This Day, June 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 20
840: Louis the Pious,
King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor by virtue of being the son of
Charlemagne. When it came to dealing with his Jewish subjects, Louis followed
in the footsteps of his father. During his reign charters were issued giving
“Jews permission ‘live according to their Law.’ They promised protection of
body and property and permitted freedom of movement and trade including…the
right to hire Christians to work in their homes. Some Jews were also exempted from the laws of
trial by ‘ordeal of fire and water.’”
1214: University of Oxford received its charter.
Jews were not always welcome at Oxford.
The Oxford University Reform Act passed in 1854 allowed Jews to take
degrees at Oxford. Today, Oxford offers degrees in both Hebrew and Jewish
Studies.
1239: Pope Gregory IX
ordered all copies of the Talmud to Dominican and Franciscan friars who would
review the text looking for disparaging references to Jesus and Mary. Any copies that were found to contain such references
were to be burned. This is the same Pope
who in 1234 had “invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum –
perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to
this, the followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of
political servitude until Judgment Day.”
1338: Duke Otto and Duke Albert issued their “Jews’
Decree.”
1391 (17th
of Tammuz): “The Christian population of Toledo rose against the largest Jewish
community in Spain.” Four thousand Jews were killed.
1510: Birthdate of
Beatrice de Luna who gained fame as Gracia Mendes Nasi one of the richest and
most powerful women of her times who was the mother-in-law of Don Joseph Nasi.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nasi-dona-gracia
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/dona-gracia-nasi/
1567: Jews were
expelled from Brazil by order of Regent Don Henrique
1616: Sir Henry Finch
the author of The World's Great Restauration, or Calling of the Jews, and
with them of all Nations and Kingdoms of the Earth to the Faith of Christ which
called for the “restoration of the Jews to the promised land as a step to the
Second Coming was knighted at Whitehall Palace
1647: In Dresden,
John George II and Magdalene Sybille of Brandenburg-Bayreuth gave birth to
their only son John George III, Elector of Saxony who in 1682 “issued a new
decree, in which the onerous regulations relating to Jews passing through the
country were somewhat modified, since those regulations were found to be
detrimental to the yearly fairs at Leipsic.”
1652: During the
reign of Mehemed IV, Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa was appointed grand vezir of the
Ottoman Empire. During Pasa’s time of
service, Mehmemed Jews fleeing the Chmielnitzki Uprising were encouraged to
settle on the banks of the Danube in Morea, Kavala, Istanbul and Salonica.
1667: Clement IX
began his papacy during which Giovanni Battista Jona, the rabbi who converted
to Christianity at Warsaw in 1625, dedicated a translation into Hebrew of The
New Testament.
1757: A debate began
today at Kamienice in which the Sabbatians sought to prove that their doctrine,
unlike Judaism, was compatible with Christianity.
1757: In Kameiek
(Podolia), the Frankists, calling themselves Zoharists, decided to wage war
against the Talmud. They contacted the local bishop, Dembovsky, and convinced
him to arrange a disputation. Naturally, the Talmud was condemned and thousands
of copies were burned. The Frankists then became practicing Christians. The
Frankists were Jews who were followers of Jacob Frank who had proclaimed
himself the Messiah.
1768: The third of the
Haidamack uprisings called Koliyivschyna began. During the uprising an
estimated 50,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered by the Cossacks. “The Haidmamaks were gangs of Cossacks, who
along with their peasant allies robbed traveling merchants and plundered the
towns and villages in the Ukraine. They saw themselves as heirs to Khmelnitski.
The Khmelnitski were the Cossacks who slaughtered Jews and Poles in wholesale
lots in the middle of the 17th century. Both of these murderous slaughters were part
of the drift into degradation that became the lot of increasing numbers of
Eastern European Jews. This drift into
degradation brought about numerous responses on the part of the Jews ranging
from mysticism and messianicism to the Haskalah and immigration to Western
Europe and eventually to the New World.
1769: Michael Gratz
and Miriam Simon, the parents of Philadelphia native Rebecca Gratz were married
today in Lancaster, PA.
.1783(20th
of Sivan, 5543): Samuel Judah passed away today in Philadelphia.
1783(20th
of Sivan, 5543): Fifteen-year-old Judah Jacob, the New York born son of Baruch
Judah passed away today in Philadelphia.
1783(20th
of Sivan, 5543): Samuel Judah (not to be confused with Vincennes, IN attorney
and Republican leader of the same way) passed away today in Philadelphia.
1792(30th
of Sivan 5552): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1792: Eighteen month
old Heva bat Jacob Levi, who had passed away yesterday, was buried today at
“Alderney Road (Globe Rd.) Jewish Cemetery.”
1792: Moses Magnus married Rachel Solomons today at the Great Synagogue.
1792: Birthdate of Samuel Israel Mulder, the Amsterdam native who was the
first person to translate TaNaCh into Dutch.
1794: In Brno,
Gottlieb Bezalel Jeiteles and Johanna Jeitteles gave birth to Alois Jeitteles
the founder of the Jewish weekly Siona and the author of poetic works set to
music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
1794: Birthdate of
Austrian physician and author Alois Isidor Jeitteles, who founded the Jewish
Weekly “Siona” and was the father of suffragette Ottilie Bondy.
1803: In Baltimore,
MD, Frances Gratz and Reuben Etting who married in 1794 gave birth to Edward
Johnson Etting, the Huband of Philippa Minis whom he married at Savannah, GA in
1841 and with whom he had five children.
1808: Birthdate of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch,
leading founder of what some call Modern Orthodox Judaism.
1811: Lewis Henry
Lazarus married Eliza Aaron today at the Great Synagogue.
1811: In Charleston,
SC, Rabbi Emanuel Nunes Carvalho who had been serving as the rabbi for the
Jewish community in Bridgetown, Barbados, officiated at the wedding of Mrs.
Catherine Jacobs and Solomon Hyams.
1812: In
Philadelphia, Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel and his wife Rebecca, both of whom had come
from Amsterdam, gave birth to their second child and first son Jacob Ezekiel,
the grandson of Hebrews scribe Eleazer Israel and nephew of Michael E. Cohen
who adopted him when his mother died and began his career at the age of 13 as
an apprentice book binder.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ezekiel-jacob
1815: Lord Rowerth,
an agent of Nathan Rothschild who had stayed at Ostend awaiting to hear the
outcome of the Battle of Waterloo brought word to the Jewish banker who
“immediately transmitted the information to the government” – a fact that runs
contrary to the myth that Rothschild made a fortune while keeping the news a
secret.
1819: In Herxheim am
Berg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Therese Aron and Simon Kuhn gave brith to
Abraham Kuhn.
1819: In Cologne,
Isaac Judah (Eberst) Offenbach and Marianne Offenbach to composer Jacques Jacob
Offenbach, who created almost 100 operettas in a twenty year period.
1823: In Germany, the
government issued a decree “ordaining that Jewish services should be conducted
exclusively in the German language and that the reading in Hebrew of sections
of the Bible should be followed by their translation into the vernacular.”
1828: Mordecai M.
Noah accused Elijah J. Roberts, “a former business associate” of having
“violently assaulted” him on the steps of the Park Theatre. (Noah was one of
the pre-eminent American Jews in the years between the Revolutionary and Civil
Wars)
1832: Ellis Moses
married Miriam Judah at the Western Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1836: Birthdate of
German native and future Louisville resident Morris Baldauf , the husband of
Lina Kahn Baldaugh with whom he had four children – Julius, Minnie, Leon and
Cora.
1837: King William IV
of Great Britain and Ireland who in 1797 while still the Prince of Wales
visited Barbados where “he visited the synagogue and was presented with an
address and a sword by the Congregation” passed away today.
1837: With the death of her uncle, King William IV,
Queen Victoria assumes the throne. Since
the British monarch reigns but does not rule, her influence on the progress of
Jews of Britain and Europe were primarily tangential. Her treatment of Jews was
a mixed bag. During the Damascus Blood
Libel, the Queen put a British ship at the disposal of her friend and neighbor
Moses Montefiore. But in 1869, the Queen
blocked Lionel Rothschild elevation to the House of Lords. However, later she would agree to the
elevation of Lionel’s son and would socialize with the French branch of the
Rothschild family when she made trips across the channel. The change was brought about by Jewish
financial support for the Suez project and her relationship with Benjamin
Disraeli.
1839: Ezekiel Hart
dictated his last will and testament today.
1839: Birthdate of
Jacob Freudenthal, the native of Hanover and graduate of the rabbinical
seminary of Breslau whose visit to the Netherlands to research the life of
Spinoza produced Die Lebensgeschichte
Spinoza's
1841: Mr. G.M.
Loewentritt married Miss Betty Goldberg to at Sheyareeth Israel in Charleston,
SC.
1843: In
Oberlauterbach, Alsace, Isaiah Rosenthal and Rosa Walter gave birth to Jonas
Rosenthal the husband of Jeanette Weil who came to the United States in 1860
where he attended school in Alexandria, LA before serving the Confederate Army
for three and a half years in the Civil War following which he held several
public positions capped off by being appointed U.S. Postmaster of Alexandria by
President Grover Cleveland.
1849: Solomon Salamo
married Phoebe Levy at the Great Synagogue.
1850: Five days after
its application was received, Simon Lodge No. 4 of the Independent Order of
Free Sons of Israel was “installed” today.
1854: Lieutenant
Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the son of
Benjamin Goldsmid was promoted to the rank of Colonel.
1856: In Bombay,
Hannah Moise and Sir Albert Sassoon gave birth to Sir Edward Albert Sassoon.
1858: Rabbi Bernhard
Felsenthal, the German born rabbi who had moved to Chicago “and accepted employment
in the banking-house of Greenebaum Brothers” helped to found the Jüdische
Reformverein today.
1859: In Luzerne
County, PA, John and Helen McKeon Curran gave birth “the Very Rev. Mgr. John J.
Curran’ the “militant Catholic priest nationally known as a friend of organized
labor” who had a an ecumenical view of the world, long before that became
fashionable as can be seen by the fact he “he was reputed to have as many
friends among Protestants and Jews as among Catholic clergy and layman” and in
the best sense of the Gospels “was the good neighbor to all.”
1861: Philadelphian
Phillip Lang began a two year enlistment with Company I of the 37th
regiment during the Civil War.
1867: In Memphis, TN,
Adolph and Lucille (Hart) Loeb gave birth to Chicago insurance underwriter Leo
A Loeb, the husband of Minnie Elson and a Director of the United Hebrew
Charities.
1871: Birthdate of
Helmstedt, Germany native Edmund Moser a passenger on the ill-fated SS. St.
Louis who survived the war even though his “country of disembarkation” was
France which meant he was luckier than fellow family member and shipmate
Roaslie Moser who did not survive.
1871: In Warsaw,
Indiana, “well-known and respected merchant” Leopold Becker and Caroline
(Vogel) Becker gave birth to Illinois attorney Benjamin Vogel Becker who was a
partner in Newman, Northrup, Levinson and Becker and the husband of Elizabeth
Loeb with whom he has one child John Leonard Becker.
1871: One day after
he passed away, mathematician Numa Edward Hartog, the son of Alphonse and
Marion Hartog was buried today at West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1874: In Warsaw,
“Israel Isaac and Chasha Peltz Zambrowsky” gave birth to S. Joshua Zambrowsky
who served as rabbi “Congregation Tifereth Israel in Warsaw from 1901 to 1923” after
which he served as the rabbi of “Congregation Poilez Tzedeck in Syracuse for
ten years” and the “chief rabbi of the Buffalo Council of Jewish Congregations,
Inc.”
1875: Congregation
B'Nai Israel of Galveston voted to become one of the charter members of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1875: Five days after
he passed away, sixty-seven year old Isaac Benjamin was buried today at the
“Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1877: Meyer Freeman
who owns a butcher shop at 38 Ludlow Street was awakened by two men –later
identified as David Milstein and Isaac Goldstein – who had broken into his
bedroom and were trying to steal the contents of a bureau that contained
jewelry and box with $35 in cash.
Freeman, clad only in his bed clothes, chased the robbers through the
streets and captured Milstein whom he turned over to the policy. Milstein is a well-known criminal having
spent 21 of the last 28 years in jail
1879: In
New York City, The Jewish Messenger
reports that "A new congregation has been started on East 57th Street,
called Orach Chaim.” Some of the members of the new congregation were
disaffected members of Adas Israel, another congregation located on the same
street.
1880: Four days after
he passed away “in the 76th year of his life” Moritz Moses Maurice
was buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1880: “Puritan
Christian Names” published today described how the printing of the Geneva
Bible, an affordable English translation of the sacred text led to the adoption
of many Old Testament (Jewish) names by English Puritans. Apparently, having finally been able to read
the text, the “Puritan spirit led those whom it animated to a strong and very
marked preference for the Jewish part of the Bible over the Christian.”
1881: The Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society took two hundred children on an outing aboard the
steam boat Bellevue. The boat stopped at Hart’s Island so the children could
enjoy themselves. [These outings were part of a program to get slum children
out of the city and into the fresh air of the country.]
1882: An assignment
for the benefit of creditors by Abraham Samuels to Lester Cohn was filed in the
county clerk’s office today.
1883: Anglican Bishop
and Biblical scholar John William Colenso the author of The Pentateuch and
Book of Joshua Critically Examined which he wrote in response to being
questioned about the historical accuracy of these books and whether or not they
should be taken literally passed away today. (Colenso was one of a series of
Jewish and Christian theologians and authors who re-examined the traditional
view of these texts as being literal truth or the modernist view that they were
just a series of manufactured myths)
1884: It was reported
today that a serious outbreak of anti-Semitic violence has broken out in
Krivoroge, Russia.
1884: Birthdate of
Norwegian businessman Moses Beeker who was arrested in Trondheim 1942 at
murdered at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 58
1886: “Clubs Without
Number” published today described the variety of New York social clubs that
cater to various segments of the city’s population including the Jews some of
whom frequent the Harmonie Club on 42nd Street while a greater
number are found at the Hebrew Association at 317 Third Avenue. Actually Jews can be found at most of the
popular clubs except for the Union and Knickerbocker clubs.
1887: Twenty-year old
Memphis native Leo A Loeb joined he insurance agency of A. Loeb and Son which
his father Adolph had established in Chicago in 1873.
1887: Two Jewish
peddlers, Simon Kleber and Judah Waser, were abused and driven out of a liquor
store by the bartender when they tried to sell him their wares. The two men sought protection from Policeman
Frederick Timme who responded by clubbing them and driving them away.
1887: “Jews and
Gentiles In London” published today provided a snapshot of Jewish economic
conditions in the capital of the UK picturing them as being wealthier than the
non-Jewish population. For example, the average annual Jewish income is 82
pounds as compared with 35 ponds for the non-Jews. Jews with an income over 10,000 pounds are 20
times as numerous as the number found in the non-Jewish population. [Editor’s
note – This report is totally misleading since it fails to capture the wealth
of the gentry which would have reported in the counties and boroughs where
there estates were located.]
1888: It was reported
today that the executors of the Bernhard Stern’s will have paid out over
$25,000 in bequests to variety of Jewish and secular institutions in New York
City. The largest bequest was $5,000
given to the United Hebrew Charities.
1889(21st
of Sivan, 5649): Seventy-eight year old West Point graduate and Quartermaster
for the CSA, Abraham Charles Myers, who is the name-sake for Ft. Myers, FL and
who was a descendant of Rabbi Moses Cohen passed away today after which he was
buried in St. Paul’s Episcopal Cemetery in Alexandria, VA. (Editor’s note – How
does one explain the people who celebrate Pesach serving in a cause that chose
Slavery over the Union?)
1890: The Executive
Committee of the United Hebrew Charities reported today that during the month
it had found employment for 364 applicants during the month of May. The committee had spent $8,756.08 during the
month to aid needy Jews including the 1,987 immigrants who had arrived at
Castle Garden.
1890: In
Philadelphia, Reada A. Mayer and Louis B. Block gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania trained surgeon and husband of Etta N. Stauffer, who served as
first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army attached to the 34th
Field Artillery during WW I and was a director of the Jewish Foster Home in
Philadelphia.
1890: As of today,
the managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children have received $4,091.50
which will be used to provide free summer excursions for Jewish children and
their mothers.
1890: Police officers
arrested Marcus Goldstein, a Polish Jew, when came to the Gill Engraving
Company this morning to collect what he thought were the blank plates that
would enable him to print (and sell) counterfeit tickets for the Hamburg
Lottery.
1891: Birthdate of
Zionist leader and native of Prague, Robert Weltsch, who died in Jerusalem a
century later.
1892: In Moravia, Meir
Tzvi Jung, the rabbi of Uhersky Brod who moved to London where in 1912 he
became the Chief Minister of the Federation of Synagogues and his wife gave birth
to Rabbi Leo Jung, the husband of Irma Rothschild and father of Erna Villa,
Rosalie Rosenfeld, Julie Etra, and Marcella (Micki) Rosen who went from Knesset
Israel in Cleveland to the Jewish Center Synagogue in New York where he
revitalized and “modernized Orthodox Judaism” based in part on his constant
themes of reverence, righteousness and rachmanut, which he referred to as the
three "R's" of kedushah. (Editors note – this blog cannot do justice
the breadth and depth of his career.)
https://mishpacha.com/man-of-action/
1892: In Kaunas Count
(modern day Lithuania) Joseph and Gertrude Janner gave birth to Anglo-Jewish
political and civic leader Barnett Janner who would serve as an MP first from
the Liberal Party and then from the Labour Party
1893: Philadelphia
lawyer Charles Isaiah Hoffman married Fanny Binswanger in the City of Brotherly
love. Seven years later he would enter the JTS, graduated and was ordained in
1904 and spent most of the rest of his life as the spiritual leader of Oheb
Shalom in Newark, NJ. [Sort of a modern day version of “Rachel, the wife of
Akiva”]
1893: After having
viewed the body of Jewish cigar manufacturer Adolph S. Jaeger, Deputy Coroner O’Hare
said that the deceased had taken his own life and turned his remains over to
the undertaker.
1894: Today’s meeting
of the Constitutional Convention looking at charitable contributions made by
the State of New York, first heard from Myer Sterne, the “former Commissioner
of Charities and Correction who appeared in behalf of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
of which the late Jesse Seligman was President.”
1895: Sir Edward Grey, the man who would sign the Sykes-Picot Agreement which
has had such a significant impact on the Middle East and Israel, completed his
service as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
1895: “Governor
William McKinley delivered an address at Ottawa, Kansas in which he referred to
an American flag with a biblical inscription on it” which Chicago Republic
Abraham Kohn had presented to Abraham Lincoln “one month prior to his
assumption of the Presidency.” Kohn was President of Chicago’s KAM
Congregation. Actually two biblical
verses had been painted on to the flag both of which were from from the first
chapter of the book of Joshua verses 5 and 9.including the famous charge “Be
strong and of great courage. Be not
afraid, neither be dismayed.” After
several attempts, McKinley would finally be elected President in 1896 and re-elected
in 1900. He would die at the hands of an
assassin bringing Teddy Roosevelt to the White House.
1896: A character of
sketch of the recently deceased Marquis de Mores published today described him
as “eccentric” whose “hatred of England…was almost a mania” and who “was a
rabid enemy of the Jews.” (Editor’s note – For those who do not recognize the
name his anti-Semitism including fight a duel French Deputy Ferdinand-Camille
Dreyfus)
1897: Mrs. Jennie
Cohen, formerly of New Haven, CN, and her four children ranging in ages from
six years to four months were being cared for at Police Headquarters after
having spent the night in rooms provided for by the Hebrew Sheltering House
Association on Madison Street.
1897: The Baron
Hirsch Free Hebrew School of Chicago was formally incorporated at Springfield,
Illinois, the state capital.
1897: “Biblical
Titles” published today described the refusal of the Lord Chamberlain’s office
to grant a license to a biblical drama entitled “Joseph of Canaan” by George
Walters, an Australian clergyman and Rubinstein’s opera “Judas Maccabaeus” Apparently it is Biblical titles that upset
the English official and not religion per se since a license, which is
necessary for public performance, was granted to “The Sign of the Cross.”
1897: “The Reverend
Herman Warszawiak” the Jewish convert to Christianity “whose application to the
Presbytery was rejected last week after a trail for unministerial conduct gave
vent to his feelings today” comparing himself to St. Paul” and declaring “that
he had been hounded because he was of Jewish orgin and the Presbyterians did
not want any Jews.
1897: The
Philadelphia Inquirer reported that articles of incorporation have been filed
by the Sons of Abraham “a Hebrew benevolent society” in Camden, NJ.
1898(30th
of Sivan, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1898(30th
of Sivan, 5658): Fifty year old Moses Stein “a well-known resident of Bath
Beach” passed away at Mount Sinai Hospital.
A retired Manhattan wholesale butcher; he was one of the founders of the
Hebrew Congregational Society in Bath Beach.
1898: Birthdate of
Bessarabia native and mathematician Jacob Bromberg, the “graduate of the Grand
Duke Vladimir Military School in Kiev and the Polytechnical University in
Prague who came in 1929 came to the United States in 1929 after which he worked
as a mechanical engineer and wrote Russia, Judaism and the West.
1898: During the
Spanish American War, ships of the U.S Navy (in which 20 Jews served as
officers) entered the harbor at Guam. (Whether any those officers were at Guam
is not a matter of record.)
1899: Chicago Jews
are among those contributing funds to the purchase of memorial items to be
presented to Captain Dreyfus, Colonel Picquart and author Emile Zola. The latter two played key roles in
exonerating the former when he was falsely convicted of treason and subject to
a barrage of anti-Semitism.
1899: In Chicago, 50
boys, half of whom were Christians and half of whom were Jewish, fought it on
Stewart Avenue until the police arrived from the Maxwell Street Station and put
an end to the violence.
1899: Jews living on
the Lower East Side learned that “Winslow W. Dunlap, the self-appointed
missionary” seeking to convert the Jews also makes loans to anybody with a
salary between $20 to $200. “It is the custom of Dunlap to advance a man, say
$80 and deduct $5 for the expenses of the loan. Besides this $5 he charges
$40.80 interest making the borrower pay $70.80 for $25 in “easy” payments of
from $2.50 to $5 per week.
1899: “Law and Order”
published today decried the attack on a Christian missionary earlier this week
who was preaching on the streets of the Lower East Side by a mob and the
failure of the police to intervene because in civil society people have a right
to express their opinions no matter how distasteful they may be to the public
that is forced to hear them.
1899: “Conference of
Zionists” published today included a description of a proposal submitted by the
English Zionist Federation “proposing the re-establishment of Judea as an
independent state, suggesting the purchase of the Maccabean sites in Palestine
and the beginning of the work by the establishment of a Jewish colony and a
Jewish Agricultural College there.”
1899: “The Jew-Hater
in France” published today provided the views of Gustav Gottheil, a leading
American Reform Rabbi on the condition of the Jews in France as that nation is
convulsed by the Dreyfus affair. As to
Dreyfus, he said, “the fact that he was a Jew was the strongest accusation
against him.” “Even though “no race has been more patriotic than the French
Jews” “the real spirit of malice and persecution will never change and they
will never be friendly to the Jewish people.” And in a view that may have been
the result of his attendance at the Zionist Congress at Basel “The effect of
the triumph in the Zionistic movement stands out in clear and unmistakable
character.”
1899(12th of Tammuz,
5659): Fifty-six year old Jacob Baiz, the Venezuelan born son of Abraham and
Sarah Naar who after being raised in Elizabethport, NJ, became a successful
businessman in Latin America, serving as Consul-General of the Government of
Honduras and a member of the Coffee Exchange as well as Vice President of the
Hebrew Sheltering and Guardian Society passed away today in New York.
1900: In Jackson,
Michigan, on his birthday, Chicago attorney Benjamin Vogel Becker married
Elizabeth Loeb, the daughter of Jacob L. and Rachel Loeb, and the mother of
their only son John Leonard Becker.
1900 University of
Cincinnati and HUC graduate Joseph Saul Kornfeld, the Austro-Hungarian Empire born son Herman and Emilie (Gross)
Kornfeld who went from teaching at McGill University to a long time rabbinic
career that began with his service at Congregation in Pine Bluff, AR and that
included service as minister plenipotentiary to Persia during the Presidency of
Warren Harding married Josephine Blumenthal today in Pine Bluff, AR.
1901: Today Honus Wagner who teamed up with
second baseman Jake Pitler to form the double-play combination in his last
season, became the first major leaguer to “steal home” twice in the same game.
1902: Herzl learns
that Turkey accepted the Rouvier Project. Maruice Rouvier was one of those
permanent political animals created by the revolving door governments in the
days of France’s Third Republic. He was not Jewish. Depending upon who formed the government
Rouvier held different cabinet posts including finance and foreign affairs. He was Prime Minister twice himself. At this time, Rouvier was serving as the
Minister of Finance. At the same time,
like most French politicians, he was always looking for ways to counter German
influence. The Turks were in need of
financial assistance and Rouvier was willing to do what he could if it would
keep the Kaiser out of the Mediterranean.
1903: Maurice Arnold
de Forest, one of the two adopted sons of Baroness Clara de Hirsch and Baron
Maurice de Hirsch de Gereuth resigned his commission in the Prince of Wales's
Own Norfolk Artillery
1904: Thirty-year-old
Harvard trained attorney Alfred Bettman, the Cincinnati born son of Louis and
Rebecca (Bloom) Bettman married Lillian Wyler today after which he served as
assistant prosecuting attorney for Hamilton County and city solicitor for
Cincinnati, OH.
1904: “Two thousand
more cheap rate-immigrants” are scheduled to be landed today at Ellis Island
“from several transatlantic steamships following the arrival of “721 cheap-rate
immigrants” the majority of whom are English Jews at Ellis Island yesterday.
1905: In New Orleans,
Max Bernard Hellman and Julia gave birth to playwright and social activist
Lillian Hellman.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0620.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hellman-lillian
1906: Birthdate of
director and screenwriter Edmond T. Greville who based “on 23andMe genetic
testing of his daughter and grandson in 2017, was in fact Ashkenazim Jewish
from the likely area of Odessa, a fact never known to him during his life time.
1906: In New York
City, Ethel and Ludwig Behr Bernstein gave birth to University of Pittsburgh
graduate Stanley Burnshaw, “a poet, critic, translator, editor, publisher and
novelist…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/arts/stanley-burnshaw-poet-editor-and-critic-dies-at-99.html
1907: Frederick Henriques,
the son Joseph Gutteres Henriques, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1908(21st
of Sivan, 5668) Parashat Beha’alotcha
1908: Selig Brodestky
the son of Russian peddler who arrived in England sixteen years ago, who “was sent
to the Jew’s free school in the East End of London after which he won a
scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge has won the place “Senior Wrangle” in
two years instead of the usual three, making him only the second Jew, after
Tuma Hartog to earn this honor.
1909: It was reported
today the at the Livingston Civic Club of the People’s Institute has hosted a
production of “The Chickasaw Convention” a playing that “dealt with political
career of Abraham Cohen
1910: Fanny Brice
debuted at the Ziegfield Follies (As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archive)
1911: In Rosenberg,
TX, Sam and Lorraine Bernice Daily Field gave birth to University of Texas alum
Helene Gladys Daily, the Houston lawyer and a leader of the League of Women
Voters who married Harry Susman in 1939.
1912(5th
of Tammuz, 5671):Fifty-year-old New York City native and former traveling
salesman Seymour Caesar Heyman, the husband of Rebecca Gerson and father of
Stanley Heyman, who in 1897 moved to Oklahoma City where he opened the Hub
Clothing Store, became a civic leader and “an influential member of B’nai
Israel Temple” passed away today in Oklahoma City.
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HE021
1912: According to a
report today from Washington, DC, one of the planks in the platform of the
Democratic Party “will be devoted to the record made” by the Party in the House
of Representatives where Congressman Sulzer, Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs was instrumental getting a resolution passed denouncing the
treaty with Russia.”
1913(15th of Sivan,
5673): Eighty-three year old “cantor and journalist” Jacob Tattlebaum passed
away today in Patterson, NJ.
1913(15th
of Sivan, 5673): Sixty-six-year-old New York born banker and realtor Henry S.
Hernnan, a director of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids passed away
today in Deal, NJ.
1913: Rabbi Israel
Klein is scheduled to deliver the Friday night sermon at Zion Temple in
Chicago, Illinois.
1914(26th
of Sivan, 5674): Sh’lach
1914: In Chicago,
Rabbi Julius Rappaport is scheduled to lead service this morning at Beth El
Temple.
1914: Rabbi Aaron L.
Weinstein of Davenport, IA is scheduled to occupy this pulpit” on Shabbat at
Isaiah Temple in Chicago.
1914: In Chicago, the
1914 Confirmation Class of Isaiah Temple is scheduled to “be formally welcomed
into the Isaiah Alumni Association this afternoon.
1915: In Canonsburg,
PA, dedication of Tree of Life Synagogue.
1915: At the Astor
Hotel, Louis Marshall presided over the meeting of the American Jewish
Committee today where it was “decided to convoke a general congress of American
Jews to consider methods of assisting their” co-religionists “in the war zones”
following “the receipt of the first news of atrocities committed against Jews
in the warring countries.”
1915: The Turkish
government permitted “expelled Jews” to return to parts of Palestine including
Tel Aviv and its “suburbs.”
1915: Odessa trained American sculptor, Aaron J. Goodelman the Bessarabian born
son of Joseph and Mollie Goodelman who
fled to New York in the wake of pogroms, settled in New York, created
“Necklace,” a statuette displayed in “Struggle for Negro Rights,” anti-lynching
exhibition before turning to “art related to the Holocaust after WW II” married
of Sarah Hyman today
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/aaron-j-goodelman-1865
1915: “Interest in
the case of the condemned man” Leo Frank “reached fever heat in Atlanta today”
where “it was the one subject of discussion everywhere” as Governor Slaton’s
decision was expected by tomorrow.
1916(19th of Sivan,
5676): Eighty-one year old Leopold Adler, the German born husband of Rose Adler
passed away today in Chicago.
1916: Birthdate of
Zelda Berkowitz who as Zelda Kaplan became as an inimitable fixture on
fashion’s front lines and an inveterate clubgoer in Manhattan. (As reported by
Ruth La Ferla)
1916: “Max J. Klein,
whose charge that he had been excluded from the Second Field Artillery because
he was a Jews started the inquiry into discrimination in the National Guard,
announced” tonight” that he was organizing a company to serve in the Guard.
1916: Today composer
and Conductor Victor Harris, the New York born son of Jacob Harris married
Catherine L. Richardson with whom he had four children – Cecilia, Victor, David
and Marry Harris.
1917: This evening,
at eight o’clock, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host “an
entertainment and dance in the Assembly Hall of the Hebrew Institute to
celebrate the installation of its new officers.”
1917: “Jacob H.
Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, Louis Marshall and thirty other members of the Joint
Distribution Committee” raising “funds for Jewish War sufferers voted” today
“to the Morgenthau commission ‘unlimited funds’ for the relief of the Jews in
Palestine.”
1917: The Turkish
government permitted the Jews who had been expelled to return to Tel Aviv and
Jaffa
1917: Birthdate of
Franklin Littell, a pioneer in the field of Holocaust scholarship, who was also
president of Iowa Wesleyan College and a founding board member of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington. His best-known book, The
Crucifixion of the Jews, pressed his view that Christianity is essentially
Jewish and that Jesus, Paul and Peter would have been executed at Auschwitz.
(As reported by Douglas Martin)
1918: Birthdate of
Lillian Sylvia Lukashefsky, the Brooklyn native who gained famed as Yiddish
actress, author and singer Lillian Lux who was the wife of Pesach Burnstein and
the mother of actor Mike Burstyn.
http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/lillian-lux-86-international-star-of-yiddish-stage/15411/
1918: Two days after
he passed away, Michael Abrahams, “the son of David and Eva Abrahams” was
buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1918: United States
President Wilson sent Henry Morgenthau and Felix Frankfurter to Egypt to
investigate how to best aid Jews in Palestine.
1919: One day after
she passed away Martha Friedland, the daughter of Myer Friedland, was buried at
the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery” in Northern Ireland.
1919: Today, the
Turkish government permitted Jews expelled from Jaffa, Tel Aviv and “other
suburbs” to return.
1919: After having
been elected to the Weimar National Assembly, Bernhard Dernberg completed his
service as Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor.
1920: Today, “the
Men’s Community Club and friends of Providence, RI, traveled by the Steamer
Mount Hope to visit the Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the United
States where they met by members of the congregation including the president,
Nathan David and “Reverend Brodsky,” the cantor who provided the music for the
occasion.
1920: Today,
Mathematics Professor Benjamin Abram Bernstein married Rose Davidson, the
“brother of sculptor Jo Davidson.
1920: Attorney Julius S. Berg, who was
wounded at Arras, France in May of 1918 and went to serve in both houses of the
New York state legislature married Rose Schram today.
1920: A reception is
scheduled to be held today in honor Jacob Cohen of Passaic, NJ and Anna Levy
whose parents, Mr. and Mr. Louis Levy, have just announced the betrothal of the
couple.
1921: Shortstop
Reuben Ewing made his major league debut with the St. Louis Cardinals.
1922: In Canton, OH,
two Jewish immigrants from Romania, Rachel (Levenson) Klamer and Joseph Klamer,
the owner of the Klamer Barrel Company gave birth to Reuben Benjamin Klamer, “an
inventor who dreamed up the Game of Life and many other toys and games that
entertained young baby boomers in the pre-internet 1950s and ’60s as well as
their children in the ’80s and ’90s.” (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)
1922: Justice Irving
Lehman of the New York Supreme Court and President of the Jewish Welfare Board
is scheduled to address the fourth annual conference of the National
Association of Jewish Community Center Secretaries meeting in Providence, R.I.
1922: Dr. Lee K.
Frankel, Vice President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, is
scheduled to sail for Europe today aboard the SS Beregaria. He is head of a committee appointed by the
American Jewish Relief Commission that is visiting Jewish population centers in
Austria, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Russia in an effort to
determine how best to spend th $18,000,000 that has been collected by American
Jews for their coreligionists living in Eastern Europe.
1923: At meeting of
the Board of Directors of the National Farm School held today, a memorial was
adopted praising the work of the late Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, the founder and
President of the National Farm School.
http://www.delval.edu/_library/archives/krauskopfTribute.htm
1924(18th of Sivan,
5684): Eighty-eight year old Nicholas Scharff, the native of Bavaria who was
married at Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1870 passed away today in St. Louis.
1924: It was reported
today that Dr. Joseph Silverman, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El has been
elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association for the erection
a Music Conservatory in Palestine in memory of the Jewish soldiers who fell in
the war” for which “a drive for an endowment fund of $250,000 will be launched
from the offices of the association at 60 East 23rd St. in New York.
1925(28th
of Sivan, 5685):Dr. Josef Bruer, the Austrian physician who worked with Freud
to develop the modern field of psychoanalysis passed away in Vienna.
1926: In Cleveland,
Ohio, “Maurice and Rachel (Shapiro) Gelfand gave birth to history professor
Lawrence E. “Larry” Gelfand, the husband of Miram Ifland and WW II veteran who
joined the Department of History at the University of Iowa in 1962 “after
teaching at the Universities of Hawaii, Washington and Wyoming.
1926: Birthdate of
Rehavam "Gandhi" Ze'evi the native of Jerusalem who rose to the rank
of general and founded the Moledet Party.
1926: In the Czech
Republic Pavel Bondy and Franziska Bondy, the daughter of Leopold and Valerie
Pick, who was murdered during the Holocaust gave birth to Eduard Bondy who
murdered during the Holocaust at the age of 15.
1927: Birthdate of
Sherman Bernard Goldberg who gained fame as producer and screenwriter Judd
Bernard.
1927: Birthdate of
Newark native, Wharton graduate and WW II veteran Milton Perlumutter who became
a successful supermarket executive passed away today.
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=JPOST20000308-01.1.19
1928: In Brooklyn,
“Morris Landau, a machinist and the former Selma Buchman gave birth to Oscar
winning actor Martin Landau who may be best remembered for his continuing role
in the hit television series “Mission Impossible.”
1928: In the Bronx,
Florence and Louis Slobodkin gave birth to “Lawrence B. Slobodkin, a central
figure in the development of ecology as a modern science and a co-author of one
of its most inspiring inquiries, a paper known informally as “The World Is
Green” (As reported by Carol Kaesuk Yoon)
1928: A court in Tel
Aviv “imposed short jail terms and sentences of deportation” on three Jews who
resisted the police efforts to break up a demonstration protesting the flogging
of prisoners in Palestine jails.” The
three were additionally accused of being “Communists.” The demonstration was part of a larger
protest by Jews against the propensity of the British immigration authorities
for deporting Jews on the slightest pretext with little or no evidence of
serious wrongdoing.
1929: “The Hollywood
Revue of 1929,” a musical film produced by Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapt, with
a script co-authored by Al Boasberg and co-starring Jack Benny and Norma
Shearer was released today in the United States.
1929: In Montreal,
Samuel and Saidye Rosner Bronfman gave birth to Edgar Miles Bronfman, CEO of
Seagram’s and President of the World Jewish Congress.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/edgar-bronfman/#7a3779744465
1929: It was reported
today that “the concordant signed recently between the Prussian government and
the Vatican is not like to have any effect on the statues of the Jewish population
in Prussia,” especially since “the question of religious training” which had
been such a problem in 1924 during the “negotiations for the Bavarian
concordant” had been omitted from this document.
1930: “More than 75
per cent of about 6,000 Jews who went to Brazil during 1929 were assisted upon
their arrival in that country by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, Dr. I.
Raffalovitch, chief rabbi of Brazil declared today at the offices of” HIAS in
New York City.
1931: A newspaper in
Salonica called the Macedonia ran an
article about a resident named Isaac D. Cohen. Cohen was sent as a
representative to the meeting of the Maccabiah which was held in Sophia,
Bulgaria. However the newspaper stated while away, he also attended a
conference held by a revolutionary organization, which had come up with the
decision to sue for the independence of Greek and Yugoslav Macedonia. This lie
led to attacks on Jews who were said not to be patriotic.
1932: Resolutions
concerning the details of an organization of a national federation of Orthodox
Jewish Congregation and the purpose of such a federation, the first of its kind
in America, are scheduled to be taken up this afternoon when a convention of Orthodox
Jewish congregations re-convenes this afternoon “in the auditorium of Yeshiva
College on Amsterdam Avenue.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/06/20/100766154.html?pageNumber=15
1933(26th
of Sivan, 5693): Fifty-three year old Russian-born Jewess Rose Paster Stokes,
the first wife a prominent, wealthy Episcopalian, and social activist who was a
founder of the American Communist Party passed away today in Berlin where she
was being treated for breast cancer.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAWstokes.htm
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stokes-rose-pastor
1933: “The XXXIII
Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations” is scheduled to meet for
a third day today in Chicago.
1934: “Abe Goldberg, vice-president
of the ZOA and a member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine is scheduled to
speak this evening in the 4th in a series of broadcasts sponsored by
the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League.
1935(19th of Sivan,
5695): San Luis Obispo, CA, native Marcel Ernest Cert the graduate of Hastings
Law School and California Superior Court Judge whose sister Rebecca died
tragically in a hotel fire, passed away today.
1936: “Jewish
children from the east side of Berlin found themselves unexpectedly barred today
from Bad Klingenberg on Lake Rummelsburg” when they were confronted with
recently erected signs reading “Jews not wanted.”
1936: “In the Bakaa
quarter on the Jerusalem-Bethlehem Road” “a burning rag soaked in kerosene was
thrown through a window in the storeroom of a Jewish baby home” which housed
“ninety-seven infants and fifty adults including mothers and nurses” in what
was “one of the cruelest acts of terrorism perpetrated in the cause of Arab
nationalism.”
1936: “Supreme Court
Justice William T. Collins criticized Germany’s racial policy in a decision”
today permitting Marcel M. Holzer who had been “sent to a concentration camp in
1933 for six months because he was a Jew” and who was a former employee of the
Reichsbahn (German State Railroads) “to bring sut here for upward of $50,000
damages because he was discharged as a ‘non-Aryan.’”
1936: “The Palestine
Government today extended the death penalty to crimes of sabotage as it fought
to end the violence and destruction that in the last nine weeks have resulted
in more than eighty deaths of Jews, Arabs and Christians.”
1936: The Palestine Post reported that according to the new Palestine
Emergency Regulations a life sentence could be imposed on any person carrying
arms, bombs or incendiary material. Arab attacks on Jewish settlements
continued unabated. Police patrols were stoned in Arab villages and three
British soldiers were injured in various shooting incidents throughout the
country.
1937: “The Latest Book Received” column published today included a
listing for If I Forget Thee a novel by Josef Dunner that is described
as “a story of the reorientation of two German Jews.”
1937: While preaching his “last sermon of the season” today at
Congregation Ohab Zadek in New York, Rabbi William Margolis said today,
“Current happenings in Europe are finally convincing the world that the enemies
of democracy are the foes of all men”
1938: Twenty-eight year old Liselotte Herrman, the mother of a
four year old son whose husband Fritz died in Gestapo custody was guillotined
after having been convicted for opposing the Nazi regime. (She was not Jewish,
but it is important to remember those who sacrificed to hold back the Night)
1939: In commenting on wave of violence gripping Palestine
including yesterday’s bombing in Haifa, Davar wrote, “”Who throws
bombs? Is it the same hand that is
sowing blood and ruin in the Arab market in the Jewish suburb? These are not the ways of the Jewish
population in Palestine in their struggle…Ruin and paralysis of economic life
will only hurt the Jews in Palestine.
Sacrifices may be necessary for our political struggle but every act
paralyzing our life unnecessarily weakens the Jews here more than its sabotages
the Palestine Government’s new policy and it only causes failure of Palestine
Jewry’s struggle against the policy.” In a separate column, David Ben Gurion
condemned the violence saying “The Jews must sacrifice everything for
immigration, colonization, self-defense and independence but we must not sully
our struggle with despicable acts of madness such as have been recently
committed at Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa.
The murder of innocent Arabs and Jews and stupid sabotage are act that
are only helping our most bitter enemies.
Such criminal acts soil our just struggle, undermine the efficiency of
our work and play the game of our foes.”
1939: Final broadcast
of Song School, a radio show
featuring Jewish Jazzman Benny Goodman
1940: Jewish
prisoners began arriving at Ferramonti, one of the 15 concentration camps established
by Mussolini during the summer of 1940. In the next three years, 3,800 Jews
would be imprisoned in all of the camps.
1940: “Blueberry
Hill” a song with lyrics by Al Stock and Al Lewis, which Fats Dominon would
make famous in the 1950 was recorded by Mary Small with the Nat Brandwynne’s
orchestersa. (Editor’s note – Stock and Lewis were Jewish)
1940: On the day when
France surrendered to Germany Propper de Callejón was First Secretary of the
Spanish Embassy in Paris. In order to prevent the German army from plundering
the art collection that his wife's family kept at the Chateau de Royaumont, he
declared this castle to be his main residence, so it would be treated in the
same privileged way as the accommodation of any other diplomat. Among the art
works thus saved are a triptych of Van Eyck (one of Adolf Hitler´s favorite
painters). In July 1940, , in co-operation with the Portuguese Consul Arístedes
de Sousa Menendes, he would issue from the Spanish Consulate in Bordeaux more
than thirty thousand transit visas to Jews, so that they could cross Spain to
reach Portugal. When Spain's Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer learned that
Propper de Callejón was issuing visas without the previous authorization of his
Ministry, he had him transferred to the Consulate of Larache in the Spanish
protectorate in Morocco. Afterwards, he would be posted to Rabat, Zurich
Washington, Ottawa and Oslo. Propper de
Callejón's father, Max Propper, was a Bohemian Jew, and his mother, Juana
Callejón, was a Spanish Catholic; they raised Eduardo and his brothers in the
Catholic faith His wife, Hélène Fould-Springer was a socialite and painter. She
was from a notable Jewish Austrian-French banking family, though she converted
to Catholicism upon their marriage and is a sister of prominent Paris art
patron and philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (Baroness Élie de Rothschild,)
1916—2003). He never gained public recognition for his heroic acts before his
death in 1972 in London.
1940: As they continued their dangerous trek to avoid
capture by the Nazis, Hans and Margaret Reys arrived in Bayonne, France where
they received visas that had been signed by Portuguese Vice-Consul Manuel
Vierira Braga which enabled them to cross the border into Spain, the next step
on an odyssey that took them to Lisbon, Rio and finally New York. Hans Reys is the creator of Curious
George. Like so many others, he owes his
life to the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
1941: In Leicester,
UK, Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant, and Ruth M. (née
Danziger) who did not tell her son that she Jewish “until he was in his late
twenties” gave birth to Stephen Arthur Frears
1941(25th
of Sivan, 5701): Seventy-five year old Harold Nathan, the son of : “Robert W.
Nathan and Annie Florence Nathan whose ancestor were among the early settlers
of New York City” and graduate of
Columbia University Law School who was a “partner in the law firm of
Cook, Nathan, Lehman and Greenman,” a member of Temple Emanuel and the husband
of Sallie Gruntal Nathan with whom he had two children – Marian and Robert,
“the novelist and poet” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/21/87630044.pdf
1941: As of today,
“more than 2,000,000 Jews live in New York City” but “about 35 percent of the
employable 365,000 Jewish young men and women have been unable to find jobs”
1941: As of today,
“among the three largest banks” in New York City “with a payroll of 20,000 only
about 200 Jews are on the salary list.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/20/87629126.pdf
1942: Sixteen month
old Tomas Abraham was deported today from Prague to Terezin, the first step on
his trip to Auschwitz where he would be murdered two years later. (Editor’s
note - The Nazis were such mighty warriors)
1942(5th
of Tammuz, 5702) Parashat Korach
1942(5th
of Tammuz, 5702): Seventy-four-year-old who had been transported from Prague to
Terezin was murdered there today.
1942: Grace Goodside
married cinematographer Jess Paley meaning that she would gain fame as Grace Paley.
1942: Mass killings
of Jews by the Nazis began at Auschwitz.
1942: Thirty-three
year old Hynek Abraham was transported from Prague to Terezin, the first stop
on his trip to Auschwitz where he was murdered two years later.
1942: After breaking
into a warehouse at Auschwitz, Ukrainian Eugeniusz Bendera and three Poles,
Kazimierz Piechowski, Stanisław Gustaw Jaster, and Józef Lempart dressed as
members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (the SS units responsible for concentration
camps), armed themselves, and stole an SS staff car, which they then drove
unchallenged through the main gate
1942: From now until October 9th, 13,776 Jews would
be deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt
1943:
Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein responded to tributes paid at a gathering this
evening celebrating ten years of rabbinical service to Temple Emanu-El and
provided a sendoff for the leave of absence he was taking to begin serving as a
chaplain in the U.S. Army that ended with his hope that just as the first
decade of his service was marked by the “accession of Hitler to power” so this
next decade “shall be inaugurated with the triumph of democracy.”
1943: Five thousand Jews from Amsterdam are
deported to Auschwitz.
1943: The Ternopol (Ukraine) Ghetto is
liquidated.
1943: Himmler sent
100 Jews to a concentration camp in Alsace called Natzweiler. They were killed
there, and their skeletons were sent to the Anatomical Museum in Strasbourg.
1943: Five thousand,
five hundred Jews were rounded up in Amsterdam and deported.
1944: Max and Frieda
Löwy Sipser applied to be sent to the refugee shelter that had just been
established at Fort Ontario, NY on the same day that the Displaced Persons
Sub-Commission of the Allied Control Commission posted the notice for
applicants.
http://www.recognitionscience.com/cgv/oswego.htm
1945(9th of Tammuz,
5705): Fifty-eight year old German born author and playwright Bruno Frank who
left Germany with his wife Liesl after the Reichstag Fire and eventually made
his way to the United States where he wrote scripts for such films as “The
Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
1945: Aware that
“British hostility to the Zionist enterprise was often a mask for anti-Semitism,”
Churchill cautioned his colleague Lord Croft to “not be drawn into any campaign
that might be represented as anti-Semitism.”
1946: In Moscow,
Alexander Kazhdan and his wife gave birth to Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan who
emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975 at which time he changed his name David
Kazhdan, became an Orthodox Jew who made Aliyah in 2002 where he became a
professor of Mathematics at Hebrew University.
1947: Following his
announcement that he was leaving Beth El in Camden for a new position At Beth
Abraham in Oakland, CA, Camden Mayor Brunner wrote a letter published in
today’s “Voice” expression his admiration for Rabbi Philip Lipis saying “that
Camden was privileged to enjoy his presence and leadership for twelve years.”
1947(2nd of Tammuz,
5707): Ben "Bugsy" Siegel was gunned down by fellow mobsters over
financial irregularities surrounding the building of the Flamingo in Las Vegas.
1947: “Twenty minutes
after Bugsy Siegel was murder, Meyer “Lansky's associates, including Gus
Greenbaum and Moe Sedway, walked into the Flamingo Hotel and took control of
the property.”
1948: During the
Israeli War for Independence, the Etzel (Irgun) ship Altelena reached the coast
of Tel Aviv carrying 800 new immigrants and weapons. The Etzel claimed they had
an agreement that 20% of the arms on board would be used by its members in
defending Jerusalem. David Ben Gurion, head of the new state of Israel, saw
this as threat to the power of the new government. He believed that there could
only be one army and that it had to be under the control of the national
government. If the Irgun wanted to fight, then its members had to become part
of the army just as the members of the Palmach and the Haganah had done. Ben
Gurion refused to accept any compromise on this point. He ordered the ship to
be fired upon. The incident almost caused a civil war and was only averted by
an impassioned and at times incoherent speech made by Menachem Begin to his
followers over the radio that night not to take up arms against fellow Jews.
One only has to look at multiplicity of armed groups operating today on the
West Bank and Gaza to see what would have happened if Ben Gurion had not
reluctantly taken such bold action which was necessary if the new state of
Israel was going to be a coherent nation.
Because of the controversy that still
revolves around this event I have published a second version
1948: Just over a
month after the State of Israel was established and shortly after the first
cease fire in the War of Independence, Israel's first prime minister, David
Ben-Gurion, gave one of the country's most controversial orders ever - to take
the Altalena by force.Prior to the establishment of the state, several armed
Jewish militias protected early Jewish settlers and fought against the British
and hostile Arab forces. The largest of these groups were the Hagana and the
Irgun Zva’I Leumi (Irgun or IZL). The Hagana, led by Ben-Gurion, became the
Israeli Defense Forces once the state was declared in May 1948 and the Irgun
was under the command of Menahem Begin.In mid-May 1948, during the War of
Independence, Ben-Gurion ordered the various militias disbanded and integrated
into the IDF in order to create one army under a unified command. While some of
the militias willingly sent their fighters and weaponry to the IDF, others were
unwilling to relinquish the established paramilitary organizations they had
built. Notably, the Irgun, for both ideological and political reasons, was
unwilling to put itself under Ben-Gurion’s command.Begin and other Irgun
commanders were still attempting to ship significant amounts of weaponry and
fresh immigrant fighters into Israel in the last days of the British Mandate.
The Irgun organized a large ship carrying weaponry and fighters from France,
scheduled to arrive on Israel’s shores in mid-May. Due to logistical and
operational factors, however, the departure of the Altalena was delayed.By the
time the ship was ready to sail, loaded with nearly 1,000 immigrant fighters
and thousands of tons of materiel, the first ceasefire in the War of
Independence had already been reached and importing weaponry would have
constituted a violation of it. The Jewish state, however, was in need of
weaponry and ammunition, so when Begin approached Ben-Gurion to inform him of
the shipment, the two attempted to negotiate a deal that would see the ship’s
cargo safely unloaded.In order to evade detection by United Nations observers
overseeing the ceasefire, the Irgun and the newly anointed leaders of the state
and its army decided that the Altalena should be offloaded at Kfar Vitkin, near
Netanya.Negotiations between the Irgun and Ben-Gurion were complicated by
Begin’s insistence on transferring most of the ship’s cargo to Irgun units
operating within the newly established IDF, a condition to which Ben-Gurion
could not agree. The new leader of Israel was already wary of having non-state
controlled armed forces operating independently of the army and believed that
directing the weaponry to IDF units from the Irgun would lead to an “army
within an army.”As the ship began its final approach to Kfar Vitkin, IDF forces
were ordered to surround the area in order to seize the payload. Following
failed negotiations, the government decided to issue an ultimatum. The military
commander on scene sent Begin a clear message: “I shall use all the means at my
disposal in order to implement the order and to requisition the weapons which
have reached shore and transfer them from private possession into the
possession of the Israel government… You have ten minutes to give me your
answer.” Small-scale fighting between the two sides broke out at Kfar Vitkin,
but Begin and the Irgun, aware of their numerical and tactical disadvantage,
decided to send the Altalena south to Tel Aviv where more fighters could be
assembled and the army was not yet situated to intercept the ship. Irgun
fighters who had already joined the IDF began defecting from their commands and
headed to Tel Aviv to fight for their weaponry. As the two forces descended on
Tel Aviv, fighting erupted along the shore and throughout the city, “mainly in
the center and the south,” The Palestine Post reported in the aftermath of the
clashes. The Israeli navy and artillery pieces on shore fired warning shots at
the ship in a last-ditched attempt to force a surrender, but eventually hit the
ship, setting it ablaze. Ultimately, over 20 Irgun fighters and more than a
handful of IDF soldiers were killed in the fighting between the two Jewish
forces. The Altalena was eventually brought out to sea and sunk.Ben-Gurion has
been both praised and disdained for his decision to take the Altalena by force.
Fearing a civil war and a lack of government legitimacy based on the concept of
a monopoly of force, Ben-Gurion ultimately decided that he could not tolerate
Begin’s brazen refusal to put himself, his fighters and weaponry under the
state’s command. Following the Altalena incident, however, Irgun and other
militia forces were integrated into the IDF and the non-democratic challenges
to the state’s legitimacy came to an end. Nonetheless, the decision to order
Jewish soldiers to act against fellow Jews – who too were fighting for the
infant state’s survival – has never been forgiven by some who view it as a
betrayal of the very purpose of a Jewish army. Until this day, the Altalena is
invoked at times when state security forces are pitted against Jews, albeit not
with the deadly consequences of June 1948.
1948(13th of Sivan,
5708): Twenty Jews were killed in a bombing in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo.
1948: Fifty-thousand
Jewish school children are scheduled to participate in the ancient Jewish
festival of the Bikkurim this morning on the Mall of Central Park, as an act
designed “symbolize the role American Jewry has played in the redemption of the
soil of Israel.”
1948: In Cincinnati,
Ohio, Carl and Edith Henry gave birth to photojournalist Diana Mara Henry whose
subjects have included Elizabeth Holtzman and Bella Abzug, “her most enduring
friend and client who since 1985 “has been writing, translating from the French,
publishing and speaking] about the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and
its Nacht und Nebel political prisoners, including the Jewish spy Andre
Scheinmann.”
1949: Several
thousand Iraqi troop are camped today in Jordan where King Abdullah who is losing
popularity due to his willingness to sign a peace treaty with Israel, may find
them useful as reinforcements for the Arab Legion.
1949: “Moshe Sharett,
Israeli Foreign Minister, told the Knesset [Assembly] tonight that he had
advised the Lausanne delegates to advocate a plebiscite in Arab Palestine to
determine whether the inhabitants desired a separate state or annexation to
Jordan.”
1950(5th of Tammuz,
5710): Sixty-two year old Georgia businessman Sam Lazarus, the husband of Annie
Stein Lazarus with whom he had five children, drowned t today in Neptune Beach,
FL where he was entertaining friends at his summer house.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that legislation
empowered the minister of finance to underwrite up to 50 percent of mortgage
loans for the construction of low-cost housing.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Britain had promised
to press Egypt to open the Suez Canal for oil tankers bound for the Haifa
refineries. Contrary to earlier news, General William Riley, chief UN
representative in the Middle East, reported to the UN Security Council on June
13 that Egyptian interference with Israel-bound shipping in the Suez Canal was
an "aggressive, hostile action, undertaken in the spirit of blockade and
having partial effects of a blockade."
1951: “Kind Lady” a re-make of the 1935 film produced by Armand
Deutsch with music by David Raksin and filmed by Cinematographer Joseph
Ruttenberg was released in the United States today.
1952: In address to the Commercial and Industrial Club, Schmuel
Elyashiv, Israel’s Ambassador in Moscow “said there were prospects of expanding
Israel’s trade relations with Russia.
This year Israel shipped oranges and bananas to Russia.” The Soviets would have bought more if the
Israelis had produced a larger crop.
1953(7th of Tammuz, 5713): Parashat Chukat
1953(7th of Tammuz, 5713): Sixty-one year old Oscar
winning screenwriter Arthur Caesar, the Romanian born son of Morris Keiser and
the brother of lyricist and composer Irving Caesar passed away today.
1954: In Ramat Gan, Louis
(Lutz) Eliezer Wolfermann and Tonya Krepel gave birth to Ilan Ramon, Israel’s
first astronaut.
1955(30th of Sivan, 5715): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1955(30th of Sivan, 5715): Fifty-three-year-old Harold
Mann Bayuk, the Philadelphia born son of Julia and Meyer Bayuk and the husband
of Lillian R. Bayuk passed away today in Miami Beach, FL.
1956: Birthdate of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Tom Weiner, the
author of One Man Against the World” The Tragedy of Richard Nixon.
1960: Birthdate of Shachiv Shnaan the Druze Israeli who served in
the Herev Battalion before starting a career in politics that included two
stints as an MK.
1962: The President of Queens College announced the appointment of
Professor Sidney Axelrad, head of the department of anthropology-sociology as
director of graduate work.
1962: In Brooklyn, funeral services were held for Brooklyn native Grace
Baer Bachrach, the school teacher and wife of attorney Clarence G.
Bachrach with whom she had two children who was so active in various civic
and cultural organizations including the “Brooklyn division of the Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies” that was honored as “Brooklyn’s First Lady of
Philanthropy in 1956.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/19/82045594.pdf
1963: In London, world premiere of “The Great Escape” a must see
movie with a memorable score by Elmer Bernstein.
1963: It was reported today that the newly elected officers of “Brith
Abraham, a national Jewish fraternal order are Irving L Hodes, Grand Master;
Henry H. Taylor, vice grand master; Louis Clark, grand secretary; Joseph A.
Klein, grand treasurer; Samuel N. Reiter; grand trustee; Adolph stern, counsel
and Mrs. Hannah Friedland of Brooklyn, president of the National Women’s
Council.
1964: “Nobody Loves an Albatross” a comedy produced by Philip Rose
and directed by Gene Saks with Marian Winters in the role of “Marge Weber” came
to a close today.
1965(20th of Sivan, 5725): Ninety-four year old financier and
presidential advisor Bernard Baruch passed away.
http://archive.org/details/1965-06-21_Bernard_Baruch
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/54487/Bernard-Baruch
http://www.knowitall.org/legacy/laureates/baruch%20bernard%20m.html
1965(29th of Sivan, 5725): Eighty year old Oscar A.
Berman, the Cincinnati born son of Adolph Aria Berman and Mary Agnes Jacob”
passed away today in New York City.
1965:
The New York Times reports on the challenge facing Jack Benny as he faces the
first summer in 33 years when he “does not find himself in the midst of hectic
preparations for a new season on radio or television.”
1966: Birthdate of New York native and son of Israeli parents Boaz
Yakin who directed the must-see movie “Remember the Titans.”
1967: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Flora
Sussman, the widow of Louis Sussman and the mother of Harold Sussman, the
President of the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre.
1969(3rd of Tammuz, 5729): Terrorists set off three bombings near
the Kotel killing one and injuring five.
1970: Birthdate of Jason Robert Brown who wrote the music and
lyrics for “Parade” the Tony and Drama Desk award winning musical based on the
life and lynching of Leo Frank.
1971(27th of Sivan, 5731): Seventy-four year old Paris
native Camille Espire, “a French national who lived in Mayfair and served in
the RAF during WW II as a Special Operations Executive” passed away today in
Amsterdam.
1971(27th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three year old New
York native and Princeton educated author and mountain climber James Ramsey
Ullman passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/21/archives/james-ramsey-ullman-writer-dead-at-63.html
1972: Birthdate of Yuval Semo, the Haifa native who a popular
Israeli actor and comedian.
1973: “A Touch of Class” starring George Segal, directed and
produced by Melvin Frank and with a script by Frank and Jack Rose was released
in the United States today
1973: At Yale University in New Haven, CT, Bessie Margolin was
awarded her Doctor of Science of Law degree today.
1973: Birthdate of Kansas City, MO native Joshua David Shapiro,
the Georgetown University trained lawyer and Democratic Party leader who began
serving as the 50th Attorney General of Pennsylvania in 2017.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120722232321/http:/www.joshshapiro.org/about/
1976(22nd of Sivan, 5736): Forty-seven-year-old New
York born Harold Dinerman, the director of regional services for the National
Jewish Welfare Board and husband of the former Miriam Goldfarb with whom he had
three children – David, Ellen and Ruth – passed away today in Newark, NJ
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/22/archives/harold-dinerman.html
https://www.jta.org/archive/harold-dinerman-dead-at-47
1976: Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Davidooff announced the engagement of
their daughter Norma, a producer reporter with Newsweek Broadcasting to Konrad
J. Perlman the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. Perlman who used his master’s
degree in city planning from Yale to become the chief of planning for the
District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the US
administration informed Israel that it would receive $200m. in transitional
aid, much less than was expected. Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the Labor Party symposium "Israeli Arab
citizens are entitled to full and equal rights, but with the knowledge that not
all the duties of equal citizens are demanded of them, nor can all rights be
granted to them as long as the enmity of the surrounding Arab world to Israel
persists."
1977: It was reported today that Israel has denied torturing Arab
prisoners.
1977: Time magazine “revealed” the marriage of 58 year old Alan
Jay Lerner to 27 year old Nina Bushkin, the daughter of jazz pianist Joey
Bushkin. It is her first marriage and his sixth.
1977:
Yitzhak Moda'I began serving as Minster of Energy and
Water.
1977: Ezer Weizman succeeds Shimon Peres as Defense Minister.
1977:
Gideon Patt succeeds Shlomo Rosen as Minister of
Housing and Construction
1977:
Aharon Abuhatzira succeeds Haim Yosef Zadok as
Minister of Religious Services
1977: Meir Amit succeeds Aharon Uzan as Communications Minister.
1977:
Yosef Burg succeeds Shlomo Hillel as Interior
Minister
1977: Moshe Dayan began serving as Israel’s 5th
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1977: Shlomo Hillel completed his service as Minister of Public
Security after which the ministry was abolished Prime Minister Menachem Begin a
situation that would change in 1984 when the position was resurrected.
1978(15th of Sivan, 5738): Sixty-four year old Canadian born
award-winning director Mark Robson passed away today.
1979(25th of Sivan, 5739): Yisrael Yeshayahu
Sharabi passed away. Born in Yemen in
1908, he made Aliyah in 1929. He served
as an MK, cabinet minister and fifth Speaker of the Knesset
1979: Funeral services were held today in Birmingham, AL for 55
year old businessman Stanley Jerome Barasch, the Austin born son of Agnes and
Rabbi Nathan Emanuel Barasch and the husband of Reita Jean Brarasch.
1980(6th of Tammuz, 5740): David Feuerwerker, French born Canadian
Rabbi and Historian, passed away.
1980: “Can’t Stop the Music,” a musical comedy with a script
co-authored by producer Allan Carr and co-starring Steve Guttenberg was
released today in the United States.
1980: U.S. premiere of “The Blues Brothers” directed by John
Landis featuring Steve Lawrence, Frank Oz, Paul Reubens and Steven Spielberg.
1982: Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin arrived in Washington.
1985(1st
of Tammuz, 5745): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1985: In Dublin, the
Irish Jewish Museum is opened by the Irish born
former President of Israel Dr. Chaim Herzog during his State visit to Ireland.
1989: Birthdate of
Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse “an American actor known for starring in films
such as Superbad, Role Models, Year One, and Kick-Ass.”
1990(27th of Sivan,
5750): Actress Ina Balin died at the age of 52 from pulmonary hypertension.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-21-mn-160-story.html
https://www.facebook.com/RememberingInaBalin/
1990(27th
of Sivan, 5750: Ninety-five year old Clifton Fadiman, the Brooklyn born son of
Isidore Michael and Grace Elizabeth Fadiman who gained fame as the super-intellectual
during the golden age of radio passed away today.
1990: “Rabbi With
Tefillin” by Jan Styka goes on sale at Christie’s Auction House. The painting
completed in 1892 was the product of a Polish artist. Can such a painting be described as Jewish
Art? Look at the canvas and you decide.
1991(8th of Tammuz,
5751): Ninety-three year old British philanthropist and businessman Sir Isaac
Wolfson passed away today. (As reported by Eric Pace)
1993: The first of four scheduled
tours sponsored by the American Jewish Congress which include an opportunity to
be a bar or bat Mitzvah at the Kotel or the in Masada begins today.
1995: “Little Women” starring
Winona Ruder with music by Thomas Newman “had its initial North America video
release on VHS” today.
1996: As he was laid to rest, “Mel
Allen was recalled today as a devoted brother and uncle, a man who once left a
hospital bed for Yom Kippur services, and a gentle voice who elevated
"broadcasting to a prayer with three words: 'How about that?' "
during services at Temple Beth-El led by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman.
1996(3rd of Tammuz,
5756): Ninety-one year old Louis J. Lefkowitz, the longest serving state
attorney general passed away today. (As reported by Nick Ravo)
1997: “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” a
romantic comedy produced by Jerry Zucker was released today in the United
States.
1999(6th of Tammuz, 5759):
Ninety-five year old “super-intellectual Clifton Fadiman, the son of Russian
Jewish immigrants who gained fame during the gold age of radio.” (As reported
by Richard Severo)
http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/clifton_fadiman.html
1999: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the
Event That Changed History by William Ryan and
Walter Pitman.
2000(17th
of Sivan, 5760): Seventy-seven year old “Jay Grayson, the versatile WBAL radio and television
personality who for nearly 40 years closed his show with the admonition,
"If you liked my show, buy my jams and jellies” who was born Jerome
Bernard Goldberg passed away today.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-06-22-0006220130-story.html
2001(29th of Sivan,
5761): Ilya Krivitz, 62, of Homesh in Samaria was shot and killed at close
range in an ambush late Wednesday afternoon in the nearby Palestinian town of
Silat a-Dahar.
2002: Jean-François
Copé completed his first term as Mayor Meaux.
2002: Following its
showing at the Skirball, “Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York
is scheduled to open today at the Henry
Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware
2002(10th of Tammuz,
5762): Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and
Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid,
were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus,
and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The
terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
2003(20th of Sivan,
5763): Zvi Goldstein, 47, of Eli, was killed when
his car was fired upon in an ambush by Palestinian terrorists near Ofra, north
of Ramallah. His parents, Eugene and Lorraine Goldstein, from New York, were
seriously wounded and his wife lightly injured. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003: “Hulk” a film
based on the comic superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, produced by
Avi Arad and James Schamus who provided the story and co-author the script and
with music by Danny Elfman was released in the United States today.
2003: “Dr. Judith
Rodin, Penn president since 1994, announced today that she intends to step down
from the office when she completes her 10-year term in June 2004. The
announcement came following a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of
Trustees on Penn's campus.”
2003: Richard Nathan
Haas completed his two year plus service as Director of Policy Planning under
President Bush.
2003: Richard N. Hass
completed his services as United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland.
2004(1st of Tammuz,
5764): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2004: In an article
styled “Remembering Anne Frank, now 75,” The
Cedar Rapids Gazette notes events around the world intended to celebrate
the life and writings of one of the most famous victims of the Shoah.
2004: The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including War, Evil, and the
End of History by Bernard-Henri Lévy; translated by Charlotte
Mandell.
2005: With the
Israeli and Palestinian leaders scheduled to meet on June 21st in
the first top-level talks since February, the almost daily violence that has
been straining their truce, which included Palestinian gunmen ambushing and
killing an Israeli motorist, continued today.
2005: Larry Collins,
the co-author of O Jerusalem passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Jerusalem-Larry-Collins-ebook/dp/B06XKRML7J
2006: Haaretz reported that Israel's ambassador to Germany presented
medals of honor to relatives of five members of the first "European
Union" - an anti-Nazi resistance group whose members hid and fed Jews
during World War Two. This European Union, which had the same name but nothing
to do with the modern 25-nation bloc of European countries, was an underground,
Marxist-oriented group with around 50 to 60 German members, according to a
protocol prepared by Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.
2007: In Jerusalem
“legendary Israeli composer/singer Shlomo Gronich presents his newest
compositions of biblical sources on a wide spectrum of themes: justice,
righteousness, integrity, man and his identity, love songs & prayers. The
performance includes Gronich on piano & shofar, the Jerusalem String
Quartet and percussion.”
2007: “Salon.com
posted an online three-page excerpt from” A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs.
Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald.
2007(4th of Tammuz,
5767): Eighty-five year old Jerome “Jerry” Fleishman who played college
basketball for NYU and professional basketball for the Philadelphia Warriors
passed away today.
2007: The Jerusalem Post carried a page one
report stating that Shin Bet had foiled a bombing of the synagogue in Modin
known as the “pizza shul” or Zichron L’Avraham.
2008: Colonel Jack
Weinstein was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States
Air Force.
2008: Australian
businessman Richard J. Pratt was charged with lying about his knowledge of a
price-fixing scandal.
2008: “For My
Father,” an Israeli film directed by Droro Zahavi, premiered today at the
Moscow International Film Festival.
2008: In Washington,
D.C. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg,
the former president of George Washington University, discusses and signs Big Man on Campus: A University President
Speaks Out on Higher Education at Politics and Prose Bookstore.
2008: The Spertus
Museum announced that it was shutting down an exhibition entitled “Imaginary
Coordinates” in the wake of an outcry from Chicago –area Jews that it expressed
an anti-Israel basis.
2008: In Sarajevo, at
The Jewish Film Festival of Croatia, a member of the Jewish community speaks
about filming the documentary “Sarayevo Mi Seudad de Oro,” (“Sarajevo My God
City”) which tells the story of the Jewish community’s role in helping people
escape the last war in Bosnia.
2009: At Temple Judah
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sarah Maikon, daughter of Renee Maikon and Marc Maikon,
and granddaughter of Sandy and Sol Maikon, is called to the Torah as a Bat
Mitzvah.
2009: G'day Shalom Salaam Israel, presented by the
Australia Israel Cultural Exchange opens in Israel.
2010: The Los Angeles Times features a “Sunday Conversation With Daniel
Handler” who is perhaps better known for his pen name, Lemony Snicket, and his
bestselling volumes of children's books, A Series of Unfortunate Events
and The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story.
2010: Memorabilia and Memory: Hitler's Hat and
other shorts by local filmmaker Jeff Krulik is scheduled to be shown as part of
the Jewish Study Center Film Festival in Washington, D.C.
2010: Bowing to worldwide pressure and
condemnation, Israel formally announced an eased blockade of Gaza that could
significantly expand the flow of goods overland into the impoverished coastal
Palestinian enclave, isolated by the Israelis for three years.
2010: In “General
Franco Gave List of Spanish Jews to Nazis” Giles Tremlett described this little
known tale of how the Spanish dictator provided “fodder” for the German Murder
Machine.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/20/franco-gave-list-spanish-jews-nazis
2011: Bob Dylan
performed at Ramat Gan Stadium tonight.
2011: The Hillel
Annual Milwaukee Meeting is scheduled to take place this evening in Wisconsin’s
largest city.
2011:
The funeral for Morris Pollard, 95, a prominent U.S. researcher on viral
diseases who died June 18 of complications from a bladder infection was held
today.
2011:
Israel has returned nuclear waste from its Sorek nuclear reactor to the U.S.,
the head of Israel's Nuclear Energy Commission Dr Shaul Horev revealed today.
2012:
Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) Employment and Career Services is scheduled
to present “Smart is Not Enough! Hidden Key to Career Success” featuring JSSA
Life and Career Coach Phyllis Levinson.
2012:
Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital is scheduled to perform Le Poisson Rouge in NYC
2012: In
a novel attempt to bring Judaism to the people, Rabbi Dan Ain is scheduled to
be available to answering about God or whatever at Tribeca Café in NYC.
2012: A Gaza rocket has directly hit a
home in the Sdot Negev Regional council on today, as more than 30 rockets were
fired into southern Israel since the morning. (As reported by Yanir Yagna, Gili
Cohen and Avi Issacharoff)
2012: The military wing of Hamas
published a report today morning on its website, in which it states that “the
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades continues to attack the enemy with rockets for
the second straight day, and has launched 9 rockets at the Sofa military base.”
2012(30th
of Sivan, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2012:
Albert Sachs an opponent apartheid and Judge on the Constitution Court of South
Africa received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee
2012: Ultra-Orthodox residents of Beit
Shemesh attacked a woman driving through the city on today. Police were
investigating the incident. Police said the attackers threw stones at the car
because they believed the driver was dressed in an inappropriate and immodest
manner. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
2012: The body of Aaron Joseph Zindani, who was
stabbed to death outside the US Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, in May, was
transported to Israel today. The arrival of the body marked the end of a long
and complex operation by the Jewish Agency and the Foreign Ministry that also
saw Zindani’s family, including his widow and the couple’s five children,
brought to Israel. Zindani was a Jewish community leader in Yemen. He was 48
years old at the time of his murder.
2012: Israeli Air Force jets bombed terrorist
targets in the Gaza Strip for a second time Wednesday evening, following an
unremitting rocket and mortar barrage on southern Israeli towns throughout the
day. (As reported by Gabe Fisher)
2012: Pierre Lellouche began serving as the
Deputy for Paris’ 1st Constituency.
2013: The Wiener Library for the Study of the
Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to co-host a Refugee Week writing
workshop entitled “I’m Not Going Back.”
2013: Barbra Streisand is scheduled to sing at
Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa.
2013: After having strained his back again, New
York Yankees third baseman Kevin Youkilis “underwent season ending surgery to
repair a herniated disk in his back” today.
2013: A rebel group that operates on the Syrian
side of the Golan Heights stated today that it would not fight Israel if Israel
sends forces into Syria. A spokesman for the rebel group, which is based in
Quneitra, made the comments to Al-Jazeera. (As reported by Yoel Goldman)
2013:
Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as
Nazi Collaborator (As reported by Patricia Cohen) tells the story of Giovanni
Palatuccie, “the Italian Schindler” credited with saving 5,000 Jews during the
Holocaust which may have been a giant fraud.
2014: Masses will be said in Luxemburg and
Portugal today in remembrance of the June 17th “Day of Conscience”
which honors the member of Aristides de Sousa, the Portuguese diplomat who
defied Dictator Salazar and issued life-saving visas to thousands of refugees
enough of whom were Jewish to earn him recognition by Yad Vashem.
http://sousamendesfoundation.org/
2014: At the 92nd Street Y, A.J.
Baime is scheduled to sign copies of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit,
and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War after his presentation on how the
American automobile industry re-tooled itself in response to President
Roosevelt’s call to make America “the Arsenal of Democracy."
2014: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met
today with the families of kidnapped Israeli teens Naftali Frankel, Gil-ad
Shaar, and Eyal Yifrach, who were abducted June 12 in Gush Etzion.”
2014: Today “marked the last day of the 5774
school year for 673,000 Israeli high school students.”
2014: Curator Zachary Paul Levine was
interviewed on WAMU's Metro Connection about the Jewish Historical Society of
Greater Washington’s efforts to save D.C.'s only known synagogue mural.
2014: In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim hosts
Musical Shabbat with Rebecca Kushner.
2015(3rd of Tammuz, 5775): Parashat
Korach
2015(3rd of Tammuz, 5775):
Eighty-four year old photographer Harold Feinstein passed away today.
2015: In a reminder that bigotry knows no
boundaries “a website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged today in which
the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans, “Jewish
agitation of the black race,” and appears in photographs with guns and burning
the US flag.”
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host a “Brahms Fest.”
2015: A tour that includes visits to Krakow and
Auschwitz/Birkenau sponsored by CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab
Experiments Survivors) is scheduled to depart from Chicago today.(As reported
by William Grimes.)
2015: An Unknown Country the new film by
Ecuadorian-born Jewish filmmaker Eva Zelig that describes the history of this
little known Jewish community is scheduled to be shown today as part of New
York’s Ecuadorian Film Festival.
http://anunknowncountry-movie.com/
2016: Migdalei haYam haTichon is scheduled to
host "Classical & Romantic Beads" a unique piano solo recital
featuring concert pianist Eliah Zabaly,
2016: “Censored Voices” a film based on
interviews conducted by Avraham Shapira and Amos Oz with Israeli soldiers
following The Six Day War is scheduled to be shown at the Portland, Oregon
Jewish Film Festival.
2016: The second annual “Towards a New Law of
Conference” sponsored by Shurat HaDin is scheduled to open today in Jerusalem.
2017(26th of Sivan, 5777):
Eighty-four year old “folklorist” Roger D. Abrahams passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2017: Voters in Georgia’s 6th
Congressional District take part in a runoff election featuring Jewish Democrat
Jon Ossoff’s long-shot attempt to turn a very Red House Seat to Blue.
2017:
Roger Cohen of the NYT is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Liberty and Facts:
Isaiah Berlin in the Age of Trump” sponsored by the Center for Jewish History.
2017:
“Letters written by Albert Einstein about God, Israel and physics fetched
nearly $210,000 at a Jerusalem auction today, with the highest bid going to a
missive about God’s creation of the world.”
2018:
In New York City, the Rizzoli Bookstore is scheduled to host Eliezer Armon as
he talks about his new book If Architecture Is A Language Then A Building Is
A Story which was inspired, in part “by images from Israel and its
landscape.
2018:
“Israel is on the verge of laying out a framework for a “state level defense
shield” to raise the level of readiness against threats, Yigal Unna, the
nation’s cybersecurity chief said today, warning that the world hasn’t yet seen
the worst of the damage hackers can wreak and that “winter is still coming.”
(As reported by Shoshannah Solomon)
2018:”
Rocket sirens blared in the south throughout the early morning hours today, as
barrages totaling some 45 rockets and mortar shells were fired toward Israeli
towns, prompting rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas military sites in the
Gaza Strip.” (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)
2018:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host an
event as part of World Refugees which will include an address by “refugee
protection specialist Katie Tobin of UNHCR.
2019:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host David Serero’s adaption
of Romeo and Juliet “featuring Ladino and Yiddish songs.”
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “93Queen”
2019:
At a ceremony today in Israel, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft who is
still facing charges in Florida of soliciting a prostitute, is scheduled to
receive “the Genesis Prize, a prestigious award commonly known as the ‘Jewish
Nobel Prize.’”
2019:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to hold its annual
meeting this evening in the capital city of Iowa.
2019:
It was reported today that Israel has completed “its largest military drill in
years” which was a simulation of war with Hezbollah.
2020: Chapter Two Films is scheduled to host a screening of
“Aviva” followed by a lived streamed Q and A with
director Boaz Yakin, and cast members Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber.
2020(28th
of Sivan, 5780): Parashat Shelach-Lecha;
2020:
The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled to present “ShabAm! Shabbat Morning
Conscious Dance.”
2020:
Closing night activities of the Lighthouse International Film Festival are
scheduled to include a “conversation of with Israeli American filmmaker,
writer, visual artist and political activist Udi Aloni.”
2020:
As Jews observe Shabbat in a world racked by racial conflict and the pandemic,
they can find at least on bright light in David Abulafia having been named as
the winner of the Wolfson History Prize for The Boundless Sea: A Human
History of the Oceans.
2021: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Lights of Days: The Untold Story of Women
Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
by Judy Batalion and the recently
released paperback edition of Veritas: A Harvard
Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, by
Ariel Saba.
2021: Larry Levin and his wife Sandee
are scheduled to enjoy a unique Father’s Day Celebration, as Laura Levin
marries Charlie Jones in Chicago, Illinois.
2021: Pianist Orli Shaham, the
Jerusalem born daughter of Meira Diskin and Jacob Shaham is scheduled to join
her Pacific Symphony colleagues Dennis Kim (violin) and Warren Hagerty (cello)
in person for a live-streamed chamber program featuring works by Reena Esmail,
Jessie Montgomery, Sergie Rachmaninoff, Amanda Maier, and Germain Tailleferre.”
2021: The Jewish Studio Project is
scheduled to present “a virtual gathering for people who experience grief on
Father’s Day, with music, poetry, writing and/or art project.”
2021: The U.S. Holocaust Museum
is scheduled to observe World Refugee Day by making it possible for us to
reflect on the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee
their home country to escape genocide or mass atrocities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWO24fWSkuQ
https://medium.com/memory-action/childhood-restored-art-byyoung-holocaust-survivors-715750bb5587
2022: The Consulate General of
Israel to New England is scheduled to present the East Coast Israeli film
premiere of “Concerned Citizen.”
2022: In Brookline, MA, Temple
Beth Zion is scheduled to present “The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan” aka
Robert Allen Zimmerman
2022: Aboulafia & Goldfus is scheduled to
host two virtual presentations for those planning on making Aliyah in the next
18 months.
2022: The Jewish Federation of Greater New
Orleans is scheduled to host a “Virtual interview with Dan Grunfeld, author of
"By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an
Unprecedented American Dream."
2023: The Center For Jewish History is
scheduled to present a lecture, by Alec Ferretti, professional genealogist at
the Wells Fargo Family & Business History Center, who will provide an
overview of some NYC historical record sets that are often overlooked by
genealogists, such as licensing records, voter registrations, and education
records.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a lecture by Jeremy Smilg on “Anglo-Jewish Response to the French Revolution.
2023(1st of Tammuz, 5783): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
