1932: “The Doomed
Battalion” a WWI movie directed by Cyril Gardner and produced by Carl Laemmle,
Jr was released today in the United States.
1932: In Chicago, the
Republican National Convention which Samuel S. Koenig attended as delegate from
New York and which nominated Herbert Hoover for a second term came to an end.
1933: “The annual
convention of the Council of Young Israel Organizations” which will be attended
by “delegates from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Poland”
is scheduled to open today at “the Hotel Clarendon-Brunswick” in Asbury, NJ.
1933: According to a
census on this date, the Jewish population of Berlin, Germany's capital city
was about 160,000. Berlin's Jewish community was the largest in Germany,
comprising more than 32 percent of all Jews in the country.
1933(22nd of Sivan, 5693): Unknown assailants murder Zionist Labor leader Chaim
Arlosoroff
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hayim-arlosoroff
http://www.jewishmag.com/149mag/arlosoroff/arlosoroff.htm
1933: President Roosevelt signed into law a series of bills that began the
creation of what came to be called The New Deal. For Jews, like so many others,
the legislation provided immediate economic assistance. More importantly, the
New Deal opened up career opportunities for a whole generation of Jews
especially those with degrees in law and accounting. The myriad of government
agencies that resulted from the New Deal were a critical ingredient in the
growth of the Jewish Middle Class especially for the children and grandchildren
of those who had come to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the
1880's.
1934(3rd of
Tammuz, 5694): Parashat Korach
1934: Man Ray was
photographed today at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse exhibition in Paris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray#/media/File:Man_Ray_1934.jpg
1934: “Mussolini and
Hitler Agree That Austria Must Remain an Independent Government” published
today in the Springfield (Mass) Union described the first meeting of the two
European dictators.
1935: “Theodore Lowey, the Danzig correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and editor of the Danzig Echo left Danzig today as a result of a
deportation order issued against him the Nazi controlled Danzig administration.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/06/17/95081173.html?pageNumber=17
1936: “Jewish Congress
Seen As Harmful” published today described the opposition to the World Jewish
Congress scheduled to open in Geneva led by such notables as Roger Straus of
New York and Harold and Eustace Riegelman who feel that the meeting only represents
a minority of Jewish organizations and because it would actually be
counter-productive in the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe.
1937: Today’s graduation
ceremony at City College, “the Jewish Harvard” is scheduled to end with the
benediction given by Rabbi Schulman followed by a recessional where students
will march out to music from “The Queen of Sheba.”
1937: Marx Brothers'
"A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1937: Birthdate of author
Erich Segal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20segal.html
1937: Eighteen-year-old
Welwel Sczezerbowski, a Jewish boy was sentenced to death after having been
found guilty of murdering a policeman during an anti-Jewish riot.
1938: Birthdate of Joyce
Carol Oates. “Joyce Carol Oates’ paternal grandmother was Jewish, but fearing
persecution, kept that fact hidden. Her grandmother died in 1970, and it wasn’t
until afterwards, that Oates found out the truth about her family’s Jewish
heritage. Her book, ‘The Gravedigger’s Daughter’ is dedicated to her paternal
grandmother.”
1939: In Oxford, England
future famed diplomat Philip Kaiser married Hannah Greeley
1939: The SS. St. Louis
with a cargo of 907 passengers, all of whom had promised a refuge in one of
four European countries after having been turned away from Cuba, the United
States and Canada was one day away from reach the Antwerp, Belgium.
1940: Birthdate of Neil Goldschmidt former Mayor of Portland and Governor of
Oregon as well as member of the Cabinet under President Carter
1940: French Premier
Reynaud, whose government was in exile, resigned. Henri Petain replaced him.
Petain earned a place of dishonor in Jewish and French history as head of the
Nazi-collaborating government at Vichy.
1940: Fifty-five year old
French journalist and political leader Georges Mandel, who would be murdered by
French Fascists in 1944, was arrested in Bordeaux and then after a brief time
released. (Mandel would refuse Churchill’s offer to flee to the safety of Great
Britain saying "You fear for me because I am a Jew. Well, it is just
because I am a Jew that I will not go tomorrow; it would look as though I was
afraid, as if I was running away." (While many would collaborate and then
invent stories of being secretly part of the Resistance, Mandel was the real
deal.)
1940: Admiral François
Darlan himself ordered “French naval authorities to facilitate if need be the
embarkation of [former] Prime Minister Léon Blum aboard any naval ship or
aircraft headed to North Africa
1941: “New German and
Italian schemes for fanning Arab violence against British authority in the
Middle East to counteract strategic reverses of the Axis in Iraq and Syria”
which would “charge that Jewish banking interests in New York forced a
guarantee from the British of a great Jewish homeland in return for supporting
United States intervention in the war” were reported today
1941: Funeral services are
scheduled to be held today for Ella Wolf, the wife of Michael Wolf, the
daughter of Rabbi and Mrs. Segal followed by interment in Acacia Cemetery in
Lewiston, ME.
1941: “László Radványi”
and his wife “poet Anna Seghers” and their children Pierre and Ruth who had
escaped from Nazi occupied Europe, arrived in New York today.
1941: Today, in Atlantic
City, “the Independent Order of Brith Abraham voted to contribute a total of
$50,000 to the Jewish section of the British War Relief Society, the United
Jewish Appeal and the United Service Organizations.”
1942(1st of
Tammuz, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1942: Most of the Jews of
Łazy, Poland, were deported to Auschwitz. Jews from other nearby villages were
also deported with them.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/10.asp
1942: The American chargé
d'affaires in the Vatican, Harold Tittmann, reports to the State Department
that Pope Pius XII is adopting "an ostrich-like policy towards atrocities
that were obvious to everyone."
1942: Republican
Assemblyman and broker dealer Harvey L. Schwamm is scheduled to enter the U.S.
Army’s Transportation service today with the rank of Major.
1943: SS chief Heinrich Himmler allows a transfer of Jewish prisoners from the
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp located
in Germany for medical experiments involving jaundice.
1943(13th of Sivan, 5703):
Dr. Niuta Jurezkaya, a physician who escaped from the Minsk (Belorussia) Ghetto
to nearby forests, is recaptured, tortured, and shot.
1943: Two hundred patients
from Berlin are sent to Theresienstadt along with the remaining Jews of the
Berlin community. The German capital was declared "judenrein" - Free
of Jews. Ten years earlier the Berlin Jewish population was estimated around
186,000.
1944 In Ness Ziona, Moshe
and Sarah Kahalani, immigrants from Yemen, gave birth to Brigadier General (and
future political leader) Avigdor Kahalani.
1944: Residents of the
Jewish ghetto at Lódz, Poland, are notified of "voluntary registration for
labor outside the ghetto." In truth, there is no work but only death at
the Chelmno, Poland, extermination camp, where the Germans plan to murder 3000
Jews a week for three weeks.
1944(25th of Sivan, 5704):
In France, Jewish historian Marc Bloch, a leader of the resistance group
Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, is executed by German troops.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-heroes-marc-bloch-134082792/?no-ist
1945: Thirty-six-year-old
Colonel Paul Alfred Cullen who had been serving with the Australian military
since 1927 and would rise to the rank of Major General arrived in New Guinea
today.
1946: In Shanghai, Gerda
Kosiner, a refugee from Vienna and her husband gave birth to Canadian educated
businesswoman Vivian Jeanette Kpalan, the author of the award winning Ten
Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-Torn Austria to
the Ghettos of Shanghai
https://us.macmillan.com/author/vivianjeanettekaplan
http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/Survival.html
1946: Tonight, Operation
Markolet or Night of the Bridges, a Haganah operation designed “to destroy
eleven bridges linking Palestine with the neighboring countries of Lebanon,
Syria, Jordan and Egypt began.
1947(28th of Sivan, 5707):
Bronislaw Huberman, famed violinist and founder of the Palestine Philharmonic
Orchestra, passed away.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/orchestra-of-exiles/star-violinist-who-saved-jews-before-the-holocaust/
1948: Lt. Col. Abdullah
el-Tell commander of the Jordanian forces and Colonel David Shaltiel the
commander of Israeli forces in West Jerusalem continued their discussions in
the presence of UN observers which included the disposition of Abu Tor,
“civilian access to retrieve personal belongings, "examination by Arabs of
municipal records in the Jewish area", recovery of Torah scrolls from the
Old City and the closing of the New Gate.
1949: U.S premiere of
“Roughshod” a cowboy film directed by Mark Robson.
1949: Birthdate of Xu Xin,
a professor at Nanjing University and China's leading Judaic scholar,as well as
the founder and director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish
and Israel Studies at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China.”
1950: A recording of "I
Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell" a popular song with music was
written by George Wyle, the lyrics by Edward Pola, both of whom were Jewish
reached the Billboard Best Seller Chart for the first time today.
1950: The FBI
“interviewed” Julius Rosenberg for the first time on the same day that Joel
Barr, another Soviet spy “disappeared from his Paris apartment…and fled to
Czechoslovakia.”
1952: In Syosset, NY,
“Gertrude "Trudy" (née Albert) and Morris Isikoff” gave birth to
American investigative reporter and author Michael R. Isikoff, the husband of
Mary Ann Akers and the father of their son Zachary and Willa Isikoff the daughter
who was born during his marriage to Lisa Stein.
https://www.yahoo.com/author/michael-isikoff/
1952: Alexander Marx,
librarian of the Jewish Theological Seminary arrived in New York after having
spent ten weeks in Israel.
1952: Brigadier General
Mordechai Makleff, vice chief of staff of the IAF arrived in New York aboard
the Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth to begin an unofficial tour of U.S. military
installations.
1952: "Anne Frank:
Diary of Young Girl" is published in the United States
1952: The New York
Times reviews “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” translated from the
Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt.
1953: CBS broadcast the first
episode of “Steve Randall” a television series starring Melvyn Douglas.
1955: In Philadelphia,
linguist Myrna Gopnik and Irwin Gropnik gave birth to Dr. Alison Gopnik who is
a professor of both psychology and philosophy.
1955: Publication of the
first issue of Roll Call the highly influential publication created by Sid
Yudain, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.
1955: In Hewlett, NY,
Norma and Harry Ganz, “the owner of a private-label blouse company,” gave birth
to Nancy Ganz who turned her back on a potential career in the field of biology
to found “Bodyslimmers’ whose product line includes Belly Buster and Butt
Booster.
1956: Dr. Henry
Cohen was raised to the peerage as Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, of Birkenhead in
the County Palatine of Chester. This meant that the famous physician was now Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead. The Lord Cohen Medal, the
highest award for services to gerontology in the United Kingdom and is named,
is named for him.
1957(17th
of Sivan, 5717): Fifty-four-year-old David “Davie the Jew” Berman a mobster who
began his criminal career in Sioux City, Iowa died today during surgery in Las
Vegas where he had teamed up with Bugsy Siegel to turn the city into a
gambler’s paradise.
1958: Filming of “The
Geisha Boy” produced by Jerry Lewis who was also one of the co-stars began
today.
1959: Release date
for “John Paul Jones” a film about the American Revolutionary War naval hero
produced by Samuel Bronston with a script co-authored by Jesse Lasky, Jr and
music by Max Steiner.
1959: In New York
City, #1 bestselling novelist Judith Krantz and film and television producer
Stephen Falk Krantz” gave birth Tony, the mailroom trainee at Creative Artists
Agency who rose to be an award winning producer, writer and director whose
wife, Krisitn Krantz is “the co-founder and CEO of both Prana Animation Studios
and Oscar and Emmy winning visual effects company, Rhythm & Hues.”
1961: Rabbi Judah
Cahn is scheduled to provide “A Review of the Week’s News” during services this
Shabbat eve at the Metropolitan Synagogue of New York.
1961: Birthdate of
Anne Elaine Heyman, the native of Pretoria who used her knowledge of Israel’s
solution to its “orphan problem to create a system that helped to save the 1.2
million orphans created by the genocide in Rwanda.
1961: Birthdate of Adisu
Massala, the native of Ethiopia who made Aliyah in 1980 following a clandestine
route and eventually became a member of the Knesset.
1963(24th of Sivan, 5723):
Eighty-five-year-old German born Rabbi Mortiz Speier who came in 1905 came to
the United Sates where he was the principal of a Hebrew school in New York
before receiving a B.S from Columbia and a ordination from JTS after which he
led congregations in Newport News, VA and Rockville Center, L.I. while raising
three daughters – Hannah, Ruth and Hadassah – with his wife, Florence Bersson
Speier passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/06/18/80711956.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1963: David Ben-Gurion
resigned for the second and last time as Prime Minister and Defense Minister.
Levi Eshkol will be chosen as a compromise candidate to fill both positions.
Eshkol, the Israeli politician most Westerners had never heard of will thus be
the leader of the Jewish state when it faces it's greatest test in 1967 and
enjoys its greatest triumph with the reunification of Jerusalem.
1965(16th of
Sivan, 5725): Eighty-two-year-old LSU trading pediatrician Dr Jacob Mahne “Jake” Bodenheimer, the
Louisiana born son of Bertha Levy Bodenheimer and Emmanuel Mahne Bodenheimer
and the husband of Lucille Weil Levy Bodenheimer whom he married in 1919 passed
away today after which he was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Shreveport,
LA.
1967: “The Reluctant
Astronaut” a comedy with a script by Everett Greenbaum was released in the
United States today.
1968: ` Governor Nelson Rockefeller designated Jennie Grossinger Day in New
York State, the first time this honor was bestowed on a living woman. Jennie
Grossinger, who helped make the Catskills resort Grossinger's into the most
famous retreat of its kind, was born in Austria on June 16, 1892. At age eight,
she immigrated with her family to New York, where she struggled to learn
English and succeed in school. At thirteen, she left school to work in a
garment factory, providing her family with much-needed income. In 1914, her
father bought a piece of land in the Catskills, intending to leave factory work
and return to farming. It soon became clear that the rocky soil would never
support a prosperous farm, and Jennie suggested that the family take in boarders.
The first year, the family charged $9 a week and cleared a net profit of $81.
From that modest beginning, Grossinger's was born. Although the initial
farmhouse lacked heat, electricity, and indoor plumbing, its other amenities
helped to make it a success. Jennie Grossinger's mother, Malka, was a good
kosher cook, and Jennie's warm personality was credited with making guests feel
at home. In addition, Jennie's husband Harry (a cousin with the same last
name), who had stayed in New York, was able to send guests their way. By 1919,
the family had made enough money to sell the original farmhouse and buy a
nearby hotel. Grossinger's thrived in the 1920s, becoming an opulent resort
with tennis courts, a children's camp, crystal chandeliers, and an auditorium
that featured world-class entertainers. It was in this decade that Grossinger's
became a destination of choice for upwardly mobile East Coast Jews. Although
the decade of the Great Depression brought hard times, Grossinger's managed to
stay open. One innovative development was the establishment of a training camp
for boxers. The boxers provided much-needed income, while Grossinger's provided
a Jewish atmosphere and facilities. In the years after the Second World War,
Grossinger's fame spread from Jews to non-Jews. While maintaining its kosher
kitchen, the resort began to attract a non-Jewish clientele. Part of this was
due to the successful national distribution and marketing of "Grossinger's
Rye," accompanied by Jennie Grossinger's image and signature. By 1970,
non-Jews were estimated to make up one third of the 150,000 annual guests. In
the post-war years, such prominent figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert
Kennedy, and Nelson Rockefeller visited the resort.
1970(12th of Sivan, 5730): Elsa
Yur'evna Triolet, a Russian born Jewish French author passed away.
1970: “Two Mules for
Sister” a droll western film directed by Don Siegel with a screenplay by Albert
Maltz was released today in the United States.
1974:Miss Nancy Ellen
Gerstein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Gersten who “is employed by The New
Yorker in the fiction department” is scheduled to marry Lawrence Alan Kudlow,
staff member of the securities department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York today in what might seem like a merger since the bride’s mother “is president of Petrie
Stores Corporation, a retail chain of women's clothing stores and her father is
a partner of Webco Textile Converters in Newburgh, NY while the groom’s
“father is a partner of Sondra Incorporated, manufacturer of textiles for men's
clothing.”.
1974: In Rhode Island,
Rabbis William Bradue and Herschel Shacter officiated at the wedding of
Elizabeth Fain and Samuel Gerson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerson of Natanya,
Israel
1975(7th of Tammuz 5735):
One of the Israelis wounded in yesterday’s rocket attack yesterday at Nahariya
passed away today.
1975: “Thirty-eight Soviet
Jewish activists, including Vitaly Rubin, Vladimir Slepak, Victor Brailovsky
and Mark Azbel appealed to the International Pen Club and five prominent
Western authors to act in defense of the samizdat magazine “Jews in the USSR”.
1976: “Silent Move” a
comedy directed by Mel Brooks, with a script by Mel Brooks and Barry Levinson
and starring Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Marcel Marceau, Sid Caesar, James Caan,
Harold Gould, Henny Youngman and Paul Newman was released today. (June 17 and
June 30 are also given for release dates,)
1976: “I’ve Got a Secret”
created by Allan Sherman and produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began
appearing in weekly syndication.
1977: Seventy-seven-year-old
Maxwell M. Bilofsky, “the husband of the former Betty Edith Keller” was buried
today at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont on Long Island after funeral services in
Oakhurst, NJ.
1977: “Grand Theft Auto”
featuring Ken Lerner as “Eagle I” was released today in the United States.
1977: Gerald Davis, “one
of Ireland’s leading semi-abstract artists” and “a prominent member of the
Jewish community in Ireland” launched an exhibition based on Ulysses
called “Paintings for Bloomsday” in a gallery located on Howth Head, the
setting of the soliloquy that ends the novel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DavisBloom1.jpg
http://www.olliart.com/artists/geralddavis.htm
1978: U.S. Premiere of the
musical spoof “Grease” featuring Didi Conn as “Frenchy”, Dinah Manoff as “Marty
Maraschino” and Sid Caesar as “Coach Calhoun.”
1980(2nd of
Tammuz, 5740): Eighty-year-old Baltimore born University of Chicago graduate
Esther Lazarus, the wife of Albert D. Goldman and holder of MSW from the
University of Pennsylvania who “was a social
and welfare services leader and advocate who spent her social work career in
Baltimore, MD” passed away today.
https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/resources/47
1980(2nd of
Tammuz, 5740): Sixty-four-year-old Professor Jacob Leib Talmon of Hebrew
University, the Polish born “authority on the evolution of totalitarian
ideologies” who in 1934 came to Palestine where he studied at Hebrew University
before going to the Sorbonne and LSE and working with the Board of Deputies of
British Jews and pursuing a career that led to him receiving the Israel Prize
for social sciences and law while raising two daughters – Daniella and Maya –
with his wife Irena, passe away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/06/18/111247658.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1982: It was reported in
today’s Washington Post that “former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
defended” Operation Peace for Galilee saying that "No sovereign state can
tolerate indefinitely the buildup along its borders of a military force dedicated
to its destruction and implementing its objectives by periodic shellings and
raids"
1983: As the Soviet
Government continues its crackdown on Jewish dissidents, “Yuri Adnropov, the
former chief of the KGB was appointed head of state.
1984(16th of Sivan, 5744): Rabbi
Bernard Bergman, the nursing home mogul, passed away.
1985: “An Off-Broadway
revival” of “Merrily We Roll Along,” a Stephen Sondheim musical “based on the
1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart” opened today at
San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, where it ran for 24 performances.
1989: Antony P. “Tony” Ressler, the Washington,
DC born son Dorothy and Ira Ressler and co-founder of the private equity firms Apollo
Global Management married actress Jami Gertz, the Chicago born daughter Sharyn Gertz and Walter Gertz, the Jewish builder
and contractor.
1991: Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Sheon of Toledo, Ohio, announced the August wedding plans for their daughter,
Amy Ruth Sheon, and Marvin Krislov, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Krislov of
Lexington, Ky.
1994: Cornell graduate and Harvard trained attorney Gladys
Kessler began serving as Judge of the United States District Court, replacing
Michael Boudin.
1995: U.S. premiere of the
Italian film “Il Postino: The Postman” directed by Michael Radford.
1995: Having premiered at
the Mann Village Theatre seven days ago, “Batman Forever,” directed by Joel
Schumacher, with a screenplay co-authored by Akiva Goldsman and music by Elliot
Goldentahl was released in the United States today.
1995: Outfielder Brian
Mark Kowitz made his last major league appearance while playing for the Atlanta
Braves.
1996(29th of
Sivan, 5756): Forty-year-old First Sargent Meir Alush, an off-duty policeman,
“was shot and killed in a toy store in the village of Bidiya.” (Jewish Virtual
Library)
1996(29th of Sivan, 5756):
Eighty-three-year-old sportscaster Mel Allen passed away. Yes, the man who was
the Voice of the New York Yankees for so many years, the man with the smooth
southern drawl, was Jewish. He grew up in rural Alabama as an observant Jew. He
reluctantly changed his surname from Israel to further his career. His last
name was considered "too Jewish." The Allen in Mel Allen was taken
from his father's middle name i.e. Julius Allen Israel. In 1950, Allen served
as chairman of Operations Sports for Israel which shipped over three tons of
athletic and recreational gear to Israeli children.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/17/sports/mel-allen-is-dead-at-83-golden-voice-of-yankees.html
1998: Robert D. Sack, the
son of Rabbi Eugene Sack of Beth Elohim, began serving as Judge of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
2000: Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 and completely
withdraws from Lebanon.
2001:
Moris Farhi, a “Turkish author” who was “vice president of International Pen” “was
appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in June 16,
2001, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to literature.
2001: “Ghost World,” with
a script by Daniel Clowes who had a Jewish mother and Terry Zwigoff, the son of
dairy farmers who also served as directed premiered today at The Seattle
International Film Festival
2002: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff
and Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren.
2002: Today Dominique
Strauss-Kahn was reelected Member of Parliament in the 8th circonscription of
the Val-d'Oise.
2002: Olivier Dassault,
the grandson of Marcel Dassalt, was elected today “as deputy for the first
circonscription of Oise, running on the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
ticket.”
2002: A former Miss Israel
is among those whom plastic surgeon Pamela Lipkin has invited to a Botox Party.
2003:” The
Jewish population of New York City has fallen by 5 percent since 1991, dipping
below one million for the first time in a century, according to a roughly
once-a-decade study that is being released today by the UJA-Federation of New
York.” (As reported by Joseph Berger)
2004: Final day of a Birthright trip to Israel - Towards a Sustainable Future
for Israel: An Environmental Leadership Seminar for Students and Young
Professionals – focused on the environment sponsored as a joint project of
COEJL, the Heschel Center for Environmental Leadership and Learning, the Jewish
Agency for Israel, and Hillel.
2004: Bernard A. Friedman
began serving as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Michigan.
2004: “100th anniversary
of the day in 1904 on which Dublin's best-known fictional Jew (and cuckold),
38-year-old Leopold Bloom, wandered the city as a modern-day Odysseus and,
after numerous adventures located more in his mind than on the street, circumnavigated
his way home” (As reported by Jonathan Wilson)
2005: What Sotheby's is calling the only known surviving autographed draft of
the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document that called for the establishment of
a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine, along with other documents from
the archive of the Zionist Leader Leon Simon is to be auctioned in New York
today. Besides two original drafts of the Declaration, the auction includes a
signed letter from Chaim Weizmann, a Zionist and chemist who relocated from
Germany to Britain after the start of World War I, asking his colleagues to
review the draft. Sotheby's expects the archive to sell for $500,000 to
$800,000.
2006: The Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA) began debating the issue of
divesting from companies doing business with Israel because of Israel's policy
in the Palestinian territories.
2006(20th of
Sivan, 5766): Seventy-seven-year-old editor and “queen of letters” Barbara
Epstein passed away today. (As reported by Charles McGrath)
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-barbara-epstein/
2006: Hebrew Book Week
comes to an end
2007(30th of Sivan, 5767: Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2007(30th of Sivan, 5767:
Eighty-eight year old “Shirlee Mages, whose father owned a thriving Roosevelt
Road restaurant in the 1930s and '40s and whose husband put his name on a
sporting goods chain” passed away today in Chicago. Mrs. Mages was the widow of
Morrie Mages, a 1950s Chicago television staple who was often in the company of
the late broadcaster Jack Brickhouse touting his sporting-goods stores through
the sponsorship of a late-night movie called "Mages Playhouse."
2008: Time magazine features a profile on
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livini who is favored to succeed Ehud Olmert entitled
“Mrs. Clean.”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1812071,00.html
2008: In “Grapes on the Golan,” published today Kevin Peraino profiles the
growth Israel’s wine industry which is located on the Golan Heights and the
effect peace talks between Damascus and Jerusalem might have on it.
2008: In New York, the Center for Jewish History co-sponsors “’Bloom’ Comes
Home.” This is a preview of "Bloom,” which is a documentary film homage to
James Joyce's masterpiece, “Ulysses,” with filmmakers Alan Adelson and Kate
Taverna. On Bloomsday, 2003, the Center for Jewish History and Jewish Heritage
staged an exciting dramatic reading of scenes from Joyce's “Ulysses” featuring
Kathleen Chalfant and a host of talented actors playing the Odysseus-like
protagonist Leopold Bloom. The acclaimed performance has now become the
centerpiece of a film which plays with notions as light as reading Joyce in bed
and as serious as what kind of Jew Leopold Bloom really was. The film travels
to Ireland to reveal how an anti-Semitic outbreak in Limerick in 1904 inspired
Joyce to create Dublin's best known fictional Jew. The preview of this work in
progress takes place in the very auditorium where it was first performed. The
evening will include conversation with the filmmakers and special additional
readings.
2008: Harvard
trained jurist Michael Boudin completed his service as Chief Judge of the United States Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit today.
2008: Despite intense
lobbying by Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, the European Union - in a sign
of vastly improved European-Israeli relations over the last few years - agreed
to a significant upgrade of relations. The upgrade was announced in Luxembourg
during the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting, headed by foreign
ministers, which conducts the bilateral relations between Israel and the EU.
The announcement was made at a meeting attended by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
and the ministers of the 27 EU states.
2008: After a report in The
Sun which exposed Nazi war criminal Milivoj Asner mingling with Euro 2008
football fans in Austria, the British daily interviewed the 95-year-old man at
his Austrian home.
The history books describe how Pozega's entire Jewish community was wiped
out in World War II, sent to the Jasenovac concentration camp where 700,000
were exterminated.
Asner is suspected to have overseen the deportation from Croatia of hundreds of
Jews, Serbs and gypsies to concentration camps. According to The Sun, Asner
denied any Jews were deported to death camps from his hometown. Laughing again,
he said: "I don't know of anyone deported from Pozega. Nobody was
murdered. I never heard of one single family murdered in Pozega." Despite
Austrian officials ruling out extradition on health grounds, Asner said he was
well enough to face trial. He said: "I have a clear conscience, I can
appear in front of any court."
"I would welcome the chance to answer these accusations in a Croatian
court. I don't have anything to do with it. I did not have enough
responsibility to order deportation." According to The Sun, Austrian
officials revealed they may order a new medical examination. On Monday, the
Simon Wiesenthal Center said that Austrian authorities were "exposed as
liars" after a "top Nazi war criminal" deemed unfit by the
Austrians to stand trial due to his "failing health" was spotted
sipping drinks in an Austrian cafe during one of the Euro 2008 soccer
championship gatherings.
Asner is number four on the Wiesenthal Center's list of "most wanted
Nazis." Three years ago, Austria refused a Croatian extradition request on
the grounds that Asner was "unfit" to stand trial or even be
questioned for health reasons. "Austria has long had a reputation as a
paradise for war criminals and now they've been caught in the act," said
Dr. Ephraim Zuroff, the director of the Israel office of the Wiesenthal Center,
and the organization's chief Nazi hunter. Zuroff said that the article
"exposed the lie" that the Austrian authorities have been peddling
for years, noting that the suspected Nazi war criminal is clearly enjoying a
life that many hundreds of victims were denied when they were sent off to be
murdered. "If this man is well enough to walk around town unaided and
drink wine in bars, he's well enough to answer for his past," Zuroff said.
Following the publication of the expose, which included video and photos, The
Wiesenthal Center demanded that the Austrian Government immediately extradite the
top wanted Nazi without further delay. "The photos, and video clips also
made available to this office, make it abundantly clear that Asner is in good
health, lucid and able to get around on his own, in contradiction to the
finding of an Austrian court which ruled that he cannot be extradited to stand
trial in Croatia due to ill health," Zuroff wrote in a Monday letter to
Austrian Justice Minister Dr. Maria Berger.
"Under these circumstances, there is absolutely no justification for the
continued refusal to extradite this wanted Nazi war criminal to the country
where he committed his nefarious crimes, so that he can finally be held
accountable for the hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies whom he deported to
concentration camps, where the majority were brutally murdered."
2008: In Milwaukee, The Third International Festival of
New Jewish Liturgical Music came to a close.
2009: A reception is held
at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. honoring Ann F.
Lewis the recipient of the NJDC Belle Moskowitz Award.
2009: In Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Laurie Silber, Search Committee Chairperson, announces that Temple Judah
has officially hired Rabbi Todd Thalblum. Rabbi Tahlblum will begin on August
1, 2009.
2009(24th of
Sivan, 5769): Eighty-eighty-year-old Seymour “Sy” Broday author of Jewish
Heroes of America and its sequel,
Jewish Heroes and Heroines of America passed
away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyrecord/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=128574292#fbLoggedOut
http://www.fau.edu/library/depts/judaica9.htm
2010: In “Revolutionary
Love” published today, Jonathan Sarna described the role of Jacob I. Cohen in
the American Revolution and his marriage to Esther Mordecai.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/text_context/revolutionary_love
2010: A screening of “Leon
Blum: For All Mankind” and lecture by filmmaker, Jean Bodon, are scheduled to
be held at noon today at the Library of Congress
2011: “The Addams Family”
a musical with a book by Marshall Brickman and which Bebe Neuwirth played
“Morticia” was performed for the 500th time tonight.
2011: “Fiddler on the
Roof” is scheduled to be performed at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2011: Congregation Agudas
Achim in Iowa City is scheduled to hold its annual meeting.
2011: At the Historic 6th
& I Synagogue in Washington, DC, Leah Koenig, author of “The Hadassah
Everyday Cookbook: Daily Meals for the Contemporary Jewish Kitchen” and former
editor-in-chief of the award winning food blog The Jew and the Carrot, is
scheduled to make eco-kosher Portobello
mushroom burgers and basil two-bean salad as part of “Jewish Cooking 101: Farmers' Market Meals”
2011: Today, thousands will retrace the
steps of Leopold Bloom, the Jewish protagonist of James Joyce’s masterpiece
Ulysses on “Bloomsday,” an annual event celebrating the Irish author’s novel
and his Jewish hero. “
2011: After two months of quiet in the
South, a Kassam rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into the Eshkol Regional
Council on tonight. The projectile exploded in an open field and no injuries or
property damage was reported. Near to 9:30 p.m., a siren was heard in
Eshkol-area communities, followed seconds later by an explosion
2011:
Jewish Congressman Anthony Weiner announced his resignation today, following
the revelation that he had sent a lewd photograph to young women online.
Instead of sending a written letter of resignation, Weiner made a televised
public statement, which was met by hecklers shouting out angry remarks
2011: The Korean Embassy in Israel
today held a special ceremony to mark the 61st anniversary of the outbreak of
the Korean War. In honor of soldiers who fought to help South Korea stop the
communist invasion, a seemingly unlikely group was also recognized: Jewish
Korean War veterans living in Israel.
According
to an official statement released by the Embassy, some 4,000 Jewish soldiers
fought alongside South Koreans and Allied Forces in the Korean War between 1950
and 1953. The Embassy has been awarding medals to Jewish soldiers since 2009.
This year's ceremony was hosted by Korean Ambassador to Israel Ma Young-Sam at
his home in Rishpon.
2012: The
Queen Has No Crown is scheduled to be shown at The London Israeli & Film
Festival.
2012:
Rabbi Jonah Layman and Cantor Wendi Fried are scheduled to lead “A Taste of
Shabbat” at Shaare Tefila in Olney, MD.
2012:
National Hebrew Book Week is scheduled to come to an end.
2012:
Second and final day of the great Pastrami Sandwich giveaway at Langer’s Deli
in Los Angeles which is celebrating its 65th anniversary.
2012: The IDF received a report this
morning that a rocket shell had been found in southern Israel, following
reports overnight that an explosion had been heard in the area. No injuries or
damages were reported in the incident. Following an initial examination, the
IDF determined that the projectile appeared to be a 122 millimeter Grad-type
rocket. IDF officials said they were further investigating the incident.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=274039
2012(26th
of Sivan, 5772): Eighty-two-year-old “Dan Dorfman, a highly visible financial
journalist whose televised market reports could send a stock soaring — or
plummeting — but whose career was tarnished by accusations of insider trading”
passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2013(8th
of Tammuz, 5773): Ninety-year-old Bernard Sahlins, a founder and former owner
of the Second City, the Chicago nightclub which launched the career of many
funny people including John Beulushi and Stephen Colbert passed away today. (As reported by Bruce
Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/theater/bernard-sahlins-patriarch-of-sketch-comedy-dies-at-90.html
2013: In
San Diego, CA, the Used Book Sale to benefit the Samuel & Rebecca Astor
Judaica Library is scheduled to come to an end.
2013: A
show consisting of “more than 130 works by R.B. Kitaj which have been on display
concurrently at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester and at London’s Jewish
Museum is scheduled to come to an end.
2013:
Seret 2013, the London Israeli Film & Television Festival is scheduled to
come to an end.
2013: The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest
to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox, whose linguistic talents turn the
obituary columns into a unique art form.
2013:
This evening the Cabinet approved measures that will make it easier for authorities to
prosecute against “price tag” attacks, while at the same time rejecting calls
to have them labeled as acts of terror.
2013:
Today President Shimon Peres welcomed the election of Hasan Rowhani as Iranian
president, saying the relatively moderate cleric could bring about a change in
Iran’s nuclear policy while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday
against being taken in by Iran’s election of the relatively moderate cleric
Hasan Rowhani to the Iranian presidency.
2014:
Today is the 110th anniversary of the
day in 1904 on which Dublin's best-known fictional Jew (and cuckold),
38-year-old Leopold Bloom, wandered the city as a modern-day Odysseus and,
after numerous adventures located more in his mind than on the street,
circumnavigated his way home. (As reported by Jonathan Wilson)
2014: The
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is scheduled to host
its annual gala at Beth Shalom in Potomac, MD.
2014:
Following in the footsteps of fellow Jewish economist Janet Yellen, Stanley
Fischer began serving as Vice Chairperson of the Federal Reserve System.
2014: The
International Consortium for Research on Anti-Semitism and Racism hosted by the
Jewish Studies Program at Central European University is scheduled to begin in
Budapest, Hungary.
2014:
Chet Orloff is scheduled to address the annual meeting of the Oregon Jewish
Museum this evening.
2014:
Israel voiced concern today at the prospect of its closest ally, Washington,
cooperating with what it considers its deadliest foe, Iran, to stave off a
sectarian break-up of Iraq.
2014:
“IDF soldiers shot at three Palestinians suspected of attempting to infiltrate
the West Bank settlement of Kochav Yaakov, near Ramallah, late tonight.
2014:
“Vandals slashed the tires of an IDF vehicle at the Yitzhar settlement this
evening as supplies were being brought to soldiers at the West Bank community.”
(As reported by Stuart Winer)
2014: As
the IDF continues to search for three kidnapped Jewish teenagers, the uncle of
one of the victims pleaded with the captors to return them unharmed while Prime
Minister Netanyahu warned the cabinet about a long and difficult military
mission and others called for a dismantling of Hamas on the West Bank.
2014: 33rd
Annual Bloomsday on Broadway, the creation of Isaiah Sheffer is scheduled to
take place this evening.
2015(29th of Sivan, 5775): Bonna Devora
Haberman, the founder of Women of the Wall, a group pressing for egalitarian
prayer at the Western Wall passed away today.
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/bonna-devora-haberman-women-of-the-wall-founder-dies/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/women-of-the-wall-founder-bonna-devora-haberman-dies/
https://aleph.org/bonna-devora-haberman-memorial-campaign
2015: In New Orleans, in commemoration of the
tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, JWA, Hadassah, and the National Council
of Jewish Women are scheduled to sponsor “A Celebration of Community and Jewish
Women’s Leadership” during which Jewish Women’s Archive Executive Director
Judith Rosenbaum oral historian Rosalind Hinton and a panel of local women will
explore the impact of women’s leadership during the hurricane and beyond, and
assess the state of Jewish women’s leadership in New Orleans today.
2015: Aaron Lansky, founder and president of
the Yiddish Book Center, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the
Kulturfest in New York City.
2015: In Essex, UK, Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Romain
is scheduled to lecture on “Royal Jews – Jewish Life in Berkshire from the
Readmission Till Today.”
2015: Puppet Theater Company Great Small Works
and Eddy Portnoy are scheduled to return to YIVO for the world premiere of
their reinterpretation of the work of Modicut, the first Yiddish puppet theater
in America.
2015: Thirty-five-year-old Rav Shmuly
Yanklowitz the “dean of Valley Beit Midrash and the cofounder of Orthodox
social justice movement Uri L’Tzedek” donated a kidney today.
2015: Pears Institute for the study of
Anti-Semitism in collaboration with the Jewish Council for Racial Equality is
scheduled to present Dr. Omar Khan, Dr. Camilla Schofield and Dr. Anastasia
Vakulenko speaking about “Race, Equality and the Law.”
2016: “Enough With the Gefilte Fish. I’ll Have
Sushi” published today described the shift in Jewish fish eating habits.
2016: “In Search of Israeli Cuisines” a
documentary in which “Michael Solomonov, the Israeli born chef who is the
guiding force behind Philadelphia’s Zahav restaurant explores the 70 plus
diverse cultures of Israel though food” is scheduled to be shown at the 24th
Portland Jewish Film Festival.a
2016: The American Sephardi Federation’s
“theatrical season” is scheduled to conclude with David Serero’s Othello, a
Moroccan adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play about love and war, reason
and race, fortuna and virtù.”
June 16, 2017(22nd of Sivan, 5777):
Twenty-three year old Border Police officer Hadas Malka was died today of
wounds inflicted by a terrorist who stabbed her on Sultan Suleiman Street as
she ran to defend those being attacked by terrorists at Zedekiah’s Cave
2017: “The Women’s Balcony,” “the number film
of the year in Israel” is scheduled to be shown at theatres San Francisco, San
Jose, Chicago, Baltimore and Minneapolis.
2017: “London Mayor
Sadiq Khan is scheduled to meet with the Met Police Commissioner today where he
will express his “concerns about the forthcoming anti-Israel Al-Quds Day
march.”
2017: “Letters from Baghdad,” a
documentary that tells “the true story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq” is scheduled
to open in numerous theatres in several theatres in Dallas, Seattle, San
Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.
2017: At the Bremen Museum, “The
Summer Institute on Teach the Holocaust” is scheduled to come to an in Atlanta.
2017: Or Olam – The East
Fifth-Street Street Synagogue, one of the friendliest congregations I have ever
visited, is scheduled to host a “Musical Kabbalat Shabbat” led by Cantor Shiree
Kidron.
2017: The Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue is scheduled to host a “celebratory oneg, with Champagne-inspired
beverages, strawberries, and hors d’oeuvres.”
2018: “Israeli poet Amir Or” is
scheduled visit Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop for a celebration of “the
publication of his latest collection, Wings, in an English translation by Seth
Michelson.”
2018: The Ariel Quartet is
scheduled to perform at the North Shore Chamber Music Festival today.
2018: The 57th
National Hebrew Book Week is scheduled to come to an today
2018(3rd of Tammuz,
5778): The 24th Yahrzeit of the man known simply as “the Rebbe” who
made us all the better for sending the Lamplighters out into a world of
“darkness” and challenged each Jew to do just one more mitzvah, to elevate the
mundane and to take personal responsibility for the tikkun olam.
2018(3rd of Tammuz,
5778): Parashat Korach
2018: Seventy-eight year old
producer Martin Leon Bregman, the Bronx born son of Leon and Ida Bregman, whose
body of work included “Serpico” and “Scarface” passed away today. (As reported
by Anita Gates)
2019: In a moment guaranteed to
warm the heart of a Litvak, starting today, Russ and Daughters at the Jewish
Museum is scheduled to “have Kosher New Catch Holland Herring for sale.”
2019: The American Sephardi
Federation is scheduled to a “reconceived” version of “Romeo and Juliet” win
which it is “the story of two Jewish lovers, one from a Sephardi family and one
from an Ashkenazi family featuring Ladino and Yiddish Songs.”
2019: The Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Center is scheduled to present Columbia faculty members
“Dr. Karla Fuller and Ron Falzone” as they discuss “Slavery on the Silver
Screen: Popular Culture and the Shaping of American Memory.
2019: Today, the Tikvah Summer
Seminars are scheduled to begin today with “Jews and Political Philosophy”
presented by Leora Batnitzky, Yuval Levin and Ruth Wisse.
2019: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Right Side of
History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro, Clear
and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to
Americans by Michael A Cohen and Micha Zenko and the recently released
paperback edition of Jake Tapper’s novel’s The Hellfire Club.
2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Educational Center is scheduled a “Book and Author” session featuring a
conversation Dr. Edith Eva Eger, the author of The Choice: Embrace the
Possible.
2020: The American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to host a virtual poetry shot that looks “into the construction and
techniques” used by Emma Lazarus in the write of “The New Colossus.”
2020: On Facebook, an expert librarian from the
Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History.is scheduled to present a
weekly short talk on a genealogy topic
2020: The LSJS is scheduled to host Debbie
Meyer as she lectures on “Treachery and Rebellion,” part of the Trials of King
David program.
2021: The London School of Jewish Studies is
scheduled to host Simon Goulden who will continue the journey looking into the
history of Anglo-Jewry.
2021: The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights
Museum is scheduled to host conversation on “From Property to Personhood – The
Evolution of Children’s Rights in the U.S.”
2021: The American Sephardi Organization is
scheduled to present a special edition of New Works Wednesdays where Dalya
Arussy Di Veroli will discuss the siddur “Four Corners of the Earth,” the idea
behind it, the nuances in the different texts, and why it is practical today.
2021: The Hebrew College is scheduled to
present online “Virtual ‘Taste’ of Hebrew College Me’ah.”
2021: The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum western region is scheduled to present “a talk about secret agent
Virginia Hall during World War II, with CIA Museum deputy director and Hall’s
family members.”
2022: The Illinois Holocaust Museum, the 84th Great Lakes Training Division at Fort Sheridan;
Honor Flight Chicago and Illinois Department of Jewish War Veterans of the USA
are scheduled to Celebrate the opening of Ghost Army with a conversation
featuring Rick Beyer, best-selling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker,
and president of the Ghost Army Legacy Project; Bernie Bluestein, Illinois
Ghost Army veteran and Congressional Gold Medal recipient; and Museum Trustee
David Hiller, whose father was a member of the Ghost Army’s Sonic Unit.
2022: JIMENA is scheduled to
present “Exploring Our Jewish Journeys through Art Therapy.”
2022: In Coralville IA Congregation
Agudas Achim is scheduled to hold its annual congregational meeting,
2022: Anita Gray, retired Cleveland regional
director of the Anti-Defamation League, is scheduled to be honored with
NA’AMAT’s 2022 Golda Meir Award today in a virtual ceremony.
2023: In
New Orleans, Congregation Gates of Prayer is scheduled to host Hadassah
Shabbat.
2023: In Jerusalem, Agnon House is scheduled to
host a lecture by Roy Porat on four unique writers – Sholem Aleichem, Joseph
Roth, Bruno Schulz and Isaac Babel.
2023: In San Francisco, Congregation Sha’ar
Zahav is scheduled to host Gregg Drinkwater, program director for Antisemitism
Education Initiative at UC Berkeley, as he discusses American Jews’ involvement
with gay liberation, radical feminism and creation of LGBTQ subcultures.
2023: Jurors in the Robert Bowers case in which
Jewish worshippers were murdered at the Tree of Life of Synagogue are scheduled
to continue their deliberations for a second day.
2023: “Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed 11
worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, was convicted by a
federal jury today on all 63 charges against him.”
2024: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Murder of Mr. Ma co-authored by S.J. (Shira Judith) Rozan,
Consent by Jill Ciment, who has Jewish grandparents and When the
Clock Broke by John Ganz
2024: The Museum at Eldridge Streets is
scheduled to host the 23rd Annual Egg Rolls, Egg Creams, and Empanadas Street
Festival.
2024; All decent people mourn the death of eight
members of the IDF including “Cpt.
Wassem Mahmoud, 23, a deputy company commander in the Combat Engineering Corps’
601st Battalion, from the northern Druze-majority town of Beit Jann” who were
killed yesterday “in what marked the deadliest incident for the Israel Defense
Forces in the enclave since January.”
2024: Tickets are available for “The Nova Music
Festival Exhibition” which brings to New York, the events of October 7th
when Hamas terrorist attacked the “Tribe of Nova” festival in an orgy of
murder, rape and kidnapping.
2024: As June 16th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers
on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the
Hamas held hostages begin day 254 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
