This Day, October 15, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 15
586
BCE (16th of Cheshvan, 3176): King Zedekiah was blinded and taken
into captivity. He was the last king of Judea. Zedekiah’s
("Tzidkiyahu") original name was Matanya. He was torn between the two
great powers of Egypt and Babylon. Unfortunately, Egypt under Hopra was no match
for Nebuchadnezzar who pushed out the Egyptians and laid siege to Jerusalem.
Zedekiah tried to flee from Jerusalem but was captured along with his sons in
Jericho. He ended his life in a Babylonian prison.
412:
Theophilius passed away clearing the way for Cyril an anti-Semite who had
incited a Greek mob to kill Jew to become Patriarch of Alexandria.
912:
Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba passed away. Abdullah passed away just
when Cordoba was on the brink of becoming a major center of Jewish culture and
learning. Menahem ben Sharuk, the great
grammarian was two years old when the Emir passed away and Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
would not be born until three years after his birth. The rise of Cordoba as a Jewish center
coincided with its reemergence as a power on the Iberian Peninsula.
958:
Toda Aznarez, “known as Toda of Pamplona” who became queen of Pamplona because
of her marriage to Sancho I to whom the Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III sent his
Jewish physician Hasdai ibn Shaprut so he could “cure”
961:
Abd al-Rahman III “the political and the religious leader of all the Muslims in
al-Andalus, as well as the protector of his Christian and Jewish subjects”
passed away today.
1218:
Birthdate of Hulagu Khan, the Mongol rule who conquered Palestine in 1260 who
showed toleration to all three major religions – Jews, Christians and Moslems –
and whose invasion of Persia in 1255 led to the creation of the Ilkhanate, a
portion of the Mongol Empire where much to the relief of the Jews “the rulers
abolished the inequality of dhimmis, and all religions were deemed equal.”
1485:
At Soncino, Italy, Joshua Solomon Soncino printed “The Former Prophets” with a
commentary by Kimhi. [Kimihi probably
refers to David Kimihi, the 13th century rabbi known as RaDak. But it cannot be said with certitude that it
does not refer to his father Rabbi Joesph Kimhi and his brother Rabbi Moses
Kimhi.] The Soncinos were a family of Sephardic Jews who had begun operating
printing presses in the town of Soncino, Italy in 1483. Yes the town was the inspiration for the last
name.
1582:
Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland,
Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year was followed directly by October
15. The change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar helps to explain the
challenge in matching dates on the Hebrew calendar with the dates on the civil
calendar.
1585:
Birthdate of Louis Cappel, the French Huguenot Scholar “accepted the chair of
Hebrew at Samur” at the age of 28 who “made a special study of the history of
the Hebrew text, which led him to the conclusion that the vowel points and
accents are not an original part of the Hebrew language, but had been inserted
by the Massorete Jews of Tiberias, no earlier than the 5th century.”
1655(Tishrei,
5416): The Jews of Lublin, Poland were massacred
1733:
Birthdate of Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal the native of Hebron who is reported
to have been the first rabbi to visit the colonies that would become the United
States of America.
1737:
After a slave denounced them to the Holy Office, Portuguese dramatist António
José da Silva and his wife “were both imprisoned on the charge of ‘judaizing’”
1739(15th
of Tishrei, 5500): António José da Silva “was garroted and burnt at a Lisbon
auto-da-fe.” Born in 1705, he “was a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as
"the Jew" (O Judeu)”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/da_Silva.html
1742:
Lea Eleonora Oppenheimer, the wife of Wolf Wertheimer ben Simon passed away
today in Vienna.
1759:
In London, Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore, the Livorno, Tlay born daughter of
Judah Montefiore and her husband Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore Medina gave birth
to Joseph Elias Montefiore
1763:
Merchant Hayman M. Levy, the Hanover, Germany born son of Reyna and Moses Levy
and his wife Sloe Levy gave birth to Isaac M. Levy.
1764:
Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of
Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In his classic history of the Roman
Empire, Gibbon had the following to say about the Jewish people. (Editor’s
Note: This long entry has been included to help readers decide if Gibbon was an
anti-Semite in the sense that we understand that term. Also, by reading Gibbon you may gain a
greater understanding of the variety of views held by English men women when it
comes to the Jewish people. After all,
this is designed as a learning experience, not just a collection of dates.
In
Chapter XVI, Gibbon wrote:
“Rebellious
Spirit of the Jews: Without repeating what has been already mentioned of the
reverence of the Roman princes and governors for the temple of Jerusalem, we
shall only observe that the destruction of the temple and city was accompanied
and followed by every circumstance that could exasperate the minds of the
conquerors, and authorize religious persecutions by the most specious arguments
of political justice and the public safety. From the reign of Nero to that of
Antonius Pius, the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome,
which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections.
Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which they committed
in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in
treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives;(1) and we are tempted to
applaud the severe retaliation which was exercised by the arms of the legions
against a race of fanatics whose dire and credulous superstition seemed to
render them the implacable enemies not only of the Roman government, but of
human kind. The enthusiasm of the Jews was supported by the opinion that it was
unlawful for them to pay taxes to an idolatrous master, and by the flattering
promise which they derived from their ancient oracles, that a conquering
Messiah would soon arise, destined to break their fetters, and to invest the
favorites of heaven with the empire of the earth. It was by announcing himself
as their long-expected deliverer, and by calling on all the descendants of
Abraham to assert the hope of Israel, that the famous Barchochebas collected a
formidable army, with which he resisted during two years the power of the
emperor Hadrian
Toleration
of the Jewish Religion: Notwithstanding these repeated provocations, the
resentment of the Roman princes expired after the victory, nor were their
apprehensions continued beyond the period of war and danger. By the general
indulgence of Polytheism, and by the mild temper of Antonius Pius, the Jews
were restored to their ancient privileges, and once more obtained the
permission of circumcising their children, with the easy restraint that they
should never confer on any foreign proselyte that distinguishing mark of the
Hebrew race.(4) The numerous remains of that people, though they were still
excluded from the precincts of Jerusalem, were permitted to form and to
maintain considerable establishments both in Italy and in the provinces, to
acquire the freedom of Rome, to enjoy municipal honors, and to obtain at the
same time an exemption from the burdensome and expensive offices of society.
The moderation or the contempt of the Romans gave a legal sanction to the form
of ecclesiastical policy which was instituted by the vanquished sect. The
patriarch, who had fixed his residence at Tiberias, was empowered to appoint
his subordinate ministers and apostles, to exercise a domestic jurisdiction,
and to receive from his dispersed brethren an annual contribution. New
synagogues were frequently erected in the principal cities of the empire; and
the Sabbaths, the fasts, and the festivals, which were either commanded by the
Mosaic law or enjoined by the traditions of the Rabbis, were celebrated in the
most solemn and public manner. Such gentle treatment insensibly assuaged the
stern temper of the Jews. Awakened from their dream of prophecy and conquest,
they assumed the behavior of peaceable and industrious subjects. Their
irreconcilable hatred of mankind, instead of flaming out in acts of blood and
violence, evaporated in less dangerous gratifications. They embraced every
opportunity of over-reaching the idolaters in trade, and they pronounced secret
and ambiguous imprecations against the haughty kingdom of Edom.
The
Jews Were A People Which Followed The Christians, a Sect Which Deserted the
Religion of Their Fathers: Since the Jews, who rejected with abhorrence the
deities adored by their sovereign and by their fellow-subjects, enjoyed,
however, the free exercise of their unsocial religion, there must have existed
some other cause which exposed the disciples of Christ to those severities from
which the posterity of Abraham was exempt. The difference between them is
simple and obvious, but, according to the sentiments of antiquity, it was of
the highest importance. The Jews were a nation, the Christians were a sect: and
if it was natural for every community to respect the sacred institutions of
their neighbors, it was incumbent on them to persevere in those of their
ancestors. The voice of oracles, the precepts of philosophers, and the
authority of the laws, unanimously enforced this national obligation. By their
lofty claim of superior sanctity the Jews might provoke the Polytheists to
consider them as an odious and impure race. By disdaining the intercourse of
other nations they might deserve their contempt. The laws of Moses might be for
the most part frivolous or absurd yet, since they had been received during many
ages by a large society, his followers were justified by the example of
mankind, and it was universally acknowledged that they had a right to practice
what it would have been criminal in them to neglect. But this principle, which
protected the Jewish synagogue, afforded not any favor or security to the primitive
church. By embracing the faith of the Gospel the Christians incurred the
supposed guilt of an unnatural and unpardonable offence. They dissolved the
sacred ties of custom and education, violated the religious institutions of
their country, and presumptuously despised whatever their fathers had believed
as true or had reverenced as sacred. Nor was this apostasy (if we may use the
expression) merely of a partial or local kind; since the pious deserter who
withdrew himself from the temples of Egypt or Syria would equally disdain to
seek an asylum in those of Athens or Carthage. Every Christian rejected with
contempt the superstitions of his family, his city, and his province. The whole
body of Christians unanimously refused to hold any communion with the gods of
Rome, of the empire, and of mankind. It was in vain that the oppressed believer
asserted the inalienable rights of conscience and private judgment. Though his
situation might excite the pity, his arguments could never reach the
understanding, either of the philosophic or of the believing part of the Pagan
world. To their apprehensions it was no less a matter of surprise that any
individuals should entertain scruples against complying with the established
mode of worship than if they had conceived a sudden abhorrence to the manners,
the dress, or the language of their native country.
1765(30th
of Tishrei, 5526): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan was observed while the Stamp Act
Congress was meeting in New York City.
1769(14th
of Sukkoth, 5530): Erev Sukkoth observed as Captain Cook explores New Zealand,
a heretofore unknown land mass to westerners.
1769:
Figlah Levy, the daughter of Jacob Levy married Joseph Simon today.
1775(21st
of Tishrei, 5536): Hoshana Raba
1780(16th
of Tishrei, 5541): Second Day of Sukkoth
1780:
Birthdate of Eva Meijer, the sister of Abraham David Meijer and Jonas Daniel
Meijer, the first Jewish lawyer in the Netherlands and a leader in the fight to
gain full rights for all Dutch Jews.
1786(23rd
of Tishrei, 5547): Simchat Torah
1787:
In the Netherlands, the Jews of Amersfort including Benjamin Cohen celebrated
today as a holiday because the Orange forces liberated the town.
1788(14th
of Tishrei, 5549): Erev Sukkoth on the same day that “Observations on
Jefferson’s Draft of a Constitution for Virginia” was published.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-11-02-0216
1790:
In Germany “Frommet Weil” and David Hirsch Lindauer gave birth to Bessie
Lindauer. The wife of Isaac Frank and the mother of Asher and Gitel Frank.
1794(21st
of Tishrei, 5555):Hashanah Rabah
1795:
Frederick William III and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz gave Fredrick William
IV who took steps to implement his medieval conception of a corporationist
"Christian state” and who “succeeded in passing the 1847 Jewry
constitution which recognized the corporate status of individual Jewish
communities.”
1799:
In Schmieheim, Bessia and Samuel Levi Rosenstiel gave birth to Baruch
Rosenstiel, the “husband of Zipora Rosenstiel and Marie Mariam Rosenstiel and father
of Babette Rosenstiel; Samuel Rosenstiel; Salomon Rosenstiel; Eva Rosenstiel;
Helene Rosenstiel; Emanuel Rosenstiel; Isaak Rosenstiel; Fanny Auerbacher;
Leopold Rosenstiel; Zechiel Rosenstiel; Heinrich Rosenstiel and Sigmund
Rosenstiel.”
1809:
In Mecklenburg, Jacob H. Marcus and his wife Judy Levi gave birth German lawyer
and political leader Lewis Jacob Marcus.
1809:
Birthdate of Friedrich A. Philippi, the son of a wealth Jewish banker who
converted to Christianity following a pattern similar to that of the
Mendelssohn family with which he was friends.
1810(17th
of Tishrei, 5571): Third
Day
of Sukkoth
1818(15th
of Tishrei, 5579): Sukkoth
1818:
In Vilna, “merchant and torah scholar Yitshak Asik Fuenn and his wife gave
birth to Shmuel Yosef Fin; a/k/a
Samuel
Joseph Fuenn also known as Rashi Fuenn (רש״י פין) and Rashif (רשי״ף), “a
Lithuanian Hebrew writer, scholar, printer, and editor. He was a leading figure
of the eastern European Haskalah, and an early member of Ḥovevei Zion who was
the father of University of St. Petersburg trained physician Dr. Benajmin Isaac
Fueen.”
1819(30th
of Tishrei, 5580) Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1819(30th
of Tishrei, 5580): Seventy-seven-year-old Alexander Zunz “a Hessian Jew who
came to the Thirteen Colonies as part of the British Army that occupied New
York and who served as Chazan for Shearith Israel while deciding to stay in the
newly created United States where he was a leading member of the New York
business and Jewish community passed away today.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zuntz-alexander
1821:
Birthdate of German poet Moritz Hartmann.
Hartmann was as well known for his political activities as for his
poetry. He was a liberal and took part
in the revolutions that rocked Europe in the 1840’s. “Hartmann's poems are often lacking in
genuine poetical feeling, but the love of liberty which inspired them, and the
fervor, ease and clearness of their style compensated for these shortcomings
and gained for him a wide circle of admirers.”
1824(23rd
of Tishrei, 5585): Simchat Torah
1824:
In Mt. Pleasant, NY, Charity and Jacob da Silva Solis gave birth toSarah Miriam
Carvalho, the wife of Solomon Nunes Carvalho.
1826(14th
of Tishrei, 5587): Erev Sukkoth observed on the same that U.S. generals Thomas
Hinds and John Coffee were attempting to meet with members of the Chickasaw and
Choctaw nations on their ceding their land in Mississippi.
1828:
Five days after he had passed away, Joseph Moses, the son Mordecai Moses, was
buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1829(18th
of Tishrei, 5590): Chol HaMoed Sukkoth
1829(18th
of Tishrei, 5590): Twenty-year-old Hindel Henriette Warburg passed away today.
1830:
In London, Rachel and Aaron Cohen gave birth to Samuel Cohen, the husband of
Rosetta Menser, who migrated to New South Wales in 1853 after which he
established a successful business at Ulmarra where he also served as Mayor
before returning to Sydney where he served on the Board of Management of the
Great Synagogue, the Jewish Board of Education and as President of the Sir
Moses Montefiore Jewish Home.
1830:
In Lee, Essex, England Samuel Solomon, the brother of Henry Solomon and his wife gave birth
Philip Samuel Solomon, the husband of Catherine Cohen whom he married in Sydney
Australia in 1853 and with whom he had
four children – David, Maurice Edith and Ernest – who became “Attorney General of the Fiji Islands,
a member of the Fiji Legislative Council and editor the Figi Times” who also
“served as the lay cantor for the small
Jewish community of the small Jewish community on Fiji” and held Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur services in his own home. (Sir Martin Gilbert 60)
1831:
Myer Benjamin was appointed to serve as a Quartermaster in Jamaica.
1831:
In Alsace-Lorraine, Rabbi Mayer L. Eppstein and his wife gave birth to Elias
Eppstein, the Bonn trained student of Rabbi Mertzig and author of “Confirmant’s
Guide” and “Bible Evens” who served as rabbi at congregations “in Jackson,
Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kansas City, Missouri and
Philadelphia, before settling in at Congregation B’nai Shalom in Quincy,
Illinois.
1833:
In Wurttemberg, Germany, Bernhard Frankfurter, the son of Mirjam Landauer and
Moses Levi Frankfurter and Esther Frank gave birth to Wilhelmina Frankfurter
1834:
In Germany, Auguste Schlesinger and Loeb Adler gave birth to future Chicago
resident Leopold Adler, the husband of Rose Adler and the “father of Isaac H.
Adler; Bertha Strauss; Harriet Wile; Manasseh Max Adler; Abraham H. Adler;
Louise B. Meyer and Leo Adler.”
1835(22nd
of Tishrei, 5596): Shemini Atzeret
1837(16th
of Tishrei, 5598): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Martin Van Buren.
1840:
In “Chorlton,” Fredericka and Henry MIcholls gave birth to Annette Micholls.
1841:
Isaac-Lyon Goldsmid, Esq. “was created a baronet” today after which he was made
Baron de Goldsmid and de Palmeira in Portugal.
1843(21st
of Tishrei, 5604): Hoshana Rabah
1843:
Three days after he had passed away, Solomon Rees, the son of Nathan Rees and
the husband of Elizabeth Rees with whom he had three children – Abraham, Philip
and Maria – was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1844:
In Kuinre, Netherlands, Mozes Jesajas de Vries and Henderina-Henderika de Vries
gave birth to Judikje de Vries.
1844:
Birthdate of Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher. According to some
Nietzsche was an anti-Semite. In
reality, his big complaint against Judaism was that it gave rise to
Christianity. Nietzsche’s sister and
brother-in-law were anti-Semites.
Nietzsche did not approve of them or their politics. However, the Nazis misrepresented his
beliefs. After Nietzsche’s death, his
sister became the keeper of his literary estate, and she was only too glad to
bend it to fit Hitler’s will.
1845(14th
of Tishrei, 5606): Erev Sukkoth
1845: Isaac Leeser “hazzan of
Congregation K.K. Mikveh Israel married Solomon Nunes Carvalho and Sarah Miriam
Solis today in Philadelphia
1846(25th
of Tishrei, 5607): Philadelphian Isaac Jacob Levy, the husband of Hester Polock
passed away today.
1849:
Three days after he had passed away, Bohemian born Nathan Altman, the husband
of “Brina” Altman with whom he had two children – Sampson and Michael – was
buried today in the “PlymouthHoe Burial Ground.”
1850:
In Philadelphia, Judith Simha Cohen the Wilmington, DE daughter of Charity and
Jacob da Silva Solas and her husband of Myer David Cohen gave birth to David
Solis Cohen.
1851:
Founding of Shaare Brocho whose members
included Rabbi Gabriel Hirsh, Nathan Weill, Emil Boris, Herbert Dahlman, and
Jacob Dankel.
1851:
In Jamaica, Caroline Munt Braham, the Santa Cruz born daughter of Sarah and
Joseph Alexandre Lindo and her husband John Richmond Braham gave birth to Arnold
Mitchell Braham who died at the age of 13.
1852(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5613): Eighty-three year old Canadian businessman, Moses Hart, the Trois-Rivières born
son Aaron Hart and Dorothea Judah, brother of Ezekiel Hart and the
father of Alexander Thomas Hart whom he had adopted passed away today.
1852:
Seventy-four year old Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, one of the “fathers modern
gymnastics” who gained infamy in English-speaking countries through the
publication of Peter Viereck's Metapolitics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind in which he claimed Jahn was the spiritual
founder of Nazism” – a claim that was disputed by “Jacques Barzun who observed that Viereck's portrait of cultural
trends supposedly leading to Nazism was "a caricature without
resemblance" relying on "misleading shortcuts.”
1854(23rd
of Tishrei, 5615): Simchat Torah
1855: The New
York Times reported that Mlle. Rachel has returned from performing in
Boston and is scheduled at the Academy of Music on nights when the opera is not
being performed. Mademoiselle Rachel is Elizabeth-Rachel Félix, the daughter of
Alsatian Jews who was prominent actress as well as the mistress to prominent
Europeans including at least one member of Napoleon I’s family.
1856(16th
of Tishrei, 5617): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Franklin Pierce.
1859(17th
of Tishrei, 5620): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1859:
Birthdate of “Austrian physician, medical author and dramatist” Alois Pick who
joined the Austrian Army as a regimental surgeon in 1905 and later served as
the chief physician at the Army Hospital in Vian and assistant professor of the
University Vienna.
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1861:
At their regular meeting, which was held today, the Board of Councilmen (of New
York City) examined a report from the Board Alderman that favored donating
thirty thousand dollars to the Hebrew Benevolent Association “, for the
erection of a building for the poor and orphans of that persuasion.” It was
opposed by Mr. Lent who contended that the city had already done its share by
donating the land on which the building was to be erected. The donation was
supported by Mr. Barney, who proposed that the money should be paid in
installments based on the progress of construction without more than 25 per
cent to be paid at any one time. Following further discussion, the whole
subject was referred to the Finance Committee.
1861:
Philadelphian Samuel Goodman began serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in
Company P of the 28th Regiment.
1861:
Jacob Hassler, who rose to the rank of First Sergeant, began a four year hitch
with Company D of the 92nd Regiment of the Ninth Cavalry.
1862(21st
of Tishrei, 5623): Hoshana Rabah
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/09/16/88456696.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1862:
Birthdate of Odessa native Benjamin Calechman, the husband of the former Miriam
Markman and father of Samuel Calechman.
1863:
Michael Simeon married August Phillips today.
1863:
The Board of Alderman met today and adopted the Report of Committee on
Donations and Charities that appropriate steps be taken to ensure that a lot
adjacent to the Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew Benevolent Society would become the
property of the Hebrew Benevolent Society.
1863:
Three days after she had passed away, Lydia Bauman, a toddler who was the
daughter of David and Sarah Bauman was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1864(15th
of Tishrei, 5625): First Day of Sukkoth observed as Union forces conduct raids
to deny Confederates supplies during the Siege of Petersburg.
1866:
In Merkine (Meretz), Hinde Bernstein and Isaac Margolis gave birth to Max
Leopold Margolis the Lithuanian-born American philologist whose accomplishments
included serving as “editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society's
translation of the Bible into English, the finished product being published in
1917.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13280.html
1867(16th
of Tishrei, 5628): Second Day of Sukkoth
1867(16th
of Tishrei, 5628): Eighty-one-year-old Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish
scholar Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport the son of Rabbi Aharon Hayim Rappaport,
the husband of Franziska Freide Heller, the daughter of the well-known Aryeh
Leib Heller whose “work on Saadia Gaon earned him recognition in the scholarly
world and gained him many enthusiastic friends including Samuel David Luzzatto”
passed away today.
1867:
In New York, Fredericka and Simon Guggenheimer gave birth to Alfred S.
Guggenheimer, the “husband of Rebecca E. Guggenheimer and father of Claire
Guggenheimer Schlesinger Friend and Robert A. Guggenheimer” who was a prominent
Jewish philanthropist, “president of the United Manufacturing Company, vice
president of the Fiberloid Corporation and director of the home for Hebrew Infants
at Kingsbridge Road and University Avenue.
1869:
Ralph Peixotto and his wife gave birth to American painter Ernest Peixotto. who
“studied at the Académie Julien in Paris for five years under Benjamin Constant
and Jules Lefèbvre.” After which his work was exhibited in the Paris Salon and the
1893 Columbian Exposition.
1871(30th
of Tishrei, 5632) Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1871:
“English Jews” published today reported that the Jews of the United Kingdom are
“divided into two sects- orthodox and reformers.” The Orthodox are led by Dr.
Nathan Marcus Adler, the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom who delivered a
sermon declaring “that the oral law and written law are equally Divine. The Reform or Liberal Jews are led by
Professor David Woolf Marx. A smaller
group, they use a synagogue in Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square. Their numbers are described as “very small”
and “the services lifeless.” According
to four speeches given by Professor Marx, the Reform believe in the
“sufficiency of the law of Moses as the guide of Israel.” The article goes on to describe, in some
detail, the Jewish dietary laws and Sabbath, which it finds a joyful in event.
In the end, among English Jews, their ritual is “little better than an empty
shell.” For example, Jews pray for next year in Jerusalem but would not move if
given a chance to down and Jews pray for blessings on the Royal Family while
ignoring the Parliament yet most Jews are Liberals.
1871:
Following yesterday’s Shabbat sermon in which Rabbi J.J. Lyons made an appeal
for financial aid for those who have suffered during the Great Chicago Fire, a
committee is scheduled to meet today at the West Nineteenth Street
Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue to discuss how to disperse the expected large
number of contributions.
1872:
Birthdate of Mrs. John D. Levy the St. Louis native who for two decades was a
leading comic opera star performing under the name of Della Fox.
1873:
At today’s meeting of the Free Religious Association, Jewish author and editor
Moritz Ellinger said that it was “eminently proper that the Jewish religion”
should be a part of the association since “it was found upon reason, had not
priests, but only teachers. It had no
creed, but simply belief in a creator, and did not point men to a future reward,
but to a reward on earth. He argued…that
the Jewish religion was not based on miracles.”
Finally, like other members of the association, “Jews did not look
toward the past for their Savior, but kept their face toward the future.” [The
Free Religious Association was formed two years after the Civil War. Its leaders sought to “emancipate religion
from dogmatic traditions” and supernaturalism.
Non-Orthodox Jews were drawn to the organization which included Quakers,
Unitarians agnostics and theists.]
1874:
Birthdate of Galicia native Selma Kurz, the Austrian soprano who debuted at a
concert at Vienna in 1895.
1874:
In Russia, Olga Meltzer and Dr. Samuel J. Meltzer gave birth to future St.
Louis resident, Dr. Clara Meltzer-Auer the ophthalmologist and husband of Dr.
John Auer, Sr.
1875(16th
of Tishrei, 5636): Second Day of Sukkoth
1875:
In Mir, Poland, Anna Stald and Dov Ber Berl Eskolsky gave birth to future New
Yorker Jacob Eskolsky, the husband of Rebecca Mullin Eskolsky.
1875:
School Board member Fritz A. Meyer introduced a resolution at tonight’s meeting
of the Board of Education in Union Hill, NJ, to abolish the mandatory reading
of the Bible at the start of each school day.
Besides raising constitutional issues, the resolution points out the
fact that the Bible being used is not the text of the Catholics or the Jews and
this makes the activity a matter of sectarian religious practice.
1876:
In New York City, Leopold Weil and Martha Tanzer gave birth to Columbia trained
physician and cancer researcher Richard Weil, the husband of Minnie Straus, the
son-in-law of Isidor and Ida Straus and the father of a future president of
Macy’s Department Store.
1877:
“Fine Arts In America,” an article published today comments on the works of
several 19th century artists including Washington Allston’s “Jeremiah” which is
owned by Yale University. The work has
many fine points, but the artist has failed “to express the exaltation of an
inspired prophet.” You may judge for yourself at
1878(18th
of Tishrei, 5639): Fourth Day of Sukkoth.
1868:
The trial of Chicago banker Henry Greenebaum for embezzlement began today.
https://agbecker.us/3-henry-greenebaum-1833-to-1914/
1878:
In New York City, Sarah Weiler or Wheeler, the widow of a rabbi, was tried on
charges that she had abducted a 16-year-old girl named Mary O’Connor for
immoral purposes and had compelled her “to commit an act of
self-abasement.” She was sentenced to
two years in the state prison after having been found guilty of one of the two
counts of the indictment.
1878:
Birthdate of Robert Bloom who made his way from Lithuania to Ireland to Alaska
where he “was a founder of Congregation Bikkur Cholim in Fairbanks” and
“chairman of Alaska’s Jewish Welfare Board.”
https://www.alaska.edu/uajourney/regents/1921-1925-robert-bloom/
1879:
In Belarus, Gittel and Jehuda Massel gave birth to the Rabbi Jacob Massel, one
of the founders of HIAS who was the husband of Sophie Massel and father of
Ezekiel, Moses and Menachem Massel,
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/09/15/84138948.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1880:
“Whipped With Cat-O’-Nine-Tails” published today described the decision
rendered by Justice Kilbreth in the case of Mrs. Lizzie Wenke who was accused
of horse-whipping Isaac Stern a fellow Jew living in the tenement at 192 Broome
Street.
1881:
The London Telegraph reported that the Turkish governor of Jerusalem has
received orders from the Sultan to resume work on the restoration of the Temple
of Solomon which had stopped five years ago after having been begun by Sultan
Abdul Aziz.
1881:
“Work of the Young Hebrews” published today provided a summary the annual
report issued by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. The Association has about a thousand members,
sponsored 8 lectures and has accumulated a library of 2,016 volumes. The executive committee called for a fair to
raise funds for a new building and “grand Chanukah ball” to be held at the
Academy of Music.
1881:
It was reported today that in New York, “an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, by Hirsch Levy to Isidore Hirsch, with $600 preferences” has been
filed in the County Clerk’s office.
1882:
“Plays and Actors” published today included a dispute over the portrayal of the
Jewish characters in Edward Harrigan’s new play, “Mordecai Lyons.” A Jewish correspondent disparaged it as
“another Jew play” which is coarse at best while others contend that “the
Jewish part of this drama” is thought to be “serious and valuable.”
1882:
“Varied Old World Topics” published today described conditions in Germany.
Surprise was expressed that the “anti-Semitic agitation is gaining
ground.” Some of the support may be
coming indirectly from Chancellor Bismarck would be using to it intimidate the
Jews “who have been opposing his program on financial matters.”
1882:
“Religious Ideas” published today described the anomaly that “Christianity was
founded by Jews, preached by Jews and died for by Jews, yet Jews are the only
people living directly and always within its influence upon whom, in 1,800
years, that creed has made no impression at all.”
1882:
“A Riot Among the Russian Jews” describe events surrounding an outbreak of
violence among the 400 Jewish immigrants temporarily housed on Ward’s
Island. The violence broke out during
mealtime when Jacob Rabota, a native of Warsaw protested the way they were
being fled. The attack was in reaction
to ill-will between the Jews and the staff brought on by mistreatment sanction
by the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent. Rebbec Bochtel told those
investigating the matter “a pitiful story of maltreatment” that “was
corroborated by other women.”
1882:”Suit
About A Play” published today described litigation surrounding “Siberia,” a
drama about “the persecution of the Jews of Russia” written by Barley
Campbell. Plaintiffs Imrl and Bolossi
Kiralfy claim they provide Campbell with the idea for the play, and he agreed
to write it so that they could perform it.
1883:
Three days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Levy, “the youngest daughter of
Joseph Levy and the former Hannah Isaacs” was buried today at the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1883(14th
of Tishrei, 5644): Erev Sukkoth
1883:
In Kovno, Leba Yatskan and Reuben Fierst gave birth to Harry P. Fierst, the
husband of Miriam Cohen who in 1900 came to the United States where he passed
the New York Regents Examination and served with numerous Jewish organizations including United Palestine Appeal, the Z.O.A
and the Jewish National Fund.
1883:
In Kovno, Rachel Haskel and Joseph Jaffe gave birth to NYU trained attorney Louis
N. Jaffe, the husband of Hannah Oberstein and an activist in numerous Jewish
causes including the Y.M.H.A., the ZOA and the Council of 100 on Jewish
Education and Culture who was the “founder and builder of the Yiddish Art
Theatre in New York, and the organizer and president of the Jaffe Art Film
Corporation that produced the movie “Broken Hearts.”
1884:
In Russia, Freda Katz and Abraham Getson gave birth to Temple University
trained physician and Zionist Philip Getson and husband of Ada Soheloff who
served as the medical inspector of the Philadelphia Public Schools before going
into private practice in 1915.
1884:
It was reported today that Smyrna, which is second only to Constantinople “as
an eastern center of commerce” has population of 250,000, 30,000 of whom are
Jews.
1885:
Birthdate of Russian native and Columbia trained physician Isaac Chassin, the
husband of “the former Esther Kantro and the father of Maurice and Jameson
Chassin both of whom became doctors.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/03/18/99164275.pdf
1885:
Birthdate of Budapest native Sam Wiesel who in 1900 came to Tuscaloosa, AL
where he found Wiesel’s Company, a men’s store which his son-in-law Albert
Baernstein took over after Sam’s death in 1987.
https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2017/10/16/looking-back-october-16-2017/18283495007/1885: Birthdate of
Isidor Posner, the husband of Ida Weinstein Posner and father of Marcy, Rhoda
and Irving Posner.
1885: Birthdate of
Ukraine native Dovid Ignatosky who gained fame Yiddish author and HIAS staff
member David Ignatoff, the husband of Minnie Radnitz Ignatoff with whom he had
two children
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/27/84109362.pdf
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33701
https://yiddishkayt.org/view/ignatoff/
1886:
In New York City, “Bernard S. and Gertrude (Hartog) Baruc” gave birth to CCNY
alum and banker Edgard S. Baruc, the husband of Bessie Vogel and during WW I,
the “Supervisor of the Foreign Translation Bureau.”
1886:
In Lithuania, Isaac Margolis and Hinde Bernstein gave birth to Max Leopold
Margolis who served as Professor of Biblical Philology at Dropsie Colliege from
1909 until his death in 1932.
1886:
In New York City, “Max Ellenstein and the former Libby Bzuroff” gave birth to
Meyer C. Ellenstein, the 31st Mayor of Newark, NJ and “the father of
actor Robert Ellenstein.
https://newarksattic.blog/2017/12/28/meyer-c-ellenstein-mayor-of-newark-1933-1941/
1887:
Russian native Solomon Altfeld and his wife Eva Levin Alffeld gave birth to
Joshua Hensel Altfeld, the husband Goldie Altfeld and older brother of to
Emanuel Milton Altfeld, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1914
to 1916 and a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1930 to 1934 who was the
author The Jew’s Struggle for Religious and Civil Liberty in Maryland
1887:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E00EFD91530E633A25756C1A9669D94669FD7CF
1887:
It was reported today that another 100 Jewish families have been expelled from
Kiev.
1888:
Democrat Martin Foran’s victory in the election for the 21st Congressional
District from Ohio was reportedly due in part to his Republican opponent having
lost the support of Jewish voters in the district.
1888:
Birthdate of Sylvain S. Abrams, the wife of Selma Werner Abrams.
1889(20th
of Tishrei, 5650): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1889:
In Great Britain the press has reported that Baron Hirsch is negotiating with
Lord Cholmondeley for the purchase of Houghton Hall estate. The purchase will probably cost the Baron
300,000 English pounds. Baron Hirsch's
desire to purchase the estate in England may have been stimulated by "the
snub he recently received from the French Jockey Club."
1889:
Birthdate of Warsaw native Yitskhok (Isaac) Unterman the Yiddish author and
editor who in 1911 came to the United States, earned a law degree and worked
for such publications as the Jewish
Morning Star and the Jewish Daily
Press in Chicago.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/05/yitskhok-isaac-unterman.html
1890:
Ferdinand Forzinetti was named commandant of military prisons in Paris, a
position he held when Captain Dreyfus was imprisoned. Later Dreyfus would credit him as one of the
people who dissuaded him from taking his own life and "who knew how to
combine the strict duty of a soldier with the highest feelings of
humanity."
1890:
Birthdate of Leib Kvitko, the Ukrainian born Yiddish poet who was a member of
the Jewish Ant-Fascist Committee, an organization Stalin supported as a vehicle
to gain foreign support for the Soviets during WW II. Stalin repaid him for his efforts by making
him one of the victims of the “Night of the Murdered Poets.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leib_Kvitko#/media/File:In_vald_L_Kvitko_tseykhenungen_Y_Ribak.jpg
1890:
In Teleneşti, Bessarabia Governorate, then a part of the Russian Empire, Simcha
Alter and Rivka Gutman gave birth to their fourth child Israeli painter,
sculptor, and author Nachum Gutman who moved to Palestine in 1903, attended the
Herzilya Gymnasium in 1908 and began studying at the Bezalel School in 1912.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachum_Gutman#/media/File:HHGM_20121230_153928.jpg
1891:
Birthdate of Munich native, Carl Landauer who fled Nazi German and began teaching
at Cal-Berkley in 1933.
1892:
The Sisters of Israel Benevolent Society which meets on the last Sunday of the
month was founded today in Portland, OR.
1892:
Kinloch Cooke is named editor of the Pall
Mall Gazette following its purchase by the Lowenfield syndicate, which
according to unsubstantiated rumors is backed by Baron Hirsch. Furthermore, other rumors include reports of
a desire of members of the Jewish community to gain control of this or some
other major English publication.
1893:
The Jubilee Celebration of B’nai B’rith is scheduled to end this evening with
services at Temple Beth-El followed by a business meeting.
1893(5th
of Cheshvan, 5664): In Philadelphia, Horace Moses, the nephew of Hyman Gratz
passed away today “leaving no issue” which mean that “the entire estate…came
into the possession of Congreagatin Mickveh Israel for the establishment and
maintenance, under its direction of ‘a college for the education of Jews
residing in the City and County of Philadelphia.’”
1893:
Colonel J.E. Bloom, the manager of the Baron de Hirsch Trade School defended
his decision to “turn out” five students from their boarding house without
warning because they had refused to follow the school’s rules, and the school
felt no obligation to support young men undermining the school.
1893:
A review of “The Woollen Stocking published today described the addition of a
“the Jewish politician who ‘pulls together’ with the Irish” as the newest
character added to this comedy.
1894(15th
of Tishrei, 5655): Sukkoth
1894:
“Literary Notes” published today described the publication by A.C. Armstrong
& Son of The Historical Geography of the Holy Land by George Adams which provides an outline of
Palestine that includes six maps prepared by John George Bartholomew.
1894:
Col. Alfred Dreyfus was first arrested.
This marked the start of what would become known as the Dreyfus Affair.
1894:
Birthdate of Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel. Born Moshe Shertok
in the Ukraine, Moshe Sharett emigrated to Palestine in 1908 where his family was one of the founders of Tel
Aviv Sharett was the first Foreign
Minister of Israel. He was a key figure
in establishing the Armistice Agreements that ended with a Jewish victory in
the War for Independence. When Ben
Gurion resigned as Israel’s fist Prime Minister in 1953, Sharett was the
logical choice to succeed him. He was
ousted by Ben Gurion in 1956, and he returned to the Foreign Ministry. He passed away in 1965.
1894:
Justice McMahon dismissed that assault case brought by Nathan Hirsch in
Yorkville.
1894:
John Shevlin who had been arrested by Officer Grier after he saw him lead a
crowd chasing and beating two old Jews was released from custody when the
victims could not be found to appear at the Jefferson Market Police Court
1894:
Louis Rothschild was elected treasurer of the newly formed Cloak and Suit
Manufacturers Association whose 85 members met tonight and voted not to
“entertain any communications from any of the trade unions.”
1895(27th
of Tishrei, 5656): Nineteen-year-old William Nelken, the son of Sam and Sarah
Nelken passed away today.
1895:
In Ukraine, Jacob and Rose Maidman gave birth to Irving Maidman the husband
Byrdie Maidman who settled in the United States and who should not be confused
with the real estate mogul of the same name who passed away in 1979.
1895:
At a meeting held at Tammany Hall this afternoon, it was agreed that Jacob A.
Cantor would be the Democratic Party’s nominee in the Twentieth Senate
District. Before entering politics,
Cantor, the son of two Jews from London, was a newspaper man and lawyer. He would go on to a successful political
career that would include serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1896:
Birthdate of Newark, NJ native, Minna Wright who gained fame as “painter and
printmaker” Minna Citron, the wife of businessman Henry Citrion
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/24/arts/minna-citron-95-artist-whose-work-spanned-2-schools.html
1897(19th
of Tishrei, 5658): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1897:
In Warsaw, Adolph and Natalia Lieberman gave birth
American literary agent and accused Soviet espionage agent Maxim Lieber.
1897:
Herzl publishes his article "Mauschel" in Die Welt. Die Welt was the
name of a weekly publication founded in 1897 by Theodor Herzl in Vienna as
organ of the Zionist movement. In the article entitled “Mauschel” Herzl did not
deny that the anti-Semitic stereotype of the Jew had a basis in reality. Rather he identified the stereotype with the
Jewish opponents of Zionism and used it against them.
1897:
It was reported today that all of the anti-Semitic candidates have prevailed in
the “municipal elections in the province of Constantine, Algeria.”
1897:
It was reported today that Jewish leaders have “published a formal protest”
against a proposed made by the vice mayor of Vienna denying Jewish judges the
right to “administer the oath to Christians” because “the Jews were unable to
comprehend the moral and religious opinions of the Christian community.”
1898:
Birthdate of Boris Aronson, the native of Kiev and son of a rabbi who became a
Tony Award winning scenic designer.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/11/magazine/he-made-the-stage-come-alive.html?pagewanted=all
1898:
Theodor Herzl was invited to a private audience with Kaiser Wilhelm today when
the Kaiser stopped in Constantinople for a State visit. The Kaiser asked Herzl
what he wished him to ask of the Sultan:’ “A Chartered Company – under German
protection,” was Herzl’s request.
1898:
“The new home of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the city of New York” is scheduled
to “be fully furnished and ready for occupancy” today.
1899:
Birthdate of Bialystok native and Chicago printmaker and painter Morris
Tophevsky who became an instructor at Hull House, the Abraham Lincoln School
for Social Science, and the South Side Community Art Center while creating such
works as “Refugees’ and “Lunch Hour.”
Morris
Topchevsky (schwartzcollection.com)
https://www.chicagomodern.org/artists/morris-topchevsky
Morris Topchevsky
| The Art Institute of Chicago (artic.edu)
1900(22nd
of Tishrei, 5661): Shmini Atzeret
1900:
Birthdate of Fritz Feilchenfeld, the native of Berlin who gained film as actor
Fritz Feld whose career began in Germany and ended in Hollywood.
1900:
Birthdate of New York dermatologist Samuel Peck.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/04/nyregion/samuel-m-peck-91-dermatologist-and-professor.html
1900:
In San Francisco, Edna (née Armer) and Harry LeRoy gave birth to director and
producer Mervyn LeRoy whose career began in 1923 with a silent film version of
“The Ten Commandments” and including directing one of the best films ever made
“Mr. Roberts.”
1901:
Birthdate of Kiev native Louis “Kid” Kaplan the Connecticut resident who won
the World Featherweight Championship in 1925 but was never able to become
Lightweight Champion because both of the titleholders refused to fight him.
1901:
The Cape Town correspondent of The Times of London reported that many of the
poor people hoping to reach Johannesburg who are currently stranded in Cape
Town are Russian Jews.
1902(14th
of Tishrei, 5663): Erev Sukkoth
1903:
Alabama born, New York lawyer and judge, Joseph M. Proskauer married Alice
Naumberg today after which they had three children – Frances, Ruth and Richard.
1903:
The Newark Young Ladies Zion Society met today and elected new officers
including “President, Mrs. A.B. Pilpoul; Treasurer Miss Ida Stein; and
Recording Secretary Miss Dora Varitz.”
1904(6th
of Cheshvan, 5665): Parashat Noach
1904:
It was reported today that Rider Haggard’s The Brethren, “a romance” set in
feudal England and in the Palestine camp of Saladin will be issued on October
18 by Mclure-Phillips.
1904:
It was reported to that Henry Holt and Company will be publishing an edition of
“L’Attaque du Moulin and Other Pieces” approved by Emile Zola, the defender of
Dreyfus, before his death.
1905(16th
of Tishrei, 5666): Second Day of Sukkoth
1905:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Temple Beth-El for Lyman G.
Bloomingdale the New York born founder, with his brother Joseph, of
Bloomingdales Department Store.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/10/14/101760324.pdf
1906;
Major Alfred Dreyfus took command of the artillery unit at St. Denis, a
northern suburb of Paris.
1906:
The Anglican Bishop of Shangai, a convert from Judaism named Samuel Isaac
Joseph Schereschewsky passed away today.
1906:
Bruno Alfred Döblin, a German-Jewish author and doctor best known for his novel
Berlin Alexanderplatz took up a
position at the Berlin psychiatric clinic in Buch where he worked as an
assistant doctor for nearly two years.
1906:
The Executive Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis held its
second meeting “since the closing of the Indianapolis Convention.”
1907:
Charles Homer Joseph, the Little Falls, NY son of Rosa Jacosn and Harris L.
Joseph, the editor of the Jewish
Criterion in Pittsburgh, the author of the syndicated column “Random Thoughts”
which was published in “twenty Jewish periodicals” married Caroline Schoenfeld
today
1907:
Birthdate of Varian Fry, known as the American Schindler for his gallant rescue
of those fleeing Hitler and the Nazis. . Some of those he saved were Marc
Chagall, Hannah Arendt and Alma Mahler. In 1995 Varian Fry became the first
United States citizen to be listed in the Righteous Among the Nations at
Israel's national Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem (in 2006, fellow Americans
Waitstill Sharp and Martha Sharp were added to the list). He was awarded the
additional honor of "Commemorative Citizenship of the State of
Israel" on 1 January 1998. The film Varian’s War provides a cinematic
treatment of Fry’s wartime activities
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005740
1907:
Today, NYU trained attorney and Republican political leader Isaac Siegel, the
New York born son of Leah Goldstein and KIve Siegel married Annie Natelson with
whom had three children – Seymour, Gertrude and Monroe.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isaac-siegel
1907(7th
of Cheshvan, 5668): Seventy-four-year-old award winning French astronomer
Maurice (Mortiz) Loewy passed away today.
1908(20th
of Tishrei, 5669): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1908:
It was reported today that a mob had attacked the Austrian Post Office in Jaffa
as part of the protest against the Austria-Hungary Empire’s recent annexation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1909(30th
of Tishrei, 5670): Mrs. Hinde First passed away today.
1909:
Birthdate of American astronomer Jesse Leonard Greenstein.
1909:
Birthdate of German-born British-Australian mathematician Bernhard Hermann
Neumann.
1910:
In their third game of the season, Georgia Tech scored its third straight
vicotyr with Albert Lorch “Al” Loe, known as “the Yiddish Wildcat” at “Center.”
1911(23rd
of Tishrei, 5672): Simchat Torah
1911:
Birthdate of Lilly Hanakova, who was murdered at Ujazdow after being
transported there from Prague.
1911:
At Chicago’s Sinai Congregation, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch is scheduled to the first
in a series of talks on “the Bible as Literature” at services this morning.
1911:
Dr. Joseph Stoltz is scheduled to deliver a sermon at services this morning at
Isaiah Temple.
1911:
At the request of David Levontin, Director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank, Jews
assemble to pray for the welfare of the Sultan and for victory of the Turkish
Army.
1912(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5673): Mrs. Elke Jakobsohn passed away.
1912(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5673): Max Kohn, “a communal worker from Pueblo, CO” passed away
today at Chicago, Illinois.
1912(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5673): Fifty-four-year-old Prussian born “German American
organist, conductor and composer” Max Spicker, the choir director for Temple
Emanu-El and “an honorary member of the Society of American Cantors” passed
away today.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/max-spicker/
1913(14th
of Tishrei, 5674): Erev Sukkot
1913:
In Kiev, “The examination of witnesses in the trial of Mendel Beiliss was
continued to-day.”
1913:
Birthdate of Lublin native and Manhattan resident Rabbi Bernard Twersky the
“public-relations director for the Rabbinical Council of America” and the
husband of Ettie Twerskty.
1914:
As the Germans and Allies continued their respective “races to the sea” which
could have ended the war in weeks instead of years, the BEF clashed with the
German 4th Army during the Battle of Amentieres.
1914:
It was reported today that “thousands of fugitives” are crowding Warsaw most of
whom are poor Jews who come from “frontier towns and villages which the Germans
have been ravaging for more than six weeks;
1915(14th
of Tishrei, 5674): Erev Sukkoth
1915:
It was announced today that “the Jewish conference called for by the American
Jewish Committee to consider…what American Jews may do when the war ends to”
ensure the rights of their co-religionists in Europe which was to be held in
Washington later this month has been canceled.
1915:
“It was announced today that thirty or more ministers” including several rabbis
“will visit Public School 45 to examine experimental work under the Gary plan.
1915:
In New York, “the New Synagogue” the newest “of the liberal congregations”
found in the city is scheduled to hold its first services tonight, erev
Shabbat, led by Rabbi Ephraim Frisch.
1915:
In Portsmouth, VA, Reb Yisroel Gifter and his wife gave birth to Mordechai
Gifter, the future rosh yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio.
1915:
Louis D. Brandies of Boston is identified as the attorney leading the
opposition to the increase in freight rate charges that the railroads are
presenting to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
1916:
As of today, “The Joint Distribution Committee of which Felix M. Warburg is
Chairman…has to date received more than $5,942,000.
1916:
In Boston, “resolutions advocating the establishment of a permanent American
Jewish Congress at Washing and demanding that Jewish rights be guaranteed in
the peace parliament at the close of the European War were adopted at today’s
session of the annual convention of Poalei Zion Association of America.”
1916:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was re-elected today President of
the Zion Association of Greater Boston” following which the organization
pledged a $10,000 fund “for the relief of Jews in Palestine and the maintenance
of Jewish institutions in that country.
1916:
“The Women’s Proclamation Committee, the national women’s organization for
Jewish Relief” which is chaired by Mrs. Samuel Elkes” reported today “that
there have been many responses” several of which have been “generous” “to the
appeal recently issued throughout the United States.”
1916:
“Recent efforts by political supporters of President Wilson to line up the
Jewish vote for his re-election” by calling for the creation of a Ten Thousand
Club to which each Jew would contribute a dollar for the Wilson campaign have
resulted in 26 prominent Jewish leaders, some of whom support Wilson to issue,
today, “a protest against such mixing of religion or race and politics.”
1917:
In Columbus, Ohio, Arthur M. Schlesinger, the historian who was Jewish and his
wife the former Elizabeth Harriet Bancroft who was not Jewish gave birth to
historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01schlesinger.html
1917:
Kaiser Wilhelm whose earlier trips to the Middle East had led to Herzl’s hopes
of having him back his Zionist project made his third and final trip to
Constantinople.
1917:
Rabbi Samuel Schulman, argued against the calling of an American Jewish
Congress that would be seeking to protect the rights of Jews at a peace
conference ending the World War saying that “America’s victory in the war…will
mean a great and friendly help for procuring the rights of Jews all over the
world and I consider it the duty of every American who loves his country to
follow the counsel of those who intimate that it would be best if the congress
were postponed.”
1918:
While serving the Headquarters Company, 307th Infantry, Sergeant Max
Goldstone overcame the darkness of night, heavy artillery fire and intense
machine gun fire, ran a telephone line to Grand Pre making it possible for the
units to remain in contact with one another.
1919(21st
of Tishrei, 5680): Hoshana Raba
1919:
In Allentown, PA, Rabbi Solomon Krevsky and Fannie Levine Krevsky gave birth to
Yeshiva University graduate and Jefferson Medical College trained pediatrician
Dr. Seymour Krevsky with a practice in Detroit, the husband of Margery Krevsky and
a Lt. Colonel in the USAF Reserves who “trained as a space physician in its
Aerospace program” and who was an “active member of the congregation of Shaarey
Zedek Synagogue in Southfield, Michigan.”
1919(21st
of Tishrei, 5680): Ray Perlman, the daughter of Abraham A. Perlman “one of the
founders and directors of the New York Uptown Talmud Torah Association and the
brother of Jess Perlman the “former Resident Director of the Jewish Educational
Alliance in Baltimore” and the current Executive Director of the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies in Montreal, passed away today.
1920:
“Intrigue,” a silent film directed by Paul Stein was released in Germany today.
1920:
“Pogrom Protest” published today described plans for a group of prominent
Jewish rabbis and businessmen to lead a delegation on “pilgrimage to Washington
to persuade President Wilson to take effective steps to pogroms in Poland.”
1921:
Hugo Gernsbach, the Luxembourg City born
son of Berta Durlacher and Moritz Gernsbacher “an inventor, author, editor and
publisher who has been called the father of modern science fiction” married
Dorothy Kantrowitz today in New York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/08/20/107196605.pdf
1921:
Russian born American labor leader William Wolf Weinstone began serving as the
Executive Secretary of the “unified Communist Party of America.”
1922(23rd
of Tishrei, 5683): Simchat Torah
1922:
In Newark, NH, “a homemaker and a businessman” gave birth Lorraine Gordon who
gained fame as Lorraine Gordon, jazz aficionado and owner of the Village
Vanguard. (As reported by Tim Weiner)
1923:
Birthdate of Walter Zacharius, the Brooklyn native, “who rode the
passion-swollen wave of romance fiction in the early 1980s to build the
Kensington Publishing Corporation into a leading purveyor of bodice-rippers and
other romance genres…” (As reported by William Grimes)
1924:
William Zev Spiegelman began serving as editor of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
1925:
In Washington, D.C., Ethel and Mayer Learner gave birth to WW II veteran and
Georg Washington University trained attorney Theodore “Ted” Lerner the husband
of Annette Lerner whom he married in 1951 who was a real estate developer and
“managing principal owner of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
1925:
In Atlanta, GA, Leon Leo Solomon Hexter, the son of Max and Sarah Hexter and
his wife Rachel Schwartz gave birth to Robert Maurice Hexter.
1925:
Having blown a three to one lead, the Senators led by infielder Buddy Myer lost
the seventh and final game of the World Series.
(The hapless Nats would make it back to the series one more time before
drifting into the mediocrity and futility that showed my brother in me when we
to games in the 1950’s on Briggs Kids Days)
1926:
Birthdate of French philosopher Michel Foucault who would eventually quit the
French Communist Party for “its prejudices against Jews and homosexuals.”
1927(19th
of Tishrei, 5688): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1927:
Jacob “Little Augie” Orgen was mortally wounded while standing on a street
corner during a turf war with Jacob Shapiro and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter.
1928:
“The Republic of Flappers” a silent movie directed by David Constantin and
filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in Jerusalem.
1928:
Birthdate of Paris native Holocaust victim Maurice Rubinstein who was shipped
to Auschwitz in January of 1944.
1929:
In Terre Haute, Indiana, wholesale poultry dealer Stanley Dreyfus and his wife,
the former Irene Lederer gave birth to Hubert Lederer “Bert” Dreyfus, the
University of California philosophy professor who wrote What Computers Can’t
Do.
1930(23rd
of Tishrei, 5691): Simchat Torah
1930(23rd
of Tishrei, 5691): Seventy-eight-year-old Sir Hermann Gollancz, the German born
“British rabbi and Hebrew Scholar’ who “was the first Jew to earn a doctor of
literature degree from London University” and “the first British rabbi granted
a knighthood” passed away today.
1930:
Dr. Drummond Shiels, Under-Secretary for the Colonies left Palestine today with
“a long memorial” from the Society of Young Christians “in which they protested
against Moslem demands for the abolition of the British mandate in Palestine.
1930:
Birthdate of Heiko Augstinus Oberman author of Luther: Man Between God and
the Devil who noted that Rabbi Josel of Rosheim’s attempt to get relief
from John Frederick’s anti-Jewish decree “as being significant in Luther's
attitude toward the Jews: "Even today this refusal is often judged to be
the decisive turning point in Luther's career from friendliness to hostility
toward the Jews;"yet, Oberman contends that Luther would have denied any
such "turning point." Rather he felt that Jews were to be treated in
a "friendly way" in order to avoid placing unnecessary obstacles in
their path to Christian conversion, a genuine concern of Luther.”
1930:
“Three's A Crowd a Broadway revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and others, and
music by Arthur Schwartz and others opened on Broadway today at the Selwyn
Theatre.
1930:
The High Commissioner put an end to the proceedings against six Jews who had
been arrested at Tel Aviv for protesting against Dr. Drummond Shiels when he
arrived in Palestine last week. The
prisoners were released to a joyful crowd who had been angered by reports that
Shiels supported creation of Parliament in Palestine that would guarantee
Moslem rule and put an end to the creation of a Jewish homeland as promised by
the Balfour Declaration.
1931:
Saloonkeeper Heinrich Bowe was shot and killed and three Nazi Storm Troopers
were wounded in clash with a group of Communists that would lead to their trial
when Hitler came to power and was looking for examples of the threat posed by
“Jewish-Marxists.”
1931:In
the Bronx, NY, Alfred Epstein, a pharmacist from Poland and Eva Epstein, a
former modern dancer from Russia, gave birth to Edmund Lloyd Epstein, “a
literary scholar who, as a book editor in the late 1950s, was so taken by a
well-reviewed but not especially popular first novel by a largely unknown
British writer that he decided to reprint it in paperback, thus enabling the
extravagant American success of “Lord of the Flies” and its author, the future
Nobel Prize winner William Golding…” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1932(15th
of Tishrei, 5693): Sukkoth is observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Herbert Hoover.
1933:
“While the State Department today silently awaited further developments in
Europe as a result of Germany's quitting the League of Nations and the
disarmament conference, the Foreign Policy Association made public here a
report of the measures taken by the Hitler government against the Jews and
"other political opponents."
1933:
“The charge of anti-Semitism against Joseph V. McKee, independent candidate for
Mayor, indirectly expressed by F.H. LaGuardia, his Fusion opponent, found a
sponsor yesterday in Samuel Untermeyer” who “declared that Mr. McKee’s
reflections on the younger generation of Jews if correctly quoted in his
article in The Catholic World of May, 1915, constituted a gross libel on 30 per
cent of the population of” New York City “and sound like a reverberation of
Hitlerism.”
1934:
“ A Successful Failure,” the first film directed by Arthur Lubin was released
today in the United States.
1935:
Former U. of Michigan star football player Harry Newman, “announced today that
he had changed his mind and signed a new contract so he could continue playing
for the New York Giants.”
1935:
Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior called for codifying laws that would
impose legal restrictions on Jews taking part in trade and industry. The Nazi rise to power and the early days of
the final solution were all couched in terms of the German legal code. The Nazis hid their evil behind a façade of
laws.
1936:
“Great indignation has been aroused” in Bucharest “by the ordinance issued by
the anti-Semitic, pro-Fascist Vice Premier Ion Inculetz forbidding any
instruction in the Jewish faith in the Rumanian schools.”
1936:
As demand for his work dwindled and the Nazis rose to power Hungarian
photographer André Kertész arrived in New York today with his wife Elizabeth
having decided to accept an offer to work at the Keystone Agency.
1936:
Today, “at a luncheon at the St. Moritz Hotel, Israel Silverman, the national
chairman of the United Synagogue’s newly organized Committee to Combat
Religious Indifference in America” presented “a plan to reawaken religious
interest through a national adult and educational program” which will attract
more people “will be attacked to the synagogues of America.”
1936:
“Armistice in Palestine” published today described a truce that had been
reached in Palestine ending “the general strike of Arabs against the British
authorities intended to force the discontinuance of Jewish immigration” thanks
to the efforts of the “Arab Kings of Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Emir of
Trans-Jordan.”
1937:
In Portland, Maine, “opera singer” Lucille (née Potter) Lavin and “businessman”
David J. Lavin gave birth to comedic actress Linda Lavin who played the
wisecracking waitress on the television hit “Alice.”
1937:
“Double Wedding” a comedy produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay
by Jo Swerling was released in the United States today by MGM.
1937:
David Feuerwerker, French born rabbi and resistance leader began his service in
the French Army which would earn him the Croix de Guerre with a bronze star.
1937:
“Fit for a King” a comedy produced by David L. Loew was released in the United
States today by RKO.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported on the
end of the temporary cease-fire, and an intense revival of the Arab anti-Jewish
and anti-British terror activities throughout the country. Bullets and bombs
hit Jewish transport, buses in particular. The Iraqi Petroleum Company pipeline
was damaged and the oil flowing from Iraq set on fire near Beit She’an. A
passenger train from Haifa and a goods train were derailed. The settlements of
Ginegar, Afula, Rosh Pina, and Migdal Tzedek were exposed to persistent firing
and 12 Jews were injured. Telephone lines were cut. The authorities closed the
Syrian border and imposed a curfew in Jerusalem.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that
Jewish students in Warsaw went on strike to protest against the
Introduction
of the so-called "ghetto benches" on the left side of the lecture
halls at Polish universities.
1938(20th
of Tishrei,5699): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1938:
The Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” directed by Elmer
Rice opened on Broadway today at the Plymouth Theatre.
1939:
It was reported today that “the study of the Italian madrigal is being offered
at Smith College this year for the first time as a result of the appointment of
Dr. Alfred Einstein,” the “music scholar, writer and authority on Italian music
of the sixteenth century” and distant relative of Albert Einstein as
visiting professor of music on the William Allen Neilson Foundation.
1939:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for sixty-six-year-old
Swedish born magician Nate Leipzig who had given command performances at
Buckingham Palace and raised three sons – George, Leo and Rabbi Emil Leipziger
with his Leila,
1940:
The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie
Chaplin, was released. The film was a satiric attack on Hitler, Mussolini and
fascism. Chaplin felt so strongly about
the need to expose the threat posed by the Nazis and their allies, that he was
willing to break his film silence. The
Great Dictator was his first “talkie.”
1940:
A memorial dedicated today by Henrietta Szold established a clinic at the
Children’s Village in hone of Allice Lillie Seligsberg who had passed away in
August of 1940.
1941:
The Nazis began the first mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern European
ghettos.
1941:
As of today, “the Nazis had murdered up to 30,000 of the approximately 60,000
Jews that had not been able to flee Latvia before the German occupation.”
1941:
Today, Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel, the London born son of Bernard and Janie
(Spector) Schachtel married Barbara Levin, the mother of their two children and
as Barbara Schactel earned her Ph.D. in Behavioral Science at the University of
Texas School of Public Health and became director of Quality Assurance for the
Institute for Preventive Medicine, Methodist Hospital, chairman of the board of
managers of the Harris County Hospital District, a member of the board of the
Texas Medical Center, and a trustee of the Institute of Religion.”
1941:
According to a proclamation, Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could
be put to death. I am not sure what this
entry really means considering the plight of the Jews of Poland at this time.
1942:
Seventy-three-year-old Josef Abeles was transported today from Terezin to
Treblinka where he was murdered.
1942:
An SS Aktion is undertaken against Jews of Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland that
would last until October 21. During this
time untold numbers of Jews are shot in their homes and 22,000 are deported to
the Treblinka death camp.
1942:
The Nazis murdered 2,000 Jews living in the second ghetto at Bar in the
Ukraine.
1942:
The Nazis murder 25,000 Jews from Brest-Litovsk, Belorussia. Jewish resistance,
led by Hana Ginsberg, attempts to fight back.
1943(16th
of Tishrei, 5704): Second Day of Sukkoth
1943(16th
of Tishrei, 5704): Eighty-year-old Vilkomer, Lithuania native Fannie Cohen
Polier, the husband of Harris Louis Plier with whom she had four children –
Esther, Sarah, David and Isadore – passed away today in Aiken, SC after which
she was buried in the Sons of Israel Cemetery in Aike.
1943:
Birthdate of Stanley “Stan” Fischer, the native of the British colony of
Northern Rhodesia who became a leading economist and vice chair of the U.S.
Federal Reserve System.
1943:
“Paris After Dark,” directed by Leonide Moguy was released today in the United
States.
1944:
Birthdate of Haim Saban, the native of Alexandria, Egypt whose family moved to
Israel in 1956 who became a successful businessman there and the United States.
1944:
Today, Adolph “Eichman was sent back to Budapest to finish his mission” i.e.
deporting all the Jews of Hungary to Auschwitz/
1944:
Joseph Bau, who had been at Gross Rossen, was sent to Brunnitz where he went to
work in the Schindler factory which made him one of those on “Schindler’s
List.”
1944:
Truce talks between the Hungarians and the Allies collapsed. The Arrow Cross, a Hungarian fascist
organization regained power through a coup. A Hungarian Nazi, Ferenc Szálasi,
is installed as regent. There are 170,000 Jews still alive in Hungary out of a
half million that had been alive at the beginning of the year. After a three month period without
deportations to the death camps, this remnant was once again vulnerable as
potential fodder for the Nazi killing machine.
1944:
Adolph Eichmann who had been called back to Germany when there was a halt in
the deportations of Hungarian Jews, “was back to Budapest” today to finish his
original mission.
1944:
The Germans emptied Plaszow Camp at Cracow.
Included in the evacuation were 700 of the Jews protected by Oscar
Schindler. They were sent to the concentration camp at Gross Rosen. Schindler
managed to retrieve these Jews, claiming the essential nature of their
contribution to his factory and the war effort. Schindler also fought for
release of 300 other of "his" Jews who were sent to Auschwitz.
1945: Execution of Pierre Laval former premier of
Vichy France. Laval was one of history’s
more vile characters. At the same time,
he was the fall guy for Vichy. Marshall
Petain, the famous French Marshall who was the head of the Nazi puppet state
was spared. The French could not bring
themselves to punish the hero from World War I.
1945:
The Alsos Mission, an organized effort by the British and Americans to discover
the progress the Nazis had made in the field of nuclear energy that was part of
the Manhattan Project, of which Samuel Goudsmit served as the scientific leader
came to an end today.
1945:
In a press conference at Tel Aviv, David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, declared that “Judah will arise anew as an independent
state and the Jews will return freely to their own land.” In a statement that
was construed to mean that the Yishuv was developing a shadow government that
would assume official authority when the British left Palestine, Ben-Gurion
said “Palestine’s Jews will have ‘to constitute a kind of state before the
final and orderly state machinery comes into being.’”
1945:
As part of the movement to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine, despite the
British blockade, two ships capable of carrying more than 13,000, were in the
Black Sea preparing to load Jews from Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
1946(20th
of Tishrei, 5707): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1946:
Hermann Goering Nazi Reich marshal who had been found guilty at Nuremberg beat
his scheduled date with the hangman. He
poisoned himself.
1946:
“Child of Divorce,” the first film directed by Richard Fleisher was released in
the United States today by RKO.
1946:
The Paris Peace Conference came to an end during which the Allies – U.S., U.K.,
U.S.S.R. and France – “negotiated peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary,
Bulgaria, and Finland” but not Germany.
1947(1st
of Cheshvan, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1947(1st
of Cheshvan, 5708): Seventy-one-year-old William J. Solomon, the son attorney
J.P. Solomon whom he succeded as editor The Hebrew Standard and who had been
the “sexton” of the Central Synagogue since 1936 passed away today in
Westbrook, CT.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/10/16/104347532.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1947(1st
of Cheshvan, 5708): Eighty-year-old Abram I Elkus, a distinguished New York
attorney and former ambassador to Turkey passed away tonight.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30E13F9395E17738DDDAF0994D8415B8788F1D3
1948:
Following numerous violations of the UN Truce by Egypt, the Israel Army and Air
force took the offensive and launched Operation 'Yoav. Since the UN would not
act the Israelis felt compelled. In
addition to the immediate tactical considerations, the strategic goal of Operation
'Yoav' was to open a corridor to the Negev, cut the Egyptian lines of
communications along the coast and on the Beersheba-Hebron-Jerusalem road,
isolate and defeat the Egyptian forces, and ultimately to drive them out of the
country.
1948:
“Hostilities began today, when Israeli troops assigned to Operation Yoav took
the offensive to the south, opposite Egyptian army positions in the northern
Negev.
1948:
Yigal “Alon led a flight of three S-199s from Herzliya (four had been planned
but one went unserviceable) over the Mediterranean, where they met up with two
C-46 bombers and two C-47 bombers (three were planned, but only two had been
armed in time). The fighters took up station ahead of and below the bombers as
the formation continued out to sea until the shore disappeared from sight. The
planes turned south, then back east to approach the the target, Gaza, from out
of the sun. The attack run was co-ordinated with two other groups: 103
Squadron's two Beaufighters and an escort of three 101 Squadron Spitfires
attacked the Egyptian airfield at Al Arish and 69 Squadron's three B-17s bombed
Majdal.”
1948:
Gaza, Majdal and Beith Hanun were bombed, and part of the Air Force at El-Arish
was put out of action. This action kept most of the Egyptian frontline fighters
out of the skies and gave the IDF air superiority for the first time.
1949:
In New York City, Dorothy Smith and Oscar Blum gave birth to Victoria Leigh
Blum, the granddaughter of Theodore Blum, “the most outstanding oral surgeon in
America” who gained famed as actress Tanya Roberts whose film credits include
“Sheena” and “A View to Kill”
1949(22nd
of Tishrei, 5710): Shemini Atzeret and Shabbat
1949:
“Reign of Terror” with music by Sol Kaplan was released today in the United
States.
1950:
David Ben Gurion resigned as Prime Minister of Israel forcing the formation of
a new government.
1951(15th
of Tishrei, 5712): Sukkoth
1951(15th
of Tishrei, 5712): WW I veteran, sixty-five-year-old Leonard Maurice Keysor,
the London born son of Julia and Benjamin Joseph Kyezor and the husband of Gladys
Louise Keysor with whom he had a daughter – Joan Doris Keysor – and recipient
of the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the Victoria Cross who served
in Egypt, Gallipoli and the Western Front as member of the 1st
Battalion, H Company and the 42nd Battalion of the 11th
Brigade of the 3rd Division passed away today.
1951:
Eight months after premiering in the United Kingdom, “Pandora and the Flying
Dutchman, directed and co-produced by Albert Lewin who also wrote the
screenplay and featuring Abraham Sofaer was released in the United States
today.
1951:
During the 1951 general election, Herbert Samuel became the first British
politician to deliver a party-political broadcast on television when he
appeared before the cameras today.
1952:
Arthur Laurents’ “The Time of the Cuckoo” directed by Harold Cluman opened on
Broadway at the Empire Theater.
1953:
Today, the Citizens Union gave a strong endorsement to Stanley Isaacs who is
seeking re-election as the representative of the 20th District.
1953:
“The Teahouse of the August Moon” which Daniel Mann would turn into a successful
film three years later, opened on Broadway today.
1954:
“Sabrina” a chic comedy produced, directed and co-authored by Ernest Lehman
Billy Wilder was released for general showing to theatres across the country.
1955(29th
of Tishrei, 5716): Parashat Bereshit
1955(29th
of Tishrei, 5716): Seventy-five-year-old Minsk native Leopold Dubov, “the
founder and first executive director of the Jewish Braille Institute of America
who was blind since the age of six and raised on son, Mark, with his wife
Regina passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/10/16/issue.html
1955
(29th of Tishrei, 5716): Seventy-four-year-old “Professor Jaques
Faitlowitz, a student of Professor Joseph Halevy, “who restored Ethiopian Jews
to the world of Judaism” passed away today in Israel
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/10/16/91372917.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1956:
On the day in which Iraqi troops entered Jordan in what Israel saw as a
menacing move, Ben Gurion ordered a partial mobilization of Israeli forces and
told the Knesset that “Israel reserves to herself freedom of action.
1957(20th
of Tishrei, 5718): Sixth Sukkoth Day of Sukkoth
1958(1st
of Cheshvan, 5719): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1958(1st
of Cheshvan, 5719): Samuel Bass, the husband of Rena Bass passed away today
after which he was buried at the Ahavas Sholom Congregation Cemetery.
1959:
Filming of “The Lost World,” the movie version of the novel by the same name,
directed and co-produced by Irwin Allen who co-authored the script was
scheduled to begin today
1960(14th
of Tishrei, 5721): Parashat Bereshit
1960:
Ninety-year-old German movie star Henny Porten, who refused to divorce her
Wilhelm von Kaufmann her Jewish husband when the Nazis came to power which all
but put an end to her career and any chance they had of getting out of the
country passed away today.
1962:
Sixty-two-year-old Cardiff, Wales Maurice Orbach, the “general secretary of the
Jewish Trades Advisory Council ("a committee of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews, aimed at countering anti-Semitism in business life" during
World War II) from 1940 and remained its secretary until his death,” the
husband of Ruth Hubsch and the father of Susie Orbach began serving as a Member
of Parliament for Stockport South.
1962:
Louis Katz, who would be known as “Mr. Katz” went to work for the Forward
1963:
Today, “Joseph Meyerhoff of Baltimore, the general chairman of UJA “told the
100 members of the UJA Study Mission that ‘much more money will be required in
1964’ than the UJA had raised in 1963.”
1963:”Fifteen
Cleveland clergymen representing the three major faithers – Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish – appealed to President Kennedy today to urge the Soviet officially
to permit Jews in the USSR to bake matzoth from the wheat which the Administration
has agreed to let Russia buy in the United States.” (JTA)
1964:
Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro completed his services as an MP for
Kidderminster.
1964(9th
of Cheshvan, 5725): Eighty-one-year-old Warsaw native and Syracuse, NY resident
David M. Holstein, the husband of Mrs. Viola Holstein with whom he had three
daughters and one son and “a founder and chairman of the board of the Syracuse
Ornamental Company” who “a board member of the Syracuse General Hospital and a
founder of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/16/archives/david-m-holstein.html
1964:
The Men’s eight at the Games of XVIII Olympiad where the U.S. National Rowing
Team was coached by Allen Rosenberg to two gold medals came to an end today.
1965(19th
of Tishrei, 5726): Fifth day of Sukkoth”
1965(19th
of Tishrei, 5726): Sixty-four-year-old Israeli mathematician Abraham Frankel,
the first Dean of Mathematics at Hebrew University passed away today.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Fraenkel.html
1965:
The Dodgers and Sandy Koufax won the 7th game of the World Series.
1965:
Stevie Wonder recorded “For Once in My Life” written by Ron Miller, a Jew who
had the unlikely claim to fame of having gotten his big break writing songs for
Motown and whose daughter described him as "a young, Jewish
songwriter with a very Rodgers & Hammerstein musical theater writing
style" who "wrote of peace and hope for a better tomorrow during a
time of war and the Civil Rights Movement.
1966:
The Touro Synagogue or Congregation Jeshuat Israel in Newport, RI, was placed
on the NRHP today.
1966:
Broadway composer Moose Charlap and singer Sandy Stewart gave birth to jazz pianist
William Morrison Charlap.
1968(23rd
of Tishrei, 5729): Simchat Torah
1968(23rd
of Tishrei, 5729): Seventy-one-year-old Rebecca Mack, the Ohio born daughter of
Theresa and Henry William Mack passed away today.
1968(23rd
of Tishrei, 5729) Sam S. Treiger, the son of Ethel and Israel Treiger and
husband of Rose Steinberg Treiger passed away today after which he was buried
at the New Bikur Cholim Cemetery in Seattle, WA.
1968:
The most popular recording of Ron Miller’s “For Once in My Life” was released
today.
1969:
Birthdate of game show host Paige Davis.
1970(15th
of Tishrei, 5731): Sukkoth
1970:
Final day of publication for The American Examiner which traces its origins
back to the American Hebrew, which first appeared in 1879.
1971:
Premiere of “A Safe Place” directed and written by Henry Jaglom and produced by
Bert Schnieider.
1973:
During the Yom Kippur War, start of the Battle of the Chinese Farm which “was
fought in the Sinai, north of the Great Bitter Lake and just east of the Suez
Canal near an agricultural research station” which the Israeli soldiers
incorrectly thought was the home to equipment from China.
1973: During the Yom Kippur War, General Arik
Sharon led an attack on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal. Joined by Generals
Adan and Magen, within a week the IDF cut off the main road from Cairo to Suez
and surrounded Egypt’s 3rd Army. The hold on the West Bank greatly improved
Israel's negotiating position with the Egyptians and the morale of the
country. Regardless of how one may feel
about Sharon’s politics, he was a bold general.
His successful cross canal attack completely changed the military equation
of the Suez War.
1973:
Binyamin Livne and Rahamim Sofer were taken prisoner after their F-4E Phantom
Jet was shot down by either a MiG or Egyptian anti-aircraft fire. Tragically, Sofer would die while being held
prisoner.
1973:
For the valor he displayed in destroying an enemy position today in the Sinai,
Sergeant Moshe Levi was awarded Israel’s Medal of Valor.
1975:
The President of the Soviet continued his visit to Tunisia as part of the
Russian plan to increase their influence with the Arab governments dedicated to
the destruction of Israel.
1975:
“Whiffs,” a comedy directed by Ted Post, co-starring Elliott Gould and music by
Sammy Cahn was released today in the United States.
1976(21st
of Tishrei, 5737): Hoshana Raba
1976:
“Harlan County,
USA, a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary film covering the "Brookside
Strike", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke
Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in
Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973 directed and produced by Barbara
Kopple” was released in the United States today.
1977(3rd
of Cheshvan 5738): Parashat Noach
1977(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5738): Eighty-two-year-old Fannie H. Hassel Abramson, the daughter
of Elias and Sarah Becket Hassel, the wife of Max Abramson and the sister of
Max, Calvin and Morris Hassel.
1977:
Two people were injured in two bombings today in Jerusalem.
1979(24th
of Tishrei, 5740): Sixty-three-year-old Ukrainian born British theatrical agent
and the younger brother of producer Lew Grade with whom he co-founded the Grade
Organization passed away today in France
https://www.jewage.org/wiki/en/Article:Leslie_Grade_-_Biography
1980(5th
of Cheshvan, 5741): Seventy-four-year-old Hungarian-American historian Ladislas
Farago whose books provide a better insight into his skills than anything that
could appear in this blog passed away today (Start reading)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ladislas-Farago
https://www.amazon.com/Ladislas-Farago/e/B001HOY0EK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
1980:
It was reported today that “1,030 Soviet Jews had emigrated from the U.S.S.R
during September of 1980: Sixty-two-year-old Cecil Aonowitz, the son of Morris
and Ethel Aronowitz was buried today.
1980:
Seventy-eight-year-old Alexander Mach the pro-Nazi Slovak leader “who was
sentenced to thirty years for his collaboration” passed away today. (As
reported by Sam Goldpaper)
1980:
A.M. Rosenthal, the executive editor of the New York Times announced today that
Arthur Pincus has been appoint deputy sports editor of the NYT.
1981:
“The KGB and police conducted searches in the homes of Pavel Abramovich,
Natalia Khasina, Yulii Kosharovskii, and Leonid Tesmenitskii, activists
involved in teaching and spreading knowledge of the Hebrew language.”
1981:
“Forty Moscow Jews appealed to President Leonid Brezhnev demanding the release
of all those detained for attempting to pay their respects to Nazi victims at
Babi Yar
1981:
After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “The Evil Dead” a horror film
directed by Sam Raimi who co-authored the script was released today in the
United States.
1982(28th
of Tishrei, 5743): Sixty-eight-year-old auctioneer Nathan B. Sweedler passed
away today after which he was buried at the Beth El Temple Cemetery in Avon,
CT.
1985(30th
of Tishrei, 5764): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1985(30th
of Tishrei, 5764): Fifty-nine-year-old basketball guard Max Zaslofsky who
starred for St. John’s and the professional New York Knicks lost his battle
with leukemia today.
1986(12th
of Tishrei, 5747): Seventy-seven-year-old Marcus Samuel, 3rd Viscount Bearsted,
the son of Dorothy Montefiore (Micholls) and Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount
Bearsted who succeeded to his father’s titles after going up to Oxford and
earning the rank of Major while serving with the Warwickshire Yeomanry during
WW II, passed away today.
1987:
In Ottawa Canada, former Penn State tennis player Nathan Levine and his wife
gave birth to Canadian-American professional tennis player Jesse Levine
1988:
The Summer Olympics in which Hagai Zamir competed on the Volleyball Team,
opened in Seoul, Korea today.
1989:
Having finally been granted an exit visa by the Soviets, refusenik Ida Nudel
arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport where she was met by “Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres as well as her sister,
Elena Illana Fridman, and thousands of Israelis.”
1989:
In Justice v Justice, Bernard Schwartz reviewed The Antagonists: Hugo Black,
Felix Frankfurter and Civil Liberties in Modern America.
1990:
Michael Douglas Bell began serving as Canadian Ambassador to Israel.
1992:
Title to Temple Israel in Leadville, CO passed from the William H. Copper
Family Trust
1994(10th
of Cheshvan, 5755): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1994(10th
of Cheshvan, 5775): On Shabbat, 73-year-old Ruth Steinbach Affelder, the
Philadelphia born daughter of Lester Gans Steppacher and Ruth Miriam Elizabeth
Steppacher and the wife of Lewis Jacob Affelder passed away today in Shaker
Heights, OH.
1994:
This evening at the Mamaronek Beach and Yacht Club, Rabbi Melvin Sirner
officiated at the wedding of Amy Jill Shulman, the United States advertising
manager of HMV Record Stores in Stamford, Conn., and Kenneth Charles Feldman, a
marketing consultant in New York…”
1995(21st
of Tishrei, 5756): Hoshana Rabah
1995:
It was reported that in New York City, alternate-side street cleaning
regulations “will be suspended for the last two days of the Jewish holiday
cycle which ends with Simchat Torah.
1999:
After premiering two days ago, Rob Reiner’s “The Story of Us” was released to
the rest of the United States.
1999: Marquette University Law School Dean Howard
Eisenberg delivered a speech entitled “What's a Nice Jewish Boy Like Me Doing
in a Place Like This? Some Thoughts on Spirituality, the Legal Profession and
Religious Diversity” at a Law School retreat.
2000(16th
of Tishrei); Second Day of Sukkoth; first day for blessing the Lulav &
Etrog
2000:
The New York Times featured reviews
of Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas, Off Camera Private Thoughts
Made Public by Ted Koppel and Women and Human Development: The
Capabilities Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum
2000(16th
of Tishrei, 5761): Second Day of Sukkoth
2000(16th
of Tishrei, 5761): Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Konrad Emil Bloch passed away. Born in Germany in 1912, Bloch fled Nazi
Germany in 1934. He arrived in where he
furthered his education while serving on the faculties of Yale Medical School,
Columbia, the University of Chicago and Harvard. He shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1964
with Feodor Lynen for their discoveries related to the regulation of
cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
2001:
Hours after an IDF sniper killed a lead of Hamas, “Israel said it would reward
the relative quiet in Palestinian areas by relaxing some of its security
restrictions.”
2002:
“Israel's defense minister suggested today that the army might withdraw from a
second West Bank city by the weekend, sounding a conciliatory note as Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Washington to meet with President Bush.”
2002:
“As he prepared to leave Israel for a meeting with President Bush, Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon called on Palestinians today to change their ''murderous
regime,'' saying the coming year could be ''a year of change.”
2003(19th
of Tishrei, 5764): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
2003(19th
of Tishrei, 5764): Fifty-eight-year-old French Jewish philosopher Benny Lévy,
the last personal secretary of Jean-Paul Sartre passed away today.
2003:
Academy Awarded nominated “Mystic River,” featuring Emmy Rossum, Ari Graynor
and Eli Wallach was released today in the United States.
2003:
Golda's Balcony, starring Tovah Feldshuh, opened at Broadway's Helen Hayes
Theatre
2003:
Three Americans were killed and one wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the
Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy
carrying U.S. diplomats and CIA personnel.
2004:
Susan "Susie" Essman “performed at the Friars Club roast of Donald
Trump, in which she lampooned the tycoon.”
2004:
“Being Julia” directed by István Szabó was released in the United States today
by Sony Pictures.
2005: Haaretz reported that dozens of Jewish
worshippers attacked the head of the Israel Defense Forces Manpower Branch
Major General Elazar Stern at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem on Friday
night..
2006(23rd
of Tishrei, 5767): Simchat Torah
2006(23rd
of Tishrei, 5767): Eighty-four-year Denver jurist, attorney and decorated WW II
Army veternin Marshall Quiat, the son of Ira and Esther Quiat and the husband
of Ruth Quiat passed away today after which he was buried in the Fort Logan
National Cemetery under tombstone marked with a Star of David.
2006:
Police said that complaints that five women had filed against Moshe Katsav
“would not be pursued because the statute of limitations had run out.
2006:
Ten years after his death Sam Ash, who 1924 founded what became Sam Ash Music
Corp. “the larges family-owned chain of musical instrument stores in the United
States” “was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame” today.
2006:
The Los Angeles Times book section
features a review of The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the
Jews by David Mamet.
2006:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Through The Children’s Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik
and Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq
War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
2006:
“Pelech,” a unique progressive Torah/Talmud based educational opportunity for
women in Israel, marks its 40th anniversary.
2006:
Professor Robert (Yisrael) Aumann, the Israeli-American scholar who won the
Nobel Prize for economics last year, said this week that Israel may not be
capable of continuing to exist in the long-term. "Too many Jews don't
understand why they are here," said Aumann, who moved from the United
States to Israel in the 1950s and helped found the Center for Rationality at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an interdisciplinary research body that
focuses on game theory. "If we don't understand why we are here, and that
we are not America or just a place in which to live, we will not survive,"
he said in a speech at the College of Judea and Samaria in Ariel on Sunday.
2007:
In Washington D.C., Nextbook Presents: Shalom Auslander, Foreskin's Lament: A
Memoir, as part of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival.
2007:
The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three Americans Leonid Hurwicz,
Eric S. Maskin, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
N.J., and Roger B. Myerson, a professor at the University of Chicago.
2007:
Time magazine reviewed Foreskin’s
Lament by Sahlom Auslander. “Behind the
worst title of the year lurks one its best memoirs.…”
2008(16th
of Tishrei, 5769): Second Day Sukkoth
2008:
An “article in today’s Washington Post
analyzing the origins of the economic crisis claims that AlanGreenspan
vehemently opposed any regulation of derivatives, and actively sought to
undermine the office of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission when the
Commission sought to initiate regulation of derivatives.
2008:
In “Seeking Have on Earth” Mike Boehm previews the performance of The
Disappearance by Ilan Stavans.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/15/entertainment/et-double15
2008:
Today, GMAC, of which Bernard Madoff’s buddy J. Ezra Merkin served as
Non-Executive Chairman, “had $173 billion of debt against $140 billion of
income-producing assets (loans and leases), some which are almost worthless, in
addition to GMAC Bank’s $17 billion in deposits (a liability) which meant that
even if GMAC liquidated the loans and leases, it couldn’t pay back all of its
debt.”
2009(27th
of Tishrei, 5770): Seventy-nine-year-old toy collector Donald Kaufman passed
away.
(As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/nyregion/18kaufman.html
2009:
The Counter-Terrorism Bureau at the National Security council issued a new,
more sever warning today against traveling in India. The warning comes a month before the
anniversary of the November, 2008 Mumbai attacks which an attack on the Chabad
House.
2009:
The Library of Congress hosts a discussion of the illustrated volume
"Herblock: The Life and Works of the Great Political Cartoonist,"
published to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of syndicated cartoonist
Herbert Block, with its editors Haynes Johnson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist, and Harry Katz, curator of the Herb Block Foundation Collection and
the editor of "Cartoon America: Comic Art at the Library of Congress. The
retrospective, published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, coincides
with the library's new exhibition, "Herblock!,"
2009:
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s “The Diary of Anne Frank” is performed at
Kimmel Theatre on the campus of Cornell College in Mt. Vernon Iowa.
2009:
Israeli poet Efrat Mishor reads at The Mill in Iowa City, IA.
2010:
Holocaust historian leads a noon time discussion at the University of Iowa
Hillel in Iowa City.
2010:
Mort Fertell is scheduled to speak at the Friday night dinner following the
MesorahDC traditional Shabbat service at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue
in Washington, DC.
2010:
A major Berlin museum is launching an exhibition that seeks to explore how
Adolf Hitler won and held mass support among Germans for his destructive
regime."Hitler and the Germans — Nation and Crime," which opens today
at the German Historical Museum, juxtaposes the Nazis' propaganda images and
artifacts such as 1930s Hitler busts with footage and documentation on the
regime's brutality and Germans' involvement in it.
2010:
It took seven years to write and just a few days to sew together, but today the
first Torah scroll written entirely by a group of women was attached to its
wooden poles and declared complete. The ceremony was held at Seattle’s Kadima
Reconstructionist Community, which sponsored the project. “
2010:
Tomer Chelouche reviewed The Arab Jew From Algeria by Joanna Paraszczuk
2011(17th
of Tishrei, 5772): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
2011(17th
of Tishrei, 5772): Batsheva Esther Kanievsky, the wife of Rabbi Chaim
Kanievsky, oldest daughter of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv and granddaughter of
Rabbi Aryeh Levin, passed away today.
2011(17th
of Tishrei, 5772): Seventy-nine-year-old super-agent Sue Mengers passed away
today (As reported by Michael Cieply)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/movies/sue-mengers-hollywood-agent-dies-at-79.html
2011:
The Season’s Opening Concert, featuring the “Four Seasons” 1s scheduled to take
place at the Eden Tamir Music Center. What better way to celebrate the joys of
Sukkoth than to listen to Vivaldi in Jerusalem!?
2011:
Israeli gymnast Alexander Shatilov won a bronze medal at the Artistic
Gymnastics World Championships in Tokyo this morning, securing a place at the
London Olympics in 2012.
2011:
Hundreds of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Kiryat Shmona
today, in solidarity with economic demonstrations being held around the world.
2011:
The Justice Ministry this evening gave President Shimon Peres' office the list
of Palestinian prisoners expected to be pardoned and released as part of the
Gilad Shalit exchange deal, with the recommendation of Justice Minister Yaakov
Neeman.
2012:
The ARZA Board and Leadership Council Annual Meeting is scheduled to come to an
end.
2012:
As Hadassah members gather to celebrate its 100th anniversary the Keepers of
the Gate Reception is scheduled to take place in Jerusalem
2012:
The YIVO institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Victoria Sake Woeste
entitled ” Henry Ford's War on Jews and
the Legal Battle against Hate Speech.”
2012:
Alvin E. Roth was awakened at three
o’clock this morning by a phone call that told him he was a co-winner of the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.
http://www.timesofisrael.cmaom/two-americans-win-noble-prize-for-economics/
2012:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today that he is currently refraining from
drafting into the IDF yeshiva students, who have until now been receiving
military service deferrals, until after elections, despite the current lack of
any legal framework for them to avoid national service following the expiration
of the Tal Law in August
2013:
As part of the Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, Judy
Blume is scheduled to participate in a discussion of Tiger Eyes, the first of
her books to be turned into a movie.
2013:
A dynamic ensemble comprising strings, winds, harp and piano which is part of
the Israeli Chamber Project is scheduled to perform at the Merkin Concert Hall
2013:
Glenn Greenwald announced and The Guardian confirmed that he was leaving to
pursue a "once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist
could possibly decline.”
2013:
Members of the Netzah Yehuda, (Nahal Hareidi) Brigade captured Arab terrorists
who had infiltrated the community of Eina.
Troops have been extra vigiliant since the shooting of 9 year old Noam
Glick and and the murder of retired IDF Colonel Seraya Opher – events that have
taken place within the last ten days.
2013:
Bob Filner, the former Mayor of San Diego who was forced to resign because of
his outrageous sexual antics pleaded guilty today “to a felony and two
misdemeanors for unwanted physical contact with three women at public events.”
2014(21st
of Tishrei, 5775): Hoshana Rabbah
2014:
“Fury” a WW II epic co-starring Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal and Jason Isaacs was
shown for the first time at the Newseum.
2014:
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled
to present a lecture by Yvette Walczak, “a Polish child survivor who will speak
about her experiences growing up in Poland, the Soviet invasion and later her
escape with reference to her autobiography ‘Let Her Go!’,
2014:
“The Kehilla Residential Programme will hold its fourth annual “Sukkahville”
international design competition at Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto
today to draw attention to the issue of affordable housing in the Toronto
area.”
2014:
“Britain’s official Jewish leadership condemned Sir Alan Duncan MP, a former
vice chairman of the governing Conservative Party for recent comments in which
it said he “likened those expressing any support for settlements to
anti-Semites, sexists and homophobes.”
2014:
“Thousands of Jews were undeterred by the early pre-dawn hour and cold today as
they made their way through the Old City of Jerusalem to the Kotel (Western
Wall), for vatikin prayers at dawn on the seventh and final day of Sukkot,
Hoshana Raba.”
2015:
In Alexandria, VA, Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a screening
of “Above and Beyond” the story how a gusty group of American volunteers helped
to found the IAF and provide the IDF with air-cover in the War for
Independence.
2015:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host a presentation by
Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Lawrence Summers on
Academic Freedom and Anti-Semitism
2015:
Hundreds of
Palestinians entered the Joseph's Tomb compound in the West Bank town of Nablus
late today and set it on fire, severely damaging the Jewish holy site in what
Israel called a "despicable" act.
2015:
Historian Simon Michael Schama appeared on the British “debate program Question
Time.”
2015:
“Transforms, a five-part event on fashion, design and art is scheduled to open
at the Jaffa Port.”
2015:
The Jerusalem Music Center is scheduled to present a Tribute Concert honoring
Marcel Goldmann.
2015:
As part of B'nai B'rith UK's European Jewish Heritage Days, the Jewish Museum
of London is scheduled to host a screening of “David/Daoud.”
2015:
In New Orleans, a week-long screening of “Rosenwald” is scheduled to come to an
end today.
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/rosenwald-documentary-to-bow-here-soon/
2016(13th of Tishrei, 5777): Parashat Ha’azinu
2016: In Cedar Rapids, IA seventh grader Leah Dillon is
scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2016: In “Check War Victims’ Names Before They Are
Set In Stone” published today “in the
Volkskrant daily,” Jim Terlingen urged authorities in the Netherlands “which
lost approximately 75 percent of its Jews during the Holocaust – the highest
percentage in Nazi-occupied Western Europe” to make sure that they had all of
the names as the country began creating memorials honoring the dead.
2016: In Jerusalem, the Eden Tamir Music Center is
scheduled to host its “Season’s Opening Concert”
2016: As part of the “Bridge to Beethoven” program,
pianist Shai Wosner, is scheduled to perform at Washington Irving High School.
2016: The West End Synagogue is scheduled to host “a
musical celebration of Shabbat” for children featuring Cantor Ayelet
Piatigorsky, Rabbi Nadia Gold and a revolving crew of Jewish educators and
musicians
2017: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jews and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Grant, a biography about
the great Civil War general by Ron Chernow and the recently released paperback
edition of ADHA Nation:
Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American
Epidemic by Alan Schwarz
2017:
Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a housewarming party for Rabbi Hugenholtz is
has just completed here first holiday season of services in Iowa and her
family.
2017:
Miriam Fishkin whose family was deported to Siberia by the Soviet Secret Police
during WW II is scheduled to describe her childhood ordeal at the Breman Museum
in Atlanta.
2017:
The Holocaust Museum and Education Center is schedule to commemorate the 76th
anniversary of the Babiy Yar Massacre, with a program featuring music by Fifth
House Ensemble, and readings and signings by Survivors featured in Never Heard
Never Forget, a new, joint publication of Holocaust Community Services,
Illinois Holocaust Museum, and Reklama Media Group.
2017:
In the 59th Leo Baeck
Memorial Lecture New York Times columnist Roger Cohen is scheduled to discuss
“German-Jewish History in the 21st Century.”
2018:
In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled the “Concert Lecture
Series – Musiversity” featuring pianists Ariel Halevy and Dr. Dror Semmel.
2018:
As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations, The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “community in Chicago is scheduled to host a
luncheon featuring an address by “Benjamin Ferencz, Nurember prosecutor” while
honoring “Peter Hayes and Father John Pawlikowski with the National Leadership
Award for their commitment to Holocaust memory and education.”
2018:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, IA, is scheduled to host “an
evening with Ambassador Daniel Shapiro” who “was named Distinguished Visiting
Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute of National Security Studies in March
of 2017.”
2018:
The Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host “a discussion between Margalit
Fox, author and former NY Times obituary writer and Ruth Franklin. (Editor’s
note – this is must-attend event! Fox’s
obits are literary gems and are truly the “first draft of history.” On top of this, she is a very patient, kind
person who takes the time to answer a reader’s question.)
2019(16th
of Tishrei, 5780): Second Day Sukkoth; f
2019:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host its
“third annual Friends, Fun and Games”
2019:
In New Orleans the steering committee coordinating Limmudfest 2020 is scheduled
to meet this evening.
2019:
In Corte Madera, CA, “Book Passage Marin” is scheduled to host an evening with
Rabbi Lee Bycel discussing his new book Refugees In America.
https://www.bookpassage.com/event/lee-bycel-refugees-america-corte-madera-store
2019:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “The Perils and Purpose of
Photojournalism: An Evening with Greg Constantine.”
2020:
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University is scheduled
to present on Zoom the next Schusterman Seminar, “Text and Violence in
Jerusalem: Hebrew Graffiti on the Western Wall” with Yair Wallach , a senior
lecturer in Israeli studies at SOAS, University of London, where he is also the
head of the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies.
2020:
The S.F. JFFCS Holocaust Center is scheduled to present “painter and art
historian Esti Dunow talking about her series, “Kaddish,” inspired by her visit
to the Polish hometown of her father, noted Yiddish writer Moshe Dluznowsky.”
2020:
The JCC Literary Consortium is scheduled to present Steve Madden as he talks
about his memoir “The Cobbler: How I Disrupted an Industry, Fell From Grace and
Came Back Stronger Than Ever.”
2020:
The Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia is scheduled to host a virtual
screening of “Mrs. G. An incredible story about how Lea Gottlieb not only
survived the holocaust but went on to start one of the most famous swimsuit
companies in the world.”
2020:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, at Temple Judea Rabbi Feivel is scheduled to host
coffee and conversation where he talks about “Exploring our Roots –
Genealogy/Tracing our Heritage.”
2020:
“Ben Gurion Airport is scheduled open today at midnight for flights according
to the "open sky" outline, as it was before the closure.” (As
reported by YNET)
2021:
Paperback Row published today featured reviews of books written by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest Jewish readers including The Daughters of
Yalta: The
Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine
Grace Katz, To Be A Man: Stories by Nicole Krauss and Attack Surface by Cory
Doctorow.
2021:
It was reported today that “The Lehman Trilogy” a “British import, which
reaches across 164 years of American history to trace the family saga behind
the fallen financial powerhouse Lehman Brothers which opened last night is
scheduled to run through January at the Nederlander Theatre in Manhattan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/theater/the-lehman-trilogy-review.html?searchResultPosition=1
2023:
In New Jersey, the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to
host a lecture by Dan Rozett on Combatting Ant-Semitism.
2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host
2022: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano” with “Oxana Yablonskaya and Friends”
playing an all Chopin program.
2022:
The Brookline Arts Center in Brookline, MA is scheduled to host “Conversation
and Tea,” a gathering for the community to share their own favorite terms of
love and curses with artist Ariel Basson Freiberg,
2022(20th
of Tishrei, 5783): Shabbat shel Sukkoth;
2023:
In Iowa, the order by Governor Kim Reynolds that in Iowa all flags are to be
lowered to half staff following the Hamas attack on Israel is scheduled to end
at sunset today.
2023:
The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society are
scheduled to present “Fighting Fascism: A Symposium on Jewish Responses from
the Interwar Period to Present Day.”
2023:
In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to host a two part workshop designed to
help attendee find their roots and preserve their memories.
2023
Hannukkah Gift Wrap-A-Thon sponsored by the Jewish Children’s Regional Service
(an organization which provides invaluable services) is scheduled to take place
today at Gates of Prayer in New Orleans.
2023:
The Chelsea Film Festival which has showcased four titile direct by Israeli
filmmakers is scheduled to come to an end,
2023:
The Museum at Eldrige Street is scheduled to host Dr. Zacharay as he leads a
virtual tour “Not Tevia’s Shtetl:
2023:
As October 15 begins in Israel, “the Health Ministry has updated the number of
wounded to 2, 2243 with over 350 in critical or serious condition,” the IDF is
confronted with the real possibility of a two-front war as Hezbollah fires
rockets into Israel, the IAF “pounds” Gaza and the country continues to reel
from the traumas of last Saturday as new revelations of atrocities are made
public. (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:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Mark Dubowitz on “It's
Iran Stupid with Carly Maisel”
2024:
In Washington, DC, the Edlavitch DCJCC’s Center for Social Responsibility and
Jews United for Justice are scheduled to host “Nights at the Round Table:
Ending Homelessness.”
https://capitaljewishmuseum.org/events/nights-at-the-round-table-ending-homelessness/
2024:
In Metairie, LA, the Jewish Community
Day School is scheduled to host its Sukkot BBQ.
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host Trudy Gold “In Conversation with
Sharan Tabari on “A Window into the Iranian Perspective'”
2024:
As October 15th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 375 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)
