This Day, September 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 6
3761
B.C.E.: The first day of the Hebrew Calendar. "The epoch of the modern
Hebrew calendar is Monday,
394:
The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeated and killed the pagan usurper
Eugenius on the second day of the Battle of the Frigidus which marked the final
triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire.
The pagans, including those found among the Roman nobility, could and
did convert. For the Jews, it was a
different matter. In one of those
strange twists of fate, the victory actually helped to weaken the Empire and
led to a further split between the
Western and Eastern empires.
1556:
The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent came to an end. Suleiman provided a
welcoming Oriental home to the Jews as could be seen by arrival and rise to
power of Dona Garcia and Joseph Nassi, the settlement of thousands of Jews on
the shores of Lake Kinnerth and the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. He was willing to protect Jews against
all-comers including the powerful Pope Paul IV who had wanted to subject the
Jews of Ancona to his Inquisition.
1581: Seventy
year old Guilaume Postel “Normandy native Guillaume Postel the linguist,
diplomat and Cabbalist who “became the first scholar to recognize the
inscriptions on Judean coins from the period of the Great Jewish Revolt as
Hebrew written in the ancient "Samaritan" character” and who
collected Latin translations of the Zohar, the Sefer Yetzirah, and the Sefer
ha-Bahir, the fundamental works of Jewish Kabbalah” as well as other
Cabbalistic texts, such as his own commentary on the Cabbalistic significance
of the Menorah, which he published in 1548 in Latin and subsequently in Hebrew”
passed away today.
1628:
The Puritans settled Salem which would later be incorporated into the
Massachusetts Bay Colony which was also controlled by the Puritans. The Puritans were heavily influenced by what
they called “The Old Testament.” They
saw themselves as “modern Israelites.”
The name of the town “Salem” is a form of the Hebrew word Shalom. Oliver Cromwell, the most famous leader of
the English Puritans, was a key player in the return of the Jewish people to
the British Isles. English Puritans were
part of the early Christian Zionist movement which championed the return of the
Jewish people to Palestine hundred years before Herzl held his first congress
in Switzerland. While the American
branch of the Puritans was influenced by Jewish tradition in the form of the
Old Testament, the Puritans had no use for Jews (or anybody else) who did not
conform to their stringent form of Christianity.
1666:
Birthdate of Czar Ivan V whose elder sister Sophia supported a program of
persecution aimed at Jews and pagans during his reign,
1671: “As the court Jew Israel Aaron was afraid of the competition
of the immigrants, he succeeded in having a decree issued, today, under which
no Jews would be received in Berlin except after a careful investigation into
their financial condition.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3083
1683: Jean-Baptiste Colbert Finance Minister to
Louis XIV whose drive to improve the economic conditions of France under the
Sun King led to him champion the cause of the Jewish people passed away today.
In 1671, Colbert convinced Louis XIV “to issue a charter of liberty for Jews
under royal authority. Marseilles
merchants, upset over the king’s declaration of their port as an open harbor
where Jews could freely trade, complained” to Louis. Colbert wrote the official reply for Louis
which was striking in its candor.
“Commercial envy will always impel the Christian merchants to persecute
Jews.” But before they complained too
much Christians merchants should “ take into consideration the benefits the
government derives from the industrial activity of the Jews, which comprises
all parts of the world, thanks to their association with their
coreligionists.”
1705:
On this day an auto-de-fe took place in Lisbon. An 1846 review of a work called
The Inquisition and Judaism appearing in The Occident and American
Jewish Advocate provided the following description of the event. "In the public square of Lisbon there
were led out to the stake a number of hapless victims, declared criminal by the
tribunal of the Inquisition, for being suspected and afterwards convicted of
Judaism, a crime than which that abominable institution knew none
greater."
1729:
Birthdate of German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Regardless of how one
views his work, he was an important Jewish figure of the 18th century. To some
he was the third Moses (the other two being the Biblical lawgiver and Moses
Maimonides) with whom a new era opens in the history of the Jewish people. To
others, he was a step into the beginning of assimilation and loss of identity
for Jews and the dilution of traditional Judaism. He passed away in 1786. None of his grandchildren were Jewish.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moses-mendelssohn
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/moses-mendelssohn/
1766(2nd
of Tishrei, 5527): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed on the same day that an
English Quaker couple gave birth to John Dalton, the creator of the Atomic
Theory, which provided the basis for a paper written in 1905 by Albert Einstein
that explored that “explored the phenomenon of Brownian motion.”
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/john-dalton-and-the-scientific-method
1775:
Chazan Gershom Seixas was married to Elkaly Cohen today in New York.
1784(20th
of Elul, 5544): Thirty three year old Bible scholar Nathan Wolf Ben Abraham
author Pesher Dabar, a commentary on the Book of Job that was praised by
Moses Mendelssohn and Naphtali Wessely passed away today at Dessau.
1785(2nd
of Tishrei, 5546): As Jews observe the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah,
they can ponder the view of God presented in Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s
controversial tome - Letters on the
Teachings of Spinoza which was published this year.
1791:
Birthdate of Alkmaar, Netherlands native Harry De Groot the husband of Sarah
Lit with whom he had seven children
1793(29th
of Elul, 5553): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed as the French Army took on the
combined forces of Great Britain and Hessel on the first day of three battle
known as the Battle of Hondschoote which would result in French victory that
forced the Anglo-Hanoverian too end the siege of Dunkirk, the future site of
one of the most famous moments in English history.
1794:
Gabriel and Lucy Freeman were married in Wilkes County, GA. Gabriel’s father was a Jew from England. In an all too common occurrence on the
American frontier, he married a Methodist woman.
1799:
Christian Phillip, Count Clam-Gallas from Tchernhausen (Černousy), issued a
strongly-worded order that Jews were not to be tolerated in his ‘subject’ town
and manor of Reichenberg.
1809:
Birthdate of anti-Semitic philosopher Bruno Bauer.
1810:
In Liverpool, England, Hannah Woolf and Myer Tobias gave birth to George Woolf
Tobias.
1811:
Twenty-three year old Hamburg native George Hartog who was the third generation
of German-Jewish doctors received his commission today “or the 5th Line
Battalion, King's German Legion. He saw action in the Peninsula, in Southern
France, the Lowlands and at the Battle of Waterloo.”
1812(29th
of Elul, 5572): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time during the War
of 1812 which would last until the winter of 1814.
1819:
In London, Elizabeth Kahn and Samuel Gershon gave birth to Hannah Gershon.
1826:
Joseph Myers married Sarah Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.
1826:
In London, Jane and Samuel Stiebel gave birth to Adelaide Stiebel, the wife of
Isaac Benjamin Elkin.
1826:
Birthdate of German newspaper publisher Leopold Ullstein who founded the
published house of Ulletein-Veglag.
1828:
In Charleston, SC, Deborah Marks and Rabbi Hartwig Cohen, the wife of Aaron
Cohen who the principal of the Hebrew Sunday School in Augusta, GA and vice
president of the New York Section of the Council of Jewish Women.
1836:
Louis-Mathieu Molé, “Napoleon's advisor on Jewish affairs and was heavily
involved with Napoleon's gathering of a Jewish Grand Sanhedrin in 1807,” began
his service as the 16th Prime Minister of France.
1837:
In Richmond, VA, Franconia, Bavaria native Caroline (Waterman) Myers and her husband
Joseph Myers gave birth to Isabelle Rosenbaum, the wife of Michael Rosenbaum.
1838:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Henry Phillips the graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania and archaeologist who was the author of a paper “On A Supposed
Runic Inscription at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.”
1840:
Mehemet Ali released the surviving Jewish prisoners bringing an end to the
infamous Damascus Affair.
1842(2nd
of Tishrei, 5603): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time
after Hong Kong was ceded to the British as colony over which Britannia would
begin ruling in 1843.
1844: Birthdate of Hannah De Lara the wife of Henry
Russell
1846:
One day after he had passed away, 93 year old Philip Levy was buried in the
Levy Street Jewish Cemetery.
1847:
Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson
and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. Emerson supported the efforts of many
unconventional literary figures including the Jewish poetess Emma Lazarus.
Their first meeting when she was seventeen led to a mentor-mentee relationship
that included a correspondence that lasted until his death.
1848:
As the opposition to Rabbi Abraham Kohn’s changes in the life of the Jewish
community in Lemberg sharpened Abraham Ber Pilpel, who was said to in the pay
of Kohn’s opponents “entered Kohn’s kitchen and poisoned the family’s dinner
with arsenic.”
1850(29th
of Elul, 5610): Erev of Rosh Hashanah observed three days before California
becomes the 31st state to join the Union.
1853:
In Marylebone, London, Jacob and Matilda Waley gave birth to Julia Matilda
Waley who became Julia Matilda Cohen when she married Nathaniel Louis Cohen
1854:
Birthdate of German native Cornelius Oppenheimer, the husband of Melanie Mayer.
1854:
Bertha Cohen, the sister of Theresa (Cohen) Ottenberg and the daughter of
Raphael Isaac Cohen, a rabbi in Hambrug became Bertha Lewis today when she
married David Lewis of Liverpool “Sussex House (the Jewish boarding school and
part-time synagogue in Dover founded by her father”
1854:
In the Ukraine, Sossie Leya Petrokovsky Yaroslavskaya Burt and her husband gave
birth to Ethel "Etta" Yaroshev Cutler the wife of Isaac Cutler whose
murder “during the 1882 pogrom in Elizabethgrad” “caused her to escape with their 2 children
to America.”
1854:
Birthdate of Georges Picquart, the French Army Major who first discovered the
evidence that the documents that were used to convict Dreyfus were a
forgery. He risked his career to save
Dreyfus.
1859(7th
of Elul, 5619): Three weeks before his 62nd birthday Frankfurt-born
and Giessen educated lawyer who returned to his hometown to practice law in
1831 where he also served as “a member of the executive committee of the tariff
commission” passed away today.
1855:
Charles Kensington Salaman, “the eminent musician and composer, and author "The Jews as They Are Published,"
which is especially interesting for its ingenious chapter entitled
"Shylock from a Jewish Point of View” and who was the London born son of
Simeon Kensington Salaman and Alice (Eikela ben Moses) Salaman” and his wife
Frances Salaman gave birth to Malcolm Charles Salaman.
1858:
Birthdate of Hamburg native and chemistry professor Lassar Cohn who “published
under the name Lassar-Cohn.”
1859:
In Budapest, the consecration of “The Dohány Street Synagogue” which was also
known as “the Great Synagogue” took place today.
1860:
According to an article published today predicting how the people of Baltimore
will vote in this fall's election states that
" those interested in lager-bier concerns, tobacco establishments,
including Hebrews and others, not scrupulous of working and making money on
Sundays, may go against reformers, who now rigidly enforce the Sunday law,
causing all such concerns to be peremptorily closed during the
Sabbath." The author of the article
failed to make the connection between Jewish opposition to the reformers and
the fact that they were being led by a former "Know-Nothing," a now
defunct political party that was anti-immigrant.
1861(2nd
of Tishrei, 5622): 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah
1861:
During the Civil War, Union forces under General Grant took control of Paducah,
KY, helping to keep that state from falling into Rebel hands. A year later, the Jews of Paducah would be
victims of one of the most overt act of anti-Semitism in U.S. history when they
are expelled from their homes by the same General Grant. President Lincoln would rescind the order
showing that the American Jewish experience was indeed different. Grant never explained the order but the Jews
apparently did not hold it against him.
They supported him when he ran for President. And Grant was no anti-Semite as can be seen
by his support for Washington’s traditional congregation, Adas Israel.
1862:
In Washington, DC Samuel and Augusta Samstag gave birth to businessman and
philanthropist Henry Frederick Samstag, who moved to New York in 1895 where
founded Samstag and Hilder, co-founded the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies” and raised three children – Henry, Katherine and
Matilda – with his wife Belle Samstag
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/02/24/92890229.pdf
1865:
According to a Ketubah that would be later be used in evidence for the first
time in an English Court hearing a suit for divorce, Benjamin Isaacs, the son
of Elias Isaacs married Deborah Levy, the daughter of Hyman Levy in New York
City.
1865:
Four days after he had passed away 68 year old John Hart, the son of Benjamin
Hart and the husband of the former Elizabeth Jacobs with whom he had nine
children was buried today as the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1867:
Birthdate of Yiddish poet Abraham Michael Scharansky
1867:
The Israelite published a “concise account of the dedication of Temple Beth El
in Detroit which had taken place on August 30.
1869(1st
of Tishrei, 5630): Rosh Hashanah
1869. Birthdate of author Felix Salten author of the children’s
classic Bambi. Born Siegmund
Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary he moved to Vienna as a toddler because
the Jews had been granted full citizenship in the Austrian capital. Salten was
inspired to write Bambi after a trip to the Alps, in 1923. In 1933, he
sold the rights, and he did not make any money from the Disney movie based on
Bambi released in 1942. He moved to
Switzerland to escape the Nazis. He died
there in 1945.
1870: In Étretat, France, playwright Ludovic
Halévy and his wife gave birth to historian Élie Halévy
http://www.enotes.com/topics/elie-halevy
1871(20th of Elul, 5631): Seventy-eight-year-old Isaac
Cohen the Charleston, SC born son of Rachel and Moses Cohen who were married in
1791 and the husband of Rebecca Benjamin Shefall whom he married in 1816 at
Savannah and with whom he had ten children passed away today.
1872: Sculptor Mark Antokolski married Jelena Apatovas, the
daughter of Vilnius merchant Judelis Giršovičius Apatovas.
1872: In St. Louis, MO, Progress Lodge No. 53 of the Independent
Order of Free Sons of Israel was founded today.
1874: In Brooklyn “Russian-born Bernard Cohen and German-born Frederica
Croncher gave birth to Democratic Pary leader and Congressman William W. Cohen,
the husband of Sophie Dazien who worked in his father’s shoe manufacturing business
before becoming a member of the NYSE and was a member of Temple Beth-El.
https://snaccooperative.org/view/64047261
1874: From March of 1862 until today there are no records of
meetings of Congregation B’Nai Israel of Davenport, Iowa.
1874: In Davenport, IA, Congregation B’nai Israel “was reorganized”
today after which it was led by John Ochs, the president who eventually became a “sincere follower of
Reform Judaism.”
1875: In Jassy, Romania, Yitskhok Libresko, the
cofounder of Yiddish theater and his wife gave birth to University of Vienna
trained psychiatrist Dr. Benzion Liber, the professor of psychiatry at the New
York Polyclinic Medical School and “a director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic of
New York Polyclinic Hospital who was the husband of Rosa Liber and the father
of Dr. Amour F. Liber.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/03/ben-tsien-benzion-liber.html[ML1] [ML2]
1876: Birthdate of New York City native and NYU trained lawyer,
Max Salomon, the orphan raised by an aunt and uncle who was a “Judge of the
Court of Special Sessions,” “vice president of the Hebrew National Orphans
Home” and the husband of the former Kitty Schlappin with whom he had two
daughters – Minna and Carolyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/08/13/88607249.pdf
1879: The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society opened today in New
York City.
1879(18th of Elul, 5639): Leonard Montefiore,
son of Nathaniel Montefiore, of London, England, grand-nephew of Sir Moses
Montefiore, and nephew of the late Sir Anthony Rothschild, who was only 27 died
this morning of acute rheumatism, at the Ocean House, Newport.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E2DE103EE73BBC4F53DFBF668382669FDE
1879: A large crowd gathered today at New York’s Temple Beth-el to
hear Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler’s inaugural address which was given in German.
Kohler is succeeding his father Rabbi David Einhorn as spiritual leader of the
large, prestigious Reform congregation.
Rabbi Kohler’s future sermons will be given in English.
1879: “The Religious Condition of Germany” published today Jews
make up 1.2% of the nation’s population, 9.9% of the students in the gymnasia,
8.4% in the commercial schools and 5% of the students in “the higher grammar
schools.”
1880(1st of Tishrei, 5641): Rosh Hashanah
1880(1st of Tishrei, 5641): Forty-nine year old German
architect Edwin Oppler passed away today.
http://www.jghreform.org/hjcc/architecht.htm
1880: The Memphis Avalanche Appeal printed a notice today
stating that “‘Jewish ladies’ like Hattie Schwarzenberg, Birdies Hiesse and
Mattie Goldsmith will tomorrow receive at their home the country boys who came
to the city for the high holy days.”
1881: In St. Louis, MO, Nicholas Scharff and Carrie Bernheimer
gave birth to Maud Scharff
1882: Birth of Swiss native Esther Tcherniac, the wife of
“consulting chemist” Joseph Tcherniac and the mother of Dora Tchneriac.
1883: In Chicago, the house detective at the Grand Pacific Hotel
arrested a man who was supposed to Max Guggenheim, the New York hotel thief but
who claimed he was Theodore Katz.
1886: In Washington, IN, Sigmund and Lena Sternberger Eckhouse
gave birth to Solomon M. Eckhouse, the husband of Florence Meyer Eckhouse whom
he married in 1913
1888(1st of Tishrei, 5649): Rosh Hashanah
1888: Stanford E. Moses who served aboard the Brooklyn during the
Spanish-American War was appointed to the Naval Academy today.
1888: In “Libau, Latvia,” “Isaac C and Lena (Lurie) Arkin gave
birth to University of Chicago Ph.D. and Rush Medical College trained physician
Aaron Arkin, a “contract surgeon serving with the U.S. Army Medical Corps of
the United States Army during WW II whose accomplishments included serving as
Profess of Pathology and Bacteriology and chief bacteriologist at the
University of West Virginia’s State Hygiene Laboratory.
1889(10th of Elul, 5649): German author and scholar Raphael
Kircheim who was critical of the way funds for Palestine were distributed under
the administration of Dutch community leader Hirsch Lehren and who criticized
the work of Samson Raphael Hirsch passed away today.
1890: Seventeen year old Russian immigrant Israel Cass, the future
co-owner of Cass and Rosenthal, manufacturers of infants and children’s
clothing, arrived in Boston, MA today.
1891: “Russia’s War On The Jews” published today relied on an
eyewitness who wrote “that we are only at the beginning of the Jewish
persecution…The situation of the Jews in Russia” is “far more terrible than the
outside world imagines and that its miseries now literally defy adequate description.”
(Reports like this explain the rising tide of desperate immigrants in Poland
and Russia flooding the United States)
1891: “The Antiquity of Civilization” published today described
the impact of recent discoveries that demonstrate the existence of “walled
towns, chariots” and items fashioned from gold, silver, bronze and iron among
the Egyptians, Acadians and Phoenicians at a time before “the pastoral Hebrew
patriarchs found their way along the Euphrates, through Syria to Egypt.
1891: The reviewer of A Girl in the Carpathians points out
that the author, Menie Muriel Dowie relies on the writings of the Jewish author
Karl Emil Franzos for much of her
1892: The 125 Russian Jews who arrived in Boston aboard the
steamship Michigan were transferred by tugboat to the disinfecting rooms at
Gallop’s Island outside of Boston.
1892: The USS Jamestown, a training vessel on which Adolph Marix
had been serving since his return from Australia in 1889 was de-commissioned
today while Marix “was transferred to the Hydrographic Office in New York.”
1892: “Jewish Colonization Experiment” published today described a
plan of Jews in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to purchase a farm near here which will be
worked by three or four immigrant families.
If the experiment works, the community will appeal to the Baron Hirsch
Fund for assistance.
1893: Moses Bernstein who was driving a hearse carrying a Jewish
infant that was struck by a trolley car “went to the office of the Brooklyn
City Railroad Company to make a complaint against the motorman.”
1893: This afternoon a deputy sheriff seized the old Eagle
Distillery owned by Bernard Weinberger where “kosher whisky drank principally
during Jewish holidays” is made to satisfy a series of claims made by creditors
including George Shapiro and M.O. Moses.
1895: A committee consisting of 13 year old Harry Bernstein, 15
year old Charles Glusker and 14 year old Isidior Krember from the Institute
Street Cleaning League met with Mayor Strong gain his support for resolutions
concerning pushcarts that had been adopted when the group met at the Hebrew
Institute.
1896: John Zynoski, a Jewish pack peddler who was found bound to a
tree in the woods between Kingston, N.H. and Brentwood tonight claimed that he
had been robbed of ten dollars by two tramps.
1897: Mandolin player Fred Barris and Dave Edison were among the
entertainers who were reported to have provided entertainment free of charge
for a group of children at the Hebrew Institute.
1898: “No Chance For Dreyfus” published today included the claim
that even that even if Colonel Henry “did admit to forging the letter naming
Dreyfus…there is not the remotest chance of Dreyfus getting a new trial”
because “the aristocratic element and great masses of French would be opposed
to it” and “there would certainly be a revolution if a new trial were ordered.”
1899(2nd of Tishrei, 5660): Rosh Hashanah Second day
1899: It was reported today that the value of the late Clara
Baroness von Hirsh estate in England has been assessed at (£)51, 277 3s while
the total value of her estate was so great that her will “appears to have
disposed of over (£)5, 350,000.
1899: With the release of the last will and testament of Clara,
Baroness, von Hirsch, widow of the late Baron Moritz von Hirsch, The Times of London and The New York Times published a list of
the bequests and legacies which includes $600,000 to a home for Jewish working
girls in New York.
1899:
Birthdate of William Samuel Rosenberg, the New York City native who became
famous as composer and showman Billy Rose who first gained fame as the fastest
stenographer in America. He began his
show business career as a lyricist before going on to become a Broadway
producer and nightclub owner. He
produced Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939 World's Fair. He gained additional notoriety for his
marriage to and then his divorce from Jewish funny lady, Fanny Brice. Rose made theatrical history in 1943 with his
Broadway production of Carmen Jones. An adaptation of George Bizet's opera
Carmen, the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and
librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and featured had an all-black cast. It was later made into a movie for which
Dorothy Dandridge received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. This was the first such nomination for a
African-American female actress Thus the play and the movie provided numerous
African-Americans a showcase for their talents that might otherwise have not
existed. Rose also founded the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden in Jerusalem. He passed away in 1966.
1900:
The Republicans opened up a campaign headquarters on the lower East Side which
was a Democratic Party stronghold and home to a large population of Jewish
immigrants primarily from Eastern Europe.
1901: President William McKinley was assassinated by
Leon Czologosz in Buffalo, NY. You may
be surprised that McKinley supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine. In 1891, he was one of many notables that
signed petition that was presented to President Harrison which said, in part,
“Why not give Palestine back to them again? According to God's distribution of
nations, it is their home - an inalienable possession from which they were
expelled by force." “They” and
“them” refers to the Jewish people.
McKinley’s assassination fanned the flamed of those who wanted to end
immigration and who were opposed to anybody living in America who was from
eastern and southern Europe, including the mass of Jewish immigrants which had
been coming from those parts of the world since the 1880’s.
1901:
In Berlin, Robert Georg Alexander von Mendelssohn and Eleonora von Mendelssohn
gave birth to Francesco Otto von Mendelssohn
1902:
Birthdate of New York City native Teviah
Sachs, “the president and treasurer of Pearls by Deltah, Inc. of Pawtucket and
the former president of Gruen Washing company of Canada and the Waltham Watch
Company who was “a director of Brandeis University and the husband of Leah
Sachs with whom he had one child.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/22/89226540.pdf?pdf_redirect=true
1902:
Birthdate of St. Louis native, the Washington University trained chemist who
worked with the Food and Drug Administration and was buried at Chesed Shel
Emeth Cemetery in University City, MO when he passed away in 1995.
1902:
“The Jewish World published a
detailed balance sheet of the accounts of the Jewish Colonization Association
the trust created by the late Baron de Hirsch with a donation of $50,000 for
the purpose of helping persecuted Russian Jews.” The Association was best known
for establishing colonies of European Jews in Argentina. Israel Zangwill had
recently challenged he administrators to produce a public accounting of the
Association’s here-to-for secret financial dealings.
1903:
“The latest volume in the Crown Theological Library is Dr. John P. Peters's Early
Hebrew Story, Its Historical Background, which will be brought out today by
G.P. Putnam's Sons.”
1903:
“A large number” children and adults “from all parts of Camden, NJ and
Philadelphia” attended today’s “outing at Hoosey’s Grove on Camden’s East Side”
hosted by “the Hebrew Social and Educational Club of Camden.
1904:
The funeral for Dr. Hermann Baar, who had been Superintendent of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum for 23 years will be held this morning at that institution.
1904:
“The Adath Israel Congregation of Camden, NJ, filed articles of incorporation
at the County Clerk’s office” today.
1904
Birthdate of Hungarian native and Columbia trained attorney Samuel Bernard
Ohlbaum who in 1914 came to New York City where he attended CCNY and Jewish
Theological Seminary’s Teachers College and who in 1935 was installed as
executive chairman of the Federation of Hungarian Zionists.
1904: Birthdate of "Slapsie" Maxie
Rosenbloom light heavyweight boxing champ from 1930 to 1934. Born in Harlem, Rosenbloom gained his
nickname because sometimes he seemed to slap his opponents instead of punching
them. Rosenbloom fought during a period
when Jewish fighters dominated several of boxing various divisions. Rosenbloom enjoyed success in Hollywood when
he finished fighting. He passed away in
1976.
1905:
Little’s Shoe Store” on 8th Avenue which is owned by Hyman L. Little
advertises a “Grand Final Sacrifice” sale featuring “reliable school shoes.”
1905(6th
of Elul): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Yom Tov Lippman (5414)
1906:
It was reported today that “the Evening Educational Classes of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association will open on the evening September 10 and will include
“classes in bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic, stenography, typewriting,
mechanical drawing, elocution, penmanship, correspondence, Spanish, German,
French, Hebrew and Jewish history.”
1906:
Seven days before his 29th birthday, editor and author Isaac
Frederick Marcosson, the Louisville, KY born son of Louis and Helene Marcosson
who was city editor of the Louisville Times, financial editor of the Saturday
Evening Post and co-author of Charles Frohman: Manager and Man married Grace
Griffiths today.
1907:
The Petite Republique published “a
dispatch from Tangier saying that Jews have received letters announcing that
Mazagan has been bombarded” during the native insurrection “and that only a few
shops and houses in the center of the town are left standing.”
1908:
“In response to a call sent out by Dr. David Blaustein, some hundred Jewish
citizens met at Clinton Hall tonight and discussed Commissioner Bingham’s
magazine article in which he asserts that more than fifty per cent of the
criminals in in New York Jews.
1909:
Birthdate of Baltimore native Irving Kunin Gordon, who gained fame as actor and
director Michael Gordon one of the many victims of the McCarthy Era Blacklist.
1909:
Birthdate of pianist Walter Landauer, the native of Vienna and longtime musical
partner of Maryan Rawicz.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/05/obituaries/walter-landauer-is-dead-a-partner-in-piano-duo.html
1910(2nd
of Elul): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Samuel Aboab aka “Rasha.”
(5454)
1911:
Birthdate of Los Angeles native and New York Giants catcher Harry “Harry the
Horse” Danning whose brother Ike played on season with the St. Louis Browns of
the American League.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/sports/baseball/harry-danning-baseball-star-in-30s-dies-at-93.html
1911:
Louis Lipsky and Charlotte Schacht gave birth to their middle son Eleazar
Lipskiy, the Columbia Law School trained attorney, author, journalist and
Zionist who was the husband of Hannah Kohn and he son-in-law of Rabbi Jacob
Kohn, “a dean of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.”
1911:
As the Melvin Bellis Affair raged, Dimitri Bogrov, a young Jewish terrorist
tried to shoot Czar Nicholas II while he attended the Kiev Opera. He missed and ended up killing Pytor
Stolypin, the powerful minister of the interior. Bogrov was summarily hung for
his crime.
1911(13th
of Elul, 5671): Sixty-five year old Wilhelm Herzog, the founder and editor of
Korrespondenz Herzog and the father of Philipp Herzog, passed away today in
Vienna.
1911:
Following the outbreak of anti-Semitic riots at Tredegar, Wales, the
Monmouthsire Welsh Baptist Association, meeting at Blackwood refused to pass a
motion expressing sympathy for the plight of the Jews. “One delegate argued that ‘resolutions did
more harm than good and they encouraged the Jews. There were about 100 Jews at Tredegar now,
and if they had many more resolutions they would have 500 there.’”
1911:
Waterville, Maine, native John Nathan Levine, who played football for Yale, is
scheduled to be married today in Orange, NJ.
1912(24th
of Elul, 5672): Twelve year old Markusch Wassermann passed away today.
1912(24th
of Elul, 5672): Eighty-six year old “A. Cantor, a communal worker” passed away
today at “St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.”
1912:
Today, Dr. Gotthard Deutsch submitted a report to the Board of Governors of
Hebrew Union College in which he described the work he had done “during the
Summer Quarter at the University of Chicago” where he taught two sections on modern
Jewish History, the first of which was attended by 18 students and the second
of which was attended by ten students which included at least two Christians –
Professor Ashbaugh of Central Holiness University in Iowa and Professor
Springling of Harvard.
1913:
Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes, President of the Union of Orthodox Congregations
wrote a letter to the New York Times
in which he described the emerging doctrine of Zionism which had included a
political variant, a practical variant and now contains a “spiritual” variant
championed by such intellectuals as Achad Ha’am.
1914:
While the French were fighting desperately at the Battle of Marne, some units
of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) leisurely marched passed the country
home of “Jimmy” Rothschild “where they longed to be able to stop and get some”
of the pheasants running about the place while other units of the BEF worked to
exploit the break in German lines by capturing bridges over the Marne and
establishing a bridgehead from which they threatened the Kaiser’s forces.
1914:
The English gamekeeper on the French estate of James Rothschild found an
English private from the Royal West Kents hiding in a shed wearing civilian
clothes during the Battle of the Marne.
(He would be shot as a deserter two days later) p 322 Max Hastings
1915:
In Cleveland, Ohio, the Jewish National Workmen’s School and Institute is
scheduled to come to an end.
1915:
In Niagara Falls, NY, founding of Temple Beth El.
1915:
“The Federation of Rumanian Jews in America today dedicated the new home for
convalescents situated at Grand Views on the Hudson two miles south of Nyak”
with “impressive ceremonies” attended by “twelve hundred members of the
federation” who came up from New York on a special train under the leadership
of their President, Dr. Julius Weiss.
1915:
Today, delegates to the Fourth Annual Convention of the Associated Young Men’s
and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations are scheduled to take up proposal
designed to arouse the Jews to take action “in behalf of their suffering
brethren in the war zones.”
1915:
In Atlantic City, retiring President Harry S. Feller told those attending the
fourth annual convention of the Associated Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew
Association of New Jersey that “no final break between the orthodox and reform
branches of Judaism ever would be possible” if the younger generation did its
“full duty” and acted “as a link between these forces.”
1915:
“The National Workmen’s Committee on Jewish Rights passed a resolution at the
final session of its first convention today in Beethoven Hall urging all of the
Jews in America to go on a one-day ‘strike’ when the peace conference is called
to end the” World War “to demonstrate the solidity of American Jewry in its
advocacy of equal national, civil and political rights for the Jews of Europe.”
1915:
“John Halifax, Gentleman” a silent film produced by G.B. Samuelson and his G.B.
Samuelson Productions company was released in the United Kingdom today.
1916:
Forty-five Spanish Jews from Cavalla, Greece arrived today at Ellis Island
aboard the Italian liner America.
1916:
Birthdate of Montague Ullman “a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and
parapsychologist who founded the Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical
Center in Brooklyn, New York” and was a faculty member at Yeshiva University.
1916:
The charity bazar sponsored by the Federation of Galician and Bukharin Jews
continued for a third day.
1917:
Pavel Axelrod of the Organization committee of the Russian Social Democratic
Party and Karol Radek and Jacob Hanecki of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom
of Poland and Lithuania were among the delegates attending the “Third
Zimmerwald Conference” – a meeting of anti-War Socialists – that continued for
a second day in Stockholm
1918(29th
of Elul, 5678): Erev of Rosh Hashanah
1918:
Effective at noon today, by order of the Secretary of War, Jewish soldiers were
able to go on furlough so they could observe the New Year.
1918:
In Scarsdale, NY, Sanders Herstein and his wife gave birth to “American
socialite” Bernice Herstein the wife of “investor Robert Durst, the creator of
the National Debt Clock and mother of Robert, Douglas, Wendy and Thomas Durst.
1918:
In his “Message to the Jews of America” published today, Judge Julian W. Mack
wrote that “by the promulgation of the British Declaration and the taking of a
large part of Palestine by the British military forces Zionism has become a
program of action” and that “in order to take advantage of” these opportunities
it is “the paramount duty of Jewry to organize its forces” which to him
included joining the Zionist Organization of America.”
1918:
Dr. S.M. Melamed wrote today that “the year 5678 will go down in Jewish history
as the year of the great announcement of national redemption and also as the
one in which the sun of Diaspora set and that of a Palestinian Jewish future
rose.”
1918:
It was reported today that “Mr. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the well-known
renegade Englishman and German author has received a letter of thanks and
approval from the Kaiser for his leaflet entitled ‘The Will to Victory” in
which he described the qualities of the British and the Jews as those of ‘low
repulsive shopkeepers.’”
1918:
Today the U.S. Army cited Second Lieutenant Frederick Hahn for the bravery he
showed “near Cantigny between May 28 and May 30” when “he unhesitatingly went
into heavy shell fire to supervise the repairs of telephone lines and to act as
runner when the further maintenance of the wires became an impossibility.”
1919:
“Bernard Horwich of Chicago, who has returned from several months of
investigation in Poland as a Commissioner for American Jewish Relief agencies,”
delivered a statement today “through the American Jewish Relief Committee
that…described the condition of the Jewish population in Poland” which he said
was “25 per cent less than the pre-war population” and about half of which “is
dependent on relief.”
1920:
It was reported today that “Dr. Nathan Krass, the rabbi of the Central
Synagogue and member of the American Jewish Relief and Joint Distribution
Committee” who has just returned from a fact-finding tour in Europe said that
“Although American Jewish raised about forty million dollars in the last four
years for the suffering Jews of Eastern Europe” this amount was adequate to do
constructive work relief” and that “conditions everywhere” in that part of
Europe “are worse than in 1914.”
1920:
“Professor Larousse,” a silent film directed and written by Mutz Greenbaum was
released today in Germany
1920:
Birthdate of Chicago native Miriam Albert, the University of Chicago and
Northwestern University education executive director of B’nai B’rith Woman
which at the time of her death in 1976 had 150,000 members.
1921:
By vote of 348 to 58, the delegates attending the Zionist Congress in Carslbad
expressed their “confidence in the stewardship of its Executive Committee”
which stood as repudiation of the “Socialist wing” which had expressed with the
progress on matters related to “immigration and colonization.”
1921:
The Zionist Congressed adopted a resolution “expressing appreciation for the
help rendered the Zionist cause by various Zionist leaders” including Justice
Louis D. Brandeis in connection with the Balfour Declaration…”
1921:
In Brussels, affluent Roman Catholics Gaston and Joséphine (Van De Meersche)
Geulen, gave birth to Andrée Céline Geulen who as a young Belgian teacher
risked everything to save Jews and then reunite them with their families after
the war. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkm1400loq
1922:
Today, the Osservatore Romano said
“opinion at the Vatican is strongly opposed to the conditions in the proposal
of the Earl of Balfour for the protection of the holy places in Palestine made
before the League of Nations Council in Geneva.”
1923:
“Potash and Perlmutter” a film version of the play “based on ethnic Jewish
comedy” produced by Samuel Goldwyn was released tody
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19948/19948-h/19948-h.htm
1923: in a letter replying to
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's recent inquiry in regard to the introduction of
Jewish immigrants to Australia, the Australian Government stated that it “is not in a position at present to offer any special
encouragement to Jews at present resident in southern European countries to
migrate to Australia". "The
Australian assisted immigration activities of the Commonwealth are for the
present being confined mainly to the introduction of farmers, farm workers and
female domestic servants from Great Britain, and the British government is
cooperating with the Commonwealth Government in facilitating such
immigration", states the official Secretary to the N.Y. Commissioner for
the Commonwealth of Australia.
1923: JTA reported today that “Max Warburg,
the well-known Jewish banker of Hamburg, has announced that he will file a suit
for libel against the anti-Semitic organ "Der Hammer".The Paper which
is the organ of the so-called "Aryan faction" charged that Warburg's
banking firm had profited greatly by the war. The "Hammer" further
charges that Warburg had been very intimately connected with the German
military and official headquarters and had exploited the knowledge gained from
these sources for his own profit. Warburg brands both of these charges as
absolute lies declaring that his banking firm far from making money through the
war, had actually suffered a considerable loss as a result of it. Mr. Warburg
is a brother of the New York banker and social worker, Felix Warburg, of whom
the "Hammer" spoke as the leader of the "banking world in
America". This assertion, too, Herr Max Warburg characterizes as false.”
1923: Today, in Pittsburgh, PA, The Knights
of the Flaming Circle which welcomes Catholics, Jews and Negroes as member
“declared itself to be the foe of the Ku Klux Klan.
1923: JTA reported today that “The Hungarian government has promised to
legalize Zionist activity in Hungarian government has promised to legalize
Zionist activity in Hungary.The change of attitude on the part of this
government was announced by Israel Cohen, General Secretary of the British
Zionist Organization, following his conference with the Hungarian officials.”
1923: JTA reported today that “Dr. Leo
Motzkin, engineer Tiomkin and Rabbi Jochelman of London will compose the
delegation of the Jewish World Relief Conference which will visit the United
States on behalf of the organization. A delegation will also be sent to South
America and northern Europe with a view to awakening the public sentiment of
the various countries to the need of continuing the relief work in Europe.”
1923: JTA reported today that “officials of
the Belgian government attended the funeral of Rabbi Armand Bloch, the Belgian
chief Rabbi since 1891. As a tribute to the exceptional patriotism displayed by
the late rabbi during the war and the German occupation, the funeral was marked
by military honors.”
1923: JTA reported today that Reuter's news
service has declared “that the report of the anti-Zionist London "Daily
Express" that 400 employees of the Palestine Administration were slated
for dismissal in the interests of retrenchment of expenses is unfounded.” According to Reuters it was decided some time
ago “to start a gradual reduction of the number of employees, but it was never
contemplated to make it as sweeping as the Express report indicated. Moreover,
instead of the Palestine natives losing their jobs, as the Express story
stated, natives are gradually replacing the British officials.”
1924(7th of Elul, 5684):
Fifty-six year old Nachman Syrkin passed away.
Born in Russia, he was a founding member of the labor Zionist movement
who is created with being the first to promote the use of collective
settlements in Palestine. He died in New
York before he could make Aliyah and it would take until 1951 for his remains
to be re-interred at Kibbutz Kinneret
1924: “Aaron Benjamin, a delegate of the
Immigration Aid Society to the Jewish World Relief Conference in Carlsbad,
sailed today aboard the SS Aquitania, for New York. It is understood here, that
he will make definite proposals to the Hias concerning the co-operation between
this body and the Jewish World Relief Conference in the aiding of Jewish
immigrants.”
1924: JTA reported today that “The
Government of the French Republic has conferred the Order of the Legion of
Honor on Rabbi Mosche Sitruk, Chief Rabbi of Tunis, on the recommendation of
the Resident General of Tunis.” [Rabbi Sitruk served in this position from 1921
until 1927. Rabbi Israel Zeitoun was his predecessor and Rabbi Nissim Yarhi was
his successor.]
1925: According to Albert M. Green, the
principal question to “be determined” at the upcoming conference of American
Jewry which leaders announced tonight would be held on September 12 and 13 in
Philadelphia would be the attitude to be taken by American Jews in respect to
their coreligionists in Europe and elsewhere.”
1925: Birthdate of Berlin native Moshe
Goshen-Gottstein the “professor of Semitic linguistic and biblical philology at
Hebrew University” and the husband of clinical psychologist Esther Hepner with
whom he had two sons – Alon and Yonatan.
1926: “Gun-toting labor organizer” Leo
Sigal and his “Russian-born wife, the former Jennie Persily gave birth to
Clarence Sigal the social activist and novel whose life read like a literary
creation. (As reported by Sam Roberts.)
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Away-Report-Clancy-Sigal-ebook/dp/B00DZEJSZG
1927: Dr. Lee K. Frankel member of the Jewish Agency
Commission, who returned today on the Isle be France from an extended visit to
Palestine on behalf of the Commission declined to make any statement as a
result of his study. "I cannot make any statement until the Jewish Agency
Commission meets." Dr. Frankel told the representative of the Jewish Daily
Bulletin on his arrival. (As reported by JTA)
1928:
Today, “At a luncheon of the officers and Board of Directors of the Palestine
Holding Corporation at the Hotel Pennsylvania” of which Jacob Siegel is
President “it was predicted that the National Bank for Industry, Limited of
Palestine, controlled by the corporation would be open for business early in
December.”
1929:
According to a preliminary estimate of the rioting, made by the Zionist
Executive, Jewish damages amount to several million dollars and 1,000 families,
homeless and reduced to destitution, need $1,000 each for rehabilitation.” More
than 1,500 refugees from areas under attack including Gaza and Hebron are
staying in school houses in Tel Aviv.
1929:
Criticism of the British authorities in Palestine, charging
"betrayal" of the Jews during the Arab uprisings, is incorporated in
a statement sent to the Zionist Organization of America today by Dr. Wolfgang
von Weisl, a German newspaper man, who was in Jerusalem during the outbreak. He
accused the British of a massive cover-up over the incident at the Wall. The
government said that 2,000 Arabs “’visited’ the holy site of the Jews” and that
a table was broken by “the pressure of the crowd and Jewish prayer books were
burned.” Based on his visit to the site
and meetings with the Jews who were there, the “Jews had been beaten” during
the “visit.” The table on which the Torah scrolls are placed had not been
broken; it had been stolen y the mob.
They also stole a variety of other items including chairs wash bowls and
towels. Dr. von Weisl saw heaps of ashes
which he assumed were burned copies of the books of Psalms and Lamentations.
1929: Henry
Goldman of Rochester New York “made public” a letter written on June 18, 1929
by Jacob Goldman a former student at New York University living in Tel Aviv
“telling of demonstrations by young Aras and the circulation of songs calling
Moslems to ‘take up the sword’ against the foreign ruler and the Jews.’”
1930(13th
of Elul, 5690): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1930: In
Bucharest, “the anti-Semitic leaders Derinde and Dumitrescu who had been
arrested in connection the plans being made for anti-Semitic pogroms have been
denied bail and “will be held in prison pending their trial.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/09/07/118380451.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1931: Premiere
of “Merely Mary Ann,” a cinematic adaption of the play by Israel Zangwill
featuring an appearance by Harry Rosenthal.
1931: Dr.
Alvin Johnson, the director of the New School for Social Research announced
that “Arthur Garfield Hayes will a course of six Sunday afternoon lectures on
‘Freedom in Democracy’.”
1931:
Today, in Austin, Agudas Achim dedicated a new “two-story synagogue which was
built for $17,353” and “had a kitchen and a mikvah in the basement.”
1932: “The
eleventh annual encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States
attended by “more than eight hundred
delegates and visitors” during which “J. George Fredman, Jersey City lawyer,
was unanimously chosen Commander-in-Chief succeeding Harold Seidberg of
Cambridge, Mass” came to an end today at Atlantic City, NJ.
1933:
Twenty-seven year old Marguerite Wallenstein became Marguerite Wallenstein
Feldheym today when she married twenty-seven year old Norman Frank Feldheym,
the New York born HUC graduate who served as the rabbi of Temple Emanuel in San
Bernardino “from 1937 to 1967.
1934:
Seventy-six year old Theodore Alfred Bingham, the Andover, CT born son of Joel
and Susan Bingham, who while serving as “Police Commissioner of New York
published an article in North American Review on "Foreign Criminals"
in which he asserted that half the criminals in the city were Jews” – an
assertion he retracted after creating this controversy passed away today.
1935:
Following it premiere in New York last month, “Top Hat” a musical produced by
Pandro S. Berman with music by Irving Berlin and Max Steiner was released in
the United States today by RKO.
1936: “My Man
Godfrey” a classic 1930’s comedy with a script co-authored by Morrie Ryskin,
music by Charles Previn and featuring Mischa Auer who was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor was released today in the United
States.
1936: First
broadcast on CBS of “The Gillette Original Community Sing” featuring Milton
Berle.
1936: In
“Toscanini’s Palestine Concerts,” G.E.R. Gedye, published today, The New
York Times correspondent in Vienna reported on a conversation with
Professor Bronislav Huberman that included details of the completion of
Toscanini’s scheme for a Palestine symphony orchestra that will include an
opening festival in Tel Aviv on December 26.
1936: Rabbi
Herbert S. Goldstein of the Rabbinical Council of America was quoted as
expressing “the fear that the publicity given to the German situation had
tended to ‘put the tragedy of our people in Poland into the background.’”
1936: “The
Zionist Organization of America made public” in Washington “today messages from
thirty United States Senators and Representatives expressing dep concern over
the troubled situation in Palestine and express the hope and belief that Great
Britain would not interfere with Jewish immigration or otherwise hinder the
rebuilding of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.”
1936: It was
rumored in Berlin today that Prime Minster Benito Mussolini may visit Hitler
during or immediately after the upcoming National Socialist Congress which will
be held in Nuremberg.
1937(1st
of Tishrei, 5698): Rosh Hashanah
1937(1st
of Tishrei, 5698): Today, during the Spanish Civil War, twenty year old Samuel
Levinger, the son of Columbus, OH rabbi Lee J. Levinger, the “director of the
Research Bureau of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation was killed while fighting
on the Aragon Front with Spanish Loyalists forces.
1938(10th
of Elul, 5698): “In Tiberias, an Arab dressed in peasant clothes entered a
Jewish owned shop, drew a revolver and shot the proprietor dead and then fired
on an aged Jew, wounding him fatally, then aimed at another Jew and Arab in the
shop, wounding both.”
1938(10th
of Elul, 5698): While traveling on the highway between Haifa and Tel Aviv
Yechiel Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann’s brother and Yechiel’s son were injured when
their car overturned after being fired on by gunmen lying in ambush. Another passenger, the son a prominent Haifa
lawyer, died in the crash.
1938(10th
of Elul, 5698): A Jewish policeman was killed and another was severely wounded
when Arabs attacked the orange groves at Pardress Hanna.
1938:
Romanian King Carol resigned leaving the way for Ion Antonescu, the former
Minister of Defense to take power. This paved the way for Romania to become a
National Socialist (fascist) state complete with an SS-like anti-Semitic police
force called the Iron Guard. During the war Romania was an ally of Germany. The
Iron Guard would join the SS in the mass killings of Jews. In Romania 264,000
people (43% of the Jewish population) would be murdered.
1938: Pope Pius XII informally tells Belgian
pilgrims that anti-Semitism is a movement in which Christians should not
involve themselves. However, Pius says, each Christian has the right "to
defend himself, to take means to protect himself against all that threatens his
legitimate interest."
1939:
Germany occupied Cracow, Poland. The Nazi noose grew tighter around one of the
largest Jewish populations in Europe.
1939:
As the Nazi blitz across Poland continued the Germans set fire to the Jewish
quarter of Piotrkow. People fleeing were
gunned down by the Nazis.
1940:
“Rhythm on the River” a musical written by Billy Wilder featuring Oscar Levant
as Billy Starbuck was released in the United States today by Paramount
Pictures.
1940:
Julian Mack began serving as Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit.
1940:
During the Battle for Britain, the German air campaign designed to defeat
England and bring the Holocaust to the British Isles, the phase known as the
“Eagle Attack’ which failed to destroy the Royal Air Force units stationed in
the southern part of the country and included the first night bombings of
industrial cities came to an end.
1941:
Despite establishment of ghetto at Vilna, Poland, Jews were daily taken away.
On this day, 3,434 Jews were taken to Ponary to be shot. Eight year Joshua Salman the son of Szleime
and Fejgele (Liberman) Salman, his little brother and his mother would be among
those killed by the Germans at Ponary in the coming months.
1941: The Germans establish a "working
ghetto" at Vilna, Lithuania.
1941:
All Jews over age 6 in German territories were ordered to wear the Star of
David.
1942(24th of Elul, 5702): More than 1000
Polish Jews are killed by Nazis in the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto.
1942: Over the next two weeks, early 48,000 Jews
from Warsaw are deported to the Treblinka extermination camp. Not all of the
selected made it to the trains. One thousand would be shot in the streets over
the next two days
1942:
The Nazis ordered the liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto.
1943:
Hanns Albin Rauter ordered the entire Hillesum family to be placed on the next
transport to the death camps.
1943:
Thirteen year old Zedenk Weinberger was shipped from Theresienstadt to
Auschwitz today. He was never heard of
again. The Czech boy who had arrived at Theresienstadt in the summer of 1942 at
the age of 12 had written a poem entitled “Vadem” a poem which described the
desperate plight of the Jews as they confronted what he called “the German
weasel” who “wants more and more blood.
1943:
German and Estonian soldiers marched through the Vilna Ghetto with orders to
seize two thousand Jews for Nazi work camps.
The Resistance Movement led by Abba Kovner was prepared to fight. Kovner had divided his force into two
battalions. The fighters assembled at
their rallying points as the Nazis began moving through the ghetto. One of the battalions was surrounded by the
Nazis before its arms arrived. The unit
had been betrayed, probably by an unnamed informer working for the ghetto’s
Jewish governing body. When word of the
betrayal of the unit reached Kovner he prepared his battalion for battle and
called upon the Jews of the ghetto to rise against their oppressors. The Jews did not heed his call, responding
instead to the governing Jewish body that still believed it could some how save
more Jewish lives by wheeling and dealing with the Nazis. Many considered Kovner and his colleagues to
be rebellious youth who would make matters only worse. The failure of the uprising led Kovner to
eventually lead his followers out of the ghetto and become resistance fighters
hiding in the neighboring swamps and woods.
For more about this fascinating chapter in Jewish history, read The
Avengers by Rich Cohen.
1944(18th
of Elul, 5704): Captain Isidore Newman and Marcus Bloom “together with
forty-five others” were murdered by the SS at Mauthausan today.
1944(18th
of Elul, 5704): The sister-in-law and niece of artist Felix Nussbaum were
murdered at Auschwitz. When his brother
died in December, it marked the end of the Nussbaum family.
1944:
Paramount Pictures released “Double Indemnity” directed by Billy Wilder.
1944:
Today, Salmen Gradowski, who had been forced to work as a Sonderkommando at
Auschwitz, “buried the notes which he had managed to write over the previous
nineteen months…in which he described his own deportation and subsequent events
in the camp.” He put the notes, which
were discovered after the war, into a metal canister and buried them in one of
the pits of human ash. A letter buried with notes said, “I have buried this
under the ashes, deeming it the safest place where people will certainly dig to
find the traces of millions of men who were exterminated.” According to Sir Martin Gilbert, who supplied
this story, “Gradowski dedicated his notes to the members of his family ‘burnt
alive at Birkenau,’ his wife Sonia, his mother Sara, his sisters Estera-Rachel
and Liba, his father-in-law Rafael and his brother-in-law Wolf. In his letter
he also wrote: ‘Dear finder, search everywhere, in every inch of soil. Dozens of documents are buried under it, mine
and those of other persons, which will throw light on everything that was
happening here. Great quantities of
teeth are also buried here. It was we,
the Kommando workers, who expressly have strewn them all over the terrain, as many
as we could, so that the world should find material traces of the millions of
murdered people. We ourselves have lost
hope of being able to live see the moment of liberation.’” Shortly after burying the canister, Gradowski
was murdered. [Editor’s note – I
apologize for this lengthy entry. It is
the normal style. However, in writing
it, it is as close as we can come to saying Kaddish for those for whom there is
nobody to say Kaddish. With the approach
of Rosh Hashanah (2010), it seemed like the least we could do.]
1944:
An Einsatzkommando unit commanded by SS Captain Hauser entered
Topolcany, Slovakia, to quell a Jewish uprising. Many leaders of the local
Jewish community were arrested and killed, including former Deputy Mayor Karl
Pollak, his wife, and Moritz Hochberger, who were set upon by SS troopers.
1944:
After two days in a freight car Dutch banker Jacobus Henricus Kann, the owner
of Lissa & Kann Bank arrived at Theresienstadt.
1944: Of the people with Anne Frank on a
transport to Auschwitz, 549 Dutch Jews are gassed. Anne is saved for the time
being because she is 15 years old. If she were 14, she would be immediately
killed. Like all prisoners, she is tattooed and her head is shaved.
1945:
Bob Brumby, a Mutual Broadcasting Company correspondent reported today that
Joseph Alfred Meissinger, the German war criminal responsible for the
destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and for killing thousands of Polish Jews
elsewhere in Poland has been captured in Japan by Captains Adolf Dressler and
Theodore Holwitz and turned over to United States Army facilities.
1946:
Exactly sixty-six years before his death the Cleveland Browns, which Art Modell
would come to own in 1961, played their first game in Cleveland Stadium.
1946:
“The Agudath Israel, a non-Zionist world organization of Orthdox Jews,
announced today that it had rejected the British invitation to attend” its
upcoming conference on Palestine.
1947:
“The 4,300 Jews of the refugee steamer Exodus 1947 returned to Germany aboard
three deportation ships today. British officers were reported to have removed
the refugees' leaders in preparation for the debarkation, set to begin at 5
A.M. tomorrow (midnight Saturday, Eastern standard time).”
1947:
“United Jewish Appeal agencies have spent more than $105,000,000 this year,
Henry Morgenthau Jr., general chairman, reported tonight at the opening of the
organization's fall campaign for $170,000,000.”
1948:
Banker James Warburg, the son of Paul Warburg, married Joan Melber today.
1948:
“The charge that the United Nations "failed in its duty" to exert
pressure upon the Arab States to meet the Israeli Government in direct peace
negotiations was made here tonight by Aubrey Eban, Israel's chief
representative at the Security Council.”
1949:
Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets
back to German control. This is another
example of the realities of the Cold War trumping the quest for justice for the
victims of Axis atrocities.
1950:
“Fifty American business and communal leaders concluded today an emergency
economic conference with officials of the Government of Israel and the Jewish
Agency for Palestine” during which “they pledged that Jews in the United States
would provide $1,000,000,000 toward Israel's three-year development and
immigration plan.”
1951:
Pitcher Duke Markell made his major league debut with the St. Louis Browns
1953:
Sons of Jacob, the Conservative Congregation in Waterloo, Iowa, which was
founded in August of 1905 dedicated its new facility on Mitchell Avenue.
1955:
A Pogrom began in Istanbul that is aimed at the city’s Greek minority. Unfortunately, the Jewish and Armenian
communities became targets of the mobs as well. The attacks were well planned
in advance. The triggering event was the
false news that the house in Thessaloniki, Greece, where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
the father of modern Turkey, was born in 1881, had been bombed the day
before. According to some reports,
Ataturk was descended from Spanish Jews who had come to the Ottoman Empire
seeking refuge from the Inquisition.
1956(1st
of Tishrei, 5717): As Ike and Adlai run against each for the Presidency, Jews
celebrated Rosh Hashanah
1959:
In Brooklyn, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Rose Gross,
the mother of Berthat Quartre, “a member of the Society of Founders of the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine.”
1960(14th
of Elul, 5720): Seventy-one year old Cincinnati native Roberts S. Marx, the son
of William and “Rose (Lowenstein) Marx, and Captain of the University of
Cincinnati Football team, the school where he earned his law degree who served
as a Captain in 357th Regiment of the AEF, was general counsel for
Schenley Distillers, a Superior Court Judge and the co-founder and first
commander of the Disabled American Veterans, passed away today.
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/ucinlr29&div=23&id=&page=
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/07/99869403.pdf
https://prabook.com/web/robert_s.marx/1077114
1961:
Afl Honikman began serving as Mayor of Cape Town
1962(7th
of Elul, 5722): Sixty-four year old composer Hanns Eisler the son of Jewish
philosophy professor Rudolf Eisler and Marie Ida Eisler who was Lutheran passed
away today.
http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/hanns_eisler/
1964(29th
of Elul, 5724): As Lyndon Johnson, the President of the United States
responsible for the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prepares to run
against Barry Goldwater, one of the handful of Republican Senators who voted
against the act, Jews attend light their candles and bless their wine erev of
Rosh Hashanah
1963:
Larry Sherry collaborated on
a five-hit shutout tonight as the Los Angeles Dodgers maintained their
five-game National League lead
1965:
David Merrick announced to that “Lauren Bacall will return to Broadway in Abe
Burrows's new comedy, "Cactus Flower."
1966: "Star Trek" premiered on NBC TV with
most people not realizing that Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock were played by Jewish
actors.
1966(21st
of Elul, 5726): Seventy-eight year old Paris born, Sorbonne trained investment
banker Andre Istel whose role on the international financial stage including
negotiating the Franco-British financial agreement in 1939 and who served as a
limited partner of Kuhn, Loeb and Company while raising two sons and a daughter
with his wife, ‘the former Yvonee Cremieux, passed away today.
1968:
In Chernovtsi, Alexander and Malka Ivanir gave birth to Mark Alexandrovich
Ivanir, the grandson of Yiddishist Meshulem Surkis the Israeli actor who has
gained success in American made films and television shows.
1970:
Birthdate of Edward Einhorn “an American playwright, theater director, and
novelist” whose works included “his Hanukkah drama, Playing Dreidel with Judah
Maccabee.”
1970:
In the Dawson's Field hijacking four
jet planes bound for
New York City were hijacked by members of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- TWA
Flight 741 from Frankfurt and r Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich-Kloten Airport landed
at Zerqa, also known as Dawson's
Field, a remote desert airstrip in Jordan formerly used as a
British Royal Air Force base.[1]
- The hijacking of
El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam was foiled; hijacker Patrick Arguello was
shot and killed, whilst his partner Leila Khaled was subdued and turned
over to British authorities in London. Two hijackers prevented from
joining the El Al flight instead hijacked Pan Am Flight 93, a, Boeing 747 diverting
the large plane to Beirut and then Cairo rather than the
small Jordanian field.
- A
fifth plane, BOAC Flight 775 from Bahrain, was hijacked on September 9 by
a PFLP sympathizer and brought to Dawson's Field in order to pressure the
British to free Khaled.
David Raab, a seventeen year old from Trenton, N.J. was among the
Jewish hostages. He would write his
account of the event in Terror in Black September.
1972: The Munich Massacre comes to an end. At 3:24 a.m., Jim McKay
who has been reporting the events on ABC received the official confirmation
“When I was a kid, my father used to say "Our greatest hopes
and our worst fears are seldom realized." Our worst fears have been
realized tonight. They’ve now said that there were eleven hostages. Two were
killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport
tonight. They’re all gone.
1972: “Israel warned the Palestinian guerrilla organizations and
indirectly the Arab nations today that they would be held accountable for the
murders of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches in Munich” while “Premier Golda Meir
expressed personal appreciation for the West German Government’s decision to
take action for the liberation of the Israeli hostage and to employ force to
this end.”
1972: Eighty-four year old
Avrey Brundage the President of the International Olympic Committee announced
publicly today “that the Munich Olympics ‘must go on’ despite the murder of 11
Israeli athletes and coaches by Arab terrorists.”
1972: Marcia Leventhal wrote today that she was “appalled and
incensed by the tragedy at Munich in which several of my fellow Jews were
brutally and senselessly slaughtered by Palestinian terrorists” while
denouncing as “barbarism” “the cry voiced by the Jewish Defense League…for the
random assassination of Arab diplomats and the indiscriminate shedding of Arab
blood…”
1972: Dr. Paul Ravenna of Chicago wrote today that “Egypt and its
Olympic team cannot escape responsibility for the massacre in Munich” since
“the Egyptian Olympic team packed and fled from Munich without” making “any
attempt to free the surviving Israeli athletes.”
1973: Richard Friedlander completed two years of service as Mayor
of Cape Town
1973: David Bloomberg began serving as Mayor of Cape Town.
1975(1st of Tishrei, 5735): Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat
1975: Seventy-eight year old NYU College of Dentistry Dr. David
Tanchester, chief of the dental service at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical
Center in the Bronx for 50 years and a clinical professor of Oral Surgery at
NYU and Columbia who was the husband of the “former Ida Lazarus with whom he had
two children – Bernard and Shirley – passed away today.
1976(11th of Elul, 5736): Ninety-one year old Polish born
Nathaniel Phillips, NYU law school graduate and member of the Mayors Commission
on Americanization and director of the National League for American Citizenship
who was the husband of the former Ruth Simeon passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/09/10/80139469.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1976: On the day after the cabinet decided to appoint Asher Yadlin
governor of the Bank of Israel, Police Minister Shlomo Hillel and
Attorney-General Aharon Barak were informed that the police had been inquiring
into allegations against Yadlin of improper conduct in the management of Kupat
Holim
1977: Ted Mauerberger began serving as Mayor of South Africa.
1977(23rd of Elul, 5737): Eighty-four year old German
born Oscar winning cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan, the inventor of “the
Schüfftan process, a special effects technique that employed mirrors to insert
actors into miniature sets” passed away today in New York City.
1978(4th of Elul, 5738): Seventy-seven year old Benjamin
Sonnenberg, a Russian-born American press agent who represented celebrities and
major corporations, who was best known for the lavish entertaining he did for
his clients and other notables passed away today. (As reported by William
Grimes)
1979: Ted Mauerberger completed his years of service as Mayor of
Cape Twon
1979: Solly Kreiner began serving as Mayor of Cape Town.
1980: Birthdate of Joshua Cohen, the native of Somers Point, NJ
whose novels include Witz.
1983: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are
scheduled to be held for eighty-five-year
old Brooklyn born, Brooklyn Law School trained attorney Nat Lefkowitz, the
husband of Sally Feigelman with whom he had three daughters – Dorothy,
Rona and Helene – who was the “co-chairman of the William Morris Agency”
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/06/obituaries/no-headline-145877.html
1984:
In Manhattan, funeral services are scheduled to be held for 59 year old Omaha
native and University of Missouri graduate William P. Arnold, the former head
of the Associated Dry Goods Corporation the parent company of Lord &
Taylor, Caldor Inc., Loehmann's Inc. and other retail companies, and the
husband of the former Barbara Lee Powell with whom he had two children –
Stephen and Lee.
1985:
A “staged concert” of the Follies a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim and a book by James Goldman was performed at the Avery Fisher Hall in
Lincoln Center.
1986: NYU trained attorney Wendy Pamela Rosenthal is scheduled to
marry Stanford University trained attorney Stephen Glen Gellman today.
1986(2nd of Elul, 5746): In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu
Nidal’s terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom
synagogue during Shabbat services.
1986:
Sixty-eight year old Methodist Minister Reverend John Stanley, a member of the
American Christian Palestine Committee who gave up his pulpit to work on
Zionist projects and who risked his life to serve as a Haganah agent on the
famed refugee transport Exodus passed away today after which he was buried in
the Alliance Church International Cemetery in Jerusalem.
1986:
Barbra Streisand gave her first live concert in 20 years.
1987(12th
of Elul, 5747): Ninety-two year old Forestville, CT” native Vera Buch Weisbord,
the labor organizer whose autobiography A Radical Life was published in
1977, the same year when her radical husband Albert passed away died today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/19/1895/this-week-in-history-birth-of-vera-weisbord-radical
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vera-buch-weisbord/a-radical-life/
1991(27th
of Elul, 5771): Seventy-one year old
Eliyahu Moyal the native of Sale, Morocco who helped found Kibbutz Bror
Hayil , served in the Knesset and was Deputy Minister of Communications, passed
away today.
1992:
Shaul Paual Landry the Israeli Olympic racewalker who survived Bergen-Belsen
and the Munich Massacre visited the graves of his murdered teammates in Tel
Aviv.
1992(8th
of Elul, 5752): Eighty year screenwriter Henry Ephron passed away today.
1993:
Birthdate of Israel Moshe Chaim Toister
1994(1st
of Tishrei, 5755): Rosh Hashanah
1994:
CBS broadcast the final episode of “Good Advice,” a sitcom written by Max
Mutchnick and directed by Robby Benson
1995(11th
of Elul, 5755): Sixty-nine year old award winning American film editor Ralph
Rosenblum passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/08/obituaries/ralph-rosenblum-film-editor-69.html?mcubz=3
1996:
“Bogus” a “fantasy film produced by Amon Milchan, with music by Marc Shaiman
and featuring Al Waxman was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.
1998: The New York Times book section
included reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including War Crimes: Brutality,
Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice
by Aryeh Neier, The Doctor Stories by Richard Selzer, The Seekers:The Story of Man's Continuing
Quest to Understand His World
by Daniel J. Boorstin and An
Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan.
1999(25th
of Elul, 5759): Eighty-seven Yair Sprinzak the Israeli political leader whose
affiliations were the opposed of his father Yosef Sprinzak, a member of Mapai,
passed away today.
2000:
“Pollock” a biopic about the famous controversial artist with a script by
Barbara Turner and (in a case of Jews playing Jews) featuring Matthew Sussman
as Reuben Kadish and Jeffrey Tambor as Clement Greenberg was released in the
United States by Sony Pictures.
2000:
“A concert version” of Jerry Herman’s “Dear World” opened today in San
Francisco.
2001:
When the votes were tallied today, they were so inconclusive that the Labor
Party could not announce a winner since “Avraham Burg, the left-leaning speaker
of Parliament, led by barely a percentage point over his right-leaning
opponent, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.”
2002:
“A vehicle packed with about half a ton of explosives was seized by police
officers today after a chase in northern Israel, averting an attack that, the
police said, could have killed and wounded hundreds of people while “in the
Gaza Strip, a powerful bomb destroyed an Israeli tank, killing its driver, and
a Palestinian shot and killed an army officer in a separate shooting.” (As
reported by Joel Greenberg)
2003(9th
of Elul, 5763): Fred Kort, Holocaust survivor, philanthropist and founder/CEO
of Imperial Toy Corporation, passed away at the age of 80 http://articles.latimes.com/2003/sep/11/local/me-kort11
2003(9th
of Elul, 5763): Harry Goz, an actor who was an understudy in ''Fiddler on the
Roof'' and wound up playing the lead, passed away today at the age of 71. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/01/obituaries/01GOZ.html
2003(9th
of Elul, 5763: Jules Engel, a Jewish-Hungarian American innovative animator and
educator best known for choreographing dance sequences in the 1940 Disney
animated feature ''Fantasia,'' passed away today at the age of 94.
http://tobeycmossgallery.com/Jules_Engel_bio.html
2005:
“Nothing Lasts Forever” a comedy produced by Lorne Michaels in 1984 that was
not released to the public, co-starring Mort Sahl, Sam Jaffe and Eddie Fisher
with music by Howard Shore was screened today at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade
Theatre.
2005: The
Jerusalem Post reported on plans of Chabad Rabbi Shraga Sherman to renovate
the historic General Wayne Inn and turn it into a synagogue, community center
and upscale kosher restaurant.
2006:
New York
attorney general, Eliot Spitzer dropped several of the civil charges that had
been included in the filings brought against, Maurice R. Greenberg, the former
chairman and chief executive of the insurance giant American International
Group..
2006: “Richard H. Jones, a career member of the Senior Foreign
Service, was sworn in as Ambassador to Israel by Deputy Secretary of State
Robert Zoellick” today.
2007:
In Jerusalem, the weeklong festival known as Jewish Music Days continues with a
fifth concert at Beit Avi Chai entitled “In Those Days at This Time, Prayers
and Piyutim in the Italian Jewish Tradition.”
2007: Pope Benedict XVI and President Shimon Peres discussed peace
efforts in the Middle East with the Vatican saying the time seemed particularly
favorable for Israelis and Palestinians to work to end decades of conflict.
2007:
An Israeli commando unit carried out a reconnaissance
mission at an alleged Syrian nuclear reactor that was later destroyed by the
Israel Air Force; the Swiss daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung reported today. The
12-man unit was dropped by two helicopters onto the site, according to the
report, where they proceeded to take soil samples and photographs.
2007: “Disengagement” the third film in Amos “Gitai’s Border
Trilogy” premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
2007: “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” the last film directed
by Sidney Lumet premiered today at the Deuaville American Film Festival in
Deauville, France.
2007: The IAF conducted Operation Orchard, during which Israel
bombed a nuclear reactor in Syria that had been set up in collaboration with
North Korea.
2007: Opening of the Jewish Film Festival in Dallas, TX.
2008: Canadian American character actress, Francis Bay “was
inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame today in large part thanks to a petition
with 10,000 names which was submitted on her behalf.”
2008: The Annual Tefillah, Torah and Tailgate Shabbat Minyan at
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa combined the Day of Rest with the start of
the Iowa and Iowa State football seasons.
2008: Temple Judah’s very own Bentlee Birchansky plays Clarence
the clarinetist and a newsboy in Theatre Cedar Rapid’s production of Gypsy
at McKinley Middle school.
2008: The Young Leadership of ELEM - Israeli
Youth in Distress sponsor “From Punk to Pink” Art for ELEM, an auction inspired
by the personal story of a rescued teenager. Over 40 Israeli artists including
Michal Rovner, Barry Frydlender, Buky Schwartz, Yigal Ozeri, Miriam Cabessa
along with the freshest names in Israeli art today have generously contributed
their work for ELEM’s Hafuch Al Hafuch program.
2008: Three Jewish counselors from the Bnei Akiva youth movement
were attacked not far from the organization's central branch in Paris this
afternoon.
2008: The Beaux Arts Trio featuring pianist Manahem Pressler
performed their final concert at Lucerne, Switzerland.
2009(17th of Elul, 5770): Ninety-three
year old Gerhart Friedlander, the pioneer nuclear chemist who helped develop
the Atomic Bomb as part of the Manhattan Project passed away today. (As
reported by Vicki Glaser)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/nyregion/12friedlander.html
2009: At the Avalon Theatre, a screening of Aviva Kempner’s
“Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” which “looks at the life and career of Gertrude Berg,
the creator, writer and star of “The Goldbergs,” a popular 1930s radio show
that was subsequently a weekly TV program.
2009: Irish-Jewish cricketer Jason Molins married Aoife Mulholland
in Marbella, Spain,
2009: The Washington Post features reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Why
Jews Are Liberal by Norman Podhoretz and
The Year That Changed The World: The Untold
Story Behind The Fall of the Berlin Wall by
Michael Meyer
2009:
A rally against the drought tax, held in Tel Aviv
today, turned into a shouting match between rival protesters over how to
demonstrate and against whom.
2010:
BuckUSY a United Synagogue Youth (USY) Chapter, based out of Congregation
Tifereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio is scheduled to complete its road trip to
Sandusky, Ohio.
2010:
The JCC of Dallas (TX) is scheduled to sponsor its annual Labor Day Beach
Party.
2010:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on his partner in peace negotiations
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not to give up on a peaceful
resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today.
2010:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu can put an end to the conflict between the
Israelis and the Palestinians "if he wants to," according to a
statement made by opposition leader Tzipi Livni (Kadima) today.
2010:
As the Jewish New Year 5771 approaches, Israel's
population continues to grow, according to Central Bureau of Statistics data
released today. The population now stands at 7,645,000 people, continuing to
grow at a steady rate of 1.8 percent per year for the seventh year in a row.
2010 Haifa-born Dieter Graumann announced today that he plans to
run for president of Germany’s 106,000-member Jewish community.
2010:
Israel's Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem signed an
agreement with Poland today that gives it access to World War II-era documents
held in archives across the eastern European country.
2010 Haifa-born Dieter Graumann announced today that he plans to
run for president of Germany’s 106,000-member Jewish community.
2010:
Israel's Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem signed an
agreement with Poland today that gives it access to World War II-era documents
held in archives across the eastern European country.
2010:
The long fleet of luxury cars with white CD license
plates that drove along the capital’s Jabotinsky Street today disgorged scores
of ambassadors and chargés d’affaires at Beit Hanassi, for the annual Rosh
Hashanah reception hosted by President Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Lieberman.
2010: Ryan Kalish hit “another grand slam today at Fenway Park
against the Tampa Bay Rays, which tied a Red Sox rookie record” that had stood
since 1992.
2010: Seventy-six year old Thomas Buergenthal “resigned his pas as
Judge of the International Court of Justice.
2010: “The King’s Speech” a film based on an episode in King
George VI’s life written by David Seidler, filmed by cinematographer Daniel
Cohen the grandson of refugees from Hitler’s Germany premiered at the
Teulluride Film Festival.
2011: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater
Washington, the American Jewish Committee and the American Association of
Jewish Lawyers and Jurists are scheduled to sponsor a brown bag lunch program
entitled “The Battle Over Collective Bargaining and Public Employees.”
2011: Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum are scheduled to
appear the 92nd St Y where they will promote their latest book.
2011: Today Jonathan “Chait joined the
staff of New York magazine after
leaving his post of Senior Editor at The New Republic.”
2011:
Concern grew tonight that rocket fire would increase
against the western Negev after a member of the Popular Resistance Committees
was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
2011:
Hospital department managers and senior members from
dozens of hospitals were scheduled to meet tonight at the Ichilov Hospital in
Tel Aviv, Army Radio reported. The meeting will address the next step in the
doctors' protest, including the possible establishment of a hospital
organization as an alternative to the Israel Medical Association.
2011: Leaders of the social movement protest which started in Tel
Aviv launched the second stage of the movement today in Jerusalem in front of
the Knesset, in order to stress the importance of a wide-ranging government
response to the protester’s demands.
2011: David Leonhardt began serving as chief of the Washington
bureau of The New York Times.
2011: Jill Abramson began serving as the Executive Editor of New
York making her the first woman to serve in this position.
2011: Persian born Jewess Roya “Hakakian's latest book, Assassins
of the Turquoise Palace – released” today “through Grove/Atlantic – is a
non-fiction account of the Mykonos restaurant assassinations in Berlin” in
which “four Kurdish and Iranian activists were killed following a pattern of
assassinations of opposition leaders.”
2012: In the UK, The Wiener Library is scheduled to sponsor
the Tour for European Day of Jewish Culture
2012: The Jewish Sacred Music Festival is scheduled to begin in
Jerusalem.
2012: A symposium sponsored by the American Folklife Center
entitled “The Stations That Spoke Your Language: Radio and the Yiddish American
Cultural Renaissance” is scheduled to open in Washington, DC.
2012: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a
panel discussion entitled “Gefilte
Talk.”
http://gefiltetalk.com/main.html
2012: Defense Minister Ehud Barak called today for a law allowing
Israel to shut its sole border-crossing with Egypt, saying that Israelis needed
to be protected from entering the region during times of high danger
http://www.timesofisrael.com/barak-calls-for-law-allowing-army-to-close-sinai-border/
2012(19th of Elul, 5772): Ninety-three year old Jerome
Horwitz, the creator of AZT passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/health/jerome-p-horwitz-creator-of-azt-dies-at-93.html?hpw
2012(19th of Elul, 5772): Eighty-seven year old
football mogul Art Brown who made history as the owner of the Cleveland Browns
and Baltimore Ravens and quietly left his mark as generous philanthropist
passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/art-modell-hero-and-villain-of-cleveland-football-dies/
2013(2nd
of Tishrei, 5774): Traditional Jews observed the 2nd day of Rosh
Hashanah
2013:
This evening, the Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform in Arlington, VA.
2013:
The Jewish community in Dusseldorf is urging a boycott of today’s concert by
former Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters because he is an “intellectual
arsonist” who used “anti-Semitic and National Socialist imagery.” (As reported
by Naama Barak)
2013:
Israeli police fired stun grenades to disperse Palestinian worshippers who
threw rocks at them after morning prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound,
Islam's third holiest site, a police spokesman said.
2014:
Comedian and social commentator Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the MGM
Grand Theatre in Ledyard, CT.
2014:
In Cedar Rapids, the traditional-egalitarian minyan is scheduled to observe
Labor Day Shabbat reminding us all to “Honor the Dignity of Work and Protect
the Dignity of Workers.”
Rabban
Gamliel the son of Rabbi Judah HaNassi would say: An excellent thing is the
study of Torah combined with some worldly occupation, for the labor demanded by
them both makes sin to be forgotten. All study of the Torah without work must
in the end be futile and become the cause of sin. (Pirke Avot - Saying of the Fathers: Chapter
2, Verse 2
2014: Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said that
“the recent conflict…has changed the opinions of certain” unnamed “global
players who now wish to hold dialog with” Hamas while at the same same calling
for an armed uprising in the West Bank.
2014: “A French journalist held hostage for
months by extremists in Syria identified one of his captors today as a
Frenchman suspected of later killing four at the Brussels Jewish Museum, saying
the militant had took sadistic delight in mistreating prisoners.”
2015(22nd
of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, or Yosef Dov, the father of Avraham
Elimelech and the son of Avraham Elimelch.
2015:
“Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National
Committee announced” today “that she will support the nuclear agreement with Iran.”
2015:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel by Anthony Horowitz and The
Hotel Years by Joseph Roth.
2015:
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is scheduled to host a tour that
“offers an overview of the history of the Holocaust through close observation
of Museum artifacts and documents.”
2015:
In Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to start is Rosh Hashanah season with an
apple picking trip to Wilson’s Orchards.
(Nothing said about the honey)
2015:
In Akron, Ohio the Jewish Food Fair is scheduled to take place this afternoon
at Revere Road.
2015:
The Berman Museum is scheduled to host “an exciting afternoon of "wild
thing" inspired adventure and fun and a Rosh Hashana themed craft in the
Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak in his Own Words and Pictures
exhibition!”
2015:
“Odd Birdz” is scheduled to be performed for the last time at the Players
Theatre.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/31/israeli-company-brings-whimsical-sketch-comedy-odd-birdz-to-nyc/
2016:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a
preview of “Defying the Nazis: Sharps’ War” a Ken Burns film narrated by Tom
Hanks that “tells the story of an American minister and his wife from
Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their
parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission that ultimately saved
Jews and refugees fleeing Nazi occupation across Europe.”
2016:
As University of Iowa Students settle into their second week of classes Hillel
is scheduled to host a dinner and discussion.
2016:
Today William “Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management purchased a 9.9%
stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill” which Pershing described Chipotle as
"undervalued" and "an attractive investment."
2016:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to a
conversation between Judith Margles and Elizabeth Rynecki, author of Chasing
Portraits, A Great Granddaughter’s Quest for her Lost Art Legacy “a memoir
of one woman's emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish
great-grandfather, lost during World War II.”
2016:
Leila Hatoum, “a high level of Newsweek Middle East evoked what some called
anti-Semitic tropes in a lengthy Twitter exchange” today in which she claimed
that “Most Jews in Israel are not semites” and therefore have no claim to the
land because “they are descendants of Europe’s Khazar tribes, mixed hybrids
whose ancestors adopted Judaism.”
2016:
Eat My Schwartz: Our Story of NFL Football, Food, Family, and Faith by
the football playing brothers Geoff and Mitch Schwartz is scheduled to go on
sale today.
2017:
Historian Tobias Brinkman is scheduled to speak at the opening of an exhibition
“Becoming German-Jewish in America” presented by the Leo Baeck Institute.
2017:
“Stanley Fischer, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said today that he
would resign in mid-October, an unexpected decision that gives President Trump
greater leverage over central bank policy.”
2017:
As of today, “some 99 people had donated $3,454” to “the GoFundMe campaign”
that is trying “to raise $15,369 to ship two full pallets, or 3,072 salamis,
for distribution by the Jewish federation in Houston” in the aftermath of the
hurricane that had struck the Texas port city.
2017:
In Memphis, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to talk about Rabbi Mordecai
Kaplan as part of The Greatest Jewish Thinkers of All Time series.
2017:
“The Munich 1972 Massacre Memorial” is scheduled to open today.
2018:
Adam Michnik, the author of Against Anti-Semitism: An Anthology of
Twentieth-Century Polish Writings is scheduled to discuss the history of
Anti-Semitism – and efforts to resist it – in 20th-century Poland tonight at
the Center for Jewish History.
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host the final London screening of “Dough.”
2018:
The Women’s Leadership Committee is scheduled to host its “end of summer
soiree” complete with silent auction at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center this evening.
2019:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host the “First Friday Book Group”
and the “Friday Morning Music Club.”
2019:
At Tefereth Israel in Columbus, OH, the Heschel Book is scheduled to “explore
the concept of the divine-human partnership in Abraham Joshua Heschel’s classic
book, God in Search of Man.”
2019:
As Hurricane Dorian lashes the Carolinas including Charleston, the scheduled
screening of The Spy Behind Home Plate at The Grand Cinema would be a candidate
for a “do-over.”
2019:
In Jerusalem, the Ein Yael Outdoor Museum is scheduled to offer “a variety of
special activities for the entire family” while the Tzuba Hotel is scheduled to
host a special Friday Family Brunch.
2020:
Lost Tribe Esports which is serving Jewish communities during the coronavirus
crisis and beyond, offering online esports and social opportunities for teens
and young adults, in partnership with a wide range of Jewish organizations is
scheduled to host a “Fortnite Duos Online Tournament.”
2020:
The Vitrual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host the last screening of
“Hummus” and the first screening of “Leona.”
2020:
In Ohio, Beth El congregation is scheduled to host the “High Holiday Study
Session” which Rabbi Elyssa “will lead spiritual preparation for Yom Kippur”
this morning.
2020:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including the recently released paperback editions of State: A Team, A
Triumph, A Transformation by Melissa Issacson and On Fire: The (Burning)
Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein.
2020:
Jewish LeaerningWorks is scheduled to present online “My Year of Kaddish:
Mourning, Memory and Meaning” during which author and trauma psychologist Naomi
Baum reflects on her experiences after her mother’s death and introduces an
ancient custom called Kaddish Yachid, a mourner’s prayer that can be said in
solitude, quarantine or with family.”
2021:
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
http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/14322
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/the-jewish-people-and-the-american-labor-movement/
2021(29th
of Elul, 5781): The Shofar is not blown; in the evening erev Rosh Hashanah
2021:
Chabad SF-SOMA Shul is scheduled to present an in-person event with an open bar
and appetizers, followed by services then outdoor dinner with heaters.
2022:
In Berkley, CA at the Magnes an exhibition of 18 paintings created by
Israeli-born artist and illustrator Ori Sherman, painted in the Bay Area from
1986 until his death in 1988 is scheduled to open today.
2022:
The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to present the first session of Judaism 101,
“a 26-session class covering pathways through Judaism, whether you are Jewish,
interfaith or not Jewish.”
2022:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its last board meeting
before Rosh Hashanah.
2022:
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to present online a book talk on Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena
of Memory for Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, which discusses this phenomenon through the
stories of 30 researchers, children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
2022:
Israel Jazz Player of the Year, guitarist Yotam Silberstein and his quartet are
scheduled to return to Dizzy’s Club in NYC.
2022:
Online via Zoom Journalist Andrew Lawler is scheduled to discuss Under
Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City, his new
book about the tombs, tunnels, Biblical treasures, explorers, archeology and
political upheaval in Jerusalem throughout history.
2022:
President Herzog’s official trip to Germany that is to include a memorial for
the athletes murdered fifty years ago, is scheduled to come to an end today.
2022:
Jerusalem 365: A Daily Podcast on the Most Important City in the World Which is
Exclusively Available on MeirSoloveichik.com is scheduled to begin today.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Judge Dennis Davis on “Rav
Kook and the Meaning of Teshuvah.”
2023:
The “Simple Story” bookstore in Tel Aviv is scheduled to host a discussion with
Uri Greenspun of three of Agnon’s love stories – “Sister,” “Fernheim” and “The Doctor
and His Ex-Wife.”
2023:
Today, “as part of the closed “Bloody Folklore” Workshop on New Research on
Music, Archives and the Holocaust, The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre, in
partnership with The Wiener Holocaust Library, the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies, The Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway,
University of London, World ORT Music and the Holocaust, and the UCL Department
of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, is scheduled to host two musical performances by
Yiddish Glory and Songs from Testimonies”
2023:
In Washington, the Edlavitch DCJCC is scheduled is scheduled to host “Memorializing
Living History” during which panelist “discuss what history can teach us about
who we are and who we may become.”
2023(20th of Elul, 5783): Yahrzeit of Dr.
Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of Betty, loving father
of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton) Levin, Sharon (Philip)
Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud Zaide to a whole tribe of
grandchildren. To his brother Joe, he was the incomparable
“Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living proof that good
guys finish first.
2023:
“With the exception of the attorney general, all respondents in the hearing surrounding
“the legality of the ‘reasonableness’ law past month” are scheduled to submit
their responses today.
2023:
Temple Emanuel of Newton, MA is
scheduled to present “Why Entrepreneurs Are Key Players in Leading Change in Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict” with Lobna Agbaria, CEO of “Our Generation Speaks.”
