This Day, March 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 29
835 BCE (1st
of Nisan, 2926): According to some Joash assumed the throne as King of Judah
1188: Emperor
Frederick was convinced (both diplomatically and financially) by Moses bar
Joseph Hakohen of Mayence to issue a decree declaring “that anyone who wounds a
Jew shall have his arm cut off, he who slays a Jew shall die. This decree
succeeded in preventing most of the excesses of the pervious crusades in the
third crusade soon to follow.
1244(11th of
Nisan, 5004): Rabbi Meir Abulafia Halevi (Ramah), noted Talmudist, masorete,
and poet passed away today at Toledo, Spain at the age of 74. (As reported by
Abraham Bloch)
1349: Emperor
Charles IV “declared that the city of Speyer had no blame for” the riots in
January, 1349 during which “the Jewish community was totally wiped out.”
1366:
Coronation of Henry II as King of Castile and Leon. Henry denigrated his rival
Peter by portraying him as a friend of the Jews; a portrayal that including
calling him “King of the Jews.” Henry exploited Castilian animosity towards
Jews by instigating pogroms and forcing them to convert to Christianity.
1516: Today,
the government created the Venetian Ghetto which according to some was the
oldest ghetto in the world and would survive until the arrival of Napoleon at
the end of the 18th century.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/30/500-years-venetian-ghetto-jewish-italian-history
1519: Francesco
II Gonzaga the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua who “stated in a grida
(proclomiation) on March 2, 1515, that the recent popular uprising against the
Jews of Mantua greatly displeased him” passed away today.
1559: Polish
King Sigismund II granted the Jews a charter despite opposition of the local
authorities at Przemysl.
1602: In
Stoke-on-Trent, Vicar Thomas Lightfoot and his wife gave birth to clergyman
John Lightfoot who authored several books on the Old Testament and its positive
relationship to Jesus as well as such works as A Handful of Gleanings out of
the Book of Exodus
1614(29th of
Nisan, 5374): Rabbi Joshua Falk ben Alexander Katz of Lemberg author of Sefer Me’irat
Einayim, passed away today.
1629:
Birthdate of Alexis Mikhailovich, the second of the Romanov Czars. He reigned
during the period marked by the Chmelnicki Uprising that decimated eastern
European Jewry and the appearance of Sabbati Zvi. Considering the fact that we
have records of the Czar ordering sharpshooters to protect Jews on their
travels, sending Jewish merchants abroad to purchase wine and allowing Jews
living in territory he acquired under the Treaty of Andrussev to continue
living there as Russian citizens, he is considered to have been “kindly
disposed toward the Jews.
1632: The
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the
English had seized it in 1629. Return of the city to French control would keep
Jews from settling in Quebec for another 130 years. The French gave up Canada
to the British in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War, known in America as
The French and Indian War. Once the British were in control, Jews began to
openly settle in the former French colony.
1632: A proclamation
was issued in Amsterdam today that said Jews could not be members of the gilds”
and this prohibition “was never abolished.
1664:
Consecration of Giulio Rospigliosi to whom apostate Jew Giovanni Battista Jona,
dedicated a Hebrew translation of the New Testament when he became Pope Clement
IX
1714(13th of Nisan):
Rabbi David ben Solomon Altaras, author of Kelalei ha-Dikduk passed away.
1719(9th of
Nisan): In Venice, Rabbi Jacob Pardo of Ragusa and his wife gave birth to David
Pardo who accepted the position of Chief Rabbi at Sarajevo in 1764 and passed
away in Jerusalem in 1792.
1734(4th
of Nisan, 5494): Rachel, the wife of David Cohen Delmonte and the mother of
Isaac, Abigail, Grace and Hannah Delmonte passed away today in Savannah, GA.
1744(16th of
Nisan): Rabbi Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia of Smyrna, author of Ez ha-Hayyim
passed away.
1766(19th
of Nisan, 5526): Pesach shel Shabbat
1771(14th
of Nisan, 5531): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1772:
Birthdate of German native Rivka Mosheim, the wife of Itzig Behr and the father
of Kussel, Bernhard and Abraham Behnrend.
1773: Pope
Clement XIV confirmed the bull issued by Clement VII concerning “Jus Gazaka”
which the Jews viewed positively since it dealt with their right to rent houses
in the ghetto of Rome. “Another token of Pope Clement XIV’s benevolence toward
the Jews was the confirmation today of the bull of Clement VIII concerning the
Jus Gazaka, which was of very great importance to the Roman Jews.
1774(17th
of Nisan, 5534): Third Day of Pesach observed two days before King George III
signs the so-called “Intolerable Acts” which were meant to punish the people of
Boston for their disobedience to the Crown.
1781: In
Philadelphia, Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to Jacob Hart who
passed a way in New Orleans.
1789: In
Franklin Tree, Alice Alexander and Jacob Aaron gave birth to Miriam (Ann)
Aaron, the wife of Abraham Franklin with whom she had twelve children.
1790(14th
of Nisan, 5550): Ta'anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1790(14th
of Nisan, 5550): Sixty-seven-year-old Mathias Bush, the native of Prague whose
sons served with the American Army during the Revolution passed away today in
Philadelphia.
1792: Gustav
III of Sweden, during whose reign “the Jews of Stockholm invited Levi Hirsch”
to serve as their rabbi was assassinated today.
1793: In a
decree issued today, the restriction on Austrian Jews “farming rural property”
was modified to allow for it on “the estates of noblemen” “and even then
hereditary tenancy or acquisition was prohibited.”
1797(2nd
of Nisan, 5557): Mrs. Rachel Marks, the wife of Levy Marks passed away today in
New York City.
1800(3rd
of Nisan, 5660): Parashat Viykra is read for the first time in the 19th
century and for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.
1801(15th of
Nisan, 5561): Pesach is observed for the first time during the Presidency of
Thomas Jefferson.
1804(17th
of Nisan, 5564): Third Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Lewis and
Clark endure wintery conditions at their camp at the Wood River “across from the
mouth of the Missouri River.”
1806: Francis
Isaacs and Harmon Henricks gave birth to Joshua Hendricks who was buried in the
first cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel when he passed away when he was
twenty-five months old.o
1812(16th
of Nisan, 5572): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer.
1812(16th
of Nisan, 5572): Seventy-six-year-old Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore, the
Livorno, Italy born daughter of Massahod (Modjesta) Raccah-Racha, a “Moorish
merchant,’ and wife of Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore
1814: The King
of Denmark officially allowed Jews to find employment in all professions and
makes racial and religious discrimination punishable by law.
1819: In
Moravia, Rabbi Leo Wise, a schoolteacher and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Isaac
Mayer Wise, one of America's most influential Jewish leaders during the 19th
Century. His major achievements were the establishment of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations in 1873 and the creation of Central Conference of American
Rabbis in 1889. This brief summary can in no way do justice to the life a man
who had such an impact on the American Jewish community.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isaac-mayer-wise
1819: In
Larraine, France Simon and Pauline Levy gave birth to Kalmus Calmann Levy, “the
founder of Calmann-Lévy, one of the oldest French publishing houses.”
1821:
Birthdate of engraver and publisher Frank Leslie whose Illustrated Newspaper
carried pictures of Jewish events including a Hebrew Purim Ball and Chanukah
Celebration.
1824:
Birthdate of Amsterdam native David Zacharias Baruch, the son of Zacharias
Baruch, the husband of Lea Nabarro and the father of Gratia, Rebecca, Clara,
Izaak and Abraham Baruch.
1829: Six days
after he had passed away, 43 year old Joel Abrahams was buried today at the
“Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1832:
Birthdate of Austrian philosopher Theodore Gomperz, the native of Brno, who
“was elected a member of the Academy of Science, received the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy honoris causa from the university of Königsberg, and Doctor of
Literature from the universities of Dublin and Cambridge.”
1832:
Birthdate of Offenbach native Leopold Oppenheim, the husband of Josephine
Barrow Montefiore.
1833: As a
result of the damage sustained to its building in 1831 during a hurricane, a
new synagogue was consecrated by Kaal Koadosh Nidhl Israel on Barbados.
1840: In
Essingen, Germany, Sarah Adler and Rabbi Joseph Gabriel Adler gave birth to
Rabbi Immanuel Manchem Adler, the husband of Judith Adler and father of Pinchas
Adler.
1842(18th
of Nisan, 5602): Fourth day of Pesach celebrated one day after the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra had performed its first concert.
1848: In Great
Britain, Samuel Joseph Rubinstein married a daughter of David Moses Dyte, a
London quill merchant.
1848: A decree
issued today granted civil rights to the Jews of Alessandria, Italy which
allowed to serve in the army and hold government jobs.
1849: Adolphus
Alexander married Violet Abrahams today at the Pilgrim Street Synagogue in
Liverpool, England.
1849: Lewis
Nathan married Regina Kisch today at the Great Synagogue.
1850(16th
of Nisan, 5610): Second Day of Pesach as California prepares to enter the Union
following the adoption of the Compromise of 1850.
1852(9th
of Nisan, 5612): Eighty-four-year-old Catherine Manuel, the London born
daughter of David Manuel and the wife of Levy Solomons whom she married in 1801
passed away today in New York City.
1853:
Birthdate of Moravia native Moritz Gunwald who passed away in London after
which he was buried at the Edmonton Federation Cemetery.
1853(19th
of Adar II, 5613): Eighty-year-old “Italian physician and Hebraist Solomon
Hayyim Vita Della Volta, the resident of Mantua who “was the owner of a large
Hebrew library, which, together with its 131 manuscripts, came into the
possession of Marco Mortara” passed away today.
1854: Emanuel
Dreifuss, the German born son of Breunia and Aron Dreifus and his wife Friederika
Dreifuss gave birth to Sara Dreifus.
1855: In what
became the Czech Republic, Josef Pick, he son of “Markus and Elisabeth Pick”
and Eleanor Pick gave birth to Siegfried Pick
1858(14th of
Nisan): Jews who had served in the Russian army received the right of residence
in the province of Abo-Bjorneborg, Finland upon its annexation today.
1859: In New
Orleans Jacob Osoro DeCastro and Hannah Haim DeSola DeCastro gave birth to
Zippporah Alice DeCastro Lazaron, the husband of Atlanta, GA native Samuel
Louis Lazaron and the mother of Savannah, GA native Samuel Lazaron, the Reform
Rabbi who led Baltimore Hebrew Congregation for three decades who eventually
gave up his post because of anti-Zionist views.
1859: A new lodge
of the Sons of Israel which was the first one outside of New York City was
“instituted” today.
1860: Todays
"Personal" column reported that “The Cincinnati papers notice the
arrival in that city of Mr. Israel J. Benjamin, author of Eight Years in Asia
and Africa -- a Jew, who is making the tour of North America to examine the
condition of his race. His design is to cross the Plains, spend a short time in
the Rocky Mountains, and thence proceed through California to Asia.
1860: In
Donaldsonville, LA, Michael Blum and Louise Meyer gave birth to Sam Blum, a
product of the New Orleans public school and businessman who was President of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association for six years and “trustee of the Touro
Synagogue for several years.”
1861(18th
of Nisan, 5621): Fourth Day of Pesach
1861: Opening
night at the Winter Garden for “The Hebrew Son” a play designed to appeal to
the Jews in the audience.
1862: “After
the repeal of the majority legal restrictions on Jewish citizens, today the
Israelitische Kultusverein (literal: Israelite Cultus Society) was founded by
12 members.”
1862:
Birthdate of Swiss born American portrait painter whose work includes a
painting of Isaac Newton Seligman that has disappeared and one of his five year
old son Joseph L. Seligman which was done in 1891 and first exhibited in
January of 1892.
1863: A column
published today entitled “New From Fortress Monroe” reported that two Jews were
arrested while on board the SS Thomas A. Morgan which was making her trip from
this Fortress Monroe, VA to Yorktown, VA. The Jews had “a lot of contraband
goods” in their possession. [The implication of the article is that the Jews
were trading with the Rebel forces further upriver.
1863: The New York Times reported that Colonel
Crane and a group of Union soldiers captured a schooner towing a lighter filled
with cotton in Florida. Of the 12 men aboard the schooner, 10 were rebels while
the others were a man named Titus from Rhode Island and “a Jew from New York
named J. Cohen.” [The correspondent does not say how he ascertained that Cohen
was a Jew or why his was the only one whose religion was mentioned.]
1864: Today, Julius
Oppenheimer, “the rabbi of the Berlin Reform Congregation” and his wife gave
birth to the University of Freiburg and University of Berlin trained medical
doctor Franz Oppenheim who went from being a specialist in “diseases of the throat
and nose” to becoming an author whose principal fields of interest were “political
economy and sociology.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11739-oppenheimer-franz
1864: In
Alsfeld, German Marianne Stern and Abraham Rothschild gave birth to Henriette
Rothschild, the wife of Joseph Weihl and the mother of Adolf and Ernst Weihl.
1866(22nd of
Adar II, 5646): Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch passed away. Born in 1789,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel was the grandson of the first Chabad Rebbe and was the
third Chabad Lubavitch Rebbe. "He was also known as the Tzemach Tzedek
(Righteous Sprout), the name for a voluminous compendium of Jewish halachah
that he authored. He also authored Derech Mitzvotecha (Way of Your
Commandments), a mystical exposition of Jewish law." According to some
sources, the seventh Lubavitch Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson was named in
honor his illustrious predecessor. This brief summary can in no way do justice
to the life and writing of this illustrious sage.
1867: “Affairs
In Illinois” published today reported on the victimization of the insurance
companies by a series of fraudulent claims. The article concludes by stating
“And the fire insurance companies have been so frequently victimized by Jews
practicing arson, that many of them are declining Israelitish risks.’ The
article does not contain any details about these Jewish arsons.
1867: “The
Purim Ball” published today reported that this event is different from the
other balls that make up the New York Social Season. Unlike the other
festivities, the Purim Ball is rooted in the national traditions of the Jews
and calls for form of costume and masquerade that makes it a unique event.
1868:
Birthdate of Nova Scotia native and Congressman from New Jersey’s 5th
District Charles Aubrey who during his career as minister and evangelist had
delivered a sermon on “The New American” said “The Jews have got your theatres
and most of your banks. They will soon
hold you in the hollow of their hand.
Most have no religion at all.
What can we do with them? I say, let them come to the Madison Avenue
Baptist Church. There was one Jew would
have received here – Jesus Christ. There
was another – Paul.”
1868: Baron
Ferdinand de Rothschild having laid the cornerstone on December 24, 1867, the
North London Synagogue whose “first minister was Rabbi Morris Joseph” was consecrated
today by Dr. N.M. Adler.
1869(17th
of Nisan, 5629): Third Day of Pesach
1870: Philip
Magnus married Kate Emanuel today.
1873(1st of
Nisan, 5633): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1874: Goldsmid
delivered a lecture today on "What girls should
learn, what mothers should practice, and how husbands should help them.”
1875: Two days
after she had passed away, the former Caroline Simon, a native of Jamaica and
the wife of Phineas Abraham with whom she had had eight children was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1875: It was
reported today that there is a dispute among the members of New York’s Beth-El
congregation over how to deal with the remains of those buried at the two
cemeteries owned by the congregation. Beth-El was formed by a merger of Anshei
Chesed (Norfolk Street Synagogue) and Adas Jeshurun which is why Beth-El has
two cemeteries.
1877(15th of
Nissan, 5637): First Day of Pesach
1878:
Birthdate of Albert Gumm, the Indiana native who gained fame as a songwriter
under the name of Albert Von Tilzer, the author of “Take Me Out To The
Ballgame.”
1878(24th
of Adar II, 5638): Sixty-six-year-old Wolf Trost, the husband of Hannah Kahn
Trost and the father of Bella, Samuel and Jacob Trost passed away today after which
he was buried in the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, OH.
1880: Myer Stern
represented the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society at today’s meeting
of the New York State Board of Charities meeting.
1880(17th
of Nisan, 5640): Third Day of Pesach
1880(17th
of Nisan, 5640): Sixty-year-old Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, the scion of a
Jewish banking family who served as editor of the liberal Die Reform (The Reform) who served in the German Reichstag.
1880:
Birthdate of pianist Rosina Lhévinne whom Juilliard president Peter Mennin
called "quite simply one of the greatest teachers of this century."
Born in Kiev, she began her piano studies at age six and entered the Moscow
Conservatory at age nine. Over the next nine years, she perfected her piano
technique, graduating in 1898 with the school's gold medal. Among her
classmates at the Conservatory were Sergei Rachmaninoff and Josef Lhévinne,
whom Rosina married after her graduation. After getting married, Lhévinne
abandoned her fledging solo performance career in order to keep her husband,
also an accomplished pianist, in the spotlight. However, she did not abandon
the performance circuit, often playing two-piano concerts with her husband. The
Lhévinnes toured the U.S. for the first time in 1907, and moved permanently to
New York immediately after World War I. In 1924, they joined the faculty of the
newly established Juilliard Graduate School, where they shared a studio. After
Josef Lhévinne's death in 1944, Rosina continued to teach at Juilliard, where
her students included such promising musicians as Van Cliburn, David Bar-Ilan,
James Levine, and Arthur Gold. As her students made their mark in national and
international piano competitions, Lhévinne's fame grew. However, it was only in
1956, at the age of seventy-six, that Lhévinne resumed her own solo piano
career. Her first concert was with the Aspen Festival Orchestra; she went on to
perform with orchestras around the country. In 1963, she appeared in four
performances with the New York Philharmonic, under Leonard Bernstein's
direction. Despite a busy performance schedule, Lhévinne continued to teach at
Juilliard until she passed her ninety-sixth birthday.
1880: In
Kempen, Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin and his wife gave birth to American legal
scholar Max Radin.
http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9g5008vb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00006&toc.id=
1881: In
Leadville, CO a fire broke out in the Pioneer Salon which spread to the next
door liquor business owned by the Schloss family.
1882:
Birthdate of Riga native and NYU trained attorney Dr. Joseph Kahn, the high
school teacher, lecturer on philosophy and partner in the firm of Kahn and
Zorn, who was New York State Supreme Court referee, author of books on
accounting and flying and mountain climbing enthusiast.
1882: A
two-day Pogrom in the largely Jewish town of Balta (Russia) comes to an end
leaving nearly half of the homes and shops in ruins.
1882: “Near
Bolanda, Mississippi,” the former Venola Rutledge and Thomas Braxton Rankin
gave birth to sixteen term Mississippi Congressman John Elliott Rankin the
noted bigot who accused Einstein of being a Communist and while speaking on the
floor of the House called Walter Winchell “the little kike.” (Editor’s note - his record against Blacks
was far worse)
1883: In
Cleveland, OH, Emma Scheuer and Henry Blahd gave birth to Cornell, Western
Reserved and University of Strasburg trained physician and surgeon Moses Emmett
Blahd, the husband of Rae Lichtenstader and a Captain in the Medical Corps of
the U.S. Arym who was the chief surgeon of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland.
1884: Mrs. Max
Rosenberg claimed that on this day her husband forced her to pack her trunk,
leave their New York apartment and stopped providing her with financial
support. (Rosenberg would subsequently deny these claims, citing proof that she
left of her own volition, that he continued to support her, that she still
loved him and that the cause of their problems was that he was Jewish – a fact
resented by her gentile father.)
1886: In New
York City, Mary Pomerantz and Leopold Herzberg gave birth to Columbia College
graduate and the 1906 “winner of the H.C. Bunner Gold Medal in American
Literature Max J. Herzer, the husband of Edna M. Newman and the Head of the English
Department at Central High School in Newark, NJ who was the literary editor of
the of the Newark Evening News who contributed to numerous publications including
the Maccabean, the American Hebrew and the New York Times while serving as Treasurer of the Jewish Free
Library.
1886:
Birthdate of Newark, NJ native and NYU trained journalist Morris Kramer an
officer of the Jewish Aid Society in Brooklyn and member of the editorial staff
of the Jewish Daily News.
1887: In
Leadville, CO, Simon Schloss “was a member the committee of arrangements for
the eighth annual Purim Masque Ball held at the Tabor Opera House today
1888(16th
of Nisan, 5648): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1888: Five
days after he had passed away, Abraham Hammond Solomon was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1888(16th
of Nisan, 5648): Seventy-four-year-old composer and pianist Charles-Valentin
Alkan whose “Op. 31 set of Préludes includes a number of pieces based on Jewish
subjects, including some titled Prière (Prayer), one preceded by a quote from
the Song of Songs, and another titled Ancienne mélodie de la synagogue (Old
synagogue melody)
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Alkan-Charles.htm
1890(8th of
Nisan, 5650): Shabbat HaGadol
1890:
Birthdate of daughter Pauline Herzl, daughter of Theodor Herzl who passed away
in 1930.
1890: “Emanuel
Bernheimer” published today listed the philanthropies and charities supported
by the founder Lion Brewery including Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum and the Montefiore Home for the Chronic Invalids.
1890: It was
reported today that in St. Petersburg, university students have presented
Professor Menelieff with demands that entrance fees be reduced and the
restrictions against Jewish admission be removed.
1890(8th of
Nisan, 5650): Forty-five-year-old Morris Eising, a Jewish immigrant from German
was found dead in his boarding house at West 24th Street.
1891:
Following the appointment of the Grand Duke Sergei as Governor of Moscow, the
Jews found out today about the plan to expel 20,000 of them from the city.
1892: The
Russian government published the edict that expelled 14,000 Jews from Moscow.
Two thirds of Moscow’s Jewry were disposed and violently removed to the Pale of
Settlement.
1892(1st of
Nisan 5652): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1892: Three
days after she had passed away, the former Emily Bethiah Meikleham, the widow
of Joseph Cohen was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1892(1st of
Nisan 5652): Rabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk passed away. Born in 1832, he
“was the leading Hasidic rebbe of his time in Poland. He was a chosid
(follower) of the Rizhiner Rebbe. After the death of his father, the Sorof of
Mogelnica, he assumed leadership of the chasidim, who eventually numbered ten
thousand. His sons-in-law were the Kozhnitser Rebbe and Rebbe Osher the Second
of Stolin-Karlin.”
1893: In
Boston, Judge Ely dismissed charges against Tavia Angus, the defendant charged
by the police with illegally possessing wine and liquor which his
co-religionists from Adat Israel claimed he was holding for them and which
would be distributed prior to Passover which begins at sundown on March 31. The
Jews will now be able to get their wine and brandy back from the police in time
for the first Seder.
1893: “New
Immigration Commissioner” published today described Secretary of Treasury John
G. Carlisle’s appointment of Joseph H. Senner as the Commissioner of
Immigration at New York. (Carlisle was not Jewish; Senner was)
1894:
Birthdate of Bohemia born painter turned photographer Franz F. Planer the Oscar
award nominated cinematographer whose works spanned from the big outdoor
western “The Big Country” to the Manhattan stylishness of “Breakfast at
Tiffany’s”.
http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/planer.htm
http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ni-Po/Planer-Franz.html
1894: In
Russia Abraham Issac and Bluma (Ruchel) Wisenberg
gave birth to Mercer University graduate and member of the Georgia bar Solomon
Louis Wisenberg, the husband of Bessie Mindel whom he married
in 1917 and who taught Hebrew in Macon GA, practiced law in Georgia and
served as the treasurer of the Mississippi Wholesale Company in Laurel,
Mississippi.
1895: “Grand
Cake Walk For Charity” published today described the fund raiser sponsored by
the Monte Relief Society which began with an address by the founder and
President Sofia Monte-Loebinger. The society which is named for its founder was
founded by a handful of Jewesses and provides financial aid to the city’s
destitute.
1895(4th
of Nisan, 5655): Bernhard Bernhard, a benefactor to many Jewish charities
including the Hebrew Benevolent Association, passed away today at his home on
East 62nd Street in New York leaving behind two children
1896(15th of
Nisan, 5656): First Day of Pesach
1896(15th of
Nisan, 5656): The
New York Times reported
that “Pesach, or the Feast of the Passover, with which the Israelites celebrate
the deliverance of the Jews from bondage in Egypt, was inaugurated at sundown
yesterday. The feast continues eight consecutive days and will close with the
setting of the sun next Saturday.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30917F63C5415738DDDA00A94DB405B8685F0D3
1896(15th
of Nisan, 5656): Fifty-two-year-old Hungarian born revolutionary Leó Frankel
who took part in the Paris Commune of 1871 passed away today.
1896: In
Amsterdam, “Abraham Jessurun Cardozo and Marie Serlui, gave birth David Abraham
Jessurun Cardoza, the assistant rabbi at New York’s Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue and senior rabbi at Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikveh Israel who in
1953 became the first rabbi to publicly hold High Holiday services in Spain
since the expulsion in 1492,
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/05/archives/rabbi-cardozo-dies-a-sephardic-leader.html
1896: It was
reported today that Lucien L. Bonheur is chairman of the committee planning the
19th annual Strawberry Festival sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association. He is being assisted by Isaac Newton Lewis, Falk Younker, Levi
Hershfield, Edwin M. Schwartz and Dr. Louis S. Rosenthal. Percival S. Menken is
President of the Association.
1897:
“Millions For Charity” published today described a “stupendous project” to be
underwritten by the Baron de Hirsch Fund that will “relieve the congested
district of” New York’s “east side by building homes and establishing
industries in the suburbs.”
1897(25th
of Adar II, 5657): Sixty-six year old David Weinberg, a retired furrier, passed
away at his home leaving behind a widow and four children in New York.
1897(25th
of Adar II, 5657): Forty-nine-year-old Louis Israel, “proprietor of the one of
the largest livery stables in Brooklyn” passed away today. A native of Brooklyn, he was President of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society and a member of the Independent Order of the Free
Sons of Israel, the King Solomon Lodge and the B’nai Sholom Benefit Society.
1898(6th of
Nisan, 5658): Rabbi Emanuel Schwab who was 101 years old passed away today in
New York City. A native of Frankfort on
Main he came to the United States 53 years ago where he served as rabbi of
congregations at Schenectady, NY and Bridgeport, Conn. He was preceded in death by his wife the
former Miss Sophie Hirsch whom he had married in 1862.
1899: Baroness
Hirsch the widow of the late Jewish philanthropist is reportedly to be
critically ill.
1899: The
Jewish Colonial Bank in London begins to accept subscriptions.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/jct.html
1900: The American Israelite announced the
death of Isaac Mayer Wise.
1900: In
Belfast, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Elliot “gave birth” to a “stillborn” child today.
1901: The
United Mine Workers, whose predecessors had included The National Federation of
Miners led by its President Samuel Gompers, “obtained recognition by the
anthracite mines in Pennsylvania and called off a strike that had been planned
for April 1.”
1902(20th
of Adar II, 5662): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah
1902: “Call
for Information” published today described a resolution introduced in the House
of Representatives directing the Secretary of State “to inform this House
whether American citizens of the Jewish religious faith, holding passports
issued by” the United States “government are barred or excluded from entering
the territory of the Empire Russia and whether the Russian Government has made
or is making any discrimination between citizens of the United States, of
different religious faith or persuasion visiting or attempting to visit
Russia…”
1903: Herzl
meets with the Belgian born barrister Leon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart
now living in Egypt. Herzl tells him that “We will give up the word 'Charter'
but not the thing itself."
1903:
Birthdate of Russian born American and Radcliffe trained political scientist
who worked for such luminaries as Governor Herbert H. Lehman and General Lucius
D. Clay.
1904: Alfred
Decker, the Bavarian born son of Johanna Reub and Abraham Decker who at the age of 13 came to Chicago where he founded
“Alfred Decker and Cohn Company which became Society Brand Clothes, Inc. one
largest manufacturers of men’s wear in the United States and was a member of
both Temple Sholem and Temple Emanuel married Raye Hexter today.
1904:
Eleven-year-old Harry Serkin was given five cents by an unknown man to
delivere a parcel to the office of the Jewish Morning Journal at 228 Madison
Street which turned out to be a box filled with kerosene soaked sawdust and a
piece of zinc piping filled with powdered carbon and with a smoldering fuse all
of which was taken to the Madison Street Police Station.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/03/30/118944620.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1905: At 07:00
today Dorothy Levitt “departed from the De-Dion showroom in Great Marlborough
Street London and arrived at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool at 18:10, having
completed the 205 miles in 11 hours” thus establishing “a new record for the
longest drive achieved by a lady driver.”
1906: As of
today, Attorney General Julius M. Mayer is President of the Jewish Protectory
and Aid Society, Jesse Straus is the Secretary and Henry Solomon and Mortimer
L. Schiff are Vice Presidents.
1907(14th of
Nisan, 5667): On Ellis Island, Rabbi Adolph Radin joined 180 Jewish immigrants
in a Seder this evening which marked their first Passover in the United States.
1907: “A
meeting convened by Zionists was held” today “at the Hotel Continental in
Vienna to protest” the “atrocities” being committed against the Jews in
Romania.
1907: As of
today, 140,000 soldiers had been recruited to help quell the Romanian Peasant
Revolt. The peasants were revolting against the Christian nobles who were the
landowners responsible for their exploitation. An untold number of Jews fell
victim to the peasants because they were the one who collected the rents. Once
again, a dispute between groups of Christians results in dead Jews.
1908: Late
tonight, the New York City Police expressed the opinion that “Selig Silverstein
(also known as Selig Cohen), a Russian-born cloak maker and anarchist living on
Van Brunt Street in Brooklyn, who was attending the Socialist Conference of the
Unemployed and who had thrown “a bomb into a group in in Union Square” was
acting alone in the manner of “a sickly fanatic” and not as a participate in “a
deliberate plot.”
1909:
Birthdate of Alfred A. Tananbaum, one of three brothers who built Yonkers
Raceway into a leading harness track
1909: It was
reported today that the turnout for the election of the Executive Committee
which “will look after all Jewish community interests” was so heavy that it
took two days to count the ballots and that the “Orthodox and liberal elements
are both represented on the committee of twenty-five.”
1910:
Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé a 19th century French
archaeologist and author “who is known for his architectural studies of
Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the surrounding areas. (For more see Digging
Through The Bible by Richard A. Freund)
1911:
Birthdate of Paris native and Sorbonne attendee Dr. Nathan Edlemean, the CCNY
undergrad and hold of a Ph.D. from Columbia, who taught French at two colleges
and wrote Attitudes of 17th Century France Toward the Middle Ages.
1911(29th
of Adar, 5671): Ephraim Kagnousky, the husband of Beth-Sheba Cohen with whom he
had six children – Abraha, Rose Ann, Marion, Sumner, Nathan and Jacob – passed away
today after which he was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Woburn, MA
1912: By
decree of the King of Italy, Jews in Tripoli can now organize as a community.
1912: Painter
and Professor Max Liebermann received an honorary Doctor Philosophy degree for
the University of Berlin.
1912(11th
of Nisan, 5672): Sixty-eight-year-old “communal worker,” Tobias Weinschenker
passed away today in Chicago.
1912(11th
of Nisan, 5672): Fifty-seven-year-old merchant Jacques Loeb passed away in
Montgomery, Alabama.
1913:
Birthdate of Fivel Feldman, the Brooklyn native gained fames as comedian Phil
Foster who gained lasting fame as Frank De Fazio on the 1970’s sitcom “Laverne
and Shirley.”
1913: It was
reported today that “there was a debate concerning Shechitah” “in the Landtag
of Darmstadt, the capital city of the Duchy of Hesse” where, as expected the
anti-Semites attacked the Jewish form of slaughter as being inhumane but
unexpectedly defenders of the practice “were found in the Catholic party.”
1913(20th
of Adar II, 5673): Shabbat Parah
1913(20th
of Adar II, 5673): New York “communal worker” David H. Lieberman passed away
today.
1913:
Birthdate of Hyman Bloom. Born into an orthodox Jewish family in southern he
emigrated to the United States with his family in 1920, at the age of seven. He
lived for most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts and at a young age planned
to become a rabbi, but his family could not find a suitable teacher. Bloom and
Jack Levine, another Jewish painter from Boston, received scholarships in the
fine arts given by the famous Harvard art professor Denman Ross. Bloom, along
with Levine and another painter, Karl Zerbe, eventually became associated with
a style named Boston Expressionism. He passed away in 2009.
1914(2nd
of Nisan, 5674): Fifty-seven-year-old Rosa Stix, the Cincinnati born daughter
of Yetta Hackes and Louis Stix nd the wife of Carl Iglauer with whom he had two
children – Zilah and Florence—passed away today.
1914: In
Mulhouse, Baruch Kahn and Constance Kenendel Lang gave birth to Louis Joseph
Kahn.
1915(14th
of Nisan, 5675): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1915: Emanuel
Beckerman, an interpreter in the Bronx Municipal Court was pleased to learn
today that the ten pounds of matzoth that he had shipped to Rabbi Bernard
Pressen for his Seder in Berlin had arrived in Amsterdam and should have made
it to Berlin in time for the Seder. Beckerman had met Pressen in 1907 and did
not want his co-religionist to go without unleavened bread because the Kaiser’s
government had banned using wheat to make matzoth.
1915: “More
than 300 Jewish soldiers and sailors along with Admiral Charles Sigsbee who had
commanded the Battleship Maine, were the guests tonight at a Seder hosted by
the Army and Navy Y.M.H.A.
1915(14th of Nisan,
5675): Ninety men and one hundred and five women ranging in age from 67 to 110
held a Seder at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob in New York City. Nissen
Rosen, 105 years old, will sit at one end of the table where he will face 110-year-old
Ethel Rosenstein. It will be a double celebration for Hannah Perlaeur who was
born on the night of the Seder 95 years ago.
1915(14th of
Nisan, 5675): One hundred Jews who had recently arrived from Jerusalem were
among those who participated at a Seder at the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant
Aid Society’s home on Broadway.
1915(14th of
Nisan, 5675): Dr. M.J. Leff conducted a Seder for the staff at the Beth Israel
Hospital in New York City.
1915: As Jews
ran their last errands in preparation for the Seder at Ostrolenka, Russia,
German planes began bombing the city with what appeared to be a decision by
“the enemy to raze the city to its foundations.”
1915: It was
reported today that Judge Nathaniel E. Harris, the governor-elect of Georgia
believes “the bitterness against Leo Frank has largely passed away and there
are now many who take the view that his conviction was a miscarriage of
justice” while “on the other hand, there are plenty of them who do not.”
1916: Alexsei
Brusilov, who as the Chief of Staff approved the appointment of Jewish
Chaplains to serve in the Russian Army “was given command of the Southwest
Front.”
1916: Bronx
Borough President Douglas Mathewson and Bronx County Register were among the
thousands of people who attended “Bronx Night” at the Jewish Bazar being held
at the Grand Central Palace.
1916: Three
days after he had passed away, 25-year-old Corporal George Jessel Issacs, the
“son of Harry and Mria Isaacs” was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish
Cemetery” in London.
1917: Jacob
Schiff, Adolph Lewisohn and Oscar S. Straus are expected to attend the meeting
of the Jewish League of American Patriots at the Broadway offices of Samuel
Untermyer where plans will be made “to spread the movement” throughout the
United States.
1917:
“Hadassah…announced” today “that $30,000 has been raised for a medical until
which it” will “establish in Palestine at the earliest possible moment to
combat typhus and other plagues now reported to be prevalent in that country.”
1917: “The
Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel” which has eighty-one lodges
throughout the United States is scheduled to “hold a patriotic mass meeting”
tonight at the Floral Garden so “that the Jews of Greater New York may give
joint public expression of their loyalty and devotion to the flag.
1917:
“President Wilson sent a telegram to Julius Rosenwald today endorsing the
raising of a $10,000,000 fund for the relief of Jewish war sufferers.”
1918(16th
of Nisan, 5678): Second Day of Pesach
1918: Captain
Albala of the Serbian Commission to the United States, Professor Mordecai M.
Kaplan, Sol M. Sroock and Colonel Maurice Simmons are scheduled to be speakers
tonight at “a public celebration of Passover” at the Hebrew Technical School
for Girls to which young Jewish service men have been invited
1918: In The
Hague, “the Central Jewish Aid Committee sent 540,000 marks to Poland for the
relief of Jewish communities and institutions.”
1918(16th
of Nisan, 5678): Second day of Pesach
1918(16th
of Nisan, 5678): Eighty-year-old Assur
Henry Moses the Secretary of the Assoication for the Oral Instruction of the
Deaf and Dumb from 1870 to 1915 and the father of singer Alice Moses who used
the stage name Alice Mandeville passed away today.
1919: “The
centenary of the birth of the late Dr. Isaac M. Wise” is scheduled to “be
celebrated by the Jews of America” today according to Rabbi Joseph Silverman.
1919: The
celebration of the ceremony of Conferring Rabbinical Degrees on five students
at The Yeshiva began today with services being held in orthodox synagogues
throughout Greater New York under the direction of the Union of Orthodox
Rabbis.
1920: In the
House of Commons, “Lieut.-Colonel Malone asked the Home Secretary whether his
attention has been called to an anonymous booklet recently issued called
"The Jewish Peril"; whether he is aware that this pamphlet is a
mutilation of an original Russian anti-Semitic document produced with a view to
injuring the entente with Great Britain; that as now published it is intended
to arouse anti-Semitic feeling in this country; and whether he will take steps
to procure the suppression of this publication?” to which the Home Secretary,
Edward Shortt,replied “I understand that the booklet "The Jewish
Peril" is an English translation of a book published in Russian in 1905 by
Serge Nilus. This book went through three or four editions. I am not aware that
the pamphlet is a mutilation of the book nor do I know what the object of Serge
Nilus was in publishing his work. I fear that the law confers no powers upon me
to procure the suppression of the publication.”
1921:
Birthdate of Bronx native Abraham H. Baum, who would lead the raid commanded by
Blood and Guts Patton to rescue his son-in-law from a German POW camp.
1921: Winston
Churchill, British Colonial Secretary, is greeted by 10,000 Jews on Mt. Scopus
in Palestine. Both the Chief Sephardic and Ashkenazic Rabbis were in
attendance. They gave him a Sefer Torah. Churchill planted a tree on the future
site of Hebrew University and spoke in support of the Zionist endeavors in
Palestine.
1921:
Birthdate of Howard “Howie” Leonard and Lenny Rader, twin brothers who played
basketball for LIU and then went to careers with the pros.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/r/raderho01n.html
1921: It was
reported today that the late Julia Wormser Seligman was a native of San
Francisco who was the only daughter of the late Isidore Wormser from whom she
inherited two million dollars.
1922: Edwin J. O'Malley,
Commissioner of the Department of Public Markets, said today in a statement
that "it is an outrage the prices that are not charged by the retail
kosher butchers or fresh killed poultry.
1923(12th of
Nisan, 5683): Fast of the First Born observed because the 14th of Nisan falls
on Shabbat.
1923: Birthdate
of Jack David Dunitz the Glasgow born British chemist and widely known chemical
crystallographer who was a Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the ETH
Zurich from 1957 until his official retirement in 1990 and is the husband of
Barbara Steuer as well as the father of Marguerite and Julia Gabrielle Steuer.
1924(23rd
of Adar II, 5684) Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah
1924: “"
Temple Topics of 1924," the musical revue of the Junior Society of Temple
Emanu-El, given for charity, was received with much enthusiasm tonight by an
audience that filled the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Howard J. Green
wrote the book and lyrics, and the music was by Nelson Greenhut, Angus Raphael
and Donald Samuels. Miss May Leslie directed the production.”
1925: Joel
Teitelbaum “appointed chief rabbi of Carei.
1925: While
visiting Palestine, Lord Balfour, of Balfour Declaration fame, “reads the
lessons in the Anglican Cathedral of St. George.”
1926(14th
of Nisan, 5686): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1926: An
exhibit of “valuable literary material” including a letter signed by Moses
Maimonides, a little booklet that is the “only known fragment of the great Book
Precepts of Yaliach” and “a wealth of material relating to the synagogue at Kai
Fung-fu” that illustrates “Jewish life in Oriental countries” opened today at
the New York Public Library where Dr. Joshua Block is chief of the Jewish
Division.
1926: In
Kecskemét, Hungary, Solomon and Margaret Sandberg who were murdered in 1944
gave birth to Gusztáv Sandberg who gained fame as Dachau survivor and Israeli
economist Moshe Sanbar.
1926: Rabbis
from more than fifty congregations throughout New York City that included
representatives of liberal, reform, conservative and orthodox synagogues “have
joined in signing a proclamation calling upon the Jews of New York to do their
share toward answering the call of suffering millions of their destitute
co-religions in Eastern Europe.
1927:
Birthdate of Martin Fleischmann. A chemist at the University of Utah,
Fleischmann (and his partner Stanley Pons) claimed to have discovered Cold
Fusion in 1989.
1927(25th of
Adar II, 5687): Eight-six-year-old Luigi Luzzatti, the second Jew to serve as
Prime Minister of Italy passed away today.
1928: “Several
thousand Jews, selected because of their poverty to receive enough free
matzoths for the coming Passover holidays, obtained their gifts the unleavened
today thanks to the generosity of the Stuhmer Baking Company of Brooklyn which
donated 20,000 pounds of food products to the poor Jews of” New York City.
1928: The old split in the ranks of the Zionists, whose purpose is
to rehabilitate Palestine as the Jewish National Home, broke wide open again today
when the resignation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise and two other Zionists from the
Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization in America was announced.”
1929(17th
of Adar II, 5689): Thirty-six-year-old Abraham Mandel, the Russian born son of
Rebecca and Joseph David Mandel, the husband of both Edith Mandel and Goldie
Mandel passed away today in Denver.
1929(17th
of Adar II, 5689): Fifty-six-year-old Samuel S. Schwarz, the Erie, PA born son
of Julius and Hannah J. Schwartz, the husband of Harriet Hattie Heitler Schwarz
and the father of Adele Lehman Schlafer; Eleanor Lehman Sloman and Corinne
Lehman Marlowe passed away today after which he was buried at the B’nai Jacob
Cemetery in Pueblo, CO.
1930(29th
of Adar, 5690): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
1930: As part
of ceremonies to mark the 111th anniversary of the birth of Dr.
Isaac M. Wise, Judge Irving Lehman is schedule to preside at the Temple
Emanu-El services at which Dr. Johan B. Wise of Central Synagogue who will
speak on the memories of his father…”
1930: The
first American convention of the promoters and adherents of the Yiddish
language, literature and culture opened this evening at the Irving Plaza Hall
in New York City. Eight hundred people from the United States and Canada
attended the opening session of a convention working to foster Yiddish Culture.
1931:
Birthdate of Evelyn de Rothschild. Rothschild headed the English branch of the
family and its banking business for twenty-one years. In 2003, the English and
French branches merged and Baron David de Rothschild, head of the French branch
assumed the new leadership position. The Rothschilds continue to be "one
of the world's largest private banking dynasties."
1932(21st
of Adar II, 5692): Sixty-one-year-old poetess Ida Goldsmith Morris, the
daughter of Lambert and Frances Goldsmith and the wife of Herman Morris passed
way today after which she was buried at Temple Cemetery in Louisville, KY.
1932: At the
first Jewish Olympic Games, officially known as the Maccabiah, American Sybil
Koff of New York, finished first in the semi-final of the 100 meter race while
the American team finished second in the semi-final of the relay race. The
opening contests in which American Jews played a prominent part took place “in
the newly built stadium situated at the junction of the Yarkon River and the
Mediterranean Sea” before a crowd estimated to exceed the venue’s 25,000 seat
capacity.
1932: Jack
Benny debuted on radio. This legendary Jewish entertainer moved from vaudeville
to the electronic medium - radio, the movies and finally television.
1933: The
front page of the Nazi newspaper, Volkisher Beobachter, stated "Let Jewry
Know Against Who It Has Declared War".
1933: “In an
act of anticipatory obedience to the Nazi regime, the management of UFA, a
leading German motion picture production company, decided to fire several
Jewish employees.”
1934):
Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born Louis Zuro, the younger brother of textile
Aron Surasky, the father of the late Josiah Zuro, the music direct at Pathe
motion picture studio and the husband of Leah Zuro, who began working on
productions of Hammerstein’s grand operas in 1910 and organizing free Sunday
concerts in 1924 was buried today at Mount Lebanon Cemetery one day after his
death.
1934(13th of
Nisan, 5694): Sixty-seven-year-old Otto Hermann Kahn passed away. Born in
Germany in 1867, this noted banker, collector, philanthropist and patron of the
arts moved to the United States in 1893. He joined the banking firm of Kuhn,
Loeb and Company and continued to add to his fortune. He was a founder and
President of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He bankrolled numerous artists
including Hart Crane, George Gershwin and Arturo Toscanini. Kahn uttered the
following warning, “The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty
frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof.” To work “it demands self-restraint, a sane
and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that
there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.”
1934:
Birthdate of Ehud Netzer, the native of Haifa who became a leading Israeli
archeologist.
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-me-ehud-netzer-20101106-story.html
1935: In
Brooklyn, Abraham M. and Belle Lindenbaum gave birth to Samuel H. Lindenbaum,
who was widely considered New York City’s top zoning lawyer and who was
credited with doing as much as any of the powerful developers among his clients
to shape the modern skyline of Manhattan…” (As reported by David W. Dunalp)
1936: The SS
guard formations were renamed SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-Death's Head Units).
They provided guards for concentration camps.
1936: In St.
Louis, MO, “Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein said “While there are so many
visitors in Germany because of the games, Hitler is on his good behavior so far
as internal policies are concerned but almost certainly there will be a new
reign of terror for the Jews and other oppressed groups after the Olympics are
concluded.”
1936: In
Poland, the Jews opposed the new law that gives the minister of agriculture
control over the Polish Dairy industry “on the ground that it menaces the
Jewish milk trade.”
1937:
Birthdate of Moacyr Jaime Scliar a Brazilian writer and physician who passed
away in 2011.
1937: It was
announced today that the Zionist General Council that was to be held in London
on April 13 will be held on April 17 in Jerusalem.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the body
of Jacob Zwanger, an engineer who had disappeared some 18 days earlier, was
found near Rehovot. He was apparently strangled. A Jew and his Arab partner
were arrested, both suspected of Zwanger's murder.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that Arab
brigands held up and robbed drivers near Jenin.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that a plea
was made in the House of Commons to reduce the British tariff on Palestine
oranges which was devised to protect the South African citrus industry.
1938: A total
of $20,000 was contributed tonight to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) fund of
Hadassah to remove children from Austria as well as Germany and Poland.
1938: The New York Times reported that Dr.
Sigmund Freud has been denied a passport so that he cannot leave Vienna for the
Netherlands. A delegation that included Princess Marie Bonaparte had gone to
Vienna to make Freud aware of the warm welcome that would await him in what would
be his new Dutch home.
1938(26th
of Adar II, 5698): Benjamin M. Jerome, the composer, arranger, lyricist,
songwriter, pianist, and conductor” popularly known Ben Jerome who contributed
two songs to the 1902 musical version of “The Wizard of Oz” and wrote the music
for the 1926 hit “Yes, Yes, Yvette” passed away today.
1939:
Birthdate of Roland Arnall, the French native who became a successful American
businessman, diplomat and financial contributor to the well-being of
Chabad-Lubavitch.
1939: The
Soviet NKVD secret police arrested Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the father
of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson for his
outspoken efforts against the Communist Party’s efforts to eradicate Jewish
learning and practice in the Soviet Union. After more than a year of torture
and interrogations in Stalin's prisons, he was sentenced to exile to the
interior of Russia. He died there in 1944. Rabbi Schneerson was a distinguished
Kabbalist. Some of his writings have been published under the name Likkutei
Levi Yitzchak. Most of it, however, was burned or confiscated by the Soviet
authorities and has yet to be returned to the Chabad movement.
1940: NBC
Radio, broadcast the final episode of “I Love a Mystery” which was sponsored by
Fleischmann’s Yeast founded by Charles Louis Fleischman in 1868.
1941: In
France, establishment of the Commissariat of Jewish Affairs.
1942: SS
Captain Dieter Wislicey wants $50,000 in cash as the price for stopping the
deportations of Slovakian Jews to the death camps. He will get the money, but
the deportations will continue
1942:
Founder's Day in honor of Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism, was
observed this afternoon in the Central Synagogue, with a special service under
the auspices of the Greater New York City Alumni of the Hebrew Union College
1943: In
Philadelphia, Mark and Lillian Shapiro gave birth to Harvard Law School Ronald
M. Shapiro, a leading sports agent, author and co-founder of the Shapiro
Negotiations Institute.
http://www.shapironegotiations.com/ron-shapiro/
1943: Third
and final shipment of Macedonian Jews from Skopje to Treblinka. Of the 7,144 Jews shipped there over three
days only about 200 survived the war,
1943: “Hans
Neumann, Leo Drabant, his wife along with eight other anti- Nazi resistance
members were arrested by the Gestapo” today.
1944: Anne
Frank mentions in her diary that Gerrit Bolkestein, Education Minister of the
Dutch Government in exile, delivered a radio message from London urging his
war-weary countrymen to collect "vast quantities of simple, everyday
material" as part of the historical record of the Nazi occupation and
writes "Ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read
how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding."
1944: During
WW II, “No. 294 Squadron RAF “air search and rescue (ASR) squadron active under
RAF Middle East Command” “equipped with Vickers Wellington and Supermarine Walrus”
began operations at the Lydda Airport at Tel Aviv today.
1944: Tel Aviv
was declared off limits to all military personnel today, including those who
have family living in the city. The ban was in response to attacks on police
stations in Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem for which the Irgun has taken public
credit.
1945(15th of
Nisan, 5705: First Day of Pesach
1945(15th of
Nisan, 5705): On the first day of Pesach at least 58 Jews were murdered in a
forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Shuetzen, in what would come to be
called the Deutsch Shuetzen Massacre. SS sergeant Adolf Storms SS sergeant
Adolf Storms was among the perpetrators of the killing.
1945: In the
evening, members of the Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8th
Army serving in Italy took part in a Seder at Faenza.
1945:
Birthdate of Yehuda Ezekiel Berkowit, the Netanya native who gained fame as
Yehuda Barkan, the “Israeli actor, film producer, film director and
screenwriter.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289730
1945: The
ill-fated and ill-conceived mission ordered by General Patton to rescue his
son-in-law John K. Waters under the command of Captain Abraham Baum came to an
ignominious end with Baum who had been shot in the groin joining the wounded
Walters in a German hospital for POWS.
1946:
Birthdate of Miami native Bruce Weber, the noted fashion photographer.
1946: “The
main problem to be solved during the next few years by the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York…is how to assure ‘full dollar’s value’ for the
community’s charitable funds in this inflationary era Norman S. Goetz,
president of the organization declared” today.
1946: U.S.
premiere of “Night Editor” directed by Henry Levin
1947: Clifton
Daniel interviewed Jewish refugees at Caraolos, a British run displaced persons
camp outside of Famagusta, Cyprus. “An appeal for the outside world to consider
their plight was the first and only formal proposal addressed” to him by these
immigrants. Currently, there are 11,000 Jews living in camps like this all
across Cyprus. If the British stick to their policy of releasing 750 Jews a
month to go to Palestine, it will take at least fourteen months to empty these
camps.
1947: “A ship
carrying 1,600 Jewish unauthorized refugees was intercepted tonight off the
northern coast of Palestine by the Royal Navy.” The ship which was known as the
Patria or Moledeth was taken to the harbor at Haifa.
1947: Slaih
Jabir, who in 1950 would introduce the “Supplement to Decree 62 of 1933 which
effectively forced Jews to leave all their property behind and go to Israel”
began serving as Prime Minister.
1947: At a
mass meeting in Tel Aviv, Golda Meyerson, the head of the Jewish Agency’s
political department “assailed the underground extremists’ warfare today in
these words: ‘Terrorism is assisting Palestine’s British administration it has
put Palestine Jewry on the defensive, whereas but for terrorism the Zionists
could have pursued a more vigorous line in their political efforts…we don ot
want to embark on internal warfare, but if it be thrust upon us we shall finish
with the terrorists, although without cooperating with the Government in doing
so.’”
1948: Today
“Dr. Hussein el-Khalidi, secretary of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, rejected
proposals for a truce in Jerusalem, for an international force to pro tect the
city and for a trusteeship for the Holy Land.”
1949: In a
meeting with Zionist leaders in New York, former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill offers assurance that his commitment to the Jewish state is as solid
as it has ever been.
1949: “The
Set-up” a boxing film written by Art Cohn, co-starring George Tobias and
featuring a cameo appearance by photographer Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig was
released in the United States today
1950: The
United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine issued a memorandum
designed to “meet the Israeli demands for direct negotiations and the Arab
desire that the commission act as mediator.”
1950: The
“first contingent of ‘hard core’ cases from the refugee camps in German and
Austria arrive in Israel” three days before Pesach. “These unfortunates, the
halt, the lame and the blind were brought in by the combined efforts of the
international relief organizations, the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the
Israeli Government.” Their arrival is an example of David Ben Gurion’s belief
that Israel is the home for all Jews regardless of their condition.
1951: Judy
Holliday, born Judy Tuvim, won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of
Billie Dawn in the film “Born Yesterday.
1951: Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage. The prosecutor in the case and
the judge who would pronounce the death sentence were also Jewish. However,
right-wing politicians would overlook this and use the Rosenberg case as
further proof that the Jews were part of the Communist Conspiracy.
1953:
Birthdate of Samuel Elliott Chwat founder of the Sam Chwat Speech Center.
1953: While
serving with the First Marine Division during the Korean War, Jewish chaplain
Samuel Sobel who had been “commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1945” “was hit by
shrapnel today in the battle of Vegas” which would lead to him being sent back
to Paris Island, SC and being awarded a Purple Heart.
1954: In
“Massacre at Scorpion’s Pass” published today the Time correspondent described
the terror attack that took place south of Beersheba.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,819663,00.html
1955: At the
Terrace Room of the Plaza, Dr. Robert Serebrenik, the senior rabbi at Temple
Ramath Orah officiated at the wedding of Henryka Judyth Korngold to Dr. Jacob
Haberman, the assistant rabbi at Temple Ramath Orah.
1956: Syria
returned 4 Israeli soldiers who had been held captive for fifteen months in
return for an the prisoners the Israelis had taken during Operation Olive
Leaves.
1956: Be'er
Sheva or Beersheba was linked to Israel's railway system. Yes, this is the
ancient city mentioned connection with Abraham and Isaac. This is just one
example of how the young state of Israel was developing its economy and
infrastructure while confronting on-going threats of Arab attacks as well as
the reality of cross-border raids by fedayin (the name given to the terrorists
of those days.)
1958(8th
of Nisan, 5718): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1959:
Birthdate of Nouriel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews who became a
leading American advisor on economics and the chairman of Roubini Global
Economics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roubini_Global_Economics
1959(19th
of Adar II, 5719): Yiddish author and playwright David Pinski’s wife Adele
(Hodel) passed away five months before he passed away in August.
1959:
Birthdate of Perry Farrell, lead singer of Jane’s Addiction
1959: Release
date for “Some Like It Hot” a great comedy film directed, produced and
co-authored by Billy Wilder.
1959:
Birthdate of Nouiel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews who spent
part of his youth living in Israel, who would gain fame as the economist who
predicted the financial crisis that would engulf the world’s economy starting
in the fourth quarter of 2008.
1959: Today
“on Easter Sunday in 1959, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rose in the pulpit
of his Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, to deliver a sermon
that focused on his just-completed visit, with his wife, Coretta, to Jerusalem
and its holy sites.”
1960:
Birthdate of Bronx native and Spring Valley raised Princeton graduate Stephen
Andrew “Steve” Feinberg, the billionaire co-founder and chief executive officer
(CEO) of Cerberus Capital Management and supporter of Donald Trump.
1963: “Miracle
of the White Stallions” directed by Arthur Hiller was released today in the
United States.
1965: In the
United Kingdom, premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” with
a script by Ernest Lehman.
1965(25th
of Adar II, 5725): Fifty-five-year-old Stanley Irving Posner, the Massachusetts
born “son of Benjamin and Fanny (Libby) Posner, the Harvard trained attorney
holding degrees from Amherst and the University of Chicago who was the husband
of Lillian Kahn and the father of James, Elizabeth and Lawrence Posner passed
away today.
https://prabook.com/web/stanley_irving.posner/1048947
1965(25th
of Adar II, 5725): Seventy-five-year-old realtor suffered a fatal heart attack
today in Point Pleasant, N.
1965:
Birthdate of Elisheva Greenbaum. In June of 2003, at the Metulla Festival of
Poetry, Ellisheva was awarded the prestigious "Tevah" prize in
poetry. Earlier, in 2002, Elisheva was awarded The Prime Minister's prize for poetry.
1966: “It's A
Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman is a musical with music by Charles
Strouse” which “is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry
Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics” “opened on Broadway” today
“at the Alvin Theatre.”
1967(17th of
Adar II, 5727): Israeli author, Isaac Dov Berkowitz passed away. Born in
Belarus in 1885 he made aliyah in 1928. The son-in-law of Sholom Aleichim, he
was a two-time winner of the Bialik Prize and a winner of the Israel Prize for
literature in 1958.
1967: A new
divisional merchandise for Bloomingdale’s men’s clothing, sportswear and
outerwear, University shop hats and shoes, boy’s wear and other departments has
been named today.
1968(15th
of Nisan, 5724): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat.
1968:
“Madigan” a police movie directed by Don Siegel, with a script co-authored by
Abraham Polonsky was released in the United States today.
1969: The
original production of “Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?” produced by Philip Rose
came to a close today at the Belasco Theatre.
1970: One day
after he had passed away funeral services were held at the Talmud Torah of
Flatbush under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein for Rabbi Nissen
Telushkin.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/rabbi-telushkin-88-orthodox-scholar.html
1970:
Eighty-four-year-old Anna Louise Strong, the American born journalist best
known for her support of Communism in the USSR and China who was the wife and
political sole mate of Joel Shubin, the Jewish agronomist and journalist who
served for a time the Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the USSR.
1970: Eighty-four-year-old
Heinrich Brüning, the Chancellor of Germany who tried to save the Weimar
Republic in the wake of the anarchy created by the Communists and the Nazis and
sought to thwart Hitler’s rise to power passed a way today.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/82225/Heinrich-Bruning
1972(14th
of Nisan, 5732): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1972(14th
of Nisan, 5732): Ivan Salomon who with his wife Sophie was a“Yeshiva University
Guardian who helped to established YU’s Sephardic Studies Program” and was the
father of Professor Herman Salomon, “the former editor of The American
Sephardic Journal” passed away today.
1973(25th of
Adar II, 5733): Ida Cohen Rosenthal, the woman who created the modern brassiere
industry passed away.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/09/1886/ida-cohen-rosenthal
http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/innov_rosenthal.htm
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197610
1974(6th
of Nisan, 5734): Sixty-four-year-old University of Baltimore Law School graduate
Samuel Grover Kling, the New York City born son of Mary Schilling and Morris
Kling, a “book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune, Harvard Law Review,
New York Times and Saturday Review of Literature” and “director of the radio
program Crime Clinic on the Mutual Broadcasting System” who married Rena Levine
after having divorced his first wife Esther Beierfeld passed away today.
1974: Four
months after premiering in France, “The Three Musketeers” directed by Richard
Lester and co-produced by Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind was released today
in the U.S. and the U.K.
1975(17th
of Nisan, 5735): Shabbat Chol Hamoed; Third Day of Pesach
1975(17th
of Nisan, 5735): Seventy-three-year-old former University of Chicago Professor
of Archaeology Pinhas Pierre Dlougaz,
the Ukrainian born son of Simon and Zipporah Silverman who conducted
excavations several sites in Turkey and Persia and Beth Yerah in Israel passed
away today in Iran
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/delougaz-pierre-pinchas
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/delougaz
1977: Robert
Strauss began serving as United States Trade Representative.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, said that he would allow the early
reconvening of the Geneva Peace Conference without PLO participation. The
conference might later decide on the PLO's eventual participation.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Egged
management threatened to withdraw public transport service to and from Lod due
to hooliganism, personal attacks, theft and other difficult conditions at the
Lod Central Bus Station.
1978: In
Southfield, Michigan, funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek for fifty-nine-year-old United States District Judge
and “Michigan Veteran of the Year” Lawrence Gutow, “the’ first man named to be
an honorary member of, the Women's Army Corps who raised a son and two
daughters with his wife of 30 years Estelle after which he will buried in
Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
1979: Real
Life” the first feature film directed by Albert Brooks who co-authored the
script and co-starred in the picture along with Charles Grodin was released
today in the United States.
1980(12th
of Nisan, 5740): Parashat Tzav and Shabbat Gadol
1980(12th
of Nisan, 5740): Ten days after his 68th birthday, New York born,
Columbia trained attorney Joseph Walker an executive with S. Klein Department
Stores, passed away today.
https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/
1981: The New York Times reviews "The
Geneva Crisis" by Matti Golan, an Israeli diplomat writing about a
fictional attempt by idealistic Jews who are duped when they attempt to work
for peace with Palestinian rebels.
1981: The
Broadway production of “Woman of the Year” a musical with a book by Peter Stone
and starring Lauren Bacall opened today at the Palace Theatre.
1981(23rd of
Adar II, 5741): Forty-nine-year-old Jerusalem born Joseph A. Eliash passed away
today in Oberlin, OH after which he was buried at the Salem Jewish Cemetery in
Sheffield, OH.
1982:
Birthdate of “Russian born Israeli entrepreneur who with his brother Dmitry
“founded online gaming company Playrix.
1983(15th
of Nisan, 5743): 1984: In Amsterdam, the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee met for the last time.
1984: Arthur
Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” starring Dustin Hoffman as Will Loman opened this
evening to “rave reviews,”
1985: Police Academy 2: Their
First Assignment starring Steve Guttenberg was released today in the United
States.
1986(18th
of Adar II, 5746): Seventy-eight-year-old Harry Ritz, one of the famous three
Ritz Brothers passed away today.
1987: Yitzhak
Shamir was re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party. Born in Poland in
1915, Shamir moved to Palestine in 1935. While attending Hebrew University he
joined the Irgun. He later left the Irgun and joStern Gang. Shamir would later
rise above what some people might think of a rather dubious past to become
Prime Minister in 1988. To his credit, in May 1991, Shamir ordered the airlift
rescue of thousands of Ethiopian Jewry, codenamed "Operation
Solomon." In September, Shamir provided living proof that people can
change, when he represented Israel at the Madrid Peace Conference which brought
about direct negotiations with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians.
1987: Tonight,
Colonel Aviem Sella, the Israeli Air Force who was indicted earlier this month
in the United States for his role in recruiting Jonathan Pollard as a spy, said
that he was giving up his recent promotion to the rank of general because of
“the problems it had caused between the United States and Israel.”
1987: An
American Rabbi, Arthur Schneier, said that “that the Soviet Union has agreed
that future Jewish émigrés will be sent to Israel by way of Rumania.” In the
past, those Jews who were allowed to leave the Soviet Union traveled through
Vienna where many of them obtained visas for the United States even though they
had said they were leaving to go to Israel. Schneier hopes the change will lead
to an increase in the number of Jews who are allowed to leave the Soviet Union.
The Rumanians have asked that the transit cite in their country not be
identified so that it will not become a target for terrorists.
1989: ABC
broadcast the 61st Academy Awards this evening produced by Allan
Carr and directed by Jeff Margolis during which “Rain Man” directed by Barry
Levinson and co-starring by Dustin Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Picture.
1990: The B'nai Abraham
Synagogue “an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Brenham, Texas, in the United that
was organized in 1885 was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic
Places today.
http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Brenham/Bnai-Abraham-Synagogue.htm#google_vignette
1991(14th
of Nisan, 5751): Fast of Esther; erev Pesah
1991(14th of
Nisan, 5751): The Kesim celebrated the last Pesach for their community at the
Israeli embassy in Addas Abba, Ethiopia.
1991: In “To
Newark, With Love. Philip Roth” published today Mervyn Rothstein connects the
Jewish author the city of origin.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/books/to-newark-with-love-philip-roth.html
1991: “The
Unborn” a horror film directed by Rodman Flender and co-starring Lisa Kudrow
was released today in the United States.
1993: Billy
Crystal served as host at the 65th Academy Awards Ceremony in Los
Angeles. Elizabeth Taylor was co-winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
1993: Simone
Veil began serving as Minister of Health in France
1993: Jack
Lang completed his first term in office as Education Minister of France.
1994(17th of
Nisan, 5754): During Chol Hamoed Pesach, Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70, of Petah
Tikva, was attacked on a construction site by two residents of Khan Yunis by
axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds.
1995(27th of Adar II, 5755: Police
Insp. Nitzan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem and Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat from Makr
village in Western Galilee were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his
truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza.
1996(9th
of Nisan, 5756): Ninety-four-year-old Louis B. Flexner, the Kentucky born the
“founding director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University
of Pennsylvania” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1996: Actress
Rebecca “Schaeffer's life and death became the topic of the first E! True
Hollywood Story episode, which originally aired” today.
1997(20th
of Adar II, 5757): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1997(20th
of Adar II, 5757): Seventy-nine-year-old geneticist Ruth Sager passed away
today.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/
https://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/07/1918/ruth-sager
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/
1998: The 27th
Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship was played today. The namesake of this
major LPGA event was born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn. in 1917. She
adopted the name Dinah from a hit 1930's tune of the same name that was her
signature song in the early days of her career.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
“Diplomacy for the Next Century” by Abba Eban, “Clement Greenberg: A Life” by
Florence Rubenfeld,” The Castle: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text”
by Franz Kafka; translated by Mark Harman and “Getting Away With Murder: How
Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System” by Susan Estrich.
1998: Famed
basketball player Henry "Hank" Rosenstein Rosenstein was inducted
into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
1999: In the
ever-changing revolving door of Israeli party politics, Eliezer Sandberg”s
HaTzeirim faction joined Shinui.
1999: Emanuel
Zisman left the Third Way political party and served the rest of his term as an
independent MK.
2000: Israel's
high court orders that about 700 Palestinians be allowed to return to their
traditional homes in caves in the southern West Bank.
2000: Funeral
services are scheduled to take place to at the Plaza Memorial Chapel for Samuel
Lipman “husband of and the late Roberta Lipman.”
2000(22nd of
Adar II, 5760): Ninety-year old choreographer Anna Sokolow passed away today.
2001: “A group
of men from a reclusive Hasidic community in the Hudson Valley were indicted
today on federal charges that they ran a criminal organization that defrauded
people, banks, insurance companies and the government of millions of dollars
over several years.”
2001: Lawyers
representing some Holocaust victims said today that they planned to drop a
lawsuit that contends that American executives who ran International Business
Machines during the 1930's and 1940's played a role in equipping the Nazi
regime in Germany to pursue its goals of persecuting Jews and other minorities
that they had filed in federal court in Brooklyn against I.B.M. last month
because “the lawyers said the State Department had advised them that the
litigation could delay compensation payments to more than a million slave
laborers and other victims of Nazi policies.”
2002(16th
of Nisan, 5762): Second Day of Pesach and 1st day of the Omer.
2002(16th
of Nisan, 5762): “Tuvia Wisner, 79, of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlinsky, 70, of
Tel-Aviv were killed Friday morning, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated
the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2002(16th
of Nisan, 5762): Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both
of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a
female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in
Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the
attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2002(16th
of Nisan, 5762): Lt. Boaz Pomerantz, 22, of Kiryat Shmona and St.-Sgt. Roman
Shliapstein, 22, of Ma'ale Efraim were killed in the course of the IDF
anti-terrorist action in Ramallah (Operation Defensive Shield. (Jewish Virtual
Library)
2002: In
response to the suicide bombing at a Seder in the Park Hotel that claimed the
lives of 30, the IDF launched Operation Defensive Shield.
2002: U.S.
premiere of “Clockstoppers” a “science fiction comedy film” with a script
co-authored by David N. Weiss.
2002: U.S.
premiere of “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” a comedy directed by Harry Shearer who also
wrote the script.
2002: “Death
to Smoochy” a comedy written by Adam Resnick and co-starring Jon Stewart and
Harvey Fierstein was released in the United States today.
2002: In the
U.K. premiere of “Invincible” a drama based loosely on the life of Jewish
vaudeville strongman and circus performer Siegmund “Zishe” Breitbart.
2003: In her
presidential installation sermon on Rabbi Janet Marder spoke about the need to
develop and sustain progressive Judaism in Israel, and about "developing
an inner life — about personal prayer, about seeking the Holy One, and quiet
hours inside a book, and the solitude that is essential for a life of clarity
and integrity."
2004: “The New
York Police Department will step up security around the city for Passover,
which begins at sundown on April 5, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said today.”
2004: Today,
New York Police Commissioner said “the Department of Consumer Affairs is
turning its attention to retailers who price-gouge on kosher items” and advised
New Yorkers who suspect such overcharging to call 311. (As reported by Jennifer
Steinhauer)
2005: The New York Times reported that “as
Columbia University awaits a report on charges of intimidation of Jewish
students in classes in Middle East studies, a group of graduate students began
circulating a petition calling for the resignation of Columbia’s president, Lee
Co. Bollinger, because he ‘failed to defend our faculty, thereby nurturing an
environment of fear and intimidation throughout the university.’” Columbia’s
faculty has been divided about Mr. Bollinger’s performance ever since the
showing of a videotape last fall that demonstrated some professors of Middle
East studies intimidating Jewish students in classes and on campus.
2006: Shlomo
Benizri “was charged by the State Prosecutor's Office with accepting bribes and
breaching the public trust.”
2006: With 95
percent of the ballots counted, the election results for the 17th Knesset
appeared as follows:
Kadima: 28
Knesset seats
Labor: 20
Shas: 13
Likud: 11
Israel
Beitenu: 12
NRP / NU: 9
Pensioners: 7
United Torah
Judaism: 6
Meretz: 4
Balad: 3
Hadash: 3
United Arab
List: 4
While it
appears that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party gained the
largest number of seats, it was fewer than had been estimated in earlier polls.
Once the results are final, Olmert will probably be asked to form a government.
If the total holds at or around thirty seats, Kadima will have to gather
another 31 seats to gain the 61 seats necessary to control the Knesset and
govern the country.
2007: The Tel
Aviv Museum of Art presents, for the first time in Israel, a retrospective
selection of works by Mark Rothko, one of the pillars of the New York School
artists, identified in the late 1940s and early ‘50s as the painters of
Abstract Expressionism.
2007: Montreal
native and Harvard Ph.D Bernard Jack Shapiro completed a three year term as
“the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada” today.
2007: Three
days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at
K.K. Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC for Leon Banov, Jr. the Charleston born son
of Minnie and Dr. Leon Banov and the Medical College of South Carolina trained
proctologist who was the husband of Rita Landesman Banov and father of Jane and
Alan Banov.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=leon-banov&pid=86978509&fhid=6051
2008: Shabbat
Parah, 5768
2008: The 92nd
Street Y presents “Gershwin Brothers’ Dream of a Great American Opera: Porgy
and Bess and beyond” the third lecture in a series entitled “Music as Melting
Pot Mosaic: The Gershwins.”
2009: In the
2nd of a four-part lecture series marking this special year of Hakhel Rabbi
Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of England a noted author and lecturer delivers a
talk on Unity and Redemption - Celebrating Freedom Together.
2009: MAD
Magazine posted “Happy 80th Birthday, Mort Drucker” today.
https://www.tomrichmond.com/2009/03/29/happy-80th-birthday-mort-drucker/
2009: Model
Matzah Baker takes place at Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook with participants
learning about Passover and enjoying the thrill of baking their own Matzah.
2009: The Chicago Tribune reviews “The Kindly
Ones” a Holocaust novel by Jonathan Littell which the reviewer calls a
“helpless narrative” and “missed opportunity.”
2009: The Times of London reported today that
the Israel Air Force used unmanned drones to attack secret Iranian convoys in
Sudan that were trying to smuggle weapons to Palestinian militant organizations
in the Gaza Strip. Defense officials were quoted as saying that the trucks were
carrying missiles capable of striking as far as Tel Aviv and the nuclear
reactor in Dimona.
2009(4th
of Nisan, 5769): Ninety-five-year-old American photographer Helen Levitt passed
away.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-helen-levitt1-2009apr01-story.html#page=1
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/03/helen-levitt-obituary
2010:
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a performance in London by the acclaimed
Jerusalem Quartet.
2010: In New
York, a weeklong program entitled The New Israeli Cuisine is scheduled to come
to an end.
2010(14th of
Nisan, 5770): Fast of the First Born
2010(14th of
Nisan, 5770): In the evening, Jews around the world sit down to the Seder. Have
a zissen Pesach!
2010(14th
of Nisan, 5770): Seventy-five-year-old author Alan Isler whose works included The Prince of West End Avenue, a novel “set in a
Jewish old person’s home” which won the National Jewish Book Award and the
Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize passed away.
2011: “Nora’s
Will” and “Precious Life” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish
Film Festival.
2011:
President Obama nominated Daniel B. Shapiro to serve as the Ambassador of the
United States of America to the state of Israel.
2011: Center
for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute presented “Romantic Piano Trios:
Schumann and Rachmaninoff.”
2012: The Andy
Statman Trio (Andy on mandolin and clarinet, Jim Whitney on bass, Larry Eagle
on drums & percussion) is scheduled to wrap up the season at the Charles
Street Synagogue.
2012: Al
Munzer is scheduled to moderate “Spinoza, Superstar of the millennium?” as part
of Theatre J’s backstage program.
2012: Senator
Gary Peters delivered a speech in honor of Joel E. Jacob, Chairman of the Board
of MAZON.
http://capitolwords.org/date/2012/03/29/E508-2_to-honor-the-leadership-of-joel-jacob-as-chairman-/
2012: Jon
Lebowitz was confirmed for a second term as Chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission.
2012:
“Footnote” is among the films scheduled to be shown today at the Westchester
Jewish Film Festival.
2012(6th
of Nisan, 5772): Seventy-four-year-old “Kenneth Libo, a historian of Jewish
immigration who, as a graduate student working for Irving Howe in the 1960s and
’70s, unearthed historical documentation that informed and shaped World of
Our Fathers, Mr. Howe’s landmark 1976 history of the East European Jewish
migration to America” passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/books/kenneth-libo-historian-of-jewish-immigration-dies-at-74.html
2013: The
Ruach Minyan at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. is scheduled to host a Pesach
Shabbat dinner.
2013: The
Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert “Passion and Fire in the
20th Century.”
2013(18th
of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-one-year-old linguist John H. Gumperz passed away
today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Gumperz
2013: The 23rd
annual Haifa International Children’s Theatre Festival is scheduled to come to
an end.
2013: The
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series is scheduled to present “That
Hamilton Woman” the classic directed by Michael Korda.
2013: “The
Jewish Cardinal,” a “French television film directed by Ilan Duran Cohen was
broadcast today on Arte.
2013: Forty-year-old
Michael Steinberg, a SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager who had worked for
discredited billionaire Steven Cohen, was arrested by federal agents today.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/sac-capital-manager-arrested-on-insider-trading-charges/?hp
2013: A man
claiming to represent the hackers behind one of the biggest attacks in Internet
history made anti-Jewish statements.
2014:
“Fountains of the Deep: Visions of Noah and the Flood” is scheduled to be shown
for the last time in a pop art space at 462 West Broadway.
2014:
“Labor and Race in Modern Germany,” co-sponsored by the Pears Institute for the
Study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to come to a close today
2014:
“The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film
Festival.
2014:
“A Jewish woman and her partner were among the first same-sex couple ever to be
officially married in Britain today, after a law authorizing same-sex marriages
went into effect throughout the country. Twenty-nine-year-old Nikki Pettit, who
is Jewish, married Tania Ward, 28, in a Jewish ceremony in Brighton, on
Britain’s south coast.”
2014:
“Trebilinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine is scheduled to air tonight on the
Smithsonian Channel.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179065#.Uzil8JtOWpo
2014:
Israel did not conduct the fourth stage of the prisoner release tonight,
2014: “New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized to Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson
today for using the controversial term "occupied territories," saying
he "misspoke" during his speech to a Republican Jewish Coalition
event, Politico and CNN reported.”
2014: “Rabbi
Yousef Hamadani Cohen, chief rabbi of Iran since 1994, who passed away over the
weekend was laid to rest” today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-chief-rabbi-yousef-hamadani-cohen-dies/
2015: Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a screening of
“Defiance.”
2015:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Country of Ice Cream Star
by Sandra Newman
2015:
Suite Française a film “based on the
best-selling book by Irène Némirovsky, written by her during the Nazi
occupation and before she was sent to Auschwitz is scheduled to be shown today
as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival
2015:
“A Happy End” by Iddo Netanyahu is scheduled to be performed for the last time
at the June Havoc Theatre in Manhattan.
2015:
The 64th Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts
is scheduled to take place in NYC.
http://israelidanceinstitute.org/general/festival-64/
2015:
Professor Derek J. Penslar is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “1948 as a
Jewish World War” in Miami Beach.
http://jewishstudies.fiu.edu/events/2015/1948-as-jewish-world-war/
2016:
Today, “Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef walked back his statement
that non-Jews should not live in Israel, calling the comment “theoretical.”
2016:
“Stolen Heart: The Theft of Jewish Property in Berlin’s Historic Center, 1933 –
1945” an exhibition that explores the critical issue of the state-sponsored
“Aryanization” and plundering of Berlin’s Mitte (city center) and the murder of
many of its former property owners is scheduled to open today.
2016:
“Hitler’s Commando Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny ‘Worked as an Assassin for Israeli
Intelligence” published today described Mossad’s employment with a notorious
Nazi.
2016:
“Following a public backlash,” “Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
walked back his statement that non-Jews should not live in Israel, calling the
comment “theoretical.”
2016:
The Skirball Center is scheduled to host Lord George Carey, Archbishop of
Canterbury (Ret.), as he presents a Christian perspective on anti-Semitism, its
root causes and the current situation in Europe and the UK as well as the BDS
movement and its attempts to delegitimize Israel.
2017:
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host “Ave Maria” a film in
which “a Jewish family asks Palestinian nuns to break their vow of silence to
help them on Shabbat.”
2017:
As part of the observance of Women’s History Month, Lauren B. Strauss, Scholar
in Residence at American University and Executive Director of the Foundation
for Jewish Studies is scheduled to “discuss her role in the Civil Rights
movement and how her early experiences shaped her later life” with Holocaust
survivor Marione Ingram, the author of The
Hands of Peace.
2017:
The Vice President of the United States administered the office to “bankruptcy
attorney David Friedman, the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
2017:
“A telegram from senior Nazi Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,
Haj Amin al-Husseini, probably dating to 1943,” which “contains a promise to
support the Mufti in his fight to control Palestine, was published today on
website of Israel’s National Library,
2017:
Dr. Michael Bornstein, “one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust” is
scheduled to return to the University of Iowa where he earned his Ph.D. and
“worked in pharmaceutical research and development for more than 40 years” to
share his life story and discuss his new memoir, Survivors Club.
2018:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to “a concert of piano music
presented by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble celebrating the music of Oxana
Yablonskaya.”
2018:
Rona Kenan is scheduled to return to Zappa Tel Aviv with the band for a
performance this evening.
2018:
The Westchester Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end at the
Jacob Burns Film Center.
2018:
Two days after his 87th birthday, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the Yale
trained attorney and husband of Ramona Ripston with whom he had had three
children – Mark Justin and Dana – passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
2018:
Today, the online store of “Toys R US, the chain founded by Charles Lazarus”
“shut down today.”
2018:
Holocaust survivor Louise Lawrence Israels is scheduled to tell her first
person story of survival at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
2019:
After having premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month, “Dumbo,” the timeless
tale of elephant co-starring Alan Arkin and with music by Danny Elfman is
scheduled to be released today in the United States.
2019:
“Great British Jews: A Celebration” an exhibition that examines the
contributions Jews have made to the United Kingdom, including “fish and chips”
and “Marks and Spence” is scheduled to open today at the Jewish Museum in
London.
2019:
As part of its Shabbat observance, in New York, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to
host eight students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the
Valentine’s Day massacre who will “perform ‘Shine,’ their tribute to the
friends they lost and to speak about their experience and how activism, music
and the arts are helping them to heal.”
2019:
“Believe,” the latest album by Neshama Carlebach is scheduled to be released
today.
2020: The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin
Salman by Ben Hubbard, which provides insight into a major player in
Israel’s backyard, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us
About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro and the recently published
paperback edition of Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents and a
Dinner Table (A Memoir With Recipes) by Boris Fishman.
2020:
“The first-ever Limmud eFestival featuring “dozens of presenters teaching on
the most interesting and important Jewish ideas” is scheduled to begin today.
2020:
In San Rafael, CA, trivia maven Howard Rachelson is scheduled to the virtual
version of “Rodef Shalom Trivia.”
2020:
“The 2nd Jewish Africa Conference & Morocco Trip” scheduled to end today
was canceled due to the Pandemic.
2020:
Adrienne Usher, Director at the Shapell Roster, first-ever comprehensive data
archive documenting the Jewish soldiers who served in the American Civil War’
is scheduled to present the project’s history and future, as well as research
methodology related specifically to the Confederacy in a Webinar hosted by the
Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia.
2020:
The screening of “My Polish Honeymoon” scheduled for today has been canceled
due to the pandemic.
2021(16th
of Nisan, 57801): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
2021:
Three Jewish Federation initiatives - the Goldring Center for
Jewish-Multicultural Affairs, JP NOLA, and the Leventhal Center for Interfaith
Families - are scheduled to partner with Temple Sinai to host a virtual seder
on Monday, March 29 for the LGBTQ community and the allies who love and support
them.
2021:
New England Yachad is scheduled to present online the YAYA Movie Club.
2021:
Israelis should be able to find greater enjoyment in celebrating the rest of
Pesach since “the coronavirus pandemic in Israel continued its decline over the
weekend” according to the Health Ministry
2021:
Romanian police were scheduled to continue investigating death threats made
against award-winning film and theatre star Maia Morgenstern and her children
at the start of Passover celebrations.
2022(26th
of Adar II, 5782):A 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank methodically
gunned down people in the central town of Bnei Brak, killing five.
2022:
In the wake of recent terrorist attacks and with the coming of the “Holiday Season”
for all three major religions, Israel security forces are reportedly on
heightened alert.
2022:
“Peace talks” between Russia and Ukraine whose resistance is being led by its
Jewish president took place today in Istanbul with no apparent progress being
made to end the conflict.
2023:
A second round of talks between delegations of Likud, Yesh Atid and National
Unity led by President Isaac Herzog designed to deal with the proposed
“overhaul” of the judicial system are scheduled to be held today.
2023:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present live or on Zoom
“Interpreting Your Jewish DNA Result” during which Adina Newman and Jennifer
Mendelsohn will walk you through how to decipher your results without getting
tripped up by common mistakes.
2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Allen
Packwood on
The
Politics of War: The making and breaking of the coalition government the fourth
in a four part course on “Sir Winston Churchill and the Second World War.”
2023:
JDC Archives is scheduled to present a webinar with Dr. Michael Rom lecturing
on “From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61.”
2023:
Based
in Jerusalem, c.a.t.a.m.o.n a collaborative dance group and cultural
organization is scheduled to perform at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan.
2023:
Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, one of the
co-authors of The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival
and Hope is scheduled to speak today at Mt. Mercy University in Cedar
Rapids, IA.
2024: The
annual Red Sarachek tournament the country's most prestigious tournament for
Jewish high school basketball teams. Is scheduled to continue for a second day
at Yeshiva University.
2024:
In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a “Tot Shabbat” followed
by a “free congregation-wide Shabbat Dinner.”
2024:
In Providence, RI, Temple Beth-El is scheduled to host the opening session of
the NFTY Northeast Spring Conlcavette.
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Shippel on Parashat
Tzav.
2024: As March
29th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 175 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.)
