This Day, June 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 22
217 BCE:
Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia. The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was part of the
ongoing power struggle between the Seleucids and the Ptolomies for the land
mass that included Jerusalem and the land mass of Eretz Israel. Ptolemy's
victory proved to be of short-term value.
Antiochus would defeat the Egyptians at the Battle of Paneas in 198
BCE. This would ensure Seleucid rule
over the Jewish population and set the stage for the Revolt of the Maccabees.
816: Papacy of Stephen IV began today. Stephen is the author of
the Letter Against Jews Owning Land” which read in part, For this reason We are
touched by sorrow, anxious even unto death, since We have known through you
that the Jewish people, ever rebellious against God and derogatory of our
rites, within the frontiers and territories of the Franks, own hereditary
estates in the villages and suburbs, as if they were Christian residents; for
they are the Lord's enemies... Christian men cultivate their vines and fields,
and Christian men and women, living with those same deceivers both in town and
out of town, are day and night strained by expressions of blasphemy... What was
sworn to and handed over to those unbelievers by the Lord himself... has been
taken away deservedly, in vengeance for the crucified Savior.” (As reported by
Alexis Rubin in Scattered Among the Nations)
1038: Ferdinand the Great was crowned king of León and Castile in
León, Spain during a period when his predecessors had allowed Jews to be
treated on comparatively equal footing with Catholics when it came to owning
real estate and engaging in agriculture as could be seen by the Council of Leon
held in 1020.
1101: Roger I of Sicily, after whose conquest of Sicily Jews were
found to be living in Syracuse, Messina and Catania and whose wife was
reportedly a member of the Pierleoni family which “was baptized in the first
half of the 11th century, passed away today.
1425: Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni and Nanna di Niccolo di Luigi
Guicciardini gave birth to Lucrezia Tornabuoni, the Italian Renaissance poet
who chose the Biblical figure of Queen Esther as a topic for her writings.
1559: Jewish quarter of Prague was burned and looted.
1689: Christiania, the former Queen of Sweden, during whose reign
Jews could only live in her kingdom if they were baptized as Lutherans was
buried today.
1691: Suleiman II’s brief reign, during which the Jews continued
to live in comparative peace and tranquility in the Ottoman Empire came to an
end with his death.
1770: Birthdate of German philosopher and writer Wilhelm Traugott
Krug who was an advocated for the emancipation of the Jews of Saxony.
1779(8th of Tamuz, 5539): One month old Hyam Jonas, the New York
born of Lyon Jonas passed away today.
1791: One day after he had
passed away, Aaron Isaac ben Gerson – aged 5 years and 11 months – was buried
today at the Aldnerney Road Jewish Cemetery in London.
1809: In Hamburg, Germany, Johanna and William Leo Wolf gave birth
to Dr. George Wolf.
1809: In Newburgh, NY, 47 year old Isaac Isaacs, the convert to
Christianity and the East Hampton born
son of Aaron Isaacs passed away today.
1822: An order of the Prussian cabinet (German: Kabinettsordre)
united the Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg which Salomon Oppenheimer had been
serving as a banker and tax collector with the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine
province.
1822: Rutgers University graduate and Vincennes, IN attorney
Samuel Judah, the New York City born son
of Bernard S. Judah married Harriet Brandon today in Picqua, OH after which he
served as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Indiana State
legislature and as U.S. Attorney in Indiana.
1834: Isaiah Simmons married Caroline Benjamin at the Great
Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1835: Birthdate of Pennsylvania native John H. Mitchell, the Senator
from Oregon who in 1901 fought to have the United States lodge a protest with the
government of Turkey concerning its new regulations that would prevent “any
foreigner of the Jewish faith” from “sojourning” in Palestine for “a period
longer than three months
1836: Birthdate of Gaston Cremieux who along with fellow Jew
Adolphe Carcassone headed the Revolutionary Commission of the Département
Bouches-du-Rhône for which he was condemned to death and executed because of his role in the revolt that had followed
the Franco-Prussian War.
1836: Abraham Styer married Charlotte Levy at the Hambro
Synagogue.
1838: In Hanover, Germany Dr. Herman Herz Cohen and Sophie Sara
Cohen gave birth to artist Eduard Cohen, the husband of Ida Cohen.
1840: As Moses Montifiore prepared to go to Egypt to plead for the
release of eight Jews falsely imprisoned
in a blood libel connected to the
disappearance of Father Tomaso, Lord Palmerston declared in Parliament, “I have
already directed the English consul-general Hodges to represent to Mehmet Ali
what effect news of such atrocities must produce in Europe…I have also sent
instructions to her Majesty’s consul in Damascus to make a thorough
investigation…and to send home a report as to the part which European consuls
had taken in this matter.
1841: The Jewish community in Mobile, Alabama purchased land to be
used as a cemetery.
1843: In Heidelsheim, Baden, “Abraham Sulzberger, a chazzan,
shochet and teacher” and the former Sophie Einstein, “an ancestor of Albert
Einstein gave birth to Mayer Sulzberger, an American judge and communal leader”
who “went to Philadelphia with his parents in1848, and was educated at the
Central High School of Philadelphia, and after graduating he studied law in the
office of Moses A. Dropsie. In 1864 he was admitted to the bar and attained
eminence in the practice of his profession. He was elected judge of the Court
of Common Pleas on the Republican ticket in 1895, and was reelected as a
nominee of both parties in 1904, becoming the presiding judge of the Court of
Common Pleas No. 2.Sulzberger has throughout his career shown great interest in
Jewish affairs. While studying for the bar he taught at the Hebrew Education
Society's school.” For a time he served as the Secretary of Board of Maimonides
College. “He was closely associated with Isaac Leeser, and assisted that
scholar in editing "The Occident," contributing to it a partial
translation of Maimonides' "Morch Nebukim." After Leeser's death
Sulzberger edited vol. xxvi. of "The Occident." He was one of the
founders of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, which he served as president;”
He was chosen to serve as vice president of
and the Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia in 1880 and has been…chairman of the publication
committee of the Jewish Publication Society of America.” He was one of the
original trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund and has taken a great deal of
interest in the establishment of agricultural colonies at Woodbine, N. J., and
in Connecticut” Sulzberger had “one of the best private libraries in America;
it contained a very large number of Hebraica and Judaica, together with many
other early Hebrew printed books (including no less than forty-five
Incunabula), and many manuscripts.” He
presented these to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, an institution
which helped to reorganize. His younger brother, Jacob, is well known in
Philadelphia literary circles both “for his verse and for is unusual knowledge
of English literature.”
1850: Birthdate of Ignác (Yitzhaq Yehuda) Goldziher, the Hungarian
born Jew who was the one of the first Europeans who developed an expertise in
Islam and the culture of the Muslim world
1851: In San Francisco, following a fire at their “temporary home
in Merchant’s Court on Washington Street between Montgomery and Sansome,
Congregation Shearith Israel moved to building on Kearny Street between
Washington and Jackson Streets.
1851(22nd of Sivan, 5611): “Jacob Bach, a native of
Posen” died today in a fire in the building housing Sherith Israel after which
he was “interred in a plot” the congregation had “set aside for noted men.”
1853: “Medical News” published today described a lecture delivered
by Professor Owen to the Royal College of Surgeons in which he said, “For 1800
years the Jewish race has been dispersed into different latitudes and climates
and they have preserved themselves most distinct from any intermixture with
other races of mankind.” He went on to
say that they though they may have taken on the racial characteristics of those
among whom they lived (dark skinned Jews living in Syrian and Lebanon; light
skinned blue-eyed Jews in northern Europe) they have still been able to
maintain themselves as unique people.
1856: In Norfolk, England, William Meybohm
Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet, gave birth to
Henry Rider Haggard, the author of Margaret, a novel set in the London
of Henry VII and Spain that features a heroine who “is the daughter of John
Castell, a London merchant of immense wealth whose father was Marano who
concealed “his Jewish origin” and the Marquis of Morella whose main mission is
“to ferret out wealthy and secretly faithful Jews so they can be turned over to
the Inquisition.
1859: Harris Michaels married Elizabeth Daniel at the Great
Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1859: In Breslau, Silesia, Helene von Heimburg, a former opera
singer, and conductor Leopold Damrosch” whose father was Jewish gave birth to
conductor Frank Damrosch
http://grandemusica.net/musical-biographies-d/damrosch-frank-heino
1862: Today “Wilhelm Marr published the first edition of his work,
“Der Judenspiegel” [“A Mirror to the Jews”](editions 1-4, 56 pp), with the
second through fourth editions appearing within a few weeks.”
1863: During the Polish uprising, in an attempt to gain the
support Rabbis and Jewish religious leaders, The Insurgent National Government
issued a proclamation, in which it promised to guarantee the equality of Jews,
after gaining independence
1864: During the Civil War, large number of those serving with the
59th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment which had been formed by
Philip J. Joachimsen near Petersburg
during the Wilderness Campaign.
1864: In Aleksota (Russian Empire), “Lewin Boruch Minkowski, a
merchant who subsidized the building of The Choral synagogue in Kovno, and
Rachel Taubmann gave birth to mathematician Hermann Minkowski who in 1907
“realized that the special theory of relativity, introduced by his former
student Albert Einstein in 1905 and based on the previous work of Lorentz and
Poincaré, could best be understood in a four-dimensional space, since known as
the "Minkowski spacetime", in which time and space are not separated
entities but intermingled in a four dimensional space–time, and in which the
Lorentz geometry of special relativity can be effectively represented.”
1865:
The Archbishop of York chaired today’s first meeting of The Palestine
Exploration Fund, a society that “has been formed under the patronage of Her
Majesty the Queen.” The society chose Captain Charles Wilson to go out as the
chief director of the explorations in Palestine that are to be made by the new
society. [Wilson gained fame as the
author of Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem published in 1886.]
http://www.templemount.org/wilson1.html
1869: Birthdate of Odessa native Jacob Magidoff who in 1886 came to the
United States where he earned a law degree from NYU, co-founded the United
Hebrew Trades of New York in 1899 and gave 42 years of service as the city
editor of The Jewish Morning Journal
and married Tinnie Magidoff with whom he had three daughters – “Bella, Dorothy
and Helen”
https://www.jta.org/1943/08/29/archive/jacob-magidoff-jewish-morning-journal-writer-dies-in-new-york
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/yankev-magidov-jacob-magidoff.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/08/27/88563894.pdf
1871(3rd of Tammuz, 5631): Bernard (Yissochar Dov) Illowy, the
great-grandson of Rabbi Jacob Illowy passed away. Born at Kolin, Bohemia in 1814, he moved to
the United States after the failed revolutions in the Habsburg Empire where he
filled pulpits for several Orthodox synagogues in St. Louis, New Orleans and
Cincinnati.
http://www.jewish-history.com/Illoway/biography.html
http://kevarim.com/rabbi-yissachar-dov-bernard-illowy/
1873: In Chicago, a cyclone destroyed Congregation Beth-El
1873: Members of Beth-El Congregation met this evening and began
raising funds to replace their building which had been locate on the corner of
May and Huron Streets on Chicago’s northwest side.
1873: In St. Louis, Rabbis Wolfenstein and Sonnenschein officiated
at the ceremony where the cornerstone was laid for a chapel at the Mount Sinai
Cemetery which was under the control of the Mount Sinai Cemetery Association.
1875(19th of Sivan, 5635): Sixty-one year old Rabbi
Bernard “Yissachar Dov” Illowy who came to the United States after the failed
Revolutions of 1848 where he served several congregations including United
Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis, Shaare Zedek in New York, Congregation Rodeph
Shalom in Philadelphia and Congregation Kneset Shalom in Baltimore” passed away
today after which he was buried in Adath Israel Cemetery in “Price Hill, OH.”
1876: In Riga, Abraham and Sarah (Gator) Gutman gave birth to
Jacob Gutman, the “first Jewish honor graduate of Cornell Medical School” who
was a consulting diagnostician for the New York City Police Deparetment and te
husband of Rebecca Dogin.
1877: According to many of New York’s prominent Jewish merchants
A.T. Stewart, the company controlled by Judge Hilton, could lose the business
of the Jewish clothing merchants throughout the United States as a result of
the Seligman Affair. These merchants are
offended by Hilton’s attempt to defend his actions by differentiating between
Hebrews and Jews. They contend that in
the United States there are many variations among Jews just as there are among
Christians. They feel that Hilton has
used Seligman as a way of attacking all Jews and they find this
unacceptable. They feel that Hilton is
trying to create a clash between Americans and Jews while the real clash is
between Hilton’s view of the Jews and the Jewish people.
1877: According to reports published today, Mr. Seligman, nor any
other Jewish leader, has plans to call for a public meeting protesting the
recent action of Judge Hilton regarding the banning of Jews from the Grand
Union Hotel. Mr. Seligman said that if
Christian leaders wish to hold such a meeting they may feel free to so. Several of them have expressed their negative
view of Hilton’s behavior but the consensus appears to have developed to let
the matter die down. Apparently only the
Jews are still upset by this as can be seen from the decision by such firms as
Fescheimer, Goodkind & Co., the largest clothing store in New York,
Fescheimer, Frankel & Co. of Cincinnati and Bierman, Heidelberg & Co of
Pittsburg to end all business dealing with Hilton’s A.T. Stewart and Co.
1878: It was reported
today that a young Jew named Louis Hood from Newark, NJ had won the De
Forest Medal at an oratorical contest conducted at Yale University. His topic was “The Ancient and Modern Jew.”
1878: “Jewish journalist, Egyptian nationalist and playwright”
Yaqub Sanu (James Sanua) went into exile today “sailing on the ship Freycinet
from Alexandria to Marseilles” after having been banished for publishing the
satirical magazine Aboud Naddara.
1878: In Vienna, Leopold and Caroline (Goldberg) Steindler gave
birth to University of Vienna trained surgeon, the husband of Louise Junk whom
he married at Waterloo, IA who became a professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the
University of Iowa in 1915.
1879(1st of Tammuz, 5639): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1879: In a review of The Lost Ten Tribes and 1882 published
today, the author, Brooklyn minister Reverend Joseph Wild claims that “Queen
Victoria is of ‘David’s Seed’ and the United States fulfills the role of the
tribe of Manasseh.” In lampooning these and other such claims the reviewer
concludes, “No wonder the Jews are accused of arrogance; they such folly
rampant in Christian pulpits that they must feel themselves wise men in
comparison.”
1880: Detective Field arrested Ernest Fink, the former Treasurer
of the Hebrew Benevolent Society Chebra B’nai Prasko on charges that he had
embezzled $600 from the society. He was
arrested at his shoe shop on Catherine Street and confined to the Tombs.
1880: The Conference on Morocco resumed today in Madrid. The conference is expected to adopt a
proposal on religious freedom which will benefit both Christians and Jews
living in the North African kingdom. [Editor’s note – the real issues revolved
around colonial control and revenue.]
1881: Rabbi Reuben officiated at the marriage of Louis Lyons of
Manning, SC and Rose Levy, the second daughter of Marx Levy at her home in
Charleston, SC.
1881: In Romania, Jackot
and Mirel Bercovici gave birth to author Konrad Bercovici the husband of Naomi
Librescu whose works included Crimes of Charity and Dust of New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/12/28/119434605.html?pageNumber=27
https://www.romanianculture.org/personalities/Konrad_Bercovici.htm
1882: During the Samuel Obright’s sanitary hearing, relatives told
the Judge that “he had procured” ten dollars from his mother “by threatening to
kill” her. His attorney denied that
charge as well as one that he had threatened to kill her if she did not give
him $500 today.
1882: Birthdate of Jenny Shidorsky, the Norwegian homemaker
arrested by the Nazis at Trondheim which was the first step on her road to
Auschwitz.”
1882: Seventy Russian refugees arrived in New York from London by
way of Boston and applied for assistance at the office of the Hebrew Emigrant
Society. The group has been given permission to stay at Castle Garden until
their permanent quarters are ready.
1882: The six orations given during today’s graduation ceremonies
of the University of the City of New York included Charles Harris Gelston Jones
speaking on the “Persecution of the Jews in Russia” as one of the anomalies of
the 19th century and Alden A. Freeman on “Benjamin Disraeli.”
1883: It was reported today that several political leaders and
office holders will attend the upcoming cornerstone laying ceremony for the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn.
1883: A number of Jewish were pillaged during anti-Jewish riots at
St. Gall, Switzerland. After the police
were stoned when they tried to stop the violence, authorizes summoned soldiers
to bring things under control.
1884: “From Across the Water” published today described how the
“barbarity of Hungarian Jew-baiting has been brought to the attention of
Londoners” with the arrival of Joseph Scharf, the emaciated sexton of the
synagogue at Tisza-Ezler who was forced to flee for his life following accusations
that the Jews kidnapped a Christian peasant girl to use in their religious
rites. While the charges were eventually
disproved, Scharf’s health was “shattered, his business ruined and his property
looted.” “Literally in danger of starvation he fled to London where his
co-religionists are raising funds on his behalf.
1886: The Hebrew Technical Institute, under the leadership of its
President, James H. Hoffman hosted a reception and exhibition highlighting the
accomplishment of its 68 pupils. The visitors, including noted journalist and
political leader Carl Schurz, were told that the only limit on the size of the
student body is the size of the facility since there are plenty of Jewish
students who want to take vocational training courses.
1886: Ninety-five year old Elias Marks the Charleston born son
of “Humphrey and Frances Marks,” “the
physician and educator” who in 1828 founded “the South Carolina Female
Collegiate Institute, an institution for the higher education of women located
outside of Columbia, SC” which “Marks called ‘Barhamville’ to honor his late
wife and teacher Jane Barham” passed away today after which he was buried in
Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery where his gave is marked by a tombstone topped
by a cross.
1887(30th of Sivan, 5647): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1887: In St. Louis, MO, Pauline and George Washington Milius gave
birth to Evelyn Milius who became Evelyn Mosenfelder when she married Simon
Mosenfelder.
1888:
Isaac and Dina Cohen, née Wolf gave birth Jeanette
Wolff “one of the best-known German Jewish women in post-war Germany.” (As
reported by Jael Geis)
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wolff-jeanette
1890: “First Introduction to A Russian Border Town” described a
visitors first experience when he crossed into the Czars kingdom where “We were
just in time to see the sentinel half playfully clubbing and kicking an old
Polish Jew in his long gown and fur cap and to hear his piteous cries for mercy.”
1890: “New Publications” included a review of The Burnt Million,
a novel by James Payn that revolves around. The “burnt million” refers to money
burned by a Jewish money lender who then ships his brother off to America. From
that point on the novel takes a rather convoluted turn where a Jewish
millionaire has plans to marry off his three daughters but they can only
inherit if they marry a Jew. (And the
plot thickens)
1890: Dr. Alexander Kohut is scheduled to deliver a lecture at the
Jewish Theological Seminary Association meeting this morning at Cooper Union
entitled “Entertainment Books in the Time of the Talmud.”
1890(4th of Tammuz, 5650): Thirty-five year old Hyman
Harrowitz, a Russian-Jewish immigrant died today a Gouverneur Hospital from
ammonia poisoning.
1891: In Berlin, Dr. jur. Hugo Preuß and Else Preuß gave birth to
Ernst Gustav Preuß
1891: Today, Isidor Straus wrote to Abraham Abraham “Two members
of the firm of R H Macy & Co. contemplate finding their way to that suburb
on the other side of the bridge Wednesday next Object of the expedition
primarily to attend the unveiling of the Statue of Beecher - great men seem to
be a country product. Secondarily to see what a small dry goods establishment
looks like. Lastly but not leastly to themselves for the of the expedition by
inflicting on Mr. Abraham a genuine city appetite for lunch - N BWater is a
good thing for bathing purposes. (Translation, Isidor and Nathan Straus of
Macy’s were coming to Brooklyn to visit their fellow Jewish merchant Abraham
Abraham)
1891: In Philadelphia, Nathan and Sarah (Horowitz) Solomon gave
birth to NYU law school honor graduate Louis H. Solomon, “a recognized
authority on industrial litigation and disputes, an organizer of the Bronx
Jewish Center and the husband of Sylvia Cohen.
1892: Cohoes, NY, Jacob and
Saran Pawley gave birth to Morris Aaron Pawler,the Colorado businessman and
communal fundraising executive who helped organize Aleph Zadek Aleph and was
active in the B’nai B’rith.
1892(27th of Sivan, 5652): Sixty-nine year old Baruch
Rothschild, the native of “Bruck, Germany” who wives were Fanny Rothschild and
Miriam Marianne Rothschild passed away today.
1892: The Democratic National Convention which was attended by
George Washington Ochs Oakes as a delegate from Tennessee continued for a
second day in Chicago.
1893(8th of Tammuz, 5653): Forty-two year old Benaimino
Luzzatto, passed away a Padua. Born in
1850 at Padua, this son of Samuel David Luzzatto received his medical degree in
1872 and served as an assistant professor at Padua University while pursuing his
medical career.
1894: In Budapest, Prime Minister Sándor Wekerle announced that
Government would introduce a bill next week “providing for equal religious
rights for Jews and Christians.
1894: Harry Houdini married Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner who became
known as Bess Houdini who was his stage assistant as well as his wife.
1895: Georges Picquart who “became a Dreyfusard after having
identified Estherhazy as the author of
the incriminating bordeau, was appointed
head of the French military’s Intelligence Office today.
1896(11th of Tammuz, 5656): Forty-four year old actor
and dramatist Sir Augustus Harries passed away at Folkstone. He also found time
pursue a political career which included serving as one of the Sheriffs of
London starting in 1891. “He was of a
Hebrew family, and properly proud of his race.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40914F6385C17738DDDAA0A94DE405B8685F0D3
1897: The Board of Trustees of Williams College met today and
announced faculty appointments including S.T. Livingston to serve as the
instructor for Hebrew.
1897: Birthdate of Academy Award winning art director, Vincent
Korda, a native of Túrkeve, Hungary who joined his brothers Alexander and
Zoltan in England where they all pursued their film careers.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800EFD91039E732A25755C0A9679C946890D6CF
1897: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Lydia and Millard William Mack gave
birth to William Jacob Mack.
1898: (19 Sivan 5658): Rabbi Samuel Mohilever passed away. Born in
1824 in Russia, Mohilever was a Talmudic scholar and one of the leading
orthodox rabbis of Eastern Europe. A graduate from the famous Voloshin Yeshiva,
he was conversant in math, engineering and a number of languages. Mohilever
encouraged Baron Edmond de Rothschild to support the resettling of Russian
families in Eretz-Israel and was a mediator between the settlers and Rothschild
in various disagreements that arose. He was the founder of Mizrachi, a
religious Zionist organization. In 1881, he was one of the founders of the Hovevei
Zion, Lovers of Zion.
1898: Those attending today’s exhibition of work done by the
students at the Hebrew Technical Institute saw electrical appliances made by
the boys including a birchromate battery, a galvanometer and models of an
Edison dynamo.
1898: Albert W. Lilienthal began serving as a Captain with the 7th
United States Volunteer Infantry today.
1898: Birthdate of oil executive Rudolf Sonneborn, the fourth
husband of New York Post owner Dorothy Schiff, President of the Israel Bond
Drive and a key player in the secret shipments of arms to pre-State Jewish
forces. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1898: The Board of Trustees of the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews held a special meeting day to adopt a memorial marking the passing
Getta Scholle who was serving as Vice President at the time of her death.
1899: The Hebrew Technical Institute hosted its commencement
exercises tonight at Cooper Union.
1899: Sixty year old Max Sandreczky, a German Christian pediatric
surgeon who settled in Jerusalem in 1868, where in 1872 he established and ran
the first pediatric hospital in Palestine where he treated all patients without
regard to religious belief and refused to proselytize the children which meant
he operated without funding from any church sources passed away today.
1899; “Pierre Marie René Waldeck-Rousseau, the initiator of Alfred
Dreyfus's 1899 pardon, as well as the law that, in 1900, offered amnesty for
"all crimes and misdemeanors related to the Dreyfus Affair, or that have
been included in a proceeding relative to one of these deeds” began serving as
Prime Minister of France today.
1899: The City College of New York held its 47th annual
commencement exercises at Carnegie Hall. Among those honor students giving
“senior orations” were Menahem Eichler, Henry Moskowitz and A.W. Levy. This, along with a list of graduating seniors
with names like Pinchas Israel, Henry Mendelsohn, Leon Schwartz, and Louis
Jacob Cohen, attest to the extent to which Jewish youngsters availed themselves
of this country’s educational opportunities which were their passport into
mainstream America.
1899: After 14 months, Julius F. Lewis completed his service with
the Hospital Corps of the 2nd U.S. Volunteer Infantry in Santiago,
Philippines.
1900(25th of Sivan, 5660): Seventy-one-year-old Leopold
Pappenheimer, the German born of Zeria Wormser and Salomon Pappenheimer and the
husband of Marie Pappenheimer pass away today in Cincinnati, OH.
1900: “Hebrew Technical Institute” published today described the
16th commencement exercises of the Hebrew Technical Institute where
35 students received their degrees and where “a practical demonstration of
molding a hand wheel and making a casting of it in lead by Samuel Goldfarb was
highlight of the evening.
1901(5th of Tammuz, 5561): Parashat Korach
1901: Birthdate of “Finnish track and field athlete” Elias Katz, a
silver medal winner at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the “3000 meter steeple
chase” who made Aliyah in 1933 after which he was coach of the Palestinian
track team for the 1948 Maccabi Games” before being killed by “Arab
terrorists.”
1902: It was reported today that several chorus girls had met with
President of Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor in Cincinnati,
“vaudeville performers are to be formed in a union which will be affiliated
with the Actors’ National Protective Association through it with Mr. Gompers AF
of L while the chorus girls will become members of the newly formed Theatrical
Stage Employees’ National Alliance with a minimum wage scale of ten dollars a
week,”
1903: Justice Scott is scheduled to deliver an oral opinion in the
case of Isidor Wormser, Jr. versus Metropolitan Street Railway Company and
Interurban Street Railway Company
1904: It was reported today that “Sir Charles N.E. Eliot, British
Commissioner and Commander in Chief for the East Africa Protectorate, has
resigned the Commissionership because he is opposed to the proposed Jewish
settlement in the protectorate.”
1905: Former Texas Govern Frank Richard Lubbock, whose brother was
namesake for Lubbock, TX whose first Jewish citizens arrived in 1916 and who
Jewish population peaked in 1980, passed away today.
1906: The Jewish Chronicle reported that Mrs. Herman Cramer, a
native of Jersey whose maiden name was Rebecca Amelia Lawton, gave a concert at
Steinway Hall.
1906: In Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary Max and Eugenia (née
Dittler) Wilder gave birth to Samuel Wilder who became famous a movie director
Billy Wilder whose hits included Some Like It Hot, Apartment, and Stalag 17.
1907: In St. Paul, MN, Oscar and Bertha Applebaum gave birth Meyer
Applebaum, the husband of Eva Applebaum and the father of Howard Applebaum
1907: Birthdate of Saul Elkins, the motion picture writer and
director who was the father of David Elkins.
1908: “Sentences were handed down to-day in the case of the
participators in the Jewish massacre of 1905 at Bialystok, when 11 Christians
and 73 Jews were killed and 23 Christians and 82 Jews were wounded” which meant
that “the prisoners were sentenced to three years' penal servitude, 13 others
were condemned to from six months to a year's imprisonment, and 15 were
acquitted.”
1909: In Minneapolis, Rabbi Chaim Golbogen and Sophia
Hellerman gave birth to Avrom Hirsch Golbogen who gained fame as Oscar winner
producer Michael “Mike” Todd who brought Around the World in 80 Days using his
“Todd-AO film format.
1910: Birthdate of Montreal native and mezzo soprano Jennie
Tourel, the wife of cardiologist and Columbia medical school professor, Dr.
Henry Gross.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/11/25/148724172.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/09/1967/jennie-tourel
1911: Birthdate of Ludwig Teller who served who represented New
York’s 20th Congressional District from 1957 until 1961.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ludwig-teller
1911: Birthdate of classical cellist Harvey Shapiro.
https://www.juilliard.edu/journal/harvey-shapiro-1911-2007
1911: Birthdate of Manhattan native Ludwig Teller, the WW II Navy
veteran and law school professor who “was elected as a Democrat to the 85th and
86th United States Congresses.’
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ludwig-teller
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ludwig_teller/410700
1911: Prague native Hugo PIesen and his wife Annie gave birth to
Edmond Ludwig Piesen
1911: The Anglo-Jewish boxer Matt Wells defeated “the great Jewish
New York Boxer Leach Cross” in a ten round bout today at the Madison Athletic
Club in New York
1911: George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding
his father, Edward VII.
Lord Balfour and his king, George V, are proudly
commemorated all over Israel.
1912: The Republican National Convention adopted a plank in its
platform that approved of the action taken by the President and Congress to protect
the rights of American Jews visiting Russia on business.
1912: The University of Wisconsin and Columbia University trained
Professor of Economics William Morris Leiserson, the Estonian born son of Sarah
Snyder and Mendel Leiserson married Emily Nash today.
1913: In Chicago, dedication of the Rachel Jackson Memorial
Addition to Rest Haven.
1913: Thirty-seven students are scheduled to receive their
diplomas today during the 23rd annual graduation exercises of the
Jewish Training School in Chicago.
1913: The unveiling of the monument of Isaac Aaron is scheduled to
take place this afternoon at Beth Olam Cemetery
1914: Lucille Fannie Hirsch, “the daughter of Isaac Hirsch”
married Julian K. Hilborn of Philadelphia this evening at the Hotel Blackstone
in Chicago.
1914: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Myer “Mike” Feldman the U
of Pennsylvania lawyer WW II Army Air Force Veteran and attorney with the SEC
who went on to serve as White House Counsel under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
1915: Thirty-five-year-old David Klein, the sone of Jacob and
Chaia Klein who earned a Ph.D. from NYU and was a member of the faculty at CCNY
married Hannah Herschorn today in Montreal.
1915: Today is the date set for the execution of Leo Frank in
Georgia. (The sentence was commuted, and the execution did not take place)
1915: “Martial law is still in force at Governor Slaton’s country
estate five miles from Atlanta where two battalions of infantry with machine
guns” are protecting Slaton from a mob “that threw bricks at the troops”
injuring several of the soldiers.
1915: After having spent his first night at the state prison in
Milledgeville, Leo Frank is scheduled to be examined by the prison physician to
determine if he “is in the proper physical condition” to be put to “work as a
farm hand – hoeing or plowing.”
1915: The remarks of Louis Marshall who had represented Leo Frank
before the Supreme Court made when received news of the commutation were
published today and concluded with “Whatever those who sought to consign Frank
to the gallows may now think, the time will certainly come when they will show
their gratitude to Governor Slaton for having saved the State from the
perpetration of a stupendous crime, for it is as sure as truth itself that ere
long Frank’s innocence will be triumphant established.”
1915: According to reports published today, The Rome Tribune
Herald, in commenting on the commutation of Leo Frank’s sentence that “Governor
Slaton must be credited with having done what he thought was right in the
circumstances” and that Georgia will stand that much higher in the estimation
of the country because of the Governor’s action.”
1915: In its editorial on the Frank commutation The Atlanta Journal concluded that “The
Governor has shown wisdom and courage in his performance of an act of simple
justice and time will vindicate his moderation.”
1915: In its editorial on the Frank commutation, The Enquirer-Sun
concluded that the paper “has no inclination to criticize the Governor. On the contrary it believes that he deserves
the highest commendation for having performed his duty as he saw it.”
1915: In its editorial on the commuting of the sentence of Leo
Frank, The Brunswik(GA) News wrote that the governor “has spared the life a man
where the evidence upon which was convicted was clouded with doubt and the
atmosphere at which the trial occurred was charged with prejudice and with
passion.” “Time will vindicate the Governor, and in the meantime, we commend
him for his conduct.”
1915: Pope Benedict was quoted in an interview published today as
saying that he had “received from Austrian Bishops assurance…that the Russians
on one occasion pushed before them 1,500 Jews so that they could advance behind
this living barrier thus exposed to the bullets of the enemy.”
1915: The New York Times editorially expressed the view
that “The commutation of the death sentence of Leo M. Frank was the act of a
righteous and fearless man.”
1916: The Foreign Office replied to criticism directed at the British
Government by Judge Leon Sanders, President of the Hebrew Sheltering Aid and
Immigrant Aid Society who said that the “British were holding up checks and
drafts mailed from America for the relief of the suffering civil population of
Russian Poland” by claiming that “an arrangement has been made with the
American Express Company” to have that company convey remittances to Poland as
long as American Express can guarantee that the funds “will reach the
individual for whom they are intended and not fall into German hands.”
1916: Amelia and Milton Landau gave birth to George Washington
University trained endocrinologist and WW II veteran Richard L. Landau, the
husband of Claire Schmuckel with whom he had two children – Kay and Susan.
1917: Special Reception Committees are scheduled to meet all
delegates arriving in Baltimore, MD for the Twentieth Annual Convention of the
Federation of American Zionists “at all railroad stations and steamer
landings.”
1917: In Chicago, the funeral for 76 year old Rosa Berman, the
widow of the late Lewis Berman is scheduled to be held at 1 p.m. at Waldheim.
1917: The funeral of Rose Stein Wolbach, the wife of Samuel N.
Wolbach and the mother of Dr. S. Burt, Edwin J. and Emil Wolbach, is scheduled
to take place in Grand Island, Nebraska.
1917: It was reported today that due to pressure from the Russian
government and the Romanian desire to take over Austrian provinces where Jews
now enjoy complete rights of citizenship the government Romania is preparing to
give the Jews of that country “complete citizenship.”
1917: “Socialists serving on a Reichstag Committee criticized the
Chancellor for forcing Jewish laborers in Poland and Lithuania to work for
lower than standard wages” and get the committee to adopt a resolution calling
for treating “Jewish workmen from Poland and Lithuania on an equal footing with
Germans.”
1917:
In Wilmington, Delaware, Rabbi Samuel Rabinowitz
delivered a sermon about thoughts that should be in people's minds during the
coming summer months.
1918: Today, “in a cablegram to the Jewish Monthly Journal,
Romanian Premier Bratiano stated: ‘Our determination to give Jews equal civil
and political rights is unanimous and definitive” but “technicalities of the
Romanian constitution oblige us to postpone the vote on this reform till after
the new elections which will take place on after the liberation of our
territory.” (Editor’s Note – Starting with the middle of the 19th
century Romania would finds reasons not to fulfill its promises about full
citizenship for the Jews, always stalling until the Holocaust made this a moot
point.)
1918: The Cantors’ Association of America, “the official body of
the cantors of Jewish synagogues” today organized “a war saving society”
through which they pledged “to save and buy War Savings Stamps” and perform at
no charge at any meeting held to increase the purchase of war savings stamps.
1918: The Federation of Oriental Jews, who, remembering their
persecutions in Turkey, “are eager to help win the war” have formed a war
savings society.
1920: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund
Freud was published for the first time in the United States.
1920: Opening of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 featuring Eddie
Cantor and songs written by the Banjo Eyed performer.
1920: At the Merrill Theatre in Chicago, Temple B’nai Jeshurun
hosted a fundraising benefit to raise money for a new school and social center.
1920: Birthdate of Solomon Hersh Frees the Chicago native who
gained fame as Paul Frees whose ability to provide the vocalization for a
variety of cartoon figurers earned him the sobriquet “The Man of a Thousand
Voices.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-06/local/me-16406_1_paul-frees
1920: In
the Bronx, “fur manufacturer Harry Wunderman” and “Dorothy (Horowitz)
Wunderman” gave birth to advertising executive Lester Wunderman, “the
co-founder of the Wunderman Group” and the “father of direct marketing.” (As
reported by Robert D. McFadden)
1921(16th
of Sivan, 5681): “Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr.,” one of the world’s foremost
authorities on Semitic languages and a “Professor of Semitic Languages at the
University of Pennsylvania since 1893 died suddenly today of heart disease at
the home of his brother-in-law, F.H. Bachman, in Jenkintown, a suburb” of
Philadelphia. The sixty year old
academic had not shown any signs of illness. A native of Warsaw, Jastow
graduated from Penn in 1881 and earned a Ph.D. from Leipzig University in
1884. Besides his work with Semitic
languages, Jastrow had written extensively about “religion, education and Near
Eastern politics. He edited the Semitic
department of the International Encyclopedia…and was a delegate to the last
three European Congresses of Orientalists. Among “his more important works were
‘Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians,’ ‘The Study of Religion,’ ‘Hebrew
and Babylonian Traditions,’ and ‘Zionism and the Future of Palestine.’”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30917F73D551A738DDDAA0A94DE405B818EF1D3
http://forward.com/articles/138271/
1921: In Brooklyn, “Yetta (née Miritch),
a seamstress, and Samuel Papirofsky, a trunkmaker” gave birth to Joseph
Papirofsky, who gained fame as Joseph Papp, the producer/director best known
for his Shakespeare in the Park. “Aside from his incredible creative talents
which forever revolutionized the Broadway theatre, he immersed himself in doing
acts of good deeds especially when the care and welfare of children were
concerned. During his trips to Russia he saw firsthand the desperate conditions
facing the handicapped, orphaned and neglected children in the Ukraine, which
numbers in the thousands. It was then that he dedicated himself to do whatever
he could to enhance the lives of these children caught in the midst of economic
and political turmoil. His untimely passing came before he was able to fulfill
his dream. Tzivos Hashem, with Gail Papp's blessing, has vowed to continue Joe's
dream. Thanks to the successful Tzivos Hashem sponsored "Joseph Papp
Children's Humanitarian Fund" Dinners, thousands of Ukrainian homeless,
deprived and starving children are being given a second chance at life.”
http://www.filmreference.com/film/63/Joseph-Papp.html
1922:
In Paris, the body of Louis Stern, the President of Stern Brothers, was taken
from Claridge’s Hotel to the mortuary where it will remain until a decision is
made up where the burial will take place.
The seventy-five year old Stern had gone abroad with his daughter
Beatrice and her husband to recuperate following surgery that had taken place
in May. He was also planning on visiting his daughter Baroness Leo de
Grafferies and his grandchildren during the trip.
1923(8th
of Tammuz, 5683): Sixty year old “Moshe Jacob Alter” later known as Morris
Rosenfeld, the Polish born sweat shop tailor and diamond cutter turned
journalist who became editor of the Jewish
World and a delegate to several Zionist Congresses while raising a family
with his wife Bella Guttenberg passed away today.
https://yiddishkayt.org/view/morris-rosenfeld/
1924:
In, Makó, Hungary, Terezia (Riesz) and liberal journalist Emo Vermes, gave
birth to Geza Vermes “a religious scholar who argued that Jesus as a historical
figure could be understood only through the Jewish tradition from which he
emerged, and who helped expand that understanding through his widely read
English translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls” (As reported by William Yardley).
All three converted to Catholicism when Geza was seven years old which did not
save his parents from dying in the Holocaust.
1925(30th
of Sivan, 5685): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1925:
Today, Mildred Fish-Harnack, who would be beheaded for her role in resisting
the Nazis, was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities]
1926:
On his 35th birthday Yale graduate and NYU
trained attorney Louis H. Solomon, the General Counsel for the American Cloak
and Suit Manufacturers’ Association who was “an organizer and life member of
the Bronx Jewish Center and the Philadelphia born son of Sarah and Nathan
Solomon married Sylvia Cohen in New York City.
1926:
Birthdate of Arthur Rosenfeld, the Birmingham born “physicist who became widely
known as the father of energy efficiency for championing energy-saving
requirements for appliances and buildings.”
1926:
In Washington, DC, Harold Ripley and actress Mabel Ida Albertson, the sister of
Jack Albertson gave birth to George Englund whose film resume includes
directing “The Ugly American” a provocative look at Viet Nam before it became a
national crisis and producing “The Shoes of the Fisherman” which provided an
unconventional look at the Papacy.
1927:
“Men Before Marriage” a silent film directed by Constantin J. David and music
by Artur Guttman was released today in Germany.
1928:
Wall Street Bankers Louis and Sayra Fischer Lebenthal gave birth to Princeton
trained businessman James “Jim” Avram Lebenthal , the husband Jacqueline Beymer
and a nominee “for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his
first and only film production T Is for Tumbleweed.”
1928:
In the Bronx, Louis Slobodkin and Florence (Gersh) Slobodkin to Professor
Lawrence B. (Larry) Slobodkin one of the leaders in the field of ecology to
whom, if the world had listened, it might have avoided the damage done by
extreme weather in the first part of the 21st century
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/nyregion/22slobodkin.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
1929:
In Baltimore, MD Israel and Fannie Gravitz Rehert gave birth to Rose Rehert who
gained fame as American journalist and breast cancer advocate Rose Kushner
author of Why Me? What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer to Save
Her Life.
1929:
Under a unanimous decision by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,
Abraham J. Michelbacher, the son of Solomon Michelbacher, a member of the New
York Cotton Exchange who died in August, 1916, must account as executor of $250
of the estate of his mother.
1930:
On the same day that word was received
that the Soviet government plans to end the exile of Rabbi Lazarus, the chief
rabbi of Leningrad who will be allowed to lived any place in Russia except
Leningrad, “the Leningrad Soviet informed members of the large synagogue” in
that city “ that permission would again be given for the use of the synagogue
as a house of worship.”
1931(7th
of Tammuz, 5691): Seventy-nine year old to Max Eckmann, the Berlin born son of
Ezekiel and Caroline (Lowenstein) Eckmann who in 1874 emigrated to the United
States, where he married Marie Slupecki in 1875, became a manufacturer of
novelties, helped organized the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham and served
as a Repubican in the New York State Assembly passed away today.
1932:
Tonight, at a dinner at the Hotel Astor “attended by officials of various
Zionist organizations and several hundred of their members” “Louis Lipsky,
national chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, announced that the
nationwide drive, which will continue until the end of the year, had so far
yielded $609,293.98.”
1933:
In Chicago, “The XXXIII Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations”
is scheduled to come to an end today.
1933: The Jewish world continues to reel from the shock of the
murder Hayim Arlosoff, a Zionist leader who was killed just outside of Tel
Aviv. The Labor Zionist leaders contended that the killer was Abraham Stavsky,
a member or the Revisionists. The victim’s widow who was walking with him on
the beach at the time of his murder identified Stavsky. Stavsky was found
guilty but his conviction was overturned on appeal because of a lack of
corroborating testimony. The facts surrounding the case are murky to this day.
But the episode help to further poison the relationship between the Labor
Zionists and the Revisionists. Ironically, Stavsky was killed aboard the
Altalena in 1948. The issue stills looms large in the memory of the early
Zionists. Leah Rabin made reference to this episode when she talked about the
causes of her husband’s death in 1995.
1933: The Social Democratic party was officially banned as Hitler
consolidated his power.
1933: Birthdate of Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein was Mayor of San
Francisco and is now a United States Senator from California.
1934(9th of Tammuz, 5694): Seventy-six-year-old Chicago
born banker Moses Greenbaum a member of the board of Hebrew Union College
passed away today in his hometown.
1935(21st of Sivan, 5695): Sixty-nine year old the
Polish historian who promoted the “idea of describing a nation's history
through its social and economic development as well as its international and
diplomatic backdrop” and whose works included Danzig and Poland passed
away today.
1935(21st of Sivan, 5695): Eighty-one-year-old Adelheid
von Rothschild the Frankfurt born daughter oof Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild and
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild who married Edmond James de Rothschild in 1877
had three children – James, Maurice and Miram – passed away today in Paris
after which her remained would be reinterred alongside her husband at Ramat
HaNadiv in 1954.
1936: The
Palestine Post
reported a seven-hour battle fought near Tulkarm between Arab terrorists who
ambushed a convoy and British troops. British infantry and police rounded
another Arab gang near Nablus where they lost a sergeant and a private. Arab
losses were not known, but might have been considerable.
1936:
The Paris Tageszeitung reported today that “Germany has placed a ban on the
motion picture ‘The Country Doctor” staring the Dionne quintuplets” because of
the participation of “non-Aryans” in the production of the picture. (The
non-Aryan may have been a reference to script writer Sonya Levien.)
1936:
This evening at a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria movie producer Carl Laemmle,
Nathan Straus, Judge Julian W. Mack and Member of Parliament Major Henry Adams
Proctor urged attendees to provide the maximum amount of support to the United
Palestine Appeal which is working to raise $3,500,000 for the settlement of
persecuted German and Polish Jews in Eretz Israel.
1937:
Leon Blum resigned as Prime Minister of France after losing support due to
remain neutral during the Spanish Civil War.
1937(13th
of Tammuz, 5697): Seventy-one-year-old Buffalo, NY tobacco merchant and
philanthropist Emanuel Boasberg who had “made a gift of $100,000 to the
University of Buffalo to establish a professorship in America history” passed
away today “while the body of his nephew, Hollywood humorist Al Boasberg, was
on its way home form California where he had passed away last week.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/06/23/94394308.html?pageNumber=25
1937:
James Braddock who had had defeated Max Baer to become heavyweight champion
lost his championship to Joe Louis whose manager Mike Jacobs had promoted Louis
in an era of prejudice against African-American athletes and who was
responsible for the bout taking place.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-michael-strauss
1937:
Al Jolson is scheduled to serve as Master of Ceremonies on WABC’s variety show
starting at 8:30 this evening.
1937:
Three days after arriving in Spain, twenty-four year old David Robert Altman,
the Milwaukee born son of Robert and Jeanette Altman entered the International
Brigade where he “served with the XV BDE, Mackenzie-Papineau BN.”
1937:
The final report of the Royal Commission on Palestine chaired by Earl Peel was
signed tonight but its contents remain secret and will probably not “published
until early July” when it is presented to the League of Nations in Geneva.
1938:
Father John LaFarge, American Jesuit, met with Pope Pius XI about the drafting
of an encyclical to condemn racism and anti-Semitism. LaFarge is told:
"Simply say what you would say if you were Pope!" Impressed with
Father LaFarge's antiracist writings and activism in America, Pope Pius XI goes
outside the usual Vatican personnel to assign LaFarge the job of secretly
writing Humani Generis Unitas ("The Unity of Humankind") to condemn
racism and anti-Semitism. Father John LaFarge's draft of this encyclical is
completed in September but it delayed by the Vatican bureaucracy. It won't
reach the pope's desk until he suffers a heart attack in February 1939. His
successor, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, takes the name Pope Pius XII and shelves
the encyclical. No one hears about it again until well after the Holocaust. (As
reported by Austin Cline)
1938:
Joe Louis beat Max Schmeling in the re-match that had been arranged by the German
boxer’s Jewish manager Joe Jacobs, whom Schmeling had refused to fire despite
intense pressure from the Nazis.
1939:
Birthdate of Ada E. Yonath “an Israeli crystallographer best known for her
pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director
of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and
Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009, she received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for
her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first
Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of nine Israeli Nobel laureates, the
first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences,[citation
needed] and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
However, she said herself that there was nothing special about a woman winning
the Prize.”
1940(16th
of Sivan, 5700): Parashat Sh’lach
1940:
After 1,108 performances the curtain came down on the ILGWU production of “Pins
and Needles” a revue with music and lyrics by Harold Rome who also wrote the
book along with several others including Marc Blitzstein, directed by Charles
Friedman and choreographed by Benjamin Zemach.
1940:
In Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Katherine Flora (née Leverson) and
Henry Barnato Rantzen gave birth to Dame Esther Louise Rantzen, the English
journalist and television personality best known for the 21 years she spent
with the television series “That’s Life!”
1940: The French Government led by 84 year-old Marshal
Henri-Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval signed a cease-fire agreement with
Germany. This would mark the start of one of the most shameful periods in
French history. The fascists at Vichy
would not only do the bidding of the Germans when it came to the Jews, they
would actually move more quickly than expected in round up after round up of
Jewish refugees and native born French Jews.
1940: When France surrendered today “one of the terms of the
armistice gave the Germans the right to demand that France surrender all
"Germans named by the German Government" to the German occupation
authorities” including Herschel Feibel Grynszpan who had assassinated Ernst von
Rath in 1938.
1940(16th of Sivan, 5700): Three days before his 75th
birthday, Rabbi Julius “Hesselson” Hess who served several congregations in the
Middle West passed a way today after suffering perforated stomach ulcer.
1940: In Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Katherine Flora (née
Leverson and Henry Barnato Rantzen gave birth to British journalist and
television personality Esther Louise Rantzen
1940: General Charles de Gaulle, the self-appointed leader of the
so-called “Free French” broadcast an appeal to the French people to continue
the fight against the Nazis. He assured
them that the Americans and the British would support them in the effort. Winston Churchill gave permission for the
French brigadier to give the address over the BBC. At a secular level, there is real irony in
this since de Gaulle would become “the cross of Lorraine” that Churchill would
have to carry throughout the war.
Several Jews would rally to de Gaulle, the Resistance and the Free
French. As to Frenchmen in general, to
put it politely, Drancy and Vichy were exemplars of their true feelings for an
extended period of time.
1941: Operation
Barbarossa begins. Germany began its surprise attack
on the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the two nations had signed a
non-aggression pact in 1939. Stalin had ignored a myriad of warnings that the
attack was coming. For days after the attack, Stalin still refused to believe
that Hitler had struck since the Russians had been supplying the Nazis with
vital material. This day would see the start of systematic destruction of
Jewish towns and communities. German killing squads, the Einsatgruppen
would begin to organize local collaborators in Lithuania, Latvia and the
Ukrainian states. Thousands of Jews would be killed within the next few days.
Within a few weeks millions more of the Jews of the Soviet Union would fall
under Nazi rule.
1941: While many refer to Operation Barbarossa that began today as
a “surprise attack” such was not really the case since the Soviets received
warnings from several sources including Krystyna Skarbek better known as
British intelligence agent Christine Granville.
1941: Special mobile killing squads--Einsatzgruppen
--each assigned to a particular area of the Occupied Soviet Union began killing
Jews on the spot wherever they are found; often with the help of local
anti-Semites recruited to help.
1941:
Birthdate of David P. Landau, the winner of the
Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics and Director of the
Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia
1941:
Twenty-six year old American author and historian Milton Meltzer married Hilda
"Hildy" Balinky
1941(27th of Sivan, 5701): In the Soviet
village of Virbalis, Einsatzgruppen machine-gunned all adult Jews and
cover the corpses with lime. Local children are seized by the ankles, and their
heads are smashed against walls and roads. Many of these children are buried
alive.
1941:
In Brooklyn, George Lerner, “a fisherman and antiques dealer” and his wife
Blanche gave birth to Academy Award nominated actor Michael Lerner.
1942(7th
of Tammuz, 5702): Sixty-six year old Hugo Piesen, the native of Prague and
husband of Annie Piesen passed away today in Amityville, NY.
1942: The Jewish Brigade was formed was formed as part of the
British military. The Jewish Brigade fought in Italy and after the war helped
many Jewish refugees escape to Palestine, despite the British Blockade.
Veterans of the brigade would use their skills in the War For Independence.
1943: “So Proudly We Hail!” produced and directed by Mark Sandrich
with music by Edward Heyman was released in today in the United States.
1943: In Poland, 5,000 Jews were deported from the Będzin Ghetto
to a Nazi death camp.
1943: In Aberdeen, Scotland, German Jewish émigrés, pioneering
biochemist Hans Walter Kosterlitz and Hannah Gresshöner, German Jewish émigrés,
gave birth to John Michael Kosterlitz, the winner of the Lars Onsager Prize in
2000 and the Noble Prize in Physics in 2016.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2016/kosterlitz/facts/
1944: The SS closed the concentration camp at
Riga-Kaiserwald, Latvia.
1944:
Birthdate of Edna Arbel, the native of Jerusalem whose legal career included
serving as State Attorney for 8 years before starting her service as a member
of Israel’s Supreme Court.
1944: FDR signed the GI
Bill of Rights. Viewed as part of the war
effort, this modestly named law was one of the most far-reaching pieces social
legislation ever enacted. It gave a
whole group of Americans a chance at homeownership and college education that
would not have otherwise occurred. Among
Jews, it sent people as disparate in temperament as Art Buchwald and Henry
Kissinger on to the college campus.
Along with the automobile, the G.I. Bill of Rights created suburbia
which destroyed many old Jewish neighborhoods and provided new challenges for
Jews seeking to maintain their ethnic identity and religious customs in what
would become a culture of rootlessness.
1944: One thousand Jews were transferred from the death camp of
Birkenau to work in the factories of Dachau. They were "lucky" if you
can call being at Dachau lucky. Ninety-eight percent of the Jews sent to
Birkenau were gassed there. One thousand, five hundred pairs of twins were
tortured by Dr. Joseph Mengele in during his "medical experiments".
1944: Sir Nicholas George Winton the Englishman “who organized the
rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the
eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech
Kindertransport” “was commissioned as an acting pilot officer on probation”
today.
1944: In Lyon Janine Sochaczewska and Alter Mojze Goldman, who
were not married, gave birth to Pierre Goldman, “a French left-wing
intellectual who was convicted of several robberies.”
1944: “You Always Hurt the One You Love,” a “pop standard with
music by Doris Fisher “first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart
today and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1
1945(11th of Tammuz, 5705) Yisrael Yitzchak Hakohen,
the son of Rabbi Yehoshua Falk Kahanovitch
and the husband of Chiah Rachel Goldin with whom he had eight children,
who gained fame as Israel Isaac Kahanovtich. “The Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg and
Western Canada” passed away today.
https://www.manitoba.ca/chc/hrb/plaques/plaq0602.html?print
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kahanovitch-israel-isaac
1945: Birthdate of Alexander Pines, the native of Tel Aviv who
became “Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of
California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of
the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and a member of the
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and the Department of
Bioengineering.”
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/alumni/Seaborg/SEABORG_03/AlexPines_bio.html
1946(23rd of Sivan, 5706): Parashat Sh’lach
1946: Birthdate of Westminster, London native Sir Stephen Harry
Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet “an English theatre owner-manager and producer,
following a career as a businessman and financial journalist.”
1946: “A cablegram to Ernest Evin British Foreign Secretary,
assailing him for his stand on Palestine, was made public today by the Assembly
of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada.”
1946: In address broadcast this afternoon over station WEAF, Dr.
Judah L. Magnes, the president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem said “the
establishment of a self-governing bi-national Palestine, based on equality of
Jews and Arabs would resolve the present complication situation there.”
1947: Birthdate of Maurice David Landau the native of the Golders
Green neighborhood of London who was the diplomatic correspondent of The
Jerusalem Post for 12 years, and its managing editor for four years following
which he founded the English edition of Haaretz of which he was editor-in-chief
and capped his career his career by serving as the paper’s editor-in –chief
from 2004 to 2008.
http://forward.com/news/israel/213602/david-landau-provocative-israeli-editor-dies-at-67/
1947: Albert Einstein withdrew his support for the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc.
1948(15th of Sivan, 5708): Sixty-four year old Joseph
Nunes Nabarro, the native of Islington, who was a partner in the firm of
Narbarro Nathanson (Solicitors) who “was an Elder of the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue and a strong Zionist” passed away today.
1948: Samuel Hamilton Kaufman, “received a recess appointment” to
the U.S. District Court” today from President Truman.
1948:
Szapsel (Shabtai ) Rotholc, the boxer who had been
expelled from the Jewish community for two years because he worked as a member
of the Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto, “was reinstated as a member of the
Jewish Sports Federation.
1949: In a move that showed where the British really stood in the
Arab-Israel Conflict, Foreign Minister Bevin today told the House of Commons
that Britain would no longer be making contribution to the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund, but said that instead it would one
hundred thousand pounds “available to British voluntary societies for the
maintenance of Arab refuges…”
1949: Two hundred Conservative rabbis met today at the Rabbinical
Assembly of America’s 49th annual convention at Kiamesha Lake in New
York.
1950:
A Government spokesman disclosed today that Israel
had asked the United Nations to take all necessary steps to insure
implementation of the armistice agreement between her and Jordan.
1950(7th of Tammuz, 5710): Seventy-year old legal
scholar Max Radin, the son of Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin, passed away today.
1950(7th of Tammuz, 5710): Forty-three year old
“cantor, radio and concert singer” Yssak Gladstone the native of Krivozer,
Russia, passed away today in New York City.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel spent IL50m.
during 1950 on housing and work for more than 100,000 immigrants. The UN
allocated a yearly sum of $100m. for a plan to resettle the Arab refugees. Mr.
Blanford, the newly appointed head of UNRWA, hoped that he would thus be able
to resettle some 30,000 Arab refugee families.
1951: In a statement made to the Sephardic Community of
Salisbury in Rhodesia Haham Solomon Gaon said, "The lack of spiritual
leadership is unfortunately evident today even in the highest places. A Sephardic
institution for the provision of teachers, ministers and rabbinic authorities
is one of the most pressing needs of the present age…We, Sephardim, if properly
organized, could give a lead to the Jewish world generally."
1952: A small home-made bomb exploded at 1:30 A.M. today on the
doorstep of the apartment of Minister of Communications David Z. Pinkas. The
bombing was seen as part of protest against restrictions on driving which are
to go into effect next week. Israelis
will not be allowed to drive their car for two days of each week. One of the days that on which one cannot
drive is Shabbat. Opponents of the ban
claim that the action has more to with attempts by Orthodox Jews to ban driving
on the Sabbath than it does with gasoline conservation. Pinkas is a leader of the Mizrachi Party and
thought to be a leader of those supporting the Shabbat driving ban.
1952(29th of Sivan, 5712): Eighty seven year old
actress Clara Lipman Mann, the Chicago born daughter of “Abram and Josephine
(née Brumer) Lipman” and husband of fellow thespian Louis Mann, passed away
today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lipman-clara
1952: In Atlantic City, Samuel J. Borowsky of New York was
re-elected president of the Histadruth Ivrith of America – “a Hebrew language
and culture association” – at the close of its thirty-fifth national convention
which was attended by over two hundred
delegates.
1952: Journalist Ames Keinan and Shaltiel Ben Yair a reserve army
officer who has no civilian occupation were arrested today for their alleged
role in the bombing of the apartment building housing David Z. Pinkas.
1952: In Israel, Scott George, the United States Vice Consul, said
that because of upcoming changes in Israeli laws regarding citizenship,
immigrants from the United States arriving in Israel after July 14 would lose
their American citizenship unless they “opt out” of receiving Israeli
citizenship.
1956:
“An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Pierre Monteux conducting and Mischa Elman as
soloist in the Violin Concerto, drew a good-sized audience to Lewisohn Stadium”
tonight.
1957:
In Los Angeles, Art Ginsburg opened Art’s Deli – “where every sandwich is a
work of Art.”
1957:
After 717 performances the curtain came down “The Diary Anne Frank” which had
opened at the Cort Theatre in October of 1955 before moving to the Ambassador
Theatre.
1960:
In Framingham, MA Edward and Sherrill Ann (Glovsky) Schiff gave birth to
Stanford graduate Representative Adam Schiff, Congressman for California’s 29th
District who married Eva Sanderson in 1955.
1960:
The Mayor of New York announced at City Hall today that George Lincoln
Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, will not receive a permit to speak
in New York “on July 4th or any other time” due to concerns for public safety
and Rockwell’s personal safety.
1962(20th of Sivan, 5722): Eighty-one year old Hugo Gutmann
Hitler’s Jewish commanding officer who recommended him for the Iron Cross First
Class and was known as Henry G. Grant in the United States passed away today in
San Diego, CA.
1962: Final broadcast of PM East/PM West, “a late night television
talk show co-hosted by Mike Wallace.”
1965(22nd of Sivan, 5725): Sixty-three year old movie producer
David O Selznick, the son of silent film director Lewis J. Selznick, the
son-in-law Louis B.Mayer and the man
most responsible for making the film classic “Gone With the Wind” passed away
today
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0510.html
1965: Dr. Milton D. Glick who would eventually serve as the 15th
president of the University of Nevada Reno, married Peggy Porter today.
1966: U.S. premiere of “Born Free” produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul
Radin with an Oscar-winning title song co-authored by lyricist Don Black.
1966: Release date for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” the
cinematic version of Edward Albee’s play directed by Mike Nichols, produced by
Ernest Lehman, with a script by Ernest Lehman costarring Elizabeth Taylor and
George Segal.
1968:
Jan Peerce made last appearance with the Metropolitan
Opera Company today at a parks concert in ‘Faust.''
1969: Author Jonathan Lewis Nasaw, the son of attorney Joshua J. Nasaw
and the former Beatrice Kaplan married Soo Stone.
1970: Birthdate of rock star Steven Page the lead singer for
“Barenaked Ladies.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/stevenpage.html
1970: Eighty-year old Harvard trained archaeologist Ashton
Sanborn the husband of Agnes Goldman, “the granddaughter of Rabbi Samuel Adler”
and the brother-in-law of Hetty Goldman of the Goldman-Sachs banking family who
was “executive secretary of the American Red Cross Commission with headquarters
in Jerusalem after WW I passed away today.
1972(10th of Tammuz, 5732): Eighty-two year old
Austrian born British “writer, director and producer” Paul Czinner whose career
began with “Inferno” in 1919 and was still going strong in 1966 with “Romeo and
Juliet’ starring Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, passed away today.
1972: Three days after he had passed away, funeral services were
scheduled to be held this morning for sixty-nine year old Long Island College
Hospital trained pathologist Dr. William Antopol, the husband of “the former
Bella Scholer” and father of Michael and Stephen Antopol who was serving as
“director of laboratories and research at Beth Israel Medical Center” when he
passed away in San Francisco.
1973: “A Touch of Class” starring George Segal was released today
in the United States.
1973: Former U.S. New York Senator Kenneth B. Keating was
appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1974(2nd of Tammuz, 5734): Eighty-one year old “French
composer and teacher” Darius Milhaud whose students included Jazz Great Dave
Brubeck and Burt Bacharach passed away today.
http://www.mills.edu/academics/library/special_collections/sc_milhaud.php
http://www.anb.org/articles/18/18-03766.html
1976(24th of Sivan, 5736): Fifty-nine year old “Dr.
Maurice S. Sage, president of the Jewish National Fund” passed away this
evening “an hour after collapsing on the dais of Grand Ballroom of New York’s
Hilton Hotel.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/06/23/121483958.pdf
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the prices of
foodstuffs (bread, milk, cooking oil, sugar etc.) would increase by about 30
percent due to another IL150m. subsidy cut.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the US State
Department had announced that a public expression of thanks by President Gerald
Ford to the Palestine Liberation Organization for its assistance in evacuating
Americans from Beirut did not represent any change of policy towards this
terrorist organization.
1978: Neo-Nazis called off plans to march in the Jewish community
of Skokie, Illinois.
1978: Today, “Rabbi Leib Pinter of Brooklyn was sentenced to two
years in prison after having pleaded guilty last month to bribing” a
Pennsylvania congressman “to obtain favorable treatment for the social program
of the B’Nai Torah Institute.”
1979: “Escape from Alcatraz” a prison movie directed and produced
by Don Siegel with music by Jerry Fielding was released in the United States
today.
1979: “The Main Event,” a comedy directed by Howard Zieff,
produced by Howard Rosenman and starring Barbra Streisand was released in the
United States today.
1979: “Nightwing” the film version of the book by the same name
directed by Arthur Hiller, produced by Martin Ranshoff and featuring David
Warner and Stephen Macht was released in the United States today.
1979: Weeks after having been released in the United Kingdom “The
Muppet Movie” co-produced by Lew Grade with Frank Oz as the voices of Miss
Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle,and Marvin Suggs was released in the
United States.
1980: The New York Times featured a review of Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler.
1982:
In Tucson, AZ, Howard Kinsler, college basketball player and “warden at a state
prison” and his Catholic wife gave birth to major league second baseman Ian
Kinsler who was proud to be “featured in the 2008 Hank Greenberg 75th
Anniversary edition of Jewish Major Leaguers Baseball Cards, licensed by Major
League Baseball, commemorating the Jewish major leaguers from 1871 through
2008.”
1983:
“The Survivors” an off-beat comedy co-starring Walter Matthau was released
today in the United States.
1984:
“The Pope of Greenwich Village” a crime film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and
co-produced by Howard Koch was released today in the United States.
1986:
Sir Moses I Finley, the American expatriate professor suffered a stroke today
upon hearing that his wife had passed away.
1989(19th of Sivan, 5749): In Jerusalem Professor Menachem Stern,
a Hebrew University Scholar and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities was stabbed to death by two teenage Arabs as he walked home.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-stabber-is-convicted-murderer-freed-in-2013/
1990: “Robocop 2” directed by Irvin Kershner was released in the
United States today.
1992: Gil Stein was announced as the new president of the National
Hockey League and formally took the position, succeeding John Ziegler
1996: Pitcher Al Levine made his major league debut with the
Chicago White Sox.
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Look,
Listen, Read” by Claude Levi-Strauss, “Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the
Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions From Europe's Jews and
Holocaust Survivors” by Tom Bower
2000: Armed with a slingshot, a walkie-talkie and a pistol tucked
into his pants, a Hezbollah guerrilla across the fence in Lebanon let another
stone fly today toward a mesh-covered Israeli Army post on the outskirts of the
northern border community” of Metula but Israeli soldiers at the border are
under strict orders not to fire unless they are fired upon, and since it is
only stones they must stoically not respond.
2001(21st of Tammuz, 5761): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2001: In Vienna, the International Conference sponsored by the
Dubnow Institute on “Restitution Memory” On Historical Remembrance and Material
Restitution in Europe in Europe” continued for a second day.
2001(21st of Tammuz, 5761):Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar
Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed in a suicide bombing
near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates,
supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas took credit for
the attack,
2001:
Daniel Charles Kurtzer left his post as U.S.
Ambassador to Egypt. [Yes, an American Jew represented the U.S. in Cairo.
2002(12th of Tammuz, 5762): Seventy-eight year old Fred Rochlin, architect, artist,
photographer and collector of Western Jewish Americana passed away.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/26/local/me-rochlin26
2002: Funeral services for 92 year old Nachman Libeskind the
survivor of Russian labor camps and the Holocaust are scheduled to be held
today at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel in New York.
2002(12th of Tammuz, 5762): Ann Landers passed away. Esther
Pauline Friedman was born in Iowa on July 4, 1918. She began writing an advice
column in the 1950’s. Her sister wrote an equally famous column under the name
of Dear Abbey. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2002: Actress Embeth Davidtz married entertainment attorney Jason
Sloane in a Jewish wedding in Los Angeles.
2003(22nd of Sivan, 5763): Eighty-one year old tennis
player and trail-blazer phi beta kappa Stanford graduate Gladys Medalie
Heldman, “the daughter of New York Court of Appeals judge George Z. Medalie and
the husband of Julius Heldman passed away
https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/gladys-heldman
2003(22nd of Sivan, 5763): Sixty-seven year old Joseph
Chaikin, the Brooklyn born “actor and director” who was raised in Des Moines,
Iowa and attended Drake University passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/nyregion/joseph-chaikin-67-actor-and-innovative-director.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/26/guardianobituaries1
2003:
Jonathan Andrew Kaye won the Buick Classic, a major
PGA tournament.
2004: “The United States wants Israel to follow through with a
pledge to dismantle settlement outposts in the West Bank, Daniel C. Kurtzer, the
American ambassador to Israel said today.
2004: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Alfred
Cohn, the husband of Carolyn Cohen, the father of Jeffrey and the late Matthew
Cohn and the stepfather of Jonathan and Daniel, three days after he had passed
away.
2005: Opening session of Security Israel - The 19th
annual International Homeland Security Exhibition .
2006: The Red Cross humanitarian movement overcame Muslim
objections and cleared away the last obstacle to full Israeli membership
setting up formal admission after nearly six decades of exclusion, Israel's
ambassador to international organizations in Geneva said.
2006: In “Brooklyn’s Oldest Synagogue Celebrates Its 150th
Anniversary, Evan Barton traces the history of the Kane Street Synagogue.
http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=27&id=6493
2007: In Jerusalem, the Center Stage Theater presents a matinee
performance of Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing," followed by
special party after the show.
2008: A new government strategy to redefine ties with the Diaspora
designed to be less patronizing and more humble which was developed jointly by
Cabinet Secretary Ovad Yehezkel and Alan Hoffman, director-general of the
Jewish Agency’s Education Department is unveiled.
2008: In New York City, The Yeshiva University Museum presents the
2nd annual Family Puppet Festival.
2008: In New York City, Logan Joseph Kleinwaksv presents
“Searching Online Historical Directories - and - A New Tool for Shoah Research”
at the Center for Jewish Studies.
2008: In an election to select France’s next Chief Rabbi three
hundred rabbis and communal leaders choose
between the incumbent, Joseph Sitruk, a 63-year-old Sephardic rabbi
known for his common touch, and the challenger, Gilles Bernheim, a 56-year-old
Ashkenazic philosopher who is the rabbi of Paris’s largest synagogue.
2008: The general assembly of the Central Consistory elected Giles
Bernheim Chief Rabbi of France.
http://forward.com/articles/13660/new-chief-rabbi-appointed-in-france-/
2008: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The
Political Mind: Why You Can’t
Understand 21st-Century Politics With an 18th-Century Brain” by Jewish
linguist George Lakoff.
2008: The Washington Post
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Darin Smith’s “More Than It Hurts You” “a polarizing
novel in which a black doctor accuses a Jewish mother of child abuse” and “My Five Years in Iraq” by Richard Engel, the Middle East
correspondent who when he was interviewing the President was asked by Mr. Bush
if he was Jewish; a question which he answered in the affirmative.
2008: The New York Times
reported on the downbeat emotional and political attitudes of Israelis as the
“truce” with Hamas begins in an article entitled “Israel in the Season of
Dread.”
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/weekinreview/index.html?8dpc
2009: Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5769 (first day of a two day Rosh
Chodesh)
2009: In “Dead Sea Peril” published today Joseph Marks described
the growing impact and causes of sinkholes on this unique Middle Eastern body
of water.
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2009365892_apmlisraeldeadseasinkholes.html
2009: In the United Kingdom, John Simon Bercow was
elected Speaker of the House of Commons making him the first Jew to hold that
position.
2010: The Jewish Community Research Council is scheduled
to hold its final session of the season by hosting a luncheon meeting with
Virginia House Speaker William Howell and Virginia State Senate Chairman of
Education & Health Committee Ed Houck.
2010: Publication of Feeling “Phil Spector’s Pain.”
http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/film/feeling_phil_spector%27s_pain
2010: Judge Martin “Feldman issued a preliminary
injunction blocking a six-month moratorium on deep-water offshore drilling in
Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar.”
2011: The Art Show that began on June 13 is scheduled to
come a close at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning.
2011: The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's Tzadik
Records are scheduled to present “Masada Guitars Revisited + Edom,” one of six
concerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's Downtown
Jewish Music scene.
2011:
Today Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Oren defended the blockade of Gaza
as a “matter of life and death” and said that it fully comports with
international law, as a flotilla prepares to attempt to reach Gaza.
2011:
The number of millionaires in Israel rose in 2010 by more than 20.6 percent to
10,153, according to the latest annual Merrill Lynch-Capgemini World Wealth
Report released today.
2011:
Israel Defense Forces made history when a woman was officially promoted to the
rank of Major General for the first time. Major General Orna Barbivay, 49,
replaced Major General Avi Zamir as commander of the IDF's Manpower Branch in
an official ceremony today, which was attended by Defense Minister Ehud Barak,
IDF chief Benny Gantz, and other senior army officials..
2011:
Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes, an Israeli socialite, investor and talk show host
twitted about a rumor regarding the departure of journalist Yair Lapid to the
world of politics
2011(20th
of Sivan, 5771): Eighty-seven year old screenwriter David Rayfiel whose work
included “Three Days of the Condor,” “Out of Africa” and “The Way We Were”
passed away. (As reported by William
Grimes)
2012:
Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to celebrate “Shabbat Under the Stars” in
Springfield, VA.
2012:
As part of the attempts to undo some of the damage done through his
relationship with Bernard Maddorff “J. Ezra Merkin agreed to pay back $405
million to investors in his hedge funds”
2012:
Cantor Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner are scheduled to a lead a
Carlebach-inspired service at the Historic 6th & I Syngagogue.
2012:
The Go North & Northern Communities of Nefesh B’Nefesh are scheduled to
offer a guided tour at Tzippori Park so Olim can see “amazing mosaics, a
crusader fortress, an ancient reconstructed synagogue and the first century
underground water system.
2012:
Two Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in open areas in the Eshkol
Regional Council in southern Israel today. As reported by Yoel Goodman)
2012:
Israeli Air Force strikes carried out today against terrorists operating in the
Gaza Strip killed two and injured at least four others.
2012:
In “The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past” published today Argentine-Israeli
conductor Daniel Barenboim “explains why the Israeli antipathy toward Wagner is
grotesque and argues that Israel shouldn't depend too.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview-with-daniel-barenboim-a-840129.html
2012:
The findings of the 2011 census, released today by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics, revealed the Jewish population to be 97,335. This means that
Australia’s official Jewish population has risen by about 10 percent in the
last five years (As reported by JTA)
2012:
Daphni Leef, one of the leaders of last summer’s mass social protest movement,
was arrested, along with seven other activists, in Tel Aviv today after
attempting to pitch tents on Rothschild Boulevard.
2013: The Edin-Tamar Music is scheduled to host
“Romantic Violin” program II featuring violinist Saida Bar Lev and pianist
Yonatan Zak.
2013(14th of Tammuz, 5773): Sixty-eight year
old writer producer Gary David Goldberg, creator of “Family Ties” passed away
today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2013: Barbara Streisand is scheduled to perform
at Bloomfield Stadium as part of the Israeli Presidential Conference.
2013: Traffic Police over the weekend caught
about 140 drunk drivers, the majority of which were subject to suspended
licenses, Israel Radio today. (As
reported by Jerusalem Post staff)
2013: Today, Internal Security Minister Yitzhak
Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) called this week’s “price tag” incident in Abu
Ghosh a terror attack, and vowed the police would continue to combat racially
motivated violence
2014: Masses are scheduled to take place at
churches in Newark, NJ, Mineola, NY and Yonkers, NY honoring the memory of
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese diplomat who defied his government
and issued thousands of life saving visas to Jews trying to escape Hitler’s
Europe.
2014: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host a presentation by genealogist Miriam Weinter and Avrum who
will ”reveal important—but relatively unknown—resources for family-history
research.”
2014: The
New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers inducing The Train to Warsaw by Gwen Edelman, Suddenly,
Love by Aharon Appelfeld and Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in
the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill.
2014: The funeral for ‘the former director of
the Shin Bet internal security organization Avraham Shalom” is scheduled to be
held today.
2014(24th of Sivan, 5774): Fifteen
year old Mohammed Karkara, from the town of Arraba in the lower Galilee, who
had accompanied his father to work on what was the first day of the summer
vacation was killed in the Golan Heights this morning when an anti-tank missle
was fired from Syria at an a vehicle delivering water to Israeli contractors
working on a fence
2014: “A Palestinian man armed with a hand
grenade broke through the Gaza fence and tried to infiltrate an Israeli
community before he was stopped early this morning, the military said.”
2014: “May the force be with Jew” published
today described the decision to have Israeli Ram Bergman produce “the next two
Star War films, Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX.” (Debra Kamin)
2014: Today Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
criticized the “disgraceful decision by the US Presbyterian Church to divest
from three companies that provide supplies to Israeli forces and settlers in
the West Bank.”
2015:
Professor Ellen Eisenberg, “the author of two forthcoming books on Jewish
Oregonians,” is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the Annual Meeting of the
Oregon Jewish Museum Center for Holocaust Education in Portland.
2015(5th
of Tammuz, 5775): Sixty-one year old Oscar winning composer James Horner passed
away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2015:
After a vote taken yesterday, the Berlin Philharmonic Symphony announced the
appointment of Kirill Petrenko, 43, a Russian-born
Jew, to replace Sir Simon Rattle
2015:
French-Moroccan baritone David Serero is scheduled to appear as Shylock in his
“Sephardi adaptation of” Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” which will
feature Sephardi music.
2015:
Ruth Behar is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Reflecting On Adio Kerida,”
the awarding winning film that chronicles “the lives of Jews in Cuba and Jewish
Cubans in Miami and New York.”
2016: In Oregon, “P.S. Jerusalem” is scheduled
to be shown today at the 24th annual Portland Jewish Film Festival.
2017(28th of Sivan, 5777):
Seventy-eight year old St. Louis born “feminist”
Sheila Babs Michaels, the daughter of “Alma Weil Michaels (née Weil), a
playwright and theatrical producer and Ephraim London, a civil rights attorney”
passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/sheila-michaels-ms-title-dies-at-78.html
2017: The Jewish Federation of Greater did not
hold its annual meeting today where it planned to present the Tikkun Olam Award
to Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole on behalf of her department for
incorporating Holocaust education into police training and collaborating with
Jewish groups on a real-time communications tool developed after a shooting at
the Federation’s headquarters in 2006 in the wake of “the death of Charleena
Lyles, a 30-year old black woman, at the hands of police.”
2017: “Some of Israel’s top chefs were on hand
at today’s Tel Aviv launch of Joan Nathan’s latest cookbook, King Solomon’s
Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World.” (As
reported by Jessica Steinberg)
2017: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled
to hold its Congregational Meeting.
2017: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington is scheduled to host a “Twilight Tour” of downtown Washington that
will included visits to “four historic synagogues.”
2017:
“Letters from Baghdad,” a documentary about the role of Gertrude Bell in
the history of Iraq is scheduled to be shown for the last time in Montclair,
NJ.
2017: In Brooklyn the Batsheva Learning Center
is scheduled to host an evening of “Sushi and Study.”
2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a screening of a clip from “Spiral” followed by director and
veteran journalist Laura Fairrie talking about” the rise of anti-Semitism in
France and the quandary facing French Jews: “Pack up for Israel or remain to battle
the rising hostility.”
2018: “On the Edge,” an “exhibition on loan
from the Universcience Museum in Paris Is scheduled to open at the Bloomfield
Science Museum in Jerusalem.
2018: After having premiered at Sundance in
January, “The Catch Was a Spy” the movie version of the book by the same named
directed by Ben Lewin and starring Paul Rudd as Moe Berg was released today in
the United States.
2018: Sitting in his home at Jaffa, erev
Shabbat, Moshe Sakal, a product of the writing program at the University of
Iowa describes his journey of self-discovery and discusses his first novel, The
Diamond Setter.
2019:
The Joyce Theatre is scheduled to host a performance of “Rushes pairs
Pilobolus creativity with global dance mavericks Israeli choreographers Inbal
Pinto and Avshalom Pollak”
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a docent tour “of the inspirational Museum which seamlessly
weaves history with local Survivor narratives.”
2019: Following President Trump’s explanation
for cancelling the attack on Iranian missile batteries because it would cause a
“disproportionate number of causalities” Prime Minister Netanyahu, who worked
to elect the Republican might be wondering what kind of support he would
receive if Israel is attacked by Iran or its proxies such as Hezbollah.
2019(19th of Sivan, 5779): Parashat
Beha’alotcha;
2020: Temple Sinai of Marblehead is scheduled
to host online “Weekly Torah Study with Rabbi David Cohen-Henriquez
2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled
to host Dr. Karen Brodkin, author of How Jews Became White Folks and What
That Says About Race in America as she lectures on “Jewish Immigrants and
America’s Racial Politics”
2020: In the wake of the Pandemic, the Jewish
commitment to education continues as the JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled to
present on-line Summer Enrichment for Children 0-5 which provides the
opportunity to “Explore interactive virtual classes
led by expert instructors for children and families, including baby sign
language, music, STEM, dance, chess, art and more!”
2020: Following his warning
yesterday that Israel “may have to renew lockdowns following a surge in
coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to “hold a
meeting of ministers today to decide what steps should be taken.”
2021: The JDC Archives is schedule
to present a webinar on “Mela Iancu: A Holocaust Heroine in Romania.”
2021: In London, LSJS is scheduled
to host Simi Peters who “will be delving in the book of Devarim.
2021: CJE SeniorLife - Holocaust
Community Services; Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern
University; Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center are
scheduled to ho co-host a discussion of Wendy Lower’s latest book, The
Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed.
2021: The Oshman Family Jewish
Community Center is scheduled to present Mezzo-soprano Deborah Rosengaus
talking “about iconic Jewish Broadway performers such as Barbra Streisand and
Mandy Patinkin.”
2021: Scheduled screening of “the
acclaimed German-Danish film, ‘Winter Journey,’ based on Martin Goldsmith’s
book, Inextinguishable Symphony which chronicles his musician parents’
journey from Nazi Germany to the US.”
2021: The first annual
International Agnon Festival, featuring a talk with authors Nicole Krauss and
Dorit Rabinyan is scheduled to continue for a second day.
2021: The Streicker Center is
scheduled to a conversation with Franke Bruni and Brian Stelter as he hypes the
sale of the paperback edition Hoax during a presentation styled “The President,
A Network and the Trumping of America.”
2021: The Center For Adult Jewish
Learning At Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present, online, “Baking
and Bread Across the Diaspora” with culinary historian and bread lover Sara
Gardner.
2022: In New Orleans Board of
Directors of the Jewish Endowment Fund are scheduled to meet today.
2022: As part of the People of the
Book Club, The Center for Jewish History and LBI are scheduled to present a
discussion Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey.
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2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish
Experience is scheduled to present New Works Wednesday with Haim Jachter as he discusses his new book Bridging
Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews.
2022: In Columbus, OH, Congregation
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to a Lunch and Learn where participants will
discuss “Acquire for Yourself a Companion: Sexuality in the Talmud.”
2022: Based on previously published
polling information as of today “neither of the rivaling blocs in Israel's
parliament, the Knesset, will get a majority of 61 seats to form a stable
government.”
2022: As part of a pan to push up
its timeline for the Knesset’s disbandment and new elections, “the ruling
coalition is scheduled to add “its dispersal bill to today’s legislative
agenda.” (As reported by Carrie Keller-Lynn)
2023: The Strauss- Rabbi Feivel and Cantor
Abbie are scheduled to lead services at Temple Judea.
2023: YIVO is scheduled to present
a lecture by Kenneth B. Moss, the Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of
Jewish History at the University of Chicago, on “Freedom, Wholeness and Social
Responsibility in Modern Yiddish Culture.”
2023: JCC Columbus, OH, is
scheduled to host its gala “Tropical Escape.”
2023: UK Jewish Film is scheduled
to host an online screening of “Babi Yar” and “The Kiev Trial” as well as a
screening of “Wondrous Oblivion” with a post screening discussion with Paul
Morrison.
2023: The Lappin Foundation is
scheduled to present online “A Preview of Introduction to Judaism” a four part course
that explores “the heart of Judaism.”
2023: Lockdown University is
scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “George Eliot and Daniel Deronda: Disraeli, Conningsby,
Alroy.”
