This Day, March 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 1
286: Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian to the rank of Caesar. Diocletian was determined to restore greatness and stability to the Roman Empire. He was far more concerned about the Christians whom he saw “as the sole cause of the dissolution of the Empire, on account of their persistent struggle against the Roman state religion and their zeal for conversion” than he was about the Jews. When he attempted to unify the empire by ordering all of those under his reign to accept his divinity and “bring sacrifices to his cult,” Diocletian exempted the Jews. The only negative note of import surrounding Diocletian and his Jewish subjects had to do with accusation that they had mocked him because of his early origins as a swineherd. Judah III, the Patriarch, actually had to appear before the Emperor while he was in Tiberias to answer the charge. Judah assured him that while some may of spoken disrespectfully of Diocletian the swineherd nobody had uttered any words of criticism against Diocletian, the emperor. The explanation assuaged Diocletian but it has been used an example of the dangers of speaking L’shon Hara.
293: Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian
appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesares, thus beginning the
Tetrarchy. This move on the part of
Diocletian was part of an attempt to ensure a smooth transition of power after
Diocletian resigned as Emperor. The plan
would fail and would result in 19 years of turmoil that would end only when
Constantine took the throne. For the Jews, this would mean an end to great
Yeshiva at Tiberias. Those who could
would flee to Caesarea where they would a haven at the yeshiva begun by Abbahu.
317: Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman
Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made
Caesares. Lucinius and Crispus would be killed, the latter by his father
Emperor Constantine I. Constantine II
would continue the anti-Jewish policies of his father. Among other things, he decreed that any
Christians who converted to Judaism would forfeit their property to the state.
1105: Birthdate of Alfonso VII who in 1130,
started a school in Toledo which begins to spread Hebrew and Arabic learning as
well as ancient Greek knowledge through Western Europe
1274: Gregory X issued Turbato Code, a Papal
Bull that forbade Christians from “embracing Judaism.”
1349 (Adar 10): Riots broke out in Worms
(Germany). Many Jews fled to Heidelberg.
Others in desperation set fire to their homes or were murdered. An
estimated 420 people died that day. Their property was seized by the town.
1565: Portuguese settlers founded the city of
Rio de Janeiro. For the first two centuries of its existence, Jewish life in
the city was hindered by the reality of the Portuguese laws against Judaism and
the Inquisition. “New Christians” played
an active role in the city’s commercial and social life but records show that
at least 300 of these New Christians were found guilty by the Inquisition of
secretly practicing Judaism. After
Brazil gained its independence in 1822 and adopted a constitution in 1824 that
allowed for religious toleration, more Jews began arriving in the city and
played a more active role in its growth and prosperity. Today, Rio has the second largest Jewish
community in Brazil.
1655: The Magistrate of
New Amsterdam wrote a ruling making an attempt to expel the Jews.
It read, in part,
"Resolved that the Jews, who came last year from the West Indies and now
from the Fatherland, must prepare to depart forthwith." (“The Patroons of
the West India Company decided, however, that the Jews owned most of the stock in
that organization they would have to be left alone.”
1655: The Sheriff of
New Amsterdam as plaintiff filed suit against the defendant Abram de la Sina, a
Jew, for the crime of keeping his store open during the hour the church gave a
sermon.
1670: “A solemn proclamation was made in all
public places that ‘for the glory of God’ all Jews should, on penalty of
imprisonment and death, leave Vienna and Upper and Lower Austria before Corpus
Christi Day, never to return. Hirz Koma and a physician named Leo Winkler,
“made a last attempt to propitiate the emperor by offering him 100,000 florins
and, in addition, 10,000 florins a year.”
1692: “In the Parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields” apothecary John Tovey and his wife gave birth to De
Blossiers Tovey, the “principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford” who devoted much of
his to studying the history of the Jews of medieval England and wrote Anglia Judaica (the History and
Antiquities of the Jews in England.)
1728(2nd of Nisan, 5488): Joseph
Abraham Azuby, the Amsterdam born son of Lea Azuby and Chazan Abraham Azuby and
husband of Rachel David Azuby and Esperanca David Azuby passed away today in
the Netherlands.
1761(25th of Adar I, 5521): Abraham
Gershon of Kitov, also known as Rabbi Gershon of Brody, the Polish born brother-in-law
of the Baal Shem Tov and leader of the Jewish community in Brody, who “traveled
to Jerusalem, making him one of the first Hasidim to establish a presence in
the Holy Land
where he embraced the Rashash, together
with those who were students of Kabbalah” passed away today in Jerusalem after
which he was buried on the Mount of Olives which was also the burial site of
his second wife Bluma.
1761: In Philadelphia, PA, Tabitha Mears and
Mathias Bush gave birth to “Catherine” Bush, the wife of Myers S. Solomon whom
she married in 1778 and the mother of Joseph, Samuel Arabella, Mattathias,
Alexander, Sarah and Henry Solomon.
1769: In Buchau, German, Rebekka and Joseph
Einstein gave birth to David Einstein, the husband of Sara Kan and the father
of Lena, Abraham, Baruch, Joseph and Eva Einstein.
1779(13th of Adar, 5539): Ta’anit
Esther; erev Purim
1781: James Madison. the author of the First
Amendment which guaranteed separation of church and who as president appoint a
Jew to a diplomatic post, beganhis service as a delegate from Virginia to the
Congress of Confederation which was the national government of the United
States.
1790(15th of Adar, 5550): Shushan
Purim
1790: The Pennsylvania Packet featured an
advertisement offering the skills of Abraham Cohen as Hebrew tutor
1792: Francis II, who relied on Bernhard
Eskeles for “financial advice” became King of Hungary and Croatia.
1798(13th of Adar, 5558): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim
1799: Eppingen, Germany natives Babetter Furth
and Maier Heinsheimer gave birth to Jeanette Heinsheimer, the wife of Model
Wertheimer.
1800(4th of Adar 5560): Parashat
Terumah
1800: English born Esther Cohen and German born
Michael Hart gave birth to Rachel Hart.
1801: In Aldgate, London, Aaron Jacob Cantor,
the son of Simeon Cantor and his was Catherine Cantor gave birth to Abraham
Jacob Cantor.
1803: In London, Dinah Myers and Rabbi Henry
Henoch Myers gave birth to Rabbi Moses Henry Myers, the husband of Sarah
Abrahams whom he married at the Hambro Synagogue in 1826 and father of Kate, Phoebe, Miriam, Matilda,
Isaac, Dinah and Victor Myers.
1803: Birthdate of Editor Salomon Frensdorff
1803: Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
Under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance there was not to be any religious
qualification for states formed in the region including Ohio. The first record
of Jewish settlement in Ohio relates to the city of Cincinnati. By 1824, there were enough Jews living in the
“Queen City,” that the Jews formed a congregation called the Sons of
Israel. The twenty-four members of the
congregation were not able to raise enough funds for a building until
1836. Max Lilienthal and Isaac Mayer
were the first two rabbis in the state.
By the time of the Civil War, the Jewish population was large enough
that it sent almost 1,200 of its sons to fight in the Union cause.
1806(11th of Adar, 5566): Chaim
Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia passed away. Born in Jerusalem in 1724, he was the
great-great grandson of Abraham Azulai who was a noted student of the Talmud
and Kabbalah, community leader and prolific author.
http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/chida.htm
1809(13th of Adar, 5569): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim are observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Thomas Jefferson.
1810: Georgetown College was
chartered in Washington, D.C., making it the first Roman Catholic institution
of higher learning established in the United States. Today Georgetown has approximately 1,600
Jewish students out of a student boy of 13,000 students. The school offers approximately 35 Jewish
Studies Courses.
1810: John Jonas, the son of Jacob Jonas and
Sarah Reuben was circumcised today in the UK.
1811: In Dresden, German, Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau gave birth to Wolf Landau, the husband of Fanny Landau, the father
of David and Emilie Landau and the grandson of Rabbi David Landau who “in 1854,
when Zacharias Frankel became director of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau,
was unanimously elected as his successor in the Dresden chief rabbinate.”
1816(1st of Adar, 5576): Rosh
Chodesh Adar observe on the same that “The Gorkha War between the United
Kingdom and Nepal is ended after more than a year by the ratification of the
Treaty of Sugauli, with Nepal ceding about one-third of its territory to
British Indian control,”
1819: Jamaica native Rosetta Micholls and
Edward Emanuel Micholls gave birth to Emma Micholls he wife of Salomon Henry
Godefron.
1822: In Brno, Joshua Philipp Feibelman Gomperz
and Henriette Auspitz gave birth to Max von Gomperz the sugar merchant who was
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Creditanstalt.”
1823: In New York, Solomon Henry Jackson
published “The Jew,” an anti-missionary journal. This is thought to be the
first Jewish publication to be published in the United States. Jackson is also
known for translating and publishing the first Sephardic Siddur in America. He
published an English-Hebrew version in 1826.
1827: In Charleston, SC, Hartwig and Deborah
Marks Cohen gave birth to Sarah Cohen who became Sarah Cohen Wolf when she
married Sailing Cohen.
1827: In Karlsruhe, Germany, Fanny and David
Ellstaetter gave birth to Mortiz Ellstaetter whose quarter of a century as
Minister of Finance made him “the first and only Jew since the days of Joseph
Suss Oppenheimer to be a Cabinet Minister in Germany
1828(15th of Adar, 5588): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
John Quincy Adams.
1837: Birthdate of Egyptologist Georg Moritz
Ebers, the Berlin native who “discovered the Ebers Papyrus at Luxor” which
dates from 1550 BCE.
1841: Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse gave
birth to Deborah Leonore Mosse who became Leonore Cohn When she married Emil
Cohn
1843: David Belasco married Mary Davis at Bevis
Marks in London.
1843: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of
New York passed a resolution prohibiting the performing of ceremonies at
funerals of persons intermarried with Christians.
1843: Isaac Michael Emanuel married Jane Jacobs
today at the Great Synagogue.
1847(13th of Adar, 5607): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim
1847: in Liberty, Mississippi, Henrietta Cahn
and Samuel Bernheimer gave birth to Georgia Military institute Cadet Marcus
Bernheimer, the husband of Ella Heyman, the president of the United Hebrew
Relief Association and vice president of the Merchants’ Exchange in St. Louis,
MO.
1848: In Shirwint, Russia Hirsch Tannenbaum and
his wife gave birth to Abner Tannenbaum who came to New York in 1887 and
“opened a small candy and cigar store” and then starting in 1889 began writing
for Jewish publications including Der
Morgenstern as well as translating “all the work of Jules Verne into
Yiddish.”
1848: Birthdate of San Francisco native Abraham
B. Arnold, the graduate of Washington University School of Medicine who was
granted a “certificate to practice medicine and surgery in” California at
meeting of the Board of Examiners on December 22, 1890.
1851: Noting the appearance of Jews in Utah,
Lorenzo Brown wrote in his diary today that he had seen “some Hungarian Jews
living in the ward--emigrants bound for the [California] mines...forced to
leave their native land because of the revolution.”
1852: The New York Times reported that a
funding raising ball has raised $1,034 which will be donated to "The
Hebrew Hospital" in New York City.
1854: In Dresden, on his 43rd
birthday, Rabbi Wolf Zeev Landau, the Dresden born son of Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau and his wife Fanny Landau gave birth to Emilie Landau in the same
year that Woolf Landau became the Chief Rabbi of Dresden.
1855: In Hungary, Sándor Salamon Rockenstein
and Nina Genendel Rockenstein gave birth to Jozefa Bettelheim, the wife of Dr.
József Bettelheim and ex-wife of Sándor Forgo.
1857: The Hebrew Indigent Sick and Burial
Society was organized today.
1858: The New York Times reported that
in February of this year, Lord John Russell's bill that would modify the oath
of office so that Jews could serve in Parliament had been "debated and
read for a second time" in the House of Commons. [This was in the days
before the transatlantic cable. Gaps
between events and published reports are responsible for some of the
inconsistencies in providing specific dates for events]
1858: Birthdate of German born philosopher and
sociologist Georg Simmel. Simmel’s family was Jewish, but when his father died,
Simmel’s Catholic guardian converted him to the Church of Rome.
1860: “Gang of Rogues Started on a Traveling
Tour,” published today, reported that “Five Polish and Prussian Jews, who have
long been known to the police authorities of” New York City “as expert
pickpockets and daring burglars… started on a Western traveling tour” yesterday
evening. Information of their departure
was given by two members of the gang, who have lately sundered relationship
with their old associates.” According to these two, “the gang has for a long time
gone by the name of the ‘Order of Vatabeds,’ a name till now kept private among
the members.” Since it was impossible for the police to detain them in New
York, “telegrams were sent to Albany, Buffalo and Dunkirk, stating the fact of
their departure, and putting the public and Police on guard against their
arrival. The names of the traveling troupe are Samuel Levy, alias "Old
Levy"; Morris M. Goldstein, alias Goldever; L. Truebart; Michael Roberts,
alias "Big Roberts," and Henry Wcyman. Most of them have served terms
in foreign state prisons.”
1860: A
column entitled London Town Talk published today provides a gossipy and negative view of William Ward’s
elevation from Baron of Ward to Earl of Dudley. His elevation was attributed
not to his virtue but to his wealth. According to the unnamed author the role
of money should come as no surprise since it was “Baron Rothschild’s millions”
that made Lord John Russell an advocate of the bill to remove “Jewish disabilities”
when it came to taking the oath to serve in Parliament.
1861: The first train of the Florida Railroad
arrived in Cedar Key providing the first link between Florida’s Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico’s ports. The railroad was
the creation of David Levy Yulee, the first Jew to be elected to the United
States Senate. Unfortunately for Yulee, the business success was short-lived
due to the Civil War which began a month later.
Yulee supported secession and served in the Confederate Congress so you
might say he was the architect of his own doom.
1861: Birthdate of American author Henry
Harland. A lawyer by trade he began his literary career by using the pen name
Sidney Luska under which he wrote his first three novel’s As It Was Written,
Mrs. Peixada and The Yoke of the Torah which were known as his
“Jewish Trilogy.”
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16044a.htm
1861: The New York Times reported that The
Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig gave “a first rate” description of a “Jew”
named Mordecai who distinguished himself a few weeks” ago since by presenting
$10,000 to the Governor of South Carolina. The Whig stated that
“Mordecai who is a druggist, visited New-York, Philadelphia and Boston, just
before he did this act, and represented to his creditors that he was insolvent,
and settled with them by paying 50 cents on the dollar.” [By this time, South Carolina had seceded
from the Union, so the money was going to support the Rebel government.]
1863: Six days after she had passed away,
Franklin, Maria (nee Levy), the wife of Benjamin Woolfe Franklin and the mother
of Louisa Franklin was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1865: The Medal of Honor was issued to Private
Benjamin Levy for bravery displaced during fighting at Glendale, VA in 1862.
1866(14th of Adar, 5626): Purim
1866: The Purim Ball, the last of the three
great events of New York’s Winter Social Season was held this evening.
1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th state to join
the Union. The Jewish community in Nebraska pre-dates statehood. Services were
conducted in Omaha in the 1860’s. The oldest congregation in the state, Temple
Israel, was founded in 1871 along with a burial society. The town of Lancaster was renamed Lincoln at
this time and Lincoln became the state capital. Lincoln, Nebraska’s
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, also known as the South Street Temple was
Lincoln’s first Jewish congregation. The Temple was founded in 1884,
principally by German immigrants. The year 1884 must have been an auspicious
one for Cornhusker Jews, since that is the same year in which the first
synagogue building in the state was dedicated at Omaha. It was the home of Congregation Israel now
known as Temple Israel.
1870: J.K. Buchner published Di Yiddshe Zeitunge, the first Yiddish
weekly to be published in the United States. The language itself was more of a
German Yiddish than the eastern European variant of the patois. The politics were conservative rather than
socialist in direction.
1871: Birthdate of Baltimore native Bertha van
Leer.
1872(22nd of Adar II, 5632): Forty-four-year-old
Hannah Moses, the widow of Zvi Moes passed away today after which she was
buried at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1872: Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild, the German
born son of Caroline and David Aron Rothschild and his wife Stella Rothschild
gave birth to Albert Aron Rothschild.
1872: “In the Galitzian town of Lemberg, or
Lviv, then under Austrian administration, Nahum Niemirower, a Jewish trader and
his wife gave birth to Dr. Jacob Itzhak Neimirower, “a modern reform rabbi” who
served as the first Chief Rabbi of Romania as well as a member of the Romanian
Senate.
1873: Birthdate of German writer, editor and
translator Efraim Firish who dropped out of rabbinical school in Vienna and
went on to study art and literature at the University of Berlin.
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/17541
1874: The first day of the annual Purim
Reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York is scheduled to
begin at eleven o’clock this morning.
1874: Birthdate of General Sir Arthur Grenfell
Wauchope who was appointed High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for
Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1931” and whose firs four years in office were
described as “the heyday of Zionist history in Palestine” with an increase in
immigration, land holdings and “Jewish business and commerce.”
1875: It was reported today that a Jewish
furniture dealer named Beyfus has brought suit against a weekly London
newspaper claiming that he and his son have been defamed as money-lenders by
the publication.
1876: In Savannah, GA, the cornerstone is laid
for the new home of Mikveh Israel. The
new structure was required because the congregation had outgrown the old
building.
1877: In Russia, Benjamin and Sarah Kail
Lazarus gave birth to Isaac B. Lazarus who owned an operated a newsstand in the
Arcade in the Powers Building in Rochester NY which offered its customers six
hundred different periodicals.
1877: The Purim Association is sponsoring a
Purim calico masked reception at Delmonico’s in New York City. The association had originally planned on
sponsoring a fancy dress ball but changed its plans because of the current
economic problems.
1878: It was reported that George H. Hepworth
is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Our American Homes” at a meeting of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at Lyric Hall later this week.
1879: Birthdate of Edward Ganz the Vilna born
American “coal and fuel dealer who was the co-owner of Harris and Gans in
Norwalk, CT where he was a city councilman and an active Zionist.
1879: In a modern case that is harkens back to
the fifth commandment, in the Court of General Sessions, Judge Gildersleeve
heard charges from seventy-year-old Fanny Salomon that she had been abandoned
and refused support by her three sons – Alfred, Leopold and Felix. The sons responded by contending that their
mother was financially secure and was merely too parsimonious to pay for her
own upkeep.
1880: It was reported today that Lee &
Shepard is about to published “The Exodus of the Children of Israel” by Francis
Underwood and Brugsch Bey that uses the latter’s research to provide that the
Red Sea has been mistaken for the Sea of Reeds in the Exodus narrative.
1880: It was reported today that Ernest Renan,
the French scholar who is an expert on ancient eastern civilizations and
Semitic languages is scheduled to deliver a series of lectures in London. Renan’s knowledge of Hebrew is such that he
was the chair of Hebrew at the College de France, a position from which he was
ousted because he challenged the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.[Renan
would eventually write a three volume history of Israel.]
1881(30th of Adar I, 5641): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1881: Ida (Kuhn) Cohen and Eduard Cohen gave
birth to Sophie Cohen
1881: Judith Salzedo Peixotto, the first Jewish
school principal in the history of New York City and the daughter of the
Amsterdam-born physician Dr. Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto and New York–born
Rachel (Seixas) Peixotto who was the wife David Hays with she had eight
children - “Sarah Rosalie (b. 1852),
Daniel Peixotto (b. 1854), Rebecca Touro (b. 1855), Benjamin Franklin (b.
1857), George Davis (b. 1859), Rachel Peixotto (b. 1861), David Solis, Jr. (b.
1863), and Cora Florence (b. 1870). Judith Peixotto Hays –“passed away today
after which she was buried at the Shearith Israel Cypress Hills Street Cemetery
in Queens, New York.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peixotto-judith
1881: Twenty-three citizens of Salt Lake City
met to form B’nai Israel. Under the direction of President Henry Siegel $2,600
was spent on a lot which would be the site of Utah’s first synagogue. (As
reported by Jack Goodman)
http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.html
1882: Birthdate of birthdate of Lwow native and
University of Lemberg trained doctor of jurisprudence Dr. Adolf Berger, the
author of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law and lecturer on Roman Law at
the University Berlin who “came to the United States in WW II, joined the Ecole
Libre es Hautes Etude as a Professor of Roman Law” and joined the faculty of
CCNY in 1922 where he served until his death ten years later. (Editor’s Note:
He is not to confused with New York College trained oral surgeon Adolph Berger,
the Hungarian born son of Theresa Goldberger and Ignatz Berger and author of
Principles and Techniques of Oral surgeon who was an assistant professor of
Oral Surgery at Columbia the oral surgeon for Beth Israel Hospital in New York
City,)
https://www.abaa.org/book/63120617
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/09/82043779.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776413
1883: In West Virginia, Bertrand Kahn, the
Atlanta, GA, born son of Matilda and Samuel Kahn and his wife Leonora Kahn gave
birth to Louis Isaac Kahn, the brother of Minette Hirsch.
1884: In New York City, Frederika Baum and Mark
E. Fohs gave birth to Columbia University oil geologist F. Julius Fohs, the
husband of Cora Bladauf Fohs who “early in his career made a detailed study of
Palestine’s natural resources,” a report of which “he submitted immediately
after World War I to the British Government and the World Zionist Organization
that led to the development of the present Dead Sea potash and chemical plants
in Israel.”
1885(14th of Adar, 5645): Purim
1885: Four days after he had passed away,
Morris Angel, the son of “Rachel and Daniel Angel” and the husband of Sarah
Angel with whom he had had six children was buried today at “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1886: First organized Arab attack on a Jewish
settlement in what would become Eretz Yisrael. The attack was waged
against Petak Tikvah, the first all Jewish village to be built in Palestine
during modern times. The early settlers had a difficult time of it facing
not only Arab marauders but malaria as well. The land on which the
village was built was purchased by English Jew named Hayyim Amzalak who had
moved to Palestine in 1830. Money for draining the malarial swamps in the
area was given by Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Much of the labor was
supplied by Russian Jewish immigrants.
1888: Rabbi Joseph Silverman begins serving as
spiritual leader for Temple Emanu-El replacing the legendary Gustav Gottheil.
Silverman is the first American born rabbi to serve a congregation in New York
City.
1889: Birthdate of Warsaw native Avro Tatlboym,
the actor and director who performed and/or staged plays in Russia, France,
Argentenia and the United States.
1889: In Baltimore, MD, “Jacob Levy and Bertha Arnold”
gave birth to Elsie Levy, who became Elsie Pfaelzer when she married Frank
Pfaelzer with whom she had four children – Maurice, Betty, Frank and Mildred –
while being active in several social improvement organizations in Philadelphia.
1890: In Krakow, Anna Ferber and Isador Berstein
gave birth to Theresa Ferber the Philadelphia educated American artist who
settled in Manhattan in 1912 and whose husband William Meyerowitz was a
well-known artist in his own right.
http://nml.cuny.edu/theresabernstein/
http://forward.com/articles/189491/why-theresa-bernstein-was-the-jewish-artist-of-the/
1891(21st of Adar I, 5651): Sixty-seven-year-old
Bernhard Sondheim passed away today in New York. Born in Hesse Homburg, he and his family
moved to Georgia when Sondheim was nine years old. Eventually he settled in New York where he
established a successful import business. He was a member of the 10th
Regiment of the state militia and served as Vice President of the Hebrew Mutual
Benefit Society, a position he held at the time of his death.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0A15F9345F10738DDDAA0894DB405B8185F0D3
1891: With less than two months until the start
of Passover, The Passover Relief Association, which provides matzoth and items
to New York’s less fortunate Jews, finds itself with only $173.45 in its
treasury. Considering the fact that the
association spent $675.24 and the fact that the population of needy Jews has
greatly increased, the association is in need of donations which can be sent to
its members including the chairman, Benjamin Saidel.
1891: Today the United States trustees of the
fund created by the late Baron de Hirsch to provide for the needs of immigrants
coming to America will draw the $2,400,000 set aside for this purpose from the
banks in Paris.
1891: In New York city Harriet
"Hattie" (nee Lehman) and Philip Julius Goodhart gave birth to their
third and youngest child Arthur Lehman Goodhart, the brother of Howard Goodhart
and Helen Goodhart Altschul and grandson of Mayer Lehman (co-founder of Lehman
brothers who became a Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and “was the first
American to the Master of an Oxford College.”
https://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf
1891: “Good Things From Foreign Tongues”
published today provided a review of A Literary Manual of Foreign
Quotations, Ancient and Modern by John Devoe Belton which includes an
explanation of the Latin phrase “Credat Judaeus Appella” which Horace saw as a
reference to Appella “the most superstitious of his race” who “believed that
the incense placed on the threshold of his temple melted without fire” but whom
Renan “thought referred to a Hellenized Jew who, was orthodox, ill-informed and
consequently very superstitious.” (As the worse Latin student in the history of
Alice Deal and Woodrow Wilson, I can claim no credit for the following. According to some experts this phrase, which
by the way Doc Holliday used in the movie “Tombstone”, can loosely be
translated as “Let the Jew believe it; not I” or in colloquial English, “tell
it to someone else, not me.”)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30712F9395D15738DDDA80894DB405B8185F0D3
1892: It was reported today that the next
meeting of the Hebrew Technical Institute will take place at Temple Emanu-El
1892: Carl Wiser played the role of Shylock in
the German version of “The Merchant of Venice” at New York’s
Thalia Theatre
1892: As
of this afternoon, 21-year-old Joseph Seigler who worked in his father’s dry
good store is the only new case of typhus reported today.
1892: As New York City continued to deal with
the latest outbreak of typhus fever, public health officials ordered all
synagogues on the Lower East to be fumigated.
1893: Sixty-two-year-old banker Isidor Wormser,
was attacked on the floor of the NYSE by another broker who “stuck him twice in
the face” and who had to be restrained by half a dozen members of the exchange.
1893: “Jewish Women’s Achievements” published
today outlined the plans for the presentation of papers to delivered at the
upcoming Parliament of Religions “which is to be a feature” of the upcoming
World’s Fair. The papers which will be prepared by some of New York’s leading
Jewish ladies will highlight the unique contributions of such groups as the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1893(13th of Adar, 5653): Fast of
Esther; Erev Purim
1893: Three days after she had passed away
Eloisa Berger, the wife of Austrian native Leo Berger with whom she had had
five children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1893:
1894(23rd of Adar I, 5654): Twenty-seven-year-old
Hyman Freedman, the husband of Sarah Freedman passed away today after which he
was buried at the Edmonton Western Jewish Cemetery.
1894: According to the testimony of Benny
Weiss, Charles Krumm gave two ten dollar bills to Ward Man Jeremiah Levy of the
Eleventh Police Precinct “in pursuance of an arrangement with the policeman.”
(Arrangement is a euphemism for bribe)
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/broun-aaron-b0d06xsrum/
1894: Over the last six months (10/1/93 –
3/1/94), the United Hebrew Charities spent $103,102.40 providing aid to the
needy as opposed to $46,498.22 “for the corresponding period of the preceding
year.”
1895: In Bradford, Yorkshire, Lean and Aaron
George Bernstein, the president of the Bradford Hebrew Congregation gave birth
Joseph Bernstein who was killed in France while service with the West Riding
Regiment
1895: The National Council of Women, an
organization whose members included Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women,
opened the penultimate session of its annual triennial meeting in Washington
D.C.
1895: “Russians Arrested on Suspicion”
published today relied on telegraphs from the Vienna correspondent of the
Central News to described arrests made in Kiev and Odessa of those thought to
be “engaged in revolutionary plots’ many of whom were Jews.
1896(16th of Adar, 5656): Forty-three-year-old
Jacob Bueno De Mesquita, the son of David and Jessy Bueno De Mesquita passed
away after which he was buried in the Nuevo Jewish Cemetery in London.
1896:
Theodor Herzl and Nathan Birnbaum meet for the first time. Nathan
Birnbaum was born in Vienna, and lived there from.1864-1908, and again from
1914-21. In 1882, together with two other students in the University of Vienna,
he founded “Kadimah,” the first organization of Jewish nationalist students in
the West. In 1884, he published his first pamphlet, Die Assimilationsucht
(“The Assimilation Disease/Mania”). He founded, published and edited Selbst-Emancipation!
(“Self-Emancipation!”) The periodical promoted
“the idea of a Jewish renaissance and the resettlement of Palestine.” It
incorporated and developed the ideas of Leon Pinsker. In 1890, Birnbaum coined
the terms “Zionist” and “Zionism,” and, in 1892, “Political Zionism.” In 1893,
he published a brochure entitled Die Nationale Wiedergeburt des
Juedischen Volkes in seinem Lande als Mittel zur Loesung der Judenfrage
(“The National Rebirth of the Jewish People in its Homeland as a Means of
Solving the Jewish Question”), in which he expounded ideas similar to those
that Herzl was to promote subsequently. Birnbaum played a prominent part in the
First Zionist Congress (1897) and was elected Secretary General of the Zionist
Organization. However, he and Herzl developed ideological differences. Birnbaum
had begun to question the political aims of Zionism and to attach increasing
importance to the national-cultural content of Judaism. Birnbaum eventually
left the Zionist movement and later became a leading spokesman for Jewish
cultural autonomy in the Diaspora. He stressed the Yiddish language as the
basis of Ashkenazi Jewish culture and was chief convenor of the Conference on
Yiddish held in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1908. This was attended by leading
Yiddish writers, and proclaimed Yiddish as a national Jewish language. Birnbaum
propagated his ideas in writing and by lecturing in many Jewish communities. In
the years preceding World War I he gradually abandoned his materialistic and
secular outlook, eventually embracing full traditional Judaism. He may be seen as
the forerunner of the modern Baal Teshuvah movement. His most famous
book of this period was Gottesvolk (“God’s People”) first published in
German and Yiddish in 1917 (translated into English in a shortened form by J.
Elias in 1947 titled "Confession"). In 1919, he became the first
Secretary General of the new Agudath Yisrael Organization. Dissatisfied with
the spiritual complacency of the religious masses, he initiated a movement, the
Order of the Olim (“[Spiritual] Ascenders”), to consist of small groups of
people dedicated by their way of living to raising spiritual awareness within
the larger Jewish society, thus leading toward a Jewish spiritual renaissance.
Disturbed by the urbanized focus of Jewish life, he promoted the establishment
of agricultural communities and other groups living a style of Jewish life more
in conformity with nature. Settlement in Eretz Israel was to be for the prime
purpose of fulfilling the spiritual role of the Jewish people. He lived in
Berlin from 1912-1914, and again from 1921-1933. After the rise of Nazism, he
left Germany for Scheveningen, Netherlands, where he edited Der Ruf
("The Call"), a platform for his ideas. He died there in 1937.
1896: “Gifts on Purim” published today based on
information that first appeared in The American Hebrew described the near
disappearance of “the custom of sending gifts on Purim to friends” a custom,
“that can easily be restored.”
1896: “The Mexican Inquisition” published today
described the publication of two papers by the American Jewish Historical
Society – “Trials of Jorge de Alemdia by the Inquisition in Mexico” by Dr.
Cyrus Adler and Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America” by George
Alexander Kohut – which provide a hitherto untold story of the early Jews
living in Latin America.
1897(27th of Adar I, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old
Mosbach native and editor of Jewish texts Seligman (Isaac) Baer whose most
famous work was Seder Avodat Yisrael, “a monumental edition of the Jewish
prayerbook according to the Ashkenazic rite” passed away today.
1897: “Old Bibles In A New Home” published
today “rich and curious library of the American Bible Society” which includes
“an ancient Hebrew roll found in a synagogue in the interior of China” that “is
supposed to date back to the year 900 and is supposed to have been used for
centuries.”
1897: It was reported today that the Yale
Divinity Students who visited New York last week learned about “the magnitude
of the problems confronting charitable organizations” including the United
Hebrew Charities whose director N.S. Rosenau told them “We have been faced
since with an unprecedented rush of immigration” since 1890 because the Russian
have driven 400,000 people to the United States.
1898: In Bucharest, Tulius Revici and Ecaterina
Gaster Revici, the daughter of Phina Judith Gaster and Abraham Emanuel Gaster,
gave birth to Fina Friedman
1898: “Get-Together Clubs Meet” published today
included a summary of a speech, “The United Hebrew Charities and the
Unemployed” by N.S. Rosenau in which the director described “the problem of
Jewish labor in New York saying that their natural limits of ability had kept
them out of the work of the day laborer” and had “sent them into the garment
trades” where “the Italians were already displacing them.”
1898: “Hope For Zionist Union” published today
described efforts two unify the religious and secular supporters of the Zionist
which, if successful will strengthen the movement designed to buy land for
Jewish settlement in the Ottoman Empire.
Representative of 26 different Jewish organizations including Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, Adam Rosenberg, E.D. Eisenstein and Dr. Moses Mintz are
working on the effort led by Columbia Professor Richard Gottheil.
1899(19th of Adar, 5659): Sixty-one-year-old
Farrer Herschell, the 1st Baron Herschell whose father Rabbi Ridley
Haim Herschell who had converted to Christianity and founded the British
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews passed away today.
1899(19th of Adar, 5659): Bavarian
born William S. Rayner, who in 1838 settled In Baltimore from which he managed
“mining enterprises in Pennsylvania and North Carolina” while also serving as a
director of the Western National Bank and the Western Maryland Railroad and
playing an active role in the Jewish community as can be seen by his serving as
President of the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum, the Hebrew Benevolent Society and
Congregation Har Sinai which he helped to found passed away today.
1899: Chaim Isaac Bloc, the Lithuanian born so
of Gitte Sarah Meshumami and Zundel Bloch began serving as the rabbi in Polangen,
Kurland after which in 1904 he “succeeded Chief Rabbi Kook of Jeusalem.”
1899(19th of Adar, 5659): Miriam
Joel, the wife of Lewis Leapman passed away today in her 66th year
after which she was buried at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1900(30th of Adar I, 5660): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II
1900(30th of Adar I, 5660): Forty-eight-year-old
Flora Moses, the New York bon daughter of Jacob Moses and Sarah J. Moses Davega,
the wife of Dr. Ottolenghui Aaron Moses and the mother of Walter Moses passed
away today.
1900: In France, a bill calling for amnesty of
all matters related with the Dreyfus Affair is introduced by the Senate.
1900: Cincinnati College of Music graduate
Bertha Beitman Herzog, the daughter of Emanuel and Millie Beitman and social
worker who was President of the Cleveland, OH Council of Jewish Women and a
member of the board of the National Council of Jewish Women and the National
School for Social Service married Siegmund Herzog today.
1901: “A fire which started in the basement of
the five-story brick tenement at 20 Clinton Street” this evening “caused a
panic among the occupants” including Mrs. Nathan Goldberg and her four
children.
1902: In New York City, Goodman Richard Davis
and Benvenida Solis Davis, the daughter of David and Sarah Brickner, gave birth
to Walter Alan Davis
1902: Rev. S. Levy, MA read “Notes on Leicester
Jewry” today before The Jewish Historical Society of England.
1903: “Light on the Jewish Question in
Romania,” published today summarizes an article that first appeared in The Romanian Bulletin that defends King
Charles (a.k.a. Carlos I) against accusations that he is the prime mover in the
persecution of his Hebrew subjects. The
article depicts him as being sympathetic to their plight, but as a constitutional
monarch, all but powerless to defend the Jews against “unscrupulous ministers”
who do not share his enlightened views of Romanian Hebrews.
1903: In Topeka, KS, Henry A. Auerbach, the
Achim, Germany born so of Emma and Abraham Auerbach, and his wife, Rosine
Auerbach gave birth to Ruth Auebrach who became Ruth Hirsch, the wife of
Clarence Hirsch and the mother of Rosine and Robert Hirtsch.
1904(14th of Adar, 5665): Purim
1904: In London, Redcliffe Nathan Salman, the
son of Myer and Sarah Salaman and Nina Ruth Salaman gave birth to Arthur
Gabriel Salaman
1904: Israel Schochat, founder of Ha-shomer
arrived in Palestine.
1905: Birthdate of New York native research
chemist Saul Caspe who was educated at Columbia and Brooklyn Poly Technique.
1906: In Hamburg, “Austrian actor Fritz Spira
who died in the Ruma concentration camp in 1943” and actress Lotte Spira gave
birth to German actress Camilla Spira.
1907(15th of Adar, 5667): Shushan
Purim
1907: As of today 15,000, Jews have fled Odessa
since the attacks by members of the Black Hundreds began and thousands more
“have their passports in readiness to leave Odessa at the first sign of an
anti-Jewish attack.1908: “Zionist leader” Solomon J. Weinstein, the Grodno born
son of Ida and Joseph Weinsterin who in 1896 came to the United States where he
became a member of the New York Produce Exchange, and who was active in
numerous Jewish organizations including the American Zion Commonwealth, the
Palestine General Mortgage Bank and Temple Beth Elohim married Fannie Grohn
today.
1908: In a letter made public today, Henry
Bergh, the nephew of the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, called “attention to the present means of killing used by
Jewish butchers to comply with Hebraic laws” and said that “efforts are now
being made to construct some form of harness which will permit the animal to be
treated more humanely while it is being suspended by their hind legs as part of
the Jewish method of slaughtering animals.
1909: The theme of “Meyer and Son” “the news
modern drama by Thomas Addison that opened at the Garden Theatre tonight puts a
new twist on the theme of “Jew against Gentile” since it tells the story of
college educated son of an old Jewish banker who falls in love with the
daughter of business rival “who is prejudiced again father and son because race
and creed.”
1910: It was reported today that “in Replying
to a delegation from the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers,
who called at the White House to protest against the Hayes and Overman bills to
restrict immigration, President Taft paid a high tribute to the Jews who had
come to America from various parts of the world and had become imbued with a
true spirit of patriotism.”
1911: Birthdate of
chess grandmaster Harry Golombek
1912. CCNY grad and
Stanford University trained psychologist Samuel Calmin Kohs, the New York City
born son of Louis and Fannie (Rosenfeld) Kohs who eventually settled in San
Francisco married Paula Bonoff today in New York City.
1912: It was reported
today that Lina
Straus, Nathan Straus, Nathan Straus Jr., H. Grant Straus an Sissie S. Lehman
are the directors of the newly incorporated Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk
Laboratories with principal office in New York City which will establish infant
milk depots throughout the State of New York and dispense through them
pasteurized milk free or at a cost price with a view of reducing sickness among
babies”
1912: Three-day long
dedication ceremonies for Sinai Temple and Social Center began today in
Chicago.
1913(22nd
of Adar I, 5673): Parshat Vayakhel
1913(22nd
of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-two-year-old Rabbi Judas Leopold Friedman passed away
today in Cleveland, Ohio.
1913: Rabbi Weil is
scheduled to preach his sermon in German this morning at Temple B’Nai Jehoshua
in Chicago.
1913: Rabbi Abram
Hirschberg delivered the sermon this morning at Temple Sholom.
1913: Birthdate of
boxer Nathan “Nat” Bor, the native of Fall River, MA, “who won a bronze medal
at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
1913: Effective
today, Congregation Anshai Emeth released Dr. Charles S. Levi from his contract
as of today.
1914: Adolph Lewisohn, Lee Kohn, Simon F.
Rosenthal and Benjamin H. Nam are in charge of tonight’s program at the 39th
Street Theatre in Manhattan which includes a screening of “How the Jews Care
for Their Poor” and “a program of music.”
1914: Birthdate of Aaron Ruben the Chicago
native who gain fame as a producer, writer and director for some of the most
popular television comedies of the 1960s and ’70s, notably “The Andy Griffith
Show,” “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and “Sanford and Son
1915(15th of Adar, 5675): Shushan
Purim
1915: Mrs. Piza Weyl was reported today to have
been in charge of the tableaux “representing the influence of Jews on the early
history of America” which were shown at the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue at
70tth Street and Central Park West.
1915: Kruetzer
Sonata, the silent film version of Jacob Gordin’s play of the same name was
released today in the United States.
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KreutzerSonata1915.html
1915: Rabbi Emil Hirsch was reported today to
be among the 29 clergymen who are trustees of the Church Peace Union founded by
Andrew Carnegie designed to promote “a new moral leadership to prevent armed
conflict” – specifically to limit and/or end the World War that had begun in
1914
1915: “Dr. (Samuel) Schulman Tells Why He
Opposes Return To Palestine Movement” published today quotes the President of
the Metropolitan League as saying that “In America we are Americans, and if
there are those who wish to perpetuate Jewish customs and narrow nationalism,
let it be done in Palestine, not here in America. The highest work of the Jews
is not to teach customs but how different races and peoples may live together
in accord and harmony.”
1915: The American Jewish Relief Committee
received a cablegram from the Jewish Colonization Association of Petrograd
describing the desperate condition of the “tens of thousands” of refugees from
Poland” and the granting of official permission to organize assistance for the
Jews of Galicia.
1916: The funeral of Rose Fridstein, the wife
of Joseph Fridstein and the mother of Myer, Sam and Harry Fridstein is
scheduled to take place today followed by burial at Bickur Cholim Cemetery.
1917: As the Russian Revolution gained
momentum, with all that that would mean to the Jewish people, the Czar
abdicated today “leaving the Provisional Government in control of” the Russian
Empire.
1917: The U.S. government released the
plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. Barbara Tuchman, the noted Jewish historian,
wrote The Zimmerman Telegram a fascinating volume covering this little-known
event which had a major impact on America’s decision to enter World War I on
the side of the Allies.
1917: Benjamin and Dora Finkelstein gave birth
to Maurice Finkelsteinm “the husband of “Justice Irene Finkelstein” and the
father of Arlene Dawn Joelson.
1918: In Vienna, the “Press states that Count
Czernin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will in the course of peace negotiations
with Romania, bring up thequestion of granting full rights to the Jews.”
1918: The new Zionist publication, Ungarische Wochenschrift reported that
Galician Jewish regfugees are the victims of frequent atrocities.
1919: Emir Feisal, the son of Emir Hussein,
Grand Sharif of Mecca and the leader of the Arabs of Hejaz sent a letter to
Felix Frankfurter. According to Martin
Gilbert he wrote, “We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the
deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.
We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.” “I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position
to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and
derived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is notional and not
imperialist: our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in
Syria for both. Indeed I think that neither
can be a real success with the other. I
look forward, and the people with me look forward to a future in which we will
help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually
interested may once against take their place in the comity of the civilized
peoples of the world.”
1919(29th of Adar I, 5679): Parashat
Vayakhel and Sabbat Shekalim
1919: Final performance of The “Little
Brother,” with a script co-authored by Milton Goldsmith which was based on his
work “The Priest and the Rabbi,” and
produced and directed by Walter Hast on Broadway at the Belmont Theatre.
1919(29th of Adar I, 5679): Seventy-three-year-old
Moshe Dov ben Mordecai Zev passed away today after which he was buried at the
Blackley Jewish Cemetery.
1920: “Several hundred Shiite Arabs from the
village of Jabal Amil in southern Lebanon marched to the gates of Tel Hai
together with Bedouin from Halasa and their Mukhtar, Kamal Affendi” demanding
to search Tel Hai for French soldiers
1920(11th of Adar, 5680): Tel Hai, a Jewish
village in the Galilee is attacked by Arabs. Joseph Trumpeldor, the one-armed
Jewish military leader and one of the Zionist movement’s first military heroes
was killed in the ensuing battled along with five men under his command.
“Trumpeldor was born in 1880 in Russia. Originally in training as a dentist, he
volunteered for the Russian army in 1902. During the Russo-Japanese War he
participated in the siege of Port Arthur, where he lost his left arm and was captured.
Subsequently, he received four decorations for bravery, which made him the most
decorated Jewish soldier in Russia. In 1906 he became the first Jew in the army
to receive an officer's commission. In 1911 he emigrated to Palestine then
under the Ottoman Turks, living for a time at kibbutz Deganya. When World War I
broke out, he went to Egypt, where together with Vladimir Jabotinsky he
developed the idea of the Jewish legion to fight with the British against
common enemies and as a result, the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1917,
considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two
thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces. He
saw action in Gallipoli, where he was wounded in the shoulder. Upon his return
to Russia in 1918, he established the He-Halutz, a youth organization
that prepared immigrants for Aliyah (moving to Palestine), and returned
to Palestine himself, then under the British Mandate. He was one of the
founders of the Zionist Socialist movement in pre-state Israel. After his death
Trumpeldor became the symbol of Jewish "self-defense", and his Memorial
Day on the 11th day of Adar is officially noted in Israel every year.
Supposedly, his last words were, "Never mind, it is good to die for our
country". There is no proof whether this is true.”
1921: The Political committee of the Zionist
Organization met in London to discuss Churchill’s forthcoming visit to
Palestine.
1921: Margery Merlyn Baillieu and Sidney Myer,
the founder of Myer (Australia’s largest department store chain) gave birth to
the first child, Ken. But since Myer had
converted a year earlier and Baillieu was not Jewish, Ken would not be carrying
on the “faith of his fathers.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1391841/Sir-Michael-Kerr.htm
1921: In Berlin, “Alfred Kerr, the well-known
socialist author and theatre critic for Berliner Tageblatt and Frankfurter
Zeitung” and his non-Jewish wife gave birth to Sir Michael Kerr, the Lord
Justice of Appeal who was believed to be “England's first foreign-born judge
since the reign of Henry II.”
1922: John Schuburgh a member of the Middle
East Department (of the British Government) sent a visiting Arab delegation a
letter reiterating British support for the Balfour Declaration and the
establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
1922: Director Heimann “informed the Second
Congress of Jewish Communities” that “the American Joint Distribution Committee
as allocated and placed at the disposal of the National Jewish Council of
Lithuania 24,000,000 marks for the rehabilitation of Jews who suffered from the
war.”
1922:
Birthdate of Yitzhak Rabin
(יצחק
רבין). A Sabra, Rabin was a soldier-statesman who served as Prime
Minister from 1974 until 1977. The
scandal which drove him from office would open the way for the Right-Wing Likud
to take power for the first time since the founding of the Jewish State. Rabin would return as Prime Minister in
1992. He would win the Nobel Peace Prize
for his groundbreaking attempts to end the violence in the Middle East. Sadly, the man who had avoided death at the
hands of Israel’s Arab enemies, met death at the hands of a Jewish fanatic bent
on derailing the Peace Process. Would
events been different had Rabin lived?
We will never know. Just as a
killer at Dallas had thwarted the American electoral process, so a killer
thwarted the democratic process in Israel in 1995.
1923(13th of Adar, 5683): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim
1923: Dr. R.E. Stewart MacAlister, President of
Celtic Archaelogoy at the National University of Dublin and director of the
Palestine Exploration Fund who is leaving for Palestine to supervise the
excavation of work at the site of the old City of David “says it is impossible
to say what the fruits of the excavation will be as Palestine was a country
where art was cultivated to the same extent as in Egypt” but he hopes that
“considerable light will be thrown on biblical history” as a result of these
efforts.
1924: Dr. Max Pinner, the recipient of the
American Thoracic Society’s Trudeau Medal, married Berna Rudovic, four years
before he became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
1924: In New York “Max Druckman, a Manhattan
furniture dealer” and Pearl Cohen gave birth to Arnold Druckman who gained fame
as Arnold Drake “an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for
co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the
Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others” who was the
brother of songwriters Ervin and Milton Drake.
1925: In Bacau Romania, Sima and Alter Marcus
gave birth Romanian mathematician Solomon Marcus, a professor at the University
of Bucharest.
1925: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine which
has been in complete control of Zionists since the League of Nations so
decided, will be reconstituted to include non-Zionists, if Great Britain and
the League approve of a decision made by leaders of both factions at the Hotel
Astor” today.
1925: “Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon this
morning at Temple Beth-El, Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street, condemned the
plan for giving religious instruction in the public schools. He characterized
the experiment of sending groups of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish children to
their respective centres of religious education near their public schools as
"a most serious modification of the secular character of the American
public school as we are accustomed to admire it."
1926(15th of Adar, 5686): Shushan
Purim
1926: It was reported today that the Purim Ball
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel sponsored by the Old Timers of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association had “served a reunion for all former Y.H.M.H.A. members
since 1874.”
1926: At a testimonial dinner honoring Joseph
Barondess’ forty years of service to American Jewrtygiven tonight in the
ballroom of the Manhattan Opera House, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said, “that no Jew
in America had given more to Jewish life.”
1926: Mlle. Maxa Nordau, the daughter of the
late Zionist author Max Nordau is scheduled to begin holding an exhibition of
art in New York starting today.
1926: In Poland Moishe and Baila Wilderman gave
birth to Robert Max Widerman known as
Robert Clary, the actor who gained fame playing
the part of LeBeau on “Hogan’s Heroes” and who ironically was the only one of
his immediate family members to survive imprisonment by the Nazis during World
War II.
1927: “Social service offers women their best
opportunity for training in Government, Henry Morgenthau said today at a
luncheon of the Women's Division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies at the Hotel Astor.”
1927: “The 125-pound midget basketball team of
the Jewish Centre of the East side defeated the Hudson Guild midget team”
tonight” “on the winners court” with Grossman scoring 45 points for the winning
team.
1928: Joseph Levy, writing in the New York
Times described the ceremonies that marked “the recent inauguration of the
plantation of the Balfour Forest at Ginegar, in the Valley of Jezreel,
Palestine.” As part of the ceremony, Sir Alfred Mond delivered an address in
which he “paid high tribute to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner, for the
devotion he has shown during his tenure in office and to the Jewish national
fund. The entire cost of the Balfour Forest is being borne by the Jews of Great
Britain. The project is part of the
Zionist led reforestation project that is vital to the renewal of Palestine.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1929: It was reported today that “The Anshe
Russia Synagogue, the oldest Orthodox congregation in Newark, NJ” which is led
by Rabbi Joseph Konvitz and President Bernard Brody, “is planning to erect a
new synagogue at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars.”
1930(1st of Adar, 5690): Parashat
Mishpatim; Rosh Chodesh Adar; Shabbat Shekalim
1930: “Puttin’ On the Ritz” produced by Joseph
M. Schenck starring Harry Richman in his movie debut who also wrote the music
for the film along with Fred E. Ahlert and Irving Berlin was released in the
United States today.
1931: The White House released President
Herbert Hoover’s congratulatory message expressing his congratulations to Baith
Israel Anshei Emes on the celebration of the 75th anniversary of its
founding.
1931: “Anti-Semitism is a challenge to the Jew
to be at his best, and he must find his idealism not only in fighting against
anti-Semitism with every legal weapon, but also in accepting it as a spur to
his own virtue, declared Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon today at Temple
Emanu-El” while he also said that “the Jewish problem is a spiritual problem
for the Jew and for the world and there is no short cut to its solution.”
1932: On a radio broadcast Clarence C. Dill,
Democratic Senator for Washington, called Hoover's appointment of Justice
Cardozo "the finest act of his career as President."
1932: It was reported today that Daniel Frohman
is the honorary president of “Theatre in Art” exhibition which will open later
this month as a fundraiser for the Actors’ Fund of America.
1932: It was reported today that Judge Cardozo
has met with Chief Justice Hughes and “made tentative arrangements for his
induction as a member of the Supreme Court.”
1932: “The confirmation of the appointment of
Judge Benjamin Cardozo as associated just of the Supreme Court was transmitted
to the White House by this Senate this evening.”
1932: Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. the infant son
of “the Lone Eagle” was kidnapped today which would lead to the trial of his
kidnapper where David Theodore Wilentz, the Attorney General of New Jersey
would serve as the lead prosecutor.
1932: The Maccabee Association of the United
States announced the members of the swimming and track and field teams that
will be sent to compete in the Jewish Olympic Games that will take place at the
end of March. The selection committee
was chaired by Sol Goodstein.
1932: Benjamin N. Cardozo was elected an
honorary member at today’s meeting of the governing committee of the Lawyers’
Club in New York City.
1933: During the movement to boycott Jewish
businesses in Germany, Nazi troops sang in front of the Berlin Woolworth
Company store” because they believed that the Methodist Woolworth brothers were
Jewish.
1933: Today, Billy Wilder arrived in Paris from
Berlin and settled in the Hotel Asonia which was “a haven for members of the
German film industry who had fled from their homeland to escape the encroaching
threat of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party including actor Peter Lorre,
composers Franz Waxman and Friedrich Hollaender, and screenwriters H.G. Lustig
and Max Kolpé, who agreed to help Wilder develop a plot he had conceived in
Berlin” which became the French film “Mauvaise Graine.”
1934(14th of Adar, 5694): Purim
1934: Birthdate of New York native and Olympic
gymnast Abie Grossfeld.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbieGrossfeld.htm
1934: As of this date, according to a report
prepared by Morris Rothenberg, President of the ZOA, there are a quarter of a
million Jews living in Palestine which marks a significant increase from the
total of 85,000 Jews living there in 1921..
1935: Sandor Harmati served as the conductor
today when “Serenade” had its “official premiere” today with “the American
Ballet at the Adelphia Theatre in New York.”
1935: Aaron DeRoy, the University of Pittsburgh
trained dentist and husband of oil heiress Helen Lowentritt DeRoy who moved to
Detroit where he established the Aaron DeRoy Motor Car Compnay and “sat on the
board of the Hudson Motor Company” died today in an automobile accident in
South Carolina.
1936(7th of Adar I, 5696): Eighty-one-year-old
“Dr. Arnold Netter, noted physician and newly elected President of the Alliance
Israelite Universelle died today while addressing a meeting of the French
Medical Association” in Paris.
1936:
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, is scheduled to leave Palestine today for London where he
will meet with those Jews who “are sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the
evacuation of Jews from Germany “told the New York Times ‘I do not know the
extent of the funds of the nature of the scheme contemplated by Herman Samuel’s
mission, but I am ready to cooperate in the execution of any project promising
to increase Jewish immigration to Palestine.’”
1936: Birthdate of Richmond, VA native Shirley
Bernice Politzer who would gain fame as “Dr. Shirley P. Glass, a psychologist
who strove to redefine the nature of infidelity” and the mother of Ira Glass,
producer of “This American Life.”
1936: “Creation of an ‘Albert Einstein Fund for
Palestine’ to be applied to the nation-wide campaign of the United Palestine
Appeal to raise $3,500,000 for the settlement in Palestine of Jews from
Germany, Poland and other countries was announced” today “after a meeting of
the Council of Jewish Organizations at the Hotel Pennsylvania
1936: “A new anti-Semitic wave was ushered in
today in Germany following of weeks of quiet because of the Winter Olympics”
during which the “Nazis attempted not to offend foreign visitors.”
1936: “Two thousand people attending the
fifty-first annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aids Society”
today “at the Hotel Astor urged Congress to ‘humanize’ sections of the
immigration law affecting resident aliens by enacting the Kerr-Coolidge Bill”
which according HIAS President Abraham Herman “would tend to remove ‘some
hardships affecting innocent resident aliens.’”
1936: “In view of the recent Nuremberg decrees”
it was reported today that the “efforts” of the Joint Distribution Committee
“will be intensified including the continuation of aid to Jewish and non-Jewish
German refugees in France, Czechoslovakia, Holland, etc., providing money for
German Jews going to Palestine as well as the “education of about 60,000 German
Jewish children in Germany.”
1936: “Travels in Palestine” published today
provided a review of Footprints in Palestine: Where the East Begins by
Madeline Sweeney Miller with an introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby,
the liberator of Palestine during WW I.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E05E2DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE
1936: It was reported today that the “three
hundred chapters of Hadassah throughout the country will merge the celebration
of Purim with founders’ day programs” that will mark the 24th
anniversary of the organization which was established by Henriette Szold in
1912.”
1936: Taking advantage of earlier meetings held
by Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency in Palestine and the General
Manager of the Anglo Palestine Bank, Dr. Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to leave
today for London “to confer with Sir Herbert Samuel, Viscount Bearsted and
Simon Marks, sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the evacuation of Jews from Germany.”
1936: According to sources in Heidelberg, “Nazi
Government will…now undertake a counter-campaign against the refusals of the
English universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Birmingham to accept an
invitation to send representatives to the ceremony celebrating the 550th
anniversary of the found of Heidelberg University.”
1936: Columbia University’s acceptance of “an
invitation to send a representative to the 550th anniversary
celebration of Heidelberg University evoked a protest” today “from Roger E.
Chase, editor of Spectator, an
undergraduate publication.”
1936: It was reported that the Nazi “program,
which fundamentally has only one aim, namely, racial, as a substitute for
national, unification through restoration of German military strength” will
require it t”o make compromises with all existing classes except the Jews.”
1936: The Cornell University Daily Sun will say editorially today: If
Cornell has already accepted the German invitation as reported, it can only
save its academic face by publicly reversing its stand and by joining British
and American universities in a boycott of this Nazi travesty.”
1936: “Germany recovered full sovereignty over
the Saar today when the last League of Nations bonds were cut” which meant an
end to “the validity of assurances given by the German government to the League
that ‘no discrimination on account of language, race or religion’ would be made
during the one year period.”
1936: “Details of an agreement under which
1,000 non-Russian Jewish families will be settled in the Jewish autonomous
territory of Birobidjan, Soviet Russia have been made public by William W.
Cohen, chairman of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in
Birobidjan.”
1937: As of today, “Sam H. Harris, the
theatrical producer who has been suffering with pleurisy for more than a week
while staying at his winter home in Palm Springs was reported by his nurse to
be improving as of this evening.
1937: Winston Churchill retained Hungarian born
Jew Emery Reves as his literary agent which would prove a boon to Churchill’s
literary career and pocketbook.
1938: Today, “the American ORT Federation
opened a national campaign to raise $450,000 to provide technical and
agricultural training for Jewish victims of social and economic decimation in
Poland, Germany, Rumania and other European countries and to assist them in
achieving economic independence and stability.
1939(10th of Adar, 5699): Jacob C.
Felsenthal, the Kentucky born son of Bina and Marcus Felsanthal, the Memphis
merchant and philanthropist who was the husband of Cecillia Felsenthal and the
father of Jeanette, Edward and Marcus Felsnethal passed away today in Jackson,
TN.
1940: In Brooklyn Joseph Grossman, the owner of
“a silk-screen printing shop” and “the former Ethel Stern” gave birth to Robert
Samuel Grossman to the illustrator you may not know by name but do know by
product. (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)
https://www.robertgrossman.com/
1940: In Brooklyn, “Maurice Schaap, a salesman,
and the former Leah Lerner, a French teacher” gave birth to controversial
attorney William H. Schaap, the older brother of sportscaster Dick Schaap.
1941: In South Miami Beach, FL, Max and Mae
Greenberg gave birth to “anthologist” Martin Harry Greenberg.
1941: Prime Minister Winston Churchill writes
to Colonial Secretary Lord Moyne expressing his displeasure with General Wavell
who, “like most British officers is pro-Arab” and opposed to the Jews. This attitude extends to an unwillingness on
the part of the British military to form additional Jewish military units to
fight in the Imperial Army.
1941: Himmler inspected the Auschwitz concentration
camp
1941: Bulgaria officially joins the Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy and Japan.
1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle” with a script co-authored by Emeric
Pressburger and music by Francis Chagrin was released in the United States
today.
1942: On Purim Eve, the Germans ordered 5,000
Jews deported from Minsk.
1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle,” featuring Carl Jaffe who had escaped from
Nazi Germany and settled in the UK, was released today in the United States.
1942: “Hitler order the Einsatzstab to
establishment a library of Jewish books and works to art to be use in the in
the ideological war against the Jews” “600,000 of which volumes fell intact in
the hands of the United States Army” at the end of the war.
1942: In Boston, Ruth Ashen and Sam Gruber, the
owner of a junk business, gave birth to Howard Peter Gruber, best-selling
author, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment and the owner of several pro teams.
1943: In Jerusalem, Aliza and Menachem Begin
gave birth to Benny Begin who earned a doctorate in Geology from Colorado State
University before following his father into the world of Israeli politics.
1943: In Amsterdam, a
Jewish old
age home for the disabled was raided.
1943:
Fourteen examples of the work of William Zorach including “Hound” and “Cat”
were part of his one-man show that opened today in New York at the Downtown
Gallery.
1943: In a speech given before a crowd of 70,000
people at Madison Square Garden, Chaim Weizmann states, “Two million Jews have
already been exterminated. The world can
no longer plead that the ghastly facts are unknown or unconfirmed. This rally
had been planned by the American Jewish Congress in an attempt to mobilize
American public opinion in support of efforts to rescue Jews trapped in
Hitler’s Europe.
1944:
In London, “Dr. Wolf Gottlieb, Rabbi at Queen's Park Synagogue, Glasgow and
head of Glasgow's rabbinical court (av beit din)” and his wife gave birth to
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, the Torah scholar and author who finally settled
in Jerusalem.
http://www.avivahzornberg.com/
1945:
“Pope Spoke In Hebrew” published today described the visit of Pvt. Lou Herman
who in civilian life was a cantor and other Canadian Jewish soldiers who were
singled out by Pope Pius XII and speaking in Hebrew were blessed by the Pontiff
who “raised his arms in the manner of the priests of the Hebrew faith” while
giving the benediction.
1945:
During the “Hunting Season” the British expressed their concerns that the
Jewish Agency was interested in more than just going after terrorists when the
High Commissioner to the Minster of Colonies wrote today that Unfortunately,
the Jewish Agency's lists of so-called terrorists continues to include numerous
people who have no terror connections, but politically speaking are undesirable
to the Jewish Agency. This adds to the difficulties the police has in
separating the sheep from the goats…”
1946: It was disclosed today that the
investigation of the activities of the big six German banks by the Allies has
found evidence that the Netherlands subsidiary of the Dresdner bank “collected
rans by accepting payments from Netherland Jews in concentration camps outside
the Netherlands who had assets abroad.”
1946: In Vienna, the police guard “at the
headquarters of the Jewish community organization has been strengthened” in
response to Vienna Jewish community organization having previously informed the
police that it has been receiving threatening letters from Nazis who wrote that
‘Hitler’s task’ would be finished when the last Jews had been liquidated.”
1947: Jews responded violently to British
Foreign Minister Bevin’s latest pronouncements about Palestine by conducting
multiple attacks that resulted in the death of at least sixteen British
military personnel.
1947: The Abril, filled with 600 Jewish
refugees, set sail from Port du Bouc today only after having been pulled free
by tugboats after she ran aground.
1947: David Remez, Chairman of The Jewish
National Council, announced tonight that the “Jewish population of Palestine
will observe a self-imposed curfew for four hours” tomorrow night to express
their concern for the refugees from Europe recently seized by the British.
1948: This month Henry and Phoebe Ephron gave
birth to author Hallie Ephron one of four sisters all of whom are talented
authors.
1948: A dramatization of Robert Nathan’s The
Bishop Wife “was dramatized as half-hour radio play on today’s broadcast of
The Screen Guild Theatre.
1949(30th of Shevat, 5709): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1949(30th of Shevat, 5709): Fifty-four-year-old
University of Cincinnati and HUC graduate Rabbi Henry Joseph Berkowitz, the
Philadelphia born son of Clara Landman ad Albert Berkowitz and the leader of
Temple Israel in Portland, OR “the largest Jewish congregation in the Pacific
Northwest” died today “from a rare disease he had contracted while serving as a
chaplain during World War II.”
1949: “Henry Morgenthau Jr., former Secretary
of the Treasury, announced today that he had accepted the chairmanship of the
1949 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.”
1950: It was revealed today that in the
non-aggression pact being considered by Israel and Jordan included a promise
that Haifa would become a free-port for Jordan thus giving the Arab state
access to the Mediterranean.
1953(14th of Adar, 5713): Purim
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/02/93603323.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1953: In Wilmington, DE, The Executive Council
of the Building Committee of Congregation Beth Emeth which had been founded in
1905 presented plans for a new building to the congregation at a special
meeting and received approval to go ahead with the project.
1954: Today,Rokhl Auerbakh “one of the three
surviving members of the covert Oyneg Shabes group led by Emanuel Ringelblum
that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the initiator of the
excavation of the group's buried manuscripts after the war” “was named director
of Yad Vashem's new Department for the Collection of Witness Testimony, which
was based in Tel Aviv where most Holocaust survivors had settled.”
1954: In Perm, Russia, Victor Radunsky, the
teacher at naval school and Maria (Ilinichna) Radunsky, a teacher gave birth to
illustrator Vladimir Radunksky, the brother of Alexander Radunsky, the husband
of Eugenia Uriitsky whom he married in 1987 the year before the publication of
his first book The Riddle and the father of Anna and Alexandra Radunsky.
(As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)
1955: The Lux Radio Theatre broadcast an hour
long adaptation of “The Bishop’s Wife” based on the novel of the same name by
Robert Nathan.
1960(2nd of Adar): Hundreds of Jews,
including some students of the local Chabad Yeshivah, were among the thousands
of victims to perish in a devastating earthquake that struck Agadir, Morocco
today
1961(13th of Adar, 5721): For the
first time during the Presidency of John Kennedy, Jews observe Ta’anit Esther.
1964: Fifty-four-year-old composer and pianist,
whose father was “a Lithuanian Jews” passed away today.
1967: In a sketch tonight on “At Last the 1948
Show” Marty “Feldman’s character harassed a patient shop assistant for a series
of fictitious books, achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity
Surveying.
1967: “More than four hundred Jewish lay and
religious leaders representing fifty national Jewish organizations” are
scheduled to meet David Ben Gurion today at Kennedy International Airport to
mark the state of a three-week tour of the United States that will be part of
the celebration of his 80th birthday.
1968(1st of Adar, 5728(: Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1969: Joseph Vogel the MGM executive who served
as its President from 1956 to 1963 during which the studio produced the classic
“North by Northwest” passed away.
1970: Birthdate of best-selling author Darin
Strauss author of “Half a Life, which won the 2011 NBCC Award for
memoir/autobiography.”
1971: In Massachusetts, “Nancy Falchuk, the
national president of Hadassah” and her husband gave birth to Hobart and
William Smith Colleges grad and self-proclaimed Republican Brad Falchuk, the award-winning
television “writer, director and producer” and husband of actress of Gwyneth
Paltrow whose brother Evan Falchuk was the founder of the United Independent
Party.
1971(4th of Adar, 5731):
Rzeszow,
Poland native Lieb Wiesenfeld who gained fame as Leon Wiesenfeld “a journalist,
editor for the Yiddish language press and Jewish community leader” in
Cleveland, OH passed away today.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon
https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2546.xml&doc.view=printead;chunk.id=0
https://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/wiesenfeld-memoir.htm
1972: Naomi Bronheim Levine was appointed
Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress (A. J. Cong.), becoming the
first woman to take the helm of a major American Jewish organization that
included both men and women as members.
1972(15th of Adar, 5732): Shushan
Purim
1972(15th of Adar, 5732): Sixty-three-year-old
Moshe Sneh passed away
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18758.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/02/archives/vladimirgolschmann-conductor-dies.html
https://www.naxos.com/person/Vladimir_Golschmann/31777.htm
1973: U.S. premiere of “The Thief Who Came To
Dinner co-produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin who also directed the film
featuring Alan Oppenheimer as “Insurance Man.”
1973: A week after premiering in New York “Charlotte’s
Web” with music by Richard and Robert Sherman is released today across the
United States.
1973: Eight Palestinians were arrested after
the Saudi Arabian Embassy at Khartoum was seized and the U.S. Ambassador and
Deputy Head of Mission and the Belgian Charge d’ Affaires were murdered.
1974: “Soviet police detained about 70 Jews
from Moscow and other Soviet cities to prevent the transmission of a petition
to the Central Committee of the CPSU with 200 signatures.
1974: “Radio Moscow reported demonstrations by
Zionist elements during the wreath laying ceremony at the monument to the
heroes of Plevna in Moscow.”
1975(18th of Adar, 5735): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1976: “The Witch Who Came From The Sea,” a horror
film with music by Herschel Burke Gilbert was released today in the United
States.
1976: The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee began its annual meeting in Jerusalem today.
1978: At today’s 17th Annual Grammy
Awards presentation Marvin Hamlisch was honored as “best new artist” and Alan
and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (composers) were honored for The Way
We Were performed by Barbra Streisand.
1978:
Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1978: In “Lefkowitz Style: Example of the Old
School” published today Maurice Carroll traced the career of New York’s
Attorney General.
1979: Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street” opened on Broadway at the Uris Theater.
1980(13th of Adar, 5734): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Erev Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Jimmy Carter.
1981: “Miracle on Ice,” a sports docudrama
starring Steve Guttenberg was released today in the United States.
1982: Wadi Aranki of the POL was killed in
Madrid
1983(16th of Adar, 5743): Author
Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia took their own lives this evening.
1983:” Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher
and human rights advocate” Valery Senderov went on trial in the USSR today.
1985: Milwaukee businessman
Herb Kohl Kohl would go on to become one of Wisconsin’s two Jewish senators
purchased the Milwaukee Bucks.
1985: “The Sure Thing” a comedy directed by Rob
Reiner and co-produced by Henry Winkler and Roger Birnbaum was released in the
United States today
1987(30th of Shevat, 5747): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1987(30th of Shevat, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old
University of Paris graduate Bertrand de Jouvenel, the son of Henri de Jouvenel
and Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist and the husband of
Marcelle Prat de Jouvenel whom he married in 1925 “who was a French
philosopher, political economist, and futurist” and who “taught at the
University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of
Manchester, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of
California, Berkeley.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertrand-de-Jouvenel
https://mises.org/profile/bertrand-de-jouvenel
1987: In
“An Israeli Lawyer Dares Defend an Accused Nazi, “published today Francis X.
Clines describes the challenges and criticism facing Yoram Sheftel, the Tel
Aviv criminal lawyer serving as co-counsel in the defense of John Demjanjuk,
the retired auto worker from the United States who is accused of being the
infamous executioner of the Treblinka death camp.
1988: University of Michigan graduate Preston
Robet Tisch, the Bensonhurst bon son Sadye and Al Tisch, the husband of Joan
Hyman with whom he had three children – Steve, Jonathan and Laurie – and who was the chairman and—along with his
brother Laurence Tisch—was part owner of the Loews Corporation completed his
service as the 68th United States Postmaster General.
1988(12th of Adar, 5748): Joe Besser one of the Three Stooges passed
away.
1990(4th of Adar, 5750): Seventy-seven-year-old
London native Hyman Barnett “Harry” Mizler who along with his brothers Moe and
Judah worked in the family fish stall “in Watney Street Market” before become
becoming a member of Britain’s 1932 Summer Olympics box team and winning “the
British Board of Control (BBofC) Lightweight Title” passed away.
1991(15th of Adar, 5751): Shushan
Purim
1991(15th of Adar,
5751): Edwin H Land
inventor of the Polaroid Camera passed away at the age of 81.
https://www.biography.com/people/edwin-land-9372429
1991: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors including Mr.
Mani by A.B.Yehoshua
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/history-overheard.html?searchResultPosition=2
and The Story of H. H. Asquith, Venetia
Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel
Montagu by Naomi B. Levine
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/no-prime-minister.html?searchResultPosition=5
1991: Following the end of the Iraq War,
Lufthansa plans to resume service to Tel Aviv today.
1991: “My
Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” a rodeo drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg was
released in the United States today.
1991: Months
after its premiere in the United States “Avalon” the saga of a Jewish immigrant
family in Baltimore, MD, directed, produced and written by Barry Levinson, with
music by Randy Newman, starring Leo Fuchs, Leo Jacobi and Kevin Pollak was
released today in the United Kingdom.
1992(26th of
Adar I, 5752): Seventy-year-old Marshall Sklare, the husband Rose Bernard and
the father of Daniel, Joshua and Judith Skalre who “was the Klutznick Family
Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology emeritus at Brandeis
University” and considered to be “the founding father of American Jewish
Sociology” passed away today.
1993: In the following article entitled “Doubts
Mar PBS Film of Black Army Unit,” Richard Bernstein describes the controversy
surrounding a movie that is supposed to be a documentary about the 761st
Tank Battalion’s role in the liberation of Jews held in concentration camps at
the end of World War II. The tank
battalion was an all-black unit and the film was supposed to be a tool to
rejuvenate the alliance between Jews and African-American.
1993: Publication of E. M. Broner's The Telling:
The Story of a Group of Jewish Women Who Journey to Spirituality Through
Community and Ceremony
http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/01/1993/em-broner
1993(8th of Adar,
5753): “Two civilians in their twenties, Natan Azaria and Gregory Avramov, were
stabbed to death in Tel Aviv by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
1994: Ari Halberstam,
a 16-year-old yeshiva student, was returning from a vigil for Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson. While pulling onto the exit ramp for the Brooklyn Bridge,
Halberstam’s vehicle was shot at by Rashid Baz, a Lebanese immigrant. He died five
days later. (As reported by Seth Berkman)
1994: Publication of Gun,
with Occasional Music, a novel by Jonathan Lethem.
1994: U.S. Air Force
Captain Jack Weinstein, the future Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic
Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, was promoted to Major today.
1995: Publication of
the paperback edition of Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem.
1998: The 25th European
Athletics Indoor Championships in which Aleksandr Averbukh placed sixth in the
Heptathlon closed today at Valencia.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
recently released paperback editions of Unto the Soul by Aharon
Appelfeld in which “Gad
and Amalia, brother and sister, have been given the sacred duty of tending an
ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs near their village in turn-of-the-century
Eastern Europe and Isaiah Berlin John Gray’s study of the 20th century's
premier Renaissance man that focuses on his liberalism, which was complex in
that it acknowledged no one right path for human society.
1998: Today,
“Titanic” produced by Jon Landau and featuring Victor Garber and David Warner
became the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide
1999: Dan Seligman provides
a detailed review of The Times of My Life by Max Frankel today.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-times-of-my-life-by-max-frankel/
1999(13th
of Adar, 5759): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1999(13th of Adar, 5759): Ninety-one-year-old Jeannette Levin,
the daughter of Rachel and Isaac Aaron Levin passed away after which she buried
in Baltimore, MD.
2000: “After combing
through their holdings, Britain's art museums and galleries released a list of
more than 350 works of art today that have murky provenances for the period
around World War II and may have been seized by the Nazis.”
2001(6th
of Adar, 5761): Hamas claimed credit for the Mei Ami junction bombing which
took place at Vadi Ara where one person was murdered.
2002: In the fiercest
fighting of the last 17 months, Israelis troops fought their way into two camps
one of which was located at Jenin.
2003: “Another Round
in the Skirmish Over Elio and Anti-Semitism” published today examined charges
that the famous poet had an animus and bias towards Jews that was unknown to
most readers and students. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/books/shelf-life-another-round-in-the-skirmish-over-eliot-and-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=1
2004: It was reported
today that in Vienna, “an Austrian genealogist said two Jewish relatives of”
Senator John Kerry's -- his grandmother's sister and half-brother -- had died
in Nazi concentration camps.”
2005(20th of Adar I, 5765): Seventy-seven-year-old
Peter “Zvi” Malkin, the Mossad agent who led the team that captured Adolf
Eichmann passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/08/guardianobituaries.israel
2005: Completion of the Eleventh Daf Yomi Cycle
begun in September, 1997. The next cycle
begins on Wednesday, March 2, 2005.
2005: Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel was
deported from Canada to Germany today where he “was arrested and detained in
Mannheim prison” where he would await “trial for inciting racial hatred.”
2005: Penultimate broadcast of “Boston Public”
co-starring Fyvush Finkel as “Harvey Lipschultz.”
2005: “Boris Lurie: Uneasy visions,
uncomfortable truths” published today highlights the views of artist Boris
Lurie the native of Leningrad who survived imprisonment in a string of
concentration camps including Buchenwald.
http://thevillager.com/vil_95/borislurieuneasy.html
2006: On
the secular calendar Rosh Chodesh Adar, first day of the month of Adar.
2006: London
Mayor Ken Livingstone began serving his four week suspension from office after
being found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute by comparing a Jewish
reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
2007: Fast of Esther
observed on 11th of Adar since the 13th of Adar falls on
Shabbat.
2007(11th
of Adar, 5767): Eighty-seven year old New York native Harold Michelson “the
illustrator and storyboard artist” who with his wife Lillian formed a
formidable behind the camera Hollywood power couple immortalized in the biopic
“Harold and Lillian” passed away today.
2007(11th of Adar,
5767): Meyer “Mike” Feldman, a White House advisor for President Kennedy,
passed away at the age of 92.
2007: Celebration of the birthday of Muriel Rogers, doyen of the Cedar
Rapids Jewish Community
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque presents The
Path Of Our Fathers \ בדרכי אבות This is
“an extraordinary and at times surrealistic road movie about a charismatic man
named Menahem Goldberg. On the eve of Passover, Menahem took his donkey and two
sons, one 12 years old and the second 8 years old, and set out to fulfill the
mitzvah of going up to Jerusalem. The 170 km, 9-day trip by foot from their
home in the north to the Western Wall, took them through the biblical
landscapes of Judea and Samaria and brought them into contact with the
present-day Israeli and Palestinian realities there.”
2008: Beth Hillel
Congregation in Wilmette, Illinois, presents a screening of the Argentinean
film Legado a documentary about the
arrival of the first Russian Jews in 19th century Argentina.
2008(24th of Adar I,
5768): St. Sgt. Doron Asulin, 20 of Beersheba and St. Sgt. Eran Dan-Gur, 20, of
Jerusalem, were killed early Saturday as their Givati Brigade units operated
against terrorists. Asulin served in the
brigade’s anti-tank company and Dan-Gur served in the Shaked Battalion.
2008: On the second day of Operation Hot Winter
which was aimed at disrupting terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,
Israeli forces “carried out airstrikes at ammo warehouses, rocket factories,
rocket warehouses and launching cells, combined with small incursions close to
the border.
2009: Jonathan
Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center discusses and signs
copies of Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine at Politics and
Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
2009: The 120th
annual Central Conference American Rabbis being held in Jerusalem comes to an
end.
2009: The annual
Koach Kallah comes to an end.
2009: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh, A Mad Desire
to Dance by Elie Wiesel and recently released paperback editions of The
Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal, by Lily Koppel and Swimming in a Sea of
Death: A Son’s Memoir, by David Rieff.
2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe
2009: Effective today the Glendale Uptown Home will
become a nonkosher facility, leaving Philadelphia proper without a certified
glatt-kosher nursing home.
2009: A revival of
Rogers and Hart’s Pal Joey presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company had its
last performance
2010 (15th
of Adar, 5770): Shushan Purim
2010: In a talk at Harvard University on
"Identity, Diversity, and Human Rights," Canada Supreme Court Justice
Rosalie Silberman Abella shared her family's Holocaust story and explained how
it informs her view of human rights. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)
2010: “The 48 Ways to
Wisdom,” a program cosponsored by The Jewish Renaissance is scheduled for this
evening at Keter Torah Synagogue this evening in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
2010: In Jerusalem, The Kingdom of Alrov Mamilla
Avenue is scheduled to celebrate Shushan Purim at its annual Purim carnival
which will include a colorful parade with characters from the Megilla, clowns
and jugglers, circus performances, circus workshops, magnet games, and whole
lot more.
2010: Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released
from a German prison today after serving a five-year sentence.
2011: Israel LTD,
film that records “a group of young Americans on their intensive bus journey
across a strong and righteous Israel” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC in
Manhattan.
2011: Today Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh
accused Israel of financing and plotting the protests in his country and other
Arab states.
2011: In reaction to clashes that took place a day
earlier in the Gilad Farm outpost in Samaria, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said
today that "We cannot let citizens take the law into their hands."
2011: Amy Totenberg
assumed office as the Judge of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia which includes Atlanta, GA.
2011: In an “Anti-Semtism Double Header” Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said
Jews and Zionists are "trying to push the US into war" and are a
cover for Satan, at the group's annual meeting near Chicago today while a
report published by a British magazine today said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian
Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The
Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization.
2011(25th of Adar I, 5771): Marilyn Henry, a journalist and lecturer,
died of cancer today four days short of her 58th birthday. She lived in
Teaneck, NJ with her husband, Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=210568
2011(25th of Adar): On the Yahrzeit of
those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (March 25), Rabbi Shmuel
Plafker led a memorial survey at the Hebrew Free Burial Association cemetery on
Staten Island where 22 of the victims are buried (As reported by Joseph Berger)
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/triangle/
2011: The
postal services of Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone will simultaneously issue a
set of three commemorative postal sheets today in memory of 12 Jews – men and
women – who fought Apartheid and racism in Africa.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=210275
2011: On the 70th anniversary of the signing of the
pact uniting Bulgaria with Germany as Axis partners The Sephardic Temple in
Cedarhurst, New York is hosting a public meeting as part of a campaign to
convince “the government of Bulgaria to reveal the truth over its interaction
with the Jews during the Holocaust.”
2011: A Merkava MK IV stationed near the Gaza
border, equipped with the Trophy active protection system, successfully foiled
a missile attack aimed towards it and became the first operational success of
the system
2011: It was announced today that Frank Rich would
be leaving the New York Times for New York magazine.
2012(7th of Adar, 5772): Forty-three-year-old
Tulane alum Andrew Breitbart the creator of Brietbart.com passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/business/media/the-life-and-death-of-andrew-breitbart.html
2012: “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray” is
scheduled to be shown at the Charleston Film Festival in Charleston, SC
2012:
“Tijuana Jews” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Etz Chaim in Toledo,
Ohio.
2012:
Miriam Gilbert is scheduled to deliver a lecture Shakespeare and ‘the likeness
of a Jew’ Shylock, Fagin and Disraeli” will take place at the Iowa City Public
Library
2012:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present: “Anti-Jewish
Violence in Eastern Europe” an evening based on a book of the same name that
“and Israel that investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local
and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was
averted.”
2012:
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein today ordered the police to open a criminal
investigation into illegal building in the West Bank Shiloh settlement.
Notification of the investigation was given to the High Court of Justice, which
in November asked the state to decide if it planned to hold such a
investigation.
2012:
Former Shas Minister Shlomo Benizri, who was released from the Maasiyahu Prison
this morning, said Israel was the most anti-Semitic country in the world due to
what he referred to as its "incitement campaign against the haredi
community."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4197436,00.html
2013:
In Ashburn, VA Beth Chaverim is scheduled to join hundreds of congregations
throughout the United States in “Shabbat Across America!” that will include a
screening and discussion of “Advice and Dissent” starring Eli Wallach.
2013:
Release date for Put it in the Book, Howie Rose’s “autobiography and
memoir of 50 years of Mets history.”
2013:
As sequestration goes into effect today, Israeli defense planners are bracing
for a potentially dramatic cut in US assistance that may slash as much as $300
million in aid over the next seven months. (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)
2013(19th
of Adar, 5773): Sixty-nine-year-old actress Bonnie Franklin passed away. (As
reported by Douglas Martin
2013:
Some 20,000 runners took part this morning in the Jerusalem marathon, which was
won by Abraham Kabeto Katale of Ethiopia. His final time of 2:16:29 was a
record for the course.
2013:
Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Turkey’s prime minister had made
“objectionable” remarks when he cast Zionism as a crime against humanity in
comments earlier this week.
2014:
In London, JW3 in partnership with the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
present “Oscars Warm-Up Night” including a screening of “Searching For Sugar
Man.”
2014:
“A Prayer for Aliyah” and “The Jewish Cardinal” are scheduled to be shown at
the 24th Washington Jewish Film Festival.”
2014:
Observance of Tel Hai Day in honor of the memory of Joseph Trumpeldor
2014:
Professor David Shneer is scheduled to host a seminar on “Post Holocaust
American Judaism” in Boulder, CO.
2014(29th
of Adar I, 5774: Shabbat Shekalim
2014:
Two rockets landed near an IDF post in Mount Hermon early this morning. According
to the IDF, the rockets “were most likely the spillover from the clashes in
neighboring Syria, not a deliberate attack.” (As reported by Tova Dvorin)
2014:
Renowned Religious Zionist leader Rabbi Haim Druckman has called on the
Religious Zionist community to stay far away from tomorrow’s "million-man
march" against the hareidi draft. "I totally reject [the
march]," Rabbi Druckman declared tonight. "If this demonstration is
being held to say that Israel is fighting against the rule of the Kingdom of
Heaven, I am so shocked and outraged by it," said the rabbi. (As reported
by Tova Dvorin)
2014:
Twentieth anniversary of the mortal wounding of 16-year-old yeshiva student Ari
Halberstram who was shot by Rashid Baz, an immigrant from Lebanon.
2014:
At Tiftereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel Levin will join her classmates in
the First Grade Consecration Service.
2015(10th
of Adar, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old record executive Orrin Keepnews passed away
today.
2015:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education by Morris
Dickstein, We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler and Anonymous Soldiers:
The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman
2015:
The 25th Washington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an
end.
2015:
F.I.U. is scheduled to host the 30th Anniversary Screening of
“Shoah”
2015:
The curtain is scheduled to come down on “The King of Second Avenue” which has
been playing at Boston’s Charles Mosesian Theatre.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-boston-klezmer-musical-spoofs-jewish-infighting/
2015:
“The exhibition Light & Noir: Exiles
and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 which explores how the experiences of
German-speaking exiles and émigrés who fled Nazi Europe—many of them
Jews—influenced the classic films of Hollywood’s Golden Age” is scheduled to
come to an end at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/la-exhibit-shows-how-nazi-invasion-spawned-film-noir-genre/
2015:
““’Twas the Night Before Hanukkah” an “exhibition, which highlights the music
of Hanukkah and Christmas, and the people behind some of the holidays’ songs”
at the National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to come to a
close today.
2015:
“California Senator Dianne Feinstein” who is a supporter of Israel, “lashed out
at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his “arrogant” claim to speak
for all Jews today, two days before he is scheduled to deliver a controversial
speech to the US Congress. (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)
2015:
Commanders for Israel’s Security, “a nonpartisan body of more than 200 retired
officers held a press conference in Tel Aviv this morning” where Prime Minister
Netanyahu was “slammed” for what were described as his “destructive diplomatic
policies.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2015:
“Activists pitched tenets in Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard to protest
inequality and the cost of living.”(Lazar Berman)
2015:
Today “is the anniversary of the execution by beheading of Sophie Scholl, her
brother Hans and their school friend Christopher Probst who farmed the
short-lived anti-Nazi ‘White Rose’ conspiracy in Munich” during World War II.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/24/contemptible-heroes/
2016:
The Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to co-present a screening Raise the
Roof “as part of the 26th annual Washington Jewish Film Festival.”
2016:
“The Indiana Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill banning state dealings with
entities that boycott Israel or its settlements.”
2016:
“According to the 30th annual Forbes billionaires list released
today, “five Jews are in the top 15 spots and seven are in the top 25 spots”
with Mark Zuckerberg being ranked as the “sixth richest person in the world and
the richest Jew” in the world.
2017(3rd
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-two-year-old Israeli photographer David Rubinger whose
many iconic photos of the early days of the Jewish state included the pictures
of soldiers at the Wall during the Six Day War passed away today.
http://time.com/4687856/in-memoriam-david-rubinger/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubinger#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg
2017(3rd
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-year-old “artist and political radical” Gustav Metzger
passed away today.
2017:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble
playing an evening of “Mostly Schubert.”
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Jewbilation!”
featuring “music from the Yoelling Stones, food, Jewish dancing and regular
music.”
2017:
Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schuler is scheduled to lean an interfaith discussion
on “Scriptural Reasoning” in the Harold Wilson Room of Jesus College, Oxford.
2017:
In Pikesville, MD, Chizuk Amuno is scheduled to host “Auschwitz through the
Lens of the SS.”
https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MAPPGLENSS0317
2018(14th
of Adar, 5778): Purim;
2018:
MIT Assistant Dean Ray Feller is scheduled to speak on “Hard Times in Hard
Sciences: Mental Health in Stem” at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.
2018:
In Little Rock, Chabad under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is
scheduled to host a “Royal Purim Fest and Masquerade Party” completed with a
multimedia Megilla reading
2018:
In Iowa City, Rabbi Avremel Belsofky is scheduled to host a “multi-cultural”
Purim celebration featuring Sushi and Hamantashen.
2018:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screening of “Remember Baghdad,”
“fascinating exploration of the rich Jewish life and culture that had
flourished in Iraq before the events of the 20th and early 21st centuries
dramatically changed the course of the country – and the fate of its Jews.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Gemara shiur which
will be on mesechet Megillah.”
2018:
In London, the Phoenix Cinema is scheduled to host a screening “The Cakemaker”
directed by Ofir Raul Graizer.
2019:
The next ShabbatUK is scheduled to begin today.
2019:
In Arlington, VA, Congregation Etz Hayim is scheduled to host “Potluck
Shabbat.”
2019:
In California, Chabad of Petaluma is scheduled to “host a gourmet dinner for
100.”
2019:
Parents Shabbat is scheduled to begin today at the University of Iowa Hillel.
2019:
In Washington, DC, HIAS Action DC, Moishe House Bethesda, and Avodah DC Service
Corps are scheduled to “kick off Women's History month with a Shabbat dinner
highlighting the experience of women refugees and asylum seekers.”
2020:
Funeral services are scheduled to held today in Mamaroneck, NY for Dr. Steven
Charles Strauss, the former resident of Chevy Chase and husband of Ruth Strauss
with whom he had two daughters, Marley and Amelia.
2020:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Aperirgon, Colum McCann’s novel that begins with 1997 terrorist
attack on Ben Yehuda Street, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year
Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle
East by Kim Ghattas, This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by
Jeff Sharlett, the son of a Jewish father from Schenectady and the recently
released paperback edition of Spies of No Country: Israel’s Secret Agents at
the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
2020:
As part of the JCC Chicago Film Festival, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a screening of “A Bag of Marbles,” “the true story of two
young Jewish brothers in German occupied France…”
2020:
“Objector” and “A Cantor’s Head” are two films scheduled to be shown on the
second and final day of the Seventh Annual JFI WinterFest.
2020:
In Boston, Liberty Hall is scheduled to host “Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen,”
Boston’s “biggest, best and most delicious celebration of Jewish food.”
2020:
In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its Purim Carnival and
Petting Zoo on a day when the temperature is scheduled to reach a torrid (for
Iowa) sixty degrees.
2020:
In Sacramento, CA, the Kashenberg Ostrow Hayward Library is scheduled to host
historian Jennifer Craig—Norton as she talks about The Kindertransport:
Contesting Memory,” which is about child refugees and family separation
during the Holocaust.
2021:
“The first passengers who will be subject to the measure of being
electronically tagged will be those arriving on Arkia flight 232 from
Frankfurt, set to arrive at 4:35pm today at Ben-Gurion Airport. (As reported by
Adir Yanko)
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByM41UBMd
2020:
In New York, Adi Nes is scheduled to explore social and political questions
revolving around gender, the center vs. the periphery, Eastern vs. Western
cultures, ethnicity, Judaism, local myths, militarism, humanism and social
justice through his portraits.
2021:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to “S&P Senior Sephardi
Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Rabbi Dr Rapahel Zarum as they continue their in-depth
discussion into the 10 Commandments.”
2021:
In New Orleans, the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold its
Board Meeting this evening.
2021:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Manashe Khaimov is an
Adjunct Professor in Jewish Studies, with a specialty in History and Culture of
the Bukharian Jews at Queens College as he lectures on “The Persian Experience:
The Jews of the Great Silk Road.”
2021:
As part of Jewish Book Week, Trudy Gold, the director of Holocaust Studies at
JW3 and former chief executive of the LJCC who is the Editor-in-Chief of
Understanding the Holocaust is scheduled to talk with Dr Brendan McGeever, a
Lecturer in the Sociology of Racialization and Antisemitism at Birkbeck,
University of London and a Research Associate at the Pears Institute for the
Study of Antisemitism about the subject matter covered in his book Antisemitism
and the Russian Revolution.
2022:
Hadassah Northeast, the Lappin Foundation, Temple Emanuel and the Holocaust
Legacy Foundation are scheduled to present Dr. Deborah Gilboa lecturing on
“Talking to School-Age Children About Anti-Semitism.
2022:
Today, as Putin began his war of aggression against Ukraine “The Babyn Yar
Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv said that Russian forces had struck the site.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/world/ukranian-ww2-survivors.html?searchResultPosition=2
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture on Nazi hunter Efraim
Zuroff,
2022:
Berkeley Law’s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies is
scheduled to present Elisheva Rosman-Stollman of Bar-Ilan U. discussing her
work on religion/gender in the Israeli military with Ronit Stahl of UC
Berkeley.
2023:
YIVO and Anyin Press are scheduled to present a conversation with playwright
Rokhl Kafriseen and Jeremiah Lockwood about the forthcoming release of
Lockwood’s “Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads from the Yiddish
Gothic.”
2023:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a virtual
event “A Nazi Killing Center through a Perpetrator’s Lens: The Sobibor
Perpetrator Collection.”
2023:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a presentation by Ginie
Milgrom and Dr. Yochai Ben-Gehdalia on “Purim or the Holiday of Esther?
Uncovering and Preserving Crypto-Jewish History.”
2023:
The Limmud Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023:
The 72nd National Jewish Book Awards is scheduled to take place this
evening at the Bohemian National Hall.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/72nd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration
2023:
Elan Ganeles, an American-Israeli citizen killed in a terrorist attack near the
Dead Sea while traveling to a wedding is scheduled to be buried in Ra’anana’s Klausner cemetery
this afternoon.
2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host the first lecture
on a course on Sir Winston Churchill and the Second War styled “The Power of
Words: Oratory, minutes and memoirs.”
2023:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a lecture by Daniel
Herszberg on “Amid Conflict and Distress: Exploring the Remnants of Jewish
Heritage in Syria and Lebanon.
2023:
Dance on the Beach — which in the foreground shows two of Munch’s lovers, Tulla
Larsen and Millie Thaulow — and which was hidden from the Nazis is expected to
be sold for $15-25 million at the Sotheby’s auction today.
2024:
At Temple Judea, Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead Shabbat
services that will include a Special HaGomel Blessing for anyone who recovered
from an illness, is recovering, or survived an accident followed by a Shabbat
Dinner.
2024:
In Stoughton, MA, Ahavath Torah Congregation is scheduled “to participate in
Shabbat Across America and host Tufts University’s Shir Appeal, an a cappella
group!”
2024:
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Dr.
Ewa Wampuszyc, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Edna
Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on “Irena
Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others.”
2024: As March
1st begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 147 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.)
286: Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian
to the rank of Caesar. Diocletian was determined to restore greatness and
stability to the Roman Empire. He was
far more concerned about the Christians whom he saw “as the sole cause of the
dissolution of the Empire, on account of their persistent struggle against the
Roman state religion and their zeal for conversion” than he was about the
Jews. When he attempted to unify the
empire by ordering all of those under his reign to accept his divinity and
“bring sacrifices to his cult,” Diocletian exempted the Jews. The only negative note of import surrounding
Diocletian and his Jewish subjects had to do with accusation that they had
mocked him because of his early origins as a swineherd. Judah III, the Patriarch, actually had to
appear before the Emperor while he was in Tiberias to answer the charge. Judah assured him that while some may of
spoken disrespectfully of Diocletian the swineherd nobody had uttered any words
of criticism against Diocletian, the emperor.
The explanation assuaged Diocletian but it has been used an example of
the dangers of speaking L’shon Hara.
293: Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian
appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesares, thus beginning the
Tetrarchy. This move on the part of
Diocletian was part of an attempt to ensure a smooth transition of power after
Diocletian resigned as Emperor. The plan
would fail and would result in 19 years of turmoil that would end only when
Constantine took the throne. For the Jews, this would mean an end to great
Yeshiva at Tiberias. Those who could
would flee to Caesarea where they would a haven at the yeshiva begun by Abbahu.
317: Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman
Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made
Caesares. Lucinius and Crispus would be killed, the latter by his father
Emperor Constantine I. Constantine II
would continue the anti-Jewish policies of his father. Among other things, he decreed that any
Christians who converted to Judaism would forfeit their property to the state.
1105: Birthdate of Alfonso VII who in 1130,
started a school in Toledo which begins to spread Hebrew and Arabic learning as
well as ancient Greek knowledge through Western Europe
1274: Gregory X issued Turbato Code, a Papal
Bull that forbade Christians from “embracing Judaism.”
1349 (Adar 10): Riots broke out in Worms
(Germany). Many Jews fled to Heidelberg.
Others in desperation set fire to their homes or were murdered. An
estimated 420 people died that day. Their property was seized by the town.
1565: Portuguese settlers founded the city of
Rio de Janeiro. For the first two centuries of its existence, Jewish life in
the city was hindered by the reality of the Portuguese laws against Judaism and
the Inquisition. “New Christians” played
an active role in the city’s commercial and social life but records show that
at least 300 of these New Christians were found guilty by the Inquisition of
secretly practicing Judaism. After
Brazil gained its independence in 1822 and adopted a constitution in 1824 that
allowed for religious toleration, more Jews began arriving in the city and
played a more active role in its growth and prosperity. Today, Rio has the second largest Jewish
community in Brazil.
1655: The Magistrate of
New Amsterdam wrote a ruling making an attempt to expel the Jews.
It read, in part,
"Resolved that the Jews, who came last year from the West Indies and now
from the Fatherland, must prepare to depart forthwith." (“The Patroons of
the West India Company decided, however, that the Jews owned most of the stock in
that organization they would have to be left alone.”
1655: The Sheriff of
New Amsterdam as plaintiff filed suit against the defendant Abram de la Sina, a
Jew, for the crime of keeping his store open during the hour the church gave a
sermon.
1670: “A solemn proclamation was made in all
public places that ‘for the glory of God’ all Jews should, on penalty of
imprisonment and death, leave Vienna and Upper and Lower Austria before Corpus
Christi Day, never to return. Hirz Koma and a physician named Leo Winkler,
“made a last attempt to propitiate the emperor by offering him 100,000 florins
and, in addition, 10,000 florins a year.”
1692: “In the Parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields” apothecary John Tovey and his wife gave birth to De
Blossiers Tovey, the “principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford” who devoted much of
his to studying the history of the Jews of medieval England and wrote Anglia Judaica (the History and
Antiquities of the Jews in England.)
1728(2nd of Nisan, 5488): Joseph
Abraham Azuby, the Amsterdam born son of Lea Azuby and Chazan Abraham Azuby and
husband of Rachel David Azuby and Esperanca David Azuby passed away today in
the Netherlands.
1761(25th of Adar I, 5521): Abraham
Gershon of Kitov, also known as Rabbi Gershon of Brody, the Polish born brother-in-law
of the Baal Shem Tov and leader of the Jewish community in Brody, who “traveled
to Jerusalem, making him one of the first Hasidim to establish a presence in
the Holy Land
where he embraced the Rashash, together
with those who were students of Kabbalah” passed away today in Jerusalem after
which he was buried on the Mount of Olives which was also the burial site of
his second wife Bluma.
1761: In Philadelphia, PA, Tabitha Mears and
Mathias Bush gave birth to “Catherine” Bush, the wife of Myers S. Solomon whom
she married in 1778 and the mother of Joseph, Samuel Arabella, Mattathias,
Alexander, Sarah and Henry Solomon.
1769: In Buchau, German, Rebekka and Joseph
Einstein gave birth to David Einstein, the husband of Sara Kan and the father
of Lena, Abraham, Baruch, Joseph and Eva Einstein.
1779(13th of Adar, 5539): Ta’anit
Esther; erev Purim
1781: James Madison. the author of the First
Amendment which guaranteed separation of church and who as president appoint a
Jew to a diplomatic post, beganhis service as a delegate from Virginia to the
Congress of Confederation which was the national government of the United
States.
1790(15th of Adar, 5550): Shushan
Purim
1790: The Pennsylvania Packet featured an
advertisement offering the skills of Abraham Cohen as Hebrew tutor
1792: Francis II, who relied on Bernhard
Eskeles for “financial advice” became King of Hungary and Croatia.
1798(13th of Adar, 5558): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim
1799: Eppingen, Germany natives Babetter Furth
and Maier Heinsheimer gave birth to Jeanette Heinsheimer, the wife of Model
Wertheimer.
1800(4th of Adar 5560): Parashat
Terumah
1800: English born Esther Cohen and German born
Michael Hart gave birth to Rachel Hart.
1801: In Aldgate, London, Aaron Jacob Cantor,
the son of Simeon Cantor and his was Catherine Cantor gave birth to Abraham
Jacob Cantor.
1803: In London, Dinah Myers and Rabbi Henry
Henoch Myers gave birth to Rabbi Moses Henry Myers, the husband of Sarah
Abrahams whom he married at the Hambro Synagogue in 1826 and father of Kate, Phoebe, Miriam, Matilda,
Isaac, Dinah and Victor Myers.
1803: Birthdate of Editor Salomon Frensdorff
1803: Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
Under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance there was not to be any religious
qualification for states formed in the region including Ohio. The first record
of Jewish settlement in Ohio relates to the city of Cincinnati. By 1824, there were enough Jews living in the
“Queen City,” that the Jews formed a congregation called the Sons of
Israel. The twenty-four members of the
congregation were not able to raise enough funds for a building until
1836. Max Lilienthal and Isaac Mayer
were the first two rabbis in the state.
By the time of the Civil War, the Jewish population was large enough
that it sent almost 1,200 of its sons to fight in the Union cause.
1806(11th of Adar, 5566): Chaim
Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia passed away. Born in Jerusalem in 1724, he was the
great-great grandson of Abraham Azulai who was a noted student of the Talmud
and Kabbalah, community leader and prolific author.
http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/chida.htm
1809(13th of Adar, 5569): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim are observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Thomas Jefferson.
1810: Georgetown College was
chartered in Washington, D.C., making it the first Roman Catholic institution
of higher learning established in the United States. Today Georgetown has approximately 1,600
Jewish students out of a student boy of 13,000 students. The school offers approximately 35 Jewish
Studies Courses.
1810: John Jonas, the son of Jacob Jonas and
Sarah Reuben was circumcised today in the UK.
1811: In Dresden, German, Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau gave birth to Wolf Landau, the husband of Fanny Landau, the father
of David and Emilie Landau and the grandson of Rabbi David Landau who “in 1854,
when Zacharias Frankel became director of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau,
was unanimously elected as his successor in the Dresden chief rabbinate.”
1816(1st of Adar, 5576): Rosh
Chodesh Adar observe on the same that “The Gorkha War between the United
Kingdom and Nepal is ended after more than a year by the ratification of the
Treaty of Sugauli, with Nepal ceding about one-third of its territory to
British Indian control,”
1819: Jamaica native Rosetta Micholls and
Edward Emanuel Micholls gave birth to Emma Micholls he wife of Salomon Henry
Godefron.
1822: In Brno, Joshua Philipp Feibelman Gomperz
and Henriette Auspitz gave birth to Max von Gomperz the sugar merchant who was
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Creditanstalt.”
1823: In New York, Solomon Henry Jackson
published “The Jew,” an anti-missionary journal. This is thought to be the
first Jewish publication to be published in the United States. Jackson is also
known for translating and publishing the first Sephardic Siddur in America. He
published an English-Hebrew version in 1826.
1827: In Charleston, SC, Hartwig and Deborah
Marks Cohen gave birth to Sarah Cohen who became Sarah Cohen Wolf when she
married Sailing Cohen.
1827: In Karlsruhe, Germany, Fanny and David
Ellstaetter gave birth to Mortiz Ellstaetter whose quarter of a century as
Minister of Finance made him “the first and only Jew since the days of Joseph
Suss Oppenheimer to be a Cabinet Minister in Germany
1828(15th of Adar, 5588): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
John Quincy Adams.
1837: Birthdate of Egyptologist Georg Moritz
Ebers, the Berlin native who “discovered the Ebers Papyrus at Luxor” which
dates from 1550 BCE.
1841: Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse gave
birth to Deborah Leonore Mosse who became Leonore Cohn When she married Emil
Cohn
1843: David Belasco married Mary Davis at Bevis
Marks in London.
1843: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of
New York passed a resolution prohibiting the performing of ceremonies at
funerals of persons intermarried with Christians.
1843: Isaac Michael Emanuel married Jane Jacobs
today at the Great Synagogue.
1847(13th of Adar, 5607): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim
1847: in Liberty, Mississippi, Henrietta Cahn
and Samuel Bernheimer gave birth to Georgia Military institute Cadet Marcus
Bernheimer, the husband of Ella Heyman, the president of the United Hebrew
Relief Association and vice president of the Merchants’ Exchange in St. Louis,
MO.
1848: In Shirwint, Russia Hirsch Tannenbaum and
his wife gave birth to Abner Tannenbaum who came to New York in 1887 and
“opened a small candy and cigar store” and then starting in 1889 began writing
for Jewish publications including Der
Morgenstern as well as translating “all the work of Jules Verne into
Yiddish.”
1848: Birthdate of San Francisco native Abraham
B. Arnold, the graduate of Washington University School of Medicine who was
granted a “certificate to practice medicine and surgery in” California at
meeting of the Board of Examiners on December 22, 1890.
1851: Noting the appearance of Jews in Utah,
Lorenzo Brown wrote in his diary today that he had seen “some Hungarian Jews
living in the ward--emigrants bound for the [California] mines...forced to
leave their native land because of the revolution.”
1852: The New York Times reported that a
funding raising ball has raised $1,034 which will be donated to "The
Hebrew Hospital" in New York City.
1854: In Dresden, on his 43rd
birthday, Rabbi Wolf Zeev Landau, the Dresden born son of Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau and his wife Fanny Landau gave birth to Emilie Landau in the same
year that Woolf Landau became the Chief Rabbi of Dresden.
1855: In Hungary, Sándor Salamon Rockenstein
and Nina Genendel Rockenstein gave birth to Jozefa Bettelheim, the wife of Dr.
József Bettelheim and ex-wife of Sándor Forgo.
1857: The Hebrew Indigent Sick and Burial
Society was organized today.
1858: The New York Times reported that
in February of this year, Lord John Russell's bill that would modify the oath
of office so that Jews could serve in Parliament had been "debated and
read for a second time" in the House of Commons. [This was in the days
before the transatlantic cable. Gaps
between events and published reports are responsible for some of the
inconsistencies in providing specific dates for events]
1858: Birthdate of German born philosopher and
sociologist Georg Simmel. Simmel’s family was Jewish, but when his father died,
Simmel’s Catholic guardian converted him to the Church of Rome.
1860: “Gang of Rogues Started on a Traveling
Tour,” published today, reported that “Five Polish and Prussian Jews, who have
long been known to the police authorities of” New York City “as expert
pickpockets and daring burglars… started on a Western traveling tour” yesterday
evening. Information of their departure
was given by two members of the gang, who have lately sundered relationship
with their old associates.” According to these two, “the gang has for a long time
gone by the name of the ‘Order of Vatabeds,’ a name till now kept private among
the members.” Since it was impossible for the police to detain them in New
York, “telegrams were sent to Albany, Buffalo and Dunkirk, stating the fact of
their departure, and putting the public and Police on guard against their
arrival. The names of the traveling troupe are Samuel Levy, alias "Old
Levy"; Morris M. Goldstein, alias Goldever; L. Truebart; Michael Roberts,
alias "Big Roberts," and Henry Wcyman. Most of them have served terms
in foreign state prisons.”
1860: A
column entitled London Town Talk published today provides a gossipy and negative view of William Ward’s
elevation from Baron of Ward to Earl of Dudley. His elevation was attributed
not to his virtue but to his wealth. According to the unnamed author the role
of money should come as no surprise since it was “Baron Rothschild’s millions”
that made Lord John Russell an advocate of the bill to remove “Jewish disabilities”
when it came to taking the oath to serve in Parliament.
1861: The first train of the Florida Railroad
arrived in Cedar Key providing the first link between Florida’s Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico’s ports. The railroad was
the creation of David Levy Yulee, the first Jew to be elected to the United
States Senate. Unfortunately for Yulee, the business success was short-lived
due to the Civil War which began a month later.
Yulee supported secession and served in the Confederate Congress so you
might say he was the architect of his own doom.
1861: Birthdate of American author Henry
Harland. A lawyer by trade he began his literary career by using the pen name
Sidney Luska under which he wrote his first three novel’s As It Was Written,
Mrs. Peixada and The Yoke of the Torah which were known as his
“Jewish Trilogy.”
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16044a.htm
1861: The New York Times reported that The
Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig gave “a first rate” description of a “Jew”
named Mordecai who distinguished himself a few weeks” ago since by presenting
$10,000 to the Governor of South Carolina. The Whig stated that
“Mordecai who is a druggist, visited New-York, Philadelphia and Boston, just
before he did this act, and represented to his creditors that he was insolvent,
and settled with them by paying 50 cents on the dollar.” [By this time, South Carolina had seceded
from the Union, so the money was going to support the Rebel government.]
1863: Six days after she had passed away,
Franklin, Maria (nee Levy), the wife of Benjamin Woolfe Franklin and the mother
of Louisa Franklin was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1865: The Medal of Honor was issued to Private
Benjamin Levy for bravery displaced during fighting at Glendale, VA in 1862.
1866(14th of Adar, 5626): Purim
1866: The Purim Ball, the last of the three
great events of New York’s Winter Social Season was held this evening.
1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th state to join
the Union. The Jewish community in Nebraska pre-dates statehood. Services were
conducted in Omaha in the 1860’s. The oldest congregation in the state, Temple
Israel, was founded in 1871 along with a burial society. The town of Lancaster was renamed Lincoln at
this time and Lincoln became the state capital. Lincoln, Nebraska’s
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, also known as the South Street Temple was
Lincoln’s first Jewish congregation. The Temple was founded in 1884,
principally by German immigrants. The year 1884 must have been an auspicious
one for Cornhusker Jews, since that is the same year in which the first
synagogue building in the state was dedicated at Omaha. It was the home of Congregation Israel now
known as Temple Israel.
1870: J.K. Buchner published Di Yiddshe Zeitunge, the first Yiddish
weekly to be published in the United States. The language itself was more of a
German Yiddish than the eastern European variant of the patois. The politics were conservative rather than
socialist in direction.
1871: Birthdate of Baltimore native Bertha van
Leer.
1872(22nd of Adar II, 5632): Forty-four-year-old
Hannah Moses, the widow of Zvi Moes passed away today after which she was
buried at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1872: Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild, the German
born son of Caroline and David Aron Rothschild and his wife Stella Rothschild
gave birth to Albert Aron Rothschild.
1872: “In the Galitzian town of Lemberg, or
Lviv, then under Austrian administration, Nahum Niemirower, a Jewish trader and
his wife gave birth to Dr. Jacob Itzhak Neimirower, “a modern reform rabbi” who
served as the first Chief Rabbi of Romania as well as a member of the Romanian
Senate.
1873: Birthdate of German writer, editor and
translator Efraim Firish who dropped out of rabbinical school in Vienna and
went on to study art and literature at the University of Berlin.
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/17541
1874: The first day of the annual Purim
Reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York is scheduled to
begin at eleven o’clock this morning.
1874: Birthdate of General Sir Arthur Grenfell
Wauchope who was appointed High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for
Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1931” and whose firs four years in office were
described as “the heyday of Zionist history in Palestine” with an increase in
immigration, land holdings and “Jewish business and commerce.”
1875: It was reported today that a Jewish
furniture dealer named Beyfus has brought suit against a weekly London
newspaper claiming that he and his son have been defamed as money-lenders by
the publication.
1876: In Savannah, GA, the cornerstone is laid
for the new home of Mikveh Israel. The
new structure was required because the congregation had outgrown the old
building.
1877: In Russia, Benjamin and Sarah Kail
Lazarus gave birth to Isaac B. Lazarus who owned an operated a newsstand in the
Arcade in the Powers Building in Rochester NY which offered its customers six
hundred different periodicals.
1877: The Purim Association is sponsoring a
Purim calico masked reception at Delmonico’s in New York City. The association had originally planned on
sponsoring a fancy dress ball but changed its plans because of the current
economic problems.
1878: It was reported that George H. Hepworth
is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Our American Homes” at a meeting of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at Lyric Hall later this week.
1879: Birthdate of Edward Ganz the Vilna born
American “coal and fuel dealer who was the co-owner of Harris and Gans in
Norwalk, CT where he was a city councilman and an active Zionist.
1879: In a modern case that is harkens back to
the fifth commandment, in the Court of General Sessions, Judge Gildersleeve
heard charges from seventy-year-old Fanny Salomon that she had been abandoned
and refused support by her three sons – Alfred, Leopold and Felix. The sons responded by contending that their
mother was financially secure and was merely too parsimonious to pay for her
own upkeep.
1880: It was reported today that Lee &
Shepard is about to published “The Exodus of the Children of Israel” by Francis
Underwood and Brugsch Bey that uses the latter’s research to provide that the
Red Sea has been mistaken for the Sea of Reeds in the Exodus narrative.
1880: It was reported today that Ernest Renan,
the French scholar who is an expert on ancient eastern civilizations and
Semitic languages is scheduled to deliver a series of lectures in London. Renan’s knowledge of Hebrew is such that he
was the chair of Hebrew at the College de France, a position from which he was
ousted because he challenged the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.[Renan
would eventually write a three volume history of Israel.]
1881(30th of Adar I, 5641): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1881: Ida (Kuhn) Cohen and Eduard Cohen gave
birth to Sophie Cohen
1881: Judith Salzedo Peixotto, the first Jewish
school principal in the history of New York City and the daughter of the
Amsterdam-born physician Dr. Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto and New York–born
Rachel (Seixas) Peixotto who was the wife David Hays with she had eight
children - “Sarah Rosalie (b. 1852),
Daniel Peixotto (b. 1854), Rebecca Touro (b. 1855), Benjamin Franklin (b.
1857), George Davis (b. 1859), Rachel Peixotto (b. 1861), David Solis, Jr. (b.
1863), and Cora Florence (b. 1870). Judith Peixotto Hays –“passed away today
after which she was buried at the Shearith Israel Cypress Hills Street Cemetery
in Queens, New York.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peixotto-judith
1881: Twenty-three citizens of Salt Lake City
met to form B’nai Israel. Under the direction of President Henry Siegel $2,600
was spent on a lot which would be the site of Utah’s first synagogue. (As
reported by Jack Goodman)
http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.html
1882: Birthdate of birthdate of Lwow native and
University of Lemberg trained doctor of jurisprudence Dr. Adolf Berger, the
author of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law and lecturer on Roman Law at
the University Berlin who “came to the United States in WW II, joined the Ecole
Libre es Hautes Etude as a Professor of Roman Law” and joined the faculty of
CCNY in 1922 where he served until his death ten years later. (Editor’s Note:
He is not to confused with New York College trained oral surgeon Adolph Berger,
the Hungarian born son of Theresa Goldberger and Ignatz Berger and author of
Principles and Techniques of Oral surgeon who was an assistant professor of
Oral Surgery at Columbia the oral surgeon for Beth Israel Hospital in New York
City,)
https://www.abaa.org/book/63120617
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/09/82043779.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776413
1883: In West Virginia, Bertrand Kahn, the
Atlanta, GA, born son of Matilda and Samuel Kahn and his wife Leonora Kahn gave
birth to Louis Isaac Kahn, the brother of Minette Hirsch.
1884: In New York City, Frederika Baum and Mark
E. Fohs gave birth to Columbia University oil geologist F. Julius Fohs, the
husband of Cora Bladauf Fohs who “early in his career made a detailed study of
Palestine’s natural resources,” a report of which “he submitted immediately
after World War I to the British Government and the World Zionist Organization
that led to the development of the present Dead Sea potash and chemical plants
in Israel.”
1885(14th of Adar, 5645): Purim
1885: Four days after he had passed away,
Morris Angel, the son of “Rachel and Daniel Angel” and the husband of Sarah
Angel with whom he had had six children was buried today at “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1886: First organized Arab attack on a Jewish
settlement in what would become Eretz Yisrael. The attack was waged
against Petak Tikvah, the first all Jewish village to be built in Palestine
during modern times. The early settlers had a difficult time of it facing
not only Arab marauders but malaria as well. The land on which the
village was built was purchased by English Jew named Hayyim Amzalak who had
moved to Palestine in 1830. Money for draining the malarial swamps in the
area was given by Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Much of the labor was
supplied by Russian Jewish immigrants.
1888: Rabbi Joseph Silverman begins serving as
spiritual leader for Temple Emanu-El replacing the legendary Gustav Gottheil.
Silverman is the first American born rabbi to serve a congregation in New York
City.
1889: Birthdate of Warsaw native Avro Tatlboym,
the actor and director who performed and/or staged plays in Russia, France,
Argentenia and the United States.
1889: In Baltimore, MD, “Jacob Levy and Bertha Arnold”
gave birth to Elsie Levy, who became Elsie Pfaelzer when she married Frank
Pfaelzer with whom she had four children – Maurice, Betty, Frank and Mildred –
while being active in several social improvement organizations in Philadelphia.
1890: In Krakow, Anna Ferber and Isador Berstein
gave birth to Theresa Ferber the Philadelphia educated American artist who
settled in Manhattan in 1912 and whose husband William Meyerowitz was a
well-known artist in his own right.
http://nml.cuny.edu/theresabernstein/
http://forward.com/articles/189491/why-theresa-bernstein-was-the-jewish-artist-of-the/
1891(21st of Adar I, 5651): Sixty-seven-year-old
Bernhard Sondheim passed away today in New York. Born in Hesse Homburg, he and his family
moved to Georgia when Sondheim was nine years old. Eventually he settled in New York where he
established a successful import business. He was a member of the 10th
Regiment of the state militia and served as Vice President of the Hebrew Mutual
Benefit Society, a position he held at the time of his death.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0A15F9345F10738DDDAA0894DB405B8185F0D3
1891: With less than two months until the start
of Passover, The Passover Relief Association, which provides matzoth and items
to New York’s less fortunate Jews, finds itself with only $173.45 in its
treasury. Considering the fact that the
association spent $675.24 and the fact that the population of needy Jews has
greatly increased, the association is in need of donations which can be sent to
its members including the chairman, Benjamin Saidel.
1891: Today the United States trustees of the
fund created by the late Baron de Hirsch to provide for the needs of immigrants
coming to America will draw the $2,400,000 set aside for this purpose from the
banks in Paris.
1891: In New York city Harriet
"Hattie" (nee Lehman) and Philip Julius Goodhart gave birth to their
third and youngest child Arthur Lehman Goodhart, the brother of Howard Goodhart
and Helen Goodhart Altschul and grandson of Mayer Lehman (co-founder of Lehman
brothers who became a Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and “was the first
American to the Master of an Oxford College.”
https://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf
1891: “Good Things From Foreign Tongues”
published today provided a review of A Literary Manual of Foreign
Quotations, Ancient and Modern by John Devoe Belton which includes an
explanation of the Latin phrase “Credat Judaeus Appella” which Horace saw as a
reference to Appella “the most superstitious of his race” who “believed that
the incense placed on the threshold of his temple melted without fire” but whom
Renan “thought referred to a Hellenized Jew who, was orthodox, ill-informed and
consequently very superstitious.” (As the worse Latin student in the history of
Alice Deal and Woodrow Wilson, I can claim no credit for the following. According to some experts this phrase, which
by the way Doc Holliday used in the movie “Tombstone”, can loosely be
translated as “Let the Jew believe it; not I” or in colloquial English, “tell
it to someone else, not me.”)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30712F9395D15738DDDA80894DB405B8185F0D3
1892: It was reported today that the next
meeting of the Hebrew Technical Institute will take place at Temple Emanu-El
1892: Carl Wiser played the role of Shylock in
the German version of “The Merchant of Venice” at New York’s
Thalia Theatre
1892: As
of this afternoon, 21-year-old Joseph Seigler who worked in his father’s dry
good store is the only new case of typhus reported today.
1892: As New York City continued to deal with
the latest outbreak of typhus fever, public health officials ordered all
synagogues on the Lower East to be fumigated.
1893: Sixty-two-year-old banker Isidor Wormser,
was attacked on the floor of the NYSE by another broker who “stuck him twice in
the face” and who had to be restrained by half a dozen members of the exchange.
1893: “Jewish Women’s Achievements” published
today outlined the plans for the presentation of papers to delivered at the
upcoming Parliament of Religions “which is to be a feature” of the upcoming
World’s Fair. The papers which will be prepared by some of New York’s leading
Jewish ladies will highlight the unique contributions of such groups as the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1893(13th of Adar, 5653): Fast of
Esther; Erev Purim
1893: Three days after she had passed away
Eloisa Berger, the wife of Austrian native Leo Berger with whom she had had
five children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1893:
1894(23rd of Adar I, 5654): Twenty-seven-year-old
Hyman Freedman, the husband of Sarah Freedman passed away today after which he
was buried at the Edmonton Western Jewish Cemetery.
1894: According to the testimony of Benny
Weiss, Charles Krumm gave two ten dollar bills to Ward Man Jeremiah Levy of the
Eleventh Police Precinct “in pursuance of an arrangement with the policeman.”
(Arrangement is a euphemism for bribe)
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/broun-aaron-b0d06xsrum/
1894: Over the last six months (10/1/93 –
3/1/94), the United Hebrew Charities spent $103,102.40 providing aid to the
needy as opposed to $46,498.22 “for the corresponding period of the preceding
year.”
1895: In Bradford, Yorkshire, Lean and Aaron
George Bernstein, the president of the Bradford Hebrew Congregation gave birth
Joseph Bernstein who was killed in France while service with the West Riding
Regiment
1895: The National Council of Women, an
organization whose members included Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women,
opened the penultimate session of its annual triennial meeting in Washington
D.C.
1895: “Russians Arrested on Suspicion”
published today relied on telegraphs from the Vienna correspondent of the
Central News to described arrests made in Kiev and Odessa of those thought to
be “engaged in revolutionary plots’ many of whom were Jews.
1896(16th of Adar, 5656): Forty-three-year-old
Jacob Bueno De Mesquita, the son of David and Jessy Bueno De Mesquita passed
away after which he was buried in the Nuevo Jewish Cemetery in London.
1896:
Theodor Herzl and Nathan Birnbaum meet for the first time. Nathan
Birnbaum was born in Vienna, and lived there from.1864-1908, and again from
1914-21. In 1882, together with two other students in the University of Vienna,
he founded “Kadimah,” the first organization of Jewish nationalist students in
the West. In 1884, he published his first pamphlet, Die Assimilationsucht
(“The Assimilation Disease/Mania”). He founded, published and edited Selbst-Emancipation!
(“Self-Emancipation!”) The periodical promoted
“the idea of a Jewish renaissance and the resettlement of Palestine.” It
incorporated and developed the ideas of Leon Pinsker. In 1890, Birnbaum coined
the terms “Zionist” and “Zionism,” and, in 1892, “Political Zionism.” In 1893,
he published a brochure entitled Die Nationale Wiedergeburt des
Juedischen Volkes in seinem Lande als Mittel zur Loesung der Judenfrage
(“The National Rebirth of the Jewish People in its Homeland as a Means of
Solving the Jewish Question”), in which he expounded ideas similar to those
that Herzl was to promote subsequently. Birnbaum played a prominent part in the
First Zionist Congress (1897) and was elected Secretary General of the Zionist
Organization. However, he and Herzl developed ideological differences. Birnbaum
had begun to question the political aims of Zionism and to attach increasing
importance to the national-cultural content of Judaism. Birnbaum eventually
left the Zionist movement and later became a leading spokesman for Jewish
cultural autonomy in the Diaspora. He stressed the Yiddish language as the
basis of Ashkenazi Jewish culture and was chief convenor of the Conference on
Yiddish held in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1908. This was attended by leading
Yiddish writers, and proclaimed Yiddish as a national Jewish language. Birnbaum
propagated his ideas in writing and by lecturing in many Jewish communities. In
the years preceding World War I he gradually abandoned his materialistic and
secular outlook, eventually embracing full traditional Judaism. He may be seen as
the forerunner of the modern Baal Teshuvah movement. His most famous
book of this period was Gottesvolk (“God’s People”) first published in
German and Yiddish in 1917 (translated into English in a shortened form by J.
Elias in 1947 titled "Confession"). In 1919, he became the first
Secretary General of the new Agudath Yisrael Organization. Dissatisfied with
the spiritual complacency of the religious masses, he initiated a movement, the
Order of the Olim (“[Spiritual] Ascenders”), to consist of small groups of
people dedicated by their way of living to raising spiritual awareness within
the larger Jewish society, thus leading toward a Jewish spiritual renaissance.
Disturbed by the urbanized focus of Jewish life, he promoted the establishment
of agricultural communities and other groups living a style of Jewish life more
in conformity with nature. Settlement in Eretz Israel was to be for the prime
purpose of fulfilling the spiritual role of the Jewish people. He lived in
Berlin from 1912-1914, and again from 1921-1933. After the rise of Nazism, he
left Germany for Scheveningen, Netherlands, where he edited Der Ruf
("The Call"), a platform for his ideas. He died there in 1937.
1896: “Gifts on Purim” published today based on
information that first appeared in The American Hebrew described the near
disappearance of “the custom of sending gifts on Purim to friends” a custom,
“that can easily be restored.”
1896: “The Mexican Inquisition” published today
described the publication of two papers by the American Jewish Historical
Society – “Trials of Jorge de Alemdia by the Inquisition in Mexico” by Dr.
Cyrus Adler and Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America” by George
Alexander Kohut – which provide a hitherto untold story of the early Jews
living in Latin America.
1897(27th of Adar I, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old
Mosbach native and editor of Jewish texts Seligman (Isaac) Baer whose most
famous work was Seder Avodat Yisrael, “a monumental edition of the Jewish
prayerbook according to the Ashkenazic rite” passed away today.
1897: “Old Bibles In A New Home” published
today “rich and curious library of the American Bible Society” which includes
“an ancient Hebrew roll found in a synagogue in the interior of China” that “is
supposed to date back to the year 900 and is supposed to have been used for
centuries.”
1897: It was reported today that the Yale
Divinity Students who visited New York last week learned about “the magnitude
of the problems confronting charitable organizations” including the United
Hebrew Charities whose director N.S. Rosenau told them “We have been faced
since with an unprecedented rush of immigration” since 1890 because the Russian
have driven 400,000 people to the United States.
1898: In Bucharest, Tulius Revici and Ecaterina
Gaster Revici, the daughter of Phina Judith Gaster and Abraham Emanuel Gaster,
gave birth to Fina Friedman
1898: “Get-Together Clubs Meet” published today
included a summary of a speech, “The United Hebrew Charities and the
Unemployed” by N.S. Rosenau in which the director described “the problem of
Jewish labor in New York saying that their natural limits of ability had kept
them out of the work of the day laborer” and had “sent them into the garment
trades” where “the Italians were already displacing them.”
1898: “Hope For Zionist Union” published today
described efforts two unify the religious and secular supporters of the Zionist
which, if successful will strengthen the movement designed to buy land for
Jewish settlement in the Ottoman Empire.
Representative of 26 different Jewish organizations including Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, Adam Rosenberg, E.D. Eisenstein and Dr. Moses Mintz are
working on the effort led by Columbia Professor Richard Gottheil.
1899(19th of Adar, 5659): Sixty-one-year-old
Farrer Herschell, the 1st Baron Herschell whose father Rabbi Ridley
Haim Herschell who had converted to Christianity and founded the British
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews passed away today.
1899(19th of Adar, 5659): Bavarian
born William S. Rayner, who in 1838 settled In Baltimore from which he managed
“mining enterprises in Pennsylvania and North Carolina” while also serving as a
director of the Western National Bank and the Western Maryland Railroad and
playing an active role in the Jewish community as can be seen by his serving as
President of the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum, the Hebrew Benevolent Society and
Congregation Har Sinai which he helped to found passed away today.
1899: Chaim Isaac Bloc, the Lithuanian born so
of Gitte Sarah Meshumami and Zundel Bloch began serving as the rabbi in Polangen,
Kurland after which in 1904 he “succeeded Chief Rabbi Kook of Jeusalem.”
1899(19th of Adar, 5659): Miriam
Joel, the wife of Lewis Leapman passed away today in her 66th year
after which she was buried at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1900(30th of Adar I, 5660): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II
1900(30th of Adar I, 5660): Forty-eight-year-old
Flora Moses, the New York bon daughter of Jacob Moses and Sarah J. Moses Davega,
the wife of Dr. Ottolenghui Aaron Moses and the mother of Walter Moses passed
away today.
1900: In France, a bill calling for amnesty of
all matters related with the Dreyfus Affair is introduced by the Senate.
1900: Cincinnati College of Music graduate
Bertha Beitman Herzog, the daughter of Emanuel and Millie Beitman and social
worker who was President of the Cleveland, OH Council of Jewish Women and a
member of the board of the National Council of Jewish Women and the National
School for Social Service married Siegmund Herzog today.
1901: “A fire which started in the basement of
the five-story brick tenement at 20 Clinton Street” this evening “caused a
panic among the occupants” including Mrs. Nathan Goldberg and her four
children.
1902: In New York City, Goodman Richard Davis
and Benvenida Solis Davis, the daughter of David and Sarah Brickner, gave birth
to Walter Alan Davis
1902: Rev. S. Levy, MA read “Notes on Leicester
Jewry” today before The Jewish Historical Society of England.
1903: “Light on the Jewish Question in
Romania,” published today summarizes an article that first appeared in The Romanian Bulletin that defends King
Charles (a.k.a. Carlos I) against accusations that he is the prime mover in the
persecution of his Hebrew subjects. The
article depicts him as being sympathetic to their plight, but as a constitutional
monarch, all but powerless to defend the Jews against “unscrupulous ministers”
who do not share his enlightened views of Romanian Hebrews.
1903: In Topeka, KS, Henry A. Auerbach, the
Achim, Germany born so of Emma and Abraham Auerbach, and his wife, Rosine
Auerbach gave birth to Ruth Auebrach who became Ruth Hirsch, the wife of
Clarence Hirsch and the mother of Rosine and Robert Hirtsch.
1904(14th of Adar, 5665): Purim
1904: In London, Redcliffe Nathan Salman, the
son of Myer and Sarah Salaman and Nina Ruth Salaman gave birth to Arthur
Gabriel Salaman
1904: Israel Schochat, founder of Ha-shomer
arrived in Palestine.
1905: Birthdate of New York native research
chemist Saul Caspe who was educated at Columbia and Brooklyn Poly Technique.
1906: In Hamburg, “Austrian actor Fritz Spira
who died in the Ruma concentration camp in 1943” and actress Lotte Spira gave
birth to German actress Camilla Spira.
1907(15th of Adar, 5667): Shushan
Purim
1907: As of today 15,000, Jews have fled Odessa
since the attacks by members of the Black Hundreds began and thousands more
“have their passports in readiness to leave Odessa at the first sign of an
anti-Jewish attack.1908: “Zionist leader” Solomon J. Weinstein, the Grodno born
son of Ida and Joseph Weinsterin who in 1896 came to the United States where he
became a member of the New York Produce Exchange, and who was active in
numerous Jewish organizations including the American Zion Commonwealth, the
Palestine General Mortgage Bank and Temple Beth Elohim married Fannie Grohn
today.
1908: In a letter made public today, Henry
Bergh, the nephew of the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, called “attention to the present means of killing used by
Jewish butchers to comply with Hebraic laws” and said that “efforts are now
being made to construct some form of harness which will permit the animal to be
treated more humanely while it is being suspended by their hind legs as part of
the Jewish method of slaughtering animals.
1909: The theme of “Meyer and Son” “the news
modern drama by Thomas Addison that opened at the Garden Theatre tonight puts a
new twist on the theme of “Jew against Gentile” since it tells the story of
college educated son of an old Jewish banker who falls in love with the
daughter of business rival “who is prejudiced again father and son because race
and creed.”
1910: It was reported today that “in Replying
to a delegation from the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers,
who called at the White House to protest against the Hayes and Overman bills to
restrict immigration, President Taft paid a high tribute to the Jews who had
come to America from various parts of the world and had become imbued with a
true spirit of patriotism.”
1911: Birthdate of
chess grandmaster Harry Golombek
1912. CCNY grad and
Stanford University trained psychologist Samuel Calmin Kohs, the New York City
born son of Louis and Fannie (Rosenfeld) Kohs who eventually settled in San
Francisco married Paula Bonoff today in New York City.
1912: It was reported
today that Lina
Straus, Nathan Straus, Nathan Straus Jr., H. Grant Straus an Sissie S. Lehman
are the directors of the newly incorporated Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk
Laboratories with principal office in New York City which will establish infant
milk depots throughout the State of New York and dispense through them
pasteurized milk free or at a cost price with a view of reducing sickness among
babies”
1912: Three-day long
dedication ceremonies for Sinai Temple and Social Center began today in
Chicago.
1913(22nd
of Adar I, 5673): Parshat Vayakhel
1913(22nd
of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-two-year-old Rabbi Judas Leopold Friedman passed away
today in Cleveland, Ohio.
1913: Rabbi Weil is
scheduled to preach his sermon in German this morning at Temple B’Nai Jehoshua
in Chicago.
1913: Rabbi Abram
Hirschberg delivered the sermon this morning at Temple Sholom.
1913: Birthdate of
boxer Nathan “Nat” Bor, the native of Fall River, MA, “who won a bronze medal
at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
1913: Effective
today, Congregation Anshai Emeth released Dr. Charles S. Levi from his contract
as of today.
1914: Adolph Lewisohn, Lee Kohn, Simon F.
Rosenthal and Benjamin H. Nam are in charge of tonight’s program at the 39th
Street Theatre in Manhattan which includes a screening of “How the Jews Care
for Their Poor” and “a program of music.”
1914: Birthdate of Aaron Ruben the Chicago
native who gain fame as a producer, writer and director for some of the most
popular television comedies of the 1960s and ’70s, notably “The Andy Griffith
Show,” “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and “Sanford and Son
1915(15th of Adar, 5675): Shushan
Purim
1915: Mrs. Piza Weyl was reported today to have
been in charge of the tableaux “representing the influence of Jews on the early
history of America” which were shown at the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue at
70tth Street and Central Park West.
1915: Kruetzer
Sonata, the silent film version of Jacob Gordin’s play of the same name was
released today in the United States.
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KreutzerSonata1915.html
1915: Rabbi Emil Hirsch was reported today to
be among the 29 clergymen who are trustees of the Church Peace Union founded by
Andrew Carnegie designed to promote “a new moral leadership to prevent armed
conflict” – specifically to limit and/or end the World War that had begun in
1914
1915: “Dr. (Samuel) Schulman Tells Why He
Opposes Return To Palestine Movement” published today quotes the President of
the Metropolitan League as saying that “In America we are Americans, and if
there are those who wish to perpetuate Jewish customs and narrow nationalism,
let it be done in Palestine, not here in America. The highest work of the Jews
is not to teach customs but how different races and peoples may live together
in accord and harmony.”
1915: The American Jewish Relief Committee
received a cablegram from the Jewish Colonization Association of Petrograd
describing the desperate condition of the “tens of thousands” of refugees from
Poland” and the granting of official permission to organize assistance for the
Jews of Galicia.
1916: The funeral of Rose Fridstein, the wife
of Joseph Fridstein and the mother of Myer, Sam and Harry Fridstein is
scheduled to take place today followed by burial at Bickur Cholim Cemetery.
1917: As the Russian Revolution gained
momentum, with all that that would mean to the Jewish people, the Czar
abdicated today “leaving the Provisional Government in control of” the Russian
Empire.
1917: The U.S. government released the
plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. Barbara Tuchman, the noted Jewish historian,
wrote The Zimmerman Telegram a fascinating volume covering this little-known
event which had a major impact on America’s decision to enter World War I on
the side of the Allies.
1917: Benjamin and Dora Finkelstein gave birth
to Maurice Finkelsteinm “the husband of “Justice Irene Finkelstein” and the
father of Arlene Dawn Joelson.
1918: In Vienna, the “Press states that Count
Czernin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will in the course of peace negotiations
with Romania, bring up thequestion of granting full rights to the Jews.”
1918: The new Zionist publication, Ungarische Wochenschrift reported that
Galician Jewish regfugees are the victims of frequent atrocities.
1919: Emir Feisal, the son of Emir Hussein,
Grand Sharif of Mecca and the leader of the Arabs of Hejaz sent a letter to
Felix Frankfurter. According to Martin
Gilbert he wrote, “We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the
deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.
We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.” “I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position
to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and
derived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is notional and not
imperialist: our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in
Syria for both. Indeed I think that neither
can be a real success with the other. I
look forward, and the people with me look forward to a future in which we will
help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually
interested may once against take their place in the comity of the civilized
peoples of the world.”
1919(29th of Adar I, 5679): Parashat
Vayakhel and Sabbat Shekalim
1919: Final performance of The “Little
Brother,” with a script co-authored by Milton Goldsmith which was based on his
work “The Priest and the Rabbi,” and
produced and directed by Walter Hast on Broadway at the Belmont Theatre.
1919(29th of Adar I, 5679): Seventy-three-year-old
Moshe Dov ben Mordecai Zev passed away today after which he was buried at the
Blackley Jewish Cemetery.
1920: “Several hundred Shiite Arabs from the
village of Jabal Amil in southern Lebanon marched to the gates of Tel Hai
together with Bedouin from Halasa and their Mukhtar, Kamal Affendi” demanding
to search Tel Hai for French soldiers
1920(11th of Adar, 5680): Tel Hai, a Jewish
village in the Galilee is attacked by Arabs. Joseph Trumpeldor, the one-armed
Jewish military leader and one of the Zionist movement’s first military heroes
was killed in the ensuing battled along with five men under his command.
“Trumpeldor was born in 1880 in Russia. Originally in training as a dentist, he
volunteered for the Russian army in 1902. During the Russo-Japanese War he
participated in the siege of Port Arthur, where he lost his left arm and was captured.
Subsequently, he received four decorations for bravery, which made him the most
decorated Jewish soldier in Russia. In 1906 he became the first Jew in the army
to receive an officer's commission. In 1911 he emigrated to Palestine then
under the Ottoman Turks, living for a time at kibbutz Deganya. When World War I
broke out, he went to Egypt, where together with Vladimir Jabotinsky he
developed the idea of the Jewish legion to fight with the British against
common enemies and as a result, the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1917,
considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two
thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces. He
saw action in Gallipoli, where he was wounded in the shoulder. Upon his return
to Russia in 1918, he established the He-Halutz, a youth organization
that prepared immigrants for Aliyah (moving to Palestine), and returned
to Palestine himself, then under the British Mandate. He was one of the
founders of the Zionist Socialist movement in pre-state Israel. After his death
Trumpeldor became the symbol of Jewish "self-defense", and his Memorial
Day on the 11th day of Adar is officially noted in Israel every year.
Supposedly, his last words were, "Never mind, it is good to die for our
country". There is no proof whether this is true.”
1921: The Political committee of the Zionist
Organization met in London to discuss Churchill’s forthcoming visit to
Palestine.
1921: Margery Merlyn Baillieu and Sidney Myer,
the founder of Myer (Australia’s largest department store chain) gave birth to
the first child, Ken. But since Myer had
converted a year earlier and Baillieu was not Jewish, Ken would not be carrying
on the “faith of his fathers.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1391841/Sir-Michael-Kerr.htm
1921: In Berlin, “Alfred Kerr, the well-known
socialist author and theatre critic for Berliner Tageblatt and Frankfurter
Zeitung” and his non-Jewish wife gave birth to Sir Michael Kerr, the Lord
Justice of Appeal who was believed to be “England's first foreign-born judge
since the reign of Henry II.”
1922: John Schuburgh a member of the Middle
East Department (of the British Government) sent a visiting Arab delegation a
letter reiterating British support for the Balfour Declaration and the
establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
1922: Director Heimann “informed the Second
Congress of Jewish Communities” that “the American Joint Distribution Committee
as allocated and placed at the disposal of the National Jewish Council of
Lithuania 24,000,000 marks for the rehabilitation of Jews who suffered from the
war.”
1922:
Birthdate of Yitzhak Rabin
(יצחק
רבין). A Sabra, Rabin was a soldier-statesman who served as Prime
Minister from 1974 until 1977. The
scandal which drove him from office would open the way for the Right-Wing Likud
to take power for the first time since the founding of the Jewish State. Rabin would return as Prime Minister in
1992. He would win the Nobel Peace Prize
for his groundbreaking attempts to end the violence in the Middle East. Sadly, the man who had avoided death at the
hands of Israel’s Arab enemies, met death at the hands of a Jewish fanatic bent
on derailing the Peace Process. Would
events been different had Rabin lived?
We will never know. Just as a
killer at Dallas had thwarted the American electoral process, so a killer
thwarted the democratic process in Israel in 1995.
1923(13th of Adar, 5683): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim
1923: Dr. R.E. Stewart MacAlister, President of
Celtic Archaelogoy at the National University of Dublin and director of the
Palestine Exploration Fund who is leaving for Palestine to supervise the
excavation of work at the site of the old City of David “says it is impossible
to say what the fruits of the excavation will be as Palestine was a country
where art was cultivated to the same extent as in Egypt” but he hopes that
“considerable light will be thrown on biblical history” as a result of these
efforts.
1924: Dr. Max Pinner, the recipient of the
American Thoracic Society’s Trudeau Medal, married Berna Rudovic, four years
before he became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
1924: In New York “Max Druckman, a Manhattan
furniture dealer” and Pearl Cohen gave birth to Arnold Druckman who gained fame
as Arnold Drake “an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for
co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the
Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others” who was the
brother of songwriters Ervin and Milton Drake.
1925: In Bacau Romania, Sima and Alter Marcus
gave birth Romanian mathematician Solomon Marcus, a professor at the University
of Bucharest.
1925: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine which
has been in complete control of Zionists since the League of Nations so
decided, will be reconstituted to include non-Zionists, if Great Britain and
the League approve of a decision made by leaders of both factions at the Hotel
Astor” today.
1925: “Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon this
morning at Temple Beth-El, Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street, condemned the
plan for giving religious instruction in the public schools. He characterized
the experiment of sending groups of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish children to
their respective centres of religious education near their public schools as
"a most serious modification of the secular character of the American
public school as we are accustomed to admire it."
1926(15th of Adar, 5686): Shushan
Purim
1926: It was reported today that the Purim Ball
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel sponsored by the Old Timers of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association had “served a reunion for all former Y.H.M.H.A. members
since 1874.”
1926: At a testimonial dinner honoring Joseph
Barondess’ forty years of service to American Jewrtygiven tonight in the
ballroom of the Manhattan Opera House, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said, “that no Jew
in America had given more to Jewish life.”
1926: Mlle. Maxa Nordau, the daughter of the
late Zionist author Max Nordau is scheduled to begin holding an exhibition of
art in New York starting today.
1926: In Poland Moishe and Baila Wilderman gave
birth to Robert Max Widerman known as
Robert Clary, the actor who gained fame playing
the part of LeBeau on “Hogan’s Heroes” and who ironically was the only one of
his immediate family members to survive imprisonment by the Nazis during World
War II.
1927: “Social service offers women their best
opportunity for training in Government, Henry Morgenthau said today at a
luncheon of the Women's Division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies at the Hotel Astor.”
1927: “The 125-pound midget basketball team of
the Jewish Centre of the East side defeated the Hudson Guild midget team”
tonight” “on the winners court” with Grossman scoring 45 points for the winning
team.
1928: Joseph Levy, writing in the New York
Times described the ceremonies that marked “the recent inauguration of the
plantation of the Balfour Forest at Ginegar, in the Valley of Jezreel,
Palestine.” As part of the ceremony, Sir Alfred Mond delivered an address in
which he “paid high tribute to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner, for the
devotion he has shown during his tenure in office and to the Jewish national
fund. The entire cost of the Balfour Forest is being borne by the Jews of Great
Britain. The project is part of the
Zionist led reforestation project that is vital to the renewal of Palestine.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1929: It was reported today that “The Anshe
Russia Synagogue, the oldest Orthodox congregation in Newark, NJ” which is led
by Rabbi Joseph Konvitz and President Bernard Brody, “is planning to erect a
new synagogue at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars.”
1930(1st of Adar, 5690): Parashat
Mishpatim; Rosh Chodesh Adar; Shabbat Shekalim
1930: “Puttin’ On the Ritz” produced by Joseph
M. Schenck starring Harry Richman in his movie debut who also wrote the music
for the film along with Fred E. Ahlert and Irving Berlin was released in the
United States today.
1931: The White House released President
Herbert Hoover’s congratulatory message expressing his congratulations to Baith
Israel Anshei Emes on the celebration of the 75th anniversary of its
founding.
1931: “Anti-Semitism is a challenge to the Jew
to be at his best, and he must find his idealism not only in fighting against
anti-Semitism with every legal weapon, but also in accepting it as a spur to
his own virtue, declared Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon today at Temple
Emanu-El” while he also said that “the Jewish problem is a spiritual problem
for the Jew and for the world and there is no short cut to its solution.”
1932: On a radio broadcast Clarence C. Dill,
Democratic Senator for Washington, called Hoover's appointment of Justice
Cardozo "the finest act of his career as President."
1932: It was reported today that Daniel Frohman
is the honorary president of “Theatre in Art” exhibition which will open later
this month as a fundraiser for the Actors’ Fund of America.
1932: It was reported today that Judge Cardozo
has met with Chief Justice Hughes and “made tentative arrangements for his
induction as a member of the Supreme Court.”
1932: “The confirmation of the appointment of
Judge Benjamin Cardozo as associated just of the Supreme Court was transmitted
to the White House by this Senate this evening.”
1932: Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. the infant son
of “the Lone Eagle” was kidnapped today which would lead to the trial of his
kidnapper where David Theodore Wilentz, the Attorney General of New Jersey
would serve as the lead prosecutor.
1932: The Maccabee Association of the United
States announced the members of the swimming and track and field teams that
will be sent to compete in the Jewish Olympic Games that will take place at the
end of March. The selection committee
was chaired by Sol Goodstein.
1932: Benjamin N. Cardozo was elected an
honorary member at today’s meeting of the governing committee of the Lawyers’
Club in New York City.
1933: During the movement to boycott Jewish
businesses in Germany, Nazi troops sang in front of the Berlin Woolworth
Company store” because they believed that the Methodist Woolworth brothers were
Jewish.
1933: Today, Billy Wilder arrived in Paris from
Berlin and settled in the Hotel Asonia which was “a haven for members of the
German film industry who had fled from their homeland to escape the encroaching
threat of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party including actor Peter Lorre,
composers Franz Waxman and Friedrich Hollaender, and screenwriters H.G. Lustig
and Max Kolpé, who agreed to help Wilder develop a plot he had conceived in
Berlin” which became the French film “Mauvaise Graine.”
1934(14th of Adar, 5694): Purim
1934: Birthdate of New York native and Olympic
gymnast Abie Grossfeld.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbieGrossfeld.htm
1934: As of this date, according to a report
prepared by Morris Rothenberg, President of the ZOA, there are a quarter of a
million Jews living in Palestine which marks a significant increase from the
total of 85,000 Jews living there in 1921..
1935: Sandor Harmati served as the conductor
today when “Serenade” had its “official premiere” today with “the American
Ballet at the Adelphia Theatre in New York.”
1935: Aaron DeRoy, the University of Pittsburgh
trained dentist and husband of oil heiress Helen Lowentritt DeRoy who moved to
Detroit where he established the Aaron DeRoy Motor Car Compnay and “sat on the
board of the Hudson Motor Company” died today in an automobile accident in
South Carolina.
1936(7th of Adar I, 5696): Eighty-one-year-old
“Dr. Arnold Netter, noted physician and newly elected President of the Alliance
Israelite Universelle died today while addressing a meeting of the French
Medical Association” in Paris.
1936:
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, is scheduled to leave Palestine today for London where he
will meet with those Jews who “are sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the
evacuation of Jews from Germany “told the New York Times ‘I do not know the
extent of the funds of the nature of the scheme contemplated by Herman Samuel’s
mission, but I am ready to cooperate in the execution of any project promising
to increase Jewish immigration to Palestine.’”
1936: Birthdate of Richmond, VA native Shirley
Bernice Politzer who would gain fame as “Dr. Shirley P. Glass, a psychologist
who strove to redefine the nature of infidelity” and the mother of Ira Glass,
producer of “This American Life.”
1936: “Creation of an ‘Albert Einstein Fund for
Palestine’ to be applied to the nation-wide campaign of the United Palestine
Appeal to raise $3,500,000 for the settlement in Palestine of Jews from
Germany, Poland and other countries was announced” today “after a meeting of
the Council of Jewish Organizations at the Hotel Pennsylvania
1936: “A new anti-Semitic wave was ushered in
today in Germany following of weeks of quiet because of the Winter Olympics”
during which the “Nazis attempted not to offend foreign visitors.”
1936: “Two thousand people attending the
fifty-first annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aids Society”
today “at the Hotel Astor urged Congress to ‘humanize’ sections of the
immigration law affecting resident aliens by enacting the Kerr-Coolidge Bill”
which according HIAS President Abraham Herman “would tend to remove ‘some
hardships affecting innocent resident aliens.’”
1936: “In view of the recent Nuremberg decrees”
it was reported today that the “efforts” of the Joint Distribution Committee
“will be intensified including the continuation of aid to Jewish and non-Jewish
German refugees in France, Czechoslovakia, Holland, etc., providing money for
German Jews going to Palestine as well as the “education of about 60,000 German
Jewish children in Germany.”
1936: “Travels in Palestine” published today
provided a review of Footprints in Palestine: Where the East Begins by
Madeline Sweeney Miller with an introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby,
the liberator of Palestine during WW I.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E05E2DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE
1936: It was reported today that the “three
hundred chapters of Hadassah throughout the country will merge the celebration
of Purim with founders’ day programs” that will mark the 24th
anniversary of the organization which was established by Henriette Szold in
1912.”
1936: Taking advantage of earlier meetings held
by Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency in Palestine and the General
Manager of the Anglo Palestine Bank, Dr. Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to leave
today for London “to confer with Sir Herbert Samuel, Viscount Bearsted and
Simon Marks, sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the evacuation of Jews from Germany.”
1936: According to sources in Heidelberg, “Nazi
Government will…now undertake a counter-campaign against the refusals of the
English universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Birmingham to accept an
invitation to send representatives to the ceremony celebrating the 550th
anniversary of the found of Heidelberg University.”
1936: Columbia University’s acceptance of “an
invitation to send a representative to the 550th anniversary
celebration of Heidelberg University evoked a protest” today “from Roger E.
Chase, editor of Spectator, an
undergraduate publication.”
1936: It was reported that the Nazi “program,
which fundamentally has only one aim, namely, racial, as a substitute for
national, unification through restoration of German military strength” will
require it t”o make compromises with all existing classes except the Jews.”
1936: The Cornell University Daily Sun will say editorially today: If
Cornell has already accepted the German invitation as reported, it can only
save its academic face by publicly reversing its stand and by joining British
and American universities in a boycott of this Nazi travesty.”
1936: “Germany recovered full sovereignty over
the Saar today when the last League of Nations bonds were cut” which meant an
end to “the validity of assurances given by the German government to the League
that ‘no discrimination on account of language, race or religion’ would be made
during the one year period.”
1936: “Details of an agreement under which
1,000 non-Russian Jewish families will be settled in the Jewish autonomous
territory of Birobidjan, Soviet Russia have been made public by William W.
Cohen, chairman of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in
Birobidjan.”
1937: As of today, “Sam H. Harris, the
theatrical producer who has been suffering with pleurisy for more than a week
while staying at his winter home in Palm Springs was reported by his nurse to
be improving as of this evening.
1937: Winston Churchill retained Hungarian born
Jew Emery Reves as his literary agent which would prove a boon to Churchill’s
literary career and pocketbook.
1938: Today, “the American ORT Federation
opened a national campaign to raise $450,000 to provide technical and
agricultural training for Jewish victims of social and economic decimation in
Poland, Germany, Rumania and other European countries and to assist them in
achieving economic independence and stability.
1939(10th of Adar, 5699): Jacob C.
Felsenthal, the Kentucky born son of Bina and Marcus Felsanthal, the Memphis
merchant and philanthropist who was the husband of Cecillia Felsenthal and the
father of Jeanette, Edward and Marcus Felsnethal passed away today in Jackson,
TN.
1940: In Brooklyn Joseph Grossman, the owner of
“a silk-screen printing shop” and “the former Ethel Stern” gave birth to Robert
Samuel Grossman to the illustrator you may not know by name but do know by
product. (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)
https://www.robertgrossman.com/
1940: In Brooklyn, “Maurice Schaap, a salesman,
and the former Leah Lerner, a French teacher” gave birth to controversial
attorney William H. Schaap, the older brother of sportscaster Dick Schaap.
1941: In South Miami Beach, FL, Max and Mae
Greenberg gave birth to “anthologist” Martin Harry Greenberg.
1941: Prime Minister Winston Churchill writes
to Colonial Secretary Lord Moyne expressing his displeasure with General Wavell
who, “like most British officers is pro-Arab” and opposed to the Jews. This attitude extends to an unwillingness on
the part of the British military to form additional Jewish military units to
fight in the Imperial Army.
1941: Himmler inspected the Auschwitz concentration
camp
1941: Bulgaria officially joins the Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy and Japan.
1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle” with a script co-authored by Emeric
Pressburger and music by Francis Chagrin was released in the United States
today.
1942: On Purim Eve, the Germans ordered 5,000
Jews deported from Minsk.
1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle,” featuring Carl Jaffe who had escaped from
Nazi Germany and settled in the UK, was released today in the United States.
1942: “Hitler order the Einsatzstab to
establishment a library of Jewish books and works to art to be use in the in
the ideological war against the Jews” “600,000 of which volumes fell intact in
the hands of the United States Army” at the end of the war.
1942: In Boston, Ruth Ashen and Sam Gruber, the
owner of a junk business, gave birth to Howard Peter Gruber, best-selling
author, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment and the owner of several pro teams.
1943: In Jerusalem, Aliza and Menachem Begin
gave birth to Benny Begin who earned a doctorate in Geology from Colorado State
University before following his father into the world of Israeli politics.
1943: In Amsterdam, a
Jewish old
age home for the disabled was raided.
1943:
Fourteen examples of the work of William Zorach including “Hound” and “Cat”
were part of his one-man show that opened today in New York at the Downtown
Gallery.
1943: In a speech given before a crowd of 70,000
people at Madison Square Garden, Chaim Weizmann states, “Two million Jews have
already been exterminated. The world can
no longer plead that the ghastly facts are unknown or unconfirmed. This rally
had been planned by the American Jewish Congress in an attempt to mobilize
American public opinion in support of efforts to rescue Jews trapped in
Hitler’s Europe.
1944:
In London, “Dr. Wolf Gottlieb, Rabbi at Queen's Park Synagogue, Glasgow and
head of Glasgow's rabbinical court (av beit din)” and his wife gave birth to
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, the Torah scholar and author who finally settled
in Jerusalem.
http://www.avivahzornberg.com/
1945:
“Pope Spoke In Hebrew” published today described the visit of Pvt. Lou Herman
who in civilian life was a cantor and other Canadian Jewish soldiers who were
singled out by Pope Pius XII and speaking in Hebrew were blessed by the Pontiff
who “raised his arms in the manner of the priests of the Hebrew faith” while
giving the benediction.
1945:
During the “Hunting Season” the British expressed their concerns that the
Jewish Agency was interested in more than just going after terrorists when the
High Commissioner to the Minster of Colonies wrote today that Unfortunately,
the Jewish Agency's lists of so-called terrorists continues to include numerous
people who have no terror connections, but politically speaking are undesirable
to the Jewish Agency. This adds to the difficulties the police has in
separating the sheep from the goats…”
1946: It was disclosed today that the
investigation of the activities of the big six German banks by the Allies has
found evidence that the Netherlands subsidiary of the Dresdner bank “collected
rans by accepting payments from Netherland Jews in concentration camps outside
the Netherlands who had assets abroad.”
1946: In Vienna, the police guard “at the
headquarters of the Jewish community organization has been strengthened” in
response to Vienna Jewish community organization having previously informed the
police that it has been receiving threatening letters from Nazis who wrote that
‘Hitler’s task’ would be finished when the last Jews had been liquidated.”
1947: Jews responded violently to British
Foreign Minister Bevin’s latest pronouncements about Palestine by conducting
multiple attacks that resulted in the death of at least sixteen British
military personnel.
1947: The Abril, filled with 600 Jewish
refugees, set sail from Port du Bouc today only after having been pulled free
by tugboats after she ran aground.
1947: David Remez, Chairman of The Jewish
National Council, announced tonight that the “Jewish population of Palestine
will observe a self-imposed curfew for four hours” tomorrow night to express
their concern for the refugees from Europe recently seized by the British.
1948: This month Henry and Phoebe Ephron gave
birth to author Hallie Ephron one of four sisters all of whom are talented
authors.
1948: A dramatization of Robert Nathan’s The
Bishop Wife “was dramatized as half-hour radio play on today’s broadcast of
The Screen Guild Theatre.
1949(30th of Shevat, 5709): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1949(30th of Shevat, 5709): Fifty-four-year-old
University of Cincinnati and HUC graduate Rabbi Henry Joseph Berkowitz, the
Philadelphia born son of Clara Landman ad Albert Berkowitz and the leader of
Temple Israel in Portland, OR “the largest Jewish congregation in the Pacific
Northwest” died today “from a rare disease he had contracted while serving as a
chaplain during World War II.”
1949: “Henry Morgenthau Jr., former Secretary
of the Treasury, announced today that he had accepted the chairmanship of the
1949 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.”
1950: It was revealed today that in the
non-aggression pact being considered by Israel and Jordan included a promise
that Haifa would become a free-port for Jordan thus giving the Arab state
access to the Mediterranean.
1953(14th of Adar, 5713): Purim
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/02/93603323.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1953: In Wilmington, DE, The Executive Council
of the Building Committee of Congregation Beth Emeth which had been founded in
1905 presented plans for a new building to the congregation at a special
meeting and received approval to go ahead with the project.
1954: Today,Rokhl Auerbakh “one of the three
surviving members of the covert Oyneg Shabes group led by Emanuel Ringelblum
that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the initiator of the
excavation of the group's buried manuscripts after the war” “was named director
of Yad Vashem's new Department for the Collection of Witness Testimony, which
was based in Tel Aviv where most Holocaust survivors had settled.”
1954: In Perm, Russia, Victor Radunsky, the
teacher at naval school and Maria (Ilinichna) Radunsky, a teacher gave birth to
illustrator Vladimir Radunksky, the brother of Alexander Radunsky, the husband
of Eugenia Uriitsky whom he married in 1987 the year before the publication of
his first book The Riddle and the father of Anna and Alexandra Radunsky.
(As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)
1955: The Lux Radio Theatre broadcast an hour
long adaptation of “The Bishop’s Wife” based on the novel of the same name by
Robert Nathan.
1960(2nd of Adar): Hundreds of Jews,
including some students of the local Chabad Yeshivah, were among the thousands
of victims to perish in a devastating earthquake that struck Agadir, Morocco
today
1961(13th of Adar, 5721): For the
first time during the Presidency of John Kennedy, Jews observe Ta’anit Esther.
1964: Fifty-four-year-old composer and pianist,
whose father was “a Lithuanian Jews” passed away today.
1967: In a sketch tonight on “At Last the 1948
Show” Marty “Feldman’s character harassed a patient shop assistant for a series
of fictitious books, achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity
Surveying.
1967: “More than four hundred Jewish lay and
religious leaders representing fifty national Jewish organizations” are
scheduled to meet David Ben Gurion today at Kennedy International Airport to
mark the state of a three-week tour of the United States that will be part of
the celebration of his 80th birthday.
1968(1st of Adar, 5728(: Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1969: Joseph Vogel the MGM executive who served
as its President from 1956 to 1963 during which the studio produced the classic
“North by Northwest” passed away.
1970: Birthdate of best-selling author Darin
Strauss author of “Half a Life, which won the 2011 NBCC Award for
memoir/autobiography.”
1971: In Massachusetts, “Nancy Falchuk, the
national president of Hadassah” and her husband gave birth to Hobart and
William Smith Colleges grad and self-proclaimed Republican Brad Falchuk, the award-winning
television “writer, director and producer” and husband of actress of Gwyneth
Paltrow whose brother Evan Falchuk was the founder of the United Independent
Party.
1971(4th of Adar, 5731):
Rzeszow,
Poland native Lieb Wiesenfeld who gained fame as Leon Wiesenfeld “a journalist,
editor for the Yiddish language press and Jewish community leader” in
Cleveland, OH passed away today.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon
https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2546.xml&doc.view=printead;chunk.id=0
https://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/wiesenfeld-memoir.htm
1972: Naomi Bronheim Levine was appointed
Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress (A. J. Cong.), becoming the
first woman to take the helm of a major American Jewish organization that
included both men and women as members.
1972(15th of Adar, 5732): Shushan
Purim
1972(15th of Adar, 5732): Sixty-three-year-old
Moshe Sneh passed away
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18758.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/02/archives/vladimirgolschmann-conductor-dies.html
https://www.naxos.com/person/Vladimir_Golschmann/31777.htm
1973: U.S. premiere of “The Thief Who Came To
Dinner co-produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin who also directed the film
featuring Alan Oppenheimer as “Insurance Man.”
1973: A week after premiering in New York “Charlotte’s
Web” with music by Richard and Robert Sherman is released today across the
United States.
1973: Eight Palestinians were arrested after
the Saudi Arabian Embassy at Khartoum was seized and the U.S. Ambassador and
Deputy Head of Mission and the Belgian Charge d’ Affaires were murdered.
1974: “Soviet police detained about 70 Jews
from Moscow and other Soviet cities to prevent the transmission of a petition
to the Central Committee of the CPSU with 200 signatures.
1974: “Radio Moscow reported demonstrations by
Zionist elements during the wreath laying ceremony at the monument to the
heroes of Plevna in Moscow.”
1975(18th of Adar, 5735): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1976: “The Witch Who Came From The Sea,” a horror
film with music by Herschel Burke Gilbert was released today in the United
States.
1976: The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee began its annual meeting in Jerusalem today.
1978: At today’s 17th Annual Grammy
Awards presentation Marvin Hamlisch was honored as “best new artist” and Alan
and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (composers) were honored for The Way
We Were performed by Barbra Streisand.
1978:
Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1978: In “Lefkowitz Style: Example of the Old
School” published today Maurice Carroll traced the career of New York’s
Attorney General.
1979: Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street” opened on Broadway at the Uris Theater.
1980(13th of Adar, 5734): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Erev Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Jimmy Carter.
1981: “Miracle on Ice,” a sports docudrama
starring Steve Guttenberg was released today in the United States.
1982: Wadi Aranki of the POL was killed in
Madrid
1983(16th of Adar, 5743): Author
Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia took their own lives this evening.
1983:” Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher
and human rights advocate” Valery Senderov went on trial in the USSR today.
1985: Milwaukee businessman
Herb Kohl Kohl would go on to become one of Wisconsin’s two Jewish senators
purchased the Milwaukee Bucks.
1985: “The Sure Thing” a comedy directed by Rob
Reiner and co-produced by Henry Winkler and Roger Birnbaum was released in the
United States today
1987(30th of Shevat, 5747): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1987(30th of Shevat, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old
University of Paris graduate Bertrand de Jouvenel, the son of Henri de Jouvenel
and Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist and the husband of
Marcelle Prat de Jouvenel whom he married in 1925 “who was a French
philosopher, political economist, and futurist” and who “taught at the
University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of
Manchester, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of
California, Berkeley.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertrand-de-Jouvenel
https://mises.org/profile/bertrand-de-jouvenel
1987: In
“An Israeli Lawyer Dares Defend an Accused Nazi, “published today Francis X.
Clines describes the challenges and criticism facing Yoram Sheftel, the Tel
Aviv criminal lawyer serving as co-counsel in the defense of John Demjanjuk,
the retired auto worker from the United States who is accused of being the
infamous executioner of the Treblinka death camp.
1988: University of Michigan graduate Preston
Robet Tisch, the Bensonhurst bon son Sadye and Al Tisch, the husband of Joan
Hyman with whom he had three children – Steve, Jonathan and Laurie – and who was the chairman and—along with his
brother Laurence Tisch—was part owner of the Loews Corporation completed his
service as the 68th United States Postmaster General.
1988(12th of Adar, 5748): Joe Besser one of the Three Stooges passed
away.
1990(4th of Adar, 5750): Seventy-seven-year-old
London native Hyman Barnett “Harry” Mizler who along with his brothers Moe and
Judah worked in the family fish stall “in Watney Street Market” before become
becoming a member of Britain’s 1932 Summer Olympics box team and winning “the
British Board of Control (BBofC) Lightweight Title” passed away.
1991(15th of Adar, 5751): Shushan
Purim
1991(15th of Adar,
5751): Edwin H Land
inventor of the Polaroid Camera passed away at the age of 81.
https://www.biography.com/people/edwin-land-9372429
1991: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors including Mr.
Mani by A.B.Yehoshua
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/history-overheard.html?searchResultPosition=2
and The Story of H. H. Asquith, Venetia
Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel
Montagu by Naomi B. Levine
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/no-prime-minister.html?searchResultPosition=5
1991: Following the end of the Iraq War,
Lufthansa plans to resume service to Tel Aviv today.
1991: “My
Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” a rodeo drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg was
released in the United States today.
1991: Months
after its premiere in the United States “Avalon” the saga of a Jewish immigrant
family in Baltimore, MD, directed, produced and written by Barry Levinson, with
music by Randy Newman, starring Leo Fuchs, Leo Jacobi and Kevin Pollak was
released today in the United Kingdom.
1992(26th of
Adar I, 5752): Seventy-year-old Marshall Sklare, the husband Rose Bernard and
the father of Daniel, Joshua and Judith Skalre who “was the Klutznick Family
Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology emeritus at Brandeis
University” and considered to be “the founding father of American Jewish
Sociology” passed away today.
1993: In the following article entitled “Doubts
Mar PBS Film of Black Army Unit,” Richard Bernstein describes the controversy
surrounding a movie that is supposed to be a documentary about the 761st
Tank Battalion’s role in the liberation of Jews held in concentration camps at
the end of World War II. The tank
battalion was an all-black unit and the film was supposed to be a tool to
rejuvenate the alliance between Jews and African-American.
1993: Publication of E. M. Broner's The Telling:
The Story of a Group of Jewish Women Who Journey to Spirituality Through
Community and Ceremony
http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/01/1993/em-broner
1993(8th of Adar,
5753): “Two civilians in their twenties, Natan Azaria and Gregory Avramov, were
stabbed to death in Tel Aviv by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
1994: Ari Halberstam,
a 16-year-old yeshiva student, was returning from a vigil for Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson. While pulling onto the exit ramp for the Brooklyn Bridge,
Halberstam’s vehicle was shot at by Rashid Baz, a Lebanese immigrant. He died five
days later. (As reported by Seth Berkman)
1994: Publication of Gun,
with Occasional Music, a novel by Jonathan Lethem.
1994: U.S. Air Force
Captain Jack Weinstein, the future Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic
Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, was promoted to Major today.
1995: Publication of
the paperback edition of Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem.
1998: The 25th European
Athletics Indoor Championships in which Aleksandr Averbukh placed sixth in the
Heptathlon closed today at Valencia.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
recently released paperback editions of Unto the Soul by Aharon
Appelfeld in which “Gad
and Amalia, brother and sister, have been given the sacred duty of tending an
ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs near their village in turn-of-the-century
Eastern Europe and Isaiah Berlin John Gray’s study of the 20th century's
premier Renaissance man that focuses on his liberalism, which was complex in
that it acknowledged no one right path for human society.
1998: Today,
“Titanic” produced by Jon Landau and featuring Victor Garber and David Warner
became the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide
1999: Dan Seligman provides
a detailed review of The Times of My Life by Max Frankel today.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-times-of-my-life-by-max-frankel/
1999(13th
of Adar, 5759): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1999(13th of Adar, 5759): Ninety-one-year-old Jeannette Levin,
the daughter of Rachel and Isaac Aaron Levin passed away after which she buried
in Baltimore, MD.
2000: “After combing
through their holdings, Britain's art museums and galleries released a list of
more than 350 works of art today that have murky provenances for the period
around World War II and may have been seized by the Nazis.”
2001(6th
of Adar, 5761): Hamas claimed credit for the Mei Ami junction bombing which
took place at Vadi Ara where one person was murdered.
2002: In the fiercest
fighting of the last 17 months, Israelis troops fought their way into two camps
one of which was located at Jenin.
2003: “Another Round
in the Skirmish Over Elio and Anti-Semitism” published today examined charges
that the famous poet had an animus and bias towards Jews that was unknown to
most readers and students. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/books/shelf-life-another-round-in-the-skirmish-over-eliot-and-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=1
2004: It was reported
today that in Vienna, “an Austrian genealogist said two Jewish relatives of”
Senator John Kerry's -- his grandmother's sister and half-brother -- had died
in Nazi concentration camps.”
2005(20th of Adar I, 5765): Seventy-seven-year-old
Peter “Zvi” Malkin, the Mossad agent who led the team that captured Adolf
Eichmann passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/08/guardianobituaries.israel
2005: Completion of the Eleventh Daf Yomi Cycle
begun in September, 1997. The next cycle
begins on Wednesday, March 2, 2005.
2005: Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel was
deported from Canada to Germany today where he “was arrested and detained in
Mannheim prison” where he would await “trial for inciting racial hatred.”
2005: Penultimate broadcast of “Boston Public”
co-starring Fyvush Finkel as “Harvey Lipschultz.”
2005: “Boris Lurie: Uneasy visions,
uncomfortable truths” published today highlights the views of artist Boris
Lurie the native of Leningrad who survived imprisonment in a string of
concentration camps including Buchenwald.
http://thevillager.com/vil_95/borislurieuneasy.html
2006: On
the secular calendar Rosh Chodesh Adar, first day of the month of Adar.
2006: London
Mayor Ken Livingstone began serving his four week suspension from office after
being found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute by comparing a Jewish
reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
2007: Fast of Esther
observed on 11th of Adar since the 13th of Adar falls on
Shabbat.
2007(11th
of Adar, 5767): Eighty-seven year old New York native Harold Michelson “the
illustrator and storyboard artist” who with his wife Lillian formed a
formidable behind the camera Hollywood power couple immortalized in the biopic
“Harold and Lillian” passed away today.
2007(11th of Adar,
5767): Meyer “Mike” Feldman, a White House advisor for President Kennedy,
passed away at the age of 92.
2007: Celebration of the birthday of Muriel Rogers, doyen of the Cedar
Rapids Jewish Community
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque presents The
Path Of Our Fathers \ בדרכי אבות This is
“an extraordinary and at times surrealistic road movie about a charismatic man
named Menahem Goldberg. On the eve of Passover, Menahem took his donkey and two
sons, one 12 years old and the second 8 years old, and set out to fulfill the
mitzvah of going up to Jerusalem. The 170 km, 9-day trip by foot from their
home in the north to the Western Wall, took them through the biblical
landscapes of Judea and Samaria and brought them into contact with the
present-day Israeli and Palestinian realities there.”
2008: Beth Hillel
Congregation in Wilmette, Illinois, presents a screening of the Argentinean
film Legado a documentary about the
arrival of the first Russian Jews in 19th century Argentina.
2008(24th of Adar I,
5768): St. Sgt. Doron Asulin, 20 of Beersheba and St. Sgt. Eran Dan-Gur, 20, of
Jerusalem, were killed early Saturday as their Givati Brigade units operated
against terrorists. Asulin served in the
brigade’s anti-tank company and Dan-Gur served in the Shaked Battalion.
2008: On the second day of Operation Hot Winter
which was aimed at disrupting terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,
Israeli forces “carried out airstrikes at ammo warehouses, rocket factories,
rocket warehouses and launching cells, combined with small incursions close to
the border.
2009: Jonathan
Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center discusses and signs
copies of Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine at Politics and
Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
2009: The 120th
annual Central Conference American Rabbis being held in Jerusalem comes to an
end.
2009: The annual
Koach Kallah comes to an end.
2009: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh, A Mad Desire
to Dance by Elie Wiesel and recently released paperback editions of The
Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal, by Lily Koppel and Swimming in a Sea of
Death: A Son’s Memoir, by David Rieff.
2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe
2009: Effective today the Glendale Uptown Home will
become a nonkosher facility, leaving Philadelphia proper without a certified
glatt-kosher nursing home.
2009: A revival of
Rogers and Hart’s Pal Joey presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company had its
last performance
2010 (15th
of Adar, 5770): Shushan Purim
2010: In a talk at Harvard University on
"Identity, Diversity, and Human Rights," Canada Supreme Court Justice
Rosalie Silberman Abella shared her family's Holocaust story and explained how
it informs her view of human rights. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)
2010: “The 48 Ways to
Wisdom,” a program cosponsored by The Jewish Renaissance is scheduled for this
evening at Keter Torah Synagogue this evening in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
2010: In Jerusalem, The Kingdom of Alrov Mamilla
Avenue is scheduled to celebrate Shushan Purim at its annual Purim carnival
which will include a colorful parade with characters from the Megilla, clowns
and jugglers, circus performances, circus workshops, magnet games, and whole
lot more.
2010: Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released
from a German prison today after serving a five-year sentence.
2011: Israel LTD,
film that records “a group of young Americans on their intensive bus journey
across a strong and righteous Israel” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC in
Manhattan.
2011: Today Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh
accused Israel of financing and plotting the protests in his country and other
Arab states.
2011: In reaction to clashes that took place a day
earlier in the Gilad Farm outpost in Samaria, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said
today that "We cannot let citizens take the law into their hands."
2011: Amy Totenberg
assumed office as the Judge of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia which includes Atlanta, GA.
2011: In an “Anti-Semtism Double Header” Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said
Jews and Zionists are "trying to push the US into war" and are a
cover for Satan, at the group's annual meeting near Chicago today while a
report published by a British magazine today said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian
Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The
Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization.
2011(25th of Adar I, 5771): Marilyn Henry, a journalist and lecturer,
died of cancer today four days short of her 58th birthday. She lived in
Teaneck, NJ with her husband, Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=210568
2011(25th of Adar): On the Yahrzeit of
those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (March 25), Rabbi Shmuel
Plafker led a memorial survey at the Hebrew Free Burial Association cemetery on
Staten Island where 22 of the victims are buried (As reported by Joseph Berger)
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/triangle/
2011: The
postal services of Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone will simultaneously issue a
set of three commemorative postal sheets today in memory of 12 Jews – men and
women – who fought Apartheid and racism in Africa.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=210275
2011: On the 70th anniversary of the signing of the
pact uniting Bulgaria with Germany as Axis partners The Sephardic Temple in
Cedarhurst, New York is hosting a public meeting as part of a campaign to
convince “the government of Bulgaria to reveal the truth over its interaction
with the Jews during the Holocaust.”
2011: A Merkava MK IV stationed near the Gaza
border, equipped with the Trophy active protection system, successfully foiled
a missile attack aimed towards it and became the first operational success of
the system
2011: It was announced today that Frank Rich would
be leaving the New York Times for New York magazine.
2012(7th of Adar, 5772): Forty-three-year-old
Tulane alum Andrew Breitbart the creator of Brietbart.com passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/business/media/the-life-and-death-of-andrew-breitbart.html
2012: “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray” is
scheduled to be shown at the Charleston Film Festival in Charleston, SC
2012:
“Tijuana Jews” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Etz Chaim in Toledo,
Ohio.
2012:
Miriam Gilbert is scheduled to deliver a lecture Shakespeare and ‘the likeness
of a Jew’ Shylock, Fagin and Disraeli” will take place at the Iowa City Public
Library
2012:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present: “Anti-Jewish
Violence in Eastern Europe” an evening based on a book of the same name that
“and Israel that investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local
and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was
averted.”
2012:
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein today ordered the police to open a criminal
investigation into illegal building in the West Bank Shiloh settlement.
Notification of the investigation was given to the High Court of Justice, which
in November asked the state to decide if it planned to hold such a
investigation.
2012:
Former Shas Minister Shlomo Benizri, who was released from the Maasiyahu Prison
this morning, said Israel was the most anti-Semitic country in the world due to
what he referred to as its "incitement campaign against the haredi
community."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4197436,00.html
2013:
In Ashburn, VA Beth Chaverim is scheduled to join hundreds of congregations
throughout the United States in “Shabbat Across America!” that will include a
screening and discussion of “Advice and Dissent” starring Eli Wallach.
2013:
Release date for Put it in the Book, Howie Rose’s “autobiography and
memoir of 50 years of Mets history.”
2013:
As sequestration goes into effect today, Israeli defense planners are bracing
for a potentially dramatic cut in US assistance that may slash as much as $300
million in aid over the next seven months. (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)
2013(19th
of Adar, 5773): Sixty-nine-year-old actress Bonnie Franklin passed away. (As
reported by Douglas Martin
2013:
Some 20,000 runners took part this morning in the Jerusalem marathon, which was
won by Abraham Kabeto Katale of Ethiopia. His final time of 2:16:29 was a
record for the course.
2013:
Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Turkey’s prime minister had made
“objectionable” remarks when he cast Zionism as a crime against humanity in
comments earlier this week.
2014:
In London, JW3 in partnership with the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
present “Oscars Warm-Up Night” including a screening of “Searching For Sugar
Man.”
2014:
“A Prayer for Aliyah” and “The Jewish Cardinal” are scheduled to be shown at
the 24th Washington Jewish Film Festival.”
2014:
Observance of Tel Hai Day in honor of the memory of Joseph Trumpeldor
2014:
Professor David Shneer is scheduled to host a seminar on “Post Holocaust
American Judaism” in Boulder, CO.
2014(29th
of Adar I, 5774: Shabbat Shekalim
2014:
Two rockets landed near an IDF post in Mount Hermon early this morning. According
to the IDF, the rockets “were most likely the spillover from the clashes in
neighboring Syria, not a deliberate attack.” (As reported by Tova Dvorin)
2014:
Renowned Religious Zionist leader Rabbi Haim Druckman has called on the
Religious Zionist community to stay far away from tomorrow’s "million-man
march" against the hareidi draft. "I totally reject [the
march]," Rabbi Druckman declared tonight. "If this demonstration is
being held to say that Israel is fighting against the rule of the Kingdom of
Heaven, I am so shocked and outraged by it," said the rabbi. (As reported
by Tova Dvorin)
2014:
Twentieth anniversary of the mortal wounding of 16-year-old yeshiva student Ari
Halberstram who was shot by Rashid Baz, an immigrant from Lebanon.
2014:
At Tiftereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel Levin will join her classmates in
the First Grade Consecration Service.
2015(10th
of Adar, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old record executive Orrin Keepnews passed away
today.
2015:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education by Morris
Dickstein, We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler and Anonymous Soldiers:
The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman
2015:
The 25th Washington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an
end.
2015:
F.I.U. is scheduled to host the 30th Anniversary Screening of
“Shoah”
2015:
The curtain is scheduled to come down on “The King of Second Avenue” which has
been playing at Boston’s Charles Mosesian Theatre.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-boston-klezmer-musical-spoofs-jewish-infighting/
2015:
“The exhibition Light & Noir: Exiles
and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 which explores how the experiences of
German-speaking exiles and émigrés who fled Nazi Europe—many of them
Jews—influenced the classic films of Hollywood’s Golden Age” is scheduled to
come to an end at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/la-exhibit-shows-how-nazi-invasion-spawned-film-noir-genre/
2015:
““’Twas the Night Before Hanukkah” an “exhibition, which highlights the music
of Hanukkah and Christmas, and the people behind some of the holidays’ songs”
at the National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to come to a
close today.
2015:
“California Senator Dianne Feinstein” who is a supporter of Israel, “lashed out
at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his “arrogant” claim to speak
for all Jews today, two days before he is scheduled to deliver a controversial
speech to the US Congress. (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)
2015:
Commanders for Israel’s Security, “a nonpartisan body of more than 200 retired
officers held a press conference in Tel Aviv this morning” where Prime Minister
Netanyahu was “slammed” for what were described as his “destructive diplomatic
policies.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2015:
“Activists pitched tenets in Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard to protest
inequality and the cost of living.”(Lazar Berman)
2015:
Today “is the anniversary of the execution by beheading of Sophie Scholl, her
brother Hans and their school friend Christopher Probst who farmed the
short-lived anti-Nazi ‘White Rose’ conspiracy in Munich” during World War II.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/24/contemptible-heroes/
2016:
The Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to co-present a screening Raise the
Roof “as part of the 26th annual Washington Jewish Film Festival.”
2016:
“The Indiana Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill banning state dealings with
entities that boycott Israel or its settlements.”
2016:
“According to the 30th annual Forbes billionaires list released
today, “five Jews are in the top 15 spots and seven are in the top 25 spots”
with Mark Zuckerberg being ranked as the “sixth richest person in the world and
the richest Jew” in the world.
2017(3rd
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-two-year-old Israeli photographer David Rubinger whose
many iconic photos of the early days of the Jewish state included the pictures
of soldiers at the Wall during the Six Day War passed away today.
http://time.com/4687856/in-memoriam-david-rubinger/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubinger#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg
2017(3rd
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-year-old “artist and political radical” Gustav Metzger
passed away today.
2017:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble
playing an evening of “Mostly Schubert.”
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Jewbilation!”
featuring “music from the Yoelling Stones, food, Jewish dancing and regular
music.”
2017:
Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schuler is scheduled to lean an interfaith discussion
on “Scriptural Reasoning” in the Harold Wilson Room of Jesus College, Oxford.
2017:
In Pikesville, MD, Chizuk Amuno is scheduled to host “Auschwitz through the
Lens of the SS.”
https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MAPPGLENSS0317
2018(14th
of Adar, 5778): Purim;
2018:
MIT Assistant Dean Ray Feller is scheduled to speak on “Hard Times in Hard
Sciences: Mental Health in Stem” at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.
2018:
In Little Rock, Chabad under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is
scheduled to host a “Royal Purim Fest and Masquerade Party” completed with a
multimedia Megilla reading
2018:
In Iowa City, Rabbi Avremel Belsofky is scheduled to host a “multi-cultural”
Purim celebration featuring Sushi and Hamantashen.
2018:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screening of “Remember Baghdad,”
“fascinating exploration of the rich Jewish life and culture that had
flourished in Iraq before the events of the 20th and early 21st centuries
dramatically changed the course of the country – and the fate of its Jews.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Gemara shiur which
will be on mesechet Megillah.”
2018:
In London, the Phoenix Cinema is scheduled to host a screening “The Cakemaker”
directed by Ofir Raul Graizer.
2019:
The next ShabbatUK is scheduled to begin today.
2019:
In Arlington, VA, Congregation Etz Hayim is scheduled to host “Potluck
Shabbat.”
2019:
In California, Chabad of Petaluma is scheduled to “host a gourmet dinner for
100.”
2019:
Parents Shabbat is scheduled to begin today at the University of Iowa Hillel.
2019:
In Washington, DC, HIAS Action DC, Moishe House Bethesda, and Avodah DC Service
Corps are scheduled to “kick off Women's History month with a Shabbat dinner
highlighting the experience of women refugees and asylum seekers.”
2020:
Funeral services are scheduled to held today in Mamaroneck, NY for Dr. Steven
Charles Strauss, the former resident of Chevy Chase and husband of Ruth Strauss
with whom he had two daughters, Marley and Amelia.
2020:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Aperirgon, Colum McCann’s novel that begins with 1997 terrorist
attack on Ben Yehuda Street, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year
Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle
East by Kim Ghattas, This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by
Jeff Sharlett, the son of a Jewish father from Schenectady and the recently
released paperback edition of Spies of No Country: Israel’s Secret Agents at
the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
2020:
As part of the JCC Chicago Film Festival, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a screening of “A Bag of Marbles,” “the true story of two
young Jewish brothers in German occupied France…”
2020:
“Objector” and “A Cantor’s Head” are two films scheduled to be shown on the
second and final day of the Seventh Annual JFI WinterFest.
2020:
In Boston, Liberty Hall is scheduled to host “Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen,”
Boston’s “biggest, best and most delicious celebration of Jewish food.”
2020:
In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its Purim Carnival and
Petting Zoo on a day when the temperature is scheduled to reach a torrid (for
Iowa) sixty degrees.
2020:
In Sacramento, CA, the Kashenberg Ostrow Hayward Library is scheduled to host
historian Jennifer Craig—Norton as she talks about The Kindertransport:
Contesting Memory,” which is about child refugees and family separation
during the Holocaust.
2021:
“The first passengers who will be subject to the measure of being
electronically tagged will be those arriving on Arkia flight 232 from
Frankfurt, set to arrive at 4:35pm today at Ben-Gurion Airport. (As reported by
Adir Yanko)
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByM41UBMd
2020:
In New York, Adi Nes is scheduled to explore social and political questions
revolving around gender, the center vs. the periphery, Eastern vs. Western
cultures, ethnicity, Judaism, local myths, militarism, humanism and social
justice through his portraits.
2021:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to “S&P Senior Sephardi
Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Rabbi Dr Rapahel Zarum as they continue their in-depth
discussion into the 10 Commandments.”
2021:
In New Orleans, the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold its
Board Meeting this evening.
2021:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Manashe Khaimov is an
Adjunct Professor in Jewish Studies, with a specialty in History and Culture of
the Bukharian Jews at Queens College as he lectures on “The Persian Experience:
The Jews of the Great Silk Road.”
2021:
As part of Jewish Book Week, Trudy Gold, the director of Holocaust Studies at
JW3 and former chief executive of the LJCC who is the Editor-in-Chief of
Understanding the Holocaust is scheduled to talk with Dr Brendan McGeever, a
Lecturer in the Sociology of Racialization and Antisemitism at Birkbeck,
University of London and a Research Associate at the Pears Institute for the
Study of Antisemitism about the subject matter covered in his book Antisemitism
and the Russian Revolution.
2022:
Hadassah Northeast, the Lappin Foundation, Temple Emanuel and the Holocaust
Legacy Foundation are scheduled to present Dr. Deborah Gilboa lecturing on
“Talking to School-Age Children About Anti-Semitism.
2022:
Today, as Putin began his war of aggression against Ukraine “The Babyn Yar
Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv said that Russian forces had struck the site.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/world/ukranian-ww2-survivors.html?searchResultPosition=2
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture on Nazi hunter Efraim
Zuroff,
2022:
Berkeley Law’s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies is
scheduled to present Elisheva Rosman-Stollman of Bar-Ilan U. discussing her
work on religion/gender in the Israeli military with Ronit Stahl of UC
Berkeley.
2023:
YIVO and Anyin Press are scheduled to present a conversation with playwright
Rokhl Kafriseen and Jeremiah Lockwood about the forthcoming release of
Lockwood’s “Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads from the Yiddish
Gothic.”
2023:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a virtual
event “A Nazi Killing Center through a Perpetrator’s Lens: The Sobibor
Perpetrator Collection.”
2023:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a presentation by Ginie
Milgrom and Dr. Yochai Ben-Gehdalia on “Purim or the Holiday of Esther?
Uncovering and Preserving Crypto-Jewish History.”
2023:
The Limmud Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023:
The 72nd National Jewish Book Awards is scheduled to take place this
evening at the Bohemian National Hall.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/72nd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration
2023:
Elan Ganeles, an American-Israeli citizen killed in a terrorist attack near the
Dead Sea while traveling to a wedding is scheduled to be buried in Ra’anana’s Klausner cemetery
this afternoon.
2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host the first lecture
on a course on Sir Winston Churchill and the Second War styled “The Power of
Words: Oratory, minutes and memoirs.”
2023:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a lecture by Daniel
Herszberg on “Amid Conflict and Distress: Exploring the Remnants of Jewish
Heritage in Syria and Lebanon.
2023:
Dance on the Beach — which in the foreground shows two of Munch’s lovers, Tulla
Larsen and Millie Thaulow — and which was hidden from the Nazis is expected to
be sold for $15-25 million at the Sotheby’s auction today.
2024:
At Temple Judea, Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead Shabbat
services that will include a Special HaGomel Blessing for anyone who recovered
from an illness, is recovering, or survived an accident followed by a Shabbat
Dinner.
2024:
In Stoughton, MA, Ahavath Torah Congregation is scheduled “to participate in
Shabbat Across America and host Tufts University’s Shir Appeal, an a cappella
group!”
2024:
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Dr.
Ewa Wampuszyc, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Edna
Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on “Irena
Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others.”
2024: As March
1st begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 147 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.)
