This Day, November 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 27
8 BCE: Horace, the Roman poet who created “The
Jew Apella” passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1629-apella
176: Emperor Marcus Aurelius grant his son
Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman
legions. To the world at large Marcus Aurelius was “the philosopher-king” or
“philosophical but impractical” ruler, but to the Jews he was just Roman
emperor who held them in contempt describing them as “’Stinking and
tumultuous!’” to his companions as he traveled through Judea. The dissolute
nature of Commodus has become well known to all through the film “Gladiator.”
Commodus showed his ineptitude in his failed attempt to defeat the Parthians,
Rome’s eastern enemy whose empire reached to the borders of Palestine. Unable to defeat an armed enemy in the field,
Commodus began fresh persecutions of the Jews living there denying them, among
other things, the right to use their courts of justice.
602:
Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperor who in 592 punished “the entire
Jewish community of Antioch after a Jew violated one his laws” passed away
today
1095: First Crusade proclaimed by the Council
of Clermont. By now everybody should be aware of the fact that the Crusades
ushered in a period of death and destruction for the Jews of Europe and Eretz
Israel.
1096: Following the Battle of Alcoraz in which
the Zaragozan forces were defeated, Peter I conquered Huesca.
1198(26th of Kislev, 4959):
Rabbeinu Abraham ben David known by the abberviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu
Abraham ben David) passed away. Born in
Provence, France in 1125, he was a Provençal rabbi, a great commentator on the
Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi and Mishne Torah of Maimonides,
and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key and important links
in the chain of Jewish mystics.
1308: Henry VII who “was presented with a
scroll of the Law by a delegation of Jews from Rome which had gone to meet him
began” began his reign as King of the Romans
1614: In Frankfurt, Vincenz Fettmilch, the
ringleader of the Fettmilch Rising during which the Judengasse was attacked
looted, was arrested along with 38 of his followers and “charged for their
persecution of the Jews.” (They would
eventually be executed. The authorities
really were not upset about his attack on the Jews. What got him into trouble was when he was
perceived as a threat to the Emperor and the ruling order.
1688 (4th of Kislev): Rabbi Elijah Kovo of
Salonika, author of Aderet Eliyahu, passed away
1703: In New York City, Etienne de Lancy, the
Caen born son of Marguerite and Jacques de Lancy, and his wife Anna de Lancy
gave birth to Colonel James de Lancy , the acting Governor of New York.
1710: Birthdate of Robert Lowth, the Bishop of
the Church of England who 1754 was awarded a Doctorate in Divinity by Oxford
University, for his treatise on Hebrew poetry entitled Praelectiones Academicae de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum (On the
Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews) which derives from a series of lectures that
were published by George Gregory in 1787 as "Lectures on the Sacred Poetry
of the Hebrews".
1755: An English
merchant named Joseph Salvador bought 10,000 acres near Fort Ninety-Six, in the
southern part of the Carolina Colony. In 1773, Joseph Salvador would send his
nephew Francis Salvador to South Carolina to develop the land as an indigo plantation. At the outbreak of the American Revolution
the wealthy young aristocrat joined the fight for independence. He died of wounds in August of 1776 while
fighting the Cherokee allies of the British.
The following words were etched on his tombstone: Born an aristocrat he
became a democrat, An Englishman he cast his lot with America; True to his
ancient faith, he gave his life for new hopes of liberty and human
understanding.”
1757: Birthdate of
William Blake, English poet, painter and printmaker. Controversy
surrounds Blake’s grasp of Jewish mysticism. It seems pretty clear that Blake’s
art and writing invoke Kabbalah, but scholars debate how Blake accessed the
Jewish mystical concepts he quoted. Some argue that the dozen or so Hebrew
inscriptions in Blake’s etchings and watercolors show that Blake was fluent in
Hebrew. But close analysis of the works, some of which are on exhibit at The
Morgan Library & Museum, reveals that Blake had not even mastered the
letter alef. Reading Kabbalah in Hebrew without knowing the first letter of the
alef-bet would be as implausible as tackling “Finnegans Wake” with barely a
grasp of the English alphabet. Arguments that Blake knew Hebrew date back to
Frederick Tatham, who cared for Catherine after Blake’s death in 1827. In a
letter to bookseller Frances Harvey, Tatham said that Blake’s library included
“well thumbed” books in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Italian, as well as
works by Swedenborg and Christian mystic Jacob Boehme. “His knowledge was
immense, his industry beyond parallel,” Tatham wrote. Modern scholars echo
Tatham’s claim. Writing in the journal Modern Philology in 1951, David V.
Erdman ascribed “some Hebrew” to Blake, particularly the knowledge that
beth-lehem means “house of bread.” “We know that Blake knew a little Hebrew,”
Anthony Blunt agreed, writing in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes in 1943, “for he wrote to his brother in 1803 that he was learning the
Hebrew alphabet, and his etching of the Laocoön [a copy of the sculpture
“Laocoön and His Sons”] bears a few words in Hebrew script.” In his book “The
New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake (The Davies
Group, Publishers, 2000), Thomas J. J. Altizer suggests not only that Blake
knew Hebrew, but also that he was self-taught.But the work that Blunt cites as
proof of Blake’s proficiency in Hebrew, “Laocoön” — a circa 1820 print
depicting snakes strangling the famous Trojan priest and his two sons — is one
of the best pieces of evidence that Blake did not know Hebrew. Writing “malakh
Jehovah,” which he translated as “The Angel of the Divine Presence,” Blake
inadvertently rotated the alef 90 degrees on its y-axis. He spelled “Lilit”
(Lilith) correctly, but he miswrote “Jeshua” (Jesus) with another rotated
letter, this time an ayin (the 16th letter). “Laocoön” does not appear in the
Morgan show, but an etching from Blake’s Job series does. In an etching from
Blake’s Job series, the artist again wrote “The Angel of the Divine Presence,”
but this time he wrote the Hebrew “melekh Jehovah,” which means King Jehovah,
rather than malakh (with an alef), the Angel of Jehovah. In “William Blake’s
Illustrations of the Book of Job,” S. Foster Damon says that Blake
intentionally removed the alef to show that Job was worshipping a false God —
mistaking an angel for the king. But could Blake really have known enough
Hebrew to distinguish between “melekh” and “malakh,” when he revealed in
“Laocoön” that he didn’t even know how to form the letter properly? “Job’s Evil Dreams,” features a bearded
figure with hooves encircled by a snake. The figure hovers above a reclining
man and points with its right index finger to the Ten Commandments. Though
Blake wrote out only two of the commandments in full, the inscriptions contain
more than a dozen mistakes. One line contains a properly and an improperly
formed alef, a further inconsistency suggesting that Blake was copying a language
he did not understand. “Blake did study Hebrew with his one-time patron,
William Hayley, but scholars are not agreed about his proficiency in the
language,” explained Leslie Tannenbaum, associate professor of English at Ohio
State University and author of “Biblical Tradition in William Blake’s Early
Prophecies: The Great Code of Art” (Princeton University Press, 1982).
According to Tannenbaum, the late Gerald Bentley, a Blake scholar who taught at
Princeton University, implied in a biography that Blake was “fairly fluent” in
Hebrew. But Tannenbaum also notes that Sheila A. Spector, whom he describes as
“an extremely meticulous scholar and expert on Blake and the Kabbalah,” writes
that Blake did not know the biblical language.In Blake’s preface to the chapter
“To the Jews,” from the poem “Jerusalem,” Tannenbaum sees references to the
kabbalistic concept of Adam Kadmon (the primordial man). Blake learned Kabbalah
from Swedenborg’s writings on Boehme, who seems to have been influenced by
Balthasar Walther, Tannenbaum adds, and Blake also identified with the Avignon
Society, which sought science and reason “in such unlikely places as alchemical
lore, cabbalistic numerology, mesmerist séances, Swedenborgian spiritualism,
and (perhaps most surprising of all) the Scriptures.” In “Wonders Divine: The Development
of Blake’s Kabbalistic Myth” (Bucknell University Press, 2001) Spector, an
adjunct associate professor at New York University, agrees that Blake’s
kabbalistic sources were Christian rather than Jewish, and English rather than
Hebrew. Further, Blake was “unfortunately” influenced by his contemporary
Anglo-Israelites, who thought that English derived from Hebrew “and that the
language of the Jews was a spurious version in which the rabbis obscured the
‘true Christian’ message to be found in the Bible,” Spector said.“Under the
circumstances, the question of whether or not Blake was fluent in Hebrew misses
the point,” she added. “He rejected normative Hebrew in favor of the linguistic
gymnastics that re-interpreted words to conform with some eccentric – to be
charitable – interpretations that coordinated Hebrew and English, as well as
Greek, etymologies to proffer a new interpretation of Scripture.” (As reported
by Menachem Wecker)
1774(24th
of Kislev, 5535): Kindle the first light of Channukah
1780: Birthdate of
Bavaria native “Leser Lazarus Oschsenhorn,” the husband of Nanette Wexler with
whom he had six children, several of whom shortened the family name to Ochs
when the settled variously in Chattanooga, Brooklyn, Louisville and San
Francisco.
1785(25th
of Kislev, 5546): Channukah
1798 (19th of Kislev,
5559): Rabbi Shneur Zalman founder
of Chabad Lubavitch was released from a St Petersburg jail. He had been
arrested on charges of high treason for allegedly sending money to the Czar’s
enemy, the Sultan of Turkey. In reality he was sending money to Jews living in
Eretz Israel which was part of Turkey at the time. Shneur Zalman is the author of two works
Tanya and Likkute Torah which describe the philosophy of the Chabad
movement. Chabad is an acronym for the
Hebrew words Chokhmah (wisdom), Binah (understanding) and Da’at (Wisdom). Lubavitch is the name of the town in which
the Descendants of Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezhirech, Shneur Zalman’s “teacher”
settled. In 1798, November 27
corresponded to the 19th day of Kislev. Ever since then Chabad Lubavitchers mark YUD-TET KISLEV (19th of Kislev) as a day of
joy and celebration.
1798: Rabbi Dovber Schneuri, the second Rebbe
of the Chabad Hasidic dynasty and wife gave birth to Rebbetzin Menucha Rochel
Slonim, the granddaughter of Rabbi Shneur Zalmin of Liado.
1804: Birthdate of Sir Julius Benedict, the
German born highly successful English composer and conductor who was knighted
in 1871.
1804: While serving in the United States Navy,
today, Gershom R. Jacques was promoted from “Surgeon’s Mate” to “Surgeon.”
1814: Judah Elias Piza and Rachel Piza, the
parents of David and Elias Piza were married today.
1815: Birthdate of Simon Hock, the Prague born
businessman who created a history of the Jews of Bohemia.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Hock_Simon
1819: Leopold Zuns and Eduard Gans founded the Verein fuer Cultur und Wissenschaft der
Juden, (The Society for Culture and Science of Judaism). It delved into
Jewish history, culture and literature using scientific methods of criticism
and assessment. The Society lasted less than five years. Gans and many others
converted to Christianity.
1830: Joseph Mérilhou, the French official who
successfully got the Deputies to adopt legislation treating Judaism on equal
footing with Christianity when it came to public financial support for
synagogues and rabbis completed his term as Minister of Public Education.
1834: Birthdate of Michael Bernays, the
Hamburg born lawyer who displayed an expertise in matters pertaining to
Shakespeare and Beethoven and who unlike his brother Jakob, converted to
Christianity.
1837: Birthdate of Ludwig Loewe, who began as
manufacturer of sewing machines and then became major arms maker whose
employees included Georg Luger, the inventor of the famous “Luger” pistol.
1839: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Poznanski
officiated at the marriage of Jacob Suares and Isabella Nathans.
1839: In New Orleans, Samuel Lyons Moss, the
Philadelpelphia born son of Rebeca Lyons and John Moss and his wife Isabelle
Moss gave birth to Ernest Goodman Moss.
1840: Birthdate of Clara Jolles, the wife of
Lazar Schorstein and the mother of Gustave Isidore Schorstein; Thérèse Alice
Montefiore and Bertha Victoria Shorstone.
1841(14th of Kislev, 5602): Parshat
Vayishlach
1841(14th of Kislev, 5602): Sixty-one-year-old
Esther Isaacs, the daughter of Moses Isaacs and the wife of Isaac Moses passed
away today in New York.
1842(24th of Kislev, 5603): Kindle
the first Chanukah light.
1844: Five days after she had passed away in
Paris, 32-year-old Mary (Montefiore) Mocatta, the wife of Benjamin Mocatta, was
buried today “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1846: A wagon train owned and commanded by
Albert Speyer, a Prussian born Jew, arrived
at San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico, in time for the pre-Christmas fair
where he sold his merchandize, “reloaded the wagons with Mexican goods – mainly
silver curios and sugar – and returned to Chihuahua” Mexico.
1853: In London, Catherine Barnett and David
Jonas gave birth to Elizabeth Jonas, the wife of Edward Joseph.
1853: An editorial entitled “The Arrest of
Rabbi Asche” published today questioned the methods used by the authorities
when they arrested Rabbi Asche and two other Jews on charges of selling lottery
tickets. The editorial supported the
concept of law and order but thought the police could have used better judgment
in exercising their authority.
1856; In London, Judah Cohen an Caroline Davis
gave birth to Robert I. Cohen, a product of Westminster Jew’s School and
husband of Agnes Lord who settled in Galveston, TX where he was a director of
the Chamber of Commerce and President of Congregation B’nai Israel.
1856:
Proof of the role of Jews played in settling the American Frontier can be found
in the letters Thomas Gladstone sent to the London Times excerpts of
which were published today. In
describing those traveling up the Missouri River Gladstone reports that his
fellow passengers included “Border Ruffians, Abolitionists…Jews” and others who
“completely” represent “the various classes of the population in Kansas.”
1858:
It was reported today that two New York Rabbis have been arrested on charges of
selling lottery tickets based on the charges brought by one of their
co-religionists.
1860: In Paris, there are reports of a serious
rift between Achille Fould, the Jewish financier who is a close advisor to
Emperor Napoleon, and the Empress.
1861(24th of Kislev, 5622): Kindle
the first Chanukah light.
1861: Seventy-seven-year-old Jeanette Wohl the
confidant of Ludwig Borne, the German Jewish writer who like so many of his
contemporaries became a Lutheran but was not above characterizing his rival
Heine as “a yeshiva student” whom he accused of “the Jewish trait of employing
witticisms for their own sake,”
1863: Jacob Miller was wounded at Mine Run,
VA, while serving at the 60th Regiment of the Third Cavalry.
1863: At the Wooster-street Synagogue, Thanksgiving Day
services were held at 3 o'clock, embracing the usual afternoon prayers,
conducted by Rabbi S.M. Isaacs the Prayer for the Government and appropriate
hymns, after which an address was delivered by Meyer S. Isaacs, the Rabbi’s son
He commenced with a reference to the peculiar significance of the present day
of thanksgiving, observed as it was by all Americans, wherever resident, in
response to the recommendation of the Executive. It was a grand spectacle, an
entire nation united in offering up incense on an altar of a religion all alike
profess -- thanksgiving and praise to the Supreme Being. Divesting themselves
of social, political and religious distinctions, superior to the division of
sentiment engendered by sectional ideas and antagonistic theories, they
assembled in their respective places of worship, to pour forth praises to Him
enthroned on hish. Actuated by these considerations, his audience had gathered
together in their house of God, that they too might join in the grand anthem
swelling upward to celestial heights. Israelite and Christian grasped each
other's hand in cordial confidence, working together, fighting together the
battles of the Union, pouring their blood on the battle-field in friendly
rivalry for country's sake. There was no trace of religious intolerance or
sectional feeling in the proclamation of the day; we were called upon to
observe it as Americans, acknowledging special obligations to Heaven for the
providences so graciously displayed in the progress of our struggle for
national existence, and not unmindful of His divine favor in the daily
blessings unintermittingly showered upon us, whose value we often fail to
diiscern until we are deprived of them. He then took his text from Psalm c.,
verses 4 and 5, discussing it from its various points of view, and earnestly
directing attention to the necessity of sincerity in this observance of
National Thanksgiving. The stake was too mighty a one to permit even the
semblance of insincerity in the history we were making, in our protestations of
patriotism. It is understood now, that our love of country is not purely
romantic, but that we were in earnest in our expressions of determination to
reestablish the national supremacy, to permit no armed assemblage, however
formidable, however desperate, to maintain an eternal antagonism to the
constituted authorities. Were we equally
sincere in our observance of Thanksgiving, in our expressions of dependence
upon God, of our own unworthiness and His eternal goodness and truth? This was
to be the lesson of the day. He then illustrated his text by a reference to the
peculiar benefits the Israelites of America enjoy in this land of thorough
civil and religious liberty. We should enter His gates with thanksgiving, His
courts with praise, "for here there was no distinction recognized between
Jew and Gentile in the guaranty by the Constitution of protection in the
enjoyment of the sacred rights of man.
Returning to the broader view of the subject, as Americans, we should
signalize the sincerity of this observance by an amendment in those respects
where we acknowledge national faults. Although we have demonstrated a stauncher
patriotism than we ourselves believed to be inherent in American character,
there may be more sacrifices to make, more selfish considerations to combat,
more errors of administration to deplore and divest of their apparent danger to
the State by a confirmed determination to strengthen the hand of those we have
chosen to preside over our national destinies. In conclusion, he spoke of the
favorable prospect before us, as contrasted with the gloom, astonishment and
despondency at the culmination of the preparation for the war upon our flag.
The ship of state, madly tossed upon an unknown sea, exposed to the dangers of
the warring elements, her pilots surrendered to the guilt of the hour or sadly
inexperienced, was now sailing majestically into a safe harbor, a clear head
and a steady hand at the helm; but God be thanked for this great salvation --
no human wisdom or power hath accomplished this. He closed with a fervent prayer for the
continuance of Divine favor to the land, and its speedy restoration to peace
and prosperity.
1867(29th of
Cheshvan, 5628): Forty-five year old August Abraham Josephson, the Stockholm
born son of Salomon Josephson and Beata Levin and H=usband of Augusta Hortensia
Jacobsson with whom he had three children passed away today in his home town.
1867: In New York, the
former Maria Phillips and David Davis the owner of the Washington Rubber
Company gave birth to real estate mogul J. Clarence Davis, vice president of
the West End Synagogue, director of the Bronx YMHA and patron of the arts who
donated his collection the Museum of the City of New York
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23135026?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://collections.mcny.org/Gallery/24UAKVNRBJ
1868: The Philadelphia
“Press” published an abstract of the Thanksgiving Day Sermon delivered by Rabbi
Jastrow at Congregation Rodef Shalom.
1870: Birthdate of Emil
Corckin, the husband of Sadie Jacobs Crockin and the “father of Mrs. Irving
Goldstein.
1871: “A Tolerant City”
published today quotes the Jewish Chronicle as saying that “Ireland is the only
country where Jews were never persecuted.”
As proof of Irish tolerance, the Chronicle cites the case of a young
Jewess named Miss Samuel, who, when she was on her death bed was the object of
prayers of recovery offered both in Jewish synagogues and Christian
Chapels. Her funeral included thirty
carriages that were filled with citizens of both faiths.
1872: Two days after he
had passed away, 62-year-old Hyam Levy, the husband of the former Frances
Naphtali with whom he had had six children was buried today at “West Ham Jewish
Cemetery” on Buckingham Road.”
1873: The Charity
Committee of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum has asked that an appeal
be made during today’s Thanksgiving Day services for contributions of money,
clothing and other items that can be used to aid Jews who are economically
distressed due to the current depressed economy.
1874: Solomon and Babette Levy Kern gave birth
to Spanish American War veteran Joseph Kern, the Louisiana resident and husband
of Clara Bloch Kern with whom he had two children – Nathan and Joseph.
1874: In Motal, Belarus, timber merchant Ozier
Weizmann and Rachel Czemerinsky gave
birth to Zionist leader and Israel’s first President Chaim Weizmann who first gained
fame as the Russian-British chemist who used bacteria for the synthesis of
organic chemicals. During WW I, a recent immigrant into Great Britain, he
discovered a way to use a bacterium to synthesize acetone during the
fermentation of grain. Acetone was important in the manufacture of cordite for
explosives. Postwar, he modified the fermentation to produce butyl alcohol,
suitable for uses such as lacquers. This was the forerunner of the deliberate
use of microorganisms for a wide variety of syntheses. A generation later,
penicillin and vitamin B12 were produced in this way.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/chaim-weizmann
1876:
Birthdate of Harvard alum Simon J. Lubin the Sacramento, CA born son of David
Lubin and the nephew of Harris Weinstock who founded Lubin and Weinstock “the
largest department store” in that city and the husband of Rebecca Cohen with
whom he had three children – David, Ruth and Miriam.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=s;idT=UCb183294993
1876:
In New York City “Isidor and Ida (Blun) Straus gave birth to the Harvard
educated R.H. Macy and Co vice president Percy Selden, the husband of Edith
Abraham who was active in several civic and philanthropic organizations as can
be seen by his service as President of the Jewish Agricultural Society and
Chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies of New York City.
http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7815
1877: In Hungary, Eliyahu Menachem Goitein,
the son of Zvi (Armin) Hirsch Goitein and Szali (Sara) Sarolta Goitein and his
wife Amalia Mahala Goitein gave birth to
Joseph Salomon Goitein
1878: In Sumter, SC, Rabbi E.S. Levy
officiated at the wedding of A. De Leon Moses of Burke Country, GA and Eliza
Cohen, the daughter daughter of Max Cohen who used to live in Charleston, SC.
1879: Dr. Henry W. Bellows, a prominent
Unitarian Minister, delivered the Thanksgiving Day Sermon at Temple Emanu-El,
the New York Jewish house of worship led by Rabbi Gustav Gottheil
1880(24th of Kislev, 5641): In the
evening kindle the first light of Chanukah.
1880: The New York Times reported today that
“the celebration of the Jewish feast of ‘Chanuka’ will be commenced this
evening by the Children of Israel throughout the world.” The Times goes on to
provide an accurate description of the origins of the holiday and its modern
observance including the fact that the events celebrated began “on the 25th
day of the month of Kislev.” (This was written 15 years before the Ochs family
acquired the paper)
1880: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association
hosted its “fourth entertainment” of the season tonight at Lyric Hall.
1881: On day after she had passed away, 72-year-old
Sophia Ford, the wife Amsterdam native Charles Ford and more of Henry and Rose
Ford was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1881: At Rostov-on –Don Isaiah and Feodosia
Chatzman gave birth to their daughter Vera, the future wife of Chaim Wiezmann,
who was a leading Zionist in her own right. (As reported by Esther
Carmel-Hakim)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weizmann-vera
1881: A meeting was held this morning at the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum to discuss additional measures to be taken to meet the
growing influx of Jewish immigrants from Russia which is overwhelming the
resources of the United Hebrew Charities.
One solution is to establish “farming colonies” which will provide a
livelihood for the impoverished new arrivals and avoid population congestion in
a few east coast cities.
1882: A review of Natural Religion by Sir John
Robert Seeley, the author of Ecce Homo, cites the author’s contention that “the
Hebrew Scriptures express in poetic form and in language suited another age the
spirit of modern science. Notably the
Book of Job contrasts the conventional and, as it were, orthodox view of the
universe with the view which those obtain who are prepared to face it awfulness
directly.” (Editor’s note – this comes at a time when there was a clash between
science and religion so it is intriguing that an English author would find a
harmony between the two in the Jewish section of his Bible.)
1882(16th of Kislev, 5643):
Sixty-two year old Moses Soave, Italian “Hebraist” who “supported himself as
tutor for Venetian Jewish families” while writing biographies of several
Italian Jews including Sara Copia Sullam, Amatus Lusitanus, Abraham de Balmes,
Shabbethai Donnolo and Leon de Modena passed awat today.
1883: “Clothing merchant” Simon Mandel, a
resident of Merrill, Wisconsin and Carrie Mandel gave birth to Milton Simon
Mandel who settled in New York where he registered for the Draft during WW I,
married his wife Helen and became wholesale fur merchant as a partner in Mandel
and Weinblatt located on West 27th Street.
1883: “Hen” Rice, who had been a Deputy
Sherriff is New York is being held on charges that he won $2,700 from Robert
Solomon, an Anglo-Jewish diamond dealer, by cheating at card games they played
while crossing from England to the United States aboard the SS Servia.
1883: “Russian-Hebrew Colony Broken Up”
published today provided a brief history of an agricultural colony that had
been established for Jewish immigrants from Russia in Middlesex County,
Va. Despite the contribution of several
thousands of dollars from the Jewish community in Baltimore, MD, the experiment
failed. One family has asked to be sent
back to Russia while the remaining men have been provided with jobs and several
of the women are being taught to use sewing machines. The Torah used by the colonists will be
returned to the Hebrew Hospital Association which had lent it the newcomers.
1883: It was reported today that Herr Haumann
one of the lawyers who represented the Jews unfairly charged with the ritual
murder of Christian girl in Hungary, fought a duel with Herr Vay, the Police
Commissioner. The sword fight, during
which Vay was “severely wounded in the chest,” resulted from the attorney’s
accusation that the Police Commissioner had tortured the Jewish prisoners.
1885: “Judaism of the Future” published today
provided a summary of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler’s view of the principles adopted by
Reform rabbis at their meeting in Pittsburgh.
He described it as a “Jewish Declaration of Independence” which no
longer looks to the memories of ancient Israel, rejects tradition “but
recognizes in Christianity and Islamism valuable helpers and co-workers in the
direction of the fruition of the kingdom of virtue and truth.” (Editor’s note – one cannot help but wonder
what Rabbi Kohler would have to say about the Reform movement in the 21st
century)
1887: In Bialystok,
Leah Zuro and Louis Zuro “a Russian immigrant who became a producer of opera”
gave birth to Josiah Zuro the American “music director for the Pathe Motion
Picture Studio” who conducted numerous symphony orchestras and “organized his
own opera company known as the Zuro Opera Company.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9B02E6D81138E433A25752C2A9669D946194D6CF
http://www.vipfaq.com/Josiah%20Zuro.html
1887: In Great
Britain, “Isaac Asher Isaacs and Hannah Zylberlast Isaacs” gave birth to
Estelle Stella Isaacs who became Estelle Stella Jacobs when she married
“Alexander Susman Susman Jacobs.”
1888: Today marks
the second day of the fair sponsored by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum which is an
annual fundraiser for this Jewish organization.
1888: The will of
Moss Abadee, the husband of Kate Abadee was probated today.
1888: It was
reported today that a new congregation “Zichron Osher” has been established on
the west side of New York. Joseph Arthur Levy was the founder of the synagogue
whose services will include congregational singing and the use of English for
some of the prayers. Rabbi H. Veld will
lead the new congregation assisted by Rabbi J.I. De Young.
1889: It was reported today the United Hebrew
Charities will be hosting a Thanksgiving Dinner this week
1890: At 3 p.m. the boys of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum held their annual parade” today, marching through the streets of Harlem.
1890(15th of Kislev, 5651):
Seventy-two year old Louis Berkowitz, the husband of Henrietta Jaruslawski
Berkowitz and father of Sarah, Benjamin, Albert, Henry, Rose, William and
Maurice Berkowitz passed away today after which he was buried at Elmwood
Cemetery in Kansas City, MO.
1890: Birthdate of New York City native and
Boston University trained attorney Samuel Barnett who was a county court judge
in Massachusetts and an active Zionist
1891: In New York, Sarah Bernhardt appeared in
the opening performance of “Pauline Blanchard” at the Standard Theatre.
1892: The Maccabeans, An Aggressive Club”
published today described the formation of this club by London’s Jews in the
wake of the Russian persecution of their co-religionists. “The meetings of the
Maccabeans afford something quite novel to English Judaism – an arena in which
all the social, ethical and theological questions which are bubbling so
vehemently in the Jewish mind can be thrashed out freely and without
prejudice.”
1892: The members of Shaary Zedek voted not to
remove the bodies from the congregation’s old cemetery on 88th
Street between Park and Madison and reinter them in the new Bay Side Cemetery
on Long Island
1892:
It was reported today that Herman Ahlwardt, who is in jail because he
was convicted of libeling a Jewish gun-making firm and is such “a shameless
rogue” that he has been publicly disowned by “the anti-Semitic Party won a seat
in the Reichstag by-election running three thousand votes ahead of his nearest
opponent with campaign cry of “Down with the Jews.!”
1893: Seventy-eight-year-old Sebastian
Brunner, the Austrian Catholic writer who was part of a group 19th
authors whose “anti-Jewish propaganda had no equal…either for quantity or
virulence and who was part of the infamous libel charges brought against Ignaz
Kuranda and Heinrich Graetz passed away today.
1894: In Paris, the
Grand Rabbi preached a lengthy sermon at a well-attended service during which
he “lauded Alexander III’s peace and exhorted all to pray for his soul as well
as for his successor Czar Nicholas, his wife and all their relatives.”
1894: In
Philadelphia, Clara Landman and Albert Berkowitz gave birth to University of
Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi Henry Joseph Berkowitz who served as
U.S. Navy chaplain in WW II and as the rabbi for Temple Beth Israel in
Portland, OR from 1928 until his death in 1949.
1894: The bequests
of the late Adolph Bernheimer published today included “$10,000 in 3 per cent
bonds” to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai Hospital.
1895: In St. Louis,
Caroline and Joseph Lazarus Kranson gave birth to Julius Kranson
1895: In a change of
policy, it was reported today that “a recent Ministerial order in Russia, Jews
living in the interior who have been members of a first-class guild for five
years are permitted to retain a permanent domicile in the place of their
present habitation and this privilege will extend to their children.”
1895 Alfred Nobel
established Nobel Prize. “At least 167 Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded
the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide
between 1901 and 2004, and constituting 37% of all US recipients during the
same period. In the scientific research fields of Chemistry, Economics,
Medicine, and Physics, the corresponding world and U.S. percentages are 26% and
39%, respectively. (Jews currently make up approximately 0.25% of the
world's population and 2% of the US population.)
·
Chemistry (28 prize winners, 19% of world
total, 28% of US total)
·
Economics (21 prize winners, 38% of world
total, 53% of US total)
·
Literature (12 prize winners, 12% of world
total, 27% of US total)
·
Physiology
or Medicine (52
prize winners, 29% of world total, 42% of US total)
·
Peace (9 prize winners, 10% of world
total, 11% of US total)
·
Physics (45 prize winners, 26% of world
total, 38% of US total)
1896: Frank Rorschach who served aboard the
Puritan during the Spanish American War was appointed from Kansas today.
1896: Birthdate of Alexader Ubushone, the
native of “the Ukrainian shtetl of Talne, who gained fame as “leader Charles S.
Zimmerman.” (As reported by Joseph B. Treaster)
1896(22nd of Kislev, 5657): Rav
Israel Jaffe passed away today
1897: The Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew
Infant Asylum will host a dance tonight at Terrace Garden.
1897: Following an anonymous tip, a
Commissaire of Police “made of thorough search” at 3 Rue Yvon-Villareau in
Paris where he was told to look for “interesting documents concerning the
Dreyfus case. The apartments were occupied by Lt. Col. Picquart and what he
found was not revealed to the public.
1897: Authorities searched for Madame de
Boulancy, the cousin and former mistress of Ferdinand Esterhazy.
1897: Kosher food producer Frederick “Fred”
Margareten, the Hungarian born son of Julia Yetta and Rabbi Yoel Margarten and
his wife Regina Margareten gave birth to Selma Margareten.
1898: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi B.A. Elzas
officiated at the marriage of Louis Flanders and Jeannette Wetherhorn.
1898: In Chicago, $10,230 was raised during
the auction of the boxes for the charity ball being held by the Young Men’s
Hebrew Charity Association.
1898: Birthdate of Nathan Gregory
Silvermaster, the native of Odessa who became an American economist and Soviet
spy.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A07E7DC1E3FEE32A25756C1A9669D946591D6CF
1898: “The Week At The Theatres” published
today provided a detailed review “The Merchant of Venice” at Daly’s Theatre
starring Sidney Herbert as Shylock and
Ada Rehan as Portia which is described as being filled with “a few keen
disappointments.”
1899(25th of Kislev, 5660): First
day of Chanukah
1899: “Dr. Silverman On The Jew” published
today provided the views of Rabbi Joseph Silverman on the survival of his
co-religionist over the many centuries of mistreatment only to emerge
triumphant in the 19th century where he “always feels himself a
citizen of the in which he lives” but where “his religion is cosmopolitan.”
1900: Birthdate of Sarajevo native Morris
Muster who in 1909 came to the United States her served as the “secretary of
the Home Furniture Association of New York” while being actively involved with
Histadrut Ivrith, B’nai B’rith and the UJA.
1900: Four days after he had passed away,
“Nahum Salaman,” the husband of the former Amelia Bertram with whom he had had
six children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”
1901: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi B.A. Elzas
officiated at the marriage of William Rosenbaum and Rosalie Levy.
1901: It was reported today that “during the
past few days the building of the Hebrew Sheltering and Guardian Society of
which Samuel D. Levy is President has been increased by $6,700 bringing” the
total raised to about $56,000 which is one third of the amount needed to build
a new facility since “the present build is inadequate to the meet the demands
of the more than 300 children and to house a much need library.
1902: Today, twenty-six-year-old Harvard
educated R.H. Macy and Co vice president Percy Selden, the New York City born
son Isidor and Ida (Blum) Straus, who was active in several civic and
philanthropic organizations as can be seen by his service as President of the
Jewish Agricultural Society and Chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City married Edith
Abraham.
1903: The trial of the rioters who attacked
the Jews at Kishineff continued today.
1903: In a speech tonight, Lord Balfour, of
Balfour Declaration fame, “expressed in pointed language the universal British
apprehension of Russian aggression, especially in relation to India.”
1904: It was reported today that “the Jews of
Kishineff and other parts of Bessarabia tendered a reception in the synagogue”
at Kishineff “to Prince Ursoff and gave him a Bible as left to “assume the
Governorship of Tver.”
1904: Birthdate of Vilna native Hyman
Bezprozvany, who in 1922 came to the United States where he gained fame as
Hyman B. Bass the Yiddish teacher and author who worked tithe Joint
Distribution Committee and served as “national officer with the Workmen’s
Circle.”
1905: David Kosse, the President of the
Temporary Odessa Societies Organization and Joseph Sanders were the marshals
for today’s parade on the Lower East Side held in honor of the victims of the
Odessa massacres which led by three men carrying flags – the American flag, the
flag of Zion and a black flag edged in white.
1905: Samuel Simon wrote today, “I note with
profound regret the fact that one of my co-religionists advances the theory
that it would be wise to petition the Pope with a view toward his intervention
with Russia in” behalf of the Jews “and with the idea of bringing to a
cessation the terrible atrocities that have befallen our brethren that country”
because he maintains “that it has already be demonstrated that our salvation
lies in our own hands.”
1905: Simon Rasch presided over a mass meeting
held by the First Odessa Benevolent Association at the Great Central Palace
attended by over 2,000 people who raised “several hundreds of dollars” to fund
to aid those suffering in Russia.
1905: At an executive meeting of the national
committee collecting funds for the Russian Jews held in Jacob Schiff’s office
it was “decided to use its utmost endeavors to inspire the country with the
idea that there must be no let-up in contributions” since conditions are far
worse now than they were when it was decided to raise $1,000,000.
1905: “Rabbi Adolph S. H. Radin of the
People’s Synagogue, Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle and actor Jacob P. Adler”
are scheduled to address a mass meeting on Clinton Street.
1905: A mass meeting is scheduled to be held
tonight “in the open square made by the judge of Sheriff, Grand and East
Broadway, in the vicinity of the Young Men’s Benevolent Association” to protest
against the treatment of the Jews of Russia.
1905: As conditions of the Jews in Russia
continued to worsen, it was reported that today that the United States
Government is being urged “to enact a more liberal immigration law which would
allow many of the Jewish people who are barred from entering this country at
the present time to come to America where they could be protected by the Jewish
people.”
1905: As of today, it was reported that
$878,511 has been raised by the national committee collecting funds to aid the
suffering Jews of Russia.
1905: “According to a private telegram from an
eminently trustworthy source” the violence in Sevastopol continues forcing the
inhabitants, “especially the Jews” to flee the city.
1905: “Consular advices by cable received” in
Washington report that fifteen Jews were killed at Rostoff during the recent
riots in Russia.
1906: It was reported today that the
Educational Alliance, which “has demonstrated great efficieny in looing after
the welfare of the Russian Jewish immigrants” is in need of additional funds
and contributions can be send to Isidor Straus, at 34th Street and
Broadway.
1907: Birthdate of Syracuse native Phoebe
Brand, the daughter of the “chief mechanical engineer for Remington
typewriters, the actress and acting teacher who was the wife of actor Morris
Carnovsky and the mother of Stephen Carnovsky.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/theater/phoebe-brand-96-actress-and-group-theater-co-founder.html
1907: In Boston, Louis and Muriel Fisher gave
birth to Golda Walters the wife of Charles H. Walters and Boston University
lawyer who while serving as a “Massachusetts judge” lost out on a chance for a
federal judgeship in 1941 when President Roosevelt decided to fill the two
vacancies with two men and who was described as the “prettiest judge” in the
January 31, 1939 of Look magazine.
1907: In Hesse, Germany, Isaac and Sophie
Plaut gave birth to Alfred Plaut, the husband of Fanny K. Kasper.
1907: Sixty-four-year-old Cyril Flower, 1st
Baron Battersea, the husband of Constance, the daughter of Sir Anthony de
Rothschild passed away today.
1908: “Nathan Straus conferred” today “with
Health Commissioner Darlington on the dangers to which he fears children are
subject by reason of a confusion in the public mind as to what pasteurized milk
really is” since the public may not be able “to distinguish between real
pasteurized milk and substitutes known as ‘commercially pasteurize’ milk.”
1908: It was reported to that the
“Zionistischen Ortsgruppe Hamburg-Altona” [Zionist chapter Hamburg-Altona] had hosted
a lecture: Pastor Otto Eberhard, who was presented as “one of the leading
experts on the modern cultural state of Palestine,”
1909(14th of Kislev, 5670):
Parashat Vayishlach
1909(14th of Kislev, 5670): Noachm
Schapiro passed away today.
1909: Birthdate of Alfred Lionel Piser, the
native of Chicago and graduate of the University of Illinois who served in WW
II and became a successful Ophthalmologist.
1910: “The Work of the Tax Department”
published today described a lecture given on the subject of “Taxation” by
Commissioner Lawson L. Purdy, before the Real Estate Class of the Young Men's
Hebrew Association, Lexington Avenue and Ninety-second Street.
1910: “The memorial services for Rev. Dr.
Abraham H. Ershler, the deceased rabbi of Congregation Ahabath Hesed Anshei
Shavel in Philadelphia were conducted” tonight “at Chizuk Amunah synagogue.”
1910: “Rabbi Denounces Union Services”
published today, described Dr. Samuel Schulman’s “attacks on the union services
of worship instituted by Rabbi Stephen Wise of the Free Synagogue, Reverend
Frank Oliver hall of the Universalist Church and Reverend Dr. John Hayes Holmes
which appeared in the current issues of The American Hebrew in which the Rabbi
of Temple Beth-El “denounces the
movement as undesirable from the standpoint of Jew and Christian alike,
referring to it as a ‘sensation move’ and a ‘water away of Judaism.’”
1911: Birthdate of Newark, NJ native Jack
Chernck, the Rutgers and U. of Chicago trained physicist who wrote The
Nuclear Reactor Comes of Age.
https://www.amazon.com/nuclear-reactor-comes-age/dp/B000ORALVW
1912: In Chicago, Mrs. Hamburger is scheduled
to give German readings after which Mrs. G.B. Levi will lead the singing of
German songs at this afternoon’s meeting of The Willing Workers.
1912: A troupe of Yiddish language actors
including Jacob P. Adler will begin performing this evening at the Haymarket
Theatre.
1912: Professor Percy Homes Boynton of the
University of Chicago is scheduled to deliver a lecture at the Chicago Hebrew
Institute on “The Trend of American Fiction.”
1912: In St. Louis, MO, Samuel
Margulois, “a hand-to-mouth salesman and his wife Celia” gave birth to David
Lee Margulois, the Washington University graduate and lawyer who gained fame as
David Merrick, the theatrical producer best known for his production of “Hello
Dolly.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/27/theater/david-merrick-88-showman-who-ruled-broadway-dies.html
1912: In Pueblo,
CO, Romanian Jewish immigrants Samuel Cohen and Dora Inger who had been living
in Denver gave birth to Rose Cohen who gained fame as actress Connie Sawyer.
1912: Leopold
Godowsky’s piano recital at Carnegie Hall today included a half dozen of
Listz’s most difficult etudes.
1913: Anglo-Jewish
featherweight/bantam weight Matt Wells defeated Owen Moran in Sydney, Australia
1913: Columbia
trained Mechanical Engineer, the New York born son of Meinhard and Bertha
(Baruch) Alsberg married Ellsie Kessler Fraenkel today in the same year that he
went from working for the Colgate Company to F.M. Peters where he worked on the
re-organization of American Cotton Oil Companies.
1914: The American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was established by combining several
separate organizations. Its original name was the Joint Distribution Committee
of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers and was chaired by
Felix M. Warburg. It campaigned and distributed funds wherever Jews were in
need, especially in Eastern Europe. It is popularly known as the
"Joint" or "JDC." During the First World War they spent
almost 15,000,000 on relief efforts.
1914(9th of Kislev, 5675): Lt Frank
Alexander de Pass of 34 Poona Horse, part of the Indian Expeditionary Force
which arrived in France soon after the war began” and who first Jew to be
awarded the Victoria Cross (posthumously) was killed today.
1914: In Brooklyn, Rabbi Alexander Lyons
preached a sermon entitled “Prejudice in American Life” at Friday night
services “in which he referred to the prejudice again Leo M. Frank that existed
in Atlanta during the trial of Frank which resulted in a verdict convicting him
of the murder of Mary Phagan.
1914: If the Supreme Court of the United
States denies the application of Leo Frank for a writ of error, Georgia
Governor John M Slaton told reporters at the Waldorf today that he will review
all of the evidence and if Frank “is not guilty then he ought to be saved from
the (death) penalty and shall not a victim of injustice because he is a
Jew.” As to his feelings towards Jews,
the governor pointed out that Mr. Philips, his law partner for nineteen years
is a Jew and that Jews have been an integral part of Georgia since the days of
the Crown when the Minis family settled in the colony.
1914: “Following the second reversal at the
hands of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States” Leo Franks has
issued a public statement “calling attention to several phases” of his case
including the fact that the members of their jury feared for their lives
because of “the dangerous…crowd which surrounded the jail” and that the
“Supreme Court has never reviewed the question of his guilt or innocence” but
has only responded to questions of procedural technicalities related to his
appeal.
1915: The American Embassy in Berlin is
working with the German government to get permission for Isadore Hershfield to
go to Poland where, among other things he will try to make contact with Jews
whose families in America would like to send them financial assistance.
1915: On Shabbat, at Temple Israel on the
corner of Lenox Avenue and 120th Street, Rabbi M.H. Harris delivered
a sermon on “Thanksgiving in Tribulation” in which he made “an appeal to the
Jews of America to give aid to their starving brethren in Galicia and Poland.”
1916: It was reported today that a Russian
officer had made speech to the peasants the District of Lutsk in which “he said
the Jews were enemies of the State and traitors and they must be expelled” and
told them that they must come forward and testify as to how the Jews had
welcomed and supported the Austrians.
1916: “Plain clothes men who arrest women on
the streets were defended” tonight “by Justice Henry Herbert of Special
Sessions at the annual meeting of the Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue – an organization which spends a considerable amount of time and
money working among the “Jewish girls whom into the magistrate’s courts” with
the intent of leading them away from criminal activity.
1916: It was pointed out at today’s session of
the Reichstag that “the Jewish population of former Russian Poland amounts to
14 percent” of the work force and that this “large number of Jews in Poland
might be profitably employed by” German manufacturers “to relieve the dearth of
labor.”
1917: As revolution spreads across Ukraine and
nationalist forces tried to take control of what had once been part of the
Russian empire, it was reported today that that Jews in Skivira have been
attacked in a pogrom.
1917: Turkish forces began four days of
attacks against Allenby’s troops in futile attempt to keep the British forces
from Jerusalem.
1917: At Petrograd, “a delegation of Jews
appeared at the British Embassy today to express its gratitude for the action
of the Entente Allies with reference to Palestine.”
1917: Birthdate of Yhyah Qafih, the native of
Sana’a Yemin who was the son of Rabbi David Qafiḥ and the grandson of Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafiḥ,
making him the third generation of leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community,
first in Yemen and then in Israel.
1918: Birthdate
of New Yorker Elliott Pershing Stitzel who gained fame as actor Stephen
Elliott.
1918: Felix M.
Warburg, the Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds
for Jewish War Suffers issued a statement tonight explaining why it was
necessary “to raise $5,000,000 for Jewish relief” that began “The Jewish
civilian populations throughout the war zones have been deprived of the
opportunity to be self-supporting” and “the end of the war has not altered
their state but has actually accentuated their misery” as can be seen by the
fact that “in many countries the Jews will not receive the bread distributed by
the government” unless it is done by the Jews themselves.
1918: Birthdate
of Victor Elmaleh, the native of Mogador, who imported the first Volkswagens to
the United States and “developed $7 billion worth of real estate.” (As reported
by Douglas Martin)
1919: Following the end of WW I, Bulgaria
signed The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine which included guarantees of the rights
of that country’s Jewish population.
1920(16th of Kislev, 5681):
Parashat Vayishlach
1920: In Buffalo, NY, tonight, Rabbi Stephen
S. Wised delivered a speech of the opening session of a meeting of the ZOA
during which he “denied that the American Zionists were drifting away from the
World Zionist Organization.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/11/28/107005150.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1921 Charles Rechct, counsel in New York for
the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic issued a warning not send
assistance to relatives in Russia through unauthorized agencies which meant
clothing parcels could continue to be shipped by All Russian Jewish Public
Administration which was on the list of authorized agencies.
1922: It was reported today that “a committee
on local arrangements, composed of the presidents of important synagogues in
New York and Brooklyn under the chairmanship of Daniel P. Hays” is already
making preparations for the meeting of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations which will be held on January 20, 1923.
1922: It was reported today that last week
during the dedication of a memorial tabled to the men of Harlem who died in the
World War, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia and Congressman Isaac
Siegel spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan – an organization which a large
section of the population of New York led by the Catholics and Jews has
declared “open warfare against.”
1922: It was reported today that President
Harding has not yet appointed Congressman Isaac Siegel who did not seek
re-election to the House of Representatives “to one of the vacant judgeships in
the local United States District Court.”
1923: “The American-Jewish Relief Committee
issued an appeal” today “through its 1,500 local chairmen in the United States
for the aid in the war-stricken areas of Europe.”
1923: “An official protest against the
mistreatment and the plundering which Jewish citizens of Poland, together with
other Jews, suffered during the recent disorders in Berlin has been lodged by
the Polish Ambassador” with the Chancellor in Berlin.
1924: Journalist, playwright, and screen
writer Rita Weiman, the Philadelphia born daughter of Jennie Bash and Charles
Weisman whose play “The Stage Door” was the basis for the Jesse L Lasky film
“After the Show” married advertising man Maurice Marks today
1924: In New York City the first Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade was held.
Macey’s was not founded by Jews, but it was two Jews, Isidor and Nathan
Straus, who took control of the store in 1896 who turned into what was then
“biggest department store in the world.”
1924: “Comedians of Life,” a silent film featuring
Martin Herzberg was released today in German.
1925: Birthdate of Ernest Wiseman, the English
comedian who changed his name to Ernie Wise to further his career as an actor
and singer in English music halls. He
was best known as one half of the comedy
duo Morecambe and Wise, which became an institution on British television,
especially for their Christmas specials.
He passed away in 1999. Just as
in American, English entertainers changed their names to get ahead and like
Irving Berlin helped add luster to the Christian’s Christmas.
1925: In Paris Paulette (née Grobermann) and
Armand Lanzmann gave birth to Claude Lanzemann, the French filmmaker who joined
the Resistance at the age of 18 and fought the Nazis and later became “chief
editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes,
which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.” Lanzmann's most
renowned work is the nine-and-a-half-hour documentary film Shoah (1985), which
is an oral history of the Holocaust, and is broadly considered to be the
foremost film on the subject.”
1925(10th of Kislev, 5686): Forty-three-year-old
Horace Andrew Saks, the son of Andrew and Jennie Sakes and the husband of
Dorothy Isabel Sakes passed away today, who along with Bernard Gimbel had
created Saks Fifth Avenue in 1924.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/11/28/98842905.pdf
1926: “The Miraculous Mandarin” “a one act
pantomime ballet…based on the story by Melchior Lengyel” premiered today in
Cologne, Germany where “it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on
moral grounds,”
1926: In the Bronx, Abraham Handleman, the
Ukrainian born son of Joseph Yussel Handelman and Dobrish (Dora) Handelman, and
his wife Anna (Boorstein) Handelman gave birth to Arnold Handleman the husband
of the former Greta Goldman with whom he had two children.
1927: “Asserting that only 29 percent of the
school of the Jewish faith in New York receive religious education, Israel
Unterberg, President of the Jewish Education Association, issued an appeal
today for $500,000 to “enable the association to extend religious education to
10,000 additional Jewish children in the upcoming year.”
1928: “Blame for the recent riots at the
wailing wall in Jerusalem was placed squarely on the Jewish community in a
White paper issued today by the Colonial Office, containing a memorandum on the
subject by L.C.M.S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies” that “stated that
officials intervened at the wailing wall only after the Jewish worshippers had
violated the existing agreement by bringing chairs and benches or screens to
the street pavement.”
1929: “Under the direction of Max Gabel, there
was staged in the Public Theatre, with Jennie Goldstein in the title role, R.'s
operetta, "Di galitsianer rebetsin, lyrics by the author, music by Herman
Wohl."
1930: Thanksgiving
1930: The Free Synagogue, Temple Israel,
Temple Rodeph Sholom are among the congregations participating in the annual
community Thanksgiving service being held at Carnegie Hall.
1931: President Hoover and Tytus Filipowicz,
Polish Ambassador to the United States were asked today by the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis who are holding their semi-annual convention in Cincinnati, “to
use their influence to stop the persecution of Jews in Poland.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/11/28/96383599.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1932: In New York Miriam Goshen and Edward
Schechter gave birth to University of Wisconsin graduate and award-winning
journalist Jerrold Schecter, the husband of Leona Protas.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/schecter-jerrold-l-1932
1932: Today, three Jews were arrested in Lwow
following the fatal stabbing of Jat Grotowski who was reported one of “sever
youths” who having seen “a group of Jews in a café tried to eject them.”
1933: In Brooklyn, restaurant workers “Al
Saperstein and Doris Bergman” gave birth to Burton Saperstein who gained fame
as bibliophile Burt Britton. (As reported by James Barron)
1933: Birthdate of William G. Dever, the
native of Louisville, KY who became “an archaeologist specializing in the
history of Israel and the Near East in Biblical times” whose works included What
Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?
http://www.centuries.co.uk/dever-review.pdf
1933: As Hitler moves to consolidate his
control over German society Kraft durch Freude (KdF; Strength through Joy) is
established to tie leisure activities of the German Volk (people) to the aims
of the Nazi Party.
1933: A transfer company was established today
in Tel Aviv to facilitate the immigration of German Jews along with whatever
property they are able to bring with them. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1934: “For the first time since the Nazis'
unsuccessful putsch in July shouts of "Heil Hitler!" and "Perish
the Jews!" and the words of "Deutschland ueber Alles" resounded
today in the main streets of Vienna.”
1935(1st of Kislev, 5696): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1935(1st of Kislev, 5696):
Sixty-seven year old Louisville, KY native Benjamin Edward Bensinger, the
husband of Rose Frank Bensinger, father of Yale graduate Benjamin Edward
Bensinger, Jr. and Benjamin Edward Bensinger III passed away today in Chicago.
1936: Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels
declares that film criticism is henceforth banned, freeing the Nazi-controlled
German film industry to pursue its own agenda, which includes blatantly
anti-Semitic films. During the same period in the United States, Hollywood
is self-censored in that it fears dealing with Jewish issues because of the
high level of anti-Semitism existing at the time in the United States.
1936: “Born to Dance,” a musical with a script
co-authored by Sid Silvers who also played the role of “Gunny” Sacks was
released in the United States today.
1936:
In a letter-to-the editor published today, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
expressed his appreciation to the New York Times for printing a previous
letter in which he “suggested that we do a little cosmic pinch-hitting and
erect a statue of Felix Mendelssohn and keep it here until our German friends
shall be able to once more to listen to his charming music without getting Aryan
jitters. (This was a reference to the Nazi ban on the music of Mendelssohn
whose Jewish origins did not spare him from a posthumous form of anti-Semitism)
1937: Opening
performance of "Pins & Needles" a pro-labor musical revue
produced by ILGWU
1938: Speaking
before the National Council of Teachers of English in St. Louis, “Professor
Clyde R. Miller of New York, the director of the Institute for Propaganda
Analysis said today that America may expect increasing Nazi propaganda to
justify the persecution of Jews, Catholics and Protestants in Germany” and that
“the object of the Nazi propaganda was to break Americans up into dissenting
groups – getting Christians hating Jews, Catholics hating Protestants, natives
hating foreign born.”
1938: “Erich Rix,
the president of the San Francisco unit of the German American League for
Culture announced today that the group had adopted a declaration condemning the
Hitler government for a regular pogrom against the Jews.”
1939: In New York,
at the Hotel Astor, Dr. Kurt Blumenfeld, president of the German-Jewish
Settlers Association in Palestine, Dr. Georg Landauer, head of the Central
Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine, Louis Lipsky, chairman
of the Palestine Foundation Fund, Charles Ress and Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn
addressed tonight’s meeting of the Palestine Foundation, the fiscal arm of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine.
1939: It was
reported today that the rise in the price of stocks in Berlin is due “partly to
the continued sales of stocks formerly owned by Jews for the Reich’s accounts”
which “were taken in payment from former holders at prices considerably below
their present values” and partly in anticipation of the next payment of
200,000,000 marks which the Jews must make in December.
1939: As of today,
the new national officers of Junior Hadassah were President Nell Ziff, Vice
Presidents Goldie Brenner of Newport News, VA; Sylvia Brody of Akron, Ohio;
Claire Gottfried Jacobson of New York; Esther Brody, Brooklyn, NY; Secretary
Ernestine Kirschner of New York and Treasurer Dorothy Hines of New York.
1939: George Z
Medalie was reported to have “announced that during the upcoming week
twenty-seven luncheons, dinners and group meetings” would be held as “part of
the program to enlist support for” the 1939 Appeal of the New York and Brooklyn
Federation of Jewish Charities.
1939(15th
of Kislev, 5700): Seventy-six year old Alexander Harkavy, Jewish lexicographer,
author and publisher of newspapers in Montreal and Baltimore passed away today
at the Broadway Central Hotel in New York City.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9500E3D7143EE432A2575BC2A9679D946894D6CF
http://www.bjpa.org/publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=19362
1939: It was reported today “that the German plan
for the deportation of all Jews within the confines of the Greater Reich
foresees the transportation of 150,000 Jews from the Protectorate, 60,000 from
Austria, 30,000 from the conquered provinces of Posen and Western Prussia and
approximately 200,000 from the old Reich territory to Eastern Poland.”
1940: The family of
Abraham Gevirtz returned to their home in Scarsdale this evening and found that
it had been burglarized.
1941: The Jews were
deported from Wuerzburg, Germany.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/09.asp
1941: Friedrich Jeckeln met with the leaders
of Protective Police, “a branch of the German Order Police” who would be
participating in the upcoming massacre of the Jews in Riga.
1941: The first of 19 trains leaves Germany to
resettle thousands of Jews in Riga and Kovno. Yet, 1000 newly resettled German
Jews were taken and killed at the same time.
1941: “The Palestine Symphony Orchestra has
just announced the results of a competition open to composers in Palestine and
the neighboring countries.” Because of
the volume and quality of the entries, four “winners” instead of just one were
announced including, a Divertimento for Orchestra by Joseph Huttel, director of
European Music at the Egyptian State Broadcasting, Cairo, Overture to a cantata
by A. Daus of Tel Aviv, a Symphony of Variations for Soloists and Orchestra by
Peter Gradenwitz of Tel Aviv and Fatum, a symphonic poem by J. Wohl of Haifa.
1942: From this date
through August 1943 more than 110,000
Poles are expelled from their homes in the fertile Zamosc province so that the
area can be resettled by ethnic Germans, SS troops, and Ukrainians. More than
300 villages are affected. Thousands of Polish children are deported from the
area to Belzec and other death camps.
1942: Birthdate of poet Marilyn Hacker
1942: On Friday night, Rabbi Harold Saperstein
delivered a sermon entitled “What Have We Jews to Be Thankful For?” on the day
following Thanksgiving when the condition of American Jewry stood in stark
contrast to the news “the papers have given the general public information
about what is happening to the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe.”
1943: U.S. premiere of “Old Acquaintance” a
comedy-drama directed by Vincent Sherman with music by Franz Waxman.
1943(29th of Cheshvan, 5704):
Parashat Toldot
1943(29th of Cheshvan, 5704):
Fifty-four year old Ukrainian born revolutionary Jacob Golos, a founding member
of the CPUSA and spy for the Soviet Union suffered a fatal heart attack today.
http://documentstalk.com/wp/golos-jacob/
1944: In the weekly internal report of the War
Refugee Board, it reported that the United States embassy had received from the
Spanish Foreign Office: "Official confirmation that appropriate
instructions have been sent to the Spanish Legation in Bern to seek the
collaboration of the Swiss government in the efforts of the Spanish Embassy in
Berlin to obtain the release and transfer to Swiss territory of the group of
155 Sephardic Jews at Camp Bergen Belson."
1944: "The Trial and Punishment of European War
Criminals," a report by U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary
of State Cordell Hull, is submitted to President Franklin Roosevelt.
1944(11th of Kislev, 5705): Leonid Isaakovich
Mandelshtam, Russian physicist, passed away.
1944(11th of Kislev, 5705): Albert
Isaac Myers, “the proprietor of Myers & Co.” a bookstore specializing in
“rare books, fine prints and choice early maps” who was described by Harold
Laski as being “one of the most learned and helpful of booksellers” and whose
activities in the Jewish community included serving on the Board of Management
of the Dalston Synagogue and the committees for the Jewish Free Reading Room
and the Home for Jewish Incurables.
1945: The American League for a Free
Palestine, chaired by former Iowa Senator Guy Gillette, sent a telegram to
President Harry Truman protesting recent beatings of Jewish displaced persons
housed at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British military
police. According to the League, an
unnamed German had told the British that the Jews planned to protest Ernest
Bevin’s recent hostile comments about Palestine. British forces arrested the
leader of the Jewish “prisoners’ and reportedly beat several of the women.
1945: In London, former U.S. Senator Guy
Gillette, head of the American League for a Free Palestine, held a press
conference after meeting with Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin in which he
declared “that the United States was ‘thoroughly worked up’ over Palestine” and
regarded the situational there as a testing ground for all the principles of
Atlantic Charter.
1945: The American League for a Free Palestine
submitted a memorandum to the British government calling for action by the Big
Five Powers to deal with any violence that the British claim will occur if
100,000 Jews are allowed to immigrate to Palestine.
1946(4th of Kislev, 5707): Seventy
–two year old Rabbi Solly Baron, who escaped to Germany in 1939 and arrived in
Halifax in 1945 passed away today in St. Louis.
1947: Thanksgiving in the United States
1947: On Thanksgiving, “the Hebrew Sheltering
and Immigrant Aid Society fed turkey dinners to fifty children and to 200 newly
arrived immigrants” to whom “the significance of Thanksgiving Day in the United
States was carefully explained.”
1947: “The Palestine Government’s intention to
sell Government land on the Haifa waterfront, which has aroused a storm of
protest from the Jewish community” and which Mrs. Golda Myerson has described
as “incomprehensible” “was confirmed today in the official Palestine Gazette.
1947: In Prague, Czechoslovakia Franci and
Kurt Epstein gave birth to American author Helen Epstein.
1948:
Goldblatt’s a chain of discount stores owned by Nate and Maurice Goldbatt which
operated in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, closed its store in
Buffalo, NY which had opened in 1941 and had failed to perform at an acceptable
level.
1949(6th
of Kislev,5710): Fifty-two-year-old Leeds, Yorkshire native and Victoria
Recipient Jack White who earned this distrinction while serving “as a Private
in the 6th Battalion, King’s Own Regiment” in Mesopotamia in 1917
passed away today after which he was buried at the Blackley Jewish Cemetery in
Manchester, England.
1949:
Eighty-six year old William H. King, the Senator from Utah who in 1927
“declared…that he favored the United States severing diplomatic relations with
any country which failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish
nationals” and “expressed the belief that eventually Palestine would be able to
support a population of a million Jews” passed away today.
1950: A rummage sale sponsored by the Jordan
Metropolis Chapter of the B’nai B’rith is scheduled to begin today in New York
City.
1950: Mrs. Jack Kesselman is scheduled to
address today’s meeting of the Jersey City, NJ chapter of Hadassah at the
Jersey City Jewish Community Center.
1950:
Films of Europe and Israel are scheduled to be shown at tonight’s
meeting of the Kinnereth Business and Professional Group of Hadassah meeting at
the Henry Hudson Hotel.
1951: Today thirty year old
produer/director Jospeh Papp married Salt Lake City, Utah native, Peggy Marie
Bennion who earned an MSW from the Hunter College School of Social Work.
https://www.scribd.com/document/315097496/Family-Therapy-Pioneers-Peggy-Papp
1953(20th of Kislev, 5714):
Seventy-seven year old French playwright Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein
the victim of an anti-Semitic riot in 1911 whose play “Dreaming Lips” was made
into a movie in 1932 and who spent WW II living at the Waldorf-Astoria passed away
today after which he was buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris.
1954(2nd of Kislev, 5715): Parashat
Toldot
1956: Senator John F. Kennedy addresses the
Annual Banquet of Histadrut Zionist Organization, Baltimore, Maryland.
1956: In Amsterdam, Queen Juliana attended the
opening performance of Goodrich and Hackett's “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
1956(18th of Kislev, 5654): Seventy-seven-year-old
muralist Hugo Ballin whose works included a mural at the Wilshire Boulevard
Temple that “encircles the main Sanctuary” that tell the story of the Jewish
people from Bereshit until the time of its commissioning in 1929.
1956: The Jerusalem Post reported that Jews
arriving by plane in Paris 'confirmed that expulsion orders were being issued
to Jews in Egypt by the thousands.'
1956: Golda Meir, the Israeli Foreign Minister,
"wrote the first of two letters to the UN Secretary General, protesting
the 'action taken by the Egyptian Government against the Jewish Community in
Egypt.'"
1957: “The Sad Sack” a comedy produced by Hal B. Wallis,
starring Jerry Lewis and featuring Peter Lorre was released today in the United
States.
1958: Polish born conductor Artur Rodziński
passed away. Rodzinski was not Jewish but under the law of unintended
consequences, he had major impact on the career of a Jew who was one of the
musical icons of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein. “Rodzinski said that God told him to hire 24
year old Leonard Bernstein, to be his assistant
conductor. In the fall of 1943 Rodzinski decided to take a vacation, spend a
little time with his goats, and called in Bruno Walter to conduct seven concerts in ten days. Only hours
before one of those concerts (in the program, works by Schumann, Rosza, Strauss
and Wagner) Walter fell ill.
Rodzinski was only four hours away, in his farm. But he declined to come back
to Carnegie Hall: "Call Bernstein. That's why we hired him." The
concert was broadcast over radio and a
review appeared on page 1 of The New York Times the next day: "Young Aide
Leads Philharmonic; Steps in When Bruno Walter is Ill’" And the rest, as
they say, is history.
1958(15th
of Kislev, 5719): Seventy-five-year-old “artist, critic, author” and college
professor Walter Pach passed away today at Beth Israel Hospital in New York
City.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9500E6D7143DE53BBC4051DFB7678383649EDE
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26746018@N03/3234018815/in/photostream/
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/walter-pach-papers-suppressed-old-digitized-microfilm-9852/more
1958: In Tel Aviv,
“theatre actor Shmulik Atzmon” and his wife gave birth to actress and singer
Anat Atzmon.
1960: Two days after
he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today in
Manhattan for seventy-three-year-old Lester J. Alexander the former president
of the Alexander Shirt Company and the United Shirt Manufacturers Association
who “entered the brokerage business in 1933 as a partner in Engel and Company”
and who raised three children, Lester, Jr. Edgar and Louise, with his wife
Mildred.
1960: Following the
merger of Ohev Sholom and Talmud in 1958, the congregation’s “newly built
synagogue building on upper Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC, was
dedicated” today.
1961: In New York,
“Nathan M. Ohrbach, board chairman of Ohrbach’s, Inc. received the insignia of
Officer of the French Legion of Honor from the French Consul General.
1962(30th of
Cheshvan, 5723): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1962(30th
of Cheshvan 5723): Fifty-one-year-old photographer Florence Meyer Homolka, the
daughter of Eugene Meyer and actor Oskar Homolka, passed away today.
1963: Birthdate of
three-time Ophir Award winner Ronit Elkabetz.
1963(11th
of Kislev, 5724): Seventy-eight-year-old “a dermatologist and an authority on
industrial skin disease Dr. Louis Tulipan who was the husband of Kitty Tulipan
and the father of Ira and Dr. Alan
Tulipan passed away today.
1964(22nd
of Kislev, 5725): Seventy-one-year-old WW I Field Artillery veteran Abram
Efroymson, the Indianapolis born son Harry
and Hannah (Schiff) Efroymson who was President of the Terminal and
Refrigeration Corporation, a leader of the Cleveland Jewish community and the
husband of Sylvia Spira with whom he had two children – Alan and John – passed
away today.
1964: In Montreal,
Dr. Gina Shochat-Rakoff and Dr. Vivian Rakooff gave birth to “prize-winning
humorist” David Benjamin Rakoff (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/books/david-rakoff-award-winning-humorist-dies-at-47.html?_r=0
1964: Birthdate of
Ophir award winning Israeli actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz, the native of
Beersheba who oldest four children born “to a religious Moroccan Jewish family
originally from Esaaouira.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805E2DD123DEF3ABC4051DFB767838D609EDE
1965: “Gamera: The
Giant Monster” a horror film featuring Alan Oppenheimer as “Dr. Ctonrare” was
released today in Japan.
1966: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held at Great Neck, NY for seventy-two year old
Romanian born, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute trained chemist, Samuel M.
Abrams, the WW I veteran and developer of a unique process for manufacturing
shoe polish which was marketed under the Esquire Brand who supported numerous
Jewish philanthropies included the UJA, the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies, the Hillel foundation and the Long Island Jewish Hospital and
who raised two children – Ira and Iris – with his wife Tillie Abras.
1967: At news
conference today President Charles de Gaulle called Jews “elite people, sure of
itself and domineering.”
1968: In
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France, “Eddie Vartan, a Bulgarian-born
musician, and Doris (née Pucher) Vartan, a painter and artist gave birth to
Franco-American actor Michael Vartan, the nephew of singer Sylvie Vartan.
1969(17th
of Kislev, 5730): In Athens, one Greek child was killed and 13 others were
wounded when two Jordanian terrorists attacked the El Al offices with hand
grenades.
1972: Release of Free
to Be You and Me, the album of non-sexist stories and songs that helped
shape the self-understanding and worldview of a generation of children. Letty
Cottin Pogrebin was the editorial project consultant for the album as well as
the book and television special associated with the project, all of which were
created by feminist and actress Marlo Thomas. Free to Be You and Me,
which features such songs as “Parents are People” and “It's All Right to Cry,”
is still enjoyed by children today. In addition to her work on Free to Be
You and Me, Pogrebin was a founding editor of Ms. Magazine. She was
a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, as well as the Ms.
Foundation for Women and the International Center for Peace in the Middle East.
She wrote the best-selling parenting guide to raising non-sexist children, Growing
Up Free: Raising Your Children in the 80s (1980), as well as Deborah,
Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America (1991), Family
Politics: Love and Power on an Intimate Frontier (1983), and Getting
Over Getting Older: An Intimate Journey (1996). Pogrebin recently published
her first novel, Three Daughters (2003).
https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/27/1972/free-to-be-you-and-me
1973: At the
funeral for mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel Leonard Bernstein paid her tribute in a
eulogy at her saying, ‘when Jennie opened her mouth, God spoke.’”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/09/1967/jennie-tourel
1973: Neil
Simon's "Good Doctor," premieres in New York City.
1974(13th
of Kislev, 5735): Seventy-four-year-old CCNY graduate and Harvard trained
attorney Edward Solomon Moses Silver, the New York born son of David and Sarah
Feigel Silver and the husband of Regine Silver with whom he had three children
– David, Sarah and Jonathan – passed away today.
1976: “Network”
the Paddy Chayefsky written classic directed by Sidney Lumet. Lumet was
nominated for an Oscar and Chayefsky won one for his screenplay was released
today in the United States.
1978(27th of
Cheshvan, 5739): In San Francisco,
California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey
Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. Milk was Jewish. Moscone was succeeded by Jewish the head of
the Board of Supervisors, Diane Feinstein. Feinstein would go on to be elected
to the U.S. Senate where she and fellow Californian Barbara Boxer would become
the first Jewish female duo to represent a state in the nation’s Upper Chamber.
1980: ABC
broadcast the first episode of “Bosom Buddies,” a sitcom co-starring Wendie Jo
Sperber today.
1981: “Ten Out of
10,” “the eighth studio album by 10cc” which marked the first involvement with
the band by American singer-songwriter Andrew Gold and was co-produced by
Graham Gouldman was released today.
1981: Eighty-three-year-old
singer and actress Lotte Lenyam, the widow of Kurt Weil who although not Jewish
herself, left Germany when the Nazis came to power passed away today.
1987(6th
of Kislev, 5748): In Israel, two “internal security agents” were killed today.
1990(10th
of Kislev, 5751): Seventy-eight-year-old Gladys Devera Tepper, the Washington
D.C. born daughter of Mary Pearl Collegeman and Georgetown trained attorney and
member of the executive committee of the American Jewish Congress Joseph L.
Tepper and the wife of Jackson Feldman passed away today after which she was
buried at the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens.
1991: The New York Times published a review of
Benevolence and Betrayal Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by
Alexander Stille.
1993(13th of Kislev, 5754): Marvin H.
Bernstein, a businessman and philanthropist in New York for many years passed
away today at the Miami Heart Institute. He was 66 and lived in Miami. Mr.
Bernstein was the founder and for 34 years the president of the Variety Knit
Corporation of Manhattan, which makes women's clothing and T-shirts. He also
founded the Marvin Bernstein Oil Company, a petroleum exploration company with
headquarters in Miami. Mr. Bernstein was a fund-raiser for and a contributor to
the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the Simon Weisenthal Center, Israel
Bonds, the Weitzman Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University and other medical
and religious groups.
1993: Birthdate of Argentine cyclist Gonzalo
Joaquin Najar,
1994(24th of Kislev, 5755): In the
evening, kindle the first Chanukah light
1995: Salah Tarif begins serving as the Deputy
Minister of Internal Affairs
1995: Uri Or began serving as the Deputy
Minister of Defense.
1998: “The Slums of Beverly Hills” a comedy
about “a teenage girl struggling to grow up in the late 1970s in a
lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months” starring
Natasha Lyonne and Alan Arkin and featuring Carl Reiner and Eli Marienthal was
released in the United Kingdom today, three months after premiering in the
United States.
1999: The left-wing Labour Party takes control of
the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected
female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. In 2005, she opposed a visit by
Israeli President Moshe Ktsav because of a dispute surrounding alleged Mossad
agents and the issuing of fraudulent passports.
2000: Illusionist Dave Blaine began a stunt called “Frozen In Time” at
New York’s Times Square
2001(12th
of Kislev, 5762): Etty Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani was killed three others
were injured when a Palestinian terrorist threw grenades and opened fire at a
convoy on the road between the Kissufim crossing and Gush Katif in the Gaza
Strip on Tuesday evening. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
2001(12th
of Kislev, 5762): Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25,
of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened
fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus
station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them,
killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were
injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad
claimed joint responsibility.
2002(22nd of
Kislev, 5763): Eighty-nine year old Stanley Black, the conductor and composer
born Solomon Schwartz passed away today in London
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/03/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
2003: “Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel warned Palestinians today to become more
conciliatory or risk losing permanently some of the land they want for a
state.”
2004: In “A
Rhythmic Soundscape of Lives Caught in Conflict,” published today Margo
Jefferson reviews Yuri Lane’s “From Tel Aviv to Ramallah” during which “alone
on the small stage of the Makor/Steinhardt Center on West 67th Street, Mr. Lane
gave us the sounds of life on both sides of the checkpoint.”
2005:
In the topsy-turvy world of Israeli politics, Shimon Peres is seriously
considering leaving the Labor Party and joining Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima
Party.
2005: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom and The Education of a
Coach by David Halberstam.
2006: The Times of London reported Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned
former KGB agent had just returned from a trip to Israel.
2006: In New Zealand, John Key became the
parliamentary leader of the National Party.
2006: Cartoonist Jules Feiffer began a stint
“at the Arizona State University Barret Honors College” today.
2006: Seth Rudetsky starred in
“Off-Off-Broadway production of “Torch Song Trilogy” which opened today.
2007: Batsheva Dance choreographer Ohad
Naharin premiers his latest work, “Kamuyot” in Stockholm. The premier will be followed by 100
performances before 20,000 students all over Sweden. “Kamuyot” can be translated as “numbers of”
or “characteristics.”
2007: The scheduled U.S. sponsored meeting of
Israelis and Arabs at Annapolis, MD, comes to an end.
2007: YIVO Institute presents The Klezmatics: Up Close in downtown
Manhattan. The Klezmatics perform
music drawn from their 2007 Grammy award-winning CD Wonder Wheel – Lyrics by
Woody Guthrie, YIVO’s Max and Frieda Weinstein Sound Archives and their vast
repertoire.
2007: "Operation: Last Chance” will be
formally launched at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Simon
Wiesenthal Center's "Operation: Last Chance" is targeted to find and
bring to justice at least some of the thousands of Nazis still hiding in South
America 62 years after the end of World War II.
2007: At the end of the Annapolis Conference, Foreign
Minister Tzipi Livni spoke of the relevance to any future Israeli-Palestinian
agreement of the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries after 1948.
2008: As the Thanksgiving weekend begins, Secrets directed by Avi Nesher premiers theatrically in commercial movie
theatres. In the 'Secrets', director Avi Nesher skillfully presents the
quandaries facing Naomi (Ania Bukstein) the studious, devoutly religious
daughter of prominent rabbi, who convinces her father to postpone her marriage
for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the
ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest for individuality takes a
defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free spirited and equally
headstrong fellow student.
2008: During the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks,
Indian army reported that it had secured the Jewish outreach center at Nariman
House and liberated 60 people in the building.
2008:
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar
are calling for a mass prayer rally today in the hope that heavenly
intervention will stem the global financial crisis.
2008: Final showing at the Jacob Burns Film
Center of “One Day You’ll Understand” a film that portrays the reaction of
French businessman’s reaction to the televised trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus
Barbie in 1987.
2008: Israeli sculptor Gideon Gechtman, a
native of Alexandria, whose family made Aliyah in 1945, passed away today.
http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=272639
2008: Idina Menzel performed "I
Stand" on the M&M Candies float as part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade
2009: A man accused of murdering Dutch
civilians as a member of a Waffen SS hit squad said at his trial today that he
was proud about being chosen to fight for the Nazis. Heinrich Boere, 88, made
his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end
of October. As part of that SS unit, he is charged with killing a bicycle-shop
owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. He faces a possible sentence of life
in prison if convicted.
2009: A Palestinian terrorist was killed this
morning when the IAF struck a Gaza terror cell preparing to fire rockets into
Israel, according to the IDF
2009: The Israeli Black Panthers host a
special tour of the Musara neighbored in Jerusalem.
2009: Performance of “Lost in Yonkers” at the
DC JCC.
2009: Paul “Godfrey was announced as the chair
of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation” today,
2009: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Noah Thalblum
helps to lead Friday Night services as part of his Bar Mitzvah weekend.
2009: Abe Pollin’s funeral service is held at
Washington Hebrew Congregation.
2010(20th
of Kislev, 5771) Eighty-seven-year-old Irvin Kershner - who directed the Star
Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, the James Bond film Never Say Never Again
and Robocop 2 – passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/movies/30kershner.html
2010(20th of Kislev, 5752): Vilém Flusser a
Czech-born Brazilian Jewish philosopher, writer and journalist passed away.
2010: In Michigan, the Young Adult Division of
Jewish Federation is scheduled to sponsor the sixth annual Latke Vodka donor
thank you event.
2010: A rock was thrown through the back window of the Helene G. Simon
Hillel Center, which is located on campus, today. Earlier in the week, a rock
was thrown through the back window of the Chabad Jewish student center located
just outside the campus. Bloomington city police and campus police are
investigating whether the attacks are related.
2011: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Something Urgent I Have
to Say to You: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams” by Herbert
Leibowitz
2011: Ministerial Committee on Legislation decided today not to back a bill that
would limit public access to High Court petitions, sponsored by MKs Danny Danon
and Yariv Levin from the Likud.
2011: Prominent Israeli singer Margalit Tzan'ani pleaded guilty on today to
extorting her manager and is expected to be sentenced to several months of
community service
2011: The New York Times list of 100
Notable Books of 2011 includes the following books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers: “The Free World” in which David Bezmozgis
overturns clichéd expectations of immigrant idealism in his first novel, which
follows a Soviet Jewish family awaiting visas in Rome in 1978; “The Grief of
Others” by Leah Hager Cohen; “Say Her
Name” by Francisco Goldman, “Scenes From Village Life” by Amos Oz; “The
Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World” by Haifa-born
physicist David Deutsch; “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With
India” by Joseph Lelyveld; “In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an
American Family Hitler’s Berlin,” Erik Larson’s account of the experiences of
William Dodd, F.D.R.’s first ambassador in Nazi Germany; “Jerusalem: The
Biography” by Simon Sebag Montefiore;
“The Memory Chalet” by Tony Judt; “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid
That Sparked the Civil War” by Tony Horwitz; “Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark”
by Brian Kellow; “The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern
World” by Jewish Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin; “The Swerve: How the
World Became Modern” by Stephen Greenblatt; “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by
Israeli born Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman; “A Train Winter: An Extraordinary
Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France” by Caroline
Moorehead
2011(1st of Kislev, 5772): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev
2012: In Rmallah, the tomb of Yasser Arafat
is schedule to be opened as the first step in process intended to determine if
he was poisoned.
2012: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
is scheduled to present a program that will examine” the Rothschild Baba Kama,
an ornate and richly decorated manuscript written in 1721-22 by Anshel Moses
Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild dynasty.”
2012: The JCC of Northern Virginia is
scheduled to present a program that will “explore how the image of a typical
Israeli has been depicted in Israeli films from the 1960’s until today.
2012: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, members of the
Jewish community are scheduled to meet to discuss ways to further the cause of
Israel in the Hawkeye State.
2012: “The National Library of Israel signed
contract with Pri-Or to preserve its archive of more than one million images.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-photo-shop-freezes-a-changing-israel-in-its-frames/
2012(13th of Kislev, 5773):
Fifty-eight year old French journalist Érik Izraelewicz “who was the director
and editorial executive of Le Monde” passed away today.
2012(13th of Kislev, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old
“Marvin Miller, an economist and labor leader who became one of the most
important figures in baseball history by building the major league players
union into a force that revolutionized the game, died on Tuesday at his home in
Manhattan.” (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2012: The Taub Center released its annual
State of the Nation Report for 2011-2012 this morning, which according to the
organization, paints “a troubling picture of the way Israeli governments have
thus far dealt with Israel’s primary socioeconomic problems.”
2013:
In the evening, kindle the first Chanukah candle.
2013:
Chabad of Talbiya is scheduled to host its third annual Chanukah Menorah
Lighting Festival at the entrance to the Mamilla Mall.
2013:
The City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa in collaboration with Heritage Fund for Israel in
Tel Aviv are scheduled to host two candle lighting ceremonies – at Culture
Square and Rabin Square.
2013:
Former State Department official and ambassador Elliott Abrams argued in his
Council for Foreign Relations blog today that the language used by the White
House to discuss the Iran interim deal was largely “aspirational,” suggesting
that much of the touted P5+1 deal with Iran had yet to be hammered out, a
contention that appeared to be born out the statements of State Department
spokeswoman Jen Psaki.(As reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)
2013:
Five teenagers from the Arab neighborhood of Issawiya in East Jerusalem were
brought before the Jerusalem District Court today and charged with throwing
Molotov cocktails at an IDF base in the capital. (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2013:
The Israel Antiquities Authority and the Netivei Israel Company “invited the
public to visit the excavation site Eshtaol” which “includes a
six-millennia-old cultic temple and a 10,000 year old house” today.
2013: “
In
Israel, a Push to Screen for Cancer Gene Leaves Many Conflicted”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/health/in-israel-a-push-to-screen-for-cancer-gene-leaves-many-conflicted.html?hp&_r=1&2014: In England, the chaplains (rabbis) of the Oxford
University Jewish Society are scheduled to host “a traditional Thanksgiving
Dinner” at their home for which there is a minimal £3 charge.
2014: In Melbourne, “Night Will Fall” and “Above and
Beyond” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Festival.
2014: In an address marking the anniversary of the death of
David Ben-Gurion, former President Shimon Peres bitterly criticized the “Jewish
state” bill today, arguing that the legislation is designed for political gain
and damages Israel’s democratic principles (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014: An IDF fired back at Palestian gunmen inside the Gaza
Strip who had opened fire on an IDF patrol operating on the Israeli side of the
border fence. (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2014: “Members of a Hamas terror ring in the West Bank, run
from the organization’s headquarters in Turkey, sought to carry out an array of
major attacks, including on Jerusalem’s main soccer stadium and its light rail
line, the Shin Bet security service said today.”
2014(5th of Kislev, 5775): Seventy-nine-year-old
Paramount Pictures President, Frank Yablans, “who oversaw the release of “The
Godfather” and its first sequel and whose writing skills were responsible for
bringing one of my favorite sports novels, North Dallas Forty, to the
screen passed away today. (As reported by Michael Cieply)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/business/media/frank-yablans-film-executive-dies-at-79.html
2014(5th of Kislev, 5775): Ninety-four-year-old
Newsweek editor and NBC television executive Lester Bernstein passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/nyregion/lester-bernstein-former-newsweek-editor-dies-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/lester-bernstein-wide-ranging-journalist-who-led-newsweek-dies-at-94/2014/12/02/533361ac-7984-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html
2015: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum offers exhibitions on
The Story of Jewish Atlanta, “featuring a collection of 18 carefully selected
objects, the Holocaust styled “Absence of Humanity” and for the children “Where
the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak In His Own Words & Pictures.”
2015: According to reports published today Israeli
diplomate Rami Hatan is preparing to leave for Abu Dhabi where he will open
Israel’s first diplomatic mission to the Arab country which will be part of
IRENA, the UN’s International Renewable Energy Agency.
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is
scheduled to host another concert in its “Excellence of the Future Generation
Series.”
2015: Six months after premiering at Cannes
and one week after having been released in the United States, “Carol” featuring
Carrie Brownstein as “Genevieve Cantrell” was released today in the United
Kingdom.
2015(15th of Kislev): On the
Jewish calendar, Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi (135 - ca. 220 CE), also
known as Rabbi Judah the Prince.
2016(26th of Cheshvan, 5777):
Ninety-three year old MIT professor Bruce Mazlish, the author of In Search of
Nixon: A Psychological Inquiry, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/books/bruce-mazlish-richard-nixon.html?_r=1
http://toynbeeprize.org/blog/bruce-mazlish-a-tribute/
2016: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Where Memory Leads: My Life
by Saul Friedländer, An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
by Peter Fritzsche, The Hostage’s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness and
the Middle East by Sulome Anderson and the recently release paperback
edition of As Close To Us As Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner as well as
an interview with Amos Oz “whose most recent novel is Judas” and Calvin
Trillin “on the Scariest Word” in the English language.
2016: “Alone in Berlin” is scheduled to be
shown in Canberra as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.
2016: In Venice, the Biennale Architettura
which has featured an Israeli pavilion since 1952 is scheduled to come to an
end today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-venice-biennale-israeli-pavilion-merges-art-and-science/
2017:
Dr. Diane M. Sharon is scheduled to present the final session of “Demagogues,
Madmen and Cowards: The Failure of Leaders in the Book of Judges”’
2017:
Martin Kaufman is scheduled to present the final session of “Judaism’s Ethics
Committee” in which he examines “the role of ethics in Judaism through the lens
of three highly influential thinkers whose work spans the 16th through 20th
centuries: the Maharal of Prague, a towering theologian; Nachman of Breslov, a
dynamic Chasidic master; and Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, perhaps the greatest
philosopher of Halacha of the Modern Era.”
2017:
In the United Kingdom, the Chief Rabbi is scheduled to visit Oxford where he
will speak to a student only audience, followed by the meal sponsored by the
Oxford University Jewish Society and concluding with a session that is open to
the entire community.
2017:
Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Bernard Lewis whose
works included “Semites and Anti-Semites” and “The Muslim Discovery
of Europe” continues today.
2018:
Barbara Feller, a pillar of the Jewish community, is scheduled to read from her
new publication Road to Waubeek at the Marion Public Library.
2018:
In keeping with the Jewish tradition of “lifetime learning,” Yaffe Kaye is
scheduled to offer another class in “Beginning Hebrew.”
2018:
After week, an International Jewish Festival for Contemporary Culture that has
featured such performers “Erez Lev-Ari and The Suits doing Ari San” is
scheduled to come to an end today in Jerusalem
2018:
As Americans are preparing to take part in Giving Tuesday, United Synagogue
Youth has set up its fundraiser, #IAmUSY.
2018(19th
of Kislev, 5779): Sixty-five-year-old Harold O. Levy, “son of Jewish refugees
from Germany” and the husband of Pat Sapinsley, who chancellor of New York
City’s public system from 2000 to 2002 passed away today. (As reported by
Robert D. McFadden)
2018:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, the History Center, as part of its “Oral Histories Live!”
series, is scheduled to host an evening with “almost centenarian” Herman
Ginsberg whose family has been the jewelry business for almost one hundred
while also being pillars of the Jewish community.
2018(19th
of Kislev, 5779): On the Jewish calendar, “yahrtzeit of the Maggid of Mezrech
(1710-1772), the successor of the Baal Shem Tov, who consolidated chassidic
teachings into a structured, cohesive movement.” (As reported by aish.com)
2018(19th
of Kislev, 5779): Chasidim and “friends of Chasidim” celebrated “Yud-Tet Kislev
– Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism that commemorates the release of Rabbi Schneur
Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe and founder of Chabad-Lubavitch from his 53 days of imprisonment “in the
Peter-Paul fortress in St. Petersburg.”
2019:
The Saatchi Synagogue in St. John’s Wood, London, is scheduled to host “an
international panel awareness event on” “Mental Health in the Jewish Community:
Facing the Challenge Together.”
2019:
Israelis brace for another rocket barrage from Gaza and more demonstrations
held in response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s call for his supporters to take
to the streets.
2020:
Temple Etz Chaim is scheduled to host online a “Virtual Erev Shabbat Service”
2020: In Philadelphia, The Museum Store of the
National Museum of American Jewish History for which Mitchell Levin is “an
official content provider, is scheduled to be open today on Black Friday with
curbside pickup available.
2020:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “Welcoming Shabbat
Mindfulness,” a virtual exploration of “meditation techniques from a Jewish
perspective.”
2020:
Suburban Temple-Kol Ami is scheduled to host a virtual Shabbat service with
Rabbi Allison Vann and Musical Director Deb Rogers.
2020:
Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast “Songs of Love and Madness” with
soprano Daniela Skorka and harpsichordist David Shemer.
2020:
As Israelis deal with winter storms, forecasters predict “local rain,
especially along the coast” today.
2020:
In the words of “crack office administrator” Carolyn Simon, Jews in Cedar
Rapids can find relief from “Black Friday” by attending the virtual Friday
night services at Temple Judah.
2021:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host the Israel Haydn String Quartet as
it plays “The Best of Chamber Music” featuring string quartets by Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven.
2021:
The Joy of Shabbat is tempered by reports that “a new highly mutated COVID-19
variant that was first detected in South Africa and has been raising concerns
among scientists has been identified in Israel” and “Prime Minister Naftali
Bennett warnings that Israel may be facing a potential emergency as he met with
health experts to discuss how best to respond to a new variant of the
coronavirus that has been detected in
South Africa which he described as more contagious than the Delta strain.”
(Based on reports by Attila Somfalvi and Adir Yanko)
2021
(23rd of Kislev, 5782) Parshat Va-yayshev;
2022:
Hebrew University is scheduled to host a “Digital Open Day.”
2022:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Magic To Do: “Pippin”’s
Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond, by Elysa Gardner which
tells the story of the creation of “Pippin,” the musical with music and lyrics by Stephen
Schwartz” the New York born son of Sheila Seigel and Stanley Schwartz.
2022: The UK online Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2022: The National Library of Israel is
scheduled to host a lecture by Maksym Martyn,a Ukrainian historian from Lviv,
on The “Khazarian Myth": The National
Identity of the Crimean Karaites which is part of the Ukrainian-Jewish Voices
series
2022: DOCNYC “which bills itself as America’s
largest documentary film” and has featured the screening of “Closed Circuit” Israeli
documentary that tracks the harrowing 2016 terror attack in Sarona Market in
Tel Aviv” is scheduled to come to a closed today.
2022: All decent people mourn the passing of
fifty-year-old Tadese Tashume Ben Ma’ada who was critically injured in an
explosion on November 23 at a bus stop
at the main entrance to Jerusalem, one of two bombings that rattled the capital
and who succumbed to his wounds yesterday (Shabbat) leaving behind a wife and
two children.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/second-person-dies-of-injuries-days-after-jerusalem-bombing-attack/
2023: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present “Maimonides in Times of Crisis” with rabbis Marc Angel and
Yamin Levy.
2023: My Jewish Learning is scheduled to host
the first in a four part class “on Talmudic storytelling with Jewish literature
professor Ruby Namdar.”
2023: The on-line UK Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: In New Orleans, the National Council of
Jewish Women is scheduled to host its Executive Committee today.
2023: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is
scheduled to present a lecture by Rebekka Grossman on “Circulating Zion: Global
Photojournalism and the Making of a Jewish Nation.”
2023:
As November 27 begins in Israel the four day truce that Hamas bought with a handful
of frightened children and aging citizens may be coming to an end while the
rest of the Hamas held hostages begin day 52 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)
