August 1
30
BCE: Mark Antony died. Following the victory of Octavian and Antony
over those who had murdered Julius Caesar, Antony became ruler of the Eastern
half of the Roman Empire. Antony did
name Herod as ruler of Judaea. But when
his lover Cleopatra let it be known that she wished to recreate the Ptolemy
rule over the area, Antony partially reversed himself by giving the Queen
Jericho and numerous other towns in Judaea.
None of this had anything to do with Antony’s feelings about the Jews but
rather reflected his passion for Cleopatra. In the end none of this matter
since Octavian defeated Antony and control of the Jews passed to the man who
became Caesar Augustus.
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388: The synagogue
located on the Euphrates in Callinicum was looted and burned by Church
officials. St. Ambrose (one of the four Latin doctors of the Catholic Church)
defended the action. He reprimanded Theodosius the Great for ordering the local
Bishop to pay restitution, even though expropriation was illegal under Roman
law. St. Ambrose offered to burn the synagogue in Milan on his own.
527: Justinian I also
known as Justinian the Great becomes the Byzantine Emperor. For gentiles, Justinian might be considered
“Great” but he was an enemy of the Jews.
Justinian’s celebrated code contains the following about his policy
towards his Jewish subjects. “They shall enjoy no honors. Their status shall reflect the baseness which
in their souls they have elected and desired.”
“The principle of servitus
Judaeorum (‘servitude of the Jews’) was established, and the hitherto
uneven pattern of persecution was systemized for a Christian civilization march
towards its age of faith.” Justinian
banned the recitation of the Shema because its declaration of the Oness of God
was at odds with the Trinity. In
response to demands of his Bishops, Justinian banned the public reading of the
Torah. He also forbad the observance of
Passover in the years when it preceded Easter on the calendar.
1098: Fifty-three year
old Adhemar of Le Puy, the French bishop who was a leader of the First Crusade
which proved so devastating to the Jews of the Rhineland and the Holy Land died
today at Antioch.
1137: King Louis VI
passed away and is succeed by his Louis VII who will launch the Second
Crusade. Louis VII’s reign was not “Jew
friendly.” Following the logic of the time that it made no sense to go to
Palestine to fight those holding on to the Christian Holy Sites and leave the
defilers of Christianity at home alone, in 1144 Louis VII would expel all the
Jews who had converted to Christianity and then returned to Judaism. In 1171
the first Blood Libel in France took place in Blois.
1263, James I ordered
the removal of passages deemed offensive from the Talmud
1291: The Swiss
Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter. The original
Jews settled in what is now Switzerland during the days of the Roman Empire.
Records of the Jewish community officially date back to the 13th
century, with Jews having settled in Basel in 1213, seventy years before the
confederation was formed. Jews from France and Germany settled in Bern by 1259,
St. Gall in 1268, Zurich in 1273, Schaffhausen, Diessenhofen, and Luzerne in
1299. But anti-Semitism is almost as old as the confederation itself since
in1294 in when many Jews living in Berne of the city were executed and the
survivors expelled under the pretext of the murder of a Christian boy.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/swiss.html
1298: Although assisted
by humane Christian citizens, the Jews of Nuremberg were overpowered and
butchered today. Among the victims was Mordecai ben Hillel, a pupil of Jehiel ben
Asher, with his wife and children.
1431: “King Sigismund
assured the Jews of Worms that all edicts annulling the outstanding debts owed
them would be declared invalid upon the payment by each Jew of an indemnity.”
1520: In Cracow,
Poland, Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza of Milan, the niece of the Holy
Roman emperor Maximilian, gave birth to Sigismund II Augustus, the Polish King
who allowed “Jews to settle in Vilna without restriction” and who issued “the
‘Magna Cara of Jewish Self-Government’’ “which permitted Jews to elect their
own chief rabbi and judges.”
1580: Evard Mercurian,
the fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) passed away. The first three leaders of the order had been
Spanish and there was concern that they might be Coversos or at least have
Jewish blood. So Mercuvian, a native of
Luxemburg got the job because Pope Gregory XIII wished to dispel an connotation
of a Jewish connection.
1626: In Izmir,
Mordecai and Clara Sevi gave birth to Sabbatai Zevi, the most famous the False
Messiahs.
1641: King Christian IV
“formally reconfirmed the Ashkenazim their general privilege including their
cemetery and a synagogue, thus continuing the basis for the existence of their
community.”
1658: Coronation of
Leopold I who borrowed large sums of money from banker Samuel Oppenheimer to
fight the “Great Turkish War."
1670: As a result of a
proclamation by the Emperor, as of today, all the Jews had left Vienna.
1768: Today
“approximately sixty merchants and traders signed the Boston Non-Importation
Agreement which led to most of the ports including Philadelphia and Charleston
with their comparatively significant Jewish population in the 13 colonies to adopt similar measures.
1714: Queen Anne of
Great Britain during whose reign an “Act to oblige Jews to maintain and provide
for their Protestant children” took effect, passed away today. This act of
Parliament grew out of case involving Jacob de Mendez Berta and his daughter
Mary who became a Protestant. According to one source, the father refused
to continue to support his daughter after she converted and her newly adopted
Protestant community did not want to shoulder the burden of her support.
Hence, this legislation was adopted and would stay in effect until the middle of
the 19th century.
1714: George I began
his reign as King of Great Britain and Ireland during which “an act of
Parliament that allowed Jews holding land to omit the words "on the true
faith of a Christian", when registering their title.”
1753: The Imperial
Court rescinded the order confiscating copies of the prayer book and Talmud
because they were found not contain derogatory statements about Christianity.
1776(16th of
Av, 5536): Twenty nine year old Francis Salvador, the member of a prominent
Sephardic South Carolina family and an ardent Patriot, was killed while
fighting the Tory and Indian supporters of the British.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Salvador.html
1778(8th of
Av, 5538): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon Erev Tish’a B’Av
1787: In the UK, Hannah
Montefiore, the daughter of Moses Montefiore and Esther Hannah Racah, married
Moses Acona with whom she had five children – “Leah, Judah, Moses Montefiore,
Esther and Sarah.”
1789(9th of
Av, 5549): Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1789(9th of Av): Rabbi
Abraham Isaac Castello, the native of Ancona whose works included "A
Memorial Sermon on the Death of Francis I. of Germany", written in
Spanish, and translated by Castello's son Joseph Castello into Italian passed
away in Leghorn, Italy.
1797(9th of
Av, 5557): Tish’a B’Av
1797: Two Jews named
Bromet and DeLemon were elected members of the Second National Assembly of
Holland today
1798: The British Fleet
under Nelson defeats the French Fleet in the Battle of the Nile. Nelson’s victory left the British in control
of the Mediterranean. Napoleon’s army
had already landed before the battle.
Although the French leader would score victories in Egypt and Syria,
crossing through Eretz Israel, his victories would mean little since the French
army could not be sustained. Among the
lesser known consequences was the end of promises Napoleon had made during the
siege at Acre to create a Jewish homeland.
1807: In Philadelphia,
PA, Frances “Fanny” Gratz and Reuben Etting who were married in 1794, gave
birth to Miriam Gratz Etting
1813: Birthdate of
Stockholm native Charles Kann, the husband of Copenhagen native Amalia Monies
and the father of Albert, Ellen, Jenny and Ellen Kann.
1814(15th of
Av, 5574): Tu B’Av celebrated for the last time during the War of 1812.
1819: Birthdate of
American novelist Herman Melville who was the special subject of study of Viola
Sachs who “conducted research and studies for the decoding of Melville’s master
works” and who survived the Holocaust by living in Brazil along with her
husband, economist Ignacy Sachs
1820: Hannah Joel, a
widow who had died at “Jews Hospital” was buried today at the Brady Jewish
Cemetery.
1822(14th of
Av, 5582): Westphalia native Joseph Cohen, the Revolutionary War veteran, the
shochet for Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City and Beth Elohim in
Charleston, SC who was a clerk for the Gratz brothers who was the husband of
Rose Barnet and Hannah Moses passed away today in London.
1827(8th of
Av, 5587): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time while George Canning was
Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1830: Today Isaac and
Hannah Solomon were married at the Western Synagogue.
1833: On a second
reading a bill designed to free Jews from all civil disabilities which would
open the world of politics to them, was defeated.
1841: Birthdate of Dr.
Isidor Cohnstein the native of Gnesen
and gynecologist who married Ida
Cohnstein.
1842: Birthdate of Hungarian
journalist Albert Farkas “who advocated a peaceable of adjustment of the
religious differences among Hungarian Jews.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6026-farkas-albert
1844: Birthdate of
Aaron E. Greenewald, the husband of Sallie Gimbel Greenewald.
1846(9th of
Av, 5606): Erev Tish’B’av; Parashat Devarim
1846: Max-Théodore
Cerfberr, a colonel in the French Army and president of the Consistoire Central
Israelite de France “was reelected to the Chamber of Deputies today.
1849: In Hlinik,
Hungary, Moritz Hecht and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Sigmund Hecht, who in
1868 came to the United States where he earned a Doctorate of Divinity from the
University of Alabama and served as rabbi at Temple Beth Or in Montgomery, AL,
Congregation Emanu-El in Milwaukee, WI and Congregation B’nai B’rith in Los
Angeles, CA.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/rabbi-sigmund-hecht/
https://www.amazon.com/History-Sigmund-Hecht-Books/s?rh=n%3A9%2Cp_27%3ASigmund+Hecht
1852: In Brighton, Dr.
Loewe, the Oriental Linguist to the Duke of Sussex and first Principal of Jews’
College London and his wife gave birth to James H. Loewe, the “manager of the
East-end branch of the International Bank of London, Ltd., founder and first
President of the Finsbury-park Synagogue and of the North London Beth
Hamedrash.
1852: This afternoon,
the new Jewish Synagogue in Eighth-street, between North First and North
Second-streets, was dedicated by appropriate ceremonies of the Jewish religion.
There were Hebrew chant and lectures by Rabbi, Max Lilienthal, Rabbi Samuel M.
Isaacs and Rabbi Morris Raphall. Dr. Barnard officiated as Rabbi to the
congregation. The Synagogue is to be known as the "House of Israel."
There were many Gentiles present to view the ceremonies.
1853: Birthdate of Lithuanian
Rabbi Icik Benkowitz the Orthodox rabbi who served as Rabbi for two
congregations in Chelsea, MA and who was
believed “the nation’s oldest spiritual leader when he passed away in 1963.”
1854: In Krakau,
Austria, Herman and Rebeca (Cypress) Guttman gave birth to Dr. Adolph Guttman,
the husband of Marilla Goldstein who played a formative role in the creation of
the liturgy and religious practices of Temple Concord in Syracuse, NY and who
served as the chaplain at the Auburn (NY) prison for 35 years.
1855: Castle Garden
opened as the immigrant process center in New York.
1856: Lauritz
Weidemann, one of the framers of Norway’s constitution whose opposition to
Jewish citizenship was expressed somewhat incoherently when he wrote “"The
Jewish nation's history proves, that this people always has been rebellious and
deceitful, and their religious teachings, the hope of again arising as a
nation, so often they have acquired some remarkable fortune, led them to
intrigues and to create a state within a state. It is of vital importance to
the security of the state that an absolute exception be made about them"
passed away today.
1858: In New Orleans,
Bernard and Sophia Bernstein Kowalski gave birth to Zachary Kowalski who would
passed away before his third birthday.
1859: The Report of Sir Moses Montefiore to
the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews on the subject of his
mission to Rome in the Mortara Case was published today. While Sir Moses was
thankful for those who assisted in him arranging meeting with Vatican
officials, the Church refused to acknowledge any error in the case. The conversion stands and the Jewish child
stolen from his parents will be raised as a Catholic.
1859:
An editorial in the New York Times,
expresses disappointment at Rome’s refusal to yield on the issues in the
“Mortara Case” while expressing relief “that such an enormity as the abduction
of the Mortara child cannot be repeated even by Rome.” The Times also points out the horrible
conditions under which the Jews of Austria, a patron and protector of the Pope,
are living. “The case of the Israelites…bad as it is in Rome, is still worse in
Austria.” Jews are restricted in the
vocations they may pursue and are banned from “many of the higher vocations of
trade.” They are limited in their right
to move to different parts of the empire and they need a special license if
they want to leave the country altogether.
In some parts of the empire, there is a limit on the number of Jewish
marriages “so that a young man must await the death of his parent before he can
enter the state of matrimony. This hideous and demoralizing law is but one of
the many horrors which Austrian persecution has designed for the Israelites
living in Austria, and who are kept by the brutal system, in a state of
ignorance which the condition of Jewish populations in free countries proves to
abnormal with that portion of the human family.” [All of this will change with
a stroke of a pen after Austria loses its war with Prussia and is forced to
reorganize as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.]
1861: At the start of
the Civil War, Joseph Benedict Greenhut “joined the 12th Illinois
Infantry and was muster in today.
1861: Birthdate of New
York City native and former traveling salesman Seymour Caesar Heyman, the husband
of Rebecca Gerson and father of Stanley Heyman, who in 1897 moved to Oklahoma
City where he opened the Hub Clothing Store, became a civic leader and “an
influential member of B’nai Israel Temple.”
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HE021
1861(25th of Av, 5621):
Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah A Moses, the Charleston, SC, born daughter of
Adeline and Levy I Moses passed away today.
1862: In an interlude
between the Siege of Corinth and the Second Battle of Corinth, Jacob C. Cohen
of the 27th Ohio Infantry wrote to the Jewish Messenger to describe
what life was like as they bivouacked at Camp Clear Creek just outside of the
Mississippi town.
http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/jcc01.html
1862: The USS Canandaigua on which Adolph
Marix served during 1871–1872 was commissioned today.
1864: Birthdate of
South Carolina Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith a supporter of the immigration quota
system who wanted to exempt Jews from the quota system” because “their thrift,
their economy and their love of learning” appealed to him. (As reported by
Henry L. Feingold)
1864: Today, following
the end of the Schleswig War, Prussia, under the leadership of Bismarck who
relied on his banker Gerson Bleichröder for financial advice took possession of
the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
1865(9th of Av, 5625):
Tisha B'Av
1865: The New York
Times reported that “the Israelites in this city and throughout the world
solemnized in sorrow and in sadness, in tears and in lamentation, in fasting
and in prayer, the annual fast of Ab, founded on the destruction of the Temple,
and the overthrow of the national government. Although nearly 2,300 years have
elapsed since the first Temple was destroyed, and eighteen centuries since the
construction of the second Temple, both occurrences taking place on the same day
of the month, the fast is still continued from Monday evening to Tuesday night,
in accordance with the Jewish ritual, and in consonance with Israelitish
feeling. The fast is inaugurated with reciting the lamentations of Jeremiah,
and, after the morning service, several hours are employed in the synagogues in
chanting in plaintive tones the compositions of the saints of antiquity, and
imploring the God of Israel to remove the rod of chastisement from Israel, and
again to resume the light of other days, by the reestablishment of their Temple
and restoration of their government to its original splendor.”
1866: In Moscow,
“Andrew and Elizabeth Malkiel” gave birth to NYU trained attorney, the
secretary of the Socialist Labor Party and husband of the former Theresa
Serber, the socialist advocate for the rights of woman and workers.
1866: Maj. Louis
Alexander Gratz and Elisabeth (Lizzie) Trigg Gratz gave birth to Frances
Henrietta Gratz who became Frances Henrietta Mann when she married Horace
Attlee Mann.
1867: In Russia, Herman
Gussow and his wife gave birth to Abraham Gussow, the founder of A. Gussow and
Company, on of “the largest manufacturers of women’s underwear in New York and
a president of the Cotton Garment Association who was the husband of Emma Iserlson with whom he had five children
– Pansy, Minnie, Anna, Isidore and Alfred.
1868: In Montgomery,
Alabama, “Jacob and Bella (Mayer) Jonas gave birth to banker Nathan S. Jonas,
the husband of Jennie Strauss who pre-deceased him.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jonas-nathan-s
1868: In Montgomery, AL
Bella Mayer and Jacob Jonas gave birth to Brooklyn educated philanthropist
Nathan Jonas the husband of Jennie Strauss who rose from traveling salesman, to
insurance agent to bank president.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/jonas-nathan-s
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jonas-nathan-s
1869: Birthdate of
Moishe Hillkowitz, the native of Riga, who gained famed as New York labor
lawyer and Socialist political leader, Morris Hillquit.
1870: Birthdate of Rabbi Tuvia Geffen who gained fame as
“The Coca Cola Rabbi.”
1870: A rumor swept New York today that the police had apprehended the
murder of Benjamin Nathan – a plumber who with a lacerated face who was caught
with a stolen watch belong to the deceased.
1870: “The Jews in Romania” published today reported that there were 176
synagogues serving 400,000 Jews in Romania.
1870: Di Post, the first Yiddish periodical to appear in the United
States was published for the first time today in New York City.
1870: In Lithuania, Gittel Helvich Shubert and David Hersh Shubert gave
birth Khana Sora Shubert, the sister of the famous theatrical Shubert brothers.
1870: Benjamin Nathan, the prominent Jewish New York businessman who was
murdered in his own home, was buried today at the Jewish Cemetery, Shearith
Israel at Cypress Hill. His brother-in-law, Rabbi J.J. Lyons had officiated at
funeral that was held at the deceased’s resident.
1871:
In Kovno, Lithuania, Chaim Hillel and Bessie (Siegel) Rosenberg gave birth to
Isaiah Rosenberg, the University of Leipzig and University of Berne educated
author and editor known as Karol Vornberg who married Kamentzky in Newark, N.J.
in 1903 where pursuing a career that included serving on the editorial staff of
the Forwards, writing for the Day and editing the Jewish Voice in Newark.
1873: It was reported today that the last person to see ten year old
John Henry Lance was “a Jew peddler in Williamsburg.”
1875: In London, Rebecca and Michaelis Hallensein gave birth to Percy
Hallenstein, the brother Emile and Henri Hallenstein who changed his named to
Halsted, was the husband of Enid Miriam Gotthelf and passed away in New
Zealand.
1875: “The Jews of Italy,” an article published today described the
conditions of the Jews living in this newly reunited nation. It focused on the deplorable conditions of
many of the Jews living in the old ghetto of Rome along the Tiber, the improved
condition of Jews living outside of the capital and the annual ceremony at St.
John the Lateran set aside to baptize any Jew who has converted during the past
12 months. However, no Jew has participated in the ceremony in the last twenty
years, despite the best efforts of the Church.
1876: Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S.
state. The largest number of Jews began
arriving in Colorado as part of the gold rush activities in 1859. Jews helped supply the miners in many of the
camps that later became small towns throughout the state. Hyman and Fred Salomon, two Jewish brothers
from Prussia, were leading members of the Denver community by the time
statehood was declared. In addition to
their business ventures, they helped organize the Colorado Pioneer Society, the
Denver Public Library and the Denver B’nai Brit Lodge.
1876: In New York City,
Joseph and Lena (Bernhardt) Kopetzky gave birth Columbia medical school trained
physician and author Samuel Kopetzky, a professor in the department of otology
at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital and member of the board of
governors of the American Jewish Physicians committee for the Establishment of
the Medical Department at Hebrew University who, while serving as a
medical officer with the 81st
Division was “cited for gallantry in action after the Meuse-Argonne Offensive”
and who was the husband of Anah H. Dobb with whom he had two children – Yvonne
and Karl.
1876(11th of Av, 5636):
Lewis Wormser, the native of Stuttgart who moved to Ireland in 1821 where he
became such a successful businessman and leader of the Jewish community that he
was waiting to begin serving as Lord Mayor of Dublin when he passed away today. Had he lived, he would have been the first
Jew to hold that position and honor that would fall to Robert Briscoe eighty
years later.
1877: Three weeks
before her 40th birthday, in the UK, Sarah Ellis, the daughter of
Abraham Ellis, married fifty year old Israel Levy.
1878: Birthdate of
Alfred W. Fleisher who would be buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery at Philadelphia
when he passed away on Christmas Day, 1928.
1878: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn was
incorporated today under the leadership of President Ernst Nathan.
1879: Following the
Russo-Turkish War, Czar Alexander II today awarded Joshua be Aaron Zeitlin “ a
medal in recognition of his services” as “a contractor for the victorious
Russian Army
1879: As reported in
the Jewish Messenger, "...About
twenty, mostly young men, have formed themselves into a congregation under the
name of 'Orach Chaim', Path of Life, their objective being to hold Divine
service every day, morning and evening, as well as on Sabbath and holidays on
strict orthodox principles, as it has been handed down to them by their
fathers."
1880: “A Christian
Woman Becomes a Jewess” published today described the conversion ceremony of
Mrs. Morse that took place last month in Rochester, NY.
1881: No reason was
given today when it was reported that the excursion of Athletic Society of
Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem has been postponed until later this
month.
1881: Birthdate of Otto
Toeplitz, the third generation German mathematician who would seek refuge in
Palestine after the rise of the Nazis.
1881: Birthdate of Fritz Spira, the Viennese actor who played
Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film The Third Squadron but whose fame
did not keep him from being arrested by the Nazis and dying ignominiously at
the Ruma Concentration Camp in 1943.
1882: Henry Robinson
married Mary Pillischer today at the Brighton Synagogue.
1882: Birthdate of Jacob Benjamin Salutsky, the Russian
immigrant who gained fame as the J.B.S. Hardman a prominent socialist who serve
as Education of Director of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers after having left
the Communist movement in apparent disgust.
1882: As the Freight
Handler’s strike continued the Russian Jews had been replaced by Germans as
workers at Pier Number 39 of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
1883: Birthdate of
Amsterdam native Isidore Goudeket the “Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908
Summer Olympics” was murder at Sobibor in 1943.
1885(20th of
Av, 5645): Parashat Eikev
1885: John T. Robeson,
the U.S. Consul-General in Beirut sent a telegram to the governor-general of
Syria protesting the order expelling Mordecai Yitzhak Lubowsky and his
brother. The two Jews were American
citizens and the diplomat pointed out that expelling them was a violation of
the treaty between the Porte and the United States since it discriminated based
on religion.
1885: A well-attended
memorial service in honor of the late Sir Moses Montefiore, who was buried on
Friday in Ramsgate, England, was held today at the Montefiore Home for Chronic
Invalids, on the corner of Eighty-fourth-street and Avenue A in New York.
1885: Bavarian born
Isaac Alsbacher and Rebecca Klein who settled in Cleveland gave birth to their
fifth child Jesse Alsbacher.
1887(11th of Av, 5647):
Issac Margolis, the Russo-Polish rabbi who was a descendant of Yom Tov Lippman
Heller of Prague who came to the United
States in 1884 and assumed the leadership of Congregation Anshe-Kalvariya passed away in New York.
1887: Today, on his 18th
birthday, Morris HIllquist joined the Socialist Labor Party of America.
1887: Birthdate of Belarus
native and “Jewish labor leader” Reuben Guskin, who “escaped to the United
States in 1904 after being sought by the Czarist police for participating in
Jewish self-defense in Bobroisk,” where he became president of the United
Hebrew Trade and served on “the management council of the Forward.”
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/G/guskin-reuben.htm
1888: Birthdate of
Russian born Yiddish poet Nahum Yud, who wrote under the name Nahum
Yersualimchik who came to the United States where he wrote for Yiddish
publications until his death in 1966.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yud-nahum
1888: Birthdate of Rene
Marx Dormoy, the friend of fellow socialist Leon Blum in whose government he
served as Minister of the Interior and defeated the attempt of the right-wing
La Cagoule to overthrow the Third Republic before WW II. Dormoy did not turn his back on Blum after
the cowardly capitulation of the French and the rise of Vichy – a loyalty that
cost him his life.
1889: New York Mayor
Hugh Grant received a letter today from Henry M. Leipziger, Director of the
Hebrew Technical Institute concerning an exhibit for the upcoming World’s
Fair.
1889: Nine year old
Samuel Ehrenstein and five year old Lazarus Ehrenstein were left with Coroner
Levy in New York. A letter said that
they were orphans and should be sent to a charitable institution for care
1890(15th of
Av, 5650): Tu B’AV
1890: “The British
House of Commons” published today describe activities in Parliament including
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir James Fergusson’s reassurance
that he has no proof that the Russian government plans on enforcing any edicts
aimed at reducing the rights of Russian Jews.
1890: “In the House of
Lords…the Marquis of Salisbury…said he could not confirm reports…of any anti-Jewish
edicts by the Russian government.”
1890: In Jersey City,
NJ, Hannah Pollock and Morris Eichmann gave birth to Columbia trained attorney
Meyer Eichmann, the husband of Mary J. Goldberg.
1890: New York
Congressman Charles Baker asked the Committee on Foreign Affairs to consider “a
resolution protesting ‘in the name of humanity, against such inhuman and
barbarous acts as the enforcement by Russia of the edict of 1882, against the
Jews, requesting the President to transmit, through our representatives in
Russia, this protest to the Russian Government.”
1891: It was reported
today that U.S. government believes the fact that nothing has been heard from
Dr. J.M. Crawford the United States Consul General in St. Petersburg “for a
long time past” is “convincing proof” that the Russian government is not
contemplating any action to enforce the edicts aimed at depriving the Jews of
their rights.
1891: Simon Wolf and
Lewis Abraham of Washington, DC, representing the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the
immigration Russian Jews to the United States.
1891: Secretary of
Treasury Charles Foster wrote to Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham assuring them
that the immigration laws would be enforced “efficiently” but “humanely.
1891: Birthdate of Eliyahu Lulu, who would gain
fame as a member of the First Knesset under the name of Eliyahu Hacarmeli.
1891: “The Czar Changes
Bankers” published today attributed the Russian government’s decision to move
its accounts from the London branch of the House of Rothschild to Messrs. C.J.
Hambro & Son to that country’s “attitude toward the Jews.”
1892: Emma Goldman was
among those attending the meeting of anarchists held tonight at 193 Bowery.
1892: At a meeting of
anarchist of Newark, NJ the speaker praised Alexander Berkman, who had
attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Steel Strike, by
saying “I trust that in the near future we may all become Berkmanns.”
1892: In Chicago,
“Ukrainian Jewish immigrants Annie P. (née Cohn) and Nicholas J. Pritzker” gave
birth to Harry Nicholas, partners in the firm of Pritzker and Pritzker along
with his brothers Abram and Jack, the father of the former Elna Stone and
father of Richard and Joanne Pritzker, whose family members created a real
estate empire that included the Hyatt hotel chain.
1893: Birthdate of
Rossien, Lithuania native Alexander Sachs who joined his brother Joseph in 1904
in the United States where he was educated at CCNY, Columbia and Harvard and
became an influential economist and banker best known for delivering the
“Einstein–Szilárd letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt” in October of 1939
which led to the Manhattan Project and the birth of the Atomic/Nuclear Age.
1893(19th of
Av, 5653): Joseph Korman, “an educated Russian Jew” who came to the United
States about a year ago and who had been “a successful merchant at one time”
passed away today after being for six months leaving behind a destitute widow
and four children.
1893: Today is the
deadline for all the Jews living in Lifland to sell their property and move
into the Pale.
1893: It was reported
today that Archbishop Dionysius Latas, a prominent Greek prelate, said that if
the subject comes up during his visit to Chicago he intends to express his
opposition to the persecution of the Jews.
1893: The body of 76
year old Solomon Heyman who passed away yesterday in Long Branch will be
brought to New York City today for burial.
1894: “East Side Roof
Gardens” published today described the growth of these popular venues including
one that “the young men of the Hebrew
Institute” have established at the building on East Broadway and Jefferson
Street. From 9 in the morning until 8 in the evening mothers and their “babes
in arms” can sit under the big awning on the roof in attempt to stay cool
during the summer heat.
1894: The trial of
Jeremiah J. Levy a Jewish policeman who has been charged with bribery continued
today.
1895: Birthdate of Béla
Zsolt, the native of Komárom, Hungary who survived Bergen-Belsen, rode to
freedom on the “Kasztner Train” and wrote Nine Suitcases a Holocaust
memoir that would later be turned into a one act play.
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Nine_Suitcases.html
(For more information
about the Kasztner Train see http://www.killingkasztner.com/)
1895: “In The Real
Estate Field” published today described the sale of a lot on the southeast
corner of Lexington Avenue and 77th Street by the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum Society for $87,500.
1895: “The Clothing
Industry” published today attributed the success in New York of the
“industry for manufacturing clothing” to
“cheap labor.” This labor “has not been
made cheap through any effort or design of the manufactures” but is the result
of vast number of Russian and Polish Jews who have “forced down the price” of
labor.
1896: It was reported
today that the Jewish Colonization Company will pay the expenses of 800 Jews to
return to Russia from Argentina because they know nothing about farming and are
not able to work on the Hirsch colonies that have been established in that
country.
1896: Thirty year old
Chaim Silberman, a Hebrew school teacher who arrived in the United States last
January told the authorities about his harrowing trip to the United States
during which 6 of his fellow passengers died of suffocation in a case of
“criminal neglect.”
1896: Colonel Eugene
Levy and thirty –six year old Marie Melanie Simikins a former school teacher
who converted from Catholicism to Judaism were married today at the mayor’s
office.
1898 Birthdate of
Russian born American Conservative Rabbi, William S. Malev.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/malev-william-s
1898: A case involving
that pits the Moses Montifiore Congregation of Hoboken against David Engler who
claims to own the lot on which the synagogue sits and who is trying to force
the congregation to move its building is scheduled to be hear in The Chancery
Court in Jersey City, New Jersey today.
1898: The body 53 year
old Elias Jacobs who had passed away at his country home in Forest, PA was
brought to New York City where his funeral will be held.
1898: Birthdate of
publisher William Bernard “Bill” Ziff, Sr. the cofounder of Ziff Davis Inc and
supporter of the Revisionist or Jabotinsky Zionists who wrote The Rape of
Palestine, a book highly critical of the British Mandate.
1898(13th of
Av, 5658): Ephriam W. Sells, of Sells Brothers Circus, passed away today in
Columbus OH.
1899: “The Jews in
Babylon” by William Rainey Harpert was published in Volume 14 of The Biblical
World.
1899: Mordecai is
scheduled to run in the Sixth Race at Brighton Beach. (No word as to Haman or
Esther)
1900(6th of Av, 5660):
Forty-eight year old “German physiologist” Immanuel Munk, the brother of
Hermann Munk, passed away today in Berlin.
1900: Rabbi Simon Isaac
Finkelstein, “the son of Judah Tsvi Finkelstein and Feyge Rive Finkelstein” and
his wife Hannah Basha Finkelstein gave birth to Herman N. Finkelstein
1901: Eighteen year old
Mrs. Golda Lucas, the Bucharest widow of
Emanuel Lucas who died three months after their marriage was staying at the New
York home of mother-in-law Sarah Lacs after taking part in a ceremony yesterday
that relieved her husband’s brother of marrying her in a “levirate marriage”
and allowed her to marry anybody she wanted to after her return to Romania.
1902: “Impassioned
speeches by Jewish orators of the east side and excited applause from a throng
of Jewish listeners were heard tonight at the mass meeting held in Cooper Union
to protest against the conduct of the policemen and factory employees who
participated in rioting during the funeral procession that followed the hearse
of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.”
1903: Birthdate of
Helena Nordheim, one of five Jewish members of the Dutch ladies’ gymnastics
team, which won the Olympic title in Amsterdam in 1928. Forty years later,
Helena Kloot- Nordheim, her husband Abraham and her 10-year old daughter
Rebecca were gassed at Sobibor.
1904: Birthdate of
Edward Satz, a native of what was then Lwow, Poland, who gained fame as Eli
Mintz who made the transition from the Yiddish Theatre to Broadway playing
“Uncle David” in “Me and Molly” and was the brother of Ludwig Satz.
1905: In the United
Kingdom, the Star published “Jewish
Literary Societies” today.
1905(29th of
Tammuz, 5665): Less than a month before his 47th birthday Leo Abram
Errera a distinguished Belgian botanist who all wrote Les Juifs Russes:
Extermination ou Emancipation?" passed away today in Brussels.
1906: It was reported
today that the names of Samson A. Lachman and Daniel P. Hays, the
great-grandson of of Gershon Mendes Seixas and a grandson of Dr. Maduro
Peixotto have been submitted to the Judiciary Nominators who are seeking to
name a replacement for the recently deceased Michael H. Cardozo.
1907(21st of
Av, 5667): Sixty-one-year-old Russian born, American publisher Hirsch
Bernstein, who in 1870 came to the United States where “he started The Post,
the first Judaeo-German or Yiddish periodical in America” passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3139-bernstein-hirsch
1907: “To prove that
the relations between Mme. Melba and himself were not strained, Jewish showman
Oscar Hammerstein showed today a latter he had received within the last few
days from the prima donna” which was written in a strain of good-natured
raillery”
1908(4th of
Av, 5668): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon observed for the last time during
the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican President who enjoyed
considerable popularity among the Jewish voters in the United States.
1909: Thanks to “the
kindness of Lee Shubert and comedian Lew Fields, a benefit for the Sanitarium
for Hebrew Children is scheduled to be held at the Arverne Pier Theatre.
1909: In Sycamore,
Illinois, “Morris and Rose (Chosid) Gitlitz” gave birth to the character actor
known as Lou Gilbert, the product of Cleveland orphanage whose stage career began in 1925 and whose
film credits including “Viva Zapata,” “Marathon Man” and “Raid on Entebbe.”
1909: Birthdate of
Sarah Lawrence College professor, Maxwell David Geismar, the biographer of Mark
Twain who “penned the introduction to Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver and who
had two daughters – Katie and Elizabeth – with his wife the former Anne
Rosenberg.
http://www.nyslittree.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/DB.PersonDetail/PersonPK/425.cfm
1910: Birthdate of
composer and arranger Walter Scharf, “the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie
Zwerling” who worked with everybody from George Gershwin to Rudy Valle, to Al
Jolson to Elvis Presley.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/28/local/me-scharf28
1911: Jews in Peoria,
Illinois contribute one thousand dollars to Jews in Turkey suffering from the
aftermath of major fires in that country.
1912(18th of
Av, 5672): Eighty-one year old Abraham Benjamin passed away today at St. Kilda,
Melbourne.
1912: The Young Men’s
Hebrew Association of Camden, NJ was incorporated today.
1913: One day after she
had passed away, Jennie Leuria, the daughter of Bertha and Henry Leuria, was
buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.”
1913: Birthdate of multi-talented
composer Jerome Moross whose most famous works may be theme music for the
western television series “Wagon Train” and the big screen western “The Big
Country.”
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/JeromeMorossCentennial.htm
1913: In Buffalo, NY,
“Berith Israel (Anshe Sfar) was “rededicated” today.
1914: Germany declared
war on Russia in WW I. The Jews of German fought valiantly for the Kaiser in
defense of the Fatherland. But the Iron Crosses they earned would not save them
or their progeny from the "Austrian Corporal’s Final Solution."
According to Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Rigg, “About 10,000
volunteered for duty, and over 100,000 out of a total German-Jewish population
of 550,000 served during World War One. Some 78% saw front-line duty, 12,000
died in battle, over 30,000 received decorations, and 19,000 were promoted.
Approximately 2,000 Jews became military officers and 1,200 became medical
officers.”
1914: The British
Ambassador to France “was to have dined with at Edmond de Rothschild
Boulogne-sur Seine villa tonight but they have to dine in Paris instead because
“all of his horses and automobiles have been appropriated” by the government as
part of the mobilization for war.
1914: In Saint
Petersburg, Russia, Alexander Govorkovski and Ester Goverkovsky gave birth to
Ella Govorkovski who became Ella Drori when she married Amnon Drori.
1915: It was reported
today that with 25,000 Jews already serving in the military, the British War
Office has made serious efforts “to meet all of their religious requirements”
including wherever possible making arrangements for them “to return from the
firing line for Passover and for the Feast of Weeks.”
1915: Polish-born
English tailor Isaac Roman, who, as Victor Jeremy Jerome became a writer and a
leader of the CPUSA arrived in New York today aboard the SS St. Louis.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/jerome/bio.htm
1915: “The Jews were
driven out of Brest-Litovsk” today “by order of the Russian High Command.
1915: It was reported
today that the officers of the “New Synagogue” the recently formed “liberal
Jewish congregation” on New York’s West Side are Morris Rothschild, Chairman;
Jerome Wile, Treasurer and J.L. Frankel, Secretary who will be supporting a
professional staff consisting of Rabbi Ephraim Frisch and organist Clarence
Adler.
1916: In talking to the
press today about the impact of Britain’s attempts to limit food supplies
coming into Germany, Filed Marshall Von Batocki, “Germany’s food dictator”
noted that “Polish Jews…who largely subsisted on fish were suffering intensely
as a result of England’s economic pressure on neutrals particularly in the
matter of dish exports to and through Germany.”
1917: In Manhattan,
Martha Schallek and Joseph S. Wallenstein gave birth to Herbert Joseph
Wallenstein, the Republic political leader who served as Assistant State
Attorney General for 20 years starting in 1959.
1917: Harvey B. Franklin,
of Stockton, CA is scheduled to begin serving as the Rabbi of Temple Sinai,
Oakland, CA.
1917: Eighteen year old
Lawrence Valenstein “borrowed $100 from his mother” and today “opened a tiny
headquarters” of which would become the Grey Advertising Agency, “one of the
country[s leading advertising companies.”
(As reported by Suzanne Daley)
1917: Based on
information supplied by Ottis A. Glazebook, the U.S. Consul in Jerusalem who
left that city for Switzerland after the U.S. entered the war on the side of
the Allies, it was reported today that “there are now in Palestine 500
Jewish-American citizens” all of whom had “been given permission to leave” but
preferred “to remain” where they were.
1918: Birthdate of
Abraham Brauner, the son of timber wholesaler in Łódź, Poland, who gained fame
as movie producer Artur “Atze” Brauner, the husband of Theresa Albert with whom
he had four children and the kinsman of 49 people who died during the Shoah
including 12 murdered at Babi Yar.
1918: During World War
I, while serving in France a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish
Welfare Board, Dr. Hyman Gerson Enelow wrote from Beaune, France today “that there is work for everybody who wants
to be helpful, that the Jewish soldiers “are very happy to see me” because it
makes them “feel like they are not forgotten and that in addition to his
official duties, he has spent several hours at the hospital trying to help “our
doctors and nurse who are terribly overworked” and providing comfort to the
wounded, especially those close to death.
1918: Decree issued
“securing the title of the Chestnut Street Cemetery” in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1918: Abraham
Schrameck, begin serving as Governor-General of Madagascar.
1918: Joseph
Schlossberg, General Secretary Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and
Abraham Epstein, President Workmen's Circle were among the leaders of a meeting
of a Conference of Trade Unions, Branches of the Workmen's Circle, and other
Progressive Labor Organizations of Greater New York scheduled to be held be
held in Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, for the purpose of organizing the
workers into a permanent central body for aiding all persons prosecuted who are
in need of help, and of arousing public opinion against the further suppression
of constitutional rights and liberties.
The Conference will be held under the auspices of the Liberty Defense
Union, and has been endorsed by the United Hebrews Trades and the National
Executive Committee of the Workmen's Circle.
1919: As The Hungarian
Soviet Republic came to an end, Bela Kun “fled as Romanian troops approached
Budapest.”
1919: When the fascist
government in Hungary limited the number of Jews in commerce, law, medicine,
and banking it defined a Jew as “all those of the Jewish religion and also all
who became members of other confession after
1919: “The Jewess of
Toledo” “a silent historical drama film directed by Otto Kreisler an adaptation
of the 1872 play The Jewess of Toledo by Franz Grillparzer which was based on
the relationship between Alfonso VIII of Castile and Rahel la Fermosa in 12th
Century Spain” was released in Austria today.
1919(5th of Av, 5679):
Seventy-one year old businessman, theater impresario and composer Oscar
Hammerstein I, the grandfather of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, passed away
today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/oscar-hammerstein
1920: In New York,
Joseph Seiden, “a motion picture pioneer, and a producer and director of
Yiddish films” and his wife gave birth to Brooklyn College graduate and “highly
regard motion picture cameraman” Harold (Hal) Seiden the husband of Jessica
Greenberg Seiden and the grandson of Frank Seiden, “one of the first Yiddish
language recording artists in the United States.”
1920: Birthdate of
Israeli politician Michael Dekel, the native of Pinsk who fought with the
Soviet and Polish armies during WW II before making Aliyah in 1949.
1920 The Zionist
Actions Committee decided “to entrust the Jewish National Fund with the duty of
carrying out a plan for a Nordau Garden City in Palestine
1921(26th of
Tammuz, 5681): Seventy-three year old “French economist and statistician Alfred
Neymarck, the son of Mayes and Henritte Neymark, the husband of Jeanne Neymarck
and “vice-president of the International Congress of Societies for Lawsuits and
of the International Congress for Landed Property” passed away today.
1922(7th of
Av, 5682): Sixty-three year old mechanical engineer Donát Bánki the son of a
Hungarian Jewish physician who helped to invent “the carburetor for the
stationary engine.”
1923:
Morris Weinberg, the publisher of The Day and Mrs. A.B. Spreckels and J.B.
Barron, head of the commission appointed by the government of Palestine to
administer the affairs of the Patriarch of Jerusalem were among the passengers
who arrived in New York today about the White Star liner Majestic.
1924: In
Dąbrowica, Poland, Anna (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak gave birth to Georges
Charpak, the French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992.
1924:
Birthdate of Michael Stuart Rubin who as Michael Stewart was one of stable
writers who got their start writing for Sid Caesar and who went on to became
the Tony Award winning creator of “Bye Bye Birdies” and “Hello, Dolly!”
1925(11th
of Av, 5685): Parashat Vaetchanan
1925: The (Turkish)
Palestine Citizenship Ordinance went into effect. It said that any
"Turkish subject" in Palestine as of
1926: In Memphis, TN, the Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose
Throat Hospital, which was founded Louis Levy, the Paducah, KY born son of Max
and Rozetta (Minsky) Levy and University of Tennessee Medical School graduate,
opened today.
1926: At Constantinople
it was announced that the Jews of Turkey formally renounced their rights as
minorities. They would for now on be considered full citizens with equal rights
as all citizens have.
1926(21st of Av, 5686):
Israel Zangwill passed away. The Russian born, Anglo-Jewish author, Zionist and
champion of social justice is best known for two of his works - a novel
entitled Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People a highly
successful play entitled The Melting Pot. Among those who saw and enjoyed this was
President Theodore Roosevelt.
1927: Birthdate of
German-American Ivy League (Princeton and Harvard) economist, Dr. Otto
Eckstein, the co-founder of Data Resources, Inc and the husband of Harriett
Mirkin Eckstein with whom he raised three children – Warren, Felecia and June.
http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/eckstein.htm
1928(15th of
Av, 5688): Tu B’Av is celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Calvin Coolidge.
1929(24th of
Tammuz, 5689): Forty-six-year-old Troy, NY born, and Harvard educated attorney
Judge Abram Ellenbogen, who was serving on the bench of the Fifth District
Municipal Court passed away today at Lake Placid, NY.
1929: In Manhattan, Eva
and Stanley Garfinkel gave birth to Howard Morris Garfinkel who changed the
nature of basketball with his recruiting service and instructional camps. (As
reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)
1930: In Queens, “dress
maker” Abraham Frankel and his wife gave birth to University of Illinois
graduate and garment manufacturer Jerry Frankel who went on to become a Tony
winning producer.
1930: In London,
Galician Jewish immigrants Yetta (née Darumstundler) and Morris Begleiter, a
master tailor gave birth to composer Lionel Bart, the genius who created the
musical “Oliver!”
1930(7th of Av, 5690):
Forty-eight year old Jack Zuta, an accountant for mobsters in Chicago was shot
by unknown gunman while hiding out in Wisconsin.
1930: “The Cabinet of
Doctor Larifari,” a comedy with music by Franz Waxman and filmed by
cinematographer Otto Heller was released today in German.
1930: “Grumpy” directed
by George Cukor, co-starring Paul Lukas and filmed by cinematographer David
Abel was released today in the United States.
1931: “Tabu” a silent film set in the South Seas
with music by Hugo Riesenfeld was released today in the Unites States.
1931: Birthdate of Elliott Charles Adnopoz, who became
famous as Ramblin' Jack Elliott
1931: Eduard Strauch who would murder over 10,000 Jews from Riga in the
Rumbula Forest joined the Nazi Party and the SA.
1931: Thirty-three-year
old Major Edward M. Brauer, the WW I veteran and commander “the left wing of
the 96tth Aero Squadron who is the son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania
living in Chicago and a member of Chicago’s Temple B’nai Zion is, as of today,
eligible for retirement because he has 22,000 flying hours to his credit.
1932: Birthdate of Meir
Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.
1933:
The Deutsche Modeamt, a newly-formed Nazi fashion office, announces that
Jewish firms will not be permitted to exhibit in the exhibition of men's and
women's wear.
1933: Fritz Rosenfelder, leader and founder of the sports club at Saanstaat,
Wurtenberg, commits suicide because he was expelled from the club; in a final
letter to his former club colleagues, he wrote: "I am leaving with no
hatred. My only wish is that Germany should be restored to reason . . . How
more beautifully could I have given my life for my Fatherland."
1933: The Commissariat for Medical Associations issues a decree prohibiting
non-Jewish physicians from having any professional contact with Jewish
physicians; non-Jewish medical men must not serve as consultants, and must not
treat patients recommended to them by Jewish physicians.
1933: The Dutch Society
of Sculptors and Artists responds to an appeal on behalf of Jewish refugees
from Germany by donating many objects of art which will be used in a lottery
sanctioned by the Government.
1934: It was reported today
that “condensed and revised version the Jewish historical pageant,
"Romance of a People," will be presented on the stage of the Roxy
Theatre beginning Friday, Sept. 7.
1935: In the
Bronx, “Joseph Weiss, an accountant and the former Jean Bystock” gave birth to
Melvyn Irwin Weiss, the NYU trained attorney and the husband of “the former
Barbara Joan Kaplan” who was a leading class action attorney. (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
1936: The report of the
Peel Commission was discussed today in Geneva, home of the League of Nations.
Poland, Romania and other East European countries, debating the Peel Report on
the proposed partition of Palestine, demanded that Great Britain continue to
fulfill her obligations under the Mandate. The Arab leadership argued that the
rights of the people of Palestine could not be contested and that any partition
scheme was contrary to Articles 20 and 31 of the Covenant of the League of
Nations. In a contradiction of facts the Arabs did not deny the rights of the
Jewish minority in Palestine, and were even prepared to furnish guarantees in
this respect, but they unanimously opposed the country's partition and demanded
immediate, total independence. But part of the rights of the Jewish community
under the terms of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate was to a Jewish
Homeland, not citizenship in an Arab country. In South Africa General J.C.
Smuts, vice premier and minister of justice, expressed his grave misgivings
about the partition scheme in general, and the smallness of the proposed Jewish
state in particular. A total rejection of the partition was also the subject of
letters written by Colonel J.C. Wedgwood, MP (Member of Parliament), and
addressed to the British and world press.
1936: Following the
arrival of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in Geneva, the organizations committee of “The
World Jewish Congress” which is opening in Geneva on August 8 announced today
that it “will devote one special session to the present situation in Palestine.”
1936: In Detroit,
“Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said tonight that a chemist questioned about a
reported Black Legion typhoid epidemic plot” aimed at Jews living in the area
“has declared a high ranking legion officer inquired also how to make hand
grenades and how to kill people with poison gas and hypodermic needles.”
1936: Birthdate of
Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg of Belfast, founder of Stanley Leisure Ltd
and found and first President of the Northern Ireland Friends of Israel
1936: The Olympics open
in Berlin.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html
1937: Karl-Otto Koch,
who would have the strange misfortune of being executed by the SS for
mismanaging a concentration camp, today “was given command of the concentration
camp at Buchenwald.”
1937: Among the
passengers on board the French line De Grasse which arrived in New York today
was scholar and author Dr. Joachim Prinz and his wife who are scheduled to
“tour American cities on behalf of the United Palestine appeal which is seeking
to raise $4,500,000 for the settle of Jews from Poland, Silesia and Germany in
Palestine.”
1938: At the Roosevelt
Hotel in New Orleans which had been purchased by Seymour Weiss in 1934, “the
Main Bar” later known as the Sazerac Bar, opened with its famous “mahogany bar,
walnut paneled walls and Paul Ninas murals.”
1938(4th of
Av, 5698): Eighty-two year old of New York native Albert Arnstein, the graduate
of Packards Business College and the holder of an LL.B from St. Lawrence
University who settled in St. Louis where he was President of the United Jewish
and Charitable Associations passed away today.
1938: In Austria, on
“rent day” another of the Nuremberg Laws went into effect under “which it is
sufficient for a single ‘Aryan’ in a block of flats to object to Jewish tenants
for the Jews to receive notices” ordering them to vacate the premises – a move
which is expected to lead to Jews being able to only live in flats where all of
the other residents of the building are Jewish.
1938: “Virtually all
Jewish-owned cafes on Vienna’s famous Ring Boulevard were ordered today to close
their doors” while all other cafes were ordered to post signs saying “Jews Not
Wanted.”
1939: In Prague, “a force of Germans in Stroopers’
brown shirts and top boot entered the popular Manes swimming pool this after
and ordered all Jews to leave” but “Jews entered the pool after the Germans’
departure.”
1940: In Tel Aviv,
journalist Theodor Loevy and his wife Elisa gave birth to television director
and writer Ram Loevy.
1940: Antonio Origo and
Iris Cutting Origo an Anglo-Irish writer who helped to save Jewish children
through the kindertransport including the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach gave
birth to their second child, and first daughter, Donata.
1940: The Nazis begin
the expulsion of the Jewish population from Cracow, Poland. One-third would be
sent to Warsaw and other Polish towns.1942: The first "reliable
report" of the Nazi plan to murder all the Jews reached the West. The U.S.
State Department suppressed the report for several weeks, until Jews living in
the United States heard about the report from other sources.
1941: Heydrich informed
Himmler, “that in the future there will be no more Jews in the annexed Eastern
Territories." Every day in every village and town, Jews would be hunted
down, molested, tortured, and executed.
1941(8th of Av, 5701):
Another 1,000 Jews were shot in the city of Kishenev.
1941: The Nazis
established The Bialystok Ghetto.
1942: In Danbury, CT,
Annette and Lazarus Heyman gave birth to Abigail Heyman “a photographer whose
stark portraits of women at work, at home and at weddings gave a visual
concreteness to feminist doctrine of the 1970s about the oppressiveness of
traditional female roles.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1942 (18th of Av, 5702)
Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz, last Rebbe of the Radomsk dynasty, educator, a
director of the Kesser Torah organization, member of the religious council in
the Warsaw ghetto was murdered with his family in the Warsaw ghetto
1942: Benjamin
Sagalowitz, press secretary of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities
phoned Gerhard Riegner with information from an unimpeachable source, a
non-Jewish German industrialist, that Hitler had decided to have all European
Jews exterminated by means of poison gas by the end of the year.
1943: In Poland the
final liquidation of the Bendzin Ghetto began today as the first batch of what
would total 8,000 prisoners were deported today.
1943: When the Nazis
began their final liquidation of Bendzin Ghetto they are met with unexpected
“armed resistance in several bunkers” led by young Jews that “hampered” the
Germans forcing them to spend two weeks on this latest venture in murderous
cruelty.
1943: Rabbi Louis
Werfel, a graduate of Yeshiva College and RIETS “was sent to North Africa,
where he served as Chaplain with the 12th Air Force Service Command, where his
area of operations included Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Sicily.
1943(29th of
Tammuz, 5703): Twenty year old Lydia Litvyak a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air
Force during World War II with twelve solo victories, four shared kills over a
total of 66 combat missions, over about two years of missions, who was the
first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy plane, the first of two
female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace, and the holder
of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot was
shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of
German planes today.
http://www.jewoftheweek.net/?s=Lydia+Vladimirovna+Litvyak+&submit=Search
http://soviet-awards.com/digest/litvyak/litvyak3.htm
1943(29th of
Tammuz, 5703): Sixty-eight year old Ismar Elbogen the German rabbi and
historian who wrote Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History which has
been updated many times since its first publication in 1913, passed away in New
York City.
1944: Sixty-six year
old Manuel L. Quezon, the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines who
willing resettled Jews fleeing the killing grounds of Europe despite local
opposition which was part of the theme of the movie “An Open Door” and for
which he was posthumously honored by the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation passed
away today.
1944: In Budapest,
“György Vajna, a merchant of Jewish descent (born Weidmann) and his wife, Klára
gave birth to UCLA trained American
movie producer Andrew George Vajna
1944: Anne Frank writes
the last entry in her diary.
1944: Rose Valland, the
French art historian and member of the Resistance “learned that the Germans
were planning to ship out a last five boxcars full of art” most of which had
been looted from French Jews and notified the Resistance “who prevented the
train from leaving Paris.
1944: Future Nobel
Prize winner François Jacob who fought with Free French 2nd Armored
Division “returned to a liberated Paris.”
1944: Fourteen months
after the Warsaw Ghetto, the Polish underground rises against the Nazis in
Warsaw. Jewish fighters came of hiding to participate in the fight. However,
those who could not come to the aide of the Jews in 1943 would now find out
what it felt like. The Soviet Army waited outside the city and did not come to
their aid. Instead, they let the Nazis slaughter the Poles and then they
entered the city as liberating heroes.
1945(22nd
of Av, 5705): Sixty-four-year-old Russian bor, labor editor for The Jewish
Morning Journal, William Post. who in 1905 came to the United States where
he was “a charter member and vice president of the Jewish Writers Union and an
author who used the Nome de plume William Pohotsky as well as the husband of of
Pauline Post and the father of Nathan Post, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/02/88272179.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1945: Birthdate of Douglas Dean Osheroff, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996. His
father was Jewish and his mother was Lithuanian.
1945: Former Senator
Guy M. Gillette of Iowa today announced his acceptance of the presidency of the
American League for a Free Palestine and the post of chief political adviser to
the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation.
Declaring that he
considers the "so-called Jewish problem not as a Jewish or a Hebrew
question, but as an urgent problem of the United Nations and of the decent
portion of mankind," Gillette urged that the Allied Control Commission in
Europe recognize the "Hebrew national status" and permit
"stateless or Axis Jews" to decide their own status as Hebrew
nationals, or stateless, or nationals of Germany, Rumania or Hungary. He also
recommended:
1. Freeing of all Jews
from Axis concentration camps.
2. Extension of UNRRA
relief operations to the Balkan countries where, he charged hundreds of
thousands of Jews in Rumania and Hungary, particularly, are starving and have
not yet received any UNRRA aid.
3. Addition of Jewish
representatives to the United Nations War Crimes Commission.
4. Consideration by the
Reparations Commission now meeting in Moscow of the "claims and
rights" of surviving Jews, and inclusion of compensation for the losses of
the Jewish people.
Gillette said that
every Jew in Europe should be authorized "to apply to the nearest British
consulate and receive his first papers of Palestinian citizenship." He
also suggested the creation of an Anglo-American-Russian committee with
adequate powers to effect the speediest repatriation of all such applicants to
Palestine. These steps, Gillette asserted, are "essential for the
commencement of a solution of the entire problem." Annulment by the new
British Government of "discriminatory laws against Jews in Palestine"
was likewise demanded by Gillette. (As reported by Jewish Telegraph Agency)
1945: The final Little
Boy was assembled and so it would ready to be dropped on Japan.
1946(4th of Av, 5706):
In Miskol, Hungry industrial workers stage a pogrom. Two Jews are lynched. This
is an example of the post-war anti-Semitic violence that led approximately
4,000 Jews to leave Hungary for Palestine during the next two years.
1946: In San Jose
Rodolpho Liberman and his wife gave birth to businessman Luis Liberman
Ginsburg, who became Second Vice President of his native Costa Rica.
1947(15th of
Av, 5707): Tu B’Av
1947: In the United
Kingdom, the Daily Express reported the story about two British soldiers hung
by the Irgun “prominently displaying a photograph of the bodies which, it
promised its readers, would be a “picture that will shock the world”
1948: IAF volunteer
pilot Leo Nomi took a 25 minute truck ride to Netanya where he flew patrol in a
D-114 with three other pilots including Ezer Weizman.
1948: “Syd Antin and
Red Finkel flew a pair of S-199s on patrol today, out of Netanya.
1948: Birthdate of Avi
Arad the native of Ramat Gan, son of Holocaust survivors from Poland and
veteran of the Six Day War who “became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the
1990s, and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel
Entertainment, a Marvel director, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of Marvel
Studios.”
1948: Today, Thadée
Diffre a non-Jew who joined the Haganah in France sometime in the winter of
1947/48, “was appointed major and given command of the nascent 75th Battalion
which included about 50 French and North African Machal volunteers (mostly
World War II veterans) and half a dozen other non-Jews, and 300-400 North
African Gachal volunteers.
1948: Birthdate of
Aline Goldsmith, Kominsky-Crumb, the Long Beach, NY native who “reshaped” the
world of comics.
http://jwa.org/people/kominsky-crumb-aline
1949: “Mr. Soft Touch”
a crime movie directed by Henry Levin was released today in the United States
by Columbia Pictures.
1949: Warner Brothers
releases a spoof about the movie industry – “It’s a Great Feeling” with a
screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson based on a story by I.A.L.
Diamond, a score by Jule Styne all of which were brought together by producer
Alex Gottlieb.
1952: As part of a
major cost reduction program at MGM studios, today is scheduled to be the last
day of work for Richard Goldstone who has produced nine pictures for the studio
over the last three years.
1952: In Manhattan, Dr.
Judith P. Sulzberger and Dr. Matthew Rosenschien, Jr. gave birth to Daniel Hays
Cohen, the adopted son of Yale educated insurance broker Richard N. Cohen and
“great-grandson of Adolph S. Ochs, the family patriarch who bought The Times in
1896, and a first cousin of Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., the company’s current
chairman and publisher, and of Michael Golden, the vice chairman. (As reported
by Sam Roberts)
1953: Birthdate of British
born Jewish historian Martin David Goodman who specialized in the Roman period
and whose works included The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the
Jewish Revolt Against Rome, A.D. 66-70
http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/staff-list/prof.-martin-goodman.html
1954: A group of ten
raiders under the command of Meir Har-Zion returned from a raid conducted near
Jenin where they “attacked two policemen and took one of them prisoner.”
1955: “The Kentuckian”
co-starring Walter Matthau with music by Bernard Hermann was released in the
United States today by United Artists.
1956: The Salk Vaccine,
created by Dr. Jonas Salk, becomes available to the American public.
1956(24th of
Av, 5716): Seventy-one year old “Mrs. Lily Oppenheimer Pforzheimer, the wife of
investment banker Carl H. Pforzheimer,” “one of the original directors of the
Metropolitan Opera Guild” and a board member of the Young Men’s and Young
Women’s Hebrew Association passed away today.
1957: In Canada, the
Israeli Embassy announced that “Arthur Lourie, assistant director-general of
the Israel Foreign Ministry…has been appointed Israel’s Ambassador to Canada.”
(JTA)
1958(15th of
Av, 5718): Tu B’Av
1958: In Jerusalem,
Michael and Shulamit Albeck gave birth to biochemist Amnon Albeck, the grandson
of Hanoch Albeck, a “professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
who was one of the founders of the scientific approach to the study of the
Mishna.”
1959(26th of
Tammuz, 5719): Parsashat Matot-Masei
1960: Today, Senator
John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Presidential nominee issued a statement “paying
tribute to Philip B. Perlman, the former United States Solicitor General who
died last night” acknowledging his help in drafting “the national platform of”
the recently concluded Democratic convention in which “as in everything in his
life, he gave unstintingly of his time and effort.”
1960: Ella Fitzgerald
began recording what would become an album of the songs of Harold Arlen known
as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook.”
1963(11th of
Av, 5723): Fifty-eight-year-old Brooklyn born, and Columbia trained attorney
Samuel Klaus who held “the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army during WW
II passed away today while serving as “special counsel to the State
Department.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/03/81820415.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1963(11th of
Av, 5723): Sixty-six year old “Morton J. Baum” the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania and WW I U.S. Navy veteran who became “president
of the Hickey-Freeman Men’s Clothing Company and the husband of Margaret Baum
with whom he had two children – Morton, Jr and Helen – died today after
suffering a fatal heart attack.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/02/80461146.pdf
1964(23rd of
Av, 5724): Parashat Eikev
1964(23rd of
Av, 5724): Seventy-six year old Rufus Learsi (Israel Goldberg) author of
History of the Jewish People and The Jews in America: A History who with his
wife had three children – David, Arthur and Judith – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/04/rufus-learsi-writer-of-history-of-jews-in-america-dies-at-76.html
https://archive.org/details/israelahistoryof009502mbp
1965: At Temple B’rith
Kodesh, Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein officiated at the wedding of Mary Alice Ark,
the daughter of Justice Jacob Ark of the State Supreme Court and Thomas Edward
Goldman, the son of Justice Harry D. Goldman of the Appellate Division.
1965: Birthdate of
English stage and film director Sam Mendes whose father was from Trinidad and
whose mother was an English Jew.
1966(15th of
Av, 5726): Tu B’Av
1968: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held for seventy-three-year-old Dr. Morton
Gottschall, the husband of the former Frances Greenfield and “dean emeritus of
City College’s College of Liberal Arts and Science” who spent his entire career
at CCNY, followed by burial at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
1969: In Shaker
Heights, Ohio, Nina (née Saul) and Norman Wain gave
birth to muti-talented David Benjamin Wain, best known for directing “feature
films.
1970: Nobel
Prize winner Otto Heinrich Warburg passed away.
Warburg was part of the famed Warburg clan but he was not Jewish. His father, Emil, had converted to
Christianity.
1970(28th
of Tammuz, 5730): Parashat Matot-Maesei
1970(28th
of Tammuz, 5730): Seventy-four-year-old University of Chicago and Purdue
University trained bacteriologist Dr.
Moses Abraham Jacobs, the Portsmouth born son of Isaac Jacobson and
Rebecca Karp and veteran of WW I and WW II who was the husband of Lena Cohen
passed away today.
1970: Ensio P.H.
Siilasvuo of Finland assumes the role of Chief of Staff United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)
1971(10th of Av, 5731): Tish’a B’Av observed
1971: “The Omega Man” a sci-fi film directed by Boris Sagal was released
in the United States today.
1971: CBS broadcast the first episode in the series “The Six Wives of
Henry VII” co-starring Wolfe Morris as the villainous “Thomas Cromwell.”
1973: Seventy-eight-year-old Solomon Blatt, the Blackville, SC born son
of Molly and Nathan Blatt and University of South Carolina trained attorney
Solomon Blatt completed as service as Speaker of the House of Representatives,
a position he had held since 1951,
1973: After opening on Broadway at the Uris Theatre in March, “Seesaw,” a
musical with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music by Cy Coleman and book re-written
by Neil Simon transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
1975: The “Final Helsinki Act” was signed in Helsinki at the summit of 35
nations of Europe, USA and Canada
1976:
Natalia Grigoryevna Kushnir and the
Russian volleyball team won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics which closed at
Montreal today.
1977(17th of Av, 5737): Seventy-seven year old psychiatrist
Mark Lewis Gerstle, Jr. “the San Franciso born son of Hilda Alice Gerstle and
Marcus ‘Mark’ Lewis Gerstle” and father of Martha, Kathryn and Mark Gerstle
passed away today in his hometown.
1979: “Melech Epstein Dead at 90” published today provided a brief
account of the life of this former Communist and Jewish author.
1979:
Alleged violations by Egypt of its
peace treaty with Israel were discussed here today by Defense Minister Ezer
Weizman and Egypt’s Defense Minister Kamal Hassan Ali who ended his three-day
visit to Israel this afternoon. Read more: http://www.jta.org/1979/08/01/archive/israel-complains-to-egypt-about-violations-of-peace-treaty#ixzz2afGP53oc
1979: “Between
today and through most of 1985, few merchants were as lavishly praised as Ed
Finkelstein,” Isadore Barmash, a former retailing reporter for The New York Times, wrote in his 1989
book, “Macy’s for Sale.”
1979:
Following her graduation from rabbinical college in Philadelphia, Linda Joy
Holtzman was appointed spiritual leader of the Conservative Beth Israel
congregation in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, making her the first female rabbi to
head a Jewish congregation in America.
1979(18th
of Av, 5748): Seventy-eight year old Samuel Augie Ratner, the son Benjamin and
Rose Ratner and brother of Max and Louis Ratner passed away today after which
he was buried at the United Hebrew Brotherhood Cemetery in Richfield, MN.
1980:
“Raise the Titanic,” an adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC
Entertainment “and featuring Elya Baskin was released today.
1980: “The
Final Countdown” a film that combines the attack on Pearl Harbor with science
fiction starring Kirk Douglas and produced by his son Peter was released in the
United States today.
1980: Egypt
said today that it would not suspend the talks with Israel on autonomy for the
occupied areas nor would it recall its Ambassador from Israel in response to
the passage of an Israeli law formalizing the annexation of Jerusalem.
1980: Two
days after the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law, an article entitled “Jerusalem
Storm Just One More in a Tortured History” which traced the history of the city
from ancient times to the period following the Six Days War was published. The
article includes the following: “During the war that followed Israel’s
independence in 1948, Jordan seized the eastern sector of Jerusalem…and the new
state won control of the western sector.
The Jordanians evicted all Jews from the Old City; from 1948 to 1967 was
off limits to Jews and most of the old synagogues there were destroyed.” (Editor’s note – The author, working for The
New York Times, writes about an eastern sector and a western sector of
Jerusalem as well as the Old City. The
term “East Jerusalem and, its concept as a separate city, is apparently a more
recent creation.)
1981(1st of
Av, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Av
1981: Dr.
Donald Payne, the husband of Jessica Savitch, passed away today in Washington, DC.
1981: Abu Daoud, a
Black September commander who openly claimed to have helped plan the Munich
attack, was shot multiple times by a gunman in a Warsaw hotel cafe. Daoud
survived the attack
1981(1st of
Av, 5741): Paddy
Chayefsky passed away. Born in 1923, Sydney "Paddy" Chayefsky began
writing scripts for television during its golden age of drama in the 1950’s. He
switched to films where he won three Oscar for writing "Marty",
"Hospital" and "Network." (As reported by Colin Campbell)
1985: Birthdate of
Benjamin Levin, the son of David Robert Levin
1985(14th
of Av, 5745): Eighty-five-year-old Polish native and WW I veteran Harry
Mittleman, the son of peddler, whose family, in 1911 came to the United States
where he eventually settled in Portland, OR where morphed from successful
grocery store owner to real estate mogul while serving as an officer of the
“the Jewish Old People’s Home and the Jewish Education Association passed away
today.
1985(14th of
Av, 5745): Ninety two year old Jules Salvador Moch, the son of Captain Gaston
Moch and the grandson of Colonel Jules Moch who fought with the Free French at
Normandy before becoming a political leader passed away in Cabris.
1986: “Howard The Duck”
a sci-fi comedy co-produced by Gloria Katz who also wrote the script and
featuring Liz Sagal as “Ronette” was released in the United States today.
1987(6th of
Av, 5747): Parashat Devarim and Shabbat Chazon
1987(6th of
Av, 5747): Harvey Clurman passed away today and was later buried at the New
Montefiore Cemetery in Suffolk County.
1988(19th of
Elul, 5748): Sixty-seven year old Robert Tandler Mack, Jr. the Chicago born
“son of Jeanette and Robert Tandler Mack,” the husband of Doris Mack, the
“father of Robert Tandler Mack III” and author of Raising The World’s
Standard of Living passed away today in Palo Alto, CA.
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Worlds-Standard-Living-Tandler/dp/1258197340
1989: Morton Abramowitz
began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
1989(29th of Tammuz,
5749): Fifty-nine year old Hungarian born Canadian director John Hirsch who had
survived the Holocaust passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/play-immortalizes-forgotten-hero-of-canadian-theater/
1991: Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepted a formula for peace talks in the Middle
East.
1991 Publication of Jewish
Life in Germany: Memoirs from Three Centuries, edited by Monika Richarz.
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=19691
1992: In Montclair, NJ,
“Stephen Rosenfield, a teacher of stand-up comedy and the founder of the
American Comedy Institute in New York City” and actress Katherine Mathilde
"Kate" Redway Rosenfield, gave birth to musician and actor Benjamin
“Ben” Rosenfield whose most notable role may have been in the totally amoral drama series
“Boardwalk Empire.”
1992: Thirty-four year
old producer Scott Rudin “signed a deal with Tri-Star Pictures.”
1993: Showtime
broadcast the first episode of Executive Producer Sydney Pollack’s “Fallen
Angels” produced by Steve Golin and with music by Elmer Berstein.
1996(16th of
Av, 5766): Eighty-eight year old Frank Glassman, the younger brother of Morris
Glassman and lineman who played at Wilmington and Bliss College before spending
a year in the NFL with the Buffalo Bisons passed away today.
1998(9th of
Av, 5758): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1998(9th of
Av, 5758): Eighty-two year old New York City born Soviet spy Joel Barr who was
part of the same group that included the Rosenbergs, passed away today.
https://spartacus-educational.com/Joel_Barr.htm
1998: Based on order by
the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB) today was the deadline from
transferring the Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination from the NARA’s film
collection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
1999: U.K. premiere of
“A Price Above Rubies,” a film about Chasidic Jews directed and written by Boaz
Yankin and co-starring Julianna Marguiles.
2000: Moshe Katsav was
sworn in as President of Israel making him the first person to be elected to a
seven year term and the first person from Likud to be elected President.
2000: “Space Cowboys” a
geriatric, galactic buddy-movie co-produced by Andrew Lazar and with a score by
Lennie Niehaus was released n he United States today.
2000: James “Jim”
Steinberg completed his service as Deputy National Security Advisor under
President Clinton.
2001: Rita
Levi-Montalcini “was appointed as Senator for Life by the President of Italy.
2002: Premiere of
“Yossi & Jagger,” an “Israeli romantic drama film directed by Eytan Fox.
2002: The body Shani
Ladani, 27, of Moshav Olash, shot and bound, was found west of Tulkarem, near
the Green Line, in the industrial zone where he was employed.
2002: Dalia
Rabin-Pelossof, the daughter of Yitzhak Rabin, resigned as Deputy Minister of
Defense.
2003: Jill Abramson,
the Washington bureau chief of the New
York Times was one two people appointed today to serve as managing editor
of the Times. She “will be managing
editor for news gathering.”
2004: The New York Times book section features
a review of 'Jerome Robbins': From Stravinsky to the
Sharks by Nicholas Fox Weber.
2004: In Aspen, CO,
Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, Inc. is the headline speaker at
United Jewish Communities (UJC) eighth annual Jewish Leadership Forum (JLF)
2004: Lexington, KY
native Jeffrey M. Lacker began serving as the President of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond.
2004(14th of Av, 5764):
Sidney Morgenbesser passed away at the age of 82 from complications of
2005 (25th of Tammuz,
5765): George Forman, a longtime comptroller of the American Civil Liberties
Union, who brought fiscal discipline to a ramshackle organization near
bankruptcy in the late 1970s and later helped it develop into a powerful civil
liberties conglomerate, died today at the age of 88.(As reported by Lily
Koppel)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/nyregion/07forman.html
2005: President George
W Bush nominated Roland Arnall to become the U.S. ambassador to the
Netherlands.
2005: A political essay
written by Russian businessman and oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in his prison
cell, titled "Left Turn", was published in Vedomosti, calling for a
turn to more social responsible state.
2005 (25th of Tammuz,
5765): Al Aronowitz passed away at the age of
77. He was a pioneering journalist who
covered the Beat literary scene and engineered a meeting between Bob Dylan and
the Beatles that has passed into rock 'n' roll legend.
2006(7th of
Av, 5766): Sixty-two year art historian Arlene Raven passed away today. (As
reported by Elaine Woo)
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/13/local/me-raven13
2006: A three-judge
panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Sweet's decision,
holding 2–1 that federal prosecutors could inspect the telephone records of
Judith Miller
2006(7th of
Av, 5766): Skirmishes with Hezbollah guerrillas in the southern Lebanese
village of Ayta al-Shaab left three soldiers, including an officer, of a
Paratrooper Brigade unit dead and at least another 25 wounded. The names of the
fallen have been released: St.-Sgt. Yehunatan Einhorn, 22, of Moshav Gimzo;
First Sergeant Michael Levine, 21, of Jerusalem; and Lieutenant Ilan Gabbai,
22, of Kiryat Tivon.
2006: A number of Jewish-owned stores in Italy had their doors
sealed with glue and the shutters nailed down overnight as a response to
Israel’s policies in Lebanon
2006:
Today, Peter “Gelb became the 16th General Manager of the
Metropolitan Opera” following with he “launched…several new productions,
including Madame Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, The First Emperor.”
2007: U.S.
President George Bush imposed sanctions on Syria today because of the role the
Damascus government has played in creating regional instability.
2007: U.S.
Secretary of State Condi Rice arrives in Jerusalem.
2008: Solomon "Momy" Levy began serving
his term as Mayor of Gibraltar.
2008:
Solomon Levy began serving as the Mayor of Gibraltar. 2008: In Falls Church VA
(suburban Washington, D.C.), Jewish author Benjamin Rosenbaum reads from and discusses his new collection
of SF tales, The Ant King and Other
Stories
2009: At Temple Judah, a Triple Header:
- Shabbat
Nachamu
- Rabbi
Todd Thalbum officially takes the pulpit at Temple Judah and reads the
Torah portion at his first Cedar Rapids Shabbat Morning Service
- Raoul
Wallenberg Sabbath Annual Observance of Raoul Wallenberg Memorial
Day (August 4, 2009) which has been proclaimed by the Governor of Iowa for
three years in a row.
2009(11th of
Av, 5769): A gunman shot dead two people and wounded at least thirteen others
in an attack at a central Tel Aviv gay and lesbian center tonight before
fleeing the scene.
2010: The
Skirball Cultural Center show "Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through
Jewish Picture Books," is scheduled to come to a close today.
2010: Jake
Tapper completed his service as the interim anchor of ABC’s “This Week” – a
career disappointment that would help take him to CNN.
2010: Modern
Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb is scheduled to have its
final showing at the Jewish Museum,in New York.
2010:
President Shimon Peres is scheduled to travel to Egypt today for a meeting
with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The two are expected to meet behind
closed doors to discuss advancing diplomatic efforts between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority. They are also expected to discuss cooperation between
Israel and Egypt.
2010:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Telling Times: Writing
and Living, 1954-2008 by Nadine Gordimer, Running Commentary: The
Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative
Right by Benjamin Balint, Norman Podhoretz: A Biography
by Thomas L. Jeffers, High Financer: The Lives and Time
of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson and Red Hook Road by Ayelet
Waldman
2010: The
Jewish Community Center in Omaha welcomed nearly 1,000 young Jewish athletes
for an Olympic-style competition that will run through August 6. This will be the third time in 19 years that
the Maccabi Games have been held at the Jewish Community Center.
2010(21
Av, 5770): Eighty-eight year old Reginald Levy, the airline captain who
thwarted the hijacking of his Belgian airliner in 1972, passed away.(As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/world/europe/05levy.html
2010: “Curious
George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H. A. Rey” is scheduled to be
shown for the last time today at the Jewish Museum
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/design/26curious.html?pagewanted=all
2010:
President Shimon Peres is scheduled to travel to Egypt today for a meeting
with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
2011:
A screening of “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” Liz Garbus’s documentary that
takes us on Fischer’s journey from Jewish child prodigy to world chess master
to virulent anti-Semite, is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish
Festival.
2011(1st
day of Av, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Av
2011:
Today, “just seven months after a gunman’s bullet nearly killed her, Arizona
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the floor of the House of Representatives”
to cast her firs vote. (JWA)
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/01/2011/gabrielle-giffords
2011:
Today “on the 5th anniversary ("yarzheit") of Michael Levin's death
according to the Gregorian calendar, a flag was flown over the US Capitol in
his memory at the request of a man from his local area, Johnson Reynolds, who
considered him both an Israeli and American hero. (A native Pennsylvanian,
Levin had been killed in action while serving with a Paratroopers Brigaded
during the Second Lebanon War.)
2011:
Today, for the first time, the IDF unveiled a special guided missile system
that has been used successfully in action in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
2011:
“Kmo Kulam” (Like Everyone Else) by Elisha Banai and the Forty Thieves was released
today.
2011: "Volunticipate," a weeklong encounter that
brings together representatives of Jewish and Roma, or Gypsy, youth groups from
eight countries begins today in Hungary.
2011: Leaders of the protest for affordable housing who met
with President Shimon Peres today found a champion for the cause.
2011: Haaretz’s board of directors has appointed Aluf
Benn as the paper’s editor in chief, effective today. Benn, a veteran
correspondent and commentator at Haaretz, replaces Dov Alfon, who has been
editor in chief for the past three years and is leaving the paper to establish
a new digital enterprise in cooperation with the Haaretz Group
2011: “Just seven months after a gunman’s bullet nearly
killed her, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the floor of the House
of Representatives to cast her vote in favor of a bill to raise the nation’s
debt ceiling.”
2011: A Kassam rocket was fired at southern Israel from
Gaza tonight.
2012: Ninety-two thousand Jews are scheduled to gather in
New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium for the 12th Siyum Hashas.
2012: US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is scheduled to
arrive in Israel today to gauge Israel’s determination to attack Iran and to
try to persuade Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to give sanctions and diplomacy
more time. (As reported by Yaakov Katz)
2012: “Best of Tel Aviv,” celebrating the 40th
anniversary of the Tel Aviv University film school, is scheduled to be shown at
the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2012: Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski is scheduled to begin
teaching “Simply Mordecai M. Kaplan: From Heretic to Prophet of American
Judaism” at the Skirball Center.
2012: Yemen Blues, a group organized by Ravid Kahalani
and Omer Avital, is scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park.
2012:
In Houston, TX, brit milhah for Joseph Levy (Yosef Label) Strauss, son of Abbie
and Feivel Strauss.
2012:
Barbara Berger, whose brother, David, was on the Israeli wrestling team in
1972, wrote in Haaretz today that families of the 11 victims of a Palestinian
terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics would continue to advocate for a formal
moment of silence at the Olympics, despite the refusal of the International
Olympics Committee to allow such a moment this year, the massacre’s 40th
anniversary. (As reported by JTA and The Times of Israel)
2012:
In some respects, today was a historic turning point for Israel — the day on
which ultra-Orthodox Israelis became officially subject to the draft along with
the rest of the country’s Jewish citizens.
2012: Yakov Toumarkin today became only the second Israeli
swimmer to reach the final of an Olympic event by finishing fifth in the
semifinal of the men's 200m backstroke event.
2012(13th of Av, 5772): Eighty-five year old
New York Times editor Gerald Gold passed away. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2012(13th of Av, 5772): Seventy-four year old
Esther Kartiganer who played on the undefeated women’s Brandies University
basketball team and was a senior producer at “60 Minutes” passed away today.
(As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2013:
“Soldier on the Roof,” a documentary about the Jews living in Hebron, is
scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival today.
2013:
Tufts University graduate and University of Massachusetts trained nurse Alan D.
Solomon completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Spain.
2013:
“Crossing Delancey” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the “Only In New
York Summer Film Series.”
2013:
A gag order was lifted today on an espionage indictment filed against a
46-year-old Jerusalemite member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta Haredi Sect
accused of offering to serve as a spy for the Iranian regime. (As reported by
Havi Rettig Gur)
2013:
The 12th Annual March for Pride and Tolerance took place this
evening in Jerusalem
2013(25th
of Av, 5773): Sixty-seven year old Igal Brightman the chairman and CEO of the
major local accounting firm of Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar died when his
plane crashed outside of Eilat.
http://www.haaretz.com/business/1.539592
2013:
The Los Angeles Time featured a review of Hothouse: The Art of Survival and
the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar
Straus & Giroux by Boris Kachka
2014:
The jury is scheduled to announce the winners in the Sukkah Design contest
sponsored by Oregon Jewish Museum at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center.
2014:
A weeklong workshop “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe in the
Records of the International Tracing Service Digital Archive” at the USHMM is
scheduled to come to an end.
2014: Based on announcement by U.N. Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a 72-hour unconditional
cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. local time
today.
2014(5th of Av, 5774): Major Benaya Sarel, 26,
from Kiryat Arba and St.-Sgt. Liel Gidoni, 20, from Jerusalem both serving with
the Givati Brigade were killed today after the cease fire had begun. At the
same time 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba was kidnapped. On August
2, Hadar was declared to have died in today’s attack as well. (In life they
were loved and admired. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than
lions.)
2014: Twenty-four year old Lt. Eitan Fund “rushed into a
tunnel to try and stop the kidnapping of Hadar Goldin who in fact had already
been killed by the terrorist – an act of heroism for which he received the
Distinguished Service Medal..
2014: Representative Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican
whose last day as House majority leader yesterday, said today that he would
resign his seat effective Aug. 18 in hopes that his successor will be able to
participate in the lame-duck session after the November elections. Mr. Cantor’s
departure means that they are no Jewish Republicans serving in the House of
Representatives.
2014: At Temple Judah’s Friday night services, in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, Rabbi Todd Thalblum is scheduled to describe his trip to Israel.
2014: Following his defeat in his party’s primary
election Eric Cantor gave up his position as House Majority leader.
2014:
Michael Bloomberg’s fellowship, the Genesis Generation Challenge is scheduled
to “go live” today.
2015(16th
of Av, 5775): Parashat Vaetchanan and Shabbat Nachamu
2015:
Today “opposition leader Isaac Herzog issued a call to action against Jewish
terrorism, and demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense
Minister Moshe Ya’alon respond to such acts in the same way as Israel responds
to Islamist terrorism.”
2015:
Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at the Main State Pier in Portland, ME.
2015:
Benjamin Levin, son of David Levin, hits the big Three Oh!
2016:
“In the wake of the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade in which
six people were injured by an ultra-Orthodox man,” “thousands of people
attended a number of anti-violence, anti-homophobia rallies across Israel” this
evening.
2016:
“The Farewell Party” is scheduled to be shown at The Hampton Synagogue Film
Series which is now in its 14th year.
2016:
Dani Dayan is scheduled to take office today “Israel’s new consul general in
New York.” (As reported by Josef Federer)
2017(9th
of Av, 5777): Tish’a B’Av;
(Editor’s
Note: As we read Lamentations, we will
lament giving control to modern day Herodians and Zealots?)
2017:
As Jews commemorated “the Babylonian capture and conquest of the First Temple”
“new finds in the City of David” that “confirm the biblical account” of the
event were being made public. (As reported by Amanda Borschel-Dan)
2017:
The IDF is scheduled to “conduct a 24-hour exercise” that “will include a brisk
movement of security and forces and vehicles” “in the vicinity of Nitzana
communities and the area of the city of Eilat starting” today.
2017(9th
of Av, 5777): Seventy-four year old Jeff Brotman, “a founder of Costco” and the
husband of “the former Susan Thrailkill” with whom he had two children, Justin
and Amanda, passed away today.(As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/business/jeff-brotman-costco-founder-dead.html?_r=0
2017:
Marvin Krislov is scheduled to begin serving as the eighth president of Pace
University in New York.
2017:
In London, on Finchley Road, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of the
“Zookeeper’s Wife.”
2017:
Friends and family of Benjamin Levin, the son of David Levin celebrate his
natal day.
2018:
In Atlanta, MGM is scheduled to host a free screening of “Operation Finale,” a
movie “based on the 1960 covert mission of Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he
infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded
the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their
deaths in concentration camps.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Y4_6PD0Z4
2018:
“The Ancient Law,” a film that tells the story of a rabbi’s son who gains fame
as an actor in Vienna, is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018:
“Vienna Beef, Chicago's legendary manufacturer of hot dogs, sausage, and other
food products,” founded by “Austrian-Hungarian immigrants Emil Reichl and
Samuel Ladany” hosted a public celebration for the community today, in honor of
its 125th anniversary.
2018:
Today Anna “Kaplan became the first candidate for New York State office to be
endorsed by former President Barack Obama.
2018:
“The WOW festival with super star Jason Derulo” is scheduled to place “at
Rishon Lezion
2019:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The
Amazing Johnathan” and “The Humorist.”
2019:
Friends and family of Benjamin Levin, the son of David Levin, are scheduled to
celebrate the start of the last full month of summer and his natal day.
2019:
This evening the Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical
Society are scheduled to host the “Ladies Mile Walking Tour with Ephemeral New
York’s Esther Crain.”
2019:
JW3 is scheduled to host the last two London screenings of “Marianne and
Leonard: Words of Love.”
2019:
As Israelis awoke this morning, they learned that terrorists had crossed into
Israel from Gaza and wounded an IDF officer which led to a proportionate
response from the IDF.
2020:
Round 1 of the “Palywrights’ Center of S.F. Playoff’s” an online competition of
10-minute plays performed as staged readings is scheduled to feature “Why God
Made Beggars,” a Jewish theme play by Steve Koppman.
2020:
The FJMC Tri-Region Virtual Men’s Club Retreat offering Torah Study, musical
havdalah and other programing is scheduled to begin this afternoon.
2020(11th
of Av, 5780): Parashat Va-etchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Shape: The Hidden Geometry of
Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else by Jordan
Ellenberg, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie K.
Brown, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera
Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, Ethel Rosenberg by Ann Seeba and Life on
the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg
2021:
Closing night of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
2021:
In “How to Read A Film, “East Bay Jewish film fest is scheduled to present
screenwriter and film lecturer Galit Roichman deconstructing the 1999 rom-com
“Notting Hill,” starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.”
2021:
Sharaka an Emirati/Israeli NGO formed after the signing of the Abraham Accords
is scheduled to present “The Abraham Accords and the New Middle East” at the
Israeli American Council office in Newton, MA.
2021:
Bay Area Chabads are scheduled to present a “Ladies Night Out” social gathering
with the cuisine and culture of Yemenite Jewry and a henna artist. Includes
Yemenite buffet from caterer Ma’lawah Bar and wine.
2021:
In Israel, the Maccabi health provider is schedule to begin administering “a
third COVID-19 vaccine shot to the elderly” today.
2021:
The Jewish Heritage Alliance, in collaboration with the American Sephardi
Federation and other co-hosting Partners, is scheduled to present In the
“Beginning: From King Solomon to the Ends of the Earth,” the first in a three
part series on “Sefard: The Untold Story That Changed the World.”
2021:
In the evening, ma’ariv minyan with recitation of Kaddish for the Yahrzeit Deb
Levin Z”L
2022:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “And
I Was There” and “10 Questions for Henry Ford.”
2022:
Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley is scheduled to host a discussion on
climate-related bills in the state legislature and how to support them
2022:
After “oil prices in Israel rose dramatically in July, crossing the 8 NIS mark
for the first time since 2012, oil prices are scheduled go down today in 1.5 NIS, fixing the new price
at 6.58 NIS per liter. (YNET)
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar during which Jeremy Rosen
lectures on “Varieties of Jewish Belief from Fundamentalism to Atheism: Does it
Matter?”
2023:
In New Orleans, singles from JNOLA, YAS and Tribe are scheduled to mingle while
playing bar games.
2023:
The Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action is scheduled to present “Young
Adult Spark plus Reunion Trivia Night.”
2023:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Nathan-ism,”
a “documentary following the life of Jewish artist Nathan Hilu, who obsessively
drew his experiences as an 18-year-old army private tasked with guarding
high-level German war criminals at Nuremberg, preventing them from committing
suicide before their verdicts were announced.”
