OCTOBER 1
2016 B.C.E.: According to some the anniversary of the
Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date
is easily open to debate. There is a general agreement among those who
accept the existence of Abraham that he appeared about 2000 B.C.E. This
means that Jewish History spans a period of four thousand years. What
makes Jewish History unique is that it covers such a great span of time, that
it is not limited to a specific geographic area and that the most ancient events
of that history are an active part of the descendants of the people who made
that history.
331B.C.E:
Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated the Persian army at Gaugamela. This victory cemented Greek domination over
the Persian Empire. Alexander would be
crowned “King of Asia” after the battle. Alexander’s armies were instrumental
in bringing Greek culture to the lands of Asia Minor including the homeland of
the Jewish people. This would mark the
beginning of the uneasy and sometimes violent interaction between the world of
Moses and Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, et al.
208: Birthdate of
Alexander Severus, the Roman Emperor whose respect for Judaism enabled Judah II
(President of the Sanhedrin - the Jewish Supreme Court located in Eretz
Israel), to obtain a revival of Jewish rights, including permission to visit
Jerusalem.
855: Based on an edict
issued by Emperor Ludwig II, all Italian Jews must have vacated his realm as of
this date
1207: Birthdate of Henry
1280: Today
Richard Swinefeld who in 1286 “threatened to excommunicate several of his flock
who wished to attend the wedding of the daughter of a leading Jew of Hereford”
was named Archdeacon of London
1404: Pope
Boniface IX passed away. Unlike his predecessors and successors “he treated the
Jews benevolently. He favored a succession of Jewish physicians and recognized
the rights of Jews as citizens.” They were given legal right to observe their
Shabbat, protection from local oppressive officials, their taxes were reduced
and orders were given to treat Jews as full-fledged Roman citizens.
1499:
Sixty-five year old Marsilio Ficino, the Roman Catholic priest and Christian
Kabbalist passed away today.
https://therealsamizdat.com/2014/09/26/marsilio-ficino-and-christian-kabbalah/
1685:
Birthdate of Charles III who followed in the footsteps of his father Leopold to
make life miserable for the Jews of Hungary.
1697(16th
of Tishrei, 5458):
Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto an Amsterdam born rabbi,
kabbalist and poet “also known by the Hebrew acronym ReMe”Z” passed away today
1739: At an
auto-de-fe in Lisbon, Antonio Jose de Silva, one of the most successful and
popular playwrights of the period was burned at the stake. He was a member of a
New Christian family, son of a mother who had been convicted twice of
Judaizing. On the night he was burned, one of his comedies was produced in the
local town theater.
1753(3rd
of Tishrei, 5514): Tzom Gedaliah
1759(10th
of Tishrei, 5520): Yom Kippur
1777: The
will of Aaron Franks, the brother of Isaac Franks, dated September 2, 1777 was
“proved” today.
1784(16th
of Tishrei, 5545): Second Day of Sukkoth
1778(10th
of Tishrei, 5539): Yom Kippur
1780(2nd
of Tishrei, 5541): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed on the same day that
convicted British spy Major John Andre wrote to American General George
Washington
1786(9th of Tishrei, 5547): Erev Yom Kippur;
Kol Nidre
1792(15th of Tishre, 5553): First Day of
Sukkoth observed on the same day that Secretary of State Jefferson wrote to
James Madison expressing his opposition to Virginia chartering a state bank
which was part of a plan to block the creation of a national bank.
1795(18th of Tishrei, 5556): Fourth Day of
Sukkoth observed on the same day “the Austrian Netherlands is annexed to the
French Republic, as the Belgian departments.”
1798(21st of Tishrei, 5559): Hoshana Raba
1799(2nd of Tishrei, 5560): The Rosh Hashanah Shofar is
sounded for the last time in the 18th century.
1800: Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of
San Ildefonso. Unbeknownst to the
principles, this was the first act, in a “three act play” that would open the
Mississippi River Valley and the Great Plains to Jewish settlers. Jews could
not live in Spanish Louisiana. The French bought Louisiana was part of
Napoleon’s grand dream of an American emprie. The dream fell apart and three
years later the French sold Louisiana to the United States. This opened all of the most of the land west
of the Missiissippi and east of the Rockies to Jewish settlers.
1801(24th of Tishrei, 5561): Bele Abraham who
had been born in Amsterdam in 1751 passed away today in the Netherlands.
1802:
Simon Magruder Levy is one of two cadets in the first class to graduate
from West Point
1803(15th of
Tishrei, 5564): Sukkoth
1803: Zalegman Phillips
wrote to President Thomas Jefferson requesting that he be appointed
“Commissioner of Bankrupts for the District of Pennsylvania.”
1808(10th of Tishrei, 5569): For the last
time, Jews observe Yom Kippur during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, author
of the Declaration of Independence and a champion of the separation of church
and state.
1810: John Jacob Hays, who may have been the first Jew to
settle in Indiana and his wife Mary gave birth to Elizabeth Hayes who became
Elizabeth Brouillet when she married Bard Brouillet.
1811: The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River
arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana. The copper for the boilers in that steamboat
was probably supplied by Henry Hendricks, a prominent New York Sephardic Jew
who supplie the copper fo all of Robert Fulton’s steamboats as well as those of
many others.
1814: Following the defeat
of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna opens.
The intent is to undue the effects of the French Revolution and return
Europe to the days of the Ancien Régime.
Among other measures, the victorious powers rolled back the concept that all
citizens were equal before the law. This
change had a particularly corrosive effect on the Jews of Europe whose
emancipation had depended on this concept.
1815: In London, Simon Marcus and Eleanor Levy gave birth to
Hannah Marcus.
1816(9th of Tishrei, 5577): Erev Yom Kippur
1816(9th of Tishreti, 5577): Dutch born American
businessman Eleazar Lyons, the husband of Hannah Levy passed away today in
Philadelphia.
1817(21st of Tishrei, 5578): Hoshana Rabba
1817: Birthdate of Vilna native Mathias Strashun the Russian
Talmudist and successful businessman who also served as an “adviser to the
state bank.”
1818(1st of Tishrei, 5579): Rosh Hashanah
1820(23rd of Tishrei, 5581): As Jews observe Simchat Torah,
Americans prepare to take place in what is the third and final of Presidential
elections where the President, James Monroe, an virtually unopposed. It was a time known as the ear of good feelings.
1824(9th of Tishrei, 5585): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
chanted for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.
1825(19th of Tishrei, 5586): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1825: The brig The Mary among whose passengers was English
adventurer Nathaniel Isaacs foundered on a sandbank after anchoring off Port
Natal
1827(10th of Tishrei, 5588): Yom Kippur
1827: In Essex, Laurence Lazarus and Catherine Phillips gave birth
to Sophie Lazarus.
1828(23rd of Tishrei, 5589): As Jews observed Simchat
Torah, Americans were engaged in the bitterest Presidential campaign the new
nation had experienced as the supports of Adams and Jackson engaged in almost
non-stop “l’shon hara.”
1830: Birthdate of Jeremiah C. Sullivan, the Indiana lawyer, who
while serving as a general in the Union Army refused to enforced General Order
11.
1831: Birthdate of Eugene Pereire, the member of
mutli-generational prominent French Jewish family. Eugene was an engineer by training and who
became a prominent fianancier and businessman He was the son of Emile Pereire
who was one of the founders of the infamous Crédit Mobilier
1835: In Weisskirchen, Moravia, Rabbi Abraham Placzek and his wife
gave birth to his “son and successor” Baruch Jacob Placzek who became “the
chief rabbi at Brünn” and was made a knight the Order of Francis Joseph.
1835: Birthdate of Austrian physician Adam Politizer, a pioneer in
the field of otology.
http://www.politzersociety.org/content.php?conid=683
1837(2nd of Tishrei, 5598): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
observed for the first time during the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
1839(23rd of Tishrei, 5600): Simchat Torah
1839(23rd of Tishrei, 5600): Sixty-five year old Joseph
Perl who wrote several books about Chasidim beginning with On the Nature of
the Sect of the Hasidim, Drawn from Their Own Writings passed away today in
Ternopil.
1839(23rd of Tishrei, 5600): A month after The Great
Fire in Mobile, Alabama, Philip Philips and his wife Eugenia Levy would be
among those observing Simchat Torah in the Gulf Coast City.
1839: For the first time Simchat Torah is celebrated in Melbourne,
Australia
1846: In Gratz, Prussia, Dr. Markus Moses and his wife gave birth
to German judge and legal scholar Isaac Albert Moss.
1847: In New York Moses Lazarus and his wife, the former Esther
Nathan gave birth to Mary Lazarus who became Mary Lindau when she married
Leopold Lindau.
1848: The first edition of Ostdeutsche
Post, published by Ignaz Kuranda, the son and grandson of second-hand book
dealer, appeared today in Vienna.
1849(15th of Tishrei, 5610): Jews observe Sukkoth for the first
and only time during the Presidency of Zachary Taylor.
1850: In Syracuse, NY, “Meier Barnet and Rebecca Hamburger” gave
birth to Gates Banet, the husband of “Marion Barnet, who served as “President
of the Hebrew Benevolent Society “both in Syracuse and Albany, NY.
1854(9th of Tishrei, 5615): Erev Yom Kippur
1854: In Australia, Sir Saul Samuel began serving his first term
as a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales
1855(19th of Tishrei, 5616): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1855: "The Hebrews: A Feast of Tabernacles" published
today in New York reported that "The Israelitish Festival of Tabernacles
concluded on Saturday. The Levitcal law
requires its continuance for seven days.
During the whole of this period, the faithful of the city have thronged
to the synagogues. The services have continued without intermission...The
recurrence of these stated festivals of the Hebrews brings to mind the degree
of persistency with which that ancient people adhere to their belief.
1856(2nd of Tishrei, 5617): As the Republican Party is
running its first candidate in a presidential election Jews observe the second
day of Rosh Hashanah.
1859(3rd of Tishrei, 5620): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat
Shuva
1859(3rd of Tishrei, 5620): Just eleven days before his
81st birthday German-Danish merchant Hartvig Philip Rée, the son of German merchant Philip Hartvig Rée and his wife Hanna
Hartvig and the husband of Thamar Ree whose
business interest included a sugar refinery, a print shop, a dye business and a
clothes factory, passed away today in Copenhagen.
1860:
In San Francisco, “a committee of Israelites, the
topmost men of that persuasion in town, have issued an appeal to the public for
material aid to enable Israel Joseph Benjamin 2d to visit Arabia, and look into
the causes of the suffering of the Jews in that quarter. Mr. Benjamin is now in
this city. He calls himself Benjamin 2d to distinguish himself from the Oriental
traveler, Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. He is from Foltitscheny on the Moldau,
where, being ruined in the timber trade, he conceived the undertaking of
visiting the oppressed of his race in the outskirts of the earth. His Eight
Years in Asia and Africa was praised by Humboldt and Ritter, and the Jews
hereabout affirm that it is replete with information valuable to historians and
geographers. They credit to him the humane task of bringing the efficient
protection of Victoria and Napoleon to the rescue of the grievously oppressed
Hebrews in Persia. They went to see him searching in China for the Jews that
are said to sprinkle that vast hive, to hear him report upon the condition of
the sons of Jacob scattered through Afghanistan, and, most of all, to have him
scouring the Arabian peninsula to learn what is the measure of ill-usage of the
circumcised there, and pleading with civilized Europe and America for the
relief which none ask now, though it is presumed to be sadly needed.”
1860: “Emperor in Africa” published today described Louis
Napoleon’s visit to Algeria during which saw a wide variety of his subjects
including “Moors, Maltese and Jews.” [Jews had probably been living in Algeria
since the destruction of the Temple. The
community really grew after the expulsion from Spain. Jews gained full citizenship in 1870. Jews
lost their right to citizenship in 1963 when the new Algerian government
decreed that only Moslems could be citizens.]
1862(7th of Tishrei, 5623): Lady Judith Montefiore, the
daughter of Levi Barent Cohen who had been born at London in 1874 and married
Sir Moses Montefiore in 1812 passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Judith_Montefiore.html
1862: During the American Civil War, the Jewish Ladies of Syracuse
(New York) present Colonel Henry Barnum with a regimental flag to be used by
the 149th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry.
1863: “Bread Riot In Mobile” published today described the
outbreak of violence spearheaded by the women of this Southern port city who
were demanding food for themselves and their starving children. In his
description of the violence, the reporter wrote, “In coming down
Dauphine-street, two women went into a Jew clothing store, in the performance
of the work connected with their mission. The proprietor of the store forcibly
ejected the intruders, and threw then violently down on the sidewalk. A
policeman who happened to be near, thereupon set upon the Jew and gave him a
severe beating.” [A mini-pogrom in the
heart of Dixie; how ironic when you consider the number of Jews who actually
took up arms on behalf of the Confederacy.]
1863(18th of Tishrei, 5624): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1863(18th of Tishrei, 5624): Eighty-seven year old
Rebecca Mears Myers, the Norwalk, CT. born daughter of Joyce and Myers Mears
and the widow of Jacob Mears with whom she had seven chidren passed away today
in Richmond, VA.
1864(1st of Tishrei, 5625): As Jews observe Rosh
Hashanah, Jews serving with General Sherman enjoy a respite from combat as they
prepare for the March to the Sea which will begin next month.
1865: In Paris, Jules Dukas, “a banker” and “Eugénie, a capable
pianist”” gave birth to “composer, critic, scholar and teacher” Paul Abraham
Dukas best known creating “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
1865: “The Jewish Day of Atonement” published today reported that
“The Jewish Day of Atonement -- Yom Kippur -- which ended at sunset on
Saturday, is one of the most important and generally respected of the fasts
prescribed for observance among the Israelites. The origin and institution of
the fast is to be found in Leviticus XVI: "And it shall be unto you a
statute forever; in the seventh month, on the 10th of the mouth, you shall
afflict your souls and do no work at all; the denizen as well as the stranger
that sojourneth amongst you for on that day shall ye be atoned for to purify
you; from all your sins before the Lord shall ye be purified. The first amongst
your Sabbaths shall this day be among you, and ye shall afflict your souls. And
this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for all the
children of Israel from all their sins once a year." And again, in
Leviticus XXIII: "And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, speak unto the
children of Israel, and say, also on the 10th day in this seventh month is the
day of atonement; it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall
afflict your souls and offer a burnt-offering unto the Lord. And ye shall do no
work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to atone for you before
the Lord your God. And every one that shall not be afflicted on that same day
he shall be cut off from among his people. And every soul that does any work on
that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. You shall do no
manner of work. This is a statute forever until all your generations and
throughout all your dwellings. It shall be unto you the first amongst your
Sabbaths, and ye shall afflict your souls; on the 9th day of the month
(Visbri,) at even, shall ye afflict your souls; from even to even shall ye
celebrate your Sabbath." When the Israelites were still a nation, this day
was observed with the most imposing ceremonies. It was the only day throughout the
year on which even the high priest presumed to enter the holy of holies, or to
pronounce the name of the Deity, which at any other time it was unlawful even
for him to utter. The glories of this day, while it was still celebrated in the
place "which the Lord had chosen there to enthrone his name," are, in
these modern times, commemorated in the afternoon service at the synagogue. At
present the day is observed with no less fervor than of old, and the Jews
throughout the world, however heedless of the precepts of their religion they
may be occasionally, are all mindful of those which enjoin them to repent for
the sins of the past on the Yom Kippur. At sunset the twenty-four hours' fast
and continued prayers commenced, the service consisting chiefly of confessions
of sin and utter unworthiness. It is customary in the evening for parents to
bestow their benediction on their children. Whosoever meet on the day, be they
previously acquainted or complete strangers, are commanded to salute each other
with brotherly love and sincerity. If any quarrel exists between two Jews it is
obligatory on them to become reconciled. He who is conscious of haying wronged
his neighbor is bound to offer reparation. The law which ordains the observance
of the day likewise commands the Jew to afflict his soul, which affliction,
according to tradition, consists in abstaining from five indulgences -- eating
and drinking, bathing, perfuming, wearing shoes and sharing the sensual
pleasures. Yesterday the synagogues and many temporary places of worship were
thronged with devout Israelites offering up their supplications, confessing
their sins and imploring pardon.
1866(22nd of Tishrei, 5627): Shmini Atzeret
1866: In Chciago Sarah (née Vogel) and Nelson Morris gave birth to
Edward Morris, the husband of Helen Swift, the brother of diplomat Ira Nelson
Morris, who succeeded his father as President of Morris and Company, one of the
nation’s leading meat packing companies.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/11/04/100658410.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1866: In New York, Rosa and James (Jacob) Seligman gave birth to
Angeline Seligman the future wife of Albert H .H. Gross.
1866: “The Max Strakosch Alliance put on a "grand inaugural
concert" today at “Cooper Institute”
1867(2nd of Tishrei, 5628): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
observed for the first time by Walter Rathenau who had been two days before,
erev Rosh Hashana
.1867:
Karl Marx publishes the first volume of his famous
work, Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Capital: Critique of
Political Economy).
1868: In Manhattan, “Judah Solomon, a cloth dealer and Caroline
Mathilda Lemanns” gave birth to Titanic survivor Abraham Lincoln Salomon the
“wholesale stationer and head of Salomon and Company who was the husband of
Hattie Wolf
1869: In Brooklyn, Congregation Beth Jacob was formally
incorporated
1869: Abraham Hoffman began serving as Chazan of the Baltimore
Hebrew Congregation at the corner of Lloyd and Watson Streets which is known as
the Lloyd Street Synagogue.
1870: As Italians prepare to vote on a plebiscite that will
effectively create a modern kingdom of Italy under the constitutional rule of
Victor Emmanuel, it was reported today that the Italian papers have published
an address from the Jews of Rome to Victor Emmanuel expressing their joy at
being released from Papal rule. The Jews
had supported and fought for the unification of Italy. With the creation of the modern state of
Italy, the Jews would go from some of the most oppressed people in Europe to
being full citizens of a modern, liberal society.
1871(16th of Tishrei, 5632): Second Day of Sukkoth
1871: In London, Davis Colski and Sarah Kraijsman gave birth to
Barnett Colski.
1871: “Observance of the Jewish Festival of Succoth or
Ingathering” published today described the commencement of “the Jewish Festival
of the harvest home, a season which at all time and among all nations has been
considered on hilarity and feasting.
1872: Birthdate of Roaslie Israel who interred at the Freudenburg
Cemetery in Germany when she passed away in 1906.
1873(10th of Tishrei, 5634): As Jews observe Yom
Kippur, the New York Stock Exchange reopens having closed temporarily on
September 20 during the Panic of 1873
1875(2nd of Tishrei, 5636): Rosh Hashanah
1876: “An Autumn Festival,” published today reported that “the
Jewish festival of Sukkoth or tabernacles commences tomorrow evening at sunset
and last for seven days. This detailed
piece of reporting goes on to quote from the 23rd chapter of
Leviticus so that the reader will understand the origin of the festival. The article gives a detailed description of
the Lulav and Etrog as well as providing information about “the Azereth or
concluding feast” and Simchat Torah which “is kept for the purpose of rejoicing
over the conclusion of the reading of the Pentateuch, which is divided into
weekly sections and gone through once every year.
1876: “Mr. Huxley and the Bible” published today attempts to find
harmony between the Jewish story of creation and the view of modern
science. The author finds the Jewish
account to be immeasurably superior to any other version including the Persian
and the Greeks. In their versions,
creation is the produce of superstitious gods and struggling spirits. “The Hebrew narrative gives us the sublime
truths of the whole present order of things have sprung from an intelligent and
supreme will. The Jewish story of creation is about bringing order out of chaos
which is consistent with the latest scientific thought. The “visions or pictures in the narrative of
Moses are…not intended to be” taken “literally” but are to be viewed as a
dramatic and poetic description of events.
1877: The Berliner Zeitung,
a newspaper known as B.Z founded today was bought by Jewish published Leopold
Ullstein.
1878(4th of Tishrei 5639): Judah ben Solomon Chai
Alkalai, the Sephardic born native of Sarajevo whose Society of the Settlement
of Eretz Yisrael founded in London in 1852 pre-dated the Zionism of Theodor
Herzl whose paternal grandfather, Simon Loeb Herzl,
reportedly attended Alkalai's synagogue in Semlin” passed away today in
Jerusalem after which he was buried on the Mount of Olives. (Some sources show
his day of death as September 1, 1878)
https://mizrachi.org/rabbi-yehuda-alkalai-1798-1878/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-ben-solomon-hai-alkalai
1878: Iowa native Harry G. Leopold who eventually serve as a
Lieutenant aboard the “Petrel” joined the United States Navy today.
1879(14th of Tishrei, 5640): Erev Sukkoth observed for
the first time by Austrian mathematician Hans Hahn who was born four days
before the start of the holiday.
1880: In Lithuania, “Rabbi David Frisch and his wife Hannah
(Baskowtiz) Frisch gave birth to Rabbi Ephraim Frisch the native of Lithuania
who came to the United States in 1888, was ordained at Hebrew Union College and
married Ruth Cohen while serving a series of congregations from Pine Bluff, AR
to New York City.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23885565?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1882: Major Louis Alexander Gratz, the son of Salomon and
Henrietta Gratz and his wife, Elisabeth Trigg Gratz gave birth to Hugh Turney
Gratz
1883: “Poverty, Wealth and Morals” today that sought to described
causes other than economics that produce crime reported that “the Western Jews, who for generations have
sought in personal luxury indemnification for the humiliations, are as strong,
as active, as healthy as ever they were, and decidedly brighter-witted than
they were in Palestine.”
1883: Among the charities that received excise moneys from the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment today were the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society ($1,997.43) and Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and Child’s Protectory
($1,980.00), a small fraction of the $34,398.39 that was disbursed to all
charities.
1883(29th of Elul, 5643): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1883(29th of Elul, 5643): A small group of Sephardic Jews met
today and decided that there was need for a second synagogue to meet the needs
of New York’s Spanish-Portuguese community.
1883: “The Jewish New Year” published today described events
related to the celebration of Rosh Hashanah and its connection to the upcoming
observance of Yom Kippur. “At sunset
this evening the Jewish community will begin the celebration of the festival of
Rosh Hashanah or the New Year. The
coming year will be known as 5644 in the Jewish calendar, beginning on the
first day of the month of Tishri.” (What makes this article significant is that
it appeared in the secular, and the not the Jewish, press.)
1884: A hearing was to be held today regarding charges that three
Jews – Lawrence Braham, Hyam Friewald and Benjamin Levy - had assaulted a
policeman named Samuel Murphy while they were walking in Central Park on the
afternoon of Yom Kippur.
1885: Birthdate of poet and critic Louis
Untermeyer. Untermeyer was one of the earliest American foes of Hitler. Just
weeks after Hitler assumed power on
1885(22nd of Tishrei, 5646) Shmini Atzeret
1885:In New York City, Eugene Otterbourg, the son American “envoy
to Mexico, Marcus Otterbourg” and his wife gave birth to Edwin M. Otterbourg,
the 1904 graduate of CCNY, the third generation attorney who “was a founder and
senior partner of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston and Rosen” where he was “a
specialist in bankruptcy and reorganization law.”
1885: In Hesse, Germany, Jakob and Ida Edelchen Baruch gave birth
to Minna Baruch who became Minna Falk when she married Julius Falk and who died
in 1942 during the Holocaust.
1885: In addition to the services being held as part of “The Feast
of Tabernacles” congregants at Temple Beth-El in New York participated in a
memorial service for the last Sir Moses Montefiore. Dr. Kaufmann Kohler delivered a eulogy in
German which praised the many virtues of the great Jewish philanthropist and
humanitarian.
1885: In Hungary, Sarah Weisberger and Meyer Lefkowitz gave birth
to Samuel
S. Lefkowitz, the husband of Yetta Lefkowitz who was “a registered pharmacist
and a chiropractor” and “served as the secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated
Chiropractors Association of New Jersey” for almost 20 years passed away today
at his home in Hackensack, NJ.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/09/24/84765455.pdf
1885: Eighty-four year old Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of
Shaftesbury, “an early proponent of the Restoration of the Jews to the Holy
Land” who in 1841 “provided the
first proposal by a major politician to resettle Jews in Palestine.”
1885: During the year ending
today, the United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York, “the Executive
Committee held 39 meetings, acted upon 2,615 new applications for aid and 2,377
cases for investigation.”
1887: Annie Lee, a little girl who is claimed by a Jewish family
and an African-American family is under the care of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children per the order of Justice White who has said
the matter is one that will have to be settled by the state Supreme Court.
1889: “Practical Education” published today described “the
excellent work done by the Hebrew Technical Institute” which was founded in
November, 1883 and is currently being led by Professor Henry M. Leipziger who
is the Director and Chief of Faculty.
1889: “A
Great Hebrew Fair” published today described plans that are being made for a
fundraiser sponsored by the People’s Free School Association, the Aguilar Free
Library Society and the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations that
will be held during the last half of December.
The sponsors hope to raise between $150,000 and $200,000 which will be
used to erect a facility on the Lower East Side which will be used by the
Aguilar Library.
1889: “The
Practical Education” published today praised the Hebrew Technical Institute led
by Professor Henry M. Leipziger as being “one of the most conspicuous exemplars
of the progressive idea in education” to be found in New York City (more info
for next year)
1889: In
New York City, Ida and Abraham L. Kass gave birth to David Kass, the founder
and “President of the Overland Trading Company, Director of the Trade Bank of
New York, President of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and husband of Sadie Kass
with whom he had two daughters – “Helen Joy and Babette.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/04/02/93736812.pdf
1889: “His
Sons-In-Law Worried Him” published today included the last wishes of Leopold
Newland, a Polish Jew, that Nathan Mauric and Samuel Unger, his sons-in-law,
not be allowed his funeral.
1890: “The
newly-completed Hebrew Sanitarium at Rockaway Park was destroyed by fire early
this morning.”
1891:
Stanford University opened its doors for the first time. Currently, students at
Stanford may major or minor in Jewish Studies. There are approximately 655
Jewish students among the 6555 undergraduates and 1,800 students among the
12,000 graduate students. Stanford is also home to the Rohr Chabad House and
the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
1891: “A
case of diphtheria was discovered today at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Dr.
Cyrus Edison sent the patient to the Willard Parker Hospital.”
1891: Jacob
H. Schiff presided over the banquet tonight at Delmonico’s given in honor of
Jesse Seligman by the officers of several
New York “Hebrew charitable institutions” and the trustees of Temple
Emanu-El withLewis May serving as Toastmaster
1891: As of
today Herman Faust will no longer receive a salary from the synagogue in
Poughkeepsie having been relieved as the congregation’s rabbi because of “gross
breaches of discipline.”
1891:
Starting today the United Hebrew Charities began providing work for from sixty
to eighty families “with work at distance mills.” Manufacturers provide the charity with job
listings and the charity fills the work orders
1892(10th
of Tishrei, 5653): Yom Kippur
1892(10th
of Tishrei, 5653): In Cleveland, Ohio, a congregation of Russian Jews hold
services in the assembly room of the new Young Men’s Christian Association
Building having decided that the crosses on the façade do not interfere with
the Jewish ceremonials or sensitivities.
1892: The
University of Chicago holds it first classes
1892: As of
today, “the partnership between Isaiah Woolf Jacobs and Abraham Hast carrying
on business in Cambridge under the style of Jacobs and Hast has been dissolved
by mutual consent.
1892: A
fight took place today a group of peddlers at the corner of Hester and Ludlow
Streets during Louis Krabitz, a Russian Jew was taken to Governor’s Hospital
after having fallen unconscious when he was kicked in the abdomen.
1893: As of
today there were the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society was providing a home
for 437 boys and 352 girls, an increase of 84 from the total from a year ago
while providing various services for a total of 2,339 children.
1893: “The
Thalia Theatre was crowded this afternoon with members of the United Hebrew
Trades who had come to hear the report of Abraham Cahan who had been their
delegate to the recent International Labor Congress in Zurich, Switzerland.”
1893:
“Depend on Good Candidates” published today provided an analysis of the
upcoming election in Cleveland, OH, including the fact that the Democrats have
nominated “ Rabbi Hahn, a Hebrew of great ability and popularity whose
election” to the state legislature “is practically assured” and the failure of
the Republicans to nominate any Jews as candidates for the state legislature.
1893:
“Rector Ahlwardt About to Serve his Sentence In Prison” published today
described the upcoming imprisonment of the famous anti-Semite following his
conviction for libeling Loewe & Co, the Jewish owned company that
manufactures rifles for the Army.
1893: It
was reported today that a Congress of North German Anti-Semites adopted a
platform that included a proposal forbidding Jews from employing German
servants.
1893:
Between today and March 1 of 1894, the United Hebrew Charities would receive
over 18,000 applications for relief representing 50,440 people.
1894(1st
of Tishrei, 5655): Rosh Hashanah
1894: “Now
the Period of Rosh Hashanah” published today described the ceremonials
connected with the holiday as well as the seemingly miraculous rescue of Louis
Berghold who nearly drowned when he went to the bathhouse at 23 Orchard Street
where he had gone to bathe prior to the holiday in keeping with “the Jewish
custom of the New Year.”
1894:
Council No 11 of the National Council of Jewish Women was formed in St. Paul,
MN with 35 members.
1894: Rabbi
De Sola Mendes is scheduled to deliver a special sermon at Congregation Shaarai
Tephilla’s new sanctuary.
1894:
Captain Drefyus began serving with the 39th Regiment of the Line in
Paris.
1894: “No
sales or real estate auctions were held today” in part because it was a Jewish
holiday.
1895:
Following the removal of the religious disabilities by the Hungarian Reichstag
the first bride to marry under the law is the daughter of Deputy Mezel.
1895: In
New York City, Paul Warburg married Nina J. Loeb, daughter of Solomon Loeb,
found of Kuhn, Loeb & Company. The
couple would have two children, James Paul Warburg and Dr. Bettina Warburg.
1896: As of
today, there was a balance of $42.90 in the treasury of the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society.
1896: On
Long Island, Robert Morse and Cambridge Livingston were arraigned today after
having been charged by Samuel Burnstein, a Jewish dry goods peddler, with
stealing and abusing his horse.
1897: As of
today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York, has provided
35 summer excursions during 1897 and that from June 1 of this year through
today, the agency has provided service to 684 people including “93 mothers with
nursing infants and 591 children.”
1898(15th
of Tishrei, 5659): Sukkoth
1898: Czar Nicholas II expelled the Jews from
several major Russian cities. Seven
thousand Jews were forced to leave Kiev.
This was part of the Russian policy to destroy the Jewish population
through forced conversion, immigration and death.
1898: In Amsterdam,
Herzl receives a call to the German consulate. Wilhelm II is inclined to take
the migration of the Jews under his protection. He also wishes to receive Herzl
at the head of a delegation in Jerusalem.
1899: Irene Carver of
Baltimore, MD wrote to the New York Times
expressing her concerns about Israel Zangwill’s “Children of the Ghetto” which
she said should have been called “The Strange Story of a Strange People.”
1900: In Berlin, “the
papers publish reports that an organized Jewish movement is on foot and it is
intimated that a national meeting of the Jews will be held annually to combat
anti-Semitism.
1901(18th of
Tishrei, 5662): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1901:
Approximately 1,000,000 British Pounds are being transferred to the
British Government in connection with the estate duty of the late Baron Hirsch.
1902(29th
of Elul, 5662): Erev Rosh Hashana
1902:
Today, in “commenting upon Secretary Hay's note to the Powers on the treatment
of the Rumanian Jews The Times's Paris correspondent says that the French
Government must not be expected to show any very great eagerness in supporting
the contention of the United States.”
1902:
“Jewish Immigration Into London” notes that “at the present time the chief
alien immigration to Great Britain is from Romania and consists of Jews drive
out by the systematic persecution to which the recent note of Secretary Hay
called attention in earnest but in a dignified protest.”
1903(10th
of Tishrei, 5664): Yom Kippur
1903:
The National League Pennant winning Pittsburgh Pirates and the American League
Pennant winning Boston Americans play the first game of the first World Series.
The World Series was the brainchild of Barney Dreyfus, a German born Jew who
came to the United States in 1881.
Dreyfus settled in Kentucky where he became President of the Louisville
Colonels of the National League. The
Louisville team was dropped from the National League in 1899 and Dreyfus became
part owner and President of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1900. Under his guidance the Pirates won three
straight National League Championships.
During the 1903 season, Dreyfus met with the owner of the American
League leading Boston Americans and proposed that the two teams meet at the end
of the season. The two shook hands and,
despite opposition from National League owners, the two teams met in a best of
nine series starting on October 1. The
Boston team won the first series, five games to three. But the Pittsburgh players made more money. The Boston team received 75 percent of the AL
revenues with the rest going to the team owner.
But Dreyfus gave his team 100 percent of the NL revenues, keeping
nothing for himself. Dreyfus is also the
man who built Forbes Field, the Pirates historic baseball park and he helped
create the office of the Commissioner of Baseball.
1903: Birthdate of "Slapsie" Maxie
Rosenbloom. Born in New York City,
Rosenbloom
was light-heavyweight box champ from 1932 to 1934. This was the Golden Age for Jewish
prizefighters.
1904(22nd
of Tishrei, 5665): Shemini Atzeretz
1904:
In the next twelve months, beginning today, “100,388 Jewish immigrants were
admitted to New York City” according to the reports of the United Hebrew
Charities of the City of New York.
1904: Birthdate of Vladimir Horowitz. The Russian-born pianist
was considered one of the most accomplished players of the 20th century. He is
one in a long line of world-class Jewish pianists. He passed away in 1989.
1904:
Birthdate of Austrian-born English physicist Otto Robert Frisch. In 1938 he and
Lise Meitner were the first to describe fission of uranium after bombardment by
neutrons. During World War II Frisch was part of the British delegation to the
Manhattan Project, working as head of the Critical Assembly Group. He returned
to England to direct the physics department at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
He died in 1979, one of the many Jewish scientist who fled the Nazis and
enriched the West.
1905(2nd
of Tishrei, 5666): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1905:
“Jews to Celebrate” published today described a pamphlet being distributed that
described plan for “the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the
Jews in the United States” that will include “the celebration to be held in
Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving Day, November, 23rd.”
1905:”
Some 2,000 Jews
were attacked on the Pike Street Recreation Pier on the East River front this
afternoon by two-score Italian and Irish laborers” for no reason except they
were Jews
1906:
“Ivan Pavlov writes a science article which includes an early description of
the phenomenon of classical conditioning.
1907(23rd
of Tishrei, 5668) Simchat Torah
1907:
James S.
Metcalfe, dramatic critic of Life,
won his fight against the theatrical managers of New York when the Court of
Appeals to-day handed down a decision that Charles S. Burnham, the manager of
Wallack's Theatre, had been properly arrested and confined in the city prison
on a charge of conspiracy brought by Mr. Metcalfe” “who had been barred from
many houses on account of certain cartoons and remarks about Jews that had been
printed in Life” and which the
managers asserted “constituted an attack upon a race and” should not be
permitted to continue.
1908:
Dr. Joseph Pedott of Chicago received $100 from the National Conference of
Jewish Charities.
1909(16th
of Tishrei, 5670): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Presidency of William Howard Traft
1910:
Birthdate of Rabbi Chiam Pinchas Scheinberg,
1910:
“The season of the German stock company at the Irving Place Theatre” in New
York opened tonight “with the performance for the first time on any stage of a
melodramatic tragedy in three acts by Paule Heyse” the German-Jewish “novelist
and poet, entitled “The Veiled Statue at Sais.”
Heyse was the first Jew to win the Nobel Prize for Literature which he
won in 1910.
1911(9th
of Tishrei, 5672): Erev Yom Kippur
1911:
In Chicago, Illinois, James and Emma Kostal gave birth to songwriter and
arranger Irwin Kostal, the brother of James, Jerome and Violet Kostal.
1911:
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Seligman, who have been spending “their honeymoon in the
West”, are scheduled to take up residence at 16 East 81st Street
today in New York City. The bride is the
former Josephine Knowles of Pensacola, Fl.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0C10F93F5517738DDDAE0A94DE405B818DF1D3
1912(20th
of Tishrei, 5673): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1912(20th
of Tishrei, 5673): Forty-eight year old merchant Nathan Stein passed away in
Pittsburg, PA.
1912(20th
of Tishrei, 5673): Eighty-year old Jacob Leo Samuel, the “president of the Spanish
Portuguese Synagogue passed away today at Montreal.
1913:
Birthdate of Yisrael Barzilai, the Polish native who made Aliyah in 1934 and
became active in politics serving as an MK and Cabinet Minister.
1913:
Morris Wolff was “appointed third deputy attorney-general for Pennsylvania”
today.
1913:
In Brooklyn, Morris and Pauline Rangell gave birth to Dr. Leo Rangell, a
leading psychoanalyst during the heyday of classical Freudian talk therapy in
the 1960s and ’70s, and a relentless advocate for the slow approach to treating
emotional distress even as antidepressants and managed care made short-term
treatment the norm´ (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1914: In Atlanta, Ga, Samuel Boorstein, “an attorney
who participated in the defense of Leo Frank and his wife gave birth to Daniel
Boorstin, author of The Americas: The Democratic Experience for which he won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, the 12th
Librarian of Congress and the husband of Ruth Carolyn Frankel, the graduate of
Wellesley College who “became his partner and editor for his first book The
Mysterious Science of the Law.”
1915(23rd
of Tishrei, 5676): Simchat Torah
1915:
Birthdate of Cruz “Allen” Rivera, the Catholic Puerto Rican who a Jewish
waitress, Lillian Friedman with whom he had a son Gerald Michael Rivera, known
as Geraldo.
1915:
The Jewish Chronicle reported that Private Abraham Lippman of the Zion Mule
Corps “was in the 3rd Northern General Hospital in Sheffield
suffering from an eye wound where he was met by British Army Jewish Chaplain
Rabbi Barnett I. Cohen. (Jewish Virtual Library).
1915:
“Jew In Czar’s Council” published today described the election by
representatives of commerce and industry of the first Jew to the Council of the
Empire which “has equal legislative powers with the Duma.”
1916:
It was reported today that the Jews “constitute only 3 percent of the
population of Russia.
1916:
It was reported today that “in addition to the large number of schools”
exclusively for Jewish student” permission has been granted by the Russian
government “for the establishment of Jewish gymnasiums (high or predatory
schools) in Petrograd.”
1917(15th
of Tishrei, 5678): Sukkoth
1917:
At Temple Israel of Harlem Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to speak on “Food
Conservation.”
1917:
According to remarks by Jacob Billikopf, the Executive Director of the American
Jewish Relief Committee “The Yom Kippur appeal” which raised about a half a
million dollars “was made possible through the generosity of Sam C. Lamport
who, without solicitation, offer to pay the entire cost of the campaign.
1918:
During World War I, Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of
Arabia") capture Damascus. The Arabs had the mistaken notion that capture
of Damascus would result in the recreation of the Caliphate located in the
Syrian city. The British and French had
other plans – plans that would help to destabilize the region that reverberate
into the 21st century with the violence in Iraq, Lebanon and, of
course Syria. This is another example of
regional confrontation that had, and has, nothing to with the Jews, Zionism or
Israel. (In reality, it was the forces under Allenby, including the Jewish
Legion that responsible for the victory)
1918:
“Anti-Semitism in Germany” published today summarized information contained in
a pamphlet by Israel Cohen published by the English Federation which “sketches
the history of this movement from Bismarck through Stocker and Ahlvardt” and
which the author says “has concealed its fangs during the war” but will, at its
first opportunity “come out of its lair and begin to spread its poison anew.”
1918:
The 165th Regiment including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein left La
Marche today and hiked to Viocourt as they continued to advance against the
Boche in the last great offensive of WW I.
1919:
The London Office the Jewish Correspondence Bureau was opened today by Mr. Meer
Grossman and Jacob Landau “as a private company.”
1919:
Today Major General Hans von Seeckt “became chief of the newly established
Truppenamt agency” “the cover organization for the German General Staff” that
hid training banned by the Versailles Treaty until 1935” when, under Hitler,
“the General Staff of the Germany Army was re-created.” (Editor’s note – This
is but one more example of the reality that German leaders, long before Hitler
came to power, were determined to undue the outcome of WW I and re-establish
Germany as the dominate power in Europe.)
1919:
Alexander Berkman was released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary after having
served the maximum sentence following his conviction for violation the
Espionage Act of 1917 for his role in trying to dissuade Americans from
registering for the Draft in World War I.
1920: On New York’s Lower East Side, Rose (née
Berolsky), a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant who worked in a garment sweatshop,
and Milton Matthow, a Russian Jewish
peddler and electrician, from Kiev gave birth to Walter John Matthow who gained
fame as actor Walter Matthau whose most famous role may have been as Oscar
Madison in “The Odd Couple.”
http://matthau.com/walter-matthau/
1920: Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Troutfelt and Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Loeb who spent the summer at Seagate, NY returned to their New
York homes today.
1920:
Two days after he had passed away, Woolf Davis, the husband of Mina Davis with
whom he had four children – “Isaac, Ann, David and Leah” – was buried today at
the East Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1921:
As of today the “temporary officers of the newly formed Camden, NJ, lodge of
the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith which has 30 members are Sig Schoenagle,
President; Abe Furhrman; Bernard Bertman, Secretary
1922:
Twenty-six year old Army veteran and Rutgers University football player “John
Alexander made football history today while playing for the Milwaukee Badgers
against the Chicago Cardinals” when “he became the first person to ever play
the ‘outside linebacker position.’”
1923(21st
of Tishrei, 5684): Hoshana Rabah
1924:
Birthdate of President Jimmy Carter. President Carter brokered the Camp David
agreements that led to the historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. In
the 21st century he openly allied himself with the Palestinians in a
book whose title equated Israel with the former white supremacist regime of
South Africa.
1924:
Birthdate of Herbert Breslin, the Bronx native who used his skills as a
publicist to promote tenor Luciano Pavarotti to the status of “superstar.” (As
reported by Daniel J. Wakin)
1925:
As the Senators were closing out their pennant winning season, Buddy Myer
played in the third of the four regular season games that would mark his major
league debut.
1925:
Birthdate of Adolfo Kaminsky, the Argentine born Jew raised in Paris who served
in the Resistance during WW II where his skills as a forger saved thousands of
lives because of his creation of false identity documents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/if-i-sleep-for-an-hour-30-people-will-die.html
1926(23rd
of Tishrei, 5678): Simchat Torah
1927:
In Washington, Lillian and Albert Small gave birth to Carolyn Small the Woodrow
Wilson High and American University graduate who became Carolyn Alper when she
married Morton Alper, DDS, the third generation Washingtonian and “artist,
decorator and philanthropist.”
1928:
In Joniškis, Lithuania, Ella (née Zotnickaita) and Ber Skikne, gave birth to
Laruschka Mischa Skikne known in Hebrew as Zvi Mosheh who gained fame as actor
Laurence Harvey whose parts were as varied as a Texan at the Alamo and a
brainwashed assassin in “The Manchurian Candidate.
1929:
“The Devil’s Maze” a dramatic film with music by Louis Levy was released today
in the United Kingdom.
1930(9th
of Tishrei, 5691): Erev Yom Kippur
1930:
Birthdate of Samuel Winfield Lewis, the native of Houston whose distinguished
diplomatic career included serving as U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1977 to
1985.
1930:
The Passfield White Paper, dated as of today, recommended limiting Jewish
immigration to Palestine following the Arab riots of 1929.
1932(1st
of Tishrei, 5693): Rosh Hashanah on Shabbat
1932:
Herbert Samuel completed his service as Home Secretary under Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald.
1932:
“Men of Tomorrow” directed by Zoltan Korda and Leontine Sagan and produced by
Alexander Korda was released in Great Britain.
1933:
Formation of the 6th Airlift Squadron in which author James Salter
would serve following WW II.
1934:
Paul Guilluame, the art critic who was the first to champion the work of
Italian-Jewish painter Modigliani passed away.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13707220
1935:
Actress Sylvia Sidney, “the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian
Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing
salesman” married Bennett Cerf today.
1936(15th
of Tishrei, 5697): Sukkoth
1936:
In Budapest, French Premier Leon Blub was “assailed” as “Red Jew during a ally
of Christian National students who then went to the Jewish quarter where they
broke the “windows of the chief synagogue” during “an anti-Semitic
demonstration.” (Editor’s note – these
anti-Semitic attacks were not an aberration and help to explain the
acquiescence in the Holocaust)
1936:
“An appeal for funds to combat the widespread anti-Jewish propaganda in Eastern
and Central Europe was made “today” by Morris C. Troper, the controller of the
American Jewish Joint Committee” who had just returned from a tour of Europe
where he said “the Jews in Germany had been deprived of their civil and
religious rights and that a similar deprivation is threatened in Poland,
Austria, Rumania, Lithuania and Latvia.”
1936:
Sixty year old Louis Thomas McFadden, a Congressman from Pennsylvania an
outspoken foe the Federal Reserve Board who blamed the board for the Great
Depression and saw it as part of a Jewish conspiracy to control the economy and
who inserted “excerpts from The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion into
the Congressional Record” passed away.
1936:
“A total of $2,500,000 was expended by the Jewish Agency for Palestine on
immigration, colonization, security and other activities, including the
settlement of German Jews during the year” that end today.
1937:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, native Philip Rahv (born Fevel Greenberg) “was officially
expelled as a Trotzkyite by the American Communist Party.” (Editor’s Note: This
was part of the contest between Stalin and Trotsky for control of the Communist
Party – a conflict which was literally a matter of life and death in those days
but which is unknown to almost everybody at the start of the 21st
century.)
1937: The Palestine Post reported on the
festive opening of the new Haifa-Hadera-Tel Aviv-Jaffa highway, an achievement
described as a "remarkable engineering feat" and "a grand step
in the development of the country."
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that
according to some moderate Arab sources, it was the well-known band of Sheikh
Izzadin Kassam which was responsible for the murder of Mr. L.Y. Andrews, the
District Commissioner for Galilee, and of his driver, Constable Peter
Robertson. This terrorist group, known as having committed many murders before,
shot and killed Andrews and Robertson as they were about to enter the Anglican
Church in Nazareth.
1938: The Polish government revoked the
passports of all Jews who have lived outside of Poland for more than five
years, rendering them stateless.
1938:
Today following the Anschluss of last March, the medical practice of Eduard
Bloch, who had one been the physician of Hitler’s family, was closed today,
following which he, his daughter and his son-in-law “emigrated overseas.
1938:
According to Claretta Petacci, today Mussolini said that "Hitler is a big
softy, deep down." Petacci was Il Duce’s mistress.
1938:
In Argentina, a decree is scheduled to go into today designed to limit the
number of emigres who can enter into the country which many assume is intended
to stop the flow of Jewish immigrants coming from “Greater Germany and Poland.”
1938: Civiltá Cattolica, the foremost
Jesuit journal, which is published in Rome and controlled by the Vatican, calls
Judaism sinister and accuses Jews of trying to control the world through money
and secularism. The journal says that the devil is the Jews' master; Judaism is
evil and "a standing menace to the world."
1939:
“The Jewish Calendar” a pamphlet “compiled and arranged by Solomon M. Neches”
“with corresponding dates for the year 5700 Anno Mundi, 1939-1940 Common Era”
was listed today among “the latest books received” today.
1939: In Vienna, Austria, Übersiedlungsaktion
(Resettlement action) is instituted against able-bodied Jewish men. These Jews
are deported to Poland for forced labor
1939: Nazis begin the internment of Polish
"mental defectives" in the Polish village of Piasnica.
1939: In keeping with the terms of their pact with
Nazi Germany, Russia “poured well over 1,000,000 men with full equipment into
her share of the partitioned Polish State.
1939: “Speaking tonight at the Temple of Religion”
at the World’s Fair, “where Congregation B’nai Jeshurun celebrated the
beginning of its 114th year in New York, Dr. Israel Goldstein, the
congregation’s rabbi assailed the ‘menace of Nazi-Communist paganism’ and
advised Jews and Christians to unite ‘to uphold and defend religion and
religious values.’”
1939: Today, “Edward L. Bernays announced his
withdrawal as non-salaried counsel on public relations for the World’s Fair”
being held in New York.
1940: The Nazis deport 6500 Jews from
Germany's Palatinate, Baden, and Saar regions to internment camps at the foot
of the French Pyrenees.
1940: Jews are forced to pay for and build a
wall around the Warsaw (Poland) Ghetto
1940: Reich theoretician Alfred Rosenberg
writes an article, "Jews to Madagascar," which suggests mass
deportation of Jews to the island off the African coast.
1940: German authorities forbid Norwegian Jews
to teach and participate in other professions.
1940: Young Jewish men return from the Belzec,
Poland, camp to Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, after a ransom of 20,000 zlotys is paid
to Nazi captors.
1940:
In his New Year’s message, excerpts of which were published today, Dr. Emil
Wleipziger of New Orleans, President of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis, asked Reform Rabbis “to assume the strategy of audacity, whereby they
might teach their congregations to give divine thanks in the hour of agony that
He has kept us alive, has sustained us and allowed us to reach this day..”
1940:
Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate for President, “told Jewish citizens
tonight that ‘in so far as it is within my capacity to keep so sacred a pledge,
the United States of American will never harbor racial or religious intolerance
and persecution.’”
1940:
It was reported today, that “the Jewish New Year holidays which begin at
sundown” tomorrow “will confine the kosher slaughter to three days this week”
in New York.
1941(10
Tishrei, 5702): Yom Kippur
1941: On this Jewish Day of
Atonement, Jews are taken from the ghetto at Podborodz, Ukraine, and killed.
1941: Majdanek, a concentration outside of Lublin, Poland began
operating today. During its 34 months of operation at least 59,000 Jews were
murdered there.
1941(10
Tishrei, 5702): At Zalgar, the Nazis killed 633 men,
1,017 women, 496 children.
1941(10
Tishrei, 5702): At Butrimantz, Lithuania the Nazis murdered 976 Jews in front of
Lithuanian crowds seated on benches for "a good view." For more on
the destruction of this Lithuanian Shtetl see, If I Forget Thee: The Destruction of the Shtetl Butrimantz (Butrimonys,
Lithuania.The Nazis sent 3,000 more Jews from Vilna to Ponar where
they would all be shot.
1941: The German government prohibits further
Jewish emigration from Germany
1941: At the Auschwitz camp, SS officer Arthur
Johann Breitwieser takes note when a comrade is rendered unconscious after
accidental exposure to a disinfectant called Zyklon B. A gaseous variant of the
compound will eventually be used to kill millions of Jews.
1941(10
Tishrei, 5702): Einsatzgruppen members gather Jews of the Baltic port of
Libau and machine-gun them at the local naval base.
1941(10
Tishrei, 5702): Germans drown 30 Jewish children in clay pits near Okopowa
Street in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1941: Seventy children in the Warsaw Ghetto are
found frozen to death outside destroyed houses following the season's first
snowfall.
1941: From this date until
1942: Jews are deported to Auschwitz from
Holland and Belgium; to the Treblinka death camp from central Poland and the
Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia camp/ghetto; and to the Belzec death camp from
the Eastern Galicia region of Poland.
1942:
The Nazis opened Chelmek as a labor camp. The Jews there and elsewhere were
used as slave labor for the German war effort.
1942:
Nazis deported 4000 Jews from Lukow, a town near Lublin in Poland.
1942:
The Nazis deported 2,000 Jews from Czechoslovakia.
1942: At Novogrudok, Belorussia, 50 Jews escape
from the Germans and join local resistance led by Tuvia Bielski
1942: As 3000 Jews are arrested at Pinczów,
Poland, Jewish resistance is led by Michael Majtek and Zalman Fajnsztat
1942: Five thousand Jews are deported from
Zawichost, Poland to Belzec
1942: The British Vatican Ambassador Francis d'Arcy
Osborne writes in his diary that Pope Pius XII only occasionally denounces
moral crimes. But such rare and vague declarations "do not have...lasting
force and validity." Osborne points out that the Pope's "policy of
silence in regard to such offences against the conscience of the world must
necessarily involve a renunciation of moral leadership."
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703): At a small labor
camp at Budy, Poland, female German non-Jewish prisoners beat, mutilate, and
kill dozens of captive Jewish women. When the massacre is over, Auschwitz
commandant Rudolf Höss inspects the scene
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703: Eighty-five
year old Dayton, Ohio, native Louis D. Beaumont who with “his two brothers
joined with David May, their brother-in-law, in the 1880s to form the May Shoe
and Clothing Company, which became the predecessor to May Department Stores”
and who created the Louis D. Beaumont Foundation which funded several programs
at the Washington University in St. Louis passed away today.
1942: The Chelmek slave-labor camp, located in
Poland near Auschwitz-Birkenau, opens to house Jews draining swamps to provide
water to the nearby Bata shoe factory.
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703):In Luków, Poland,
Jewish Council member David Lieberman is told by German authorities that money
he has collected to ransom Lublin's Jews is useless, and deportations will
continue, whereupon Lieberman tears the money to pieces and slaps the German
official in the face. Ukrainian guards kill Lieberman immediately, and 4000 of
the Jews Lieberman had hoped to protect are deported to the Treblinka
extermination camp, where they are gassed.
1942: Hundreds of Jews escape the Ukrainian
town of Luboml but are quickly hunted down. In all, some 10,000 of the town's
Jews are killed.
1943(2nd
of Tishrei, 5704): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1943:
In Manhattan Gertrude Levy and Joseph Slater gave birth to “Robert Slater, a
journalist and the author of more than two dozen books, including biographies
of figures as diverse as the Israeli leader Golda Meir, the businessman Jack
Welch and the billionaire and philanthropist George Soros.” (As reported by
William Yardley)
1943: SS chief Heinrich Himmler delivers a
speech at a "Final Solution" conference.
1943: The Jewish ghetto at Chernovtsy, Romania,
is liquidated
1943(2nd
of Tishrei, 5704): Just before their murders, several Jewish women use their
bare hands to attack SS troops at Auschwitz.
1944(14th
of Tishrei, 5705): Erev Sukkot
1944:
Birthdate of Dror Kashtan, the native of Petah Tikva who became a leading
Israeli footballer. (What Americans call soccer)
1944(14th
of Tishrei, 5705): Fifty-one year old Max Ehrlich who had been a highly
successful German entertainer was gassed at Auschwitz for the crime of being a
Jew.
1944:
Three years after they began, the final transport of Jews left Cologne for
Theresienstadt today.
1944: The Germans initiate death marches of
prisoners from Auschwitz to camps in Germany, including Dachau, Bergen-Belsen,
and Sachsenhausen.
1944 About 15,000 Jews are deported from the
Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to Auschwitz.
1944(14th
of Tishrei, 5705): At the Stutthof, Germany, concentration camp, executions of
Jewish prisoners begin. Initial killings are carried out by assembling inmates
with their backs to an infirmary wall with the stated purpose of medical
examinations. Slits in the wall behind the heads of each inmate allow a pistol
shot to be fired into their brains from the adjoining room
1944: Some 150 twins, most of them children,
remain in Dr. Mengele's medical block at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1944(14th
of Tishrei, 5705): The Nazis gassed
1,000 more Jews from Theresinstadt at Birkenau.
1945(24th of Tishrei, 5706): At Boleslawiec,
Poland, eight Jews are murdered by an anti-Semitic Polish underground group.
Yes, this happened five months after the end of World War II.
1945:
David Ben-Gurion decided “launch an armed struggle against the British which
resulted in the Palmach joining The Hebrew Resistance Movement.
1945: Birthdate of Rod Carew.
1946: Today, Mrs. Belle J. Goldstein, national
president of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America, described the
conditions in Palestine following her four month visit to Eretz Israel where
she took special pains to inspect the 45 child care facilities supported by
Mizrachi. She compared conditions in
Palestine to those in Ireland. She
described the curfews which would come without warning leaving families without
such basics as bread and milk. She
reiterated the fact that Mizrach did not condone the actions of the Stern Gang
or the Irgun, she reported that most of the Yishuv was actively or passively a
supporter of the Haganah.
1947: “Six British destroyers raced out of Haifa
today to intercept” two ships carrying over three thousand Jewish refuges that
have passed through Dardanelles and according to RAF patrols are somewhere
between Cyprus and northern Palestine.
Just in case that a half dozen modern British warships were unable to
cope with the threat posed by these two vessels, 3 more destroyers were
standing by in Haifa should they be needed
1948: A National Palestinian Council meeting in Gaza
elected the Mufti as its president and declared itself to be the provisional
government of “All Palestine.”
Trans-Jordan’s King Abdullah immediately denounced the All-Palestinian
government which he declared would not be allowed jurisdiction of the areas
under the control of the Arab Legion i.e. the West Bank and the Old City of
Jerusalem.
1949(8th
of Tishrei, 5710): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1949:
As part of the ceremonies connected with Yom Kippur which begins tomorrow
evening, “Dr. Nelson President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion” is scheduled to “speak over the American Broadcasting Company network
today at 10:15 P.M.”
1950:
During the Maccabiah, competition opens in Haifa for various aquatic events
including swimming, diving and water polo.
1950:
In “Land of a Determined People,” published today famed correspondent and
author Quentin Reynolds reviews Watch For the Morning by Thomas
Sugrue. According to Reynolds, this not only the latest book to be published describing
Israel, “but well may be the best book yet published on the new state. It is certainly the most exciting and most
interesting.”
1950:
During a play-off game between the Dodgers and Phillies which decided who would
meet the Yankees in the World Series Cal Abrams was thrown out at the plate as
he tried to score from second base – a play which would help lead to the
Dodgers defeat.
1951(1st
of Tishrei, 5712): As U.S. forces slug it out on the Korean peninsula, Jews observe
Rosh Hashanah.
1953(22nd
of Tishrei, 5714): Shmini Atzeret observed for the first time during the presidency
of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1954:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “The Lineup” several episodes of which were
directed by Dan Siegel.
1955(15th
of Tishrei, 5716): Sukkoth
1955:
After having premiered in New York last month, “Killer’s Kiss,” “directed by
Stanley Kubrick who wrote the script along with Howard Sackler” was released
today in the rest of the United States.
1955(15th
of Tishrei, 5716): Sixty-six year old Soviet Jewish actor and director Alexey
Denisovich Dikiy “who worked at Moscow Art Theatre and later worked with Habima
Jewish theatre in Tel-Aviv” and whose career fell and rose on the whim of
Joseph Stalin meaning he was a prisoner in the Gulag as well as a recipient of
the Stalin Prize passed away today.
http://www.vakhtangov.ru/en/persones/dikiy
1955:
At Ebbets Field, the Dodgers win the fourth game of the World Series leaving
them in a tie with the Bronx Bombers.
1956(26th
of Tishrei, 5717): Albert Von Tilzer passed away in Los Angeles. Born in 1878, he was an American songwriter,
the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the music
to many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The Ball
Game".He was born Albert Gumm, in Indianapolis, Indiana; his last name had
been shortened by his parents from Gumbinski, or possibly Guminski. As a young
man he worked briefly at his older brother Harry Von Tilzer's publishing
company, and Albert's earliest songs were published by Harry. Within a very few
years Albert formed his own firm, The York Publishing Company, and there
appears to have been no further collaboration between Albert and Harry Von Tilzer,
although both of them wrote and published many hundreds of songs. Tilzer was
Albert and Harry's mother's maiden name. When oldest brother Harry began his
song writing career he assumed the professional name Von Tilzer, adding the
honorific "Von" to his mother's maiden name. Albert followed suit, as
did younger brothers Will and Jules Von Tilzer, both of whom were also active
in the music industry. Von Tilzer was a top Tin Pan Alley tune writer,
producing numerous popular music compositions from 1900 continuing through the
early fifties. He collaborated with many lyricists, including Jack Norworth,
Lew Brown, and Harry MacPherson. A number of his tunes were performed (and
recorded) by jazz bands and continue to be played decades later. His songs
included "The Alcoholic Blues", "Apple Blossom Time",
"Chili Bean", "Dapper Dan", "Honey Boy", "I
May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time", "I'm Glad I'm Married",
"I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town", "The Moon Has His Eye On
You", "My Cutie's Due at Two-to-Two", "My Little
Girl", "Oh By Jingo!", "Oh How She Could Yacki- Hacki,
Wicki-Wacki, Woo", "Put on Your Slippers and Fill Up Your Pipe,
You're Not Going Bye-Bye Tonight", "Put Your Arms Around Me
Honey", "Roll Along, Prairie Moon", "Take Me Out To The
Ball Game", "Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys", and
hundreds of others.
1956:
The Israeli delegation returned from France following highly secret
negotiations on how to deal with the threat posed by President Nasser of Egypt.
1956:
“The Diary of Anne Frank” “opened simultaneously in seven German cities.”
1957:
Today marked the publication of the first of a 12 part series written by
Alexander Bittlement for The Worker that described the liberalizing process
that was taking place in the Communist Party in the wake of the exposure of
Stalin’s excesses and the Hungarian Revolution.
1957:
“Affair in Havana” a crime film directed by Laslo Benedek and with music by
Ernest Gold was released today in the United States.
1958:
“Onionhead,” a comedy-drama set in WW II directed by Norman Taurog and
featuring Walter Matthau and Joey Bishop was released in the United States
today.
1958:
“Man of the West” produced by Walter Mirisch and co-starring Julie London and
Lee J. Cobb was released in the United States today.
1958:
“Handful of Fire,” a two act play written by N. Richard Nash opened today “on
Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1958:
“The Big Country” a big-screen western epic that was a popular hit directed and
produced by William Wyler, with an overpowering score by Jerome Moross and
co-starring Carroll Baker was released today in the United States by United
Artists.
1959:
Henry Popkin’s reviews of Harold Loeb’s The Expatriate Twenties: The Way It
Was was published today.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-way-it-was-by-harold-loeb/
1960(10th
of Tishrei, 5721): Yom Kippur
1960:
U.S. and Greek premiere of “Never on a Sunday,” written and directed by Jules
Dassin who also co-starred in the film.
1960:
“Camelot,” the Lerner and Loewe musical “premiered in Toronto at the O’Keefe
Center where it ran for over four hours instead of the expected two hours.
1960:
After 337 performances at the Music Box Theatre, the curtain came down on the
original Broadway production of “Five Finger Exercise” written by British
playwright Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, the twin brother of playwright Anthony
Shaffer.
1961(21st
of Tishrei, 5722): Hoshana Rabba
1961:
Gertrude Berg, the actress best known as “Molly Goldberg” appeared for the
third time as the mystery guess on “What’s My Line?”
1961:
British diplomate Sir Andrews “was involved in the transfer of the Trust
Territory of Southern Cameroons to the French-controlled-state of the Caermoun
Republic” today.
1962(3rd
of Tishrei, 5723): Tzom Gedaliah
1962,
Today, Groucho Marx, after acting as occasional guest host of The Tonight Show
during the six-month interval between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, introduced
Carson as the new host The Tonight Show.
1962:
“A Kind of Loving” directed John Schlesinger and produced by Joseph Janni was
released today in the United States.
1962:
“Little Annie Fanny,” a comic series created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
that debuted in Playboy.
1962: Barbra Streisand signs her
1st recording contract with Columbia Record Company
1962: Brian Epstein signs a
contract to manage the Beatles through 1977.
1962: “I Can Get It for You Wholesale,” a musical with music and
lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Jerome Weidman starring Elliott Gould
featuring Lillian Roth and Barbra Streisand as “Miss Marmelstein” transferred
from the Shubert Theatre to the Broadway Theatre.
1964:
The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California,
Berkeley. Among the movement’s leaders
were several Jews including Suzanne Goldberg, Bettina Aptheker and Jackie
Goldberg.
1965:
Harold Brown began serving as the 8th United States Secretary of the
Air Force.
1966(17th
of Tishrei, 5727): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1966(17th
of Tishrei, 5727): Seventy-one year old Latvia native Yiddishist Zalman
(Salman) Yefroiken who in 1921 came to the United States where he eventually
became the education director of the “Workmen’s Circle High School,” editor of
“Culture and Education and the author of Jews Do Not Surrender while raising
two children with his wife ‘the former Amy Goldberg.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/10/02/82905985.pdf
1966:
Birthdate of actress and model Cindy Margolis. And you thought I only
knew about dead rabbis, old authors and antique actors.
1967:
“Far From Vietnam” a documentary co-directed by William Klein was released in
France today.
1967:
In Toronto, the cornerstone was laid to the expansion project at Shaar
Hashomayim. Thsynagogue, which had been designed to serve 300 families, was now
serving 1,750 families which necessitated the building project.
1968(9th
of Tishrei, 5629): Erev Yom Kippur observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
1970(1st
of Tishrei, 5731): Rosh Hashanah
1970:
In Philadelphia, “Arthur and Karen (Spivak) Lobel gave birth to historian Cindy
Renee Lobel. (As reported Katherine Rosman)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/obituaries/cindy-r-lobel-dead.html
1970:
“The Baby Maker” starring Barbara Hershey (Barbara Lynn Herzstein) was released
today in the United States.
1971(12th
of Tishrei, 5732): Seventy-three year old “Bella Finkel Muni” the actress,
sister of “director of Abe Finkel” and the wife of award winning actor Paul
Muni, passed away today in Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/10/04/90693586.pdf
1971:
In the UK, ITV broadcast the first episode of “The Mary Feldman Comedy Machine”
starring Marty Feldman who wrote for the show along with other including Larry
Gelbart and Barry Levinson.
1971:
Benjamin Marcus Priteca, the Glasgow born architect who designed Chevra Bikur Cholim synagogue in 1912 which
is now the Langston Hughes Performing Art Center, Seattle and The Alhadeff
Sanctuary of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch Sinai,
1972(23rd
of Tishrei, 5733): Simchat Torah
1972(23rd
of Tishrei, 5733): Seventy-four year old French born American Benny Valgar who
fought and lost in bout for the Featherweight Championship of the World passed
away today.
1972:
“Follies,” a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by
James Goldman was performed for the last time at the Schubert Theatre in Los
Angeles.
1973:
According to the Agranat Commission Lieutenant Benjamin Siman Yov, order of
battle intelligence officer for the Southern Command gave his superior Lt
Colonel Gadalia documents indicating Egypt's war preparations; a warning that the
Commission said was ignored.
1973:
The Egyptian and Syrian armies when on full alert today. Israeli intelligence officers at the highest
level ignored the potential significance of the move and did not respond with
appropriate counter-measures. This
decision would have near catastrophic consequences five days later.
1974:
Birthdate of Aleksandr Averbukh, the Russian born Israeli Olympic level pole
vaulter.
1975:
“Sylva Zalmanson begins the second week of her hunger strike outside the UN
building in New York in support of her husband Edward Kuznetsov and her
brothers Israel and Wolf Zalmanson who are still imprisoned in the USSR.
1975:
“An unofficial group of five Israelis” that had been visiting the USSR for the
last ten days at the invitation of the of the Soviet Peace Committee left
today.
1976(7th
of Tishrei, 5737): Seventy-four year old Goldie Feinstein passed away today.
1976(7th
of Tishrei, 5737): Seventy-five year lf Tillie Feinstein of Paramus, NJ, passed
away today.
1978(29th
of Elul, 5738): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1978:
Thirty year old Ron Blomberg played his final game for the Chicago White Sox
today.
1979(10th
of Tishrei, 5740): Yom Kippur.
1979(10th
of Tishrei, 5740): Diana G. Jaffe, the
husband of Samuel Jaffe and the mother of Rona Jaffe passed away today.
1980(21st
of Tishrei, 5741): Hoshana Raba
1980(21st
of Tishrei, 5741): Seventy-eight Kiev native Harry Grey, the author whose works
included The Hoods and the husband of Mildred Becker with whom he had three
children – Beverle, Harvey and Simeon – passed away today.
1980:
The West End production of “They're Playing Our Song,” “a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics
by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch” opened today at the
Shaftesbury Theatre.
1981:
As of today, in the last thirty days, 405 Jews left the U.S.S.R.
1982(14th
of Tishrei, 5743): Erev Sukkoth
1982:
“The Last American Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script,
produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and filmed by cinematographer Adam
Greenberg was released in Finland today.
1983(24th
of Tishrei, 5744): Parashat Bereshit
1983:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Cutter to Houston” a medical show created
by Sandor Stern.
1983(24th
of Tishrei, 5744): Eighty-two year old Lucille Feinstein passed away today.
1984:
ABC network said today that 43 year old John T. Lazarus, vice president of
sports marketing and sales at the ABC Television Network, has resigned his
position.
1985:
The West Production of the “Torch Song Trilogy” by Harvey Fierstein opened
today at thw Albery Theatre
1985:
President Ronald Reagan today announced his intention to nominate Richard
Schifter to be Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian
Affairs. He would succeed Elliott Abrams. Mr. Schifter is a partner in the law
firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Kampelman in Washington, DC.
1985:
In what is known as “Operation Wooden Leg,” The Israeli air force bombed PLO
Headquarters in Tunis in response the Yom Kippur hijacking of yacht off the
coast of Cyprus and the cold-blooded murder of the three Israelis tourists on
board.
1987:
Their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain paid a visit to
Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles in a secular event in their
honor.
1988:
“Heathers” a comedy starring Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowwitz) who also
served as narrator was released in Italy today.
1989:
“Congress adopted the Lautenberg-Spector Amendment which contains new rules of
immigration to the U.S. from USSR which include a quota of 40,000 Jews a year
and direct flights from Moscow to USA.”
1989:
General Colin Powell began serving as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. During Operation Desert Storm, Powell sent Patriot Batteries to Israel
to thwart the Scud attacks from Iraq.
This was the first time that Israel had entrusted any part of her
defense to another nation. Israel did so
not because she was unable to protect herself, but because the United States
asked Israel to stay on the sidelines so as not to upset the coalition the Bush
Administration had gathered to fight Iraq.
1990:
The UNESCO Courier publishes Manuel Osorio’s interview of Claude Levi-Strauss - French social anthropologist.
1991(23rd of Tishrei, 5752): Simchat
Torah
1991: The Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) which had
been battling Croatian forces began the Siege of Dubrovnik during which two
thirds of the old city was in some way damaged, including the” including the Sephardic
synagogue which is the second oldest such edifice in Europe, “where shells and
grenades hit the adjacent buildings shattering the windows of the sanctuary and
Jewish Community Headquarters.”
1993: The movie version of “M. Butterfly” directed
by David Cronenberg and with music by Howard Shore was released today in the
United States.
1993: “Cool Running” a sports movie directed by Jon
Turteltaub and with music by Hans Zimmer was released in the United States
today.
1993: “Malice” a thriller with a screenplay by Aaron
Sorkin, music by Jerry Goldsmith and co-starring Bebe Neuwirth was released in
the United States by Columbia Pictures.
1993: “For Love Or Money” a comedy directed by Barry
Sonnenfeld, produced by Brian Grazer and featuring Bob Balaban was released
today in the United States.
1994:
The City of Anchorage, Alaska honored Rabbi Harry L. Rosenfeld by proclaiming
this “Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld Day.”
1994:
Abner J. Mikva began serving as White House Counsel under President Clinton.
1994:
“The age of Hobsbawm: The people's historian is turning his long gaze to a
short century” published today provided a review Age of Extremes: The Short
Twentieth Century – 1914 to 1991 by Eric Hobsbawm.
1995: “Piranha” the film which
marked the debut of Mila Kunis was released in the United States today.
1997:
Ninety-seven old Esther Gottesman who had been a “national board member of
Hadassah since 1934” and who convinced her brother-in-law D. Samuel Gottesman
to help finance the acquisition of the Dead Sea Scrolls passed away today. (As
reported by Enid Nemy)
1997:
It was reported today that the 1990’s have seen “a continuation of Jewish day
school growth” with an enrollment of over “200,000 students nationwide” which
is seen as being “part of a resurgence in Jewish culture.”
1997:
The Red Tent by Anita Dimant is published. The novel examines Jewish
history through feminist eyes, featuring Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter. In the Bible Dinah is portrayed as a rape
victim who is avenged by her brothers.
1997:
CBS broadcast the first episode of season five of “The Nanny” a sitcom created
by Peter Marc Jacobson and Fran Drescher who starred “as Fran Fine” a Jewish nanny
from Queens.
1999(21st
of Tishrei, 5760): Hoshana Raba
1999(21st
of Tishrei, 5760): Seventy five year old Willem Polak, the former mayor of Amsterdam,
passed away today.
1999(21st
of Tishrei, 5760): Ted Arison, an Israeli-American businessman who co-founded
Norwegian Cruise Lines in 1966 with Knut Kloster and founded Carnival Cruise
Lines in 1972, passed away. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1924, he fought in the
Jewish Brigade of the British Army during World War II. He moved to the United
States in the early 1950s and created Carnival Cruise Lines in 1972 in which he
made his fortune. Later, he established the National Foundation for Advancement
in the Arts based in Miami. He brought professional basketball to South Florida
with the forming of the Miami Heat in 1988, and established the philanthropic
Arison Foundation in Israel and the United States. In 1990, he renounced his
U.S. citizenship, in an effort to avoid U.S. Estate Taxes (and failed to meet
the 10 years out of the United States rules on this matter, when he died in
1999) and returned to Israel and founded Arison Investments. In 1997 he headed
a consortium that purchased the controlling share in Bank Hapoalim for more
than $1 billion -- the largest privatization deal in Israel's history. His children
include Micky Arison and Shari Arison.
2000: The New York Times included reviews of The
Avengers by Richard Cohen and The Talmud and the Internet by
Jonathan Rosen.
2000(2nd
of Tishrei, 5761): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2000:
Arab Israelis took part in violent demonstrations aimed at showing their
support for the Second Intifada
2000:
The 2000 Summer Olympic in which canoer Rami Zur competed for Israel came to a
close today.
2001:
Hamas took credit for today’s bombing in Talpiot, a neighborhood in Jerusalem.
2002(25th
of Tishrei, 5763): Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist, passed away.
2002:
“True Courage of One Who Had to Act” published today described the life of
Necdet Kent, “a Turkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews from Nazi concentration
camps during World War II.”
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/30/1033283437468.html
2003:
Charles Prince replaced Sanford Weill as the CEO of Citigroup.
2003:
CBS broadcast the first episode of season six of “The King of Queens”
co-starring Jerry Stiller.
2004(16th
of Tishrei, 5765): Second Day of Sukkoth
2004(16th
of Tishrei, 5765): Eighty-one year old fashion photographer Richard Avedon
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/02/obituaries/richard-avedon-the-eye-of-fashion-dies-at-81.html?_r=0
2004:
A month after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival,“I Heart
Huckabees” starring Dustin Hoffman and featuring Isla Fisher was released in
the United States by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
2004:
Opening of the “exhibition ‘David Bomberg en Ronda’ at the Museo Joaquin
Peinado in Ronda in Andalusia that showed work by Bomberg in the city and
environment which he had celebrated in paintings and drawings in 1934-35 and
1954-47.
2005(27th
of Elul, 5765): A marvelous day for the Jewish community in Cedar Rapids. Temple Judah marked the last Shabbat of 5765
with Traditional Saturday morning services.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette
carried three articles featuring Jewish topics. First, the question in the “God
Squad” column began with “I don’t see why synagogues force people to have
tickets for services at the High Holidays.”
Goldman and Hartman responded with a column about the need to provide
financial support for religious institutions while assuring the questioner that
nobody is turned away at the synagogue door because they cannot afford to
pay. Second, there was a story about
Rabbi Peter Schweitzer donating his ten thousand item collection of Jewish
memorabilia to the National Museum of American Jewish History. Finally, there was a lengthy article about
Kalman Feinberg winning the national Great Shofar Blast Off.
2006:
The New York Times book section
features reviews of two books about I.F. Stone – All Governments Lie: The
Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone by Myra MacPherson and The
Best of I.F. Stone edited by Karl Weber.
2006:
The Washington Post book section
features reviews of Gonzo Judaism: A
Bold Path for Renewing an Ancient Faith By Niles Elliot Goldstein and Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew
by Robin Chotzinoff
2006: A Lubavitcher hasid reportedly responded to a
request from Yiddish scholar Itche Goldberg and help him put on Tefflin
2006(9th of Tishrei, 5767): Yom Kippur observance
begins with Kol Nidre
2006: Over 100,000 people participated in the
seventh annual “Yom Kippur for Everyone,” an event which brings an open and
educational Yom Kippur service to community centers and schools throughout
Israel. The idea is to create a
meaningful spiritual experience for those who avoid traditional religious
services.
2007(19th of Tishrei, 5768): In Chevy Chase,
Maryland, Israel Kugler, a leader of teachers’ and
Jewish labor organizations, passed away at the age of 90. Kugler was president
of the United Federation of College Teachers during the turbulent 1960s, and he
won a reputation as an outspoken advocate for teachers’ rights. In 1965, the
teachers’ union, under Kugler’s leadership, supported 31 professors who were
dismissed from St. John’s University, a Catholic college in Queens, allegedly
for demanding greater academic freedom. With Kugler’s encouragement, a number of
St. John’s faculty members went on strike for a year and a half. In 1972,
Kugler helped create the Professional Staff Congress, which today represents
20,000 faculty and staff members at the City University of New York. Kugler is
survived by his wife, Helen; his sons, Philip of Silver Spring, Md., and Daniel
of Washington; a sister, Frances Brill, who lives in Queens, and two grandsons.
“He was a moral, spiritual and political compass,” said Philip Kugler in an
interview with the Forward. “In addition to Little League and Boy Scouts, my
father also brought me to march in New York City Labor Day parades, to picket
lines, on a union bus to the historic 1963 March on Washington for civil
rights.” Philip Kugler followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a vice
president of the American Federation of Teachers. Israel Kugler was born in
Brooklyn on June 13, 1917, to Eastern European immigrant parents. He served in
the Navy during World War II and was educated at City College and at New York
University. In addition to his work as an organizer, he was a professor of
social science in the CUNY system and author of the book “From Ladies to Women:
The Organized Struggle for Women’s Rights in the Reconstruction Era.” Kugler’s
parents were involved in the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, which is the
national Jewish labor organization, and Kugler’s own children were sent to
Workmen’s Circle shules (part-time Yiddish schools). After he retired from
teaching and organizing in 1980, Kugler was elected president of the Workmen’s
Circle. He held the office for two terms, until 1984. Kugler was also active in
other progressive Jewish organizations, serving as an officer of the Jewish
Labor Committee and of the Forward Association, the not-for-profit holding
company of this newspaper. “His strength was his passion for social justice,
for labor,” said Robert Kaplan, director emeritus of the Workmen’s Circle. “He
was a persistent fighter in every place he was. He always wanted to make sure
that we stepped forward for labor, for the ordinary person.”
2007: U.S. News & World Report Magazine
features a report on Judge Michael Mukasey, the Orthodox Jew President Bush
nominated to U.S. Attorney General as being “a respected law-and-order man with
a compassionate streak.”
2007: In a reminder of the connection between Jews
and humor, Time Magazine featured a review Robert Klein: The HBO
specials 1975-2005, a
2007: Vacationers visiting Charles Clore Park in
Tel Aviv expressed their disgust with the filth they encountered much of which
was cause people barbecuing, a practice that the municipality had banned.
2007:
Plaza Hotel owners Yitzhak Tshuva and the Elad Group paid $120,000 for the
giant birthday cake that marked the 100th anniversary of the landmark New York
hotel.
2008:
Amy Goodman was named as a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, often
referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" — the first journalist
to be so honored. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation cited her work in
"developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political
journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are
often excluded by the mainstream media."
2008(2nd
of Tishrei, 5769): Second Day Rosh Hashanah
2008(2nd
of Tishrei, 5769): One hundred nine year old Boris Yefimov, “a Russian
cartoonist despised by Hitler and beloved by Stalin” passed away today. (As
reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/europe/05yefimov.html?_r=0
2008: Professor Sarah Stroumsa replaces Professor Haim D.
Rabinowitch, as rector at Hebrew University. He has served in the position for
the last seven years.
2008: In the evening, at the New York film festival, a screening of “Waltz with Bashir” directed by Ari Folman
2008:
Peter Salovey, is scheduled to become Provost at Yale.
2009:
An off-Broadway production of “Loss, and What I Wore” a play written by Nora
and Delia Ephron “officially opened at the Westside Theatre.”
2009:
A.J. Jacobs discusses and signs his new book, "The Guinea Pig Diaries: My
Life as an Experiment," at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, in
Washington, D.C.
2009:
The Columbus Jewish Federation holds its 2009 Annual Meeting and 2010 Annual
Campaign Kickoff, an event that will feature the presentation of the Ben M.
Mandelkorn Award for Distinguished Service & Therese Stern Kahn and William
V. Kahn Young Leadership Award.
2010:
Rick Sanchez, a daytime anchor at CNN, was fired today a day after telling
a radio interviewer that Jon Stewart was a bigot and that “everybody that runs
CNN is a lot like Stewart.” The latter comment was made shortly after Mr.
Stewart’s faith, Judaism, was invoked.
2010(23rd
of Tishrei, 5771): Simchat Torah
2010:
“According to a short speech delivered today during Cornelius Lanczos'
induction to the NIST Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Staff, his
daughter-in-law, Alice Lanczos, described his return to Hungary in 1939 from
his then-position at Purdue University, when he attempted to convince his
family to return to the US with him due to the anti-Jewish Nazi threat” – an
attempt that was only partially successfully since he was able to rescue his
five year old son, but not his “wife who was too ill to travel and died several
weeks later from tuberculosis”
2010:”In
the Penal Colony, a chamber opera in one act and 16 scenes composed by Philip
Glass based on a work by Franz Kafka completed its month long premiere
performance run that had begun on August
31.
2010:
“The World of Jewtopia” is scheduled to open in Charlotte, NC.
2012:
A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, “The Social
Network” was released today
2011:
Under the new “summer clock” to be used in Israel, today should mark the end of
daylight savings time. But since October
1 falls on Shabbat, the winter clock should have begun on the day before. But
since that was Rosh Hashanah, Daylight Savings time should come to an end on
October 2.
2011(3rd
of Tishrei, 5772): In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guest chazzan Ilan Caplan is
scheduled to lead Shabbat Shuvah services at the traditional minyan at Temple
Judah
2011:
Keren Ann Zeidel, an Israeli sound designer, singer, songwriter, is scheduled
to perform at the City Winery in New York City.
with
Jewish leaders to work to ensure Jewish support for Obama in the 2012
presidential election.
2011:
An Israeli air strike wounded three Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip
today, the Israeli military and Palestinian medical officials said.
2011(3rd
of Tishrei, 5772): Eighty-five year old Sholom Rivikin “an Israeli-born
American rabbi who was the last Chief Rabbi of St. Louis” passed away today.
2011:
Gene Simmons who is Jewish married Shannon Lee Tweed who was not.
2012(15th
of Tishrei, 5773): Sukkoth
2012(15th
of Tishrei, 5773): Ninety-five year old “Eric J. Hobsbawm, whose three-volume
economic history of the rise of industrial capitalism established him as
Britain’s pre-eminent Marxist historian” passed away today. (As reported by
William Grimes)
2012(15th
of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-six year old Holocaust survivor, economist and
governor of the Bank of Israel passed away today.
2012:
American-Canadian professional tennis player Jesse Levine achieved his
career-high singles rank of world no. 69 today
2012(15th
of Tishrei, 5773): Eight days before her 90th birthday, Joan
Morgenthau Hirschhorn (Dr. Joan E. Morgenthau) passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.aspx?pid=160282693#fbLoggedOut
2012(15th
of Tishrei, 5773): Ninety-five year old “Irving Cohen, who was known as King
Cupid of the Catskills for his canny ability to seat just the right nice Jewish
boy next to just the right nice Jewish girl during his half-century as the
maître d’ of the Concord Hotel” passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2012:
The Brazilian adaptation of the Israeli hit "Be Tipul" premiered on
GNT, under the title "Sessão de Terapia" ("Therapy
Session").
2012(15th
of Tishrei): Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller, beloved husband of Eleanor
Schueller, father of Deb Levin and father-in-law of Mitchell Levin
2012(15th
of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-eight year old” Shlomo Venezia was one of the first
Jews to climb out of the freight car when it came to the end of the line at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on April 11, 1944” passed away
today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2012:
It was reported today that “archaeologists working in Northern Israel's Nahal
Me'arot, Unesco's most recently declared World Heritage Site, found evidence
that the genealogical relatives lived side by side and perhaps even interbred,
according to The London Times.
2012:
Lorraine Lotzof Abramson, author, My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up under
Apartheid in South Africa is scheduled to be interviewed on Channel 75 in
NYC
2013:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu plans to warn the international community to
learn from its mistakes with North Korea and not to be fooled by Iran’s new
conciliatory attitude toward its nuclear weapons program, when he speaks at the
United Nations General Assembly in New York today (As reported by Tovah
Lazaroff)
2013:
The JCRC and the JCC GW are scheduled to host “Environmentalism as a Pathway to
Peace: Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian Hydro-politics.
2013(27th
of Tishrei, 5774): Ninety-year old Israel Gutman, one of the Warsaw Ghetto
fighters and editor in chief of the four volume Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
passed away today. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2013: The world can never cease its fight for
justice and against racism, Finance Minister Yair Lapid told the Hungarian
Parliament today, during a visit to participate in a conference called
"Jewish Life and anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe".(As reported
by Lahav Harkov)
2014:
“The historic Ellis Island hospital complex, through which many Jewish
immigrants to the US passed in the first half of the 20th century, is scheduled
open to the public today for the first time in 60 years. The complex of 29
unrestored buildings is located across the ferry slip from the fully-restored
immigration museum.”(As reported by Collen Long)
2014:
Dr. Peggy Pearlstein, former Head of the Hebraic section of the Library of
Congress is scheduled to present “A Tale of Two Books: The Sarajevo Haggadah
and the Washington Haggadah.”
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Echoes of the Borscht Belt:
Contemporary Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld.”
2014:
In London, the Wiener Library is scheduled to present a lecture by Roger
Moorhouse, “The Devil's Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941.”
2014:
“With a display of mutual empathy and support, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama held their first meeting today since
the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the summer’s 50-day
Israel-Hamas war.
2014(7th
of Tishrei, 5775): Eight-six year old Shlomo Lahat who served as Mayor of Tel
Aviv for 19 years passed away today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Lahat
2015(18th
of Tishrei, 5776): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2015(18th
of Tishrei, 5776): Ninety-five year old Jacob Pressman who served as the rabbi
at Temple Beth Am for 35 years passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-rabbi-jacob-pressman-dies-at-95-20151005-story.html
2015:
A mother and her six month old son were when “a group of rock-throwing
terrorist attacked Israeli vehicles today near the Tekoa community of Gush
Etzion.”
2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “French Chamber
Masterpieces: Fauré Piano Quartet and Franck Piano Quintet.”
2015:
In Little Rock, AR, a Sukkoth Party with the BMX Stunt show is scheduled to
take place at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life under the leadership of Rabbi
Pinchas Ciment.
2016(28th
of Elul, 5776): Final Shabbat of 5776
2016:
“Police said a 40 year old man” had been arrested this evening “after an
intruder shot a security guard at Moscow synagogue with an air pistol.”
2016:
“From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer” which “delves headlong into the
absurdities and neuroses of matrimonial rites as an Israeli wedding
photographer repeatedly finds himself embroiled in psychodramas with the brides
and grooms who hire him” is scheduled to be shown at the 54th New
York Film Festival.
2017(11th
of Tishrei, 5778): Eight-nine year old publisher S.I. Newhouse, Jr. passed away
today. (As reported by Jonathan Kandell)
2017:
“Disabled protesters blocked a road junction north of Tel Aviv today, rejecting
a deal signed between other disabled activists and the government” two day ago
“to increase stipends and end traffic-halting demonstrations.” (As reported by
Sue Surkes)
2017:
Today, “Michael Robert Marrus, a Candian history of the Holocaust and modern
European and Jewish History” wrote a letter to Hugh Seal resigning his position
“as a Senior Fellow of Massey College” and apologizing for poorly stated
attempt at humor which would have been found offensive to “the black student”
who heard it.
2017:
After expressing how “dismayed he was by the Trump Administration” Charles
Phillip “Chuck”Rosenberg officially stepped down from his position as
“Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration” today.
2017:
While delivering a speech marking the “Shiite holy day of Ashura,” Hassan
Nasrallah, “the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group”…”warned Jews living
in Israel to leave the country as soon as possible…” (As reported by Dov
Lieber)
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including After Anatevka by Alexandra Silber, At the Stranger’s Gate:
Arrivals in New York by Adam Gopnik, Vanishing New York: How a Great
City Lost Its Soul by Jeremiah Moss and One Nation After Trump: A Guide
for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet-Deported
co-authored by Norman J. Ornstein.
2017:
“Balfour Accomplished,” “a large-scale oil canvas by Beverley-Jane Stewart is
scheduled to go on display at Jerusalem’s Machtarot Museum today as “the
centerpiece of an event dedicated to the Balfour Declaration at this year’s
Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art.”
2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational
Center is scheduled to host a “History of Rock and Soul: Music for Social
Change.”
2018:
As of Today David Michael Solomon, the Hamilton College educated son of Alan and
Sandra Solomon succeeded Lloyd Blankfein as CEO of Goldman Sachs.
2018:
Road To Waubeek: Discovering Jay G. Sigmund by Barbara Feller, who has
taught more students Hebrew in Cedar Rapids that any other person, is scheduled
to go on sale today.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society scheduled to host a Shemini Atzeret
luncheon
2018(22nd
of Tishrei, 5779): Shemini Atzeret
2019:
Katherine Rose Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller became Press Secretary to the
Vice President.
2019:
This evening, in Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host a
screening of “Bialik: The King of Jews,” a “documentary for Hebrew speaks about
the life and art of Hebrew pioneer poet Chayim Nachman Bialki.”
2019(2nd
of Tishrei, 5780): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2020:
In New Orleans Tuoro Synagogue is scheduled to host its board meeting.
2020:
Temple Ahavat Achim and Lappin Foundation are scheduled to host an, interactive
online book party to celebrate the publication of Going Rogue (at Hebrew
School) by local author Casey Breton.
2020:
The Steicker Center is scheduled to host a virtual screening of “Teheran” that
includes meeting the cast and creators of the new Apple television series.
2020:
Matthew Sackel, the Associate Manager of Education at the Illinois Holocaust
Museum is scheduled to read a chapter from Lalla’s Story which “follows
Holocaust Survivor Lala Weintraub as she moves from town to town, driven by her
fear of being discovered. More than a story of survival, this is also the story
of a young girl's resolute struggle to defy, resist, and ultimately defeat the
evil forces pursuing her.”
2020:
Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to present “a discussion of the symbolism of
sukkahs, and a demonstration on how to make fig and ricotta flatbread with
honey and thyme.”
2020:
The “JFCS Holocaust Center is scheduled to present a testimony from the daughter
of a Holocaust survivor followed by an interactive tour of artifacts from the
Tauber Holocaust Archives
2020:
As Israelis face another day of lockdown, they are dealing with Prime
Minister’s Netanyahu’s statement yesterday that "exiting the lockdown will
be slow and gradual this time, and could last even half a year to a year."
(As reported by Itamar Eichner)
