April 29
711: According to some sources the date on which an
army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at Gibraltar marking the start of the Moslem
conquest of the Iberian Peninsula with all that would come to mean for the
Jewish population during the next seven centuries.
1221: Honorius III issued “Ad nostram Noveritis
audientiam” a Papal Bull obligating Jews to carry a distinctive badge and
forbidding them to hold public office.
1280(21st of Iyar, 5040): French rabbi
Issac ben Joseph of Corbeil, the son-in-law of Jeheil ben Joseph of Paris,
passed away today.
1464: Coronation of Matthias Covinus as King of
Hungary and Croatia which marked an improvement in the conditions of the Jews
as can be seen by his creation of “the office of Jewish prefect in Hungary.”
1520: A Sephardic Jew known as “Shealtiel” to whom
Elijah Miztahi, the Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman had transferred the power of tax
collection was returned to the office after having lost the job in 1518 in what
may have been a power struggle between the Romaniot and Sephardic Jewish
communities.
1614(20th of Iyar, 5374): Polish
Halakhist and Talmudist Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk, author of
commentaries on Arba’ah Turim and Shulkhan Arukh passed away today.
1624: In
France, Richelieu assumes as Prime Minister of Louis XIII. Although Louis had
reaffirmed the expulsion of the Jews in a declaration issued in 1615, Richelieu
would write a letter (which Louis would sign) in 1632 allowing the Jews of Metz
to remain in that city. There is no
evidence that Richelieu was philo-Semitic.
Rather he realized that having just captured Metz, the city would lose
some of its commercial value if the Jews were expelled.
1659:
In a dispute arising out of the business of trapping and shipping beaver pelts,
Asser Levy as attorney in fact for Abraham Cohen, "Jew at Amsterdam,"
appeared in the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens (Municipal Court) of New
Amsterdam to demand from Cornelis Janss Plavier
the money he had received from Cohen. Plavier admitted the loan. Levy
refused to accept a 460 guilder payment and demanded imprisonment or public
sale of Plavier's goods. The Court ordered the defendant to pay any balance due
on the loan.
1679(17th
of Iyar, 5439): Joshua da Silva, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue in London who was followed in office by Jacob Abendana passed away
today.
1688:
Frederick, the future King of Prussia who would appoint Aaron ben Benjamin Wolf
as Chief Rabbi of Berlin, became Duke of Prussia.
1697: Beila Levy, the wife of Isaac Levy with whom
she had three children, passed away today, almost exactly two years after the
death of her husband.
1699: In Paris the French Academy of Science holds
its first public meeting at the Louvre.
While the Academy includes many Jewish members today, including David
Baltimore and Israel Gelfand, this was not always the case. For example, Madame Curie was denied
admittance because she reportedly had at least one Jewish parent. Poor Madame Curie – she was Polish and not
Jewish but then facts never get in the way of bigotry.
1758(21st of Nisan, 5518): Shabbat Shel
Pesach
1769(22nd of Nisan, 5529): Eighth Day of
Pesach; Yizkor
1769: According to some, the birthdate of Arthur Wellesley,
1st Duke of Wellington. Others use the date of May 1, 1769. Regardless of which date is used, Wellington
comes up short of the mark as far as Jews are concerned because of his
opposition to their emancipation when he was Prime Minister.
1770: Birthdate of Lazarus Gumpel the native of
Hildesheim, who became a successful businessman in Hamburg where he helped to
found a Reform Temple in 1817.
1774(18th of Iyar, 5534): Jews living in Colonial
America celebrate their last Lag B’Omer as subjects of King George III.
1783: Birthdate of German native “Fanni Fradele
Hajim,” the husband of Immanuel Einstein with whom she had five children.
1791: In the Netherlands, Abraham Salomon / Shabtay
Cohen Kloot and Marretje/Mata Mozes Tokie gave birth to Hijman Abraham Verveer
1793(17th of Iyar, 5553): Rabbi Yechezkel ben Yehuda Landau
passed away. He was
an influential authority in halachah (Jewish law). He is best known for the
work “Nodah
bi-Yehudah,”
by which title he is also known. Landau was born in Opatow, Poland, and
attended yeshiva at Vladimir and
Brody. In Brody, he was appointed Dayan (rabbinical judge) in 1734, and in
1745 he became rabbi of Jampol. While in Jampol, he attempted to mediate
between Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybeschütz in a debate - "The
Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy" - that "had disrupted Jewish communal
life for many years". His role in the controversy is described as
"tactful" and brought him to the attention of the Prague community where he as
appointed rabbi in 1755. He also established a Yeshiva there; Avraham Danzig,
author of “Chayei Adam,” is
amongst his best known students. Landau was highly esteemed not only by the
community, but also by others; and he stood high in favor in government
circles. Thus, in addition to his rabbinical tasks, he was able to intercede
with the government on various occasions when anti-Semitic measures had been
introduced. Though not opposed to secular knowledge, he objected to "that
culture which came from ", in particular Moses Mendelssohn’s translation
of the Pentateuch. His main work entitled “Nodah bi-Yehudah”
("Known in Judah"), is one of the principal sources of Jewish law of
his age. This collection was esteemed by rabbis and scholars, both for its
logical discussion and for its independence with regard to the rulings of other
Acharonim as well as its simultaneous
adherence to the writings of the Rishonim.
Other works include “Dagul
Mervavah on the Shulkhan
Arukh” and “Tziyun le-Nefesh Chayah”
(abbreviated as Tzelach, named in
reference to his mother, whose name was Chayah) on the Talmud.”
1796(21st
of Nisan, 5556): Seventh Day of Pesach
1796:
Sarah Mocatta and David Abarbanel Lindo gave birth to Elia David Abarbanel
Lindo, the husband of Susan Lyon.
1797:
Sara Mocatta and David Abarbanel Lindo gave birth to Abraham David Lindo.
1801: In
Darmstdat, Germany, Alexander Wollf, “a merchant well versed in the Talmud” and
his wife gave birth to Rabbi Abraham Alexander Wolff, the future leader of the
Copenhagen Jewish community.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14987-wolff-abraham-alexander
1805: Eliza Aarons married Simon Levy, a merchant,
in Charleston, SC.
1805: Joseph Moses married Lydia Levy at the Great
Synagogue today.
1811: In Prague, Markus Löw Popper and Esther Popper
gave birth to Isaias Popper.
1819: Birthdate of Moses Angel who succeeded H.A. as
Mast of the Talmud Torah Department at Jews’ Free School in 1840 before
becoming Headmaster of JFS.
1823: Moss Lyons married Catherine Polack at the New
Synagogue today.
1826(22nd of Nisan, 5586): Eighth Day of
Pesach; Yizkor
1826: As Jews munch on their Matzah, the Greeks fear
the aftermath of the victory of the Ottoman victory at MIssolonghi during the
Greek revolt against the Turks.
1827: Sara Levy and Abraham Slowman gave birth to
solicitor Louis Charles Lumley, the husband of Charlotte Joseph and father of
Amy, Aubrey, Gerald and Claude Lumley.
1829: Bernard Cowvan married Henrietta Poole at the
Great Synagogue today.
1830: Birthdate Adolph Sutro the native of Aachen,
Germany, the brother of Otto Sutro, the 24th mayor of San Francisco
who was also the city’s first Jewish chief executive.
https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/adolph-sutro.htm
https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm
1832: In High Holborn, Middlesex, Phoebe and Ephraim
Benjamin gave birth to Mary Benjamin.
1833: Birthdate of Michael Friedländer, a native of
Posen who became principle of Jews’ College In London created one of the most
popular English translate of Guide to the Perplexed by Maimonides.
1833: Rosetta Isaacs and Henry Magnus gave birth to
Edward Magnus.
1834: In Lyubavhichi, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn and
his first cousin Chaya Mushka Schneersohn who was his wife gave birth to Shmuel
Schneersohn (or Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch or The Rebbe Maharash, the fourth
Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic movement.
1834(29th of Nisan, 5594): Sixth Day of
Pesach
1843(29th of Nisan, 5594): Four-year-old
Isaac Mendes Seixas the son of Hayman Levy Seixas and Abigail Nunez Seixas
passed away today.
1835: Leman Zox married Maria Myers at the Great
Synagogue today.
1835: In Charleston, SC Charlotte Lazarus, the
youngest daughter of Marks Lazarus married Dr. De La Motta.
1840: Birthdate of Leopold Jacoby, the son of a
cantor who “received his doctorate” in 1867 and became and M.D. in 1870.
1844: “Members of Boston's first Jewish congregation
petitioned city officials to set aside a corner of an East Boston cemetery for
their use” and when the city rejected the request congregants of Ohabei Shalom “pooled
their resources to buy a 10,000-square-foot lot at the corner of Byron and
Homer Streets in East Boston.”
1845:(22nd of Nisan, 5605): Eighth of
Pesach observed for the first time during the Presidency of James K. Polk
1847: In
Mainz, Samuel Strauss and Rosalia Drucker gave birth to Arthur Strauss, the
Conservative MP and husband of Mina Cohen.
1849: A
group of Jews in Wheeling, which was still a part of Virginia, who starting
this year held “Holy Days” services in the third floor of a house at 14th
and Main Streets until 1856, purchased the Mount Wood Cemetery today.
1853: In
the House of Lords, the Earl of Aberdeen moved the second reading of the Bill
for removal of Jewish Disabilities and strongly urged the removal of this most
irritating restriction on the civil liberties of a section of British subjects. The Earl of Shaftesbury opposed the bill. He
trembled at the consequences to Christianity if Jews were admitted on a civil
equality with Christians. Such measures
would expel Christianity from the earth but they might destroy it in Great
Britain. The Earl of Albemarle, the
Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of St. David’s supported the bill while the
Bishop of Salisbury, Early of Darnley, Earl of Harrowby and others, opposed it
on religious grounds. The bill was
defeated with 115 voting for it and 164 voting against it. The Earl of Aberdeen
has addressed the House of Lords telling them that he had changed his mind
about the Jewish Disabilities Bill. Two
years ago, he had voted against the bill.
Now he was prepared to vote for it because “he regarded the exclusion of
the Jews from civil privileges as a remnant of the spirit of persecution which
prevailed in former times throughout Christendom.”
1852: In
New York City, Asher and Abigail Kursheedt gave birth to Israel Baer Kursheedt
1861:
Major Alfred Mordecai's letter repeating his request for a transfer reached
Washington, DC where it is read by his new commanding officer, Lt. Col.
Ripley. Ripley refused the request on two counts. First, he needed
Mordecai, whom he considered one of his ablest subordinates to remain at the
arsenal in New York so that he could produce the munitions desperately needed
to fight the war. Second, the army could not maintain the discipline
it needed to fight a war if officers were allowed to dictate their term of
services based on personal desires. The U.S. Army's most prominent Jewish
officer would have to choose between serving or resigning.
1861: Maryland's House of
Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. As was the case with their fellow
citizens, Jews in Maryland were divided over the issues of slavery and
secession. It would seem that more of
the Jews favored Union and opposed slavery than did not. For example, the Lloyd Street Synagogue was a
stop on the Underground Railway. Har Sinai’s Rabbi David Eihnorn was published
Sinai, an abolitionist newspaper and Einhorn was forced to leave town by a mob
that was threatening to tar and feather him.
1861: Birthdate of Lajos Blau, a Hungarian scholar, educated
at three different yeshivot, who became a teacher of the Talmud at the
Landesrabbinerschule and later a professor of the Bible, the Hebrew and Aramaic
languages, and the Talmud. He died in 1936.
1861: Newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln
appointed Abraham Jonas to serve as Postmaster of Quincy, Illinois.
1862: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Salomon Eichholz and
Hannah Neustadt gave birth to Adolph Eichholz the University of Pennsylvania
trained lawyer and husband of Leah Block who was one of the driving forces
behind the creation of the Jewish Publication Society of America and Vice
President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1863: In Vienna, Josef Pick, the “son of Elisabeth
and Markus Pick” and his wife Eleanor Pick gave birth to Arthur Pick, the son
of Johana Pick and the father of Richard and Hansi Pick.
1864(23rd of Nisan, 5624): Author and
translator of poetry David Samosch passed away.
1865: It was reported today that a Jewish shoemaker
named Godfrey J. Hyams was the first witness called to testify against William
J. McDonald who is on trial in Canada on charges of “making torpedoes,
hand-shells, Greek fire, and other explosive missiles” to be used by
Confederate agents against the United States.
1865:
P. J. Joachimsen delivered a eulogy honoring the late President Lincoln at the
Jewish place of worship in New Orleans, LA.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/abe5.html
1866(14th of Iyar, 5626): Pesach Sheni
1869(18th of Iyar, 5629): Lag B’Omer
1869: In Hungary, Joseph and Victoria (Halpert)
Cukor gave birth to NYU trained attorney Morris Cukor who in 1884 came to the
United States where he was a Tammany Hall activist, the husband of Cora G.
Woodfruff and a member of Congregation Ohab Zedek.
1869(14th of Iyar, 5629): Samuel Judah,
the first Jew to graduate from the Rutgers University Law School and the son of
Dr. Benjamin S. Judah who was the husband of Harriet Brandon and a Speaker of
the Indiana House of Representatives passed away today.
1870: The
Baltimore Sun reports that the late Dr. George Frick, a resident of
Baltimore, bequeathed $100.00 to the Hebrew Society of Baltimore.
1870: In London, Sarah Kraijsman and David Colski
gave birth to Henry Colski and Nancy Colski.
1870: Birthdate of Austrian
native Frederick W. Brown who in 1890 came to the United States in 1890 where
he be became a realtor and was a “fundraiser for the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies.”
1870: In Baden, Marum and Malchen Bottigheimer) Weil
“manufacturer” Maurice Weil who in 1884 came to the United States where founded
Weil Kalter Manufacturing company, married Paula Kalter and became an active
leader in the St. Louis, MO Jewish community as can be seen by his founding of
the Jewish Loan Association of St. Louis, and serving as a director of the
Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Charities,
1871: Fromenthal Halevy’s “Charles VI,” a grand
opera in five acts was performed for the first time in Barcelona.
1871: In Berlin, Rosa and Jospeh Stern gave birth to William Louis Stern who fled the Nazis and
continued his work in the field of psychology at Duke University.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060319004052/http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Stern.asp
https://www.geni.com/people/William-Stern/6000000002802209210
1874: In Baltimore, MD, Babetta Apfel gave birth to
Carrie L. Oppenheimer the wife of Simon Oppenheimer, the chair of the
Philanthropic Committee, Washington, D.C. Section of the Council of Jewish
Women and secretary of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Association of Adas Israel
Congregation in Washington, D.C.
1875: Publication today of Transatlantic Sketches
by Henry James, who “employed a number of anti-Semitic stereotypes to describe
the skin color and nose shape of the Jewish residents” and who “invariably
fixes upon the Jew the full force of a carefully regulated disdain.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/henry-james-and-the-jewsa-critical-study/
1875: In Kensington, London German-born Jewish
stockbroker, Victor Rubens, and Jenny Rubens, née Wallach Paul Alfred Rubens “an
English songwriter and librettist for some of the most popular Edwardian
musical comedies” who “suffered from consumptive disease for nearly his entire
adult life” which did not keep his from contributing to the success of dozens
of musicals
1878: Birthdate of Friedrich Adler the native of
Laupheim who would be murdered during the Shoah in 1942.
http://www.culturespace.de/laupheim/english/adler.htm
1880(18th of Iyar, 5640): Lag B’Omer observed for
the last time during the Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
1881(30th of Nisan, 5641): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1881: Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart, the daughter
of Jewish banker Henri Louis Bischoffsheim married the Fourth Earl of Desart.
1881(30th of Nisan, 5641): Sixty-three-year-old French sculptor and
photographer Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon passed away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antoine_Samuel_Adam-Salomon_self-portrait,_c1860.png
1882: Pogroms returned to Ukraine with an outbreak
of anti-Semitic violence at Balta in Podolia Province.
1883(22nd of Nisan, 5643): 8th day of
Pesach
1883: Birthdate of Russian native Samuel Prosterman
who in 1906 came to Chicago where he was a clothing manufacturer and Vice
President of Temple Beth Israel.
1883: The New York Times featured a review of
Travels in Palestine: Egypt, Palestine and Phoenicia – A Visit to Sacred
Lands by Philip Bovet.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9405E6DC1230E433A2575AC2A9629C94629FD7CF
1884: In Kulm, Germany Anna Salzberger and Rabbi
Moritz Salzberger gave birth to Rabbi Max Salzberger, the husband of Frieda
Salzberger with whom he had two children – Lotte and Josef.
1885(14th of Iyar, 5645): Pesach Sheni
1885: Birthdate of Czechoslovakian writer and journalist, Egon Erwin Kisch who was born into a German-speaking Jewish
family in Prague, which
at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During World War I, he traded in his pen for
a rifle in the Austrian Army. He
continued his writing career after the war including a stint in Berlin. He was forced to flee the Nazis, first to
Republican Spain and finally to Mexico where he spent the war. He returned to Czechoslovakia after the war
where he died in 1948 as the Communists were coming to power. When the German magazine “Stern” founded a prestigious award
for German journalism in 1977, it was named the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in honor of Egon Kisch.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Egon_Erwin_Kisch.htm
1885:
“At the Trinity Chapel Complex,” Edward (Teddy) Wharton married Edith Newbold
Jones who gained fame as Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton whose
display of anti-Semitism in The House of Mirth which included the
depiction Jewish financier name Simon Rosedale has proved to a problem for her
at least some of her Jewish fans.”
1886:
It was reported today that “Bernhard Liebenthal, a young Hebrew and Agnes
Menner a young Catholic both of whom were from Schafenburg, Germany” and their
two children who had arrived in New York aboard the steamer Main were married
at City Hall by a “Civil Justice” since neither a rabbi or a priest could be
found at Cast Garden who wanted marry the couple.
1887:
Horace J. Young was arrested on charges of having abandoned his wife Clara, the
eldest daughter of Julius Praeger, a prominent New York Jewish businessman
1887:
In New York, Ida (Kuhn) Cohen and Eduard Cohen gave birth to Edwin Cohen
1888(18th
of Iyar, 5648): Lag B’Omer
1888:
In New York, “traveling salesman” David Heidelberger and his wife Fannie Campe
Heidelberg gave birth to Columbia trained “award winning pathologist” Michael
Heidelberger “known as the father of modern immunology.”
1889:
The Young Women’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host a celebratory event
this evening as part of the events marking the centennial of George Washington
taking the oath of office as the first President of the United States.
1891(21st
of Nisan, 5651): Seventh Day of Pesach
1890:
Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Hannah D. Moses, daughter of J.L.
Moses and Thomas Moultrie Mordecai at the Hasell Street Synagogue in
Charleston, SC
1891:
“Greeks Persecutes Jews” published today describes attacks by Greeks at Corfu
on the Jewish population. The body of a
dead child had been found in the Jewish Quarters and the Greeks spread a report
that that it was a Christian girl who had been murdered by the Jews for their
Passover celebration. The dead child was the daughter of Jewish leader whom the
Jews claimed was murdered by the Greeks to provide an excuse for their rioting
and plundering. The threat became so
severe that the 6,000 Jews had to close their shops and take refuge behind a
military cordon surrounding the Jewish Quarter.
1891:
In Philadelphia, PA The Society Hachnasath Orechim, or Wayfarers' Lodge which
was organized in 1890 was chartered today.
1892:
As attempts are made to limit immigration, especially the immigration of Jews
from eastern Europe, the joint committee of the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States on Immigration and Naturalization resumed
its investigation at the Post Office Building.
1892:
As the first group of Russian Jews left Montreal to begin establishing farms in
the Canadian Northwest, it was reported that if this group is successful
Canadian Jews expect another 10,000 to eventually follow in their footsteps.
1892:
Among the bequests made by the late Hannah O. Beebe of Yonkers was one of $50
to Jacob Freshman to be used by him for “the relief of Jews as he deems best.”
1893:
“Bismarck on Anti-Semitism” published today provided a summary of an interview
the German leader gave on his views toward the Jews. Based on his education, he said he “was never
a friend of the Jews” which helps to explain why he opposed emancipation in
1847. His views changed in 1869 when
Jewish leaders supported his programs for national development. The current reappearance of anti-Semitism
following the losses suffered during a period of speculation “is natural”
because the people confuse “capitalism with Judaism.”
1893:
“Ahlwardt’s Baseless Charges” published today describe the conclusions of the
Reichstag subcommittee that had examined the documents submitted by Hermann
Ahlwardt, the leading anti-Semite, which he claimed proved that current and
former officials were guilty of corruption. The committee said there was
nothing in the documents to prove the accusation. Ahlwardt’s real contention was that the Jews
had corrupted the German political leaders.
1894:
It was reported today that “ex-Rector Ahlwardt, the Jewbaiter who has
imprisoned several times for criminal libel” said “he would give the public
startling information…concerning…the corruptness of Jews and the criminal
complicity of those in high authority…” (Editor’s note: This a reference to
Christian Ahlwardt, the German clergyman who, when he came to New York was
given a police escort made up entirely of Jewish officers courtesy of Police
Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt.)
1894:
In Quincy, Illinois, Council No 2 of the National Council of Jewish Women was
formed with Mrs. J.H. Lesem as President and Mrs. Jeanie Nelke as Secretary
1894(23rd
of Nisan, 5654): Eighty-one-year-old Danish portrait and genre painter David
Monies passed away today in Copenhagen.
1894:
The Board of Directors of Mount Sinai Hospital held a special meeting today
adopted a special resolution expressing their sense of loss caused by the
recent death of Jesse Seligman.
1894:
In Gomel, Jacob and Sarah (Saubor) Demichorsky gave birth to Nathan Daimont who
in the 1911 came to the United States where he attended Cooper Union and Kansas
State University, served with American forces on the Mexican Border and during
WW I and lived in Newport, N.H.
1894:
The Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum adopted a “Tribute to the Memory of its
deceased President, Mr. Jesse Seligman” co-authored by Edward Lauterbach, Oscar
S. Straus and Sigmund Bach.
1895:
Plans were published today about an upcoming meeting at Temple Emanu-El where
the ladies of the congregation will discuss the upcoming benefit for the Hebrew
Technical Institute and Educational Alliance.
1895:
Samuel Untermyer of Guggenheim, Untermyer and Marshal represented the Wall
Paper Company before Justice Lawrence in the Supreme Court who was hearing a
case involving injunctive relief by National Wall Paper Company.
1896:
In Berlin “translator and writer Sigmar Mehring” and his wife gave birth to
German satirist Walter Mehring whose books were burned by the Nazis and found
refuge in the U.S. where he worked for MGM before returning to post-war Europe.
1906:
Birthdate of Odessa born, Irish surgeon and cardiologist Leonard “Abe”
Abrahamson, the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and
husband of Nellie Nurock who were the parents of attorney Max Abrahamson and
the grandparents of movie director Leonard Abrahamson.
1897:
“New Publications” provided a detailed review of the New American Supplement to
the Latest Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica which includes a section on
“the story of Judaism and the history of the Jews” written by Rabbi Emil G.
Hirsch.
1898:
Birthdate of Philip Palew, the native of Brooklyn, a WW I veteran who worked as
an orthopedic surgeon and served on the faculty of New York University.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D00E5D9123DE134BC4051DFB4668382679EDE
1898:
Two days after she had passed away, Annie Simmons, the wife of Joseph Simmons,
was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1898:
Ali Ferruh Bey, the Ottoman Ambassador in Washington, "wrote to
Istanbul in order to alert the Sultan that the aim of the Zionists was 'to
establish an independent government in Palestine.' In his letter, he urged
Sultan Abdul Hamid to 'take certain measures to rectify the error committed by
his forefathers in allowing non-Muslim communities to settle in Palestine.' The
Sultan took heed; measures were instituted to restrict the sale of land in
Palestine to foreign Jews, and to oblige all Jewish visitors to leave cash
deposits to ensure that they would leave the country after the
visit." [For more on this see Martin Gilbert's interesting work,
"In Ishmael's House;"]
1899:
In “Dr. Peters On the Jews” published today Madison C. Peters defended himself
against accusations by Lionel de R. Cohen that he had “put forth falsehoods”
about the Jews when he asserted that Castalian Jews had supplied Columbus the
money to fit out his caravels” citing the Jewish historian Dr. Moses Kayserling
as his source for this statement.
1900(30th
of Nisan, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1900:
A public service in memory of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise arranged by the New York
Board of Jewish Ministers “which is intended to an expression of the sentiments
of the community upon his life work” is scheduled to be held this morning at
Temple Emanu-El with Louis Marshal and Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler giving the two
principle addresses.
1900(30th
of Nisan, 5660): Eighty-seven-year-old Baron Mortiz von Cohn, the Dessau banker
“who administered the private fortune Wilhelm I, who did not conceal his
anti-Semitism during World War I, passed away today.
1900:
The Quinquennial Convention of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith met today
in Chicago under the chairmanship of Victor Abraham.
1901:
An anti-Semitic riot broke out in Budapest.
1902(22nd
of Nisan, 5662): Eight Day of Pesach
1902:
Today’s passage of the Omnibus Public Bill by the House of Representatives drew
the scorn of Congressmen from New York including Representative Henry Goldfogle
because it did not provided funds for building a New York Post which Goldfogle
blamed on the “personal spite” of the committee chairman responsible for the
legislation.
1903:
In Philadelphia, PA, Julia and Meir Bayuk gave birth to tobacco dealer and
broker Ford Meyer Bayuk.
1903:
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained
rabbi, William S. Friedman, the Chicago born son of Bertha Sternberg and Nathan
Friedman who began serving Congregation Emanuel in Denver in 1890 and was a
cofounder of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver married Juliet Freyhan
today.
1904(14th
of Iyar, 5664): Pesach Sheni
1904:
In Berlin, “The Tageblatt today
announced from an excellent Russian source that the Russian Government is about
to moderate the anti-Jewish legislation.”
1905(24th
of Nisan, 5665): Parashet Achrei Mot
1905:
“The Triumph of Judea” published today provides a reviews Judith Triumphant
by Thompson Buchanan which is his second romance novel and set during “the
siege of the Assyrians under the wick brutal Holofernes against the Jews of
Bethulia.”
1906:
“Jewish Anniversary Medal” published described the presentation to President
Theodore Roosevelt by Dr. Cyrus Adler of “a commemorative medal designed by
Isidor Konti” to mark the celebration of the 250th anniversary of
the settlement of the Jews in the United States.
1907:
In Rzeszów, Austria-Hungary, Dr. Oskar Zinnemann and his wife Anna (Feiwel)
Zinnemann gave birth to Academy Award winning director Alfred “Fred” Zinnemann.
1908:
In Brooklyn, Gertrude Kaplan, the daughter of Anna and Abraham Shemerinsky and
her husband Jacob Kaplan gave birth to Marcia Martha Kaplan.
1909:
It was reported today that Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan has been exiled to
Salonica where he will live in a small house owned by a local Jewish banker.
1910:
The Jewish bank in Salonika authorized the creation of a loan fund for relief
of families of Jewish soldiers.
1910:
Rebecca and Meyer Wagenheim gave birth to Samuel Wagenheim, the brother of
Herman, Charles and Harry Wagenheim.
1911(1st
of Iyar, 5671): Parashat Tazria and Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1911:
“Russia Grants Privilege to Jews” published today reported that “imperial
sanction has been granted to the Governor of Yenisel in Asiatic Russia, East
Siberia to all the Jewish inhabitants of Siberia to use the curative waters
near Minusinsk for a term of two months upon the condition that they are
provided with medical certificates and forbidden to engage in trade while
taking the cure.”
1912
In Danzig, Dr. Isaac Landau and Betty née Eisenstädt gave birth to Moshe Landau
the fifth President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
1912:
A codicil was added to the will of Dr. Arthur Schnitzler required that his
funeral be a simple affair without obituaries, guard of honor, funeral orations
or the wearing of mourning attire. The
codicil also requires “that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any
doubt of his death.”
1913(22nd
of Nisan, 5673): Eighth Day of Pesach
1913(22nd
of Nisan, 5673): Fifty-nine-year-old Russia born Republican political leader
Samuel Affelder a Baltimore City Councilman passed away today after which he
was buried at the Har Sinai Cemetery in Baltimore, MD.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74898124/samuel-affelder
1913:
Max Shulman is scheduled to be one of the speakers at today at the Passover
service at the Chicago Hebrew Insitute.
1913:
A strike by 4,000 kosher bakers, members of the Journeymen Bakers’
International Union was scheduled to begin today in New York.
1914:
A mass meeting is scheduled to be held at Cooper Union tonight “under the
auspices of the Palestine Hebrew Schools Fund Committee which is dealing with
the problem of establishing Hebrew as the language of instruction in schools in
Palestine.”
1915: Today,
Princeton graduate and R.H. Macy partner Nathan Straus, Jr. who served as an
Ensign in the U.S. Navy during WW I and a New York State Senator while serving
as a director of the Palestine Economic Corporation and the Palestine
Development Council as being an active member of the Free Synagogue and the
“Temple Beth-El Clubs. married Helen E. Sachs
1915:
It was reported today that Evangelist Billy Sunday asserted his support for a
Jewish return to Palestine when he asked “How do I know that God isn’t using
the Allied fleets…to drive the Turks out of the Holy Land that Palestine may be
restored to the Jews?!
1916:
In Ireland, “the Easter Rising”, to an end today.
1916:
Oscar Hammerstein went to the Rialto Theatre building which he found had been
padlocked keeping him using rooms that were supposed to have been set aside for
his use.
1916:
Simon Wolf wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing expressing his
concern over reports “that there is to be an outbreak against the Jews of
Russia at the coming Russian Easter” and asking him to check with the embassy
in St. Petersburg to see how reliable this report is.
1916:
“In the course of his sermon on ‘The Attitude of the Papacy to the Jews’ at the
New Synagogue” today “Rabbi Ephraim Frisch paid a warm tribute to Pope Benedict
for the broad-minded and sympathetic letter he has just issued pledging his
moral and spiritual influence among Catholics for the abolition of
discrimination and prejudice again the Jews these still obtain.”
1917:
Morgenthau resigns his as Ambassador to Turkey.
1917:
In Cleveland, Ohio, it was decided tonight at the 67th annual
meeting of Temple Tifereth Israel that in accordance with the recommendation of
President Benjamin Lowenstein, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, the 26-year-old
unmarried leader of the Reform Congregation in Wheeling, West Virginia will
succeed Rabbi Moses J. Gries “as the spiritual leader of the congregation.
1917:
In Newark, NJ, at Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Jacob Schiff, Judge Julian Mack and Dr.
Lee Frankel spoke at a meeting of the American Jewish Relief Committee at the
end of which $40,000 was pledged to the Jewish War Relief Fund.”
1917:
The 1916-1917 season of activities sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association of Williamsburg that began in October and included monthly meeting
of a Jewish Congress, dances, lectures and athletic exhibitions is scheduled to
come to an end today.
1917:
Less than a month after the entry of the United States into the World War,
“Zeta Beta Tau, a Jewish fraternity, has sent to its members a proclamation
which recites the circumstances of the national emergency and urges members of
the organization to do their part toward making the contribution of the Jews to
national service reach its utmost possibilities.”
1917:
“More than 300 delegates, representing a million and half Jews, cheered and
sang for the establishment of a Jewish republic in the Holy Land” at the eighth
annual convention of the Kehillah of New York City.
1917:
“The Reverend Edward A. Keigwin” delivered a sermon tonight at the West End
Presbyterian Church in which he “hailed the fulfillment of Abraham’s prophecy
that the Jews would return to Palestine” as could be seen by the advance of
British troops in Palestine which would lead to “downfall of Mohammedan power
and the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews.”
1917:
During World War I, British forces under General Murray suffer a second defeat
at Gaza. This defeat cost Murray his job and led to his replacement by General
Allenby who would successfully prosecute the war against the Ottomans.
1918:
“Jewish Draftees Given Send-Off At Camden” published today described a dinner
given for Jews boys who are about to join the Army which included an address by
State Treasurer William T. Read who was representing Governor Edge and an
address by Camden Mayor Charles E. Ellis who “lauded the patriotism of the
Camden boys.”
1918: The “Twelfth Semi-Annual Assembly” of the Eastern Council of
Reform Rabbis whose members included Joseph Silverman, Rudolph Grossman, Joseph
Garfinkel and Benjamin Tinter, met for a second and final day today.
1918: “My Four Years in Germany,” produced by Harry, Albert, Sam
and Jack L. Warner and Mark Dintenfass was
released today in the United States after premiering in New York on March 18.
1919:
The six-man German delegation headed by Foreign Minister Ulrich Graf von
Brockdorff-Rantzau arrived at Versailles to take part in the negotiations that
would mark the formal end of World War I.
The treaty would be attacked by the Nazis and tied to the Jews. None of the negotiators were Jews but the
facts never get in the way of anti-Semitism.
1919:
During the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, the Red Guards who had been
“rounding up people they considered to be hostile to the new regime” as ordered
by Eugen Leviné executed eight
hostages today.
1920:
Birthdate of composer Harold Samuel Shapero. Born in Lynn,
Mass., one of Shapero's most famous works was the 9 Minute Opera. Shapero
was an educator as well as composer. In 1951 Brandeis University hired
Shapero to start its Music Department, and he was later chairman of the
department and founder of its electronic music studio with the day's most advanced
synthesizers. He taught at Brandeis until 1988 when he retired
1921(21st
of Nisan, 5681): Seventh Day of Pesach – finally day for Reform Jews
1921:
It was reported today that a resolution expressing confidence in the leadership
of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization was adopted
at a gather of thousands of Jews at a mass demonstration in Jerusalem.
1921:
Jacob Massel, European director of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society is reported going to a report on the condition of pogrom victims who
are refugees in Poland at an upcoming conference called for by the Federation
of Ukrainian Jews in England to “decide upon measures to be adopted in aiding
the Ukrainian Jewish pogrom victims.
1922(1st
of Iyar, 5682): Rosh Chodesh
1922(1st
of Iyar, 5682): Seventy-nine-year-old David Lindo Alexander, English barrister
and a prominent member of the Anglo-Jewish community passed away. He was one of
those who expressed “grave reservations” about what would become the Balfour
Declaration and later joined “the anti-Zionist League of British Jews.”
1923:
Oscar Straus, the former Ambassador to Turkey is scheduled to deliver an
address this afternoon in New Brunswick, NJ when “Catholics, Protestants and
Jews” celebrate “the establishment of a local branch of the World Alliance for
International Friendship Through the Churches,” a movement that was started by
Rabbi Jacob Goldstein.
1923:
Birthdate of movie director Irvin Kershner the native of Philadelphia and
a graduate of USC's film school who began his career producing
documentaries for the USIA about the Middle East. Two of his most
famous film credits were "Raid on Entebbe" and "Star Wars V
- The Empire Strikes Back."
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/famed-jewish-hollywood-director-irvin-kershner-dies-at-87-1.327720
1924:
Charlie Rosenberg, the Jewish boxer who became World Bantamweight Champion in
1925 fought his third and final bout with Cannonball Eddie Martin which ended
in a ten round draw.
1924:
Harry Landes and his wife gave birth to David S. Landes, who would become “a
distinguished Harvard scholar of economic history” “on the kitchen table of his
parents’ home in the Seagate neighborhood of Coney Island in Brooklyn.” (As
reported by Douglas Marin)
1925:
Dr. Florence Rena Sabin the first woman president of the American Association
of Anatomists is elected the first woman member of the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences.
1926:
“The Woman in Gold” with a script co-authored by Walter Wassermann was released
in Germany and France today.
1926:
Birthdate of Paul Baran, the Polish born American Jewish “engineer who outlined
one of the core principles of the Internet in the early 1960s and went on to
become an entrepreneurial businessman.
1926:
In the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn Sadye and Al Tisch gave birth to
University of Michigan economics graduate Preston Robert “Bob” Tisch the
husband of Joan Tisch and Postmaster General under President Reagan who was CEO
of Loews and owner of the NY (football) Giants
1927:
Birthdate of Abraham Jacob Nathan who would gain fame as Abie Nathan a pilot,
entrepreneur, peace activist and founder of the groundbreaking "Voice of
Peace" radio station, died Wednesday at Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital, the
hospital said in a statement.
1927:
Birthdate of Gertrude Neumark Rothschild “whose research helped improve
light-emitting and laser diodes now used in many cellphones, flat-screen
televisions and Blu-ray disc players, and who waged a successful
copyright-infringement battle against some of the world’s biggest electronics
companies that yielded tens of millions of dollars in settlements and licensing
fees…”
1927(27th
of Nisan, 5687): Mrs. Leopold Stern, the former Eva Sterne who married Leopold
Stern “known as the dean of diamond importers in America,” a Republican
political leader and philanthropist at Jefferson, TX in 1880 passed away today.
1927(27th
of Nisan, 5687): Rachel Sassoon Beer passed away. She was the granddaughter
of David Sassoon, editor of The Observer (1891–1904) and owner-editor of The
Sunday Times (1893–1904). Rachel was born in Bombay to Sassoon David Sassoon,
to the Sassoon family, who made their fortune in trade with the Far East. As a
young woman, she volunteered as a nurse in a hospital before marrying Frederick
Arthur Beer in 1887. Frederick soon suffered from an illness that changed his
personality and led to his early death. Soon after her marriage to Frederick,
Rachel began contributing articles to The Observer, which was then owned by the
Beer family. In 1891, she took over as editor, becoming the first female editor
of a national newspaper in the process.[1] Two years later, she purchased the
Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well. Though "not
. . . a brilliant editor], she was known for her "occasional flair and
business-like decisions". It was during her time as editor that The
Observer achieved one of its greatest exclusives: the admission by Count
Esterhazy that he had forged the letters that condemned innocent Jewish officer
Captain Dreyfus to Devil's Island. The story provoked an international outcry
and led to the release and pardon of Dreyfus and court martial of Esterhazy. Frederick's
death in 1903 triggered a breakdown in Rachel, with her erratic behavior
culminating in a collapse. The following year she was committed and both
newspapers were sold by her trustees. While Rachel subsequently recovered, she
required nursing care for the remainder of her life. Rachel spent her final
years at Chancellor House in Tunbridge Wells, where she died. She was interred
in the Sassoon family mausoleum in Brighton. Among her relatives was the poet
Siegfried Sassoon, who was her nephew. In her will she left a generous legacy
to Siegfried, enabling him to purchase Heytesbury House in Wiltshire, where he
spent the rest of his life. In honour of her request, Siegfried hung an oil
portrait of his aunt over the fireplace.
1928: It was reported today that “My Maryland,”
a Sigmund Romberg musical produced by Lee and J.J. Schubert is moving from the
Jolson Theatre to the Casino Theatre.
1928:
The New York Times published a report of a speech by Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
the Zionist leader who had just returned to the United States from Palestine,
in which he asserted that the effects of the economic depression of the last
two years are about to be overcome and that Eretz Israel is about to enjoy
“growth and prosperity such as it has not known” before.
1929(19th
of Nisan, 5689): Fifth Day of Pesach
1929(19th
of Nisan, 5689): Otto Jaffe, “a German-born British Jewish businessman who was
twice elected Lord Mayor of Belfast passed away.
1929:
Premiere of “The Woman One Longs For,” a German silent film directed by Curtis
Bernhardt, with a script co-authored by Max Brod
1929:
In Liverpool, Borach and Leah Moonman gave birth to Eric Moonman who served as
a Laborite MP and President of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and
Ireland.”
1930:
Birthdate of Solomon Wachtler, the New York Republican political leader, lawyer
and Judge whose career ended in disgrace and imprisonment.
1930:
Irene Mayer married David O. Selznick with whom she had two sons Lewis Jeffrey
and Daniel Selznick both of whom became movie producers.
1931:
Birthdate of editor and publisher Robert
Gottlieb.
1931: In Berlin, Max Auerbach, a
patent lawyer, and Charlotte Nora Burchardt, who had trained as an artist gave
birth the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach.
In 1939, Auerbach’s parents made arrangements for him to go to Great
Britain as part of the Kindertransport.
They died in a concentration camp in 1942. Their son became a British citizen in 1947.
1932: In Omaha, Rabbi Garry August’s appearance
tonight at Temple Israel is causing a great amount of interest and is certain
to attract one of the largest audiences of the year according to the president
of the congregation’s brotherhood which is sponsoring the visit of Rabbi
August.
https://issuu.com/jewishpress7/docs/1932-04-29
1933: “Diplomaniacs,” a political satire produced by
Sam Jaffe and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz was released in the United States
today.
1933: “Eleven boys and girls” from Detroit, members
of “the Chalutzim” are scheduled to set sail for Palestine today.
1934(14th of Iyar, 5694): Pesach Sheni
1934: “The president of the court that is trying
three youths in the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, Jewish labor leader,
visited the scene of the murder at Tel-Aviv accompanied by three associate
judges and the prosecution and defense counsel.
The party then went to the vine-yard to which the murderers are supposed
to have fled after the crime…The party also visited the grounds of the Jaffa
prison and inspected the cell of Abdel Megid whose confession of the murder was
produced by the defense in the preliminary investigation and then retracted by
Abdel Megid. The judges sought to
ascertain how he could have had lengthy conversations with Abraham Stavsky, one
of the three accused. The prosecution
alleges that Stavsky tried to arrange to have Megid take upon himself the guilt
for the murder, whereas the defense counsel contends Megid was the murderer and
that his confession was retracted under pressure by police.” [Ed. Note, The murder of Chaim Arosoroff is
one of the “stains” on the Zionist movement.
Unknown to many, the episode resurfaced when Prime Minister Rabin was
murdered.]
1935: In Berne, Switzerland, “the hearing of the
libel suit brought by the Jewish leaders against the publishers of the
so-called ‘Protocols of Zion’ is scheduled to resume today.”
1935: “Morris Hillquit, lawyer and Socialist leader,
left a net taxable estate of $28,981 and $30,000 in non-taxable insurance,
according to the transfer tax appraisal filed here” today.
1935: “Advancement of the cause of peace through
meetings, classes and affiliation with peace groups was urged upon the New York
State Federation of Temple Sisterhoods today at its annual meeting in the Community
House of the Central Synagogue, 35 East Sixty-Second Street.”
1936: As the
Arab violence continues, in Jerusalem, “revolver shots were fired from an Arab
café and stones were hurled at the police from the balcony of hotel.
1936: “The Sheikhs of the Bedouin tribes” living
near Migdal, a town founded by Jewish settlers in 1910, “accompanied by Arab
notables” visited to the town today “to apologize for yesterday’s attack on
Jews by Bedouins who alleged that the Jews had killed two Arab boys” – a charge
that proved to be false.
1936: As the Arab attacks on Jews continued
throughout Palestine, officials from the municipality of Jaffa “visited the
Arab and Jewish quarters and estimated the damage caused by fires there at
$150,000, with more than a hundred homes burned.”
1936: Major Tulloch, a former army friend of
Churchill’s living in Jericho wrote to the British political leader stressing
that ‘the vast majority’ of the poorer Arabs were only too willing to live with
the Jews ‘were it not for the way they are terrorized by their ‘leaders’ and
told not to in the Arab papers.’”
1936:
Birthdate of Zubin Mehta. Born in Bombay India Mehta became a world-famous
conductor including serving as director of the New York Philharmonic. He has
conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since around 1970 and
was named its music director for life in 1981.
1936: At Merton Hall in Cambridge, Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, by
his first wife Barbara Judith Rothschild (née Hutchinson) gave birth to Jacob
Rothschild whose official name of this member of the English branch of the
House of Rothschild is Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron
Rothschild.
1936:
Birthdate of Joan Sydney Friedman, the native of Chicago, who gained fame as “Joan
Peters, a journalist whose 1984 book, From Time Immemorial: The Origins of
the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine, drew accolades and outrage by
arguing that claims of a historical Palestinian homeland in Israel were
invented.”
1937:
Sixty-nine-year-old Norman Hapgood, the author of The Inside Story of Henry
Ford’s Jew-Mania passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/inside-story-Henry-Fords-Jew-mania/dp/B00085Q0DI
1938: The Palestine Post reported that the
newly-arrived Palestine Partition Study Commission embarked on an extensive
two-weeks-long tour of the country. The Commission had announced that it was
offered the good offices of the High Commissioner to reside at the Jerusalem's
Government House and that it was ready to receive, at any time, written
statements from all persons who desired to place their views before them. Any
persons wishing to appear before the Commission were asked to contact the
Secretary at the High Commissioner's address.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that a unit
of Royal Ulster Riflemen found a huge arms store and arrested 31 Arab suspected
terrorists at the Gilat ed Bahr village near Nablus. A curfew was imposed on
the whole neighborhood.
1938: “College Swing” a musical featuring the lyrics
of Frank Loesser and co-starring George Burns was released today in the United
States.
1938:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Vilna, Poland. The modern state of Poland was
created at the end of World War I. Unfortunately, during the period
between the two World Wars, anti-Semitism was part of the Polish political and
social landscape. Apparently anti-Semitism was endemic to the Polish
culture since there was a "min-pogrom" there after the Holocaust in
1946.
1939:
After a year’s imprisonment physicist Lev Landau was released from the dreaded
Lubyanka prison because fellow physicist Pyotr Kapista was brave enough to
vouch for him. (It is important to
remember those who work to protect Jews.)
1940:
Rudolf Hoess arrived at Auschwitz to set up camp.
1940(21st
of Nisan, 5700): Seventh Day of Pesach
1940(21st
of Nisan, 5700): Sixty-nine-year-old New York native Rudolph Block, the “editor
of the comic supplements of the Hearst newspapers” who under the pen name Bruno
Lessings helped to create “The Katzenjammer Kids” and raised two sons Rudolph
Jr and Arthur with his wife Verda passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/04/30/109345942.pdf
1940:
In New York, Samuel Multer and Estelle Strossman gave birth University of Rhode
Island basketball star Barry D. Multer, Class of ’61.
1940(21st
of Nisan, 5700): Fifty-eight-year-old Polish born conductor and composer Joseph
A. Pasternack who came to the United States in the 1890’s passed away today in
New York.
http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/17138/
1940:
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. had lunch with FDR at the White
House.
1941:
“Rabbi George Zepin of Cincinnati, secretary of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, which is holding its biennial council, was eulogized at an
executive session today following the announcement of his retirement after
thirty-five years with the union.”
1942: A German truck that refueled near the
Lódz (Poland) Ghetto carried luggage belonging to "resettled" Jews
who had already been murdered at the Chelmno death camp.
1942:
Jews were forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France.
1943(24th of Nisan, 5703): Near Kraków, Poland,
Jewish women attacked their male SS guards while being transferred from one
prison to another. Two women escaped but most of the others are killed.
1943(24th of Nisan, 5703): In Kraków Jewish
Resistance fighters incarcerated since December 1942 were trucked to the
concentration camp at Plaszów, Poland,. Most are killed after breaking out of
the truck.
1943(24th
of Nisan, 5703): Fifty-six-year-old Russian born composer and violinist Joseph
Achron, the brother of Isidor Achron passed away today.
http://www.josephachron.org/about-achron.html
1943:
Rabbi Israel
Goldstein, a leader of the Synagogue Council of America was quoted in the New York Times today saying of the
recently concluded conference that was supposed to provide aid for Jewish
refugees and victims of the Holocuast, "The job of the Bermuda Conference
was apparently not to rescue victims of Nazi terror but to rescue our State
Department and the British Foreign Office. Victims are not being rescued
because the democracies don't want them."
1944:
Rose Warfman (née
Gluck) was shipped to Auschwitz as part of Convoy 72. The transport consisted
of 1004 Jews - 398 men and 606 women – as well as 174 children under the age of
18. Among the Jews shipped to the death
cap was Itzak Katznelson, the Polish born dramatist and author.
1944:
Kistarcsa, Hungary, was the site of the first deportation of Jews
from Hungary to Birkenau Concentration Camp.
1945:
Martha Gellhorn whose “father and maternal grandfather were Jewish” was among
the first journalists to report from Dachau concentration camp after it was
liberated by U.S. troops today.
1945: U.S. Troops entered Dachau, the first of the
S.S.-organized camps. It was founded in March 1933. Dachau was infamous for its
pseudo-scientific experiments by German doctors and scientists. The liberating
troops from Seventh U.S. Army fond fifty train wagons filled with emaciated
bodies. Near the crematorium another huge pile of bodies were found. Of the
33,000 survivors found at Dachau, only 2,439 were Jews. Very few Jews were
left alive to liberate. In the next few weeks another 27,000 Jews from the
hundreds of camps and sub- camps would still die due to illness, exhaustion and
the irreversible effects of starvation. The Americans later used it as a prison
camp for Nazi war criminals. Rabbi Abraham Klausner was “the father figure” for
the more than 30,000 emaciated survivors found at Dachau, 10 miles northwest of
Munich, after it was and later for thousands more left in camps as the Allies
tried to determine where they should go.
1945:
A few after his liberation by U.S. troops at Dachau, “Edgar Kupfer, a 39
year-old German political prisoner noted in his diary: ‘I shall celebrate this
all my life as a second birthday, as the day when I received the gift of a life
anew.’”
1945:
Jan Komski was among those who liberated today at Dachau. According to Mr.
Komski, “the prisoners were told to remain indoors. It was strangely quiet.
Then there was the sound of gunfire. Peering outside, he saw prisoners running
through the barbed wire, which had been torn to pieces. ‘Then I see first one
American, and then a second and a third. Within half an hour, the whole camp
was decorated with flags of all nations, probably sewn together and hidden for
a long time…’”
1945:
Eli A. Bohnen, a chaplain with the 42 Infantry Division entered Dachau today,
giving him the dubious distinction of being the first rabbi to enter the German
hell-hole.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001911.html
1945:
Brigadier General Henning Linden led a group of reporters including Marguerite
Higgins and a detachment of the 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division as the
soldiers received the surrender of the camp commander, generating international
headlines by freeing more than 30,000 Jews and political prisoners
1945:
“The advance scouts of the US Army's 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, a
Nisei-manned segregated Japanese-American Allied military unit, liberated the
3,000 prisoners of the "Kaufering IV Hurlach"[54] slave labor camp.”
1945:
“An Office of Strategic Services (OSS) team (code name LUXE) led Army Intelligence
to a "Camp IV" today where "they found the camp afire and a
stack of some four hundred bodies burning... American soldiers then went into
Landsberg and rounded up all the male civilians they could find and marched
them out to the camp. The former commandant was forced to lie amidst a pile of
corpses. The male population of Landsberg was then ordered to walk by and
ordered to spit on the commandant as they passed. The commandant was then
turned over to a group of liberated camp survivors." (As described by
Joseph Perisco)
1945:
Corporal Henry Senger of the 292nd Field Artillery Observation Battalion
captured the commandant of Dachau today.
1945:
Joshua Kaufman, a Hungarian Jew, was the first “human being” that American G.I.
Daniel Gillepsie saw when he entered Dachau today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4618314,00.html
1945:
Fritz Ascher was among the prisoners liberated by the Allies when they entered
Berlin-Grunewald.
1946:
Forty-year-old Lt. Col. Martin Gottfried Weiss, the commandant at Dachau was
hung today following his conviction during the “Dachau Trials.”
1947:
It was announced tonight “at a rally of the Millinery Workers Union, AFL, in
Manhattan Center” that “the International Ladies Garment Workers Union has
contributed a check for $225,000 to the United Jewish Appeal Campaign chaired
by Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
1948(20th
of Nisan, 5708): Sixth Day of Pesach
1948:
The Haganah captured the two Arab villages just east of Bat Yam, from which
attacks on Jewish road traffic into Tel Aviv had frequently been launched.
1948:
Today, Teddy Eitan (Thadée Diffre) a non-Jewish volunteer who had “joined the
Haganah in France, “arrived in Haifa aboard the ship “Kedmah.”
1948:
Following the evacuation by British forces, the Haganah secured the police
station at Zemach – a small town at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee, on
the Haifa-Damascus road.
1948:
Haganah troops occupied the policed fortress at Gesher at the Jordan River
crossing of the Haifa-Damascus road. The
Arab Legion attacked the fort and the nearby Jewish settlement at Gesher. They were so confident of victory that
Transjordan Crown Prince Talal came to witness the attack. The Arab Legion failed to dislodge the
under-strength, outgunned Jewish defenders and retreated across the Jordan
River.
1949(30th
of Nisan, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1949:
“The Steering Committee of the United Nations General Assembly recommended today
quick consideration of Israel's bid for membership in the world organization by
voting to shift the item from the overloaded Political Committee to the idle Ad
Hoc Committee.”
1949:
“The Rev. Andrew Scott-Morrison,
Moderator of the Jerusalem Presbytery of the Church of Scotland, is now on a
mission to Israel, arranging for the release of some of the church properties
used by the Israeli Army” as part of the Presbyterian Church’s plans to resume
“it educational and health activities in the Holy Land.”
1950:
In the only protest to Jordan’s annexation of what became known as the West
Bank, Menachem Begin and two of his former aides called upon Israelis to resist
this occupation of Eretz Israel by the Arab army. [Ed Note: You will not find any mention of a
Palestinian State, etc in any of the response at this time.]
1950:
In Cleveland, Alan Toffler, the author of Future Shock was married today
to Adelaide Elizabeth Farrell
1951:
Ludwig Josef
Johann Wittgenstein, an Austrian-British philosopher, passed away. Although he was raised as a Christian, when “Germany
annexed Austria in the Anschluss; Wittgenstein” became “a citizen of the
enlarged Germany and a Jew under the 1935 Nuremberg racial laws, because three
of his grandparents had been born as Jews. The Nuremberg Laws classified people
as Jews (Volljuden) if they had three or four Jewish grandparents and as mixed
blood (Mischling) if they had one or two. It meant inter alia that the
Wittgensteins were restricted in whom they could marry or have sex with, and
where they could work.” The irony of all of this is at Wittgenstein had gone to
the Realschule with Adolf
Hitler.
1952:
At Carnegie Hall in New York, Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill,
read a message of support from her father at an event celebrating the fourth
anniversary of Israeli independence and the first meeting of the American
Zionist Council, an amalgamation of eith leading Zionist organizations in the
United States.
1952(4th
of Iyar, 5712): Yom HaZikaron
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that according to the planned new legislation, just placed before the
Knesset, the exclusive jurisdiction of the Rabbinical Courts was to be limited
to marriage, divorce and alimony. A new Tenants' Protection Bill, altered in
several fundamental respects, was also in preparation.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Jerusalem's acute water shortage continued after the Municipality
failed to pay to the Jerusalem Electric Corporation the agreed upon immediate
payment of IL27,000, on account of an IL80,000 debt.
1953(14th
of Iyar, 5713): Pesach Sheni observed for the first time during the Presidency
of Dwight David Eisenhower.
1954(26th
of Nisan, 5714): Yom HaShoah
1954(26th
of Nisan, 5714): Sixty-three-year-old vaudeville monologist and radio and
Broadway performer Joe Laurie Jr. who formed the vaudeville team of Laurie and
Bronson with his first wife Aleen Bronson and was the father of Joseph Bryant
Hughes Laurie passed away today.
https://archives.nypl.org/the/22632
https://the-lambs.org/club_member/laurie-joseph-jr/
1955:
Birthdate of comedian Jerry Seinfeld who gained fame and fortune as the lead in
the television series "Seinfeld."
1956(18th
od Iyar, 5716): Lag Baomer
1956:
Birthdate of New York native Elisabeth Rosenthal the non-practicing physician
and journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal author of An American Sickness: How
Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/books/review/an-american-sickness-elisabeth-rosenthal.html
1956(18th
of Iyar, 5716): Seventy-eight-year-old Cincinnati native and University of
Cincinnati trained “physician, bacteriologist and philatelist Leo Greenfield
Tedesche passed away today “at his winter home in Miami, FL.”)
1956(18th
of Iyar, 5716): During a prepared ambush whose perpetrators included “an
Egyptian policeman and a Palestinian farmer”, Roi Rotberg, the kibbutz security
office at Nahal Oz was shot off his horse, beaten and shot again after which
then his body was dragged into Gaza where the post- mortem mutilation included
having his eyes gouged out.
1957(28th
of Nisan, 5717): Yom HaShoah
1957(28th
of Nisan, 5717): Seventy-nine year old Solomon Baruch Komaiko the Lithuanian
born American author and Zionist who was a cousin of producer David O.
Selznick, the father of WW II fighter pilot William Komaiko, “the grandfather
of the author Leah Komaiko, composer William Komaiko, flamenco dancer Libby
Komaiko, painter Sarah Belchetz-Swenson, Playwrights Project Founder Deborah
Salzer and poet Ruth Belchetz” and “great grandfather of journalist Richard
Komaiko” passed away today.
1957:
Birthdate of English actor Daniel Day-Lewis the son of actress Jill Balcon and
the grandson of film producer Sir Michael Elias Bacon who has won three Oscars
for Best Actor
1957:
Jane Evans, executive director of the National Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods, spoke about the need to ordain women rabbis in the Reform movement
at a biennial general assembly meeting of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations (UAHC), the synagogue federation arm of the Reform movement, and
of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (NFTS), Jane Evans spoke to
1,000 delegates in favor of ordaining women rabbis.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/29/1957/jane-evans
1958(9th
of Iyar, 5718): Alfred
Salmony, “an internationally recognizes authority on Asian art” and Professor
of Fine Arts at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts” passed away today
after suffering a heart attack while on board the Ile de France.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15436322.1958.11465592?journalCode=rcaj19
1959(21st
of Nisan, 5719): Seventh Day of Pesach
1959:
At Congregation B’nai Heshurun, William Berkowitz, a Conservative rabbi,
delivered a sermon in which he “questioned whether the country was experiencing
true religious revival or merely the appearance of one.
1959:
Edward E. Klein, a Reform rabbi, delivered a sermon today at Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue in
which
he “said that no holiday postulated so much hope for mankind as did Passover.”
1963
(5th of Iyar, 5723): Yom Ha’Atzmaut, יום
העצמאות
15th Anniversary of Israel
1963:
It was reported today that awards totaling $1,380,000 were made by the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation “which was established by the late Senator
Simon Guggenheim and his wife in memory of their son John Simon who died as a
young man in 1922.”
1965(27th
of Nisan, 5725): Yom HaShoah
1965(27th of Nisan, 5725): Freda Resnikoff,
founder of the Mizrachi Women's Organization (now AMIT) passed away.
1965:
In Chicago “Paul Krouse and the former Ann Wolk” both of whom were publishers
gave birth to filmmaker and author Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/style/amy-krouse-rosenthal-dies-modern-love.html?_r=0
1966:
Sixty-nine-year-old Terrence MacDermot who served as Canadian Ambassador to
Israel from 1954 to 1957 passed away today.
1966(9th
of Iyar, 5726): Eighty-three-year-old Prague born University of Chicago track
star, Hugo Friend, the husband of Sadie Cohn and Judge of the Circuit Court of
Cook Country who “presided over the Black Sox trial,” baseball’s greatest
moment of shame until the steroid scandals passed away today in Chicago.
1967(19th
of Nisan, 5727): Fifth Day of Pesach and Shabbated
1967:
Fearless of Frank directed, produced and written by Philip Kaufman with music
by Meyer Kupferman was released in the United States today.
1968(1st
of Iyar, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1968(1st
of Iyar, 5728): Seventy-nine-year-old newspaper women Sarah Brandstein Smith
passed away today.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/29/1968/death-of-writer-sarah-brandstein-smith-queen-of-shundroman
1969(11th
of Iyar, 5729): NYU trained attorney Irving Berkelhammer, the husband of
Phyllis Berkelhammer, who was involved in various Jewish organizations
including the UJA and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away
today.
1970(23rd
of Nisan, 5730): Eighty-six-year-old Louis Brodsky, NYU trained attorney, the
Russian born son of Sarah and Ely and Brodsky who went on to become a Judge in
the Magistrates Court in New York City while serving a Chairman of Borough Park
Branch of Keren Hayesod and a director of the Hebrew Orphan Home and the
husband of Rebecca Nieberg passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/01/archives/louis-b-brodsky-86-former-magistrate.html
1971(4th
of Iyar, 5731): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1973: In South Orange, NJ, Rabbi Barry Hewitt
Greene officiated at the wedding of Margure Sue Nussbaum and Bertram Max
Lederer of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1974:
Tonight, ABC began broadcasting “QB VII” a mini-series based on a novel of the
same name by Leon Uris
1975(18th
of Iyar, 5735): Lag B’Omer
1975:
The American Sephardic Federation and United Jewish Appeal sponsored a two-week
visit for Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yossef to visit the United States who came
and met with both governmental and Jewish community leaders.
1978(22nd
of Nisan, 5738): Eighth day of Pesach; Yizkor
1978(22nd
of Nisan, 5738): Eighty-one-year-old Hungarian author Illona Duczynska Polanyi,
the widow of Vienna born economist and WW I veteran of the Austrian Army Karly
Polanyi, the author of the Great Transformation and mother of Canadian
economist Kari Polanyi Levitt, passed away today in Ontario.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/04/30/110847213.html?pageNumber=40
1978(22nd
of Nisan, 5738): Ninety-five year old French pediatrician Robert Debré the
father of Michel and Jean Louis Debré and the grandfather of Vincent, Francois,
Bernard and Guillaume Debré passed away today.
1979:
“The Days of Remembrance” which the week-long event which the President’s
Commission has set for honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust is
scheduled to come to an end today.
1981:
Yaacov Scherft successfully ejected from his F-4E Phantom II
1981(25th
of Nisan, 5741): Eighty-five-year-old ophthalmologist turned entertainment
mogul Jules C. Stein founder of the Music Corporation of America passed away
today in Los Angeles.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/30/obituaries/jules-c-stein-85-founder-of-mca-dies.html
1983(16th
of Iyar, 5743): Eighty-six-year-old author and Zionist Johan J. Smertenko
passed away.
1984:
Hadashot, a Hebrew language daily newspaper was closed by the Israeli Military
Censor for three days starting today because it had published an article about
“the Ktav 300 Affair” without showing it to the authorities prior to
publication.
1984: The
lights in Temple Emanu-El were dimmed as 31 survivors of the Holocaust, all
women dressed in black, slowly walked to 6 stands and lighted 216 candles in memory
of the 6 million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during World War
II.
1985:
“A Gigantic Death Camp” published today described the conditions at Bergen
Belsen on the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by
Allied troops.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1048304,00.html?internalid=ACA
1990(4th
of Iyar, 5750): Yom HaZikaron
1990:
Release date for “Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair” a made for
television movie based on the hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder
Leon Klinghoffer featuring Rebecca Schaeffer, of blessed memory, in the role of
“Cheryl.”
1992:
“Falsettos,” a musical with a book co-authored by William Finn who also wrote
the music and lyrics opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre.
1993(8th
of Iyar, 5753): Eighty-three year old director Michael Gordon passed away
today.
1995:
Final broadcast of NBC sitcom “Empty Nest” directed by Dinah Beth Manoff.
1996:
The musical hit “Rent” premiered at the Nederlander Theatre. The original
concept for Rent came from Billy Aronson a Jewish-American
playwright and writer.
1997)22nd
of Nisan, 5757): Eighth and final day of Pesach
1998(3rd
of Iyar, 5758):
Yom
Hazikaron
1998:
In the evening, Israelis began celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
founding of their country (although, according to the Western calendar, the
anniversary fell on May 14th).
2000(24th
of Nisan, 5760): Parashat Achrei Mot
2000(24th
of Nisan, 5760): Ninety-five-year-old Abraham “Goldie” Goldberg, the husband
Rose Goldberg, the father of Muriel Ginsberg and the founder of the
“Fraser-Gold Carpet Corporation in Manhattan.”
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Was
This Man A Genius? Talks With Andy Kaufman
by Julie Hecht, Dazzler The Life and
Times of Moss Hart by Steven Bach and Washington by Meg
Greenfield.
2001:
An exhibition entitled “Marc Chagall: Early Works from Russian Collections”
opens at the Jewish Museum in New York City. These early years in Russia
provide the key to Chagall’s long and prolific career. They also show how Yehuda
Pen, the artist who was Chagall’s earliest teacher and mentor, influenced his
art.
2001:
Hamas claimed responsibility for today’s school bus bombing at Nablus.
2002:
Cairo columnist Fatma Abduall Mahmoud declared, “With regard to this Holocaust
swindle, many French studies have shown that this is nothing more than a
fabrication, a lie and a fraud. But, I
personally complain to Hitler, even saying to him from the bottom of my heart,
‘If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that the
world could sign in relief without their evil and sin.’”
2003(27th
of Nisan, 5763): Yom Hashoah
2003:
“Responding to a Syrian call to revive peace talks, Israel said today that it
was skeptical of the offer but would be willing to meet as long as Israel was
not required to make concessions in advance.”
2004:
“Chrissie Watts, a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders,
played by Tracy-Ann Oberman appeared for the first time today” in what would be
an 18-month run.
2004:
Just months before his death Tzvi Tzur, the IDF’s 6th Chief of
Staff, signed
a letter of support in Ariel Sharon's plan to leave Gaza.
2005(20th
of Nisan, 5675): Sixth Day of Pesach
2005:
Today, CBS broadcast the last episode of “JAG” a Naval legal series featuring
Jordana Spiro as “Lt. Tali Mayfield
2006(1st
of Iyar, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2006:
Katha Pollit married “political theorist Steven Lukes.
2006:
Ninety-seven-year-old Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini attended the
session of the Senate in Rome where the candidate she supported was elected
President.
2007:
Maccabi USA sponsors a Tribute Brunch
Honoring Richard Reff at Woodmont
Country Club, Rockville, MD. Dr. Reff is a Washington, D.C. area orthopedic
surgeon specializing in sports medicine who supports the Richard B.
Reff, M.D. Maccabi Youth Games Endowment Fund.
2007:
An exhibit styled “Ben’s Lens” comes to a close at the Sydney Jewish Museum in
Sydney, Australia. This “Photographic
Retrospective by Ben Apfelbaum” follows the Jewish calendar of religious
festivals, life-cycle ceremonies, carnivals, demonstrations and commemorations,
documenting secular and religious Jewish life and culture in Sydney.
2007:
The Sunday New York Times book
section featured a review of The
Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by
Martin Duberman. According to the
review, Martin Duberman shows how Lincoln Kirstein, a "queer Jewish
intellectual," became a cultural power.
2007:
Israeli author David Grossman delivers the Arthur Miller Freed to Write Lecture
at PEN’s World Voices Festival.
2007(11th
of Iyar, 5767): Fifty-eight-year Israeli Paralympic champion Eliezer Kalina who
a leg while fighting in the Yom Kippur War passed away today.
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque
presents a screening of “The Cellar” \ המרתף.
2008: The 92nd Street Y presents “From Architecture to Infrastructure: Creating a Palestinian State”
with C. Ross Anthony and Doug Suisman.
2008(24th of Nisan, 5768): Twenty-four-year-old
Senior Airman Jonathan A.V. Yelner “was killed in Afghanistan when his
vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.” As reported by Maia
Efrem
2009: The YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research presents a lecture by Indiana University’s Jolanta Mickute entitled
“Emancipation and Its Discontents: Jewish Women in Interwar Poland” that addresses
the debate surrounding the emancipation of Jewish women in interwar Poland, and
examines how the limits established by Jewish tradition, ethnicity, class,
locale and gender shaped the Jewish women’s identities in the Polish host
culture.
2009: As part of the ASF Books and
Authors Series, The American Sephardi Federation features a presentation by
Pearl Sofar author of “Baghdad to Bombay: In the Kitchens of My Cousins.”
Sofaer was born and grew up in Bombay, India. She is a musician, artist,
cantorial soloist, retired mediator and gourmet cook who shares many of the
stories and recipes of her beloved family.
2009 (5 Iyar, 5769): Yom Ha’Azma’ut –
Israel Independence Day
2009: As part of the Independence Day
Celebration, Israel Prize winners are formally honored including Israeli
sculptor Micha Ullman, Professor Emanuel Tov of the Hebrew University,
archaeologist Amihai Mazar, medical researcher Professor Zvi Laron, Itamar Procaccia, Reuven Tsur, Israel Levin
and the Israel Democracy Institute
2009: In the United States, Yom
Ha’Azma’ut Celebrations include a concert by Israeli Hip Hop/Funk/Drum & Bass
group Coolooloosh at Yale University, a Yom Ha'atzmaut Shuk at NYU
and a community-wide celebration at
Ithaca College complete with live music, food, arts & crafts, games, a
hookah circle, and much more.
2009: This month's poetry reading evening at the Kensington Row Bookshop includes
Michael S. Glaser, the current Maryland Poet Laureate and author of “Being a
Father.”
2009: Italian officials released Youssef
Majed al-Molqi, the convicted of killing Leon Klinghoffer who was sentenced to
30 years for murdering Leon Klinghoffer was released from prison today “for
good behavior.”
2010: Dutch documentary filmmaker Wolf
“Willy” Lindwer “was bestowed with the Dutch order Officer in the Order of
Orange-Nassau by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of his
work for the Netherlands.”
2010: Two days after she had passed
away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Temple Israel of Hollywood
for Ruth Nusbauam, “the matriarch of Temple Israel,” Zionist leader, and widow
of Rabbi of Max Nussbaum with whom she raised two children – Hannah and Jeremy.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=142306979
2010: David Adelman began serving as the
U.S. Ambassador to Singapore.
2010: The New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “Innocent” by Scott Turow.
2010: The
PEN World Voices Festival, Center for Jewish History and the Consulate General
of Israel are scheduled to present Eshkol Nevo, one of Israel's most exciting
new voices in a program entitled “Homesick: Eshkol Nevo in Conversation with
Michael Orthofer.”
2010(15th of Iyar, 5770):
Devra G. Kleiman, “a conservation biologist who
reintroduced into the wild the tiny endangered monkey known as the golden lion
tamarin, and who learned so much about the lives of giant pandas that
scientists could later help them reproduce in captivity, died in Washington” at
the age of 67. At her death, Dr. Kleiman was a senior scientist emeritus at the
National Zoo in Washington, with which she had been associated for nearly four
decades.(As reported by Margalit Fox)
2010(15th of Iyar, 5770): Avigdor Arikha
passed away the after his 81st birthday
2010: Reuven Rivlin, Speaker of the
Knesset said that he "would rather accept Palestinians as Israeli citizens
than divide Israel and the West Bank in a future two-state peace
solution"..
2011: “Bloomberg
L.P. announced that Michael Kinsley had joined the Bloomberg View editorial
board.”
2011: Peggy
and Murray Schwartz are scheduled to launch their new book, “The Dance Claimed
Me: A biography of Pearl Primus” at the 92nd St Y
2011: Westwood One sold Metro Networks,
which had been founded by Baltimore native David I. Saperstein in 1978, to
Clear Channel Communications.
2012: Filmmaker Dani Menkin is scheduled
to participate in a Q&A following a screening of “Dolphin Boy” at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012: At Kibbutz Yehudah in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, Dr. Steve Feller, renowned professor of physics and published
author on the subject of coins and money is scheduled to deliver a talk on
ancient Jewish coins.
2012: Four members of Adat Reyim are
scheduled to lay a wreath “at the Tomb of Unknowns in Arlington Cemetery to
honor Jewish service members who gave their lives supporting the war on
terrorism.”
2012: Performance Iowa is scheduled to
present “Music to Commemorate the Passover Season & The Holocaust,” a live
2 p.m. broadcast from the Caspe Terrace in Waukee, IA. Featuring University of
Northern Iowa faculty members Hunter Capoccioni, double bass and Dmitri
Vorobiev, piano, the program will include music by Ernest Bloch, Hermann
Berlinkski, Yehuda Yannay, Maurice Ravel, Tony Osborne and Max Bruch. Cantor
Gail Karp will perform traditional Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Three Des
Moines-area Rabbi will participate in this special program. Rabbi Yossi
Jacobson, Rabbi Leib Bolel and Rabbi David Kaufman all will speak on different
topics.
2012: The
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio
One broadcast David Gutnick’s documentary “It wasn’t teatime: Ethel Stark and
the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra “ which tells the story of how in 1940 Ethel
Stark helped establish the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra, the first
all-female Canadian symphony orchestra and one of only a couple in North
America. At the time, women were not allowed to play in most symphony
orchestras.
2013: The illuminated manuscript, known as the Frankfurt Mishneh Torah is scheduled
to be auctioned today at Sotheby’s in New York City (As reported by Ula Ilnytzky)
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=304132
2013: The 15th annual Felicja Blumental
Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to open at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2013: The Dolphin-class submarine INS Rahav
was delivered today to the Israeli Navy
2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is
scheduled to perform at the United States Holocaust Museum.
2013: Danny Kaye, Frank Loesser and Jule
Styne are scheduled to be honored at a New York Pops Concert at Carnegie Hall.
2013:
Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them joined
President Bill Clinton and Elie Wiesel to mark the 20th anniversary
of the dedication of the U.S. Holocuast Memorial Museum.
2013:
The IDF and the Defense ministry unveiled Israel’s Dolphin-class submarine in a
ceremony in Kiel, Germany.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-unveils-fifth-dolphin-class-submarine/
2014: Stuart S. Kurlander is scheduled
to receive the Lee G. Rubenstein Outstanding Leadership award this evening at
the Washington DCJC Spring Showcase.
2014: “My German Friend” is scheduled to
be shown at the JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival.
2014(29th of Nisan, 5774): Ninety-two-year-old
Reuven Feuerstein “an Israeli clinical, developmental, and cognitive
psychologist, known for his theory of intelligence which states “it is not
‘fixed’, but rather modifiable” passed away today.
http://www.daffodilproject.org/newsletter/Laudatio%20Feuerstein.htm
2014(29th of Nisan, 5774): Eighty-eight-year-old
Al Feldstein, “the soul of Mad Magazine” passed away today. (As reported by
Bruce Weber)
2014: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present “Reinventing Jewishness in Post-Communist Hungary:
Antisemitism and Jewish Renaissance.”
2014: In response to the release of an “audio
recording in which a man identified as Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald
Sterling tells his girlfriend not to bring black people to games, the National
Action Newtwork planned a protest out of tonight’s NBA playoff game in Los
Angeles.”
2015: NMAJH
Chief Historian and acclaimed scholar of American Jewish history, Jonathan D.
Sarna, is scheduled to discuss the importance of Lincoln's legacy for Jews and
for all Americans at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
2015: Hillary Swank is “set to star as
Deborah Lipstadt in the screen adaptation of her book, “History on Trial: My
Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.” (As reported by Anne Cohen)
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/hilary-swank-to-star-in-holocaust-denier-biopic-1.5356355
2015: “Farewell Herr Schwarz” and
“Transit” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015(10th of Iyar, 5775): Eighty-nine-year-old
composer Ronald Senator “and his wife Miriam Brickman died in a house fire at
their home in Yonkers, New York.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-composer-and-his-musician-wife-die-in-ny-house-fire/
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/30/fatal-yonkers-fire-ronald-senator-miriam-brickman/
2015(10th of Iyar, 5775):
Ninety one year old Jean Nidetch the founder of Weight Watchers passed away
today.
http://jwa.org/blog/jean-nidetch-diet-queen
2015: Shoah survivor Morris Rosen is
scheduled to speak at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2015: “A Life with Asperger’s is
scheduled to be show at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA.
2015: The Leo Baeck Institute and YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to present a lecture by Jack Jacobs
based on his latest book The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives and Antisemitism
2016: The 92nd Street Y is
scheduled to host “The LexList Spring Bashing.
2016: Dalia Betolin-Sherman, who has
master’s degree in Hebrew Literature and won the Ramat Gan debut fiction award
is scheduled to appear at the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium as part of the PEN
World Voices Festival.
2016: “The Professor Has a Daring Past”
published today tells the story of Julius Rosenberg, the last surviving member
of the group assembled by Varian Fry that showed unbelievable bravery and
creativity to save over two thousand people including March Chagall from being
trapped in Vichy France, whose leaders played an activity role in shipping Jews
to Auschwitz.
2016: “Dough” a British film that tells
“the unlikely story of an alliance between an elderly, widowed Jewish kosher
bakery owner and a teenage Muslim Darfuri refugee” debuted across the United
States today.
2016: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids,
the Holocaust becomes “human” when Lena Gilbert is scheduled to host at Oneg in
memory of her parents who were liberated on this date, April 29, in 1945.
2016(21st Nisan, 5776):
Seventh Day of Pesach
2017(3rd of Iyar, 5777):
Parashat Tzaria and Metsora;
2017: “Cupcakes” is scheduled to be
shown at The Annual East Bay Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “The Dreyfus Affair” is scheduled
to be shown at BAM Fisher in Brooklyn, NY
2017(21s of Nisan, 5776): Seventy-eight-year-old
playwright William Hoffman passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2018: The New York Times published
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King,
Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy by David Margolick and the recently issued
paperback editions of The First Love Story: Adam, Eve and Us by Bruce
Feiler and The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats
by Allen Ginsberg,
2018: Following a spate of anti-Semitic
incidents in Germany, and widespread displays of solidarity with Berlin’s
Jewish community, activists in the city are scheduled to distribute 10,000
kippas to passersby in the city’s public places in another kind of demonstration”
today in what organizers describe as “a personal rally against anti-Semitism.”
(As reported by Luke Tress)
2018: Television star Roseanne Barr and
Anthony Scaramucci who gained “fame” as President Trump’s short-lived
Communications Director are among those scheduled to speak at The Jerusalem
Post Annual Conference today.
2018: In Grand Rapids, MI, “Mary Edmond,
a Rosenwald school alumnus” is scheduled to speak prior the screening of
“Rosenwald.”
2018: The Center for Jewish History, Leo
Baeck Institute and CUNY Graduate Center are scheduled to host Elliot R.
Wolfson, Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, as they speak about the highly anticipated new book, The Duplicity
of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other.
2018(14th of Iyar, 5778):
Pesach Sheni
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/470865/jewish/Pesach-Sheni.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pesach-sheni
2019: “The City of Joel” is scheduled
to be shown at the 16th annual International Jewish Festival in
Rockland, NY.
2019: As part of the exhibition
“Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini” the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host a “Magical Monday.”
2019: Darren Aronofsky whose “feature
debut Pi (1998) was selected for the 27th New Directors/New Films, and The
Wrestler (2008) was Closing Night of the 46th New York Film Festival” is
scheduled to be one of the “special guest speakers for the 50th
Anniversary Gala” this evening which is a celebration “of fifty years of film
at Lincoln Center.”
2019: It was reported today that over
the weekend, State Comptroller had released a report “exposing a series of
irregularities with regards to how the Culture Ministry handled “last year’s
Independence Day Celebration.”
2019: The Oxford University Jewish is
scheduled to host the Zoom version of “Quiz Night.”
2020: The American Jewish Historical
Society is scheduled to host Lynn Melnick, the poetry teacher at Columbia and
the 92nd Street Y as she leads a virtual poetry writing workshop
“inspired by ‘The New Colossus.’”
2020: The Jewish Federations of North
America is scheduled to host an online celebration of Israel's Independence Day
on Facebook Live or On YouTube at https://youtu.be/LrNU5GhJkFY.
2020: “Saving Free Speech…from
itself” scheduled to take place today has been canceled by the Illinois
Holocaust Museum due to the Pandemic
2020: The Striecker Center is
scheduled to host a virtual presentation by Professor Fred Lazin as he lectures
on “How Shanghai Saved Twenty Thousand Jews.”
2020: This morning at 9 a.m. PST
Friends of the IDF is scheduled to host a virtual celebration Yom HaAtzmaut
with a program that includes Israel’s Eurovision representative, IDF soldier
Corp. Eden Alene, who will perform with the IDF Ensemble.
2020: Musician Kami Maltz is
scheduled to perform Israeli classics in a Yom HaAtzmaut concert presented by
the Jewish Federations of North America.
2020: The S.F.-based Jewish Community
Federation is scheduled to host a virtual concert of Ethiopian funk by the
Anbessa Orchestra,
2020: Seventy-fifth anniversary of
the liberation of the parents of Lena Gilbert from Dachau.
2020(5th of Iyar, 5780):
Yom
Ha'atzmaut;
2020(5th of Iyar, 5780):
Ninety-three-year-old Matin Gerald Simmons, the Brooklyn born son sign painter
Irving Simmons and the former Kate Shapiro who gained fame as Matty Simmons,
the man “who helped launch National Lampoon magazine and was instrumental in
bringing into being its most famous side project, the 1978 movie “National
Lampoon’s Animal House,” passed away today.
2021: The Jewish Museum and Tablet
Magazine are scheduled to present “a Virtual Unpacking the Book with Rachel
Bloom and Tovah Feldshuh—A Conversation Between a (Television) Daughter and
Mother!
2021: Today’s book talk, supported by
JWA is scheduled to feature Brandy Colbert “author of Little and Lion, on a
Black Jewish teen’s exploration of Identity.
2021: This evening’s SF Hillel
fundraiser is scheduled to “feature National Council of Jewish Women CEO Sheila
Katz, Springboard Fellowship at Hillel International director Danielle Natelson
and Manny’s founder Manny Yekutiel.”
2021: The Helen Diller Institute for
Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley is scheduled to co-present Ayelet
Tsabari as the ‘Israeli author talks about her 2019 memoir “The Art of
Leaving,” about her Yemeni upbringing in Israel, her army service and her world
travels searching for belonging.’
2021: Chabad
of Contra Costa is scheduled to present an in-person family event for Lag
Ba’Omer with barbecue foods, music, cotton candy and snow cones
2021 In Israel, the government’s decision to lift all restrictions on public
transportation, including scrapping a 75% passenger capacity limit on buses and
trains and a requirement to acquire in advance an extra entry pass for the
train is scheduled to go into effect today.
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Center is scheduled to host historian David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr.
Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate School and Pulitzer Prize
Finalist, as he talks about his latest work, The Last Million, which
tells the gripping yet largely hidden story of post-WWII displacement and
statelessness.”
2021: With the approach of Lag B’Omer,
“substantial disruptions to public transportation services throughout Israel
are expected” due to the demands of those making the pilgrimage to Mount Meron.
2022: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Leah Smith and her family are
scheduled to participate in Shabbat Eve services as she begins her “Bat
Mitzvah” weekend.
2022: In the wake of a flurry of terror attacks that left 14
Israelis dead in four separate attacks throughout the country — two of which
were perpetrated by terrorists who crossed illegally from the West Bank — and
amid heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions exacerbated by Israel’s consequent
counterterrorism operations in the region, as well as by the holy month of
Ramadan, The IDF is scheduled to “deploy six battalions of reservist forces at
the West Bank security barrier to prevent terrorist attacks and illegal
crossings.”
2022: “James Andrews and the Crescent City
All-Stars are scheduled to headline the first in-person Touro Synagogue Jazz
Festival Shabbat since the onset of the COVID pandemic.
2022: UK Jewish film is scheduled to host the
final screening of “I Am Here.”
2022: At Temple Judea in Palm Beach Gardens,
Rabbi Yaron Kapitulnik and Cantor Abbie Strauss are scheduled to lead a Shabbat
Service “honoring all children lost in the Holocaust.”
2022: A new tree is
scheduled to “be planted on the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest—a sapling
propagated from the immense horse chestnut tree that grew in the courtyard
behind the annex where Anne Frank and her family hid for 761 days during World
War II.”
2023: The
Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano,”
a multi-piano ensemble featuring the complete works of Rachmaninoff for 2
pianos, piano 4 hands and 6 hands.
2023: In the
evening, Israelis brace for the possibility of clashing demonstration between
those supporting the proposed judicial reform measures and those opposed to it.
2023: UK Jewish
Films is scheduled to host the final screening of “Karaoke.”
2023(8th of Iyar, 5783): Parashat
Acharay Mot and Kedoshim and Pirke Avot Chapter 3; for more see
2024: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is sched to
offer “Freed Admissions” today so that visitors “can explore the colorful world
of Jewish life in 1970s South Beach with Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South
Beach 1977-1980, ask Pinchas Gutter's hologram how he learned to speak eight
languages in the Abe & Ida Cooper Survivor Stories Experience Holographic
Theater, and more.”
2024: “As part of the Genocidal Captivity
exhibition events series” The Wiener Holocaust Memorial Library is scheduled to
host “Exhibition Film Event, Part I: Suzanne Khardalian, Grandma’s Tattoos.”
2024:
As April 29th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps
the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin
day 206 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.)
2024(21st of Nisan, 5784): Seventh Day
of Pesach; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
