This Day, June 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 18
1155:
In Rome, the coronation of Frederick Barbarossa makes him the Holy Roman
Emperor. Compared to other medieval monarchs, Frederick’s treatment of his
Jewish subjects was comparatively benign. Frederick viewed the Jews as “his subjects”
which meant he offered them special protection but at that same time they were
a financial resource for his imperial use.
The former did not sit well with Catholic leaders and the latter did not
sit well with some nobles who wanted to tax the Jews for their own
benefit. As can be seen by edict he
issued concerning the Jews of Ratushon Frederick was willing to provide
protection for his Jews as long as they filled his treasury.
1291:
King Alfonso III of Aragon passed away.
Alfonso was supposed to marry Princess Eleanor of England, but he died
before the marriage could take place. Eleanor was the daughter of Edward I, the
King of England who had expelled the Jews from his realm. One can only wonder if the marriage had been
consummated, would the son-in-law have followed the example of the
father-in-law and expelled the Jews from his domain which would have meant Jews
would have been expelled two centuries earlier than it actually happened.
1321
21 Sivan): In response to threats of expulsion from Rome instigated by Sangisa
a sister of Pope John XXII, the Jews instituted a day of fasting a prayer. At a
more practical level the Jews of Rome sent a messenger to Avignon to the papal
court of King Robert of Naples, “the patron of the Jews” who interceded on
their behalf. The twenty thousand ducats
given to the King may have helped to sway his sympathy as well.
1389:
Based on the “privilege” issued today by the Grand Duke Vitold of Lithuania at
Lutsk, the Jews” Grodno occupied at that time a considerable area in the city
of Grodno, that they owned land and houses and had a synagogue and a cemetery.
1492:
A Sicilian version the Edict of Expulsion issued by the Spanish monarchs was
published today in Palermo.
http://dieli.net/SicilyPage/SicilianDocuments/OrigSic/SicProc1492.html
1541(13th
of Sivan, 5301): Jacob Pollak, the Rabbi who popularized the use of “pilpul” in
Polish Talmudic academies passed away today in Lublin. Pollak had begun his career in Prague but was
forced to leave there over a dispute about the laws of marriage. After a thirty-year career in Cracow, he
moved to Palestine where he lived for ten years before returning to Poland.
1584:
“Orientalist and astronomy student” Jakob Christrman, a German Jew who
converted to Christianity was named Professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg
University today.
http://histmath-heidelberg.de/zitat/christmann-dsb.htm
1639:
For second day, Diogo de Lima denounced Duarte Esteves de Pina, a Portuguese
Jew living in Hamburg, to the Portuguese Inquisition.
1643(1st
of Tammuz, 5403?): Aaron Abba ben Johanan ha-Levi, the “president of the
rabbinical college in Lemberg” who was a contemporary of Abraham Rapoport, Joel Särkes, and Meir
Lublin passed away today.
1750:
Birthdate of Johann Jahn a German orientalist who was interested in Biblical
archeology and who got into trouble with the Catholic Church “by asserting Job
and Jonah” were really “didactic poems.”
1757:
During the Seven Years’ War, the Austrians defeated the Prussians at Kolin, the
Bohemian town where Abraham Samuel Bacharach the husband of Eva, the
granddaughter of Judah Loew, had served as Rabbi in the 17th
century.
1768:
The Haidamak Massacres (Ukraine) reached Uman. The peasant serfs and Cossacks
rioted much in the same vein as Chemielnicki one hundred and twenty years
earlier. At Uman the Poles and Jews defended the city together under the Polish
commander Ivan Gonta. The next day, convinced by Zheleznyak the Polish
revolutionary, that only the Jews would be attacked, Gonta allowed the
fortified city to be entered without a fight. (This would not be the last time
that the Poles sold out the Jews in an attempt to save their own skins. And it
was not the last time that those who murdered the Jews would in turn slaughter
them.) Approximately 8000 Jews were killed, many of them trying to defend
themselves near the synagogue. As soon as the Jews were all massacred the Haidamaks
(the paramilitary bands) began to kill the Poles. Although the Haidamaks began
in the 1730's the main rioting was during the years 1734, 1750 and 1768. It is
estimated that during these years 20,000 Jews were killed. The Haidamaks became
part of the Ukrainian national movement and are celebrated in folklore and
literature.
1771:
In Philadelphia, Miriam Simon and Michael Gratz, gave birth to Frances (Fanny)
Gratz, the wife of Reuben Etting whom she marred in 1794 and with whom she had
nine children
1772:
During the conflict between various Moslem leaders over who would rule
Palestine, one of whom was advised by Haim Farhi whose father as a Jewish
banker in Damascus, the Russian fleet began and ended a one day bombardment of
Beirut.
1775:
Birthdate of Esther Hendricks who passed away in New York at the age of 72.
1778:
In Havana, Haim Levy and his wife gave birth to Judah Mears Levy
1778:
During the American Revolutionary War, today’s departure of British troops from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania must have been met with mixed emotions by the Jewish
community. A minority, as represented by
David Franks and his daughter Rebecca were Tories would miss their British
patrons. The majority of the city’s Jews, including Colonel David Salisbury
Franks, the nephew of David Franks, supported the Revolutionary cause and took
heart at the departure of their British occupiers.
1798:
As of today, both Jacob Lyon and Mordecai Marks had arrived in the United
States from Pozen.
1790:
In London, Daniel Cohen D'Azevedo, the son of of Haham Moses Cohen d'Azevedo
and Sara de Haham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo and his wife Ester Rodriques Cohen
D'Azevedo gave birth to Abraham Daniel Cohen De Azevedo.
1800:
In Pennsylvania, Richea Gratz and Samuel Hays gave birth to Ellen Hays, the
wife of Samuel Ettin whom she married in 1828 and with whom she had had two
children, Josephine and Solomon who died in infancy.
1800:
In Berlin, Amalie Beer and Jacob Herz Beer gave birth to Michael Beer.
1800:
Isaac Moses married Esther Isaacks, the Wilton, Ct. born daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Moses Isaacks.
1805:
Today, Hyman Hurwitz and Hesther Levy buried their child today.
1807(12th
of Sivan, 5567): Forty-six-year-old Sarah Isaacs, the East Hampton, LI born
daughter of Aaron Issacs who was the wife of William Payne, the mother of
William Howard Payne “who wrote Home Sweet Home” who was reportedly baptized
some time during her short life.
1808:
Abraham Quixano Henriques and Leah Rachel De Leon gave birth to Rebecca
Henriques who did not live to celebrate her second birthday.
1809:
John Salmon and Catherine Polack were married today at the Western Synagogue in
the United Kingdom.
1812:
In Dusseldorf, textile merchant Samson Heine and Peira “Betty” nee van Geldern,
the daughter of a physician gave birth to Gustav Heine von Geldern, the brother
of Heinrich Heine and the father of “Maximillian Heine author of the libretto
to the operetta ‘Mirolan.’”
1812:
The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain formally began
today when President James Madison signed the Declaration of War passed by
Congress into law today. This conflict is referred the Second War For American
Independence, since the victory in the War of 1812 meant that the United States
would survive. If England had prevailed, the country that has provided so much
opportunity for its Jewish population would have ceased to exist. Despite their small number, Jews were active
participants in the defense of the young Republic. The most colorful was a privateer named John
Ordronaux. The French born Ordronaux
captured several British prize ships during the war. His most famous action came when his ship,
the Prince de Neufchatel captured the British frigate Endymion. In a scene that would do credit to a Russell
Crowe naval epic, Ordronaux ordered his men to board the British fighting
ship. When his men appeared to be losing
heart and prepared to retreat, Ordronaux grab a lighted match and threatened to
blow up the magazine if his men did not return to the fight. They took him at his word and turned the tide
against the better armed and trained British seaman. Uriah P. Levy, who as Commodore Levy would
end the use of the lash for punishing sailors and would save Monticello for
posterity, saw his first fighting as a member of the U.S. Navy during this
war. Last, but not least, Judah Turo
fought in the Battle of New Orleans where he was wounded. Turo would live for the next forty years with
Rezon Davis Shephered. He was the one
who took the wounded Turo from the battlefield and saw to it that his wounds
were treated. Turo became a successful
businessman whose philanthropy included everything from the Bunker Hill
Monument to several New Orleans Jewish organizations and institutions.
1813:
In Frankfurt am Main Malchen Schloos and David Philip (Feist) Schloss gave
birth to Sigismund Schloss
1814:
In Aarhus, Thamar (Terese) Ree and Hartvig Philip Ree gave birth to Frederikke
Levinsen.
1815:
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. According to one account,
fifty-two French Jews lost their lives in the battle. “The duke of Wellington
is reported to have said, in 1833, that not less than fifteen Jewish officers
had served under him at Waterloo. Among these was Cornet Albert Goldsmid
(1794-1861), who afterward rose to the rank of major-general in the British
service.” This defeat marked a return of the reactionaries to power in Europe.
The laws of emancipation that had benefited the Jews of Europe were rolled
back. It would take many decades for the Jews of Europe to win them back. On
the other hand, Nathan Rothschild, head of the London branch if the famous
family bank was, like all Englishman, pleased with the victory of his country. According to some sources, he had actually
provided the funds for the army of the Iron Duke. There is an anti-Semitic legend that Nathan
manipulated the Stock Exchange and by deception, made a fortune as a result of
the victory. At
the Vienna Congress which was the peace conference intended to create a new
order in Europe in the wake of two decades of almost non-stop war, the Jews
sent a Christian attorney, Carl Buchortz, to act on their behalf. An agreement
was reached whereby "Jews were given rights in proportion to accepting the
duties of citizenship." This was the first time that Jewish rights became
a European political issue.
1815: Among those serving with the Prussian troops who played a
critical role in the Battle of Waterloo was George Hartog Gerson who was the
Assistant Surgeon for the 5th Line Battalion of the King’s German Legion and
“Lehmann Cohn, a sergeant of the Second Cuirassiers, who had earned the Iron
Cross at Leipsic.”
http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-mild-agressor-the-unsung-jewish-hero-of-waterloo/
1823: In Berolzheim, Germany, gave Malka and Lob Moses Gutmann
gave birth to Sussman Low Gutmann
1828: In Westphalia, German, Vogel and Bendix Rosenwald gave birth
to Samuel Rosenwald, the owner of Hammerslough Brothers, the largest clothing
store in Springfield, IL, the “husband of Augusta Rosenwald and father of
Henrietta Rosenwald; Bernard Rosenwald; Julius Rosenwald; Morris or Maurice S.
Rosenwald; Samuel Rosenwald; Selma Eisendrath; Sophie Adler and Louis Rosenwald.”
1828: Israel Russell and Elizabeth Alexander were married today at
the Western Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1831: Birthdate of Geheimer Baurat Edwin Oppler the German
architect who designed the synagogues in Hannover and Mamel and whose legacy
would be carried on by great-grandson Arnold Oppler, AIA.
1833: In Antwerp, s Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim and Henriette
Goldschmidt a sister of Solomon H. Goldschmidt, gave birth to Clara
Bischoffscheim the wife Maurice Baron De Hirsch.
1833: In Eppelsheim, Germany, Miriam and Jacob Greenbaum gave
birth to banker Henry Greenbaum who 1848 came to Chicago where he gained great
business success before becoming involved in a major bank and financial
catastrophe.
https://agbecker.us/3-henry-greenebaum-1833-to-1914/
1834:
In Darmstadt, thirty-three year old Lob Oppenheimer Bina Kahn who became Bina
Oppenheimer.
1836:
Birthdate of Bavarian born French jurist and author Frederick Reitlinger, who
studied Talmud with Abraham Geiger and was named an Officer of the Legion of
Honor.
1840:
At Argenau, near Bromberg, Germany, Rabbi Joseph Messing (author of a number of
Hebrew books) and his wife gave birth to Aaron J. Messing the holder of Ph.D.
at the University of Rostock who in 1885 began serving as the rabbi at Congregation
B’nai Sholom in Chicago.
1840:
New York natives Rachel Seixas Nathan and Montague M. Hendricks who were
married in 1836 gave birth to Sarah Hendricks, the wife Florian Hart Florance
whom she married in 1860 and with whom she had four children – Edwin, Daisy,
Sylvia and James.
1843:
With Isaac Lesser serving as the Rabbi, Congregation Mikveh Israel in
Philadelphia accepts the weekly sermon in English as part of its practices.
1852(1st
of Tammuz, 5612): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1853:
After divorcing her first husband because “he deserted her and went to Mexico,”
Henrietta L. Cohen Long, the Maryland born daughter of Sarah Jannette Picken Cohen and Rabbi
Abraham Hyam Cohen married William Long in Marshall County, MS.
1854:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Louis and Henrietta Jaruslawski Berkowitz gave birth to
Albert Berkowitz, the husband of Clara Landman Berkowitz and the father of
Harvey, Henrietta, Louis, Henry, David and Albert Berkowitz.
1854:
Henry Meyers and Julia Davis were married today at the Great Synagogue in the
United Kingdom.
1854:
In New York, Isaac Meyer and Mathilda Langenbach gave birth to Columbia
University graduate Alfred Meyer, an “attending physician at Mt. Sinai
Hospital, a “consulting physician at the Bedford Sanitarium for Consumptives of
the Montefiore Home and a director of the United Hebrew Charities who was the
husband of Annie Florence Nathan.
1860: Thanks to the efforts of the
pro-Secessionist forces, the Democratic Convention which Henry Myer Phillips
attended as a delegate, reconvened in Baltimore today.
1863(1st
of Tammuz, 5623): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1863:
During the American Civil War, ten companies of the 11th regiment of
the New York State Militia under the command of Colonel Joachim Maidhof left
the state and began marching to Harrisburg, PA which was a possible target for
the invading Rebel Army.
1864:
Isaac Goodman, an enlisted man who had been serving with Company of the 91st
Regiment since 1861 was wounded while fighting the Rebels at Petersburg, VA.
1866:
Lina and Louis Levinsohn gave birth to Gertrude Levinsohn who married Max
Berliner and became Gertrude Berliner the name under which she was murdered as
a 76 year old in Treblinka.
1868:
Morris Davidson and Sarah Russell were married today in the United Kingdom.
1873:
Illinois native Simon Cook who was appointed to the Naval Academy from Missouri
began serving as a Midshipman.
1875:
In Allegheny, PA, Rabbi Lippman Mayer and Elise Hecht gave birth to Dr. Edward
Everett Mayer, an “Associate Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at his
alma mater Western University of Pennsylvania who was affiliated with the
National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver and was the husband of Rose
Mae Lamm.
1875:
Following the death of Michael Henry, Dr. A. Benish, the author of Travels
of Rabbi Petachia of Ratison, resumed serving as editor The Jewish
Chronicle and Hebrew Observer.
1876:
In New York City, Jacob and Frances (Stich) Solomon gave birth William J.
Solomon the husband of Hermine Lederer and the editor and publisher of the
weekly Hebrew Standard, a job he took on after the death of his father.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/10/16/104347532.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1876:
Birthdate of Syracuse native and graduate of Columbia Medical School Maurice
Packard, the author of Shylock Not A Jew.
https://www.amazon.com/Shylock-Not-Jew-Classic-Reprint/dp/B008KFFUYI
1877:
In Jerusalem, Benjamin Yehuda and Rebecca Yehuda, gave birth to orientalist and
linguist Abraham Shalom Ezekiel Yahuda, a student of his brother Isaac Ezekial
Yahuda who went from being a delegate to the First Zionist Congress to writing
the anti-Zionist Dr. Weismann’s Errors on Trial.
1877:
The friends of Joseph Seligman held an informal meeting to discuss recent
events at Saratoga Springs, NY. The meeting was chaired by Edward Lauterbach,
Mr. Seligman’s lawyer. Lauterbach provided a summary of the episode in which
Mr. Seligman was informed that the Grand Union Hotel would no longer rent rooms
to Jewish guest. The decision had been
made by the hotel owner, Judge Henry Hilton.
Lauterbach then read a letter that Seligman had written, but not sent,
to Judge Hilton. In the letter, Seligman
described the insult that had been done to the Jewish people and wondered if
Hilton would be sending a circular to Jews telling them not to shop at his
Broadway stores. Those in attendance applauded when Lauterbach finished reading
the letter. Lauterbach said that the
Jews of New York and the United States “could not afford to let the matter
rest.” At a time when laws prohibiting
Jewish involvement in society were being removed in many other countries it
would be wrong to let this happen here.
While there had been some anti-Jewish feeling expressed in the United
States, it had been limited “to ignorant people –to the small vipers…but now
the big snakes have attacked and it is time that” Jews “awaken and defend”
themselves. The attendees debated on how
best to respond. It was agreed that the
letter should be released to the newspapers, if Seligman agreed. It was also agreed that a “mass meeting of
the Jewish citizens” of New York should be held to protest Hilton’s ban. Furthermore, “leading citizens and clergyman
should be invited to attend and express their support for the Jewish
population.
1877:
Judge Henry Hilton offered a reporter a series of seemingly contradictory
explanations for the refusal of the management of the Grand Union to rent rooms
to Joseph Seligman. At various points in
the interview Judge Hilton said that Seligman was using the episode because he
and other Jews were upset with the widow of the late Alexander Stewart because
she had failed to make contributions to Jewish charities. At another point, he said that Seligman was
not a Hebrew because he had joined the Reform Movement and was instead a
Jew. Therefore Seligman had no right to
complain about discrimination based on religion. Judge Hilton also said that it was staying at
the Grand Union was very expensive and that only a limited number of people
could afford to do so. Therefore, he had
to cater to their desires and it was these wealthy patrons who had complained
about Jews staying at the hotel. Hilton
predicted that other fancy hotels would follow his lead in banning Jews; a ban
which he earlier denied existed.
1880:
In Essen, Germany, Henriette and Isaac Hirschland gave birth to Franz Herbert
Hirschland, the graduate of the Institute of Technology in Hanover and the
Institute of Technology in Berlin who in 1906 came to the United States where
he was a trustee of Montefiore Hospital and husband of Gula Andrson Hirschland
with whom he had two children, Herbert and Richard S. Hirschland, the president
of the George V. Clark Company.
1881:
It was reported today that 60,000 Jews are expected to immigrate to Spain
following a decision by the Madrid government to allow entrance by Jews
expelled from Russia.
1881:
It was reported that in light of decision by authorities to take a census of
the Jews of Kiev, a large number of them have left the area.
1881:
In Leadville, Colorado, Eva Schloss “recited at the closing exercise at the
Spruce Street Schoolhouse.”
1881(21st
of Sivan, 5641): “Bohemian Talmudist, Samuel Ben Issachar Bar Freund, the chief
dayan of Prague passed away today.
1882(1st
of Tammuz, 5642): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1882:
In Tisza- Eszlar, Hungary, during a “blood-libel” frenzy, a gamekeeper recovers
the body of a girl from the Nyiregyhaza River.
Although the body was probably not the body of the girl for whom the
authorities were looking, they would decide that this corpse was really part of
a Jewish conspiracy and would use it as an excuse to arrest three more Jews
from whom confessions would be obtained by force.
1883:
In Germany, Ludwig Louis Hochschild and Jeanette Hirsch who died while giving
birth to Chilean businessman and metallurgist Sali Hochschild, the husband of Ana Kaufmann
with whom he had four children --Walter Ludwig Hochschild Kaufmann; Dorothy
Höchschild Kaufmann; Laura Höchschild Kaufmann and Gabriela Höchschild Kaufmann
--- and the brother of mining businessman Morti Hochshild who was the ”founder
of Compania Minera y Comercial Sali Hochschild S.A.”
1886:
The Times of London reported today
that Flinders Petrie, the noted English Egyptologist, has discovered the
ancient ruins the Biblical “Tahpanhes” described in Chapter 43 in the Book of
Jeremiah as the site where Jews fleeing the Babylonians found refuge in 586
BCE. The Pharaoh welcomed them and
distributed tracts of land for them to settle and develop. [This is another
example of archeology supporting the stories in the Bible. The Pharaoh’s generosity stands in sharp
contrast to the Egyptians to fight with the Judeans against the Babylonians as
they had promised.]
1887:
“The Hornthal Prize Contests” published today described the elocution
competition funded by L.M. Hornthal.
Miss Una Westing won the girl’s prize for a recitation entitled “How the
Station Clock Saw and Heard It. She is a student at Grammar School No. 77 where
Julia Richman, who is a leading secular and Jewish educator, serves as
principal.
1888(9th
of Tammuz, 5648): Minsk born “Russia author, belletrist and publicist” Lev
Lavanda whose “sketches were often published under the pen name Ladnev” passed
away today in St. Petersburg, Russia.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781618117939-011/html
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Levanda_Lev_Osipovich
1888:
Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Chicago
graduate Phillip Lewin, the Rush Medical College trained orthopedic surgeon who
was a veteran of both world wars and the winner in 1938 of the Gold Medal from
the American Congress of Physical Therapy.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/05/14/99495346.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1889(19th
of Sivan, 5649): Seventy-two year old Charles University alum Abraham Hochmuth,
the Hungarian rabbi who “was a prominent member of the Hungarian Jewish
Congress” passed away today at Veszprim.
1889:
A list of the trustees of the Talmud Torah Benevolent Association of New York
published today included Chaim, Herschdorfer, Moses Moses, Jacob Saltpeler, Bernard
Wienberger, Joseph Siegel, Leib Rubenstein and Chaim Fertig.
1890:
In Sudylkiv,
Ukraine, which then was part the Russian Empire, Rose Bernholtz and gain dealer
Isaac Schwartz gave birth to Avram Moishe Schwartz AKA Maurice Shwartz, the “American
stage and film actor and founder of the Yiddish Art Theatre who married Anna
Bordofsky after divorcing contralto Eva Rafalo whose finest moment may have come
away from the theatre when in 1947 Isaac and Anna adopted two Polish Jewish war
orphans, Moses and Fannie Englander, aged 9- and 8-years old, respectively who
had lost their parents Abraham Joseph and Chana Englander in 1942,
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/mschwartz-ok-ch01-03.htm
1891(12th
of Sivan, 5651): Seventy-four-year-old Calmann Levy (Kalmus Calmann Levy) “the founder of Calman-Levy, one of the oldest
French Publishing Houses” and the husband of Pauline Levy passed away today in
Paris
1891:
The Hebrew Technical Institute held its seventh annual commencement exercises
this afternoon at Arlington Hall in St. Mark’s Place. The 18 boys in the
graduating class presented the director Dr. Henry M. Leipziger with a framed
portrait created by one of their classmate Rudolph Shack.
1891:
Martin Engel, the Tammany leader in the Eighth Assembly District had his nose
broken today when an assailant hit him with a beer keg. (Engel would later
refuse to pay the surgeon who worked on his nose because “he was no longer
recognized as a Jew” forcing the surgeon to sue to collect for services
rendered.)
1891:
On “New York’s Lower East Side, David and Sarah Rubin Jacobson, Jewish
immigrants from Lithuania gave birth to Edward “Eddie” Jacobson, American
businessman and friend of Harry Truman who interceded with him to help gain his
support for the creation of the modern state of Israel.
https://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/jacobson.htm
1891:
On “New York’s Lower East Side, Polish immigrants Malya Molly Goldfarb and
Nesanel Dovid Bryer, a cantor and small merchant” gave birth to “Samuel E.
Goldberg, ‘the father of Jewish music in America.’”
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ohc/id/1346
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv49530
1892:
In Sambor, Austria-Hungary two “non-practicing Jews who emigrated to the United
States in 1938 “to escape the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany’ gave birth
to pianist and composer Eduard Steuerman who was famed for his Beethoven
recitals of the 1950s and was a distinguished teacher at the Juilliard School
from 1952 to 1964” an who was the brother of “footballer and Holocaust victim Zygmunt
Steuermann,” the bother of “actress and screenwriter Slka Viertel and the uncle
of “conductor Michael Gielen.
1893:
In Chicago, Dorothy Shaffer and Harry I. Levinthal gave birth to Chicago
College of Medicine and Loyal University Medical School trained orthopedic
surgeon Daniel Harold Levinthal, the husband of Getrude M. Coski and during WW
I, an orthopedic surgeon serving with
the A.E.F after which he served several Chicago medical facilities including Cook
County Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital and Michael Reese Hospital.
1893(4th
of Tammuz, 5653): After being treated by Dr. M.S. Kakeles this evening for the
effects of nervous prostration, Samuel Adler, the proprietor of the Nineteenth
Marble and Granite Works slipped away from the watchful eye of his son and took
his own life this evening.
1893:
As competition heats up between different unions representing Jewish printers,
today the Hebrew Typographical Union No.317 joined the Central Labor Union and
the Hebrew-American Typographical Union joined the Central Labor Federation
1893:
“Passover Ceremonies” published today described the home observance of Pesach
including the use of the Hagadah, “of which the first edition printed in London
is dated 1709; the first edition with an English translation” is dated 1770.
1894: Three days after she had passed away, 64 year old
Middlesex native Sarah Bauman, the wife of David Bauman with she had had ten
children, was buried today the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1894: Twenty-four-year-old Boston attorney and future member of
the Boston University Law School faculty married Sadie Rosnosky after which he
served as a Special Justice of the Municipal Court of Roxbury and Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the Federated Jewish Charities of Boston while a
raising a daughter Selma who married Max E. Bernkopf.
1894: Birthdate of Pittsburgh, PA native Hattie Weiler Lazarus,
the wife of Robert Lazarus and the mother of Charlotte, Babette, Jean, Robert
and Nancy Lazarus.
1895: In Portland, Oregon, found of Congregation Talmud Torah
which holds services every Friday evening at seven and every Saturday at 9;
provides Religious School sessions three times a week and used Mount Zion
Cemetery which is “four miles from the city.
1895: In Las Cruces, NM, Amalia Lewy Freudenthal and Phoebus
Fruedenthal, who had left German in 1869 at the age to work for an uncle in Las
Cruces, gave birth to Cornell University graduate Louis Edwin Freudenthal, the
husband of Carmen Khan and father of Elsa and Max Freudenthal.
https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w65h8h0s
1896: Philadelphia, Fannie Silver and David L. Goldstein gave
birth to University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University Israel Goldstein
the JTS ordained rabbi, the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
starting in 1918 and one of the founders of Brandies University who was the
Bertha Markowitz.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/01/14/91544802.pdf
1896: The Hebrew Technical Institute is scheduled to hold its
commencement exercises at Cooper Union beginning at 8 pm.
1896: French newspapers announced the Marquise de Mores, a
prominent anti-Semite, “had been murdered by some tribesman on the Tripolitan
frontier” – a claim that would later be disputed by his widow.
1896(7th of Tammuz, 5656): Twenty-five-year-old Simon Mischel an
unmarried Jew living on Delancey Street was strangled at Clyde, near Buffalo,
by “road agents” who threw his body into the river after robbing him of “a
large amount of money.”
1896: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler delivered the opening prayer at the
tenth annual commencement exercise of the Hebrew Technical Institute which took
place this evening at Cooper Institute.
1897: In New York City, “Victor and Etta (Kleinert) Guinzburg”
gave birth to sculptor Frederick Victor Guinzburg, the husband of Ruth Levy and
a member of both Temple Emanu-El and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies.
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/27/archives/frederick-guinzburg-westchester-sculptor.html
1897: Birthdate of German WW I Army veteran Martin S. Friedman
who in 1923 came to the United States where he was ordained at Hebrew Union
College and served as the rabbi at Temple Beth-El in Pensacola FL, where he was
known as “a philosopher and leader endowed with a brilliant mind” who in the
words of the Pastor of the First Presbyterian church did “more to bring members
of other denominations into closer fellowship and understanding than any other
leader who had come to Pensacola.”
https://pnj.newspapers.com/clip/21414345/martin-friedman/
1898:
It was reported today the nine people have been killed in Austrian Galicia
during an outbreak of anti-Semitic violence which has required the dispatch of
troops to the area to quell the peasant mobs.
1898:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, actors Joseph and Bessie Jacobson gave birth to Irving
Jacobson star of Yiddish and American theatre who played Sancho Panza in the
original Broadway run of “Man of La Mancha.”
https://goldenthroats.fandom.com/wiki/Irving_Jacobson
1899:
“Firecrackers, eggs, watermelon rinds and stones were thrown” at Wilson W.
Dunlap and his aids when “they attempted to hold services” on the lower east
side designed to convert Jews to Christianity.
1899:
“Recent German Events” published today described the speeches given by Count
Walter Puckler “a prominent Jew baiter” in a Silesian village “in which he
incited his audience to violence against the Jews.” Following attacks on the Jews, Puckler was
prosecuted “for stirring up ‘hatred between the classes.’” The local tribunal
dismissed the charges but the Public Prosecutor appealed the case to the
Supreme Court which has yet to rule.
1899:
It was reported today that fines have been levied on two Berlin anti-Semitic
papers, the Stasstsburger Zeitung and
the Deutsche General-Anzeiger for
publishing the speeches of Count Puckler.
1899:
In Saint-Petersburg, “Jewish-Russian lawyer, national politician and Jewish
community leader Maxim Vinaver, who emigrated to France in 1919, and his wife
birth to Eugène Vinaver “a literary scholar who is best known today for his
edition of the works of Sir Thomas Malory” and who as a deputy in the pre-war
Duma sought to gain full rights for Jews in Russia.
http://www.jta.org/1926/10/12/archive/maxim-vinaver-famous-russian-jewish-leader-dies-in-paris-at-63
1899:
During a six-day meeting in
Paris. Herzl, Max Nordau and Alexander Marmorek meet Narcisse Leven who assures
them that the Jewish Colonization Association will cooperate when it comes to
practical colonization.
1899:
In Baltimore, MD, Dr. Richard Gottheil chaired the opening session of the
second annual conference of the Federation of American Zionists.
1899:
A summary of the United Hebrew Charities report for May described the 2,021
applications for assistance that covered the needs of 6,737 individuals. The
monthly cash receipts of $10, 816.08 went to cover the expenses that totaled
$10,808.21. These included everything
from $2,514.12 for local relief to $282.00 to cover the burials for the
indigent
1900:
It was reported to that farewell services have been held at the Allen Street
Presbyterian Church which has sold its property on Forsyth Street “to a Jewish
Congregation.”
1900:
For the first time this season, “The Educational Alliance opened the doors of
its roof garden at the corner of East Broadway and Jefferson Street” tonight.
1901(1st
of Tammuz, 5661): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1901:
Birthdate of Major Wellesley Aron the English Jew who founded Habonim and
risked his military career during WW II by rescuing Jews in Italy.
http://wasns.org/in-memory-of-wellesley-aron
http://www.topicway.com/dictionary/Wellesley%20Aron
1901,
Gertrude Weil became the first North Carolina resident to graduate from Smith
College.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/18/1901/gertrude-weil
1902:
It was reported today that Street Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury told a meeting
of the Janitors’ Association led by Jacob Babein that “You may be surprised
when I tell you that during the Jewish holidays in April, we carted not less
than 11,000 cubic yards of garbage from the district down here” which “is an
awful lot.
1902:
Deutsche Bioscope GmbH, Berlin, which was founded by Berlin born Jules
Greenbaum, the husband of Emma Karstein and the father of award-winning cinematographer
Mutz Greenbaum was incorporated today with a capital of 20,000 marks[5] The
main offices were at 131d Friedrichstraße, where the firm supplied equipment
(including the American Biograph camera), and an 8-hour guaranteed film copying
service
1902:
It was reported today that Nathan Straus’s trotting geld Cobwebs defeated the
trotter Jolly Bachelor which up until had pretty much been having things “his
own way.”
1903:
It was announced today that, “in view of the strain of the approaching
coronation, King Edward” whose numerous Jewish friends included the Sassoon
gamily and Sir Ernest Cassel, had been advised by his physicians to “forgo all
public engagements for the next few days. (For more see Edward VII and his
Jewish Court
https://www.amazon.com/Edward-VII-his-Jewish-Court/dp/1909609447)
1903:
Twenty-six-year-old NYU trained attorney married “May (Adelson) Feiner” today
in Manhattan.
1904: Birthdate of French composer
Manuel Rosenthal
1905: Graduation exercises are scheduled to be held today at the
Jewish Theological Seminary.
1906: “Foreign Secretary Grey was asked by Keir Hardie, in the
House of Commons , if he had seen the telegram signed by members of the Russian
Parliament alleging that the massacre of Jews at Bialystok was officially
countenanced and if this was not sufficient to justify action on the part of
the Foreign Office with the view of "influencing the Russian Government to
stop these outrages on civilization.”
1906: Birthdate of New York City native and attorney Henry Edward
Schultz, the husband of Rose Jane Schultz with whom he had three children,
Jane, Michael and Roger and a director of the Anti-Defamation League during the
Joe McCarthy era when they took real courage.
1907: It was reported today that Jacob H. Schiff has said that the
Orthodox congregations have “not give the proper support for the Jewish
Theological Seminary on Morningside Heights” which was left with a deficit this
year.
1907: Birthdate of Austria-Hungary native Walter Taub the actor
and director known for his role at Rabbi Singer in the 1979 film David that “tells
the story of a rabbi's son in Germany during the Holocaust, who tries to raise
money to escape to Mandate Palestine.”
1908: It was reported today that a conference called by the
leaders of the United Hebrews Charities had “had passed a resolution declaring
that the distress among the poor of that section was more widespread and more
acute than ever before in the history of New York City.
1909(29th of Sivan, 5669): Sixty-eight-year-old Deborah Cohn, the
daughter of Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse and the wife of Emil Cohn with
whom she had five children passed away today.
1910(11th of Sivan, 5670): Parahshat Beha’alotcha
1910: Washington resident Simon Wolf, “a member of the Board of
Delegates of Civil Rights of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations” has a
copy of the official State Department report on conditions in Kiev written by
the Charge d’Affairs of the American Embassy at St. Petersburg.
1911: John Isaacs, the son of Rosetta and Isaac Isaacs and brother
of Michael, Simon, Barnett, Henry, Kate and Maria Isaacs who would die of
influenza while serving with the British Army married Elizabeth Davis today at
the East London Synagogue.
1911: Sarah Berhnhardt finished a thirty-five-week
theatrical tour of the U.S. and Canada.
1912:
At five o’clock this afternoon, at Temple Beth Israel, Dr. Aaron Eisemann, the New
York born son of Bernhard Eiseman and Rebecca Rosenblat and JTS ordained rabbi officiated
at t wedding of Janette Sobel and Abraham Kaplan.
1912:
In Chicago, “Lillian Marks, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon L. Marks”
married “Herbert M. Berg, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Berg.”
1913:
In Philadelphia, S. L. Nusbaum, a bookbinder, and his wife Jenny (née Singer)
gave birth to Nathan Richard Nusbaum better known as writer and dramatist N.
Richard Nash whose most successful work was “The Rainmaker” which went from
being a television production, to a full-length motion picture to a musical
known as “110 in the Shade.
1913:
In New York, a day school for adult Oriental Jews opened on the East Side.
1913:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, the Federation of American Zionist adopted resolutions
endorsing “the work of the Ahuzot, establishing “a Nahum Sokolow fund to be
used for building a workingmen’s settlement in Palestine,” recommending to the
Zionist Congress the creation of a Jewish National University in Palestine” and
reaffirming “the political character of the Zionist organization.”
1913:
Birthdate of Samuel Cohen, who gained
fame as Sammy Cahn the violin and piano player best known a musical composer
who provided the tunes for Broadway and Hollywood.
1913:
Birthdate of New York City native Rabbi Marcus M. Cogan, the husband of Selma
Kaizen Cogan whom he married in 1938, and who was the principal and rebbe of
Yehisva Torah V’Daath in Baltimore and a chaplain in the U.S. Army during WW
II.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/classified/paid-notice-deaths-cogan-rabbi-marcus-m.html
1914:
In New York City, “Morton Edgar and Hazel Augusta (Kronthal) Lauterbach” gave
birth to Dartmouth graduate and former Time Magazine Moscow Bureau Chief
Richard Edward Lauterbach, the “husband of the former “Elizabeth S. Wardell”
with whom he had three children – Jennifer, Ann and David”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/09/21/86457040.pdf
1914:
Day school for adult Oriental Jews opened on the New York’s East Side.
1914(24th
of Sivan, 5674): In Chicago, seventy-four-year-old Babbette Mergentheim, the
“widow of Bernhard Mergentheim” with whom she had had two sons – Aaron and
Moses – and three daughters passed away today.
1915:
“It is considered probable that Governor Slaton might reach decision today”
regarding the fate of Leo Frank.
1915:
“So strong is the feeling” that the governor will commute Frank’s sentence
“that offer to wage 3 to1 in favor commutation found few takers this
afternoon.”
1915(6th
of Tammuz, 5675): Eighty-one-year-old Bernhard Bettmann passed away today. A native of Bavaria, he came to the United
States in 1850 and settled in Cincinnati.
He became a successful businessman, bank president and leading member of
the local Republican Party as well as a pillar of the Jewish community.
http://americanjewisharchives.org/aja/FindingAids/Bettman.htm
1916:
The American Jewish Relief Committee of which Felix M. Warburg is the Treasurer
reported today have collect gifts that total more than $4,100,000.
1916:
On the day after his 27th birthday, Boston University trained
attorney George E. Gordon, the Russian born son of Rose Feinsilver and Jacob
Gordon and a member of the Walnut Street Synagogue in Chlsea and the
brotherhood of Ohabei Shalom Temple in Boston married Dorothy Wolfson today.
1916:
“The newly organized Woodrow Wilson Independent League gave out statements from
eleven prominent men” including Jacob H. Schiff, President of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. and Isidor Jacobs, President of the California Canneries Company and the
Napa Canning Company, “setting forth their reasons for supporting the President
for re-election” the most important of which was his success in keeping the
country out of war.
1916:
Paolo Baselli who expressed his support for Zionist aims he met with Nahum
Sokolow began serving a term as Prime Minister of Italy
1916:
As the British fought to dislodge the Ottomans from the Sinai, Palestine and
points beyond “11 aircraft of the 5th Wing under Colonel W. G. H. Salmond”
attacked El Arish destroying two Turkish planes on the ground and destroying
ten hangars.”
1916:
“The cornerstone for a new synagogue to be known as the Mount Neboh
Congregation of Washington Heights was laid” this afternoon by Abram I. Elkus
after which speeches were delivered by Rabbi A.S. Anspacher, Adolf Lewisohn,
Dr. Nathan Stern and David E. Goldfarb.
1916:
“Plans for the enlargement of the Beth David Hospital at Lexington Avenue and
113th Street were formulated” today “at the opening of the eighth
annual convention of the Federation of Russian-Polish Jews of American”
following which several members immediately responded by giving checks to
toward the $50,000 President Jacob Garlinger said was need for the building
fund.
1916:
The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War of which
Harry Fischel is Treasurer reported today the receipt of an additional
$8,440.61 in contributions.
1916:
The Turkish military governor, Djemal Pasha, banned Jews from praying at the
Kotel. (In 1917, he reportedly offered
to rescind the ban if he was paid 100,000 Francs)
1917:
Following the February Revolution Julius Martov, a leader of the Mensheviks
attended a conference where “he failed to gain the support of the delegates for
a policy of immediate peace negotiations with the Central Powers.”
1917:
Annie Carp was buried today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1917:
During World War I, reports from London state that Zionist activity in Turkey
has been prohibited by the government.
1917:
Five days after he was killed in a German air raid on London, 15 year old
Nathan Cohen the son of Joseph and Sarah Cohen was buried in London at “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery” today.
1917:
According to Captain Isaac Frank of the Brownsville Police Station 1,500
tickets have been sold for tonight’s benefit performance at the Liberty Theatre
which is a fundraiser of the Junior Police which is “composed almost
exclusively of Jewish boys.”
1917:
Starting today, there will be no collections by Jewish groups for war relief
because today marks the start of the week when the Red Cross is scheduled to
begin it fundraising week.
1918:
In New York, Sadie Helen (Kun) and Louis Karfunkle gave birth to Jerome
Karfunkle who gained fame as Jerome Karle the co-winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize
for Chemistry and husband of chemist
Isabella Karle with whom he had three “scientist daughters” – Louise, Jean and
Madeleine Karle.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1985/karle-bio.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/health/jerome-karle-94-dies-nobelist-for-crystallography.html
1918:
Birthdate of Jerome Karle, the Brooklyn native who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
1918:
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 featuring songs by Eddie Cantor opened today.
1918:
Birthdate Franco Modigliani, Italian
born American winner of the Nobel Prize for economics in 1985 and husband of
Serena Calabi with whom he had two children – Andre and Sergio Modigliani.
1919:
The publication of Haaretz, a Hebrew
daily newspaper, begins in Jerusalem. It will move to Tel Aviv in 1923. It is
independent and liberal in orientation. Its literary supplement features the
best Hebrew writers and scholars both from Palestine and the Diaspora.
1920(2nd
of Tammuz, 5680): Fifty-one-year-old Mayer M. Swaab, the Philadelphia born son
of Mark M. Swaab and Vice President of the chewing gum manufactures Frank H.
Fleer who was a member of Mike Israel and the father of Frank Swaab and “Lt.
Jacques M. Swaab, the third American of World War I who shot down thirteen
enemy planes.
1920:
Birthdate of Joseph Bau, the native of Krakow who survived the Shoah thanks to
“Schindler’s List.”
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/plaszow/bau/bau.html
1920:
It was reported today that “Dr. David F. Markus, the Chief Rabbi of the
Ashkenazic Jewish Community of Constantinople and the President of the Joint
Distribution Committee for Turkey and Mr. Henry G. Reisner, President of the
Jewish Immigration Aid Society of Constantinople and President of the Ashkenazi
Community of Constantinople” have come to the United States “to confer with the
executive heads of the Joint Distribution Committee” and to emphasize the need
for more funds to be provided due to the overwhelming suffering of the Jews in
Turkey.
1921:
Winston Churchill “informed his officials at the Colonial Office that he
believed it was impossible for Britain to grant any form of representation to
the Arabs that would give them the power to halt Jewish immigration.”
1922: “The National Association of Jewish
Community Center Secretaries opened its fourth annual conference at Providence,
RI today.
1923: In Baltimore, a report read at tonight's
session of the Zionist convention by Emanuel Newmann, General Secretary of the
Palestine Foundation states that six million dollars has been raised In the
past two years by Jewish organizations in the United States devoted to the
rebuilding of Palestine, and of this sum $4,250,000, amounting to 70 per cent,
of the total, has been raised by the Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod).
1923: The Independent order of Brith Sholom
which had been founded in 1905 and has 35,802 members continued its 18th annual convention for a second day in
Atlantic City, NJ
1923:
Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets.
Originally a Checker Cab was a taxicab built by the Checker Cab
Company. The Checker Cab Company had
been formed by Morris Markin a Russian Jewish immigrant. Markin was so poor when he arrived in the
United States that he had to borrow the $25 for the bond necessary for those
entering the country from a porter working at Ellis Island. Beginning as a tailor, Markin amassed enough
of a fortune to own his own garment business and to bring the rest of his
family from Russia to Chicago. After
starting the Checker Cab Company, he bought the Yellow Cab Company. He passed away in 1970.
1923:
In Newark, NJ, Meyer Ellenstein, the dentist who became that city’s Mayor, and
his wife gave birth to “character actor” Robert “Bob” Ellenstein.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-robert-ellenstein-20101104-story.html
1924:
“Criticism of the Immigration Law enacted by Congress was voiced today in
Atlantic City at the convention of the National of Jewish Community Center
Secretaries in a speech by Herman
Passamaneck of Kansas City, MO, the organizations President.
1925:
In Camden, NJ, the “Camden Talmud Torah, Inc. purchase land at 621 Kaighn
Avenue from David Jentis & Co., Inc. for $10,000,
1926:
Joseph Leblang, the Chairman of the Amusement Division of the United Jewish
campaign announced today “that E.F.Albee, President of the Keith-Albee
vaudeville circuit would supply a score of well-known variety entertainers at
the Theatrical and Sports Field Day” to be held next week at the Polo Grounds.
1927(18th
of Sivan, 5687): Parashat Sh’lach
1927:
It was reported today that “a new land purchased in the Valley Jezreel was made
by the Jewish National Fund” which “will be used to a establish a settlement
for Orthodox workmen.”
1928:
It was reported today that Dr. Jacob Katz, the Rabbi of the Montefiore
Congregation denounced the planners of real estate booms who hit upon a very
unworthy idea in attempting to hitch realty to the reality of religion” which
limits the opportunity for Orthodox Jews to live in the general community.
1929:
Jacob Goldman a former student at New York University living in Tel Aviv writes
a letter on this date “telling of demonstrations by young Aras and the
circulation of songs calling Moslems to ‘take up the sword’ against the foreign
ruler and the Jews.’”
1929:
In Paszto, a Hungarian shtetl with a reported 120 Jewish families, to Ferenc
and Rosa Rubin gave birth to Tibor "Ted" Rubin “a Holocaust survivor
who immigrated to the United States in 1948 and received the Medal of Honor for
his actions in the Korean War by President George W. Bush in 2005.”
1929:
Birthdate of Albert Morris Bendich, the native of New York “who successfully
defended the right to free speech in two landmark midcentury obscenity cases —
involving Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” and Lenny Bruce’s nightclub act.” (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
1930:
A discharged Arab policeman has been arrested in Jaffa as a suspect in the
attempted murder of Police Captain F.M. Scott of Tel Aviv. “It is believed that the former policeman
swore vengeance against Scott because he had dismissed him from the force.
1931:
“Extreme Nationalists are disappointed over the failure of yesterday’s strike
was called by the Arab executive in order to commemorate the hanging last year
of three Arabs for the murder of Jews in the 1929 riots.”
1932(14th
of Sivan, 5692): Parashat Nasso chanted for the last time during the Presidency
of Herbert Hoover.
1933:
“Sol M. Stroock, former President of the New York Federation and Judge Mitchell
May, President of the Brooklyn Federation are scheduled to be the guest
speakers at the Annual Joint Meeting of the Junior Federaions of the New York
Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Society and the Brooklyn
Federation of Jewish Charities being held tonight at Temple Emanue-El in New
York.
1933:
Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, the 34-year-old Zionist leader gunned down by two unknown
assassins was buried this afternoon. About 70,000 people marched in the funeral
procession, with delegations attending from all parts of the country. Beryl
Katzenellenson, editor of Davar, Meir Dizengoff, Mayor of Tel Aviv and Menachem
Ussishkin, head of the Jewish National Fund all delivered eulogies.
1933: Birthdate of Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-born American author. During the Holocaust, Kosinski was hidden by
a Polish family using a false Baptismal certificate. After the war, he was reunited with his
parents. He came to the United States in
1957. The Painted Bird and Being
There are two of his most famous efforts.
He passed away in 1991.
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 continue
today at “the Hotel Clarendon-Brunswick” in Asbury, NJ.
1934: A resolution was passed today at today at the
convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Sholom “calling for continued
support of the boycott against Nazi manufactured goods as long as Hitler
remains in power.”
1934: In Montreal, “the strike being carried on by
the interns of the Notre Dame and other hospitals here in protest against the
appointment of a Jewish physician neared an end today when Dr. Sam Rabinovitch,
center of the controversy expressed his intention of resigning” so, as he said,
“to save the institution from a serious predicament.” (JTA) (Editor’s note - does this help explain how Canada came to
take in such a low number of Jews fleeing from the Nazis/)
1935: “Dr. Henry Sliosberg, the Jewish lawyer living
in Paris and exile from Russia for 15 years who as an excerpt on the
authenticity of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” arrived in New York today
about the Cunard White Star line Berengaria.
1936: The Palestine Post reported that a commission had
been appointed by the government to replace the Haifa's Municipal Council which
since the beginning of the Arab boycott was no longer able to discharge its
duties. The government began to demolish the condemned buildings in the Old
City of Jaffa. The quarter looked like a nightmare with furniture, bedding and
odds and ends being dragged out of condemned houses.
1936: Paul Baerwald, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee
presided over a meeting today in New York where “the necessity for
rehabilitation activities in behalf of Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe” was
discussed by “a group of Jewish leaders from various parts of the United
States” including Joseph C. Hyman, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, Felix M. Warburg and
Carl J. Austrian.
1936: In New York City Sidney and Frances Wimmer gave birth to Richard
Samuel Wimmer who would finally achieve his goal of being a published author
with the appearance of Irish Wine in 1989. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1936 (28th of Sivan, 5696): “Two more Jews died today as a result
of Arab terrorism…Abraham Benyehuda died from wounds received in a recent
ambush of a bus belonging to the Jewish colony of Ataroth, north of
Jerusalem…Joseph Shefter, proprietor of the Leviathan tannery located on the
outskirts of Tel Aviv, died as a result of an attack this afternoon on a bus
which he and nine of his employees were returning to Tel Aviv.
1936: “A symposium on ‘Proposed Roads for American Jewry’ was
conducted at the afternoon session of the third annual conference of the
Institute on Contemporary Jewish Affairs held” today “under the auspices of the
National Council of Jewish Women” during which more than 150 delegations “heard
three speakers” – Marvin Lowenthal, Dr. Erick Gutkind and Dr. Morris R. Cohen –
“express widely divergent views on the survival of the Jewish people.
1937: David Sarnoff is scheduled to be the guest of honor at
today’s luncheon sponsored by the Circus Saints and Sinners.
1937: P.L. Goodman is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Jews and
Arabs in Palestine” at the Bronx House in New York.
1937(9th of Tammuz, 5697): Forty-four-year-old Al
Boasberg, who helped to create the comedic persona of Jack Benny, George Burns
and Gracie Allen, among others passed away today.
http://www.buffaloah.com/h/boasberg/index.html
1937: Seventy-eight-year-old financer and Columbia graduate
Jefferson Seligman, the New York born son of James and Rosie Content Seligman
who abandoned his medical studies for what became a senior partnership “in the
firm of J&W Seligman and Company” passed away today, fifteen years after
the death of his wife Julia Wormers Seligman
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/06/19/94393221.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1938: Winston Churchill wrote to Sir Alexander Maxwell, the
Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office asking him for assistance
in making Vic Oliver’s wish to become a naturalized British subject a
reality. Vic Oliver was an Austrian born
Jewish actor, radio comedian and pianist who had married Churchill’s daughter
Sarah. Churchill had opposed the
marriage at first because Oliver was sixteen years old than his daughter and
twice-divorced. Later, he came to “like
and esteem him greatly.”
1939(1st of Tamuz, 5699): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1939: Seven hundred delegates attending “annual convention of the
Independent Order of B’rith Abraham” at Saratoga Springs, NY, heard Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise make “a plea for a united Jewry to solve the refugee and
Palestine problems.”
1940:
Members of the Etzel command who were imprisoned in
the summer 1of 939 are released.
1940(12th of Sivan, 5700): Sixty-eight Russian-born American actor
Maurice Moscovitch whose last appearance was “Mr. Jaecekl” the Jewish neighbor
in Charlie Chaplin’s satire of Hitler, “The Great Dictator.”
1940: Charles De Gaulle issued L'Appel
du 18 Juin (the Appeal of 18 June) over the BBC radio service in which he
called upon the French to resist the Vichy regime and to fight on against the
Nazis despite the signing of the armistice.
This is considered to the start of the French Resistance. While many Frenchmen heeded his call, a large
number actually supported Vichy and collaborated with the Nazis. The Myth of the Resistance grew in proportion
to Allied successes following Normandy.
1941: “Members of the Jewish Writers Union picketed the offices of
the New York and national Guilds during the lunch hour” today “with placards
denouncing the New York Newspaper Guild’s strike against The Jewish Day as an
example of ‘dual unionism’ and ‘union wrecking.’”
1941: On his 28th birthday, Norwegian merchant Herze
Caplan was arrested today in what would be his first step towards the final
destination of Aushwitz.
1942: Today is the deadline given by the German government to the
Czechs for the surrender of those who killed Reinhard Heydrich or suffer
further reprisals.
1943: At their meeting today in Manhattan, the exeutive committee
of the Christian Council on Palestine adopted several resolutions concerning
the treatment of the Jews including a call for “Christian churches all over
America protest ceaselessly against the brutality practiced upon the Jews by
the Nazis.”
1944: Rabbi Philip Lipis, who was serving as a Chaplain in the
United States Navy, spoke at the installation service at Congregation Beth El
in Camden, NJ where Morris LIebman began his fourth term as President of the
Congregation and Mrs. Max PIncus became Sisterhood President. Lipis had taken leave from his position as
the congregation’s rabbi to serve during World War II.
1945: U.S. premiere of “G.I. Joe” a gritty film about the infantry
in WW II with a score by Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronnell.
1946: “The Austrian Government made a major concession to Viennese
Jews today when it was ordered that all persons occupying dwellings seized from
Jews now back in the city should be evicted.”
1947: Ben-Gurion published a long memorandum addressed to the
Haganah command. He outlined a
three-fold structure for the organization: an excellent attack force for
special purposes; a driving force in the form of a regular army; and a
territorial defense force. The most
urgent goal: training commanders up through the battalion level; establishing a
high school for commanders to prepare battalion commanders and staff officers. This was necessary because up until this
time, the Haganah’s platoon commander’s course was the highest level of
training.
1947: John Henry Patterson, who attained the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel in the Essex Yeomanry before retiring passed away today. Many know Patterson as the British officer
portrayed by Val Kilmer in “The Ghost and the Darkness,” a film based on
Patterson’s building of a bridge in Kenya before WW I. Jews remember him as the commander of the
Zion Mule Corps and the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers which
was popularly known as the Jewish Legion of the British Army. Patterson sacrificed his own career to fight
the anti-Semitism that was so rife among many British officers of that
time. He wrote two books about his
experiences – With the Zionists at Gallipoli and With the Judeans in
Palestine. Patterson’s close relationship with Zionist leaders can be seen
in the fact that he was the Godfather of Benzion Netanyahu’s oldest son,
Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu, the hero of Entebbe and the brother of the current
Prime Minister of Israel.
1947: Ben-Gurion appointed
Yaakov Dori as the chief of staff and Yisrael Galili as the new national
command head as part of his plan to revamp the Yishuv’s military forces.
1948: A truce which was to be overseen by the United Nations Truce
Supervision Organization was supposed to go into effect in the Middle East
today.
1948: In a move that the Soviets would use as one of their excuses
for blockading Berlin, he United States, Britain and France announced that on
21 June the Deutsche Mark would be introduced. (These entries about the Berlin
Blockade are intended to show that the Israel’s fight for independence was part
of the mosaic that came to be known as the Cold War)
1949(21st of Sivan, 5709): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1949: “The American people should be "mature" enough to
shun a "witch hunt mentality" whenever the question of Russia is
raised, Rabbi David J. Seligson, assistant rabbi at Central Synagogue,
Lexington Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, said today in his sermon”
1950:
Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett asked Israeli
newspaper editors today to go slow in attacking Eastern bloc Governments and
particularly their representatives. His plea followed protests by diplomatic
representatives to the Government against press attacks.
1950(3rd of Tammuz, 5710): Sixty-eight-year-old
St. Louis born attorney Charles Marcus Rice passed away today in Clayton, MO.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Negev rejoiced
when water spurted several meters high in the yellow wilderness when Avraham
Hartzfeld, the gray-haired patron of the settlers, turned the tap of the new
pipeline and pumping station.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel's first
steel-pipe factory was opened south of Acre by the Middle East Tube Co. Ltd.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the new freighter
Eilat called at Haifa with a cargo of 9,000 tons of wheat and 2,000 tons of
machinery.
1952(25th of Sivan, 5712): Sixty-five-year-old Latvian
born composer Solomon Golub whose “collection of
his Yiddish songs was published by Metro Music in 1936” passed away today in
the Bronx.
1952: In Cleveland, Ohio, “jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and
pianist” Joy Kane and architect Michael Kane gave birth to actress Carolyn
Laurie “Carol” Kane best known for her Emmy Award winning Simka
Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas on the sitcom “Taxi.”
1952: Eight days after the Israeli government imposed a forced
loan of 10 percent on currency holdings and bank accounts, the deflationary
effect has been so sharp “that Government officials are uncertain whether to be
jubilant or worried. Newspapers have experienced
an unexpected decline in revenue due to a loss of circulation at time when they
had just negotiated a new labor contract increasing wages of workers. A round-trip ticket from Tel Aviv to Paris
has jumped in the past year from 175 Israeli pounds to 500 Israeli pounds.
Shops of all kind are doing less business and nightclubs report that their
earnings on Saturday night (their busiest time) are less now than they were for
an average week night a year ago.
1953: In Washington, D.C.,
“The Israeli Embassy struck back today against charges by Jordan that Israel
had aggressive designs on neighboring Jordan and had deliberately incited
border violence with that country.”
1954: “The Big Chase” featuring Phillip Aronoff “Phil” Arnold as “Bunkie”
was released today in the United States.
1954:
Pierre Mendes-France became Premier of France. Born in 1907 in Paris,
Mendes-France’s came from a family of Sephardic Jews. He was trained as a
lawyer and fought with the Free French during World War II. After the war,
Mendes-France served in numerous governments in the revolving door of the
Fourth Republic. Mendes-France was an anti-colonialist. He served as Premier
after the fall of Dien Bien Phu and negotiated the end to the French Indo-China
War. Several Catholic political leaders attacked him for this and the attack
quickly became anti-Semitic. Mendes-France also began the negotiations that
would lead to independence for the French colonies in North Africa.
Mendes-France political signature was a glass of milk. After the war, some
French leaders were concerned that French people were drinking too much wine
and starting to drink at too early an age. When Mendes-France would appear in
public, there invariably was a glass of milk on the lectern, which he made a
point of sipping some time during the presentation. Mendes-France passed away
in 1982.
1956:
Golda Meir replaced Moshe Sharett as Foreign Minister. Sharett had held the position since the
creation of the state, even when he was serving as Prime Minister. Meir’s colorful career had already included
clandestine negotiations with the King of Jordan and a stint as the first
Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Eventually she would rise to the position of Prime Minister.
1957(19th
of Sivan, 5717): Fifty-four-year-old David “Dave” Berman the Russian born WW II
veteran and crime boss whose territory included Iowa and Minnesota and later
Las Vegas suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a glandular operation
at a Las Vegas hospital.
1959:
A federal court overturned Arkansas state laws that allowed schools faced with
integration to be closed. Harry
Ehrenberg, Sr., of blessed memory, was one of those unsung heroes who literally
risked his as he carried a petition seeking support to keep the Little Rock
schools open despite the race baiting efforts of Governor Faubus to defy school
integration.
1959:
“The Five Pennies” a biopic directed by Melville Shavelson, starring Danny Kaye
and including an Oscar nominated song by Sylvia Fine was released in the United
States today.
1961
Today: Washington, DC native and Smith College graduate Elisabeth Posner Cohen,
the future President of the Posner-Wallace Foundation married Robert Stuart
Cohen with whom she had two children before divorcing in 1986.
1961:
In East Brunswick, NJ, Diane H.Lipman, “a programmer analyst” and Burton E.
Lipman, “an author of business books and CEO of a cardiac pacemaker component
manufacturing company” gave birth to Yale graduate and journalist Joanne
Lipman, author of That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women
Need to Tell Them) About Working Together
1961:
ABC broadcast the last episode of “The Rebel” an off-beat western television
series “developed and created by” Irvin Kershner which featured appearances by
Ned Glass and Soupy Sales.
1964:
Rabbi Barnett Robert Brickner “was arrested at the Monson Motor Lodge in St.
Augustine, Florida today as part of the largest mass arrest of rabbis in
American history, having gone there at the urging of Martin Luther King Jr.”
1964:
In the UK, Clive Pears, the son of Bernard Pears “an Austrian-born British
businessman, and the founder of the William Pears Group, one of Britain's
largest property companies” and Clarice Talisman Castles the Glasgow born daughter
of Hannah Castle and Abraham Castle, a dealer in electrical and wireless
appliances, gave birth to Sir Trevor Steven Pears, the brother and business partner
of Mark and David Pears and wife of Daniela Peers and trust of the Jewish
Charity Mitzvah Day which is in keeping with his service as ‘Chair o he
Antisemitism Policy Trust.”
1966(30th
of Sivan, 5726): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1967(10th
of Siva, 5727): Sixty-two-year-old Sao Paulo, Brazil native and University of
Zurich and Cambridge educated professor of chemistry at Columbia, Dr. Jack Henry
Schulman who helped to develop special weapons for the British War Office in WW
II and “former director of the Ernest Oppenheimer Laboratory in the Department
of Colloid Science at Cambridge” “drowned today while swimming at San Felic de
Circeo.”
1968:
“The Jewish Defense League's first
meeting was held at the West Side Jewish Center” today.
1969:
U.S. premiere of “The Wild Bunch” for which Jerry Fielding provided the music
which was so good that it “was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score.
1970:
Greville Ewan Janner began serving as a Member of Parliament from Leicester
North West.
1973(18th
of Sivan, 5733): Seventy-one-year-old Viennese
born composer Fritz Mahler whose father was a cousin of Gustav Mahler
and whose wife was dance Pauline Koner
passed away today in Winston-Salem, NC
http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20282
http://web.archive.org/web/20070712204303/http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/MUSMAHLE.pdf
1974:
In the Soviet Union, the Goldstein brothers began a hunger strike to protest
the government’s crackdown prior to the upcoming visiting of President Richard
Nixon.
1974(28th
of Sivan, 5734): Seventy-one-year-old London native Victor J. Cohen, who in
1907 came to the United States where he founded “two well-known real estate
concerns” – Williams and Company, Inc. and Williams Real Estate --, married the
“former Rae Oelbaum” with whom he had a son named Jerome and became “a Science
Fellow of the Belfer Graduate School of Yeshiva University” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/06/20/79872755.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1975(9th
of Tammuz, 5735): Ninety-one-year-old award winning philosopher Samuel Hugo
Bermann, the native of Prague who made Aliyah in 1920 where he founded the Brit
Shalom movement with Martin Buber passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/samuel-hugo-bergman
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Treasury and the
Histadrut had jointly decided that Value Added Tax would be levied at 8
percent, as of July 1.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that two Israeli missile
boats sailed for the US to take part in the July 4 Bicentennial salute on the
Hudson River.
1979(23rd of Sivan, 5739): Fifty-five-year-old
businessman Stanley Jerome, the Austin, TX born of Agnes and Rabbi Nathan
Emanuel Barasch and husband of Reita Jean Barasch passed away today in
Birmingham, AL.
1984(18th
of Sivan, 5744): Denver-based radio talk show host Alan Berg was gunned down by
Christian White Supremacists whose Christianity did not include the teachings
of Jesus.
1988(3rd
of Tammuz, 5748): Parashat Korach
1988(3rd
of Tammuz, 5748): Eighty-five-year-old Tulane alum and retail grocer Lewis
Kenneth Cahn, the Pensacola, FL born son
of Solomon and Nettie Kahn, the husband of Eulalie Turer and the father of Leah
Kahn passed away today.
1989:
“Legal Eagles” a comedy directed, co-produced and co-written by Ivan Reitman,
with music by Elmer Bernstein and co-starring Debra Winger and Steven Hill was
released today in the United States.
1987:
Daniel Barenboim began 9 days of conducting the IPO in a series of partially
staged operas - ''Don Giovanni,'' ''The Marriage of Figaro'' and ''Cosi Fan
Tutte'' – that included performers from the Paris Opera.
1990(25th
of Sivan, 5750): Ninety-year-old Boston born Harvard graduate “Walter H.
Bieringer, who as president of the United Service for New Americans in the
1950's helped resettle European Jews in the United States” and who raised a
daughter Doris Hiatt with his wife, the former Annabelle Kaplan, passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/20/obituaries/walter-bieringer-90-helped-war-refugees.html
1992(17th
of Sivan, 5752): Famed Israeli painter, Mordecai Ardon, passed away His works
included an effort from 1944 entitled “Ein Karem.” In English Ein Karem means “Spring of the
Vineyard.” It is located on the
southwest edge of Jerusalem.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/a/ardon/ardon_ein_karem.jpg
1993:
In Colorado, the District Court awarded title to Leadville’s Hebrew Cemetery to
The Temple Israel Foundation.
1993:
It was reported today that “Leonard Lehrman is to conduct the Metropolitan
Philharmonic Chorus on June 19 in a revised version of his work "We Are
Innocent: A Rosenberg Cantata," in commemoration of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg on the 40th anniversary of their execution.”
1996(1st
of Tammuz, 5756): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1996(1st
of Tammuz, 5756): Kesari Yisrael passed away.
Born in Yemen in 1933, he came to Palestine at the age of two. After studying at Hebrew University and Tel
Aviv University he became a leader of Histadrut before being elected to the
Knesset and serving as a cabinet minister.
1996:
Limor Livnat succeeds Shulamit Aloni as Minister of Communications
1996:
Benny Begin begins serving as The Science and Technology Minister of Israel
1996:
Eli Suissa succeeds Haim Ramon as Internal Affairs Minister
1996:
Israel Kessar completes his term as Minister of Transport, National
Infrastructure and Road Safety.
1996:
David Levy succeeds Ehud Barak as foreign minister.
1996:
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer completes his term as Minister of Housing and Construction
1996:
Binyamin Netanyahu succeeds Shimon Sheetrit as Minister of Religious Services
1996:
Gonen Segev completed his service as Minister of Energy and Water Resources.
1996:
Avigdor Kahalani replaced Moshe Shahal as Minister of Public Security
1996:
Ehud Barak competed his service as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1997:
In “Nazis and Their Allies in Art Theft” published today Richard Bernstein
provided a detailed review of The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal
the World’s Greatest Works of Art by Hector Feliciano.
1997(13th
of Sivan, 5757): Lev Kopelev the Russian
born idealist and a committed Bolshevik who over time would become a dissident
and ended up having to live out his days in Cologne, Germany passed away today.
1997(13th
of Sivan, 5757): Ninety-five-year Benjamin Zemach, who with his brother Nathan,
was a “dance pioneer” passed away today. (As reported by Anna Kisselgoff)
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/30/arts/benjamin-zemach-95-dancer-worked-in-theater-and-films.html
1999:
The Times of London reviewed “Israel and the Bomb” by Avner Cohen.
2000:
“Spellbound” published today provides a review of Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/reviews/000618.18garnert.html
2000: The
New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Groucho: The
Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer, Monkey Business: The Lives
and Legends of the Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo With Added Gummo by Simon Louvish, The Essential Groucho: Writings
by, for, and About Groucho Marx Edited by Stefan Kanfer, How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom, King
David: A Biography by
Steven L. McKenzie and The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul
by Yoram Hazony
2001(27th of Sivan, 5761): Palestinian
terrorists murdered 35 year old Dan Yehuda in “a drive-by shooting.”
2001: Fatah gunman shot 38 year old Doron
Zisserman.
2002: BBC One broadcast the last episode of “A
History of Britain,” “a documentary series written and presented by” Jewish
historian and author Simon Schama.
2002: In “Edelman Savors Nearly 50 Years of
Independence,” published today Jim Kirk provides a snapshot of the career of
Daniel Edelman the PR man who came to Chicago from New York and founded the
agency that bears his name.
2002(8th
of Tammuz, 5762): Nineteen people, including two children, were killed and 74
were injured – six seriously – in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in
Egged bus #32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which
was completely destroyed, was carrying a number of students on their way to
school. The victims: Boaz Aluf, 54, of Jerusalem; Shani Avi-Zedek, 15, of
Jerusalem; Leah Baruch, 59, of Jerusalem; Mendel Bereson, 72, of Jerusalem;
Rafael Berger, 28, of Jerusalem; Michal Biazi, 24, of Jerusalem; Tatiana
Braslavsky, 41, of Jerusalem; Galila Bugala, 11, of Jerusalem; Raisa Dikstein,
67, of Jerusalem; Dr. Moshe Gottlieb, 70, of Jerusalem; Baruch Gruani, 60, of
Jerusalem; Orit Hayla, 21, of Jerusalem; Helena Ivan, 63, of Jerusalem; Iman
Kabha, 26, of Barta; Shiri Negari, 21, of Jerusalem; Gila Nakav, 55, of
Jerusalem; Yelena Plagov, 42, of Jerusalem; Liat Yagen, 24 of Jerusalem;
Rahamim Zidkiyahu, 51, of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
2003(18th
of Sivan, 5763): A Palestinian terrorist killed 19 passengers when he
detonated a bomb on a bus in Jerusalem.
2004:
U.S. premiere of The Terminal directed and produced by Steven Spielberg which
provides a comedic twist to issues of immigration and survival in an airport.
2004:
Bernard J. Wohl, Executive Director of the Goddard Riverside Community Center
addresses the 20th annual conference of the “International Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers” in
Toronto.
2005: Rabbi P. Irving Bloom officiated at the
wedding of NYU graduate Mindy Alyse Friedman, who “manages the
investment-banking analyst program at Lehman Brothers in Manhattan” and University
of Florida graduate Jeffrey I. Friedman, the Fordham Law School graduate and “director
of football administration for the NFL Philadelphia Eagles.
2005(11th of Sivan, 5765): Sixty-six-year-old
Gerald Davis a prominent artist and leader of the Irish Jewish community passed
away.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0618/64441-davisg/
2006:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Betraying Spinoza
by Rebecca Goldstein and recently released paperback editions of 109 East
Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet
Coant, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin Sherman and The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen
Feldman
2006:
Student groups at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee rallied today calling
for the prosecution of a local man who claims to be a former Waffen-SS officer
and announced last week that he planned to set up a public shrine in his
backyard to commemorate the life of Adolf Hitler.
2006: Ronald S. Lauder purchased the painting Portrait
of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt for $135 million from Maria Altman
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Bauer_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Klimt_046.jpg
2006(22nd
of Sivan, 5766): Ninety-nine-year-old director Vincent Sherman, the small town
Georgia boy who grew into a Hollywood giant who created classics like The Young
Philadelphians and Mr. Skeffington.
http://www.filmmonthly.com/behind_the_scenes/in_memoriam_vincent_sherman.html
2007:
Efraim Sneh left the office of Deputy Defense Minister and wasreplaced by Matan
Vilnai.
2007:
Funeral services were held at Am Shalom, in Glencoe,
Illinois for Shirlee Mages, of blessed memory.
2007: Ehud Barak began serving as Minister of Defense.
2007:
Newsweek magazine features an article by Robert W. Morgenthau and Frank
Tuerkheimer entitled “From Midway to the Mideast: How a victory in the Pacific
65 years ago helped defeat Hitler and found Israel.” The article includes the
information that “just after the fall of Tobruk, an SS killing squad…was
created to operate behind Rommel’s front line…for the express purpose of
killing Jews in occupied territory.” Had
Rommel been successful that occupied territory would have included Palestine
and the Jews of the Yishuv.
2007:
In the “Verbatim” section Time magazine
featured the following quote by Rutka Laskier, “'If only I could say, It's
over, you only die once ... but I can't, because despite all these atrocities,
I want to live, and wait for the following day.'” Rutka Laskier has been
described as the Polish Anne Frank. Like Frank, she wrote a Holocaust-era
diary, at the age of 14. Like Frank, Laskier perished during the Holocaust.
Apparently, the Nazis killed her at Auschwitz.
2007:
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz squares off in a friendly dispute with Michael Steinhardt
at the annual dinner of the Aleph Society in New York City.
2007:
On the secular calendar, the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Mordecai
Ardon. It happens to fall on the 2nd
of Tammuz which is appropriate since one of his works was called “Tammuz.”
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/a/ardon/ardon_tammuz.jpg
2008:
As the waters recede from the 500 Year Flood of 2008, The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that Smulekoff's, one of the
oldest businesses in downtown Cedar Rapids, said it will be opening in
temporary quarters and plans to rebuild its landmark store at 97 Third Ave. SE.
2008:
UNICEF met with officials of Adalah, a coalition of pro-Palestinian groups to
inform them that the agency would no longer have any relationship with Lev
Leviev, an Orthodox Jewish diamond mogul who has financed construction projects
in the West Bank.
2008:
The Jewish Film Festival of Croatia host a first time one day event in
Belgrade.
2009:
In Deal New Jersey, Avi Hoffman opens a three-night run of "Too
Jewish?", "Too Jewish, Too" and “Still Jewish After All These
Years: A Life in the Theater” at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center.
2009:
David Adjmi makes his professional New York theater debut when his play
“Stunning” opens at the Duke on 42nd Street today.
2009: Espousing a dream of harmony that may stretch credibility
among even the most fervent believers in dialogue among the great religions,
clerics in Jerusalem launched a project today aimed at finding a way to share
the city's holiest, and most fought over, site.
2010: Simon Wolfson was created Baron Wolfson of Aspley
Guise, of Aspley Guise in the County of Bedfordshire,
2010: The Elvis and 50's Rock'n'Roll Concert is scheduled
to take place at midrechov Ben Yehuda in Jerusalem.
2010: Abbie Silber the
lovely and multi-talented daughter of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silber provided a
special musical interlude for Shabbat Services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids,
IA
http://abbiesilber.com/default.aspx
2010(5th of
Tammuz, 5770): Eighty-one-year-old Holocaust survivor George Brown passed away
today. (As reported by Keith Thursby)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/02/local/la-me-george-brown-20100702
2011: Naama
Shafir, an Israeli point guard and a player on the University of Toledo's
women's basketball team who normally wears a T-shirt under her jersey for
modesty reasons, will not be playing in a European basketball tournament
scheduled to start today because FIBA Europe-- the Munich-based organization
that governs basketball in Europe -- decided to stick with its usual policy:
All players must wear the same uniform.
.
2011: Erika
Brooks Adickman is scheduled to host “Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience” at
the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: A wildfire raging in
the Golan today was under control by late afternoon.
2011(16th of Sivan, 5771): Morris
Pollard, the 95 year old father of Jonathan Pollard, passed away today. Pollard
was an internationally recognized prostate cancer researcher who was professor
emeritus of biological sciences at Notre Dame University
2011(16th of
Sivan, 5771): Eighty-eight-year-old Elena Boner, the Soviet dissident and human-rights
campaigner who endured banishment and exile along with her husband, the
dissident nuclear physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, passed away today. Her father
was an Armenian. Her mother, Ruth Bonner
was a Jewess born in Siberia who disappeared into the Gulag in 1938.(As
reported by Alessandra Stanley and Michael Schwirtz)
2012:
The Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning is scheduled to have its annual
meeting at Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase, MD.
2012: Israeli cellist Yoed Nir is scheduled to
appear with Judy Collins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-PBS Show.
2012: On the Civil Calendar, 20th
anniversary of the death of Michael Ardon.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/video/sJLrfzKehhs-art-of-mordechai-ardon-pachelbel.aspx
2012:
An Israeli citizen and two terrorists were killed this morning during clashes
between Israel Defense Forces soldiers and gunmen who infiltrated the southern
border with Egypt.
2012:
“A group of 20 veterans, mostly-high ranking Jordanian and Israeli retired
officers, met in Jerusalem today, and toured the sites of battles that pitted
them against each other nearly half a century ago. (As reported by Elhanan
Miller)
2012:
In a letter published today by www.magyarnarncs.hu “Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Elie Wiesel renounced a
Hungarian state award he received in 2004 in protest against what he said was a
"whitewashing" of the role of former Hungarian governments in the
deportation of Jews during World War Two.
2012:
“Friday Night Lights” published today provides a snapshot of “Jewish boys in
the NFL.”
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/103064/friday-night-lights-2?all=1
2012:
An Israeli citizen and two terrorists were killed this morning during clashes
between Israel Defense Forces soldiers and gunmen who infiltrated the southern
border with Egypt
2012(28th
of Sivan, 5772): Ninety-year old “Judith S. Wallerstein, a psychologist who
touched off a national debate about the consequences of divorce by reporting
that it hurt children more than previously thought, with the pain continuing
well into adulthood” passed away today. (As reported by Denise Grady)
2013:
Barbra Streisand is scheduled to perform in Israel today at the opening
ceremony of Shimon Peres’s annual Presidential Conference, which will also
honor his 90th birthday. (As reported by Gabe Fisher)
2013:
Russ & Daughter’s is scheduled to host its Herring Celebration where “the
wonders of herring” will be explored. (An event to make a true Litvak drool)
2013:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host “a conversation with creators
Peter Gethers and Dan Okrent and cast members from off-Broadway’s “Old Jews
Telling Jokes” in which they will explore the hit revue that pays tribute to
classic jokes of the past and present
2013:
Today, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned last night's "price
tag" attack in Abu Ghosh, saying that it is contradictory to the values
and people of Israel and Judaism.
2013:
Hungarian prosecutors today charged Laszlo Csatary, 98, with war crimes
committed during World War Two, saying he helped deport Jews to Auschwitz.
"He is charged with the unlawful execution and torturing of people thus
committing war crimes partly as a culprit, partly as an accomplice,"
Bettina Bagoly, a spokeswoman for the Budapest Chief Prosecutor's Office said.
She said Csatary's case would go to trial within three months. (As reported by
Reuters)
2013:
After having been arrested yesterday on charges of fraud, conspiracy, breach of
trust and corruption, Michael Applebaum resigned as Mayor of Montreal while
maintaining that he was innocent of all charges.
2014:
International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism, hosted by the
Jewish Studies Program at Central European University is scheduled to come to
an end in Budapest.
2014: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host a panel discussion on “Ancestors from AllOver the World.”
2014: “A Place in Heaven” is scheduled to be
shown at the JCC in Manhattan as part of the Israel Film Center Festival.
2014: “The parents of the three teens kidnapped
last week “got their first listen to a tape of one of the students reporting
the abduction in an emotional meeting with defense officials today.” (As
reported by Yifa Yaakov)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/teens-parents-hear-recording-of-call-reporting-kidnapping/
2014: In response to rocket attacks from Gaza,
the IAF launched several attacks on Hamas installations in Gaza.
2014: In Philadelphia, 89-year-old retired
toolmaker Johann “Hans” Beyer was ordered held without bail today “on a German
arrest warrant charging him with aiding and abetting the killing of 216,000
Jewish men, women and children while he was a guard at the Auschwitz death
camp.”
2014: In London, The Weiner Library for the
Study of the Holocaust and Genocide is scheduled to host a special film
festival and reception marking Refugee Week
2015: ISRAMERICA is scheduled to host the first
night of “I Heart Music Festival.”
2015: Agudas Achim, in Coralville, Iowa is
scheduled to hold its annual meeting where it will learn to cope with the
reality that after over four decades, the congregation will have to move
forward without the leadership of Rabbi Jeff Portman.
2015: “Bonjour Monsieur Chagall” “a colorful
musical performance based on poetic works and painting by Marc Chagall” is
scheduled to be performed at Kulturfest in NYC,
2015: The Center for
Jewish History, YIVO Institute and Center for Traditional Music and Dance are
scheduled to present “Night Songs from a Neighboring Village: Ballads of the
Ukrainian & Yiddish Heartland” during which “musicians Michael
Alpert and Julian Kytasty draw on Ukrainian folk and liturgical music, klezmer,
Yiddish folk song, and Hasidic music to create a performance that illustrates
the centuries-long mutual influence Ukrainian and East European Jewish musical
traditions have had on one another.”
2015(1st of Tammuz, 5775): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
2015(1st of Tammuz, 5775):
Centenarian producer and talent agent Jack Rollins passed away today.
2015(1st of Tammuz, 5775): Seventy-seven-year-old
historian Allen Weinstein passed away today.
https://www.archives.gov/about/info/archivist-biography-allen-weinstein.html
2015(1st of Tammuz, 5775:
Ninety-nine year old Frances Kroll Ring, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last personal
assistant who played a key role in the posthumous publishing of his last novel
The Last Tycoon and whose personal experiences were captured in the
autobiography Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald which
became the move “Last Call” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/weremember/ring-frances
2016: Violinist Vera Vaidman and pianist
Emanuel Krasovsky are scheduled to perform in the Best of Chamber Music concert
at the Eden-Tamir Music Center.
2016: Gon Halevi, “a singer, pianist, actor and
composer and who has recently debuted "The Great Israeli American
Songbook," is scheduled to perform at Joe’s Pub in New York City.
2016: “A Tale of Love and Darkness” based on
the novel by Amos Oz and directed by Natalie Portman is scheduled to be shown
at the Portland Oregon Jewish Film Festival.
2016: As part of its Father’s Day Weekend
observance the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to
let all Dads in for free.
2016((12th of Sivan, 5776): Shabbat Naso
2017: The
New York Times features book reviews by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the recently published paperback edition
of Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer as well as the essay “How to Live With
Critics (Whether You’re an Artist or the President)” by Adam Kirsch.
2017: “Operation Finale: The Capture &
Trial of Adolf Eichmann” is scheduled to come to an end at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2017: Professor Peter Hayes, author of Why? –
Explaining the Holocaust is scheduled to discuss such questions as “Why the
Jews? Why murder? Why didn’t more Jews fight back more often” during his
presentation at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2017: “Dough,” a film about a Jewish baker and
a young assistant who also sells dope is scheduled to open at Reel Borehamwood
in London.
2018: The Jerusalem Municipality sports
department is scheduled to host a Zumba class at the First Station Compound.
2018(4th of Tammuz, 5778): Allen
Weinstein, the son of New York Jewish delicatessen owners Samuel Weinstein and
Sarah Popkov who became a leading academic, author and archivists passed away
today.
2018: It was announced today that effective in
October, Warner Music group would be relaunching the Elektra Music Group which
had been started as Elektra Records in 1950 by Jac Holzman.
2018: In Atlanta, GA, the Bremen Museum is
scheduled to host “MVP Monday.”
2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Studio 54,” which tells the story of the” NY Watering-hole” founded by Ian Schrader and Steve Rubell, two
Jews from Brooklyn.
2018: Following yesterday’s attempt by
terrorists to burn homes in Beit HaGadi Moshav and the “suburbs surrounding
Sderot,” Israel braces for another of round of incendiary balloons launched
from Gaza today.
2019: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present a performance David Sereo’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s
“Romeo and Juliet” in which it becomes “the story of two Jewish lovers, one
from a Sephardi family and one from an Ashkenazi family.”
2019: In New York, at Guastavino’s the Aleph
Society is scheduled to host its 25th annual dinner with a “program
featuring New York Times columnist
Bret Stephens in conversation with author Abigail Pogrebin.
2019: As part of his series on “The Ten Lost
Tribes” Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, the
Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to lecture on the
“Invasion of Sargon II and Sennacherib.”
2019: In Edmonton, Canada, the JNF is scheduled
to host its “annual fundraiser.”
2019: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
The Knights as part of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts.
2019: After serious questions have been raised
about the accuracy of Naomi Wolf’s research, her latest book Outrages will
not go on sale today in the United States as originally planned.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
a “conversation with Tony Kushner.
2020: Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to
present “Backstage: The Making of Exhibits,” a live stream event in which
attendees “discover what is involved in the development of an exhibit, from
deciding on a concept to selecting objects, design and opening.”
2020: The JWA is scheduled to present Professor
Karla Goldman as she lectures on “Jewish Women and the Suffrage Movement.”
2020: “Theater Dybbuk is scheduled to present a
reading of a play about a decaying vaudeville troupe performing a subversive
version of the anti-Semitic “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
2020: Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to
present “Young Families Bedtime Stories With Rabbi Polisson”
2020: United With Israel is scheduled to host a
webinar on “2 Jews, 3 Opinions: The Jewish Perspective on Disagreements, Fights
and Rebellion!”
2021: Kerem Shalom of Concord’s Rabbi Darby
Leigh and family engagement specialist Nancy Kaplan are scheduled to present
online on the eve of Juneteeth a commemoration of the emancipation of the last
remaining enslaved African Americans in the U.S.
2021: Jewish Federations of North America, URJ
the National Museum of American Jewish History and six other large Jewish
organizations are scheduled to present a program honoring the African American
holiday that marks the freeing of slaves in a virtual Juneteenth Kabbalat
Shabbat.
2021: As a sign of that the Pandemic is slowly
coming under control and as a sign of the vitality of the Jewish community that
has dealt with both the Pandemic and the Derecho, Temple Judah is scheduled to
host erev Shabbat services in person and via Zoom.
2021: The Israel Festival and the Felicja
Blumental Music Center are scheduled to present the Peom Balev special series
of Israeli chamber music, featuring original works by Israeli composers and
musicians.
2022: The Boston Workers Circle is scheduled to
present “Singing for Peace and Freedom,” a live Yiddish Concert.
2022: In San Francisco, PJ Library, Jewish Baby
Network and Congregation Sha’ar Zahav is scheduled to present a Pride-themed
Shabbat event with stories, puppets, music, snacks and crafts. Bring a blanket.
Registration required.
2022: Based on reports from “Senior Israeli
officials” Israelis in Turkey should take extreme security precautions up to
and including locking themselves in their rooms due to the real possibility of
attacks by Iranians on Israelis in Turkey.
2022(19thof Sivan, 5782)
Parashat Beha’alotcha (“When you light” or
“When you kindle”)
2023:The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled
to host its 22nd annual Egg Rolls, Egg Creams and Empanadas Festival
on Eldridge Street between Division and Canal Streets.
2023: In Cedar Rapids, IA, third generation
jeweler Steve Ginsberg, a pillar of the Jewish community is scheduled to throw
out the first pitch as the Kernels host “Jewish Heritage Day at the ballpark.
2023: Dudu Fisher, the child of Holocaust
survivor “widely know for his portrayal of Jen Valjean in Les Misérables on
Broadway is scheduled to “perform Israeli songs, Yiddish songs and musical
numbers at the Museum of Jewish Heritage” this afternoon.
2023: The National Library of Israel is
scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Emmy Leah Zitter , the English Department
Head and Senior Lecturer in Literature at Michlalah-Jerusalem College and
Senior Lecturer at Shaanan College on “Unlocking Shylock: Responding to
Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'”.
2023 A production by actress Maureen Lipman
that “portrays an 80-year old Holocaust survivor whose two and a half hour
monologue charts history in the 20th century” of which Jewish
Chronicle critic Jonathan Sacerdoti writes that it is surprising to see Lipman
“supporting a play that invests so much dramatic capital in the outdated notion
that Jews kill children” and that the play “relies on an unforgivable
comparison between the IDF and the Nazis” is scheduled to have its final
performance at Ambassadors Theatre.
2023: The Agnon House is scheduled to host “Bluma's
Room: Reading a Simple Story” an online
lecture with Dr. Dina Berdichevsky.
2023: The Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum
and the JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival are schedule to host an on-site
screening of “You Not Play Wagner.”
2023: ‘An American Tail,’ the classic animated
film about Russian-Jewish mice who immigrate to America, which is now a musical
that premiered at the Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis on April 25 is scheduled to have its final performance
today.
2024: In New Orleans, the Jewish Federation is
scheduled to host “a Juneteenth Seder.”
2024: Agnon House is scheduled to host a Fire
and Trees: On Sacrifices and Sacrifices in Literature a “new on-line lecture series with Moti Fogel,
author of Not a Memoir
2024: The Center for Jewish History &
American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host “Dr. Miriam Eve Mora
for a discussion of her book Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation
and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century during which she will be joined in
conversation by Dr. Ronnie Grinberg (University of Oklahoma), author of Write
Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals
2024: jHUB is scheduled to host a free event for parents
and children at 10 a.m. First and Main at 43 Village Way in Hudson, OH.
2024: In Cedar Rapids, graveside services are
scheduled to be held this morning for long-time Temple Judah member Sharon
Schneider, “devoted life partner of Jeff Schneider.”
2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled to
offer the first classes of “Beginners’ Hebrew” and “Intermediate Hebrew.”
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a lecture by Trudy Gold on “Why the Balfour Declaration?”
2024: As June 18th 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 256 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.)
