This Day, September 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 27
0070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were
battered down by the Roman army
1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son
Casimir defeated the Germanic Knights at the Battle of Plowce. From a military point of view the battle may
have been a draw but it was a political victory for the Poles since it enabled
them to assert their national identity. For the Jews, this has to be viewed as
a positive event since when Casimir assumed the throne he treated the Jews in a
favorable fashion and welcomed them as they fled Germany where they had been
accused of causing the Black Plague.
1480: In what
would soon be known as the Spanish Inquisition, The Catholic Kings of Spain
Ferdinand and his wife Queen Isabella ordered
the establishment of a tribunal in their kingdoms, led by two
Dominicans – Juan de San Martin and Miguel de
Morillo -- to study cases of heresy.
1481: In
Medina del Campo, Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín were named, as the
first two inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition.
1533: Stephen VIII Báthory and his wife Catherine
Telegdi gave birth to Stephen Báthory whose reign as King of Poland marked a
revival of the prosperity of the Jewish community in Grodno.
1540: The Society of Jesus known as The Jesuits was
founded by Ignatius Loyola. The first Jesuits were Spanish Christians who began
their work at a time when the reconquest of Spain from the Moslems was but
recently accomplished, and persons with Moorish or Jewish ancestry were under
suspicion. It is accordingly much to their credit that the Jesuits were firmly
opposed (particularly under Ignatius and his first three successors as Superior
General of the Jesuits) to ecclesiastical anti-Semitism and to the Inquisition's
persecution of suspected Jews. When Ignatius was accused of having partly
Jewish ancestry, he replied, "If only I did! What could be more glorious
than to be of the same blood as the Apostles, the Blessed Virgin, and our Lord
Himself?"
1601:
At Fontainebleau, “King Henry IV of France and his second wife Mare de’ Medici”
gave birth to Louis XIII who reigned
for 33 of his 43 years and along with his son Louis XIV were the two monarchs
who ruled the dominate European power for almost the entire 17th
century. When Louis came of age and
began ruling in his own right he reaffirmed the ban on Jews living in France
that had been in effect since the fourteenth century, despite the fact that his
mother had brought a practicing Jew to France to service as Louis’ doctor when
he was a child. On at least two
occasions, Louis let economic necessity overcome the anti-Jewish policy. When the French acquired the city of Metz,
Louis allowed the Jews to stay in the city since they were an integral part of
the city’s economic well-being. The Jews
of Martinique were left alone to help build this new outpost in France’s
colonial empire.
1755(22nd
of Tishrei, 5516): Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret observed on the same day during
the French and Indian War that Adam Stephen wrote to George Washington about
French plans to attack Fort Cumberland.
1759:
Thomas Paine, the author of “Common Sense” who relied on the experience of the
ancient Israelites when arguing against monarchy saying “the quiet and rural
lives of the first patriarchs hath a happy something in them, which vanishes
away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty” married Mary Lambert today.
1762(10th
of Tishrei, 5523): Yom Kippur
1764(1st
of Tishrei, 5525): Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time while George
Grenville was serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
1767(4th
of Tishrei, 5528) Tzom Gedaliah observed
1772(29th
of Elul, 5532): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed on the same day that Martha
Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United and a
supporter of religious freedom gave birth to their daughter “Patsy.”
1773(10th
of Tishrei, 5534): Yom Kippur observed on the same that “the first of seven
ships” carrying the tea that would eventually be caught up in the “Boston Tea
Party” set sail from London.
1774(21st
of Tishrei, 5535): Hoshana Raba
1775(3rd
of Tishrei, 5536): Tzom Gedaliah
1777:
During the American Revolution, Lancaster, PA is capital of the United States
for one day. Lancaster was approximately 60 miles west of Philadelphia. “A Jewish burial plot had been set aside
there as early as 1747. Jewish religious
services were conducted in the home of Joseph
Simon. Simon was the father-in-law of Michael Gratz,
part of Pennsylvania’s most prominent Jewish family. Simon was one of the leading traders on the
frontier and supplied the Continental Army with large amounts of muskets,
ammunition and other supplies. After the Revolution, the smaller Lancaster
community was absorbed by the larger Philadelphia Jewish community. The Jewish community would reappear in
Lancaster in the years preceding the Civil War as evidenced by the
establishment of a synagogue in 1856.
1779:
“Solomon Bush, a paroled prisoner of war” who was the son of Mathias Bush “an
observant Jew who had been an active supporter of the patriotic course since
1765” “petitioned the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania for his monthly
salary and rations which had been suspended since his capture by the British.
1780(27th
of Elul, 5540): Elhanan ben Samuel Ashkenazi, the first rabbi of Schottland,
the author of “various Talmudic commentaries and "ḥilluḳim," or
discussions, as well as commentaries to the four "Ṭurim," passed away
today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5569-elhanan-ben-samuel-sanwel-ashkenazi
1783(1st
of Tishrei, 5544): Just 24 days after Great Britain and the United States sign
the Treaty of Paris marking the end of the American Revolutionary war Jews on
both sides of the Atlantic observe a peaceful Rosh Hashanah
1785(23rd
of Tishrei, 5546): Simchat Torah on the same day that Italian born surgeon
Phillip Mazei, an acquaintance of Lt. Colonel David Franks, wrote to John
Adams.
1786:
Birthdate of Abraham Ben Samuel Firkovich, the native of Lutsk, Volhynia who
became a leading Karaite archeologist.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6134-firkovich-abraham-b-samuel-aben-reshef
1787(15th
of Tishrei, 5548): Sukkoth celebrated “one day before the congress under the
first constitution of the United States, the Articles of Confederation, agreed
to submit a new Constitution to the states, an act that would render that
legislative body obsolete.”
1790(19th
of Tishrei, 5551): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1790(19th
of Tishrei, 5551): Abraham Polock, the son of Myer Polok, passed away today in
Savannah, GA.
1791:
Philo-semitic French attorney Adrien Duport “proposed that the Jews be accorded
all the privileges of citizenship in France, and the suggestion was adopted
despite some slight opposition.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5364-duport-adrien
1791:
The National Assembly grants civil rights to the Jews of Alsac and Lorraine
completing the process of emancipation for French Jews.
1791:
In France, Jews were granted full rights and declared citizens. Some sources
contend that this was the first time that Jews were declared full citizens of
any country since the Roman Empire. However, this contention is not wholly
accurate. Jewish in the United States
were full citizens from the time of the country's birth. This point was driven home by the
Anti-Establishment clause of the First Amendment. The Jews were never declared citizens because
nobody was. In fact, the first time that
such a declaration would take place would be at the time of the Civil War with
the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Jewish
women would share in the same disabilities as non-Jewish women and would not
become fully participating citizens until they were guaranteed the right to
vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1792:
Birthdate of George Cruikshank the British caricaturist who illustrated Oliver
Twist for Charles Dickens. His drawing of “Fagin in his cell” is an example of
the work he did for this anti-Semitic novel. Cruikshank later claimed that he
had created much of the plot for the novel, a claim that Dickens denied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cruikshank_fagin_cell.jpg
1793(21st
of Tishrei, 5554) Hoshana Raba observed for the first time during the French
Reign of Terror.
1794(3rd
of Tishrei, 5555): Shabbat Shuvah is observed for the first time since the end
of the Reign of Terror in France
1795(14th
of Tishrei, 5556): Erev Sukkot observed as the British, Russians and Austrians
complete negotiations for an alliance against France which will be signed in
St. Petersburg on September 28.
1797(9th
of Tishrei, 5558): Erev Yom Kippur
1797(9th
of Tishrei, 5558): Uriah Hendricks passed away in New York City.
1798(17th
of Tishrei, 5559): Third Day of Sukkoth
1798:
In Buttenhausen, Germany, Miriam Isak and Bernhard Daniel Baer gave birth to
Isaak Baer, the husband of Judith Hausmann with whom he had seven children.
1799:
In Amsterdam, members of “Felix Libertate” who had been disowned by both the
Ashkenaz and Sephardic communities and who had formed “a new congregation,
‘Adat Yeshurun’ with Isaac Graanboom as rabbi” consecrated their new synagogue
today.
1800(8th
of Tishrei, 5561): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva observed for the last time
during the Presidency of John Adams.
1801(20th
of Tishrei, 5562): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1801:
Coronation of Czar Alexander I who responded positively to an appeal by Michael Berr “to all sovereigns and
nations, in the name of the "European inhabitants of the Jewish
faith," urging that full justice be shown to the Jews” but who abandoned
this progressive stance after the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle which met in
1818.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1130-alexander-i-pavlovich-emperor-of-russia
1802(1st
of Tishrei, 5563): Rosh Hashana
1804(22nd
of Tishrei, 5565): Shmini Atzeret
1804:
In Virginia, L. Joseph & Company is scheduled to be closed today because of
“their uniform practice to do no business on days ordained by Mosaic Law to be
holy.”
1806(15th
of Tishrei, 5567): Shabbat Shel Sukkot
1808(6th
of Tishrei, 5569): Joseph Panh, the Silesia born “son of Moshe Paneth and Rivka
Rozy Paneth, the husband of Breindel Paneth and father of Moshe Paneth; Rabbi
Ezekiel Paneth, Rabbi of Karlsburg & chief rabbi of Transylvania, Mareh
Yehezkel passed away today.
1810:
Rothschild and his elder sons drew up a new irrevocable partnership agreement
replacing the 1796 agreement.
1811(9th
of Tishrei, 5572): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1812(21st
of Tishrei): As the War of 1812 rages between Britain and the United States,
Hoshanah Rabah is observed in London and
New York.
1813(3rd
of Tishrei, 5574): Tzom Gedaliah
1815:
Twenty-five-year-old Benjamin Solomons married Betsey Davis in the Hambro
Synagogue today.
1820:
Birthdate of Herman Bodek, the native of Brody who “was the son-in-law of S.L.
Rapport and the author of Eleh Dibre
ha-Berit (These Are the Words of the Covenant.
1820:
Birthdate of Herman Bodek, the native of Brody, son-in-law of S.L. Rapport and
businessman whose knowledge of Hebrew enabled him to serve as a translator “in
courts of law” as well as authoring a
book on Masonic rituals written in Hebrew for Jews living outside of Europe.
1821(1st
of Tishrei, 5582): Rosh Hashanah is celebrated as a wave of Latin American
nations gain their independence from Spain opening a whole new area for Jews to
finally settle and openly practice their religion.
1821(1st
of Tishrei, 5582): Forty-three-year-old Ezekiel Salomon, the New York born of
Rachel Heilbron and Haym Moses Salomon, Sr. of Revolutionary war fame, passed away today in New Orleans.
1822:
Benjamin Wolf Liepman de Vries and Jansje Izaak van der Sluis gave birth to Henderina-Henderika
de Vries
1823(22nd
of Tishrei, 5584): Shmini Atzeret and Shabbat
1823:
Birthdate of Rhine Pflaz, Germany native Eliza Weil Bodenheimer , the wife of Jacob
Bodenheimer, the first Jewish settler in Shreveport area who settled in
Bellevue, Bossier Parish, where Jacob was a planter and saloon keeper and who
married Jacob Citron after Jacob’s death.
1825(15th
of Tishrei): Sukkoth is observed a month before the opening of the Erie Canal
1825:
In Michelfeld, Baden German, two days before her death Henriette (Mayer)
Oppenheimer and Marx Oppenheimer gave birth to Abraham Oppenheimer/
1826:
In Hesse-Cassel, Germany Esther Lithauer and Emanuel M Bien gave birth to
Julius Bien. Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cassel, and at Städel's
Institute, Frankfort-on-the-Main, he moved to New York where he established a
lithographic business in 1850. He was president of the National Lithographers'
Association from 1886 to 1896 and was a member of numerous scientific
societies. Bien was twice president of the order B'nai B'rith.
1827:
Birthdate of Humme, Germany native Joseph M. Bandeenstein, the husband of Jean
Jeannette Brandenstein who was buried in Colma, CA after he passed away in San
Francisco.
1828(19th
of Tishrei, 5589): Shabbat shel Sukkot
1829(29th
of Elul, 5589): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1830(10th
of Tishrei, 5591): Yom Kippur is celebrated as the southern provinces of the
Netherlands rebel – a rebellion which lead to the creation of the Kingdom of
Belgium.
1832(3rd
of Tishrei, 6693): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time while John C.
Calhoun served as Vice President under Andrew Jackson.
1834:
In Brno, Moravia, Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth Markus “Max”
Strakosch
1835(4th
of Tishrei, 5596): Tzom Gedaliah observed because Shabbat Shuva was observed on
September 26
1836(16th
of Sukkoth, 5597): Second Day of Sukkoth
1836:
In Padua, Bella Segre, the “daughter of Raphael Baruch or Benedetto Segrè and
Malka Safira Segre” and her husband Samuel David Luzzatto, ShaDaL gave birth Isaiah Luzzato, the husband of
Enrica Luzzatto and father of Ines Luzzatto; Olga Luzzatto; Leone Luzzatto;
Michelangelo Luzzatto; Jole Luzzatto; and Ada Luzzatto who practice law in
Padua.
1839(19th
of Tishrei, 5600): Fifth day of Sukkoth
1838:
Ravel Beer Jacobs, the Groningen born “son of Simon Jacob Jacobs and Marianne
Abraham Hamming / Hammo” and Eva Israel de Jongh gave birth to Mathilde Jacobs
the “wife of Alexander Frijda and “mother of Eva Frijda; Marianna Frijda; Dina
Frijda; Johanna Frijda; Henriette Frijda; Josephina Amalia Frijda; Charlotte
Frijda; Joseph Frijda; Ravel Beer Frijda and Joseph Aron Frijda”
1839(19th
of Tishrei, 5600): Manis (Morris) Jacobs passed away. Born in 1782 at
Amsterdam, he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was a co-founder and
president of Congregation Shangarai Chasset.
Jacobs served as the congregation’s first rabbi even though he had not
been formally ordained. This was not an
unusual situation in the United States since there was no school for training
clergy at this time and most European rabbis were reluctant to come to a place
they consider hostile to Jewish way of life. In 1881 Shangarai Chasset would
merge with Nefutzot Yehuda to form Touro Synagogue a Reform congregation
located on St. Charles Avenue.
1815:
Twenty-five-year-old Abraham de Leon, the Philadelphia born son of Jacob de
Leon who “served as surgeon’s mate during the War of 1812 and practiced
medicine in Charleston, SC married Isabella Nones today.
1829(29th
of Elul, 5589): Erev Rosh Hashana
1835:
In Groningen, The Netherlands, Ravel Beer Jacobs, the son of Simon Jacob Jacobs
and Marianne Abraham Hamming / Hammoand his wife Eva Israel de Jongh gave birth
to Mathilde Jacobs, the wife of Alexander Frijda,
1840(29th
of Elul, 5600): Erev Rosh Hashana
1840:
In New York, Benvenida Solis and Leon Ritterband gave birth to Lucia Maness
Ritterband, the “wife of Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen and mother of Jessie Myra de
Beaulieu; Gertrude Solis-Cohen and Leon Maness Solis-Cohen
1841:In
New Orleans, Isabelle Harris and 30-year-old Philadelphia native Samuel Moss
who were married in 1838 gave birth to Edith and Ella Moss
1842(23rd
of Tishrei, 5603): Simchat Torah
1843(3rd
of Tishrei, 5604): Three months before “A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens,
Jews observe the Fast of Gedaliah
1848(29th
of Elul, 5608): Erev Rosh Hashana as a wave of revolutions swept across a wide
swath of Europe including France and the Austrian Empire.
1850(21st
of Tishrei, 5611): As Congress passes the Compromise of 1850 which would
postpone the Civil War for another ten years, Jews observed Hoshanah Rabah
1851(1st
of Tishrei, 5612): Nine days after the founding of the New York Times, Jews observe Rosh Hashanah
1854:
Frederick Catherwood, an English artist and architect who was not Jewish but
was one of several artists who visited Palestine and provided the West with
depictions of “the Holy Land.” Passed away today. During his visit to Jerusalem in 1833, he may
have been the first Westerner to survey the Temple Mount.
1854:
In Buk Germany, Dorothea Sampter and Albert Lewison gave birth to Columbia
trained attorney Benno Lewinson who in 1886 came to the United States where he
specialized in “copyright and corporate law.”
1855(15th
of Tishrei, 5616): First Day of Sukkoth observed while Adolph Sutro was
operating tobacco shops in San Francisco and Levi Strauss was operating the
wholesale business, Levi Strauss and Company.
1858:
The New York Times reported that Samuel Morris, a thirty-year-old
“Hebrew” has been arrested for stealing clothing from two of the boarding
houses at which he has resided. Mr.
Morris has also been charged with being a bigamist having begun marrying a
series of women starting in July 1856 and acquiring a new wife at the various
boarding houses he has inhabited in the last two years.
1860:
It was reported today that the cattle market in New York has been “sluggish”
(low prices for sellers) because of the “superabundance of poor cattle” and the
absence of the Jewish butchers from the market due to the celebration of their
holidays.
1860:
It was reported that “Joseph and his Brethren” is playing at Barnum’s little
theatre in New York. The opening portion
of the play is based on the biblical narrative, but it then moves on to flights
of fancy that include Babylonians and large numbers of Jews and Egyptians.
1861(23rd
of Tishrei, 5622): Simchat Torah - Jews from the North and South face each
other on the battlefield but are united in finishing and starting the Torah
cycle.
1862(3rd
of Tishrei, 5623): During the Civil War, as Jews observe Shabbat Shuvah “The
Confederate Congress passes the Second Conscription Act, authorizing the
President to draft men between the ages of 35 and 45” and “the first all-black
regiment in United States history is formed in Union-controlled New Orleans
from ‘free Negroes.’"
1863(14th
of Tishrei, 5623): Erev Sukkot
1863:
A meeting was held in Keokuk, Iowa to reorganize Congregation B’nai Israel
whose members included Civil War veteran Lewis Solomon, L.M. Younker, Manassa
Younker, Marcus Younker, Samuel Younker and Samuel Kline.
1865:
One day after he had passed away, 22-year-old Cornelius Levy, the Richmond born
son of Isaac Abraham Levy and Hannah Norris Levy was buried today in
Philadelphia, PA.
1866:
In Brooklyn, Jeannette Grabfelder and Ludwig Levy gave birth to New York Law
School trained attorney Leopold Levy the husband of Ada Viola and partner in
the law firm of Levy, Gutman and Goldberg who was a trustee of Union Temple of
Brooklyn and a director of the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn.
1866:
Only a few days after a group of Christian settlers had landed at Jaffa, a son
was born to one of the families.
1867:
In New Orleans, Henrietta Joseph, the Charleston, SC daughter of Catherine and
Elias Abrahams and her husband Lizar Horace Joseph gave birth to Annabel
Nathans.
1868:
Fifty-eight-year-old Alexandre Florian Joseph, Count Colonna-Walewski,
allegedly the son of Napoleon Bonaparte, who had son named Alexandre
Colonna-Walewski with his mistress the famous Jewish actress Rachel Felix,
passed away today. (And you thought Jewish history was all about Talmuds,
Torahs and Talaisim)
1870(2nd
of Tishrei, 5631): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1870:
It was reported today that there are 27 synagogues in New York City.
1870:
It was reported today that yesterday that Chatham Street, the Bowery and the
other places “where the chosen people do business presented a Sunday
appearance” because the Jews were in their houses of worship observing their
New Year. “Not a solitary store
belonging to the Israelites was open…”
1870 Birthdate of Viennese native Alfred
Deutsch-German the playwright and screenwriter who escaped from Austria after
the Anschluss only to eventually die at Auschwitz after being captured in
occupied and being shipped to Drancy.
(Editor’s Note – the wonders of the Vichy government and French
collaboration.
1871:
Birthdate of Martin Henry Glynn, the first Roman Catholic to serve as Governor
of New York. In 1919 he wrote an article entitled “The Crucifixion of Jews Must
Stop!” that described the conditions of the Jews living in post War Europe. Considering the tenor of the times, it was a
courageous act for a man in the political arena.
1871(12th
of Tishrei, 5632): Fifty-five-year-old Jacob Heart, the German physician who
served as a surgeon during the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 and the
Franco-Prussian War four years later, passed away today at Erlangen.
1872:
The funeral of Mrs. Hannah H. Leo, the wife of Henry Leo was scheduled to place
today. Mrs. Leo was active in many
Jewish communal organizations including the “Auxiliary Society of the Mount
Sinai Hospital of which she was President at the time of her death.
1873:
In Detroit, Michigan, Temple Beth El officially began its affiliation with the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1874(16th
of Tishrei, 5635): Second Day of Sukkoth
1874(16th
of Tishrei, 5635): Rabbi S. M. Isaacs delivered the sermon at Gates of Praise
Synagogue on 44th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in NYC.
He told the congregation that “the festival was meant to remind them that their
ancestors had once dwelt in tabernacles and to teach them that, whether in
adversity or prosperity, they should always with gratitude remember God.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07E6DC1E39EF34BC4051DFBF66838F669FDE
1875:
Birthdate of St. Louis native and “pioneer in mental care” Blanche Frank
Ittleson, “the wife of Henry Ittleson, “the founder of the Commercial Credit
and Investment Company.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ittleson-blanche-frank
1876(9th
of Tishrei, 5637): Erev Yom Kippur
1876:
“Jewish Day of Atonement” published today provides a brief but accurate of “the
celebration of the fast of Yom Kippur.”
It includes the fact that “in Orthodox synagogues the supplicants will
wear shrouds to remind them of the grave.
Reformed Jews, though joining in the fasting and praying, discard the
shrouds.”
1877(20th
of Tishrei, 5638): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1877(20th
of Tishrei, 5638): Sixty-five-year-old Joseph Lebensburger, the husband of
Rosina Leopold Lebensburge whom he married in 1846 and the father of Nora,
Caroline, August and Myere Lebensburger passed away today in Dayton, OH.
1877:
In Lithuania, Libbie and Hyman David Sachs gave birth to University of
Pittsburgh trained attorney Charles Harry Sachs, the father of three children
and an executive with the Washington Trust Company.
1878(15th
of Tishrei, 5548): Sukkoth
1878:
The New York Times featured a review of “The Writer Heine Loved Most: Lessing”
by James Sime.
1878:
Birthdate of Kanus, Lithuania native and Columbia University trained lawyer
Paul Abelson who lectured in Yiddish “on history and civil rights…to help with
Americanization of new immigrants and served as labor arbitrator while editing
Yiddish language magazines.
1879(10th
of Tishrei, 5640): Yom Kippur
1879:
Birthdate Hans Hahn an Austrian mathematician who made contributions to
functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real
analysis, and order theory
1880:
It was reported today that the last issued of the National Quarterly Review contains an article by David Ker entitled
“The Political Future of the Jews.” He thinks that the probability of this
“outlawed race” returning to Palestine, “the land of their fathers” “rests upon more durable grounds that the
visions of fanatical zeal or of patriotic enthusiasm
1880:
In Missouri, the town of Herdsville was re-named Seligman in honor of financer
Joseph Seligman who had died the previous April.
1881:
The SS Egypt arrived today from
Liverpool carrying 48 Jewish immigrants who were met at Castle Garden by the
newly formed committee that will help will advise and aid them as they adjust
to their surroundings.
1881:
Birthdate of Israel Zolli the chief rabbi in Rome from 1940 to 1945 who
converted to Catholicism in 1945.
1882:
In San Antonio, TX, Clarence Lapowski, “a Polish Jewish immigrant” and Bertha
Stenbock, the daughter of immigrants from Sweden gave birth to American
investment banker Clarence Douglas Dillon.
1883:
It was reported today that rioting in the Ukrainian town of Nowomoskowk has
left 200 Jewish families homeless and that only one synagogue and three homes
belonging to Jews “escaped demolition.
The riot began because Jews were blamed for the plundering of a Russian
Church.
1883:
In Adelaide, Australia, the former Elizabeth Solomon and Rabbi Abraham Tobias
Boas gave birth to Winham College and Prince Alfred College trained architect
and town planner Harold Boas the husband of
Sadie ("Sarah") Cohen whom he married in 1911 at the Brisbane
Street Synagogue in Perth and a designer of “many public buildings in and
around Perth and was an influential Jewish community leader” who “served as an
elected member of the Perth City Council on three separate occasions, presided
over the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission and was the foundation president
of the Town Planning Institute of Western Australia.”
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boas-harold-9530
1884:
Abraham Jacobs and Jacob Jacobs (no relation) ended up being arrested after an
altercation at the doorway to the Covenant Hall on Orchard Street. The two combatants actually went to the
police station together to file complaints against each other. When the desk sergeant was told that there
were no witnesses, he locked them both up until the matter was sorted out.
1885:
Birthdate of Gustav Schröder, Captain of the MS St. Louis.
1886:
Birthdate of Ben Adler, the Anniston, Alabama native who was the husband of
Blanche Adler and the father of Morris and Frances Adler.
1886:
Birthdate of Sir George James Giffard who in 1940 “was General Officer
Commanding British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan” meaning that he was
the senior officer “on the ground” when the Yishuv faced the twin threat of
Nazi invasion and the enforcement of the infamous White Paper.
1887(9th
of Tishrei, 5648): Kol Nidre
1887:
Birthdate of Galicia native Mozer Bentsien, the Yiddish author and teacher who
moved to the United States in 1921.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/3139/Mozer-Bentsien-September-27-1887-March-1975
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/M/mozer-bentsion-V4.htm
1888(22nd
of Tishrei, 5649): Shmini Atzeret
1889(2nd
of Tishrei, 5650): 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah
1889:
In New York Bertha Weiss and Samuel Fallek gave birth to Washington University
trained engineer Isadore Fallek, the president and chief engineer of Fallek
Engineering Corporation in Schenectady, NY
1889:
Officer Gebhard of the Eldridge Street squad put out the lights in a synagogue
Erev Shabbat at 91 Delancy Street because he claimed that the establishment
doubled as a dance hall and it was the only way to stop a dispute between two
groups, one of which wanted to pray and the other one of which wanted to dance.
1889:
Birthdate of New York native and Washington University trained mechanical
engineer Isadore Fallek, a WWI veteran and employ of the State department of
the Agriculture and Markes.
1890:
“The Jews In Russia” published today described “the appointment: of “a special
commission”… “to consider the position of the Jews in Russia.”
1890:
Albert B. Theime attributed the undercounting in his census figures to the fact
that so much of his district was made up of Polish Jews he said “seemed to
think that I had some sinister motive in asking questions. He deliberately did
not count approximately count approximately 500 people living in two buildings
on Orchard Street because it would have taken too much time.
1891:
The Brooklyn Eagle published "Judaism in Brooklyn: The Ancient Faith of
Israel and Its Local Adherents."
1891:
The New York Times published reports
from its foreign correspondents describing the desperate plight of the Jews of
Russia. Two to three thousand Jews are attempting to leave the famine strapped
Southern part of the empire, but this exodus “has no real effect on the hideous
pressure of congested Jews inside the Pale.”
1891:
“New York State Churches” published today provided described the problems that
the congregation in Poughkeepsie is having with their Rabbi Herman Faust who
has been replaced by Rabbi Sandberg.
1892(6th
of Tishrei, 5653): Michel Erlanger, the native of Alsace who “as an active member of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle, assisted Charles Netter in establishing at Jaffa the agricultural
school known as "Miḳweh Yisrael" and “succeeded Albert Cohn in the
management of the Rothschild charities” passed away today in Paris.
1892:
Starting today, 4 ambulances will be stationed at the Willard Parker Hospital
after Charles Wilson, the President of the Board of Health determined that
Samuel Machinsky, a young Jewish boy had “been allowed to lied on the sidewalk
at the Bowery and Houston Street for two hours” before help arrived because
there was a shortage of ambulances at the hospital due to the outbreak of
Cholera.
1892:
The response of former President Grover Cleveland, who is running again this
fall for the Presidency, to a letter from a Jewish voter expressing his
appreciation for the Democratic Party’s plank about the treatment of Russian
Jews was published today. Cleveland
assured him that he supported the plank but said the party was only acting “in
accordance with humanity and the kindly feeling which ought to exist in the
brotherhood of mankind.”
1892:
During today’s dedication of the Girl’s High School in Brooklyn, Joseph C.
Hendrix, President of the Board of Education spoke to the crowd about the
“swarms” of Polish and Russian Jews who “bring their moral diseases….with
them.” “The only quarantine that will
avail against this is the school, erected and maintained by the tax and the
bounty of the people.”
1893:
Lt. Junior Grade, Simon Cook, who would serve aboard the USS Princeton and with
the Hydrographic Office in Chicago was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant today
1894:
Mrs. Elke Rubenstein and her sister Basche Ragleski of Jerusalem arrived at
Ellis Island.
1894:
“In a small town outside of London, publishing house owner and author
Tsvi-Hirsh Zylbercweig and his wife gave birth to Zalmen Zylbercweig, who came
to the United States in the 1920’s “where he took up the task he had begun in
Poland and that was to occupy almost half a century—writing biographies of
thousands of Yiddish actors, playwrights, composers, lyricists and others for
his “Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/07/27/80798633.pdf
http://yiddish-sources.com/cumulative-index-zalman-zylbercweigs-leksikon-fun-yidishn-teater
http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/zalman-zylbercweig
1895(9th
of Tishrei, 5656): Erev of Yom Kippur
1895:
In New York, the Board of Health is refusing to issue special permits to allow
for the sale of live poultry which means that the forty or fifty poultry
dealers who had bought between 100,000 and 150,000 chickens which they had
intended to sell to Jews so that they could perform their pre-Yom Kippur
rituals are going to lose a lot of money.
1895:
In London, Barney Barnato “who made his fortune in South African diamond and
gold mining” and Fanny Bees gave birth to their youngest son Joel Woolf
Barnato.
1895:
Judge Fitzgerald agreed to postpone the trial of Morris Schoenholz which had
begun yesterday because Yom Kippur was starting this evening and it would
inconvenience the Jewish client and Abraham Levy, his Jewish lawyer.
1895:
In Boston, Louis and Rose B. Bertman gave birth to Northeast University trained
attorney Irving Bertman a member of ZOA, B’nai B’rith and Temple Mishkan Tefila
in Roxbury, MA.
1896(20th
of Tishrei, 5657): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1896:
Max Silverberg and Jacob Weinberg were not able “sit in their own Sukkah” today
because the one they had built jointly in the yard of their residence at 31
Essex Street had burned up yesterday in a fire thought to have been started by
“a malicious boy.”
1897(1st
of Tishrei, 5658): Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah for the first time during the
Presidency of William McKinley.
1897:
“The Jewish residents of Camden, NJ, celebrated Rosh Hashanah in Furery’s Hall.
1897:
In New York, Russian born Louis Falk and his wife Ida Falk gave birth to
Michael Peter Falk.
1897:
Relying on sentiments that first appeared in the Jewish Messenger the following
“text for the New Year was published today – “The Jews needs the world’s
broadening impulse and world requires the ethical foundations of the Jew.”
1897:
The Electric Vehicle Company was founded today “as a holding company of
battery-powered electric vehicle manufacturers made up of several companies
assembled by Isaac Rice,” “a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor,
musicologist, author, and chess patron.”
1897:
“A New Year’s Greeting” relying on information that first appeared in the
American Hebrew published today read,
1897:
It was reported today that the French Cabinet has instructed the Minister of
Justice to take the matter known as the Dreyfus Case to the Court of Cassation
which “will examine all the evidence in the case to whether the ex-artillery
officer was unjustly condemned, either through perversion of justice or through
inadequate or untrustworthy evidence or because evidence has been discovered
since the trial raising the question of reasonable doubt as to the man’s
guilt.”
1898:
Following the end of the Spanish-American War, “the gunboat USS Bennington”
under the command of Edward D. Tausig who had been promoted to the rank of
commander in August arrived in Hawaii
today where it began three months of operations in “local waters” that
including conducting a survey of Pearl Harbor.
1898:
Five days after having left San Francisco, the USS Bennington under the command
of Cmdr. Edward Taussig arrived in Hawaii today.
1898:
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz and his wife, the former Emmeline “Emmy”
Obermeyer gave birth to their daughter Katherine “Kitty” Stiegelitz the future
wife of Milton Sprague Sterns.
1899(23
of Tishrei, 5660): For the final time in the 19th century, Jews
celebrated Simchat Torah
1899:
Birthdate of Rebecca Goodman who would marry author David Freedman and as
Beatrice Freedman would have three sons and one daughter with him.
1900: Mathilde
Blumenthal and Berthhold Hochschild gave birth to Yale graduate and president
of the American Metal Company Harold K. Hochschild, the husband of Mary
Marquand with whom he had one son, author Adam Hochschild.
https://www.mininghalloffame.org/hall-of-fame/harold-k-hochschild
1900:
Former governor William J. Stone, the eastern campaign manager for William
Jennings Bryan gave an interview today in which he said that Senator Mark Hanna
was raising twenty million dollars to re-elected President William McKinley who
was “almost unanimously supported by Jews” during the 1897 campaign against
Bryan and whose Jewish friends included Simon Wolf and Captain Daniel Meyer,
his Civil War comrade. (For more see Elected and the Chosen)
1901:
Birthdate of Omaha, Nebraska, native and Creighton University trained attorney
Sam Beber the “founder of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization” (BBYO) and
husband of “the former Helen Riekes” with whom he had three children.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/08/28/105362179.html?pageNumber=18
1902(25th
of Elul, 5662): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selicht
1902:
It was reported today that “thus far the British Government has received no
replies from the signatories of the Berlin treaty to its note supporting
Secretary Hay’s initiative on the question of the treatment of the Rumanian
Jews.”
1903(6th
of Tishrei, 5664): Forty-five-year-old Julius Plotke the native of Borek who
became a successful lawyer and was a trustee of the Jewish Colonization
Association passed away in Frankort-on-the Main.
1904:
The Miriam Barnert Hebrew Free School was dedicated today in Paterson, New
Jersey by Nathan Barnert
1904:
“On Clinton Street in the lower East Side of Manhattan Fred and Gussie Terris
gave birth to Sydney Terris the boxing champion known variously as the
Galloping Ghost of the Ghetto and the Dancing Master of the East Side.
1905(28th
of Elul, 5665): Famed theatrical manager Jacob Litt passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0912F73F5512738DDDA10A94D1405B858CF1D3
1905:
Albert Einstein published the paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend
Upon Its Energy Content?" in Annalen der Physik. This paper
revealed the relationship between energy and mass. . [If you have any questions
about his work, I suggest you consult Dr. Joe Rosen, the only person I know who
understands this sort of thing.]
1905:
Third baseman Phil Cooney made his major league debut with the New York
Highlanders (the modern-day Yankees).
1905:
In Philadelphia, Dr. Cyrus Adler a native of Van Buren, a town in Crawford
County, Arkansas married Miss Racie Friedenwald at the home of Mrs. Jane
Friedenwald, the bride’s mother in a ceremony conducted by Rabbi Leon H.
Elmaleh of Congregation Mikvah Israel.
1906:
“M. Levroff, who is the author of an anti-Jewish pamphlet entitled ‘Measures
for Outrooting the Evil in Russia’ published last March and calling for the
extermination of Jews” as well as declaring it is a “sacred duty to kill Jews”
has been descried as an official of the Ministry of the Interior.”
1907(19th
of Tishrei, 5668): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1907(19th
of Tishrei, 5658): Forty-two-year-old Bertha Levy Bodenheimer the wife of
Emanuel Bodenheimer the mother of
Harriet Goldsmith and Jacob Bodenheimer passed away today after which she was
buried at Hebrew Rest Cemetery in Shreveport, LA.
1907:
According to information received today in Paris, “Maclainin, the fanatical
priest, has demanded on the authority of the Koran permission to take money
from sell the house of Jews in order to obtain fund to carry on a holy war” to
which “Mulai Hafig replied that Maclainin was an imposter and the Koran
contained no words to justify such proceedings.”
1908(2nd
of Tishrei, 5669): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time
during the Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt.
1909:
Birthdate of Chicago native Philip Hauser, the Chicago School of Sociology
trained demographer.
https://www.asanet.org/about/governance-and-leadership/council/presidents/philip-m-hauser
1909:
President William Howard Taft, who supported demands that Russia stop
discriminating against American Jews “and was the first president to address a
Jewish congregation on Shabbat “created the first American oil reserve” for use
by the United States.
1910:
Twenty-seven year old Felix Baum the German trained physician specializing in
internal medicine, WW I veteran of the German Army and son of Alexander and
Clara (Pheibig) Baum who in 1924 came to the United States where he served as
the Medical Director of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, CO which is
where he developed the “Baum Technik” which is “a serological method to
determine active tuberculosis” married Lillie Hofheimer today
1910:
Twenty-one-year-old Bennett Medical College and Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat College trained surgeon Edmund David Levinsohn, the Chicago born son of
Emma Lucas and Sol Levinsohn married Melanie M. Poll today.
1911: Birthdate of
writer
and humanitarian Ruth Gruber who had earned bachelor's and master's degrees by
age 19 and a Ph.D. by 20, dedicated her life to helping relieve the oppression
suffered by Jews worldwide. At the age of 21, Gruber began her career as a
journalist, reporting on global politics. In 1944, Gruber was asked by the US
Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes to conduct a secret mission to escort 1000
Italian Jewish refugees to America. This brief break in the nation's otherwise
restrictive immigration policy allowed the refugees to be "guests" of
President Roosevelt throughout the war. Throughout the mission, Gruber was
aggressively hunted as a foreign spy by Nazi seaplanes and U-boats. In her
writing of the experience of the refugees that she accompanied, Gruber drew
attention to the plight of European Jews. After World War II Gruber returned to
journalism and began reporting on the Jewish migration to Palestine. Her
reports helped advance the dissolution of Displaced Person camps in Africa,
Europe, and the Middle East. Throughout the 1940s Gruber worked to ensure the
success and growth of Israel through her work as an activist and by sparking
global attention through her news reports. Gruber continues to advocate for
Jews worldwide and, for many, is herself a symbol of Jews' rescue from
oppression. Gruber has written thirteen books, seven of which focus on the
subject of Israel and the Middle East from the end of World War II to the
present. Her book, Destination
Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947, was used as
source material for the movie and book Exodus. Gruber's memoir, Ahead of My Time: My Early Years as a
Foreign Correspondent, was published in 1999, and her life was the
subject of Haven, a 2001 CBS miniseries.
1911(5th
of Tishrei, 5672: Sixty-seven-year-old Auguste Michel –Lévy, the French
geologist who became inspector of mines and director of the Geological Survey
of France, passed away.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9877-levy-august-michel
1912:
“A Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the State of South Carolina”
today “establishing a congregation to be known as Beth Israel, with B. Patz,*
M. Rosenfeld* and I. Silverman* signing as Trustees.”
1912:
In Berlin Ernst Levy and Zerline Wolff gave birth to University of Heidelberg
graduate Brigitte Levy who fled to Germany where she attended Columbia where
she met her husband Edgard Bodenheimer and gained fame as jurist Brigette
Bodenheimer.
1913:
In Asbury Park, NJ founding of Sons of Israel Synagogue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/carrie-brownstein.html
1913:
In Heldenbergen, Samuel and Rosa Rosel Scheuer gave birth to Manfred Scheuer
who was buried in San Francisco when he passed away in 1982.
1913:
Birthdate of Pittsburgh native and psychologist Albert Ellis. whose
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), is the foundation of all cognitive
and cognitive behavior therapies. REBT is a comprehensive theory of personality
and psychotherapy which holds that one's personal beliefs, evaluations, and
personal philosophy control one's feelings. Thus, it is not external events
that causes emotional disturbance, rather it is a person's own beliefs about
events or adversity that produce it. Ellis proposed that the way to improve
well-being is to change ones thoughts, beliefs, and behavior. It was this
principle that he first formally expressed in the early 1950's that became the
basis of all cognitive psychotherapies.
1913:
A production” of “Princess Caprice, a musical theatre work described as a
"comedy with music", in three acts, with music by Leo Fall,” the son
of Mortiz Fall was performed today “at the Leeds Grand.
1914:
Henry S. Felter of New Brunswick “was re-elected President of the New Jersey
Federation of Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association today.
1914:
Under the caption “The Kaiser’s American Agents,” The Times of London printed a letter from Israel Zangwill in which
he wrote “I should add that since receiving Sir Edward Grey’’s assurance that
England’s sympathies lay with the emancipation of the Russian Jews I have had a
number of applications from Jews – Rumanian and English as well as Russian Jews
living outside of Russia – anxious to enlist in the Jewish Territorial
Organization under the idea that is a branch of the British Army.” (Gray was
the British Foreign Minister who is credited with the lines as he walked out of
his ministry on the evening that Britain declared war on Germany – "The
lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our
life-time.”
1914:
As both sides wooed the Ottoman Empire at the outset of WW I, the German
commander of the Dardanelles fortifications ordered the major waterway closed,
adding to the impression among the Allies that the Ottomans had already decided
to ally themselves with the Central Powers, setting in motion events that
reverberate in the Middle East in the 21st century.
1915(19th
of Tishrei, 5676): Fifth day of Sukkoth
1915:
Each youngster who attended yesterday’s Sukkoth celebration sponsored by Young
Judaea including the children from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum received “as a
souvenir” “a picture depicting the observations of the Succoth festival in the
synagogue drawn by Leopold Pilichowski.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leopold_Pilichowski_Sukkot.jpg
1915:
“Whether the New York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women will
secede from the national body will be determined at a meeting of the section to
be held sometime next week, according to a decision reached” this “afternoon at
a meeting of members of the section at Temple Emanu-El.
1915:
“In an address in the Baltimore Opera House tonight Louis D. Brandeis urged the
necessity of unity among the Jews in order to aid their brethren in Europe
after war” saying that “When the war ends the Jews of America hope to aid in
the solution of those problems which most deeply affect their brethren abroad.”
1916(29th
of Elul, 5675): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1916:
As labor unions line up to show their support for the Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway Employees, it was learned today the
International Ladies’ Garment Workers with 65,000 members had voted to go on
strike while the United Hebrew Trades with 100,000 to 200,000 members “has
pledged their unanimous support to the union leaders and strike organizers.”
1916:
“The thousands of Jewish soldiers on duty at the Mexican border with the
National Guard will take part in the religious services which will be held for
them under the auspices of the newly organized army and navy branches of the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association “in answer to requests on the part of parents
and families of Jewish guardsmen in service at the border and elsewhere.”
1916: In Rehovot, author Zev Zass Smilensky and his
wife gave birth to “Yizhar Smilansky known by his pen name S. Yizhar” who was
also the nephew of author Moshe Smilansky.
1916:
“The New Synagogue, the latest Jewish liberal congregation organized on the
West Side held its New Year’s Eve services at Aeolian Hall where Rabbi Frisch
preached a sermon on ‘A Happy New Year.’”
1917:
Birthdate of Rear Admiral Maurice H. Rindskopf who was the youngest submarine
commander in World War II
1917:
“Jews Give $350,000 for War Suffers” published today reported that “when Yom
Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, came to a close at sunset yesterday more
than $350,000 had been contributed within twenty-four hours in all the
synagogues and temples of the city to the $10,000,000 relief fund which is
being raised for the relief of Jewish war suffers in Europe.” The New York appeal was part of a nationwide
movement designed to raise $10,000,000 for the Jews trapped in war-torn Europe
and Palestine.
1917:
Jacob Billlikopf, Executive Director of the American Jewish Relief Committee,
said that yesterday’s Yom Kippur appeal for funds to help relieve the suffering
Jews trapped in war-torn Europe was separate from the Jacob Schiff’s campaign
for funds that will begin on the first of December.
1917:
The furloughs granted to U.S. soldiers and sailors so that they could observe
Yom Kippur came to an end today.
1917:
Birthdate of American microbiologist Benjamin Rubin, “the inventor of the
bifurcated vaccination needle.”
1917:
Amidst the turmoil of war and revolution, among the reforms promulgated by the
Kerensky government was the issuance of a decree “legalizing an easier form of
oath for Karait Jews.”
1918(21st
of Tishrei, 5679): Hoshanah Rabah
1918:
The Meuse-Argonne offensive “the largest offensive in United States military
history continued for a second day.
1918:
General Allenby’s victorious cavalry rode across the Golan Heights into Syria,
heading for Damascus.
1918:
“The Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub was fought at the Daughters of Jacob Bridge today during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign
of World War I, at the beginning of the pursuit by the British Army of the
retreating remnants of the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group towards Damascus, who
destroyed the central arch of the bridge. The bridge was shortly repaired by
ANZAC sappers, flattening the original dual-slope pathway, making it useful for
modern vehicles
1919:
Lester Gans Steppacher, the Philadelphia born son of Walter and Leah Steppacher
and his wife Ruth Steppacher gave birth to Dr. Lester Gans Seppacher, Jr.
1919: Emma Goldman was
released from a two-year prison term, only to be immediately rearrested.
Goldman had been arrested in 1917 with her long-time comrade Alexander Berkman
for "conspiring against the draft" as a result of their work creating
the No-Conscription league in May 1917 to oppose U.S. involvement in World War
I. The activists were arrested less than one month later and imprisoned in
December. After immigrating to the United States at 16 in 1885, Goldman soon
became an outspoken advocate for the rights of workers and women. Incensed by
the poor standard of living of the majority of workers, she began lecturing and
promoting anarchy as the best method to achieve equality. Goldman's belief in
the anarchist principle of absolute freedom shaped her activism for the rest of
her life. As Goldman's prison release
neared in August 1919, the director of the Justice Department's General
Intelligence committee, the young J. Edgar Hoover, worked to ensure Goldman and
Berkman's permanent removal from American society. Hoover pressured the courts
to deny Goldman's citizenship claims, thus making her vulnerable to the 1918
Alien Act. In a letter to a governmental official, Hoover described Goldman and
Berkman as "beyond doubt, two of the most dangerous anarchists in this
country," concluding that they would, "if permitted to return to the
community do undue harm." Goldman and Berkman were deported at the end of
1919 with 247 other immigrant radicals to the new Soviet Union. After less than
two years in Russia, Goldman left the country disillusioned by the violence and
unforgiving rule of the Bolsheviks. She spent the remainder of her life
traveling throughout Europe and Canada, politically frustrated by her status as
an exile. After her death, Goldman was finally readmitted to the United States
and buried in Chicago.(As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archives)
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/27/1919/emma-goldman-arrested
1920(15th of Tishrei, 5681): Sukkoth
1920: Rabbi Aaron Eiseman is scheduled to deliver a
sermon on “Lessons of Joyfulness” at Congregation Mt. Nebo today.
1920: Rabbi Jacob Katz is scheduled to lead services
at Congregation B’nai Israel in Brooklyn.
1920: Rabbi I. Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to
deliver a sermon this morning on “Bringing in the Sheaves” and on “Let in the
Light” this evening at the Hebrew Technical on Broadway.
1920: In New York, the celebration of the Pilgrim
Tercentenary which has been led by Adolph Lewisohn began today.
1920: Colonel Milton J. Foreman is candidate for the
office of national commander of the American Legon which began its meeting
today in Cleveland.
1920: For the first time since 1492, the Spanish
government formally recognized the Jewish community, according to it all
privileges of other religious bodies.
1920: Reports were published today that Nathaniel
Cantor, the brother of Rabbi Bernard Cantor who was murdered by Bolsheviks, is
the first recipient of the Bernard Cantor Fellowship created by the Free
Synagogue for students at the Hebrew Union College.
1921: Thirty-year-old Cornell educated engineer Charles Weiss,
the Hungarian born son of Bernard and Teresa (Schlesinger) Weiss, the Captain
of Engineers in the AEF during WW I, “assistant supervisor on the Pennsylvania
Railroad” and winner of the Carnegie Hero Fund Medal” married Sari Kohn today.
1921: Birthdate of New York native and WW II Army
veteran Milton Subotsky “who with is partner Max Rosenberg produced such films
as Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors and Tales from the Crypt.”
1921: Birthdate of New York native and WW II
veteran Milton Subotsky best known for co-founding with Max J. Rosenberg,
Amicus Productions which churned out “low budget science fiction and horror
films” passed away in his adopted homeland of Great Britain which was the home
of his wife “Dr. Fiona Subotsky, is a prominent London psychiatrist, and an
historian of psychiatry.”
http://www.classic-monsters.com/milton-subotsky/
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/186526%7C113495/Milton-Subotsky/
1922(5th of Tishrei, 5683):
Seventy-six-year-old Baltimore
native Martin Emrich who in 1887 moved to Chicago where he was a successful
businessman and Democrat Party activist who was elected to the House of Representatives
for one term passed away today.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000170
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-emerich
1922: In the U.K., probate was granted to Elsie, the
sister of the late Dorothy Elizabeth Levi, better known as Dorothy Levitt the
female pioneer in the field of motoring and power boat racing.
1922: Birthdate of Arthur Hiller Penn, the American
director and producer who was the younger brother of fashion photographer
Arthur Penn.
1922: Birthdate of Nat Shapiro who played a key role
in the music industry and promotional director for Mercury Records and A&R
director of Columbia Records.
1923(17th of Tishrei, 5684): Third Day of
Sukkoth
1923: “Sir Alfred Mond, a former member of the
British Cabinet and a member of Parliament was welcomed by a capacity audience”
tonight “at the Town Hall where he opened his campaign for the Palestine
Restoration Fund” and where attendees heard speeches by Samuel Untermyer, Louis
Marshall and Oscar Straus.
1924: Birthdate of Springfield, MA, native Ernest
Becker the WW II Army veteran who took part in the liberation of concentration
camps and won the “1974 Pulitzer Prize” for The Denial of Death.
1925(9th of Tishrei, 5685): Erev Yom
Kippur
1925: It was reported today that the “production of
the new season at the Neighborhood Playhouse” will be the ‘The Dybbuk’ long
well known on the Yiddish stage.”
1925: It was reported today The Amphion, an old
theatre in Brooklyn where Yiddish plays are being performed for the first time
is the home” to “Samuel Goldenburg a versatile actor” who used to star at the
Second Avenue Theatre and Cecilia Adler, “a daughter of Jacob Adler best known
for her work in Peretz Hirshbein’s idyll of Russian-Jewish life.”
1926(19th of Tishrei, 5687) Third Day of
Sukkoth
1926: “the Palestine Electric Corporation, Ltd.
Formed to develop the Rutenberg concession for the electrification of Palestine
announced today that “Lord Reading, the ex-Viceroy to India, Sir Alfred Mond,
Sir Hugo Hirst and James de Rothschild” have “agreed to join the company’s
Board of Directors” and that “Lord Reading will be Chairman of the Board of
Directors.”
1927(1st of Tishrei, 5688): Rosh Hashanah
1927: Having left Harlem’s Ohab Zedek congregation
in August, Rabbi Josef “Yossele” Rosenblatt led services this morning in a hall
in Chicago.
1927: After thirty-one performances at the Garrick
Theatre in London, the curtain came down George S. Kaufman’s Broadway hit “The
Butter and Egg Man.”
1927: “A complete service children” is scheduled to
“be conducted this morning Rabbi Benjamin Shultz at the Beth-El Sisterhood
House on east 62nd Street.
1927: Under the auspices of the Hebrew Sheltering
and Immigrant Aid Society, “services are scheduled to be conducted on Ellis
Island for detained Jewish immigrants.
1927: Bessarabia born Isa Kramer, the wife of
Argentine psychiatrist Dr. Gregorio Berman who was an opera singer in Europe
before coming to the United States in 1923 “made her vaudeville debut at the
Palace Theatre” today.
1928: Birthdate of Lester Donald Shubin, the
Philadelphia native who was among the U.S. troops that liberated Dachau. While
working for the Justice Department, he developed one of the most effective
bullet proof vests of the 1970’s.
1928: Birthdate of Zev Wolfson, the native of Vilna
who came to the United States at the age of 17 and became a successful real
estate tycoon and generous philanthropist.
http://www.aish.com/jw/s/Zev-Wolfson-One-of-a-Kind.html
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/vilna/vilna_pages/vilna_stories_zev.html
1929: Seventy-five-year-old attorney Benno Lewinson,
who “was a college classmate of Louis Marshall” and one of the founders of the
New York County Lawyers Association celebrated his birthday after having
boasted that after his most recent illness he “was good for another 20 years.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/09/27/94181909.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1929: Birthdate of Leonard Jerome Harris, the Bronx
native who became
arts and theater critic for New York’s
CBS television affiliate.
1929: Fifty Chaluzim are scheduled to set sail from
Odessa for Palestine today.
1930(5th of Tishrei, 5691): Shabbat Shuva
1930: In New York, “Pinhas Ginguld, a Poale Zion
officer and head of the network of secular Yiddish Folk Schools and Teacher’s
Seminary in New York” and thirty-four-year-old social activist and Zionist
Sophie A. Udin gave birth to “their son Yehuda (Ginguld) Paz.”
1930: When the Yiddish talking film “The Jewish
Mother,” an American production was presented for the time tonight at the
Mograbi Theatre in Tel Aviv a mob of several thousands of Jews gathered outside
the theatre shouting ‘Down with Yiddish!
Hebrew is our language. Several
young men, members of the ‘Army for the Defense of the Hebrew Langue,’ broke
into the theatre and threw tear bombs.
They also hurled ink bottles at the screen. Policemen immediately were sent to the scene
and found it almost impossible to force their way through the huge mob. They finally succeeded in arresting about a
dozen of the ringleaders and dispersing the mob. The show was then continued, but soon
afterwards an even larger mob again gathered, and the authorities found it
necessary to order that the show be discontinued. Even then the crowd refused leave until all
the lights in the theatre were out.”
1930: In Vienna, Samuel and Rene Reichman gave birth
to their fifth child, future real estate mogul Paul Reichman.
1931(16th of Tishrei,5692): Second of
Sukkoth
1931: First broadcast of “The Lady Esther Serenade,”
a musical radio program sponsored by Lady Esther, “a cosmetic manufacturing
company founded by German-born Syma Cohen and her siblings in Chicago in 1913
and operated as Lady Esther Company.”
1931: Anglo-German businessman Wilfrid Israel took
V.A. Sundaram, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi to meet Albert Einstein
1932: “Three men – Charles S. Weiss, Isidor Cohen
and Morris Horn – “convicted last week of coercion of kosher butches received
intermediate sentences not to exceed three years in the penitentiary” today “
from Justices Direnzo, Nolan and Dale in the Bronx Special Sessions Court.
1933: Ludwig
Müller, Hitler’s candidate and a dedicated Nazi was elected as the new
Reichsbischof of the German Evangelical Church
1934: Fifty-seven-year-old Martha Levy, the daughter
of Morris Levy and Isabelle Baker and wife of Maurice Steinfeld who had passed
away three days ago was buried today at New Mt. Sinai Cemetery in St. Louis,
MO.
1934: The 80th birthday of German born,
Columbia trained lawyer Benno Lewinson was celebrated today at his home in New
York City.
1935(29th of Elul, 5695): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1935: Karl Donitz, who followed Hitler as head of
the German state was promoted to the reanks of “Captain at Sea) in the
Kriegsmarine
1936: In New York, “Tobias Brown and Beatrice
(Cohen) Lemisch gave birth Jesse Lemisch, the Yale Ph.D. who became a leading
historian.
1936: At Yankee Stadium a crowd of more than 30,000
people saw “the better teamwork of the Maccabees, soccer champions of
Palestine, route the New York State Football Association All-Stars 6 to 0” in a
contest “sponsored by the Federation of Polish Jewish in America” the proceeds
of which “will be shared by the American Committee for the Relief of Jews in
Poland and the Maccabee Tel Aviv Sports Organization in Palestine.”
1936: The Maccabees of Tel Aviv, the soccer
champions of Palestine are scheduled to play their first game against a team of
the New York State Football Association at Yankee Stadium.
1936: After a four-month tour of Europe, Mrs. Edward
Jacobs, the national president of Hadassah returned to New York today and “said
the situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe was a ‘reflection of the unhealthy
and unwholesome general state’ in that part of the world” while “Eastern
European countries were making ‘scapegoats’ of the Jews.”
1936: Herbert J. Seligman, “the director of public
relations of the American Joint Distribution” returned to the United States
today and said the Jews in Eastern and Central Europe “were living under
conditions more critical than even in the anarchic post-war years.”
1936: “The Nazi regime in Germany is definitely
anti-Christian because it legislates against Jews and thereby violates the
fundamental principle of Chrisitianity, the union of all men into one family
under the Fatherhood of God, the Reverend Howard Chandler Robbins declared in
his sermon this morning at the Protestant Episcopal Church.”
1937(22nd of Tishrei, 5698): Shmini
Atzeret
1937: “Lillian Schoedler,” the secretary of the 77-year-old
Edward A. Filine who passed yesterday” said that his body had been cremated and
that “she would take his ashes to America as soon as possible.”
1937: Birthdate of Sir Kurt George Matthew Mayer
Alberti who has served as the President of the Royal College of Physicians and
the National Clinical Director for Emergency Access in the United Kingdom.
1938(2nd of Tishrei, 5699): On the second
day of Rosh Hashanah Jews
are barred from practicing law in Germany.
1938:
As Rosh Hashanah came to an end Reb Levi Yitchok Bender made their clandestine
escape by train from Uman to Kiev where an informer turned him over to the
local police. After interrogation, he
was released because he convinced them that he had been in Khrysthnivka and not
Uman. The leader of the Breslov Chasidim would spend the war in Siberia before
making Aliyah in 1949. He died forty
years later.
1938:
As the crisis over the Sudetenland worsened the French held a cabinet meeting
at which Premiere Daladier insisted on mobilization which led to a conflict
with his Foreign Minister.
1939: Berlin issues a command to establish
Jewish ghettos in Poland on the same day that formal Polish military resistance
collapses.
1939:
The Communist deputies were excluded today from the National Assembly today
after the pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet had been signed – an
exclusion which would make it easier for Pierre Laval, the Nazi supporter to
form a new government in 1940.
1939:
“The SD and SiPo (made up of the Gestapo and the Kripo) were folded into the
new Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt; RSHA), which was
placed under Reinhard Heydrich's control which led to Werner Best being made
head of “Amt I” with the responsibility for developing and explaining “the Nazi
Jewish policy.” was made head of Amt I (Department I) of the RSHA:
Administration and Legal. That department dealt with the legal and personnel
issues/matters of the SS and security police.[10] Heydrich and Heinrich Himmler
relied on Best to develop and explain legally the activities against enemies of
the state and in relation to the Nazi Jewish policy. In 1939 Best became one of
the directors of Heydrich's foundation, the Stiftung Nordhav.
1940:
“Strike Up the Band” a musical produced by Arthur Freed was released today in
the United States by MGM.
1940:
“The German occupation authorities issued an ordinance requiring all Jews
residing in France to register with the police” which would trigger “Iranian
diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardari’s efforts to protect the “Jugutis”, “Jews from
Iran, Afghanistan and Bukhara.”
1940:
“Rangers of Fortune, a Western featuring Joseph Schildkraut as “Colonel Lewis
Rebstock” was released in the United States today.
1940:
“Spring Parade” a remake of the 1934 film directed by Henry Koster, featuring
Mischa Auer and S. Z. Sakall and produced by Jos Pasternak who had also
produced the original version.
1940(24th of Elul, 5700: Walter Benjamin died by his own hands
today. He was a German Jewish Marxist literary critic and philosopher. Benjamin
committed suicide in Port Bou at the Spanish-French border, while attempting to
escape from the Nazis, when it appeared that his party would be denied passage
across the border to freedom. The rest of the group was allowed to cross the
border the next day, possibly because their desperation was made clear by
Benjamin's suicide. A completed manuscript which Benjamin had carried in his
suitcase, possibly his "Arcades Project," disappeared after his death
and has not been recovered.
1940:
Thirty-nine-year-old Helmut Neustadter, who would gain fame as Australian
photographer Helmut Newton, who had been interred by British authorities while
in Singapore escaping from Nazi Germany, arrived in Sydney aboard the Queen
Mary and was shipped to the camp at Tatura under armed guard.
1941(6th
of Tishrei, 5702): Shabbat Shuvah
1941:
In Brooklyn Harold and Pearl Gossett gave birth to musicologist Philip Gossett.
(As reported by Michael Cooper)
1941:
“Thirty-two leaders of industry, labor and professions have accepted
appointments as associate and vice chairmen of the fifth merged fund-raising
campaign of the New York and Brooklyn Federations of Jewish Charities, it was
announced today by George Z. Medalie and Hugh Grant Straus, presidents of the
two federations.”
1941(6th
of Tishrei, 5702): The two-day massacre of the Jews began at at
Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine.
1941(6th
of Tishrei, 5702)
1942(16th
of Tishrei, 5703): Second Day of Sukkoth
1942(16th
of Tishrei, 5703): An additional 897 French Jews were killed at Berkenau
1942(16th
of Tishrei, 5703): Several hundred Belgian Jews were killed at Berkenau
1942(16th
of Tishrei, 5703): Three hundred cold
and hungry women and children, part of the 1000 Jews still at large following a
September 24 escape from the ghetto at Tuchin, Ukraine, return to the city
under German promises of safe repatriation. All 300 are shot. Of the 700 Tuchin
Jews who remained at large, only about 20 will survive the war.
1942:
In Tacoma, Washington, Bernie Brotman, “an owner of Seattle Knitting Mills” and
his wife Pearl both of whom were “Jewish emigrants from Romania” gave birth to
Jeffrey Hart Brotman, a co-founder of Costco Wholesale Corporation. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/business/jeff-brotman-costco-founder-dead.html?_r=0
1942:
In New York, “Molly Blank and pharmacist Max Blank” gave birth to “Arthur
Morris Blank,” the co-founder of Home Depot and owner of the NFL Atlanta
Falcons.
1942:
Lydia Litvyak shot down a German Junker 88 today over Stalingrad.
1942:
The ghetto at Parysow, Poland was liquidated when it 3,500 inhabitants were
shipped to Treblinka.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/11.asp
1943:
Ugo Foa, head of the Jewish community in Rome approached the Vatican in hopes
of getting a Papal loan for the fifty kilograms of gold the SS was demanding if
the Jews were to avoid deportation to the death camps. In a rare act designed to save Jews, Pius XII
approved the request. Funds were never
released since the Jews, acting in desperation, raised the funds on their own.
1943:
The Germans occupied the island of Corfu which would prove to be the prelude to
the deportation of the Jewish community to Auschwitz.
1943:
Today there was a “theatrical production” of “‘Humor und Meoldie’ put on by the Westerbork Camp Theatre Group
featuring Camilla Spira under the direction of Max Ehrlich.”
1944(10th
of Tishrei, 5705): Yom Kippur
1944:
Eighty-one-year-old Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskywho provided a
photographic record, in color of Jews living in far-flung parts of the Russian
Empire passed away today.
http://thejewniverse.com/2017/see-1900s-bukharan-jews-in-gorgeous-full-color/
1944(10th
of Tishrei, 5705): Fifty-nine-year-old Polish brn Rose (Rasha) Bailowitz, the wife of Yussel
Golmacher with whom she had three children, passed away today at the Israel
Zion Hospital in Brooklyn.
1944:
While leading Yom Kippur services in Rome, Rabbi Israel Zolli, experience a
vision Jesus, which according to his autobiography led him to convert to
Christianity.
1944:
Delivery date of the “Benjamin Peixotto", a Liberty ship named after the
19th century American Jew who was a served both his country and his
co-religionists with distinction.
1944:
At Birkenau the Jews were reminded that the "Goebbels Calendar" still
was in effect. The Goebbels Calendar
referred to the Nazi custom of emptying sick wards on Jewish holidays and
shipping these people to the death chambers.
On this Yom Kippur, 2000 boys would be told that extra bread would be
given to them on their Day of Atonement. Instead, 1000 would be chosen by Dr.
Mengele to be sent to the gas chamber. In this instance the selection method
was based on height. The shorter boys would be killed. Elsewhere thousands of Jews would be sent to
their deaths this day.
1945: Birthdate of pianist Misha Dichter. Born in Shanghai, where his Polish parents
had fled at the outbreak of World War II, Mr. Dichter came to Los Angeles with
his family at the age of two and began his piano studies a few years
later. While still a student at
Juilliard, he launched his international career with a stunning triumph at the
1966 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
Interestingly enough, on the Dichter's website, he is identified as
Polish and his wife as being Brazilian-Polish.
Dichter is part of a long line of Jewish Pianists including Arthur
Rubenstein and Vladimir Horovitz.
1945
Birthdate of Jack Goldstein, Canadian born artist.
1946(2nd
of Tishrei, 5707): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1946:
At Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, during his sermon Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein
called on Jews “return to a Jewish way of life.”
1946:
In a sermon at Park Avenue Synagogue, Associate Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
stressed “the need for mature thinking and mature emotions in our times.”
1946:
During his sermon at the Hebrew Tabernacle, Rabbi Jacob Polish said he “saw
similiarity between the atomic bomb test at Bikini this summer and he giving of
the law at Mount Sinai” because he said at Bikini “God spoke to mankind, saying
‘Behold, I have set before ye life and that which good and death and that which
is evil.’ It is for you to make the choice.”
1947:
Today was the last day on which the Afabu,
an American newspaper originally intended for “German speaking Jews around
the world, published its list of Holocaust survivors marking the end of a
project that had begun in September of 1944.
1947:
The House Un-American Committee (HUAC) subpoenaed 24 "friendly"...and
19 "unfriendly" witnesses (mostly Jewish) summoning them to
Washington.
1948:
During Operation Velvetta five Spitfires flown by Israeli pilots began a 2,500
mile from Yugoslavia to Israel, much of which was over open water without
modern navigational aids. Two ran out of
gas and were forced to land on the island of Rhodes. The other three made it safely to Ramat
David.
1949(4th
of Tishrei, 5710): Sixty-seven-year-old American architect David Adler passed
away at Libertyville, Illinois today.
1950:
Premiere of “La Ronde” the film version of the Arthur Schnitzler play of the
same name directed by Max Ophus.
1950:
“The Third Maccabiah, Jewish equivalent of the Olympic Games, opened today at
the new stadium in suburban Ramat Gan, where about 30,000 persons watched a
parade of athletes from twenty countries…Today’s ceremonies, featuring 500
Jewish athletes, including a team of forty-three from United States, were the
first of their kind to be held in Israel and were the most colorful this state
has seen…The only sad note of another otherwise gay afternoon was the Yizkor
ceremony, when the flag was lowered to half-staff, and trumpets sounded notes
of mourning for those who died since the last games in 1935.”
1951:
Second baseman Al Federoff made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1951: Vincent Richard Impellitteri, Mayor of New York
is made a citizen of Haifa.
1951:
The negative reaction of the Arab countries to the latest UN peace proposal is
tantamount to rejection as can be seen in the statement that appeared today in Le
Jour the Beirut newspaper which comes close to being the voice of the
Lebanese Foreign Office. In referring to the proposal by the UN Conciliation
Commission, the paper said, “Let us say at once this is a plan based on the
demands of the Zionists and which does not take into serious account the
demands of the Arabs. What the
representatives of the United Nations proposed is a solution in accord with the
desires of Israel and with its interests.
The United Nations is only interested in bringing the Arabs to bow
before Israel.”
1952(8th
of Tishrei, 5713) Shabbat Shuva
1952(8th
of Tishrei, 5713): Sixty-eight-year-old Uranian born Grand Rabbi Jacob Israel
Korff, passed away today in Boston after which he was buried in Netzah Israel
Cemetery at Everett, MA.
1952:
During the Red Witch Hunt, Lewis Webster Jones, President of Rutgers,
“announces his intention to appoint Trustee and Faculty committees to review
the cases of professors involved in government inquiry” which include as
targets Moses Finley who had appeared before the House Un-American Activities
Committee.
1953(18th
of Tishrei, 5714) Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1953:
“A thanksgiving service for "the beginning of peace in Korea"
highlighted prayers this afternoon on Mount Zion in Jerusalem for the peace of
the world in a service that “was a modern adaptation of the ancient temple
service of the Feast of Tabernacles when seventy oxen were sacrificed as an
offering for peace for all nations.”
1954(29th
of Elul, 5714): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1954:
First broadcast of “Caesar’s Hour” “a one-hour sketch/variety show starring Sid
Caesar with Howie Morris, Carl Reiner and Bea Arthur that was performed live at
the Century Theatre.
1955:
Birthdate of Lexington, KY native Jeffrey M. Lack, the graduate of Franklin and
Marshall College who became the “president of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond.
1955(11th
of Tishrei, 5716): Eighty-two-year-old Mark Waldman “a former professor of
Germany at City College in New York” who came to the United States from Germany
55 years ago, passed away today while visiting his daughter in Hartford, CT.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/09/29/83375413.pdf
1956(22nd
of Tishrei, 5717: Shmini Atzeret
1956(22nd
of Tishrei, 5717): Fifty-five-year-old British composer Gerald Raphael Finzi
the son of John Abraham (Jack) Finzi and Eliza Emma (Lizzie) Leverson passed
away today.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/27/gerald-finzi-mark-padmore
1956:
“Tea and Sympathy” produced by Pandro S. Berman and music by Adolph Deutsch was
released today in the United States
1957(2nd
of Tishrei, 5718): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1957:
Funeral services are scheduled to take place this afternoon in Brooklyn for Ann
(Gerson) Gotlieb, the mother of Lester and Martin Gerson.
1958(13th
of Tishrei, 5719): Parashat Ha’Azinu
1958(13th
of Tishrei, 5719): Forty-five-year-old actress Rose Stradner, the wife of
director Joseph Mankiewicz passed away today.
1958:
Ephraim and Cynthia (Daniel) Lewis gave birth to Mathew Daniel Lewis, the
brother of Janet Lewis.
1959:
NBC Sunday Showcase broadcast the first in a two-part presentation of “What
Makes Sammy Run” starring Larry Blyden and “Sammy Glick.”
1960: Isaac Stern and Leonard
Bernstein held a concert today to
celebrate the purchase of the Central Park bandshell originally funded by Elkan
Naumburg,
1960:
It was reported today that “an eleven-month judicial investigation has produced
no evidence that Dr. Theodor Oberlaender the former Minister for Refugee
Affairs and the most highly publicized former Nazi to hold high office in West
German, took part in a 1941 massacre of Polish Jews” “that took place in Lvov
between June 24 and July 15, 1941.’
1961:
“Paris Blues” a movie made on location directed by Martin Ritt, with a script
co-authored by Walter Bernstein and co-starring Paul Newman was released today
in the United States.
1962:
In Canada, Herb Gray began serving as a Member of Parliament for Essex West.
1962:
The United States sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel. As useful as the military equipment was, the
sale of the missiles was even more important as a sign of the Kennedy
Administration's commitment to the defense of the state of Israel.
1963(10th
of Tishrei, 5724): Unbeknownst to anybody, Jews were observing the last Yom
Kippur during the brief presidency of John Kennedy.
1964(21st
of Tishrei, 5725): Hoshana Raba
1964:
U.S. premiere of “Lilith” directed, produced and written by Robert Rossen and
filmed by cinematographer Eugen Schufftan.
1965(1st
of Tishrei, 5726): Rosh Hashanah
1965:
President Zalman Shazar’s New Year’s greeting published today read in part,
“Though the road to peace with our neighbors is still long and strewn with
snares, our determination and our united effort to win support both near and
far for this most significant of goals are all the stronger.”
1965:
“Winter Kept Us Warm,” a romantic drama directed and produced by David Secter
who also wrote the script premiered “as the opening film of the Commonwealth
Film Festival in Cardiff.
1966:
A revival of “Dinner at Eight” written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre today.
1967:
Birthdate of Noreena Hertz, the English author and economist whom “The Observed
dubbed one of the worlds’ leading young thinker” and who is also the
“great-granddaughter of British Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz” and wife of BBC
Director Danny Cohen.
1967(22nd
of Elul, 5727): Fifty-eighty-year-old University of Leipzig trained attorney
and “street photographer” Fred Stein, the Dresden born son of Eva Wolleim Stein
and Dr. Leopold Stein and the husband of
Liselotte Salzburg with whom he had two children – Peter and Ruth – who was
saved from the Nazis by Varian Frey and the Emergency Committee and pursued his
artistry with a Leica in New York City passed away today.
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/fred-stein-5962
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/fred-stein-5962
1968:
Today, Hochschild
Kohn's, a “department store chain based in Baltimore, Maryland that was started
in 1897 as a partnership between Max Hochschild, Benno Kohn, and his brother
Louis B. Kohn” opened a store in York, PA.
1968(5th
of Tishrei, 5729): Forty-eight-year-old Dr. Ruth Silbowitz Achs, “a Brooklyn
pediatrician who did research on babies’ palmprints as a means of reveling
birth defects” and who “was director of the pediatric clinic at Kings County
Hospital, associate professor of pediatrics at the Downstate Medical Center in
Brooklyn and adjunct pediatrician at the Jewish hospital of Brooklyn passed
away today.
1969(15th
of Tishrei, 5730: Sukkoth is observed for the first time under President
Richard Nixon.
1970:
Following a Syrian supported attack on Jordan that was thwarted by the threat
of Israeli intervention, King Hussein was still forced to sign an agreement
which preserved the right of the Palestinian organizations to operate in
Jordan. For Jordan, it was humiliating that the agreement treated both sides to
the conflict as equals. It also meant that Jordan would serve as a base of
operation for Palestinian terrorists.
1970:
Ninety-three-year-old Hermann Ludwig Mass “one of the Righteous Among the
Nations” passed away today.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/maas.asp
1970:
Birthdate of Canadian sports journalist Elliott Friedman.
1971(8th
of Tishrei, 5732): Eigty year old Middletown, NY native and Albany Law School
trained attorney Ralph Jay Ury, “the national president of Zeta Beta Tau”
fraternity and an “officer with the Amateur Athletic Union.
1972:
In Los Angeles, Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner gave birth to Gwyneth Paltrow.
1973(1st
of Tishrei, 5734): Rosh Hashanah
1974:
“Cinderella Liberty” an off-beat love story directed by Mark Rydell and
co-starring James Caan, Eli Wallach and Allan Arbus was released today in
Belgium.
1974:
Birthdate of Seattle, Washington native multi-talented Carrie Rachel Brownstein
whose career has included music, acting and directing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/carrie-brownstein.html
1974:
“The 100,000th Soviet Jewish immigrant since the Six Day War arrived
in Israel.
1975(22nd
of Tishrei, 5736): Shmini Atzeret
1975:
“An unofficial group of five Israelis continued their visit to the USSR under
the auspices of the Soviet Peace Committee.
1976(3rd
of Tishrei, 5737): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Gerald Ford.
1976(3rd
of Tishrei, 5737): Eighty-seven-year-old St. Louis born, and Rush Medical
College educated Morris Fishbein “an American physician and editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from 1924 to 1950” who was
the husband of Anna Mantel Fishbein with whom he had three children - Barbara, Marjorie and Justin -- passed away
today in Chicago.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/349443
1977(15th
of Tishrei, 5738): Sukkoth
1977:
“One Day At A Time” starring Bonnie Franklin began its third season on CBS.
1978:
The Knesset approved the Camp David Accords with 84 affirmative voted, 19
opposed and 17 abstentions.
1978(25th
of Elul, 5738): Eighty-seven-year-old Hugo Dalsheimer, the son of Simon
Dalsheimer and Bertha Hofmann and the husband Helen Miller with whom he has two
sons, Roger and George, who was President of the Jewish Historical Society of
Maryland from 1960 to 1967 passed away today.
1979:
The President’s Commission on the Holocaust established by President Carter and
chaired by Elie Wiesel submitted its report today in which it recommended the
establishment of “a memorial with three main components: a national Holocaust
memorial/museum; an educational foundation; and a Committee on Conscience.”
1980(17th
of Tishrei, 5741): Three days before his 78th birthday, author and
sociologist Werner Jacob Cahnman, whose parents died during the Holocaust,
passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/cahnman-werner-j
1980(17th
of Tishrei, 5741): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1980(17th
of Tishrei, 5741): Fifty-nine-year-old labor union executive and foreign
service officer Harry Hamilton Pollak passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E04E4D91138E732A25752C0A9669D94619FD6CF
1980:
In “Not Much Has Changed Since Freud,” published today, Joseph Adelson provides
a detailed review of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet
Malcolm.
1981:
The official Yugoslav press agency Tanjug reported that a hijacked Yugoslav
jetliner with 101 people aboard landed in Cyprus early today after Israel
refused to let the plane land in Tel Aviv as the hijackers had demanded. The
Israelis had no idea what the terrorists were planning to do once they landed.
1982;
In “Not Much Has Changed Since Freud” published today, Joseph Adelson reviewed
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible
Profession by Janet Malcom, the Prague born daughter of Hanna Taussig and
psychiatrist Josef Weiner who “resided
in New York City after her Jewish family emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1939,
fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews.”
1982(10th
of Tishrei, 5743): Two days after “400,000 marchers demanded the resignation of
Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Yom Kippur is observed
1982:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Square Pegs” the sitcom starring Sarah
Jessica Parker.
1984(1st
of Tishrei, 5745): Rosh Hashanah is observed as President Reagan and former
Vice President Walter Mondale face off against each other in the run for the
White Office.
1984:
“The Journey of Natty Gunn” starring Meredith Salenger in the title role,
featuring Verna Bloom, with a script co-authored by Andrew Bergman and with
music by Elmer Bernstein was released in the United States today
1986:
Premiere of “Amen,” a sit-com created by Ed Weinberger, the son of a Jewish
butcher from Philadelphia.
1986:
NBC broadcast the first episode of season two of “The Golden Girls” co-starring
Beatrice Arthur and Estelle Getty.
1989:
“C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.” a comedy horror film starring Tricia Leigh
Fisher, the daughter of Eddie Fisher and featuring Norman Fell was released in
the United States today.
1989:
In “Rosh Hashanah Journey To Hasidic
Master's Tomb,” published today which is quoted in its entirety below, Ari L.
Goldman describes the Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage of Bratslav Chassidim to the
tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav.
Shortly
before his death in 1811, Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, a Hasidic master known for
his mystical teachings, asked his followers to come and pray at his grave each
year on Rosh ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year. The custom was carried on at his
tomb in the Ukrainian city of Uman until the Russian Revolution in 1917. Since
then only a few of his followers could make the pilgrimage. They are known as
the ''Dead Hasidim'' because they follow a deceased leader rather than a living
one. With the opening of the Soviet Union in the last year, however, the dream
of many Bratslav Hasidim is being realized. One thousand are planning to make
the trip to be in Uman for Rosh ha-Shanah, which begins at sundown Friday.
About 100 Bratslav Hasidim left on a Pan American World Airways flight from
Kennedy International Airport last night amid joy and expectation. 'Imagine the
Anticipation' ''It's like a person who hasn't seen his father in 40 years,''
said Noah Steinberg, a lawyer who lives in Brooklyn. ''Imagine the anticipation
we feel.'' Accompanying Mr. Steinberg was his 6-year-old son, Nachman, who is
named in honor of the movement's founder. The boy's mother and younger siblings
stayed home; the trip was for males only. ''They call us 'the dead,' but we are
alive and well,'' said Lieb Berger, executive director of the World Bratslav
Organization. ''And with us lives Rav Nachman, whose writings and teachings we
follow always.'' Mr. Berger said there are some 3,000 to 5,000 Bratslav Hasidim
worldwide, most in Israel. About 300 live in the United States and Canada. They
differ significantly from the dozens of other Hasidic groups, each of which is
centered around a single living charismatic leader, known as the Rebbe. A
Rebbe's followers, known as Hasidim, visit the leader for advice on both
personal and religious matters and try to spend the major holidays with him.
The leadership position of Rebbe is usually handed down from father to son or
other male relative.
Most
Hasidic groups, which draw their names from towns in Europe where their
ancestors settled, consider themselves disciples of the 17th-century founder of
Hasidim, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov. He founded a
Jewish revival movement that stressed joy in prayer and religious experience.
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav was the great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Rabbi
Nachman taught that God was inherent in everything in the world, including
evil. Thus, he said, even the man steeped in evil could easily find the Creator
and repent. Hope in Melody and Dance In his writings, he said the world was
essentially a dangerous place where hope could be found in melody, dance,
constant self-criticism and communication with the Rebbe, even in the grave.
Rabbi Nachman died at the age of 38. His modern followers are among the most
mystical and spiritual of Hasidim since they have no temporal leader. Among the
followers are Jews who once experimented with the mysticism of Eastern
religions. Mr. Berger, the director of the Bratslav organization, said the
Soviets helped to arrange the trip, freely issuing visas and helping to insure
that the travelers would arrive before the start of Rosh ha-Shanah. Most of the
visitors will be sleeping on Soviet Army cots set up dormitory-style in an
abandoned factory within walking distance of Rabbi Nachman's tomb. While some
Hasidim brought their children, one, 35-year-old Aaron Pinter, brought his
father. While the son was dressed in the black garb of the Hasidim and had a
long red beard, the father was in a gray suit and was clean-shaven. The senior
Mr. Pinter would not give his age, but said that he fled Poland as a young man
and lived for eight years in Siberia before coming to the United States. ''I
never thought I would be going back,'' he said. ''I am not a Hasid, but it took
Rav Nachman to bring me back.''
1992:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned that peace with Syria would not be possible
without ceding some territory on the Golan Heights. He added, however, that he
and his government opposed a total withdrawal.
199:
FOX broadcast the first episode of “The Ben Stiller Show.”
1992:
In Los Angeles, Ken Lerner and his wife Patti Klein gave birth to actor Samuel
Bryce "Sam" Lerner.
1992: The
Jerusalem Post reported that President George Bush was expected to send his
proposal for $10 billion in loan guarantees for Israel to Congress. The request
was part of a package deal designed to move this request through the
legislative process as soon as possible.
1992: The
Jerusalem Post reported that remains of a large Roman sport stadium from
the Herodian period were discovered at the site of the ancient town of
Caesarea. Caesarea is on the
Mediterranean. It was built in Roman
times because the Romans could not stand the heat of Jerusalem. Its famous amphitheater has survived to this
day. The modern town of Caesarea is a
fashionable seaside place complete with seaside restaurant.
1994(22nd
of Tishrei, 5755): Shmini Atzeret
1995(3rd
of Tishrei, 5756): Tzom Gedaliah
1995(3rd
of Tishrei, 5756): Eighty-one-year-old Moscow born Israeli composer Alexander
“Sasha” Argov passed away today in Tel Aviv.
1995: Peggy Charren received a Presidential
Medal of Freedom acknowledging her almost 3 decades of advocacy. Frustrated
with the educationally anemic cartoons filling her children's afternoons,
education advocate and founder of Action for Children's Television (ACT), Peggy
Charren began to push television stations and law makers to demand and develop
more diverse and stimulating children's programming throughout the industry.
Charren began her career in television as the director of the film department
at station WPIX-TV in New York City, but she became concerned about the lack of
educational children's programming after the birth of her two daughters. In
1968 Charren founded ACT as a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging
the development of a more diverse range of children's educational programming.
Responding to the efforts of ACT, Congress passed the Children's Television Act
in 1990, which required each station to provide programs created specifically
to educate children.
1997:Publication
of Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, the Chattanooga, TN born so of
the former Ruth Sulzbruger, a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger publishing family
and Ben Hale Gordon.
1997:
Martin Indyk completed his first tour as U.S. Ambassador to Israel
1998:
The New York Times book section
featured reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including Bridges Across Broken
Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory by Vera Schwarcz, Marc Chagall: 1887-1985 by
Jacob Baal-Teshuva and From the
Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future by Stanley Aronowitz.
1999(17th
of Tishrei, 5760): Third Day of Sukkoth
1999:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held at Parkside Memorial Chapel today for
eighty-six-year-old Irving Kasell, the husband of Sarah Kassel and the father
of Joseph and Walter Kassell.
2000:
John Patrick Kenneally (born Leslie Jackson) VC passed away today. Born in
1921, he was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most
prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to
British and Commonwealth forces. Soldier who deserted from the Gunners, joined
the Irish Guards and won the Victoria Cross with them during the Tunisian
campaign for repulsing an entire company of Panzer Grenadiers with a Bren gun.
John Patrick Kenneally was an assumed name. He was the illegitimate son of a
wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer in Manchester. His mother was an
18-year-old un-married daughter of a Birmingham pharmacist, who was disowned by
her family. She changed her name to Jackson and had her son christened Leslie.
2000:
One day after she had passed away services were scheduled at the Greenwood
Cemetery in Brooklyn for Seena Fish (nee Israel) the wife of Charles Fish with
whom she had three children – Melissa, Jason and Nora.
2001(10th
of Tishrei, 5762): Yom Kippur
2001:
On Yom Kippur, Shawn Green sat out a game for the first time in 415 games, to
honor the most significant holiday and donated his day's pay of $75,000 to a
charity for survivors of the New York 9/11 terrorist attacks.
2002:
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, 2001,
“The Man from Elysian Fields” co-starring Julianna Margulies and filmed by
cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau was released in the United States today.
2003(1st
of Tishrei, 5764): Rosh Hashanah
2003:
“Temple Treasured Traditions: Jewish community has always been a part of
Dubuque” published today, The
Telegraph-Herald traced the history of the Jewish community in Dubuque
which dates back to 1833 when Alexander Levi immigrated from France. During the 1880’s Dubuque had as many as 150
Jewish families, today 26 families belong to Temple Beth El, a small but
vibrant outpost of Judaism on the banks of the Mississippi River.
2004: In “Chinese city embraces long-exiled Jewish
community” published today Mark Magnier
described the return of the Jews
to Harbin after a half-century exile.
The city is so eager to have the Jews return that it is spending 3.2
million dollars to refurbish the city’s main synagogue.
2004:
In Tel Aviv as part of the annual, global City in Pink lighting campaign for
the breast cancer struggle, the City Gat Ramat Gan was lit completely in bright
pink light.
2005:
ABC broadcast the first episode of “Commander in Chief,” a series created by
Rod Lurie.
2005:
Ariel Sharon narrowly defeated a leadership engineered by Benjamin Netanyahu
challenge by a 52–48 percent vote.
2005:
Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos To Their Knees
by Ben Mezrich was published today.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9276.Busting_Vegas
2005:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
California-based West Coast Chabad's annual star-studded telethon had made a
special appeal for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
2006:
The International Forum “Let My People Live!” will be held this afternoon, at
the Shevchenko National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine in Kiev.
“The forum will follow the official ceremony in remembrance of Babi Yar’s
victims at the Babi Yar Memorial.”
2006:
Jerusalem District Court sentenced a Jewish settler to four consecutive life
sentences plus an additional 12 years in prison for murdering four Palestinian
men.
2006:
Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate will speak at the Let My
People Live! International Forum a two-day commemorative even marking the 65th
anniversary of the massacre of the Jews at Babi Yar.
2007: Rachel Feller gives a talk on the
book that she and Steve Feller wrote: Silent
Witnesses: Civilian Camp Money of World War II at Clark Alumni House
Coe College. The book is on money of the Holocaust.
2007:
Publication of Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
2007:
A revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Glengarry Glen Ross”
opened at the Apollo Theatre.
2007(15th
of Tishrei, 5768): First Day of Sukkoth
2007(15th
of Tishrei, 5768): Rabbi Avraham Elkanah Kahana Shapira “one of the founders of
an organization that declared that handing over parts of the land of Israel to
gentiles, even with a peace agreement, contradicted halacha and was therefore
forbidden” passed away today.(This ruling is confusing since Solomon, the king
noted for his wisdom did exactly that as described in The Book of Kings.)
2007(15th
of Tishrei, 5678): Seventy-four year old award winning astrophysicist Moshe
Carmeli, the “Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics at Ben Gurion
University” passed away today.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Carmeli.html
http://physweb.bgu.ac.il/HOMEPAGES/FACULTY/Carmeli/main.html
2008:
In Nyack, NY, David Shire and Didi Conn performed at a benefit concert for
Barak Obama.
2008:
Israeli choreographer Noa Sagie brings her new creation, “Breath 22” to the Dumbo
Dance Festival 2008 in Brooklyn,
New York.
2008: Several Jewish authors appear At the National
Book Festival including Ellen Birnbaum, associate director of the 92nd Street Y
Nursery School, co-author (with Nancy Schulman) of Practical Wisdom for
Parents: Demystifying the Preschool Years; Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and
staff writer for the New Yorker, author
of Blue Latitudes, Confederates
in the Attic, Baghdad Without a Map and A Voyage Long and
Strange: Rediscovering the New World ; Walter Isaacson the author of Benjamin
Franklin: An American Life, coauthor of
Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made and Einstein:
His Life and Universe; David Maraniss, an associate editor of The
Washington Post, who won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 and
who wrote They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace in Vietnam and America,
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, First in His Class:
A Biography of Bill Clinton and Rome
1960: The Olympics That Changed the World ; Daniel Schorr, former foreign
correspondent for CBS News, a senior news analyst for National Public Radio,
three-time Emmy winner, a Peabody award winner for "a lifetime of
uncompromising reporting of the highest integrity," as well as the Alfred
I. DuPont-Columbia University Golden Baton, the most prestigious award in
broadcasting and author of Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the
Millennium.
2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Louis D. Brandeis: A Life by Melvin I. Urofsky, Beg, Borrow,
Steal: A Writer’s Life by
Michael Greenberg and Dancing in the Dark by Morris Dickstein.
2009: The Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves,
and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel
2009: The Times of London featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky;
translated by Sandra Smith.
2009: At Playwrights Horizons in New York City, the
final performance of “The Retributionists,” a play that “fictionalizes the
story of Abba Kovner, a renowned partisan who led other “Avengers” to fight
Nazis in the ghetto of Vilna, Poland, then hid and resisted in the nearby
forests until the end of the war” at which time he “hatched elaborate plots to
punish ex-Nazis and, in fact, any German: hunting down and killing officers,
poisoning the water supplies of major cities and fatally spiking the bread
delivered to SS guards in an American POW camp in Germany. Later, Kovner would
renounce revenge, become an acclaimed Israeli writer and found the Diaspora Museum
in Tel Aviv.”
2009: Premier of The Cleveland Shown, a comedic
creation of Richard Appel.
2009(9th of Tishrei, 5770): Eighty-one
year old Donald Fisher, the founder of Gap passed away today.
http://www.gapinc.com/content/dam/gapincsite/documents/DonFisher_Bio.pdf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/6243973/Don-Fisher.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/business/29fisher.html
2009 (9 Tishrei, 5770): Sixty-nine-year-old William
Safire, the Nixon speechwriter who became the New York Times “conservative
columnist” and who fancied himself to be a “language maven” passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28safire.html
2009 (9 Tishrei, 5770): In the evening, Kol Nidre
2009: The Yankees and Red Sox moved their game from
the evening to the afternoon “following an outcry from Jewish fans.” (As
reported by JTA)
2009: Iran
test fired two short-range missiles as its elite Revolutionary Guards began
several days of war games today on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Yom
Kippur.2010: The first Kleztival is scheduled to end today in Sao
Paulo. The event was held to mark the inauguration of the Instituto da Música
Judaica Brasil, or Brazilian Jewish Music Institute.
2010: A majority of Israelis regard non-Orthodox
converts to Judaism to be part of the Jewish people, according to a survey
published today, putting the general public at odds with religious
authorities.
2011: Paul Krugrman, the recipient of the 2008
Nobel Prize in Economics is scheduled to appear at the 92nd Street Y
in New York City.
2011: Publication of Breaking Stalin's Nose
”a children's historical novel written and illustrated by” Russian born Jew
Eugene Yelchin.
2011: The Jewish Museum in New York City is
scheduled to offer tours of their permanent collection, “Culture and
Continuity,” with a special theme for Rosh Hashanah.
2011: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the eight senior cabinet members decided
tonight to support the Quartet's initiative for renewed talks between Israel
and the Palestinians.
2011: A
week after his speech supporting Israel at the United Nations, US President
Barack Obama offered his annual Jewish New Year wishes today, stating that the
US "will continue to stand with Israel because the bond between our
nations is unshakable."
2011: US
President Barack Obama succeeded in reaching out to Israelis with his speech
last week to the General Assembly and his efforts to block the UN from
unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state, according to a Keevoon Research
poll sponsored by The Jerusalem Post this week.
2012: In London, a book launch
scheduled for today at the Weiner Library will feature a discussion of
Professor Phillip Spencer’s Genocide since 1945.
2012: In Washington, DC, the Men’s Club of Adas
Israel will be looking for volunteers for the annual building of the
congregational Sukkah
2012: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took aim at
the Iranian nuclear program, saying that the regime was using negotiations to
stall and urging clear "red lines" on its uranium enrichment.
2012: The
government is obliged to prevent scenarios such as the current one in which
Ma’ariv workers have not received payments owed to them by law, Knesset
Economics Committee Chairman Carmel Shama-Hacohen (Likud) said today.
2012(12of
Tishrei, 5773): Reuven Rahamim, the father of Sami Rahamim, was shot and killed
along with five others at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, the company he
founded, by a former employee. (As reported by Kyle Potter)
2013(23
of Tishrei, 5774): Simchat Torah
2013:
In the evening, Temple Judah is scheduled to host another Musical Shabbat
2013:
Larry Paul and Robyn Helzner are scheduled to lead a Carlebach-inspired
Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue.
2013:
During a telephone conversation between the Presidents of Iran and the United
States President Obama noted his concern about Robert Levinson's disappearance
to Rouhani and expressed his interest in seeing him reunited with his family.”
2013:
On the 13th anniversary of the Arab terrorist pogrom known as the 2nd
Intifada young Arabs threw stones following Friday prayers at police forces
near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. One officer sustained light
injuries to his hand.
(As
reported by Noam (Dabul) Dvir)
2013:
Plans were announced today for convening of the largest delegation of Knesset
members at an overseas location. The
MK’s will be joined by Holocaust survivors at Aushwitz-Birkeneau as they
observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2014.
2014(3rd
of Tishrei, 5775): Shabbat Shuvah – the fast will have to wait until tomorrow
2014(3rd
of Tishrei, 5775): Ninety-three-year-old
Egyptian born French fashion designer Gaby Aghion, the widow of Raymond
Aghion passed away today.
2014:
Mark Weisman, the Hebrew Hammer, scored two touchdowns as he led Iowa to its
first Big Ten Conference win of the season at Purdue.
2014(3rd
of Tishrei, 5775): Forty-year-old actress Sarah Goldberg passed away today.
2014:
“Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who delivered an anti-Semitic
diatribe yesterday at the UN “ didn’t submit a resolution to the UN Security
Council seeking a three-year timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from the West
Bank due to unspecified “technicalities,” a Palestinian source told Israel
Radio Saturday.”
2014:
Brooks Newmark, a Jewish Conservative member of parliament since 2005 announced
his unexpected resignation on Saturday as a newspaper reported he had sent an
explicit photo of himself online
2014:
The 13th annual Daniel Pearl Day of Music in Taipei is scheduled to start at
2:00 p.m. and run through 9:30 p.m.
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aedu/201408310011.aspx
2015:
The New York Times features books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including recently
released paperback editions of Timeless: Love, Morgenthau and Me by
Lucinda Franks and God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the
Vatican by Holocaust historian Gerald Posner.
2015:
Michael Didra reviewed the recently released “Complete Works of Primo Levi” a
boxed set which he describes as “a literary treasury on humanity.”
2015:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a free
tour “of Jewish Downtown Washington” this morning.
2015:
As part of its Historic Jewish Atlanta Jewish Tours, the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host a tour of Grant Park, a “city landmark that was surrounded by
a thriving Jewish community in the early 20th century” whose
residents included Leo and Lucille Frank.
2015:
“Hours after rioters clashed with police as Muslim marked the end of Eid
al-Fitr” photographers released by Palestinians showed masked people
“stockpiling rocks inside the al-Aqsa Mosque tonight” in preparation for
another round of violence in the morning.
2015:
Yael Melmede’s “The Truth Box” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Film
Festival which ends today.
2015:
CBS broadcast “Immortality,” the final episode of the original CSI (later known as CSI Las Vegas) a long-running
cerebral crime series created by Antony E. Zuker and brought to the small
screen by executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Carol Mendelsohn
2015,
the United Kingdom Labour Party announced that Joseph Stiglitz was to sit on
its Economic Advisory Committee along with five other world leading economists.
2015:
The Washington, DCJCC is scheduled to host “Family Medical History Matters:
Hereditary Cancer in the Jewish Community - A Conversation about BRCA1 & 2
Mutations.”
http://thejdc.convio.net/site/Calendar?id=150161&view=Detail
2015(14th of Tishrei 5776): In the evening Erev
Sukkoth
2016: At the University of Iowa Hillel, Sammy Miller is
scheduled to do “a workshop introduction on Son of a Cantor” demonstrating the
impact of cantorial music on the works of Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin and
their impact on the Great American Songbook following “an upbeat performance by
“Grammy nominated Sammy Mill and the Congregation.”
2016: In response to call from Acheinu, a “Day of Jewish
Unity” is scheduled to take place a day after the first U.S. presidential
debates.
2016: “The commanding officers of two soldiers killed in
an accidental grenade blast were punished today, in accordance with an order
from IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot.”
2016: The Center for Jewish History, Jewish Studies
Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University and American
Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present “An Intimate Rivalry: The Jews and
Classical Islam,” lecture by cultural Ross Brahn who “offers a rich and complex
portrait of early Jewish-Muslim relations that is characterized by the creative
dynamics of minority-majority interaction.”
2016 The Skirball Center is scheduled to host a
“discussion on Genesis and beginnings as author/editor Beth Kissileff speaks
with Dara Horn, Tobi Kahn, Joan Nathan and Dr. Ruth Westheimer,” the “renowned
experts, who all contributed to Ms. Kissileff’s book Reading Genesis, and talk
about Genesis through the lens of their particular field, sharing new and
intriguing perspectives on one of our most essential stories.”
2017:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a concert by the Phoenix
Chamber Ensemble
2017:
Today, “Israeli President Reuven Rivlin criticized Interpol’s decision to admit
the Palestinian Authority as a member, saying it would weaken the global police
body’s anti-terror capabilities.”
2017(7th
of Tishrei, 5778): Ninety year old concentration camp survivor Zuzana
Ruzickova, one of the world’s most famous harpsichordist passed away today. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38340648
2017(7th
of Tishrei, 5778): Twenty-year-old “Platoon leader Avshalom Armoni from Beit
Horon” and 22 year old “Sergeant Avinoam David Cohen from Jerusalem” “were
killed this morning during a training exercise when a self-propelled howitzer
canon flipped over…” (As reported by David Rosenberg)
2017:
In Los Angeles, Hector Elizondo is scheduled to host a tribute to E. Randol
Schoenberg and the Pursuit of Justice.
2018: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel received five Emmys at
the 70th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the most of any one series that evening,
including “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series,” “Outstanding
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series,” “Outstanding Writing for a Comedy
Series,” “Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series,” and “Outstanding Comedy
Series.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/marvelous-mrs-maisel-wins-5-primetime-emmy-awards
2018: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host
the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble’s performance of “Barber's "Souvenirs"
Ballet Suite, op.28 (with video installation by Joseph Safranovich);
Schnittke’s "Gogol Suite"; Shostakovich's Concertino for Two pianos,
op.94; and Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata, op.4.”
2018: This evening, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Educational Center is scheduled to host a lecture and a book signing by Noah
Lederman the author of A World Erased: A Grandson's Search for His Family's
Holocaust Secrets
2018(18th
of Tishrei, 5779): Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
2019: In
San Francisco, Sha’ar Zahav is scheduled to host “Jewish award-winning
writers/journalists Belo Miquel Cipriana and David Elijah Nahmod” in a
discussion of their new book Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with
Disabilities.
2019: In the final week before Rosh Hashanah,
it is reported that the population of Israel has reached 9,092,000 and
according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the “vast majority of Israelis
say they are satisfied with their lives.” (As reported by Yaron Drukman and
Amir Alon)
2019: The Rosh Hashanah Music Festival is
scheduled to begin today inTel Aviv.
2019: Netflix is scheduled to broadcast “The
Odd Couples,” the next episode in “The Spy.”
2020: Today, “in keeping with a 59-year
tradition, families of Holocaust survivors are scheduled to gather from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at the Cleveland Holocaust Memorial in Bedford Heights to pay
respects to those who perished in the Holocaust:”
2020: This afternoon “Addison-Penzak JCC is
scheduled to present a session for Russian-speaking Jews to connect and share
their memories, prayers, stories and songs.”
2020: In Iowa City, Chabad is scheduled to host
a socially distanced outdoor service for Yom Kippur in its backyard tent.
2020: Beginning at 6:20 pm, London time, Highgate
United Synagogue is scheduled to host three successive Kol Nidre services
2020: In between Zoom Shabbat Shuvah services
and Zoom Yom Kippur services, in Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to
resume Zoom Religious School under the leadership of Barb Feller.
2020: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Reaganland: America’s Right
Turn, 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con
Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar, the son of linguist Dr.
Yona Sabar, The Time Magicians by
Wolfram Eilenberger that examines how four philosophers including the
ant-Semite Ernst Cassirer and the Jewish Walter Benjamin “reinvented
philosophy,” Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of
the Truth by Brian Stelter, Donald Trump V. The United States: Inside
the Struggle to Stop a President by Michael S. Schmidt.
2020(9th of Tishrei, 5781): Erev Yom
Kippur; Kol Nidre
2021: This evening, Congregation Beth Am is scheduled to
host an outdoor celebration of the Torah compete with “dancing” and pizza.
2021: The Hadassah Brandeis Institute is scheduled to
present online “Switching Gender in the Torah: What We Reveal by Changing the
Perspective” that features Tamar Biala and Yael Kanarek discussing the HerTorah
Project.
2021: Starting today, Sweden is scheduled to “allow entry
for vaccinated Israelis by recognizing the "green passport" after
imposing a temporary ban on all Israeli travelers due to rising Covid-19
infections.” (As reported by YNET)
2021(21st of Tishrei, 5782): Seventh Day of
Sukkoth – Hoshana Rabbah;
2022(2nd of Tishrei, 5783): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2022: In San Francisco Chabad of the Neighborhood is
scheduled to present “Shofar in the Park,” a 45-minute service on Rosh Hashanah
with sangria, apple and honey cookie sticks and a holiday-themed children’s
activity.
2022: Sinai Brookline is scheduled to host a “Rosh Hashana
Picnic and shofar blowing this afternoon.
2022: Based on previously published reports thousands of
Hasidic pilgrims are in Uman having come there to celebrate the New York at the
grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov despite the war in Ukraine and the pleas of
officials not to come.
2022: Chabad of Downtown Boston, Back Bay, Beacon Hill and
South End are scheduled to present “Shofar at the Seaport” at Fan Pier Pavilion
Roof in Boston, MA.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture
by Milton Shain on “Antisemitism in South Africa.”
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a
“virtual building tour” that “will uncover hidden elements at the Museum at
Eldridge Street such as secret symbols to loved ones, indentations in the
woodwork from nervous hands, and unique features meant to cater to the original
congregants. Learn about the Eldridge Street Synagogue, from its stunning
Moorish Revival architecture and its time as a cultural hotspot on the bustling
Jewish Lower East Side, to its decades of decay, to its miraculous rebirth as a
twenty-first-century Museum in present-day Chinatown.”
2023: YIVO is scheduled “to present its annual Nusakh
Vilne program which commemorates the Jewish community of Vilna through poetry
and music and which this year will feature the American premiere of The Secrets
of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, a new documentary by Loïc Salfati.”
2023: Lockdown University I scheduled to host a discussion
of Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty led by the author Michael
Cardo.
2024: Congregation Sha’ar Zahav is scheduled to
host online Trans* and Teshuvah: Preparing Our Souls” which offers “text study,
reflection and conversation for trans, nonbinary and intersex folks.”
2024: The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture
is scheduled to present “Welcome Back Shabbat Dinner and Game Night.”
2024:
As September 27th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 358 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
