This Day, October 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 20
1409 BCE (10 Cheshvan 2351): This is the
traditional date of the death of Gad, son of Jacob, one of the Twelve Tribes
(born 2196).
460: Aeilia Eudocia, the Byzantine Empress
who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem in 438, passed away today.
1314: Louis IV, who in 1349 would authorize
the Duke of Guelders “to receive Jews in his duchy where they provided
services, paid a tax and were protected by law” began his reign as “King of the
Romans.”
1314: In an agreement signed today by
Rabbenu Asher and his sons “Judah ben Asher and his brother Jacob were
appointed trustees” of a trust that would distribute funds to the poor.”
1614: Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont,
“the most famous (or infamous) Christian Kabbalist of the 17th century” and
author of the Short Sketch of the Truly Natural Hebrew Alphabet who “claimed
that he had rediscovered the key to peace on earth in the shape and sound of
the Hebrew letters” was baptized today.
http://www.brill.com/francis-mercury-van-helmonts-sketch-christian-kabbalism
1650: Coronation of Queen Christina of
Sweden, who became a Catholic, moved to Rome in December 1655 and made Clement
X prohibit the custom of chasing Jews through the streets during the carnival.
1710: Robert Raymond, who while serving as
Attorney General “was asked to decide whether a Jew born in England but of
foreign parentage could purchase and enjoy an estate in fee” ruled that such a
Jew “was fully capable of purchasing and enjoying the land and that the law had
put no disability upon him account of his religion” became Sir Robert Raymond
when he was knighted today.
1714: Coronation of George I during whose
reign as King of Great Britain and Ireland “an act of
Parliament allowed Jews holding land to omit the words "on the true faith
of a Christian", when registering their title.”
1722: Wolf Popper “a Primator of the Jews
of Bohemia” and his wife gave birth to banker Joachim Edler von Popper,
“commonly known as ‘Court Jew’ to the Habsburgs.”
1740: Maria Theresa takes the throne of
Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honor the Pragmatic
Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins. At the end of the war,
unfortunately for the Jewish people, she would still be on the throne. She
attempted to expel all of the Jews from Bohemia. She imposed a myriad of
restrictions on the Jews living in her realm but was not averse to gouging them
for as much money as she could. Like her Russian counterpart, she sought to
limit the number of Jews living in her empire. And then, with the partition of
Poland the number of her Jewish subjects soared when she acquired Galicia. The
famous Jewish historian Simon Dubnow said that this Empress caused the Jews
more trouble than all of the Emperors who had come before her.
1748: “Sussel Strauss” and his wife gave
birth to Samuel Strauss, the husband of Judith Baierthaler and father of
Carolline, Isack, Abraham, Moses and Grace Strauss.
1753(22nd of Tishrei, 5514):
Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret
1772(23rd of Tishrei, 5533): As
relations between Britain and her American colonies begin to deteriorate to a
level that will eventually lead to revolution, Jews on both sides of the
Atlantic observe Simchat Torah
1778: Birthdate of Baltimore native John
Jeremiah Jacob, the husband of Ann Overton Fontaine and father of John Jeremiah
Jacob.
1779: During the American Revolution, the
Supreme Council of Pennsylvania passed a series of resolution related to
Solomon Bush who had been wounded and taken prisoner by the British before
being paroled so he could recuperate at the home of his father, Matthias Bush.
1780(21st of Tishrei, 5541):
Hoshana Rabah observed on the same day that Letizia and Carlo Buonparte gave
birth to Pauline Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte who had
such a major impact on the Jewish people from his campaign in Palestine to his
calling for a meeting of a Sanhedrin at the start of the 19th
century.
1781: The Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II of
Austria issued the Patent of Toleration which was an edict extending to
religious freedom to non-Catholic Christians living in the Habsburg Empire. The
Jews would have to wait another year. In 1782 Joseph II issued the Patent of Toleration
for the Jews of Lower Austria, thereby establishing the civic equality of his
Jewish subjects.
1784: In his family’s Westminster house,
The 2nd Viscount Palmerston and his wife Mary gave birth to Henry
John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, who while serving as of Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs during which tinw the British blockaded the port of
Piraeus as part of the response to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, whom
Palmerston defended as this “man of Jewish persuasion” and on whose behalf he
“made a celebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be
able to say, as did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum"
("I am a citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the
British government”
1791(22nd of Tishrei): Shemini
Atzeret observed for the first time in France under “the short-lived French
Constitution of 1791.”
1802: Hyman Hurwitz married Hesther Levy at
the Great Synagogue today.
1805: Eva Katz and Salomon Reiss gave birth
to Abraham Weiss who married Jette Reiss after the death of his first wife.
1803: The United States Senate ratifies the
Louisiana Purchase. The tiny Jewish population of New Orleans and the
surrounding bayou country were now “American Jews.” The first Jews probably
came to the Louisiana coast at the start of the 18th century when they brought
trade goods from the Caribbean. Ironically, Judo Turo, the famous merchant and
philanthropist who would contribute to the development of Jewish communal
institutions arrived the same year that the Louisiana Purchase was ratified.
St. Louis, the other “city” the United States acquired as part of the Louisiana
Purchase would not see its first Jewish settler until 1807.
1807(18th of Tishrei, 5568):
Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1820: Birthdate of Whilhelm Wolfensohn the
Odessa born author and playwright.
1827: During the Greek Liberation War, an
allied fleet made up of British, French and Russian ships defeated a combined
Turkish and Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino. The battle effectively
marked the end of the war and paved the way for the creation of the independent
nation of Greece which had been part of the Ottoman Empire. According to Nikos
Stavrolakis one of the founders and director of the Jewish Museum in Greece
from 1977 until 1993, “The Greek War of Independence brought disaster to the
Jewish communities in the Peloponnesos the place where the revolution erupted
in 1821. The Jews, because of their close association with the Ottoman
administration, were massacred along with the Turks. The Jewish communities of
Mistras, Tripolis, and Kalamata were decimated; the few survivors moved north
to settle in Chalkis and Volos, still under Ottoman rule. Patras lost its
ancient Jewish community, which was re-established only in 1905.”
1824: Abraham Jacob Jones married Rebeca
Montefiore at the New Synagogue today.
1827: Birthdate of Viennese native
Magdelena “Lena” Woolner, the wife of Abraham Woolner and mother of Sophie,
Hanna, Maximillian Isabella and Gisela Woolner
1828: Birthdate of Horatio Gates Spafford ,
the New York born lawyer who was one of the founders of the “American Colony,”
whose members “engaged in philanthropic work amongst the people of Jerusalem
regardless of their religious affiliation and without proselytizing motives.”
1829(23rd of Tishrei, 5590):
Simchat Torah is celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of Andrew
Jackson.
1834(17th of Tishrei, 5595):
Third Day of Sukkoth
1835: Ellen Hart and Michael Hart Cardozo
gave birth to Lavina Abigail Cardozo.
1837(21st of Tishrei, 5598):
Hoshana Raba
1840: Solomon
Benedict de Worms, Hereditary Baron of the Austrian Empire, and Henrietta
Samuelde Worms gave birth to their third son, Henry de Worms, a leading member
of the Conservative Party in the UK.
1842: In South Carolina, Ann Cohen and Myer
Nathan who were married in Charleston in 1841 gave birth to Cecilia Nathan.
1845: In New Orleans, Julie Cohen and Isaac
Hart gave birth to Morris Hart and Rachel Hart the wife of Meyer Halff with
whom she had four children.
1848(23rd of
Tishrei, 5609): As Europe is racked by Revolutions and thousands head for
California in search of the newly found gold, Jews observe Simchat Torah
1850: Birthdate of Adolf Rosenzweig, the
Hungarian born Biblical and Talmudic scholar.
1852: It was reported today that “An insane
Jew died at the House of Industry in Boston, last week, at the age of 30 years.
This is the 1st Jew that ever became a public charge in the City of Boston
within the memory of one of its oldest city officials.”
1852: In Romania, Idel Ber Brociner and his wife gave
birth to author Marco Brociner who was the brother of Joseph Brociner, Maurice
Brociner and Andrei Brociner.”
1853(18th of Tishrei,
5614): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed as Ottoman forces crosed the Danube
during the Crieman War.
1854: Birthdate of New
York City native Louis Seigman Ehrich, the future resdient of South Carolina
and husband of Cornelia C. Sampson Ehrich
1855: Reverend Findlay is scheduled to
deliver a sermon tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian Church in the
Williamsburg section of NYC entitled "The Restoration of the Jews."
1856(21st of Tishrei, 5617):
Hoshana Rabah observed for the last time during the Presidency of Franklin
Pierce.
1859(22nd of Tishrei, 5620):
Shmini Atzeret
1859: Birthdate of John Dewey, the American
educational philosopher who met Anzia Yezierska in 1917 while she was auditing
one of his seminars at Columbia. Despite
the differences in their ages, they became romantically involved which led to
his writing her poems and she describing their relationship in a novel, All
I Could Never Be.
http://books.google.com/books/about/John_Dewey_and_Jewish_education.html?id=Zx48AAAAIAAJ
1862: Abraham Hart who had enlisted in the
73rd Pennsylvania Infantry in 1861 was “discharged for disability
today.”
1862: In New York City, Robert Weeks Nathan
and Anne Augusta Florence gave birth to Maud Nathan, the wife of Frederick
Nathan and an American social worker, labor activist and suffragist for women's
right to vote who came from a prominent Sephardic family that included her
cousins Emma Lazarus and Benjamin Cardozo and the author of several “papers on
Christianity and Judaism” including “The Heart of Judaism” which she “read
before the Council of Jewish Women.”
1865: Sir Saul Samuel began his second term
as Treasurer of New South Wales.
1867(21st of Tishrei, 5628):
Hoshana Rabah
1867(21st of Tishrei, 5628): In
Prague, five days after he had passed away, Rabbi Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport
was buried after eulogies were delivered by Rabbi Hurwitz and Dr. Jellinek, who
had come from Vienna for this solemn occasion.
1867: In Philadelphia, the funeral of Rabbi
Rapport which had been delayed for four days, because the Jewish community
wanted to send its deputies Rabbi Hurwitz and Dr. Jellinek took place today.
1868(4th of Cheshvan, 5629): Ephraim "Ferdinand" Waldstein, the son of Zadok
and Esther Waldstein and the husband of Lea "Lisette" Koppel
Waldstein, passed away today after which he was buried in the Old Jewish
Cemetery at Muenchen, Bavaria.
1869(15th of Cheshvan, 5630):
Selina Prince Harris, the Scottish born daughter Nancy Hart Aloe and Sidney
Zadoc Aloe, the husband of Morris Harris
and the mother of Reuben Harris passed away today in Manhattan after which she
was interred in Beth Olom Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queesn
1870: In Baden-Wurteemberg, Germany, Lena
and Max Jeselsohn gave birth to Samuel Jeselsohn the husband of Malchen
Jeselsohn and the father of Albert, Sigmund and Ludwig Jesselsohn
1872: In Egeln, Germany, Selig and Juliane
Blumenthal, gave birth to Alfred Blumenthal who would die at the age of 70 in
Theresienstadt.
1872: In Cleveland, founding of The
Excelsior Club whose members have included Nathan Loeser, Sol M. Hexter, Joseph
Goodhart and Herman Koppel.
1874: On his twentieth birthday, Adolf
Aharon Rosenzweig “entered the rabbinate of Pasewalk in Pomerania.
1874: Baruch Berthold Dukas the Sulzburg
born son of Hirschel Naphtali Dukas and Helena Hendle Dukas and his wife Sara
Duka gave birth to Charlotte Dukas
Sara Dukas burg born of
1875(21st of Tishrei, 5636):
Hoshana Rabah
1875: Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH
native Edgard Simon who gained fame as
and “theatrical producer playwright Edgard Selwyn, the brother of Archibald
Selwyn with whom he formed a successful production and the husband of Ruth
Wilcox whom he married after divorcing Margaret Mayo.
1876: Samuel A. Lewis, who is a candidate
for Alderman at Large in New York City, was described as a native New Yorker
and a Hebrew who “occupies a god social position.” He has served as a School Commissioner, and has
twice been elected Alderman at Large.
Currently he is President of the Board of Alderman and editor of the
Hebrew Leader. He had unsuccessfully
sought the nomination to serve as Mayor of New York.
1878(23rd of Tishrei, 5639):
Simchat Torah
1878: According to a report published today
on conditions in the French colony on the island of Cyprus the native
(non-European) “community consists of Muslims, Jews and Christians. Of these a European merchant can always
believe the first upon his simple word, the two latter he can rarely credit on
oath, and the harder they swear the more certain one may be that they are
stating what is not the case.” [The report is unusual for two reason – first it
lumps Jews and Christians together and second it speaks highly of the
trustworthiness of a local Muslim population, two things that western writers
rarely, if ever, did.
1879: According to a letter published today
reported that Joseph Barclay, the recently consecrated Bishop of Jerusalem,
“showed an extraordinary interest in the conversion of the Jews” even when he
was a “mere child.” Before being appointed Bishop, Barclay served as the
Superintendent of the Church of England’s Missions to the Jews of the Continent
and served in Jerusalem for ten years where he became a noted Orientalist.
[Barclay was one of a large cast on English characters who showed an unusual
interest in Palestine and the Jewish people.]
1879: In Los Angeles, Jacob and Jeannette
(Weiler) Baruch gave birth to University of California trained chemical
engineer, the husband of Paloma Schramm whom he married in 1914.
1880: Three days after he had passed away,
87 year old Jacob Quixano Henriques, a native of “Spanish Town, Jamaica” was
buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1880: In Jackson, CA, Dora Steckler gave
birth to her third child who was born two months after the death of Charles Steckler, a local merchant who is
buried in Givoth Olam Cemetery.
http://www.weeklypioneer.com/2010/08/charles-steckler.html
1880: Three days after he had passed away,
Karl Schmidt, a native of German and the husband of Mary Schmidt, was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1880: In Minsk “Nachim Mendel and Rose
Baskin” gave birth Joseph Baskin the husband of the “former Mary Plotkin,” the
father of Geraldine and Gilbert Baskin and since 1916 the “general secretary of
the Workmen’s Circle” and “editor of The Friend.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/27/92667566.pdf
1880: Rosa and Adolphus Rich gave birth to
Clara Wilhemine Rich who became Clara Wilhemine Fechheimer when she married
Carl J. Fechheimer, the Purdue trained engineer who left “a $150,000
bequest…to establish a chair in electrical engineering at the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology”
188O: Birthdate of Kolin native Rudolf
Saudek, the sculptor and graphic artist who after surviving Theresienstadat
returned to Prague where “he held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts.”
1881: Birthdate of Romanian native Joseph
Solomon Diamond, the NYU-Bellevue Medical College trained internist who “helped
to introduce the Secretin Test for pancreatic test” in the United States and
who was the husband of Ethel Diamond with whom he raised two daughters, Naomi
and Adele.
1882(7th of Cheshvan, 5643):
Eighty-one year old Solomon Benedict de Worms the grandson of Mayer Amschel
Rothschild who was successful British stockbroker and plantation owner in
Ceylon before being named as a Baron by Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, passed
away today.
1882 George de Worms “became 2nd
Baron de Worms” after which he “was awarded the honor of Knight Commander of
the Order of Franz Joseph.”
1883(19th of Tishrei, 5644):
Shabbat shel Sukkoth
1883: It was reported today that the
families that recently arrived from Odessa aboard the SS Canada will be sent
back to Europe because they are destitute.
1883: It was reported that Henry J.
Greenberg a Jewish peddler from Pennsylvania, whose body was found in a hotel
in the Bowery probably committed suicide.
Before coming to New York, he had visited his brother Marcus in Boston.
1883: This morning, Isaac Cohen, President
of Ansche Chesed on Hester Street, visited the Tenth Precinct and requested
that a police officer be sent to the synagogue that evening because he feared
that there might be an “uprising” during the scheduled business meeting.
1883: Harry and Caroline Breslau gave birth
to Hermann Bresslau
1883: In Nizhny Novgorod violinist Abram
Krein and his wife gave birth to composer Alexander Abramovich Krein whose
works included “Kaddish” which he composed in 1921 “for tenor soloist, choir
and orchestra.
http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/krein-three-sketches-on-hebrew-themes.htm
1883: Violence broke out during the
business meeting of Ansche Chesed B’nai Kovanah that was held tonight at the
Hester Street Synagogue.
1884: It was reported today that in the
past year St. Luke’s Hospital in New York treated 1.497 patients, 18 of whom
were Jewish.
1884: Professor Felix Adler was among the members
of the Tenement House Commission that met this afternoon in New York.
1884: In Safed, Meyer and “Bet-Sheba
Taubenhaus gave birth to the Cornell University and U. of Pennsylvania trained
“plant pathologist” and husband of Esther Hirschenson who in 1916 found “TAMC
Menorah Club” which was became the Hillel chapter at Texas A & M.
1884: Isaac Hamburger, Grand Master of The
Grand Lodge of the United States of the Independent Order of Free sons of
Israel and H.I. Goldsmith, the organization’s Grand Secretary sign an address
on behalf of its 12,000 members living throughout the United States, that is
being sent to Sir Moses Montefiore on “the one hundredth anniversary” of his
birth “recognizing his unique greatness to which no one nation can lay claim.”
1884: In Romania, Antonette Friedman and
John Fligelman gave birth to University of Minnesota Phi Beta Kappa graduate
Fanny Fligelman Brin, the husband of Arthur Brin whom she married in 1913 and
President of the Minneapolis Section of the Council of Jewish Women who was a
member of the League of Women’s Voters and Haddasah.
1885: “A Suicide At Riverside” published
today describes events surrounding the death of Albert Unger whose body was
found by a police officer after he heard two gunshots. Unger, who belong to several Jewish
organizations, had recently been discharged by Steinhardt Brothers where he had
worked for 12 years, but Abraham Steinhardt refused to discuss the matter.
1886(21st of Tishrei, 5647): Hoshana Rabah
observed for the last time during the Presidency of Grover Cleveland, the only
presidential candidate to have been defeated for re-election and then secured a
second term, whose support and friendship with Jews could be seen when he
appointed Oscar Strauss to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
1886: Birthdate of Odessa native and CCNY
graduate Sherman Lippitt, the George Washington University trained physician
and a member of the Marquette University faculty
1887(2nd of Cheshvan, 5648):
Baron Hermann de Stern passed away in London. Born at Frankfort in 1815 he and
his brother moved to London in 1844 where they became respected members of the
financial community through their company, Stern Brothers
1889(25th of Tishrei, 5650):
Sixty-nine year old George Judah Cohen, the London born son of “Barnett and
Sierlah Cohen” and husband or Rosa Solomon who was “a storekeeper” and for a
short while “postmaster” in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia passed away
after which he was buried in the Maitland Jewish Cemetery.
1889: In Owensboro, KY, founding today of
The Standard Club who members including Phillip Dahl, Lee Levy and Ben C.
Koltinsky.
1889: “Russian Converts” published today
described the pressure brought to bear on Jews to convert to the Orthodox
Church. As a result, “young men” who were “once honest Jews” are now “spurious
Christians.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C01E4D91130E633A25753C2A9669D94689FD7CF
1890: Sixty-nine year old Sir Richard
Francis Burton a British orientalist and explored who antagonized the Jewish
population of Damascus while serving there as consul in 1869, passed away.
Burton’s The Jew, the Gipsy and el Islam which was published 8 years
after his death was critical the Jews and “asserted the existence of Jewish
human sacrifices.
1892: Eduard Schnitzer passed away. He was
born in 1840 to assimilated German Jewish parents. His parents had him baptized
at the age of two because they thought it would advance his career. Schnitzer
later converted to Islam and took the Turkish name of Emin Pasha. As, Emin
Pasha, he traveled throughout the world as an explorer, adventurer and doctor,
spending much of his time in Khartoum in the Sudan. He was a tireless fighter
against the slave trade which was still rampant. He returned to Central Africa
on a semi-political voyage for Germany and was killed there by slave traders.
1893: Birthdate of New York native chemist
William Edward Popkin, the graduate of CCNY and Cornell who had two daughters –
Mae and Jane – with his wife Esta.
1893: “George Samuel’s Big Estate”
published today described the disposition of his estate which was valued at
$2,365,000 most of which went to his nephew Baron Henry de Worms who represents
a Liverpool borough in the House of Commons.
1893: In Germany, the annual report of the
Social Democrats published today complained that when the right wing
Anti-Semites boycott Jews firms nothing is done but when the Social Democrats
do the same they are prosecuted with the full “rigors of the law.”
1893: In Vienna, Ludwig Teller, the “son of
Isak and Anna Teller, and his second wife Natalie Thalia Teller gave birth to Erwin Teller,
1894: Seventy-six year old James Anthony
Froude who in 1869 “was elected Lord Rector of St. Andrews, defeating Benjamin
Disraeli by a majority of fourteen” and who wrote Lord Beaconsfield, a
biography of Benjamin Disraeli published in 1890, passed away today.
1894: When Alexander III died in Crimea
today, “according to Simon Dubnow: ‘as the body of the deceased was carried by
railway to St. Petersburg, the same rails were carrying the Jewish exiles from
Yalta to the Pale. The reign of Alexander III ended symbolically. It began with
pogroms and concluded with expulsions.’"
1894(20th of Tishrei, 5655):
Shabbat Sukkoth Chol Hamoed
1894: In Minsk, Shimon and Zishe Feigin
gave birth to Dr. Solomon S. Feigin, the optician who was the husband of
“Dorothy Dee Lubell Feigin and father of Dr. Simeon Lubell Feign.
1894(20th of Tishrei, 5565):
Fifty-four year old Austrian neuroanatomist and ophthalmologist Ludwig Mauthner
who discovered “Mauthner Cells” passed away today.
1894: Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, the
leader of the “municipal purity movement” in New York told a reporter today of
the broad support he has found among women in New York including “Mrs.
Frederick Nathan, who belongs to an old and highly distinguished Hebrew family
of great wealth and social position.”
1894: French police officer and handwriting expert
Alphonse “Bertillon's provisional report, submitted
today inferred ‘without any reservation whatever’ that Dreyfus was guilty.”
1894: Samuel Greenbaum, the Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Educational Alliance took issue with a request by the Women’s Municipal League for
the use of the Hebrew Institute Building which is controlled by the Alliance
was handled; especially the influence the of Nathan Straus who is neither an
officer or a director of the Alliance.
1895(2nd of Cheshvan, 5656):
Seventy-eight-year-old German-Jewish “jurist and politician” Isaac Wolffson, a
member of both the North German Reichstag and the German Reichstag passed away
today in Hamburg.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14994-wolffson-isaac
1895: In New York, “Russian Jewish
immigrants Ida (Edelson) and Abraham Ryskind multi-talented author and
political activist Morrie Ryskind who earned
“the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the Broadway production “Of Thee I
Sing.” (As reported by Jeffrey Schmalz)
1897: As of today, there eight men, six
women and two children residing as patients “in the Jewish Seaside Convalescent
Home at West Brighton.”
1897: Birthdate of London born American
Oscar winning composer Adolph Deutsch.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/adolph-deutsch-mn0000497873/biography
1897: Bernard Mannes Barcuh, the CCNY
educated son of Simon B. Belle Baruch who was a long-time member of the New
York Stock Exchange married Annie Griffen today.
1897: The Jewish Board of Guardians
Emigration Committee is scheduled to meet at 4:30 pm
1897: The Jews’ College Education Committee
is scheduled to meet this evening at Tavistock House.
1898: In Wilkes-Baree, PA, Edward and Bess
Cohen gave birth to Edith Cohen who became Edith Lieberman when she married
William Lieberman.
1899: “Sherith Jacob Israel Congregation, one
of Cleveland's principal Orthodox Jewish congregations during the 1920s and
1930s, was established as Sherith Jacob Congregation today by 18 Jewish
Hungarians who lived near East 20th Street and Orange Avenue.”
https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sherith-jacob-israel-congregation
1899: In Paris Gaston Michel Calmann-Lévy and Hélène Koenigswarter gave
birth to Robert Paul Michel Calmann-Levy
1899: One day after he had passed away, 72
year old Solomon Simons was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in
London.”
1900(27th of Tishrei, 5661)
Parashat Bereshit
1900: Des Moines, IA born mandolin player
began recording for Victor Records today.
1900: Birthdate of Sidney R. Rabinovitz who
gained fame as philanthropist and supermarket executive Sidney R. Rabb.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/15/us/sidney-rabb-84-dies-supermarket-executive.html
1901: “Vanity at the Photographers”
published today provided insights into the world of commercial and portrait
photography in New York including the fact that Russian Jews on the east side
of they “are accustomed to wed quite unanimously on Sudan” which means that
“many galleries on the east side keep open on that day.”
1902(19th of Tishrei, 5663):
Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1902: It was reported today that the
Armenians were looking to the United States for protection from the Ottomans
because she had intervened with Romania on behalf of the country’s Jewish population.
1903: Today, the Court of Appeals sustained
the judgement of all lower courts in their refusal to grant a writ of mandamus
to Camille Weidenfeld to secure his reinstatement as a member of the New York
Stock Exchange which would lead to him selling his seat to Herman Cohen.
1904: Maurice H. Harris, the rabbi of
Temple Israel in Harlem wrote in a letter today that he “heartily approves of
the East African project, the establishment of a refuge for Russian, Romanian
and Galician Jews” something for which has pleaded “but let us not base” these
projects “on the ground that America’s doors are closed to further Jewish
immigration.”
1904(11th of Cheshvan, 5665):
Sixty-one year old Joseph Bernhardt Bloomingdale the husband of Clara Koffman
and the father of Rosalie Stanton Bloomingdale passed away today in New York
City.
1904: Birthdate of Breslau native and
mathematician Hans Lewy the holder of a PhD from the University of Gottingen
who in 1933 came to the United States where he joined the faculty at the
University of California, Berkely.
1904: Birthdate of multi-talented author
Charles Kaufman, the native of Patterson, NJ, who screenplay for the film
“Freud” was nominated for an Oscar.
1905(21st of Tishrei, 5666): Hosahan Raba
1905: A two day pogrom at Kishinev came to
an end. According to some reports only 19 Jews were killed and 56 were
injured. This was the second pogrom that
had taken place at Kishinev in the first decade of the twentieth century. The
first pogrom in 1903 was the more infamous and deadly of the two. Jewish self-defense leagues formed in 1903
helped to hold down the casualties in the second pogrom.
1905: A two day pogrom at Rostov came to an
end leaving more than 150 Jews murdered, 500 more wounded and great damage done
to the “Jewish shops, stores, warehouses and mills” despite the efforts of “a
small self-defense detachment organized by the Po’le Zion.
1906(1st of Cheshvan): Parashat
Noach and Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1906: Solomon Rabinovich, the Russian
writer known as Sholem Aleikhim “who has been called the Jewish Mark Twain”
arrived this afternoon in New York aboard “the American liner St. Louis”
1907: “A monument to the memory of Mrs.
Tillie Wundoehl Moses” which “was erected by the Tillie Memorial Society” was
unveiled today “in a free burial ground for deserving Jews in Mount Carmel
Cemetery” during a ceremony in which Brooklyn Borough President Bird S. Coler
“made the principle of address,” Rabbi
L.B. Michaelson gave the dedicatory address and Dr. Simon Cohen actually unveiled
the monument.
1908(25th of Tishrei, 5669):
Fifty-five year old Vaiben Louis Solomon, the son of Rachel (Cohen) Solomon and
Judah Moss Solomon, husband of “Mary Bridgland” and then Alice Solomon who combined a career as a businessman with a
career in politics that climaxed with him becoming the “21st Premier
of South Australia” passed away today.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/solomon-vaiben-louis-8577
1908: Birthdate of Hyman Arbeid, the “Vice
Chairman of the Association of Synagogues of Great Britain, the forerunner of
Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, the Warden and Chairman of the of the
executive at West Lond Synagogue and Chairman of the Leo Baeck College Appeal.
1909: Birthdate of silent screen actress
Rebekah Isabelle "Carla" Laemmle, “the niece of Carl Laemmle, the
founder of Universal Pictures. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/movies/carla-laemmle-actress-with-silent-screen-debut-dies-at-104.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0
1910: Sixty-seven year old David B. Hill
the Democratic political leader who as U.S. Senator from New York and Governor
of New York openly opposed the American Protective Association (APA) an
powerful anti-immigrant organization that favored discrimination against many
groups including Jews, passed away.
1911: In the United Kingdom, the Home
Secretary declined “to reduce sentences in connection with anti-Jewish riots in
Wales.
1911:The “American Jewish Community in
Jerusalem resolved to ask Jews in the United States to effect repeal of clause
of naturalization laws providing for expatriation of naturalized American
citizens residing abroad.”
1911: “Ernst Schenieder, a notorious
anti-Semite” was “appointed Chief of the Education Department for Lower
Austria.
1911: In Austria, “Albert Frankfurter and
Leopold Kronberger” received the “title of Court Councillor.”
1912(9th of Cheshvan, 5673):
Oscar E. Appelgreen passed away today in “the Jewish Hospital” in Philadelphia
where he had spent the last five weeks of his life.
1912: It was reported that Newman Erb who
has recently been placed in control of “The Mofat Line,” is making arrangements
for the extension of” this railroad “to Salt Lake City from which point it will
eventually go to the Pacific Coast…”
1913(19th of Tishrei, 5674):
Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1913: Rabbi Bernard Drachman, the President
of the Board of Jewish Ministers who along with Dr. Samuel Schulman of the
Temple Beth El had been appointed to
obtain the opinions of various faiths” on the Bellis Trial taking place in
Kiev, made public today, “a letter he received from Cardinal Farley with
reference” to this matter.
1913 John Cardinal Farley wrote a letter
today to Dr. Bernard Drachman which he said, “In reply to your request that I
give expression of my views on the existence of
ritual murders in the worship of the Jewish people, I am free to say
that I have never for an instant given credence to any such accusations.”
1914: “The first remittance” from the
American Jewish Relief Committee consisting of five thousand dollars for the Jews
of Palestine and five thousand dollars for the Jews of Galicia was sent abroad
today.
1915: A wireless telegraph from Berlin
received at Sayville, Long Island today said “286 Jews in the German Army have
been promoted to be officers.”
1915: In Revere, Massachusetts, “Harry J
Ginsberg, a maintenance worker and Rose Harris gave birth to the Tufts and
Columbia trained social worker and WW II veteran Mitchell Irving Ginsberg, the
husband of Ida Robbins, who held leadership roles in the Peace Corps and VISTA while
also teaching at Columbia.
1916(23rd of Tishrei, 5677):
Simchat Torah
1916(23rd of Tishrei, 5677):
Eighty-three-year-old Louis Tavriger
passed away today in Liverpool.
1916: Producer Joseph M. Schenck who was
Jewish married actress Norma Talmadge following which the couple formed the
Norma Talmadge Film Corporation.
1916: It was reported today that at the
Republican rally held at the Star Casino on Lexington Avenue, “the most
enthusiastic applause came when Isaac Siegel happened to mention the name of
Morris Hillquit, the Socialist writer and candidate for Congress” in what was
supposed to have been a speech that would generate support the candidacy of
Republican Charles Evans Hughes.
1917: In Berlin, Helen and Franz Hessel
gave birth to Stéphane Frédéric Hessel, the naturalized French citizen who “was
a diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, French Resistance
member and BCRA agent.”
1917: During WW I, a German submarine
commanded by Martin Niemoller sank a British steamer. This is the same Martin
Niemoller who as Pastor Niemoller became an anti-Nazi who went to the camps in
1937 where he remained until the end of WW II.
1918: Twenty-six year old Rabbi Aaron D.
Bruack, the Kovno born son of Chaim Nathan and Basse Burack who had come to the
United States in 1914 married Esther Inselbuch today.
1918: The New York Branch of the Jewish
Welfare Board has transformed the dormitories of the Jewish Theological
Seminary into a canteen for soldiers. Among other things, the canteen will
provide meals for the troops and their visiting family members. The effort is
being led by Mrs. Solomon Schechter whose son, a graduate of Columbia, is
serving with the Army in France.
1918; Sergeant Abraham Blaustein who had
been attending Army Candidate School at Dijon left today heading for La Vallone
where he was to rejoin the 165th Regiment
1918: The founding conference of
Yevsektsiya took place today. Yevsektsiya was the Jewish section of the Soviet
Communist party and was established to popularize Marxism and encourage loyalty
to the Soviet regime among Russian Jews. “For most of its existence, the
Yevsektsya was headed by Semyon Dimanstein. Yevsektsiya was entirely
subordinate to leadership of the Soviet Communist party. Yevsektsiya members
were people of Jewish origin, but they were hostile to traditional Jewish
culture and instead sought to assimilate Jews into the new Soviet society,
often by repressive measures. In line with official Soviet doctrine,
Yevsektsiya was deeply opposed to Bundism and Zionism, labeling them forms of
"bourgeois nationalism”. The Yevsektsia was disbanded in 1929. Many
leading members perished in the Great Purge. Dimanstein was arrested and
received death sentence in 1938 and was executed. He was rehabilitated
posthumously in 1955, 2 years after the death of Joseph Stalin.”
1919: “Park Commissioner Francis D. Gallatin
gave a hearing today to members of the Jewish Welfare Board. who pleaded for
the use of a service hut in Seward Park as a special school for children
suffering from heart trouble.”
1920: Max Bruch passed away. The German
composer and conductor was a Protestant. However, he wrote a piece for cello
and orchestra which remains quite popular, Kol Nidrei based on Hebrew melodies,
most notably the melody of the Kol Nidre, which gives he piece its name.
1920: Birthdate of Janet Rosenberg, the
Chicago native who married Cheddi Jagan and as Janet Jagan played a key role in
the political life of Guyana including serving as its sixth President.
1920: Birthdate of Clara Bagelman who
gained fame as Claire Barry who with her sister formed a popular Yiddish singing
duo.
1921: In speaking at three meetings tonight
Mayor Hylan renewed his defense of the public system saying that because of the
public schools “the citizens of Jewish birth learns to appreciate his fellow
citizen from sunny Italy” and “the citizen of Irish birth learns to understand
his Jewish neighbor.”
1922: “Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood, M.P.,
who is visiting the United States in the interests of the Palestine Foundation
Fund, said the most important question was whether Bonar Law would dissolve
Parliament…”
1923: Birthdate of actor Herschel Bernardi
who is best remembered as Lt. Jacobi on the television hit, “Peter Gunn,” the
voice of Charlie the Tuna and the second person to play Tevye in the Broadway
hit, “Fiddler on the Roof.”
1924(22nd of Tishrei, 5685): Shemini
Atzeret
1924: It was reported today that “Mme. Isa
Kremer, the accomplished singer of folksongs has given first recital at
Carnegie Hall” which included songs in Yiddish.
1925: In Hechingen, Germany, writer, doctor
and diplomat Friedrich Wolf who would take his family to the Soviet Union after
the Nazis came to power and his wife gave birth to movie director Konrad Wolf,
“the younger brother of Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf.”
1925: Birthdate of columnist Art Buchwald.
The cigar-chomping humorist first gained popular acclaim for his daily column
written from Paris. His annual Thanksgiving column where he would explain the
holiday to the French was a classic.
1926: Seventy-year-old-Socialist leader
Eugene V. Deb who when he ran for president in 1920 received the votes of only
3 per cent of the American electorate but who received the votes of 38 per cent
of the Jewish voters passed away today.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/28/these-are-few-my-favorite-jews
1926: Sioux City, Iowa merchant David
Davidson, the Russian born son of Henry L. and Cima Davidson marries for a
second time today after the death of his first wife Sara Frank in 1919.
1927: In Brooklyn, Estelle (née
Rapaport)and Morris K. Bauer, attorneys who shared a law practice gave birth to
Joyce Diane Bauer who gained fame as psychologist, quiz show contestant and
columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers.
1927: In St. Louis, Louise and Arthur
Benjamin Cohn gave birth to Arthur B. Cohn.
1927: “The Eleven Devils,” a “sports film”
directed by Zoltan Korda, a member of the famous Korda family, was released
today in Germa
1928: “Love in the Cowshed” directed by
future Nazi party member Carl Froelich and starring Jewish actor Eugen Neufeld
and featuring Felix Bressart, the Jewish character actor who left Germany after
the Nazis came to power was released today in Germany
1928: “In the presence of 400 Jewish
leaders representing twenty-five States and Canada, Mr. Louis Marshall opened
the Non-Zionist Conference at the Hotel Biltmore” this evening. (As reported by
JTA)
1929(16th of Tishrei, 5690):
Second Day pf Sukkoth observed for the first time during the Presidency of
Herbert Hoover and four days before Black Thursday.
1929: “Judge Samuel D. Levy of the
Children’s Court” spoke this afternoon at meeting of the Jewish Theatrical
Guild where he asked for the aid of that organization in support of child
welfare work.”
1929: In Brooklyn, garment worker Reuben
Jacobson and his wife Beatrice gave birth to Sidney Jacobson who gained fame as
“Sid Jacobson, a veteran comic book writer and editor whose work took him from
the opulent, fanciful world of Richie Rich to the real-life terrorist attacks
of 9/11…” (As reported by George Gene Gustines)
1930: Lord Passfield issued his "White
Paper" banning further land acquisition by Jews and slowing Jewish
immigration. Chaim Weizmann who had always toed a pro-British line resigned in
protest.
1930: In Boston, Sam Fisher who “ran the
Fisher Shoe Company” and his wife gave birth to Jerome Fisher, the founder of
“Nine West, a women’s shoe company.” (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)
1930: Rabbi Albert G. Baum, a graduate of
the New York Jewish Institute of Religion in the class of 1930, and the former
acting Rabbi of Temple Israel in Amsterdam, NY, was installed tonight “as
spiritual leader of Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim
1931: “The outlook for Palestine is better
than in years, because the Jewish groups have made an impression the British
Government and the Colonial Office has adopted a new attitude Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise told the Women’s Organization of the Free Synagogue at its first luncheon
of the season today at the Synagogue House…”
1932: “The Old Dark House” a horror film
produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr, with a script co-authored by Benn W. Levy and
co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States by Universal
Pictures.
1932: “A testimonial performance for Bertha
Kalich, well-known actress of the Yiddish and English stages, who has been in
retirement because illness, is scheduled to be given tonight at the Jewish Art
Theatre at Second Avenue and 12th Street.”
1933: “The Perils of Pauline” filmed by
cinematographer Richard Fryer was released in the United States today by
Universal Pictures.
1933(30th of Tishrei, 5694):
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1933(30th of Tishrei, 5694): “Loney” Haskell, the
husband of the former Jessie Garson Haskell and the businessman turned entertainer
who delivered the eulogy for Harry Houdini and was Secretary of the Jewish
Theatrical Guild of America at the time of his death passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/10/21/105809314.pdf
1933(30th of Tishrei, 5694:
Seventy-year old Bertha Simon Dreyfus, the New Orleans born daughter of David
and Theresa Kaufman Simon, the wife of Isaac Dreyfus and the mother of Ruth, H.
Artie, Jerome, and David Dreyfus passed
away today after which she was buried in the Congregation Anshe Emeth Cemetery
in Pine Bluff, AR.
1934: Birthdate of New York City political
scientist and author writing about Jewish life in Israel Charles S. Liebman who
“published a pioneering essay, “Orthodoxy in American Jewish Life” in 1965.
1935: Birthdate of Jerry Orbach. The actor
has played everything from the father in the film “Dirty Dancing” to Detective
Lenny Briscoe in “Law and Order.”
1935: “Herbert D. Allman, president the
National Farm School,” “the school which was found by Dr. Joseph I. Krauskop,
the late Philadelphia rabbi” and which “is a nonsectarian philanthropy
sponsored by the Jews of America” “advocated a back-to-the land movement today
and pointed to the possibilities of farming as a creative, independent career.”
1935(23rd of Tishrei, 5696):
Simchat Torah
1936: Birthdate of Aleandria native Jacques
Hassoun, the French psychiatrist who became an amateur export on the history of
the Egyptian Jewish Community.
http://www.bassatine.net/hassoun.php
1936: In Philadelphia, “delegates at the
annual convention of Hadassah…cheered today” when a cablegram from Palestine
was ready “announcing that ground had been broken on Mount for the Rothschild
Hadassah University and Medical School, the first Medical Center in Palestine.”
1936: Felix M. Warburg announced last that
for “the third successive year Lawrence Marx” “the guest of honor at a dinner
tonight at the Hotel Plaza” “will head the annual deficit campaign of the Federation
for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
1936: In Warsaw, “at the College of
Commerce more than twenty Jewish students were severely beaten today by
Nationalists when they refused to obey an order to leave their seats at the
front of a class and occupy ‘ghetto’ back benches.”
1936: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” a
film set in the Crimean War directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Samuel
Bishcoff, Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner with music by Max Steiner was
released in the United States today by Warner Bros.
1936: In Philadelphia Jerome Waxman “an
insurance and real estate agent who specialized in the poultry farms that
proliferated around Vineland, N.J., where Jews from Eastern Europe had
resettled” and the former Minnie Kaner,
“an educator” gave birth to Nahum Joel Waxman who gained fame as “Nach Waxman,
who combined his seasoning in anthropology and nonfiction editing to found a
Manhattan bookstore that became a global mecca for chefs, cooks, culinary
academics, epicurean writers and just about anyone who enjoyed eating as much
as he did…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1936(4th of Cheshvan, 5697): Mrs. Sarah
Sandler, mother of New York Attorney Bernard Sandler, passed away in Tel Aviv
today at the age of 85. Mrs. Sandler had lived in Palestine for the last 18
years. She was active in numerous charitable activities and refused her son’s
request that she return to New York after the most recent outbreak of Arab
violence.
1937(15th of Cheshvan, 5698): Felix M.
Warburg, a member of the Jewish family known for its financial acumen and
philanthropies passed away today at the age of 66.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30C15FC3959177A93C3AB178BD95F438385F9
1937: In response to discrimination
policies, Jews of Poland, assorted liberals and students went on strike. Within
a few weeks the government succeeded in putting down the strike and enforcing
its decrees. The environment of anti-Semitism obviously existed before the
Nazis arrived and made their work much easier.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that a
loud explosion which shook the American Colony was found to be due to a bomb
thrown at a Jewish shop at the Simon the Just Quarter, just off the Nablus Road
in Jerusalem. Shots were also fired at Jewish buses and an Armenian
photographer was hit. A £2,000 fine was imposed on the Adh Dahariya village for
raiding a police post. An immediate fine collection began in kind, livestock,
wheat and other movables.
1938: Adolf Hitler gave “a speech at the
city hall of Krumau, a city in southern Bohemia, in which he praised
‘Providence’ for having helped the German people achieve so much in recent
years” bit added that “this was only possible because we stood armed…”
1939: “At the Circus,” a Marx brothers
comedy produced by Mervyn LeRoy was released today in the United States.
1939(7th of Cheshvan, 5700):
Fifty-five-year-old Zanesville, OH native and University of Cincinnati graduate
Israel Klein, the HUC trained rabbi who served congregations in Evansville and
Grand Rapids passed away.
1940(18th of Tishrei, 5701):
Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1940: More than 7000 Jews from the Saar
region of Germany are interned at the camp at Gurs, France.
1942(9th of Cheshvan, 5703): Twelve
thousand Jews are murdered at Bar in the Transnistria region of the Ukraine.
1942: “The Art of This Century Gallery,”
which “exhibited important modern art until it closed in 1947” and which was
designed by Frederick Kiesler was opened today by Peggy Guggenheim today in
Manhattan
1942: Samuel “Willenberg boarded the
Holocaust train along with 6,500 inmates of the then-liquidated Opatów ghetto,
and went with them to the extermination camp at Treblinka.”
1942(9th of Cheshvan, 5703):
Seventy-four year old classical scholar Friedrich Münzer who had been
officially classified as Jewish in 1935 by the Nazis died today at
Theresienstadt concentration camp.
1942: The deportations of Jews from
Slovakia were halted today after a group of Jewish citizens, led by Gisi
Fleischmann and Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, built a coalition of concerned officials
from the Vatican and the government, and, through a mix of bribery and
negotiation, was able to stop the process. By then, however, some 58,000 Jews
had already been deported, mostly to Auschwitz. The deportations would be
resumed in 1944.
1943: Mrs. Moses Schorr, her daughter
Felicia and the grandchildren of Moses Schorr arrived in the French town of
Vittel where they were supposed to be exchanged for German POW’s.
1943: Irene Sendler was arrested in a
Gestapo night raid on her apartment and taken to Pawiak prison where she was
tortured. Sendler held out and did not betray any of confederates with whom she
worked to smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944: Nazis put 25,000 Hungarian Jewish men
and 10,000 Jewish women to work digging anti-tank trenches in the path of the
advancing Red Army.
1944: Men of the Polish Home Army attack
Jewish houses in the freshly liberated village of Ejszyszki. The village's Jews
subsequently retaliate against the Poles.
1944: 22,000 Budapest Jews are entrained
for deportation to Auschwitz.
1944: Nazi administrators at Auschwitz burn
documents related to prisoners and their fates.
1944: Nazis initiate death-march
deportations of Jews from Budapest, Hungary, to Germany.
1944(21st of Tishrei, 5769): At Birkenau,
600 of 650 boys between the ages of 14 and 16 whohad been locked in barracks
since the Revolt at Birkenau on October 7, would be gassed. Most of them were
Hungarians. Many race about the camp, naked and panicked, before being clubbed
by the SS guards who pursue them. The 50 survivors are put to work unloading
potatoes from railcars.
1944: On this day the deportations from
Hungary begin again. Despite the uprisings, more Jews from Theresienstadt were
selected for death. Another 1,416 would be gassed.
1945(13th of Cheshvan, 5706):
Parashat Lech-Lecha
1945(13th of Cheshvan, 5706):
Eighty-four year old Isaac (Isaak)) Plaut, the German born son of Betti and
Mendel Manachem Plaut and the husband of Fannie Plaut passed away today in the
United States.
1945: In Milwaukee, WI, “Lillian and Marcel Blumenthal, the owners of a small Venetian
blinds operation” gave birth to “George R. Blumenthal an American
astrophysicist, astronomer, professor, and academic administrator. He is the tenth
chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
1946: Birthdate of Austrian Novelist
Elfriede Jelink, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature. “Elfriede
Jelinek was born in the village of Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria. Although
Jelinek’s father was classified a Mischling (a person of “mixed races”) under
National Socialism, he and his wife escaped the most extreme excesses of
anti-Semitic persecution due to his work as a chemist in war research. Jelinek
is not considered a Jewish writer per se, but the author herself positions her
writings within the Jewish tradition and history. Critics, too, prompted by the
scathing irony underlying her texts, traces a continuity between the Austrian
Jewish satirical tradition - represented in the writings of Karl Kraus or Elias
Canetti - and Jelinek, while recognizing the latter’s radicalization of that
tradition.”
1947: The leaders of the Jewish refugees
living in DP camps under British control sent a telegram that “makes clear the
wishes and determination of the refugees to find a home in Palestine.’ Nothing will deter us from Palestine. Which jail we go to
is up to you (the British). We did not ask you to reduce our rations; we did
not ask you to put us in Poppendorf and Am Stau.’" [Poppendorf and Am Stau
were in Germany.]
1947: HUAC (House Un-American Activities
Committee) opened hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood. While
engaging in its highly publicized search for alleged Communists, HUAC certainly
had a tendency to stir up a lot of collateral anti-Semitic dust. Ironically,
many of the cooperative witnesses who were the first to take the stand were
Jewish including Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer (ex-chairman of the Republican
Party's California State Committee) and Ayn Rand. Warner told HUAC:
"Ideological termites have burrowed into many American industries,
organizations and societies. Wherever they may be, I say let us dig them out
and get rid of them. My brothers and I will be happy to subscribe generously to
a pest-removal fund. We are willing to establish such a fund to ship to Russia
the people who don't like our American system of government and prefer the
Communistic system to ours." Ayn Rand who was identitified as a “Russian
émigré” attacked "Song of Russia," complaining that the Soviet
peasants smiled too much. Red-baiter Adolphe Menjou testified on Oct. 21 that
he believed the Communist Party should be "outlawed." HUAC and its
right-wing supporters were quick to tie Jews to Communists, making the two seem
to be one in the same. However, they never identified the friendly witnesses as
Jews. This would have interfered with the Right Wing prejudice and conspiracy
theoris.
1947: "The Careful Dreamer," a Time magazine cover story on Oscar
Hammerstein II, was published today.
1948: After five days of fighting along the
Jerusalem Corridor, there is no major change in territorial holdings.
1948(17th of Tishrei, 5709):
Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1948(17th of Tishrei, 5709): “In a low-level bombing attack on the strategic
Egyptian-held fortress of Iraq-El-Suweidan, one of the recently acquired
Bristol Beaufighter Bombers was shot down, killing Len Fitchett, Dov Sugarman,
and Stanley Andrews
1948: “A smaller force from the Fifth
Battalion broke-away and travelled with a battle corps of the 10th Armored
Brigade on the Bayt Jibrin highway and captured Beit Jimal.
1948: The internal
Negev road from Julis to Bror Hayil through Kawkaba and Huleiqat was taken
today by Givati's 52nd and 54th battalions. Upon taking Huleiqat, the Israelis
discovered a mass grave where the Egyptians buried Israeli casualties of the
failed July Negev Brigade attack.
1949(27th of Tishrei, 5710):
Seventy-three year old Cincinnati born “artist, etcher” and portrait painter
David Rosenthal passed away today.
1950: The SS Benjamin Peixotto, a
decommissioned Liberty ship which was
named after the 19th century American-Jewish leader who had served
as U.S. Consul to Bucharest was refloated in a harbor in Hong Kong after having
been damaged by a typhoon.
1950: In Camden, NJ, at Sabbath Services, a
new Torah was presented in honor of Louis Berkowitz's 75th birthday.
1952: In Philadelphia, PA, Norma (née
Goodman)Mayron, a real estate agent, and David Mayron, a pharmaceutical chemist
gave birth to actress and director Melanie Joy Mayron who was the product of a
“mixed” marriage since her father was Sephardic and her mother was Ashkenazi family.
http://www.filmreference.com/film/53/Melanie-Mayron.html
1952: Birthdate of Dalia Itzik, the native
of Jerusalem born to a family of Iraqi Jews who was the first female Speaker of
the Knesset.
1953(11th of Cheshvan, 5714):
Sixty-one year Fred E. Ahlert, the Fordham Law School graduate who decided to
become a composer and songwriter passed away today.
http://www.jazzbiographies.com/Biography.aspx?ID=1
1953(11th of Cheshvan, 5714):
Forty-seven-year-old Harvard graduate Isaac H. Kempner, who has been serving as
president fth Imperial Sugar Company in Sugar Land, TX passed away today in
Houston
1953: CBS broadcast an episode of “See It
Now” entitled "The Case of Milo Radulovich" co-produced by Edward R.
Murrow and Joseph Wershba which was a landmark in exposing the Red Scare led by
Joe McCarthy and other reactionaries. (Wershba was Jewish; Murrow wasn’t)
1953: General Kenneth Nichols retired from
the Army which enabled him to become a senior management at the AEC which would
enable him to lead the fight to take away the security clearance for J. Robert
Oppenheimer.
1954(23rd of Tishrei, 5715):
Simchat Torah
1954: The 1954 musical version of “Peter
Pan” directed by Jerome Robbin with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and
music by Jule Styne opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
1955: Composer Alfred Newman and Martha
Louis Montgomery gave birth to Grammy, Golden Globe and Emmy award winning
composer Thomas Newman
1958: A Broadway revival of the Family
Reunion opened today at the Phoenix Theatre with Nathan Parnes as Company
Manager.
1959: CBS broadcast an adaptation of “The
Turn of the Screw” directed by John Frankenheimer.
1960: “The appointment of Sidney L. Solomon
as chief executive officer of Abraham Straus, Brooklyn department store, was announced
today by Federated Department Stores, Inc.”
1962(22nd of Tishrei, 5723):
Shmini Atzeret and Shabbat
1962: It was reported today that Mayor
Wanger has directed Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to “take every
possible action against street violence” in the wake of the fatal beating of 55
year old Rabbi Eisendorf of Brooklyn that took place on October 18.
1962: It was reported today, that “Israeli
musicians” from the Ramat-Gan Chamber Orchestra “have yielded to public
pressure and decided to drop engagements in West Germany from a European
concert tour that is scheduled to start tomorrow.”
1963(2nd of Cheshvan, 5724):
Eighty-one year old Elias Tobenkin, the Russian born son of Mark A and Fanny
Tobekin, University of Wisconsin graduate whose career in journalism including working
for the “Hearst Newspapers,” “The New York Tribune” and JTA who was the husband
of the former Rae Schwid.passed away today
https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00256
http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6259g62
1963: Today “a special memorial programs
was held at the Hebrew Confederate Cemetery the plaque marking the final
resting place of Henry Grintberger who was killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor
was corrected so that it no longer showed the last name of Gersberg.
1963: In Moscow, Rudolf Naumovich Solovyov,
and Inna Solomonovna Shapiro gave birth to Russian electronic journalist
Vladimir Rudol'fovich Solovyov who “was awarded the TEFI Russian television
prize as the best interviewer.”
1964: Herbert Hoover 31st President of the
United States passed away. Hoover named Benjamin Cardozo as Associate Justice
to the Supreme Court in 1932. How a Hawkeye Quaker came to name a liberal
Sephardic New York Jew to the High Court without incurring a burst of
anti-Semitic diatribes is one of the under-told stories of the 20th century
1964: “Golden Boy” a musical based on
Clifford Odets’ play of the same name produced Hillard Elkins by with music by
Charles Strouse starring Sammy Davis, Jr. opened on Broadway at the Majestic
Theatre.
1964: Henry David
Leonard George Walston, the son of Florence and Sir Charles Waldestein began
serving as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a position he would
hold until the “beginning of 1967.
1965: In Ramat HaSharon, Jacob Mansdorf, a
chemical engineer and his wife Era, a school teacher gave birth Israeli tennis
player Amos Mansdor.
1966: “In Star Trek: Voyager, Estelle
Harris, the younger of two daughters of Isaac
("Ira") and Anna Nussbaum, Polish Jewish immigrants who owned a candy
store and soda shop
portrayed the old woman who was actually a
projection of the Nechani Spirits in the third-season episode "Sacred
Ground," which aired today.”
1967: Seven men were convicted in Meridian,
Miss., of violating the civil rights of three murdered civil rights workers.
Two of the three victims were Jewish youngsters who had come South during the
summer of 1964 to work on a voter registration project. Their deaths helped
bring about the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights
Act.
1969: NBC broadcast episode six of “My
World…and Welcome to it” created by Melville Shavelson, co-starring Harold J.
Stone.
1970(20th of Tishrei, 5731):
Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1970(20th of Tishrei, 5731):
Seventy-five-year-old two-time World
Welterweight Champion Ted “Kid” Lewis who had been born Gershon Mendeloff in a
tenement in London’s East End and husband of Elsie Schneider passed away today
in Nightingale House in Clapham after years of dealing “with failing eyesight
and Parkinson’s disease.”
1971: “The Organization” the third and
final of the “Mr. Tibbs Trilogy” that began with the ground-breaking “In the
Heat of the Night” produced by Walter Mirisch was released today in the United
States.
1971: “T. R. Baskin” a dark “romantic”
drama directed by Herbert Ross, produced and written by Peter Hyams and
co-starring James Caan was released today in the United States by Paramount
Pictures
1972: In Ann Arbor, Michigan, cardiologist
Irwin Schatz and his wife gave birth to Brian Emanuel Schatz, the future
Senator from Hawaii.
1972: Tonight, Maurice Gusman “the 87‐year old immigrant, now millionaire, with tears in his
eyes faced a standing and cheering audience of some 1,800 Miamians who came to
the inauguration of the Maurice Gusman Philharmonic Hall, formerly the Olympia
Theater, the new home of the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra.”
1973: When their F-4E Phantom Jet was hit
by an Egyptian SAM, Aharon Sagi and Moshe Barton were recovered by the IDF
after safely ejecting from their aircraft.
1973: David Zeit and Yoram Rubenstein were
taken prisoner after their F-4E Phantom Jet was hit by an Egyptian SAM. The Israeli Air force faced a Soviet designed
air defense network that was more sophisticated than anything any air force had
had to cope with in modern warfare. The
willingness of these flyers to take to the skies is a tribute to their
individual courage and those who were shot down were no less heroes than those
who made it safely back to base.
1973: “Starting at sunrise” today, “the
Israeli Air Force launched aerial attacks for the duration of the day,
targeting Ismailia, the nearby al-Galaa' army base, and Jebel Mariam
1973: Israeli
forces came within 10 miles of Damascus.
1973: William Shatner married Marcy
Laffert. Yes, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock were both played by Jewish actors.
1973: The Israelis shot down Syrian
aircraft on its way to bomb the oil refineries at Haifa. The IDF force on the
west bank of the Suez Canal continued to widen its area of activity. The
Israelis were actually taking control of some of the roads between Cairo and
the Canal – between the Egyptian capital and the attacking Egyptian armies.
While the Israelis understand what is happening, the Egyptian high command
either is not aware of what is going or is hiding the truth from its
battlefield commanders.
1976: Twenty-eight activists demonstrated
at the Supreme Soviet demanding that those who beat up Jewish activists on
October 19 be punished.
1977: Rachel Vixman, “authority on
parliamentary procedure and a founder of the Pittsburgh Chapter of Hadassah”
was interviewed to by Ida Selavan for a project created by the Pittsburgh
Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.
https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3Aais196440.477
1979(29th of Tishrei, 5740):
Parashat Bereshit; Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Cheshvan
1979(29th of Tishrei, 5740):
Seventy-seven-year-old Manistique, MI native Isadore Winkelman the co-founder
of “the Detroit-based women’s clothing chain Winkelman Stores, Inc who was the
youngest son of “Jewish shopkeeper Isadore Winkelman” and the husband of Beryl
Winkelman with whom he had three sons and two daughters passed away today.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58773397/obituary-for-isadore-winkelman-aged-77/
http://www.winkelmans.com/aboutus.html
1980: “At 80, He’s a Thread in City’s
Tapestry published today traced the career of Benjamin Joseph Buttenwieser the
Jewish banker and Kuhn Loeb partner two days before the celebration of his 80th
birthday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/10/20/111300753.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1982: Revival performance of Abraham
Goldfaden’s “Shulamith” presented by Ben Bonus, Lively and Yiddish Productions,
in association with the Yiddish Musical Theater of Israel, producer, Dr. Rabbi
Israel Walin at the Norman Thomas Theater in New York City.
1982(3rd of Cheshvan, 5743): Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz “the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah
Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead,
England, where he taught for over 30 years” passed away today.
1983: Today, “Lillian Goldman moved out of
the Waldorf-Astoria suite she shared with her husband Sol” the hold of “New
York City’s largest private real estate empire” and “began divorce proceedings
in which she asked for half of his $1 billion in assets.”
1984(24th of Tishrei, 5745):
Parashat Bereshit; Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Cheshvan
1985: In a review entitled “A Place Like No
Other,” Michael Grant, the author of The Jews in the Roman Empire and A
History of Ancient Israel examines Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes
of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets From the Days of Abraham to
the Beginnings of Modern Times by F.
E. Peters.
1985: At Temple Beth Am, Rabbi Sanford E.
Saperstein officiated at the wedding of Cornell underrad Donna Sue Glickstern,
and Albert Wise Tanenbaum, “the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Jerome Tanenbaum,
Jr. of Dumas, Arkansas.
1986: Shimon Peres completes his second
term in office as Prime Minister of Israel.
1986: Yitzhak Shamir began his second
office term as Israel's prime minister
1988: In Moscow, founding of Mikhoel’s Cultural Center.
1989(21st of Tishrei, 5750):
Hoshana Rabah
1989(21st of Tishrei, 5750):
Sixty-five year old “Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, playwright, and
author” Dahn Ben-Amotz who made Aliyah in 1938 and whose parents died in the
Holocaust lost his battle with liver cancer and passed away today.
1990: Among those celebrating today’s
Cincinnati’s four game sweep that made them World Champions is Larry Rothschild
the former pitcher now serving as a coach for the Reds.
1990(1st of Cheshvan, 5751):
Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Chehsvan; parashat Noach
1990(1st of Cheshvan, 5751):
Eighty-two year old Stanley “Stan” Jaloff, the California native who was a star
basketball player for the University of Washington Huskies from 1928 to 1930
passed away today.
1992(23rd of Tishrei, 5753):
Simchat Torah is celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of George
Bush.
1994(15th of Cheshvan, 5755): Shlomo
Calbach passed away. Words cannot describe what he has done. Everybody has
their favorite Carlbach tunes or songs. Here are two sites where you can sample
some of his work by BenZion Solomon. I do not get any royalties. I just happen
to like them. <a
href="http://www.israel-music.com/ben_zion_solomon_sons/nishmas_kol_chai/">http://www.israel-music.com/ben_zion_solomon_sons/nishmas_kol_chai/</a>
<a
href="http://www.israel-music.com/ben_zion_solomon_sons/lchu_nrannoh/">http://www.israel-music.com/ben_zion_solomon_sons/lchu_nrannoh/</a>
1995: NBC broadcast the first show of
season 4 of “Homicide: Life on the Street” based on a book by David Simon and
co-starring Richard Belzer and Yaphet Kotto.
1995: “Get Shorty,” a “gangster comedy film
directed by Barry Sonnenfeld was released today in the United States.
1998: “After eighteen years of using the
Sabin vaccine, the federal government recommended that children use the Salk
vaccine exclusively” today
2000(21st of Tishrei, 5761):
Hoshana Rabah
2000: “Bedazzled” a remake of the 1967
comedy directed by Harold Ramis who co-produced the film and co-authored the
screenplay with Larry Gelbart was released in the United States today.
2002: In “Funny, You Don't Look Jewish,” published
today, Judith Shulevitz reviews Hillel Halkin's Across the Sabbath River: In
Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel “Across the Sabbath River relates
an improbable story: a people on a remote border of India, Tibet and Burma want
to migrate to modern Israel because they believe themselves to be descended
from one of the 10 tribes exiled from ancient Israel 2,700 years ago, and close
analysis of their folklore hints that they may be right.”
2002: Ceremonies marking the dedication of
Har Sinai’s new facility in Owings Mill, a reform congregation with roots in
pre-Civil War Baltimore came to an end.
2003: “President Bush ran into Malaysia's
pugnacious prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, at the opening of the Asian summit
meeting” in Bangkok” today and told him out of the earshot of the other 19
leaders that Mr. Mahathir had been "wrong and divisive" when he
declared last week that Jews run the world by proxy, the White House said.
2003(24th of Tishrei, 5764):
Ninety-one-year-old Newcastle upon Tyne native
Professor Ben Segal, Cambridge
student and holder of a Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford whose WWII military
career including serving as an intelligence office in the Sudan, workings
behind enemy lines in North Africa and taking the surrender of the Italian
garrison at Derna and whose academic
career included lecturing at the School of Oriental and African Studies for
over thirty years and serving as “Principal of the Leo Baeck College from 1982
to 1985 while also serving as “a member
of the Jewish Chronicle Trust” passed away today.
2003: Following yesterday’s ambush of an
Israeli patrol which left three dead, Israeli
warplanes and helicopter gunships struck Gaza five times today,
2004:
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported on a speech given by Schindler's List
survivor Rena Finder. Now 75 and living in Massachusetts, Finder told of what
it was like to be a ten year old in Krakow, Poland in 1939 when the Nazis
arrived. "Nobody saw us, nobody helped us, nobody cared." In speaking
about Schindler she said, "What Oskar Schindler did for us and for the
world, nobody, nobody had achieved."
2004: The Cedar Rapids Gazette
reported that "a Holocaust-era diary and love letters written by a Jewish
woman for her Dutch boyfriend in an internment camp in 1943 have been donated
to a Dutch archives." The woman who was named Helga Deen died at Sobibor.
2005: Mikhail Khodorkovsky was delivered to
the labor camp YaG-14/10.”The labor camp is attached to a uranium mining and
processing plant and during Soviet times had a reputation as a place from which
nobody returned alive.”
2005: Earle Irving Mack, the son real
estate developer H. Bert Mack and Ruth Kaufman Mack, completed his service as
the 30th United States Ambassador to Finland.
2006: “The Great Conjurer,” a new play
about Franz Kafka, premiers at the Kirk Theatre in New York City.
2007: As part of the Daniel Pearl Memorial
Concert the Alei Gefen Chorus performs "A Ceremony of Songs" at Kol
Haneshama Synagogue, to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of Jewish
journalist, Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan.
2007: In a story with dateline of
Fayetteville, Arkansas, The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that “a Jewish
synagogue is rising in the hills of Arkansas, in large part because of the
generosity of the project contractor: a Muslim immigrant from the West Bank.
Fadil Bayyari, a Springdale, Ark., general contractor, agreed to waive his
regular fee for Temple Shalom, saving the Reform congregation at least
$250,000. Bayyari, who built the mosque in Fayetteville, cited both religions’
ties to Abraham and said the fact that his faith community, too, lacked its own
building until the mosque was completed.”
2008(21st of Tishrei, 5769): Hoshana Rabbah
2008: “The re-trial of Phil Spector for
murder in the second degree in the death of Lana Clarkson began today.
2008: Haaretz reports that “the Foreign
Ministry is examining an initiative aimed at reaching a long-term non-belligerence
pact with Lebanon to prevent renewed fighting along the northern border.”
2008: The Menier Chocolate Factory
production of Jerry Herman’s “La Cage aux Folles” transferred to the West End
at the Playhouse Theatre co-produced with Sonia Friedman Productions, Robert G.
Bartner, David Ian Productions, The Ambassador Theatre Group, Matthew Mitchell
and Jamie Hendry Productions
2009: The first group of Kaifeng Jews
arrived in Israel, in an aliyah operation coordinated by Shavei Israel.
2009: Andrew Ross “Sorkin's book on the
Wall Street banking crisis, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall
Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves,
was published by Viking” today.
2009: Opening session of the National
Jewish Democratic Conference Washington Conference.
2009: Opening session of the Presidents’
Conference in Jerusalem.
2009: At the Hyman S. Freda Bernstein
Jewish Literary Festival Zoë Heller discusses The Believers in a
conversation with Ron Charles, Senior Editor of The Washington Post Book World
2009: International Harp Contest in Tel
Aviv-Jaffa comes to an end.
2010: A program entitled “Miryam Kabakov,
ed., Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires” is
scheduled to be presented at The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary
in Washington, D.C.
2010: The American Jewish Historical
Society and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to present
:Revisiting the American Soviet Jewry Movement: A Panel Discussion Honoring the
Publication of Gal Beckerman's book When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone:
The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
2010(12th of Cheshvan, 5771): Ninety-five year old Coleman Jacoby, “a comedy writer
during the golden age of television who, with his partner Arnie Rosen, created
some of Jackie Gleason’s most memorable characters and engineered one of the
great match-ups in television history, Gleason and Art Carney,” passed away
today (As reported by William Grimes.’)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/arts/television/13jacoby.html
2010(12th of Cheshvan,
5771):Seventy-seven year old Robert Katz, an author and
screenwriter who incurred the wrath of the Vatican by accusing Pope Pius XII of
failing to act to stave off a Nazi massacre of Italians in 1944, passed away
today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/arts/22katz.html?_r=0
2011(22nd of Tishrei, 5772):
Shemini Atzeret
2011: Today, two Israeli soldiers were
struck by a Palestinian vehicle at a checkpoint near Beit Ur al-Fauqa south of
Ramallah in the West Bank.
2011: Noam Shalit, father of recently
released Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, said today that claims his son was not tortured
during his time in Hamas captivity should be taken "with a grain of
salt."
2012(4th of Cheshvan, 5773):
Eighty-six year old philosopher Paul Kurtz passed away today.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/22/us-religion-kurtz-idUSBRE89L19D20121022
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/paul_kurtz_obituary
2011: Ninety-year old Jerzy Bielecki, a
World War II resistance fighter, passed away today. (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)
2012(4th of Cheshvan, 5773):
Eighty-five year old science writer and Time
magazine editor Leon Jaroff passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2012: Temple Beth-El in Bloomfield,
Michigan, is scheduled to host a special ceremony blessing pets belonging to
members of the congregation.
2012: The Israeli band, Flora, is
scheduled to perform at Muchmore’s in Brooklyn, NY
2012: Shalom Bard is scheduled to make
his debut as RBC resident conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra today “at
a special concert featuring violinist and conductor Maxim Vengerov.”
2012: Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid called to "finally get rid of the
Palestinians" by giving them their own state at a cultural event in Kiryat
Motzkin today.
2012: The Israeli Navy today surrounded
a ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaching Gaza’s blockade
as it approached the coastal strip. IDF soldiers boarded the vessel without
employing the use of force and rerouted it to the port of Ashdod, where it
arrived just after 8 p.m. local time
2013:
In Baltimore, Barry Steelman is scheduled to present “Standing by Their Flags,”
exploring the Jewish military experience on both sides of the Civil War at the
Jewish Museum of Maryland
2013:
Dani Shapiro “appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul to discuss her new book Devotion.
2013:
‘Nazi loot’ Is In Major National Gallery Show” published today described E.
Randol Schoeberg’s contention that “An unfinished portrait by Gustav Klimt used
as the centerpiece of the National Gallery's major new exhibition is loot
stolen by the Nazis.”
2013:
Folk/Reggae/songwriting Rabbi Jack Gabriel, a leader in the Jewish Renewal
Movement is scheduled to perform in Alexandria, VA.
2013(16th
of Cheshvan, 5774): Ninety-year old Sid Yudain, the founder of “Roll Call”
passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2013:
In Australia, “The Songs They Sang,” a musical narrative of the Vilna Ghetto
during World War II is scheduled to be performed at the South Melbourne Town
Hall
2013:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a
walking tour that will showcase Jewish life in the historic Seventh Street, NW
Community from 1850 to 1950
2013:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host as
special of book launch of Out Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust
edited by Elaine Saphier Cox
2013:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Performing Captivity,
Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto”
2013: The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats is
scheduled to close today.
http://www.nmajh.org/SpecialExhibitions/
2013:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Claudia Roth Pierpont, Norman
Mailer: A Double Life by J. Michael Lennon, Identical by Scott
Turow and Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited
Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi
2013:
In Milwaukee, WI, Meaghan Meredith Reider, daughter of Sue and Dr. Ron Reider,
pillars’ of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Jewish community married Mikhail Iosifovich
Guterman son of Dina Gezhes and Iosif Guterman.
2013: While no injuries or significant
damages afflicted surrounding areas, a string of minor earthquakes have rattled
Israel’s North over the past few days – including two today alone. (As reported
by Sharon Udasin)
2013: News of Karnit Flug's appointment
as the head of the Bank of Israel has been well received, with opposition
leader Shelly Yacimovich of Labor even hailing the appointment as
"enlightened."
2014: John Adams’ “The Death of
Klinghoffer” which is consistently
accused of being anti-Semitic because of its sympathetic and factually
inaccurate portrayal of the terrorists who hijacked the “Achille Lauro” and
murdered wheelchair-bound Jewish-American Leon Klinghoffer” is scheduled to
have its debut at the Met in New York today.
2014: The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein
Jewish Literary Festival is scheduled to
host “Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks for a multi-media concert based on
the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah and featuring Bosnian-born composer and
accordionist Merima Kljuco.”
2014: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present an evening of film and discussion with historian Linda J.
Borish, examining “Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics.”
2014: “Twenty-one year-old British
citizen Garron Helm was sentenced to jail for sending a “grossly offensive”
anti-Semitic tweet to Liverpool Labor MP Luciana Berger, UK's Jewish News
reported today.”
2014: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host its inaugural Sisterhood Lunch Out for 5775.
2014: “Former Nazis should not be
collecting Social Security benefits as they age overseas, the White House said
today, responding to an Associated Press investigation that revealed millions
of dollars have been paid to war-crimes suspects and former SS guards forced
out of the US.” (As reported by Richard Lardner, David Rising and Randy
Herschaft)
2014: “Former Likud minister Moshe
Kahlon announced today that he will start a new political party focused on
reducing the cost of living in Israel.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014: “A former National Union of
Students (NUS) President voiced condemnation for the Goldsmith University and
its Student Union's rejection of a motion to commemorate the Holocaust.” (As
reported by Cynthia Blank)
2015:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and the Hyman S. &
Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival are scheduled to host “The Game Must
Go On: Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home
Front in WWII.”
2015:
At the Skirball, Dr. Ron Wolfson, a native of Omaha, Nebraska, is scheduled to
discuss The Best Boy in the United States: A Memoir of Blessings and Kisses
2015:
The Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
foundation which was established to honor the hundreds of “Monuments Men” who
saved more than 5 million artworks stolen by the Nazis announced today that it
will cease operations at the end of October due to a lack of funds
2016(18th
of Tishrei, 5777): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2016(18th
of Tishrei, 5777): Ninety-one year old Litvak Stanley Silverstein, who
co-founded Nina Footware with his brother Mike passed away today. (As reported
by Daniel Slotnik)
2016:
In England, an election is scheduled to be held to fill the seat vacate by
former Prime Minster David Cameron in which 81 year old Larry Sanders, the
brother of Senator and failed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is the
Green Party Candidate.
2016:
In Haifa, “a competition for the title of Strongest Person” is scheduled to
take place “at the BIG station in the Checkpoint intersection.”
2016:
The Skirball Center is scheduled to host “Let’s Talk About Pickles” a
discussion about the best green vegetable in the world lead by Sandor Katz,
author of Wild Fermentation.
2016:
“Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army
bombarded and breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and
destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago, officials said today.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-find-battle-site-where-romans-breached-jerusalem-walls/
2016:
The London Jewish Cultural Centre is scheduled to host a screening of
“Watermarks” Yaron Zilberman’s film about “the champion women swimmers of the
legendary sports club, Hakoah” which “was founded in 1909 in response to the
notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting
Jewish athletes.”
2017(30th
of Cheshvan, 5778): First Day Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan;
2017:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “a special Oneg
Shabbat” marking the opening of the exhibition of “On Jews and Chocolate” – “an
indulgent evening for the chocolate lover in all of us.”
2017:
Today, a group of about 300 men and women including “dozens of veterans of the
Six Day War” were barred by Security guards from “entering the main plaza of
the Western while holding a Torah scroll while a “Six Day War veteran named
Micha Eshet, 70, was shoved to the ground by Orthodox protesters while holding
the scroll…” (JTA)
2017:
In Atlanta, the High Museum of Art is scheduled to host a talk by Holocaust
survivor Henry Friedman “talk about his post-war experience as a street artist
in Italy on his way to America.”
2018:
In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a “Special
Concert” featuring Pianist Oxana Yablonskaya playing the works “by Schubert,
Liszt, Chopin and Mendelssohn.”
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a lunch after morning
services.
2018:
During Homecoming Week at the University of Iowa, this evening Hillel, led by
its Executive Director David Weltman, is scheduled to host a special evening
complete with drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
2018(11th
of Cheshvan, 5779): Parashat Lech-Lecha;
2019:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich
by Mary Lane.
2019:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a walking tour led
by Tony Michels who “traces how the Yiddish socialist movement influenced NY
politics and culture.”
2019:
French historian and psychologist Jacques Sémelin is scheduled to discuss his
book, The Survival of the Jews in France at the Breman Museum in
Atlanta.
2019:
The Eyal Vilner Big aBand is scheduled to return to Birdland Jazz Club.
2019:
In Los Gatos, CA, the Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to host the “Sukkot BBQ.”
2019:
In San Francisco, Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled to host a
performance of “Nabucco,” Verdi’s opera based on the story of the Babylonian
king who destroyed the First Temple.
2019:
In New Orleans, the Jewish Federation is scheduled to host “JNOLA’s Safari in
the Sukkah.”
2019(21st of Tishrei, 5780): Hoshana Rabah
2020: The Boston Workers Circle is scheduled to present online “People
Power: Bridging Movements and Generations in 2020.”
2020: The Consulate General of Canada in New York and the Office of Cultural
Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York are scheduled to co-host
“Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade..?
2020: Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “Dinner, Drinks
and Drash,” a night of learning and discussion with rabbis and guest teachers
from all across Columbus, OH.
2020: The Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish FilmFest is scheduled to make “House
on Wannsee Street” available for viewing for the next 48 hours.
2020: The JCCSF is scheduled to host online “actor-director Natalie
Portman as she discusses her new picture book Fables.”
2020: “The Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood at JCCSF is scheduled to
present a talk by Jewish studies scholars Arnold Elsen and Deena Aranoff, moderated
by JCCSF CEO Marci Glazer” that will also include a performance by Yiddish
singer Ola Bilinsk
2020:
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is scheduled to present via Zoom a
“Jerusalem Center Strategic Roundtable” on “Assessing the Role of Institutions
in the Fight against Anti-Semitism.”
2020:
Based on yesterday’s clash in the Knesset over the response to the COVID
closures and the road closures by the IDF along the Gaza strip, Israeli’s are
reminded today that they are dealing with two life threatening realities – the
Pandemic and Terrorist attacks.
2021:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host a conversation with Rabbi Shira Stutman, in
which attendees will learn about Dr. AlexandraFriedman’s upbringing, her
decision to join the Hasidic movement after graduating from college, her
commitment to religion and family as well as the myriad ways that she has
stretched the community’s social norms.
2021:
The Jewish Book Council, JBC Network
partners, and internationally best-selling author David Grossman joined
with Jewish Book Council’s own Marilyn
Hassid, in a conversation that allowed the audience a peek inside his
inspiration for writing his book The Last Million
2022: Via Zoom, the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is
scheduled to host Professor Shirli Gilbert in conversation with Elizabeth
Anthony, the Director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies and the author of The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the
Holocaust which was a commended
finalist for the Wiener Holocaust Library’s Ernst Fraenkel Book Prize.
2022: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center, the Book Festival
of the MJCCA and the National JCC Literary Consortium are scheduled to host
Benjamin Netanyahu, upon the release of his new memoir, Bibi: My Story.
2022: In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to co-host “a
special hometown performance of saxophonist Eddie Barbash.
2022: The Center for Jewish History and the American Sephardi
Association are scheduled to present Dr. Joseph Sassoon, Professor of History
and Political Economy and Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
at Georgetown University, who will discuss
The Sassoons: The Great Global
Merchants and the Making of an Empire with Lauren Gilbert, Senior
Manager for Public Services at the Center for Jewish History.
2023: The live broadcast on Kan Kol Hamusika from the Eden-Tamir
scheduled to take place has been postponed in the wake of violent attacks on
Israel.
2023: In Brookline, MA, Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to
present “Shabbat Nariya: The Shabbat
Sing-Out and Potluck Dinner” “Co-sponsored by Kavod Boston and led by TBZ’s
musical prayer leader Noah Weinberg and the mehalelim (praisers).”
2023: In London, the exhibition “The Wiener Holocaust Library at
90” which opened July 4 is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and National Director of the Ant-Defamation
League is scheduled to speak at Temple Emanu-El’s Special Shabbat service
showing “Unity and Solidarity with Israel.
2023:
As October 20, begins in Israel, “air
raid sirens have sounded across central Israel, including Rishon Lezion, Tel
Aviv, Bat Yam and Holon, after a barrage of rockets is fired from Gaza,” rockets
continued to be fired from Lebanon and “nearly two weeks after Hamas’s attack
southern Israel, some 100 to 200 people remain unaccounted for, with bodies
still being found” while the IDF has said over 200 people are being held as
hostage.”
(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)
