Tuesday, January 30, 2024

This Day, January 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

January 31

314: Sylvester I whose name is “the Israeli term for New Year’s night celebrations” began his papacy

“The Israeli term for New Year’s night celebrations, “Sylvester,” was the name of the “Saint” and Roman Pope who reigned during the Council of Nicaea (325 C.E.). The year before the Council of Nicaea convened, Sylvester convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem. At the Council of Nicaea, Sylvester arranged for the passage of a host of viciously anti-Semitic legislation. All Catholic “Saints” are awarded a day on which Christians celebrate and pay tribute to that Saint’s memory. December 31 is Saint Sylvester Day – hence celebrations on the night of December 31 are dedicated to Sylvester’s memory. (As reported by Jewlicious)

439: Promulgation of the Code of Theodosius II in the Byzantine Empire. This was the first imperial compilation of anti- Jewish laws since Constantine. Jews were prohibited from holding important positions involving money including judicial and executive offices and the ban against building new synagogues was reinstated. Theodosius was the Roman emperor of the East (408–450) The Code was readily accepted as well by Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III (425-455).

579: The reign of Khosrow I (or Chosroes I) who “protected the rights of Christian and Jewish minoirites” when he “destroyed Antioch” in 540 came to an end today.

1253: Henry III of England ordered that Jewish worship in Synagogues must be held quietly so that Christians should not have to hear it when passing by. In addition, Jews were not to employ Christian nurses or maids, nor was any Jew allowed to prevent another Jew from converting to Christianity.

https://jewinthepew.org/2016/01/31/31-january-1253-henry-iii-orders-quiet-worship-in-synagogue-otdimjh-2/

1266: During a revolt by Muslims, the siege of Murcia came to an end today when the city surrendered when it surrendered to James I of Aragon who “forced Nachmanides (Rabbi Moses ben Nachman) to participate in a public debate, with the Jewish convert to Christianity, Pablo Christiani” after which Nachmanides was forced to flee from Spain because he did not back down and won the debate.

1419: Pope Martin V issued a Bull that abolished the oppressive laws promulgated by antipope Benedict XIII and granted the Jews those privileges which had been accorded them under previous popes.

1493: Jews fleeing Spain were no longer allowed to enter to enter Genoa. During the previous year Jews fleeing Spain were allowed to land in Genoa for three days. As of this date the special consideration was cancelled due to the “fear” that the Jews may introduce the Plague.

1504: France ceded Naples to Aragon. Jews had lived in Naples in comparative freedom but began to suffer persecution when the French conquered the kingdom in 1495.  Conditions worsened when the Spanish began to rule the southern Italian land and by 1541 the Jewish community ceased to exist.

1674(24th of Shevat): Rabbi Abraham Auerbach of Coesfeld, Germany instituted an annual fast in commemoration of his expulsion on this date.

1684(Shevat, 5444): Benedict (Baruch) Nehamias de Castro, who was so successful in practicing medicine in his hometown of Hamburg “that in 1645 he was appointed physician in ordinary to Queen Christina of Sweden” passed away today.

1738: Aaron Gutterez a merchant selling rum, wine, sugar and lime juice advertised under his own name for the first time in South Carolina.

1788: Charles Edward Stuart the leader of the Jacobite force whose invasion had caused panic among many of London’s financiers, except most notably Sampson Gideon” who provided the government with money and support, were defeated today at the Battle of Culloden which ended a major threat to the Hanovarian English monarchy passed away today.

1795: Alexander Hamilton, the native of Nevis who according to some was the son a Jewess Rachel Levine and who attended the island’s Jewish school before leaving for North America, completed his six years of service as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

1796: In Kingston, Jacob Bueno Henriques and Sarah Henriques gave birth to Joseph Gutteres Henriques who settled in London where he married Eliza Henriques with whom he had two children.

1800: New York native Moses Myers and Eliza Judah gave birth to Abram Myers.

1812: In London, Isabel and Isaac Lyon Goldsmid gave birth to Frederick David Goldsmid, the MP for Honiton and husband of Caroline Samuel with whom he had nine children.

1813: Birthdate of Dutch physician, pharmacist and philanthropist, Samuel Sarphati. “One of the great Amsterdammers of the 19th century,” Sarphati, was a promoter of public housing, an organizer of municipal services such as garbage collecting, and the builder of a bread factory that provided better and cheaper bread for the city. He also built the Amstel hotel. Sarphati is seen by Dutch history as a great philanthropist. Nobody ever knew he was Jewish—until the Germans authorities changed the name Sarphati Street into “Muiderschans”.

1820(15th of Shevat, 5580): Tu B’Shevat is observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Madison.

1828(15th of Shevat, 5588): Tu B’Shevat

1828: Abraham Joseph married Eliza Wolf in the United Kingdom

1830: Birthdate of James G. Blaine, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. President who while serving as Secretary of State was presented with “a petition signed by 413 Jewish and Christian leaders including John and William Rockefeller, calling for an international conference on the Jews and Palestine.”

1830: In South Moravia Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth their daughter Josefina Strakosch.

1838: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Poznanski officiated at the marriage of Samuel Sampson to Catherine Goldsmith, “the only daughter of the late Isaac Goldsmith.”

1842(20th of Shevat, 5602): Seventy-seven-year-old Emanuel Deutz who had been serving as Chief Rabbi of France since 1810 passed away today.

1842: In St. Mary’s, Camden Country, GA, Lieutenant Levi Charles Harby married Leonora R. D’Lyon the daughter of Levi S. D’Lyon of Savannah, GA at the residence of Dr. Francis O. Curtis.

1845: The government Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler permission to leave Hanover so that he could move to London and assume the position of Chief Rabbi.

1845: In Winnsboro, SC, German-Jewish immigrants Betty Goldberg and George M. Leventritt gave birth to CCNY graduate, NYU trained attorney and supporter of Tammany Hall David Leventitt, the husband of Matilda Lithauer whom he married in 1868, the father of Olivia, Walter R., and Leo L.Lithauer, who served as a member of the New York State Supreme Court and who was so highly regarded that funeral services were conducted by Rabbis Nathan Krass, Josep Silverman and Hyma G. Enlow and who honorary pallbearers including
Benjamin Cardozo, Daniel Frohman, Lewis Marshall and Adolph S. Ochs.

1846: After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown were incorporated to form the modern city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Four years prior to this, the families of Solomon Adler, Isaac Neustadt, and Moses Weil settled in the city.  As proof of the vibrancy of the young community, during the 1840’s the first Rosh Hashanah services were held at the home of Henry Newhouse and the first Yom Kippur Services were held in a building containing Pereles grocery store.  For more about the history of the Jews of Milwaukee consider a visit to the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee or reading "One People, Many Paths: A History of Jewish Milwaukee," by John Gurda.

1841(9th of Shevat, 5601): German Jewish music teacher Moses Budinger who “edited the Jewish ritual for festivals with a grammatical commentary in Hebrew and the penitential prayers with a commentary” passed away in Cassel today.

1848: Lazarus and Sara Straus gave birth to Nathan Straus the wealthy American businessman and philanthropist who owned R.H. Macy and Company and Abraham and Straus. Born in Otterberg, Germany, Strauss moved to the United States with his family in 1854 where they first settled in Georgia before moving to New York City after the Civil War where young Nathan worked in his father’s firms L Straus & Sons.  In the 1880’s he began a life of philanthropy and public service that included leading the fight against tuberculosis and a major effort to improve the public libraries.  His philanthropy extended to developing a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel following his first visit to the area in 1912.  His support is memorialized by the fact that a street in the Jerusalem is called “Rehov Straus” and that the modern Israeli city of Netanya, founded in 1927, was named in his honor

1849: One day after he had passed away, Joshua bar Jacob was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1851(28th of Shevat, 5611): David Spangler Kaufman passed away. Born in 1813, Kaufman was the first Jewish United States Congressman from Texas. No other Jewish Texan served in Congress until Martin Frost in 1979. He was born in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania. After graduating with high honors from Princeton College in 1830, he studied law under John A. Quitman in Natchez, Mississippi, and was admitted to the bar. He began his legal career in Natchitoches, Louisiana, five years later. In 1837 Kaufman settled in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he practiced law and participated in military campaigns against the Cherokee Indians. He was wounded in an encounter in 1839. Between 1838 and 1845 he was a member of the Republic of Texas's congress. He served in the Republic's House of Representatives from 1838 to 1842 and was Speaker of the House in the last two years. He was a member of the Texas Senate from 1843 to 1845, when president of Texas Anson Jones named him chargé d'affaires to the United States in February 1845. After the Texas Annexation, Kaufman represented the Eastern District (District 1 of Texas in the United States House of Representatives from 1845 to 1851. While in Congress, Kaufman argued unsuccessfully that Texas owned lands that are now parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. He encouraged Governor of Texas Peter Hansborough Bell to have Texas troops seize Santa Fe, New Mexico, which never occurred. He also played a role in the Compromise of 1850, as one result of which the national government assumed the debts of the former republic. Kaufman was a Freemason and a charter member of the Philosophical Society of Texas. He died in Washington, D.C. while attending the Congress, and was originally buried in the Congressional Cemetery there. In 1932 his remains were moved to the State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Kaufman County, Texas and the city of Kaufman, Texas are named for him.

1853: In Woodville, MS, Jacob Schwartz and Judith Morritz Schwartz gave birth to Lazarus “Lazar” Schwartz, the husband of Texan Sophia Weyl Schwartz with whom he had three children – Lucille, Edgar and Florence.

1856: F.W. Evans delivered a lecture tonight entitled "Shakerism" during which he described numerous similarities in the beliefs and/or practices of the Shakers and those of the Jews. This positive view Jews may be one of the reasons that systemic European style anti-Semitism never took firm root in the United States.

1858: Emanuel Dreifuss, the Wurttemberg, German born son “of Aron Dreifuss and Breunla Dreifuss” and his wife Friederika Dreifus gave birth to Rosa Dreifuss

1859: In Moravia, Austria, merchant Bernhard L. Deutsch and Elsie Wiener gave birth University of Vienna trained historian Rabbi Gotthard Deutsch, the acting President of Hebrew Union College who lectured on Jewish history at the University of Chicago and was “an editor and chief contribution the Jewish Encyclopedia” but whose legacy is marred by his opposition to the United States entering WW I because of affection for Germany.

1860: In Prague, Simon Heller and Mathilde Kassanowitz gave birth to Maximilian Heller, the Rabbi at Temple Sinai in New Orleans who was the husband of Ida Annie Heller and Professor of Hebrew and Hebrew Literature at Tulane University in New Orleans who led Zion Congregation in Chicao and
Congregation Beth El in Houston before accepting the pulpit at the prestigious Temple Sinai in New Orleans and who was a supporter of Zionism which was unusual for a Reform Rabbi at that time.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0033/ms0033.html

1860: In Prague, “well-to-do wool merchant Simon Heller and Mathilde Kassowitz” gave birth to HUC trained rabbi and University of Cincinnati Phi Beta Kappa graduate Maximillian Heller, the husband of Ida Annie Marks, the father of Cecile, Isaac, Ruth and Rabbi James Heller,

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/478

1863: In Marietta, GA, Barnet Phillips, the son of Isaac and Sarah Phillips and his wife Josephine Phillips gave birth to Henry Myers Phillips

1863: Birthdate of Landstuhl, Germany native Lazarus Reinheimer, the husband of Karoline Klien and the father of Ludwig Reinheimer.

1864(23rd of Shevat, 5624): Fifty-one year old Bavarian lawyer Fischel Arnheim whose legal reputation led to his election four times to the Bavarian Legislature from the cities of Hof and Munchberg.

1864(23rd of Shevat, 5624): Fifty-five year old Rabbi Michael Sachs who was enlightened enough to be “one of the first Jewish graduates from the modern universities” but who “so strongly opposed the introduction of the organ into the Synagogue that he retired from the Rabbinate rather than acquiesce” which led him to a literary life that included a new translation of the Bible passed away today.

1865: The House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment today paving the way for it to be sent to the States for ratification. 

1866(15th of Shevat, 5626): Tu B’Shevat

1866: In Highville, PA, Rudolph H. Kauffman the Creswell, PA born son of Anna and Isaac Kaufman and his wife Ann Kauffman gave wife to Alice Funk Gramm

1869: Birthdate of Hungary native Morris Newfield who in 1894 came to the United States  where he graduated from Hebrew Union College, became the rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, married Leah Ullman, the daughter of Samuel Ullman, with whom he raised four children, Emma, Mayer, Lena and John Newfield

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/newfield-morris

http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2007_59_01_02_doc_langston.pdf

 

1869: One day after he had passed away, 78 year old Edward Van Weerden, the husband of Caroline Van Weerden was today buried in the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1870: Birthdate of German author Dr. Eduard Fuchs whose works included Jews in Caricature and who was “violently attacked by the Nazi regime” and forced to flee Germany “because his second wife, the former Grete Alsberg was a Jewess.”

1876: In the village of Longdowns, Cornwall, Thomas and Jane Hocking Spargo gave birth to John Spargo, the author of The Jews and American Ideals in which he “attacked the problem of anti-Semitism and exposes the un-American nature and its positive danger to American ideals and institutions.”

https://www.amazon.com/Jew-American-Ideals-John-Spargo/dp/1543140858#reader_1543140858

1871: It was reported today that the Russian government has issued an imperial decree exempting Jews from military service once they reach the age of 32.  Christians are exempt once they reach the age of 23. Any Jew who converts will not have to serve in the military – another example of “proselytism by main force.”

1874: In the United Kingdom, start of the general election in which Benjamin Disraeli’s Conservatives would win a majority of the seats in the House of Commons.

1881: As of today, the books of the Board of Endowment of the Grand Lodge of the order Kesher Shel Barzel, District No.1 showed a deficiency of $2,996.36 which would later be attributed to embezzlement by President Oettinger.

1881: In London, Minna and Anton Dunkelsbuhler gave birth to George Dunkelsbuler.

1881: Three days after she had passed away, 85-year-old Hannah Simmons was buried today at “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1881: In St. Louis, MO, Jacob D. and Sarah (Hirsch) Goldman gave birth to Harvard graduate Alvin D. Goldman, the President of Lesser-Goldman Cotton Company, the director and chairman of the executive board of the St. Louis Compress CO and husband of Balance Lesser who was a supporter of the Y.M.H.A, the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis and Temple Shaare Emeth.

1884(4th of Shevat, 5644): Thirty-nine-year-old German orientalist Siegfried Goldschmidt who fought in the Franco-Prussian War and died today of spinal consumption before he could assume his duties as a professor at the University of Strasburg.

1885(15th of Shevat, 5645): Shabbat Shirah and Tu B’Shevat

1885: Twenty-one-year-old pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler made “her New York debut came today with a performance of Anton Buinstein’s Concerto in D Minor

1886: Birthdate of Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann who gained fame as Lev Shestov a Russian - Jewish existentialist philosopher. The Kiev native fled to France in 1921 seeking to escape the society created by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution.  He lived in Paris until his death in 1938.

1890: In Cape Town, SA, Karel Lodewyk Kramer and Anna Maria Elizabeth Kramer gave birth to Albert Kramer the husband of Elizabeth Francis Kramer.

1890: Henry A. Jackson, the Secretary of the Emigration Commission received a letter from Charles Frank, the Superintendent of the United Hebrew Charities attesting to the ability of Moses Gershonfeldt to be able to provide for his wife and four children who were being held at Ward’s Island because Commissioner Stephenson had arbitrarily denied them admission even though Moses, a butcher who earned $12 a week and his son Joseph who earned $9 a week had come to his office, described their financial condition and sought to leave with his wife and remaining children whose passage he had paid so that the family could be reunited.

1891: Twenty-nine-year-old “Edward Lawrence Levy” won “the first British amateur weight lifting championship today.

1891: During the Congressional Investigation of the management of the Barge Office, Colonel John B. Weber the former Superintendent Weber testified as to how the United Hebrew Charities had offered to care for a poor Englishwoman that Dr. Drum and the “powerful and wealthy Episcopal church” had to turned its back on leading Weber to say that he “prayed if he was to be born again he should be born a Jews for then he would have somebody to care of him if he should ever be in need.”

1892: In New York City, Meta and Mechel Iskowitz gave birth to Edward Israel Iskowitz the orphan who was raised by his grandmother Esther Kantrowtiz and gained fame as Eddie Cantor.

http://eddiecantor.com/

1892: It was reported today that six members of the senior class at Rutgers are studying Hebrew, “the study of which is increasing in” the United States.

1892: Birthdate of Moritz Guttman the native Kleinsteinach who fought in the German Army during WW I.

1892: Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs of B’nai Jeshrun officiated at the funeral of Benjamin Russak which was held at his home and followed by burial at Cypress Hills. The police were on hand to deal with the large number of carriages that brought a throng of the city’s leading business leaders and prominent members of the Jewish community.

1892: Charles Spurgeon, the English Reformed Baptist Minister who expressed his disgust for the Czar’s treatment of his Jewish subjects, passed away. “If I had all the health and strength that could fall to the lot of man, I should be quite unable to express my feelings on reading of Russia’s intolerance of the Jews…The Czar is greatly injuring his own country by driving out God’s ancient people.  No country can trample with impunity.”

1892: “The Russian Exiles” published today described efforts by the Jewish community to meet the needs of the swelling tide of immigrants that is arriving from Europe.  According to the United Hebrew Charities 62,574 Jews arrived in New York last with five-sixths or 54,194 of them coming from Russia.  The total included 26,891 men, 16,393 women and 19,290 children.  Only 195 of the immigrants were sent back to Europe by the U.S. government while 46,029 have remained in the city with the rest having been provided transportation to other cities.

1893: The Jewish community of Philadelphia is scheduled to host a charity ball today to which President-elect Grover Cleveland was invited by A.E. Greenwald and Chapman Raphael.

1893: “L’Amico Fritz” Mascagni’s second opera is scheduled to be performed at the Music Hall tonight under the direction of Walter Damrosch with the proceeds going to the Hebrew Educational Institute.

1893: Charles Frohman “signed a contract” today” under which his comedians will open at the Garden Theatre” in September.

1893: In Indianapolis, Harry and Hannah (Schiff) Efroymson gave birth to Abram Efroymson, a member of the United States Army Field Artillery during WW I and President of the Terminal and Refrigeration Corporation who was leader of the Cleveland Jewish community and the husband of Sylvia Spira with whom he had two children – Alan and John.

https://prabook.com/web/abram_b.efroymson/1054688

1894: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and NYU trained otolaryngologist Max Rabbiner, the husband of “the former Eva Ruttenberg.”

1894: Birthdate of Otto Gunstling who was transported from Prague to Ujazdow to Majdanek where he was murdered in 1942.

1895: Birthdate of New York native Alfred Augustus Haldenstein, the Chemist who earned a B.S. from Columbia in 1915.’

1895: Thirty-two-year-old Pittsburgh, PA attorney Joseph Stadfeld, the New York City born son of Moritz and Sophie (Spier) Stadtfeld and member of Rodef Shalom Congregation married Carrie Edmundson today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1895: Isaac Spectosky of the Hebrew Institute was among those who attended today’s meeting of the Federation of East Side Workers.

1896: In Philadelphia PA, the American Jewish Historical Society held the final day of it fourth annual conference during which Dr. Cyrus Adler present a paper on “Notes on the Inquisition in Mexico and the Jews”; Max Kohler presented a paper on “The Jews and the American Anti-Slavery Movement” and Professor Morris Jastrow presented a paper on “Documents Relating to the Career of Colonel Isaac Franks.”

1896: In Charleston, W.Va., Rosa and Lewis S. Strauss gave birth to Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, the financier and husband of Alice Hanauer who worked with Herbert Hoover on providing food relief during World War, became a Rear Admiral in the Navy and served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/22/archives/lewis-strauss-dies-exhead-of-aec-lewis-l-strauss-former-chairman-of.html?searchResultPosition=1

1897: Dr. Emil G. Hirsch was among those who attended a conference of South Side Charities in Chicago, Illinois.

1897: Two days after she had passed away, Fanny Lyons, the daughter of Henry and Maria Nathan and the wife of Aaron Lyons with whom she had had four children was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1897: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil preached a sermon entitled “Rights and Wrongs of Rich and Poor” at Temple Emanu-El this morning.

1897: The Jewish Socialists’ Convention continued its meeting for another day at the Walhalla Hall on Orchard Street.

1897: Professor Richard J.H. Gottheil “delivered the fifth and last course of his on ‘The Geography of Palestine’ at Temple Emanu-El” this evening.  Gottheil is the son of the congregation’s rabbi and the college professor who helped found Zeta Beta Tau.

1897: Twenty-four-year-old Montgomery, Alabama native I.O. Schiff, the son of Rabbi Abraham J. Schiff and a member of the New York firm of Schiff Bros. married Stella Newmark with whom he had three children – Ruth, Stanley T. and Roslyn Schiff.

1898: It was reported today that Mrs. Esther Wallenstein has been elected President of the Hebrew Infant Asylum Association and that Maurice Untermyer has been elected Vice President

1898: It was reported today that arrangements are being completed for a debated between representatives of the Jewish Technical School, the Hebrew Institute and the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1898: It was reported today that Rabbi Gustav Gottheil views newspapers “as the recorders and distributors of the world’s daily history” which provide information that will break down prejudice.

1898: It was reported today that the committee that is trying to building the first Jewish hospital in Brooklyn has selected four potential sites. The committee’s officers are: President – Robert Strahl; Vice President – Sigmund Wechsler; Secretary – Charles Levy

1899: In Jerusalem, Goldie and Pincus Barsel gave birth to Rabbi Solomon Barsel, the husband of Rae Shapiro Shelow who served Congregation B’nai Jershurum in Philadelphia.

1899: The seventh annual meeting of the Hebrew Free Loan Association was held this evening at the Educational Alliance on East Broadway

1899: It was reported today that the officers of the Union of Jewish Religious Schools are: President-Richard Gottheil; Vice Presidents – Miss Julia Rachman and Dr. Kaufmann Kohler; Honorary Treasurer – A.F. Hochstader; Honorary Secretary – Rabbi Stephen O. Wise

1899: Daniel P. Hays presided over a dinner given by the Judeans to honor Dr. Cyrus Adler who is the newly elected President of the American Jewish Historical Society.

1900(1st of Adar I, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Adar I

1900: “Jacob Oppenheimer, sold for a client, a four-story flat on Lexington Avenue for $25,000.

1901(11th of Shevat): On the Jewish calendar, anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Colmar, Germany which occurred in 1519 or 5720.

1902: Edwin Thanhouser, the Baltimore born son of Samuel and Julia Thanhouser and actor who went on to start the Thanhouser Film Coporation in New Rochelle, NY and the former Gertrude Homan gave birth to Lloyd Tanhouser.

1903(3rd of Shevat, 5663): Parashat Bo

1903: Today, Louis S. Gottlieb, the business manager for the Grand Theatre Company said that “the purpose of his company was to furnish dramatic entertainment for the better class of east side Jews, who still find it easier to listen to plays” in Yiddish “than to plays in English.”

1903: “Three Jewish families from Roumania” who spoke only Spanish” landed today at Ellis Island and through an interpreter, Ephraim Navon, explained that they “were the descendants of Jewish who had been driven out Spain during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.”

1904: In Germany, Samuel and Malchen Jeselsohn gave birth to Albert Jeselsohn

1904: Twenty-nine-year-old Aaron Rauzin, the Grodno, Russia born son of Mechel and Amelia Rauzin who would settle in Savannah, GA where he served on the police force and organized the Mutual Insurance Company of Georgia and the Mercantile Bank and Trust Company, today married Ana Helfant with whom he had four children – Albert, Julius, Miriam and Moses—while serving as the director of the Jewish Educational Alliance.

1905: The Correspondent for the Daily Mail telegraphed a report of the violent outbreak in Warsaw in which he noted that the “Jewish shops have been the special mark for plunder.”

1906: Birthdate of Benjamin Frankel, the London born composer who was “the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants.”

http://www.musicweb-international.com/frankel/

1906: “School Principal’s Answer” published today described the hearing held today by District School Board No. 39 to determine if Principal Frank Harding’s references to Christ last December at an assembly at Public School 144 were an attempt to proselytize students at the school in a neighborhood “inhabited almost entirely by Jews” as first alleged by a student Augusta Herbert.

1906: “Cossacks Massacre Jews” published today described the attacks on the Jews of Gomel by Cossacks whose efforts “to obtain evidence of revolutionary activity” degenerated into an orgy of drunken looting and murder.

1906: Maurice Arnoff and Adolf Spiegel of Temple El Chaim officiated at the wedding of Solomon Levin who manufacturers wax images and Mollie Mogilewsky, the daughter of east side banker Rubin Mogilewsky which was held at the Attorney Street Synagogue.

1906: The engagement of Benjamin Mogilwesky, the son of east side banker Rubin Mogilewsky to Rebecca Thomas as announced today.

1907: “Miss Hook of Holland” a two-act musical comedy “with music and lyrics by Paul Rubens” who co-authored the book “opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre” today where it would run for 462 performances.

1908: It was reported today that Vladimir K. Stoleschnikoff, one of the early leaders of “The Will of the People,” a Russian revolutionary organization who maintained “close relations with the radical wing of the Russian Jewish community” has passed away passed away in Mobile, AL.

1909: Birthdate Yosef Burg, “a seminal Israeli political figure who was a Cabinet Minister for 35 years as a head of the religious Zionist movement…” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/16/world/yosef-burg-90-zionist-leader-served-in-many-israeli-cabinets.html?scp=1&sq=Yosef+Burg&st=nyt&pagewanted=print

1910: Birthdate of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5218 Jews from deportation to Nazi Germany death camps in eastern Europe.

https://jfr.org/rescuer-stories/perlasca-giorgio/

1910: Today, Alphonse Weiner was appointed to the Board of Education in New York.

1910: Birthdate of Omaha native and Creighton University trained attorney Ephraim Louis Marks.

https://archives.nebraska.edu/agents/people/1553

1911(2nd of Shevat, 5671): Sixty-seven-year-old Paul Singer, a leading German Marxist and a co-chairman of the Social Democratic Party passed away.

1911: Julian Mack began serving as a justice on the Seventh Court of Appeals

1912: It was reported today that “The State Department professes complete ignorance of the source or authority of the bill reported to have been introduced in the Russian Duma proposing the exclusion of American Jews from the empire and providing for increased duties on American goods entering Russian ports.”

1913(23rd of Shevat, 5673): Sixty-year-old Alfred Cohen, a “Councillor at the Supreme Court of Justice, passed away today in Munich.

1913: Moses and Beila Scheindlinger gave birth to Samuel Scheindlinger, the graduate of NYU Law School and Manhattan resident who served as a Commissioner of Deeds.

1914(4th of Shevat, 5674): Parashat Bo

1914(4th of Shevat, 567) Forty-five-year-old “painter and etcher” the Charlotte, NC born son of Johanna and Bernard Koopman and the husband of Louise Lovett Osgood passed away today.

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/koopman-augustus

1914: In a letter to the German press, Dr. Paul Nathan, the distinguished German Jewish leader, replied to accusations leveled against him by Zionists “including certain well-known Jews” in the United States in which he “emphatically denied that the lion’s share of the capital for the New Technical College and other institutions in Palestine has been contributed by Americans”  saying that the Americans had subscribed $160,000, the Russian had subscribed $100,000 and the Germans $100,000 and that since the Germans and the Americans have an “equal financial” interest in the college, the Germans are entitled to advance their contention that German, and not Hebrew, should be the language of instruction.

1915: Birthdate of Altoona, PA native Maurice Howard “Babe” Patt  the Carnegie Tech tight end who played professionally the NFL Detroit Lions and Cleveland Rams before spending WW II in the U.S. Navy.

http://blaircountysportshof.com/maurice-patt/

http://blaircountysportshof.com/wp-content/uploads/1989-Maurice-Patt.pdf

1915: “New Jewish Magazine” published today described the publication by the Intercollegiate Menorah Association of the first issue of The Menorah Journal a bi-monthly under the guidance of editor in chief Henry Hurwitz which includes the following articles: “A Call to the Educated Jew” by Louis Brandeis; “Jewish Students in European Universities” by Harry Wolfson; “The Jews in War” by Dr. Joseph Jacobs and “Days of Disillusionment” by Samuel Strauss.

1915: In Atlanta, GA, “the jury in the case of Dan S. Lehon, C.C. Tedder and Arthur Forman charge with subornation of a perjury in an effort to obtain a new trial for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, brought in a verdict of not guilty at 1:50 this afternoon.”

1915: “If Leo Frank obtains his freedom from the United States Supreme Court, it was announced today that Solicitor Dorsey would make an effort to have him indicted by the Grand Jury on one of two other charges” and that “Solicitor Dorsey said he intended to fight the case to the bitter end.”

1915: “Another batch” of refugees from Palestine have arrived at Alexandria aboard “the United States warship Tennessee which has been fitted up as transport” and have provided information that shows “the inability of the Turks to anything that is effective against Egypt

1915: It was reported today that “the Russian Government is now seeking to re-establish the autocracy as it existed before granting of the constitution” and has returned to its practice of organizing demonstrations against the Jews.

1915: “Refugees who have arrived in Egypt from Palestine report that conditions go from bad to worse” with “relations between the German and Turkish officers have reached a stage of acute tension.”

1916: While developments today with respect to the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court did not change the rather general opinion among Senators that the nomination would be confirmed, it became more apparent that confirmation would not be accomplished without a struggle.

1916: It was reported today that New York Assemblymen Nathan Perlman and Myer Levy were among those who attended the dance held “by the Madison Republican of the Twenty-Sixth Assembly District for the benefit of war sufferers.”

1916: In a sign of the non-sectarian nature of the fund raising efforts on behalf of the Jews of Europe, it was reported that Senator Boise Penrose and Congressman William S. Vare were among those who spoke at the Philadelphia Mass Meeting organized by the American Jewish Relief Committee.

1916: Sendel and Riva Grynszpan, the parents of Herschel Grynsapan (the alleged assassin of Ernst von Rath) gave birth to their third child and second daughter, Esther.

1916: As a measure of the worsening conditions in Russia, “many commercial and technical associations have adopted resolutions declaring the restrictions placed up the Jews are the reason for Russia’s commercial backwardness.”

1916: Among those who paid tribute to Dr. Joseph Jacobs “the noted Jewish scholar and editor of the American Hebrew” who passed away yesterday were Cyrus L. Sulzberger, “Dr. Frank H. Vizitelly, the scholar and author associated with Dr. Jacobs in many of the publications issued by Funk and Wagnalls” and Louis Marshall.”

1916(26th of Shevat, 5676): German born, and German educated baker Max Oscher who came to the United States “forty-five years” ago where formed several baking companies in the Max Oscher Company passed away today at his home in Manhattan.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/02/02/100188345.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1916: “The National Jewish Workmen’s Committee on Jewish Rights announced” today “that it will submit to Congress document expositing atrocities practice on the Jews in the warring countries of Europe.”

1917: In a move that will bring the United States into World War I, Germany announces it will resume its policy of allowing U-Boats “attack any and all ships, including civilian passenger carriers, said to be sighted in war-zone waters” – a practice popularly referred to as “unrestricted submarine warfare.”

1917: As the debate over immigration continued to rage across the American political spectrum, Max J. Kohler, the son of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler wrote today that “No doubt a very large portion of the thoughtful and patriotic citizens of our country hope that Congress will sustain the President’s veto of the Immigration bill and particularly is that true of those who, like the Jewish citizens of the United States, love our hallowed American precedent of right of asylum for the persecuted…

1918(18th of Shevat, 5678): Dr. Jechiel Tchlenow, the Moscow physician who was a major leader of the Zionist movement passed away. In 1917, Tchlenow had come to London “where he took an active part in the diplomatic negotiations that have resulted in official declarations by Great Britain” favoring the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1919: Birthdate of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in major league baseball when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. . Robinson was befriended by Hank Greenberg, the Jewish slugger who had had to deal with bigotry during his career.  According to Jonathan Eig, the only friends that Robinson had in Brooklyn during his first year “were Jewish people.” “The Jewish community clearly recognized a kindred spirit here, someone who had to prove himself. The war had just ended, [and] anti-Semitism was running high. Blacks and Jews both, after the war, felt they had some work to do to establish more respect."

1920(11th of Shevat,5680): Parashat Beshalach

1920: “More than $300,000 was contributed or pledged towards the million-dollar campaign of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities which was started” tonight “with a dinner at the Hotel Pennsylvania.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/02/01/118254311.html?pageNumber=2

1921: The Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Victor Berger who had been convicted of violating the Espionage Act and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. In overturning the conviction, the Supreme Court found that the presiding Judge, Kennesaw Landis (the future Baseball Commissioner) had improperly presided over the case after the filing of an affidavit of prejudice.

1922: In New York City, playwright and movie producer Frank Mandel, the San Francisco born son of Emanuel and Caroline Carrie Mandel and his wife Alice Wallerstein Mandel gave birth to Alfred M. Mandel

1923: In Long Branch, NJ, “Isaac Barnett Mailer, an accountant born in South Africa” and the former Fanny Schneider gave birth to Pulitzer Prize winning author Norman Mailer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/10/books.booksnews

1923: Birthdate of Budapest native and Israeli “caricaturist and illustrator” Yaakov Farkash, the survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau who served with the 7th Armored Brigade during the War for Independence who is known by his pen name “Ze’ev.”

1924: Birthdate of Marion Ruth Abitz, the wife of Irving Abitz

1924: In Pontiac, Michigan, Fannie Ester Blustin and Philip Taubman gave birth to mall developer Adolph Alfred Taubman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/business/a-alfred-taubman-shopping-mall-tycoon-involved-in-price-fixing-scandal-dies-at-91.html

1925: Birthdate of Charles Eliot Silberman, the native of Des Moines, Iowa, who gained fame as “a journalist whose books addressed vast, turbulent social subjects including race, education, crime and the state of American Jewry.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1926: In Washington, DC, Cecil David Kaufman, the Detroit born son of Cora and Saul Harris Kaufmann and his wife Isabelle Kaufmann gave birth to Edmund I. Kaufman.

1926: After The Joint Board’s contract with the furriers in New York expired today, Ben “Gold led a massive furriers’ strike.”

1927: “The Intercollegiate Menorah Association ended its three-day conference with a dinner at the Hotel Commodore tonight after announcing its plans to establish the Menorah Foundation” the aim of which is “to foster research and exact knowledge and humanistic interpretation of whole filed Jewish experience and expression, past and present.”

1927: Mrs. Anna Moskowitz Kross chairman of the city-wide women’s division announced the appointment of seventeen sectional chairman tonight who will help raise $250,000 as part of United Palestine appeals fund raising effort to rebuild the Jewish homeland.

1928: Nathan Straus, prominent philanthropist, celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birthday today at his home, 580 West End Avenue.  He will spend the day quietly with members of his immediate family. Among those sending congratulatory communications are President Calvin Coolidge and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker. While Straus has gained great honor for his humanitarian efforts, he was proud of his business acumen and some of his unique accomplishments which, according to him, included the introduction of rest rooms and medical care employees.  His philanthropic contributions in Palestine were made with the understanding that they would be available to all regardless of race, religion, creed or nationality.  Everybody knows about his support of Jewish settlers, but how many people are aware of the fact that he gave funds that were to be used by Arabs so that they buy modern agricultural equipment?  How many people known that when Palestine was struck by an earthquake, and Arabs were the chief victims, he sent a substantial sum earmarked for their use?  

1928: Mrs. Hertha Fuerth Lasker, a Viennese artist who was married last August to Edward Lasker, one of the leading chess players in the United States and a cousin of Albert Lasker, former Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, was a passenger on the Hamburg-American liner which arrived in New York tonight.

1929: “Lady Fingers,” produced by Lew Levinson with music by Joseph Meyer opened on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre.

1929: Stalin expelled Leon Trotsky Russia.  Trotsky took refuge in Turkey.

1930: The Golden Ring, a romantic operetta, set in Tel Aviv, premiered at the National Theatre on Second Avenue in New York City.

1930: The trial of Simcha Hinkas, the Jewish policeman charged with leading a Jewish crowd which killed a family of Arabs in Jaffa on Aug. 25, 1929 continued today in Jaffa with the prosecution presenting what it considered to be its strongest witnesses.  

1930: The Times “reported from Jerusalem today that the Palestine government” has proposed the establishment of an “agricultural bank…with a capital of $2,500,000.”

1931: “The Last Parade” produced by Harry and Jack Cohn was released today in the United States.

1931: Dr. William H. Hechler, a Protestant clergyman and teacher who was an early supporter of Theodore Herzl and his Zionist program passed away today at the age of 86.  Among other things, Hechler arranged for Herzl to meet Kaiser Wilhelm in those pre-war days when it was thought that the German monarch could persuade the Ottomans to support a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1932: The New York Times reported that Miss Freda Berson of Warsaw who is one of the best discus throwers in Poland and Miss Heda Bienenfeld of the Vienna Hokah, an outstanding Austrian swimmer will be competing in the upcoming Maccabiah.

1932: In Boston, Samuel Joseph Bernstein and Jennie Bernstein gave birth to Burton Bernstein, the younger brother of musician Leonard Bernstein.

1933(4th of Shevat, 5693): Heinrich Oppenheimer, the German born physician who moved to Britain where he pursued a medical career and, after obtaining an LL.B combined his two areas of interest to produce “The Criminal Reasonability of “Lunatics: A Study in Comparative Law” and “The Rational for Punishment” passed away today in Nice.

1933: In Baltimore, MD, homemaker Pauline Maimon and “cobbler” Robert Mower gave birth to Johns Hopkins Medical school graduate Morton Maimon Mower, “an entrepreneurial cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that has saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electrical jolt” and the husband of Toby Kurland Mower with whom he had two children. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

1933: On the day after they had dined together in Washington Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron resigned as the German Ambassador to the United States and told German-Jewish Lion Feuchtwanger not to return to Germany.

1934: Birthdate of “Alfred Appel Jr., a scholarly expert on Vladimir Nabokov, whose lecture course he attended at Cornell and the author of wide-ranging interpretive books on modern art and jazz.” (As reported by William Grimes)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E3DA163DF934A35756C0A96F9C8B63&scp=1&sq=Alfred+Appel%2C+Jr.&st=nyt

1934(15th of Shevat, 5694): Tu B'Shevat

1934(15th of Shevat, 5694): Sixty-six-year-old Kiev native Mary Epstein, one of the earliest stars of the Yiddish theatre who performed with such greats and Jacob Adler and Boris Thomashefsky who was attacked in 1913 by “hired gangsters” during a dispute between union and non-union actors passed away tonight.

1934: Zionist District No. 29 is scheduled to host “a gala Palestine celebration of Chamisha Asar Beshavat” this evening at the Burnside Manor in the Bronx.

1934: Jacob Landau is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Germany As I Saw It” “at the fifth anniversary celebration of the Jersey City Jewish Community Center this evening”

1934: Dr. Sidney S. Goldstein is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Translation of the Ideals of Social Justice Into Social Action” at this afternoon’s meeting of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers.

1935 (27th of Shevat, 5695); David Trietsch, an expert on the agriculture and economy of Palestine, as well as “one of the founders of the Zionist movement” passed away today.  The 65-year-old native of Germany died of heart failure at Rmat Ayim, near Tel Aviv.  Trietsch believed that a Jewish homeland would be created through “practical colonization” as opposed to political negotiations.  When the Ottomans sought to halt Jewish settlement in Palestine, Trietsch supported the settlement of Jews in Cyprus so that they would be poised to move to Palestine quickly as soon as there was a change in the political climate.

1935: “The Good Fairy” a romantic comedy directed by William Wyler and produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. premiered in New York City.

1935: In Croatia, Mane and Helen Hochwald gave birth to Branko Hochwald, who would come to United States in 1944 where he gained fame as Raymond B. Harding, the leader of New York State’s Liberal Party. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

1936: In New York City, “celebration of the 25th anniversary of the appointment of Julian Mack to serve as a federal judge.

1936: In Los Angeles, “celebration of the 20th anniversary of Edgard J. Magnin serving as the rabbi of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.”

1936: “The suffering of the Jews in Germany has brought into focus the necessity for an all-inclusive brotherhood of Jews and Gentiles in the city and nation,” according to the 1935 Report of the Greater New York Federation of Churches which was made public today.

1937: In “A Short Survey of the History of Music” published today, Richard Aldrich reviewed A Short History of Music by Alfred Einstein which had been translated from the German language.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/01/31/118952592.html?pageNumber=93

1937: Five days after he had passed away, eighty-six-year-old sculptor Ephraim Keyser, the of Moses Keyser and Betty Preiss whose works included “busts of Sidney Lanier, Cardinal Gibbons, Dr. Daniel Gilman, and Henry Harland” and a “statute of Major-General Baron De Kalb” for the United States Government which was “erected at Annapolis, MD” was laid to rest today.

1937: In Baltimore, MD Ida (née Gouline) and Benjamin Charles Glass, a record store owner, gave birth to composer Philip Morris Glass

http://www.philipglass.com/

1937: Ben-Zion Mossinson of Tel Aviv delivered an address at New York’s Rodeph Sholom entitled “Is There A Solution for the Jewish Problem?”

1938: Muriel Rukeyser established herself as a poet of enduring impact with the publication of U.S. 1, her second book of poems.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/31/1938/muriel-rukeyser

1938: The Palestine Post reported that three large Arab bands abducted nine Arab supernumerary policemen from their police post near Acre and shot their corporal dead in cold blood. The Arab policemen were disarmed and beaten, warned to leave the force and released. At another police post in the South arms and ammunition were stolen.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that Romania officially denounced the Minorities Treaty into which it had entered upon gaining independence at the Peace Conference at Versailles, and claimed that the Jewish question was now "a purely internal matter" over which the League of Nations had no more jurisdiction. This meant that Romania now felt free to implement still more severe anti-Semitic discriminatory measures. 

1938: The Palestine Post reported on the rise of anti-Jewish feelings and vandalism in Yugoslavia including the fact that "local Nazis" had smashed the windows out of the Sephardic synagogue of Belgrade.

1939: “During the parliamentary debate” today in Budapest “on the anti-Jewish bill, the president of the Association of Hungarian Industrialists, Alexander Knob, said Hungarian economic life would be gravely endangered by ‘proletarization’ of 6,000 to 7,000 Jews.”

1940: In New York, Dr. Eugene Hevesi, a Hungarian-born leader in the American Jewish community who served as foreign affairs secretary for the American Jewish Committee and as representative to the United Nations for several Jewish NGOs and his wife gave birth to Alan Hevesi, the New York Democrat who served as Comptroller of New York City and State Comptroller for the state of New York. He is also the brother of New York Timesman Dennis Hevesi who creates literary gems for the obituary page.

1940: In Davenport Iowa, Morris and Gertrude Kalina Margolin gave birth to Emmy award winning actor, director and screenwriter Stuart Margolin who was best known for the role “ Angel Martin” the scruffy con man who was a regular on the “Rockford Files.

1941(3rd of Shevat, 5701): Twenty-four-year-old Bulla (Bubbles) Blumenson was killed by enemy action today after which she was interred at the Rainham Jewish Cemetery.

1941: Three thousand Jews were taken from their villages and moved into the Warsaw Ghetto. Another 70,000 Jews would be uprooted and moved into the Warsaw Ghetto by the end of March.

1941: U.S. premiere of “Come Live With Me” starring Hedy Lamar.

1941: Birthdate of Leningrad native Lev M. Bergman, the Israeli mathematician “most known for the Bregman divergence named after him.”

1942 (13th of Shevat, 5702): Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah passed away in New York. Wife of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson, and mother of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah lived through the upheavals of the first half of the 20th century. She fled the advancing front of World War I from Lubavitch to Rostov, where her husband passed away in 1920 at age 59. In 1927, she witnessed the arrest of her son by Stalin's henchmen the night he was taken away and sentenced to death, G-d forbid, for his efforts to keep Judaism alive throughout the Soviet empire. After Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's release, the family resettled in Latvia and later, Poland; in 1940, they survived the bombing of Warsaw, were rescued from Nazi-occupied city, and immigrated to the United States.

1942: Einsatzgruppe A commanding officer, Franz W. Stahlecker, sent a detailed report about activities in the Baltic and White Russian countries. It stated that between July 23 and October 15, 1941, 135,567 Jews were killed. Eichmann sent out a letter making official the conclusions of the Wannsee Conference, "The evacuation of the Jews . . . is the beginning of the final solution of the Jewish problem."

1942: By the end of January, at least 160,000 Jews were living in the Lodz ghetto.

1943(25th of Shevat, 5703): Fifty-nine-year-old Elizabethgrad native and Brooklyn trained lawyer Leon Dashew, the husband Esther Dashew and father of Ruth, Stanley and Betty Dashew passed away today.

1944: “Former Justice Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee, telegraphed today to Associate Justice Frank Murphy of the Supreme Court that "the formation of the National Committee Against Nazi Persecution and Extermination of the Jews will be commended by right-thinking men of all faiths and creeds."

https://www.nytimes.com/1944/02/01/archives/proskauer-urges-rescue-wires-to-justice-murphy-that-he-backs-new.html?searchResultPosition=4

1944: At a meeting attended by two hundred women “the leaders of six noted Jewish organizations today characterized unity among its various groups as the solution to rebuilding and preserving Jewish life after” World War II.

1945(17th of Shevat, 5705): Fritz Freund, husband of Mathilde Freund, died at Buchenwald just three months before the camp was liberated.  In the first decade of the 21st century Mathilde Freund would sue France’s government owned railroad, Societe National des Chemins de Fer Francais over its role in the deportation of her husband and thousands of other French Jews to the death camps.

1946: Having resigned from the RAF Mordechai "Modi" Alon returned to Palestine and enrolled as an architecture student at the Technion. Allon would gain fame as one of the first fighter pilots in the IAf and the first one to shoot down an enemy aircraft.

1946: In Brooklyn, Edward Drosnin, an accountant and Evelyn (Freed) Drosnin gave birth to Columbia educated journalist Michael Drosnin, the author of The Bible Code in which he wrote that “references to historical and contemporary events were secretly encoded in the Old Testament.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/books/michael-drosnin-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1946: “The citation for Captain Isidore’s MBE that concluded ‘For his courage and devotion to duty during his two clandestine missions in Occupied France, it is recommended that Captain Newman be appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)’ was gazetted today.”

1947: In the House of Commons, during a debate about Britain marinating the Mandate in Palestine, Churchill, leading the Opposition, calls for the Government to end the Mandate.  Two weeks later, the Labor Government will adopt this as policy. 

1948: Birthdate of poet Albert Goldbarth.

1948: J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in New York City.

1949: After hearing Churchill’s speech in Parliament denouncing the logic of the Labor Government’s policy towards Israel and calling for recognition of the new Jewish state, Sir Simon Marks, a leading Jewish businessman and philanthropist, wrote to the former PM assuring him that Chaim Weizmann would find great comfort in his words.

1949: The U.S. which had recognized Israel on a de factor basis on May 15 recognized Israel on a de jure basis today.

1950: In Larchmont, drama critic Walter Kerr and author Jean Collins Kerr gave birth to John Kerr, “an editor, literary muse and confidant for a generation of Freudian scholars and the author of A Most Dangerous Method, the book that became the basis for a play and a movie directed by David Conenberg about the famous feud between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung

1950: President Truman revealed that he had ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb.  This decision might have been called Dueling Jewish Physicists.  On one side was Dr. Oppenheimer, father of the A-Bomb who opposed building the hydrogen bomb.  On the other side was Dr. Teller who had worked on the A-Bomb and favored building the H-Bomb.  Teller won out.  Oppenheimer’s opposition was one of the causes of him losing his security clearance during the 1950’s. This was an injustice that Teller did not support, and that President Kennedy would rectify.

1951: Birthdate of Dr. Harold Alan Pincus, the Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and father of Zachary Pincus-Roth the Princeton educated writer and journalist.

1952(4th of Shevat, 5712): Fifty-nine-year-old Jacob Landau, the Vienna born founder of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the husband of Ida Bienstock Landau passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/02/01/93344105.pdf

1952(4th of Shevat, 5712): Seventy-eight-year-old Herbert Loeb, Sr., “the son of Rosa and Adolph Loeb” and husband of Rose Regenstein Loeb passed away today in Chicago.

1954: In Detroit, Rabbi Joseph Segal officiated at the wedding of Wayne State University graduate Eva Zaretsky and Harvard Law School graduate Morton Koppel, which was held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Solomon, the uncle and aunt of the bride.

1954: In Copenhagen, father, Marcus Melchior, who “helped orchestrate the escape of over 7200 Danish Jews during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, and served and the country's chief rabbi until his death in 1969” and his wife gave birth Rabbi Michael Melchior, who made Aliyah in 1986 and served as an MK and cabinet official

1955(8th of Shevat, 5715): Egyptian authorities hanged two Jews in Cairo – Dr. Moshe Marzouk and Samuel (Shmeul) Azar – who had been found guilty of spying for Israel.  Eight other Jews had been given long prison sentences for the same reason.

1957: Martin Landau married Barbara Bain today.

1958: Lieutenant General Haim Laskov is serving as IDF Chief of Staff as the Egyptians and Syrians prepare to form the United Arab Republic which will increase the threat faced by the Jewish state.

1959: Today in Atlanta, GA, “Theo Lippman, Jr., a writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Mabry Lippman, a retired school librarian for the Baltimore City Public School System gave birth Northwestern University trained journalist and award-winning author of detective stories Laura Lippman the wife of to David Simon, another former Baltimore Sun reporter, and creator and an executive producer of the HBO series The Wire.

1960: At the Park Avenue Synagogue, Rabbi Judah Nadich and Cantor David Putterman officiated at the marriage of Rhoda Marilyn Nurenberg and Arthur Lewin, WW II veteran and graduate of Syracuse University.

1960: In Queens, at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser officiated at the marriage of Barbara Blumstein and Jack Barry Kolbrener.

1960: World Sephardi Federation meets in Madrid, Spain. Some members complain they did not want Spain to be the site of the meeting, as they did not want to return to Spain for any reason.

1960: Songwriter Adolph Green married actress/singer Phyllis Newman in New York City.

1960(2nd of Shevat, 5720): Seventy-eight year old C. Lew Gallant, the Latvian born son of Abraham and Jennie Kaplan Gallant passed away today after which he was buried at the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetey in Laude, MO.

1960: At the Savoy Hilton, Rabbi Richard Sternberger officiated at the marriage of Lisa Geffen and Wayne State University law student Barry M. Grant.

1961: David Ben-Gurion resigned as premier of Israel.

1961: A 3.5-kilometer tract of land southwest of Mount Kidod was chosen today as the site for the city of Arad.

1961: Joseph Rosenstock returned to the Met today to conduct Tristan und Isolde.

1963(6th of Shevat, 5723): Romanian born Ida Greenberg Zuckerman, the wife of Samuel Zuckerman and the mother of Max, Benjamin and George Zuckerman passed away today in Schenectady, NY after which she was buried in the Albany Hebrew Tailors Cemetery in Albany, NY.

1965: CBS broadcast the first episode of “For the People” a “legal drama” created by Stuart Rosenberg, produced by Herbert Rodkin and starring William Shatner and Howard Da Silva.

1966(10th of Shevat, 5726): Fifty-eight-year-old Syracuse native “Jehudah M. Cohen” who awas ordaing at the Jewish History of Religion and served as a regional director for Hillel passed away today in Los Angeles.

1967(20th of Shevat, 5727): Seventy-year-old sculptor, Virginia Morris Pollak, the wife of Leo Pollak passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9901E4DF1439E53BBC4953DFB466838C679EDE

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pollak-virginia-morris

1968: At sunset, all non-Israeli military units gave up the search for the INS Dakar, an Israeli submarine that had been first been reported missing on January 26.

1969: An advisory committee for the special study of institutional investors whose members included Chicago attorney Milton Cohen, the former director the S.E.C.’s special study of securities markets is scheduled to meet with the director of the study for first time today.

1970: After 546 performances on Broadway, the curtain came down Howard Sackler’s “The Great White Hope.”

1970(24th of Shevat, 5730): Seventy-six-year-old Samuel Feldman, the husband of Stella Feldman of Long Beach, NY, passed away today in Miami Beach.

1970: In Washington, DC, “Judith Plotz, an English professor at The George Washington University, and Dr. Paul Plotz, researcher at the National Institutes of Health” gave birth to “David Plotz, an American journalist and is currently the CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration” who is married to Hanna Rosin, “a co-founder of Slate magazine’s DoubleX.

1971(5th of Shevat, 5731): Yiddish actress and author Tsili Adle who also performed under the name of Tilsi Faryman who wrote (with the assistance of Yankev Tikman) Tsili adler dertseylt (Celia Adler explains) which may have been the inspiration for the film “Tsili” passed away today.

1972(15th of Shevat, 5732): Tu B’Shevat

1972(15th of Shevat, 5732) Eighty-eight-year-old Czechoslovakia native and NYU trained attorney Samuel Berger, the World War II veteran and Republican political activist who was a noted art collector and the uncle of painter Adolph Gottlieb, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/01/archives/samuel-berger-lawyer-here-88-counsel-to-state-legislative.html?searchResultPosition=1

1973(28th of Shevat, 5733): Sixty-two-year-old Manchester born Sir Edgar Abraham Cohen, the graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, who began his career at the Board of Trade in 1932 and was knighted in 1955 passed away today.

1973: U.S. premiere of “Steel Yard Blues” produced by Julia Phillips

1974: Linda McCartney and her husband “appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone today, making her the only person to have taken a photograph, and to have been photographed, for the front cover of the magazine.”

1974(8th of Shevat, 5734): Hilda Winifred Lewis (nee Maizels), the Whitechapel born historical novelist who was the wife of Dr. M.M. Lewis, the Director of the Institute of Education at the University of Nottingham, the sister of Montague Maizels and Miriam Wright and sister-in-law of Professor Samson Wright passed away today.

1974 (8th of Shevat, 5734):  Samuel Goldwyn, a major force in the creation of the motion picture industry, passed away at the age of 91. The evolution of Goldwyn’s name is microcosm of the experience of European Jews who came to America.  Born Schmuel Gelbfisz, he changed his name to Samuel Goldfish when he moved to Great Britain because that sounded more English.  After he moved to America he went into partnership with two Broadway producers whose names were Selwyn.  In naming their partnership they combined their two last names to create Goldwyn.  Sam liked the American sound of it so much that he changed his name for the third and last time.  What is amazing is the role that this Jewish immigrant from Poland played in creating modern American culture.  Among other things, he discovered that quintessential American hero, Gary Cooper and won the Oscar for best picture with his production “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Goldwyn may have been.  When Louis B Mayer a former partner turned commented on Goldwyn’s death he said, “The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead."  However, Goldwyn’s last production marked him as a man of moral fiber. In his final film made in 1959, Samuel Goldwyn brought together African-American actors Sidney Poitier Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr. and singer Pearl Bailey in a film rendition of the George Gershwin Opera, Porgy and Bess. The film won three Oscars. Samuel Goldwyn's lack of English language skills led to many of his malapropisms being frequently quoted such as:

  • "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
  • "Include me out."
  • "What we need now is some new, fresh clichés."
  • "Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!"
  • "Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg."
  • "Flashbacks are a thing of the past."
  • "A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

1978: Israel turned 3 military outposts in the West Bank into civilian settlements

1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that Defense Minister Ezer Weizmann left for Cairo for the second round of the interrupted military discussions. One of his specific aims was reported to be to influence the Egyptians so that they would modify their position of "not giving up even one inch of Sinai."

1979(3rd of Shevat, 5739): Celia Adler passed away today at the age of 89.  Known as the “First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre” she was part of Jewish theatrical dynasty that included her parents, Jacob and Dinah Shtettin, her half-sister Stella Adler and her half-brother Luther Adler.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40B16F73B5D12728DDDAB0894DA405B898BF1D3

1980: The New York City Ballet premiere of “Fancy Free,” a ballet by Jerome Robbins “took place today.”

1980: Seventy-three-year-old Irving Loeb Goldberg “assumed senior status” on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

1981: Jean-Marie Lustiger was enthroned as Archbishop of Paris.  He had been born Aaron Lustiger and converted at the age of 13 in 1940.  His mother died at Auschwitz.

1982: NBC broadcast “World War III,” a mini-series directed by Boris Sagal.

1984(27th of Shevat, 5744): Seventy-six-year-old Polish born and Columbia grad Ben-Zion Bokser the JTS ordained Rabbi whose academic posts including serving as Professor of Homiletics at JTS and who wrote such tomes as “Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel” while raising two children – Miriam and Baruch – with his wife Kallia Halpern Bokser, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/02/obituaries/ben-zion-bokser-76-a-rabbi-and-professor.html

https://opensiddur.org/profile/ben-zion-bokser/

1986: “Youngblood” a dramatic film edited by Stephen E. Rivkin who would later gain fame for his “work on the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’” was released in the United States today.

1986: “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” a comedy directed and co-produced by Paul Mazursky and co-starring Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfus was released today.

1987: In “Poignant Look-back At Holocaust In 'Beloved'” published today Kevin Thomas reviewed Manfred Kirchheimer’s “We Were So Beloved.”

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-31/entertainment/ca-2432_1_german-jews

1987: As more information came out about what would be known as The Iran-Contra Affair, Yaacov Nimrodi, said today that Israel's Defense Ministry had approved the sale of $50 million worth of Israeli-made weapons to Iran almost two months before the first reported American request for Israel's help in approaching Teheran.

1988(12th of Shevat, 5748): Eighty-year-old, Blanche Leo Ullman, the daughter of Leo Emanuel Ullman and Blanche Heller passed away today in her hometown of Richmond, VA.

1988: A Jewish settler was severely burned today when his car was firebombed in an area near the Ofra settlement north of Jerusalem.

1988: “Still Haunted by Covenant” published today provides a look at the state of Yiddish literature through reviews of The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse and Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/31/books/still-haunted-by-covenant.html

1988: ABC broadcast the first episode of “The Wonder Years” a comedy-drama co-created by Neal Marlens and narrated by Daniel Stern.

1989: Birthdate of Israel Bar-On “an Israeli singer, who won Israel's Kokhav Nolad (A Star is Born) song contest in 2008.”

1990(5th of Shevat, 5750): Eighty-eight-year-old NYU trained attorney Yitzhak Isidore Halpern, the New York City born son of Moses and Runia Halpern passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/02/obituaries/isidore-halpern-88-brooklyn-lawyer-dies.html

1990: Yuval Ne'eman resigned from the Knesset today and was replaced by Gershon Shafat.

1992: Tonight’ performance of the Gershwin musical "Crazy for You" at the Shubert Theater is a benefit designed to raised funds for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

1992: Harvard trained attorney Michael Boudin, the son of poet Jean Roisman and attorney Leonard Boudin and the “brother of Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, completed his service as “Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

1993: In “Prague’s Jewish Heritage” published today Ruth Ellen described “the monuments in the old Jewish quarter” which under the Communist regime “were maintained by the state” and which are now a
popular attraction that “attracts more than a million visitors a year.”

1993: Broadcast of the first episode of Barry Levinson’s “Homicide: Life on the Street” co-starring Yaphet Kotto and Richard Belzer.

1993: The Dallas Cowboys, who had counted on the play of Alan Veingard during the regular won Super Bowl XXVII even though he had been “declared inactive for the game.”

1994(19th of Shevat, 5754): Eighty-seven-year-old Esther Polinsky, the St. Louis born daughter of Philip and Lottie Polinsky, and the wife of Ben Weisman with whom she ahd tow children – Harry and Sandra – passed away today after which she was buried at the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery in Ladue, MO.

1995(30TH of Shevat, 5755) Rosh Chodesh Adar I

1996: Alan Binder completed his service as the 15th Vice Chairperson of the Federal Reserve.

1996 (10th of Shevat, 5756): Mathematician Gustave Solomon passed away at the age of 65.

1997: “Meet Wally Sparks” a comedy written by and starring Rodney Dangerfield was released in the United States today.

1997: “Waiting for Guffman” with a screenplay co-authored by Eugene Levy who also co-starred in the comedy along with Bob Balaban was released in the United States today.

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or topics of special interest to Jewish readers including Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
by David Halbestram and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron and the French Twentieth Century by Tony Judt. 

2000: “Three Israeli soldiers were killed today in southern Lebanon as Iranian-backed guerrillas continued to escalate their attacks during a lull in peace negotiations between Israel and Syria, Lebanon's power broker.”

2001: “Despite objections on both sides of the border, Egypt has agreed to start supplying Israel with natural gas next year, a deal totaling $3 billion that will continue until at least 2012.”

2002: For the second time in a year Tayibe was the target of a terrorist attack which this time Hamas claimed credit.

2003: Israeli forces shot and killed a Hamas terrorist during a gun battle in Jenin while continuing operations against terrorist in and around Hebron.

2004: “Talmud: in the Art of Ben-Zion and Marc Chagall,” an exhibit at the Center Art Gallery at Calvin College that brings together the Biblical work of two of the most important Jewish artists of the 20th Century that features 18 intaglio prints by Ben-Zion and 25 color lithographs by Marc Chagall comes to an end.

2004: Joelle Fishman, the daughter of Jewish immigrants who was born in 1946, “addressed the Communist Party’s conference on the 2004 elections in New York.

2005: “At least 15,000 Ethiopian Jews, many living in hovels near the Israeli Embassy in Addis Ababa, will be brought to Israel by the end of 2007 under an accelerated immigration process, the Israeli government said today.”

2006: Alan Greenspan completed his last term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve today

2007: Haim Ramon was convicted of “indecent assault” and sentenced to community service.

2007: The Times of London reported that Lord Levy (Michael Levy) the Prime Minister's personal friend and fundraiser, is the second person close to No 10 Downing Street to be questioned by police under suspicion of perverting the course of justice in the ongoing cash-for-honors investigation.

2007: The Jerusalem Post reported that the recently launched Yad Vashem Farsi site has been well received by the target audience. Since the Persian site went on-line last week, some 11,000 hits have been recorded, including 2,242 visits from Iran. That figure is just 1,000 hits short of the total number of visits the Yad Vashem Web site received from Iranians in the whole of 2006

2008: June Muriel Brown “made history by being the first and so far only actress to carry an entire episode single handed in the history of British soap, with a monologue looking back over her past life, dictated to a cassette machine for her husband Jim to listen to in hospital following a stroke.”

2008: Avi Geffen performed at Bush Hall in London.

2008: In Manhattan, the 92nd St Y presents “Praise, Grumble, Schmooze, Lament: The Voices of 21st Century Jewish Poetry.” The program features readings by established and emerging Jewish poets, including Alicia Ostriker, Rodger Kamenetz, Robin Becker, Jacqueline Osherow, Dan Bellm, Patty Seyburn, Philip Terman, Scott Cairns, Jay Michaelson and Richard Chess. 

2008: The Washington Post featured a review of Sacha Baron Cohen the Unauthorized Biography: from Cambridge to Kazakhstan by Kathleen Tracy

2008: It was announced that Neil Diamond will appear at the upcoming Glastonbury Festival in the UK.

2009: The 92nd St Y presents a musical evening featuring the Tokyo String Quartet and Jerusalem born pianist Benjamin Hochman.

2009: The Jewish Federation of Howard County (MD) presents Yom Hadash Community Concert.

2010: Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) said today that Israel would allow the ultra-Orthodox community to continue to run their private bus lines segregated by gender but could not officially recognize the practice on public bus lines. The minister was responding to a petition sent by the Israel Religious Action Center and a women's rights group to the government and to the Egged and Dan transportation companies. Katz declared in his response that Israel does not disapprove of buses which separate between men and women to accommodate the Hardi community, but that segregation could not become institutionalized.

2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain by Matthew Carr and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

2010: The Tenth Herzliya Conference is scheduled to open this afternoon on the Campus of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya in Israel.

2010: The Israel Center of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Museum Milwaukee invite the Jewish community to attend “Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible: A Jewish Night at the Museum” which will include a tour of the “Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible” exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum and recitation by Museum President and CEO Daniel Finley of the real story of how the exhibit came to the Museum.

2010: Opening session of The Tenth Herzliya Conference, “Israel‘s primary global policy annual gathering, drawing together Israeli and international participants from the highest levels of government, business, and academia to address pressing national, regional and world strategic issues.”

2010: An exhibition at the Krasdale Gallery in White Plains, NY, entitled “Pages de Guerre” featuring the works of Avigdor Arikha comes to an end.

2010(16th of Sh'vat, 5770): David V. Becker, a pioneer in using radioactive materials to diagnose and treat thyroid disease and an expert on the thyroid damage caused by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in 1986, passed away  at his home in Manhattan. (As reported by Mathew Wald)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/02/13/david_v_becker_86_pioneer_in_thyroid_disease_treatment/

2011: Dr. Ron Taffel is scheduled to present a program entitled “Childhood Unbound: Confident Parenting in a World of Change” at the 92nd Street Y in NYC.

2011: “A cornerstone laying ceremony was held for four apartment buildings with a total of 24 homes that are the beginning of the new Jerusalem community of Beit Orot on the Mount of Olives Ridge.”

2011: Rami Feinstein is scheduled to present a concert featuring songs from his two albums—a combination of rock, folk, and funk- in Jerusalem.

2011: NYC based Israeli choreographers Deganit Shemy and Netta Yerushalmy, are scheduled to perform this evening in an event intended to raise funds for the 1st Contemporary Israeli Dance Festival in New York, coming in June 2011.

2011: Last day for submitting recipes for the 2011 Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off.

2011: The Jerusalem Post reported today that “The Sundance independent film festival over the weekend followed the Oscars and Golden Globes in recognizing the Jewish and Israeli contribution to world cinema by handing out awards to two Israeli filmmakers. The world cinema dramatic screenwriting award went to Erez Kav-El for his film, Restoration. Talya Lavie received an Inaugural Sundance Institute Mahindra Global Film-making award which recognizes and supports emerging independent filmmakers from around the world.

2011: Right-wing activists have exploited Facebook's protocol that prohibits organizations from opening personal profiles to report and block the profiles of several leftist groups, Haaretz learned on today. The move, initiated by activists linked to the far-right leader Baruch Marzel, has thus far led to the blocking of the profile pages of left-wing groups including Machsom Watch, Yesh Gvul, and Anarchists against the Wall.

2011: Grad rockets landed near the cities of Netivot and Ofakim in the western Negev today, causing damage to a car and leading to four people being treated for shock. One rocket hit Netivot, which is 9 miles east of Gaza, and the second exploded in Ofakim, 15 miles from Gaza.

2011: American Sephardi Federation presents an evening with Edwin Black author of “The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust.”

2011: Thanks to the efforts of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation and the British Christian Zionist Movement an appropriate tombstone was placed what had been the unmarked gravesite of Reverend William Henry Hechler, a Protestant clergyman who was an early ally of Herzl and a supporter of the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine.

2012: “Jewish Soldiers in Blue Gray” is scheduled to be shown at the Southwest Florida Jewish Film Festival in Fort Meyers, FL.

2012: “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” is scheduled to be shown at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto, Canada.

2012: Alan Zweibel will be signing copies of Lunatics, a novel, he co-authored with Dave Barry, following his scheduled interview with Mo Rocca at Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y.

2012: Iran's "evil" leaders cannot be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, President Shimon Peres said today, calling the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions the world's single most important issue

2012: Turnout for the Likud party's primary elections was unusually low today. By mid-afternoon, only 14 percent of eligible voters had cast their ballot to elect a new party leader and central committee.

2013(20th of Shevat, 5773): Seventy year old children’s author Diane Wolkstein passed away.(As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/nyregion/diane-wolkstein-author-who-sparked-a-storytelling-revival-dies-at-70.html?hpw&_r=0

http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=65378

http://dianewolkstein.com/

2013: PBS is scheduled to broadcast a documentary entitled “Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope” which ”tells the remarkable true story of Colonel Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, and the miniature Torah scroll he carried from the depths of Hell to the heights of Space.”http://www.bethelnj.org/sites/default/files/flyers/IlanRamon-PBS.pdf

2013: “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust: Art in the Service of Humanity” is scheduled to come to an end today.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/nyregion/a-review-of-cartoonists-against-the-holocaust-in-new-rochelle.html?_r=0

2013: Award-winning, bestselling author Edwin Black is scheduled to chronicle the centuries of intersection between Islam and Jewry that led to the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad in 1941 and the ensuing Arab-Nazi alliance in the Holocaust in a major address at Fordham University this evening.  ”Black's presentation is based on his recent bestselling and critically acclaimed book, The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust

2013: Rabbi Gil Marks, “noted chef and cookbook author” is scheduled to deliver a lecture “From Schmear To Eternity” at Agudas Achim in Iowa City.

 2013: Composer Phillip Glass turns 75.

http://forward.com/specials/forward-50-2012/philip-glass/?no-mobile-redirect

2013: The Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) was once again the beneficiary of a winter storm today as rain poured down upon the Land of Israel, causing power outages around the country.

2013: Mt Hermon will be closed to the public today as well. Hermon Administration has announced another 20 cm of snow at the bottom of the ski lift. 40 cm have piled up at the bottom of the ski lift since the beginning of the current storm

2014(30tth of Shevat, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Adar I

2014(30th of Shevat, 5774): Fifty-two-year-old humanitarian Anne Heyman passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/world/africa/anne-heyman-rwanda-rescuer-is-dead-at-52.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

2014: Eighty-five-year-old Mike Flanagan who had an Irishman serving with the British army who participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belson and who “smuggled two Cromwell tanks to the Haganah in 1948” passed away today.

2014: After 20 years, David Stern stepped down as Commissioner of the NBA.

2014: It was reported by Israel’s Channel 2 News tonight that the Israeli government secretly channeled 148 million shekels (over $42 million) to the local city councils that administer settlements across the West Bank in recent years, to “compensate” them for city taxes they did not receive because of a government-imposed settlement-building freeze in 2009-2010.

2014: The Iron Dome missile defense system shot down at least one of two Grad rockets fired at Eilat from the Sinai Peninsula this evening.

2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to present “Chamber Music for Flute, Bassoon and Piano featuring Esti Rofe, Mauricio Paez and Ana Kaiserman.

2015: In Olney, MD, Shaare Tefila is scheduled to host its Fourth Annual Comedy Night of “Sweet Laughter.

2015(11th of Shevat, 5775): Shabbat Shirah

2015(11th of Shevat, 5775): Eighty-six-year-old CBS news producer Sandy Socolow passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/business/media/sandy-socolow-cbs-newsman-during-heady-days-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sandy-socolow-news-producer-for-walter-cronkite-at-cbs-dies-at-86/2015/02/02/5824b2a8-aaf1-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html

2016: Radio Kol Hamusica is scheduled to broadcast “one piece by Israeli composer Emanuel Vahl” this afternoon.

2016: Laura Apelbaum is scheduled to host a panel discussion on “Soviet Jewry: The Movement that United Our Jewish World” in Rockville, MD.

2016(21st of Shevat, 5776): Ninety-two year-old historian Elizabeth Eisenstein the author of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/books/elizabeth-eisenstein-historian-of-movable-type-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai edited by Robert Alter, Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary by Richard A. Posner and Thomas Murphy by Roger Rosenblatt.

2017(4th of Tevet, 5777): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of the Moroccan born Sephardic Rabbi, Yisrael Abuchatzeira, known as the “Baba Sali” who is buried in Netivot.

2017: Israeli singer/songwriter Noa Fort is scheduled to perform at the Cornelia Street Café.

2017: In the UK, “Denial” is scheduled to be shown for the last time at JW3.

2017: Gil Shwed, the CEO of Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, the winner of the Israel Prize in technology and innovation spoke “at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition in Tel Aviv” today.

2017: Today, “at least 17 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with bomb threats in the third wave of such mass disruption this month.” (JTA)

2018(15th of Shevat, 5778):  Tu B’Shevat

2018: “A Walk With Mr.Heifetz,” a play based on violinist Yashac Heifetz’s concert in Palestine in 1926 is scheduled to begin performances at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

2018: The University of Iowa Hillel and Congregation Agudas Achim are scheduled to Tu B’Shevat Seder at Brix Cheese Shop and Wine Bar.

2018: At Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown, NY, architect and art historian, Bruce Levy is scheduled to deliver a lecture on Jewish Architects including “Kahn, Eisenman and Liebeskind.”

2018: Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea Football Club which “has launched a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of anti-Semitism to it players, fans and staff” is scheduled to play a Premier League against Bournemouth today

2019: An interfaith discussion during which a Biblical topic is examined “through looking at texts from three Abrahamic traditions” is scheduled to take place at Oxford University.

2019: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Across the (Political) Divide), a candid and constructive “about Israel across the Aisle.”

http://emanuelstreickernyc.org/events/across-the-political-divide/

2019(25th of Shevat, 5779): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

http://www.aish.com/dijh/Shevat_25.html

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host “a panel to celebrate the publication of Marc Dollinger’s Black Power Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s with the author and special guests Including April Baskin (The Union for Reform Judaism), Cheryl Greenberg (Trinity College), Ilana Kaufman (The Jews of Color Field Building Initiative) and Rivka Press Schwartz (Associate Principal, SAR High School and Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America).

2019: Yiddish New York’s “2018 Visual Arts Exhibition curated by Deborah Ugoretz and Tine Kindermann” at the City Lore Gallery is scheduled to come to an end today.

http://www.yiddishnewyork.com/visual-arts-exhibition/

2019(25th of Shevat, 5779): Ninety-three-year-old Harry Bibring, the Vienna born son of clothing store owner, who along with his sister was one of those rescued by the Kindertransport passed away today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/holocaust_survivors_gallery_03.shtml

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/remembering-harry-bibring

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/kindertransport-survivor-harry-bibring-dies-aged-93/

2020: In Brookline, MA, Temple Ohabei Shalom is scheduled to host Shabbat 500, “a mega Shabbat dinner event for Boston’s young adult community.

2020: In Los Altos Hills CA, Congregation Beth Am is scheduled to “Embracing Perfection”
“a talk by Rabbi Mark Borovitz of Beit T’Shuvah, a Jewish-based residential addiction treatment center in L.A., about struggling with the desire to be perfect.”

2020: In Boston, The Vilna Shul is scheduled to host Havurah on the Hill where attendees can “hear from film director Cellin Gluck about Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat (sometimes called the Schindler of Japan) and his life leading up to, as well as after, his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania, resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people.”

2020: “Incitement” directed by Yaron Zilberman with a screenplay by Yaron Zilberman, Ron Leshem and Yair Hizmi is scheduled to open today in the United States.

2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin Friedman and the “children’s book” Nicky and Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sis.

2021: In Atlanta, GA, The Breman Museum is scheduled to host “Bearing Witness: Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust” featuring Manuela Mendels Bornstein telling the story of how “her family survived the Holocaust while hiding in Vichy, France.

2021: In London, the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host Professor Shiri Gilbert (no relation) speaking on “Displaced Jews: Renewal in the Shadow of the Holocaust.”

2021: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host episode six of “Sephardi Culinary History, a new show that combines chef and scholar Hélène Jawhara-Piñer’s fascination with food studies and flair for creating delicious cuisine.

2021: In recognition of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, March of the Living UK and the London School of Jewish Studies are scheduled to present a half-day of online innovative Holocaust education. This includes a walk through the Ringelblum Archive exhibition at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw with Dr. Samuel Kassow, a range of sessions with March of the Living UK’s first-class educators, plus a very special keynote event; Professor Deborah Lipstadt, in conversation with Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum.

2021: “The “Drive-By Tu BiShvat” event is scheduled to take place in the parking lot of the Mandel Jewish Community Center in Beachwood, OH.

2021: On the 221st anniversary of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury and the first “Jewish” Secretary of the Treasury completing his service to the country, Janet Yellin, the first woman and the first Jewish woman to hold the position of Secretary of the Treasury begins her fifth day on the job.

2022: The American Sephardi Association is schedule to present a virtual tour of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda.

2022: Final showing of Karin Bar’s work “This is My Lover Letter to New York” which as been appearing all month on a billboard in the heart of Times Square thanks to ZAZ.

2022: President Herzog is expected to meet members of UAE’s  small but growing Jewish expat community and to visit Expo 2020, the world's fair in Dubai, where Israel has hosted a series of events at its national pavilion. (YNET)

2023: The Illinois Holocaust  Museum is scheduled to present on online “From Generation to Generation: Exploring a Holocaust Survivor's Special Relationship with his Granddaughter” featuring survivor Sam Harris and his granddaughter Jessica Kreamer.

2023: The Exhibition “Violins of Hope” is scheduled to open at the Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El.

2023: LBI is scheduled to present a conversation with Viennese native and 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction Lore Segal and Uri Berliner in which they will discuss “life, literature and history.”

2023: Conductor and pianist Daniel Barnboim is scheduled to step down today as the general music director of the Berlin State Opera.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/arts/music/daniel-barenboim-resignation-berlin.html

2023: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a conversation with Abe Foxman, the former direct of the ADL and Richard Hurowitz the author of In the Garden of the Righteous.

2023: Based on previously published reports two of those wounded in the erev Shabbat terrorist attack are still being treated at the Hadassah Mount Scopus hospital and a third victim is still being treated at the Shaare Zedek hospital.

2024: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host “Cashing Out:

World War II and the Flight of Nazi Treasure” during which Professor Neill Lochery “will cover the riveting history of the race to intercept the stolen assets before they disappeared, and before the will to punish Germany was replaced by the political considerations of the fast-approaching Cold War and will recount the flight of the Nazi-looted riches—the last great escape of World War II—and the Allied quest for justice.”

2024: The meeting of the ADL South Central Executive Committee is scheduled to take place today.

2024: LBI is scheduled to present “The Leave to Land traveling exhibition which was authored by Clare Weissenberg and was based on materials collected through The Kitchener Camp Project, a unique online resource that brings together archival records and family treasures to build a moving and compelling picture of this unlikely sanctuary in the Katherine and Clifford Goldsmith Gallery followed by “a live panel discussion with Barbara Birch (President and CEO at ORT America), Emary Aronson (LBI Board Member and Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Advisor to the CEO at Robin Hood), and Ronnie Wolf (Senior Adviser of the Leave to Land Exhibition) and moderated by Frank Mecklenburg (Mark M. and Lottie Salton Senior Historian at the Leo Baeck Institute).”

2024: As January 31st begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 117 in captivity.  (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)

 

 

 

 

 

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