This Day, October 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 10
614:
Today the fifth Council of Paris “prohibited the Jews from asking or from
exercising civic or administrative rights.”
680:
At the Battle of Karbala, Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet
Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated
by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah. This is part of the split between the Shiites and
the Sunnis that has led to so much violence and had an impact on the terrorist
war against Israel and other nations of the world.
732:
At the Battle of Tours which was fought near Poitiers, France, the leader of
the Franks (modern day French) Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army
of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. This meant
that the territory south of the Pyrenees – Spain – would remain in Islamic
hands for the better part of the next seven centuries while the rest of Europe
would remain in Christian hands for the time being. This demarcation would lead
to the development of different variants of Judaism depending upon whether the
Jews lived in Moslem and Christian dominated parts of Europe.
1384:
A judicial inquiry was held in a castle at Châtel, by order of Prince Amadeus,
Count of Savoy with purpose of confirming the charges by his Christian subjects
that the Jews were guilty of poisoning the wells, springs “and other things
which the Christians use.” Numerous Jews of both sexes have been imprisoned
based on these charges. The case rested, in part, on the admission of Jew named
Agimet from Geneva, who confessed after having been subject to only “a little”
torture that he had engaged in such practices.
1619(2nd
Cheshvan, 5380): Rabbi Joseph Pardo passed away today in Amsterdam.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15416.html
1674(10th
of Tishrei, 5435): David Cohen de Lara, the “Haham, lexicographer and writer on
ethics” passed away today in Hamburg.
1723:
The party responsible for slandering a group of Jews was put to death in an
auto-de-fe at Lisbon. The person had alleged groups of men were assembling to
practice Jewish customs. The men were later arrested and jailed where many of
them had died.
1740(19th
of Tishrei, 5501): Joseph Moses Schiff, the husband of Brendle Schiff, passed
away after which he was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt Am Main
today.
1744:
Sampson Gideon, “a banker in the city of London” and his wife Jane gave birth
to Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley.
1751:
In “Amersfoot, Utrecht, Netherlands,” Eva Jacob Cohen and Benjamin Jonas Cohen
gave birth to Abraham Benjamin Cohen who was the husband of “Elisabeth Gompertz
and Eva Gompertz.”
1755:
In a 4-month period ending today, eight Jewish merchants were listed in the
Custom House records of New York.
1762(23rd
of Tishrei, 5523): Simchat Torah
1764(14th
of Tishrei, 5525): Erev Sukkot
1767(17th of Tishrei, 5528): Shabbat Chol Hamoed
Sukkoth observed for the first time that Lord North, of American Revolutionary
War fame, was serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1770(21st
of Tishrei, 5531): Hoshana Raba
1775(16th
of Tishrei, 5536): Second Day of Sukkot
1777(9th
of Tishrei, 5538): The sounds of Kol Nire might have clashed with the feelings
of joy and relief over the recent American victory at Saratoga.
1778(19th
of Tishrei, 5539): Shabbat shel Sukkoth observed on the same day that General
Washington dictated a letter to his aide Alexander Hamilton to the Continental
Congress War Board concerning uniforms for his soldiers.
1783(14th
of Tishrei, 5544): Erev Sukkot
1788(9th
of Tishrei, 5549): Erev Yom Kippur and Erev Shabbat
1792:
One day after she had passed away, “Breindla bat Joseph” was buried at the
“Alderney Road (Globe Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.
1792(24th
of Tishrei, 5553): Seventy-nine-year-old Dutch born businessman, Talmudist and
Hebrew language poet David Franco Mendes passed away after spending the last
six months of his life as honorary secretary of the Spanish-Portuguese
community at Amsterdam.
1792(24th of Tishrei, 5553): Mrs. Abigail Lopez,
the wife of Abraham Lopez passed away today in Newport, R.I.
1800(21st
of Tishrei, 5561): Hoshana Raba observed for the last time during the
Presidency of John Adams.
1802(14th
of Tishrei, 5563): Erev of Sukkot
1802(14th
of Tishrei, 5563): Rabbi Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht, “also known as Rabbi
Sholom the Great, the son of Rabbi Avraham HaMalch and the grandson of “Dov
Ber, the Maggid of Mezeritch (the most prominent disciple of the Baal Shem Tov)”
the husband of Chava and the father of Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn, “also called
Israel Ruzhin” passed away tody
1802:
In Philadelphia, a group of German Jews formed a society that they called the
“Hebrew German Society Rodef Shalom” which was one of the earliest German
Jewish congregations in America. “The society was reorganized and chartered in
1812. Among the earliest rabbis were Wolf Benjamin, Jacob Lipman, Bernhard
Illowy, Henry Vidaver, Moses Sulzbacher, and Moses Rau.”
1805(17th
of Tishrei, 5566): Third Day of Sukkoth observed on the same that the Lewis and
Clark and the Corps of Volunteers for Northwestern Discovery enters what is now
the state of Washington, at the confluence of what they call the "Koos
koos ke " (Clearwater River) and the "Kimooenem" or
"Lewis’s River" (Snake).
1807(8th of Tishrei, 5568): Shabbat Shuva
1808(19th
of Tishrei, 5569): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1810:
Benjamin Gompertz married Abigail Montefiore at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1811(22nd of Tishrei, 5572): Shmini Atzeret
1811: Beile Sibilla Duelkin, the daughter of Reichel and
Israel Elias and her husband Markhus Deulken gave birth to Elias Elieser
Elieser Duelken.
1813(16th of Tishrei, 5574): Second Day of Sukkot
1816(18th
of Tishrei, 5577) Fourth Day of Sukkoth is observed during The Year Without a
Summer.”
1818(10th
of Tishrei, 5579): Yom Kippur
1818:
In the Netherlands, Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the son of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit
and Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife and Geertruida Abraham van Raalte
gave birth to Hester Goudsmit, the “wife of Jacob Abraham Keijzer and mother of
Abraham Jacob Keijzer.”
1823:
Birthdate of Russian scholar and philanthropist Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin.
1824(18th
of Tishrei, 5585): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
Presidency of James Monroe.
1825:
In London, Rebecca Montefiore and Joseph Solomon gave birth to Sophia Solomon.
1826(9th
of Tishrei, 5587): Erev Yom Kippur observed on the same day that in the United
States “Ohio’s 10th congressional district held a special election”
created by the resignation of the incumbent.
1827(19th
of Tishrei, 5588): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1827:
In Trenton, NJ, Judge David Naar, the St. Thomas born son Chazan Joshua Naar
and Sarah Naar who was Mayor of Elizabeth, NJ and his wife Sarah Cohen Naar
gave birth to Abraham D’Azevedo Naar.
1830(23rd
of Tishrei, 5591): Simchat Torah
1831:
One day he had passed away, “Samuel Solomo” was buried at the “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1834(7th
of Tishrei, 5595): Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Abraham D’Lyon, the South Carolina
born son Rinah Tobias and Isaac De Lyon and the husband of Sarah Sheftall
D’Lyon with whom he had seven children –
Isaac, Rina, Levi, Abraham, Joseph, Joseph and Mordecai – passed away today
after which he was buried in the Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, GA.
1836:
Abraham Hart and Rebecca Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine
and Sampson Mears Isaacks gave birth to Edward Carey Hart.
1837: Löbl
Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their son Ferdinand, the younger
brother of Maurice and Max Strakosch.
1838(21st
of Tishrei, 5599): Hoshana Raba observed nine days after the start of the First
Anglo-Afghan War, one of the little-known events in World History
1839:
Francis Henry Goldsmid married Louisa Sophia Goldsmid at the Great Synagogue
today.
1840: In Philadelphia, Benvenida Valentina Nathans, the
Wilmington, DE, born daughter of Sarah Helen Solis and Daniel da Silva Solis
and her husband Moses Nathans gave birth to Horace Augustus Nathans.
1842:
Three days after she had passed away, “Golda Isaacs, the wife Isaac Isaacs” was
buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1844:
Birthdate of Hungary native and noted painter Mihali Munkacsy, the son of a
revolutionary who died in prison in 1849 and passed away himself in a mental
institution in 1900. (Editor’s Note- This birthdate is supplied from a
newspaper account written at the time of his death. Other sources show February
20, 1844)
1845(9th
of Tishrei, 5606): Erev Yom Kippur and Erev Shabbat
1845:
Founding of the U.S. Naval Academy. Today there are approximately 140 Jewish
Midshipman at the Naval Academy. The dedication of the multi-million-dollar
Uriah P. Levy Jewish Center and Chapel in 2005 marked a major milestone in the
development of Jewish life at the Annapolis institution. For more about the
history of the Jews at the U.S. Naval Academy see “The Judaic Experience at the
U.S. Naval Academy” by Joel Ira Holwitt
1846(20th
of Tishrei, 5607): Shabbat Shel Sukkot observed on the same that an English
astronomer discovered Triton, first moon of the planet to have been discovered
since the recent discovery of the planet itself.
1847:
In Hamburg, Germany, Julie and Samuel Lewishon gave birth to Leonard Lewisohn,
the husband of Rosalie Jacobs Lewisohn with whom had ten children – Jesse,
Julia, Samuel, Lillie, Florence, Walter, Frederick, Alice, Aaron and Irene -- who
gained fame and fortune in the United States as a businessman, philanthropist
and treasurer of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York.
1847:
A constitution was adopted forming 'The Ladies Sewing Association, of the
Congregation Shearith Israel, of New York.' The society consisted of an initial
fifty members who would make garments for the needy.
1848:
Two days after he had passed away, 24-year-old Benjamin Nathan, the son of
Barnett Nathan and the former Julia Solomons was buried today at the
“Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.
1851:
Communications pioneer Paul Julius Reuter “established a telegraph office at
the I Royal Exchange Buildings, near the London stock exchange. From this
location he transmitted stock market quotations between London and Paris, using
the new Calais-Dover telegraph cable under the English Channel. Recognizing the
need for a news service, Reuter would the next seven years working hard to
build the agency and promote his services to newspapers.”
1853:
“Jewish Educational Institute” published today described the cornerstone laying
ceremony for a Jewish Educational Institute to be built in New York next to
B’nai Jeshraun Synagogue on Greene Street. Rabbi Morris Raphall’s address to
the attendees included the statement that he was as proud of the establishment
of this academy for Jewish study as he was of the role he had played in
establishing a similar such institution in Birmingham, England. He stressed the
importance of Jews receiving both a secular and religious education. He spoke
of the unique benefits Jews enjoyed in the United States. And he predicted that
a day would come when the United States would surpass the United Kingdom and
when the Jews of the United States would have to assume a leadership role for
Jews throughout the world.
1854(18th
of Tishrei, 5615): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1854:
The Jewish Theological Seminary, “the first rabbinical seminary in Central
Europe, opened today in Breslau.
1855:
Isaac Hart married Louisa Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1856:
Members of the “Philadelphia Battery,” a unit Max Einstein formed as the
Philadelphia Flying Artillery Company, presented him with “a magnificent silver
sword, encased in a scabbard of gold.”
1857(22nd
of Tishrei 5618): Shmini Atzeret
1857: Twenty-four-year-old Frank Marx Etting, the
Philadelphia born son of Henry Etting began practicing law today, but he would
give up this career when joined the Army serving both during and after the
Civil War.
1858: Dutch born Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs, the “head of B’nai
Jeshurun in New York” and founder of Congregation Shaaray Tefila and his wife
Jane Simons gave birth to Rachel Isaacs.
1860:
In London, Mr. Joseph Isaacs and his wife gave birth to Rufus D. Isaacs the
nephew of Sir Henry Isaacs and the husband of Alice Edith Cohen, the third
daughter of Albert Cohen who “entered Middle Temple in 1887” and began serving
as the Liberal MP from Reading in 1904
1860:
Joseph M. Montefiore, the President of the Board of Deputies and his wife gave
birth to Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore “who became high sheriff of the country
of Kent in 1894 and Sussex in 1895” while serving as “chairman of the executive
committee of the English Zionist Federation” and “chairman of the Elders of the
Spanish and Portuguese congregation.
1860:
In “Schklov, Russia,” Chwole Meingardt and Moses Baroway gave to Solomon
Baroway, the husband of Florence Balser who came to the United States in 1883
and went to Kansas with “25 other Jewish young men” to start an agricultural
community at Lasker in Clark County before moving on eventually settling in
Baltimore where he “was the Superintendent of the Hebrew Benevolent Society for
twenty-five years.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solomon-Baroway-1860-1918-Pioneer-Baltimore/dp/B0006WLT98
1862:
In Crawley, West Sussex, England Joseph Montefiore, the president of the Board
of Deputies and his wife gave birth to Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore who
served as the high sheriff of Kent and Sussex as well as the “chairman of the
executive committee of the English Zionist Federation.” (The Jewish
Encyclopedia and The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo –Jewish History show the date
as October 10, 1860)
1862:
Philadelphian William Moss, the son of Joseph L. and Julia Moss completed his
one year of service as the Surgeon for the 70th Regiment “which he
helped to raise) today after which “he
became Surgeon of United States Volunteers.”
1862:
Zillah and Samuel Henry Beddington gave birth to Ada Beddington who married
Ernest Leverson and as Ada Leverson became a noted British author and friend to
the famous as well as the mother of George and Violet Leverson.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leverson-ada
1863(27th
of Tishrei, 5624): Parashat Bereshit
1863(27th
of Tishrei, 5624): Fifty-two-year-old Jonathan Nathan, the New York City born
city of Sarah Seixas and Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan, the husband of Rebecca
Moses with whom he had seven children passed away today.
1864(10th
of Tishrei, 5625): Yom Kippur
1864:
Jews gathered at the home of a merchant in Salt Lake City to observe Yom
Kippur. This was probably the first communal Jewish activity to take place in
this Mormon dominated regioned.
1864:
The New York Times reported that “To-day will be
generally observed by our Jewish fellow-citizens as a rigid fast-day and period
of strict religions observance. It is known as Your Kippur Day of Atonement.
Every Israelite in every part of the world, who believes in the Law of Moses
and the doctrine of a future world, keeps the day as a strict fast-day. From
sunset yesterday till sunset to-day no food or drink is indulged in. Every Jew
and Jewess, and children above thirteen, must observe the fast. According to
Jewish tradition, on the first day of the New Year, the Israelites are summoned
in judgment before their Creator, but sentence upon their misdeeds is reserved
till the tenth day Your Kippur. If, during the ten intermediate days, called
the Arsareth Yermi Tersluaro, ten day of repentance, penitence is made, and the
"sinner turneth from the evil of his ways," the anger of the Lord is
assuaged, and on the day of atonement forgiveness is accorded. When the
Isralites worshipped in the Temple at Jerusalem, the service of this day was
equally solemn and splendid. It was the only day throughout the year on which
even the Cohen Hagodol (High priest,) presumed to enter the most holy sanctuary
of the temple, or to pronounce the renevated and deladed name of the Deity
which at any other time it was unlawful even for him to utter. The glories of
this day are commemorated in the musaf or midday service of the synagogue.
According to Jewish tradition, also the Your Kippur even before the giving of
the law was a day of atonement and pardon. Adam did penance and was pardoned on
this day. Abraham entered the covenant of the circumcision on this day. Moses,
after he had broken the first tables, ascended the Mount again on the first day
of Elul, so that the second forty days expired with the Your Kippur. The eve is
allotted to solemn feasting, and at sunset the twenty-four hours fast and
continued prayers commence. It is also customary in the evening for parents to
bestow a solemn benediction on their children. Whosoever meet on that day, be
they previously acquainted or complete strangers, salute each other with
brotherly love and sincerity. If any dispute exists between the Jews, it is
obligatory on them to become reconciled before either of them presumes to
appear in the presence of his God. The law which ordains the observance of the
day likewise commands the Jew "to afflict his soul." The affliction
of the soul by means of the body, according to Jewish custom, consists in
abstaining from five indulgences -- eating and drinking, bathing, perfuming,
wearing shoes and sexual enjoyment. The observance of the festival is most
strict by everyone who claims the name of Jew, and even those who make light of
other observances throughout the year, pay due regard to this day. The
exercises in the synagogue are of a striking and impressive character, the
edifice is thronged with worshippers, the ministers and officials are draped in
white shrouds while prayers of lamentation and penitence are heard on all
sides. The services are divided into five parts the kol nidri, or eve service
for last night; the sharcheris, or morning service; the musaf, or midday
service, the mincha, or afternoon service; the nela, or conclusion. The
synagogues open to-day at 6 A.M., and remain open till sunset.
1864(10th
of Tishrei, 5625): Jews of Tunis and Tripoli were massacred.
1865(20th
of Tishrei,5626): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1865:
Joseph M. Montefiore, the President of the Board of Deputies and his wife gave
birth to Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore who served as the High Sheriff of the
counties of Kent and Sussex and as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the
English Zionist Federation.
1866:
One day he had passed away, 65-year-old Moses Emanuel, the husband of Elizabeth
Moses, with whom he had five children – “Joshua, Joseph, Simeon, Abraham and
Henry” – was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1868:
Carolina Wassman Laski gave birth to Brooklynite Caroline Laski Schwarz, the
wife of Joseph Schwarz whom she married in 1883 and with whom she had four
children – Isaac, Mortimer, Abraham and Ceclia.
1869(5th
of Cheshvan, 5630): Eighty-five-year-old Rabbi Abraham Sutro who was an ardent
advocate for Jewish emancipation in Prussia passed away today.
1870:
In Vienna, “Anna Sara Hinda Halban and Philipp Halban gave Josef von Halban the
pioneer obstetrician and gynecologist who was marred to “Austrian operatic
soprano” Selma Kurz.
1870:
“Rabbi Gabriel of Shereshev and his wife Haya” gave birth to the first of their
eleven children, Rabbi David Almond, the Polish trained Talmudist and graduate
of London University and Jew’s College where he was ordained who was admitted
to the bar after earning an LLD from John Marshal Law School in Chicago where
“he served the North Shore Congregation B’nai Israel until its consolidation
with the First Hungarian Congregation Agudas Achim in 1923, after which he led
several congregations on Chicago’s South Side.”
1871(25th
of Tishrei, 5632): Sixty-seven-year-old Joseph Zedner passed away. Born in Germany, he served as librarian of
the Hebrew Department of the British Museum from 1845 until 1869 when he
resigned and returned to Germany due to his failing health.
1871:
Birthdate of “German rabbi and folklorist” Max Grunwald.
1871(25th
of Tishrei, 5632): Sixty-seven-year-old Joseph Zender the German born librarian
of the Hebrew department of the British Museum in London passed away today.
1871:
On the last day of the Great Chicago Fire it was noted that a void now existed
in the city. The Hebrew Relief Association’s Hospital had been destroyed during
the catastrophic conflagration.
1872:
Birthdate of Harold Phillips who would be buried in the Jewish cemetery at
Natchitoches, LA when he passed away at the age of 13.
1872:
IN New Orleans, L.H. and Regenia E. Levy gave birth to Charles Frank Levy who
went from a partnership with his father in the Olive Street Furniture to
founding the Hub Furniture while raising while two children with his wife, the
former Dorothy Watson.
1874:
Ceremonies were held this evening in New York City marking the formal opening
of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. Lewis May, the president of the
organization opened the event with a brief address followed by Dr. Mark
Blumenthal’s speech provided a brief history of YMHA. Judge Philip J.
Joachimsen and Rabbi Isaacs of the 19th Street Synagogue were among the
dignitaries who attended the event.
1875:
Today, the officials of the Kane Street Synagogue, or Congregation Baith Israel
Anshei Emes,in Brooklyn “set forth the rules for the congregation’s Sunday
school” including “from the opening to closing of school children are not
allowed to speak unless permission be given by the teacher,” to “scholars
absenting themselves for four consecutive Sundays shall be discharge, unless
good excuse be given” to a requesting that “scholars bring two cents each and
every Sunday” which the teachers of the “different class are to collect.”
1875:
According to reports published today that while the Moslems have political
control of Jerusalem, the Jews, who number 8,000 souls and even more during
festivals, make up a majority of the city’s population.
1875:
“Jerusalem” published today provides a thumbnail sketch of the city including
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DE5DC133BEF34BC4852DFB667838E669FDE
1876(22nd
of Tishrei, 5637): Shemini Atzeret
1876(22nd
of Tishrei, 5637): Thirty-one-year-old Edward E. Sheftall, the Savannah, GA
born son of Emanuel and Jane L. Sheftall, the husband of Maggie Sheftall and
the father of Daisy Mary Jane Mackendree passed away today.
1876:
In New York, Dr. Isaac Adler and the former Frieda Brumbacher gave birth to
Herman Morris Adler the nephew of Felix Adler and the husband of Frances Porter
who graduated from Columbia and Harvard Medical School who went on to a career
as a “psychiatrist and criminologist.”
http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9q2nb5z2&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00002&toc.depth=1&toc.id
1878:
Birthdate of Lithuanian born tailor Simon Ackerman the founder of a clothing
chain that bears his name and the founder of “Chester Barrie is a semi-bespoke
gentleman's tailor located at No19 Savile Row, London.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/02/15/83669598.pdf
1879(23rd
of Tishrei, 5640): Simchat Torah
1879:
Daniel Edward Bandmann played Shylock in tonight’s opening performance of “The
Merchant of Venice” at the Standard Theatre in New York City. His portrayal of
Shakespeare’s Jew differs from that of Edwin Booth who creates an “over-tragic
and impassioned” figure.
1879:
Birthdate of Eugen Täubler who wrote his dissertation on Josephus and lectured
at the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin.
1882:
Birthdate of Lithuania native and Omaha businessman Harry Lapidus, the
president of the Omaha Fixture Supply Company and leader of the Jewish
community who “was a member of the American Jewish National Council of
Americanization and a member of the executive committee of the United Palestine
Appeal while raising two children – Earl and Estelle – with his wife, the
former Minnie K. Kooler.
1883(9th
of Tishrei, 5644): Erev Yom Kippur
1883:
Three hundred boys attended Kol Nidre services at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum that
were led by Dr. Herman Baar, the Superintendent.
1884(21st
of Tishrei, 5645): Hoshanah Rabbah
1884(21st
of Tishrei, 5645): Seventy-six-year-old Johanna Goldschmidt the wife of Moritz
David Goldschmidt who was a philanthropist, author and an advocate for the
right’s of women passed away today in Hamburg.
1884(21st
of Tishrei, 5645): Dr. Adolph Huebsch, “one of the most popular and
influential…rabbis” in New York “died suddenly from heart disease from heart
disease” from “heart disease” at 4:30 this morning. Born in Hungary in 1830,
earned a doctorate at the University of Prague after which he took a pulpit in
that Czech city. In 1886, he came to the
United States where began serving as rabbi at Ahaveth Chesed. In addition to
leading his congregation through a period of growth that included the building
of a new sanctuary, he was a noted scholar.
1885:
Birthdate of Dr. Ernst Eylenburg who was transported from Berlin to Terezin in
1943 and from Terezin to Auschwitz in 1944 where he was murdered.
1885:
George S. Stinson, a special agent of the Internal Revenue Department
discovered today that “crooked whiskey was being manufactured by four Hebrews
at Bruynswick, NY.
1886(11th
of Tishrei, 5647): David Levy Yulee, the first Jewish United States Senator
passed away. David Yulee (also spelled Yule) was known simply as David Levy for
the first three and half decades of his life. He had been born on the West
Indian island of St. Thomas and brought to Florida by his father Moses Levy.
The younger Levy turned Yulee was a successful planter and lawyer, a perfect
background for a further career in politics. When Florida became a state in
1845, Yulee was chosen to serve as one of her senators. Yulee was not active in
Jewish communal life and married a non-Jew. However, his political opponents
did not ignore this fact. When the Civil War broke out, Yulee joined the other
Jewish senator, Judah P. Benjamin in secession. During the war he served in the
Confederate Congress. After the war, he served a year in prison on for reasons
not recorded. He had been arrested while on his way to Washington, D.C. in an
effort to gain Florida’s re-entry into the Union. It is ironic that the only
claim to fame of a Jew who sought to assimilate is tied to that very
Jewishness.
1886(11th
of Tishrei, 5647): In St. Louis, Frank Sandmeyer, a Jew who was employed as a
waiter at Esher’s Variety Theatre took his own life after killing his wife.
1886:
Birthdate of Kamila Adelová who was transported from Prague to Terezin in 1942
and from Terezin to Maly Trostine where she was murdered.
1886:
Birthdate of New York native and Columbia trained attorney Philip Goldfarb.
1886:
It was reported that an actor named “Curtis” will be appearing at the 14th
Street Theatre in New York. His forte is
his comic portrayal or “caricature” of “the superficial traits of the modern
German” Jew.
1887:
Birthdate of Schenectady, NY, native Lester Louis Bauer, the Northwestern
University Law School graduate, “publisher of the Jewish Standard” and the
“President of the Federation of the Reformed and Conservative Temples.”
1889(15th
of Tishrei, 5650): First Day of Sukkoth
1889:
In Hungary Adolph and Tillie Wirtschafter gave birth to Cleveland resident Dr.
Zolton Tillson Wirtschafter, the research director of the
Veterans Admin. Hospital, Portland, and Associate Prof. of Medicine of the
University of Oregon Medical School who was the husband of Reita Dine and the
father Dr. Jonathan Dine Wirtschafter.
1890:
The Vossiesche Zeitung declared that
the charges published in the Das Volk
attacking the committee honoring Count von Moltke as being Jews seeking to make
money from the event are “a calumny.”
1890:
The anti-Semitic May Laws were modified to allow Jews to rent, but not buy,
lands within certain city limits that will be used for grazing purposes only.
1890:
It was reported today that “Mr. Charles Frohman’s newly-organized company will
soon be appearing in a new play called ‘Men and Women’” featuring among its
characters “a rich Hebrew, President of a national bank.”
1890:
“Plans were filed with the Building Bureau…for the erection of a five-story
orphan asylum for the Hebrew Shelter and Guardian Society” in New York City.
1891(8th
of Tishrei, 5652): Shabbat Shuva
1891:
In Paris, author and humorist Tristan Bernard and his wife gave birth to
director and screenwriter Raymond Bernard.
1891(8th
of Tishrei, 5652): Thirty-five-year-old Anna Hilkofsky who suffered from
epilepsy died this evening when she died in a fire that started while she was
cooking and fell into the stove.
1891:
“Alleged Great Expectations” published today described the action being taken
by 23-year-old Charles Horowitz, a Jewish peddler who came to the United States
from Russia two years ago to obtain his share of his late uncle’s estate who
reportedly died in San Francisco leaving his heirs $30,000,000.
1892(19th
of Tishrei, 5653): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
presidency of Benjamin Harrison
1893(30th
of Tishrei, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1893:
In St. Louis, MO, Flora Isaacs Strauss and Julius Caesar Strauss gave birth to
Charles Leon Strauss the husband of Florence Kahn Strauss.
1893(30th
of Tishrei, 5654): Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike, the first professional
Jewish baseball player passed away.
1893: In St. Louis, Flora Isaacs Strauss and Julius Caesar
Strauss gave birth to Charles Leon Strauss, the husband of Florence Kahn
Strauss who settled in Houston before his death.
1893:
In Jersey City, NJ, the Moral Reform Society, an organization composed of
representatives from various Protestant Churches met for the first time and
decided to include Jews and Catholics in its membership.
1894(10th
of Tishrei, 5655): Yom Kippur
1894:
“Died at the Services” published today described the death of sixty-year-old
Wolf Cohn who passed away during Kol Nidre services.
1894:
In North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Holocaust victim Herz Elkan the son of
Joseph and Caroline Carla Evalina Elkan and his wife Rosa Elkan gave birth to
Selma Wolffs, the wife of Jakob Wolffs both of him were murdered during the
Holocaust.
1894:
Due to the observance of the Day Atonement, the 1,000 Jewish registrars who
would have served both the Republicans and Tammany Hall will not be able to
serve.
1894:
“Business on the Stock Exchange…was restricted owing to the absence of many
operators who were away observing the Hebrew fast of the Atonmenet.”
1894:
In New York, Temple Beth-El will use “the new order of services for Yom Kippur
adopted at the Central Conference of American Rabbis at the meeting in Atlantic
City. In a more shocking move, German
will no longer be used and all prayers will be in English or Hebrew.
1895(22nd
of Tishrei, 5656): Shmini Atzeret
1895(22nd
of Tishrei, 5656): Sixty-one-year-old Rebecca Goldschmidt the “wife of Abraham
L. Bechhoefer and “mother of Joseph Bernard, Frances, Lena, Charles, Bertha,
Lea, Paulina, Jacob Emanuel and Moses” passed away today after which was buried
at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Altoona, PA.
1895:
“Two Wills In A Week” published today described a dispute over the estate of
Mrs. Babet Karl involving Rabbi Aaron Wise of Congregation Rodoph Sholom and
his son Otto Irving Wise on one side family members including her nephew
Abraham Stern on the other side.
1896:
It was reported today that a rare copy of William Blake’s “Jerusalem” had been
sold at action by Bangs & Co for $14.50.
1896:
In Pinsk, Rachel Leah Berman and Abraham Osher Feinstein gave birth to Cooper
Union and NYU education author and educator Moses Feinstein, the husband of
Esther Friedland and the principal of the Herzliah Hebrew High School and
Teachers’ Academy in New York who was a “contributor of poems, essays and book
reviews” to numerous Hebrew language periodicals.
1896:
The University of Wisconsin football team led by first year head coach Philip
King, a Jewish native of Washington, DC defeated Lake Forest today in the
season opening game.
1897(14th
of Tishrei, 5658): Erev Sukkoth
1897:
In Manchester Israel Cohen and the former Annie Eugenie Seligmann gave birth a
baby girl.
1897:
Six days after he had passed away, 20 year old “Ernest Vivian Eskell Kennard,
the second son of Eva and Alfred Kennard” was buried today at the “Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1897:
At Temple Israel on 125th Street and 5th Avenue Rabbi
Maurice Harris officiated at services which included an address by Daniel P.
Hays, President of the congregation.
1897:
Samuel D. Levy presided over the 18th annual meeting of the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society
1898(24th
of Tishrei, 5659): Author and numismatist David Henriques de Castro passed away
in Amsterdam the city where he was born in 1832.
1898:
“Birthdate of Esther Falkenstein, the wife of Harry Falkenstein and mother of
Edith Falkensein who was murdered a Auschwitz in 1943.
1898(24th
of Tishrei, 5659): Seventy-three-year-old author and philosopher Fabius Mieses
passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Mieses_Fabius
1898:
Samuel Elfenbein, the son of Moses and Rosa Elfenbein and Ceilia Elfenbein gave
birth to Hiram Elfenbeim
1899:
The New York Times begins
publishing a supplemental section devoted to reviewing books. The New York Times Book Section has
provided numerous reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to
Jewish readers for over a century. It has been an invaluable resource for this
blog.
1900:
During the “Konitz Affair,” an episode of Jewish blood libel, “Jacob Jacoby of
Tuchel, was sentenced to confinement for one year in the penitentiary for
perjury.”
1900: Forty-three-year-old Columbia trained physician Joseph
Mayer Rice, the Philadelphia born son Mayer and Fanny Rice who was the author
of The Rational Spelling Book married Deborah Levinson today.
1900:
In Detroit, Congregation Beth El made the decision to build a new Temple which
will be located at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Eliot Street.
1900: In Vilna, Reuben and Sarah (Fisher) Gordon, gave birth
to University of Cincinnati graduate and Hebrew Union College trained rabbi,
Samuel Henry Gordon who married Irene Olive Philippe at Saginaw, MI in 1925 and
began serving as the Rabbi for Temple B’nai Israel in Salt Lake City in 1925.
1901:
The former Jennie Gertrude Cohen, the daughter of Simon Cohen and Dr. Zama
Feldstein, formerly of Calcutta who were married yesterday at the Tuxedo are
“on a tour through the United States and Canada” after which “they will make
their home in New York.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/10/10/119082123.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1901:
Birthdate of Polish native Mordka Narcyz who was shipped to Auschwitz in 1942.
1902
(9th of Tishrei, 5663): Erev Yom Kippur
1902:
Birthdate of Russian born U.S. Jewish educator Samuel Dinin who in 1909 came to the United States where
he earned a Ph.D from Columbia and taught at JTS before moving to Los Angeles
in 1945 where he “played a central role in shaping Jewish education in Los
Angeles, including institutions such as the University of Judaism and Los
Angeles Hebrew High School.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-11-me-dinin11-story.html
https://www.bjela.org/dr-samuel-dinin
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dinin-samuel
1903:
The Young Men’s Zionist Society of Newark, NJ, is scheduled to host a ball
tonight.
1903:
Within the Pale, Irish Republican “Michael Davitt’s book dealing with
the anti-Semitic persecutions in Russia” was published today A.S. Barnes and
Company.
1904(1st
of Cheshvan, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1904:
Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity was founded at Cornell by Aaron Brown,
Henry Aaronson, Michael Halpern Barsky, Bernard Hyle Eliasberg, Irving Harold
Engel, Philip Frank.,Abraham Leon Garbat and William Isidore Wallach
1904:
The Liberty Theatre which was “built for Klaw and Erlanger, the partnership of
theatrical producers Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger” opened today on Broadway at
42nd Street.
1905:
Maurice J. (Moses) Mandelbaum, the Cleveland born son of “Jacob and Amelia
(Lehman) Mandelbaum and “philanthropist, banker and interurban-railway magnate”
married his second wife, Florence S. Levy, died today.
1906(21st
of Tishrei, 5667): Hoshanah Rabah
1906:
“No Equality For Jews Yet: published today reported that Premier Stolypin said
“to give the Jews the right to buy land and circulate freely throughout Russia
would in practice create a very grave state of affair” and “The Duma would have
to” make a decision on this matter” while the Ministerial Council would
“examine” the “desired way to treat the Jews with justice.”
1907:
Ernesto Nathan, a Jew, was elected Mayor of Rome.
1907(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5668): Seventy-four-year-old Zipporah Phillips, the daughter of
Esther B. Seixas and Naphtali Phillips and the husband of Lewis Benjamin passed
away today.
1908(15th
of Tishrei, 5669): Sukkoth
1908:
Movie mogul Harry Warner and his wife, Rea Levinson gave birth to their first
child, Lewis Warner.
1909:
The coffin “covered with the blue and white flag of Zion” carrying the body of
Naphtali Herz Imber “the east side poet and author of ‘Hatikvah,’ the Zionist
national hymn” who had died erev Shabbat “was followed from the Educational
Alliance Building on East Broadway to the Mount Zion Cemetery by 10,000 sincere
mourners including Rabbi J.L. Magnes.
1910(7th
of Tishrei, 5671): Mrs. Chawe Wolpe passed away today.
1910:
Birthdate of Photographer Julius Shulman. Born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian
Jewish immigrants, his family moved to a farm in Connecticut, where Shulman
first developed a love of nature that, he said, awakened him to light and
shadow and influenced his life's course. When Julius was 10, his father moved
the family to the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, which at that time
was predominantly Jewish, and opened the New York Dry Goods Store. His father
died of tuberculosis in 1923, leaving Julius' mother to run the business and
raise five children.
1910:
Ten Jewish men founded Tau Episolon Phi (TEP) fraternity at Columbia
University.
1911(18th
of Tishrei, 5671): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1911(18th
of Tishrei 5671): Fifteen-year-old Miss Schlowe Stein passed away today.
1912(29th
of Tishrei, 5673): Sixty-one-year-old Posen native Henry Jonas who came to the
United States in 1871 after which he settled in Butte, MT where he worked as a
tailor and helped organize the Jewish community passed away today.
1912:
Today, Dr. Joseph Silverman officiated at the funeral of Professor Morris Loeb.
The funeral which was attended by more than 500 people representing most of the
Jewish charitable and religious organizations of New York and many of its
educational institutions was held at Temple Emanu-El Cemetery, Salem Fields,
Cypress Hills. Dr. Samuel Schulmann of Temple Beth-El gave the closing prayer.
1913(9th
of Tishrei, 5674): Erev Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre
1913:
Today, “just in time for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur Jim Novy arrived in
Galveston” after which. “with the assistance of Rabbi Henry Cohen he made
transit from Galveston to Dallas to meet his older brothers Louis and Sam who
had arrived a year earlier.”
1913:
Based on Judge Roan’s ruling on August 26, today was to be the day when Leo
Frank was to be hung.
1914:
Birthdate of Amsterdam native and “member of the underground” Roelof Tak who
survived the war by “concealing his Jewish identity” and was liberated by the
Canadian Army.
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4978171
1914:
Birthdate of Pinchas Anchipolovsky, the native of the shtetl of Krevoe Ozero
who gained fame as Pinchas Ben Porat one of the first pilots in what became the
IAF who actually flew in support of Jewish settlers before the declaration of
independence and who died when his El Al aircraft was shot down by the
Bulgarian Air Force in 1955.
1915(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5676): Alfred Hyman Louis, the native of Birmingham and son of
Hyman T. Louis, “a well-to-do merchant and his wife Maria” who “was called to
the Bar in 1855 and who claimed to have been the inspiration “for the
consumptive mystic Mordecai” in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda passed
away today after which he “was buried as a Jew” having renounced his previous
conversion to Christianity.
1915:
Today, 29-year-old Louis Lefkowitz, the brother of Aaron Lefkowitz and founder
of “Louis Lefkowitz and Brother, manufacturers of leather belts” and other such
items, “married Miss Sadie Leah Weiss” with whom he had one child, a daughter
named Doris.
1915:
Today was designated as the deadline for various Jewish organizations to name
those who will be attending the “general congress of American Jews” to be held
next month under the auspices of the American-Jewish Committee.
1915:
It was reported today that “the Jews of Russian Poland, now in the hands of the
Austrians and Germans, appear to have suffered, prior to the Russian retreat
more than the normal amount of hardship imposed by war” which included “a
rather promiscuous execution by the Russians of the Jews accused of
espionage…and the plundering of Jewish shops and houses by the Russian
soldiery.
1915:
The list of “Five Hundred Leading Books This Fall” published today included
Forest Izard’s Sarah Bernhardt which provides “a brief sketch of her
career and an appreciative criticism of her work and her genius, Israel
Friedlander’s The History of the Jews In Russia And Poland in which “the
author traces the restrictions placed, the oppressions exercised against and
the accusation made respecting the Jews in Poland up to the time of the
partition of that country in 1772 and thereafter the treatment of the Jews
under Russian Role” and Morris Jastrow’s The Civilization of Babylonia and
Assyria
1915:
“The Neighborhood’s Year” published today provided a preview of the attractions
that will be offered this season by the little Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand
Street which will include performances by the Yiddish Folksong Singers of
Boston.
1915:
In the Ukraine, Elie Gottmann and Sonia-Fanny Ettinger gave birth to their only
child French geographer Jean Gottman.
1915:
It was reported today that “there are 1,846 students in the Teacher’s College”
at Columbia University “this year and since many of them are interested in
settlement and church work” the school has proposed that Catholics, Jews and
Protestants work together “in devising means for making religious instruction
more efficient.”
1915:
The chairman of the Interchurch Committee on Religious Education which includes
Jewish members said that its members are ready to help implement William Wirt’s
“Gary Plan” for the schools in New York City.
1916:
In Petah Tikva, Isaac and Hemda Diskin, “the husband of Dinah Diskin.”
1917(24th
of Tishrei, 5678): Eighty-three-year-old German born Jacob Bacharach the
husband of Betty Bacharach with who he had five children – Bertha, Benjamin,
Rachel, Isaac and Harry – passed away today after which he was buried at Mt.
Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1917:
“After traveling for six months by sea and leaving and encountering many
hardships ninety-one Jewish refugees” including “ten old men, forty women and
forty-one children” arrived today “at an Atlantic port from Palestine to join
their relatives in his country
1917: In Brownsville, Pincus Schacter, “a seventh
generation shochet” and his wife “the former Miriam Schimmelman” gave birth to
Herschel Schacter the first US Army Chaplain to enter and participate in the
liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
1918:
During the final Allied offensive on the Western Front, the 165th Regiment,
including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein hiked to Excamont where they found the
Prussian Guards holding their strong points just beyond the town.
1918: Samuel Gitlow, the Belarus born son of Elke and
Herschel Gitlow and his wife Esther Gitlow gave birth to USSAF WW II veteran
Dr. Abraham Leo Gitlow, the holder of a Ph. D from the Columbia School of
Economics and Anthropology and Dean at the NYU Stern School of Business
https://obits.lohud.com/us/obituaries/lohud/name/abraham-gitlow-obituary?pid=171760779
1919(16th
of Tishrei, 5680): Second Day of Sukkoth
1919:
In the aftermath of WW I British troops, which had been sent to Russia in an
attempt to keep her in the war were withdrawn from Murmansk which strengthened
the hand of the Bolsheviks with all that that meant for the Jewish people of
Eastern Europe.
1920:
The Goldman Concert Band, “which recently concluded its most successful series
of Summer concerts at Columbia University” is scheduled to “give its one and
only concert at Carnegie Hall” this evening.
1920:
In Chicago, Illinois, Hugo M. Friend, the Judge who presided over trial of the
so-called Chicago Black Sox (the players who threw the World Series) was
appointed judge of the Circuit Court today.
1921:
Today, thirty-five-year-old Harold Kinder, the Missouri born son of Marie
Epstein Kander and Felix Victor Karder and the president of the Aaron
Corporation married Bernice Aaron with whom he had one son, Edward Felix Kander
1921:
In Jersey City, David Gross, a haberdasher and his wife, the former Fay Kushner
gave birth to Gerald Jeremiah Gross, a Jewish World War II veteran who was
responsible for the publishing of Albert Speer’s memoirs. (As reported by Bruce
Weber)
1922(18th
of Tishrei, 5683): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1922:
In Poland, Chana and Moshe Berkowitz gave birth to Joseph Berkowitz who gained
fame as Joseph Kushner, the husband of Rae Kushner, the father of American real
estate moguls Murray and Charles Kushner, the grandfather of Jared Kushner,
President Trump’s son-in-law, Joshua Kushner and Marc Kushner.
1922(18th
of Tishrei, 5683): Sixty-eight-year-old Isaac Guggenheim, the Philadelphia born
son of Meyer and Barbara Guggenheim and husband of Carrie Sonneborn, who
““director of the American Smelting and Refining Company, the National Park
Bank” and a “member of the firm of M. Guggenheim’s Sons” passed away today
after which he was buried at the Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.
1923:
“The Unknown Tomorrow,” a German silent film directed and produced by Alexander
Korda was released today in German.
1923:
Birthdate of major league pitcher, Saul Rogovin.
1924:
In Lodz, Poland, Shaya (Sruel, Stanley) Wattenberg, a local gallery owner and
his wife Lea Wattenberg, an American citizen who parents Mr. and Mrs. Benno
Zold lived in Long Branch NJ gave birth to Miriam Wattenberg, who survived the
Holocaust and gained fame as Mary Berg the author of The Diary of Mary Berg:
Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto,
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-happened-to-mary-berg
https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Mary-Berg-Growing-Warsaw/dp/1851685855
1924(12th
of Tishrei, 5685): After being “hit on the head by a line drive” yesterday,
thirty-seven year old “Dutch diamond polisher and baseball player” Hartog
Hamburger, an infielder for OVVO in Amsterdam and the father of psychiatrist
and future resistance fighter Max Hambruger, died today making him the one of
the few, if not the only European to die from an injury sustained while playing
the American national pastime.
1925(22nd
of Tishrei, 5686): Shemini Atzeret
1925:
Birthdate of Mark Shulman the husband of Margaret A. Shulman
1926: A conference of State and city chairman who will be
leading United Jewish campaign to raise twenty-five million dollars is
scheduled to come to an end today at the Standard Club in Chicago.
1926:
In the Bronx, Edward Marshall and “the former Ethel Tilzer” gave birth to Joan
Evelyn Marshall who gained famed as “Joan Helpern, the creative half of the
husband-and-wife team that combined comfort and class as the eponymous owners
of the Joan & David line of shoes.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1926:
The weeklong campaign of the Jewish Welfare Board to raise $150,000 is
scheduled to come to an end today.
1927:
“A Harp in Rock,” a melodrama written by Sonya Levien and starring Rudolph
Schildkraut as “Isaac Abrams” was released in the United States today.
1927(14th
of Tishrei, 5688): Erev Sukkoth
1927:
“Did You Mean It?” a revue with music by Jean Schwartz and lyrics by Sid
Silvers transferred from the 44th Street Theatre to the Winter
Garden Theatre today.
1927:
According to Rabbi Lewis Browne of New York City, today he officiated at the
marriage ceremony of writer Hendrick von Loon and actress Francis Goodrich at
Elizabeth, NJ even neither of them are Jewish but are good friends with the
cleric.
1927:
The original Broadway production of “The Five O’Clock Girl” with music by Harry
Ruby and lyrics by Bert Kalmar opened at the 44th Street Theatre
today.
1928: When New York Mayor Jimmy Walker’s “plan was sketched
to Sam Harris…tonight, the producer gave it his full approval” saying “I think
it is a good plan and I would be willing to accept the decision of the Mayor’s
representatives.” (Harris was Jewish, Walker was not)
1929:
Frederick Margareten, the Manhattan born son of Regina Horowtiz and Ignatz
Margareten who was chairman of
Horowitz-Margareten Kosher Food and his wife Mary Margareten gave birth to Rene
(Margareten) Berger
1929:
Ten Days before the Stock Market crash that triggered the Great Depression,
Abraham Strauss opened its renovated store on Fulton Street, during the same
year in which “the company also joined Filene's, Lazarus, and Bloomingdale's to
form Federated Department Stores.
1929:
Die gelbe Jacke (The Yellow Jacket) an operetta with a libretto co-authored by
Fritz Lohner-Beda was performed, at the Metropol Theatre, Berlin for the first
time today.
1929:
“The Land of Smiles,” an operetta by Franz Lehar who always used Jewish writers
to create the librettos for his works but also received a medal from Hitler and
with a libretto written in part by Fritz Löhner-Beda, a member of Kadima who
died at the Monowitz concentration camp, was first performed, at the Metropol
Theater today.
1930(18th
of Tishrei, 5691): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1930:
In San Francisco, the city-wide fund-raising drive for the Jewish Welfare Fund
is scheduled to come to an end today at which time it is hoped that $265,000
will have been raised.
1930:
In Hackney, east London "Jack" Pinter, a ladies' tailor and his wife,
Frances (née Moskowitz) gave birth to English playwright and Nobel Prize
Winner, Harold Pinter.
1931:
“Marius,” a film version of the 1929 play, produced by Alexander Korda was
released today in France.
1931:
Sid Gillman was among the Buckeyes who were miserable following Vanderbilt’s
victory over Ohio State in the second game of the college football season.
1932:
The Supreme Court, whose members included Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo
heard arguments in Powell v. Alabama, a case in which Walter H. Pollack
represented the petitioners who were known as “the Scottsboro Boys.”
1933(20th
of Tishrei, 5694): Sixth day of Sukkoth
1933(20th
of Tishrei, 5694): The Nazis killed Dr. Theo Katz at Dachau. According to
Martin Gilbert, Katz had worked in the camp hospital before his murder.
1934(1st
of Cheshvan, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1934:
Sufi Abdul Hamid “said to have styled himself an Egyptian Black Hitler”
appeared before Magistrate Overton Harris in Harlem Court for another hearing
on charges of disorderly conducting for allegedly urging Harlem Negroes to
persecute the Jews
1934:
Ella Driori and Amnon Drori gave birth
to Alexander (Alex) Drori
1935:
In New York, Norman and Betty Hirschfield gave birth to studio executive Alan
James Hirschfield.
1935:
George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway. The Jewish
music master used his talents to bring the life of African-Americans to
mainstream entertainment.
1936(24th
of Tishrei, 5697): Parashat Bereshit – on Shabbat begin the Torah reading cycle
again
1936:
At Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Nathan Perlman is scheduled to deliver a sermon
entitled “Ways of Pleasantness and Paths of Peace.”
1936:
At the West End Synagogue, Rabbi Nathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon
on “Driven From Paris.”
1936:
In New York, many rabbis are scheduled to deliver sermons describing “the work
of the New York section of the National Council of Jewish Women” including “the
religious work done on Welfare Island under the chairmanship of Mrs. A. H.
Goodman” and “the very important classes for deaf children.”
1936:
In the Bronx, religious classes and services are being held at the Council
House under the chairmanship of Mrs. Julius Wolff.
1936:
At Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on
“Where Do We Stand Together?”
1936:
In Philadelphia, a tailor named Joseph Cohen and his wife the former Gertrude
Schwab gave birth to David Pesach Cohen whose work “in the public interest”
included serving as President of Common Cause. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
http://www.594.com/tributes/binder/aw.html
1937:
The Palestine Post
reported that the Mandatory Administration assured the British government that
no question of security would interfere with the plans to send a new commission
to Palestine. This new commission will be well protected and will be well able
to consider how to implement the country's partition, as requested by the
Mandatory Commission of the League of Nations at their General Assembly
meetings in Geneva.
1937:
The Post
reported that a tax collector's van was robbed by armed Arabs on the
Nablus-Jenin road.
1938:
Sh'chita (Jewish ritual slaughter) is banned in Italy.
1938:
In accord with the terms of the Munich Agreement signed in September, German
troops took control of the Sudetenland and gained de facto control over the
rest of Czechoslovakia. The agreement gave the Nazis direct control over
another portion of Europe’s Jewish population. More importantly, it was one
more bloodless victory for Hitler. It helped drive the Soviets to sign a
non-aggression pact with Hitler’s Germany which led to the invasion of Poland
which led to…well you know the rest.
1938:
In statement issued today, U.S. Representative Emanujel Celler of New York
urged President Roosevelt “to remind Prime Minister Neville Chamerlain of Great
Britain’s solemn pledge in the Balfour Declaration for a Jewish national
homeland in Palestine and to declare that the United States ‘views with great
conern and alarm a departure by Great Britain from its obligations under that
pact.’” Celler went on to express concern that the promise of the Balfour
Declaration was about to be “scrapped.”
1939:
“A memorial to Felix Warburg will be started today when foundations are laid
for seventy farms at Kfar Felix Warburg in southern Palestine.
1939:
The period of forced labor for Jewish men in Slovakia is scheduled to come to
an end today.
1939:
The Germans create a Generalgouvernement in Poland. It is an administrative
area not incorporated into Greater Germany. The Germans will locate their death
camps in the Generalgouvernement.
1939:
A one-hour adaption of “Lilom” which had been translated into English by
Benjamin Glazer for a production starring Joseph Schildkraut, was broadcast by
the CBS Campbell Playhouse Program.
1940:
“Yugoslavs Defend Jews” published today reported that “the first organized
protest against Yugoslavia’s anti-Jewish decrees was made at a week-end meeting
of high school teachers from all parts of the country.”
1941(19th
of Tishrei, 5702): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1941:
Marshal Walther von Reichenau instructed his troops that, "The soldier
must fully understand the need for severe but just atonement of the Jewish
sub-humans." Contrary to one of the myths surrounding the Holocaust, the
German army was a willing accomplice in the slaughter of the Jews. The use of
gas vans by the roaming Eisengruppen would not put an end to the involvement of
German soldiers in the destruction of European Jewry.
1941(19th
of Tishrei, 5702): Eliaho Hayeem Victor Cohen, a Lieutenant with the 9th Jat
Regiment of the British Indian Army was killed in an accident today during
World War II. Although he is buried in the Penang Jewish Cemetery which is
believed to be the oldest Jewish cemetery in Malaysia, his grave is maintained
by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
1941:
Thousands of Slovak Jews are sent to labor camps at Sered, Vyhne, and Nováky.
1941:
Slovak, Bohemian, and Moravian Jews are forced from their homes and into
ghettos.
1941:
“Great Guns” a comedy produced by Sol M. Wurtzel and featuring Ludwig Stössel,
one of the many Jewish artists forced to flee Europe after the Nazis came to
power, was released today by 20th Century Fox.
1941:
The Philip Morris Playhouse broadcast an adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s “The
Little Foxes.”
1942:
“Eva-Marie Buch, a book seller who was part of the Schutze-Boysen-Harnack
Resistance Group, also known as The Red Orchestra was arrested today for
passing messages to French slave laborers working in factories.”
1942:
Dr. Tamarath Knigin Yolles, the 1939 NYU Medical School graduate and “daughter
of Max H. and Bessie (Krokoff) Knigin” married Stanley Fausst Yolles with whom
she had two children – Jennifer and Melanie.
1942:
Chil (Enrique) Meyer Rajchman was rounded up today along with other ghetto
inmates, loaded onto a Holocaust train, and sent to Treblinka extermination
camp where he took part in the 1943 uprising which he survived and as a
survivor provided evidence against the guards at the camp.
1942:
The SS issued a decree to “cleanse all concentration camps of Jews.”
http://www.natzweiler-struthof.com/OrianenbergOctober101942.htm
1943(11th
of Tishrei, 5704): Twenty-six-year-old German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon
died today at Auschwitz.
1943:
A non-Jewish Latvian named Yanis Lipke rescues three Jews in Riga by offering
ghetto guards two packs of cigarettes for "some Yids to work in my kitchen
garden"
1943:
At the Sobibór death camp, a revolt is planned by Jewish laborers and Jewish
Red Army POWs.
1943(11th
of Tishrei,5704): On the day after Yom Kippur, a pilot who had spent -the Day
of Atonement praying at the Grande Synagogue in Tunis “flew on a mission and
never returned.” (As reported by Louis
Werfel, “the flying chaplain”)
1944(23rd
of Tishrei, 5705): Simchat Torah
1944:
Fourteen men from the Sonderkommando who escaped during the revolt of October 7
are found. They are tortured along with many other picked up during the prior
two days. But none gave away the locations of the hiding survivors. None of the
men would survive the interrogation.
1944:
Four additional women involved in smuggling explosives used in the October 6-7
uprising at Auschwitz are arrested, including an inmate named Roza Robota.
Fourteen men from the camp's Sonderkommando unit also are arrested. The sole
surviving conspirator, a Greek Jew named Isaac Venezia, will later die of
starvation after Auschwitz inmates are evacuated by their captors to Ebensee,
Austria.
1945:
According to reports from Jerusalem, Dr. Chaim Weizmann will resign as
President of the World Zionist Organization if the British government reaches
decisions that are “unfavorable to the Jewish cause in Palestine.” David Ben
Gurion, who is expected to return from London next week, is mentioned as his
most likely successor.
1945:
The Palmach freed two hundred “illegal” Jewish immigrants who had been rounded
up by British troops and were being held at a detention facility near Haifa.
1945:
Birthdate of Chicago native Bruce Karatz, the Boston University undergrad and
USC Law School grad turned businessman – Chairman and CEO of KB Home – and
philanthropist who contributed funds to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina.
1945:
Joseph Darnard who had served under Pierre Laval as the commander of the Vichy
militia was executed by a firing squad today.
1946:
Birthdate of Arnold E. Resnicoff the Washington D.C. native who became a
Conservative Rabbi and served as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy for a quarter of a
century.
1946:
Release of “The Jolson Story,” a biopic that gives the Hollywood treatment to
the life of Al Jolson.
1947:
“Deputy Mayor John H. Bennett spoke at the presentation of a piece of fire
apparatus to the volunteer fire brigade of Tel Aviv” which a gift from the New
York City Fire Department.
1948:
“The intensity of the Egyptian shelling on the southern suburbs (of Jerusalem)
was such that the United Nations observers believed that a full-scale Egyptian
assault on the city was imminent.
1949:
U.S. premiere of “Thieves’ Highway” directed by Jules Dassin, co-starring Lee
J. Cobb (Leo Jacob) as “Mike Figlia” with music by Alfred Newman.
1949:
Two days after closing at the Schubert Theatre, “Lend An Ear” a musical revue with sketches by Joseph Stein
opened at the Schubert Theatre.
1950:
Dr. Sam Winograd, the faculty athletic managers announced today that City College's national basketball champions will play 21 games this
season.
1951(10th
of Tishrei, 5712): Yom Kippur
1951:
Birthdate of Avichai Rontzki “the former Chief Military Rabbi of the IDF” who
“served in the position from 2006 to 2010 with a rank of Brigadier General” – a
service marked by several controversies.
1951:
Twentieth Century Fox released “Love Next,” an American comedy-drama directed
by Joseph Newman and written by I.A.L. Diamond
1951:
Mrs. Alfred F. Hess read a statement at today's meeting of the Board of
Trustees of Barnard College expressing their sorrow at the recent death of Mrs.
Annie Nathan Meyer, one of the founders of and original trustees of Barnard.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post
reported that the Palestine Conciliation Commission had announced that Israel
agreed to release one million in sterling. These funds belonged to Palestinian
Arabs who had fled Israel during the fighting when the Arabs tried to destroy
the state of Israel at the moment of its birth. The commission commented that
the Israeli move was "an important step towards the settlement of the
differences existing between Israel and her neighbors." The Israelis hoped
that this act of good will would help lead to a peace agreement and that the
Arab states would now give the Jews who had fled such places as Iraq would now
have access to the funds they had been forced to leave behind. As has happened
so many times, the hope proved illusory.
1953(1st
of Cheshvan, 5714): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1953(1st
of Cheshvan, 5714): Seventy-three-year-old “Lemuel F. Bernheim, the former
vaudeville comedian” who performed under the name of Lem Welch and was the
husband of Stella Babka Bernheim with whom he had three children – Louis,
Bernard and Esther – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/10/12/84426717.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954:
In Bloomington, IN, ophthalmologist Nathan Lee Roth and teacher Sibyl Roth gave
birth to “American rock singer” David Lee Roth.
1954: In Chicago, Rosa Lee and Hal Rothblatt, DDS gave birth
to UCLA trained attorney Martin Rothblatt, now known as the author,
entrepreneur, and transgender rights advocate Martine Rothblatt.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/10/11/87198472.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1956:
At the urging of Moshe Dayan, the cabinet agreed to an attack aimed at
destroying the Kalkilya police fort in response to murders at Even Yehuda. The
attack would be led by Mordechai Gur who would later be IDF Chief of Staff. The
attack was costly in terms of Israeli casualties and brought an end to the
period of night-time tit-for-tat reprisal raids.
1956:
In response to a terrorist attack launched from Jordan on October 4 that
claimed the lives of four civilians, “the Israeli military
conducted a counter attack codenamed Operation Samaria in which the IDF
attacked the Qalqilya police station at the Tegart fort. After a fierce battle
the fort was blown up. 18 IDF soldiers died in the operation and 68 were
injured. About 88 Jordanians were killed and 15 were wounded.”
1957(15th
of Tishrei, 5718): Sukkoth
1961: Today,
while he was serving as mayor, the “Toronto City Council named the future civic
square at New City Hall Nathan Phillips Square in his honour.”
1961:
Seven months after having premiered in Germany “Town Without Pity” starring
Kirk Douglas and with music by Dimitri Tiomkin was released in the United
States today.
1961:
U.S. premiere of “Splendor in the Grass,” with music by David Amram and filmed
by Boris Kaufman.
1961:
Milk and Honey opened on Broadway in the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 543
performances. “Milk and Honey is a musical…music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.
The story centers on a busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch
husbands while touring Israel and is set against the background of the
country's fight for recognition as an independent nation.”
1962:
“Charmaine” a song written by Lew Pollack for “What Price Glory?” was recorded
today.
1962: After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Long
Day's Journey into Night, a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Eugene
O'Neill's 1956 play which was directed by Sidney Lumet, and produced by Ely
Landau, with Joseph E. Levine and Jack J. Dreyfus Jr. as executive producers
was released today in the United States.
1963(22nd of Tishrei, 5724): Shmini Atzeret
1963(22nd of Tishrei 5724): Seventy-one-year-old
Romanian born and NYU trained physician Dr. George Ornstein, the former
director of medicine at Sea View Hospital where he “directed a research program
on the new anti-tuberculosis drugs and former “former professor of medicine at
New York Medical College and Columbia’s Post-Graduate School of Medicine” who
was the husband of “the former Claire Rosenstein” with whom he raised two
children, Betty Ann and George, Jr. passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/10/11/89968448.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1963(22nd
of Tishrei, 5724): Shmini Atzeret
1963:
In Princeton, NJ, Ruth and Judea Pearl gave birth to journalist Daniel Pearl
who was
kidnapped by Pakistani terrorists and later murdered by Al-Qaeda member Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed in Pakistan.
https://www.washingtonian.com/projects/KSM/
1964:
The Summer Olympics in which Volleyball player Georgy Mondzolevski represented
the Soviet Union opened today.
1964(4th
of Cheshvan, 5725): Eddie Cantor passed away. The comedian with the “banjo
eyes” enjoyed a career that ran from vaudeville to the crazy days of live
television variety shows. One of Cantor’s famous running gags centered around
the fact that he had five children – all girls. He passed away at the age of
72.
http://www.eddiecantor.com/bio.html
1965(14th
of Tishrei, 5726): Erev Sukkot
1965:
In Cambridge, MA, Carl R. Pidgeon, a visiting professor at MIT and his wife
Elaine, a yoga teacher gave birth to singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon the wife
of David Mamet.
1965:
“Drat! The Cat!” a musical “with a book and lyrics by Ira Levin” with a cast
that included Elliot Gould and co-produced by Jerry Adler opened on Broadway
today at the Martin Beck Theatre, “where it ran for only eight performances.”
1966:
Seventy-one-year-old Abraham Wolf Binder who served as music director of the
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue for forty years and was a lead in the Reform
Movement passed away today.
http://www.594.com/tributes/binder/aw.html
1966:
“The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine,” a song by Simon and Garfunkel was
released today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/12/90406565.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1968: “Barbarella” a science
fiction film co-starring Marcel Marceau was released today.
1970(10th
of Tishrei, 5731): Yom Kippur
1971(21st
of Tishrei, 5732): Hoshana Raba
1971(21st
of Tishrei, 5732): Eighty-five-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney
and newspaper publisher Julius David Stern the Philadelphia born son of Sophie
Muhr and David Stern and husband of Juliet Lit who was owner and publisher of
The Philadelphia Record for almost twenty years and who supported Al Smith and
Franklin Roosevelt passed away today.
https://turtledove.fandom.com/wiki/J._David_Stern
1971:
Birthdate of child piano prodigy Evgeny Kissin
http://www.kissin.dk/biography.html
1972:
Jews in Moscow held a press conference expressing their support of the Senator
Henry Jackson’s legislation granting trade benefits to the East Bloc nations in
turn for liberalization of their immigration policies (which would make it
possible for Jews to leave the Soviet Union and go to Israel)
1972(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5733): Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born American and Radcliffe
trained political scientist who worked for such luminaries as Governor Herbert
H. Lehman and General Lucius D. Clay passed away today.
1973:
14th of Tishrei, 5734): Economist Ludwig von Mises passes away at the age of
92.
1973:
14th of Tishrei, 5734): Erev Sukkoth; as Jews around the world prepare to
celebrate Sukkoth, all thoughts are turned to Israel’s fight for survival that
had begun on Yom Kippur.
1973:
Fighting continued during the Yom Kippur War. A morning counter-attack launched
against the Syrians drove their tanks back to line from which they had launched
their sneak attack four days ago. General Elazar wanted to push on, but Defense
Minister Dayan wanted to stop lest penetration towards Damascus upset the
Soviets. Golda Meir sided with Elazar who made plans to attack across the old
cease fire line. In the evening, Mrs. Meir addressed the nation describing
Israel’s perilous position. The Soviets had armed the Arabs with all matter of
modern weaponry and were re-supplying them even as Mrs. Meir spoke. She urged
King Hussein not to repeat his mistake of 1967 when he joined the Egyptians and
the Syrians. She said that Jews could not allow themselves “the luxury of
despair.” She had but one prayer in her heart, “that this will be the last war.
1973:
In an effort to relieve Israeli pressure on the Syrian front, where the IDF has
gained back the southern Golan, Egyptian forces move further into the Sinai,
beyond the range of their SAM umbrella which creates an opportunity for the IAF
to go on the offensive.
1973:
“A minister
in government and former chief of the IDF General Staff, Chaim Bar-Lev, was
effectively put in control of the southern front instead of Shmuel Gonen.” (As
reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/remembering-a-man-slowly-killed-by-the-yom-kippur-war/
1973:
14th of Tishrei, 5734): Israeli political leader and former MK Ada Maimon
passed away at the age of 80 today.
1974(24th
of Tishrei, 5735): Just two months shy of his 64th birthday,
historian and Holocaust survivor Joseph Wulf passed away.
http://stevenlehrer.com/joseph_wulf.htm
1974:
Birthdate of Asi Cohen, the native of Ashdod who gained fame as a comedian and
actor.
1975:
Parliamentarians from 12 Western European countries formed a committee in
support of Soviet Jewish emigration.
1975:
As the Soviets sought to strengthen their position in the Middle East and the
Syrians look for aid in destroying Israel, President Assad completed his visit
to the USSR.
1975:
“Shivers” a science fiction produced by Ivan Reitman and directed by David
Cronenberg who also wrote the script was released today in Canada.
1975:
“Lisztomania” a biopic about Franz Liszt co-starring Sara Kestelman and filmed
by cinematographer Peter Suschitzky was released in the United Kingdom today.
1976(16th
of Tishrei, 5737): Second day of Sukkoth
1976:
Mr. and Mrs. Max Gerstein, the president the Petrie Stores Corporation, a
national chain of women’s retail clothing stores announced the engagement of
their daughter Nancy Ellen Gerstein to John Camper Novogrod an attorney whose
father Leonard is a “retired president of W & J Sloane, Inc.”
1978(9th
of Tishrei, 5739): Erev Yom Kippur
1979(19th
of Tishrei, 5740): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1979(19th
of Tishrei, 5740): Seventy-nine-year-old composer and Cantor David Josef
Puttennan passed away today.
1980(30th
of Tishrei, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1980(30th
of Tishrei, 5741): Eighty-three-year-old Jackson, Mississippi born Reform Rabbi
Julian Beck Feibelman, the longtime spiritual leader of Temple Sinai, New
Orleans leading Reform Congregation passed away today after which he was buried
at the Metairie Cemetery.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0094/ms0094.html
http://crdl.usg.edu/people/f/feibelman_julian_beck_1897/?Welcome
1980:
Private Benjamin, a comedy directed by Howard Zeiff and produced by Nancy
Meyers who helped to write the script and produced by Goldie Hawn who also
starred in the title role was released in theaters across the United States.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/10/1980/goldie-hawn
1982:
The New York Times book
section included a review An Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish Legacy
by Paul Cowan describing the “beautiful and moving account of his search for
his religious and cultural roots.”
1983:
Ruby Myers, who was the Indian actress known as Sulochana passed away today.
http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2011/09/actress-sulochana-real-name-ruby-myers.html
1983:
Israel's Knesset voted 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as Prime Minister.
Shamir was part of the Right Wing Likud and a successor to Menachem Begin.
1983:
Mordechai Tzipori completed his service as Deputy Minister of Defense.
1983:
Haim Meir Drukman “broke away from the NRP and attempted to form a Knesset
faction by the name of Zionist Religious Camp, but was refused permission to do
so by the House Committee.”
1983:
As Israel changed governments, David Levy retained his position as Deputy Prime
Minister.
1984:
In the U.K. premiere of “1984” Michael Radford’s cinematic treatment of George
Orwell’s novel by the same name.
1984:
Birthdate of New York City native Matthew “Matt” Shear the St. John’s College
graduate and actor best known for his role as “Detective Lucius Isaacson” on
TNT’s hit series “The Alienist.”
1985:
U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the
Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken
into custody. This was part of a farce that resulted in the hijackers getting
off without punishment for their murderous act of piracy.
1986:
Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigned. Peres was and is a leader of what
was the original Labor Zionist movement that dominated the governments of
Israel for the first two decades of its existence.
1986:
Jumpin' Jack Flash, a comedy featuring Jon Lovitz was released in the United
States today by 20th Century Fox.
1987:
Birthdate of Danny Rosenbaum who played for Xavier University and was drafted
by the Washington Nationals.
1989:
St. Joseph, MO native and Northwestern University graduate Melvin Floyd Sembler
who “is of Jewish descent” began serving the United States Ambassador to
Australia.
1990(21st
of Tishrei, 5751): Hoshana Rabah
1990(21st
of Tishrei, 5751): Eighty-three-year-old Broadway producer Irene Mayer Selznick
passed at today at the Pierre Hotel in NYC.
(As reported by Eric Pace)
1992(13th
of Tishrei, 5753): Parashat Ha’azinu
1993:
“Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway” a horror film starring Laraine Newman and
featuring Marvin Kaplan was released today by Blue Rider Pictures.
1994(5th
of Cheshvan, 5755): Tzvi Gal-chen, the father of author Rivka Galchen, and a
scientist known for his work on wind and thermodynamic variables passed away
today.
1995(16th
of Tishrei, 5756): Second day of Sukkoth
1995(16th
of Tishrei, 5756): Ninety-year-old Sigmund Jeselsohn, the German born son of
Samuel and Malchen Jeselsohn and husband of Karolina Jeselsohn passed away
today in New York.
1995:
As part of Israel’s agreement with the PLO, two members of the PLO’s former
Jerusalem Committee crossed into Israel from Jordan as a prelude to becoming
Governors of Ramallah and Nablus. Twenty years earlier these same to men had
masterminded the bombing in Zion Square which killed fourteen civilians,
including three Arabs.
1995:
As Israel turned over control of 460 West Bank villages to the Palestinian
Authority, a banner flew over the village of Salfit declaring “Today Salfit,
tomorrow Jerusalem.”
1996:
Yad Vashem decided to recognize Baron Friedrich von Oppenheim as Righteous
Among the Nations
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/oppenheim.asp
1996(27th
of Tishrei, 5757): Ninety-two-year Harry Rosen the founder of Junior’s
Restaurant, home to what some claim is the best cheesecake in the world passed
away today. (As reported by Eric Asimov)
1997(9th
of Tishrei, 5758): Erev Yom Kippur.
1999(30th
of Tishrei, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1999(30th
of Tishrei, 5760): Four days after he passed away, graveside services are
scheduled to be held at Beth Moses Cemetery for Alfred Cohn, the husband of
Joan Cohn with whom he three children – Darcy, Alexandra and Cathy.
1999:
Bruce Fleischer won The Transamerica golf tournament.
1999:
The Sunday New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or on topics related to Judaism including We Can
Report Them by Michael Brodsky, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of
Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss and The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming
Conflict Into Cooperation by Daniel Yankelovich.
2000:
“Two Paris synagogues were set on fire overnight today and one of them
partially destroyed in attacks police fear could be linked to the violence in
the Middle East.”
2001(23rd
of Tishrei, 5762): Simchat Torah
2001:
“Jon Lovitz sang a duet of the song “Well, Did You Evah” at the Royal Albert
Hall.
2001:
First broadcast of season four of “Felicity” a drama star created by J.J.
Abrams and co-starring Greg Grunberg.
2001:
“A Man of Good Fortune” published today tells the story of the Moussaieff
family.
http://www.haaretz.com/a-man-of-good-fortune-1.71559
2002:
Hamas took credit for today bombing at the Bar-Illan interchange on the Geha
Road.
2002:
Richard Blumenthal was awarded the Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service
by the Quinnipiac University School of Law.
2002:
Representative Shelley Berkley of Nevada was among the 81 House Democrats who
voted in favor of authorizing the invasion of Iraq.
2003(14th
of Tishrei, 5764): Erev Sukkoth
2003(14th
of Tishrei, 5764): Sixty-year-old Atara Chana Beile Marmor the daughter of
David Feuerwerker and Taube Rachel Feuerwerker passed away today.
2003(14th
of Tishrei 5764): Eighty-five-year-old Max Rayne the British businessman and
philanthropist who was knighted and later made a life peer so that he was known
as Baron Rayne passed away.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/oct/14/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
http://www.raynefoundation.org.uk/
2003:
Seventy-five-year-old retired dairy William F. “Bill” Schueller, a resident of
Zwingle, IA, an ardent Cubs fan and the husband of the former Eleanor Neyens
whom he married in 1953 and with whom he had four children, Deb, Steve, Liz and
David, passed away today.
2004:
The Sunday New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics
related to Judaism including Harold Blum’s Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
2004:
In an article designed to encourage gardeners to follow proper transplanting
procedures, the Times
of London writes approvingly of the practices of “the great
rhododendron enthusiast Lionel de Rothschild who used to move fully mature
rhododendrons around his garden at his estate.”
2005:
Sociology professor Majd el-Haj was named Haifa University's next dean of
research, making him the first Arab faculty member to serve at the vice
presidential level of an Israeli university.
2005:
With a sigh of great relief the feared Lulav Shortage has been avoided. Thanks
to aggressive action by the Ministry of Agriculture, the sound of shaking frond
will be heard at Sukkah time after all. As part of a long range solution, the
Agriculture ministry will work to encourage domestic production of this
religious necessity. Hopefully, the Israeli will develop a lulav that will not
lose its leaves and an etrog with a stem that UPS cannot break
2006:
H.B.O presents the premiere of The Journalist and the Jihadi: the Murder of
Daniel Pearl.
2006(18th
of Tishrei, 5767): Sixty-eight-year-old “writer, director and producer” Jerry
Belson passed away today.
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2006/10/jerry-belson-1938-2006.html
2007:
In Australia, Richard Pratt was formally accused of price fixing in what would
be that nation’s largest case of its kind.
2007:
The third and final performance of “Idan Raichel Songs for Peace: The Acoustic
Series” takes place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust in New York City.
2007:
Johtje Vos, a modest Dutch woman who saved three dozen Jews during World War II
passed away in Saugerties, NY at the age of 97.
2007:
Nearly 200 Israeli sailors who served in the British Royal Navy during World
War II gathered at the home of the British ambassador to Israel who, together
with Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, awarded them the Veterans Badge to
commemorate the victory over the Nazis.
2007:
Attendees at a conference in Jerusalem hope to revive Ladino.
2007
The New York Times reported that the
Israelis had shared the dossier showing proof of their strike on the Syrian
nuclear reactor in the Deir –ez Zor region with Turkey.
2008:
While in Paris for the, inaugural meeting of the European Council on Tolerance
and Reconciliation - a forum established by European Jewish Congress head Moshe
Kantor and former politicians from 10 European countries whose stated goal is
to further initiatives that promote dialogue and coexistence Aleksander
Kwasniewski, the former president of Poland sat down with The Jerusalem Post to
talk about his own vision of tolerance and the special connection Poland has
with the Jewish people.
2008:
USA network broadcast the first episode of “The Starter Wife” starring Debra
Messing
2009
(22 Tishrei, 5770): Shemini Atzertz
2009:
Drew University hosts lunch and discussion with graphic artist and author David
Stromberg who is also the book review editor for Zeek.
2010(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5771): Ninety two year old Shlomo Eidelberg, the Polish born son
of Rabbi Mordechai Dov Eidelberg, WW II resistance fighter and at the time of
his death Professor Emertius of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New
York passed away today.
https://biblio.co.uk/the-jews-and-the-crusaders-by-eidelberg-shlomo/work/2165583
2010:
As part of Sigid, the Ethiopian Jewish Festival and Dance Performance is
scheduled to take place at the 92nd Street Y. “
2010:
The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Nemesis by Phillip Roth, Final Verdict: What
Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case by Walter Schneir and The
Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb by Allen
M. Hornblum
2010:
The Los Angeles Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Great House by Nicole Krauss
2010:
Earth: A Visitors Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart, the fake
newsman who was the subject of an anti-Semitic diatribe earlier in the week
tops the October 10 LA Times Best Seller List.
2010:
Cabinet ministers today approved by a majority vote a controversial amendment
which would require every non-Jew wishing to become a citizen of Israel to
pledge loyalty to "the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic
state."
2010:
Israeli artists, writers and intellectuals held a demonstration today against
the cabinet's approval of a controversial amendment to the citizenship bill,
requiring non-Jews seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a
Jewish and democratic state.
2010:
During today’s radio show, Glen “Beck described how Soros, who was born in
Hungary to Orthodox Jewish parents, ‘used to go around with this anti-Semite
and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them
off. And George Soros was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff. It
was frightening. Here’s a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death
camps.’” [This statement would draw a response from ADL national director Abe
Foxman who released a statement slamming the Fox News commentator's criticism
of Soros.]
2011:
Aluf Ram Rothberg assumed command of the Israeli Navy.
2011:
The Lo Tishkach Foundation is scheduled to sponsor memorial services in the
Ukrainian town of Tarascha in honor of the Jews who were slaughtered there in
1941 during World War II.
2011:
Center for Jewish History and Center for Traditional Music and Dance are
scheduled to present The Hidden Musical Treasures of Romania –A Fulbright
Scholar’s Quest a program that explores “the deep roots that connect Romanian
music and klezmer music.”
2012:
A reception sponsored by the Hebrew Union is scheduled for tonight to mark the
opening of “The Sexuality Spectrum,” “a groundbreaking exploration of sexual
orientation through the creativity of over fifty international contemporary
artists.”
2012:
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and The Israel
Project is scheduled to present “A Presidential Candidate Surrogate Debate
featuring Congressman Robert Wexler, representing the Democrats and Under
Secretary Dov Zakheim representing the Republicans.
2012:
Robert Lefkowitz, a Jewish physician and biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in
chemistry with Brian Kobilka, a Stanford University researcher. Lefkowitz, 61,
and Kobilka, 57, won for “groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner
workings of an important family ... of receptors: G-protein-coupled receptors,”
a posting on the website of the Nobel Prize stated.today. Understanding how
these receptors function helped further explain how cells could sense their
environment, according to the text. They will share a $1.2 million grant from
the Nobel Prize Committee.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/science/2-american-scientists-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry.html?hp
2012:
French police found an explosives lab that they say was used by a
"jihadist cell" in the bombing of a kosher store near Paris.
2012: The exhibition, “Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920-1960,”
which has been on displayed at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in
Ramat Gan, is scheduled to come to an end.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iconic-posters-of-a-nation-under-construction/
2012: The National Book Award
finalists announced today included Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe
by Anne Applebaum and The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by
Joseph Caro
2013: In the best sense of
Tikun Olam, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host “Interfaith Gathering for Prayer
and Sharing co-sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Johnson
County and the Consultation of Religious Communities of Johnson County.
2013: Temple Judah in Cedar
Rapids is scheduled to host the first in a series of lectures “Engaging Israel,
Foundations for a New Relationships”
2013: The JCC of Northern
Virginia is scheduled to sponsor the Middle East Forum on “Iran – The Nuclear
Threat and Implications for the Greater Middle East.”
2013: Arkadi Zaides, an
independent choreographer born in the Soviet Union in 1979, who immigrated to
Israel in 1990, is scheduled to perform his interpretation of “Dig Deep” in New
York City.
2013: “In a display of
muscle-flexing to Tehran ahead of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers,
Israel made a rare announcement today that its air force had conducted a series
of drills in which fighter aircraft practiced midair refueling and a simulated
strike on a distant target.” (As reported by Gavriel Fiske)
2013(6th of
Cheshvan, 5774): Colonel (Res.) Seraiah Ofer was killed in an attack outside
his home in the Jordan Valley settlement of Brosh Habika at 10 P.M. tonight and
his wife Monique was moderately wounded,
but managed to escape and contact police. (As reported by Chaim Levinson, Gili
Cohen and Eli Ashkenazi)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.551845
2013: The clandestine World War II work of champion cyclist Gino Bartali was
recognized today when a ceremony was held in Jerusalem to mark his help in
rescuing Jews in his native Italy. (As reported by Andrew Dampf)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/italian-cycling-legend-gino-bartali-honored-by-yad-vashem/
2014(16th of Tishrei, 5775): Second day of
Sukkoth
2014: Moishe House, OJMCHE and MJCC are scheduled to bring
you a party under the sukkah canopies in NW Portland, with live music, beer and
great vegetarian food as part of Shabbat in the Sukkah.
2014: Professor Robert Cargill is scheduled to deliver a
lecture on the Book of Ecclesiastes at Agudas Achim in Coralville, Iowa.
2014: “A Jewish girl is among some 100 girls and young
women from France who have left to join jihad fighters in Syria in recent
months, a French intelligence official said today.”
2014: “Israel beat Cyprus in Nicosia 2-1 to successfully
open its UEFA European Championship qualifying campaign today.”
2014: In Israel, Channel 2 reported today “the United
Nations last month secured the release of 45 Fijian peacekeeping soldiers,
kidnapped on the Syrian side of Golan Heights by the Nusra Front, through the
payment of a $25 million ransom by Qatar.”
(As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2015: Today, shortly before 11 a.m., a 16-year-old Arab
stabbed two Jewish men in their 60s some 150 meters from Damascus Gate, leaving
them moderately and lightly wounded followed by a second attack at
approximately 3 p.m when a 19-year-old Palestinian stabbed two officers from
the police’s Special Patrol Unit near Damascus Gate.
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The
Best of Chamber Music” featuring the Elysee String Quartet from France.
2015: The Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host a
“members only” opening of “Paul Simon, Words & Music, featuring The Guthrie
Brothers.”
2015: The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is
scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Rosenwald”
2015: The Vertigo Dance Company is scheduled to appear at
The Performing Arts Center in NYC.
https://tickets.artscenter.org/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=5526
2016: In London, JWE and UKJF are scheduled to host a
screening of “Anthropoid” a cinema version about the mission to assassinate
Nazi General Reynhard Heydrich.
2016: ‘In the predawn hours, Israeli troops conduct a
raid at Azzun as part of their campaign to “rid the West Bank of arms used by
terrorists including “the Carlo” a crude but effective “handmade submachine
gun.”
2016: At the London Jewish Cultural Centre Sir Ralph Kohn is
scheduled to “discuss his new book, Recital of a Lifetime with Jewish
historian Trudy Gold.
2016: “The Accountant” a crime thriller with a twist
co-starring Jeffrey Tambor premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los
Angeles.
2016(8th of Tishrei, 5777):
Oliver Hart, a member of the distinguished Montagu family, was one of
two economists awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science today for
“insights into how best to write contracts, the deal deals that bind together
employers and their workers, or companies and their customers.”
2017(20th of Tishrei, 5778): Sukkoth
Chol Ha’moed;
2017: Today, “The State Department announced a
$7 million reward for information about Talal Hamiyah, who runs Hezbollah's
External Security Organization, and $5 million for information about Fu'ad
Shukr, a senior operative who helped plan the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine
barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.” (As reported by Jeff Seldin)
2017: The three Solomon’s Pools near Bethlehem
which were built by Herod that “provided water to Jerusalem and the Second
Temple” are to be restored in a $750,000 project funded by the United States,
officials said today.”
2017: Today, “Ehud Barak, the former Israeli
leader known for his hawkish views on Iran, said it would be a “mistake” for
President Trump to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, both because it would play
to Iran’s advantage and because it would scuttle any hope of a negotiation with
North Korea.” (As reported by Mark Landler.
2017: Today Tens of thousands of participants from 80
different countries took part in the annual march in Jerusalem marking the 50th
anniversary of the city's unification.
2017: The Chaplains at Oxford are scheduled to host “Pizza
in the Hut” for Sukkoth
2017: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of
“In Between” a film about “three young Arab-Israeli women” sharing “a flat in
Tel Aviv.
2017: “Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America”
which “was created by the Jewish usuem of Maryland in Baltimore and includes
more than 200 artifacts and phots and documents” opened at the Maltz Museum of
Jewish Heritage in Beachwood, Ohio.
2018(15th of Tishrei): On the secular
calendar, Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller, beloved husband of Eleanor
Schueller, father of Deb Levin, father-in-law of Mitchell Levin and dairy
farmer “par excellence.”
2018:
As part of the “Who We Are” film series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to
host a screening of a film about “the private side of playwright Arthur Miller”
followed by a discussion with is daughter Rebeca Miller and the film’s
producers.
2018: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled
to host “On Radical Jewish Female Voices In Eastern Europe, a lecture by
Professor Elissa Bemporad and Professor Natalia Aleksium that “will examine the
dynamics of Jewish women’s entry into politics in modern Eastern Europe.”
2018(1st of
Cheshvan, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2019: Today Jews around the
world are left to wonder what 5780 will actually be like in the wake of the
armed attack on a German synagogue filled with those attending Yom Kippur
services yesterday.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to
host three screenings of “Curtiz” one of which will take place in Glasgow.
2019: The Oxford University
Jewish Society is scheduled to host a “special pub meet up this evening at the
Oxford Retreat for all Brookes Jewish freshers.”
2019: Israeli pianist and
the Shanghai Quartet are scheduled to perform at the Elebash Recital Hall.
2019(15th of
Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller,
beloved husband of Eleanor Schueller, father of Deb Levin, father-in-law of
Mitchell Levin and dairy farmer “par excellence.”
2020(22nd of Tishrei, 5781): Shmini Atzeret
2020: In Bexley, OH, Tiftereth Israel is scheduled start
celebrating Simchat Torah with around of Israelis Dancing, a socially distanced
invent in the TI parking lot.
2020: Kol HaLev, “Cleveland’s Reconstructionist Jewish
Community is scheduled to begin celebrating Simchat Torah at seven this
evening.
2020: Via Zoom, Temple Judea in Palm Beach Gardens is
scheduled to host Torah Study with Rabbi Yaron Kapitulnik
2021: The American Sephardi
Federation is scheduled to present the Mizrahi Dance Series with Jackie Barzvi.
2021: At the Jacob Burns Film
Center, the Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the first screening of
“Breaking Bread.”
2021: The London School of
Jewish Studies is scheduled to host an innovative educational event “Noah on
Trial.”
https://www.lsjs.ac.uk/noah-on-trial-1521.php
2021: The dedication of the
gravestone of Diane Levin of blessed memory, the wife of Steve Levin is
scheduled to take place at Shalom Memorial Park in Arlington Heights, IL this
morning.
2021: Members of the Cedar
Rapids Jewish community are scheduled to travel to Kansas City to see the
exhibition at Union Station “Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away.
2021: Sukkah City x DC, a
public display of creative of Sukkahs which had been extended for another week
is scheduled to come to a close today.
2022(15th of
Tishrei, 5783): Sukkoth;
2022(15th of Tishrei, 5783): On the Jewish
calendar, Yahrzeit William F. “Bill” Schueller, the husband of Eleanor
Schueller and the father of Deb Levin Z”L, Steven Schueller, Elizabeth “Liz”
Schueller and Paul Schueller.
2022: The IDF shut down of borders crossing is scheduled to
end today at 11:59 p.m.
2022: In Jerusalem, visitors will have their
first chance to “sit” in what “is reportedly the largest sukkah in the world at
Jerusalem City Hall, coming in at 800 square meters and with room for 650
guests.”
2022: The “Skolnik Family Sukkot Celebration” is scheduled
to begin this afternoon at the home of Tifereth Israel’s Rabbi Skolnik in
Columbus, OH.
2023: For those who cannot make it in-person, the Museum at
Eldrige Street is scheduled to host a “Virtual Tour of the Lower East Side”
this evening.
2023: In New Orleans, the Jewish Endowment Foundation
Executive Committee is scheduled to meet today.
2023: As part of its “Women on the Move” series, the
Streicker Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Ann Napoltiano, author of Hello
Beautiful.
2023: In an example of Tikun Olam, members of Temple Judea
are scheduled to gather to “make sandwiches for the food insecure.”
2023: Because of an order issued by Gov. Kim Reynolds all
flags in Iowa have been lowered to
half-staff and will remain at half-staff until sunset on Sunday, October 15,
2023, to honor the lives lost – including at least nine Americans – in the
horrific attacks committed against Israel by Iran-backed terrorist organization
Hamas.”
2023: As October 10 begins in Israel, the
country is dealing with a cascade of problems including, but not limited to,
threats by Hamas to kill the hostages they have taken, attacks from Lebanon and
rocket attacks near Jerusalem while the United States must deal with the
reality that American citizens have been killed and taken hostage by Hamas.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are
just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024: The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Margaret Polizos Peterson on “Holocaust
Survivors and the Long Shadow of Trauma.”
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a lecture by Judge Dennis Davis on “The Music of Yom Kippur: Its Potential for
Healing and Inspiration.”
2024: In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book, led
by Nancy Margulis is schedule to “discuss All My Mother's Lovers by
Ilana Masad.”
2024: In San Francisco, City Arts and Lectures
is scheduled to present Israeli-born British chef, restaurateur and food writer
Yotam Ottolenghi who is scheduled to discuss his new book Comfort and
leads a cooking demonstration with audience participation.
2024: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host a concert by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble, founded in 2005 by
pianists Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky, performing “The Expressive Piano
Trios of Brahams, Mendelssohn and More.”
2024: As part of the Cathy and Morris Bart
Jewish Cultural Art Series: Lecture & Photo Exhibit, Erez Kaganovitz,
photojournalist, TEDx speaker and the human behind the "Humans of Tel
Aviv", "Humans of Israel”, and "Humans of the Holocaust"
projects are scheduled to speak about his most recent exhibit "Humans of
October 7" at the New Orleans JCC to commemorate the one-year memorial of
October 7th.
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
“Elizabeth Naftali Interviewed by Carly Maisel: Saving Abigail: The Story from
October 7, Her 51 Days in Captivity and the Continuing Work to Release the
Remaining 101 Hostages.”
2024: As October 10th begins in the Middle East, Israel is
confronted with fighting a four-front-war following the attacks from Iran. (Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024: As October 10th begins in Israel, an unprecedented
wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist
passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States
and the Hamas held hostages begin day 370 in captivity while Jerusalem braces
for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah
(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)
