This Day, May 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin Z"L
May 31
1279 BCE:
Ramses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. If you
accept the contention that Moses lived from 1391–1271 BCE, Ramses would be the
Pharaoh who came to power after the Exodus. During his reign he reasserted
Egyptian power over the area that would have included Canaan during the period
of the Judges. However, the Bible talks about the Canaanite tribes and
Philistines as being the Israelites’ enemies and not the Egyptians.
70 C.E.: The
Jewish defenders of Jerusalem surrendered the first wall of the city to the
Romans.
942 (26 Iyar
4702): Sa'adia ben Joseph (Rav Saadia Gaon) passed away. Born in Egypt in 882,
he moved to Babylon in 928 to head the Academy at Sura. He revived the waning
influence of the Academy and wrote on many subjects including grammar, Halachah
and philosophy. As one of the foremost opponents of Karaism, he wrote the
exposition "Emunot Vedeot", which became very popular. A grave
conflict arose between Sa'adia and the Exilarch, David ben Zaccai when he
refused to endorse a judgment of the Exilarch's court in which Ben Zaccai was
an interested party. The issue was not settled for many years and demonstrated
S'aadia's unyielding defense of his principles. He was subsequently expelled
and moved to Baghdad. On Purim 937, the opponents were reconciled, and a few
years later Sa'adia adopted Ben Zaccai's orphan grandchildren.
1327: Louis
IV, who in 1394 authorized the Duke of Guelders to receive Jews in his duchy,
where they provided services, paid a tax and were protected by the law, began
his reign as King of Italy today with a coronation ceremony in Milan.
1422:
Sigismund of Luxemburg, who “drained the Jews of their wealth whenever he
could, he protected them from some of the worst excesses,” was crowned Holy
Emperor today. (History of the Jewish People)
1469:
Birthdate of Manuel I of Portugal who gave up his positive relationship with
his Jewish subjects when agreed to expel them as the price of Infanta Isabella
of Aragon, the daughter those implacable anti-Semites Ferdinand and Isabella of
Spain.
1492: “Isaac
Abrabanel…left Spain for Naples after his unsuccessful intervention with King
Ferdinand to revoke the decree of expulsion of the Jews.
”http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Abravanel.html
1494: Gerson
ben Moses Soncino who had established a printing-press in Brescia finished
issuing “a complete Bible” today – a task that had begun on May 24.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_editions_of_the_Hebrew_Bible
1548:
Francesco Panigarola, the Bishop of Atsi whose sermons were studied by Rabbi
Leone Modena “who tried to graft some the Bishop’s style on the Jeiwsh
tradition of the derush, a commentary on
Bible text and Talmud” passed away today. (Schama II, 118
1593: The Jews
were barred from living in Riga and Livonia.
1611: Today,
Albertus Denis, “one of the first members of the Portuguese Jewish Community in
Hamburg” and the “banker to Count Ernest of Schauenburg, the reigning prince of
the county of Pinneberg in southern Holstein, whom he supplied with silver
bullion for his mint” was one of three people who “signed the agreement which assured the community the use of
its cemetery in Altona.
1630: The
Puritan leader William Prynne, who would oppose the return of Jews to the
British Isles obtained a license to print a book expressing opposition to stage
plays, one of the many “pleasures opposed” by his sect.
1665: Sabbeti
Zevi proclaimed himself Messiah. The most famous of all the False Messiahs,
Sabbeti Zevi enthralled tens of thousands of Jews. His message was accepted
across all social and economic classes. His followers were to be found
throughout Jewish communities in Europe and the Orient. Turkish authorities
became alarmed at his growing popularity and had him arrested. The Sultan gave
him the choice of proving his claims or suffering the death penalty. The
would-be Messiah gave up the game, accepted a minor governmental position in
Turkey and converted to Islam. The whole episode might be written off as a
farce if it were not for the fact that so many had believed in him and were
disillusioned by the outcome. In addition, charges of being a secret supporter
of his beliefs would tear at the fabric of Jewish society for decades to come.
1666: One of
the dates given for the death of Jacob Lumbrozo, the Portuguese born physician
who became the first Jewish resident of Maryland when he moved there in 1656.
1689:
Following today’s invasion of the city of Worms by French forces under Comte de
Melac, the synagogue was burned including “the so-called Rashi Chapel” and the
ruins were used for a stable and a storehouse.
1740:
Frederick William I who was served by Veitel-Heine Ephraim as Jeweler and Mint
Master passed away today. As a result of his death, recently passed legislation
that would have led to the end of the Jewish community in Berlin were not
enforced.
1740:
Frederick the Great, “was not friendly to the Jews, although he issued a
"Schutzjude" patent to Moses Mendelssohn in October, 1763” began his
reign as King of Prussia.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6334-frederick-ii
1750:
Birthdate of Karl August von Hardenberg the Prussian statesman and reformer who
supported full emancipation for the Jews of Germany.
1753(27th
of Iyar, 5513): Esther Levy, who had come to New York from Curaco and was the
wife of Daniel Gomez passed away today.
1775: Today,
English born Canadian “merchant and fur trader Lucius Levy Solomons married his
second wife Rebecca Franks with whom he had eleven children.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/solomons_lucius_levy_4E.html
1776(13th of
Sivan, 5536): At a wedding celebration on an upper floor of a building in the
Jewish Ghetto of Venice, 65 people, including the bride, were killed when the
building collapsed under the strain of the celebration.
1776(13th of
Sivan, 5536): Two weddings were held today in the same building in Mantua,
Italy. During the celebration, the building collapsed killing 28 women,
including one of the brides, and 3 men. The Jews of Mantua were not allowed to
expand their housing beyond the ghetto walls. This forced them to build
vertically, resulting in unstable buildings which led to deaths like these.
1778(5th
of Sivan 5538): Erev Shavuot observed as the Americans look forward to French
military aid thanks to the recently signed Treaty of Alliance which was a major
turning point in the fight for independence.
1781(7th
of Sivan, 5541): As Jews observe the Second Day of Shavuot during the climactic
months of the American Revolution, a Council of War was held on a French
man-of-war where the question of having the French Fleet remain at Rhode Island
was debated among General Washing, Comte de Rochambeau and Comte Barras.
1787: Richea
Hart and Abraham Mendes Seixas who were married at Charleston, SC in 1777, gave
birth to Fanny Mendes Seixas “who died as an infant.”
1789(6th
of Sivan, 5549): Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidency
of George Washington.
1791(27th
of Iyar, 5551): Less than a week before his 74th birthday Emanuel
Mendez da Costa, the son of Sephardic Jews Abraham and Esther da Costa and
husband of Leah del Prado who went from being a notary to a scientist of such
repute that he was one of the fist Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of
London before gaining infamy for his embezzlement, passed away today.
https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2018/10/16/face-from-archives/
https://www.lindahall.org/emanuel-mendes-da-costa/
1797(6th
of Sivan, 5557): Shavuot observed for the first time during the Presidency of
John Adams.
1800(7th of
Sivan, 5560): Second Day of Shavuot and Yizkor are observed for the last time
during the Presidency of John Adams.
1804(21st of
Sivan, 5564): Dutch born American merchant and postmaster Isaac Bendix passed
away today in Savannah, GA.
1809:
Twenty-six-year-old Rebecca Judah, the Newport born daughter of Hillel Judah
married Isaac B. Seixas today.
1822: Baron
Rothschild conferred with Prussian diplomat Friedrich von Gentz “at breakfast
regarding the Frankfort Jewish matter.”
1808(5th
of Sivan, 5568): Erev Shavuot observed on the same day that President Thomas
Jefferson wrote to his Secretary of State and future President James Madison
from Monticello on a variety of matters including a complaint by the French
that U.S. was allowing deserters from the French Army to enlist in the U.S.
Army.
1815: William
I of the Netherlands whose father William V, the last Stadtholder was supported
by the Dutch Jews, ended his reign as Prince of Nassau-Orange.
1827(5th
of Sivan, 5587): Erev Shavuot observed on the birthdate of Frederic Augustus
Thesiger, the Lord Chelmsford, the British general who spoke against the Jewish
Disabilities Bill during the Parliamentary Debates 1n 1853.
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/mar/11/jewish-disabilities-bill
1829: In the
Netherlands, Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the son of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit and
Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife Aleida Leentje Abraham van Raalte gave
birth to Henriette Goudsmit, the wife of Philip Salomon Van Raalte and mother
of Solomon / Salomon Philip Van Raalte.
1834(22nd
of Iyar, 5594): Parashat Bechukotai chanted on the same day “William Sublette,
Robert Campbell and a party of fur traders lay the foundations for Fort William
soon known better as Fort Laramie near the junction of the Laramie and North
Platte rivers.”
1836(15th
of Sivan, 5596): Joel Myers, the husband of Frances Lazarus with whom he had
eight children, passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1838(7th
of Sivan, 5598): Second Day of Shavuot
1839: In
Cincinnati, Abraham and Henrietta Wolf gave birth to Eleanor Wolfe who became
Eleanor Mack when she married Max J.Mack with whom she had three sons – Harry,
Walter and Alfred Mack.
1845:
Birthdate of German native, Rabbi Joseph Kahn, the husband of Rosalie Kahn and
father of University of Michigan trained civil engineer Moritz Kahn who is
credited with the creation of “pre-case reinforced concrete ships where were
used by the English Admiralty in W.W I”
1846(6th
of Sivan, 5606): Shavuot
1846: In
Greenwich, Kent, Samuel Levy Bensusan and the former Esther Bernal gave birth
to Jacob Bensusan.
1847:
Birthdate of Leopoldo Franchetti the native of Livonro, Italy whose family had
come from Tunisia in the 18th century and who became an Italian
reformer and political leader who served in the Chamber of Deputies before
becoming a Senator.
http://www.comunecittadicastello.it/en/art/leopoldo_franchetti.asp
1853:
Birthdate of Russian native and American playwright Jacob Goron, who in 1891
came to the United States where after trying to make a living for Russian
language and Yiddish publications began a career writing plays the first of
which was “Siberia.”
1854:
Birthdate of Rachel Levor, the wife of Levi Koppel, the German born son of
Koppel Oppenheimer and his wife Rosette Katz.
1855: Sixty-three-year-old
Austrian ophthalmologist Anton Von Rosas who was also the author of
Anti-Semitic literature that decried Jews “taking over and “jewifying” Austrian
culture. (As described by David Aberbach
1861:
Philadelphian Henry Rosengarten began serving as a Corporal in Company of the
27th Regiment.
1861:
Philadelphians Sampson Goldberg and Jacob Luescher began serving as Sergeants
in Company A of the 27th Regiment.
1861: Julius
Heimberg began a three year enlistment with the 27th Regiment during
which he rose from the rank of Corporal to the rank of First Lieutenant.
1861: Max
Heller began service as an Assistant Surgeon with the 27th Regiment.
1861: Henry
Heller began serving a “90 day enlistment” was a Surgeon with the 27th
Regiment
1861:
Sergeant-Major Washington Cromelien, who would later “accept a commission as a
Lieutenant in the 65th Regiment” began serving in the 27th
Regiment today.
1861:
Today, the 27th Regiment, originally a part of the ‘Washington
Brigade,’” which was commanded by 39 year old Colonel Max Einstein “were
formally mustered in the service in the United States for a term of three
years.
1861:
Philadelphia Solomon Roedelsheimer, who would serve only three months due to
ill health, began serving today as Captain in Company A of the 27th
of Regiment.
1862: In
today's issue of The Israelite, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise responded to
criticism by Reverend Moncure D. Conway that the Israelite had not
spoken out on the importance of preserving the Union. Wise said that "he
never preached on politics." He said that this would be "a
misapplication of the Sabbath and the pulpit" and that there were plenty
of other opportunities for patriotic speeches.
1865(6th of
Sivan, 5625): Jews celebrate the first Shavuot since the end of the Civil War.
1865(6th
of Sivan, 5625): Hannah Aarons, the Philadelphia born daughter of Levi Aarons
who married Abraham Alexander, Jr. in 1801 passed away today in Augusta, GA.
1865:
Philadelphia Nathaniel Bloom, a Corporal in Company F of the 45th
Regiment who had been serving since September 3, 1861 was discharged today
still suffering from the effects of the wounds he had received during the siege
of Petersburg, VA.
1866: In Saly,
Hungary, Rabbi David Margittai, the Hungarian born son of Rabbi Yitzchok Tzvi
Margaretten and Rachel Lea Margaretten and his wif gave birth to Isak Hirs
Ignac Margittai
1870: John
Motley, the U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James had dinner with former
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
1870: Lawrence
Spyer, the husband of Miriam Spyer and the father of Rachel, Frederick and
Nathaniel Spyer, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1872: “Turkey”
published today described the bloody anti-Jewish riots that have been taking
place in Smyrna. The riots began after reports that a Greek child was lying in
the morgue, having been killed by Jews who need its blood for their annual
Passover sacrifice.
1873(5th
of Sivan, 5633): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot
1873: An
article published today included an appeal for money to be sent to the
“Children’s Fund” which would be used to provide summertime excursions for poor
Jewish youngsters living in New York City.
1874:
According to reports published today a Jew from Chicago named Henry Greenbaum
donated five hundred dollars to a Chicago church whose pastor is Professor
Swing, the controversial Presbyterian minister who has been labeled as a
heretic by his co-religionists.
1874(15th
of Sivan, 5634): Hungarian philanthropist, Anton Fochs who donated 43,000
florins for the founding of an orphan asylum in Budapest and 300,000 florins to
establish a deaf-and-dumb institute for Hungary and Transylvania passed away
today in Budapest.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6210-fochs-anton
1875:
Sixty-five-year-old Paris native Alphonse Louis Constant, the Roman Catholic
who was the great nineteenth century student of the Caballah who did his work
as Eliphas Levi, the Hebraized form of his given name passed away today.
1875: Two days
afer he had passed away, Samuel Bergel, the husband of Frances Solomons and
father of Charles, William and Herbert Bergel was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1877: Three
days after he had pass away, Lewis Leon, the father of “Annia and Charlotte
Leon: was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1877: On the
Lower East Side, Isaac and Pearl Gainsburg gave birth to NYU trained attorney
Isidore Gainsburg who went from owning his on newsstands while in college to
becoming “one of the leading trial lawyers of the New York bar and who was the
husband “of the former Rebecca Arenwald.
1879(9th
of Sivan, 5639): J.I. De Lissa Cohen the founder “of the Mercantile Record and Commercial Gazette of Mauritius” passed away
today at Curepipe.
1880: It was
reported today that in the last six months, the Board of Relief of the United
Hebrew Charities has provided 1,235 pairs of shoes, 407 dresses, 425 pairs of
stockings, 252 skirts, 123 coats and almost one thousand, five hundred tons of
goals to those in need. In the past year, assistance has been provided to 1,481
families which is a decrease of 162 for the year ending with May, 1879.
However, there was increase in the number needing assistance in April which may
indicate that there will be an increase in demand.
1881: In
Smolensk, Solomon and B. Lena Kahn gave birth to NYU trained attorney Alexander
Kahn, the husband of Sara Rosenbaum who gave up the law to eventually become
the general manager and publisher of The Jewish Daily Forward.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/03/12/90149510.pdf
1882(13th
of Sivan, 5642): Forty-seven-year-old Elizabeth Jane
Somerville, the Irish born daughter of William Somerville, 1st Baron Athlumney
and Lady Maria Harriet Conyngham and the wife
of James Molyneux
Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, who, after being styled as the Countess of
Claremont in 1863 began attending synagogue services in Belfast leading to her
eventual conversion to Judaism, passed away today at Roxborough Castle, Moy,
County Tyrone, without ever having had any children.
1882: In
Paris, Victor Hugo presided over a rally held to protest Russian persecution of
the Jews.
1882:
Alexander Weinberg, the German born son of Abraham Bendix Weinberg and Fiekchen
Sophia Weinberg, and his wife Elise Weinberg gave birth to Arnold Weinberg
1884(7th of
Sivan, 5644): Second Day of Shavuot
1884: In San
Francisco. Emanuel and “Caroline Carrie Mandel gave birth to playwright and
movie producer Frank Mandel
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6q2nb3j9/
1884:
Birthdate Holocaust victim and Zarnow native Chaim Salomon Flaumenhaft.
1884(7th
of Sivan, 5644): Sixty-year-old “Jewish industrialist and German railway
entrepreneur” passed away today.
http://www.docutren.com/archivos/semmering/pdf/05.pdf
1885: The 20thanniversary
of the Hebrew Free School Association was celebrated this morning at the
Lexington Avenue Opera House in New York City. The event was attended by 2,000
students and 500 adults including the association’s president, M.S. Isaacs and
secretary, Henry S. May, and Rabbis, Jacobs, Kohut and Wise.
1886:
Birthdate of Grete Seligmann who as Grete Adelsheimer was shipped from
Stuttgart, to Terezin to Auschwitz where she was murdered.
1889(1stof
Sivan, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1890: A group
of Polish Jews are scheduled to present their claim that a banker William S.
Wolf defrauded them out of money that they had given him with a promise that it
would be sent back to Europe to the New York District Attorney. Wolf has disappeared.
1891:
Birthdate of Erich Walter Sternberg the Berlin-born
Israeli composer who was one of the founders of Israeli art music, Sternberg
had a profound impact on the musical life of Palestine and Israel during the
1930s and 1940s. He passed away in 1974.
1891:
In Toronto, Fanni Goldman and Isaac Halpern gave birth to Rabbi Abraham E.
Halpern, the husband of Bessie Feinberg Halpern with whom he had three children
– Fayga, Lea and Rabbi Mordecai S. Halpern – who “came to St. Louis in 1917
after being graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York” who
lead B’nai Amoona for over 45 years
1891:
Breaking with tradition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened today despite
opposition from those who viewed Sunday as the Sabbath.
1892:
Civil War hero, journalist and Republican political leader Franz Sigel wrote to
Simon Wolf telling him “there are no less than 300 Jewish officers serving in
the French army, probably the highest number in any of the great European
armies, which speaks well for France and her republican government.”
1892:
In response to misleading claims by German anti-Semites, “the Prussian Minister
of War says that the rifles furnished to the army by Ludwig Loewe & Co are
perfectly satisfactory.” Ludwig Loewe
the late founder of the company was Jewish as was his brother Isidor who
followed him as President.
1892:
“Baron Hirsch Very Ill” published today described the deteriorating health of
the Jewish philanthropist who “is suffering from an attack of influenza and
congestion of the lungs.”
1892:
At today’s meeting of the Yale Corporation F.K. Saunders, the instructor in
Hebrew at Yale Theological Seminary was named Assistant Professor of Biblical
Literature.
1892:
“Mercy For Russian Jews” published today immunities that the Czar’s government
has decided to grant to Jews who wish to emigrate including not having to serve
in the army.
1892:
It was reported today that of the 390 children enrolled in the Baron de Hirsch
Fund School, 107 had been admitted since May 1st. The first of the students had arrived in
February. All of the children were fluent enough in English to take part in the
recent Memorial Day celebrations.
1892(5th
of Sivan, 5652) Erev Shavuot
1892:
One of two possible birthdates given for Solomon Zeitlin, the native of
Byelorussia who became professor of rabbinical studies at Dropsie College in
Philadelphia where he taught in the same classroom for over five decades and
who is known both as the author of the three volume The Rise and Fall of the
Judean State as well as challenger of the authenticity of the Dead Sea
Scroll.
http://www.jta.org/1976/12/30/archive/solomon-zeitlin-dead-at-84
1892:
“The Festival of Shebnoth” published today described the importance of the
Jewish holiday of Pentecost or Feast of Weeks which begins this evening.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30E15FC3E5C17738DDDA80894DE405B8285F0D3
1893:
This morning, “agent Louis Steen of the Gerry Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children arrested Herman Engel of the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery”
following what he was charged at the Essex Street Police Court of “having
brutally assaulted” thirteen-year-old Israel Schwartz who has been living at
the institution for nine years.
1893:
“Darkest Russia, a monthly publication, confirms the exclusive announcement of
The New York Times that Russian persecution of the Jews is extending to Poland
reporting that 480 families have been expelled from the Ronda-Gonzowski
district alone.
1894:
“At 23 Clanricarde Gardens, in the Notting Hill district of the Borough of
Kensington, London,”
George Solomon Joseph, a solicitor in the family firm” and his wife, Henrietta
Franklin, gave birth to their fourth child to pianist and composer Jane Marian
Joseph
1894: “In
Memory of Jesse Seligman” published today described the memorial services that
were held for the late Jesse Seligman which were held at the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum and addressed by several prominent officials including Oscar S. Straus,
General Carl Schurz and Charles Fleischer, “ a graduate of the asylum and
rabbi-elect of a prominent congregation in Boston.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60F17F93B5515738DDDA80B94DD405B8485F0D3
more 2015
1896: In New
York, the highlight of the annual reception of B’nai Jeshurun was “the
presentation of a handsome silk flag” by Miss Sophie Arnheim “and a “facsimile
of the Liberty Bell to the pupils of the religious school attached to the
congregation.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10615FC385C107389DDA80894DE405B8685F0D3
more 2015
1896: Today, The
New York Times published an excerpt from an article in a British
publication, The Quarterly Review, which compared the accomplishments of
Disraeli and Gladstone in the field of foreign affairs. The author is
cautiously optimistic when describing Disraeli’s policy designed to thwart
Russian attempts to expand at the expense of the Ottoman Empire. He gives
Disraeli high marks for his performance during the conference held at Berlin
and for his purchase of the shares in the Suez Canal. In the end, regardless of
how things play out, “this much is certain…Disraeli upheld the traditions of
his …country at a time when a foreign critic of our policy uttered the
well-known sneer that the only persons left who cared for the honor of England
were an old woman and a Jew.” The old woman is Queen Victoria. The Jew is
Disraeli proving that the nature of his birth out-weighed the impact of his
forced youthful trip to the baptismal font.
1897: Arthur
Strauss, an MP for Camborne is among the members of the British team playing a trans-Atlantic
chess match with their American counterparts, using the telegraph which was
“the real-time of that era.
1898: The
Brooklyn Eagle reported that Oscar S. Straus has been named to succeed James B.
Angell as United States Minister to Turkey. Among his most ardent supporters
are “the boards of all the denominations that have missionaries in Turkey”
because when he served in this position under President Cleveland, he “did more
to get just treatment for missionaries and all other American citizens than any
other man had done before him.”
1898: Albert
Lasker arrived for his first day of work at Lord and Thomas today having been
locked out yesterday due to the Memorial Day Holiday.
1899: It was
reported today that “M. Ballot—Beapure’s summing before the Court of Cassation
in favor of Dreyfus has not” caused a disturbance in Paris since “it was a
foregone conclusion but as the judgment is to be revised and not quashed there
will be a new trial before a court martial with every probability of a fair
trial and it is hard to doubt that the result will be acquittal” sincere there
is “no proof against Dreyfus.
1900: “Owing
to the fresh outbreak of rioting at Konitz in connection with the death of the
lad Winter, which the townsfolk attributed to the Jews, a contingent of troops
was dispatched there and the streets were cleared.”
1900: It was
reported today that four-story building, that cost $200,000 which is “the new
home of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association “situated at Lexington and 92nd
Street” was a gift of Jacob Schiff.
1900(3rd
of Sivan, 5660): Fifty-one-year-old Manhattan native Rosalie Jacobs Lewisohn,
the wife of Leonard Lewisohn and mother of Jesse, Julia, Samuel, Lillie,
Florence. Walter, Frederick, Alice, Irene and Aaron Lewisohn passed away today
after which she was buried in the Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.
1901: Herzl
travels to Paris to begin the raising of the money, which is to be the first
step toward the obtaining of the Charter. The negotiations in Paris are
fruitless.
1901: Bella
Weretnikow, who became the first Jewish woman lawyer in Washington State,
graduated from the University of Washington Law School.
1902(24th
of Iyar, 5662): Parashat Behcukotai
1902: “All the
meat markets conducted by Jews where Kosher meat is sold” are “closed down
tonight” because of the teamsters’ strike leaving “85,000 Jews in Chicago
without their regular meat supply.
1903(5th
of Sivan, 5663): Erev Shavuot
1903: As Jews
mark the 49th day of the Omer, the Pittsburg Pirates, owned by
Barney Dreyfuss beat the Cincinnati Reds today.
1904: It is
reported today that the recent campaign in Europe to divide up Morocco” has
been supported “ by the Alliance
Israelite whose special aim is…to secure better treatment for the Jews in
Morocco where today they have no civil rights.”
1905:
Birthdate of Hungarian native Fellner Vilmos who gained fames as William J.
Fellner, the Sterling Professor at Yale and the husband of “the former Valerie Korek.”
1906(7th of
Sivan, 5666): Second Day of Shavuot
1906: Four
nameless Polish Jews who were spending the night in basement of a tenement on
East Third Street which is the shop of a shoemaker named Silberman were found
unconscious today after inhaling illuminating gas.
1906: Michael
Davitt, a leader in the fight for Irish home rule who had, one time, gone “to
Russian to study the conditions there particularly with relation to the
oppression of the Jews” passed away.
1907: In New
York City, first generation Russian Jewish immigrants Morris Moscovitz, a
cabinet maker, and Sarah Werblin gave birth to David Abner Moscovitz who as
David Morse “graduated from Rutgers in 1929 and Harvard Law School in 1932.
1907: Sixty-one-year-old
Moritz Litten the Berlin born physician who was the son-in-law of pathologist
Ludwig Traube, the son of a Jewish wine merchant.
1908: “A grand
fair is being held at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, 302 East Broadway, in
commemoration of an addition to this home for aged Jewish poor.”
1909: It was
reported today that those attending the annual meeting of the Jewish Sabbath
association spoke approvingly of Commissioner Bingham allowing those who kept
the Sabbath on Saturday to keep the stores open Sunday, they were critical of
“the Jewish woman who make a practice of going shopping on Sabbath afternoons.”
1910: It was
reported today that Jews “arriving at the health resorts in the Caucasus to
take the bath and receive medical were immediately expelled by the local
authorities” which runs contrary to the law the forbid the residence of Jews in
the Caucasus” but which did not prevent the government from authorizing visits
by the Jews to the baths in 1909.
1911: Birthdate
of multi-talented Ruth Hagy Brod. Born in New York and raised in
Chicago, Ruth Hagy Brod had a varied career that took her from the newsroom to
Latin America and from the mainstream press to offbeat publishing. As a child,
Brod excelled in music, giving public recitals at age six and earning a
bachelor's degree in music at age 18. She soon left music behind, however, and
turned to journalism, going first to Hollywood, where she worked as an editor
for movie and radio magazines. Moving to Philadelphiain 1938, she wrote
features for the Philadelphia Ledger. Later, she would write for
newspapers in Chicagoand New York City as well. During the 1930s, she also
worked as a radio reporter and documentary filmmaker. A decade later, she
became women's editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin; while at the Bulletin
she developed a program that became the "College News Conference," a
weekly show where college students questioned prominent political figures. In
the 1960s, she began to travel widely, producing a Peace Corps documentary on
Colombia and a television series on Asian women. She worked as a newspaper
correspondent in Southeast Asia and a Far East correspondent for NBC Radio, at
a time when it was unusual for women to hold such roles. While making the Peace
Corps documentary, she also served as an educational television advisor to the
Colombian government. Brod first entered public service during World War II,
when she served as publicity director for the United War Chest campaigns and as
a member of the women's advisory board executive committee for the U.S. Savings
Bond division of the U.S. Treasury. Upon returning to New Yorkfrom her overseas
travels, she became involved in New York City politics. In the mid-1960s, she
was appointed as director of public information for JOIN (Job Orientation in
Neighborhoods), which worked with the U.S. Department of Labor to provide job
training and placement services to young high school drop-outs. Later that
decade, Brod served as a special assistant to Mayor Robert Wagner, and in 1967
she was the founder-director of the Mayor's Coordinating Council under Mayor
John Lindsay. The Council functioned as a central volunteer coordinator for the
city, recruiting some 6,000 volunteers in its first year. In the 1970s, Brod
embarked on yet another career, turning to publishing. She published two books
of her own (both co-authored), Ena Twigg, Medium (1972) and The Edgar
Cayce Handbook of Health Through Drugless Therapy (1975). She also worked
as a literary agent, with clients that included Allard Lowenstein, a civil
rights activist who was later assassinated, and James Hoffa, the Teamsters
Union leader. Brod died of cancer in 1980.
1912:
Birthdate of Senator Henry M "Scoop" Jackson. Jacksonwas not Jewish,
but he was a man of character of principle, a liberal in the best sense of the
term. A Democrat from the state of Washington, Jackson supported legislation
intended to force the Soviets to improve the treatment of their Jewish citizens
and to allow them to leave the country if they so desired.
1912:
“Thirty-six Jews were arrested at the Kiev Science and Art Club” and then
“expelled from the city.
1912: With the
aid of the police, “anti-Jewish agitators in the provinces of Podolia and
Volhynia” incited the “peasants to demand the expulsion of the Jews.
1912: In
Russia, “300 Jewish families” were expelled in the province of Taurida, joining
the hundreds of other families who were ordered to “leave villages in the
provinces of Volhynia and Kherson.
1913(24th
of Iyar, 5673): Eighty-two-year-old Samuel A. Lewis, the New York School
Commissioner who abolished corporal punishment and Chairman of the Board of
Alderman who was a founder of the Mount Sinai Hospital passed away today in
Greenwich, CT.
1913(24th
of Iyar, 5673): Eighty-three-year-old Mrs. Bashe Sarasohn passed away today in
New York City.
1913: It was
reported today that the presiding officers of the Bar Association, the Medical
faculty and City Club of Baltimore – Moses R. Walter, Esq., Dr. Harry
Friedenwald and Eli Frank, Esq. -- are all Jews.
1913: It was
reported today that “Rabbi Louis Jacob Hass, formerly of Utica, NY, has been
appointed as Resident Rabbi at the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School at
Woodbine, NJ.
1914(6th
of Sivan, 5674): Shavuot
1914(6th
of Sivan, 5674): Sixty-year-old Louis L. Greene passed away in Providence, RI.
1914(6th
of Sivan, 5674): Forty-six-year-old attorney and Maryland State Senator Lewis
J. Putzel, the son of Sophia and Selig Gerson Putzel and the husband of Bertha
“Birdie” Putzel with whom he had two children – Edward and Margaret – passed
away today in his hometown of Baltimore, MD.
1915: In
Ottawa, Canada, Leon and Beckie Petegorsky gave birth to their only son
Orthodox Rabbi David W. Petegorsky, the LSE Ph.D. “the Executive Director of
the American Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress” and husband of Carol
Coan with whom he had “twin sons- Stephen and Dan” who was also a noted author.
https://www.archeion.ca/david-w-petegorsky-fonds;rad
1915: Rabbi J.
Leonard Levy, Victor Rosewater, the editor of the Omaha Bee, Jacob Schiff,
Isaac N. Seligman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch were among
those who received invitations today “urging their attendance at the conference
to held in Independence Hall to consider the adoption of proposals for a League
of Peace and to decide upon steps to be taken for obtaining the support of
public opinion…”
1915: It was
reported today that the eighth convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America has adopted “a message of loyalty” which will be sent
to President Wilson “warmly commending him” for being an “advocate for peace.”
1915: Former
Governor Eugene N. Foss will lead the Massachusetts delegation that is
scheduled to appear before the Georgia Prison Commission in Atlanta “to argue
for the commutation for Leo M. Frank and present clemency petitions bearing the
signatures of 20,000 persons.”
1915: “A
strong delegation from Savannah” which “will be headed by Samuel B. Adams,
ex-Justice of the State Supreme Court, A.A. Lawrence, State Senator-elect and
T. Mayhew Cunningham, a prominent jurist” is scheduled to appeal to the Prison
Board today on behalf of clemency for Leo Frank.
1915: Leo
Frank, who had been sentenced to hang, appealed to the Georgia State Prison
Commission that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.
1915: “The
seventh annual convention of the Federation of Russian Polish Hebrews of
America” “which represent 30,000 Russian Polish Jews in the United States,
passed a resolution favoring the sending of a petition to the State Prison
Commission at Atlanta, GA asking that the sentence of Leo M. Frank be
commuted.”
1915:
“President Wilson received a telegram today from the Independent Order of Sons
of Israel telling him that ex-Governor Foss of Massachusetts and a delegation
had left for Atlanta, GA to ask the Governor to commute the sentence of Leo M.
Frank” and asking him “to intercede in the case.”
1915: The
American Jewish, Central and Peoples' Relief Committees gave $190,282 to Jews
living in Palestine, $4,000 to Jews living in Alexandria and $59,500 to Jews
living in Greece and Turkey.
1915: “The
hearing on the petition of Leo M. Franks for a commutation of sentence from
death to life imprisonment was begun before the State Prison Commission this
morning at 10 o’clock and was concluded this afternoon shortly before 5. The Commission took the case under
advisement. Frank, who was represent by
former Congressman W. M Howard did not appear at the hearing.
1916: Hearings
being conducting by the State Adjutant General into charges of anti-Semitism in
the selection process for members of certain units including Battery D of the
Second Field Artillery are scheduled to begin again today.
1916:
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUAC ordained Rabbi, Sidney Saul Tedesche
the Elmwood, OH born son of Jeanette Greenfield and Alxander Tedesche married Irma Goldman in Baltimore today after which
he organized the Federation of Charities in San Atonio, settled in New Havn and
wrote monographs including “Payers of the Apocrypha and Their Importanc in the
Study of Jewish Liturgy.
1916: In Stoke
Newington, London, “Harry Lewis and the former Levy gave birth to Bernard Lewis,
the Jew who specialized in “the history of Islam” when such a study was not in
vogue and pursued a career at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study to
which this blog can do not begin to do justice. (Editor’s Note: I have read his works and all that I can say
is that I need to read them again and American history would have been far
different if those in the Bush administration had read them after 9/11.)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576234601480205330.html
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/15/152764539/at-96-historian-lewis-reflects-on-a-century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Went_Wrong%3F
1917:
Birthdate of Morris Albert Adelman, “an energy economist who marshaled
free-market principles and hard data in arguing that the world’s oil supply was
not running out.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1917: Abram I.
Elkus, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey who was suffering from Typhus when the
U.S. declared war on Germany and therefore unable to leave the country as
ordered by the government at Constantinople was finally able to leave for
Switzerland, a way station on his eventual destination – the United States.
1917: Two days
after he had passed away, 37-year-old David Freeman, a mechanic served with the
Royal Air Corps, was buried today in London at the “Plashest Jewish Cemetery.”
1918:
Commander Jacob H. Klein, Jr., the skipper of the U.S.S. Smith which during
World War protected the “vitally important convoys of troop and cargo ships’ as
they made their way through submarine infested waters was responsible for
“rescuing the crew of the U.S.S. President Lincoln” today “after that ship had
been torpedoed.”
1918: The
meeting of the Chicago Branch of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America is
scheduled to be held this evening at the Hotel La Salle.
1918: As
violent attacks continue against Jews in Poland, in Cracow the authorities
permitted “distribution of proclamations accusing Jews if murdering a Christian
girl who had, in fact, been killed by the police during a pogrom.”
1918: In
Cracow, the Premier and Minister of Interior met with a group of Jewish leaders
and “promised to takes measures against future outbreaks of violence.”
1918: After
two days of debate a proposal of Herr Heins to “disenfranchise the Jews in
Prussia” was withdrawn today.
1919(2nd
of Sivan, 5679): Parashat Bamibar
1919: Services
were held today at Beth Israel Synagogue during the National Conference of
Jewish Charities at Atlantic City.
1919: It was
reported today that Michael Aaaronsoh, and Jacob Marcus who was appointed
sergeant-major were among the first students at Hebrew Union College to have
enlisted in the Army and that Marcus, who was promoted to the rank of 2nd
Lieutenant when her arrived in France is expected to return home soon while
Aaronsohn who was promoted to the rank of Sergeant-Major was blinded while
“trying to rescue a wounded comrade during fighting in the Argonne Forest.”
1919: The
partly decomposed corpse of Rosa Luxemburg was found in one of the locks of
Berlin’s Landwehr Canal.
1919: After
two day of debate, the proposal of Herr Heins to disenfranchise the Jews in
Prussia which he called for as a requirement for his support of an “Equality of
Suffrage Bill” was withdrawn today.
1920: “Nathan
Straus of New York was elected Chairman of the permanent organization of the
American Jewish Congress just before that body concluded a two day session in
the gold room of the Bellevue Stratford tonight.”
1920:
Playwright Jack Burnett Larric, the London born son of Jane Koenigsburg and
Burnett Larric who began his career as reporter for the New York Herald and who
produced “A Sleepless Night” married Ivy Sherman today.
1921:
Churchill explains to the members of the Cabinet that he “had decided to
suspend the development of representative institutions in Palestine ‘owing to
the fact that any elected body would undoubtedly prohibit further immigration
of the Jews.’”
1922:
Forty-five year old Boston University trained attorney, Abraham C. Weber, the
Boston born son of Max and Rebecca Weber married Sylvia Fish today.
1923: Samuel
Gompers, the head of the AFL and a leadingggggg speaker for the “wets” did not
appear as expected at the hearings before Governor Smith on the Culver bill
“which would repeal the Mullan-Gage State Prohibition Act” but instead sent a
letter addressed to the Governor in which he said all four million members of
his organization “favored repeal” of the prohibition enforcement act.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/06/01/105864925.html?pageNumber=1
1924(27th
of Iyar, 5684): Parashat Bechukotai
1924: “Harold
Riegelman, an executive with the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity today made public a
telegram he had received from President Calvin Coolidge” in which the President
spoke approvingly of the memorial services for Roger Williams that the
fraternity had held on May 30 saying that “there is something peculiarity
appropriate in the fact that the Jewish young should be holding such exercises
in Rhode Island” which “owed its establishment to the determination of the
founds to secure the right of complete freedom in religion.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/06/01/101599971.html?pageNumber=1
1925(8th
of Sivan, 5685): Seventy-eight-year-old Albert Mosse, the German jurist who
advised the Japanese during the creation of the Meiji Constitution passed away
today in Berlin.
1925: In
Washington Heights, Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a
businessman gave birth to “American actor, director, poet, and painter” Julian
Beck
1926: The
Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition which Victor Rosewater helped to
plan and for which Louis Kahn, who would became a world famous architect,
served “as the senior draftsman for the design of the exposition buildings,”
opened today in Philadelphia, PA
1926: In
Kittery, Maine, a war memorial sculpted by Bashka Peff was dedicated today.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/31/1926/bashka-paeff
1926(18th
of Sivan, 5686): “Mrs. Regina Ember, the wife of Dr. Aaron Ember and their six-year-old
son died today at their home in the Baltimore suburb of Windsor Hills, while
Dr. Ember, a Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins was severely burned in
his futile attempts to save his family
1926: In
Brooklyn Eliah and Sarah Schulman gave birth to Seymour Jerome Schulman a civil
engineer who pursued a career in public planning for which he was known as “a
straight guy who did things based on their merits” and who served four years as
Mayor of White Plains. (As reported by Leslie Kaufman)
1926: The
entire Jewish Sejm delegation voted for Josef Pilsudski for President of
Poland.
1927: At
today’s session of the Fourth Western Interstate Conference in Spokane,
Washington, Senator C.C. Dill is scheduled to deliver a speech on Peace at
Temple Emanuel.
1928: Official
birthdate of Jacob Lateiner, “a Cuban/US pianist. He was actually born on March
31, 1928, but his father did not get around to registering his birth until May
31 the same year. He is the brother of violinist Isidor Lateiner.”
1929:
Birthdate of Menham Globus, the native of Tiberias and veteran of the Israeli
War of Independence who gained fame as filmmaker Menahem Golan. (As reported by
Anita Gates)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4556652,00.html
1930: In
Mishnietz, Poland, Zvi Dov Laska and Levia Zehava Laska gave birth to Haim
Yehuda Giladi.
1930: The body
of Judge Hugo Pam who succumbed to the effects of heart disease while visiting
New York will be leaving today on train bound for Chicago where the funeral
will be taking place.
1931: In
Pittsburgh, “Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, of Chicago, the executive director of
the Board of Jewish Education, told the National Council for Jewish Education
today that the definite results achieve during the last twenty years in
modernizing Jewish schools, in obtaining better teachers, in introducing more
effective methods, and in enlisting community support and good will, were
threatened during ‘these times of economic difficulty.’”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/06/01/102236119.html?pageNumber=2
1932: Banker
Jacques Stern who had run “on the Left Republic List” completed his service as
a deputy for the Dinge “district of Bassess-Alpes” today.
1932: In
Manhattan, property manager Richard Gilder, Jr. and homemaker Jane (Moyse)
Gilder gave birth to Richard Gilder Jr, “a fifth generation New Yorker” and
“great-great grandson of a Jewish immigrant from Bohemia who was “a billionaire
investor and benefactor who was instrumental in revitalizing two neglected
exemplars of American democracy — the study of American history and Central
Park —"(As reported by Sam Roberts)
1933(6th of
Sivan, 5693): First Day of Shavuot
1933: Golo
Mann, the son of Thomas Mann and the former Katia Pringsheim, the only daughter
of German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim left Germany for
“the French town of Bandol” where after a summer of pleasure he began lecturing
at the École Normale Supérieure at Saint-Cloud near Paris for two years.
1934: Today
marks the 10th and last day of the “office visits” being made by the
Young Women’s Group of the Women’s Division of Brooklyn Jewish Charities made
under the leadership of Mrs. Allan D. Emile and Mrs. Nathan L. Goldstein.
1935 Jews are
banned from the German Armed Forces.
1935:
“Chinatown Squad” an action film with a script written by Dore Schary was
released in the United States today.
1935: In
Eishyshok, Lithuania, “Moshe Sonenson, a leather tannery owner” and “his wife
Zipporah” gave birth to Yaffa Sonenson who gained fame as Yaffa Eliach, the
Holocaust survivor who created a massive photographic record of the Shoah. (As
reported by Joseph Berger)
1936: “A
revival of historical studies bring with it a new understanding between peoples
was forecast” today “by Dr. William Foxwell Albright, Professor of Semitic
Languages at Johns Hopkins Unversity in
an address at the eleventh annual commencement exercises of the Jewish
Institute of Religion” which was founded by its current president Dr. Stephen
S. Wise.
1936: Banker
Jacques Stern who had run “on the Left Republic List” completed his second term
in office as a deputy for the Dinge “district of Bassess-Alpes” today.
1936: On the
same day when French guards on the Syrian border captured 1,000 rifles that were
being smuggled into Palestine, in Jerusalem, “the police said they had
unearthed a collection of posters in hand-printed Italian declaring all Jews
were ‘Communists and enemies of Europe and Christianity.’”
1936: “Leaders
of the British forces in Palestine including Admiral Sir Dudley Pound,
commander of the British Mediterranean fleet “met today to discuss steps to
halt the continuing disorders” in Palestine.
1936: It was reported today that the
proceeds of the upcoming annual “Give or Get Luncheon” sponsored by the
Mizrachi Women’s Organization will be used to provide for the needs of young
girls in Palestine, including both the native-born and refugees from Europe.
1936(10th
of Sivan, 5696): “Today marks the end of the sixth week of rioting, murder and
acts of brigandage by Arabs in Palestine.”
1936(10th
of Sivan, 5696): Fifty-year-old Franz Borschard, a German Jewish refugee “was
fatally shot near Givat Shaoul, a suburb of Jerusalem” “by an Arab who jumped
from concealment behind a wall.”
1937(21st
of Sivan, 5697): Forty-two-year-old Yan Gamarnik, the Jewish Deputy Commisar of
Defense and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia committed
suicide today while serving as the Chief of the Political Department of the Red
Army before he could be “punished” for having refused to follow the Party Line
during the trial of Marshal Tukhachevsky.
1937:
“Unskilled labor's right to strike and the right of a woman to sue for divorce
on the grounds of incompatibility were part of "New Deal" legislation
by the Talmudic interpreters of the Mosaic Laws between the third and fifth centuries
of the Christian Era, Dr. Louis Ginzberg, Professor of Talmud at the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America,” said tonight.
1938(1st
of Sivan, 5698):
1938: Michael
Strauss “Mike” Jacobs, the manager of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis was
photographed today the Madison Square Garden Bowl with his fighter and trainer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jacobs_(boxing)#/media/File:Louis-chappie-jacobs-1938.jpg
1938: German
legislation outlaws "decadent art." All decadent artists weren’t
Jewish but all Jewish artists were decadent.
1938:
Birthdate of Peter Yarrow, “The Peter” in Peter, Paul and Mary
1939: As
violence aimed at Arabs in response to the White Paper, increased, British
authorities in Palestine began arresting Revisionists including Dr. Bukshpan,
chairman of the Revisionist Palestine Executive Committee. At the same, at
least one Jewish newspaper in Palestine published a report from Warsaw, Poland
“that Dr. Vladimir Jabotinsky, head of the Revisionist party was openly opposed
to any Jewish rebellion on the ground that in the present state of
international affairs the Jews must and cannot fight against Britain when all
democracies are grouping themselves” for a fight with Nazi Germany.
1939: Even
though it placed strict limitations on Jewish immigration, Arab leaders
rejected the White Paper today because it allowed for Jewish immigration and
for the possibility of a Jewish home in Palestine. The Arab High Committee
rejected any role for Jews in Palestine and asserted that the creation of an
Arab state is the solution to the problem.
1940: On the
same day that he asked Congress “for additional appropriations for National
Defense, President Roosevelt had one-hour long luncheon meeting Lawrence A.
Steinhardt, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
1940: Today,
Victor Records “Blueberry Hill” a song that would later become identified with
Fats Domino which had lyrics co-authored by New York native Al Lewis.
1940(23rd
of Iyar, 5700): Fifty-six-year-old Kansas City, MO attorney Benjamin Morris
Achtenberg, the son of David and Hannah Achtenberg and husband of Minnie
Achtenberg passed away today after which he was buried in Raytown, MO.
1941(5th
of Sivan, 5701): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1941: Pro-Nazi
forces in Iraq tried to mount a coup to create a pro-German stronghold in the
Middle East, “Regent Abdul Illah prepared to fly back to Baghdad to reclaim his
leadership” which meant the country would be in the hands, once again, of
pro-Allied government.
1941: Today
the Nazis began expropriating “Jewish property in Belgium”
1942:
AuschwitzIII opened up. It was a massive labor camp for the construction of
synthetic oil and rubber.
1942: In the
Warsaw Ghetto, 3,650 Jews had died of starvation since the first of May. The
Germans opened a new death camp on the outskirts of Minsk, in the village of
Maly Trostenets. Spring brought on soft ground which meant it was easy to dig
massive graves again.
1943:
Infielder Eddie Turchin played his 11th and final major league game
with the Cleveland Indians today.
1943: At a
Meeting of the General Government ministers in Cracow, Lieutenant General
Kruger noted that "on the Fuhrer's orders it is necessary for the
(slaughter of the Jews) from the standpoint of European interests."
1943: Lydia
Litvyak succeeded in the difficult task of shooting down a German artillery
observation balloon which was protected by a ring of anti-aircraft guns.
1943 A Nazi
prison administrator in Minsk, Byelorussia, reports that 516 German and Russian
Jews have been killed in late May, their gold crowns and fillings taken from
their mouths before their deaths.
1943(26th of
Iyar, 5703): Today, the Nazis murdered Berta and Munio Kremnitzer, the parents
of Rama Reis-Kremnitzer and the grandparents of Brig. Gen. Itai Reis, the
commander of Palmahim air force.
1943(26th
of Iyar, 5703): Michael Henry Cornell, a Sgt. Navigator serving with the Royal
Canadian Air Forced was killed today while “on active service.”
1944: In
Budapest, German representative, SS General Edmund Veesnmayer reported that
60,000 more Hungarian Jews had been deported in the last six days. The total
for the past 16 days stood at 204,312. This day 42 dead bodies were removed
from the Berkenau bound trains.
1944 (9th of
Sivan, 5704): The Jewish community of Khonia, Crete,which traced its history
back toRoman times, came to an end when the ship Danai, into which all the Jews
had been herded, was towed out to sea and sunk.
1944(9th
of Sivan, 5704): Eighty-five year old Herz Elkan, the German born sone of
Joseph and Caroline Elkan and the husband of Rosa Elkan died today at the
Theresienstadt Ghetto.
1944: A
Hungarian deportation train stops near the German border so 42 corpses could be
removed.
1944: At the
Auschwitz rail junction, German soldiers who encounter a sealed deportation
train carrying Hungarian Jews to the Birkenau death camp defy threats of SS
guards and give water and food to pleading prisoners. (Could this be a
reference to scene in the film “Schinlder’s List” where Schindler provides
water for a group of Jews trapped in box cars?)
1944: An SS
man and a Jewish girl with whom he has fallen in love are executed. The German
has hidden the girl for months, keeping her from the gas chambers.
1944: Having
not heard a response from the telegram he had sent on May 27, Joel Brand sent
another telegram to his wife telling her he intended to leave for Budapest on
June 4. Unbeknownst to him, his wife was
being held by the Arrow Cross.
1944: Today,
eighteen year old champion sprinter Buba Weisz Sajovits and her sister Icu
(pronounced Itzu), their parents, Bernard and Lotte, and the rest of the Jewish
population of Cluj were deported in cattle cars to Auschwitz, a journey of
degradation and hunger that lasted five days” at the end of which she last saw
her parents when her father jumped out of line to hand his daughters their
baccalaureate diplomas. (As reported by Bret Stephens)
1944: The
Bielski brothers continued their fight against the Nazis while providing safe
haven to over a thousand Jews.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/11.asp
1945(19th
of Sivan, 5705): Russian born impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak passed
away today at Oxford where he had gone to live to escape the Nazis and the
Soviets. He was the father of Boris
Pasternak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pasternakuoknaosen.jpg
1945: Today,
on the closing day of a conference “sponsored by the American Federation for
Polish Jews at the Hotel Roosevelt” plans were announced for the formation of
“a new World Federation of Polish Jewry” led by Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum.
1945: In
London, Lord Wright told those attending the opening session of the United
Nations War Commission, the organization “is seeking special methods of dealing
with the mass criminality emanating from a master criminal and his entourage
characteristic of Nazi atrocities” but that “how to handle the question of
crimes against Jews generally and particularly against German Jews was still
being examined.
1946(1stof
Sivan, 5706): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1946: During
an English language broadcast on Radio Moscow, “commentator Mikhail Mikahilov
said that United Nations participation would be need to settle the…problem of
Palestine” and that “negotiations between Britain and America cannot settle
this serious problem.”
1947:
“Speaking in the name of Christian representative leaders from seventy-six
communities in twenty-seven states, the American Christian Palestine Committee
ended a three-day national seminar in near-by Highland Park tonight with a plea
to President Truman to implement the established American policy with regard to
Palestine.”
1948:
Birthdate of Rhea Perlman. The Brooklyn born actress, created the character of
Carla on Cheers and Zena in the television comedy “Taxi. “
1948:
Representatives of the Protestant and Catholic faiths joined more than 500
Reform Jewish leaders from a score of States at a testimonial dinner at the
Netherlands Plaza Hotel in honor or Dr. Julian Morgenstern, who is retiring as
president of Hebrew Union College.
1948: “In
further moves to relieve pressures on the coastal strip and to ward off
disaster two columns of Israeli armored cars were advancing to on Jenin.” One
column was advancing from Afula while the other was coming from Megiddo which
was the scene of a counter-attack by Trans-Jordan’s Arab Legion. In the south,
the Arab Legion was reported to have massed two hundred armored vehicles at
Rameleh which will be used in the fight to keep the road from Jerusalem to the
Coast Plain from being opened to Jewish convoys. At the same time the Egyptians
have amassed 500 armored vehicles twenty miles south of Jaffa as part of what
appears to be another move against Tel Aviv.
1948: Moti
Alon took off in the only undamaged S-199 this “morning to escort a Tel Aviv
Squadron Dragon Rapide to support the Seventh Brigade at Latrun. He flew
several sorties and by the time he called it a day, one mechanic said,
"his machine was so full of holes, we didn't know how he kept it
flying."
1948: An Order
of the Day, signed by David Ben Gurion, which included the following statement,
was issued. “On the establishment of the State of Israel, the Haganah has
emerged from the underground and has become a regular army…Without the
Haganah’s experience, plan, skill in operation and command, its devotion and
valor, the Yishuv could not have held it ground on the dreadful trial of arms
it had to face during these six months and we would not have attained the State
of Israel.”
1948: As of
today, 24 of the overseas volunteers, the first of whom had arrived in
Palestine “as early as February” had fallen the battle to create the state of
Israel.
1949:
Birthdate of Methodist minister Wallace S. Wade who became Asher Wade when he
converted to Judaism and pursued a career as an Orthodox Rabbi and
psychotherapist.
http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2003/200345/frederickcty/county/186594-1.html
1949: Today,
the Mayor of New York “proclaimed June as ‘UJA Month’ on behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater of New York” and called upon all New Yorkers “to
support the lifesaving humanitarian work” of the organization.
1950(15th
of Sivan, 5710): Rabbi Tzvi Price of Fort Wayne, IN passed away toda.
1951: The
address of “The Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary” was renamed and renumbered as
Tucholskystraße 40” today.
1951(25th
of Iyar, 5711): Forty-eight year old Ottawa native Louis J. Ellenberg, the
President of Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. a leading member of the Jewish community
who raised to children, James and Judith, with his wife Claire Roth Ellenberg
passed away today. (Editor’s note: Six years later the author of this blog got
his bar mitzvah at Robert Halls, a pioneer in discount clothing)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/06/01/305773092.pdf
1952(7th
of Sivan, 5712): Second Day of Shavuot is observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Harry Truman, “the godfather of Israeli independence.:
1952:
Birthdate of Marina Gershman who made Aliyah in 1991, where as Marina Solodkin
she fashioned a successful political career including serving in the Knesset.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-mk-marina-solodkin-dies-of-stroke-in-latvia/
1955: The
final episode of Danger an American anthology series on CBS which included
performances by Walter Matthau and shows produced by Sidney Lumet was broadcast
today by CBS
1955: A
revival of Frank Loesser’s “Guys Dolls” opened today at the New York City
Center starring Walter Matthau as Nathan Detroit.
1955: In New
York City, Dr. Leonard Essman and his wife Zora who “taught Russian at Sarah
Lawrence” gave birth to comedian, actress and producer Susan “Susie” Essman
1956:
Seventy-fifth birthday of Alexander Kahn, “the general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/05/31/86596464.pdf
1957:
Playwright Arthur Miller is convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to
denounce writers with alleged Communist views to the House Un-American
Activities Committee
1957: Anshe
Chesed’s new facility known as Fairmount Temple was dedicated today in
Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The building was designed by Percival
Goodman and cemented the reform congregation’s move to suburbia.
1959: Funeral
services were held today for Des Moines, Iowa native Elliot E. Cohen, the
founding editor of Commentary
magazine.
1960(5th
of Sivan 5720): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Dwight Eisenhower.
1961: It was
reported today that 83 year old Chicago born Benjamin Samuels, the University
of Chicago graduate and Harvard trained attorney who became president of the
Yellow Cab Company and “international president of B’nai B’rith” while raising
his son Robert with his wife Martha passed away while at patient in Chicago’s
Michael Reese Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/05/31/101465856.pdf
1961: At a
diplomatic luncheon given in his honor and “attended by the permanent
representatives of 50 member states of the United Nations, Prime Minister David
Ben Gurion said “In an armed and troubled world, the United Nations must serve
as a great moral force, focusing the collective desire for peace and reducing
the tensions which undermine peace.”
1961: In
Edmonton, Alberta, pharmacist Barry Katz, the founder of Value Drug Mart and
his wife gave birth to University of Alberta trained billionaire and
philanthropist Daryl Allan Katz founder of the Katz Group of Companies and
owner of the Edmonton Oilers.
1962: Adolf
Eichmann, head of the Jewish department of the Gestapo, the first Nazi to be
condemned by the Jewish state, was hanged.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-eichmann
1963:
Birthdate of Canadian comedian Jeremy Hotz.
1964:
Birthdate of Jerusalem native Ruby Namdar, the award-winning author whose works
include the novel The Ruined House.
https://www.rubynamdar.com/about
1964:
Birthdate of Canadian lawyer and media magnate, Leonard Asper, Brandeis U. alum
and son of the late Isadore Asper.
1965:
Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem,
killing two civilians and wounding four.
1966: At 20
Sutton Place South, Rabbi Eugene Sack officiated at the wedding of Katherine A.
Kamen and Dr. Andrew S. Dalsimer.
1967: With the
announcement of the alliance between Egyptand Jordan,Israelwas faced with the
possibility of having to fight a war on three fronts – the Sinai, the Golan and
the West Bank – Egypt, Syria and Jordan
1967:
Contingents of the Iraqi Army arrived in Egypt with plans to join in the
upcoming war with Israel.
1967: The
government of Egypt declared that Eilat, Israel’s southern port, had been
illegally occupied by Israel. With Egyptian troops stationed a few miles away
at Taba, the Israel felt even more threatened.
1967: At
Nasser’s insistence, Ahmed Shukeiry, head of the PLO, flew back to Jordan with
King Hussein. He then went to Jordanian occupied portion of Jerusalem where he
promises the Jews of Israel that after the war they will either have not
survived or will be ‘repatriated.’
1969: After 45
previews and 132 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre the curtain comes
down “Dear World,” a Broadway musical with a “book” co-authored by Jerome
Lawrence with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman.
1969:
"Suzanne," “a song written by Canadian poet and musician
Leonard Cohen” reached 4th place today on the Dutch Top 40
List.
1970(25th
of Iyar, 5730): Joseph Nemovitch Cushing, the son of Harris Cushing, the
husband of Etta Hoffman Cushing with whom he had three children, Ada, Mariam
Lillian, passed way today after which he was buried in Butrimantzy Cemetery in
West Roxbury, MA/
1970: Kermit
the Frog (who was not Jewish) performed Anthony Newly’s “What Kind of Fool Am
I?” on the Ed Sullivan Show today.
1970: Mrs.
Sigmund Politzer, “the only living member of the first graduating class of
Barnard College, the widow of dermatologist Sigmund Pollitzer and the sister of
fellow college graduate 87-year-old Dr. Lucile Kohn, is scheduled to celebrate
her 100th birthday today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/05/18/80024973.pdf
1971(7th
of Sivan, 5731): Second Day of Shavuot
1971(7th
of Sivan, 5731): Seventy-five-year-old Jim Novy, the Austin, TX businessman and
leader of the Jewish community who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust and
was close friend of Lyndon Johnson passed away today.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/153013/lyndon-johnson-november-1963
1974: Harry
Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery the son of Archibald Primrose,
5th Earl of Rosebery and Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery the only child
of Baron Mayer de Rothschild who served as General Allenby’s Military Secretary
in Palestine, passed away today.
1974: The
involvement of the Golani forces in the war of attrition against Syria came to
an end with the signing of the disengagement agreement.
1974: After
Henry Kissinger conducted a feverish round of shuttle diplomacy between
Damascus and Jerusalem, the separation of forces agreement between Israel and
Syria was signed in Geneva. This marked the formal end of the hostilities known
as the Yom Kippur War.
1975: While
driving to Tan-Tan, Morocco, Larry Blyden’s was knocked unconscious and
hospitalized after his car went off the road and overturned.
1976(2nd
of Sivan, 5736): Seventy-two-year-old Rokhl Auerbach who “was one of the three
surviving members of the covert Oyneg Shabes group led by Emanuel Ringelblum
that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and who initiated the
excavation of the group's buried manuscripts after the war” passed away. (Editor’s Note: For more on this see Who
Will Write Our History)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/auerbakh-rokhl
1976: “1600:
Anatomy of a Turkey” published today probed the question of a how a musical
created by Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner could turn out to be such a
flop.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,947691,00.html#
1979(5th
of Sivan, 5739): Erev Shavuot
1979: Funeral
services are schedule to held today at “The Riverside” for Frederick L.
Strasser, husband of Maria Strasser and the father of Richard Strasser.
1979: In the
UK, premier of “The Muppet Movie” co-produced by Lew Grade with Frank Oz as the
voices of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, Marvin Suggs.
1980(16th
of Sivan, 5740) Parashat Beha-altcha
1980: After
170 performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of
Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal.
1983: In “200
Singers in Jewish Festival” Edward Rothstein provides a summary of the recently
completed American Jewish Choral Festival.
1984: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for seventy-one-year-old Gallitzin, PA
native and University of Michigan trained New York attorney and former regional
commissioner of the NLRB William J. Isaacson, an officer of the lawyer’s
division of the UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies who was the husband of
“the former Edith Lipsig Hebald.”
1984(29th
of Iyar, 5744): Seventy-one-year-old publisher Harold Sabes, the Minneapolis
born son Eva and Abraham Sabesewitz who attended Minnesota, Tulane and
Northwestern universities and who was the husband of Jessie Winnick Sabes
passed away today after which he was buried in Beth El Cemetery in Phoenix, AZ.
1985: Samuel
Lewis completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Israel
1990(7th of
Sivan, 5750): Second Day of Shavuot
1991(18th
of Sivan, 5751): Sixty-two year old Bernard Chaus, founder and CEO of his own
women’s fashion company passed away today. (As reported by Isadore Barmash)
1992: In the opening
months of the Croatian War of Independence,” the siege of Dubrovnik during
which two thirds of the old city was in some way damaged, including the”
including the Sephardic synagogue which is the second oldest such edifice in
Europe, “where shells and grenades hit the adjacent buildings shattering the
windows of the sanctuary and Jewish Community Headquarters” came to an end.
1993: Marshall Brickman's "Who's Who in
the Cast," a parody of a Playbill cast list, which was published in the
July 26, 1976, issue of The New Yorker, drew so much attention that it was
republished in today’s special theatre issue.
1994(21st of
Sivan, 5754): Eighty-year Trumpeter Emmanuel "Manny" Klein who played
with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman and Arte Shaw passed away today.
1996:
“Dragonheart,” directed by Harvard graduate Rob Cohen, the New York born son of
Irwin and Beatrice Franz Cohen was released in the United States today.
1997(24th
of Iyar, 5757) Parashat Becukotai
1997(24th
of Iyar, 5757): Jonathan Levin, a popular 31-year-old English teacher, “the son
of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin” was stabbed and shot to death in his
Upper West Side apartment in New York City by one his former students after he and
his accomplice turn on the vacuum cleaner and stereo to cover up his screams
“while the tortured Levin with a kitchen knife in order to him o tell them his
debit card code”
The son of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin,
Jonathan was known by many to be wealthy. When he did not show up for work,
investigators searched his apartment and found his lifeless body bound to a
chair with duct tape. Levin’s bankcard was missing from his wallet, and $800
had been removed from his account around the time that he was killed.
1998: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Commissioners: Baseball's
Midlife Crisisby Jerome Holtzman and Two Lucky People: Memoirsby
Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
1998(6th of
Sivan, 5758): First Day of Shavuot
2000: U.S.
President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met at Clinton's
Lisbon hotel in the latest effort to jump-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace
process.
2001: Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon comes under increasing pressure to end a unilateral
cease-fire with the Palestinians, as violence continues in the Middle East.
2002: Israeli
troops enter the West Bank city of Nablus, while the Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat is reported to have signed a law reform package which is a framework for
a Palestinian constitution.
2003: While
visiting Auschwitz today, President Bush said, ““This site is a sobering
reminder that when we find anti-Semitism, whether it be in Europe or anywhere
else, mankind must come together to fight such dark impulses. And this site is
also a strong reminder that the civilized world must never forget what took
place on this site. May God bless the victims and the families of the victims,
and may we always remember.”
2004: In
“Laugh Fist, Think Later,” published today Marc Abrahams described his
improbably successful career.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/jun/01/highereducation.research
2004: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Sontag& amp; Kael by
Craig Seligman,Teammates by David Halberstam and Amerika (The Man Who
Disappeared), by Franz Kafka; translated by Michael Hofmann, a new
translation of Kafka's novel about a young man's humiliations after being
banished for his part in a scandal strives to stay close to the author's rough
drafts.
2005:
Jean-François Copé began serving as the Minister of the Budget in France.
2005: Israeli
TV Channel 2 starts broadcasting "Yoman Masa" - "Diary of a
Journey" ("Land of the Settlers") filmed by Channel 1 news
anchorman Chaim Yavin.
2005: Mikhail
Khodorkovsky was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to nine years in prison.
The sentence was later reduced to 8 years.
2005: Six days
after her death, the funeral was held for Ruth Laredo who was buried in the
Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, NY, near the grave of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
2006: In
Jerusalem, closing session of Biomed 2006.
2006: Avi Arad
“resigned his various Marvel positions, including his leadership of Marvel
Studios to form his own production company, Arad Productions, a company that
primarily produces Marvel-licensed films separate from the Marvel Cinematic
Universe.”
2007: The JCC
of Manhattan presents “Tizmoret’s Spring Sing.” Tizmoret is the Queens
College Hillel chapter’s Professional A Cappella Choir.
2007: Andrew
Speaker, an individual suspected to have XDR-TB under federal quarantine, was
moved to the National Jewish Health for treatment today where the
Mycobacteriology Laboratory determined that Speaker did not have the Extensive
Drug resistant form of TB (XDR-TB), but rather the Multi-Drug Resistant form of
TB (MDR-TB).
2007: David M.
Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chief executive officer of The Carlyle Group, was
elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago.
2008 (26th
of Iyar, 5768): Begin Book of Numbers.
2008: There an estimated 400,000 Israelis
living the New York Metropolitan Area” out an estimated Jewish population of
1.5 million.
2008: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
she was surprised the State Department had withdrawn Fulbright fellowships to
study in the United States from seven Palestinians living in Gaza,
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2009: In New
York City, the annual Salute to Israel Parade swings down famed 5thAvenue.
The main theme of this year's parade is "Past, Present, Future – Tel Aviv
Celebrates 100 Years." http://salutetoisrael.com/parade/
2009: Ben
Stiller received the MTV Generation Award, at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards
2009: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Bottom of the Ninth: Branch
Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball From Itselfby
Michael Shapiro and the recently released paperback edition of Dictation by
Cynthia Ozick.
2009: The
Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Alger Hiss and the Battle For
History by Susan Jacoby
2009: A
five-day civil defense exercise, simulating an attack on the country, started
today. Named Turning Point 3, the drills will be the most extensive ever held
and practice new measures to safeguard civilians.
2009(8thof
Sivan, 5769): Eighty-three year old Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, the “grand old man”of
labor statistics passed away. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/nyregion/03ehrenhalt.html?_r=1
2010: Israeli
Shayetet 13 naval commandos boarded six ships trying to end the blockade of
Gaza from speedboats and helicopters in order to force the ships to the Israeli
port of Ashdod
2010: An
exhibition entitled “One Foot in America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star
Line and Eugeen Van Mieghem” at the YIVO Institute is scheduled to come to a
close. This exhibit tells the story of the Red Star shipping line, focusing on
the lives of emigrants--the reasons they fled, their arrival in Antwerp and
their experience with the city's Jewish community, their living conditions
onboard the ships, and their hopes and dreams. The exhibit also features the
Flemish artist and Antwerp native Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930), whose work
depicts the emigrants and the life of the port.
2011: Final
day of Jewish American heritage Month
2011: At a
time when some are calling for an artistic boycott of Israel, Marty Friedman,
who played guitar with Megadeth is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv today
2011: The 2011
award ceremony for the Sami Rohr Prize in fiction for Jewish Literature is
scheduled to be held in New York City today.
2011: World
Policy Journal Editor David A. Andelman is scheduled to moderate a town-meeting
style conversation entitled “Beyond the Stage: On Henry Kissinger” at the 92ndStreet
Y in New York City.
2011: The
Israel Defense Forces will ask the state to increase its defense budget
significantly to contend with the growing terror threats in the region, Chief
of Staff Benny Gantz said today. "The spectrum of threats in light of the
changes in the Middle East is growing," Gantz told the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee. "These threats range from knife to nuclear
– from the knife used in a single terror attack to a nuclear
Iran.""The threats of the past are still in force, but new threats
are developing that require the ability to operate in a number of different
theaters with strength and determination," Gantz said, adding that this
"new spectrum of threats requires a new and broader budget framework for
the defense establishment."
2011: The
Finance and Health ministries petitioned the Tel Aviv Labor Court today asking
for injunctions to be issued against the Israel Medical Association, demanding
the end to the doctors' strike which has been ongoing for over two months. The
petition, handed to the court by the State Prosecution and attorney Doron
Yeffet, from the Tel Aviv district prosecution, asked the court to order the
Israel Medical Association to put an immediate stop to the ongoing strike, and
to halt any future obstructions planned. The Association, whose 17,000 doctors
began launching sanctions over two months ago, is demanding a 50 percent raise
per hour. Yeffet is handling the petition which offers the doctors two
alternatives to the current situation: entering intensive daily negotiations,
or turning to an arbitration process acceptable on both sides or as instructed
by the court. The appeal stated that "thousands of patients are being held
hostage by the association," adding that "as it is a force that harms
both the population at large and the population of patients who need medical
care that is not of a life-saving nature." The Israel Medical Association
was surprised to hear about the appeal, despite the Finance Ministry's
announcement yesterday that it intended to appeal to court to put an end to the
strike. Negotiations between the doctors and the treasury remain deadlocked
since the strikes began.
2011: The
Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host its annual award ceremony today in
NYC.
2011: Former
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began testifying today at the Jerusalem District
Court, opening the defense phase of the ongoing corruption trial against him.
2011(27thof
Iyar, 5771): Eighty-nine year old Broadway producer Philip Rose whose works
included “A Raisin in the Sun” passed away today. (As produced by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/theater/philip-rose-broadway-producer-dies-at-89.html
2011(27thof
Iyar, 5771): Dutch holocaust survivor, author and psychoanalyst Hans Keilson
passed away today at the age of 101. (As reported by the Eulogizer/JTA and
William Grimes)
2012:“City
Sounds,” an exhibit of Jewish musicians and Jewish venues in Columbus Ohio, is
scheduled to come to an end at the Bexley Public Library in Bexley, Ohio.
2012: Dr. Nir
Cohen is scheduled to lecture on “Love and Surveillance: Politicised Romance in
Peter Kosminsky’s The Promise” at the Weiner Library in London.
2012:“The
Jewish Woman In America: 1654-2012” a course covering the vital contributions
that Jewish women have made to American Jewish life, from the time of the first
Sephardic arrivals to New Amsterdam in 1654, down to the present sponsored by
the Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic and Cape May (NJ) Counties is
scheduled to come to an end.
2012: Entertainment Weekly announced todt that
Lauren Weisberger is working on a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada
entitled Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
2012:
International Ladino singer Sarah Aroeste and music collaborator and producer
Shai Bachar are scheduled to come to Joe’s Pub to celebrate the release of
Aroeste’s third album, Gracia.
2013:
“Hyam Plutzik: American Poet,” an exhibit of letters, manuscripts, images and
objects about the life and career of this three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist at
Trinity College Watkinson Library in Hartford, CT is scheduled to come to an
end.
2013:
The South Cobb Regional Library in Mableton, GA, is scheduled to a special
program in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month.
2013:
Deadline for apply for College Aid through the Jewish Children’s Regional
Service, an outstanding organization located in New Orleans, LA.
2013:
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is scheduled to host the final musical Shabbat
Friday Evening Services of this season
2013:
Tomer Lev, Berenika Glixman, Daniel Borovitzky, Raviv Leibzirer – Two Pianos,
Four Pianists, Twenty to Forty Fingers – are scheduled to perform at two
boutique concerts in Jerusalem.
2013:
“No Place On Earth” is scheduled to open in Santa Rosa, CA and Wilmington, DE.
2013:
Marty Goldberg is scheduled to determine whether or not there will be a new
print version of the Canadian Jewish News.
2013:
R&B singer Alicia Keys said today that she will go ahead with her planned
July performance in Israel, despite calls from other artists and the Boycott,
Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement for her to cancel the event.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Alicia-Keys-to-perform-in-TA-despite-boycott-calls-315047
2013:
Staff at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem reported the spraying of offensive
graffiti in Hebrew and the destruction of the church property in a suspected
attack by radical Jewish settler sympathizers today
Perpetrators
spray-painted “the Christians are apes” and “the Christians are slaves” on two
cars parked outside the abbey
2014(2nd
of Sivan, 5774): Eighty-eight year old television critic Steven H. Scheuer, the
brother of Congressman James H. Scheuer and the husband of social critic Alida
Brill, passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)
2014(2nd
of Sivan, 5774): Seventy year old “Lewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia
Inquirer and a philanthropist, died in a plane crash in Massachusetts.” (As
reported by JTA and Rachel Abrams)
2014(2nd
of Sivan, 5774): Eighty-nine year old Edward S. Finkelstein who led Macy’s in
good times and bad passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2014:
The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival is scheduled to begin
today.(As reported by Debra Kamin)
2014:
Considering the role of Jews in the world of the Broadway musical, the 92nd
Street Y is scheduled to present “Panning for Gold: Great Songs from Flop
Shows.
2014:
American Jewish Heritage Month comes to an end.
2014:
“Senior Gaza official and deputy Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said” “Hamas
will not agree to the continuation of Palestinian security cooperation with
Israel once it teams up with the Fatah movement led by Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas to form a unity government.”
2014:
“Today, top Hamas official Muhammad Nazal was quoted by the organization’s
official organ as saying that Hamas would not abandon the path of “resistance,”
or violence against Israel — a path the Islamist group shares with the Lebanese
Shi’ite terrorist organization Hezbollah.” (As reported by Yifa Yaakov)
2014:
Today Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud)
harshly berated the defense establishment for using “undemocratic” means and
“manipulating” the public to try to pressure the government into allotting it a
larger budget. (As reported by Yifa Yaakov)
2015:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including They Told Me Not To Take That Job:
Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center by Reynold
Levy, Keepers by Richard Schickel and Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of
“The Other Side of the Wind” by Josh Karp.
2015:
After two months, “Joy of Life: Paintings by Dolorosa Margulis” whose family
survived the war “by hiding in a village near Eindhoven is scheduled to come to
an end at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
2015:
Final performance of The Call is scheduled to take place as part of Theater J
sponsored by the Washington DC JCC.
2015:
“For Richer For Poorer: Weddings Unveiled” which showcase “a rich and
evocativecollection of material related to weddings within the immigrant Jewish
community from the 1880’s to the mid-20th century” is scheduled to
come to an at the Jewish Museum in London.
2015:
In Chicago, Congregation Emmanuel is scheduled to host the “The Schaalman
Centenary Celebration” marking the 100th birthday of Herman
Schaalman who was the rabbi at Temple Judah from 1941 to 1949.
http://templejudah.org/resources/SchaalmanCelebration.jpg
2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Music in Our Time: 2015.”
2015:
The IAC is scheduled to host Israel Festival ’15” in New York City.
2015:
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said today that his country faced
“an international campaign to blacken its name” based not on his policies
toward the Palestinians but “connected to our very existence,” likening the
mounting boycott movement to anti-Semitic “libels” of previous eras.”
2015:
In Boston, Julian Edelman is scheduled to appear at “Celebrate Israel”
2015:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Israel
Fest: Israel@67.”
2015:
“Mak’hela,” a Jewish choral group founded in 2003 is scheduled to perform at
the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
2015:
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum is scheduled to present the First
Greek Jewish Festival on the Lower East Side.
2015(13th
of Sivan, 5775): Forty-two year old “Rochelle Shoretz, whose own breast cancer
diagnosis at age 28 led her to found the national cancer organization
Sharsheret” passed away today.
2016:
Jewish American Heritage Month is scheduled to come to an end today.
2016:
The Israel National Football Team is scheduled to play a “friendly” match
against Serbia in Novi Sad, Serbia.
2016:
Mexican diplomat Andrés Roemer Slomianski completed his service as General
Consul of Mexico in San Francisco, CA.
2016:
Dr. Gary P. Zola, “a distinguished scholar of the American Jewish experience
and an ordained rabbi,” is scheduled to deliver a “lecture on his latest book, We
Called Him Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry” at the National Archives’
William G. McGowan Theatre.
2016:
Dr. Bernard Lewis reaches the century mark. (Editor’s note: If you have not
read Lewis then you have no business making policy in the lands of what were
once the Ottoman Empire and a little more!)
http://www.theatlantic.com/author/bernard-lewis/
http://www.princeton.edu/nes/people/display_person.xml?netid=blewis
2017(6th
of Sivan, 5777): Shavuot; For more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a “Shavuot Lunch and
Story Telling” facilitated by professional storyteller who “will tell the story
of the Book of Ruth from her perspective, weaving in rabbinic midrash to create
fuller characters and a deeper understanding of the narrative.”
2017:
At “4:45 AM” MJE West is scheduled to hold “Sunrise Services…with Soulful
Singing followed by Hot Buffet Breakfast.”
2018:
“Our History is Your History” Treasures from the American Jewish Historical
Society,” “a rotating exhibit of the AJHS Permanent Collection” is scheduled to
come to an end today.
2018:
the Jewish Women’s Archive and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to
host a book launch of Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's
Liberation Movement with a panel featuring author Joyce Antler, Judith
Rosenbaum (Executive Director of the Jewish Women's Archive), Nona Willis
Aronowitz (Splinter), and Dahlia Lithwick (Newsweek, Slate)
2018:
Garrett “Reisman announced he would leave his position at SpaceX, but remain as
a "consultant," stating he could not pass up a job to teach human
spaceflight at the nearby University of Southern California.”
2018:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Inside/Outside:
Alternate Perspectives on Israel with Gillian Laub and Yael Reinharz” and
moderated by Andrea Meislin
2018:
Roey Victoria Heifetz is scheduled to present “her ongoing project The Third
Body which is a video and drawing installation of confessions / conversations/
with women, friends and acquaintances from the transgender communities in
Berlin and Israel interviewed by the artist, as well as her own.”
2018:
Israelis begin the day waiting to see if the so-called cease fire proclaimed by
the terrorists in Gaza which means they will end their rocket barrage begun
this week will hold.
2019:
An exhibition featuring the works of the late Uri Katzenstein is scheduled to
come an end at “10 Times Square” in New York City.
2019:
“Hillel Jews, Schmooze and Canoes at Camp BB is scheduled to begin today in
Edmonton, Alberta.
2019:
“The Spy Behind Home Plate,” Aviv Kempner’s biopic about Moe Berg is scheduled
to open today at the Quad Cinema in New York City.
2019:
Jewish American Heritage, the theme of which has been “American Jewish
Illustrators” is scheduled to an end today.
2020: The Kalsman
Institute on Judaism and Health is scheduled to host “Clinical Ethics –
Challenges during the COVID-19 Panedmic.
2020: In Cedar Rapids,
IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its Annual Congregation Meeting via Zoom.
2020: Today the Brit
Millah of the son of Judy and Josh Rosensbloom and the grandson of Debbie
Rosenbloom, the wife of David Levin and the brother of Neysa, Akiva and Nili,
is scheduled to take place in Tzur Hadassah providing a beacon of light in a
world that can some time seem all to dark.
Mazel to the family.
2020: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a “Virtual Visit: Meet
Lazarus,” a live interactive program
where children have the opportunity to engage with the famous poetess about her
life and the issues of her time.
2020: KlexCalifornia is
scheduled to present “Virtual: Hasidic Dance with Bruce Bierman” during which
the Jewish dance leader teaches mystic dance moves, wordless melodies and the
influence of Hasidic dance on other folk dancing.
2020: The American
Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present live on Zoom “Musical Sourt of the
Yemenite Tefillah and Its Distinction From Other Groups.”
2020:
Gary
Palgon, past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia and a
popular presenter, is scheduled to hold a workshop via Zoom to help us all
break through our 'Brick Wall.’
2020: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers included Bubblegum by Adam Levin and Faster: How a Jewish
Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best by Neal
Bascomb
2021:
“With One Voice: Fighting Hatred
Together” “a new hour-long special in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month”
“is scheduled to feature a poignant conversation between Tova Friedman,
one of the youngest living survivors of Auschwitz, and Emmanuel
Acho, former NFL player, author and host of “Uncomfortable Conversations
With a Black Man.” 2022
2021:
Memorial Day observed as Americans remember those who made the supreme
sacrifice for the United States and her citizens.
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2022(1st of Sivan, 5782): Rosh
Chodesh Sivan
2022:American Jewish Heritage Month comes to an
end
2022: The National Library of Israel is
scheduled present a lecture by Dr. Fred Sugarman and Dr. Stefan Litt on “A
Rendezvous with Walt Whitman.”
2022: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to
present “a special concert in cooperation with the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra” featuring The French Harp.
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to present “Between Baghdad and Asia.”
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
Professor David Peimer lecturing on “Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace.”
2023: Jewish American Heritage Month is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: Chabad SF-SOMA Shul and Chabad of Pacific
Heights are scheduled to present the Mensch Hall of Fame Awards.”
2023: Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to present
a celebration of support featuring Rabbi Micah Shapiro.
2023: Israelis brace for more terrorist
attacks, following yesterday’s deadly attack on 32-year-old Meir Tamir “for
which the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade … claimed responsibility.” (As reported by
Emanuel Fabian)
2024, Shir Chadash is scheduled to host a
community Shabbat Dinner which is “fundraise for displace families in Israel.
2024: Re-Creation: Judaica by Moroccan Muslim
Artisans which an exhibition which explores
“Judeo-Moroccan art, Moroccan Judaica, cultural and religious objects,
including Menorot, Mezuzot, Yads, Shabbat Candleholders, Seder Plates, Hallah
Covers, and much more is scheduled to come to an end at the Center for Jewish
Center.
2024: In Oklahoma City, Rodeo is scheduled to host screening of
“Farewell Mister Hafman,” a film that tells the story of a Jewish jeweler
trying to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris.
2024:
The AViV Group Exhibition which is presented by the Israeli Artists Project is
scheduled to come to a close today.
2024: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is
scheduled to host its first Outdoor Service of the Summer Season.
2024: At Temple Judea, Shabbat is family affair
as Rabbi Feivel and Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead services.
2024: The exhibition Convergence: Arabic,
Hebrew, and Persian Calligraphy in Conversation, featuring the multilingual art
of Ruben Shimonov is scheduled to come to an end today in the Leo Levy Gallery.
2024:
As May 31st begins in
Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 238 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.)
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