This Day, September 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 12
490 BCE: According to German scholar Philipp August Böckh, the
Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. The Persians were led
by Darius I, the ruler under whom the Second Temple was built. It would not be surprising if there were Jewish
soldiers in the Persian Army since one of the things loyal subjects did was
serve in the army during times of war.
1213: During the Albigensian Crusade, Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl
of Leicester, defeated Peter II of Aragon, at the Battle of Muret. The
Albigensian Crusade was a twenty effort by the Roman Catholic Church to
suppress one of the many heresies that bubbled up to challenge its
authority. The Jews were not the direct
target of the Crusades but were the unintended victim of the effort. The Jewish subjects of the Counts of Toulouse
enjoyed a certain amount of freedom which dismayed Rome. When Toulouse was defeated, the Catholics at
Rome saw to it that the Jews lost their right to hold public office in this
area in the south of France and that they would be treated like Jews in other
parts of Europe dominated by the Church.
1229: James I of Aragon began his conquest of Majorca by landing
an army at Santa Ponça. When he conquered the island on the last day of the
year, “he gave the Jews a quarter in the neighborhood of his palace for their
dwellings, granted protection to all Hebrews who wished to settle on the
island, guaranteed them the rights of citizens, permitted them to adjudicate
their own civil disputes, to kill cattle according to their ritual, and to draw
up their wills and marriage contracts in Hebrew. Christians and Moors were
forbidden, under severe penalties, to insult the Jews or to take earth and
stones from their cemeteries; and the Jews were ordered to complain directly to
the king of any act of injustice toward them on the part of the royal
officials. They were allowed to charge 20 per cent interest on loans, but the
amount of interest was not to exceed the capital.”
1362: Pope Innocent IV passed away. In a period when copies of the
Talmud were being confiscated and burned, Innocent IV responded positively to
petition submitted by Abraham Bedaresi of Provencal and Meir of Rothenberg that
they be allowed to keep their Talmudic writings. He promulgated a decree banning forcible
baptism of Jews which also stated that the Jews “should not be disturbed in the
observance of their festivals.” And
finally he issued a strongly worded Papal Bull that exonerated the Jews of the charges
of the Blood Libel and condemned those who fabricated these charges. [Editor’s Note - Considering the era in which
he lived and the position he held, we might assume that more than one Jew
mourned the death of this prelate.]
1494: Birthdate of King Francis I of France. Strangely enough for
a French monarch, Francis show an interest in the Hebrew language. After all,
no Jew had legally lived in France for over a century. But this King invited August Justiniani, the
Bishop of Corsica who was reputed to be a serious student of Hebrew literature
to move to France. He also invited Elias
Levita, the renowned Hebrew grammarian and poet, to move to France and accept a
professorship in the Hebrew language. Levita declined the offer for obvious
reasons.
1526: While demonstrating “a general of tolerance” towards Jews
after his arrival in Buda, Suleiman “banished some Jews and forced them to flee
south.”
1580: :
King Phillip II, “who was a symbol of ‘Tyranny’ in Spinoza’s Political
Writings” and who expelled the Jews from Milan, began his reign as King of
Portugal.
1654(1st of Tishrei, 5415): Rosh Hashanah 5415
1654(1st of Tishrei, 5415): The Jews of what would become the United States
celebrate the first Rosh Hashanah just five days after having arrived in New
Amsterdam They held their service in secret in the second floor of a commercial
building. Gov. Stuyvesant (Dutch) wanted the Jews gone and they were
afraid to pray in public. Also, these were Sephardic Jews who had escaped
the Inquisition so they knew about secrecy. Within a few months, the
Dutch East India Company would tell the governor to let the Jews stay.
Over time, the Jews would buy land for a cemetery, gain the right to serve in
the militia and participate in the development of the Dutch colony.
1683: The second and final day of the Battle of Vienna. During the Austro-Ottoman War, a coalition of
Christian European Armies defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of
Vienna. Many historians date the
beginning of the Ottoman Empire and therefore Islam from this event. The Christians marked the start of the final
drive to push the forces of Islam out of central and eastern Europe. This was a mixed blessing for the Jewish
people. On the one hand the Ottoman
Empire had provided a haven for Jews forced to leave Spain and Portugal. On the other hand, the Christian victory had
the unintended consequence ensuring that Europe would continue to be fertile
ground for the growth of capitalism.
This economic system helped to provide European Jews with unprecedented
economic social and economic opportunity.
“An oft-repeated story states that the bagel originated in 1683 in
Vienna, Austria, when a local Jewish baker created them as a gift for King Jan
III Sobieski of Poland to commemorate the King's victory over the Turks that
year. The baked goods were fashioned in the form of stirrups (or horseshoe,
tales vary) to commemorate the victorious cavalry charge. That the name bagel
originated from beugal (stirrup) is considered plausible by many, both
from the similarities of the word and due to the fact that traditional handmade
bagels are not perfectly circular but rather slightly stirrup-shaped. (This
fact, however, may be due to the way the boiled bagels are pressed together on
the baking sheet before baking.)”
1685:
Jews in New Amsterdam petition to be allowed to worship their religion
publicly. Their wishes were not approved, because they did not, "profess
faith in Christ." During this time strict Christian observance was
mandatory.
1691:
Forty-four year old John Georg III, Elector of Saxony who in 1682 “issued a new
decree, in which the onerous regulations relating to Jews passing through the
country were somewhat modified, since those regulations were found to be
detrimental to the yearly fairs at Leipsic” passed away today.
1695
(3rd of Tishrei, 5456): As Jews observed the Fast of Gedaliah, Jacob Abendana “hakam” (chief rabbi)
of London passed away. He was the older brother of Isaac Abendana who would
serve as hakahm of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue after his death.
1695:
The governor of New York was petitioned to allow the Jews to exercise their
religion in public. It seems that the Charter of Liberties granted by James I
of England in 1683, applied only to Christians. Therefore, the governor
declined the petition. Apparently, this
ban was not enforced since by the end of the 17th century, a building on Beaver
Street in Manhattan was known as the Jewish Synagogue." In 1730, Congregation Shearith Israel
(Remnant of Israel) publicly dedicated its new house of worship.
1736(18th of Tishrei, 5497):
Austrian Rabbi David Ben Abraham Oppenheim whose work included novels and
response and who developed one of the largest libraries of his time that he
developed from a collection left by his Uncle Samuel Oppenheim
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11729-oppenheim-david-ben-abraham
1739: Sarah Nunes Navaro and Aaron Nunez
Cardozo, the parents of London native Rachel Nunez Cardozo were married today.
1748:
Birthdate of German native Jacob Dreifus, the husband of Johanna Ullmann with
whom he had six children.
1759: British soldiers capture the town of Quebec
from the French. This victory would play
a key role in the British gaining control of Canada from the French thus
opening the way for Jewish settlement of what those living in the “lower 48”
call “their neighbor to the North.”
Under the French, the Jews were officially banned from settling in
Canada.
1761:
New York native Samuel Judah and Jessie Jonas gave birth to Amelia Judah.
1762:
(21 Elul 5524): On the secular calendar, Rabbi Jonathan Eybeshutz passed
away. Born in 1690, in Cracow, Poland,
Eybeshutz took his last name from the town in which his father served as a
rabbi. Eyebshutz was a child prodigy and
was considered a great Talmudic scholar and kabbalist. He became head of the
Prague yeshiva at the age of twenty-one and the was named Rabbi of the Triple
Community - Altona, Hamburg and
Wandesbeck. Unfortunately, Eybeshutz was
caught up in the controversy of his time and some claimed that he had come
under the influence of He was a kabbalist, author and Rabbi. Considered a
brilliant authority on many subjects, Eybeshutz came under the influence of
Shabbetianism. This meant that he was a
secret follower of the false messiah, Shabbetai Tzevi. The depth of this controversy is meaningless
to us today, but it was quit intense during the 18th century. An accusation like this was akin to calling
somebody a Communist back in the 1940's or 1950's. Although Eybeshutz was
cleared of the charge, it stained his reputation and the controversy followed
him to the grave. In a collection of
sermons published after his death, we might a clue to why some of his
colleagues did not like Eybeshutz. In
his talks, he "assailed materialism praying by heart and the tendency of
colleagues to preach only on safe topics."
1765:
Birthdate of Grove, Germany native Itzig Behr, the husband of Rivka Mosheim and
father of Kussel, Bernhard and Abraham Behrend.
1768(1st
of Tishrei, 5529): Rosh Hashanah
1768:
In Newport, Rhode Island, Aaron Lopez closed his businesses on the first day of
Rosh Hashanah.
1776:
Frankfurt, Germany native Elijah Etting and Lancaster, PA native Shinah Solomon
gave birth to Sally Etting today.
1778(20th
of Elul, 5538): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed as Major General
Charles Grey completed his raids of Massachusetts coast towns including
Martha’s Vineyard.
1790(4th
of Tishrei, 5551): Tzom Gedaliah observed.
1792:
Aaron Jones married Ann Benjamin at the Great Synagogue today.
1798(2nd
of Tishrei, 5559): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1798:
In the wake of the French capture of Mainz the gates of the ghetto were torn
down. The Jews of Mainz remained French citizens until the end of the
occupation in 1814. Mainz was (and is) a German city. Wherever the French armies went, they carried
the message of the French Revolution - "Liberty, Fraternity, and
Equality." This was a message of liberation for the Jews of Europe many of
whom were living in ghettos and in an environment of something less than second
class citizenship. After the French were
defeated, the conditions of the Jews in many of these countries reverted to the
pre-Revolutionary state. It would take
several decades before the disabilities attached to the Jews would be removed
in many of the countries of Central and Southern Europe.
1801:
In Exeter, England ’Weinberg Ezekiel and Benjamin Jonas gave birth to Abraham
Jonas,
the first permanent resident of Quincy, IL and friend of Abraham Lincoln who
married Louisa Block in 1829 after the death of his first wife Lucy Orah Seixas
and with whom he had nine children.
1803:
In London, Julia Asher and Raphael Raphael gave birth to Sarah Raphael.
1806(29th
of Elul, 5566): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed on the same that Lewis and Clark
were encamped at what is now St. Joseph, MO where they experienced a thick fog
in the early morning.
1807:
Birthdate of Moritz Veit, the scion of “a wealthy Jewish banking family” who
was chairman of the Association of German Booksellers who was a leader of the
Jewish community in Berlin.
1809(2nd
of Tishrei, 5570): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1812(6th
of Tishrei, 5573): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuvah
1812:
Birthdate of Reuben Joseph Wunderbar the native of Mitau who was known for
being an author, tutor and principal of a Jewish school at Riga.
1812:
Birthdate of Baron Moritz von Cohn the Jewish banker who managed the finances
of the Dukes of Anhalft and the Prussian Crown Prince who became Kaiser Wilhelm
I.
1813:
Mozes Aron married Ribca Eliezer Abendana in Amsterdam today.
1814:
As the British began their attack on Baltimore which would come to a climax
with the Bombardment of Ft. McHenry began with the British victory at the
Battle of North Point. “Although it’s
not historically documented as such” the battle to defend the Maryland seaport
“may have possibly been the largest gathering of Jewish soldiers at any time
during the” War of 1812.
1817(2nd
of Tishrei, 5578): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1817:
Louis-Mathieu Molé, “Napoleon's advisor on Jewish affairs and was heavily
involved with Napoleon's gathering of a Jewish Grand Sanhedrin in 1807,” began
serving as Minister of the Navy and Colonies.
1817:
In Börnecke, “evangelical pastor Klamer Wilhelm Frantz and his wife Karoline
Auguste Katharine Frantz” gave birth to Constantin Frantz who opposed
Bismarck’s drive to unify the German states into one nation which he attacked
“in an anti-Semitic manner” describing it as an “Empire of Jewish nationality,”
raised the age-old image of the Jews being unable to be loyal to the land here
they lived and derying “an alleged Jewish influence in business and
journalism.”
1820:
Kitty Etting and Richmond, VA native Benjamin Cohen gave birth to Israel Cohen,
the husband of Cecilia E. Levy with whom he had seven children.
1820(4th
of Tishrei, 5581): Abraham Ben Jehield Danzig passed away. Born in Lithuania in
1748, he was a noted author and codifier of Jewish Law who ranked just behind
Joseph Caro and Mordecai Yafe. His high level of personal ethics can be seen
in his decision not to accept a paid position as a rabbi in Vilna because he
“considered it improper to receive a stipend” for serving in that capacity. He supported himself as a merchant while he
pursuing his Jewish studies and writings
1821: Moses Samuel
Married Harriet Israel at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1822: Sylvester
Solomon married Rachel Elizabeth Raphael today at the Western Synagogue
1823: King Frederick
William III of Prussia continued his policy of repudiating that Edict of 1812
that gave Jews the full rights of citizens by making “the minister of the
interior responsible for ensuring that ‘no sects among the Jewries
(Judenschaften) of my lands be tolerated.’”
1825(29th of Elul,
5585): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed as former President Thomas Jefferson wrote
to William Clark of “Lewis and Clark” fame.
1827: Solomon Marks
married Amelia Joel at the Hambro Synagogue today
1830: In Stuttgart,
Sarah (Wolf) Oppenheimer and Max Oppenheimer gave birth to Seligman Oppenheimer
1830: One day after
he had passed away, 37 year old Solomon Levy was buried today at the “Lauriston
Road Jewish Cemetery.
1830: Birthdate of
William Sprague IV, the Senator from Rhode Island who said the Jews were to
blame for the fact that they had been attacked by peasants in Romania.
1832: Elias David
married Elisabeth Moses at the Great Synagogue today.
1832: In Scotland,
Joseph Levi, a quill merchant who had died of cholera was the first person to
be buried at the Glasgow Necroplis
1832:
Lawrence Phillips married Sarah Worms at the Western Synagogue today.
1836
(1st of Tishrei, 5597): Rosh Hashanah
1836:
A rented room was over Max's Grocery and Restaurant, on the corner of Second
and Spruce Streets was the site of the first known minyan in St. Louis, MO as
Jews gathered to observe Rosh Hashanah, 5597.
1837:
Samuel Phillips married Sophia Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1840:
In New York City Augusta and Joseph Washington Feuchtwanger gave birth to
Joseph Washington Feuchtwanger.
1840:
German born Meyer Schafer and Mina Schafer gave birth to Samuel Schafer the
husband of New Yorker Sophie Schafeer.
1840:
Max and Sarah Oppenheimer gave birth to Adolph Marx Oppenheimer, the husband of
Julie Oppenheimer.
1841:
Birthdate of Eugene Delmar, the New York born 19th century chess
champ show four state championships in the last decade of the century.
1843:
In Canterbury, UK, Fanny Nathan and Joel Abrahams gave birth to Jacob Abrahams.
1844:
In Charleston, SC, Marx and Armida Harby Cohen gave birth to Octavia Cohen
Moses, the wife of Altamont Moses mother
of Katherine, Herber, Vivian, Emile, Armida and Henry Moses and resident of
Sumter, SC who was described as being rooted in the Reform Congregation in
Charleston and “constant” in her “worship.”
1846:
Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. Relax; neither of them was
Jewish. But one of Browning’s most
famous poems is “Rabbi ben Ezra” which
begins with the immortal words. “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be…”
1847(2nd
of Tishrei, 5608) Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed as the forces of General
Winfield Scott began the artillery bombardment marking the start of the Battle
of Chapultepec, the climactic contest of the Mexican-American War.
1847:
In Philadelphia, PA, Henry and Matilda (Samuel) Cohen gave birth to Charles J.
Cohen, the husband of Clotilda Florence Cohen whom he married in 1880 and
President of Charles J. Cohen Company who was very active in the Jewish
community as can be seen by his serving as a president of Congregation Mikve
Israel and a charter member of the board of trustees of Gratz College.
1850: Ferdinand Reichenheim, the son of Nathanael
Reichenheim and Zipora Cäcilie Reichenheim, and Fanny Riechman gave birth to
Antonie (Toni) Amalia Reichenheim who became Antoonie (Toni) Amalia Liebermann
when she married Carol Theodor Liebermann
1850:
In New York City, Helen (Wolf) Waterman and Dr. Sigismund Waterman gave birth
to Dr. Moses W. Waterman who practiced medicine in Fountain City, Wisconsin.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/newyork/bios/waterman-sigismund.txt
1852:
In Morely, Emily Willans and Joseph Dixon Asquith gave birth to Herbert Henry
Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith who served as Prime Minister during the
first two years of WW I. For three
years, Asquith pursued Venetia Stanley, competing with Edwin Montague for the
affections. Asquith lost out to Montague
when Stanley converted to Judaism and married the Jewish leader of the Liberal
Party. His diary also contains
references to taking Palestine and using it as home to “the scattered Jews” – a
proposal that he feels Lloyd George is supporting not because he “cares a damn
for the Jews or their past or their future” but because he but thinks it will
be an outrage to let the Holy Places pass into the possession or under the
protectorate of agnostic, atheistic France’”
1853:
The New York Times published a review of Commentaries on the Laws of
the Ancient Hebrews by a Congregationalist minister named Enoch Cobb Wines
1855(29th
of Elul, 5615): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed as the California Gold Rush which
began in 1848 comes to an unofficial end.
1856:
Birthdate of Amalia "Molly" Finkelstein Mogulesko, the Romanian born
wife of actor and Yiddish comedian Sigmund Mogulesko.
1860:
The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel consecrated a new
synagogue in 19th street, in the place of the old Crosby street structure, and
it furthermore secured the services of an associate preacher in the person of
A. Fischell (1856-61
1861:
Tobias Rosensteel who rose from the rank of second lieutenant to the rank of
firs lieutenant, began his service with Company C of the Fourth Cavalry.
1861:
Two days after he had passed away, “nine month old Montague Alexander Kisch,
the son of Simon Abraham Kisch and the former Flora Davis was buried today at
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1861:
In Lyck, Prussia, Eliezer L. Silbermann, the editor Hebrew weekly Ha-Magid
founded the literary society, Mekitze Mirdamim “a literary society dedicated to
the retrieval, preservation and publication of medieval Hebrew texts who early
board members included Rabbi Nathan M. Adler, Michael Sachs and S.D. Luzzato
which moved its headquarters to Jerusalem in 1934.
1864:
In Alexandria, LA, founding of Congregation “Gemiluth Hassodim” (Acts of Loving
Kindess) whose members include Rabbi Alex Rosenspitz, Achille Bauer, J.L.
Sackman, Gustave Gehr, Joseph Levy and Julius Levin and which holds services on
Friday night and Saturday morning, provides a Religious School and uses a
cemetery in Pineville which is on the other side of the Red River.
1864:
A party of Royal Engineers under the command of Captain Charles W. Wilson left
England for Jerusalem where they were to begin the first modern survey of the
ancient city including a variety of Biblical sites.
1866(3rd
of Tishrei, 5627): Tzom Gedaliah
1866:
“The Black Crook” which would provide Al Hayman with his first theatrical
management opportunity, opened at Nibo’s Garden in New York.
1868:
On Shabbat, Rabbi Einhorn delivered the first sermon at Temple Emanu-El on the
occasion of the dedication of its new building.
1872:
“Protection for Emigrants on Shipboard” published today described the treat of
the eighty Jewish passengers on board the Charles H. Marshall who were unmercifully
abused by the crew after their attempted mutiny failed.
1872:
In Cleveland, OH, Minnie and Jacob Rorimer gave birth to Louis Romer, the
exhibitor, decorate and instructor at the Cleveland School of Art who a raised
a son, James J. Rorimer, the curator of medieval arts and of The Cloisters of
the New York Metropolitan Museum with his wife Edith Joseph Rorimer while also
serving as the vice president of the American Institute of Decorators.
1873:
Rabbi I.M. Wise and Cantor Mortiz Goldstein officiated at today’s consecration
of Anshe Chesed’s new sanctuary. The
congregation has moved from the old Norfolk Street Synagogue to is new location
on the corner of Lexington and 63rd in Manhattan.
1874(1st
of Tishrei, 5635): Rosh Hashanah
1874:
In New York, Jewish businesses in the Bowery on Grand, Chatham and Catherine
streets as well as those on 6th & 8th avenues and on
Broadway were closed today because of the Jewish New Year.
1874:
In the United Kingdom, Joseph Guedalla and Rowena (Florance) Guedalla gave
birth to Abraham Guedalla.
1874:
In London, Myer Salaman and his wife gave birth to Dr. Redcliffe Nathan Salaman
who married Nina, the daughter of Arthur Davis in 1901 and who served as the
Director of Pathological Institute of the London Hospital.
1875:
Birthdate of Gertrude Hyman who as Gertrude Friedlander married Julian Albert
Pollak.
1875:
“The Jews of Lincoln” which first appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine and was
republished today provides a brief history of the Jews of that part of England
beginning with the loss of part of treasure that had belonged to Aaron of
Lincoln in 1187 when some of the King’s ships were sunk during a voyage back to
Normandy. Like the Jews of York, Lynn
and Stamford, the Jews of Lincoln had been slain and plundered by young
Englishman who were going to King Richard on his Crusade to the Holy Land. The
Jews of Lincoln have the additional memory of the slaughter tied Hugh of
Lincoln, the Christian child whose death resulted in the first blood libel in
the British Isles.
1878(29th
of Elul, 5547): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1879:
In Paris, antique dealer Alexander Rosenberg and his wife gave birth to art
collector and historian Léonce Rosenberg who was the brother of gallery owner
Paul Rosenberg.
http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/Rosenbergf
1879:
A large number of New York’s most prominent Jews attended this morning’s
funeral for Leonard Montefiore, the nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore. Rabbi
Gustav Gottheil officiated at the services which were held at Temple Emanu-El.
Several of the city’s rabbis attended including Dr. Daniel Einhorn, H.S.
Jacobs, Samuel Adler, H.S. Isaacs and Aaron Wise. Montefiore’s coffin was taken
to the SS Britannic which will take it back to England for final
interment. Montefiore had come to the
United States to study the republican social and political institutions that
have developed in the United States so that he could write about them for his
fellow Englishman. Just prior to his
death, the Times of London had published an article of his about the
Oneida Community.
1880:
In New York, police arrested Mina Blumenthal, for her role in her husband’s
activities that included fencing stolen goods.
1880:
In Baltimore Anna Margaret (Abhau) and August Mencken, Sr. gave birth to Henry
Louis Mencken, better known as sharp tongued journalist H.L. Mencken whose
diaries revealed a streak of anti-Semitism which did not keep him being “close
friends” with Alfred Knopf and Ben Hecht, praising the work of Ayn Rand or that
asserted that “books such as Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street
by Eddie Cantor (ghost-written by David Freedman) did more to pull America out
of the Great Depression than all government measures combined.”
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-05/news/mn-198_1_h-l-mencken
1881:
Siegfried Goldschmidt was appointed a professor at the University of Strasburg
– a position he would not actually fill due to the suffering caused by “spinal
consumption, the disease which ended his life.”
1881:
It was reported today that it has been proposed in Russia “to appoint local
commissions to consider the Jewish question in places where Jews predominate.”
1881:
According to a review of Our Nationalities by James Bonwick, Milesius,
the founder of the Milesians “was intimate with Moses.”
1882:
Second and final day of the first International Anti-Semitic Congress which was
meeting in Dresden under the leadership of Reverend Adolf Stoecker.
1882:
Birthdate of Vienna native and builder Arnold Gottlieb who at the age of 19
came to the United States where he eventual “former the Gotham Construction
Corporation” which build such buildings as “the Federal Courthouse and General
Post Office in Brooklyn” as well as the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx while
raise a daughter, Hilda, with his wife “the former Beatrice Schiff.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/11/20/77426800.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1883:
Joseph Blumenthal, the Chairman pro tem of the Board of Trustees of Shearith
Israel said that the deadlock which has kept the board from choosing a new
President is not caused by ill-will among the members and that he would in fact
like to fill the office. The deadlock
exists because there are six trustees and the congregation is considering
changing its by-law to increase that number to 7 which will end the tie votes
of the last several months.
1883:
It was reported today that in Hungary, “the Bishop of Veszprim has issued a
pastoral letter in which he declares that Jew-baiting is most unchristian.
1883(10th
of Elul, 5643)”: Sixty-three year old Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, the son of Rabbi
Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn, who was the
first Rebbe of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty passed away today.
1884:
Max Haft the Russian born son of Eva and Levi Isaac Haft and his wife Jennie
Haft gave birth to Joseph Haft, the brother of American garment industry
kingpin Morris Haft.
1884:
Social economist Mary M. Cohen presented “a paper on Hebrew charities” to the
American Social Association” where “it was favorably received, discussed and
published.”
1885(3rd
of Tishrei, 5646): Shabbat Shuvah
1887:
Birthdate of Samuel Alexander Persky the native of Russia who moved to New
Haven in 1890 where he became a lawyer and journalist.
1887(23rd
of Elul, 5647): Sixty-three year old Washington Montgomery Bartlett, the
Savannah, GA born of Sarah E. Melhado and Cosam Emir Bartlett, who was Mayor of
San Francisco and the first Jew to be elected Governor when he filled that
position in California passed away today.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/history/article196995089.html
1889:
In Chernovitz, Austria, Jacob and Bess (Nagler) Finkenthal gave birth to New
York City actress Rose Goldberg, the wife of Nathan Goldberg, who was a member
of the Jewish Actor’s Union, Jewish Actor’s Guild and Ohab Zedek Congregation.
1890:
Birthdate of Solomon Myer “Sol” Wurtzel, the New York native who became a
successful movie producer.
1890:
Joseph Bondy, a promising young Jewish attorney who has served on the Board of
Supervisions is seeking the nomination for the Third Assembly District
1890:
Mr. M. Resinkoff, a Jewish immigrant from Poland is working in New York City
while awaiting for the return of his wife and children from Poland. They had been sent back to Europe because of
an error at the Barge office and it has taken the best efforts of the United
Hebrew Charities and the Hamburg-American Packet Line to effect the upcoming
reunion.
1891:
In an editorial The London Times
praised the scheme of “Baron Hirsch for colonizing in America the Jews for whom
there is no place in Europe that it is the most remarkable scheme of the kind
ever attempted by practical men.” The
Times saw this as an example of Jewish leaders to” spend money as
generously as they can accumulate it.”
1891:
“Colonizing the Jews” published today quotes the London Times as saying that “the scheme of Baron Hirsch for
colonizing in America the Jews for there is no place in Europe…is the most
remarkable scheme of the kind ever attempted by practical men.”
1892:
In New York, Ida Japhe and Samuel Knopf gave birth to Alfred A. Knopf, founder
of Alfred Knopf, Inc., the famous American publishing house. “He went to
college to become a lawyer, but he fell in love with literature and decided to
devote his life to it. At the time, the publishing world was a kind of
gentlemen's club and Knopf had a hard time fitting in because he was Jewish. He
was the first Jewish employee at Doubleday. One of his first projects was to
republish all of Joseph Conrad's books in a set, which he did with the help of
H.L. Mencken. At the time that Knopf got into the publishing business, before
television and widespread radio, people said that Americans didn't read
books—they just read the newspapers. Knopf thought that Americans might be more
likely to read good books if books were beautiful to look at. He used
beautiful, easy to read type and high quality paper, and he was the first
publisher to cover his books with brightly colored jackets. When Knopf founded
his own publishing company, he didn't have enough money to publish big-name
American authors, so he published European authors instead. Most American
publishers didn't care about European literature, so Knopf was able to cheaply
publish writers like Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, and Albert Camus. When several
of his authors won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. became
known as one of the best literary publishing houses.” It was his Jewish wife
Blanche Wolf Knopf who encouraged him to follow his dream and start his own publishing
house. She was more than just a
cheerleader. She was President of Alfred
A. Knopf, while her husband served as chairman of the board. She understood publishing and was a driving
force behind many of its major achievements.
Although the publishing company was sold in the 1960's it remains as a
known imprint to this day. Blanche died
in 1966. Alfred Knopf passed away in
1984.
1892:
Of the 602 steerage passengers who set sail from Liverpool today aboard the SS
Indiana are “a dozen Russian and Polish Jews” who spent twelve days in the
English port “where their bedding and baggage were disinfected” as part of the
attempts to avoid a cholera outbreak
1893(2nd
of Tishrei, 5654): On the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah “the Hebrew societies” of
New York “sent…an abundance of delicacies” to “the Jewish immigrants detained
at Ellis Island.”
1893:
“They Should Be Excluded” published today includes excerpts from the report by
Marine Hospital Bureau Inspector, Dr. Stimpson who described the Jews as being
part of the “undesirable class of immigrants…who are a dark, swarthy race with
long dark unkempt hair.” In addition to which “the Jews will not eat food
prepared by Christians, bring their food with them and this food is most likely
to contain cholera germs.” (In light of
the immigration battle ranging in the United States, the descendants of this
undesirable class might do well to pay close attention to this)
1894:
Abraham Greenspan who, according to Jewish tradition, had not seen the body of
his wife before her burial went to Kings County Hospital claiming that they had
given him the wrong body and demanding that they give him his wife; a claim
that the hospital denied.
1895(23rd
of Elul, 5655): Fifty year old Bernhard Mainzer who came to the United States
25 years ago and started working in the banking business passed away. A member of the NYSE since 1879 he has been
actively involved with the Baron de Hirsch Fund, the Hebrew Technical Institute
and the Hebrew Educational Alliance.
1895:
“War Between Two Butchers” published today described a battle between two
competitors Louis S Newman and Samuel Lustbader which included accusations by
each that the other was selling traif
(non-Kosher) meat and claiming that it was kosher.
1896:
Birthdate of William Pinsker, the native of Novgorod Seversk, who moved to the
United States in 1906 where he served as the Director of Jewish Educational
Alliance in Savanah, GA and the YM-YWHA in Brockton, MA.
http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=12440
1896:
Birthdate of Ella Kagan, the daughter of Jewish lawyer and music teacher living
in Moscow, who gained fame as the French authoress Elsa Yur’evna Triolet.
1896:
J. B. Greenhut opened its first store.
The company was founded by Joseph B. Greenhut a native of Austria, who
had served as Captain with the 12th Illinois Infantry during the
Civil War.
1898:
Birthdate of Ben Shahn, famed painter, muralist and printmaker. Born in Kovno Russia (now part of
Lithuanian), Shahn’s family moved to New York in 1906. Although not just a Jewish artist," much
of Shahn's works contained Jewish themes, and his calligraphy frequently used
the Hebrew alphabet as in the Alphabet of Creation, and Haggadah which was
handwritten and illustrated by him in the 1967 Ecclesiast. In addition, he
created murals for Jewish congregations including Mishkan Israel in New Haven,
Connecticut, and Ohab Shalom in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as two mosaics
for the Israeli oceanic ship Shalom. These mosaics were purchased by the New
Jersey State Museum when the Shalom went out of service." Shahn was a social activist as well as an
artist. "Ben Shahn said, 'I hate
injustice. I guess that's about the only thing that I really do hate. and I
hope I will go on hunting it all my life." His work reflects his concern
with injustice, political freedom, and the state of humanity.'" He passed away in 1969. There are numerous websites where you can
view his art.
1897:
“Rome Fears the Zionist” published today described an appeal the Pope has made
to France, “which protects Catholic interests in the Orient” “to prevent the
success of the Zionist movement which is regarded with horror at Rome.”
1897:
In Germantown, PA, Alfred and May Gibson gave birth to Walter Brown Gibson,
Harry Houdini’s ghostwriter.1898: Birthdate of “foreign securities broker” Carl
Marks “the founder of Carl Marks & Co and husband of Edith Marks with whom
he had two children and generous donor to several charities including the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies,
1898:
As of today, the officers of Adath Jeshurun are President Hermann Cohn, Vice
President S.A. Diamond, Treasurer Max Slomka, Corresponding Secretary Isaac
Sargent and Recording Secretary J.B. Jacobson.
1898:
Birthdate of Soviet photographer Arkady Shaiket, who like Robert Capa and Joe
Rosenthal was another Jewish photojournalist who provided iconic WW II
photographs.
http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/russian-photography/arkady-shaikhet
1899:
Dr. Rudolph Grossman of Rodolph Sholom advised “coolness and carefulness” in
planning for the mass meeting designed to protest the verdict in the re-trial
of Captain Dreyfus and suggested selecting a committee of “100 prominent
citizens” to play a leading role in the event.
1899:
A meeting was held at Mandelbaum’s Hall at Willett and Delancey Streets, to
make plans for the upcoming mass meeting where displeasure will be expressed
with the verdict the Dreyfus court-martial
1899:
Osias Maller presided at meeting in Liberty Hall sponsored by the Englander
Family Society, where speakers, starting with Bethoven Englander decried the
Dreyfus verdict which “is based on bigotry, intolerance and prejudice.”
1899:
In Washington, DC, “about a thousand” people “attended a mass meeting at the
Masonic Temple tonight to protest against the verdict of the Rennes
court-martial in the Dreyfus case. The
speakers included men of all creeds – Jews, Protestants and Catholics.
1899:
Louis Halle, who has been serving as treasurer for a group of 700 Chicagoans
who were going to the Paris Exposition issued notices to the travelers should
come and get their money since most of them have said they would not make the
trip in light of the Dreyfus verdict.
1899:
Among those listed as being recipients of equal portions of the estate of the
late Daniel Woolf are Congregation Zichron Ephraim, the Hebrew Benevolent and
Orphan Asylum, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society and Orphan Asylum, Mount
Sinai Hospital, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and the Jewish Theological
Society.
1899:
The widow of the late Daniel Woolf plans to contest his will which leaves all
of his estate to charity except for a dollar for her and each of his
children. Woolf said the children had
been comfortably provided during his lifetime and his wife “owns much property
in her own name.”
1900:
Admiral Fredrik von Otter, the grandfather of Swedish diplomat Baron Göran
Fredrik von Otter, whose report to officials at the Swedish Foreign Ministry”
about the Jews being murdered in the gas chambers at Bełżec extermination camp
was not passed on to the Allies, became Prime Minister of Sweden today.
1901:
Birthdate of comedian Ben Blue, one of several Jewish vaudeville stars who
found fame and fortune in the early days of television. Like Milton Berle, Blue starred in his own
television variety program. However,
"all fame is fleeting," especially in the world of
entertainment. Blue died in 1975 and
today this once successful star is a mere memory to even the most avid trivia
maven.
1901:
Gedera was attacked by Arabs. Gedera was a moshav founded in 1884 by members of
the BILU Movement from Russia. It is several miles south of city of Rehovot.
The settlers chose the name because it was near the site of a biblical town
with that same name that had been in land belonging to the tribe of Judah. In its early years, the settlers struggled to
grow grapes and grains. Gedera survived
the attack and early privations and today is a thriving town with a population
of 6,500.
1902(15th
of Elul, 5763): Sixty-five year old Polish born French chess champion Samuel
Rosenthal passed away today.
1903:
Birthdate of Baton Rouge native and LSU trained attorney, Victor A. Sachse, Jr.
the husband Janice Rubenstein and the father of attorney Victor A Schase III.
1903(20th
of Elul, 5663): Seventy-one year old Fabian (Feibisch) Jolles passed away in
Vienna.
1904(3rd
of Tishrei, 5685): Tzom Gedaliah
1904:
Isaac Aron Levin, the Lithuanian born son of Golda Reizel Margolis and Aba
Ascher Levin and his wife Rachel Levin gave birth to Etta Levin
1905:
Twenty-six year old Uriah Myer Levy, the Moores Landing, Mississippi born son
of Urah and Hannah Gloldsmith, a graduated of the University of Texas and the
University of Denver Law School married Hattie Weltman of Ft. Worth, TX where
he practiced law and they raised their three children – Richard, Ruth and
Henry.
1906:
Today in South Carolina, Rabbi Simenhoff officiated at the wedding of H.L
Garfunkel and Celia H. Lapedis.
1907:
According to reports received today in Vienna, “the police…were entirely
passive” during the disturbances on September 8 at Kishineff.
1908:
Birthdate of Sarah Davis Abrams of Pittsburgh, PA.
1908:
“Audience Goes Wild in Patriot’s Defense” published today described the
“protest meeting held at Cooper Union” in support of Russian Revolutionary Jan
Janoff Pouren which was attended by a large a number of Jew including Dr. David
Blaustein, Meyer London and Jacob where letters of support from such luminaries
as Samuel Gompers and Jacob H. Schiff were read.
1909:
Adolph Kaluber wrote a negative review of Israel Zangwill’s latest play,
"The Melting Pot."
1909:
Sir Montague Maurice Burton, the founder of “one of Great Britain’s largest
chains of clothing stores and Sophie Amelia Burton gave birth to Barbara Jessie
Burton.
1910:
In Bacău, Betzalel Zeev Shafran and his wife gave birth to Alexandru Șafran who
as Chief Rabbi of Romania intervened to rescue Jews during the Holocaust
http://www.gutenberg.cc/article/WHEBN0006184428/Alexandru%20%C8%98afran
1911:
Birthdate of Gerhart Moritz Riegner
1911:
Birthdate of SS Lieutenant Kurt Becher who “is best known for having traded
Jewish living for money during the Holocaust.”
1912(1st
of Tishrei, 5673): Jews celebrate the New Year for the last time during the
Presidency of William Howard Taft.
1912:
King of Italy makes Commanders Guido, Rava, Sforni, Mantua and Signor Sereni,
Presidents of the Jewish Community at Rome, Grand Officers in the Crown of
Italy.
1913:
In Oakville, Alabama Henry Cleveland Owens and Mary Emma Fitzgerald gave birth
to Jesse Owens who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin (or Hitler) Olympics
which Jews were effectively barred from participation.
1913:
Morton James Luchs, the Washington, D.C. born son of Joseph and Fanny Luchs and
his wife Ernestine Luchs gave birth to Frank Joseph Luchs.
1914(21st
of Elul, 5674): Parashat Ki Tavo - Leil Selichot
1914(21st
of Elul, 5674): Painter Louise Beatrice Horowitz, the daughter of Prussian born
parents born in Islington best known for her work as a miniature portraitist
passed away today.
1915(4th
of Tishrei, 5676): Tzom Gedaliah
1915:
Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden (Aide Association of German Jews) was informed
that the inhabitants of Strumitza, fearing its occupation by Bulgarians, set
fire to the town and fled. One hundred families went to Salonica and Doiran
1915:
In Borough Park, founding of Zion Hospital.
1915:
The Hebrew Ladies Aid Society was founded today in Quincy, Massachusetts, a
town that was also home to Congregation Beth Israel, the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association led by President Louis Lubarsky and Secretary Joseph Stoler and the
Young Women’s Hebrew Association which was led by President Rose Schwartz and
Secretary Eva Burson.
1915:
It was predicted today that “the Czar’s proclamation removing the pale against
the Jews will result in thousands” of them remaining in Russia instead of
immigrating to America.
1915:
Reverend Edgar Tilton of the Harlem Reformed Church said today that the World
War “is not to be without tremendous benefits” including the fact that as a
result of the conflict “the Jews are to have justice at last.
1916:
Birthdate of Helmut “Henry” Laskau the top level distance runner who left Nazi
Germany 1938 and who after serving with the U.S. Army developed into one of the
“greatest racewalkers” of his time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/09/sports/henry-laskau-race-walker-is-dead-at-83.html
1916:
“Dorsey Assails Slaton and Jews” published today described the attacks by Hugh
M. Dorsey, the candidate for Governor of Georgia on his predecessor John M.
Slaton who commuted the sentence of Leo Frank and “the Jews” including a
national congress led by Louis Marshall “who have raised large amounts of
money” to defeat him.
1916:
Birthdate of Berlin native Helmut Laskau who gained fame as Henry Laskau, the
athlete “who walked out of Hitler's Germany and became America's best race
walker for a decade after World War II.” (As reported by Frank Litsky)
1916:
Louis Marshall issued a statement completely denying all of the charges made by
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Hugh M. Dorsey which he described “as the most
shocking” pronouncements ever connected with the Leo M. Frank and describing
his accusations about the Jewish Congress as being an example of “deliberate
malice” aimed at the Jews in Dorsey’s “attempt to seek votes by stirring up
religious animosity.”
1916:
In what would prove to be another failed attempt to break the deadlock of WW I,
the Allies launched the Monastir Offensive in Macedonia with goal of forcing
the Bulgarians out of the war.
1916:
“Bernard G. Richards, Secretary of the Jewish Congress Committee” issued a
statement tonight “denying the charges made by Hugh M. Dorsey that members of
the Jewish Congress organization had contributed to a fund intended to force
Mr. Dorsey’s defeating in the upcoming gubernatorial election.”
1916(14th
of Elul, 5676): Fifty-nine-year old Sigmund Bart Neumann passed away today at
Bournemout.
1916:
“Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee for Jewish
Relief announced” today “that the United States Cruiser Des Moines would leave
soon for Alexandria and proceed to Jaffa to transport the medical supplies sent
by the committee for the hospitals in Palestine.”
1916:
In Minsk, Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky and his wife gave birth to Chimen Abramsky, a
graduate of Hebrew University and Oxford who became Professor of Jewish Studies
at University College London and was the husband of Miriam née Nirenstein.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189017/chimen-abramsky
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/18/chimen-abramsky-obituary
1917:
Louis-Lucien Klotz began serving in the second government of Georges Clemenceau
which led France to final victory in WW I.
1917:
Alexandre Ribot, who had met with Nahum Soklow and expressed his government’s
sympathy for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, resigned as Prime
Minister of France today.
1917:
Based on information provided The Morning Post in London “90 per cent of the
Russian population” think that a world war is not the time for a socialistic
experiment and that among the only supporters of the revolution are “hooligans,
riffraff and several millions of the Jewish proletariat” which is offset by
“the superior classes of Jews who are believed to already washing their hands
of the movement.”
1917:
“Jewish Holiday In Army” published today reported that the furloughs granted to
Jewish soldiers to observe the New Year “extend from noon September 16 to the
morning of September 19” and from “noon September 25 to the morning of
September 27 for the observance of the Day of Atonement.”
1917: In Stockholm the “Third Zimmerwald
Conference” which Yakov Ganetsky and Karl Radek attended as delegates from
Russia came to an end today.
1917:
It was reported today that the Navy Department has granted a “similar leave
absence” for its Jewish members to observe the upcoming holidays as has already
been granted by the Army.
1917:
Niemoe Rotterdamsce Courant published a “statement favoring Zionism made by the
Dutch Minister of Finance to a representative of the Joodsche Korrespondenz of
The Hague.”
1918:
The AEF, including Sergeant Abraham Bluestein of the 165 Regiment, and
additional force of French Troops launched the Battle of St. Mihel, part of the
grand offensive designed to defeat the Germans on the Western Front and thus
end the War to End All Wars.
1918:
Birthdate of British Rabbi Ephraim Einhorn, the native of Vienna whose parents
were killed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and who became one of two
rabbis to serve Jews in Taiwan.
1918:
It was reported today that as soon as the government became aware of the
significance of September 16, “the Navy Department issued an order deferring
the transfers of Jewish sailors and naval officers which had been scheduled to
take place on that date because it was Yom Kippur” and the department changed
its plans “so that Jewish boys might spend the day with their families or
observe it in a fitting manner..”
1918:
During WW I, Magazine distribution Paul Howard Sampliner “reported for draft
registration today” which led to him joining the Army as a Private and later
being sent for Officer Training.
1919:
“Scandal” produced by Walter Hast opened
on Broadway at the 39th Street Theatre.
1919:
In Chicago, the Jewish ritual slaughters joined “the Amalgamated Meat-Cutters
and Butcher Workers’ Union of North America.
1920(29th
of Elul, 5680): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1920:
As of noon today, Jewish soldiers may have furloughs to celebrate the New Year
by order of Major General P.C. Harris, the Adjutant General of the Army.
1920:
“Because it has outgrown its present structure,” “Temple Sholom, formerly the
North Chicago Hebrew Congregation led by Rabbi Abraham Hirschberg is scheduled
to hold services at the Medinah Temple which seats 4,500 people.”
1920:
“San Francisco’s campaign” to raise “$350,000 for the relief of suffering Jews
in Eastern Europe” is scheduled to begin today.
1920:
Dr. Israel Elfenbein, the Rabbi of the west 95th Street Congregation
and Supervisor of W.S. Community House, “kindly reciprocated the many kind New
Year’s greetings of his members and friends.”
1921: Birthdate of Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. Born in Lviv, Poland
(now Ukraine) he studied to be a doctor, but had to go undercover and hide his
Jewish identity when the Nazis invaded Poland. During World War II, he
pretended to be a Christian mechanic and sabotaged as much Nazi machinery as he
could without getting caught. After the war, he began to write fiction. He
decided that regular realistic fiction wasn't sufficient to describe the world
anymore, so he wrote fiction that took place thousands of years in the future.
He's best known for his novel Solaris
(1961), about a scientist who travels to a space station near a strange planet
and meets the ghost of his wife. His most recent novel is Peace on Earth (1987), about a
future where all wars are fought on the moon by machines, so that humans don't
get hurt.”
1922:
Birthdate of Mark Richard Rosenzweig, the Rochester born research psychologist whose studies in
animals found that the brain reshapes itself in response to experience, in
adulthood as well as in early childhood.
1923(2nd
of Tishrei, 5684): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1923:
Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner, is expected to arrive in Palestine
today.
1924:
It was reported today that “Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine,
has decided not to remain after his present term expires in March of 1925: so
that he can “devote himself to his literary work.”
1924(13th
of Elul, 5684): Sixty-four-year-old Russian born Aaron Moshe Ehrlich the
husband of Esther Bracha Holstein Ehrlich the father of Abraham, Simon, Robert,
Anna, Rachel and Harry Ehrlich passed
away today in Springfield, MA after which he was buried at the Beth Israel
Cemetery in West Springfield.
1925:
A two day “conference of American Jewry” is scheduled to open today at the
Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia which is to be attended by David A.
Brown, Louis Marshal, Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald.
1925:
After 330 performances “Lady, Be Good” the George and Ira Gershwin musical was
performed the last time at the Liberty Theatre.
1926(4th
of Tishrei, 5687): Since the third of Tishrei fell on Shabbat, Tzom Gedaliah is
observed today.
1926:
“The tranquility of Vienna was disturbed for the first time in many months”
tonight “when a Pan-German Street mass meeting that ended with a small riot”
that took place on the Ring Boulevard “where demonstrator beat several Jewish
patrons “at one of the big cates.”
1927:
Birthdate of Seymour Siegel the Conservative rabbi who served on the faculty of
JTS and as executive director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
1928:
In Cleveland, Margaret and Irwin Siebert gave birth to Muriel Faye Sierbert
“who became a legend on Wall Street as the first woman to buy a seat on the New
York Stock Exchange and the first woman to head one of the exchange’s member
firms.” (As reported by Enid Nemy)
1929:
Jonah J. Goldstein, an attorney who is a member of the Executive Committee of
the Joint Distribution Committee and the administrative committee of the ZOA
sailed on the steamship Bremen tonight as he began his trip to Palestine. Goldstein is going to aid in the
investigation of recent uprising as well as to ensure those working for the
Palestine Emergency Fund are providing the requisite support for the victims of
the violence. Goldstein is traveling at
the behest of Felix Warburg the financier who also chairs the administrative
committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
1930(19th
of Elul, 5690): Ninety-five year old Amalia Nathansohn Freud, the wife of Jacob
Freud and the mother of Sigmund Freud passed away.
1931(1st
of Tishrei, 5692): Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat
1931:
“The first day of the Jewish New Year, 5692 by the Hebrew calendar, was
celebrated throughout New York City today at services in temples and synagogues
attended by thousands of persons.”
1931:
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein delivered a sermon at the Institutional Synagogue in
which he “said hope engendered by faither was the supreme message of the New
Year.”
1931:
First organized attack by Nazi storm troopers against Jews took place in
Berlin.
1932:
As the Weimar Republic continues its collapse that will bring Hitler to power
newly appointed Chancellor Fritz von Papen lost a vote confidence forcing him
to call for elections in November.
1933:
While waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, Leó Szilárd
conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. The Hungarian born Jew would
settle in the United States and work on the Manhattan Project.
1934:
Birthdate of Abraham Telvi, the mobster who was one of those responsible for
the vile crime of blinding Victor Riesel
1934:
Birthdate of Alan Isler, the British born American novel whose first novel The
Prince of West End Avenue won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994.
1935:
The New Zionist Organization is founded in Vienna by Zev Jabotinsky. For many
years there was tension between the World Zionist Organization and the
Revisionist Party. Some of it was the result tactical differences, including
the expansion of the Jewish Agency to include "non-Zionists." In
addition there was still strong resentment and political tensions in the
aftermath of the Alosoroff murder. The actual break came with a resolution to
prohibit any independent political activity of Zionist organizations. Eleven
years later they rejoined the WZO. The
formation of this organization was just another example of differences between
Jabotinsky and his supporters (including Menachem Begin) on the one hand and
the Labor Zionists on the other. These
differences have continued to this day and may be seen in the electoral
politics of Israel in the 21st century.
1935(14th
of Elul, 5695): Mrs. Joshua Piza, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of
the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind who was the editor of the first Jewish
prayer book in Braille.
1935(14th
of Elul, 5695): Seventy-nine year old Hungarian native Benjamin Baruch Guth who
in 1900 came to the United States where in 1916 he began serving as President
of of the Association of Orthodox Rabbis of New York (Va’ad Ho Rabbonim) passed
away today.
1936(25th
of Elul, 5696): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech - Leil Selichot
1936: Mrs. Julius Wolff, the chair of Community
House reported today that enrollment in the nursery school on Forest Avenue in
the Bronx supported by the New York section of the National Council of Jewish
Women “is larger than in any previous year.”
1936:
Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Moral
Preparedness” this moring at Temple Emanu-El.
1936:
“A consider representation of anti-Semitic foreigners were among the guests of”
Julius Streicher “ at the Wittelsbacher Hotel this evening where it was
“reported by persons present” that Streicher “announced that in the last
analysis extermination is the only real solution of the Jewish problem.”
1936:
Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Midsummer Madness:
The New Attacks on Jews and Judaism” at Temple Rodeph Shlom.
1936:
It was reported today that “the virulence of Dr. Goebbel’s attack and the bold
manner in which he linked the Jews and the Communist International with the
official Moscow regime made neutral diplomatic onlookers” at the Nuremberg
Congress” gasp in amazement as did “the manifestations of intensified
anti-Semitism as reflected in the chief speeches at the congress thus far.”
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that the
future of Palestine was discussed by the delegates of various countries at the
League of Nations Council in Geneva. But British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
postponed his most important and much-awaited opening statement to the next meeting.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that at a
meeting Bludan, Syria, Arab Foreign Ministers from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and
Iraq decided to send special delegations to Geneva, London and other important
European capitals in order to explain their opposition to Palestine¹s partition
and to seek support for the Arab cause.
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that Shanghai Jews had created a special, volunteer
Jewish Zionist defense force to protect their community. Many of the Jews living in Shanghai had
either come from Russia during the First World War or during the Civil War
following the Russian Revolution. Both
of these upheavals had closed the western paths of immigration leaving Jews
with no choice but flea across Asiatic Russia and cross into China. Another group of Jews living in Shanghai were
refugees from Hitler's Final Solution.
With the normal westerly routes closed, the flight east before and
during World War II was an escape route.
Many of these refugees and their offspring came to the United States,
including Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury under the Carter
Administration.
1938:
As the crisis over the Sudetenland came to a head, Hitler delivered “a violent
speech blasting Czechoslovakia.”
1938:
Ben Cohen and Thomas “Tommy the Cork” Corcoran two members of FDR’s Brain Trust
known as the Gold Dust Twins appeared on today’s cover of Time
magazine. Cohen was Jewish. Corcoran wasn’t.
1938:
In “Troubles of Jews,” published today Time magazine reported that:
·
People "of the Hebraic race" who have settled in
the Kingdom of Italy, Libya or Italian Aegean Islands since Jan. 1, 1919 were
last week ordered by the Italian Cabinet to depart before March 1, 1939 or be
forcibly expelled. Commented No. 1 Fascist Newspundit Virginio Gayda:
"These Jews, political or racial refugees of other countries, represent a
foreign and perilous body and spirit inserted in the body and spirit of the
Italian nation." The decree will oust about 20,000 of the estimated 85,000
persons in Italy "born of both parents of the Hebrew race." Next day
the Cabinet decreed the ousting from all State-licensed schools of Jewish
instructors and Jewish students numbering about 10,000. Jews who were already
enrolled last year in Italian institutes of higher learning will be permitted
to complete their courses.
·
Jews from all over the World met in Antwerp last week to
launch an appeal for $10,000,000 in behalf of the Palestine Foundation Fund.
Dr. Kurt Blumenfeld, Director of the Fund, urged a change in "Jewish
methods of propaganda" to oppose Communism as well as Fascism. Treasurer
Eliezer Kaplan of the Jewish Agency for Palestine complained: "Jews
because of their indifference and failure to provide adequate funds are equally
responsible with the British Government for the decline of Jewish immigration
to Palestine."
·
In Brazil last week, wealthy Jews received extortion notes
threatening physical violence, destruction of property unless they sent large
"voluntary contributions" to Brazilian groups with allegedly Nazi
affiliations. In Sao Paulo, police at once marched out to guard the premises of
Jews who received threat-letters.
·
The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg barred its frontier to further
Jewish refugees from Germany last week, continued to care for 315.
·
Swiss authorities declared that an estimated 140 Jews per
day had been "clandestinely" fleeing from Germany into Switzerland,
announced that barbed wire is being strung along the frontier to stem this
"Jewish flood." Jewish refugee camps in Switzerland were reported
jam-packed last week. The camp at Diepoldsau hoisted a banner reading:
"THANKS TO THE SWISS PEOPLE."
·
Fearing Nazi oppression, about 30% of the Jewish population
of the Free City of Danzig were announced to have fled abroad last week. Danzig
Nazis of the Hitler Youth raided a synagogue, trampled and tore up the sacred
Hebrew scrolls. Notice was served on 400 Jews owning houses in Danzig that next
month Aryans will "purchase" their property. The Jews will be forced
to sell out at Nazi-dictated prices.
·
Soviet police last week jailed numerous Komsomol (Communist
Youth Organization) leaders in the Ukraine and White Russia, who were accused
of fomenting pogroms, according to Swedish press reports from Moscow. Stirred
up by Young Communists, citizens of Pedobanya of the River Nemiljana started
beating up Jews and attacking their homes. Moscow dispatched a commission of
inquiry which reported that in the Ukraine there is "organized and fairly
widespread" anti-Semitism. In Kiev, the Soviet Ukrainian Capital, anti-Jewish
riots were suppressed by Red Army troops.
1939:
Thirty-two Jews taken away in trucks at Pilca, Poland, shot dead and left in
woods
1939:
Secretary of State Cordell issued a statement tonight extending “best wishes…to
the Jews of the country on the eve of their observance of the Jewish New Year.
(Editor’s Note: Apparently his wishes to did not extend to the Jews of Europe
whose entry into the United States he had been helping to thwart for the last
six years.)
1939:
In Los Angles, Esther (née Silverman) and Ralph Louis Waxman gave birth to
Congressman Henry Waxman
1940(6th
of Tammuz, 5700): In New York, David Rosenthal, the husband of Bertha
Steinhardt and the father of Beatrice R. Swaab and D. Anson Rosenthal passed
away today.
1940:
Birthdate of Congressman Stephen J.
Solarz, who represents the largest Jewish congressional constituency in the
country.
1941:
One thousand, two hundred, sixty seven Jews were taken from Vilna and sent to
Polna to be shot. General Keitel informed his commanders, "The struggle
against Bolshevism demands ruthless and energetic measures, above all against
the Jews." William Keitel rose to
the rank of Field Marshall in the German Army.
Statements such as these provide further proof of the complicity of the
German military in "The War against the Jews". Keitel was hung in 1946 after being convicted
at Nuremberg.
1942(1st
of Tishrei, 5703): Rosh Hashanah
1942:
Birthdate of French television journalist Michel Drucher,the brother of “French
Television executive Jean Drucker and the uncle of actress Lea Drucker.
1942:
After seven straight weeks of uninterrupted deportation of close to 265,000
Jews from Warsaw and other towns to Treblinka, the transports stop. Being the
Jewish New Year (5,703) was only a coincidence. No trains would arrive for
another nine days.
1942: More than 4800 Polish Jews are deported
from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp. A young Jew named Abraham
Jakób Krzepicki escapes from Treblinka and makes his way to Warsaw, where
ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum sees that Krzepicki's eyewitness camp
testimony is taken down
1942:
In a raid that ended today, 24 year old Malka “Mala” Zimetbaum was arrested in Antwerpt “and sent to the
Dossin Barracks sammellager in Mechelen” her first stop on the road to
Birkenau.
1943:
Sid Luckman out-tossed Slingin' Sammy Baugh of the Washington Redskins in an
aerial duel today before 56,000 fans in Baltimore Stadium as the Chicago Bears
defeated the National Football League champions, 21 -- 14, in an exhibition
game.
1943:
Abraham (Avrom) Sutzkever, the famous Yiddish poet and his wife escaped from
the Vilna Ghetto. Sutzkever’s mother and infant son had already been killed by
the Nazis. Before leaving the ghetto,
Sutzkever hid a diary by Theodore Herzl and drawings by Marc Chagall from the
Germans. After escaping, Sutzkever
joined with his fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginsky to fight against the
Nazis as part of Jewish partisan unit under the command of Moshe Judka
Rudnitski.
1944: Jewish slave laborers work near
Lieberose, Germany, to build a vacation complex for German officers
1945:
Admiral Paul Wenneker, the German naval attaché serving in Tokyo said today
from his refugee in Karuizawa, that “the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was
‘utterly stupid’” but that “Germany had been anxious to get Japan into the war
principally ‘because Germany, of course, lacked sea power, and to be assisted
by a first-class sea power seemed wonderful.’”
1945:
“Franz Josef Spahn, Germany’s ‘little Fuehrer’ in Japan complained today from
his refuge in Karuizawa, “about the attitude of the Japanese toward Jews”
saying that “they were even not so distinctly averse to Jews and did not
support Nazi policy against them.”
1945:
In East Orange, NJ, “Roslyn (Melnikoff) Thaler” and “Alan Maurice Thaler, a
Toronto born actuary at the Prudential Financial in Newark, NJ” gave birth to
University of Chicago professor and the 2017 recipient of “the Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Sciences.”
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/t/richard-h-thaler
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/richard-thaler-nobel-economics/542400/
1946:
Birthdate of Jerry Edwin Abramson, the three-term Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
and the first Metro Mayor “of the merge city-county government known as
Louisville Metro.
1946:
An international convention sponsored by Agudas Israel which will be attended
by two hundred rabbis and lay leaders of Orthodox Jewish communities in
Palestine, Europe, Latin America and the United States including Rabbi Eliezer
Silver and Rabbi P.M. Teitz is scheduled to be held today in Belmar, NJ.
1947:
It was reported today that former chaplain and U.S Navy Lt. Commander Charles
E. Schulman who served as the rabbi at North Shore Congregation Israel in
Glencoe, IL will be leading services at the Riverdale Temple on Rosh Hashanah
1947:
While meeting in London, “as expected, the delegates of the seven Arab states
gave seven sets of reasons today why they rejected the Anglo-American experts’
provincial-autonomy plan for Zionists and Arabs” while not expressing support
for Arab state in Palestine.
1948:
“Present Jose Figueres of Costa Rica has assured a representative of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society that the status of some 1,000 Jewish immigrants who
arrived in that country since the end of the war in Europe will be legalized
soon, HIAS announced here today. The announcement followed a visit here by
Louis Feigenblatt, HIAS representative in Costa Rica. Feigenblatt, who is also
president of the Jewish community of San Jose, revealed that the status of the
immigrants was challenged after the former government was overthrown by a
revolution last May and Figueres installed.” (As reported by JTA)
1949:
The Knesset passed a compulsory education law. As soon as the guns of the War
for Independence were silent, the new Jewish state was validating the centuries
old commitment of Jews to the importance of learning. When the anti-Semites would burn copies of
the Torah and the Talmud during the Middle Ages, they were not merely burning
things, they were assaulting a basic form of Jewish identity; a form that they
knew was part of the key to the on-going existence of the Jewish people
regardless of their location.
1949:
“An attempt to assassinate Premier David Ben Gurion and other members of the
Israel Cabinet was foiled today when guards in the Knesset overpowered Avraham
Tzafati a young Jew who aimed a loaded Sten gun at the Ministers of the Jewish
state after jumping to the Speaker’s platform from the visitors’ gallery.”
1950
(1st of Tishrei, 5711): As UN forces led
by U.S. and the ROK armies are breaking
out of the Pusan Perimeter during the Korean War, Jews observe Rosh Hashanah
1950:
The Big Three Foreign Ministers met at the Waldorf Astoria this afternoon where
they considered a petition from World Jewish Congress calling “on the three
Western powers to elicit a solemn pledged from Wester authorities that Bonn
would assist in the resettlement of Jewish mazes left homeless and impoverished
by Nazi persecution.”
1950:
A meeting of the Foreign Ministers of France, UK and the US began in New York
with the goal of helping to integrate West Germany into the Cold War defense
structure which raised concerns among many who thought this could lead to the
re-militarization of the nation which had been home to the Nazis just five
short years ago.
1950:
The Israeli radio broadcasts Rosh Hashanah services. According to published reports Israelis have
shown up the nation’s synagogues in unusually large numbers possibly as a sign
of thanksgiving for the great strides the country has made in the past year.
1950:
Professor Moses L. Isaacs, the dean of the College of Liberal Arts of Yeshiva
University and his wife announced the engagement of their daughter Nancy Julie
to Sidney B. Klein, the son of Rabbi and Mrs. Lazar Klein, “an alumnus of
Yeshiva who expects to return to active duty in the Marine Corps with which he
served in WW II.
1951:
The Cabinet approved today a declaration by Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan
that funds raised through the sale of Israeli bonds in the United States would
be invested mainly in industrial and agricultural expansion and not diverted to
meet "current and pressing emergency needs." Despite the worsening
food situation, Mr. Kaplan said this action was necessary if Israel was to
“achieve economic independence for our rapidly growing population.” Prime Minister Ben Gurion endorsed the plan
even though it could mean a great deal of privation for the current generation.
1952:
NBC broadcast the first episode of “Bonino” a sitcom starring David Opatoshu,
Mike Kellin and Conrad Janis, the son of art dealer Sidney Janis.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post published the full
text of the agreement on German reparations to Israel.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
bodies of Haviva Reik and Raphael Reiss, who during World War II died on an
Allied parachute mission against the Nazis in Slovakia, were laid to rest on
Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
1953:
Birthdate of photographer Nancy “Nan” Goldin the native Washingtonian whose
best known work Is “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,’ “a 1985 slide show
exhibition and 1986 artist's book publication of photographs taken by her
between 1979 and 1986.”
1954:
Leonard Bernstein conducts the IPO in performance of Serenade featuring Isaac
Stern at Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
1955(25th
of Elul, 5715): Eighty-two year old Edward Lazansky, the former Secretary of
State of New York who was “a found and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, passed away today.
1955(25th
of Elul, 5715): Eighty-eight year old Rumanian born New York “wholesale shoe
merchant” Bernard Lebovitz, “one of the founders and a former president of
B’nai Jacob Synagogue in South Brooklyn” and “the executive director of the
Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital” who was the husband of Hedvig Lebovitz” passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/09/13/92640182.pdf
1956:
Three Druze guardsmen - Nawaf Abu-Ghazi, Suleiman Hatoum and Rafik Abdullah – were killed tonight when a Palestinian Fedayeen squad
entered Israel from Jordon and attacked the Ein Ofrarim facility near Hatzvea
setting the stage for an Israeli response – Operation Shoshana.
1957:
Birthdate of Academy Award winning composer Hans Florian Zimmer the native of
Frankfurt am Main whose mother had escaped to England in 1939 because she was
Jewish
1959:
Premier of the western television hit “Bonanza.” The popular Sunday cowboy show starred a
father and his three sons. Two of the
four actors in the lead roles were Jewish. Lorne Greene played Pa Cartwright
and Michael Landon played Little Joe.
1961(2nd
of Tishrei, 5722): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1961:
German physicist Carl Hermann passed away.
Hermann and his wife hid Jews during the World War II. Hermann was arrested and imprisoned for this
crime. He survived and continued his
work in the field of crystallography.
1962(13th
of Elul, 5722): Seventy-six-year-old Cornell University trained
anesthesiologist and WW I Army veteran, Dr. Bernhard J. Eliasberg, the chief
anesthesiologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital and consulting anesthesiologist at
Jewish Memorial Hospital whose patients included Governor Herbert H. Lehman who
had three children – Harold, Jay and Ruth – with his wife “the former Bessie
Rothblatt” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/09/13/90589822.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1962:
It was reported today the Avnet Electronics Corporation under the leadership of
its president, Lester Avnet, “net earnings varose 46 per cent to $2,322,564
from $1,593,886 in the preceding fiscal year” which saw shares from 66 cents to
90 cents.
1963(23rd
of Elul, 5723): Ninety year old Mogilev born “cellist, orchestral conductor and
composer” Modest (Moisei Isaacovich) Altschuler who “organized the Russian
Symphony Orchestra Society of New York City, which for two decades toured the
United States featuring performances and compositions by leading contemporary
Russians” passed away today in Los Angeles.
1964(6th
of Tishrei, 5725): Shabbat Shuva observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
1968:
Two days after he had passed away funeral services were scheduled to be held at
the Fliedner Funeral Home, for sixty-two year old New York City native and
Pratt Institute graduate Louis A. Peirez, the “President of Viewlex, Inc,”
manufacturers of “audiovisual, photographic and sound equipment” who “was a
member of the national board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League” and
the husband of Alexandra S. Nininger Peirez with whom he had two children –
Helen and David.
1968(19th
of Elul, 5728): Sixty-eight-year-old Frances Greenfield Gottschall, whose work
as a secretary at City College led to her marriage to Dr. Morton Gottschall,
the long-time dean of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at CCNY who regarded her as
essential to his professional success, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/09/14/76881035.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969(29th
of Elul, 5729): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1969:
Birthdate of Russian born, American educated journalist and author Max Boot. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-midterms-approach-conservative-'never-trumpers'-find-allies-outside-the-lines/ar-BBLkMH2?ocid=spartandhp
1969:
As the New York Mets gathered steam in their surprise drive to win the National
League Pennant, Art Shamsky sat out a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates after
discussing the matter with his manager, former Brooklyn Dodger great Gil
Hodges.
1970(11th
of Elul, 5730): Seventy-five year old New Jersey Law School graduate and
“former vice dean of the University of Newark” Aaron Lasser, “an organizer and
former President of the Newark Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew
Association” and husband of Hazel Lasser with whom he had two children –
Lawrence and John – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/aaron-lasser-75-lawyereducator.html
1970(11th
of Elul, 5730): Ninety-eight year old Ottilie Sutro, the Baltimore native who
with her sister Rose formed one of the first (if not the very first) “duo-piano
teams” passed away today.
1970(11th
of Elul, 5730): Seventy-eight year old Montreal born American economist and
University of Chicago Professor Jacob Viner passed away today
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Viner.html
http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/viner.htm
1970:
NBC broadcast a television adaptation of “George M!” starring Joel Grey in the
title role role.
1970:
“Five Easy Pieces” directed by Bob Rafelson who also co-produced and
co-authored the script was released in the United States today.
1971:
No members of the IDF were injured today when Syrians shelled Israeli positions
on the Golan Heights.
1971:
It was learned today in London that “the Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet
Republic has rejected the appeal of refusnik Valery Kukul who was convicted of
“anti-Soviet activity.”
1972:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Maude,” a sitcom created by Norman Lear
staring Bea Arthur and Bill Macy with music by Marilyn and Alan Bergman.
1974:
Seventy-seven year old Hector Bolitho, the Auckland, NZ born son of Henry and
Elthelred Frances Bolitho was the author of the 1933 tome Beside Galilee: A
First-hand Survey of Zionism and Modern Palestine passed away today.
1974(25th
of Elul, 5734): Forty-seven year old New York native and NYU graduate Jay
Smolens Harrison, the music editor of the New York Herald Tribune passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/13/archives/jay-s-harrison-47-music-editor-dead.html
1974:
For the second day in a row, a demonstration was “held in Moscow by Jewish
activists demanding exit visas” at the end of which “all ten participants were
arrested.”
1975(7th
of Tishrei, 5736): Seventy-seven year old Joseph A. “Joe” Alexander “a
three-time All-America at Syracuse University, described by Walter Camp as ‘one
of the greatest defensive guards ever seen on the gridiron’ who in 1925 was the
first player ever signed by the New York Giants when the team organized” and
who became a medical doctor passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/09/14/94900497.html?pageNumber=45
1977(29th
of Elul, 5737): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1977:
CBS broadcast the first episode of the seventh and final season of “Maude,” a
sitcom created by Norman Lear staring Bea Arthur and Bill Macy with music by
Marilyn and Alan Bergman.
1977:
Birthdate of Idan Raichal, the musician from Kfar Saban best known “his Idan
Raichal Project” released in 2002.
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
cabinet was officially notified by Prime Minister Menachem Begin of the
appointment of his two pre-1948 Irgun Zva'i Leumi comrades to top government
posts: Ya'acov Aknin, an IDF brigadier, was appointed director-general of the
Israel Lands Administration and Amihai Paglin was appointed the premier's
adviser on the war against terror.
1978:
ABC broadcast the first episode of “Taxi” a sit-com created by James L. Brooks,
Stan Daniels and Ed Weinberger, starring Jud Hirsch as “Alex Rieger.”
1980(2nd
of Tishrei, 5741): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time
during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter1981:
In “Israeli Comedy at La Mama Annex,” published today critic Frank Rich provides a review of
“Ya’acobi and Leidenthal.”
1981: “Under the leadership of first-year
head coach Fred Goldsmith, Slippery Rock University “returned to the Big
House to face Wayne State (Michigan) in
a season-opening game that drew a crowd of more than 35,000 fans, which also
ranks among the top attendance totals in NCAA Division II football history.
1982(24th
of Elul, 5742): Ninety-year old Louis Waldman, leading labor lawyer and
founding member of the Socialist Party of America, passed away today. (As
reported by Edward Gargan)
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/14/obituaries/louis-waldman-90-counsel-to-labor.html?pagewanted=print
1986: Birthdate of Emmanuelle Grey Rossum known as
actress and singer Emmy Rossum.
1986(8th
of Elul, 5746): Sixty-five year old photographer and refuges from Hitler’s
Europe Ernst Haas, the Vienna born son of Ernst Hass and Frderike Haas Zipper,
who worked included the iconic “Marlboro Man” passed away today.
https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/ernst-haas-the-mad-men-s-favourite-photographer-1.26391
1988(1st
of Tishrei, 5749): Rosh Hashanah
1990:
“Reversal of Fortune” film adaption of Alan Dershowitz’s book produced by
Edward R. Pressman and co-starring Ron Silver premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
1992:
STS-47, the 50th Space Shuttle mission whose crew included Jerome
“Jay” Apt III was launched today.
1992:
Ninety-four year old Pennsylvania born and award winning Cornell University
landscape design graduate Norman Thomas Newton who served as “monuments man”
with the British Eighth Army in Italy.
1994:
David Guterson’s best-selling novel Snow Falling on Cedars was published today
after which it went on to win the 1995’s PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
1995:
Bella Abzug's plenary address to the Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing set a tone of international cooperation and commitment that helped
define both the conference and its influential legacy. After a historic career
as a pioneering U.S. Congresswoman and activist, Abzug approached Beijing as a
symbolic moment of feminist possibility. A long-time advocate for women's
equality as well as human rights, she insisted on taking part in the Beijing
conference despite illness and her confinement to a wheelchair. The conference
focused primarily on probing the living conditions for women including women's
health, education, and economic status. Success in defusing the tensions over
Zionism that had marked previous United Nations women's conference facilitated
constructive dialogue among the 7,000 delegates. The Beijing conference managed
to synthesize numerous conflicting nationalistic feminist approaches into an
international human rights feminist vision, offering resolutions that have
continued to define national agendas for changing women's lives around the
world. In her address Abzug stated that, "Imperfect though it may be, the
Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's
equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments. The Beijing
Platform is a consolidation of the previous UN conference agreements in the
unique context of seeing it through women's eyes... We are bringing women into
politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the
institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past."
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/12/1995/bella-abzug-addresses-world-conference-on-women-in-beijing
1996:
“Waiting for Guffman” with a screenplay co-authored by Eugene Levy who also
co-starred in the comedy along with Bob Balaban was screened today at the
Toronto International Film Festival.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including two
children’s books, Moses and the
Angels by Ileene Smith Sobel; Illustrated by Mark Podwal and Journeys With Elijah Eight Tales of the
Prophet, retold
by Barbara Diamond Goldin; Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
2000:
“Israel Police Northern District Commander Alik Ron requested an investigation
of Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh for inciting violence against police.”
2001:
Forty-six year old Ruth Shua’I was shot by Palestinian terrorists today.
2001:
The Rim K was renamed the Karine A when it was registered in Tonga
today. It was under that name that she was used in an attempt to smuggle a
massive amount of arms into Gaza.
2001:
The Jewish Museum in Berlin opened to the public today housed in a building
designed by Daniel Libeskind. (JTA)
2002:
Eyal Golan married the Miss Israel of 2001 Ilanit Levi. The couple's eldest son
Liam was born in 2003 and their youngest daughter Alin was born in 2006.
2003:
“Alia” an “Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Yaël Abecassis, Uri
Klauzner, and Hanna Laslo” was released in Israel and France.
2003(15th
of Elul, 5763): Thirty-seven year old Tova Lev died of wounds sustained during
the Shmuel HaNavi Bus Bombing that took place in August, 2003
2003:
“Lost in Translation,” the production and distribution of which was overseen by
James Schamus was released in the United States today.
2004:
An exhibition styled “Photographs of Otto Frank” closes in Amsterdam. The exhibition was part of the commemoration
of Anne Frank’s “75th birthday.”
2004:
“The Boy from Oz” which had been adapted for American audiences by Martin
Sherman was performed for the final time at the Imperial Theatre.
2004(26th
of Elul, 5764): Ninety-three year old screenwriter and playwright Jerome
Chodorov who was blacklisted in the 1950’s passed away today. (As reported by
Jesse McKinley)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE6DB1030F937A2575AC0A9629C8B63
2004: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Collected
Stories: ''Gimpel the Fool'' to ''The
Letter Writer'' by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
2005:
Sidney Ferris Rosenberg left WFAN today after failing to show up to host the
Giants' pre-game show. As a result of the no-show, management at WFAN gave him
the option to resign from the station, which he did. The New York Post reported
that he would likely have been fired if he did not resign.
2005:
“The eviction of all residents, demolition of the residential buildings and
evacuation of associated security personnel from the Gaza Strip was completed”
today.
2005:
As the Kissufim Gates was closed, the last Israeli soldier left Gaza.
2005:
As reported in Haaretz, Palestinians
moved into the abandoned Gaza Strip settlement of Morag before dawn after
Israel Defense Forces troops pulled out of the area and set the synagogue on
fire. Huge flames leapt into the sky.
2006: The
original version of “Fear Factor” a game show that Jeff Zucker used to keep NBC
on top of the ratings game was broadcast for the last time today.
2006: An artistic tribute to beloved lyricist and media
personality Ehud Manor opened at the Holon Mediatheque, where 70 works inspired
by Manor songs will remain on display through October 23.
2006:
The Jerusalem Post reported that an
al-Qaida-linked Algerian terror cell that was broken up by Italian police last
fall was planning to carry out attacks on targets in Oslo, Norway, including
the city's main synagogue.
2006:
Eliot Spitzer defeated Thomas Suozzi in the New York Democratic gubernatorial
primary.
2007(29th
of Elul, 5767: Erev of Rosh Hashanah 5768
2007(29th
of Elul): Anniversary of the birth of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, third
leader of Chabad.
2007:
In “Looking Through Rose-Colored Glass
Again at Shul,” Sewell Chan describes the restoration work being done at the
Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side.
2008:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Temple Judah begins its Musical Shabbat Season II at
Friday night services where the community will also celebrate Marilyn Sippy’s
formal conversion to Judaism.
2008:
With the assistance from Edward Mermelstein, and a payment of one million
dollars to cover expense by Viktor Veselberg, the Lowell House Bells were
transported from Harvard University “back to their original location in the
Danilov Monastery.
2008:
“Witness Changed Her Story During Rosenberg Spy Case” published today described
how 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.”
2009:
President Shimon Peres was rushed to hospital tonight after he fainted on stage
while speaking at a Young Presidents Organization event in Ramat Aviv
2009:
Lebanon, an Israeli film that recounts Israel's 1982 invasion of its northern
neighbor through soldiers' eyes, won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival
today.
2009(23rd
of Elul, 5769): Eighty-one year old Lawrence Slobodkin, a pioneer in the
ecology movement, passed away today. (As reported by Carol Kaesuk Yoon)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/nyregion/22slobodkin.html?emc=eta1
2009( 23rd of Elul): Seventy nine year old Dr.
Alfred Gottschalk, the Rabbi and scholar who left his imprint on Hebrew Union
College and Reform Judaism, passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/us/15gottschalk.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2009
(23rd of Elul, 5769): This evening, Rabbi Todd Thalblum conducts his
first Selichot service as the leader of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2010:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to present
“Anna Shulman: The Queen of H Street,” a
one-woman show that tells the entertaining and true life story of Anna Shulman,
her arrival in the U.S. and in Washington, and her impact on the H Street
neighborhood, home to Jewish merchants in the 1920s and 1930s.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Half
A Life by Darin Strauss
2010(4th
of Tishrei, 5771): Tzom Gedalia
2010:
The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, signaled for the first time
today that he was willing to limit, though not completely halt, construction in
the West Bank settlements after a partial building moratorium expires later
this month.
2010:
Antonina Pirozhkova, who as the widow of the renowned short-story writer Isaac
Babel campaigned for more than half a century to keep his literary legacy alive
after his execution by Stalin’s K.G.B., and who wrote a memoir about the last
seven years of his life, passed away today at the age of 101. Babel was Jewish. She was not.
2011:
An exhibition that “explores the theme of conversation in Moses Mendelssohn’s
life and legacy, including in his relationships, his writings, and his concepts
of Judaism and the Enlightenment” is scheduled to open at the Center for Jewish
History in New York.
2011:
Israeli-born pianist and composer Matan Porat is scheduled to play
Ullmann’s Piano Sonata no.7at the 14th
Jerusalem International Chamber Musical Festival.
2011:
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is scheduled to
present a special embassy of Israel briefing by Eliav Benjamin, the Counselor
of Political Affairs.
2011:
The home of a well-known left-wing activist in Jerusalem was defaced with
graffiti proclaiming "death to the traitors" and "price tag
Migron" last night, a move apparently carried out by rightists angry over
the government's decision to demolish illegal structures in a West Bank
settlement.
2011:
Vandals have defaced a Jewish memorial in eastern Poland by rearranging bushes
forming the Star of David into a Nazi swastika, police said today, in the
latest of a string of anti-Semitic incidents in the area. "
2011:
Some 66,000 Labor party members go to the polls today to choose the next party
leader from among four contenders: Isaac Herzog, Amram Mitzna, Amir Peretz and
Shelly Yachimovich.
2012:
Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to offer a Curators Tour - Microcosms:
Ruth Abrams, Abstract Expressionist
2012:
EMET is scheduled to present “The Road to a Culture of Peace in the Middle
East: Track III Diplomacy” to members of Congress and selected invitees in
Washington, DC.
2012:
Rabbi Elliot Kukla is scheduled to lead an hour-and-a-half workshop focusing on
holiday-related grief experiences and on tools for coping and finding comfort
during the Days of Awe at Shir Hadash.
2012:
Dr. Susan Gilson Miller presents a lecture entitled Jewish Rescue and Relief in
North Africa during World War II
2012:Israel's
population approached the eight million mark nearing Rosh Hashana, the Jewish
new year, according to a report released today by the Central Bureau of
Statistics
2013:
Joshua M. Bernstein is the featured speaker at “Jews & Brews: Boot Camp for
Beer Geeks” at the Karl Strauss Brewing Company in San Diego, CA.
2013:
To mark the 69th anniversary of the final destruction of the Łódź ghetto in
August 1944, Wiener Library intern and Wrocław University PhD student Iza
Olejnik is scheduled to give an informal talk about the culture of the ghetto
based on her own research in London, UK.
2013:
For the second year in a row, the night before Yom Kippur will bring to Israel
the annual Researchers’ Night, a celebration of all things scientific, with
hundreds of events taking place at over a dozen universities and colleges.
2013:
It was announced today that “President Shimon Peres will award this year’s
Presidential Medal of Distinction to a group that includes Hollywood director
Steven Spielberg and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.”
2013:
Israel Police forces, Border Patrol officers and volunteer policemen are on
high alert ahead of Yom Kippur, with a special emphasis on mixed cities, like
Acre and Jaffa, and areas of high sensitivity like the Temple Mount, Police
Commissioner Yohanan Danino said today.
2013:
Prime Minister Golda Meir’s testimony on the Yom Kippur War, as declassified
today, omits all mention of her pivotal meeting in Tel Aviv with King Hussein
of Jordan. (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
2014:
Comedian and social commentator Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the
Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada
2014:
‘An appreciation of David Hillman’s UK synagogue stained glass windows’
published today.
2014:
Marc Courtade is scheduled to speak on “Shirley Temple: From Child Star to
Diplomat” at the 92nd Street Y.
2014:
French anti-Semitic watchdog group SPCJ reports 527 anti-Semitic incidents from
Jan. 1 to July 31, 2014. There were 423 incidents reported in all of 2013. (As
reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014:
The Historic 6th & I Synagogue is scheduled to host “6th
in the City Shabbat” including a service led by Rabbi Shira and Sheldon Low
followed by a Friday Night Dinner.
2014:
“Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, suspected of killing four people at Brussels’
Jewish Museum in May, was remanded in custody for another three months today,
judicial officials said.”
2014:
“Thousands of people attended a memorial service today to commemorate the Druze
soldiers killed in action while serving in the Israel Defense Force.”
2014:
“The President of Hillel International called on Ohio University to apologize
to four pro-Israel students who were arrested during a protest.”
2015:
Author Annie Cohen-Solal is scheduled to speak about iconic artist Mark Rothko
at the Chilmark Library in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
2015:
Lior Shvil’s “Protocols” is scheduled to go on display at “Art in General” in
Lower Manhattan.
2015:
In Santa Barbara, CA, Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Arlington
Theatre.
2015:
Jeremy Corbyn, “the far-left MP who has empathized with Hezbollah and Hamas”
and whose “ties to Holocaust deniers, terrorists and some outright
anti-Semites” has “alarmed” English Jews was chosen as the new leader of the
Labour Party today.
2015:
“After almost a week of choking dust blanketing Israel – the worse sandstorm to
hit Israel in its history – the Environmental Protection Ministry said today
that the thick yellowish-brown particles filling the air have begun to
dissipate.”
2015(28th
of Elul, 5775): Final Shabbat of 5775.
2016(9th
of Elul, 5776): Ninety-six year old economist Stanley K. Sheinbaum passed away
today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2016:
Violinist Itzhak Perlman announced today “that he would donate NIS 3.2 million
(approx. $850,000) to organizations in Israel that connect people with
disabilities with the classical arts” including NIS 940,000 (approx. $250,000)
for the Tel Aviv Conservatory for a new Perlman-Genesis String Project and
“another NIS 188,000 (approx. $50,000) to House of Wheels, a rehabilitation
center for children and adults with impaired mobility.”
2016:
“Four yeshiva students studying at the settle of Nahliel were arrested today
for attacking law enforcement officers and allegedly vandalizing Palestinian
property.”
2016:
Daniel Snyder’s Washington Redskins are scheduled to kick off their 2016 NFL
season.
2017:
In Des Moines, IA, the Iowa Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host
“When Memories Unfold: A Luncheon with Celina” featuring readings and
reminiscences by “Celina Karp Biniaz, the daughter of Irvin and Phyllis Karp
and the youngest female survivor from Schindler's List”
2017:
The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival is scheduled to present “Harmonies in Time”
featuring Israel’s Castle in Time Orchestra.
2017:
“In an eight-to-one decision, the High Court of Justice today struck down
Knesset legislation from 2015 that was meant to delay efforts to increase the
rate at which ultra-Orthodox youth are drafted into the military.”
2017:
A Senior Russian official revealed today that Moscow had advised Syrian
President Assad not to respond to Israel's alleged attack on its state's
Scientific Studies and Research Center, reassuring that if Iran increases its
efforts to establish a foothold in the Golan, Russia will make sure to put a
stop to it.
2017:
As part of the events marking the first anniversary of the death of Shimon
Peres, “his memoir No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the
Making of Modern Israel” is being released today.
2017:
The Jewish Federation of New Orleans is scheduled to host its “104th
annual meeting” along with a meeting of the Jewish Endowment Foundation of
Louisiana.
2018:
Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host an original production of “Prior to
Arrival,” “a musical-theatrical show with original music, drama, and spoken
word – all in pursuit of Elijah the Prophet.”
2018:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host three screenings of “Damascus Cover.”
2018(3rd
of Tishrei, 5779): Fast of Gedaliah
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the
final two screenings of “Sefarad,” film that creates new awareness of the fate
of the Portuguese Jewish Community.
2019: In Jerusalem, the British Museum is
scheduled to host a lecture on “Excavations at Solomon’s Pools, Bethlehem and
Water Supply to Jerusalem in Antiquity.”
2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to celebrate the opening of its “new exhibition Russ & Daughters:
An Appetizing Story” which will included Hannah Goldfield, food critic for The
New Yorker, interviewing two generations of the Russ family.
2019: Chabad of Metairie (LA) is scheduled to
host “An Evening With Joseph Telushking” during which the distinguished author
and sage will talk about “Five Teaching That Change Your Life Today: Practical
Insights from the Rebbe’s Leadership.”
2020: The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Lost Crown.”
2020: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled
to host a Selichot service “with Cantor Shifman and speech guest Neshama
Carlebach.”
2020: The Edin-Tamar Music Center is scheduled
to host a concert by the Jerusalem Piano Duo – Shir and Drot Semmel and pianist
Ron Trachtman
2020: The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to
provide a live “musical and spiritual experience” with saxophonist Zach Mayer
designed to get participants “Into the Holiday Spirit.”
2020(23rd of Elul, 5780): Parashat
Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot;
2021: At the London School of Jewish Studies, Dr Raphael Zarum is scheduled to lead “a class discussing the story of
David, Avigail and Naval and discovering what the narrative has to teach us on
cruelty, kindness and forgiveness.”
2021: The YIVO Yiddish Club is scheduled to
present “Ashkenazi Hight Foods’” with the “co-founder of the Gefilteria, Liz
Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz.
2021: The Third Annual Torah Yerushalayim Virtual
Worldwide Torah Experience is scheduled to take place today.
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2021: The
Jerusalem Youth Chorus Global Gala Concert is scheduled to take place today.
2021: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including the recently published paperback edition of Send
For Me, the novel by Lauren that “follows a young
Jewish woman in 1930’s Germany who leaves her parents behind when she and her
husband and young daughter move to the United States to escape the Nazis.”
2021: Following two straight days of rocket
firings from Gaza, Israelis start the week wondering if there will be a third
attack and if so, is this a prelude to another wave of terrorism.
2022: Online, Cathy Barrow is scheduled to
discuss her new cookbook of deli favorites,
Bagels, Schmears and a Nice Piece of Fish,
and demonstrates how to bake fresh bagels at home with just five base
ingredients and simple techniques.
2022: The 16th Annual Sami Rohr Prize Awards
For Literature Celebration is scheduled
to take place online at 8:00 PM Israel time.
2022: The Jerusalem Post is scheduled to host
the 90 anniversary of its annual conference in New York.
2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
“An Evening Associate Justice Elena Kagan.
2022: In Homewood, Il, Shir Tikvah is scheduled
to host a book talk with Maggie Anton author of The Chosen.
2023: The Streicker Center is scheduled a
conversation with Isaac Mizrahi and Jake Cohen, author of I
Could Nosh.
2022: At Berkley Law, Helen Diller Institute
for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley is scheduled to screen a
54-minute, 2021 documentary about Judge Harry Pregerson, a child of Ukrainian
Jewish immigrants who served on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for almost 50
years, followed by talk by filmmaker Terry Sanders and Harry’s son, who’s also
a judge.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a lecture by Dr. Helen Frey on “Music and Men – Unveiling the Life of Harriet
Cohen, Part 2.”
2023: The Agnon House is scheduled to host “On
the Way to Femininity: A Rereading of "The Joy of the Poor" by Nathan
Alterman.”
2023: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community
Center is scheduled to host a “Challah Workshop.”
2023: In Israel the High Court of Justice is
scheduled to hear scheduled to hold “a hearing on the legality of the
“reasonableness” law passed last month…
2023: The Center for Jewish story is scheduled
to host a “screening of “documentary “A Estrela Oculta do Sertão” (The Star Hidden
in the Backlands) followed by Q&A with the producers.”
2023: Three “updated Martin Atlases are
scheduled to be available today.
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