This Day, June 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
June 3
350: Roman usurper
Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor,
entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. The Constantinian Dynasty
took its name from its most famous member, Constantine I, the Emperor who
turned the Roman Empire into a Christian entity; a policy followed by his
successors much to the dismay of the Jewish people.
1098: During the First Crusade, Antioch falls to the crusaders
after an eight-month siege. This would open the road to Jerusalem, where, after
another siege, the Christians would capture the City of David and slaughter its
Jewish inhabitants.
1140: French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy. Abelard may have
been a heretic in the eyes of the Catholic Church, but when it came to the
Jews, his views were classically Christian.
He believed that the Jews were wicked, and that God’s grace had passed
from them to the Gentiles who had accepted Christ. The grace of God would
return to the Jews in the end of time when the Jews will be converted to
Jesus. Christ is spoken of as about to
be crowned or about to be crucified it is said that He “went forth”; to signify
that the Jews, who were guilty of so great wickedness against Him, were given
over to reprobation, and that His grace would now pass to the vast extent of
the Gentiles, where the salvation of the Cross and His own exaltation by the
gain of many peoples, in the place of the one nation of the Jews, has extended
itself. Whence, also, to-day we rightly go forth to adore the Cross in the open
plain, showing mystically that both glory and salvation had departed from the
Jews and had spread themselves among the Gentiles. But in that we afterward
returned [in procession] to the place whence we had set forth, we signify that
in the end of the world the grace of God will return to the Jews; namely, when,
by the preaching of Enoch and Elijah, they shall be converted to Him. Abelard
may have been a heretic in the eyes of the Catholic Church, but when it came to
the Jews, his views are classically Christian.
1361: In Spain orders are given for the construction of a Juderia
(Jewish Quarter) in Tarazona. The Jewish Quarter is to be separated by walls
from the Christian community. The Christians living where the Juderia is to be
built were given property of the same value and relocated.
1425: Pope Martin V issued “Sedes apostolica,” a Papal Bull that
commanded Jews to wear “a distinctive badge.” [Editor’s note – this may have
more to do with Pope Martin’s fight against slavery. The badge was intended as a way of deterring
the sale of Christians as slaves. For a
Pope, his views on the Jews were on the positive side of the scale as can be
seen from his “Declaration on the Protection of the Jews” issued in 1419.}]
1455:
Pope Calixtus III canonized Vincent Ferrer, the Dominican friar who converted
thousands of Jews to Christianity with threats of violence and the actual
incitement of mobs in a variety of places including Toledo and Valencia.
1621:
The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands, which
would come to include New Amsterdam. A Jewish merchant named Joseph d’Acosta
was one of the company’s shareholders.
The fact that the Dutch West India Company had Jewish shareholders would
prove to be of critical importance when Peter Stuyvesant would try to expel the
Jews from New Amsterdam which was part of New Netherlands.
1658:
Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
Alexander was the pope who seemed to have a great deal of concern about the
rights of tenancy in the ghetto since he issued two bulls – Verbi Aeterni and
Ad Ea Per Quae- on the subject.
1658:
Today the Court of Burgomasters, apparently on its own initiative, declined to
permit judgment in civil actions to be taken against Jacob Barsimson, a Jew,
holding that "though defendant is absent, yet no default is entered
against him, as he was summonedon his Sabbath": an instance of religious
toleration and just dealing foreshadowing a New York statute of two centuries
later that made it a misdemeanor maliciously to serve any one with process on
his Sabbath, or with process returnable on that day ("New York Penal
Code," § 271). Similarly, the municipal authorities licensed Asser Levy
and Moses Lucena, Oct. 1660, as sworn butchers, providing on their application
that they might take the oath at the hands of the officer "agreeably to the
oath of the Jews," and with the reservation that they should not be bound
to kill any hogs.
1767(6th
of Sivan, 5527): Shavuot
1678(13th
of Sivan): Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob Katz, author of Sha’ar Ephraim, passed away
1752:
During the quarrel between Rabbi Jacob Emden and Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz a
secular Danish court ruled in favor of Emden, severely censuring the three
communities of Altona, Hamburg and Wansbeck and ordering them pay a fine of one
hundred thalers. This enabled Emden to return to Altona where he regained
possession of his synagogue and his printing press.
1753(1st
of Sivan, 5513): Rosh Chodesh Sivan observed three days before the British
Museum was “established in London by Act of Parliament and at a time when Great
Britain was waiting for Royal Assent to the recently passed Jewish
Naturalization Act of 1753
1755:
In Hull, Plymouth, MA, Hannah and Joseph Gould, Jr gave birth to Moses Gould
the husband of Anne Adams.
1756(5th
of Sivan, 5513): Erev Shavuot observed for the first time since Britain had
officially declared war on France in what would become known as the Seven Years
War
1758(26th
of Iyar,5518): Parashat Bamidbar read as the British fleet bombard Ft.
Louisburg in preparation of an amphibious assault during the Seven Years War.
1768:
King William V, the Dutch ruler, visited both the German and Portuguese
synagogues today which along with his attendance at the weddings of Jewish
subjects was an acknowledgement by the Prince of Orange of the loyalty Jewish
community.
1775(5th
of Sivan, 5535): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot was observed on the same day
that General George Washington took official command of the Continental Army,
most of which was besieging the British at Boston.
1782(21st
of Sivan, 5542): Aaron F. Goldsmid, the London merchant who was founder the
famous British Goldsmid family passed. A
native of Amsterdam, he “was the son of Benedict Goldsmid, a Hamburg merchant.
In 1765 he left Holland with his family to settle in London, where he founded
the firm of Aaron Goldsmid & Son, subsequently Goldsmid & Eliason. The
firm of Aaron Goldsmid & Son experienced serious reverses through the
failure of Clifford & Sayer, one of the principal houses in Holland. Hence
only George, the eldest son, entered into partnership with his father. The
other sons founded new businesses for themselves in which they amassed large
fortunes. Goldsmid left four sons and four daughters. The second son, Asher,
was one of the founders of the firm Mocatta & Goldsmid, bullion-brokers to
the Bank of England. Benjamin and Abraham were famous as financiers and
philanthropists.” (As reported by the Jewish Encyclopedia)
1786(7th
of Sivan, 5546): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat were observed three days
before Nathaniel Goham was chosen President of the U.S Confederation
Congregation which was the governing body the United States from the end of the
Revolutionary War until the adoption of the United States Constitution.
1794(5th
of Sivan, 5554): Erev Shavuot observed as rebel forces in “Lesser Poland” and
Lithuania home to a large Jewish population including the Vilna Gaon continue
the fight to throw off the Yoke of the Czar.
1802:
Today, the election for Rabbi of the Great Synagogue took place with Solomon
Hirschell receiving 62 vote, Rabbi Aryeh Loeb of Rotterdam receiving 18 votes
and “only three for Rabbi Zevi Hirsch of Krotoschin.”
1803:
Birthdate of Talmudist Gabriel Jacob Polak whose works included “Dibre Kodesh,”
a Dutch-Hebrew dictionary and “Halikot Kedem,”
a collection of Hebrew poems.
1805(6th
of Sivan, 5565): Shavuot observed as Lewis and Clark camped on the right side
of the river at modern Loma, Montana while they were trying to figure out which
river was the Missouri, and which was the Maria River.
1812:
In Copenhagen, Salomon Monies and his wife gave birth to Danish portrait
painter David Monies.
1813(5th
of Sivan, 5573): Erev Shavuot observed during the War of 1812 as American
forces advance towards modern day Stoney Creek, Ontario as they continue what
has been their successful invasion of Canada.
1815:
“Naples was restored to Ferdinand of Sicily” – a kingdom which had expelled its
Jews at the end of the 15th century.
1816(7th
of Sivan, 5576): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day the United
States signed a treaty with the Winnebago Tribe.
1824(7th
of Sivan, 5584: Second Day of Shavuot is observed during the Presidency of
James Monroe, the last of the founding fathers to occupy the White House.
1828(21st
of Sivan, 5588): Raphael
Meldola, the Leghorn born of son Moses Hezekiah Meldola, a rabbi and professor
of oriental studies at the University of Paris, in Leghorn, the husband of Stella
Bollaffi (Abulafia) with whom he had eight children and the father-in-law of
Hazan David Aaron de Sola, the leader of Bevis Marks who sought to improve “collaboration between Ashkenazi
and Sephardi Jews” and “persuaded the two communities to set up a joint board
for shechita (ritual slaughtering)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777989
1829:
In Altenstadt, Germany Moses Kahn Klara gave birth to Herman Kahn who as Moses
Cone went into business with his brother-in-law Jacob Adler in Jonesboro, TN,
before moving to Lynchburg, VA and later Baltimore where he laid groundwork for
what would become Cone Textile Mills operated by two of his sons, Moses and
Ceasar whom he raised with his wife Helen.
1832(5th
of Sivan, 5592): Erev Shavuot
1835(6th
of Sivan, 5595): Shavuot
1845:
In Westphalia, Germany, Abraham Bendix Weinberg, the German born son of Sara
Moses Weinberg and Bendix Aron Weinberg, and his wife Fiekchen Sophia Weinberg
gave birth to Johanna Rosenthal, the wife of Leffmann Rosenthal.
1843(5th
of Sivan, 5603): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot celebrated on the birthdate of
King Frederick VIII of Denmark, under whose grandfather King Frederick the VII,
the constitution removing the last restrictions on the Jews of that Denmark was
adopted two days after the infant heir’s second birthday.
1845:
In Germany, Mayer and Dina Bamberger gave birth to Gabriel Bamberger, the
husband of Lina Wohl Bamberger who was living in Chicago when he passed away in
1909.
1846:
Abraham Edward Alexander married Hannah Symons on the United Kingdom.
1848(2nd
of Sivan, 5608): Parashat Bamidbar
1848(2nd
of Sivan, 5608): Three days before his 86th birthday, York, PA born,
Philadelphia merchant and U.S. Marshall Reuben Etting w saw service during the
Whiskey Rebellion and the War of 1812 passed away today in Philadelphia.
1848:
In Pennsylvania Isaac and Henrietta Yetta Kohn gave birth to Berth Kohn who
became Bertha Tim when she married Louis Tim
1849: In Montgomery, Alabama, the Chevra Mevaker Cholim, with the
approval of 30 members, became Congregation Kahl Montgomery which is now known
as Temple Beth Or. The congregation built its first sanctuary in 1862.
1850:
The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. Temple B’nai Jehudah,
the first Jewish congregation in Kansas City would be formed twenty years later
in 1870. The congregation built a temple in 1908. In 1909, United Jewish Social
Services opened the Alfred Benjamin Dispensary at 17th and Locust to
provide medical treatment to Jewish Immigrants.
This institution evolved into Menorah Hospital by 1931.
1852: The
Democratic National Convention during which Philip Philips, the Charleston born
Caroline Lazarus and Aaron Phillips, “prominent members of the Jewish community”
gave a speech in support of future President Franklin Pierce, continued its
deliberations in Baltimore for a third
day.
1853:
In Kent (UK), Anne and Will Petrie gave birth to William Mathew Flinders
Petrie, the Egyptologist who discovered the Merneptah Stele and identified the
word Israel in the writing. This became
an important non-biblical proof of the existence of the ancient kingdom of
Israel.
1853:
“The Last Hartford Convention” published today described the activities of a
convention that began yesterday to discuss the Bible. In mocking tones the author assumes that by
now “the very existence of the Hebrew law-giver has been pronounced a myth; the
Creation a counterfeit; the Deluge a fable; the Exodus a forgery.” The author wonders what “stores of rabbinical
learning” including “Talmud, Targums and Commentators” as well as contemporary
historians who have corroborated the stories of the Israelites will be
discredited by these contemporary philosophers whom he compares to the infidels
going back to Roman times who have tried and failed to discredit “the first
five books.”
1854(7th
of Sivan, 5613): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat
1854:
Birthdate of Polish native and Breslau trained rabbi, Adolf Posnanski who “officiated
as rabbi at Reichenberg, Bohemia, from 1888 to 1891, when he was called to
Pilsen.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12304-posnanski-adolf
1855: In Rothenburg, Bavaria, Koppel Oppenheimer
and his wife gave birth to Levi Oppenheimer, the husband of Rachel Levor with
whom he had at least seven children and with whom he “immigrated to Baltimore,
MD in the last decades of the 19th century.
1857:
Henry Hart married Rosa Nathan at the Great Synagogue in London
1857:
Barend Hyman married Rachel Minden at the Great Synagogue in London.
1862(5th
of Sivan, 5622): Erev Shavuot
1862:
Birthdate Justine Koen, the mother of Leah K. Jospeh
1863:
Birthdate of William H. King, the Senator from Utah who in 1927 “declared…that
he favored the United States severing diplomatic relations with any country
which failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and
“expressed the belief that eventually Palestine would be able to support a
population of a million Jews.”
1867:
Four days after his death, Simon Lazarus Oppenheim, a native of Frankfurt am
Main, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1870:
The London Standard denounced the
review of Benjamin Disraeli’s Lothair published in Blackwood. The Standard did not take issue with Blackwood’s right
to make negative comments about the book.
The complaint was that Blackwood made the review “the vehicle for a
coarse, violent and outrageously personal attack” on Mr. Disraeli. “The critic has used the book as opportunity
for indulging his spleen against its distinguished author.”
1870:
“A petition by Jews living in Indianapolis, Indiana urging the President of the
United States to Intervene on behalf of Romanian Jews was referred the Senate’s
Committee on Foreign Relations.”
1870:
It was reported today that Simon Wolf delivered telegrams from all over the
United States asking that the U.S. intervene with the government of Romania on
behalf of its Jewish citizens. The U.S.
has decided to appoint Adolphe Buchner, who is Jewish, to serve as Consul at
Bucharest as a way of expressing its desire that the Romanians stop mistreating
their Jewish citizens. [The President who was showing support for the Jews was
U.S. Grant, who as Dr. Sarna has pointed out in his marvelous book on the
famous General and President, was no anti-Semite.
1870:
The United States Senate spent an hour this morning discussing the recent
massacre of Jews in Romania during which Senator Morton of Indiana presented a
request that the President intervene to “save the Jews of” Romania “from
further persecutions.” The Senate
passed a motion offered by Senator Sumner of Massachusetts asking the President
to provide the Senate with any information in the possession of the State
Department concerning the violence. “Mr.
Sumner said that the interests of humanity demanded that the fullest
information should be had by the Senate on this subject.” According to Sumner, “the massacre was a most
terrible affair, the whole enormity of which was not yet made public.” Senator Sprague of Rhode Island said that
Jews owned most of the land in Romania and controlled all of the trade in the
Principality “while a vast population of Christians” were deprived of the means
of support” and that this was the cause of the violence. He said that these facts “furnished food for
profound reflection…to affairs here in our country, where the tendency” is
rapidly moving “in the same direction.
Senator Stewart of Nevada “said he hoped Mr. Sprauge did not mean to
imply that when a man gets rich he ought…to be killed.” Senator Sprague “smiled faintly” but made no
further reply. [Editor’s note – The
concern for the Jews of Romania was the first expression of support for the
plight of foreign Jews in the post-Civil War United States. Senator Sumner had been a leading
Abolitionist and was a major political power in the dominant Republican Party.
The President who would show support for the Jews was U.S. Grant. By the same token the views of Senator
Sprague, the son-in-law of Salmon P. Chase, another prominent Republican who
served as Sec. of Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, were the an
example of the genteel anti-Semitism which would manifest itself in everything
from exclusion at fancy hotels to quotas at the leading ivy league universities.]
1871:
“Rome: The Press in the Eternal City” published today reported in the newly
united Italy, Jews and Free-thinkers dominate the world of literary
opinion. Among the Jews are: Giacomo
Dina ‘the patriarch of Italian journalism” and the editor of Florence Opinione;” Carlo Levi, editor
of the Nuova Roma; Edward Arib, “the
ablest representative of the liberal press” and editor of Liberta; Alessandro D’Acona of Pisa and Luigi Camerini of Milan,
“accomplished critics of belles lettres. At the same time, the clerical press which is
an inferior journalistic product is filled with anti-Semitic comments. For
example, Buon Senso referred to
Edward Arib as a “shameless Jew…’following the example of the Jews in the days
of Nero who were the real instigators of the Roman Emperor’s persecution of the
Christians.” [Editor’s Note – Italy, after the reunification, was one of the
best places for Jews to live in Europe. At the same time, there was an
undercurrent of anti-Semitism tied to the Papal parties that would flower when
Mussolini would become Hitler’s partner.]
1873:
Birthdate of German born and educated American pharmacologist Otto Loewi
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He passed away in 1961.
1875:
In Cleveland, OH, of Julius (Joseph) Feiss and Caroline (Carrie) Feiss gave
birth to Paul Lewis Feiss, the chairman of the board of the Joseph and Feiss, a
men’s tailoring firm in Clevenland, the husband of Edith Feiss and
philanthropist who was “a founder of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland
Orchestra and Mount Sinai Hospital while serving on the executive committee of
the Cleveland round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
1875(29th
of Iyar, 5635): Fifty-four-year-old Israel Cohen the son of Kitty Etting and
Benjamin I. Cohen, the husband of Cecilia E. Levy with whom he had seven
children passed away today.
1877:
“The Return of the Jews” published today reported that the long dreamed of
“rehabilitation of Judea” by the Jews might be realized in the not too distant
future. While there are only a small
number of Jews living in Jerusalem thanks to the advances in modern
transportation there has been increasing stream of Jews coming to visit from
Poland, Morocco and Russia. Captain
Charles Warren, who is best known for the maps he has made of Jerusalem, thinks
that that the Jews of Morocco would be the best candidates for restoring Judea
to its former glory. They are the only
significant Jewish population with agricultural skills. Unlike the Jews of
Jerusalem whom Warren described as being “incompetent to revive the glories of
the past” because of long years of “indolence and degeneracy” the Jews of
Morocco are “patient…and less fanatical than many of
their brethren” as well as having a proven track record of being able to use
irrigation to raise crops. [The vision of Captain Warren “the agent of the
English exploration fund in Pale tine pre-dates Herzl by thirty years.]
1877:
It was reported today that there are 152 synagogues in the United States with
33 in New York, 23 in Maine, 14 in Pennsylvania, 9 in Illinois and 7 each in
California, Ohio and Vermont.
1877:
The Board of Jewish Delegates reported that 174 out of 341 congregations and 99
other organization have responded to its questionnaire. According these responses there are 189,576
Jews in the United States. Based on this
admittedly incomplete response, the board estimated that there are 250,000 Jews
living in the United States with 60,000 living in New York City.
1878:
In Alexandria, VA, founding of Congregation Beth El on North Washington Street
1878:
While serving as regent during Kaiser Wilhelm’s recuperation from an
assassination attempt, Frederick appointed Dr. Friedberg, who was both Jewish
and a Liberal “to the highest judicial post in the kingdom” – a move that
greatly displeased the Kaiser who refused to honor Friedberg with the Order of
the Black Eagle when he returned to power. (Editor’s note – “Dr. Friedberg” is
Heinrich von Friedberg who had converted to Christianity – a conversion that
apparently did not satisfy the first Kaiser and showed how the idea of “Jewish
blood” had taken hold in 19th century Europe.)
1879(12th
of Sivan, 5639): Lionel Nathan de Rothschild the son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild
and Hanna Barent Cohen passed away. Lionel’s was the first Jew to serve as an
MP in the House of Commons. First
elected in 1847, he was not able to assume his seat until 1858 following a
decade long fight to change the rules about the oath of office. Queen Victoria refused to appoint him to the
House of Lords. She would later recant
and elevate Lionel’s son to the Lords.
1879:
Birthdate of New York native Sadie Cecillia Annenberg, the philanthropist who
established the Sadie C. Annenberg Soil and Irrigation Institute in Gila.
1879:
In Yalta, “Yakov Abramovich Leventon, a pharmacist, and Sofia (Sara) Lvovna
Horowitz: gave birth to Marem-Ides Leventon who gained fame as actress Alla
Nazimova.
1880:Harry
Hat and Brothers, the Jewish owned clothier advertised in the Chicago Tribune that
business suits were on sale for $6.50, $8.00, $10.00 and $12.00.
1880:
As unrest continues to grow in Russia, it was reported that several Jews have
been arrested near St. Petersburg on charges that they are connected with the
Nihilst (an all-purpose term used by the authorities for revolutionaries
seeking to over-thrown the Czar)
1880:
Birthdate of Pennsylvanian Benjamin Rosenbloom the University of West Virginia
tackle who “during several games away from home heard he cry of ‘Kill the Jew’”
and who went on to a career in law and politics which took him to U.S. House of
Representatives
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000441
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-louis-rosenbloom
1881(6th
of Sivan, 5641): Shavuot
1882:
In Tilsit, East Prussia “merchant and Rabbi Isidor Urdang and his wife Emma
Marrie” gave birth Georg Urdang, the University of Wisconsin professor of
pharmacy and founder of “the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.”
https://www.japha.org/article/S0095-9561(16)36034-0/abstract
1882:
As conditions worsen for Jews in the Ukraine, it was reported that Russian Jews
who lack passports are being denied the right to immigrate.
1885
(OS May 22): Birthdate of Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, a leader of the
Bolsheviks who also was a leader of the infant Soviet Union. He passed away in 1919, before the Revolution
turned sour and anti-Semitism reared its ugly head.
1885:
The Board of Directors of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children appealed for
contributions to support its upcoming summer program of excursions. Donations should be sent to Nathan Lewis,
President of the Board, John J. Davis or any of the other directors. [Editor’s
Note – This was the Jewish version of the popular movement to provide trips to
the country for children living in the tenements of major cities.]
1885:
It was reported today that in Vienna, the Liberals had elected 8 candidates,
the Democrats had elected three candidates and the anti-Semites had elected one
candidate. It was their poor showing at
the polls that caused the anti-Semites to begin rioting in the Austrian
capital.
1886(29th
of Iyar, 5646): Seventy-four-year-old Croatian born artilleryman and author
Eduard Breier who first novel Der
fluch des Rabbis was published in 1840 and whose Kaiser Joseph is an
example of “highly nationalistic” works on Austrian history passed away today.
1887:
Witnesses continued to testify in the trial of Adolph Reich who has been
charged with murdering his wife last April. A former landlady testified that
Reich had hit his wife and pulled her hair out while another testified that
Reich thought his wife was having an affair with him. The witnesses denied the accusations saying
he visited her to pick up the coats which made for his shop. Proceedings were
delayed because a Hebrew Bible had to be brought to the courtroom for use by
some of the witness.
1888: A convention was held today in Philadelphia that
incorporated the American Jewish Publication Society. In a telegram sent to the meeting from Berlin
by Jacob H. Schiff, the prominent businessman and philanthropist offered to
donate five thousand dollars to an endowment named in honor of Michael Heilprin
if the society can raise an additional fifty thousand dollars in the next
year.The purpose of JPS was and is to publish in English books of Jewish
interest. Among its hundreds of publications are Graetz's, Dubnov's and Baron's
History of the Jews, and Ginsburg's Legends of the Jews. Other
important authors included Israel Zangwill, Leo Baeck, Cecil Roth, Jacob R.
Marcus, and Louis Finkelstein. Starting in 1899, the JPS has published the
American Jewish Yearbook.
1892(8th of Sivan, 5652): Isidore Loeb, a
French-Jewish scholar passed away. Born
at Sulzmatt (Soultzmatt), Upper Alsace in 1839, he was “the son of Rabbi
Seligmann Loeb of Sulzmatt” and “was educated in Bible and Talmud by his
father. After having followed the usual course in the public school of his
native town, Loeb studied at the college of Rufach and at the lycée of Colmar,
in which city he at the same time attended classes in Hebrew and Talmud at the
preparatory rabbinical school founded by Chief Rabbi Solomon Klein. In 1856 he
entered the Central Rabbinical School (Ecole Centrale Rabbinique) at Metz,
where he soon ranked high through his knowledge of Hebrew, his literary
ability, and his proficiency in mathematics. In 1862 he was graduated and received
his rabbinical diploma from the Séminaire Israélite de France at Paris, which
had replaced (1859) the Metz Ecole Centrale Rabbinique. Loeb did not
immediately enter upon a rabbinical career, but tutored for some years, first
at Bayonne, France and then at Paris. In 1865 he was called to the rabbinate of
St. Etienne (Loire). His installation sermon, on the duties of the smaller
congregations (Les Devoirs des Petites Communautés), is one of the best
examples of French pulpit rhetoric. Soon, however, he felt a desire to extend
the field of his activity. He went to Paris, where he was appointed secretary
of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, which position he held until his death.
It was largely due to Loeb's labors that this association became an important factor
in the progress of Oriental Judaism; and he created the library of the
Alliance, which is one of the most valuable Jewish libraries in existence.
Meanwhile he continued his historical and philological researches, and
developed an extensive literary activity. The chair of Jewish history in the
Rabbinical Seminary of Paris having become vacant through the death of Albert
Cohn (1877), Loeb was appointed his successor. He held this position for 12
years. His main activity, however, was devoted to the Société des Etudes
Juives, which was organized in Paris in 1880. Beginning with the first number,
he successfully edited the Revue des Études Juives, the organ of that society,
and was, moreover, a voluminous and brilliant contributor thereto.
1889: Forty-six-year-old Bernhard Förster a leading German
anti-Semite who described Jews as “a parasite on the German body” and who was
married to the Elisabeth Nietzsche, the sister of philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche committed suicide today in San Bernardino, Paraguay.
1890: The Reverend Dr. Madison Clinton Peters, the author of Justice
to the Jew, The Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud and The Jew as a Patriot
married Miss Sarah H. Hart in Philadelphia, PA, today.
1890: “Catechising The People” published today described the
challenges census takers faced among New York’s immigrant population. Once the Jews understood “the purpose of the
questions they became quite cheerful and communicative.”
1891: It was reported today that New York’s 25th police
precinct under the command of Captain John Gunner is home to many prominent
public buildings and institutions including several synagogues and the Mount
Sinai Hospital
1891: In Vilna, David and Sarah Abramowtiz gave birth University
of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained Rabbi, Samuel Joshua Abrams, the
husband of Sarah R. Friedman who served several congregations starting with
B’nai Israel in Kalamazoo before finally settling in at Temple Ohabei Shalom in
Boston in 1920 which led to him being a member of the Board of Jewish Education
In Boston and being a member of the executive committee of the Boston Zionist
Organization.
1892(8th of Sivan, 5652): Fifty-two-year-old Isidore
Loeb the editor of the Revue Des Etudes Jives, a quarterly created by the Société des Etudes Juives passed away
today.
1892: Comptroller Myers said today “that the discrepancies he had
discovered in the accounts of two public institution,” one of which the Ladies’
Deborah Nursery and Child’s Protectory, “arose from a lack of conformity
between the commitment papers of the children made out by the police
magistrate’s clers and the papers made out by the officials of the homes.”
1892: “Hamilton College Clark Prize” published today described the
outcome of the school’s public speaking competition which was won by Gregory
Rosenblum who spoke on “The Jews of Russia,”
1893(19th of Sivan, 5653): Sixty-one-year-old Joshua
Hendricks passed away this evening at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York
City. Mr. Hendricks was a fourth-generation owner of Hendricks Brothers, a firm
specializing in metals (specifically copper) which was founded in 1764.
1893: Forty-six-year-old Member of Parliament “Arthur Strauss
married 29-year-old Minna Cohen on 3 June 1893 at the Register Office in the
District of St. George's Square, Pimlico, London.”
1893: “Senator Hill Backed Down” published today described a
verbal altercation that took place when Senator Hill, a member of the Senate
Committee on Immigration asked Colonel John Weber, the former Commissioner of
Immigration at the Port of New York (Ellis Island) if he gotten his position as
a general agent for the Baron Hirsch Fund “because of the special favors show
to Jews on Ellis Island.” Weber, a veteran of the Civil War and a former member
of the House of Representatives who had used his experience as an
agriculturalist to help the Hirsch Colony at Woodbine, NJ “flushed angrily” at
the accusation and told Senator Hill, “You had better put that question
again. I hardly understand it.” Hill chose not to repeat the question which
was indicative of his anti-Jewish bias when it to immigration.
1893: Six years after the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition was
held in 1887, a meeting was held under the leadership of Lucien Wolf at the
club of the Maccabaeans in London where the Jewish Historical Society of London
was founded for the purpose of "conducting researches into the history of
the Jews of the British empire, transcribing and publishing documents, forming
a library and museum, and organizing a course of lectures on general Jewish
history."
1894: Approximately 2,000 people attended the annual reception at
the Montefiore Home for Incurables which was held this afternoon.
1894: “New Publications” published today included a review of
Roger Williams: The Pioneer of Religious Liberty by Oscar S. Strauss.
1895: Isaac Stern, Dr. Alfred Meyer and Professor Felix Adler were
among those who spoke at the graduation exercise of the 1895 class of the Mount
Sinai Training School for Nurses where sixteen graduates four of whom were
Jewish were honored today.
1895: Birthdate of Hungarian born American movie maker Zoltan
Korda, who was the ‘middle brother” of two other filmmakers – Alexander Korda
and Vincent Korda.
1896: General James R. O’Beirne and Rabbi Rudolph Grossman of
Temple Beth-El were among those who gave addresses at exercises held today in
the auditorium of the Educational Alliance Building where students enrolled in
the Baron de Hirsch English day classes demonstrated the progress they had made
since Memorial Day.
1896: Birthdate of Rochester, NY native, NYU trained attorney and
U.S. Navy Ensign in WW I, Benjamin Jacob Rabin, the New York Congressman who
moved on to being a judge in the New York state judicial system while being
married to Syd Sobel Rabin.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-rabin
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/24/77444148.pdf
1897: Birthdate of Minsk native and Columbia trained biochemist
and pathologist Dr. David Mathews Grayzel, the associate pathologist at the Jewish
Hospital in Brooklyn.
1898: In Uvarovichi, which is now part of Belarus, Esther
Kunin and Hillel Zeitlen gave birth to
Yiddish author Aaron Zeitelin, the author of popular play “Chelmer Chacomim,” a
Professor of of Hebrew Literature at JTS and, starting in 1939, the Director of
the Yiddish Art Theatre in New York
1898: Four days after his death, 38 year old Myer Franks was
buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1899: Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH native and University of
Cincinnati trained chemist, Dr. Moses L. Isaacs, the Professor of Chemistry at
Yeshiva University and the dean of Yeshiva College whose wife Elizabeth “was
dean of students at Stern College for Women…”
1899: “The Court of Cassation” revised “the Dreyfus case and”
ordered “a new trial before the court-martial at Rennes.
1900(6th of Sivan, 5660): First Davy Shavuot of the 20th
century
1900(6th of Sivan, 5660): Louis Schwabacher the first
of the three Schwabacher brothers to come to the United States where they
started a series of businesses in California and Washington state including wholesale
grocers Schwabacher Brothers and the
Schwabacher Hardware Company passed aay toda.
1900: Birthdate New York native and college drop-out Abel Green,
the longtime editor of Variety who
was first hired as journalist by Simon Silverman.
1900: Birthdate of Brooklyn native, NYU trained accountant and
Fordham trained attorney, Abraham Mandel a political reformer, Zionist and
supporter of FDR.
1900: The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGW) is
founded. In its early days, the union
was dominated by Jews who made up a disproportionate number of the workers in
an industry known for its sweatshop conditions.
At the close of the 20th century, the Union gained renewed
famed for its jingle “Look for the Union label in the clothes you are wearing.”
1901: “Protective League Meeting” published today described a
meeting what used to be called the Jewish Peddler’s Union where “an appeal for
justice was made for the entire Jewish race, both rich and poor.”
1901 Twenty-nine-year Medical College of Ohio trained physician
Samuel Rothenberg, the Cincinnati, OH born son of Louis and Setta Rothenberg
who did post-graduate work at Strausberg, Berlin, Vienna and Berlin before
returning to Cincinnati where he became Director of the Department of
Obstetrics at the Jewish Hospital
married Cora Oettinger today.
1902: “Jerome Answers Gruber” published today provided the
District Attorney’s criticism of him for using the term “Ghetto” when referring
to the Lower East Side saying that “the Ghetto is not a term of reproach” and
that is merely “signifies a district in which a number of Hebrews live.”
1903: Birthdate of Russian native David C. Anchin, the CCNY
trained accountant and Fordham trained attorney who raised two daughters – Ruth
and Isabel – with his “wife, the former Anne Sternlight.
1903: A mass meeting to protest the atrocities inflicted by the
Russians on the Jews is scheduled to be held tonight at the Academy of Music in
Philadelphia.
1904: Herzl
leaves for Edlach, Austria accompanied by his wife and his fellow Zionist Yona
Kremenetzky.
1904: “The Seventh Annual Convention of the Federation of American
Zionists” opened today at Germania Hall in Cleveland, OH.
1904: Birthdate Jacob Pincus Perelmuth who gained fame as Jan
Peerce, the Cantor and a tenor performing at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
1905(29th of Iyar, 5665): Parashat Bamidbar
1905: Dr. David Blaustein presided over “the first of a series of
meeting of Jews throughout the United States to raise a fund for the relief of
the Jews Russia which was held tonight in the auditorium of the Educational
Alliance on East Broadway.
1905: “At the Lake Mohonk International Arbitration Conference Mr.
Oscar S. Straus expressed the opinion that ‘instead of lessing the scope, the
meaning and the future application of The Hague Tribunal this terrible and
bloodiest war of all history will home to the nations of the world that no war
can bring victories comparable to peace with honor.’”
1906: In Louisville, Adath Israel Temple dedicated its third
congregational home. The building was designed by architects Kenneth McDonald
and J.F. Sheblessy and was commonly known as the “Third Street Synagogue.”
Following it merger with Brith Sholom in 1976, the congregation took the name
Congregation Adath Israel Brith Sholom
1907: Harry Harris, the Jewish boxer who had given up the ring for
the theatre, missed the “rosin” so much that today he was signed to fight
Harlem Tommy Murphy, a leading contender in the lightweight class.
1908: At the conclusion of the meeting where The Children’s Relief
Society was formed, Phillip Sachs and Mrs. Feltenstein started “look for a
suitable loft for a food depot” from which “cheap, nutritious food can be given
to school children of the lower east side.”
1908: “Stanley Brown-Serman read a paper entitled ‘The Mission of
the Church to the Jew’” at the graduation ceremonies of the General Theological
Seminary in New York.
1909: The Hebrew Relief Association of Peoria, Illinois gave $5.00
to the National Conference of Jewish Charities today.
1909: Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia trained
attorney Ira David Wallach, the “head of Central National-Gottesman, “the
largest privately held marketer of paper and pulp products who was the husband
of Miriam Gottesman Wallach with whom he had four children and the son-in-law
of fellow paper man D.S. Gottesman whose opposition to the Viet Nam War landed
him on the notorious Nixon “political opponents” list and who with his wife
created a notable charitable foundation.
1910: In New York, Joseph Russell Levy, “the son of a prosperous
Jewish cigar manufacturer from Salt Lake City” and Alta Mae Goddard, an
Episcopalian gave birth to Marion Goddard Levy who gained fame as actress of
Paulette Goddard.
1911(7th of Sivan, 5671): Second Day of Shavuot
1911(7th of Sivan, 5671): Mildred G. Calisch the only
daughter Edward Nathan Calisch, the graduate of HUC and rabbi of Congregation
Beth Ahabah in Richmond, VA, was killed today in an automobile accident.
1911: Birthdate of Marion Levy who gained fame as the actress
Paulette Goddard known for playing opposite Charlie Chaplin in "The Great
Dictator."
1912: The 16th annual convention of the National
Association of Clothiers opened at the Royal Palace Hotel in Atlantic City
where for the first time the organization was not led by Marcus W. Marks who,
after eleven years had resigned his Presidency in Januuary.
1912: Aviation pioneer and Adas Israel congregant, Arthur Welsh
prepares for a two-hour test of the Wright military planes.
1913: Birthdate of Yitzhak Berman the native of Berdychiv who made
Aliyah in 1920 and following military service pursued a successful legal career
before entering politics where he rose to Speaker of the Knesset.
1913: In Manhattan, Abraham and Ida Krim gave birth to Norman
Bernard Krim “an electronics visionary who played a pivotal role in the
industry’s transition from the bulky electron vacuum tube, which once lined the
innards of radios and televisions, to the tiny, far more powerful transistor…He
, did not invent the transistor…but he saw the device’s potential and persuaded
his company to begin manufacturing it on a mass scale…” (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)
1914: In a telegram dated today, the St. Petersburg Correspondent
of The Times said, “In order to attract” foreign investments the Czar is
believed to be “in favor of the gradual removal of certain disabilities regard
the participation of Jews in joint stock companies.”
1915: It was reported today that Rush Rhees, the President of the
University of Rochester is scheduled to speak at the upcoming meeting called to
protest the execution of Leo M. Frank.
1915: At a mass meeting, the Cincinnati (Ohio) Businessman Men’s
Club “passed a resolution asking for the Governor of Georgia to commute the
sentence” of Leo Frank “to life imprisonment.
1915: At Columbus, Ohio, the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce
voted to ask for clemency for Leo Frank.
1915: Following his release from prison for his role in the death
of Mary Phagan, Jim Conley was reported today to “show no remorse” and declared
that Frank “ought to be hanged.”
1915: Among those who signed the petition sent from Brooklyn to
the Governor of Georgia asking for clemency for Leo Frank were Brooklyn Borough
President Lewis H. Pounds, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Callaghan, Dr. S.
Edward Young, the pastor of the Bedford Presbyterian Church, Congressman Rueben
Haskell and United States District Attorney Melville J. France.
1916: In London, Isaak and Olga, Winogrdasky, who had escaped from
pogroms in Russia, gave birth to Laszlo Winogradsky who gained fame as talent
agent Leslie Grade, the co-founder along with his broth Lew Grade of the Grade
Organization and who was the father of British television executive Michael
Grade.
1916: The British and French declare a state of siege in Salonica
and remove all Greeks from official posts due to the possibility they were
pro-German.
1916: It was reported today that “under Austrian law
non-Christians may marry Jews but not Catholics nor Protestants.”
1916: It was reported today that the State Board of Charities had
heard conflicting information at the hearing on granting a charter for the Beth
Moses Hospital in Williamsburg with Justice Jacob St. Strahl representing the
Hebrew Ladies’ Dispensary and Dr. J.M. Goldberg asserting that the charter
should not be granted and Rabbi Raisin telling the board that “Williamsburg had
200,000 Jews…and that it could well afford to maintain two ‘kosher’ hospitals.’
1917: “The thirteenth annual meeting of the Jewish Consumptives’
Relief Society” is scheduled to “be held at the Auditorium of the Irene
Kaufmann Settlement” in Pittsburgh at two o’clock this afternoon.
1917: In Chicago, the meeting of the Young Women’s Auxiliary of
the Jewish Consumptive’s Relief Society is scheduled to take place today at the
Sinai Center.
1917: Following reports of
a German bombing raid conducted for the first time by bombers instead of
Zeppelins that killed 95 and injured 192, “Albert Einstein wrote a friend in
Holland, ‘The ancient Jehovah is still abroad.
Alas he slays the innocent along with the guilty, whom he strikes so
fearsomely blind that they can feel no sense of guilt.’”
1917: In Chicago, the closing exercises of the K.A.M. Sabbath
School are scheduled to take places this morning in vestry rooms of the Temple.
1917: Joseph Feinberg, N.M. Barnett, Leo H. Hoffman and N.D.
Kaplan are among those who are scheduled to address this afternoon’s mass
meeting at Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodel as preparations are made for
electing delegates to the American Jewish Congress.
1917: Ruby Davis will play patriotic airs and Major Abel Davis
will speak on “Jewish Patriotism” at the annual meeting and supper of the
Isaiah Alumni Association will is scheduled to start at 6:30 this evening.
1917: The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of
Camden, New Jersey purchased 572 and 574 Walnut Street from Smith C. Moore and
his wife Elizabeth, for the sum of $4,000 as recorded in Camden County's real
estate records, Book 418, pages 296 and 297. On the same the Young Men's and
Young Women's Hebrew Association of Camden, New Jersey purchased 570 Walnut
Street from Joseph F. and Mary C. Mack for $2100, as recorded in Camden
County's real estate records, Book 418, pages 297 and 298.
1917: In New York City, 16-year-old Josephine (née Condon) and 31-year-old
Bernard Gorcey, both of whom were vaudeville actors gave birth to Leo Bernard
Gorcey best known for his roles with The Bowery Boys and the Dead End Kids.
1917: During WW I, anti-Jewish riots broke out Leeds, UK.
1917: U.S. premiere of “The Slave,” a silent five reel move filmed
by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg.
1918: “The provisional Zionist Committee” in New York City
“received a cable from Lemberg, Galicia,” today that described the arrival
there of Daniel Auster “a teacher at the Jewish High School in Haifa” who was
one of the 1,500 Jews deported by the Turks and sent to Damascus.
1918(23rd of Sivan, 5678): Seventy-eight-year-old Louis
Barnett Abrahams, the son of Hannah and Cantor Barnett Abrahams, the husband of
Fannie Rosetta Mosely and the nephew of Sofer and Dayan Rabbi Aaron Levy, who
became the headmaster of Jews’ Free School in London and founder of the Jewish
Record passed away today.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6753208/l_b_abrahams_times_obituary/
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59256
1919(5th of Sivan, 5679): Erev Shavuot; Jews prepare to
observe the holiday for the first time since the end of the World War
1920: Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons son Julius J. Lyons the lawyer and
banker who had left his home in New Jersey a year ago to live with his son
Edwin in San Diego and who passed away last month was remembered in print today
for his charitable and civic activities including service on the boards of the
Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Technical Institute and the Montefiore Home
1921: On the King’s Birthday, Sir Herbert Samuel, the High
Commissioner for Palestine made the first official interpretation of the
Balfour Declaration, assuring the Arabs that immigration would be controlled
according to the "economic absorptive capacity" of the country - and
in fact suspended immigration, though only temporarily. In describing the impact of the speech to
Winston Churchill at the end of the month, Samuel said the Jewish population
viewed the speech as a “severe set-back” to their aspirations and that it made
them feel “very nervous and apprehensive.
1921(26th of Iyar, 5681): German born New York physician Simon
Baruch, father of Bernard Baruch, passed away
1922(7th of Sivan, 5682): Second Day of Shavuot
1922: “After the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry had published its
findings on the Arab Riots of 1921,” today, the government issued a White Paper
stating “that the Balfour Declaration could not be amended and that the Jews
were in Palestine by right,” but which “reduced the area of the Mandate by
excluding the area east of the Jordan River” giving given to the Emir Abdullah
and establishing for the first time “the
principle of "economic absorptive capacity" as a factor for
determining the immigration quota of Jews to Palestine”
1922: Birthdate of English actress Joy Shelton, the wife of actor
Sydney Tafler, the son of “Eva (née Kosky) and Mark Tafler.
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/joy_shelton
1923: The thirty-seventh annual convention of the Independent
Order, B'rith Abraham at Saratoga Springs, NY this morning with 1,200 delegates
and visitors.
1924(1st of Sivan, 5684):
Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1924(1st of Sivan, 5684):
Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and Metamorphosis, passed
away at the age of 40.
https://www.kafka-online.info/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Kafka
1924: In his first year as a professional 18-year-old Sidney “Sid”
Terris won “a ten round decision on points at the Henderson Bowl in Brooklyn.”
1925: In the Bronx, Helen (née Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz gave
birth do Bernard Shwartz, who gained fame as actor Tony Curtis and may be best
known for his performance in the film
"Some Like It Hot," where he co-starred with Marilyn Monroe and Jack
Lemon.
http://www.tonycurtis.com/page/page/8747138.htm
1925: Birthday Bucharest native Mindru, the Israeli pianist.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Katz-Mindru.htm
1926: Birthdate Newark, NJ Irwin Allen Ginsberg who gained fame as
poet and beatnik, Allen Ginsberg.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/allen-ginsberg
1927: It was reported today that Newton Joseph, “a steward on
board the British steamship Lunkin” has been arrested for his role in an
alleged “far-reaching conspiracy going on in Cuba for the importation of thousands
of Russian Jews into the United States through Florida.
1927: Thirty-year-old Sid Marks, alia Arthur S. Kaufman “was held
without bail for action by the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny by Magistrate
Louis Brodsky in Yorkville Court” today in connection with two schemes one of
which involved commercial artist Saul Tepper.
1928: In New York, “Max and Eva Rebecca Dolansky” gave birth to
Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin, the husband of Tziva Donin and the author of To Be
a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life.
1928
(14th of Sivan): Samuel Chaim Landau founder of Torah va-Avo-dah,
the religious Zionist movement, passed away
1929: In Philadelphia, “Edith (née Cohen) and Nathaniel Barris, a
dentist” gave birth Charles Hirsch Barris who as Chuck Barris gained fame for
creating numerous TV game shows including the Newlywed Game and the Gong Show.
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/chuck-barris-dead-dies-gong-show-host-1202013790/
1930(7th of Sivan, 5690): Second Day of Shavuot
1930: A tribute to the memory of Louis Marshall was paid by Judge
Otto A. Rosalsky today while stressing the importance of the ideal of unity in
American Israel, in an address in the Jewish Centre at the memorial service”
(Yizkor) “that is part of the ritual of the second day of Shevouth.”
1931: “The Band Wagon,” “a musical revue with book by George S.
Kaufman and Howard Dietz, lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz”
“opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre.”
1931: In Bronx County, NY, Joseph and Bertha Drube Rothenberg gave
birth to Idelle “Dell” Rotehnberg, the half-sister of Maurice Rothenberg.
1932: Birthdate of Fischel Lebowitz the native of Transylvania,
Romania, who survived the Holocaust, and as Fred Lebow became a successful
American businessman, an avid distance runner and the founder of the New York
City Marathon.
1933: As the Catholic Church sought to establish positive
relations with the new Nazi regime, “a joint pastoral letter appeared from the
German Bishops' Conference” that “contained a statement that if the State would
only respect certain rights and requirements of the Church, the Church would
gratefully and happily support the new situation.”
1934:I. Edwin Goldwasser, Nathan Straus, Jr. and Ira M. Younker
announced today that “with gifts of $113,00 received last week, the fund being
raised by the UJA for the aid of German Jews now totals $415,000.
1935: According to provisional figures released today by the
Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, “more than 4,000
Jews entered Palestine as immigrants during the month of May.”
1936(13th of Sivan, 5696): Abraham Adelberg who came to
the United States in 1888 where he was a successful “clothing merchant” and
trustee of the village of Cedarhurst, NY which he served as Mayor from 1926 to
1932 passed away today.
1936: Professor Georg Bernhard, the German journalist, statesman
and economist” who had said “in an interview that his mission is to work to
unseat Hitler in Germany” arrived in New York today aboard the liner Paris “as
the guest of the American Jewish Congress.”
1936: “Assurance that Great Britain would halt Arab uprisings and
safeguard the rights of Jews in Palestine was given” today “by Major Henry Adam
Procter, Conservative Member of the House of Commons, at a luncheon tendered
him by the Zionist Organization of America at the Hotel Astor.”
1936: “The Mandates Commission of the League of Nations decided
today after a two-day discussion to deal with the present unrest in Palestine
at this session, in connection with the 1935 report of Great Britain as the
mandatory, in so far as is now possible and not to defer discussion of the
report to its Autumn session.”
1936: As the Arab uprising continues, David Vardi, a 27 year old
owner of an orange packing house near… Rishon Litzion and Israel Arger, a 31
year old workman, were seriously wounded today when two Arabs who were old
friends of theirs shot them in the packing house. Both were shot in the head
and there is little hope for their recovery. In Haifa, a bomb was thrown at a
Jewish owned bus, wounding three riders.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the Polish General
Consul in Jerusalem told the Va’ad Leumi (The National Council of Palestine
Jews) that he was deeply distressed at the recent anti-Jewish disturbances in
Poland. He promised to forward, without delay, the Va’ad protest to his
government. The Palestine government agreed to compensate, to a certain extent,
the victims of the 1936 Arab disturbances, or their dependents
1938: “Josette,” a comedy co-starring Simone Simon and with music
by Walter Scharf was released today in the United States.
1939: The fifty children rescued from Nazi Europe in act of
courage and derring-do by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, arrived today in New York
aboard the S.S President Harding.
1939(16th of Sivan, 5699): Fifty-year-old Sir Philip
Sassoon, a member of the distinguished Sassoon family passed away today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Philip_Sassoon,_3rd_Baronet
http://www.jta.org/1939/06/05/archive/sir-philip-sassoon-dead-in-london-at-50
1940(26th of Iyar, 5700): Seventy-four-year-old William
Benjamin Cardozo, the son of Sarah Peixotto Cardozo and Abraham Hart Cardozo,
the husband of Jennie Cardozo who he married in1890 and the father of Mildred
Rosalie Cardozo Furst after which he was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the
Bronx.
1940: It was reported today that during his commencement address
at the Jewish Institute of Religion, Dr. James G. Heller, vice president of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis said “When the world is faced with
terror, go back to the past of Israel and believe in your people and in
yourself.” (He said this as the Jews of Poland feel under the heel of Nazi and
Soviet tyranny)
1941: Author Irving Wallace married writer Sylvia Kahn.
1941: In Iraq, the Jewish community asse the damage by two-day
Farhud, or pogrom in which approximately 200 hundred Jews were murdered by the
supporters of the revolutionary government and hundreds of homes and businesses
were looted or destroyed and are forced to confront the fact that their ancient
community had missed the fate their co-religionists were suffering.
1941: Today the synagogue in Esch, Luxembourg was destroyed after
the synagogue of Luxembourg City was closed by the Gestapo in May of 1941.
1941: Eighty-two-year-old Kaiser Wilhelm II died in exile today.
http://www.jta.org/1941/06/05/archive/ex-kaiser-dead-at-82-turned-anti-semitic-after-germanys-defeat
http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050404/will.html
1942: The German military commander of occupied France ordered all
Jews to wear a yellow Star of David with the inscription "Juif" on
it.
1942(18th of Sivan, 5702): In Warsaw, 110 Jews were shot in
the prison on Gesia Street. Ten Jewish policemen are among the victims.
1942: Jews revolt in Breslau,
Germany.
1943(29th of Iyar, 5703): German
troops in the Warsaw Ghetto destroy a bunker on Walowa Street that conceals 150
Jews. It was one of the last remaining
bunkers in the ghetto. By September, all that were remaining would be flushed
out and destroyed.
1943: Near Michalowice, Poland,
Germans kill two Polish farmers who have rescued and hidden three Jewish
escapees in a barn.
1943: Max Sievers, a non-Jewish opponent of the Nazis who had
immigrated to the United States in 1939 but was forced to leave because he
could not get a visa was arrested by the Gestapo today.
1944: In response to Rudolf Kastner's plea to let some of the
Hungarian Jews remain in Budapest, Eichmann said, "I have to clean up the
provincial towns of the Jewish garbage. I must take this Jewish muck out of the
provinces. I cannot play the role of the savior of the Jews.”
1944: A train from Lyon arrived in Birkenau. One survivor, Freda
Silberberg, stated how it was the French that arrested her, not the Germans.
Dr. Mengele selected Freda for his experiment pool.
1945: As European colonial powers sort out their holdings in a
post-war world, French troops temporarily left Damascus at the same time that
Jews in Palestine were suffering the disillusioning reality that the British
had no intention allowing the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
1946: “The foundation stone of the Institute of Biophysics and
Physical Chemistry was laid today under a blazing sun” today Rehovoth.
1947: “Ernest Papanek, executive director of American Youth for
World Youth, today told the national conference of Jewish Social Welfare” at
their meeting in Baltimore that “Jewish youth in Europe, particularly in the
displaced persons camps, constitute a new pschological species of shock cases,
as a result of "an utterly abnormal life.”
1948: Four Egyptian aircraft flew over Tel Aviv on what would be
the 16th bombing raid over the Jewish city. Numerous civilian
casualties had been sustained in the previous attacks and the residents
expected more of the same.
1948: Tonight, an Iraqi assault
succeeded in overwhelming the remaining Israeli-held hills around Jenin.
1948: In a modern version of David versus Goliath, Modi Alon flew
Israel’s one serviceable fighter aircraft across the Tel Aviv skies and
attacked four Egyptian aircraft that were set to bomb the city. Alon shot down the two bombers and forced
their fighter escorts to flee. These
were the first aerial combat victories scored by the IAF. In one of those strange moments of the war,
the people of Tel Aviv actually watched the performance of a combat air arm
that they had not known even existed.
1948(25th of Iyar, 5708): Eighty-one year old Avraham
Mordechai Alter who was also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he
authored, was the third Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger a position he held
from 1905 until his death in 1948 passed away today.He was one of the founders
of the Agudas Israel in Poland and was influential in establishing a network of
Jewish schools there. It is claimed that at one stage he led over 200,000
Hasidim.
1948: Having survived the Holocaust and the “Communist takeover of
Czechoslovakia” wine make Eugen Herzog, his wife Sidonia and their children
arrived in New York City clinging to the earthen potato pot on which they had
prepared their meals while hiding in Europe. (As reported by Laurie Gwen
Shapiro)
1949: “Du Guesclin” a film about a 14th century general
featuring Gérard Oury as “Charles V of France” was released in France today.
1949: In Baltimore, MD, Elizabeth D. (née Davidson) and Donald N.
Rothman, a lawyer and the brother of film executive Tom Rothman, gave birth to
actor John Mahr Rothman.
1949: NBC and DuMont broadcast the final episode of the “Admiral
Broadway Revue” a variety show created by Max Liebman with scripts by Mel
Brooks and Mel Tolken starring Sid Caesar.
1951: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning for
Celia Horowitz, the mother of Elias
Horowitz, the treasurer of the Hebrew Institute of Long Island, Harry Horowitz,
Jack Horowitz and Lena Cohen of Atlanta, GA.
1953: Professor Otto Loewi, winner in 1936 of the Noble in
medicine for the discovery of the chemical transmission of nervous impulses who
is now the Research Professor of Pharmacology in the New York University
College of Medicine celebrated his 80th birthday today.
1953: “Sir Alexander Korda to Wed” published today described the
plans for 59-year-old British movie mogul who had divorced movie star Merle
Oberon in 1945 to marry 25 year old Canadian Alexandra Boycum.
1954(2nd of Sivan, 5714): Eighty-two year old
Montgomery, AL and University of
Virginia trained physician Joseph Henry Abraham, the laryngologist and member
of the faculty of New York Polytechnic and husband Eleanor B. Abraham passed
away today in New York.
1954: Today 17-year-old Abbie Hoffman was arrested for the first,
but not the last, time “for driving without a license.
1956: NBC broadcast the last episode of “The Bachelors” with music
by David Rose today.
1957: Howard Cosell's television show appeared for the first time.
1959(26th of Iyar, 5719): Sixty-nine-year-old Polish born and WW I
veteran of the Russian Army, Samuel Lewin “a writer of novels, short stories
and plays” who was the husband of Mrs. Miriam Lewin and the father of Isaac,
Simon and Jeremiah Lewin passed away today.
1960: Four newly deciphered letters of Bar Kochba describing
organizational challenges faced by the leader of the revolt against the Roman
Empire (132-135 CE) were presented in a lecture given today by Professor Yigal
Yadin today at Hebrew University. The letters revealed that the supply route
for Bar Kochba’s soldiers was via Ein Gedi and Tekoa. This is the same Tekoa which was home to the
prophet Amos. Yigal Yadin was head of
the Israeli military during the War for Independence. His work helped to establish for those who
had doubts, the legitimacy of Jewish history.
1961: The final curtain came down on “Wildcat,” with music by Cy
Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh
1963(11th of Sivan, 5723): Eighty-eight-year-old
American Orientalist William Popper, the husband of Tess Magnes, and
brother-in-law of Dr. Judah Magnes, who wrote his doctorial decision at
Columbia under Dr. Richard Gottheil passed away today.
1963: Pope John XXIII
passed away. Born Angelo Roncalli, in 1935 he was made Apostolic Delegate to
Turkey and Greece. Roncalli used this office to help the Jewish underground in
saving thousands of refugees in Europe, leading some to consider him to be a
Righteous Gentile
1964: Israel played South Korea in the finals of the 1964 AFC
Asian Cup football tournament at Ramat Gan Stadium.
1964: Services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at
Riverside Chapel for “Matthew M. Fox, a motion picture and television executive
who was once known as the “economic godfather of Indonesia…”
1964: After a week of matches, Israel won the 1964 AFC Asian Cup.
1965: U.S. premiere of “The Sandpiper” with a script co-authored
by Dalton Trumbo and music by Johnny Mandel.
1965: “The Knack…and How to Get It,” the award-winning comedy
directed by Richard Lester and produced by Oscar Lewenstein was released today
in the United Kingdom
1967: Shabbat was not a day of rest as the Arab vise squeezed
around the state Israel. The people were
beginning to feel the psychological pain of being surrounded. The Israeli economy was unraveling under the
pressure of continuous mobilization.
Dyan continued to review the plans of the General Staff. Israel’s Ambassador to the United States,
Avraham Harman landed in Israel and reported to Eshkol, Eban, and the senior
military officers that the West would not come to Israel’s assistance. If the blockade were to be broken, Israel
must do it herself. As the various
leaders left that evening the plan was clear.
Israel would take action against Egypt, and only Egypt. Jordan would not be attacked if Jordan stayed
out of the fight. Contrary to
revisionist historians, there was no grand military plan to seize the Sinai,
the Golan, the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The fact that Israel ended up with these at the end of the war was a
result of shifting tactical situations as well as the fear on the part of the Arab
states that if they did not fight they would miss out on the spoils that went
with the destruction of the Jewish state
1968(7th of Sivan, 5728): As Gene McCarthy and
Bobby Kennedy battle out it in California during the Democratic Presidential
Primaries, Jews observe the second day of Shavuot, the last Jewish holiday
Kennedy will be alive for.
1969(17th of Sivan, 5729): Seventy-two-year-old
James Warburg, the son of Paul Warburg and nephew of Jacob Schiff whose
colorful life including serving as a Navy pilot in WW I, financial advisor to
FDR, a stint with Wild Bill Donovan during WW II and advocacy for international
cooperation as a way of preventing WW III passed away today.
1970(28th of Iyar, 5730) Yom Yerushalyim
1970: Funeral scheduled to be held today for seventy-four-year-old
Brooklyn Law School and CPA Abraham Kraditor, the veteran of both world wars
and the wife of the former Henrietta Lipschutz who “was former national
commander of the Jewish War Veterans who had suffered a fatal heart attack.
1971(10th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-eight-year-old civic
leader Barbara Ochs Adler, the widow of General Julius Ochs Adler passed away
today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-barbara-ochs
1971: German born mathematician Heinz Hopf passed away. His father was Jewish but his mother was
not. For the Nazis, this made him Jewish
and he sought refuge in Swiss citizenship during the Hitler period.
1972: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sally J. Priesand, 25, became the first
woman in Reform Judaism to be ordained as a Rabbi.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/03/1972/sally-priesand
1973(3rd of Sivan, 5733): Eighty-one year old Dr. Joseph Herman
Isenstead, the West Prussian born son of Herman and Jenny (Eisack) Eisenstadt
and a holder of the Iron Cross for his four years of service in the Medical
Corps of the German Army in WW I who, along with his wife the former Elly
Neuman, in 1936, came to the United States where he practiced “medicine
specializing in the treatment of liver disease” passed away today.
1974: Albert Isakovich Koltunov, a lottery worker from Chernovtsy
was sentenced to five years strict regime prison on trumped-up charge of
bribery after he had applied for exit visa to Israel mid-February 1974 and was
arrested on March 14th.
1974: Aharon Uzan completed his term as Communications
Minister.
1974: Yitzhak Rabin, the first native-born Israeli (Sabra) to
become prime minister of Israel, assumed office.
1974: Avraham Ofer replaced Yehoshua Rabinovitz as Minister of
Housing and Construction.
1974: Yosef Burg completed his term as Interior Minister
1974: Shlomo Hillel replaced Yosef Berg as Interior Minister
1974: Yigal Allon began his term as Foreign Minister
1974: Avraham Ofer, replaced Yehoshua Rabinovitz as Communications
Minster
1974: Gad Yaacobi replaced Aharon Yariv as Transportation Minister
1974: Hairm Yosef Zadok replaced Yitzhak Rafael as Minister of
Religious Services.
1975: “Chicago,” a musical with lyrics by Fred Ebb, who
co-authored “the book” and co-starring Jerry Orbach openeded today at the 46th
Street Theatre.
1976(5th of Sivan, 5736): Erev Shavuot
1976: Composer Randy Edelman, the son of a New Jersey Jewish
family, married singer Jackie DeShannon.
1976: “President Gerald M. Ford signs into law a bill creating a
U.S. Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (the “Helsinki Commission”) to monitor adherence
to the Helsinki process. The Commission
has the active support of the Soviet Jewry Movement and human rights groups.”
1977(17th of Sivan, 5737): Eighty-three year old
Baltimore born Simon Cohen, the University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC
ordained rabbi, passed away today.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel would not
take any steps against Syria until more was known about the extent and purpose
of their incursion into Lebanon. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
reported that Syrian soldiers were clashing with and killing terrorists.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Yigael Yadin, the
leader of the new political party, the Democratic Movement for Change, which
won 13 seats in the Knesset elections, was offered the deputy premiership in
the Menachem Begin's new Likud cabinet. 1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported
that the Israeli Kfir multi-mission combat aircraft was one of the leading
stars at the Le Bourget aircraft mart in Paris. 1977: The Jerusalem Post
reported that an annual prize in the field of the coverage of Israel's foreign relations
was established in memory of Ted Lurie, the second editor of the Post.
1979: Three people were injured when a bomb went off at a
bookstore in Jerusalem.
1982: Moscow refusenik and Hebrew teacher Pavel Abramovich was
summoned to the KGB for the third time in the course of a month.
1982:
The Israeli ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, was shot on a London street.
The failed assassination attempt was under the command of Fatah leader Abu
Nidal. Argov survived but was permanently paralyzed.
1982:
Israeli planes attack Palestinian camps in Lebanon after Fatah attempted to
murder Ambassador Argov in London.
1983:
“The Man With Two Brains” a comedy directed by Carl Reiner who also co-wrote
the script was released in the United States today.
1983:
A month after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “WarGames” produced by
Leonard Goldberg and featuring Maury Chaykin was released in the United States
today.
1983:
“The Last American Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script,
produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and filmed by cinematographer Adam
Greenberg was released in Sweden today.
1983(22nd of Sivan, 5743): Harry Lieberman, a
primitive-style painter who began his career as an artist in his 70's,
died today in North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, L.I., after
suffering a cardiac arrest. Mr. Lieberman was 106 years old and lived in Great
Neck, L.I. Throughout his 26 years as a painter, Mr. Lieberman completed
hundreds of pieces and his work was shown in museums and galleries in Great
Neck, in New York and in the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. His work has also
been on display in Houston, Seattle, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Calif., and
Rotterdam, Holland. It was the boredom of his retirement after selling his
confectioner business at the age of 74 that prompted Mr. Lieberman to try his
hand at sketching at an art class at the Great Neck Golden Age Club. Mr.
Lieberman soon moved on to watercolors and oil painting, using the
two-dimensional primitive style. As a young man Mr. Lieberman studied the
Talmud, and stories from that religious work as well as the Bible served as the
subject matter for most of his paintings. He once told an interviewer that a
man of his age - he was 100 at the time - needed a reason to get out of bed in
the morning and that the older he got the better that reason needed to be. Mr.
Lieberman was born Naftulo Hertzke Liebhaber in Gnieveshev, Poland, in November
1876. In 1906 at the age of 29 he emigrated to the United States, sending for
his wife two years later. The Liebermans, who worked first as cloth cutters,
bought a candy store that soon prospered into a wholesale confectioner
business.
1983(22nd of Sivan, 5743): Eight-six-year-old
labor leader Charles S. Zimmerman passed away today (As reported by Joseph B.
Treaster)
1985: Larry King Live was broadcast for the first time by CNN.
1987(6th of Sivan, 5747): Shavuot
1987(6th of Sivan, 5747): Seventy-nine-year-old Jackie
Fields (born Jacob Finkelstein) who won a Gold Medal in the featherweight
division during the 1924 Summer Olympics and as a professional won the
Welterweight Title passed away today in Los Angeles.
1988: “Big,” a comedy produced by James L. Brooks, with a script
co-authored by Anne Spielberg, featuring Jon Lovitz, with music by Howard Shore
and filmed by cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld was released in the United
States today.
1988(18th of Sivan, 5748): Eighty-two year old Edith
Mayer Goetz the wife of the late movie producer William Goetz and daughter of
the late film mogul Louis B. Mayer, passed today at her home in Los Angeles
after a lengthy illness.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-04/news/mn-3689_1_late-film
1990(10th of Sivan, 5750): Eighty-five year old
Nathaniel “Nate” Weinstock who “played tackle at Western Maryland College in
the 1920’s” and who was good enough to play for the East team in the East-West
Shrine All-Star Football Game passed away today.
1992: Ron Castan and Briean Keon-Cohen represented Eddie Mabo
before the High Court in Australia which ruled in the claimant’s favor thus
establishing the “concept of native title.”
1995(5th of Sivan, 5755): Erev Shavuot
1995(5th of Sivan, 5755): Ninety-seven-year-old Julia
Adler Foshko, the widow of artists Joseph Foshko and “the last surviving member
of a generation of Adlers who began their theatrical careers on stage with
their parents in the Yiddish theater, died today at Englewood Hospital in
Englewood.”
1995(5th of Sivan, 5755): Seventy-two-year-old “Arthur
K. Shapiro, a psychiatrist whose work at Mount Sinai Medical School advanced
the knowledge and treatment of Tourette's Syndrome” passed away today. (As
reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1996:
"Theme from Mission: Impossible” the theme tune
of the TV series Mission: Impossible The theme which was written and composed
by Lalo Schifrin was released on CD and vinyl today.
1996: New York native and University of Michigan trained attorney Rosemary Shankman
Pooler began serving as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Second District today.
2000: “Today the Four Mothers” led Ms. Ben Dor who had opposed
Israel’s fighting in Lebanon, met with Prime Minister Ehud
Barak, who last week completed the unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon that they
had pushed for.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag.
2001: Mel Brook's won a record 12 Tony Awards for the musical
comedy "The Producers."
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Charles B. Strozier and the recently released paperback editions of Ravelstein
by Saul Bellow,
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the
Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by
Victor Klemperer, The Human Stain by Philip Roth and Bee Season by Myla Goldberg.
2001(12th of Sivan, 5761): Twenty-five
year old Jan Bloom from Ramat Gan succumbed to the wounds she sustained when a
suicide bomber exploded a bomb two days earlier at the Dolphinarim.
2001(12 of Sivan, 5761): Seventy-seven-year-old
“Harry Zohn, an educator, writer and translator of important works of German
literature” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/us/harry-zohn-brandeis-professor-77.html
2001: Yitzhak Vaknin began another term as Deputy
Minister of Labor and Social Welfare.
2002(23rd of Sivan, 5762): Eighty-nine-year-old businessman Lew
Wasserman who was Chairman and CEO of MCA from 1946 until 1995 passed away
today.
2002: Ariel Sharon completes his term as Interior
Minister.
2002: Eli
Yishai begins his term as Minister of Internal Affairs.
2002: David Azulai becomes Deputy Minister of
Internal Affairs.
2003: Riding on the shoulders of ecstatic
supporters, Ahmed Jubarah, a Palestinian released by Israel today after serving
28 years for a deadly 1975 bombing in Jerusalem as an act of goodwill on the
part of the Israelis on the eve of peace talks, proclaimed himself a man of
peace
2004: Today, Neil “Sedaka will bare his Yiddish
soul at Carnegie Hall by singing the kind of songs he may have heard at his bar
mitzvah party at Rosoff's in Times Square” No Jewish rock star has exposed his
roots so explicitly with warhorses like ''My Yiddishe Mamme,'' ''Shein Vi Di
L'Vone'' (''Pretty As the Moon'') and ''Mein Shtetele Belz'' (''My Village of
Belz''). (As reported by Joseph Berger)
2005: The funeral of Israel Epstein, which was
attended by numerous Chinese dignitaries, took place this morning at the
Babaoshan Cemetery for Revolutionaries, in Shijingshan District, Beijing
2005(25th of Iyar, 5765): Leon Askin passed away today in Vienna at
the age of 97. Born in 1907 as Leo
Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, Askin already wanted to be an actor
as a child. His dream came true, and in the 1930s he worked as a cabaret artist
and director at the "ABC Theatre" in Vienna: in this position he also
helped the career of the writer Jura Soyfer get off the ground in 1935.
Persecuted by the Nazis, Askin escaped to the United States via France,
arriving in New York in 1940 with no money and less than a basic knowledge of
English. When the U.S. entered the Second World War Askin joined the U.S. Army.
While serving in the military he learned that his parents had been killed at
Treblinka extermination camp. After the war, Askin went to Hollywood,
invariably portraying foreign characters who speak English with a strong
accent. He gained wide popularity by appearing as Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the
sitcom Hogan's Heroes in the late 1960s.As opposed to other exiled Austrians,
Askin never refused to work again in his home country. In 1994 he permanently
took up residence in Vienna, where he remained active until his death in
cabaret, as well as the Volksoper and Festwochen. He was awarded Vienna's Gold
Medal of Honor.
2005: Release date for “Lords of Dogtown”
co-starring Emile Hirsh
2005: In “Ghosts from the Ghetto” published today
Sarah Ozacky-Lazar reviews Return to the Warsaw Ghetto by Marian Apfelbaum.
http://www.haaretz.com/general/ghosts-from-the-ghetto-1.160343
2005: Irish editor David Marcus, author of Oughtobiography
– Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew “was awarded an honorary Degree
of Doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, University
College, Cork”
2006(7th of Sivan, 5766): Second Day of Shavuot
2006: A group of neo-Nazis assaulted Croatia's Chief Rabbi Eliezer
Aloni on a Zagreb street in front of his synagogue on Shabbat.
2007: In London, the ZF presents Portraits of Israel “a
photographic journey through the history of Israel as seen through the lens of
Rudi Weissenstein. He dedicated his life
to documenting Israel’s growth from 1936 until his death in 1992. He was the official photographer at the
signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1948.
2007: The Sunday New York
Times book section features reviews of two tomes about Jewish
comedians, It’s Good to be the King:
The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks by James Parish and Rickles’ Book
by Don Rickles with David Ritz; The Big Question by Jewish game show
host Chuck Barris, Summer Reading by Hilma Wolitzer, A Day at the
Beach by Helen Schulman, From A Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter With the
American City by
Nathan Glazer, The Ministry
of Special Cases by Nathan
Englander, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by
Jonathan Eig and Jewish author Joseph Finder’s review of April in
Paris by Michael Wallner.
2007: The Sunday Washington
Post book section features a review of The Gravediggers Daughter, a
novel about a Jewish immigrant who struggles to blot out her past, by Joyce
Carol Oates, who discovered late in
life her own family's Jewish history. Her grandmother, who immigrated to the
United States in the 1890s, kept her religion hidden for fear of persecution
2007:
In “Lower East Side Is Under a Groove,” published today the New York Times reports on the role
played by Sion Misrahi, the son of Jewish immigrant from Greece, in the
rejuvenation of New York’s Lower East Side.
2008:
In Cedar Rapids, at Temple Judah, funeral services are held for Abbott Lipsky
followed by the internment at Eben Israel Cemetery. Those who knew Abbott B.
Lipsky remembered him t as the kind of person you wanted to befriend. Lipsky,
well-known in Cedar Rapids for his work in the community, was described as a
role model who had a wry sense of humor and a keen and inquiring mind. Lipsky
passed away on Wednesday, May 28 at the age of 94. Lipsky's roles in the
community included serving as the first chairman of the Cedar Rapids Civil
Rights Commission, and founding the Citizen's Committee for the Cedar Rapids
Public Schools and the Downtown Cedar Rapids Association. He moved to Cedar
Rapids in 1945 to join his wife's family business, Smulekoff's Furniture Co.,
where he has served in management, later rising to president.
2008:
As the race of Grand Rabbi of France heats up with weeks of sniping from both
sides, the two main Jewish communal organizations in France — the CRIF and the
Unified Jewish Social Fund, or FSJU — issued an unusual joint statement urging
both sides to calm down
2008:
the Ville-Marie council unanimously voted to demolish the building that had
been home to Bens De Luxe Delicatessen on condition that the developer must
commemorate the deli in the new building.
2008:
“Waiting for the Barbarians” an opera in two acts composed by Philip Glass, was
performed today at the Barbican Centre in London.
2008:
A recording of Philip Glass’ “Waiting for the Barbarians” “was released today
on the Orange Mountain Music Label.”
2009:
The Brooklyn International Film Festival, which will feature two Israeli
movies, hosts a Kick-Off Party at Delancy restaurant.
2010:
A series of programs Jewish including “Identity through Music” in which
percussionists and composer David Freeman demonstrates how contemporary
musicians incorporate and reinterpret traditional Jewish texts and “A One-Pot
Seminar” in which Gabe Goldstein, Associate Director for Exhibitions and
Programs at the Yeshiva University Museum discusses what we can learn about an
individual's identity and community from a cholent pot are scheduled to be
presented at Yeshiva University Museum as part of Limmud NY
2010:
Danny Valencia “went 1 for 3” in his “Major League debut with the Minnesota
Twins” today.
2010(21st
of Sivan, 5770): Steve Averbach, the former Monmouth County resident who was
paralyzed in an attempt to thwart a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in 2003, died
suddenly today at his home in Tel Aviv
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary.aspx?n=steven-averbach&pid=143584151#fbLoggedOut
http://www.njjewishnews.com/article/1442/steve-averbach-hero-of-2003-attack-dies-at-44
2011(1st
of Sivan, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2011(1st
of Sivan, 5771): One hundred one year
old “Harry Bernstein, whose painfully eloquent memoir about growing up Jewish
and poor in a northern English mill town earned him belated literary fame on
its publication in 2007, when he was 96” passed away today. (As reported by
William Grimes)
2011(1st
of Sivan, 5771): Eighty-nine-year-old Israeli businessman Sammy Ofer passed
away this morning in Tel Aviv (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2011(1st
of Sivan, 5771): Fifty-nine-year-old pop music icon Andrew Gold passed away
today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2011(1st
of Sivan, 5771): Gus Tyler, who had been associated with the Forwards since
1932 passed away today.
http://forward.com/articles/138467/labor-leader-forward-writer-gus-tyler/
2011:
The final Musical Shabbat of the year is scheduled to take place at Temple
Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA. This marks
the fourth year that the community has participated in this most popular way of
experiencing the Joy of Shabbat.
2011:
In the midst of a swirling controversy, Tony Kushner accepted an honorary
doctorate today during the graduation ceremonies at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice.
2011:
The Historic 6th & I Synagogue plans on meeting a variety of
spiritual needs as it hosts two Shabbat services – the laid back, lay led 6th
Street Minyan and Friday Night Shabbat Services with MesorahDC followed by a
traditional Shabbat dinner.
2011:
Labapalooza is scheduled to present “Planet Egg” by Zvi Saharis, an Israeli who
studied directing at the University of Haifa, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in
Brooklyn, NY.
2012: JCCNV is scheduled to sponsor the Israel
Street Festival in Fairfax, VA
2012:
Sally Priesand, Sandy Eisenbeg Sasso, Amy Eilberg, and Sara Hurwitz met again,
this time at Monmouth Reform Temple at a celebration honoring the four first
women rabbis to be ordained in their respective denominations, and the 40th
anniversary of Sally Priesand's ordination as the first Reform female rabbi.
2012:
Temple Emanuel in Kensington, MD is scheduled to host “Tango Comes to the Land
of Milk & Honey, Kolot Halev’s annual concert with Hazzan Ayelet
Piatigorsky and featuring Emmanuel Trifilio on the original tango folk
instrument, the bandoneón performing selections that range from Sephardic
ballads to Yiddish songs to Moroccan and Mexican melodies.
2012:
The National Museum of American Jewish Military is scheduled to host “Family
Stories: Sons, Fathers and Zaydes,” an
afternoon long event that will enable participants “to create a lasting tribute
to that special male relative or friend through a skit, a scrapbook, a video, a
song and dance routine, or whatever the imagination conjures.”
2012:
“The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisan Avant-Garde,” an exhibit
of works collect by Gertrude, Leo, Michael and Sarah Stein is scheduled to come
an end at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2012:
“Celebrate Israel,” complete with an 8 o’clock fun run through Central Park and
a five hour parade is scheduled to take place today in the Big Apple.
2012:
Early this morning, IAF jets attacked three weapons manufacturing facilities in
the central Gaza Strip and two tunnels that the Israel Defense Forces say are
used to commit terrorist acts against Israeli military patrols in the area.
2013:
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is scheduled to address the American Jewish
Committee’s Global Forum today.
2013:
Marlene Trestman, the author of a book on Bessie Margolin, was honored at this
evening Supreme Court’s Historical Society Gala Dinner “where she was also
presented with a piece of marble from the Supreme Court edifice.” (As reported
by Crescent City Jewish News)
2013:
The seating capacity of Teddy Stadium, an athletic venue in the Malha
neighborhood of Jerusalem named for Teddy Kollek, the city’s greatest mayor,
was increased to 31,733 when the “south side stand was completed” today.
2013:
Just a month before the 150th anniversary of the Battle of
Gettysburg, The American Jewish Historical Society and Yeshiva University
Museum are scheduled to present “Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: Jews and the
Battle of Gettysburg.”
2013:
Syria will not get S-300 missiles from Russia until 2014, Defense Minister
Moshe Ya’alon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today.
2013:
Chief Rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger received letters today threatening
violence if the Women of the Wall activist group is not allowed to pray
according to its practices at the Western Wall in its upcoming prayer service.
2013(25th
of Sivan, 5773): Ninety-year-old Arnold Eidus who gave up a successful
advertising career to become a concert violinist passed away today. (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/business/arnold-eidus-90-adman-with-stradivarius-dies.html
2013(25th
of Sivan, 5773): Eighty-nine-year-old New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg
passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/2013/06/03/news-opinion/politics/new-jersey-sen-frank-lautenberg-dies-at-89
2014(5th
of Sivan, 5774): Erev Shavuot – Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is scheduled
to host Confirmation Services led by Alyssa Roach and Lincoln Ginsberg.
2014(5th
of Sivan, 5774): Eighty-four-year-old New York Republican leader Roy Goodman
passed away today. (As reported by Richard Perez-Pena)
2014:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host
“Shavuot After Dark” where members will lead an interactive session, “Exploring
Jewish Washington: Another Kind of Jewish Geography.”
2014:
A group of Palestinians clashed this morning with security forces and threw
rocks at Israeli cars near the Tapuah Junction resulting in at least 2 Israeli
civilians being injured by their rocks.
2014:
In Jerusalem, the First Station Complex will feature street theatre, a puppet
show and “kid’s activities” as part of the Shavuot celebration
2014:
Midburn Israel, “an experiment in community, art, self-expression and
self-reliance” is scheduled to start in Ramat Hanegev.
2014:
Israel's Teva is being sued by the city of Chicago together with other major
pharmaceutical manufacturers for excessively promoting painkillers, effectively
getting people hooked and costing the city untold amounts of money, Bloomberg
reported today. (As reported by Ynetnews)
2015:
Gilad Hekselman and his trio are scheduled to appear at Smalls where they play
“Gilad's original music as well as some jazz standards and Israeli songs.”
2015:
“The first anniversary of the deaths of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal
Yifrach, the Israeli teenagers kidnapped and killed by Palestinian terrorists
last summer, was marked today with a Unity Day.”
2015:
“When a School Board Victimizes Kids” published today described the conflict
surrounding education in East Rampo, the school district in Rockland County.
2015:
“The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” opened at Theatre J in Washington, DC
2015:
As the Red Alert siren was sounded in places that included the Ashkelon and
Netivot areas, two rockets from Gaza exploded in the Sdot Negev region. There
were no physical injuries or damages.
2016:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host its final Musical
Shabbat of the year featuring Shir Yehudah..
2016:
As part of the Israel Film Center Festival the JCC Manhattan is scheduled to
host a Kabballat Shabbat Concert featuring Israeli Idan Raichel.
2016:
The Cedar Rapids Gazette published “Morley Raised Writing to an Art Form.”
2017(9th
of Sivan, 5777): Parashat Naso
2017(9th
of Sivan, 5777): Ninety-eight-year-old political activist Sara Ehrman passed
away today. (As reported by Amy Chozick)
2017:
Today, “Israeli security forces stood guard during a protest of Ultra Orthodox
Jews protesting against businesses that operate on Saturdays and recruitment of
the ultra-Orthodox to the army, outside the Mea Shearim neighborhood in
Jerusalem.” (As reported by Sue Surkes)
2017: In Jerusalem, The Israel Festival is
scheduled to host performances by “flamenco dancer Israel Galván” and the
“intensive pop performance of “Crazy Girls Save the World,” from the Japanese
Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker.”
2017:
Twenty-seven year old right-hander Brad Goldberg “faced five batters in
one-third of an inning, allowing four runs on a walk and three hits, including
a solo home run to Tigers outfielder Justin Upton” “when he made his Major
League Baseball debut for the Chicago White Sox” today. (As reported by Ed
Carroll)
2018:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by
Christopher Bonanos, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon,
Robin by Dave Itzkoff and Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice
on Life, Love, Money and Other Burning Questions From a Nation Obsessed by
Jessica Weisberg
2018:
“Famed Israeli singer Shiri Maimon is scheduled to perform in Times Square this
evening as of an event celebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary.
2018:
The Breman Museum in Atlanta is scheduled to host “The Way We Were: A Journey
Into the Music of Alan and Marilyn Bergman.”
2018:
“The Yemenite Conference: Shared Cultural Values of Jews & Muslims in
Yemen” is scheduled to begin tonight at The Center for Jewish History
2018:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a musical
celebration marking Israeli’s 70th anniversary at Tysons Corner
Center in Virginia.
2018:
“Hero Among Us,” a film funded by The Tahler Holocaust Memorial Fund,
“providing an account of Army combat medic Sgt. John Gualtier’s liberation of
the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp in Austria” is scheduled to be shown
in Iowa City
2019:
The Center For Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical American
Jewish Historical Society are scheduled present “Out of the Box” during which
Rachel Miller, the Director of Archive and Library Services at the Center for
Jewish History talks about “tens of thousands of boxes in the archival
collections filled with photographs, journal, letters, documents” and untold
stories such as the one labeled El Toreo de la Torah or the Bullfighter from
Brooklyn that tells the tale of Brooklyn born Sydney Franklin, “the world’s
first Jewish matador.
2019:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a discussion of how
Jewish refugees coped “in China after escaping persecution under the Seleucid
Empire, under the Romanov’s, and under the notorious Nazi Regime” preceded by a
dinner of “Chinese Food”
2019:
Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to present “American Hit Parade – Jewish Tonys”
curated by Scott Siegel during the an explanation may be offered for the fact
that “more than 60 percent of all Tonys ever awarded for musical production
have gone to Jewish composers, lyricists and librettists” including Richard
Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Jerry Herman, Harvey Fierstein and
so many more.
2020:
Dr. Bernice Lerner, in conversation with Dr. Michael Zank, director of the Elie
Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University, is scheduled to discuss
her new book, All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and
the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
2020:
Filmmaker Laura Bialis (“Rock in the Red Zone”) is scheduled to join producer
Roberta Grossman (“Above and Beyond”), writer Sophie Sartain and executive
producer Nancy Spielberg (“Who Will Write Our History”) to give Boston a
special behind-the-scenes look at their new film, “Vishniac.”
2020:
Live on Zoom YIVO is scheduled to present “Dybbuks, Golems, S. An-ski, and
Jewish Legends in Times of Fear.”
2020:
Jewish Family and Children’s Services are scheduled to present a workshop on
spiritual fitness and moving forward in tough times, with chaplain Bruce
Feldstein and therapist Mimi Ezray.
2021: The Israel Festival which is celebrating its
60th anniversary is scheduled to begin today.
2021:
COJECO and the ASF Young Leaders are scheduled to present “The Jews of the
Caucasus: The Multifaceted History of Kavkazi and Georgian Jews.”
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7616177786464/WN_EMc2h5Y7RSOJoUeacVm1Ag
2021:
JWA and Central Synagogue are scheduled to present a lecture on “Doña Gracia
Nasi, with Dr. Miriam Bodian.”
2021:
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is scheduled to host “Crucial
Conversations: Confronting Antisemitism.”
2021:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “CEO Joanne Greenaway,
a graduate of the Susi Bradfield & Ma’ayan programmes, who will be starting
to teach a new course exploring the complexities and intricacies of the
commandment to honour one’s parents and how they apply in the 21st Century.”
Antisemitism
in the United States
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, as a sign of the abatement of the Pandemic, Temple
Judea offers is scheduled to hot in person an online morning services with
Rabbi Yaron.
2021:
Based on reports published yesterday, Israelis are awakening to political word
with a new President-elect ---- Isaac Herzog, the son of Israel’s 6th
President and the grandson of Israel’s first chief rabbi. (As reported by Raoul
Wootliff)
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host Rabbi Shippel lecturing on the parsha
of the week.
2022:
Docaviv – the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival is the largest
film festival in the city of Tel Aviv is scheduled to continue tonight at the
Tel Aviv Cinematheque.
2022:Fiftieth
Anniversary of the ordination of Rabb Sally Priesand. For more see https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/03/1972/sally-priesand
2023:
The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to present “Love Storis in Two Pianos”
featuring the piano duo of Tami Kanazawa and Yuval Admony.
2023:
Israel braces for more rolling blackouts and wind whipped forest fires as the
country deals with a heat wave where temperatures have already exceeded 100
degrees Fahrenheit.
2023(14th
of Sivan, 5783): Parashat Naso;
2024:
In another
lecture in the online lecture series "The Legend of the Writers: Agnon and
Kafka",Rabbi Yosef Sacks, Head of Research at Agnon House is scheduled to
discuss the significance of the fire that broke out at Agnon’s house in Bad
Hamborg, Germany one hundred years ago in which much of his library and two
manuscripts were destroyed and the untimely death of Franz Kafka the day before
the fire.
2024:
The 26th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
host a screening of “The Blond Boy from the Casbah.”
2024:
One-hundredth anniversary of the death of Jewish author Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and Metamorphosis, who passed
away at the age of 40.
https://www.kafka-online.info/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Kafka
2024:
“A Fare-Well Celebration of the Music of Frank London, a founder of the
Klezmatics and leader in the revival of Yiddish music. is scheduled to take
place at Roulette in Brooklyn
2024:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host pop-up class on “Is Pluaralism Really
A Jewish Value?”
2024:
As June 3rd begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 241 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.)
