This Day, October 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 23
521 BCE (17th
of Tishrei):
The first Babylonian record of Nebuchadnezzar III the
usurper who challenged the rule of Darius, the Persian ruler under whose reign
the building of the Second Temple began.
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1086: At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of
Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI. Yusuf ibn Tashfin was the leader of group of
puritanical Muslims known as Berber Almoravids. Many Jewish and Muslims
scholars and intellectuals left areas controlled by these Berbers and took
refuge in Toledo which had been conquered by the Christians in 1085. Periods of
Berber control were not a Golden Age for the Jews of Iberia and thousands of
Jews joined the army of Alfonso.
Although Alfonso lost the battle, the Berbers were too battered to take
advantage of their victory and Yusuf had to return to North Africa marking the
end of this phase of the long, drawn-out conflict between Christians and
Muslims. During the centuries’ long contest, Jewish loyalties varied depending
on the nature of the combatants. All of
this would come to an end with the Expulsion of 1492.
1340:
Nicolas de Lyra, the Franciscan rumored “to be of Jewish descent” and author of
an anti-Jewish work entitled "De Messia Ejusque Adventu
Præterito” who was known for his commentaries on the Old and New Testaments
that drew on “original texts” and who drew heavily on the works of Rashi passed
away today.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10216-lyra-nicolas-de
1392: Pope
Boniface IX who in 1376 exempted his physician Angelo di Manuele and his son
Angelo from all taxes “appointed the physician Solomone de Sabalduchio his
"familiaris,"
1396: “The
charter granted to the Jews of Carinthia and Styria today which states that the
privileges granted them in 1377 shall be confirmed, is merely a confirmation of
the pre-existing "Handfeste"
1456:
Seventy Year old John of Capistrano a Franciscan friar who would be canonized
by the Catholic Church but who was also known as the “Scourge of the Jews” for
his “fiery sermons” that “persuaded southern German regions to expel their
Jewish populations,” passed away today.
1548:
French Protestant theologian Theodore Beza, the successor to John Calvin at
Geneva and like Luther was a believer “that Christian churches were largely
responsible for the current unbelief among the Jews and “that there would a
large-scale conversion of the Jews” while still acknowledging “the Justice of
divine anger the Jewish people” arrived in Geneva, today.
1607:
Joseph Israel Belmont the Amsterdam born on of André Belmonte and Catarina
Moniz “who was one of the founders of
the Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam and his wife Simcha Israel Belmonte gave birth to Sara
Belmonte
1625: “Pope
Urban VIII forbids Jews from having gravestones within the city limits of
Rome.”
1668: Today the Jews of Barbados were banned from all forms
of trade” and were forbidden from employing Christians, limited from purchasing
more than one male slave, and were forced into living in a Jewish Ghetto in
Bridgetown.
1703:
Letters of privileged granted today by King Leopold I “left it in the hands of
the municipal councils” in Hungary to either admit or exclude Jews from their
territory.
1704:
Following today's report by the British Commissary of Supplies that the besieged
garrison at Gibraltar had enough supplies to last another ten weeks, “the newly
appointed Proveedor for Charles III’s forces, Joseph Coritzos, a Dutch Jew of
Marrano origin who still had relatives in Spain, including his uncles, the
Viscount de Valdefuentes, was sent to Morocco to purchase grain and horses.”
(As reported by Mesod Benady)
1715:
Birthdate of Peter II of Russia. During
his reign, Peter modified some of the anti-Jewish rulings of his predecessor,
Catherine I. At the request of some of
the Cossack leaders, he allowed them to return to the fairs in Little Russia
since their presence was essential for the commercial wellbeing of the area.
1726: António José da Silva a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist,
known as "the Jew" “went through the great auto-da-fé held” today “in
the presence of King John V and his court, abjured his errors, and was set at
liberty.” His mother would not be released until October of 1729.
1767: In
Savannah, GA, Caty Hays and Abraham Sarzedas gave birth to Moses Zarzedas, the
husband of Belle Myers.
1776: The
brigantine Andrea Doria left the United States headed for the Dutch held island
of St. Eustatius with a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Andrea Doria returned from the island
which had a significant Jewish population which was supportive of the Americans
with the first of several loads of arms and munitions that were critical to
American success.
1781: In
Frankfurt Am Main, “Bunle Oettingen Schuster” and Salomon Loeb Schott gave
birth to Samuel Salomon Schott, the husband of “Louize Polak,” with whom he had
six children.
1788(22nd
of Tishrei, 5549): Shmini Atzeret
1788:
Judith Levy, the wife of Benjamin Levy who lived in Newport and the
daughter-in-law of Moses Levy passed away today.
1790: In
Jebenhausen, Germany, Jentle Loeb and Moses Fasit Rosenheim gave birth to
Ruchele Rosenheim, the wife of Moses Loeb Sontheimer with whom she had six
children.
1791: In
Savannah, GA, a proud moment for two leading colonial families when Sarah
Sheftall and Abraham de Lyon gave birth to Levi Sheftall de Lyon the husband of
Leonora de la Motta and the father of Leonorean de Lyon and the husband of
Rebecca de la Motta with whom he had four more children.
1793: Aaron
Aarons married Hannah Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1803:
Birthdate of Angelo Vivante, the husband of Regina Kohen, who, when he passed
away was buried in the Trieste Jewish Cemetery in Italy.
1807(21st
of Tishrei, 5568): Hoshana Raba
1809: In
Charleston, SC, Rache and Joseph Moses gave birth to Adeline Lyon Moses, the
wife of Levi Isaiah Moses.
1812: Uriah
P. Levy, “a grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Jonas Phillips” and the first
Jew to rise to the rank of Commodore in the United States Navy began his
military career as a “sailing master.
1818(23rd
of Tishrei, 5579): Simchat Torah
1822(8th
of Cheshvan, 5583): Alexander Baruch Schefftel, the Polish born Son of Baruch Marcus
Jacob Schefftel and Rehle Roele Schefftel, the husband of Roeschen Schefftel
and father of Simon Baruch Schefftel, the husband of Henrietta Schefetel who
was a successful merchant in Posen and the author of “a large Hebrew commentary
on the Targum Onkelos which was published posthumously by his son-in-law Joseph
Perles “and Jacob Shaul Schefftel, passed away today.
1829L In Frauenberg,
France, Esther Cahn-Lazard, the French born daughter of Jonas Alexandre Aron and Sara Zerlé Simon Aron
and her husband Elie ben Abraham Lazard gave birth to Rosalie Rachel Aron, the
wife of Aron Eugene Aron.
1834(20th
of Tishrei, 5595): Sixth Day Sukkoth
1834: In
Elizabeth, NJ, Judge David Naar, the St. Thomas born son of Hazan Joshua Naar
and Sarah Cohen Naar and his wife Sarah Cohen Naar gave birth to Joseph Levi
Naar, the husband of Caroline Naar and Adele Miriam Naar.
1834:
Mohammad Shah Qajar, whose son Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar brought Dr. Jacob Euard Polak to
Persia to teach medicine and surgery to a whole generation of Persian
physicians as part of an attempt to modernize the kingdom, began his reign
today as King of Iran.
1842:
Fifty-six year old Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius the German Biblical
critic and Hebrew language expert who authored a Hebrew grammar and a
commentary on Isaiah passed away today.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gesenius%27_Hebrew_Grammar
1845: Felix
Mendelsohn conducted the Violin Concerto today with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1846(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5607): Joseph Hertz, the husband of Rebecca Hertz with whom he had
nine children passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1847: In
Germany, Lazarus Morgenthau, the son of Moses and Brunhilda Morgenthau and
Seline Babette Morgenthau gave birth to Maximilian Morgenthau, the uncle of
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and confidant of FDR, Hans Morgenthau, Jr.
1850: In
Amsterdam, Abraham Delmonte, Son of Abraham Juda Delmonte / van den Berg and
Rebecca / Ribca Abraham da Silva Abenatar and his wife Sara Rimini gave birth to Joseph del Monte
1853(21st
of Tishrei, 5614): Hoshanah Rabah
1853:
“Compulsory Christianity in Italy,” published today summarized the events of
the last five years that are known as the Mortara Affair or The Kidnapping of
Edgar Mortara which it says is recent stretch of Papal power in Italy ,making a
noise in Europe, which will not be hushed up.
It also pointed out that the Papacy and this policy are propped up on
the bayonets of Napoleon III’s troops and that if these troops were withdrawn
the populace would rise up to defend the rights of the Jewish child’s father.
“If rascally servants may clandestinely baptize the children of Hebrews, there
is no reason why they not extend the same blessing to those of Protestants and
if the Church can lawfully found a claim to the possession of their persons and
their minds upon such a ceremony in the former case, they may in the latter.”
1854: It
was reported today that in the matter of Abraham Oettinger v Uriah P. Levy, the
judge decided in favor of the Plantiff and gave a judgement in the amount of
$313.69. This was a landlord/tenant
dispute over who should pay for plumbing repairs. [Yes, this is the same Uriah
P. Levy who was highest ranking Jewish officer in the United States Navy and a
member of one New York’s most prominent Sephardic families.
1855:
Birthdate of Emily Levy, the Hamburg born linguist and lexicographer.
1858:
Birthdate of Richmond native and Yale trained attorney Levy Mayer, a “senior
member of the law firm of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian and Platt” who “was nationally
known for his actions as attorney for the ‘big five packers’ and for liquor
interests.
1859:
Birthdate of Simon Marx, the native of Alsace who is better known as Sam Marx,
the husband of Minnie Marx and the father of the Groucho Marx and the rest of the Marx
brothers.
1860: “The
Present Condition of the Jews” published today stated that, The second of Mr.
De Cordova’s course of lectures, to be delivered this evening at Clinton Hall,
is upon this highly interesting topic. To discuss it, it is needless to say,
the lecturer lays aside the vein of light humor and pleasantry, which usually
characterize his productions, and gives us sober facts and apposite
illustrations instead.”
1860: A
very large audience listened to Mr. De Cordova’s lecture on ‘the Past and
Present condition of the Jews,’ delivered in Clinton Hall this evening.
Commencing with the Biblical renown of the Israelites, the lecturer traced the
distinction of that nation in the field of letters of arms, of medicine, and,
in fact, of all the arts and sciences, demonstrating that they are well worth a
place in history. He cited the popular idea of a Jew as that of a man with a
very protuberant proboscis, engaged in buying old clothes, renovating them by
same mysterious and secret process, and selling them for eight times their
value to unsuspecting countrymen. He accounted for the degraded condition of
the lower class of Israelites from the fact of the relentless persecutions to
which the race has been subjected in Austria, Spain, Germany and other
countries, where they have been obliged to withstand the most terrible pains
and penalties in their adherence to the religion of their fathers. He read
official correspondence from Holland to show the good effect of emancipation
the Jewish nation in that country, and from the increasing liberality
manifested in all countries -- taking example by America -- he foretold a
glorious future for Israel. As to the politics of this country he knew many
Jews who would vote for Lincoln… Some who would vote for Douglas….Some who
would go for Breckenridge and two or three who were Know-Nothings…In conclusion,
Mr. De Cordova paid a glowing tribute of admiration to our free institutions,
which alike honor and protect the Jew and the Gentile” [Editor’s Note – De
Cordova was a Sephardic Jew who was quite popular as a humorist, author and
public speaker.]
1861: Samuel
Du Pont the U.S Navy officer in charge of the expedition aimed at taking Port
Royal, SC from the Rebels “was furious” when he saw the article published in
today’s New York Times providing details of his activities. “Jacob da Silva Solis Cohen, as Sephardic
Jew…was an assistant surgeon with Dupont’s expedition to Port Royal” who also
served with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron which was a key, if unsung,
element in the Union’s victory.
1862:
Philadelphian Benjamin B. Goodman who had risen to the rank of 2nd
Lieutenant in the 27th Regiment completed his enlistment today but
apparently his sense of duty was not since fulfilled since he would re-enlist
just eight days later.
1864 :( 23rd of Tishrei, 5625): Simchat Torah
1864: Major
Mordecai was named Chief of Ordinance, Department and Army of the Ohio, which
was one of the major military units of the Union forces during the American
Civil War. Ordinance dealt with
Artillery, the one element of the Northern Army that consistently out-performed
its Confederate counterparts.
1866: Today
in Pilsen, the City Council decided to declare” the secondary” school to be
Czech which caused great indignation among the Germans, especially the Jews”
“who spoke Czech but considered German to be their mother tongue.”
1866: In
London, Miriam and Solomon Abrahams gave birth to their “eldest son,” Barnet
Albert Abrahahms.
1866:
Birthdate of Paul Ferdinand Strassman, a leading German gynecologist who would
be forced to flee when the Nazis came to power.
1867:
Seventy-two Senators were summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first
members of the Canadian Senate, the upper house of the Canadian Parliament.
Jews played an active role in Canadian politics as can be seen by the fact that
Ezekiel Hart was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1807
and Henry Nathan was elected as to serve as an MP in the House of Commons in 1874. But a Jew did serve in the Canadian Senate
until 1955 when David Kroll was appointed to serve in the upper chamber.
1868:
Birthdate of Sir Alfred Moritz, the younger son of Ludwig Mond, who gained fame
as an industrialist, financier, politician and Zionist and was the husband of
Dame Violet Florence Mabel Mond.
1868: The
Jews of Barbados were denied the right to engage in retail trade.
1870: In
Baton Rouge, LA, “Jacob and Caroline (Kahn) Bernstein, gave birth to Chicago
College of Pharmacy and husband of Fannie Hirsch railroad executive Ernest
Ralph Bernstein who moved to Shreveport,
LA in 1876 where he engaged in numerous successful business ventures while serving on the executive
committees of the Leo N. Levi Hospital in Hot Spring, AR and the “Old Folks
Jewish Home in Memphis, TN” and
belonging to Temple B’nai Zion
1872(21st
of Tishrei, 5633): Hoshanah Rabah
1872:
Birthdate of Leopold Davids, the resident of Darfeld Germany who emigrated to
Holland in 1938.
1872:
“Minor Topics” published today described the theory of “J.B. Bartnett, a Hebrew
scholar” that “Ireland was…settled” by people “from Judea when the Prophet
Jeremiah emigrated” there “with the remnant of the tribe of Judah. According to
Bartnett, prophet brought with him the stone known as ‘Jacob’s Stone’ which was
kept in the sanctuary of the first temple at Jerusalem” and has become “the
Stone of Destiny” that was used to crown Irish kings and was later taken to
Westminster Abbey by Edward III who used it for the same purpose.
1874(12th
of Cheshvan, 5635):
Abraham Geiger a German rabbi and scholar who led the
founding of Reform Judaism passed away. (There is no way this brief entry can
do him justice. See below for gateway
article into his fascinating life.)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/AbrahamGeiger.html
1875: Birthdate
of Alsatian native Armand Spira, the
husband of Suzanne Metzger and father of Henry and Andre Spira and the
father-in-law of Marcelle (Kehrli) Spira.
1876: Birthdate of
Swiss native Joseph Abraham Guggenheim, who in 1875 came to the United States
where he worked as knitting goods broker and settled in Cleveland OH.
1877: Louis
Lazarus, the Jewish owner of a second-hand clothing store on the corner of
Baxter and Leonard in Manhattan, was held at the tombs Police Court on the
charge of receiving stolen goods. Bail
was set at $1,500.
1878: In
New York City, Betty Berger and Herman Rossdale gave birth to Republican
political leader and Congressman Albert Berger Rossdale, the president of
Rosedale Company (wholesale jewelers and organizer of the National Federal of
Postal Employees “bringing them into affiliation with American Federation of
Labor” who “was instrumental” in having the House pass a resolution stating
that the United States favors “the establishment of a Jewish National Homeland
in Palestine.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/albert-berger-rossdale
1878: It
was reported today that Moritz Ellinger has been chosen to run for the position
of Coroner by the opponents of the Tammany political machine.
1879: It
was reported today that Joseph De Longpres, a fourteen year old who had arrived
yesterday in New York from New Orleans is missing. He was last seen entering a
hack hired by a Jew whom he had met on the boat coming up from New Orleans. The
boy, who had money and luggage when he left the ship is described as “timid and
effeminate.” There is no other
description of the other party except that he was a Jew. How this was deduced is not mentioned.
1879: Three
days after he had passed away, 70 year old German native Lesser Friedlander,
the husband of the former Elizabeth Assur, was buried today at the West Ham
Jewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road.
1879: The
Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald reported that a meeting held in Bolivar
County adopted resolutions denouncing Edward Storm as “a dishonest Jew, the
servile tool of the slave-owner before the war and the convenient and abandoned
ally of the carpetbagger.” The citizens of Bolivar County are urged to vote
against Storm who has been nominated by the Republicans for the position of
County Supervisor.” [A Google Search cannot find any reference to a Jew named
Edward Storm. Poor man, he was hit with
the big three of the post war South – Republican, Carpetbagger and Jew.]
1879: Simon
Curriak, a Jewish tailor working on Division Street in NYC, has come forward to
claim his children who being held at Castle Garden. In the meantime, an unidentified Jewish
newspaper editor has asked the authorities to hold the children until he can
present their case to “the local Jewish societies” who will provide for their
needs.
1880:
Birthdate of New York native Pratt Institute trained sculptor Albert Dreyfus
who “worked on sculpture for the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition in 1901” and
the “St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.”
1880:
Birthdate of New York city native and Pratt institute trained sculptor Albert
Dreyfuss who is not to be confused with the French military officer Alfred
Dreyfus.
https://www.askart.com/artist/Albert_G_Dreyfuss/10015085/Albert_G_Dreyfuss.aspx
1881: It
was reported today that the Jewish synagogues of East Prussia, which total 34,
“recently held their first convention.
1881:
Eighteen year old Recha Goldschmidt married Alfred Schwarzschild, the son of
Isaac Jacob Schwarzschild and Rosalie Kulp.
1881: It
was reported today that “the Russian Government proposes to give special
privileges to those Jews who will engage in agricultural pursuits.” The Jews
will be allowed to purchase land outside of the Pale of Settlement, “but they
will be under strict surveillance.”
1881: It
was reported today that for Jews, the disappearance of “religious hate” has so
completely disappeared” from Serbia that a Jew has been elected to the Serbian
Parliament. This stands in stark
contrast to “the neighboring kingdom of Romania” where “persecution of Jews
still goes on.”
1882: It
was reported today that the six largest Jewish congregations in New York are
Temple Emanu-El Temple Beth El, Ahavath Chesed, B’nai Yeshurun, Shearay Tefilla
and Rodoph Sholom. The membership of these congregations total approximately
1,500.
1883(22nd
of Tishrei, 5622): Shmini Atzeret
1883:
Birthdate of Ukraine native Grand Rabbi
Jacob Israel Korff “a direct descendant of the Bal Shem Tov and the leader of
Hasidic community in Boston who married Etta Goldman after his first wife
Gittel Goldman was murdered in a pogrom.
1883(22nd
of Tishrei, 5622): Seventy-nine year old German physicist Peter Riess the first
Jewish member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences passed away today.
1883: In
New York, Christopher Oscanyan, an Armenian-American, delivered a lecture at
Steinway Hall entitled “The Women of Turkey and the Jews of the East.”
1884: New
York Mayor Franklin Edson and Jesse Seligman were among the dignitaries who
attended the dedication of the new building housing the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
1884: It
was reported today that in New York City, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association is
planning on holding “a Montefiore centenary celebration.”
1884: Rabbi
Mendes of Shearith Israel wrote to President Chester A. Arthur inviting him to
participate in the upcoming events celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore.
Arthur’s private secretary replied with a note expressing his high
esteem for the great philanthropist and his regrets that he would not be able
to attend due to other official demands on his time.
1885: “The
Mystery At Wilmington” published today described events surrounding the death
of lodger at the Clayton House in Wilmington, Delaware. “The man’s features are
clear German, and there are evidences that he was of the Hebrew faith.” (The
latter statement may have been a polite reference to the decedent having been
circumcised.)
1886:
Birthdate of Paul Ferdinand Strassmann, “a pioneer in surgical gynecology.”
1886: It
was reported today that the Honorable S.S. Cox will address the upcoming
opening exercise of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1886: In
Natchez, LA, Samuel and Caroline Friedman gave birth to Louisiana state
legislator Leon Friedman
1887(5th
of Cheshvan, 5648): Eighty-three year old West Point graduate and Major Alfred
Mordecai, the Warrenton, NC born son of Rebecca and Jacob Mordecai, the husband
of Sarah Ann Hays with whom he had eight children including Alfred Mordecai,
Jr. who like his father was a West Point graduate but unlike his father served
in the Union Army during the Civil War.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/alfred-mordecai
1887: “From
Anjou to Touraine” which was published today described the history of the
region during Medieval times including the fact that “in 1329, when the Jews
were accused of having formed a plot to poison all the wells and springs in
France, 160 unfortunate people of that race were burned at the stake in
Chinon.”
1887: Dr.
Kaufmann Kohler, the rabbi at New York City’s Temple Beth-El gave the second of
his Sunday lectures today which was entitled “What is Judaism?”
1887: Rabbi
Joseph Krauskopf was formally installed at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
today.
1888: In
New York, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment met today and provisionally
approved expenditures for several agencies of the city government and
charitable institutions including an expenditure of $60,000.00 for the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum.
1888(18th
of Cheshvan, 5649): Seventy-six year old Samuel
Bernheimer, the native of Hohenems, Austria and the wife of Henrietta
Cahn whom he had married in New Orleans, passed away today in Mississippi.
1889 Natal
day of Russian born and trained artist Abbo Ostrowsky who was a founder of the Educational Alliance
Art School in 1917 and was its director from then until he retired in 1955, who
paintings and etchings are found hanging at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/ostrowsky-abbo-q70j76fc7u/sold-at-auction-prices/
1889: In
Karlsruhe, Germany, Adolf and Klara Reichman gave birth Frieda Fromm-Reichmann,
the medical school graduate, the wife of Erich Fromm with whom she opened “a
therapeutic facility in Heidelberg who
was forced to leave Germany and settle in the United States in 1935 where she
pursued her career until her death in 1957.
https://spartacus-educational.com/Frieda_Fromm-Reichmann.htm
1889: In
Rockford, Illinois, Professor E.L. Curtis delivered a sermon in which he declared
that the Book of Job is only a poem written by some pious Jew during the period
of the exile.
1889: A
group of Russian Jewish immigrants escaping pogroms and persecution who had
arrived in Argentina aboard the SS Weser founded
Moisés Ville a small town in Santa Fe province which was part of the Jewish
agricultural settlements to be financed by Baron Maurice Hirsch.
1889: Birthdate of Avshalom Feinberg one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in
Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War
I. Feinberg was born in Gedera, Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and
studied in France. He returned to work with Aaron Aaronsohn at the agronomy
research station in Atlit. Soon after the beginning of war, Aaronson founded
the Nili underground along with his sister Sarah Aaronsohn, Feinberg and Yosef
Lishansky. In 1915 Feinberg travelled to Egypt and made contact with British
Naval Intelligence. In 1917, Feinberg again journeyed to Egypt, on foot. He was
apparently killed by a Bedouin near the British front in Sinai, close to Rafah.
His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War when his remains were
found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket to mark
the spot where he lay. In 1979 a new Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula,
Avshalom was named after him. Although it was abandoned following the Camp
David Accords, a new village by the same name was founded in Israel in 1990.
1892:
Birthdate of Gummo Marx, the actor and comedian who was one of the famous Marx
Brothers. 1892: Professor Adolph Cohn of
Columbia delivered the address of welcome at this evening’s dinner honoring
French Admiral Abel de Libran and his staff which was attended by many prominent
New York dignitaries including President Rosenthal of the French Hebrew
Society.
1892:
Fifty-two year old Mehmed Emin Pasha passed away today, reportedly murdered by
two Arab slave traders in the Congo Free State while working for the German
East Africa Company. One of the minor romantic figures of the 19th
century, he was born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, to a German-Jewish family. He converted to Christianity and then to
Islam, as he played multiple roles in different parts of the Ottoman Empire.
1892: In
his formal speech which the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City
delivered at the Hebrew Institute Hall last night, Edward Einstein called on
his mostly Jewish audience to go to the polls and “rebuke the present City
Government.
1893:
Richard Mansfield’s unique portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
was seen for the first time at Hermann’s in New York City.
1893:
“Cholera Panic” published today described the reaction to outbreak of the
disease including the decision by the Chief Rabbi of Leghorn to close “the grand
marble synagogue which is the wealthiest synagogue in the world” with the
exception of the one in Amsterdam and the “panic and flight” of the Jews living
in Baghdad.
1893: In
Altoona, PA, “Abraham and Ida Einstein Abelson” gave birth to Myer Abelson who
rose to the rank of Sergeant while serving with the “50th Infantry
in WW I.”
1894(23rd
of Tishrei, 5655): Simchat Torah
1894:
Birthdate of New Jersey native Alexander Rudolph, the son of a Kosher butcher,
who gained fame as World Middleweight Champion Al McCoy.
1895:
Birthdate of Austrian native Wolfgang Ackerman, the physician decorated for his
service in the Austrian Army during WW I and author of “And Are We Civilized”
who moved to the United States in 1924.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dr-wolfgang-ackerman/and-we-are-civilized/
1896:
Hattie Heller of St. Louis, the Vice President of the National Council of
Jewish Women in Missouri submitted her annual report to “Miss Sadie America,
Secretary of the National Council of Jewish Woman that St. Joseph “is the only
town of any size, with a Jewish population large to warrant forming a section”
that has not formed a section of the organization.
1896(16th
of Cheshvan, 5657): Sixty-eight year old Adolph H. Maas who “began his business
career in Savannah, GA before moving to New York in 1852 where he developed a
successful chemical manufacturing company passed away today at his home on
Lexington Avenue.
1897(27th
of Tishrei, 5658): Parashat Bereshit
1897(27th
of Tishrei, 5658): In Liverpool, two and half year old John Raphael Davis, the
son of Helen and D.E. Davis passed away today.
1897:
H.R. H., The Prince of Wales is scheduled to be a guest of Lord Rothschild at
Tring Park starting today.
1898: Dr.
Joseph Krauskopf, who served as the rabbi to several American Congregations was
the founder of The National Farm School said today "Tolerance of another's
rational faith is the truest stamp of the genuineness and high standard of
one's own faith."
1898:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Arthur Leo Lippman, the WW I veteran, humorist,
songwriter and “advertising executive.”
1898: The
Judeans hosted a dinner at the Tuxedo honoring Israel Zangwill. Dr. Danzinger, President of the Association
and Judge Sulzberger from Philadelphia flanked Zangwill on the dais. Zangwill
spoke to the group of literary, civic and academic leaders about the evolution
of the Jew over the centuries including the development of Jewish culture in
the United States. Other attendees at the kosher dinner were Isidore Strauss
and Adolph Ochs of New York.
1899(19th
of Cheshvan, 5660): One day after his 62nd birthday Australian
businessman and political leader Ephraim L. Zox who held several leadership
positions in the Australian Jewish community including serving as President of
the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation passed away today.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/zox-ephraim-laman-4912
1900(30th
Tishrei, 5661): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1901: “Enid
Miriam Gotthelf married Percy Lewis Hallenstein, the London born son of
Recbecca and Micahelis Hallenstein, who later changed his name to Halsted “at
the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia.”
1901: In
Charleston, SC, Rabbi Simenhoff officiated at the marriage of Marcus Barshay to
Lena Banov.
1902(22nd
Tishrei, 5663): Shmini Atzeret
1902: Max
Brod met Franz Kafka for the first time when he gave a lecture on Arthur
Schopenhauer at Charles University.
1903: The New Amsterdam Theatre which was built by Jewish
“impresarios A.L. Erlanger and Marcus Klaw’ and which over the years would be a
theatrical home for entertainers like Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice and Sophie
Tucker opened this evening in New York City.
1904:
Birthdate of “German screenwriter and art director” Hans Jacoby who was forced
to leave Germany in 1933 but was lucky enough to resume his career in
Hollywood.
1904:
Birthdate of artist Edward Biberman, the
scion of a prosperous Philadelphia Jewish family.
http://www.lacma.org/art/installation/edward-biberman
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/
1905: In
Zurich, Switzerland “Gustav Bloch and Agnes Bloch (née Mayer)” gave birth to Felix
Bloch who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1952/bloch/biographical/
1905(24th
of Tishrei, 5666): Nineteen year old Theodore Bachman, the son of Johanna
Bachman and the nephew of Isador Bader, “the agent for the United Hebrew
Charities at the Immigrants’ Home on Montgomery Street” was murdered today
during the pogrom at Ekaterinoslav making him one of the 2,000 Jews who have
been killed there since October 21st
1906: The
White House officially announced today that President Roosevelt is naming Oscar
S. Straus to serve as Secretary of Commerce and Labor making him “first Jew
ever appointed to a cabinet position by a President of the United States.
1907: W.R. Wheeler, who was a member of the commission appointed
by President Theodore Roosevelt to visit foreign countries for the purpose of
studying matters bearing on the American immigration problem, sailed for
America on the Adriatic. Before he left England he met with Israel Zangwill,
the novelist, who is the President of the Jewish Territorial Organization.
Among other things, Zangwill expressed his concern that Jews immigrating to the
United States quickly assimilated into the general American culture and lost
their Jewish identity. Zangwill felt
that America was a much better place for Jews to be than other hostile
countries such as Russia, but he looked forward to a time when Jews would be
united within their own national territory.
1907: In
St. Petersburg, Russia Prince Peter Dolgorouky and Countess Sophy Bobrinsky
gave birth to their only child Sofka Skipworth who was honored for her valiant
work in saving Jews during the Holocaust.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sofka-skipwith-1427738.html
1907:
Screenwriter Clara Strouse, the Baltimore born daughter of Fannie Kahn and
Benjmain Strouse who used the “pseudonym of Charles S. Beranger” married her
first husband Albert Berwanger today.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/clara-beranger/
1908: Birthdate of Iya Frank, the Russian born
physicists who won the Nobel Prize in 1958. Establishing the Jewish lineage of
those who lived in the Soviet Union can present quite a challenging. Frank’s father definitely was Jewish.
1909(8th
of Cheshvan, 5670): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1909: The
University of Michigan led by halfback Joseph “Joe” Magidsohn, “the first
Jewish athlete to win a varsity ‘M’” who was the “first athlete known to have
refused to compete on the Jewish High Holy Days” defeated Marquette today.
1909: The
Tennessee Vols, coached by George Levene were shut out today as the lost to the
University of Georgia by a score of 3 to 0.
1909:
Birthdate of Avraham Bergman, the Petah
Tikva native who as Avraham Biran was the archaeologist who led the dig
at Tel Dan and “headed the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in
Jerusalem.”
http://huc.edu/faculty/faculty/biran.shtml
http://huc.edu/chronicle/60/biran.shtml
1910: In
Berlin, art gallery Hugo Perls and his wife gave birth art dealer and “art
sleuth” Frank Perls.
1910: The
National Farm School, led by President Joseph Krauskop of Germantown held its
13th annual meeting in Bucks County, PA today.
1911(1st
of Cheshvan, 5672): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1911(1st
of Cheshvan, 5672): Fifty-six year old Kovno native David Apotheker, the
Yiddish author and anarchist who came to the United States in 1888 where he
worked “as a printer in Philadelphia” and joined the anarchists in New York
passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/08/dovid-david-apotheker.html
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/A/apotheker-david.htm
1911(1st
of Cheshvan, 5672): Sixty-two year old Yale educated art dealer and “hard money
advocate” Louis R. Ehrich, the Albany, NY, born son of Joseph Ehrich and
Rebecca Spoborg and the husband of
Henriette Minzesheimer known as the
founder of the Ehrich Galleries on New York’s Fifth Avenue passed away today.
1911:
“Senator Penrose assured a delegation of Jews from Philadelphia headed by Judge
Mayer Sulzberger that he will take up the Passport Question with President Taft
and Secretary Knox as soon as soon as Congress convenes” and that his of the
opinion that final notice should be served on Russia that the United States
will no longer tolerate discrimination against class of citizens.”
1912: When
Oscar Straus, Progressive candidate for Governor of New York State, mounted the
speakers' platform in Music Hall to-night he was received with a tempest of
applause” as he “set about to win his audience with his humorous references to
his own candidacy for the governorship.”
1913(22nd
of Tishrei, 5674): Shmini Atzeret
1913: “When
the trial of Mendel Beiliss, accused of the murder of the boy Yushinsky in
March, 1911, reopened this morning, the prisoner's counsel called the attention
of the Presiding Judge to the fact that, although the court sat yesterday from
early in the morning until midnight, the prisoner's name had not been mentioned
even once.”
1914: “Mass
Meeting for Palestine Cause” published today described plans for an upcoming
meeting sponsored by Hadassah to deal with the crisis faced by the Jewish
community due to World War.
1914: “Wars
Horrors In Russia” published today described a Jewish soldier in the hospital
at Petrograd “who was raving mad” after having taken part in a bayonet charge
against the Austrians where “he drove his bayonet through the chest of his
opponent he heard him “gasp the Hebrews death prayer which begins ‘Hear, O
Israel.”
1914:
“Nathan Straus for Glynn” published today described the Jewish leader’s support
for Martin H. Glynn, the first Catholic chief executive of the state of New
York.
1915:
Untold thousands, including many Jewish women, marched down New York’s Fifth
Avenue in support of giving women the right to vote.
1916:
“Honest John O’Brien” opened tonight on Broadway at a theatre co-owned by Sam H.
Harris.
1916:
Oppose a Census of Jews” published today described the view of several
newspapers including the Vorwarts and the Tageblatt that the motion passed by
the General Committee of the Reichstag calling for a census of men serving in
the various associations charged with providing the necessities of life for the
nation is anti-Semitic because it counts the Jews doing this as if they are
“shirkers” and does not count the number of Jews serving in the army.
1916: In
St. Louis, “the House of Deputies of the Episcopal General Convention adopted
without opposition a resolution” urging that converts from Judaism be allowed
“to observe the national rites and ceremonies of Israel when they accept
Christ…”
1917: The
Industrial Removal Office, whose officers included Chairman Reuben Arkush, Vice
Chairman, Alfred Jaretzki and Secretary Nathan Bijur held it 16th
annual meeting today in New York City.
1917: Two
hundred “aged residents” of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob held a prayer
meeting today during which they prayed “for the success of the American army
and the coming of an honorable peace before turning over $100 of their savings
to “Superintendent Albert Kruger with the instructions to buy a Liberty bon in
the name of the institution.”
1917:
Birthdate of Dub Karel who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Majdenak
where he was murdered.
1918:
Birthdate of “Harold P. Manson, director of the office of Academic Affairs of
the American Friends of the Hebrew University and the husband of “Mrs. Natanya
Neumann Manson, a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company.”
1918:
Birthdate of Meri Vilner, the native of Vilnius who as Ber Kovner became a
leader of the Communist Party of Israel. He was a cousin of Abba Kovner, the
famous resistance fighter and Israeli poet.
1918:
Constantin C. Arion, the Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs who had said that
his “Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with the peace
treat” and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of the
Rumanian Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens and that
naturalization is only possible for them individually” completed his service in
that government position today. (Editor’s Note – Going back to the Congress of
Berlin, Rumanian government were always promising to emancipate the Jews living
in the country and always failing to do so.)
1919(25th
of Tishrei, 5680): Manhattan native Benjamin Duberstein, who changed his name
to Dubois when he enlisted in the Army and who rose from the rank of private to
major while serving with the Third Division in France where he contracted
pleurisy lost his battle with tuberculosis and passed away at Fort Houston, TX.
1919:
Birthdate of Estonian native Isadore Epstein, the Princeton trained astronomer
and Columbia professor who “was a leader in the first modern surveys to find
sites for observatories in the Southern Hemisphere.”
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol22/vol22_iss6/record2206.25.html
1919: “Mr.
and Mrs. N. Blumenthal” gave birth to their daughter Goldina Bluemthal was
buried at in Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong when she passed away at
the age of ten.
1920(11th
of Cheshvan, 5681): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1920: Rabbi
Israel Mattuck ,Senior Minister of London’s Liberal Jewish Synagogue (LJS)
delivered a sermon today “On the Strike.” https://lnk.li/data/getSermon.php?k=S4 (Editor’s note – the opening paragraphs are
worth reading today because it includes an attempt to deal with the issue of
when and how it is appropriate to address social issues from the pulpit)
1920: The
Tri-City Conference of Social Workers with attendees coming from Philadelphia,
Baltimore and New York is scheduled to open this evening at the Young Women’s
Hebrew Association on West 110th Street.
1921( 21st
of Tishrei, 5682): Hoshana Raba
1921:
“Simon Wolf At 84 Years,” published today provides a profile of the Jewish
lawyer, philanthropist and the friend of Presidents just before his 84th
birthday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/10/23/98757659.html?pageNumber=85
1922: It
was reported today that Judge Samuel D. Levy of the Children’s Court in New
York City, Benjamin D. Greeler and Dr. Nathan Kraus of Central Synagogue were
among those who at the dedication of the Jewish Temporary Shelter for
Friendless Children in Yonkers.
1923: In
Los Angeles, Abraham Pregerson, “a WW I veteran and postal worker” and “the
former Bessie Boobalsky” gave birth to WW II Marine veteran and Cal-Berkley
trained attorney and jurist Harry Pregerson who “told the United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary that ‘My conscience is a product of the Ten
Commandments, the Bill of Rights, the Boy Scout Oath, and the Marine Corps
Hymn.’” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
Editor’s note – some sources show October 13 but the NYT uses October
23)
1923: In
Lawrence, MA, Samuel Bernstein, the Ukrainian born son of Judah and Dina
Bernstein and his wife Jennie Charna Bernstein gave birth to Shirley Anne
Bernstein, a sister of the renowned Leonard Bernstein.
1924: In
Pennsylvania, William and Edith Lieberman gave birth to S. Bernard Lieberman.
1925: “Judaism
gave its first pronouncement on the subject of evolution today when Dr. Samuel
Schulman of New York presented a committee report to the Central Conference of
American Rabbis calling for freedom of thought and speech and declaring that
"Judaism does not fear the results of the investigation of sound science
in any realm of human knowledge.''
1926:
Middleweight Seymour “Cy” Schindel won his 9th bout giving him a
record of 8 victories and one loss today.
1927: In Israel, a
moshav that would be late known as Netanya is founded by Nathan Strauss.
1927(27th of Tishrei, 5688): Forty-nine year old
Joel Blau, the former rabbi of Peni-El Temple and Congregation B’nai Jeshurun,
New York who is the current rabbi at the West End London Synagogue passed away
today.
1927(27th of Tishrei, 5688): Seventy-four year
old Alois Eisler, the husband of Emilie Eisler and the father of “Otto Eisler;
Dr. Rudolf Eisler and Paul Eisler” passed away today in the Czech Republic.
1927: “Sunset” a play “written by Isaac Babel in 1926,
based on his short story collection The Odessa Tales” “premiered at the Baku
Worker's Theatre” today.
1928: Today, George Blumenthal, President of Mount Sinai
Hospital issued a statement urging assistance of the Federation for the Support
of Jewish Philanthropic Societies which this began a campaign to meet the
$1,778,00 deficit to complete is budge of $5,300,000.
1929: Birthdate of Leonard Freed, the son of Jewish
immigrants who became a leading documentary photojournalist who photographed
everything from the Amsterdam Jewish Community to the Civil Rights movement
with a special emphasis on Martin Luther King, Jr to the Yom Kippur War passed
away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/arts/design/04freed.html?_r=0
1929: In Los Angeles, Nathan and Pearl Adelson (née Swartz), “children of
Russian immigrants who had settled in Nebraska” gave birth to real estate
developer and television producer Merv Adelson.
1929: The city of Netanya named in honor of philanthropist Nathan Strauss.
Originally, a coastal Moshav, within a decade it was thriving Mediterranean
seaside resort.
1930: After
a final meeting, which lasted almost two hours tonight, two committees which
have been attempting since December of last year to negotiate a merger of the
Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City
which embraces Manhattan and the Bronx, and the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish
Charities, in order to obtain a gift of one million dollars offered in June 29
by Ralph Jonas of Brooklyn admitted they had failed to accomplish the goal.
1931: The
part of recently deceased playwright Dr. Arthur Schnitzler’s will, dealing with
the disposition of his property, is scheduled to be read today.
1932: In
Philadelphia, Charles Zimmerman, the “garment industry union-leader and
co-chairman of the Socialist Party-Democratic Socialist Federation” and
“dressmaker Rose (Prepstein) Zimmerman gave birth to Paul Lionel Zimmerman, one
of the “dean’s” of pro-football journalism often referred to as Dr. Z. (As
reported by Richard Sandomir)
1933: Rabbi
B.A. Tintiner is scheduled to officiate at the funeral service for “Lorne
Haskell, secretary of the Jewish Theatrical Guild of America” with a eulogy
delivered by George Jessel after which burial will take place at Bethel
Cemetery.
1933(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5694): Seventy-seven-year old Bertha Simon Dreyfus, the New
Orleans born daughter of David and Theresa Kaufman Simon and the wife of Isaac
Dreyfus passed away today after which she was buried at the Congregation Anshe
Emeth Cemetery in Pine Bluff, AR.
1934(14th
of Cheshvan, 5695): Seventy-nine year old Samuel Samuel the British businessman
who founded Samuel Samuel & Co in Yokohama in partnership with his brother
Marcus and who served as a Conservative MP from 1919 until he passed away
today.
1934:
Nathan L. Goldstein, President of the United States Maccabiah Association
announced today that “the United States will be represented by a team of twenty
five athletes at the second Maccabiah” scheduled to be held in Tel Aviv in
April of 1935.
1934: In
the Bronx, “Samuel and Fannie Kaplan of the Sefardi Recanati family from
Salonika, Greece, gave birth to Leonard Martin Kaplan who gained fame Orthodox
rabbi and author Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu Kaplan.
http://bible.ort.org/books/help.asp?action=displaytext&type=1&id=2
1934: In
Schardam, Klaas Abe Schipper and Johanna Schirpper whose “religious convictions
inspired them to hide Jews during the German occupation of Holland in WW II
gave birth to Kristofer Marinus Schipper who made Taoism his life’s work. (As
reported by Ian Johnson)
1935: Dutch
Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosenkrantz are
fatally shot in a bar in Newark in what will become known as The Chophouse
Massacre. Were there Jewish gangsters? Yes!
But contrary to a recent revisionist books on the topic, these thugs
were not role models or heroes.
1936(7th
of Cheshvan, 5697): Hyman Goldman, the center for the Lehigh University
football team from 1918 to 1920 who went on
to serve as an assistant coach for his alma mater and a successful
career as a chemical engineer passed away today.
1936: In
Amsterdam, violinist Bronislaw Huberman who was the founder of the Palestine
Symphony Orchestra performed as a soloist this evening with the Concertgebouw
Orchestra under the direction of Bruno Walter.
1936: In Chicago,
Elizabeth (Brandau), a housewife, and Nathan Kaufman, a produce businessman
gave birth to director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman who became involved with
the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, for which he
receives story credit. While the character of Indiana Jones was created by
George Lucas, it was Kaufman who came up with the story and the pursuit of the
Ark of the Covenant.
1936: It
was reported today that the sponsors of Reconstruction, a book “recording what
the Jews of America have done for the relief and rehabilitation of their less
fortunate coreligionists throughout the world” include President Roosevelt,
former Governor Alfred E. Smith, Governor Lehman, Mayor La Guardia, New Jersey
Governor Harold G. Hoffman, Illinois Governor Henry Horner, Tennessee Governor
Hill McAlister and Wyoming Governor Leslie A. Miller.
1936: “The
purge of German Kultur of Jewish influences advanced another step today when
the biblical text of the world-famous oratorio ‘Judas Maccabeus’ by George
Friedrich Handel, the Anglo-German composer who lied buried in West Minster
Abbey, was changed a new ‘German’ text was substituted.”
1936:
“Under threat of boycott and picketing by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League
and the American Jewish Congress, the management of the Fifty-Fifth Street
Playhouse announced today that it had inefinitely postponed the showing of the
film ‘Amphitryon’ which “was financed by the French branch of UFA which is
virtually owned by the Nazi government.”
1936: As
the Mosely inspired fascist attacks continued in the United Kingdom, “Sophie
Tucker complained today that ruffians in London’s East End had thrown rocks at
her.”
1937(18th
of Cheshvan, 5698: Thirty-seven-year old Avinoam Yellin, senior inspector of
Jewish schools in the Government Education Department, died tonight of wounds
received when he was shot by an Arab on October 21st.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/10/24/94444543.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1938:
Thirty-six old Alsatian-born American movie mogul William Wyler married
Margaret “Talli” Tallichet with whom he had five children -- “Catherine,
Judith, William Jr., Melanie and David Wyler.”
1939:
Warner Brothers released The Roaring Twenties, a “crime thriller” produced by
Hal Wallis and Samuel Bischoff with a script co-authored by Mark Hellinger,
Jerry Wald and Robert Rossen based on The World Moves on by Mark
Hellinger.
1940: 21st
of Tishrei, 5701): Hoshanah Rabah
1940: The
Jewish Hospital in Warsaw was forced to close and move into the Warsaw Ghetto.
1940: In
Brooklyn, William Greenwich and “Russian Jewish department manager Rose (Baron)
Greenwich gave birth to Eleanor Louise Greenwich who gained fame as singer
“Ellie” Greenwich.
1940:
Hitler and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco met in Hendaye today where the
Nazi leader demanded that his fascist client join his war effort; a demand that
the Spaniard turned down.
1941(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5702): Odessa "action" continued as 19,000 more Jews were
gathered into the city square, sprayed with gasoline and burned alive.
1941(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5702): Thousands
of Jews are murdered at Kragujevac, Yugoslavia.
1941:
Father Bernhard Lichtenberg was arrested for protesting against German
deportation of the Jews. He died on his way to Dachau
1941(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5702): The Nazis executed 10,000 Jews of the Vilna ghetto
1941:
Isidore Newman, who was training as a Wireless with SOE was described today as
“good at PT; knows a lot and so this makes him a little unpopular with others
in the group.”
1942: The
Battle of El Alamein began with a major attack by British forces on Rommel’s
Afrika Corps and their Italian Allies.
When the fighting started the Axis were on the verge of sweeping the
British out of Egypt, seizing the Suez Canal, cutting the Imperial lifeline to
India and destroying the Jewish community in Eretz Israel. The well-supplied
Allied forces overcame the usual timidity of their generals and broke the Axis
lines, starting the Germans on a long retreat that would end with surrender in
Tunisia in 1943.
1942: In
Worcester, MA, artist Lillian Coben and pediatrician Saul Kahn Dopken gave
birth to Boston University graduate Joyce Harriet Dopken “who in 1973 became
the first woman to be hired by The New York Times as a full-time staff
photographer, beginning a 35-year career with the newspaper.” (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
1942: Algerian-Jewish resistance leader José Aboulker met with
American General Mark Clark in Morocco. Aboulker is given 800 Sten guns, 800
grenades, 400 handguns, and 50 portable radios. This is in preparation for
Operation Torch, the November, 1942 landing of American and British forces in
North Africa. One of the big unknowns
was how the French forces would react.
Would they resist since the French Vichy government was allied with
Germany, or would they greet the Allies as liberating comrades in arms. The Americans hoped for the latter, but as
this action showed, they were preparing for the former.
1942(12th
of Cheshvan, 5703): Forty-one year old
Ralph Rainger who was born Ralph Reichenthal was among ,the 12
passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner who are killed
when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs,
California. The award-winning composer was responsible for such hits Love in
Bloom, Blue Hawaii and Bob Hope’s signature song, Thanks for the Memory.
1943(24th
of Tishrei, 5704): Fifty-two year old violinist and bandleader Ben Bernie
(Bernard Anzelevitz) whose orchestra “was heard via remote broadcast from the
Hotel Roosevelt in New York on the first such broadcast by NBC” passed
away. (Editor’s note – some sources show
the death date as October 20)
1943(24th of Tishrei, 5704): Five days after their
deportation train left Rome, its 1,060 Jewish passengers were gassed at
Auschwitz and Birkenau.
1943(24th of Tishrei, 5704: Eighteen hundred Polish Jews
formerly held at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, arrive at Auschwitz, where the women
revolt outside the gas chambers, killing one SS guard and wounding two. SS
reinforcements use gas grenades and machine-gun fire to subdue and kill the
resisters.
1943: In Lithuania, a Jewish partisan unit destroys telegraph and
telephone lines along the Vilna-to-Lida railway
1943(24th of Tishrei, 5704: One thousand, seven
hundred-fifty Polish Jews, believing they were awaiting transport to South
America, were sent to Birkenau instead. The women took part in a minor revolt
in response to SS Sergeant Josef Schillinger's request for them to strip. He
was shot and other SS men were injured. Rudolf Hoess ordered the removal of
each of the women into the camp grounds, and had each one shot. According to
Jerzy Tabau, who later escaped, "the extermination of the Jews continued
relentlessly. . ."
1944: In Budapest, Swedish consul Raoul Wallenberg and Swiss
consul Carl Lutz continue to issue protective documents to Jews, partly in
response to a decree that Jews in Hungary who are of foreign nationalities or
those holding foreign passports will be exempt from forced labor.
1944: Hungarian authorities agreed to send another 25,000 Jews to Germany
for purposes of forced labor. Charles Lutz, the Swiss Consul managed to save
thousands of others by issuing collective passports and protective documents.
1944: As of today, the National Citizens Political Action Committee “had
received contributions totaling $271, 531 and spent $165, 018.
1945: “The Palestine Story: Past and Future” published today provides a
lengthy review of “romies and Fulfillment by Arthur Kosetler.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/10/23/84281692.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1945: Birthdate of Kenneth Feinberg, an American attorney, specializing
in mediation and alternative dispute resolution who first came to fame as the
Special Masster of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. He has remained in the public eye as the TARP
“pay czar” and the man who was supposed to sort out the mess related to
compensating the victims of the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
1946: The original Kibbutz Ein Tzurim was founded today in Gush Etzion.
The Jordanian Army destroyed the Kibbutz during Israel’s War for Independence.
1947: In Kiriyate Bialik, Hadasa
and Moshe gave birth to Yosef (Yosi) Barena who at the age of twenty would
perish aboard the INS Dakar.
1948(20th of Tishrei, 5709): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1948: The 4th Battalion of the Givati Brigade captured the
village of Ajjur.
1948: Beit Jibrin was captured by the 52 Battalion of Givati and the 8th
Brigade today.
1948: Shafiq Ades, a respected
Jewish businessman, was publicly hanged in Basra on charges of selling weapons
to Israel and the Iraqi Communist Party, despite the fact he was an outspoken
anti-Zionist” in an event that increased the sense of insecurity among Jews
1949: In “A Modern Philosophy of Our Ills,” published today, provides a
detailed review of Conflicting Patterns of Thought by Karl Pribram.
1949: An
Israeli government spokesman reported that hundreds of Jews in Iraq had been
brutally arrested, and all their property had beeb confiscated.
1950(12th of Cheshvan, 5711): Al Jolson passed away. Born Asa Yoelson in Lithuania in 1886,
Jolson’s father was a Cantor for a synagogue in downtown Washington D.C. at the
turn of the century. Jolson chose to use
his singing talents in a different manner.
As one of America’s first “superstars, he starred on Broadway, radio and
film. He is most famous for starring in
the first talkie – the first full length film with sound. It was called the Jazz Singer.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/1950/oct/25/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm
1951(23rd of Tishrei, 5712): Simchat Torah is celebrated by
congregants of Adas Israel in its new home at Connecticut Avenue and Porter.
1951: In Manhattan “radio station manager R. Peter Straus” and “Ellen
Sulzberger Straus, a cousin of New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger”
gave birth to magazine published Diane Straus, the Yale University graduate and
“stepsister of Monica Lewinsky.”
1951(23rd of Tishrei, 5712): Sixty-seven year old Ukrainian
born playwright and screen writer Leo Birinski passed away today “at Lincoln
Hospital in The Bronx” after which he was tragically buried at Potter’s Filed.
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported at length on the research conducted in the Negev wadis
by Dr. Nelson Glueck, the president of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
Dr. Glueck discovered and described many wadis, situated deep in the Negev
wastes, whose sides had been terraced from bottom to top. There were numerous
cisterns to catch the run-off rainwater, as well as many dams and irrigation
channels, a testimony to the former intense cultivation and human presence in
that currently uninhabited territory. Glueck would eventually record all of his
findings in a popular tome entitled Rivers In The Desert.
1953(14th
of Cheshvan, 5714): Eighty year old Florence Walston, the daughter of Caroline
and David Lewis Einstein the widow of Theodore David Seligman and archeologist
Sir Charles Walston passed away today.
1955: In
New York, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, held a cornerstone
ceremony which was designed to serve as fund raiser for erecting a new
community center. The inscription on the stone read: "Dedicated to
Sephardic Unity and Community Service."
1955: It
was reported today that Dr. Benjamin Mazar, the President of Hebrew University
is visiting the United States as part of an effort to highlight the observance
of the school’s thirtieth anniversary. The university currently has 4,000
students and a faculty of 560.
1956: Mrs.
Martin E. Popkin announced the engagement of her daughter Joan M Popkin to U.S.
Navy veteran Murray B. Schwartzman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schwartzman
of the Bronx.
1957: Rabbi
Jacob Philip Rudin’s elevation to the presidency of the Central Conference of
Rabbis following the death of Rabbi Israel Bettan on August 5th was
announced today.
1956: The Hungarian Revolution began as Hungarians sought to remove Soviet
forces from their country. The revolt would
turn violent as Soviet tanks returned to the streets of Budapest. The Hungarian Revolt came at the same time as
the Suez Crisis when the Israelis rolled across the Sinai and an Anglo-French
force intervened. In an interesting role
reversal, the Eisenhower Administration did nothing meaningful to stop the
Soviets. At the same, the Eisenhower
Administration joined forces with the Soviets to support the Egyptian dictator
Gamal Nasser against the English, French and the Israelis.
1958: Russian novelist Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for
Literature. The author of Dr. Zhivago
was born to Jewish parents in Moscow.
His father was a professor of painting and his mother was a concert
pianist.
1959: In
Royal Oak, Michigan, “Celia (née Abrams), a lingerie store proprietor, and
Leonard Raimi, a furniture store proprietor” gave birth to Michigan State
University drop-out and successful movie maker Samuel M. “Sam” Raimi the brother of actor Ted Raimi, screenwriter
of Ivan Raimia, Andrea Raimi Ruben and the late Saner Raimi
1960: U.S.
premiere of “The Magnificent Seven” the classic western with a most memorable
score created by Elmer Bernstein and a script co-authored by Walter Bernstein
1961(13th
of Cheshvan, 5722):
Harold K. Guinzburg, founder of Viking Press, and the
father of publisher Thomas Guinzburg, passed away.
1962: “The
Longest Day” an epic about June 6 with a script co-authored by Romain Gary and
co-starring Red Buttons was released today in Germany, Mexico and the United
Kingdom.
1963: Neil
Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre.
1963: Ivry
Gitlis performed in Vilna making him the first Israeli violinist to play in the
Soviet Union under the cultural exchange between the two countries.
1963: In
New York City “Martin and Rhoda Brecker” gave birth to Allison Ivy Brecker,
part of a quadruplet birth, who married “film composer Edward Shearmur” and
gained fame as movie executive “Allison’Alli’ Ivy Shearmur.”
1964(17th
of Cheshvan, 5725): Sixty-seven-year-old Berdichev born “American theatre
writer, lyricist and screenwriter” Joseph “Jo” Swerling whose screen credits
include such classics “The Pride of the Yankees” and “It’s a Wonderful Life”
and whose Broadway credits included the book for “Guys and Dolls” passed away
today.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/swerling-joseph-1897-1964
1966: “The
Shooting,” directed by Monte Hellman (Monte Jay Himmelbaum) premiered today at
the San Francisco International Film Festival.
1970(23rd
of Tishrei, 5731): Simchat Torah
1970: “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail” co-authored by Jerome
Lawrence was performed professionally for the first time at the Arena Stage in
Washington, DC.
1972: A
terrorist plot was thwarted today when an Algerian “diplomatic courier” who was
a Palestinian was “arrested at the airport in Amsterdam for carrying arms” for
unknown reasons.
1972:
“Pippin” the “Tony Award-winning musical with lyrics and music by Stephen
Schwartz” premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre” with John Rubinstein,
the son of concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein, playing the title role.
1973:
Rabbi Sally J. Priesand offered the opening prayer in the United States House
of Representatives, at the invitation of Congresswoman Bella Abzug. According
to Abzug, Priesand was not only the first Jewish woman, but the first woman to
be accorded this honor. October 23, 1973 also turned out to be the day on which
the first resolution to impeach President Richard Nixon was offered. Priesand
became the first woman to be ordained by a rabbinical seminary in June 1972.
While Priesand was the first American woman rabbi, she was not the first woman
to study toward that goal. She was preceded at Hebrew Union College and the
Jewish Institute of Religion by other women including Martha Neumark, Helen
Levinthal Lyons, Toby Fink, and Norma Kirschner.
1973: The UN Cease Fire Resolution was proving a
difficult document to enforce on the ground.
There was opposition in Israel to accepting a cease fire. In particular, Menachem Begin, speaking for
the coalition of right wing parties, opposed accepting the cease fire as long
as Arab forces occupied our territory i.e. any part of the Sinai east of the
Suez Canal. Ironically, this would be
part of the very land that Begin would trade with Sadat to gain a peace treaty
between Israel and Egypt.
1974(11th
of Cheshvan, 5735): Ninety-four year old Hungarian playwright and screen writer
Melichor Lengye; passed away in Budapest.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12120.html
1975(18th
of Cheshvan, 5736): Egihty-five-year-old Frances Hrlick, the Maryland born
daughter Hannah and Moses Lewin and the wife of Rubin Horick passed away today
in Malden, MA after which she was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in
Middlesex County, MA.
1975:
John Gunther Dean, the American diplomat who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 at
the age of 12 was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark.
1976:
“Information was received that Victor Elistratov, Mikhail Kremen and Arkady
Polishchuk were detained for 15 days, and Boris Chernobilsky was placed in
Butyrskaya prison.”
1977(11th of Cheshvan, 5738): Ninety-four
year old Brooklyn
native and Harvard graduate Clarence Grove Bachrach the Brooklyn Law School
trained attorney and partner in the firm of Bachrach and Bisgyer passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/24/archives/clarence-grover-bachrach.html
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, reacting to the recent
passenger aircraft hijacking incidents and the murder of a Lufthansa pilot, had
postponed its threatened 48-hour global air-transport strike, after the UN
agreed to hold a full meeting of the General Assembly on the subject of air
piracy.
1977: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Lev Ovsiher, a highly decorated Jewish Red
Army veteran, gave his 17 medals back to the Soviet government, to protest the
refusal to let him immigrate with his family to Israel. Yes, it was only a quarter of a century ago
that the Refusniks were fighting to leave the Soviet Union. Change does happen and sometimes it is for
the better.
1978(22nd
of Tishrei, 5739): Shmini Atzeret
1978(22nd
of Tishrei, 5739): Eighty-seven-year old Dr. Bertram Julian Sanger, the Waco,
TX born son of Isabella and Lehman Sanger the wife of Joan Dorothy Eliasberg
Sanger passed away today after which he was buried at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery
in Baltimore MD.
1980: Today
“In a provocative essay in the New England journal Dr. Arnold Relman, the editor in chief,
issued the clarion call that would resound through his career, assailing the
American health care system as caring more about making money than curing the sick.”
1981: In
the Soviet Union, “massive pressure was exerted on Hebrew teachers” as “KGB
departments in various cities summoned teachers and demanded that they stop
teaching” the forbidden language.
1983: A suicide terrorist truck bomb killed 243 US personnel in
Beirut. President Reagan responded by
withdrawing the Marine peacekeeping force from Lebanon. There are those who feel that this response
was viewed as a victory by the terrorists who moved forward with attacks on
airports in Europe and the downing of an airliner over Scotland.
1983:
Episcopal priest William Bumiller and Rabbi Harold White officiated at the
wedding of “Elisabeth Bumiiler of the Washington Post” and New York Times White
House correspondent Steven R. Weisman the of Joseph Weisman, the President of
the Jewish Homes for the Aged of Greater Los Angeles and “Etta Weisman, the
President of Helping hand of Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
1983: While
a chaplain for the United States Sixth Fleet, Arnold Resnicoff was present in
Beirut, Lebanon, during the suicide truck bomb attack that took the lives of
241 American military personnel, and wounded scores more.
1983(16th
of Cheshvan, 5744): Thirty-six year old newscaster Jessica Savitch and 34 year
old Martin Fischbein, the vice president and assistant general manager of the
New York Post were killed in an automobile accident today. (As reported by
Peter Kerr)
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/25/obituaries/jessica-savitch-of-nbc-tv-killed-in-car-accident.html
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086321,00.html
1983:
Following a lengthy and intense debate within the Conservative movement, the
Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) faculty senate, voted 34-8 to admit women to
the JTS Rabbinical School. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)
1986(20th
of Tishrei, 5747): Sukkoth Chol Hamoed
1986(20th
of Tishrei, 5747): Eighty-six year old Helen Rovine, the Norma, NJ, native who
married Benjamin Grossman with whom she had three children, passed away today
in Philadelphia.
1987: Sacred
and Profane novel by Faye Kellerman
which is second in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series was published today.
1987:
“Suspect” a courtroom drama written by Eric Roth was released today.
1987:
Sixty-three year old David Gorcey, son of Russian Jewish father and an Irish
Catholic mother, who was known as one of “The Bowery Boys” passed away today.
1991:
Nicholas Davies and Robert Maxwell, filled a libel suit against Faber &
Faber Ltd the publisher of The Samson Option by Seymour M. Hirsch
1992:
“Zebrahead” starring Michael Rapaport was released today in the United States
today.
1994:
“Ex-Judge Wachtler’s Early Release From Halfway House Denied” published today
described the decision not to release Sol Wachtler “because he sneaked out to
attend a political fund raiser.”
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-23/news/mn-53884_1_halfway-house
1996(10th
of Cheshvan, 5757): Ninety-one year old social critic Diana Trilling the widow
of Lionel Trilling passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/trilling-diana
1996: Today László Jenő Ocskay of Ocskó and
Felsődubován a Hungarian army officer, captain of the Royal Hungarian Army who
saved approximately 2500 Jews in Budapest in 1944–45, thus being one of those
Hungarians who saved the most Jews during the Holocaust” was given a posthumous
gold medal by President of Hungary Árpád Göncz and in 2002 was named a
Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13kskds9?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic
1996: In
Providence, RI, pediatrician Scott Berns and pediatric intern Leslie Grove gave
birth to Sampson Gordon Berns “a Massachusetts high school junior whose life
with the illness progeria was the subject of a documentary film recently
shortlisted for an Academy Award.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1997(22nd
of Tishrei, 5758): Shmini Atzeret
1997(22nd
of Tishrei, 5758): Ninety-two-year old Hyman “Hy” Applebaum, the son of Bertha
and Oscar Applebaum passed away to in St. Paul, MN.
1998: “The Last Day” an
Oscar winning documentary that ‘tell the story of five Hungarian Jews during
the Holocaust” premiered in Los Angeles.
1998: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the Wye River Memorandum, thus bringing
about the end of his first government. He did this with his own mouth: After
being perceived as undermining the Oslo Accords, and after declared that any
withdrawal from more than nine percent of the West Bank would harm Israel’s
security, he ratified the accords and sought a 13-percent withdrawal. His term
was rife with conflicts with the United States president, and he made both the
right and left heartily sick of him. A decade later, Netanyahu is at a similar
juncture.
1998 (3rd
of Cheshvan, 5759): Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed abortions, was
murdered at his home in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., when a sniper fired a shot
through his kitchen window. Slepian was
murdered on a Friday night after his family had returned home from Shabbat eve
services.
1998:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser
Arafat signed a land-for-peace agreement at the White House, following nine
days of talks at Wye River, Md.
1999: The
Howard Nemerov House was dedicated today at Washington University in St. Louis.
http://wustl.edu/community/visitors/tour/danforth/nemerov-house.html
2000: “Trying
to heal a rift with Israel's Arab citizens, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced
an inquiry today into the deaths of 13 Israeli Arabs in the current unrest and
unveiled a four-year development plan for Arab communities.”
2001(6th
of Cheshvan, 5762): Eighty-four year Daniel Wildenstein, who enjoyed prominent
positions in the world of thoroughbred horse-racing and art passed away today.
(As reported by Alan Riding)
2002(17th
of Cheshvan, 5763): Sixty-nine year old Al Lerner, the billionaire owner of the
Cleveland Browns passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/26/local/me-lerner26
http://www.cbssports.com/print/nfl/story/5827319
2003:
Israel honored Hans von Dohnányi by recognizing him as one of the Righteous
Among the Nations for saving the Arnold and Fliess families, at risk to his own
life.
2003(27th
of Tishrei, 5764): Ninety-one year old “Judah Benzion ‘Ben’ Segal”, the
“Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies,”
the father of Professor Moshe Zvi Segal and the brother of Dr. Samuel Segal”
passed away today.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-j-b-segal-37421.html
2004(8th
of Cheshvan, 5765): Parashat Lech Lecha
2004(8th
of Cheshvan, 5765): Eighty-seven year old opera mainstay Robert Merrill (Moishe
Miller) passed away today.
2005: The New
York Times reviewed The Life of David by Robert Pinksy. This biography is one of the first books in
the “Jewish Encounters” series, which will match prominent Jewish writers with
a variety of subjects.
2005:
“Curacao’s place in the Diaspora,” publishedtoday the
Boston Globe reports on the history of this Jewish community including the
founding of Mikve Israel-Emanuel which was built in 1732, nearly 100 years
after the first Jews arrived. Most of them were Sephardics fleeing persecution
in Europe.
2006(1st
of Cheshvan, 5767): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that
Indonesia will purchase four Israeli unmanned planes, or drones, through a
Filipino distributor. The deal was a surprise to some because Indonesia, the
world's most populous Muslim country, has long supported Palestinian
independence efforts and does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
2006: Max
Kellerman began hosting the 10 AM to noon program on WEPN, replacing ESPN's
nationally broadcast Colin Cowherd program.
2007: The
Upper Midwest Region of Hadassah hosts its annual Big Gifts Dinner honoring
Barbara Melamed with Hadassah’s Myrtle Wreath Award. Babara Sofer, The Israel Director of Public Affairs and
Communications for Hadassah and popular columnist for the Jerusalem Post is the featured
speaker for the event. Held in
Minneapolis, this is one more example of the vitality of the Jewish community
of Minnesota, a state where Jewish Republicans and Jewish Democrats run against
each for major state offices.
2007:
Today, Luke Ford the son Desmond Ford, a noted Seventh Day Adventist theologian
who converted to Judaism “announced he had sold lukeisback.com and its contents
for an undisclosed sum to an undisclosed party,”
2007: “Emmanuelle
Grey Rossum’s album ‘Inside Out’ was released” today “and peaked at 199 in the
U.S. Billboard Charts.
2007:
“Avenue Q,” Moshe Kepten’s Israeli version of the Broadway hit musical debuts
at Beit Lessin, in Tel Aviv.
2008:
“Mother Economy,” the 19-minute film on view at New York’s Jewish Museum since
July 1, comes to an end
2008:
Today, during a congressional hearing, Alan “Greenspan admitted that his
free-market ideology shunning certain regulations was flawed.”
2008: As part of the Israel@ 60 Celebration, the Resnick
Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish presents a screening and discussion of
the award-winning Israeli documentary, "No.
Seventeen was Anonymous." The event is facilitated by Professor
Tova Weitzman of Vassar College.
2008(24th
of Tishrei 5769):
Friends and family of Avraham Ozeri voiced sorrow and
anger at the killing of the 86-year-old they described as "salt of the
earth" in today's stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
"My father was a man whom everyone loved and who never wronged a single
person. To stab a man such as this, at this age, is an animal-like act,"
said Ozeri's son, Amos. He added that his father's motto was "love of the
land." Ozeri was born in the capital's Bukharan Quarter to parents who had
immigrated from Yemen. He was educated in a cheder orthodox primary
school and later in a talmud Torah, another religious institution. From
the age of 15 he held various temporary jobs. In 1942, he enlisted in the
British Mandate police force, and served as a guard north of the Dead Sea. At
one point, he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Jewish
underground, although he was released after a short period of time. Ozeri
fought in the 1948 War of Independence in the Yemin Moshe and Abu Tor areas of
Jerusalem. He volunteered in the 1956 Sinai Campaign and 1967 Six-Day war,
working on Israel Defense Forces fortifications.
Ozeri then worked for 35 years as a customs official, retiring in 1998. A year
later, his wife Rivka passed away. Nir Yogev, Ozeri's grandson related that his
grandfather had planned to participate in a 10-kilometer run in Tel Aviv on
Saturday. "Grandpa was an exemplary sportsman and was involved in
long-distance running for 40 years. Over the years, there wasn't a marathon
that grandpa didn't take part in. His closet was full of trophies and awards.
Up until a few years ago he would run with me and [his other] grandchildren
every Shabbat from the neighborhood of Gilo to the neighborhood of Ramot, and
back," said Yogev.
2008:
Vandals rampaged through a sprawling Jewish cemetery
in Romania's capital, toppling tombstones and smashing markers for as many as
200 graves.
2008: Today, the German government handed Israel's national
Holocaust memorial personal details of the 600,000 Jewish residents of Nazi
Germany, the most comprehensive record to date of German-Jewish life during the
Nazi era.
2009(5th
of Cheshvan, 5770): Ninety-fiver year old Canadian-born character actor Lou
Jacobi passed away in New York City.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/nyregion/25jacobi.html?_r=1
2009: As
part of his World Tour, Leonard Cohen performs at Madison Square Garden.
2009: The
New York Times featured a review of The Humbling, Philip Roth’s
latest novella
2009:
“Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis” opens at the Cinema Village in
New York City. This is a cinematic
presentation of material covered in the recently publish, Kasztner’s Train:
The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust by Anna Porter. http://www.killingkasztner.com/
2010(15th of Cheshvan):
Yahrzeit of Shlomo Carlebach
2010: Neil Simon’s The
Odd Couple is scheduled to open tonight as Theatre J kicks off its 2010-2011
season in Washington, DC.
2010: New York Times
opinion columnist Thomas Friedman said that many Americans are becoming
"fed up" with Israel. Friedman's comments came in an interview with
Channel Two reporter Dana Weiss to be aired today. Friedman stated that while
the American public was by no means anti-Israel, they no longer care about the
Israeli-Arab conflict, and this could eventually hurt Israel's national
security interests. Friedman added that he believes Israel is not doing the
utmost to promote renewed peace talks with the Palestinians.
2010: The vote on a
bill that would reinstate stipends for men who study Torah full-time will not
take place tomorrow as was previously scheduled, the Prime Minister's Office
announced today.
2011: Seventy-one year
old Ophir Award winning cinematographer “Amnon Salomon” a “disciple of
cinematographer David Gurfinkel” lost his battle with cancer today and passed
away.
https://www.haaretz.com/1.5202870
2011: Theo Epstein took
out a full-page ad in The Boston Globe, thanking Red Sox fans and the team's
owners for their support
2011: The Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor “A Walking
tour of Old Town Alexandria” that will include visits “to the sites of two
former synagogues and several Jewish businesses along King Street-including
some that show traces of past Jewish owners.”
2011: The Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a Walking Tour
of Jewish Sites in Arlington National Cemetery that will include visits to
“memorials by or for Jews, and headstones of prominent Jewish leaders buried at
Arlington.”
2011: Hyman S. &
Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is scheduled to open in Washington,
D.C.
2011: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Alice Hoffman’s latest book, a novel
entitled “The Dovekeepers,” which attempts to retell the story of the Jewish
resistance during the Roman siege of Masada in the first century and “The End:
The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45” by Ian Kershaw.
2011: Israel has
offered to aid the Turkish government in any way it can after a massive
earthquake shook the Turkish southeast, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today
2011: Police have arrested a third suspect in the
torching of a mosque in the Beduin village of Tuba Zanghariya in the Galilee in
early October, police announced today. The suspect, a minor, was arrested day
before yesterday and brought before the Rishon Letzion Magistrate's Court on
Sunday morning, where his remand was extended by five days
2011: National
Infrastructures Ministry announced today that Egypt has resumed natural gas
deliveries to Israel.
2012: Israeli cellist
Elad Kabilio is scheduled to appear at the Joyce Theatre in New York
2012: YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research is scheduled to present “An Evening with Romanian Jewish
Author Norman Manea” during which he will from his latest novel, The Liar
2012: An IDF officer
was critically wounded while carrying out a routine patrol near the Gaza border
fence today
2012: The Emir of Qatar
embraced the Hamas leadership of Gaza today with an official visit that broke
the isolation of the Palestinian Islamist movement, to the dismay of Israel and
rival, Western-backed Palestinian leaders.
2013: The Jacqueline
and Myron Blank Fund along with The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines are
scheduled to host a program in dedicating the Iowa Holocaust Memorial at the
State Historical Building
2013: Emmy Award
winning theatre critic Pat Launer is scheduled to discuss “Broken Glass” one of
the last plays by Arthur Miller that combines themes of Kristallnacht with
anxieties of a American Jewish couple living in New York.
2013: John “Kander's
first musical without Fred Ebb in many years, The Landing, with book and lyrics
by Greg Pierce, premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre today.”
2013: The Lawrence
Family JCC is scheduled to host a screening of “50 Children: The Rescue Mission
of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” which “chronicles the efforts of Gilbert Kraus and his
wife, Eleanor, two Americans who undertook the successful rescue of 50 Jewish
children from Vienna in the late spring of 1939.”
2013: Israeli warplanes
hit a convoy of advanced missiles heading out of Syria and into Lebanon where
they were to be delivered to Hezbollah, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported today
(Reported Stuart Winer)
2013: When the Red Sox
take the field against the Cards tonight in the opening game of the World
Series, Craig Breslow will be in the Boston bull-pen.
2013: According to
unofficial figures released today 35.9% of the eligible voters went to the
polls in Jerusalem and 31.5% of the eligible voters went to the polls in Tel
Aviv during the just completed mayoral elections.
2013: Israel's unusual
period of seismic activity continued today as yet another small earthquake was
felt - this time in the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat. (As reported by Ari
Soffer)
2013(19th of
Cheshvan, 5574): Ninety-year old sandal maker and musician Allan Block passed
away today, (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2013(19th of
Cheshvan, 5574): Ninety-two year old Bill Mazer “who
was a voice and face of sports coverage in New York for decades, pioneering
sports-talk radio and becoming a television fixture while earning the nickname
the Amazin’ for his encyclopedic recall of sports facts and figures” passed
away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2014(29th of
Tishrei, 5775): Ninety year old Frank Mankiewicz, the son of Herman J. Mankiewicz
and nephew of Joseph L. Mankiewicz whose writing career took detours to serve
in the Presidential campaigns of Robert F. Kenney and George S. McGovern passed
away today.
2014: The Oregon Jewish
Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host a screening of
“American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco.”
2014: The University of
Connecticut is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Philip Balma on “Hiding in
Plain Sight: Italian Jews and the Film Industry.”
2014: The University of
Connecticut is scheduled to “I Have No Right to Be Silent” -- a panel
discussion on the social activism and human rights work of Rabbi Marshal Meyer.
2014: The Chicago
International Film Festival which has included a screening of “Gett” is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2014: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host “Two Jewish Loves: Food and Literature.”
2014: “The Sturgeon
Queens” is scheduled to be shown at the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival.
2014: Rita Jahan-Foruz
is scheduled to introduce her biographical film this evening at the Skirball
Center.
2014: Three-month old
Chaya Zissel Braun who was killed when a terrorist “drove his car into a crowd
waiting at the Ammuniition Hill light rail station” was laid to rest early this
morning. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/funeral-begins-for-baby-killed-in-suspected-terror-attack/
2014: “Robin Banerjee,
Amy Winehouse’s bassist for a portion of her career will be performing at Barby
Tel Aviv tonight.
2014: “French Jewish
leader Roger Cukierman is indicted for referring to Dieudonné as a
“professional anti-Semite” during a television appearance.”
2014: The 28th
Israel Film Festival opens this evening.
http://www.israelfilmfestival.com/
2015:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host “Shabbat Alive!” with
Rick Recht.
2015:
The Jewish National Fund’s 15th Annual National Conference is
scheduled to open in Chicago.
2015:
“Rock the Kasbah” a comedy “directed by Barry Levinson and written by Mitch
Glazer is scheduled to be released in the United States today by Open Road
Films
2015:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening of Brahms
featuring “the Jerusalem Quartet” which is “joined by two friends and frequent
collaborators, Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan and clarinetist Sharon Kam (sister
to the Jerusalem’s' violist Ori Kam).”
2015(10th
of Cheshvan, 5776): Sixty-six year old Thomas G. Stemberg, the founder of
Staples whose Roman Catholic mother Erika Ratzer was disinherited for marrying
Jewish Viennese hotel manager Oscar Stemberg passed away today. (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
2016(21st
of Tishrei, 5777): Hosha’na Rabbah (Editor’s note – excuse those who may seem a
little tired since they may have been up all night studying
http://ish-tam.com/rav_drizin/Tikkun_Leil_Hoshana_Rabbah.pdf
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2286/a-tale-of-two-night-vigils/
2016:
The 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, named in honor of
Lublin born violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski is scheduled to end today
2016:
At the Jewish Museum “Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Beatriz Milhazes”
organized by Kelly Taxter, Associate Curator and Jens Hoffmann, Director of
Special Exhibitions and Public Programs is scheduled to come to an end today.
2016:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Rules For Others To Live By: Comments and Self-Contradictions
by Richard Greenberg, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman
Jones and The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg
2017:
Today, “The Knesset unanimously passed a law to ban Israel’s binary options
industry, a vast, multibillion dollar scam that has defrauded millions of
victims worldwide for a decade.” (As reported by Simon Weinglass)
2017:
In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host a screening of “The Women’s
Balcony.”
https://www.menemshafilms.com/womens-balcony
2017:
The Landmark Centre in Beachwood, Ohio is scheduled to host Jonathan Schneer, a
professor of history George Tech speaking on “The Making of the Balfour
Declaration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Segev-t.html
2017:
The American
Sephardi Federation and New York Jewish Travel Guide are scheduled to present
“Jewish Heritage of Malta” -- an evening exploring a beautiful island's
connection to Jewish history and culture
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2018: The Cleveland Jewish News is scheduled to co-host
“Women Leadership” moderated by Lauren Rich Fine.
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Female
Human Animal”
2018: In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host
“Get Creative” a workshop where youngsters will make “spooky arts and crafts
inspired” by the museum’s “Frankenstein Exhibition.”
2018: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an
evening with John Grisham on the same day that his latest novel goes on sale.
2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to “Can We Talk?”
an evening where Melissa Rivers “channels her mother,” the late Joan Rivers.
2018:
The National Jewish Book Award Luncheon is scheduled to take place at the
Lander College for Women today.
2018:
The American Jewish Historical Society to host “The Man who Made the Movies:
The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox,” a “book talk with author
Vanda Kreff, MOMA curator Dave Kehr and Brooklyn College Professor Frederick
Wasser.”
2018:
Howard Kaplan’s latest novel, To Destroy Jerusalem, is scheduled to be
released to the general public.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HKWLN3W/
2018:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “Exhibiting
Difficult Histories: The ‘Anti-Zionist’ Campaign in Poland, 1967-1968, And Its
Echoes Today” a discussion led by Dariusz Stola, the director of POLIN.
2019:
In Sonoma County, the Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host two screenings
of “Bye Bye German.”
2019:
In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host New York Times science
columnist discussing the subject of heredity.
2019:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss The
German Girl, a novel by Armando Lucas Correa.
2019:
The 43rd Annual Robert S. Hartman Institute Conference is scheduled
to begin at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
2019:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Ambassador Samantha
Power’s Journey from Activist to Insider.
2019:
The Boca Raton Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “From Cairo to
the Cloud” which tells the story of the world of the Cairo Geniza.
2020:
The Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish FilmFest is scheduled to make “My Name Is Sara”
available for the next 48 hours.
2020:
In another session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators Francesco
Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about Julien Fils Aine’s 1855
porcelain set.
2020:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to live-stream Shabbat Services.
2020:
The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online Chef Michael
Leviton discussing the impacts of COVID-19 on the restaurant industry.
2020:
“Israel is expected to receive Moderna's coronavirus vaccine by mid-2021,
according to the company's Israeli chief medical officer.”
2021(17th
of Cheshvan, 5782): Parashat Vayera
2021:
Israel got an early start on its vaccination campaign on Dec. 20 and rapidly
outpaced virtually every other nation in getting jabs into arms — and now in
giving booster shots to nearly half of its eligible population, but as of today,
with hesitancy remaining among Arab, Orthodox Jewish and younger Israelis, the
country reports that just 63 percent of its population is fully vaccinated,
less than South Korea, Italy and some 40 other countries.
2022:
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to host the opening
reception for the new exhibit, Congregation B'nai Israel, Rumson: Celebrating
100 years.
2022:
The Alliance for Jewish Theatre Annual Conference is scheduled to begin today
via Zoom.
2022:
The YIVO Institute is scheduled to the monthly YIVO Yiddish Club hosted by
Shane Baker featuring “Mendy Cahan, Yiddish singer, actor, badkhn, teacher, and
founder of the YUNG YiDiSH Library and Cultural center in Tel Aviv which hosts
a variety of activities to strengthen Yiddish culture in Israel.”
2022:
ADL Cleveland is scheduled to host its inaugural Walk Against Hate today at
Wade Oval Park in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood.
2022:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present via zoom Survivors
Saving Survivors
The
response of JCC Krakow and the Jewish Community to the Ukrainian Crisis with
freelance photographer Chuck Fishman.
2022”
Washington Hebrew Congregation is schedule to welcome author Letty Cottin Pogrebin to
kick off our 2022-2023 Amram Scholar Series where she will lecture on “Shanda:
A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy.
2022:
The Kickoff Even for the year-long 50th Anniversary of the founding
of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to take place at the
Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis, IN.
2022:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Morgenthau: Power, Privilege and
the Rise of an American Dynasty by Andrew Meier.
2022:
Much to everyone’s amazement, Tulane University, home of the Jewish Studies
Department and Brian Horowitz, the holder of the Sizeler Family Chair in Jewish
Studies whose latest work is Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925,
jumped two notches in the Top 25 Football Coaches Poll.
2022:
Today, in a moment of unadulterated joy, Ilan Kaplan and his wife Anna have a
new son and Arden has a new brother.
2023:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a virtual conversation with Efraim
Halevy, former Chief of Mossad, on “The Unprovoked Attack on Israel: How Did
This Happe and Where Do We Go From Here?”
2023:
In Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is scheduled to host “Golda and The Price of
Collective Hubris” during which FSU Professor Eran Kaplan will discuss the Yom
Kippur War as a follow-up to the Aug. 24 release of the film “Golda,” which
follows Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, IDF
Chief of Staff David Elazar, Major Gen. Ariel Sharon and U.S. Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger during that 1973 war.
2023:
The Tikvah Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Carrie Filipetti , the
Executive Director of the Vandenberg Coalition, on “The UN and Israel: A Brief History.”
2023:
The S.Y. Agnon House is scheduled to launch the first in a series of lectures
with the “writer and poet Dror Burstein” who will talk “about writing, creating
and inspiration through a study of Jewish sources.”
2023:
The Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Studies is scheduled to host as a webinar
“Trauma: A Conversation with Israeli author and psychologist Ayelet
Gundar-Goshen, author of The Wolf Hunt.
2023(8th of Cheshvan): Yahrzeit of Avraham Elimelch
ben Yosef Dov, whose nickname was Melech and whose English name was Abraham
Levin and the Hebrew namesake of Mitchell A. Levin and the father of Joseph B.
Levin
2023:
As October 23 begins in Israel, “the military’s liaison to the Palestinians has
confirmed that Israel has allowed the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip
via Egypt, approximately “200,000 Israelis” have been “internally displaced” (a
polite way of saying forced to leave their homes) and the Israel, which has
been faced with a three-front war (Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria) may
now have to deal with a fourth front since Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen
Abdulmalik Saeed has warned that “Israeli ships in the Red Sea will be
targeted” if IDF strikes on the Gaza Strip continue.
(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)
