January 1
630: Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with
the army that will capture it bloodlessly.
At first Mohammed “had hoped to find is main supporters among the Jewish
tribes” of Arabia. This can be seen in
his early adoption of certain laws regarding fasting and facing Jerusalem
during prayer. When the Jews refused to
accept him as the final line of prophets that had included Abraham and Moses,
he turned against the Jews “in a cruel war of extermination.” Mohammed would die two years after the
conquest of Mecca, but his legacy lives on to this very day.
1430: The Jews of Sicily were no longer required to
attend “conversionist services.”
1431: Birthdate of Valencia native Rodrigo de
Broja who as Pope Alexander VI employed Bonet de Lattes, a Jewish born rabbi
from Provence and “the inventor of
an astronomical ring-dial by means of which solar and stellar altitudes can be
measured and the time determined with great precision by night as well as by
day” as his physician.
1438: Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of
Hungary. Albert confirmed the privilegium of Béla IV. In 1251 Béla had granted
a privilgium to his Jewish subjects which was essentially the same as that
granted by Duke Frederick II the Quarrelsome to the Austrian Jews in 1244, but
which Béla modified to suit the conditions of Hungary.
1484: “In Wildhaus, in
the Toggenburg Valley of Switzerland,” Ulrich Zwingli and his wife gave birth
to Huldrych Zwingli, the
leader of the Reformation in Switzerland who at a minimum “studied and admired
the Hebrew language, used it to some advantage” in his work and “took over some
Hebraic teachings while evincing little concern for contemporary Jews.”
1515: Louis XII who ordered the final expulsion
of the Jews from Provence in 1501 and who introduced a tax in 1512 on the
remaining Jews there, who had accepted baptism known as the "tax of the
neophytes," passed away today.
1515: King Francis I succeedt0 to the French
throne. Francis did not have any Jewish subjects since they had been expelled
by Charles V at the end of the 14th century and they would not
return until 1675 when Louis XIV would grant permission to the Jews living in
Alsace and Lorraine, his two newly acquired provinces, to remain in their
ancestral homes. For some strange reason Francis showed an interest in the
Hebrew language. He invited August Justiniani, the
Bishop of Corsica who was reputed to be a serious student of Hebrew literature
to move to France. He also invited Elias Levita, the renowned Hebrew
grammarian and poet, to move to France and accept a professorship in the Hebrew
language. Levita declined the offer for obvious reasons.
1515: Jews were expelled from Laibach, Austria.
1527: Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of
Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin. There were no Croatian
Jews in attendance since the Jews had been expelled and there was no record of
any Jews living in Croatia after 1526.
1549(Shevat, 5309): Elia Levita also known as
Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Eliahu Bakhur ("Eliahu the Bachelor") a
Renaissance-period Hebrew grammarian, poet and one of the first writers in the Yiddish
language passed away. Born in 1469, he “was the author of the Bovo-Bukh
the most popular chivalric romance written in Yiddish, which, according to Sol
Liptzin, is ‘generally regarded as the most outstanding poetic work in Old
Yiddish.’”
1559: Frederick II, who moved to keep Jews out
his realm by ordering ‘that all foreigners in Denmark had to affirm their
commitment to 25 articles of faith central to Lutheranism on pain of
deportation, began his reign as King of Denmark and Norway today.
1565: A papal decree issued today order that
“the fines levied on Jews for possessing scrip certificates of indebtedness,
lending money on interest, or engaging in certain occupations were to go to the
support” of Houses of Catechumens, “a Roman institution for converting Jews to
Catholocism.”
1577: Today, Pope Gregory XIII decreed that all
Roman Jews, under pain of death, must listen attentively to the compulsory
Catholic conversion sermon given in Roman synagogues after Friday night
services.
1578: Today, Pope Gregory XIII signed into law
a tax forcing Jews to pay for the support of a “House of Conversion” to convert
Jews to Christianity.
1581: Today, Pope Gregory XIII ordered his
troops to confiscate all sacred literature from the Roman Jewish community. Thousands of Jews were murdered in the
campaign.
1594: Rodrigo Lopez, a Marrano who was serving
as physician to Queen Elizabeth, was arrested on charges of trying to poison
the English Monarch
1627 (13th of Tevet, 5387): A press belonging
to Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel published a prayer book, which was the first work
produced by this Hebrew particular printing press.
1651: Coronation of King Charles II of Scotland
who as King Charles of II of England would issue several proclamations
guaranteeing the rights of the fledgling Jewish community in the British Isles.
1714: Leffmann Behrends, the son of Issachar
Barmann and the grandson of Isaac Cohen of Borkum, who was a leading German
financier who used his influence to protect his co-religionists passed away today.
1715: Birthdate of Leah Tobias, the wife of
Joseph Tobias and the mother of Joseph, Jr., Masdad, Rinah, Jacob and Judith
Tobias.
1763(16th of Tevet, 5523): Parashat
Vayehci
1766: Charles Edward Stuart the leader of
Jacobite forces whose invasion had caused panic among many of London’s
financiers, except most notably Sampson Gideon” who provided the government
with money and support, that led to the crown’s victory at the Battle of Culloden
which ended a major threat to the Hanovarian English monarchy began his
“pretendence today.
1773: In Pennsylvania, Miriam Simon and Michael
Gratz gave birth to Simon Gratz, the husband of Mary Smith and the father of
Louisa, Caroline, Edward, Simon, Jr., Mary, Theordore, David and Elizabeth
Gratza.
1774: In London, Joseph Moss and his wife gave
birth to John Moss, who settled in Philadelphia where he married Rebecca Lyons
with whom he had nine children.
1778(2nd of Tevet, 5538): As the
world ushers in the New Year, Jews observe the Eighth and final day of
Chanukah.
1781: In New York City, Reyna Malcha Hays and
Isaac Touro gave birth to Nathan Touro.
1784: Sara Rodrigues Alvares and Abraham
Furtado, President of the Assemblee des
Notables gave birth to their daughter Anne Emilie
1790: Birthdate of Alsace-Lorraine, France
native Michelette Lazard, the husband of Paul Godchot with whom she had seven
children, five of whom died in the United States as adults.
1793 Birthdate of Bertha Morgenstern, the
native of Russia who came to New York City in 1842 with her children and husband.
1798:
The first Jewish censor was appointed by the Russian government to
censor all Hebrew books printed in Russia or imported from other countries. As you can see from the next comment about
life under Communism, the Czars and the Commissars agreed on the need to censor
Jewish books. However, sometimes, the
outcome could be a bit on comical side.
“Yosef Mendelovitch tells that when he was being transferred from one
Russian prison to another, he was in temporary possession of his Chumash that had
been confiscated when he was first imprisoned.
He would have to give it up again upon arrival at the new prison. Also
in his possession was a collection of selected speeches by Brezhnev translated
into Yiddish. This book was officially
passed by the censor (which is why I'm relating this story). He separated
content from covers in both books, which happened to be of the same size, got
rid of the speeches, and pasted (with well-chewed bread) the Chumash into the
censor-approved cover. His Chumash passed
cursory inspection at his new prison and was his unfailing companion during his
incarceration.”
1799: Birthdate of Samuel Hays Myers, the son
of Samuel Myers, the husband of Eliza Kennon Mordecai and the father of Caroline
and Edmund Myers.
1802: In a letter written to
the Danbury, CT Baptist Association, Thomas
Jefferson coined the metaphor, "a wall of separation between Church and
State." (Editor’s note: Many think
this term originated in 1947, when the "wall of separation" concept
gained acceptance as a constitutional guideline. It obviously dates back to the
Founding Fathers. Contrary to the
nonsense being passed around by various demagogues today, separation of Church
and State was a basic concept in the founding of the United States. The assault on Jefferson’s “Wall of
Separation” could be styled as an attempt by modern day radicals to undo the
work of the American Revolution.)
1803: In Jamaica, Solomon Isaacs and his wife
gave birth to their fifth son Soloman Isaac, the husband of Charlotte Jame Thornthwaite and
the father of Arthur, Ernest, Gertrude, Charles, Agnes and Percy Isaacs all of
whom lived in London.
1804: As
a result of the slave revolt of Toussaint L’Ouverture French rule ends in Haiti
making Haiti the first black republic and first independent country in the West
Indies. “Unfortunately, “during the
slave revolt, much of the Jewish community was murdered or expelled from
Haiti. A few years later, many Polish
Jews arrived in Haiti due to civil strife in Poland.”
1807: Birthdate of German rabbi Asher Sammter
1807: Birthdate of Abraham Kohn, the Chief
Reform Rabbi of Lemberg.
1808: Several restrictions on Jewish ownership
of land went into effect in Russia.
1809: In Frankfurt am Main, Jacob Hirsch Kahn,
the son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob Kahn and his wife Jetta Kahn gave birth to Babette
Kann.
1811: Today Lübeck was annexed to France. This
meant an end to all anti-Jewish discrimination including an abolition of the
special taxes of the "Schutzjuden.” This change brought an influx of Jews
who entered the town from surrounding areas including Moisling. All this would
come to an end when the French left and the Germans again took control. :
1812: In Brighton, Sussex, Hannah Benjamin and
Levi Emanuel Cohen gave birth to Australian newspaper man Abraham Cohen.
1815: Birthdate of German author Boas Eduard
who passed away in June of 1853.
1816(20th of Kislev, 5576): Rosh
Chodesh Tevet; Sixth Day of Chanukah combined with celebration of New Year’s
Day.
1826: In Frankfurt am Main Zerlinr and Meyer
Levin Beyfus gave birth to Marie Beyfus.
1827(2nd of Tevet, 5587): Last of
Day of Chanukah coincides with the First Day of the New Year.
1829: One day after he had passed away, Levy
Abrahams was buried at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1831: In Lancashire, Henrietta Israel and Louis
Samuel gave birth to Adelaide Samuel
1834: Gustav Schwabe, a Jewish native of
Hamburg whose family was forced to convert when he was 6 years old, became a
partner at Boustead and Company was renamed Boustead, Schwabe and Company.
1834: In Blieskastel, Salomon Oppenheimer and
Johanetta Kahn gave birth to their fourth son David Oppenheimer who eventually
settled in Vancouver, BC where he became a successful businessman and served as
the city’s second mayor.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=6346
1834: Birthdate of Salomon Stricker, the native
of Waag-Neustdadt which was part of the Autro-Hungarian Empire at that time who
became a note pathologist and histologist.
1834: Birthdate of
Ludovic Halévy, a member of the famed Halevy clan whose artistic and social
activities spanned at least three centuries starting in 1760. Halevy was prominent in the musical theatre
of 19th century France. One
of his most famous works was the libretto for the opera “Carmen.” Halevy is an example
of the fate of European Jews. His father
had converted in order to marry the daughter of the architect Louis-Hippolyte
Lebas and this enabled him in 1831 to become assistant professor of French
literature at the Ecole Polytechnique, where there was some discrimination
against Jews.
1837: Earthquake in the Tzfat-Tiberias area of
Eretz Israel killed between two thousand and four thousand people, mostly
Jews. Many monuments and archaeological
sites were damaged. The quake is also called The Galilee Earthquake of 1937 and
the Safed Earthquake.
1837(24th of Tevet, 5597): Nissim
Zerahiah Azulai “editor and annotator of Shabbethai Cohen's "Shulḥan ha-Ṭahor"
(The Pure Table), a treatise on the 613 commandments, perished in the
earthquake at Safed”
1844: In Austrian Galicia, Wolf Neumann, a
Hebrew and Talmudic scholar and his wife gave birth to Moses Newman who came to
the United States in 1897 and was active in the Jewish Galician Federation.
1845: In Odenbach, Germany, Freda Hart and
Jacob A. Felsenthal gave birth to Henrietta
(Yetta) Felsenthal who settled in Chicago
where she gave birth to three children – Samuel, David and Jane – with her
husband Simon
1845: In Charleston, SC, A.J. Brady of Athens,
GA, married Adeline Moses, the “youngest daughter of Isaiah Moses.
1847: In “Parramatta, New South Wales,
Australia,” Solomon and Caroline Phillips gave birth to jeweler turned political leader Simeon
Phillips who served in the legislature and as Mayor of Dubbo and was the
husband of Rosetta Phillips.
1849: Birthdate of Alois Epstein, the native of
Bohemia who graduated from the University of Prague with an M.D. in 1873 and
became a leading Austrian podiatrist.
1854: Solomon Nunes Carvalho, a South Carolina
native of Portuguese and Sephardic Jewish descent, who had the good or bad
fortune to join John C. Fremont's 1853-54 mapping expedition to the Rocky
Mountains, served a dessert of blanc mange “to the ‘satisfaction and
astonishment of the whole party,’ a fitting climax to a meal of horse soup and
horse steaks fried in buffalo tallow.”
1854(1st of Tevet, 5614): Rosh Chodesh Tevet
1858(15th of Tevet, 5618): Eighty-year-old
Isaac Pinto, the son of Jacob and Abigail Pinto and the husband of Maria Pinto
passed away today in Chillicothe, Ohio.
1858: French author Mario Uchard exchanged New
Year's greetings with the famed Franco-Jewish actress Rachel Félix in which the
latter seemed to be bidding Uchard "an eternal adiu. However, her doctor assured Uchard that
"she would live some days longer.
[Editor’s Note: The following is not an
error. There were two different
letters.]
1859: The New York Times published a
copy of the letter “The Executive Committee of the Representatives of the
United Congregations of Israelites of the City of New York” had sent to
President James Buchanan in November of 1858 concerning the Mortara Case. Their
letter included a reference to the letter sent by The London Committee of
Deputies of British Jews “to their brethren in the United States” seeking their
support in having the boy who was kidnapped in Bologna returned to his
family. The letter informed the
President of the support being offered by several European nations and of plans
to hold a public meeting to enlist public support in the United States. The
committee reminded President Buchanan of the prompt action taken by President
Van Buren in 1840 when he was asked to intervene to aid the persecuted Jews of
Damascus and expressed the hope that he would do the same.
1859: The New York Times published a
copy of the letter The Executive
Committee of the Representatives of the United Congregations of Israelites of
the City of New York had sent to President James Buchanan in December of 1858
which described a public meeting held on December 4 in which Jews and non-Jews
gathered to demand the return of Edgardo Mortara to his parents. Those attending the meeting also petitioned
the President to join with the several European nations who were protesting the
kidnapping of the youngster by representatives of the Pope.
1861: In St. Joseph,
MO, Max and Bertha Eppstein gave birth to Seraphine Eppstein who gained fame as
Seraphine Pisklo after marrying Denver businessman Edward Pisko in 1878 at the
age of seventeen and who played an active leadership role at the National
Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver from 1911 until her retirement in
1938.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pisko-seraphine-eppstein
1861: Birthdate of
London native Samuel Isaac Cohen who served as a “communal secretary”
1861: In Riddleville,
GA Charles Wessolowsky and Johanna Wessolowsky gave birth to Morris Weslosky
the husband of Julia Weslosky.
1862: Jacques Van Praag
married Rebecca Levy today in Holland.
1863(10th
of Tevet, 5623): Asara B’Tevet
1863: Birthdate of
David Davidson who had lived in Sioux Falls, SD, came to Sioux City, IA in 1883
where he was a “merchant.”
1863: In Poland,
Abraham Jacob Bauer and his wife gave birth to Sol H. Bauer who served as the
rabbi at several Chicago Congregations including Moses Montefiore Congregation,
The First Hungarian Congregation and Congregation Anshe Emeth.
1863: Edward
Rosewater, a member of the United States Telegraph Corps serving at the White
House telegraph office, was responsible sending out President Abraham Lincoln’s
“Emancipation Proclamation” today. Rosewater was born to a Jewish family in
Bohemia and moved to the United States in 1854
1863: During the Civil War, Confederate forces
recaptured Galveston, Texas with assistance from Rosanna Dyer Osterman. As recounted in Jewish Women in America: An Historical
Encyclopedia, Rosanna Dyer Osterman, a native of
Germany, was living in Galveston, Texas, in 1862 when Union forces captured the
city. She had come to Texas in 1838 to
help her husband run his mercantile business.
Eventually, she became a leading member of the Jewish community, helping
to bring the first rabbi to Texas in 1852.
When the Civil War broke out, Osterman, by then a widow, remained in
Galveston. While many others left for
the mainland, she stayed to nurse the sick and wounded, turning her home into a
hospital. After the city was captured by Northern troops, she provided military
information to Confederate officers in Houston. This information helped them to
successfully recapture Galveston on January 1, 1863. Just three years later, Osterman was killed in
a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi River.
In her will, she left her considerable fortune, over $200,000, to a host
of Jewish and benevolent institutions. Gifts went to Jewish hospitals in New
York, New Orleans, and Cincinnati, and enabled the establishment of a Hebrew
Benevolent Society in Galveston, which cared for poor and sick people of all
faiths. Osterman's bequests also funded
synagogues in Houston and Galveston, a Home for Widows and Orphans and a
Sailors’ Home in Galveston, and a Jewish Foster Home in Philadelphia. In an obituary, the Galveston News
lauded Osterman for her "unselfish devotion to the suffering and the
sick" and said that "the history of Rosanna Osterman is more
eloquently written in the untold charities that have been dispensed by her
liberal hands than any eulogy man can bestow."
1864: In Hoboken, NJ, Edward Stieglitz, a
lieutenant in the Union Army and the former Hedwig Ann Werner gave to Alfred
Stieglitz considered by some to be “the father of modern photography.”
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-stieglitz-alfred.htm
1864: Corporal Philip A. Barnet began serving
with Company B of the 51st Regiment.
1864: In Bonn, Ludwig Philippson and his wife
gave birth “German geologist and geographer” Alfred Philippson.
1864: Corporal Moses Bahney began his service
with Company B of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment.
1864: Philadelphian August Solomon began his
service with Company B of the Ninety-Third Regiment.
1867: Birthdate of Lew Fields. This New York native was part of the Weber
and Fields one of the most successful vaudeville acts of their time. When the act split up, Fields became one of
the most influential producers in New York.
He was the father of songwriter Dorothy Fields who enjoyed a successful
Broadway career in her own right.
1867: Rabbi Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, presided over the first Jewish wedding in Atlanta, which joined
Emilie Baer to Abraham Rosenfeld in the holy bonds of matrimony. He used the
occasion to encourage the creation of a congregation to replace the short-lived
one begun in 1862. The Hebrew Benevolent
Congregation received a charter four months later and began constructing a
synagogue in 1875.
1867: Following the retirement of Joseph
Herzfeld, Hallgarten & Herzfeld, changed its name to Hallgarten & Co,
the investment bank co-founded by Lazarus Hallgarten.
1868: In Reading, PA, Congregation “Aheb Sholem”
is seeking to hire a teacher and shochet by today.
1869: In
Philadelphia, Nathan Rosenau and Mathilda Blitz gave birth to University of Pennsylvania
Medical School graduate Milton J. Rosenau, who married Myra B. Frank in 1900
and who played a crucial role in the long, contentious campaign to make milk
supplies pure and safe in the United States.
1873: Birthdate of St. Petersburgh native Louis
Antoville, the art dealer, co-founder of The Jewish Daily Forward and the
father of Solomon and Dr. A.A. Antoville.
1873: Julie Judith Bamberger and Isaac
Bamberger gave birth to Shimon Simcha Bamberger.
1874: Frederick de Sola Mendes assumed his
duties as of Rabbi at Shaaray Tefillah congregation (later known as the West
End Synagogue) in New York City.
1874: As part of the New Year’s Day
celebration, 200 children at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum partook of an excellent
dinner. Afterwards, they marched to the
homes of Meyer Stern and Mrs. Max Herzog, President of the Ladies’ Sewing
Society, where they paid their respects.
1874: Three days after she had passed away
Sarah (Lazarus) Emden, the wife of Lewis Israel Emden was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1875: In New York, Hirsch & Mayer, a firm
dealing in woolen goods, was reported “to have a stock of goods wholly paid
for” and to be owed $30,000.
1875: Jacob Schiff , Solomon Loeb's son-in-law,
joined the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
1876: As of today, the Independent Order of
B’nai B’rith has a total of $550,000 in its treasury.
1876: As of today, the Independent Order Free
Sons of Israel has a total of $58,350 in its treasury
1876: As of today, the Improved Order Free Sons
of Israel has a total of $25,500 in its treasury.
1876: In London, Hannah and Solomon Goldstein
gave birth to Australian businessman Hyman Goldstein.
1876: In New York, Hirsch & Mayer was found
to be insolvent. The insolvency touched
off 20 civil suits and criminal charges aimed at Benjamin Mayer, a young,
well-connected man, from a prominent Jewish New York family.
1878: In
Louisville, KY, David Henry and Selma Franko Goldman a professional pianist
gave birth to Edwin Franko Goldman. At
the age of nine, Goldman studied cornet with George Weigand at the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum in New York. In 1892,
after winning a scholarship, he attended the National Conservatory of Music,
where he studied music theory and played trumpet in the Conservatory orchestra.
In 1893 he became a professional trumpet player, performing in such organizations
as the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra and with his uncle Nahan Franko, a
famous trumpet player. Goldman
soon founded the New York Military Band, which is known today as the famous
Goldman Band. The band played in many summer band concerts throughout New York,
especially The Green at the Columbia University and then The Mall in Central
Park. They were also heard on many radio
broadcasts. Goldman was known
for his very congenial personality and dedication to music. He was very close
to city officials and earned three honorary doctorates. Eventually in 1929, he founded the American
Bandmasters Association and served as Second Honorary Life President after John
Philip Sousa. In his lifetime, Goldman composed over
150 works. He was also the composer of
many cornet solos and other short works for piano and orchestra. Goldman's works are known for their pleasant
and catchy tunes, as well as their fine trios and solos. He also encouraged audiences to whistle/hum
along to his marches. This has become a
tradition with his most famous march "On the Mall".
1878: After completing his legal studies today,
Louis Marshall “joined the law firm of William C. Ruger in Syracuse, NY.”
1878: Leopold Ullstein converted the Berliner Tageblatt into the Berliner Zeitgung (B.Z.)
1879: Birthdate of Alfred Ernest Jones, the
official biographer of Sigmund Freud.
1879: In Tolcsva, Hungary, Michael Fuchs and
Hannah Fried gave birth to Wilhelm Fuchs who gained fame as “American motion
picture executive” William Fox who “founded the Fox Film corporation in 1915”
and raised two daughters - Mona and Isabella – with his wife Eva Leo Fox.
http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ei-Gi/Fox-William.html
1879: Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum opened its
facility today with four children.
1880: David Joël, brother of Manuel Joël,
assumed his duties as professor of the Talmudic branches, with the title of
"Seminarrabbiner", at The Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau
1880: Alonozo B. Cornell began serving as the
27th Governor of New York during which term he appointed Myer S.
Isaacs, the son of the late Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs, as Justice of the Marine
Court.
1881: Hallgarten & Company became a member
of the New York Stock Exchange.
1882(10th of Tevet, 5642): Asara B’Tevet
1882: A magic act presented by Professor Leon
is part of the scheduled entertainment to be presented tonight at the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum.
1882: The
New York Times published a detailed review of The Mendelssohn Family,
1729-1847 by Sebastien Hensel
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mendelssohn_family_1729_1847.html?id=4E20AAAAIAAJ
1882: In Corning, NY,
Jennie Bach Ansorge and Mark Perry Ansorge gave birth to Columbia Law School
trained attorney and Republican politician Martin C. Ansorge who served one
term in the U.S. House of Representatives during which he “nominated the first
African-American to the U.S. Naval Academy.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-charles-ansorge
1882: Leon Pinsker anonymously published “Auto-Emancipation,” a pamphlet whose subtitle
was Mahnruf an seine Stammgenossen, von einem russischen Jude (Warning
to His Fellow People, from a Russian Jew) in which he urged the Jewish people
to strive for independence and national consciousness.
1883: It was reported today that Marcus Marx
has been elected Chairman of a committee to consider the merger of B’nai
B’rith, the Free Sons of Israel, and Kesher Shel Barzel since half of the
members of the latter two organizations are members of B’nai B’rith.
1884: As of today the two story frame building
used by the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids housed 30 patients
1884: Birthdate of Moses “Mosey” King, the New
England lightweight boxer and longtime Yale boxing coach who “was
Connecticut’s’ first boxing commissioner.”
1885: As of today, the Russian Imperial
Government will begin its monopoly pawnbroking in an attempt to add to the misery
of its Jewish subjects which it believes are the only people engaging in this
form of moneylending.
1885: “An English Society for the Conversion of
the Jews” announced that during 1884 it had converted “four Jews at an average
cost of about $21,000 each.”
1885: As of today, the Hebrew Technical
Institute enrollment has risen from 27 to 45.
1885: This month marking the founding of The
Chicago Israelite, “an American weekly newspaper devoted to Jewish interests”
under the “editorship of Leo Wise who wrote the “Notes and Comments” column
along with Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Levi A. Eliel and Dr. Julius Wise “who wrote
under the pen-name of ‘Nickerdown.’”
1886:
Birthdate of Homona, Hungary native Louis Lefkowitz, the founder “of Louis
Lefkowitz and Brother, manufacturers of leather belts” who came to the United
States in 1902 where he married Sadie Leah Weiss in 1915 and a leading member
of Congregation Ohab Zedek.
1886:
Birthdate of Clara Lemlich Shavelson
who was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of
shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909
1887: In
Helena, Montana, founding of Temple Emanuel which held services on Friday
evening and Saturday, with a Religious School that met on Sunday and enjoyed
the support of a Ladies’ Auxiliary Society founded three years later.
1887: Birthdate
of William Canaris, the Admiral in charge of the Abewhr, a German intelligence
organization during WW II who was executed in 1945 for his opposition to
Hitler. (Editor’s note: It was the Abewhr under Admiral Canaris that continued
to use an unchanged Enigma code for so much of the war which gave the Allies an
edge that among other things, helped them to win the Battle of Britain. Was the failure of Canaris to change codes
arrogance or his way of helping to bring down Hitler?)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/canaris.html
1887: Henry M.
Stanley was back in London preparing the expedition that is designed to rescue
Emin Pasha, the governor of Equatoria who is besieged by forces of Muslim
fanatics. Emin Pasha was a Silesian born Jew named Isaak Eduard Schnitzer who
successively converted to Christianity and Islam.
1887: The
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York is scheduled to move into its
new home “in the building formerly occupied by the Home and School for the
Children of Soldiers and Sailors on 11th Avenue near 151st
Street in New York where it will continue to care for over 400 children.
1888: Barnett
nad Dora Kriss Feinberg gave birth to Dr. Moses Feinberg
1888: “The
People of Israel” published today provides a detailed review of Histoire Du
Peuple D’Israel (Volume I) by Ernest Renan.
1890: In
Louisiana, any Jews remaining in Alsatia, East Carroll Parish faces the threat
of being driven out by “lead.” (That’s
mean guns for the uninitiated)
1890: A fair
being held under the auspices the People’s Free School Association, is
scheduled to come to an end today. This is a fundraiser sponsored by the
Executive Council of the Hebrew Fair Association.
1890: “A mass
meeting of down-town” Jews held this evening at the Pythagoras Hall on Canal
Street to discuss the construction of a new hospital to be built on the Lower
East Side. The up-town hospitals cannot
accommodate the influx of sick Jewish immigrants.
1890:
According to H.I. Goldsmith, the Grand Secretary of Grand Lodge, No. 1 of the
Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel, there is $295,027.33 in “the
degree benefit, an increase over the last year of $7,608.94.
1890: In Jacksonville,
FL, Aaron and Theresa Budwig Zacharias Gave birth to Rear Admiral Ellis Mark
Zacharias, the husband of “the former
Clara Miller” with whom he raised two sons –Gerald and Ellis M Jr. – who
graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1912, skippered the cruiser Salt Lake
City at the start of WW II when “participated in the first United States
counter-strikes against Wake and the Marshall Island and came to public
attention “as a practitioner of psychological warfare” in the fight against Japan”
passed away today. (Editor’s note – There is no way that this blog can do
justice to his long, distinguished and exciting career.)
1890: As
today, the Hebrew Technical Institute had a balance on hand of a little more
than six thousand dollars.
1890: In
Elizabeth City, Russia, Hill and Ruth Chernoff gave birth to chemist Lewis H.
Chernoff the holder of a Ph.D from Yale, and husband of Sophie Lovins who was a
professor of Chemistry and Physics at the College of Charleston, a chemist with
the Department of Agriculture and a contributing investigator at the National
Jewish Hospital in Denver.
1890: The
terms of Messrs. Tuska, Thalmessinger and Bloomingdale as trustees for the
Hebrew Technical Institute were scheduled to come to an end today.
1891: In
Newark, NJ, founding of “Bet Hamidrosch Hagodol Ansche Warschaw” which owns a
cemetery on Grove Street and whose members included Louis Marx, Sam Cohn,
Morris Berkowitz and Abraham Cohn.
1892(1st
of Tevet, 5652): Rosh Chodesh Tevet and 7th day of Chanukah
1892: Roswell
P. Flower, who would appoint Edward Jacobs as Loan Commissioner, began serving
as Governor of New York.
1892: Simon W.
Rosendale began serving as New York State Attorney General.
1892: The SS Masilia whose passengers include a
large number of Russia Jews whose passage had been paid by the Baron Hirsch
Fund left Marseilles today for a four week voyage to New York
1892:
Birthdate of Bertha Solomon, one of the first women’s rights activists in South
Africa.
1892: The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New
York opened. Millions of mostly eastern
European Jews would pass through Ellis Island on their way to New York’s Lower
East Side or other such urban locations.
1892: Birthdate of Kiev native Boris
Mirkin-Getzevich, the Russian jurist fluent in several languages including
Yiddish who wrote under the pen name Boris Mirsky who daughter Vitia married
Stéphane Hessel the member of the French Resistance who survived the
concentration camps to become a diplomat and author.
1892: The Society of the Hebrew Sheltering Home
has received $2,005 in the last twelve months.
1892: Colonel John Weber, the first
Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York, gave a $10 gold Liberty
coin to the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island.
1893: Twenty-nine-year-old Schepsel Scaffer
became the “rabbi of Shearith Israel in Baltimore, MD.
1893: The new sliding scale dues structures
based on age adopted by the Grand Lodge District No 1 of the Order of B’nai
B’rith to encourage younger Jews to join went into effect today.
1893: Joseph K. Toole who laid the cornerstone
when construction began on Temple Emanu-El in Helena Montana completed his
first terms as Governor of Montana.
1893: It was reported today that Darkest Russia, “the organ of the
English Jewish community” had suspended publication on the assurance if it did
so Russia “would modify her persecution” of the Jews would resume publishing
since things have actually gotten worse.
1894: Thirty-six-year-old Heinrich Hertz, the
German physicist for whom the hertz, the SI unit of frequency, is named and was
born to a Jewish family that had converted to Christianity passed away today in
Bonn.
1894: Simon W. Rosendale completed his service
as New York State Attorney General.
1894: As of today, the United Hebrew Charities
has spent an additional $64,900 in the last three months (October 1) to provide
a variety of services including medical, educational and vocational to aid
those suffering during the worst economic depression to hit the United States
until 1929 and 2008.
1895: In Cincinnati, Ohio formation of Council
No. 13 of the National Council of Jewish Women was formed with Miss Clara Bloch
as President and Miss Mathilda Bettman as Secretary.
1895: “Louis Marshall was a framer of Article
14, the "Forever Wild" clause, in the New York State constitutional
Amendment to the New York State Constitution, which went into effect” today.
1895: Birthdate of Nathaniel Shilkret, American
composer and conductor. For many years
he was "director of light music" for the Victor Talking Machine
Company. His best-known popular
composition was "The Lonesome Road", which has been recorded by more
than one-hundred artists, including Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman. He
passed away in 1992.
1895: In Kansas City, MO, Robert and Bessie
White Ginsberg gave birth to University of Missouri graduate and University of
Pennsylvania trained cardiologist A. Morris Ginsberg, the husband of Zora
Tasman Ginsberg and the father of P. Mortimer Ginsberg who passed away without
reaching his third birthday.
1896: “Destroying the Old Relic” published
today described the destruction of the Rolls House which had originally been
“built by Henry III as a House of Maintenance for converted Jews” but was
converted to other uses by Edward III when the supply of Jewish converts ran
out.
1896: As of this date, there were 43, 658 Jews
living in Minsk. There were forty
synagogues along with numerous less formal “houses of prayer.” The city boasted
a large number of Yeshivot including Blumke’s Yeshivah, the Little Yeshivah and
the Yeshivah at the Synagogue of the Water Carriers. At this time Minsk was also home to a Jewish
Trade School that offered training for locksmiths and carpenters as well as
providing instruction in Hebrew and Religion.
The Jewish hospital had accommodations for 70 patients and the Jewish
poorhouse had beds for 80 indigent patrons.
1897: Frank Black, who appointed Jewish
political leader and philanthropist to the state board of charities began
serving his term as the 32nd Governor of New York.
1897: A fundraiser for the Hebrew Technical
School for Girls was held at the Carnegie Lyceum.
1897: Birthdate of Austrian poet Theodore
Kramer who fled to England after the Anschluss and whom Thomas Mann called “one
of the greatest poets of the young generation.”
1898(7th of Tevet, 5658): Parashat
Vayigash
1898: In Silesia, Maximillian Ullman and his
wife, two Jews who had converted to Catholicism, gave birth to “composer,
conductor and pianist” Viktor Ullman. Their conversion and did not save this
musical genius who was imprisoned at Theresienstadt and murdered in the gas
chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/viktor_ullmann/
1898: “Do People Read the Bible Nowadays?” by
Amos Kidder Fiske, author of “The Jewish Scriptures” and “The Myths of Israel”
was published today.
1898:” Miracles and Dilettantism” published
today disputes the version of the conversion of Abbe Ratisbonne to Catholicism
as described in The Life of Cardinal Wiseman by Wilfred Ward.
1898: Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered an address
entitled “The Religious and Ethical Possibilities of Greater New York” at
Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
1899: A building that had been built because of
the “munificence of the late Baroness de Hirsch-Gereuth” was opened today at
the Baron de Hirsch Trade School in Nw York
1899(19th of Tevet, 5669): Fifty-three-year-old
Agnes Henricks, the New York City born daughter of Rachel Seixas Nathan and
Montague M. Hendricks, the wife of Aaron Wolff and mother of Lillian Hendricks
Wolff passed away today in NYC.
1899: “Dr. Baar’s New Year Address” published
today described Dr. Hermann Baar’s what is his last address to the children at
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum since he has announced his retirement as
Superintendent of the organization.
1899: Birthdate of Elazar Menachem Man Shach,
(Eliezer Schach) the Lithuanian born Haredi rabbi who became a leader in Bnei
Brak.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elazar_Shac
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/elazar-shach
1899: Leopold Cohn sent a letter to President
McKinley concerning the anti-Semitic prejudice that exists in Brooklyn and
Manhattan which is manifested by “acts of violence” aimed the poor Jews of
these cities. Cohn, a former Rabbi,
converted to Christianity and now is a missionary for the Baptist Church.
1899: “A Benevolent Society’s Jubilee”
published today described plans for the upcoming celebration of the Noah
Benevolent Widows and Orphans’ Association 50th anniversary
celebration. The association was
originally formed by German Jews in the 1840’s.
1899: Mrs. Bertha Morgenstern observed New
Year’s Day and her 106th birthday at the Hebrew Sheltering House in
NYC.
1899: It was reported today that Aaron Baerlein
is President of the Noah Benevolent Widows and Orphans’ Association, a
fraternal and benevolent order formed by German Jews in New York before the
Civil War.
1899: As of today, not counting officers, there
eighty-two Jews serving in the British Army and forty-six serving in the
militia.
1899: In Rochester, NY, founding of “Temple
Kitchen Garden” “under the auspices of the Sisterhood of Berith Kodesh and the
Council of Jewish Council” and funded by “the Sisterhood and the Hebrew Ladies’
Aid Society.
1900(1st of Shevat, 5660): Rosh
Chodesh Shevat
1900(1st of Shevat, 5660): Vilna
native Joshua Ḥayyim b. Mordecai ha-Levi Epstein, “familiarly known as
"Reb Joshua Ḥayyim the Sarsur" (money-broker)” passed away today.
1900: Birthdate of David William Pearlman, the
native of Mezeritch who came to the United States 1904 after which he
eventually earned a master’s degree from Columbia and became a Reform Rabbi
after being ordained at the Jewish Institute of Religion.
1900: In Natchez, Mississippi, founding of the
Jewish Relief Association which would be managed by Rabbi S.G. Bottigheimer.
1900: Starting today The Jewish Colonization
Association (JCA) “restructured the way in which the
colonies received financial and managerial support, with the effect of making
them more profitable and independent.”
1900: In Rzhaventsy,
Zastavna Raion, “Yoel and Ita” gave birth to Ester Rosenzweig, the Russian
revolutionary known as Elizabeth Zarubina who spied for the Soviet Union in the
United States under the name of Elizabeth Zubilin
1900: Birthdate of
Samuel “Sam” Berger, the native of Ottawa, who was a successful attorney before
he became the owner of two CFL teams – the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Montreal
Alouettes.
1900: Birthdate of Chiune Sugihara “ a Japanese
diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania who
risked his career and life by issuing
travel documents to thousands of Jews so that they could escape the Nazis by
appearing to be traveling to Japan.
1901: As of today, the city of Warsaw “had a
population of 711,988 inhabitants” of whom 400,395 were Poles, 36,659 were
Russians and 254,712 were Jews meaning that the Jews were 36 per cent of the
city’s population and that it has the largest Jewish population.
1901(10th of Tevet, 5661): Asara B’Tevet
1901: Birthdate of Russian born American
sculptor and watercolorist Eugenie Gershoy.
1902: Birthdate of Hans von Dohnányi, the
German jurist, anti-Nazi who rescued Jews including “two Jewish lawyers from
Berlin, Friedrich Arnold and Julius Fliess.”
1902(22nd of Tevet, 5662): Solomon
Lyons, the 6th son of Rose and Henry Lyons of Birmingham, UK
“accidently drowned in Jersey” today.
1903(2nd of Tevet, 5663): Eighth Day
of Chanukah
1903: Herzl begins a trip to Elach, Austria,
his hometown.
1903: In Gorbals, a section of Glasgow, Morris
Galpern, a cabinetmaker, and Anna Talisman gave birth to Labour MP and Deputy
Speaker of the House of Commons Myer Galpern who was knighted in 1960.
1904: Birthdate Louis Kerzner, who gained fame
Louis Cohen a New York mobster who murdered labor racketeer "Kid
Dropper" Nathan Kaplan and was an associate of labor racketeer Louis
"Lepke" Buchalter.
1905: It was reported today “victory will crown
the efforts of the United States to secure recognition of American passports
without distinction to religion” because the Passport Committee meeting in St.
Petersburg is going to recommend “that the Jews have complete freedom of travel
and residence in their zone without passports which will only be required when
traveling in other parts of Russia.”
1906: In Mabgate, Leeds Abram Rozenkopf and
Chaja Nagacz who “came from adjacent villages in Poland and were married in
Leeds in 1905 where they anglicized their name gave birth to Louis Rosenhead
the British mathematician who served as a “Head of Department at Liverpool
University from 1933 to 1973.”
1906: The Educational Alliance which has
depleted its treasury because of the demands made to aid the Jews suffering
massive anti-Semitic violence in Russia hopes to be able to stop borrowing from
the members of its Board of Directors as of today.
1906: During the dispute about establishing a
temporary Jewish homeland in a place other than Palestine, Winston Churchill
wrote to his constituent Dr. Joseph Dulberg, leader of the Manchester Jewish
community, describing the difficulties in establishing “a self-governing Jewish
colony in British East Africa” not the least of which was the division between
the Territorialists and the “Palestine or bust” faction.
1907: Herman “Kid” Landfield was knocked in the
8th round today while fighting the world lightweight champ – a
defeat that led to his retirement later in the year.
1908: In New York City, Meyer Barnett, the “son
of Harris and Gittel Baran” and his wife Sarah Barnett gave birth to Lillian
Nell Barnett, who became Lillian Nell Berg after she had married Ralph Emanuel
Berg.
1908: “An administrative decree issued” in
Paris on September 30 that “provides for the separation of Church and State in
Algeria” thus placing Jews on an equal footing with Catholics, Protestants and
Muslims” is scheduled to go into effect today.
1909(8th of Tevet, 5669): Louis A.
Heinsheimer passed away. Born in 1859, he was a partner in the investment
banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1894 to 1909. Heinsheimer was the
nephew of one of the Firm's founders, Solomon Loeb. Heinsheimer's estate in Far
Rockaway, New York, was called Breezy Point (not to be confused with the Breezy
Point neighborhood on the western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula) and stood
until 1987. Heinsheimer's mansion was owned and used for several years by the
Maimonides Institute for Exceptional Children until it burned down. The mansion
site is now a part of Bayswater Point State Park.
1909: Birthdate of Barry Goldwater, Republican
Senator from Arizona and godfather to what has become the dominate right wing
of the Republican Party. Goldwater was
not Jewish. His father was Jewish but he
raised his son as an Episcopalian for the obvious advantages it brought to
him. However, some of Goldwater’s
critics did not let him forget his Jewish origins. When he ran for President, his running-mate
was William Miller, a Catholic member of the House of Representatives. Bigots referred to the ticket as the Arizona
Israelite and his fellow-traveler from the Vatican.
1909: As of today, agents of the Baron Hirsch
Fund have purchased several hundred acres of farm land four miles west of
Millville, New Jersey for the purpose of establishing a colony. Forty families are ready to move into the
houses once they are built. Each family
will receive 25 acres of cleared ground to work.
1910(20th of Tevet, 5670) Parashat
Shemot
1910: The first issue of Das Yiddishe Levben, an “English and Yiddish monthly” which was an
“organ of the United Hebrew Charities was published today.
1910: Isabel Hyams, an 1888 MIT graduate and a
trustee of the Boston Consumptive Hospital, began an experimental “Penny Lunch”
program in a Boston elementary school.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/01/1910/isabel-hyams
1911: On New Year’s Day, in New York City, an
Austrian immigrant who “worked designing women’s clothing in the garment
industry on the Lower East Side” and his wife gave birth to Joe “Shikey”
Gotthoffer the James Monroe High School basketball player who went on to a
successfully career with the Philadelphia SPHAS, followed by WW II stint
working as “a supervisor at Wright Aeronautics in New York where her built
engines for B-21s.” (As reported by
Douglas Stark)
1911(1st of Tevet, 5671): Rosh
Chodesh Tevet; Seventh Day of Chanukah
1911: In Łódź, Poland, Slanislava (Vinaver) and
Adam Totenberg gave birth to Roman Totenberg, the child prodigy violinist who
is the father of NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg, Judge Amy Totenberg and businesswoman
Jill Totenberg.
1911: The Sunday Magazine Section of the New York Times described the debate
between Dr. Solomon Schechter of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Dr. G.
Margoliouth of the British Museum over the interpretation of a document
entitled “A Document on the Sectaries” which had been found in the Cairo
Genizah.
1911: Birthdate of
Hammering Hank Greenberg
Hall-of-Fame first baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=baseball&ID=4
1912: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Harvard
and Columbia trained economist Moses Abramovitz the husband of painter and
sculptor Carrie Glasser.
https://news.stanford.edu/pr/00/abramovitz1213.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070609121742/http://www-econ.stanford.edu/abramovitz/abramovitzm.html
1912: As of today, “according to official
statistics” there 11,817,783 Jews in the world of which 1,894,400 live in
America while only 53,000 Jews live in Jerusalem.
1912: As of today, there were 94 people
residing at the Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged.
1913: A commercial treaty between the United
States and Russian which had been “denounced by Congress…became inoperative”
today “because it was interpreted by Russia as permitting the exclusion of
American Jews from her dominions.”
1913: Birthdate of ABA Bantamweight and ABA
Lightweight Champion Harry Mizler who represented Great Britain in the 1932
Olympics and was the younger brother of boxer Moe Mizler.
1913: A treaty of commerce and navigation and
commerce between the United States and Russia “became inoperative” today
“because it was interpreted by Russia as permitting the exclusion of American
Jews from her dominions.
1913: American journalist James Creelman, who
“had toured Russia investigating the persecution of the Jews” resigned today
from the New York Civil Service Commission.
1914: In New York, Morris Cahan, the Russian
born son of Simon and Yetta Cahan, and his wife Anna Cahan gave birth to Dr.
Amos William Cahan.
1914: In an attempt to obliterate loan sharking
and enable American wage earners to borrow money easily, cheaply, and under
self-respecting conditions, Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, announced plans to
create “industrial loan banks that could make small loans at a low rate of
interest - loans so trifling in character that the ordinary bank would not
consider them - to workingmen whose means are too insignificant to give them
any standing with banks.
1914: The sons of Leopold Ullstein purchased
the Vossische Zeitug, “a liberal newspaper
with a tradition dating back to the 1617.”
1915: “Before the Law”, “a parable contained in
The Trial by Franz Kafa was published for the first time in the New
Year’s Edition of the independent Jewish weekly Selbstwehr./
1915: Leo M. Frank wrote to the editor of the New York Times from his prison cell, “In
assuring you of my deep appreciation of the stand you have taken in my case,
for the cause of justice, may I not extend to yo my heartiest good wishes for a
Happy New Year/”
1915: “Texans Make Plea For Leo M. Frank”
published today described a petition signed by over three hundred “Gentile
citizens:” from Waco, TX sent to the Governor of Georgia listing the reasons
why he should stay the execution of Leo Frank and free him if the evidence
warrants such a conclusion.
1915: Charles Whitman, who after being elected
promised to appoint at least one Jew to each of New York’s hospital boards
began serving as the state’s 41st governor.
1915: Jews of Laibach Austria
were expelled.
1915: Nathan D. Perlman began serving as a
member of the New York State Assembly form the 6th district from New
York County.
1915: Today, in St. Louis, MO, Dr. Kaplan
Kaplansky of The Hague, the General Secretary of the Jewish National Fund said
today that “one third of Palestine could now be bought for restoration as the
home of the Jewish people if the funds were available.”
1916: It was reported today that “every steamer
from Japan brings a considerable number” Russian Jews to Seattle “who have fled
across Siberia” and whom the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society of America
will urge “to remain on the Pacific Coast.
1916: It was reported today that the Jews of
Rochester, NY expect to raise $25,000 for the American Jewish Relief Committee
that is collecting funds to aid the Jews suffering in war torn Europe and
Palestine.
1916: As of today the Hebrew Free Burial
Association had a balance of $457 in the treasury and “had liabilities on
cemetery lots amounting to $9,500.”
1916: The Knights of Zion are meeting for the
second day of their 19th annual convention in Chicago.
1916: Dr. Max Goldfarb, the Secretary of the
National Workmen’s Committee for Jewish Rights announced today that three
Socialists including Morris Hillquilt “will request that President Wilson take
steps to insure the political freedom of the Jews in Europe after the war.”
1917: Simon Bamberger became Utah’s fourth
elected Governor making him the first non-Mormon to hold the office.
1917: The
Temple, a monthly publication which was the “organ of Congregation B’nai
B’rith” was established today in Denver, CO.
1917: As of today, the Independent Western Star
Order which was founded in 1894 and has its offices in Chicago, Illinois had
17,924 members.
1918: In Columbus, OH, Dr. Morris B. Lhevine
and Sarah Piatagorski Lhevine, gave birth to Marie Lhevine, the Columbia
University trained attorney who became Marie Lhevine Aries after she married
Dr. Leon J. Airies, the Chicago surgeon with whom she raised “three daughters –
Jane, Elizabeth and Nancy.”
1918: During an afternoon session of a Zionist
convention that drew delegates from Ten Mid-West States at the Hotel LaSalle,
“more than $60,000 was pledged” to “be used for the reclamation of Palestine.”
1919: Prince Faisal “submitted a formal
memorandum to the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference outlining his vision
for Arab nationalism throughout the Middle East. It was not monolithic or
pan-Arab. It sought only one territory: Syria.”
1919: Today marks the “official birthdate of
Homl, Belarus native Marek Edelman the cardiologist and husband of “Alina
Marogolis-Edelman” with whom he raised two children, “Aleksander and Anna” who
is best known as the “last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/6259900/Marek-Edelman.html
1919: (29th of Tevet, 5679): Sixty-nine-year-old
David Lubin, the Polish born American “merchant and agriculturalist” who played
a pivotal role “in founding the International Institute of Agriculture” passed
away today.
1919: Birthdate of J.D. Salinger who is as
famous for being a recluse as he is for being the author of Catcher in the
Rye. “Salinger was born in 1919 in
New York City. His mother was Irish Catholic,
and his father was Jewish. And because many people in the early half of the
20th century were often openly racist toward Jews, being half-Jewish was hard
on Salinger’s psyche.
What also hurt Salinger’s relationship with his
father was the fact that he wanted him to take over the family meat
business. Salinger was initially
unopposed to the proposition. However,
after taking a trip to his father’s native land of Poland and seeing the slaughterhouses,
Salinger lost respect for his father and his profession. Salinger then became a devout vegetarian.
What probably had the strongest effect on the mental makeup of Salinger was his
experience in World War II. Salinger was
in one of the most dangerous regiments of the entire war, as he saw as many as
200 of his fellow soldiers die in a day.
Plus, he is also believed to be one of the first soldiers to see the
Nazi concentration camps. This probably
greatly affected him because of his Jewish ancestry.” Salinger, who passed away
in 2010, became a Buddhist who only would eat organic foods.
1920(10th of Tevet, 5680): Asara
B’Tevet
1920: Arnold "Arnie" Horween kicked
the PAT that provided the margin of victory as Harvard won the Rose Bowl.
1920: Fiorello La
Guardia whose father was a Catholic from Italy and whose mother was Jew from
Trieste, and was fluent in Yiddish, began his service as the 10th
President of the New York City Board of Alderman
1921: Featherweight Danny Frush scored a
victory when he fought his 40th bout today.
1921: Jacob A. Dolgenas began serving as the
Rabbi at Congregation Gates of Prayer in Brooklyn.
1922(1st of Tevet, 5682): Rosh Chodesh Tevet
1923: Birthdate of Daniel Gorenstein, American
mathematician.
1925: Greece mandates a national day of rest,
in disregard to any religion. Thus the Jews are forced to work on the Sabbath,
and those who did not, lost profits. The
Jews saw this as a move on the government's part to get rid of them.
1925: Former New York state legislator Louis D.
Gibbs, a member of Temple Emanu-El began serving “as a member of the New York
Supreme Court” today,
1925: Albert Ottinger began serving as New York
State Attorney General.
1926: Lazar Kaganovich completed his first term
as a member of the Orgburo (The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union)
1927: Birthdate of Canadian political leader
Shelia Finestone.
1927: Middleweight Seymour ‘Cy” Schindel won
his bought today leaving him with a record of 10 wins and 2 losses.
1928: Sixty-five-year-old theatrical dancer
Loie Fuller whose rumored engagement to Jacob Cantor helped lead to his defeat
when he ran for a seat in Congress representing New York’s 15th
district, passed away today.
1929(19th of Tevet, 5689): Forty-three-year-old
Pittsburgh born Harvard trained attorney Allan Davis, the president of the
Menorah Society passed away today in his home town.
1929: “Queen Kelly” a silent film directed and
produced by Erich von Stroheim was released in the United States today
1929: During the Rose Bowl, University of
California half Benny Lom, a future Jewish Hall of famer attempted to stop one
of his teammates from running the wrong way which led to the touchdown that
gave Georgia Tech one of the strangest victories in college football history.
1929: Herbert Lehman began serving as
Lieutenant Governor of New York
1929: Republican Albert Ottinger completed his
service as New York State Attorney General.
1929: The Labor Party has been defeated in the
elections for the Municipal Council of Tel Aviv. Labor had controlled the council for the past
three years but had only won five of the fifteen seats on the council in this
year’s election. It would appear that
the United Centre Party has captured a majority of the seats which means that
Meir Dizengoff will return as Mayor of the Jewish metropolis since the council
elects the mayor. Dizengoof had resigned
three years ago in a dispute with the Laborites.
1930(1st of Tevet, 5690): Rosh Chodesh Tevet,
Sixth Day of Chanukah
1930(1st of Tevet, 5690): Victor
(Avigdor) Schonfeld, the native of Sutto, Hungary who arrived in Britain in
1909 “as Rabbi and Librarian of the North London Beth Hamedrash” and who
founded the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in 1926 by which time he
become active in the Mizrachi movement passed away today.
1931: In an interview published in today’s
edition of the Santa Fe New Mexican, newly inaugurated Governor Arthur Governor
expressed the regret that his parents Don and Dona Seligman, whom “the older
generations of Spanish-Americans” spoke of “with a friendliness and sincerity
that that borders on reverence” “could not have lived to have witnessed” his
inauguration “and to have shared with me the happiness that I enjoy.”
1931: The undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide led
by All-American Tackle Fred Sington, a member of ZBT, won the 17th
Rose Bowl today
1932: The Green Wave of Tulane led by Louis
“Lou” Boasberg who played both tackle and end and later founded the New Orleans
Novelty Company, played USC in the Rose Bowl today.
1933: Herbert Lehman began serving as the 45th
Governor of the state of New York.
1933: A pastoral letter of
Austrian Bishop Gfollner of Linz states that it is the duty of all Catholics to
adopt a "moral form of anti-Semitism."
1934: In New York City, Henry G. Schanko “took
office as a Justice of the City Court” today.
1934: The Nazis remove Jewish holidays from the
official German calendar.
1934: Birthdate of Chicago native Alan Harrison
Berg, the Denver radio talk show host who was gunned by members of “The Order,”
a white supremacist group.
1934: German laws allowing sterilization of the
"unfit," which were passed in July 1933, are promulgated.
1934: In a move that will upset the balance of
power in Europe and therefore threaten the well-being of the Jewish people,
Hitler orders the German government to undertake a building program that will
produce 4000 aircraft by October 1935. (As reported by the Jewish Virtual
Library)
1934: Fiorello La
Guardia whose father was a Catholic from Italy and whose mother was Jew from
Trieste, and was fluent in Yiddish, began his service as the 99th
Mayor of New York City.
1934: In Miami, lineman Henry Weinberg helped
lead Duquesne to 33 – 7 victory over the University of Miami in the Palm
Classic which a year later became known as the Orange Bowl.
1935: “Israel Amicam, former official of the
Posts and Telegraph Department of the Palestine government, who waged a
determined war with the government to force transmission of telegrams in Hebrew
characters, today sent the first message in Hebrew characters over Palestine’s
telegraph wires.” (JTA)
1936: Section 3 of the Nuremberg Laws – “Jews
will not be permitted to employ female citizens under the age of 45, of German
or kindred blood, as domestic workers” – went into effect.
1936: Sioux City, Iowa, native Herb Baumstein
quarterbacked the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) today in the second
annual Orange Bowl.
1936: Birthdate of Actress Zelda Rubinstein.
1936: In a New Year’s message made today by the
United Palestine Appeal, “Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine declared that there was room in Palestine for Jews and Arabs and
both peoples could live in harmony.”
1937: One day after its premiere in New York
City, “One in a Million” with an all-star cast including the Ritz Brothers and
Borrah Minevitch was released in the rest of the United States today.
1937: The New York Times describes the very
successful performance in Tel Aviv of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra under
the baton of Arturo Toscanini. The site
of an Italian maestro conducting a Jewish orchestra in front of a predominately
Jewish orchestra is proof to the Times of “how completely forgiven and forgotten
is the serious misunderstanding between the two peoples that arose under Titus
and Hadrian a couple of thousand years ago.”
1937: Marcel “Bloch's aircraft factories were
nationalized by the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques de Sud-Ouest
(S.N.C.A.S.O.), one of six state-controlled aeronautic factories,” after which
he “was retained as a civil servant and invested the compensation he received
for his company in a variety of North American securities which led to the founding
of a new aircraft company which later produced the highly successful Bloch 152
fighter.
1937: Georg Wertheim head of Wertheim’s one the
four largest department store chains in Germany writes in his diary, “The store
is declared to be ‘German.’” This marked
the end to his involvement in the family business begun by his parents in
1875. Wertheim died in 1939.
1938(28th of Tevet, 5698): Parashat
Vaera
http://www.jmaw.org/rabbi-zielonka-el-paso-texas/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43058494?seq=1/analyze
1938: Today, Bert Adler left his position as
deputy sanitation commissioner in New York to the join the newly created Depart
of Public Works
1938: During January, the concentration camp at
Dachau, Germany, is enlarged.
1938: The Namensänderungsverordnung went into
effect today forcing 87 year old German mathematician Alfred
Pringsheim to
legally change his name to Alfred Israel Pringsheim
1938: During January, a collaborationist
organization, National-Socialistische Vrouwen
Organisatie (National Socialist Women's
Organization), is established in Holland.
1939: The
Palestine Post expressed world-wide Jewish disgust for Sir Horace Rumbold after
he had publicly referred to the Jews of Palestine as an “alien race.”
1939: “By today, in Cologne, all the Jews were
excluded from the economic life and constrained to forced labor.”
1939: It was reported today that “Doubleday,
Doran and Company have signed a contract with Peter Mendelsohn” “a descendant
of the composer” Felix Mendelsohn “for a novel dealing with the plight of
exiled Austrian Jews which would be fitting follow up to “his latest novel, All
That Matters” which was based on “his experiences in a German Concentration
Camp.”
1939: “Simon and Schuster have signed a
contract with Dr. Abraham Flexner” the “director of the Institute for Advanced
Learning at Princeton University” “for the publication of his memoirs.
1939: As of today, the licenses of the Jewish
cattle traders in Laupheim, Germany were revoked.
1939: In an infamous prophecy delivered in a
speech to the Reichstag, Hitler threatened that if “international Jewry”
started “another” world war, such a war would not end in the extermination of
the Aryan race but rather in the extermination of the “Jewish race.”
1939: In Germany, The Decree for the
Elimination of Jews from German Economic Life took effect. This was part of what was known as the
compulsory Aryanization process in which all Jewish retail businesses were to
be eliminated. All stock was forbidden
to be traded on the free market, but it had to be "sold" to a German
competitor or association. This edict
was signed just a month earlier by the Economic and the Justice ministries.
1939: By the end of
January "Illegal
immigration" from Germany to Palestine has begun. 27,000 Jews will illegally immigrate by the
end of 1940.
1939: As decreed on August 17, 1938, Jewish men
in Germany must adopt the middle name of "Israel"; Jewish women must
take the middle name "Sara."
1939: Jews are eliminated from the German
economy; their capital is seized, though some Jews continue to work under
Germans.
1939: At the Buchenwald, Germany, concentration
camp, Deputy Commandant Arthur Rödl orders several thousand inmates to assemble
for inspection shortly before midnight. He selects five men and has them
whipped to the melody played by the inmate orchestra. The whipping continues all night.
1940(20th of Tevet, 5700): Hugo Herrmann a
Zionist author and publisher, one of the founders of the Jewish student
organization Bar Kochba in Prague who worked for the Keren Hayesod and settled
in Jerusalem in 1934 where he published descriptions of his extensive travels
in Palestine passed away today.
1940: The Nazis shot Dr. Cooperman in Warsaw
for being out after eight o'clock.
1940: Nazis prohibited Jews from gathering in
shuls or private homes for prayer.
1940: Gustav Schröder, the captain of the MS St. Louis on its ill-fated journey in
1939 and whom Yad VAshem “honored with with the title of ‘Righteous Among the
nations “slipped past allied patrols and reached Hamburg today” marking his
final voyage during the Third Reich.
1941(2nd of Tevet, 5701): 8th
and final day of Chanukah
1941: In the Bronx, “Lester Bluestein, an
embroiderer” and “the former Beatrice Wargon” gave birth to Maurice Bluestein
the mechanical engineer who perfected the weather measure known as “the wind
chill factor.”
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1941: In La Plata, Argentina, Catalina and
Simon Portugheis gave birth to pianist Alberto Portugheis.
1942: U.S premiere of
“The Man Who Came to Dinner” the film version of the play of the same name by
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman with a script by Julius and Philip G. Epstein
produced by Jerry Wald.
1942: In the U.S.,
the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) is established to investigate and arrest
suspected Nazi war criminals.
1942: Fifty-nine year
old Max Kohn who had been transported from Prague to Terezin was transported to
Riga today where he was murdered.
1942: Birthdate of Democratic politician Martin
Frost who represented the 24th Congressional District in Texas from
1979 until 2004.
1943: Republican Nathanial L. Goldstein began
serving the first of three terms as New York State Attorney General.
1943: In Greensboro, NC, Ruth (née Caplan) and
Raymond G. Perelman “who controlled the American Paper Products Corporation
gave birth to American investor and businessman Ronald Perelman.
1943 (24th of Tevet, 5703): Arthur Ruppin
passed away today in Jerusalem at the age of 67. “Born in Germany, Mr. Ruppin came to Palestine
in 1908 to direct the first Palestine office of World Zionist Organization in
Jaffa. He was one of the founders of Tel
Aviv.” Dr. Ruppin was considered an
authority on all facets of the economic situation in Palestine and was a strong
fighter against those who claimed that limits must be placed on Jewish
immigration because the country could not sustain anything more than a marginal
growth in population.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Arthur_Ruppin.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ruppin.html
1944: Operation Halyard, one of the largest
Allied airlift operation behind enemy lines of World War II in which Yugoslav
Partisans (a multi-ethnic resistance force that included Bosnian Muslims and
Jews) played a key role, began today.
1945: On the same day that Hitler broadcast his
last New Year’s Day address, the Red Army launched the Oder-Neisse offensive,
the start of the last push that would in Berlin.
1946: In Tel Aviv, police found a large arms
cache today that contained a both heavy and light automatic weapons, various
chemicals of the type used for detonating explosives and a number of military
uniforms.
1947: The State Stove Company of Hamilton, OH
which Lucian L. Kahn served as vice president and treasurer was sold today to
the Noma Electric Corporation.
1947: A British Military Court sentenced Dov
Bela Gruner to be hanged for his part in the attack on the police station at
Ramt Gan. Gruner, a 33-year-old veteran
of the British Army, is a member of the Irgun and claimed that he should have
been treated as a prisoner of war and not a criminal.
1948: After the “Pan York” and the “Pan
Crescent”, two ships each carrying “7,500 people from Romania, Bulgaria and
Transylvania” arrived in Cyprus having been forced to go there by British ships
trying to keep Jews from Palestine, crew member Gedda Schochat, Dave Lowenthal,
Teddy Vardi and Avi Livney were taken thrown into “a jail cell of the Duke of
Cornwall Light Infantry” where, based on their appearance the following day,
they were beaten. (As reported by Avi Livney)
1948: Thousands of “illegal” Jewish refugees
who had been trying to reach Palestine disembarked in Cyprus where the British
interned them in DP camps.
1949(30th of Kislev, 5709): Parashat
Miketz; Rosh Chodesh Tevet; Sixth Day of Chanukah
1949: As promised by Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion, Israeli troops began withdrawing from the Sinai Peninsula.
1949: Today, Joseph Klein began serving as the
Rabbi at Temple Emanuel Sinai in Worcester, Mass – a position he would fill for
so long that he became the congregation’s longest serving Rabbi.
1950: In Guyana, Janet Rosenberg Jagan and her
husband formed the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) which she served as General
Secretary until 1970.
1951: Birthdate of Portsmouth, VA native and
MIT grad Radia Joy Perlman who “s most famous for her invention of the
spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network
bridges…”
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/5234-5.html
https://www.computerhope.com/people/radia_perlman.htm
1952(3rd of Tevet, 5712): Either late last
night or early this morning Leah Feistinger was raped and murdered. “The Mixed
Armistice Commission (MAC) investigating officer,
Major Loreaux, reported that the body of the girl, Leah Feistinger, had been
found hidden in a cave about a mile from the Jordan border, the girl had been
raped and murdered her face had been mutilated. While it was believed by
Israeli police that this atrocity had been committed by Jordanians, they did
not find evidence of an infiltration. The case had not been discussed by the
Commission. Major Loreaux expressed the opinion that the Israeli police would
have a better chance of finding the killer than the Arabs would.”
1952: In Jerusalem, “shooting attack by
terrorists during a home invasion.”
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Israel continued to protest against the
increased British, French and US arms sales to the belligerent Arab states, at
least until they agreed to negotiate peace.
While Britain, threatened by the Egyptian guerrilla war against its
forces stationed at Suez, had temporarily suspended her arms shipments there,
France and the US had no such problem and continued to arm Israel¹s neighbors
without any restrictions.
1953:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
government presented the oil-importing companies with IL 3,800,000 financial
guarantees, covered by funds earmarked under the German Reparations Agreement
for this purpose.
1953:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
number of unemployed in 1952 was 16,500.
This number, however, did not include Israeli Arabs, residents of
immigrant transit camps, and others who had not registered with the Labor
Exchange for employment.
1955(7th
of Tevet, 5715): Parashat Vayigash
1955:
After having served in the Army during the Korean war and spending “two
frustrating semesters at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art” and less than
successful stint in Chicago, today, Dave Heath moved to Chicago where he gained
fame as an award-winning photographer.
1955:
Republican Nathaniel L. Goldstein completed his third and final term as New
York State Attorney General.
1955:
Arthur Leavitt, Sr begins serving as New York State Comptroller, a position he
will hold for a record 24 years.
1955:
Jacob K. Javits begins serving as the 58th New York State Attorney
General.
1956:
In an open-the-flap book titled See the Circus published today H. A. Rey
illustrated a man who looks very much like the Man with the Yellow Hat wearing
a blue and white polka-dotted kerchief. The caption for the page reads,
"Ted has a tricycle, so very small, He cannot ride it, because he's so
tall. If you want to find out WHO the rider will be, just open the flap, and
then you will see." Opening the flap reveals two monkeys riding a
tricycle.”
1957:
Today, British Reform Rabbi Hugo Gabriel Gryn married Jacqueline Selby with
whom he had four children – Gaby, Naomi, Rachelle and David.
1957:
Arthur E. Manheimer, the Harvard educated attorney and WW I veteran who was the
husband of Ruth Manheimer and father of William and Kent Manheimer retired
today from the presidency of the Hampden Watch Company which he had founded in
1940.
1957:
Louis Lefkowitz began serving as Attorney General of the State of New York.
1958(9th
of Tevet, 5718): Joseph Porton, the native of Neshvis, Lithuania, who
established a printing business in Leeds, England and wrote Bible Stories
and Jewish Ideals and Thoughts and Ideas passed away today.
1959:
Publication of the Bibliography of Sephardic Proverbs by Henry V. Besso.
1959:
As the Castro forces took over Cuba, casinos owned by Meyer Lansky were looted.
1959:
Caroline Klein Simon was sworn in as New York's Secretary of State as part of
the administration of newly elected Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/01/1959/caroline-klein-simon
1960(1st of Tevet, 5720): Rosh Chodesh
Tevet; the first day of the year coincides with the first day of the month and,
in the evening, the kindling of the candles for the 8th day of
Chanukah
1960(1st of Tevet, 5720): Seventy-seven-year-old
University of Pennsylvania graduate Sydney Davis, the chemist turned real
estate broker and “president of the Brotherhood of Temple B’nai Jershurun of
Newark who was the husband of Saide Davis with whom he had one daughter passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/01/02/99282223.pdf
1961: Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Chargers came out on
the short of the score of the first American Football League Championship Game.
1962: Abe Beam began serving as the 36th
New York City Comptroller.
1963(5th of Tevet, 5723) A fire broke out at the
Telshe Yeshiva claiming the lives of two students.
1963: Al Davis met with the owners of the Oakland
Raiders and negotiated a deal that made him coach and general manager.
1964: Publication of the third edition of A
History of the Jews of England by Cecil Roth.
1965: Palestinian al-Fatah terrorist organization
forms.
1966: Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of
Silence" reaches #1.
1967:
A month-long exhibition of the paintings of Isser Arnovici, opened at the
Elizabeth Street Gallery.
1967:
“Code Name: Heraclitus” with a musical score by Johnny Mandel was released
today in the United States.
1968(30th
of Kislev, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Tevet; 6th day of Chanukah
1968(30th
of Kislev, 5728): Seventy-nine-year-old Philadelphia restaurateur Samuel Feld,
the husband of “the former Edna Rosenfeld” with whom he raised three children
including the actor Norman Fell passed away today afer which he was buried at
the Montefiore Cemetery.
1968:
During a reception today, “President de Gaulle…assured the Grand Rabbi of
France that it was from his intention to insult the Jews when he calls them an
‘elite people, sure of itself and domineering.’”
1968:
Louis Begley named partner in the law firm now known as Debevoise &
Plimpton. Begley would eventually leave the law and become a successful, award
winning author.
1968(30th
of Kislev, 5768): Rosh Chodesh Tevet and 6th day of Chanukah
1968(30th
of Kislev, 5768): Ruth L. Sherman, the daughter of Elias and Fanny Pofcher and
the wife of Charles Sherman passed away today after which she was buried in
West Roxbury, Mass.
1969:
Isidore Dollinger begins serving as a justice of New York Supreme Court, from
the first judicial district.
1969:
M.S. Agwani’s review of Bernard Lewis’ The Assassins: A Radical Sect in
Islam which “traces the history of the secret Islamic sect” was published
today.
1969: According to The Palgrave Dictionary of
Anglo-Jewish History birthdate of Sophie Okonedo, the London born actress
was nominated for an Oscar as the best supporting actress for her role in Hotel
Rwanda.
1970:
Abe Beame began serving as the 38th New York City Comptroller.
1970:
In Jerusalem, five people were injured by a terrorist grenade
1970:
BBC began broadcasting “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” featuring Wolfe Morris of
“Thomas Cromwell” one of the villains in the series.
1970:
In Hebron, two Arabs were “killed by a grenade thrown at an Israeli army
vehicle.
1971:
U.S. premiere of “Something Big” with music by Marvin Hamlisch and a title song
by Burt Bacharach.
1972:
After 1,281 performances at the Shubert Theatre, the curtain comes down on the
original Broadway production of “Promises, Promises” a musical with a score by
Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David and a book by Neil Simon.
1973(27th
of Tevet, 5733): Lou Halper, the New Jersey Welterweight Champion of 1932 and
member of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame who was President of Halper
Brothers Paper Company passed away today
1973:
Birthdate of Pulitzer Prize winner and New
York Times executive David Leonhardt.
1974:
“The Way We Were,” “the fifteenth studio album recorded by American vocalist
Barbra Streisand. was released today by Columbia Records
1974:
Abraham “Abe” Beame began serving as the 104th Mayor of New York
City.
1975:
Chuck Schumer began serving as a “member of the New York State Assembly from
the 45th District” today.
1975(18th
of Tevet, 5735): Seventy-one-year-old Victor Alphonse Sachse, Jr., the LSU
trained attorney and husband of Janice Rubenstein Sachse who was the father
attorney and Korean War Veteran Victor Alphonse Sachse III, passed away today
and was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Baton Rouge, LA.
1977:
Following the death of his first wife “Sara Zwilling” in 1975, movie maker
Boris Sagal married his second wife, “Marge Champion” today.
1977:
Jerry Nadler began serving as a member of the New York State Assembly from the
69th district.
1978:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Egyptian negotiators in Cairo demanded that Israel liquidate her settlements on
the West Bank and in Gaza as a pre-condition for the Palestine Arabs¹
self-determination. Israel suggested
that under the proposed peace plan, the prospective Sinai settlers would pay
taxes to Egypt.
1978:
Ed Koch begins serving as the 105th mayor of New York City.
1978:
The Jerusalem Post reported that US President
Jimmy Carter, who concluded his talks with the Shah of Iran and King Hussein of
Jordan, was expected to arrive in Cairo for talks with President Anwar Sadat
and a possible active participation in Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations.
1978:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Israeli population toward the end of 1977 stood at 3,650,000 3,076,000 Jews
and 574,000 non-Jews.
1979(2nd
of Tevet, 5739): Eighth Day of Chanukah
1979:
Robert Abrams began serving as Attorney General of New York State.
1979:
“A car bomb was found opposite Cafe Atara on the pedestrian mall and was
neutralized about half an hour before it was to have blown up.”
1980(12th
of Tevet, 5740): Eighty-two year old London born American Oscar winning
composer Adolph Deutsch passed away today.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/adolph-deutsch-mn0000497873/biography
1980:
After 32 years, German born American aviation engineer who played a major role
in the aerospace manufacturing industry retired from General Electric where he
had helped to develop among other things, the fanjets that power a significant
number of all civilian and military aircraft.
1983:
Moshe Levy was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed IDF
Chief of General Staff.
1984:
The funeral for Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer, author of What Is a Jew? is
scheduled to be held in Toronto today.
1985:
Carolyn Leigh was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame today.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/01/1959/caroline-klein-simon
1985:
Louis Silverstein, the longtime Art Director of The New York Times,
retired today.
1986(20th
of Tevet, 5746): Ninety-six year old basketball player and coach Max “Marty”
Friedman passed away today.
http://interalliedgames.org/athletes/max-marty-friedman/
1986:
Jerry Abramson began serving as the 47th mayor of Louisville, KY.
1987(30th
of Kislev, 5747): Rosh Chodesh Tevet
1988(11th of Tevet, 5748): Seventy-nine year old
German born American “character actor” whose “Jewish descent” made him a target
for the Nazis during the Holocaust passed away today
1989:
As new measures, imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration in response to
the bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Scotland on December 21 take effect,
Senator John D. Rockefeller 4th, a West Virginia Democrat who was en route from
Israel to the United States and was transferring to a Pan Am flight in Paris,
said the security was tighter than usual, but not as heavy as that which he had
experienced at Ben-Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv. ''They opened everything,
and that's excellent,'' he said of his early-morning departure. Security
officers gave every passenger ''a very diplomatic, but careful grilling,''
asking questions like: Do you have anything new? Are you carrying anything for
anyone? One security officer, he said, told him bluntly: ''Get nothing between
here and the airplane. Go straight to the plane.''
1989:
Stephen Engelberg and Michael Gordon of The New York Times are the first
to report in detail about West German participation in the design and
construction of the vast chemical plant designed to produce poison gas at Rabta
in Libya along with facts about French aid in refueling bombers that would make
possible the quick delivery of poison-gas bombs to Tel Aviv residents who are
descendants of those forced to breathe Cyclon-B at Auschwitz.
1990:
Elizabeth Holtzman became the 40th Comptroller of New York City.
1990:
Stephen Breyer began servicing as Chief Judge of the United States Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit.
1991:
WW II veteran and Queens College graduate Warren H. Phillips, the New York born
son of Abraham Phllips and the former Juliette Rosenberg and husband of Barbara
Anne Thomas, stepped down as CEO of Dow Jones & Company, a position he had
held since March of 1975.
1991:
Bruce Sundlun began serving as the 21st governor of Rhode and the
second Jew to hold this position.
1992:
In “Frank Binswanger - Philadelphia's Golem - Remembered Fondly He Was
Constantly Exhorting Philadelphians To Join His Pursuit Of Impossible Dreams”
published today Dan Rottenberg provides a personal picture of this descendant
of Rabbi Judah, the 16th century creator of the Golem.
1992: A suspicious fire
broke out in the basement of a synagogue in Brooklyn, severely damaging the
building and forcing the removal of several torahs. . Flames rushed through the
basement of Congregation Hisachbis Yirieim at 902 Avenue L, near East Ninth
Street, at 4:02 P.M. It was under
control at 4:47 P.M., Fire Marshal Glynn said. Fire department officials said
that the fire “is being considered as suspicious” in origin.
1994:
Abraham M. Lackman is scheduled to begin serving as budget director under new
mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani
1994:
Alan Hevesi began serving as the 41st Comptroller of New York City
1994:
Gabriel Oliver Koppell began serving as the 61st New York State
Attorney General.
1995(29th
of Tevet, 5755): Eugene Wigner, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963
passed away.
1995:
The full text of report compiled by the Agranat Commission, except for 48
pages, was made public today.
1995:
“The final phase of the Free Trade Agreement was fully implemented today when
Israel and the United States completely eliminated all duties and tariffs on
manufactured goods.”
1995:
Norman Pearlstein began serving as editor in chief of Time Inc.
1997:
“No Names on the Doors,” the third in Nadav “Levitan’s trilogy about Kibbutzim”
was released in Israel today.
1997:
Eighty-eight-year-old James Bennett Pritchard, the University of Pennsylvania
archaeologist whose work included six expeditions that unearthed and examined
the remains of the Biblical city of Gibeon passed away today.
1998:
Share prices on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange closed higher today, on optimism
that the Government would pass its 1998 budget and that there would be a cut in
interest rates as early as February.
1998:
Jack Weinstein, the future Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and
Nuclear Integration, was promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel today.
1999:
After 13 years, Jerry Abramson completed his final term as mayor of Louisville,
KY.
1999:
The Times of London features a review
of Athens In Jerusalem: Classical antiquity and Hellenism in the making of
the modern secular Jew by Yaacov Shavi; translated from the Hebrew by Chaya
Naor and Niki Werner.
1999:
Eliot Spitzer became the 63rd New York Attorney General.
1999:
Eric Schneiderman began serving a member of the New York Senate from the 30th
district.
2000:
David Hurlbut moved into the Harmony Club in Selma, Alabama. It had originally
been built as a social club by a group of prominent Jewish businessmen in 1909.
2000:
Barbra Streisand completed a two night concert series at the MGM Grand Arena in
Las Vegas which generate more than $18 million in revenue.
2000(23rd
of Tevet, 5760): Jeshajahu Weinberg, the first director of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum here and one of the principal forces behind its
creation, died today in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. He was 81. Mr. Weinberg
served as the museum's director from its beginning in 1989 until 1995, as it
became one of Washington's leading tourist attractions. He also helped create
museums in Israel and Europe. (As reported by Irvin Molotsky)
2001:
A car bomb rocked the commercial heart of the Israeli coastal city of Netanya
today wounding more than 30 people, at least one seriously.
2001:
Yasir Arafat left Gaza shortly after midnight today for a hastily arranged
meeting with President Clinton to discuss the Palestinian leader's reservations
about an American blueprint for a final peace deal. came
2001:
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu belatedly endorsed Ariel Sharon in his
bid to become Prime Minister.
2002:
Michael Bloomberg became the 108th Mayor of New York City.
2002:
Gabriel Oliver Koppell began serving as a member of the New York City Council
from the 11th District.
2002:
Michael Applebaum began serving as Borough mayor for
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Montreal City Councilor
2002(17th
of Tevet, 5762): Fifty-seven film producer Julia Phillips passed away. (As
reported by Bernard Weinraub)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1740091.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/arts/julia-phillips-57-producer-who-assailed-hollywood-dies.html
2002:
Gabriel Oliver Koppell began serving as member of the New York City Council
from the 11th District.
2003:
Het Parool “an Amsterdam based daily newspaper” that got its start “as a
resistance paper during the German occupation” took a financial bailout today
to save it from the consequences of failing circulation and revenue.
2003:
Alan Hevesi began serving as the 53rd Comptroller of New York
2003:
Eric Schneiderman began serving as a member of the New York Senate from the 31st
district.
2004:
Louis Begley retired from Debevoise & Plimpton
2005:
Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig and Bobby Salomon were married today in “a traditional
Jewish wedding.
2005:
Isaac Perlmutter became the CEO of Marvel Comics today.
2006:
Jack Lebewohl, the new owner of the 2nd Avenue Deli which was
located at its original location in the East Village, closed the famed eatery
after a rent increase and a dispute over back rent that the landlord had said
was due.
2006:
Daniel C. Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt, assumes the
position of S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor in Middle East Policy Studies
at Princeton University.
2006:
Eric Garcetti began serving as President of the Los Angeles City Council
2006:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Kafka: The Decisive Years
by Reiner Stach, Savage Shorthand The
Life and Death of Isaac Babel by Jerome Charyn, Siegfried Sassoon: A Life by Max
Egremont and Why She Married Him
Myriam Chapman’s first novel based on her grandmother's recently
discovered manuscript describing a childhood in turn-of-the-century czarist
Russia, close escapes from its brutal pogroms and life as a Jewish émigré in
Paris.
2006(1st
of Tevet, 5766): Henry Samuel Magdoff
passed away. He was a prominent American social commentator who held several
administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D.
Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Monthly Review.
2007:
As a result of “the incident in which the Hanit Navy ship was struck by an
Iranian missile launched by Hizbullah during the second Lebanon war” “IDF Chief
of Staff Lieutenant General Dan Halutz announced today that the two Navy
officers at the rank of colonel would be reprimanded following the incident,
and that the ship's commander, a lieutenant colonel, would also be punished by
the Navy commander, and his next position would be at the headquarters and not
a commanding position.” (As reported by Hanan Greenberg)
2007:
Eliot Spitzer became the 54th governor of New York
2007:
Under Commissioner David Stern, the NBA switched back to the leather ball.
2007:
Jane Doe Buys a Challah and Other Short Stories, the first publication
of Ang-Lit Press, a newly established English publishing house based in
Tel-Aviv goes on sale in Israel. The
book is the first ever anthology of short stories by Israeli Anglo writers.
2008:
Lieutenant General Moshe Levy, who had served at the 12th Chief of
Staff of the IDF, suffered a massive stroke.
2008:
At the Museum of Jewish Heritage closing day of an exhibition entitled The Other Promised Land:
Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream.”
2009:
In a move that bodes well for Israel, The Czech Republic takes over the
presidency of the European Union from France.
While France has condemned Israel’s attacks on Hamas, the Czech Foreign
Minister Karel Shwarzenberg has “insisted Israel had the right to defend
itself…Schwarzenberg said Hamas has excluded itself from serious political
debate due to its rocket attacks on Israel” and that Hamas “has put its bases
in gun warehouses in densely populated areas” which “was the reason for the
Palestinians’ growing death toll.
2009:
Today, Norman “Podhoretz became editor of Commentary
magazine.
2009:
Haaretz reported that according to a
story published by the Belgian daily La Derniere Heure published earlier
this week Jewish-French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy was listed by a
Belgium-based Islamist group as a target for assassination alongside other leading
Jewish personalities in Europe.
2009
(5 Tevet 5769): Helen Suzman, the internationally
renowned anti-apartheid campaigner who befriended the imprisoned Nelson Mandela
and offered an often lonely voice for change among South Africa’s white
minority, died in Johannesburg at the age of
91. (As reported by John F.
Burns and Alan Cowell)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/world/africa/02suzman.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
2009: “Teapacks, an Israeli band that formed in 1988
in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, officially disbanded today.
2009: After almost five years as Chief Judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Bernard A.
Friedman became the Senior Judge of the same court.
2009(5th of Tevet, 5769): Polish writer Henryk
Halkowski, one of Poland's most notable contemporary Jewish personalities, died
suddenly today just days after celebrating his 57th birthday. (As reported by JTA)
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2009/01/04/1001969/halkowski-noted-polish-writer-dies
2010: Starting at noon, Congregation Tikvat Israel
in Rockville, Md., is hosting a sale of used books about Judaism.
2010: In a case of Jew vs Jew Lionel Perez replaced
Saulie Zajdel as Montreal City Councillor for Darlington.
2010: In
Israel the Water Authority is supposed to be implementing a price hike. If the
price increase does not go through, several water corporations - including
those servicing the Galilee - will not have the funds to buy water from
Mekorot, the national water company.
2010: In
Jerusalem Hama'abada and The Visual Theatre present a unique collaboration:
"Snow Will Fall Tonight" including the following three shows:
"Pollyamoria" by Ma'ayan Moses, Pets" by Anat Arbel--tragi-comic
dance theatre and "To Raise You Wild"--by Shai Persil.
2010: The
Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility today for firing two Grad-type
rockets at the Netivot area from Gaza on last night.
2010: Two mortar
shells hit open areas in southern Israel this evening. There were no reports of
casualties or damage in both attacks. One of the projectiles landed near the
Kerem Shalom border crossing at the southeastern end of the Gaza Strip and the
other hit an open area in the Sdot Negev region and has not yet been located.
2010: Michael Bloomberg is sworn in for this third
term as Mayor of New York.
2010: Birthdate of Nathan Zachary Silber son of
David and Rebecca Silber and grandson of Dr. Robert “Bob” and Laurie Silber,
pillars of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community and all-around great guys.
2011: András Schiff “published a letter in the Washington Post questioning whether
"Hungary is ready and worthy to take on" the rotating presidency of
the Council of the European Union, as it did that day, because of "racism,
discrimination against the Roma, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, chauvinism and
reactionary nationalism," and "the latest media laws"
2011: Eric Schneiderman began serving as the 65th
Attorney General of New York.
2011: Frederick
Lawrence, 54, is scheduled to become Brandeis University’s eighth president
today succeeding President Jehuda Reinharz
2011: With snow falling and temperatures well below
freezing, the Traditional Minyan at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ushered
in the New Year. In keeping with the
bowl games that dominate the day, Deb Levin and Amy Barnum provided a football
themed Kiddush complete with pizza, munchies and a whole lot more.
2011: Arab terrorists launched a mortar attack near
Sderot this evening. One woman was treated for shock. The IDF noted that 6,500
residents live in the immediate area, which includes several kibbutzim. The IDF
retaliated by bombing a terrorist base and a weapons factory in northern and
central Gaza later that night.
2011: Two
female soldiers managed to escape a would-be attacker tonight. The two were
attacked by a Palestinian Authority man with a knife as they left their base in
Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. The two reported the incident immediately, and
Border Police began searching the area. They found the PA man nearby, and he
admitted to having attempted to stab soldiers at the base. He was arrested and
taken in for questioning.
2011: An
earthquake hit northern Israel on this evening, being felt most strongly in the
region of Beit Shean and Afula; residents of Tzfat reported feeling motion as
well. The quake was measured at 3.6 on the Richter scale. No injuries were
reported following the quake.
2011(25th of Tevet, 5771): Abdallah
Simon, called one of America's "most powerful" wine executives for
decades and a philanthropist, died today at the age of 88.
2011: As a result of the 2010 Congressional
Elections, the following is a list of the 39 Jewish members — 12 senators and
27 representatives — who are expected to serve in the 112th U.S. Congress,
which is set to convene in January:
U.S. SENATE
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)*
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)**
Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Al Franken (D-Minn.)
Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.)
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)**
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)**
(Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who is
projected to win his re-election bid, does not identify a religion, but notes
that his mother is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
David Cicilline (D-R.I.)*
Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.)
Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
Ted Deutch (D-Fla.)
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)
Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Jared Polis (D-Colo.)
Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)
*Elected to House or Senate for the first
time in 2010 midterms
**Senators who were re-elected in 2010
midterms (As reported by JTA)
2012: Simon Greer
will become the president and CEO at the Nathan Cummings Foundation after
serving in the same roles at Jewish Funds for Justice. He succeeds Lance
Lindblom.
2012:
A memorial service was held to honor the late Yiddish singer Adrienne
Cooper at Congregation Ansche Chesed while shiva was held at her daughter’s
apartment in New York City.
http://jfrej.org/2011-12-28/remembering-adrienne-cooper-zl
2012: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit” by Joseph Epstein and “Some of My
Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir” by Rosamond Bernier whose mother was English and
whose father was an American Jew.
2012(6th
of Tevet, 5772):
Venerated Israeli singer Yafa Yarkoni died at the age of
86 at Reut Medical Center in Tel Aviv today, after years of suffering from
Alzheimer's disease. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2012: Today, University
of California and Harvard Business School graduate Laurence M. Baer, the
play-by-player announcer turned baseball executive, who along with his wife
Pamela is a member of Congregation Emanu-El, became the CEO of the San
Francisco Giants.
2012: Israeli
politicians responded to last night‘s ultra-Orthodox demonstration in
Jerusalem’s Kikar Hashabbat (Sabbath Square), with Defense Minister Ehud Barak
and Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni expressing outrage over protesters use of
Holocaust symbolism to protest what they termed the exclusion of Haredim.
2012: Gaza terrorists resumed 11 years of aerial attacks on Israel late this
morning, firing two mortars shells on the western Negev.
2013: After
having announced his intentions in September, today Thomas Edgar Rothman’s
resignation as Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment became effective
today.
2013: The
works Janusz Korczak the pediatrician who wrote under the pen name Henryk
Goldszmit and who famously went to the
death camps with his orphans, would be available in the public domain as of 1
January 2013.[
2013: Paul
Shapiro's Ribs and Brisket Revue is scheduled to host a special Klezmer Brunch
for the New Year.
2013: Thomas
Edgar Rothman’s resignation as “chairman and chief executive of the Fox Filmed
Entertainment” which had been tendered in September, became effective today.
2013: “The
Looper” is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Starting today, female and male models who have a body mass index (BMI) of
less than 18.5 may not be shown in the media or on Israeli websites or go down
the catwalk at fashion shows
2013: After
coming under fire from right-wing Israeli politicians for a series of
statements he made over the past few days regarding the peace process and the
prospect of talks with Hamas, President Shimon Peres was subjected to an
unexpected tongue lashing — from a top Palestinian Authority official today.
2013: The ascendant head of the Jewish Home party, Naftali Bennett, continued to
make political waves \, after supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
Likud-Yisrael Beytenu list released an Internet ad featuring Holocaust-era
imagery that implied that the national religious party aspires to take the
country’s Orthodox citizens back to “the ghetto.”
2014: Professor Gal Kaminka, of Bar-Ilan
University’s Department of Computer Science and Gonda (Goldschmied)
Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, one of Israel’s, and the world’s,
leading contributors to intelligent robotics – the science of using artificial
intelligence to make robots “smarter” – is scheduled to receive Landau Prize
for Arts and Sciences in the robotics category for his outstanding
contributions to the advancement of science today (As reported by David Shamah)
2014: Rabbi David Ellenson completed his term
as President of HUC-JOR
2014: “The Escape” and “Omar” are scheduled to
be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2014: Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
condition continues to worsen, Sheba Hospital in Tel HaShomer reported today to
Channel 10. (As reported by Tova Dvorin)
2014: Andrew Cohen began serving as a Member of
the New York City Council from the 11th District.
2014: A memorial service for the 69 sailors of
the INS Dakar was held at Mount Herzl today, marking 46 years since it sank
into the Mediterranean. (As reported by Tova Dvorin)
2014: In Switzerland, “the former municipality
of Unterendingen merged into the municipality of Endingen” which “the 18th and
19th century, was one of few villages in which Swiss Jews were permitted to
settle” as can be seen by the fact that “old buildings in Endingen have two
doors – one for Jews and one for Christians” and that. Endigen's synagogue and
Jewish cemetery are listed as a heritage site of national significance.”
2015: “The IDF is scheduled to withdraw its security
forces from Israeli communities near Gaza that are not adjacent to the border
effective today.”
2015: Jody Geron is scheduled to join Universal
Music Publish Group today Chariman/CEO, replacing Zach Horowitz who has led the
company for the past two years.”
2015: “Heartburn” and Foxcatcher” are scheduled
to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2015(10th of Tevet, 5775): Fast of
the 10th Tevet
2015(10th of Tevet, 5775): Yahrzeit
of Judith Sharon Levin Rosenstein, known to one and all simply as Judy.
2015: Jerusalem Mayro Nir Barkat announced
today that the “The Jerusalem Unity Prize has been
established in memory of three Israeli teens -- Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and
Naftali Fraenkel, a dual American and Israeli citizen who were kidnapped and
murdered by Palestinian terrorists last June.”
2015: “Ayala Shapira,
the 11-year-old Israeli girl who was critically wounded in a firebomb attack in
the West Bank last week, awoke from a medically induced coma today.”
(As reported by Lazar Berman)
2015: “Palestinians threw three Molotov
cocktails at building in a Jewish neighborhood on the Mount of Olives on the
first night of 2015. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2015: Todd Kaminsky began serving as a member
of the New York State Assembly from the 20th District.
2016(20th of Tevet, 5776) On the
Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Maimonides.
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tevet_20.html
2016: Today, Cantor Sherwood Goffin officially
retired as the Chazan of the Lincoln Square Synagogue where he was giving the
title of “Founding Chazan.”
http://sherwoodgoffin.com/about-me/cantorial-biography
https://yucommentator.org/2019/04/sherwood-goffin-renowned-cantor-and-educator-dies-at-77/
2016: The copyright that a Swiss foundation
holds to The Diary of Anne Frank was scheduled to end today until
litigation was brought which may extend the copyright to 2050 or beyond.
2016: During the day, we say Happy New Year and
in the evening we say Shabbat Shalom.
2017(3rd of Tevet, 5777): Eighth Day
of Chanukah and New Year’s Day
2017(3rd of Tevet, 5777)
Seventy-seven year old Tel Aviv born veteran of the Golani Brigade and
University of Jerusalem and NYU trained lawyer, Yaakov Neeman, the former
Minister of Justice and Minster of Finance passed away today in Jerusalem.
2017: Russ and Daughters Kosher location at the
Jewish Museum is scheduled to be open for New Year’s.
2017: “Through the Wall” is scheduled to be
shown at JW3 in London.
2017: “The new state broadcasting corporation
established by a 2014 Knesset law to replace the cash strapped Israel
Broadcasting is scheduled to be launched today. (As reported by Sue Surkes)
2017: “Islamic authorities managing the Temple
Mount attempted to have a veteran Israeli archaeologist ejected from the
Jerusalem flashpoint holy site today for using the term “Temple Mount” in a
lecture to American students.”
2017: The
New York Times features books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Against Empathy: The Case for Rational
Compassion by Paul Bloom, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the
Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobe, the
recently released paperback editions of On The Road by Gloria Steinem
and The Improbability of Life by Hannah Rothschild as well as a
“conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy, the author of The Genius of Judaism and
the report that one of the books that will appear in March is Ariel Levy’s The
Rules Do Not Apply, “a memoir that builds on her powerful 2013 essay in The New Yorker about a miscarriage she
suffered during a reporting trip to Mongolia.”
2018:
Deadline for accepting application for the 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship
competition sponsored by the US Holocaust Memorial “Museum’s Jack, Joseph and
Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.”
2018(14th
of Tevet, 5778): Ninety-seven-year-old Robert Mann, “the founding first
violinist of the Julliard String Quarter passed away today. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
2018:
For those planning on celebrating the New Year with a combination of Culture
and Kosher Cuisine Russ & Daughters is scheduled to open this morning at
its café in the Jewish Museum.
2018:
“As of today, the Simon Dubnow Institute, then Leibniz Institute for Jewish
History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI), will be accepted as member of the
Leibniz Association”
2018:
“In a generational changing of the guard”, 37 year old Arthur Gregg Sulzberger
is scheduled to replace his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger as the publisher of
the New York Times today.
2019:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to attend the inauguration of
Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro today in Brasilia. (As reported by C.H. Gardiner)
2019:
Thanks to the wonder of modern communication, the University of Iowa is
scheduled to play in the Outback Bowl under the watchful eyes of Hebrew
Hawkeyes Joel Barnum, Fred Goldstein and Bob Silber who are in three different
cities.
2019:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Budapest Noir” this evening in London
2019(24th
of Tevet, 5779): On the Jewish calendar, “Yahrzeit of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer
Dessler.”
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tevet_24.html
2019: In an example
of a “Diminutive David” living in a world of “Great Goliaths” This Day…In Jewish
History is listed among the “Top 50 Jewish Blogs, Websites and Newsletters to
Follow in 2019.” (Editor’s note – We have no idea how this is ranking is
created. Obviously we do not do this for
placement on a list. But it is a hoot to
be listed with these Heavy Hebrew Hitters.
2020: Mount Carmel Cemetery which
interred its first deceased Jew on December 28, 1906 is scheduled to be open
for visitation today.
2020: The Jerusalem Theatre is
scheduled to host “It’s All Mozart” with Nofar Yacobu abd the Jerusalem
Symphony.
2020: This Day…In Jewish History is
rated #16 on the list of the “Top 50 Jewish Blogs and Websites to Follow in
2020. (Editor’s Note – Unfortunately, Deb Levin Z”L is not with us to see the
fruits of her labor)
2021: In Cleveland, Temple Emanu El
is scheduled to host a virtual Wine and Cheese Reception prior to Shabbat
Services via zoom.2
2021: In Columbus, OH, starting
today, “Tifereth Israel members in good standing are eligible for 15% of the
cost of cemetery plots.”
2021: Kerem Shalom is scheduled to
present online Erev Shabbat Services with Wendy Humphreys.
2021: The Office of Cultural Affairs
of the Consulate General of Israel in New York and the JCC Manhattan are scheduled
to host “a viewing and discussion of Dani Menkin’s documentary telling the
story of Aulcie Perry, the American who became a basketball legend in Israel.”
2021: As of today, This Day…In Jewish
History is rated #14 on the list of the Top 70 Jewish Blogs and Websites to
follow. (Editor’s note – Without fear of contradiction we know that this site
has the smallest staff of the 13 sites above it.)
