This Day, November 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 4
1310: King Jaime II issued a royal decree
exempting Judah Bonseynor from all taxes to which the Aljama of Barcelona was
usually required to pay. “The king also
ordered that neither Bonsenyor nor his children should be molested on account
of unpaid taxes, and that he should be at liberty to enter or leave the "Juderia,"
or Jewish quarter, at will.” Bonseynor severed Alfonso II and his son Jaime as
Notary General of Aragon. He was the official who provided the authoritative
translation of documents from Arabic into Spanish. Considering the makeup of the Iberian
Peninsula at this time, this was a position of great importance. (As reported
by Richard Gottehil and Meyer Kayserling
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view_friendly.jsp?artid=1315&letter=B#ixzz1A7ul6Jtu
1380: In France, coronation of Charles VI,
the monarch who issued an order in 1394 expelling all the Jews from his kingdom
1482: In Spain by this date, nearly 298
persons had been burned at the hand of the Inquisition, while 98 had been
imprisoned in Inquisitional prisons.
1501: Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of
Ferdinand and Isabella (the Spanish monarchs who expelled the Jews from Spain)
meets Arthur Tudor, the oldest son of English monarch Henry
1541: Wolfgang Capito the German religious
reformer who tried to find harmony between the followers of Zwingill and Luther
while also seeking to refute claims that Jewish books contained anti-Christian
references and who counted among his friends and colleagues Joseph (Josel) ben Gershom
of Rosheim passed away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Fabricius-Capito
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/capito-koepfel-wolfgang-fabricius-x00b0
1650: Birthdate of William III who was
supported by Solomon de Medina who serve as an “army contractor when the
monarch went to England to lead the Glorious Revelation
1677: The future Mary II of England marries
William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary who
took the English throne after the Glorious Revolution. According to the historian Cecil Roth, the
Glorious Revolution was financed, in part, by a Dutch Jew who lent the would-be
monarchs an interest free loan of two million crowns and that “prayers were
uttered in Dutch synagogues” for their success.
1762(18th of Cheshvan, 5523): Moses Levi
Ulff, the son of Levi Ulff, passed away today. In 1714 Levi Ulff “had moved his
ribbon factory from Wesel to Charlottenberg” and the “king appointed him as his
Court Jew ordering the royal regiments to secure their ribbons from his
factory. In 1720, when Moses took over from his father “the order was renewed”
and Crown Prince Frederick required the younger Ulff “to supply all the royal
regiments with the necessary braid.”
1722: Birthdate of Raphael Cohen, the native
of Lithuania who became Chief Rabbi of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek.
1778: Philadelphian Leah Nathan and Bavarian
born Jacob Naphtali Hart, the parents of Zipporah Hart, were married today.
1783: Having arrived as destitute refugees in
Nova Scotia in October, today Jacob Hart and his immediate family “applied for
relief to the commissioners” at which time Hart’s “gentile son-in-law,
Lieutenant Blackwell, armed with a letter from General Campbell strongly
recommending the family to the good offices of the government came to explain
the ‘old man’s position’” which resulted in the commissioner “allowing him a
pension of forty pounds a year.
1782:
Today, Elias Boudinot, who was persuaded by James Adair’s History of the
American Indians that the Native Americans were descendants of the Ten Lost
Tribes and that the Hebrew was the origin of their language began his service
as “2nd President of the Confederation of Congress.”
1785: Hannah de Jacob Dias and Aaron de Pass
gave birth to Isaac de Pass.
1787: Birthdate of English actor Edmund Kean
who first played Shylock in 1814 and
whose subsequent portrayals Shakespeare’s famous Jewish character “could not be
surpassed” and who gives him the form not of a figure from Genesis but from
Venice in the Middle Ages.
1789:
Today, Elias Boudinot, who was persuaded by James Adair’s History of the
American Indians that the Native Americans were descendants of the Ten Lost
Tribes and that the Hebrew was the origin of their language began his service
as a “Member of the U.S House of Representatives from New Jersey.”
1793: Birthdate of Caroline Louisa
Westermyer, the wife of Samuel Mordecai and the mother of Fanin, Matilda,
Abraham, James and Georgia Mordecai.
1793:
Lyon Levy and his wife gave birth to Jacob Levy, the husband of Rachel Moise
Abraham
1795:
Today, Elias Boudinot, who was persuaded by James Adair’s History of the
American Indians that the Native Americans were descendants of the Ten Lost
Tribes and that the Hebrew was the origin of their language completed his
service as a “Member of the U.S House of Representatives from New Jersey.”
1796: “The Treaty of Tripoli, first treat
between the United States and Tripoli (now Libya) to secure commercial shipping
rights and protect American ships” which included Article 11 stating that "the
Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the
Christian religion" was signed in Libya today six months after it was
unanimously ratified by the United States Senate.
1806: M.J. Bing, one of Rothschild’s clients
in Frankfurt wrote to Nathan Rothschild, head of the House of Rothschild in
Great Britain, urging him to exercise caution in circumventing Napoleon’s ban
on goods being shipped from England to Europe.
1807: Catherine Williams and Hugh Morse gave
birth to Joseph Morse.
1808: In France Fleutrette Baruch Weil and
Lyon Israel Samuel gave birth to Isaac Samuel, the husband of Fanny Heilbronner
and the father of Albert, Theodore, Lyon, Rodolphe and Maurice Samuel.
1813: Birthdate of Seligman Goldschmiedt who
was buried in the Trieste Jewish Cemetery after he died in 1898.
1815: In Tower Hill, London, Yetta and
Solomon Levy gave birth to Sarah Levy the wife of Raphael ‘David’ Picard.
1823: Twenty-seven-year old Samuel Evans, the
English boxer known as Young Dutch Sam won a victory tonight at Knowle Hill, Berkshire
in a fight that lasted 16 rounds.
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1829: Benjamin Woolf married Isabella Levy at
the Western Synagogue today.
1837: Forty-four year old French politician
Benoit Fould was re-elected as the representative for St. Quentin.
1841: In Warsaw, pianist and composer Aloys Tausig
and his wife gave birth to pianist, arranger and composer Carl Tausig.
1842: Birthdate
of Caroline Bamberger who would be buried in the Indianapolis, Indiana, Hebrew
Congregation Cemetery when she passed away in 1907.
1843: In St. Louis, the United Hebrew
Congregation assumed full ownership of the first Jewish cemetery which had been
created in 1840. The cemetery was used until 1868. In 1867, the City of St.
Louis prohibited further use of the grounds as a burial place. United Hebrew
acquired land out in the county, which later became University City with the
streets known as North and South Rd. and Canton Ave. Formal dedication of the
new cemetery, called Mount Olive occurred in 1880. In 1880, the bodies in the
original cemetery, as well as some of the stones were transferred to Mount
Olive. In 1960, the name of the cemetery was changed from Mount Olive to United
Hebrew.
1843(11th of Cheshvan, 5604):
Parashat Lech-Lecha
1843(11th of Cheshvan, 5604):
Forty-year old British welterweight champion Samuel Evans the son of Samuel
Elias, the British boxer known simply as Young Dutch Sam, passed away today.
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1845: Aaron George Jones married Rachel Myers
at the Great Synagogue today.
1846: Saling Schiff married Katherine Mosely
at the Great Synagogue today.
1846: Two days after she had passed away, 77
year old Hannah Harris, “the wife of Henry Harris of Shadwell” was buried today
at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1847: German composer Felix Mendelssohn
passed away. Born in 1809, Felix was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, one of
the leaders who provided the basis for what became the Reform Movement. Felix’s father wanted his children to be able
to fully participate in German life, so he had them Baptized in 1816. Despite
the trip to the Baptismal font and Felix’s brilliance, he lost out on at least
one major appointment because he was Jewish.
Also, such musical luminaries as Wagner did not accept him. They used his works as examples of misguided
attempts to Judacize (and weaken) German culture in general and German music in
particular.
https://bullittcountyhistory.org/memories/bernheim.html
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Schmieheim/IWBernheim.html
1849: The Grand Secretary of the Free Sons of
Israel, the first officer of any Grand Lodge to be paid a salary, received $20
for a year beginning today.
1852: Count Cavour became Prime Minister of
Piedmont. Along with Mazzini and Garibaldi, Cavour made up the trinity who
unified the states of the Italian peninsula and created the modern nation of
Italy. Jews were among the most active supporters of the creation of Italian
nationalism. Despite Cavour’s complaints the tough banking practices of Baron
James Rothschild, Rothschild supplied Cavour with financial backing for the
impending war with Austria. Parts of
Italy were in the Austrian Empire. The
two disguised the expenditures as being funds for a tunnel through the
Alps. Cavour appointed Jews to several
top posts in his government, something hitherto unheard. Isaac Arton served as his confidential
secretary and “faithful lieutenant.”
1856: In Charleston, at the synagogue on
Hasell Street, Rabbi Mayer officiated at the marriage of M.J. Solomons of
Savannah, GA and Henrietta S. Emanuel of Georgetown, SC.
1857: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Henry S.
Jacobs officiated at the marriage of Zachariah Falk and Gerogiana S. Jacobi
“the youngest daughter of W.J. Jacobi.”
1860(19th of Cheshvan, 5621): In
the UK, Sixty-four year old Sophia Levy, the widow of Nathaniel Levy and the
mother of Maria Levy passed away today.
1861(1st of Kislev, 5622): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1861: The University of Washington opened in
Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University. Today Washington has 2,000
Jewish undergrads and 1, 000 grad students out of student population of 31,000
undergraduates and 12,000 grad students.
Washington offers approximately 20 Jewish studies courses with both a
major and a minor in Jewish studies. The
university also offers year-round study programs in Israel.
1862: Levin Sternberg began his service as a
member of Company I of the 151st Regiment.
1862: Corporal Jacob Kauffman began his
service with Company F of the 171st Regiment.
1863: Birthdate of Joseph Mendes da Costa, a
Dutch born Sephardi sculptor.
1867: Following yesterday’s defeat at the
Battle of Mentana, forces under the command of Italian patriot Giuseppe
Garibaldi and included Italian Jewish patriot Enrico Guastalla “retreated to
the Kingdom of Italy.”
1868: In Woodbury, PA, Abraham Leopold
Bechhoefer and Rebecca Goldschmidt Bechhoefer gave birth to Lea Bechhoefer.
1871: Mr. R. J. de Cordova, the famous Jewish raconteur
and humorist delivered an address tonight entitled "Our First Baby"
to packed house at the Association Hall in New York City.
1872: In Syracuse,
NY, founding of Adat Yeshuren, whose members included Rabbi David Levine,
J.B... Harrison, N.K. Packard, M.L. Wechsler, David Davis and Meyer Dembo.
1876: Birthdate of Columbus, OH native and Ohio State
University trained Mechanical and Electrical Engineer Gustav Hirsch, the
organized of Gustice Hirsch Associates, an organization specializing in
consulting engineer who “served in the military during the Spanish American
War, WWI and WW II.”
Gustav
Hirsch (nationalitpa.com) https://www.nationalitpa.com/kiosk/hall-fame/hirsch-gustav.html
1876: “New Publications” includes a review of The Conquests
of the Saracens by Howard A Freeman “which meets a general demand on the part
of the reading public for information on the history of religion (most notably
Islam) and politics in the East. “In answer to Lord Derby’s remark that in past
times Jews…have been worse treated in Western Europe than Christians are now
treated” in the part of Europe controlled by the Ottomans, “Mr. Freeman says
that while the condition of the Jews has been getting better and better, that
of the Christians under Turkish rule has been getting worse and worse.”
(Derby’s comment on the treatment of Jews in Christian Europe comes,
considering when it was uttered, as a real eye-opener.)
1877: Birthdate of Chicago native Elias Mayer the
Northwestern University trained lawyer who served as “secretary of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in the United States and a director of
the Jewish Charities of Chicago.
1877: It was reported today that The Alliance Israélite
Universelle or Universal Israelite Alliance “has become a very active and
useful association. Among its many
goals, the Alliances provides instruction for the children of destitute Jews
living in “the East” with training in the Hebrew language and religious
customs. According to the Jewish
Messenger, the Association is supported by a wide range of Jews including
Reform minded Germans, the Anglo-Jewish Associations, the growing American
Jewish community and, of course, the French Jewish community.
1878: “The Bible in the Schools” published today
described the controversy in New Haven, CT concerning the reading of the sacred
text in the public schools. Opposition
and concern ame from many quarters including Roman Catholics, Protestants and
German immigrants but not from the Jews who were apparently of no concern to
Christian board members.
1878: It was reported today the Industrial School of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum has printed copies of a pamphlet by Dr. Isaac Schwab
entitled “Can Jews be Patriots.” The
pamphlet was written as a refutation of Professor Goldwin Smith’s depiction of
Jews as being unpatriotic. Goldwin Smith was a British-born Canadian college
professor who was a notorious anit-Semite.
1878: Birthdate of Budapest native Jean Schwartz, the
songwriter who came to the United States at the age of 13 who wrote “Mr.
Dooley” – a song “which was sung by the title character in The Wizard of Oz”
1878: In Hungary, “Herman and Rosalie (Klein) Stern gave
birth to Columbia train physician Adolph Stern, a specialist “in the treatment
of nervous and mental diseases” and husband of Mamie Hallow who studied with
Professor Freud in 1920.
1879: Justice of the Peace, Nathan Colman who was also the lay
religious leader for the Jewish community, officiated at the first Jewish
wedding in the Black Hills, when Rebecca Reubens married David Holzman today.
1879: It was
reported today that Rabbi David Einhorn’s funeral will take place at 9 o’clock
on November 6. Services will be led by two of Einhorn’s sons-in-law – Rabbi
Kaufman Kohler of Temple Beth-El and Rabbi Emil Hirsch of Louisville – and Dr.
Samuel Hirsch of Philadelphia who was one of Rabbi Einhorn’s closest friends.
1879: Birthdate of humorist, social commentator and
vaudeville star, Will Rogers. Rogers
owed his early fame and fortune to Flo Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld put Rogers in his famous Follies,
leting Rogers stand on stage as a he twirled his lariat and came up with
political zingers that would have made John Stewart smile. In 1924, the KKK was
reaching the height of its power and was planning a large parade in New
York. Using his wit to try and deflate
the Klan, Rogers pointed out that the Klan’s anti-Semitism was misguided if not
downright anti-American. As Rogers
explained it, the Christians were beholden to the Jews for a successful
Christmas. After all, it was the Jews
(remember this is the days of Gimbals’ and Macys) who sold the Christians all
of the presents which were critical to the holiday celebration.
1882:
It was reported today that “drunken rioters have plundered” the shops owned by
the Jews of Presburg, Hungary. The renewal of anti-Jewish violence has resulted
in the death of at least one Jewess. Apparently, the sentencing of those
involved in the September riots to three months in prison has not brought
matters under control.
1882:
Birthdate of New Jersey native and University of Pennsylvania graduate Sydney
Davis, the chemist turned real estate broker and “president of the Brotherhood
of Temple B’nai Jershurun of Newark who was the husband of Saide Davis with
whom he had one daughter.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/01/02/99282223.html?pageNumber=13
1883:
It was reported today that the Jews in New York “are solid” in their support
for ex-Sheriff James O’Brien, the anti-Tammany Hall candidate for the position
of Register.
1884: Grover Cleveland was elected to first
of two terms as President of the United States.
He is the only President to be defeated in his bid for re-election and
then to come back and win the office on his “third try.” During his first term, Cleveland appointed
Oscar Solomon Straus, the leading American Jew of his time, as envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey. Cleveland intended the appointment “as an
indirect rebuke to the government of Austria Hungary, which had refused to
accept an appointee as United States ministers because the minister’s wife was
Jewish. In his second term, Cleveland
vetoed immigration bill aimed at keeping Jews, among others, from entering the
United States. After he had left the
White House, Cleveland continued to show support for Jewish causes by appearing
at protest rallies against Russia’s treatment of her Jewish citizens.
1884: In Plock Poland, “Isidore Jacob and
Sarah (Goldberg) Saltzstein, gave birth University of Michigan trained
Milwaukee attorney Benjamin Franklin Saltzstein, the husband of Edna Doctor and the father of Jean, Robert
and James Saltzstein who was the Director of the Jewish Welfare Fund and
President of the Federated Jewish Charities.
1884: James Rubiner, a Polish Jew who owns a
grocery store on Hester Street is still in jail today facing charges of having
killed a youngster named Julius Silverman.
Silverman was part of a gang that started a bonfire in front Rubiner’s
store as part of their election-night hijinks.
1884: The
New York Times reprints an article from the London Times entitled “Montifore and the Jews” describes the
Italian town in which the great philanthropists family had its roots an
describes the growth and generosity of Moses Montifore.
1887: It was reported today that Michael
Simon has been elected as a magistrate in Glasgow. “He is the first Jew elected
to that office in Scotland.”
1888(30th of Cheshvan, 5649): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev
1888: Dr. Gustav Gottheil delivered a lecture
at Temple Emanu-El this morning entitled “Government by the People and what it
Owes to Judaism.
1889: Mr. Rosenthal, the leading Republican
in the Fourth District and the leader of the Hebrew American Republican League
who has left the Republican Party plans to endorse the Tammany ticket at a mass
meeting tonight.
1890: In Germany, Fanny and Abraham Lippmann
gave birth to movie producer Hanns Lippman
1892: Former Chancellor Bismarck was quoted
today as saying “that only newspapers, Poles and Jews desired war between the
Russians and the Germans.” (The Jew as warmonger would gain transaction as can
be seen Lindbergh’s and Patrick Buchanan’s invocation of the image in the 20th
and 21st centuries)
1893: Six Polish Jews were arrested in
Hudson, NY for illegal registration.
1894: “Boston Hebrews Rejoice” published
today described “a mock funeral” held in Boston in which a large audience that
included 2,000 Jews held in response to the death of the autocratic,
anti-Semitic Czar Alexander III.
1894: A cross section of editorial opinion
from Jewish newspapers following the death of Czar Alexander III published
today included: The Jewish Herald –
“We are glad to announce that the tyrannic heart of Alexander II beats no
more”; The Volksadvocat – “Hurrah for the Angel of Death!” and The Abendblatt –
“The Czar is dead. Long live the social
revolution!”
1894: Rabbi Joseph delivered a sermon today
at Temple Emanu-El on “Civil and Religious Liberty in 1894”
1894: “Russia’s Puerile Autocrat” published
today provides a portrait of Russia new Czar, Nicholas II including a report circulating in London that Mlle.
Kischeneffski, “the beautiful Jewess” has been the mistress of Nicholas for the
last three years and that she “has two Romanoff children.
1895: It was revealed today that Samuel Levy
owned the tenement on Pelham that burned down yesterday living four Jewish dead
also owned the building on Cherry Street which was destroyed by fire last year.
1895: Chancellor von Caprivi who is an
opponent of the anti-Semitic parties had an audience with the Emperor today.
1895: The will of the late Julius Lipman was
filed in the Surrogate’s office today.
1895: “The Halevy Singing Society” published
today described a concert sponsored by the Jewish musical organization under
the direction of Leon Kramer that featured soprano Catherine Hilke, baritone
Karl Dufft, tenor Charles A. Kaiser and violinist Sam Franko.
1895: The quarantine at the Hebrew Sheltering
Arms ordered by Superintendent Henry Bernstein beause of the outbreak of
measles continued in effect today.
1897: Birthdate of New York City native
Albert D. “Dolly” Stark “the first Jewish umpire in the modern Major Leagues.
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1897: In Philadelphia, the Association of Jewish Immigrants which
had been founded in 1884 “to protect Jewish immigrants, to facilitate their
reaching their destination and their relatives and to aid them” in whatever was
necessary was scheduled to hold its monthly board meeting today.
1897: Pennsylvanian George J. Newgarden was
promoted to Captain and Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army.
1897: In his address at the Teacher’s College
at Morningside Heights, William T. Harris, the National Commissioner of
Education said that among the threads of education is “the Hebrew thread…the
religious one which we recognize in the celebration of worship one day each
week and in the various holy days” which “we acknowledge” as “the most
essential thread of our civilization.
1898: Dr. Maurice Harris delivered an address
tonight at Temple Israel in which he
replied Israel Zangwill’s criticism of Reformed Judaism.
1898: In Denver, Rosa Levy and Louis Trattner
gave birth to HUC trained Rabbi Ernest R. Trattner who began his career
leading Temple Beth Israel in San Diego and who had been leading West Temple in
Los Angeles since 1948 while raising three children – Elinor, Louise and Rosa
Jean – with his wife the former Johanna Gronsky.
1898: Abram Nelson has filed a petition on
behalf of his client Jacob H. Bibo in Surrogate’s court that will finally
settle the estate of Jacob Bibo, his nephew who disappeared mysteriously in the
1860’s and his brother Isaac for whose estate he is the executor.
1900: College of Physicians and Surgeons
trained Dr. Simon R. Blatteis, the Austro-Hungarian born son of Sarah Risefeld
and Max Blatteis married Minnie Levinson today after he served as a consultant
pathologist and attending physician at Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn.
1900: “A Conspiracy to Drive Jewish Officers
From The France” published today said that it is feared that the “anti-Semitic
feeling” of some French officer “may be transmitted to the rank and file”
despite the best efforts of the Minister of War and that the only way to
“abolish anti-Semitism from the army” is “to dispense with the military service
of all members of the Jewish religion.”
1901: It was reported today that in attempt
to encourage participation in tomorrow’s election, Cyrus L. Sulzberger told a
meeting of Jews at the Education Alliance that “election day should be them as
Americans what Yom Kippur is to them as Hebrews
1902: “The Admirable Crichton” produced by
Charles Frohman opened at the Duke of York's Theatre.
1902: Benjamin Mordecai, the New Orleans born
son Of Katherine and Allen Louis Mordecai and his Constance Miriam
Mordecai gave birth of Allen Lewis
Mordecai
1903: “The terms of the decision reached by
the arbitration committee which has been hearing testimony between the
Amalgamated Street Railway Employees’ Association and the street railway
companies of San Francisco” were made public today Oscar S. Straus.
1904(26th of Cheshvan, 5665): Willy Bambus
passed away. Bambus Willy Bambus was
born in Berlin in 1862. Not much is known of his family and youth. Apparently,
he came from a modest background, had only a limited formal education and was
to a large extent self-taught. Already in the mid-1880s Bambus was attracted to
Zionist ideas and supported the idea of reclaiming the Land of Israel by the
establishment of Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. He became a
leading member of Verein Esra, a society founded in 1884 for the advancement of
Jewish agricultural settlement in Palestine and Syria. To further their ideas
and to disseminate them Bambus, with other members of Verein Esra, established
the journal Serubabel in 1886. Their aim was "to raise Jewish
national consciousness and assist the Yishuv in Erez Israel". Bambus
edited Serubabel in the period 1887-1888. In 1891 he became the general
secretary of the Komitee zur Abwehr antisemitischer Angriffe, an organization
established by his life-long friend and patron Paul Nathan. At about the same
time he became general secretary of Verein Esra as well, which changed its name
to Esra, Verein zuer Unterstuetzung ackerbautreibender Juden in Palaestina und
Syrien. In addition, in 1892 together with Heinrich Loewe he established Jung
Israel, juedisch-nationaler Verein) (a pre-Herzlian Zionist organization). The
first contact between Max Bodenheimer and Bambus was made in 1892. Their
relationship outlasted Bambus' later rift with Herzl and his estrangement from
the Zionist movement, until Bambus' death in 1904. In 1894 together with Hirsch
Hildesheimer, Emile Meyerson, and Isaak Turoff, Bambus initiated the establishment
of the Central Committee of Hovevei Zion in Paris. The Committee initiated the
establishment of the colony Beer Tuvia in 1896. Bambus was involved in the
establishment and development of a great number of Jewish associations in
Berlin, some of which were quite successful, among others, the Verein fur
juedische Geschichte und Literatur and the Juedische Lesehalle. He also
published brochures and pamphlets, among others "Antisemitismus und
Zionismus", "Palaestina in der Gegenwart - Kurzgefasster Abriss der politischen
und physischen Geographie des heiligen Landes", and the article "Die
Juedische Ackerbaukolonisation in Palaestina und ihre Geschichte". He also
published articles in the Jewish press on Jewish and Zionist subjects. In March
1897 he participated in the conference convened by Herzl in Vienna to prepare
the First Zionist Congress. Although he antagonized Herzl, he nonetheless
attended the First (1897) and the Second (1898) Zionist Congress, during which
he disputed some of Herzl's policies, especially Herzl's categorical rejection
of small-scale settlement in Palestine. He expressed his ideas in the
periodical Zion, which he edited from 1896. When Herzl dispatched Leo Motzkin
to Palestine on behalf of the Zionist Organisation to investigate the state of
the Jewish colonies, Bambus was deeply offended. In reaction to Motzkin's
report at the Second Zionist Congress in 1898, he published a brochure entitled
"Herr Motzkin und die Wahrheit ueber die Kolonisation Palaestinas" in
which he sharply criticized the report. In view of the weakening of his
position among the Zionists in Berlin and his refusal to accept Herzl's notion
according to which settlement activities in Palestine should be delayed until
legal political guarantees were obtained, he withdrew from the Zionist
Organization sometime after the Second Zionist Congress. Bambus visited
Palestine in 1895, 1899 and 1904. In 1896 he initiated and organized an
exhibition of products from Palestine in several cities in Germany. In 1898 he
established Eliada, a wholesale outlet marketing wines from Palestine in
Hamburg, and in 1900 he exhibited wines and other agricultural products from
Palestine at the World Fair in Paris. Even though he withdrew from the Zionist
Organization, he continued until his death to advocate and assist Jewish
settlement activities in Palestine and the development of manufacturing and
industry. In 1900 he wrote a brochure entitled "Industrielle Kolonisation
in Palaestina". In 1901, upon the creation of the Hilfsverein der
deutschen Juden, he became its first general secretary. His works include Palaestina,
Land und Leute (1898), Die Kriminalitaet der Juden (1896), Die
Juden als Soldaten (1897), and publications on Jewish settlement in
Palestine mentioned above.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bambus-willy
1905: A production of
“In New York Town,” a musical comedy based on the work of Loney Haskell” and
“with music by Albert Von Tilzer” came to a close today at the Fourteenth
Street Theatre.
1905: “The Earl and the Girl” with additional
music and lyrics by Jerome Kern opened at the Casino Theatre in New York.
1905: In Bachmut, Bessarabia, attacks on the
Jews were “temporarily stopped” this morning “through the efforts of Russian
peasants, but” after “the police spread false reports which aroused the mob,
there was a renewal of the plunder and massacre” which resulted in losses
reaching into the millions of dollars.
1905: In Russia, at a meeting today of the
Engineers’ Union a resolution was passed stating that “At the very moment when
the revolutionary movement has driven the autocracy to surrender ,when the
nation and country are on the eve of effective liberation. We are witnessing a
series of massacres of Jews carried out by the rabble, thanks to the criminal
tolerance of the authorities.”
1905: “Odessa Terror Unchecked” published
today included a summary of the violence in the Russian city which had begun
“late in the afternoon” of October 31 when “all Jews found in the streets were
severely beaten and may were killed in their shops which were ruthlessly
pillaged. In the poorer’ Jews’ quarters,
on the outskirts of the town, whole streets were destroyed” while “crowds of
workmen, women and children laden with all kinds of loot walked openly through
the streets quarreling over the spoils.”
The violence has continued unabated on a daily basis ever since.
1906: Abraham Shapiro presided over the
eighth meeting of the Common Council of “the boy’s republic of the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Asylum during which all nineteen members of the council who
ranged from 12 to 15 years presented resolutions for the council to consider.
1907: In Paddington, “solicitor and art
collector Julian George Lousada” gave birth to Sir Anthony Baruh Lousada, a
barrister and patron of the arts.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-anthony-lousada-1425832.html
http://www.barrow-lousada.org/chiswick.htm
1907: University of Moscow and Columbia
trained statistician and economist Morris L. Jacobson, the Riga born son of Ida
Cohn and Lazar B. Jacobson married Cora R. Langworthy today in Los Angeles.
1908: In Warsaw, Zygmunt Rotblat and his wife
gave birth to Jozef Rotblat who gained as Joseph, Rotblat, the Manhattan
Project physicist and to participating in the anti-nuclear weapons movement in
the post-WW II World.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1497409/Professor-Sir-Joseph-Rotblat.html
1909: The State Branch of the America
National Red Cross announced that contributions to aid the 60,000 woman and children in Galicia whose husbands
were massacred in April” and who “are sorely in need of shelter and he
necessaries of life” may be sent to Jacob H. Schiff, the Treasurer of the Red
Cross.
1910: Attack made on the Jewish bank in
Sophia, Bulgaria.
1910(2nd of Cheshvan, 5671):
Postmaster Joseph Dreyfus, a native of Hales Comers, WI, passed away today
1911(13th of Cheshvan, 5672):
Parashat Lech-Lecha
1911(13th of Cheshvan, 5672):
“Chicago merchant” Leon Mandel passed away today.
1911: Birthdate of Jack Rose the native of
Warsaw who became an American gag writer and screen playwright.
1912: Birthdate of singer Frances Faye, who
died on November 8, 1991.
1913: Jacob Aaron Cantor began his first term
a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
1913: Benjamin Cardozo was elected Justice of
State Supreme Court of New York. In February of the following year he was made
a judge on the Court of Appeals.
1913: “The Marks Nathan Orphanage” published
in today’s Daily Jewish Courier provided “the entire report of Mr. Trotsky, the
superintendent” of the institution.
http://flps.newberry.org/article/5423972_6_1591
1914(15th
of Cheshvan, 5675): Twenty-four year old Isidor Schloss, the son of Leopold and
Karoline Schloss and the husband of Emilie Schloss who worked as a bank clerk was killed today
during World War One.
1915: Oscar S.
Straus was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of newspaper editor Herman
Ridder which took place this morning and which was attended by a host of
dignitaries included Abraham Jacobi.
1916: Figures
were given out today showing the results accomplished since the establishment
of the Joint Distribution Committee’s Remittance Bureau chaired by Felix
Warburg which was established “to forward to the Jews in the war stricken
countries remittances from relatives in the United States which it has been
impossible to forward through any other private or governmental agency – a task
made almost impossible because of “changing fortunes of war” in Russia,
Rumania, Poland and Austria where territory “passes and repasses” from one
country’s military to another.
1917: At the Central Jewish Institute East 85th
Street, Israel Unterberg presided over the memorial service for philanthropist
Samuel I. Hyman, officiated over by Rabbis Hyamson and Goldstein where the
speakers included Dr. Cyrus Adler, Dr. J.L. Magnes and Louis Marshall who
delivered a eulogy in which he “urged the necessity for patriotism and loyalty
among the Jews in America.”
1917(19th of Cheshvan, 5678):
Seventy year old Leopoldo Franchetti, a member of a family that came to Italy from Tunisia
in the 18th century and who became an Italian political leader with
a special interest in the problems of southern Italy passed away today.
1917(19th
of Cheshvan, 5678): Eighty-seven year old Civil War veteran Solomon Stern
passed away today in New Orleans.
1917: To the
cheers of 12,000 inside Madison Square Garden and thousands more outside of the
building Morris Hillquit, the Socialist candidate for Mayor closed his campaign
“with an appeal to class feeling” and pacifism.
1918: Five days
after he had passed away, 28 year old Private Sidney Finsten of the
Worcestershire Regiment was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery.
1918: CCNY
graduate Louis Maurice Josephthal, one
of the organizers of the Naval Militia of State of New York and the New York
born son of Theresa Wise and Moritz Josephthal today was appointed as aide “to
the officer in charge of the fleet supply base, Admiral C.S. Williams.
1918: The German Revolution began when
forty-thousand sailors took over the port in Kiel. During the revolt, the Communist Party which
included “Jewish members” would try and seize power much as their counterparts
in Russia had done a year earlier. The
revolt would fail and eventually the Weimar Republic which also had Jewish
leaders would come to power in the 1920’s.
Hitler would use the German fear of disorder and the presence of Jews in
both of these movements to whip anti-Semitism and justify the Final Solution.
1918: In Germany, Bavaria became the first
(state to become a socialist “republic” under the leadership of moderate,
non-Bolshevik Jew named Kurt Eisner.
1918: Today, in
an action near Ferme de Maucourt, northwest of Beauclair, France, Milton J.
Foreman’s “unit came under heavy machine gun and artillery fire” which led
Foreman to creep through the German
gunfire laying telephone wire to the infantry front line so that he could
direct the fire of his artillery unit by direct visual observation and called
for fire support on the German units.”
1918: For the “heroism” he showed on the
battlefield today, “Isadore Solomon of Chicago,” was awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross in 1921.
1918: Today, in action that would win him the
Distingugished Service Medal, the unit commanded by Colonel Milton J. Foreman
came under “heavy machine gun and artillery fire forcing Foreman to creep
through German “gunfire laying telephone wire to the infantry front line so he
could direct the fire of his artillery unit by direct visual observation” and successfully call in
the fire support that hit the German units.
1919: Birthdate of Martin Balsam, one of the finest
and most prolific television and movie character actors of the 20th
century. From a juror in Twelve Angry Men, to Admiral Kimmel in Tora, Tora, Tora, to an officer in the
wacky comedy Catch 22, Balsam played
them all with skill and aplomb. He passed
away in 1996.
1920: “A ‘flying squadron’ on one hundred
prominent Jewish businessmen, bankers, educators and philanthropists head by
Julius Rosenwald, Mortimer Scheiff, Congressman Julius Kahn and others of
international note” is scheduled to start today “on a forty-day tour of the
principle cities” in the United States “to bring the message of rejuvenated
Judaism to the Jews of America and to talk of the aims of the Union of Hebrew
Union Congregations to revive the spirit of Judaism.”
1921: Today “there was staged in
Brownsville's Liberty Theatre, through Bernard Young, Israel Rosenberg’s adaptation and re-dramatization of Wolf
Mercur's Yiddish translation of the German operetta,
"Hollandweibchen," under the name, "A Bride Without a
Bridegroom[?], an operetta in three acts by Israel Rosenberg (subject
antnumen), music by Sholom Secunda" (with Clara Young in the title role).”
1921:Canadian cellest Boris Hambourg the Russian born Jewish son of Michael and
Catherine Hambourg and the brother pianist Mark Hambourg and violinist Jan
Hambourg ,performed a cello recital in Aeolian Hall this afternoon which
include a sonata by Benedetto Marcello.
1921: Hadassah nurses and their teachers join
the funeral procession which ends with the burial of the four victims of Arab
violence at the Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
1922(13th of Cheshvan, 5683):
Parashat Lech-Lecha
1922(13th of Cheshvan, 5683):
Seventy-one year old Hungarian born Dávid Leimdörfer who served as the Rabbi
for the Hamburg Temple, “the first permanent Reform synagogue” starring in 1883
passed away today.
1922: Hashomer Hatzair alpha settlers from
Poland who had helped to start Kibbutz Geva in 1921 established the modern
kibbutz, Beit Alpha, located in the Lower Galilee on the site of “a 6th
century Jewish settlement.”
1922: Wake Forest, coached by George Leven
lost again, this time to William and Mary.
1923: Charlie Chaplin’s “A Woman of Paris”
was released today in the United States.
1923: Rabbi Samuel Schulman at Temple Beth-el
and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise at the Free Synagogue defended Israel Zangwill's
recent address at Carnegie Hall in which the Jewish publicist declared that
political Zionism was dead.
1924: Eighteen year old featherweight Maurice
Holtzer fought and won his first bout.
1924: Republican candidate Jesse H. Metcalf
was elected to the United States by the citizens of Rhode Island. In June of
1933, during a Senate debate on the treatment of Jews in Germany, Metcalf would
join those who condemned the Nazi government. “We as a national can only
declare the existence of racial or religious prejudice to be untenable as a
national ideal.”
1924: Republican candidate Albert Ottinger
was elected Attorney General for the State of New York.
1925: Birthdate of Doris May Green, the St.
Louis native who was raised by her mother Ann Meltzer and her step-father
Chester H. Roberts, who gained fame as Emmy award winning actress Doris Roberts
best known for her role as the nagging mother on “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
1925: One day after he had passed away, 68
year old Jacob Silver, the husband of Bloomah Silver, was buried today in the
Steatham Jewish Cemetery.
1926: In Brooklyn, “Aaron Fuchs, a baker and
the former Rose Mintzer” gave birth to Murray Louis Fuchs who gained fame as
choreographer Murray Louis. (As reported by Jack Anderson)
1926: Birthdate of Laurence Rosenthal, the
Detroit native who gained fame as a composer, arranger and conductor creating
the scores for “Raisin in the Sun” and
“Becket”
1926: Nineteen year
old middleweight Seymour “Cy” Schindell fought his 10th bout leaving
his record at 9 to 1.
1926: Rabbi Bernard Drachman and Rabbi B.A.
Tinter officiated at the funeral of Harry Houdini which took place at the
Machpelah Cemetery in the borough of Queens and was attended by “more than
2,000 mourners.
1927:
Rabbi David Cohen and Sarah Elkin gave birth to Eliyahu
Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen, chief rabbi of Haifa known for his Torah
scholarship, interfaith work and strict vegetarian lifestyle” http://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-shear-yashuv-cohen-scholar-and-warrior-dies-at-88/
1927(9th
of Cheshvan, 5688): Just three days before his 79th birthday Austrian
writer Alfred Klaar who earned degrees at the Universities of Vienna and
Prague and who was made dramatic and art critic of the
"Bohemia" at Prague, in which city he settled. In 1885 before he
became private-docent in German literature at the German technical high school
at Prague passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9360-klaar-alfred
Alfred Klaar - The
Edythe Griffinger Portal (lbi.org)
1928: While speaking at Carnegie Hall this
morning on “For the Honor of the Jews” Dr. Stephen S. Wise “scorned the
negative and collective way in which challenges of that sort are usually
responded to and advocated answers would be both positive and individual.”
1928(21st of Cheshvan, 5689): Arnold
Rothstein passed away. Rothstein was one
of New York City's most notorious gamblers.
He was a crook and a mobster; certainly not a credit to the Jewish
people. He was rumored to have been the
brains behind the fixing of the 1919 World Series also known as the Black Sox
Scandal. He was shot to death over a
poker game or gambling debts.
https://www.biography.com/people/arnold-rothstein
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/arnold-rothstein
1928: “Morris J. Goldstein, the Vice
President of the Yeshivath Torah Vodaath Mesifta,” “a Jewish grammar and high school in
Brooklyn” said tonight that the school which is located in a part of that is
dealing with an economic depression, would need to between $50,000 and $70,000
to stay open.
1928: Six months after premiering in New York
City, “The Man Who Laughs” the screen version of the novel of the same name
directed by Paul Leni and produced by Paul Kohner was released in the rest of
the United States.
1929: "Davar, a Jewish workmen's daily,
was indefinitely suspended today by order of the High Commissioner for
publishing an official document without permission.”
1930: Moissaye Joseph
Olgin ‘a Ukrainian-born
writer, journalist, and translator in the early 20th century. He began his
career writing for the Jewish press in support of the Russian Revolution in
1910” who came to the United States in 1915 was defeated in today’s
congressional election.
1930: The Baltimore Jewish Times reported
that Cantor Abba Yosef Weisgal’s Adolph Coblenz was his “first rabbi in
Baltimore, MD.”
1931: David Lloyd George who as Prime
Minister had supported the Balfour Declaration “stepped down as Leader of the
Liberal Party” today was succeeded by Sir Herbert Samuel, the former cabinet
officer and the first Jew to head a major political party in the United Kingdom
1932(5th of Cheshvan, 5693): Seventy Four
year old Salomon Reinach, the distinguished French archaeologist passed away.
The brother of author and politician Jospeh Reinach and archaeologist Theodore
Reinach, he was an active member of the Jewish community serving as vice
president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle
1932: Birthdate of actor and director Noam Pitlik
who appeared in a variety of sit-coms including the Bob Newhart Show and whose directorial work included several
episodes of the detective comedy series, Barney
Miller. He passed away in 1999.
1933(15th
of Cheshvan, 5694): Parashat Vayera
1933: Dr. Ludwig
Teitz, the “noted surgeon and leader of the Jewish Youth Association” “died
suddenly today “as the result of a hemorrhage” just a few hours after “he had
been overjoyed to learn the German Government had officially recognized the
Jewish Youth Association as the official body of the German Jewish youth.”
1933: Ohio State
University, led by team captain Sid Gillman defeated Indiana today.
1934: “Libels again
the Jewish race were the subject of a sermon preached today by Rabbi Israel
Goldstein” at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun during which he said “the trial at
Berne, in which the ‘Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion’ are the main issue, has
again focused the attention of the world upon a standing libel against the
Jewish race.”
1934: “After an
all-day session at which a wide range of congregational problems was discussed,
delegates to the annual convention of the Northeast Religious Union at Temple
Emanu-El adopted a resolution today expressing opposition to war and
determination to support all forces acting to prevent it.”
1934: “Toscha
Seidel, Mischa Leivitzki, and Victor Chenkin appeared in a benefit performance
at Carnegie Hall” this “evening which was said to have $5,000 for the Jewish
National Fund.
1935: Birthday of
Uri Zohar, the Tel Aviv native who went from being a successful entertainer to
the life of a Haredi rabbi.
1933: Guy Gillette who would become “an active supporter of the
Bergson Group’s Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, made
numerous speeches on the floor of the senate urging U.S. rescue action, and
chaired the group’s second emergency conference on rescue” was elected to his
first term as a U.S. Senator from Iowa.
1936 Cardinal
Michael von Faulhaber, the Archbishop of Munic travelled to Hitler's mountain
retreat near Berchtesgaden
1936: In London,
“Count Edward Raczynski, the Polish Ambassador called at the Foreign Office and
intimated to Sir Robert Vansittart, the permanent Under-Secretary” that in his
upcoming trip to the United Kingdom, Colonel Josef Beck, the Foreign Minister of
Poland wants to discuss “the question of Jewish immigration” from Poland to
Palestine with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden” because the government in
Warsaw fears that the British authorities at Jerusalem are inclined to make
concessions to the Arabs and temporarily restrict, if not block altogether, the
flow of immigrants” by which Beck means Polish Jews fleeing that country’s
on-going wave of anti-Semitism.
1937:, Isaac Kaplan, who was
the first member of his family to go to college, and Bessie Zwirn Kaplan
gave birth to Fred Kaplan who grew
up in the lower-middle-class environment of third-generation Jewish Ashkenazic
immigrant culture, first in the Bronx and then in Brooklyn, where his family
moved when he was ten. He was one of four sons, the other three of whom became
lawyers. His avid reading of novels and other books at home, in the public
library, in the public schools of Brooklyn, and at Brooklyn College, where he
majored in classics and philosophy (B.A., 1959), led to his partial
assimilation into Anglo-American culture; he then earned an M.A. Fred Kaplan's
biographies of Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens are part of a projected
biographical quartet charting the sweep of Anglo-American culture from the
Romantic to the modern era. Kaplan is committed to biography as a literary form
and draws upon the techniques of narrative art; he aspires to combine the power
and dramatic resources of narrative prose and the rigorous intellectual
requirements of historical literary scholarship and cultural analysis.
1937: The Palestine
Post reported the British
government’s announcement that there would be no retraction of the measures
taken against members of the Arab Higher Committee and that the recent
restrictions on Jewish immigration were only temporary. (The British must have
had their fingers crossed on this last part of the statement since not only
wouldn’t the restrictions be lifted they would actually be tightened.) It was
decided, however, not to put pressure on the French authorities in Lebanon for
the extradition of the mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, from Beirut to
Jerusalem (even though he was the architect of much of the Arab terrorism).
1938: “The Great Waltz,” a biopic with a
script co-authored by Gottfried Reinhardt and Vicki Baum was released in the
United States today.
1938: “At a public meeting in Epping, Winston
Churchill narrowly survived an attempt by fellow Conservative and constituent
Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley to remove him from Parliament” which if it had been
successful would have meant that Hitler’s most outspoken foe would not have
been able to serve as First Lord or Prime Minister when WW II broke out ten
months later.
1939(22nd of Cheshvan, 5700):
Parashat Chayei Sara
1939: It was announced today that “Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt will received a book from the children’s village of Meier
Shfeyah in Palestine as a tribute to her ‘for her interest in the education of
underprivileged children and the problems of all youth.”
1940: In a capacity crowded auditorium” in
Cairo “before an enthusiastic audience, the Palestine Orchestra tonight ended
another triumphant visit to Egypt.
1940: On the day before the national election
a “pamphlet supposedly issued by the American Protestant League” appealed “to
the Protestants to vote for Wendell Wilkie because the Flynn organization had
given all the good political jobs to Catholics and Jews.
1941: Stanley M. Isaacs won a seat on the New
York City Council as an At-Large representative from Manhattan.
1941: Franklin Mott Gunther, the U.S.
minister to Romania “described in detail the massacres committed in Bessarabia
and in Bukovina and the cruelties that were committed during the deportations
to Transnistria.”
1941: Last of a twenty train convoy made its
way from Germany to the Lodz ghetto. In all, 19,837 Jews were taken. Banishment
became official as the Reich Treasury issued directives that "Jews not
employed in businesses of importance to the people's economy will be banished
to one of the cities in the East. The property of the Jews who are to be
banished will be confiscated
1942(24th of Cheshvan, 5703):
Sixty-eight year old University of
Michigan graduate and steel company executive Julius Kahn, the German born son
of Joseph and Rosalie Kahn and the brother of Albert Kahn with whom “he
designed the ‘Kahn bar’” and who was the husband of Margaret Kohut Kahn with
whom he had three children” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/11/06/88506500.pdf
1942: Regina Jonas, the Berlin native who
“became the first woman to be ordained as rabbi” was forced by the Nazis “to
fill out a declaration form that listed her property, including her books.”
1942: During World War II, Axis forces
retreated from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces
commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
This would mark the end of the Axis threat to the Jewish community in
Eretz Israel. Reluctantly, the British
had turned to the leaders of the Yishuv to help prepare for the defense of the
Middle East if Rommel had broken through at El Alamein and seized Egypt and the
Suez Canal. Many Egyptians were prepared
to welcome what they would be a victorious German army and there were reports
of Nazi flags being flown in parts of Cairo.
The defeat of the Axis at El Alamein, along with the battles at Midway
and Stalingrad, was considered a major turning point in the war. The Allied victory in the spring of 1943
would free the Jews of North Africa from the threat of the Nazis and the Vichy
French.
1943: In Poland, 3,898 Jews were deported
from the Szebnie labor camp to Birkenau
1943: The Jews of Florence, Italy were
rounded up and deported.
1943: “North Star” a cinematic treatment of a
short story by Lillian Hellman who wrote the script, directed by Lewis
Milestone, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and with music by Aaron Copeland was
released today in the United States.
1943: The Germans put down an inmate revolt at the
slave-labor camp at Szebnie, Poland. The camp is liquidated; about 3000 Jews
are deported to Auschwitz.
1944(18th of Cheshvan, 5705)
Parashat Vayera
1944(18th of Cheshvan, 5705):
Eighty-two year old New York native and “retired cotton-goods manufacturer
William Israel Walter, the son of Israel and Henrietta Walker and husband of
the former Florence Bernheimer with whom he had two children – Marjorie and
Florence -- who was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at his alma mater Columbia and a
supporter of such worthy causes as the “children’s clinic at Mt. Sinai Hospital
and the History Department at Bryn Mawr College” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/05/85081531.pdf
1944: The ‘Death
March' from Bor, Hungary, makes its way to Gyor, Hungary after a six week
journey. Here hundreds of survivors were beaten or shot to death. The bodies
were thrown into massive graves that the prisoners had dug just before their
extermination. Five thousand people would start the march and only nine would
survive to the end of the war. Many other similar marches would follow. After being forced to dig their own graves, hundreds
of Jews from the copper-mine labor camp at Bor, Hungary, are shot or beaten to
death at Györ, Hungary. Among the victims is a noted poet named Miklós Radnóti,
age 35.
1944: Weizmann and Churchill met to discuss
the future of Palestine.
1944: Sixty-two year old Sir John Greer
Dill who was the first British General
to serve as the head of the Palestine from 1936 to 1937 passed away today in
Washington, DC following which he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
1945: Reports of of anti-Semitic “demonstrations in
Syria, Lebanon and Egypt published today in Tarabaulus el Gharb, a Libyan
newspaper helped “to fan the flames of existing anti-Jewish feeling” that led
to an outbreak of anti-Semitic riots.
1945: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in seven cities in
Libya, including Tripoli. The riots would last for four days during which ten
synagogues were burned an looted and Jewish homes and businesses were broken
into and looted.
1945: Drastic measures including imposing an
extended curfew upon a wide strategic area southward and northward of the
central harbor town of Haifa were announced by Maj. Gen. C.F. Loewen, British
military commander of Northern Palestine.
1946: Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein is
re-elected New York State Attorney General, make it two wins a row for
Republican leader and lawyer.
1947: In Louisville, KY, “Edna E. (née Klein)
and Stanley R. Yarmuth” gave birth to Georgetown University trained attorney
and publisher turned politician John Allan Yarmuth, the Congressman
representing Kentucky's 3rd District.
1947: Henry A. Wallace, the editor of The New Republic who had been FDR’s Vice
President during his third term arrived in New York after visiting Palestine
and Europe said “that in Palestine he got the impression that the tension is
not as great as it had been reported” and that “he did not believe there would
be bloodshed after the withdrawal of the British from Palestine, particularly
if the findings of the United Nations committee are accepted.” (Editor’s note –
I cannot find a report from anybody on either side of the issue who agreed with
this kind of rosy view.)
1948: The United
Nations Security Council called for the withdrawal of all forces to the
positions they had held on
1948: Birthdate of
Shaul Mofaz, the native of Tehran who became the IDF’s 16th Chief of
the General Staff in 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul_Mofaz
1949: Elyahu Elath,
the Israeli Ambassador to the United States asked George McGhee, the United
States Assistant Secretary of the State for Near Eastern, South Asian and
African Affairs if the United States would raise the question of the plight of
Iraqi Jewry at the United Nations, and McGhee replied that he ‘strongly’ recommended not raising the
issue, because ‘a debate in the General Assembly would stir up feelings and do
Iraq’s Jews more harm than good.”
1949: The Jewish
actor and singer Max Letter is scheduled to his first appearance on the Yiddish
states “this season in ‘Tell Me that You Love Me,” a new musical by Israel
Rosenberg” opening this evening at the National with a cast that includes
Florence Weis and Feivush Finkel.
1950(24th
of Cheshvan, 5711): Parashat Chayei Sara
1950: Billboard reported today that Arnold
Eidus, a prominent radio and concert musician is one of the founders of
Stradivari Record which is production chamber music featuring performance by
this famed violinist.
1951: The funeral for sixty year old Philip Salsburg, the
Wilkes-Barre, PA born son of Rachel and Mendel Salsburg and husband of “the
former Sadie Rubinow” who was employed by Du Pont before coming the executive
secretary of the Community Chest of Scranton is scheduled to take place this
afternoon at the Madison Avenue Temple.
1952: “The Prisoner
of Zenda” a re-make of the 1937 film produced by Pandro S. Berman with music by
Alfred Newman which was filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was
released in the United States today by MGM.
1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was
elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson. At the end of his first term, President
Eisenhower would turn against the Israelis during the Suez Crisis. He would side with the Soviets and save
Nasser.
1952 (16th of Cheshvan, 5713): Aaron
Nusbaum the Elgin, Illinois native who was a vice president of Sears Roebuck &
Co. and brother in law of Julius Rosenwald as well as a noted philanthropist who played a key role in
the creation of the Adler Planetarium passed away today.
1953(26th
of Cheshvan, 5714): Seventy-five year old Kanus, Lithuania native and Columbia
University trained lawyer Paul Abelson who lectured in Yiddish “on history and
civil rights…to help with Americanization of new immigrants and served as labor
arbitrator while editing Yiddish language magazines passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/04/paul-abelson.html
1955: Gerald I. Benson, the captain of the
Amherst basketball, who was recently married to Hope Jan Lewih by Rabbi Jacob
Shankman is scheduled to report to Lackland Air Force Base today for active
duty as a second lieutenant.
1955: U.S. premiere of “The Tender Trap” the
movie version of Max Shulman’s play for which he co-authored the screenplay
Julius Epstein and which was produced by Lawrence Weingarten.
1956(30th of Cheshvan, 5717): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1956(30th of Cheshvan, 5717):
Fifty-one year old New Haven, CT native Beatrice Hahn, “the director of finance
of the National Council of Jewish Women” and “former national president of the
Council of Jewish Juniors passed away today in Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/11/05/84895367.html?pageNumber=31
1956: It was reported today that an Egyptian
communique claimed Egyptian forces “had sunk four Biriths naval vessels and
captured three troop landing craft at Suez.
1956: During the Suez Crisis, it was reported
that the British and French paratroopers would drop into the Canal Zone within
the next 48 hours now that the British had neutralized the Egyptian air force.
1956: During the Sinai Campaign, a.k.a. The Hundred
Hours War, Israeli forces reached the Suez Canal.
1956: An IDF force of 180 vehicles
successfully made the trek through the Sinai wilderness and took Sharm es
Sheikh from the Egyptians. After six
hours of fighting, the IDF prevailed and opened the Straits of Tiran.
1956: Soviet Army units unleashed a massive
attack on Budapest as part of their move to suppress the Hungarian
Revolution. Jewish students had been
prominent participants in the uprising.
Seeing that the revolt had failed and fearing a Stalinist style reprisal
approximately 40,000 Jews joined the 170,000 Hungarians who fled to Austria.
1956: Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Rams
continued their losing ways dropping a game to the Chicago Bears – their fifth
loss in a row after winning the opening game of the season.
1957: In Philadelphia, Lewis Jacob Affelder,
the Cleveland born son of Rhoda and Harry Fleischman, a member pf the Clevland
Hospital Council, married Ruth Steinbach
Affelder, the Philadelphia born daughter of Ruth and Lester Gans Steppacher.
1957: Birthdate of Leeds, UK native and
Conservative political leader Richard Irwin Harrington, Baron Harrington of
Watford
1960: Marilyn Monroe finishes her last film, The Misfits.
1960: “Butterfield 8” a cinematic treatment
of the 1934 novel directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Pandro S. Berman and
starring Elizabeth Taylor (who won an Oscar), Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher
was released today in the United States.
1961: Birthdate of Annabelle Gurwitch, the
Alabama born, Miami Beach High School graduate who pursued a career as an
actress and author/
https://www.annabellegurwitch.com/
1961:
In Los Angeles Edward Baitz, “an executive of the Carnation Company” and
his wife gave birth to Jon Robin Baitz who after a career in the California
entertainment industry became “a professor at Stony Brook Southampton and The
New School where he served Artistic Director of the BFA theatre program.”
1964: Comedian Lenny Bruch and club owner
Howard Solomon were both found guilty of obscenity.
1965: Birthdate of French concert violinist
Anne Gravoin.
1966: In Florence, hundreds of rare Jewish
books, documents, archives and Judaica items, some of them centuries old, which
were damaged when the Arno River continued to overflow its banks today.
1968: Seventy-nine year old Joseph Lewis, the
Montgomery, Alabama born Jew turned atheist who as President of The
Freethinkers of America” called on Jews to “renounce their ‘antiquated creed’”
and denounced “Yom Kippur as the ‘most degrading and humiliating day in all the
superstitious annals of religion’” passed away today.
1970: “Song of Norway” a movie version of the
“operetta of the same name” co-starring Edward G. Robinson was released today
in the United States.
1970: U.S. premiere of “A.k.a. Cassius Clay”
which was filmed by cinematographer Isidore Mankofsky.
1971(16th of Cheshvan, 5732):
Eighty-three year old Dr. Leon Banov, Sr. , the son of Alexander and Sonia
Banov, the husband of Minnie Banov with whom he had two children – Leon and
Morton -- was buried in the Kahal Kadosh
Beth Elohim Cemetery after having passed away today in Charleston, SC.
http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/banov-leon/
1973(9th of Cheshvan, 5734):
Sixty-one year old Tulane Medical School graduate Dr. Leon Taubenhuas, “the
director of community of health services at Beekman Downtown Hospital and a
specialist in emergency medicine” who with his wife Barbara raised two
daughters passed away today.
1973: Birthdate of Holon, Israel native and
award winning screen writer and director Eran Kolirin
1973(9th of Cheshvan, 5734):
Fifty-one year old Tel Aviv native and Columbia graduate Dr. Haim Ginott, the
child psychologist and author of Between Parent and Child passed away
today in New York.
1974: “Lowly Bagel Transformed By An Artist”
published today described how Judy Blau, the University of Rochester Fine Arts
degree holder transformed the delicatessen delight into an artistic ornament.
https://www.thejewniverse.com/2018/lowly-bagel-transformed-by-artist-judy-blau/
1974: New Yorker Richard Ottinger was elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1974: “In a letter to Senator Henry Jackson,
one hundred Soviet Jews accused Soviet authorities of using the military draft
as punitive measure against young Jewish applicants for emigration to Israel.”
1975: As the Soviet Union continued to play
power politics in the Middle East, Hungary, a member of the Eastern Bloc signed
an agreement with Syria “on military co-operation” today.
1977: The Vatican appealed to Israel to
release Greek Catholic Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, who had just completed
three years of his 12-year prison sentence for smuggling arms for Arab
terrorists from Beirut to Jerusalem. An undertaking was given that Capucci, if
released, would no longer engage in any anti-Israeli activity and would be
posted to a monastery outside the Middle East. (The statement speaks for itself in terms of
analyzing Vatican-Israeli relations).
1977: Three people were injured when a bomb
exploded as it was being removed from a bus in Jerusalem.
1977: “Heroes,” a post-Vietnam drama starring
Henry Winkler was released today in the United States.
1979(14th of Cheshvan, 5740):
Sixty eight year old Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, the Dayton, OH born son of
Morris and Rebecca Sandmel, the University of Missouri Phi Bea Kappa graduate
and the recipient of an M.H.L. degree from Hebrew College in 1937 who was a
prolific author and the husband of Philadelphian Frances Langsdorf Fox with
whom he had three children passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0101/ms0101.html
https://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Sandmel/e/B001HOK64I
1979: A group of Iranian “students” stormed
the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and seized 52 Americans whom they held hostage for
444 days. The prolonged crisis was
instrumental in Regan’s defeat of Carter which marked a fundamental change in
the American political landscape. It is
also part of the Mosaic of Moslem attacks on Western Civilization of which the
demand for the destruction of the state of Israel is another part.
1980:
More than 300 Soviet Jews sign an open letter to President Brezhnev
accusing the Soviet government of paying lip service to the human rights
provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and failing to honor the commitments on
emigration.
1980(25th of Cheshvan, 5741): A suicide
operation carried out by the Shiite Muslims and supported by Syria killed
thirty six Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. The attack came after both sides had
agreed to a cease-fire.
1982(18th of Cheshvan, 5743): Just
days before his 93rd birthday day “German textile merchant and
manufacturer Karl Amson Joel who fled the Nazis via Switzerland and Cuba and
was the “grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel passed
away today.
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Karl%20Amson%20Joel&item_type=topic
1983: “Tramps” starring Elliott Gould was
released in Austria today.
1984(9th of Cheshvan, 5745):
Eighty-one year old George Friedrich Wolfgang Honigman, the son of Doctor Georg
Honigman and journalist, the thrice married Holocaust survivor who returned to
work in East Berlin passed away today after which he was buried in Berlin’s
Jewish Cemetery.
1986(2nd of Cheshvan, 5747): Eight
year old German born British mathematician passed away today.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hirsch.html
1987(12th of Cheshvan, 5748): Eighty-seven
year old American painter, Raphael Soyer whose brother Moses and Isaac were
also painters passed away today in New York. For more see Raphael Soyer and the
Search for Modern Jewish Art by Samantha Baskind http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/203
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/raphael-soyer-papers-9465/more
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Raphael_Soyer.html
1988: Birthdate of New York native and
Harvard educated attorney Avrahm “Avi” Berkowitz a close advior to Jared
Kushner and “the Assistant to the President and Special Representative for
International Negotiations.”
1989: “As the Communist regime in East
Germany began to topple, Stefan Heym joined other prominent would-be reformers
at Marx Engels Square in the center of East Berlin where he spoke to a crowd of
100,000, saying that ''socialism, the right kind, not the Stalinist kind, is
what we want to build for our benefit and the benefit of all Germany.'' (As
reported by David Binder)
1990(16th of Cheshvan, 5751): Shalom-Avraham
Shaki passed away. Born in Yemen in
1906, he made Aliyah in 1914. He worked
as teacher before pursuing a career in politics that included service in the
Knesset from 1962 until 1965.
1990(16th of Cheshvan, 5751):
Eighty-two year old Harry Weinberg, the Galician born son of Joseph
Weinberg, “a metal worker who operated a body and fender repair business after
he came to Baltimore” and homemaker Sarah Weinberg” and successful businessman
who was the husband of the former Jeanette Gutman with whom he had one child,
Morton and created the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, just one of his
many charitable entities passed away today.
https://hjweinbergfoundation.org/
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/7394091/who-were-harry-jeanette-weinberg
1991: Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain.
1991: In Ashdod, French born Israeli Maggie
and “Avi Day the owner of a geological-engineering company involved in mineral
drilling gave birth to Alon Day, “an Israeli professional stock racing driver”
who was “the first Israeli drive to compete in an IndCar-sanctioned series.
1992: In “Faith, Reason and the Holocaust”
published today Stephen Holden reviews “The Quarrel,” the cinematic adaption of
Chaim Grade’s short story in which Eli Cohen grapples with the questions of
“reason versus faith” in the shadow of the Holocaust.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/movies/review-film-on-faith-reason-and-the-holocaust.html
1993: The BBC broadcast the final episode of
“Scarlet and Black” co-starring Rachel Weisz.
1994(1st of Kislev, 5755): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev.
1994: Unveiling of a sculpture of Fred Lebow
created by Jesus Ygnacio Dominguez designed to honor the Holocaust survivor who
founded the NYC Marathon. The sculpture depicts Lebow timing runners with his
watch. In 2001, the statue was moved to its permanent location on the East Side
Central Park Drive at 90th Street. Every
year, however, the statue is moved to a spot in view of the finish line of the
Marathon
1994: “Oleanna” a “film written and directed
by David Mamet based on his play Oleanna” was released today in the United
States.
1995: Aviv Geffen was scheduled to perform at
tonight’s peace rally where chose to sing “Cry for You” (Livkot Lekha)
199511th of Cheshvan, 5756):
Seventy-eight year old Brandeis University Professor of Sociology who was the
subject of Mitch Albom’s Tuesday’s with Morrie passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/09/us/morris-s-schwartz-professor-78.html
1995 (11th of
Cheshvan, 5756): Yitzchak Rabin, Prime
Minster of Israel, was assassinated by a right wing fanatic who was opposed to
Rabin’s efforts to bring peace to Israel and its Arab neighbors. Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922, making
him Israel’s first sabra Prime Minister.
Rabin’s distinguished career in the IDF included serving as Chief of
Staff during the Six Day in 1967.
Rabin’s first stint as Prime Minister during the during the 1970’s ended
with him being forced to leave office do to a personal financial scandal. His defeat opened the way for Begin and the
Likud to come to power for the first time in Israel. Rabin did not have any illusions about the
PLO and Arafat. We will never know if
Rabin’s vision would have borne fruit.
Instead a killer took it upon himself to end the life of man who had
spent his life risking his life in defense of Israel and the Jewish people.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0301.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/rabin.html
1995: Shimon Peres began serving as Minister
of Defense in Israel.
1996: In “A Man Who Makes Us Worry” published
today in The Information Bulletin of
the Library of Congress, Harry Katz reports on the decision by Jules Feiffer to
donate his papers to the library and describes the importance of the
collection.
1996(22nd of Cheshvan, 5757):
Ninety-one year old Irma Ullman who had carried on the philanthropic work of
her husband Siegfried Ullman through the Ullmann Family Foundation, passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/nyregion/irma-ullmann-91-science-benefactor-in-us-and-israel.html
1996(22nd of Cheshvan, 5757):
Seventy-nine year old Salomon Sebag passed away today in the Bronx,
2000: The BBC broadcast “Burning Convictions”
the 6th episode of “A History of Britain is a documentary series
written and presented by Simon Schama.”
2001:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about
topics of Jewish interest including Old Men At
2001(18th of Cheshvan, 5762): Shoshana Ben
Ishai, 16, of Betar Illit and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were
killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun shortly
before 16:00 at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill junction in northern
Jerusalem. 45 people were injured in the attack.
2002: On his 54th birthday, Shaul
Mofaz began serving as Israel’s Minister of Defense
2002(29th of Cheshvan, 5763): Security guard Julio Pedro Magram, 51, of
Kfar Sava, and Gastón Perpiñal, 15, of Ra'anana, both recent immigrants from
Argentina, were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at
a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack.
2003: A ketubbah (Jewish marriage
contract) printed in Utica, New York in 1863, is showcased as a
"Second Guest of Honor" at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner at the
Pierre Hotel. The "Second Guest of Honor" program is another effort
to further expose the treasures of The JTS Library that the Board
instituted in which a rare piece from The Library's collection will appear
at an event outside JTS.
2004: After both the Israeli media and the
prime minister of Luxembourg declared that Mr. Arafat had died, the head of
communications for French military health services felt compelled to issue a
formal denial” because he was in fact “in serious condition in the intensive
care unit of a French military hospital.”
2005(2nd of Cheshvan, 5766): Earl
Leslie Krugel the West Coast coordinator of the Jewish Defense League was
murdered by a fellow inmate, who struck him in the head with a block of
concrete.
2005: The
Center for Tel Aviv History organized a special tour to mark the anniversary of
the assassination of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
2005(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5766): Ninety-year old David Wilfred Abse, the native of Cardin
who became “an eminent psychoanalyst” and “professor of psychiatry at the
University of Virginia” passed away today.
2005: In Cedar
Rapids, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) began
hosting "The Tragedy of Slovak Jews," a special, temporary exhibition
from the Museum of the National Uprising in Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic.
The exhibition addresses the tragic demise of the Jewish communities in
Slovakia. Prior to World War II, Jews held an important and significant
position in Slovak culture. The exhibit focuses on Slovak society and the
solution of the Jewish question in the years 1938 – 1945, the first wave of
deportations (March – October 1942), the origination of working and prison
camps, the second wave of deportations in 1944, and the fascist reprisals in
Slovakia.
2005: As further
proof of the changing face of Reform Judaism in Israel, the four new Reform
rabbis ordained at Jerusalem’s Hebrew Union College half are women and include
three native Israelis and one of Iraqi heritage.
2006: Opening of
the 10th Annual UK Jewish Film Festival
2007: Publication
of Flotsam, by David Wiesner.
2007: Author E.L.
Doctorow, the son of parents “of Russian-Jewish origin,” received the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize.
2007: The Sunday
New York Times features reviews of
the following books by Jewish authors and/or that featured Jewish topics
including The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods
of the New New York by Joseph Berger and Proust Was a Neuroscientist
in which author Jonah Lehrer the son of former Los Angeles ADL chief David
Lehrer argues that artists predict the scientific future.
2007: The Sunday Washington Post features reviews of the following books by
Jewish authors and/or that featured Jewish topics including Gentlemen of the
Road by Michael Chabon and Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
2007: At the Jewish
Community Center of Greater Washington 38th annual Book Festival,
Pulitzer Prize winning David Vise discusses The Google Story: Inside the
Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success.
2007: In a festive ceremony at the
Weizmann Institute of Science, 11 young women scientists, who had completed
their PhD studies with honors at several Israeli universities and academic
institutions, each received an award of about $20,000 per year for two years.
2007: The New York city Marathon Minyan
celebrates its 25th year of enabling runners to a join a minyan, lay
tefillin and shout out the blessing ‘hanoten layaef koakh – He who gives
strength to the weary’ prior to setting out on the 26.2 mile course through the
city’s five boroughs.
2007:
National Jewish Book Month begins.
2007:
During the worst economic crisis in United States history Robert Rubin began
serving as acting Chairman of Citigroup.
2008:
In the Presidential election Senator Barak Obama who received 78% of the Jewish
vote and who was the first major presidential candidate whose closest political
advisor – David Axelrod – is Jewish and who has a rabbi - Capers Funnye – as a
family member defeated Senator John McCain who received 22% of the Jewish vote.
2008:
Agriprocessors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
2008:
A record number of Jews were elected to Congress. The next session of Congress
will include 45 Jewish lawmakers, a new record, after Democrats Alan Grayson of
Florida and John Adler of New Jersey took two House seats from the Republican
column. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, was widely expected to win his Colorado
House seat to match the previous record, set in the 2006 elections. The House
will have 32 Jewish members. Only the class of 1990 had more Jewish members -
34 - but there were fewer Jewish senators at the time. The next Senate will
have 13 Jewish members, the same as the previous session, despite a toss-up
race in Minnesota, where both Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and his
Democratic challenger, comedian Al Franken, are Jewish.
The
following is a list of the 45 Jewish members —13 senators and 32
representatives — who will serve in the 111th U.S. Congress that convenes
in January:
U.S.
SENATE
Barbara
Boxer (D-Calif.)
Benjamin
Cardin (D-Md.)
Norm
Coleman (R-Minn.)**
Russ
Feingold (D-Wisc.)
Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Herb
Kohl (D-Wisc.)
Frank
Lautenberg (D-N.J.)**
Joseph
Lieberman (I-Conn.)
Carl
Levin (D-Mich.)**
Bernard
Sanders (I-Vt.)
Charles
Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Arlen
Specter (R-Pa.)
Ron
Wyden (D-Ore.)
HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
Gary
Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
John
Adler (D-N.J.)*
Shelley
Berkley (D-Nev.)
Howard
Berman (D-Calif.)
Eric
Cantor (R-Va.)
Stephen
Cohen (D-Tenn.)
Susan
Davis (D-Calif.)
Rahm
Emanuel (D-Ill.)
Eliot
Engel (D-N.Y.)
Bob
Filner (D-Calif.)
Barney
Frank (D-Mass.)
Gabrielle
Giffords (D-Ariz.)
Alan
Grayson (D-Fla.)
Jane
Harman (D-Calif.)
Paul
Hodes (D-N.H.)
Steve
Israel (D-N.Y.)
Steve
Kagen (D-Wisc.)
Ron
Klein (D-Fla.)
Sander
Levin (D-Mich.)
Nita
Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Jerrold
Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Jared
Polis (D-Colo.)*
Steve
Rothman (D-N.J.)
Jan
Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Allyson
Schwartz (D-Pa.)
Adam
Schiff (D-Calif.)
Brad
Sherman (D-Calif.)
Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
Henry
Waxman (D-Calif.)
Anthony
Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Robert
Wexler (D-Fla.)
John
Yarmuth (D-Ky.)
*
Elected to Congress for the first time
**
Senators who were re-elected (Coleman defeated Democratic challenger Al Franken
in Minnesota by fewer than 700 votes, triggering a state-mandated recount.
Franken also is Jewish, leaving 13 Jewish senators regardless of who emerges as
the winner.)
2009:
Opening session of Union for Reform Judaism's 70th Biennial Convention in
Toronto, Canada.
2009:
Nancy Lieberman broke yet another barrier when she became the first woman head
coach of the Dallas Mavericks’ D-League affiliate team, a male professional
basketball team.
2009:
Israeli navy commandos seized the M.V. Francop a cargo ship early today in the
Mediterranean Sea that was carrying rockets and ammunition bound for militants
from Hezbollah in what was known as Operation Four Species.
2009:
French premiere of “Le Concert” directed by Romanian born French (Jewish) Radu
Mihăileanu
2009:
Today “Nancy Lieberman broke yet another barrier when she became the first
woman head coach of the Dallas Mavericks’ D-League affiliate team.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/04/2009/nancy-lieberman
2010:
Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Constitutional Law at The George Washington
University, is scheduled to speak on Religious Freedom and the Right to
Worship, Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly, and how the Supreme Court impacted
the First Amendment of the Constitution, at Northern Virginia Hebrew
Congregation, in Reston, VA.
2010:
The Center for Jewish History, Centro Primo Levi and PEN World Voices Festival
in collaboration with the Consulate General of Slovenia are scheduled to
present: “Boris Pahor's Necropolis: A Slovenian Story of Culture, Conflict, and
Persecution on the Northeastern Border of Italy.”
2010: Germany's
burgeoning Jewish community ordained its first female rabbi since the Holocaust
today, a major step for a religious group that until recently imported its
leaders from abroad - most of them men. The ordination of Alina Treiger, a
Ukrainian-born 31-year-old, is a sign of the growing diversity of Germany's
largely conservative Jewish community, observers say, though some warned she
will face an uphill battle among worshippers used to being led by male rabbis.
2011: George Schindler, the dean of the Society of American
Magicians, other magicians and members of the general public are scheduled to
visit Harry Houdini’s grave at the Machpelah Cemetery in the Queens borough of
New York City on the 85th anniversary of his funeral. The visit used
to take place on Halloween, Houdini’s Yahrtzeit
2011: The Phoenix Ensemble is scheduled to perform
at Studio Hecht in Haifa.
2011: The “Excellence Concert Series” is scheduled
to present “Young Piano Masters” at the Aldwell Institute of the Jerusalem
Conservatory of Music and Dance
2011: Lilli Hornig was interviewed today as part of
the Voices of the Manhattan Project.
https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/lilli-hornigs-interview
2011: “The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League,
1936 to 1951” opened today in at the Jewish Museum.
https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-radical-camera-new-yorks-photo-league-1936-1951
2011:
This afternoon the Israel Navy intercepted two boats that approached the coast
of the Gaza Strip with the intent to violate Israel's naval blockade of the
territory. After the boats failed to heed calls to turn around or dock in Egypt
or Israel, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz ordered naval
forces to board the ships. Nobody was injured during the boarding of the ships,
a military source said.
2011:
Immediately
following his return from Cyprus today, President Shimon Peres joined the
children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
at the monument erected on the site of Rabin's assassination. Peres, who had
been at a huge peace rally in Tel Aviv with Rabin on the fateful night of
November 4, 1995, laid a wreath at the monument, as did Tel Aviv Mayor Ron
Huldai.
2012: The New York Times features reviews of books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the
recently released paperback editions of The
Puppy Diaries by Jill Abramson and The Convert by Deborah Baker.
2012: A day after three Syrian tanks entered the
demilitarized zone on the Golan Heights to attack Syrian rebels, IDF Chief of
Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz visited the border region today and warned army
forces that “the Syrian affair could turn into our affair.” Gantz instructed
the IDF to be on alert in the area, and to prevent any spillover of the Syrian
conflict onto Israeli territory.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=290414
2012: The Jerusalem Foundation honors Sir Winston
Churchill today.
2012: “Letters
of Light” New Works by Anna Gil, “a solo show of new works inspired by Jewish Mysticism”
is scheduled to open at the Gallery Orange on Royal Street in the famous French
Quarter of New Orleans.
2012: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Hadassah Donor
Dinner celebrating 100 years of Hadassah is scheduled to take place at Temple
Judah.
2012: As part of its Turkish-Jewish Festival, in
Rockville, MD, Tikvat Israel is scheduled to sponsor a performance by “renowned
Sephardic musician Flory Jagoda.
2012: “A Kid For Two Farthings” is scheduled to be
shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2013: “Disaster!, a musical comedy starring Seth
Rudetsky and written by both Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick, opened Off-Broadway at
the St. Luke's Theatre.”
2013:
The Annual International Shluchim
Convention (Kinus Hashluchim) in Brooklyn, NY is scheduled to come to an end.
2013: B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to host a Yitzhak
Rabin Memorial Service this evening co-sponsored by the Israeli Consulate and
Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement
2013: Jonathan Kirsch is scheduled to deliver a talk
on “the truth behind Kristallnacht” in which he examines “the tragic life…of
Herschel Grynszpagn” at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair.
2013: As we mark the centenary of the trial of
Melvin Beilis, the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a
roundtable discussion “Reflecting on the Beilis Trial.”
2013: The Knesset raised the legal marriage age from
17 to 18 today. The bill, initiated by a group of Knesset members from across
the political spectrum, was meant to fight the early betrothal customary in
certain sectors, where minors are wed under familiar and community pressures.
(As reported by Moran Azulay)
2013: Women
of the Wall held a peaceful prayer service under police protection at the
Western Wall to mark the group’s 25th anniversary.
http://forward.com/articles/186821/-gather-for-women-of-walls-th-anniversary-at/#ixzz2jiogdClF
2013(1st of Kislev, 5774): Ninety-one year Eleanor
Mlotek, “the Queen of Yiddish Musicology” passed away today. (As reported by
Joseph Berger)
2014: In Sydney, “Zero Motivation” and “The Farewell
Party” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.
2014: “Sotheby’s I selling a 1917 gouache and crayon
work ‘Seated Woman With Bent Left Leg’” which “once belonged to Fritz Grünbaum,
a Viennese cabaret performer whose large art collection was inventoried by Nazi
agents after he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where he died” but
for which the family will receive no compensation because “United States federal courts have found that the
family waited too long to file its claim and that there was insufficient
evidence to conclude “Seated Woman” had been stolen.”
2014: The Tulane Jewish Studies Department under the
leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to present a lecture by Michael
Stanislawski entitled “The Jewish and Muslim Enlightenments in Imperial Russia:
A Comparison.”
2014: Elfriede Starer, a Kindertransportee, is
scheduled to tell her story at the Wiener Library in London.
2014: “Jewish Voices,” a reading by prominent Jewish
poets and writers is scheduled to take place for the fifteenth year at the
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for olocaust Education.
2014: The Five Boroughs Food Talk is scheduled to
feature “Jewish Food”
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/8487//five-boroughs-food-talk-jewish-food
2014(11th of Chesvan): Yarhrzeit of
Rachel who passed away while giving birth to her second son Benjamin, the 12th
son of Jacob and his 13th child.
http://jmgads.com/kupat/102414/kupat_102414.html
2014:
As Americans go to the polls Republicans Adam Kwasman, Lee Zeldin, Bruce
Blakeman, Elon Carr and Micah Edmond each of whom are running for Congress hope
to fill the shoes left empty by the defeat of Eric Cantor who was the on Jewish
Republican serving in the House of Representatives.
2014:
“Dozens of rival fans from Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv brawled in the
street outside the city Magistrate's Court today, as rioters who invaded the
pitch during Monday night's derby were brought to face a judge. Among those
arrested after the fight was the son of MK Dov Khenin.” (As reported by Gilad
Morag)
2014:
“Israel and the United States used the inauguration of a joint warplane project
today to stress it was business as usual in an alliance hit by acrimony over
Israeli settlement building and strategy against Iran.”
2014:
“Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz warned that Israel was prepared to completely
eviscerate Lebanon in response to any cross-border missile attack by
Hezbollah.”
2015:
Hindy Najman the first woman and the first Jew to serve as the Oriel Laing
Professor for the Interpretation of Holy Scripture is scheduled to speak at the
Lunch and Learn sponsored by the Oxford University Jewish Society.
2015:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, “Lenka Lichtenberg, one of Toronto’s best-loved world
fusion musicians with Czech and Jewish roots, is scheduled to perform
traditional Jewish liturgical songs and poems” at CSPS Hall.
2015:
The Skirball Center is scheduled to host “Remember Rabin” a memorial marking
the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Yithak Rabin.
2015:
The Consulate General of Israel in New York in partnership with IAC, JNF, WZO,
StandWithUS and AZM a scheduled to showcase a panoply of educational
programs focused on Israel and the Israeli experience.
2015:
As part of Holocaust Education Week Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto is
scheduled to host “a panel of individuals born post-Holocaust in the
Bergen-Belsen DP camp will address issues of intergenerational trauma; social,
emotional and physical implications of their shared circumstances of birth; and
how their parents’ Holocaust experiences informed their lives.
2015:
The biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism is scheduled to open
today in Orlando, Florida.
2016:
Eighteen year old Mahin Khan, “an Arizona teenage who has pleaded guilty to
plotting an attack on government buildings and the Tucson Jewish Community
Center is scheduled to be sentenced today.
2016:
In Toronto, as part of Holocaust Education Week, Ron Levi is scheduled to speak
at a Lunch ‘N Learn on “The Swiss banks Holocaust litigation and settlement:
What can we learn from the proposals to allocate residual Funds?”
2016
At the Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El, the opening of the
exhibition “All About Golda” is scheduled to take places following Friday
evening services.
2017(15th
of Cheshvan, 5778): Parashat Va-yayra –
2017:
“Some 85,000 people turned out at the annual rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square this
evening marking the 22nd anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin, which this year tried to emphasize national unity
rather than its traditional focus on peace.” (As reported Jacob Magid)
2017: In Cedar Rapids, Harrison Ginsberg is
scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah
2017:
Jonah Cowen is scheduled to lead a Pirke Avot learning session followed by
Ma’ariv and Havdalah all of are sponsored by The Oxford University Jewish
University.
2017:
In Memphis, TN, Rabbi Noam Katz is scheduled to lead the Musical Shabbat
morning service at Temple Israel.
2017:
Today, “tweets surfaced of Editor in Chief of the Saint, Scotland's largest
student newspaper and based at the University of St Andrews, Joseph Cassidy,
calling into question Israel's right to exist - which have been criticized as
blatantly Anti-Semitic.”
2017:
In New Orleans, LA, “the Touro Foundation Gala honoring Dr. Tom Oelsner is
scheduled to take place this evening.
2017:
In the United Kingdom, as part of Balfour Shabbat, Orthodox synagogues are
scheduled to recite “a special prayer” composed by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
“to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration.
2018:
In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Fiona Sampson, the author
of, ‘In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein’ and the artist
Maya Attoun as they discuss the allure and fascination of Frankenstein and his
monster.”
2018:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a
screening of “The Good Nazi” “a 50 minute television documentary that
chronicles the scientific work of a joint US-Canadian-Israeli-Lithuanian
research team in July, 2017 on a site, HKP 562, a Nazi labor camp on the
outskirts of Vilnius where the largest number of Vilna Ghetto Jews survived
thanks to the efforts of a compassionate Nazi Officer, Major Karl Plagge.”
2018:
In Haverhill, MA, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host “photographer Udi Goren”
as he takes attendees “on a journey along the Israel National Trail.”
2018(26th
of Cheshvan, 5779): Eighty-nine year old corporate gadfly Evelyn Y Davis, the
Amsterdam born daughter of neurologist “Herman H. DeJong” and psychologist
“Marianna (Witteboon) De Jong whose “Jewish roots made them targets of the
Nazis” passed away today. (As reported by Emily Flitter)
2018:
In Memphis, Abbie and Feivel Strauss gave birth to Elijah Meir Straus, the
grandson of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silver, the brother of Joseph and Eden Strauss
and the nephew of Fred Goldblatt and Jeff Silber.
2018:
"New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in
Global Comparison," a conference “co-organized by the USC Shoah Foundation
Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Casden Institute for the
Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, and presented in cooperation with
the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the
US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., and the Center for Research on
Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, Germany” is scheduled to begin
today.
2018:
In Iowa City, IA, Prairie Lights Bookshop 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 New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including She Wants It: Desire, Power and Toppling the Patriarchy by
Jill Soloway, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right by Max
Boot and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart.
2019:
At sundown start of Yom HaAliya.
2019:
In New Orleans, the Tulane Hillel is scheduled to host its Shop for Good Art
Market this evening.
2019:
In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum and the Simon Wiesenthal Center are scheduled
to host a “Panel Discussion on the Threats of Modern Antisemitism.”
2019:
“Jewish and Asian business leaders” are scheduled to meet “on Lord’s Cricket
Ground for the inaugural meeting of a new initiative bring together the two
communities.”
2019:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host George Will and Dan Abrams
as they discuss Will’s new book The Conservative Sensibility and the
“Betraying of the Founding Fathers.”
2019:
The UC Berkley School of Law is scheduled to host CUNY professor Mikahl Dekel,
the author
Tehran
Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey as she discusses “the unlikely refuge found in
Central Asian countries and Iran during World War II.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/tehran-children-a-holocaust-refugee-odyssey
2020:
In New Orleans, Hadassah is scheduled to hold its board meeting.
2020:
CWRU’s Maltz Performing Arts Center is scheduled to present a live-streaming
concert by the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra.
2020:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present Shalva Weil
discussing her new book The
Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and
Creating Super-Diversity.”
2020:
In Columbus, OH, Chabad is scheduled to host the first session of a six-week
“Secrets of the Bible JLI Zoom Course”
2020:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral were held today in Cedar Rapids, IA
for Gary Goldstein, the has husband of Kathe Goldstein Z”L
2021:
The JWA is scheduled to host its “virtual celebration of the history,
leadership and achievements of Jewish women.”
2021:
As part of its Four Questions s The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to present “Reparations: Moral or Material Debts?”
2021:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2022:
The staff of the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to offer another
session in its online genealogy course.
2022:
Author Scott Simon who grew up at Fairmount Temple, is a member of the
Cleveland Jewish Publication Company Board of Directors and whose latest book
is “Scare
Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous
Life.” is scheduled to be the guest
speaker this evening at the Fairmount Temple services.
2022:
In Chicago, the Alliance Francaise de Chicago is scheduled to host a talk by
Oliver Guez, the author of the novel The Disappearance of Joseph Mengle.
2023(20th
of Ch Va-yayra
(“Appeared” i.e., “And God appeared to him…”) For more see Weekly Torah Reading / Weekly Torah Portion
(downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com)
2023:
Adam Podradchik is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at
Temple Judea – Am Yisroel Chai.
2023:
In Pleasanton, CA, Congregation Beth Emke is scheduled to host Billy Jonas
concert during which the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from North
Caroline will perform Jewish and children’s music in a fundraiser to help send
children to Jewish summer camp.
2023:
Because of the war, the Eden-Tamir will not be holding the originally scheduled
concert.
2023:
As November 4, begins in Israel, based on a speech by Hassan Nasrallah,
Hezbollah’s secretary-general, “a regional war with Israel was a realistic possibility” and the Hamas hostages begin day 29 in captivity.
(Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
