This Day, November 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 3
166 BCE (15th of
Cheshvan, 3595): Mattathias ben Yochanan passed away.
361: Roman Emperor
Constantius II died. Constantius II enhanced the anti-Jewish policies begun by
his father. Under his rule, converting to Judaism became a combination of trip
down the road to economic ruin and a capital offense. He prohibited Jews from
marrying Christian women and from converting Christian women to Judaism. Christian slaves owned by Jews were freed and
it was a capital offense for Jews to circumcise slaves in their household. He
decreed that Christians who converted to Judaism would forfeit their property
to the state.
644: Umar, the “2nd
Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate” who visited Jerusalem in 637 where changed
the policy of the Byzantines and encouraged Jews to return to the city and
deliberately instituted offering of Moslem prayers on the site of the destroyed
Temple” was assassinated by the Persians today.
1231 Władysław III
Spindleshanks for whom Jews in Poland worked on commission in his mint passed
away today.
1394: Enforcement of an order expelling all Jews from
France that had Charles the VI had signed on Yom Kippur. The pretext for issuing the order on
September 17, 1394, was a report that a Parisian named Denis Machuit who had
converted to Christianity had returned to Judaism.
1534: Pope Paul III decided that the bulls of
his predecessor, Pope Clement that favored the Marranos and expressed
opposition to the Inquisition should not be issued.
1507: An edict was issued today that “again
decrees that whatever had belong to the Jews of Grodno before their expulsion
must be returned to them.”
1604: Birthdate of Osman II, a Sultan who
reigned during the 17th century which was a period of decline for
the Ottoman Empire and its Jewish subjects.
Unlike many of his predecessors, it appears that Osman did not employ an
Jews as court physicians or close advisors.
1643(21st of Cheshvan): Rabbi ben Mordecai
Azulai, author of Or ha-Hamah passed away
1654: David Abrabanel Dormido, presented a petition
calling for the re-admission of the Jews to England Oliver Cromwell, the
English Lord Protector. Dormido, was a leading Amsterdam Jew, who had been
entrusted by Manasseh ben Israel to handle negotiations aimed at gaining the
re-admittance of the Jews into England. Cromwell recommended that the Council
accept the petition, but the matter stalled, and Cromwell was forced to find
another way to reach his goal.
1746: Abraham De Leon and his wife gave birth to Jacob De
Leon.
1761: Today, George III "conveyed a certain half lot
of land in Holland Tything, Percival Ward, Savanah, Georgia to David
Truan" which was at the northwest corner of today's Bull Street and
Oglethorpe Avenue where several Jews were interred before the family cemeteries
were established.”
1766: Twenty-seven-year-old German mathematician Thomas
Abbt who befriend Moses Mendelsohn before he became famous, passed away today.
1777(3rd of Cheshvan, 5538): Aaron
ben Meir of Brest, the Belarusian rabbi and advocate of the Pilpul whose
“response may be found in Meḳor Mayim Ḥayyim a work by his grandson,
Jacob Meir of Padua passed away today in Brest-Litovsk.
1780(5th of Cheshvan, 5541): Seventy-two-year-old
Isaac Mendes Seixas, a native of Lisbon, Portugal, passed away today at
Newport, Rhode Island
1782: Zipporah Levy and Benjamin Mendes Seixas gave birth
to Rebecca Seixas, the husband of Bernard Hart.
1783: At the end of the American Revolution, The American
Continental Army was disbanded. The majority of the small Jewish community in
the United States supported the Revolution.
Among those who fought for the cause were: Francis Salvador of South
Carolina who literally lost his scalp while fighting for the American cause,
Mordecai Sheftall of Georgia who served as Commissary-General for the state’s
troops, David Franks who had the mis-fortune of serving as aide-de-camp to
Benedict Arnold, Isaac Franks who was captured at the Battle of Long Island but
escaped to fight another day and Solomon Bush who rose to the rank of Lt.
Colonel, possibly making him the highest ranking Jew to serve in the
Continental Army.
1784(18th of Cheshvan, 5545): Jacob Hart, who
had remained in Newport after the British captured the town during the American
Revolution and one of whose daughters married Lieutenant Montague Blackwell, a
recuperating officer passed away today in London after come there virtually
penniless in October 1783 and a almost a year today after he had applied to the
government for compensation based on his losses caused by his loyalty to the
crown.
1785: Rachel Aarons and Joseph Tobias, the parents of
Isaac Tobias and the in-laws of Isabella Cowen were married today.
1787: Seventy-six-year-old Robert Loth, a Bishop of the
Church of England who 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) in 1754 and whose
translation of Isaiah would be rated as the best English version by scholars in
the 19th century passed away today.
1788: Alexander Hamilton, the native of Nevis who according to
some was the son a Jewess Rachel Levine and who attended the island’s Jewish
school before leaving for North America, began serving as a delegate to
the Congress of the Confederation from New York today.
1807: After his first had passed away in 1804, today in
Philadelphia sixty-three-year-old Jacob I Cohen married “the widow Rachel
(Polack) Jacobs, a descendant of the first Jews in Savannah, GA.
1810: Birthdate of German Reform rabbi Leopold Stein who
“composed for the Reform ritual the song "Tag des Herrn," to be sung
to the music of "Kol Nidre" on the eve of the Day of Atonement.”
1810: In Zagare, Lithuania, Rabbi Zev Wolf and his wife
Leah gave birth to Rabbi Yisroel ben Ze'ev Wolf Lipkin, also known as
"Yisroel Salanter" or "Israel Salanter" the father of the
Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism
1814: Birthdate of Rawitsch native Solomon Brann, who
began serving as the Rabbi at Schneidmulh in 1853.
1817: Eighty-seven-year-old “Sarah Rachele bat Nathaniel”
was interred at the “Hope Street Burial Ground.”
1820: Charlotte Florence Wattier and Isaac Gompertz gave
birth to Richard John Gompertz.
1823: In Bavaria, Abraham and Bella Kohn gave birth to
Isaac Kohn, the husband of Henrietta Yetta Kohn.
1824: Birthdate of Hamburg, Germany, native Benjamin
Jonas who married Julia Lawrence after the death of Isabella Salamon.
1825(22nd of Cheshvan, 5586): Aron Landauer
the Austrian born son of Judith and Abraham Landauer the husband of Anna
Landauer passed away today.
1826: The French version “Margherita d'Anjou,” an
operatic melodramma semiseria in two
acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer premiered at Theatre Odéon in Paris
1833: In Frauenberg, France, Esther Cahn-Lazard, the French born daughter
of Jonas Alexandre Aron and Sara Zerlé Simon Aron and her husband Elie ben
Abraham Lazard gave birth to Elie Lazar, II the husband of Marie Lazard
1835: Two days after he had passed away, 61-year-old Joel Barnett, the
husband of Sarah Moss with whom he had four children was buried today at
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1835: In Hungary “Alois (or Abraham)
Fleischmann, a Jewish distiller and yeast maker, and his wife Babette gave
birth to Charles Louis
Fleischmann, the husband of Henriette Robinson Fleischman with whom he had
three children – Julius, Bettie and Max and the brother of Maximilian with whom
cocreated America’s first commercially produced yeast, which revolutionized
baking in a way that made today’s mass production and consumption of bread
possible. Yes, Fleischmann’s yeast is
Kosher.
1837:
Birthdate of German actor Ludwig Chronegk,
the native of Brandenburg-on-the-Havel who “was the stage-manager and
"Intendanzrath" of the famous Meininger troupe established at Weimar
by Duke George of Meiningen.”
1839: Issuance of The Hatt-ı Şerif of Gülhane
a proclamation that “launched a period of reforms” in the Ottoman Empire which
held to improve the situation of Turkish Jews.
1841: Abraham Segenberg married Mary Levy at
the New Synagogue today.
1842(30th of Cheshvan, 5603): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1842: In Meyersdale, PA, Joseph Ullman, the
German born son of Rosa and Hayim Simon Uhlmann
gave birth to Simon Ulman
1846(14th of Cheshvan, 5607): Rabbi Abraham
Auerbach, nephew of Joseph David Sinzheim who survived the Reign of Terror in
France and whose seven sons included Rabbi Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach, passed
away today in Bonn, Germany.
1847: Samuel Barnett married Phoebe Judah at
the Great Synagogue today.
1847: Elias Isaacs married Kate Benjamin
today.
1847: Kehillat Anshe Ma'arab, the first
Jewish congregation in Chicago, was established today, when a constitution was
adopted and signed by fourteen members. Morris L. Leopold, a young man of
twenty-six, born in Laubheim, Württemberg, was elected president (As reported
by the Jewish Encyclopedia)
1852: Catherine
(nee Levy) Davis, the wife of Noah Davis with whom he had four children –
Isaac, Marcus, James and Jane – was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1853: In “Hohebach,
Wurtemherg,” Jacob Bear and the former Rose Tannebaum gave birth to Decorah,
IA, merchant Benjamin Bear.
http://iagenweb.org/boards/winneshiek/biographies/index.cgi?read=487438
1860: The first neighborhood outside the old city wall of Jerusalem was dedicated. The site was
purchased by Sir Moses Montefiore five years earlier and is known as Mishkenot
Sha'ananim. Although there was initial resistance to leaving the
"security" of the old city walls, it soon led to the establishment of
dozens of new neighborhoods.
1861(30th of Cheshvan, 5622): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1861(30th of Cheshvan, 5622):
Ignatz Margittai, the infant son of Rabbi David Margittai and Rachel Rozalia,
Juli Margittai passed away today in Hungary.
1862: Simon Arnold who was wounded at
Gettysburg, began serving with Company H of the 151st Regiment.
1862: In the Karlovy Vary District, Samuel
Hirsch and Karolina Leni/Lea Hirsch (Löbl) gave birth to Bertha Löwi, the ife
of Jacob Löwy and the “mother of Elviera Gutmann; Siegmund Löwi; Ernst Loewe
and Fritz Löwi”
1862: David D. Meyers, who would rise to the
rank of Corporal before his discharge, began his service today as a member of
Company A of the 154th Regiment.
1867: Enrico Guastalla, the son of Jewish
family from Milan, was among those who fought with forces of Garibaldi today at
the Battle of Mentana.
1867: In Hamburg as Reform and Orthodox
community clashed, statues for a new DIG (Ashkenazi Deutsch-Israelitische
Gemeinde zu Hamburg) were enacted in a new constitution that provided for
tolerance among the DIG members as to matters of the cult and religious
tradition. “This unique model, thus called Hamburg System (Hamburger System),
established a two-tiered organization of the DIG with the college of
representatives and the umbrella administration in charge of matters of general
Ashkenazi interest, such as cemetery, zedakah for the poor, hospital and
representation of the Ashkenazim towards the outside. The second tier formed
the so-called Kultusverbände (cult associations), Associations independent in
religious and financial matters by their own elected boards and membership
dues, but within the DIG, took care of religious affairs.” Effectively, the new
system allowed for community cohesion while allowing the Reform to have their
own house of worship using their own prayer books and rituals.
1867: “After the Paris Exposition of 1867”
which closed today, “the reviewer for The
Times called Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon’s pictures ‘matchless,’ beyond praise’ and ‘the
finest photographic portraits in the world.’”
1868: U.S. Grant
won the Presidential election defeating Horatio Seymour. Grant was the first
President to attend a synagogue service while in office. In 1876 Adas Israel
Congregation in Washington D.C. was dedicated and Grant was in attendance. At
the time, Adas Israel was an Orthodox Congregation. Today it is one of two Conservative
congregations still in the District of Columbia.
1869: The
Philadelphia Conference of Reform Rabbi opened today p46
1873: George de
Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms and Louisa de Samuel gave birth to Percy de Worms the
grandson of Solomon Benedict de Worms and Henrietta Samuel and the
great-great-grandson of Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
1874:
Twenty-year-old Lionel Edward Pyke, the Chatham born son of Joseph Pyke and London
University graduate “entered as student of the Inner Temple today.”
1875: Charlotte
Nevy and Morris Brown gave birth to the future president of the General
Necessities Corp of Detroit and the Brownie Stores Company of Detroit, David A.
Brown, the husband of Paula Kahn and the chairman of the finance committee of
UAHC and chief adviser for the Million Dollar Endowment Fund Campaign for JTS
who in 1924 “toured the U.S., New
Zealand, South Wales and Australia in behalf of the Palestine Found Fund” while
also making a study of Jewish conditions in Russia…”
1876: Charlotte
Nevy and Morris Brown gave birth Detroit public educated David A. Brown, the
husband of Paula Kahn whom he married in 1904 and the president of the General
Necessities Corporation, the Brownie Stores Company and Vogt Refrigerator
Company of Louisville who was the chairman of the finance committee of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the chief advisor to the Million
Dollar Endowment Campaign conducted on behalf of JTS.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0018/ms0018.html
1877: Birthdate of
Canadian native Archibald Selwyn, the Selma, AL raised brother of actor Edgar
Selwyn who was an “American play broker, theatre owner” Broadway producer and one of the founders of Goldwyn Picture which
later became MGM.
1877: As conflict
continues to swirl through the Balkans, it was reported today, that several
Polish dissidents who may have been the
intended recipient of arms being shipped secretly from Vienna have been
arrested based on information provided by an un-named Jew from Gratz “who has
turned state’s evidence for a consideration. [Editor’s note – the veracity of
this report is open to question. It
could have represented an attempt to stir up enmity between Poles and Jews; the
image of the Jew selling out for money is as old as the calumny about Judas
Iscariot]
1878: First settlers moved to Petach Tikva. Petach Tikva is Hebrew for Gateway of
Hope. A group of Jews from Jerusalem
bought land from a Greek landowner on the coastal plain. The initial settlement failed because of
malaria and crop failure. Petach Tikva
would rise again, and a youthful David Ben Gurion would be one of the settlers.
1879: The Board of Trustees of Temple Beth-El met this evening to
plan the funeral for the Rabbi David Einhorn, of blessed memory. Mrs. Einhorn,
who had wanted the funeral to be a private affair agreed to allow for a more
public event which will be conducted by Rabbi Kauffman Kohler, her son-in-law
and the man who had succeeded Rabbi Einhorn when he retired as the spiritual
leader of Temple Beth-El
1879: It was reported today that France has successfully
reasserted herself in the field of foreign affairs. Among the areas where the French appear to be
on the verge of accomplishing their goals is Romania where she has worked to
convince the government of the need to fully emancipate her Jewish
population. This is reported as a
self-less act since the French have no national interest in accomplishing this.
1880: In Rochester, NY, Louise Herschman and Rabbi Sigmund
Mannheimer gave birth to University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained Rabbi
Eugene M. Mannheimer, the husband of Irma Shloss Mannheimer who served as the
rabbi at Sinai Congregation in Sioux City, IA before moving on to Congregation
B’nai Jeshurun in Des Moines in 1905.
1881: It was reported today that the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan
Asylum is planning on building a new facility that will house 600
children. Located between 136th
and 138th street, the new structure will cost $250,000 which does
not include the cost of the land.
1883: Birthdate of Vilnius native and Bundist Moisei Rafes who
joined the Communist Party.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Rafes_Moyshe
1884: “Tried For Burning A Synagogue” published today draws on
information that first appeared in the London
Standard describes a trial In
Hungary where five Jews have been
charged with arson for their role in burning down a synagogue five years
ago. The trial is expected to last two
weeks since testimony is to be heard from 90 witnesses.
1884: Based on information that first appeared in the London Truth, that the Duke of
Westminster has declined to renew Sir Moses Montefiore’s lease on the house in
Park Lane that has been his home for several decades on the terms
requested. Instead, he has said that he
will “accept the worthy old gentleman as a yearly tenant”
1885(25th of Cheshvan, 5646): Milton Silverman, the son of
shoemaker Julius Silverman died as a result of a blow struck by Julius Rubiner,
a Jew from Poland who owned a grocery store on Hester Street.
1888: In St. Petersburg, the police “have given notice that Jews
will not be allowed to change their names or to reside in the capital without a
permit.”
1885: At Maida Vale, London, “Benjamin Keysor, a Jewish clock
importer and his wife gave birth to Australian war hero and businessman today.
(As reported by Dudley McCarthy)
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/keysor-leonard-maurice-6946
1887: Birthdate of New York City native Nathaniel Stanley “Nat”
Fleischer, the boxing expert who founded Ring Magazine.
http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/nonparticipant/fleischer.html
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/126210-why-did-the-boxing-world-ever-listen-to-nat-fleischer
1887: Today, in San Francisco, “a meeting was held at the
residence of the late F.L. Castle” where “the Mt. Zion Hospital Association was
formed, and a committee was appointed that collected thirty thousand dollars.
1888: Birthdate of New York City native and Brooklyn podiatrist
“Hennan Scheimberg”
1888: In Philadelphia, Frances Marx Landreth, the daughter of
Maria and Edward Johnson Etting II and her husband Lucius Scott Landreth gave birth
to Maria Etting Landreth, the “sister of Lucius Scott Landreth, Jr. and Rodney
Landreth.”
1889: Professor Felix Adler is scheduled to speak at the funeral
of August Henry Edinger, the patron of several Jewish charities which is to be
held this morning at 9:30 a.m.
1889: It was reported today that 30% of the students at the four
inns of court in England “who passed examinations qualifying them to be called
barristers” have “names that are Jewish.”
1889: In Chicago, Joseph Byfield “the son of innkeepers in Hungary
who 1867 immigrated to Chicago where he first worked for Marshall Field
department store and his wife gave birth to Ernest Lessing Byfield who “operated
the Hotel Sherman Co., including the Ambassador East and West, the Sherman
House Hotel, the Fort Dearborn and the Drake hotels and The Pump Room and
College Inn restaurants and whose “first wife was Gladys Rosenthal the
Jewish daughter of Benjamin J.
Rosenthal, the founder of the Chicago Mail Order Company (later known as
Aldens)
http://chicagojewishhistory.org/pdf/2006/CJH.2.2006.pdf
1890(20th of Cheshvan”, 5651): Sixty-four-year-old Manuel Joël,
the Jewish philosopher who wrote essays on Ibn Gabriol and Maimonides and
succeeded Abraham Geiger as the rabbi in Breslau, passed away today.
1892(13th of Cheshvan, 5653): Forty-nine-year-old
Francis Weisbart Jacobs, the Kentucky born daughter of Leon Wiesbart,
Cincinnati School teacher, wife of Abraham Jacobs and co-founder of the Denver
Jewish Hospital Association and the United Way passed away in Denver.
https://jwa.org/people/jacobs-frances
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jacobs-frances-wisebart
https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1501041
1894: At Memorial Hall in Boston, 2,000 Jews attended “a mock
funeral service” in which they rejoiced over the death of Czar Alexander III.
1894: George T. Selikovitsch, the former editor of the Jewish
Eagle declined an invitation to speak at the “mock funeral” for Czar Alexander
III saying that “he disliked the Czar but was unwilling to trample on the
grave.”
1894: As European governments mourned the death of Czar Alexander
III, the Vienna correspondent for the London Standard reported that “some time
ago a deputation petitioned the Czarevitch to intervene” on behalf of the
Russian Jews. The heir to the Russian
throne replied, “I despise and condemn the expulsion of your countrymen, but my
hands are tied.” (The Czarevith,
Nicholas II, proved to be as anti-Semitic as his late father)
1895: Thirty-year-old Dr. Lucian Mayer Langbank, who would be
murdered during the Holocaust married Ernestine Langbank.
1895: The second annual concert of the Halevy Singing Society took
place this evening at the Hebrew Institute Hall at East Broadway and Jefferson
Street.
1895: It was reported today that in Paris, the anti-Semitic Libre Parole is making an effort “to
elevate personal hatred of the Jews to the height of a great principle
1895(16th of Cheshvan, 5656): Just twenty days before
his 94th birthday Barrow Jacob Montefiore the son of Eliezer
Montefiore and Judith Montefiore and the husband Justina Lydia Montefiore who
with his brother worked to develop a number of commercial ventures in Australia
including the Bank of Australasia and founded the township
of Montefiore, at the confluence of the Bell and MacQuarrie rivers, in
Wellington Valley, passed away today in London.
1895(16th of Cheshvan, 5656): Forty-year-old Morris
Deschner, forty-five Isaac Pensen and fifty-five old Jacob Shapiro, all Jewish
tailors from Russia died today in a fire this morning at 7 Pelham Street which
is “in the heart of the sweat-shop district.”
1895: The monthly visiting day at the Hebrew Sheltering Arms was
not held because the place has been placed under quarantine because of the
measles epidemic.
1895: “Youngsters In Politics” published today described a meeting
co-hosted by the Hebrew Institute Street Cleaning League in which Mayor Strong
addressed the Jewish boys and girls who have voluntarily joined together to
keep the streets of the Lower East Side free from trash and garbage.
1896: William McKinley defeated
William Jennings Bryan in the race of the Presidency. Like many populists of the day, Bryan dabbled
in anti-Semitism. The image of the
international Jewish bankers denying the “free silver” to American farmers and
workers was a favorite of the time. (You have to know American history to
follow this one.) Tom Watson of Georgia
ran on the ticket with Bryan as the candidate for Vice President. Watson’s anti-Semitism was cruder and more
blatant than many other of his contemporaries.
Watson was a supporter of the Klan.
In 1913, he was a leader in whipping up anti-Semitic sentiment against
Leo Frank. Watson may not have actually been at Frank’s lynching, but he
certainly played a major role in making it possible to put the noose around the
innocent Frank’s neck.
1896: “Mother and Son Buried” published today described the joint
funeral services that were held for Abraham Fox and his mother Ernestine Fox
who had died two days from the effects of consumption, the same illness that
claimed Abraham’s life.
1897: In London, at the Central Synagogue, the Chief Rabbi,
assisted by Rabbis Fay and Spero officiated at the marriage of Jacob Waley
Cohen, “the eldest son of Nathaniel Louis Cohen” and Katherine Cohen “the
fourth daughter of Arthur Cohen, Esq.”
1897: Two days after he
passed away, 82 year old Clara Goldsmid, the wife of Moses Goldsmid, was buried
today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”
1898:
The Zionist Delegation leaves Jerusalem and goes back
to Yafo. Herzl wants to leave the country immediately and they board the
English orange freighter "Dundee" for Alexandria, Egypt.
1899(1st of Kislev, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1899(1st of Kislev, 5660): Belgian engraver Jacques
Wiener who designed the first Belgian postage stamps and whose talent led to
him being “decorated with the Order of the Knights of Leopold and the Prussian
Eagle” passed away today.
1900(11th of Cheshvan, 5661): Parashat Noach
1900: In Herzogenaurach, Germany, Christoh and Pauline Dassler
gave birth to Adolf “Adi” Dassler, the founder of Adidas, who, after appearing
before a denazification panel in 1946 “was declared
a Belasteter, the second most serious category of Nazi offenders,
which included profiteers, and subjected the convict up to 10 years in prison…:
1901: Julius J. Frank presided over a meeting tonight of the
Education Alliance where “auditorium was well filled with an earnest and
attentive gather of east side Jews who heard speeches by Republican Leo G.
Rosenblatt and Cyrus L. Sulzberger who “delivered a talk on the sale of votes.”
1902(3rd of Cheshvan, 5663): Eighty-five-year-old philanthropist
Ferdinand Reichenheim passed away in Berlin.
1902: In Vienna, Alma and Gustave Mahler gave birth to Anna
Justine “Gucki” Mahler
1903: Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia. The first Jews who arrived in Panama in the
early 16th century were Conversos, secret Jews. The Jews formed their first community in
1876. Within a decade after the
revolution that created the independent Panama, there were approximately 500
Jews living in Panama. Two of the
families living in Panama at that time were the Henriques and the Sassos. Vera Sasso, the daughter of a Sephardic
merchant made her way to the United States where she became Vera Sasso
Levy. She is the great-great-great-
grandmother of Jacob and Rachel Levin.
1903(13th of Cheshvan, 5664: Mena Roos, wife of Aaron Roos passed
away. Born in Bavaria in 1826, she was
buried in Natchez, Mississippi, which at one time was home to a thriving Jewish
community.
1903:
Italian financier Luigi Luzzatti, the second Jewish Prime Minister of Italy
began serving second as term as the Minister of Treasury.
1904:
Jacob A. Schiff, Mortimer Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Strauss and Profess Edwin
Seligman were among those who attended the birthday exercises for the Emperor
of Japan which is considered one of the three principal holidays of the year in
that country.
1905:
As the violence during what would be called the “Russian Revolution of 1905”
continued Jews were attacked by both sides as could be seen today when Jewish
stores at Romny were burned to the ground during a riot that began when a rich
merchant refused to take off his hat for a red flag while “The Black Hundreds”
were attacking Jews at Smolensk. (The Red flag belonged to the left wing
revolutionaries while the Black Hundreds were a right-win ultranationalist
movement)
1905: Czar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for
political prisoners.
1905: “The Russian People” published today provided a commentary
on the current violence in Russia including the revelation that “the
continuance of murderous assaults upon the Jews in Odessa and elsewhere is
well-nigh incomprehensible” and that “these outbreaks against the Jews, which
were generally believed to be encouraged by the local Government authority,
were among the gravest evils under the autocracy.”
1905: In Odessa, “mobs pillaged a number of Jewish shops”
including the “biggest wholesale grocery in the city owned by Rabinovitch” and
“killed a physician and two assistants who were dressing wounds.”
1905: As a dispatch arrived at St. Petersburg, saying that
“attacks on the Jews were continuing today” “Baron von Aehrenthal, the
Ambassador of Austria-Hungary visited General Trepoff and called special
situation to the situation in Odessa and Kiev and C.A. Spring-Rice, the British
Charge d’Affairs demanded protection for the persons and property of British
subjects at Odessa, Kiev, Rostoff-on-Don and Grodny.
1905: “Slaying Jews Everywhere” published today described the
murderous assaults on the Jews at Rostoff-on-Don where all of the “rich Jewish
establishments were sacked” while “all of the houses of the Christians” were
spared and Minks where “fifty-four bodies have been buried in the Jewish
cemetery” and where funerals are taking place “every half-hour.
1905: “5,000 Victims of Odessa Mob” published today described the
continuing massacre of the Jews in the Russian city where “Jews are being
hunted down in the streets and killed and beaten, while their shops are given
over to pillage.” “The Jewish women and children” have reported been “hacked to
pieces” and the rioters “say they will not leave one alive.”
1905: In an interview this morning, “a leading General…argued that
the disturbances” in Odessa “were the result of the behavior of the Jews, who,
he said rudely shocked Russian patriotism by the manner in which they
celebrated the publication of the imperial manifesto” and “abused their new
–found freedom by tearing down the national flag, hoisting revolutionary
banners, insulting the Emperor and boasting that they along gave Russia
freedom.
1905: Riots which had been organized by the police continued for a
second day in Bachmut, Bessarabia.
1906(15th of Cheshvan, 5667): Parashat Vayera
1906: SOS became an international distress signal.
1906: Campaigning in New York which includes a run by Julius Mayer
for State Attorney General is winding up this weekend.
1907: Birthdate of Georgetown University Law School graduated
David Adelman who won “his first two consecutive titles in the shot put at the
Penn Relays in Philadelphia” in 1929.
1908: William
Howard Taft was elected 27th President. Taft was the first
President to attend a Seder while in office. In 1912, when he visited
Providence, RI, he participated in the family Seder of Colonel Harry Cutler,
first president of the National Jewish Welfare Board. This was probably a
political fence-mending gesture designed to recapture some of the Jewish
political support Taft lost when he failed to support efforts to halt
anti-Semitic policies of the Czar aimed at American Jews.
1908: Morris Hillquite received 21.23% of the vote in today’s
election where he was running for the House seat in the 9th
Congressional District.
1909: Professor F.C. Woodward of Richmond College is scheduled to
deliver a lecture this afternoon at the second general meeting of the Council
of Jewish Women being held at “Temple Beth Ahabah” in Richmond, VA,
1910: Forty-two-year-old Parisian born Jewish journalist and
politician Louis-Lucien Klotz began serving as Minister of Finance in the
second government of Aristide Briand.
1911: Hundreds of Jews were left destitute by floods at Serres,
Salonica.
1911: The New York Times
reports that the Russian Premier has “heeded to the plea of the Jews” and
modified the order to expel the Jews from the province of Ekaterinoslaff.
1911(12th of Cheshvan, 5672): Seventy-five-year-old Rabbi Solomon
Mosche who served Beth Elohim in Brooklyn passed away.
1911: Phillip Klein of Budapest was created a Royal Counsellor by
the Emperor of Austria.
1911: Today, “Professor Mahler was compelled to resign from the
University of Prague because of” his support of the Zionism.’
1911: A Jewish teacher at government school for girls at Volo,
Greece was dismissed as not being “qualified to instruct Christian children.”
1911: Today, in Turkey, the Chief Rabbi, in cooperation with the
Patriarchs of Christians, who have similar grievances, took measures to prevent
conversion of Jewish girls in Salonica to” Islam.
1912: A Jewish teacher in a government school for girls in Volo, Greece, was
dismissed as not being qualified to instruct Christian children.
1912: The Levi C. Lane Medical Library was dedicated on across the
street from the Cooper Medical College “which had become the Stanford
University Department of Medicine.”
1913: In Pittsburgh, PA, Harry and Mary Levine gave birth to
Milton Martin Levine, who “With his brother-in-law, Levine…devised what was
eventually named Uncle Milton's Ant Farm, which was an instant hit in the
fad-crazy 1950s.”
1913(3rd of Cheshvan, 5674): Forty-seven-year-old
Edward Morris, the President and Treasurer of the packing firm of Morris and
Company and the husband of the former Helen Swift, the daughter of the founder
of packings house of Swift and Company passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/11/04/100658410.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1913: In Manila, Cornell trained engineer Abraham Gideon, the
Russian born son of Myron O Gideon-Getsman and Reba Gideon-Getsman Edith Mary
Gideon
1913: The New York Times
reports on a study conducted by Abram Lipsky and published in the American Hebrew that examines the
question of whether or not there is among the Jews of New York City a
"Jewish vote" that can be depended upon for political purposes.
1913: Birthdate of Nathan “Nat’ Frankel who played guard and
forward for the basketball teams at Samuel J. Tilden High School and Brooklyn
College before spending a season with the Pittsburgh Ironmen of the Basketball
Association of America.
1914: Meyer London defeated his Tammany Hall backed opponent in
his bid for election to the House of Representatives. This made him the second member of the
Socialist Party to be elected to Congress.
1914: Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire
1914: Mary Phelps Jacob won a patent for the first modern
brassiere. Mary Phelps Jacob was not
Jewish. But the woman who took the bra
to its next level was. “During
the flat-chested Flapper era in the 1920’s, a Russian immigrant named Ida
Rosenthal noticed that a bra that fit one woman did not fit another woman of
the same bra size. With the help of her husband William, they founded
Maidenform. Ida was responsible for grouping women into bust size categories
(cup sizes) and developed bras for every stage of life from puberty to
maturity.” (And you thought this was all about Talmud, Torah and Nobel Prizes.)
1915:
It was reported today that “arrangements have been made at the Bronx Young
Men’s Hebrew Association located on Boston Road at the corner of 165th
Street, to render all legal aid and advice to any deserving person and the
rooms are open in the evenings for such a purpose.
1916:
In Natchez, MI the funeral for 80-year-old Civil War veteran of U.S. Grant’s
Army that captured Vicksburg and retired whole sale dry goods merchant Henry Frank, the Bavaria born son of Getta
Sachs and Maier Frank and the husband of
Melanie Franks with whom he had nine children – Caroline, Rosalie, Frederick,
Ernest, Herman, Edgar, Wilhelm, Ophelia and Jeanette – who was “a devout Jew”
and “a charter member of Congregation of B’nai Israel” which he served as
president, is scheduled to take place today at noon.
1916:
Joseph P. Tracy, the Adjutant General of the War Department wrote to Simon Wolf
in response to the latter’s letter seeking help in getting a hardship
reassignment for a soldier serving with Battery “F” of the Field Artillery
saying that given the conditions described, the reassignment was possible and
the solider should apply through appropriate channels.
1917(18th
of Cheshvan, 5678): Parashat Vayera
1917:
At Leeds, UK, Sir Montague Maurice Burton, “founder of Burton, one of Great
Britain’s’ largest chains of clothes shops and Sophie Burton gave birth to
Arnold James Burton and Raymond Montague Burton.
1917:
At Temple Beth-El, Rabbi Samuel Schulman delivered a sermon in which he
“assailed prominent Jews who had advised” their co-religionists “to vote in a
particular direction” saying that “it was an insult to the Jews to classify
them in any respect, except that of religion.”
1917:
“Emphasizing that there is no Jewish vote en masse and that the Jews are
discriminating voters, Dr. Nathan Krass, the rabbi of Temple Israel in Brooklyn
made an earnest appeal to Jews not to vote for Morris Hilliquit because he
stands for things that are dangerous.”
1917: As the Russian Revolution moves to its
climax, which means Russia, will drop out of the war leaving the Germans to
turn the full weight of the arms against the Allies on the Western Front, plans
are made to send three leading Zionists, including Vladimir Jabotinsky, to
Petrograd to rally Russian Jewry to the Allied cause. One British official, Lord Hardinge, summed
up the British expectations by writing, “With skillful management of the Jews
of Russia the situation may still be restored by spring.” Alas, the Allies were a day late and a dollar
short. They underestimated the power of
the Bolsheviks, and they overestimated the power of the Zionists and believed
too much, like philo-Semites and anti-Semites, in the mythic power of “the
Jews.”
1918:
Today Private Abe Levinson of Company G, 167th Regiment received the
“Distinguished Service Medal for extraordinary heroism in action near Croix
Rouge Farm, northeast of Chateau Thierry on July 27.”
1918:
“More than 15,000 persons representing the three great religious groups
attended the United War Work Campaign meeting today in Madison Square Garden
and heard…speakers for Protestants, Catholics and Jews call upon a America
united religiously to support the seven war relief organizations’ campaign” to
raise over $170,000,000 which begins next week.
1918:
Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I. There were about three million Jews living in
Poland. Many Jews were active in the
movement for Polish Independence. From
1918 until 1921, Poland was wracked by a series of wars and internecine
conflicts that included several Pogroms.
There was enough concern among the Western Powers about Polish
anti-Semitism that there was a series of explicit clauses in the Paris Peace
Conference protecting the rights of minorities in Poland. In 1921 the March
Constitution gave the Jews the same legal rights as other citizens and
guaranteed them religious tolerance.
Unfortunately, the Polish government did not always honor these
guarantees.
1920: It was reported today that Nathan Straus, Jr. has been
elected to as the Senator for District 15.
1921: In his diary, Zionist leader Arthur Rupin describes how he
convinced Montague David Eder that the four victims of Arab rioting should not
be buried in quietly in the evening but should be interred following a
dignified public funeral.
1922: Socialist Jean Longuet, the grandson of the Karl Marx
arrived in the United States aboard the Mauretania.
1922: It was reported today that in the upcoming elections in
Poland, “the Jewish vote will be split as the Jews have been unable to agree on
the candidates they will support.”
1923: “Speaking tonight under the auspices of the Women's
Auxiliary of the Beth Moses Hospital at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on
anti-Semitism, Israel Zangwill, author and publicist, declared that the
American Jewish Congress had falsified the message it received from President
Coolidge.”
1924: In New York, Solomon or Samuel Max Handleman, the Ukrainian
born son of Simcha and Esther Handleman and Mollie Handleman gave birth to
Seymour N. Handleman
1924(6th of Cheshvan, 5685): Frederick Abel, who rose
to the rank of Captain during the Civil War passed away today in his hometown
of Brooklyn.
1924: Josiah Wegwood, the English political leader who would oppose
the appeasement of Hitler and the British anti-Zionist policies in the 1930’s
relinquished the role of Chancellor of the Duchy Lancaster.
1925: Glovemaker and former Representative Lucius N. Littauer of
New York has provided funds to establish the Nathan Littauer Professorship of
Jewish Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University it was announced today”
in Cambridge and that the chair is intended to honor his father Nathan who died
in 1891.
1926: “The Play’s The Thing,” an adaption of the Hungarian play
“Play at the Castle” written by Ferenc Molnár the son of” Dr. Mór Neumann, a
prosperous and well-regarded gastroenterologist, and Jozefa Wallfisch, both of
whom were of German-Jewish heritage” premiered today at Henry Miller’s Theatre.
1926: Birthdate of Berlin native and survivor of the Lodz Ghetto,
Seweryn Bialer, the Soviet defector who shared the expertise gained while
working for the Communists in post-war Poland. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1927: It was reported today that Mayor Walker has accepted an
invitation to be one of tile speakers at the formal opening of the $5,000,000
money-raising program of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, on November 6, according to an
announcement made by Colonel Michael Friedman, Honorary Chairman of the affair.
1927: “Rabbi Lewis Browne of New York City, who spoke tonight
before Nebraska teachers at the University of Nebraska Coliseum said he
performed the marriage ceremony of writer Hendrik von Loon and actress Frances
Goodrich at Elizabeth, NJ even though they wre not Jewish but because they were
close friends, and they had asked him perform the ceremony.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/11/04/101696561.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1927: “A Connecticut Yankee” with music by Richard Rodgers and
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
1928: Arnold Rothstein was shot and mortally wounded while
conducting some business affairs at Manhattan's Park Central Hotel. He died the
next day at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan. The shooting was
allegedly linked to a gambling event that Rothstein had participated in the
previous month with several associates and acquaintances
1928: Premiere of B.P. Schulberg’s “Abie’s Irish Rose,” a film
based on a play of the same name with a script co-authored by Herman
Mankiewicz, that “tells the story of a Jewish boy, Abie Levy, who falls in love
with and secretly marries Rosemary Murphy, an Irish Catholic girl, but lies to
his family, saying that she's Jewish.”
1928: Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for President
delivered a radio address tonight in which he condemned racial and religious
bigotry and pointed that “hunger cold, poverty, oppression and war do not ask
our religion” while “wage cuts are no respecters of Catholics, Jews or
Protestants.
1929(30th of Tishrei, 5690): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1929 (30th of Tishrei, 5690):Yakov Blumkin, the Checka
and GPU agent was killed today – an apparent victim of Stalin’s drive to beat
out Trotsky for control of the Communist Party and the USSR.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blumkin.jpg
1930: “Members of the Chicago Hadassah today heard Dr. John Haynes
Holmes of the Community Church of New York denounced the recent action of the
British Government forbidding further Jewish immigration to Palestine” saying
“the new policy of the British Labor Government has caused the greatest tragedy
in the history of Zionism…”
1930: “The First Seminar in the East held to discuss the problems
of discrimination between Jews, Protestant and Catholics” closed Carlisle, PA
“this afternoon following a harmonious discussion in which representatives”
including Rabbi Phillip D. Bookstaber of Harrisburg, “of the interested groups
spoke.
1931: In an unusual turn of events, 162 persons were injured today
in a fight in Grodzisk, Posan where Christians defended their Jewish neighbors
from 200 hooligans from neighboring villages.”
1932: Morris Hillquit, the Socialist candidate for Mayor delivered
an address tonight at Madison Square Garden.
1932: German industrial leaders petitioned President Hindenburg to
appoint Hitler as Chancellor, thus putting the lie to the later claim that they
had not been early supporters of the Nazis.
1933: Funeral services were scheduled to be held today for Samuel
S. Piser, who is survived by his widow Cella Greenberg Piser and their three
daughters – Mrs. Sylvia Heller, Mrs. Beatrice Kaye and Mrs. Gertrude David –
following which interment will take place at the Waldheim Cemetery.
1933: “Scandal in Budapest” a comedy produced by Joe Pasternak
with music by Nicholas Brodszky was released today in Germany.
1933: “The Tunnel” a Franco-German sci-fi film directed by Curtis
Bernhardt who co-authored the script along with Henry Koster was released today
in France and Germany.
1934(25th of Cheshvan, 5695) Parashat Chayei Sara
1934: “An appeal to Jewish firms to engage Jewish unemployed was
made” in Berlin today “by the Berman Jewish Welfare Centre in a proclamation
inaugurating a campaign to find work for Jews “suffering hardships” who were
sent away from their positions because of Nazi decrees after many years of
employment.
1935: In Hanover Germany Rabbi Emil Schorsch and his wife Fanny
Rothschild, the daughter of Theodore Rothschild gave birth Ismar Schorsch “the Chancellor emeritus of
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor
of Jewish history.
1935(7th of Cheshvan, 5696): Dr. Harry Bernard
Podlasky, the Milwaukee physician and Jewish community leader passed away
today.
1936: President
Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred "Alf"
Landon. During this second term, FDR would appoint Felix Frankfurter as a
Supreme Court Justice.
1936(18th of Cheshvan, 5697): Seventy-six-year-old
Emily Grace Solis-Cohen, the daughter of David Hays Solis and Elvira Nathan
Solis, the wife of Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen (her 1st cousin) with
whom she had three children and whose support for Zionism including “raising
funds for the School of the Parents' Education Association in Jerusalem” passed
away today in her native Philadelphia.
1936: Birthdate of Manford Levy, the most ardent Longhorn fan on
the face of the earth and one of the nicest people to grace the face of the
earth.
1936: “Opinion” a Jewish publication of which Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise is the editor announced today it was sponsoring an essay contest on ‘How
to Combat Anti-Semitism in America.’
1937(29th of Cheshvan, 5698): Alderman Nathan Promisle
passed away today in his native Hartford, CT.
1938(9th of Cheshvan, 5699): Ninety-six-year-old German born Jacob August, a decorated veteran
of the Franco-Prussian War, the oldest clothing manufacturer in Rochester and
the oldest member of B’rith Kidesh Temple who was the father of three daughters and three sons – Leo, David
and Simon – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/11/04/96851189.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1938: In Hanover, Rabbi Emil Schorsch and his wife gave birth to
Ismar Schorsch, the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary.
1938:
Dr. Simon Ginzburg of Tel Aviv announced the
formation of an American campaign committee to help raise $50,000 for the
Palestine Hebrew Culture Fund. He had come to the United States to promote the
interests of the fund. “Dr. Ginsburg is the chairman of the Hebrew Writers
Association of Palestine and honorary secretary of the Hebrew Pen Club of Palestine.” Plans are also in the works to “call a world
conference of Hebrew writers, educators and laymen in connection with the
World’s Fair in New York during May or June, 1939.”
1938: In Paris, Herschel Grynszpan received a post card from his
sister Berta that described how his family had been forced to leave Germany and
then were stranded on the Polish border because the Poles would not admit them.
1938: “Michael Schaap, president of Bloomingdale's, announced
today the appointment of I. A. Hirschmann as director of advertising and sales
promotion, a newly created post. Mr. Hirschmann will take up his new duties on
Nov. 14. They will comprise the supervision of all of the store's advertising,
publicity, display and sales promotion
1939: “Main Street Lawyer,” a crime drama written by Joseph
Krumgold and Devery Freeman was released in the United States today.
1939: “Drums Along the Mohawk,” a movie version of the novel by
the same name with a script by Sonya Levien and music by Alfred Newman was
released in the United States today.
1939: In Los Angeles, CA, Arthur and Zelda Wolpe gave birth to
Howard Eliot Wolpe, the “congressman who played a crucial role in passing
legislation that imposed economic sanctions on South Africa in the 1980s,
helping to bring an end to apartheid while overcoming two vetoes by President
Ronald Reagan. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1940: Sixty-year-old Lewis Wickes Hine who created a photographic
record of Jews arriving at Ellis Island passed away today.
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4e8a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
1941: Einsatzgruppe B reported 80,000 Jews have been killed in the
Ukraine up to this point
1942: During World War II the Second Battle of El Alamein ended in
Egypt with the British defeating the German and Italian forces under Erwin
Rommel. This defeat was one of the turning points of the war because it ended
the threat of Axis conquest of the Suez Canal which would have severed the
British lifeline to India and Australia.
It also ended the threat of genocide for the Jews of Palestine. The same killing units that had joined the
German Army when it swept across Eastern Europe were posted to the Rommel’s
forces. The threat was so real that the
Jews had made plans for fighting a Nazi invasion in an attempt to ameliorate
the impending slaughter.
1942: Nathan Goldstein was elected for the first time as New York
State Attorney General on the Republican ticket.
1942: Forty-four year old Saul Adler of Ouachita Parish married
Doshie Katherine Medaries of Lincoln Parish.
1942(23rd of Cheshvan, 5703) Jewish
communities of Bilgoraj, Poland, and Ostryna, Belorussia, are destroyed at the
Belzec and Auschwitz death camps, respectively.
1943(5th of Cheshvan, 5704): At Majdanek,
17,000 Jewish prisoners were mowed down by machine-gun fire.
1943(5th of Cheshvan, 5704): Kalonymus Kalman Shapira,
the Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland, whose works included Esh Kodesh, “a
compilation of weekly sermons that contend with complex questions of faith in
the face of the mounting suffering of the Jews in the ghetto” was among those
murdered by the Nazis – a fate made all the more tragic by the fact that this
sage had survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1943(5th of Cheshvan, 5704): The Nazis murdered 43,000
in Aktion Erntefest (Operation Harvest Festival)
1943: Three hundred Jews at Borki,
Poland, near Chelm, are put to work exhuming 30,000 corpses, mostly of Red Army
POWs taken prisoner and murdered late in 1941. The
bodies are burned on massive pyres.
1943: The Germans undertake Erntefest
(Harvest Festival), a planned massacre of Jews of three camps in the area
around Lublin, Poland. About 18,000 are murdered at Majdanek, 10,000 at
Trawniki, and 15,000 at Poniatowa. At Poniatowa, Jews who resist are burned
alive in a barrack.
1943: Jacob Katz, a Jewish cleaner at
the Budzyn, Poland, concentration camp, rescues seven elderly Jews by hiding
them beneath mattresses.
1943: Riccardo Pacifici, rabbi of
Genoa, Italy, is deported to Auschwitz along with 200 members of his
congregation and 100 Jewish refugees from Northern Europe. The community in
Genoa traced its roots to 511 C.E.
1943: Birthdate of pitcher
Ken Holtzman who was often compared to that other Jewish southpaw, Sandy
Koufax. Holtzman’s rookie season
coincided with Koufax’s last in the majors.
In his final game, Koufax pitched against Holtzman. At the end of a pitcher’s duel, youth was
served and Ken beat Sandy.
1944: A trainload of Jews from the
labor camp at Sered, Slovakia, arrives at Auschwitz. Because the camp's gas
chambers are being dismantled, the 990 Jews on board are sent to work or to
barracks rather than to their deaths.
1945: Anti-Jewish riots continued for a second day in Egypt.
1946: “The creation of a Jewish Palestine commonwealth was urged
today by Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin, administrative chairman of the
Political Action Committee for Palestine, in a brief address after religious
services at Temple Rodeph Shalom.”
1946: “Carrying banners demanding ‘justice for the Jews in
Palestine’ a crowd estimated by police at 30,000, marched through downtown
Philadelphia today and held a rally in historic Independence Square they
cheered a speech by Francis J. Myers.”
1947: Four officers in the German Elite Guard – Oswald Pohl, Georg
Loerner, Franz Eirenschmaltz and Karl Sommer – were sentenced to death as war
criminals after their trial at Nuremberg and nine others were sentenced to 25
years in prison today.
1947: At Lake Success, NY, “the Soviet Union proposed today that
Britain surrender the mandate in Palestine by January 1, 1948 and withdraw all
of her troops by April 30, 1948.”
1947: During the 1940s Maurice Jacobson’s solo voice setting of The Song of Songs was
taken up by Kathleen Ferrier (whom he had first "discovered" while
adjudicating at the Carlisle Music Festival in 1937) was broadcast today by the
BBC. (Jacobson was Jewish)
with Frederick Stone at the piano
1948: Today, following Governor Dewey’s concession speech “Emil
Adel Arslan of Syria aid bitterly, ‘Mr. Truman’s victory means more Jewish
money and more Jewish support for the Jews of Palestine’.”
1949( 11th of Cheshvan, 5710): Eighty-eight-year
Philadelphia native and mining, smelting and railroad executive Solomon R.
Guggenheim, who was a delegate to the
National Republican Convention in 1924 and founder of the Guggenheim Museum
passed away today after which he was buried at the Salem Fields Cemetery in
Brooklyn.
1949(11th of Cheshvan 5710): Sixty-one-year-old Colonel Donald Stanley
van den Bergh, JP, the London born son of Henry van den Bergh and Henriette
Charlotte van den Bergh, the husband of Norah Gilbert Samuel and the father of
Diana D McClure passed away today in London.
1949:
” Leaders
of seven national Jewish organizations appealed to the State Department today
to send a "commission of neutral observers" to Iraq to investigate
charges that the Iraqi Government is persecuting the Jewish minority there.”
1950:
Today, the verdict rendered in Queenan v. City of Louisville rendered by Judge
Lawrnce S. Gauman was upheld.
1952:
Mordechai Nurock became Israel’s first Minister of
Postal Services which later became the Ministry of Communications.
1952: In Salt Lake City, Utah, Helen (née Davis), a bookkeeper and
cashier, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr, gave birth to the first
child Roseanne Cherrie Barr who gained fame as the star of the hit sitcom
“Roseanne.”
1953: In Fort Worth, TX, Edwin Leon Nail and his wife Beverly Sue
gave birth to Kathleen Sue Nail who gained fame as actress Kate Capshaw and the
wife of Stephen Spielberg whom she married after converting to Judaism.
1953: Stanley M. Isaacs garnered 65.14% of the election for New
York City Council.
1954(7th of Cheshvan, 5715): Sixty-six-year-old Columbia School of
Architecture graduate Benjamin Russell Herts, the New York born son of
“English-born antiques dealer and auctioneer Henry B. Herts”
who
along with his brother Isaac founded Herts Brothers, the firm of designers and
architects whose clients included yachtsman William Astor, Jr and the
Knickerbocker Hotel passed away today.
http://devenishgroup.blogspot.com/2010/09/forgotten-brothers-herts-brothers-and.html
1955: “ ‘Israeli 'Hill 24 Doesn't Answer' at World” published
today provides a review of one the earliest and what would prove to be one of
Israel’s most enduring cinematic efforts.
1955: The third Knesset started with David Ben-Gurion forming the
seventh government of Israel today
1955: Moshe Sharett completed his service as 2nd Prime
Minister of Israel.
1955:
Israel Bar-Yehuda replaced Haim-Moshe Shapira as
Internal Affairs Minister in Israel.
1955: Operation Volcano was completed this morning when units from
the Golan Brigade’s 12 Battalion destroyed all of “the targeted Egyptian
emplacements” at Sachba capturing “22 military vehicles of various types,
anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, light arms and
communications equipment’ while killing and/or capturing 136 of the enemy.
1956: During the Suez Crisis, British bombers attacked Egyptian
ammunition dumps, airfields and military barracks.
1956: During the Sinai Campaign, Israel informed Dag Hammarskjold
that she accepted the cease fire and that her forces had already halted 15
kilometers east of the Suez Canal.
1956: Among the large quantities of Egyptian military stores
captured, Israeli soldiers found that captured Egyptian officers carried Arabic
translations of Mein Kampf.
1957: CBS broadcast “The Changing Ways of Love” written by S.J.
Perelman and starring Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs), the opening program an 11-part
anthology series The Seven Lively Arts
which would include “A Few Folks and Their Songs” hosted by Theodore
Bikel.
1957: The Workers' Party (abbreviation: WP) is a major social
democratic political party in Singapore and one of the three contemporary
political parties represented in Parliament, was founded today by David Saul
Marshall.
1957: David Saul Marshall, the Singapore born son of “Baghdadi
Jewish parents Saul Nassim Mashal and Flora Ezekiel Kahn, who had immigrated to
Singapore from Baghdad, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire, where they
ran a business” began serving as Chairman of the Workers’ Party today.
1957: William Reich passed away.
Reich was born in Austria and trained under Freud. In 1933, he published
The Mass Psychology of Fascism. When the text was banned by the Nazis
Reich came to the United States. His
work with Orgone got him in trouble with the FDA and he ended up in
prison. He passed away before he could
gain parole.
1958(20th of Cheshvan, 5719): Fifty-two-year-old
composer Harry Revel, the London born
son Jacob Glaser, a Russian Jewish immigrant and partner of lyricist Mark
Jewish, a fellow-Jew, who moved to New Yok in 1928 where he wrote song for the “Ziegfeld Follies of 1931, Fast and Furious,
Everybody's Welcome and Smiling Faces” before moving on to Hollywood in 1932
where he “wrote scores for the films Sitting Pretty, Broadway Through a
Keyhole, We're Not Dressing, She Loves Me Not, Shoot the Works, College Rhythm,
Love in Bloom, Paris in the Spring, Stolen Harmony, Two for Tonight, Collegiate,
Stowaway, Poor Little Rich Girl, Ali Baba Goes to Town, Wake Up and Live, You
Can't Have Everything, Head Over Heels, and Love Finds Andy Hardy” before going
on to create “mood music” in the 1940’s and forming “his own publishing
company, Realm Music Inc., in the 1950s.”
https://www.songhall.org/profile/Harry_Revel
1958(20th of Cheshvan 5719): Sixty-nine year old Samuel Fassler, the
owner of a trucking company, founder of
Fassler Iron Works before WW I and the City Commissioner of Buildings in
New York, who was “a trustee of Yeshiva
University” and “founder and president of the Ninth Street Day Nursery and
Orphans Home while being the husband of “the former Ruth Schlanger with whom he
had three children – Arnold, Mildred, and Selma – passed away today at his home
on 5th Avenue.
1959:
Elections for the fourth Knesset were held in Israel
today. Voter turnout was 81.5%
1960: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” directed by Dore Schary opened
tonight at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1960: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were
held at Ohem Shalom in South Orange, NJ, for sixty-two year old Herbert R.
Abeles, the husband of Etta Abeles with whom he had two children – Abby and
Robert – and President of the Jewish Community Organizations of America
1960: Birthdate of Orig Yogev “an Israeli businessman who served
as the appointed head of the Budget Division in the Ministry of Finance between
2002 and 2004 and who in 2009 was appointed Chairman of the Israel National
Economic Council Advisory Committee.
1961: Eliyahu Sasson began serving as Minister of Communications.
1961(24th of Cheshvan, 5722): Sixty-nine-year-old
Kenneth Michaelis Lazarus, the Kensington, UK born son, of Samuel Octavius
Lazarus and Mary Sara Jane Hallenstein, the husband of Mary Rebecca Lazarus and
the father of Sir Peter Esmond Lazarus, K.C.B.; Norman Arthur Lazarus and
Margaret Hilda Rigal passed away today in Bayswater.
1962: Birthdate of Phil Katz, the programmer who created PZIP.
1964: President Lyndon B.
Johnson who got 90% of the Jewish vote, soundly defeated Arizona Republican
Senator Barry Goldwater who received 10% of the Jewish, to win a White House
term on his own right. Senator
Goldwater’s father was Jewish, but Goldwater was raised as an
Episcopalian. Goldwater’s running mate
was Congressman Miller who happened to be Catholic. Bigots characterized the ticket as the
Arizona Israelite and his fellow traveler from the Vatican. During this second term Johnson would support
Israel during the Six Day War in 1967.
Among other things, when the Soviets threatened Israel when the war went
against their Arab clients, Johnson sent the Sixth Fleet into the eastern
Mediterranean to let the Russians know that their interference would not be
tolerated.
1964(28th of Cheshvan, 5725): Bank manager Shimon Shalom, the
father of Silvan Shalom, was murdered today during a bank robbery
1966: In Florence, the Arno River began overflowing its banks
threatening “hundreds of rare Jewish books, documents, archives and Judaica
items, some of them centuries old.”
1966(20th of Cheshvan,5727): Seventy-six-year-old
Benjamin Hurwitz, the Russian born “son of Shmuel Gurevich and Dina Gurevich,
the husband of Rachel (Ray) Hurwitz and father of Al Hurwitz; William Geoffrey
Hurwitz; Melvin Hurwitz and Gerald Quincy Hurwitz passed away today in Miami,
FL.
1967: “Middle East: A Bitter Exchange”
published today described the Israeli reaction to the sinking of the “Elath,”
an Israeli destroyer by Egypt.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,837441,00.html#
1968: The New York Times includes a review of Mosby’s
Memoirs and Other Stories, Saul Bellow’s first work since the publication
of Herzog.
1968:
During what became known as the War of Attrition, IAF jets rise up to meet
Egyptian MiG-17s attacking positions held by the IDF.
1969:
The Lebanese government signed the Cairo Agreement which granted Palestinians
the right to launch attacks on Israel from southern Lebanon in coordination
with the Lebanese Army
1970:
Bella Abzug was elected to the United States House of Representatives.
1970:
U. S. Premiere of “The Owl and the Pussycat” co-starring Barbra Streisand and
George Segal.
1970: Salvador Allende, an avowed Marxist, was elected President
of Child. “He immediately set about
nationalizing the banks and larger industries.
The development was as alarming to the Jews as it was to the rest of the
nation’s middle class citizens. At least
6,000 of Chile’s 30,000 Jews departed for Israel or the United States within
months of his election.
1971: U.S. premiere of Fiddler on the Roof the
movie version of the famous Broadway musical starring Chaim Topol
1972(26th of Cheshvan, 5733): Seventy-seven-year-old
vaudevillian, musician and song-and-dance man Harry Richman best known for his
role in “Putting on the Ritz” passed away today.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=3836&PIpi=90602
1971(15th of Cheshvan, 5732): Eighty-three
year old Dr. Leon Banov, Sr., the son of Alexander and Sonia Banov and husband
of Minnie Monash Banov with whom he had two children Morton and Leon, who
followed in his father’s footsteps passed away today in Charleston after which
he was buried at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Cemetery.
1973(8th of Cheshvan, 5734): Gustave
"Gus" Levy a senior partner of Goldman Sachs since 1969 when he
succeeded the legendary Sidney Weinberg passed away. Levy was born in 1910 in
New Orleans, one of three children of Sigmund and Bella Levy. Levy briefly
attended Tulane University before dropping out, moving to New York City,
working various job in the financial sector, and then joining Goldman Sachs in
1933 to head the then one-man trading department for a salary of $27.50 a week.
He remained at Goldman Sachs for rest of his career and rose to senior partner
in 1969. Levy was known for his tremendous energy, short temper, intelligence,
and generosity.
1977: Funeral services are scheduled to be held at the Riverside
for sixty-three-year-old Columbia trained attorney Saul Jaffe, a prominent
lawyer in the entertainment industry and early entrepreneur in television
programming, who was the brother of his law partner Henry and the husband of
Selma Jaffe and a daughter, Deborah
1977(22nd of Cheshvan, 5738): Eighty-five-year-old
Armand Lunel the native of Aix-en-Provence, France “the writer, librettist,
philosopher and teacher who was the last known speaker of Shuadit” passed away
today.
1978(3rd of Cheshvan, 5739): Fifty-six-year-old Marian Winters
passed away while appearing on Broadway in “Deathtrap.”
1979(13th of Cheshvan, 5740): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1979(13th of Cheshvan, 5740): Eight-four-year-old Dr.
Marie Pichel Warner, the family planning specialist and husband of Dr. Benjamin
Warner, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/05/archives/dr-marie-p-warner-84-family-planning-leader.html
1981: David Levy began serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
1983(27th of Cheshvan, 5744): Eighty-one-year-old
Brooklyn born and University of Michigan trained attorney Nathan Paul
Feinsinger, the University of Wisconsin law school professor and labor arbiter
who had three children – Greg, Peter and Ellen – with his now estranged wife
Bettie passed away today.
1984(8th of Cheshvan, 5745): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1984(8th of Cheshvan 5745): Eighty-six-year-old
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy graduate Nathan Bienstock “an agent and
manager for newspaper, radio and television journalists” and husband of the
former Sylvia Feldman with whom he had one daughter, Muriel who with “ Sol
and Richard Liebner formed N. S. Bienstock Inc., one of the largest such
agencies in the country, representing journalists such as David Halberstam, Dan
Rather and Daniel Schorr. Mr. Bienstock, an art collector, also included
Alexander Calder among his clients” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/06/obituaries/nathan-bienstock-86-agent-for-journalists.html
1986(1st of Cheshvan, 5747): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1986(1st of Cheshvan, 5747): Ninety-eight-year-old
SPHAS veteran Edwin Israel “Hugie” Black passed away today.
https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/hughie-black/
1988: Soviet
Union agreed to allow the teaching of Hebrew.
1989(5th of Cheshvan, 5750): Award winning journalist ninety-six-year-old
Dorothy Fuldheim “television’s first female news anchor “ passed away today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/dec/17/1947/dorothy-fuldheim-becomes-televisions-first-female-news-anchor
1989: “Bloodhounds of Broadway” a comedy featuring Dinah Manoff
was released in the United States today.
1992: Jerry Nadler completes his service as a member of the New
York State Assembly from the 67th District.
1992: Jerry Nadler was elected to House of Representative for New
York’s 17th district.
1992: Dianne Feinstein
and Barbara Boxer were elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first Jewish
women senators, the first female senators from California, and the first two
women to ever represent any state at the same time. An advocate and advisor on
prison reform to California Governor Edmund (Pat) Brown; Feinstein became the
first woman president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. In
1979, she won election as the first female mayor of San Francisco after the
brutal assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. In
1992, she won a special Senate election to replace Pete Wilson who had left his
seat to become governor of California. She was re-elected in the 1994 and 2000
elections. Feinstein became the first female member of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. Inspired to run for Senate by the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas
hearings, Barbara Boxer became a Senator after 10 years of service in the House
of Representatives. She was elected to a second six-year term in 1998. The Senate's
leading defender of a woman's right to choose, Senator Boxer authored the
Family Planning and Choice Protection Act and helped lead the floor fight for
passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
1992: Bill Clinton
defeats George Bush and Ross Perot to become President of the United
States. During Clinton’s presidency,
Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty.
He also played a key role in brokering the peace accords between the
Israelis and the PLO. When Rabin and
Arafat shook hands in the presence of a beaming Clinton most people thought a
new day had dawned in the Middle East. Unfortunately,
Arafat would never be able to make the leap from photo op to being the next
“Anwar Sadat.” Of course, another Jew,
Monica Lewinsky played a prominent part in another aspect of the Clinton
presidency as did Mark Rich the man who was mysteriously pardoned by Bill as he
literally walked out of the White Office.
1993: “American
Samurai,” a “martial arts action film directed by Polish born, Jerusalem raised
American filmmaker Sam Firstenberg was released today in Japan.
1993: “The Kentucky
Cycle,” for which Benjamin Mordecai served as manager had its preview
performance today.
1994: “Market Place;
Big Winners, Big Losers in Snapple’s Life Story published today provides Floyd
Norris’ view of the beverage company originally founded by Arnold Greenberg and
Hyman Goldman.
1994(29th of
Cheshvan, 5755): Eighty-seven year old Max Perlman, the husband of Helen
Perlman and University of Wisconsin graduate who during WW II was given the
rank of Lt. Col. by the British and Americans while he was working to help Jews
escape from Nazi controlled Europe passed away today.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-11-05-9411050026-story.html
http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=364837
1995(10th of
Cheshvan, 5756): Eighty-seven-year-old “actor, radio/television producer, and
songwriter” the New York born son of Hungarians Jews Ida Friedmann and
Alexander Pollacsek who had named Sideny Edward Pllacsek who “scored one of
England's first sound films, Harmony Heaven in 1930 and who teamed up with
fellow-Jewish song writer George Wyle to write such hits "I Didn't Slip, I
Wasn't Pushed, I Fell", "I Love the Way You Say 'Good Night’”, “I
Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Pray'rs)" "It's the Most Wonderful
Time of the Year" while finally teaching Creative Writing to elementary
school students at Smiley Elementary School in Redlands, California” passed
away today in Oregon.
1998: Brian Schatz was
elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives from the 24th
District.
1998(14th of Cheshvan,
5759): Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, passed away. Born Robert Kahn, you might say was the high
priest of the World of Action Heroes.
1998: In “A Holocaust
Memoir in Doubt,” published today Doreen Carvajal discusses the controversy
swirling around Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski.
2000: In “Hasidim and
Iowa Townsfolk: A Test of Diversity” published today, Richard Bernstein
reviewed Postville: A Clash of Cultures by Stephen G. Bloom which for some of
us living in Iowa leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to portraying life
in Iowa and being Jewish in Iowa.
2000(5th of
Cheshvan, 5761): “A tremendous boom resounded through downtown Jerusalem as
black plumes of smoke curled into the sky” when “a car bomb killed two Israelis
this afternoon as it exploded near an open-air market that was a favorite
target of Islamic groups during previous waves of terrorism.” (As reported by
Deborah Sontag)
2001: Sir Ernst
Gombrich passed away. Born in Austria in
in 1909 to a Jewish family that converted to a form of mystical Protestantism,
Gombrich was left Austria in 1936 and moved to England where he became a renowned
art historian. Although he never
reversed his family’s conversion Gombrich had a strong Jewish identity. After the Nazis came to power he was always
insistent on describing himself as an Austrian Jew.
2002:
In] “Norman Podhoretz's Old-Time Religion” published today Judith Shulevitz
reviews The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are and provides a vivid
description of how Podhoretz manipulates the ancient text to fit his modern
political agenda.
2002(28th of Cheshvan, 5763): Actor Jonathan Harris passed
away. He was best known for his
portrayal of Dr. Smith on Lost in Space.
2002: Brian Schatz was elected to the Hawaii House of
Representatives from the 25th District.
2002: FOX broadcast the first episode of season 14 of The
Simpsons, the cartoon comedy featuring the theme music of Danny Elfman
2003: One person was injured when a bomb was detonated at Azzoun.
2003: FOX broadcast the first episode of season 15 of The
Simpsons’ featuring the voices of Julie Kavner and Harry Shearer.
2003: The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Alabama Chief
Justice Roy Moore’s appeal of a lower court order to remove his Ten
Commandments Monument from the rotunda in Montgomery, Alabama.
2004:
The World Jewish Film Festival, the first of its kind in Israel and the
Jewish world comes to a close in Tel Aviv.
2004: NPR features Kevin Rudd, foreign policy spokesman,
in a segment on the Australian Labour Party and its policy toward Israel and
the Jewish people in which he defends the party against charges of
anti-Semitism and hypocrisy by Barry Cohen.
2005: In a major shift of public sentiment Israeli newspapers
reported that Pro-Israel
rallies held in front of Iran embassies across Europe?"
2005:
While bemoaning the defacing of the “beautiful highway landscaping in downtown”
Las Vegas, Mayor Oscar Goodman “suggested that those who deface freeways with
graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television”
2005:
A Broadway revival of StephenSondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” opened at the Eugene
O’Neil Theatre.
2005:
Officials in a Slovak town have apologized to local Jews for a pogrom that took
place shortly after the end of World War II. "We express deep regret of
the tragic event, which has no equivalent in our modern history in terms of its
evil and inhuman character," said the statement by Topolcany municipal
officials presented to representatives of the Federation of Jewish Communities
at a meeting Sunday attended by more than 50 of the town's Jewish former
residents.
2006:
“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of
Kazakhstan” starring and written by Sasha Baron Cohen opens nationwide today in
the United States.
2007:
In the early morning hours, one Hamas terrorist was killed and two others
wounded when an IAF helicopter attacked a Hamas outpost in the southern Gaza
Strip. The Israelis were responding to
mortar attacks launched against from Gaza against southern Israel.
2007:
The Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra under Doron Salomon presents its Balkan music
program at the Givataim Theatre at the Tel Aviv Museum featuring Theodosii
Spassov the greatest player of a unique type of flute called the kaval
2007:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to arrive in the evening
for her eighth trip to Israel in 2007.
The reported purpose of the trip is to bring pressure on Israel to
ensure that the upcoming meeting between Arabs and Israelis in Annapolis is a
success.
2007:
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that
seven out of ten of the 265 Kibbutzim in Israel are now at least partially
privatized operations.
2008: “Mumbai’s Jews Suddenly Reconsider Their
Serene Existence” published today provided a look at the changes in the life of
India’s Jewish community in the wake of the terrorist attack “on Nariman House,
the community center run by Chabad-Lubavitch” which left the rabbi and his wife
among the victims.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/world/asia/03iht-03jews.18349565.html
2008: Centro Primo Levi presents a lecture by David
Ruderman, the Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania and renowned expert in the history of ideas that
shaped the identity and culture of Italian Jewry, entitled “Beyond the Dialectic of Ghetto Versus
Integration: Towards a New Vision of Jewish Cultural History in
Italy.”
2008:
Time magazine includes a notice in
its Milestones section about the recent death of Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal who
ran four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and was the inspiration for Robert De
Niro’s character in Martin Scorese’s film “Casino” as well as a review of
Philip Roth’s newest novel, Indignation which begins with the reviewer
writing “The first thing to say about Roth’s Indignation is that it’s a
terrible book.”
2008:
The National Religious Party “announced a merger with the National Union, Tkuma
and Moledet to form a new right-wing party, later named The Jewish Home.”
2009:
Janice Lieberman, author of How To Shop for a Husband: A Consumer Guide to
Getting A Great Buy on a Guy appears at the 31st Annual St.
Louis Jewish Book Festival.
2010:
Alina Treiger to become first female rabbi ordained in Germany since war”
published today compares her life with that of Rabbi Regina Jones who died in
Auschwitz.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/03/alina-treiger-germany-female-rabbi
2010:
Centro Primo Levi, CDEC, Milan, NYU Skirball Department for Hebrew and Judaic
Studies, and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò are scheduled to present a symposium
entitled “Racial Policies in Fascist Italy: New Documents and Perspectives.”
2010:
The San Diego Jewish Book fair is scheduled to open this evening with a
presentation by Mosab Hassan Yousef, author of Son of Hamas: A Gripping
Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue and Unthinkable Choices
2010:
The IDF, working with the Israel Security Agency (ISA), killed a senior
Al-Qaeda terrorist in Gaza today. The terrorist was identified as 27-year-old
Mohammed Jamal a-Nahmnam. He was plotting attacks against Israel and American
targets in Sinai, Egypt, in coordination with Hamas.
2010:
About 500 Jewish agencies joined a 75-minute conference call today focusing on
security. The call was organized after the thwarted mail-bomb threat against
two Jewish institutions in Chicago.
2010(26th of Cheshvan, 5770): Eighty-one-year-old
Jerry Bock who composed the scores for such hits as “Fiddler on the Roof” and
“Fiorello” passed away today. (As
reported by Robert Bervist)
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/theater/04bock.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
2011:
In New York City, Israeli historian and journalist Gershom Gorenberg is
scheduled to discuss the policies that threaten Israel's democracy, the little-known
history behind them, and the new direction that Israel needs to take to remain
a democratic and Jewish state.
2011:
Dr. Judith Hauptman, the E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture
at the Jewish Theological Seminary is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled
“Did Women Study Torah in the Talmudic Period?”
at Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, MD
2011:
President Obama called for keeping up international pressure on Iran amid news
reports that Israel may be preparing for war with the Islamic Republic.
2011:
Palestinian terrorists fired at Israeli security forces near Gaza today and
Israel Defense Forces retaliated by firing at the source of the shooting,
killing two. Israeli security forces were doing routine work on the border
fence near the area of Kibbutz Zikim in the northern Gaza Strip when
Palestinian terrorists fired at them. .
2011:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided today to freeze funding to UNESCO
after it had granted the Palestinians membership. Israel transfers some $2
million to the UN cultural body yearly.
2012:
Director Eytan Fox’s “Yossi” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film
Festival.
2012:
In Springfield, VA, Adat Reyim is scheduled to sponsor a fundraiser “Casino
Royim.”
2012:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the traditional minyan is scheduled to observe Jewish
Book Month Shabbat celebrating two Living Literary Legends – Sir Martin Gilbert
and Herman Wouk.
2012:
Jewish and Arab protesters squared off in Jerusalem tonight, a day after a
Jewish man was non-fatally stabbed in the predominately Arab neighborhood of
Ras al-Amoud.
2012:
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the 14th Street Y gets it power back
today and announces that it will be open for business tomorrow.
2013:
SIGD Celebration 2013 sponsored by the Ethiopian Jewish Community is scheduled
to end today.
2013:
Former Wall Street Journal editor Naomi Schaefer Riley is scheduled to talk
about interfaith marriage at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair.
2013:
At Tikvat Israel in Rockville, MD, “Chocolate & Jewish Values: A Fair
Experience” – a program which is designed to “promote overseas fair trade in
the context of Jewish values – is scheduled to come to a close.
2013:
Jeremie Bracka's hilarious one-man Israeli comedy "Arafat in Therapy"
satirizes the Middle-East peace process through farce, mockumentary and
autobiographical monologue is scheduled to have its final performance at the
United Solo Theatre.
2013: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman, Dogfight:
How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution by Fred
Vogelstein and DOT Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives by Randi
Zuckerberg
2013: One of the largest, if not the largest picture
of Chabad Rabbis is scheduled to be taken this morning at the Annual
International Shluchim Convention (Kinus Hashluchim) in Brooklyn, NY
2013: Brad Ausmus was named the 37th manager in the
history of the Detroit Tigers,
2013: Chief
of Staff Benny Gantz visited the soldiers who had been wounded in last
Thursday's tunnel explosion on the Gaza Strip border. At the same time doctors
are fighting to save the eyesight of Ahiya Klein, one of the soldiers wounded
in the attack. (As reported by Maayana Miskin)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173539#.UnblrJ3napo
2013: “A pregnant Syrian woman gave birth at Safed’s
Ziv Medical Center this morning. Her son is the first baby from a mother
fleeing Syria’s civil war to be born in Israel. When the mother realized there
was no one in Syria who could deliver her, she asked to be taken to the border,
where she hoped Israeli soldiers would pick her up and send her to an Israeli
medical center, she said. (As reported by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich)
http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/First-Syrian-refugee-baby-born-in-Israeli-hospital-330491
2014: “A Letter to Mother,” the 1939 film which one
of the last Yiddish movies made in Poland before the Nazi invasion is scheduled
to be shown at the Center for Jewish History today.
2014: JTA Washington Bureau Chief Ron Kampeas,
Israel Correspondent Ben Sales and Senior Correspondent Uriel Heilman are
scheduled to participate in a telephone discussion on the state of U.S. –
Israeli relations.
2014: In Sydney, “Gett, the Trial of Vivian Amsalem”
and “The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” are among the films scheduled to be shown at
the Jewish International Film Festival.
2014: In London, The Wiener Library for the Study of
the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host “The Normality of Terror: the
Heinrich and Margarete Himmler Correspondence.”
http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On?item=159
2014:
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today for a second time in a case that
combines Middle East policy with the dueling foreign policy roles of the
president and Congress. It's a political hot potato that asks what U.S.
passports should say about the birthplace of American citizens born in
Jerusalem
http://www.timesofisrael.com/born-in-jerusalem-passport-case-returns-to-court/
2014(10th
of Cheshvan): On this date 1656 from Creation, Noah and family entered the Ark.
(Aish)
2015:
The American Sephardi Federation and the Indian Consulate at NY are scheduled
to present Blue Like Me: An Indian-Jewish Artist's Boundless Imagination and
"Baghdadis & the Bene Israel in Bollywood & Beyond"
2015:
As part of Holocaust Education Week, The Bloor Gladstone Library is scheduled
to host “1492, The Other Path: Sephardic Jews in the Balkans which will include
“a presentation that will share the history of Sephardic Jews in the Balkans,
the fate of their communities during the Holocaust, and how a small group of
Holocaust survivors and their children looked back on their years of
co-existence with others to choose a path other than hate.”
2015:
“Grove Press released Kliph Nesteroff's first book The Comedians: Drunks,
Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy (ISBN 0802190863)
today to uniformly positive reviews.”
2015:
The Leo Baeck Insitute is scheduled to present German-born Israeli
industrialist Stef Wertheimer discussing his new biography, The Habit of
Labor with Jane Eisner, Editor-in-Chief of the Forward.
2015: In “The Facebook Intifada” published today
Michah Lakin Avni examined “What inspired young Palestinian men to savagely attack my
father and a busload of passengers?”
2015: Jewish Voices, an annual event with readings
by prominent Jewish poets and writers who share from their personal collections
is scheduled to take place in the auditorium of the Oregon Jewish Museum and
Center for Holocaust Education.
http://www.ojmche.org/experience/talk-2015-11-03-jewish-voices-2015
2015: In Essex, UK, Joyce Michel is scheduled to
discuss the life of Moses Edrehi in “Scholars, peddlers, or schnorrers? Tales
of a Wandering Jew (and Son).”
https://jhse.org/event/scholars-pedlars-or-schnorrers-tales-of-a-wandering-jew-and-son/
2015: “In what archaeologists are describing as “a
solution to one of the great archaeological riddles in the history of
Jerusalem,” researchers with the Israel Antiquities Authority announced today
that they have found the remnants of a fortress used by the Seleucid Greek king
Antiochus Epiphanes in his siege of Jerusalem in 168 BCE.
2016: In Washington, the historic 1876 synagogue is
scheduled to literally make its next move before the Lillian and Albert Small
Jewish Museum finally settles into its new home at Third and F Streets, NW in
Washington, DC.
2016: In Toronto, Canada, Holocaust Education Week
is scheduled to continue with “The Power of Memoir and Storytelling: How do we
Teach Others about the Past?” featuring authors Nate Leipciger and Theodore
Fontaine.
2016: The Center for Jewish History and the Brooklyn
Institute for Social Research are scheduled to host the final session of
“Mysticism and Morality: Clarice Lispector in Context” taught by Dr. Rebecca
Ariel Porte.
2016: Friends and family prepare to celebrate the 80th
birthday of Manford Levy, a quiet pillar of the Little Rock Jewish community
and the most ardent Longhorn and Dallas fan on the planet.
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to present a lecture by Jordan Bernstein on Duties of the Heart by
the Sephardic Rabbi Bahya Ibn Paquda followed by two Kabbalat Shabbat services
and dinner.
2017:
Two months after it had “premiered at the Telluride Film Festival” “Lady Bird”
produced by Scott Rudin and featuring Beanie Feldstein was released in the
United States today.
2017: As part of Homecoming at Tulane University,
Hillel is scheduled to offer “Take-out Shabbat meals” so that students can host
a Shabbat dinner with friends at home.”
2017: In the United Kingdom, Balfour Shabbat is
scheduled to begin with a series of special events including “Friday night
dinners.”
2018: In Attleboro, MA, Congregation Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host “a Sabbath of Peace Gathering in memory of our Jewish
brothers and sisters murdered at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh” that
took place last Shabbat.
2018: Miha Rodman is scheduled to perform Asher
Kravitz’s “The Jewish Dog” this afternoon at United Solo, “the world’s largest
solo theatre festival.”
2018: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the History Center is scheduled to host a book signing for Barbara Feller, the Hebrew
teacher par excellence, author of the newly released Road to Waubeek:
Discovering Jay G. Sigmund.
2018: “The Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book and
Arts Festival” is scheduled to open today at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish
Community Center of Houston.
2018: “Working Woman” is scheduled to be shown this
evening at the “12th Annual Other Israel Festival.”
2018(25th of Cheshvan, 5779): Parashat
Chayei Sarah
2019: The New
York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Sontag: Her Life and Work by
Benjamin Moser, The Economist’s Hour: False Prophets, Free Market and the
Fracture of Society by Binyamin Applebaum and the recently released
paperback edition of Memoirs of An Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman.
2019: The three-day long “10th Annual
Sigid Celebration” sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation and Chassida
Shmella Ethiopian Israeli-Jewish Community is scheduled to come to an end today
with an appearance by Gili Yalo and his band along with dancing and the
“Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony.”
2019: In Sonoma, CA, Congregation Shir Shalom is
scheduled to host “Professor Tom Laqueur of UC Berkeley as he shares how
20th-century Vienna attracted radical Jewish artists and thinkers followed by
concert of Arnold Schoenberg’s music performed by Valley of the Moon Chamber
Music Festival musicians.”
2019: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled
to host “Mussar Informational Session with Kathy Jacobs.”
2019: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is
scheduled to host a conversation between members of the Capital Jewish Museum’s
new Teen Council and Rep. James Raskin (8th Dist, MD), author of We
the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students during
which they will “discuss civic engagement in the nation’s capital, and explore
the complex intersection of American Jewish life and American democracy.”
2019: The Jewish Federation of Greater of Greater
New Orleans is scheduled to sponsor “Community Mitzvah Day” that will included
the planting of a tree in memory of the Tree of Life Shabbat Massacre.
2019: It was reported today, that in addition to
having deal with rocket attacks from Gaza, Israelis may have to deal with IED’s
such as the one found “hidden in a book in an Israeli community bordering the
Gaza strip on Shabbat. (As reported by Matan Tzuri)
2020: Presidential elections in the United States
where the Republican candidate for president has a Jewish son-in-law who is a
major advisor and the Democratic candidate for vice president is married to a
Jewish lawyer.
2020: The Columbus Jewish Film Festival is scheduled
to make “They Ain’t Ready For Me” available for screening.
2020: Based on figures made available yesterday,
today Israelis are dealing with a jobless rate that is “climbing above 20
percent.”
2020: Mathew Sackel, the Associate Manager of
Education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to read a chapter from
Lala’s Story live on Facebook.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dr.
Amy-Jill Levine as she discusses “The Creation” as part of the series on “How
Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently.”
2020: In light of last night’s murderous shootings
in Vienna, it is to be assumed that Jewish buildings and organizations will be
on heightened alert today.
2021: The National Museum of American Jewish History
is scheduled to host a screening of Strictly Speaking: Asian American Jews
Discuss Heritage Languages, an episode from the new season of LUNAR's short
film series.
2021:
Bernard-Henri Levy is scheduled to discuss his latest tome The Will To See
at the Streicker Center.
2022:
In Cedar Rapids, IA the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss My Fine
Fellow by Jennieke Cohen.
2022:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to present via Zoom a
lecture by Dr. Beatriz Pichel on “Picturing the Western Front:
Photography,
Practices and Experiences in First World War France.”
2022:
YIVO is scheduled to host on-line a lecture by Sheva Zucker and Anna Fishman
Gonshort on “The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer (in Yiddish:
Di Goldene Pave: Dos Kol fun dem Yidishn Shrayber)” a unique collection of Yiddish literature
2022:
The National Arts Club and the Israel Office of Cultural Affairs are scheduled
to present “Stitching a New Identity:
Fashion in Israel’s Nation Building.”
2022:
The Pfeffer Family Forum is scheduled to present Dr. David Frey, Founding
Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the United States
Military Academy, who will discuss the history and function of the Military
Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, its graduates, and how their
innovations are relevant to us today
2022:
The 34th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “Minyan Duty” and “Women of Virtue.”
2022:
The JWA book series is scheduled to host Lina Fink, author of Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her
Creation, a “reimagining the story of Genesis with God as a woman, Abraham
as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other twists
2022:
In Iowa, the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to present a
lecture by Israeli writer and commentator Hen Mazzig, “a senior fellow at the
Tel Aviv Institute.
2022:
Based on previously published reports the people of Israel and her supporters,
as of today, will begin to learn to live with reality Benjamin Netanyahu has
figuratively risen “from the politically dead” to become the a strong Prime
Minister with a bloc of 65 seats in the Knesset.
2023:
A desert oneg is scheduled to be held following Shabbat services led by the
husband and wife duo of Rabbi Feivel and Cantor Abbie.
2023:
The Museum at Eldrige Street is scheduled to a walking tour of “The Historic
Bowery Thoroughfare.”
2023:
In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to welcome
scholar-in-residence Adam Kirsh, one of the leading writers on Jewish life,
addressing topics such as how we see ourselves in popular media, does Jewish
literature exist these days and AI.
2023:
In San Mateo, CA, the Lent Chabad Center is scheduled to host a Friday night
community Shabbat dinner in support of Israel.
2023:
Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast an “Excellence” – Young Artists in
Concert featuring Karni Malloul, soprano; Roi Eden, piano; Omer Herz, Lior Grunwald,
violin and Natanel Laevsky, viola from the Eden Tamir Music Center where there
will be audience due to the war.
2023:
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to arrive in Israel today where
he “will urge the Israeli government to agree to a series of brief cessations
of military operations in Gaza to allow for hostages to be released safely and
for humanitarian aid to be distributed” at the same time that Hezbollah reports
Hezbollah boasts of launching 19 rocket attacks on Israel and at least one
drone attack and over 200 hostages from Israel begin their 28th day
in captivity.
2024:
In a new online lecture series “A Dying Cow, Pale Stars: Cows in Literature and
Art” that is scheduled to start today, “Dror Burstein, we will look at cows not
as food but as living creatures: motherly and loving creatures worthy of love.”
2024:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a screening of the award-winning
documentary The Commandant’s Shadow follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old
son of Rudolf Höss, former Commandant of Auschwitz, as he faces his father’s
terrible legacy for the first time,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRHB2ORPDbc
2024:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including I Heard There Was A Secret
Chord: Music as Medicine by cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist
Daniel J. Levitin, the son of Holocaust survivor Sonia Levitan.
2024:
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to host “Lets Talk
About Israel,” “a conversation about what’s happening in Israel moderated by
Jewish Federation Israel & Overseas Chair, David Shepard”
2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to participate in a virtual
tour of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews which is celebrating its
10th anniversary.
2024:
LBI is scheduled to present “Fighting Back – Jewish Responses to
Anti-Semitism,” during which historian Michael Brenner and journalist Jane
Eisner will discuss what lessons these German-Jewish responses to antisemitism
offer for today’s world.”
2024:
The New York Giants, co-owned by Jonathan and Steve Tisch, are scheduled to try
and break a three-game losing streak as they take on the Washington Commanders
today.
2024:
As November 3rd begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters
calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands,
sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 393 in captivity
while Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists
based in Iraq (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
