This Day, September 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 11
813:
Coronation of Louis the Pious who “faithful to the principles of his father
Charlemagne and granted strict protection to Jews, whom he respected as
merchants” and who like his father believed that 'the Jewish question' could be
solved with the gradual conversion of Jews;”
1526:
After the Turkish Army had defeated the Austrians and seized the city of Buda,
Sultan Suleiman I entered the city. Some
of the Jews had remained in the city and before the Sultan arrived, they met
with Ibrahim Pasha before whom they humbled themselves and begged to be spared.
1526:
When he arrived at Buda today, Suleiman was handed the keys to the city by
Joseph B. Solomon who presented the monarch with “lavish gifts” for which he
was ‘rewarded with relief from the poll tax (jizya) that was normally levied on
Jews under Ottoman rule as ‘protected’ people.”
1553(3rd
of Tishrei): Two days after copies of the Talmud were publicly burned in Rome,
Jews observed the Fast of Gedaliah.
1620:
In Frankfort, Moses Bacharach, the son of Mendel Bacharach and the grandson of
Isaac Bacharach passed away today.
1683:
Battle of Vienna began as an army of European Christians led by King Jan III of
Poland fought to end the Ottoman siege of the Austrian metropolis that had
begun in July. The defeat of the
Ottomans was the “high water mark” of Moslem conquests in Europe. There are those who date the beginning of the
slow decay of the Moslem dominated world from this event. There will be those who contend that this
event was the impetus for choosing 9/11 as the date to blow up the Twin Towers
in 2001. With the exception of Holland,
Jews were doing better in the land of the Ottomans than they were in Christian
Europe. For example, the Ottomans had
provided a home the Jews who were expelled from Spain. However, as Ottoman
power was receding, Jews enjoyed a growing amount of freedom as economic and
social reform took hold in different parts of Western Europe. Whether or not the shift in power marked by
this was “good for the Jews” is up for the debate; the important thing is that
it took place and had a profound impact on the general society as well as the
Jewish component.
1698:
For the second time in two years, the East India Company at St. George
“announced to its Factors in Bengal that Jews are among the group that may use
its ships and are among those with the whom the company will do business with.
https://www.persee.fr/doc/rjuiv_0484-8616_1964_num_123_3_1483
1703(12th
of Tishrei, 5464): Samuel Schulhoff the son of Jekel Schulhof, Rosh haKahal and
Resl Schulhoff and husband of Jüttel Schulhoff passed away today Berlin
1735: Joseph
Ottolenghe swore an oath today in Exeter
before John Belfield that the answers he gave in the matter concerning Gabriel
Treves, a Jewish resident of Exeter were true which they were apparently not
since he ended up as a prisoner in Southgate.
https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/community/exe/images/otto/ottolenghetext.htm
1736:
John de Sequeyra, the London born son of Dr. Abraham de Sequeira, “member of
Bevis Marks” was admitted today to the medical school of the University of
Leiden from which he graduated in 1739 and then moved to Williamsburg, VA where
his patients included Patsy, the stepdaughter of George Washington and daughter
of Martha Park Custis.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7bd0/344f30ffecdd1ff6bd0224e404c601585061.pdf
1750(21st
of Elul, 5510): Forty-nine-year-old Moses Louada, the English born son of Jacob
Louzada and the brother of Aaron Louzada passed away today in New Jersey.
1753:
Sarah Cohen and Henry (Zvi Hirsch) Marks gave birth to Leah Marks, the wife of
Michael Hart and the mother of Baruch, Simeon, Jacob and Naphtali Hart.
1768(29th
of Elul, 5528): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1769:
Birthdate of New York native and bookseller Benjamin Gomez.
1771(3rd
of Tishrei, 5532): Tzom Gedaliah
1771:
Birthdate of Mungo Park, the Scottish explorer who “noted the presence of Jews
in the region of Timbuktu” having been told “by an Arab he met near Walata of
there being many Arabic speaking Jews in Timbuktu whose prayers were similar to
the Moors.”
1773(23rd
of Elul, 5533): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot observed on the same
day “The Public Advertiser published a satirical essay titled ‘Rules By Which A
Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One’ by Benjamin Franklin.”
1777:
During the American Revolution, the British won the Battle of Brandywine in
which Captain Lewis Bush and Solomon Bush who was the deputy adjutant of the
Pennsylvania state militia fought in George Washington’s army.
1779(1st
of Tishrei, 5540): Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat
1784:
Birthdate of German native Jacob Loeb Loebstein, the husband of Miriam Einstein
and the father of Loeb and Fanni Loebstein.
1789: President George Washington appointed
Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton’s parentage is a little murky to say
the least. He was born out of wedlock reportedly to a Jewish woman and received
his early education from Jews before moving to the North American mainland. He
would be the first in a long line of Jews who would play a major role in U.S.
government financial policies.
1790(3rd
of Tishrei, 5551): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva observed on the same day
the Pierre L’Enfant, the “architect” of what was to be known as Washington, DC
whose first Jewish Congregation was Washington Hebrew Congregation, the as yet
to be built capital of the United States wrote to President George Washington.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0010
1791:
Birthdate of Amsterdam native Levie Juda Swart, the husband of “sara mozes
Velleman” and the father of “Mozes Levie Swart” and “Esperance Levie Swart.
1798(1st
of Tishrei, 5559): Rosh Hashanah
1798(1st
of Tishrei, 5559): Seventy-four-old Aaron Isaacs, the Hamburg born of Christian
convert Aaron Isaacs who was a merchant, landowner and supporter of the
American Revolution who was the husband of Mary Hedges and a founder of the
Clinton Academy, passed away today in Easthampton, LI.
1803:
Birthdate of Léon Gozlan, the native of Marseille who gained fames as a
novelist and playwright.
1809(1st
of Tishrei, 5570): Rosh Hashanah
1811:
Louis Kofman married Rose Elkin in the Great Synagogue today.
1817(1st
of Tishrei, 5578): Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time during the
Presidency of James Monroe.
1823: Fifty-one year old David Ricardo, one of the
most influential of the classical economists, passed away. Born in London in 1772, Ricardo was the third
of seventeen children in a Sephardic Jewish family that immigrated from The
Netherlands to England just prior to his birth. At age 14 Ricardo's joined his
father at the London Stock Exchange. Ricardo rejected the orthodox Jewish
beliefs of his family and eloped with Quaker, Priscilla Anne Wilkinson, when he
was 21. His father was so unhappy with this that he abandoned Ricardo and never
spoke to him again. Around the same time Ricardo became a Unitarian.
1824:
Birthdate of Jakob Bernays the “German philologist and philosophical writer”
who served as the chairman of classical philology at the newly founded Jewish
Theological Seminary of Breslau.
1829:
Hannah Simmons married Michael Jones today at the Great Synagogue after which
they had six children.
1834:
In Hamburg, Germany, Moses Nathan Levy, the Hamburg born son of Nathan and
Jette (Cohn) Levy gave birth to Abraham Levy.
1836(29th
of Elul, 5596): Jews prepare to celebrate Rosh Hashanah for the last time
during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1839(3rd
of Tishrei, 5600): As the United States struggled to deal with an economic
crisis that had begun in 1837 Jews observed Tzom Gedaliah
1843:
Babette Mandelbaum Sanger gave birth to Samuel Sanger, the husband of Hannah
Heller Sanger.
1843(16th
of Elul, 5603): Seventy-three year old businessman and philanthropist Lazarus
Gumpel passed away in Hamburg.
1845:
As signs of the blight that would lead to the Great Famine in Ireland continued
to appear the Freeman's Journal
reported on "the appearance of what is called 'cholera' in potatoes in
Ireland, especially in the north. (The famine had little impact on Ireland’s
comparatively small Jewish population but it provided an opportunity for Jews
in England led by Baron Rothschild to come to the aid of the suffering,
primarily Catholic populace of the Emerald Isle.
1847(1st
of Tishrei, 5608): Rosh Hashanah
1847:
Birthdate of August Seligman, the wife of Theobold Epstein and the mother of
mathematician Paul Epstein.
1848:
Baron Jozsef Eotvos, Hungarian statesman and who supported the emancipation of
the Jews completed his service as Minister of Education of Hungary.
1848:
As of today, there were “71 Israelites in Barbados” who led by Edward A. Moses
who served as “Parnasss” and who supported a Sunday School staffed by “Mrs.
Judith Finize, the wife of Abraham Finzi, Mrs. Sophia Daneils, the wife of
Samuel Elias Daniels, Mrs. Sarah Lobo, the wife of Daniel Moses Lobo, Miss
Clara Carvalho and Miss Belle Elkin,” who later passed away in London.
1851:
London native Clara Harris married Ernest Oppenheim today at the New Synagogue.
1852:
Reports reached the United States that Marchand Ennery, the Chief Rabbi of
Paris, had passed away in August.
1854:
In New Orleans, Bernard Kowalski and Sophie Bernstein gave birth Benjamin
Kowalski, the husband Corinne H Wilson and “paymaster clerk and quartermaster
clerk in the United States who served as an alderman for fourteen years in
Brownsville, TX
1858(3rd
of Tishrei, 5619): Shabbat Shuvah
1858(3rd
of Tishrei 5619): Hette Steckler, a native of Rogasen, Prussia, the wife of
Jackson, CA. merchant Charles Steckler passed away today.
1859:
Estra (Therese) Wiesner and Rabbi Jonas Wiesner gave birth to Moritz Wiesner.
1859:
In Iowa City, IA, Eliza Dessauer and Emanuel Fleischman gave birth Buffalo, NY
attorney Simon Fleischman, the husband of Laura G. Justice and member of Temple
Beth Zion in Buffalo.
1860:
The Jewish population of Baltimore must have reached a size where it was
noticed by the general public. A report
published today describing how George Proctor Kane, the Chief Marshall of
Police is strictly enforcing the Sunday closings laws states that "Cigar
stores, lager-bier saloons, Hebrew establishments and all such are
closed."
1860:
Forty-three year old German historian Sigfried Hirsch who like his cousin and
fellow historian Theodore Hirsch converted to Christianity passed away today.
1862:
In London, Sara Isaac Monis and Isaac Mozes Pereira Mendoza gave birth to Isaac
Isaac Pereira Mendoza.
1862:
In Elgin, IL, Rose Adler, the German born daughter of Manasses and Sara
Scheuerman and her husband Leopold Adler
gave birth to Bertha Strauss
1863:
It was reported today that a group of 600 women and children who supposedly had
husbands and fathers serving in the Confederate Army stormed through Spring
Hill, Alabama carrying banners demanding “Bread or Blood.” A Jewish merchant who was attempting to
protect his store was arrested by the police and beaten for his efforts.
1864:
Birthdate of Marc-André Raffalovich, the brother of Arthur and Sophie
Raffalovich and “a French poet and writer on homosexuality” who converted to
Catholicism.
1865(20th
of Elul, 5625): Captain Leopold Rosenthal of the Fifth Cavalry who had been
serving since August of 1861 and was wounded at Fort Magruder in Virginia in
1862 died today.
1866(2nd
of Tishrei, 5627): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1866:
Birthdate of Nachum Meir ben Israel who would be buried in Hong Kong’s Happy
Valley Jewish Cemetery.
1868:
“Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, the founder of American Judaism and Rabbi Samuel Adler
were the featured orators at today’s dedication of the new Temple Emanu-El
Sanctuary on 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue which took place Erev
Shabbat.
1869(6th
of Tishrei, 5630): Parashat Vayeilech
1869:
Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon
about a movement to oust August Belmont as chairman of the Democratic National
Committee. Belmont was the German born Jewish financier who opened a private
bank in the United States before the Civil War.
He was a former employee of and a close associate of the
Rothschilds. He was also a power in the
Democratic Party both before and after the war.
1872:
Samuel J. Pietrowski, a Polish Jew and the proprietor of a dry-goods store in
Key West, Florida, was arraigned at the Tombs in New York City on charges of
bigamy. The complaint was filed by Bertha Pietrowski who claimed that Samuel
had married her twenty four years ago in Poland. She claimed he moved to Leeds, UK where
married and had five children before moving to the United States with his
second family. Bertha claimed she had
borrowed the money to come to United States where she discovered Samuel’s new
life as well as the fact that he was worth “several thousand dollars.
[Unfortunately, there were many instances of men coming to America and
deserting the wives and families they had left behind.]
1874(29th
of Elul, 5634): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1874:
“The Hebraic New Year,” a column published today reported that the year 5635 on
the Jewish calendar begins tomorrow with the celebration of Rosh Hashanah. The article described the solemnity of the
holiday but also highlights the differences in the celebration among the Reform
and the Orthodox. The Reform now
celebrate the holiday for only one day and their shortened service includes
music played by an organ.
1875(11th
of Elul, 5635): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1876:
In Frankfurt-am-Main, Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild, the German born son of
Caroline and David Aron Rothschild and his wife Stella Rothschild gave birth to
Max Maier Rothschild
1877:
“The Russian Army of Invasion” published today describes miserable the
conditions of Czar’s forces as they move forward to fight the Turks. The
Russians are addicted to alcohol which is supplied by people in “long
gabardines,” a disparaging term for the Jews who are making a fortune off of
their monopoly. The article paints a
picture of suffering Russian soldiers being “poisoned by spoiled provisions”
supplied Isaac and Jacob whose “Jewish purses can pay their protectors from
their ill-gotten gains.”
1878:
In Washington, DC, “the Hebrew Committee” has collected $4,608 to aid those in
the Deep South suffering during the current Yellow Fever Epidemic.
1878(13tj
pf Elul, 5638): Sixty-one year old Hannah Levy, the Philadelphia, PA born
daughter od Sara and Daniel da Silva Solis and the wife of Isaac Abraham Levy
with whom she had six children passed away today.
1879:
It was reported today that Prince Gregorie Stourdza has arrived in Bucharest to
assume the leadership of all the parties opposed to the Jews receiving full
rights of citizenship in Romania. The
proposed party is modeled after the American Party also called the
“Know-nothings” a nativist political party that enjoyed some success in the
1850’s.
1880:
It was reported today that on the day Simon Rosenheim allegedly set fire to the
tenement in which he was living the place had received an anonymous letter
containing these words: “To get insurance Polish Jew’ll set fire to his
place…on Monday or Tuesday.” The police
arrested Rosenheim because the fire took place on Tuesday; he was a Polish Jew;
and he lived at the tenement house described in the note. (Not exactly CSI
material)
1881:
In “What Germans Talk Of “ published today, Andrew White the President of
Cornell and the former American Ambassador to Germany who has just returned
from that country responded to a question about the “anti-Jewish crusade in
Germany” by saying that “The worst of the trouble is over. The sober second though has come and the
Emperor of Germany has declared himself as opposed to the Jewish proscription.”
After talking about the prominent role Jews play in finance and business, White
said the Emperor thought “they were the best of his subjects” and that Bismarck
has come around to that point of view.
1881:
The Novoye Vremya reported from St.
Petersburg “that it is proposed to appoint local commissions to consider the
Jewish questions in places where the Jews predominate.
1882:
The Chevry Bennei Bachemenim Anschel Schofchatchow, a Jewish charitable and
benevolent society was incorporated today in the state of New York.
1882:
It was reported that one of the railway lines from the coast of Egypt to Cairo
passes by the ruine of Tel-el-Yahoodeh also known as the Mound of the Jews.
(This is probably a refrence to Tel el-Yehudiyah -Mound of the Jewess – which is supposed to
cover the ruins of the Temple of Onais, a Jewish place of worship located in
Helipolois. For more see
1882:
In Dresden, Reverend Adolf Stoecker presided at the opening of the first
Anti-Semitic Congress
1882:
Birthdate of Paul Bekker, the native of Berlin the Director of the Wiesbaden
Opera who was “deprived of his citizenship” in 1936 because “officials said ‘he
favored Jews…”
1885(2nd
of Tishrei, 5646): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1885:
Three days after he had passed away, 89 year old Joseph Gutteres Henriques, the
father of Frederick and Alfred Gutteres Henriques was buried today at the Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1886(11th
of Elul, 5646): Fifty year old Ludwig Lowe, whose business ventures included
the armaments company Loewe & Company and who was a member of the Reichstag
passed away today.
1886:
In Charleston, SC, Rabi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Julia H.
Dessauer and Morris Hornik, of Kingstree, SC.
1886(2nd
of Tishrei, 5627): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1887:
Four days after she had passed away. 31 year old “Helen Maria Salomons, the
wife of Henry H. Salomons and the daughter of Barnet S. and Philippa Phillips
was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1887:
Based on information that first appeared in the Times of London, it was
reported today that the “persecution of the Jews” has been revived in several
parts of the Russian Empire. Besides being subjected to riots and attacks in
outlying provinces, Jews in St. Petersburg have been interrogated by the police
in an attempt to intimidate them so that they will not conduct business in the capital.
1891:
The Jewish Colonial Association is officially established by Baron de Hirsh. He donated two million pounds and incorporated
the Association in London. His plan was to remove three million Russian Jews
and settle them in agricultural areas in other countries. This was one of
several movements to further Jewish settlement in Palestine before the birth of
the Zionist movement.
OR
1891:
The Jewish Colonization Association (JCA, in Yiddish ICA) was created today by
Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews
from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in
agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in
North and South America (especially Argentina).Colonies were funded within the
United States in southern New Jersey, Ellington, Connecticut (Congregation
Knesseth Israel), and elsewhere. A Canadian Committee of the JCA was
established in November 1906 to assist in the settlement of the thousands of
Jewish refugees fleeing Russia, and to oversee the development of all the JCA
settlements in the country.
1891:
A critique of the platform adopted by the Republicans at their convention in
Rochester dismissed the plank calling for an end calling for an end to the
“cruelties and persecutions practiced upon the Jews in Russia” as “a rather
awkward bid for the votes of a class” which is meaningless since the Democrats
“will hardly” take “the opposite side.”
1891:
In Brooklyn, U.S. Federal Judge Benedict “listened to additional arguments in
the cases of the nineteen Polish Jews “ who are trying to overturn the decision
of the Immigration Commissioner to deny them entry into the United States.
1892:
On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Adolph Guttman and his wife gave birth to
Charles Guttman, the founder of The “Paddington Corporation, which became the
exclusive importer of Justerini & Brooks Ltd. (J&B), a creator of fine
wines and whiskies” and the husband of Stella Rappaport Guttman with whom he
“found the Guttman Foundation to continue the family’s charitable traditions.”
https://www.guttmanfoundation.org/legacy
1892:
Members of Congregation B’nai Israel
held a contentious meeting today in Davenport, IA.
1893:
The New York Times estimated that
there are 225,000 Jews living in New York City.
1893(1st of Tishrei, 5654): As Americans suffer
through the Panic of 1893 (which had begun in January and was the worst
economic crisis the country would suffer until 1929), Jews observed the first
day of Rosh Hashanah
1893: New Yorkers who did not know that today
was the Jewish New Year “were puzzled” by “the large number of stores and
factories that were closed throughout the city.”
1895: Birthdate of Russian born Samuel J.
Borowsky “a Zionist leader and leading American Hebrew education” who raised
two daughters with his wife “the former Selma Juliette Sonnenberg.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/25/80004569.html?pageNumber=31
https://www.jta.org/archive/samuel-borowsky-noted-american-jewish-educator-dies-in-israel
1895: In City Court, Judge Botty ordered the
release of Samuel Lustbader, a kosher butcher who had been imprisoned following
his failure to pay a judgment obtained against him by default in a slander suit
brought by one of his competitors.
1895: It was reported today that during the
month of August the United Hebrew Charities received contributions totaling
$10, 702.66 and disbursed $7, 513.12 to the needy. During this period, the charity received 2,805
applications for relief reflecting the needs of 9,350 people.
1896:
Birthdate of Israel Mandelkern, a member of the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance.
(Not to be confused with author by the same name who wrote Stepmother
Russia, Foster Mother America.
1897: It was announced from Odessa that the late
Baron Hirsch's plant to colonize the Argentine Republic with Jews from Russia
has been abandoned in favor of the establishment of Hebrew schools in Russia.
1898:
Adath Jeshurun, which had been worshipping at 125 East 112th Street,
dedicated its new synagogue at 112 East 110th Street in
Harlem. The congregation which is made up of Orthodox German Jews is
using a facility that was previously home to the Portuguese Jews of Harlem.
1898:
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel and Beatrice Miriam Samuel,
Viscountess Samuel gave birth to Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel who
colorful career including serving in the Jewish Legion and serving as the last
Director of the Palestine Broadcasting Service.
1898:
In Chicago, Dr. Isaac M. Wise laid the cornerstone for the building that would
The Reform Congregation of Isaiah Temple which was designed by the Jewish
architect Dankmar Adler.
1898:
It was announced today that any Jewish soldiers at Camps Wikoff or Black or who
are in New York on leave or furlough should contact Phillip Cowen, publisher of
The American Hebrew or William Mitchell, superintendent of the YMHA if they
wish to attend services celebrating the Jewish New Year that begins on the
evening of September 16.
1898:
Corporal Lichtenstein of New Orleans, who had been serving with Company K of
the 1st Louisiana Volunteer
Infantry was “discharged today on a certificate of disability.”
1899:
Reverend Henry Morgan Stone is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of James
B. Eustis who served as U.S. Ambassador to France during the first court
martial of Captain Dreyfus and who had spent the past summers writing a review
of the case which he was on the verge of finishing at the time of his death.
1899:
Approximately 25 to 30 businessman and clergy including Rabbi Rudolph Grossman,
Rabbi Joseph Silverman and Father Barholomew Montruchio of Jersey City met in
the office of Assistant District Attorney Maurice B. Blumenthal to discuss
plans for a mass meeting to be held on September 16 to protest the verdict in
the Dreyfus Court Martial.
1899:
Jonas Weil, President of Zichron Ephraim, was named as the executor in the will
of Daniel Woolf which Roeder & Bernard filed in the Surrogate’s Court
today.
1899:
Assistant District Attorney Maurice B. Blumenthal to planning to ask President
William McKinley “to request a pardon” for Captain Dreyfus.
1899:
As the attorney representing Dreyfus began working on his appeal today, it was
discovered that the verdict had not been unanimous; but the product of a five
to two vote. Also the police had
believed in the possibility of acquittal since they had formalized a plan to
sneak Dreyfus out of the court disguised in civilian clothiers.
1899:
Three days after she had passed away, Lydia Van Gelder “the five and a half
daughter of Isaac Louis and Annie Van Gelder” was buried today at the Plashet
Jewish Cemetery.
1899:
“W.D. Stevens, a ship owner and Royal Commissioner declared that as a result of
the Dreyfus verdict he will put his foot on French soil. He adds that thousands of his countrymen will
do the same.”
1900:
Twenty-three year old self-taught Talmudist and history student Nisson Markel,
the Polish born son of Jacob and Sarah Markowski who went from being a Polish
importer and exporter of chemical products to serving as a Rabbi Brith Shalom a
Buffalo, NY, congregation after WW I married Rose Scharjowicz
1901:
It was reported today that the little boy and girl who were found “at the foot
of the elevated road stairs at South Ferry and who spoke Yiddish were reunited
with their mother Mina Bernstein who had
come to New York from McKeesport, PA where she had run a boarding house and who
had been sent from that Pennsylvania town by their uncle Joseph Roth.
1902:
Birthdate of Schwerte native Rabbi Werner van der Zyl the leader of the Neue Synagogue
Oranienburgerstrasse in Berlin from 1935 to 1939 who was imprisoned by the
Nazis in Hanover before being rescued with his family by Lily Montague and
brought to England where “he was Senior Rabbi of West London Synagogue from
1958 to 1968, when he retired.”
1902:
“Bequests For Charity” published today listed the bequests made by Isaac
Blumenthal who had passed away on August 18 which included $2,500 for Mt. Sinai
Hospital, $1,500 for the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, $1,000 for the
Montefiore Home and $500 for the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1903:
Birthdate of Theodor W. Adorno, a German-born international sociologist,
philosopher, and musicologist who was “the only child to the wealthy wine
merchant Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund who had converted from Judaism to
Christianity. Adomo is an example of the
many 19th & 20th century people lost to Judaism
because a trip to the font made life more attractive.
1903:
In Russia, during the Homel Pogrom, defense squads organized by the Zionists
and Bundists fought back against the looting, murderous mobs. The squads fought off the mobs for three days
until Russian authorities intervened to end the violence. The defense squads had been formed in
response to the deadly events at Kishinev and gave the Jews a sense of pride
and short lived self-confidence.
1903:
Julia Richman, the Principal of P.S. 77, is nominated by the Board of
district Superintendents to be District Superintendent succeeding Charles
Haskell. "If appointed, Miss Richman will be the first female District
Superintendent in the Manhattan."
There are two female District Superintendents serving in New York City
but both of them are in Brooklyn.
1904(2nd
of Tishrei, 5665): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1904:
Today’s report from St. Petersburg, described anti-Semitic rioting that had
occurred last week at Rovno.
1905:
“First Registration Day Also A Jewish Holiday” published today described
measures being taken by Democratic and Republican election officials to deal
with the fact that October 9, the first day of registration coincides with Yom
Kippur—a fact which has just come to their attention.
1906(21st
of Elul, 5666): The pogrom at Siedice, which claimed the lives of at least 32
Jews came to an end today.
1906(21st
of Elul, 5666): At least three Jews were killed and nine were wounded as
Russian troops enter “the Jewish quarter in Warsaw,” shooting or bayonetting
those whom they saw as being resisters.
1907:
“The new Prefect of Odessa, General Novitsky, assumed office today” and
immediately “issued a proclamation threatening to prosecute to the full extent
of the law all persons who attack Jews or other members of the community” which
is a move that was “said to been taken upon direct instructions from the
Emperor.”
1908:
Meyer London and Jewish playwright Jacob Gordin delivered speeches in Yiddish
at the mass meeting at Cooper Union held to protest the possible return of
Russian revolutionary Jan Janoff Pouren to his homeland.
1909:
At Bordeaux, premiere performance of “Bacchus triumphant” an opera composed by
Camille Erlanger.
1910(6th
of Elul, 5670): Parashat Shoftim
1910:
“More Jews Must Go” published today described plans to force the deportation of
more Jews from Kiev and reported that “from August 29 to September 8, 209” more
Jews had either been expelled or had been served with notices of expulsion
while “in the same week 109” more Jews “were expelled from the suburbs of
Solomenka and Demieffka.”
1911:
At the age of 24, Guy Zinn broke into major league baseball playing his first
game with the New York Highlanders.
1911:
Circuit Judge Rassieur of St. Louis, MO, denies incorporation to the Jewish
Christian
Association For Conversion of Jews to
Christianity on grounds that it violates the religious liberty clause of the
Constitution.
1911:
In London, England, The Bethnal Green Board of Guardians rejected bids by
Jewish contractors.
1912:
“A proposal to restore the cross as part of the insignia of the Chaplain of the
United States War Veterans” was unanimously defeated today at the National
Convention in Atlantic City, NJ.
1912(29th
of Elul, 5672): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1912(29th
of Elul, 5672): Louis M. Lilienthal, a Rabbi in the Borough Park section of
Brooklyn passed away today.
1912:
Services are scheduled to be held in the auditorium of the Hebrew Technical
School on Second Avenue and Fifteenth Street “in connection with Kol Adath
Israel.
1913:
It was reported today that Dr. Yechiel Tschlenown, the Moscow physician who was
named as a new member of the Executive Committee at the Zionist Congress in
Vienna “will eventually become President of the Organization
1914:
In the UK, at the start of WW I, a Royal Proclamation was issued that required
“British subjects to have no links with companies doing business with Germany”
which forced Sir Edgar Speyer to resign as a partner of the American bank
controlled by his family. This move did
not quiet the whispering campaign aimed him that would eventually destroy his
professional life.
1914(20th
of Elul, 5674) Benjamin Aron Jacob Gutman passed away today.
1914:
Tonight, which was a Friday evening Rabbi
Edgar F. Magnin was installed as rabbi of Temple Israel of Stockton.
1914:
Birthdate of New York City and realtor Sidney Joseph Ungar who supported
several Jewish organizations including “Boys Town Jerusalem” and served as the
“state chairman of the Israel Bond Organization.”
1914:
Birthdate of Sidney Hart, the London native who “retired as the highest ranking
Jewish fireman in Britain” and who “represented the Southend and Westcliff
Hebrew Congregation on the Board of Deputies.”
1915(3rd
of Tishrei, 5676): Shabbat Shuva
1915(3rd
of Tishrei, 5676): During WW I, Second Lieutenant Alexander Gorodisky passed
away while serving with the Zion Mule Corps.
1915: C.C.N.Y
(B.S.) and Columbia University (Ph.D.) trained biologist Dr. Abraham Goldforb,
the CCNY Professor specializing in physiology and experimental embryologist who
was the London born son of Morris and Anna Goldforb married Dr. Frances Shostac
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/18/94100787.html?pageNumber=37
1916: " Flora Bella," an operetta starring
Lina Abarbanell opened tonight at the Casino
Theatre in New York.
1916:
Birthdate of Edwin Milton Sabol, the native of Philadelphia, the founder of
Blair Motion Pictures, which created the visual world of the NFL.
1916:
“Hugh M. Dorsey, who is a candidate for the nomination for Governor in
tomorrow’s primary and who was the Solicitor General during the Leo Frank case
issued a statement today saying that he had told Governor Slaton not to commute
Frank’s sentence.
1917:
Word was received from the War Department today by the Jewish Board for Welfare
Work in the Army and Navy that “furloughs have been granted to Jewish
soldiers…in order that they may be able to observe the Jewish New Year.
1917:
In France, George Wildenstein, the son of Nathan Wildenstein, and his wife gave
birth to Daniel Wieldenstein the art dealer and race horse owner who headed the
art dealership of Wildenstein & Co.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/arts/daniel-wildenstein-84-head-of-art-world-dynasty-dies.html
1918:
Sergeant Abraham Blaustein of the 165th regiment (formerly the
fabled 69th regiment) headed out for the St. Mihiel Sector in
preparation for the next phase of what was called by some the “one hundred day
offensive.”
1918:
After three years of service, Samuel Bortzell, the native of Isrkutsk, Russia
who had move to Australia before WW I was discharged from the Australian
Imperial Force (AIF) after having have fought at Gallipoli and on the Western
Front.
1919:
Birthdate of Milwaukee, WI native Milton S. Gelman the writer, producer, agent
and Loyola Marymount University faculty member who was the husband of Gloria
Gelman and father of their daughter Maggi.
https://academics.lmu.edu/ofd/facultyawards/facultyhalloffame/miltongelman/
1919:
The funeral for 60 year old author and publisher Horace Traubel, the son of a
Jewish lithographer Maurice Traubel and Katherine Grunder, who was not Jewish,
was held today in New York.
1920(28th
of Elul, 5680): Parashat Nitzavim
1920(28th
of Elul, 5680): Seventy-four-year-old Dr. József Bettelheim, the
son
of Samuel Bettelheim and Chava Eva Bettelheim and husband of Ernestine
Bettelheim; Teréz Bettelheim and Jozefa Bettelheim passed away today in
Budapest.
1920:
Today, “after an absence of 15 weeks,” “theatrical producer Marc Klaw” returned
from Europe aboard the Adriatic and had in his possession several “English and
Continental” shows that he will present in the United States during the
upcoming theatrical season.
1921: The first Moshav, Nahalal, was found in the
Jezreel Valley. Less famous than that
other experiment in collective living called the Kibbutz, a moshav was "a
village of smallholders in which elements of cooperative and private farming
were combined. Nahal was the Biblical
name of town in this area connected with the tribe of Zebulin. The Jezreel was an area of abundant water,
but the water was often stagnant. The
first fifteen years or so of settlement was spent draining the water to put an
to the malarial swamps in the region.
1922:
The British mandate in Palestine officially began.
1923(1st
of Tishrei, 5684): Rosh Hashanah
1923(1st
of Tishrei, 5684): Seventy-two year old Philadelphia optician and movie
producer who had formed the Lubin Manufacturing Company to make movies in the
City of Brotherly Love passed away today at his New Jersey home.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A02E5D91639E033A25752C1A96F9C946295D6CF
1923:
The Lithuanian General Census, which originally was supposed to be taken today,
has been postponed because today is Rosh Hashanah.
1923:
In his Rosh Hashanah message to the Jews of Britain Chief Rabbi Hertz “paints a
gloomy picture of conditions affecting Jewry throughout the world.”
"Nearly
five years have passed since the close of the most devastating of wars. The
earth is still reeling like a drunken man. The inhabitants thereof are bereft
of reason by the poison gas of racial antagonisms in a world that was nearly
destroyed by hate, and is seeking to save itself by hate, and Israel is the
greatest sufferer in these distracted days."The forces of reaction and
race hatred everywhere have joined hands in the unholy work of reviling and
slandering the Jew. We are back once more in the Dark Ages. New Jewish
massacres and on an unprecedented scale are openly advocated and systematically
planned."The Russian monarchists declare that in the event of their
regaining power they will slaughter every Jewish man, woman and child in that
land. Western Jews do not sufficiently realize the infinite danger that hovers
over four million of our brethren in Russia."
1923: Daf Yomi was initiated by Rabbi Meir Shapira
of Lublin. At the Congress of the Agudath Israel in Europe in 1923, Rabbi Meir
Shapira of Lublin had proposed that Jews all over the world study the same page
of the Talmud (Daf Yomi) simultaneously as a sign of a unifying commitment to
Judaism and Jewish learning. In this way, observant Jewish males could complete
the study of the Talmud every seven and a half years with a formal celebration
marking the end of the learning cycle and the beginning of the new one. The
proposal was accepted and a special calendar was created. Jews everywhere began
to study the Daf. Rabbi Shapira participated in the first completion of the
cycle in 1931. Observant Jews then integrated the Daf Yomi program into their
lives. Tossed into a stormy sea when his ship was wrecked, the great Talmudic
sage Rabbi Akiva was given up for lost. This is how he later described his
miraculous rescue to Rabbi Gamaliel: "A daf (plank) from the ship suddenly
appeared as a salvation, and I just let the waves pass over me." When
Rabbi Meir Shapiro, the rabbi of Lublin between the two World Wars, initiated
the program for Jews all over the world to study the same daf yomi (daily page
of Talmud), he explained the significance of this undertaking by paraphrasing
Rabbi Akiva: "A daf is the instrument of our survival in the stormy seas
of today. If we cling to it faithfully all the waves of tribulation will but
pass over us." The entire Talmud is covered in seven years by those who
keep to the prescribed daily pace. One individual who undertook such a project
and help to give it a wider range of fame was the author Herman Wouk.
1923:
The census was scheduled to take place today in Lithuania. However, because of
the intervention of the Jewish National Council, the government of Lithuania,
postponed it for a future, undisclosed date. (As reported by JTA)
1923:
The Rosh Hashanah edition of the Jewish
Tribune included “The Jew As a Philanthropist” in which Herbert Hoover paid
“special tribute” to “the extraordinary generosity and liberality of the
American Jew” in general and the Joint Distribution Committee in particular
which had done so much to ameliorate the suffering of their co-religionist
during the Great War and in the violent years that followed. (JTA)
1924:
On New York’s lower east side, Rosheen Marcus, who later married Charles Marcus
gave birth to actress Carol Grace who was known as Carol Matthau, after she
married her second husband, Walter Matthau with whom she shared a grave after
she passed away in 2003.
1924:
“The American Palestine Line was placed in receivership today by Federal Judge
Thomas D. Thatcher after suit was brought by its creditors.”
1924:
Birthdate of Canadian professor of Pharmacology, Rudolf Vrba. Born Walter Rosenberg, Vrba would gain fame
as an early escapee from Auschwitz who along with fellow escapee Alfred Wetzler
told the Allies what was happening at the infamous concentration camp. For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1925:
Birthdate of Alan Bergman who with his wife Marilyn Begman has won three
Academy Awards for Best Original Song and have been inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1925(22nd
of Elul, 5685): Seventy-four year old Hungarian born German “actor, dramatist
and writer” Gustave Kadelburg best known for his comedic roles passed away
today in Berlin.
https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p012501.htm
1925:
In Brooklyn, attorney Theodore Gutman and “the former Elsie Edenbaum, a legal
secretary and homemaker gave birth to Robert William Gutman the award winning
biographer of Wagner and Mozart. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1926(3rd
of Tishrei, 5687): Shabbat Shuva (no Fast of Gedaliah because it is the
Sabbath)
1926(3rd
of Tishrei, 5687: Seventy-four year old Edward Montefiore Micholls, the
Manachester, England son of Rebecca and Horatio Lucas Micholls and the husband
of Ada Rachael Micholls with whom he had four children passed away today in
Sussex, England.
1927: Birthdate of G. David Schine who gained
notoriety as the buddy of Roy Cohn when Cohn was riding high as the chief
counsel for Joseph McCarthy's Communist hunting Senatorial Committee. Without
going into too great detail, this relationship ended up with McCarthy and Cohn
accusing the United States Army of being involved in a Communist
Conspiracy. These charges helped to
break the Republican Senator from Wisconsin's grip on national power. As the lives of these two Jews prove, Jews
are not all Einsteins and Salks.
Sometimes they are lesser lights who might have done better had they
never crawled out from underneath their rock.
1928:
“Police Lieutenant Morris Greenberg, President of the Manhattan Hebrew
Institute issued an invitation” this “evening to members of the Police and Fire
Department Hebrew societies as Jewish members of the army and navy to attend
the coming holiday services to be held at the Institute on West 125th
Street.”
1929
(6 Elul, 5689): Louis B. Marshall passed away. Marshall was a successful
lawyer, conservationist, champion of the rights for minorities and a leader of
the Jewish community. He was a co-founder of the American Jewish Committee
(AJC) who worked to protect the rights of Jews in Europe as well as those who
wished to create a Jewish home in Palestine as can be seen by his support of
the Balfour Declaration.
http://www.jtsa.edu/_Support_JTS/Louis_B_Marshall_Award.xml
http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1930_1931_3_SpecialArticles.pdf
1931(29th
of Elul, 5691) Erev Rosh Hashana
1931:
In New York, “special services for children have been arranged by hundreds of
Jewish religious schools in connection with the New Year 5692, which begins
today at sunset, or about 5:30 o'clock…”
1930:
“Wolf Blau, a Russian Jew said to be a prominent member of the Palestine
Communist Party” was arrested by the Egyptian government because he was one of
those sent to make Egypt “a center of Bolshevist propaganda.”
1930:
It was reported today that Lord Melchett, the British industrialist and
chairman of the council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine paid tribute to the
“great work of Louis Marshall who has
just passed away, “in connection with the Jewish community.”
1931:
“According to William Makram Ebeid, the general secretary of the Egyptian Wafd,
-"The most difficult problem confronting Palestine is to devise the best
method of conciliation of the Arabs and Jews in order to lay the primary basis
for establishing the normal political, economic and social relations which the
country badly needs,"
1932:
According to a statement released today by the executive Louis Lipsky, national
chairman of the American Palestine Campaign said the “collapse of most of the
upbuilding activities conducted by the
Jewish Agency for Palestine is threatened because of a shortage funds…”
1933:
In Quebec City, “Ernest Gillman, an immigrant from Russia who took over his
father-law’s clothing factory” and his wife Rebecca gave birth to Rabbi Neil
Gillman, “one of the premier theologians of the Conservative movement.
http://www.crosscurrents.org/GillmanSpring07.htm
1934(2nd
of Tishrei, 5695): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1934:
“Albert Lyons, son of Dr. Alexander Lyons, rabbi of the Eighth Avenue Temple,
Brooklyn, a graduate of Columbia College, class of 1928, and Columbia Law
School, class of 1930 was sworn in today at the Federal Building, Brooklyn, as
Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District. (As reported by JTA)
1934:
Filming of Director John Stahl’s “Imitation of Life,” the cinematic version of
Fannie Hurst’s novel came to an end today.
1935:
“In Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler laid the foundation stone for the construction of a
new Congress Hall that would accommodate 60,000 people.”
1936:
“Adolf Hitler gave a speech to Nazi political leaders in Nuremberg in which he
says that so long as they do their duty to Germany and the German Volk, they
can be sure that God will never abandon either them or Germany.”
1936:
In a review published today, Ralph Thompson described The Brothers Ashkenazi,
a novel by I.J. Singer and translated from the Yiddish by Maurice Samuel as
“serious, solid and eloquent” – a memorable piece of fiction that tells the
story of the rise and fall of two Polish Jews.”
1936:
In their speeches tonight “Dr. Goebbels and Dr. Rosenberg “exceeded all their
past performances as violent Jew-baiters.”
1937(6th
of Tishrei, 5698): Shabbat Shuva
1937:
“America should shun any form of dictatorship and return to its original ideals
of democracy, Rabbi Abraham L. Fienberg said” today “in his sermon at the Mount
Neboh Temple.”
1937:
In his sermon at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun Rabbi Israel Goldstein “declared”
today that “at this time of the year we should discard ‘obsolete ideas,
unfounded prejudices and indefensible habits.’”
1937:
In his sermon at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said “the
desire for repentance must be translated into programs of actions.”
1937:
In his sermon at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Rabbi David DeSola Pool
declared that “religion fails unless it succeeds in ‘stirring the public
conscience to an active struggle against a torpid subservience and submission
to evil’” and that “the churches should cry out against public evils” while
molding “public opinion so the evils would be wiped out.’
1938:
Shortstop Eddie Feinberg made his major league debut with the Philadelphia
Phillies.
1938:
Six Jewish constables were ambushed by terrorists as they escorted a group of
telephone workers traveling between Jaffa and Gaza. All six died but the workers escaped to the
safety ofa nearby Jewish settlement.
When the shooting stopped, it was discovered that the attackers had
taken the weapons, ammunition and uniforms of the dead Jewish policemen. [Yes, they stripped the bodies of the dead!]
1939:
For the first time the Luftwaffe bombed Łuck, the
Polish city that would temporarily be a haven for Jews since it would end up in
the Soviet, only to turn into a death trap after the start of Operation
Barbarossa.
1940: The Jewish refugee ship Quanza
stops to refuel at Norfolk, Virginia, after having been denied entry to the
United States at New York and to Mexico at Vera Cruz. One passenger, a German
Jew, is returned to the ship by U.S. Army guards after leaping overboard near
the shore of Hampton Roads, Virginia. A State Department official granted the
refugees visas at the behest of Eleanor Roosevelt enabling them to eventually
disembark in the United States.
1940:
Late dispatches from Palestine said tonight that at least 150 persons were
killed today in the Italian bombing of Tel Aviv, modern Jewish city.
1941:
“The Gestapo ordered the closure of the “Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Cultural
Federation of German Jews established in 1933” that had somewhere between
seventy and one hundred eighty thousand members
1941:
Outfielder Sid Gordon made his major league debut with the New York Giants
1941: Rudolf Schoenheimer, German-American biochemist whose technique of
"tagging" molecules with radioactive isotopes made it possible to
trace the paths of organic substances through animals and plants and
revolutionized metabolic studies, passed away.
1941:
Charles Lindbergh made an anti-Semitic speech on radio. The Lone Eagle or Lucky
Lindy as he was called was an isolationist and part of the America First
Committee. He was impressed with the
Nazis. He saw fascism as the wave of the future and believed that "the
wave was rolling towards America. He saw World War II was being a continuation
of centuries old European tribal feuds that had nothing to do with the United
States. He stood with those who believed
that FDR's New Deal was "a Jewish concoction" and that a foreign
policy supporting European democracies against the Nazis was the product of
"Jewish interventionists." In
fact, Lindberg was scheduled to give a speech about why America should stay out
of the war on the afternoon of
1942(29th
of Elul, 5702): Erev Rosh Hashana
1942:
Lucy Mandelstram, who was born in Vienna in 1926, her mother, and her sister
were deported to Theresienstadt.
1942:
As the Nazis wiped out the ghetto in Stolin, Poland, with the mass murders of
11,000 Jews, Jewish resistance is led by Moses Glazer and Asher Shapira
1942: Meir Berliner, an Argentine Jew deported
to the Treblinka death camp from Warsaw, stabs an SS officer, Max Bialas, to
death with a penknife. In reprisal, Berliner and 150 other Treblinka inmates
are executed.
1942:
“Marcel Hoffman was one of 34 French railway workers who “risked their lives to
help “save Jewish children from deportation by Nazi occupation forces” today.
1942: Five thousand Jews are deported from the
Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. Among the deportees is noted author Hillel Zeitlin,
age 71. Born in Belorussia in 1871, Zeitlin was raised as Chabad Chasid. He was self-taught in secular subjects and
came to question matters of religion and faith.
He became disillusioned with the secular world after the pogroms of 1905
and returned to Orthodox Judaism.
Zeitlin met death wrapped in his tallit and tefillin.
1942:
Ninety thousand Jews were sent to their deaths from the Warsaw ghetto. A total
of 300,000 Jews were sent to Nazi killing camps during a 53 day period from
Erev Tisha b'Av (the eve of the 9th day of Av) until Erev Rosh Hashanah (the
evening on which Rosh Hashanah starts) that year.
1943:
German troops occupied Kosovo-Metohien.
1943:
The Nazis began the liquidation of the Minsk and Lida ghettos.
1943: One thousand Jews discovered hiding in
Przemysl, Poland, are murdered.
1943: Starting on this date and ending 3 days later, the Jewish
community at Minsk, Belorussia, is liquidated.
1943:
Forty-sixth annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America opened
this evening at Columbus, Ohio.
1943:
The late Judge Julian W. Mack is scheduled to be honored with a special
memorial service at the ZOA convention (JTA).
1944:
Filming “Der Fuhrer schenkt den Juden eine Statdt” (The Fuher Gives the Jews a
Town) comes to an end. This bit of
cinematic propaganda describing “the merits and virtues of the ghetto, was made
at the command of authorities in Berlin under the immediate supervision of Karl
Rahm, the last commandant of Theresienstadt.
1944:
“Murder Incorporated” appeared today in Time magazine describing the scene at
Majdanek. You would never know from
reading it that at least half of the victims were Jewish.
Fortnight
ago a Soviet correspondent described the Nazi murder camp near Lublin. Last
week TIME'S Moscow Correspondent Richard Lauterbach visited Maidenek with a
party of non-Russian newsmen. His report: It was Sunday and the sun was hot.
The Polish girls wore their best embroidered dresses to Mass and the men of
Lublin chatted on street corners without a furtive, over-the-shoulder look. We
drove out along the Chelm road about a mile from town. Dmitri Kudriavtsev,
Secretary of the Soviet Atrocities Commission, said: "They called this
'the road of death.' " Kudriavtsev is a short man, with curly hair and a
nice face. He has an even, soft way of talking. You could not guess that he has
pored over more horrors in the past three years than any living man. Our car
halted before a well-guarded gate. "This is Maidenek," Kudriavtsev
said. I saw a huge, not unattractive, temporary city. There were about 200
trim, grey green barracks, systematically spaced for maximum light, air and
sunshine. There were winding roads and patches of vegetables and flowers. I had
to blink twice to take in the jarring realities: the 14 machine-gun turrets
jutting into the so-blue sky; the 12-ft.-high double rows of electrically
charged barbed wire; the kennels which once housed hundreds of gaunt,
man-eating dogs. Gas Chambers. We got out to inspect the bathhouses. Said
Kudriavtsev without emotion: "They came here first for a shower. Then the
Germans said: 'Now you have had your wash. Go in there.' " He led us into
one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft.
square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance
hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in
the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about
seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants, as many as
250 at a time. Kudriavtsev was explaining: "The gas affects all parts of
the organism. It is quicker when the body is warm, washed and wet." I took
notes calmly, feeling little emotion. It was all so cold and bare. I wrote:
"There are four chambers fed with these small, innocent, pale blue Zyklon
crystals which give off cyanide when exposed to air. Two extra chambers for
plain carbon monoxide. Maximum simultaneous capacity: 2,000." Kudriavtsev
was still explaining: "On one day, Nov. 3, 1943, they annihilated 18,000
people—Poles, Jews, political prisoners and war prisoners."Death by Fire.
We walked back into the sun. There was no horror left in Maidenek. It had
evaporated with the Germans. We rode a little distance to some cabbage patches.
The big, leafy cabbages were covered with a sooty, grey dust and next to them
were high mounds of grey brown stuff. "This," said Kudriavtsev,
"is fertilizer. A layer of human bones, a layer of human ashes, a layer of
manure. This is German food production. Kill people; fertilize
cabbages."The crematorium might have been a big bakeshop or a very small
blast furnace. Here the Nazis carted the bodies, straight from the gas
chambers. They cut them up scientifically. They put the chunks on iron
stretchers, slid them on rollers into the five greedy mouths of the coke-fed
ovens. They could disintegrate 1,900 people a day. "There was great
economy," said Kudriavtsev. "These furnaces also heated the water for
the camp."We heard about a young Polish girl who had refused to undress
for a shower. The degenerate, sadistic Mussfelt who ran the crematorium ordered
her shoved into the furnace alive. Her hair burned quick and bright. Then she
crisped up like bacon on an over-hot skillet.Near the ovens were the remains of
a room with a big stone table. Here gold fillings were extracted from the
teeth. No corpse or piece of a corpse could be burned without a stamp on the
chest: "Inspected for gold fillings."Skulls and Buzzing Flies.
Kudriavtsev led us to some large, open graves. Here were buried the bodies of
the camp's personnel, hastily shot and buried on July 21 in the last hectic
days before the Red Army closed in. The pits stank in the warm sun. There were
skulls and a piece of a Red Army cap and a buzzing of large flies. Around the
pits, in the grass, poppies were growing. Orange red poppies. Big ones.Back in
the camp we saw a room full of passports and documents. Papers of Frenchmen,
Russians, Greeks, Czechs, Jews, Italians, Belo-Russians, Serbs, Poles. Records
left behind by some of the 1,500,000 of 22 nationalities who were brought to
Maidenek.820,000 Pairs of Shoes. We came to a large, unpainted warehouse. Not
suspecting, I stepped up and went inside. It was full of shoes. A sea of shoes.
I walked across them unsteadily. They were piled, like pieces of coal in a bin,
halfway up the walls. Not only shoes. Boots. Rubbers. Leggings. Slippers.
Children's shoes, soldiers' shoes, old shoes, new shoes. They were red and grey
and black. Some had once been white. High heels, low heels, shoes with open
toes. Evening slippers, beach sandals, wooden Dutch shoes, pumps, Oxfords,
high-laced old-ladies' shoes. In one corner there was a stock of artificial
limbs. I kicked over a pair of tiny white shoes which might have been my
youngest daughter's. The sea of shoes was engulfing. In one place the sheer
weight had broken the wall. Part of the wall had fallen out, and with it a
cascade of shoes. Kudriavtsev said: "There are 820,000 pairs here and 18
carloads of the best were shipped to Germany. You will see the receipts at the
Gestapo warehouse." Standing on the sea of shoes, Maidenek suddenly became
real. It was no longer a half-remembered sequence from an old movie or a clipping
from Pravda or chapters from a book by a German refugee living in Mexico City.
The barbed wire had barbs which ripped flesh. The ashes on the big cabbages
were the ashes of the brothers of the worn but pretty peasant women who had
spoken to us that morning at Mass. "The loudspeakers from the camp kept
screeching Strauss waltzes," a Polish woman in Lublin said to me.
"The Beautiful Blue Danube can never be beautiful to us again." She
paused and repeated the words so many Poles and Russians had said that day:
"I hope you Americans will not be soft with the Germans."
1944:
In Casablanca, Valentine Haroche, née Roubleva and Valentine Haroche gave birth
to French physicist Serge Haroche who
“who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J.
Wineland.”
1944:
Victor Kugler, one of the people who helped to hide the Frank family, was
transported from the prison in Weteringschans to a concentration camp in
Amersfoort where he was selected for transport to Germany.
1945:
Today “Jewish immigration into Palestine from western and central Europe
virtually ended today when 340 displaced persons who had been sheltered in
Switzerland after their liberation from concentration camps in Germany” and who
had certificates based on the infamous 1939 White Paper which was still in
effect after the Holocaust “arrived on board the Portuguese steamer at Lima at
Haifa
1946:
Today during a conference in Paris intended to iron out matters left over from
the WW II victory, “the Russians opposed inclusion in the Hungarian treaty of
clause guaranteeing the minority rights of Jews.”
1947:
Outfielder Mickey Rutner made his major league debut with the Philadelphia
Athletics.
1947(26th of Elul, 5707: Sixty-nine year old
Dr. Alex Kornfeld, the husband of Paula Mandl and the father of Peter and
Ulrich Kornfeld and the father-in-law of Lorie Granitsch passed away today.
1948:
Samuel Ralph "Subway Sam" Nahem appeared in his last major league
baseball game as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.
1949:
A memorial plaque was put up at The Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp,
an under-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp to mark the site “of the
common graves.”
1949:
The 3rd Sculpture International at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
that feature works by Jaques Lipchitz, Mitzi Solomon and Sir Jacob Epstein
among others, came to an end today.
1950
(29th of Elul, 5710): Erev Rosh Hashana
1950:
During the opening months of the Korean War, “the first high holy day services
to conducted in a combat area since the end of World War II were held at
sundown in an abandoned theatre in the harbor city of Pusan, Korea”
1950:
Today the Western Hemisphere section of the World Jewish Congress submitted a
memorandum to the Western Big Three Ministers who will be meeting tomorrow at
the Waldorf Astoria “calling on the Western occupying powers in Germany to
guarantee the restitution of Jewish property.”
1951:
According to reports published today, American actress Yvonne de Carolo will
cut short her current tour of Israel and return to the United States so that
she can be filming “San Francisco Story” a movie in which she shares top
billing with Joel McCrea. [editor’s
note: We have no idea why she was touring in Israel.]
1951:
David Horowitz, Israel’s director-general of the Ministry of Finance, arrived
in New York today. As Israel faces an economic crisis caused by the
in-gathering of the exiles and the continued state of war with its Arab
neighbors, Mr. Horowitz has the United States to address a number of Jewish
organizations sympathetic to the growth of Israel.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that in a
secret, silent ceremony that lasted 13 minutes, Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett
and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed in Luxembourg an agreement
under which the Bonn Government agreed to pay 3,450 million marks, in various goods,
as reparations for the material damage suffered by Jews at the hands of the
Nazis. The first goods were expected to arrive in 1953, but the much-needed
oil, a part of the reparations deal, would arrive in Israel within weeks.
1953(2nd
of Tishrei, 5714): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time
during the Presidency of Dwight David Eisenhower.
1953: After having premiered in New York, “The
Juggler,” the first feature film made in Israel starring Kirk Douglas was
released today throughout the United States.
1954(13th
of Elul, 5714): Ki Teitzei
1955:
Birthdate of award winning Shakespearian author and Columbia University
professor James S. Shapiro.
http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/405
1956:
Three days after he had passed away, Seventy-two year old Willard Hotel manager
and long-time member of the United States Olympic Committee, Charles Lewis
Manager who worked on physical fitness programs for the U.S. Army, helped to
create the Maccabiah Games and was married first to the former Anne Bernstein,
and then after she passed way, to the former Aletha Marlott passed
1957:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Harry Tepper, an accountant and Roberta Tepper, a elementary
school teacher gave birth to the “second of three children” hedge fund manager,
philanthropist and miniority owner of the Steelers, David Alan Tepper.
1958:
“Wind Across the Everglades” produced by Stuart Schulberg and written by Budd
Schulberg was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.
1959:
U.S. Premiere of Director Sidney Lumet’s “That Kind of Woman” with a script
co-authored by Walter Bernstein, filmed by cinematographer Boris Kaufman and
co-starring Tab Hunter (Jewish father).
1960:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Annie Gosfield whose music “takes it
inspiration from Jewish culture, history and the New York immigrant experience.
1960:
The Summer Olympics during which American fencer Albert “Axelrod won the bronze
medal in Individual Foil competition” came to a close today In Rome
1960:
It was reported today that the Library of Congress had purchased a rare piece
of Lincoln Memorabilia using funds left by the late Alfred Stern of
Chicago. The item, a sales circular
advertising the sale of various Lincoln election items such as pins and button,
will join Stern’s collection in the Rare Book Room.
1961(1st
of Tishrei, 5722): Rosh Hashanah is observed for the first time during the
Presidency of John F. Kennedy.
1962:
“Operation of the Avnet Electronics Corporation in the fiscal year ended June
30 resulted in record sales and earnings, the report of Lester Avnet,
president, disclosed” today.
1962:
Heinz Krug, “one of a dozen Nazi rocket experts who had been hired by Egypt to
develop weapons for” the Arab country committed to the destruction of the state
of Israel vanished today, the victim it would later be revealed of an
assassin’s bullet fired by foreman Nazi henchman Otto Skorzeny now in the
employ of Mossad.
1963(22nd
of Elul, 5723): Eighty-two year old German director Richard Oswald who was
forced to flee when the Nazis came to power and who “made a number of films
about sexuality and prostitution in collaboration with Magnus Hirschfeld”
passed away today.
1963(22nd
of Elul, 5723): Seventy-five-year-old Kiev native and NYU trained physician Dr.
Benjamin Dubovsky, “the medical columnist for The Jewish Daily Forward” and
husband of “the former Lena Smith” with whom he had three children – Mortimer,
Herbert and Doris – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/13/94882108.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1965:
Outfield Norm Miller made his major league debut with the Houston Astros.
1965(14th
of Elul, 5725): Eighty-five year old Bethel Albert Herbert Solomons the Dublin
born physician who was a noted rugby player as well as a supporter of Sinn Fein
and the famous “1916 Rising,” a key moment in the Irish fight for independence.
1966: Three
days after he had passed away, seventy-two year old Willard Hotel manager and
long-time member of the United States Olympic Committee, Charles Lewis Ornstein
who worked on physical fitness programs for the U.S. Army, helped to create the
Maccabiah Games and was married first to the former Anne Bernstein, and then
after she passed way, to the former Aletha Marlott was scheduled to be interred
at Mt. Hope Cemetery today after services at the Riverside Memorial Chapel.
1966:
In London, The Destruction in Art Symposium chaired by Gustav Metzger, came to
a close.
1966:
NBC broadcast the last episode of “This Is Show Business is an American panel
discussion program about the entertainment industry, hosted by Clifton
Fadiman.”
1969:
In the aftermath of Israel’s successful raid on Egypt’s Red Sea coast called
Operation Raviv, Egypt “launched a large 102-aircraft raid on Israeli positions
in the Sinai, during which they lost a MiG-17, five MiG-21s and two Sukhoi
Su-7s while claiming to have destroyed 3 Israeli aircraft.
1969(28th
of Elul, 5729): Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Nathan Horowitz, the husband of Anna
Horowitz who had practiced medicine in Brooklyn for 44 years before retired to
Miami passed away today.
1969:
Giora Romm was taken prisoner today when the Egyptians shot down his Dassault
Mirage.
1970:
As part of the Dawson Field Hijackings, when members of the Palestinian
terrorists group PLFP hijacked four jet and had forced them to fly to Jordan,
the PLFP released over three hundred of the passengers. The PLFP kept the Jews and Israeli citizens
as hostages.
1971:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Help!...It’s the Hair Bear Bunch” an
“animated television series featuring the voices of Paul Winchell and Joe E.
Ross.
1972(3rd
of Tishrei, 5733): Tzom Gedaliah
1972(3rd
of Tishrei, 5733): Eighty-nine year old pioneer animator Max Fleischer whose
Fleischer Studios brought to life several characters including “Popeye, the
spinach eating sailor man” passed away
1972:
Avery Brundage, who would not do anything that might anger Hitler at the 1936
Olympics and who decided that the 1972 Olympics “must go on despite the murder
of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Arab terrorist” is scheduled to
“officially” step down “as president of the International Olympic Committee”
today.
1973:
Israel Police minister Shlomo Hillel spoke to the International Police
Association about confronting terrorism (including aviation terrorism).
"Surrender to terrorism," said Hillel "results not only in the
decline of the value of law but also degrades every international moral
authority, encourages the growth of murder, terrorism and global extortionism,
and pushes the world into a state of anarchy and chaos." (As reported by
Adam Soclof).
1973:
A possible terrorist incident was thwarted today when Australian authorities
arrested a member of Al-Fatah.
1974(24th
of Elul, 5734): Eighty-three year old Chicago born Northwestern alum and WW I
veteran Ralph Leroy Arnheim, “the son of Benjamin and Henrietta Arnheim” passed
away today in Glencoe, Illinois
1974:
The first of two demonstrations was held today in Moscow “by Jewish activists
demanding exit visas.”
1974:
Sylva Zalmanson who had been freed after serving 4 years of a 10 year sentence
at Leningrad Trail in 1970 arrived in Israel today.
1974:
NBC broadcast of the long-running series “Little House on the Prairie” starring
Michael Landon who also served as Executive Producer and Melissa Gilbert in the
role of “Laura Ingalls Wilder” the author of the book on which the series was
based.
1976(16th
of Elul, 5736): Parashat Ki Tavo
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that US
President Jimmy Carter's previously submerged anger towards Israeli action in
establishing new settlements came into the open when he agreed with reporters
that the Israeli government was apparently openly defying the US and
constituted an obstacle to peace. In Israel, however, Agriculture Minister
Ariel Sharon, chief proponent of the settlement policy in the cabinet, said
that the belt of the settlements he planned to establish would give Israel the
security to reach "daring solutions" for peace with the Palestinian
Arabs. Sharon: settlements, peace with
the Arabs - how much things change, how much they stay the same.
1978: President Jimmy Carter, President Sadat and
Prime Minister met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between
Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
1979:
ABC aired the first episode of the second season of “Taxi” a sit-com created by
James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels and Ed Weinberg and starring Judd Hirsch and Andy
Kaufman.
1980(1st
of Tishrei, 5741): Rosh Hashanah
1980:
“Stephen Roy Reinhardt (born Stephen Roy Shapiro)” received his commission to
begin serving as “Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit” today.
1981:
Pitcher Larry Rothschild made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1982(23rd
of Elul, 5742): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Leil Selichot
1982:
At East Haddam, CT, the curtain came down on a revival production of “High
Button Shoes,” a musical with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn that
had opened at the Goodspeed Opera House in July.
1982:
Detroit pitcher Larry Rothschild played his last major league baseball
game. He then went on to a career as
major league coach and manager.
1987(17th
of Elul, 5747: Seventy-two year old Canadian born American actor Lorne Greene
who gained fame as “Pa Cartwright” – a family patriarch based on his father
Daniel Greene – passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/arts/lorne-greene-tv-patriarch-is-dead.html
1987:
“Today, Allan Bloom, philosopher and author of Closing of the American Mind:
How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's
Students, told undergraduates at DePauw University today. "You have four
years of freedom to discover yourselves: the space between what is most likely
the intellectual wasteland most of us leave behind and the inevitable dreary
professional training that awaits you after the baccalaureate."
http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/17824/
1988(29th
of Elul, 5748): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1988(29th
of Elul, 5748): Seventy-nine year old Cornell University professor Isaac
Rabinowitz who was an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/20/obituaries/isaac-rabinowitz-79-dead-sea-scroll-expert.html
1988:
Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff “was one of 100 religious leaders at” today’s “White
House discussion with then President Bill Clinton on the way religion might
combat violence in American schools.”
1988:
“Miracle Mile” featuring Alan Rosenberg as “Mike” premiered at the Toronto Film
Festival.
1989:
“Eversmile, New Jersey” “an Argentine and British comedy with a script by
Argentine writer Jorge Goldenberg was released in Canada today.
1990:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “The Family Man,” a sitcom co-starring Scott
Weinger.
1992:
“Sneakers” a computer comedy produced by Lawrence Lasker, the grandson of
Albert Lasker, who also co-authored the script.
1993(25th
of Elul, 5753): Conductor Erich
Leinsdorf passed away.
1994(6th
of Tishrei, 5755): Eighty-three year old Dr. Irving Posner, the son of Isidor
and Ida Weinstein Posner and the husband of Helen Posner passed away today
after which he was bured at the Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale, Michigan.
1994(6th
of Tishrei, 5755): Shimon Avidan, “an Israeli soldier and officer, the
commander of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war,” passed away.
Born Shimon Koch in Germany in 1911, he moved to Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar in
1934 and then Ein Hashofet in Palestine. “He fought with the International
Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Avidan is also known for his activities
in the Palmach in World War II. He led the "German Unit" of the
Palmach, which was responsible for conducting guerilla operations against the
Axis powers.[1] In 1945 he commanded the Saison operation against the Irgun and
Stern Gang.[3] During the 1948 war he was the operational commander of
Operation Nachshon, Operation Barak, Operation Pleshet and Operation An-Far.
His troops also fought at Nitzanim as well as joining Operations Death to the
Invader and Yoav. He resigned from the army after, according to Chaim Herzog,
'his extreme left-wing philosophy proved to be irreconcilable with Ben-Gurion's
policies'. In 1975, he was appointed as the internal comptroller of the
Ministry of Defense by the minister Shimon Peres.
1995:
FOX broadcast the first episode of “Ned and Stacey” a sitcom starring Debra
Messing.
1997:
At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of “Mr. Jealousy” directed
by Noah Baumbach who also wrote the script.
1997:
Felix Rohatyn began serving as “U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco.”
1997:
Opening of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
https://mjhnyc.org/events/september-11-commemoration-2/
1998:
“A Simple Plan,” the movie version of the novel of the same name directed by
Sam Raimi and music by Danny Elfman premiered at the Toronto International Film
Festival today.
1998:
“The Rounders,” which provides a dark view of the world of high stakes poker”
co-starring Martin Landau, featuring Josh Mostel (son of Zero Mostel) and with
a script by David Levien and Brian Koppelman was released in the United States
today by Miramax Films.
1998:
“L.A. Without a Map” featuring Lisa Edelstein premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival today.
1999(1st
of Tishrei, 5760): Rosh Hashanah 5760
1999:
On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, The Shanghai government permitted the Jewish
community to use Ohel Rachel for 24 hours. This would be the first time a
Jewish service was held at the Ohel Rachel Synagogue since 1952. Evening and
morning services were held, with approximately 120 Jews in attendance. This was
the highest attendance the modern Shanghai Jewish community had seen!
1999:
Three days after premiering at Grauman’s in Los Angeles, future Academy Award
winner “American Beauty,” directed by Sam Mendes whose mother was “an English
Jew,” produced by Bruce Cohen and with music by Thomas Newman, the son of
Alfred Newman was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
2000:
“Jews in Israel will outnumber Jews in the United States in two decades, part
of a shift in Jewish population by which Israel will become home to a majority
of the world's Jews by 2050, says a study in the new edition of the ''American
Jewish Year Book.'”
2000:
“Bowing to international pressure, a Palestinian leadership assembly decided
tonight, as expected, to postpone a declaration of statehood and recommit to
the Middle East peace effort despite deeply deadlocked negotiations.” (As
reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001:
Today marked Cpl. Dustin H. Schrage’s first day in the United States Marine
Corps. The young Jewish Marine would lose his life while swimming across the
Euphrates River in the Al Anbar province in 2004.
2001(23rd
of Elul, 5761): The September 11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in
New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and downed a passenger
airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 were killed. In one of the most offensive bits of
anti-Semitic propaganda several websites, some of which were sponsored by Arab
money, claimed that Jews had been warned to stay away from the WTC and/or that
the attack was part of a Mossad conspiracy. The number of dead Jewish Americans
and Israelis belied the canard, but truth never bothers an anti-Semite.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/11/2001/september-11th
2001(23rd
of Elul, 5761): Fifty-one year old American born Lawrence Davidson, an IDF tank
commander who returned to the United States to work in the financial services
industry was among those murdered today.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=127798&location=2
2001(23rd
of Elul, 5761): Thirty-one year old Denver born Israeli raised Technion and MIT
graduate Daniel Mark Lewin, the co-founder of Akamai Technologies was
reportedly stabbed to death by terrorists while trying to stop the hijacking of
American Airlines Flight 11.
2001:
Silverstein Properties owned the World Trade Center and will be represented by
Proskauer Rose in litigation that will result from the attack and its
aftermath.
2001:
In an odd twist of fate Larry Silverstein, the owner of Silverstein Properties
was at the dermatologist this morning instead of eating breakfast with new
tenants at Windows on the World.
2001:
Following today’s attacks in Washington, DC and New York City, demand for
Robert D. Kaplan’s analysis of events as can be found in “The Coming Anarchy:
How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly
destroying the social fabric of our planet” and Warrior Politics
increased.
2001:
Following today’s terrorist attacks Geraldo Rivera “accepted a pay cut and went
to work for the Fox News Channel as a war correspondent.”
2001:
“In the wake of today’s attacks, Martin S. Bergman wrote an article concerning
its implications on psychoanalysis called ‘Psychoanalytical Reflections on
September 11.’’
2001:
Following today’s attacks, “the Boston Symphony Orchestra cancelled a scheduled
performance of extracts from” “The Death of Klinghoffer” “partly in deference
to a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, who lost a family member on one
of the hijacked planes, as well as due to perceptions that the work was overly
sympathetic to terrorists.”
2001:
After today’s attacks, Stephen Cohen, the professor who secretly brokered peace
talks between Israelis and Arabs “paraphrased Lincoln in reacting to anger at
Muslims, cautioning that “we must fight those among them who pray only to the
God of Hate, but we do not want to go to war with Islam, with all the millions
of Muslims who pray to the same God we do.”
2001:
Following today’s terrorist attacks British Labour MP and Zionist emerged as a
“terrorism expert” thanks to the “reports on social violence published through
his think-tank, the Centre for Contemporary Studies.”
2001:
“Like so many other New Yorkers, John L. Tishman “could only watch helplessly
on television as the events unfolded in Lower Manhattan” and “after the second
jetliner hit the south tower and the 110-story building collapsed” he was in
such shock that all he could was leave the Tishman Building withous saying
goodbye to his colleagues and head for his hoe.
2001:
Sixty-three year old Alice Trillin, who in addition to all of her own
accomplishment was considered to be the inspiration for her husband Calvin
Trillin, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/us/alice-trillin-63-educator-author-and-muse-is-dead.html
2001:
After “9/1l” Arkadi “Etti Ankri, Zehava Ben, David D'Or, and other Israeli
singers recorded the title song "Yesh Od Tikvah" ("Our Hope
Endures"), for which D'Or wrote the music and lyrics, on the CD Yesh Od
Tikvah/You've Got a Friend”
2002:
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will join
with its colleague museums across the nation to participate in "Museums
Celebrate America's Freedoms" to celebrate the freedoms that sustain the
nation's strength.
2002:
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg “lit an eternal flame to mark the first
anniversary of the attacks on Washington, DC and New York City by Arab
terrorists.
2003:
“Sharon Delighted with Gift from Kochi” published today described the Prime
Minister’s joyful reaction with being given “replicas of the Copper plates from
the `Magna Carta' of the Jews of Kochi, which has the oldest synagogue outside
Israel. According to some scholars, the Copper plates given by the then rulers
of Kochi during the arrival of the Jews to that place, dated back to the 11th
century. But the traditional date according to the Cochin Jews is 379 AD.”
2004(25th
of Elul, 5764): Parashat Nitzavim-Yayelech; Selichot
2004: Nathan Cooper is called to the Torah as a Bar
Mitzvah at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2004:
The 61st Venice International Film Festival which saw the premiere
of “To Take a Wife” directed by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabet who also wrote the
script” came to a close today.
2004(25th
of Elul, 5764): Seventy-six year old lyricist Fred Ebb passed away today. (As
reported by Jesse McKinley)
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/arts/fred-ebb-76-lyricist-behind-cabaret-and-other-hits-dies.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1471651/Fred-Ebb.html
2005:
The funeral for painter and Israel Prize laureate Lea Nikel is held at Kidron
Cemetery. She passed away over the weekend at the age of 86. Nikel is the
“grande dame of Israeli painting.” She was known as the “queen of abstract
painting” and “queen of color and composition.
The works of this famous abstract expressionist hang in galleries
throughout the world including London’s Tate Gallery
2005:
Today “a ceremony was held when the last Israeli flag was lowered in the IDF's
Gaza Strip divisional headquarters.”
2005,
United States Senator Jon Corzine, the Democratic candidate for Governor of New
Jersey, endorsed Loretta Weinberg for State Senate held by Byron Baer who was
retiring. [Weinberg was Jewish; Corzine was not.
2005:
Jewish authors continue to add to the richness of the general culture as they
write on a variety of subjects. Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler
received less than glowing reviews in the Sunday New York Times. This is the third in Mr. Feiler’s series on
the Bible and religion, two things that he apparently did not study at an
earlier age. Dvorak: Romantic Music's Most Versatile Genius by David Hurwitz which has now
appeared in paperback received favorable reviews in the Sunday Washington Post book section. Hurwitz takes the unconventional stand that
the relationship between Brahms and Dvorak was not a one way street. He contends that Brahms benefited from
Dvorak’s influence every bit as much did Dvorak benefit from that of Brahms.
2005:
Sidney Ferris Rosenberg failed to show up to host the Giants' pre-game show
2006:
(Elul 18) Celebration of the birth of Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal
Shem Tov (Master of the Good Name) of simply the Besht. He is the founder of the movement that would
eventually come to be known as Chasidism.
There is too much to this man’s life and too many sources available to
warrant even the most elementary summary.
2006:
(Elul 18) Celebration of the birth of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of
the Chabad Lubavitch branch of Chasidism.
2006: In the Time
Magazine edition of this date a report appeared that Leonard Nimoy, the
Jewish actor who portrayed Mr. Spock had published a book entitled Shekina,
which explores the mythological feminine aspect of God.
2006:
Seventy-nine year old German historian Joachim Fest who specialized in works
about the Nazis and Hitler passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joachim-fest-415868.html
http://www.dw.de/renowned-hitler-biographer-joachim-fest-dies/a-2171284
2006:
Leonard Woolf by Victoria Glendinning was published today by Simon and
Schuster
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3655052/A-life-of-ones-own.html
2007:
The board of Deputies of British Jews released a statement “accusing the New Statesman, a weekly journal
published in London of again demonstrating its ‘hostility to Israel’ and of
being ‘mischievous’ and ‘irresponsible.’”
2007:
Elul 29 – The Shofar is sounded for the last time in 5767.
2008: “Setting the Stage,” Beit Lessin's ninth annual
revelation of new plays by local playwrights opens at ZOA House in Tel Aviv,
there will be 10 staged readings, a musical special to open the proceedings and
peer-awarded prizes for those who are part of four other full productions.
"Israeli plays are the beating heart of Israeli theater," says Beit
Lessin General Manager Tzippi Pines, who has positioned her theater as a
nurturing cradle for new playwrights.
2008:
In Manhattan the Center for Jewish
History in collaboration with Levinas
Ethical Legacy Foundation, Société International de Research Emmanuel Levinas,
and the North American Levinas Society presents “Renewing
the Colloque: Celebrating Levinas’ Talmudic Readings” during which human rights
activists, rabbis and philosophers join in an evening of study and discussion
in the spirit of the famous Paris colloquia at which Emmanuel Levinas delivered
profoundly ethical Talmudic lessons for our day.
2008” According to documents released
today, Ruth Greenglass, “a key prosecution witness whose testimony helped send
Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair gave a different account at trial than
she did before the grand jury in the famous Cold War spying case”
2008: Israel conveyed its displeasure to Washington today over remarks
reportedly made by US Consul General Jacob Walles that it had agreed to start
negotiations with the Palestinians over Jerusalem.
2009
(22nd of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin
2009: William Blake’s
World: A New Heaven Is Begun opened today and runs, at the Morgan Library &
Museum in New York. Blake was a leading painter and poet during the Romantic
Age. According to some, Blake was influenced by Kabbalah and that the dozen or so Hebrew inscriptions in his etchings and watercolors show
that he was fluent in Hebrew. According to others “close analysis of the works,
some of which are on exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum, reveal that
Blake had not even mastered the letter aleph. Reading Kabbalah in Hebrew
without knowing the first letter of the aleph-bet would be as
implausible as tackling Finnegan’s Wake with barely a grasp of the
English alphabet.”
2009:
“Art Capital Group withdrew its lawsuit
against Annie Leibovitz and extended the due date for repayment of the $24
million loan which included an agreement, under which Leibovitz retains control
over her work and will be the "exclusive agent in the sale of her real
property (land) and copyrights".
2009(22nd
of Elul, 5770): Eighty-one year old comedy writer Larry Gelbart, the man who
gave us the television version of “M*A*S*H passed away today. (As reported by
Robert Berkvist)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/arts/12gelbart.html?pagewanted=print
2009:
The Toronto International Film Festival features screenings of A History of
Israeli Cinema Part 1 (Historia Shel Hakolnoah and A History of Israeli Cinema
Part 2 (Historia Shel Hakolnoah Israeli).
2009:
Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a
menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum that has come to symbolize Judaism, the
Israel Antiquities Authority said today.
2009:
Several rockets fired from southern Lebanon slammed into Israel today
triggering retaliatory artillery fire across the border, the Israeli military
said.
2010(3rd
of Tishrei, 5771): Shabbat Shuva
2010(3rd of
Tishrei, 5771): Eighty-six year old Harold Gould, an actor who succeeded in
film, theatre and television who was never the star but was always there passed
away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/arts/14gould.html?pagewanted=print
2010: After a
39-year absence, today the Israeli women’s national volleyball team qualified
for the 2011 European Championships.
2011(12th
of Elul, 5772): Eighty-seven year old Israeli tycoon Yuli Ofer passed away
today. (As reported by Elad Benari)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147776
2011: Alisa
Weilerstein, Carolin Widmann and Matan Porat are scheduled to perform
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C major, op. 56 at the 14th Jerusalem
International Chamber Music Festival.
2011: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including That
Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can
Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum,
2011: The
2011-2012 Religious School Year is scheduled to begin today at Temple Judah in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2011: In
conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on
Washington and New York, the ADL has issued “Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic
9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later.”
Decade of
Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later
2011: The
Seattle Jewish Chorale is scheduled to take part in an inter-faith service
“Remember9/11: Blessed are the Peacemakers” which is one of many observances
marking the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on Washington, DC and New
York City. Rabbi Daniel Weiner of Temple
de Hirsch Sinai is scheduled to co-officiate at the service.
2011: Shots
were fired from Egypt across the border with Israel today, near the site of
last month's terror attack in which eight Israelis were
2011: Israel
vowed to develop and defend gas platforms recently discovered in its waters,
Energy Minister Uzi Landau said today, after Turkey declared its plan to boost
naval patrols in the eastern Mediterranean in a deepening diplomatic feud.
2011: Turkish hackers are preparing to launch a wave of cyber-attacks on
sensitive Israeli internet sites, the head of a major Israeli website building
company warned today.
2011: The Los Angeles Times reviewed Just My Type: A
Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
2012: For those looking for a “Jewish” way to remember
what this date means consider the following
http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2002/09/Commemorating-September-11-Jewish.aspx
2012: If Iran decides to make a nuclear
weapon, the United States would have a little more than a year to act to stop
it, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today.
2012: The chairman of Yad Vashem has been
appointed the deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. The
appointment of Avner Shalev by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was announced
by Yad Vashem today.
2012: Following a New
Yorker article that appeared yesterday exposing details of the Israeli
bombing of a Syrian nuclear facility in 2007, the IDF chief of staff at the
time flatly today denied knowledge of the operation.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-chief-of-staff-israel-attacked-syrian-reactor-news-to-me/
2013:
“Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain” featuring a range of speakers including
Nathan Arbrams of Bangor University sponsored by The Pears Institute for the
study of Antisemistism in collaboration with the University of Kent and
University of Sheffield is scheduled to take place at the University of London.
2013:
In London, the Weiner Library co-hosts the second a final day of a “Conference
to Mark the 70th Anniversary of the Creation of the United Nations War Crimes
Commission in 1943” chaired by Justice Richard Goldstone.
2013:
Bulgaria’s President Rosen Plevneliev announced on the anniversary of the 9/11
terror attacks in the US that Bulgaria “experienced our September 11” last year
in Burgas, in which alleged Hezbollah operatives murdered five Israelis and a
Bulgarian national. (As reported by Benjamin Weinthal)
2013:
To honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks, including five Israelis, the Keren Kayemet
LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund held its 12th annual memorial ceremony with the
US Embassy this afternoon.
2014: In Rockville, MD, the Magen David Sephardic
Congregation is scheduled to present “The Israel-Gaza War: From
A Local, Regional & International Perspective With Moran Stern.”
2014:
“Craig Steven Wilder Professor of History and Head of the History Faculty at
MIT, delivered a lectured on “The Paradox of the Jewish Indians: Religion and
Race on the Colonial Campus” today.
2014
UK Jewish Film, a cultural charity dedicated to developing an environment in
which Jewish themed films entertain, educate and enlighten diverse audiences in
the UK and internationally, is scheduled to host the final showing of
“Wakolda,” a film “set in 1960s Argentina, about an inocent family who
unknowingly welcome Dr. Josef Mengele into their home.”
2014:
“A senior Hamas official said that his movement may seek to negotiate with
Israel, claiming that Islamic faith does not prohibit such contacts.” (As reported by Elhanahn Miller)
2014:
“Jerusalem district firefighters and rescue volunteers, alongside US Marines
and families of 9/11 victims, marked the 13th anniversary to the September 11
terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead in a special ceremony held
in the Jerusalem Hills.”
2014:
Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the National Arts Centre Theatre in
Ottawa.
2014:
At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of “The Cobbler” starring
Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman and Ellen Barkin.
2015:
“Journeys” “the second in a series of three-crowd sourced exhibitions produced
in collaboration between the Jewish Museum of London and the Cultural Institute
at King’s College” is scheduled to come to a close.
2015(27th
of Elul, 5775): Eighty-eight year old Lawrence S. Phillips, the Princeton
University graduate, longtime chairman of the board of menswear company
Phillips-Van Heusen and founder of the American Jewish World Service passed
away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2015:
“Patrick Devedjian, a right-winger who served in the governments of president
Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy” “stirred up controversy” today “after
saying Germany ‘took our Jews and gave us Arabs’ as France began taking some of
the thousands of refugees arriving in Germany.”
2015:
“President Obama plans to host Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for
a meeting in November, the White House said today, marking the start of efforts
to repair a troubled relationship between the United States and Israel badly
frayed over the nuclear agreement with Iran.”
2015:
In Santa Rosa, CA, Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Wells Fargo
Center for the Arts.
2015:
Final Shabbat of 5775 begins this evening.
2015:
Patrick Devedjian, “a former French minister stirred up controversy today after
saying Germany ‘took our Jews and gave us Arabs.’”
2016(8th
of Elul, 5776): Forty-seven year old “Alexis Arquette, the transgender
character actress and sibling of actors David, Rosanna, Richmond and Patricia
Arquette, died this morning in Los Angeles.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-transgender-actress-alexis-arquette-dies-at-47/
2016:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host
“Symbolic by Design” a tour and talk that will described “how renowned Chicago
architect Stanley Tigerman infused each space in the Museum with historical and
emotional symbolism.”
2016:
“In Between,” an “Israeli-French film “about three Arab-Israeli women sharing a
flat in Tel Aviv” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival today.
2016:
Frank Stern, a native of Frankfurt who went from Switzerland to England before
sailing for the United States “on an armed merchant ship” in 1940 is scheduled
to talk about his experiences as “a Holocaust survivor.”
2016:
“Denial,” a film “based on History on Trial: My Day in Court with a
Holocaust Denier” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
2016:
In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a workshop presented by
the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia presenting “new research techniques
from Yad Vashem.”
2016:
Temple Emanu-El and the American Jewish Committee NYC are scheduled to
participate in a 15th Anniversary Interfaith Commemoration and Walk in
Remembrance of 9/11 that will start at Temple Emanu-El that will include
members of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Islamic Society of
Mid-Manhattan
2016:
The Blue is scheduled to host a show this morning “premiering songs from
Israeli jazz guitarist Assaf Kehati’s upcoming 4th album.
2016:
In Des Moines, Iowa, Beit Sefer Shalom, the Jewish Federation Community School,
is scheduled to host a family breakfast before classes resume this morning.
2016:
Religious School is scheduled to resume at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2016:
“A new US military aid package to Israel — said to be the largest in American
history — is expected to be finalized in the very near future, US Ambassador to
Israel Dan Shapiro said” today.
2016:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, Where The Jews Aren’t:
The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzahn, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
by Masha Gessen and She Made Me
Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron by Richard Cohen
2017:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the first session of “Proust
in Time: Swann’s Way” in which Rebecca Ariel Porte examines the writing of In
Search of Lost Time.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Bogdan’s Journey,” a
heartbreaking account of the pogrom that took place in the town of Kielce,
Poland in July 1946.
2017:
In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host poet and author Benjamin
Morris in a reading from and discussion of his new book Ectone.
2018(2nd of Tishrei, 5779: 2nd Day of Rosh Hashanah
2018:
Seventeenth anniversary of what is known as 9/11 which included the first
successful attack on the Washington DC government complex since the War of
1812.
2018: Francesco Bruni’s “Tutto quello che vuoi” is
scheduled to be shown at The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts.
2019:
In Columbus, OH, Tefereth Israel, the congregation rabbis are scheduled to host
the noon-time “Lunch and Learn.”
2019:
Six days before the national elections, Lt. Gen. (Res.) MK Moshe Bogie Ya’alon,
the former Defense Minister and IDF Chief is scheduled to discuss the Blue and
White Party’s plans for Israel at the BeerBazaar in Jerusalem.’
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the penultimate screening of “Sefarad.”
2019:
“Hundreds of people, including families of victims, survivors, first responders
and political leaders, are scheduled to gather today, at 8:46 a.m. for the 18th
annual commemoration ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center.”
2019:
“The Joan and Alan Bernikow Jewish Community Center (JCC) is scheduled to begin
a month-long campaign for its food pantry, collecting socks and gloves in
memory of the tragic event. Each location will display a poster and a yahrzeit
candle in honor of those who perished on 9/11 along with each collection box
for donations.
2019:
In memory of those who were lost in the attacks at the World Trade Center site
and in honor of the first responders, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, invites
the public to come reflect and remember on September 11 with their being no
admission charge for visiting MJH Highlights (Ordinary Treasures: Highlights
from the Museum of Jewish Heritage Collection, The Pickman Keeping History
Center, and Andy Goldsworthy’s contemplative Garden of Stones).
2020:
“In another session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators
Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an early
20th-century carpet from Jerusalem.
2020:
In Cleveland, “The Jewish Secular Community is scheduled to host M. Susan
Murname whose topic is: "Woman Suffrage: Human Rights, Zoom”
2020:
As part of the Streicker Center Virtual High Holiday Cooking School, Gil
Shatsberg and Tom Hinde.
2020:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a “The Austrian, Swedish and
Czech Motzarts” featuring Sonatas by W. A. Mozart (Austrian) , Joseph Martin
Kraus (Swedish) and Leopold Koželuch (Czech).”
2020:
The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Lost Crown.”
2020:
In Framingham, MA, Temple Beth Sholom is scheduled to host a “camp-style Friday
Night Park and Pray.”
2020:
As prove of Jewish optimism in the face of the combined damage of the Pandemic
and the Derecho, in Cedar Rapids, members of the Jewish community can still
order their Lulav and Etrog Sets today through Temple Judah.
2020(22nd
of Elul, 5779): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, the husband of Deborah Levin,
father of Judy, Mitchell and David Levin who was an attorney by trade, a
teacher by avocation and if it weren't for him, in more ways than one, none of
this blog would exist proving that there is more than one way "to be
inscribed in the book of life.”
2020:
Following yesterday’s report of 4,013 new cases of coronavirus in a twenty-four
period Israelies prepare for Shabbat facing the possibility that “a month-long coronavirus lockdown is
expected to cost the Israeli economy an extra NIS 15-20 billion beyond the
current financial toll of the country's response to the pandemic: (As reported
by Gad Lior)
2021: Congregation Sherith Israel of S.F. is
scheduled to host a family-friendly, 3.5-mile Shabbat Shuvah hike for the new
year, with kid-centered learning, prayer, and multi-sensory activities to
explore themes of attention and reflection.
2021: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to
present “Sha-Bike Shalom” a 25 mile long bike ride that will include “some
brief words of Torah from Rabbi Oberstein.”
2021: “Russian cellist, composer and vocalist”
Ian Maskin “who sings in more than 20 languages including Yiddish and Ladino”
is scheduled to perform this evening in San Francisco.
2021: KlezCalifornia, Chochmat HaLev and Jewish
Community Library are scheduled to present
former U.C. Berkeley lecturer Yael Chaver talking about the trajectory
of Yiddish from pre-state Israel to the State of Israel to today.
2021: In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is
scheduled host “Return: Can Yom Kippur be God-Optional?” – a song circle and
conversation with Rabbi Dan Ain of Congregation Beth Shom and OFJCC Jewish
content director Tova Birnbaum.
2021: 18Doors Boston is scheduled to present
“Hard Cider for a Sweet New Year” that along with the liquid refreshment will
include Molly Kazin Marshal “diving in some High Holy Day traditions including
tashlich and fasting.
2021(5th of Tishrei, 5782) Parashat Vayelekh;
Shabbat Shuvah;
2022: The Armory Show which this year features
several Israeli artists including Nir Hod and Doron Langberg is scheduled to
come to an end today.
2022: In Naperville, Il, Congregation is
scheduled to host a reception and book talking with Maggie Anton, author The
Chosen.
2022: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to present
Justin Cammy leading the annual commemoration of the Jewish community of Vilna
through poetry, music and presentation.
2022: The National Library of Israel is scheduled
to host online David Weitzner and D.J. Schneeweiss discussing “Jewish Wisdom
for a Secular World.”
2022: The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth
Country is scheduled to have a table at the Bank Street Fair where some lucky
visitor will “win a beautiful mezuzah from Israel.”
2022: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our
World by Max Fisher
2022: The School Year is scheduled to begin this
morning at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA
2022: Temple Judah is scheduled host a gala
banquet celebrating the congregations 100th anniversary
2022: 21st Anniversary of the
terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Washington, DC
https://rac.org/leadership-development/clergy-congregations/remembering-911
2023: At Yeshiva University Museum, Robert
Hartman is scheduled to lead a guided
tour of "The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,"
illuminating the life and impact of the multifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage
across continents and cultures through rare manuscripts and books. Exhibition
highlights include manuscripts in Maimonides’s own handwriting, a carved
11thcentury door to the Torah ark from Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue, and
beautifully illuminated medieval manuscripts.
2023: The Chabad Center of Metairie is scheduled
to host a performance of “The Honey Girl Auschwitz.”
2023: A Brazilian Jewish Music Concert, part of a
two day celebration of the arrival of 23 Brazilian Jews in New Amsterdam, is
scheduled to take place at the Brazilian Consulate in New York City.
