This Day, June 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 24
586
BCE (9th of Tammuz, 3174): King Nebuchadnezzar’s army broke through the walls
of Jerusalem and entered the City of David.
1182:
Phillip II, the seventeen-year-old French monarch “decreed the total expulsion
of Jews from all royal possessions within two months. This was due in part to
debts owed to Jewish moneylenders. The debtors were exempted from all payment
to the Jews but had to pay a tax of 20% of their debt to the Treasury. This
only served to force those Jews who were considered an asset into other French
provinces not directly under the King's control. The Synagogue in Paris was
converted into the Church of St. Madeleine, while the one in Orleans was changed
into the Chapel of St. Sauveur. This expulsion - with the confiscation of land
and property - was a strong factor in Jews leaving agriculture as a profession
in favor of moveable property and trade.” (As reported by Eli Birnbaum)
1190:
Philip II Augustus of France and Richard the Lionheart of England break camp at
Vezelay and head off for the Holy Land, officially launching the Third Crusade.
Phillip was openly anti-Semitic. Richard
was protective of his Jewish subjects.
His absence during the Crusade left them to “the tender mercies” of
Prince John and the local Anglo anti-Semites.
And of course, as always, the Jews suffered wherever the Crusading
Christians marched.
1241:
Ivan Asen II, the Czar of Bulgaria also known as John Asen II who in 1230
“defeated Theodore Ducas Angelus of Epirus and after which threw two Jews off
of a cliff for refusing to put out his eyes passed away today.
http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1230&endyear=1239
1298:
Massacre of the Jews of Ifhauben, Austria.
1322:
Charles IV of France expelled all the Jews from France without the promised one
year's warning. This marked the second expulsion of the Jews from France.
1334:
Vladimir IV, one of the attendees at the Banquet of the Five Kings began his
reign his King of Denmark which the Black Plague came to his realm with all
that that meant for the Jews of Europe.
1339:
A party commissioned by Pope Benedict XII to go to China that included Giovanni
de' Marignolli left Constantinople and sailed across the Black Sea to Caffa. In
1342, following his arrival in China, Marginollia told of having engaged
"in glorious disputations" in Beijing with both Muslims and Jews.
This was one several reports of Jews living in China during the 14th
century. These included Andrew of Perugia’s
complaint in 1326 that “the Jews of Quanzhou obdurately refused to
accede to his pleas that they undergo baptism” and the Muslim traveler ibn Battuta description
of entering Hangzhou in 1346 “through a gate called the Jews’ Gate and
statement that among the inhabitants of the city there were “Jews, Christians
and sun-worshipping Turks.”
http://www.sino-judaic.org/index.php?page=kaifeng_jews_history
1386:
Birthdate John of Capistrano, a Franciscan friar who played a key role in
having forty Jews burned at the stake in Breslau and sought to have King of
Poland abolish the special privileges accorded to his Jewish subjects.
1441:
King Henry VI founded Eton College.
While there were no Jews in the Eton’s first class (there were no Jews
living in England, King Henry would be surprised to find out that by 2009 Mr.
Jonathan Paull was Head of Jewish studies at Eton and that Jewish students were
putting on tefillin under the guidance of local Chabad representatives.
1509: Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crowned
King and Queen of England. There were no Jews living in England at this
time. Henry’s father (Henry VII) had
promised Catherine’s parents (the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella) that
Jews would never be allowed the realm of the English monarchs. Thanks to the turmoil that Henry would create
when he went to shed Catherine as his Queen and royal mate, small numbers of
Marranos and crypto-Jews would be living in England by the end of the century.
1519:
In Burgundy, “Pierre de Beze, royal governor of Vézelay” and Marie Bourdelot
gave birth to French Protestant theologian Theodore
Beza, the successor to John Calvin at Geneva and who like Luther was a believer
“that Christian churches were largely responsible for the current unbelief
among the Jews and “that there would a large-scale conversion of the Jews”
while still acknowledging “the Justice of divine anger the Jewish people.”
1550: Today,
Boston born English Protestant clergyman and historian John Foxe whose famous
literary work, Book of Martyrs “included stories of Jews” and whose writings on
Jews show how a powerful writer conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-conscious,
Protestant English national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology,
race, and politics” was ordained deacon by Nicholas Ridely.
1646:
Today, during the English Civil War, Edward Nicholas, the author of a pamphlet,
“An Apology for the Honorable Nation of the Jews” which called for the
readmission of the Jews to England and “is one of the few examples of
pro-admission writing that does not also call for the conversion of the Jews”
who was an adviser to King Charles I “had the duty of treating for the
capitulation of Oxford on which included seeking permission for Nicholas
himself to retire abroad with his family.”
1648:
In Tulczyn, Poland, an agreement between the 2000 Jews and 600 Christians to
defend the town at all costs succeeded in preventing the Cossacks from
capturing the town. The Cossacks persuaded the Christians that they would let
them go free if they would give them the Jews. The (furious) Jews were
persuaded by the Rabbi that if they took revenge on the Poles other Jews would
suffer. The gates were opened and most of the Jews killed. The Cossacks then
turned on the Poles and killed most of them as well. For the most part, during
the entire war the Poles and the Jews were uneasy allies against the Cossacks.
1667:
In the Basque Country of Spain, Felipe Nieto, the Venice born son of Phinehas
Nieto, and his wife Maria Flores gave
birth to Juana Nieto Viya
1692:
Founding of Kingston, Jamaica. By now, Jamaica was an English colony and Jews
can only practice their religion as opposed to their secret observance that had
been the norm during the Spanish rule. There were enough Jews living in
Kingston that synagogues were reportedly opened in 1744 and 1787.
1699: A committee that had been formed to find
a larger place for the growing Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews
“leased from Lady Ann Pointz (alias Littleton) and Sir Thomas Pointz (alias
Littleton) a tract of land at Plough Yard, in Bevis Marks, for 61 years, with
the option of renewal for a further 38 years, at £120 a year.” This would be
the location for the famed Bevis Marks Synagogue which was more than a house of
worship. It was the center the center of
the Anglo Jewish world when that world encompassed the British Empire.
1702: In Great Britain an “Act to oblige Jews to maintain and
provide for their Protestant children” took effect. This act of Parliament grew
out of case involving Jacob de Mendez Berta and his daughter Mary who became a
Protestant. According to one source, the
father refused to continue to support his daughter after she converted and her
newly adopted Protestant community did not want to shoulder the burden of her
support. Hence, this legislation was
adopted and would stay in effect until the middle of the 19th
century.
1725: Over the next 12 months, starting from today, 26 of the
entries for shipments from the port of New York involved Jewish merchants. This was 6.7% of the total. Of these entries, 6 were credited to Moses
Levy, one of the colony’s leading merchants.
1704: Birthdate of Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens,
author of the novel Lettres Juives (The Jewish Letters) and “patron”
Aaron Gumpertz, the graduate of University of Frankfurt who was the first
Prussian Jew to hold the degree of medical doctor.
1763: Nathan Raphael and his wife gave birth to Raphael Raphael,
the husband of Julia Asher with whom he had nine children.
1781(1st of Tammuz, 5541): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1781: George Washington wrote to Comte de Rochambeau as plans are
made to move South and engage the British in Viriginia.
1785: In Savannah, GA, Jacob de Pass and his wife gave birth to
Ralph de Pass.
1785: In Savannah, GA, Jacob de Pass and his first wife Leah gave
birth to their daughter Sally.
1761(14th of Sivan): Moses Brandeis Charif the chief rabbi of
Mayence and cabalist who was the son of Jacob Brandeis passed away.
1766(17th of Tammuz, 5526): Tzom Tammuz
1793: As France continues to be embroiled in a Revolution that
among other things removed the restrictions against the Jews of that country,
the National Convention adopted that country’s first “republican constitution.
1794:
Bowdoin College was founded in Brunswick, Maine. Today about ten percent of
Bowdoin’s 1,650 students are Jewish. The school has ten Jewish Studies courses
and a Hillel Chapter.
1803: In London, Judith (Barrow) Montefiore and
Eliezer Montefiore, a prominent English merchant gave birth to their youngest
son, Joseph Barrow Montefiore who made his fortune in Australia before
returning to his native England.
1806: Solomon Moses married Rachel Gratz, the
daughter of Philadelphians Miriam Simon and Michael Gratz.
1806: Áron Chorin “a Hungarian rabbi and
pioneer of religious reform” who had been censured and punished by an Orthodox
tribunal appealed to the Imperial Government for relief. The government
“annulled the judgment and condemned the leader of his adversaries at Arad to
pay the expenses of the lawsuit…Chorin declared that he forgave his adversary
and declined his claims for compensation of the expenses. To avoid further
trouble, he determined to give up writing.
1807: Jacob Keyser married Harriet Jacobs at
the Great Synagogue in the UK.
1807: Joseph Phillips married Sarah Elizabeth
at the Western Synagogue in the UK.
1809: In Zülz, Prussian Silesia, Gittel and
Marcus Jacob Loewe, Rabbi of Rosenburg gave birth to Louis Lowe who became a
leading Orientalist and principal and director of Judith Lady Montefiore
College at Ramsgate.
1812: Today the 685,000 men of the Grande
Armée, the largest army assembled up to that point in European history, crossed
the Neman River and headed towards Moscow” in what would be the first step in a
campaign that ultimately led to the exile of Napoleon with all that that would
mean for Europeans in general and Jews in particular.
1817: Birthdate of German native Sailing Wolfe,
the wife of Sarah Cohen Wolf and the mother of Isabel, Rose, Solomon, Deborah,
Henrietta, Sarah and Hartwig Wolfe.
1817: Birthdate of Polish native Henriette
Grossman Schottlander , the wife of Lobel Schottlander and the mother of Julius
Schottlander.
1826(19th of Sivan, 5586): Parashat
Baeha’aloctcha
1826(19th of Sivan, 5586):
Seventy-year old Israel ben Solomon Wahrmann, who had served as the rabbi at
Bodrogh-Keresztur passed away today.
1826: Eliezer and Esther Symons, natives of
Holland, gave birth to Henry Eliezer Symons, the husband of Emma Myers.
1832: Birthdate of Austrian native Jacob
Fleishner, the husband of Fanny Fleischner and father of Isaac N. Fleischner
who had settled in Portland, OR.
1834: Two days after she passed away, fifty-four-year-old
Harriet Gompertz, the unmarried daughter of Abraham Wiesel Gompertz was buried
today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery today.
1838: In Goldingen in the Duchy of Courland in
the Russian Empire, Martin Sass Eder and Dorina Kaiser gave birth to James
Martin Eder who was known as Santiago Martin Eder Kaiser don Santiago Eder in
Columbia where he was a pioneer in the sugar industry and a leading
businessman.
1839: Birthdate of Solomon H. Sonnenschein, the
Hungarian born American Rabbi who served Congregation Temple Israel in St.
Louis and Temple B’nai Yeshurun in Des Moines, Iowa before his death in 1908.
1840: Birthdate of Émile Duclaux, the French
chemist and microbiologist who “was a vocal support of Alfred Dreyfus.”
1842: In Sidney, Australia, The Voice of Jacob reported that the
Sultan of Turkey had called for an audience attended by all religious leaders
which included the Hahambashi (Chief or Grand Rabbi) where he issued a firman
protecting "all religious denominations" in Syria.
1843: “In in spite of the fact that the Jews of
the city had contributed 12,900 scudi to do honor to the pope during his visit
in 1841, an old decree was revived by Fra Vincenzo Soliva, Inquisitor of Ancona
and other districts, forbidding Jews to reside or do business in any place
where there was no ghetto, to employ Christian journeymen, to hire Christian
servants, wet-nurses, or apprentices, to deal in books of any sort or in
ecclesiastical robes, etc.”
1846: In Hungary, the residence tax was
officially abolished. In order to have it cancelled the Jews had to pay a
one-time fee of 1,200,000 florins.
1846(30th of Sivan, 5606): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1846: Isaac Harris married Rebekah Jacobs at
the Western Synagogue in the UK.
1859: In County Kerry, Lt. Col. Henry Horatio
Kitchener and Frances Anne Chevallier-Cole Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the great
British military leader known simply as Lord Kitchener. His first step on the
road to glory came in 1874 when the 24 year old Kitchener led a mapping and
survey expedition to parts of “the Holy Land” under the direction of the
Palestine Exploration Fund. The effects of the mapping expedition are still
felt today since, among other thing, they provided the basis for delineating the
border between the state of Israel and Lebanon.
1856:
In Rome, a contingent of papal carabinieri “acting at the orders of the local
Inquisitor, Father Pier Gaetan Feletti, took six year old Edgardo Mortara from
his parent’s apartment because church officials discovered that Edgardo had
been secretly baptized by a servant girl five years ago and that he could no
longer “be raised in a Jewish household.”
Thus began the scandal known as the Mortara Affair.
1861:
Herman Makower helped to prepare “The General German Commercial Code”
introduced in Prussia today.
1861:
In New York City, Wolf and Henrietta (Rothschild) Marks gave birth to attorney,
New York State Senate member and Justice of the Municipal Court, Jacob Marks
the husband of Henrietta Barnett who were members of the Central Synagogue in
Manhattan.
1862:In
Poland, Isael Rypins and his wife gave birth to University of Cincinnati graduate
and HUC ordained rabbi, Isaac L. Rypins who served a congregation in
Evansville, IN before coming to St. Paul, MN in 1899 to lead Mount Zion Hebrew
Congregation.
https://mzion.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mt_Zion_panel_1.pdf
1863:
Almost two years after becoming naturalized, Samuel (Isaac) Henry Gluckstein
began working as a “cigar manufacturer.”
1864:
On Gibraltar Sir Frederick Francis Maude, a general who had been awarded the
Victoria Cross in 1855 during the Crimean War, and Catherine Mary Bisshopp,
daughter of Very Reverend Sir George Bisshopp, 9th Baronet of Parham Sussex
gave birth to Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Stanley Maude who commanded the 13th
Division during the Gallipoli Campaign where the Zion Mule Corps gained game
and then took command of British forces in Mesopotamia where he turned defeat
into victory as could be seen by his capture of Baghdad which was a compliment
to Allenby’s campaigns that freed Palestine.
1864:
A Report on the Petition of Haym M. Solomon was published today on page four of
the Senate Reprots, No. 93, 39th Congress, 1st Session
1865:
Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman, was mustered out as a soldier in the Union Army. He had
enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and had participated “in the battles of
Chancellorsville, Brandy Station (where he was wounded), Gettysburg, Mine Run
(where he was again wounded), Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold
Harbor, Five Forks, Petersburg, and Appomattox Court House. He was also present
at the surrender of Lee
1865:
“Inspired by the death of Lincoln, .Judah Roswald of Baltimore wrote a poem in
Hebrew called "Lincoln's Amnesty," the same being published in the Jewish Messenger today.”
1865:
Philadelphian Henry Fr. Birnbuam who had enlisted as a Private in Company H
completed three years of service in the Union Army as a Sergeant in the 65th
Regiment of the Fifth Cavalry.
1868:
Saul Henriques Valetine married his second wife Sarah Ornstein, the daughter of
Phineas Ornstein and Adelaide Samuel who was born in 1845 at Middlesex.
1870:
In Chicago, “Joseph B. and Clara (Wolfner) Greenhut gave birth to Benedict
Joseph Gottlieb, the husband of Minnie Gottlieb who worked for his father, “the
head of the Whiskey Trust after which he served as Treasurer of Siegel-Cooper
Company and President of Monmouth Securities.
1873:
In a sermon, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher gave the first public warning of
rising anti-Semitism in the U.S. Beecher was a fighter for social justice, an
abolitionist and the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
1874:
In Germany, Bernhard Mayer and Babette Frank gave birth to University of
Missouri trained attorney Emil Mayer, the Superintendent of the Jewish Alliance
Evening School and attorney for the St. Louis Wholesale Clothiers’ Association.
1876:
In New York, Isador and Rosalie Ida Straus gave birth to Percy Selden Straus,
the wife of Edith S. Straus and the father of Ralph, Donald and Percy, Jr.
1877:
Birthdate of Austrian architect and WW I veteran of the Austrian Army, Arnold
Karplus the husband Else Karplus and the
father of Gerhard Karplus and famous
designer Ruth Rogers-Altman, who was forced to move to New York in 1939
following the Anschluss.
1877:
According to reports published today, Judge Hilton is receiving more letters,
calls and telegrams approving of his action (banning Jews from the Grand Union
Hotel) than he has time to answer.
Jewish leaders appear willing to let the matter die since they feel they
have been supported in the court of public opinion.
1878:
It was reported today that it appears as if there are no Jews spending the
summer at the resort hotels in and around Longbeach, NJ. According to one source, the absence of
Jewish guests can be explained by the downtown in the New York real estate
market which has caused great economic hardship. Other sources attribute the absence to a
desire on the part of the Jews to avoid being humiliated in an incident similar
to that which had occurred last year at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY.
1880:
Mrs. Henry Goldsmith wrote to Sabato Morris telling him of the family’s
decision to donate the collection “Hebrew books belonging to her late
father-in-law,” Rabbi Emanuel Goldsmith and “her late husband Henry Goldsmith”
“to the Theological Seminary.”
1882:
It was reported today that in Russia, Count Tolstoy, the Minister of the
Interior published a circular stating that officers who do not “prevent
outrages against Jews” will be dismissed immediately.
1882:
M.A. Kursheedt, the Managing Secretary of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society sent
a letter to Secretary Jackson of the Board of Emigration that “the society will
not take charge of any Russian refugees or other Jewish immigrants who may
hereafter arrive in this city.”
1882:
“Aid Need For Hebrew Refugees” published today described the desperate
conditions facing the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society which lacks the funds to meet
the needs of the growing stream of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. Presently, the society can only provide
shelter for only 500 of the 3,000 immigrants that include men, woman and
children. To help meet the shortfall in
funds, Jacob Schiff has contributed $10,000, Kuhn, Loeb & Co has given an
additional $5,000 and Jess Seligman has also contributed $5,000. But Secretary Kursheedt said that others much
follow the example of these donors if the society is going to be able to
provide assistance to these immigrants let alone the thousands who are on their
way.
1882:
At the sanity hearing of his brother-in-law Samuel Obreight, Bernard Tausick
described Obreight’s attempts at suicide “and his peculiar behavior at a party
given in honor of his engagement to another young lady” whom he chose not to
wed.
1883:
Birthdate of Friedrich Löwy, the native of Bohemia, who gained fame as the
librettist and lyricist Fritz Löhner-Beda. His fame was not enough to save him
from being beaten to death at a camp near Auschwitz. While at Buchenwald he wrote Das
Buchenwaldlied ("The Buchenwald Song"): O Buchenwald, I can’t forget
about you, because you are my fate. Who leaves you, only he can appreciate how
wonderful freedom is! O Buchenwald, we don’t cry and complain and whatever may
be our destiny, even so we shall say "yes" to life for once the day
shall come when we shall be free!
1883:
Three days after he passed way, David Marcus Davis, the husband of Sarah Marcus
and the father of Alice and Ernest Davis was buried today at the Balls Pond
Cemetery.
1883:
Birthdate of Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born American physicist and winner
of the Nobel Prize. Hess was not Jewish,
but his wife was. When the Nazis came to
Austria, Hess came to America to protect his wife from persecution.
1884(1st
of Tammuz, 5644): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1885:
Joseph Cohen married Naomi Lipkie in the United Kingdom.
1885:
It was reported today that the Pall Mall Gazette has printed “a hitherto
unpublished proclamation of the Emir of Afghanistan” which he issued to his
subjects in 1882. “It reviews the history of the Afghans, claiming that they
are descended from the 10 lost tribes of Israel. It traces their descent from Adam though
Jacob, their subjection in Egypt, their deliverance therefrom by Moses, their
wanderings in the desert and their settlement in Syria under…Saul and Solomon,
to their Babylonian captivity, their release, their wanderings on the hills of
Ghour and their final settlement in Afghanistan.” The proclamation includes with an exhortation
for his subjects “trust in God, who will preserve them from their terrible
enemy, Russia” [Editor’s Note – Read in light of what has happened in
Afghanistan since 1980, this is a fascinating little item.]
1886:
As a sign of how accepted Jews were in New York, Rabbi Weiss and J.H. Hoffman,
President of the Hebrew Technical Institute were among the dignitaries seated
on the platform at the graduation ceremonies for the Normal College of the City
of New York, an institution of higher education for women.
1887:
“Probable Case of Suicide” published today described the last days of Joseph
Freedman a Russian Jewish peddler who died in New Haven, Conn. After marrying
Rittie Polrovideh a month ago, he left his child from an earlier marriage with
her and went to Montreal. She refused to
join him there, even when he came back to New Haven to plead his case. The failure of his personal and financial
lives may have led him to poison himself. [Editor’s note – This is consistent
with reports in the 21st century where there has been a major
increase in suicides among the financially desperate in several southern
European countries.]
1888:
Youngsters under the charge of the Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society participated in a two-hour long ceremony today that
demonstrated their knowledge of Jewish history and Judaism. The children go to public school starting at
the age of 6 and receive their training in Judaica at the asylum. PIncus Spiro received a box of tools for
placing first in the exams and Samuel Levi received drawing instruments for
placing second. Both boys have already
passed the entrance exams for CCNY and will enter there in the fall. Jennie Berdinger was the leading female
student.
1889(25th of Sivan, 5649): Sixty-seven-year-old Polish
born Bernard Kowalski, a veteran of the Mexican-American War and husband of
Sophia Bernstein Kowalski with whom he had four children – Louis, Isaac,
Benjamin and Zachary – passed away today in Brownsville, TX after which he was
buried in the Hebrew Cemetery.
1889:
In Asbury Park, NJ, Julia Banett and Bavarian born Jewish investor, musicologist,
author and chess aficionado Isaac Leopold Rice whose Electric Boat Company built
submarines for the Navy gave birth to Dorothy Rice Sims, the twice married
author of the memoir Curiouser and Curiouser who “dabbled” in aviation,
art and bridge.
https://web.archive.org/web/20111013085650/http://earlyaviators.com/esims.htm
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801296/
1891:
At their state convention, Iowa Democrats adopt a platform with a plank that
reads “We abhor the persecutions of Russia toward the Jewish people, and we
believe that all civilized nations should protest against such barbarism and
inhumanity.”
1891:
Birthdate of Irving PIchel, the native of Pittsburgh and 1914 Harvard
University graduate who began as stage actor before shifting to films with the
advent of “talkies.”
1892:
The Marquis de Mores, an anti-Semitic French officer, has been arrested for
killing Captain Mayer, a Jewish officer whom he forced into facing him in a
duel.
1894:
New York lawyer Edward Jacobs, the brother of the late Joseph A. Jacobs who was
Deputy Clerk of the City Court for fourteen year, received a telegram from the
Governor of New York “summoning him to Albany” so that he can be appoint a
Quarantine Commissioner.
1894:
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts trained portrait painter Aaron Henry Gorson,
the Kovno born son of Ida Alter and Hillel Gorson who has had exhibition at
such venues as the Chicago Art Institute and the Corcoran Art Galleries in
Washington, DC married Rachel Fine today.
1894:
It is reported that the Czarevitch is visiting England accompanied by the
Czar’s Court Chaplain, Janicheff, “a very prominent and active Jew-baiter.”
1894:
It is reported today that population of Hungary includes 9 million Catholics, 3
million Protestants and 5 million others that include Jews, Orthodox Serbs and
Romanians
1894:
It was reported today that there are 12 Jews serving the Hungarian Chamber of
Deputies and one serving in the upper legislative chamber. The Hungarian Diet
had first recognized Jewish equality before the law in 1848 but was forced to
rescind it following anti-Semitic riots.
In 1867, the rights were restored which has resulted in the current
electoral mix.
1894:
The officers of the newly formed Jesse Seligman Literary Circle were listed
today as George M. Hommell, President; Miss Nellie Gotthaimer, Vice President;
Harry Hammell, Secretary and Miss Ella Stein, Treasurer.
1896:
Thirty-two-year-old University of California trained attorney, Lucious L.
Solomons, the San Francisco born son of Gershom Seixas and Hannah (Marks)
Solomons, who was a member of B’nai B’rith and Temple Emanuel in San Francisco
married Helen Frank today.
1896(13th
of Tammuz, 5656): Seventy-six-year-old Morris Langdsdorf, the Battenberg born
son of Herz Seelig Langsdorf and Bina Biene Bienchen Langsdorf and husband of
Hannah Hessel Langsdorf with whom he had had nine children passed away today in
St. Louis after which he was buried in the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in Afton,
MO.
1896: University of California trained attorney and author Lucius
L. Solomons, a trustee of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives and a
member of Temple Emanuel who was the San Francisco born son Hannah (Marks) Solomons and Gershom Seixas
Solomons gave birth University of California trained attorney and author Lucius
L. Solomons, a trustee of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives and a
member of Temple Emanuel married Helen Franks today
1897:
President James H. Hoffman delivered the opening address at the graduation
exercises for the Hebrew Technical Institute which were held tonight at Cooper
Union.
1897:
At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Gustav Gottheil is scheduled to officiate at the
funeral of Mayer Lehman, a native of Germany who moved from Alabama to New York
where he was a member of Lehman Brothers who was the husband of Babetta Newgoff
of New Orleans with whom he had four sons and three daughters.
1897:
The will of Jacob Seholle, the banker who passed away at Orange, NJ was filed
for probate today.
1897:
The following bequests were reported today to be included in the will of the
late Mortiz Cohn – $1,000 for Temple B’Nai Jeshurun; $750 for the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum and Mt. Sinai Hospital; from $100 to $200 to eight other Jewish schools
and charities; $30,000 to his granddaughter Ethel Klopfer. The residue of the estates is to be divided
between his son Julius M. Cohn and his daughter Klopfer.
1897(24th
of Sivan, 5657): Seventy-eight-year-old Sir John Law, the native of Jamaica who
wanted to be a rabbi but became a successful lawyer instead which led to a seat
in the House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party, passed away today.
1898:
The funeral for Moses Stein, a resident of Bath Beach who had been a successful
wholesale butcher in Manhattan will take place this afternoon followed by
interment in Washington Cemetery.
1898:
It was reported today that Abraham Richter was the valedictorian of the 1898
Hebrew Technical Institute graduating class.
1898:
In Boston, Julius B Rottenberg and Fannie Rottenberg gave birth to Viola
Josephine Rottenberg, the graduate of Wellesley who became Viola Rottenberg
Pinanski when she married Harvard Law School graduate and future judge, Abraham
E. Pinanski
1898:
During the Spanish American War, Adolph Rebenstisch of San Antonio, TX was
wounded today while serving as a Private in Troop F.
1899:
At Las Vegas, NM, Governor Theodore Roosevelt addressed a re-union of his
“Rough Riders,” the regiment he created and led in the war against Spain. In an appeal for national harmony, Roosevelt
reminder the listeners that his was a typical American regiment that included
Jews as well as Protestants, Catholics, Easterners, Westerners Northerners and
Southerners.” (This mention of Jews put
the lie to claims being made at the time that Jews did not fight in American
wars and were unpatriotic. It also was a
shrewd move on T.R’s part since Jews were an important of his constituency in
New York)
1899
“Burns and Scott Heroines” published today featured a comparison of the works
of Robert Burn and Sir Walter Scott whose “masterpiece Ivanhoe” includes
“villains…who bleed a Jew” and a description of Rebecca watching the deeds of
the Black Knights from the lattice window of Torquilstone.
1899:
“Religious New and Views” published today described the plans of Temple Sinai
Congregation to purchase the building belong to Calvary Presbyterian Church on
116th Street near Lenox Avenue.
After 18 years, the church is disbanding. The congregation is Reformed, “as are the
majority of the New York Jewish congregations.”
1899:
Attorney Max Cohen, the Vice President of the Orthodox Hebrew Society said
today that “the society did not object to mission churches…but did object to
the methods that have been employed.”
1899:
Max Cohen said today that the Orthodox Hebrew Society is working to encourage
“a more general observation of the Sabbath” and to that end is trying “to
secure a modification of the legislation in regard to opening stores on
Sunday.”
1899:
“Religious News and Views” published today described the differences between
the practices of the Reform congregations in New York. In some, like the one on Hester, the men sit
downstairs and the women sit upstairs and them pray with their hats on. In other congregations, men and women sit
together and men do not wear hats. Finally, there are those where the men and
women sit together, but the men pray with their hats on.
1900:
According to a report issued by The Federation of Churches and Christian
Workers on the “social conditions in a district in New York that runs from
Seventh to Fourteenth Street east of Third Avenue,” “the Hebrews average 2.54
children per family,” “the proportion of Hebrew families with nine children is
six times as great as in the Protestant families” and that Hebrews make up 17
per cent of the families in the area.
1900:
In the village of Bezwodne, Joseph and Bella (Pomerantz) Lemkin gave birth to
Raphael Lemkin a lawyer who fought against genocide, a word he coined in 1943
by coming the Greek “genos” (Family) and the Latin “cide” (Killing).
1901:
Birthdate of New York City native and Barnard College graduate Edith Mendel who
gained fame as Edith Mendel Stern the author of four novels the first of which
was Purse Strings and the wife attorney William A. Stern II.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stern-edith-mendel
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/14/archives/edith-stern-writer-on-mental-health.html
1901:
Start of the Jewish National Fund. The JNF or Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael was
established at the Fifth Zionist Congress, which declared that "the fund
shall be the property of the Jewish people as a whole". The purpose of the
Fund was to collect money from Jews throughout the world to buy land in
Palestine. Because of the nature of the purchases, the land belonged
collectively to all of the Jewish people. The JNF became famous for its
"little blue boxes" and for its Tree Purchase Program. For more about
this amazing organization see www.jnf.org/site
1902:
Prime Minister George Leake who was a political opponent New Zealand born
Matthew Moss, the Australian political leader whose grandfather had been
“choirmaster at the Great Synagogue of London passed away today.
1902:
University of Buffalo trained professor of gastro-enterology at Detroit college
of medicine Charles Dettie Aaron, the Lockport, NY born son of Hanna Barnett
and Abraham Higham Aaron married Winifred Comstock today.
1902:
King Edward VII, the philo-Semitic son of Queen Victor underwent an emergency
appendectomy today which led to a delay in his coronation.
1878:
One day after his birthday Boston University Law School graduate and
Massachusetts Superior Court Justice David Abraham Lourie, the Lithuania born
son of, Rebecca Port and Haskell Lourie and director of Temple MishkaN Tefilah
who supported a wide variety of Jewish organization including the Hebrew Free
Loan Association, the Bureau of Jewish Education in Boston and the Jewish Committee married Annie Florence
Richmond today in Boston, MA.
1903:
“Interior Minister Plehve ordered the police to suppress ‘the propaganda of the
ideal of Zionism’” because the movement had abandoned “its aim of settling Jews
in Palestine in favor of organizing Jews ‘in places of their present
domicile.’”
1903: In Cleveland, OH, Herman Pollak, the President of the Pollak Waist Company and his wife gave
birth to University of Chicago gradate Robert Pollak, the “stock and commodity
broker” and husband of Janet Spitzer who “also wrote columns about theatre and
music for several Chicago newspapers and a “leading member of the Chicago
Gramophone Society.”
http://nickmorgandiscography.org/index.php?title=Pollak,_Robert
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.POLLAK
1903:
Birthdate of Moritz Meyer Bodd, the “retail clerk” who was arrested in 1942
which was the first step on his trip to Auschwitz where he was murdered.
1903:
Russia prohibited Zionist meetings.
1904:
Birthdate of Linton, Indiana native Wonga Phil Harris who gained fame as band
leader Phil Harris who was “part of the famous Jack Benny radio ensemble from
1936 to 1952” and became so popular as Benny’s sidekick that he got a radio
show of his own that followed Benny’s hour long broadcast.
1904:
Today In a pseudo-secret ceremony, music publisher Leo Feist married Bessie
Meyer with whom he had had “three children: Leonard S. Feist (1911–1996),[3]
Nathan Feist (1905–1965), and Milton Feist (1907–1975).”
1904:
Miriam Finn Scott, the Russian born daughter of Moses and Gittel Fiinn and a
child diagnostician and specialist in parent education, advocated that “the
soil of a child’s life was his home” and that parents could ensure the proper
growth of their children if only they transformed their homes into “gardens”
married author and social worker Leroy Scott today.
1905(21st
of Sivan, 5665): Parashat Bhea’alotcha
1905:
Birthdate of Montreal native and University of California and MIT engineer
Daniel Silverman a member of the faculty at UC, Berkley and who should not be
confused with Dr. Daniel S. Silverman the New Orleans born Tulane University
trained gastroenterologist.
1905:
Violence continues in Lodz today following outbursts that began earlier in the
week during which authorities allowed the Christians to bury their dead, but
refused the same right and that left one Jewish girl dead after having been
fired on police while she was delivering a speech on “Black Friday.”
1906(1st
of Tammuz, 5666): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1906(1st
of Tammuz, 5666): Joseph “Joe” Strauss whose baseball record is so murky that
he either began his major career at the age of 26 or 40, was Jewish or was not
Jewish and played the outfield, the infield, catcher and pitcher, passed away
today.
1907:
Twenty-six-year-old CCNY graduate and Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts trained
artist, Bernar Gussow, the Russian born son of Max and Leah Gussow married
Suzanne K. Cook today in New York City.
1907:
German native and University of Maryland trained medical doctor Irving J.
Spear, the Professor of Neurology and Clinical Psychiatry at the University of
Maryland married Hortense Greenwald today.
1907:
Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanue-El officiated at the funeral service of
Isidor Wormser that was attended by many “person and business friends”
including Henry Seligman, William Guggenheim, Samuel f. Schaeffer and Park
Commissioner Moses Herrman after which there was a burial at the Salem Fields
Cemetery.
1908:
Rabbi Martin Zielonka of El Paso, Texas, helps the Jews of Mexico organize
their community.
1908:
President Grover Cleveland died of heart failure. As President, Cleveland appointed Oscar
Solomon Strauss envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey in
1887. In 1897 Cleveland vetoed an
immigration bill that included a literacy test.
The literacy test was a thinly veiled attempt to close the doors to
immigrants including the wave of Jews coming from Eastern Europe. In 1903, Cleveland, who was by now former
President, was the featured speaker at the New York City rally protesting the
Kishinev Pogroms.
1908:
“Justice in Russia” published today reported that “in the riots at Bialystok,
Russia, in 1905, 73 Jews were killed and 82 wounded. Incidentally 11 Christians
lost their lives and 23 were wounded.”
1909:
The German Reichstag voted 195–187 against an inheritance tax proposed by
Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow who in 1898 overturned the Kaiser’s decision to
work with Herzl when he “pointed out that that the wealthy Jews were not behind
the idea” of Zionism and that none of “big papers” supported the idea either.
1909:
In West End, NJ, Sailing Wolfe Baruch, the Camden, SC born daughter of Dr.
Simon Baruch and Isabelle Baruch and his wife Leonora M. Baruch gave birth to
Donald Edward Baruch, the nephew of famed financier and presidential advisor
Bernard Barcuh.
1910:
Birthdate of Albany, NY Emanuel Rackman, the attorney turned rabbi whose long
and distinguished career included serving as Provost of Yeshiva University and
President of Bar-Ilan University
https://traditiononline.org/rabbi-emanuel-rackman-zl-a-critical-appreciation/
1910(17th
of Sivan, 5670): Johnathan M. Emanuel who entered the U.S. Navy in 1862 and
began his service aboard the “iron-clad” Keokuk during the Civil War and
retired in 1891 with the rank of Lt. Comdr. Passed away today in Philadelphia.
1910:
Birthdate of Judge Irving Kaufman, the presiding judge in the Rosenberg Spy
Case. He was the one who sentenced them to death after they were both
found guilty. Of course, the anti-Semites who used the involvement of the
Rosenbergs in a Soviet spy ring to further their claims of Communism being a
Jewish conspiracy conveniently overlook the fact that Jews were involved in the
prosecution and sentencing of the Rosenbergs. Kaufman passed away in 1992
at the age of 81.
1911(28th
of Sivan, 5671): Sh’lach
1911:
“A Violation of the treaty” published
today begins by pointed out that in the treaty the United States entered into
with Russia in 1832, there is no warrant whatever for Russia’s obstinate
refusal to honor passports issued by the
government to American citizens who happened to be of the Jewish race” and that
“the treaty is violated every time a Russian diplomatic or consular
representative refuses to honor such a passport.
1912:
Thirty-year-old Johns Hopkins graduate Frederick L. Guggenheimer, the Baltimore
born son of Henry and Emma Guggenhiemer, who had been practicing law in New
York since 1906 married Rose M. Blatner today in Albany, NY after which he went
to serve as the executive secretary of the Free Synagogue in New York.
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.
1912(9th
of Tammuz, 5672): Julia Richman the first Jewish woman to serve as principal in
the New York Public School system and the first woman district superintendent
of schools in the City of New York died in Paris as result of an infection that
developed after an emergency operation.
1913:
In Springfield, Illinois, the annual conference of the American Association of
Officials of Charities and Correction which Henry Solomon of New York was a
delegate opened today.
1913:
In Chicago, “the monument in memory of Mrs. Mark T. Goldstine (nee Sadie
Richter)” is scheduled to “be dedicated” this afternoon “at Graceland
Cemetery.”
1913:
A dispatch sent to The Standard in London from St. Petersburg “says that
President Woodrow Wilson has declined Russia’s request for a renewal of the
treat of commerce except on the absolute condition that American Jews are
allowed to enter Russia freely.”
1914(30th
of Sivan, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1914:
Four days before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in what would
be an example of the Alliance System that helped to bring on WWI,
Austria-Hungary prepared a letter calling for the creation of an alliance
against Russia that would include the Austro-Hungarians, Ottomans, Germans and
Bulgarians
1914: Birthdate of Jan Karski, “a Polish World
War II resistance movement fighter who in 1942 and 1943 reported to the Polish
government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied
Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the secretive Nazi
extermination camps.”
1915:
Benjamin “Benny” Snyder was attacked by three fellow inmates at the Tombs this
morning just before he was to appear in court plead guilty to manslaughter in
the death of “Joe the Greaser” Rosenzweig. The plea meant he got off with a ten
year sentence but it earned him the reputation for being a rat and a
squealer.(Yes, there are Jewish gangsters; but they are not the pride and joy
of the community)
1915:
Birthdate of Sophie Falkenstein, the wife of German-Jewish immigrant Arthur
Caan and the mother of famous actor James Edmund Caan whom many know as “Sonny”
the oldest of the Godfather’s three sons.
1916:
It was reported today that plans for “the great federation for the support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City which have been under
consideration for a long time have been approved by the Special Committee on
Preliminaries” and been printed pamphlet form so it may be submitted for
consideration prior to a final vote next month.
1916:
It was reported today that “while the Jewish population” of Romania which
numbers about 250,000 “are not threatened with physical danger, they are
persecuted…under civil laws” and “have never been admitted to general
citizenship.”
1917:
Delegates are scheduled to register today as part of the opening session of the
Twentieth Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists.
1917:
Mrs. Sam C. Klein presided over the June Social sponsored by the Ashe Emes
Sisterhood.
1917:
“A plaque was awarded to the Hebrew Educational Society as the winner of a
series of debates with the South Brooklyn Y.M.H.A.”
1917:
At Zion Temple on Ogden Avenue, Samuel Druck is scheduled to deliver a talk on
Henri Bergson a today’s last regular meeting of the Jewish Literary Society.
1917:
“Felix M. Warburg entertained one hundred of the most prominent and active
workers in the news local federation of charities at a lawn party on the
grounds of his summer home at White Plains, NY.
1918:
In Pittsburgh, the 21st annual convention of the Federation of
American Zionists continued for a second day.
1918:
The fifth annual convention of Hadassah opened today in Pittsburgh, PA.
1918:
Dr. Aaron Schaffer of Johns Hopkins University presided over “the fourth annual
convention of the Intercollegiate Zionist Association.”
1918:
Jacob Schiff of New York City protests against the Red Cross which has
discriminated against Jews from Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as Germany and
Austro-Hungary. Red Cross stated Jews from these lands, or children who have
fathers who were born in these lands cannot serve in the Red Cross.
1919:
On the day before his 35th birthday, University of Chicago trained
mathematician Meyer Grupp Gazba , the Syracuse born son Hyman and Elizabeth
Grupp Gaba married Bertha Davis Meyers today while he was serving as professor
of mathematics at the University of Nebraska.
1919:
In the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewski
signed the Minorities Treaty that “awarded full civil, religious and political
rights to all citizens of the new Poland, with the term ‘citizen’ applied
broadly to all person either born or ‘habitually’ resident on Polish
territory.” This meant that the Jews of
Poland were guaranteed full citizenship in the newly reconstituted Poland. Louis Marshall, a prominent American Jew who
had been part of Wilson’s delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, was
responsible for this language; language would be incorporated in other treaties
that grew out of the Versailles Conference which, on paper at least, opened the
path to full citizenship for the Jews of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey.
1920(9th
of Av, 5680): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1920:
In London, Stephen Winsten and his wife gave birth to Ruth Winsten who gained
fame as the “animal welfare campaigner” Ruth Harrison.
1920:
In Cologne, German “painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus, a well-known art
historian, journalist and a victim of the Nazis at Auschwitz gave birth to
Hans-Ulrich Ernst who gained fame as artist Jimmy Ernst.
http://jimmyernst.net/pages/chronicle.html
1921:
“The House in Dragon Street” a silent film directed and produced by Richard
Oswald was released today in Germany.
1921:
At Friday evening services, Rabbi I. Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver a
sermon on “Scapegoats” at the Hebrew Tabernacle on Broadway and 158th
Street.’
1921:
At Friday evening services, Rabbi B.A. Tintner is scheduled to deliver a sermon
on “Organized Labor” at Temple Mount Zion on West 119th Street.
1922(28th
of Sivan, 5682: An anti-Semitic
nationalist assassinated Walter Rathenau, the Jewish German Foreign minister.
Ironically, Rathenau was a German patriot who had been responsible for
maintaining the German industrial might that enabled it to fight on for four
years despite the Allied blockade.
1922:
The Literary Digest published Harvard ‘Talk’ About Jews today which
described Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell’s views about Jewish
attendance at his elite institution.
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Antisemitism-at-Harvard-University
1922:
In Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Harry Chakrin and the former Anna Borofsky gave
birth to Jack Chakrin who gained fame as Jack Carter, a comedian whose career
spanned almost forty years. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1923:
Premiere of Kurt Weill’s “String Quartet, Op 8” today by the Hindemith-Amar
Quartet.
1923:
Thirty-year-old attorney and WW I veteran Nathan Vigran, the Cincinnati, OH
born son of Alex and Agnes Vigransky married Bertha Cohn today.
1924:
In New York City, Fay (née Resenthal), a secretary and bookkeeper, and Oscar
Perl, a stationery salesman who founded a printing and advertising company gave
birth Martin Lewis Perl who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995.
1925:
It was reported today that a steward serving
aboard the SS Arthur of the American-Palestine line “a steamship company
formed in 1924 for the purpose of providing direct passenger service from New
York to Palestine and was reportedly the first steamship company owned and
operated by Jews, quarreled with a passenger aboard the ship and killed him
while the ship was in Italian waters.
1926:
“A delegation from the Jewish Postal Workers’ Welfare League of New York City”
gave David M. Bressler, the Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign a check for
“$1,700 which represented contributions from 46 post office stations in
Manhattan and the Bronx.”
1927:
Birthdate of American Physicist, Martin Lewis Perl. The son of Eastern European Jewish
immigrants, Perl won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1995.
1928:”
Julius Louis Selzer, a general practitioner, and the former Gertrude Schneider,
a singer who performed in local musicals and operas” gave birth to Albany
Medical College graduate and U.S. Army veteran “Richard Selzer, a surgeon who
turned his operating-room experiences into fictional stories that blended the
gore, the beauty and the absurdity of modern medicine.” (As reported by Randi
Hutter Epstein)
1928:
The national finals of Young Judea National Oratorical Contest is scheduled to
end today at Long Branch, NJ.
1928:
Reports published today described
mass meetings held in Tel Aviv protesting the unwarranted deportation of Jewish
immigrants from Palestine. A cable
protesting the deportations sent by the citizens of Tel Aviv to the Colonial
Office in London stated that “every Jew who enters Palestine is returning to
his home. He cannot, therefore, be
expelled under any law…The expulsions are an insult to the entire Jewish
population…and…cause despair in the minds of the masses in the Diaspora,
undermining every hope for entering Palestine.”
1929(16th
of Sivan, 5689): Seventy-year-old Joseph Prag, the graduate of Queen’s College
who was a member of the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Conjoint Committee for
Foreign Affairs as well as a Warden of the North-West London Synagogue passed
away today.
http://www.jta.org/1929/06/25/archive/joseph-prag-english-jewish-leader-dies
1930(28th
of Sivan, 5690): Rabbi “Ben Zion Perl” passed away today in New York City
1930:
Ceremonies began today marking the opening of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva.
1930:
In Montreal, Isaac Rabinovitch and the former Fanny Shulman gave birth to
Canadian real estate mogul Jack Rabinovitch who established Canada’s leading
English language prize, the Giller Prize, which was named in honor of his
second wife, premiere journalist Doris Giller. (As reported by Ian Austen)
1931(9th
of Tammuz, 5691): Ninety-one-year-old Estonia native and Civil War veteran Otto
Mears known as the “Pathfinder of the San Juans” because of all of his railroad
building activity in Colorado passed away today.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110805004546/http://ghostdepot.com/rg/history/otto%20mears.htm
1932(20th
of Sivan, 5692): Sixty-nine-year-old Kovno native Rabbi Asher Lipman Zarchy,
“the senior orthodox rabbi in Louisville, KY” and rabbi emeritus at Kenseth
Israel Synagogue” who was the husband of Mollie Fishman Zarchy and who had
served as rabbi in Des Moines, IA for ten years suffered a fatal heart attack
today.
1932:
In Karlsruhe, Germany Leo Traub who was a banker before the rise of the Nazis
and Mimi Nussbaum gave birth to their only son Joseph Frederick Traub “who
founded the computer science department at Columbia University and who helped
develop algorithms used in scientific computing in physics and mathematics as
well as on Wall Street.” (As reported by Steve Lohr)
1933(30th
of Sivan, 5693): Parshat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1933(30th
of Sivan, 5693: Sixty-year-old Russian born NYU trained attorney and national
treasurer of the Jewish National Workers Alliance Nathan Zvirin, the legal
adviser to the Kosher Butchers of Greater New York and husband of Ida Levine
Zvirin with whom he had three children – Pauline, John and Fred – passed away
today
1933:
On the day of her return from a three-month trip through Palestine, Russia and
other countries Jewish theatrical star Molly Picon, said that a new culture,
made up of elements of the cultures of many peoples, is being built up in
Palestine by Jews.
1933:
Rabbi and Mrs. Morris Ginsberg gave birth to Sir Ian Derek Gainsford who served
as Dean of King’s College of Medicine and Dentistry, Vice Principal of King’s
College London and President of the Maccabaeans, a leading Anglo-Jewish
charitable organization dating back to the 19th century.
1934(11th
of Tamuz, 5694): Fifty-three-year-old Russian born, Jefferson Medical College
trained surgeon passed away tonight “from blood poisoning resulting from a
slight cut on the hand suffered during an operation on a patient for throat
abscess ten days ago.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/06/26/93761630.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1934:
Morris Rothenberg, ZOA president and Louis Lipsky are scheduled to be the
primary speakers at tonight’s banquet at the La Reine Hotel which is the
highlight of the three-day long convention of the Sons of Zion.
1934:
An advertisement for “Rosebrae Guest House, the only Jewish Boarding House on
the Isle of Jersey which was Kosher” appeared in today’s Jewish Chronicle.
1934:
Rabbi Ralph B. Hershman is scheduled to be one of the speakers at today’s annual
meeting of the New Jersey B’nai B’rith Council lead by President Harr Green of
East, Orange, NJ.
1934:
The Western Interstate Conference of the National Council of Jewish
Juniors which San Francisco resident Dorothy
Tonn, Frances Mordecai, Erna Schwarts, Pearl Levin and Audelia Wyatt have been
attendings is scheduled to come to a close today in Los Angeles.
1935:
Premiere of “Die schweigsame Frau”
(The Silent Woman) for which Stefan Zweig provided the libretto
1936: As Arab violence continued to escalate
unabated, The Palestine Post reported that Arab
snipers killed one Jew and wounded four others on a bus close to Rosh Pina. The
Arab Strike Committee threatened and punished Arabs who refused to join the
general strike or refused to contribute to their strike funds. Five Arab villagers
were killed by the railway military patrol after trains were ambushed twice.
Jewish damages since April 19, the day on which the Arab disturbances began,
were estimated at some quarter of a million pounds.
1937:
Comedian Henny Youngman performed on the “Kate Smith Bandwagon” a variety show
broadcast by WABC.
1937:
Arthur Fiedler conducted a performance by the Boston Pops Orchestra broadcast
by WJZ.
1937:
After visiting with Benito Mussolini, Generoso Pope, a prominent New York City
Italian American contractor, returned to the United States with a message from
the Italian leader intended to reassure Jews in the United States that they had
no reason to be concerned about the conditions of Italian Jews.
1937:
New Yorker Paul Safro presided over the opening of the fourth annual convention
of “Massada, the youth section of the Zionist Organization of America” being
held at the Roosevelt Hotel where attendees heard Isaac Imber recommend “the
launching of a movement to train pioneer groups for Palestine.”
1938:
The outbreak of violence in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv area that began yesterday
continued today with episodes of bomb-throwing and stabbing. In one incident an as yet unidentified Jew
from Tel Aviv who was out walking with his wife and brother-in-law was stabbed
by a group of Arabs who fled before the authorities arrived.
1938:
The mutilated body of Father Mario Rozzine, head of an Italian convent near
Jerusalem was discovered by the side of the road. While the Italian Consulate claimed the
priest was killed by unidentified personal enemies, others believe that he had
fallen victim to Arab terrorists.
1938:
Today “movie-maker” Emeric Pressburg “married Ági Donáth, the daughter of Andor
Donáth, a general merchant” in what would be a short, childless union.
1939:
Brazil admits three thousand Jewish refugees from Germany.
1939:
At the World’s Fair in New York City, The Café Tel Aviv at the Palestine
Pavilion offers Kosher Cuisine including Palestinian specialties ranging in
price from $.50 to $.85, lunch for $.65 and a complete dinner for $1.25.
1940: Margret and Hans Rey
made telephone calls and wrote letters from Lisbon letting friends and family
know that they were safe.
1940(18th of
Sivan, 5700): Seventy-one-year-old Rochester, NY native and Republican Party
leader Max I. Holtz, the former head of Louis Hotlz and Sons, Inc. and the
President of the Rochester Clothiers Exchange suffered a fatal heart attack
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/25/112742865.html?pageNumber=23
1940: Portuguese Prime
Minister and “strongman” sent a message recalling Portuguese Consul Aristides
de Sousa Mendes because the diplomate would not half his efforts to help Jews
and others escaping from the Nazis who were sweeping their way across France
and headed for the Iberian Peninsula.
1941:
As it invaded Lithuania, the Wehrmacht occupied Kovno where 10,000 Jews
will be murdered by the end of July and Vilna and killed the Jews of Gorzhdy.
(Please note: with some of the military activity in WW II there is a variance
of dates by one or two days according to different sources. This can be
accounted for in several ways including discrepancies between when an event may
have begun and when it reached its height or the difference between the date an
event happened and the date it appeared in the newspaper or other journals.)
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/10.asp
1941(29th
of Sivan, 5701): Seventy-three-year-old attorney and former acting Mayor of
Rochester, NY, Isaac Adler, the son of Levi and Theresa Wile Adler “died this
afternoon while at tending a city planning meeting at the Chamber of Commerce”
in Rochester.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/25/87634041.pdf
1941:
Birthdate of Arthur Bruce “Art” Heyman, the 6’5” New Yorker who led Duke
University to its first appearance in the Final Four before being drafted by
the Knicks of the NBA. (As reported by William Yardely)
1942:
“The Nazi radio in Berlin today reported that British military forces in
Palestine and Syria are being transferred in anticipation of hostilities on
Egyptian soil.” (JTA)
1942: Today, thhousands of Jews from of Lvov in
the Ukraine were killed at Janówska,
Ukraine, and Piaski, Poland.
1942:
In Los Angeles, CA, Sylvia Helen (née Silverstein) and Jack Dusick gave birth
to Michele Lee Dusick who gained fame as the multi-talented Michele Lee whose
career spanned television, Broadway and cinema.
1942:
“Star and Garter” a musical revue produced by Mike Todd “opened at Broadway’s
Music Box Theatre.”
1942:
“Leopold Prince opened his fifteenth season of outdoor concerts with the City
Amateur Symphony Orchestra” tonight on the Mall in Central Park, where “Mayor LaGuardia was among the
large audience” that joined in the singing of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless
America.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/06/24/87714189.html?pageNumber=22
1943:
In the wake of the Detroit Race Riots that started on June 20 and ended on June
22, it was reported today that Central Conference of American of Rabbis had
adopted “a resolution decrying recent riots,” stating that “the spirt of
Hitlerism has achieved a triumph on American soil” and demanding that “the
forces our government be called upon to ferret out those organized groups or
individuals who have been responsible for inciting these race riots.
1944: The United States Military Air Operations
declares that bombing rail lines to Auschwitz is "impracticable"
because it could be achieved only by diverting air support from "decisive
operations" in progress; i.e., bombing German synthetic-oil plants. The
fact is that many of these plants are located near Auschwitz.
1944: Lovers Edward Galinski, a Polish gentile,
and Mala Zimetbaum, a Jew, escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau in purloined SS
uniforms and remain at liberty for two weeks.
1944:
At Birkenau, a Pole and a Jewish girl escaped. The girl, Mala Zimetbaum,
escaped through an airlock in the gas chamber waiting room. She became the camp
interpreter and fell in love with a Polish man. They managed to escape only to
be eventually caught and brought back to Auschwitz where they were tortured.
They then were to be hung in public view by thousands of prisoners. Instead,
she produced a razor blade and slashed her wrists in front of the onlookers.
Incensed, the SS shot her dead.
1944:
Chaim Barlas sent a copy of the ‘Auschwitz Protocols’ to his friend Giuseppe
Rocalli – the future Pope John XXIII- and Rocalli immediately sent a summary of
the protocols by telegraph to the Vatican.
This undercuts the Vatican’s claim that it did not know about Auschwitz
until October of 1944
1945: The
U.S.S.R. captures the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg. The Free Republic of Schwarzenberg
(German: Freie Republik Schwarzenberg) was a de facto independent
entity that existed for several weeks after the German capitulation on May 8,
1945. The term Free Republic of Schwarzenberg actually derives from the
1984 novel Schwarzenberg
by Stefan Heym. As the novel is based on actual events, the term has become
used as a convenient short-hand for them. Stefan Heym was a German Jewish writer born in 1913 in Chemnitz. Heym’s
works included The King David Report, The Wandering Jews
and Schwarzenberg. Stefan Heym
was actually the pen name for Hellmuth Fleig who won the Jerusalem Prize in
1933. He died in Jerusalem during the
Heinrich Heine Conference.
1946: As of today, “the British have at least three divisions” in
Palestine, five thousand police and a number of naval units in Palestine whose
primary mission is thwart attacks by various Jewish groups who are opposed to
Britain’s decision to put further limits on Jewish immigration while allowing
the return of the Grand Mufti who spent part of WW II in Berlin.
1947: “The City Amateur Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Prince is
scheduled to open its twentieth anniversary season” this evening “with the
first of six concerts to be given this summer on the Mall in Central Park.
1947: Judge Simon Rifkind of New York, who had served on Ike’s staff,
sent General Eisenhower a memo contending that establishing a Jewish state in
Palestine would be in America’s best political and military interests. Ike sent copies of the memo to Secretary of
State George Marshall and General Tom Handy who would take it to the Secretary
of War.
1948: As Israel fights for its very existence, the Soviet blockade of
Berlin began today on the same day that the Selective Service Act (America’s
first peace-time military draft) went into effect. (Editor’s note – As always Jewish history
takes place on the wider mosaic of world history and it necessary to understand
the interaction of the two. In this
case, President Truman was confronted with the challenge of stopping Soviet
imperialism which limited his range of action during the creation of the Jewish
state.)
1949: Daniel Frisch, the President of the ZOA who arrived in Israel
yesterday, said “The small businessman is the forgotten man in Israel” and that
he plans on asking Prime Minister Ben Gurion “to approve moves by the ZOA to
undertake the rehabilitation of disabled Israelis and to offer economic
assistance of the Israeli middle class.”
1949: The Central Conference of American Rabbis is scheduled to continue
meeting for a second day today in Brenton Woods, N.H.
1950: In the UK, Annette Krarup and Walter Freud gave birth to David
Anthony Freud, the great grandson of Sigmund Freud who went from a career as a
journalist and businessman to as political leader.
1950(9th of Tammuz, 5710) Parashat Chukat
1950(9th of Tammuz): Fifty-two-year-old hardware store owner
and Mayor of Monticello, NY Jacob (Jack)Shulman, the husband of Sophie Schulman
with whom he had two daughters – Mildred and June – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/06/25/91103469.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1950: An Italian ship filled with 300 Torah scrolls, 2,000 prayer books
and other religious items that had been left in Yemen by Jewish refugees docked
at Elath after having sailed up the Gulf Aqaba, making it the first ship to use
this route to reach the Jewish state. Up until now, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who
controlled the east and west sides of the Gulf had not allowed passage of any
ships bound for Israel. Nobody knows why
the two Arab states did not stop the vessel or if the waterway would remain
open.
1950: In Kiryat Haim,
David Smilansky and Batya Silber gave birth to Moshe Smilansky who as Moshe
"Bogie" Ya'alon served as Chief of Staff of the IDF before joining
Likud and serving in the Knesset “as well as the country's Vice Prime Minister and
Minister of Strategic Affairs.”
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that despite all the
recent Iraqi threats, six aircraft arrived from Baghdad with 574 immigrants,
and the seventh was expected shortly. It was estimated that some 4,000 Jews
waited in Baghdad for transportation to Israel.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Council of
Kibbutz Meuhad met at Givat Brenner with only Mapam members participating,
following the Mapai members' decision to leave the movement.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Ffunerals took place
of four Israeli soldiers killed in a clash with the Arab Legion near Kiryat
Anavim.
1952(1st of Tammuz, 5711): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1952(1st of Tammuz, 5711): Sixty-four-year-old Wax
Gordon died at Alcatraz where he was serving a twenty-five year sentence.
1952: Tel Aviv police were detaining two people suspected of
stealing gold objects from the National Museum valued at $70,000 and then
melting them down for sale as gold bullion.
The objects in question have been missing for over a month.
1953: “Robot Monster” a black and white sci-fi film with music by
Elmer Bernstein was released in the United States today.
1954(23rd of Sivan, 5714): Seventy-nine-year old San
Francisco native and U of CA trained eningeer
Phillip Lee Bush who was a member of the San Francisco Board of
Education passed away today.
1955: With Brooklyn Dodgers trailing the Milwaukee Braves 7 – 1,
Sandy Koufax made his major league debut in the fifth inning facing Shortstop
Johnny Logan who “hit a bloop single” off the man who became one of the
greatest pitchers of all-time.
1956: Twenty-four-year-old Syracuse University trained chemist,
Charles Gelman, the son of Fay Gleman and the founder of Gelman Instrument
Company married Rita Gelman with whom he had four children - Rebecca, Nina,
Steve and Eric Gelman.
1957: In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that
obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. Roth is Samuel Roth, the
Polish born Jew who began a literary career after moving to the Lower East of
New York.
1961(10th of Tammuz, 5721): Parashat Chukat
1961(10th of Tammuz, 5721): Fifty-four-year-old Atco,
NJ born businessman Frederick Gordon Borowsky, a member of the board of Albert
Einstein College of Medicine passed away today in Boston after which he was
buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, PA.
1962: In Mexico City “chemist Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz and
biologist Annie Pardo Cemo gave birth to “Mexican politician, scientist and
author” Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo who “has been the head of the government of
Mexico City” since December 2018 and following the election in 2024, the first
woman to be elected president of Mexico.
1962: In Pittsburgh, Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper presided over
Congregation Beth El’s groundbreaking ceremonies which included speeches by
Milton Sussman and Rabbi Kenneth Bromberg.
1962: After 16 performances
at the New York City Center, the curtain come down a revival of “Fiorello!” the
Jerry Bock musical with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book co-authored by
Jerome Weidman
1964: Birthdate of Macalester Collee and Union Theological Seminar
graduate and ordained Baptist minister Paul Brandeis Raushenbush who is ironically, the great-grandson Supreme
Court Justic Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the High Court and a
leader of the American Jewish community.
1966: A week after first being shown in London “Cul-de-Sac” a
“comic thriller” directed by Roman Polanski and co-starring Lionel Stander, was
shown at the Berlin International Film Festival.
1968: Birthdate of Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand.
1969: Eighty-year-old WW I German Army veteran and Swiss lawyer
Adolf Wach, a grandson of composer Felix Mendelssohn passed away today “at
Wilderwsil, near Interalken.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/26/78353831.pdf
1969(8th of Tammuz, 5729): Sixty-eight-year-old
“Immanuel Ben-Dor, an archeologist and professor of Biblical Archeology at
Emory University” who had previously taught at Harvard passed away today while
traveling “to an archeological excavation in Israel.”
1970: The movie version of Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” was released
today in the United States
1973:
In Sioux City, Iowa, Laurie Goldblatt becomes Mrs. Bob Silber in a ceremony
that joins together two future pillars of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Jewish
Community.
1974:
“Soviet police arrested Professor Alexander Voronel, principal organizer of
refusenik scientists’ seminar following an unsuccessful attempt to induce him
to cancel the seminar.”
1974:
“Andrei Sakharov urged President Nixon and Brezhnev to give more emphasis to
human rights during their Moscow talks, including the release of Soviet
political prisoners and free emigration.”
1976:
Today at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue Rabbi Emanuel Rackman presided at the
funeral services for “Dr. Maurice Sage, the President of the Jewish National
Fund of America, the Russian born, French trained rabbi who father was “a chief
rabbi of Paris.”
1976: Premiere of “Buffalo Bill and the Indians or
Sitting Bull's History Lesson” co-starring Paul Newman and Harvey Keitel.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli pound was
devalued by another 2 percent to IL7.97 to the dollar. This was the 10th
creeping devaluation, begun as a policy in June 1975.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Gush Emunim
announced that it would resist moving out from Kaddum, unless the resettlement
was part of an overall plan for establishing Jewish settlement throughout Judea
and Samaria.
1976: At a dinner hosted by Brandeis University, Elliot Richardson
received the second annual Louis Dembitz Brandeis medal for distinguished legal
service. Richardson was the Attorney
General dismissed by President Nixon for his courageous refusal to participate
in the Watergate Cover-up. The first
recipient of the medal named for the distinguished Jewish lawyer and jurist,
was Leon Jaworski who was a key player in the Watergate Investigations
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin had asked Israelis to consume less and work more, and to accustom
themselves to the realization of the country's difficult economic situation.
1979(29th
of Sivan, 5739): Eighty-eight-year-old Lessing J. Rosenwald, who succeeded his
father as Julius as President and later Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck
and Company passed away today. (As reported by Eric Pace)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70F17FA395D12728DDDAF0A94DE405B898BF1D3
1979:
“Two Palestinians were killed while driving a truck bomb near a bus station in
Tel Aviv.
1980(10th
of Tammuz, 5740): Seventy-three-year-old Oscar and Golden Globe Award winning
cinematographer Boris Abelevich Kaufman, the native of Bialystok and the
brother of filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman passed away today in New
York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/06/27/111251079.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1981:
Moshe Dayan announced that Israel has the capacity to make an atomic bomb.
1983:
“Twilight Zone: The Movie” based on the Rod Serling television series produced
by Steven Spielberg and co-starring Vic Morrow and Albert Brooks was released
in the United States today.
1983:
Yasser Arafat was banned from Damascus. Arafat had more enemies among the Arabs
than he did among the Israelis. He was thrown out of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
1983: The New York Times reported on
Mathilde Krim's newly established AIDS Medical Foundation.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/24/1983/mathilde-krim
1985:
Birthdate of Michael Steven “Mike” Brown the native of Northbrook, Illinois who
played hockey for the University of Michigan before going on to a career in the
NHL.
1987(27th
of Sivan, 5747): One-hundred-two-year-old American Greeting Cards founder Jacob
J. Saperstein, the Polish born son of Rabbi Issac and Molly Saperstein and the husband of Jennie Kantor with whom he
had four children – Irving, Morris, Harry and Bernice – who in 1906 came to Cleveland,
OH where he went from “selling postcards in the Hollenden Hotel” to eventually
owning his greeting card company originally known as Saperstein Card Company
passed away in University Heights today after which he “was buried in Zion Memorial
Park.”
https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sapirstein-jacob-j
1991(12th
of Tammuz, 5751): Eighty-one-year-old Natie Brown, the native of Washington,
DC, who fought Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis twice, reached the rank of
Sergeant in WW II and lived in Charleston, West Virginia for 26 years where he
worked for Mackie Incorporated Wholesale
Company and attended B’nai Jacob Synagogue passed away today.
1992:
In “Lee v Weisman” the U.S. Supreme Court protected the concept of separation
of church and state by holding that “Including a clergy-led prayer within the
events of a public high school graduation violates the Establishment Clause of
the First Amendment.” In this case, a Jewish family objected to a prayer at a
graduation even though, in this case, it was led by a Rabbi.
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/lee_v_weis.html
1993:
Yale computer science professor Dr. David Hillel Gelernter lost the sight in
one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a
mail-bomb from the Unabomber. Gelernter
is classified variously as a conservative in the true sense of the word and/or
an iconoclast. There was no apparent
connection between his political beliefs and this evil deed.
1993:
In Los Angeles, “Sharon Lyn (née Chalkin), a costume designer and fashion
stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses” gave birth
to actress Elizabeth Greer “Beanie” Feldstein the Wesleyan University graduate
and sister of “music manager Jordan Feldstein” and “actor Jonah Hill.”
1994(15th
of Tammuz, 5754): Eighty-six-year-old Sir Anthony Baruh Lousada, “a member of a
prominent Anglo-Sepharid family who followed in the footsteps of his father
Julian George Lousada, the solicitor and collector of impressionist paintings,
passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-anthony-lousada-1425832.html
1995(26th
of Sivan, 5755): Esther Rome, creator of the “Women and Their Bodies” and
author of Our Bodies, Ourselves passed away.
1995(26th
of Sivan, 5755): Meir "Zarro" Zorea passed away. Born in Bessarabia
in 1923, he made Aliyah in 1925. During
his service with the Jewish Brigade during World War II he received the
Military Cross for bravery. His service
with the IDF included leading a battalion during the War of Independence,
aiding in the capture of Eichmann and commanding a tank corps in the Sinai
during the Six Day War. After retiring with the rank of Major General he served
as a member of the Knesset.
1998(30th
of Sivan, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1998(30th
of Sivan, 5758): In Delray Beach, FL, Bayside NY resident Irving Lieberman, the
husband Ruth Lieberman with whom he had three children – Judith, Frederic and
Roy – who was an Esteemed teacher and advisor to many students at Martin Van
Buren High School.
1999:
“The Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records the ultimate
arbiter of whether or not Admiral Jermey Boorda was entitled to wear the Combat
"V", determined that despite the additions to Boorda's personnel
file, he was not” marking an end to this tragic moment in the career of an
illustrious naval officer.
2000:
“The governing Social Democrats urged former Chancellor Helmut Kohl to resign
from Parliament a day after he made comments comparing their recent treatment
of him over illegal campaign funds with Nazi persecution of the Jews.”
2000:
The judge in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel eight of
whom have pleaded guilty said today he “will issued a verdict in the case on
July 1.
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Edward the Caresser: The Playboy Prince Who
Became Edward VII
by
Stanley Weintraub and Frontiers of Legal Theory by Richard Posner.
2002:”President
Bush demands that the Palestinian Authority’s first step to peace begins with
democratic accountability, economic reforms, and immediate cooperation in
ending terrorist acts.”
2002:
President Bush unveils his “vision of two states living side by side in peace
and security as the key to peace, and to the roadmap as the route to get
there.”
2003:
“Five Israeli Arabs were charged today with funneling an estimated $10 million
to the Islamic group Hamas, marking a rare instance in which leading Israeli
Arabs have been accused of links to militant Palestinian movements.”
2003:
“As the United States pressed an ambitious effort to cement Middle East peace
diplomacy with economic reform and free trade, Secretary of State Colin L.
Powell urged the Palestinians and Israelis today not to ''blow up the road
map,'' the newest set of peace proposals.”
2004(5th
of Tammuz, 5764): Ninety-seven-year-old Olga Rubinow Lurie “a child
psychologist and specialist in the emotional health of children,” the wife of
Walter A. Lurie and the daughter of “Dr. I. M. Rubinow, noted authority on and
advocate for Social Security” passed away today.
2004:
Elie Wiesel was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by
the nation’s president today. (Eight years later the Jewish Holocaust survivor
and author would repudiate the award after accusing Hungary of “whitewashing
tragic, criminal episodes.”
2005: Closing session of Security Israel - The 19th
annual International Homeland Security Exhibition.
2005(17th
of Sivan, 5765): Paul Winchell passed away at the age of 82. Born Paul Wilchin had a successful career as
a ventriloquist and “voice actor.”
Television audiences from the 1950’s will remember him and his two
wooden-headed sidekicks – Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smif. Winchell never moved his lips. One of his best comic bits was drinking a
glass of water while Jerry Mahoney kept “talking.” (As reported by Adam
Bernstein)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062601247.html
2005:
Release date for “Bewitched” directed and co-produced by Nora Ephron with a
script by Salk Saks, Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron.
2005(17th
of Sivan, 5765): Ninety-six year old Yedida Shofet the former Chief Rabbi of
Iran passed away in Los Angeles.
2006: In an article entitled “Another Page from an
Epic Chapter,” Danny Rubinstein
reviewed Mihutz laofek,
mi'ever larehov (Beyond the Horizon, Across the Street) by Hanoch
Bartov.
http://www.haaretz.com/another-page-from-an-epic-chapter-1.191211
2007:
The opening game of the Israel Baseball League’s season takes place with the
Modi’in Miracle facing the Petach Tikva Pioneers at Yarkon Sports Complex in
Petah Tikva. This is not just the first
game of the season; it is the first professional baseball game played in
Israel.
2007:
The Sunday New York Times book
section featured a review of Travis Holland’s first novel, The Archivist’s
Story which revolves around the fate of the Russian-Jewish short-story
master Isaac Babel, author of the inimitable Red Cavalry tales. The New York Times also reviewed The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and
the Jews, 1939-1945 by
Saul Friedländer. This is the second volume of Friedlander’s two-volume history
of “Nazi Germany and the Jews.” The first volume, published in 1997 was
entitled The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. In these volumes,
Friedländer convincingly challenges the view that the Holocaust was simply the
result of bureaucrats doing what they were told.
2007:
The Los Angeles Times reviewed Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the
New Digital Disorder by David
Weinberger.
2008:
In Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club Attorney Ted Sorensen, a trusted adviser to President John F. Kennedy,
discusses and signs his new memoir, Counselor:
A Life at the Edge of History.
When asked about his religious, this native of Lincoln, Nebraska this son of a Unitarian lawyer of Danish
lineage and a mother of Russian-Jewish descent responded that “under Jewish law I am Jewish, but I
consider myself Unitarian.”
2008(21st of Sivan, 5768): Ninety year old Leonid
Hurwicz, the Nobel Prize winning economist passed away today. (As reported by
William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/business/26hurwicz.html
2008: Sotheby's in
Israel conducted an auction that was a fund-raiser for IsrALS, the local
organization benefiting sufferers of the degenerative disease ALS.
2008: The Jewish Agency for Israel wrapped up a
meeting of its boards of governors facing a shortfall of $20 million to $30
million in the current fiscal year and a gap of $45 million for next year’s
budget caused by the steady decline of the value of the American dollar.
2008: Three Kassam rockets hit the western Negev
this afternoon, in a second violation of a cease-fire between Hamas and the
Israeli government. One of the rockets
damaged a house in Sderot.
2009: Canadian born actress Neve Campbell returned
to television in a starring role on NBC's The Philanthropist. The descendant of
Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism, Campbell has said, "I am a
practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm
Jewish, I say yes"
2009: David Makovsky, a fellow at the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy, signs copies of his new book, Myths,
Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East which
was written with Ambassador Dennis Ross, special adviser to the secretary of
state for the Gulf and Southwest Asia) at Politics and Prose in Washington,
D.C.
2009: Bernard-Henri Lévy posted “a video on
Dailymotion in support of the Iranian protesters who were being repressed after
the contested elections.”
2010: The sixth season of “Futurama” starring Katey
Sagal as “Leela” began airing today.
2010: The
Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present a book signing and discussion
feature Eric Metaxes author of the newly released Bonhoeffer: Pastor,
Martyr, Prophet, Spy.” Bonhoeffer:
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
2010: Seventy-three-year-old Ben Sonnenberg the
founder of the literary quarterly Grand Street passed away today. (As
reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/books/26sonnenberg.html?scp=1&sq=Ben+Sonnenberg%2C+Jr.&st=nyt
2011: Downtown Shabbat featuring Robyn Helzner and
Cantor Larry Paul is scheduled to take place at the Historic 6th
& I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: Stephen M. Saland, “a Republican member of
the New York State Senate, representing the 41st District voted for New York’s
Marriage Equality Act today providing the decisive vote in the passage of the
legislation – legislation he had opposed in December of 2009.
2011: “Ghost the Musical” for which Cassie “Levy
originated the role of Molly Jensen” transferred “London’s West End at the
Piccadilly Theatre.”
2011: The Hebrew Educational Alliance is scheduled
to sponsor “Nashira! Let Us Sing”
followed by a community Shabbat Dinner.
2011: Congregation
Shaarey Zedek and the Alliance for Jewish Education are scheduled to sponsor
Shabbat in the Park in Birmingham, Michigan.
2011: The
Obama administration is stepping up pressure on activists planning to challenge
Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, warning that they will face action
from Israeli authorities and that American participants may also be violating
U.S. law.
2011: The first Citizenship Ceremony was held in
Dublin Castle. The ceremon “where new citizens swear an oath to the state and
obtain their certificate of citizenship” was the creation of Irish political
leader Alan Joseph Shatter.
2011: According to today’s New Jersey Star Ledger,
“Last week, the fledgling group,” Better Education For Kids co-founded by David
Tepper, “launched a one million dollar campaign to advertise its mission and
solicit donations.”
2012: The Los Angeles Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including HHhH, Laurent Binet’s novel about the Nazi monster Reinhard
Heydrich and the two Czechoslovakian war heroes who set out to assassinate him
– “Jozef Gab¿ík, a Slovak, and Jan Kubiš, a Czech, both soldiers who made their
way to England after their nation was overrun by Hitler.”
2012: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Mission
to Paris by Alan Furst, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by
Witold Pilecki, Hitler by A. N. Wilson and As Consciousness Is Harnessed To
Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag.
2012: The
American Conference of Cantors-Guild of Temple Musicians' Convention is
scheduled to pen in Portland, OR.
2012: HAZAK
is scheduled to sponsor a docent led tour of the Columbus Museum of Art which
will include a visit to the Lod Mosaic Exhibit.
2012: The
League for Yiddish and YIVO Institute are scheduled to sponsor a program in
memory of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter Z"L. during which Dr. Kalman Weiser of
York University, Toronto, will speak on "Max Weinreich's Attitude to
American Jews and the Beginnings of Yiddish Studies at American Universities in
the 1940s.".
2012: Israeli cellist Yoed Nir is scheduled to
perform at solo recital in Teaneck, NJ as part of the Classical Sunday Concert
series.
2012: Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber celebrate 39
years of wedded bliss
2012: Five
mortar bombs landed in the Eshkol Regional Council, ending several hours of
rare calm in the south. One of the bombs fell near a community dining room and
another other two in an open area. No damage and injuries were reported.
Earlier today Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to hit back at Gaza for
any infraction of the truce.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/mortars-land-in-eshkol/
2012: French police said they were investigating
death threats made against the country’s chief rabbi. Polices said that they
are looking for people connected to a photomontage disseminated through
Facebook which shows Rabbi Gilles Bernheim with a revolver pointing at his
head. The picture shows Bernheim wearing a Star of David on his forehead. (As
reported by Times of Israel staff)
2012: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said tonight that Israel would respect the
democratic process and the results of the vote in Egypt. Muslim Brotherhood
candidate Mohammed Morsi was declared a winner of a run-off vote for president
of the country today, the first civilian and democratically elected person to
hold the title. Israel had expressed fears that an Egypt ruled by the hard-line
Islamist Brotherhood would undo the peace treaty between the countries and lead
to frostier relations with Cairo. Netanyahu’s statement seemed designed to
iterate the importance of keeping to the three-decade old peace agreement.
2012: “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” which opened
in January is scheduled to have its final performance today at the Richard
Rodgers Theatre in Manhattan.
2013: The Center for Jewish History and the Jewish
Women’s Archives are scheduled to present “Bread and Roses, Too” a panel
discussion about the role of Jewish women in the early labor movement.
2013: In San Diego, CA, the Center for Jewish
Culture is schedule to host “The Merchant of Venice: What is it About Shylock
and the Jews?” featuring Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of the Old Globe
and Associate Producer of NYC’s Public Theatre’s recent Broadway production of
The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino
2013: The 29th
Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies is scheduled to open
today in Los Angeles, CA
2013: Friends and family celebrate the 40th Wedding
Anniversary of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silber.
2013: The hotly debated “Prawer bill,” regulating Beduin
settlements in the Negev narrowly passed in its first Knesset reading Monday,
with 43 in favor and 40 opposed. (As reported by Lahav Harkov and Ariel Ben
Solomon)
2013: At least 6 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards
southern Israel very early this morning.
Two of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile
defense system. The other rockets landed
without causing any injuries. The areas
that were hit include Rahat, in the Bnei Shimon Regional Council, Be’er Sheva
and the Lachish Regional Council. Three more rockets were fired toward the
Ashkelon area. (As reported by Lori Lowenthal Marcus)
2014: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust &
Genocide is scheduled to host Marina Cantacuzino who will talk about The
Forgiveness Project and “forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution.”
2014: “Big Bad Wolves” which was nominated for 11 Israeli Academy
Awards is scheduled to be shown at the Portland (OR) Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “A draft of one of the most popular songs of all time, Bob
Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” sold today for $2 million, which the auction
house called a world record for a popular music manuscript.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-does-it-feel-dylans-like-a-rolling-stone-draft-sells-for-2m/
2014: “Four rockets were fired from Gaza Strip at Israel this
evening, prompting the IAF to return fire and attack Gaza terror targets.” (As
reported by Matan Tzuri)
2014: “Rachel Fraenkel, the mother of kidnapped teen Naftali
Fraenkel, pleaded for international assistance to secure the release of her son
and fellow captives Eyal Yifrach and Gil-ad Shaar, at the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva” today. (As reported by Marissa Newman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rachel-fraenkel-its-wrong-to-use-boys-as-instrument-of-struggle/
2014: Dr. Michael Steinlauf is scheduled to leave JFK today as he
leads a tour of “Jewish Poland” sponsored by Gratz College.
2014: As he sought to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York’s 1st district, Lee Zeldin won the Republican Primary
today.
2014: A French court drops its lawsuit against Dieudonné M’bala
M’bala, ruling the French comedian’s video mocking the Holocaust doesn’t
constitute hate speech. (Europe’s notoriously strict hate speech laws regulate
Holocaust denial as well as “racially or religiously discriminatory
expression”.) (As reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014(26th of Sivan, 5774): Ninety-eight-year-old actor
Eli Wallach whose sixty year acting career on both stage in screen encompassed
a wide variety of roles including, oddly enough, the role of the
villainous Mexican bandito in the macho
cult classic “The Magnificent Seven.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html?_r=0
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/eli-wallach-dead-good-bad-714794
2015: Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order, in the
presence of the” family of Steve Sotloff of blessed memory “and other hostage
families, for a broad overhaul regarding how it handles U.S. hostages held
abroad by groups such as ISIS,”
2015: Today, Dutch supermarket operator Ahold, the owner of Stop
and Shop, whose “roots can be traced back to 1892, when Solomon and Jeanie
Rabinowitz opened a grocery shop, called the Greenie Store, at 134 Salem
Street, in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts,” announced “that it would
merge with Brussels-based Delhaize Group…”
2015: “Israel canceled permission for hundreds of residents of
Gaza to enter Jerusalem to pray during Ramadan in Al Aqsa Mosque, the
third-holiest site in Islam, after rocket fire from the coastal enclave,
Israeli officials said” today.
2015: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to
meet at Temple Judah where attendees will discuss The Midwife of Venice
by Roberta Rich.
2015: Hadassah Associates of Hadassah Greater Washington is
scheduled to host a charity Golf Outing in support of Hadassah’s Men's Health
Initiative.
2015: Steve Gimble, author of Einstein: His Space and Times is
scheduled to talk about the famous scientist at the National Museum of American
Jewish History.
2016: This evening Shoshana Dembitz and Abigail Grafton “hosted a
Shabbat dinner, during which their extended families met for the first time.”
2016: The “6th Annual International Cybersecurity
Conference, also known as Cyber Week…organized by Tel Aviv University’s
Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, together with the Israeli
National Cyber Bureau and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs” is scheduled to
come to an end today.
2016: “Three Kinds Words,” a “dramedy about three Jewish Israeli
siblings” is scheduled to be shown at the Lincoln Plaza Cineman.
2016: “Septembers of Shiraz,” “a film about a prosperous Jewish
family in Iran caught up in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution that overthrew
the Shah, based on Dalia Sofer’s well-received 2007 novel of the same name and
which used her own family’s experiences as source material” is scheduled to
“officially open a commercial run in New York and Los Angeles” today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-the-holocaust-septembers-of-shiraz-and-me/
2017(30th of Sivan, 5777): Parashat Korach; Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
2017(30th of Sivan, 5777): Seventy-three-year-old Rabbi
Meir Zlotowitz, the founder of ArtScroll Mesorah, the dominate force in Jewish
texts and husband of Rachel Zlotowitz with whom he had eight children including
Ira, “the founder and President of Eastern Union Funding,” passed away today.
(As reported by Joseph Berger)
2017: “Several mortar shells exploded in an open area in the Golan
Heights near the border with Syria” this afternoon “leading to retaliatory air
strikes.”
2017: Today “three women were kicked out of the Chicago Dyke March
for carrying rainbow flags emblazoned with Jewish stars.”
2017: In Marseille, “a group of half a dozen women read the Torah
at the Fleg Jewish.
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Shabbat lunch
following service for those “still around in 9th week.”
2017: “The Sounds,” a four weeklong classical
musical festival is scheduled to end today in Israel.
2018: “The American Sephardi Federation and
Caminos De Sefarad: Red de Juderías de España are scheduled to present a pop-up
photographic exhibition on Spain’s formerly Jewish Quarters” during an evening
that will also feature a presentation by Doreen Alhadeff, a member of Seattle’s
Sephardic community, who was one of the first to be recognized under Spain’s
Sephardic citizenship law, as well as a Spanish kosher wine tasting.”
2018: In Manchester, UK, JW3 is scheduled to
host a screening of “Zuzana: Music is Life” a film based on the life of
harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, who survived “three concentration camps,
including Auschwitz.”
2018: In a testament to the vitality of
small-town Jewish life, in Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to hold
its Sisterhood Mitzvah Brunch.
2018: The Yotam Ben-Or Quartet is scheduled “to
celebrate the release of their debut album in NYC” at the Cornelia Street Café.
2018: “Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights
Defenders Who Are Changing Our World,” an exhibit featuring black and white
portraits of human rights defender from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning
photojournalist” is scheduled to close today at the Illinois Museum and
Education Center.
2018: The photographic exhibition “Bedouin and
Arab Israeli Communities in the Negev” which is part of the “Home: Lens on
Israel” series, at the Temple Emanuel Streicker Center is scheduled to come to
an end today.
2018: The United States government continues to
sort out the issue of re-uniting the children of illegal immigrants with their
parents following a change in a policy reportedly championed by White House
official and Trump supporter Stephen Miller, whose Yiddish speaking family had
come to the United States in the early 20th century “to escape the
anti-Semitic pogroms in the Russian Empire.”
2018: “The Maimonides Scholars Program is
scheduled to open at Yale University.
2018: “The 2018 Southern California Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are scheduled to take place this
afternoon, at American Jewish University in West Los Angeles.”
http://scjewishsportshof.com/home.html
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to present “In the ‘Freud Laboratory’: The Yiddish Translation and
Reception of Psychoanalysis” a talk that “explores the intersection between the
linguistic architecture of modern Jewish psyche, in which Yiddish and other
Jewish languages lie "deeper" than European tongues, and Freud's
stratified notion of the psyche.”
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of the documentary “Inside the Mossad.”
2019: Turkish Film Week is scheduled to come to
an end at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
2020: The Columbus Jewish Film Festival, in
Celebration of Andrew Ethan Stern, is scheduled to present a virtual screening
of the film “Standing Up, Falling Down,” starring Billy Crystal and Ben
Schwartz.
2020: Israelis are scheduled to begin paying a
NIS 500 for failing a face mask in public, up from the previous amount of NIS
200.
2020: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies are
scheduled to host, online, “Jewish Views of Perfecting the World.”
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
online, Ian H. Solomon and Ilana Kaufman as they discuss “Building on Shared
Dreams.”
2020: The National Museum of American Jewish
History is scheduled to host a livestream conversation and concert featuring
Joey Weisenberg as part of the Songs of Our People, Songs of Our Neighbors
series.
2020: ASF Broom &
Allen Fellow, researcher, writer, and performer Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz is scheduled to present Sephardi
Judeo-Espagnole: Threads Across the Strait, part of the multi-part series The
Music of North Africa.
2021:
Artkkot is scheduled to host an “important Judaica auction including painting
by Raphel Nouril and Timur Tsaku at the Pillar Hotel in London.
2021: The
Combined Jewish Philanthropies is scheduled to present, online, “Beyond the
Headlines: A Time of Change in Israel” with “Israeli political expert Reuven
Hazan.”
2021: In
Amherst, MA, The Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to reopen to visitors today.
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
2021: The Jewish Studio Project is scheduled to
mark the Summer Solstice, the longest day of light each year by utilizing
“creative exploration to understand this moment in time when we are most
awake…”
2021: The Jewish Community Center of the North
Shore is scheduled to present, online, “a
conversation with Jonathan Tobin, editor-in-chief of the Jewish News
Syndicate, contributing writer for National Review and a columnist for The New
York Post, Haaretz and other publications.
2021: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is
scheduled to host “Opening Day for GOLEM: A Call to Action.”
https://thecjm.org/programs/895
2022: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to
present “40s(ish) Qabbalat Shabbat and Dinner.”
2022: In Washington, DC, Adas Israel is
scheduled to host its Friday Morning Parsha study group that will provide an
exclusive in-depth look at the Torah portion with either Rabbi Holtzblatt who
will explore the parsha through the lens of Hassidut and mysticism, Rabbi
Alexander who will use the Talmud as the prism for the weekly reading or Rabbi Krinsky who will teach the hidden
recesses of the Parsha’s passages and discover its meaning and relevance.
2022: Today. according to President Zelensky,
marks four months since the Russians invaded Ukraine and Moscow declared war
against Kyiv claiming that they were fighting “Nazis” which sounds hollow when
you consider that Zelensky is Jewish.
2023: A double simcha – Shabbat and the celebration
of the 50th wedding anniversary of the former Laurie Kay Goldblatt
and Dr. Robert Alan Silber who were for so many decades pillars of the Cedar
Rapids Jewish Community and as befits “a woman of valor” and “mensch” are
enjoying life with their grandchildren in Florida.
2023(5th of Tammuz, 5783): Parashat
Korach
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a lecture by William Tyler on “Churchill, the Jews and Arabs in the Middle
East.”
2024: At the Center for Jewish History, YIVO is
scheduled to present a discussion by Jeffrey Shandler of his new book Homes of
the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum which explores a “largely unknown episode of
modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project,
even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the
dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe,”
2024: In another lecture in the online lecture
series "The Legend of the Writers: Kafka and Agnon", Prof. Galili
Shachar is scheduled to try to illuminate Kafka's literary estate through a
comparative reading of Agnon's story and with the help of literary scholar Peter
Sondi discuss “The Old Wall Cabinet” which “is a fragment from Franz Kafka's
last year of life, written when he was exiled from his hometown of Prague and
lived in the Steglitz district of Berlin.
2024: Proving Leo Durocher’s adage “nice guys
finish last” was wrong, Laurie and Bob Silber’s friends are overjoyed to join
in celebrating their 51st wedding anniversay.
2024: As June 24th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers
on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the
Hamas held hostages begin day 262 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
