This Day, September 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 3
141 BCE (18th of Elul, 3619): The fight begun by Matthias and
Judah came to a successful conclusion when Simon was elected High Priest and
was recognized as the governing authority of an independent Jewish state.
301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the
world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. During
World War II the 15,000 people of San Marino provided a refuge for 100,000
fleeing the fascists, including a large number of Jews.
590: Gregory I, known to history as St. Gregory and/or Gregory the
Great became Pope at the age of 50. At
first blush, Gregory seems to be a classic anti-Semite. He regarded Judaism as “depravity” and Jewish
interpretation of the Bible as “perverse.”
For all intents and purposes he banned conversion to Judaism. He banned Christians from working for Jews. He also limited opportunities by ordering
Christians not to use Jewish doctors and forbidding the clergy from employing
Jewish clerks. Following the precedent
of Justinian, he barred Jews from holding public office, forbade the building
of new synagogues and urged the rescuing of Jews from “their false” doctrines
i.e. conversion to Christianity. At the
same time, Gregory opposed forced conversion, calling on church officials to
use “gentleness and kindness to make the Jews desire to change their way of
life.” For Jews who did not wish to
convert he said, We will not have the Hebrews oppressed and afflicted
unreasonably.” On more than one occasion
Gregory intervened on behalf of the Jews when they were attacked even by mobs
led by officials of the Church. When synagogues were invaded, Gregory ordered
the buildings to be restored to the Jews and repairs made to any damaged items. When a converted Jew entered a synagogue and
tried to make it into a church, Gregory responded with the following
admonition, “Just as the law forbids the Jews the building of new synagogues,
it also guarantees them preservation of the old ones.” Gregory strongly opposed Judaism, but
compared to his contemporaries and successors, he “did not lack scruples.”
1189:
Many Jews living in London were killed in riots during the coronation of
Richard I. One of the victims was Rabbi Jacob of Orleans a student of the
famous Rabbenu Tam. Richard the Lionhearted was not an anti-Semite. In fact, he moved to stop the riots. Unfortunately, Richard was so busy with the
third Crusade and fighting to hold his lands in France that he had no time to
protect the Jews.
1198:
Today, Frederick II who in 1238 would grant the Jews of Vienna a privilege, and
the existence of community institutions such as a synagogue, hospital and
slaughterhouse was crowned King of Sicily today in Palermo.
1260:
The Mamelukes defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine,
marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the
Mongol Empire. The battle was fought in the Jezreel Valley in the Galilee. It seems a little strange to those who
connect this geography with David and Goliath to think of the Mongols of the
Kahns fighting to control Eretz Israel. The Mamluks were Moslems. Their immediate connection with the Jewish
people can be traced to one of the founders of the Egyptian Caliphate, Saladin
who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
After 1260, inland Jewish communities such as Safed grew replacing
coastal communities such as Acre in importance. The battle was the high water
mark for Mongol attempts to conquer the land that came to be known as the
Ottoman Empire.
1658: Oliver Cromwell the Lord Protector of England, died at
the age of 59. Cromwell gets high marks in terms of Jewish history. He was responsible for bringing openly
practicing Jews back to England after a three and one half century absence. Even with Cromwell championing their cause,
the road to readmission was not smooth.
However, by 1657, a year before the Lord Protector’s death, the Jews of
London felt secure enough in their position to purchase a building to serve as
a synagogue.
1730: Sixty-year old Nicholas
Mavrocordatos, the Prince of Moldavia and Wllachia who employed Daniel de
Fonseca, a Marano from Portugal as his personal physician passed away today.
1741: Birthdate of Danzig native and Professor
of History Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz “who drew a very sharp distinction
between the Sephardim and Ashkenazim of London” saying “Dress, language,
manners, cleanliness, politeness, everything distinguishes them, much to the advantage
of the former who have little to distinguish them from the Christians,”
(Jews of England page 300)
1758(30th
of Av, 5518): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1758:
During a power struggle in Portugal, failed attempt to assassinate King Joseph
I during a period when the Portuguese Inquisition was punishing untold numbers
of conversos throughout the empire.
1763(25th
of Elul, 5523): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot observed for the
first time with the possibility of Jews living in Canada since the French had
lost the territory with the signing of the Treaty of Paris earlier in the year.
1766(29th
of Elul, 5526): Erev Rosh Hashana observed for the first time since Parliament
repealed the Stamp Act which is part of the run-up to the American Revolution.
1777(1st
of Elul, 5537): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1777:
During the American Revolution in New Castle County, Delaware, “British and
Hessians defeated American militia” today.
1778:
Forty three year old Ezekiel Solomon and the former Marie Elizabeth Louise
Dubois gave birth to Elisabeth Solomon.
1783: The American Revolutionary War
ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The majority of Jews in the
Colonies had supported the American cause.
The treaty ensured them and their progeny a life in “the last best hope
of man.”
1808: Birthdate of Michael Sachs, one of
the first rabbis to a Ph.D. from a “modern university” who led congregations in
Prague and Berlin before retiring because of his strong opposition to the
rising Reform movement.
1813: In Buda, Ignacz baron Eötvös de
Vásárosnamény and Anna von Lilien gave birth to József baron Eötvös who began
advocating Jewish emancipation in 1841 and succeeded in having “the diet pass
his bill for the emancipation of the Jews” in 1867.
1814: In London, English merchant
Abraham Joseph and his wife gave birth to James Joseph who gained famed as
mathematician James Joseph Sylvester who taught at the University of Virginia
and Johns Hopkins University wrote “Laws of Verse,” a paper on the “theory of
versification.”
1819: “Le Moniteur Universel reported today in an article from
Hamburg…that quarrels and fights erupted every night” in Hamburg where “if a
Jew dared to be seen on a public walkway or enter a coffeehouse frequented
largely by Christians, he would certainly meet violent opposition.”
1820: “In Inowrocław, Kuyavia-Pomerania,
Poland Koppel Freudenthal and Eva Freudenthal gave birth to Louis Freudenthal
who “had at least 5 sons and 3 daughters with Rosalie Wolff Freudenthal” and
who “lived in Doña Ana, New Mexico Territory, United States in 1880” before
moving to New York where he at the age of 71.
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/94ZH-D3Z/louis-freudenthal-1820-1892
1825(20th of Elul, 5585):
Parshat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
1826: Coronation of Czar Nicholas I a “narrow-minded, reactionary,
despot who was so incompetent that he led Russia to disaster in the Crimean
War. As a totalitarian dictator, Nicholas was fully responsible for all of his
action aimed at his Jewish subjects.
These included but were not limited to
expulsion from a variety of cities including Kiev; the drafting of
under-age Jewish boys for twenty-five years of military service; the banning of
beards and a sidelocks for men and banning of women shaving their heads at the
time of marriage; the banning of Yiddish; censorship and destruction of Jewish
books. And this list does not include
the mistreatment of the general populace with such measures as the
establishment of a secret police system designed to stamp out any manifestation
of democracy or Western values.”
1827: William Huskisson who in 1830
would present “a petition signed by 2000 citizens of Liverpool” which was the
first step toward gaining full citizenship for the Jews completed his service
as President of the Board of Trade.
1834: Birthdate of German rabbi, Hermann Tietz.
1836: Birthdate of Kingston, Jamaica
native Abigail Flamingo the wife of Alexander Aria and the mother of Judith,
Morris, Charles, Sarah, Marie and David Aria.
1836 (21st of Elul, 5596): Daniel Mendoza, who was boxing champion of England from 1792 to 1795 and
is called “the father of scientific boxing” passed away.
1837: “Representatives of New York’s
three synagogues and two benevolent society launched the city’s first communal
charity drive.”
1839: Birthdate of Charles Wessolowsky
an immigrant from Prussia who became a leading citizen in Albany, GA.
1845: In Prague, Joseph Hershman and
Katherine Urbach gave birth Louise Herschman
who married Professor Sigmund Mannheimer and gained fame as Louise
Herschman Mannheimer, the author, contralto, “founder of the Cincinnati Jewish
Industrial School for Boys and the mother of Eugene, Leo, Jennie and Edna
Mannheimer.
1845: In Germany Levy and Helena Hass
gave birth to Johanna Haas Westheimer who in 1861 moved to Chicago and then
after marry St. Joseph, MO, merchant Samuel Westheimer after which she served
as the treasurer of the Jewish Ladies’ Benevolent Society of St. Joseph where
she raised eight children.
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1845: In Besançon, France, Adelaide (née
Friedmann) and Leopold Herz, gave birth to Cornelius Herz a pioneer in the
field of electricity who “was the founder, along with Alphonse de Rothschild,
of the American Syndicate of Electricity.”
1845: Hyam Samuel married Miriam Levy at
the Great Synagogue today.
1849: In Philadelphia, Max Friedman a
native of Mulhausen who arrived in the United States in 1848 at the age of 23
and became a successful businessman married “Adeline J. Comelien, the daughter
of Rowland and Amelia (nee Judah) Cromelien “today.
1851: Today Charlotte Rothschild, “regretfully noted” that she “could not that
much improvement had taken place since last December” in the academic progress
of her son “Natty” and decided she was to “determined to have a new” tutor.
1852: Anti-Jewish riots broke
out in Stockholm.
1853(30th
of Av, 5613): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
1853(30th
of Av, 5613): Daniel Block, a German or Bohemian born butcher who arrived in
St. Louis in the late 1840’s and who was a founder of the B’nai B’rith
Synagogue also known as the “Bohemian shul” which later merged with two other
congregations – Emanuel and United Hebrew – “to form B’nai El Congregation
passed away today leaving behind four children – Heinrich, Jacob, Dora and
Abraham – who donated the tombstone in the New Mount Sinai Cemetery.
1855:
Birthdate of Heinrich Conreid, the Silesian native who became director of the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
1855:
In London, birthdate of communal worker Oswald John Simon.
1855:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, founding of Sherith Israel whose members included Joseph
Lazarus, Dave Dreifus, William Levendorf, Meyer Weil, Joseph Block, Louis Loeb,
Emanuel Marks and Morris Tuch.
1857:
In Kokomo, Indiana, Abraham Hays and Fanny Kahn gave birth to Emma Hays
Eckhouse, the husband of Moses Eckhouse and resident of Indianapolis who was
the Director of the Auxiliary to the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives
in Denver, vice president of the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society and a
delegate to the National Conference of Jewish Charities.
1858:
Birthdate of San Francisco native Louis Solomon Haas, a “member of the stock
brokerage firm of Sutro and Company who was “president of the Pacific Hebrew
Orphan Asylum.”
1859:
Birthdate of French socialist leader Jean Jaurès who was an early and energetic
defender of Alfred Dreyfus.
1860: Birthdate of Edward Albert Filene, Boston merchant. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Filene was one
of long list of American Jews who gained wealth and power as “merchant
princes.” As president of the Boston
firm of William Filene's Sons he pioneered in scientific and ingenious methods
of retail distribution: the "bargain basement" was one of his
innovations. He planned and helped organize the Boston Chamber of Commerce and
the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and served in World War I as chairman
of the War Shipping Committee. He was active in civic reform movements and was
the founder (1919) of the Cooperative League, which became the Twentieth
Century Fund. He wrote several books on business methods and on economics. His
liberal economic and political views made him a controversial figure.
1862:
In London, Rebecca Neumann and Rabbi A. H. Eisenberg gave birth to Montefiore
College educated Rabbi Maurice Eisenberg, the husband of Cora Leopold who “succeeded
his father as Rabbi of Canterbury, England” before he came to the United States
where held several pulpits starting with Temple Shaarey Tefilath in New Orleans
before finally settling in New York where he was a member of the administrative
committee of the Jewish Council of Greater New ork.
1862:
Birthdate of Moses Hyamson, the Russian born Rabbi who served as Chief Dayan
(Judge) of the London Beth Din and acting Chief Rabbi of the British Empire.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hyamson-moses
1863:
In Kotteso, Hungary, Joseph Deutelbaum and Fannie Zalenka gave birth Leopold
Deutelbaum, the graduate of the Royal Jewish Teacher’s Seminary in Budapest and
the National German-German Teachers’ Seminary in Milwaukee and husband of
Johanna Kurz who lived in Cleveland from 1892 to 1900 where taught at the
Jewish Orphan Asylum and the Sabbath Schools of Tifereth Israel and Anshe
before becoming the Superintendent of the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans in
1900.
1863:
In Philadelphia, Lazarus and Barbara (Kahnweiler) Shloss gave birth to Florence
Shloss Guggenheim.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/guggenheim-florence-shloss
1864:
Birthdate of Samuel Abraham Poznański, “the Polish Reform rabbi, known for his
studies of Karaism and the Hebrew calendar who was a delegate to the First
Zionist Congress.
1864:
The Varieties Theatre which would eventually become a Jewish theatre opened
today at 37 Bowery.
1864:
Birthdate of Francis Crawford Burkitt, the British scholar and divinity
professor at Cambridge whom Solomon Schechter trusted to go through many of the
Greek language manuscripts that had been found in the Cairo Geniza. (For about this see “Sacred Trash” by Hoffman
and Cole).
1870:
Twenty-one year old Jeanne Clemence Weil, the granddaughter of Baruch Weill and
the daughter of Nathe Weil married “French doctor Adrien Proust” with whom she
had two sons – Robert and Marcel.
1872(30th
of Av, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1872:
“John H. Morton, boatswain of the Packetship Charles H. Marshall of the Black
Ball line appeared before U.S. Commissioner of Emigration Osborne on charges of
having inhumanly treated Meyer Velt, a German Jew who was a passenger on board
the ship.” Velt claimed that he had been
tied up by Morton and the “repeatedly cuffed, kicked and beaten.” Credence was added to his charges by the fact
that several others on the ship complained of “bad treatment” and because
similar charges had been brought against Charles H. Marshall before. The Commissioner sent Morton back to Castle
Garden expressing regret that the law did not allow him to punish the boatswain
but suggested that he be sent to Police Court to answer for his crimes.
1875:
Birthdate of Albert von Breitenbach, the native of Cologne, Germany who gained
fame as American songwriter Fred Fisher whose works including “Come Josephine
In My Flying Machine” and “Peg O’ My Heart.”
1877:
A synagogue that followed the Sephardic ritual and funded by contributions by
Daniel Orsis located on the Rue Buffault in Paris was dedicated today.
1877: Hermann Ullman, the Czech born son or Rabbi
Benjamin Ullmann and Theresia Ester Ullmann and his wife Bertha Ullmann gave
birth to Olga Ullman who died a Terezin during the Holocaust.
1878:
In Frankfort, Germany, Eleonore and Abraham Seligman gave birth to Robert Henry
Seligman.
1879:
Three days after she had passed away “Dimante bat Moshe wife of Issachar bar
Baruch HaLevi” was buried today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1879:
It was reported today that Vasile Boerescu , the Romanian Foreign Minister, has
been visiting governments in Europe in an attempt to gain modifications of
those parts of Treaty of Berlin which committed his government to emancipating
its Jewish population. Boerescu
justified Romania’s treatment of the Jews by comparing it to the plight of
Chinese in the United States.
1880(27th
of Elul, 5640): Fifty-six year old Charles Steckler, a leading merchant in
Jackson, CA passed away today, apparently having taken his own life.
http://www.weeklypioneer.com/2010/08/charles-steckler.html
1880:
In New York City, Maimie Einstein and Abraham Cohn gave birth to Columbia educated
tobacco broker Leonard A. Cohn, the husband of Maron Angelo and a trustee of
the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1881:
It was reported that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment has made the
distributions to several New York charities including $1,957.14 to the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society.
1881:
In Shoreditch, Middlesex, “Polish Jews Ester Sacher” and tailor Jacob Sacher
gave birth to New College, Oxford educated journalist and director of Marks and
Spencer Harry Sacher, the husband of Miram Sacher who was a co-founder of
Sacher, Horotwitz and Klebanoff and the father of Michael and Gabriel Sacher.
1882:
“Cairo, A Mountain Town” published today provides a description of this
Catskill mountain village which provides a summer retreat for a variety of
visitors “a good many” of whom “are Jews who “don’t care anything about…Sunday”
and “want to play croquet, play the piano and go out riding.” According to the
locals the Jews “are just like anybody else.
There’s nice Jews and there’s them that aint nice.”
1883(1st
of Elul, 5643): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1883: G.D.
Ginsburg wrote to his daughter that he had spent a month to make sure
that the recently discovered scroll of Deuteronomy presented by Moses Shipra
was a fake because the forger had shown “extraordinary cleverness” and skill
and his diligence would make it impossible “for this clever band of rogues to”
traffic in any more take antiquities.
1884:
In Moscow, Alexander and Vera Lefscheetz gave birth to mathematician and holder
of a doctorate from Clark Solomon Lefschetz the husband of Alice Bergy Hayes
who taught and the University of Nebraska and the University of Kansas before
becoming an associate professor at Princeton.
1885:
In Vienna, discovery of 250 Bettina a
large main belt asteroid “named in honour of Baroness Bettina von Rothschild,
the wife of the prominent Viennese banker Albert Salomon von Rothschild who had
bought the naming rights for £50.”
1885:
Salomon Linnewel married Rebecca Van Biene in Amsterdam today.
1885:
In New York City the apartment belonging to the family of Samuel Neuman and the
adjacent schhol for Jewish children are scheduled to be fumigated today as the
Health Department continues its fight against small-pox. Neuman, the son of a Jewish tailor, was found
to be infected with the disease and is being treated at Riverside Hospital.
1885:
In New York Bertha Gross and Philip Goldhammer gave birth to University of
Colorado trained engineer Max H. Goldhammer and father of Phillip David
Goldhammer who began his career with General Electric.
1890:
Coroner Levy went to Bellevue Hospital and had Lemuel Jaynes arrested after he
ascertained that the nurse had mistakenly administered a lethal dose of
carbolic acid to a typhus patient.
1890:
Twenty-one-year old Marion L. Misch, the Newark, NJ born daughter of Rachel
Pulaski and Benjamin Simon married New England Department Store owner today
Caesar Misch today in Pittsfield, MA after which she had two children, Walter
and Louise and “became the only female
owner of a department store in Providence, RI following the death of her
husband while serving at the President of the National Council Jewish Women.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/misch-marion-simon
1891(30th of Av, 5651): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1891: Birthdate of New York City native and Hollywood
publicist Benjamin Franklin Holzamn.
1891(30th of Av, 5651): Two months
before his 2nd birthday, Frank T. Fleisher passed away today after
which he was interred at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1891: A special inquiry is to be made into the
fitness of Hirsch Birchanski to remain in the United States. The Russia Jew
contends that contrary to the contention of Immigration Commissioner, he does
have the ability to support himself and tis therefore eligible to enter the
United States.
1892: Birthdate of Brigadier General Henning
Linden led a group of reporters including Marguerite Higgins and a detachment
of the 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division as the soldiers received the surrender
of the camp commander, generating international headlines by freeing more than
30,000 Jews and political prisoners
1892: As concerns of a cholera outbreak
worsened, members of the Peekskill, NY, Board of Health began inspecting the
streets and houses in neighborhood populated primarily by Hebrews, Hungarians
and Italians. (The immigrant population was thought to be the primary carry of
the disease which had broken out in Europe.)
1892: It is reported that a group of Russian
Jews who had been “expelled from Odessa and traveled to Paris by way of
Constantinople” under the sponsorship of the Israelite Alliance have left for
Dieppe where they will set sail for Canada.
Many of the Jews sailing for Canada really want to settle in the United
States and doing this to avoid the cholera quarantine at several U.S ports.
1892: “Suffering at Ziontown” published today
described the desperate condition of the fifty Russian Jews at the settlement
in New Jersey who are so poor that they “have been subsisting on berries and
fruit picked by the wayside.”
1892: Based on reports published today, Baron
de Mohrenheim, the Russian Ambassador to France believes that the Parisian
press is “in the hands of the Jews” and “that the Rothschilds had opposed the
Russian loan…in order to promote” a financial “collapse.”
1892: It was reported today that any plans by
England, the United States and “Continental countries” to shut off the flow of
immigrants from Russia because of the threat of cholera might be part of plan
to stop the flow of Jews from that country, which is a problem in and of itself
for these same countries.
1892: As Europe and the United States contend
with a possible cholera epidemic, the “officials of Jewish relief societies
confirm” that no Russian Jews are entering the Thames, the gateway to London.
1893: “Dramatic Debut…In The House” published
today described the maiden speech of Coningsby Disraeli the son of Ralph
Disraeli and the nephew of Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons.
1893: that Moses Hirschdorfer, who was facing
charges of embezzlement while serving as the manager of the offices of banker,
broker and steamship passage agent Bernhard Weinberger, was seen by his
neighbors for the last time today.
1893: “Sketches of Business Men in New York
City” published today provided a detailed sketch of the life of Oscar S.
Straus.
Testament indicates that the trade of the Jews
with the East was in the hands of Solomon and that is profits enriched the King
and not the people.” In modern times “the colossal fortunes of Hirsh or
Rothschild…are really insignificant when contrasted with the wealth of a
nation” but they attract attention like the point of a pyramid while no one
looks at the base where the real wealth is.
1894: Three days she had passed away, Priscilla
Levy, the daughter of Aaron Hendricks and the former Ann Mosely and the wife of
Benjamin Levy was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894: “Renan’s Final Volume” published today
provides as detailed review of Histoire Du Peuple D’Israel by Ernest
Rean, the fifth volume of the French Jewish authors History of Israel.
1894: Members of the boards of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum and United Hebrew Charities will attend the funeral of Jacob
Bamberger which begins at ten thirty this morning at Temple Emanu-El
1894: About 400 clothing cutters, most of whom
are Jewish held a meeting at Metropolitan Sienger Hall today and voted to go
out on strike.
1894: Birthdate of Worcester, MA native and
Harvard Law School graduate Joseph Talamo who was a served in WW I and was a
member of the Zionist Organization of America.
1895: “Isyobr” Silberman and his wife gave
birth to Sarah Silberman who did lived less one year and was buried in the
Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong.
1895: In Bessarabia, “Nahum and Pearl
(Treistman) Backman gave birth to encomiast Theodore N. Beckman, the holder of
a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University where he became a Professor of Marketing
and husband of Esther G. Baker, who served “as the faculty adviser of the OSU
Menorah Society and a member of the
advisory board of Hillel.
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1896: Based on information that first appeared
in The Menorah Monthly “Jules Simon”
published today reiterated the fact that the late French Prime Minister was not
a Jew although he was often attacked for being one by his anti-Semitic
detractors. He was a member of the
Israelite Universal Alliance and was a close friend of Aoldphe Cremieux, the
French leader who was Jewish.
1896: Birthdate of Ukraine native and WWI
veteran Bernard Austin who in 1911 came to the United States where here he
attended New York Law School and became a Democratic Party leader of the New
York State Assembly.
1896: Jesse Isidor Strauss, the son of Isidor
Strauss and nephew of Oscar Solomon Strauss “began working at Macy’s” today 37
years before he began serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
1896(25th of Elul, 5656): Eliezer
ben Moses Bregman a successful Grodno businessman who gave “more than 100,000
rubles for charitable institutions” passed away today in Teplitz, Bohemia.
1897: Nathan Straus decided to stop the sale of
raw milk following the arrest of one of the employee’s at the milk booth at the
Hebrew Institute “on charges of selling milk below the required standard.”
Straus had begun the sale of milk in 1893 as part of his campaign to improve
the health of the immigrant and poor populations.
1898: In Hempstead, Long Island, Rabbi Cohen of
Manhattan was among those attended a meeting at the home of Dr. A.D. Rosenthal
where plans were discussed for holding High Holiday services which led to a
discussion for the need for a permanent place of worship.
1898: It was reported today that according to
the Irish author Edward Dowden, the tale of Shylock wanting a pound of flesh is
actually a variant on a Persian tale in which the “Jew is not impelled to
cruelty because the money is not returned to him but for the reason that he is
in love with debtor’s wife and” he wants to get the husband out of the way.
1899(28th of Elul, 5659): Sixty-five
year old Offenbach, Germany native Herman Felsenthal who “came to the United
States in 1852 and pursued a banking career in Chicago and who married Gertrude
Hyman Felsenthal with whom he had “nine children” passed away today after which
he was buried in the Rosehill Cemetery.
1899: “Prodded the Prince of Wales” published
today described a park-bench encounter at Marienbad between the Prince of Wales
and an un-named Polish Jew who carried on a conversation with the future
British monarch without knowing his identity that ended with him “digging his
Royal Highness in the ribs and telling him he looked too healthy to need the
water cure.”
1899: In The Hague, the first meeting The
International Congress of History, of which Oscar S. Straus is a member of the
American Section, came to a close.
1899: “Hebrew New Year Cards” published today
described the growth in the sale of these “fancy affairs, ornamented with lace
and flower and each with a motto or greeting in English and Hebrew” which “have
been sold for some time in the Jewish stores” but a now being sold in the large
department stores.
1899: It was reported today that “throughout
Austria, the Radicals and Socialists are now practically united in demanding
their Constitutional rights” and “complete equality for the Jews.”
1899: In Albuquerque, NM, the cornerstone for
the building to house Congregation Albert was set but it would not be until
April of the following year that the building would be dedicated with Pizer
Jacobs who had succeeded Dr. William H. Greenburg serving as the Rabbi.
1899: “The Jews” published today provide Mark
Twain’s current view on these people.
1899: Selma Kurtz made her debut at the
Viennese theatre that “would become her artistic and spiritual home” today in
the role of “Mignon” in the opera of the same name.
1900: “All Account of Eliza” starring Clara
Lipman opened at the Carrick Theatre
1900: The Hague Convention of 1899 which would
be part of the legal foundation for the trial of Nazis after World War II went
into effect today.
1901:
Pitcher Bill Cristall made his major league debut with the Cleveland Blues.
1902(1st
of Elul, 5662): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1902: Twenty-two-year-old Philadelphia resident
Abraham M. Ellis, the son David
Eli Melich and Sprina Odella (Efont) Ellis, who was the president of the
Broadway Amusement Company, which owned the Broadway Theater in Camden, in the
1930s and who was one of the organizers of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun and the
namesake for the Abraham M. and Rose Ellis Foundation married Rose Barenbaum
today.
1902:
Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Spanish and
Portuguese Congregation Beth Israel at Hamburg. There were no celebrations.
1903:
Fire destroyed a synagogue at Travnik, Bosnia.
1903:
Hyman Epstein, twenty-three years old, confined at the Insane Asylum, at Ward's
Island, escaped this morning, and, after being picked up in midstream by the
police, was later arraigned before Magistrate Crane in the Harlem Police Court.
1904(23rd
of Elul, 5664): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilich; Leil Selichot
1904(23rd
of Elul, 5664): Joseph Porges, Edler von Portheim the Prague born son of Moses
Porges von Portheim who became manufacturer and patron of the arts passed away
today in his hometown.
1904:
“Beginning of Hebrew Stories” published today provided a complete review of the
Early Hebrew Story, Its Historical Background by Dr. John P. Peters
which is based on a series of lecturers that covered such topics as Creation,
Eden, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel.
1905:
“Free Meals For All In Sweatshop Land” published today described an experiment
in feeding people on the Lower East Side where Russian and Polish Jews wearing
derby hats were among the diners.
1905:
Birthdate of Latvian native and Israeli bible scholar Nechama Leibowitz the sister
of Israeli scientist and philosopher Yeshayahu
Leibowitz whose accomplishments are amazing in their own right
and are even more so when you consider the male-dominated world in which
worked, study and taught. For a collection of her commentaries on each of the
weekly portions which are called “Gilyonot” see
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/torani/NEHAMA/indexgil.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leibowitz-nehama
1906:
Columbia educated college professor Israel Davidson, the Lithuanian born son of
Rebecca Cohen and David Davidson married Carrie Dreyfus today after which he
served as a Professor of Theological Seminary and lectured at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
1906:
Bernhard Dernburg, the Director of the Bank of Commerce and Industry has been
named Director of the Colonial Office making this “the first time a Jew has
been appointed to such a high office in the German Empire.”
1907:
“A dispatch from Odessa says that the "Black Hundred" attacks upon
Jews, which began yesterday, have continued this morning when two more were
killed, making five deaths from violence, while nearly 100 Jews are in the
hospitals suffering from injuries from revolvers, knives, or India rubber rods,
with which the Black Hundred belabor the unhappy objects of their violence.”
1908: In Czernowitz,
the First Conference for the Yiddish Language came to a close.
1909: In Superior,
Wisconsin, “Lena (Krasnovsky) and Israel Bazelon, a general store proprietor”
gave birth to Northwestern University undergrad David Lionel Bazel who began
his legal career by reading law and eventually reaching the position of “Senior
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/03/1910/kitty-carlisle-hart
1910: In New York.
Isidore Rabinowitz, the Grodno born son Shimon and Libbie Rabinowitz and his
was wife Rebecca gave birth to Marion Rabinowitz who became Marion Gilbert when
she married Paul David Gilbert.
1910: Birthdate of
Maurice Papon “a senior police official in the Vichy regime” who used his
authority over the Jewish population to send over 1,500 Jews to their ultimate
death at Auschwitz.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/world/europe/18papon.html?pagewanted=all
1911: Birthdate of
British author Naomi Lewis, the native of “Great Yarmouth” who was the daughter
of “a Latvian Jewish herring exporter” and a talented artist and musician whose
name she took to avoid the anti-Semitism prevalent in the 1930’s.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/14/obituary-naomi-lewis
1911: At its annual
convention the Independent Order of Ahawas Israel passed “resolutions
advocating abrogation of the Treaty of 1832 with Russia.
1911: Founding of Beth
Hamidrash Hagadol in Philadelphia, PA.
1911: Jacob Silverman,
the son of Shlomo Silverblatt and his wife Rachel Silverman gave birth to Max
Silverman, the husband of Gerturde Silverman who was also known as Max
Silverblatt.
1911: An “athletic
meet” sponsored by the Chicago Hebrew Junior League is scheduled to take place.
1912: In Dorchester,
Massachusetts, founding of Temple Beth El.
1912: In Russia, Frank
and Frieda Ableman, gave birth to future Illinois resident Max Ableman, the
husband of Lilian Napsky Abelman.
1913(1st of
Elul, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1913: Burton Harris who had delivered a speech
on “Our Duty to Our Citizens abroad in which he spoke “on the attitude of the
Russian government toward Jews, both naturalized and American born and the
efforts that have been made through diplomatic channels to obtain recognition
of their rights as American citizens” completed his service as the Congressman
from the 20th district of New York and was succeeded by Jacob A.
Cantor.
1913: Former President
William Howard Taft elected President of the American Bar Association.
1914: Birthdate of
Paula Adelsheimer who was transported from Stuttgart to Terezin to Auschwitz
where she was murdered in 1944
1914: Giacomo Paolo
Giovanni Battista della Chiesa was elected Pope serving as Benedict XV who
dealt with issues related to the suffering European Jewry during WW I and the
early days of the implementation of the Balfour Declaration under the British
mandate.
1915(24th of
Elul, 5675): Ernst Nathan, the former Collector of Revenue under President
Benjamin Harrison and prominent Brooklyn Republican passed away in his 74th
year. A native or Prussia, Nathan had served as President of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, Temple Beth Elohim and the Jewish Federation of Brooklyn Charities.
1915: Governor Moses
Alexander of Idaho, the only serving in that capacity in the United Sates is
scheduled to visit Congregation Shaare Zedek in Brooklyn this evening as part
of his trip to New York City.
1916: It was reported
today that “there is a deplorable need for medicines and medical supplies in
the Jaffa and Jerusalem districts” which is extremely for the local population
since “practically the whole population of Palestine both Jew and Mohammedan,
relies on the Jewish hospitals.
1916: “After a journey
of nearly 20,000 miles with her three year old son Mrs. Etta Kaufman was
reunited with her husband Aaron Kaufman, formerly a professor at the Royal
Petrograd Conservatory of Music in Brooklyn today thanks to information
provided by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society on East Broadway.
1916: In a raid that
would pre-sage the Blitz of WW II when over 20,000 Londoners would be killed
including an untold number of Jews, thirteen Zepplin’s raided England “eastern
counties” tonight with three of them making their way to outskirts of London where
they met by anti-aircraft fire and attacks from British Air Service bi-planes.
1916(5th of
Elul, 5676): Second Lieutenant Andrade Haines, 11th East Surrey, the
son of Louise and Marcus Haines, the chazzan at the New West End Synagogue and
the step-son of Stephen Simon Hyam was killed on the Western Front.
1917: It was reported
today that Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the former American Ambassador to Turkey and
his wife who just received he Legion of Honor for her work with the wounded and
sick French citizens in Constantinople plan to sail from France for the United
States “on the first steamship on which they obtain suitable accommodations.”
1917: It was reported
today that Hugo Freund of 47 Fort Washington Avenue has said that the $10,000
he had given to the American Jewish Soldiers Bureau would be available for the
use of “the committee chaired by Mrs. Louis Glucksman to raise funds for Jewish
soldiers.
1917: “The Federation
of Oriental Jews of America announced” today that it had received cables
stating that the “recent disastrous fire at Salonika, Macedonia” that destroyed
“practically the entire city” which has a large Jewish population “was caused by
the explosion of enemy bombs.”
1917: The British
cabinet formally discusses the document that will be known as the Balfour
Declaration. While most ministers
favored the declaration, Edwin Montagu a Jewish member of the cabinet spoke out
against the declaration. He feared that
the declaration of Palestine as the Jewish National Home would undermine the
progress that British Jews had made on the road to full acceptance in their
English homeland. As secretary of state to India, Montagu claimed that the
pro-Zionist statement would inflame the Moslem population of India.
1918: The Republican
Parity Primary in which Solomon Levitan of Madison, Wisconsin, the President of
the Commercial National Bank, is a candidate for State Treasurer, is scheduled
to be held today.
1918: As of today,
untold thousands of Jews are scattered in locations east of the Urals in such
places as Harbin and Vladivostok as well as in Japan.
1919: In Philadelphia,
“Alix and May Stern, Jewish immigrants from Russia” gave birth to photographer
Philip Stern.
1920: The Inwood
Country Club (a golf club on Long Island that accepted Jewish members) is
scheduled to host “an extra golf tournament” today that “will be an eighteen
hold medal play.”
1920: The American
Hebrew published an excerpt from The Valley of Hinnon, a novel of the Urkaine
by Daniel L. Mordovstev.
1920: Applications for
admission to the Hebrew Technical Institute may be made in person today.
1920: Rabbi Max
Reichler led Friday night services at Sinai Temple.
1920: Rabbi I Mortimer
Bloom delivered a sermon on “Suffrage Achieved – the Next Step” this evening at
the Hebrew Tabernacle on Broadway.
1920: Rabbi Norman
Salit delivered a sermon at Friday nights entitled “Gerizim Against Ebal” at
Adath Israel; pm East 169th Street.
1920: The 12 week’s
seasons of concerts sponsored by Columbia University, one of which was given at
the Montefiore Home came to an end this evening.
1921: In Boston,
Massachusetts, Mary Ruby and Samuel Orkin gave birth photographer and
photojournalist Ruth Orkin whose assignments included photographing the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra on its first tour of the United States in 1951
photographing Jewish refugees from Iraq as they arrived in Israel.
http://www.orkinphoto.com/photographs/europe-and-israel/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/150026231307475169/
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/17/nyregion/ruth-orkin-photojournalist-and-film-maker-dead-at-63.html
1922: Birthdate of
Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan, the Soviet born American expert in Byzantine
studies.
1922: Cantors Samuel
Meisels and David Rothman led the funeral services for Bernard Bernstein,
“noted Yiddish Comedian” during which Dr. Hirsh Masliansky, a friend of the
dead comedian, paid a tribute” to his art.
1923: “Merry-Go-Round,”
a feature film produced by Carl Laemmel, directed by Erich von Stroheim who
along with Irving Thalberg wrote the scenario was released in the United States
today by Universal Pictures.
1923:
“Chauve-Souris” produced by Morris Gest opened on Broadways. at Jolson’s 59th
Street Theatre.
1924: Pitcher Happy Foreman made his major league
debut with the Chicago White Sox.
1925: In Tajik, Sivyo
Davydova and Rubin Mullodzhanov gave birth Shoista Mullojonova, the Bukharian
Jewish singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEfxDXSKn0k
1925: Birthdate of
Mannheim, Germany native Edith Stern who fled Germany after Kristallnacht,
lived in Switzerland and moved to the United States after marrying Arthur
Stern.
1926: In Oklahoma City,
OK, Theodore and Esther Greenberg gave birth to Alan Greenberg the future
leader of Bears Stearns.
1926: “A heated debate
marked today's session of the Council of the League of Nations when it came to
consider the report of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of
Nations on the situation in Palestine.” (As reported by JTA)
1926: A fight broke out
today between a group of Bedouins and the residents of Avodath Israel after the Jews refusing the
shepherds’ request to their sheep graze on land belonging to the settlement. The Jews refused because they it would be a
violation of the government quarantine imposed in response to the current
cattle plague. (As reported by JTA)
1926: “The Son of a
Sheik” a silent adventure film with music by Artur Guttman was released today
in the Unites States today.
1926: The “Philadelphia
Jewish Times” expressed its agreement with the statement made by Louis
Marshall “that the rights guaranteed by
the national minority treaties are essentially the same as those guaranteed to
citizens by the United States Constitution and therefore the Turkish Jews had
no right to renounce their minority rights.” (The Turkish Jews were responding
to the reform movement in Turkey where the leaders were trying to create a
secular state.)
1927Benjamin Morris Jebaltowsky
the middleweight who fought under the name Ben Jeby began his pugilistic career with a victory.
1928: In San Francisco,
businessman Sydney Fisher and cabinetmaker Aileen Emanuel gave birth to Donald
Fisher who with his wife Doris co-founded The Gap clothing stores.
1928(18th of
Elul, 5688): Fifty-two year old Hyman Goldstein, the London born son of Hannah
and Solomon Goldstein passed away today in “Coogee, NSW, Australia.”
https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/Pages/Member-details.aspx?pk=1290
1929: British forces
repulsed an Arab raiding party this evening at El Mesha, a village east of
Mount Tabor. The Arabs suffered 26
casualties to one wounded British private. Fourteen Arabs were killed when they
attacked Yesod Ha’Maalah and two others were killed when they attacked Nishmar
Ha’Yarden.
1930: David A. Brown
who has worked chairman of the American Jewish Relief Committee, the United
Jewish Campaign and the Palestine Emergency Fund has resigned as chairman of
the board of the Broadway National Bank and Trust Company.
1931: Elmer Berger, a
Reform Rabbi who would emerge as a lead of the anti-Zionist movement, married
Seville Schwartz today.
1931(21st of
Elul, 5691): Sixty-five year old Eliza Aria, the London born daughter of
photographer Hyman Davis and wife of “Jamaican-born merchant David Bonito Aria”
who “was described as the most successful journalist of the day” passed away
1932(2nd of
Elul, 5692): Parasaht Shoftim
1932: The annual
encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States is scheduled to
continue for a second day in Atlantic City, NJ>
1933: Birthdate of Dr.
Charles Joseph Epstein, the geneticist who survived an attack by the Unabomber.
1934: The United
Singers Society of Newark sponsored a Labor Day program at Union Singers Park
featuring band music, fireworks and folk dancers dressed in authentic German
costumes. The program was attended by
4,000 people. While the park was
decorated with a variety of banners and flags emblematic of the German groups
participating in the event, there were Nazi decorations or pictures of Hitler. The Singers Society was a conservative
organization that had distanced itself from the pro-Hitler elements in the
United States.
1935(5th of
Elul, 5695): Fifty-eight-year-old Ohio Medical College trained physician, Max
Dreyfoos the Cincinnati born son of Hannah Blatt and Bernard Drefyoos and the
husband of Baldina Levy with whom he had two children – Louise and Helen -- who was a member of the faculty of the
University of Cincinnati passed away today.
1935: Sir Julien Cahn
XI, a cricket team formed and captained by Sir Julien Cahn played Lancashire.
1936: While speaking
“before the Midwest Institute of Human Relations at Lawrence College,” “Roger
W. Straus, a New York engineer and co-chairman of the National Conference of
Jews and Christians called for protecting of each individual man and woman “through
the affirmation of religious liberty” while declaring “that a diversity of
religious belief is in itself a safeguard of the tolerant conception of
religion.”
1936: In his New Year’s
greeting to the Jewish population published today, President Roosevelt wrote, “Mindful of the signal part taken by
the Jewish people of America in upholding the traditions and aims of our country
it gives me special pleasure to extend cordial greetings to all those of the
Jewish faith on this Rosh Hashanah” and expressed the hope “that the new year
will bring to our fellow Jewish citizens great prosperity and happiness.”
1936: In his New Year’s
greeting to the Jewish population published today, New York Governor Lehman
wrote, “At this season, American Jews can with grateful hears join in
thanksgiving because, in love and pride of country they can look forward with
high confidence to a year of increased prosperity for American and of security
for all who live here” which stands in stark contrast to “our brethren in many
other lands” for whom “the past year has brought unjust oppression imminent
danger and underserved distress.”
1937: “Big City”
starring Luise Rainer, with a script by Dore Schary and filmed by
cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released in the United States today by
MGM.
1937: After premiering
in New York, “Soul at Sea” featuring Joseph Schildkraut as Gaston de Bastonet
was released in the rest of the United States today.
1938(7th of
Elul, 5698): Parashat Shoftim
1938(7th of
Elul, 5698): Sixty-three year old Jerome Hanauer, the son of Moses and
Henrietta Hanhauer, who rose from being an office boy at Kuhn, Loeb to a full
partnership who raise a daughter, Alice, with his wife Carrie Hellman Hanauer
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/09/04/99559478.html?pageNumber=16
1938: The Italian
newspaper Tevere, which has been
publishing harshly anti-Semitic material for several years, praises the
Mussolini decree rescinding the citizenship of all Jews who entered Italy after
1919.
1938: The curtain came
down on “You Can’t Take It With You” a three act play by George S. Kaufman and
Moss Hart which had been playing at the Booth Theatre so the production could
be moved to another Broadway theatre.
1938: “Exile From
Italy” published today examined possible reasons for Mussolini following the
lead of Hitler by adopting “the extraordinary and ruthless decree…ordering all
Jews who have taken up residence in Italy since the World War to leave that
country within the next six months” which will result in “some ten thousand
people who have been living quietly and peacefully and no doubt usefully in
Italy” to “pull up stakes and seek refuge in a cheerless world.”
1939: Britain and France declared war on Germany. The response of Britain
and France was a bit on the puzzling side to say the least. The two allies had waited forty-eight hours
to declare war. The two western Allies
were so inactive after the Germans took Poland that the following period was
known as the Phony War. For the Jews of Poland,
the war was not phony as they fell under the Nazi boot.
1939: As a result of the UK’s declaration war on
Germany mathematician and codebreaker Max Newman’s wife Lyn and his two sons –
Edward and William – would be evacuated to the United States where they would
stay until they returned in October, 1943.
1939(19th of Elul, 5699): The SS executed 26 Jews in
the Polish frontier town, Wieruszow. The victims included Israel Lewi, Abraham
Lefkowitz, Moseh Mozes and Usiel Baumatz.
Their fate presaged the fate of all the Jews of Poland.
1939: In Mannheim, Germany, the Gestapo ordered all
“able-bodied Jews” including Ernst Wolfgang Michel “to report to the local
train station where they were to be sent to forced-labor camps” which in the
case of Ernest Michel would eventually mean Auschwitz.
1939: At a meeting of the Jewish Agency
Executive, an organization informally recognized as the ad hoc Jewish
government of Palestine, David Ben-Gurion vows that Jews will fight Hitler. A
total of a million and a half Jews will fight in the armed forces of nations
opposing Germany: 555,000 Jewish servicemen and women in the American Armed
Forces; 500,000 for the Soviet Union; 116,000 for Great Britain (26,000 from
Palestine and 90,000 from the British Commonwealth); and 243,000 Jews for other
European nations.
1939: German
troops invaded the home in Bielsko, Poland 15 year old Gerda Weissmann, the
future American author and human rights activist.
1939: Franny Krongold and Jacob Silberman, the
parent of Rosie Silberman Canada’s first Jewish woman judge, were married today
in Poland.
1939: In response to today’s declaration of war by
Britain against Germany, “Iraq deported German officials and broke off
diplomatic relations with Germany” but the Arab kingdom did not comply with the
terms of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty and declare war on the Nazi government – a
movement that helped to set the stage for the Fahud.
1939: The last Kindertransport, did not begin its
scheduled trip because of the outbreak of World War II.
1940: Birthdate of Los Angeles native Joseph Stern,
the actor and producer best known as “the founder of the Matrix Theatre
Company.”
1940: Following a private service at her some in
Westport, CT, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue is scheduled to
officiate at the “funeral service for Lillian D. Wald, the founder of the Henry
Street Settlement” a the Neighborhood Playhouse.
1941(11th
of Elul, 5701): Sixty-two year old Philadelphia born, NYU Law School graduate
City Court Justice Israel J.P. Adlerman and husband of Saide Adlerman with whom
he had three daughters – Marion, Leona and Elaine – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/09/04/105838521.pdf
1941: The Germans hung three Jewish brothers in
Dubossary. Dubossary was in Moldavia which was part of the Soviet at this
time. Six hundred elderly Jews of Dubossary were thrown out of their
homes, brought into eight synagogues, where each house of worship was then
burned to the ground.
Six Jews who refuse to serve on the
Jewish Council at Dubossary, Ukraine, are publicly hanged. Later, 600 elderly
Jews are driven into Dubossary's eight synagogues and burned alive when the
synagogues are set ablaze.
1941:
In Romania, Jews began wearing the “yellow badge” in response to an order from
the national government.
1941: The Germans test Cyclon B for effectiveness at
Auschwitz. The tests were declared a
success as all of the “subjects” were killed.
Cyclon B will be the extermination weapon of choice for the Final
Solution. Six hundred Soviet prisoners of war and 300 Jews are
"euthanized" at Auschwitz.
1942: At Lachva, Belorussia, more than 800 Jews
battle Nazis in a revolt led by Dov Lopatyn. Most of the rebels are killed
1942 The Geneva-based World Jewish Congress
learns of deportations of French Jews.
1942: The Germans informed Dov Lopatyn, the head of
the Judenrat in Łachwa, Poland was to be liquidated today. Lopatyn rejected the Nazi offer to spare his
life if he would cooperate when he led the uprising that day claimed the life
of approximately 1,100 Jews but enabled another 1,000 to escape. Yitzhak
Rochzyn, one of the leaders of the uprising was killed by the Germans but
Lopatyn escaped, joined a partisan unit with whom he fought until he was killed
in 1944. “Either we all live or we all die” is a statement attributed to
Lopatyn which Jews of the 21st century might do well to remember.
1942: Josef Kaplan, a leader of the ZOB (Jewish
Fighting Organization), is arrested in Warsaw, joining another leader, Yisrael
Zeltzer, in detention. When another ZOB leader, Shmuel Braslav, is stopped in
the street by German troops, he is shot dead after trying to pull a knife.
Another ZOB leader, Reginka Justman, is shot after being stopped while carrying
the ZOB's arms cache to a new hiding place; the arms are seized.
1942: The Times of London began running
articles describing the deportations of French Jews. The articles ran until
September 14.
1943: The New
York Times published an article entitled “50,000 Jews Dying In Nazi
Fortress.”
1943: During World War II, the Allies invaded
mainland Italy. The Nazis moved south
bringing with them their racial laws and exposing the Italian Jews to the
reality of the Holocaust. The Nazis
would fail to dislodge the Allies, but thanks to the ineptitude of allied
commanders, the fight up the Italians peninsula would waste lives and fail to
shorten the war.
1943: “Rothchild Rites Planned” published today
summarized the accomplishments of the late Edward S. Rothchild the banker who
“is believed to have built the first sizable office building in San Francisco
after the San Francisco Fire and Earthquake.”
1943: Judge Louis E. Levinthal, President of the
Zionist Organization of America was reported today to have issued a statement
“hailing the resolution” adopted by the American Jewish Conference “calling for
the right of Jewish refugees who can reach Palestine to establish permanent
homes” as “an impressive manifestation of the overwhelming and enthusiastic
support of American Jewry for the reconstruction of Palestine as a Jewish
Commonwealth.”
1943: “Immediate Rescue of Jews Is Urged” published
today
1943: In Dordogne, France, David Feuerwerker and of
Antoinette Feuerwerker gave birth to historian Atara Marmor.
1944: Bloeme
Evers-Emden was placed on the last transport from the Netherlands bound for
Auschwitz.
1944: The day after famous painter Felix Nussbaum
arrived at Auschwitz, his brother was sent to the Nazi death camp.
1944: The Allies begin air evacuations of Jews
from partisan-held regions of Yugoslavia to Allied-occupied Italy.
1944:
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kahn and their nurse Lea Schweiger were among the 2,500
people who were pack into freight cars for the trip to Theresienstadt.
1944: A senior Italian police officer named
Giovanni Palatucci was arrested in the German-held Yugoslavian city of Fiume
for aiding Jews, is sent to the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, where he
would die.
1944:
The Frank family, including sisters Margot and Anne, were put on the first of
the three final trains at Westerbork concentration camp that shipped its human
cargo to Auschwitz.
1945(25th
of Elul, 5705): Fifty-four year old Vienna born American movie composer Artur
Guttman who created the music for “The
Son of the Shiek,” the 1926 Rudolph Valentino silent epic.
1945:
The Shanghai Ghetto which, despite its name, provided a safe haven for many
stateless Jews fleeing the Nazis was officially liberated today.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005589
1946:
Those charged with war crimes and the evidence against them was returned to
Dachau when the Soviets failed to arrive at the border zone and take possession
of them
1946(7th
of Elul, 5706): Eighty-three year old pianist and composer Moriz Rosenthal who
studied with Franz Liszt passed away today.
1946(7th
of Elul, 5706): Sixty-five year old Russian born American Reform Rabbi Isaac
Landman, an ardent supporter of better relations between Christians and Jews
and author who testified as an opponent of Zionism before Congress in the
1920’s passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/landman-isaac
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/09/05/91099415.pdf
1947:
The World Jewish Congress announced that four more groups – the Central
Committee of Liberate Jews in the British Zone of German, the Jewish
Association of Calcutta, the Congregation Israelite de Katanga of the Belgian
Congo and the Jewish Community of Cyrenaica – “bringing the total of counrties
with Jewish communities for which it speaks to fifty-nine.”
1947:
Tonight, entertainer Eddie Cantor received the United Jewish Appeals’ 1947
Humanitarian Award at dinner in Philadlephia.
1948:
“Larceny” a crime film produced by Leonard Goldstein, starring Shelley Winters
and filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg opened in New York City today.
1949:
Birthdate of Villa Domínguez, Argentina native José Néstor Pékerman Krimen who
gained fame as José Pékerman, “the Argentine football player and coach” who was
the manger “of the Colombian national football team.”
1949:
Birthdate of Raik Haj Yahia, an Israeli Arab who served in the Knesset in 1998
and 1999 as a member of the Labor Party.
1950:
In Calgary, Alberta, “community builders and philanthropists, Harry B. Cohen
and Martha Cohen” gave birth to Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa grad and University of
Toronto trained physician Philip F. Cohen, the award winning “clinical director
of Nuclear Medicine at Lions Gate Hospital” and specialist in fighting prostate
cancer.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip_Cohen7
1950:
In Mexico City, Simon Sneider and Esther Bessudo Perez gave birth to their
“youngest child and only daughter” Estella Sneider, the Mexican television
start known as “Dr. Estella” who also appeared on “The Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills” and an active member of the “entertainment and charity scenes in
Los Angeles.”
1950:
Dr. Pinchas Churgin, President of the Mizrachi Organization of America
announced today that a tract of land has been set aside in Tel Aviv for the
construction of new college of arts and sciences patterned after American
undergraduate colleges. The plan is for
the new school to begin accepting applicants within the next three years.
1951:
President Harry Truman sent a message to Alexander Kahn, general manager of the Forward expressing his sorrow over the
death of Abraham Cahan whom he described "as a teacher and guide to
generations of Jewish immigrants" (As reported by JTA)
1951:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Search For Tomorrow” a popular soap opera
in which Lee Grant played the role of “Rose Peabody.”
1951(2nd
of Elul, 5711): Eighty-five year old Russian born French surgeon Serge
Abrahamovitch Voronoff passed away
today.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11624870
http://www.fampeople.com/cat-serge-voronoff_4
1951:
According to published reports Israel is facing the worse food crisis that has
confronted the Jewish state since its birth three years ago. Except on the black market, fruits and
vegetables have been all but unavailable on the local market. The meat ration has been canceled for the
last three weeks and there was no sugar ration available during August. The cause of the shortage is the continued
flow of new immigrants to the country which means that the food supply is
always outstripped by the ever-increasing demand.
1954:
“Private Hell 36” directed by Don Siegel was released today in the United
States.
1954:
The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to
its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Ironically, this
captured Nazi ship would be a must-see stop each time a certain Jewish family
visited Chicago during the summers of the 1950’s
1955(16th
of Elul, 5715): Parashat Ki Tavo
1955(16th
of Elul, 5715): Sixty-four year old Russian born “men’s clothing manufacturer
and Zionist leader” Paul Kaminsky, the president of the company created by the
merger with Max Udell Sons and Company and husband of Miriam Kaminsky with whom
he had two children – Milton and
Rosalyne – passed away today at the Lido Hotel on Long Island.
1957:
Birthdate of Zurich born, Massachusetts raised NYU neurobiologist Ari Handel
who gave up science for a career in film that including “co-writing the films
Noah and The Fountain with his Harvard Dunster House suitemate Darren Aronofsky
and for producing these films along with three other films; The Wrestler, Black
Swan and Mother!”
1960(11th
of Elul,5720): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1960(11th
of Elul, 5720): Eighty-four-year-old Democrat and attorney Cecil Wiener, one of
the first two women to graduate from University of Buffalo Law School (1899)
and Erie County’s first Children’s Court Judge who “was executive director of
the Jewish Federation for Social Service from 1942 until her retirement in
1946” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/04/99792807.html?pageNumber=69
1963(14th
of Elul, 5723): Sixty-one year old Dr. Asher Isaacs, the Cincinnati born “son
of Abraham and Rachel (Friedman) Isaacs and husband of Flora Meyers, the
University of Cincinnati Undergrad who earned his MA and Ph.D from Harvard
before pursuing an academic career in economics that led to his being name
Chairman of the Department of Economics at Pittsburgh passed away today.
1965(6th
of Elul, 5725): Fifty-four year old Jersey City
native Mortimer Taube, the holder of a B.A. from U. of Chicago and Ph.D from
UC, Berkley the innovator in the field of information who was listed as one the
“100 most import leaders” in his field during the 20th Century and
who raised three children with his wife Bernice passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/09/07/96717746.pdf
1966(18th
of Elul, 5726): Parashat Ki Tavo
1966(18th
of Elul, 5726): Sixty-six year old Charleston born, Yale Law School educated
attorney and WW I veteran, Arthur Israel, the secretary of the Paramount
Picture Corporation and president of the National Music Publishers Association
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/09/05/82509206.pdf
1966(18th of Elul, 5726):
Fifty-four year old Jersey City native and holder of a Ph.D. from the
University of California Martin Taube, the “chairman of the board and founder
of Documentation, Inc.” and lecturer in documentation at Chicago and Columbia
universities who was the author Computers and Common Sense, the Myth of the
Thinking Machines and the husband of Bernice Taube with whom he had three
children, passed away today.
1966:
Birthdate of Memphis native and Ivy League educated journalist Edward
Felsenthal who spent “Friday nights with his German-immigrant grandparents,
listening to the rabbi recite “Shalom Rav” as the organist played the melody to
“My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.”
1969:
In Brooklyn Georgia Brown and author Jonathan Baumbach who was Jewish gave
birth to screenwriter and director Jonathan Baumbach.
1969:
“The Valley of Gwangi” starring Holocaust survivor and Israeli actress Gila
Golan with music by Jerome Moross that was filmed by cinematographer Erwin
Hiller was released today in the United States.
1972:
Thirty-six year old Israeli racewalker who had survived Bergen-Belsen placed 19th
in the 50-kilometer walk with a time of 4 hours, 24 minutes and 38 seconds at
the Munich Olympics.
1972(24th
of Elul, 5732): Eighty-seven year old Mrs. Blanche Cohen Schlang Nirenstein,
founder and past president of the Manhattan chapter of the Mizrachi Women's
Organization passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/04/archives/mrs-blanche-nirenstein-official-of-mizrachi-87.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nirenstein-blanche-cohen
1974:
“Shimon Grillius and Oleg Frolov were released from Perm camp 36 after serving
five year sentences.”
1974(16th
of Elul, 5734): Seventy –four year old Russian born American painter Moses
Soyer passed away today.
http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/soyer_m-bio.htm
1975:
As the Soviets continue their policy of allying themselves with the Araba
nations that want to destroy Israel, the USSSR Supreme Soviet ratified “an
agreement on Soviet-Libyan cultural co-operation that had been signed in
Tripoli.
1975(27th
of Elul, 5735): Eighty-six year old Isidore Ostrer the husband of Helen Ostrer
and father of actress Pamela Ostrer, a wealthy industrialist and banker who
became president of the Gaumont British Picture Corporation in the early 1920s
passed away today.
1976:
ABC broadcast “Death at Love House” a Leonard Goldberg/Aaron Spelling film
featuring Sylvia Sydney and Bill Macy.
1984(6th of Elul, 5744): Eighty-three-year-old
Brooklyn born songwriter Arthur Schwartz who supported himself as a piano
player while going to NYU Law School and after graduating, decided to follow
his artistic bent and became a highly successful song writer for vaudeville,
Broadway and Hollywood producing such sophisticated tunes “Dancing in the Dark”
and “Your and the Night and the Music ”passed away today.
https://www.songhall.org/profile/Arthur_Schwartz
1985(17th
of Elul, 5745): Seventy-five year old Johnny Marks, the Colgate and Columbia
educated decorated WW II veteran who ironically wrote some of America’s
favorite Christmas music including “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and who
raised three children - Michael, Laura and David – with his wife Margaret May
Marks passed away today.
https://www.songhall.org/profile/Johnny_Marks
1985(17th
of Elul, 5745): Seventy-eight year old Cecile Gwendolyn Pofcher Strauss, the
wife of the late Harry Strauss passed away today in Massachusetts.
1989:
On the 50th anniversary of the Anglo-French declaration of war on
German The Independent published Time
for Mourning” by Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston
Churchill and one of the outstanding historians of the 20th century.
http://www.martingilbert.com/blatt/more-a-time-for-mourning/
1999:
The Times of London reviewed The
Rich and the Poor: Jewish philanthropy and social control in nineteenth-century
London by Mordechai Rozin.
2000: The New York Times included reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or about topics of Jewish interest including It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, Stella in Heaven: Almost a Novel by Art Buchwald and JEW
VS. JEW The Struggle for the Soul of
American Jewry by
Samuel G. Freedman which is reviewed by Stephen
J. Whitfield the smartest person I ever met at Tulane University. He now
teaches at Brandeis University.
2000: A ceremony was held at the site where the
Struma was sunk to commemorate the tragedy. It was attended by 60 relatives of
Struma victims, representatives of the Jewish community of Turkey, the Israeli
ambassador and prime minister's envoy, as well as British and American
delegates. There were no delegates from the former Soviet Union
2000(3rd of Elul, 5760): Fifty-eight
year old Samuel Mayer “Sandy” Palley, the husband of Julie Kardon Palley passed
away today in South Kingstown, RI after which he was buried at Roosevelt
Memorial Park in Trevose, PA.
2000(3rd of Elul, 5760): Fifty-eight
year old Julie Kardon Palley, the wife of Samuel Mayer Palley passed away today
in South Kingstown, RI after which she was buried at Roosevelt Memorial Park in
Trevose, PA.
2000: The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed concern at the Vatican’s beatification
of Pope Pius IX, who was responsible for the 1858 abduction of a six-year old
Jewish child through the following statement issued by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL
National Director
2001: The nations of Israel and Georgia “jointly issued postage
stamps to honor Shota Rustaveli. Designed by Yitzhak Granot, the Israeli stamp
(3.40 NIS) showed the author with Hebrew text in the background.” A fresco depicting the Georgian poet can
found at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. (This serves as another
reminder of the multi-national and multi-religious affiliations that have been
part of the history of the Israeli capital for centuries.)
2001(15th of Elul, 5761): Eighty-two year old film
critic Pauline Kael, passed away today. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)
2001: In Jerusalem, three people were injured during a series of
car bombings.
2002:
Pitcher Justin Wayne made his major league debut with the Florida Marlins.
2002:
Today, “Nigella Lawson opened the John Diamond Voice Laboratory at the Royal
Marsden Hospital in London’ which was named in memory of journalist and
broadcaster John Diamond who had died of throat cancer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091216113301/http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/diamond/2603916
2002:
A production of “Pacific Overtures,” “a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and
John Weidman” set in Japan when the Americans were arriving in 1853 opened at
the Eisenhower Theatre of the Kennedy Center.
2003:
“Regretting that Israel had not already done so, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz
said today that it might move to expel the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, by
the end of the year.” (As reported by Lizette Alvarez)
2004: The Seventh Jerusalem International Chamber Music
Festival, under the musical direction of pianist Elena Bashkirova, opens in
Jerusalem.
2004:
Jonathan David Leibowitz was sworn as a member of the Federal Trade Commission.
2004:
“The Take” a documentary directed by Avi Lewis and written by Naomi Klein both
of whom narrated the film was premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
2004:
Governor Vilsack proclaimed this as Celebrate 350 Day in Iowa. The proclamation
marked the start of various community activities in Iowa marking the birth of
the American Jewish Community
2005:
Premiere in Deauville, of “The Ice Harvest” directed by Harold Ramis
2005:
The end of the summer holidays proclaims the start of the performing arts
season and it begins with Dan Ettinger on the podium at the Rishon Performing
Arts Center.
2005:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
Palestinian leaders were “upset” with Pakistani officials for meeting with
Israeli government officials in Turkey.
The high level meeting was viewed by the Palestinians as a reward for
Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza; a reward which they felt was unwarranted.
2005:
As evidence of the vitality of the century old Cedar Rapids Jewish Community, Natalee Birchansky celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at
Temple Judah.
2005:
Mike Bloom married a woman named Farah at Caleo Resort & Spa in Scottsdale,
Arizona
2006:
The New York Times featured a review
of Janna Levin’s A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines a historical novel featuring Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing as
characters.
2006: The Washington Post featured
reviews of Richard Grant’s Another World, a novel about an “unlikely
hero who goes behind Germany's front line to retrieve evidence of the Nazis'
Final Solution and A.B. Yehoshua’s A Woman In Jerusalem “a dreamlike novel by an Israeli master” in which a Jewish
human resource manager is sent on an odd quest. [Speaking from experience,
there is more fact than fiction to this since Jewish human resources
professionals spend a lot of time dealing with odd requests.]
2007: Maimonides finishes third in the Hopeful Stakes at
Saratoga. Maimonides is named for the
Jewish sage and is owned by Ahmed Zayat, an Egyptian living in New Jersey.
2007: In Jerusalem, the weeklong festival known as Jewish Music
Days begins with a grand opening concert at Beit Shmuel, featuring Frank London
and the AndraLaMoussia Ensemble.
2007: On Labor Day a statue of labor leader Samuel Gompers was
unveiled in Chicago’s Gomper’s Park. Up until now, the park, named in honor of
the longtime President of the American Federation of Labor had no monument to
the man who led the fight for the eight hour day.
2007(20th of Elul, 5767): Dr. Jacob Levin passed away in Highland
Park, Illinois. There is not enough
space to record the virtue of this man.
Suffice it to say that he was a mensch par excellence.
2007:
Rabbi Aaron Sherman, of Temple Judah said he supports
same-sex marriage in Iowa.
2008: In Washington, D.C., Daniel
Mendelsohn, author of the award-winning family memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million,
discusses and signs his new book of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, at
Politics and Prose Bookstore.
2008: The Budapest Short
Film Festival opens featuring “Mother Economy” as an official selection. The
nineteen minute film is artist Maya Zack’s powerfully imaginative meditation on
Holocaust remembrance and on the myth of the Jewish mother.
2008:
Brad Meltzer reads from
and signs his new thriller, The
Book of Lies, at Barnes & Noble, in Bethesda, Maryland.
2008: FX broadcast the first episode “Sons of Anarchy” co-starring
at Ron Perlman.
2008: A critically acclaimed fully staged off-Broadway production
of Joseph Stein’s “Enter Laughing: The Musica”l opened at the York Theatre.
Stein is the son of Charles and Emma (Rosenblum) Stein, two Jewish immigrants
from Poland.
2009:
Agi Mish'ol launches his new book Bikkur Bayit
(House Call) at Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem.
2009:
Beit Avi Chai presents Part 4 of a workshop for
people interested in Rambam (Maimonides), his unique philosophy, and its
significance today.
2009: The Antiquities
Authority said a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive
fortifications ever found Jerusalem will be opened to the public beginning
today.
2009: The Washington Post
features a review of Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
2010: In Washington, DC, Adas Israel is scheduled to kick-off the Labor Day
Weekend and Erev Shabbat observance with L'Dor VaDor - The Back to Shul
BBQ
2010: The Minnesota Vikings trade
quarterback Sage Rosenfels to the New York Giants today.
2010: The New York Times
published a review of Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends by Tom
Segev. In the book, the author reports for the first time that Wiesenthal
received financial support from Mossad and that he played a key role in the
capture of Adolph Eichmann.
2010(24 Elul, 5770): Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a
frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious
injuries in a car accident. He was 60.
2011: The 14th Jerusalem International
Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to open.
2011; Matisyahu is scheduled to perform
in Lowell, MA.
2011: Kandi Abelson is scheduled to
perform at the Off The Wall Comedy Basement in Jerusalem.
2011: An estimated 460,000 people gathered across the country this evening to
protest for social change as part of the "March of the Million,"
Channel 10 news reported.
2011: An estimated 400,000 Israelis are marching across the country as part of
the 'March of the Million,' a rally which organizers hope will grow to be the
biggest social protest in Israel's history. According to initial estimates over
300,000 people have amassed in Tel Aviv's Kikar Hamedina square, where the
central event is currently taking place.
2011: Egypt's military has begun an operation to close a network of smuggling
tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border following tension with Israel, security
officials said today.
2012: “Labor on the Bimah,” a three-day
social justice activity that “focused on the importance of workers' rights and
organized labor and the challenges workers face” is scheduled to come to an
end.
2012: The French Israeli singer
Françoise is scheduled to perform her Paris-Jazz show at Avram’s Bar in
Jerusalem.
2012: Retired Justice of the Supreme
Court of Israel Ayala Procaccia is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled
“Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: Freedom of Religion and Freedom from
Religion.” This event is in memory of Sir Zelman Cowen, a leading legal mind
who served as 19th Governor General of Australia.
2012: A member of the Jewish community of Alexandria today denied reports that
Egyptian authorities had canceled Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur prayers in the
city – citing security concerns – saying he would personally lead the services
during the High Holidays.
2012: A new public elementary school named after a Holocaust survivor opened in
Silver Spring, Md. The Flora M. Singer Elementary School, whose name was
unanimously approved by the Montgomery County Board of Education on May 8,
opened its doors to students today.]
http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-maryland-elementary-public-school-named-for-holocaust-survivor/
2012: On Labor Day, American Jews can
reflect on their role in the American Labor Movement:
http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/14322
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/the-jewish-people-and-the-american-labor-movement/
2013: “Fill the Void” is
scheduled to open at the Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 in Asheville, NC
2013: “Under the Skin”
directed by Jonathan Glazer is scheduled to debut at the Venice Film Festival.
2013: Elisabeth Leonskaja and
Jerusalem Quartet are scheduled to perform Dvořák’s Piano Quintet no. 2 in A
major, op. 81 at The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013: “Two Palestinians in a speeding
truck penetrated the first security barrier at Ben Gurion International Airport
overnight today, prompting the initiation of emergency protocol and shutting
down the airport for an hour.” (As reported by Yoel Goldman
2013: Russia raised a brief
alarm in the Middle East today after apparently detecting a joint Israel and US
missile launch test in the Mediterranean (As reported by Joshua Davidovich and
Mitch Ginsburg)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-says-ballistic-objects-fired-near-syria/
2014:
Dr. Moshe Lavee of University of Haifa, Israel, is scheduled to lecture on "The Egyptian Midwives: Gender and
Identity in Lost Aggadic Traditions from the Genizah" at the University of
Connecticut.
2014:
“Israel signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan today, under which it
will supply the Hashemite Kingdom with $15 billion worth of natural gas from
its Leviathan energy field over 15 years.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014:
As he prepares to lead an Israeli delegation to Washington in an effort to
pressure the White House on Iran, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz
says that unless there is a “dramatic development” in nuclear talks between
Iran and the P5+1, Israel won’t be able to accept the outcome of the
negotiations,
2014(18th
of Elul, 5774): Eighty-five year old museum curator Mildred Friedman passed
away today.
2014:
Michael Bloomberg announced today that he would be resuming the senior
leadership role at Bloomberg L.P. at the end of this year.
2014:
Steven Sotloff’s family broke their silence today, describing the journalist
not as a hero but “a mere man” who tried through his reporting to show the
plight of people in Syria. “He was no war junkie,” family spokesman Barak Barfi
said, reading a statement from the family.
2014(8th
of Elul, 5774): Forty-eight year old Andrew Madoff, the surviving son of
Bernard Madoff passed away today.
2015:
Seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Shanghai Ghetto.
http://www.shanghaighetto.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/travel/jewish-life-in-shanghais-ghetto.html
2015(19th
of Elul, 5775): Ninety-four year old Daniel Thompson, the husband of Ada Schatz
whom he had married in 1946 and the man who invented a commercially viable
bagel making machine passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/
2015:
China’s celebration of the victory in the “Chinese People’s War of Resistance
against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War” (WW II) which has
included the launching of a new exhibition of “a new exhibition at a museum
dedicated to Jewish refugees” that promotes Shanghai’s role in sheltering Jews
from the Nazis is scheduled to culminate with “a giant military parade in
Beijing.”
2015:
Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman told the Associated Press today,
just prior to the Jerusalem premier of “A Tale of Love and Darkness” that when
she read the book on which was based for the first time she could visualize an
entire film in her head and “it was so personal” she could related to it
because of the family stories with which she had grown up with. (As reported by
Aron Heller)
2015:
Today, “an official from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the
leading pro-Israel lobby in the US, blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
for harming the opposition to the Iran nuclear deal by insisting on addressing
Congress on the issue in March.”
2016(30th
of Av, 5776): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
2016(30th
of Av, 5776): In one of those quirks of the calendar that some find fascinating
today, on both the secular and religious calendars we mark the 163rd
Yahrzeit of Daniel Block, one of the early leaders of the St. Louis, MO Jewish
community.
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including I’ll Have What She’s Having: How Nora Ephron’s Three Iconic Films
Saved the Romantic Comedy by Erin Carlson, Warner Bros: The Making of an
American Movie Studio by David Thomson and You’ll Never Know, Dear
by Hallie Ephron.
2017:
“As part of History Week 2017, The Sydney Jewish Museum is scheduled to host
“The Buchenwald Boys” which offers “a unique opportunity to hear three
Polish Holocaust survivors; Kuba Enoch, George Grojnowski and Jack Meister in
discussion with Museum Education Officer, Dr Rebecca Kummerfeld.”
2017:
The Australian Jewish Historical Society and the Sydney Jewish Museum are
scheduled to host a viewing of “the current exhibition Battle of Beersheba
followed by an address from Sam Lipski” entitled “Audacity and Watershed on the
charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba.
2017:
“Paul Simon: Words and Music” is scheduled to come to a close at the Skirball
Cultural Center.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/heres-to-you-mr-simon-homage-to-jewish-pop-legend-opens-in-la/
2017:
“Victor and Abdul,” a biopic directed by Stephen Fears, with music by Thomas
Newman and filmed by cinematographer Danny Cohen premiered at Venice
International Film Festival
2018:
As Labor Day is celebrated in the United States, Jews, who are commanded to
Labor for six days before they can rest,
might want to contemplate their changing views and roles in the history
of the American Labor Movement (Lest we forget, in the garment industry it was
often Jewish owners versus Jewish sweatshop workers
http://www.csjo.org/resources/essays/jews-in-the-american-labor-movement/
https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/herberg-labor.pdf
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2006/01/readings_on_the_american_jewis_1.html
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Dough” a film that is quite timely
considering the tensions existing between various ethnic and religious groups.
2018:
In an attempt to enhance Labor Day enjoyment and to honor the sacrifice of
Americans in uniform and their families, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to “offer free admission to all active duty personnel and their
family members.”
2018:
Tourists walking through Times Square can look up and see a billboard that
reads “My name is Marc, I need a Kidney, YOU can Help!” “alongside a photo of a
smiling Marc Weiner” who has “lost both of his kidneys and his bladder.:
2018:
The President of the Philippines, “Rodrigo Duterte,
who has stirred controversy with comments about the Holocaust in the past, is
scheduled to continue the second of his four day visit to Israel.
2019: In Tacoma, WA, the Grand Cinema is scheduled to host a
screening of Aviva Kempner’s “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2018: In William Shatner gets candid about his estrangement from
Leonard Nimoy” published today Mark Gray examines the relationship between the
Jewish stars of the “cult” sci-fi television series.
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Blinded
by the Light.”
2019: Eightieth Anniversary of Great Britain and France declaring
was in Germany which ended a period of uncertainty and meant what really was a
“twenty year truce for the Germans” was now ended and WW II had begun.
2019: Music Square is scheduled to host “Goov’in Jerusalem.”
2019:
The four day long Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival is scheduled
to begin today.
2020:
Temple Sinai of Marblehead is scheduled to present online “Selichot: The Power
of Forgiveness” which is part of its series on “preparing for the High Holidays
with Rabbi David.”
2020:
B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to present “A Kabbalistic Guide to
Forgiving with Rabbi Stephen Weiss” who “will hold a Elul discussion based on
the book, The Palm Tree of Deborah at noon today.”
2020:
The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host the final screening of
“The Women’s Balcony” and the first screening of “Hummus!”
2020:
The Chabad of North Peninsula is scheduled to host the virtual “Kabbalah of
Rosh Hashanah” during which “Chabad Rabbi Yossi Yaffe explores the profundity
of the High Holidays through the lens of the mystics.”
2020(14th
of Elul): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of the Jews of Sarny, Bereznitz,
Rokitno, Klesiv Tomashgorod who were massacred in the forest just outside of
Sarny (August 27, 1942).
2021:
Cape Cod Synagogue and Rabbi David Freedlund are scheduled to present
“In-Person and Live-Streamed Friday Night Shabbat Services.
2021:
Corporal Ahmad Sawaed , “an Israeli soldier who collapsed during a training
earlier this month” should be “preparing” to celebrate his first Shabbat since
his opened his eyes yesterday for the first time at the hospital where he was
being treated. (As reported by Ilana Curiel and Yoav Zitun)
2021:
Tonight, may mark one of the final Friday services for Congregation Beth
Shalom, “a small congregation about 40 miles north of Sacramento” which is
winding downs its Friday night services while make plans to sell its historic
building and “become fore a philanthropic entity for the surrounding area.”
2022:
Rabbi Feivel is scheduled to lead a morning Torah Study group at Temple Judea
in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
2022(7th
of Elul, 5782): Parashat Shoftim
2022:
Ashlyn Aronowitz is scheduled to called to the torah as a bat mitzvah at Temple
Judea in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
2022:
Following yesterday’s victory over Finland in EuroBasket in which Israeli NBA
star Deni Avdija led the way with 23
points and 15 rebounds, Israel is scheduled to play the Netherlands this
afternoon.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Patrick Bade on “Great
Monologists: Ruth Draper, Bea Lillie and Joyce Grenfell.”
2023:
Final performance of Brooklyn based Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman and his
trio is scheduled to take place at the Village Vanguard.
2023:
A new film titled “A Haunted Home” (“The House in Kiryat Shmona” in Hebrew)
seeks to restore the Kiryat Shona massacre to public memory and explore why it ended up
forgotten “is scheduled to air today in Israel on the HOT cable network.” (As
reported by Amy Sprio)
2023:
The New York Times features commentary on books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including Two Tribes by a “graphic
novel by Muscogee-Jewish writer and artist Emily Bowen Cohen.”
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