This Day, November 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 15
1215: Pope Innocent III opened the convocation of the
Fourth Lateran Council, considered the most important council of the Middle
Ages. By its conclusion it issued seventy reformatory decrees. Among other
things, it encouraged creating schools and holding clergy to a higher standard
than the laity. It also forbade clergymen to participate in the practice of the
judicial ordeal, effectively banning its use. At the Fourth Lateran Council,
Innocent III and his prelates legislated against subordination of Christians to
Jews. Canon 69 forbade "that Jews be given preferment in public office
since this offers them the pretext to vent their wrath against the
Christians."
1280: Albertus Magnus, the German
Dominican Friar and Bishop also known as Albert of Cologne who while in Paris
took part in the council that ordered the burning of the Talmud but who took a
special interest in Jewish literature and who according to Manuel Joël drew
many of his ideas from Jewish writers including Maimonides, passed away today.
1316: Birthdate of King John I of
France who lived for only five days. He
was the son of Louis X who readmitted the Jews to France. He was succeeded by his uncle Philip V, who according
to some may have played a role in the death of the infant monarch. Regardless, Philip followed the policies
initiated by Louis that among other things, protected them from the enmity of
the clergy.
1397: Birthdate of Pope Nicholas V
who in 1450 canonized of Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary
Barnardino Siena, a “major protagonist of Christian anti-Semitism" who
blamed the poverty of local Christians on Jewish usury, called for Jews to be
banished and isolated from their wider communities and often used his words to
reinforce actions against Jews, and his preaching left a legacy of resentment
on the part of Jews,
1380: Charles VI ascends the French throne: He told a mob that he would
relieve some of the taxes but not expel the Jews. Screaming "Aux
Juifs" they plundered and murdered in the Jewish quarter for four days.
Some Jews took refuge in the royal prison. Hughes Abriot, the Provost, obtained
an order for restitution of all property and the return of all infants forcibly
baptized. Because of this, he was accused of converting to Judaism and sent to
jail for a year in penance.
1477: The first and very brief reign of King John II of Portugal who
employed Abraham Zacuto, the Spanish born Rabbi who for the lunar crater Zagust
was named, as his Royal Astronomer, came to an end today.
1492: Six Spanish Jews and five
Spanish Conversos were accused of using black magic
1515: Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal. A year before getting his “red hat” Wolsey
had been named Bishop of Lincoln. This is the same town of Lincoln which had
been home to one of the five most important Jewish communities in England, well
established before it was officially noted in 1154. In 1190, anti-Semitic riots
that started in Lynn, Norfolk, spread to Lincoln; the Jewish community took
refuge with royal officials, but their habitations were plundered. The
so-called "House of Aaron" has a two-storey street frontage that is
essentially 12th century and a nearby "Jew's House" likewise bears
witness to the Jewish population. In 1255, the affair called “The Libel of
Lincoln” in which prominent Jews of Lincoln accused of the ritual murder of a
Christian boy ("Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln" in medieval folklore)
were sent to the Tower of London and 18 were executed. The Jews were expelled
en masse in 1290.
1554: Thomas Lorkin, the father-in-law of Edward Lively, the Regius
Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge and considered “the greatest of Hebraist,
moved from being a fellow at Queens College to being at fellow of Penrose/
1616: Sir Edward Coke, who in a case that involved whether Jews were
protected by English law, ruled that “All infidels are in law…perpetual enemies
(for law presumes not that they will be converted, that being a remote
possibility, for between them, as with the devils, whose subjects they be, and
the Christian there is a perpetual hostility and can be no peace,” completed
his service as Chief Justice of the King’s Bench today
1643: Today, during the investigation of the surrender of Bristol by
Nathaniel Fiennes William Prynne who was an outspoken critic of re-admitting
the Jews to England, “presented articles of accusation against Fiennes to
Parliament.
1650: Sir Thomas Pack, who surprisingly joined with merchants in London in
opposing the readmission of Jews, today was chosen to meet the committee of
council appointed to consider the proposals of Manasseh Ben-Israel on behalf of
the Jews.”
1658: “Alexander VII., in bull "Ad ea per quæ," orders Roman Jews
to pay rent even for unoccupied houses in ghetto, because Jews would not hire
houses from which Jews had been evicted” (As reported by the Jewish
Encyclopedia)
1660: Asser Levy was licensed as the
first kosher butcher in New York City.
From such humble beginnings came such great institutions as the Second Avenue Deli of blessed memory
1688 (28th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Zev Wolf, author of Nahlat Binyamin, passed
away
1724(10th of Kislev, 5485): Portuguese born physician Fernando
Mendes who settled in England in 1669 where he was the physician to Catherine
of Braganza, the wife King Charles II of England during the Restoration.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Mendes,_Fernando
1727(2nd of Kislev): The General Assembly of New York passed an act
permitting Jews to omit the phrase “upon the faith of a Christian” from the
oath of abjuration.
1759: German native Maier Wimpfheimer and Rebecca Wimpfheimer gave birth to
Beile Wimpfheimer.
1756: Birthdate of Revolutionary War veteran and merchant David Judah, the
Fairfield, CT born son of Michael Judah who was the husband of Constance Bennet
and who “became completely assimilated in the Christian community” as can be
seen by his “Christian burial” at the time of his death in 1824.
1761: In New York City, Joshua Levy and his wife gave birth to Isaac Levy.
1771: Orders were given to ban auto-de-fe's from taking place in public, and
to ban the production of lists of persons who would be sentenced.
1780: In Mecklenburg, Germany Louis Wolf and his wife gave birth to William
Leo Wolf who was the father to at least three doctors – Moritz, George and
Joseph Wolf.
1782: In Scotland, printer Thomas Dobson, and his wife, the former Jean
Paton gave birth to their third and youngest daughter, Catherine after which
the family moved to Philadelphia where Dobson would be the first person “to
publish a complete Hebrew Bible.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Dobson_-_Hebrew_Bible.jpg
1790: In Munich, Germany, Rebecca Heller and Nathan Loebl Bomeisler gave
birth to Louis Bomeisler, the husband Elizabeth McKaraher and the father of
Charles, Edwin, Theodore, Evelyn and Josephine Bomeisler.2
1790: The Jews of Hungary organized a celebration marking the coronation of
King Leopold II. The celebration was
held in anticipation of the expectation that the new king would approve the
decision of the Diet to grant them citizens.
1791: Georgetown University, America’s first Catholic college opens its
doors. Georgetown has followed the trend at a number Catholic colleges and
universities in offering programs in Jewish studies. Today Georgetown offers approximately 35
courses in its Jewish Studies Program and offers a Major in Jewish
studies. About 650 of its 6000
undergraduates are Jewish. Approximately
1,000 of the schools 6,000 grad students are Jewish.
1793: “Marx Berr…who had been a Jacobin until the purge during the Terror”
had his tax bill of 25,000 reduced to 10,000 today after having appeal the
original ruling of October 31, 1793,
1796: At the age of 16, “Daniel Meijer took the lawyer's oath, becoming the
first Jewish lawyer and one of the youngest lawyers in the history of the
Netherlands.”
1802: A delegation of German Jews came to Ratisbon where the German princes
were trying to create the government that would replace the now defunct Holy
Roman Empire and today presented a petition asking for "passive
citizenship." The petition, which
probably originated with the Jews of Frankfort, requested freedom to live any
place they desired and to pursue a wide variety of occupations and trades. At
this time, Jews in many parts of the empire had been classified as
"serfs" regardless of the economic level.
1803(30th of Cheshvan, 5564): Rosh Chodesh Kislev I
1805: At Hamburg Abraham Mendelssohn and Lean Salomon, a granddaughter of
Daniel Itzig gave birth to Fanny Mendelsohn.
1809: Edward Hime married Priscilla Elkin at the Great Synagogue today.
1812: Two days after she had passed away, 91 year old “Abigail Fano, the
wife of Hyam Fano” was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1816: Birthdate of Isidor Kalisch, the German born Rabbi who became the
spiritual lead of the Tifireth Israel
congregation in Cleveland, Ohio in 1850.
1817: Birthdate of Bavaria native Caroline Waterman, the future resident of
Richmond, VA and the wife of Joseph Myers.
1817: Birthdate of James Koppel Gutheim, the native of Münster, Germany who
came to the United States in 1843 and became a prominent American rabbi. He
served in that capacity in several southern towns and cities including Temple
Beth El in San Antonio and Congregation Shangarai Chasset of New Orleans
1825: Birthdate of Frankfurt, Germany, native Leopold Fulda, who with his
wife Gitta had four children – Emily, Charles, Alice and John Fulda.
1829: In Mobile, AL, Elizabeth Swepston Gayle and Jabez Wiggins Heustis gave
birth to University of Louisiana trained medical doctor James Fountain Heustis,
the husband of Rachel Leila “LaLa” Lyons Heustis and son-in-law of Jacob Cohen
Lyons and Louisa Elizabeth Lyons who served in the U.S. Navy and Confederate
Army and who precited medicine in Mobile while teaching at the Medical College
of Alabama.
1829: Birthdate of Benjamin Szold, the Hungarian born American scholar who
began serving as the Rabbi for Temple Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, Maryland and
who was the father of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah.
1831: Birthdate of Bavrian native David Weil, a private in the CSA and
husband of Rosina Simon Weil.
1832(22nd of Cheshvan): Hannah Adams, early American author of a book on
Jewish history, passed away
1832: Birthdate of Abraham Printz a native of the village of Kashua (“now a
part of Slovakia”) and husband of Rosa Printz who was buried in the Rodef
Shalom Section of the Tod Homestead
Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio.
1834: Lord Palmerston who while serving as of Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs during which time the British blockaded the port of Piraeus as
part of the response to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, whom Palmerston
defended as this “man of Jewish persuasion” and on whose behalf he “made a
celebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to
say, as did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I am
a citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British government”
completed his first term in office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
1835: In Novogrodak, Yaakov Harkavy and Dvora Weisbrem gave birth to Dr.
Albert (Avraham Eliyahu) Harkavy.
1835: In, Baltimore, MD, “Benjamin I and Kitty (Etting) Cohen gave birth to
Edward Cohen the brother of Israel Cohen and the nephew of his business mentor
Samuel Etting, who left his native city at the start of the Civil War and
settled in Richmond where married Caroline Myers, “became president of the City
Bank of Richmond and supported numerous civic porjects.
1840: Birthdate of Jacob Furth, an Austrian native who became a prominent
banker and businessman in Seattle, Washington where he was a member of Ohaveth
Sholum, the city’s first synagogue.
1842: At Borek, Prussia, Louis Gerechter and his wife gave birth to Emanuel
Gerechter who came to the United States in 1866 and who began serving as Rabbi
of Temple Zion, in Appleton, Wisconsin while serving as Professor of Hebrew and
German Literature and Lawrence University.
1843: “German Christian Lawyer” Carl August Buchholz who championed for the
rights of Jews of Lubeck and served as the representative of the Jewish
communities of Lubeck, Hamburg and Bremen at the Congress of Vienna where
sought laws that would ensure the emancipation of European Jewry passed away
today.
1846: Birthdate of Reicheribach, Saxony native and Protestant theologian
Frederik Eduard King, the author "The Revelation Concept of the Old
Testament, "The Main Problems of the Old Israelite Religious History," "The Religious History of Israel,"
"Historical-Critical Introduction to the Old Testament," "The
Exiles' Book of Consolation," "Stylistics, Rhetoric, Poetics
Comparatively Presented in Relation to the Bible” and “The Question of God and
the Origin of the Old Testament"
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9451-konig-friedrich-eduard
1848: In the Berlin national assembly, together with two other deputies,
Johann Jacoby initiated the resolution calling for citizens to withhold paying
taxes as an attempt to combat the coup d'état
1851(19th of Cheshvan, 5612): Nineteen-month-old Pauline
Bodenheimer, the daughter of Elka Hrischfelder and Hermann Bodenheimer pass
away today after which buried in the Durbach Jewish Cemetery in Offenburg,
Germany.
1851: Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick, was published. Relax; Melville was not Jewish. But this large literary work is another
example of the impact that Jewish Civilization has had on Western and/or World
Civilization. From “Call me Ishmael,” to
Captain Ahab, to the great white whale, there could have been no Moby Dick without
the Bible. More to the point, Melville
knew that his readers were so conversant in this aspect of Jewish culture that
they would understand his references.
Just as an aside for those who were forced to read this novel by some
English teacher, the book was deemed a flop when it first came out.
1852: Hermann Goldschmidt discovered his first asteroid today which was
named 21 Lutetia.
1854: Said Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt gave a French company headed by
Ferdinand de Lesseps the concession to dig the Suez Canal, which would link the
Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. The
canal would create a short, all-water route from Great Britain to its most
valued possession, India. Defense of the
Canal became one of the keystones of British foreign policy for the next
hundred. This British obsession would
play a key role in the development of the Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel. Sometimes the effect was positive; more often
than not, it was negative.
1855: In Russia, Chatzkel Sivitz and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Moses
Simon Sivitz who lead congregations in Baltimore, MD, Cleveland, OH and Toledo,
OH before becoming the “Rabbi of Congregations Shaare Tora, Ohel Jacob and
Anshe Emunah in Pittsburg, PA.
1855: The 34th anniversary of the Hebrew Benevolent Society was
celebrated tonight at the Chinese Assembly Rooms in New York City. The event, which was attended by 250 to 300
people rasied $4,000. During his
address, the society’s president reported that they had provided assistance to
1,600 applicants which had depleted the organization’s treasury of its $4,500
in receipts.
1856(17th of Cheshvan, 5617): Parashat Vayera
1856(17th of Cheshvan, 5617): Seventy-six-year-old War of 1812
veteran Isaac Minis, the Charleston, SC born son of Judith Pollak and Phillip
Minis and the husband of Dinah Cohen, “a sister of Solomon Cohen, Jr.” with
whom had eight children –Sarah, Philippa, Abram, Frances, Maria. Rebecca, Ceclia
and Philip, “ noted Savanah physician” – who served several terms on the
Savannah City Council and who was a passenger on the last ill-fated voyage of
the SS Savanah as well as “one of the first members of Savannah's Hibernian
Society when it was formed in 1812” passed away today in Philadelphia after
which he was buried in the Laurel Grover Cemetery in Savannah,
1856: “Tonight, a German Jew named
Isaac Morris was arrested at West Hoboken by Officer Stephen H. Manly, of
Baltimore, and Deputy-Sheriff Robins of Hudson County, on the charge of
obtaining goods by false pretences. He was apprehended upon the authority of a requisition
from the Governor of Maryland.”
1857: Three days after he had passed away, Abraham Davidson, a London
surgeon and the husband of Hannah Davidson with whom had seven children, was
buried to at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery with whom he had had eight
children, was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1857: Two days after he had passed away, 70 year old Eleazer Hart, the
husband of Sarah Hart q
1858: “The Mortara Casa” published today reported that Jews of New York are
planning on holding a meeting to protest the “recent abduction of the child
Mortara and the extraordinary pretensions of the Pope in regard to such cases.
It will be remembered that the Catholic nurse of the infant had it baptized
without the knowledge of its parents, who were Jews; and that the child was
then taken away and committed to the care of priests.” The Pope and local authorities refused to
return the child who had “thus ‘miraculously’ snatched from the hands of
unbelievers. It is natural that Jews
should the lead in demonstrations against such pretensions, inasmuch as they
are thus far the principal suffers from them.
But all persons not Catholic are, or may be equally interested in”
joining the protest. “It is not possible
to conceive of any greater outrage upon private rights than is embodied in
these extraordinary claims, and unless the whole matter should be hushed up,
and the principle on which it rests quietly abandoned, it should receive the
attention of the government as well as the people of every country holding
relation with the Roman states.
1859: Birthdate of Leo Lerner, the native of Bessarabia born “seventeen days
after his father’s death” who came to “the United States with his wife and five
daughters in 1891” after which he earned an LL.B. from NYU, practiced law
starting in 1897 and served as the President of the Hebrew National Orphan Home
and the President of the original federation for Bessarabian Jewry of which he
was one of the founders.
1859: In New York, Sarah Naar Cardozo, the daughter of Dr. Daniel Moses Levy
Maduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and her husband Abraham Hart
Cardozo gave birth to Edwin Joseph Cardozo.
1860: Birthdate of Simeon Samuel Grigoryevich Frug, the native of the
Ukrainian “Jewish agricultural colony of Bobrovy-Kut, Kherson” who gained fame
a multi-lingual poet and early Zionist support Simon Frug.
1861: Judah P. Benjamin completed his service as Attorney General for the
Confederate States of America.
1862: In Padding, Adelaide and Ellis
Abraham Franklin gave birth to their third son, Barrister at Law Leonard
Benjamin Franklin, the Treasurer of the Burial Society of the United Synagogue,
and Vice President of the Jewish Working Men’s Club who was the husband of
Laura Agnes, son-in-law of William Ladenburg and nephew of Samuel Montagu.
1862: Birthdate of Isidor Baumann who was buried at the Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery when he passed away in 1890.
1862: During the Civil War, First Lieutenant Michael Rosenstein began his
service with Company K of the 173rd Regiment.
1863(4th of Kislev, 5624): Barnett Abrahams passed away. Born at Warsaw in 1831, he moved to England
in 1839.. Following a rigorous education
program that included study with Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, he started serving
as the rabbi at Bevis Marks in 1851 and was serving at the Principal of Jew’s
College at the time of his death. His sons Joseph and Moses became rabbis and
Israel “became an author and teacher.”
1864: Colonel Edward S. Salomon (later General), one of a small group of
general officers who were both at the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of
Atlanta, was among those who marched out of Atlanta as Union forces began their
march to Savannah, one of the major Atlantic seaports still in Confederate
hands.
1866: In Kovno, Moses and Esther Macht gave birth to Baltimore realtor
Ephraim Macht the husband of Annie Marowitz and builder of the Macht Building
who in 1866 came to the United States where he started the Macht Real Estate
and Banking Business and do to “the harsh anti-Semitism which prevailed in Baltimore” at that used
the name of an Irish real estate salesman” when building the edifices while
serving as one of the founders of the Jewish Home For Consumptive and director
of the Associated Jewish Charities in Baltimore.
1866:In Brest-Litvosk, Moses Hirsh and Sarah Bernstein gave birth to
Savannah, GA businessman and realtor Jacob Bernstein, the grandson of Reb
Benjamin Chaim Wilners and husband of Sarah Leah Bernstein and father of Morris
H. Bernstein, who served as Assistant Solicitor General in George, Augusta
Bernstein, pianist and composer Molly Bernstein and Albert Bernstein, “a
contributor to The Georgian.”
1868(1st of Kislev, 5629): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1868: Esther Mocatta the daughter of Rebecca and Jacob Abraham Mocatta was
buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1868(1st of Kislev, 5629): Seventy-six James de Rothschild who
founded the French branch of the family banking empire with the opening of De
Rothschild Frères and whose name lives on among wine drinkers when they order a
bottle of Lafite-Rothschild passed away today.
1869: At “Biala-Zerkoff, Russia, Malka Freinkel and Mordecai Minkowsky gave
birth to Cantor Abraham Minkowsky, the husband of Bertha Osoffezky, the father
of Canto Phinehas Minkovsky and graduate of the Moscow Imperial Conservatory of
Music who served as the “Cantor of the Great Temple in Odessa” and for the
temple in Cherson before settling in the United States
1871: “Barnard Lawrence Phillips,” the son of Lawrence Phillips and Esther
Spyer and the husband of Emma Phillips with whom he had two children was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/solomon-libin-yiddish-short-story-writer-playwright/
1873: In Poland, Rachel Machkonsky and Abram Markson gave birth Portland, ME
resident Eldar Markson the husband of
Jennie I. Ginsburg and founder the chain store known as Markson Brothers who
was chairman of the United Palestine Appeal for the State of Maine and a member
of B’nai B’rith.
1873: Rabbi Raphael D.C. Lewin delivered a sermon on the subject of
“Judaism” in the new synagogue at 63rd & Lexington in New York
City.
1874: A service was held to honor the memory of Rabbi Abraham Geiger, of
blessed memory, who had passed away in October of 1874.
1875(17th of Cheshvan, 5636): Seventy-eight-year-old German born
Hannah Bachman Butzel, the wife of Moses Butzel with whom she had three
children – Martin, Magnus and Fannie – passed away today after which she was
buried at the Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit.
1876: In Minsk, Russia, Aaron S. Raisin and his wife gave birth to
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi, Jacob S. Raisin, the
husband of Jane Lazarus Raison and father of Aaron, Mordecai and Rachel Raisin
who served Congregation Gemiluth Chesed in Port Gibson, MS before eventually
leading Congregation Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC .
1877: In Luling, TX Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Amolksy gave birth to Etta Amolsky,
who became Etta Schatzkey when she married Albert Schatzkey in 1900 and with
whom she lived in Houston, TX before moving to Jefferson City, MO.
1878: Birthdate of Jacob Polakavetz, the native of Kamenetz-Litovsk who came
to the United States where he became a successful merchant in Troy, NY.
1879: Rabbi De Sola Menes will deliver the first in a series of lectures on the
history of Jewish literature at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association this
evening. The lectures which begin at
8:30 are free and open to the public.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0DE0D61F3FE63BBC4D52DFB7678382669FDE
1881: One hundred sixty Jewish refugees from Russia arrived in New York
today aboard the SS Bohemia. The Alliance Israel Universelle helped pay for
their passage.
1881: Chicago native Simon Cook was promoted to the rank of Ensign today in
the United States Navy.
1881 In Chicago, “Moses and Clara Schlossberg Adams gave birth to Franklin
Leopold Adams who gained fame as Franklin Pierce Adams or F.P.A,, the alumnus
of Armour Institute and the University of Chicago, husband of Esther Sales Root
and author whose works ranged from newspaper columns at various New York
newspapers the most famous of which was “The Conning Tower,” a “humorous
syndicated column.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/25/105423068.pdf
1881: A report published today described plans for an upcoming lecture to be
delivered by Julius Franks sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association
entitled “The Jew: Has he Still a Mission?”
1881: The Federation of Organized
Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, which would become The
American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Pittsburgh. Samuel Gompers, a Jewish immigrant from
London, was the first President. In
fact, with the exception of one year, he served in that capacity until his
death in 1924. Unlike more militant
leaders of the labor movement, Gompers believed in the capitalist system and
rejected the concept of class struggle.
As a member of the working class (he was a cigar maker by trade) Gompers
was no naïve fool. He and his union
fought for the concept of collective bargaining, binding written contracts and
a ban on injunctions aimed against working men and women. When asked what the American worker wanted
Gompers replied, “More!” During World War I, Gompers showed that the American
labor movement could be patriotic when he and the AFL supported Wilson in the
“word to end all wars.” Gompers
philosophy was simple. “Reward your
friends and punish your enemies.”
1881: In St. Petersburg, Russia, Julius and Rachel Gollomb gave birth to
Columbia trained author and journalist Joseph Gollomb, the uncle of actress Judy
Holliday.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326579/
1882(4th of Kislev, 5643): Daniel Ehrmann, the Bohemian born
rabbi who “edit the Jewish periodical Das Abendland was teaching at Brunn when
he passed away today.
1882: Birthdate of Felix
Frankfurter. Born in Vienna, educated at
CCNY and Harvard Law School, the young, legally brilliant Frankfurter became
the protégé of the very powerful Henry L.
Stimson. He began a twenty-five-year
career as a professor at Harvard Law School in 1914. But Frankfurter was no cloistered Ivy tower
egghead. He was a confidant of Woodrow
Wilson and, among other things attended the Versailles Peace Conference. As a Zionist, like Brandeis, Frankfurter
worked to promote the cause of the Jewish homeland in Palestine. In the 1920’s and 1930’s the liberal
Frankfurter was an advisor to and supporter of Al Smith and FDR. Several of Frankfurter’s former students were
part of the FDR’s Brain Trust or held important positions in several regulatory
agencies created by the New Deal. FDR
appointed Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939, making him the third Jew to
hold such a position since 1916. He
retired from the court in 1962 after suffering a stroke. Frankfurter’s tenure on the court was a
disappointment to many of his political allies and colleagues. They had expected him to be a liberal. However, Frankfurter believed in judicial
restraint which meant he gave great credence to federal and/or state
legislative actions. He looked to the
legislative branch to correct social ills. The pre-court liberal turned into a
High Court conservative. He passed away
in 1962.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/robes_frankfurter.html
1883: Three days after he had passed away, Lazar Schorstein, a Viennese born
“financial editor” and the husband of Clara Schorstein with whom he had three
children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1883: In Russia “Abraham B. and Sarah (Tikotsky) Dobsevage gave birth to
Socialist George I. Dobesevage who after attending CCNY and UNY pursued a
career in research and literature that included overseeing the illustration
office of the Jewish Encyclopedia, aiding in the “preparation of the
abridged editions of the Standard Dictionary and serving as secretary of
The Jewish Publication Society of America while being married to Elizabeth
Breslow.
1883: It was reported today that Annie Zeiss is claiming that she was
betrothed to Morris Dampsky according to Jewish custom which is the basis for
her suit that she has brought against him for breach of contract (marriage).
While sitting in jail, Dampsky is wondering if a secular court will accept a
religious observance as binding under civil law.
1884: It was reported today that an unnamed Jewish cattle dealer had tried
to sell seventeen diseased cows to several farmers between Jamaica and Foster’s
Meadow.
1885: Seventy-six-year-old “Italian soldier and politician” Benedetto
Musolino, the son of Domenico Musolino and Francesca Starace who in 1851,
wrote "Gerusalemme e il Popolo Ebreo" - "Jerusalem and the
Jewish People", a plan for the establishment of a Jewish state in Turkish
Palestine, with Hebrew as its national language which had it been published
when written would have preceded Theodore Herzl's Der Judenstaat by forty-five
years, passed away today.
1885: The annual fair of the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society which opened
yesterday evening under the leadership of its President Mrs. I.L. Smith which
is raising money “to succor the deserving poor and needy irrespective of creed
or nationality” is scheduled to continue for a second day.
1886: In state Supreme Court, Judge Andrews heard a case that will determine
whether or not $50,000 that was originally part of the estate of the late
Sampson Simpson will go the North American Relief So city for the Indignant
Jews of Jerusalem or two his surviving relatives.
1886: It was reported today that Jacob H. Schiff has given $10,000 to a
project designed to establish a free library which will be “called the Aguilar
Free Library Society” and which will be open to “people of all religions and
nationalities.”
1886(17th of Cheshvan, 5647): Seventy-four-year-old Gustav Heine
von Geldern the founder of Vienna Das
Fremdenblatt, a periodical that became the official organ of the Austrian
Foreign Office, the brother of Heinrich Heine and the father of Maximilian
Heine, “the author of the libretto to Mirolan”
passed away today.
1886: It was reported today that Judge M.S. Isaacs and Uriah Herrman
addressed a reception given in honor of Mrs. Julius Hammerslough, Mrs. Simon
Steinberger, Mrs. Solomon Loeb and Mrs. Louis Levy, members of the Hebrew Free
School Association’s Board of Directors who have just returned from a trip to
Europe.
1886: It was reported today that the Hebrew Free School Association is
currently industrial education to 2,500 youngsters. The service is only
available to youngsters who are enrolled in the public system.
1887: Birthdate of Austrian native Isidor Teitlebaum who in 1892 came to the
United States where he became a “furniture merchant”, an honorary vice
president of the American Jewish Congress and a trustee of Temple Adath Israel
in the Bronx.
1888: In Salida, CO, Sarah and Benjamin Disman gave birth to University of
Colorado graduate, and Columbia trained attorney Butler Disman, the WW I
veteran, the husband of Minnie Disman and Selma Gertrude Powers who practiced
law in Kansas City, MO.
1888: In Baltimore, MD, Abraham H. and Bertha (Hamburger) Fisher gave birth
to Johns Hopkins Phi Beta Kappa graduate and University of Maryland trained
attorney Allen Herbert Fisher, an assistant attorney general for the state of
Maryland and husband of Esther Kahn who was a member of Har Sinai Congregation.
1888: The will of Sidney Greenberg who lived at the Caulfield Club Hotel was
probated today.
1889: Emperor Pedro II is deposed,
and Brazil is declared a republic. At the time, Brazil had a small community of
Sephardic, mostly Moroccan, Jews. One group established a synagogue in Belem in
the northern part of the country while another built a synagogue on the banks
of the Amazon River. A decade after becoming a republic, experimental
agricultural were established that provide a haven for Jews fleeing the
violence of Czarist Russia.
1890: Birthdate of Wilna, Russia native Freida Tradounski who as Freida
Ainbinder was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.
1891:”An Oriental Bazar” published today described the plans of a group of
prominent New Yorkers led by J.H. Schiff and Julian Nathan among others for
hosting a Palestine Bazar to raise funds for the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and
Daily School
1891: Birthdate of Russian native and Zionist Isaac Hamlin who in 1909 came
to the United “where he worked in tailor shop, rose through the ranks of
various Zionist labor organization before moving to Tel Aviv at the age of 65
where he “took over the direction of the American Histadrut Center.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/17/82593070.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1892: In Memphis, TN, the National Farmers’ Alliance and the Industrial
Union opened its convention at the hall of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
(This agriculture alliance was considered to be “radical” and the Jewish owned
facility may have been the only one that was available for its use.)
1892: “Graded Rates Established” published today described the decision of
the B’nai B’rith to adopt a sliding membership fee based on age starting with
those between the ages 21 and 25 paying $15 rising to a maximum of $30 for
those aged 50 and above. The sliding
scale was adopted to attract younger members, all of whom will be eligible for
the same $1,000 in burial insurance.
1892: The trial of Reverend Henry P. Smith, the professor of Hebrew at Lane
Theological Seminary, goes into its second day.
The trial has gained national attention from members of many
denominations because Smith has used modern scholarship to question the
inerrancy of the Bible – a conflict that was helping to divide Reform from
Orthodox among the Jewish people.
1892: Several parties of Russian Jews were reported today to have been on
their way to Hamburg now that travel restrictions in Russia have been eased.
1892: The funeral for Seligman Adler, the husband of Caroline Adler, who was
a supporter of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai Hospital, is scheduled
to take place at 9:30 this morning at Temple Emanu-El.
1893: Birthdate of John H. Salman, the husband of Regina Salmen.
1893: Commissioner Senner said that the immigrants who arrived the SS
Roland, most of whom are Russian Jews, are “all nearly impoverished, unclean
and unkempt.”
1894: In Hampstead, Hannah Lawrence and Jose de Sola Pinto gave birth to
Adrian de Sola Pinto who died before he reach the age of three months.
1895: Birthdate of Polish poet and writer Antoni Słonimski, a Roman Catholic
whose great-grand father was Abraham Sztern the Jewish inventor who “made
important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators.”
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/list+of+polish+jews/en-en/
1895: Birthdate of Yisrael Idelson, the Ukrainian native who made Aliyah in
1926 and as Yisrael Bar-Yedhuda became
an MK, Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Transportation.
1895: According to Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El in New York,
during the last 25 days ending on this date 15,000 Armenians have been
massacred and “200,000 souls have been rendered homeless and robbed of their
possessions.
1895: Birthdate of Bella Rosenfield Chagall, the first wife of Marc Chagall
whom she met when he was a penniless painter in 1909, married in 1915 and posed
for several of his pictures including “Bella with White Collar.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Rosenfeld#/media/File:Chagall_Bella.jpg
1895: Pennsylvania native Daniel M. Appel was promoted from the rank of
Captain, Assistant Surgeon to Major/Surgeon.
1895: Herzl began a two week visit to Paris and London designed to meet and
gain support from the leaders of these two Jewish communities In Paris he
conducted negotiations with Narcisse Leven, Chief Rabbi Zadoc Kahn among
others. None of these leaders took the
assimilated Viennese journalist seriously.
1896: The National Council of Jewish Women opens
its first national convention at Tuxedo Hall in New York City. Founded at the
conclusion of the Jewish Women’s Congress held at Chicago’s World Columbian
Exposition in November 1893, the National Council of Jewish Women was the first
national open-membership organization for American Jewish women. Addressed by
the leaders of the nation’s leading women’s organizations and numerous
prominent rabbis, it was clear that the Council was helping to establish the
legitimacy of Jewish women’s presence on a public stage. The convention
received extensive coverage in the New
York Times and other papers. With the NCJW's creation in 1893,
local sections around the country began focusing on diverse activities ranging
from Bible study to education for children to active philanthropy in the
interest of immigrant women and children. Representatives at the first
convention summarized these achievements, established a clear institutional
structure, and sought to offer guidance to local sections. Conflict emerged
during the 1896 convention in relation to the Jewish character of the Council.
Hannah Solomon of Chicago presided over the meetings, but some members objected
to her advocacy of Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath. Solomon memorably responded “I
consecrate every day in the week.” As the New
York Times reported, “Pandemonium reigned for five minutes, and
then Mrs. Solomon was re-elected.” In its first few decades, NCJW transcended
religious divisions by focusing especially on aid to newly arrived Jewish
immigrants. In sections across the country, NCJW provided an early training
ground for Jewish women leaders and a forum for Jewish women’s concerns within
and outside the Jewish community.
1896: Mrs. Mary Low Dickinson, President of the
National Council of Women is scheduled to deliver the opening address at the first convention of the National Council of Women followed
by address on “Philanthropy” given by Mrs. E. M. Henrotin “who was the Vice
President of the of the Ladies’ Board of Managers of the Columbian Exposition.
1896: It was reported today that in speeches
delivered at Delmonico’s Jacob A. Schiff and Senator Jacob A. Cantor urged Jews
to take “a deeper interest in national affairs and Adolph S. Ochs spoke about
the “ideals and influence of journalism.”
1897: Birthdate of Aneurin Bevan the British Foreign Minister in the Labor
Government of Clement Atlee. Much to the
dismay of Zionist leaders, the Laborite government elected in 1945 opposed the
creation of the Jewish state. Displaying
that uniquely understated form of British anti-Semitism, when talking about the
plight of Jewish Displaced Persons, said that the Jews were always “pushing
their way to the head of the cue” instead of patiently waiting their turn.
1897: Today, Rabbi Taubenhaus of the State Street Synagogue is scheduled to officiate
at the funeral of Mrs. Marion Levy a long time member of the Hebrew Benevolent
Society and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum who was the widow of A.S. Levy and the
mother of Bella Levy.
1897: When Mathieu Dreyfus, the brother of imprisoned Captain Dreyfus
“denounced Esterhazy” today he responded by saying that “Captain Dreyfus had
forged his handwriting”
1898: One day after he had passed away, 80-year-old Morris Solomons, the
husband of Caroline Abrahams with whom he had four children, was buried today
at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”
1898: The demolition of the building on Clinton Street occupied by Ohab
Zedek has been temporarily stopped which will give the congregants time to
raise enough money to save the structure.
1898: Novelist and playwright Israel
Zangwill delivered a lecture this morning at the Waldorf Astoria “on the
ghetto…not the poetic Ghetto of his books, but the real specific Ghetto, the
dwelling place of the Jews…closed by real gates and the home of a peculiar to
itself.”
1898: The Berlin correspondent of the Times reported on the expulsion of
Polish Jews from Breslau which is part of a larger pattern of deportations
instigated by the Prussian Minister of Finance “which will serve as a pretext
for more severe measures against aliens.”
1898: Section two of the Constitution of the Union of Judæo-German
Congregations commits the organization to providing funds for several purposes
including training for teachers and
cantors, for pensions for “aged officials” and their families and for providing
aid to released convicts.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6572-gemeindebund-deutsch-israelitischer
1899: “The Merchant of Venice” opened tonight at the Knickerbocker Theatre
with Ellen Terry playing the Jewess Portia and Henry Irving delivering his
signature performance of Shylock.
1899: Today twenty-year-old Edward Daily Levy, the Paris, TX born son of
Henry and Clara Levy and the future president of Pierce Petroleum married Katy
Levy Lewis in Ft. Worth, TX.
1900: In Washington, D.C., Dr. David Blaustein, the Superintendent of the
Educational Alliance testified before the Industrial Commission on the subject
of Jewish immigration where that the increased level of immoral behavior
gripping the tenements is a result “of corruption on the police force of New
York”.
1901: It was reported today that Jacob A. Cantor, the president elect of the
Borough of Manhattan, Dr. Felix Adler and Jacob H. Schiff were each seated at
the head table at the banquet celebrating the victory of the Fusion ticket
during which the District Attorney elect delivered a speech in which he
attributed the success of the reform ticket on the East Side with its Jewish
population to the fact that they had their appeal to them as Americans and not
a some separate ethnic group.
1902: “The Girl from Kays,” which included songs by Paul Rubens, the London
born son “German Jewish stockbroker Victor Ruebens and Jenny Wallach” opened
today at the Apollo Theatre in London.
1902: A political cartoon, “Draw the line in Mississippi” by Clifford K.
Berryman that “spawned the Teddy Bear” appeared in the Washington Post. Russian
Jewish immigrants Rose and Morris Michtom created the Teddy Bear created the
creature after seeing this cartoon which showed T.R. and bear cub.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheodoreRooseveltTeddyBear.jpg
1903: Dr. Isadore Singer, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and Dr. W.E.S.
Fales “were the principle speakers at “a meeting of the Zion Educational League
this evening presided over by Albert Sonberg where the attendees discussion
“the question of Jewish immigration from Russia.”
1903(25th of Cheshvan, 5664): Seventy-year-old David Abraham
Kohn, the German born son of Deichele and Abraham Josef Kohn, the husband of
Therese A. Kohn with whom he had four children – Julia, Alfred, Harry and Edwin
– passed away today in Chicago.
1904: Birthdate of Hungarian native and “Jewish historian and educator”
Jacob Katz who began teaching in Palestine in 1936 and became a full professor
at Hebrew University in 1962.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/katz-jacob
1905: Further evidence that the drive to provide relief for the Jews being
massacred in Russia is not a matter for the Jewish community will be seen this
evening when Bishop Coadjutor Greer of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and
the Reverend Dr. Robert S. MacArthur of Calvary Baptist are among the speakers
at meeting sponsored by the Council of Jewish Women at Temple Emanu-El.
1905: Moses Plaut of L.S. Plaut & Co. is the driving force behind the
meeting scheduled to be held in Newark, NJ tonight where “a large sum of money
will be raised” to aid victims of the anti-Semitic violence in Russia.
1905: “The Odessa Relief Committee made up of former residents of that city”
is scheduled to meet in the Apollo Hall” for the purpose of raising funds for
those suffering attacks in Russia.
1905: The New York Socialists’ Organization is scheduled to meet this
evening to raise funds for the victims of the anti-Semitic attacks in Russia.
1905: “The United Hebrew Community which has a membership of over 4,000” is
scheduled to meet “in the Synagogue Beth Hamedrash Hagodol at 61 Norfolk
Street” where the leaders expect the attendees to add a considerable amount to
add to the $500 that has already been raised.
1905: Birthdate of Bucharest native Alexander Paucker, engineer who gained
fame as composer Francis Chagrin the father of actors Nicolas and Julian
Chagrin as well as the father-in-law of actress of Roland Chagrin.
https://www.naxos.com/person/Francis_Chagrin/39519.htm
1906(27th of Cheshvan, 5667): Sixty-three-year-old Raphael
Benjamin passed away today at the Hotel St. George where he had been living for
the past three years. A native of
London, he came to the United States 25 years ago and settled in Cincinnati
before moving to New York where he became the Rabbi of Temple Beth Elohim.
1906: Birthdate of New York City native and orthodontist Alexander Lawrence
Ungar, military veteran who attended Columbia, NYU and Penn.
1907: One day after she had passed away, 29-year-old Dora Yanovsky Solomon,
the wife of John Solomon and the mother of Betsy and Samuel Solomon was buried
today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”
1908: “Nathan Wise, one of the delegates of the Federation of Jewish
Organizations, which held a meeting this afternoon at 311 East Broadway,
charged that there was a system of petty graft in connection with the
naturalization of ignorant applicants.”
1909(2nd of Kislev, 5670): Mrs. Frume Rostowsky passed away
today.
1909: The Conference of the Central Conference of American Rabbis continued
with their weeklong meeting in New York City.
1910: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state's capital should
continue to be Guthrie, whose Jewish residents at the time included Felix Adler
who “had secured Oklahoma Territory’s first wholesale liquor license,” H.L.
Cohen, the owner of a tailor shop, Samuel Goldstein, owner of Goldstein &
Sons ready-to-wear clothing and Leo Meyer who moved to Guthrie in 1907 when he
was appointed Assistant Secretary of State,” who “owned a local baseball team
in Guthrie and who became president of the Western Association baseball league
in 1909.”
1910(13th of Cheshvan, 5671): Eighty-seven-year-old Marie Mariam
Rosenstiel “the daughter of Salomon Bernheimer and Ella Bernheimer, wife of
Baruch Rosenstiel and mother of Leopold Rosenstiel; Zechiel Rosenstiel;
Heinrich Rosenstiel and Sigmund Rosenstiel” passed away today in Schmieheim,
Baden, Germany
1911: Abraham “Abe” Washington Attell, the San Francisco born son of Jewish
parents known as “The Little Hebrew” defeated Young Cohen tonight in bout
between featherweights at the Houston, A.C.
1912: Rabbi Gerson B. Levi is scheduled to lead Friday evening services at
B’Nai Sholom – Temple Israel in Chicago.’
1912: University of Pennsylvania
trained physician Dr. Jay S. Liebman , the Youngstown, OH born son Charles and
Emma Liebman and the grandson of Rabbi Lippman Liebman who was the examining
physician of he United States Casualty Company married Helene Liebman today in
Atlanta.
1912: Rabbi Abram is scheduled to lead Friday evening services at Temple
Sholom at the corner of Pine Grove Avenue and Grace Street.
1913: Birthdate of Chicago native and Harvard educated television director
Charles Friedman Haas who directed episodes for a long list of popular
television shows including “Perry Mason,” “Bonanza,” “Maverick and “77 Sunset
Strip.” (Editor’s note – if you grew up
in the middle of the 20th century in America, these names should be
quite meaning to you.
1914:Clarence I de Sola, presided over the opening session of “The
Fourteenth Convention of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canda opened
this morning.
1914: “A special meeting of the officers of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society is scheduled to be held today Temple Emanu-El in NYC.
1915: Jennie Pose and Hugo Moses gave birth to Lotte Moses Grunwald, the
wife of Kur Grunwald with whom she had two children – Cecille and Roger.
1915: The list of the officers of the American Jewish Committee published
today included Louis Marshall, President; Judge Julian W. Mack and Professor
Jacob H. Hollender, Vice Presidents; Isaac W. Bernheim, Treasurer; Jack H.
Schiff and Dr. J. L. Magnes, Executive Committee.
1915: President Clarence I de Sola presided over today’s opening session of
the “Fourteenth Convention of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada” at
the Auditorium Hall.
1916: Two days after she passed away, Caroline Spiers Boas, the daughter of
Benjamin Spiers and Sara Wolf and the wife of Hermman Boas with whom she had
seven children, was buried today at the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern
Ireland.
1917(30th of Cheshvan, 5678): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1917: In New York, Abraham Handelman, the Ukrainian born son of “Joseph and
Dobish Handelman” and his wife Anna (Boorstein) Handelman gave birth to Lillian
Handelman who became Lillian Pollack when she married Jack Pollack
1917(30th of Cheshvan, 5678): Fifty-nine-year-old Sociologist Emile
Durkheim, the son, grandson and great-grandson of French rabbis, passed away.
http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/Biography.htmla
1917: As Allenby’s forces continued their advance, “the 75th Division and
the Australian Mounted Division advanced towards Latron where the Jaffa to
Jerusalem Road enters the Judean Hills.
1917: Birthdate of Bernard Bellush, the Bronx native who became a Professor
of History at City College of New York.
1917: As British forces continued their successful campaign in Palestine,
ANZAC forces occupied Ramleh and Lydda.
1917: It was officially announced today that British forces under General
Allenby had taken the junction point of the Beersheba to Damascus Railway with
the Jerusalem line after fighting that resulted in heavy Turkish losses.
1918: Four days after the Armistice, Sergeant Abraham Blaustein who received
the Croix de Guerre for heroism visited Lyon where he found out that the Army
Candidate School was to be closed since “no more officer commissions will be
granted.”
1918: “The Jewish Press reported” from Stockholm, “that anti-Semitic riots
have broken out in several towns in Western Galicia and Poland” where at least
“six Jews have been killed” in a village 55 miles southeast of Warsaw.
1918: “Julian W. Mack, President of the ZOA and Louis Marshall” joined
together and sent a telegram to President “acquainting him the facts
concerning” the threat of Jews in Eastern Europe with a special emphasis on
Poland and Romania.
1919: Abram I. Elkus began serving as a Judge on New York State Court of
Appeals
1920: Mr. Louis Mann is scheduled to deliver an address at the annual
meeting of the Rodeph Sholom Women’s Association this afternoon in Manhattan.
1921: Benjamin Schlesinger, the President of the International Ladies’
Garment Workers’ Union laid the cornerstone for the union’s new headquarters
building on West 16th Street in NYC.
1922: It was reported today that “the five brothers of the late Jacob Gimbel
of Philadelphia who was head of the Gimbel corporation operating stores in New
York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee have arranged to give away more than one
million dollars which would have come to them as residuary legatee under the
terms of their brother’s will” and that “this money will go to charities Jewish
and non-Jewish and to nieces and nephews of Mr. Gimbel, so that his brothers
may carry out what they believe to have been his desires expressed shortly
before his death.”
1923: In Dublin, at about 11:30 pm, two Jews named Kahn and Millar were
walking along Stamer Street heart of the Jewish quarter when they were ordered
to halt by two men, after which they were asked “Are you Jews?” and when they
replied in the affirmative, they ran for their lives as shots rang out on which
killed Kahn.
1923(7th of Kislev, 5684): Rosalie V. Moses passed away today after
she was buried at the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, CO.
1923: Birthdate of Polish born Holocaust survivor Samuel Klein, the found of
“the Casas Bahia chain of department stores whose success has led him to be
called “the Sam Walton of Brazil.”
1924(18th of Cheshvan, 5685): Parashat Vayera
1924: In Hartford Max Rich and the former
Bella Shub gave birth to DNA expert Alexander Rich.
1924: Russian born American journalist Isaac
Don Levine and his first wife gave birth to their only child, a son, named
Robert Don Levine.
1925:
Birthdate of Russian author Yuli Daniel
1925: “The Fate of a Flirt’ silent romantic
comedy produced by Harry Cohn with a script co-authored by Albert Lewin was
released today in the United States.
1925: In Paris, Pierre Léon Dreyfus, the
“son of Alfred Dreyfus and Lucie Eugénie
Hadamard” and Marie Apollonie Dreyfus gave birth to Nicole Dreyfus
1925: Birthdate of Jacek Zlatka, the native
of Warsaw who as “Jack P. Eisner used the millions he made in the import-export
business to tell the story of how he survived the Holocaust in a book, play,
movie and many public appearances.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/30/nyregion/jack-eisner-77-holocaust-chronicler-dies.html
1925: “The Road to Yesterday” a silent film
starring Joseph Schildkraut and Jetta Goudal was released today in the United
States.
1926: The National Broadcasting Company, part of Robert Sarnoff’s “RCA
Empire” debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.
1926: CCNY and Cooper Institute alum Ben Bernie, the New York born son of
Amma Melnick and Julius Bernie and his orchestra were heard today “via a remote
broadcast from the Hotel Roosevelt in New York City, on the first NBC broadcast.”
1926: “Derby, a German silent sports film directed by Max Reichmann” was
released in Germany today.
1927: A pre-Broadway tour of Showboat, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
musical based on Edna Ferber’s novel began today.
1928: The National Conference of Jews and Christians sent a telegram to
President-elect Hoover “congratulating” him “on his upcoming trip to South
America” which the organization hopes “will bring all peoples and creeds both
at home and abroad into better relationships of mutual understanding and
helpfulness.”
1929: In Kansas City, MO, Russian Jewish immigrants, Lizzie (née Seliger)
and David Morris Asner gave birth to Edward “Ed” Asner the multi-talented actor
who could play everything from “Lou Grant” to the menacing “Axel Jordache” in
“Rich Man, Poor Man.”
1930(24th of Cheshvan, 5691): Parashat Chayei Sara
1930: Northwestern, led by guard Hy Crizevsky, defeated the University
Wisconsin by a score of 20-7 at Dyche Stadium in Evanston, IL.
1931: Tributes to Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, inspired by the
noted jurist's, seventy-fifth birthday last Friday, were voiced today by Rabbi
Louis I. Newman of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the
Free Synagogue,” Judge Julian W. Mack and Jacob de Haas.
1932: Mrs. Arthur Brin of
Minneapolis, the President of the National Council of Jewish Woman and
Dr. David de Sola Poole, the Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue are
scheduled to address a meeting of the New York Section of the Council of Jewish
Woman.
1932: Birthdate of Haim Drukman, the native of Kuty who made Aliyah in 1944
and now serves as Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva.
1932: “In the Dough,” a comedy “featuring Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges
and Lionel Stander was released today in the United States.
1933(26th of Cheshvan, 5694): Fifty-five-year-old Max “Maxie”
Idelman, the Russian born son of Louis and Tillie Idelman passed away today in
Muskogee, OK after which he was buried in the Beth Hamedorosh Hagoldol Cemetery
in Ladue, MO.
1934: “The Strathaird arrived in Sydney but Egon Kisch” who had escaped the
Nazis “was not allowed to leave the ship.”
1935: Under the Nuremberg Laws, German Jews are formally stripped of their
citizenship meaning, among other things, that they cannot vote, hold public
office or be employed by the government.
1935: The German
Churches begin to collaborate with the Nazis by supplying records to the
government indicating who is a Christian and who is not; that is, who is a Jew.
1935: “A Night at the Opera” the Marx Brothers comedy co-starring Kitty
Carlisle, produced by Irving Thalberg with a script by George S. Kaufman,
Morrie Ryskind and Al Boasberg was released in the United States today by MGM.
1936: In Hamburg Emma (née Dietrich),
a Communist Party activist, and
Dagobert Biermann, a German Jewish dockworker a member of the German
Resistance gave birth to Wolf Biermann, a Jewish communist German
singer-songwriter who survived the bombing of Hamburg in 1943.
1936: Funeral services were held today at Temple B’nai Jeshurun and the
Israel Orphan Asylum for fifty-six-year-old Hungary native Gustave Hartman the
“son of Sarah Luchs and Kalman Hartman,”
and “lawyer, municipal court judge, city court judge, Republican
political leader and philanthropist” who
“founded the Israel Orphan Asylum” and was honored by the creation of the
Gustave Hartman Triangle in New York.
1936: Israel Rokach begins serving as Mayor of Tel Aviv.
1936: “In Abraham’s Ur of the Chaldes” published today, Louise Maunsell
Field provided an in-depth review of Abraham: Recent Discoveries and Hebrew
Origins by Sir Leonard Woolley.
1937: The Habima Players of Tel Aviv “who have just ended a successful
season at the Paris Exhibition open a season at the Savoy Theater” today in
“their second appearance in Britain.
They will open with ‘The Dybbuk,’ probably their finest as well as their
most popular production. The plays all
will be performed in Hebrew, but the realism of their acting surmounts to a
large degree the barrier of language.”
During the course of the season Habima will also be performing “Uriel
Acosta,” “The Wandering Jew,” and “The Golem’s Dream.”
1937: Birthdate of actor Yaphet Kotto, both of whose parents are African
Jews from Cameroon. In an interview he said being fully Black and Jewish gave
others even more reason to pick on him growing up in New York City. However, to
this day, he remains a devout, practicing Jew. Yaphet Kotto is a regular on
TV's, Homicide: Life on the Streets
playing the role of Lt. Al Giardello
1937: Haaretz and Davar, two of the leading Jewish dailies in
Palestine, “publish strong editorials “condemning recent acts of violence by
Jews brought on by the last two years of Arab attacks. The two papers called on “Jews to ‘take revenge’
only through constructive activities.”
1938: “The first solo exhibition of the work of Frida Kahlo” which had been
mounted by Julien Levy at his gallery at 15 East 57th Street came to
a close today.
1938: Jewish students were barred from German schools
1938: In Saxony, eleven-year-old Zeev Raphael was expelled from the
Hans-Schemm-Schule.
http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/holocaust/testimon-25/chronicle-growing-up-third/
1938: Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, the British anti-Semitic Nazi
sympathizing politician attended a luncheon at the German Embassy in London
where he met with other Englishmen who sympathized with Hitler.
1938: In the wake of the
bloody pogroms of Kristallnacht, United States President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt withdraws the United States ambassador from Germany
1939: The Nazis began the
mass murder of Warsaw Jews. The war started
on September 1, 1939. After only two and
a half months, the War Against the Jews was in full swing. This is one more fact that puts the lie to
those revisionists who contend that genocide was not an essential part of the
Nazi program from its very outset.
1939: The anti-Semitic Fideikommissariat
(Estate commission) is established to "Aryanize" Jewish-owned
businesses in Occupied Poland.
1939: In New York City Avraham Kotto who claimed to be related to Jews who
had ruled a region in Cameroon and Gladys Marie, a nurse and Army officer who
had converted before marrying her husband gave birth to actor Yaphet Kotto,
whose most famous role may have been that of Lt. Al Giardello in the
outstanding series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
1940: The Nazis officially declared the Warsaw ghetto to be in existence as
workers began to build walls to encircle district.
1940: Welterweight Al “Bummy” Davis (Albert Abraham Davidoff) lost a
non-title bought in which he committed so many fouls that he was disqualified
from boxing by the New York State Boxing Commission.
1941: Four days after his death in a plane crash, Charles Huntziger, one of
the French generals who signed “the anti-Semitic Statue on Jews in 1940” and
whose widow was decorated by the regime at Vichy was buried today at Vichy
1941: “Blues in the Night” a musical directed by Anatole Litvak, produced by
Hal B. Wallis and with a script by Robert Rossen was released in the United
States today.
1941: Today, Leon Banov, “the Charleston County health officer” wrote to
newly elected Senator Burnet R. Maybank outlining the public health challenges
facing Charleston because of the influx of war workers at the Charleston Navy
Year and asking his assistance in bringing these concerns to the attention of
the Surgeon General.
1941: Although it had been operating for months Treblinka was “founded
officially” today.
1941: Hinrich Lohse, the Nazi official who had created the ghetto in Riga,
Latvia, by rounding up all of the Jew’s living in the city and its surrounding
areas asked his boss Alfred Rosenbeg to confirm that all the Jews were to be
killed “regardless of economic considerations.”
The response would be in the affirmative since the goal was to make
Latvia “judenrein” or “Jew free.”
1942: The Soviet-based
Jewish Antifascist Committee releases a report, "The Liquidation of the
Jews in Warsaw."
1942: In Japanese occupied Shanghai, “the idea of a restricted ghetto was
approved” today.
1942: In an action led
by Mayer List, two Jewish women partisans in Paris place two time bombs at a
Nazi barracks window, which will kill several soldiers.
1942: In his diary, Rudolf
Rederlin described the scene at Belze after a train was unloaded. The men were
stripped naked and sent directly to the gas chambers, the women brought to the
barracks to have their head shaven. Then they went to the chambers. The head of
the Judenrat was ordered to stay behind and beaten to near death as an
orchestra played on. Then the man was shot in the head and pushed into the
bundle of gassed Jews.
1942: In Buenos Aires, Aida (née
Schuster) and Enrique Barenboim gave birth to pianist and conductor Daniel
Barenboim who married Elena Bashkirova in 1988 after the death of his first
wife Jacqueline du Pre.
1942: Birthdate of Devra G.
Kleiman, “a conservation biologist who reintroduced into the wild the tiny,
endangered monkey known as the golden lion tamarin, and who learned so much
about the lives of giant pandas that scientists could later help them reproduce
in captivity”
1943:
In describing Leonard Bernstein's first performance as conductor
of the New York Philharmonic which occurred last night, The New York
Times editorial remarked, "It's a good American success story. The
warm, friendly triumph of it filled Carnegie Hall and spread far over the air
waves."
1943: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put
"on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1943(17th of Cheshvan, 5704): Twenty-one-year-old Lawrence
Balfour “Duke” Abelson, a Flying Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force from
Ottawa, Ontario, “was killed during a training flight” today after which he was
buried in Cheshire, England.
1943(17th of Cheshvan, 5704): Salo Landau, a Galician born Dutch
Chess Champion was probably murdered today at Auschwitz.
1944: Actor and director Kurt Gerron was killed today at Auschwitz.
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/western-europe/westerbork/gerronkurt/
1944(28th of Cheshvan, 5705): Seventy-nine-year-old Morris
Diamond, the father of former Supreme Court Justice David Diamond and the
founder of the Buffalo Hebrew School passed away today.
1944: The deportations of Hungarian
Jews living in Budapest continued. In the meantime the authorities establish an
‘international ghetto' consisting of dozens of buildings that housed Jews
technically under the protection of the Swiss Legation. This rescue operation was engineered by Carl
Lutz, a Swiss official representing Great Britain’s interests in Hungary. Lutz’s rescue work mirrored that of the
other, more famous, hero of Hungarian Jewry, Raoul Wallenberg.
1944: “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”
the film version of the Doolittle Raid directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by
Sam Zimbalist was released in the United States by MGM.
1945: Today is a day of prayer and fasting to protest British foreign minister
Ernest Bevin's actions.
1945: A complete curfew is declared
at noon in Tel Aviv, Palestine by the British government. Anyone (this means
Jews) carrying a weapon may be punished by execution.
1945: In Haifa, Palestine, Zionist
sailors serving in the British navy protest.
1945: Forty people who were part of the staff of
the concentration at Dachau go on trial.
The trial would last until December 14, 1945 resulted in thirty seven of
the accused being sentenced to death.
1946: As the Irgun continued its
violent attacks aimed at driving the British out of Palestine, it was reported
today that an Arab fireman “was killed while riding on train that had struck a
mine Jaffa” and that “two British soldiers were killed in a road explosion in
Jerusalem.
1947(1st of Kislev,
5708): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1947(1st of Kislev,
5708): William Marias Malifsoff, “a research biochemist based at different
times in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York City” whose “interest in science
and its philosophical aspects led him to found the Philosophy of Science” in
1934, died suddenly today.
1947: The British foreign office denies that Britain plans
to take over financial surplus in Palestine treasury to pay for costs of
evacuation and fighting illegal Jewish immigration.
1947: Moses A. Leavitt, the executive vice chairman of The Joint
Distribution Committee, said that the committee “would increase its food
purchases to eight million pounds for the last quarter of this year” and that
it would be shipped abroad immediately to aid “distressed Jews” in Europe.
1947: In Atlantic City, NJ, where 250 delegates had gathered for the
opening of the 38th annual convention of the American Federation of
Polish Jews, Dr. Schwartzbart, a “member of the World Zionist council and a
member of the Polish Parliament in pre-war Poland, said that “the Jewish people
may be far from reaching their goal of a Jewish state” because “the way is
still fraught with obstacles.”
1947: “Universal relief over the fact that Britain has formally announced
her intention of getting out of Palestine, surrendering her mandate and
disassociating herself from the United Nations partition” plan was evident in
London today.
1948: Moshe Shertok declares that Israel will fight
before it gives up Negev.
1948: Israel announces its peace conditions: (1) Jewish
control of modern Jerusalem corridor to remainder of Israel; (2) no Arab use of
Haifa port or Lydda airport except under Israeli terms; (3) retention of
Western Galilee as long as area is needed for Israel's defense; and (4) no readmission
of Arab refugees to Israel until peace is established. Israel also requests UN
admission.
1948: As of today, another seven Spitfires had been prepared for the
long-range flight to Israel, but Czech authorities refused to let them take
off.
1948: Salah el-Kuntar, leader of Druse tribesmen's
National Army, says Druses want their 4,000-square-mile area shifted from Syria
to Israel. Druses helped drive Syrian troops out of Upper Galilee.
1948: The Metropolitan Opera Association’s new roster released today listed
three new conductors including Walter Taussig.
1949: It was announced in Tel Aviv tonight that “Eliahu Sasson, director of
the Middle East division of the Israeli Foreign Office, has been appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey.”
1950: The Israeli Cabinet appointed
a planning unit “to examine the possibility of” establishing a “settlement in
the northeastern Negev desert and the Arad area.”
1950: “Kansas Raiders” an “oater” filmed by cinematographer Irving
Glassberg was released today in the United States.
1952: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover met with Lewis Wester Jones the
president of Rutgers University to discuss pending security cases including one
involving ancient and classical scholar Moses I. Finley.
1952: The Bugs Bunny Cartoon Rabbit's Kin featuring the voice of Mel
Blanc is released in theaters throughout the United States.
1952: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
met with Lewis Webster Jones, President of Rutgers University to discuss the
inquiry into the loyalty of faculty members including Moses I. Finley (born
Moses Isaac Finelstein) who was accused of being a communist.
1953: The 17th annual
meeting of the United Israel Appeal which had been meeting in Chicago for the
last two days came to an end. “In response to Prime Minster David Ben-Gurion’s
plea for aide, the delegates pledged to carry out a program, apart from
fund-raising. Of borrowing a minimum of $75,000,000 for a period of five years
‘in order to refund Israel’s short-term obligations which were incurred as a
result of the unprecedented immigration policy.’”
1953(8th of Kislev,
5714): Retired Brooklyn textile merchant and founder of Mizrachi Abraham
Stavisky, “a director and benefactor of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School and
husband of Fanny Stavisky with whom he had five children passed away today in
Atlantic City while attending “the annual convention of the Mirzrachi
Organization of America.”
1953: Alexander Wiley, the
Republican Senator from Wisconsin and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee clashed with Guy Gillette, the Democratic Senator from Iowa and the
senior member of the committee over the issue of U.S. support for Israel. Gillette took issue with the Eisenhower
administration’s policy in the Middle East which he described as appeasing the
Arab states by kicking Israel in public.
1955(30th of Cheshvan, 5716): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1955: “Milton Cohen’s seventh
anniversary as executive director of the Federation of the Handicapped was
observed” today during which the staff gave him “a scrapbook illustrating the
federation’s twenty years of work” and money which Cohen said, “would be used
to transport homebound adults to and from recreational activities held at the
federation building seven nights a year.”
1957(21st of Cheshvan,
5718): Eighty-six-year-old Gertrude Stern Florsheim the Rockford, IL born
daughter of Henry Stern and Esther Raab and the wife shoe manufacture Milton S.
Florshiem with whom she raised two sons, Irving and Harold passed away today in
Chicago after which she interred at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum.
1957(21st of Cheshvan,
5718): Seventy-seven-year-old Oswego, NY native and Columbia trained urologist
Dr. Clarence Garfield Bandler, the son of William and Eva Fox Bandler and the
husband of Miriam Zack passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/17/132854902.pdf
1960: A theatre party at today’s
performance of “Period of Adjustment” which was organized by Mrs. Irving
Mitchell Felt “will benefit a fund for student scholarships and teachers’
pensions at the Lenox School in New York.
1962: The General Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds formally opened its first
session today in Philadelphia.
1962: Birthdate of Judy Gold the
Newark, NJ native known as a comedian but who has also “won two Daytime Emmy
Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.”
1962: Funeral services are scheduled
to be held today for Dr. Milton Simon Fine, the husband of Frances Fine and the
father of Stephen Isaac Fine in Manhattan.
1962: Funeral services are scheduled
to be held today for Celia Fishman, the wife of Dr. Harry Fishman and mother of
Muriel Feuerman and Dr. Stanley Fishman at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
where she is remembered for her “gracious service to the synagogue” of which
her husband was President.
1963(28th of Cheshvan, 5724):
Symphony conductor Fritz Reiner passed away.
Born in Hungary in 1888, Reiner trained as both a lawyer and a
musician. After a successful career in
Europe, he moved to the United States in 1922 where he served as conductor for
several symphony orchestras. He was the
conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the time of his death at the age
of 74
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0915FF355C14738DDDA90A94D9415B868AF1D3
1966: At Staatsoper, world premiere of Paul Dessau’s “Puntila.”
1967: Birthdate of actress Lisa Bonet. The daughter of a Jewish mother and a black father, Lisa Bonet first
found fame in the mid-80s on The Cosby Show as Denise, one of the four
daughters of Bill Cosby’s character Cliff Huxtable.
1967: “Who’s That Knocking At My
Door” which marked the cinema debut of Harvey Keitel premiered today in
Chicago.
1967: Two days after he had passed
away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for seventy-two-year-old
Lemberg, Austria, native, Harry Salpeter, “an art deal and critic” and the
husband of Betty Berkowitz
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/11/14/90417644.pdf
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/harry-salpeter-papers-9052
1968(24th of Cheshvan, 5729): Seventy-two-year-old Polish born,
WW I U.S Navy veteran Sidney Cannold, the founder and chairman of the Manhattan
Electric Cable Corporation and “organizer of the electrical division of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away aboard the Oceanic while
“returning from a cruise to Nassau.”
1968: Birthdate of Dr. Michael Levin
1969: In Washington, D.C. Maxine Rapport, a convert to Judaism and publisher
Dan Rapport gave birth to Woodrow Wilson High School graduate Adam Rapoport,
the disgraced editor of Bon Appetit magazine.
1969: U.S. premiere of “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” a musical adaption of the novel
by the same name directed by Herbert Ross
1973: Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war following the Yom Kippur
War.
1974(1st of Kislev, 5735): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1974(1st of Kislev, 5735): Morris Miller, a part-time cantor at
Har-Brook Congregation in Anne Arundel County and a founder of the Liberty
Jewish Center passed away today.
1974: “Earthquake” a disaster film produced and directed by Mark Robson
which marked the cinema debut of Walter Matthau was released in the United
States today.
1976: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning for Louis Horn,
the husband of Sarah Horn, the father and Ruth Lichtenstein and the President
“of the First Rabbi Mayer Przemyslanor S. and B. Association, Inc.”
1977: Birthdate of Wharton graduate Jonathan Benjamin “Jon” Hurwitz, the
screenwriter/director responsible for among other things the “Harold &
Kumar” movies.
1978: Today, in the District of Columbia, funeral services are scheduled to be at Washington
Hebrew Congregation Rabbi Emeritus Alexander Steinbach, the husband of Joy
Steinbach who led Temple Ahavath Stator for 32 years.
1979: Rodef Shalom, “the oldest congregation in Western Pennsylvania” which
traces its origins to formation of a burial society in Pittsburgh in 1847, was
placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places today.
1979: The B'er Chayim Temple (Well of Life, a metaphor in which Torah is
likened to water) in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland was added to the
National Register of Historic Places Properties in Allegany County: Maryland
Historical Trust; 2008-10-06. The Temple was built in 1866 for the local Jewish
congregation. Originally Orthodox, it is now Reform. It is one of the oldest
congregations in Maryland and its 1865 building is one of the oldest synagogue
buildings in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%27er_Chayim_Temple
1980(7th of Kislev, 5741): Parashat Vayetzei
1980(7th of Kislev, 5741): Seventy-two-year-old Arnold M. Grant, “a
leading corporate and tax lawyer in the film industry who for many years was
active in fund-raising efforts for the Democratic Party and Jewish
organizations” passed away today at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount
Kisco, N.Y.
1981: A revival of Lerner and Lowe’s “Camelot"
opens at Winter Garden Theater in New York City for 48 performances.
1982: “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial an audiobook and soundtrack companion
album for the 1982 blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg” was released
today.
1984: 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe is the fourteenth album by singer-songwriter
Barry Manilow was released today.
1984: After over two decades of building a reputation as a passionate and
generous member of the Jewish community through her activism and volunteer
work, Baltimorean Shoshana Cardin was elected as the first woman president of
the Council of Jewish Federations. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archivdes)
1985: “The Last Romantic,” “a documentary filmed the townhouse of Vladimir
Horowitz” produced by Peter Gelb was released in the United States today.
1986: The SEC fined Ivan F.
Boesky $100 million for insider stock trading. Boesky was, and is, one of many
Jews who have been involved in white collar crime stretching from the junk bond
debacle to the collapse of Enron. To
paraphrase a character in a Faye Kellerman novel, God must have known that Jews
were capable of theft. Why else would He
have commanded the Jews not to steal?
1986(13th of Cheshvan, 5747): Eighty-nine-year-old composer
Alexandre Tansman whose career was a “casualty” of the Holocaust passed away
today.
http://forward.com/culture/217468/on-alexandre-the-greatest-jewish-composer-youve-ne/
https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/t/ta-tn/alexander-tansman/
1987: After 1,761 performances
over four years, “La Cage aux Folles” with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
came to a close.
1988: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian
National Council.
1988: “Goetz Collection Picasso Sold for $24.75 Million” published today
described the auction of the art collection of the late William and Edith Mayer
Goetz.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-15/news/mn-162_1_art-collection
1988: ABC broadcast the second episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an
American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”
1989: U.S. premiere of “Steel Magnolias” a film highlighting the strength of
southern women directed by Herbert Ross.
1989: Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premiered in New York
City. Born in 1961, the Scarsdale native
wrote this successful court-martial melodrama without ever serving in the
military or attending law school. He
showed his versatility when he wrote the hit romantic comedy, American President.
1991: CBS broadcast the final episode of “The Trials of Rosie O’neill”
created and produced by Barney Rosenzweig.
1995(22nd of Cheshvan, 5756): Ninety-four-year-old Russian born CCNY and Columbia educated “scholar, writer and educator in
Yiddish and German literature Sol Lipzin who “was a founder of Bar-Ilan
University and the Jerusalem University College” and who raised Yelva and Karen
with his wife Anna Ohrenstein passed away today.
1996; “The English Patient” a movie version of the novel of the same name
which won an Oscar for producer Saul Zaentz as the Best Picture of the Year,
was released today in the United States.
1997: William Shatner weds Norine Kidd.
1997: Eighty-eight year old John Coulson “a diplomat at the British Embassy
in Paris during the Exodus crisis “suggested how to spin the Jews’ confinement
in the camps to score a public relations” when he wrote “If we decide it is
convenient not to keep them in camps any longer, I suggest that we should make
some play that we are releasing them from all restraint of this kind in
accordance with their wishes and that they were only put in such accommodation
for the preliminary necessities of screening and maintenance.”
1997(15th of Cheshvan, 5758): Eighty-five-year-old Saul
Chaplin passed away. Born Saul Kapan in
1912, this leading American composer and musical director lists of hits include
the scores for American in Paris, West Side Story and Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers. He collaborated with Sammy
Cahn on that unique musical creation "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” a
popular song, the title meaning "to me you are beautiful." According
to at least one show biz legend, the original verson of the song was written
for a Yiddish musical in 1932. In 1937
Cahn and Chaplin heard two African American singers perform it at the Apollo
Theatre in Harlem. Impressed with the
audience response, they bought the rights to the song, reworked it, and the
rest is musical history.
1998: The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics
of Jewish interest including The Hidden Book In The Bible Restored,
translated and introduced by Richard Elliott Friedman, Truth Comes In Blows: A Memoir by
Ted Solotaroff, There Once Was A World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok by
Yaffa Eliach, Flora’s Suitcase by
Dalia Rabinovich and Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright by Ann
Blackman.
1999: Irwin Cotler began serving as a Member of the
Canadian Parliament for Mount Royal.
1999: INS
Leviathan, a Dolphin class submarine, was commissioned today.
1999: A new exhibit on life and work of Jewish
activist Rebecca Affachiner, known affectionately as "the Betsy Ross of
Israel," at Emory University's Schatten Gallery will open with a special
public program and reception today in the Joseph W. Jones Room of Woodruff
Library.
1999: A dinner was held in Melbourne in honor of
the late Ron Castan.
http://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/former-justices/kirbyj/kirbyj_castan.htm
2000: U.S. Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton
“delivered an emotional eulogy for Leah Rabin” today in Jerusalem.
2001: After being hired today as President and CEO
of the Red Sox, Larry Luchino hired Theo Epstein
2001: Ilyas Malayev an Uzbekistani musician and
poet who had emigrated to the United States, in part because he could not get
his poetry published due to anti-Semitism became a United States citizen today.
2002: “Interview With The Assassin” produced by
Brian Koppelman and David Levien was released today in the United States today.
2002(10th of Kislev, 5763):Twelve people - 9
soldiers and three civilians from the Kiryat Arba emergency response team -
were killed and 15 others wounded in Hebron when Palestinian terrorists opened
fire and threw grenades at a group of Jewish worshipers and their guards as
they were walking home from Sabbath prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The
dead included civilian worshipers and soldiers, some of whom were caught in an
ambush as they pursued the attackers. Three terrorists were killed in the attack,
which was claimed by the Islamic Jihad. The victims: Col. Dror Weinberg, 38, of
Jerusalem; Border Police officer Ch.-Supt. Samih Sweidan, 31, of Arab
al-Aramsha; Sgt. Tomer Nov, 19, of Ashdod; Sgt. Gad Rahamim, 19, of Kiryat
Malachi; St.-Sgt. Netanel Machluf, 19, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Yeshayahu Davidov,
20, of Netanya; Sgt. Igor Drobitsky, 20, of Nahariya; Cpl. David Marcus, 20, of
Ma'aleh Adumim; and Lt. Dan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem. The three civilian members
of the Kiryat Arba emergency response team killed were Yitzhak Buanish, 46;
Alexander Zwitman, 26; and Alexander Dohan, 33.
2002: In the following letter-to-the editor
published in the New York Times, Martin Peretz, Editor in Chief, “The New
Republic,” comes to the defense of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,
In a vast documentation of the culpability of
the Roman Catholic Church in the Nazi genocide of the Jews, the archdiocese of
Munich has caught Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, the author of ''A Moral Reckoning,''
in one tiny mistake. It has gone to court to get an injunction against the sale
of the book, reviving the index of what it does not want people to read. Mr.
Goldhagen misidentified a cleric marching at a Nazi rally in a photograph
included in his text. Relying on the authority of a responsible scholarly archive,
he indicated that the priest was Cardinal Michael Faulhaber. It wasn't. Still,
several incidents involving the cardinal, cited in the book and not challenged
by anyone, are devastating. They support the author's argument that the church
was not a passive witness to the Holocaust but an active collaborator in it.
And who was the mysterious father in the photograph? Alas, the papal nuncio,
Cesare Orsenigo, the personal diplomatic representative of Pius XI.
2003(20th of Cheshvan, 5764): Laurence Tisch, former CEO of CBS passed away.
2003(20th of Cheshvan, 5764): The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings,
in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people
and wounding about 300.
2004: “Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel” was released today.
2005: Two years to the day after his brother passed away, Preston Robert
Tisch, owner of Lowes Hotel and the New York Giants, passed away.
2005: Today, a fellow female police detective described her first meeting
with Felicia Shpritzer “who in the early 1960's broke a gender barrier in the
New York Police Department when she earned a sergeant's stripes, paving the way
for the advancement of women in police work across the country” saying that
“she was wearing a trench coat and loafers and carrying two shopping
bags.” Speaking with “her thick Yiddish
accent” Shpritzer “looked and acted like the typical Jewish mother” who
“comforted her subordinates when they had problems and scolded them when they
were wrong.”
2005: When an Israir charter flight takes off this morning for Tunis it will
be historic not only because it is the maiden trip of an Israeli airline to the
North African Arab country. More significantly, it will be carrying Foreign
Minister Silvan Shalom a man who left Tunisia, his place of birth, at the age
of one and is now returning for the first time as his adopted country’s foreign
minister. Shalom is traveling to Tunisia to attend the UN World Summit on the
Information.
2005: Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen announced that the trial of Holocaust denier
Ernst Zündel on 14 counts of
inciting racial hatred “was to be rescheduled to allow new counsel time to
prepare.”
2006: The building housing Goldblatt
Brothers Department Store, a Chicago firm found by Maurice and Nathan Goldblatt
that had been designed by Alfred Samuel Alschuler the Chicago born son of
Fannie Guggenheimer and Samuel Alschuler was placed on the U.S. National
Register of Historic Places today.
2006: “The Jewish Eye-World Jewish film Festival” opened at Be’er
Sheva. The festival featured the first
showing of Director Ramin Farahani’s Jews
of Iran.
2006: Jack Abramoff began serving his term in the minimum-security prison
camp of Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, Maryland, as inmate
number 27593-112.
2007(5th of Kislev, 5768): Ninety-two-year-old Tani Lispector,
the middle daughter of Pinkhas Lispector and Mania Krimgold Lispector and older
sister of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector passed away today.
2007: Ruth Wisse, “a pioneer in the development of Yiddish scholarship in
the United States…received the…National Humanities Medal in a ceremony at the
White House.” (As reported by Jewish
Women’s Archives)
2007: In Stuttgart, the first German production of Stephen Schwartz’s
musical “Wicked” opened at the Palladium Theatre.
2007: A children’s book entitled Germ Stories by the late Dr. Arthur
Kornberg appears in bookstores.
2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Muhammad Abu
Ajaj presents Bedouin music and songs from the Negev.
2007: The MFA in Creative Writing Program at George Washington
University hosts an evening with four writers participating in the University
of Iowa's International Writing Program including Alex Epstein, a fiction writer from
Israel.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Curtis David Litow, son of Kathy and Charlie
Litow, is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.
2008: The Ninth Annual Rutgers New Jersey
Jewish Film Festival presents “Jellyfish.” “Set against the background of
Israel’s most cosmopolitan city, Jellyfish tells the story of three very
different Tel Aviv women – a waitress, a disappointed bride, and a domestic
worker from the Philippines. Subject to the whims of destiny, they struggle to
find love as their intersecting lives create an unlikely portrait of modern
Israeli life.”
2008: On Saturday night MK Ya'acov Litzman was attacked by a group of
Slonimer Hassidim.
2009: A revival of “Ragtime” a musical based on the E.L. Doctorow’s novel
with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens opened at the Neil Simon Theatre.
2009: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington holds its 49th
annual meeting.
2009: The groups Adas Reads and Brunch & Learn present a reading and
discussion with New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, author of
"From Beirut to Jerusalem" and, most recently, "Hot, Flat, and
Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America,"
and Washington Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld, author of "Revenge: A Story
of Hope," at the Adas Israel Congregation, the only Conservative Synagogue
located in the District of Columbia. The writers will discuss the influence of
revenge on international affairs
2009: The 40th Annual Book Festival sponsored by the JCC of Greater
Washington and The 4th annual Jewish Book Festival sponsored by The Jewish
Community Center of Northern Virginia come to an end.
2009: AJHS, CJH, and YUM sponsor an International Conference entitled
“Genocide and Human Experience: Raphael Lemkin's Thought and Vision.”
2009: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Humbling by
Philip Roth and the recently released paperback editions of Reborn: Journals
and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag; edited by David Rieff and My
Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past by Ariel Sabar
whose “father was the last bar mitzvah boy in a Kurdish town where Jews had
lived for nearly 3,000 years. Soon thereafter, most of Kurdistan’s Jews left for
Israel, taking with them their ancient language, Aramaic, Jesus’ tongue. The
elder Sabar, reduced to manual labor in Israel, spent his time obsessively
cataloging his dying language. Sabar’s book is a biography of his father but
also ‘part history, linguistics primer and memoir.’”
2009: The Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including America’s Prophet:
Moses and the American Story by Bruce Feiler and SUPERFREAKONOMICS:
Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life
Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
2009: In Crown Heights Chabad's the 25th annual International
Conference of Shluchim comes to a close.
The “lamplighters” like the renowned Rabbi Pinchas Ciment of Little
Rock, AR, return to the life-long labor of drawing their fellow Jews to warmth
of Torah and the love of Ha-shem.
2010: Internationally acclaimed photographer, videographer and filmmaker
Shirin Neshat and best-selling author Angella Nazarian are scheduled to present
a program entitled The Jewish-Iranian Immigrant Experience: At the Threshold of
Two Worlds at the 92nd Street Y.
2011: Julie Salamon, author of
“Wendy & the Lost Boys,” Myla Goldberg, author of “The False Friend,” and
William Cohan, author of “Money & Power” are scheduled to speak at the St.
Louis Jewish Book Festiva.
2011: “The Little Traitor” a film
based on a novel by Amos Oz is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Eye World
Film Festival.
2011: Recent bouts of violence along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip are
leading toward significant and offensive military action in the coastal
enclave, Israel Defense Forces chief Benny Gantz said today, adding that there
was still a chance for a flare-up of West Bank violence over the Palestinian
statehood bid at the United Nations.
2011: About 100 senior doctors submitted their resignation today, in an
apparent escalation of the residents' struggle against a National Labor Court
decision to cancel their previous collective protest resignation.
2011(18th of Cheshvan,
5772): Eighty-nine-year-old Hubert C. Wine “a solicitor, District Court judge
and prominent member of the Irish Jewish community who served as the chairman
of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland for fourteen years” passed away
today.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/old-cutbacks-take-a-long-time-to-heal-26113474.html
2012: “The Art of Spiegelman” which
provides a look at the world and studio of Art Spieglman, the creator of Maus,
is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2012: World Music from Poland is
scheduled to meet Spanish Flamenco when Kroke Trio and Amir-John Haddad perform
at the International Jerusalem Oud Festival.
2012: The Canadian Folk Music Awards
is scheduled to open today in New Brunswick. “Songs for the Breathing Walls,” a
collection of mainly Jewish liturgical pieces recorded by Lenka Lichtenberg in
12 Czech Synagogues has been nominated for two awards at the festival. (As
reported by Renee Ghert-Zand)
2012: Final day for submitting
entries to the Agudas Achim Poetry Contest.
The poems are each intended to memorialize the congregation’s former
home on East Washington Street in Iowa City.
2012(1st of Kislev,
5773): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
2012(1st of Kislev): According to
Rabbi Judah, the start of the winter season in Israel
2012: The Israeli Air Force struck some 70 targets in the Gaza Strip in one
hour's time, the IDF Spokesman's Office said shortly before 10 p.m. tonight.
Among the targets, the IDF statement said, were underground medium-range rocket
launching pads. The most recent blitz of air strikes brought the total number
to well over 300.
2012: Booms were heard following an air raid siren in Tel Aviv this evening,
just an hour after a rocket from the Gaza Strip exploded in an open field
outside of Rishon Lezion. There were no reports of injuries in either strike.
2012(1st of Kislev,
5773): Mirah Scharf, 25, Aharon Smadja, 49, and Itzik Amsalem, 27 were murdered
by Hamas rockets at Kiryat Malachi (City of Angels).
2013: “The Fading Valley” and “Under
The Same Sun” are scheduled to be shown 7th annual Other Israel Film
Festival.
2013: “Boris Lurie: The 1940’s”, a ninety-five-piece
exhibition is scheduled to come to an end today at the Studio House Space.
2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is
scheduled to perform at the University of Mary Washington in Frederiksberg, VA
2013: In Encino, CA, Valley Beth
Shalom a Yiddish evening of song featuring Eleanor Reissa.
2013: Today “the first baby was born
at the IDF field hospital set up the day before in the Philippines to help deal
with the destruction Typhoon Haiyan has left in its wake. The mayor of Bogo
City where the hospital was established announced the baby will be named
"Israel." As reported by Ari Yashar)
2013:
“Jewish Identities” published today included reviews Jews in Gotham, The
Rise of Abraham Cahan, Hanukkah in America and Jews and the
Military.
2014(22nd
of Cheshvan, 5775): Shabbat Chayei Sarah
2014:
In New Orleans, Tulane University, home of the Tulane University Jewish Studies
Department chaired by Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to play its first
Homecoming Football game in Yulman Stadium.
2014(22nd
of Cheshvan, 5775): Sixty-five-year-old transgendered activist and author
Leslie Feinberg passed away today in Syracuse, NY.
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/209405/transgender-activist-leslie-feinberg-dies-at-65/
2014(22nd
of Cheshvan, 5775): Seventy-seven-year-old
“Mervyn Smith, president of the African Jewish Congress and a major
anti-apartheid activist in the Jewish community” passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/2014/11/16/news-opinion/world/mervyn-smith-south-african-jewish-leader-dies
2014:
The 6th Annual International Holiday Bazar sponsored by Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to open today.
2014:
The Batsheva Dance Company is scheduled to perform for the third and last time
during its current visit to New York.
2014:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a chamber music concert
featuring works by Brahms and Tchaikovsky
2014:
In Melbourne, “Natan” and “24 Days” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
International Film Festival.
2014:
“The Sturgeon Queens” and “Bethlehem” are scheduled to be shown at the 18th
UK Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
“A 31-year-old Belgian rabbi was stabbed in Antwerp today while on his way to
his synagogue, near a train station in the city’s Jewish district.”
2014:
Arabs threw rocks and fired fireworks at police as they clashed with Israeli
security forces in East Jerusalem.
2014:
“University professor Hassan Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese descent, appeared
before an anti-terror judge just hours after arriving from Montreal after
losing a six-year legal battle against extradition” and “was charged in Paris
today for his role in the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed
four and wound forty who were among the 300 worshipers attending Kabbalath
Shabbat services.
2015(3rd
of Kislev, 5776): Seventy-year-old songwriter P.F. Sloan (born Philip Gary
Schlein) passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2015:
The 17th Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Seminar sponsored by the Jewish Book Council is scheduled to be held today in
NYC.
2015:
"Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem" is scheduled to be
shown at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
2015:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington in partnership with the University
of Maryland Hillel are scheduled to host “Routes: A Day of Jewish Learning.”
2015:
Eighty-six-year-old Stephen Birmingham who was mistkenly thought to be Jewish
because he wrote Our Crowd’: The Great Jewish Families of New York, The
Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite and The Rest of Us: The Rise of
America’s Eastern European Jews passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
2015:
Dr. Stanton Samenow, author of Inside the Criminal Mind is scheduled to serve
as moderator at Beth El Hebrew Congregation’s “Meet the Authors” program
featuring Ellen Brazer, Bea Epstein and Dr. Allan J. Lichtman.
2015:
Tel Aviv born composer, pianist, singer and arranger, Yoni Rechter who “has
worked closely with many of Israel's top artists, including Arik Einstein, Gidi
Gov, and Yehudit Ravitz” is scheduled to perform at the B.B. King Blues Club
& Grill tonight in New York.
2015:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Killing A King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the
Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron, My Life on the Road by Gloria
Steinem, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B.
Reich, Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts by Caroline Heller and
Between Gods: A Memoir by Alison Pick.
2016(14th
of Cheshvan, 5777): Ninety-two year old music producer and arranger Milt Okun
passed away today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)
2016:
Kosherfest, “the world’s largest kosher trade show” opened today at Secaucus,
NJ.
2016:
According to a report by Channel 10 broadcast 10, David Shimron “a long-time
personal lawyer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu” and “the representative
of a German company trying to sell Israeli military submarines that Netanyahu
has been pushing for Israel to buy against the will of the IDF” “is alleged to
be at the center of a multi-billion shekel controversy involving Israel’s
possible purchase” of these ships.
2016:
In collaboration with multiple organizations, including the Thaler Foundation
and Coe College, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library are
scheduled to host Gideon Frieder, a speaker from the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum’s Survivor Speakers’ Bureau to speak of his experience as a
Holocaust survivor at Coe College’s Sinclair Auditorium.
2017: Lebanon is scheduled to announce which
companies have won the auction granting drilling rights “to areas in the
Mediterranean Sea contested by neighboring Israel.”
2017: “Ra’anan Boustan (Princeton University)” is
scheduled to “speak on the paradoxical image of Rome as a repository for
“Jewish” artifacts and strategies by which Roman Jews and Roman Christians
utilized these artifacts to make claims on the ancient past’ at the Center for
Jewish History
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Jewbilation MT17.”
2017:
“Land of the Little People” and “West of the Jordan River” are scheduled to
shown at the 21st UK International Jewish Festival.
2017:
Kosherfest 2017 is scheduled to come to an end today.
2017(26th
of Cheshvan, 5778): One-hundred- and six-year-old MIT graduate and numismatist
Eric Pfeiffer Newman, the husband of Evelyn Newman with whom he had two
children, passed away today, (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)
2017:
Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such as Dr. Brian Horowitz the author
of a series of books including Empire Jews which paint a realistic of
the world most know only from “Fiddler on the Roof” and Jewish books for the
next thirty days is scheduled to continue for a fourth day.
2018:
“Jonathan Franzen is scheduled to read from his new essay collection, The
End of the End of the Earth” at the 92nd Street Y today.
2018:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host “Seltzertopia”
which will include the New York “premier screening of the short ‘Egg Cream’ and
a celebration of the publication of Seltzertopia: The Extraordinary Story of
an Ordinary Drink by Barry Joseph, followed by tastings of various egg
creams.”
2018:
“Doubtful” and “Song of Black and Neck” are scheduled to be shown at the 38th
Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.
2018:
The Maltz Museum is scheduled to host a lecture on “Talmud and Literature: How
an Ancient Jewish Text Can Inspire Contemporary Art” followed by a Q and A with
Ruby Namdar, the author of The Ruined House, “winner of Israel’s 2014
Sapir Prize.”
2018:
Columbia University, Fordham University and YIVO Institute is scheduled to host
“In Dialogue: Polish Jewish Relations During the Interwar Period” with “Samuel
Kassow, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and one
of the world's leading scholars on the Holocaust and the Jews of Poland” and
“Paul Brykczyński, an independent historian, whose interests include
nationalism, antisemitism, and radical politics, in Eastern Europe and beyond”
and whose “first book, Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and
Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland, won the Kulczycki Book Prize in
Polish Studies.
2018:
As they awake this morning, Israelis look to see the impact of the resignation
of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman while those living along the border with
Gaza contemplate the impact of Netanyahu’s ceasefire agreement.
2019:
“A staged reading of Wonderdrug, a brand new feature screenplay by BAFTA
nominated writer Raphael Smith and Jamie Kutner. Wonderdrug tells the story of
24 year old Miles Mendelsohn, scientific genius and chronic nebbish, who
invents a drug that cures almost anything and becomes a controversial folk hero”
is scheduled to take place at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2019:
In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to host “The Art of French Theatre.”
2019:
The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to “The Mystical Voice” during
which “JCCSF’s Rabbi Zac Kamenetz gives a talk in the museum’s gallery chat
series on Kabbalah, in conjunction with Annabeth Rosen exhibit.”
2019:
In San Francisco, the Women’s Building is scheduled to host “Around: Watch and
Bake” during which attendees “bake challah from scratch and while it’s baking,
watch “Around,” a 45-minute doc about why Bay Area Jews and non-Jews are making
time to make challah.”
2019:
“The Shabbat Project, a global, grassroots movement uniting Jews around the
world using the magic is scheduled to being today.
2019:
Israelis are braced for more rocket attacks despite claims of cease fire that
is short on ceasing and long on firing.
2020:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession With a Secret Code
the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner, The New Map: Energy,
Climate and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin, To Be A Man: Stories
by Nicole Krauss, Shelter in Place by David Leavitt and the recently
released paperback edition of A Good American Family: The Red Care and My
Father by David Maranis.
2020:
The Osman Family JCC is scheduled to presented online Rabbi Yonatan Neril
talking about his new book Eco Bible, which explores the Torah’s
environmental wisdom
2020:
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies is scheduled to host a
Zoom Webinar, “In Between: A Conversation with Film Direct Maysaloun Hamoud
2020:
The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present the third session
via Zoom of “Psalmody through the Ages: Music and the Book of Psalms.”
2020:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the UK premier of “Happy
Times.”
2020:
The Southern University Law Center is scheduled to host its final screening of
“Rosenwald.”
2020:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to co-sponsor “SIGD: A Global
Introspection Event.”
2020:
The Peninsula JCC is scheduled to present the Israeli American cellist Amit
Peled with pianist Noreen Polera playing a concert in honor of Beethoven’s
250th birthday.
2021:
As part of its “People of the Book Club” series, the Center for Jewish History
is scheduled to present a Lauren Gilbert leading a discussion of The Vixen with
the novel’s author Francine Prose.
2021:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Dr. Angy Cohen
lecturing on “The Voice of the Mothers: A Look Into Sephardi Feminist
Approaches to Tradition.”
2021:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present Professor Alma Rachel
Heckman lecturing on “Divided Dreams: Moroccan Jews and the Post-Independence
Moroccan State.”
2022:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr.
Daniel Lee author of The SS Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life
of a Nazi.
2022:
LBI is scheduled to present a lecture by Michael Simonson on the “story of
Fredy Hirsch, a gay, Zionist athlete who became the head of the youth
department of the Theresienstadt Ghetto.”
2022:
The Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host an exclusive
talk with Paper Brigade’s
editorial director, Becca Kantor, and executive editor, Carol
Kaufman.
2022:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host screenings of “Who’s Afraid of Jewish
Humor” and “The Forger.”
2022:
The Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at Berkeley Law is
scheduled to present “The Future of Shared Society in Israel Through the Lens
of Civil Society and Education” during which Vice President for Diversity and
Inclusion and associate education professor at Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev Sarab
Aburabia Queder will discuss coexistence in Israel with University of Haifa
associate professor Ayman Agbaria.
2022: As part of its Exclusive Authors Series The
ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present Sarina Roffé as she discusses her book Branching
Out from Sepharad.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Making
Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today?”
2023:
In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club under the leadership of Nancy Margulis
is scheduled to discuss Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder.
2023:
The Streikcer Center is scheduled to host a screening of “The Conspiracy,” a
new featuring documentary that offers a searing reminder based on the stories
of three families with nothing in common other than being Jewish: the Warburgs
from Germany, Leon Trotsky and the Dreyfuses of France all three of whom were
implicated in the innovative fake news that began spreading in the late 19th
century that members of the “Hebrew sect” weren’t just followers of an outdated
religion who murdered Jesus but were also provoking wars and manipulating
financial markets, the mass media and the international monetary system to gain
wealth and take over the world.
2023:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to provide an
opportunity for attendees to hear directly from an Israeli educator and combat
veteran on the situation in Israel through Iowans Supporting Israel.
2023:
YIVO is scheduled to present Ruth Wisse, Ofer Dynes and Curt Leviant discussing
“The Legacy of Chaim Grade.”
2023:
The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present a screening of
“Rabbi on the Block.”
2023:
As part of the Jewish Values Strategy in Wartime series, the Tikvah online
Academy is scheduled to lecture by Rabbi Mark Gottlieb on “Jewish Faith in Dark
Times.”
2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to present a lecture by
Professor Emily Greble on 'A Sarajevo Story: Jews, Muslims, and the
Complexities of Rescue in a Formerly Ottoman Town'.
2023:
As November 15, begins in Israel, the world digests the implication of yesterday’s
announcement by John Kirby, of the U.S. National Council that the United States
has intelligence that shows Hamas has been using hospitals in Gaza, including
Al-Shifa as command centers and ammunitions depots, the announcement that
Corporal Noa Marciano who was being held as a hostage by Hamas i has been
identified as being dead and the announcement
Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist who had been presumed
kidnapped by Hamas, was declared dead after her remains were found at her home while the Hamas held
hostages begin day 40 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)
2024:
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple is scheduled to host “A Touch of Torah with Rabbi
Leah Lewis at the Glazer Campus.’
2024:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host an “Inclusion Shabbat
Service” a Kabbalat Shabbat service “designed for individuals or families of
individuals with disabilities.”
2024:
Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast
“Young Artists in Concert”
2024:
The Global Conference for Israel is scheduled to continue for a second day in
Dallas, TX
2024:
As November 15th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers
on a New York subway to raise their hands, demonstrations at a high school production
of “The Diary of Anne Frank” and the beating of a college student in Chicago sweeps
the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 406 in captivity while
Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists based
in Iraq (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)
